The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-10-13
Federal, Police and County
Men Raid Cellar of Stills
on Somers Road.
HELLO MISTER CYZAN
Dame Who Soaked Him with
Wet Cloths Greets Assistant
Chief Sweetly when Fooled.

The mighty bison leaves his tracks
upon the wilderness, as does the an
telope and the musk-oX, and betrays
his passing to the hunter. And so does
Scholey leave footprints upon the sands
of time, and a defnable aroma in his
wake.
Open the city hall door this morning,
before Janitor John Szafranski man.
ages to get around with his mop. and
take Whit. Sniff-sniff! Doesn't that
tell you that the crusader has passed
that way? Moonshine! And it doesn't
take the highly trained olfactory senses
of the secretary of police, the official
smeller of that department, to decide
that it is moonshine either.
Up the stairs of the city hall, and
into the police station, and there sits
Scholey in his hunters mackinaw.
raid? Sure," he said internationally.
He does it now inhaling and exhaling.
you know. give hundred barrels of
mash, ten gallons of moon, two big
stills and four people arrested"
1t was a raid, a bomb-proof raid, in.
which the agents of federal, county and
city offices united to make concerted
attack on a notorious moonshine nest
on the Somers road, four miles west
of the city. under the leadership of
Assistant Chief of Police John Cyzak.
Cyzak Organizes Raid.
Cyzak had been tipped off that
couple who had formerly been found
manufacturing moonshine at 127 Ed
ward street, had moved out on the
Somers road when they found the po-
lice too Jealous for them and started a
country business for city dwellers. 1t
is alleged that the couple made "moon"
and supplied a dozen saloonkeepers in
Kenosha with the silver fluid and that
they were hired to do so at a wage of
SIS week.
On this tip, Cyzak summoned the as
sistance of federal and county authori-
ties in the persons of Federal Agent
John Seholey, Deputy Sheriff Nicholas
Otto, lent by Sheriff Rauen, with other
aides from the police department in the
persons Of Detectives Rock, Breidt and
McCluskey.
On Saturday afternoon at two o'clock
the raiders hied themselves west on
the Somers road and stopped at the
first house east of the Cider Mill, four
miles out. There in the cellar Of the
farmhouse occupied by John Klemko,
the police-sheriff-federal sponge. bat
talon found two stills hot with opera
ton and Victor Salik of 1877 Edward
street, blowing the bellows.
And besides the stills, each of the
capacity of 35 gallons, there were ten
barrels of mash, containing 800 gallons
in all and ten gallons of moon. The
raiders sat down and waited, for there
was still other quarry to be captured.
"Oh Mister Cyzak," She Says.
AT four o'clock Jeffery seven-pass-
enger car drove up to the farm and
stopped. Out of it tripped Mrs. Annie
Saniuk and Joe Spiglanin, supplied with
transportation-of-bo equipment and
ready to refill the hold of the ship with
fresh stock Of cargo. The two were
arrested by the raiders on the charge
of illegal transportation of Intoxicating
drink; Victor Salik arrested for man
ufacture of moonshine, while John
Klemko was arrested for illegal pos
session. Klemko admitted having rent
ed his cellar to the Saniuks for 500 a
month.
ooh, Mr.. Cyzak!" cried Annie salik
when she spied the assistant chief
awaiting her as she stepped out of her
automobile.
eyes," he replied grimly, "you can
call me Mister Cyzak now" He re-
minded her that there was time when
she had applied epithets to him never
prefaced by so formal term as mister.
It was one day when Annie was pre-
tending to wash clothes in her back
yard at ~ Edward street. Cyzak.
Rock and Breidt arrived on the scene
to find Annie in the yard surrounded
by tubs and wash boiler. Cyzak had
the audacity, not to say the nerve, to
take the lid off the boiler and peep in,
to find steaming moonshine and not
steaming suds. Then Annie, not call
ing him mister either, soaked him with
the clothes, while Rock lodged, ran and
laughed.
Victor Salik, charged with having a
still in his possession, pleaded not
guilty in the municipal court this
morning, waived preliminary hearing
and was bound over until the next term
of the municipal court, bonds fixed at
$500, which were furnished. The same
charge was placed against his wife, An
ME, who was likewise bound over for
trial John Klemko, charged with hav-
ing moonshine in his possession, was
placed under $500 bonds for appear
ance on October 18th at a. m.