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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-02-27
ARE HAPPILY WED
Arthur Rugg Well Known Railway Man
Leads Miss Julia Brennan to Altar


There was a quite little wedding at
st. George Church at nine CLOCK We'd
nesday morning when Miss Julia Bren-
nan and Arthur Rugg, both well known
young people Of the city were united
in marriage by Rev. Father Elskamp
in the presence Of a few friends and
relatives. After wedding breakfast
at the home Of the bride, Mr.. and Mrs.
Rugg left for two weeks honey moon.
They will make their home in the Hal
berstadt fats on Park street and will
be at nome to their friends after Mar
Is. Mr.. Rugg is a brakeman on the
Kenosha accommodation and is well
known among the railway men Of the
city. He and his bride VIII have the
best wishes Of large circle Of friends
and relatives,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-02-27
SEEK AUTO FIXTURES HERE
Sheriff of Valparaiso Believes Stolen
Goods Were Brought to Kenosha

Sheriff Green of Porter County, Indi
ana was in Kenosha. on Friday after
noon seeking tos find some trace of 2.
large number of fixtures from automo-
biles which were stolenaat,.Y lparalso.
Ind, two weeks ago. The men wha
are alleged to have taken the stuff are
now IN custody at the Indiana City aad
it is claimed that they admitted eem-
ing to Kenosha from that city and ii
is supposed that the stuff was sold in
Kenosha. The police are aiding the
Indiana sheriff in Sc IN. find some
trace of the stolen goods.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-02-27
First publication, February 10, 1908.
NOTICE TO CREDTT0RS,

tTTENOSHA COUNTY COURT:-In Probate,
IN In the matter of the estate of Jennie M.
Mathews. deceased.
Notice is hereby given chat the claims and de-
mands of all persons against Jennie M. Mathews,
deceased, late of the said County >of Kenosha,
will be examined and adjusted 'Dy the County
court of Kenosha oGttnty at the regular
terms Of said court go be holden at the
County court room, in the City of sKenosha,
in and for said county, on the FIRST Tues
Tuesday of October. A. ID. 1908, at ten
o'clock A, M. of those days; also that the time
until ard inc1Qding che first Tuesday of
September, A. d. 1908, is thetime allowed and
limited for creditors of said Jennie NJ. Mathews,
deceased, TO present their claims for ex-
animation and allowance.
Dated at Ken0sha, the 9TH day of February,
A d. 1908. By the Court,
RUSSELL HI. SLOSSON,
WAS County Judge.
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First publication, Jan. 80.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

KEN0SHA COUNTY COURT:-In Pro-
bate In the matter Of the Last Will and
Testament Of Leander d. Mer1ick, deceased.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that the
claims and demands Of all persons against
Leander u. Merrick, deceased late of the
City Of Kenosha i'll said County of Keno
sha, will be examined and adjusted by the
County Court Of Kenosha County at the
regular terms Of said Court to be holden
at the County Court Room in the City
OF Kenosha in and for said County, Oh the
first Tuesday Of May A. D. 1903, and on
the first Tuesday Of September, A. d. 1908,
at ten O'Clock a. M Of those days: also
that the time until and Including the
first Tuesday Of August, A. d. 1908,
Is the time allowed and limited for credi-
tors OF said Leander e. Merrick, deceased,
&c, present their claims for examination and
allowance.
Dated at Kenosha, the 23rd day Of Jan
uary, A. d. 1908,
BY the Court,
RUSSELL III. SLOSSON
W-4o County Judge
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THE COUNTY FAIR
Amateur Entertainment for Benefit OF
the Y. M. G. A. Proves Success

The entire cast Of the ssCounty
Fair from Boss Jones to .Jimnay Brown
acquitted themselves nobly and made
the occasion one of the best home
talent entertainments ever given in
Kenesha
There was no real "plot" though the
troubles of Widow Smithers occupied an
place. The frequent intro
duction Of choruses and new characters
served to keep the audiences constantly
interested.
The ladies of the auxiliary of the
7. M. G. A. under whose direction the
entertainment was given ere very much
pleased with its enccess
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-02-27

The Rew statute to which attention
has just been called by the refusal of
the sheriff to receive young boys as
prisoners at the jail until separate
place to Keep tham has been provided
by the county, is a good law and we
hope that it will be vigorously enforced
all over the state. The thought of what
a pernicious influence the association
OF young boys with hardened criminals
must have upon all their future careers
rs not pleasant one and it is a dis
grace to our boasted civilization that
such association has at times been per
naitted in this state. The sheriff is
exactly right in this stand he has taken
and he will find that not only the law
but public opinion is with him. Now
that there is no accommodation for the
youthful criminals of whom there are
altogether too many in the city at the
Jail, it may be necessary to either let
them run for awhile or send them di
rectly to the reform school but anytLing
is better than putting them in with
the regular Jail birds.
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First publication Feb. 6,
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

KENOSHA COUNTY COURT I'm Pro
bate. In the matter Of the Estate Of James
ID: Sill late of Kenosha County State Of
Wisconsin, deceased.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that the
claims and demands of all persons against
James %. Sill, deceased late of the County
Of Kenosha will be examined and adj
justed by the County Court of Kenosha
County, at the regular terms of said Court
to be holden at the County Court Room
in the City of Kenosha, in and for said
County, on the first Tuesday of May, A.
d. 1908, and on the first Tuesday of Sep
TENDER, a. D. 1908, at ten o'clock A. H.
OF those days; also that the time until and
including the first Tuesday of August, A.
-. l908, is the time allowed and limited
for creditors of said James e. Sill, de-
ceased, to present their claims for exami-
nation and allowance.
Dated at Kenosha the 31st day of Jan
uary, A. ID. 1908.
BY the Court,
RUSSELL H. SLOSSON
Wa County Judge
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-02-27

An Asstraaian corporation has just
received "a scBarcession from the Russian
government no take out thirty million
feet of tinlber year from a forest
in Siberia 1aine hundred miles from
Vla3dwustok to be delivered in Mel
bourne, Australia, approximately eight
Thousand miles away and nearly three
times the distance from New York to
| San Francisco. 1t is likely that no lum-
berlng operation in recent years better
lHustrs4es the pinch IN the timber sup
ply IN all parts Of the world. In the
news Of the concession, told in an
American Luuber Journal, is the sug-
gestion Of the difficulty all countries
may have to encounter I'm getting the
wood which they need 1m the future.
Every year Timber cruisers are going
further and farther afeld and cutting
trees waich, liz former times of album
dance, they passed because ST the in
accessibility of the forests
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The committee in charge of the law
and order petitions will hold it's final
meeting sometime next week. It is GER
tain that the petitions will be presented
to the Council at It's next regular meet
ing.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-02-27
WHIST GLUE scoREs

The Kenosha Whist Club held it's
regular meeting at the home of W. r
Marlatt on Exchange street Thursday
evening. Five tables of club whist
were played with the following scores.
North and South
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LEGAL NOTICES
First puBlication, Jan. 30.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

First publication, Jan 80.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
KENOsHA COUNTY COURT:--In Pro,
bate: In tie matter of the estate OF
James Hunt late Of the County Of Keno
sha, Wisconsin, deceased
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
claims and demands OF all persons against
James Hunt deceased late e. q the city Will ii
be examined and adjusted by the County
Court Of Ke9sha County Y At 5od the r Sc fhe
County Court room, in the city Of Kenosha
6ar and d fer SAID e on and tne Of af 6e Te gs
Tuesday of September, A. D. 1908, at ten
o'clock A M. Of those days; also that the
time until and including, the first Tues
day OF August, A. ID. 1908, is the time al.
lowed and limited for creditors of said
James Hunt, deceased, to present their
claims for examination and allowance.
Dated at Ken9sha, the 23rd day Of jan
uary, A, p, 1908
Il. BY the Court
RUSSELL Fl. SLOSSON,
w-43 County Judge
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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-02-13
TRAINS ARE sNoWBoUNO.
Michigan Is in the Grasp of Blizzard
that Paralyzes Transportation.

Detroit, Mich. - With upwards of
a dozen passenger trains snowbornd
in various parts of the state and lndi,
cations of zero weather, Michigan Is
in the grasp of a blizzard that has
paralyZed transportation in many
sections and threatens to cause seri,
Gus distress. On the Flint division of
the Pere Marquette railroad a passen-
ger train has been stalled since Sat,
urday and with the railroad closed a
number of small towns are shut off
from their chief source of food sup
plies. SO far as known the passen-
gers on all snowbound trains have
been carried on bobsleds to nearby
towns or farm houses.
Last night the wind reached a
velocity of so miles an hour at De-
troit.
Henry Laros, of Menominee, was
frozen to death Tuesday night while
trying to walk to lumber camp near
Cedar River, in the upper peninsula.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-02-13
The Aldrich Currency Bill.

The Aldrich-Allison currency bill
may be an admirable measure. 1t will
give to the currency an elasticity
which it does not now possess and in
sures the soundness of any circulating
notes which may be issued against
security other than that now required
of the national banks.
But there is no reason for hurrying
its passage. The country does not
want congress to swallow any Aldrich
bill, bait, hook, and sinker. The sena-
tor from Rhode Island said that the
finance committee would be glad to
have suggestions, amendments, or
other currency bills from his col
leagues in the senate.
1t has not come to our notice that
Senator Aldrich has undertaken 10
consult the middle western bankers.
1t may be that while his bill is salts
factory to his own financial friends
it will not suit Chicago or Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan,
Iowa or Minnesota. At first glance
it would seem that while the bill, if en-
oNl'u illNo law, may pNiANAiS
country as whole, It will serve east
ern interests and eastern banks rather
than the banks and general business
of the interior. The bankers of the
interior should be heard. Congress
should consult them as to the effect
Of the proposed measure before it
reaches a conclusion as TO the charac-
ter of the law which it is to enact.
The speaker of the house is from
the middle west, and can serve his
constituents by seeing to it that be
fore there is any currency legislation
their interests shall have been con
suited
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-02-13
Army Paw.

Secretary Taft in his annual report
urges congress to grant higher pay to
the enlisted men of the army. He
to be given to men who have received
specialized training in the service
which enables them to earn higher
wages outside after their terms of
enlistment expire. Such men ought to
be kept in the army, and the only way
to keep them is by giving them in
ducements to re-enlist. among which
better pay holds a chief place.
The pay given the men was fixed so
long ago that it has no proper rela-
tion to present economic conditions.
Even the pay for men in their first
enlistment should be somewhat raised.
But the chief raises should go to the
skilled men who repeatedly re-enlist
and to the noncommissioned officers
who make the army their life work.
1t has been suggested that a grade
equivalent to that of the warrant Off
Ger in the navy should be created in
the army, and that material privileges,
allowances and increased dignity
should accompany appointment to IT..
We do not have large army, and
yet we find it very difficult to keep
its ranks full The decrease in the
number of enlisted men last year was
4,428, despite the best efforts of the
enlistment officers.
Under such conditions a iudicious
increase III the pay of the men is de-
sirable, even though congress should
be in its most economical mood,
There are plenty of varieties of petty
graft and waste which might be elm,
mated elsewhere If economy is in the
air
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-02-13
THE LEVEL OF COST.
Prices Have Advanced Throughout
the World.

Many persons in our country who
have complained of the increased cost
of the necessaries of life have talked
and written as if the condition were
peculiar to the United States and al
fected us alone. The fact, as is
known to students of broader view, is
that high prices have been and are
worldwide. Increased cost here is
coincident with increased cost abroad.
If prices had risen in the United States
only we might blame the tariff or the
trusts or anything else prominent in
the political discussions with better
show of reason, but since the foreigner
suffers with the American consumer
it ought to be clear that the things
most dwelt upon here as underlying
causes of greater cost are not the re-
sponsible ones.
A deputy speaking in the German
Reichstag recently on the increase in
the cost of living in Berlin, said that
it amounted to SO 1-3 per cent. in the
last ten years; that the price OF
articles of general consumption had
in some instances advanced over 60
per cent, as. for example, in the case
of rye, which had gone up 62.1 per
cent, while wheat had risen 40 per
cent. since 1901 and flour "a per cent.
since September, 1906; barley had
risen ten per cent. and potatoes II per
cent since last year; in 1906 the price
of beef had risen sc per cent, veal
AIS per cent, mutton so per cent, and
pork 40.6 per cent, compared with
what they had cost ten years before;
during the last II months all these
prices, except in the case or pork, the
price OF which had slightly decreased,
had recorded further advances.
Prices of things which enter into
general consumption tend everywhere
to a common level. Special causes in
terfere to make the price of some
article or some class of articles lit
tie higher here or a little lower there,
but in general when the price is high
or low in one country it is the same
in another and all. There is the i'm
pOrtant difference always, however,
that the purchasing power of our own
people is greater than that Of the peo-
pies Of other misunderstanding Ga
ZettC-TimcS.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-02-13
THEY DIED TOGETHER.
Two Women, Friends for Years, Froze
to Death While Sitting Near an
Empty Stove.

New York City. 49, Two women
were found dead Wednesday in the
kitchen of a house at No. 35l West
Seventy-first street. of which they
were caretakers. They were Mrs.
Margaret BERTHE, 70 years old, and
Mrs. Margaret Kelly. 40 years old
For many years they had been
friends.
There was little coal in a bin in
the cellar and II cents were found in
cupboard. The police think the wo-
men set by a stove, in front of which
their bodies were found, to keep
warm and fell asleep before the fire
went out and were frozen to death.
Coroner Hamburger said the women
had been dead more than "a hours.
Each of the women had heavy wrap
about her shoulders.
Pawn tickets which showed that
during the last two months Mrs. Ber,
tie had pawned 1S articles of dress
and jewelry were found.
While the policemen were in the
house preparing to remove the bodies
TO the morgue a collector for a stone
cutting concern called. This concern
built for Mrs. Bertie a small monu.
ment over the grave of her son, Capt.
John W. BERTHE, who served in the
Spanish-American war.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-02-13
NO WAR WITH JAPAN
ALL SPECULATION AS TO CON.
FLICT is IDLE.
That Country in No Financial Con-
dton to Join Issue with So
Powerful a Foe as the
United States.

Highly significant dispatches from
Japan contain matter that should help
to put a quietus on jingoes and alarm
lists here and in Europe. No sane per-
son surely would see anything but a
sign of lack of warlike intentions in
a government which introduces a bud
get calling for immense reductions in
army and navy appropriations. The
total proposed retrencnment program
involves 100,000,000 yen, and two
thirds OF this would dock the army
and navy expenditures formerly laid
out for 190S-09.
Retrenchment is a case of sheer
necessity for Japan. National in
solvency is the alternative. The limit
of the taxable capacity of the people
has been reached, and the failure to
float the last loan in London shows
ominously for the national credit
abroad, even at a period of wide
spread stringency.
Japan's foreign debt now is some
2,300,000.000 yen, bearing n high rate
of interest that IS eating into the mar
row resources of the people annually.
The immense burden of the late war,
felt in inordinate taxation of an i'm
poverished people, dims the glory of
military achievement, and series of
bank failures, strikes and dangerous
social demonstrations indicates a
looming domestic crisis that must be
prepared against. Hence this sudden
calling a halt on a program of army
and navy expansion that Japan simply
can not pay for. 1t is growing evident
that the peace of Portsmouth came
none too soon for Japan, and that the
surrender Of the money indemnity vas
heavy sacrifice.
The seat of Japan's anxiety is at
home, and the anxiety is primarily
financial. The question of comparative
fighting ability aside, the sheer tinan
cial burden of a war with the United
States would crush Japan within a
twelvemonth. A country facing a
problem of threatened national in.
solvency. and with its foreign credit
for war purposes already eaten up, is
in no mood or condition to seek a pre-
text for war.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-02-13
BIG STICK FALLS ON STILLIRGS
THE PUBLIC PRINTER is SUS-
PENDED FROM OFFICE.
The Action is Taken in Order to Aid
the investigation of the Govern
ment Printing Office.

Washington, D. G. President
Roosevelt on Wednesday temporarily
suspended as public printer Charles
A. Stillings and appointed William S.
Rossiter temporarily to fill the duties
of that office. The action, as ex-
planned officially. is to facilitate the
investigation now being made of the
government printing Office by con-
gress. Mr.. Rossiter now is chief
clerk of the census office
Just as the presidents action in
suspending Mr.. Stillings was being
announced, a committee of labor lead
ers of this city called at the White
House and presented to the president
resolutions adopted by the Central
Labor union here charging Mr.. Still
ings with violations of the eight-hour
law in the government printing office
and adding: 1T is difficult at this
time to get witnesses against Mr..
Stillings, for the reason that many of
them are employed in the government
printing Office and directly under his
charge. We hope, however, to follow
up our oral statement by way of affi-
davits If necessary" The president
informed the committee OF the action
he had taken in the case.
Resolutions by numerous labor or
ganiZations in various cities charging
violation in the government printing
office OF the eight law, discrimi-
nation against veteran soldiers and
the widows OF soldiers and violation
of the civil service law have been
submitted to congress and the presi.
dent.
Mr.. Stillings is from Boston and
was appointed public printer in 1905.
He had been general manager OF his
fathers printing firm in New York
and at various times manager of the
printers board of trade of this city
and of New York. Mr.. Rossiter also
came from Massachusetts and had
business connections in New York
and Washington before assuming of.
flee in the census bureau in 1890.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-02-13
That Handy Surplus.

Silly free trade writer's are harping
on the treasury surplus as one of the
causes of the existing situation. They
never stop to think that because OF
this very surplus the government was
able to rush $25,OOO,00O Of currency to
the relief of banks which would other
wise have been compelled to suspend
payment and close their doors. That
treasury surplus has proved an anchor
of safety, fortress of financial
strength. The government had no
surplus with which to help out the
banks in the free trade regime of
1S93-97. 1t was, instead, issuing bonds
to the extent of S2GO0OO,OOO to cover
treasury deficits. Protection surpluses
are sometimes handy things to have.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-02-13

If there are not as stars on the flag
within year or two it will not be for
lack Of effort on the part of citizens
of Arizona and New Mexico. A con
Vention of delegates from every part
of New Mexico adopted resolutions
the other day demanding the admis-
sion of the territory as a state. The
governor of Arizona has reported that
the statehood sentiment in that terri
tory is stronger than ever before.
Bills were introduced in the senate
on the first working day of the session
of congress providing for the creation
Of two new states out of the terri
tories. AS the effort to pass joint
statehood bill has been abandoned it
is now necessary for the two terri
tories to convince congress that they
are worthy to be admitted to the fam
lily Of states.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-02-13

Some French writer's have nnder-
taken unitedly TO show TO the world
that their national literature is not
truly represented by the coarse and
indecent novels that are supposed by
many persons to be the most charac-
teristic production of literary France.
Not only is it not true, remarks the
Youths Companion, but the picture of
French life drawn from these novels
is grossly unjust. There are hundreds
Of French novels written every year
that are as sweet and wholesome as
anything England or America can
show; and anyone who desires a true
representation of French family life
may find it in Prof. Barrett Wendells
recent book. Moreover, the study of
art, history, science and many other
branches is pursued in France by com
petent and painstaH ing writer's. 1t is
proposed to establish agencies in Eng
lish and American cities for the sale
of the best French books.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-02-13
The Country Itself Again.

1t is certainly in order to congratu-
late the banking and business com
munity on the disappearance of the
last signs of the recent stringency.
The New York banks have resumed
full cash payments and report a sub.
stantial surplus over their legal re-
serves. In Chicago and other western
centers, where conditions were at no
time nearly so bad as in the east,
clear4-g house certificates have not
been used for some time, and the
extra-legal emergency currency" is
rapidly being retired, The premium
on currency is thing of the past even
in Wall street, and country banks are
again sending their surplus cash to
the money markets.