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I THE ARGUS, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 190(5. u .6 -5 1' I 111 i I i, -f I I r i . 3 II lit- Ue Our BEEF, WINE and IRON. It's the bcr-t spring tonic. Made only at the HarperMouse 8 PHAR.MACY. 8 0 8 8: Ct 8 8. o 8 o II. O. I-Lolfs, Dispensing Chemist. IT'S A SIMPLE LITTLE HAT, BUT IF IT'S NOT RIGHT IN STYLE YOU ARE TO BLAME. GO TO THE RIGHT PLACE. THE STYLE IS THERE AT THE RIGHT PRICE. ISP SOCK ISLAND. I L.U. Tha Hatter. Harpr House Block. For Your Parly or Recepiion Call on f 3 O o 8 8 o o t o o c o o h o ij o o u I 8 o 8 8 8 WE CAN FURNISH THE LAT EST DESIGNS AND BEST MA TERIAL IN ICE CREAM AND FRUIT ICES. GIVE US YOUR NEXT OR DER. WE WILL BE SURE TO PLEASE YOU. o 8 o o t MATH'S O . . . -6 VXXXXX3COCCCCCCOCCOCOOGCOCX; It's In The Make See the Popular Priced Tailors HUGH McINTYRE 6c CO.. 519 Fifteenth Street. Moline, 111. SUITS $18 AND UP New phone 8001. All tele phone rails promptly attended to - OCOOCOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOC30 WALL, PAPER & CLEANING 8 t5 Wnll Paper. Frnro and Calcimine Q ClraoInK-.I'irst lass work. Can Q Kive beat of reference. O S . GEORGE COYNE. O A6tr"-- 43 Twenty-third street J5 Rock slland. Old phone, W. 604X. M aih s fcCOOOOCCCCCCJOOOOCOOOOOOOOO MOVE FOUR TIMES Fire Drives Mr. and Mrs. Gow ling From Place to Place. HE IN BARE FEET FOR DAYS Mrs. Howard Johnson and Sister Are Not Found Mrs. Harriet John eon Writes to Mrs. Pollard. : Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cowling. 1100 First avenue, both of whom were in jured in the earthquake and fire at San Francisco, returned home last 8 evening on the 11:10 Rock Island train, . .' . ' .. ... . ... ,u, O and were ;u onee reiuoveu 10 men o home. Though they are both recover- from their injuries, they ore quite fatigue.! by the journey home, ana todav were permitted In see none of the many call rs. Mr. and Mis. Cowling were guests at l lie Ceary at Kan Francisco, oceu mint; room on the third Hour of the tmildmg, wmcli laeed l num square, and stood opposite the Si, Francis ho tel, where Mr. and Mrs. I. S. White were registered previous to the week of the earthquake. Mr. and Mrs. Gowling were in their room when the earthquake shock oe- ; curred. The account of the fall of the J adjoining building onto the Geary, re I suiting in the burial of the guests be- ! neath the wreckage, has been pub- Mr. and Irs. Cowling were both rendered uncon- scious. and were severely injured. They j were taken to the emergency hospital, I but on account of the approach of the j fire, they had to be removed three dif ferent times, being for a. time separa' : ed, and Mrs. Gowling, when she was ' placed in tiie sanitarium with her hus ! b:ind, was removed fnr the fourth tinu1 after the accident. Their greatest suffering was caused by lack of sufficient clothing. Mr. Gow ling being compelled to go barefooted for four days, and without other neces sary clothing. They were ultimately taken care of by friends, however, and fared better than many of the injured. Two Kirtf! I.otst. A letter received yesterday by John M. Hums, 1014 Fifteenth street, from his daughter-in-law. Mrs. Perry Burns, of San Francisco, is of interest from the fact that it not only gives informa tion of the escape of Mr. and Mis. Soecial What Do You Think of It? Zr.y J ALL PATENT. The above repre sents one of our latest styles in Spring Oxfords for men. It is a dandy, having all the newest, effedts. Not too extreme, but Just Right, and the price is only Lage - Waters Shoe CoT 1703 Second Avenue, ROCK ISLAND. L-W 1 f A Burns and their family f rem injury cr Iocs in. the earthquake, but report that Mrs. HoTr.ird Johnson, wife of a former Keck Iiind .young, man., .and her sister, "were lost in the earth quake." The letter does not state whether it is positively known, that the two ladies were killed, but indicates that at least they have not been local ed. Mr. Johnson is a nephew of Mrs A. H. Pollard of this city, and until about seven years ago he resided here. Mrs. Johnson and her sister were San Francisco girls, and were but slightly known in Rock Island. A pitiful story in connection with the fate of the Johnson family is told by Mrs. Burns. She says that a day or more after the earthquake the two lit tie children of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were found wandering alone, hand in nana tnrougn tne streets in trie un- burned district. The Burns home was not damaged, and aside from semie clothing that Mr Burns unfortunately had left at the tailor's to be pressed, they lost vry little. There is little optimism in Mrs Hums letter, but it gives an idea of the su tiering if the people of the stricken city. The greatest need now is for clothing, if being almost impos sible lo fecure articles that are abso lutely necessary. Provisions are ve-iy scarce, notwithstanding the quantities sent for relief from outside chits. Mrs. Burns slates that t lie health authoiities have issued orders for the removal of all curtains and tapestries, in order to prevent infection and dis ease. Great precautions are also be ing taken against fire, and the orders are enforced strictly by the patrol. '1VII of :i Tliriliiiii;- KxiierSrnre. In a letier wii.'teu from Seattle by -Mrs. II. E. Johnson. 1210 Mason street, San Francisco, formerly of Rock Is land, to her sister, Mrs. A. H. Pollard, of 722 Eighteenth street, this city, she says: "It is certainly miraculous that I am here to write. How true, "in the midst of life we are in death." I was awake the morning of the earthquake. and when the tremble commenced 1 thought it was a harder one than we are accustomed to having, but 1 thought it would stop directly and lay still, but it got harder and harder, so 1 got up and rushed in to wake Mill (her little son), and I thought every minute the plastering would come off and fall on us. 1 iie whole house shook irom one side to the other like an angry parent would shake a child. I got Mill awake and rushed te my room and c;ot on my clothes and was enit in the 11 before it stopped shaking. Oh. you can never realize the terrible hor ror of such a thing until you have been through it. The house was badly shaken. It threw cupboards down on the floor, and the water iii;gs an.1 mains wire shake-ii c;:t ct commission in the ity to the fire jus;, burned what wn.-n't shaken to pieces. 15 square miles, mat mg.it Aim to.jk a tug tele scope and I took a bundle of bedding over my shouioe-r and we started tor the Presidio, and I am sure God gives .rength at such times for I am posi ive I could not have carried such a ! load at any other time and up these i terrible hills. We got as far as Van I Ness and Lombard streets that niht j way after dark and with many others laid down on the ground and put the ; quilts over us and rested until awhile before daylight when we with the rest moved on and got to the l-'re-ildio just after da light. "After the earthquake you couldn't buy anything and I had a little bread an ' so; e crackers, a can ef cream, and e in of co.Tee. and two cans ol salmon, which I bad hurriedly thrown in the telescope before leaving. I had no dish to make coffee1, so we ate the diy bread and crackers with the sal mon and got along fine if we had had a dish to get it in they would have given uj coffee ready iiia'le at the Pre sidio in the afternoon. "Thursday we got a tent and the soldiers gave us hard tack and it was ica! good and Friday morning the supplies came in from the near by cities and then k had plenty and we got a lard bucket and made coffee and lived fine. Any way we didn't go hungry. Wo divided with others and, oh, how nobly every one came to the relief, and still the wicked blaze sped on in its destruction until Friday night about C o'clock the military band com menced playing, very softly, 'My Coun try 'Tis of Thee," every one Hew out of their tents to see what it meant, and when the music stopped, a courier an nounced, 'The fire is out.' It wasn't really out, but was under control, so every one slept that night. We left Sunday noon and from the time, 5:15 a. m., Wednesday, until we left there were slight shocks, it seemed the earth trembled constantly and at any other time we would have thought them se: vere. "We went by boat from Fort Mason to Oakland and they gave us trans portation to Portland. We took the train from there at 4:30 p. m., Sunday, and the ladies of the relief committee were at the train morning, noon and night to feed the people from Frisco with sandwiches, doughnuts and lots of good milk. After we left Ashland a man came aboard the train and gave all the proper identification cards and the relief committee met us at the train in Portland and all who wanted to go further were given, transporta tion, and when we got here at 11 o'clock at night we were met ao;ain and taken to the Y. M. C. A. building and there assigned lodging. We were "mt to one of the best hotels. The Ant lers, and every one had a requisition for two meals at the Vennia, one of the best restaurants, with instructions I that if we did not find friends or need ed assistance to go back. We were certainly treated royally everywhere. We have now got a little furnished cot- FOR THE CONGRESS Local Executive Committee on Farmers' National Con vention Meets. TAKES UP ARRANGEMENTS Providing fcr the Necessary Sub-Corn mittees Headquarters, Ac commodations, Etc. A meeting was held last evening at the Rock Island Club of the executive committee named last October at the gathering of citizens at the club last October, in connection with the as sembling in Rock Island the coming autumn of the f armers' National con gress. This committee, it wiil be re membered, is made tip of representa tives of the Rock island Club, the Re tail Merchants association, the county of Rock island, the Rock Island coun ty larini rs' institute, and the Tri City I'n.'ss club. A ltrrnenl:il Ivi AlU-ndaufe. There was a representative attend ance at Hie lust meeting of the execu tive commit let last, evening, on which occasion T. .1. Medill was elected chair man ami Ij. B. Strayer secretary. A communication was read from Presi dent J. M. Stahl of the Farmers Na tional congress relative to the arrange ments for the meeting in Rock Island in October next, and ashing that the plans of the local committee be laid before the committee of the congress on arrangements as soon as possiuie. to the end that the program may be completed and as generally advertised as possible. Two committees were designated last evening as follows: Finance Charles Mciiugh. C. S. Mc- Daniel. II. E. Casteel. F. W. Bahnsen. E. II. Guycr, Fred T. Myers. Warren II U-ck, John Ohlwciler, Thomas Camp- cll. Local Arrangements T. J. Medill, Major C. W. Hawes. L. B. Strayer, J. V Welch. 1.5. D. Connelly. PllllllliJ tin- I'lltMM. It was estimated that it would re quire $1. .'. to carry out the part Rock sland had pledged in program of en tertainment of the congress. The Har per house was designated as headquar- ers. and the arrangements committee vas instructed to engage the Illinois (heater for the meetings of the conven tion and the rink for the exhibits. The irransemcnts committee of the Pami rs' National congress will be advised of last evening's action when a com- tniine will be sent to Rock Island to ompkte with the local committee the irrangemcrit s i?i gemeral and in detail. flie committee on reception will be provided for at another meeting of the executive committee a week hence. tagc and are getting along nicely, and think wo will settle in Portland." Will Shovel Sun. I nt Home W. H. Jordan of this city has a let ter from his cousin, W. II. Jordan, a 'niwcr r.t San Fiancico with office. in the top of a lfJ-story building at the corner of Pacitic. avenue and Fillmore street. His library, co-ting $1S,000. Play Ball kO.. if C E N N ETT'S BASEBALL GOODS ARE THE BEST MADE. i WE CARRY THE LARGEST STOCK IN THE WEST. We carry THE D. & M. GOODS, SPALDING'S GOODS, VICTOR GOODS, REACH GOODS. We carry FIVE LEAGUE BALLS, A FULL STOCK OF FISH ING SUPPLIES. BENNETT'S SrOKTI.VG GOODS STOItK, Rock Island, III. " ' if Ii ' ' ' t'1j ! H m m II 1 !iPP gctf mmmm 4 s fm$Mmm&: v&fn mm mm ; a 'tf-ts m;&m no need foh you I Pfel mm 111 mm 1 I yi I lpr PATTERNS FOR A " ? GLAD TO SHOW YOU I GUSTAFSON a was destroyed, but his home was but iittie damaged, and all members of the family escaped. The people of the citj- are declared to be a unit in their k termination to rebuild the city better than before. In concluding, Mr. Jor dan writes: "Prior to the calamity I had en gaged passage for myself and family upon the steamer Cedric for Europe and it was my intention to sail from New York upon the 27th of July for an absence of about Mx months to repair some damages to health, but now all that prospect lias gone glimmering and I shall try to find renewed health by shoveling sand at home. Had I gone abroad I had thought of spending a few c" with yon in Re T -1 in! ATTEND THE STATE MEETING Dentiets Depart for Springfield to Hold Annui! Secsion. Dr. R. M. Pearce and Dr. W. H. Carl 1 ft last evening to attend the meeting cf the Illinois State Dental society, which convenes today. A number of e'entists from Rock Island and Moline have this evening, among those1 who will attend being Dr. 1 1. G. Trent and Dr. C. D. SiU is of this city. The ses sion of the society continues until Fri day. for the Summer V Now there's a suprjfestion wortli taking up! Tin- trip is cheaply made very. You need the mountain air and Bimahiiie. You'll enjoy the scenery .ay nothing of tlie climate. And then -but why say more? ('J-O-Ij-O-lt-A-l)-O contains it all and spells the most enjoy able vacation place there is upon the map. Low Rates to Colorado June 1 to September 30. With a special bargain July 10 to 15, inclusive. Only S22.40 from Rock Lsland for those six days, with the generous return limit of Aug. 20. You should have our folder, entitled ''With the Elks to Col orado in July" that will tell you all about it. Or a beauti ful SO page C dorado book sent for three li cent -stamps. Address ! i R.ock Islund, 111. ape Retaloln tikes ARE THE KIND WE SELL MATTCfl WITH A CUSTOM TAILOR. WE SHOW THE VERY WORN BY NEW YORK'S SWELL DRESSERS AND TAIL ORED BY THE FINEST TAILOR IN THE WORLD. COME IN AND LET US SHOW YOU THE NEW MODES AND SPRING Licensed to Wed. CarstLii Pc-terson Clinton Mary Obermiller Clinton Two million Americans suffer the torturing pangs of dy.-p:-psia. No need to. Burdock Blood Bitters cures. At any drug store1. DmlCTlUN CHAnBCRLIX,KlNPTtOMPANV. Sunday, May 13. , V :i I i : Int Ni-lil. FRISCO earthquake: AND FUCK MOVING PICTURES Takra ri;riii i'.tt- ":i 1:?i i;:!.- t 'li i:u:ity il llatilcru 1 lint. MOST SENSATIONAL AND REALIS TIC SCENES EVER FRODUCED. Tim ituriilnx of l-'risi-o. 'I ho I iillinu of SltyMTiifHT? 'I l.t Tumult of t'rn.y I'i'ojrif The Demolition ol i iiliiit ii Tht Mwotins of ltol!TM Tin- ItliNh for iil't.v. AN ACTUAL REPRODUCTION. PUIt'KS Mat iin-e. 10 Hii.l ct'llls; V liein'. 1!.". .'' . M t s. I "Initio i2 I. sue . P. A. -t P GARMENTS THAT BECOME HOW HARD HE IS TO SUIT. TO WASTE TIME AND MONEY STYLES, DUPLICATES OF THE CLOTHES AND SUMMER. ALWAYS AMUSEMENTS. WAIT FOR Kennedy Brosf- Big Vaudeville Shows Under Canvas. ONE SOLID WEEK, St a rting MONDAY, MAY 7. Il'-re They Are: ADONIS FABIO, 'i'iio (hddeii Mniifer. RICE AND MORRIS, (einian Comedians. ' OWEN V. CROWN, The Assassin of Sorrow. NELSON AND FRENCH, Comedy Sketch. THE MUSICAL SMITHS. t THE TWO SELBYS, l'ng Punchers, Singer.- and Dancers, and AMAZO PRICES: 10c and 20c. f 9 St fion ly. f