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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-29
BATTLE ROYAL
ON IN ALABAMA
The Fight in Favor of Con
stitutional Prohibition Is
Vigorous

Montgomery, Ala, Sept. 29.-Most
thoughtful men, If they express an
opinion at all, lean to the belief that
II the election were held now, instead
of some weeks hence November 29)
the proposed amendment to the con-
stitution to include the prohibition OF
the sale of liquors, or the manufac-
ture thereof, would be defeated. These
same men will also say, that the fight
to hold this advantage is one that
must be made with caution, and
against very popular sentiment, as
we'll as species of argument.
Here are the strong points of the
prohibitionists: To fail to support
the amendment is to fail to back up
the prohibition laws; to lose the
amendment is to take back set IN
the fight for prohibition. and ii the
movement fails 1t will mean a senti-
mental defeat at least for the friends
Of liquor inhibition.
The antfs argue the uselessness of
the idea the fact that it is an untried
principle even as statute, its danger
as an overload to the organic law that
might not, with legislatures not. in
lulI 0NSOAuS OO lCCuS 61llu tu0 E0us
eral belief that constitutions are for
enunciation Of principles rather than
laying out of statutory provisions.
Political Aspect of It.
And then comes the political side.
Governor B. B. Conner is working for
1t, though. just now one may not see
where he expects to land in political
way. But it is belief as general as
to be almost universal, that he sees
a landing place Of this kind himself.
even though 1t may be unrecognizable
to the general public. He can not 70
to the senate at the 1911 session, when
successor to Bankhead is to be nam
ed. That much is known, and the
reasons are too we'll understood to
review them.
Further than this. 1t is known that
Judge s. D. Weakley, candidate for
governor and author of the drastic
prohibition ilws Of the last extra ses-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-29
ANOTHER DEATH
IN AUTO RACES
Mechanician Fatally and Driv-
er Seriously Injured at the
Long Island Races

Riverhead, L. l., Sept. 29.-Herbert
H. Lyttle. one of the best known pro-
fessional automobile racers in the
country, was dangerously hurt and his
machinist. James Bates, was SO badly
injured that --e died shortly fter
reaching the hospital today in the
Long Island stock car races near
Riyerhead.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-29
|0WAN. KILLED
BY A BURGLAR
Desperate Deed Was Commit
ted While the Victim Was
Asleep in Home

Dess Moinss, Sept. 2s-while in bed,
G.. E. Murrow, aged "a. b dairy man
whose home Is mile east of the state
fair grounds. was shot and instantly
killed by burglar early today. The
burglar ransacked Murrow's clothing
and ESCAPED with S25.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-29
THE WEATHER.

North DakOta-Partly cloudy !
with probably showers tonight or Z
Thursday. Warmer tonight. =
} UNIVERSITY REPORT.
Temperature for twenty.four .
hours ending at $500 p. m. .
Maximum, g.. ,
Minimum, Al. .
Barometer, 30.1s.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-29
Peary's Statement.

Bar Harbor. Me-, Sept. 29.-Com-
mander Peary was informed last
night that Harry Whitney on his ar
rival at St. Johns had stated
that he had read the instructions
which Commander Peary left with
Boatswain Murphy regarding the
stores at Annotok and Etah. Whit
ney stated that Murphy could not read
and that the instructions said that
those guarding the supplies were to
use Cooks supplies first and then
Peary's. Commander Peary said:
Il left very explicit instructions
with Murphy about those supplies, but
until the main question in this con-
troversy is settled, shall not make
those instructions public. There was
nothing ambiguous about the instruc.
tions with regard to providing for d.
Cook in case he needed assistance.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04
Model Saloons: Two Pictures.

The Mayor Of Chicago has given ex-
preston to his disgust at the efforts
Of certain brewers agents to prevent
the closing of vicious, lawbreaking and
low saloons and has asked why practice
in such instances does not conform to
the theories and excellent annual reso-
buttons Of the National Model License
League, whose avowed object is the
suppression of dives that discredit the
whole liquor trade and cause popular
agitation for prohibition where under
better conditions regulation would be
deemed sufficient.
That league has met at Louisville
and it's president has again earnestly
denounced the saloon that encourages
gambling and violates the law as an
offense to modern thought and public
decency The same address advocated
suspension Of a saloon license for thirty
days after the first conviction of the
proprietor or his agent and cancella-
ton Of the license, with permanent ex-
clusion from the traffic, for second
ofense.
These are admirable and highly ere
ditable suggestions. Certainly a very
great change for the better in the re-
tail liquor trade would take place in a
short time if the authorities, the law
abiding saloon-keepers and their allies
among the brewers and distillers reso-
lutely pursued the indicated policy.
But, as matter Of fact, what hap
pens, as rule, when saloon is caught
violating the law? If influence and
pressure are brought to bear on the
mayor it is to overlook the offense and
exercise clemency and patience. One
hears of no delegation to urge the prop
er disciplining Of even the notorious
proprietors of filthy and crime-breed-
ing dives.
The Model Saloon League should pro
coed from word to deed and should
cause anti -crime and anti-vice organiza
tions to be started in the cities that
are still wet among the saloon-keep-
ers and wholesale dealers in spirits and
intoxicants. AS long as the word
pictures are belied by the pictures from
life the hope of checking the prohibit
ton movement will remain illusory.-
Record Herald.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04

The big storm of Friday and Satur-
day tried the already weakened break
waters severely and with the usual
heavy storms of the spring months yet
to come the city will be lucky to get
off without having to pay dearly for
it's neglect to make the needed repairs
to the shore projections this summer.
The repairs have been delayed so long
now that it is probable that sections Of
the breakWaters that could have been
strengthened at comparatively slight ex-
pense last summer will have to be en-
tirely rebuilt and that will cost lot
of money 1t is not the fault Of the
taxpayers either that these repairs have
not been made long ago. They paid in
the money for them. The report of the
city treasurer for the period ending
Oct. 81, 1908 shows a balance on
hand" (the quotation marks are ours)
in the Harbor and Breakwater Fund Of
SIS, 214.6G, when week or so later the
city went absolutely broke and had to
borrow money from the bank to keep
running until the money from the last
tax levy began to come in. This sim
ply means that money taken out Of the
pockets Of the tax payers on the speci-
Gus plea that it was to be expended
for necessary repairs to the break
waters has been used for something
else. How do you property owners that
paid in this money like that kind of
juggling? We also notice in the last
apportionment of the tax levy made by
the finance committee an item appro-
priating $4,000 for breakwater repairs.
That is to say the committee finds it
necessary to put $4,000 more of the tax
payers money into a fund that no later
than October 81 had credit of
over fifteen thousand dollars. This
kind of bookkeeping is calculated to
deceive anybody who does not investi-
gate carefully, isn't it? Did it ever
strike you Mr.. Taxpayer that it is about
time that the city changed it's system
of going business and keeping it's ac-
counts so that when a fund shows a
credit balance that the money will be
in the treasury to meet that balance9
And if the gorgeous scale of expendi-
lures inaugurated by the present admin
istration is allowed to keep up-over
$4,000 spent on the STREETS in eight
months for one thing-just how much of
the last appropriation of $4,000 for the
breakwaters is likely to be available
when the time comes to make those re-
pairs? Think these things over. Re-
member you are paying the bills.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04
The Dance as an Aid to Health

AAe Dance as All Aid TO Health.
Extremes sometimes have their uses,
and it may be that the freak dancers
who now challenge public attention
and public criticism by their startling
innovations will bring about a reac-
ton toward sane and artistic dane
ing. Even now there is rivalry at
work, and one Of the newcomers. lisa
dora Duncan, makes her appeal as the
exponent of the Greek idea of dane
ing, the expression of the beautiful in
motion as well as in form. A man or
an ingenious automaton should be able
to illustrate this idea and give a per-
Torrance worth viewing.
Dancing as part Of a system of train
ing for the body and mind is not new
Neither has it been confined to dew
OteeS of the Greek cult. 1t has often
been practiced'in the treatment of GER
tain forms of ailment, and the modern
tendency to use every available aid to
health is certain to fix attention anew
to the claims Of the saltatorial art.
The reputation of the dance is under
cloud. Yet it has served a noble pur-
pose in the history of the race. AS
well ask people why they laugh and
sing as why they dance Still, if half
that is claimed for dancing by prophets
of the Duncan type is true, it must be
possible to give a wise answer which
none but cavilers will gainsay.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04

The owners of the local street rail
way line and Of the Chicago and Mil
waukee Electric were approached long
ago on the subject of bidding on a
lighting contract for the city, but the
fact that the alderman who agreed to
produce lower bid on the street
lighting contract than that made by
the Gas Company within sixty DAYS
has been after them again shows that
he is at work on his proposition and
that if his offer was only a. bluff as
some of his fellows on the Council have
claimed, he is working to make good
on it. Should Alderman Pirsch sue
coed in getting lower bid on the
lighting contract than the one already
made from any responsible concern
as he claimed he could do, he will have
performed a great public service
and there is no question, but that
the people will be with him in
demanding that the contract be let
to the lowest responsible bidder.
it is not probable that any re-
sponsible company will come in here
without chance at the commercial
lighting of the city and that is some
thing that neither Aldermans Pirsch
nor the whole Council can guarantee.
but the alderman has considerable
time left before his sixty days are up
and ne may turn up something yet.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04
The Boy That Wins In the City.

Drawn is not of much account In
those activities Of the city which the
country boy strikes out fer when he
takes the great leap. Nevertheless it
has generally been assumed that the
physical stamina Of the boy reared in
the open, with hard work for heri-
tage, makes his venture cityward a
success. A discussion on this point
has been started through a recent re-
mark to the boys of the New York city
college by it's president, John Huston
Finley, who is himself a product Of
country life. Mr.. Finley holds that
the country boy does have the adj
vantage over the city lad in the strug-
gle for the top, and that not because
OF his purely physical equipment.
1t is push, Imagination and courage
that open the door of success to the
country boy in the city. He has these
qualities in greater degree than the
city boy because his soul has never
felt cramped and confined in the coun-
try and his ignorance and illusion
really help him during apprenticeship.
The city boy starts in with misgivings,
according to Professor Finley. The
top is beyond him. But the country
boy aims for the top. He has always
bossed something, if only the sheep or
hens. His cutting loose from home is
a east for fortune. Nothing is too high
for him to aspire to, whereas, as
rule, the city boys road is laid out fer
him
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04

All that the special committee ap-
pointed by the Council to draft build
ing ordinance has to do now is to 90
ahead with the work and draw up the
very best ordinance Of which they are
capable without permitting any inter
ference from outside sources The men
named on the committee were supposed
to be competent, but in case they are
not that fact will be shown in their
work and any provisions in the ordi-
nance that they are drawing up which
are not satisfactory can easily be ehal-
lenged and changed if necessary when
the result of their work is presented to
the Council. They should do the best
they can with the work instructed to
them and leave it's acceptance or rejec-
ton to the Council.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04
OBJECT TO CHANGE
Shippers Hold Meeting in Chica.
go To Protest Against Change
in the Shipping Rates
LOCAL SHIPPERS INTERESTED

Shippers from all parts Of the country
presented themselves at the meeting of
the transcontinental freight bureau
Saturday in the Railway Exchange
building, Chicago, to support by oral
arguments the written protests previ-
ously submitted to the carriers against
the new schedule of trancontinental
freight rates which the railroads put
: into effect on Jan. /.
While the meeting is the usual semi
annual gathering of the roads represent
ed in the bureau, at which complaints
from the shippers are considered, unusu-
al interest attaches to it at this time
because OF the increases Of from 5 to
IA per cent in large proportion of the
commodity rates between points east of
the Missouri river and the Pacific coast
About fifty representatives of large
manufacturing and shipping interests,
including twelve representatives of the
United States Steel corporation, were
on hand Saturday waiting for their turn
on the docket Kenosha manufacturers
had two representatives at the meeting
L Over 200 subjects are on the docket
for consideration and the meeting is
expected to last several days. AS each
subject on the docket is reached the
shippers interested in the rate or ruling
under consideration are allowed to 90
before the meeting and present their
arguments. This will continue probab-
ly until Tuesday, when the railroad
officials will hold an executive session
and pass upon the questions presented
The railroad officials maintain an
extremely noncommittal attitude as to
whether the rates are likely to be
changed or not.
The. railroads insist, however, that
they intend to hold their position that
revenues must be increased.
Such subjects as classifcations, mix
ing of carloads, ETC., were taken up
From the shippers who came out to
the meeting it was plainly evident that
much dissatisfaction with the require
ments of the tariffs had been expressed,
and it seems probable that unless the
carriers agree to modify their schedules
complaint will be filed with the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
Most of the California shippers, who
are most seriously affected by the
transcontinental rates, and who have
estimated that the advance will cost
them nearly $1o,Ooo,oOO. year, have
not yet appeared. They are expected to
make the most vigorous complaints.
The rates against which protests
have made cover wide range Of com
modities The steel men are especially
interested in securing modification of
the regulations as to mixed carloads of
manufactured products, while the Cali
fornia jobbers see in the demands of
the steel men detriment of their in
terests.
Manufacturers of stoneware from ILL
nois complain because all of the terri
tory east Of the Mississippi river is
given the same rate and demand that
they be given differential under the
rates from Ohio and points east Of Chi
caog, which they formerly enjoyed
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04

There is nothing strange about it,
but it may be worth while to call the
attention Of the easy going citizens of
Kenosha to the fact that every report
Of the successful operation Of a muni-
cipally owned water company always
ends with the statement that the re-
suits have been achieved largely by
guarding the administration Of the
water system against the intrusion of
the political spokesman" For just as
long as the people of this city bear this
in mind there will be no change in the
method Of conducting the business of
our own company.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04

The future Of the Cuban republic de-
ponds largely upon whether or not the
Cuban people have learned the differ
ence between liberty and license. The
next time the American troops are sent
to the island to carry out the obligation
assumed by this government they are
likely to stay there until an new genera
ton, educated in the pubic schools in
the principles of free government, has
grown up to take the place of the
revolutionists
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04

The law has lever been enforced
against wife deserters because Of the
difficulty of securing convictions and
the expense involved in bringing them
back to the state for trial. 1t has
been thought cheaper to let them 90
than to go after them. The rapid in
crease in the number of dependents
thrown on the city as a result of this
crime has decided the pauper commit
tee of the Council to take some action
looking towards the prosecution of this
class of criminals, however, and an
effort will be made to see what effect
one or two convictions for wife deser-
ton will have in cutting down the
number of these crimes.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04

Tt has been repeatedly stated that
there is to be some insurance legisla-
ton at this session, but the legislature
should handle that subject very eau
tiously and be very sure that it is
right before going ahead. Tens Of
thousands Of policy holders in the state
will be directly affected by any action
that may be taken and hasty and i'll
considered laws will do irreparable
damage. Any laws that will SO in
crease the cost of insurance that any
number of policy holders will be I'M
able to keep up their payments will be
infinitely worse than no laws at all.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04

Trustmothering has been prolific
and prosperous Jersey industry for
many years. The tax imposed on the
brood was heavy source Of state in
come. Now that the Supreme Court
has cut the wings of the vultures by
bringing them under the jurisdiction
of the states they have invaded and
plundered this particular Jersey indus
try is less fourishing and the Jersey
revenues are diminished. The state
treasurer is wrestling with a 100000
deficit, and there is mourning in the
land The condolences of sister COM
monwealths will go forth tinged with
a measurable sepse Of relief -Phila-
delphia Record.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04

AS means Of bringing out the vote
the primary has been fiat failure. So
far as we have been able to discover
the primary has accomplished but one
thing. 1t has doubled the expense of
election to both the candidate and the
public. We get no better officers than
before and they are no nearer being
the choice of majority of the voters
than were the officials elected under the
old system.-Fond du Lac Reporter.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04

The Racine Journal gives a number
of reasons for the reelection Of Mayor
Horlick, but it mentions one thing that
should be sufficient to secure his re
tention in office as long as he can be
persuaded to serve The Journal saws
/" Mayor Horlick has kept a good
watch over the city funds, and has not
permitted the little jokers only too Of
ten brought out in city matters, to be
in evidence. If the cash was not in
a fund from which had been voted an
appropriation, the thing was held up
until there was the cash in evidence. -
It is pity that Kenosha and many
another city can SO seldom secure that
kind of an executive. Stop and think
what a difference capable administra-
ton of the affairs of the city would
have made to the taxpayers of Kenosha
in the past eight months. Such an adj
ministration as Mayor Horlick has
given Racine with no little 3'jokers =
and an enforcement of his simple rule
Of good business that fund must have
money in it before appropriations can
be made from it would have saved this
city not thousands, but tens of thou
sands Of dollars. To mention one in
stance, the street department would
not have been allowed to squander
money at the rate of three thousand
dollars month for a total of over
twenty-feur thousand dollars in eight
months and to overdraw its account to
practically an unlimited amount.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04

Who could believe that any written
thing is responsible for the fact that,
since 1900, divorce has increased thrice
as rapidly as our populations Such
astounding dissolution can be account
ed for only by profound changes in
woman s status, in her view Of life,
and in wider social and economic con
dltions The old writer who called d.
vorce "a medicine for the disease of
marriage saw clearly; and those
ardent reformers whom the census
bureaus reports persuade to demand
the abolition Of all divorce privileges
must take his words seriously. Let us
have uniform divorce laws, but first
let us search out the flaws in modern
FAMILY life which break up one-seventh
OF our homes.-New York Post.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04

Now that the days are several min
utes longer and still gaining the man
who never had minute to spare before
ought to be able to fix his work sched-
ule so as to have at least one OCCASION
ally.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04

While holding the threat over Cuba
that this second chance is her last, this
country has worked in good faith to
establish a government of Cubans by
Cubans for Cubans.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04

Doubtless Castro chuckles over the
prospect that the Dutch will fight his
countrymen to fragile, making it
easy for him to climb to power on the
ruins.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04

The Mont Pelee horror Of 1902 has
been outdone by the appalling mortal
ity in Sicily and Calabria. The desti-
tuition caused by the destruction of so
many towns and villages will be felt
for months by the survivors who lost
all but life in the terrible CONFUSION.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04

Every era has it's on-the-spot re-
porter, so there must have been
Robert Louis Stevenson or Rider Hag-
gard or KiDling next to or among the
spectacular Night Riders.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04

Only couple Of days before Messina
was destroyed San Francisco had three
insignificant jars. Maybe it was all
one shake and the hapless city got the
savage end of it,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04

The man who is to straighten out
Venezuela's tangles will not be likely
to cry nothing doing" for the next
year or So
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04

Much confusion might be avoided by
simply calling the head man in the
South American republics president
pro tenn
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04

For those in need Of EXCISE the
manipulation of the snow shovel is
recommended more highly than any
physical culture stunt.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04

The coming scrap between science
and the tariff should end in complete
knockout for one side or the other.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-04

New Yorks police seem to consider
moving pictures worse malefactors
than moving burglars.