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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
Mrs. Susan Reicherts
Died Saturday Night
Mrs. Susan Reicherts, Widow of Mat
thias Reicherts, Died
After Long Illness.

Mrs, Susan Reicherts, aged SO years,
widow Of the late Matthias Reicherts
and long resident Of Kenosha, died
Saturday evening just before six
oclock,at the home, 474 Grant street,
after a long Illness from the weak
nesses due to her advancing years.
The deceased was born in Germany
October 81 1889, the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Nicholas Biersdorf. She was
educated in her native country, living
there until 1857 when she came to
America and settled in Kenosha. Here
she has taken an active part in the
life of the community in which she
lived and her death brings sorrow, to
a vide circle of friends and relatives.
She was a member of the Third
Order and Of the Christian Mothers
Sodalitg of the st, George church. The
funeral 'seryiees will be held at the st.
George church, on Tuesday morning
with inteEment following in the family
plot in the 81. George cemetery.
Suevlying theN deceased are. two sons,
Matthias AND Andrew Reicherts of Ke-
nosha, and four daughters, Mrs. Dora
Elzbeck and Mrs. Albert Lauer of Ke-
nosha, and Miss Susan Reicherts of
Pasadena, Calf, and Mrs. Catherine
Beck OF Los Angeles, Calf.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
TAX PAYING
TIME EXTENDED
People Given Until Feb.
% to Pay Real Estate
Taxes in City.
MUST PAY INCOME

This was Fathers Day in Kenosha.
pected to pungle across with the taxes
to the city were given some considera-
tion and it was announced at the Office
of the city treasurer that the time for
the payment of real estate taxes in
Kenosha would be extended to Febru-
airy 28t hand father will have another
month in which to dig up the money
and get it to the city treasurer. At
the window of the treasurer the same
anxious people. The city council will
meet in formal session at the city hall
this evening and pass the resolution
demanded by law for the extension of
tax paying time. Undoubtedly the ac-
ton will be welcome to very large
proportion of the population of the
city as only small portion of them
have paid the taxes for the year.
iw Nor Extension for. Income Tax. Il
No extension can be provided for the
payment of the income taxes and as
the personal property tax may be used
as an offset to the income tax it is not
possible to extend the time for the pay
ment of the personal property tax.
Under the state law all income taxes
must be paid on or before Wednesday
afternoon and after that time they will
be subject to an added penalty. The
city treasurer has no option but to de-
mand the payment of the penalty from
the delinquents. The settlement be-
tween the city and the state for the
income taxes must be made in the very
near future and the books will be clos
ed up just as soon as it can be done.
The state law fixes the last day of
January as the limit for the payment
of the claims of the state in, the way
of income taxes. The various sur taxes
for the soldier bonus, the educational
bonus and the teachers retirement
fund are due at the same time.
Much Money to be Collected.
It is evident that most of the people
of Kenosha looked forward toward the
possible extension Of the tax paying
time as the city treasurer up to today
had collected only little over $450, 900
of a total levy of more than two mill
lion dollars. There was little squirt
of payments today but it was not ex-
pected that the total for the day
would exceed the fifty thousand dol
lar mark Many large items of income
taxes still remain to be paid, but it is
expected that much of this money will
reach the treasurer on Tuesday and
Wednesday. The total of the income
tax to be collected is in the neighbor-
hood of three hundred thousand dol
lars and less than half of this amount
has been paid
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
STEAL ALTAR MONEY
ATST. JAMES CHURCH
Police Search for Robbers Who Stole
Money from Contribution Boxes
at st. James Church.

Kenosha police today were searching
for robbers who invaded the ST. James
church and beneath the very shadows
of the shrines erected to st. Joseph
and st. Anthony, where the vigil
lights are always burning, stole from
the contribution boxes money which
had been donated for the upkeep of the
affairs. The robbery was discovered as
result of finding a glue stick at the
foot of the candelabra in which the
contribution boxes were located, which
stick had been used by the robbers to
gain the money without breaking the
seals of the boxes. 1t could not be
determined how much money had been
taken.
The church robbers had evidently
broken their way into the church pos
sibly several nights ago. The tool
which was found at the base of the
candelabra was long rod which could
be poked into the opening where the
money was dropped into the boxes.
Glue was found on the end of it and
by this the coins could be drawn out
of the opening.
The robber or robbers had evidently
become frightened while they were at
work and fled leaving the telltale tool
in their flight. When the contribution
boxes were opened it was found that
there was between $75 and $50 there
which had escaped the robbers. This is
much less than the amount which is
ordinarily contained in the altar fund
for the period of time since they have
been opened and it is believed posi-
Bile that the church thieves may have
secured a considerable amount of
money by their clever device.
No clew to the identity of the van
dals had been discovered at a late
hour this afternoon.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
WALTER [. HOUSER
MAY BE APPOINTED
Former Secretary of State Said to be
Slated for C. F. Norgord's Place
as Commissioner
(By Associated Press Leased Wire)

Madison, Wis. Walter l.. Houser,
Mondovi, former secretary of state for
Wisconsin and prominent LaFollette
leader is being mentioned here today
as the probable successor to C. F. Nor
CORD, as commissioner of agriculture.
Mr.. Norgord's term expires February
1st.
Mr.. Houser, now farmer in Buffa-
10 county, has been a leader among the
farmers of the state, as well as a
prominent figure in Wisconsin politics.
He directed the Presidential campaign
of Senator LaFollette in 1912, and
since that time has been active in his
behalf, although during the war he op-
posed the senator's policies.
Mr. Norgord, the retiring commits
sioner of agriculture, was formerly a
professor in the agricultural college
Of the University of Wisconsin. He
was appointed by Governor E. L,
Philip six years ago.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
Long Illness is
Ended by Death
Mrs. Magdalena Tellshcider, So. Died
at st. GATHERINGS Hospital on
Saturday Afternoon.

Death ended long illness on Sat
urday afternoon when Mrs. Magdalena
Tellsneider, aged So years, wife of
George Tellshmeider, $40 Grand aven-
ne, died ats the st. GATHERINGS hospi-
tai. She had recently undergone an
operation which was resorted to in a
last effort to save her life and was
unable to recover from the shock of
the ordeal.
The deceased was born in Hungary
in August 1870, the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs, John Fasbinder. She came to
America at an early age and had lived
in Kenosha for a number of years.
Surviving the deceased are the hus-
band, George Tellshmeider, of Kenosha
and one son, Martin, of Chicago.
The remains were taken from the
Mischler Chapel today to the home at
$40 Grand avenue. The funeral serv-
ices will be held at the St. George
church Wednesday morning at nine
O'Clock with interment following in the
family plot in the st. George cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
DUKE
ESCAPES POLICE
Lawrence Duke" Peterson
Ducks, Just in Time to
Escape Arrest.
HAD A LOVE NEST
Wanted on Charges that He
Had Been Living with
Adelphia Quist.

Lawrence Duke" Peterson. we'll
known Kenosha young man, has
gained new sobriquet. Hence
forth he will also be known as "SIip-
perry Duke Peterson" in Kenosha po-
lice circles as the result of a clever
ruse which ne used to elude arrest re-
Gently and in connection with which
he was being sought today by police
officers.
The episode started on Friday eve
ming last, according to the police rec
ords. Peterson with pretty eighteen
year-old Adelphia Quist, having anti
cipated complaint made by the
girls brother, came to the office of
District Attorney Morris Barnett to
talk matters over with officials. They
had admitted that for several days
past they had been living at Peter
sons home at SOC Ruth Court without
having taken the trouble to go through
the legal wedding ceremony.
Wasted to Use Telephone.
District Attorney Barnett had had
a report from the girls brother and
acting on this had summoned the po-
lice to place both Peterson and the
young woman under arrest. Peterson
scented trouble.
I'D like to use the telephone for a
moment" he told the district attor-
ney as he gained permission to go
into the outer Office.
His request was granted When
the police came they found that
Peterson instead of using the tele-
phone had slipped quietly out of the
Office and was gone. They have been
searching for him since.
Girl Placed on Probation.
The girl, upon the request of her
brothers, was held in custody and
this morning brought into court. Evil
dence there showed that she had not
realized the seriousness of her action
and she was paroled to Miss Sybil
Campbell, the new probation officer
of Kenosha county.
Meanwhile the police are to contin-
ue their search for Peterson, for
whom warrant has been sworn out
by the district attorney. He is not
unknown. in police circles as he was
convicted several years ago on a
charge OF burglary and had served a
short sentence on this charge.
Jacob Greenwald Arrested.
9 Jacob Greenwald, TIP North Sher-
idan Road, was also arrested on a
statutory charge Saturday night, the
complaint having been sworn out by
the mother of Helen Harness, sew
enteen-year-old girl, and charging
that Greenwald is the father of the
latter's unborn child. Detectives
Rock and Breidt and Patrolman Har-
old Rock after long search located
Greenwald at two o'clock in the
morning Sunday and reused him from
bed to be taken into custody. This
morning he was arraigned on the
charge in the municipal court, plead
ed guilty and was bound over to Feb
ruary 9Th for preliminary hearing I'M
der bonds of $1,000.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
POKER GAME in
RAILWAY SHANTY
Police Make Novel Gamb-
!, ling Raid on Switch
mans Quarters.
ALL PLEAD GUILTY TOO

Kinder mean, don't you think, to raid
the Woodworking railroad men in their
own switchman's shanty?
That's what happened around one
o'clock on Sunday morning when the
police walked into the warm and comfy
little hut and took the bunch with
their hands full.
The police go to make gambling raids
whenever they receive a serious COM
plant, and must, to the best of their
ability, treat everyone alike. So that
switchman's shanty means no more
to them than pool-room off some
where or a soft drink parlor.
But It's the Boys" Clubhouse.
To the railway men, however, it is
their temporary clubhouse and they no
more expect to be disturbed there than
do their fellows in the more established
clubs downtown. So it was surprise
indeed when Assistant Chief Cyzak,
accompanied by Officers Ohmstead and
O'Hare walked into their already
crowded quarters and grabbed the evil
dence. The evidence was in the shape
Of cards and chips, and the fun of the
group was broken up for that time.
Nothing to do but go home and sleep
and get ready for church, and Incl
dentally it was about time, for the
hour was $3.50 a. m.
The railway company must have been
short of help this morning, for there
were nine of the men in the municipal
court this morning charged with gamb-
ling. There was no one to be charged
with being keeper of a gambling
house" All of the men appeared as if
they had walked in hastily from work
and had to hurry back to their big
engines.
Those charged with gambling at
poker were J. Kreger, Harry Rice, Nick
Eich, L. Andrews, Bert Smith, j. Schulz,
Harry Ferguson, Edward Burch and Joe
Blank. The names of some, including
obviously that of BLANK" we're blanket
ones covering the real identity of the
person pleading guilty.
Each was fined $40 and costs. The
men made no objection to paying their
fine and appeared to be only in a hurry
to get the. business over and get back
to work.
"What happened to all these fell
lows % asked Judge Slater.1
at was payday at the yards" said
the captain.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
G. J. Ball, Aged 80, Killed
in Motor Accident Near
Waukegan.
PINNED UNDER MOTOR
Life Crushed Out when Pinned
under Motor Car in Driving
Snow Storm Saturday.

Charles j. Ball, aged 80 years, a
Kenoshan who. was a student at the
Tyler Art Institute in Chicago, ought
q losing fight with death on saturday
when his life was crushed out of him
as result Of his being caught under
the automobile which he was driving
and which overturned opposite the
Lake Mound cemetery, south of Zion
on the Sheridan road. The accident
happened in a binding snow storm
early Saturday morning and Ball with
his companion John Shimkus, were
pinned under the car for hours before
help finally reached them Shimkus,
although badly injured will recover.
Ball was stll alive when extracted
from the wreckage but died at the Vic
tory Memorial Hospital in Waukegan
few minutes later.
The remains were brought TO the
Hansen Funeral Home in Kenosha Sat-
urday evening and on Sunday morning
taken to a brothers. home at IL South
Newell street
Returning to Chicago.
The two men had been visiting at the
home Of, Balls brother, Joseph, in
Racine and were returning to Chicago
early Saturday morning. Those who
first reached the scene of the accident
declared that there was evidence that
the men had been drinking.
According to Shimkus the accident
happened about midnight on Friday,
Glaring headlights forced them from
the road and they Numbered through
a roadside fence and turtled in plow-
ed field fifty feet from the road.
Both men were pinned under the
wreckage so that they could not ex-
tricate themselves.
Death Slowly Wins Battle.
Shimkus, still conscious waged a
battle against the imprisoning metal
which proved fruitless Gradually he
witnessed the life being crushed out of
his pal while he was helpless to aid
him. In the driving snow his voice
was hushed and calls for assistance
were wasted.
Dawn brought two motorists who
hoisted the twisted wreckage enough
to allow Shimkus to pull himself free
The trio then extricated the unconsci-
GUS form of Ball from the debris anc
rushed him to the hospital in Wauke-
gan.
Hope rose for Balls chance for life
when nurses declared there was flut.
.sr of the pulse Death, however, wor
five minuets later, getting an ever
kreak for it's five hour battle to snuff
out two lives.
Coroner Probes Death.
Coroner Taylor, of Lake County
made thorough investigation of the
death, finding that the man had beer
crushed to death under the car, which
was the property of Shimkus.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
POLICE LOAD WAGON
AS RESULT OF RAID
Police Raiders COnfiscate Record Still
and Barrels of MOonshine in
Surprise Today.

The police sponge squad swooped
down on a residence at 125 South
Brocket street at two thirty o'clock
this afternoon surprising several who
were working there around one of IT,
largest stills ever confiscated in Ke-
nosha. The still was ripped out ana
together with the moonshine captur-
ed almost completely filled the paddy
wagon. There were three barrels Of
moonshine and so much mash that the
police worked more than half hour
destroying it. Severay arrests are to
follow the raid.
The raiders were under the lead of
police Sergeant Matt Kirsch.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
(By Associated Press Leased wire.)

(By Associated Press Leased Wire.)
Eausanne.-A draft of the proposed
treaty of peace which is to be submit
ted to the Turks on Wedne sday was
distributed semi officially to all dele
gates today The document contains
$50 articles to which eight conventions
are annexed. There were no develop
ments today to show the Turks were
more favorably disposed toward sign
ing. The eight conventions deal re-
spectively with the straits, the front
iers of Thrace, the status of foreigners
in Turkey, the Albanian declaration re
garding payment of the Ottoman debt,
the commercial regime with Turkey,
the armistice declaration, and the ex-
change of populations and exchange Of
prisoners of war between Turkey and
Greece which last two will be signed
tomorrow by these two powers. The
atmosphere about the conference was
tense today, the chiefs of the allied
delegations holding long consultations.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01

ly clear that there is anything in the
constitutional requirement which
suggests that one of the forms in
which such apportionment ratios or
proportions may be expressed should
be preferred to another.
The method of major fractions"
utilities only one of several ways of
expressing apportionate ratios. The
method of equal proportions" util-
ICES all of these ways without incon-
sistency. The latter method, there
fore, has broader basis.
There is no mathematical or logi-
cal ground for preferring the one
form of expression of the appor-
tionment ratio used in the method
of major fractions" to other forms
of expression. These other forms
lead, when similar processes of COM
putation are employed, to different,
and, therefore, inconsistent ratios.
In the method of major fractions"
the "nearness" of the ratios of re-
representatives. and population for the
several states is measured by abso-
lutte differences. The method of
equal proportions" utilizes relative
differences. The relative scale is to
be preferred, the advisory committee
concludes.
The house census committee in pre-
senting its report last July, provid-
ing for an increase of rs in the mem
bership of the house to $50 members,
lodged this decision, stating:
cit is not necessary to discuss the
method adopted, as both plans
known as the Wilcox or Cornell
method, and the Huntington or Har-
ward method, agree with each other
when the number of the house is fix
ed at 1907.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
COUNTY COURT CALENDAR.

Regular February term of County
Court, Tuesday, February 6, 1923, at
10 a. m.
Present: Hon. Robert v. Baker,
county judge; George Stevens, clerk;
Minnie A. Staver, reporter.
1. In re will of William Kohls, ST.,
deceased. Probate of will.
2. In re estate of John NJ Orth, de-
ceased. Final account and con-
struction of will
8. In re estate of Joseph E. Dixon,
deceased. Final account.
4. In re will of Clara B. Whitaker,
deceased. Final account. f
5. In re estate of Anna R. Mikkelsen,
deceased Final account.
6. In re estate of Charles j. Dyson,
deceased. Administration.
z. In re estate of Martin Hogan, de-
ceased. Final account.
8. In re estate of Marie Walker, de-
ceased. Final account.
9. In re estate of Victor s. Silkus, de-
ceased. Final account.
10. In re will of Rev. August Gardt-
haus, deceased. Final account.
II. In re estate of John Sivak, de-
ceased. Administration.
IL. In re will of Katharine Getschman,
deceased. Probate of will.
Last Day for Filing Claims in re
Estates of:
IS. Anton Morch, deceased.
IA. Karl Ernst Opitz, deceased.
Is. Levi C. Graves, deceased.
16. Leannah Bulls, deceased.
Last Day for Adjustment of Claims
in re Estates of:
II. Anna R. Mikkelsen, deceased.
10. Mary Bell Stanbridge, deceased.
10. John F. Fechner, deceased.
20. William Mutter, deceased.
81. Maria Walker, deceased.
% Henry M. Forbes, deceased.
z3. Marguerite Kollmann.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
KENOSHAN MET
! HORRIBLE FATE
Gtephan Dojcich isLiterally
Cooked Alive in Over
heated Room.
KEPT MURDER THREAT

To escape q death sentence in Croa-
tia for an attempt to murder the gov
ernor of that province only to return
to America to be burned alive in an
overheated room was the fate of
Stephan Dojcich, formerly resident
of Kenosha at 715 Grant street, ac-
cording to news reaching Kenosha this
morning from Chicago The death
took place in a rooming house at 538
South State street in Chicago on Sat
urday, January 18th, but because of
an inability to identify him and to
locate friends or relatives, the news
of his death did not reach Kenosha
until this morning.
Dojcich is the man who on Deem
Der 9th last returned to Kenosha from
Croatia. bringing back the word that
he had kept the threat which he made
here in 1918 that he ''was going to
Croatia to shoot the governor" Fired
with an enthusiasm to gain freedom for
the people of his native land he had
conceived the idea of precipitating "a
revolution by killing the governor.
who represented the tyrannical rule
of Austria. He made a sensational at
| tack on the official in church at Ia
Igreb, shooting the governor, but only
wounding him. Dojcich was arrested,
convicted of attempt to murder and
sentenced to prison but was released
with all political prisoners following
the signing of the Armistice.
NXTo.
After visiting friends here and in
Milwaukee, Dojcich had gone to Chi
cago. On the evening of January 18th,
according to the news which reached
Kenosha this morning he had gone to
rooming house in Chicago and had
secured a room there The room was
heated by gas stove and he had asked
and secured the privilege of lighting
the stove.
The next morning the owner of the
house had called him as directed but
thought he merely desired to sleep late
when he failed to answer the call. Late
in the afternoon another attempt was
made to arouse him and this was also
unsuccessful.
Looking into the room through a
4 window, it was seen that the stove
twas going at full blast and was red
hot. BECAUSE Of this attendants at the
rooming house broke into the. room be-
ing greeted with gust of hot air
which nearly stifled them. Investi-
cation revealed that Dojcich had light
ed the fire and had gone to sleep and
had been overcome by the excessive
heat.
Parts of his flesh had been badly
cooked by the flames and the body was
very much discolored. There was no
indication whatever that it was case
of suicide, the coroner finding that the
death was entirely accidental.
The deceased had lived in Kenosha
several years prior to 1918, having been
employed at the Jeffrey plant here. He
was leader in the Croatian societies
here while in Kenosha
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
HUTTON QUITS AS
BADGER DRY LEADER
superintendent of Anti-Saloon League
Resigns to Accept Position
of National Scope.

Madison,-R. P. Hutton, superinten-
dent of the Wisconsin Anti-Saloon
league for the five years, rendered his
resignation to the headquarters COM
mittee Of that body today, effective
February Is. He is leaving the state
to take the national superintendency
of the American Bond, an educational
organization for the promotion of law
observance.
Since taking over the duties of the
Wisconsin Anti-Saloon league, Mr..
Hutton has been in the midst of the
political strife Of the state, and has
directed the destinies of the drys
through two POLITICAL campaigns in
Wisconsin. 1t was during his regime
that prohibition forces gained control
Of the legislature and that they held
"a majority in the states delegation to
Congress.
Mr. Hutton's first work in the state
was done as assistant superintendent
of the league from 1904 to 1909, when
he entered anti-saloon work after
graduation from Lawrence college. He
then went to West Virginia and was
later transferred to Oregon as state
superintendent, returning here in 1917.
The headquarters committee of the
Anti-Saloon league will meet in Mil
waukee probably February to consid-
err a successor to Mr.. Hutton. It is be-
lieyed that former superintendent of
the league, now occupying a pulpit in
Iowa will be recommended. by the ma
tional league to succeed the present
superintendent
According to Mr.. Hutton, leader
among the dry forces will come to
direct the prohibition activities in the
state because of the Importance at
tached to the Wisconsin situation.