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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-27

while they were in Kenosha preparing
for the trip to the north, but nothing
has as yet been discovered along this
llne. McManigal was the head of the
party and he made quite hit with the
henosha sportsmen. He is now alleged
to have made a confession in which he
is said to have brought tight chain
of evidence about the members of the
union. McManigal himself was a
members of the Iron Workers Union.
The Kenosha men had not told of
the experience they had with the
three men and they had not suspected
them with being connected with the
Los Angeles crime. The first news
came to these men on Sunday when
the facts in regard to the arrest of
Mcnamara and his pals became public.
During the time the men were in the
woods they made no reference to labor
unions and gave the men with them
no reason to suspect that they had
ever heard of the blowing up of the
Times building or any other outrage
mentioned in the long line of crimes
charged to the men now under arrest.
Mrs. Thomas Mcclure at whose house
Mrs. MECHANICAL is now making her
home, is well known to many people
in Kenosha, but the identity Of her
relatives in the city has not been re-
vealed.
incidentally the police of the city
will be licking their chops over the
rewards that they lost in not knowing
that Mechanical and his pals were in
Kenosha. At the time they were here
rewards aggregating more than $780,
600 had been offered for their arrest
and conviction.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-27
DEATH OF ALMA WEIER STILL
Former Well Known Young Woman of
Kenosha Died This Morning, Z

Mrs. Alma Stilb, aged 30 years, wife
Of Benjamin Stilb and formerly Of
Kenosha, died at her home in Milwau-
kee at an early hour this morning.
Death followed child birth and the
death of Mrs. Stilb will come as a
great shock to her friends and rela-
tives in Kenosha. The deceased was
a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Christian
Weier and up to the time of her mar
riage some seven years ago, was one
of the best known young women of
the north side. Since her marriage
she had made her home in Milwaukee.
Mrs. Stilb is survived by her husband
and two sons. The remains will be
brought to Kenosha this evening and
taken to the Weier home. The fun
eral will be held from St. GEORGE
church at ten o'clock Thursday morn
ing with interment at the Weier fami
ly plat at st. George cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-27
AFTER MANY DAYS.

J Charles Pork long sought by the
Kenosha police on charges of grand
larceny, was arrested late Saturday
evening by Assistant Chief of Police
Joseph 9. Newhouse. Pork who was
something Of hog on money matters,
is charged with stealing $50 from Mrs.
Rose Marone at whose home he form
erly boarded. He left Kenosha on
September Goth and had been away
from the city until Saturday morning
Assistant Chief Newhouse was advised
that the man was in the city and
found him in the italian colony and
jailed him. Pork refused to make any
statement in regard to the crime or tell
where he had been during the six
months that the police had been look
ing for him.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-27
END CAME SUDDENLY.
Mrs. Martha Hartnell Died Suddenly
at Her Home on Ashland Court.

Mrs. Martha Hartnell Died Suddenly
at Her Home on Ashland Court.
Mrs. Martha Wells Hartnell, aged 43
years, wife of Frank Hartnell, died at
the family residence, so Ashland
Court just before midnight Sunday
night. Death came very suddenly.
Mrs. Hartnell had been in usual health
during the day and late Sunday evening
she was taken with fit of coughing
and DR.. William Pugh was called to
attend her. She died shortly after the
physician arrived. It is thought that
her death was due to some form of
heart disease. Mrs. Hartnell was a
daughter of Thomas Wells and was
born in New Foundland. She had re-
sided in Kenosha for number of years
and had a wide circle of friends. She
is survived by her husband and seven
children. The funeral was held
from the family residence at two
o'clock Wednesday afternoon with in
terment at the family plat at the Ke-
nosha City cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-27
THEY GET HUNTING LICENSE
0. e.. Mechanical and James Mcnamara
Who Went Under Name of j. T. Sui
Ivan Stopped at Lodging House
Here a Month After Explosion.

That the city of Kenosha was one OF
the rendezvous of Ortie r. Mechanical
Jimmy Mcnamara and at least one
other man shortly after the officials of
the international Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers Union, are alleged to
have blown up the Times building in
Los Angeles, CAL, was revealed this
morning when it was discovered that
McManigal and James Mcnamara and
a companion who gave his name as
Louis Zeiss, came to Kenosha early in
November and for three days, while
tice Bureau were searching for them
in all parts of the country, they re-
NAMED quietly in a lodging house in
Kenosha and from Kenosha they went
to the woods of northern Wisconsin for
hunting and fishing trip. The fact
of the presence Of the men in Kenosha
was known to a number of Kenosha
oPO4 bOO GHCy 'A1u -LOU AnOW WIZ
the men were or their reasons for seek
ing the seclusion of the northern woods
until the facts in regard to the blow
ing up of the Times building were
brought out on Sunday morning. Now
these men are recalling the fact that
the three men worked with caution, al
ways out Of the lime light.
Mechanical through friend, Thorn
as Mcclure of Chicago, made the ar
rangements for the party to come to
Kenosha. Mcclure had relatives in
Kcnosha who were organizing party
to go to the northern woods on a hunt
ing and fishing trip and through these
friends the arrangements for the men
to join the party were arranged.
Nothing was said as to the identity
of the Chicago hunters, but they were
known to be friends of Mcclure and
for this reason no further questions
were asked in regard to them. It was
just a month after the blowing up of
the Times building that McManigal
and Zeiss came to Kenosha and began
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-27
THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1911.

To say that the contractors, city OF
fcials, and all others directly interest
ed in the building of the trunk line
sewer were surprised at the results OF
the bidding for the work is putting It
mildly but the most of them are wait
ing to see if there are any further de-
vclopments in connection with the com
petition for the contracts before MAX
ing any comments and in taking that
course they are on the safe side. 1t
may be permissible to remark, how
ever, that there probably never were
bids received by any city on job OF
this size in which there was such a
wide difference between the lowest and
the next lowest bid and between the
highest and the lowest. 1t may be tax
en- for granted that all of these large
contractors can buy their materials at
about the same prices, certainly the
difference in the cost Of materials to
the different firms is not great enough
to account for the wide difference in
the bids on the contract and none Of
the contractors is ready with any eX
PLANTATION except to advance the the
DRY that there is mistake in the fig
ures and the range in the bids is so
great that this may be the correct ex-
PLANTATION. However, the city officials
havo received no intimation that the
successful bidder is not ready to sign
The contract at the price named in the
bid but should the Reichert company
retire the city will be ahead SIS, 100 for
felt money which will help consider
ably in paying for the sewer. The ne
cessity for getting the work on the
sewer started at once before the re-
leases given by the property owners
expire places the city officials in a diff
fcult position and in the event that
the successful bidder decides to lose
his forfeit money and refuses to sign
contract at the prices named in his
bid it can be readily seen that there is
q possibility Of further delays in be-
ginning the work and that would be
little short of calamity.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-27

Tt has been known for some time
that redistricting of the city ought
to be made SO that ward boundaries
may be arranged in way to give all
of the people of the city somewhere
near the same representation on the
council and on the school board-the
voting at any of the last dozen cleo
tions furnished evidence on which to
base complaint that the present di-
visions of the city are unfair to large
numbers of the property owners The
official figures of the census just sent
out from Washington, however, furnish
the direct evidence that it is time that
the city authorities took up the mat
ter Of giving all of the people of the
city the same influence in municipal
affairs. 1t is manifestly unfair and
unjust that tie 1854 people of The
Third ward, for instance, have no more
representation in the governing bodies
of the city than the 1912 people of
the Sixth ward and steps should be
taken Immediately to divide up the
present wards in way that will put
representation on more equitable
basis. Two and possibly three new
wards viii have to be created. Tt is,
of course, impossible to so make the
divisions that exactly equal powers
viii be given to each ward, but it
would have to be an intentionally I'M
fair redistricting job that will not put
all of the wards of the city on more
equitable basis than they are at
present and even if the men in charge
Of this work were to start out with
the intention Of being unfair which is
not likely they would have difficulty
in making matters worse than they are
at present as shown by the figures of
the census which cannot be challenged.
1t is the general belief that any at
tempt to eQualze representation is al
ways the signal for gerrymandering
tactics and attempts to secure some
unfair political advantage, but these
things are very apt to right them
selves in the long run. The vote at
the last municipal election showed
thai the people of the city-in some
OF the wards at le8st-are waking up
to the necessity of taking an intelli-
gent personal interest in municipal af
fairs and any attempt at gerry
mander in the redistricting of the CITY
might prove boomerang for the poll
ticianS responsible for it. This prob
lem of giving all of the people of the
city approximately equal representa-
ton on the council and school board
and somewhere near equal power in
municipal affairs of every nature will
have to be taken up in the near future
and it can be 50 handled that there
can be no. just ground for criticism.
We believe that the great majority of
the people Of the city favor square
deal all around and that they will not
support any attempt on the part Of
any Of the politicians to take any ad
yantages that a revision of the present
boundary lines of the wards might
give them
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-27
INSANE FROM GRIEF.
Theo. Hollenkamp of New Munster
Sent to State Institution Monday.

Theodore Hollenkamp, aged As
years, a we'll known retired farmer of
the town of Wheatland, was adjudicat-
ed insane in the municipal court by
Judge Randall on Monday afternoon
and committed to the state hospital for
the insane at Mendoza. Hollenkamp
is the father of seven children and it
is said that his condition is largely due
to his grieving over the death of his
wife which occurred nearly two years
ago. Hollenkamp refused to be com
forted and since that time his friends
have noticed mental failing. Dur
ing the past few days his condition
had become such that his relatives de-
cided that it would be necessary to
have him confined in the state institu
ton.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-27
BIsRoP BILL MAKES HIT.
Measure Provides Penalty for Tamper-
ing With or mjuring Machines.

Automobile owners of this city and
county were pleased to learn this
morning that the assembly and judi
ciary committee of the legislature
recommended the passage of the bill
introduced by Senator Bishop which
provides penalty for persons con
victed of tampering with, injuring or
defacing an automobile or other motor
vehicle. The bill has been passed by
the senate and there is little doubt
that it will receive favorable consid-
Grafton in the lower house.
The measure is an amendment to the
present law which prohibits the will
full breaking or injuring of engines,
locomotives, railway ears and street
cars. Motor car drivers are especially
interested in the bin, as it provides
them protection against lawless med
dlers or sneak thieves when they
leave their cars standing.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-27

Section 4394a-4. No person, firm or
corporation shall store gunpowder or
black blasting powder at any gunpow-
der or black blasting powder manufac-
turing plant, or on the land or premises
where such plant is located within one
quarter of mile of any occupied
| dwelling house. or any church, school
house, town hall, depot, or other place
where people are accustomed to assem-
BILE.
Section 4393a-5. Every person, firm
or corporation engaged in the manufac-
ture of gunpowder or black blasting
powder, shall on the first day of each
month make written report in dupli
cate, showing the amount of gunpowder
and black blasting powder on hand at
the time Of making such report, and
also the greatest quantity of such ex-
plosives ON hand at any time during
the previous month, which report shall
be verified by the oath of the owner
or superintendent of such manufacture
ing plant, and shall file one copy there
of with the county clerk of the county
where such plant is located and one
copy with the clerk of the town in
which such plant is located
Section 4393a-6. The chairman of
the town board of supervisors shall be
authorized to visit and inspect any
gunpowder or black blasting powder
manufacturing plant in his town once in
each month for the purpose of inspect
ing all magazines or buildings where
gunpowder or black blasting powder is
stored or kept in storage to determine
whether the provisions of this act re-
lating to the quantity of explosives
that may be lawfully stored, or kept
in storage, the distance that such mag
azine or magazines shall be located
from manufacturing buildings and from
each other, as well as the provision re-
lating to barricading, are being com
piled with.
2. 1t shall be the duty Of every per-
son, firm, or corporation, engaged in
the manufacture of gunpowder or black
blasting powder, to permit the chairman
of the town board of supervisors to
visit and inspect all magazines and
buildings where such explosives are
stored or kept in storage, and whenever
it shall appear from such inspection,
or otherwise, that the provisions of this
act are not being complied with or up
on the refusal to allow the chairman. of
such town board of supervisors to make
the inspection herein provided, it shall
be the duty of the said chairman to re-
port such violation or refusal to the
district attorney Of the county where
in such manufacturing plant is located.
Section = 4393a-7. Every person,
whether as principal or agent, and any
official, superintendent, or manager of
any corporation violating any Of the
provisions of this act, shall be guilty
Of misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by fine of
not less than two hundred nor more
than one thousand dollars, or by i'm
prisonment in the county Jail for not
less than two nor more than six
months, or by both such fine and i'm
prisonment.
Section 2. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its pas
sage and publication.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-27

to purchase their equipment to go to
the northern woods. The equipment
was bought by McManigal in one of
the Kenosha department stores and it
was kept at the lodging house until the
party started north. The three men
made no friends in Kenosha and mem
bers of the hunting party did not meet
them until after they got to the north
ern woods far from the haunts of civ
ilization.
McManigal was in Kenosha for near
ly week before James Mcnamara, the
brother of Mcnamara, secretary of the
International Union, who is alleged to
have been the brains of the conspiracy,
joined him. The identity of Zeiss has
not as yet been established, but it is
declared that he was a German, short
OF stature and seemingly about forty
years OF age. It is thought that he
came to Kenosha under his real name
and that he was simply friend of
Mcclure and had nothing to do with
the other two men so far as the crimes
now charged TO them are concerned.
Jimmy Mcnamara, the last Of the party
arrived in Kenosha on November 4th
OF last year and on November 9Th the
three men went to the Office of the
county clerk and applied for non
resident hunting licenses. At the time
the clerk informed them that these
licenses should be secured from the
state game warden at Madison, but the
men declared that they were anxious to
get to the woods and asked that the
applications be taken here and the H.
censss forwarded to them in the north
ern woods. This County Clerk Jones
did and the records of the clerk shows
that the applications were taken on
November 5th. The license which
was issued to James Mcnamara was
taken in the name of J. F. Sullivan.
the same name that Mcnamara gave
when he was arrested in Detroit on
April 18th. The men were well sup
piled with money and had greenbacks
OF large denominations when they paid
for the licenses. The men left Kenosha
on November 9th with the party of
Kenosha hunters. They did not re-
turn to Kenosha, but after the Keno
sha men had spent a week in the
woods they left them there. Since that
time the three men had not been seen
in Kenosha and nothing has been
heard from them. In the camp the
men were well supplied with money
and nothing was too good for them.
The equipment which they purchased
for the hunting trip included every
thing needed for camp life.
Clerk Jones did not remember the
coming of the three men until his at
tention was called to the records this
morning and then he easily recalled
the issuance Of the licenses. He said
that they were not introduced by any
local man, but seemed so willing to pay
for everything that they got that he
decided that they were well known
Chicago men and made out the applica-
tions for them. Since these facts have
been brought out efforts have been
made to find where the men stayed
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-27
BUILDING MATERIALS.

The Dunnebacke company, corner
of Market and West Main streets han.
die building materials such as brick
lime, cement, hair, plaster and all sizes
of farm drain tile, sewer pipe and con
nections, also sand and gravel. WITT
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-27
ARREST MURRAY IN IOWA.
Man Charged With Eloping With Mrs.
Marie Hanson Under Arrest.

Edward Murray wanted in Kenosha
on charges of grand larceny and of
eloping with Mrs. Marie Hanson, the
wife of Hans Hanson, was arrested at
Forest City, Iowa, Sunday evening by
Chief of Police c. w. Galagan of Buff
falo Center, who on the previous day
had arrested Mrs. Hanson in his home
town. Chief Galagan learned through
Mrs. Hanson that Murray was in For
est City and taking the woman with
him she led him to the hiding place
of Murray.
In the municipal court warrants were
issued for the arrest of Murray charg
ing him with grand larceny and for
the arrest of Mrs. Hanson charging
adultery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-27

The funeral of Irene Landgren the
little daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. Axcl
Landgren was held from the Swedish
Lutheran church on Sunday afternoon.
Interment was at the family plat at
the Kenosha city cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-27

A recount of the votes of the recent
Zion City election shows that w. FL.
Clendenin, the Voliva candidate for
mayor was the only one of the Voliva
candidates elected at the recent city
election in Zion and he had a majority
of but two votes. The Independents
captured all the other city Offices.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-27

The Somers Greys defeated the
Arions in a fast played game at Ram
bier Park Sunday afternoon, the score
being to 4. Birch of the Greys
struck out fifteen men while Chime
man of the Agions famed four men.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-27

It is expected that score of people
from Kenosha county and city will go
to Madison on Thursday to appear be-
fore the committee Oh state affairs and
urge the passage of the bill regulating
the manufacture of powder in the state.
The complete draft of the bill is now
ready and copies of it reached Kenosha
this morning. The complete bill fol
lows:
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-10-20
Special Tax Levies.


The special tax levy of the cities and
towns is as follows:
Caldwell .0l9, Nampa .0l25, Parma
600, Payette OH, New Plymouth .OO5,
Emmett OF, Middleton 006.
The following levies have been made
on the good roads districts;
Good Roads No. l .0O2, Nampa
Highway Dist. OOPS, Special Road
No. 10 .OO5, Special Road No 81 oil:
Special Levy on School Districts For
1911.
No. /, .OO2, bond .0O05; No. ?, DOL;
No. 3 OF; 4, .O05; S, 002, bond .0O4;
7, .OO15; 8, 600; 9, oil, bond .0Q2; II,
600; IL, .OO1; 10, .OO3; IA, .007; Is, COP,
bond, Dol; 10, .005, bond, .O02' II,
.OO3;; 10, .0O35, bond, 0005; l9, .0Ol;
81, .OO3; q, .OO2; %, 00l; 26, .00z; u,
.0O2; %, OO5, bond, .O02; 80, OF; 81,
.0O15; 81, .OO6; 80, OF; SO, bond 003;
81, .OOo; SO, .OO5; 80, OO5; 40, .OO4; Al
bond, .OO15; 46, O04; 48, oil; 40, OF
bond, DOL; 81, OO6; 81, OO3; S., :0045
81, oil; So, OO5; 50, OF; 90, OOPS; 81
.OO3; 63, OIL "a, .0l5; Rural High
School No. !, 002.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-10-20

c. E. Knapp ct ux to M. A. Gallo
way, lot II Peasants sub-div. E1a SW
"a 1852; consideration 500.
c. E. Brainard to Julia D. Brainard,
lot 4, 8-7-5; consideration ST.
Julia D. Brainard to New Plymouth
Land & Col Co., lot 8-7-5; consid-
Grafton 81.
J. c. Hindman ct ux to A. B. Car
man, lot 8 blk "a Parma; consideration
$1,000.
J. c. Nichols ct ux to J. w. Shep-
perd ct al, VIZ NWA NEA 25-4-4;
consideration $12.
U. S. (patent) to Walter B Comp
ton, E5a NWA and E1z SWA 20-5-2