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TP LIT A UO.TTQ ' WP r VCCT A "V "f A TJPTT 11 1 OrtfJ 1 5 ft w- ? If you are, come to our store. We can fit you out with everything; furniture, carpets, rugs, curtains, stoves, etc., at prices that bear our reputation for low prices. Our goods are all dependable and you can be sure that you run no risk if you do your trading here. If, perhaps, you haven't quite the amount necessary to pay for all the goods you need, don't let that hinder you, but come anyway, we give you easy terns. See our Line of R.attai Furniture No larger Assortment Anywhere. CLEMANN & Corner 2d Ave. Every tiling: Lovely at tlie.. umui FRONT An elegant line of Fine Suits, Spring Overcoats, Furnishing Goods Arriving every day. Now is the time To purchase. Get first choice. Plenty of To select from. COME AND LOOK. THE VAN lWHW w m mm m m V m M mmmmmmmmwmmmmwmmm ROCK ISLAND. ILL Are You Going to Housekeeping ? SALZMANN and 16th St. "Adlers US MERCER LOSES OUT Gest, Graves and Ramsay Ju dicial Nomi nees. CONVENTION HELD HEBE TODAY Delegates in Scrapping Mood From Start to Fin ish. WILLIAM II. GEST, Rock Island.. 120 EM Ell Y C. GRAVES, Geneseo 120 F. D. RAMSAV, Morrison C2 . T. CHURCH, Aledo 58 The above is the result of the deciding- vote in the republican judicial convention for the Fourteenth dis trict held at the court house in this city today, Messrs. GesJ, Graves- and Ramsay, having- received the republi can nominations. . The vote was strictly by counties, not h delegate getting away from the control of his chairman. Rock island and Mercer counties were for Judge Church throughout and Henry and Whiteside counties were for Ramsay. Rock Island had 41 delegates; Henry county, .34; Whiteside county, 2S, and Mercer county 17. Thus after the preliminaries had been disposed of and the method of procedure settled the majority of enry and Whiteside counties carried all propositions. Fljfht at Outset. The fight came on the organization and was precipitated in the very be ginning. .1. IS. Oakleaf. of Moline, as chairman of the judicial committee for the district, called the meeting to order at shortly after ll:.';o. and after the call had been read by.ludge T. H. Chesley, of Whiteside county, secretary of the committee, he an nounced that he would call Hon. Isaac X. I'.assett, of Aledo. to the chair as temporary presiding officer if there were no objections. Hut there were objections. Frank Raker, of Kewance. Henry county, proposed the name of .ludge J. W. Ward, of Whiteside county, as chairman and demanded a roll call upon the question. M. M. Sturgeon, of this city. State's Attorney Graham, of Aledo. and others spoke in favor of Mr. Rassett. Mr. Graham in partic ular declaring that he was the proper man for the place on account of the manner in which he had received cer tain alleged propositions made to him by delegates who were not mention ed. Mr. Graham declared that I'.as sett had been offered the support of certain delegates if he would consent to calling the roll by counties alone and not by individual delegates. ThN. it was said, he declined to do. A viva voce vt te was taken on the matter of callinsr ' roll and failed to carry. Then after an argument of some length upon the right of chairman of the committee to point the temporary chairman, motion of Raker was withdrawn Mr. Rassett took the chair. the !!p- thr and The Henry and Whiteside county factions having conceded this point moved back to take a stand upon calling the redl by counties rather than by indi viduals so that there might be no pos sibility of a break of a stray delegate to .Judge Church, particularly from Henry county, where some uneasiness was felt. On this projmsition the up per end of the di.-trict was destined to" be successful. Committee. Kamml .Judge Chesley was retained as tem porary secretary and the roll of counties was called for the naming of the committees', resulting as fol lows: Credentials Oscar Wood, White side; Theodore Rccker, Henry; W. .J. Graham. Mercer; Martin Schoonnia ker, -Rock Island. Resolutions Harry V. Waite. Wli Re side; R. C. Moore, Henry: Alex. Me Arthtir, Mercer; .J. M. Hutchinson, Rock Island. Permanent Organization .1. F. Vt ley, Whiteside; Fred H. Hand. Henry; Henry Crosby. Mercer; E. IX Swee tie v. Koek Island. After a brief recess the committee on credentials rejorfed and a motion to accept the report without reading was passed, the object being to facil itate business in order that the dele gates might get away on early trains.' The report of the committee on per manent, organization was then called for and that body- stated that it could not reach an-agreement. Then the trouble broke out afresh. .7. I?. Oakleaf moved that the tcnir porary organization be made perma nent, and Henry county instantly of fered a substitute that H. C. Ward. of Whiteside county, be declared chairman. The question now turned as to how the vote should be taken, and in a very short time the chair man found himself literally covered up with motions, amendments and substitutes, together with opinions of delegates as) to how the whole thing ought to be decided. Chair's Oerlnlon K-ered. , A .viva voce vote was taken on the quest ion of calling- the roll by indi viduals and declared earned. A de mand was made from the Henry county section for a division and one being taken the decision of the chair was reversed. A' roll call of counties, the chairman voting the entire dcl" gations, was then taken on the sul stitute question offering Mr. Ward as chairman, and carried by Henry and Whiteside, counties voting for and Rock Island and Mrrcer counties against, the count standing 02 to-."s. William McManus, of Mercer coun ty, -and Judge Chesley being proposed for permanent secretary, the latter withdrew and the former was chosen by acclamation. A motion then pre vailed that the roll be called by coun ties for nominations and that nomi nating speeches be ' dispensed with. Henry county proposed the name of Emerj' C. Graves; Mercer county that of W. T. Church; Rock Island county William II. Gest, and Whiteside coun ty, F. D. Ramsay. There was but one ballot taken, each county voting for three candi dates, and the result appears above. When the result was announced Judge Church arose and moved .that the nomination be made unanimous, which was done after M. M. Sturgeon for this county and I. X. Rassett for Mercer county explained that there was no bitterness in the fight. Judicial Committee The committee on resolutions pre sented a report that was adopted con gratulating Judge Hiram Rigelow, who retiresi from the beneh in this circuit, upon his career and wishing him well. The roll was then called for the members . of the judicial committee from the several counties and T. II. Chesley, of Henry- county; W. T. Church, of Mercer county: J. It. Oak leaf, of Rock Island county, and (MI. Ward, if Whiteside county, were named. A committee was sent to find the candidates, but being unsuccessful, the members returned and the con vention adjourned at 1 o'clock. The deal by which .ludge Ramsav t riu m phed over J udge Church was fixed up at a meeting of the Henry and Whiteside county delegates held in advance of the convention. Rock Isl and and Mercer count ies. by reason of their congressional and legislative re lations, were allied against White side, yet tlfe combination of Henry and Whiteside proved sullieient to secure the renomination of the White side jurist. PERSONAL POINTS. II. J. Ruckley has returned to his home in Chicago. John T. Marron wont to Washing ton. Iowa, on business. Miss Edna Rrown. of Clinton, vis ited with friends here yesterday. Mrs. J. W. Frizzelle has returned from her visit at Jacksonville, 111. William Sigmund, of Relle I'laine, Iowa, is visiting friends "in the city. Oust Nelson, of Galesbiirg. has been visiting with friends in Rock Island. Miss Sadie Straw horn, of I'rovo City, Utah, is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Ktrawhorn. Congressman and Mrs. George V. Prince, of Galesbiirg. are guests of Post master and Mrs. T. II. Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dais and son, of Rock Island, are guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. .1. A. Irwin. .".12 East Second street. Muscatine News Tribune. PRESIDENT SEXTON IS ABOUT TO RETURN HOME A telegram received at baseball headquarters front President M. II. Sexton, now on the I'acifie coast, where he went with President Rick ey, of the American association, in dicates that lie is about to start on the return home. From this it is in ferred, in the absence of more direct information, that the mission of pacifying- the warring leagues there has been given up. as it is scarcely possi ble that there has been time for any thing to be accomplished since the two eastern men reached the scene of the conflict. The lateness of the season and the fact that litigation is now understood to be pending are thought to have offered obstacles to a settlement that may hae been con sidered insurmountable. STEAMER YOUNG TO OPEN SEASON NEXT WEDNESDAY The short line packet season will be opened on this section of the river Wednesday of next week, when ('apt. Walter Rlair will start the W.J. Voting in the trade between here and Ilurlington. At the. same time the Silver Crescent will )e start ed between Keokuk and Quiney. The Helen Rlair will be put in the trade later in the season, first receiving a painting and overhauling. Then the Silver Crescent will be run opposite her and. the Young will go below. The local packet warehouse will be ocn for business next Monday morn ing. Only for Gentlemen If you admire nice lifting garments, trousers or spring; overcoat, union made, call cm Grcenlierg. the tailor. He does a large merchant tailoring business, because he pleases his cus tomers in fitting a suit of clothes, and he also gives plenty of time to pay for them in. You can buy your clothes on weekly or inontJily pay ments. Please give us an early call and examine our large stock of wool ens. 'We keep open evening until 8 o'clock and also Sunday mornings until noon. 207 Rrady street, room 0, up over the Postal Telegraph office.. Tuxes Had Taxes for the year 1002 are now due. Parties having no real estate will be expected to pay their personal property tax without delay. The law in regard to the collection of person al tax will be strictly enforced if pronvpt. payment is not made. Office with S. S. Hull, veal estate and insur ance agent, room 15, Mitchell & Lynde building, J. W. TUTtltS, Township Collector. Ittitirlnc School. Learn ballroom dancing at Gra ham's schooL Third and Gaines streets, Davenport. Thone 57. Re ginners Tuesday and Friday evenings. WILL TAB SHERIFF County Board Wants Report Hereafter On All For tign Fees. CEALLE SETTLES TOR $250 Messrs. Gordon and Hemenway to Be Asked to Give Account ings. The finance committee, which was instructed at the last meeting of the county board to look into the matter of the foreign fees collected by the sheriff, reported at the session this morning stating that no records had been found in the sheriff's office. A conference was held with r. Cralle, who agreed to settle the mat ter with the payment of the sum of $2."0 into the county treasury, which was done. 'i'he board then voted to instruct the committee to examine into the disposition of the foreign fees during t he adminisf rat ions ;ih sheriff of CD Cordon and V. ('. Ilemen w a y a ml de manding that the sheriff hereafter keep a detailed record of all receipts on this account. Telephone I'ropoftltlon Received Yesterday afternoon a communica tion was read from the Central I'liion Telephone company for the maintain ing of the present system of tele phones in the court house at a rental to the county of $:!0i annually. A motion by Supervisor Kolloff to lay on the table was lost and it was then referred to the committee on public expenditures to report at the present meet ing. A. L. Martenscn. of the upper end of the county, presented a petition for the board to take np the matter of securing the vacation by the gov ernment of a tract of swamp land in the Meredosia that has been improv ed and settled upon, the operation being necessary in order to perfect the titles of those who occupy it. This was referred to the judicia re commit tee to report at the present meet ing. A proposition from the Tri-City Sprinkler company offering the same rate as last year for the sprinkling of the streets about the court house block. a week, was referred to the committee on public expenditures to report. The appointment of George H. Man love as deputy supervisor of assess ments was approved. WATERT0WN ROAD TO HAVE VIADUCT AT EAST M0 LINE Ry an agreement between otlicials of the Moline, East Moline & Water town railway and the Rock Island system, the interurban company will erect a steel viaduct at East Moline for the crossing over the Cj, R. I. & P. tracks on the street car's line to Watertown. The crossing which has been under dispute is south of the I'nioii Malle able Iron company's shops, where the proposed extension of the interurban on the way to Watertown crosses the Rock Island tracks and enters the Watertown rti.nl. The decision arrived at in this mat ter insures the rapid progress of the extension of the interurban to Water town and Campbell's island. I'ntil term could be made with the rail road company the entire work of the extension was held np jR'nding settle ment of the crossing. Just as soon as the weather opens up and will permit the work of con struction on the new- line of road will be started. JOHN W. FINDLEY IS HELD ON CHARGE OF MURDER The coroner's jury that investiga ted the shootinjf of Lieut. Arthur R rati ley, of Moline. returned a ver dict this morning that death was tine to a gun shot wound "believed to have been inflicted by John W. Kind ley." Findley was held on a murder charge preferred by Coroner Eck hart and was removed to the county jail, where he will be held without bond pending the action of the May grand jury. Police Point. When the hour for the hearing of John W. Palmer, charged with aban donment by his wife, Turah Palmer, arrived yesterday afternoon the par ties announced a settlement of the trouble and Magistrate Johnson dis missed the proceedings. John Smith, a drunk, was fined $-1 and costs by Magistrate Johnson last evening. Meet Inr of Flint Ward tlrmorraU. Democrats of the First ward are hereby requested to meet tit Kroe- ger's barber shop at 8 o'clock Friday evening for the purpose of canvass ing the situation with reference to nelegafes to the city-township con vent ion and a candidate for alder man. EDMUND MCKPIIY. CHARLES WE1NRERGEK. Commit f eenieii. I'nn AlleU'K Foot Kaiw, A powder to be shaken into the shoes. Your feet feel swollen, nerv ous and hot, and get tired easily. 11 you have smarting feet or tighl shoes, try Allen's Foot-Ease. It cools the feet, and makes walking ease'. Cures swollen, sweating feet, ingrow ing nails, blisters and callous spots. Relieves corns and bunions of all pain and gives rest and comfort. Try it today. Sold hy all druggist and shoe stores for 23 cents. Trial pack age, free. Address Allen S. Olmstead Lelioy, N. X. , , , Mew Stamping 'Pattern for sUlrt WalKtn .Jmt KecelveU. THIRD AYENUCTHRQUChLTO SECOND Tomorrow et at. SaJe of Petticoak-ts Three days of petticoat selling at below-value prices. Among 'Ji bargain numbers we mention: Mercerized Italian cloth petticoats With deep flounce rtilTle and three broad, flat, tailor-stitched bands on flounce, $1.00 value -j QQ Fine mercerized cloth petticoats, five ruffles on a deep flounce, bead ed with tailor-stitched straps, $2 IH-tticoats, nr for J.ilO Petticoats of imported mercerized cloth, with three corded nifties on flounce, handsome garments, for .1.58 Other very special petticoats of rich imported mercerized Italian cloths, at 1 ..", -f-'-Sr, and $2. t.j. We place no limit ui the quality you may buy at this sale, but as some of tlie best lots are not large, would advise an early selection to get your share at these very low prices. New FaLncy Hosiery The styles in ladies colored hosi ery this season are exquisite. Dainty drop-sf itching in new pat terns, new two-toned effects, pret ty silk embroidery, etc. A great showing of foreign and domestic novelties, priced specially here at 47c. :;.1e, 2."e, 15c and 8c FresK Seeds Ruy jour the lowest. blue lawn Spring Spring: Top EARLY buyers of Clothing at this store will at once note the choice patterns and stylish cut of our Stein Bloch (Sl Co. Suits. If you are looking for fine fitting garments at popular prices, we meet the demand. 1801 Second Ave, Kock Island. Milllineryo Corner Twentieth Phone 4 (fsr'''''' 75e Lion t 11. OO. SI 25 and 91. SO copy rlgh t Hooks at 45 &49c ISLAND. I LL 2:30 50 copies of "ORLOFF AVlinrv; vti,it" V WW Aft. M4 25c Remnants Wash Goods HeJf Price. For Thursday all day we will close out all remnants of the new wash goods. Hundreds of choice shirt waist patterns and some dress patterns are in this lot. It's a great opportunity. J5he Greatest Embroi dery Sale of tlie season continues with added interest crowded counters every day since we opened up these wonderful em broidery bargains. At 10 & 15c yard unequall ed values in line Nainsook and Swiss embroideries worth from 15c to 50c yard. At 25c yd Cambric llouneinirs from S to l.r inches wide worth from ;H to oOc yard and so on all through the line. Come early and often. All lots on sale until closed out. SpeciaJ Bla.ck Taffeta. Silk purchase 10 pieces all made by the very lest manufacturers of the very lest taffeta silks, a regu lar .s9e value for Thursday all day if they last R7 at yard D iC Flower and Vegetable, absolutely re- S liable, ptr package . . . AC sect I now. It is scarce. Our prices are : : 207 V. Second St., Davenport St. and Fovi rth Ave. 6130. au t------:-'-' s ShaLre of the trade of the best brands of liquors whiskies, brandies, cordials, liqueurs and all the rest is coming our way. for the' good and sufficient reason that, we handle no "seconds, give our patrons what they call for and ask only a reasonable price for what we supply. SIMON LEWIS' Retail Liquor Store. Market Square, Corner Seven teenth Street and Third Avenue. 3 i 3 .