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KENOSHA, WISCONSIN, APRIL 18, 1897.
THE BILL EXPLAINED
THE SHERIDAN ROAD, AGAINST
WHICH SOME ARE KICKING.
TO BE BUILT BY THE STATE.
———
All the Expense to Anv County Can Not
Exceed ssoo—The State Must Pay
All the Rest.—Some Objections
* to the Bill Answered.
It is very evident that there are
quite a number of people in Kenosha
county who do not understand the
provisions of the Sheridan road bill.
For the benefit of those readers we
have secured a complete copy of the
bJI and herewith print it. The bill as
printed here is just as it stands before
the assembly now. The provisions ot
the bill are such that when understood
should be supported by every lover of
his home and every one who desires to
see his taxes reduced by the making of
an improvement which will have that
direct tendency.
In the first place there is an objec
tion that in cases of damages the com
missioners have full power and the
board of supervisors will not be con
sulted. By reference to section 2 of
the bill it will be found that a provision
is made that in case any damages are
awarded to any person by the commis
sioners for the laying out of the road
for property used the commissioners
will have to file their report with the
county board for the board to do with
as it sees fit.
Another objection seems to be that
the commissioners can feather their
pockets at die expense cf the county’s
taxpayers. By reference to the bill it
will again be seen that the commis
sioners do not get a cent for their la
bor, and they are allowed to hire only
the necessary help to assist the sur
veyor in making a proper survey for
the proposed road. The laborers so
employed are to be paid $1.50 per day
of actual service and the surveyor is to
get $5 per day. Then it will be no
ticed that the entire expense of the
laying out of the road shall not exceed
SSOO in any one county. That will be
the entire expense to which the county
could be put for any portion of the
road, and the amount of taxable prop
erty the road would add to the assess
ment rolls would more than pay this
back within a very short time, so that
every taxpayer in the county would be
a direct beneficiary of the road.
Still another objection is that the
road will be reserved for a boulevard or
drive way for carriages only. The
reading of the Dill shows no such provi
sion. The road will be a state road
which can be used by every farmer for
drawing his grain or for any other like
purpose. This talk of reserving it for
a carriage drive is all rot.
Then the reader's attention is called
to the further fact that after the road
has been laid out it comes under the
law governing the working of the pub
lic highways. Therefore the readers
will notice that no harm is either in
tended or done a single taxpayer in
either Kenosha county or any other
county, as he will not be called on for
macadamizing the Sheridan road.
That will come out of the state and not
out of the counties. The SSOO men
tioned above is all that it can cost each
county, and that will be simply in the
nature of an advance to the state.
A representative of this paper re
cently interviewed Senator Timme with
reference to this bill. It bears the
senator’s name, aud very naturally he
is proud of the bill, as every resident of
Kenosha county should be. He said
he was anxious to have the road estab
lished, since it will be the first state
road ever established by the legisla
ture. It is the initial move, the begin
ning of a system of state roads which
are to be a network over all of southern
Wisconsin. He stated that there was
no question but that in the near future
the prisoners in the state prison, the
county jails, workhouses and houses tof
correction, including all the tramps of
Wisconsin, would soon be utilized in
the construction of state roads. The
Sheridan road, being the first on the
list, would receive the first benefit of
this vast amount of free labor.
The plan as contemplated is to build
this road to Milwaukee, thence to
Green Bay; then on from* Kenosha to
Lake Geneva; from Racine to Janes
ville; from Milwaukee to Madison; from
Lake Geneva to Madison, and from
Madison to La Crosse. Any person
consulting the map will see at a glance
what a benefit it would be to the
southern part of the state. Having the
material on the ground and a vast
amount of labor at the disposal of the
state for this purpose the plan as above
described would be accomplished in a
very few years.
“ I tell you,’’ remarked the senator in
closing the interview. “ the roads of
Wisconsin are the worst of any state in
the union and the roads of the United
States are the worst of those of an>
I civilized country in the world. It is
time we began to pay some attention to
them.”
We feel like adding that when we can
get the state to do the building we
ought all of us to turn in and help the
thing along instead of kicking about it.
THE SHERIDAN ROAD BILL.
Just as It Stands Now Before the Wiscon
sin Assembly.
SENATE BILL NO. 297 S.
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
represented in senate and assembly,
do enact as follows:
Section 1. Frank K. Bull, Edward
L. Fowle, Edward C. Thiers, Jared
Thompson, Jr., Walter Ls Dexter, John
Peterson, William Smith, George A.
Yule and Patrick Cudahy are hereby
appointed commissioners, with full
powers and authority to survey, lay
out and establish a state road from the
south line of the town of Pleasant
Prairie, in the county of Kenosha, at a
point near the shore of Lake Michigan;
thence northerly along or near the
shore of Lake Michigan through the
said town of Pleasant Prairie and to
and through the city of Kenosha, and
through the town of Somers, in the
county of Kenosha, through the town
of Mount Pleasant aud the city of Ra
cine, in tht county of Racine and the
town of Caledonia in said county, and
through the town of Oak Creek and
the village of South Milwaukee, in the
county of Milwaukee, and through the
town of Lake in said county, to the
southern limits of the city of Mil
waukee.
Section 2. In case of the inability or
refusal to act, of or by any or either of
said commissioners, the remaining
commissioners may appoint a substi
tute or substitutes, who shall act as
such commissioner or such commission
ers, and shall have all the rights and
powers of those herein appointed. Said
commissioners shall have authority to
enter into an agreement with any
party or parties who may feel ag
grieved or sustain damages by the lay
ing out, opening and establishment of
such highway, and recommend to the
county board of supervisors in the
county in which the lands may lie,
concerning which such party or parties
may feel aggrieved or sustain damages,
terms of settlement, and in case said
commissioners cannot agree with any
such party or parties upon terms of
settlement, then said commissioners
shall proceed in the manner prescribed
by law for the taking of land for the
laying out of state roads.
Section 3. The said commissioners
may lay out said road along or •upon
such parts of existing highways or
• streets as may seem to the said com
missioners available for that purpose,
but no damages shall be awarded for
any parts of existing streets or high
ways so used.
Section 4. Upon 'filing the order of
survey of said road in the office of the
count.? clerk in the several counties
through which said road may pass, the
said road shall become a public high
way and the said commissioners shall
have full power to open out the said
highway and the same shall thereupon
be opened and worked, as is by statute
provided.
Section 5. Said commissioners shall
have power to employ such assistants
as may be necessary, not to exceed
five, who shall receive as compensation
not more than one dollar and fifty
cents per day; also one surveyor, who
shall be entitled to receive not more
than five dollars per day for each day’s
service as surveyor, provided the ex
pense in any one county shall not ex
ceed in all the sum of five hundred
dollars. Any three of said commis
sioners may act, without the presence
of the remainder of said commissioners.
Section 6. When said commissioners
shall have filed an order of survey of
said road in the office of the county
clerk in each of the counties through
which said road shall run, it shall be
the duty of the county board of super
visors in each of those counties to audit
the accounts of said commissioners for
assistants and surveyors, on their filing
such accounts, properly verified, with
said county clerks.
Section 7. This act shall take effect
and tie in force from and after its pas
sage and publication.
Whirr! Whirr!! Whirr!!!
Hello, central! No. 41.
Hello !
Is this Woodward & Conley’s drug
store ?
Yes.
This is Mr. Brown. Please reserve
four seats for the Lake Forrest Glee,
Banjo and Mandolin clubs’ entertain
ment next Monday evening.
You did well to telephone so early,
they are going fast.
How many engaged so far?
Over 100.
Well that’s doing first class. Now
don’t forget four good seats, and I will
call in and pay you for them.
Good bye!
Good bye ’
'.WILL RACE ALLEE SAMEE
Ideal Park Will Be Run Just as Wide
Open as Ever.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Wylie bill has passed the legislature,
there will be racing at Ideal park just
the same. That is the opinion of
horsemen and others who are in a posi
tion to know whereof they speak. The
Wylie bill prohibits pool-selling in the
state of Wisconsin, but it does not pro
hibit racing of any kind. Of course it
is well known that racing—either trot
ting or running—cannot exist without
pool-selling as an adjunct to it. Any
association that tries to run races
without the pool-selling part would go
bankrupt within a week.
Ideal park is located right on the
state line, and this is where the pro
moters of the track intend to get in
their work. Racing will be conducted
in Wisconsin, while the pool-selling
part Will be carried on in Illinois.
These are the plans as mapped out at
present and there is no doubt that they
will be followed out to the letter unless
some unforeseen obstacle turns up.
There will be no trouble in arranging
the pool boxes just on the other side of
the line and the people who attend the
races will not object to walking a half
block to place their money on the
“good things.” All the bettors will
have to do will be to take a short run
from the grand stand south to the road
running along the south line of the
park and they will find themselves in
the state of Illinois.
A well-known politician’ recently
said in reference to the affair: “ I
understand that the Ideal park people
intend to run their races despite the
Wylie bill and have already completed
their bookings for the season. I cannot
understand how they can do this unless
they have pool-selling, but I hear that
the pools will be sold across the line in
Illinois. Well, that will oe going the
state legislature one better, as the bill
will not amount to anything after all.
It was not aimed at the Milwaukee
track, but at the Ideal park, and it
appears as though it will fail in the
very thing it was intended to prevent.
I was always in favor of a limited rac
ing bill, as there is nothing wrong in
that. ”
There is a provision in the Wylie
bill'that prohibits racing where it is
clearly shown that such racing is con
ducted for the express purpose of sell
ing pools or wagering money on the
results. However, the persons inter
ested claim that there will be pool
selling in Illinois allowed and that if a
protest is made in Wisconsin the mat
ter will be carried into the courts.
Milwaukee horsemen would like to see
Ideal park wiped out entirely, but they
favor a twenty days’ meeting at State
Fair park.
COSTS MORE THAN COFFEE
The New Beverage is Expensive : in Some
Families.
A gentleman while making themorn
ing purchases in the family grocery,
said they found Postum, the health
coffee, rather expensive at bis house.
“ We drink more of it than we used to
of coffee, because the children all
drink it, and there are four of them,
and wife and myself, that makes six
using Postum, while formerly I was the
only one who drank coffee; wife used it
now and then, but it rjidn’t agree with
her.
“ Send up two packages of the Battle
Creek, Mich., Postum Cereal Food
Coffee. We find it is food and nour
ishment, and for the same money we
get three cups of Postum to one of
coffee. The way my family drink it,
however, it costs us more than coffee,
but we all feel well, and that is some
thing.
“ The old liver trouble I used to have
is gone, I suppose because I have quit
using the article that caused the
trouble. I don’t believe much in drugs
for if nature is given a fair show it will
make most any one well.”
Dr. J. B. S. King, Prof. Chemistry
and Toxixology, 240 Wabash Ave.,
Chicago, says: “ Will be glad to adopt
Postum for my children as a daily
beverage.”
Wily groceries sometimes work in
cheap imitations of Postum Cereal
Food Coffee if the customer will stand
it.
28 Hours Chicago to New York.
Twenty-four dollars for the round
trip via. the Nickel Plate road, leaving
Chicago April 23d to 26th inclusive,
good returning until May sth inclusive.
This rate is lower than via. other lines.
City ticket office 111 Adams St., Audi
torium Annex. Dep >t, Clark and
12th St., Viaduct, Chicago, Telephone
Main 2389. wa22
Everybody is getting ready to beau
tify his lawn. F rom preparations be
ing made it is plain to see that Keno
sha is going co be a very pretty place
this coming summer.
VOLUME LVI. NUMBER 4&
THE AIRSHIP SEEN.
A Certain County Official Says He Saw iv
Sunday Evening.
The airship was actually seen hert-
Sunday evening at about 7:15 o’clock
Those who report having seen such a
ship are of a kind to be trusted for calm
ness of judgment and integrity. A large
white light with a smaller green one- on
either side was sighted moving in a
northeasterly direction across- the
heavens about midway of the zenith. Its
progress was slow’ and hardly discernible
unless observed with relrtion to a giver.*
stationary object. The center light
resembled a star except for its move
ment and size, which was considerably
larger in appearance than any iofonrc
planets. The green side lights wen
much smaller and kept moving steadily
with the larger one in the same relative
position. About two hours after it wan
first seen here it was entirely lost sight
of. It was reported this morning that it
was discovered in Milwaukee a littk
after 9 o’clock Sunday evening.
A certain county official affirms tha
he saw the airship Sunday evening am
some good friends of his resent tbt
inference that he must have bee?
celebrating his recent victory.
CAPT. TIMME CONGRATULATED-
The State Senate Presents Him With En
grossed Resolutions.
When Senator Timme offered his
resignation as a member of the Wiscon
sin senate a democratic member offeree
the following resolution of congratula
tion which was passed unanimously-
Resolution No. 15, S.
Congratulating Senator Ernst G. Timmt
on his appointment as Fifth Auditor of
the Treasury of the United States :
Whereas, It has come to our know!
edge through the public press that ouv
worthy colleague, the Hon Ernst G..
Timme, senator from the Third dis
trict, has been appointed to the posi
tion of Fifth Auditor of the Treasury
of the United States: now, therefore, b»
it
Resolved, That we hereby congratu
late the honorable gentleman and tht
nation upon his advancement to this
important position, as we believe m »
better person could have been selected!
for this responsible public office amd
the best wishes of this body will follow
him to his new position of honor am I
usefulness. Emil Baenscif,
President of the Senate-
NOTHING HEARD.
As Yet No Traces of the Missing Lawyer
Have Been Found.
Although the most diligent search
and inquiry has been made to ascertain
tne whereabouts of the missing I nion
Grove lawyer, Henry Wiesmann, wh<
mysteriously disappeared several days
ago, not a trace of him can be found-
It is claimed that he was seen at Trues
dell station after the date that he was
last seen in Chicago, but that is no?
generally believed. It is feared thar
he met with foul play in Chicago.
was in the habit of carrying money in a
small satchel, and this might have at
tracted the attention of some one in
Chicago, who resorted to violence to
obtain it. His relatives and friends do
not expect to see him alive.
Excun ion to New Ycrk City:
The Nickel Plate road will sell ex
cursion tickets, from Chicago to New
York and return for all trains leaving
Chicago on April 23d to 26th inclusive.,
at rate of $24 for the round trip, being
less than via. other lines. Tickets wiß
be valid for return passage from New
York to and including May 4,181 H
For particulars call on or address J. X
Calahan, Gen’i. agent, 111. Adams St.
Chicago, 111. wa22
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