The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-03-09
MANY DOGS BEING MUzzLED
Chief of Police Declares that People
of the City Must Meet This Order
Fairly and that no Favoritism Will
be Shown.

The 'Hydrophobia Special'' the old
train which ran out of Kenosha several
years ago when the members of the
family of III. B. Robinson were patients
in the Pasteur Institute in Chicago is
on service again and every morning at
$3.50 for the next twenty days this
train will take the victims of the Lar
tung dog to Chicago for treatment.
The seven patients made the first trip
on Saturday afternoon and all of them
had the first injection of the serum
to innoculate them against rabies. 1t
is too early to tell just what will be
the outcome Of the tests but the ply
sicians who with Mayor Scholey &C
companied the party to Chicago agree
that the youngsters stood the test
without flinching and the twenty one
days treatment promises to be some
thing of a holiday for the children not
withstanding the great anxiety which
is felt by their parents. The city has
arranged to meet all expenses in con-
nection with the treatment. Monthly
tickets have been purchased for the
children who are too old to dodge the
eagle eye of the conductor and the
cost of caring for the children is not
going to be any great drain on the fin
ances of the city. Henry Langenbach
one of the men bitten by the Hartung
dog has been placed in charge of the
fFrabies squad and he is going to
have a busy time of 1t for the next
three weeks. The children will spend
about four hours day in Chicago and
it is possible that later the trips will
be timed so that they will not be fore
ed to lose any time in school.
With the children properly attended
to the officials of the city are turning
their attention to the dogs and Chief
of Police O'Hare has notified his pa
trolmen that the muzzle order must
be enforced to the very letter. The
police welcome the coming of the or
der as it will give them a chance to
get rid Of lot of worthless dogs. Hard
ware men were kept busy Saturday
night dealing in muzzles. Hundreds
of the muzzles were shipped into Ken
osha by express and people who valued
their dogs did not take chance of.
letting them out even on Saturday
night "This order is going to be
new dog order in Kenosha that is
going to be enforced" said Chief o.
Hare. "We realize the danger of dogs
having been bitten by the mad dog and
we are going to protect the people of
the city if we have to kill nine-tenths
Of the dogs in the city. We shall start
picking up the dogs today and will
keep right at it until every unmuzzled
dog in the city is killed or properly
muzzled. / feel convinced that the or
der will appeal to the good sense of
the people of Kenosha and that we
shall have little trouble in enforcing
it. Of course we could not begin
shooting dogs Saturday night as it was
impossible for the people to have been
notified of the proclamation of the
Mayor but after today there will be
no excuse for the unmuzzled dog and
any dog without a muzzle is a dog for
whom a death warrant has been sign
ed. -
On Saturday the police of the city
killed ten dogs which were bitten by
the Hartung dog but none of these
dogs had shown any sign of rabies. 1t
is not thought necessary or advisable
to have the brains of these dogs an
alyzed, it is not thought that any of
them had attacked any Of the children
of the city.