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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11
SPLINTER PIERCEs EYE.
Michael Kocol Meets With Distressing
Accident at His Home on Divi-
sion Street Friday Afternoon.

Michael Kocol, baker with bak-
cry on Division street, met with dis
tressing accident at his home on FRI
day afternoon which may result in the
total loss of his sight. Kocol was
splitting kindling when a splinter flew
up and struck him in the right eye. 1t
pierced the eyeball and the lenz Of the
eye. This morning Kocol could see a
little with the eye, but the condition
of his sight was steadily growing
worse. DR.. Thad Ashley, who is treat
ing him, declares that to save the sight
a delicate operation will be necessary
and it may be months before Kocol is
able to use The eye again. Six years
ago while employed by the Pennsyl-
vania Railway Company at Pittsburg,
Kocol lost the sight of his left eye when
he was struck by piece of steel.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11
COURT FIXES NO BONDS NOW
Deputy State Fire Marshal Who Made
Complaint Against Evanston Man
Starts Tardy Investigation Into the
Biggest Incendiary Fire Today.


J. j. Steinbach, arrested at Twin
Lakes on Wednesday night following
the fire which destroyed the Lawler ice
houses, was arraigned in the Municipal
Court late Friday afternoon on charges
of arson. A plea of not guilty was
entered and the hearing was adjourned
until next Friday. Judge Randall fixed
no bonds in the case as Steinbach had
intimated that he would not be able to
furnish them and he was returned to
the county jail to await the adjourned
hearing. William G. End Of Milwau-
kee, the deputy state fire marshal, made
the complaint against Steinbach. No
complaint against William Janke, the
Milwaukee man arrested at the same
time, was fixed in the court and it is
understood that none will be filed,
Steinbach made no statement to the
court and the hearing was concluded in
a few minutes and the defendant re-
turned to his cell in the jail Stein
bach had worked under the name Of
" Williams Z at the ice fields, according
to information furnished to the district
attorney and this fact coupled with the
conflicting statements that he has made
has caused the district attorney to seek
some facts in regard to the former life
of the defendant
The state department began rather
tardy examination into the fire this
morning when Deputy End and depu-
ty sheriff went out to view the ruins
at Twin Lakes and make further in
.vestigations. It. is not expected that
this investigation win bring "a great
deal of evidence as many Of the men
who were employed at the ice field
have left for Chicago and Milwaukee
and it is not thought that any of the
men now at work have any informa-
ton in regard to the alleged plot for
the burning of the ice house. 1T is
possible that detectives in the employ
of the state or the county will be sent
to the ice camps in Lake county where
it is declared some Of the men who
We're at Twin Lakes found employment.
Steinbach has made no statement to
any of the local officials which would
in any way connect him with the burn
ing of the building and he does not
appear to be over talkative
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11
YOUTHFUL RoBBER ESCAPES.
Boy Who Robbed the McKeon Farm
House Manages to Elude the Sheriff
And His Deputies.

The youthful robber who made big
cleanup at the home of Frank McKeon
at Pleasant Prairie on Tuesday after
noon is still at large and after spend
ing many hours searching for him Sher-
if Hermann returned to Kenosha on
Wednesday afternoon empty-handed. 1t
had been reported that the boy was seen
going south near Wadsworth, ILL.,, but
the sheriff and his deputies went over
every road in that neighborhood and
failed to find any one who had any trace
of the boy and the stolen property. 1t
is thought just possible that the boy
himself sent this word to the jail in
order to make his escape easier. 1t is
known that his name is Robert Living
stone and he is said to have formerly
resided in Chicago Police officers at
ali points both north and south of Ke-
nosha, have been asked to search for
the boy.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11
MUTILATED BODY IDENTIFIED.
Man Cut to Pieces on st. Paul Railway
Near Somers Was Fred shelburg
Chicago Express Man.

The mutliated remains Of the man
who was cut to pieces on the st. Paul
road near the village of Somers early
Friday morning, were identified late
Friday night at the Mischler morgue
as the body Of Fred Shelburg, aged
forty years, a Chicago man formerly
employed by the Union Express Com
pany and the Livingston Express Com
pany Of that city. John Mccarthy,
manager of the Union express, came to
Kenosha last night and completed the
Identification of the body. "Shelburg
had been working for us until Thursday
afternoon, he told the coroner.' He
quit his job. and was paid off and left
Chicago in company with Frank Lang
las, another express handler. Langlas
returned to Chicago on Friday morning
and told some of the men who knew
shelburg that the latter had been kill
ed somewhere between Chicago and
Milwaukee He said that he and Shell
burg had started out to Cheat thrir
way to Chicago and that Shelhurg hid
fallen from the trucks to be ground to
pieces by the train. Langlas remained
on the train and no stop was made till
it reached Milwaukee. The first infor-
nation to the express company of the
killing Of Shelburg was conveyed in a
message from the Evening News and
just as soon as Manager Mccarthy got
the facts in the case he came to Keno
sha. Before working for the Union
Express Company, shelburg had work
ed for the Livingston Express Company
and he is said to have been popular
with the workmen Of that company.
shelburg has a. wife living in Chicago
and efforts are now being made to To-
cate her. 1t is probable that the re-
mains will be taken to Chicago for
burial.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11
HOOVER WATCH MISSING.
Zion City People Make an Appeal to
Local officers for Time Piece of
Man Who Dropped Dead.

Zion City relatives of James Hoover,
former chief of police of Zion City,
who dropped dead here several weeks
ago, are bombarding local officials to
find a gold watch which it is alleged
disappeared from the pockets Of
Hoover after his sudden death in Ke-
nosha. Tt is declared that the watch
was valued at forty dollars and that
Hoover had always carried it with
him. When the remains were taken
to a morgue in Kenosha the watch was
not in any Of the pockets. It is
thought possible that the watch was
mislaid by Hoover some time before
his death. The local officials feel GER
tain that the watch was not taken by
any one who handled the body in Ke-
nosha. Both the sheriff and the chief Of
police have been asked to make an in
vestigation into the matter.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11
TAKE OVER JENSEN YARDS.
Transfer Truck and Team Owner S
Association to Go Into Building
Material Business.

At a meeting of the Transfer Truck
and Owners Association held on We'd
nesday night, the association voted to
purchase the James Jensen coal and
building material yards and in the near
future the association will go into the
building material business. The yards
are to be opened about the middle of
March with complete stock Of sand,
gravel, crushed stone and cement and
the new managers of the yard will sup
ply thesea materials to its own mem
bers. The association will at once ap-
ply to the state for charter and the
capital stock viii be placed at $4,000.
The officers of the company are:
President, George R. Wade; vice presi-
dent, David Nelson; secretary, Charles
Holderness, and treasurer, Max Lade-
wig. Fifty team owners Of the city are
now members of the association
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11
CLAIRE WIRE TERRIBLY INJURED
Former Kenosha Man Has Boz Legs
Crushed Under Street Car In
Accident at Detroit.

Letters received in Kenosha today an.
nounce that Claire Wire, former well
known employee of the Thomas B. JEFF
fiery Company here, met with terrible
il iuries in Detroit on last Thursday
when both Of his feet and legs were
crushed under street car. The details
of the accident received in Kenosha are
meagre but it is declared that Wire is
now in hospital at Detroit and the
surgeons attending him have not as
yet decided whether or not it will be
necessary to amputate his legs to save
his life. It is said that his injury was
such that he will be crippled for life.
Wire was widely known among the JEFF
ferry men and he left here two years ago
to accept a position with the Page
Detroit Company at Detroit. He is
brother OF Mrs. Abner Hill. Friends in
Kenosha are anxiously awaiting some
further news from Detroit in regard to
his condition
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11
GYPsIEs INVADE CITY.
Month Old Baby Saves Women From
Spending the Night in the
County Tail

Kenosha had its first invasion Of
gypsies in some time ON Wednesday aft
ernooh when two women evidently from
a camp somewhere south of Kenosha
came into the city and Immediately
made their presence obnoxious by beg
ging and seeking TO secure money from
people by all sorts of subterfuges. They
he'd held up one man for dollar when
they fell into the hands of Chief of Po-
lice O'Hare. When the women got to
the jail one of them began to remove
her trappings and it was found that she
had snuggled under her arm a month-old
baby. She made great cutlery against
putting the baby in jail for the night
and finally the officers gave her the
alternative Of getting out of town in
double quick order She accepted the
offer and produced a goodly roll of
bills when she bought tickets for herself
and the other woman to Chicago.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11
MIGRATORY BIRD ACT AND REGU-
! IsATToNS STILL IN FORCE.

The Department of Agriculture has
received inquiries from sportsmen in
various parts Of the United States, as
to the effect of the ratification of the
treaty between the United States and
Great Britain in reference to migratory
birds upon the Migratory Bird Act of
1913 and the regulations issued there
under. In response the department
has made the following public an
nouneement: In the opinion of the
apartment, the Migratory Bird Act
and Regulations are still in force; also
these will continue in operation, and
the department regards it as its duty to
enforce them, pending the enactment BY
congress Of new legislation for the pur-
pose of carrying out the provisions Of
the treaty.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11
ED. DAYTON QUITS BUSINESS.
Well Known Kenoshan Sells Interest in
Local Cigar Business to His
Brother Fred Dayton.

The firm of Dayton Brothers, manu-
facturers of the famous LaKalba
cigars, was dissolved this morning
when announcement was made that
Edward Dayton had sold his interest in
the business to his brother, Fred Day
ton, and he will give up his entire time
in the future to his work for the w.
F. Mclaughlin Company of Chicago.
The company is one of the largest tea
and coffee houses in the middle west
and Mr.. Dayton will represent it in
the big lake shore territory between
Chicago and Milwaukee. He has been
with the company for many years and
has long been urged to give his entire
time to the work. Kenosha is not go
ing to lose Mr.. Dayton and his activi-
ties at the present. time as he plans to
remain in Kenosha indefinitely. Since
coming to Kenosha Mr.. Dayton has
been a real leader among the men Of
the city and he has been active in many
organizations. "The cigar business
was big enough for one, but not for
two," said Mr.. Dayton this morning,
"and I know that the people will give
Brother Fred every possible considera-
tion and show him that same courtesy
they have shown me. / am going to
stay right in Kenosha and am not
thinking of giving up any of my
local plans. );
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11
HERMAN swANTz DEAD.
Pioneer fthe Northwestern Part of the
County Died Suddenly at His
Home in Town of Paris.

Herman Swantz, aged sixty-four
years, one of the best known residents
of Kenosha county and long promin-
ent in the town Of Paris, died sudden
" at his home in that town on Friday
evening. Announcement of the death
of Mr.. Swantz came as a great shock
to his friends in Kenosha today He
was native of Germany but had
lived in the town of Paris since he was
a boy and had been very active in the
life of the town. He is survived by
four daughters and two sons. An
nouncement of the time of the funeral
has not as yet been made.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11
NOT TRUE WITH KENOSHA
Local Read Men Declare That Work Has
Been Done With Economy and Results
Attained Are Permanent Roads
Commission Fails to Assume Blame.

The annual report of the Wisconsin
State Highway Commission, copies of
which were received in Kenosha today,
is determined protest against methods
which have been in vogue in Wisconsin
for years and it will furnish consider
able food for thought for the
members of the County Board and
others interested in the road building
work in KenOsha county.
Kenosha has been leader in advanc-
ing the cause of good roads in the past
few years and the work done under the
direction of the County Board and the
state commission has had the endorse
ment of many organizations, including
the Kenosha Automobile Club, the Re-
taller S Association, and other organi-
cations. Local men who have been con-
nected with the good roads movement.
assert that the criticism of the state
commission is not properly applied to
Kenosha county. They insist that for
the most part money spent for roads
in this county has been wisely
spent and that the roads built are
in good condition.
The report of the state highway
commission reads as follows:
Wisconsin is now spending ten
million dollars a year for rural high
way construction and maintenance, for
much of which adequate returns are
not secured.
eff, instead of doing the same work
over and over again, One-tenth of the
road system were properly built each
year and then maintained, Wisconsin,
ten years hence, will have fairly ade-
quate system of roads and will have
spent less money than it will spend
if the present system is continued
ten years.
''The total cost of placing the high
ways and bridges of Wisconsin in rea-
sonably fair condition for mainten-
ance is $87,OO0,O00 The cost of com
pleting the prospective state highway
system, if reduced to fifteen thousand
miles, would be $31, 100000; the cost of
placing sixty-one miles of township
roads in suitable condition for mainten-
ance would be $24,0OOO00 and the cost
of re-constructing bridges would be
$32,000,000. Wisconsin will receive
$8,000,000 from the federal government
for the period from 1917 to 1926 so this
will leave the net estimated cost to the
people of Wisconsin for re-constructing
its highway system, $79,400,00O.
eff present expenditures are contin-
ued, under present methods and laws,
$80,00O,000 will have been expended
in the next eight years and at the end
of that period the sixty-one thousand
miles of town road will be little i'm
proved over their present condition.
"The present expenditures of the
people for rural roads and bridges are
more than 100000 a year. Of this
sum about $4,500,0 900 is provided under
the state aid law and is expended I'M
der the supervision of the highway
commission and county officials and
about 100000 is spent on county aid
bridges. TIE remaining $4,500,00O is
expended under the direction of the
town boards in the state almost wholly
for maintenance, producing no per-
manent betterment.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11
BEET GROWERS GET NEW PRICE.
Three Big Sugar Companies Agree TO
Pay Prices Demanded by Growers
Of Racine and Kenosha Counties


The farmers in Racine and Kenosha
counties who have been supplying the
three sugar beet companies operating
in the two counties, will be interested
to learn that the raise in prices, which
they have been holding out for before
signing contracts, was granted yester-
day by the companies, and hereafter
they will receive seven dollars a ton
for their products instead of six dol
lars, the former price. The companies
granting this increased fiat rate per
ton are the Pope Sugar Beet Company
of Chicago, the Wisconsin Sugar Beet
Company of Milwaukee, and the Rock
County Sugar Beet Company of James
vile. The concession comes as a re-
suit of the protests entered by the
farmers against the low price for beets
during the past year.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11
IT'S JUDGE STEWART NOW.
Attorney Calvin Stewart Is Appointed
Court Commissioner by Formal Or
der Of Judge Belden Today.

Attorney Calvin Stewart who is re-
covering from an attack of appendicitis
at the Kenosha hospital had nice little
surprise this morning when he was no
titled that Judge E. E. Belden of the
First Wisconsin Circuit had filed a for
NAL order in the circuit court naming
him as Court Commissioner. Mr..
Stewart is appointed to take the place
of Peter Fisher, Jr., who was forced
to resign as a court commissioner on his
election to the office of district attor-
ney The appointment of the commits
sioner is for the term Of the sitting
judge. The full list of commissioners
for this county now includes James Cav
aaagh, John O. Slater, A. E. Buckmas-
ter. Joseph R. Clarkson, James E. Tully
and Calvin Stewart.
HERMAN SWANTZ DEAD.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11


Suffering from some form of aphasia
a man seventy years of age, well dressed
and evidently refined in his nature is
reid in the county jail while police Of
fjeers and the sheriff are searching For
soale one to care for him. The old man
vas picked up on the west side of the
city en- Friday afternoon. He had been
wal dering about in an aimles manner
and making a considerable display of
money. When taken to the police office
Ne was unable to give any connected
STORY in regard to himself. He did not
know where he lived or where any of
his friends could be located When
asked his name he mumbled "Mc-
Closky' and in his pockets was tour !
q receipt from an express company
which indicated that under the nam of
Joseph McClosky he had sent money to
Mrs Fred Lippold at Aurora, ILL.,, in
July of this year. He had pocket
book in his pocket which bore an ad-
vertisement of a bank at Lena, Wis.
kilograms were sent to the police ii
Aurora and Lena today in an effort to
solve the mystery connected with jhe
old man. McClosky showed wiling
ness to try to tell his story but every
time he got started the talk ended with
MY head hurts So and then the Off
GERS put him back to bed again. The
man in his rambling talk said something
of moving only few days ago and it is
thought possible that he may live some
where In Kenosha. He was unable to
give the name Of his wife or his daugh-
ter but he spoke repeatedly of both of
them. Partial appreciation of his con
dition was apparent and he suggested
to the sheriff this morning that he
might be able to find his home if he
were turned out on the street. More
aimless wandering followed an expert
ment of this kind. McClosky is we'll
dressed and scrupulo1sly clean. He
wears a pair of house slippers over
which a pair of heavy rubber overshoes
had been put on. There is no mark on
any of his clothing which would indi-
cate that he had escaped from any state
or county institution. He had consider
able money in his pockets when he was
arrested. He had no railway ticket or
any. thing to show how he reached Ke-
nosla Undoubtedly this old man as
wandered away from his home, possibly
in Kenosha, said Chief O'Hare this
morning, but he is suffering from
some sort of a lapse of memory which
makes it impossible for him to give us
any information which will lead t. find
irg his relatives. He is kindly dis
posed old fellow and / am convinced
that he is doing every. thing possible
to aid us in finding his friends. His
only trouble is that he can not locate
himself. !" In his rambling talk the old
man has referred to his farm and it is
thought possible that he may have come
to Kenosha from the prosperous farm
ing district near Lena. His clothing
and his condition indicates that he has
known the better things Of life and
there is no indication of the tramp in
any way connected with him.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11
SAYS He LIVES IN KENOSHk
Well Dressed and Pretty Well Supplied
With Money He Was Picked Up Wan
dering About in West side-Com-
plains of Terrific Pains In Head.
(From Saturday s Daily
BULLETIN

This afternoon the police reeeiv-
ed q telegram from Aurora, Ill,
announcing that Joseph McClosky,
the aphasia victim, who was pick
ed up III Kenosha on Friday, re-
sided at 3102 Gabriel avenue at
Zion City. Relatives at that ad-
dress were notified and they will
come to take the old man back
home later in the day.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11
Balance, Jan. 1, 1917 IS 709,747
Millions In Prospect.

During the month of January there
will be in the neighborhood of $780,
900 income from the counties on ac-
count of inheritance taxes. This, with
the ordinary income will serve to keep
the ship of state afloat until March
when the taxes will come in from the
counties and then soon the railroads will
come across with few millions and the
express, telegraph, telephone, and
freight line companies adding other mil
lions the good old craft will sail on.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11

Fred Ellis and Joseph DeCesaros ar
rested on Friday on charges of violat
ing the state law for the regulation of
BARRIERS licenses, entered plea Of
guilty in the Municipal Court and were
sentenced to fine of ten dollars and
the costs. Roth fines were paid.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11
ELECT OFFICERS.

At the annual meeting of the Grace
Lutheran Ladies Society yesterday,
officers for the year were eleetd. They
are: Mrs. H. K Gebhart, president
Mrs August Windorf, viee-president;
Mrs. Frank Ambrose, secretary; Mrs
Peter Jensen, treasurer.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11

Miss Helen Althoff was hostess at a
FIVE clock tea in her home, 268 How
land avenue, Thursday
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11
MILLION TREASURY BALANCE
wisconsin Starts New Year Gu Firm
Financial Basis inheritance Taxes
VIII Enlarge the Amount.

With a balance of$I, 424,45S in all
funds and $709,747.47 in the g neral
fund at the beginning of the new year
and with a prospect that the ordinary
income win be augmented during the
present month by the receipt of some
$150,000 from the counties for inheri-
tanee taxes. State Treasurer Henry
Johnson continues to smile when he re-
calls the predictions of last April of a
bankrupt treasury by July l, 1916
At that time johnson said twas a
piper dream and declared that by the
end of the calendar year there would
be close to. a million and a half in the
strong box. How well he knew now
IS verified by the balance sheet.
December Statement.
Following is a statement of the De-
cember operations of the treasury and
The balance in all funds
On hand, Dec. 1. ....... .$2,116,H9.31
December receipts ....... 1888, 663.97
Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. . 2S
Disbursements .......... ,725,62435
Balance, Jan. 1, 1917. 1,424, 45S.9S
Following shows the condition of the
general fund:
On hand, Dec. /. .........$1, 1913, S04.63
Receipts ............ ,SS6,414.93
Total ............ so, 0s0, 21956
Disbursements ........... 1,37O,472.O9
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11

A. E. Buclmaster and Bruce Buck
master are in Milwaukee for today.