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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-12
Congressman Cooper Notifies Hans
Peter Guttormsen That Govern
ment Will Pay His Claim.
HE HAS WAITED TWENTY YEARS.
Man Injured While Employed on Govern.
ment Works to Receive Large Sum
for Personal Injuries.

Twenty three years ago this month
Hans Peter Guttormsen, well known
Danish resident of Kenosha, was in
jured while in the employ Of the United
States government, and Friday he re-
ceived a letter from Congressman
Cooper informing him that the gov
eminent officials had finally come to
see the Justice of his claim for DANA
ges and he will be paid five thousand
dollars together with interest on the
amount from the time that he first
filed his claim against the National
treasury.
The struggle that Guttormsen has
made to collect these damages from
the government has lasted over twenty
years, and during the last few years he
had gained for his claim the support of
many of the leading politicians and
law makers Of the State and of the
Nation. His patron saint in the mat
ter was United States Senator John c..
Spooner, who first recognized the
merit of the claim and started the in
vestig alton which has finally resulted
in the government ordering the claim
paid.
In 1880 Guttormsen, who was then a
young man, was employed with gang
of bridge carpenters working on gov
eminent work at Rock Island, Ill.
While so employed he was sent to at
tend to hazardous piece of the work
and one of the big scaffolds, which had
been erected in connection with the
work, fell and Guttormsen was buried
under the debris. For months it wa S
thought that he would die, but he sur
vived. Since the accident he has been
practically incapacitated for labor of
any kind. After he had partially re-
covered from the accident he filed a
claim for FIVE thousand dollars dam
ages, but the claim was lost among the
mass of pigeon holes at the Capitol
and he was never able to get any re-
dress.
He suffered intensely, and finally
after he came to Kenosha to live, his
friends made up purse and sent him
to Washington in order that he might
push his claim in person. While there
he met Senator Spooner, and the Sena-
ator at once introduced a bill to ap-
propriate the money for the relief of
the man If the treasury agents found
that it was due. The bill was passed
and the money will be paid as soon as
the proper proofs can be made out. 1t
is thought that Guttormsen will re-
ceive in the neighborhood of ten thou
sand dollars, as the interest on the
claim will be almost as much as the
original claim.
Congressman Cooper and Senator
Quarles have also taken an active part
in securing the payment of the claim,
and to the Congressman belongs a
great deal Of the credit for the success
full settlement.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-12
DANISH ACTORS AND PLAY
First Play In the Danish Language Even
Given Here to be Presented Nov. 80.

First Play In the Danish Language Even
Given Here to be Presented Nov. so.
Kenosha is to have novelty in the
play line, for on the last day of this
month Danish play with all the parts
spoken in the Danish language, will
be presented at Germania hall. 1t will
be. the most unique dramatic enter
tainment ever given in Kenosha.
The play is to be given under the
auspices of the Kenosha Chapter of the
DANA Society and it will be presented
by the Danish Dramatic Club of Ra-
cine. The production will bring be-
fore the people of the city number of
eminent Danish comedians who have
won considerable note in this country.
The coming of the Danish players
will be made the event of large Dan
ish gathering in the city, and it is ex-
pected that large delegations will come
to Kenosha from all the surrounding
cities to take part in the various festi-
vities arranged for the evening.
This will be the first play given
from the stage at Germania hall, but
during the winter it is expected that
German and Danish plays will be
given often. The people of the two
nationa1ities in the city seem anxious
to be allowed to give their support to
plays in their own language.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-12

Has Been Accomplished by This
Method-Dragged Roads Always In
Good Condition.
In an article in recent number OF
the Municipal Journal and Engineer d.
w. King of Maitland, Mo-, gives some
new facts of interest about his method
Of improving dirt roads by the use Of a
road drag. Mr.. King says:
1.-THE use Of the split log drag is no
longer an experiment in Missouri and
adjoining states. began dragging in
1896 and have dragged regularly ever
since. / dragged half mile stretch of
road for four years before any of my
neighbors began, but after they started
they came with rush. Now the coun-
ty has a standing offer to furnish the
material to any farmer who will make
and use drag. To show the simple
ity of this drag fifteen were made last
spring at one crossroads blacksmith
shop in one week. The Missouri state
board Of agriculture has made road
dragging a feature Of it's farmers In
stitutes the past year and with fine re-
suits. A postmaster reported 80 miles
of road dragged within a week after
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-12

Local news items will be found on
page !.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-12

KENOsHA certainly has we'll or
ganized and efficient fire department.
1t is as good as any city of its size in
the state has and is better than most.
The council has never been niggardly
in dealing with the department and
enough money is always provided to
keep the FIRE fighting apparatus of the
city in first class condition. But how
about the insurance rates? They are
supposed to be based on the amount of
risk the insurance companies are
obliged to assume in writing policy
yet the rates in Kenosha are as high
or higher than they are in cities furn-
ishing half the protection that Keno
sha does. The risk assumed by the
companies in the business written in
Kenosha is certainly less than it was
FIVE years ago, for instance, but the
rates have gone up instead of down.
Any changes in that time have raised
rates instead of lowering them. The
insurance companies should be will.
ing to stand their fair share of the cost
of protection and return some of the
money paid for the maintenance of an
efficient department in the form of re.
duced premiums. They pay their reg.
ular tax, Of course, but the risk Of loss
hlving been reduced to minimum the
rates should go down proportionately.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-12

CONGRESSMAN LOWERING Of Massa-
chusetts is to have charge of the bill
placing the life saving service on the
same level as the army and navy IN
the matter of pensions. The record OF
the service is illuminated with innum.
cradle deeds of heroic self sacrifice
and devotion to duty and in proportion
to numbers these 'heroes of peace
are called upon to face situations OF
extreme peril oftener than the men OF
the army or navy. Every argument II
favor OF pensioning the soldier OF
sailor applies with equal force to the
life saver and as matter of simple
justice some provision should be made
for the men worn out in this branch OF
the government service.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-12
ARREST FOR "CAR HoPPERs.
Street Railway Company Will Arrest Boys
Jumping on the Cars.

street Railway Company VIII Arrest Boys
jumping on the Cars.
The motormen and conductors of the
Kenosha Electric Railway cars have
been notified to adopt the most strin-
gent measures to do away with the nu-
isance commonly known among the
boys as Hopper. For some time
the managers of the company have
been bothered with boys hopping on
and off the cars and several of the
boys have narrowly escaped being
crushed under the wheels Only yes
terday one of the boys had his foot
caught in fender and was dragged a
block before. he could be released. The
managers of the company will now ar
rest the boys on charge of disorderly
conduct.
The members Of the police force
have promised 20 assist the railway
men ia their effort to stamp out the
evil.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-12

Now they are in the habit of blam-
ing everything to the autos. A while
ago it was the electric car that caught
the blame and so it has been with
every Improvement, but the solid facts
are that not one-half as many horses
are scared at the autos as are driven
out of their seventeen senses by incom-
petent drivers.-Menasha Record.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-12
THURSDAY, NOV. II, 1903.

PARKS, the walking delegate, con-
victed of extortion and sentenced to
the peniteutiary, says that he is
Through with the labor unions" Now
if the unions are through with Parks
and others of his kind the prosperity
of the country will be on much frmer
basis.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-12
AMERICAN OR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

1t remains with you. We have them
rooms we mean-on either plan, and
are satisfied that you will be pleased
with either. Our location and facili-
ties are unsurpa our rates lover
than any first-c1ass hotel ia the city.
Single meals, Soc. The St. Charles
Hotel. Milwaukee, Wis. sat If
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-12
HIGHWAY DRAGGING
THE KING PLAN FOR IMPROVING
DIRT ROADS.

How the Work Is Done and What
Has Been Accomplished by This
Method-Dragged Roads Always In
Good Condition.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-21
BEAGLES WE'RE TINY DOGS.
Diminutive CANNES Of AncIen MT Breed
THAI Could lie Carried In
a Glove.

There is no question hat the beagle
is a very old breed. Early Roman ac-
counts of England contain references
to the beagle, even by name. Books
published from about 1850 to 1910 de-
scribe several varieties of hounds. in
cluding 1.-The little beagle which may
be carried in a mans glove" That
the miniature hound was extremely
popular at the time was evident from
Queen Elizabeth keeping Il pack which
were also said to be small enough
to put in a glove, says the Country
Life in America.
This statement is frequently ridi-
culed when it is not understood that
gloves of that period were not the
~present-day kind, but gauntlets reach
ing nearly to the elbow. What be
came of those glove beagIes we may
surmise from what we know Of the
results of later attempts to maintain
packs Of beagles of eight to ten inches
high. the result after some years,
being weak puppies that fall short OF
the fine qualities of the little hunting
dog when they are grown up.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-21
UNCLE SAM AS MISSIONARY.
How the Uncbean Places in Cuba
We're Renovated by the Amer
lean Aut hOrtties.

Cuban cities, like Havana and San
tiago, previous to the Spanish war,
were great breeders of pestilence, and
mace to the world. Now yellow
fever and smallpox, have been practi-
cally stamped out, and the death rate
I'm the island has decreased one-half,
and was lower in Havana last winter
than in New York, says the Woman's
Home Companion.
In Havana an engineer corps insti-
tuted a general system of houseclean-
ing. Every house in the city was
cleaned from top to bottom under the
supervision of American officers,
whether the tenant was of high or low
degree; remonstrances availed moth
ing. As many as 10000 houses were
cleaned in one month. The sewer sys-
TEN was given equal attentions; the
American authorities %cleansed and re-
paired every foot Of sewer, and did it
so thoroughly and scientifically that
not a nan in the cleaning squads was
taken i'll.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-21

the southwest.
Deming. Don overlook II II won are
looking for a safe and paying Investment.
Deming water is chemically pure-e4uai
to Polan springs.
Deming has increased 50 per cent In pop
ulation in four years.
Deming water and pure ozone make
strong M healthy people,
investments in Dctning lots will double
and treble in one year.
Deming has now a large Ice plant and
electric light system under contract.
In Deming the demand for rental
houses is FIVE times In excess Of the sup
ply.
Deming has an abundance Of water for
irrigatlng vineyards, orchards. or gar
dens.
Buy lots and build IN Demins. Your
rental returns will be 20 per cent on the
investment.
In Deming good safe loans can be had
at better rates than in the old established
towns.
At Deming you can buy lots at 500
which will pay you 100 per cent in less
than twelve months.
In Demins another good hotel is needed
to accommodate the enormou increase OF
population.
Deming Is a great health result-has no
I superior In climate for the cure Of pull
monary troubles.
Deming will be the great smelter center.
Two large plants will be installed within
the year.
Why buy high priced lots when you can
get them in Deming cheap now. with GER
tain advance assured?
Agricultural lands in Deming are unsur-
passed for fertility. production OF fruits
and vegetables of all kinds
Deming offcrs the same opportunities
now hat the most prosperous cities In the
west offered several years ago.
Deming needs one hundred new houses
to supply the demand. and needs them
now. This demand continues TO grow.
Deming ships over 100000 head OF cattle
annually; is the center of the greatest
breeding region in the southwest and cat
tlemen all know this.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-21
SAN

From the Bee.
Miss Angelica Jojola has forwarded
her bond to Washington as postmas-
ter at Clyde.
Mrs. Perry Gall, who has been an
invalid for more than a year, is re-
ported to be much improved in health
and spirits.
County division schemes are numer-
Gus and it is quite probable they will
take up a large share of the time of
the coming session of the Legislature.
While in town Dave Long left at the
store of Ed lie Breton an Indian
curio in the shape of a water vessel
which he ~eXcavated in a cave near
his home in the San Mateo mountains,
The plan of combining New Mexico
and Arizona as one state is said to be
gaining supporters in certain quarters
In Washington. In New Mexico the
scheme is gaining ground also, for
the White Oaks Eagle, the only paper
in the territory that has fought state
hood, now approves of the two terri
tories uniting their fortunes.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-21
STUCK TO HIS EYEGLASS.
The English Diplomat Wore 1t, Even
when He Was Capsised in
the Sea.

Recently a party from the embassies
at Constantinoplc went to inspect the
international lifeboat service on the
Black sea coast. At one of the life
saving stations they thought they
would like TO test the conditions of
life-boat work, so, clothing themselves
il bathing costumes and cork jackets,
they each took an oar in a lifeboat, to
the huge delight of the Turkish boat
men.
One of the secretaries of the British
embassy is never seen without an eye
glass, and is said even to sleep with it.
On this occasion he was faithful to his
eyeglass and solemnly embarked in a
cork jacket and eyeglass. All the prop
er exercises were gone through, and
finally the lNat was capsized and
righted again 10y its own crew, AS they
crept out from under the capsized boat
a howl of surprise came from the
Turks, for the secretary's head APP
peared, with the eyeglass firmly fixed
in its proper position, its owner TAX
ing il as a matter OF course that il
should be there.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-21
CIGAR IN A CHEESE.
Singular Happening In a Paris shop
which PrecipItated a Remark
able Hattie.

There was an extraordinary occur
renee recently in a cheesemongcr's
shop ia the Avenue parmentier. Paris.
relates Parsons Weekly. Onr of the
bridesmaids customers. who had in
,ited five friends to dinner, had pur-
chased "A large cheese, and when it
was cut into the stump of a half
smoked cigar was found in the mid
die. The host and his guests marched
round in a body to the chceSemouger
to demand an explanation and the
return of the money or the substitu-
ton of another cheese, hut ;hp ttades-
man refused all three propositions.
and even suggested that they ough.
to be satisfied. as they had not only
the cheese. but half n cigar rs we'll.
One of the guests then threatened
to report the cheesemougCr for sell
ing topacco without permission. High
words followed, and at length the
customer picked up the offending
cheese and hurled il with correct
aim at the dealers head. \ regular
battle cnsued. The -shopkccper was
backed up by his wife and three as
sistants and the customer by his
friends. The counter was piled with
cheeses of various kinds, and these
were converted at once into missiles.
while the butter also came in handy.
The uproar attracted the attention OF
"A policeman, who arrived just as 4
large Dutch cheese crashed through
The window and caught him on the
chest. When the officer had recOv-
cred his breath he separated the com
batnnts and took them To- the police
station, where they were discharged
with a caution.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-21
ONLY A LITTLE CLIP,
An Ingenious Device for Holding Pa
Der, which La Become Very
-PopuIsr.~

A short time ago someone put on the
market an ingenious device for hold
ing sheets of paper together. 1t took
the place of the pin, says the New York
Press. BY 'short time" is meant a
matter Of some five or six years. To-
day there are more than 20 different
kinds Of clips, selling from 60 cents
per 1000 TO 25 cents per 100, and con
siderable capital is invested in their
manufacture. The same general prin-
ciple is followed in all, and il is as
sumed that each improvement is pat
ented. Corporations have been
formed to make nothing but clips, and
competition is lively. The original
patentee will no doubt become a mil
lionaire, though he may make ORGY one
cent on each 900 sold. 1t is the sim.
pie, dirt-cheap invention that brings
the big returns-something so mex
pensive that all the millions Of us
want il.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-21
A DIAMONDS WORTH.
Ths X-Ray Gun he Relied On with
Absolute Certainty in Making
The Test.

In detecting a false gem from a gen
uine, the N-ray, says an article on
X-ray photography, in L~eslie's
Monthly, can be relied On with abso-
lutte certainty. Diamonds, as is well
known, are pure carbon; and carbon,
which is opaque to ordinary light, is
transparent to the Roentgen light,
while glass, which is trans parent TO
ordinary light, is opaque to the Roent-
gen ray. On an X-ray photograph
of a real diamond nothing will show
but the shadow Of the gold setting.
An interesting experiment was made
recently in watching with the aid Of an
N-ray machine and a Horoscope, mo-
tions carried on inside Of an Opaque
body. A goose was fed with food
mixed with subnitrate 81 bismuth salt,
which absorbs the N-ray. The pas
sage Of the food down the long neck
Of the goose could be plainly traced
by the moving shadow cast on the
Horoscope screen.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-21
MANY USES Fer ALCOHOL.
Germany Is Encouraging Its Appli-
cation for Fuei and for Power
Purposes.

The kaiser Of Germany is encourage
ing every effort toward the use of al
cohol for lighting, fuel and power
purposes, and under the stimulus of
prizes offered to inventors and engine
constructors it is being largely util-
lied in various ways. Alcohol is eco
n%omically made from a number of
products in Germany, and cunse-
quently the supply of it is very large.
At a recent exhibition demonstrating
the use of alcohol there were shown
a number of motors, farming imple-
ments and similar things propelled
by an alcohol flame. There were
also lamps which displayed great eff
cheney. In n report recently made
to Washington, Consul General Guen-
Their writes from Frankfort hat the
chief of the fire department of Han
over has recently invented an alcohol
firing apparatus, used in connection
with ali automobile fire engine,
which is said to be very satisfactory
in practice. The engine is driven to
the scene of the fire by an alcohol
motor, and while on the way the
steam is gotten up by the new inven-
ton noted above so that the engine
is ready for operation Immediately
on it's arrival on the ground. Ordi-
narily il is necessary to keep the en-
CINE constantly fired in order that
the steam supply may be immediate
ly available. Otherwise much time
10 1oSt In rattipu nm ctaam
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-21
LOBSTER CLIMBS TREES.
Inland Sea Captures OF the East In
dia Islands That Are Fond Of


In the East Indian islands is found-a
curious lobster which climbs trees. Al
though il prefers a home on land ii at
times feels a longing for the water,
where it goes to muisten its gills; and
here the eggs are laid. and TIE young
are raised on the coast, where they
have the benefit of salt air. always
good for children. But most of their
time is spent inland. living at the roots
of trees where they have burrowed
deep hullows which They carpet lux
uriously with fibers stripped from CO.
coanuts.
They come out of these homes at
night to climb the palm trees, for al
though it seems funny to us. their
climbing is quite a serious business to
them. since it is in this way that they
secure the c%ocoanuts of which they are
so fond and on which they live p%rinci-
pally.
TO get at the contents of the nut the
lobster first tears away the fiber which
covers the three eyes" you must all
have noticed those black spots on II
end of a |ocoanut that make it look
like the wierd face of a monkey.) 1t
hammers away with it's claws at these
spots or icy until a hole is made,
when it extracts the kernel by means
Of its smaller pincers. Sometimes at
ter drilling through the perforated
''eye" it grasps the nut in its claws and
breaks il against a stone.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-21
MURDER ON TrE RANGE.
Cattle and Sheep Men Clash in Union
County and Blood Flows.

County and Blood Flows.
A fight between cattle and sheep
men on the Cimarron. in Union coun-
ty. resulted in murder last week. The
Carter and Sloane outfits have con-
siderable land fences, including sew
eral government sections. The sheep
of NaZario Valdez were turned into
the Carter and Sloane pasture, Valdez
asserting that he had as much right
to the pasture on government land as
anyone else, drift fence or no drift
fence. John Carter, jr., accompanied
by two other men, attempted to turn
the sheep out of the pasture, the
sheep being guarded by Valdez and
two of his herders. One of the cat
tlemen had a Winchester and the
other men had re~volvers. After the
firing was over, it was found hat Val
dez had been killed and that Carter
had revolver wounds in one shoulder
and arm. Carter was taken to Clay
ton and the two sheepherders were
lodged in the Clayton Jail. The other
two cattlemen have disappeared and
their identity is in doubt. The sheep
herders, however. say that the man
armed with a Winchester was Sloane
Valdez was killed by a Winchester
the loss of the use of his two arms.