Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-06

Get Big War Order-Bettendor
trucks and underframes few months
hence will be advertising the local
car works in Russia, just as they arc
advertising it on many of the rail-
roads in all parts of the United States.
Orders for the metal parts of 1000
gondOla cars from New York were
given today by ]. w. Bettendorf. The
cars are to be made for Newman Erb,
president of the Minneapolis & s..
Louis railway, for which the Betten-
dorf company made 500 complete boz
cars last winter and spring. Mr.. Erb
had been awarded the contract by the
Russian government, and turned to the
Bettendorf company as the best one to
furnish all the metal parts of the cars.
Underframes and trucks for the 900
cars will therefore be made at the Bet
tendorf plant, and will be Grated here
and shipped to Seattle. There the
wheels and axles and the lumber for
completing the cars will be assembled,
and the complete cars shipped by boat
to Vladivostok, where they will be set
up by the Russians themselves. The
contract has no relation to the much
larger one which A. B. Premier recent
ly went to Petrograd to negotiate for.
The new contract adds half a year or
so TO the time that the Bettendorf
company can keep its present force of
1000 men working on the basis of
work in sight. Without it, the pres
ent work would have run out about
the last of September II will not
be necessary to increase the working
force, but the necessity of cutting II
down is avoided.
Schools are CrOwded-All the CITY
schools now opened are crowded bv
the addition of many new students and
everything points toward the best year
the schools of the city have ever had
superintendent Smart was enthusiasts
tic over the way things were going
and was. especially enthusiastic over
the new high school faculty. Once
more the Davenport high school is
hlled to overlooking with the addition
or an unusually large class OF fresh
men. There were 20S new students
who had registered and with moro
coming in it appeared that this years
class will be the largest on record.
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Couldn't Risk Appeal; Dismisses
Case-Rather than risk having his de-
cision reversed in the district court
Police Magistrate Ernst Claussen dis
missed the case of John Britt, charged
WIN oPNNhihSs AOllOHlER the adjourn
ment of police court yesterday. He
had pronounced a fine of 6.S5 agains5
Britt in the court session. BIRTHS de-
Tense was strong. He claimed that the
machine he was driving couldn't run
10 miles an hour. 1t was used for
hauling sand and workmen TO and fro
on the city work, he said. Britt is en-
ployed by the city. Barney Mcmahon
appeared in Britt's behalf 1--WE seen
that car run good many times" he
declared, and i never say It run over
10 miles an hour. 1t hasn't anv
muffler. It's an old. broken-down
conglomeration of machinery, and /
doubt very much If II can run over u
miles AN hour at the most" Magistrate
Claussen pronounced a fine OF $685.
Britt at once stated that no would an
peal the case, and posted bond OF $50.
Later, after the court session was
over. the magistrate revoked the fino
and dismissed the case.
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CabaretIng Wife Sued for Divorce
In an answer and cross-bill fled to-
day Phillip X. Hilton, defendant I'm a
suit for divorce recently filed, saws
that his wife, Mary L. Hilton visited
cabarets and wine rooms In Rock Is
land and charges her with adultery.
He further asserts that she is not DIT
person TO have custody OF tho two min