The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-05-04
KICK ON Their ASSESSMENTS
Many People Well Known in Social and
Business Life Of the City Fail to
Pay Taxes Against Property on
Account of Protests.

Two hundred and seventy-six people
in Kenosha county failed to pay the
taxes on their real estate this year and
on Tuesday, June the 18th, County
Treasurer Hartman will offer tax title
to every piece Of real estate owned by
these delinquents at the annual tax
sale at the court house. The total
that he must collect at this sale is
considerably over ten thousand dol
lars and the delinquent list is one
of the largest that the county has
ever printed.
There is not town in the county or
a ward in the city that had a clean
bill this year in the matter Of paying
the taxes and the amount Of property
returned for sale is made notable on
account of the fact that there are
many pieces Of valuable property in
both the city and county which are
slated to go under the hammer of the
tax collector. The towns of Brighton
and Paris come the nearest to break
ing even this year and in these towns
but two pieces of property are return
ed for sale. However, the town of
Paris has but forty-two dollars out
standing real estate, while in Brighton
the total assessed against the two
pieces of property returned is nearly
two hundred dollars. The total of un-
collected taxes in the town Of Wheat
land is considerably less than in the
town of Brighton. In the city the
seventh ward has the smallest number
of pieces of property returned for sale.
In this ward but three property owners
failed to pay their taxes. The ninth
ward has the longest list in the
city as there is in this ward more
than hundred lots on which taxes
have not been paid
OF course, it is probable that lot
of the delinquents will pay the
county treasurer before the day set
for the sale.
In the city there seems to- be lot
of people who have declined to pay
| taxes on vacant lots, evidently plan
ming to allow the taxes to run for the
purchasers of these lots to pay. The
list shows that the usual number Of
people are still of the opinion that the
city has no right to collect special as
sessments against their property and
small delinquencies are shown on ac
count of refusal to pay taxes for street
sprinkling, snow shoveling and weed
cutting. AS there has been half a
dozen decisions of the supreme court
showing the right of the city to levy
and collect such taxes there is little
chance that any of these property own
ers viii escape paying the taxes and
the penalty that is exacted by the
county treasurer for collection.
There are some parts of the city
where the list of delinquent taxes reads
little like social register and it is
expected that some of the old family
names will be taken off the list before
the time comes for the actual sale of
the property 1t is noticeable that the
name of Albert G. Frost, who promot-
ed the Chicago and Milwaukee Electric
road, appears on the delinquent list.
However, the Frost holdings have
been materially reduced in the past
few years.
It is interesting to note that for the
first time in many years there is no
return of delinquent taxes against any
industrial concern in Kenosha.
The list of delinquents will be made
public on Thursday.