Davenport Leader, The (Newspaper) - June 12, 1901, Davenport, Iowa J L v l i DAVENPORT DAILY LEADER YEAR DAVENPORT IOWA WEDNESDAY JUNE 12.1901 SIX PAGES SENSATIONAL DISCOVERY REGARDING CITY LIGHTING 1 I It Is Being Done fur Benefit of Old f f Original Gas Company That the City of Davenport Refused Franchise to in 1896 Old Company Hiding Behind Clinton and Boston Trust Every Dollar of Earnings in Gas and Electricity Goes East Another sensational discovery has a consequence uf the city lighting It THAT THE SO-CALLED PORT GAS ELECTRIC CALLED THE WALSH BROS GAS ALSO OPERATING UNDER A BUSINESS ALIAS THE CONSUMERS GAS FOR SOME REASON NOT YET COME TO LIGHT IN THE CONTEST BE- TWEEN THE SO-CALLED WALSH COMPANY AND THE IS REALLY BEING OPERATED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INAL DAVENPORT GAS OF 50 YEARS AGO WHICH THE OR AND CITY COUNCIL REFUSED A RENEWAL OF FRANCHISE TO IN ON ACCOUNT OF ITS TREATING THE PEOPLE THE SAME WAY THAT THE PRESENT COMPANY HAS BEEN TREATING THEM FOR FIVE YEARS PAST CORDING TO THF OFFICIAL ORDS OF THE ADMINISTRATIONS OF MAYORS SMITH BAKER AND HEINZ The past raises us like dream It is ness men -a ml professional in on zens and taxpayers in are np in arms against the old company i's service mains oven leu dating back to ancient history of the lighting were ing poison into the soil and threatening health of the An ancient plant in inferior poor electric light for those were Hie kicks And when old company sought a renewal its franchise Henry aud K and all the rest of us good Democrats joined with Republicans in general of the gall of me offending tion in asking franchise Dropped from the Clouds As a there was a certain hipye of the city ing contract and and Hiiddenly tiro re MS from the clear blue like angelic the Syndicate of a ox as the dear old Pagan poet of ancient Rome might Intervening Our cries Will yon give us good says the B S of C Will you give us good electric S of C But on a minute That's what the cussed and discussed old original company lias been and not fulfilling If we give you the city to candle power electric that would Davenport shine forth so that like to the Him its glory would so the eyes of tiie attracted world that none would henceforth ho uhlo to sec in the of this city tho faint nickering rays that might he ed light by the misguided denizens ol Kock Island and Molino Of tho throe we were to Ije for yours the bright particular as far as city first class yas and electric was con- cerned further particulars what the W B S of C was going to do for see the stump speeches of Henry E M Sharon the rest of us Democrats who in took the W of C pledges as meant for not for in on Kor particulars aw to how the W B S of C kept the read the of- reports of tho Baker and recently lislicd in Uie Davenport The Grim Reality And to cap the climax of those you have even dream ed of it in is the grim ity that arises out of the glare and glitter of pledges THE ORIGINAL CUSSED AND DISCUSSED SLIMY GAS CO TENTACLES AND ALL FOR THE PAST FIVES YEARS COLLECTING AS ITS THE CITY LIGHTING HELD OSTENSIBLY HAS BEEN SHARE OF BY THE W E S CF C THE SUM OF A YEAR MORE THAN THE ENTIRE NET PROFITS ON THE CITY LIGHTING THUS THE OCTOPUS IS STILL GATHERING UP NOT ONLY THE PROFITS OF THE DAVENPORT LIGHTING CONTRACT BUT ALSO OF THE GAS AND ELECTRIC AND DROPPING THEM DOWN EAST JUST AS IT DID FOR YEARS PRIOR TO How does the slimy Hint wo Davenport who haiN'd glorious of the B S of in as guaranteeing from get in THROUGH THE OLD COLONY TRUST COMPANY OF BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS Since Mayor certain ON Hie city -an has made an invest i- of the reason why tins with a name that is in true bine associa- ted in part with imperialism and or national has boon paid every year for the five years uut of Has and Co Here is the reason In tho B S of C got tho city con- tract plus au electric light and sas arose in tho abnormal Tho old original gas company had plant and bin no The AV B S of C hud a but no plant or mains That was as our old friend would a not a for the old cussed and dis- cussed What natural aud for the was lighting will you bind as -a proof of your good to pay a of a day iC you don't lay five miles of new main in port's business relay all mains ten years and re- model the plant so -as to make it a class one says the W B S oC C put that in the for you to sign so we can you do it Will Contract to Do All says the W B S of C We'll contract to do if you give us the city lighting But how about price We don't want to tie the city up for five years how smart we thought were on that point Unow electric manufacture is de- new so we won't agree to pay you a light for 25 but you must agree to adjust the price so that at tho end of each five years we may get the for the enormous sum of provided for and known the to be for the W K of C to buy out the old Co That was a conceded to IJ H of C the agreement on their to relay mains and give the city class plant after making such purchase The Octopus Takes it AM BUT WHAT WAS THE UPSHOT OF THE THE OLD GAS COMPANY DIED AS HOLDERS BUT EMERGED FROM THE TOMB IMMEDIATELY AS MORTGAGE BOND AND THUS IT IS THAT WHEN IN THIS YEAR OF A E E WALSH OF THE W B S OF ASSURED THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF DAVENPORT IN THE RECENT MEETING IN TEE OF THE THAT SINCE NOT A DOLLAR OF DENDS WAS PAID BY THE GAS CO TO ANY OF ITS HE SIMPLY PROVED WHAT A LEAD PIPE CINCH THE OLD ORIGINAL GAS COMPANY OCTO- PUS HAS ON THE PROFITS FROM THE BUSINESS OF THE CITY OF IN SPITE OF SUPPOSED SENTENCE OF DEATH AND EXECUTION IN plant is bonded and mortgaged vantage of all improvements in the of gas and ing the preceding live that is better turn up and rates for tho city All the W S of C want in the con- we hedged Of Course Agree We'll agree lo anything you if you'll only give ns the city lighting contract says the WVB S of C Wasn't that simply angelic on the part of the B S of C At at last a ex to loosen on Davenport of the old gas the slimy that re- fused to any more in Davenport than to gather local money with its tentacles and drop it midway tho Mississippi river and the mountains Our Stump Speeches Wasn't it simply angelic to think all this was going to be how the W B C going to move to how it was going to tear np and miles of ton mains and lay in new thus giving work for years and years to hundreds of brawny sons of toil right our how the ancient plant was to he replaced a plant that would tho classic products of tho Sido nnd send forth current Consumers Welcome to The statement of Mr Walsh to the practical Iy admitting that past five tho entire profits of the business of tire alleged company has really gone to the via the Old Colony Trust justifies Mayor guess of last when the of 1896 vintage thought the best wa.y to escape the payment of the fines it owed the city was to change its name to the Con- sumers Co to the effect that he was afraid that lie thought of the Consumers might be In Cact the mayor then seemed to have prophetic for E C Walsh of the W B S of now operating the new solemnly the mayor and the city council the other day that if his con- cern can find enough aldermen ing to it with over a years out of the pockets of Davenport NOT A CENT OF THAT WILL GO TO THE After he Mr Walsh's ment to that effect in the city the prominent spoken of at last year's conference who was ed a stock certificate handsomely en- n very liberal nnd didn't take and courage others to do must considered Haltered as a wise one for not being so consumed a desire to u Con- sumer f A Joke and No Joke The supposed killing of the octopus in and ita metamorphosis is a joke on Davenport in ono bin not in another It leaves tho city same old same unsatisfactory account for tines and worse u demand for more of the payers for the same old vice in city lighting It is no that despite the pleadings of corporation attorneys tho belief is strong that the city should now once for either end or mend this travesty on a city Make Them Toe the Mark LET THE EASTERN AIRES MASQUERADING BEHIND THE NAME OF THE WALSH THE DAVENPORT GAS TRIC CO AND THE DAVENPORT CONSUMERS CO BE MADE TO COMPLY WITH THE CITY NANCE OR FORFEIT THEIR RIGHTS TO THE CITY LIGHTING CONTRACT THEY HAVE DONE FOR DAVENPORT THAT DAVENPORT SHOULD PUT UP ANY LONGER WIH THER CARD OF THE PLEDGES IN THE CONTRACT THEY SECURED IN 1896 FOR 25 YEARS MORE IN SPITE OF THE WISHES OF THE PEOPLE OF DAVENPORT GUI Colony Trust Co of ton has a lien on tho city lig fund of a is to it by the city in quarterly ments through a local trustee This is time have discovered who was back of that lien paid PROHIBITION IDEA Clashes With Thirst idea and Two Lives are June ation of the prohibition law and of lemun extract was for tho death at near of Thomas and Lou ers The two expired early yesterday morning in agony Since the enacting of the ory law Seymour has been a even the mulct hnv now en- forced in Slate not Jo received on Saturday preferred the ol ban of liquor the blind accommodating drug and other devices for evading Uie visions of tho statutes failed to work When tried they soon wore In and the town has remained of the few places Hie man with a thirst for strong drink could nut his craving The gained iu as those who felt they needed a found flie flavoring liquid had some of the of their favorite ple It was astonishing the increase in trade this household article quired after its merits had been dis- covered It was as if was baking the cakes for the whole the quantity sold being so far iu excess of what possibly could ho used in a legitimate way The who owned a put in the evening disposing of their stock of the extract One dred received on templed and when midnight all the vials were empty The men managed to reach where they showed symptoms of Physicians were but they could give no relief and within an hour the brothers were dead COLLEGE GIRL INDICTED For Stealing Valuables FrOni a ber of Classmates June jury found an indictment Mabel L t he former Smith College on eleven counts for the larceny of money and jewelry She was arraigned before Judge and on mutton of sel waived tho reading of tho ment ami pleaded not ing her plea of guilty in tho lower court Counsel asked for a ance and for moderate bail Judge named Mr the fat hor produced with his wife and left ied by Or Mary J the Smith College physician Miss Hurl quite hut did not break down Her mother was in tears during the Will be Put in Sanitarium In au interview Mr he would return N J and that he would his in a sanitarium in Pennsylvania the alleged departure of two men from this city tho -police say there hits been no action taken to further arrests in the it was also said the cester police had secured from one of the voung a which he from Miss and which had been identified since its by Smith dent as her property Counts in the Indictment The eleven counts in the st Miss Hurt charge the of property to ate value of The count chaws Iho theft of a diamond and ruby ring and a diamond ring valued from Henrietta M of The other counts allege from the following Meyer gold Mario ring Ruth North Hosworth Lee Mass dia- mond Grace M and diamond May Wadsworth N watch diamond pearl Cai Mil in I lelen in Lane bombard 111 iu Miss Hurt was dressed in pearl gray summer with a Him light colored veil At the request of Attorney Hammond Miss Hurt has been hv Dr 13 formerly Superintendent of for insane is of in the ion lie reached is thai woman is perfectly sane responsible in Minn IMC The MINISTER WAS JOKING But Divorce Courts Must Revoke fect of His Word Colorado Springs Colo M S Kiddell a hero a local and without ing the of his involved two and two men in which the Colorado courts must now be called on to er through divorce suits Rev said ho would on Courtship no remarked that bin audience i-o have brought of tho tirst two parts of his object to ami he would see that it got a taste ol the lust part before lie brought his lee turo to a close After the lecturer had made sonic of the young couples go into raptures by his description of the felicity ot lovo nnd he asked two women to come to the nnd Miss Aline Smith and Miss Pearl the He examined their hearts MARKETS BY TI J it ion Main lown drain Provisions and Iton New lime The is tho elosu nf Blocks ami bonds for today oil York Stock K Has C K H O M Am eo 1 N Y Central Tel Co K T R IX C nfd headier NO- Texas pfd M S Sleel pfd H S com Mo Coal it Iron Tho following are the on tho for tho I P St P U N lowest and Juno i Sept Inly Sept Wheat 70 71 Corn -11 Toil 11 Vs Oats J line July Sept Pork June July I Ribs June July Sept S 1 15.02 o Lard 8.07 July request carefully Then the lecturer announced intention of making a right on the that ho was to marry off two young women to two men in the who were suited to The lecturer started down the aisle looking and left until he Reginald He made an inspection of his bumps and told him he was temperamentally to be the lawful of Miss ine Smith H up on the platform and sit your future said he The bridegroom did so Then commenced nn active search for the affinity of Miss tor a long time it was hut finally the lecturer spied the am en tally suited one with was all he said In obedience to the ene Ott to the amid the deafening laughter and shouts of the assembled crowd amid impressive silence the lecturer proceeded to pronounce the ceremony which should make the double twain double virtue of theg authority to me as an exponent of the laws of the universe I pronounce these couples man and That was all he said This tutes a in er uttered in jest or us the association of names of men and of mnn nnd m Sept Receipts Wheat corn oats hogs cattle sheen Estimated receipts for Wheat oats hogs left over market firm Mixed hca steady to Sheep market opened steady II 5 Yards SMO a m market mixed ers Cattle for best ers weak to lower cows nrs Feeders Sheep market Hog market closed cents er than top prices Light mixed heavy heavy To Prevent Suicides Kan June 12 An op- domic oC suicides in this Monday in three all exactly similar to recent ful has caused the Mayor nnd Board of to forbid of details of suicides or at- tempts in local papers The board is -on the theory that publication spreads the contagion of suicide by suggestion Mayor Morse con- tends that the liberty of the press is secondary to the and is prepared to use if under the suicide act All tbc editors have agreed to suppress de- tails of suicides or until epidemic abates BRITAIN BALKED Germany Plants Garrison in its Exclusive China Sphere Brother of Emperor of China Starts For Berlin Sensational Tragedy at Sea ed in Honolulu Advices Woman Takes Hydrophobia Infection From Dying Husband London Iho uu Britain Balked June 11 to a in M.MIHC mons as to in maintain a military at Shanghai said un hit end fd a garrison Nu iou hail boon by many to why she hud rou to follow this The of is by maintaining a force at it rall put veto tin I ish claim to sole of the Tsr val- ley of A liai Sir Kdwurd li British commander in chief of China was the principal of the China association at its annual last In course of protest inn policy of exclusion admiral saM had ther powerful als tbc United and Hirer Hie States was Hi of trade rivals but the rivalry was not in conflict with Creat Britain's policy of the open door was a Keen com- petitor both as regards trade and power real some day to the hiUer IJiissia not only IHT Imt was repressing TO CO TO of Emperor of China There Will June I I 1 laving received the approval of Dr vnn her of Su will start for Merlin ou his mission of the murder ol Harou von next Thursday Me will hy Yen Moo head of mining bureau nl the Northern Yin who studied for many years in and Dr who studied un- der Dr one i Munich liody servant Jeen nt hers The Prince is lit the Sail of Tsin to taels annually the support of Hie new sity at which now has who are studying Japanese in order to Western which can he obtained through anese ions The list of Metropolitan which the Ministers submitted ently to the envoys for ishment in way nf preventing them from evr is retained Hie Ministers future This action is en in order I hat objection may be made in case any these officials are appointed to office Indian Troops Ready to Leave Tho British Indian I ing preparations to The First Sikhs Colonel Pollock will leave on Saturday but will only to temporarily await further orders The Twenty-fourth Punjab In fan try will leave end of Juno After that will be no more British troops left in the Tartar City the Welsh Additional of disturbances in the center of the Province of Chili have been received here At Fu the Chinese troops were overpowered by the rebels and aid of French nnd Gorman diers has asked Ma Yn Kim's troops also have been dis- thither to suppress tho rection Ma's troops wore in- tended specially pmml City of Pekin and places adjacent to the capital TRAGEDY AT SEA Chinese Cook Cooked by Steam After Murdering Mate of Vessel June via San -o June of a most sensa- tional tragedy Tit sea were brought last Sunday by the American er f A Campbell Captain A from Port with ber Tho mate of the vessel A flam was murdered the Chinese and the after terrorizing the whole crew by holding possession of the galley for nearly twenty-four during which it was every ho fire to the subjected to n steaming to bring him but be shot himself than come forth nnd be and when the crew ly the galley they foil ml the Chinaman's literally by Tho battleship Oregon arrived here on tho ult on its way home from the Orient As It was dropping an- chor off port the drain lv wounding Chief Boatswain J E Vurphy one of the men who helped Hohson tho J al tho entrance in Santiago who was the work I Us was broken and ho was some receiving a gash on the hoad The Oregon is ival here in a lion t lo leavo for Sun TAKES HYDROPHOBIA Terrible Affliction While Nursing Dying Husband June I iy 1 Nash died from hydrophobia In days preceding he lay on his I'm till UK the i IK HI I h and hy convulsions his had sat hy his and at- templed to his and day she cured for im df of physicians and friends who warned her of danger of contracting the a her Mrs Nash was to I lie from Mrs Nash lived at a ne Her 1 ins baud a iii a it and lift ten hy in at I I he duy that six children hi lien in South The chil had their cant hut Nash refused to care for wound car Tor him Xash entered room mie evening and lit the She bruised her linger and a drop of on the wound A IV minutes laler tin froth of hor hi so i tinker became In nf tho Mrs Nash wound did nut ma v attend to her RULER SLAIN The King Killer Invades Darkest rica This Time -A Mar bury tele- says Iho Sultan Ibrahim of YVa has been assassinated is In Soudan and is conceded as reserved lo It extends from an from to Hie It lias a Ml an area estimated at Iff mill's The Ma has a Mohammedan are the 1 here ninny Arahs aim The population profess ence to t he the of a sect which is said Jo lie hv far the most powerful in Africa A dispatch Tripoli on thai out the lo th It was 1 thai son of Sultan Ali had MI the on it staled that Sultan the ion Governor Dead I or Samford id Alabama died last at hi He I and his own tlay re In- ami Iho cud Mis family is T Illinois Makes Her Trial Test I lost on hino ILV now I Illinois was over from Ann lo Island lodny All ions for official I Illinois lo must speed Hi Knots in lo Jealousy Murder hy lousy entered men l hir in Hie n nd h while he shot her Tour shr will die Capt Dies From Wounds inno II Wilhelui ol the wounded in an insurgents is Province died Y M C A Jubilee in Pull I mie work of if a 1 convention ol the M which V fc dii in full in all of ils branches today of V M problems and of subjects hearing on Iho progress of I In- work of years main feature of of of The of tbc day by P of St Louis who on of the sons of Years of V M C Hf out the that mon aro and can ho as clays is the place for sociation work Spencer H Ames of Montreal ARE DEFYING WHITES w Serious Trouble is Expected on Shoshone Reservation Tuft Commission Appoints of in King Edward Presents Medals to 3000 Returning Soldiers William Witnesses Two Men are Killed Defy Whites Juno trout i lo is with A ra pah oo Indians on S lion ho lie just in rods for the N Sun Tho state ia to tho and arrivi Tho Indians to ho in au l hoy out tho 10 to 1 and out Is morions Governors ore Appointed Juno I Lv I lonry T of i 11 si watt and will I hy martial on of in Uie funds en in miss ion an act fourtcrii judicial The appointments we r made hy t commission Mariano of a U io Jam M or K Mill of Uie Krehs of i governor Richard Day of h I e Returning Soldiers Receive June I ton hatl a liner spectacle than that on I he Horse when Kii ward presented medals in in Hie South African campaign The of the in IOUK received tho froni anil passed on Lord Roberts came followed hy Lord behind him came crowds of and lesser officers names have familiar lo Hamilton and a The three hours was wit by I he and oilier members of Hie royal ily Killed Launching June a mi pa n fed hy head quart ers staff Henry of Chief's ol his eabinel Arrived Unlay ness t he of battleship at work removing lory lo was in progress I hi crane collapsed two v Number Eighteen June The death Harvey tht hospital brings the mini her of of Hie Port mine disaster np to IS The last res the ill-fated shortly and for it distance of feet Thi body of David James was found thi morning Another party entered tlu mine shortly There been bodies recovered since the first sion still arc iu tin mine Shriners Next go to Frisco Kansas City Juno C of Philadelphia was imperial of der of the Mystic Shrine San cisco was chosen as the place for the next meetin Spends Part of Day in Chair Washington June a con- nf the physicians this ing the following statement was sued physicians report Mint she continues to show ment and expects to part or the day in a rolling Ship Yards Closed Down June was announced this morning that thousand men would ho laid off a yards of the Newport News Shi i id ins and Ory Dock on at count of the machinists strike Thi makes a total of two thousand mci now out It is expected that the en closed Saturday I is ship yards ia the country arc not to accedo to tho aad all that plants where Uie nie have gone out they will clos down Indefinitely rather than gran tho demands OPPOSE HENDERSON There is Organized to Him as Speaker Washington June ists arc to he after Speaker It is said fin not him to ho a presiding of the house The report in that in his they man who they are sure of at all ards Tho reported reason for this attack on is is suspected of sy Hancock of consin in his for vison Credit Men Meet Cleveland Ohio men from all sections of tho countr were present today at openin of the annual convention c tho National Association of Credi Men in this city President Joh Field of presided or delivered the address f Tho officers reports wer Hon AVm bankruptcy referee of orod an address on Big Fire at Small Town Perry Iowa June A fire t Woodward today destroyed near half of business of town The loss Headless Body Mass June won an whoso headless body was found i the Chelmsford woods whose head was found wa Identified by her sister today as Mrf of Boston Tlv dead woman had married r Canadian mill las Tt is not where mnn Is nt present f ti i i i L i t T v f
