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The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-02-18

Matinee at Grand Saturday.-The
usual carefully selected program OF
motion pictures will be given at the
Grand Saturday afternoon from 3 to
6 p. m. The matinees are proving
very enjoyable and large crowds at
tend always.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13
CHIEF O'HARE AS HOST
Entertains the Members of Police De-
partment at a Dinner Thursday

Chief of Police Owen O'Hare was
host at dinner party at his home on
Fremont avenue on Thursday after
noon when he entertained the members
of the police force of the city and
Sheriff Gunter at course dinner. At
the tables covers we're laid for fifteen
guests and after dinner had been serv-
ed and cigars lighted the chief and
the members of the force enjoyed a
decidedly pleasant social hour There
were short speeches by the chief and
members Of the force and Assistant
Chief Newhouse furnished his share of
the entertainment. Frank Hannah re-
sponded to the toast to the fire depart
ment. The dinner to the force has
become an annual custom under Chief
O'Hare and it is always looked for
ward to as one Of the most interesting
events of the year.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13

The residents of any street that it is
proposed to pave have right to de-
eide on what material shall be used
and there could be no possible criti-
cism of the Ashland avenue property
owners had they demanded that asphalt
be used on their street when the cues
tion of the choice of material on this
particular job was first under consid-
Grafton but they should not have wait
tised for bids on brick pavement and
got all ready to let a contract for
brick before they came forward with
their demand for asphalt The fact
that an effort was made to influence
the council to refuse to let this con-
tract to the lowest bidder and turn
the Job over to local man at higher
price has led some people who own
property on the avenue to suspect that
there may be more in this sudden en-
thusiasm for asphalt in certain quar-
tiers than meets the eye and from the
way they are talking it may be that
the action of the council in rejecting
all bids and refusing to let the con-
tract to the lowest bidder may result
in postponing the paving of the street
Indefinitely. Some of the property
owners declare that should the council
now go ahead and attempt to let a
contract for any kind of pavement at
higher price than the low bid which
that body rejected, any property own
er who objects to the increased cost
can enjorn the city from going ahead
with, the work at adj. They say that
the Market street property owners who
recently fought the payment Of paw.
ing assessments on their street lost
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13
SAYS KENosHA WATER is BAD
Outspoken Manufacturer Claims Ra-
cine s System is Far Superior

While complaints are numerous of
lalleged poor service rendered by the
Racine Water Company, and the exces-
sive rates charged and municipal own
ership is being advocated, it is being
claimed that in the city of Kenosha,
where the water system is owned by
the municipality, better service in
every way is given at much lower rates
than here.
This statement is refuted, however,
by a former Racine manufacturer now
located in Kenosha, who, in speaking
on the water proposition last evening
greatly deplored the service being rem
dered in Kenosha.
He said the pipes are very small and
inadequate to carry the supply of wat
er necessary for ordinary purposes, but
this might be overlooked if it WASH t
for the kind of water pumped through
the pipes, which, he claimed was i'm
pure and filthy to such an extent that
employees tax themselves 10 cents a
piece a month in order to buy distilled
water for drinking purposes.-Racine
Times.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13

their rights because they did not begin
their action in court soon enough and
that they do not propose to make the
same mistake. Also, there is the atti-
tude of the street railway company to
consider. The managers of that com
pany may enter decided objection to
having their share of the cost of paw
ing the street raised on them. AS
the property owners understand the
situation the railway company agreed
to pay its share of the cost OF the
brick paving but before those who ia
vor asphalt paving go ahead with their
plans there should be "a clear under
standing as to how much the company
these matters it is not wise to take
anything for granted. 1t is unfortun-
ate that this mixup over paving should
happen to come on Ashland avenue of
all streets in the city for the town
board of Pleasant Prairie has agreed
to macadamize the extension of the
avenue clear to the state line Just as
soon as the street is paved to the linn
its of the city and any delay in the
work on the street will put back one of
the biggest Improvements ever planned
in the county. On any of the other
streets of the city the citizens of Ken
osha would have been the only ones
much affected by the trouble over the
contract but coming as it does on this
particular street gives the good roads
movement in the whole county de-
cided set back.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13
Game Wardens Kleist and
Russell Ask $4,000 from
FlorenceCO. Hotel Keeper
WERE DENIED entertainment

A suit for damages to the amount of
$4,000 was filed in the circuit court
of Florence county on Friday in which
Deputy Game Warden Michael Kleist
of this city and Warden A G. Rus
sell of Crandall, are named as the
plaintiffs and M. B. Maguarn, prophet
or of the hotel in the village of Long
Lake in that county is named as the de-
PENDANT. Attorney r. V. Baker. of
this city represents the Kenosha game
warden in the suit and Attorney J. T.
Hooper of CrandaIl appears for Rus
sell.
The action is brought to secure some
relief for the wounded feelings Of the
game wardens who in their complaint
allege that they were refused enter
tainment at the hotel by Maguarn. The
alleged refusal Of entertainment took
place on the night Of Nov 9th If last
year. At that time there were many
sportsmen at the hotel and it is claimed
that when the game wardens came in
the proprietor refused to allow them
shelter for the night or to allow them
to get meals. The two wardens were
forced to sleep in cave in the neigh
borhood and to forage in hunt
ing camps in order to secure pro-
visions.
Maguarn is said to be particularly
the foe of the Wisconsin game ward
ems and it is alleged that he has been
connected with many cases in that
part Of the state in which the game
wardens were interested In the com
plant it is alleged that the hotel man
had no legal right to refuse the ward
ems accommodations.
The suit is slated to be tried at the
next term of the circuit court of Flor
ence county but it is probable that
Kliest and Russell will seek to secure
a change of venue to some other eoun-
tV
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13
JOURNAL FORCE FIRED.
Men Employed at the Journal Dis
charged After Stormy Interview

Following stormy conference at the
Office of the Kenosha Journal on Friday
afternoon the entire force of the paper
was discharged. The men had walked
out and declined to work on Thursday
and when Publisher Odett discharged
them they declined to give up the keys
of the Office until they had received
their wages. Plans for issuing a paper
were discussed by A. F. Leopold and
the men on Friday, Leopold seeking to
hold the p stall rights of the paper but
the men hclned to get out a paper
without tn Union labels and these had
been taler away. 1t is said that the
holders OF the plant are still hopeful
that it viii be sold and the publica-
ton of the paper continued. As yet no
purchaser has been found. The work
men who were left without the payment
of their wages have been consulting at
torneys but the attorneys after a care
full examination of the financial con
dition of the company have declined
to take the matter into the bankruptcy
courts of the state.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13
WENT BACK TO MILWAUKEE
Sheriff Gunter and His Deputies Fail
to Locate Any of the Men and In
vestigation Will be Continued Later
Reports Exaggerated

| Sheriff William II. Gunter found it
impossible to get out to Twin Lakes
Thursday to personally investigate the
alleged attempt to lynch a man there
on Tuesday night on account of the
| fact that the trains on the Northwest
ern road were so delayed that the train
for the west did not leave until long
after night fall and he telephoned to
the deputies in that part of the county
and ordered them to continue their
watch at Twin Lakes for few days
at least. Telephone messages from
the Offices of the Knickerbocker Ice
Company last night declared that there
was absolutely no sign of trouble
among the men at this time and that
| all of the men save the ones who had
been the ring leaders among the rioters
on Tuesday had returned to work on
the ice fields and that the ring leaders
| had left Twin Lakes. In fact most
of the men who had been connected
with the rioting left the lakes early
| Wednesday morning and made their
way through the storm to Camp Lake
where they managed to get a train on
the Wisconsin Central road which took
them into Milwaukee.
Sheriff Gunter last night sent out to
the lakes appointments for three or
four more deputies and these men will
be located at the ice houses SO that
they will be able to take care of any
trouble that comes up in the future.
1t is the opinion of the sheriff as
we'll as the district attorney that the
story of the attempted lynching was
considerably exaggerated by the men
who sent in the reports Of the trouble,
but there is no doubt but that there
was serious rioting and several people
were injured. The class of men en-
ployed on the ice this year is said to
be better than in former years
and It is expected that the driv-
ing out Of the men who caused the
trouble at Twin Lakes will go long
way toward eliminating trouble in the
future.
District Attorney Baker has not
dropped the matter by any means and
as soon as the weather moderates and
makes it possible for him to get out
to Twin Lakes he will go out and make
a personal investigation into conditions
and if the facts warrant it he will seek
to have some of the men who were
connected with the riots arrested and
punished In the meantime it is ex-
pected that the deputies named by
Sheriff Gunter will be able to restore
and maintain order at the lakes.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13
President Lowell Pays High
Tribute to the Univer-
/ sity of Wisconsin
SHOWS WAY FOR SCHOOLS

President Lowell of Harvard is read
ing the colleges of the east a needed
lesson when he calls to their attention
the direct practical service for their
communities which the western uni
versities perform. In that section of
the country he saw the institutions of
higher learning attempt to help bust
ness and politics and almost all forms
of life about them. East our col
leges, with rare exception, devote them
selves chiefly to general culture
and the universities to professions,
without serious thought Of the special
needs of their towns, cities, or. states
He says in part:
The history Of the big western col
leges explains in part why they are
SO helpful to their communities. They
were established by their states and
naturally they have always sought to
be Of practical use to their states.
Many of them owe at least a part of
their early progress to the nation
which provided them with means to
teach agriculture and to make expert
ments in that branch of industry for
the benefit of their commonwealth.
AS most of the states where these uni
YeTsi ties were established have always
been engaged chiefly in agriculture, the
amount of direct good they could ac-
complish has been large from the very
beginning. That principle early es-
tablished of improving life about them
has developed at these universities I'M
til now they are the centers for an al
most incredible amount of everyday
service of the most practical sort, in
every direction.
|'The University of Wisconsin is the
leader of these institutions. For it
the people of Wisconsin feel almost as
much pride as they feel for the state
itself. The appropriations that the
legislature makes for it's maintenance
are astonishingly large, for the people
are continually receiving advantages
from it's work.
'sThere are many other ways which
the university has found to improve
politics and industry. The fact that
the state agricultural buildings and the
State Historical Library are to be
found among the institution 8 collec-
ton of structures gives some hint of
its service in other directions. In
short, Wisconsin is a sort of univer-
sity settlement for the whole state. -
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13

Judging from applications so far re-
ceivcd for positions as enumerators the
director of the census is fearful that
there will not be enough first class
applicants to fill all of the vacancies
especially in the city districts and an
effort will be made in all districts to
induce more volunteers to come for
ward for the examinations. In all
of the announcements Of the examina-
tions especial stress is laid on the fact
that no political recommendation from
anybody is necessary to secure posi-
ton in the census work, it being fear
ed that desirable men have held back
from applying for the positions for
fear that the favorites Of the politi-
clans would be put in ahead of them
when the time comes for giving out
the appointments. AS the examina-
tion itself fears that it cannot be
passed need deter nobody from apply
ing for job for any one with a COM
mon school education and ordinary
common sense will have no difficulty
whatever in passing it. 1t is difficult
to see why there should be any short
age in the supply of enumerators, for
the work is not hard and it is estimat-
cd that each enumerator will receive
about $50 for his services which will
give the men on city work where two
weeks Of their time will be redui1ed
high pay and in the country districts
where it will take a month to complete
the work the pay is fair. The good
times have undoubtedly cut down the
number of applicants but any man who
has any reason to suspect that he may
be out of a job in April could not do
better than to pass this examination
and qualify for one of these places.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13

The formal complaint on the man
agement of the Racine Insane Asylum
on which the demand for an investi-
cation of the institution by the state
board of control is based contains a
long list of counts any one of which
is serious enough to call for interfer-
ence by the state authorities, but
there is one which if it is proven
would call for the instant dismissal
of every official of the asylum and pub
lie condemnation of the strongest kind
We refer to the charge that the officials
of the asylum "have antagonized, OBJ
structed and prevented the parole of
patients who were absolutely sane ;"
and that the employees of the asylum
were Not permitted to report the names
of these patients who should have
been discharged from custody to the
county judge or the district attorney
so that they might be released. 1t is
difficult to believe that even close as
ISOLATION through many years with this
class Of unfortunates could make an
official so hardened to human suffering
as to permit, much less strive to keep.
any patient who had recovered his
mind confined in the asylum a moment
longer than was absolutely necessary
in order that the Institution might
profit from the pittance paid for his
support and we sincerely hope that
this charge. canRot be, proven. The
thought that the insane must be con-
fined IS bad enough even when we
know that they are surrounded with
every comfort and help that medical
science and sympathetic attendants
can give them, but the thought of a
perfectly sane person shut up amid
such horrible surroundings with no
hope of release is enough to give any
one the nightmare: 1t is to prevent
Just such cases that Supervisor The
Teen of this county is pushing his bill
to provide for an annual Inspection by
a competent medical board of all
patients confined in all of the asylums
in the state, both public and private.
The bill has the approval of Governor
Davidson and is likely to pass the legis-
lature at the next session but the evi.
dence brought out at the coming hear
ing before the board of control will be
closely watched by the friends of the
measure for if this charge made against
the management of the Racine institu-
ton is substantiated it will be the
most powerful argument in favor of
/ the Theleen bill that could be present.
ed to the members of the legislature.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13
WATCH COUNTERFEIT BILLS.
Travelling Man Brings Warning About
Chicago Bill.

Friday night travelling man warned
Kenosha merchants to beware of a new
counterfeit one dollar bill noted for
it's extra thickness. The number of
the bill is 927S6452 d
The secret service has alsogissued a
warning against this bill and over a
half million dollars in it are said to
have been passed.
The counterfeiters have not yet
been caught but one of the secret ser
vice men gave it as his. suspision that
they are Italians and make their goods
in the old country afterwards shipping
them here.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13
BE NICE TO CENSUS MEN
Citizens Must Answer All Questions of
Enumerators Without Any Trouble

If after April Is someone comes to
you to ask you what you consider an
impertinent question, don t refuse to
answer until you are certain he is not
census taker, for if you do and he
happens to- be a census taker then you
will be liable to fine OF $500 and
besides you will be taken before the
United States Court and there COMPEL
ed to reply, anyway, so you might bet
ter do it at once and cheerfully.
It is a rather serious offense for any
one to refuse information to the repre-
sentatives of the government out pick
ing up interesting statistics, as will be
seen from the above.
D. Elmer Roberts, who is the head
census taker for the First COMPRESSION
al district, is now making up his plan
of campaign. Up to few days ago
he feared shortage of applications
from eligible workers but now he says
the supply is increasing so that he
thinks he will have no difficulty in pro-
curing plenty of competents.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13

The fight in the county board over
the Jail has been settled by the accept
ance of the report of the special com
mittee appointed to examine the plans
and specifications for the extensive
repairs on the building and the work
will be begun at the earliest possible
moment in the spring. The plans as
accepted have been approved by the
state board of control so that there
will be no interference with the work
from that quarter and when it is com
pleted it is the belief of the members
of the board who voted to make extern
sive repairs instead of building an en-
tirely new structure that the rebuilt
jail will take care of all Of the de-
mands of the county for years to come
and that it will be impossible for the
board of control to criticise the ar
rangements for the housing and feed
ing of the prisoners that will be made
in the rebuilt jail. Many of the tax
payers of the county opposed the pro-
posals to spend so much money on re-
pairs as the present plans call for but
the members of the board have given
this matter careful study for over a
year and in voting for rebuilding they
only did what was best for the county
in their Judgment. Whether thty have
saved any money for the county by
the course they took only time can
tell but they were certainly in bet
ter position to judge of what was
necessary than any outsider All of
the county officials will be glad to see
the repair work begin for the condi-
tions at the present structure have
been condemned time and again by the
state board and for the past year
there has been danger that the board of
control might take action in regard to
the Jail here which would give the
county a lot of undesirable advertis-
ing throughout the state.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13

The officials of the ice companies are
quite hopeful that prices will be lower
next summer now. They could hardly
be otherwise with the kind of weather
we have been having lately and the
prospects of record crops in every field.
The consumer need be in no hurry to
congratulate himself on the prospects
of lower prices, however. 1t is pos
sible that an excuse for keeping up
rates will be forthcoming before the
time for deliveries to begin.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13

IF all of the men who are being men
toned for various ward and city Of
fees enter the field the primary cleo
ton will be the liveliest ever held in
the city. The eagerness that is being
displayed to get first class men to run
is a hopeful sign and if the party work
ers do their work well in the primaries
the interests of the city will be pro-
tected no matter which side wins in the
regular election.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13
KENosHA FAILS TO WIN.
Black River Falls and Burlington Win
Prizes for Sale of Red Cross Stamps.


Prizes for Sale of Red Cross Stamps.
Kenosha school children failed to win
any of the prizes offered in the Red
Cross Christmas stamp crusade and
while the place of this city in the list
has not ben announced the State com
mittee has announced that the two
prizes were won by Black River Falls
and Burlington. At Black River Falls
town less than 1000 inhabitants 98,-
900 stamps were sold. Burlington was
first in the class of cities of more than
1000 people. The full report of the
Kenosha sales has not as yet been
made up, but it is certain that the
sales in Kenosha did not reach the fig
ure set by the school children at Black
River Falls. The prizes will be award
ed at once.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13

Assemblyman Wallace ingalls, has
been appointed by Gov. Davidson a
member of delegation of five to at
tend conference of state commission
ers at Washington, Jan. 20, to consid-
er employers liability laws and work
men s compensation acts. The other
members of the committee are C. Z.
Mccarthy, Madison; Senator A. w.
Sanborn, Ashland; Assemblyman c. B.
Culbertson, Stanley and Paul J. Wat
rous, Milwaukee.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13

The investigation of the alleged milk
trust IS going forward steadily and
while the government agents are fami-
liarizing themselves with one dairy
product they might look about little
for the cause of the abnormal price of
another-butter. They are quite as
likely to find that there is a combina
tion-possibly an illegal one, too on
that staple as they are to get evidence
of milk trust The passage of the
oleomargarine bill which put a pro
hibitive tax ON the substitute for but
ter put up in an attractive form would
account for part of the great increase
in the average prices of butter in the
past few years, but not for all Of it
and there may be evidence of COM
bination formed to keep butter
prices up laying around somewhere
where the government agents can get
hold of it. Of course the big cream
cries in control of the big dealers
make quantities of the butter, but the
difference between what the farmer
gets for his milk and what he would
get for it if he converted it into but
ter himself is not so great as that be-
tween the wholesale and retail prices
of the milk itself or the demand for
an investigation of the butter end of
the dairy business would come from
the producer instead of the consumer
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13

The investigation of the ventilation
and air supply of the schools that is
being made by the board of education
and the superintendent of schools is
along the right lines and when it is
completed the board will know just
what changes are. necessary to make
the system. of ventilation in all of the
rooms as perfect as if possible to get