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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-09-30
Several Dollars Are Taken From
Business Houses in City About
Midnight
SEVEN STORES ENTERED:
BUT ONLY TWO ROBBED
Youth Caught By Chief of Police
at Depot Where He Went 10
Take Nine O'clock Train
(From Fridays Daily

Seven houses were entered in the
city last night about midnight with
an attempt at robbery, it is claimed,
and a dark complexioned youth, q
stranger in the city, is being held with
a grip containing pennies, nickels, and
some larger money believed to have
been taken from the Seagrave Ice
Cream ParlOr, and the Henry Bros.
Feed Mill near the river. Other pla-
ces entered were the S. E. Wakefield
place, Deppe Carpenter Lumber Co,
Davis & Cooley, The Woolworth store
and The Farmers Cooperative as
sociation. The amount of money taken
will probably be covered by ten dol.
lars.
Chief of Police S. A Pelton was no.
titled of the strange youth in the city
this morning and found him Ia
the railroad lookout shanty on Lynn
avenue He had purchased ticket
to Elroy and was probably about to
leave the city on the nine o'clock train.
He is now being detained in the coun.
ty Jail, however.
The youth made himself conspicu
ousin the city yesterday SeYeraIS
people saw him on the south side and
in the Jaquish restaurant and the
piano was kept busy while he was
eating. u
The accused denied the charge of
robbery when accosted by the police,
saying he had obtained the money IN
the sachel by trading.
The Seagraye place of business was
entered through rear window in the
alley and nothing was missed except .
3 few dollars in change taken from4
the till
The young man charged with enter
ing the above stores appeared before
Justice Adolph andre this morning
and gave his name as Cecile Hundley.
OF Chicago and said he was II years
of age, He admitted that he had en-
tered one or two Of the places but
denied knowledge of the rest. The
police are of different opinion, how
ever. At the Woolworth store a
quantity of postage stamps were taken
and the number of stamps found ON
the youth seems an unusual coinci-
dence His case will De heard before
Judge Stevens later.
Several places CT business were en-
tered in Madison recently and as the
young man in custody is said to have
come here from Dane, midway be-
tween the Capital City and Baraboo,
the police are of the opinion that there
may be some connection between the
robberies there and here.
Information as to where the young
man was at the time of his arrest was
furnished Chief of Police Pelton by
Archie Bonine.
The youth has written postal
card to his sister in Chicago stating
that the police are taking him some
where's, he don't know where.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-09-30
ANNOUNCE POP.
OF BARABOO

The department at Washington has
announced the population of Bara-
boo as 5,538, a decrease of 785 or 1.24
per cent. The population ten years
ago was 1924. Adding 7S5 to 1888
makes total of 6,323, or a difference
of one from the figures Of ten years
ago. Where the error occurs is not
stated.
The population OF Portage accord
ing to the new census is 5,582, a trifle
more than Baraboo.
The decrease at Baraboo is attri-
buted to the removal of the circuses
and families employed by the rail
road.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-09-30
CIRCUIT COURT
CASES HEARD

Judge 5anes O'Neill has concluded
his work IN the September term Of
the circuit court and returned to
Neillsville The court reporter, F. d.
Galway, has gone to his home in that
city.
The last duty of the court was
rendering q decision in the case of
Otto Schadde against DR.. F. r. Wins
low and others. About the 10th of last
January workmen employed by Mr..
Schadde performed some work on the
heating plant in the home of DR..
Winslow and eight days afterward the
physician. found there was no water
in the pipes. He turned the valve
while the furnace was hot and there
came forth terrific smoke and steam.
The defendant held the pipes had been
drained by the workmen and this was
denied by the plaintiff. How the
water escaped from the pipes is not
known; there may have been slight
leak or the natural escapement. The
court decided in favor of the plaintiff
holding the defendant did not use
ordinary care in turning on the water
as he was familiar with the water
glass, having filled the pipes before.
The cost Of making the repairs
amounted to $28195 and for this
amount the action was brought
The witnesses were Robert L.
Scott, Otto Schadde, Fred A. Ost, Ro-
land Blakewell Mrs. Florence Wins
low, and DR.. F. R. Winslow.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-09-30
MAN HOOKS
PIKE TN. LAKE WISCONSIN

George Mcmillan and John Stew
enson of Arlington, Chas. Caldwell of
Rio and Vim. Mair, Columbus, with
their families spent the weekend at
their Brae. Burn cottage on Lake
Wisconsin. The gentlemen spent
some time fishing and Mr. Stevenson
hooked an eleven pound wall eye
pike, claimed by all that saw it to be
the largest fish of the kind ever
caught in the. Wisconsin river. 1t
measured 80 inches long and II inches
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-09-30
with the show. too.

with the show, too.
''In the first seasons as a tent show
the Ringlings did not have any horses,
except the ring stock Al hired far
mers and their teams to haul the show
from town to town. Then the Ring
lings got their own horses and their
own wagons and parade stuff. Then the
show became a railroad show and
travelled on trains. And it became the
greatest circus in the world"
Mr.. Bogardus is no stranger to
Pasadena. He has spent a number OF
years there, residing in Altadena. But
he recently returned there after two
years absence in Chicago. where he
went to see his son. Shortly he will G
into the amusement business with
THAT aristocrat of the modern show
business. the motion pictures. He is
going in it with his old-time circus
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-09-30
BALL GAMES AT
PORTAGE FAIR

The fair at Portage will be held
or October 5, 6, and s. julius Schnell
the secretary, announces there will
be ball game each day between the
Pittsburg Pirates and the st. Louis
Cardinals. The association guaran-
tees the regular teams will play the
three games. Besides the above at
traction there will be many other
features.
E. R. Staudenmayer of Portage is
the president, NJ w. Roberts of Parde-
vile is the vice president, and John
A. Raup OF Portage is the treasurer.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-09-30

Heaven never helps the man who
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-09-30
10 FILIPINOS At
WIS, UNIVERSITY

More Filipino students are attend
ing the university Of Wisconsin this
year than ever before and the same is
true Of students from other foreign
countries, an indication of the reputa-
ton which Wisconsin enjoys abroad.
OF the IS Filipino students who have
registered IA are sent by the Philip
inc government to pursue special
courses that will fit them for service
when they return at the expiration Of
their schooling
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-09-30
NICK NEDOVICH
RETURNS HOME
From Thursdays Daily

Nick Nedovich has returned from
Madison and was driving his car about
today. After William Lehr, Madison,
prohibition enforcement officer, had
killed Nick's half-brother, Joe Nedo-
vich, as the result of making moon
shine Nick was taken to Madison.
All those implicated in the case have
given bail and will go before the grand
jury later.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Rent Bills TO Be
Ready Nert Week
From a Staff co,r.-,,.,,,,,.

ALBANY. March 11.-Speaker Swee,
SAID to-day that two bills aimed to re.
iieve the rent and housing crisis are in
the course of preparation and that the
entlre question would be taken IN at a
conference next week.
"Onc OF the bills" he said. "has the
purpose OF curbing rent profteerinp
but 1T does not provide for a rent com
mission. We have found that MANY al
those who have been favoring rent com.
mi-sions are pushing the reconstruc.
ton plan of simplifying the govern.
ment and doing away with commissions
This bill will seek to control the rent
prohteerlng situation without a COM
mission. We. however, want to do this
in way that will not discourage
building"
The Speaker said he would rather not
reveal the purposes and provisions of
the companion bill until its drafting
had been completed. Up to few days
ago the legislative leaders had believed
that the only way to curb the rent
situation was through city rent com
missions, but they have since concluded
that the creation of such bodies would
only add to the cumbsrsomeness of the
government. Taxing of excess profits
from rents and removing the right OF
summary proceedings from landlords
until they prove the rent they are
charging is reasonable are also being
favorably considered.
As relief to the housing situation
Assemblyman ]. Fairfax Mclaughlin,
Democrat, at the Hronx. introduced 8
Dill to-day Grating land Loan dspArt-
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Ice Man Out So ON Nickv:
Hunt SsProgresses Nicely''

Assistant District Attorney John T.
Dooling said last night the hunt for
Jules w. C"Nicky") Arnstein was "pro-
crossing nicely" and that DEVELOPMENTS
OF considerable magnitude" were ey-
pected "momentarily, if not sooner"
rms Illuminating statement COM
prised the sum total of yesterdays de-
velopments in the Arnstein case. De-
tectives, engaged in hunting for the
master mind" that is alleged to have
planned the Wall Street bond thefts.
Tilted in and out of the District At
torney's Office from early morning un-
I'll far into the night, but not one of
them had "Nicky" in tow.
Detective Sergeant Irving O'Hara,
brother-in-law of Mayor Hylan, has
been assigned to the Arnstein case. He
covered more ground yesterday than
the six-day bike riders in Madison
Square Garden. Where he was going
was not divulged, but that he was 90
ing somewhere with the throttle wide
open was obvious to the most casual
observer.
District Attorney Swami, according
to Criminal Courts Building rumors.
has instructed his staff to "soft-pedal
on Arnstein," and the result was that
when asked about the case yesterday
ms assistants grinncd broadly and said
nothing.
Ihe only person willing to issue an
oihcial bulletin was the ice man who
Ills the coolers in the Criminal Courts
Building. He said ne lost So on a
horse named 'Nicky" in the fourth race
yesterday at New Orleans. The Jockeys
name was Bond
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
U. S. Puts Road Down by Night
Through Old Pilots Garden
Authorities Apply Strategy in Building New En-
trance in Marine Hospital; Skipper Discovers
Peony Patch and Chicken Ranch in Disorder

Like q good seafaring man, Captain
Oscar Spoffriden, a veteran Sandy Hook
pilot of Viking descent. rolled on his
side from port to starboard toward the
end of the middle watch-say about
3:45 a. m. yesterday-and opened his
eyes in astonishment. For, staring
straight through the window Of his
bedroom in the rear Of his home in Bay
Street, Stapleton, was searchlight of
dazzling power, and from without came
the drum of unmuffled motors and the
thud and crunch of pick and shovel.
Never in all his nautical days did
Cap'n Spoffriden pull on his trousers,
quickly, for he had q notion what was
in the wind and it looked worse to him
than falling glass in the doldrums.
All Hands Piped on Deck
A moment later the skipper came
striding off the poop deck of his home
so fast that his whiskers were parted
by the breeze he created. The sight
that met his eyes almost set the skip
per's mental chronometer back to his
unregenerate second-mate days.
In the glare of the headlights Of two
automobiles whose engines were run
ming with mufflers cut out to drown
the noise of their labor, dozen Or
fifteen men were toiling with shovel
and pick. Already there was a great
gap in the thirty-feot fence Cap'n
Sroffriden had erected to protect his
chickens and his peonies from the con-
taminating influence of the United
States Marine Hospital at the head of
Brownell Street.
The entire bow of the chicken house
had been torn away, and the cap'n's
choicest Rhode Island Reds were dodg-
ing frantically about the workmen.
These same workmen were trampling
ruthlessly on the very ground where
Cap'n Spoffriden's gorgeous peonies
soon would be poking their varnished
noses through the soil and roadway
OF ashes was being constructed, as an
extension of Brownell Street to the
rear OF the Marine Hospital
For fraction of a second Cap'n
Spoffriden forgot that he was lay
preacher, substantial taxpayer, a pill
lar of society and the Church. His
countenance became incredibly scarlet
through its apparently impervious
mahogany veneer. The scar above his
eye throbbed crimson, his whitening
whiskers bristled and his mouth
opened to shrivel the interlopers with
a blast akin to that which had with
cred many an incipient mutiny. But
just in time the cap'n remembered, and
before the wondering eyes of the
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
General Weather Conditions

WASHINGTON, March 11.--The disturb
ance that over eastern Colorado last
night has moved to central Illinois with in
creased intensity and general rains have
fallen east Of the Rocky Mountains except
in the Atlantic states. There were also
SHOWS in the Northwest and the central
Rocky Mountain region and rains on the
North Pacific Coast. Elsewhere the weather
was fair.
1t was warmer cast of the Mississippi p
River with temperature well above the sea-
sonal average and considerably colder in the
DakotSs. Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and
the central Rocky Mountain region
There will be rain tomorrow cast Of the
Mississippi River. turning to STOW in the
Upper lake region. Rain viii continue Sat-
urday in Nsw England, while in the Middle
and South -Atant.c states clearing weather
il indicated.
1t will be colder Tomorrow in TIE upper
lake and west lower lake regions. the lower
Ohio and lower Mississippi valleys and colder
cutie generally on Saturday to the eastward
except In the Fiorda peninsula
Forecasts for Special Districts.-Eastern
New York. rain to-day and tonight: to-
morrow probably clearing and colder.
Western New York, rain to-day: to-mor-
the lakes. W.
Southern New England, rain to-day and
proopaniy tomorrow, colder tomorrow.
New Jersey and Delaware, rain to-day; TO.
morrow probably clearing and colder.
EaSoern Pennsylvania, rain to-day, b.
morrow probably clearing and ooldax.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12

ment, which is to lend money for the
construction of homes on easy terms.
The loans shall be at per cent interest
and shall not exceed 100000 or be less
than $500. No loan shall exceed rs per
cent of the assessed valuation of the
property as improved. The loans shall
be secured by bonds and mortgages on
the property, which shall be amortize d
in such a manner that the principal
shall be discharged in annual INSTALL
ments equal to the number of years
contained in the terms of the mort
gage, which shall not exceed twenty
five years. No loan is to be made on
property unless it is free from defect
in title in the opinion of the examiners
appointed by the head of the depart
ment. Fire insurance policies for at
least the amount of the improvement
must be delivered to the department.
"The opportunity of gradually paying
off mortgage loans upon the homes Of
the people" said Assemblyman Nc
Laughlin, "is not the least of the ad-
vantages of the bill. The eventual
liquidation of mortgages upon homes in
New York would be godscnd, and it
is also in the interest of the state as a
whole that the owners Of dwellings,
should be frecholders in fact, as we'll
as in name'
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Bergdoll Withdrew
$4,000 and Fled,
Banker Testihes
Half That Sum Taken Out
OH Day US. Entered War,
Court MartialHears; Pros
ccution May Close To-day

Grover Cleveland Bergdoll drew s25
900 from his account in the Tenth
National Bank of Philadelphia the day
the United States declared war, John
F. Baudcr, president of that institu
tion, testified yesterday before the
court martial at Governors Island,
trying Bergdoll for alleged desertion.
The following August, said Bauder,
Bergdoll withdrew $500, and UP to
the time he fled his withdrawals
totalled s50,Oo0
The prosecution may close it's case
to-day. No intimaton as to the nature
OF Bergdoll's defense has been made,
although it was said he would prob
ably take the stand himself.
This boy has the truth TO tell and
will have no hesitancy about telling
it," said D. c. Gibboney, his counsel.
Major William G. Murdoch, disburs-
ing officer in the office of the Penn
sylvania Adjutant General, testified
concerning draft notices sent Bergdoll,
partlcularly his notice of delinquency.
Policeman Charles Carroll, of Phila-
delphla, who found Bergdoll hiding in
window chest in his mothers home
and arrested him last January r, de-
scribed what took place on that oc-
casion. Mrs. Bergdoll had stood off
fourteen policemen and Department of
Justice agents with revolver. He
described the house as an arsenal"
"Bergdoll was huddling in the chest,
partly dressed and covered with cush-
IONS" said Carroll. "He refused to
come out until had poked my gun into
his ribs and threatened HIM"
Charles F. Macready, another police
man who took part in the raid of the
Bergdoll home, testified. He said #
had been necessary to hustle the pris-
oner to the police station because a
crowd of workmen had cut rope
from a nearby building with the an
nounced intention Of hanging Berg
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Landlord, Fined, at Once
Announces Rent Increase

Failure to reckon with the retributive
instinct in their landlord cost fifteen
families an increase of nearly 100 per
cent in their rents yesterday. Begin
ming May /, the landlord advised them.
they must dig up an additional $27 a
month or get out. They have been
paying s28.
Abraham Redner, operator of the
apartment house at 68 West 102d
Street, returned there after paying a
TING OF Sl00 in Special Sessions for not
sufficiently heating the rooms of his
tenants and forthwith announced the
increase.
Redner told his tenants that he had
not intended to raise their rents more
than IS this year, but that since they
had gone to the trouble of humiliatine
him and forcing him in court to fork
over clean hundred or go to Jail
as he did for few hours-they could
expect to pay just $55 a month after
meeting their April rent.
An indignation meeting of the ten
ants will be held tonight at hall at
l0od Street and Lexington Avenue.
Ways and means of combating the raise
will be discussed.
The mother of the recalcitrant land
lord accuses tenants Of carrying on
like Bolsheviki. She told a reporter
Yesterday that they had threatened to
kill her, thus forcing her to take up
her abode on Third Avenue, where she
is required to pay $50 for two rooms.
Its shame" she declared, chat
they should pay such small rents for
these rooms, SO big like meadows"
ut is impossible for us to pay the
increase" Mrs. Dolobovsky, leader
of the rebellious families, says. cone
of the tenants is widow with four
children and an invalid mother. She
works as dressmaker. Even now she
has to get extra money from her boss
to pay the rent"
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
FRIDAY a@t a)or1s artbune FRIDAY MARCH

I laborers the pillar of flame reverted
suddenly to the pillar of society.
The Captain Resorts to Sarcasm
"G-g-get right here, maybe %
doomed Cap'n Spoffriden in voice that
made bargemen shiver in their sleep
over in Great Kills. Thought you'd
drop in an help me with my gardenin',
hey! Wanted to see if my chickens
could do six-day bike race, guess"
1t was lucky for those workmen that
all were too amazed I'd smile; the
shadow of grin on any face and the
Morse skipper would have scattered it's
parts of adjacent Jersey townships. AS
it was, the skipper had it back and
forth hot and heavy with the foreman
until their stentorian tones brought a
half dozen Of Staten Islands police
reserves.
The might and authority of the re-
serves availed nothing save to remind
Cap'n Spoffriden anew of his dignity
and prevent bloodshed A patrolman
was summoned from the station, but
after looking over a letter from At
torney General Palmer he allowed that
there was nothing to be done unless
Cap'n Spoffriden wanted to start civil
action.
For DR.. William H. Young, chief of
staff at the hospital, had decided that
the safety of the patients in case of
tire depended upon the hospital having
a rear entrance. The Attorney General
had been consulted and it was decided
that as the institution once had rear
entrance at this spot the thirty-foot
fence erected by Captain Spoffriden
could not prevent it from reopening that
entrance.
Government Employs Strategy
But, knowing Capn Spoffriden, his
chickens and his peonies, the authorities
had decided that discretion was the bet
ter part of valor and the thing to do
was te> build the roadway and tell the
>cap'n about it afterward. And that
was the way it would have turned out
II the cap'n hadn't been a seafaring
man and rolled over along toward the
end of the middle watch.
AS 1T was the roadway was completed
and the entrance opened. Capn Spoff-
1iden, who says he has owened the land
eighteen years, retained an attorney
with orders to start suit against the
government at once and strobe up and
down his ravished estate vowing that
he'd have that thirty foot fence up
again in jig time. And SO seriously
did the government take the promises
Cap'n Spoffriden was making that
sentry was stationed last night at the
rear entrance to the hospital with spe-
clflc instructions to demand the coun-
terslgn of any thirty-foot fence he saw
coming his way.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Taxes Paid on Stock
Diuidends May Apply
On 1920 Income Return,

Collector William H. Edwards an
nounced yesterday that claims for credit
of taxes paid on stock dividends, which
were recently declared non-taxable, may
be taken in connection with the payment
of this years income tax, provided a
claim is filed at the same time giving
all particulars.
In the event the credit to which the
) taxpayer is entitled exceeds the amount
fund of the difference may be filed.
This information was received from
Washington yesterday, and is in re-
sponse to large number of inquiries
that have been made at the local COL
lector's office.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
Portable House Plan to
Cut Rents TO Be Studied
Chicago Experts to Consider
Proposal to Build Low-Cost
Homes Outside City Limits
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

CHICAGO, March 11.-A special
meeting of the Chicago Real Estate
Board has been called for tomorrow
to work out details for President
Adolph Kramer's plan to house suffer.
ing tenants in portable houses of their
own. Announcement has been made
that every real estate firm, bank and
business est& Enlistment in the city is
to be enlisted in the campaign. Ac
cording to Mr. Kramer study of the
estimates has shown that it will be
possible for the man of small income
to own a portable home and abandon
it after the return of normal rent con-
ditions at a cost below even low rental
figures.
Harry Olson. Chief Justice Of the
Municipal Court, to-day made plans to
establish special courts to handle the
avalanche of legal battles that are ex-
pected to result from rent disputes.
However, he suggested that friendly ar
bitration between landlords and tenants
OF rent increase quarrels was the best
suggsstion to prevent chaotic condi.
tions on May /.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
1,226 pairs
ChiIdren's
Shoes
from our regular
stocks, reduced

Sizes 2 to 5, were S2.75 to
S3.25, at $2.35; sizes S to 8.
were $3.50 to $3.50, at $500:
sizes 81 to 1919, were $3.50
to $3.50, at $4.75; sizes II to
z, were $6 to $3.50, at $5.25;
sizes 2112 to 6, for big girls.
were So to $40, S6.25.
They are the shoes needed
tor Spring wear, especially
Tor Easter, when every one
must have a new pair of
shoes. If you buy them now
you can save anywhere from
;3,J 20c to 1915 on each pair.
They are smart in style. good
IN quality and every Shoe
odnptab1e to the child's foot.
We cannot duplicate these
shoes to sell at their present
stock price.
4 few sizes are missing here
ana there in the lot, so we de-
ctlded to sell the, whole line at
these remarkably low prices.
Sizes include baby's first shoe.
SIZE z, and misses size 6, with ali
intermediate sizes.
Range of styles is equally COM
Frat floor. Old Building.