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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR RENT-A nicely furnished front
room; hot and cold water lavatory
In room; every modern convenience;
price reasonable. 1888 Seventeenth
street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

| WANTED-Good second hand Ford
! automobile. James restaurant, 1910
| Second avenue
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR SALE-1914 five-passenger
Overland; starter; Al condition,
1915; REQ roadster. bargain 1855;
Studebaker, model 35, just over
hauled, $3.50; call or phone Noack
Motor Co., 200S-10 Fourth avenue,
phone 1919.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
Motorcycles and Bicycles.

TIRES (all makesl, accessories, lamps,
ETC.; cut prices; s35 Flying Merkle
bicycles at wholesale price, $25 (or-
ange and blue enameled); le5 East
Third street, Davenport
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
insurance.

WE WILL BOND YOU-Executors =,
administrators, guardians, trustees
or any kind Of judicial bonds; lodges
and society officers; city, state or
U. S. government officials; contrac-
tors, positions Of trust; in fact, any
kind of bond you want Except bail
bonds). Terms reasonable. Hayes
& Cleaveland, resident managers,
Fidelity & Deposit company of Mary
land.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR RENT-Six-room house: 2515
Sixteenth-and-a-half street; inquire
E. W. Robinson, phone r. l. 466S-K.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
Civil Engineers.

CIVIL englneer-Walter N. Schroeder.
Civil engineer, surveys, maps, plats,
drawings. COB Safety Bldg. Phone GO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
G.. A. r.

BUFORD POST, 243, G. A. R., meets
regularly on the second and fourth
Saturday evenings Of each month at
7:30 in Memorial hall at the court
house. William Mitchell, command
er; W. A. Norris, adjutant.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
For Rent-Flats.

FOR RENT-Five room modern fat.
Phone R. I. 305 or 4605-L.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
Wanted-Misce 11aneous.

WANTED-To rent invalid's wheel
chair, 205 Sala apartments. Phone
2943 Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR SALE-P. NJ. Pierces C. S. White
leghorns' eggs, geo egg strain. Be-
fore placing your order for Matching
eggs write me. l know | can please
you; wonderful type and color; Wig
orous, non-setters; free range; or
der early. P. o. box S41, Milan, ILL.,,
Bell phone.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

For Rent-Rooms.
FOR RENT-Five modern unfinished
rooms. Inquire 1882 Fifth avenue.
FOR RENT-Three rooms for light
housekeeping; 906 Twelfth street.
FOR RENT-Modern furnished room,
2O16h Third avenue, Flat 1. Phone
1858.
FOR RENT-Furnished rooms for
light housekeeping. SGT Twentieth
street.
FOR RENT-Modern furnished light
housekeeping rooms. 229 Sixteenth
street.
FOR RENT-Modern furnished light
housekeeping rooms. 1907 Sixth
avenue.
FOR RENT-Two modern furnished
rooms; board if desired. 1876 Seven
teenth street.
FOR RENT-Furnished room for one
or two gentlemen, 327 Tenth street;
call evenings.
FOR RENT-Two nicely furnished
light housekeeping rooms, 602 Twen-
ty-fourth street.
FOR RENT-Modern furnished room,
residence locality, 636 Eighteenth
street. Phone 3550-Y.
FOR RENT-Modern furnished room
opposite library 412 Nineteenth
street. Phone BOAT.
FOR RENT-Modern furnished light
housekeeping and sleeping rooms;
1405 Seventh avenue.
FOR RENT-Large modern, we'll fur
nished room. 502 Twenty-third
street. Phone R. l. 234S.
FOR RENT-Partly modern furnish
ed sleeping rooms. Inquire 1862
Sixteenth street. Phone 359S-k.
FOR RENT-Modern light housekeep-
ing rooms; nice and clean. Phone
| 1895. TIT Seventeenth street.
FOR RENT : Three furnished front
rooms for light housekeeping; $3.50
per week; SIT Second avenue.
FOR RENT-Four furnished rooms
strictly modern. S. per week. 625
Thirty-fifth street Phone 2469.
FOR RENT-Modern furnished hot
water heated room, 1908 Third ave-
nue.; phone So R. l., evenings.
FOR RENT-Two furnished rooms
water and gas. Southern exposure
Must give good references. zoe
Fourth avenue.
FOR RENT-Strictly modern fur
! nished room, two and half blocks
from Long View car. 1925 Twenty
fifth street.
FOR RENT-Four or five rooms for
housekeeping; modern; splendid To-
cation; address -. c. B." care Of
The Argus.
FOR RENT-Four nicely furnished
rooms; water, sewer, gas and cleo.
trio light, 2110 Fifth avenue; up
stairs; references.
FOR RENT-Three modern furnished
light housekeeping rooms; private
bath, electric lights; private family
1410 Fourth avenue.
| wi L,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR RENT-Four modern furnished
light housekeeping rooms, heat and
light furnished; $500 per week;
625 Thirty-fifth street, phone 1869.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR SALE-Quarter-s sawed oak din
ing room set. Inquie 91S Fourteenth
street Phone 1877.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR SALE-37 (SS notel player piano
rolls and cabinet slightly used.
Phone r. l. 1921.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR RENT Furnished three-room
apartment for housekeeping; 151l1a
Third avenue; references required.
Inquire Rosenfield apartments.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR SALE-Lots in John G. Scheur-
manr's Sixth addition, from Fifth to
Seventh street and Fourteenth ave-
nue. to Eighteenth avenue; payments
S. down, S. per month. Inquire
1900 Sixth street. Phone Rock Is
land 1896.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR SALE-High grade cinders; Rock
Island Brewing Co.. Thirtieth street
and Seventh avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
Lodge Directory.

q. S. w. v.
SIBONEY BAY CAMP NO. s, U. S. w.
", meets the first and third Thurs
days of each month at p. m. at
Memorial hall. R. E. McConochie,
commander; L. M. Titterington,
adjutalt
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR SALE-New modern six-room
house; bath, reception hall, colon
AIDES, etc, 1926 Twenty-fourth
street; also east front lot, Thir-
tieth street south of Fifteenth ave-
nue.; cash or terms; leaving city;
Mrs. Wagstaff.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
Superhuous Hair.

SUPERFLUOUS hair, moles, warts, on
face and arms, permanently removed
with electric needle. Address Miss
A. M. Kittredge, l Argyle flats,
Brady street, Davenport. Phone S04
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR RENT-Three modern furnished
light housekeeping rooms; private
bath, electric lights; private family,
1410 Fourth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
Wanted-Agents.
Business Chances.
Lost and Found.

tween Fourteenth and a half street
and Fourteenth avenue and Seventh
and Fourth avenues. Reward. Call
39S4-K.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR RENT-Four furnished rooms
strictly modern. SIS per week. 625
Thirty-ffth street. Phone 2469.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR RENT-Bright, attractive newly
furnished room in new, strictly
modern home, 1925 Twentyfifth
street. phone 1906 r. l.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR SALE-Registered Airedale pups,
Red Raven strain; months old In
quire 1418 Thirty-third street. Phone
3712-Y or 312.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR RENT-Four nicely furnished
rooms; water, sewer, gas and cleo
trio light, 2110 Fifth avenue; up
stairs; references.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR SALE-Furniture and other
household goods. Inquire Frank
Walden, 1912 Seventeenth street,
Wright fats.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR RENT-Two furnished rooms;
water and gas. Southern exposure.
Must give good references. 705
Fourth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
For Rent-Houses.

FOR RENT-Six-room house; modern
conveniences. Phone 307.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR SALE - Lots in South Heights,
south Of Aiken street, between
Twelfth and Seventeenth streets; on
easy terms; $25 down, balance in
five years. E. ". Robinson, 1454
Richmond street. Phone Rock Island
466S-K.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
Parlor Millinery.

WE make specially Of trimming hats
to order. L. NJ. Chatfield, 1S0112
Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

For Sale-Misc ellaneous.

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FOR SALE-Well bred bull pups
Phone Rock Island 2S7.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR SALE-Good Ford cars; Tri-City
Auto Exchange, 1910 First avenue,
Rock Island. Phone GIG.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
Painting and Paper Hanging.

PAPER-hanging, paper cleaning and
painting; work guaranteed; phone
1853.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR SALE-One mare, years old,
weight 1900; one horse 4 years old,
weight HOO City broke. Inquire
1922 Fifth avenue
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR SALE-At a bargain, Ideal hot
water tank heater; good as new; al
so lady's Pierce Arrow bicycle;
George F. Roth, 74S Twenty-third
street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
For Sale or Trade-Lands.

FOR SALE - twenty-five acre fruit
and chicken farm; adjoins town;
good improvements; will exchange
for city property, 210 Safety build
ing. Phone 1918.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR SALE-Sevnral slightly used and
secondhand cars, muat go regard
less of cost. Call or phone John Dee
Auto Sales Co., 1612-14 Third ave-
nue.. Phone R. l. 1885,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR SALE-One hundred and fifty
five egg incubator. "Old Trusty."
Must sell; moving to town. Inquire
1927 Second avenue. Phone 1924.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

CALL up Fred A. Smith for painting
and paper hanging and paper clean
ing. 1914 Fifth avenue. Phone 2S14.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR RENT-Modern furnished hot
water heated room, 1903 Third ave-
nue.; phone So r. l., evenings.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR RENT = Three furnished front
rooms for light housekeeping; $3.50
per week; SIT Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR RENT-Nine-room strictly mod
ern house; good location, inquire
German Trust & Savings bank, Rock
Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR RENT-April l, six-room cottage,
strictly modern; close in. Inquire
1872 Seventeenth street. Phone 660L
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR SALE - Station wagon, in good
condition Inquire garage, rear 1905
Seventh avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

FOR RENT-One Of Wright's modern
five-room flats, 1887 Seventeenth
street, phone 1449. Inquire 1903
Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
For observation-disclosures,

FOR RENT-Five- and ten-acre tracts,
one mile from south city limits; suit
able for gardening or truck farming
good potato land. Telephone or see
Lawrence Martin, Milan.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-10-19

the Tollman case. 1t required some
weeks to find her. When she was To-
Gated it was found that Tollman was
not with her He had been there un-
til the night before. They had quar-
relied and he had gone away. The
cause of their quarrel was the fact that
Tollman had no money. She had cast
him off as a dead husk. She did not
know his whereabouts.
In practically every case of other
wise well-executed crime these devel-
ops some element of unexpected folly
the criminal does some one thing
that seems, from what would be sup
posed to be his standpoint. inexcusably
stupid. Gard was therefore not sur
prised when it developed that Toll
man had not so much as a thousand
dollars out of all he had taken from
the bank. He had made no provision
for the time which he must have
known would inevitably come when he
should be detected. This, however,
was not the crowning folly from n
criminal standpoint. Despite the dash
and cunning and the determination he
had evinced in his lootings, he lost his
nerve when his woman threw him out.
He purchased. with the proceeds OF
pawned jewelry, ticket to Balm
bridge, Mass. went there, and gave
himself up to the police. His nerve
was broken.
The theory of find the woman" was
applied in the case of the third of the
offenders. John r. Mansfield. the Bos-
ton gambler. The apartment of Mrs.
Siddons where the faro game was.
upon occasion, set up, and the woman
herself, who was suspected of being
particularly intimate with Mansfield,
were watched. The watch was not eff
fective, however, for the woman dis
appeared with no one seeing her.
The janitor at the apartment house
reported that in going she had taken a
particularly heavy trunk. Special
Agent stephens undertook to follow
that trunk. He canvassed half the
expressmen of Boston before he found
the man who had taken the trunk
away. This man stated that he had
taken it to the Back Bay station at a
certain time, and that it had been
weighed and found to be in excess of
the baggage a passenger might carry
free of charge. This singled it out
from the mass of trunks. The ex-
pressman remembered that it weighed
225 pounds, and that the baggageman
had marked it for 60 cents excess.
According to the rate book this would
have been the excess charge for that
weight to New York. The trunk was
thus located with sufficient definite
ness that its number was procured.
In New York 1t was found that the
excess trunk had been sent on to
North Philadelphia with the charge G.
o. d. Here the record showed that
the trunk had been called for by
Mrs. Price. living at an address on
Broad street. and the agent remem-
bered that she had been accompanied
by n man. At this address n Mr.. and
Mrs. Price were found to be living.
Special Agent Stephens watched the
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-10-19
BAY RUM FROM WEST INDIES
Trees That Are Cultivated Only
on Danish Islands.

After so years of negotiations, and
at cost of S25OOO,OOO, the United
States is on the threshold of achieving
the ownership of the source of all
genuine bay rum.
1t is true that we are not buying
the Danish West Indies primarily be-
cause they are the group made famous
by the refreshing toilet preparation,
nevertheless the American people will
feel more Eat home" in calling the is
lands ours when they recall that If it
weren't for st. Thomas, st. John and
st. Croix, freshly shaved faces would
be unsoothed by the universally popu-
lar product of distilled leaves.
The bay tree of glory is the Taurus
nobilis, while the bay of rum has the
caustic name of myrica acris. The pc
culiar species of aromatic bay which
supplies the distinctive ingredient of
bay rum Is closely allied in appear
ance to several other varieties of bay
growing on St John and st. Croix.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-10-19
TALES OF HOTEL REPORTERS
They Were Fanciful and Readable in
Good Old Days When the Imaoi-
nation Had Free Rein.

If n man physician named DR.. John
Jones marry woman physician named
DIR. Mary Smith, how shall they regis
ter when they go on their bridal tour?
Shall they register as "Dr. John Jones
end Wife" or as "Dr. John Jones and
Dr. Mary Jones'? Shall they call them
selves "Dr. and Mrs. John JONES'" or
"Drs. John and Mary Jones'?
All, for the old days when "hotel re-
porters used to give Chicago silly-sea-
son problems like this one. which is
now thrown into the New York news
papers, says the Chicago Post.
Those We're great times, my masters.
The 'hotel reporters" never had enough
to do. Their superiors knew it, but
they knew that the fact would stimu-
late the imagination. 1t did. Every
afternoon the bored reporters would
gather, with no news and nothing to
write. Inevitably, they would make
up" something-this was before the
day when people began to say frame
up"
They would have "Mr Zero" of Med
icine Hat PACED on the hottest day of
the year. They would pull the old one
about the bellboy who called 'Mr.
Smith in crowded lobby and had
eighty-five men spring up and answer
Here" They would spin interviews
with strange people who just happened
to drop into town and drop out again
before the city editor or any rival news
paper could check up on them Charles
Dillingham;, the theatrical man, was
hotel reporter. So was Joseph Medill
Patterson. So were Eddie" Westlake
and many Others.
The work they did was just plain
foolery, like the sublimely uEimportaht
question of how Doctor Jones and wife
should register. We don't doubt that
Dillingham; and his generation printed
that same query. 1t is too bad that
this innocent humor is gone from the
papers. 1t never did anybody any
harm. 1t offended but the strictest of
truthtellers.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-10-19

mitted: Find the woman" The re-
suits obtained indicate that there may
be much in the theory. In the case
of Tollman the connection with the
Gatewood woman was soon estab-
lished. She was not about her old
haurts IN New York. No trails were
Immediately found. 1t was developed
that she had originally lived in Kan
sas City. When any individual has
got into trouble there is always a
strong probability that he will return
to his old home, another detective the
ory to which Billy Gard subscribed. 1t
is particularly true with reference
to such serious crimes as murder
but it is to a material extent true in
all cases that necessitate flight.
Upon this theory Gard went to Kan
sas City to look for tn, woman in
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-10-19

Broad street house until Price came
out. He was none other than Mans
field. He was placed under arrest.
With confidence in the old detective
theory of the woman, the special
agents applied it again in the case
of Walls, the one-time gambler on
transatlantic liners. This was not
done, however, until several suspected
individuals in different cities had been
shown not to be the man wanted, and
many other schemes for the apprehen-
sion of the gambler had failed. For
Walls was married to a very attrac-
tive and respectable woman, who sup
ported herself by keeping boarding
house after his flight. 1t could not
be discovered that she was in commu-
nication with her husband. Finally.
there was developed another woman
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-10-19

keeper had entirely lost his head. He
became consumed with the reckless
ness of desperation.
In the meantime the Gatewood wom-
an had moved to New York. Also Toll
man had become deeply enamored
| with her. So fond was he of her COM
pany, as a matter of fact, that he
would often turn over to Kelliner and
Mansfield and other of their friends
the money with which to gamble, while
he visited with Miss Gatewood. The
members of the gang would go to some
gilded restaurant and dine sumptuous-
ly and return to Tollman and report
that luck had been against them, and
that they had lost all the money. On
such occasions the'profits of the eve
ming were almost clear to the gang. On
sucn occasions, so the members of the
train crew back to Boston reported,
Big Bill" Kelliner would sob out his
apparent grief, because of his losses,
on the shoulder of Tollman. The lat
ter was thus placed in the role of
comforter. Kelliner would swear never
to gamble again and make his pro-
testations SO earnestly that Tollman
would become the aggressor and urge
his associate on and paint pictures of
luck ahead. So adroitly did Kelliner
play this game that Tollman had been
heard to threaten to break with him
because he was a piker
For two years this arrangement con-
tinued. Kelliner, Mansfield, Walls,
the Gatewood woman, and other accom-
plices, maintained themselves as de-
coys that induced the young bookkeep-
er to draw even more checks against
his personal account and always ex-
tract these and charge them where
they were least likely to be missed.
Despite his long carouses at night
Tollman never failed to be at the bank
in time to open the mail and extract
the checks that would have betrayed
him. Despite the loss of sleep he was
never so dull that he neglected any
detail in his bookkeeping that would
have caused his accounts to fail to
balance or to show any irregularities
that would have caused the bank -ex-
aminer to grow suspicious. Unsus-
pectingly the stern old bank of Balm
bridge stood with unruflled front until
it became but financial skeleton, its
last spark of vitality wasted away.
But this young bookkeeper of the
gambling mania! What became of
him? Those other aiders and abetters
to his crime! What action was taken
in their case2
Special Agent Billy Gard eventually
had in hand a complete understanding
of the individuals and the methods
that were associated with this case.
He had reached the necessity of max
ing arrests.
Kelliner was taken into custody.
He Indignantly protested that he was
innocent of any criminal wrongdoing.
Mansfield, Walls and Tollman had dis
appeared. The capture of the latter
was of first Importance.
The special agent turned first to
that primary command of the old
school detective when a crime is COM
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-10-19

and great care is necessary to avoid
confusion in gathering the leaves and
berries, for very small number OF
leaves of the wrong kind will material
ly affect the quality of the finished
product.
The leaves of the myrica acris are
from three to five inches in length.
of pea and contain from seven tn
eight seeds. The bay rum which is
made from n combination of green
leaves and berries is of n better quail.
ity than that distilled from dried
leaves or from the leaves without the
berries. The berries are very difficult
to gather, however, and they cost
from 15 to 20 times as much as the
leaves.
The basis of bay rum is Jamaica or
st. CroiX rum, made from the skim
mings of the sugar boilers, scrapings
of sugar barrels, and the washiugs
from sugar pots.
For n number of years much of the
bay rums of American commerce has
been manufactured in this country,
the ingredients usually being about
one-half the bulk alcohol, one-sixteenth
Jamaica rum. 40 drops of oil of bay
to the pint, 20 drops of oil orange. a
maindcr distilled water, all of which
Is allowed to stand for several weeks
and is then filtered through magnesia.