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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-11

Bay railroad simply because they
were tired of the country" was
more than he could understand.
1t was not until they were
about to leave the table that How
lands eyes accidentally fell on
Gregson's left hand. He gave an
exclamation of establishment when
he saw that the little finger was
missing. Gregson jerked the
hand to his side.
"a little accident" he explained.
You'll meet 'em up here. How
land"
Before he could move. the
young engineer had caught his
arm and was looking closely at
the hand.
"A curious wound" he remark
ed, without looking UP. Funny
l didn't notice it before. Your
finger was cut lengthwise, and
here's the scar running half way
to your wrist. How did you do
it?"
He dropped the hand in time to
see nervous flush in he oher's
face.
"Why-er-fact is, Rowland,
it was shot off several months ago
jim an accident. of course" He
hurried through the door, con-
tinuing to speak over his shout
der as he went. Now Cor these
after-supper cigars and our inves-
tigation.
AS they passed from the dining
room into that part of the inn
which was half bar and half
lounging-room, already filed with
smoke and a dozen or so oictur-
esque citizens of lie Pas. the
rough-jowled proprietor of the
place motioned to Rowland and
held out letter.
This came while you was at
supper, Mr.. Howland," he ex-
planned.
The engineer gave an inward
start when he saw the writing on
the envelope, and as he tore it
open he turned so that Gregson
could see neither his face nor the
slip of paper which he drew
forth. There was no name at the
bottom of what he read. 1t was
not necessary. for a glance had
told him that the writing was that
of the girl whose face he had seen
again that night; and her words
to him this time, despite his eau
ton, drew a low whistle from his
lips.
Forgive me for what I have
DONE" the note ran. believe
me now. Your life is in danger
and you must go back to Etomam,
tomorrow. If you go to the
Kekusko camp you will not live
to come back"
1.-THE devil!" he exclaimed.
whats that?" asked Gregson,
edging around him curiously.
Rowland crushed the note in
his hand and thrust it into one of
his pockets.
"a little private affair."" he
laughed. Come Gregson, let's
see what we can discover.
In the gloom outside one of his
hands slipped under his coat and
rested on the butt of his revolver.
Until ten o'clock they mixed cas-
ually among the populace of lie
Pas. Half a hundred people had
seen Croisset and his beautiful
companion, but no one knew any
thing about them. They had
come that forenoon on a sledge,
had eaten their dinner and supper
at the cabin of Scotch tie-cutter
named Macdonald and had left
on a sledge.
She was the sweetest thing I
ever saw" exclaimed Mrs. Mac
Donald rapturously. "Only she
couldn't talk. Two or three times
she wrote things to me on a slip
of paper"
Couldn't talk" repeated Greg
son, as the two men walked leis-
urely back to the boarding house.
What the deuce do you suppose
that emans, JJack?"
Continued tomorrow.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-11

Observations of the Office Cat.

There is a decrease of 80 pei
cent in California's prune cror
this year. Landladies = but
shucks what's the use?
One of the irresistible impulses
of life is to race horses home from
the cemetery.
Trot out the Paramount Issue
unwrap the Square Deal, dust OFF
the Epithet Muddy, uncork THE
Fourth of July oratory, the Key
note Appeal, the Land of Our Fa-
theirs, and the Plain Duty of the
Downtrodden Citizen. Only 80
more chopping days before cleo
ton.
Looks like a green Christmas.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-11
MILD LIQUID
CURES ECZEMA

Skin Suffercrsi Drop Greasy SaIves
and Nasty Medicines.
That mild, soothing liquid, d.
d. ID. Prescription, stops the awful
itch with the first drops. A pre-
|scription of acknowledged value.
Get trial bottle at 25c. 1t will
take away the itch right away and
you will sleep soundly. We assure
you personally of the merits of
this remedy; for we KNOW.
French Drug Co. and Owl Drug
Co
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-11
Thinking Parts

Chorus grille, old and grey,
Wipe that
have danced of ddrums
Though knew that
Hoped to win a leading
Yet pirouete, pathetic
Take heart from this,
AS that silly kiss;
We who mock gigantic
Once felt that life
Hoped have a leading
But we only do thinking In the chorus,
GRACE -
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-11

1OllOWlnS the
a n n ouncement
by the census
bureau that the
city has in
creased in pop
ulation from
1000 in 1900
to 1900 in
1 8 1 0 This
means a gain of
so per cent. At
this rate of in
araaca tho nitv
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-11

conventional. But 1t was uncon-
ventional in that England, one of
the greatest military powers of the
world, was beaten for months by a
pair of petty governments looked
upon by the English as uncouth to
the verge of savagery. 1t took the
biggest army England had ever had
in the field to subdue the Beers,
and since then England has S2t
been so eager for war.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-11
TODAY IN HISTORY

Ct II, 1899, the
Boer war be-
gan. Wars begin
o V e r m q II y
things, but usu-
ally gold or
something that
can be turned
into gold. In
taht respect this
war was entirely
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-11
Do You Know

Do You Know |
That Lima Cavalieri has re-
turned that wad?
That Uncle Joe Cannon wilt
run for president in 1912? IL
That Nelse Aldrich is writing "a
sentimental novel entitled Nellie,
the Iinjun Rubber Queen? ~
That Carrie Nation had started
a brewery? nj,
That Eugene Debs and J. p.
Morgan have gone into partner
ship?
That w. r. Hearst and w. j.
Gaynor kissed on the street the
other day?
Neither Did We. ~
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-11

her death Strug-
gle with Fod-
derburg will
soon be on. AT
the present rate
of increase we
will pass New
York next We'd
nesday night at
8: 80. In 1900
there were but
100 people here.
Since the oil
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-11

Speaking of Population:

. WASHINGTON, Oct. H.
D The census bureau announc-
o ed today that the population
Q of the Daily Thing family
D was twinky twink trunky,
o trunk, runky, and dinky-
D ding. A substantial increase
D of fumfy-tum per cent.
D Circulation books open to
. advertisers.
D The price per copy is go
D ing up next week.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-11

HeIds were discovered eight years
ago, $500 people have moved
here. The population has just
squared itself in 10 years. At
this rate we will have 100, 900. 900
in 1920, and 1000, 100000 in
1880 Old man Whipple is or
ganizing a company to level Old
Baldie mountain to make room
for the new union station.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-11
Dreary, Teary October

Dreary, Teary October.*
1t is now the dreary October,
The mournfulest month of the
year,
According to Edgar Allan Poe.
Christmas is coming by and by,
Also pumpkin and cranberry pie.
This is about long enough for
pome.
We will now clothes.
Hoping you are the same.
EDDY TORR.
fNote-Our regular poet is sick
with the hog cholera. Back next
week. 4
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-11

will have 1880 in 1920, 1916 in
1890, and 291,S74 in 2040, only
1870 years from now.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-11
An Ojibway Fable

the Obways of the big north there lot
which Longfeow his Ha
Winnebojou, demgod jocu
1t is called
Winnebojou hungry and wanted to get something to
without working invited all the
When they he instructed them all to dance about him in
circle, singing Gan wabuck Shut
dance) they thus their shut,
caught this that their necks But the
diving suspicious Look brothers.
he's killing u.s." he cried what and
the birds flight Winneboou that he made
dash the who had given the ALARM but he
ceeded only him. The diver wrgged but
he
the this fable teaches tina
invite
bojou
asking while
feast peng they the
tn
Wnne-bojou is making
the welfare the city Maybe the warning diver the
Times will jumped Wnnebojou
regret it-provded the neck-wringing stopped.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-11
OBSERVATIONS

GIBRALTAR will a place
subsequent fireworks Manuel.
CHIEF MALONY hoboes must on" Other chiefs
thing, hoboes
this the twentieth civilization
can do to solve the tramp problem?
FOR fellow whose skiddng
ter King Alfonso think mixing that
tuguese
IF the decides fivecen
the limits
wouldn't that a
stone-Webser?
WHY, when kings get through with him. should
the other kings earth their to him Send
stamps for the return of to this riddle.
LOOKS If Commissioner appointed "pubc
morals officer that she would
Ing corrupted.
ACTRESS Trxe Tganza mounted Chicago aeoplane it
wouldn't
much heavier than air to
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-11
Billion or Two for Fodderburg.

Fodderburg New, Oct. IL
Little does New York suspect that
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-11
DAILY 4s1 THING E.
III. Again. Price 31h Beans
CENSUS FIGURES A LA MODE

Podville, Ariz., Oct. ia
boom in real estate is felt here,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-11

Tac. Ice Cream Co. M. $500, A
1902 Family trade our speciality. .
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-11
immortal Bobs.

Ingersoll, Chanler, -Sleds,
Thingum-, -o'-link, LaFollette.
Bruce, tail, leDiable, white, bin,
Elsemere, Burns.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-11

GIBRALTAR be a safe from which the
subsequent fireworks, Manuel.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-11

FOR fellow whose throne skdding into the
ter King Alfonso think OF mixing
n
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-11

WHY, when kings people get through with him
the other kings earth open their arms to him? S
stamps for the return of your to this riddle
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13
IN ANNUAL SESSION
Members of Volunteer Fire
Department Have a jolly
Time Monday Night
NO SIGNS OF D|sBAND|NG


The members Of the volunteer fire
department of Kenosha held their 10th
annual meeting at the council chamber
on Monday evening and twenty-six of
the forty-six members of the depart
ment were present at the meeting the
other twenty members, will be duly fin
ed and the amount of the fine sub
tracted from the amount of money APP
portioned to them when the trustees
meet ON next January. The meeting
was presided over by President George
Wallis and it proved to be jolly re-
union of the old fire fighters at which
other days were recalled. There was
no sign of disbanding of the volun-
teers and the plans which had been
suggested in other years of disbanding
and making possible the employment
Of paid men by the use of the fund
now divided among the volunteers was
not even brought up during the even
ing. The annual reports Of the officers
and Of the trustees were read after
which the department. elected officers
for the coming year as follows:
President-George Wallis
Vice President-Charles Ell. Goodman.
Secretary-Fred W. Becker.
Charles c. Brown.
Collector-Philip Hartman.
1t is expected that the trustees of
the department will later in the year
take some some steps to collect the
two per cent premium from the mutual
companies writing insurance in Keno
sha, but the matter was left entirely
in the hands Of the trustees and was
not taken up at the meeting on Monday
evening. Many of the old time mem
bers of the department were present
at the meeting but the younger mem
bers seem to be losing their interest in
the organization and many of these
members were absent.
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PLAN FOR BIC FIGHT.
Milk Producers Meet in Chi
cage Today Will Fight
So-Called Milk Trust
GET AID FROM OTHER STATES

| Milk producers in Kenosha county
who are interested in the big fight
which is to be made against the So
called milk trust were represented at
the meeting Of the directors of the
milk Producers Association which is
being held at the Offices of the organi-
cation in the Ashland Block in Chi
cage this afternoon. The local pro-
ducers are being represented by Pat
rick III. Tobin Of Pleasant Prairie. It
is expected that the plans for the big
fight against the trust will be laid out
at this meeting.
At present the association includes
dairymen in Northern Illinois and
Southern Wisconsin only, but Secre-
tary j. P. Grier yesterday received a
notice from milk producers Of Three
Oaks, Mich, seventy five miles from
Chicago, that they desired to form a
local and would probably start with a
membership of twenty-five.
Another district that is out of the
present association boundaries but
which desires utilization is that of
bingham, 200 miles from Chicago and
in the st. Louis milk district. An or
ganization is to be effected there
shortly.
While the institution of several cen
trail milk depots in Chicago by which
the producers can sell directly to the
Chicago consumers will be discussed, it
is more likely that the first important
move to offset the present power of the
'milk trust' will be the establishment
of cooperative. creameries at each
point in the Chicago district at which
bottling plants are located. This will
mean in the neighborhood of thirty five
plants, which will be constructed and
maintained by the local farmers in
each instance.
A movement TO reSuScItate the but
ter industry which once made Elgin
a national center is expected to re-
dound to the producers profit. A few
creameries that were not bought by the
Bordens and others are still in exis-
tence. These have been paying high
er prices for milk than the trust firms,
and in addition giving the farmers the
SKINNED milk, much fancied for food
for hogs.
AS this skim milk usually sells for
% cents hundred pounds in summer
and 30 in winter, the benefit to the
producers under such an arrangement
lis apparent.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13

The action Of the county board in
providing for a permanent memorial
to all of the soldiers Of Kenosha coun-
ty who saw service in the war of the
rebellion will meet with the entire APP
proval of all of the taxpayers OF the
county The cost of such a memorial
is nothing in comparison with it's real
value as historical record of the SER
vices to the nation given by the sold
iers from this county to say nothing
Of the lesson in patriotism such mem
oriaI will teach for all time. The COM
mittee in charge Of the work of pre-
pairing the list of names to go on the
tablets and the record of services per-
formed by Kenosha county soldiers
which is to be filed in the archives of
the county at the time the tablets are
dedicated has a monumental task be-
fore it but the makeup Of the commit
tee gives assurance that this duty will
be faithfully and conscientiously per-
formed and that when the record is
finally turned over to the county it will
be as complete and accurate as it
is possible to make it and absolutely
to be relied upon in every particular
The idea of having these accurate rec
ords made up in such form that they
will be easily accessible by the men who
themselves took an active part in the
great struggle before it is everlastingly
too late appeals with peculiar force to
all those who realize how fast the
ranks of the grand army are dwindling
The work will have to be done soon
or not at all and it is to be hoped that
all of the counties in the state which
sent men to the front will take measures
to preserve the records of their soldiers
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13
THURSDAY, JANUARY ID, 1910.

The pleasant weather of the past
three days has enabled the railroads
to make considerable progress IN
breaking up the freight blockades and
unless there is a very severe storm it
is probable that all danger Of the fac
tories running out of steam coal and
being forced to shut down is passed.
There has never been any danger that
there would be shortage IN fuel for
residents who buy their coal from local
dealers. The managers of the local
yards have always laid in stocks
large enough to meet all the demands
that could possibly be made upon them
and even during the year of the big
famine there was no shortage in Ke-
nosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13
DEC|SION REVERSED
Supreme Court Reyerses De-
cisiOn of Lower Court in
Robert LadWig Case
MAY NOT COLLECT JUDGMENT

The supreme court handed down a
decision on Tuesday reversing the de
cision of the lower court in the suit
of Robert Ladwig VS.. The Jefferson Ice
Co., and by its action set aside one
of the largest verdicts ever given a
Kenosha county man in a personal in
jury suit. Ladwig is a resident of
the town of Salem and when his case
against the Jefferson company was
tried in the circuit court for Walwortb
county nearly year ago the jury re-
turned verdict fixing his damages at
$4,000.
The suit was bitterly contested
one, the plaintiff being represented by
Calvin Stewart of this city.
The suit grew out of an accident
which occurred at one of the ice houses
of the Jefferson lee Company at Twin
Lakes nearly two years ago. At the
| time Ladwig who had been an employee
OF the company for many years was
working with a gang of men remov-
ing the sheeting from an ice house
which had been damaged by fire.
While he was at work the staging on
which he was standing fell and he was
thrown thirty feet to the floor of the
ice house and buried under a mass of
debris. At the time it was thought
that Ladwig had been fatally injured
and for many months he was confined
to his home in Salem. In his suit
against the company in which he de-
manded damages to the amount of
$4,000 he declared that he was per-
manently injured The full text Of
the decision has not as yet been re-
ceived in Kenosha, but the ATTORNEYS
for Ladwig are hopeful that the court
ordered new trial of the case. It
is possible that if a new trial is order
ed that the case will be tried in this
county.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13

Want ads bring results.
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There has been a law almost identical
with this new federal law on the
statute book of the state of Wisconsin,
since 1849, but it has always been
practically dead letter. In fact, but
few people knew that it was there. No
reference to it can be found in the
index"
The statutory provision referred to
by Attorney Morgan is section 2022,
revised statutes. 1t reads as follows:
''No person shall pay, give or re-
ceive in payment or in any way cir
culate or attempt to circulate as money
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13

Edward Holt a son of Frank T. Holt
of Pleasant Prairie who up to last Sat
urday had been student at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin is seriously i'll
with brain fever at the homie of his
grandfather c. D. Holt on Ashland
avenue. Young Holt was taken i'll on
Saturday morning and was brought to
Kenosha on Sunday. Grave fears are
entertained as result of the condition
of the young man.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13
ELECT OFFICERS.

Pythian Sisters had election of off
GERS Friday afternoon. The following
officers were elected:
P. C.-Mrs. Carrie Paulsen.
M. E. C.-Mrs. M. Balm.
e. S.-Mrs. Wright, Racine
E. Mrs w. Meredith.
M. of T.-Mrs. R. Kniskern.
M. of R. and C.-Mrs. S. Mathews.
M. of Mrs. w. equity.
P. of T,-Mrs. E. Parsons.
G.. of O. T.-Mrs. D. House.
Trustee for Is months-Mrs. Venable
G. Rep. to grand lodge-Mrs. Elmer
Parsons.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13

The council made no mistake in per-
suading Alderman N. j. Werner to
continue in Office as poormaster. The
record made by Mr.. Werner during the
short time he served the city in that
capacity shows that he is the right
man in the right place as poormaster
and he has only to keep on as he be-
gun to make his services of great value
to the city. The big jump in the cost
of the support of the paupers to with
in few dollars of $4,000 for the year
shows that it is high time that some
check was put on these expenditures
and no one appears to realize that fact
more keenly than the new poormaster.
Ills first report which for the first
time shows just how many dependents
are receiving help from the city, Just
what each is getting, and the cause of
their poverty indicates that the work
of that department of the city's bust
ness is being systematized and in
way that should result in a material
saving to the taxpayers. The report
might go further and show how many
OF those on the pauper list have rela-
tives who should be made to help them
before the city is called upon to con.
tribute to their support but that may
come later There are always rumors
that the city's pauper list bears names
which should not be there, that there
are persons drawing help from the city
who are not entitled to any assistance,
and that much of the help given is not
properly expended and the big in
crease IN the expenditures on the pau
per account indicates that there may
be some truth in these reports but I'M
der the system of complete check in
augurated by the new poormaster it
will be possible to ascertain with GER
tainty that all who are receiving help
are entitled to it and to clear the pau
per list Of those names which do not
belong there. There is no disposition
on the part of any of those who have
been investigating the expenditures
under the pauper account including AL
derman Werner to deny help to any
one who is fairly entitled to it but
neither is there any disposition to al
low those who should support them
selves or whose relatives should
support them to continue to
live at the expense of the
city. If it really costs the city $12,-
600 year to properly care for it's de-
pendents there is no help for it and the
money will have to be paid out if as
surance is given from a reliable
source that all this money is properly
expended. That is what Alderman
Werner is expected to find out for the
taxpayers and his next report showing
what he has been able to accomplish
along that line win be awaited with in
terest.
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NO CHECK FOR LESS THAN 81
Such Has Been the Law of Wisconsin
for More Than Sixty Years.

There is nothing new or startling
about the law that prohibits the max
ing Of checks for a less sum than ST, J"
said Assistant District Attorney Henry
Il Morgan OF Madison "The new re-
vision of the United States statutes
contains provision to the effect, I'M
doubtedly, but the idea that the law
was designed to increase the sale of
stamps strikes me as good joke
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13

0. j. Marcoe is moving his family to
this city from Foud du Lac and they
viii make their future home in Keno
sha. Mr.. Marcoe is to be resident
manager for the Fraternal Reserve AS
ISOLATION.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13

any hank bill or promissory note check
draft or other evidence, of debt which
shall purport to be for the payment of
y 49, 49, .------ ~ ue--,.- P"yaple
otherwise than in lawful money of the
United States; and any persons who
shall wilfully violate any of the provi-
sions of this section shall forfeit one
hundred dollars
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13

Mrs. John 7, Yule who recently went
to California has returned east as far
as Denver and is now visiting with
her daughter there.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13

Henry Marsh of Chicago spent Sat
urday afternoon with Kenosha friends.