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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12

Paid any ice bills this spring yet?
If so, you will notice that the prices
for that necessity are still maintaining
the altitudinous level to which they
were boosted last summer. The sa-
loon men and the market men who buy
in large lots may be getting their sup
plies little cheaper but the small
consumer is still paying famine prices
for what little he gets. 1t is per-
missable to call the present rates ia
mine prices for the excuse of a big
shortage" in the supply was given
last summer as the reason for the fifty
per cent raise in rates that the small
consumer was obliged to stand. With
the most severe winter this section has
had in years still fresh in the memory
of the public and a record harvest on
all the lakes in the county the short
age plea is hardly available for use
again this year, at least so early in
the season. However, there is no rea-
son to doubt that another excuse will
be forthcoming to maintain the pres
ent high level of prices-snow on the
ice, for instance, or perhaps the elm
creased cost of delivery" If excuses
will satisfy the consumer, any number
can be furnished. Many people, how
ever, who cannot afford to pay the pre-
vailing high prices for ice are inclin-
ed to the opinion that an investiga-
ton by the proper authorities to aseer-
tain, if possible, whether or not there
is an illegal combination among the
big dealers to keep prices up would be
more effective measure of relief. In
this climate ice is a necessity not a
luxury and when the increased cost of
living is being Investigated the ice bill
should not be overlooked. They have
become one Of the big items in the
household expense account in the last
Few years.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12
TO GIVE OUT ESTIMATE
Hospital Assn. to Ascertain Cost of
Furnishing Rooms in New Hospital

Hospital Assn. to Ascertain Cost of
Furnishing Rooms in New Hospital
At the last meeting of the board
of directors Of the Kenosha Hospital
Association the secretary was directed
to ascertain the exact cost of furnish
ing the rooms in the new institution.
This information is being sought on
account of the fact that many organi-
cations in the city have expressed a
willingness to fit up some of the rooms
in the hospital and in a few days the
secretary of the board of directors Of
the hospital will be able to give out
the exact amount needed for the furn-
ishing of the various rooms. The di-
rectors of the association are offer
ing chance for the farmers to do
something for the hospital and gen
eral invitation has been sent out for
contributions of black dirt. The as
ISOLATION will receive any contribution
in this line from a wheelbarrow load
to hundred loads.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12
SNOW SAVED THE BERRIES
State Board of Agriculture Reports
That Snow Saved Strawberry Crop

The monthly farm report of the state
board of agriculture says:
" From an agricultural point of view
the early part of the present year has
been full of perplexity and disappoint-
ment
The snowfall of the past winter
gave ample protection to growing
crops, and with the apparent opening
Of spring early in March, grasses and
grains at once commenced growth at
least one month in advance of average
seasons.
Favorable conditions continued I'M
til the middle of April, when grasses
and grains had reached ordinary June
standards and tree fruits were in full
bloom. The disastrous freeze of April
IL and 23-when the thermometer
showed the respective records of 80
degrees and "a degrees above zero
killed nearly all fully matured bios
SONS OF apples, cherries and plums,
seriously injured the chances of crops
of brush fruits and strawberries, and
killed the leaves and young shoots up
on forest trees. In exposed locations
spring grains and young clover were
killed back, but were not permanently
injured.
''The fall of snow about the time of
this freezing weather did much to pre-
vent loss to Strawberries and spring
grain crops. We estimate the loss to
apples at so per cent, cherries and
plums at 80 per cent, brush fruits at
% per cent, and strawberries at so
per cent. Notwithstanding these I'M
favorable conditions, the present re-
port shows farm crops to be in bet
ter than usual condition on May /.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12

There is nothing truer than the old
saying that "murder will out. +" 1t
was only by the purest accident that
the workingmen digging under an old
house in the Third ward ran across a
dead body Monday which revealed the
fact that a cold blooded, deliberate
murder had been committed in this
city and an attempt made to conceal
the evidences of their crime by the
murderers that was so cunningly con-
ceived and so well carried out that it
would have been successful in ninety
nine cases out Of a hundred. The
manner in which the murderers at
tempted to dispose of the body of their
victim shows that they had some
knowledge of chemistry and that they
went at the work deliberately and af
ter thinking out every move. 1t was
mere chance that the crime was dis
covered but the search for the muir
derers will be as systematic and tho
rough as it is possible to make it.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12
DAMAGE TO STEAMER IOWA
Hull Badly Strained and it Will Take
Ten Days to Repair Boat

That the hull of the steamer Iowa,
which stranded on the shore off the
Curtis farm on April 23d, was badly
strained is shown by the survey made
of the boat after it was placed in
dry dock at the south yard at Mil
waukee.
It will be necessary to remove the
entire sheeting in order to recaulk all
of the seams of the boat. A number
Of bottom planks were broken and
these will be replaced while the re-
caulking is going on. It is figured
that it will take ten days to make the
repairs.
The Goodrich line is not inconveni-
enced by the accident to the boat.
The regular schedule was resumed the
day following the accident by placing
the steamer Georgia on the run.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12
Bowling League Ends Season
With Night Hawks in First
Place-Eagles Second
MANY BOWLERS WIN HoNORS

The season of the Kenosha Bowling
League, the most successful in the his
tory of the organization, closed on
Tuesday night when the Eagles by
winning three games from the STAIRS
went into second place in the league.
The Night Hawks had clinched their
hold to first place in the league a
week ago, but the contest for second
honors was only settled by the play
ing of the last match. The final
standing of the league follows togeth-
er with the different prize winners:
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12

The state board Of agriculture in its
last monthly farm report fixes the
losses by the April freezes on fruits at
anywhere from so per cent on straw
berries to 90 per cent on cherries and
plums, but if any one thinks that
these figures represent actual financial
losses to the growers they have an
other think coming as they will find
out when they come to make their
purchases of these fruits later in the
year. The extraordinarily high prices
the growers will be enabled to get for
what they do raise will make up to
them a good share of the loss in pro-
duction.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12

The anti-spitting crusade is carried
on in the interest of public decency
and public health. It's Importance as
it relates to the public health is indi-
Gated by the fact that the enforcement
of anti-spitting laws was one of the
subjects up for discussion before the
national convention for the study and
prevention of tuberculosis.
By far the largest number of arrests
for violations of the law are reported
from New York City, where the arrests
are made by health officers. The
figures are 2,513 out of total of
1927 in several different cities of the
country.
That looks as if New York were in
earnest, and her example should be
brought to the notice of our police de-
partment. The more arrests there are
the less splitting there viii be, and this
means greater security against the
spread of disease, cleaner walks, clean
er street cars. cleaner city.-Record
Herald
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12
Workinau His WAY

"The impression that Harvard
rich mans college is quite errone
Statistics show that between one-q
ter and one-third Of the Harvard
dents are self-supporting." Yes,
deed. A. Harvard sophomore of
acquaintance says he can count
about S125 a month from poker
about $40 from casino.-New Y
Mail.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12
AT THE LIBRARY
New Books of Fiction Added to the
G.. M. Simmons library

New Books of Fiction Added to the
G.. M. Simmons library
Ayseough-San Celestino.
Bartlett-Seventh Noon.
Bennett-Glimpse
Bindloss-Thurston of Orchard Val
ley.
Bohan-Drag
Bosher-Mary Cary.
Brainerd-Personal Conduct of Be-
linda
Churchill-Modern Chronicle.
Copus- Son of Siro.
urlander-Henry in Search of a
Wife.
Courlevain-On the Branch.
Curwood-Danger Trail.
Z Eastman-Little Brother o'Dreams.
Ford-Cherub Devine.
French-By Inheritance.
Green-House of the Whispering
Pines.
Hinkson-Peggy the Daughter.
Hornblow-By Right of Conquest.
Irwin-House of Mystery.
John, the Unafraid
Kelly-Rhoda Of the Underground
Lathbury- Sinking Ship.
Lubbock-Deep Sea Warriors.
McAnlay-Eagles' Nest.
McFarlane-Redney McGaw.
Martin-Crossways.
Martyn-Man Outside.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Orczy-Nest of the sparrowhawk.
Paine-College Years.
PATRIARCH - Tag: or, The Chen
Boule Dog.
Perrin Stronger Claim.
Ray-Over the Quicksands.
Sindell- Satisfied at. Last. #
tacpoole-Crimson Azaleas.
Vance-Fortune Hunter.
Weale-Human Cobweb.
Wemyss-Professional Aunt.
Williamson - Loveland Discovers
America.
zangwell-They That Walk in Dark
ness.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12
GOVERNMENT PAID FOR LAND
Few Delinquents Among the Men Who
Took Up Government Land

The test of the practicability of all
the government reclamation work is
at hand. On April l there was due
and payable into the reclamation fund
from the settlers on the various pro-
jects, approximately $1,000,0O0 for
water rights.
If the farmers are able to meet
their payments, it evidences that the
government is able to secure a return
on its investment. If the payments
are not made, the law is a failure in
one of its most important provisions
and the operations of the reclamation
service quickly would be brought to
an end.
On the North Platte project in Wyo-
ming and Nebraska there were 335
farms with charges due on April 1. 10
is reported that 227 paid up as early
as last December and of the remaining
l08 the engineers in the field estimate
that not more than ten will be likely
to be cancelled.
Even on the Truckee Carson project
in Nevada, where conditions have been
unfavorable, the reports show few de-
linquencies. On the Okanogan and
Sunnyside projects in Washington, the
Shoshone in Wyoming and the Huntley
and Sun River in Montana, it is pre-
dicted that every farmer will meet his
obligations.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12
NEW SCHOOL DOES WE'LL
Fire Drill at Columbus School Empties
Building in ~ Minutes

Building in 134 Minutes
The new Columbus school had it's
first fire drill on Wednesday under the
direction Of Fire Chief Isermann and
Captain 7. P. Hansen of the west side
department and the children Of the
school, 534 in number, left the build
ing in just a minute and forty-fve
seconds. The children went out in
perfect order with the teachers and
Principal Miss Marie Heating in
charge. There was no sign of dis
order. This is the first time that the
fire drill had been tested at the school
and the officials Of the department are
high in their praise of the manner in
which the children conducted them
selves.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12
YouR CHOICE CHEAP

The lot 5Ox15O corner of Prairie
avenue facing Library Park, or house
and lot, 521 Prairie avenue, corner of
Fremont avenue. Will sell either one
but not both, at very reasonable
price. E. R. Head, News Office, Ke-
nosha *m7
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12

The Columbus school team defeated
the Durkee team in the Grammar
School Leauge at the Y. NJ. G. A. dia-
nond on Wednesday afternoon by a
score of 16 to II. The weather was
cold and the crowd small and the game
was called at the end of the sixth inn
ing.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12
Not Familiar.

A gentleman friend appeared 81
ly disappointed when my four-yeaI
Louise declined to shake hands !
him l said to her, Louise, why VI
you shake hands with Mr.. b." "V
mamma, . she replied, 81 can't 'ca
I'm not used to im!"-The Deli
tor.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12
NOTICE

To the member of the Somers
Mutual Fire Insurance Company: You
are hereby notified that an assessment
was levied on the 18th day of April
1910, to become due June Is, 1910 to
pay William F. Gross and Fred G.
Gross their loss by fire January IS,
1910
Isaac 7. Bishop,
W. Secretary.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12

President John F. Langan of the
Wisconsin State Retail Liquor Deal
ers' Association attended a meeting Of
the board of directors Of the organiza-
tion in Lacrosse on Wednesday.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12
THURSDAY MAY 12, 1910.

Have you been enumerated9 Ii
you have not you have pretty nearly lost
the chance to help your city make
good showing in the returns.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12
League Standing
Individual Standing

Second high average, 8 games
Knutz and O'Donnell, 636.
High single game-Knutz and Her
man, 260.
High team average, 3 games-All
Stars, 1858.
High single game-All Stars, 1851.
High team average for season
Night Hawks, 874.
M. Martinson gets the extra prize of
$500 for high average for rs games.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12

The Eagles at Clinton have purchas-
ed an Opera House and will manage it.
This may be a tip for the Kenosha
Eagles. There are only four theatres
in Kenosha
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Fowler of Osh-
kosh, spent Wednesday evening in Ke-
losha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12
TRAIL "BLACK HAND"
Detectives Said to Be Work
ing On an Alleged Tn
foreground Railway
DECLARE KENOSHA 4 TERMINAL

Alleged That Section Camps Along the
Lake Shore are Used to Aid in the
Escape of Italian Fugitives From
Justice
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12

When in doubt try the want ads.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-12

Anton Elverman, chairman ...."..,
new MunF
Thomas Pennefeather ..... .Supervi
7. Lemmerhard ......... .Supervi
J. T. Scherrer, town clerk. New Nun
B. NJ. Schilz, treasurer. New Nun
G. Lubeno, assessor. -. New Nun
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-06-20
Buying Pianos
in Large
Quantities
Its Effect
Upon Prices

The wholesaler has an advantage
over the retailer simply because he
is able to buy in larger quantities.
The retailer must buy from him
and then sell to the public.
Suppose you were the retailer.
You would save his profits.
Eilers Music Co. makes you a re-
taller when you buy a piano or or
gan.
How?
Because we buy for the largest and
busiest piano houses on the Pacific
coast-one in Portland, one in San
Francisco, one in Oakland and Stock
ton, Cal, Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma,
North Yakima, Aberdeen and Walla
Walla, Wash, Boise and Lewiston,
Idaho, Salem, Astoria, Pendleton and
Eugene, Oregon.
We can afford to sell you a piano
for just about the same amount that
the ordinary dealer himself must pay
tho factory for 1t.
For example, say the retail value of
an instrument We're $3.50. The or.
binary retailer would sell you that
instrument for $3.50, and boldly ad-
vertise that you get the benefit OF a
reduction $50. That piano cost him
maybe $3.50. If you went into the re-
tail business as a dealer it would
cost you about that amount.
Now we sell that piano to you for
as low as s195.
That is where your benefit comes
in when you buy piano from us.
The fact that we practically whole
sale to you explains the whole prob
lem of price.
OF course, We reduce shipping en-
penses by buying in large quantities.
We don't even ship in boxes. Our
special cars come direct from the fac
tory to our large warehouse at the
corner of 18th and Northup streets,
Portland. The pianos are shipped in
OuI pdlSuteQ udlueSS QeNlCe, anu
comes to us in perfect condition. We
save thereby at least 1925 on each
carload for freight alone.
We have not only solved the prob
lem of shipping, but others as well,
and you get the benefit of every dol
lar thus saved.
These things show why we do the
largest business of any piano house
in the United States-why we are con-
stantly increasing the volume of our
business.
In the matter of quality of goods,
we select the finest instruments that
money can buy. Today we carry the
leading pianos manufactured in the
world. The Chickering, of Boston, old
est in America, best in the world, the
Hallet & Davis, the Decker, the Kim
ball, the Lester, the Story & Clark,
and many others besides the genuine
Auto-piano.
Over forty makes in all, giving the
purchaser not only nhe largest stock
to select from, but more makes than
are to be found in any other piano
house in the United States.
Lowest prices, easiest terms and
best instruments are the inducements
that We offer you.
Are they not worth investigation.
The auto-piano, the most perfect
playing piano in the world, is sold
exclusively by us.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-06-20
HUGE DAM WILL DANISH DROUGHT
Four Years OF Work and
$0,75O.OOO OF Uncle
Sans Money Needed In
Worlds Greatest Prof.
ect of Reclamation.

the Salt river to help in the construc
ton of the great wall that was to hold
it Il prisoner. Like other streams il.
the southwest. the Salt river rushe,
swiftly through foothill and valley
giving ii such Il current or head of Wa
ter that the dam builders realized tha,
here was Il substitute for steam power
TO operate their machinery. 1t was
lucky it was so. for the nearest coal
mines were 800 miles away and wood
was too precious for fuel.
The first work done was to build IL
power canal twenty miles long. The
canal connects with the river whore
it makes Il sh2rp curve at point
higher than the bed of the stream ut
the dam site. Tunnelcd through hills.
cut through valleys and lined with con.
crete. when they opened the head gates
the canal delivered power equal to the
combined strength of 1900 horses and
capable of supplying all the electricity
they needed.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-06-20
GOODWIN Smith
EXILE AT Death
Once Popular Political Ideas
Deserted by Canadians.
NOTABLE SCHOLARLY CAREER,

Literary Success Lasts Through Life g.
time, but Annexation and National
list Ideas Dropped by Dominion When
Development Begins, and Boer War
Arouses English Patriotism.
The death of Professor Goodwin
Smith. the noted Canadian educator.
author and pubicist, at his Toronto
home recently closed career notable
in many ways. Though one of the
best known men of the Dominion. so
far as the outside world was concern
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-06-20

been used to wash away the loose
formation and accumulation Of dirt
above the bedrock upon which the
dam proper Is being built. Much of
the gravel thus secured has been util-
lied for construction material. To
remove the gravel elevators have been
placed In service.
The dams used for divertinR the
water to the power canal represent a
cost Of $4,000. while the canal. includ-
Ing its pressure pipe and auxiliary
structures. represents q total Of near.
" $1.OOO.OOO.
Rocks Aid Economy.
How to get the immense quantity
Of concrete needed was a question
The railroad was so far away that the
cost Of wagon haul was more than the
price the government must pay the
nearest manufacturer. The biologists
began tapping the rocks with their
hammers and looking at the sands
through their magnifying glasses.
They found a limestone formation
from which cement could be made and
sand and gravel to complete the con-
crete. So nature had favored them in
another important way.
To buy the stuff would cost 50 bar.
rel delivered at Roosevelt. To build
q mill and make 1t on the spot would
furnish all they wanted at less than 50
a barrel. So the reclamation service
allowed them to spend about $225,00O
on a plant. and this scheme saved the
government nearly half a million dol.
lars for concrete alone.
The 1900 square miles to be re-
claimed will make $4,000 farms, each
large enough to support at least ave
people, 30 that this work means
home land for fully $4,000 Americans
From what irrigation has done on the
desert each acre, It Is estimated. will
FIELD the farmer yearly crops ranging
from SOS to $50.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-06-20
Roosevelt Reservoir In
Arizona TO IrriGate 2,OOO
Square lilies of Arid
Land Before Summer Is
Ended Is Prediction.

"HE greatest irrigation project the
world has known or planned is
soon to begin its work of WA
teriug one of the SandieSt val
leys imaginable. This is the Roosevelt
dam in the Salt river valley in Arizo-
M, erected ut a cost of $9.I50.00O.
The dam is immense. To give fig
ures would he to say that the wall Is
2S4 feet high. Put it beside the Met
ropolitan tower in New York and it
would reach over third of the height
of the tower. 1t would hide the capt.
toll at Washington to the dome. Two
four-iu-hands could pass on the top. so
wide is it. and you could make n
Sprinting course on the crest. for 1t Is
nearly quarter of mile long. Most
of the wall rests on stones big enough
for a team of horses and a wagon to
stand on and weighing sixteen tons
each.
For nearly four years men and ma
chinery have been raising this barrier
in n mountain rift Of the southwest.
1t Is one of the worlds great engineer
ing feats and gives America the lar
gest water reservoir in the world for
the purpose of nourishing the land.
Can Flood 1000 Miles.
The camera cannot do justice to this
wall Only when you stand at the
base and. looking up. see it towering
high above YOU can you realize its di-
mansions. 1t will hold back an inland
lake intended to contain enough water
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-06-20
Power Aids Labor.

In the big cement mill it turned the
grinders and crunchers. it ran the
machines in the repair shop. it sharp
ened tools. it lifted and carried thos,.
sixteen ton stones from the quarries to
their beds. 1t drove the drills into the
rocky cliffs for the dynamite holes. it
lighted the town of Roosevelt and then
had enough strength left to pump wa
ter from wells for thousands of acres
of irrigated farms fifty miles away in
the Salt river valley. \ new empire
is predicted for the southwest
What the workers did with the aid
of the electric power may be told in
figures. This canal. which is distinct
from the reservoir. develops Il head of
water that actuates water wheels con-
neCted with electric generators. From
the power station extends transmits
sion line. Under a head of go feet by
draulc jets with noZzles eleven inches
in size. throwing water with the force
Of a five horsepower engine. have