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Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-26
GRAND JURY'S
WORK DELAYED
TEMPORARILY
Important Witnesses
Due Today
Expected That Prominent Los Angeles
Citizens VIII Be Able to Throw
Light on San Francisco
Bribery Cases
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 25.-Little
was accomplished by the grand Jury
today owing to the failure Of import
ant witnesses from Los Angeles to ar
rive in the city.
NO indictments were returned during
the one session that was held, and only
two witnesses were examined. These
were Samuel Jacoby, fiscal agent for
the Independent Telephone company,
which operates in the northwest; and
James P. Adams of the Adams, Phil
lips company Of Los Angeles, bankers
and brokers who handled Home TeIe-
phone securities.
The subpoenaing Of Jacoby, according
to statement made today by Assist
ant Attorney Heney, at the close of the
session, had nothing to do with bribery.
He merely testified that his COMPANY
was anxious to bid on a telephone
franchise, and would have bid the price
up had 1t known that one was to be
advertised. His company was under
the impression that the earthquake and
fire had led to an indefinite postpone
ment of the proposed bidding.
All that Mr.. Heney would say re-
garding the testimony given by Adams
was:
He had what wanted; I knew he
had it, and 1 got it."
Witnesses Due Today
The grand jury will resume it's sit
tings at 1870 o'clock tomorrow after
noon. 1t is expected that before that
hour the witnesses from Los Angeles.
subpoenaed last week by the grand
jury Will have reached this city.
They are A. B. Cass, president of the
Home Telephone company OF Los An
geles, president of the Cass-D -Damarell
Hardware company of that city, bank
director, member of the chamber of
commerce, the Merchants and Manu-
facturers' association and other import
ant bodies, and in his own name a mill
lionaire; William Mead, president of
the Central bank of Los Angeles and a
stockholder in the Home Telephone
company; w. c. Patterson, vice presi-
dent of the National bank of Los An
geles and director and stockholder In
several other banking institutions; ].
s.. Torrance apS Frank M. Brown
brokers.
From th".s men the grand jury. 1t is
stated, expects to gain much informa-
tion respecting the alleged Wholesale
bribery of majority of the San Fran
cisco supervisors by the agents OF the
Home Telephone company.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-26
THE DAYS NEWS
FORECAST

For Southern California: Probably
showers Tuesday; colder In the
morning; light east wind, changing
to west. Maximum temperature In
Los Angeles yesterday, SIS degrees;
minimum, AT degrees.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-26
Veterans Recover

By Associated Press.
LEAVnNWoRTH, Kas., March 25.-
All but one Of nine hundred veterans
at the National Soldiers Home who
were poisoned Saturday by eating
pitaI.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-31
ELOPED TO HARVARD
Miss Emily Hopf and Frank Leeb,
of Kenoshs, are Married in
the Illinois City Sunday
TELEGRAM TELLS OF WEDDING

Miss Emily Hopf, a daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Rudolph Hopf, of Eagle
street, and until Saturday evening
well known as sa1eslady at the Bar
den store, eloped on Sunday with
Frank Leeb, former resident of Ke-
nosha, and was married to Mr.. Leeb
at Harvard, ILL.,, on Sunday evening.
No details of the wedding have been
received in the city and the announce
ment was in the way of a curt te1e-
gram received by the mother of the
bride Monday morning. The telegram
simply announced that she had been
married at Harvard Sunday and that
she would make her home in Wood
stock.
1t was simply another case of love
laug hing at 1ocksmiths. Miss Hopf
and Mr.. Leeb had been friends for
some time, but as Miss Hopf was but
18 years of age, her parents thong hit
that she was too young to marry. Mr..
Leeb left Kenosha some time ago and
secured position at Woodstock and
SAuOC Iudl lAILIC TIC Couple ndQ DGCQ
corresponding. When she left the
store on Saturday evening Mrs. Leeb
made no announcement of her plans
to marry and on Sunday morning she
assisted with the work about the
house, and just before g O'Clock, with
a girl friend, she left home stating
that she was going to church. This
was the last seen of her by her par
ents. When she failed to return home
at noon they were little worried,
but the mother thought possibly that
she and Leeb had eloped and the tele-
gram which came this morning con-
frmed her fears. Mrs. Hopf said that
all there was to say of the matter was
that her daughter had e1oped with
Mr.. Leeb. The parental forgiveness
will probably be extended when the
couple return to Kenosha. Mr.. and
Mrs. Leeb will make their home in
Woodstock.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-31
MAY JOIN LAKE SHORE LEAGUE
Appleton Ball Team Looking for Chi
cago Franchise in the League

If the Wisconsin Traction, Light,
Heat and Power Co. grants the petit
ton presented after mass meeting
of citizens, asking that it extend It's
local car line to the driving park at
Appleton, Appleton will take Chi
cago's place in the Lake Shore League
next spring and the Waukegan fran
chise will go to Menasha.
Manager Herzog, of Manitowoc,
whose team won the pennant this
season, was in Appleton recently
holding a conference with Clarence
Currie, former National and Eastern
league pitcher, and Currie has prom
ised to place team in the league if
the car line is run to the park.
Currie states, however, that he will
also try to secure franchise in the
Wisconsin State League if the park is
placed on the car line.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-31
MASONS TO MEET
Eighty.ninth Sessionof Wisconsin
ConsistOry Begins Nov. II
at Milwaukee
MANY CANDIDATES EXPECTED

The eighty. ninth session of the
Wisconsin Consistory and constitu-
ent bodies will begin at Milwaukee on
November II and will continue until
the evening of November IA, an
nouncements of which were sent to
the members of the Scottish rite in
Wisconsin last week. The event is
expected to bring to Milwaukee a
goodly number of Masons and it is
believed that the class of candidates
will be as large if not larger than
any previous class. Many Kenosha
Masons are planning to attend the
sessions.
The meeting will begin at o'clock
on the afternoon of Monday, Novem.
Der II, when the degree of the Lodge
of Perfection from the fourth to the
fourteenth inclusive will be conferred
James S. Norris, David Harlowe, Dan.
ie1 Mel. Miller and Murray NJ. Hunter
presiding.
On Tuesday afternoon the fifteenth
and sixteenth degrees will be con-
ferred by Wisconsin P. of J., and in
the evening the seventeenth and
eighteenth degrees will be conferred
by Wisconsin Chapter Rose Croix.
Wednesday morning at 10 O'Clock
the consistory will begin comforting
degrees, Charles H. Washburn presid.
ing at the nineteenth, Alexander E.
Matheson at the twenty first, George
H. Benben berg at the twenty-seventh,
John S. Maxwell at the thirtieth,
Warren .. Trent at the thirty.f first,
and Wilmot F. Miller at the thirty
second. The rendezvous will close
with banquet at O'Clock Thursday
evening.
The members of the consistory class
will be received into Tripli temple,
A. A, n. o. M. S., on Friday evening.
A number of previous consistory
classes are planning to hold reunions
during the sessions of the rites,
which will take place in the Masonic
building on Jefferson street.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-31
STRUCK BY A TRAIN
Peter Christensen. of Oconto. is Badly
Injured Here Saturday

Peter Christensen. of Oconto. is Badly
Injured Here Saturday
Peter Christensen. a resident of
Oconto, is at the Kenosha hospital
suffering.sfrom a lot of bad bruises
which he received on Saturday night
when he was runEinto by a train on
the North Western road at the corner
of Grand avenue and West Main
street. Christensen was crossing
the track when the train which
leaves Kenosha at FIVE o'clock
for Chicago was backing up to
the station. Hes was hit by one of
the cars and thrown violently. The
injured man was removed Sto the Ke-
nosha hospital in an ambulance and
DR.. Robinson called to attend him.
Ee suffered very badsbruises, but no
bones we're broken and it is expected
that hewill be able to be.out within
few days.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-31
REVIVE CHURCH SALE
German Lutherans Again Attempting
To Sell Church Property to Allen Co.

German Lutherans Again Attempting
To Sell Church Property to Allen Co.
The members of the German Luth-
eran church have revived the plans
for the building ola new church and
a new effort is being made to dispose
of the church property to the Central
Leather company. The big tanning
combine has offered $4,000 for the
property, but the members of the con-
gregation believe that the property is
worth $4,000. Several plans are be-
ing proposed for the disposal of the
building and it is possible that one of
these plans will be adopted later in
the year. The church was dedicated
twenty four years ago next Sunday
and special services will be held on
the anniversary of the dedication and
at that time plans for new church
on a new site will be discussed. The
church society has purchased splen-
did site ia the Rice subdivision and
the work on the new church will be
started just as soon as the property
now owned by the society can be sold.
AS it is right in the center of the big
tannery it is thought that the Cen
trail Leather company is the logical
purchaser of the property.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-31
TURKEYS ARE SCARCE
Supply of Thanksgiving Birds Promises
to Be Limited in This Section

1t IS rather early to begin thinking
about Thanksgiving, but every farmer
IN the country who raises poultry is
getting his turkeys, geese aud chick
ems fattened up for the feast day.
Commission men say that there is lit
tie chance of the supply being greater
this year than formerly.
For several years now there has
been growing shortage of Thanks
giving turkeys, and this too in spite
of the fact that every inducement, in
Guiding the highest of prices, is of.
fered to the raisers of poultry. A
number of reasons are given for the
shortage, the principal one being that
turkeys are too hard to raise. Then,
too, there was time few years ba ok
when the supply of poultry was un-
usually large, owing to the fact that
little of it was shipped out of the
country, and the prices were so low
that many farmers we're discouraged
from raising the birds and have never
again taken it up.
Ihere are, OF course, more turkeys
raised now than there were few
years ago." said commission man in
speaking of the situation, "but the
supply is shorter because the local
demand is heavier and great many
more turkeys are shipped out of the
country every year. This export trade
of poultry is growing greater every
year and the supply for local markets
must necessarily grow smaller unless
the supply increas s in proportion
ate degree. It does not, and hence
the shortage"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-31
HAD MARROW ESCAPE
Louis Schultz and Son Thrown From
Wagon by Running A gainst Rocks

Wagon by Running Against Rocks
AS result of the contrac tor falling
to observe the city law demanding
that lights be placed on building ma
teria1 piled in the street, Louis
Schultz and his little son had mar
row escape from serious injury on
Market street just after dark Monday
night. Paving Contractor Jones had
left large pile of crushed stone in
the street without the proper lights,
and when Schultz drove along the
street with his wagon the wagon was
overturned and both were thrown
out. The little boy was badly bruised.
Alderman E. C. A1leman is con-
Quoting campaign to see that these
lights are properly placed and he will
at once appeal to the chief of police to
have Jones obey the law. Several
other people are reported to have run
against the same pile of broken rock,
but none of them were seriously in
iured.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-31
NOT CARS ENOUGH
Railroads Cannot Furnish Cars
Fast Enough for Racine and
Kenosha Cabbage Crop
ALL STATIONS ARE SHORT

Cabbage growers in Racine and Ke-
nosha counties are facing heavy losses
as a result of the failure of the rail
ways to furnish enough cars to ship
the crop as fast as it is harvested.
This urgent demand for cars comes
from every station in the two coun-
ties from which the cabbage is
shipped. Unless there is relief hum
dreds of tons must be piled up to wait
transportation. Discrimination on
the part of the railway companies in
favor of certain stations is being
openly charged.
These allegations brought to Cor
liss one of the state railway commits
sioners and also the superintendent of
traffic of one of the railway compan-
les. One story was in effect that the
high officers of the railway openly as
serted that the corporation was not to
blame because of the car shortage;
that many cars were billed for the
points where complaints are made;
that the way bills, in some manner,
we're destroyed, or disappeared, and
consequently the cars went elsewhere.
This serious matter is being carefully
investigated and the fault will be
placed where it belongs. 1t is sus-
pected that some of the freight con.
ductors have been diverting cars to
favor certain shippers
1t has been demonstrated that grow
ing cabbage is profitable industry,
the average crop during years past
amounting to perhaps II and IA tons
to the acre. It has brought from $4
to as high as 500 and $40 per ton. One
year the crop went as high as % tons
to the acre. Hot air stories were in
evidence in those days of fabulous
fortunes being made, some placing
the profits on the part of one or two
growers at 100000. This year there
has been grown an enormous crop.
but it is admitted to be short in com
parison with that of year ago, due
to the late season and heavy rains.
Heads are much smaller and many
rotted on the inside. Prices being
paid at present run from So. SO to So
per ton. While immense shipments
are being made to the southern and
other markets, thousands of tons are
being stored and will be held for bet
ter prices, expected to reach $18 and
$40 per ton before the winter has ad-
vanced far.
P. M. Anderson, prominent dealer
of Somers, estimates that there are
2, 500 cars of the vegetable yet to be
shipped from the two counties, and
that thirty cars would be shipped
from Corliss every day if the railroad
would furnish the cars. In addition
to these enormous shipments and the
hundreds Of tons put in storage, the
kraut factories are cutting up encr-
nous quantities every day.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-31
MAY GIVE Up TRACK
Kenosha Gent1ernen's Driving Club
May Use Uih1ein Track Next Year

The officials of the Kenosha Gentle
mems Driving Club may be forced to
give up the Balm track for next season
as the interest taken in the club has
not been sufficient to warrant the
lease of the track for another season.
The club, however will not give up its
charter with the American Trotting
Association and committee is to be
sent to interview August Uihlein with
the intent of getting the use of the
Uihlein track. The track at Trues-
dell is as good track as can be found
in Southern Wisconsin and it is
thought that it can be kept up for
very much less than the Balm track.
With this track the Kenosha club
could assure the continuance of rae
ing for the lovers of horses in the
city. A meeting of the club will be
called in the near future at which
time some definite action will be taken
in the matter.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-31
KALIS ARRESTED AGAIN
William Kalis Charged With Stealing
Money May Be Sent to Waupun

William Kalis, boy, who has had
something # a police record, was
arrested in the basement of his moth
er's home on the west side Saturday
evening by Constable Nick Gloss on
charge of petty larceny. He was
charged with stealing FIVE dollars
from his mother and the mother APP
peared in court this morning to pro-
secute the boy. Ka1is admitted that
he had taken the money and as he
was charged under the new statute
which gives the court the right to
send him to the state institutions of
reform he waived examination aud
will go before the circuit Judge to.
morrow. Kais admits that he has
been arrested several times on similar
charges and his mother claims that
she can do nothing with him.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-31
MAY SUE POSTMASTER
New Ho1stein Man Objects to Having
Mail Held For Box Rent

Question of the right of the post
master to hold mail of patron of the
Office because the payment of box rent
has been neglected will be referred to
ruling by business men of New Hol-
stein and the opinion will be of gener-
al interest. Under postal regulations
box rent must be paid in advance and
when business man at New Ho1stein
neglected to pay the 20 cents due, his
mail was held for several days and
until the money was paid. It will be
claimed that important mail was held
and that the patron suffered injury
and a damage suit may result.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-31
WELLS IS MISSING
Harvey 7. Wells Takes So, 200 of
First National Banks Money
and Leaves the City
BANK IS FULLY PROTECTED
Officials of Bank Make Effort To Find
Young Man and Bring Him Back
to Kenosha. but Efforts so
Far Are FruitIess

Harvey /. Wells, a trusted employee
of the First National Bank, and one
of the best known of the young men
of the city, has fed from Kenosha
and with him have gone So, 200 of the
banks money. The news of his down
fall will come as complete surprise
and shock to his friends in Keuosha.
Some days ago the officials of the
bank learned that young Wells had
hurriedly left the city, and an exam
ination of his books which was begun
at once soon disclosed the shortage in
his accounts. Every effort was at
once made by the bank to find the
young man and bring him back to
this city, but so far the efforts of the
detectives have failed to locate him.
1t is expected, however, that he will
soon be found.
Wells had been with the bank six
years. He is twenty-one years of age,
having been with the bank since he
was fifteen years Of age. Wells en-
tered the employ of the bank imme-
diately after graduating from Bust
ness College, and all of his business
life has been spent with that institu-
ton. He displayed considerable abi1-
ity, and was advanced from time to
time as his value to the bank in
creased. He has always been in re-
ceipt of good salary, and his income
was always more than that of most
young men Of his age.
The bank will lose nothing by this
shortage, as the institution is fully
protected by insurance. For the past
day or two rumors have been flying
thick and fast concerning one of the
clerks IN the bank, and when C. c..
Brown, Vice-President of the bank,
was asked in regard to the matter he
said, "H. 7. Wells, bookkeeper in
the bank, has falsifieC the books and
taken the sum of $500, leaving for
parts unknown. The bank officials
are anxious to capture the thief and
are diligently following up all the
clews obtainable, and we expect to
succeed in capturing the man. The
bank is protected from loss.''
z. G. Simmons, the president of the
bank, had little to say about the theft.
He remarked: "There is nothing fur
Their to say in regard to this unfor-
tunate affair than has already been
said by Mr.. Brown. One of our trusted
employees has gone wrong and has
stolen So, 200 of the banks money and
we are making every effort to catch
the thief. That is all there is to it.
The bank is fully protected and will
lose nothing"
Young Wells is son of Philip
Wells and lived with his parents at
the family homestead south of the
cemetery on South Park avenue. He
has always borne good reputation
and was everywhere regarded as a
young man of high character and ex-
emp1ary habits. His family and
friends are unable to account in any
way for his misconduct, but it is al
legged that within the last few months
he had gotten into bad company and
had become involved in an affair with
Chicago woman. It is stated that
this woman is in large measure re-
sponsible for his actions. His family
are almost Frustrated over the affair
and they are receiving great deal Of
sympathy.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-31
Wisconsin Telephone Co.'S, Un-
deTgrOund Line to be Ready
to Use in Three Months
NOT TO ABANDON POLES
Underground Line to be Used Only Be.
tween Chicago and Milwaukee
and Overhead Wires to Carry
Long Distance Messages

With reasonable weather conditions
the new underground telephone line
between Milwaukee and Chicago,
which passes through Kenosha along
Ashland avenue, in which portion
of the long distance wires between
the two cities will be encased IN great
lead cables and the cables buried in
wooden tubes immersed in creosote,
will be IN operation within the next
three months. The conduits are now
about finished, and the work of manu-
featuring the cables is being done by
the Western Electric company, Chica-
go.
The completion of this long. contem-
plated underground telephone system,
which will cost the American Tele-
phone & Telegraph company $1,000
900, does not mean that the present
overhead pole line system will be
abandoned between Milwaukee and
Chicago, as many supposed. Through
telephone service for long distances,
from points beyond Chicago, will not
pass along the underground system,
as it has been fouad that conversa-
tious on lines underground "choke"
when certain distances are attempted.
In other words, conversations over
several hundred to 1000 miles of wire
cannot be satisfactorily carried on
along buried lines, so the free, open
air lines are essential. The new con-
duit lines will therefore be used chief
ly for business between this city and
Chicago, the distance not causing any
''desdening' or "choking" effects on
the 85.mi1e talk.
The new underground pipeline will
be supplied with cables containing
wires of varied sizes, in the matter of
economy in cost. With copper SELL
ing at Is to 20 cents a pound tele-
graph lines run into money fast. To
save cost, the wires from Milwaukee
to Cudahy, South Milwaukee, Racine,
Kenosha, etc., will be CORES ponding-
ly light in weight, while the heaviest
wires will be used to transmit the
longest distance talks.
"While the underground line for
distances is largely in the nature of
an experiment, it is believed that the
new system between Milwaukee and
Chicago will prove highly satisfactory
except in conversations between
points beyond Milwaukee to New
York or some other point beyond
Chicago" explained President A1onzo
Burt of the Wisconsin Telephone
company. "The outside covering is
of lead and tin and will be made i'm
pervious to weather and the earth as
far as this is possible. Much more
damage to our underground lines in
this city is annually caused by acct
dents in digging into or striking our
conduits in excavations, home moving
ETC., than is caused by time or ele-
ments."
The iron rod driven into the street
to hold the pulleys in house moving
sometimes penetrates our under
ground cables with the result that
the moisture enters and the cable is
Killed Recently ditching machine
ran into and tore up our conduit be-
fore the workmen knew what they
had struck. This, of course, put a
lot of lines out CT commission. These
accidents are happening frequently
and are more injurious than the ele-
ments.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-31

that # such action was taken the com
pany would go into bankruptcy. 1t
has been limited that other people
connected with the firm may be ar
rested, but no steps in this direction
have as yet been taken.