Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-10
SUPERV|SORSPAY
SMALLPOX BILLS
County Board Settles for Expenses In.
CURED in Handling Quaran-
tine Cases.
MOLINE TO SEEK SAME ACTION
Sister City to File Claims Amounting
to $4,000 for Victims Cared
for There.


supervisors was taken this morning,
after the usual farewell addresses of
members whose terms expire this year.
Most of them are candidates for re-
nomination and reelection. Rising
, vote of thanks was given Chairman
time he has presided.
Consideration of smallpox bills,
which seem to be the principal work
of the board, occupied the attention of
the body for part of the morning. Yes
terday afternoon when the report of
the fees and salaries committee was
read, the following six bills for the
care of smallpox patients in Rock Is
! land we're referred back to the board
for action; Dr. c. T. Foster, $3.50 and
! $S24: Mrs Charles Wilcox, $3.50 and
! $3.50.
Claims Discrimination.
! This morning after conference with
Dr. Foster, the committee reported ia
| vorably on all of the bills and the bills
were allowed by the board. Supervisor
/ R. S. Daley, member of the commit
/ tee opposed the action. stating if a
written report had been filed he would
| have signed minority report. He de-
matter of the merits of the Rock Island
/ claims, but insinuated discrimination
was being shown and called attention
to the fact that the city of Moline, which
in the past had paid for its own small
poX cases, would certainly present bills
at the next meeting of the body for
claims amounting to perhaps $4,000 if
the Rock Island bills were allowed.
DR.. c. T. Foster, Rock Island city
| physician. explained the bills and
! claimed that the law was clear, that the
county must pay for the neCesSaries OF
life, in cases of quarantine, where the
victims are INDECENT persons. He de-
clared the city was more than meeting
the county half way by having spent
$500 for a detention hospital, which
is for the use of the county, as well as
! the city He said that since he had
been in office. he had established
friendly relations with the Davenport
health officers and by reason of this,
the neighboring city had in four in
stances come to this city and taken
patients to Davenport for treatment,
while Rock Island had gone to Daven-
port for victim but once.
/ While the bills were under discus
sion, Supervisors NJ. o. GrisWold took
occasion to criticise what he felt was
| the prevailing custom of the board, in
reviewing and reconsidering reports of
committee He said that if the matter
continued. he could see little use in
having committees named and having
all of the business of the board con-
Quoted on the floor Of the body.
Stenography bills of Ed Reed. for
$4130 and P H. Wells for $3.50 fol
shorthand reports at coroners inquests
were brought up again. Report of the
fees and salary committee, read yes
terday, recommended that the bills be
not allowed and the board adopted the
report. This morning Supervisor
Cook moved to reconsider the commit
tees report, seconded by Supervisor
Larkin. but this lost, 81 to 10. 1t is
understood that suit against the county
in an attempt to force payment is te
be started at once.
Grand Jury.
Grand jury for the May term of cir
cult court was selected as follows:
Cordova-Frank Zimmerman.
Coe-L. D. Hauberg.
Canoe Creek-W. G. Mcconnell.
Zuma-Charles Schafer.
Port Byron-Ira E. Ziegler.
HamptOn-W. F. Gearhardt
South Moline-Oscar Lundeen.
Moline-George A. Darling, G. Emf
Anderson, R. E. Crane and o. E. Child.
Rock Island-James kinsley, X T
Anderson. c. H. Langman.
South Rock Island-George NJ. LUX
ems.
Black Hawke S. Thompson.
Coal Valley-John Studer.
Rural-W. R. McElvain.
Bowling-Cyrus Miller
Edgington-W. H. Wenks.
Administration Kane