Kenosha News from Kenosha, Wisconsin • 1

All the Hews all the Time the Reason All Kenosha Reads This Paper Evening We Carry More Want Ads Than Any Paper in Wisconsin Outside of Milwaukee 29 i KENOSHA WISCOHSIH FRIPAY OCTOBER 4 1912 VOLUME 18 TO REGULATE SALES SEEK MAN WITH THROAT CUT 5 Fill TO PH TftLKS 10 1 Straw Vote Taken by The Evening News Sliows That il son and Roosevelt Lead in Kenosha at Present With Advantage in Favor of New Jersey Governor Margaret Howland Formerly of Kenosha Held as Delinquent in Milwaukee Kenosha People Refuse to Purchase Dog Tags for Canines This Year Or Williams Finished Series of Health Talks in Kenosha Thursday JUDGE KAREL HAS LONG LEAD OVER MCGOVERN CHARGES AGAINST ROWLAND POHCE TO ENFORCE TAX LAW MUSI PROTECT THE CHILDREN Police Get Weird Story from Somers but Fail to Find Would-be Suicide The police department this morning received a telephone message from the town of Somers which sent them on a merry chase It was declared that a man had cut his throat in a field just north of the city and was on his way down town Two officers were at once sent out to seek the would-be suicide and conduct him to a hospial The man was alleged to have been seen at various points along the Burlington road and it was declared that he turned south on Howland avenhe He had his coat over his arm and the blood was running freely from a great gash in his throat The police officers spent a good part of the morning searching for the wounded man but they failed to find anything of him or of the trail of blood which he was supposed to have left behind him It is suposed that the story was either a myth or that the man was a resident of one of the houses at the north end of Howland avenue and managed to conceal himself from the police In the Race for Member of the Assembly Chas Pfennig is a Two to One Favorite Over early 700 Votes Cast in Evening News Foil and Voters Were from Nearly All Classes of People Large Vet EooseT6lt Makes HIm Iaft City' Jas Rowland Who Sprited Girl Out of Kenosha is Declared to Have Been Guilty of Serious Offense Local Officials Asked to Act in Case Supreme Court Held That City has a Right to Collect Taxes on Dogs and' the Police Will Slaughter Every One of the Dogs If Taxes are Not Paid Mothers Urged to Get the Confidence of Boys and Girls and Teach Them Lsons of Health and Right Living Before They Learn Wrong Paths Merchants Believe Council Should Regulate Sales from Harbor Retail grocerymen in Kenosha are being urged to join with the merchants of Raeine and other lake shore cities in an effort to prevent Michigan fruit raisers from shipping their fruit and Vegetables for sale in Kenosha In past years it has been the plan of these people to either charter a boat and have the fruit and other food products shipped tp some of the lake shore or to sell the product outright to the owner of some small sailing vessel and have it Brought to these ports The potato the grape and the peach boat have been familiar things in the harbor during the last few years and it is certain that a large number of these boats will drop anchor in the harbbr during the next few- months The local dealers insist that these sales from boats are unfair to them and unfair to the people The men who brings in his boat does not pay any taxes in the city alid is not watched by the state pure food officials Often the baskets of peaches and the bags of potatoes sold are undep the weight represented by the dealers and as a result it is declared that the people do not receive what they are paying for With baskets with high bottoms the men who bring fruit in the boats undersell the merchants of the city and they pick up a considerable traife Of course the boats are launched in the harbor and it is hard for the officials to interfere with the business of these traders It is possible that the merchants ill join with the Racine merchants in asking that an ordinance be passed for the express purpose of regulating sales of fruits and vegetables from boats in the harbor TAKE POST CARD VOTE The Evening News Poll Total number votes cast 690 of which 20 were blanks For President of the United States Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) 244 Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive) 204 William Taft (Republican) 128 Eugene Debs (Social Democrat) Eugene Chafin (Prohibitionist) 2i For Governor of Wisconsin John Karel (Democrat) 369 Francis MeGoVern (Republican)' 213 For Member of the State Legislature Charles II Pfennig (Republican) 411 Scholey (Democrat) Hill (Social Democrat) Jos Orth (Social Democrat) 195 Suffrage Leaders in Kenosha Follow the Lead of the Evening News The third ward committee in charge of the fight for the adoption of the amendment to the state constitution giving equal sdfErage to women has sent out hundreds of post cards to voters in the word with a return card attached On this card the voter is expected to gite his ideas of votes for women and if he is opposed to the extension of suffrage he is expected to tell why he is opposed to the woman voting One of these cards has beeu sent to every voter in the ward and it is plannedto carry the plan to the other wards of the city if the replys from the third ward are any thing like representative The voters are asked to sign the cards and when the poll is completed the women will be able to tell pretty well just who is with them and who against them It is expected that the post card poll wilF awaken a new interest in the discussion of the suffrage question MUST SETTLE CLAIMS FIRST Dr Williams of the Wisconsin Committee in the fight against tuberculosis closed her week of work in Ken-nosha Thursday evening when she spoke to a company of more than two hundred women in the Auditorium of the Central school The meeting w-as arranged by the Associa tion of Kenosha and it poved to be one of the most helpful talks ever given to mothers in Kenosha and it is expected to be productive of great good Mrs Williams spoke to tne woolen along a new- line and along a line different from that followed in the talks which have been given before the children of the schools during the past week She urged upon the mothers the necessity of understanding their sons and daughters and declared that the conditions as found today were due to the fact that the mothers of Kenosha failed to properly understand their children She urged that motherjli take their girls into their confidence and teach them the great lessons of life before they were forced to learn them from outside sources She urged that the mothers take an interest in the lives of the children be they boys or girls and win their confidence She spoke especially of the harmful influence of the dance hall on the lives of the girls just reaching young womanhood and insisted that it should be the first duty of every mother to guard the morals of her daughter She gave many suggestions along health lines for the mothers to follow in instructing the children in the best way to secure and maintain good health On Thursday afternoon Mrs Williams spoke to a large crowd of boys and young men at the high school and the talk was a decidedly practical one During the week that Dr Williams has been in Kenosha she has spoken in every school room from the kindergartens to the high school Her talks have presented great questions of health in a manner that has appealed especially to the children and no speaker has ever secured so much interest among the school children As a result of the talks many of the children have learned new- habits of healthful living and they have carried their habits into their home and in this manner brought the lesson to their parents Children of aliens have shown an especial interest in the work of the week ami it is certain that the visit of Dr Williams of Kenosha will result in vastly improved conditions s' DAtlE GETS SIX MONTHS Margaret Rowland 15 years of age and a former Kenosha girl is held in the juvenile eourt in Milwaukee and District Attorney c- Zabel of waukee county has Bet a letter to District Attorney Hastings of this county asking that some action be taken by the officials of Kenosha county to- investigate a sortiid story of abuse of childhood told by the girl The Rowland girl was one of the principal actors in an alleged kidnaping case in Kenosha on the otOh of last July For many years she had resided in Kenosha as the foster daughter of Mr and Mrs Wm Leinenweber who reside on Garden street near the corner of Ashland avenue On the day in question the girl was working as a waitress at the Hotel Fischer when her half brother Janies Howland a member of the Milwaukee fire department mo to Kenosha He went to the hotel and found the little girl and later attempted to spirit her out of the city Both Howland and the girl were taken into custody by the police officers and held pending a hearing In an examination before the district attorney the girl declared that she desired to go to Milwaukee with her brother and after the brother had made a Statement i ho-bad-claimed that the girl had been mis: rented and that he would be "hble to give her a home the two were released Mr and Mrs Leinenweber declined to allow the girl to return to their home and insisted that she be sent back to the St Rose Orphan Asylum in Milwaukee from which she had been taken by them more than five years ago The half brother took the girl to Milwaukee and this was the last heard of the ease until District Attorney Hastings was advised that the girl was held in the court in Milwaukee this morning The district attorney of Milwaukee county asks that the local county of fieials at once secure the issue of warrants for the arrest of the half brother charging very serious statutory charges against Jam The officials in Milwaukee county did not secure warrants for arrest on account of the fact that the crime alleged by the girl was committed in Kenosha county However the man has been under police surveillance pending the action of District Attorney Hastings Rowland is a married man and has been a member -of the Milwaukee lire department for some time The girl who is the central figure in the case was formerly well known to many of tjic younger girls in the city arid the announcement that she has been detained as a delinquent in the Milwaukee court will come as a big sensation among these people Have you paid the taxes on your dog? The old problem of to pay or not to pay the dog tax is again a paramount issue in Kenosha and although the dog tax became payable on last Tuesday and every untaged dog in the city is liable to slaughter the people of the city seem to care little about getting down to the office of the city-clerk and paying the dog license feesv Only a score of tags have been sold by the city clerk up to date and Chief of Police and his men are making plans to force the collection of the tax As all the money secured from the sale of the dog license tags goes into the pension fund of the police force the police officers are distinctly interested in the collection of the tax Many people have declared that they will not pay the tax on account of the fact that many dogs went untaxed last year This objection is shown to be a false one as ie books of the clerk shows that more than 800 dog tax tags were sold in Kenosha last yean In order to get the taxes collected the police officers will each take a section of the city and he will be responsible for the taxing of all dogs in that section This is the plan that fms eii followed for several years and it has worked admirably It is expected that the usual large number of dogs will be kniecl in Kenosha during the next ten days Last year the slaughter amounted to more than a hundred and fifty dogs and it is admitted that the police officers would just about as leave have the dead dog as the dollar for the license fee Many complaints are made of dogs running about the city and in the past few days several people have been attacked by dojfe One man was seriously bitten and he is now under the care of a physician The question of the right of the eity to levy the dog tax has been pretty generally established by the supreme court of the state as appeals from decisions on these laws have been taken in several cities and the collection of the tax has been upheld Main street merchants who deal in dog collars and chains expect a big increase in the sale of these products and the windows are all filled with attractive displays of the collars The police will insist that the new tags now being issued be placed on the dogs and left on them In other years the dogs have been permitted to wear the tags for a few weeks and then they are thrown away This year if a dog is found without a tag he will be picked up and marked for slaughter A duplicate tag will prove as a stay of execution The dog pound at tke rear of the city hall has been cleaned out and is in readiness for its annual tenants It is expected that the collection- qf the tax by the police and the slaughter of such dogs as are not considered worth the amount of the tax will be started the latter part of this week Sewer Contractors Agree With Officials to Seek Settlement at Once Theeity officials gave an ultimatum to the Cleary White Newman Company on Tuesday afternoon when at a conference between White of the company Mayor Head and City Engineer Baltzer the contractors were informed that the city would consider no proposition for settlement or allow any more money on the sewer until claims made by property owners for damages were settled In order to further such a settlement it was agreed that the city engineer should malie a trip over the route of the sewer with Peter Fisher the attorney for the contractors and show the extent of damages and make some suggestions as to settlement of these claims The contractors believe that they will be able to get all these claims cleaned up in the next tw weeks and in order to i give them this chance the street -assessment committee will make no report to the council at its meeting Monday night At that time Peter Fisher the Attorney for the contractors will appear and ask an extension of two weeks for the settlement and it is said that there is some reason to believe that a compromise between the contractors and the city will be reached by that time Negro Who Faces Mock Mob Sentenced to Short Term in State Prison Wiley Davie who was arrested on Sunday afternoon charged with stealing a shot gun belonging to Fred Sharp was taken before Judge tleorge Taylor sitting in the municipal court on Thursday afternoon and sentenced to a term of six months at hard labor in the state prison at Waupun Davie is the man who confessed his crime after he had been given a third degree examination with the aid of a mock mob Sheriff Stahl had made an effort to get some facts in regard to the former life of Davie He managed to get hold of a suit case which the negro had sent to Milwaukee by express but this gave him no lead on any other crime that the man might have been accused of Davie declined to make any statement further than to admit that he had stolen the shot gun as charged in the information against 'him He was taken to the state institution today vote the straight ticket and there a larger number of straight Democratic ballots Charles If Pfennig as a candidate for member of the legislature got good support from the followers of all the presidential candidates and scores of ballots marked for Wilson Karel and Pfennig were received One of the surprises in the vote was1 the large vote cast for Debs the Socialist Democrat and Chafin the Prohibition candidate Eliminating the fkw votes that may have oeen eas't as both of these candidates received a much larger sropdrt than is accorded to them proportionately in the vote of four years ago This is partly accounted for by men in Republican ranks who declined to Jive their support for either 'Roosevelt or Taft and many of the ballots marked for Debs and Chafin showed -votes for McGovern and Pfennig lower down on the ballot Pfennig and Karel on the total vote ivere close together but Pfennig held the lead to the end of the count Many people sought to learn the result of the vote during the day but the figures were not given out until the publication in the news this evening To some people the support given to Roosevelt was a surprise but thy Rosevelt men claim that he would receive even a larger vote if the poll had included a greater percentage cf the men employed in the factories Taft then declare that they would have gained strength by this factory vote The Taft men also assert that a lot of the foreign vpte and little foreign vote was included In the poll would show a much larger vote for the president It is admitted that1 many of the voters among the foreign population in Kenidskn are not friendly to the Democratic candidate The Evening News is entirely satisfied with the result of the poll and as formerly stated will be pleased to provide ballots for votes in the factories in the city if the managers of these plants show a willingness to make such a canvass The result of the straw vote is not supposed to be in-f alible but it is simply the sentiment of some seven hundred people picked at random in the city and it is not improbable that it will be a straw point to the possible outcome of the election which is to be held a month from next Tuesday THE FAIR STORE Governor Woodrow Wilson the candidate of Democracy and Theodore Roosevelt the candidate of the new Progressive party for president are running neck and neck in Kenosha just at present This is shWn by the straw vote 'taken by the Kenosha Evening News on Thursday the results of which are made public' this evening The vote indicates that Judge John Karel of Milwaukee is a strong favorite over Francis McGovern for governor and that there is a two to one sentiment in favor of Charles Pfennig for a member of the legislature m' his contest against the present assemblyman Scholey" The final figures in the vote for president give Eugene Chafin 24 Eugene Debs 65 Theodore Roosevelt 204 William Taft 128 Wood-row Wilson 244 The vote for gover-norshows John Karel 399 Franeis McGovern 213 -while the vote for member of the assembly shows Charles Pfennig 411 Mathias Scholey 195 The vote not only shows a neck and neck race between the new bull moose party and the democracy but it shows that political conditions in Kenosha are more badly mixed this year than in any political campaign since the election of Lincoln The ballots in the straw vote indicate that lines of old parties have been wriped out and the voters are now paying more attention7 to principal than ever before One of the mixups shown in the ballot that would appeal to any one was wlipn the voter voted for Chafin the Prohibitionist for president McGovern for governor and Scholey for member at assembly A more complete mixture of parties could be found only where many Socialists voted for Debs Karel and Pfennig There was a total of nearly seven hundred votes cast in the election this being better than one-ninth of the entire vote east in the county at the last presidential election The poll was taken with great care and it can be said that it covers nearly every walk of life in Kenosha In the list of men who cast ballots were common laborers on the street men who work in the factories business men on Main street government city and county officials men representing all the professions bankers and capitalists In the list of votes cast was ope batch which included every employee of one of the smaller factories in the' city There was no one denied a vote and no effort was made to 'invade the secrecy of the ballot or to attempt to coerce any voter into voting for one or another candidate The feeling in Kenosha against the income -tabc and the increased state expenses' i4 shown in the big vote for Karels7 Many of the ballots where the vote showed a preference for Roosevelt for president indicated that that same man would vote for Karel for governor regardless of the recent declaration of the governor that he would vote for Roosevelt and Johnson There were few straight Republican tickets for the men who chose Taft as a national leader were inclined toward Karel for governor aid McGovern received as many votes on Wilson tickets as he did on those where Roosevelt was the ehoice for national leader Democracy is still shown to have inan supporters who CAR HITS CHILD PALACE UNDER NEW MANAGER Read the Special Bargains Which Will be on Sale Here to Tomorrow 20c woolen plaid dress goods yard 12e large size comforts best of coverings $138 bed pillows covered with art tick $100 kind for 79c pair $150 50e sweaters sizes 20 to 24 each 29c $1 50 or sweater coats with military (high or roll collars for sale 98e $200 sweater coats fancy knitted all sizes and colors for $148 good $125 trousers pair 89e $200 trousers pair $145 $400 dress trousers from 50 sample pairs to choose for $295 2 piece school suits with knickerbocker pants -Worth $300 for $165 all wool knee pants sizes 5 to 14 years pair 39c Saturday special reduction sale on shoes on the second floor For Saturday morning between the hours of 10 to 11 a 5 yards of 10-1 bleached muslins for 33c 15c -bleached turkish towels each 8c The millinery section on the main floor offers unusual values in trimmed hats $250 to $500 which can not be! surpassed by any other store in this city adv Genevieve Madison Four Years Old Struck by Electric Car Thursday Genevieve Madison agend four years daughter of Mr and Mrs NieljK Madison of Superior street w-as run down and seriously injured by a car on the Chicago and Milwaukee Electric Railway just south of the Elizabeth street crossing on Thursday The little girl is a student in the Kindergarten at the Columbus school and she was on her way home from school when the accident took place She was walking along the track and failed to see the approaching car The car struck her and threw her to the ditch at the side of the track An ambulance was hur-ridely called and the little girl was taken to the Kenosha hospital where it w-as found that her injuries while not of a critical nature were very painful She had a bad wound on her head and was bruised in all portions of her body Main Street Moving Picture Theatre Now in Charge of Mayer The Palace theatre on Main street will be open under new- management on Saturday when Former Alderman Fred Mayer of the eighth ward will be the man at the box office Since the closing of the theatre a few weeks ago it has been renovated and redecorated and -it presents a charming appearance and it is certain that the Palace will prove a popular amusement place for Kenosha people Advoo the COAL QUESTION Will attract wise buyers now Prices will be much higher Pocahontas Smokeless Mine Run $5Jfi) Nut $700 Egg $750 Lump $750 Kentucky Lump and Egg $550 Kentucky Washed Nut $500 for delivery to Oct 15th only Phone your order immediately to phone No 9) We keep our office open every evening Call at Tke Independent Coal Co corner Pearl and Pleasant streets oSadv DANCE SATURDAY NIGHT At Sehlitz hall given by tile St Benedict Society Como and have a WATER INSPECTOR WANTED Applications for the position as water inspector for Kenosha Water De partment will be received by the Sup erintendent until eight in Tuesday October 8th 1912 The salary of said water inspector is fixed at $750O The applicants are requited to state their qualifications for said position August Baltzer SAMPLE COAT SALE We have been very fortunate -in buying a beautiful line of sample coats consisting of Johnnie coats Ast radian coats Seal plush coats Caroeul coats Lambskin coats Zibolinp coats French broadcloth coats chinci 11a coats etc in all the new shades as grey brown blue black and fancy mixtures There are about 100 coats in the above selection and every coat is the newest of fashion of individual style and make Will be placed on sale here for tomorrow (Saturday) at prices that you could not help it but buy $1000 coats for $650 chine ilia coats $1050 caracul coals $1250 $2500 plush coats $1650 The Fair Cloa Depart men On the Main Floor adv Corner Main and Wisconsin ROAST PIG At Frank Mai set saloon corner Ha I era avenue and Superior street tomorrow) Saturday night October 5 adv FOREMAN WANTED Applications for the position as foreman of construction of the Kenosha Water Department will be received by -the superintendent until eight in October 8th 1912 The position will pay $11500 per month but the successful applicant will be required to furnish his own horse his feed and harness but the Water department will furnish wagons August Baltzer oSadv Superintendent o8adv Superintendent MEETING NOTICE The Trades and Labor Council will hold a meeting in their new ball 1G2 Main street on Monday Oct 7th at 7:30 All are requested to be present as important business will come up o5adv Committee ME FOR GERMANIA Start the dancing season right by attending the first grand bail of the season given by the National Athletic Club at Germania Hall Friday (let 4th Admission 50 cents Ladies free o3adv DID YOU EVER NOTICE? That when you left your order for hard orsoft coal coke or wood in our office at the comer of Park and Valentine streets whether by telephone or in person tluvName was delivered promptly That the quality was always the best We have om own teams always ready for service Jensen Team and Fuel Co Phone 1508 tf NOTICE AND A There will be a special communication of the Kenosha- Lodge- No 47 and A Monday Oct at 7:30 Work in the degree offadv Theo Kreiman Secy Admission 25c ladies Mtfsic by Schmitt and oSadv For Kenosha and vicinity Fair to night and probably Saturday warmer north and west portion tonight good time free Krah BOSTON FERNS This is Boston fern week at flower store and now is the time to get your fern for the winter Turner and Sons florists 360 Park avenue Phone 323 5 BULBS Just received a shipment of Holland bulbs for sale at II Meyer Son 316 Broad St Rhone 546 FINE BOSTON FERNS At Meyer Sou 316 Broad St feL 545 oSajlv ELLIS TAXICAB PHONE 1088 night service tf CALL 56 for taxi service day or night Nelson Livery PHONE 191 Taxi always ready Russell Bros Frank I tf --c Hll.