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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-12
SENT TO AN ASYLUM
Howard Worthingto1 Adjudged In
sane by Com ty Judge

Howard Wortnington, a negro por-
ter well known TO many people about
the city, was adjudieated insane in
the County Court Tuesday and
comritted TO the state hospital at
Mendoza for treatment Worthington
has been at the county Jail for several
days. He went to the jail and asked
that he be locked up, stating that he
feared if left at liberty he would do
bodily harm to some one. The man is
said to be suffering as result Of a
blow on the head which he received
more than year ago. For the past
ten days his mental condition has been
dangerous and his friends finally de-
cided that it would be best to have
him sent to one of the state hospitals
Worthington last night demanded that
all the prisoners a the county Jail be
released, claiming that he was to
blame for all the crimes for which
they had been arrested.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-12
Former Members Of the kenosha
A. 0. wv. lodge 10 Be Sued
for Insurance Payments
MUST PAY LAST ASSESSMENT
Seventy-five Prominent Men of Keno
sha Are Said To Be Delinquent
and Suits Will Be Brought
for Amounts Claimed

Attorney AGeorge w. Taylor, of this
city, actingsat the advice of the FL
deity Trust company of Milwaukee,
trustee IN bankruptcy for the Grand
Lodge of Wisconsin of the Ancient
Order of kUnited Workmen Tuesday
morning started the work OF bringing
suits against large number of the
Of the organization to collect assess
ments alleged to be due TO the trustee
from these parties. The amount to
be claimed In the suit represents the
last assessment sslevied against the
members Of the order before it was
forced to &ointo bankruptcy and it is
claimed that IL accordance with a
decision of the Supreme Court the
amounts claimed can be collected by
law. AT the time the order went into
the hands Of receiver it had little
over hundred members in Renosha
and fewsof the members had already
paid the assessments levied for the
month before the receivership went
into effect. With the naming Of a
receivera5to wind up the affairs of
the society 1t was understood that ali
benefits totthea members would cease
and for this greason&the mem bers of
the Kenosha5lodge at once refused to
make anys,further payments into the
Golfers of the order.
The receiver land trustee of the
n
formal notice to every member of the
order, demanding the payment of his
last assessment, shut the money was
not forth looming and ii was under
stood that theG Kenosha lodge acting
with other lodges in the state had
agreed tosmake no further payments.
La the lists of men named for suit ia
this cityssssthere are seventy five de-
fendantsR and the amounts claimed by
the trustee Gin bankruptcy vary from
75c to $500, according to the amount
OF insuranceSthat the defendant had
carried. Sonesof the men were in
arrears fors assessments at the time
that thes organization went out of
business and the amount of the ar
rears has also been claimed by the
trustee. In the list is to be found,
bankers, ,scity ard county officials,
prominent merchants and in fact men
from everya class of peoplein the city.
AttorneysTaylor has made an effort to
collect the assessments, by personal
calls, butImost Of the defendants have
declined toSmake3any settlement. 1t
is probablestha one suit will be insti-
tuted ia the Justice Court at once
and if thestrustee is beaten insthis suit
it will besat once appealedlt to the Cir
cult and Supreme Courts of the state
in orders tosget a ruling on the Ke-
nosha mem bers. If the cases are con-
tested in court the fight for the collec-
ton of thiss last1assessment may last
for some time and the costs of the in
dividual actionsymay be great deal
greater than the original amounts
claimed by the trustees.
1t is stated that the members Of
every lodge in the state are to be sub
mitted to similar actions in scourt for
the collection of the assessments
claimed.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-12

THE officials of the Wisconsin Anti
Saloon League evidently know their
business and they will take no steps
in Kenosha until the ground has been
prepared for them. In making haste
slowly they are showing their wisdom,
for about every reform that ever
started in this city failed utterly be-
causeit tried to go too fast and to make
changes before public sentiment had
been educated up to receive them.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-12

THE plan to place advertising gar
bage boxes about the city is not one
that appeals to anyone who cares
anything for the appearance of the
city and Furthermore the city has
plenty of money and spends enough
on it's streets to provide its own gar
bage boxes if any are needed. Should
the Council decide to go into any
such project the least it can do is to
reserve the right to say what kind of
advertising shall appear on the boxes.
The advertising garbage box scheme
is one that should arose the active
opposition of the Outdoor Art Assoc
citation.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-12


COMING from the source it does, the
opinion of Henry Clews, veteran of
many panics, banker and writer on
financial topics, on the methods to be
employed TO secure a more elastic cur
rency will be read with Interest. He
says:
''My preference is for a scientific
and elastic currency system based
upon bank assets, or something like
the following, to provide for periods
Of great money demands. Authorize
national banks to increase their cir
culation to be called emergency cir
culation to the extent of say, 20 per
cent of their paid up capital, to be is
sued upon approved saving bank Sc
curities, to be deposited with the
Comptroller of the Currency and to be
taxed TO such an extent as to compel
the speedy return and cancellation of
such notes when the business needs
no longer exist for the additional cur
rency. To the event of Congress fail.
ing to provide an elastic quality TO
oar currency system, as an alternative
Isuggest the following:
1.-The Government to issue emer-
geucy notes, not to exceed 500, 900, 900
during periods of great panics, and to
banks only, to be held by them as re-
serve, these emergency notes to draw
two cent interest and have six months
to run, subject to renewal for an adj
ditioual three to six months at the
discretion Of the Secretary of the
Treasury, By consent of the Presi-
deut, Such measure Of relief would
work like the Bank of Englaud's back
log method. Whenever great panic
occurs in England the Bank of Eng
land is authorized to suspend its char
ter act, which admits of issuing in
creased Bank of England notes with
out requiring ponding amount
of gold to be held against same. This
has always been found to end panic at
once. The above plan would supply
what is now very much needed in our
currency-an automatic movement at
a time when most needed. AS a mat
or Iact, 1t being known that relief
would be always Forthcoming would
be a bar against panics occurring IN
this country, such as the recent oue
and that of 1873, when money was al
most unobtainable on any terms
This plan of issuing emergency elastic
national bank reserve money would
remove the necessity of a central ma
tional bank, which is now being agi-
tated to considerable extent. Such
bank will never be acceptable to the
national banks now existing, as it
would diminutize all of them. The
jealousy of bank officials would cause
them to exert their influences against
such measure meeting with Con-
gressional favor"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-12
RECOGNITION FOR WHEATLAND
United States Postoffice at Wheatland
Is Made Money Order Station

Wneat1and, the western metropolis
of Kenosha county, is to have an
other boom as Tuesday morning an
order was received at the postoffi &c
stating that after the first Of January
a money order dope partment would
be added 10 the postoffice al Wheat
land. Postmaster Neahring was in
town Tuesday making arrangements
for the opening of the new depart
nent. L is claimed that Wheatland
IS growing as fast or faster than any
of the Kenosha county villages.
Many Of the wealthy farmers in that
section of the county are moving into
the village 10 make their homes and
stores are being opened. It is
claimed that within a shorf time
Wheatland and New Munster will
merge into the second largest town
in che county.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-12
NEW CHRISTMAS PRESENT
Tax Receipts TO Be Issued in Time to
Be Used as Christmas Gifts

City Treasurer Martin Steinmetz is
planning to provide a fine line of
Christmas presents which will be
suitable forany member of the family
and he willsprobably be ready to do
business in these presents few days
before Christmas Day. The presents
will be the annual tax receipts.
City Clerk Harrington and his as
sistant are now busily at work copy
ing the tax roll and it will be turned
over to the oity treasurer next Mon
day morning. 1t will take about a
week for the treasurer to get the ad.
vance receipts made ont and then he
will be ready to accept the money for
taxes. 1t is thought that the taxes
will come in little slow this year on
account of the money stringency, but
the treasurer is preparing for the
usual rush of early taxpayers.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-12
TAKES A NON SUIT
Attorneys for Town of Wheat1and
Failed to Verify Their Claim

AOT AOWH Oh w nGaCI@1O
Failed to Verify Their Claim
The suit of A c. Rietbrock, of Mil
waukee against the Town of Wheat
land, which was a suit for fees al
legged to have been earned in defend
ing the town in the suit brought by
John McGary, had a short life in the
Circuit Court Tuesday afternoon, and
the case had been no more than start
ed when the attorney for the plaintiff
ia the action took d voluntary nom
suit. An examination of the claim
showed that it had been presented to
the Board of Wheatland without be-
ing properly verified.
The bill will have to be verified and
again presented to the Board, and
should the Board decline to pay the
suit can be started again in the Cir.
cult Court. A settlement Of the mat
ter out of court is possible.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-12
Man Wanted at Waukesha on 0
Charge Of Killing E.Courtney
Thought to be Here
scoUR COUNTY IN AUTOS
Deputy Game Warden Michael K1eist
Takes One Man as Suspect, But
He Was Released After Being
Questioned by Police

Kenosha county was the scene of a
man hunt Tuesday as officials from
Waukesha county and detectives from
Milwaukee are securing the western
part Of the county in automobiles in
an effort to find some trace of James
E. Baker of Waukesha, who is wanted
IN that county on charge Of murder-
ing Eugene Courtney on the night of
Dec. 3. Courtney was an aged Watt
kesha county farmer and it is sup
posed that he was murdered by Baker
on account OF a n alteration In regard
to wages which were to be paid the
alleged murderer. Eight hundred
dollars reward has been offered by the
state Of Wisconsin, and Waukesha
county for the arrest Of the alleged
murderer. The alleged murderer was
traced into Racine county on Sunday
seen begging for food at farm houses
ia the neighborhcod of the Milwau.
kee county line and he was known TO
have gone south from that point.
Monday afternoon Sheriff Roberts,
of Racine county, telephoned Chief
O'Hare of this city thatit was thought
that Bakerswas working his way into
Keuosha or that he was in hiding in
the western part of the county All
of the Kenosha officers were ordered
to make close search for the man last
night and to arrest any one who
seemed to answer the description of
Baker.
Tuesday morning the officials from
Waukesha county who had gone out
from Racine on Monday, followed the
course Of Baker through the western
cad of this county and it is pretty GER
tain that the man passed through the
comfy Only q few hours before the
men who were looking for him.
Deputy Game Warden Michael
Kleist brought a man TO the police
office MondaySwho was suspected of
being Baker, and the Chief called up
Waukesha and told of the pect that
had been taken here. The man was a
dead ringer for the pictures of Baker
tAdl ndusDGGn SGuG out III the MflWdu-
kee papers, but when the minute de-
scription was received the man
quickly secured his release. Baker
was totally bald, and the man taken
into custody by K1eist had a great
crop Of brown hair and the officials
were convinced that it was real and
he was released. The man refused to
give his name TO the police, declaring
that he was not looking for notoriety.
Aleist picked the man up at the sta
ton Of the Chicago and Milwaukee
Electrics Railway Co.
Baker is man SO years of age and
was dressed as farm hand. 1t is
stated that he had formerly worked as
farm hand and as a bartender and
that he Is a trouble seeker.
Governor Davidson is taking great
interest ia the case and Monday night
he increased the reward offered by
the state and sent out personal let
ter demanding that police officers in
all cities make a special effort to To-
cate and arrest Baker.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-12
RANDALL LEADS WOoDMEN
Annual Election of Pike Woods Camp
Held at Woodman Hall Tuesday

Held at Woodman Hall Tuesday
Attorney Clifford E. Randall was
elected consul of Pike Woods Camp
of the Modern Woodmen at the an
nual meeting of the camp held on
Tuesday evening. A large number
of the members of the camp at
tended the meeting and number OF
disting uished guests from other cities
were present. After the meeting was
over short addresses we're made by
Grand Trustee A. N. Bort, of Beloit,
and National Lecturer Duffy, of Du-
buque. The following is the list of
officers elected for the year:
Consul-C. E, Randall.
Advisor-Chas. Sleight.
Banker-Edward Letsom.
Clerk--A. H. Simons.
Escort-Moreland Croker.
Watchman-CarlD etert.
Sentry-A. E. Kiesling.
Manager-C. G. Theleen.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-12

AS no that shortage of funds with
which to meet the expenses of the
schools the matter rests entirely with
the School Board, The Council has
no power to cut down the amounts de-
manded by the Board and the fun sum
asked by the Board is always put on
the tax levy.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-12
HAD HARD FIGHT
Assistant Chief Newhouse Assaulted by
Unknown Man.-Lands Him in Jail

Assistant Chief of Police Joe New
house is not ready for his pension as
yet for Tuesday he put up one
Of the hardest fights ever put up by
a police officer and managed to land
mau in jail. The man refused to
give his name at the jail. He was
well dressed and was in the station OF
the Northwestern Railway company
when the assistant chief went to ar
rest him on q charge of intoxication
The man fought like tiger and when
the door of the station was reached he
and the officer rolled out onto the
brick pavement in a mass. Newhouse
hung on to him until one Of the men
managed to drag the fellow to jail.
Ii is not known what charge will be
put against the man.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-12
ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT
Police Take Six Polanders Charged
With Havina Assaulted John Smith


Six Polanders giving their names
as Tom Alifppi, Alex Belofski, Joe
Be1ofski, Watos1of Benson, Tony
Benson and John Marchessoski, were
arrested late Monday afternoon by the
members of the Kenosha police force
charged with having assaulted John
Smith, Polander who resides near
the Main street bridge. Smith was
roughly handled on last Sunday after
noon and he claims that he recognized
the men under arrest as his assailants.
The men we're arraigned before
Justice McCarron Monday afternoon
and the hearing continued until We'd
nesday. Two of the men gave bonds
and the others are in the county jail
awaiting trial.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-12

TT IS safe to say that half of the
sajoou men would favor a Sunday
closing movement if they could only
be sure that the other half would also
have to keep closed up.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-12

WHEN figuring up the Christmas
expenses remember that a little more
money than usual is going to be
needed this year to make a merry
Christmas for the sick and unfortu-
nate of the city and set aside enough
too for your share.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-12

THE PRESIDENT made one statement
in his message that will not be chaI-
1enged by even the most rahid of his
Wall street critics. He said. "a few
years ago there was loud complaint
that the law could not be invoked
against wealthy offenders. There is
no such complaint now"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-12
MARX LEADS MAsoNs
County Treasurer Made Worshipfu1
Master of Kenosha Lodge

Master of Kenosha Lodge
The annual meeting Of Kenosha
lodge No. AZ, F. and A M, was held
at the Masonic Temple on Monday
evening and the following officers
were elected for the ensuing year:
Worsh;pful Master-F. A. Marx.
Senior Warden-Samuel C. Newman.
Junior Warden-F. M. Cleveland.
cretary-George r. Sutherland.
reasurer-Char1es C. Brown.
Trustee-C. e. Remer.
After the regular meeting of the
lodge a meeting of the Masonic
Temple association was held at which
Henry Hastings was elected trustee
of the association for a term of three
years. The former officers of the
association will be reelected for an
other year.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-12
NOTICE

The Liberty Cemetery Helpers will
meet at the home of Mrs. Herbert
Robbins on Tuesday morning, Dec.
IL. All cordially invited to attend.
Mrs. GEO. FAULKNER, Sec'y.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-12

FINE weather for paving and rail-
way building.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-16

to prevent the courts from being SO
ready to block remedial legislation
with injunctions.
Taking up the situation in Cincin-
natl and rates charged from this city
to the southeast, Mr.. Smith declared
that Georgia will certainly extend its
railroad from Chattanooga to Atlanta
in order to reach tidewater, and said
that he believed that if a railroad,
owned by cities or states, were built
between Chicago and Cincinnati, this
in connection with the Western & At
lantic, would control such a large
volume of business that the Cincinnati
Southern, owned by Cincinnati, but
operated by the Southern railway un-
der a long term lease, would be
forced to terms, and that this com
bination could give such rates from
the lakes to the south Atlantic coast
as TO force all competing lines to
charge only rates representing a just
income on a fair valuation of their
assets.
Governor Smith spoke about trans
portation, saying there was no more
important and difficult problem to be
solved by the people of the United
States.
Left without restraint" he said,
"the railroad companies can fix the
value of lands. They can undermine
the profits of merchants. They can
control the business of the manufac-
turer. They can make and unmake
towns and cities. The condition of
dependents by the public upon them
increases from day to day.
"A few years ago the transportation
companies were controlled by many
and varied interests. Now they are
largely consolidated and several in
terests control nearly -fourths
OF the entire railroad mileage of the
United States.
These interests maybe designated
as syndicates under the names of
Hartman, Morgan and Hill, Wander
bits, Moores, Gould, Pennsylvania
and Rockefeller. While they con-
fiict at times, their struggles are in
the matter of acquiring properties,
not IN better or cheaper transporta-
ton, but in more stocks and bonds,
upon which the public must furnish
money to pay dividends.
THE control of the railroads of the
| country has passed from trained rail-
road operators to bankers, who specu-
late In railway stocks A notable result
of this condition is the withdrawal of
authority from the local management
and local superintendent the re-
duction of salaries to those actually
doing the work of transportation and
the dwarfing OF the power and capaci-
ty of the men upon whose manage
ment the public must Immediately
depend. To this, at least in part
Is due the recent tendency towards
less efficient service.
1.-THE interest controlling the rail-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-16
THE ADlERIcUs DAILY SATURDAY 1907
TELEGRApHIC NEWS OF THE WORLD.
WOMAN i4JuREo Oh A CAR.



Atlanta, Marcl 75-Mrs. Emma
Bowden, a dressma3er, Of 211 West
West Fair street, was KNOCKED to
the floor and probably badly injured
as the result Of the explosion Of the
controller of a West Tair street car.
Mrs. Bowen was On her way home.
She bearded the car at the corner
of Pine and Peachtree streets. Just
as she STEPPED on the platform and
oTened the door to enter the car, the
controller exploded, and she was
thrown to the floor, her left side and
left arm being painfully if not seri-
ously injured
The car being disabled by the burst
ing Of the controller, the conduc-
ter and motorman helped Mrs. Bow
en- On a Woodward avenue car bound
for the center of the city.
She stated tfat her left arm and
side panied her greatly, and that,
while she knew her arm was not
broken, she feared that the injury
to her side would be more serious.
At the corner of Broad and Peach
three and Marie ia streets, she was
helped from the car to a drug store,
where a note Of the case was made by
a street car inspector. Last night
she was reported as resting easy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-16
Mob Lynches Two Negroes.

New Orleans, La, March IS
Flint Williams and Henry Gardner.
two young negroes, were taken from
the city jail about / o'clock and
hanged in the court house square by
party of about fifty Both negroes
confessed to havi . with a third ne
Sro shot and robbed the two Italians
on Monday night Gardner also cen
fessed to having entered the room o.
Miss Jessie Bumpus about 5 o'clock
Thursday morning. The whole af-
fair was quietly planned after. the
caputre and confession of the negroes
and was carried out without a hitch
The keys to the jail were taken from
police officer at the point of pis-
toll.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-16
WOULD SAVE LIVES AT SF1
ArbuckIe's Plan of Rescue With .
Fleet of Boats.

John Arbuckle is about to embarl, =
the life saving business alone tho A.
lantic coast and has interested pro,
dent Roosevelt to the extent of obtain
ing from him letter to Congressmon
Cocks saying that Arbuckle's scheme
seems to be excellent and suggnstip,,
that If Mr.. Cocks Investigation vort
fies it the congressman will Introduce
a bill to secure federal cooperation
says the Washington Post.
Mr. Arbuckle has purchased the ont
fit of the North America Wreckino
company, consisting of the wreclzing
boats Helen NJ. Field and North Amer,
lea and a seagoing barge. His plan IA
to rescue the lives of those on stranded
steamers from the sea and not from
the land. He cites the case of the Cher.
okee, which was stranded at Brigan-
tine Beach in January of last year. two
and a half miles from shore, when the
fifty-six persons on board were com.
PEELED to remain seventy hours before
the life savers from shore could reach
them Mr. Arbuckle says that many
vessels are wrecked so far out that If
is impossible for life lines to be shot
to them, and often the surf is so high
that lifeboats cannot be launched
The Arbuckle plan is to keep a feet
of boats ready at Sandy Hook with
steam up to go at once to any wreck
within, perhaps, $50 miles He asks
for the cooperation of the life savers
to the extent that they be required by
law to send word by wireless telegraph
as soon as a wreck Is discovered and
then to guide his boats by rockets at
night ard dptonations by day in case
Of fog to indicate the exact place Of
the wreck. His boats will then aD-
proach the ship on the ocean side of the
wreck, spray the water with oil, fire a
life line across the wreck and take
off the people with the breaches buoy