Rock Island Argus., October 05, 1912, HOME EDITION, Page 5, Image 5

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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1912.
ATTEMPT HADE
UPON THE LIFE
OF ROY COLLINS
are now scouring the vicinity in an ef
j fort to apprehend them. One suspect,
George E. Gordon of Davenport, was
! captnred early Friday morning and
j was this morning released on bends of
! $500. pending disposition of the case.
! which has been continued until- next
! Saturday, awaiting the appearance of
I the complaining witness.
FI. SHF.I BIG ROLI,.
Forbes came to Rock Island Thurs
Two Bullets Fired at Yoanff day to celebrate and had a large sum
Man as He Is Ridin? Alone- of money on his person. He had been
in an Automobile.
HALF OF SECOND
AVENUE IS DONE
' Asphalt Paving; Is Laid in First
j Three Blocks of Six Block
i Contract.
business district, was as follows: F. K. '
Tl I- T' U T-U i 1 1 I-. i 1 1 . !
P. Best, Carl J. Mueller, F. J. Math and
Dr. Joseph DeSilva.
River Riplets
ONE SHOT COMES
' drinking heavily all day, it is alleged.
i and that evening came into Mac
Glynn's saloon, where be immediately
PI rQC!orderpd a drink for the hanse, which:
- I the farmer flashed a big roll of bills.
Smashes Way Through Windshield which mediately attracted the at-,
tention of four men who were stand- j
and Imbeds Itself in Step No ; iBB at the rPar 0T,d of tbe bar As the ;
Apparent Motive. festivities progressed, Forbes contin-!
lied to purchase drinks for every one
j in the house, and finally, when he was
" """"'y aiM-rnpi-B maae upon ; am0Ft dPaJ t0 thp worl,: one of thc
NOW READY FOR TRAFFIC
Inspector Holt States That Material
la the Best and That Job la
All Right.
j A large number are expected to en-1
Joy the cruise on the steamer Helen ;
Blair Sunday afternoon. The boat i
leaves Davenport at 2:15 o'clock and :
Rock Island at 2:30. The excursion i
will be up the river. j
The Helen Blair arrived In port yes-!
terday with one of the largest consign- j
menta of freight of me season and
with a large number of passengers
from down river points.
Tomorrow, half of Second avenue's
new paving from Fourteenth to Sev
enteenth streets will be open to traf-
v ' "uiiuh u-au iu me orn., one 01 mu - uc. iu cumraciors ujaay dui in uie
the life of Roy Wolllns, son of S. J. , four suspicions characters, a tall n:aa, ' final layer of asphalt in the block be-
broad daylight, when a man concealed
f'ollins, the contractor, yesterday in followed the wealthy one to the rear,
uios-ij Bfcunneu oy nis companion?,
Onrl Ikara t K . . r ' .1 n. n 1 . . ,1
i one of the upper stories of the row . ... . , .. ...
,r .,..,. , . and relieved of his mon- y. The thieves
or houses on Fourth avenue, between .v. . . , ,
t, ..,.. v, . . . .... . .then escaped thrt.uch ttie rear win-
Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets, . . . . , , .
r , . , T . t dows and boarded a car.
fired two revolver shots at the young
man as he was driving a touring car j c laim iwim ex k.
uoruon, who Lad been in the saloon
tween Sixteenth and Seventeenth and
Monday the laying of asphalt in the
block to the east will commence. The
work is well in hand now and should
LIGHT VOTE OUT
FOR PRIMARIES
! asphalting in the three cities and is j aid ia naming the party nominees.
v -Ht on Fourth avenue. The first snot
pierced the glass wind shield just ; during the evening, boarded the L'ridge
over the steeri-ig wheel, missing Col-! Iine rar simultaneously with the four
'.ins by six inches and imbedded itself cooks, and was observed. YesU-rday
in tbe step at the rear of the machine, morning at 3 o'clock the police went
Ti, nriir mkvi.H iu n.v onto-nit- to his liODif and took him nut nf lieri
The pone are completely baffled as to to the station, where he was held. ! 'f bei.nB put i than s necessary until,-
identity of the would be murderer, 1'pon being cpu-stiun.d as to his knowl-i lh.e "H?1 and..our l.est show
, w:ac nit; nepuau n&eii is ui iuc ci;
Light voting characterized the Judi
cial primary held throughout the 14th
be completed before another fortnight ' judicial district today. Reports from
has passed.
Regarding the quality of the job,
1 icnprlnr O fi l-tnlt ctnrort tnHav
"This is in my opinion the best job of1 areed' votens were not anxious to
th? four interested counties, Henry,
Mercer, Whiteside and Rock Island,
' better than called for in the specifica-
i tions. Considerably more asphalt
which is the important part of the job.
but are working on the case, and hope 'dce of the theft. Gordon stoutly main-!
to lund their man before long.
APPIKKN'T MOTIVE.
Th attempted murder occurred
about ;ioon. The revolver bullet tore
ji hnle In the glass, and splinters of
crystal flew in all directions. Putting
,'ti high 8eed, Co lints drove his ma
chine to the police station, wrier r.?
reported th shooting to the police.
That the bullet was fired from a
M cond H'ory, was demonstrated by the
f;.ct that when the leader messenger
f death tore Its way through the
wind shield. It took a downward
, nurse and imtwdded itself in the rear
Hep on the right hand side. The man
v ho uttempted the murder evidently
v. us lying in wait for his victim, an
Collins Is In the habit of driving west
-i Fifth avenu" every day to look
i:f'er work being clone in the west end
c:f town.
No apparent motive can be found
for the deed, as Collins states that
to his knowledge he has no enemies
in the city.
tained that he did not knew auvthinc
about it and had never seen the four
men before. He stated he hoarded the
car at the game time they did and got
off at perry street with them, meiely
through a coincidence.
In Rock Island the voting was un
usually light and hardly more than
a fifth of the normal vote was cast.
In accordance with the law, saloons
were closed from 6 o'clock this morn
ing until 5 o'clock this afternoon as
per instructions from Commissioner
Archie Hart.
JWCl Stoves have
tutiMI,M them all beat
for QUALITY and STYLE,
and our prices are so low
that we are frequently
told we are from $5
to $10 lower than our
competitors, who sell mostly on the in
stallment plan. 7
Come in and look over our line be
fore you buy. We'll be glad to show you.
Afen, Mvers & Company
PROGRAM PREPARED
FOR K. OF C. EVENT
An interesting program has been
prepared by Allouez council. Knliito
of Columbus, for the "handing day"
celebration which will be held on tile
evening of Oct. 12 at the Illinois thea
tre. The program is as follows:
Address Judue Scanlan of Chicago.
Voc al Solos Mr.s. J. H. ha liner. Mir-s
Hatiie I.arkiii. Miss May O'KaiTell.
Mrs. Casey and Mrs. T. B. Reiriy.
loiui oio .irs. joii-.i Jiickev o
Davenport.
Reading K. J. Stackhaus".
Several other numbers are a!sj be
ing arranged.
POSTPONE HEARING
SIDEWALK MATTER
best quality.
MIOri.lt SHOW MARKS.
"Many people seem to believe that
because the part of the job that has
l.een opened to traffic is showing
marks from the horses' feet that there
is something wrong with the asphalt.
Such is not the case. On the con- The public hearing on the big blufl
trary, there would be reason for sus-' sidewalk improvement project which I
picion if it failed to show marks. As-, was to have been held this morning at
plialt to be good must have consider- the city hall has been continued until '
ible excess of elasticity. When the next Friday evening at 7:30 because'
elasticity is gone, the paving is gone. ' of the inability of the city engineer, aj
Therefore, if the asphalt is hard and member of the board of local improve-
unyielding there must be something ments, to be present. The plan pro-1
rone with it. Hard asphalt is brit- posed the laying of some 70 blocks of!
tie ar.d c racks and wears out quickly, sidewalks in the section bounded by I
Ibis asphalt on Second avenue is all. Sixteenth and Eighteenth avenues and . the );on,e 0f j0hn Allsbrou and wife after a six weeks visit In Clay county.
wy-ra pmsmi i hi n ji inns nifwimiini wi.i'w jwjsi ' yjmi wm mmwnm. f i hi nt wm m -r-ar-w?'
T i mm i mm mi , iiihii
right:
POLICE SEARCH
FOR KIDNAPERS
Twentieth and Thirtieth streets.
Contractor P. F. Treukenschuh was !
this morning given the contract for ,
the laying of a block of sewer at the 1
L. Mosenfelder place on Seventeenth '
street between Tenth and Eleventh
avenues. i
FARMER TOUCHED
FOR LARGE ROLL
Taylor Kidce Man Flashes Wad
PpTQt-irifli Pninte Eistt -year-old Girl Disappears
CA X CJIliLD From Home aj; Noon Yester-
Watcrtovvn
in
falcon and Four Men
Assault Him.
TAKE MONEY AND ESCAPE
H. C. Hartz. son Hen. and daughter.
Miss Maude are expected home tonight,
having completed a European tour.
Clyde E. Hayes and G. K. C.ifford
left this morning for their home in Chi
cago after spending several days in
Kock Island with H. H. Clark.
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Iialmer and
daughter Julia of Monmouth. 111., ar
rived in Rock Island this morning to
visit over Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
George Larkin and other friends.
day Parents Frantic.
Police Arrest One Suspect Who Claims i
He Is Innocent Robbers Head
for Davenport.
Obituary
So intoxicated that he was not re
sponsible for his Hi tiotiH. and flashing
a huge roll of bills in buying continu
ous drinks for a crowd in Mac Glynn's
i-aloou. at the comer of Twentieth
ptreet and Third avenue, Jim Forbes,
a wealthy Taylor Ktihre farmer, was
waylaid in a back room of the place !
and touched for hi entire holdings.
amounting to several hundred dol
l..r., Thursday night, so he,
clatrns. Four men. who were
in on thp robbery, made their escape
HAf'IIM A FiMIHtl,.
Funeral services for Mrs. Catherine
Hi-chman, who passed away l.u.t even
ing at her home on Thirty-eighth
street, will be held Sunday mornlr.g at
.:.10 o'clock at Sacred He.srt church.
Kev. J. F. Lockney will oPiciate. In
terment will be made in Calvary cemetery.
' Every policeman In the three cities
was last night on the lookout for lit
tle Kearl, 8-year-old daughter of Mr.
and !rs. .ioi-eph C. Monroe. 441'j Sev
enteenth avenue, who disappeared
from her home yesterday noon and
whom the parents believed had been
kidnaped. The little girl is a pupil at
the Horace Mann school and left her
heme after dinner and failed to re-
turn. When it grew dark and no trace
i could be found of the child, the polico
j of the three cities were notilied to ba
o'l the lookout for kidnapers, with the
little girl in their possession. Unable
tT sleep, the parents awaited anxiously
through the long hours of the night for
iiews of their daughter, from time to
nme communicating with the police.
the first part of the week.
Baptist Aid meets nest Wednesday
with Mrs. Ed Axelson.
The Rcyal Neighbors met in their
regular t tssion Thursday afternooa
with Mrs. W. B. Keene. After the bus
iness meeting a lunoh was served.
Mrs. S. P. Cosner entertained Wed
nesday at an 11 o'clock breakfast.
The out-of-town guests were Mes
dames, Meader, Taft, Long and Al
drich of Bast Moline; Hogey, Dick
man, Barrett and Standard of Rock
Island; and Hilberg, Young, Driggs
and II. Cosner of Watertown.
Mrs. M. M. Baker of Davenport
was'' a Watertown caller Wednesday.
Mrs. G. W. Walker was hostess
The ladies of the M. E. society, to
gether with many other visitors, were
very pleasantly entertained at the
borne of Mrs. W. G. Ausbrook at a
10-cent tea. Mrs. Ausbrook served
about 45, realizing about 54.50. Dur
inir the business session committees
were appointed for the annual fail Thursday afternoon to the members'
county lair which is" to be held the of Watertown and East Moline;
c-iddlo of this month in the basement Thimb.e club. They were royally en-;
of the ciiurcL. The exact date will be tertahied first, by a visit to the after- (
announced later. A contest was in- noon performance at the Family the-j
digged in, entitled, "Funny Story atre alld afterwards at luncheon at ;
Telling." A prize of a hand-painted the ladies' rest rooms. ;
nirt.irp wa awarded to Mrs I. Tre-! Mr. and Mrs. Axelson returned from ;
Mr. and Mrs. George Gray of Hamp
I ton were Watertown visitors Friday,
j Wednesday Mrs. Louis Schave en
I tertained the following ladies: Mea-
dames, Bert Cook. Lestch, J. II. El
I lingsworth, S. N. Peterson, Chris Pul
llatte, William Willis, Sensenberg
! and Thomas Schafer. The occasion
I being the meeting of the English
I Lutheran Aid society,
j Mrs. Dave Cook of Hampton is vls
i iting lat the home of her son, Bert,
j Mrs. Fred Chldester and Mrs. A. C.
; Saunders were Rock Island shoppers
Friday.
Realty Changes
John Konosky to Isaac Rudner, lot
4, John Warners sub-division. Rock
Island, $3,425.
A. H. Wendt to And. Turbquist, lot
2, block 5, R. S. Woodbum's addition,
Moline, $1.
Guyer, White & Pope to Sella M.
Richards, lot 22. block 120, New Shops
addition, East Moline, $3S5.
villyan for the funniest one. They
meet next with Mrs. Walter Coates.
Mrs. Frank Scott is entertaining
her sister from Elgin.
Mr. and Mrs. U. B. Ellis returned
from a two weeks' visit with rela-
Fairfk-ld, Iowa, Saturday, after a
three n.s visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cole and baby
Sand Dunes In Gaecony.
One of tbe most interesting and re
markable of the many regions for the
observation of sand dunes lies between
Bordeaux and Bayonne, in Gascony.
The sea here throws every year upon
tbe beach, alcng a line of 100 miles in
length, some 5.000,000 cubic yards of
sand. The prevailing westerly winds
continue picking up the surface par
ticles from the westward slope, whirl
them over to tbe Inward slope, where
they are again deposited, and the entire
ridge by this means alone moves grad-
of Wisconsin are visiting here at the 1 ua".v inward. In the course of years
About ! o'clock this morning, Pearl tives in Indiana.
was found playing in the front yard of
George Miller, 1508 Thirty-secr-nd
s'reet. The child had gone to the
Fred Mitchell is home from a three
months' trip through Canada in the
interest of the Deere Harvester com-
No Petitions Filed.
Today was the last on which a can
didate for county office could f't on
the ballot by petition. I'p to press
time no K-t!tioiis had been filed with
the county clerk, ai d there was no yca-
via the back windows, and the police j son to believe that any would appear.
hi use late last evening stating she was rai''-
lost and had been kept overnight.
Ed () Donnell was a caller this week
! at the home of his sister. Mrs. Keene.
Property Holders Name Committee, j Mrs. Nancy Palmer of Hillsda:e is
The committee chosen by Second ' visiting at the home of William Park
avenue property holders at the meeting r ,nd v ife.
Thursday night, to protest against the , Arthur and Spencer Allshron of
re routing of street car lines in the 'Lot'.: Island visited in Watertown at
.mi y
home of Mr. and Mrs. Elza Walker.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bryan and
two sons of Perry, Iowa, are visiting :
at the homes of Mrs. William Filbert j
and Thomas Schafer.
Mrs. Jess Smith entertained at din
tier yesterday. The guests were Mrs.
Emma Eckelberg and Mrs. Charles
Lamb of Albany, Mrs. Nancy Palmer j
of HiMsdale and Mrs. William Parker!
of this city. I
Mrs. Annie Peterson and children !
are visiting with relatives in Hamp
ton. Mrs. Charles Lamb of Albany., who
: has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. j
! Jess Smith, has returned to her home, i
She has purchased property here and '
tjk will return in the near future to j
tne I,,ace to make her future home. j
Mrs. William Gill has arrived home !
BUY NOW
Xow's the time to
buy, while you yet
have a chance to get
the best values and
choicest selection of
our- new Fall mer
chandise. Our stocks
were never so com
plete in all depart
ments Suits, Coats,
Millinery everywhere. Our reasonable
prices and high quality has made the
firm of Young & McComb's the talk of
the Tri-Citics.
.V- V --V Ji'&
SAVE MONEY
We know what you
want and have it.
"The Store that Sells!
Wooltex" has Suits
from $9.98 to $60.00
and Coats from $5.00
to $60.00. The Mil
linery is a marvel of
beauty and perfection
of stvle that merits
the attention of everyone. Better hurry
to get some of our good values. We'll
thank you just for a look.
For the
of
Its patrons
The Argus
Counting
Room
Is open
Every
Saturday
Evening
Until
10 O'clock
there has thus been formed a complex
system of dunes, all approximately
parallel with the coast and with one
another and of all altitudes up to 250
feet. These are marching steadily in
ward at a rate of from three to six
feet a year, whole villages having
sometimes been torn down to prevent
burial and rebuilt at a distance.
Woman's Best Help
to the good health which comes
from regular action of the organs
of digestion and elimination to
freedom from pain and suffering
to physical grace and beauty
is the harmless, vegetable remedy
BEEdlAEriS
PILLS
Said tirkt ! baza. 10c Z5.
All the news
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knows that she Is fond of
ice cream and naturally wishes
to offer her the best. That la
why he orders Math's Ice cream
which cannot be excelled for
purity, flavor and all around
goodness. As it costs no more ij
than inferor cream, why not or- O
der it yourself? Quality guaranteed.
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Phone We-.
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