The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-05-14
Tramps Flock to the City Lured by
Reports That Police Officers
Are on Strike.
WEARY WILLIEs ARE DOOMED
Police and Deputies Ordered to Show no
Mercy to Them.-Camp Fires Will
be Harshly Broken Up.
Hark! Harkl The dogs do bark.

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This is favorite couplet in the office
of the police force this morning and it
is claimed that there are more hobos
IN the city and camping on the out
skirts than was ever known before in
the history of the city. This morning
took twenty-fve-count 'em-outt to the
limits of the city and gave them the
passport in the way of a generous
supply of shoe leather. Added to this
number that appeared III the city, it is
claimed that a full hundred knights of
the road are lingering about the city
waiting for the friendly cover of night
to besiege the people. The camp fire
of the hobo burns bright night1y, and
the camps have been pitched in every
conceivable place. At night and dur
ing the early hours of the morning the
railway yards are thronged with the
wandering Migrants, and the men in
charge of the Yards b i've threatened to
take vigorous course in disposing of
the surplus.
The unusual visitation of the tramps
to kenosha is said to be due to the
fact that reports have been sent broad
cast over the country that Kenosha is
in need of large police force, and the
tramps seem to have all read and en-
joyed the announcement. They are
coming here from all sections of the
country, laboring under the vain de-
fusion that the police force is on
strike, and that the city of Kenosha is
to be made happy hunting ground.
The officers have been given orders to
! show no mercy to the crowd of hobos
and they are being handled roughly
when found within the limits of the
city. The railway company is also
aiding in getting rid of the bunch of
dependents, and they will not be allow
ed to trespass on the right of way of
the company.
In the mean time the applications on
the police force are simply flowing in.
Chief of Police Reinold is thinking of
asking the commission to provide him
with a secretary to answer the letters
of applicants.
Applications are coming in from all
parts of the country at the rate of from
four to ten day, and all the men are
anxious to come to Kenosha and wear
the brass buttons of the police force.
Applica tons have been received
from men in ST. Louis, Chicago, Min
neapolis, Forrest City, Iowa, and from
all the cities between here and Chi
cago. A few applications have been
received from Kenosha people.
Of course it is impossible for the
commission to pay any attention to
these applications for positions from
men in other cities, on account of the
| fact that the rules of the commission
| provide that before a man can wear a
police uniform in Kenosha, he must
have been a resident of the city for
three years or more.
The commission will hold a meeting
Friday night at which some new men
will be added to the force.
Sheriff Iimme is anxious to take an
important and strenuous step to put
an end to the tramps in Kenosha and
he announced this afternoon that he
would appoint every male resident of
the city special deputy sheriff to take
care of the tramps. It is probable that
this will not be necessary, and that
the police will be able with the assist
ance of few of the sheriff's deputies
to drive the tramps out of the city.