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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-03

Another crisis threatens in Cuba,
and this time it is not only political
but financial. There is scandal in
the public finances of the island, which
has been brewing since the institution
of the republic, when it became evil
dent that Cuba is exceedingly well
supplied with the type of native states
men who regard the public treasury
as existing for the purpose Of
being looted and whose firm re-
solve is to be the hooters. The pre-
ceeds of the sixteen million dollar loan
authorized by the United States prn-
cipally for the work of sewering and
paving Havana have been expended
with those necessary improvements
Less than half completed, while the gov
eminent is at it's, last extremity-the
lottery Notwithstanding to raise
money for it's current expenses. There
has been disbursed by the Gomez adj
ministration one hundred and forty
million dollars during the past two and
one-half years. Tt is computed that
the only hope of financial solvency for
the Cuban government lies in the di-
rection of cutting down its expenses
at least notwithstanding Wisconsin.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-03
AF TER POKER SHARPS
Men Who Learned Game
From Kenosha Experts
Ask for Warrants.
LOCAL men DISAPPEAR LATER

Kenosha has a couple Of real poker
players. That is two Waukegan men
who met them in Sheridan road saloon
a short time ago give these men
the credit for being real artists with
four fushes and straights and the Wau-
kegan men have put up a wall that
sounds all the way. from that sporty
little town to Kenosha. Three Wauke-
gan men are alleged to have tested the
prowess of the Kenosha men and they
were so disguised with the outcome of
the test that they are threatening ar
rests for swindling. They have not as
yet told just who tie men are, but they
have given the facts in regard to the
game to the police in Waukegan. 1t
is declared at Waukegan that warrants
will be issued for the arrest of the
Kenosha men charged them with
swindling. The location Of the saloon
in which the game took place is said
to have been some where on the Sheri-
dan road between Kenosha and Wau-
kegan, but all of the saloons reached
declare that no game had been pulled
off in them. The Waukegan men tell
a story of "easy money" for the al
legged card sharks, and claim that the
harvest brought back to Kenosha at
the end of the game was more than
$500.
1t is alleged that a friend of the
saloonkeeper discovered that these
three Waukegan men in question had an
amount of money about their person
that they had saved during the sum-
mer and We're fond of cards at times.
The saloon keeper was informed by
this friend and together they framed
it up as to how to get the money
away from them. 1t was planned that
two expert players be brought out from
Kenosha at once on the condition that
they give one.third of their winnings
to the saloon keeper and his friend.
This was done and with little trouble
the Waukegan men with the money
We're brought in for a drink and inter
ested in the game, which lasted all
night One Of the men who lost at
once made threat to have the Ken
osha men arrested, but he was hushed
up by being given part of his money
back. One of the other men, who lost
the most, namely $500, found this out
and has made similar threat, but the
winners are not inclined Co return the
money to him because of the large
sum involved, and it is said that the
Kenosha men have disappeared and
cannot be found. The saloon keeper IS
friend is stated to be prominent
business man in Waukegan and is in
dire fear of exposure.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-03
SET HEARING FOR OCT. 22ND
Railroad Commission to Hold Hearing
on Complaints Against Crossings.

City Attorney John G. Slater receiv.
ed a formal notice from the Wisconsin
Railroad Commission today, naming
Oct. 20 as the date for the hearing of
the complaint of the city demanding
protection for crossings of the Chicago
and Milwaukee Electric Railway Com
pany. It is understood that at that
time the commission will take up the
complaints against all crossings of the
company in the immediate vicinity Of
Kenosha and it is probable that the
evidence will not be limited to the
complaint of the city. City Attorney
Slater will have charge of the hearing
so far as the city is concerned and he
will seek to show the commission
that all crossings Of the interurban
line in the city should be protected
with gates.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-03
WIFE SEEKS HUSBAND.
Joseph schmitt Who Escaped From
Wife at Station Sought by Police.

The police depar ment received a
message from Miwaukee Thursday
night asking that an effort be made to
find some trace Of Joseph Schmidt, 38
years of age and a resident of Mil
YANKEE who is supposed to be in Ken
osha. Schmitt- had left Gary, Ind. on
Thursday evening in company with his
wife and they were on their way to
Milwaukee. They reached Kenosha on
the train at 7:45 Thursday night and
after the train pulled out of Kenosha
it was found that Schmitt was missing.
His wife believes that he left the train
at this point. 1t is said that Schmitt
had been i'll in aGry and it is thought
he leaped off the train and may be
wandering about the country in the
neighborhood of Kenosha. The police
found no trace of the man today.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-03
$4,000 FOR RACINE COLLEGE.

Final Settlement is to be Made of the
Estate of the Late Caroline Durkee.
The Northwestern Loan and Trust
Company, executor of the last viii of
the late Caroline Durkee, fled its final
account in the county court this morn
ing and the account shows that Racine
College will relieve $4,000 from the
estate. A bequest of $4,000 will be
paid to st. Luks's Hospital in Chicago
and the remainder of the estate will
go to the college. In the account of
the executor no mention is made of the
alleged claim of the Charles Durkee
estate against tire United States gov.
eminent. The money will be paid ovsI
to the two institutions at once.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-03

The morbid crowd of hangers-on and
loungers which usually infests the
court room when there is any promise
of anything sensational in the case
being tried is conspicuous by its alb
sence in the case now being heard by
the court which is one of the most
widely advertised cases ever placed on
the calendar in this county. The court
attendants can explain the strange
lack of interest in the case only on the
hypothesis that the demand for help
is SO great that everybody is at work.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-03
WAS WILLING TO Be DEpORTED
Government Wires Sheriff to Release
Prisoner and Will Pay All Expenses
of His Being Detained in County
Jail at Kenosha Pending Examination


Truth won freedom for Victor Podo-
lay, an Austrian, held in the county
Jail here for the past ten days subject
to deportation by the officials of the
United States government and just af,
ter nine O'Clock this morning. Podolay
walked out of the county jail fres
man with the understanding that the
United States government will not
make any effort to interfere with his
intention to become an American citi-
zen. The government officials at Wash
ington passed on the Podolay case on
Thursday afternoon and this morning
the sheriff was directed not only to
release Podolay, but to send to the
government every expense in connec-
tion with the case and this will be
paid at once.
The fact that Podolay was willing
to tell the truth and back his state
ments won him his freedom In the
statement of his case made to the
government Podolay declared:
"I hereby authorize the government
to deport me at any time and without
a hearing of any kind should investi-
cation prove that any statement I
have made in connection with this
case is untrue.
Podolay had amitted to the immiqra-
ton officials that he had been arrest.
ed on charges of counterfeiting in
Austria eleven years ago, but he in
sisted that the full extent OF his crime
was the making of two small cons
which were not passed. he admitted
that he had been arrested and tried
as counterfeiter and had been found
guilty and sentenced to jail, but in
sisted chat he had been given a free
pardon before he left Austria to come
to this country.
Podolay showed by evidence of peo-
pie in Kenosha that since co ming to
this country he had lived lif above
reproach and that he had mad appli-
cation to become citizen of tie Unit
ed States. The facts in regard to the
case We're investigated by the repre-
sentatives of the United States in Aus
tria and they returned a repor show
ing that every statement male by
Podolay was the truth
Under the law Podolay would not
be entitled to citizenship ON account
of the fact that he had been convict
ed as a felony in another country, hut
his friends have been given to under
stand that following the investig cation
of his story the government officials
will not seek to prevent his entering
into all the rights Of citizen. Podo-
lay returned to his work at the plant
of the Thomas B. Jeffrey Company.
His sister, the only relative in the
country, was at the Jail when he was
released.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-03

With the memories of past expert
ences still fresh it is natural enough
that the people Of the city should be
alarmed at the appearance of every
new case of contagious disease any
where in the city, but they should re-
member that conditions are altogether
different now than they were few
months ago. With an active health
department the danger that there will
be any more than a normal amount of
sickness. is less now than it has been
in years and any emergencies that
may arise will be dealt with promptly
and energetically,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-03
LINE TO LAKES AS A RETURN
Company is Said to be Planning to Elk
tend Lines on North Shore Territory
If Cities VIII Grant Rights for Cen
trally Located Stations.

The sale of the Chicago and Mil
waukee Electric Road and the promise
that there will be at once extensions
in the lines operated by the lines operat-
ed by the company has brought new
rumor that the company will seek to
secure down town station in Kenosha.
1t has already been definitely given out
that the company will seek new fran
chise rights in Waukegan and possibly
In Racine with a view of making it
of greater usefulness to the people of
all the cities along the North shore.
It is also declared that the building of
line to the West, probably from the
Kenosha station is one of the plans
under consideration by the organizers
Of the new company. It is difficult to
see just how the company can figure
out route by which it could get a
line into the center of henosha as all
of the streets in the city directly con-
Meeting with the through line with the
exception of Park street have been
pre-empted by the Kenosha Electric
Railway Company. Park street is
closed to the company on account of
the plant of the Thomas B. Jeffery
Company and if any line was built to
the down town district it would have to
follow a circuitous route. Should the
company decide to build line from
Kenosha to the Western end of the
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-03
SEEKING HELP HERR
Waukesha School Supt. Wants Keno
sha Teachers for Bad Boys.

Mrs. Bradford has received the fol-
lowing letter from the civil service
commission. Is there not someone in
Kenosha or Kenosha County who feels
that he or she can meet the require
ments here specifeds
Dear Madame:
Supt. A. j. Hutton of the Waukesha
Industrial School win soon need the
services of several teachers with their
wives (no children in the family to
| fill the combined positions of family
officer and matron in his school. The
family officer must have had at least
third grade county certificate or
equivalent. Minimum age for family
officer 25 years. The matron should be
competent housekeeper and manag-
er. Salaries: (a) For family officer
$50 per month with maintenance. (b)
for matron $40 per month with main
tenance for the first year and $25 per
month after efficiency is shown. This
combined salary is equivalent to 1925
per month without maintenance.
The boys in the school have all been
sent there for offenses which have usu-
ally been the result Of lack of
proper home care and training. The
family officer will have these boys
under his care. He will be responsible
for their work and behavior and must
be competent to train them toward
good citizenship. He teaches in school
during the day and acts as discipline
rlan in the cottage and on the grounds
The matron looks after the cottage
during the day, sees to it that the
boys clothing is kept in good repair
and mothers the boys.
Please bring this matter to the at
tention of any competent male teach
err who might be interested in apply
ing for this position and whom you
can recommend. Also give him the en-
closed blanks.
Thanking you for your cooperation,
we are,
Very truly yours,
F. Z. Doty,
Sec. and Chief Examiner.
The application blanks may be had
at Mrs. Bradford's Office, City Hall.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-03

The reports published far and wide
by the National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
that this city had one of the first three
outdoor schools established in this
state will give readers a good impress
sion of the progressiveness of Keno
sha and its people, It is something
to have been among the first to rec
ognize the value of an idea that will
eventually be taken up by every city
in the country and which has already
been adopted by over two hundred of
them.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-03

The Pleasant street property owne,
are kicking vigorously and they have
right to kick on the slow progress
that has been made on the improve
ment of their street, but it is believed
that the end of their troubles is IN
sight. Their experience should be a
warning to other property owners who
expect to pave to get their sewers laid
and their gas and water stubs in the
fall before the work of paving is to
be started.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-03

Mrs. Otto Kopf of Durkee avenue,
entertained eighteen girl friends in
honor Of her daughters eighteenth
birthday. The evening was spent in
music and games. Refreshments were
served after which the girls departed
for their homes wishing Miss Frenz
many more happy birthdays,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-03
WOULD SAVE BIRDS.
State Wide Movement Inaugurated for
the Protection of Song Birds.

Because the destruction of bird life
is causing an annual loss of eight
hundred million dollars to America,
deputy game warden E. A. Cleasby, on
"a recent visit to the College of A-g-
riculture of the University of Wiscon-
sin, advocated an educational cam
paign to instruct the school children of
the state in the value of birds and
some small wild animals. The super
intendent of schools and the press of
Trempealeau county are cooperating
to get the school children in their
schools actively at work making
friends with the wild birds and ami
mails.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-03
LET CONTRACT FOR GREEN HOUSE

LET CONTRACT FOR GREEN HOUSE
The park commission in session at
the city hall on Thursday evening let
the contract for the steel work and
heating plant of the new municipal
green house to Lord & Burnham Of Chi.
cage, the bid of this company being
1868. The contract for the founda-
ton and carpenter work was let to
George Linderman of Kenosha, the
price being $5l2. The total cost of
the completed green house will be
$1,475 and s25 less han the appropria-
ton made by the city. The work is to
be started at once and it is expected
that the building viii be completed by
tbs frst Of November.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-03

Nov q convict in Missouri has been
released on parole by writing a poetic
appeal. This encouragement OF
poetry, especially of penal poets. liz
getting 80 be a serious menace TO the
pubic.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-03

GrSnd orerg In English would be q
good thing were It not for the fact
shat aa opera singers words in any
aanguagS sound like cross between
Esperanto and Patagonian.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-03

A doctor informs us that strawner-
ases ara had for rheumatic persons.
but nobody ever win be harmed by
The ngnaeer of strawberrdea found ID
The Gysra@e gaoxtcalsA.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-03

Stanley Bazant and Miss Frances
Rosa, both of Kenosha, have been H.
censed to marry.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-03

/ D. 0. Slime of Reedsburg, spent
Thursday afternoon in Kenoshas
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-03

Sec. and Chief Examiner,
The application blanks may be had
at Mrs. Bradford's Office, City Hall.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30

Jim Stewart is training hard for his
ten-round scrap with Luther Mccarthy in
New York August 8 Stewart knows a
win over the big white Hope" would
redeem the defeat handed him by Bonn
barber Wells some time back,
X. O Brown, who was injured In an au-
tomobile wreck recently, has fully recoV-
cred and win start training shortly for a
series of bouts on the Pacific coast His
manager has arranged for him to meet
some OF the best lghtweights in the bust
ness In California next fan.
Sandy Ferguson White Hope" was
arrested at Boston the other day for
maintaining a liquor nuisance.
frankie Burns and Jack White are
scheduled to go ten rounds at Oakland
August Z
Tommy Murphy win receive 81. 900. win.
lose or draw for his bout with Abe Attell
on the coast the first of next month.
George X O Brown the middleweight
Greek who has been taking vacation,
is on the warpath again The Chicago
pug is anxious for a return match with
Eddie McGoorty and says he viii also
give Jack Dillon another try
Harry Tracey. the Philadelphia feath-
erweight, viii tackle Young Shugroe in
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30
Crackers, Under Alpsrman, Are Changed Team
Developing Some Real Pep and Spirit at Last

little good -natured kidding on the
bench
A LPERMAN is making no an
nouncements about the players
he r. after but it is strongly sus-
pected that he needs pitchers
When a club is batting hard and
yet is losing games steadily the
pitchers are usually at fault. OF
course, in this case the Crackers
aren't altogether to blame. For
they have the unhappy faculty Of
making more hits for less runs
than any team that has played here
In q long time. This has been
partly due to slowness and bad
judgment on bases, partly to hard
luck. However. there have been 2
peck of games this season when
the Crackers have made from two
to six runs before the other team
even got started--and then lost.
And that has been because OF
weakness in the pitching staff.
Just which pitchers are to be let
out is hard to say. The work of
the staff has been 80 erratic OF late
that 1t is hard to tell which is en-
titled to the coin and which to the
can
WHEN the company that adver-
tises with the aid of big bull
signs stuck up in ball parks put
the bull in the Ponce DeLeon ball
park they played it safe They
agreed TO pay $50 to any ball play
er who would hit the bull on the
fiXemith a fairly hit ball in a game
Bat they made sure nobody would
hit 1T by putting 1t so far from
home plate that 1t couldn't be hit
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30
Matty Is Greatest of All Pitchers--Chief Meyers
"E1is Fine Control Makes Catching Delight

reverses itself with the reverse
English" of a pool or billiard BALD
and falls down and away from the
batter.
Summing up comment of Mat
ty, the Old Master, would say that
he is the greatest of all because of
these reasons: His curves, his fade
away, his common sense in not
working too hard when he doesn't
have to, and, above all, his superb
control.
l am coming next to a speed
pitcher-Rube Marquard But be-
fore we get to him I want to say a
word about another man who has
thrown, in my belief, the fastest
balls that ever crossed a plate |
don't except Rusie or any of the
other old-timers who were sup
posed to serve very smoky balls.
refer to Walter Johnson, now with
the Washington club of the Ameri-
can league. 1t may be news to
some fans that l used to catch him.
We had an exhibition series in
California a few years ago-~All Ma
tionals versus All Americsns-and
Walter and | were the battery for
the Nationals. The way that boy
could throw! Why, after handling
him I'd almost be willing to do the
circus stunt of catching the cannon
ball shot out of the big gun with
nothing on but my old mitt. l think
Johnson is the speediest pitcher
that ever tossed one up to the plate.
The palm of my mitt hand used to
be red and sore from taking his fast
ones.
Vanguard Improving Steadily.
But we are talking of Marquard
now, whom l know better and more
recently. There is a young fellow
who has made a worlds record for
consecutive victories, and who is
getting better all the time. l think
l can tell something about the Rube
which even the baseball experts do
not know-the principal reason why
he can fool so many batters and
win so many games.
He has speed, of course; that's
one of his big assets. And he has
mighty good curves And recently
he has splendid control But to my
mind, the Rube's one big winning
play is his "wind-up," or motion"
as we call it.
He has a long swing from which,
all of sudden, the bali snaps out.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-30
with a thirteen-inc gun.

with a thirteen-inch gun
But that was before Rudolph
Waldorf broke into baseball.
Now. If the said Rudolph ever
gets one fair wallop at that ball
and starts 1t for the bull, the ami
NAL will shortly : be minus rib.
Never before has there been such
a walloper on the Atlanta club.
The big guy stands way over six
feet tall and must weigh along to-
ward 200 pounds. he takes one
Of those wind mill wallops at the
pill And when he hits 1t the ball
fiattens out-but it goes a mile.
Yesterday in batting practice
Waldorf batted everything that
came his way A couple of wallops
he bounced off the back fence for
sure home runs A half dozen more
were long enough for three bag
gers A dozen were good for two
baggers And he didn't hit any
singles
Mark this prediction-that big
bully is going to knock three home
runs in the first game he finds a
pitcher to his liking
THE signing Of Hampton Rey
nolds of the Albany club, gives
a line on Alperman's plans for
strengthening his club. We've
tried the big leagues and they don't
offer us any encouragement" said
Alperman this morning, so we
have decided to pick up some prom
Using youngsters and see If we can't
patch up a team with them
Doubtless the excellent ball that
HARRISON is playing encouraged the
Crackers to take a shot at other
kid performers.