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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-07-06
In chancery,


Howdershell
Upon petition Of Rufus Scsnlsnd W. John
NJ. scsnlsnd. Jenia Scanland, Thomas Scan
land and Benjamin ~canland.
Memo. The object Of this petition is to as.
certain the interest Of the heirs Of Alberta
scsn'snd in the funds in the above cause be-
longing 10 hel and for the division OF same
among them.
1t apDesring by an affidavit filed in this
cause that the defendants, John NJ. Saanland.
Thomas Scanland, Jenia Scanlsnd aud
Benjamin Scanland, are nOn-resideuts Of this
State: 1t is Ordered, That said defendants
appear here within fifteen days after
due publication Of this order. snd do what
is necessary to protect their interests in
this snit, and that a copy Of this order be
forthwith inserted in the Alexandria Gazette,
a newspaper published IN the City Of Alex
sndria, once a week for four successive weeks
and posted at the front door of the Court
House Of this city.
A cODy-TESTE.
NEWELL 5. GREENAWAY, Clerk.
Moore, Barbour & Keith, p. q.
Attorneys fOr petitioners.
led w4w tn
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-26
CONDENSED REPORT
49, or TINE
BANK
OF CHICAGO
February $1,000
n RESOURCES.
LIABILITIES.
s2i.970.37O.75


I. A. GODDARD, President.
JOHN r. LlND0RHN, Vice President.
HENRY A.. MA!i!!AN; Vice President.
SAMUEL E. KNHCHT, Secretary.
WILLIAM c. MILLER, Assistant Secretary.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-26

General Banking, Savings, Letters
Of Credit, Investment Beads, Foreign
Exchange, Trusts.
New accounts respectfully s01lc.
tied. 1ntePsst allowed o. deposits.
Established 1870.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06
GET TOO MANY LAWS
Member Of Legislature Declares
That Over Legislation Is the
Trouble With Wisconsin
R0ASTS PRIMARY ELECTION

Over legislation is declared by Attor
ney j. M. Clancy, leading lawyer Of
southern Wisconsin, to be the greatest
evil which besets the state today, and
which offers the issue upon which the
! Democratic party may achieve victory
The enactment of multitudinous
number of ill-eonsidered, half baked,
embryonic and vicious laws, verita-
BILE riot of legislation, Mr. Clancy de-
clares has had the tendency to derive
people Of their. reasonable rights, in
crease public burdens and invite a
| political reaction. The blame for this
alarming condition is laid by Mr..
Clancy upon the so-called reformers
Before consenting to express his views
on these matters, Mr.. Clancy declared
that under no circumstances would he
be prevailed upon to become a candi-
date for the Democratic nomination
for governor. This was in reply to a
suggestion that his name had been fire.
quently mentioned as most available
Democratic gubernatorial possibility.
| Among the bills considered and fruit
less pieces Of legislation Mr.. Clancy
mentioned the primary election law
which he found wanting, not in a few
things amendable to the curative pow
ers of legislation, but in every respect.
| AS boss exterminator he says, ga
destroyer of political machines, puri-
ficer of public Office, preventive of cor
ruption, it is worthless. y He charges
that the law confines the possibility Of
election among the very rich, and bars
the poor man from the hope of political
preferment. Another evil of the Gre
FORM regime is pointed out by Mr..
Clancy is legislation to control and
regulate private business, to interfere
with the rights of citizens, and to take
unto the state rights which free men
should enjoy without interference.
The result he says is multiplication of
useless Office holders and the absorption
of the public revenue.
sConditions must be changed, = says
Mr.. Clancy. The squandering Of
public money must end. The legal mill
must run on shorter time. Useless
laws. must be repealed and demagogue-
ism supplanted by craftsmanship Future
legislation should be largely limited to
repeating law Herein Mr.. Clancy
sees the opportunity of the Democratic
party.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06
HAD A PLEASANT TIME

Notwithstanding the rain storm OF
Wednesday, the entertainment given by
the members of Kenosha Chapter No.
3 of the Royal Arch Masons at Ma
sonic Temple proved to be very in
teresting event. More than hundred
of the members of the various Ma
sonic orders and their wives and sweet
hearts attended the entertainment.
During the early hours of the evening
a musical entertainment, was rendered
in which numbers were furnished by
well known artists from Racine and
Kenosha. Later the members of the
chapter entertained at luncheon IN
the parlors of the Temrle. The even.
ing proved to be one o. the most en-
ioyable ever arranged by any Of the
Masonic bodies of the city.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06
The strength of a child.

It is surprising to find how few parents
know the great strength giving qualities
Of good oatmeal Most of them think
OF it as food for the sturdy Scotch or
the brawny Erglishman, and overlook
its value as food for children. Every
now and then mother will take to feed
ing her children on Quaker Oats and
will be astonished at their Improvement
in strength and vigor. Of course, she
tells her friends, and they prove it for
themselves, but every mother in the
country should see that her children arc
strong and vigorous. Plenty Of Quaker
Oats, eaten often, win do it.
Grocers sell Quaker Oats in regular
size packages at 10c, the family size
packages at Csc, and the family size
package containing a piece of fine china
for SOC.
Don't miss day; eat Quaker Oats
every morning for breakfast.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06

Madeline English and Gustav
Landeck of Milwaukee Mar
ried Thursday Afternoon
FEW ATTEND THE CEREMONY

The marriage Of Miss Madeline Eng
fish, eldest daughter of Edward j.
English and one of, the best known
young women of Kenosha, and Gustav
Landeck, a well known Milwaukee
man, was quietly celebrated at the par
sonage of st. James church at half past
five O'Clock Thursday evening. The
announcements of the marriage which
were sent out this morning came as a
great surprise to many Of the friends
of the bride and groom in Kenosha as
no announcement of the time of the
wedding had been made to even the
closest friends Of Mr. and Mrs. Lam
deck. The ceremony was attended
only by a few of the relatives of the
contracting parties and Immediately
after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs Lam
deck left for the south where they will
spend their honeymoon.
The bride was given away by her
father. She was attired in a charming
gown Of embroidered light blue broad
cloth and carried prayer book. She
was attended by Mrs. Carolyn Dever
of Chicago as matron of honor. Fred
Landeck Of Milwaukee, brother of
the groom, was the best man. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev.
R. j. Smith, pastor Of the church.
The wedding was made an exceed
ingly simple one on account Of the
fact that the mother of the groom is
very i'll at her home in Milwaukee.
After spending their honeymoon in
the south Mr.. and Mrs. Landeck will
make their home at the Hotel Pfster
in Milwaukee. They will be at home
to their friends after May Is.
Miss English has for some time been
considered one of the most beautiful
as well as one of the most charming
Young women of Kenosha. She is well
known to Kenosha society. Mr. Ian
deck is engaged in the lumber business
in Milwaukee and is reputed TO be
among the wealthy young men of Mil
waukee.
Many friends of the bride and groom
in Kenosha will be pleased to extend
congratulations.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06

1t is to be hoped that the members
Of the Board of Education will stick to
their resolve to keep the limit of cost
on the new school building in the
Third ward at the $4,000 fixed by the
old Board as the outside cost of this
improvement and that in case q ma
iority Of the members of the Board
propose to squander the peoples money
by going above this figure some citizen
will feel it his duty to take the mat
ter into court and test the rights of the
Board in cases of this kind. We say
squander advisedly, for at the time the
plans for the building were accepted
an offer was made by at least one of
the competing architects to give bonds
that the building could be built under
his plans within the limit Of $4,000
fixed by the Board and any amount
that the Board spends above that will
be throwing away the peoples money.
Another thing, let all the members Of
the Board go squarely on record on
any vote on the acceptance of con-
tracts for the new building. The evil
dent bias of certain members Of the
Board in the selection of the plans and
the secret work in connection with the
whole matter created a very unfavor-
able impression and there should be no
more, Of it. There is no excuse for any
secretiwor1 by the Board and particu-
larly in matters involving the expendi-
ture of large amounts of public money
everything should be open and as pub
lie as at. is. possible to make it. The
records oftsthe Board should place the
esponsibility for every move made.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06

For a system that is believed to be
entirely inadequate to take care Of
the needs of the city the sewer system
is doing much better work than any
one had a right to expect from the
reports of the engineers Complaints
of flooded cellars and back water are
not nearly so numerous this morning as
it has been supposed they would be
following any sudden and unusual de-
mands ON the sewers and no sewer
system that the city would ever be
able to put in would handle the alb
normal rain fall Of the last twenty
four hours perfectly,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06

over Ashland avenue, Chicago street,
Park avenue, Exchange street and Dur
kee avenue. People living in the
houses along the east end of the creek,
not used to the deluge of water, be-
came frightened and many of them
sat up during the entire night watch
ing the water. Cellars in this section
were full this morning. The heaviest
damage for the city was at the
Park avenue culvert as the west wall
of this culvert was entirely ruined.
The creek carried away great deal
of ground between Exchange street and
Durkoe avenue and the boat house,
which has stood for years. on the banks
of the creek at its entrance to the
lake, was demolished by the force of
the water and converted into drift
wood. The creek was back in it's banks
at ten clock this morning, but it
was still raging torrent.
The damage to the water front along
the city was the worst in many years
if not in the history of the city.
Kemper Hall sustained very heavy
blow as the pleasure piers and por-
tion of the breakwater were torn out
by the force of the lake and the brok
en- planks and piles were scattered over
the KenosIa hall lawn. The debris
shows that the water must have risen
to point of more than 200 feet from
the breakwater at Kemper Hall. The
Kehlor property was badly damaged by
the raising of the waters of the lake
and great deal of ground was carried
out. North of the city the damage was
also great. Little is left of the water
front along Jacobs Island, the waves
tearing out the high bank. The St.
George cemetery property was also
badly damaged.
At the plant of the Simmons Manu-
featuring Company the waters poured
over the breakwater with such force
that portion of the brick wall of the
blacksmith shop was torn out.
During the storm one house was
struck by lightning. 1t is owned by
an italian and located at 16 Maple
street. The bolt demolished the chin
ney of the house and shattered the
partitions.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06

Kenosha manufacturers are perfectly
willing to make an effort to get the
information requested by the United
State immigration Commission in re-
gard to each Individual workman in
their employ and they will spend time
and money to supply the statistics
sought by the Commission, but they
will not have any great faith in the
results of this investigation especially
as regards the foreign born workers.
The answers returned by native born
workmen and in a great majority of
cases by those born of foreign parent
age to the twenty seven questions pro-
pounded by the Commission will be
fairly accurate, but it will be an al
most impossible task to secure any
satisfactory replies to these questions
from the foreigners who are working
m the factories. They will simply say
they do not understand what is fequir-
ed of them and it will be waste Of
time for the interpreters to attempt
to make them answer. No one who has
not had occasion to deal with this class
can conceive with what suspicion they
regard any attempt to get any infor-
nation from them in regard to their
past lives.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06
Boil the Water

One of the results Of the big storm
and the one that is giving the physi-
clans Of the city much worry, is the
great increase in sickness that will fol
low in the next two or three weeks
unless the people generally exercise
great care in the use Of the lake water
for a time The disturbance Of the
waters of the lake was SO violent that
every particle Of muck and slime has
been taken up by the waters and much
Of the decaying animal and vegetable
matter that lined the shores went out
into the lake with the tidal wave and
is now held in solution There is only
one safe way to do and that is to boil
or filter every bit of the water used
for drinking purposes until the lake
settles down again and unless this sim
pie precaution is taken by all the peo-
pie of the city the next health report
is going to make bad showing. Boil
the water and keep boiling it until the
water is pronounced safe again by the
health department.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06
AN INTERESTING CONCERT
Crowded House Greets Artists Last
Night at the Unitarian Church

The concert given last evening in
Simmons Memorial church, an offering
to the public by the Women S Alliance
of the church through the courtesy of
Mrs. K. II. We1les, was in every way
charming occasion. Many who had
been prevented by the storm from at
tending the. recital of the previous
evening took this occasion to hear Mrs.
Welles, and the assembled audience
filed the church. Mrs Cleveland pre-
sided at the organ, and of the organ
and piano numbers played two were
entirely new Mrs. Welles and Mrs.
Cleveland responded to an encore after
the second group, playing Handel's
Largo
The piano solo numbers were the
same as those played the preceding
evening and were given with all Mrs.
Welles' brilliance Of touch, sympathy
of Interpretation, and excellence of
techique. She has proved herself in
these two evenings an artist of rare
ability, and it is to be hoped that
Kenosha audiences may have frequent
of hearing her.
The vocal numbers were well receiv-
ed. They consisted of bass. solo by
G. H. Hodgson, and duet by Mrs.
Burr Beachel and E. L. Shippee.
2. w. Aldrich delighted the audi
ence by his excellent rendition of the
flute solo, his selections being the
Minuet by Paderewski and Ave Maria
bv Gounod
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06
WHAT THE TRAFFIC WILL BEAR

The haul from the east to Spokane is
some four hundred miles shorter than
Ito Seattle. Spokane complained that,
for the shorter haul, it was charged
"a higher freight rate.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
SION while reducing rates to Spokane
on other grounds decided that the city
was not necessarily entitled to as low
"a rate as its more distant rival, for
rates to the latter are governed by
water competition.
The freight rate, in short is not
governed by the service. 1t is not a
question of SO many yards of service
at so much per yard. If it is neces-
sary in some cases in order to get the
business, the roads may charge more
for shorter haul than for a longer
one. On the other hand, it is well set
tied that the sum total of rates must
be sufficient to cover total cost of the
service, plus fair profit to the car
riers. All rates taken together, must
be fairly profitable.
Under such condition it seems
clear that, if competition rates are ma
terially lower than non competitive
ones, the latter must yield more than
fair profit.
The average freight rate per ton per
mile is low; but a good deal of tonnage
is carried below the average-soft coal
for example, in which the railroad in
terest is large. For competitive
business, also, proportionately less is
charged than for competitive. So
a low average freight, rate, and a total
profit which is not excessive, are quite
compatible with whole lot of individ--
ual rates which are excessive.
Victims of the individual rates will
not cease complaining simply because
the sum of all rates is fair. There
will be no peace in the railroad camp
until rates are based upon service,
rather than upon what the traffic will
bear.-Saturday Evening Post.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06

The estimate of State Treasurer Dahl
of the probable condition of the state
treasurysat the end of the fiscal year
is far from encouraging and if his
figures based ON the receipts and ex-
penditures of 1908 are correct, and
there. is no reason why they should not
be, the people, of the state may as well
prepare to meet a heavy state tax next
spring. With the prospects for a heavy
increase in the state tax Kenosha coun-
ty, and particularly the city, is placed
IN an unenviable position and unless
the State Board Of Equalization does
better work in adjusting the assess
ment than it has done yet this county
will pay more than it's fair share of the
amount to be raised on the state taxes.
There is no question but that the as
sessed value of the property of this
county is nearer trde value than that
of any county in the state and unless
the others are brought up somewhere
near the true value-and there is not
much prospect of that with heavy
state tax in sight-the property own
ers of this county are going to suffer
for the efforts made by our assessors
to obey the full value assessment law
to the letter. Take the case of our
next door neighbor Racine county.
There the full value assessment law has
always been avoided and no effort has
been made to bring the assessment up
anywhere near the requirements of the
law. The figures speak for themselves.
AS for this city the conditions here
are the worst possible and the pros
poets for the tax payer are far from
cheering. They are already facing a
heavy raise in taxes on account Of the
maladministration Of the city business
for the past year that will put the
levy at about thirteen mills and with a
state tax of two or two and one half
mills added they can easily figure out
where they viii land when they have
to pay up next spring. Some of this
increase may be lodged by bond is
sue, but that Will be. only postponing
1he evil. day.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06
NEW BoAE FOR CARRIERS
P. o. Department Sends Out Order Con
corning Dellvery of Mail in Country

P. o. Department Sends Out Order Con-
corning DeIlvery of Mail in Country
Kenosha county patrons of the rural
free delivery system will no doubt be
interested in the recent ruling of the
postofice in regard to the duties of
mail-carriers in the collection Of mails
from the rural boxes. The new rule
will also probably be favored by the
carriers as it will tighten their labor
during the wet spring weather when
the ground is soft and the road al
most impossible.
Rural mail carriers thrusting their
arms through spoke wheels, climbing
steep hills and crossing dangerous
ravlnes in order to collect mails from
boxes along their route, often leopard
ling their lives, is discountenanced
in an order issued by the posteffice
department. yesterday. It has been
decreed that rural letter boxes perched
high upon hills, others almost on the
ground, and still others in similar
places, may be removed and located
in more convenient places. This will
be done to expedite the collection
and delivery Of rural mail and at the
same time to enable carriers to cover
their routes with greater CELEBRITY.
Postmasters have been directed to
take census of all inaccessible rural
boxes with view to instituting the
proposed change
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06

Any one who took look at Jerome
Creek any time during the last three
days can get some idea Of the problem
confronting the engineers who are max
ing the plans for the trunk line sewer
which must be designed to take care
of all the waters Of the creek in addi-
ton to the regular flow of the ordi-
nary sewer. OF course there can be
no attempt made by the. engineers to
meet such extraordinary conditions as
those Of Thursday for there is little
probability that there will ever be such
another heavy rainfall during the next
atty years, but the sewer must be built
to meet ordinary floods and that is no
easy task and adds enormously to the
cost Of the undertaking.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06

The governor has vetoed the anti
tobacco bill which forbids smoking by
boys on the ground that public senti-
ment will not support such law.
That line of reasoning could have been
applied to a good many other laws
which now cumber the statute books
to advantage and the use of the veto
power should have prevented the legis-
lature writing many farcial measures
into the law of the state These laws
that public sentiment refuses to en-
force are worse than foolish, they are
positively dangerous for their non en-
forcement breeds contempt for all
law in the public mind. All laws look
alike to a good many people and the
fact that some of them cannot be en-
forced is too apt to lead to the con-
clusion that all of them can be defed
with impunity.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06

1t will be some years yet before the
walks now being laid will improve the
appearance Of some of the side streets,
not in fact until the walks now down
are relaid. The grades and lines have
been changed so often that few of the
new walks are on the same line or.
level as the old ones.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06

Most people not directly interested
will favor the licensing of motorcycles
They are about the most dangerous
machines both to their riders and
everybody else that claim the right to
use the highways today.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06

Old Lake Michigan totally disregard
ed the orders of the Council against
throwing waste paper or other de-
bris" in the lake front parks and the
authorities will have to forbid him the
further use of the grounds.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06

The legislature is getting right down
to business these days and more hard
work has been done in the past two.
weeks than was done in all the months
before this final squirt started.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06
THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1909.

The Mary Ann bin has bobbed up
serenely in this Legislature and may be
expected to make its appearance in all
coming legislatures to the end of time.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06

Cheer up. That snow storm Wednes-
day may not be the last of the season,
but it must be pretty nearly the last.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06

I Want ads bring results.