The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-01-25
County Supervisors Plan to
Continue Agitation for
Sanitarium.
STRONG FOR CROW BOUNTY
Members Refuse to Adopt Resolution
Cutting Of Worthless Payments for
Crows Heads-New Arrangement for
Payment Of Salary of Sheriff.

| The agitation for the building of a
county sanatorium for the treatment of
ipatients in the last stages of consump-
tion will be kept going for another
year, with the hopes that at the No
vember meeting of the county board
the matter can be taken up and some
thing of a definite nature done. At the
closing session of the board on Satur-
day afternoon Supervisor Frank Shuart
of the town of Bristol offered a reso-
luton providing that special COM
mittee of five, consisting of two
physicians from the county and three
members of the county board be nam
ed to investigate sites, secure estimates
ON the cost of buildings and sites and
get any other information that could
be secured and report at the meeting of
the board to be held next January.
Chairman Pacey named Supervisor
Shuart as chairman of this committee
and the other members are Supervisors
John 7. Yule and John Herzog of Som
ers, and Doctors G. III. Gephart of Ken
fosha, and H. G. Darby of WiImot, The
committee is to be paid for its services
at the same rate as the supervisors are
paid under the state law and they are
limited to five days of actual service.
Supervisor Shuart has declared that the
that he will give his best personal eff
| forts to: see that the matter is investi-
gated from every standpoint and that
some report of definite nature, show
| ing the needs of the county and the
best way to secure them, will be laid
before the board at the November SEES
sion. The members of the kenosha
county committee in charge Of the fight
against the disease will do all in their
power to aid this county board COM
mittee during the ten months.
| It is declared by Supervisor Shuart
that in his opinion this plan will work
to bring the county a sanatorium that
will be wholly in keeping with it's needs
land that the report of the committee
will meet with favor from the county
board at it's next session.
The useless crow bounty that is be-
ing paid by the county for the slaughter
| of crows was assaulted at the last SEES
sion of the board and Supervisor Yule
proposed to cut the bounty from Is to
cents. Tt was held that this action
had been taken in Racine county. The
plan was lost, as Supervisor Burg Of
the city members voted with seven of
the country members and the bounty
will remain at 10 cents head, Super
visor Herzog of Somers voted to cut
the bounty and had the supervisor from
| the fourth ward remained with the city
members the resolution would have
been adopted. On motion to cut off
the bounty entirely Supervisors Burg
and Link of the city voted with the
1county members and the motion was
lost by vote of 9 to 6.
A new provision was made for COM
pensation of the sheriff and in the fut-
ure his salary will be $4,000 and he
must pay all fees over to the county. In
addition to this the salary was divid-
ed, the county board by resolution fix
ling the salary of the undersheriff at
$25 a year, this to be paid from the al
lowance made to the sheriff. The new
arrangement does not go into effect
until after the general election next
1 fall.
The board directed the county agent
to provide for the redecoration of the
entire interior of the municipal court
building just as soon as the work OF re-
building is completed,
Supervisor Yule raised the question
of the pay Of the supervisors, holding
that under the law the members OF the
board were entitled to but twenty days
paw. He made motion that the per
diem be made at that rate, but the
board by big majority voted to pay
the members for twenty-one days
services regardless Of the law and
every one of the members of the board,
save those who had lost time on ac-
count Of illness, were compensated at
the rate of q days and their mileage.
The usual votes of thanks to the
chairman and clerk were passed at the
closing session of the board.