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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-29
KITCHENER CONSENTS TO
FORMING JEWISH BATTALION

London, Eng, Dec. 29.-Lord Kitcb
ener has given his consent to the for
nation of a Jewish battalion, although
there is still some opposition to the
movement on the part of the Jewish
leaders who say that Jewish bat
talon would intensity the tendency to
regard Jews as aliens.
There are now over 5000 Jews in the
British army. The casualty lists dis
close wounded Jewish soldiers in MANY
of the regiments at the front, includinr
some Of the famous old regiments like
the Black Watch. A fair showing of
Jews is also made in the royal navy.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-29
REPORT NAVAL, Altman CAPTTRrD

London, Eng, Dec. 29.-The Daily
Sketch publishes the report that Lieut..
Com. Francis Z. Hewlett, who piIoted
one of the British aeroplanes in the
raid of Cuxhaven, is a prisoner in the
hands of the Germans. ACCORDING 10
the account in the Sketch, Hewletts
machine was damaged by shell fire and
came down in the sea. When Hewlett
was last seen a German torpedo boat
was approaching him.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-29

Clean coal and full weights mean fuel
economy. R. c. SempIe, successor South
western Fuel Co, phone 531-AdV.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-29

Eylar, J. A. Escajeda, Robert Holiday
and Michael Mulcahy. All urged the
necessity of the prompt payment OF
poll taxes. The hall was well filled
with members Of the club.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-27
Event No. /.

One of the most encouraging aspects
of modern life is the emphasis which
1t is learning to place on positive
forces, There is world of possibility
il this direction, and we have much to
gain, but we have already profted by
our beginning. We are trying to keep
people out of prison by keeping them
sane and comfortable instea of wait
ing until they are driven to despera-
ton by causes that might often be
removed before. We have a lot more
to learn in this respect, but the start
is at least promising. Boys clubs are
attempting to provide the amusement
and instruction which viii keep street
urchins from falling a prey to their
environment. Our reformatories are
tending more and more toward the
sort of places which the name really
indicates. We are trying to make peo-
pie better instead of worse by confn-
ing them within restrictions. The
matter of health is receiving more at
tention from the positive side. We fire.
quently begin to think about our bodies
before they are shattered by disease
and to practice preventive measures
rather than always waiting until
something is wrong. We think of the
beauty of strength sometimes instead
of the fear of weakness. Nothing is
sarer than this taking thought while
there is yet time. 1t saves pain and
loss and disappointment of various
sorts. 1t indicates healthy recogni-
ton of facts, an appreciation of the
law OF cause and effect. 1t is the SEN
sible doctrine of recognizing begin
nings. = Des Moines Register and
Leader.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-27
PoLIcYHoLDERs PROTECTED.
Ekern Positive of No Losses Trustees
Living in This Country to Protect.

Commenting ON the situation of
policyholders in foreign fire insurance
companies, Commissioner of Insurance
Ekern today said:
SSThe war in Europe will not affect
the security of policyholders of for
eign fire insurance companies doing
business in this country. The United
States branches of these companies are
practically separate from the parent
company. Under the law Oh New York,
where the deposits of nearly all these
companies are made, the assets in this
country are to be held by trustees who
are citizens of the United States, or
deposited with trust company, APP
proved in either case by the New York
superintendent of insurance for the
general benefit and security of all the
pohcyholders Of such company in the
United States"
Under the date of August 18th, the
Hon. Frank Hasbrouck superintendent
of insurance of New York, has directed
a letter to the trustees and managers
of these companies, from which the
following is quoted:
Under the provision of the trust
instrument, you viii note that no Sc
curities deposited with trustees may be
released or transferred to the company
without first obtaining the consent OF
the superintendent of insurance. In
this connection it seems desirable to
advise that the department holds that
the trustee or trusteets cannot release
any securities or cash, other than in
terest earnings, to the manager or man
ayers for any purpose other than to
meet UnitsdS States loss claims. The
releasing ofsany such funds to the man
ager or managers so that same may be
transmitted to home Office will be held
to be an evasion of the trust deed. y
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-27

The fact that the audit of the city
books showed an overdraft of close to
$4,000 before the saloon license money
came in, win be no news to most of the
people of the city for it is well known
that the city has been carrying this
deficit for five or six years and that
with the increases in the demands of
the school board and the heavy ex-
penses for public improvements there
is not likely to be much money to ap-
ply for the reduction of this debt out
of any ordinary levy so long as the
city keeps on growing. The suggestion
of the auditor that the council figure
the probable deficit at the end of the
year and make provision to meet it in
the 1915 tax levy viii not appeal very
strongly to most of the taxpayers Of
the city at this time. There is a verv
general feeling that expenses should
be cut to a minimum for some time now
and the levy reduced as low as posi-
BILE. Most Of the property owners and
taxpayers of the city will have all they
want to Go to meet an ordinary levy
next time and they should not be called
upon to meet single payment that
can possibly be avoided.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-27
BACHELORS GIVE DINNER.
We'll Known Young Men of City Enter
tain at the Home of Hugh Barden.

One of the most unique social events
of the summer season in Kenosha &C.
Cured at the home Of Hugh Barden on
Ashland avenue on Wednesday evening
when FThe Bachelors" club of six
young men, who have been living DUR
ing the summer at the Barden home,
entertained six young ladies at din
ner. 1t was bachelor dinner from
soup to nuts and proved a decidedly
enjoyable affair. Mrs. II. S. Candee
acted as chaperone for the evening and
the guests included the Misses Eliza
beth Robinson, Dorothy Candee, Bertha
Head, Marian Ravens, Helen Barden
and Charlotte Candee. The hosts of
the evening were Hugh Barden, Gil
bert Lance, Charles Matthews, Donald
Frost, Lawrence Eastman and Herbert
Curtis.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-27
NEVER IN KENosHA.
"Winnie Stewart Tells Chicago Po-
lice Officers She Found School Pin.

Winnie Stewart" the young wom-
an, held by the Chicago police depart
ment on charges of half dozen rob
berries and who was thought at one
time to have been student Of the
Kenosha high school, was never in Ke-
nosha. The young woman made a full
confession to Capt. John j. Halpin of
The Chicago detective force on Wednes-
day and in this she admitted that she
had never been in Kenosha and that
the Kenosha high school pin which she
had worn had been picked up on the
streets of Chicago. The woman claim
ed that she had been living in Chicago
for years and that she concocted the
story of her being high school stu
dent in Kenosha after she picked up
the high school pin on State street.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-27
City Advertises For 7 Miles
of Wire For Police and
Fire Alarm Systems.
WILL INCLUDE new TERRITORY

The city is advertising for the pur-
chase of seven miles of copper wire
and this is to be used in the rebuilding
of the police and fire alarm systems of
the city. The new repeater has been
installed at the headquarters of the fire
department at the central engine house,
but before it can be Of greatest serv-
ice it will be necessary to rebuild the
lines of the scity in all sections While
the original plan was to, rebuild only
the lines Of the fire department the
committees now believe that it will he
economy to make extensions at this
time for the police alarm system in or
der that all the wires Of the city may
be cleaned up at one time. The great
est cost to the city for this work will
be the purchase of the necessary wire.
Under the contracts with the compan-
les in the city having wire service, the
city is given the right to place its wires
on poles of these companies.
The plan for extensions provides for
the new territory recently annexed TO
the city and already lines are being
operated in this territory by the Wis
consin Telephone company, and it is
thought that there will be plenty of
poles which can be used by the city
in extending the fire and police alarm
service. The men in charge of the work
are anxious to secure the purchase of
the wire within the next few days on
account of the fact that wire is now
soaring in price and it is thought that
the city can save considerable money
by purchasing all needed materials at
this time. 1t will take four months
to complete the rebuilding and extern
sion Of the lines
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-27

The fight over the granting of IL
cense to Edelweiss par refuses to
stay settled and another application for
the park has been referred by the
council to the license committee along
with the regular remonstrance of the
property owners in that neighborhood
against the granting of any license for
the park. The battle over the grant
ing of this license will have to be
fought all over agai1 on the floor of
the council, but some of the men who
have had occasion to watch previous
license fights very much doubt that the
of che present battle will be
the same as the first The vote refus-
ing the license was very close one
and the wise ones believe that some
alderman must have been induced to
change ais mind in regard to the adj
Of licensing this park or an
other attempt to get a license would
not have been made so SOON. Only the
final vote on the matter can determine
whether they are right or not.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-27
Houses in Kenosha Being
Filled With Crickets as
the Latest Visitation.
CHIRPS LuLL BABES TO SLEEP

Lulling the babies to sleep with the
song Of the cricket is the latest inno-
walton in Kenosha. Have you noticed
the advance of the army of crickets on
Kenosha2 just listen any time and
you can hear them for there are more
crickets in Kenosha now than ever be-
fore in the history of the city. The
present year seems to be year of visi-
tations by insects. First, it was a visi-
tation of mosquitoes, then the army
worm came along and ate up a part of
the mosquitoes, but more of the crops
Of the farmers, and now it is the crick-
cts.
There have always been some crickets
in Kenosha at this season of the year
but this year the number has been null
tiplied many times. Nobody seems to
be able to account for the visitation
of the crickets. There seems to be no
special reason for their appearance in
Kenosha in such great numbers, but
they are being found everywhere. No
place seems to be exempt from them
and they are being found in closely
screened houses in just as great num-
bers as in the houses where they
haven t even a piece of mosquito bar
over the bed room windows. The crick-
cts are not of the usual kind but they
are largely little brown fellows about
a half inch long. They have a high
~
sing there ism It great deal of chance
for slumber. All along the north shore
the army of crickets is making its APP
pearance.
Thus far there has been no especial
complaint in regard to damage done by
the pests and their most serious draw
back is the songs they sing at night.
1t is declared that the crickets find
rugs, and especially expensive ones, as
a very toothsome morsel, and the pres
Ience of them in houses in large num-
bers is liable to result in considerable
damage being done to rugs and cur
tains.
The crickets are out especially at
night and they seem to find no trouble
in jumping from the ground to a sec
ond story window. Housewives in Ke-
nosha seem to have taken an aversion
to the army of crickets and they are
fighting them in the same manner that
they fight cock reaches 1t is claimed
that all remedies which are efficient in
disposing of reaches are particularly
good for the crickets. 1t is declared
that it does no good to keep the win
dows and doors closed as the crickets
come in just the same and make their
appearance just as soon as the lights
are turned on.
With this being viewed as a year of
yisitations the housewives are wonder
ing just what will be the next insect to
make its appearance in large numbers.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-27
Kenosha Police Secure Ar
rest of c. Lamont, a Sales
man at Highland Park.
COMP PLANT MADE BY BELL BOY

Kenosha police had a busy time of
1t on Thursday evening when Thomas
Palamides, a Greek bell boy, formerly
employed at the Schlitz Hotel in Mil
Waukee and who had come to Kenosha
with visions Of becoming a candy
salesman, appealed to them for the ar
rest of Charles Lamont, said to be a
travelling agent Of the National Candy
Company with headquarters at Chi
cago. After a lot of teIephoning La
mont, who had left Kenosha on an
electric car late in the evening, was
arrested at Highland Park and he is
now being held there.
Lamont promptly notified the officials
Of the Illinois City that he would not
return to Kenosha without extradition
papers and that it would be useless
for the Kenosha officials to seek his re-
turn without formal demand from the
governor of Wisconsin upon the COVER
nor of Illinois. Lamont stated further
that he was ready to contest such
proceedings just as far as the courts
offered him a chance.
Palamides was greatly excited when
he reached the police office. He told
the officers that he had met Lamont
while working as a bell boy in Mil
waukee and that the candy salesman
had promised to put him on the road
as a salesman and had made an APP
pointment to meet him at d Kenosha
hotel. Palamides had saved up twenty
dollars and he asserted that the Chi
cago man had told him to bring this
along with him. Palamides had car
bon copy of a contract which he had
signed with Lamont which provided
that he be paid at the rate of S1S a
week. He alleged that he turned over
to the other man 500 for his first stock
and that the man went out to get it,
Palamides waited about the hotel for
an hour and then began to suspect that
there was something wrong in the
deal and rushed to the police office.
Lamont had already taken an electric
car out Of the city and officials all
along the road were asked look out
for him.
The story of Lamont has not been
sent to Kenosha. The officers of the
Kenosha department. declare that a
similar swindle has been worked in
Kenosha in the past and that for this
reason they are anxious to secure the
return of Lamont. 1t is said that La
mont was stranger in Kenosha and
that he came here only short time
before he met the young Milwaukee
Greek at the hotel
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-27
IS PREMIER OF SEINDLERs
Man Who Once Claimed Kenosha as
His Home Has Worked in Many Cit
les of Illinois and Wisconsin-Clever
Stories Brought Financial Gains.

d. G. Herbst, said to be premier
among the passers of worthless checks
in this section of the country and long
sought by the police officers of Keno
sha on charge of issuing worthless
checks here, has been arrested at
Arlington Heights, Ill.,, and he is now
being held there pending a legal
squabble between officials from Illinois
and Wisconsin cities as to which will
have the first chance to have him sent
to penal institution. -
Never in the history of the crimo i'll
this section OF the country had any
man shown more ingenuity in getting
money on alleged worthless paper and
it is declared that Herbst has left be-
hind a long trail of worthless checks
extending all over Southern Wisconsin
and Northern Illinois. Some of his
schemes for getting money were so I'M
usual and SO clever that his work at
tracted attention all over the country.
AT one time Herbst claimed Kenosha
as his home, but this was long time
ago. Over at GAINESVILLE, Herbst is
charged with sWindling the president
of a cemetery association. He told this
man a long story of the death of his
father-in-law and his desire to rest in
the cemetery at GAINESVILLE and ended
up with buying lot in the cemetery
and slipping the president worthless
check on which Herbst realized some
thing like q hundred dollars.
When Herbst first came to Kenosha
nearly year ago he was said to be
the agent for an Evanston manufact-
uring concern and he carried with
him a generous supply of checks to be
drawn on bank at Evanston. Several
Of these checks were left in Kenosha,
but the checks drawn here were for
small sums. One of them cashed at
the restaurant of Kappus Brothers on
Main street still decorated the blotter
of the local police this morning and
as soon as Chief O'Hare heard of the
arrest of Herbst at Arlington Heights
he put in :. old for his custody.
1t is thought that Herbst started
wrong in Kenosha and that the first
worthless checks that he turned out
were converted into money here. The
man had never been heard of until
after he managed to get away with
several small checks in Kenosha and
then the police began to hear from
him all over this section Of the country.
1t seems that he last worked at
Dwight, ILL.,, and the officials there
started right after him and trailed
him to Arlington Heights where he
was arrested last night.
It is probable that the Kenosha
county officers will not press their
claim to the prisoner any too strong
as they seem to be willing to give the
Illinois officers chance to convict him
and hold the charges in Kenosha in re-
serve should he slip out of the charges
brought at Dwight or some other I'LL
nois city.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-27
CUTS TELEPHONE SERVICE.
Big Gable of American T. and T. Co
Severed at South Milwaukee.

All day Thursday Kenosha was cut
off from Milwaukee so far as telephone
service was concerned on account of
the fact that the big cable of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company running between Chicago and
Milwaukee was out of keller. The big
cable was snapped in two at South
Milwaukee by gang of trench diggers
employed by the Milwaukee Gas Com
Iany and with the breaking of it all
service between Kenosha, Racine and
Milwaukee was done away with. A
big gang of men were kept at work
all day Thursday repairing the break
and Thursday evening telephone CON
nection between the two cities was re-
established. The underground cables
have taken the place of all aerial lines
between Kenosha and Milwaukee and
a break in the cable proves ruinous to
service between the two cities.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-27
LEADERS FIGHT FOR CONTROL
Distribution of Plums After Election
Is over to be in the Hands of Mem
bers of County Political Committees
Candidates Circulate Literature.

Members of the political parties in
Kenosha county who have been consld-
cred as leaders are looking forward to
the primary election with an interest
which extends beyond the nomination
of candidates for county and state of
fees At the coming primary men will
be selected to have charge of the polit-
ical machinery of the county for the
next two years and in that time there
win be national conventions and the
men in control Of the party are pretty
liable to have lot to say in the selec-
zion of delegates to these important
conventions just at present the politi-
raj committees in Kenosha county are
badly disorganized, but after the pri-
mary election new men will have been
named in all of the voting precincts in
the city and county and the men named
will meet and form the county commit
tees and elect chairman who viii
have charge of directing the destinies
Of the parties so far as Kenosha county
Is concerned The battle in the demo
cratic party between the Karel and
Awkward forces is especially being
shown in the efforts that are being
made to get control of the county com
mittee as it is not improbable that the
committee will have lot to do with
The dispensing of state and federal
patronage. Should the democrats win
in Wisconsin this year and some of
them think that they have real
chance, there viii be a number of po-
litical plums for Kenosha county and
the county committee will have a
chance to hand these out.
The republicans are interested for,
with a change of administration pat
ronage may shift from one party to an
other and in addition to this there will
be the national campaign with a strong
probability of Senator LaFollette seek
ing the nomination for president. La.
Toilette republicans want committee
that will be friendly to the candidacy
of the senator
The big interest in the party com
mittee among the democrats centers
about the post Office in Kenosha. A
real, good, live democratic chairman
would go a long ways toward naming
postmaster in Kenosha.
On the primary ballot space has
been left for the name of the commit
teeman to be written in and ten days
after the primary is held the various
committees will be organized and these
committees will have charge of the
coming state campaign.
State candidates are getting decided
ly busy in Kenosha On Thursday
Awkward boosters were in the city cir
culating literature and posting pictures
of Aylward all over the city. Ayl
ward has been coupled with Senator
Paul Husting, who is candidate fol
United States senator, and picture OF
the senator has been tackled alongside
the candidate for governor. Karel and
l[earney pictures are few and far be
tween in Kenosha, but at that the
friends of these candidates are deeid
eddy busy and everything possible il
being done to swing the faithful into
line for them.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-27
CONVENTION rs POSTPONED.
Wisconsin Women's Clubs to Hold
( Annual Meet in Racine in November.

The annual convention of the Wis
consin Federation of Women 5 Clubs,
set for the last week in October in Ra-
cine, has been postponed until Nov. 8,
A and 5, in order to give the club
women of the state an opportunity to
hear Hugo Muensterberg, who is to
talk in Milwaukee before the Wiscon-
sin Teachers Association on the date
originally set for the convention. The
chairman of the convention program
committee has not been announced,
Mrs. j, G. Chandler is the Racine mem
Der. It is expected that the conven-
ton will open with banquet and re-
ception, and among the social func-
tions planned is an automobile ride for
the delegates. The nominating COM
mittee has been unable so far to find
a nominee for president who has both
the time and inclination to take the
Office, and is considered strong enough
woman to assume the honors.