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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24

IF the city is going to make and en-
force any regulations against the use
and sale Of toy pistols and dynamite
cannon crackers on the Fourth Of
July this year, it is not any too early
to inform the dealers in that class of
goods that they will not be allowed to
handle them. Then if they insist on
shipping the forbidden articles in
here, they will have nobody to blame
but themselves for their losses when
they are not allowed to sell them. If
Kenosha is to have big celebration
and great crowd here on the Fourth
stricter regulations than usual will be
needed to prevent serious accidents
and possible loss of life.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24
TO PENSION OLD MEN
Kenosha Fire and Police Chiefs
Asked to Aid IN Effort to Secure
Pensions for Old Officers
ONE KEN0sHAN AFFECTED

Chief of Police Newhouse and Chief
of the Fire Department Isermann
have received letters from other parts
Of the state asking that the Kenosha
officials give their aid to an effort that
is now being made to have the state
vide for the establishment. of a fund
for pensioning policemen and mem
bers of the various fire departments
in the state. HI. FL. Byrne, chief of
the La Crosse police department has
taken the initiative among the police
forces of the state, aud f. j. Cotton,
secretary of the State Association of
Paid Firemen, has taken up the work
among the fifemen.
1t is planned to have the bill pre-
sented at the next meeting Of the state
Legislature and the police and fremen
are now seeking to awaken a public
sentiment in favor of the bill. 1t will
provide that every police officer in the
state shall be subject to pension after
he has completed a service of twenty
years in any city in the state outside
of Milwaukee. 1t also provides that
any officer permanently disabled
while a member of the police force of
any Of the cities shall receive pen
sion amounting to his full pay at the
time he was injured.
In order to provide money for the
payment of the pensions under the
law the bill will give to the officers of
cities the right to collect a small
monthly tax from every member of
the two departments. This tax will
not amount to more than forty cents a
month.
The Kenosha iremen and police Of
fcers seem to be decidedly in favor Of
the bill and they will cooperate with
the officers in other parts of the state
in the effort to secure its passage.
The law would effect but one man in
Kenosha.
Acting Chief of Police Newhouse
has been in service as police officer
for more than twenty years, and
should the law be passed he would be
at liberty to retire on full pay. None
of the firemen in Kenosha has.served
for twenty years.
The matter has been laid before
several of the members of the assem-
bly, and of the state senate, and it is
said that the promoters of the plan
have received every encourag
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24
CHEAP RATES TO BOSTON

$500 for round trip from Chicago
(plus Sly, via the Nickel Plate road,
May 81 to June 9. inclusive, with
privilege of extension of return limit
to July 18th. $24.O0 via New York
City, all rail, or $500 via New York
City and steamer in both directions
between New York and Boston. Stop
over at Niagara Falls and Chautauqua
Lake points if desired within limit of
ticket. Tickets good on any train on
above dates. No excess fare charged
on Nickel Plate road. Meafs in Nickel
Plate dining cars on American Club
meal plan, ranging in price from CSC
to 81; mid day luncheon SOC; also
la carte. Three through trains
daily, with modern Pullman sleeping
cars to Ft. Wayne, Findlay, Fostoria,
Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo, New York
City and New England points. Trains
depart from LaSa1Ie street station,
Chicago, the only depot on the Ele-
waited loop. Write John Y Callahan,
general agent, room 2o8, 113 Adams
ST., Chicago, for reservation of
berths, in through standard and tour
ist sleepers, and full particulars. VS.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24
NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE

The total loss of life in the San
Francisco disaster is now put at 1896.
The plant and buildings of the To
ronto (Ont) Bolt and Forging COM
pany were burned. Loss, $20O,OOO
By falling of a pile of lumber in a
lumber yard at Des Moines, Ia, Edwin
Carlson was killed and his twin broth
er Emil critically injured.
The Maharajah of Baroda, India,
and his wife, who are visiting this
country, have arrived at Washington.
The board of general appraisers at
New York has just decided that beets
are just beets and when imported must
pay duty as such.
The detailed discussion of the educa-
ton bill in the house of commons is
now in full swing and there is every
indication Of a prolonged struggle.
Lieutenant General Palat zyn, chief
of the Russian general staff, is going
to Yienn in June to study the organi-
zation Of the Hungarian army.
The United Presbyterian general as
sembly has opened at Richmond, Ind.
Several savings banks opened their
doors at San Francisco today.
Three Turks have been arrested at
Meniadjani, Russia, on suspicion of be
ing the murderers of VIM. III. Stuart,
the United States vice consul at Batoum.
There is movement on foot to hold
an international horse show at London
in 1907
An underground Chinese colony,
similar to that which once existed in
San Francisco, has been discovered at
Seattle, Wash, by city officials.
The National Underwriters associa-
ton will hold it's next annual conven-
tom at st. Louis Oct. %, "a and rs.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24

WHEN the powers that be in the
city council get to fixing things up''
they often make some queer moves,
out they never made funnier break
than over the appointment of city
physician this spring. It looks as if
the council had worked sort of a con
game on the doctors. If DIR. Spalding
was slated for the job, or if the
majority of the members of the coun-
Gil really believed that the health
officer should also be the city physi-
cian-which explanation sounds
rather far fetched, by the way-why
were not the other physicians so in
formed that they might not go
through the farce of putting in bid
for the work? No one will venture to
state that DR.. Spalding is any more
competent to fill the place than the
physician who offered to do the work
for $50 less than DIR. Spa1ding. and yet
DR.. Spalding gets the job. Presum-
ably when the city advertises for bids
it intends to accept the lowest bid
made, provided the man who makes it
can be depended upon to carry out his
end of the contract, but it was not
done in this case. It looks to us as if
the bright and smiling spalding had
sort of stacked the cards. so TO sneak.
on his fellow practitioners.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24
Well Known Pioneer Resident of
the City Died Saturday Night
After a Long Illness
LIVED IN KEN0SAA SO YEARS
During His Long Residence in the
City he Had Been Closely Con-
nected With the City's Growth
and Development

George D. Head, one of the best
known Of the pioneer residents of Ke-
nosla, died at the Kenosha hospital
just before midnight Saturday night.
Mr.. Head had been i'll for many weeks
and had been in a critical condition
since last Wednesday, when he was
taken with pneumonia. He died, sur
rounded by his children, who had
been called to the hospital to await
the end.
Mr.. Head had been i'll for several
weeks. More than a month ago he
was taken to the hospital to undergo
an operation, and while the operation
was a success, his constitution was so
weak that he was unable to recover,
and pneumonia setting in caused his
death.
The death Of George D. Head marks
the passing of one of the best known
men in this part of Wisconsin. He
was man universally known and
universally loved and the announce
ment of his death will cause the tear
of sorrow to fall in many homes in the
city.
George Doo1ittle Head was a native
of New York. He was born at Paris
Hill June p, 1880. He came west IN
1916 and settled at Antioch, Ill, but
two years later he came to Kenoslla
and he had since made his home in
kenosha. From the time he first
came to the city he has been pron1i-
nenuy connected with ,Kenosha's de-
velopment. For some time he was a
clerk IN one of the stores of the city,
but later he went into business with
r. e. Sutherland under the firm name
Of Head & Sutherland. For more
than thirty years he had been in the
lumber business in the city and he
had been active IN his connection
with the Kenosha Lumber Co. until a
few weeks before his death.
Few men in Kenosha enjoyed such
a personal popularity as George d.
Head. He was a man without enemies
ir the broadcast sense of the word. He
took kindly interest in the affairs of
those he chose to call his friends, and
to these people his death must come
as a personal sorrow. Mr.. Head was
distinctly man Of the home, and
those who knew him at his fireside
will feel his loss most keenly
Mr.. Head was closely connected
with the political life of the city dur
ing the past fifty years. He served
the county in the position of county
treasurer and was repeatedly elected
as mem Der of the board of education
and of the common council.
He was Republican in politics and
always took the greatest interest in
the advancement of the work of his
party in Kenosha and in Wisconsin.
In 1858 Mr.. Head was married to
Eliza Sexton, who with five child
rem Survives him. The children are
Mrs. E. S. Wilson, of Oshkosh;
Eugene r. Head, of Kenosha; Mrs.
Frank Pearson, Of Chicago; Dan 0.
Head, of Kenosha, and Fred S. Head,
of Sacramento, Cal.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24
TOOK FRENCH LEAVE
Prisoner at Jail insists on Going
Home for Supper and Now
Eats Bread and Water
MEADE DIDN'T LIKE JAIL LIFE

Earnest Meade, who is named In
the city directory as drug clerk, and
who has been serving a sentence of
sixty days in the county jail, caused
considerable trouble for sheriff Veitch
and his assistants on Tuesday after
noon, when firing of jail life with it's
confinement he took French leave
and remained at large for more than
two hours.
Meade had grown so tired of cell life
that he had offered his services to the
sheriff for any sort of work about the
jail. The offer was accepted and
Meade was sent out to cut grass in
the court house yard. It was a bright
afternoon and Meade, n1editating on
the rigors of life in the jail, decided
that he would prefer to take at least
one meal ia the bosom of his family
It didn't take him long to put this de
cision into action, and leaving the
lawn mower out back of the county
building he ducked. In a short time
his desertion was discovered and the
men at the jail started out to look for
him.
1t seems that Meade hurried home
and had supper and had started back
to the jail when the officers found
him. According to his story he had
stopped at the Northwestern railway
depot to send a message, but some of
the men at the jail seem to think that
he would have sent himself on the
next train if he had been given the
opportunity.
Meade went back to the jail and his
fare will be bread and water for the
next few days. This morning he was
out at work on the lawn again, but he
had no desire for another meal at
home, and it is thought that from now
on he will remain pretty close to the
jail until his sentence is out. This is
the first prisoner to escape since
Sheriff Vietch went into office.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24
voLIVA CUTS THE EXPENSES
Zion City Church Now Costs But Sc, 1872
Instead of $4,000 Per Month

w. G. Vo1iva, the present head Of
the Christian Catholic church, an
nounced to his followers in Zion City
yesterday that between January Is
and May 10 he had reduced expenses
of the church from SO, 800 a month .tc
1882 month. A saving has been
made also in the ecclesiastical de part.
ment that will amount to $40, OOC
annually.
Overseers, who had been receiving
$500 per month, were reduced to 500.
The pay of others was cut in proper
tion.e His own compensation under
the new adjustment, Voliva said, is
500 per month. These facts, he said,
were some of the details of a report
which he made Saturday to a com
mittee appointed by Judge Lands tc
investigate the conditions in Zion
City.
The condition of John Alexander
Dowie today was said to be practically
unchanged.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24
HOMECOMING OF KENTUCKlANs
Low Rates Via the North Western
Line From All Points for the Great
Kentucky Celebration at
Louisville in June

The Chicago & North Western Rail
way announces that low rates will be
made, effective June II to 10, with
convenient and liberal return limits,
on account of the Home coming Of
Kentu ckians" celebration which is to
be held at Louisville June 10 to II.
It is expected that large number
of ex-Kentuck ians will make this the
occasions Of visit to their native soil.
Anticipating preventative assem-
blage of such from all parts of the
United States, the people of Louis
vile are making great preparations to
entertain them with true Southern
warmth. The program for the coca
sion is understood to be interesting
and varied. Ask your ticket agent
for full particulars. w6
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24
THE RAMBLERS AT FRISCO
The Quake City Manager Has Already
Orders Aggregating $123,5OO

As an example Of twentieth century
push, the quick action Of L. H. Bill,
manager of the Rambler branch at
San Francisco, is hard to beat
During the interval between the
earthquake ard the FIRE IA cars were
removed from the Market street gar
age. Of these nine were impressed
by the military authorities, as would
have been the others had they been
found by the officials.
During the night FIVE cars were run
out of the city and taken to Oakland,
a hazardous undertaking under the
existing conditions. With these cars
as nucleus a temporary office was
opened at Oakland, but as soon as the
city was opened to any but the
authorities and relief committees, a
garage was established at 81 Sanchez
street. From this point three Of the
five slightly damaged cars above
mentioned were sold in as many days.
After looking over the field and
estimating prospects Mr.. Bill placed
an order for fifty Surveys Of Type 1,
ten Of Type 3, twenty Model las, and
six Model ISIS, aggregating 1923. 500.
In addition to the cars full line of
parts and accessories has already
been shipped. The personal losses
of Mr.. Bill and his assistants were
considerable, but fortunately none
suffered physical injury.
The entire Frisco force of the
Rambler people has been reassemb led
and is making active preparations for
heavy season.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24

If the abominable practice of smart
alexis and Washers following and in
su1ting unprotected women and young
girls at night is ever going TO be
stopped, some of the victims will have
to come forward and make COM
plants to the police. The officers are
eager to get after these ours, but they
are practically powerless unless the
victims can be persuaded to make
complaint, as these Washers generally
take mighty good care not to get
caught in the act.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24
sTATE NEWS IN BRIEF
Short Items of Interest From Differ
ent Parts of the State

Short Items of Interest From Differ
ent Parts of the State
The GAINESVILLE chaltauqua will
open for ten days session Friday,
July u.
Robbers forced an entrance to the
Carnegie library building at Manito-
voc and secured So.
Charles Flick, mail carrier at
Wrightstown, was struck and killed
by North-Western train while at
tempting to transfer pouch to mail
car. He was n years CT age.
Adrian Titiou, a painter of Fond dr.
Lac, suffered the loss of both feet by
being run over by a North Western
train. He was crossing the tracks
/ and did not see the train.
Bohemian societies of Manitowoc.
county, which organized a federation
a year ago, will gather at Manitowoc
on Sunday, June 3, for a picnic and
convention. Twenty societies with
more. than a thousand members will
attend.
Alleging that the water works COM
pany has not been giving service ac-
cording to its franchise, Mayor Henry
Stole of Manitowoc, has vetoed the
allowance of a bill for city water SER
vice of 50, 840.23, which is portion of
the whole bill rendered.
Miss Della Henney of Fond du Lac
will sing one of the principal solo
parts in the Beethoven opera,
"Fidelio, which is to be given in the
Auditorium at Chicago Tuesday even
ing under the auspices of the Chicago
Conservatory of Music. She is a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Hen
ney, Sr.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24

WHILE the protest of the Grand
avenue property-owners should be
given every possible consideration,
the council will have to consider the
matter of the railroad laying addi-
tional tracks across the avenue on the
broad ground Of the greatest good to
the greatest number. And looking at
the matter in that light it would seem
that the benefits to be received out
weigh any objections registered so
far
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24
GRAND CONCERT
Singing Society Bragg to Give Concert
at A. o. U. w. Hail May 26


at A. O. U. w. Hall May 26
The singing society Bragg, which
it will be remembered gave the big
Saengerfest at Anderson park last
summer in which several outside
clubs took part, has now, after nine
months Of hard work, decided to give
concert where the best talent OBJ
tainable will take part. To begin
with Kenosha's favorite, Miss jose
phine Jacoby, will play one or two of
her charming solos. Miss Nancy
Hansen, Racine's leading nezzo
soprano, will sing for the first time to
a Kenosha audience and you want to
hear her. Jacoby' orchestra will dis
course sweet selections arranged for
the occasion. The popular singing
club Swithiod will give one or two
songs and you know they are good,
while tenor and baritone solo by
members of Bragg will complete a
program which it will be worth while
to attend.
Tickets at Csc are for sale by all the
members of the club and at c.. G..
Schultz's music store. The concert
will close with social hop.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24

THE territory covered by the water
company has increased SO rapidly in
in the last two or three years that the
new standpipe is an absolute neces-
sity in order to maintain uniform
pressure on the mains at all times.
It is fortunate thing for the tax
payers that the company makes
money enough to pay for all these ex-
pensive improvements and extensions
that the rapid growth of the city
makes necessary.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24
WAR SONG CONCERT
Patriotic Entertainments TO be Given
on the Evening of Decoration Day


A fitting way to observe Decoration
Day will be to attend the "War Song
Concert" to be given at Guild hall on
the evening Of May 30th. The songs
which had such mighty influence in
calling the men of the nation to the
defense of their country, will be sung
by aechorus of so voices.
Although more than forty years
have passed, since the civil war, these
songs have lost none of their power;
they still warm the blood, stimulate
patriotism, and teach the American
youth that they have heritage of
glory beyond the power of tongue to
tell.
These songs can never grow dull to
to the American people. Like the
deeds of devotion aud heroism which
saved the Union, they will live for
ever to make the American devoted
and heroic.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24

WE wonder that it has never oc-
Cured to the police to try the effect of
a few good stiff fines on the auto
mobi1ists and motor cyclists whose
reckless scorching is menace to the
lives and limbs Of the people of the
city. Warnings and admonitions do
not appear to do any good, and it is
time to try something else.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24

WHEN you come to think of it, the
appointment of a new chiefofpolic is
going to be pretty good test Of the
police and fire commissioners too. We
can tell pretty nearly what the policy
of the commissioners is going to be
by the kind Of man they appoint.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24

The Knights of Pythias have been
given their permit for a carnival, and
it is up to them to see to it that the
skow is one they are not ashamed to
vouch for. Kenosha has unpleasant
memories of the last Carnival" and
no society could get permit if there
was any danger of another show like
the last one.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24
G. L. Folk of Sturgeon Bay, spent
Monday evening in Kenosha.
First publication, May q. 1906.

First publication, May "a, 1906.
QTATE OF WISCONSIN-Couuty Court for
10 Kenosha County-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given that at special term
of the County Court to be held in and for said
county, at the County Court Room, in the city
of Kenosha, in said county, the third Tues
day, being the nineteenth day of June, A. D..
1906, at 10 O'Clock A. NJ, the following matters
will be heard and Considered:
In the matter of the estate of Leon Barszis,
deceased.
The application of Henry F. Jordan for the
examination and allowance OF his final ac-
count as administrator of the estate of Leon
Barszis, late of the city of Kenosha in said
county, deceased, and for the assignment and
distribution of the residue of the estate of said
deceased. 80
BY the Court.
RUSSELL n. SLOSsON,
we County Judge.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24

THE reports of the destruction by
forest fires on-the peninsula and north
ern Wisconsin were greatly exagger-
ated, and Kenosha people will not be
called upon to contribute for the re-
lief of "fre suffers in our own state.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24

THE lid is not on in Kenosha, but
it is far from being wide open town
at that. The authorities have evident
ly endeavored to strike a happy
medium and so far have been fairly
successful.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24

The Milwaukee Free Press, the
LaFollette organ, having expressed
surprise that the offer of the Equit-
able Insurance company Of $1,000
campaign subscription for favor
able decision on its case, alleged to
have been made to Insurance Com
missioner Host through Secretary of
State Houser, was not larger, the
Evening Wisconsin rises to remark
that So, 900 is the union scale at Madi-
son, the rate having been established
when the book companies paid that
amount for L. D. Harvey's job.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-24
1925 TO BUFFALO, N. Y.

and return, from Chicago, via Nickel
Plate Road, June 9th, 10th and 18th.
with return limit of June 18th. Nickel
Plate Office, Room 2o8, 113 Adams ST.,
Chicago. VS.