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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1904-06-30
A Doubtful Compromise.

I've worn out six pairs of shoes"
aid the collector. coming after you
with this bill
Don't let that bother you" replied
the editor. I've got an old pair that
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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-11-10

Chicago, Nov. 9, Up. m.-S1ow1y ar
irving returns are being watched to-
day to determine what still remains
Democratic after the Republican tidal
wave. Maryland and Missouri are the
subject Of conflicting claims. Re-
turns from West Virginia are also
slow in coming in and that state is
not officially out of the doubtful list.
A Democratic governor elected in
Mirnssota and another in Massachu-
sets. Colorado is claimed for Roose-
welt by 10000 majority, but the fact
that 10000 ballots were scratched
makes the count very slow and
tedious process.
! In Missouri Folk is e1ectedIgovernor
beyond doubt but Roosevelt is very
strong in the state and it now looks as
if Congressman Cowherd, chairman of
the Democratic committee, would be
among the missing. Presidential cleo
tors of the state are claimed on both
sides. Republican managers claimed
the election of Roosevelt electors in
Maryland by 10000, although they
concede the election of Wa11bridge,
Democratic candidate for governor,
by small majority.
In Minnesota Roosevelt po11ed
100000 plurality, but...the Democrats
probably elected their governor. Re-
turns show that the Republicans will
have majority of 100 ins the next
house. Roosevelt's plurality in New
York is d68 600, Higgins is $4,000.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-11-10
HAD JOINED NAVY
C. KrageIand Absent From Ke-
nosha Many Months, Is
Now a Marine.
RETURNS FROM WORLD TRIP

''In his uniform of blue he came
marching home again" This is the
whole story Of c. Krage1and, who dis
appeared from Kenosha some twelve
months ago. Krage1and is now a
member of the United States navy
and has come back to the old home at
Kenosha for a two weeks visit with
his friends and relatives before join
ing the Asiatic squadron for "a long
cruise.
Krage1and is well known among the
men about town and when he dropped
out of existence year ago he didn't
see fit to let the people about Kenosha
know where he was going, so that
when he came back Tuesday clothed
in the uniform of the navy the people
were just little surprised.
Krage1and is now marine guard
and is attached to the new batt1eship
MAINE" The former -Kenosha boy
has been in the navy but one year, but
his work has won recognition and he
is on the high way to promotion.
Since he dropped out of Kenosha a
year ago Krage1and has seen a good
deal of the world. Leaving Kenosha,
he went directly to New York, where
he enlisted for the navy, and in a
short time he managed to getassigned
to one of the minor places on the
MAINE" He went with his ship for
the long European cruise late last
winter and before the boat returned
to her mornings at Boston the Keno
sha boy was given a chance to touch
all the leading seaports of England
and the continent. He also had lit
tie experience of the 'ports in the
southern waters.
Krage1and will remain with his
friends in Kenosha for the next two
weeks and will then'go to St. Louis
for visit at the exposition. He will
join his ship the first of next month
and shortly after the ship will sail for
Chinese waters to become the flagship
of the Asiatic squadron.
Krage1and is enthusiastic over his
work and it is probable that the peo-
pie of Kenosha will hear from him
again.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-11-10
G. G. Miller Wants to be Married
on the Top of the New
Smoke Stack.
WOULD WED IN MID-AIR.
prospective Bridegroom Asks u. G.
Simmons to Give Him $500 to,be
Married on High Chimney.

g. G. Miller, who is now residing at
ITO congress street, is longing for a
touch of high life, and what is more
to the point he wants it in the matri-
mon1al line. For some days Miller
has been walking past that new Chin
ney at the Simmons factory and he
has at last got his nerve up to make a
proposition to Mr.. Simmons. It is al.
legged in this regard that a b1ushinp
damse1 is just waiting for Miller to set
the time for her to become Mrs. Miller
and she is not adverse to making the
marriage business venture.
The plan to make this marriage a
highly profitable one is preached to
Mr.. Simmons i'll letter received from
Miller this morning. In this letter
Mr.. Miller states that if Mr.. Simmons
Will present the b1ushing bride with
$500 after the deed is done he and his
pride IN the company of minister
will climb clear to the top OF the high
stack and there in mid air plight
their VOWS for life. The bridegroom
insists that the wedding at the top of
the stack will be of great advertise
ment to the Simmons factory and that
for this reason the proposition is a
decidedly attractive one for Mr.. Sim
mons.
Should the wedding be pulled off it
will undoubtedly be the most unusual
and novel event over which Cupid
has ever presided. When the big
stack is completed it will be more
than ESQ feet in height and from such
an altitude the bride and groom will
be in a position to look down on COM
mon morta1s in great shape.
Mr. Simmons has not as yet brought
himself to see the great value of the
proposition and intimated today that
he would not accept the proposition.
Another of the managers of the plant
stated that the company was not look
ing for this sort of cheap advertising
and they would not permit a wedding
at the top of the big stack if the
couple was willing to pay the COM
pany $500.
Miller's dream will probably not
come true and it looks at present as
If Miller and his bride will have to be
satisfied with a purely conventional
wedding either at the home of the
bride or at one of the churches in the
city.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-11-10
NEXT SUNDAY EVENING.

That perennial favorite comedy
drama, "The Katzenjammer Kids"
under the management of its produc-
ers, has been engaged to give their
inimita BILE entertainment at the Rhode
opera house on Sunday, Nov. Is. The
company of comedians producing the
piece this season is said to be the
most capable that has ever interpret
ed it. An entertainment made up of
witty dialogue, catchy music, pretty
girls handsomely costumed, high-class
specialties, combined with a perfect
cyclone of merriment, briefly de-
scribes "The Katzenjammer' show.
The company includes such well
known artists as Baker and Lynn, the
premier de1ineators of juvenile COM
edy, Wa11y Clark, the popular Ger
man comedian, Robinson sisters, &C
robatic marve1s, Major Criquie, the
tiniest comedian before the public,
Day and Vesta1, novelty act, William
Baker, mono1ogne comedian, Josie
Ra1son, chic soubrette, Geo. ". Baker,
character comedian, and many others
equally well known to fame.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-11-10
OFFERS FREE TRIAL
Charles Barber of Chicago Begins His
Work as Teacher in High School

~AAAA ASS DdIOST o1 chicago begins his
Work as Teacher in High School
Charles M. Barber, a graduate of
the University of Chicago has made
most unusual proposition to the Keno
sha board of education. He has APP
Piled for the position of assistant
principal of the Kenosha High school
and in order that the board may know
that he is qualified for the position he
has come to the city and has offered
to give the board a trial of his services.
The trial began this morning when
Mr.. Barber went to work at the High
school and it will be continued until
next Thursday evening when it is ex-
pected that the board of education
will take action on the election of the
new teacher. Mr.. Barber has been
placed in charge of the classes
formerly in charge of Prof. Hami11
and his first days work seems to in
dictate that he will get the appoint
ment.
Mr.. Barber is eminent1y qualified
of the High school. He is a graduate
of the University of Chicago of the
class of 1902 and since his graduation
from college he has been employed as
a teacher at the Culver Military
academy at Culver, Indiana. He
comes to the city with the highest
recommendations from the faculty of
the Military school. Superintendent
stated that Mr.. Barber had consented
to take charge of the work in the high
school for a few days to show the
members of the board what he could
do. 81 am very favorab1y impressed
with Mr.. Barber said the superinten-
dent, "and he is certainly willing to
give the board some idea of what he
can do before asking it to employ him
as a teacher"
At recent meeting of the teachers
committee Mr.. Zimmers was COM
n1issioned to select new teacher for
the High school but he has declined
to take the final action in employing
teacher without first leaving the
matter to the board.
If Mr.. Barber is elected to the posi-
ton he will receive a salary of a
thousand dollars year and will be in
charge of the work formerly handled
by Mr.. Hooking who has recently
been elected 20 the Office of principal.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-11-10

more than duplicate the plurality of
Nc Kin1ey in 1900. Towns which are
usually considered heavily Democratic
rolled up little majority for the
president, and even the old Eighth
ward z:ene of the bu1warks of Democ-
racy-gave Parker but two plurality.
There was no celebration Of the
victory of the party Tuesday night,
for the most of the people remained
at the different places until early
morning anxious to get line on the
result of the election in the county,
and by the time that this result could
be found there were not enough peo-
pie on the streets to make a ce1ebra-
ton.
The only men that were celebrating
at all were the Social Democrats and
they were very hilarious over the
showing that they had made in the
county. The interest in the fight on
the county ticket was, so intense that
severa1aof the candidates and their
friends remained at the desk all
night long in their effort to get line
on the final outcome of the big fight.
The Republicans of the city will
duly celebrate the big victory won at
the polls but it is probable that the
celebration will be laid over until
next Saturday night.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-11-10
MUSICAL RECITAL.

Thursday evening Nov. 10, at 8
O'Clock musical and literary recital
will be given by the Young Peoples
society of Grace English Lutheran
church in the Sunday'schoo1 rooms in
the church, corner Prairie and Lyman
avenues. An excellent program has
been prepared and pleasant and
profitable evening is assured to all
who attend. No admission fee will be
charged. A silver Offering will be re-
ceived. The proceeds of this recital
are to be used to defray the expenses
of the church choir. All are cordially
invited. Bring your friends with you.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-11-10
MARRIED IN SOUTH BEND.

Announcement was made Tuesday
night of the marriage of Mrs. Cora
Bennett Kelly, of Chicago, well known
to many people in this city and Will
liam Madden Phillips, of New York
City. The wedding ceremony was
celebrated at South Bend, Indiana,
on Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Phillips will make
their home in New York. Mrs. Phil
lips is well known to many Kenosha
people and the announcement of the
marriage will come as a great sur
prise, as it had been announced that
the ceremony would not take place
until Thanksgiving day.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-11-10

DIR. e F. Rowe11 leaves Thursday
in company with Mrs. Petrie for New
Mexico. Mrs. Petrie will spend the
winter in New Mexico and DR.. Rowe11
will remain for about five weeks. Be
fore returning to Kenosha he has
planned to make trip to old Mexico
and other gulf countries. The doctor
goes with a hunting party and he is
planning on some great sport.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-11-10

F. Dunnebacke has returned home
from the north, where he purchased
10000 bushels of choice medium
Brown white potatoes, which Dunno
backe Bros. are selling at 40 cents
per bushe1 in ten bushe1 lots. Call
and get sample and be convinced
of their quality. Dunnebacke Bros.,
$40 Main street. Both phones. no
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-11-10
10000 FOR LAFOLLETTE
Latest Returns in Milwaukee Indicate
Great Plurality for Governor

Milwaukee, Wis. Nov. oth.-The
Evening Wisconsin with almost
complete returns from every county
in the state gives out statement this
afternoon that LaFol1ette's plurality
in Wisconsin will be in the neighbor-
hood of sixty thousand. The state
editor of the Wisconsin declares that
this is conservative estimate.
It is thought here that the plurality
above $4,000.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-11-10
TURKEY CENT A POUND MORE.
Not Known Whether it Means Gradual
Advance or is Merely F1uctuation.

Thanksgiving turkey went up cent
yesterday per pound, wholesale
prices, and quotations now range
from II to 10 cents. Whether this is
only the first step in gradual ad-
vance of poultry prices or only a f1uc-
tuation in the market, dealers were
unable to say. In the early part of
the season the early reports were for
a large supply and even prices. 1t
was then said that there would be an
unusually large stock of turkeys, as
we'll as of chickens and ducks for the
Thanksgiving trade. While there has
been no advance in the price of chick
ems locally people in the smaller cities
of the state are paying good prices for
them.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-11-10
WHEATLAND.
How the Returns Were Received.

HOW the returns were Received
Kenosha greeted the reelection of
President Roosevelt with glad ac-
claim, and while for months the Re-
pub1icans had been certain of the re-
suit of the presidential contest there
was no 1uke-warmness among the Re
pub1icans of the city when the result
was announced.
The people had gathered in great
numbers in the downtown districts
on account of the intense interest in
the state fight, and from the early
kilograms the crowd was kept cheer
ing. At the different places where re-
turns were being received hundreds
stood about the bulletin boards and
cheered themselves hoarse as gain
after gain for the president was
cha1ked Up from the so-ca11ed doubt
full states. The Democrats took to
the woods early, and their headquar-
tiers had been closed up before
O'Clock and many of them joined the
Republicans in the general ce1ebra-
ton of the reelection of Roosevelt.
The returns show that the people of
Kenosha county, almost irrespective
of party, voted for the president; and
it is probable that the official returns
will show that Roosevelt has carried
the county by plurality which will
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-11-10
Leo McGivern. a well known res

Leo McGivern, a well known resi-
dent of this city, was badly injured
by falling from a wagon on Market
Square Monday night. For time it
was thought the mans skull had been
fractured but when physicians were
called to attend him 1t was discovered
that the injury was not a serious one.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-17
Children'S Outing
 Gowns.

We want to close out this line and there's only one way to do it quick and that's the "cut price" way.
 y Children's Outing Gowns that were 60 and 65c, each are now. ........... 42G
 Children's Outing Drawers made with feet have been cut
 Ladies White, Blue and Pink Gowns are now selling TOT. OoS Mail Orders Filled.
 CraVenette Coats.
 We have a line of the stylish and useful ''Tally Ho' Rain Coats for ladies. We priced them as low as ..... ................. $Z.5O Mail Orders Filled.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-17

Continued on Page Twenty-three
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-17
ISTHMUS MUST
 BE CLEANED UP
Job of Stupendous Proportions Con- fronts United States Before
 Digging Canal.

drainage. having an ample supply of good. pure water, and furnishing numer- ous very admirable sites There Is no reason whatever why this section should be any more unhealthy for people who know how to live right In sanitary sense than Is ariy other tropical country where the rainfall Is continuous and eX- cessive.
 Panama lies much better than does Colon. being erected upon volcanic rock. having good natural drainage The ac- cumulated filth of the city is largely washed away by the heavy rains. Many of the buildings are. 10 be sure. infected with the germs of yellow fever, smallpox and other infectious diseases: but this is condition which can be easily reme- died. I should. in fact. say that in the city of Panama and in the third division of the isthmus there are presented no serious problems of sanitary engineering a sewerage system. pure water and plen- ty of it and a vigorous disinfection of all the houses being about all that will be required.
 My investigations here have convinced me that the sanitary question. as 1t is
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-17

from an absolutely pure mountain stream flowing twenty-eight miles northeast of the city.
 The Problem at Colon.
 Colon will be the most stubborn propo- sition with which we shall have to deal It would be greatly simplified if every building outside of the railroad section should be given to the torch. The whole area of the city must be filled in until it's surface shall be not less than four feet above the level of the sea. A complete system of underground and surface drain age must be provided well a per- feet sewerage system. Cristobal Colon Point. constructed by the French to he the one actually healthy spot. is today one of the worst incubators for disease on the entire isthmus. and will have to be radi cally dealt with. All open places left in Colon after the city shall have been filled must be grassed or graveled and well and constantly cared for. and the swampland should be drained and filled in for a mile in every direction. Unless the buildings are all burned and the town rebuilt. eV- cry one must be raised so that 1t will be above the level of the ground and set up- on a secure foundation, after which there must be applied most vigorous measures of disinfection and fumigaton.,
 "To get supply of pure water for Co.,
 
 tains. A reservoir may, however. be con structed on Monkey Hill. two miles of the city, where the railroad now has its res ervoir The water may then be brought by gravity into Colon: but if this plan is adopted all the natives resident in the vicinity of Monkey Hill must be made to move to other parts of the isthmus If these measures are adopted. and the same lessons taught and the same general reg ulations instituted as I have described for the second section, Colon may be made a habitable place. with a death rate not es- necially excessive. Police supervision will, however. have to be most vigorous in this place.
 Mosquitoes Must Be Exterminatei.
 Resides the measures l have described for the three divisions of the isthmus there must be a general and most deter mined crusade against mosquitoes over the entire canal zone. We know beyond question of doubt that mosquitoes are the active disseminators of infectious dis cases Those that abound so plenteously on the isthmus are two kinds-the yellow fever mosquito and the malarial mosquito. The former works during the early morn- ing and the late afternoon. and the latter
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-17

during the hours of the night. To eradi- cate them the Swampland must all be drained and level, and the entire surface of the country brought under such per feet control that for a distance of a mile on either side of every place where people reside there shall bc no stagnant pools, ponds or quagmires The use of mosquito nets over beds and of screens on doors and windows should also be made com pulsory. Rain water tanks must. too, all be protected with finest iron netting. By thus destroying all places where he may hr5ed-for mosquit oeS cannot travel more than half a mile from the breeding spot unless borne by the wind-this pest and tho most fruitful cause of diseases may be eXterminatcd.
 Under these sanitary Improvements and regulations. with strict police super vision to compel decent, moral living, the canal may be dug al a moderate cost in human life, Certainly it will not be as expensive in this respect as would an at tempt to construct 1t over the Nicaraguan route. The diseases prevalent here aside from rheumatism and tuberculosis which are traCeablc to the native mode of living are typhoid yellow and pernicous GOT ma lariaD levers smallpox, with some lep- rosy and among the natives beri-beri. Beri-beri is a disease which sometimes
 
 ates dropsical condition in the limbs in that respect resembling elephantisis It is trouble which must be treated specif- cally. All the other diseases common to the isthmus can be controlled in the main by the institution of such sanitary meas ures as have enumerated
 Panama Superior to Nicaragua. This would not be the case with a ca nal over the Nicaraguan route It is the common experience that extensive exca- vation in new tropical countries, where the soil is damp perpctually and the veg citation excessive, invariably results in sickness which no ordinary measures can control and in an untamed jungle, and in attempting to dig a canal by that route We should have to contend against those enects of first operations-cffects from which there is no escape. The simple process of stirring up the surface there would prove d most deadly one whereas We shall encounter no such difficulty on the isthmus. The French had that ex- perlence, and We shall escape it The ground along the entire route of the ca nal here was subjugated by them. so far Continued nm IlaSa rT,.cn4,, +I,-ooN
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-17

from northern climates to work :n this country, with it in its present state would be heinous.
 Must Educate the People.
 "Fa. more serious than making this country sanitary, and, therefore, habit able. will be the task of compelling the people now here and the labor to be i'm, ported for the canal construction, to avail themselves of the sanitary facilities we shall provide and to make them obey the sanitary regulations we shall institute. That is the real problem to be handled in this situation. To handle it properly We must exercise most vigorous police supervison over the whole of the canal
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-17

presented on the isthmus, is not more stubborn than other similar problems with which the Army has dealt in tho last five years. Manila was in a worse condition when we occupied that city than is Panama today, and what we did there and in Havana has given us an ex- perience upon which we can rely in deal ing with the situation here The work of establishing good sanitary conditions here is nothing more serious than a ques.. ton of money. We know just what should be done and how to do 1t. and. with adequate allowances. the work can be done speedily and effectively. that 1t should be done and carried to completion before any active effort is made to dig the canal is apparent. For to send men
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-17

ties. The water sheds in this division will have to be rigidly protected from pollu- tion, crematories for the incineration of garbage and fecal matter will have to be established and garbage collection sys- tenn instituted so as to prevent offal from reaching the streams; all the residents of the canal zone must be compelled to drink filtered and boiled water. and an extensive system Of bath houses, with enforcement of regulations as to bathing, must be in- stituted. There is nothing complex in these requirements; nor will there be any difficulty experienced fin Panama, where, as I have said. sewerage pure water and disinfection are alone required. The wa ter supply for Panama may be drawn