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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-12
CARELESS OF GINS.

London.-Clubs frequented by mill
tary men home on leave have been
troubled by officers carelessly deposit
ing loaded revolvers in the cloak
rooms, and several Of the clubs now
display a notice reading, Members
and visitors returning from the front
are requested to unload their rifles
or pistols before leaving them with
the attendant"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-12
SUGAR IS SCARCE
ARTICLE: IN CITY
Majority Local Dealers Had Not =
Pound Of Sweet Product On
Hand for Sale Today.
FOUR CARS ARE ENR0UTE HERE
Relief is Expected Within Few Days
and Householders are Warned
to Sit Steady.

Rock Island is now in the throes OF
a sugar famine.
A careful canvass OF dozen or so
OF the leading retail groceries revealed
the fact that they had not pound OF
sugar on hand for sale. One local
groceryman received over one hundred
calls for sugar this morning and was
able to supply none of them. The same
condition exists in Moline and Daven-
port
However, the people Of Rock Island
are warned not TO become unduly ex-
cited. The householders are instructed
to conserve the supply they have In
their homes and use as little as pos
sible for the next few days.
Relief is near at hand. Four to fve
carloads of sugar ordered by local
wholesalers are on the way and will
arrive in Rock Island within the next
few days. Every possible pressure IS
being brought to bear to have Tie
sugar reach this community as soon
as possible. The same condition also
exists in other cities and the govern
ment officials are dividing the ship
ments as equally as it is possible to do
so under the circumstances.
Shortage of cars and motive power
is blamed for the shortage. So much
attention has been paid to coal ship
ments since the warm weather set In,
that wholesalers were unable to get
their sugar shipments through. How
ever, the congested conditions on the
railroad have been alleviated to a
great extent and the shortage will
exist for only short time.
No sugar is enroute from the east
ern markets. However, four cars are
enroute to Rock Island from the Colo
RADIO and California beet fields. One
of these cars is known to be on this
side of Denver and the shipment is
being traced. A carload of sugar was
delivered to Davenport dealer yes
terday.
Conserve in Future.
Even when the cars now enroute tc
the city arrive, care will have to be
exercised in its distribution, so thai
the supply will tide over the local
demands until further shipments ar
rive. The .householders are warned
not to hoard sugar, as conditions dc
not warrant this extreme step and be-
sides it is unpatriotie.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-12
HELLO GIRLS BADLY
NEEDED IN FRANCE

Chicago, Feb. 12.-Young women
telephone operators are needed in
France and a call for them has been
sent out today by the Chicago Tee
phone company, acting on advices
from the signal corps. Only those who
can readily understand French spoken
over the telephone are eligible.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-12
SINGER IS FINALLY
LET OUT OF GERMANY

Chicago. Feb. 12.-Miss Blanche
Slocum Of Chicago, grand opera
singer, who has been virtually held
a prisoner in Germany for several
months, finally has succeeded in OBJ
taining passports, her father, E. B.
Slocum, was advised today. The mes
sage came from the American consul
general at Zurich, Switzerland. She
had been studying music in Berlin for
four years.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-12
ROCK ISLAND FIRM
DECLARED BANKRUPT
Especial to The August

Peoria, ILL.,, Feb. Involuntary
bankruptcy proceedings were filed in
the United States district court here
today by the Port Byron Materials &
Fuel company of Rock Island, Ill. The
liabilities are listed as $12,799.91 and
the assets as $14,135.52. G. F. Gall
is manager of the company.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-12
COURTHOUSE CLOSED
FOR HOLIDAY TODAY

All of the Offices in the courthouse
were closed today in observance of
Lineoln's birthday. Both the circuit
and county court were also quiet for
the day.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-12
Funeral of John B. Crossan.

Funeral services for the late John
B. Crossan, 1922 Fifth-and-a-half ave-
nue., will be held at o'clock tomorrow
afternoon at the late home. Rev. W.
B. Slime, pastor of the Second Christ
ian church, officiated. Interment was
in Chippiannock.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-12
ICE BREAKS AT ST. LOUIS.

st. Louis, Feb. 12.-Ice in the Mis-
sissippi river here broke today and
began to float down stream. A barge
belonging to the city was sunk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-12
Allow $l85,O00,

The fund amounts to total of
$1S5,000. Considering the generosity
of the citizens in the past 1t should
be an easy matter to raise the above
amount and thus do away with the
continual solicitation. The workers
will start out with the understanding
that each subscriber to the Patriots
fund will not be called upon during
the year Of 1918 for any additional do
nations. The above plan is the only
logical solution for the handling Of
local and war charities in Rock Island.
The following committee chairmen
have also been appointed to look after
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-12
Nh1@fy

Tri-City Towel Supply company.
For express call william Trsex
Plumbing. Call Rosenfields, R. l. ~,
R. I. Clean Towel Service; pAoas
r. I. ATS.
Ohio-Tuec Electric Vacuum Clean
ers for rent. Phone R. !. Ills.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-12
Funeral Of Mrs. ], o. Adams.

Funeral services for the late Mrs.
J. @. Adams were held at 1880 this
morning at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. S. E. Mattison, 1881 Twentieth
street. Rev. Samuel Van Pelt, pastor
of the First Methodist church, ofiicia-
ted. Interment was in Chippiannock.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-12
n. Wade Stevenson.

At Denver last Sunday occurred the
death of N. Wade Stevenson, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. Stevenson, former
ly of Rock Island. He was 81 years
Of age. He is survived by his wife,
his mother and three brothers, A. A.,
R. A. and J. P. Stevenson. Jr. Burial
will be at Denver tomorrow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-12
Funeral Of Ben L. Garfield.

Funeral services Tor the late Ben L.
Caufield, 536 Twenty-fourth street
were held at 8 o'clock this morning at
the Sacred Heart Catholic church.
Father C. P. O'Neill officiated. Inter-
ment was in Calvary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-12
Mrs. Amanda &. Goftsch.

Mrs Amanda S. Gottsch died at
sos last night at her late home,
Twenty-fifth avenue and Seventeenth
street.
Mrs. Gottsch was born II, Sweden
Sept. 20, 1869. Surviving are the
widower, two sons, Otto and AL
bert, and a daughter, Mrs. Robert
Achains. Her son, Otto, has been
home on a furlough from Camp Pike.
where he is stationed. He left yester-
day. A wire was sent today. notify
ing him of his mothers death.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-12
SEVEN CHOSEN As
|. FUNDS TRUSTEES
Executive Committee OF the Patriots
Campaign Names Workers for
the .Big Drive"
) ALLOW BUDGETS SUBMITTED
Local Chapter Of the Red Cross TO
Benefit M0st-Wnl Receive
$1,000 in Year.

The Patriots fund campaign is rap
idly assuming shape and the active
campaign will start within few days.
At meeting Of the executive commit
tee held last evening the following
were named as trustees Of the fund :
F. c. Denkman, manufacturer.
Mrs. Frank Mixter. women's organ
izations.
M. S. Heagy, Central Trust and Saw
ings bank.
Charles MACEDONIAN. Tri-City Fedora
ton of Labor.
H. A. Clevenstine, merchant.
C. ]. Larkin, building and contract
ing.
H. E. Curtis. attorney.
The trustees represent all diversi-
fed interests Of the city and no fAuit
can be found in the selection. The
executive committee also went very
carefully into the budgets submitted
by the various organizations OF the
city and the following amounts have
been allotted to the various local and
oh r;4}ns.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-11-29
W.S.S. HONOR WEEK
Campaign Begins to Raise Five
Millions In Idaho.

Following is q letter sent out by
the state War Savings committee to
the Four Minute Men OF Idaho. 1t
follows 10 part:
"The first week In December will
be "Honor Week" in Idaho. Every
energy will be devoted to putting
Idaho over the top on its War Saw
ing quota. The Four-Minute Men
will play most important part 10
this work.
I'm presenting the War Savings
appeal the speakers are asked to
dwell chiefly upon the following
points: Our government has fixed the
amount to be raised in the United
States at $4,000. 900, 900; of this
amount 5000, 900 has been assigned
to Idaho. 10 round figures $3,00O,-
900 of this has thus far been sold,
leaving So, 900, 900 to be raised before
December 81 OF this year. 1t Is not
a question OF Can we raise this
amount?'-we can. 1t Is solely a
matter OF doing tive will"
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-11-29
FROM OVER THE COUNTY
POST FALLS

N. G. Ballard sustained break Of
the right leg by load OF ties falling
on him.
Post Falls raised 1925 for the war
work fund. The precinct 100 per
cent quota was $500.
A. H. Hand, government trapper.
reports having captured 80 coyotes
this fall.
The death of Dorothy Cunningham
is the only one in Post Falls that has
occurred during the six weeks siege
of influenza.
The Mcclure school reopened Nov.
25.
The Post Falls school opened Mon
day. holding only afternoon sessions
during this week.
Howard Strahorn sold his auto
truck for S2500.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-11-29
SAVED OVER MILLION
Idaho Squirrel Poisoning Cam.
paigu Big Success.

Boise, Idaho. Crops valued al
ST., i,25l $50 were saved from destruc-
tion by ground squirrels and othe'
rodents in this state during 1918 by
4025 farmers who co-operated in q
rodent control campaign with the
university extension department,
which was assisted by an expert from
the bureau OF biological survey,
United States department of agricul.
ture.
Against this gain must be charged
an expenditure of $33, ,SO3 for poison
used. but the reports made by the
farmers to the university extension
department show that each of the
4025 workers saved an average OF
more than $500 worth each in crops
w. K. Crouch, biological assistant,
was IN charge. Of the work, which was
carried on ia % counties. Funds foI
buving the 226,49 rounds Of bait
used were furnished by county com
missioners, county farm bureaus, and
other farmers organizations, and by
individual farmers.
Figures showing tae surprising re.
suits of the campaign in cash values
were submitted by the farmers them
selves, and are considered by the
university extension department to
be accurate to fne degree. as each
farmer reported only for land that he
had treated, or that he had worked
with in cooperation with Others
during the campaign.
The acreage treated totaled 277, ISL,
making an average saving of $3.50
worth of crops per acre.
In addition TO cooperative work
done on private lands, approximately
1000 acres of uncultivated public
lands, adjacent to farms, was treated
with poison furnished by the United
States department of agriculture.
Farmers contributed the labor tn
distribute the poison for these lands.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-11-29
OUTLINES HIS POLICY
COVernOr.EleCt Gives Hint to
Probable Legislation.

Agricultural development. In.
creased marketing facilities and
bonded warehouses are the things
which D. w. Davis, Idaho's governor.
elect, views as the states principal
needs, and for which he intends to
exert every effort during his tenure,
according TO an interview which be
gave to Salt Lake paper last week
The interview said:
I'D. w. Davis, governor-elect of
Idaho, spent yesterday in Salt Lake
looking after private business affairs.
"Idaho's three principal needs, as
l see them, are, agricultural develop :
ment. increased marketing facilities
aud bonded warehouses, and | shall
exert every effort to provide for these
things" Mr.. Davis said. "The legis-
lature, in both the house and senate,
will be overwhelmingly Republican,
and l feel confident we will be able,
without loss of time, to pass legisla.
Jion establishing system of bonded
warehouses, which are badly needed.
Such legislation was one of the prin-
cipal issues of the campaign"
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-11-29
Hauser Merchant Dead.

John Cogan, pioneer resident OF
Hauser Junction, and proprietor OF a
store there for the past 25 years, died
suddenly at his home Monday morn
ing before taking breakfast. The
funeral was held Wednesday morning
at 10 o'clock, burial taking place at
thesCathollc church at Trent, Wash.
He was go years of age and leaves
a widow aud one son, Joseph Cogan,
who is 10 the military service. at Fort
Warden, Puget Sound. The sou ob :
tained a furlough to attend the
funeral.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-11-29
A WONDERFUL SEARCHLIGHT.
The Nest Powerful In the World, u
Almost Rivals the Sun.

The Nest Powerful In the World, II
Almost Rivals the Sun.
1t is ten feet high. its mirror has a
diameter Of FIVE feet, and 1t weighs
three tons. Its beam is as brilliant as
the sun at 8 o'clock in the morning or
In the afternoon, New York latitude,
and you can read q newspaper by its
light thirty miles away. The heat OF
its focused beam is so intense that 1t
will set paper afire at distance OF 25O
feet. 1t has a candle power Of more
than one and quarter billion.
These are a few astonishing facts In
the Popular Science Monthly about the.
Sperry searchlighk the invention of
Elmer A. Sperry OF Brooklyn. who is
already known as the inventor Of the
airplane stabllizer and ship gyroscope
bearing his name and the first electric
arc light.
One OF the most powerful beacons
along the coast is the Sandy Hook
lighthouse. But the Sperry searchlight
is twenty-five times more brilliant than
that light. Were the Sperry lamp sub.
stituted for the lighthouse beacon a
ship passing out to sea could be bathed
In light until 1t disappeared below the
horizon. By swinging the light back
and forth across the sky it has been
made visible 15O miles away. For navy
use the Sperry lamp illuminates a tar
get ten times more brilliantly than
any other protector devised.
L
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-11-29
SPIRIT LAKE

!. Spirit Lake, with $50 per cent
united war work quota Of $l425,
raised $1573 in cash and pledges.
Dances are still prohibited on ac-
count of influenza.
e. L Rever has taken over the
meat market.
S. A. Wylle be came so i'll with
pneumonia that ne had to go to a
Spokane hospital.
James Walter H oggard and wife,
blind entertainer, gave program al
the United Presbyterian church
Monday evening.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-11-29

Congressman Burton L. French has
introduced a bill extending the pro-
visions of the homestead laws to
soldiers, sailors, marines and nurses
of the present war, that have in the
past applied to the soldiers of the
Civil war and the War with Spain, IN
applying the period of service 10 lieu
of residence on homestead entries.
Mr.. French says there can be no good
reason why the same treatment
should not be accorded the soldiers OF
the present war ds has been granted
the soldiers Uf prior wars, ana III Is
believed the measure will appeal at
once to the congress
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-11-29
Idaho State News Items.

Moscow shipped 500 lambs in one
day to the Chicago markets.
At Idaho Falls a 20-acre clover
crop netted $3,7l6 worth of seed and
80 tons of straw
1daho's home guard companies may
become the 3rd Idaho with the pas
sage OF a militia bill by the next
legislature.
On account OF the influenza
epidemic the annual Northwest Live
stock show at Lewiston has been
postponed until next year.
Capt. F. A. McCalkof the adjutant
general's staff advocates the erection
OF a monument to the Idaho men who
bore the brunt OF the war.
No more recruits are wanted for
Red Cross work overseas, according
To a telegram received at Boise head
quarters from Omer Forsie, director
of department OF personnel, Ameri'
can Red Cross.
Real property and public utilities
in Idaho as valued by the state board
of equalization this year increased
$lS,6OS,5O2 over the valuation for
assessment purposes of $4l2,265, POI
found last year. the new figure being
$3.50. S73, 7O3.
Miles f. Reed, president of the
Idaho Technical institute at Poca
telo, and one of the leading educators
OF the state, died suddenly Thursday
morning, while hunting near Aber-
deem. Heart failure was the cause of
death.
Governor-elect D. w. Davis will
attend conference Of governors and
governors elect to be held at Annapo
lis, Md, or Washington, ID. e.,
December 1918, on Invitation of M
G. Riley, secretary of the governors
conference, who wired him.
A bond election was held at Camas,
Tuesday for the purpose OF voting
upon the question of the issuance OF
irrigation bonds 10 the sum Of $675'
900 to construct the irrigation works
OF the Camas Mutual Irrigation dis
trict. The bonds carried without a
dissenting vote.
An appropriation of $25, 900, to De
added to federal appropriation ol
probably $40, 900, will be asked of tht
state legislature for expenditure by
the University of Idaho extension de
partment 10 killing of predatory
animals and rodent-pests in the state
with the corporation of the federa
biological survey.
Spanish influenza in the state o
Idaho gives its victim gamble VIII
death on the basis Of about 20 cnance'
that the patient will die to loo'
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-11-29

On Nov. IL, the county commits
sioners allowed monthly salaries and
expenses of county officials aggregat-
ing Sl67i, and Of deputies and clerks
$1940.
The county paid the Press Publish.
ing company $50 40 Nov. IL. for
sbrinting for the Liberty loan drive.
Geo. II. Freidlander, secretary and
treasurer Of the council OF defense,
was allowed $l339O salary and ex-
penses.
BY direction OF the state superin.
tendent Of public instruction, notice
Is given by County Sup't r. c.
Egbers that teachers examination
will be held Dec. 10, 90, and 81, at
Occur d'Alene.
Citizens brought before the local
council OF defense to explain failure
to give more generously 10 the united
war work campaign were DR.. Ii. V.
Scallon, A. j. Baxter, &. X. Leithe,
W. III. Hammer, j. L. Hubert, Mr..
Schermer and Jack Eachon. All but
Baxter made additional contribu.
tions.
On account OF the time lost TO the
schools during quarantine, and the
risk in assembling a large number of
teachers at this time, the i've county
teachers joint institute for the coun-
ties of Benewah, Bonner, Boundary,
Kootenai, and Shoshone, will not be
held prior to September, 1919. This
is in accordance with recommenda-
tion of the state board OF education,
aud agreement Of the county supern.
tendentS Of the five counties meu
toned.
AS the result OF the official investi-
CATION of the,murder of w. A. Ruth
erford OF Wolf Lodge In Fourth OF
July canyon, Nov. II, gang Of
Spokane and Greenacres bootleggers
is under arrest. G. e. Reedy, VIM.
Bush, alias Henderson, and Dellinger
McGarry are charged with murder.
Reedy and Bush and John Doe Pear
son are also charged with unlawfully
transporting liquor, and Reedy and
Bush are charged with having liquor
in their possession. Bush had $l100
on his person when arrested and
searched.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-11-29
Missing In Action.

The official u. S. casualty list pub
lished Nov. 81, reports Leonardo
DeLuca, Rathdrum, Idaho. missing
10 action. DeLuca was former
section hand on the N. p. railway.
lie was drafted under the selecLive
service act and trained at Camp
Lewis.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-11-29

The total subscriptions to the
united war work campaign are 5000
i79, ,O38 according to report from
New York. This is $32,679,038 in
excess of the amount originally asked
of the American people.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-11-29

Savings through war department.
readjustment orders, including cancel
Iation of contracts, are estimated at
ST 1886, 900, 900 by Secretary Baker in
letter read to the senate by Senator
Mgrtin of Virginia, chairman of the.
appropriations committee.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-11-29

chances that he VIII yet we'll. a study
of the epidemic reports 6led al the
ofhce of the state hoard of health
SHOWS. ln other words, one person
IN 40 who comes down with the
malady has succumbed.
Two Boise children, Hazel Lewis
and Rose West, both 10 years of age.
collected, washed and dried l4O
pounds of dandelion roots for the
"rooting" crusade organized by Miss
Kinney, librarian. The proceeds will
amount to over $40. The roots are
being marketed 10 New York.
10 recover time lost on account of
the influenza Closing order the Lewis.
ton state normal will DIVIDE this
school year into quarters of eight
weeks each, instead of niue weeks,
and will continue school work during
the holidays, except on Christmas
aud New Years, the state board of
education was notified last week.
Mrs Russell Sage, of New York, who
died recently, beQueathed from the
estate 5000, 900 to the Idaho Indus
trial Institute. located at Weiser,
Idaho. This institution was founded
about ten years ago by e. A. Pad
dock, p. +. Marryatt aud Jane
Slocum, Mrs. Sage, while alive, gave
at various times a total Of $4,000 to
this Institution.
Since southern Idaho has gone to
the front as potato country, and a.
potato growing has been confued to
the irrigated districts, the problem OF
storage has had to be met. Last
year southern Idaho farmers sus-
tanned heavy losses because of the
lack Of storage and their inability to
secure transportation when needed.
Protlting by that experience, the
farmers of the MinidOka project got
together this year and built storage
cellars to take care of their surplus
crops.
Following the order issued recently
by Provost Marshal General Crowder,
directing district exemption and
local draft boards TO discontinue
their activities and seal up their
records, as we'll as all unfinished
work, the district exemption board
has disbanded. and its members gone
to their respective homes. Work
enough was on hand at the time of
discontinuance to last the board a
month, but now all such question
naireS and claims as have not been
passed upon will be returned to the
local board from which they were
sent as no more are to be reviewed by
the district board.
Should the proposed zone system of
freight rate class charges, now being
considered by the federal railroad
administration, go into effect, Idaho
shippers will be compelled to pay 20
per cent more for transportation
charges given distance than would
the Shippers of Washington, Oregon
and California on the same class of
shipment for the same distance,
according to the understanding of
the plan gained by the public utili-
ties commission. Five zones would
be established. with Idaho, Montana.
Colorado. Utah, Nevada, New Mexi-
CO, Arizona and Wyoming in the
fourth zone, which will bear the
heaviest rates under the plan.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-11-29

U. s. naval estimates for 1920 have
been reduced ST $50, ,3l5, Oo9 as the
result of the armsticP, Secretary
Daniels Informed Secretary McAdoo
last Monday,