The Capital Times from Madison, Wisconsin • Page 1

MADISON GAS CO. VALUED II $2,400,000 Tnic Value Rises $100,000 in Past Year, Tax Body Announces in Report On Utilities public utilities in the by the Wisconsin tax (... 1 iis a basis of taxation. Friday, show same assessment as increase in the true value ern it is a rosiilt of an in iv. ir.

the company's holdings, commission announced. truu values of public utilities were included thu of assessments made pub Thi Budirrr Electric Serv S50.000; Belleville Electric Madison Gas Mineral iv hi Fublic Service X. liorob Heat, Uk'ht Power Peninsular Power :.000: Southern Wisconsin Pbw ('. Wisconsin Power, i Hr at S1.4O0.O00: Wis in River Power i.OOO.OOO: ihc Wisconsin Vailey Utilities Five of the Madison concerns show a slight increase in true value this year. The Belleville increase was the Madison Gas Electric Cn.

value rose S10O.0OO: the Peninsular Power holdings iamped the Wisconsin River IVwor 1500,000 increase; and SSD.iWO increase. There was a de of I1CO.0OO in the value of the Sim; hern Wisconsin Power Co. on other utilities tmtsid1! r.f Madison follow. Bcloit Water, (in Electric 500,000, in cv. of Cambridge Al on Electric 536,000, increase i.f M.OOO; Cross Plains Electric SI" .010.

increase of S3.OU0; Janes Klertric $750,000, increase i. Merrimnc Electric Mt.nroc Electric 125, P00; iirar.no Light Power Doimlfts. 6,500, increase of Sauk Prairie Light Power (,, Prairie (lu Sac, $10,000, un ariiro.i; Southern Wisconsin Eiec Lake Geneva, un Sumpter Light Prairie Sao. $5,000, unchanged. Three Story Apartment Planned On State St.

A brick and concrete ro building is to erected on State on the lot i.c capita by the Block System cleaners and dyers, 509 and part of the lot rtd oy Cassius J. McCoy. 1015 Mi vCoy is a retired oii the city for Jte owns the j.rop of the building has pending the ex pians ana specin Build; for a ii on Strtto st. run back some 50 Vet. 1 inches.

The r. divided into three lartcro, though it said Friday. The three apartments r. McCoy hopes prtinlly up hy the James Henderson Dies in Detroit, Mich created oecause oi tnei Henderson dicnj WEATHER iirhest temperatut ours was 77 at 2 was 64 at 6 a. Sun falling in the baro r.

urh now reaching from 'and to Texas. Heavy rain rthern Michigan and in St. valley. It is cooior in ffyr and warmer weath on plains, Cohtin unsettled showery weather mountains, THE CAPITAL TIMES HomeEdition FAIR The Circulation of Capital rime Thursday 12j419 Official Paper of the State of Wieconain 1'air tonight and Saturday; not much change in temperature. Slight PRICE THREE CENTS BBERS LOOT MADISON SAFE OF $1500 MRS.

BLAINE SHOWS ABILITY TO SHOOT TV iill 1TJLSSM 4MA1 VJVit Demonstrates Nerve by Getting Hit With One Pounder at Camp Douglas; Ride in (By the Associated Preis) CAMP DOUGLAS. Wis. Mts. John J. Blaine, wife of the governor, demonstrated a marked Ability to shoot with modern war material while visiting the encampment of the Wisconsin National Guard.

While here two weeks ago she fired with the Stokes mortar. Demonstrating more nerve this time, she fired Thursday with the one poundcT getting a direct hit at 5O0 yards on the fourth shot. Gov. Blaine has shown much interest in tho LEAGUE GETS SILESIA CASE Believe Action of Supreme Council Averts Break Between Allies rBv Hie Aoci.d Prl PARIS France and Great Britain have decided to reier tne upper ou esian question to the League of Nations, it was announced here Friday. This question which involves drawing a frontier between Poland and Germany In Upper Silesia, threaten ed Thursday to, bring about a break in the meeting of the snpreme allied council.

This decision ml considered here to have solved the crisis that arose between France and England. The announcement said certain insurmountable difficulties which hid arisen hetween Italv. Japan aTld England on one hand and the other" had give riso the bo ciution deemed upon. It was understood the supreme council would continue its agenda, Tho suggestion that the matter reierred to tne league was mane by Mr. Lloyd George and Premier George Harvey, representative the IT.

S. at the sunreme council. not take anv position relativo reiernng me oiiesiaa question iu tbn teatruA aeeordinff to a French ofUcial. It was learned that Premier Briand proposed to Lloyd George, that the U. S.

be asked to arbitrate JSiiesian controversy. but this proposal was abandoned favor of the British Premier's st gestion that the matter be left tne league. Ambassador Harvev toM the coi cil that the U. S. Government had thought from the beginning that the upper anesian question was purely a Eiiroocan one and as it now was to be referred to the League of Nations on which thB U.

S. was not represented, he thought he would be interpreting the view of his govern ment by not participating in the de cision to refer the question to the. league. Hurley Search Warrant Located in Madison The original search warrants uj by the federal agents in the raid Hurlev. which resulted in 1 arrest of E7 alleged violators of the prohibition act, have oeen located in the office of the clerk of the court at Madison.

They have been mailed to Superior, The warrants were filed at Madison bv Geonre hri. group chief in chafgo of prohibition enforcement in western Wisconsin, hn so informed Dist. Atty. William after that oraciai had acknowledged his inability to locate defect in the government's cas? against the Hurley Baloonmen, they wlli hn nttsi ltflH hv counsel for the defendants a3 invalid in that they were not made out in a manner plying with the law. Irish Answer Neither Accepts Nor Rejects; DUBLIN The Utter from Eamonn De Valera, Irish Republican leader, delivered ti rremier Lloyd George Thursday is neither an acceptance nor a rejection of tit Irish peace proposals it was learned here Friday, The letter raiaei various questions to which an answer is necessary.

The answer may aarra to facilitate future dealings, it was said, and is not expected te Ua4 er Governor and Wile Tanks modern arms and has fired a number of rounds with the one poundex. Stokes machine gun rifle and pistol. He has shown as much ability in shooting as he did in fishing at Trout Lake. Mts. Blaine also fired the machine gun, but as there was no target in use at the time it was unable to tell what her membership to the 'suicide club' amounted to in hits.

Both the governor and Mrs. Blaine, as well as several of "the officers' wives, rode in the tanks during the morning going over rough ground through brush and among trees. RUSSIAN RELIEF PARLEY OPENS European Director for American Relief to Begin Negotiations (By th Awat5t4 Preis) vmi Walter L. Brown. Eul Man director of the American Re lief administration, Friday received aucnonianon ironi rvasmngxun proceed with negotiations with Maxim Litviaoff, representative of Soviet Russia for sin atrtement to in the xaniine oTiini'CI IT Late.

Friday afternoon Mr," Brown was endeavoring to arrange a conference with M. Utvinoff for; this evening. Roxbury Man Fined For Illegal Fishing Martin Miller oi itoxderry led ISO and costs amountim S34.44 in the eourt of Justice I Halsted at Baraboo on the charge. of illegal fishing. Gamewarden i A.

jUwKnam made the arrest at aaut where it is said the defendant was fishing with a net below the dam in the Wisconsin river. Tobacco Growers Vote To Market 1921 Crop An informal meeting of the To Thursday afternoon in Agricultural flan, me larmers voted unanimously to arrow the croc as be hfore. Director Edward Nordman of the division of markets, spoke on The Marketing of Produce. Prof. Theodore Macklin of the college of agriculture, discussed operion Remove Canopy at First Central Building The wooden canopy over Pinckney st.

and E. Washington which has protected the traveling public jrom buuaing aerations on tne ne bank building, is 'being torn. down. me construction worit on tne Dividing is about completed. It is expected to complete the interior fin ishing in thy to permit occupation in UocemDer.

Water Department Lays Main On E. Johnsoi The water department is lavinsr 12 inch feedr main on Johnson between Blount st. and Patterson a distance of two blocks. 4C College Term to Open On September 5 4C College, W. Washington opens Sept.

B. Registration will be neia rrom Aug. i to oepi j. Leaves Marriage Record In Hotel; Delays Honeymoon There was treat commotion at the Park hotel. A man from Milton had jdt married and came to Madison on his way to the Wisconsin Dells and other places for his honeri moon He had taken a room at the hotel the before and left as per schedule tho next momtef Lat in tne aay ne reiumeo exciteu and confused He couldn't find hii marriage certificate.

A cleric' accompanied him to his room and behold, there it was on the r3oorli nicked it un with a smile and hail roodbve to the helpful clerk and was eft agate. HOLD BURGH AND CO ED IN MURDER CASE Grand Jury in Los Angeles Indicts Mrs. Obenchain; Husband to Aid Ac cusedWife CH" Out AnocimUd Prufl LOS ANGELES, Califs Arraign ment of the two principals in the case held in jail today without bonds, the investigation of the mysterious sluvW nf J. BeltiwT Kennedy, brok er, at his summer home in Beverly Glen, Ang, 6. (trend jury Thursday on murder charges are Madalynne Obenchain of Chicago, Kennedy's purported sweetheart, and Arthur Burch, ycung friend of tne Chicago divorcee nedy.

Arraignments are sei 10. Monday. Meantime investigation on thi part of Diet Atty. Woolwine contin UM, together with a wide search fo: the missing shotgun with which th. broker was killed.

Two new bits of evidence havi been made nublic. A doctor wh gave Burch a physical examination when be was placed in jail under suspicion of murder, declared b'ifjre the Tand Jnry at the time Burch'l shoulder appeared to be slightly cclo'red. Such discoloration, he innlied. mieht have resulted from the kick back of. shotgun.

Mrs, Obenchain; who collapsed following tier' waictmi mucn improvea later had left Chicago to be with her during the trial. A telegram received by Burch In jail also brightened the young col lege man. It was his father, the Rev, A. Burch, Evanston, 111., minister. It read: "Arrive Los Angeles Sunday afternoon." Burch and Mrs, Obenchain saw each other for the first time late in the day but they: were some distance apart qfid neither made any effort to talk with the 'Across the width of the prison Mrs.

Obenchain stood chatting with, her attorney. Burch was in his cell, the bars of which opened into the corridor. Tho discovery of the butt of t' double barrelled shotgun in the Pacific ocean near Santa Monica was announced Friday by Sheriff's officers investigating the slaying of J. Belton Kennedy. Tne outt was iouna last Saturday a camper, it was announced.

It was lying on the beach after the surf Had recededr No Change in Coal Prices, Dealers Say No increase in the price of hard coal is expected in Madison, according to local coal dealers. General conditions' are favorable now and many Madison people have bodght tneir winter supply or. coai. "However, not a3 many people have taid in teir winter supply, as last summer," J. W.

Conklin, secretary of the Conkiin. Sons stated. "No boost in price1" is expected," he stated, after talking with the general sales manager of the E. Rice Coal Shebovean. "There will be no reduction in ffiI nrirre as loner as the 'freiffbt Tates remain as nign as tney are," Irwin Coal "and we have hd nothing officiay from any source that a raise in price" Man and Girl Adrift 30 Hours in Boat Saved ri.ir:v RT.ANTl J.

FT. Rmlm tid Miss Frances McGavin. were res cued from Lake Erie Friday after beintr adrift and helpless in an onen I power boat for 30 hour. coast guard cutter picaea. up tne oof alter receiving a wireless message of distress from a freighter which sighted the boat adrift, RooVe and the voune woman wero on the' vera of collapse.

The couple had started rid Rboke sau. The engine went dead and tne wind earned the boat toe jaice. Tha cotton boll weevil destroys the felted Btatee. labe Rings Up Homer No. 44; None On Base PHILADELPHIA Babe Rack made his th koase ran of the oaooa in the eigadi tarring of Friday's raw wHh Philadelphia.

There was no a Stylish Bridge Parties Are Held Real Gamblers CBy tht Associated Prti MILWAUKEE, Wis. Fashionable east side women who sit about bridge tables were termed "the real gamblers," by Dist. Atty. W. C.

Zabel, Friday. Churches and lodges that hold lotteries were exonerated, and the admonition by Atty. Gen. Morgan to stamp out' lotteries merely aroused Mr. Zabel's "i suppose tha whenever a number of east side women sit down at a game of bridge Mr, Morgan should include that in gambling," saiJ Mr.

Zazel. "Mr. Morgan's outburst was utterly uncalled for. If he had asked us to prosecute the higher ups, it would be different. But he has said nothing the bridge parties for high 'stakes.

Gambling in private homes constitutes the Teal gambling menace in "1 shall follow the policy I have always fallowed. I shall prosecute all cases of commercialized gambling that come to my attention. "What do I think of the Elks Club House Tame? I am not an. Elk, bat the Elks, I understand, do as much for charity as any other organization in the state. They help the poor regardless of any affiliation vth the.

club. The money was raised for fraternal purposes, and, or indirectly, will be ased for charity." MONTGOMERY IS ASSAULTED Officer of Street Car Com pany Was Hit by An Employe Alleged to have been enraired be cause he had been discharged from the em'oloy of the Madison Street iLaiiway, a weeK ago, donn ua han weht': to the car bams Thursday. engaged Hugh Montgom irgument over his discharge, and fir. iuotrgomery alleges tr.at truck bv the former employe. Friday morning on a charge of assault and battery.

Mr: Montgomery alleged that the man. reported to worn in an intoxicated condition a week ago and he fired him. He also posted a notice of his discharge ntn me reasons xor ins action Gahan pleaded not miiltv and Mortgomery'a injuries are learned Optical Firm Seeks Branch Office Here One of the largest optical concerns in the country is seeking tc estabh'sh branch distributing business in Madison. A building, of fering 1,000 feet of floor space, is neeoea, according, to von a. mowry.

Commerce, who received' the request. The company has 20 branch offices in the. United States. It desires a central location, Mr. Mowry states.

Mr. Mowry is aiding the company to find suck a location in Madison. Chicago Man Charges Badger is Love Pirate MILWAUKEE John T. McGiver an. Chicairo insurance man.

aiks damages JMJ.UW rrom John L. uowius, transportation manager Biiiwauicee inamoer oi Lommerce, alleging that BowJus was; the cause of losing his wife's love. Mrs. Mc Giyezan. about 35, is teaching 'in Armed Thieves Seize $2,000 Card Game 'Tot" MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.

Two with four revolvers walked in on a card game in an apartment house here at 8 a. m. Friday nicked op 12 000 table sUkes and walked right our again. ioy paaiea upon aia Badger Fanner, Drunk, Blows his Head uff WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wk raxad from' drinkinE moonsine. Erie' Eriekson, 48, committed suicide py placing a dyoainite cap in its NEAR BEER BREWER HAS HIS TROUBLES Revenue Legislation and Violators Cause Tnose Who Abide by Law Much Embarrassment The brewers of near beer are hav ing their troubles these cays.

Hero are some of them: 1 Congress is proposing put a tax of 15 cents a gallon on near beer which would make the, tax f4.65 a barrel instead of $1.50 as a.t present Breweries that are abiding by the law say that their business is being injured by small breweries making real beer. 3 The recent changes with respect to the removal of bars is making it more difficult far near beer manufacturers. In the past near beer, soda water and non intoxicating drmKS nave been taxed on the same basis. The plan of taxing near beer on the baa. is of 15 cents a gallon, it is claimed, will drive the near Hear manu tbat farmers ara opposed to this tax as near beer Brewers use much rf the state barley.

Brewers who are remaining ir. the law are complaining about small towns of $ie stitte. It is dprstood that thev are orenarinsr make a complaint to Prohibition It is renorted that reallKr i ing made at such places as Monroe and Highland and that much of this beer finds its way into Madison. It is reported tnat picnics r.as been recently held in Madison at which E. D.

REED SELLS HIS RESIDENCE ON SPAIGHT STREET Property is Bought by Wm. P. Crowley of General Paper Co. Frank D. Reed.

Madison attorney, has sold his residence at 1208 Spaight street to William P. Crow ley, assistant manager oi tne eral Paper and Supply Co. Mr. Reed has bomrbt a lot in Win gra'Park and will start the erection can be drawn. MP P.f Will ffiVB tViTl his present home to Mr.

Crowley or. Sept 1. During the coming winter residence of Geo. A. Lougce on geraoll street.

Believe Federal Aid Road Bill Will Pass Advices received here Friday by F. A. executive secretary of the Good Roads association of Wisconsin, indicate that a new federal aid road bill will be passed by congress within the next two or three weeks. It will be' a compromise on the Dowcll bill, passed by the house, and the Townsend. bill, reported out by tne senate, under tne terms ot made available each year for a two vear period.

Wisconsin will en titled to (2,500,000 a year, provided the ttitc votPR an ernml amount The last session, of the legislature raiicd to maKe any appropriation to Await Word Before Probing Dodgeville Case Chemists at the university here are awaiting word from the district attorney of low county before pro ceeding with an examination. of. the stomach of Hillary Everson, Dodge vtue ooy, iotma oeaa an automo have been the victim of moonshine" The stomach was. sent to1 tne university lanoratonea on Wednesday to hn examined. Dr.

C. TT Buntine said that the work is out of his line.1 It is. a Job for expert Norwegian Synod To Meet Mere Next Year The next annual session the Maninnn. it imi deciiW at th Inar meetinar of th conferenca bald in the' West Koshkonong church. awn ox rieiiim oprinKi.

in aau to be jet later by Rev. B. Har teSl Parkland Wh nrcaMmt tm. tB the next meetinf. It probably wm do in August.

NBWCOJIKr FOflpND. made at the Koenigstuhl observatory that the earth passed throueh the tau i comet on tot ugnt ot Aug. Bandit Slain In Milwaukee Saloon Holdup (By the AnoelsUd Press) MILWAUKEE. Wis. A eun bat tle between a saloonkeeper and two bandits in which at least 15 shots were exchanged ended in death for one of the robbers here cany day.

The duel took place in the kitchen in the rear of the saloon of Steve Schleshak, 3849 Grand Avenue Walls and ceiling of the room were splintered and punctured with bullet nuvks. The body of Itis victim alter We Danoit, mortaiiy wounueu, had. leaped tnrougn a window, mi, other bandit escaped. The identity ot tne victim is not Known. Tho JianHif; Inter was identified Lazlo Szaley.

Sialey was welL Known Dy every oiuecoat who iixvbis a' boat, He recently finished a four year term in the Milwaukee House of Correction for burglary ana ASK CITY TO ACCEPT LAND Street Body Favors Addition to Park; Suggests New Bridge The street committee of the com mnn i nuneil' Thursday afternoon vot ed to recommend that the council accept the six acres of land offered to the city by x. Oilmen a number of citizens. There i limitations on the use of the prop erty except that it be converted tD public use. The land lies adjacent tt the proposed. East Side park property.

The committee also voted to introduce a resolution asking the council to order a new oriage ouiit over the Starkweather creek at At It was the first time in many voars that every member of the street committee was present at a meeting, me vote was aimoss unanimous for accepting the gift land, according to Aid. G. H. Mason, chairman of the committee. One or two aldermen refrained from voting.

There ure 10 members on ths committee, and together with the favorable votes of several other members of the council, it is cxpect Community Leadership School Opens Monday The seventh annual school of community leadership conducted by the American City Bureau will open Monday at the university. Administration headquarters in the Union buildinc are already busy in paration for the event, and staff conferences arebeing held several times a day. In anticipation of the opening of the school, about 15 members Bureau, in charge of the school, already on hand. The commercial executives and candidates for those pesitions are expected Sunday and texpected that more than 200 stu heini, president of the American uiiyuoreau, arrived tooay irom im western school of community leadership. Lucius E.

Wilson, vice president, is expected Sunday. E. Smith, of the Chicago office, Is tht manager of, the school with members of the staff aa assistants. Attempt to Loot Bank at Bristol is Foiled KENOSHA. Wis Crack mm made an effort to blow the safe of the Bristol State bank at the village of Bristol, just west of Keno ana, eariy rnaay morning, tne outer doors the bank beinir broken open and four holes, bored into the ooors ctne vault, a ourgiarproci leck is declared to have saved the bonk.

The. men are believed to havn worked for four hours and the la it oC four explosions which took place Just after 4 o'clock Friday morning awaxened tne peopio oi tne village. It was said that there three in the party and they escaped in ntomoblle: "Not a cent: was u. cured," said W. A.

Upson, president oi tee oaruc. Three Prize Winnert Are Named by Moom Thrum vrit tnnm nt th Ui picnic of last Sunday hare been determined. Mrs. Fred Gehrke wbn a jscatorr two tow rtin. 100' namida augar.

Tw 9f the prise. wtaaMB TWO SHOPS ARE ENTERED DURING NIGHT Metz Plumbing Shop Robbed of $1500 in Bonds and Cash; Palace of ji Sweets Entered BuTglars entered the plum bin shop of Anton and George Mets, 113 W. Mifflin st, sometime after 11 o'clock Thursday night and secured upwards of in cash and valuable papers, it was reported by George Metz this morning. Palace of Sweets, 20 N. Carroll st, also was entered, but it is said that nothing was taken.

According to information, from Desk Sergeant Leo Kinney morning, the police department officials believe, that the Metx' burglary was the work of Detective Harte is working on the case. Police officials believe that the candy shop entrance was made by amateurs. George Metz said the borg Isi must have had a key to the front door. No windows were opened. The two men were at work in the shop until 11 o'clock Thursday night.

Bonds, valued at more than were taken from a drawer in the safe. The safe was not securely locked, Mr. Met said. A drawer, containing Some insurance papers, was found under a desk Friday morning. and small change, amounting to about $60, are missing, and a number of land con tracts, and some savings stamps, the latter worth about $200, were token.

Personal checks received by the Arm were not taken, George Metz discovered the loss 7' o'clock Friday morning. Checks and papers were scattered about the floor. The Y. W. C.

A. bonds also were foucd among the papers. No clue the identity of the burglars had' been gained' late Friday At the Metz home, 15 Fairchild just around the corner from the shop, Mrs. Metx was awakened about 6. o'clock Friday morning.

She called to her husband and asked if the children were going fishing so early in the morning. Mr. Metz arose end looked out of tho window. lie saw well dressed man walking out of the alley between the home and the shop, He paid no particular attention to the man at the time, believing tiat he had probably found lodging for the night in a barn or. shed nearby.

The lock plate on the front door of the candy store vas jimmied th The' hurfflara had loosen ed the plate eufficiently to let the itis thought that the burglars were frightened away by a passing offl. ceF before they could secure a. loot. Police officials eay that it was kids who did the. work at candy store.

No professional burglar, they say, would enter a candy Find Schillinglaw Not Guilty On Auto Charge Joseph E. Schillinglaw, Wanna nt th rhknra of having driven an automobile while intoxicated by superior, court jury Thursday afternoon. The: charge was made Dy inomas jara, imp pewa Falls, who alleged that BchU li'nirlr was drunk hen he ran Into former's car on the Middleton read a week ago Sunday night, Schillinglaw' was injured and was in the hospital for Urree days. The verdict "freeing Schillinglaw, court attaches believe, came as a result of the testimony of two hospital employes, who testified that he was not intoxicated when brought to the hospital Sunday night shortly after the collision. The jury was out but a few minutes.

Druggists Can Purchase Private1 Liquor Stocks MILWAUKEE, Wis. Private stock of liquors can be sold to whole sale druggists, James A. Stone, federal prohibition director for Wisconsin, was notified Friday from Washington. The ruling solves th problem left by dV dispose oi (iocs flcates. It, however, kills the hope some owners cenincases nan wholesalers in sacramental win, it upheld.

The previous Mmlaflo. stated that a wholesale bnainaea in century i.