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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-01

in a hunt for the murderers. Blood.
hounds were brought from Decatur
and put on the trail. Citizens are de-
manding that private detectives be
employed TO aid the police. A section
OF gaspipe was found near the scene
OF the murder.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-01

baseball evangelist and his move
mcnt am the great mans goat"
he said.
Every saloonkeeper and unmen-
tionable person in New York and
Brooklyn Will be possible disciple
Of Jesus Christ when Billy Sunday
begins to preach his gospel In this
city" concluded Rev. Emmett.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-01
COLLEGE Teams Meet

PRINCETON, n. J., Feb. az
Princeton and Georgetown were to
meet today in a two mile relay race
and other events.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-03-01

Loss OF Appetite is also loss OF VI
tality. vigor, tone. To recover appe-
tite and the rest take Hoods Sar-
saparilla-that strer gthens the stom-
ach. perfects digestion. makes ating
a pleasure. 1t also makes the blood
itch and pure and steadics the
reIN es.-Adv.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-12-02
RoMANY JOINS MAsQUERADERs.
Miss Lillian Gottlieb's Fancy Dress
Ball Finishes With Visit of Gypsy
Maid Who Tells Guests Futures.

A delightful masquerade was given
by Miss Lillian Gottlieb, 1872 Prairie
avenue, Friday night.
The thirty guests were dressed to
represent operate characters and a
musical program and dancing were the
order Of the evening. Among the
guests were Milwaukee-Do wner college
girls, classmates of Miss Gladys Gott-
heb, and visitors from Racine and
Chicago.
When the program was over and the
guests were sitting about the glowing
fireplace waiting for midnight to
strike, there came knock at the door
and when it was opened a little tremb-
ling gypsy girl stood there. She said
she was passing and saw the lights
and the music had attracted her and
she asked the privilege Of sitting by
the fire to warm herself. She was told
she might and in return promised to
tell the fortunes of the guests which
she did, and disclosed many events of
the future.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-12-02
PIONEER RESIDENT DIES.
Kenosha Friends Apprised of the Death
of Mrs. Fannie Lay Pierce Was
Daughter of Nelson Lay.

Kenosha friends have been advised
by letter of the decease of the daugh-
ter of a pioneer who helped make
Southport, now Kenosha, the city that
it is, and whose residence here, dat
ing back to the thirties, had great
influence upon the future character
of the city.
Mrs. Fannie Lay Pierce, aged sixty
five years, died at her home, 1867
Drexel boulevard, Chicago, and funeral
services were held for her in the home
of her brother, Hiram 7. Lay, Kewau-
nee, last Wednesday. Mrs. Pierce IS
death came as the result of au auto
mobile accident
She was the daughter Of the late Mr..
and Mrs. Nelson Lay, Southport pio-
neers Of the 'thirties, aand was the
sister Of Mrs. N. w. Watson of Cali
fornia, Richard T. Lay of Marshall
town, Ia, and Hiram T. Lay Of
Kewaunee.
The four brothers and sisters were
born in Southport and attended the
high school. The four were present at
high school reunion not many years
ago.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-12-02
FIRE IN BIG MARCHES.
Dry Grasses on Marshes Along the Lake
South of Zion City Have Been
Burning for Two Days.

During the past two days several re-
quests have been sent to the Kenosha
fire department for information in re-
gard to great fire which appeared to
be raging south and east of Kenosha.
An automobile party which went down
along the lake shore on Friday after
noon discovered that the lights on the
sky were the reflection of great fire
in the marshes just south of Zion City
along the lake shore. Hundreds of acres
of marsh grass have been burned over
and The fire is still burning. Every year
about this time some vagrant sets fire
to the marshes" and it will probably
be several days before the flames have
eaten up all the dry grass on the thou
sands of acres along the lake shore. Tt
is declared that there is no danger of
the fire reaching any of the cities and
villages and that no damage is being
done.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-12-02
HUSBAND CONTESTS DIVORCE.
Christopher Clegg Appears to Protest
Against Awarding Decree to His
Wife Catherine Clegg.

In the municipal court on Wednesday
afternoon Judge Randall heard the evil
dence in suit for divorce brought by
Catherine Hermann Clegg against her
husband Christopher Clegg. Both are
well known to many Kenosha people
They were married july 5, 1911, and
the wife alleges cruel and inhuman
treatment. She declared on the witness
stand that her husband had called her
vile names and that he had assaulted
her. She admitted that he had provid-
ed for her support and the support of
tie two minor children Clegg filed an
answer to the suit OF his wife making
a general denial of the charges and ask
ing that the complaint be dismissed.
The contest over the granting of the
decree was spirited and Judge Randall
will hear arguments Of attorneys on
next Monday afternoon
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-12-02
MONEY FOR AFFILIATED BOARD
School Board Votes to Loan Ten Thou
sand Dollars to the Indutrial Board
Until New Appropriation May Be
Available in Early Spring of 1916.

The board of education at a special
session held on Friday evening decided
to make new appeal to the common
council for funds for the purchase of
"Bonny Hame" as a site for a high
school of the future and President w.
J. Threinen of the board was directed to
appear personally before the council at
its next meeting and ask the council to
rescind its action on the budget and
make additions to the appropriation for
schools to make possible the making of
the first payment on the property in the
spring of 1916. The members Of the
board had before them proposition
from the owners of the property per-
hitting them to lease the property for
term Of two years with the under
standing that any or all of the property
could be purchased at the price agreed
upon at any time during the two years
period. This plan seemed to meet with
the approval of the members Of the
board but it was held that it would be
impossible to carry it out without the
council granting the increase in the
appropriation in order to make possible
some payment on the property next
year. At the next meeting of the coun-
ell the city budget for 1916 will have
been made up and the tax levy agreed
upon and it is possible that President
Threinen will seek to have the finance
committee of the council act favorably
on the matter between now and the
meeting of the council. 1t is claimed
that many Of the members Of the coun-
Gil are in favor Of the plan.
The board came to the aid of the in
dustrial board of education and loaned
to the board the sum Of $4,000 to make
it possible to complete the new shop on
Dayton street and the industrial board
will pay the board 70 per cent inter-
est. The loan is to be repaid when the
industrial board gets it's annual approp-
ration.
The funds Of the Lincoln school are
to be kept separate from other funds
of the board of education and special
account is to be opened for the handling
of this fund This action was taken by
the board to make it possible to show
at the completion Of the new building
just what money has been expended for
the erection and equipment of the build
ing. 1t is not thought that the work
can all be completed within the hundred
thousand dollar appropriation.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-12-02
Former Jeffrey Sales Agent
Asks $92,25O from Motor
Car Company Which He
Represented in France.
CLAIMS COMMISSIONOVEUDUE

| Henry G. Hill, formerly salesman in
the truck department of the Thos. B.
Jeffrey Co., is back from Paris and the
land of war orders to fight for commits
sions on the millions of dollars worth
of war orders which he says he obtain
led.
He started court action yesterday in
Chicago to get $92, 250 commission on a
| ST. ,005,000 contract which he says he
placed for the Velie Motor Vehicle COM
lpany.
| Two suits were fled by Mr.. Hill. One
is against the Velie firm and is for
| $16,080. The other is directed against
Louis Rosett, said to be a New York
lawyer, who made brokerage contract
with the Velie company and then made
subcontract with Hill.
| According to Sidney S. Gorham, Hill s
contract with the Veie company and
his sub-contract with Attorney Rosett
were made simultaneously, the contract
with the company providing Hill was to
get per cent of the list price of every
Velie motor truck which he sold to the
French government, and the contract
with Rosett allowing Hill 20 per cent
of Rosett s net profits.
Hills suit against the company as
serts he sold 800 motor trucks, of which
the list price is $1,005,000. Of these
trucks the company has collected for
ninety-six, getting 1921, 600. Hill says
he is now entitled to $16,080, and should
get $5O,250 when France pays for all
the trucks.
The suit against Rosett was for $751;
40 Hill obtained an attachment for
this sum, and the attachment was served
at the ofice)of the Velie agency, at $3.50
1South Michigan avenue. It is said the
attachment will prevent the company
from paying any commission to Rosett.
| Mr. Hill, I believe, is a former
assistant sales manager for the Jeffrey
people" said Attorney Gorham.
| About year ago he made for Paris.
He found out what the French govern
ment needed. He made the contracts
with Velie and Rosett.
| Besides Mr. Hill has made contracts
with other automobile truck manufac-
turers.
What he has got has come out Of six
months work. His contract with the
Velie people, I believe, provides he shall
be their agent in dealings with France
as long as the war lasts.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-12-02
GETS $500 FOR BROKEN LEG.
William Lindner of Pleasant Prairie
Settled With Six Year Old
James Marsh.

Little Jimmy Marsh, the six year old
son of John c. Marsh of the town of
Pleasant Prairie is to receive $500 from
William Lindner a neighbor, of the
Marsh family in full settlement of
claims for damages for injuries received
by the boy on the 22nd of last Septem-
Der. The Marsh boy had ridden to Ke.
nosha in the milk wagon owned by
Lindner. The latter left the horses I'M
tied at a house on Elizabeth street
while he made delivery of milk and
the team ran away. The boy was
thrown out of the wagon and his right
leg broken. He was in the hospital for
many weeks. Lindner offered to make
the settlement of $500 and today an or.
der was issued by Judge Taylor in the
county court naming his father, John
C. Marsh, as his guardian to have
charge Of the fund.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-12-02
County Board Reaches Adj
journment of November
Session Late Wednesday
-AdjOurns to Jan. ii.
FAIL TO BUY MOTOR TRUCK

Resting on their laurels of havinA
made the biggest tax levy in the his
tory of the county, the members of the
county board closed down the Novem-
Der session late Wednesday afternoon
and adjourned until January 18th. 1t
was a real love feast up at the county
building Wednesday afternoon and
things went with a rush. 1t was a sort
of getaway" day and business was
rushed through with a dispatch that
was not the customary thing at sessions
of the county board. Everything went
through like it was oiled. Scores of
claims were reported from the hands
of the committee and just as many
bills were allowed by unanimous action
of the board In the bsG Was the pay
ment of the usual number of crow boun-
ties for the towns OF, the county.
Only two big propositions which
have engrossed the attention of the
board were left unsettled. One of
these was the plan for the proposed
joint county training school and the
other was the plan for the purchase of
motor truck to be used in connection
with the road building operations.
Both of these propositions went over
to the January session. They are in
the hands of committees of the board
and reports will be brought in on them
when the board convenes again.
The closing session of the board was
all harmony and there were votes of
thanks for Chairman Spartz and for the
members of the committees.
A lot of important matters have
come up for solution by the board and
it was on account of the progressive
action Of the board in meeting these
questions that the appropriations
reached such high figure.
Complaints are beginning to be
heard from members of the finance com
mittee of the council on account of the
levy of taxes against the city, but it
can be said that the members Of the
committee did not attend the board ses-
sions and the people will have to grin
and bear it.
The members of the board from the
rural districts insist that the equaliza-
ton of the taxes was in keeping with
fair play.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-12-02
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Italian Sent Up from Kenosha in Octo-
Der of 1918 for Life Sentence Is Now
Said to Be Insane Officials Inter-
ested in Outcome of Hearing.

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One of the most brutal murders in the
history of Kenosha county was recalled
this morning when the local officials re-
ceived formal communication from
the state board of control announcing
that Leonardo DeCarlo, Kenosha Ital-
ian, serving a life sentence in the state
prison at Waupun had made application
to the state board to- be transferred
from the state prison to d hospital for
the insane. The members of the state
board of control will sit as a lunacy
commission at Madison on December
10th to decide on the transfer of De
Carlo. T. is declared that in the last
few weeks the italian has given I'M
mistakable signs of insanity aud the
prison officials hold that it is no longer
safe to keep him at the Waupun prison.
Kenosha officials are especially inter
ested in the hearing as before DeCarlo
was taken to the state prison on Octo-
Der Is, 1913, he made many threats
against men who had been active in his
prosecution in the circuit court here.
DeCarlo was arrested ON the morning
of September 7, 1913, after he had fa-
tally wounded Constantine Costanzo at
a house on JENNIE street. He had been
employed at the tannery and early in
the morning of the day of the murder
he had been drinking heavily in saloons
about the city He had been boarder
at the Costanzo home and he went to
the house and demanded money from
the mother of the man he afterward
murdered. When the old woman re-
fused to give him money DeCarlo drew
revolver and shot her through the
arm. Her son attempted to save her
and DeCarlo fired at him the bullet
piercing his heart. DeCarlo was ar
rested few hours after the shooting.
At the trial of the case bitter fight
was made to prevent the conviction Of
DeCarlo but his. only defense to the
/ jury was in the claim that he was drunk
he was doing. No claim that DeCarlo
was insane or that he had any faint of
insanity in his makeup was proposed at
the time of the trial. DeCarlo was
sullen in court and asserted repeatedly
that he would kill someone if he ever
got out of prison. It is claimed that
DeCarlo has been troublesome prison
er at the vaupun> prison and he has
been examined on several occasions by
the physicians there. 1t is probable
that District Attorney A. L. Drury will
go to Madison to protest against his
being transferred to an asylum.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-12-02
WILL HAVE PUBLICITY MAN.
w. L. Haight, Former Editor Of Racine
Times, Joins Electric Company
Forces Today.

D. z. Calender, general manager of
the Wisconsin Gas and Electric COM
pany, today announced the appoint
ment of w. Il. Haight, former editor Of
the Racine Times, to do special work
in the right-of-way department. His
field will include Racine, Kenosha,
South Milwaukee, Cudahy, Burlington,
Corliss, Lake Geneva, Watertown,
Oconomowoc and other towns served
by the utility corporation. His head
quarters will be in Racine.
Mr.. Haight will assume his new po-
sition Immediately, Mr.. Calender said
today.
Mr.. Haight has been resident of
Racine for five years. He came there
from the Chicago Examiner, where he
was telegraph editor, to take the posi-
ton of managing editor of the Times,
and he served in that capacity until
the sale of the newspaper last week.
He was born In Waukesha and has
been engaged in newspaper work since
boyhood. He was successfully poll
teal reporter of the Milwaukee Free
Press, city editor Of the Butte Mont
Miner, news editor of the Chicago
InterOcean and telegraph editor of
the Chicago Examiner.
He was in charge of the publicity
work in the campaign of William M.
Lewis for governor in 1910.
Mr.. Haight is a brother of Mrs.
Lucy E. Strong, editor of the woman Is
page of the Kenosha Evening News.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-12-02
DALToN's WORK INCREASED.
Assessor of Incomes Must Perform
Work Formerly Done by Employees
Of State Tax Commission.

The number Of special tax agents EN-.
ployed by the state has been reduced
from seven to three, four having been
dismissed from the service in order to
cut down the expense of the depart
ment. The work formerly done by the
special agents will now be turned over
to the income tax assessors and those
officials hereafter will prepare the sale
cards used in connection with the equal
ization of the taxes. The plan is now
under way and Joseph E. Dalton, loca.
assessor of incomes, has been informed
that he will have to fill out the sales
cards this year.
The sales cards on which are based
valuation of the property in the country
are copied from the records of the reg
lister Of deeds Of the different counties.
Every sale reported during the year is
copied on the card and these cards are
sent to the state tax commission where
they are compared and used in getting
at the true value of the real estate
transferred, as well as other real estate
in the county. By taking fve-year
average the tax commission believes it
is arriving at as near the true value as
possible. The assessed valuation Of all
the property in the county is based on
that fve-year average, no attention be-
ing paid to the value placed on it by
the city, town or village assessors.
Under the fve-year average plan, the
commission says it is able to avoid the
fuctuation of values due to business
depression and other causes.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-12-02
cITYMUsTPAY $40, 900 MORE
Final Action on County Tax Levy Gives
City a Bill of S142, S6735 for State
and County Taxes - All Towns to
Pay Increased Taxes Coming Year.

Hhe town clerks of the various towns
IN the county and the city clerk Of Ke-
nosha will know the worst in regard to
the record county tax levy on Monday
morning as today County Clerk Russell
Il. Jones finished up his work of figur-
ing up the apportionment Of the taxes
for the year. The figures show that a
little over 649o of the county taxes is
to be paid by the city and the amount
apportioned to the city totals $142, 367,-
.35. This is an increase Of a little over
forty thousand dollars over the amount
apportioned to the city in the fall of
1914. The total Of the county levy is
| $220,62953. This included little over
1900 assessed as tax for the support
of the common schools of the county.
|Of this amount $4,000 was assessed by
the city supervisors against the city and
this amount will be returned to the city
some time next year as it's part of the
Estate school fund. ss..so gfs
The big items of the budget of county
taxes to be paid by the city include a
tax of $49, 269.75 for state tax, $7,736.42
for special charges, county school tax
of $4,000, soldiers relief tax. Of 81 ,06O.-
go, general county tax Of $20,041.95, for
the tuberculosis sanatorium $27, $4,000
and for county highways $16,868.63,
The total Of the county tax for the year
is an increase Of a little over fifty
thousand dollars over the tax assessed
a year ago. The large increase in the
state and county tax to be paid by the
|city this year will come as handicap
to the members of the finance committee
of the council when they get ready to
make up the budget for the city for next
year. More than a mill tax must be
assessed to make up the difference from
the former year. This will make it nee
|cessary for the committee to cut other
funds of the city forty thousand dollars
if the tax levy is to be kept within the
fifteen mill levy. The finance commit
tee has discussed the matter informally
and it is known that majority Of the
members of the committee are opposed
to any increase in the mill tax levy.
The apportionment of the taxes
shows an increase over last year for all
Of the towns in the county. The high
est assessment against any of the coun-
ty towns is made against the town of
Pleasant Prairie where the total to be
collected is $15,479.10 The amount Of
taxes to be paid by the various towns
and the city is as follows:
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-12-02
THELEEN TO DIRECT PLANS
Men Making Local Survey to Find
"'Where the Money Goes" Will Work
In Conjunction With National Or
ganization in Study of Conditions.

Kenosha has been selected by the
Educational Research committee of the
Associated Advertising Clubs Of the
World as one Of the leading marketing
centers of America in which it will
make thorough investigation of exact
conditions Of business and prospects for
the year 1916.
Word was received this morning by
Gus. D. Theleen Of the Kenosha Retail
ers association that he has been ap-
pointed to represent this city and gather
the required information. On Deem
Der 3rd, as soon as the business men
have closed their books for the month
of November, investigators in all the
leading cities of the United States and
Canada will call upon representative
merchants in the leading retail lines
and ask short list of questions which
the committee finds to be barometer
of business. The investigation will con-
sumo four days.
In Kenosha the work will be con-
Quoted in connection with the industrial
survey now being made by special
committee Of the retailers.
This is the second investigation of
The kind. A year ago when all business
men seemed to be confused as to the
effect the European war would have on
conditions in this country, the Associa-
ted Advertising Clubs OF the World
with representative organizations in
different cities came forward with the
assertion that the only true test of the
exact business conditions is consumer
demand, and to prove this point con-
Quoted an investigation among the lead
ing retail stores which showed that
despite alarming reports the average
condition of American business showed
a decreas for the month of November
1914, ovbr ovember 1913 of only 2.3
per cent.
The completed report, containing
many maps and charts and compiled
within twelve days, was delivered to
President Wilson, Premier Borden of
Canada, and other government officials
as well as many of the leading business
me-l of the country, and their high
commentator of the investigation is
what has led to a repetition of the
plan this year.
Those in charge of the work say that
as the committee is now in possession
Of such vital facts for comparison, and
as the number of merchants interviewed
will be greatly increased, the report for
this year should be even more valuable
than it's predecessor. While last year IS
report was sold for S. volume and the
edition was completely exhausted the
report of the present investigation will
be given much wider circulation, as it
will be printed in full in the January
issue of Associated Advertising, the
official organ Of the Advertising Clubs,
to which all advertising and business
men will be allowed free access.
The members of the Kenosha associa-
ton are proud to feel that Kenosha has
been chosen as one Of the leading mar
keting centers to be represented in this
undertaking, and feel certain that
merchants will show the same public
spirit which they have always shown,
and will willingly answer the few ques-
tions put to them on December 9rd.