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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-29
PAY POSTAGE HERE
Russians and PoIanders Have Mail
Sent to Kenosha Without Post.
age Being Prepaid
UNCLE SAM GAINS BY PLAN

Your Uncle Sam is making a tidy
little income every month by the sale
of postage due stamps at the Kenosha
post Office and the demandsfor these
stamps has been so great during the
last quarter that the supply of the
office is all but exhausted and it is
possible that the Office will run out of
them before new supply is received.
The sale of postage due stamps at the
Kenosha Office amounts to more than
S75 month and nearly all of the
stamps are paid for by foreigners. 1t
one-ha1f of the letters coming from
Poland and Russia to Kenosha are
sent without stamps. The regular
rate for postage from Russia to Ke-
nosha is FIVE cents, but the interna-
tional postal laws give the govern
nent the right to collect ten cents in
all cases where the postageis not paid
in advance. The fact that the letters
are sent without stamps is another in
dication of the poverty of the poorer
classes in the foreign countries and it
is claimed that it is much easier for the
foreigners working in Kenosha to pay
ten cents for the postage on the letter
than for his relatives in Russia to paw
five. More than six hundred of these
letters were received in the Kenosha
post Office during the month of July
and the number is increasing.
The post Office department is not in
any way opposed to this method of re-
ceiving mail as 500 is being added to
the post Office receipts monthly and
every cent of the money should have
been paid into the post Offices of Rus
STA or Poland. The men and women
to whom the letters are addressed sell
dom if ever make any complaint
against the payment of the added
postage and it is evident that they
are aware of the workings of the de-
partment.
It would be an inpossibility for the
same plan to be worked between diff
ferent parts of this country as when
letters of domestic or foreign delivery
are mailed here without the requisite
stamp they are sent to the dead letter
Office and returned to the writer's with
request for postage.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-29
SENT TO wINNEBAGo
Ida Maria johnson Sent to State Hos.
pita1 Pending Deportation

In the County Court late Friday
afternoon Ida Maria johnson, the
Finnish woman who was taken into
custody yesterday in Pleasant Prairie,
was adjudicated insane and ordered
sent to the state hospital for the in
sane a. Winnebago.
The case of the woman has been
laid before the State Board of Control
and it is expected that the board will
make some arrangements to send the
woman back to her native land. The
evidence in the case showed that she
came to this country last Christmas
and that she was i'll at the time she
was brought to the country. Under
the law it will DE necessary for the
steamship company to return her to
her native land. 1t will probably take
some time to arrange for the deport-
ing of the woman, and in the mean
time the expenses must be paid BY the
county.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-29
FILE KATzER WILL HERE
Will of Late Archbishop of Milwaukee
Recorded in Kenosha County

Recorded in Kenosha County
The will of the late Most Rev.
Frederick Xavier Katzer, former
Archbishop of the Milwaukee diocese
of the Roman Catholic church, was
filed for record in the Office of the
Register Of Deeds of Kenosha county
Monday. The will has been probated
in Milwaukee and the Judge of the
County Court there has accepted the
final report of the executor. The will
disposes of small amount of real
estate and personal property valued
at about So, 900. It is supposed that
the will and the final report have been
filed here on account of the fact that
the Archbishop holds nominal title
to some of the church property To-
Gated in this county.
BY the terms Of the will the prop
erty is all left to other officials of the
church to be held for church uses.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-29
$4,000 FOR A TOE
Giuseppe Meo Asks Northwestern to
Pay for Injuries Received

Giuseppe Meo, Kenosha Italian,
formerly employed as section hand
by the Chicago and Northwestern
Railway Company, values his little
toe at $4,000 and through his attorney
M. ]. O'Donnell he has filed suit
against the Northwestern Railway
Company demanding this amount.
The Italian was injured while at
work for the Company on the tracks
south of Kenosha in the winter of 1906
He was assisting ten other men in
laying a stretch of tracks and while
the men were at work rail fell off a
push car and struck Meo on the foot.
The little toe was crushed so badly
that it was necessary to amputate the
toe. Meo claimed that as result of
the accident he was forced to rest
from his work for more than three
months and this fact is given as a
further measure of the damages de-
manded from the Company. The case
is noticed for trial at the September
term of the Circuit Court.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-29
Carl Hansen, Who Disappeared
From Home Friday, Found
Dead in a Cistern
CURIOSITY ENDS IN DEATH
Went Under the House and Fell Into a
Discarded Cistern.-Mother Pros
trated With Grief When
Neighbor Finds Body

A little tragedy was enacted out on
the west side of the city Friday when
Carl Hansen, the little son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Chris Hansen, who reside at go
Jenne street, was drowned in d dis
carded cistern under the rear porch
of the Hansen home. The finding of
the little body just after 5 O'Clock
Friday evening brought to an end a
search which had been carried on for
more than eight hours. The remains
were turned over to the coroner and
this morning jury called to investi-
gate the death of the child returned a
verdict of accidental death.
The accident is one of the saddest
reported in Kenosha in many month.
The little Hansen child was the pride
of the neighborhood and adored by its
parents. He was just twenty months
old and for the past three months he
had been toddling about the house.
Mrs. Hansen had been washing in the
rear of the house and the little boy
had followed her out on the lawn and
had toddled about after her. The
back portion of the house stood over
an old cistern but the foundation had
been so built as to hide the old tank
from view. At one end of the house
there was little door leading under
the house and since the little boy had
been walking he had always sought to
get through this door to explore. the
strange country under the door step.
His mother placed a tub filled with
clothes under the house just before s
O'Clock in the moraing and half
hour later the little fellow found the
chance to realize his dearest wish.
He had been told that there was a
''great black hole" beyond the door
way and this had only increased his
childish curiosity to get under the
house. While the mother was in the
house he slipped through the narrow
little door and it is supposed that a
minute later he plunged into the wa
tiers of the cistern. A little later the
mother started a search for him, and
finding no trace of him about the
yard, she called up the police office
and notified the officers that the little
boy was missing and they took up the
search. The father returned from
work at noon and joined with the
mother and the officers in the search
and by 8 o'clock in the afternoon
nearly every one in the neighborhood
we're searching for the child. None
of them thought of the great black
hole under the back of the house, but
just after S O'Clock John Zewen no.
ticed that the door leading under the
house was opened, sand crawling in,
he noticed the golden hair of the lit
tie boy floating on the top of the dirty
waters of the cistern. The remains
were gently removed from the cistern
and carried to the house, and when
the mother discovered the fate of the
child she refused to be comfo1ted.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-29
COMPLAIN OF AUTO TESTERS
Farmers Incensed Against Those From
Mitchell Motor Car Co.


Mitchell Motor Car Co.
Farmers in the western part of Mt
Pleassn Mt and as far south as Somers,
Kencsha County, make bitter com.
plant of the reckless manner in which
young men employed by the Mitchell
Motor Car Co. run automobiles on the
highways while testing them. One
day this week Mrs. Will Miller was
coming along with horse and buggy.
An automobile appeared and the
driver, although he sounded his
alarm, failed to take proper pre-
caution and struck the horse driven
by Mrs. Miller, knocking it into the
ditch.
This is the third complaint and if
the reckless driving is continued the
parties should be apprehended and
dealt with TO the full extent of the
law. 1t is just such work as this that
creates such bitter hatred on the
part of farmers for the automobile.
Crowding horses off the road is
against the law and drivers of auto
mobiles should know ira cine
Journal.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-29
Former Banker Gets Long Sought
Parole From State Board
Of Control on Friday
ONE MORE WEEK IN PRISON
Former Banker Is Given the Right To
Leave His Cell on the First Day of
September.-Hears News of
Pardon in Silence

Frank S. Komp, former president
of the Kenosha State Bank and the
Kenosha Trust Company, is happy
man today for late last night the
Wisconsin State Board of Control in
session at Madison recommended nine
paroles to take effect the first day of
September and the name of Frank S.
Komp, serving a term for perjury,
sent up from Kenosha county, heads
the list OF the people recommended
for release. Governor Davidson will
act on the report of the Board within
the next three days and Issue the for
NAL order for the discharge of the
nine men from prison. No other Ke-
nosha county convicts are named in
the order of the Board.
Komp heard the news of the action
of the Board from the warden of the
state prison early Monday morning.
While the action of the Board of Con-
troll had been expected no word of 1t
had been sent to Komp and he was
not aware of the fact that there was a
new law under which ne could be re-
leased until Monday morning when
the warden carried to him the telegram
from Madison, Komp was at his
usual duties in the office of the prison
when he heard Of his good fortune.
He received the news in silence and
made no comment on the fact save to
express deep gratitude to the warden
for his action in recommending the
parole. A minute later he left the
office of the warden and went back to
his books to start his last week of
work for the state.
The recommendation for the pardon
Of Komp was the strongest sent by
the Warden to the State Board and
Notwithstanding the fact that the Ke-
nosha county officials had been noti-
fed of the proposed parole no objec.
tions to it was made by District At
torney Baker who had been influen-
tia1 in the conviction of Komp. No
word was received from the Board
from the local officials and it was a
case where silence was taken to give
consent.
Komp's perfect record since he
entered the prison made him the first
man on the list and his personal popu-
1arity with the warden and other Off
Gals at the prison aided materially in
securing the parole.
1t is not probable that Komp will
return to Kenosha when he is released
from prison next Saturday night, but
he will probably go directly to Chi
cago where his wife and child are
awaiting his coming. 1t is not pro.
bable that he will ever be seen in Ke-
nosha again and it is quite certain
that he will never stand in prison
er's dock in this county again.
There are no new charges against
Komp filed here and the District At
torney has no intention of reviving
the old cases.
Komp was sentenced to prison on
October 10, 1905, and he has served
the better part of two years. The
parole issued to him does not give
him back his citizenship and he will
be technically under the control of
the officials of the prison until his
time expires. It is thought, however,
that the Governor will issue a fri
pardon to Komp within a few weeks
in order to allow him to resume all of
his civil rights.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-29
Heirs Of Late Roscoe Torrey to
Ask that Benjamin B. Torrey Be
Declared Legally Dead
MISSING FOR SEVEN YEARS
Missing Man Was Last Heard From In
Montana When He Was Starting for
a Trip over the Mountains to
Buy Timber Lands

An old Kenosha mystery is to be
revived within few days when the
heirs of the late Roscoe Torrey, for
merly we'll known in the town of
Somers, will file an application with
the county judge to have Benjamin
B. Torrey, one of the heirs to the
estate, declared illegally dead". Ben.
jamin B. Torrey has beensss, missing
from the county for many years and
it was seven years ago that the last
word was received from him. Per-
kins c. Torrey, the executor of the
estate is planning to wind up his
work and he will second the request
to have the man declared, legally
dead.
The disappearance of Ben Torrey
has been one of the mysteries that
caused no end of interest in this
county. The young man was widely
known in the town of Somers and in
fact, in all parts of the countypbefore
he went west to take up the work of
a buyer of timber lands. He had been
successful in his business and when
he was last heard of he was stopping
at little mountain inn in Montana.
The last word received from him more
than seven years ago was letter to
| his mother now deceased. In the
letter the missing man stated that he
was going into the mountains on the
following day to purchase timber
lands. Nothing was ever heard from
him after this time. Letters sent to
the inn where he was stopping were
returned unopened and notwithstand
| ing the fact that his brother spent a
great deal of time and money in at
tempting to find some trace of the
missing man nothing was ever found.
| It is supposed that Torrey went out
into the mountains and that he was
either killed by the mountaineers, or
that he fell in with a band of Indians
who robbed and murdered him. All
effort to have the matter investigated
bring any satisfactory result. It is
probable that the fate Of Torrey will
never be discovered.
AS he was one of the six heirs of
the estate he had quite little prop
erty left to him, and this has been in
the hands of the executor awaiting
the discovery of some trace of the
whereabouts of the missing man.
The property that was left as his
portion of the estate will be divided
among the five other children of the
| father.
There are several similar cases of
missing heirs in the business of the
County Court, but this is the only
case in which application is to be
made to have the heir legally declared
dead. One of the famous cases was
the heir to the portion of the estate of
the late William Lynch. John Lynch
has been missing from home for
nearly twenty years, and it has been
nearly fifteen years since he was
heard from. A small amount of the
large estate of William Lynch was
| left for the missing man and it is now
in the hands of the executor of the
estate. It is pretty certain that
Lynch died years ago, but the mem
| bers of the family have shown no de-
sire to have the matter cleared up by
erasing his name from the list of heirs
under the will of his deceased father.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-29
TAX COLLECTORS SLOW
Only Five Towns in County Have Filed
Reports of Assessments So Far

Reports of Assessments So Far
The assessors in the towns of Keno
sha county seem to hate to tell the
people of the towns the amount that
has been assessed for the year, as
only five of the eight towns have filed
the annual reports of the assessments
which should have been in the hands
of the county clerk on the first Mon
day in August. Few of the towns
have as yet filed the report of dairy
statistics which should have been on
record many days ago.
Clerk Jones is anxious to make his
report to the Secretary of State, but
it is impossible to make the report
until after the town clerks report. He
has sent an urgent letter to ali clerks
asking that the statistics be sent in
at once.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-29

Doctors G. Windesheim, H. A. Rob-
inson and H. J. Stalker, who have
been in Superior attending the meet
ing of the Wisconsin State Medical
Association, returned home on Sum
day. DR.. Windesheifn was elected as
the representative of the Wisconsin
Association at the coming meeting of
the American Medical Association to
be held in Chicago.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-29
WAS PAINFULLY BURNED
Mrs. Ame1ia Brueckmann Badly In
jured at Her Home on Grand Ave.

Mrs. Amelia Brueckmann, wife of
Carl Brueckmann, was painfully in
jured at her home on Grand avenue
just after O'Clock Sunday evening,
when she slipped and fell while carry
ing pot of hot coffee. Mrs. Brueck-
mann was attempting to walk up the
steps at the rear of her home and
when the hot coffee was spilled over
her she fell back to the ground. The
coffee was poured over her breast, face
and arms and she was painfully
burned. DR.. Gephart was called to
attend her.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-29
WE'LL KNOWN WOMAN DEAD
Mrs. Seth Symmonds Expired at Her
Home in the Town of Somers

Mrs. Seth Symmonds. widow of the
late Seth Symmonds, and one of the
best known residents of the town of
Somers, died at her home on the
Grand avenue road, at five O'Clock
Monday evening. Mrs. Symmonds had
been i'll for many months, and her
death was not unexpected.
Mrs. Symmonds was a daughter of
the late Robert Triple, and she was
born in England. She came to this
country when little girl and had re-
sided in the county for many years.
Her husband died many years ago and
there are no children of the family.
Mrs. Symmonds has one brother liv-
ing in Chicago.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-29
NOTICE

People wishing to make dates for
E. R. Wilson, Auctioneer, can make
them at this Office. wifi
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-29

James H. Knight, of Waukegan,
spent Saturday evening in Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-29

Subscribe for OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-05-18
SELL THE INDIAN LANDS.

A number Of Umatilla Indians are
climbing up the ladder of enlighten-
ment sufficiently to be able to handle
their own business.
Such Indians should be liberated
from the control of the Indian agent
and allowed to manage their own af-
fairs. 1t would encourage others to
become more civilized.
AS fast as the heirship lands are
divided 1t is hoped that they are sold
to white settlers. The more white
owners on the reservation the better
for the Indian.
OF course, there will always be a
certain proportion of the tribe which
will need a guardian. This is also
true of the whites. But as fast as
the Umatilla shows a capacity, he
should be set free. If he succeeds 1t
will pull others upward. If he starts
backward, the government can
catch" him before he falls.
The reservation must ultimately be
broken up. White settlers, not spec
ulators, must become owners of 1t as
the old Indians die off. 1t is the only
solution of the Indian question.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-05-18

needs settlers. 1t invites capital. 1t
will be the center of one of Umatilla
county's richest sections.
BY all means, the bitterness which
is growing up between the rival fac
tions should be smothered. The cost
of the differences in dollars and cents
will not be much. That loss will not
be noticed in few years, but the
social, neighborhood and municipal
bitterness which will take root in the
present contention, will not be erad-
icated for a generation.
1t is most unfortunate for Hermis-
ton. Many good people with capital
will stay away when they learn of the
trouble. For Hermiston's sake, bury
the hatchet and get together.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-05-18
GOOD TEACHING METHODS.

The art Of teaching school has been
improved SO greatly within the past
few years that It is astonishing.
In the primary grades in Pendleton
public schools are children from to
Q years old who are actually reading
fourth grade books.
Many of them are now easily ready
for the third grade, 20 rapidly has
been their progress in the primary
grade. They pronounce words Of
five and six syilables. perfectly. by
the sounding" method, in which each
letter il given its actual value by the
child. Formerly one syllable words
were considered enough for the pri-
mary grades. Now there is no limit
TO the pronouncins abilities Of the lit
lie tots.
Parents are sstonished that and
s-year-old children are able to read
readily from books which were for
meriy considered ''hard'' for the fourth
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-05-18

to spend the whole night with o
tremendous strain on his respiratory
organs. 1 have time and again gone
home 80 worn out that could neither
eat nor sleep, and q number Of my col
leagues have been in the same condition.
"But Peruns has changed this. I
found that after using bottle or two
my system was greatly invigorated with
new life and force, and can now fortify
my system to endure q greater strain
than was ever possible before. Peruna
certainly is very necessary to me, and
keeps me In splendid heai.h,"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-05-18

Hollow, might it not be good plan
to spend a small sum in boring for
artesian water?
1t would be worth the price to know
exactly what is under Pendleton, any
way.
If a strong flow of artesian water
should be struck beneath the lava
stratums the city water question would
be solved for all time. II water could
not be found, the experience would
not cost the city any large sum and
there would then be definite inform
alton on the subject.
The o. r. G. N. artesian well at La
Grande will furnish sufficient water
for all the companys buildings and
engines at that place and the city of
La Grande is now talking of abandon
ing her Beaver creek project for
which 100000 has just been voted,
and instead bore for artesian water
for the city supply.
1t is worth considering. The same
general conditions prevail on the west
slope of the Blue mountains as are
found on the east slope and IL La
Grande has an artesian flow $50 feet
below the surface, why not Pendle-
ton?
Let us go down 1900 feet, anyway.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-05-18
FREAKS OF THE TAFT BOOM.

The presidential boom of William
H. Taft has reached the delirious
stage.
Not only is "Big Bill" Taft quoted
literally in the Associated Press dis
patches every day, in which speeches
and interviews galore are inflicted
upon the public, but now comes MRS.
William Howard Taft, the estimable
wife Of the secretary of war and pros
pective candidate for president" in
repeated interviews in the Associated
Press papers on "higher education"
soul growth" development of
higher art" or any other Of the sub
jects on which she IL now copiously
quoted.
II is all a part Of the presidential
game. II Mrs. Taft can please the
women with her dissertations. she
feels that It will mean votes for Will
liam. So she has entered the game.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-05-18
WE'LL IN PENDLETON.

Two years ago when a geological
expert Of the United States govern
ment visited Pendleton at the request
of the water commission, to investi-
gate the flow Of spring near the T.
G. HALEY farm on Wild Horse creek,
he said that he fully believed that q
flow Of ertesian water could be found
directly under Pendleton in the UNA
tilla river bottom.
He said It would pay the city to
spend few thousand dollars in the
search, as the geological formation
indicated that It could be found.
Az It is going to cost the city about
s2bo.ooo to pipe in water from Thorn