Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-04-27


Burke, kenosha attorney, convicted
of bribery. was sentenced to serve five
years in Leayenworth prison and to
+ pay fine OF S14 600. Thomas A. De-
laney, former prohibition director of
| Wisconsin, and Joseph Ray former
prohibition inspector, both convicted
OF conspiracy, each received prison
sentence of two years and fines of
100000 Burke Delaney and Ray will
appeal their cases. Other sentences
imposed were: Harry Feuer, two
years imprisonnle nt and fine of Sl0,-
500; Joseph O'Neill, one year impris-
onment and $4,000 fine; Charles Gross,
curth, two years Imprisonment and
| $10,500 fine; Arthur G. Birk. IA
months Imprisonment and $1,000 fine;
Joseph Custer $4,000 fine; Joseph
Budar, $4,000 fine; Edward Roster
man, $4,000 fine; Louis Sehrayer, So
600 fine; Joseph Dudenhoefer, ST.,
$4,000 fine; Joseph Dudenhoefer, Jr..
| $4,000 fine; Peter Gales and Charles
murray, one year and day in pris-
ON and $1,000 fine; Joel Jacobson and
| Hyman r. Gordon, one year and a
day in prison and $4,000 fine; Charles
Erler, six months in prison and $1,000
| fine. Frank ]. Eggerer, of Chiffon. a
former candidate for state treasurer,
was fined $4,000 which he paid by
check as soon as court adjourned.
1 ~ A .G~,rn ,f Ny,fs
Saloon league organizations from thir-
teen states will be held in Milwaukee
on May % and 26, Immediately follow
ing the Wisconsin dry law enforce
ment convention, to be held May %
and "a. Among the principal speakers
will be: Prohibition Commissioner
Roy A. Haynes, Wayne B. Wheeler.
general legislative counsel for the
Anti-Saloon league; P. A. Baker, gem
eral superintendent of the league;
Congressman A. J. Volstead, father OF
the prohibition laws. Plans will be
laid at the conference to prevent the
election of light wine and beer sympa-
thizers to congress and state legisla-
| lures.
| Madison-Arbor and Bird day has
been set aside by Gov. ]. ]. Blaine in
a proclamation as Friday, May 5, when
all schools. colleges and other insti-
tutions will be expected to promote
| the planting of trees, the identifying
of parks, roadways and public grounds,
~ of xxyi1d
Gov. Blaine in a supplementary state
ment says that the proclamation of
President Harding which names April
% as Arbor day cannot be complied
with in Wisconsin, as it is too early
date for the greater portion of the
state for practical observance.
Organization plans for the
northern Wisconsin tobacco pool were
completed here at meeting Of the
executive committee and district chair
men of the new cooperative market
| ing association. Field workers will
begin Immediately in the northern
counties to contract for the 1922 crop.
The big membership drive will begin
in the southern and most important
decided Organizers from Kentucky
will aid the Wisconsin pool in getting
under way among the growers of the
state
Beloit- Bootleggers will be put to
work on the Rock county roads, ac-
cording to resolution passed by the
board of supervisors. All prisoners
sentenced under orders of actual con-
finement will be put to work on the
roads. The men will be paid for the
work they do on the roads and will
be returned tn the county jail every
evening
Menomonie-G. l.. Bowman, princi-
pal of the Dunn County Normal school,
the oldest county training school for
teachers in Wisconsin, died suddenly
of heart disease, Prof Bowman
! taught in the Superior State Normal
and the New London training school
before coming to Menomonie in 1904.
He was widely known among educa-
tors of the northwest
Sheboygan Joseph Kritszumas
pleaded guilty to charge of embez-
zling funds of the American Railway
Express company while in it's employ
and was sentenced to the state peni-
Tertiary. He stated that the amounts
are between $500 and $500, and that he
spent this ON moonshine liquor.
Ashland--The Lake Superior Dis
trict Power Co. has been authorized
by the railroad commission to take
over the Ashland Light and Power
Co., the Ironwood & Bessemer Street
Railway and Light Coz and the Big
Falls Power Co.
La Crosse-The Winnebago Indians
In western Wisconsin have desig-
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