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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-08-31
WOULD NUMBER BOXES
More Red Tape Laid Down for Pat.
rons of Rural Routes

Hereafter farmers desiring de-
gree Of privacy in their mail on the
rural free delivery system, may have
the number of the box, route and city
from which the mail is delivered,
written on the envelope and receive
their mail without any delay.
The advantages of lock box IN the
postoffice or residence in the city are
thus given to the patrons of the rural
free delivery system, through an or
der issued recently by Fourth Assist
ant Postmaster General Up. Y. Nc
Graw, of Washington.
Farmers on the rural routes are to
be numbered consecutively so that no
mistake will be made, and the number
will be placed upon the box conspicu-
ously enough so the carrier may cas-
lily see it from thearoad. By,.and by
the name of the route will be all that
is necessary in the sending of mail to
any of the patrons along the line.
Most farmers have placed their
names on the boxes. The custom af
fords enjoyment to the traveller from
the reading of the names of the own
ers and occupants of the farms. The
numbers have also been placed upon
the boxes, but the system which is
now in vogue will probably have to
be changed, because a systematic
numbering must be adopted lin order
that all mistakes be!obviated.
AS yet the orders from the post
Office department have not been fully
carried out. When it is done THE far
mers will have the exact mail service
of residents Of the city.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-08-31
GET LIONS SHARE
Kenosha Golfers ISecure Three
Cups It the Open Tourna-
ment at GIenvieW
YULE WINS LOW SCORE CUP

There is decided feeling iof salts
faction among the Kenosha golfers
on account of the open tournament at
Glenview last week, for while the Ke-
nosha entries were decidedly limited
the boys managed to bring home the
lions share of the trophies offered for
the tournament. Three new trophies
and gold medal have been added to
the Kenosha club scores. w. II. Yu1e
secured for the possession of the local
club for the next year the North
branch cup and gold medal. Mr..
Yule and Miss NJ. Morris also won the
handsome trophy offered for the low
net score in the mixed foursome on
Friday and c. c. Allen won the Lear
cup which was one of the most beauti-
full trophies offered at the tournament.
Saturday was busy day for the
two Kenosha golfers at Glenview.
Allen had survived for the finals in
the match play for the Lear cup and
was matched against Baker of Auburn
Park. The Kenosha man played a
great game in the morning and had
his opponent FIVE down at the end of
the first eighteen holes. At the
thirtyfrst Baker was dorn1ie five but
he piayed.a great uphill match and
the fight did not end until the thirty
fifth hole when Baker got half
and the match went to Allen.
The feature Of the play on Satur-
day however was the way State
Champion w. H. Yu1e carted off the
North branch cup. This cup is open
to all players and is played for from
scratch. In the morning round of
eighteen holes Yule led the players
with seventy-eight and eighty-nine
in the afternoon made it possible for
him to nose out Chandler Eagan by
one stroke. This cup becomes the
property Of the Kenosha Country
club for the year and Yule re-
ceives gold medal for having won
it. It must be won three times before
it becomes the property of any club.
The interest in golf for the coming
week will center about Westward-Ho
and several of the local golfers have
entered for the different events. There
will be notable addition to the Ke-
nosha bunch at Westward-Ho as ]. r.
Keh1or and Charles M. Hall have both
entered for these matches. Hall and
Keh1or have recently been doing great
work on the Kenosha links and they
are expected to add materially to the
chances of the Kenosha players at
Westward-Ho.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-08-31
A PLAY WITH A CLIMAX

The eleventh Hour" which comes
to the Rhode opera house on next
Sunday night is one of the most popu-
lar melo dramas from the pen Of Lin
coin ]. Carter. The piece fairly
ibristles with vigor, but the story is
good and we'll worked out. Vases,
lamps, jardineres, chairs, tables and
all the furnishings of a modern draw
ing room are wrecked in the'last act,
but the hero finally conquers and
vaquishes his victim. Comedy is in
evidence, throughout the play so as to
keep one in good humor during the
more serious lines The theme is one
of love and jealous ambition but told
in an entertaining and original style.
1t shows to what extremes woman , S
love and mans covetousness will
resort to accomplish their ends. The
climax is reached in the fifth act
when the elegant drawing room in
the home of wealthy millionaire is
wrecked in a rough and tumble fight
between the two principal male char
acters.
The thing is so realistic that one is
naturally deceived and exc1amat tons
of establishment are heard as the
crash of shattered glass, overturned
bric-a-brac, ETC., signals the finale.
The scenery is exceptionally fine,
showing the old rustic mill, railroad
track scene at night, the Bismarck
Garden with its thousands of mean
descent bulbs and the rich and elabo.
rate drawing room settings.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-08-31
Burglars Make Raid on People 5
Meat Market Saturday Night
But Get No Booty
TRY TO OPEN CASH DRAWER
Men are Supposed to Have Been
Frightened Out of the Building by
the Arrival of the Night Watch
man and Police Officers

The old burglar gang in Kenosfa
seems to have started work again and
on Saturday night or Sunday morn
ing the Peoples Meat market at the
foot of Main street was entered by
burglars. The men are supposed to
have been frightened away before
they completed their work and it is
not thought that they secured any
booty.
1t is evident that there were at least
two men in the job. Entrance to the
building was made by piling lot of
boxes along the north end Of the
building. By means of this pile of
boxes the thieves reached window
and cutting the screen away they
managed to open the window and get
into the building. The entire west
end of the market is screened from
the street by wide counter and it is
evident that the men worked under
this counter for some time. They
had secured knives from the market
and with these knives the cash drawer
had been cut and slashed but it is APP
parent that the drawer withstood the
assault and that the men did not open
it. Had they been able to open the
1rawer they would have had nothing
but disappointment for their long
work as there was not cent of money
in the drawer.
Before closing the market on Satur-
day evening the men in charge had
placed the receipts for the day in the
safe in the east corner of the building
and this safe is in plain view from the
street. The thieves went into the Of
fee but they did not attempt to break
into the safe as it would have been
necessary to pull down the curtain
and this would have been a signal to
the police and the night Waterman
that there was something wrong in
the building.
1t is evident that one of the men at
the cash drawer cut himself, for the
floor about the drawer and the wooden
counter is soaked with blood, and it
was on all the tools used by the burg
lars. The condition of the drawer
shows that the fellows were fright
ened away just before they had COM
pleted the work of breaking into the
till.
1t seems evident that the robbery
was the work of amateurs, and bung-
ling ones at that. Near the counter
were all sorts of tools with which the
drawer could have been broken open,
but no effort had been made to use
them. The Job had none of the fin
ished appearance so common with the
other burg1aries committed in Keno
cha during the last few months.
The burglary was reported to the
police force this afternoon, but the
men have had a day and a half in
which to get away and it is probable
that the police will have pretty hard
time to find any trace of them.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-08-31
DON'T WANT BUTTONS
Police and Fire Commissioners
Have a Hard Time Finding
Men to Fill Vacancies
TWO NEW FIREMEN SELECTED

The boast of hera1dry and pomp of
power which attends the man who
wears the brass and silver buttons of
the Fire and Police departments of
kenosha, do not seem to appeal to the
people of Kenosha, for the Police and
Fire Commissioners are having a
hard time to find men to fill the
vacancies in the two departments.
Repeated calls for men have been Cir
culated, and notwithstanding the
fact that good wages are offered the
men fail to come, and at the present
time there is just one man on the
waiting LIST for place in the Fire
department, and not a single man on
the police waiting list.
The Commission has named M.
Rosing and William Smith for places
on the Fire department, and the men
will go to work just as soon as they
pass the proper medical examination.
Smith will be added to the Third ward
force and Rosing to the North side
company.
The Commission had expected a
large number of applications for
these positions, and from the list it
was expected that a waiting list
would be developed to provide for
future vacancies in the department.
Under the present conditions it would
be impossible for the Commissioners
to provide for an emergency, and if
added men are needed in the police
or fire department they could not
meet the demand. AT present there
is no reason to believe thatInew men
will be added to the police depart
ment, butsuch step will be neces-
sary within a few months, and for
this reason the COMMISSIONS anxious
to get the names of a dozen able
bodied men who want to work for the
city in the capacity of police officers.
The Commissioners are prepared to
show that this work is attractive, and
that it pays well for the officer.
If no applications can be secured in
Kenosha it is possible that it will be
deemed necessary to go out into the
by-ways of other cities and advertise
for men to help them out.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-08-31
Kenosha Base Ball Team Simply
WaIIops the Famous Harvard
Team by Score Of 9to2
GRoTH's AID UNNECESSARY
The Harvard Team Was Not Even a
Match for the Locals at Any
Stage of the Game and the
Local Team Won as 1t Pleased

The Kenosha base ball team defeat
ed the team at Harvard, ILL.,, on Sun
day afternoon by q score of 9 to and
the much Wanted strength of the
Harvard players failed to develop
at any time of the contest. 1t was
simply walkaway for the Kenosha
players at every stage of the game
and the only thing that prevented
them from making the score larger
was the fact that the rain fell in such
abundance that the Kenosha boys
wore themselves out running bases.
The visit of the Kenosha team to Har-
ward was the biggest athletic event in
the history of the town.
Harvard turned out Saturday night
to welcome the boys and the way they
we're entertained showed that Har-
ward people were of the opinion that
there were just two ball teams in the
world. One Of them was from Har-
ward and the other from Kenosha.
The Saturday night entertainment
was all right but the treatment that
was given the team on Sunday was a
little different.
There was band and Mayor Pha1en
was out to pitch the first ball and all
sorts of preliminaries, but when the
team reached the grounds less than
200 people had gathered for the con-
test. The field, according to the man
ager of the Harvard team, would ac-
commodate 10000 people. 1t would
and then some, for it was an open
prairie of something like 200 acres.
Then the rain started to fall as soon
as the game began but the teams
stuck it out and Harvard took her
wal1oping just as if she was accus-
toned to getting it every day. The
unbeaten Harvard players looked like
Prairie team when pitted against
the Kenosha players.
Butts, the Harvard pitcher, did
pretty we'll for an inning or two and
then the heavy hitters of the Keno
sha team began to fall on him and the
slaughter was something terrible.
Every man on the team fattened up
AAS OoLlAuS dNCAdS = dAO lACAG was q
total of fifteen hits when the players
stopped keeping score. Butts might
have done better if he had had better
support but the Harvard infe1d play
ed like school boys and the error list
was long one.
Groth pitched for Kenosha and held
the Harvard men down to three hits.
It is just possible that the Kenosha
team could have secured a shut out
but long about the eighth inning
when the faces of the crowd were
getting longer Breen passed the word
around to the players that the Har-
ward team must score and in the next
two innings they we're allowed to get
two runs.
AT the end of the game there was
such feeling of bitterness among
the Harvard fans that the Kenosha
men threw away the score of the
game and Harvard sent in the score
as 8 to in favor of Kenosha. The
score by innings follows:
Kenosha .........1 0 O 2 . 2 O 90
Harvard ...... o O O O O O o / Ia
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-08-31
ANNUAL REPORT OF ROAD
The Chicago * Northwestern Railway
Statement Given Out

The Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Statement Given Out
The annual report of the operations
of the Chicago & Northwestern Rail-
way company for the year ending
June 80, 1905, was given out Monday.
The average number of miles operated
was 7,408. The gross earnings were
SIS, 745, 275-from passengers $13, $780,
713; freight $50, 292, $50; express, mail
and miscellaneous 3,112,73
The operating expenses and taxes
were $50, 649, 311-operating expenses
(6O.54 per cent of the gross earnings)
$50, 459, 1874; taxes So, 189, 976. The net
earnings were $17,O95,96 Other
charges were: Interest on bonds and
interests $7,OO6, $40; sinking funds
1925, 900. Total 81, 231, $40. Deducting
this from the net earnings and adding
income from investments $553,435,
leaves the net income $40, All, 1922. De-
Quoting dividends eight per cent on
preferred stock and seven per cent on
common stock $5,174, 924, leaves the
SUI P4uS ACl AANOAnC POs ATA1OSCs OC-
Quoting expenditures for construc-
ton, improvements and permanent
additions $4, 900, 900, leaves the bal
ance income for 1905, $642, 1893. The
balance to the credit of income ac-
count June 80, 1904, was $1,000, 282.
This gives balance to the credit Of in
come account June 80, 1905, 81, 64O,-
181. The increase in earnings over
1904 was $2,41O,641 and the increase in
operating expenses and taxes was
$l,422, POP, making the increase in net
earnings over 1904 1888, 49,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-08-31
MADE CHASTITY FIND
Remains of Unknown Man Found
Floating in the Lake North
of BerryviIIe Monday
IDENTITY YELLED IN MYSTERY

Shortly after o clock Monday after
noon w. S. Pratt, man residing a
mile north of the village of Berryville,
on the Lake Shore road, found the
body of an unknown man floating in
the lake just off his farm. The re-
mains were those of man about %
years of age and they had evidently
been in the water for several days or
longer.
Pratt was at work on the farm near
by when he saw something bobbing
up and down in the lake. He went
and looked over the steep bank and
was Mortified to find that the floating
object was the remains of a man. He
shouted to the other people on the
farm for aid andwent down and pulled
the decomposed remains to the beach.
Later Coroner Hoy1e of Racine
county was notified, and with a Jury
went to the scene where the body was
found and took charge of the remains.
They were removed to a Racine
morgue and efforts are now being
made to find who the man was. Up
to late hour this afternoon the re-
mains had not been identified.
Several people have been missing
from Racine, but it is certain that the
remains found do not in any way cor
respond to the description of the miss
ing people. Tie Kenosha police have
been asked to discover if anyone is
missing from Kenosha, but thus far
no trace of any missing person an
swering the description has been
found.
The drowned man wore a black
worsted coat and trousers and brown
jacket under his coat. He had on low
shoes made OF patent leather and they
we're almost worn out. The coroner
who has charge of the remains is of
the opinion that the remains are those
of some man who fell from passing
steamer and was drowned in midiake
several days ago, the remains drifting
into the Berryvil1e beach.
The workmen of the Chicago and
Milwaukee, Electric Railway COM
panv nave established a Camp on the
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-08-31
DIR. GEORGE PUGH TO WE'D
Will Take Miss Nellie Ball as His Bride
at Stratford, Ontario, Tuesday


On Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock
at the home of the bride in Stratford,
Ontario, will occur the marriage of
Miss Nellie Ball, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Eugene Ball of Stratford, and
DR.. George A. Pugh of this city. The
marriage will be one of the social
events of the summer at Stratford.
1t is understood that the affair will
be double wedding and that sister
of Miss Ball will be married to a we'll
known young man of Stratford at the
same time.
DR.. Pugh and his bride will spend
their honeymoon in Canada visiting
with relatives and friends there.
They will return to Kenosha late in
September.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-08-31
IN FAR AWAY TEXAS
Frank Rowbottom, of Bristol,
Writes Of Great Development
of the Southern State
TEXAS AN EMPIRE IN ITSELF
Kenosha Boy Who Has Been Living in
Texas for Several Years Tells
of Its Offering to the
Home Seekers

Frank Rowbottom, one of the best
known young men of the village of
Bristol, has been living in Texas for
several years, and he has sent the fol-
lowing interesting letter in regard to
Texas and her offering to the home
seeker:
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-08-31

The workmen of the Chicago and
Milwaukee Electric Railway COM
.pany have established camp on the
Balm farm south Of Kenosha. ISL p
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-08-31

JIG. Casterton, Of Racine, spent
Monday afternoon in Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-08-31

Lieutenant David Theleen of this
city is now with his ship at Lisbon
Portugal, and writes that he is hav-
ing fine time in Portuguese waters.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-08-31

Miss Alice Miller, of Milwaukee,
spent Tuesday afternoon with Keno
sha friends. ~ nsi5lo9 ssAl 4.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-01-27

quickly around the small room and
realized that the thing was gone. And
I knew, Of course, in a moment what
that meant.
The ghost Of Great-aunt Janet had
chosen that night for waIkingl
Why7 Was she such q sympathetic
old creature that she had guessed my
secret3 And could she give me any
help or any advicel / remembered
distinctly what the colonel had said !;
how he had suggested that the old
lady came only when she was able
to help q lover. That was my des-
perate case; and on an impulse / de-
termined. that would seek her and
take ghostiy counsel from her. re-
membered that she haunted the up
per floors.
went uD beyond the door On which
my room was situated and found my
self in darkness. Then. suddenly,
even 40 / tried to muf1e my footsteps,
saw 4 dim light IN the distance
the light Of a candle. Down the
length Of the corridor there advanced
toward me the stately small figure Of
Great-aunt Janet; 80 real that she
might have stepped straight out Of
her frame downstairs. She held the
candle high, and l thought, looking at
her AZ she advanced, what presenta-
BILE old lady she was.
It took me q moment or two to find
my tongue, and then, fearing that she
might disappear before / had had time
to state my errand, l clasped my
hands and blurted out what had to
say,
"Great-aunt Janetl Sweet Great
aunt Janetl Have mercy upon me and
help mel / love the dearest girl in
ali the Woodland her name is Dora
land / haven't dared to tell her so
before. II you can show me the
way"
Jack, dear. If you would hold the
candlestiek-
caught the candlestick-and Dora.
After q GREATNESS interval, during
which the lovely little face had been
pressed close to mine again and
again, and had seen, even by that
dim candle light, a look in the blue
eyes / had never hoped to see, she
gave ..er explanation.
II was in love myself, Jack, and /
thought there might be some other
unhappy lover who wanted advice or
-or consolation. SO / thought I would
be Great-aunt Janet-and 1 dressed
In these things / came out
Just in ease-."-Indianapolis Sun.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-01-27
Linooin,s Wav Of Tea.,no.

In his home city. Springfield, ILL.,. a
etory is told Of Lincoln which has
never appeared in print. His house
had long needed a fresh coat Of paint
but a political campaign was in prog
ress and ABE had no time to look up
painters.
During his absence for six weeks Of
circuit-riding in his one-horse shay.
Mrs. Lincoln had the matter attended
to, and on his return when he drove
up to the little cottage on 9Th street
she came out on the steps to welcome
him. Paying not the slightest atten-
ton to her, Lincoln surveyed the
house from foundation to caves in a
dazed manner and then drove to the
next door, and called to his neighbor:
"Sayl Can you tell me where Abe
Lincoln livesp'
"You old goosel come home and be
have yourself" laughed Mrs. Lincoln
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-01-27

which does a vast deal toward him
dering the freedom of the Individual
It is this continual consciousness Of
self that makes us Americans 80 fear
full Of what our neighbora think Of
US, that hampers us in our thought
and that makes us less able to act as
our right reasoning would dictate. The
Hnglishman, for instance, sails along,
calmly ignoring the whole world. This
attitude is provocative Of much hu-
NOR at his expense, but does he not
do better by himself than the man
who iS continually looking from right
to left to zee what people about thdnk
Of himI The latter is 80 busy that
he has no time to realize himself.
mind your own business and endeav-
or to be what you are made" says
the quotable Thoreau.
That iS what we need to have drum.
med into us from day to day. How
people take our jokes, how they like
the cut Of our frocks or our coats.
what they think OF our sitting in the
second balcony instead Of the orches-
ira Of q theater, whether they think
we are affected because we acknowl-
edge 4 liking for Browning these are
minor matters indeed; but it is over
just such tribes that many Of US waste
precious moments ana more precious
brain matter. Let the man and the
woman shake himself or herself free
from the coils OF what ''they say or
how it looks" Let them be big
enough not to bother about such little
things. Let them think less about
their own persons and more how to
enjoy and profit by and be good in the
big, interesting world Of people and
things which is all about them.-Home
Companion.