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VOLUM K 5 -NO. IHl,
OTTAWA, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBICB 18, 1921.
PRICE, TWO CENTS.
DEATH KNELL FOR
SOUND
MEDICINAL
El 1
JURY CONVICTS
OF ILLICIT SALE
DELIBERATES 6 HOURS
BEFORE RETURNING
VERDICT OF GUILTY
FIRS! SALOON CASE
STATE MAKES "TEST" SUIT OF
ZABKAR CHARGE AND IS WELL.
PLEASED WITH RESULT CAR
RIES HEAVY PENALTIES FOR
DEFENDANT.
After deliberating for six hours
and twenty minutes, a jury of La
Salle county men round Michael Zah
kar, proprietor of a La Salle thirst
parlor, guilty of keeping ininxii.'i!
lug liquor for Bale and of celling a
The verdict of the case was returned
at 11:40 last night in Hie count)
court. The caso was given Into tho
hands of the jury at 5:20 yesterday
afternoon.
The trial was in the inline of a
tent ease in the local courts, as il Is
the first Contested case ever tried
under the 'prevailing laws In the La
Salle county court. While numorou
cases of the kind have passed thru
the channels of the court since the
Volstead act wenl Into effect, In ev
e'y other Instance the prisoner has
always admitted that he was guilty
and entered a plea without a jury
trial.
Tile Zivlikar case opened Monday
afternoon before Judge Reek in the
county court. Probably no other
case that has hecn tried in that til
bunal for years attracted si nun h
attention as this. The court room
waa racked with spectators from the
time the first twelve men of the ven
ire of special jurors wa called io the
box.
It was not until Wednesday more
Iur; at 11 o'clock that twelve Jurors
could bo secured to try the evidence
Through' :it the tiresome task of
qulzuiry: the jurors the Spectators
stuck to the their posts drinking in
every question that was mil to the
men. The twelve citizens who were
finally chosen to hear tli" case were
Ii, J. Hulhert, Serena; lOrncst Moew .
Osage; B. o. Lathrop, Menrtota;
Frank Golatka, I. a Salle; It. B. Rock
wrvid, Ottawa; ,1. Ford. Ottawa;
William Blgford, Dayton; Ed Peck,
South Ottawa; William Solomon. Ot
tawa; Rush Green. Dayton; Harry
7,ee, Ottawa, and Elmer Hitter, Otta
wa.
Zahkar was charged with keeping
Intoxicating liquor lor sale, and with
selling liquor on March 20, 1921, and
with keeping liquor for sale and
selling It on Oct. I. l20. The jurors
only found him guilty ol the last two
offences,
On March 20 Sheriff Ayers, Depot v
Campbell and Special Deputy Sraney
Weise visited the Zahkar saloon and
seized two kegs and a bottle con
taining moonshine. Zahkar .claimed
that, this was his private stock,
Oa Oct, 1 (Sheriff Ayers, Deputy
Campbell and Steve Gross, a prison
er In the county jail, again visited the
Zahkar saloon. Steve testified that
he 'purchased two drinks, one of
which was tasted by Deputy Camp
hell, ft was for the sale of these
drinks that' Zahkar wits convicted by
the Jury.
In the neighborhood of fifteen 'bal
lots were taken before a decision
was reached. Kuch ballot had to he
taken on the four charges preferred
against Zahkar. The first, stood 10
to 2 for convicting on the third and
fourth counts. The voting tan along
In this ratio while several ballots
Were taken. Another juror was won
over to the guilty side, causing the
result of the ballot to he 11 to 1 for
conviction on all four counts. After
several other ballots a unanimous
vote for guilt on two counts was re
turned. .
Judge Reck was summoned from
his hotel V'hen the decision was
reached and the verdict was return
ed to the court in the presence of
Sheriff Ayers and State's Attorney
Kelly. Zahkar had returned to his
home in La Salle early in the even
ing. .
The penalty the offense carries
with It is for a fine of not less than
J 10O or more than $1,000 and a jail
Imprisonment of not less than ten
days nor more than six months or
both, for each count. If a man is
ronvlcted a second time of violating
the prohibition laws. that statute
provides that he shall be assessed a
fine of from $200 to (6,006 or given a
jail sentence of from ninety days to
ene year in the county jail or both.
Motion for New Trial.
This morning Attorney Walter Pan
neck, who represented Zahkar in the
ruit, made a motion before Judge
Ilrck for a new trial.
Li SALLE IN
OF
SELLING L i Q UOR
EVIDENCE CONTINUES IN CASE
N CIRCUIT COURT WHICH
(REW OUT OF THE SALE OF A
IORSE BY LOCAL AUTOMOBILE
ItALER.
The hearings of Joseph Latino of
stealer. John Roberto of Btreator(
II. iampo of l.a Salle anil Tony ar
boni of La Salle, who are charged
will the unlawful sale; of liquor, wi re
conlnui d until the January term ot
the bounty court I Judge Rock this
tool ii Ig.
A I four of the men are owners ol
oitirin1 parlors, and all are charged
with having Intoxicating liquor for
talc, and with selling it In spite ol
the resent prohibition laws.
Horse Case Continues.
Tetlmony in the $1,000 asm
mil trough I by I A. Wideman,
lUtOK bile dealer, again: t I'au
rd I
lo
I
nd
lulef J. Metillo was continue,! today.
Thetlalntlff brought the action to col
loci i fl.'il promissory note given iJ
payrent for a horse which wai ;'d
at a sale. The defendants allege
that he horse was not in good rondl i
tii ii md that they returned it to lb'
lonnr owner.
Peru Will Probated.
Tit will of the late Thomas Karda:;.
Din. who died on June Ml, was
was Red tor probate today. Kardaa
left house and lot valued at 1,200.
By te term;; of the will the property
will all go to the widow Mrs.
Katlirine Kardas. a daughter of the
testaor, Mrs Mary Ostrowski, is up
pointd the excutrix.
GIFL DISAPPEARS DAY
I AF1ER MOTHER'S BURIAL
rooming the death of her mother.
Hess- StClnoko, 18-year-Old daughter
of tiarles Btclnke Of North Prairie
strei;, disappeared from her home
ear!;, last evening. As far an can be
loan; d the girl i , in Mcllne After
she ailed to relurri lrone last nighl
hi r lathi r became alarmed and ap
pealed to the police to aid in search
ing tr her. The officers w;cre unable
to littl any trace of her except for the
fact hat ' he hired a taxleab and went
as fir as tltlca, where, it is alleged,
she warded a Rock Island train for
Mollie.
Doric's mother, Mrs. Berth;, Stein
eke, ilied early Monday mornirg at
the Ionic of her brother, M. A. Hen
in It. in North Ottawa, and the re
mails were Interred Wednesday aft
ernom. TIr police are also locking for a
Mexran youth about IT years of age
who, it is alleged, also went to Mo
line. FETZER F.NDS WOMAN
3AVE BOOZE TO BOYS
Chicago has one jurist. Judge Pet
Zer, vho believes in extending a pro
tectiig arm about the youth of that
city. A few days ago a woman was
broulht to trial In Ms court charged
with inducing boys to visit her homo
and vbile there allowing them to be
come Intoxicated, She was found
guilt? and a fine of $200 imposed.
Subsequently an effort was made In
her lehalf to have the judgment set
aside. After hearing the arguments
Judge Petser overruled the motion
and ordered the payment of the fine,
which was finally done. It is an honor
to Chicago that it has one judge who
was fearless enough to extend a help
ing hand to the boys, and it Is like
wise an honor to Ottawa that Judge
Eetfler is a former Ottawa hoy. He
is tin- sen of J, W. PeUer, residing on
the south side.
KILLED PARENTS FOR
, OPPOSING COURTSHIP
Saginaw, Mich.. Nov. IS. Richard
Champlaln, 2", who las! night con
(eased he had shot and killed hi
father and Stepmother, today was sen
tenced to life Imprisonment follow
'ne his Men cf ?niitv. In Mm c
fession, made at the bequest of his 19-year-old
sweetheart, Oars Hump rt,
a taoTv r. he declared a quarrel with
his parents over their objection to bis
rourt-shin led to the t rime. They ob
tested, he said, because of differences
in religious beliefs of the Champlaln
pud Humbert families. Following the
shoting he set fire to the house
MOONSHINE
CONTINUE TRIALS OF
FOUR CHARGED WITH
corneal Um crime. i
TIRED OF
"TTTT ffrn rrTl " '
' Ui I Ifi i i, ,'iiniiiill
:WI ,, , ,r,Hl
if- )
LAST CONCRETE IS
POURED ON Fl
AVE. IMPROVED
JOB IS FORMALLY
THIS MORNING AT
STATE STREET
C OMPI. PTED
11 O'CLOCK
OPEN TO
TRAFFIC IN ANOTHER WEEK.
At just Hi
a group of j
First avenue
the workne n
ers-Thompson
3 o'clock this morning
rOperty owners In th"
paving district witched
employed by the l'i.w
Construction company
pour the last concrete ana nnisnmg
the
work on their paving territory. Thu
the job was absolutely finished was
the cause d' union rejoicing on the
part of owners Of the proper
In ih"
district, who bocame vi
last week wh( n had
and tiny feared the
might be hi id up for
ry discouraged
t eat her set in
paving work
Beveral weeks.
The paving w ill be opi n to the pub
lic as soon As th" concrete is allowed j
to set and harden or four weeks
State street will, it was stated today,
be open to traflie by the latter par! J
of next, week, concrete In this terri
tory having been poured three weeks
ago.
While no formal ceremony was
Sjtaged for the CO 'plction of the pav
ing job, several residents staged a
little service of their own as they
watched the last fragment of concrete
smoothed oft
Mr. Powers and Mr. Jennings, of
fJctals of the Powers-Thompson ( (in
struction company, came down from
Jollet this morning to see t; job fin
ished. As Superintendent McCugO di
rected the last hit of work, property
owners who wen gathered arouno
looked at their watches, and it. is an
olllcially stated, offered up a slleni
prayer that the paving Job WOUli
never have to be gone through wltn
again and that the concrete that has
just, been laid would last until eter
nity. While the diiitrici has been greatly
Inconvenienced In having the streets
Cloted, people over there are loud In
their praises of the manner In Which
Superintendent McCngo has carried
on his work and the courteous effort
ho has made to Inconvenience them
as little as possible.
MISS SCHERER HOME
FOR FEW DAYS' VISIT
Miss Alvina Soberer, a member ol
the Aftfhar theatrical company, Is
spending a few days visiting her par
cuts, Mr. and Mrs. Pred Scherer, i f
this city. She has just completed an
eastern tour, playing in a number ol
'h
go
principal cities, closing si hica
She will leave again Sunday for
Cleveland, O.. after which her ccm-
toipany will mam a winter tour of tne
other eastern cities.
GETTING SOAKED
XTRA!
Arrest Sheridan Booze Runner
A deputy from the sheriff's of
fice was sent to Sheridan this af
ternoon on the 3 o'clock train to
take charge of a prisoner named
Johnson, who was alleged to have
been caught by the Sheridan po
lice transporting liquor.
SOUTH SIDE HOME
UNDER QUARANTINE
The home ol Prank Lewis, on Slate
Street, has been placed under quaratt
j tine by the health authorities on ac-
count of the presence of scarlet fe
i ver. Helen, the ten year old daugh
ter, is the victim ol the disease, the
case being a very mild one. Mr.
Lewis Is domiciled during the quar
antine period at the home of a neigh
bor. WHY BUY IN
OTTAWA?
Because yon do not have
t.';V for rv'a? you &tty.
to
We Americans do not like to
wait for anything, for a street
car, for our change, or even
for the Millenium,
a hurry, waiting
impatient business,
We are in
is tiresome,
' and there
is no more irksome wait than
for something you have bought
and want, to use. You want it.
you fret and fume, if it is not
there when you first aak for it.
Next day you storm louder.
Then you get busy and write
a letter or "jack up" the ex
press COlnpatiy. It is mighty
provoking, but you do not get
much satisfaction, and some
times you keep on waiting
some time. Buying in Ottawa
means no irksome delays In
shipment your package is
delivered the same day, and, if
It Is not, you can very soon
got to the root of the trouble
and remedy it. liuying in Otta
wa means saving of time and
thn Raving of temper. And
time and temper are worth
conserving.
Trade in
Ottawa
GRIDIRON INJURIES
OF BOYHOOD CAUSE
B. INIOT'S DEATH
PROMINENT OTTAWA YOUNG
MAN DIES IN NEVADA, MO.,
SANITARIUM FOLLOWING A
BRAVE FIGHT AGAINST FATAL
MALADY.
this
Telegrams wefa redbived
morning informing Ottawa residents
that Burton H. Atoiiiot, aged 2.S, a,
well known local hoy, passed away
some time last night at a sanitarium
in Nevada Mo. Mr. Moniot had been
in very poor health for tho past year,
and had been a patient at the sani
tarium since .Sept. I.
His illness; dates back to an in
jury be received in a football game
when a 'hoy and from which he ap
parently
recovered and was well for
years. In February his trouble bo
came so acute that, it was necessary
to amputate his left leg just above
the knee. He was a patient at the
Mayo Brothers' hospital in Rochester,
Minn., for many weeks, but return
ad to Ottawa and spent the summer.
His many friends believed he was on
the road to complete recovery, when
he suffered a relapse which made it
necessary for him to enter tho Mis
souri sanitarium.
His wife, Mrs. Irene ( ravi
Mrs. Irene Craven Moniot, I
and his mother. Mrs. Olive Moniot,!
accompanied him to Nevada and were,
with him at the time of bis death.
Mr. Moniot was born and raised in
Ottaw a. His father, the late Henry j
Moniot, died nineteen yearn ago. j
After his demise the. decedent and
his mother made their home with his
grandfather, the late 11. J. Moaiot. on
Douglas street.
He attended the Ottawa township
high school, taking an active part In
sc hool athletics and in the school or-j
chest ra. After his graduation from1
the Ottawa school he attended Beloitl
college, and received his degree from
there, While a student at Belolt be
was a member Of the college glc:
club and made several concert trips!
with them.
He had launched on a successful
business career, and was making his
home in Jollet when he was
en with the illness thai provi
to him.
Mr. Moinot and Miss hem
were united in marriage on
lM, in Tipton, la. His brld
very accomplished young la
was a member of a concert
Priends of the decedent we
ly shocked when they lean
death had cut him off in tl
rtak-
d t
atal!
Craven
Dec M
1 was a
ly and
ompsny.
i' great
ed that
e very
essed a
prime of his life. He possessed
great many admirable quaHties
character, and was one of the nic
popular young men in the city I
was active in the Parkings of t
. Ma uiiu lodge and of the illini
of
SENATE BY
MAJORITY PU
II
TEETH"
Washington, Nov. 18. The final legislative
steps for the outlawing of beer and malt liquors for
medecinal purposes was taken today by the senate.
U. S.
WARNS AGAINST HOG
CHOLERA EPIDEMIC
SAYS DISEASE HAS GOTTEN INTO
MANY TOWNSHIPS OF LA SALLE
COUNTY ISSUES ADVICE ON
HOW TO EXTERMINATE THE
SCOURGE.
"Hog cttolera Is
ally every towns hi
and is likely to as,
portions unle s si
adopted to stamp
said Dr. 1. N. Hal
veterinarian, who
raging in practic-
in La Salle county
umo opldi mic pro
renuotts steps are
cut (I," scourge,"
teckor, government
Is lu Ottawa lead
ing
V
itamp
which threaten i c.
twine her I
this seel ion.
Dr. Ilahecker, who has charge of
the northern district of Illinois, con
tinning his ciatemont, says:
'"The Rprlug and tumiie r Race w?
was stamped out by burning all dis
eased carcasses and infected material
eh aning and dtslnfectlt
i os, and immune I roatin
hogs in the Infected ar, :
a few sporatic cases,
lucking up the Infection
era hogs wen budh d In
break:'., thus preserving
only t ; assert itself at
time, have spread throu
th" prem-
ill expose:
However.
ue to hogs
where
infei
"i oppo
:h the
the lot
hol-
tu:
nig opi rations, c
many herds of h
thousand:' cf hogs
treated this si asoi
these t - wnships .
Ollg
Altht
Ugn many
d Immune
.1
hog raising industry.
"Hog cholera Is CI
by a virus.
. urine, at
nose o'
t' 1 f win
y cause an
farm herd
present in the blood,
notions of the eye
choli rn hogs. A ny
carry infected, materi
outbreak ot Cholera i
and
mi
Symptomr of
Cholera.
ts a he
e sick a
"'V hen cholen
rs do not all
ually only on
come up to ea
n. Tho rest i
. Temperatu
Hill
econ
d will i
ma '
1 and
ICS P.,
101 to
appeal
OS r.
'i hi
lopped, grunts a
weakness being mo
hind legs, the ey
later giutenated.
"Ten years ag
an agent to prev
United States I
d us try discovert
vaccination pro!
cholera. When
healthy hogs it
la rmi
nt hog
ting in
admin!
will pn
-ed
it thi
from taking cholera However, the
treatment Will not cure hogs that ar
bick with cholera, or will any othei
remedy.
"Progressive farmers Insure tli"r
buildings against the possible loss b'
(ire. Hog raisers should immttni
treat
eir hogs and have the assur
marxeting tneir yi ar
pn
o n I.
it i
nnnmn
Th? in
muns
thus pr
per C01
advi.
treat i
ibb
tl
11 h
in t re
it pig!
ibout
a disc
! that
lid
treated i
eventing
it Of hoc
S. A. ADJUTANT TO
LEAD STREET SERVICE
Specie evang
conducted on tl
unlay ftftcrnool
tant O. II. Hart
Adjutant Hart,
cagn. will also
night service h
will he assisted
the b.cal corps.
ill b.
Marriage Licenses
i-o D. Allen. La Salle
rie. La Salle :j.Y
G
D. (
,'illiam R. Allen. Rock
el P. Ray, Chicago, 2!
E
avenue
He I
Jvan
jitcai
d bv
chu
his
eh,
w ifi
s B r v i
il
mother.
Mrs. Olive Moniot and Mrs. Bur
ton Moniot left Nevada this morning
accompanying the remains back to
Ottava for burial. The funeral serv
ice will bp held some time Sunday at
the family home on Douglas street.
VETERINARIAN
Ik
RGE
M 91Y ACT
py a vote of 56 to 22 the
feenate adopted the con
ference report on the so-
called anti-beer bill and the measure
now goes to the president, the bouse
having acted upon it some time ago.
Twelve republicans and ten demo
crats voted against the conference
report. Two others, need, democrat
and Moses, republican, were paired
against the bill. Thirty-three repub
licans and twenty-three democrats
Supported the measure, while five re
publicans, Including McCormlck of
Illinois, who was absent and i-aicd,
favored th-) bill.
The bill will set aside the rilling of
former attorney general Palmer, who
two days before he retired, advised
the prohibition enforcement officials
there was nothing in the Volstead act
to prohibit the prescription ot beer
and light wines for medecinal pur
poses. The legislation has been be
fore congress since last June.
The legislation also puts additional
"teeth" in the nation's prohibition en
forcement code.
it was suggested that President
Harding might delay action on tho
hill pending an opinion by Attorney
General Dougherty on the constitu
tionality of the measure.
I SLEW RECLUSE FOR
j HIS BURIED GOLD
Cairo, III., (NOV. 18 When Albert
Mowery. aged 3fi, a. farm laborer, spent
a gold coin here recently it attracted
the attention of authorities and today
he is under arrest at his home iti cy
press in connection with tho death
of Walter S. Brown, age ill), a recluse,
who was found dead in the yard of
I his home last December 18, with a
bullet wound in his forehead. Police
say that at the time of Brown's death
be possessed several hundred dollars
in gold coins.
Mowery police claim confossed to
the murder of Hrown and admitted
robbing him. Approximately $2S in
gold was taken from Mowery.
At the inquest into the death of
Brown an open verdict was returned.
t SMALL 0PENSBEL0IT
RQCKFOBO HIGHWAY
R
ekli
NOV
itenant
rr and
Ii Ighwa;
of w
i form!
IS. Governor
Governor Meets,
epresentativea of
department and
mi liago residents
opening this af-
Small. Lie
Senator Hi
the state
delegations
united In
ternoon of
The ceretn
th
Rocktord Belolt road,
were held at the
' stale line where a gateway arch is to
he erected. A banquet will he sorv
1 ed tonight. Completion of the road
i gives u concreted highway from Pd
gorton, Wis . to the Ogle county line
in Illinois, a combination of Wiscon
! sin routes, numbered 10 to 100, and
the Meridian highway of Illinois.
ONE YFAR OLD BABY
DIES OF PNEUMONIA
Jesee Tershowski, ono year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Ter
showski, of the Federal Plate district
passed away this morning about. 2:30
o'clock at the family home following
a week's illness of pneumonia. He
sides her parents sho leaves twd
brothers and a sister surviving. Pun
eral services will he held tomorrow
afternoon at 2:80 o'clock from St.
Patrick's church. Intrinent will he
made at St. Prancis cemetery.
HOUSE COLLAPSES IN
STORM: FIGHT KILLED
Mona
hers of
Wiekos
of here
the Wc
violent
Ark
Nov.
illy el
twenty
Bight
B. Wo
moll
is at
miles south
night when
id during a
urn). I
Mona tr
(litis wr
i ;
deaths
call for
Details
ched
ht ci
are lacking due
wires to 'i kes
understood littl'
exei pt on t he V
Ihe la
t th.i
but
all
it Is
ioue
i down,
image i
Its farm
MISSION FARMER,
34, PASSES AWAY
Orvtlle Phillips, aged 34, a well
IrnOWU Mis Ion township fanner, died
yostordaj afternoon at 5 o'clock a'
his home after a two weeks it!nf"Js
Bunrlvinv h? leaves a widow aud two
children.