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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
SENT BACK TO CHICAGO.
Man Supposed to be of Unsound Mind
Sent Back to Former Home.

An informal application was made to
County Agent Jones and County Judge
George W. Taylor this morning for an
investigation into the mental condition
of Gustav A. thurman living at the
Cream City Hotel. Relatives of the
man in Kenosha wanted to have him
sent to one of the state institutions for
the insane, but an investigation reveal
ed the fact that Bjurinan and his wife
and three children had lived in Keno
sha than six weeks. The wife had been
employed at the hotel and this morning
she consented to take ner invalid hus-
band and the children and return to
West Pullman, ILL.,, where the family
came from. County Agent Jones furn-
ished the transportation and the fami-
~ will leave for their former home
Tuesday morning.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
NAME MRS. BARTHOLOMEW.
Racine Woman to Aid State Committee
in Fight Against tuberculosis.

Mrs. Anna Bartholomew, until re-
Gently at the head of Associated Chair
ties in Racine, has been appointed to
the staff of the Wisconsin Ahti-Tuber-
culosis association to aid in securing for
the cities of the state adequate care
in the treatment of and in the control
of infection from advanced cases of
tuberculosis.
Mrs. Bartholomew, who has had a
thorough trimming and experience in
practical sociological Investigations,
will begin ner activities in Kenosha
and Racine and in other cities that
have been the subject of investigation
by the association through Miss Sarah
West Ryder, the visiting nurse, who is
at present beginning months work
in Manitowoc.
Gin accordance with the established
policy of the association, says Execu-
tive Secretary, DR.. II. E. Dearholt,
MIS- Dbl buOIUuloW Win ulIeCG. uBT
efforts largely to securing in each city
the employment of trained tubercuIo-
sis nurse to work in connection with
the health department. As experience
has shown that the only efficient
methcd of combating the disease is
through local effort directed against
the chief source of infection, the ad-
vaneed case, the services of visiting
nurses have been proven invaluable.
1T will be manifestly impossible
to expect the county sanatoria to care
for all advanced cases, in spite of the
fact that a number of counties have
made great progress along that line in
the few weeks since the passage of the
county sanatorium bill. Some cases
must be treated at home. Here is
where the visiting nurse comes in. and
where q regularly employed nurse
would be a practical solution; and
logically she would work to best adj
vantage in connection with the health
department. -
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
ORIGINAL PENN IN TOWN.
Globe Trotter Who Has Lived by His
Wits for Years Dropped into Kenosha.

Just Plain Penn, one of the origi-
nal globe trotters and man who has
lived by his wits in all parts of the
world for a good many years, dropped
into Kenosha Saturday evening for a
few days sojourn. Penn is an, expert
at touching and he does it so nicely
that the man he touches is usually will
ing to have him come back for the
second barrel Penn has not been in
kchosha for six years and he declared
today that his stay here would be very
short. Possessed of a good education
and as expert in riding the decks as
any man III the country Penn has
solved the problem of living in a way
so as to have no trouble about the cost
OF commodities. Penn has been touring
Wisconsin for the past six weeks and
he declares that the people of Wiscon-
SIN are the most hospitable people in
the country. The life Of the wanderer
does not seen to have affected ssPenn =
at all and he looks just as young or
Younger than he did when he hit Ke-
nosha six years ago.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
OTHER TOWNS PLAN TO WORK
No Money Set Aside for Kenosha
County Will be Left for the Others
in the State When the State Aid is
Parceled Out.

The town of Salem in the western
part of the county has taken the lead
in the effort to secure state aid for
highways in Kenosha county and
formal call has been sent out to the
people of that town for special town
meeting to be held at Camp Lake on
Aug. 30th at which time the plans for
road improvement will be taken up
and discussed and the proposition to
levy money for highways will be vot-
ed on. Salem has the honor of being
the leader in the road agitation, but
the other towns in the county will not
be far behind and petitions are in cir
culation in Bristol, Pleasant Prairie,
Brighton, Somers and Paris. 1t is said
that Randall and Wheatland, the ex-
IRENE western towns of the county, will
not act to get any aid under the new
law. In Bristol and Salem the town
officers are very enthusiastic over the
plan while in all the towns there is
feeling that Kenosha county should be
among the first counties in the state to
claim state aid.
AS soon as the towns have acted on
the matter, and it is thought that every
town i'll which the meetings have been
called will act favorably, the matter
OF outlining county system of high
ways will be taken up. This will be
matter for the county board of super
visors and it is pretty certain that there
will be several systems of highways Of
fered. The principal concern of the
good road promoters Of this time is to
get the taxes levied by the towns and
after this is done and the state aid
secured the county solons may work
out the system Of roads.
The meeting recently held in Keno
sha at which Representatives of the
towns were present bought the matter
prominently before the different towns
and there is now keen rivalry among
the towns to get the most out of the
state aid law.
1t is thought that within year the
plans for the county system of high
ways will be thoroughly worked out
and that plans will be made to have
continued appropriations from the
various towns until the system is work
ed out. Under the law much of the
cost of the county system will be paid
by the state. 1t is expected that the
amount appropriated at the different
town meetings all of which will be held
before the first of September will ex-
coed $4,000.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
FORM BOWLING LEAGUE.
Members of the K. of G.. Plan for Real
Sport During the Winter.

The Kenosha Council of the Knights
of Columbus is planning to give some
real sport for the members this win
ter and at meeting held on Friday
evening plans were completed for the
organization of bowling league
among the bowlers of the order. Tt is
planned to have { six team league and
a schedule of forty games will be ar
ranged for the season. The teams have
not as yet been selected, but the cap
tains of the different teams will in
clude William O'Donnell, Fred Dyer,
Herbert Thomey, H. A. Kupfer and J.
G, Schmitt. No special alleys will be
selected for the league games, but the
teams will play on the different alleys
OF the city. 1t is expected that the
first games will be rolled early in
September.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
TO AID CABBAGE GROWERS.
Experts of the University of Wiscon-
sin Study Diseases of Cabbage.

An effort is being made to help the
farmers of Racine and Kenosha coun-
ties fight the cabbage diseases that
have troubled them so long. For
many years the cabbage crop has been
uncertain in those counties and all be-
cause of disease, supposed to be
black rot. Where the disease has ap-
peared on a field, it is almost impos-
sible to grow. cabbage on that field
again. Rotations have proven to be
of no value.
The experiment station of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin has detailed
Prof. L. r. Jones of the Plant Pathol-
ogy Department to make a study of
these diseases and he is hoping TO
be able to suggest remedy or pre-
vention before long. He has already
made a preliminary survey of the
damage but has not reached any CON
illusions valuable to the farmer as yet.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
SEND WooDMEN FUNDS HERE.
Grand Trustees of Order Name Local
Bank as Depository for Order.

The Kenosha Camp of the Modern
Woodmen of America has been recog-
nized by the board of trustees of the
Head Camp and at meeting held re-
Gently at Rock Island, ILL.,, the First
National Bank Of Kenosha was named
as one of the repositories for the great
fraternal order. The head banker of
the Woodmen has been instructed to
deposit Ill the Kenosha bank $4,000
OF the funds OF the order. This recog-
milton of the Kenosha Camp is par
ticularly pleasing to Kenosha Woodmen
and they will have the assurance that
from now on funds paid by the local
camp into the Head Camp will be de-
posted in Kenosha and the local men
will know just what kind of financial
institutions are handling the funds.
The Kenosha bank is one of the first
IN Wisconsin to be selected as de-
posltory for the Woodmen S funds
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
GREAT BARBECUE FOR ELKs.
Kenosha Antlered Herd Invited to At
tend Great Gathering.

The Kenosha lodge of Elks has re
ceived an invitation to go in BODY
to Milwaukee on Sept. 22nd to, attend
a barbecue to be given under the aus
picies of the Milwaukee lodge of the
order. 1t is expected that this will be
the greatest gathering of Elke ever
held in Wisconsin and the Milwaukee
promoters are planning to take care of
crown of ten thousand people. 1t
will be an old fashioned barbecue in
every sense of the word and every
lodge in the state has been invited to
send delegations for the day. Thirty
beeves will be barbecued to furnish
provisions for the day and it is declar-
ed that the event will be the greatest
thing of the kind held since the DAYS
of the first Lincoln campaign. The
members of the local lodge have al
ready planned to get large number
of automobiles to make the trip to
Milwaukee and it is expected that at
least hundred kenosha Elks will he
in the crowd One of the features of
the event will be the presence of the
grand officials of the lodge.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
VALUATION At s225.OOO
State Tax Commission Makes Increase
in the Valuation of the Railways in
wisconsin Cities-Most of the Tax
Goes to Cities.

The Kenosha Electric Railway com
paEy will pay to the city of Kenosha
| $2,136.11 this year as taxes as this is
IS per cent Of the total license de
manded from the company by the Wis
consin State Tax Commission in the re-
port made on Saturday afternoon. The
amount Of taxes is based on the report
of the company filed with the commits
sion. On this report the property of
the company has been valued at
| $225,00 and the total tax assessed is
$2,515.43. Of this amount the state
receives Is jer cent or $377.32, while
the remainder must be paid to the city
treasurer of Kenosha. 1t is probable
that The draft for this amount will be
received by the treasurer early in
October The AMOUNT is slightly in ex-
cess of the amount paid by the com
pany last year, but the report of the
company shows little change in the
amount of business done in the two
years.
The Chicago and Milwaukee Flee
trio Railway company is assessed on
$3.50, 900 and the total amount to be
paid by this company is $2,012.84. Of
this amount small portion will be re-
turned to the town of Pleasant Prairie,
little to Somers and still a smaller
amount to the city of Kenosha.
The Milwaukee Electric Light and
Railway company is assessed on prop
erty valued at $24,20O,000 and it's tax
| is S270,548.59. A small portion of this
tax will find it's way to the treasurer
of the town of Somers as the company
has little over six miles of track in
that town.
Wisconsin street railway and light,
heat and power companies operated in
connection Herewith are given a total
assessed valuation Of $40, 10000 and
will pay taxes amounting to $471 ,369.07
in 1911, according to the assessment
figures given out by the commission.
The 1910 valuation was 500, 1913 900
and taxes $A40,925.33.
milwaukee, leads the Badger cities
in amount of taxes levied The Mil
waulee Electric Railway and Light
company's property is assessed at $24,-
100000, as against $23,250,00O for
1910. Taxes for 1911 are $270,54S,39;
for 1910 were S261 ,637.73.
The Milwaukee Light, Heat and
Traction company's property is valued
at $6,650,000, against valuation Of
$6,300,000 in 1910.( Taxes for 1911 will
be 74,344.91. In 1910 they were
$7O,s95.aS.
Fifteen per cent of the taxes collect
ed is retained by the state and the re-
mainder distributed among the towns,
villages and cities in which the prop
erty is located. The rate of taxation
is $11.1796S554 per $1,000 of valuation
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
Big BARNS BURN At RUSSELL
Big Buildings on the Farm of Murrie
Brothers Struck by lightning and
Loss of $4,000 Results-stoGm Covers
Big Territory.

One of the most severe rain and
electric storms ever known in this sec
tion passed over Kenosha county just
after nine O'Clock Thursday evening
and reports received this morning in
dictate that the storm did considerable
damage throughout this and surround
ing counties. Wire service to the west
ern part of the county was badly in
| terfered with and all the public serv-
ice corporations reported damage as a
result of lines being grounded by the
| lightning.
The storm came just at the time the
largest crowds were in the theatres of
the city and many of the people hur-
ried out of the theatres and to their
homes. The heavy rain continued for
! more than three hours and it is esti-
mated that more than an inch of water
fell.
The most serious incident resulting
from the storm was the big fire at
the farm of Murrie Brothers Just over
the state line mile west of the viii
lage CT Russell. The big barns on. the
farm were struck by lightning Just af-
ter nine O'Clock and notwithstanding
the heavy rain the barns were com
pletely destroyed and the flames spread
to the graiDeries and silos on the farm
ard they also went down. A telephone
call was sent to all the people in the
nelghborhood and a volunteer bucket
! brigade was organized which managed
to save the house and much of the
stock from the barns! Several head
of hogs were burned in the barn The
loss from the fire is estimated at about
$4,000 and it is partially covered by
insurance. The Murrie barns were
among the largest in this section of the
country. The flames from the burning
barns were plainly visible in Kenosha.
The most serious damage from the
storm in Kenosha was felt by the
Cleary, Write, Newman company, CON
tractors for the new trunk sewer. The
water poured into Jerome Creek SO
rapidly that the pumps which were
kept working at full speed during the
entire night could not take care of it
and several places along the route of
the sewer were flooded. The work was
not stopped, however, by the storm and
the men continued work in the mud and
slush this morning. The storm, how
ever, will probably cost the contractors
several hundred dollars.
The special committee of the coun-
ell ordered to meet with the officials
of the Chicago Brass company in re-
gard to taking care of the water pour
ed into the creek from the plant, met
with the officials of the company on
Thursday afternoon and Manager Geo.
II. Allen has agreed to take up the
matter at once and make some report
to the council.
All the sewers in the city were pref
ty well flooded by the heavy rain and
reports of sewers backing up were re-
ceived from several parts Of the city
this morning. Nc serious damage was
caused by the backing up of the sew
erS
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
NoTAR|Es TO FIND BONANZA.
County Clerk is Required to Charge
all Applicants for Licenses Fifty
Cents for Making Out the Two
AcknoWledg

Thanks to the adoption of the fee
system by the county board of super
visors hunters in Kenosha county this
year will be forced to pay fifty cents
more fer their licenses than in former
years as the fee charged by the clerk
for taking the application and issuing
tie licenses after the first of Septem-
Der will be dollar and half A long
suffering clerk in the past saved the
added fifty cents for the hunters by tax
ing the two acknowledgements in con
nectlon with the application without
charge. Now under the fee system the
county board requires the collection
of these fees and they must be paid to
the clerk if he makes out the appli-
cation
The new supply of hunting licenses
was received by the clerk on Thursday
ana 1900 licenses have been secured to
take care of the hunters of Kenosha
'censes than have been issued in any
preceding year, but it is pretty certain
that every one of them will be de-
manded before the season for the issu-
ance Of the licenses is over. 1t is ex-
pected that the added charge for the
licenses will open bonanza for no.
taries in the city as the hunters seek
ing licenses are not required to make
the application before the county clerk
and the independent notaries have an
nounced that they will agree to take
both acknowledgements for twenty-five
cents, thus making it possible for the
hunters to secure the licenses for ST. 20.
The county officials are not adver-
tising this side OF the question as they
are anxious to have as much paid into
the county for fees as possible, but it
is very probable that the thrifty hunt
erS of the county will soon find the
way to get around the law and secure
the licenses at the cheapest possible
price. County Clerk Jones began the
issuing of licenses today and already
many applications have been fled
Reports from the northern woods
are to- the effect that the deer will be
very plentiful this year and it is ex-
pected that the Kenosha county hunt
ers will take to the woods in great
numbers with the opening of the sea-
son The season opens on November
10th and already emmisaries are being
sent into the woods to get the camps
into condition for the coming of the
hunters. AT least twenty Kenosha
hunting parties will have camps In the
woods this year and some Of them are
arranging to build permanent homes
before the opening Of the seson.
The removal Of the license against
the killing Of rabbits will probably not
effect materially the number Of licenses
issued in the county as few licenses
are issued to farmers who seek to kill
rabbits alone.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
AUTO AND CARRIAGE COLLIDE.
N. Mungen Drives Carriage Struck by
Auto Driven by Miss Donley.

Two horses owned by the Mungen
Livery Stables were slightly injured
late Friday afternoon when an auto
mobile driven by Miss Cora Donley
ard having number Of young ladies
as passengers collided with the team
attached to one of the Mungen carri-
ages at the corner of Grand avenue and
Ashland avenue. Miss Donley was
driving east On the avenue and had
started to turn around when the acct
dent occurred. Fortunately the CARR
age was not overturned and the injury
to the horses are slight. None of the
ladies in the automobile was injured.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
MUST HAVE LICENSE ON sILos.
Decision Made by Court in Favor of
the Inventor of Modern Silos.

BY virtue of one of the most sweep
ing and wide court decisions ever made
affecting Kenosha county and other
'fa9iners of the country, every owner
of silo built of concrete, if that silo
was not built by one certain firm
which owned the original patents, must
get license or be sued for infringe
ment. The type of concrete construc-
ton used in silos of this county, with
the sliding door feature from top to
bottom, was patented years ago and at
once many companies disregarded the
patent rights, and with slight varia-
tions began to put up silos of the same
general type.
Recently each farmer owner of these
forage storages for cattle has received
a polite letter from whatever contract
ing firm built his silo quoting the court
decision and inclosing a license plate
to be put on the silo for protection
against damage suits The building
company has in each case paid for the
plate.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
HIDE IN CLOAK OF MYSTERY
Declared to Racine People That Man
was Agent for the Prudential Insur-
ance Go. i'll Kenosha but no Trace
of Him is Found.

Deep mystery surrounds the identi-
ty of man and woman giving their
names as Mr. and Mrs. III. L. Harris for
whom state wide search is being
made by police officers. The pair are
charged with stealing a pair of ponies
from Butler, Wis, on the night of
Aug. End and since that time no trace
has been secured of either the ponies
or the two people. Chief of Police
.O'Hare of this city was not notified of
the case until Friday afternoon and
since that time he has been making
every possible effort to discover the
identity of the man and woman. Har-
ris went to Butler from Racine and
at Racine he registered with the wom-
an at one Of the Racine hotels as man
and wife. He was very talkatlve and
declared while i'll Racine that he was
employed as an agent by the Pruden-
tial Life Insurance company at Keno
sha. This fact was learned by the
Butler authorities ON Friday and they
at once got into communication with
the local police department. At the
offices of the Prudential company here
it is declared that no one by the name
of Harris has been employed there and
that no one of the members of the
local force is out of Kenosha.
Reports from Racine indicate that
there is little doubt but that the man
and woman were former Kenosha peo-
pie. They talked Of their life in Ke-
nosha and claimed to have as their
acquaintance some of the best known
people of Kenosha. Harris is describ-
ed as being man 40 years of age
and weighing about 145 pounds. He
made very good appearance and was
well dressed. He seemed to be pro-
fessional man and seemed to be we'll
educated. The woman with him wore
a white suit and was very small and
exceeding pretty. She attracted atten-
ten i'll the hotel at Racine and in a
boarding house at Butler where the
couple stopped for day.
At Butler the man gave his name as
W. Zackert and registered from Ke-
nosha.
The team of ponies belonged to a
liveryman by the name of Barney
Boggs in Butler and at the time they
were rented to Harris and his wife
the pair started out for a pleasure
drive. The officials of Butler went
after the team early the next morning
but they could get no trace of them.
The police here believe that the pair
arc pair of clever horse thieves and
that they gave their residence as Ke-
nosha with a view Of throwing the
officials off their track. However, men
in Racine who talked with Harris de-
clare that he was SO familiar with
things in Kenosha that he must have
been resident of the city. There
has been no report made to the police
of any one being missing and the de-
scrlptions of Mr.. and Mrs. Harris are
notlregarded as sufficiently definite to
secure an identification.