The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-04-27
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS

aINchttu Nhe Cflll VI the obohto L iSo-
byterian church to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Rev. E.
w. Wright last fall.
The Lake Superior District Power
Co. has been authorized by the rail-
road comission to take over the Ash
land Light and Power Co, the Iron.
wood & Bessemer Street Railway and
Light Co. and the Big Falls Power Co.
Ole Lunde, La Crosse county treas
urer received $412395.53, the grand
total amount due the county for the
100000 road bond issue. The prem.
ium on the issue amounts to S11,75S
and the accrued interest, S63753 max.
ing the total received by the county
s412.39553.
Sam Lee Kee, oriental resident of
Superior and proprietor of hand
laundry, enjoys the distinction of be-
ing the first Chinese in that district to
profess the Christian faith and join
a local church. He was baptised
Easter Sunday and enrolled as a mem
Der of the Methodist church.
Anti-fy warfare was opened in Wis
consin by the state board of health
with its printing of large colored
posters for public display, urging that
flies be eXterlninated as far as posi-
Bile this spring. Every precaution
against the fly should be taken BY peo-
Mo of tho etata in addition 70 oo rr,,
ing on vigorous campaign against
the pest, the board said. 1t urges
that all schools, clubs, civic bodies and
municipalities cooperate to fight flies.
Organization plans for the northern
Wisconsin tobacco pool were COM
pleted at Madison at a 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
tobacco counties May /, the meeting
decided. Organizers from Kentucky
will aid the Wisconsin pool in getting
under way among the growers of the
state.
The supposed bones of Edward ].
Sailstad have been exhumed from
tnelr resting place in Eau Claire Gene
terry and forwarded to the University
of Wisconsin medical school for ex
animation. The disinternent was
made at the request of Sailstad's wife,
who welded again and who seeks to
collect $4,000 Of life insurance, alleg-
ing he lost his life in a fire which
destroyed the summer cottage he oc-
cupied at Lake Nebagamon, near here,
on the night of Aug, 26, 1920 Insur-
ance companies are fighting the suit,
asserting proof of death is not con
elusive.
A conference of Anti-Saloon league
organizations from thirteen states will
be held in Milwaukee on May % and
g. Immediately following the Wiscon-
sin dry law enforcement convention
to be held May % and "a. Among the
principal speakers will be: Prohibition
Commissioner Roy A. Haynes, Wayne
B. Wheeler, general legislative coun.
sci for the Anti-Saloon league; p. A.
Baker, general superintendent of the
league; Congressman A. j. Volstead,
father of the prohibition laws. Plans
will be laid at the conference to pre-
vent the election of light wine and
beer sympathizers to congress and
state legislatures.
The governments crusade against
Milwaukee's greatest liquor ring was
concluded in federal court when
twenty defendants were given prison
sentences and assessed fines amount.
ing to $104,500 Walter Burke, Ke,
nosha attorney convicted of bribery,
was sentenced to serve five years in
Leavenworth prison and to pay fine
of $4,000. Thomas A. Delaney. for.
mer prohibition director of Wisconsin,
and Joseph Ray, former prohibition
inspector, both convicted of conspir-
acy, each received prison sentence
of two years and fines of $4,000.
Burke, Delaney and Ray will appeal
their cases. Other sentences imposed
were; Harry Feuer, two years i'm.
prisonment and fine of $10,500; Joseph
O'Neill, one year Imprisonment and
$1,000 fine; Charles Grosscurth, two
years Imprisonment and $10,500 fine;
Arthur c. Birk, IA months imprison.
ment and 81 900 fine; Joseph Custer,
$4,000 fine; Joseph Budar, $4,000 fine;
Edward Kosteman, $4,000 fine; Louis
Schrayer, $4,000 fine; Joseph Duden-
hoefer, ST., $4,000 fine; Joseph Du-
denhoefer, Jr., $4,000 fine; Peter
Gales and Charles Murray, one year
and a day in prison 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 j.
Eggerer, OF Chiffon, a former candi-
date for state treasurer, was fined
$4,000 which he paid by check as
soon as court was adjourned.
Joseph Kritszumas of Sheboygan,
pleaded guilty to a charge of embez-
cling funds Of the American Railway
Express company while in its employ
and was sentenced to the state peni-
Tertiary. He stated that the amounts
are between $500 and 5000, and that
he spent this on moonshine liquor.
There is one township in Sheboy'
gan county where feminine justice will
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