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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-21
AN ORDINANCE
Providing for the Sale of Certain Real
Estate.

BROWNING IOF TIE Sdlc VI OtItdlH DtdA
Estate.
Whereas, the city of Rock Island
has acquired and holds the following
described real estate: Lots thirty-two
and thirty-three, Hale's addition to the
city of Rock Island, county of Rock
Island and state of Illinois, and a
tract Of land commencing at a point
$50 feet south of the northwest corner
of lot one IL, block two (2), Howard 3
second addition to the city of Rock
Island, Ill; thence running west to
the east line of Elm or Thirtieth
street; thence south fifty (50) feet;
thence east to the west line Of said
lot one a., block two 20, in said
Towards second addition; thence
north fifty 500 feet to the place Of
beginning. all in the city of Rock Is
land. And,
Whereas. 1t is the opinion Of ma
jority of the members of the city coun
ell that the said real estate is no longer
necessary, appropriate. or required for
the use of said city or its longer re-
tention for the best interests of said
city: Be IL
Ordained. by the council Of the city
OF Rock Island, Ill:
That lots thirtv-two 1927 and thirty
three (33). in Hale's addition TO the
CITY Of Rock Island, county OF Rock
Island and state Of Illinois; also
tract OF land commencing at point
$50 feet south of the northwest corner
of lot one ~. block two (2), Towards
second addition 10 the city of Rock
Island. Ill: thence running west 10
the east line OF Elm or Thirtieth
street: thence south fifty 500 feet;
thence east TO the west line OF said
lot one ID, block two 81, I'm said
Howard's second addition; thence
north fifty 800 feet TO the place Of be
ginning; and all owned and held by
the said city OF Rock Island, be sold.
in pursuance to an act OF the general
assembly entitled IAN act to author
ize cities and villages to convey any
real or personal estate. or their right
and title therein. when the same shall
be no longer necessary for, or profita-
bile 10. or its longer retention be for
the hest interests OF such city or vii
lage." (Approved March %, 1889: in
force July !. 1880. The said lots are
now vacant and are not used for any
purpose
Bids for the purchase OF all-or
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-21


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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-21
Notice 10 Coal Dealers.

Sealed proposals will be received at
the mayors Office until 10 o'clock a. m,
Sept. 80. 1916, for furnishing the city
with six-inch lump coal until June /,
1917, for all departments of the city
except waterwOrks pumping station
Bidder must state mine from which
coal viii be furnished.
WILLIAM MCONOCHIE.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-21

Passed: Sept. IS, 1916.
Attest: NJ. T. Rudgren, City Clerk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-21

Il have no prejudice in favor of or
against any Of these arsenals, but if it
be necessary TO expand our facilities
in these arsenals unduly, as a common
sense business proposition, the place
to develop and extend and enlarge it
not at Watervliet, which is in my
state, not at Springfield or at Water
town, in Massachusetts, not at Frank
ford, in the city of Philadelphia, but at
Rock Island"
Very sincerely yours,
CLYDE H. TAVENNER.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-21
Notice to Coal Dealers.

Bids to furnish mine run coal for
heating the Rock Island county court
house and jail for the 1916-1917 season
viii be received by the Jail and Jail &C
counts committee at the court house up
10 a. -. saturday. Sept. %, 1916
EZRA WILCHFR,
J. {. BURGOYNE,
MARY G. OGDEN.
Committee.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-21

TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER
AND 9TH HE TREATS new PATIENTS
FREE

Dr. W @. Coffee. the noted oculist
and aurist. viii make his next visit to
Rock Island at the Harper House,
Tuesday and Wednesday, September
2Gth and 18th. He Will see patients all
day Tuesday and Wednesday and until
. o'clock each night.
DR.. Coffee is making these trips
here to Rock Island to give the people
suffering with eye diseases, failing
sight. weak eyes, deafness. loss of
hearing. head noises, ulcers OF the
ears and catarrh a chance to try this
treatment one time free and sec
whether or not it viii help them. He
says the quickest way to convince peo-
pie that a treatment viii help them
is to have them try it. lie does not
claim this treatment cures ali cases;
cases where the structures of tha eyes
or ears are too badly damaged by the
disease are incurabie. ON his trips
here he VIII make an examination Of
the case and if he thinks he can cure
SOU ne viii give you one thorough
treatment of his new combination
AbsOTptiOn-Aassag Treatment TO
show how il acts and tell You how
long it will take for you to get well,
ra rrDtfu1a his treatment Won will be
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-21
Call for Bids.

Bids will be received at the mayors
Office until + o o'clock . VA. Sept - for
one vertical submerged type contrifU-
gal pump If five million gallons ca
pacitv in = hours, with motor To run
pump. 10 he placed on foundation
erected by the city At west end of Fifth
avenue sewer. specifications on file at
mayors Office.
JOHN 4. NTRRT%.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-21

part of said described lots or tract of
land will be received, opened and con-
sidered by the said city council at its
regular meeting on the first day Of
December, A. u. 1916, at the hour Of
3 o'clock p. N.
Cash bids only will be considered.
Purchaser will assume all unpaid
taxes and special assessment.
This ordinance shall be published in
the Rock Island Argus, daily news
paper published in said city, for at
least so days prior to the opening of
bids on the first day of December, A.
y. 1916.
majority of the council may re-
ject any and all bids and a three
fourths vote may accept any one bid.
WILLIAM McCONOCHIE,
Mayor.
Passed: Sept. IS. 1916.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-21
fall for bids

VaII lot Bus.
Sealed bids will be received at the
mayors office until 10 a. m. Sept. %
for leasing of ball park from Oct. j,
1916, until Dec. 81, 1916. Money must
be paid in advance.
JOHN A. MURRIN,
Commissioner.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-03-02

These are happy days for tht workers in the intuition works, an other workers are also benefttine by the improved condition of em- ployees in intuition factories. h almost all of these places east, con- ditions have improved enormously sometimes by striking, sometimes by the threat of a strike, and some times by just organizing with a la tent strike hidden in the solidarity that came from organization.
 That is all very we'll: now is the acceptable time, the day of saliva. tion. But what of the time when the munition industry is enjoying no such boom. and peace bricks the bubbled war stocks?
 We are all told in almost all the labor papers that the workers arc enjoying, thanks to their organi1a- tion. better times than ever and the men are getting wages they have hitherto never enjoyed.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-03-02

sickening vanity to pretend that fl is the efficiency of a hopelessIy in efficient and hopelessly archaic sy stem of unionism which has done ttat work.
 It is not in the cay of prosperity 1 but in the day diversity tsst g union is put to the test: when work. CTS are plentiful ard jobs arc scarce ~-htn mills, mines. factories and ma. ch ne plants are closed and mer stand hungry in the breadlines and work for what end et what they car get that the real rcwer of Ir onism is revealed.
 And the revelations that have he made during the lean years have found craft uniOns hopeiessly numbered, weighed and wanting.
 There is no nor, disappointing fact in connection with the labor movement than that industrialism is still so far from making it's way into the fields Of working class solidarity and the ideals of bringing al the workers closer together in one big union is still as far of req lization as ever.
 It is sickcning to discover critics of industrialism lavish their sneers upon the organization that has made for such an ideal, and thus put themselves into the very same cate gory of men and institutions which snap and growl at the only really ef- ficient method of working class organization.
 If only the labor unions could rid themselves of the inefficient and ex pcnsive craft system with it's expen- sive and inefficient and misleading machine madc officialdom, progress might be expected.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-03-02
NOTICE TO PUBLIC.

On and after March first deposit of ten cents per bottle will be re- quired of all customers purchasing milk at the local business houses. Money will be refunded upon re- turn of bottles.
 CONSUMERS MILK co.
 J. A. Lighthill. GET THE NEWS RIGHT. READ THE WORKER.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-03-02

The question is put therefore what about the future when no such ac, tivity will be marked in the muni- 1 tionist and subsidiary industries, and fat war contracts no longer loom so large with hope.
 The reason for the increased, wages is not so much organization, which probably made tho obtaining | of the increase more easy, but is that actual industrial activity re- ported. And now is the time for this very reason that the workers in all industries should ask themselves what they can do to maintain cond!- tions thereafter.
 Most of the craft unions during the day of industrial briskncss adopt the policy that sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. They take no thought of the morrow, and the morrow comes and finds them help less, powerless and jobless with bu. q Fcly ploICCtIOA their craft organization.
 It is all very well to make hay when the sun shines, but it is no use if that hay then made is not avail able for the rainy day. And the workers unfortunately have to en- dure more rainy days than sun shine, and it behoves them to pre- pare in sunshine for the clouds that are bound to come.
 Now this European war with the enormous contracts given out Tn America will not last for ever. There will come time whcn it will be over and the boom which it indus trially occasioned will be over also.
 To proceed in the same old fashion to believe that organized craftman ship has accomplished what the simple economic law of supply and demand has actually done is to court misery in the future.
 And precisely that is what is now being done. There is no great effort being made in these days of activity and comparative plenty of employ ment to close the ranks and bring all workers closer together ns work CTS and to promote the solidarity ot the workers. Instead the same sort of machine made officialized union- ism prevails with little more reck- lessness and a little more audacity and little more gall as the leaders witnessing many mon at work, and many men members in craft unions, assume to believe that it is they and their organizing ability ,accomp- lished what an industrial revival and increased demand in proportion to q diminishing supply has accomp- lished.
 Without any organization of ma chinists or other craft workers. the demand for labor in such trades would have caused an increase. It has not been due to the ability of the leaders, but the natural econo- mic factors which arose in the in- dustrial world.
 And for this very reason it is
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-03-02

congressional delegate anything but
 a seat and by courtesy a voice In the deliberations of the federal gov
 ernment in which all Alaskan gov
 ernment is vested.
 As far as exercising control over the government which directs the real affairs of the country, the Am
 erican in Alaska might as we'll be
 an American in Siberia for all the
 individual rights he has in the eiec-
 ton or control of his rulers. Surely is it worth while consider
 ing why this should be, and why i. should be and yet ignored with cul- tivated indifference upon the part of all Americans. The same degree
 of loyalty and patriotism is exacted from American citizens in Alask;. as
 n the United States proper, yet the Alaskan has neither vote nor iDflI- ence in the government affairs or the nation which controls his terri-
 tory.
 It is a peculiar state of affairs
 that all this should he in American territory The peculiarity lies In the fact that democracy and repre- sentative government have become household words in America and synonimous with the rights of Am erican citizens and their ideals.
 The theory is that tho system of territorial government is first open ed up so that the country can ulti- mately suit itself and develop itselt for statehood. But why during that development period it should still have to have it's resources, ana that's the real government, vested in control of bureaucracy or a system of buroaucracics is the in applicable feature of it all.
 Now take this Commission Bill of the delegate from Alaska. Much can be said in its favor. It is cer- tainly a much more efficient version of bureaucratic administration than as at present exists. It centralizes control and vests it under one admi- nistrative head It is, however, iI- troduced by MT. Wickersham. Now then, in few weeks delegate Wick ersham will introduce a statehood bill. This statehood bill will prac- tically, if it were to become low, ab- nullify the Commission Bill which he has already Introduced.
 Where then do Alaskans get off at? Are they to become reconciled to a Commission form of govern ment while Statehood is proposed merely as a sop to still their criti- cism and to allay patriotic demurrors at the prospect of government by east iron commission or Dureau- ,racy?
 But that is politics. It is quite n interesting and remarkable con- 'ition that from beginning to end 1t should be full of bewildering contra lictions, for it is the bewiiderine condition that forces satisfaction where simple revelation of actual ,taic of affairs would disturb and ;issatisfy.
 sometimes it is very easy Lo chlo- 'eform the people with an overdose ,f the political narcotic. They cer- .ainly get it in Alaska and then 'ome.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-03-02
ARE YOU SEEKING A PATENT?

If so 1t will pay you to investigate rates of the Industrial Worker on publication of application therefor. Bring your forfeiture notices to the dustrial Worker.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-03-02
WE CAN DO IT.

For drst class work and prsn Rs delivery ph me Main lSt and tAs Pesple's Steam Laundry s.M csla and get your laundEy.
 w. J. WILLIAMSON Prsp,
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-03-02

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The Benson signal., 1916-10-21
GRID TEAMS USE MASS PLAY |
New Style Of Attack Has Been Legal
ICED by Rules Committee-TackIing
From Behind Prohibited.

The mass play devised by George
Foster Sanford, the Rutgers college
coach, may be adopted by elevens Of
other colleges as result Of the an
nOuncement that the new style of at
tack has been legalized by the football
rules committee. The play consists Of
the alignment of three Of the four
backs Immediately behind three ad-
joining players on the forward line.
It was used effectively by the Rutgers
eleven and proved formidable when a
little ground was needed to retain the
ball or when the team was near the
enemy's goal, but in one instance last
season it was declared illegal.
Mr.. Sanford submitted the question
of it's legality to the rules committee
and obtained decision. that the play
was legitimate provided no part OF the
bodies of the three players forming the
secondary attacking line was within
one yard of the line of scrimmage.
A suggestion by Mr.. Sanford that a
rule should be adopted prohibiting the
cutting down of player from behind
was approved by the committee in
formally. He described it as "the most
dastardly play in football, a ham,
stringing, knee-breaking, face-smash-
ing play that allows man on one
side to injure member of an opposing
eleven."'
The Benson signal., 1916-10-21
GIRL RAISES PIGS FOR GAIN
At Seventeen, She Is Ambitious to Be-
come Pork Expert-Nearly
Took Prize.

Holtville, Cal.-Raising hogs for
pleasure and profit is the occupation of
Miss Josie Fuller, seventeen, youngest
and best all-around feminine pork pro-
ducer in the Imperial valley. 1t is her
ambition to become the best expert on
hogs in her district. Her herd num-
bers SO and is increasing.
"Pig culture isn't esthetic work, of
course" said Miss Fuller. ut can't be
considered a finishing school for de-
butantes, but there's money in it,"
She has established record Of de-
veloping her porkers for the market at
a cost of 31a cents a pound. She came
within half a cent of winning the Uni
versity of California prize, which
would have entitled her to transcon-
tinental trip. The judges decided she
spent too much time in caring for her
hogs. This was charged up against
profit and cut down her score.
The Benson signal., 1916-10-21

and struggled to get free. The frontal
bone of the skull had been badly shat
tered and the lower jaw crushed as
with blow.
The victim had leather belt. His
head had been wrapped in a newspa-
per which was dated June, 1914, the
exact date being obliterated. The po-
lice took the clippings and memoran-
dunn to the station.
The skeleton found last September
II also was partly clad in blue serge
suit and wore belt marked "S." The
mans skull also had been fractured.
With the finding of his bones the po-
lice started an Investigation.
Many years ago there lived on this
ground a truck farmer whose name
has been forgotten, but who erect
ed Shanty in which he lived. Six years
ago Joseph VerdOne, another truck
farmer rented the land, coming from
Little Ferry, N. J. Soon thereafter he
was Joined by Mrs. Jenny Seeley,
the wife of neighbor, who left her
husband. The police allege that See
ley, who lives in Little Ferry, often
came in search of his wife and fire.
quently there were brawls at the truck
farm
Kills Her Companion.
On the morning of July Z, 1912,
Mrs. Seely shot and killed VerdOne.
She was tried in the supreme court
of Brooklyn for murder, but acQuit-
ted, on the ground of self-defense. She
said Verdone was intoxicated, struck
at her, and then dashed for a shot
gun. She beat him to the shotgun and
killed him. After her acquittal she dis
appeared. After that the old farm
had bad name, and was thought by
many superstitious persons in the
neighborhOOd to be haunted. Many
cOntended they heard strange noises
which they attributed to the "evil spir-
it's"
The police believe the deserted
house may have been used as a rendez-
vOuS for murderers and thieves Oper-
ating in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and
that not only were persons lured there
and murdered but that bodies mur-
dered elsewhere were brought there
and buried. Captain Carey said he
would make a thorough investigation,
and while the excavations were going
on would post special guard to watch
for bodies.
The Benson signal., 1916-10-21
GOLF QUITE POPULAR SPORT
Baseball for Title Of National
Game-Has Firm Hold.

It is an indication of hopeless pro-
vincialism for anybody to deride the
game of golf nowadays. This sport
has taken such a firm hold upon all
classes of people, it has become so
universal and its popularity is so per-
manently founded that the jibes and
wheezes of dull wits no longer have
any force. Only the hopelessly igno-
rant now characterize it as SISSY" 1t
Is, in fact, a full-blooded, strong-bodied
and absorbing sport that demands the
best brain and muscle that can be put
into it. Golf is really becoming close
competitor with baseball for the title
of the national game.-Kansas City
Journal.
The Benson signal., 1916-10-21
NOTES Ell
.SPOPTDOxl|
Heine Zimmerman in any other uni
form would be fired just as often.

Heine Zimmerman in any other uni
form would be fired just as often.
Some golfers would make very poor
teamsters judging by their drives.
There is nothing else quite compara-
BILE to the intense earnestness Of foot
ball squad.
Eddie Plank says Koob of the
Browns needs only slow ball to make
him slab wizard.
There is difference between q
waist ball and waste ball. Sometimes
the difference is three bases.
It is understood that q flock of in
ventors are staying up all night work
ing on an electric home-plate duster.
Looks like wrestling is going to have
tough winter except in towns too
small to support a board Of health.
If Chick Evans persists in winning
golf titles, don't be surprised to hear
they've named the home town Chick
ago.
Harvard is trying Westmore Wilcox
in the quarterback position, which in
dicates the need of quarters at Cam
bridge.
See where the boxing season will
soon be uncorked. Then We'll get
new line on all the latest ballroom
pranceS.
Ping Bodie will report to the Mack
erels next spring. AS Mackerels are
noted for their bones, Ping ought to
feel at home.
"Woof! Woof!" reads headline over
box score in Philadelphia paper. Is
this an intimation that the Athletics
are dogging it?
Johnny Kilbane has held the feath-
erweight boxing title since February
%, 1912, through decision over Abe
Attell of Os Angeles.
Hannes KOlehmainen, who was the
hero of the last Olympic games in Swe-
den, is said to be all through as
champion in the American lOng-dis-
tance runnings.
-
Allan Thurman, Virginia, brilliant
linesman and punter, delivered blow
to the Southerner's football prospects
the other day. He has gone to FrGncs
The Benson signal., 1916-10-21
FIND SKELETON
ON GHOST FARM
DiuQers Unearth Barrel With
Bones, Baby Shoes, and
Some Clippings.
POLICE SEEK MURDER TRAIL
Find Is Second of the Kind in Short
Period-Place Believed to Be
Haunt of New York Thugs
and Murderers.

New York.-On the site of an old
farmhouse in Canarsie, where police
records show that one man was shot
and killed, workmen digging an ex-
cavation found recently the skeleton
of q man who had been wounded and
buried alive more than two years ago,
according to DR.. Charles Wuest, cor
oner's physician. This is the second
skeleton found on the premises since
the excavating began.
Because after the killing there the
place was known as the Haunted
Farm and none dared go near it, es-
pecially at night, the police believe
that wholesale murders have been
committed and bodies brought to the
spot for burial by band. The ground
will be thoroughly excavated under
police surveillance.
The skeletons were found at what is
now Hegeman avenue and Powell
street. Morris Plum and Samuel
Block, laborers, were digging there
when their picks struck barrel about
eight feet below the surface Of the
ground. They excavated it and found
that it was heavy when they started
to lift it. "It's buried treasure, may
be-" Block said, breaking in the bar
rel head with his pick. To his horror
he saw the skeleton partly clothed
in what had once been a blue serge
suit.
Infants Shoes in Barrel.
Captain Carey of the Seventh
branch detective bureau, was sum-
moned and the body in the barrel was
taken to the morgue. There it was
examined and the police found pair
of infants shoes, newspaper clippings
and memorandum.
The body had been jammed into the
barrel, but the legs and arms had so
shifted that the physician said the
murdered man must have been alive
and may have regained consciousness
The Benson signal., 1916-10-21
THE FISH JUMPED INTO BOATS
Frightened by Motor Craft-Actually
ImperiIed Children-Appears
to Be True.

Waukesha, Wis.-While boating up
the Fox river a fve-and-a-half pound
black bass jumped into the rowboat Of
Lloyd and lone Thomas, aged ten and
twelve respectively, children of Mr..
and Mrs. e. L. Thomas, and because
of the confusion that followed a seri-
GUS accident was narrowly averted.
Other fishermen went to the rescue
of the children. 1t has been reported
that on at least six different occasions
this fall fish have jumped into boats
on the Fox river.
They become frightened, it is said,
when struck by the motor boats, which
they are unable to see at distance
because of the dirty water.