The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-02-09
SENTENCE
FOR CITY DOGS
State Board Orders Dis
posal" of All CANNES
Not Licensed.
ONE TOWN REPORTS
Hundreds of Unlicensed Dogs
Stroll Streets and Policemen
Serve as ExecutiOners.

Every dog has his day but the old
axiom does not say just What kind of
day it is to be. The state board Of
agriculture has declared an execution
day for dogs and the death sentence
has been passed upon hundreds of the
CANNES in Kenosha county. 1t is pos
sible that there will be some stay of
execution of the sentence but the only
possibility seems to be that the police
are too busy doing something else to
carry out these death sentences.
Under the new Wisconsin laws the
dog licenses were all due on the first
of January and the owners of the
CANNES were expected to come in and
pay the tax to the city and town treas
urers. They haven't done it.
"The members OF the police depart
ment were instructed to begin the
slaughter of the unlicensed dogs in
the city today" declared City Treas
urer George Lauer. "There should be
about six or seven hundred executions
in the city within the week. Only a
hundred and fifty dogs in Kenosha
have complied with the state law and
the figures given to US show that there
are between eight hundred and thous-
and dogs in Kerosha. There isn't any
power given to any one to extend the
time for the payment of the tax. We
have received the order from the state
board of agriculture to dispose of all
unlicensed dogs at once"
Had Plenty of Grace.
The dog population of the city and
county has had plenty of dogs of grace
according to the statements of the Of
ficials. When the new law went into
effect all dogs in the state were per-
mitted to run tax free from more
than six months but it was understood
that on the first of January every
single owner of dog would come in
and pay the license.
County Clerk Holderness received
the death warrant" for the dogs in
the towns of the county this morning
and he is planning to put it into exc
cution Immediately. Under the law
these dogs must be disposed of by the
sheriff and his men and they have an
arsenal big enough to make it possible
to put large force at work. The trips
to Milwaukee and the house of correc-
ton were regarded by the sheriff as
more important than dog killing to-
day, but the killings will have to
start at once.
Only nDa Town Pa10rAe
Only one of the towns of the county
has made the formal report on dogs to
the county clerk. The town of Paris
has a report on file showing that one
hundred and one dogs have been prop
erly licensed in that town. Other
towns in the county have collected the
taxes on some of the dogs but the
reports have not yet come to the
county treasurer.
The law is new one in the city as
in former years the tax has been col
lected by the police officers. This year
the owners of the dogs are ordered to
pay the tax the same as other city,
state and county taxes are paid. All
the police have to do with it is to pro-
coed to kill the dogs not licensed.
1t was indicated that posse of po-
lice officers would be available tomor-
row to start the work of killing.
A tax receipt is the only reprieve
which will be considered by the police
officers.