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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-26
STATEMENT BY KRuEGER

To the Editor of the Kenosha EVEN
ING News and to the Public of Ke-
uosha to whom it may concern:-I
thought it wise for me to make known
to the public of Kenosha and friends
that have left for business trip to
the southern part of the states of
Texas and Louisiana. Will be back
by the middle of February, if not de-
layed. Meanwhile all of my business
transactions in Kenosha will be done
with Mr.. Paul Mayhack, III Brockett
street, Kenosha, Wis, Superinten-
dent in charge.
Yours truly, ia
A. G. KRUGER,
Real Estate Agt., Con-
tractor and Builder.
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PARIS TAX PAYERS NOTICE

The undersigned will receive taxes
for the year 1907 at
VIM. CRANES STORE,
Thursday, January 10th, 1908.
VIM. HEIDERsDoRF's STORE,
Friday, January 18th, 1908.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK, KENosFA,
Saturday, January 18th, 1908.
Ali other days at my home in the
town of Paris.
HARVEY L. GUNTER,
Town Treasurer
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NOTICE

Somers Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany, Secretary's office, November
25th, 1907.
10 the members of the Sorrers Mu-
tual Fire Insurance Company.
You are hereby notified that an as
sessment of $1,212.5 so (rate, OO15,
0O2z5 and O03 pcrcent) has this day
been levied upon the property Insured
by the said company, and the same
becomes due to be paid on or before
the 3rd day of February, 1908.
ISAAC +. BISHOP,
w3o Secretary.
1z n
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First publication, Dec, 26, 1907.
STTMMONC


SUMMONS.
STATE OF WISCONSIN-In Circuit Court
- for Kenosha County.
Bertha Phalen, Plaintiff, VS.. Thomas Pha1en,
], Defendant
State of Wisconsin to the Above Named De-
PENDANT:
You are hereby summoned to appear within
twenty days after service of this simmons, ex-
elusive of the day of service, and defend the
above entitled action in the court aforesaid;
and IN case of your failure so to do, Judgment
will be rendered against you according to the
demand of the complaint, of which copy is
herewith served upon you.
81 ALBERT E.. 3UCKMASTER,
Plain ifs Attorney,
wAO Kenosha EGnosha County, Wis.
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with the nomination stake. To get a table at
window where one may look out a town that has
gone mad and is glad of it, he must belong to the
same lodge as the head waiter and pass over tip
for ordinary XXX King back in the Middle Ages.
/. The theaters have more than half crowd.
Only the cafes and the police stations have out the
sign of Standing Room Only. Tin horns and tin
horn sports to blow them! Confetti of shade that
you feel morally certain is not going to match your
interior furnishings, going down your throat in a
shower every time you open your mouth! Girls
riding mems shoulders Men riding on the roofs
of hanson cabs! Feather busters, wine bottles
false faces, wooden rattes, college boys, chorus
girls, bohemians songs, diamonds, furs, rags, beg
gars, gee clubs, hoodlums, policemen, men about
town and men about loaded, bare heads, picture
hats, damned sidewalks, and overhowed streets,
Old Trinity Ginning out the birth of the New Year.
and nobody paying any attention except the chiist
who yanks the bell ropeS,-wasSal and wahoo,-
Christmas, Fourth of July, Election day, and Mard
Gras all scrambled together and cooked on a hot
fire with a garnish of snowf1akes,-thats New
Years eve on Broadway, the Land of the Midnight
Souse!
Don't you see now what boom such night is
going to give to the good resolutions business next
day?
And so it befa1ls that when the deacon in your
little home town mine is checking of the sckly
ones at the watch meeting, in New York Begerent
his fathers surplus cash, is climbing on the table
and striking series of plastic poses while defying
the walters and the bouncer to put the weight of
polluting finger him. And that's how the two
towns welcome New Year's,-the little town with
the aforesaid kerblim of the town clock, the big
speedy arrival wagon from the Tenderloin police
station around on West 3oth-st.
And good resolutions coming out OF the hopper to
beat the band
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tention to the fact that pretty much everybody
he could think of at that moment was lost in
sin and no reward offered From where he
sat it looked to him as if the past had been
fatal mistakes. Errors roasted along the right of
way thick sparrows on telegraph wires. So
far as the future concerned, the less said the
better. There wasn't a CLEAN of hope anywhere
not flicker!
After little while he would roll cold, profess
taker sizing up home for incurables and state in
the calm absolute tones of the United States SUI
preme Court handing down decision that before
another New Years rolled round, many-yea,
verify, very many-of those who sat within
the sound of his voice would be in another, and
remember once the deacon said this when l was
sitting next to fellow who seemed visibly affected
Later heard he had just been turned down by
life insurance company.
A minute or two before midnight the deacon
would halt and raise his hands, so, and sort of
stand there like frozen frock coat, and a cold
clamy silence would steal in out of the void of the
palpitant night and Unfold you and cuddle up to
you and chill you like taking ice bath in rub
Der sheet and you could feel the snow banks form
ing at the base of the spine, and everything
still that you could hear the dandr1f falling and
then-and-then-
Ker-blm!
1t was the town clock up in the steep1e over your
head hitting the first lick of twelve. And in half
second the whistle the rolling mill would be
cutting loose for all she worth, and the boys
the night trick at the round house would fire off
salute and casual finger or two in the brass can
that was left over from the campaign for mayor
and we'd have the benediction, and everybody
would go home gumrned to the hair roots with the
best resolutions in the world.
Sometimes it was as late as three o'clock on New
Years day, after fellow had been to five or six
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of those old time New Years receptions,-punch
bowl in the front hall, three kinds of cake, fruit
cake Prince of Wales and cocoanut 1ayer,-on a
silver cake basket and all the glassware scattered
began to remember that when he held up his hand
last night sign that he expected to lead better
life he had his fingers crossed Often by dark that
particular fellow wouldn't have good resolution
left in his system-f the stuff in the punch bowls
held OUT and maybe he'd be riding home in hack
with his and legs stuck out of the windows in
a maltese cross effect. Good resolutions? Why,
the woods were full of em! They were scattered
round everywhere with the corners knocked Oft,
and big jagged holes torn in their shiny, bright,
new surfaces. good resolution perishable
as talking doll, and as transient and temporary
stack of chips
The Way in New York
NEW YORK has its own way of celebrating New
~ Year eve. New Years proper it celebrates with
bronides and soothing lotions and hot towels folded
on the forehead. For New York holds to the doc
tons when one has taste in ones mouth like
paint store and when is hearing brass bands
that aren't there and lodging runaway teams that
do not exist, than when has good appetite
and head as clear as bell and has done nothing
that one need regret Gf the reader finds the
tence becoming complicated, he can get the approx
innate total by adding up all of these ''ones").
Anyhow, there probably isn't town anywhere
that does constructive work in the way of
preparing the way for good resolutions than New
York does-on the night before New Years From
the early dusk of December 81 to the late and thin
filtered dawn of January l. Broadway is really earn
ing it's title of the Great White Way-and not only
white but red and blue and yellow and purple and
purplish yellow and other suitable tints.
To get table in any restaurant in the Broadway
zone one must make application for weeks even
months ahead-and accompany the application
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for one little accident it is probable that he would
have maintained his integrity and good reputation
to the end of his humble career But, alas in luck
less moment he was bitten by the goldbug.
1t should be understood that the Government
does not keep its stock of gold at the treasury in
Washington. A few millions worth of the yellow
coin usually stored there in a small vault for
emergencies but the bulk of the metal hand to
be found in the various subtreasuries and minis scat
Philadelphia mint, where visitors may sometimes
see as much as one hundred and fifty million dollars
in gold bars stacked like bricks, and protected by
wire cages. Value in such concentrated form is
most impressive to the eye and stimulating to the
Imagination. 1t takes small brick to represent
fortune
The Lure He Couldn't Resist
HENRY COCHRAN, the weight clerk, had daily
IL access to vault, in corner of which
fair sized stack of gold bricks nclosed within wire
cage 1t represented about twenty million dollars.
One afternoon in the spring of 1898 he CHANGED to
notice that the wire door of the cage bit loose
sufficiently to be easily lifted two three
inches. 1t struck him that this not altogether
safe Having examined it critically, it occurred to
of suitable instrument, to hook of the bricks
away from the pile and pull it through the space
beneath the door Just for the sake of experiment,
he went and got small iron rod, bent it at end,
and began to fish. Sure enough, the thing was en-
tirely practicable and within five minutes he held
the bar in his hand.
Up to that moment he had never thought of steal
ing the bar. His intention had been merely to call
the attention of his superors to the matter in order
that the cage might be made properly secure. But
meanwhile there was the bar in his hand There
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TT is perilous infection that is conveyed
i by the goldbug's bite. Many honest men
have succumbed to it, and in the United
~ ties treasury, as elsewhere, history in this
spect will doubtless repeat itself again and
again in the future. In the management OF
a great bank, or other establishment that
keeps large quantities of money in storage,
it is absolutely necessary to trust somebody.
There always one or more persons who,
if they wished, could steal extensive
scale The wonder is indeed that thefts
should be no more frequent than they are.
With the treasury it is with other great financial
institutions 1t is obliged take the risk of reposng
absolute confidence in few individuals, who
withheld from stealing not by any watch kept or
checks placed upon them, but merely by their own
unwingness to do wrong. Nevertheless, to men
who are obliged to live on small salaries an awful
temptation is sometimes offered by the sight OF
masses of concentrated wealth, wealth of which
very small portion, easily secreted and removed,
would make them independent and comfortable for
life. Nearly always this temptation is resisted; but
once in awhile it is too strong, and in moment OF
weakness the unfortunate Government employee,
hitherto impeccably honest, yields.
Gold Dusts Attraction
DURING the SOS, when immense quantities of gold
- from the newly discovered deposits of Cali
fornia pouring into the Philadelphia mint, the
temptation proved too much for one of the trusted
employees of that establishment. He held the job
of weight clerk, and, incidentally to weighing the
precious metal found it easy to abstract and secrete
on his person small anounts,-no more than tea
spoonful, perhaps, being taken from each consign-
ment. 1t was profitable business for him, and
nobody can say how long he might have kept it up,
had it been for the watchfulness of keen eyed
subordinate.
The name of the subordinate was Henry Cochran.
He thought day that he the weight clerk
abstract surreptitiously two of gold dust
from sack; and thereafter, keeping careful watch,
he made sure that stealing going on. As
suit, information given by himself the guilty man
was arrested He confessed surrenderng a por-
ton of his i'll gotten gains and Cochran, as re-
ward for the important service he had rendered III
the matter, appointed to his place.
There is every reason to suppose that Cochran
was an honest man. He held the place of weight
clerk for nearly forty years, and during that time
found its way into his pocket A good husband and
father, with no bad habits of any kind he lived in
from his very modest salary No employee of the
mint more trusted than he; and had it not been
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Pm vault.
S The goldbug had bitten him. He
longer the man. Perfectly honest
up to that hour, he had become a thief.
When four o'clock arrived, he took his
departure with the other employees usual,
and went home, carrying the little gold brick in
his lunch basket. On reaching home he hid it.
For sometime to come, at all events, he entirely
safe from detection, inasmuch no reckoning would
be made of the bars in several months. 1t was only
little one, anyway, and, though it would surely be
missed, there was nothing to prove that he took it.
Other persons had access to the vault.
When one has been bitten by the godbug, how
ever he is not satisfied with paltry eighteen hun
dred dollars. Every day Cochran visited the vault.
in the ordinary of his duties and there was
the stack of yellow bricks readily accessible. They
seemed to him actually to cry out, oh, do please,
take Just one more of us' He did take another,
and then another, and another, UNTIL though they
were only small ones, he had distracted twenty
eight thousand dollars worth in all One by one he
took them home, and concealed them in hiding
place which he contrived in the wall of an unoccu-
pied room the top floor of his house.
The bricks merchants bars, called be-
cause they specially made by the mint for the
of jewellers and other persons who find it con-
venience to use pure gold IN their business. They
900 fine, containing only one part in one thou
sand of impurty. For such merchandise, of course,
there is ready market but the most convenient
and accessible buyer is the Government ITSELF and
accordingly Cochran decided to sell his gold, through
other hands back to the mint With that end in
view he purchased little furnace and two
crucibles, and proceeded to set UP little melting
plant in the top story room already mentioned To
the yellow metal ne added some silver LOT the sake
of disguise and thus alleged, the stolen stuff was
sold to the mint whence it had come thereby placing
Uncle Sam, might say, in the undignifed po
sition of chasing his own tail
By and by the time when the official in
spector must make his appearance, for the purpose
of taking tally of all the gold and silver in stock
The absence of twenty-eght thousand dollars worth
of gold bars could not possibly be longer concealed
and under the circumstances the only possible safety
for Cochran lay in flight. He ought to have applied
for week or two of his annual vacation, using the
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was something curious and even fascinating
about it. Quite little bar it was,-one Of
the smallest in the stack from which it had
been taken,-but, as shown by the figures
stamped on it, it was worth eighteen hundred
dollars. Cochran kept on looking at it for
about five minutes; then he dropped it
into his pocket, and went quietly out of the
vault.
The goldbug had bitten him. He was
no longer the same man. Perfectly honest
up to that hour he had become a thief
When four o'clock arrived, he took his
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-10-12
CoUNTERFEITERs ON TRIAL.
Coon and His Gang From Huntington
In Federal Court.

Sam Coon is now on trial in the u.
S. federal court at Portland charged
with counterfeiting. About Is or 20
witnesses have been summoned from
Huntington near which place he was
operating in the Snake river country.
Coon is one of the smoothest coun-
terfeiters that has ever ben caught.
This is not his first offense for he has
served time twice before for the
same crime, being sent up once from
Huntington and once from the John
Day country.
Coon discovered that the detectives
were on his trail and 1t Is supposed
that he dumped part of his outfit into
the Snake river for all of II could not
be found. He specially was making
five and ten dollar gold pieces and
so clever was the work that only an
expert could tell that it was-not gen.
uine.
1t had the right color, the correct
weight, the true ring and It was only
by the eye of an expert that the slight
imperfections could be detected.
Coon has been around Huntington
for about 10 years past and has spent
part of his time In repairing jewelry,
at which trade he was an expert. He
appears to be ignorant upon all SUBJ
jects except the repairing Of fine jew
elry, and was past master at the
art Of turning out bogus money.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-10-12
Horses and jockeys Pile Up.

The pleasure of the afternoon to-
day was marred by an accident In
the third race, which resulted in
Jockey McClain being thrown to the
ground, sustaining a fracture OF the
right thigh ana the fracture of two
ribs. Holcom5, another jockey, was
thrown in the sIme pileup and escap-
ed without serious injury, says the
Lewiston Teller.
The accident happened in the five
furlong race for a purse of 5000 Chi
lane was favorite and Effervescence
a second choice. The horses came
into the stretch in the order of their
choice, but when near the six-eighths
pole Elota. ridden by McClain, was
seen to pull out of the bunch and
start around the outside for one of
the head positions. 1t was then the
horse ran down a dog, and both rider
and horse went to the ground in a
bunch, resulting in the injuries to Nc
Claim. Before the mount was on her
feet again, the horse ridden by Hol-
comb was upon her and both horses
and rider were thrown, but without
serious results.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-10-12
First LOGS to La Grande.

The first load cf logs to be hauled
out of the Looking Glass timber belt
to the Palmer mill in, La Grande,
passed through Elgin Monday, says
the Elgin Recorder. The shipment
consisted OF three carloads and the
logs will be usei for skids in the arti-
ficial pond. AS soon as these are in
place everything wilk be ready to start
the big mill moving. 1t is a question
whether the Palmer company will be
able to get logs for saving before
the new track is ballasted or not. The
track is In bad condition
track is in bad condition and will not
be able to support heavy loads until
the balasting has been completed.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-10-12
COAL IN THE TETONS.
Millions of Tons VIII be Made Ac-
cessible by Wagon Road.

Work on a wagon road, connect
ing the summer" road from Canyon
House to Griggs with the coal mines
of the Pack Saddle Coal Mines asso-
citation, in which City Physician ]. H.
Bean and Fletcher r. Burns of this
city are heavily interested, is being
rushed, and completion is expected
by the middle of next week, says the
Pocatello Tribune.
At that time 1t is expected th1t q
long line of wagons from the settle
ments will be at the mine to load
coal for private consumption, at st.
Anthony, Sugar City, Rexburg and
other towns in the upper Snake river
valley, The price on the dump is
$3.50 per ton.
The main drift in the Pack Saddle
is now in 200 feet, passing the entire
distance through 9-foot vein of ex-
cellent coal Rails and car have
been ordered from Salt Lake for inn
mediate delivery and in few days
the mine will be in shape to deliver
from 100 to zoo tons of coal per day.
1t is the plan of the company to
shortly begin driving a crosscut from
the main drift toward the various
other veins on the property, and to
start another crosscut lower down
the mountain to tap the coal mea-
sures at even a gr ,ater depth. The
first c:osscut vii give backs of about
400 feet, when the upper vein is cut,
and the second level will give Stopping
gcound nearly 600 feet deep at the
same point.
l. is estimated that when these
crcnsc cuts are completed, three nil
lion tons of coal will have been
t''rked out, as two Of the veins par
a:f ing thu one rov beiag worked
are approximately from 12 TO 21 feet
wide.
The company plans the installation
in short time of compressor plant
to operate two Burleigh drills The
plan to operate a string Of traction
engines from the mines to the towns
along the Park branch and as far
south as Idaho Falls is being serious
ly considered by the company.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-10-12
onIck Success in umatIlIa.

f. NJ. Webb, who lives three miles
northwest of Pilot Rock, made home
stead entry on the land where he now
lives three years ago. His capital
consisted of good health, lots of en-
ergy and a good wife. This year he
harvested 1900 sacks of barley and
500 sacks of wheat. He says he
doesn't believe II a man owning any
more than he can properly handle
without the aid Of hired help. Such
men are the salt of the earth and are
valuable acquisitions to the commu-
nifty in which they live. They swell
the subscription list of the local pa
per, build churches, schools and
towns, and will get as much out OF
life as the millionaire. What Mr.. Webb
has done in three years others can do.
The opportunity is here.-Pilot Rock
Record.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-10-12

pacity of the city electric light plant
has been quietly talked over among
city officials and business men for
several months and the concensus OF
opinion seems to be in favor of such
a move on the part of the city.
The plan, so far as developed at
present, is to extend the barrel flume
which would take it to a point near
where the Northwest Gas & Electric
company's high line crosses the river,
Much of the right of way to this
point has already been secured and
the project is deemed entirely FEAST
BILE by those who have investigated
the matter.
AS a preliminary to the enlarge
ment of the system, City Recorder
Craig was instructed at recent meet
ing of the council to file on $50 inches
of water for power purposes, which
he has done.
1t is estimated that by this extern
sion of the flume about 500 additional
horsepower could be secured at a
cost of $4,000, This would not in
clude the cost of enlarging the power
house and purchasing the necessary
new machinery for developing the
increased power, and probably an
other $4,000 r $4,000 would be
necessary for this purpose, bringing
the total cost up TO about $4,000.
Electric power sells for about $50
per year per horse power, and at
that rate 500 horse power would mean
an annual income of $4,000, pro-
vlded, of course that it could be sold.
There SENS to be little doubt that this
could be done without trouble, as the
demand for electric power in this vi
cinity apparently exceeds the supply.
and is constantly increasing.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-10-12
WHY DON'T YOU TRY.

Why don't you try to be happy
That is, If you are weak and ner-
vous, why don't you try Sexine Pills
They are the best tonic in the world.
simply because they are the best for
any form of weakness in men and
women. Besides, they are guaran-
teed. Price 81 a box, six boxes IS,
with full guarantee. Address or call
the Pendleton Drug company. This
is the store that sells all the princi-
pal remedies and does not substitute.