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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
WORE ONLY HIS
BIRTHDAY SUIT
Police Find Man Dressed
Only in His Skin at 2
a. m. Today.
RIDING ON FAST TRAIN
Edward Burden Tells Police
Weird Experience in Los
ing Clothes

Attired only in the garments with
which Dame Nature fitted him out at
birth, that is, his skin, Edward Bur-
den, 26, Of Pitcher, Oklahoma, sailed
into Kenosha at two o'clock this
morning, riding on the rear of an
express train. Burden was picked, off
the train when he arrived here by
members of the police department,
hustled into the closed wagon" and
taken to the police quarters, and
there fitted out in suitable garments
before they stopped to listen to his
story, which, taken all round, is a
weird one.
Today Burden is in the city lookup
while the police check up on the yarn
which he told them in order to dis
cover whether it is the truth indeed
or only the widest yarn ever spun
by landlubber or sailor.
Station Agent Calls.
Station Agent j. E. Lyvers, who is
night operator at the Chicago and
Northwestern passenger depot, called
the police at two o'clock this morn
ing, and told them that he had an
unusual case for them. Police Of
ficers Beam and Pecan, the night am
bulance men, were detailed on the case
by Sergeant Matthew Kirsch.
At the railway station an express
train which had pulled in from the
south, was putting and waiting. On
the rear end car, which was a mail
car, stood Burden, dressed in his
BIRTHDAY suit" He had no garments
on whatsoever. The man had taken
both rear lanterns and smashed them
up against the door trying to get into
the mail car.
Burden Tells His Story.
The burden" of Burdens story was
foul play at the hand Of a friend. He
said that he and a friend had taken
two girls down to the beach at Wau-
kegan, and gone off in a boat. The
other man, he said, threw him into
the lake, and while he was swimming
to shore he took his clothes off in
order to proceed unhampered. In the
clothes, he said, were $125, and an
Elgin watch. The suit, he said, was
worth $50.
The mans hair was dripping wet,
indicating Lnat ne naQ Iea1lJ DSSA III
the water as he said. But later he
told q variation Of the first story, say
ing that his pal had thrown him into
the lake from the beach. Then he
had another story too in which he
declared that he had been staying
with pal and they sat up late dis
cussing religion. They got into an
argument over the subject, he said.
and before he could stop to get dress
ed he was chased out of the house by
several men who shot at him.
Burden said he knew a man who
lived on Garden street. He gave
the name, and the police found that
this part of the story at least was
truthful, for they found the per-
son of the name given living at this
address
The police officers fitted Burden out
with some clothes, and assigned him
to a bunk below, and saw to it later
that he had a cup of hot coffee to
brace him up in case he had really
had the exposure in the lake which
he claimed he had had.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
Better Watch the
Stop : Go Signals
Judge Slater Fines Two More Today
and Says He'll Raise Fines On
Next Man Brought In.

It's going to be hard on the next
man who is brought before Judge John
Slater in municipal court on the
charge of failure to stop for the
"Stop and Go" signals at Sheridan
Road and Prairie avenue. Today Judge
Slater declared that he was about at
the end of his patience with "these
men who don't watch the signals.
That's what they're there for" he add
ed when he fined John Johnson, 605
Jefferson street, $500 and costs for
failure to stop when the signal said
stop. And then Chris Meres, 452 New
ell street, was brought before the
Judge for the same offense. He also
got $500 and costs, and Judge Slater
declared that the next man that would
be brought in would get an increase
in the fines.
"I'Il make them observe those
warnings. Every day 1 see men driv-
ers and women drivers too - go
by that corner without paying the
slightest attention to the signals"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
Gas and Electric Co. An
nounces Voluntary Cut
in Rates Here.
MEANS $4,000 CUT
Cut Is III % Decrease in Gas
Rates and About 1870 De-
crease in Electric Rates.

z@nnuncement was made here this
morning at the Kenosha offices OF the
wisconsin Gas and Electric company
of a voluntary reduction in both gas
and electric rates for Kenosha patrons
of the company. The decrease as APP
proved by the Wisconsin State Rail-
road commission this morning pro-
vides for a cut of 10 cents thousand
cubic feet for gas for the first 10000
cubic feet and for q cut of cent a
kilowatt hour in electric rates IN
the first two stages
This will cut the gas rates for the
first 10000 cubic feet used from SLAB
to $1.35 or a decrease of approximate
ly Sd per cent. 1t will cut the cleo
trio rate in the primary charge from
10 cents to 9 cents per kilowatt hour
and in the secondary charge from Z to
cents per kilowatt hour; the rate in
the tertiary charge remains un-
changed at IA cents per kilowatt
hour. This is a decrease of approx
imately IL per cent in the electric
rates for Kenosha.
The new rates are to become effec-
tive October the LIST, 1925.
Was Voluntary Decrease.
The decrease in the rates was made
voluntarily by the Wisconsin Gas and
Electric company, which filed an ap-
plication before the Wisconsin Rail-
road commission offering the decreases
mentioned The large volume of bust
ness done by the company is ascribed
as the reason for the cut in rates. d.
E. Calender, general manager of the
company wired the good news from
Madison this morning as soon as the
change had been endorsed by the
commission.
The voluntary cut is in keeping with
the policy of the company to de-
crease the rates whenever the reve-
nues will justify it,
1t was stated that the cut would
mean a decrease in revenues for Ke-
nosha of approximately $4,000 year
in the aggregate. The cut will affect
every patron of the company, large
or small, inasmuch as it is effective
in the first stages of the rates. It will
mean a larger proportionate saving to
the small consumer inasmuch as the
change is not effective for users over
the 10000 mark for gas and does not
affect the tertiary charge for electric
service.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
CHILDREN TO BE
GUESTS AT FAIR
State Fair to Have Boy and
Girl from Each COun-
ty as Guests.
TRIP WON BY ESSAYS

State Fair Park, Wis.-One hundred
and forty-two children, boy and girl
from each of the seventy-one counties
of the state, will be afforded the
treat of their lives at the Wisconsin
Stat Fair, Aug. 81 to Sept. 5 as guests
of the Wisconsin Manufacturers
association.
The children won TIE free trips by
winning first honors in essay con-
tests conducted under the auspices of
the association to instill and develop
interest in the Wisconsin Products ex-
position to be held in conjunction
with the Fair. The general topic of
the essays was, "The Relation of the
Farm to Industry"
Thousands of school children COM
peted in the contests and some re-
markable treatises on the subject
were penned by the Juveniles, accord
ing to officials of the association and
John d. Jones, Jr. commissioner of
agriculture and director in chief of
the Fair. One of the winners was Wal
lace Wenandy, Birch, Wis, a full
blooded Chippewa-Sioux Indian lad.
Inc entire space Oh the Dig man
ufacturers' building will be utilized
for the products exposition, forming
under one roof an unprecedented dis
play of the Badger states industrial
prowess. Agricultural displays will be
far ahead of last year, A. B. Alexand-
er fair business manager, announced
today.
The uoIs+ain dairy cattle show last
year pronounced the greatest in the
country, will be bigger and better
than ever at the Diamond Jubilee"
exposition, with entries already ahead
of 1924, Mr. Alexander said.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
GUN-TOTER IN
SUIT SEEKS GUN
Joseph Cosentino Fined for
Having Gun - Wants
1t Back.
SUES POLICE CHIEF
Chief Logan Leaves Develop
ments to City and Dis
trict Attorney.

An interesting suit for replevin has
been commenced in the municipal
court, in which Chief of Police Thad
w. Logan is the defendant, and Jo-
seph Cosentino, a convicted gun-toter,
the plaintiff. 1t is the first action of
the kind in which man found guilty
and fined for carrying a concealed
weapon has attempted through the
court to have the same weapon return
ed to him. Cosentino in the action is
represented by Attorney Roy S. Steph-
enson; Chief Logan has left his de-
Tense to the district attorney.
Cosentino with another was arrest
ed about $3.50 o'clock one morning
when he was found upon the street
with another. On account of the ear
illness of the hour, and also on account
of the fact that "a robbery had been
committed few blocks away from
where the two were found, Cosentino
and his companion were arrested on
the charge of suspicion.
Is Fined SIS and Costs.
When the pair were searched after
their arrest, a .32 caliber Smith and
Wesson reviewer was found on Cosen-
tino. The suspicion charge against
the two was dropped after investiga-
ton but Cosentino was brought into
court on the charge of carrying con-
cealed weapon, to-wit, revolver
Cosentino pleaded guilty before
Acting Municipal Judge R. V. Baker,
and was given a fine of $25 and costs.
Judge Baker then signed an order di-
recting the chief of police to deliver
to Cosentino the gun which had been
taken from him.
Not Yet Returned.
Chief Logan admitted today that he
had not returned the gun, stating that
he wished the matter thoroughly aired
and carried as far as possible to de-
termine what his position should be
in such a matter.
eff it is the law that man con-
victed of carrying a concealed weapon
should be given that weapon back af-
ter he has been fined in court, then
surely it is a law which should be
changed, and changed without delay
said Chief Logan today. "A police Of
ficer risks his life by arresting man
who carries a gun. The man arrested
is given a paltry fine, and if his wea-
pom is returned to him, he goes pa
rading down the street with his gun
in defiance of the law"
If Booze Why Not Gun?
In the case of arrest for violation
of the prohibition law, where the de-
PENDANT is committed the "illicit" is
never returned to the person convict
ed. How much more important, the
chief pointed out, is it that danger
Gus weapon should not be returned to
the man who has had it in defiance of
the law?
Judge Belden a couple of years ago
during period when there was a
fiourishing of guns on the west side,
resulting in a river >of blood and sew
eraI deaths, issued stern orders to the
police to bring in every man found
carrying a gun, in order that he might
be brought to justice. Is not an
anomaly created under the law, Chief
Logan asks, if such persons are Civ
en- a little fine and their weapons
handed back to them?
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
FEW ACCIDENTS
OVER WEEK END
Three Women Are Badly
Bruised When Car Turns
Turtle Near Here.
NO ONE BADLY HURT

In spite of the fact that thousands
of cars, containing vacationists and
weekend tourists, passed over the
roads of the city and county over Sat-
urday and Sunday, very few accidents
were reported to the sheriff and po-
lice offices.
What might have been a very seri-
Gus accident happened on the Lake
Shore road Sunday evening at about
nine-thirty o'clock when Ford sedan
turned turtle. Mrs. Albert Briscoe,
of West Prairie avenue, together with
her two daughters, Myrtle and Men
rice, were taken to the Kenosha hos
pitaI where DR.. J. o. McCracken was
called to attend them. 1t was thought
at the time that they were quite seri-
ously injured, but an examination
showed that outside of several bad
bruises, no casualties had been suf-
fered. They later left the hospital and
returned to their home.
Girl is Injured.
On Saturday evening at. $3.50 o'clock,
William Pattig was driving Stude-
baker car north on Grover street,
when Miss Title Fleming, 176 South
Newell street, stepped off of the curb
on the north side of Elizabeth street
Immediately in front of Pattig's car
The young lady was struck by the
car, and her leg injured. Pattig took
the girl to the Kenosha hospital
where DR.. G. C. DAWN attended her.
She was later taken to her home,
where it is said she will be confined
for short time.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
Youth
On a Long Hike

Frank Schoettler, aged 20 years, of
365 North Chicago street, secured
from City Manager C. M. Osborn late
Thursday a letter of introduction to
city officials along the route from
here to San Francisco. Young Schoett-
Ter intends to hike to the Golden Gate
city, leaving Kenosha within a few
days. He desires letter to identify
him along the route in the event that
this is necessary.
Schoettler has an uncle in San Fran
cisco and plans to visit him at the
end of his long like. He declares that
he wants the experience of travelling
along the open road.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
WILCOX LED
KENOSHA VOTE
Wilcox Had Most Votes in
KenOsha County Dele
CATION at Oshkosh.
TWO FOR Afford
w, III. Afford Received Two
Votes; Refused to Allow Del
egation to Push Candidacy.

Roy p. Wilcox, who was endorsed
for United States senator at the Re
publican state convention in Oshkosh
on Thursday, had support for his can
didacy in the Kenosha delegation of
Republicans to the convention, accord
ing to the account of the balloting
brought back to Kenosha today by
delegates at the convention. On the
first informal ballot, the Kenosha
county delegation cast votes for
Wilcox, for Russell, for w. H.
Afford of Kenosha, 2 for Wallace In
gals and 2 for McGovern. Wilcox
held his strength in the Kenosha dele
cation throughout the balloting and
at the end of the first formal ballot,
when it became certain that he was
the candidate of the convention, the
entire delegation swung in line.
Wanted Afford to Run.
Members of the Kenosha delegation
and leaders from other counties, urged
w. H. Afford of Kenosha to place his
name before the convention. The
Kenosha delegation. was ready to vote
solidly for Mr.. Afford, but he refused
TO countenance the boom. Despite
this he was given the compliment
tary two votes in the delegation
from this county.
All of the delegates at the conven-
tion pledged themselves to support
whatever candidate should be en-
dorsed. After the naming of Wilcox,
there was complete harmony through
out the convention on his candidacy
as reported by Kenoshans upon their
return here today.
Trip Without Incident.
The automobile trip by which the
Kenosha delegation reached Oshkosh
was made without incident. The Ke-
noshans all arrived at the convention
hall in time to take part in the early
deliberations of the convention. All
of the candidates and alternates re-
manned throughout the convention, al
though this meant that the return
trip to Kenosha had to be made in
the "wee sma' hours" this morning
The Kenoshans reached this city
between three and four o'clock this
morning.
All praised the hospitality of Osh-
kosh towards the delegates. Splendid
arrangements had been made there
for handling the crowd which came
with the convention.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
County Board to
Meet On Tuesday
Lively Session of the Board Expected
Tomorrow to Go Over Details of
Courthouse Business.

A lively session Of the county board
is expected tomorrow morning when
the board meets at the old courthouse
to discuss the acceptance Of the new
courthouse. Plans are also to be made
for the opening of the building in the
near future. The final settlements
with architects, contractors and sub
contractors will probably come before
the board Tuesday.
On Wednesday the county board
will take its annual tour through the
county to inspect the roads. Interest
will center on the new highways built
on the Bristol road and on the Silver
lake Bass cts Twin Lakes road.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
LUCK IN CLOVER.

Lempster, N. H.--Mrs. Nina Thurb-
er now thinks that good luck will
follow her all her days. She was
spreading clothes on the grass near
her home when she noticed an unus-
ual looking patch of clover. She ex-
arnined it more closely and found %
four-leaf clovers, four seven-leaf and
Ill five-leaf clovers.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
REYIYING THE ANCIENEl.

Chicago Flowers that blcomed IL
ancient Egypt 20 centuries before
Cleopatra, and wheat and barley. TAX
en- into the royal tombs to sustain
Pharaohs on their post-mortem tray
els, have been brought here by Prof
James Henry Breasted, noted Egyp-
tologist of the Chicago University.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
MANY CASES In
SUPREME COURT
About a Dozen Cases from
KenOsha Courts Now
On Calendar.
RADIUM CASE GOES UP
Case of Jacobs VS.. Grigsby ct
al Set for Hearing
at Madison.

The calendar for the August term
of the wisconsin supreme court, one
of the largest in it's history has been
announced by Arthur Mcleod, court
clerk, and includes 259 civil cases,
many of which have been carried up
from the circuit court and cir
cult branch Of the municipal court
of Kenosha.
The court will have its first session
September FL at $500 p. m. on Sep
TENDER 23rd, the first case of interest
to Kenoshans, that of Jacobs vs..
Grigsby ct al, is set for hearing.
Woman Swallowed Radium.
Rose P. Jacobs was the plaintiff in
the action and R. o. Grigsby and
others of the Kenosha clinic the de-
PENDANTS. The case arose out of
treatment given Mrs. Jacobs for nasal
trouble when q capsule of radium
was inserted in each nostril. While
being treated, the capsule of radium
slipped down the nasal passage to the
throat and down to the stomach.
The plaintiff charged negligence on
the part of the attending physician.
DR.. Grigby, claiming In part that the
string to which the capsule was at
tached was too short and that neg
ligence on the part Of the physician
was shown in failing to have string
of the proper length. Mrs. Jacobs
attributed subsequent i'll health to the
fact that the radium had been present
in her stomach a short time and
had acted as destructive agent on
the stomach tissues.
The jury found for Mrs. Jacobs, and
the court sustained the jury verdict
denying the motion of the defense
and allowing damages of $4,000.
The case is being carried to the
supreme court by Attorneys Lines
Spooner and Quarles of Milwaukee
who represent the defendants in the
action. Attorney R. v. Baker repre-
sents the plaintiff, Mrs. Jacobs, in
the action.
Land Case Up Too.
Another interesting case, believed
to be the longest civil suit ever heard
in the circuit court of Kenosha
county, that of Halicke VS.. Better
will also have hearing at this term
of the supreme court. The case lasted
fully two weeks wnen it was tried
before a jury and Judge Belden early
in the summer The defendant lost
by the jury verdict and judges deci-
sion sustaining the verdict, and the
case is being carried to the supreme
court by the attorney representing
Better, the defendant. 1t is set fol
hearing at Madison on September %
In the Halicke VS.. Better suit, Ely
dor Halicke, represented by Attorney
A. L. Drury, asked for damages
charging fraud and misrepresentation
in the exchange of certain southern
Illinois farm lands by Better, fol
business property owned by Halicke
in Kenosha. The jury found for the
plaintiff and the verdict was upheld
by Judge Belden who gave judgment
for the plaintiff.
Many Other Cases.
Among the other Kenosha cases t.
be argued before the supreme court
are the following:
Automobile Bonding company VS.
Logan; Automobile Bonding company
VS.. Frost; Muirheai VS.. Bruins; Genskt
VS.. Jensen ct al; Stangarone VS.
Jacobs; Girman VS.. Hampel anC
Ernst VS.. Ernst.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

Edward Haczynski, 681 Eighteenth
avenue, Milwaukee, was fined $40 ane
costs for operating an auto with one
license plate driving through here
Sunday lie was arrested by Officer
Arthur Larsen. Joseph Majrski 635
Lyman avenue was also arrested when
it was discovered that his Moon cal
was being driven with license plate
issued to Nash.
The Milwaukee police department
this morning asked Kenosha police to
watch for two men who held up par
ty in Milwaukee and escaped. One
was said to be about 80 years old
wearing a gray wooden shirt; the other
was abous %, with green flannel
shirt. Both looked like Italians, the
repor. said, and escaped in a Ford
touring car. Both carried guns.
Polica officer Carl Orgish on Sun
day night found that someone had at
tempted to enter the Rex poolroom al
eel Elizabeth street. The window APP
peared to have been jimmied but was
not opened. small hole in a glass
window was c1t with a glass cutter
and the window unattached. The pro-
prietor was called but he found moth
ing missing. Ter dollars in the cash
register was unt0ached.
Farmers on tae various country
roads have been vary careless lately
in letting their cows stray on the
highway. The car OF Clarence Muh-
Itch was badly damaged on Saturday
afternoon when he was driving on the
Geneva road and hit COW that was
straying in the road. The sheriff's Of
flee has issued a warning to all farm
ers that they must keep their cows
off the highways, and in their respec-
tive pastures.
G. C. Bray, 1865 Salem avenue, had
his Chevrolet car parked in front Of
his home on Saturday night and on
Sunday morning he found that two
Goodyear cord tires and a spotlight
had been taken from his car during
the night. He valued the missing arr
ticles at $40. The matter was report
ed to the police. George Bennett, S02
S. Sheridan road, also reported to tho
police that battery had been stolen
from his car while it was parked At
McKeons grove.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

A report to the effect that the
naval training station near North
Chicago is to be closed entirely, has
again aroused Waukegan and that
vicinity. 1t is claimed that the pro-
posal to close the station is in keep
ing with an attempt TO cut $40, GOO, 900
from the annual appropriation for the
army and navy.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

The following persons were arrested
at the corner of Prairie avenue and
Sheridan Road for failing to stop at
the stop and go" signals: Paul
Wenchell, 507 Hanson street, fined
$500 and costs; Andrew Rice, 573
North Maplewood avenue; Mrs. Earl
Topel, 357 Herbert street.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

A bee or not bee, that's the pic
nc question.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

All work and no pay indicates
Tack is a farmer boy
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

Hot weather wouldn't be so bad if
you could blame it on your wife.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
Many Other Cases.

Among the other Kenosha cases to
be argued before the supreme court
are the following:
Automobile Bonding company VS..
Logan; Automobile Bonding company
VS.. Frost; Muirhead VS.. Bruins; Genske
VS.. Jensen ct al; Stangarone VS..
Jacobs; Girman VS.. Hampel and
Ernst vs.. Ernst.