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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-27
Fishing Season to
Open on June ]

Madison, Wis. Unauthentic stor-
les that there will be no fishing in Wis
consin until June first, have flooded
the state conservation commission with
Geographic and telephone inquiries.
"There has been no change in the
season laws" said Secretary lR. D,
Scheibel, conservation commissioner
Saturday. "The trout season opens on
May first. The season for pickereI,
pike, muskeloons, white bass, and cat
fish opens on June first. Large and
small black bass may not be caught
before June 10 except in big green
lakes where the season does not open
until July first.
The distribution of brook trout by
the conservation commission to streams
in all parts of the state is now in pro-
gress. Two carloads of trout, fry have
already been shipped from the Bay
field hatchery. Distribution will be
cry in a week and the other hatcheries
in the state will distribute the trout
in about two weeks. No rainbow trout
will be distributed for a month OF
more.
Distribution of the game fish fry
will not occur until the middle of May
Some $4,000 cans of ifry will be dis
tributed by the commission this yeal
to the long list of applicants which was
complied last January.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-27
YOUNG SEEKS PLACE
ON G. 0. P. TICKET
Darien Man Would Be Named for
Northumberland at Citizens
Meeting.
(By Associated Press Leased wire.)

tBy Associated Press Leased Wire.)
Madison.-Riley S. Young of Darien,
speaker of the assembly during the
1919 and 1921 sessions of the Wiscon-
sin legislature, today formally an
nounced his candidacy for lieutenant
governor the September primaries.
subject to acceptance by the Citizens
Republican state conference at Mil
waukee June 1st. Speaker Young said
that he was in hearty accord with the
principles of the Committee of II and
would abide by the decision of the
June convention, supporting whoever
was nominated to make the race for
acknowledgements. There has been
no mention of opposition to the candi-
dacy of Mr.. Young among opponents of
the LaFollette faction of the Republi-
can party. Mr.. Young is banker and
druggist of Darien. Before being elect
ed to the assembly in 1916, he had held
no other public office except that of
town clerk from 1887 to 1894. He is a
native of Walworth county, having
been born at Sharon. His residence
has been at Darien since 1886. In the
assembly Mr.. Young was the leader of
the forces opposed to the LaFollette
Progressives and was twice electer as
speaker of the lower house over their
candidates. He is one of the leaders
OF the Republican party in the state.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-27
Mrs. Sarah Everett
Dies This Morning
Widow of the Late Captain Joseph
Everett Died Early This Morning
at Niece's Home.

Mrs. Sarah A. Everett, widow of the
late Captain Joseph Everett, a daugh-
ter of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Michael
Craney, died early this morning at the
home of her niece, Mrs. Arthur Host
81 North Maplewood avenue, after a
long illness from paralysis. She had
been critically i'll for several days and
death was not unexpected.
The deceased was born in Kenosha
and WAS member Of one of the pio-
neer families of the city. She wf
educated in the schools here. II
genial disposition had won her a wide
circle of friends to whom her death
comes as a personal sorrow.
Surviving the deceased are one sis
ter, Mrs. Minnie Ratigan, five nieces,
Mrs. A. J. Host, Misses Sarah and Rosie
Ward, and Miss Marie Ratigan, of Ke-
nosha, and Mrs. Clifford Dexter, of
Dakota, and one nephew, Joseph Ever
EFT, of Kenosha. The funeral services
will be held from the home of Mrs
Host on Thursday morning at nine with
requiem high mass at the st. James
church and interment in the family plot
in the st. James cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-27
JUDGE BELDEN TO
CLEAN UP COURT CASES
Grand Jury Indictments in This County Will
Not be NOlled Following Sentences
Issued at Milwaukee.
TRIALS
QUICKLY
Twenty Cases Remain on the Calendar and Court An
nOunces That Defendants Will Be Called
Just as Soon as Possible.

Millager and another one in which he
is indicted with Alex Ritter. Both
may be tried. Millager is now serv-
ing term in the county Jail and at
the end of the term he will be subject
to sentence on another charge to which
he has pleaded guilty. The other re-
naming indictment is against George
Fischer, proprietor of the Hotel Fisch-
err. This defendant aided the state
materially in an appeal to the supreme
court to determine the jurisdiction of
the court in these cases but Judge
Belden has announced that he will be
tried.
Suggestions for Grand Jury.
Judge Belden has stated that he has
had several requests for another grand
jury in Kenosha county but he de-
clared on Saturday that he had not
reached decision to call such a grand
jury. 1t is admitted that a large
amount Of evidence is now in the
hands of the officials but it is said that
most Of this could be handled with a
vigorous program in the municipal
court. There seems to have been a
tagging of the work but it is believed
that with the disposition Of grand jury
cases which can be tried now that the
other matters in the hands of the Of
ficials will be given attention.
1t is said that the district attorney
is not adverse to the calling Of the
grand jury for the investigation of a
number of matters other than the
cleanup" program. 1t was intimated
that a new grand jury might be called
the latter part of this year or the first
of next year if the matters now per-
tinently before the officials were not
properly disposed of.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-27
MOONSHINE STILL
Is WISHED ON HIM
Sylvester BambinO Draws
Minimum Fine of $1O0
and Costs.
GAS BILL PROVES CASE

Because Sylvester Bambino had
merely inherited the still and moon
shine, as it were, from a friend who
had gone to Europe, Judge Slater
handed him the minimum fine for un-
lawful possession in the municipal
court this morning, that is, 500 and
costs or six months in Jail.
The raid was made by the sponge
squad last Saturday afternoon when
they visited SIT Tennis court, where
Bambino lives, and found still and
four quarts of moonshine. Assistant
Chief Cyzak, Sergeant of Detectives
Rock and Detective Breidt brought the
evidence into the police station Satur-
day at 5:45 p m.
Only Technically Guilty.
Attorney A. L. Drury appeared for
Bambino this morning and in his be-
half entered a plea of guilty, although
he declared that he was only tech
nically guilty.
"This man." said Drury to the court,
occupied with three other men tho
ramshackle apartments over on Tennis
court. Sometime ago one of the men
left and went to Europe. When he left,
he made present of aSstill and two
bottles of moonshine to Bambino. Now
Bambino is not drinking man and
the police will agree with me that the
still does not look as if it had been
recently used. Moreover, the gas bill
for the place will bear out my conten-
tion that Bambino has not made moon
shine there. have looked at the bills
for the last two months and judging
from what I have to pay for fuel for
the ordinary purposes of cooking, J
wonder if these men cooked enough
food for themselves. At any rate, it
is clear that they did not brew moon
shine"
AS the defense attorney was unop
posed, the minimum fine was fixed.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-27
KElNOSHAN ONE
OF LOST HEIRS
Albert Larson, Rowland
Avenue, One Heir to
N. d. Farm.
SOUGHT FOR A YEAR

To find himself one of the missing
heirs to a large estate in North Da-
kota was the experience of Albert
Larson, 500 Rowland avenue, a fore
man at the Nash Motors company, who
on Thursday afternoon learned that
he was entitled to share in the estate
of Chris Petersen, a bachelor, who
died more than a year ago at his home
in North Dakota, leaving large farm
and other properties to be divided
among his heirs. Since the death an
Intellectual search has been made for
any heirs of the deceased and unless
they had been found in a compare
lively short time, the property would
have escheated to the state.
The first clew to the claim to the
fortune was found Thursday by Otto
Larson, a farmer living near Union
Grove, who is brother to the Keno
sha man and who also will share in
the estate.
Read in Newspapers.
The Union Grove man read in
newspaper of the search for the heirs
of Chris Petersen, a wealthy North
Dakota farmer, and recalled that his
half brother of that name had settled
in that state more than forty years
ago. Investigation revealed that the
deceased was this half brother and
that the Union Grove and Kenosha
man had a claim to a part of the
estate. There are two other brothers
one Jens Larson, Of New York, and
contractor in Amigo. In addition there
are two sisters in the old country who
will probably share in the estate.
1t was declared that the deceased
had left his native land more than
forty years ago and had come to
America./A After the first few years in
this country he had failed to com
municate with his relatives and little
had been known of him.
Will Take Legal Action.
He had prospered as a farmer in
the new country and according to re-
ports had become the owner of large
farm in one Of the most fertile dis
tricts of North Dakota. He had never
married and left no heirs whatever
there.
The heirs have written to the ad-
ministrator of the estate and are
awaiting his reply. They will take le-
gal action to enforce their claims in
the event that this is necessary.
Members of the family today de-
clared that they now had no informa-
tion as to the exact value of the
estate but that they had been told
that it was a valuable tract of land
and that they would probably receive
a handsome sum from the estate.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-27
WILL ENFORCE
DOG TAX LAW
Sheriff Gets Order to Kill
Dogs for Which Taxes
Are Unpaid.
NO CHANGE IN LAW

Sheriff Rauen and Chief of Police
Logan and the other peace officers o.
Kenosha county are ordered by the
state department of agriculture to pro
coed at once with the enforcement o.
the dog tax law. Hundreds of dogs il
Kenosha county for which taxes have
not been paid are to be subject
slaughter. c. P. Norgord has giveY
out a statement in regard to the en-
forcement of the law. He says:
ut appears that some local official
who are charged with the enforcement
of the dog license law utterly lack al
understanding knowledge of the Law
and their position and duty toward it,.
enforcement" said 0. P. Lehner of tn,
state department of agriculture.
That the law is not tax measure
but form of insurance on stock am
fowl, was explained in a previous ar
ticle. Since some officials charged will
enforcement of the law either lack
knowledge of the law or are careless i
the performance of their duty, it
necessary to touch upon these matter
again.
Local Officials Must Act.
"The legislature put the enforcement
Of this law under the supervision
the state department of agriculture
but it charged local officials directl
with the duty of its enforcement. Wit
these officials enforcement of the La
is not optional. By positive enactmen
the legislature made it their duty. Til
local clerks are constituted advisor
officials and handle all claims. Unde
their direction the assessor prepare
and delivers list of all dogs within
his assessment district. The loca
treasurers issue the dog licenses which
should be obtained in January of eacf
year. Delinquent dog owners are re
ported to the district attorney, whose
duty it is to apprehend, prosecute and
in the name of the state collect the
penalty for failure to obtain a license
which penalty ranges from So to $50.
at is the duty of all sheriffs, depu-
ties, constables and other police officers
to seize, impound and restrain all I'M
IlC6LSeO Jugs Ii dlLSE i've UdyB JnSN
are not claimed, they must be disposed
of in humane manner. There are q
large number of unlicensed dogs in the
state, chiefly because some officials
disagree with the law. 1t is not fer
an official to say whether the law is
good or bad. In recent opinion on
the dog law, the encouragement said
There is but one course open to a
public official who is unwilling to per
form an official duty for the compen-
sation. which the law affords, and that
is to resign his Office. So long as he
remains in it he must perform the
duties thereof
"The dog law must be enforced as ii
was conceived and written and always
without fear or favor. Insofar as il
lies within the power of this depart
ment there will be no backward step in
enforcing the law and carrying out
the mandate of the people"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-27
Max Oser's Plans
Unknown i'm Chicago
(By Associated Press Leased Wire.

Chicago = Announcement of Max
Oser, former cavalry officer, cabled
from his home in Switzerland, that he
would be welded to Miss Mathilde Nc
Cormick Of this city in June, was met
today with a statement that Miss NC
Cormick and her father, Harold F
Mccormick had made mo plans of any
sort" regarding the date of their de-
parture from Chicago. So far John
D. Rockefeller, grandfather of Miss
Mccormick, is not known to have given
his consent to the marriage.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-27
Falling Telephone
Pole Hits Auto
DR.. Tennessen Escapes Unframed in
Accident Sunday Morning! Two
Cars Collide on Sheridan Road.

Two Fords came together at eleven
o'clock Sunday night on Sheridan
road. G. D. Brown and Al. Hickman.
both of Chicago, were in one car and
in the other were two Waukegan men:
William Hallback and H. Pfngsten
The collision took place near the
Sheridan Road Inn. Both cars were
damaged and the Waukegan men were
somewhat injured.
The Dodge roadster driven by DR.
A. Tennessen was struck by a falling
telephone pole at the corner of Market
street and Sheridan road. DR.. Tennes-
sen escaped without injury.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-27
Find Wisconsin Man
With Throat SIashed
(By Associated Press Leased Wire

Omaha, Neb-The body of E. c..
Tumm, 40, was found in his room at
local rooming house late last night
when police forced an entrance after
the rooming house proprietor express
ed fears that Tumm was i'll and had
locked himself in. Tumm's throat was
lslashed and razor lay near the body.
A note to his mother, who lives some
where in Wisconsin, together with
draft for $3.50 in her favor, was found
in the dead mans clothing. Tumm's
divorced wife is said to live in Fargo,
North Dakota.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-27
SOlNERS BUMPS
WILMOT' SQUAD
Ball Season for 1922 Gets
Started in Rural Dis
tricts Sunday.
NEW BALL PARK OPENS

Somers baseball club returned to the
diamond Sunday, picked up the dazzling
work where they left Ioff last season
journeyed over to their neighbor viii
lage-W ilmot-and there captured a
A to baseball attraction from the
brand new Wilmot squad before a
crowd of over 700 loyal fans and
fanettes in the opening ceremony of
Wilmot's new baseball park and the
prying off of the 1922 national pastime
lid in Kenosha county. Then they
picked up their belongings and accom-
panied by their boosters jaunted back
to Somers to prepare for coming con-
flicts on the diamond this year. It is
needless to say that the game was a
tight affair. The spring -like weather
brought fans from all sections of the
county to see the first game of the year
Was Real Battle.
When the fact is taken into consid-
Grafton that this was the first time
the Wilmot team played together,
everyone will agree they did man
sized job in holding the highly touted
Somers to such close score. Judging
from the brand of playing exhibited
by the Wilmoters they will make all
teams in their class sit up and take
notice, as the saying goes. Players
on both squads looked good in the first
real workout of the year. The pitchers
had little battle all of their own, too
Ray Feest was on the hillock for the
'yictors and he hurled splendid ball
He famed thirteen opposing batters.
Edgar, the highly rated Silverlake
slabmaster, was in his usual good
shape and he also made thirteen Som
ers batsmen bit the dust.
Both Score in Third
AS for heavy hitting there was plen-
ty. Ryder of Somers and Boyle of
Wilmot brought the fans to their feet
when they made connections for three
ply swats. N. Thomas of Somers, lam
busted the pill for double. These
were the outstanding wallops.
Both twirlers warmed up to the game
at the outset and as result neither
club scored until the third inning.
Somers had sins" and they managed
to put over a run. Wilmot came back
just as strong with a tally. In the
+ sixth inning the Somer villagers got
next to Edgar's slants and after the
gate had been closed three tallies were
hung up on the scoreboard for the
winners. In the seventh inning Will
mot staged rally that fell short by
one run of tying the score, scoring a
pair of runs. The following is the
way they lined up:
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-27
OLD SUJB-CHASER
Is BOOZE CARRIER
Men in Uniform of the Navy Deceive
Officials Watching for Booze
Violations.
tBy Associated Press Leased wire.)

10y ASSOCIATED FreSS 4eaS6u WHesJ
New York City a bootlegging
scheme whereby liquor was struggled
into this country from Bermuda and
Cuba on former submarine chasers
commanded by officers wearing the
uniform of the United States navy, has
been unearthed, it was announced to-
day, at the customs house. The form
er chaser Number 101, renamed Fidus
has been seized with her commander
and crew of seven, the announcement
stated.
Customs officials claimed to have
received from the crew story to the
effect that pirates held up the chaser
yesterday afternoon 20 miles off Mon
tauk point, Long Island, boarded the
craft with drawn revolvers bound the
commander to the mast and seized the
chaser's cargo of liquor.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-27
Tries Own Case
Saves His Neck

IBy ASSOCIATED Press Leased Wlre.)
Omaha, Neb.-Otto Cole, who pleaded
his own case, saved himself from the
electric chair for the murder OF. garry
Hahn, Omaha pawnbroker, shot to
death recently A jury in district court
today Returned verdict finding him
guilty of murder and fixed the penalty
at life imprisonment. Cole conducted
his own defense and showed remarkable
ability as an attorney. He contended
he killed Hahn following an argument
over a loan on a watch.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-27
Obenchain Letters
Read Burch jury

Los Angeles, More letters were
read to the jury today at the re-
sumption of the trial of Arthur C.
Burch for the murder of j. Bolton
Kennedy.
When ADJOURNMENT was taken Fri
day the prosecution had begun read
ing letters written to Burch by Mrs.
Madalynne Obenchain, his co-defend-
ant.
The defense said no objection would
be made to these letters.
"We are saving our big guns for a
little later" said Paul Schenck, chief
defense counsel. "When the time
comes we will be ready"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-27
EVANSVILLE CRIPPLE
BURNED TO DEATH
Otto Bronson Meets Horrible Death
When Little Shack of a
Home Burns.

Evansville, Wis. Grin Bronson, So,
cripple, was almost burned alive,
when trapped in his little shop here
which served as his home, Friday
night when the place caught fire, it is
believed from the stove. Bronson
crawled to safety after he was burned
from head to the stubs of his legs
One artificial leg was burned off. He
died at 1880 a. m. Saturday. His legs
were cut off in a railroad accident SO
years ago and he had lived here for
many years, making artificial limbs. He
lost. set of legs three years ago in
Madison hotel fire.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-27
Bright Lights Appeal
to Chinese Traders

Washington, D., C. = Bright lights,
joy rides and the movies have made a
hit in China, Trade Commissioner L.
W. Meekins reported from Shanghai
today.
"The Chinese" he said, "are just as
fond of the white lights as the most
exuberant Broadway crowd. The joy
ride too, made an immediate hit in
China and motor cars are being multi
piled. The Chinese are SO enthusiast
tic over motion pictures that they have
begun producing films themselves"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-27
KEEPS BERGDoLL IN PRISON.

(By Associated Press Leased Wire.)
Washington.-The sup\me court to-
day denied the application of Erwin R
Bergdoll of Philadelphia for a writ of
habeas corpus. Erwin, a brother of
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, is now
serving a sentence of four years in
Leavenworth for failure to perform
military service during the war and
contended he was Illegally convicted.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-27
Honest Robber"
Freed by Court
(By Associated Press Leased Wire)

10Y Associated Press Leased Wlrel
San Francisco.-John NJ. Gilroy was a
free citizen today, despite the fact that
yesterday in superior court he admit
ted he put on a mask, took a revolver
and held 'up storekeeper. The jury
acquitted him as an "honest robber."
Gilroy>had been out of work; his wife
was i'll; his children hungry. He went
to soft drink establishment and took
Sc from ethe till, telling the proprietor
he needed that amount for his family
and that he would return it when he
got job. He found work next day
He paid the proprietor the IS, then
surrendered to the police. The jury
was out only long enough to elect a
foreman and take staining vote.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-27
SEEK RATE REELECTION.

La Crosse - City Attorney Oscar j.
Swennes has asked the common council
for authority to file petition with
the railroad commission of Wisconsin
asking for reduction in electric rates
in La Crosse. Mr.. Swennes maintains
the rates here are from % to 80 per
cent too high, based upon adequate
returns on water power current. The
maximum ratc for electric current here
ss II cents