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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-06
MRS. COFFIN MINUS HUSBAND.
Much Maj lied Kenosha County Woman is
Deserted by her Husband In California.

Much Married Kenosha County Woman ia
Deserted by her Husband In California.
Grace Smell Coffin Walker Layman
as the queen of Cross Lake is now
known, is again minus husband, but
she did not drop him quietly though
the courses of the divorce court but
he-the nasty man, stole march on
the queen of Honeymoon Home and
basely deserted her, leaving her with
nothing for her support but an income
of hundred dollars month and a
former husband to hirt with.
Layman wears the rather common
name of Perkins and as usual in Grace
Snell's husbands he had c1imed the
ladder from the position of bell boy
to that of head clerk in the Vannuy's
hotel at Los Angeles. He had just
reached this pinnacle of fame when
Grace Coffin, flushed with pride over
her fifth divorce, came breaking into
hotel society at Los Angeles. Grace
loved all she looked on and her eyes
went everywhere, but there was a
bright star on her horizon, and that
was the star of Layman. In a short
time the couple were married, and for
a day or two life went very well with
them. About that time Mrs. Layman
began to long for a little Of the old
excitement, and as she was out look
ing for it, the ever present Frank
Coffin, he the hero Of three divorces,
appeared on the scene. He had fallen
little in estate and had degenerated
from a head clerk in a hotel to the
mental position of a solicitor for a
newspaper. Layman claims that Grace
basely firted with her former husband
and taking this as his cue, he decided
to leave Los Angeles and bury him
self somewhere where he would never
be found.
He suited the action to the word and
now is among the missing from the
California city. Mrs. Laynan re-
mains behind, but she will proba bly,
come on to Chicago in the near future
and ultimately reach Honeymoon
Home which is now in the keeping of
some of her relatives.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-06
DEATH OF MRS. VAN LONE.

Wife of Member of the Fire Department
Expired at Her Home Thursday Night.
Mrs. Anna Christina VanLone, wife
of George VanLone, member of the
force of firemen at the North Side en-
CINE house, died at the family resi-
dence 422 North Chicago street, shortly
after nine O'Clock Thursday evening.
Death followed confinement.
Mrs. VanLole was one of the best
known of the younger married ladies
of tho North Side. She had resided in
Kenosha for many years, and was
greatly beloved by her friends. Her
death has caused great sorrow.
The deceased was daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Christian Stoebig, ard was
born in Chicago Aug. 4, 1872. Shortly
after the birth of Mrs. VanLone her
parents removed to this city and she
has resided here ever since. The hus-
band and six children, survive.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-06
Two OF the Original Daughters Of the
Revolution Meet in KenOsha
for a Short Visit.
DAUGHTERS OF NOTED LINEAGE
Mrs. Gu~din GiIlett and her Sister, Mre.
Ward. of Oshkosh. Two of the origin
al Daughters in the State.
(From Thursdays Daily

Kenosha boasts today something
that no other city in the state car
claim and that is the presence in the
city of two of the original daughters
of the American Revolution. Nearly
score of the cities in the state have
their chapters of the Daughters of the
American Revolution but the mem ers
are restricted to grand daughters and
great grand daughters. In the entire
state there are but three Of the true
daughters of the Revolution and two
of them are Mrs. Susan Atwater Gil.
lett, widow of the late Judge Gurdin
Gi11ett, and Mrs. Sara Atwater Ward,
of Oshkosh, sister of Mrs. Gillett.
Mrs. Ward has come to Kenosha to
spend few weeks with her sister and
the visit forms most unique reunion
of the original daughters.
Mrs. Gillett and Mrs. Ward are con.
nected with two of the distinguished
families of the revolution. The sisters
were daughters of John Atwater, OF
New York, who at the age of eighteen
years entered the revolutionary army
as minute man. He continued IN
service until the close of the war and
at the close of the war he was in one
of the regiments under the command
Of the Marquis de lafayette. During
the later portion of the war Private
Atwater was employed as messenger
he aA L
between Washington and Lafayette,
In this way he gained the friendship
of General Washington ard this friend.
ship continued until the death of the
famous leader of the revolutionary
forces.
Not only are the two sisters daugh.
ters of the revolution but they also
bear the honor of being grand daug h.
ters. AT the close of the war Of the
revolution John Atwater married a
daughter Of Nathan Davis, that fam
Gus old warrior from Massachusetts
who had served through the war of the
revolution and who was present al
Saratoga when General Burgoyne, the
leader of the forces of the King, sur
rendered his sword to General Wash
ington. None of the daughters of the
revolution can boast of more disting-
uished parentage and none of them
are more proud of the brave deeds OF
their ancestors than Mrs. Gil'ett and
Mrs. Ward. This morning they sat
together, both long since passed the
four score mile stone, and recalled
some of the stories of the revolution
that had been told tothem years age
when the revolution was still clear in
the minds of their parents and their
early friends.
Mrs. Gillett is now ninety-three
years of age and Mrs. Ward is eleven
years her junior. Both of the ladies
have their faculties intact and furnish
many pleasant hour to the people
who call at the Gjtlett home.
The two sisters are memb ers of the
Oshkosh chapter of the Daughters OF
the American Revolution.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-06

can. The Governor finds no pallia-
ton for the crime of lync1ing in the
enormity of the crime committed, or
in the laws delay. An extract from
mis- article which deals with this phase
of the question is as follows:
"The methods of extenuation adopted
by few public and many private ap-
o1ogists for lynch law have become
familiar. The awfulness of the crime
and the outraged sense of justice it
arouses are pictured in palliation.
But the essential issue raised by the
rioters is not between the mob and its
victim, but between the mob and the
law. The law is as much outraged by
lynching based on a heinous crime
as by lynching without provocation.
"There are instances without num-
Der in which the mob spirit, once
aroused, has led to the pursuits of
objects entirely foreign to that which
brought It into being. The sweep of
the mob spirit through community
is like the rush Of water through a
sewer-it collects and losses into the
flood all that is vi1est in its pathway
and before the course of the current is
run the filth is on the surface.
"The delays of the courts and the
discrimination of officials in the ex-
ecution of the laws is often assigned
as an explanation, if not in palliation
of the mob spirit. By whom are
judicial and executive officers chosen?
By.whom were the delays of the law
deliberately decreed? They are in
large part the safeguards reared by
the people themselves for their own
protection against summary procedure.
What member of an American mob
charged with crime would look upon
these safeguards otherwise than as
essential accompaniment of free gov
eminent?
Let us place against these apolog-
les for mob rule few essential and
well-established principles. No gov
eminent can endure with the court and
the mob seeking to exercise identical
functions. Either the supremacy of
the law must be established beyond
question or free rein must be given to
the fury of riotous assemblages engag-
ed in trampling all law into the dust.
Anarchy and constitutional govern
ment may not thrive within the same
geographical limits. If guilty men
are to be hanged or burned by good
citizens today under the summary
procedure of brute force, then innocent
men may be hanged or burned to-
morrow by bad citizens operating
under the same warrant.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-06
MAY MEET IN KENoSHA.
old Members of the First Wisconsin, Caval-
/ ~ Looking to Kenosha For Reunion.

Old Members of the First Wisconsin, Caval-
RI Looking to Kenosha For Reunion.
AS the first of September approaches
It is reported that the survivors of the
First Wisconsin Cavalry are looking
toward Kenosha for a reunion and it is
probable that the officers of the assoc
citation and many of the survivors will
De here next month for days visit on
the old camping ground. The regular
reunion will not be held until next
year but number of the leaders of the
regiment will be in Milwaukee during
September and they will come to Ke-
nosha for day together.
Kenosha IS fraught with tender
memories for the boys of the First
Wisconsin and it was here that they
pitched their first camp after leaving
for the front. They remained in Ke-
nosha for many months and during
their stay many of the earlier citizens
became well acquainted with the mem
bers of the cavalry. The last reunion
of the First Wisconsin which was held
here IN 1900 proved to be the most sue
cessful meeting among the survivors
since the close of the war.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-06

IT really begins to look as if the gap
in the trolley line between Chicago
and Milwaukee would be closed at last
by the building Of road between Ke-
nosha and Waukegan in the near fu-
ture. The right of way between the
two cities has nearly al been secured
and the men behind the project at
present seem to have plenty of fnan,
cis1 backing. One benefit to Keno
sha people by the building of the
line will be sharp drop in passenger
rates between here and Chicago.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-06

KENosHA industrial plants have
been very favorably commented upon
by the factory inspectors since the
new child labor law went into effect.
The inspectors are much pleased with
the manner in which the local manu-.
facturers have stood with them in the
enforcement of the law and say that
the conditions which surround the
workers in this city are equal to if not
better than those in any other manu-
featuring center in the state.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-06
SEEK ELOPERS HERE.
South Milwaukee Detectives come to Keno
sha to locate People rho had EIopad,

South Milwaukee Detectives come to Keno
sha to locate People rho had Elopad.
A Milwaukee detective was in the
city today on a quiet search for an
clipping couple from South Milwaukee,
who Sunday night eluded stern parents
by taking flight on a Goodrich boat
and are supposed to have stopped off
at Racine, and taken car to Kenosha
where both the BRIDE and groom have
friends. Chicago detectives, who were
ordered by telegraph TO intercept the
lovers, were unable to find them when
the boat arrived in the Chicago har-
Dor.
Sunday evening at O'Clock Frank
Levandowsky. the proprietor of a
south Milwaukee saloon, stood on the
Goodrich dock in Milwaukee watching
with straining eyes the huge shape of
liner fading rapidly into the gath
ing blackness, knowing that some
where on the boat was his 10 year old
daughter and that she would proba-
bly, be married upon her arrival in
Chicago against his consent which
the agonized parent was powerless to
prevent.
His anger was augmented by the
discovery of treachery on the pare of
his bartender, whose first name was
Steve, and who was the other member
of the clipping party
Late Sunday afternoon Steve and
pretty May Levandowski stole stealth.
| lily frometne rear entrance of the Lev
andowski saloon in South Milwaukee
and made their way to the Goodrich
docks, where they boarded the Chica-
go boat. Knowledge Of the escapade
was soon com municated to the father
of the girl, and he instituted immedi-
ate and wrathful pursuit, arriving at
the dock few seconds before the lines
we're cast off. He jumped aboard and
made hurried and futile search for
the couple among the passengers on
deck, and then jumped to the dock
again, as he was in possession of no
ticket which entitled him to ride to
Chicago. So all that was left for the
outraged parent to do was to stand on
the dock and watch the elopement
taking place before his eyes.
AT the instigation of the parent of
the girl, the Chicago police were noti-
fed of the elopement of the couple by
the South Milwaukee department with
orders to arrest them on sight, but
the lovers managed to elude detection
it is supposed by stopping off at Ra-
cine and continuing their fight by
rail.
The detective made a search in Ke-
nosha this morning but failed to locate
the clippers.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-06

If Governor LaFollette has any evi
dence to support his charges of bribery
and corruption in the legislature of the
state of Wisconsin which he is making
so glibly not only in his own state but
throughout the country it is about
time that he made it public and did his
best to secure the conviction of the
guilty parties, AS the chief executive
of the state he is charged with the en-
forcement of all the laws, including
those against bribery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-06
DIsCLAIMs ALL LIABILITY.

Wisconsin Iron and Bridge Company Re-
fuses to Make Repairs on Bridge.
If the Main street bridge is to be re-
paired it will be repaired either at the
expense Of the city or the rTi1-
way company, as the Wisconsin Iron
and Bridge Company, which put up
the bridge, has written letter to the
city officials stating that the company
will not repair the bridge. The com
pany insists that the bridge was in
perfect condition when it was turned
over to the railway company and that
lift is now out Of repair the company
disclaims all liability for the repairs.
The city officials have notified the
officials of the bridge company to re-
pair the bridge at once and the charge
for the work will be jointly paid by the
city and the railway company.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-06

GTATE OF WISCONSIN--Jn Circuit Court
y for kenOSha County.
ode L. Crabb, plainti1, vs.. Joseph E. Dixon,
Joseph Sneezby and Alice Sneezby, his wife,
defendants
Judgment of foreclosure and sale:
By virtue of, and pursuant to a
Judgment OF said Circuit Court in the
above entitled action. dated the Both day
of June A. D. 1908, shall expose for sale
and sell at public auction, at the premises
hereinaff.r described on Thursday, the goth
day OF August A. d. 1909 at 10 o. clock in the
forenoon OF that day. the following described
mortgaged premises, towiU: Commencing
on the north line of section number Nine ~,
Township NrnLar One ID North of Range
Number rwe1ty-one cd. East, Five (5l cha rs
east OF The Northwest Corner OF said section;
thence running due south Four (4l chains 10
corner; thence due East One Chain and
Twenty-Five Links to the Southwest Corner
of a certain lot owned by George Perrigo;
thence due north by west line OF said lot Four
az chains to the north Line of said section
thence West One Chain and Twenty {2,}
Links to the place of beginning. being in Jh
Town of Bristol, Kenosha County.
Dated July list, 1903.
HENRY f. TIMMT,
Sheriff OF KenoshS County.
WALLER g. CUTTINGS,
PLAINTIFFS Attorneys.
Any one desiring Information about said
property call ~ office OF Waller & Cuttings,
Union Grove, Wis. via
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-06
HARRISON HITS CRITICS.
Insists that Property Regardless of Loca-
cation be Assessed Full Value.
Kenosha, Wis, July 80, Is

Kenosha, Wis. July 80, 1908.
Editor KENOsHA EVENING News:
In your issue of last evening refer
ence was made to the country assess
ment district being assessed at a low
value or lower than last year. Such will
be the case as to intangible property,
but as to other property large per
cent of the assessment district of the
county will return large real estate
assessment and if any district either
of the county or city does not come up
to full value it is our duty to put
them at full value. Each district will
be protected as against the other and
if there are any parties that feel that
certain properties should not pay on a
full value let them step out and pay the
taxes for said properties.
The law says that the rate of taxa
ton shall be uniform. It cannot be
uniform unless the valuation is uni
form. The law exempting the mort
gage or claim on property within the
state will cut down the value of intan-
gible property materially which says
if the real property represented by said
claim pays taxes in full valuation the
claimant or mortgage is exempt The
law was not passed until the 18th day
of May 1903 making such mortgage or
claimants interest an interest in such
realty and to be assessed, if assessed
at all, as part of such realty IN the
assessment district where such realty
lies. The attorney general has passed
on said law and holds that it should be
followed by assessors. The instruc-
tons from the state tax commission are
to follow said law and don't consider
that we as assessing officers are to pass
on said law nor are we to take our in
struction from Tom, Dick or Harry in
carrying out laws we have sworn to
execute and if those who have not the
authority would let the assessors alone
to follow the law as per our instruc-
ton It would save some expense to the
county. w. II. HARRISON,
Sup. of Assnts.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-06

IF the city assessor is correct in his
statement made to the board of review
and the assessed valuation of property
in the city is increased over last year
from one and one half to two millions,
it will not be necessary to raise the
rate of taxation this year. This is, OF
course, always providing the figures
submitted by the assessor pass the
board of review and it is very unlikely
that the board can be persuaded tc
make any great reduction. If the as.
sessed value of property in the city
continues to increase at the present
ratio it will not be great many years
before the city can get enough revenue
from one per cent. tax levy to rdr
through the year without going broke.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-06
ORDINANCE NO. =

An ordinance to amend ordinance No l5Y
and to correct an error in Section 6 of said or
dinance No. 1877 relating to dogs.
Be tL ordained by the common council of the
City of Kenosha:
Section /. That ordinance No. 1877, being an
| ordinance adopting among others, subdivision
eighteenth of section 81, of chapter VII OF
chapter Sc6 of the laws of Wisconsin for the
year of 1889 in lieu Of the provisions OF the
special charter of the City OF Kenosha relat-
ing to dogs which was pass; July 1st 1895, be
amended and corrected as follows, viz: flv
striking out the words and figure ''SubdiYl-
sion 8th where said words and figure appear
in said section 6, and by inserting in lieu
thereof the words and figure Subdivision
9th, so that said section as amended and corr
recJed will read as follows, viz:
"Section 6, That Subdivision Eighteenth of
Section 50 of Chapter VII of Chapter 326 of
| the laws OF Wisconsin for the year 1889, which
reads as follows:
Eighteenth. To prohibit running at large
all dogs, and to authorize the destruction of
the same in summary manner when at large
contrary to the ordinances, be, and the same
is hereby adopted in liau of Subdivision 9Th of
Section 8, OF Chapter Of the Special Charter
of the City of KenOsha, Wisconsin.
Section 2. This ordinance shall be in full
force and effect from and after It's passage and
publication.
dSseu' ...''''''''' s'''s.'s''
Approved, ...........,..
Observation-Disclosures,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-06
under-Sheriff Whitcher Rounds up
Two Horse Thieves After an
Exciting Chase.
MEN AND HORSES EXHAUSTED
Had Run the Gauntlet at Several Towns
but the People of MiIburn Held them
Until an officer Arrived.
tFrom Fridays Daily


After stealing two horses and riding
for their lives through terrific rain
storm; after dashing through crowds
of persons who had gathered in the
various towns along the route to stop
them, two young men who reached
Millburn at 5 O'Clock Wednesday even.
ing saw crowd of citizens numbering
100 persons lined up across the street,
and discerning in their eyes determi.
nation to head them off, decided that
they "were up against it, and threw
up their hands.
They are now in charge of Under
Sheriff Whitcher at Bristol ard will al
once be taken back to Northern Wis.
consin, from where they stole the
horses. It was the most exciting time
Millburn has had in years and the
town is all agog today over the cap
ture of the horse thieves.
1t was about o'clock when a te1e-
phone message reached Millburn in
forming the residents that two young
men horse thieves were riding for life
toward Mil1burn and that they were
being pursued by Under Sheriff Chas.
Whitcher, of Kenosha county.
"They have dashed through crowds
of people who have tried to stop them
in other places along the route, so stop
them if you can at all COSTS" was the
message. The word spread rapidly,
and in few minutes all of the men in
Millburn were gathered on the main
street from the north awaiting the ap.
proach of the thieves. In the crowd
were many women and girls, and the
small boy was, of course, there, too.
The crowd had not long to wait, for
which all we're thankful, for the rain
was coming down In torrents. In a
few minutes two horsemen were seen
approaching the town and the watch.
ers knew that it was the pair they were
looking for. The men saw the crowd
as they rounded the corner Of the prin-
cipa1 street.
Their horses were most played out
and they did not attempt to run the
gauntlet as they had done at other
places along the line. Instead they
refined up their tired horses and one of
them said, with entire indifference,
''Well, I suppose you, like all of the
rest, are after u.s. John Strang, a
we'll known resident, acted as spokes-
man and told the young fellows not to
worry in the least, that his conclusion
was correct.
The men dismounted, all of their
nerve evidently having been washed
out by the heavy rain. They we're wet
to the skin and the horses could hardly
stand as a result of the hard ride
through the mud.
AT O'Clock Under Sheriff Whitcher
arrived, driving single rig and evil
IDENTIFY having chased the men for
miles. They at first refused to 60
back to Wisconsin, but when they were
told that they would be taken to Wau-
kegan and held until papers could be
obtained they changed their minds and
were taken to Bristol.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-06

TEMPORARY repairs are always the
most expensive in the long run and
unless the Middle street bridge can be
put in condition to last several years
at small cost it would be better for the
city in the end to put in the new bridge
now and have something that will last
rather than to make expensive repairs
and have the work to do all over again
next year.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-06

IRA HICKS, the weather prognostica-
tor, says that the weather in August
will be very much like that Of the last
week of July. Get out your umbrellas
and blankets.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-06
RUMNTAGE SALE.

The ladies of the Woman's Relief
Corps will give Rummage sale
August IA and Is. They will also
have for sale at the same time and
place line of new and useful articles
which will be sold at reasonable prices.
Remember the date, Aug. IA and IS.
Place of sale will be given later. All
having articles to donate will please
notify Mrs, E. c. Larrabee, chairman,
304 Park street, and they will be called
for. BY order of the president. a13