The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-10-08
Blue Coats to Decide. on the Method
to be Employed in the Enforcs-
ment OF Dog Tax Ordinance.
PLAN FOR BETTER SANITATION.
Health Officer Asks Council to Pass an Or
dinance to Provide for Removal of all
Out Door Closets in Business Portion
Health Officer

| Inc police department OF the city
has had a delicate duty committed to
| it in the way of the enforcement of
| the dog tax ordinance, and at the meet
| ing of the City Council Monday even
| ing the Chief of the department was
given full power to devise a method
I for the proper enforcement Of the ordi-
nance, and the Council will not inter
| fere with the use Of the power as
given.
The police have already made out
plan Of action, and it is one in which
every clemency will be extended to the
owners of the dogs, but one which will
demand a rigid enforcement of the
terms of the ordinance to the very
letter. The plan as outlined is to
make house TO house canvass of the
city to take census of the dogs Of the
town. Every dog will be taken down
and the name of the owner will also be
| entered ia the census book of the police
department. A special man will be
employed for this purpose, and when
the census is completed the age, color
and ownership of every dog in the city
will be known to the police.
With this information the police will
determine the dogs on whom the city
| license has been paid, and Carlo and
Fido will be protected just as far as
the law allows and no further. If the
books show that the license of any dog
has not been paid he will at once be
seized and placed in dog pound,
while his master will be seized and if
necessary thrown into cell at the
county jail. The master will be fined,
and he will have the further chance of
saving his dogs life by at once pay
| ing the license fee demanded by the
city. IF this fee is not paid, the Ca
nine in the case will be properly exc
cuted at sunset.
The plan has the hearty approval of
the Council, and within few weeks
Kenosha will have the unique distinc-
| ton of being the only city in the State
that has dog census.
| The Council also took up plans to
secure better sanitary conditions in
! the city, and especially in the business
districts. A communication was re-
ceived from Health Officer Eastman in
which he urged that the Council order
the preparation of an ordinance which
would provide for the removal of all
out door closets in the territory bound
ed on the north by the river, on the
east by Exchange street, on the south
! by South street, and on the west by
Ashland avenue. The doctor also sug-
gested that better sewerage be fur
nished 60 this portion of the city. The
/ Council is determined that these de-
mands of the Health Officer shall be
carried out, and the matter was re-
ferred to the committee on judiciary
with orders to see that the ordinance
was prepared at once and presented to
the Council at its next regular meet.
ing.
The Kenosha Electric Railway COM
pany was ordered to have that portion
! of South street at the intersection of
j Church street paved with vitri6ed
brick at once.
i The Attorneys representing the Rob-
i inson estate made complaint to the
Council on account of the condition of
the Middle street bridge, and the mat
ter was referred to the committee on
streets and alleys. The owners of the
property about the bridge claim that
the condition of the bridge is depreci-
ating the value of the property.
The usual amount of routine bust
ness and the allowance of bills took up
the remainder of the time of the Conn-
Gil,