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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25
BIG STRIKE OF TRAINMEN !?
Switchmed Demand an Eight-hoRr
Day on All Roads West Of
Plttsburg.

Chicago, Oct 24.-The western rail-
roads are facing a serious labor prob
lem. The Brotherhood of Railroad
Irainmen, on behalf Of its switchmen,
has presented demands to all the rail-
roads centeringin Chicago for an eight
hour day. The brotherhoOd's action
follows that of the sWitchmen's union,
which presented similar demands some
time ago, but the two movements are
independent of each other. The rail-
roads will be obliged now to deal with
practically the whole organized strength
OF the switchinen instead of the frac-
tional part represented by the Switch
mems union. In this respect the move
is the most extensive attempted by the
railroad organizations in many years.
Every railroad west of Pittsburg and
Buffalo in the United States is involved.
In Chicago the tWenty-three trunk
lines and re short belt lines and pri-
yate roads owned by corporations all
are called upon to comply with the
switchllen's request. Thebrotherhood's
demands have been presented to the
railroads simultaneously in a dozen
large citieS.S1 atfu
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25

IF it is going to cost in the neigh
borhood of S. 200 to remodel the old
Central engine house for police sta
ton it might be economy to put in
more money and build regular po-
lice station that would be . credit to
the city, with cell rooms and all the
accessories. It is always economy to
spend money enough to keep build
ings in repair, but when changes be-
come necessary that cost up in the
thousands it is generally cheaper in
the long run to build new.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25
ORDINANCE NO. 294.

An Ordinance amending Paragraph Two r.
of Section Five % If Ordinance No. 172 of the
City of KenOSha, Wisconsin, passed September
4th, 1885, said Ordinance Number 172 being an
ordinance creating Board of Water Commits
sioneIs for the City of Kenosha, ard establish
ing rules, rates and regulations for the Water
Works of the City of Kenosha, Wisconsin
Be 1t Ordained by the Common Council of the
City of Kenosha:
Section 1, Paragraph Number Two % OF
Section Number Five Isl of Ordinance Number
172 of the ordinances of the City of Kenosha,
passed September 4th, 1895, is hereby amended.
so that said Paragraph Two ~ of Section Five
(5) of Ordinance No. 172 as amended shalt read
as follows:
stParagraph End. Persons desiring such per-
mits must get special permit from said Super
intendent, and such permit shall in no case be
issued permitting connections TO be made from
any new job of plumbing until the applicant
therefor presents to said Superintendent the
approval of the Board of Water Commissioners
of such plumbing. Said Superintendent OF
Water Works must in in all cases tap the water
mairl and insert the corporation cock and put
in such service pipe, either lead or iron, as in
his Judgment shall be proper, to point one
foot inside the curb line of the street where
there shall be stop cock and an iron cutoff
box attached.
All applicants shall be charged on the basis
of Ten lO) Dollars and Fifty (50) Cents ($10.50)
for hve-eighths inch pipe (7s-ln.) connection;
Eleven (11) Dollars and Fifty 50 Cents tS11.50)
for three-quarter % inch pipe connections; and
Fourteen Ga Dollars for one l-in.) inch pipe
connection. and the same shall be paid to the
City Clerk in ADVANCE
Section2. The provisions Of Paragraph Two
ri of kSection Five 80 of Ordinanc No. 172,
passed September 4th, 1895, in any wise inter
fering or Conflicting with the provisions of this
ordinance, are hereby repealed.
Section 3. This ordinance shall take effect
and be in force from and after its passage and
publication.
Passed October 22nd, 1906.
Apr owed October 23rd. 1906.
Published October 18th, 1906.
JAMES GORMAN, Mayor.
Attest: GEO. W. HARRINGTON,
City Clerk.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25
ORDINANCE NO. 295.

An Ordinance to amend an Ordinance passed
March 10th, 1898, entitled, IAN Ordinance
adopting a standard datum plane TO which all
grades shall be hereafter referred in the City of
Kenosha, Wisconsin, and establishing grades
of Streets in the City of Kenosha, Wisconsin"
Be 1t Ordained 0y the Common Council of the
City of Kenosha:
Section 1. That section of an ordinance
passed March Goth, 1898, entitled, IAN Ordi-
nance adopting standard sdatum plane to
which all grades shall be hereafter referred in
the City of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and establish
ing grades of Streets in the City of Kenosha,
Wisconsin, be, and the same is here by
amended by hereby fixing and permanently es-
tablishing the grade of Exchange street at its
intersection with Park street at 200C instead of
and in place of 1870 as fixed in said section of
the Ordinance aforesaid; and that the grade of
Park street at q point 124 feet east of Main
street, be, and the same is hereby fixed and per-
manently established at 1910.
Section 2. That all Ordinances or parts of
Ordinances conflicting with Section l of this
Ordinance, be, and the same are hereby re-
pea1ed.
Section 8. This ordinance shall take effect
and be in force from and after its passage and
qualifications.
Passed October 22nd, 1906
Approved October 23rd, 1906.
Published October 18th. 1906
JAMES GORMAN, Mayor
Attest: GEO. w. HARRINGTON,
City Clerk.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25
EIGHTEEN MILLIONS MORE
Secretary shaw Increases the Curren.
cy by That Much and How
Tt lis Done

New York, Oct. a. Secretary
Shaw by his latest money relief meas
IRE has attempted two things: the act
ual relief Of the money market and an
object lesson to bankers and legisla-
tnres that an elastic currency system
is practicable. There is nothing novel
in the plan, which is to increase the
circulation by S1S,0OO,0O0 through the
deposit Of approved securities, which
in turn will release the government
bonds necessary to take out more bank
notes.
But thecondition that the notes must
be retired between the dates Of March
IS and Aug. 10 is tantamount to the
establishment Of an emergency cur
rency system. The order also pro-
yides that the banks applying for new
circulation must make application for
its retirement at the same time. The
order of retirement and the percentage
to be Cancelled will be determined by
the treasury department
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25

Now, THEN, gentlemen, what is to
be done about new building for the
hospital? IF accommodations are not
going to be provided for all who reed
its services, the people never should
have been educated up to appreciate
all the advantages of treatment in the
hospital. After the new building is
provided, as it must be in some way,
it is not likely that the people of Ke
nosha will ever again be asked to give
any large amount for the support of
the hospital. In the face of popular
prejudice and working under great
disadvantages the institution has al
ready made itself practically self sup
porting, and with increased facilities
it is probable that it will shortly be-
come entirely so. Anyway, the small
deficit that may have to be made up
annually will be nothing in compari-
son with the unreasonable good done.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25
Different This Time.

Henry (triumphantly) - oh! I've
heard that before. You want me to
say, q give it up,' and then you will
say, That's just what the other
donkey did
Robert Not at all, my dear man.
Work i. out; it's quite simple,
Henry (after a pausel Well, l dom
know how he did it.
Robert Why, he simply walked up
to the hay and ate it.
Henry But you said the hay was
twelve feet away and he was tied to
a rope four feet long, and
Robert Yes, but the rope was not
tied to anything. You mustn't jump
at conclusions like that, you know.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25
LABOR SECTION IS VOID
Law That Prohibits the Employer
from Opposing Unions is
Declared Invalid

Louisville, Oct 24.--In- the United
States district court Judge Walter
Evans, in the case of the United States
vs.. NJ. Scott, a train dispatcher for
the Louisville and Nashville railroad,
on trial charged with violation Of the
Erdman act, which seeks to prevent
interstate carriers from keeping their
employees out of labor unions, held
that section 10 of the act is void
The Judge held that the section Is
not a regulation of commerce within
the meaning of the commerce clause
of the constitution, and therefore be-
eyond the power of congress to enact.
The court sustained the demurrer to
the Indictment against Scott and dis
charged him
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25
He CONFESsEs MURDER
Crime Was the Killing of Margaret
Leslie, an Actress-Likely to
Hang Two Men,


Hang Two Men.
Chicago, Oct. "a. = Mrs. Margaret
Leslie, an actress found dead in her
room III the Palace hotel last Thurs
day afternoon, Gid not commit suicide,
as was supposed, but was murdered.
Herbert r.. Nicholas, a theatrical man
ager arrested Saturday night on sus-
picion, has confessed that he aided in
the murder and that George Leopold,
4 drug clerk, FOR whom the police are
now searching, was. his accomplice.
were the motive for the crime
He said that he anu Leopold went
to the woman's room last Wednesday
night, and after a few moments con-
versation, while Mrs. Leslie was TAX
ing off her jewels and her back was
turned toward them, Leopold seized
the woman by the throat and choked
her into insensibility. Throwing her
on the bed they placed towel satur
ated with chloroform over her face
The men then took some Of the We
mans garments and tied them tightly
around her neck. Selling her Jewels,
valued at $1,000, the men turned
on the gas jets, hurried out of the room
and left the hotel. They divided the
jewels and it was the anxiety Of
Nicholas to req lie money on his share
that led to his arrest
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25
News FAcTs IN OUTLINE

In conSe re Of slight indisposi-
tion the pope has been obliged to sls-
pend his audiences.
Clemonceau has organized a new
French cabinet with himself as pre-
mier and minister Of the interior and
General Picquart, Of Dreyfus case
fame, as minister of war.
The blizzard in the west has ceased
and clearing weather is promised.
President Roosevelt has issued his
Thanksgiving proclamation designat-
ing Nov. % as the day.
Ex-Mayo~ Harrison, of Chicago, has
badly strained his back while on a
moose hunt il Ontario. Can.
Safe blowers secured $1,000 from the
general store Of w. A. Ellis and $3.50
from J. G. Hayman's hardware store,
both at Racine. 0.
Terry McGovern and s'Young Cor
bctt' have signed articles for fight
in the first week of next January
Anna Held has been robbed of $780,
600 worth Of jewels and this is no
advance agent story, either.
Robbers blew open the safe of the
State Bank of Sparks, at Sparks, O. T.,
and got away with $500.
The national amateur billiard cham
pionship tournament will be held at
New York beginning March A next.
The Standard Oil company, of Iowa,
has transferred its holdings in Califor-
MIA to the Standard Oil company, Of
California.
An attempt to break the will Of
Thomas Fl. Wickes, late of Chicago and
vice president of the Pullman com
pany, failed, although five divorce
cases were mentioned in the testimony
in which he was involved.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25

THERE is something wrong at the
postoffice. Reports of perfectly in
explicable delays in the receipt of
important letters, which were prop
erly marked both at the sending and
receiving Office, are becoming alto
gether too common, and something
will have to be done to straighten out
the matter pretty soon. Somebody
who handles the Kenosha mail is not
attending to business.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25

WITH the election only two weeks
off it is time for the voters to begin to
seriously consider the qualifications
of the various candidates for office
presented by the severa1sparties. If
the merit rule is, to govern, the Re-
publicans need have no fears of the
result. The ticket presented by the
party this fall is one of the strongest
ever presented to the electors of the
county. Every man on it is well
known throughout the county and no
one can say that every man on it is
not we'll qualified to perform ali the
duties of the office to which he as
pires. Chas. H. Pfennig, who heads
the county ticket as the candidate for
Sheriff, has served the people in
many positions of trust and RESPONSE
bility, and on his record he is entitled
to the fullest confidence of the voters.
He is broad minded business man,
and will make an ideal sheriff. Frank
Waldo, the nominee for Clerk of the
Court, is perhaps better known il the
county than in the city, but he has
made many friends among those
whose business brings them in con-
tact with him, not only in d business
way but socially, and he has thor
oughly demonstrated his ability to
properly care for the Office he seeks.
William C. Crosby and Perkins c.
Torrey, the candidates for County
Clerk and Register of Deeds, can go
before the people on their records
with perfect confidence. The bust
ness of these important Offices has
never been better taken care of than
it is now under their charge and their
ability and fitness cannot be ques-
toned. Frank A. Marx, the candi-
date for Treasurer, can safely be en-
trusted with the care of the county
funds, and if elected-can be depended
upon to give his personal supervision
to the affairs OF his othce. District
Attorney Baker is probably as well
known as any man on the ticket. He
has made splendid record and the
people of the county can rest assured
that his duties will be we'll looked
after. He did great amount of work
during his first term and the affairs of
his office are in first class shape. DR..
Andre for Coroner and Alvin HI. Blood
for County Surveyor are candidates
for the last, but by no means the least
important places on the ticket. They
are both young men we'll and favor
ably known in the city and both of
them will undoubtedly make splendid
officials.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25

THE aldermen who are holding back
the railway company from the use of
its property north of Grand avenue
are not hurting the railroad company
half as much as they are hurt
ing our own business men and
these men do not like it little bit
either. The merchants who are
hampered and annoyed by their in
ability to get their goods delivered
because of the congestion Of freight
at the depot and who lose money
every day on account of delays in de-
livery are unable to understand the
position taken by certain Of our
aldermen on this proposition. They
say, and with reason, that the alder
men should be the last to hold back
the development of the business in
terests of the city and that it should
be plain to them that increased
facilities are necessary to handle
the rapidly increasing. business of the
city. AS for putting the freight depot
away out on the outskirts of the city
somewhere where land is cheap that
is not to be thought of for a moment
Any such move would put an addition
al tax for carriage of thousands of
dollars year on our merchants.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25
City Council has New Ordinance
to Provide Grades for All
Unpaved Streets in City
TO REPAIR OLD ENGINE HOUSE
City Will Let Contracts in a Few Days
for Repairs Needed to Convert
Old Building Into a Police
Ohice.-Other Business

The city council met in adjourned
session at the city hall Monday night,
and while the meeting was a short
one, business of great importanc was
taken up. The council having heard
OF the trouble on the Park street paw
ing proposition, passed an ordinance
fixing the grades of all streets about
to be paved and in order to eliminate
all such trouble IN the future general
ordinance was presented which
has for its purpose the fixing of a
standard grade for all the streets in
the city now urgraded.
Il For years this lack Of standard
grade on the streetsshas caused trouble
and Inconvenience for the property
! owners. One man has graded his lot
to one grade, nwhile another has set
his sidewalk alta lower grade. This
| fact has made the sidewalks decidedly
irregular and in some places they
have been asmenance gto the lives OF
the people using them. Under the
old plan the city was powerless to de-
mand changes, tbut when the new
ordinance is passed by the council the
city engineerswill be in position to
give gradesfor every street and side.
walk, and the property owners will be
| forced to use this grade.
| 1t is expected that this will bring
ABOUT regularity in the grade OF
streets and sidewalks that can be Sc.
cured in no other way. The engineer
has carefully prepared the grades of
the different streets and each is stated
in the ordinance.
| This ordinance will take its usual
course in the council, but there is no
doubt but that it will be passed and
before the opening of the winter the
grades will be properly established by
the ordinance.
v The council spent considerable
time discussing sidewalks asst night
and the street commissioners will
make a special effort TO have all of
the walks IN the city repaired and
placed IN firstsclass condition before
the opening of thessslippery weather
IL LIZ past wv yCdAS lHC City Ids
been remarka blyafreesof accidents re-
su1ting from falls on defective side
walks.
J The committee on police, to whom
had been referred the matter Of
changing the Central engine house
to make it suitable for use as police
station, reported that rough sketch
of the work had been made and that
the change in the building will cost
in the neighborhood of t$3, 200. 1t is
the plan of the committee TO have
the new system of police patrol es-
tablished this fall and IN order to do
this the work on the building must be
started at once. Com p1eted plans
will be presented to the council at the
next regular meeting and contracts
will probably be let al once. No con-
tract has as yet been let for the call
boxes. After the usual routine bust
ness the council adjourned.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25

THE trouble between the farmers
and the hunters seems to have come
to head at last. The bitter feeling
that has grown steadily stronger ever
since the season opened and the ire
sponsib1e hunters from the city began
to invade the lands of the farmers
has at last eliminated In shooting
scrape that is bound to have serious
consequences for somebody.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25

THERE can be no question of the
fitness and ability of any candidate on
the Republican county ticket. With
the men nominated on that ticket n
office the taxpayers can rest assured
that all the business of the county
will be attended to promptly and ably
and the wise voter will think twice be-
fore he casts his ballot to change a
certainty for an uncertainty.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25
Train Fireman KILLED

Chicago, Oct. "A passenger train
on the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul road collided with a freight train
att Rond ut, thirty-t miles from this
city. L. Cramer, fireman OF the passen-
ger train was killed, and c. Willmart.
brakeman on the passenger, was seri-
ously injured. Six persons were slight
" hurt.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25
REPUBLICAN TICKET
STATE

STATE
F GOV rnor James o. Davidson,
OF { ord.
F Lie tenant Governor William
d. 4 ID, Of Wood.
FIR secretary of State ames A.
Frear, ia st Croix
FIR State Treasurer-A Andrew HI.
Dahl, Of Vernon.
For tttorney General Frank H.
Gilbert, Of Dane.
For Insurance Commissioner-Geo.
H. Beedle, of Waupaca.
FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
For Representative in Congress
Henry A. Cooper, of Racine.
LEGISLATIVE
For State Senator Isaac T. Bishop,
of Somers.
For Member Of Assembly Walker
nj. Curtiss, Of Salem.
COUNTY
For Sheriff Charles H. Pfennig, Of
Kenosha.
For Clerk of the Circuit Court
Frank Waldo, of Bristol.
For County Clerk William c.
Crosby, of Kenosha.
For Register of Deeds-Perkins G..
Torrey, of Kenosha.
For County easurer-Frank A.
Marx, of Kenosha.
For District Attorney Robert
Verne Baker, of Kenosha.
For Coroner-F Frank E. Andre, OF
Kenosha.
For County Surveyor-A1vin H.
Blood, of Kenosha,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25

THE Northwestern is running
freight trains over its new air line
west of the city, but the change does
not appear to have improved condi-
tons in this city very much as yet
The usual number of complaints Of
blocked crossings are still coming in.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25

THE primary demonstrated that
James O. Davidson is the peoples man
and when the people really want any
thing they generally get it. It will
be surprise if he is not elected by
one of the largest majorities ever
given a gnbernatorial candidate.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25

IN fixing the grades for all streets
the council is only doing something
that should have been done long ago
We are long past the time when
things could run along any old way,
and endless trouble will be avoided by
fixing the grades now.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25

will be made: Secretary of the treas
ury. Hon. George B. Cortelyou; post
master general Hon. George Won L..
Meyer; attorney general, Hon. Charles
]. Bonaparte; secretary of the navy,
Hon. Victor Fl. Metcalf; secretary of
commerce and labor, Hon. Oscar s.
Straus."
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25
sawmill and Lumber Burned.

Amigo, Wis, Oct. 24-The large
sawmill of the Wisconsin Timber and
Land company, valued at $4,000. to-
gether with abont 100000 worth of
lumber in the yards adjoining the mill
burned to the ground at Mattoon four
teen miles south Of Amigo.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25

SOME of the prices recently paid for
real estate make the old timers rub
their eyes and wonder if they are still
in Kenosha. It is a fact that real
estate values have not raised in pro-
portion to the growth of the city, but
they will soon catch up if they keep
jumping at the present rate.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25
With a Gensfal Shake-Up of Those
Remaining IS the Cabinet
Programme.
MOODY AND SHAW TO RETIRE
Meyer and Srraus Are the New Sec.
retaries Chosen.
CorteIyou to the Treasury and Met
calf to the Navy-Straus the
First Hebrew Ever
So Honored.

Washington, Oct "A. The following
statement egarding prospective change
in President Roosevelt's cabinet has
been made public at the White House:
ION the retirement Of Secretary
Shaw and Attorney General Moody
from the cabinet the following changes
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25
PLAYsD IN KENosHA
MARGARET Leslie, the Actress Murdered
in Chicago, Played in Kenosha.

Kenosha people are taking more
than passing interest in the solution
of the mystery connected with the
murder of Margaret Leslie the actress
on account of the fact that the young
woman appeared at the Rhode opera
house here during the, present the
atrica1 season. Miss Leslie appeared
as the leading feature of the play
'Nettie the News Girl The play
proved unsuccessful and the actress
had returned to Chicago seeking
new engagement. Howard Nicholas
diamond dealer in Chicago has con-
fessed that he murdered the woman.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25
Bloody Right with Conyicts.

Irkutsk, Siberia, Oct. a. Convicts
VINO broke out of jail here fought a
battle with the guards. Nine conyicts
and the governor Of the prison were
killed and several persons We're wound
ed. Seventeen succeeded in making
their escape.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-10-25
Henri's Career Is Checked.

New York Oct. a. Clarendon
Henri, the young man arrested here
while attempting to sell a valuable oil
painting stolen from the Eden Park
Art museum in Cincinnati, will be
taken to OhfO