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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27
STILL CONFINED TO HER BED
Miss Charlotte Scribner Suffers From
Shock Received in Kenosha

Miss Charlotte Scribner Suffers From
Shock Received in Kenosha
Although over week since she was
badly injured by a Milwaukee, Racine
& Kenosha car, Miss Charlotte Scrib-
ner Of 1916 Main street is still confined
to her bed from the shock received and
it will probably be several weeks be-
fore her wounds have com pletely
healed.
While attem pting to board north
bound carat Piper S Grove week ago,
Miss Scribner was thrown heavily to
the ground through the action of the
motorman who started the car before
Miss Scribner had boarded the vehicle
and without giving due warning. She
sustained a severe cut below the knee,
the wound bleeding profuse1y. AL
though Immediately brought to her
home in Racine, some delay was ex-
perienced in securing a physician and
before DR.. ]. G. Meachem could at
tend to the wound, Miss Scribner had
suffered severely from loss of blood.
1t was necessary to take several
stitches in the wound, which is now
healing nicely, however. Racine
Journal.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27
Twain's Autobiography.

The autobiography of an interesting
man is in itself interesting If it tells
the reader how the subject came to be
what he is. Mark Twain's aim in
writing Of himself has been to set
down the things that have interested
him in bis lifetime. This will show
to the world the ideas which went to
the making Of the mind which has
charmed two generations Of readers.
Twain is one of the few .'who can
smile when everything goes dead
wrong" and can keep on plugging
away. When he had reached fame and
comfortable fortune and was on the
verge Of old age he suddenly found
himself bankrupt Since that time he
has worked harder probably than he
ever did before, and he kept on sInil-
ing. He is perhaps as nearly without
enemies as any man in the world, he
has seen most Of the ups and downs Of
life and he could do no greater favor
to the legions of English readers than
by telling us how he did it.
The humorist's account of himself
will Of course be original, not put up
on conventional lines. He says he
worked 1t out after "systemless sys-
tenn" His friend William Dean
Howells approved Of the plans which
the author confded to him.. "a wise and
judicious proceeding, Twain remarks,
saying: IF he had manifested a diff
ferent spirit / would have thrown him
out Of the window. / like criticism,
but it must be my way The public
would add that TWain's own story in
Twain's own way will run small risk
Of getting thrown out Of the win
dow"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27

THE police will have to do little
business with the crews of the North
western freight trains again if the
practice of blocking crossings con-
tinues. A freight held up large
crowd at Prairie avenue last night
for over ten minutes and while the
holding up of crowd is not as serious
as blocking the FIRE department, which
happened last week, it is sufficiently
annoying to call for the interference
of the police when it becomes a daily
occurrence. 1t would be a simple
matter for the road to issue orders to
it's train crews to break their trains
when there is a prospect that there
will be a long delay, but up to date
he officials have not seer fit to do
anything of the kind and it will prob
ably be necessary to call their atten-
ton to the advisability of issuing
such an order by taking few train
crews to the police court.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27
THE defeat Of TIE city il 4 test suit


THE defeat of the city in a test suit
to determine the powers and authority
of the health officer under the present
ordinance is proof positive the or
dinance is not broad enough and that
it is high time the council passed a
new one giving the health officer
powers sufficient to enforce his orders
at all times and against all persons.
This is serious matter. As things
stand now the health officer might be
left power1ess in the face of threat
ened epidemic, if the parties violat-
ing the sanitary regulations chose to
defy his orders and take their cases
into court. There is too much at
stake to permit any such foolishness
to interfere with the health officer in
the discharge of his duties, and with
out authority to enforce his orders he
is powerless to protect the commu-
nifty. The authorities cannot begin
any too soon to straighten out this
matter.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27
GovERNMENr statistics

GOVERNMENT statistics furnish
probably the most forcible argument
for the good roads movement. In
every state where there are good
roads the acreage value is higher
than in states where road building
has been neglected and in every case
where road building has been gone
INTO on a large scale the increase in
acreage values has been many times
the cost of the Improvement. On the
principle that the imost powerful
argument is one that appeals to a
mans pocket the facts found in the
government records ought to make
some of the men who have been in
different to the movement sit up and
take notice. The time is coming when
the state Of the roads will be the first
thing looked into by prospective pur-
chasers of farming property.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27
Tony Bacon, Held at Waukegan
Charges Chief 0'Hare With
Attempted kidnapping
NOT BOARD THE CAR
Chief of Police O'Hare Will Be Forced
to Secure Requisition Papers to
Secure His Return to Ke-
nosha for Trial


Tony Bacon, formerly of Kenosha.
claims that Chief of Police O'Hare
and Frank Lorawitz, Of this city,
made sensational attempt to kidnap
him Wednesday at Waukegan in order
to avoid the formality of getting ex-
tradition papers for charge of theft
against him.
Bacon, when seen Wednesday after
noon, said that for two or three days
Lorawitz has been after him to per-
suade him TO come back to Kenosha.
Lorawitz brought Chief O'Hare to
to Waukegan and the two tried to tell
him that the best thing he could do
was to go back to Kenosha. He re-
fused. The party was near the car
line, he says. The citizen and the
police chief grabbed him, he claims,
and tried to force him on board the
car. He resisted and made for his
lawyers Office. Assistant Chief Tyr
rell, Of Waukegan, who witnessed the
whole thing, says that the man is
mistaken.
Bacon worked in the Allen tannery
for three months, boarding at the
home OF Mrs. Patrona Waitekunas.
He tired of Kenosha and went to Wau-
kegan, where he secured a position in
the glucose re6neries.
Monday he came back to Kenosha
to get coat, he says, at his old
boarding house. On his way out of
the house Mrs. Waitekunas gave a cry
and told her husband that SID, all the
money there, was gone. Tie couple
accused Bacon, who nevertheless went
to Waukegan and has been working
there ever ssince. He charges that
the police chief and the other Keno
shan seek to get him back to Kenosha
to avoid extradition.
Wednesday Afternoon Chief O'Hare
was in consultation with States At
torney Hanna, of Waukegan, for a
state warrant against Bacon, the in
tention being to hold him until Gov
ernor Deneen gets requisition papers
for his return to Kenosha.
Attorney Orvis, who is representing
Bacon, stated that should Bacon be
jailed he will get out habeas corpus
papers. It develops that Bacon first
visited the attorney for the purpose of
bringing a Islander suit against the
people who accuse him of the theft.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27

The city should make every effort
to assist the American Telegraph and
Telephone Company in putting its
wires underground just as soon as the
company gives satisfactory guaran-
tees that the streets will not be left in
poor condition after the work is COM
pleted. The city could hardly take
any steps to impede the work, and be
consistent, for the question of order
ing all wires in the city put under
ground has been seriously discussed
by the council more than once, aud
there is reason to believe that action
to that end will ultimately be taken.
1t would undoubtedly be good thing
to have ali wires in the city under
ground, and any company that pro-
poses to put its lines in conduits
should be given every possible en-
courag ement.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27
GET RECORD RATE
Railroads Bow to the K. of P.'s and
Give Lowest Fare Ever offered

Railroads Bow to the K. of P.'s and
Give Lowest Fare Ever Offered
Visitors to New Orleans next month
during the Knights Of Pythias con-
clave can travel to the Crescent City
and back for the lowest railroad fare
ever offered, according to the an
nouncement Of the Illinois Central
Railroad company yesterday. It has
cut the round trip rate from Chicago
to New Orleans from $40 to $18. 40
with ponding reductions from
all other points. The rate sfrom ST.
Louis will be lowered to $14. 40, from
St. Paul and Minneapolis to $27. SO,
from Peoria to $17.85, Spring to
$16 IS, Louisville to $3.50.
The cut is made for the benefit of
the Knights of Pythias conclave.
The originally agreed reduction for
this gathering was one fare, plus IS
cents. The Knights of Pythias re-
quested further reductions and these
requests, together with other un-
looked for developments, havegcaused
IhS 11l1uOlS SSulIdl 10 cut CNGTdC6 TO
so per cent of the one-way fare for
the round trip from all points. This
slash brings the rate down to prac-
tica1ly / cent mile, which rate has
never been named for any gathering
except the Grand Army.
A few weeks ago the Illinois Cen
trail brought $4,000 southerners to
Chicago on an unprecedented low
rate and now even a bigger slash in
fares is to be given northerners
sonthbound. The Central manage
ment has suggested that all of its
connecting lines put in the cent
mile rate to the New Orleans conclave.
The tickets will be on sale October II
to II and will be honored for return
passage to October 80. Stopovers at
all principal points southi Of the
Ohio river will be allowed.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27
Science and the Soil.

One inevitable result of arguments
like that recently put forth by ]. J.
Hill urging the masses to return to
the soil as a means of sustenance Is to
evoke the answer that the earth's
vegetable product is not sufficiently
generous to supply all the wants Of
man. In all ages men have looked
upon the treasures Of the mines as i'm
portant factors in civilization They
have risked more and worked harder
to get out gold, silver, iron and coal
than in making edibles grow Mr..
Hills theory is that the buried wealth
will soon have become exhausted. Ger
tain forms Of industry will languish;
mechanical employment and its re-
wards will fall away.
Now, it is not strange that mistrust
Of natures generosity is prevalent In
many quarters. Past generations in
America have had a hard time at farm
Ing. Mining, even under the worst diff
fculties, paid better. Mining developed
manufacturing and a varied commerce,
more gain for the muscle expended
from day to day But agriculture has
not fallen into decay. Science has been
busy learning lessons from the soil.
The earth cannot give up ceaselessly
unless something is given back. Every
old section of the country has had It's
lesson of exhausted soil. Science
teaches the way to replenish' the soil
and make two blades of grass grow
where only one grew before"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
'dice of City Clerk, City Of Kenosha,
1nOE

Office of City Clerk, City Of Kenosha,
Sept. II, 1906.
Sealed bids will be received at the
Office Of the city clerk in the city of
Kenosha up to 2 O'Clock p. m. on the
18th dayIof Sept, 1906, for the furnish
ing of.allimaterial and labor necessary
for the building of circular cu1vert
in Jerome creek across Exchange
street in the city of Kenosha, together
with retaining walls, foundations,
etc, according to plans and specifca
tons on file in the Office Of the City
Clerk of Kenosha.
Bidders will be required to furnish
certified check for IS per cent of the
amount of their bid with their pro-
posal. The city Of Kenosha reserves
the right to reject any or all bids.
Proposals must be made upon
blanks furnished by the city clerk.
GEO, w. HARRINGroN.
Wi City Clerk.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27
FELL FROM A TRAIN
c. Salwenski Badly Bruised at North
Western Station Wednesday Night

{. Salwenski Badly Bruised at North
Western Station Wednesday Night
Charles Salwenski, residing at 81
East Market street, was badly bruised
last night when he fell from the
Northwestern passenger train due to
arrive at Kenosha at OILS. It is al
legged that Salwenski had been inbib-
ing pretty freely in Chicago and had
started to Kenosha with man named
George Fleming who lived at Wauke-
gan. At Waukegan Fleming at
tempted TO leap from the train and he
was terribly injured. He is now in
the Jane McAister hospital at Wau-
kegan but it is not thought that his
injuries will result fatally. Just as
the train was pulling into Kenosha
Salwenski attempted to jump off. He
rolled over along the track and at
first it was supposed that he had been
fatally injured. An ambulance was
called and he was taken to the hos
pital where it was found that he
suffered only few bad bruises. DR..
II. A. Robinson attended him and he
was so far recovered this morning
that he was able to leave the hospital.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27
CROOK WINS THESUlT
Jury Decides That He Has RICH
to Maintain Garbage BoxAgainst
Orders of Health Official
LAW is PLACED IN JEOPARDY

The Kenosha city ordinance grant
| ing powers to the health commissioner
got body blow in Justice McCar-
ron's court late Wednesday after
noon when jury in that court de-
cided that the city could not coll
lect forfeiture from H. C. Crook,
who had decliaed to obey an order of
the health officer in regard to the re-
moval of a garbage box.
The fight has been watched with a
great deal of interest by people in the
| official circle and it is feared that the
decision of the jury will open the way
for many people to make contest
against the efforts of the health officer
to secure better conditions in Ken
osha.
H. c. Crook, who resides on Pleas
ant street, had been charged with
maintaining garbage box which was
nuisance and proper complaint was
made to the health officer, DR.. ]. B.
Spalding, by John H. Corcoran, who
resides next to Crook. After an ex-
animation of the condition of the box
by Dr.. Spa1ding and other mem bers
of the board of health, DR.. Spalding
ordered the box removed. Later he
served formal written notice on
Crook to secure the removal of the
box, but Crook demurred and when
the box remained in its former place
the city attorney started an action IN
court to force the removal of the box
and to collect forfeiture from Crook
for his defiance to the orders of the
city health officer. Crook demanded
that the case be tried by jury and
nearly the entire day in Justice
McCarron's court was given over to
the case. The evidence showed that
the box had been offensive to the
neighbors, but it also showed that
Crook had the box cleaned out at
stated intervals. The attorney for
Crook claimed that the city was inter-
fering with personal liberty when it
attempted to prevent a man from
maintaining garbage box on his
premises.
The case was submitted to the jury
liberation the six men returned a ver-
dict in favor of Crook and the city
will be forced to stand the costs of
the action.
The verdict may be one of far
reaching effect, as it is thought that.
other people in the city who have been
opposing the efforts Of the health Off
case and in the future demand that
all orders of the health officer be tried
out before a jury before they are
carried out. If this form of opposi-
ton should become general it will
practically end the efficiency of the
Office of health officer. It is possible
that the officials of the city will seek
to make test of the case in the Cir
cult ard supreme court.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

Notice is hereby given that sealed
proposals will perceived at the Office
of the City Clerk in the City Hall up
to Monday, October 1st, 1906 at 500
O'Clock P. m. for the furnishing of all
material add labor for the placing of
a steam heating system in the Third
Ward Engine House, according to
plans and specifications now on file in
the Office Of the City Clerk.
The council reserves the right to
reject any or all proposals.
By order of the Common Council,
Sept. 5th, 1906.
GEO. w. HARRINGTON,
WI City Clerk.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27
TO PUNISH TRUANTs
State Factory Inspector Demands that
Truant Officer Get Busy

Truant Officer Get Busy
The small boy in Kenosha who
plays hockey" from school is TO
have hard time of it in the future
as State Factory Ins pector Evans had
a long conference with truant officer
Chief Of Police of Police O'Hare yes
terday in which he demanded that
the officer take into custody the large
number Of school boys who are run
ming about the streets of the city dur
ing school hours. Yesterday the in
spector secured the names of three
boys and they are in the hands of
the chief of police who is ordered to
arrest them and see to it that they
are kept IN school. 1t is claimed that
no less than fifty boys who should
be IN school are daily loafine
about the streets of the city and
IN many cases the parents Of these
boys believe that they are regularly
attending school. The state official
has declared crusade against this
sort of business and it is going to see
to it that the law is enforced. The
boys may be sent to Jail for continued
truaucy
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27

THE also rams on the primary cleo
ton ticket hardly realize their luck
yet and their is still some soreness,
but they will doubles begin to take a
more philosophical view of the situa-
ton by the time the long and arduous
campaign is well under way. They
can get some comfort seeing their
successful rivals hustle.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27
Palma's Right to Rule Cuba,

Palma's Right to Rule Cuba.
Those Cubans who believed that they
were unfairly treated. not to say rob
bed OF the political rights, at the cleo
ton last year took long time about
putting up vigorous protest. Charges
of fraud on the part of Palma's adj
herents were made during the regis
tration. 1t will be remembered that
one prominent candidate opposing the
reelection OF the Palma administration
resigned and left the country before
election, claiming that gross frauds
were intended at the polls and his per-
sonal safety was threatened.
What seemed strange to the people
of this country was that the protesting
Cubans threw up their hands at the
start instead of fighting it out at the
time Very little violence occurred at
the polls, and the officers claiming
election were peacefully inaugurated.
In this country the crime of grossly
padding the legistry by the party in
power to secure it's reelection, as was
the case in Cuba, would have been re-
buked at the time Of it. 1t was sup
posed that feelings Of patriotism and
desire for peace caused the Cuban
Liberals to let the crisis pass without
resorting to arms In the end such
conservative counsel did not prevail.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27
THURSDAY, SEPT. u.

THE Russian flea is making his
presence felt in Milwaukee and other
cities and it is said that the pest was
brought in by the Russian inmi
grants. A rule to bail the immigrants
as well as their clothes at Castle Gar
den is BOW in order.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27

Our long lost friend, the Cuban jun
ia, has returned to public life. It Is
fair to assume that from this time
forth the revolution in Cuba will be
conducted strictly in accordance with
the rules of civilized Journalism.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27

THE children Of the present genera
ton are not going to have any pleas
ant memories Of fun in the ''ysrd"
during school days because in most
cases the yards" in Kenosha are so
covered with buildings that there is
not room enough left for the children
to play in.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27

IT is a case of the office seeking the
man every time these days with the
civil service commission and it is
a difficult matter to keep any names
on the eligible 1ists-a vast difference
from the time when there were hun
dred applicants for every job.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27

The proposition is heard in some
states to abolish the bank examiners.
Only one amendment is necessary to
secure its universal approval That
will make it read to abolish the bank
examiners who do not examine.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27

The other day seventy people cele-
DRAFTED the thirtieth birthday Of a fami-
" horse. At any rate, that is an i'm
provement on the $4,000 legacy to a
cat and the Newport dog and monkey
society events
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27
SICK AND DESERTED
John Meyer Found in Barn in the Town
of Somers in BAD Condition

John Meyer, supposed to be Chi
cago man and an employe of the
Northwestern railway company, was
found in the Nelson barn at the town
of Somers last night ia weak and
dying condition. This morning the
man was brought to the Kenosha hos
pital. Meyer had been suffering from
a severe attack of malaria for several
days and had managed to crawl into
the barn for shelter. AS soon as the
authorities Of Somers discovered the
condition of the man they ordered him
removed to the hospital. Meyer has
suffered terribly from exposure and
it is feared that he can not recover.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27

Why not simplified arithmetic and
geography as well as spelling? No
danger that the boys and girls getting
back to books will gru1hble over that
reform.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27

Mayor German spent Wednesday
in Milwaukee.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-10-25

Artificial respiration in the appar-
emily drowned is usually set up by
regular flexion of the arms of the
PROSTATE patient. Seeking more pos
tive and better action. DR.. Eisen-
menger, of Szaszvaros, Hungary, has
developed the new plan of alternately
raising and depressing the abdomen,
and believes that this is a much
more effective method of resuscita-
ton. His simple apparatus is a kind
of cuirass. which is strapped to the
body and made tight by an edge pad,
with a foot bellows for compressing
and exhausting the air. The abdo-
men rises and falls with the varying
pressure in the cuirass, and this
gives not only vigorous inspiration
and expiration but also a gentle
heart massage, the combined action
tending to give favorable results
even in desperate cases.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-10-25
SAW SEVENTY DROWN.
A Storm Survivor Tells OF The
Loss OF Life.

Mobile (SpeciaD The Mallory
liner Colorado, which arrived in port
Monday, has as passengers, Joseph
Nelson, Charles Olsen, Charles An
derson and Otto Brink, who were
picked up at sea Saturday morning
80 miles off Key West. Nelson says
he saw 70 men drowned from a
houseboat which was wrecked off
Long Key, Fla, in last weeks storm
The four men, who were found by
the Colorado's crew standing on a
raft made out of six logs, were in
the water waist deep at the time
Nelson said he and the other men
were on houseboat at Long Key,
when the hurricane struck them and
blew the boat to sea. 1t soon went
to pieces, and out of 1875 people on
board 10 were drowned right before
their eyes.
The other 40 men have since been
taken to Jacksonville, Fla. The men
suffered terrible hardships. They
say that the loss of life was heavier
off Long Key than any other point.
The men were employed by the Flori-
da East Coast Railway on the ex-
tension work through the Florida
swamps from Miami to Key West.