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--. > SANITARY DISTRICT >' PAYROLL BRIGADE ---- ~BRUNDAGE JOINS .. Ex--attorney General Hired by ii g-'bramaoesoydatsw,ooo 3 The $150 a day plan is a device cre-- ated by Brundago to get around the law <~giving salaries to the assistant attorney generals,. The assistants are given salaries of from $6,000 to $8,000 a year but these amounts were not large enough for Brundage. To give hbis law partner and Gilbert salaries of $36,000 a year, he put them on a per diem basis of $150 a day and in Ahis way transferred to his law part ner in the last four years $1009,000 more of state funds than he would have been ablo to do under the salary r-. While Landon was supposed to e pushing the lllinois Central roal--~ wroad company to a settlement of its 'tazes, he was maintaining his private practice at 210 South Dearborn street. Fifty--nine Lawyers on Payroil. ~'Out of a total of $500,000 approp-- ¥lated by the legisiature to compel the fliinois Central Rallroad to pay its Saxos, Mr. Brundage in addition to paying his law partner $138,000 thas paid $236,000 to his triend Judge HL-- #am T. Gillbert, for services connsct-- ed with the guit, Mr. GMlbert's pay be-- Iing at the rate of $150 a day. He has mMlso pald largs sums to Homer K. fl:-. former chairman of the repub county committee of Cook coun-- , and to other politicilans. He has "used part of the money approp-- 4 to prosecute his political enemy or ESmail instead of the rail-- road company, as the law dirécted. ' ' Captain Oscar Caristrom, the now m'nonl. dismissed by wire the service Of the state both Landon and CGilbort, the day ho as-- #umed office, :In doing so he--announ© od it was bis purpose to prevent Q: L drawing another day's pay At the .rate of $150 a day. x The Chicago Drainage District now a,_ attormeys on its pay-- £ M Prainage District is con-- by trusteos olacted by the pao-- plo of the district and it is now made up of nearly an equal number of re-- ks ts Wws ' 1 through a m with the dAemocratic mem-- } t the board havae been in con-- Ing on the law points involved from Judge 8. C. Stough of this district, sit-- ting at Ottawa. The decision of Judge Btough has now been taken on appeal to the higher courts. % Mr. Landon, Brundage's law part-- ner, was paid $150 a day out of the ap propriations provided by the state leg-- lslature to prosecute the Illincis Cen-- tral railroad and to compel the rail-- road company to pay its taxes accord-- m-unmqutu-wu fran-- granted 'to the rattroad company by the legislature: -- Mr. Brundage al-- lowed the casoe to drag along during the entire eight years of ~his ; two terms of office and accomplished no results until the last? month of his term of office when he secured a rai-- m'manocmmnmn- on the district payroll are & privata practices as is A . large numbar of 6 politictans are included in ; Brundage ftor years has used f as part of his political 3 i% * Vioiator Agrsament. KHor twonty years the Drainage Dis-- #rict has rafused to pay the land own-- ora the river valloy for the dam-- j by the overtiow of the _ adjacent-- to the river--the over-- ; by the water drawn hans avery promise Mr. Brundage was put on the Drain-- Bge District pay rolil on Monday of fast week, the day he was succeeded in office by Capt. Oscar Caristrom and At the same time he oo-%:cu the private practice of law. ot: his age, Landon, Holt & Board, The of-- fces of the firm are located at 110 Houth Dearborn street, Chicago. Mr. Board was fArst assistant attorney general under Mr. Brundage and was in charge of the Springfield office. terest in Lake and other counties, showing as it does that Brundage be-- Meves in the "feathering your nest" mlmo- equally as much as any r man in the state: ~ Edward J. Brundage, former attor-- Bey general of Iilinois, has been put on the payroll of the Chicago Drain-- Ago district At a salary of $15,000 a year. At the same time Mrf. Brund-- Agoe announces that ho will resume the privi@a practico of law in Chicago With his old law partners. zul General Brundage assumed *holier than thou" attitude during his persecution of Govertor Smail, this article from the Bureau County Republican will be read with wide in-- ENTERS PRIVATE FIRM YVOL. XXX----NO. 5 Because of the fact--that former At-- a Year. LAKE COUNTY INDEPENDENT _ Leke:County's Big Weekly LIBERTYVILLE INDEPEN the district pays ' _ Mrs. Sybilla Meyer, 73, mothor of 10 children, died last night at her home cn the Meyer brothers' farm near Wadsworth after--being strick-- en suddenily two days ago. She died on the date of her'birth, and two days after all of her children had join-- ed with her to celebrate this event. The docedent was widely acquaint-- ed in the district around. Wadeworth and had many friends. in Chicago she lived for years. Her home bad been made at Wadsworth for 15 years. She was the widow of August Meyer, who disd 26 years ago. * a 'Four children live in Chicago; Jo-- hanna Weisch, Anna Gart, Ammi' Block, and Margaret Welsch. John' Meyer resides in Gurnee, and Louise Lacas, Julius Meyer, Henry Meyer? Dora Shea, and Mrs. Carl Alcock live at Wadsworth. Three children born to 'the union died in infancy. Two sisters, Anrfa Kobzein, of Los Ange-- les, and Susan Kobzein, of Chicago, and 17 grandchildren, are also left by-- the death, _ _ _ 4 cam.""' Jan. ~%8.--President R. M:::' nhtod' Hawail. & as governor o The nomination was sent to the Sen-- ate for confirmation. -- e Funeral servictes are to be held Fri-- day morning at the home at 11 o'clock to Rnsehill chapel, Chicago, at 2%:30 o'clock, with burial in Rosehill. @ --_The circulit court today entéred a permanent injunction closing the Fox Lake hotel operated by Edward Walk-- er and Charles Sbarboro, -- The men were charged with violations 0 the prohibitory law and their place was :loud recentiy on an interlocatory ecreo. _ KIDNAPED AND ROBBED. -- Kansas City, --aKs., Jan. 28.--While two score passengers on a street car watched, powerless to aid, <Rugene Balling, 44, hotel proprietor, was kid-- naped on a crowded corner, robbed of $2,500 and then thrown out of an au-- tomoablle today. ¥ INJUNCTION CLOSES. FOX LAKE RESORT more money in the of fat salar-- gmmur:mawuym NAMED ~HAWAIIAN GOVERNOR tval., mflgfim. > + -- District® violated its agreoe-- mont With the Federal government in regard to the withdrawal of water from Lake Michigan and has persist-- ed in such violation until the Supreme court rendéred a decision against the district. Suit was first brought in the United States court to secure the in-- junction and asit was clear an in« junction must fssue, Judrs Kenesaw Landis, in order to ald, the District, took the case m advisement and umm:'d' f:.m around ln.hlm The Drainage m +3 po'. luted the waters Of the Ilinc : river that the fish have been killed and the sludge is filling the river bed. Un-- healthy odors ariso from the waters of the river. This wook the District is sending a dolegation of Chicago business men to Washington to visit the sotreatary of war in an endeavor to secure a permit to continue the fur-- ther withdrawal of-- 10,000 eublc fest Of water per socond trom Lake Mich MOTHER OF 10 _ CHILDREN DIES ON HER BIRTHDAY ;.m@lwa:'h;l'wmfilf: employment '702 po Holans, has become one of the dom-- Insnt polititcal arganizations of the FUNERALL IS FRID AY Mrs.. Sybilla Myer, .73, of Wadsworth, Taken By Death 2 Days After Reunion. tree her mother from jail. Mrs, Axza Gustatson of Chicago told neigh-- bors she had found hair in bread purchased at a bakery. The proprietor aued for damages and was awarded $200.-- Mrs. flustafson, unable--to pay, * -n-gdhmbrdx-nm But Baby Gladys flirted cutrageous-- y with judge. waving a dimpled hand and smiling, and the fudge Rermitted the mother to sign he: own bond and go home, Mother Freed by Babe's Smile N _ L m e / Phoke ol se C e Circulation Greater than other Weeklies in County Compined 3 pepmeenaaaaea ons sagnaag c acacaaacucaugpaace cce U is UAAA ce t ermaaaaao esn eqeanees: <ermrepen SECTION TWO LIBERTYVILLE, LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, JANUARY the river be-- At the police station, according to Commissioner J.~V.«Balz, the boy con-- fessed to him that he had committed two burglaries earlier in--the evening. At 6:00 o'tlock the police received a call from Lawrence Blanchard. 1711 Forest Court, stating that some one had entered and ransacked his home. The offticer who responded found that entrance to the house had been gain-- ed by means of a skeleton key with which the kittchen door was opened. -- ' Clyde Bowen, 14, of 541 May street, is under arrest on a charge of carry-- ing concealed weapons:. The young-- sater was picked up last night at 7:30 o'clock at the Edison Court station after complaint had been lodged with the police that NB was carrying a re-- volver. The officers say the boy ad-- mitted that he stole--the gun from his !bt'n. He--atso--carried a big butcher Every drawer, trunk and chest in the house was ransacked and the con-- tents scattered on the floor in the evi-- dent search of money. A few cigar-- ettes and $2 in cash, the latter found in a purse, appegred to be the only loot taken. Mr. Blanchard said the robbery . must have taken place be-- tween 4:00 and 5:00 6'clock. ~Another House Entered. A few minutes after the first report the police recelved a call from R. G. Bchultz of Ravine Gardens, not 'far from the scene of the other robbery. The police officer who responded found that .putty had been cut away from the kitchen window. Failing to gain entrance in this manner the thief broke the glass and entered. Once in-- side the house he proceeded to ran-- sack the bhouse from top to bottom, following the same course as in the Blanchard home. ~Everything was topsy--turyy but so far as could be dis-- covered nothing of 'valuge was taken. Boy is Arrested. . At 7:30 o'clock thé police received a call from the . agent at <the Edison Court station, notifying them that a youth wearing & Ey sult and tap, had a;revolver in possession. 'The officers responded but the lad had left the station. He was found inside a nearby restaurant and proved to be young Bowen. He was taken to the police station where he was locked up. | Had Planned to Be Bad Man. 'The officers assert that the lad also has confess6it: to them that he had been implicated in several --minor rob-- beries about town, including the theft of $10 from his mother. He is said to bhave admitted that he has been roading trashy literature and was bent upon going west to grow up as a real "Bad man." Hoe planned to shoot In-- Police officials are holding the lad for further questioning but say It is very <likoly that he will be turned over to the states attorney in ~order that a delinquency petition can Aled against him in County court. Suit for $10,000 damagos was Aled Iom clircult court for the doath of peddle, of Park, against tha Chloago," j re & MiMwaukse --railroad 8 The --auit was fAled by Jm. Poddle, a son, who is adm l of the astate, ~SUIT IN DEATH WANTED TO BE "BAD MAN'" Officers Assert They Have Re-- ceived Confession of Many BOY CONFESSES CRIME CAREER, William Poeddia was killed by a Nortk Shora train at Noble Abs., w. Park, . whilo running to POLICE ASSERT THREE BURN TO DEATH New York, Jan. 28--Three persons were burned to death today when trapped by fire in their rooms on thesecond floor ow & two--story frame dwelling is Brooklyn. The victims . Aity. Churs' )i has not received any pay for his services for three and » balf vsars. as tiav. Small slashed Brundage's budget. were Monserle de Just, his wife and ~ Instead of cross words--cross numbers! ._-- Here is something new in the fad that has gripped the nation. Numbers instead of letters, numbers that add to a definite sum, reading either way. You need no dictionaries to look up sticklers, not even an arithmetic. For these numbers are just the first nine digits and each group totals 15. * The puzzle form and numbering of the squares are similar to crossword puzzles. -- But instead of definitions you get a group of numbers which are to be rearranged in the squares designated so that they will add up to 15 either horizontally or vertically, when the other croups are properly arranged. People who haven't time to stop at the grade crossing manage to find timg to attend the» funeral. Asty. Churchill has been instructed by Aty. Gen. Carlstrom to k*ep gn i2z sohutad wiir» the work here until infornied to the contrary, Whether or not the new attorney general wouid cons.der re--appointing him, bhas not been hinted, but if the policy "to the victor belong the spoils" is to be carried out, local dopesters have it that Churchili would be out in the cold. Atty. Churchill worked diligently for the nomination of-- Atty, General K J. Brundage, the man who appointed him. Brundage was defeated by & large majority, however, by Cari-- strom. After the primary Atty. Churepil! climbecdi uw Gov. Smail'is band wagon, being a staunch re-- publican. Who is to be appointed Assistant Attorney eGneral 'tor alLke county, as ano alid to Atty, General Oscar E. Caristromt Al.hough the four year term ot Aity, R. W, Church.ll, of Graysiake, exp.red the first of the year, no ac-- tion has been taken to name a suc-- cessor for him. CARLSTROM MAY AcT soon Atty. R. W. Churchilil of Grays-- lake, Holding Over; No Suc-- WHO WILL BE NEXT ASSISANT ATTY. GEN. IN LAKE CO. 46. 41. 61. 63. 64. Try «it and see how you like it. cessor Named. A CROSS--NUMBER PUZZLE Mrs. Bernice Parks obtained a divorce from Ezra A. Parkes, of Highland ~Park, in which she test!i-- fied her husband was extremely cru-- el. On une occasion be struck her with his hand, at another time he threw her out of bed, and that an-- other time be choked hber and a} most strangled her, Mrs, Frank Still, of --Waukegan, was given>--a ~divorce from her hus-- band on charges of. cruelty.-- She alleged that he stiack her wits a ruler. Mrs, Still recently had him arrested on charges of abandonment, GANNA STILL SEEKS GRAND OPERA FAME Nice, Jan. 28.--Ganra Waliska, un-- fagging in bher determination to be an opera star, is billed to sing "Madame Butterfly" at the Nice Opera tonight. Tony Ferenchak of Waukegan fi+ ed . suit for divorce against Clara Ferenchak, charging her with deser-- tion. They werse married in Jugo Slavia in 1887, and have three chil-- dron. It is alleged she deserted him ebout eight years ago. divorces is on with almost as zest as the ico harvest. New suits were be.ng filed today while the divorce miil was grind-- ing. l She has been training for her Rivie: ra appearance by singing under the assumed name of "Anna Navarre" in the provincial French Opera Houses at Auxerre and Bourgueil MANY ROMANCES WRECKED Two Divorces are Granted To-- day, Another Is Filed / Charging Desertion. RUSBAND NEARLY CHOKED HER TO DEATH, CHARGE The mid--winter season for WAUKEGAN WEEKLY SUN 20. 192 filing much [ | Shanghal, Jan. 2%--Chlas was uo dergoing Its Arst modarn strike today. :l v:l'lu":-t ."W'E of .:Lnl workers wers joh 'The body© was removed to the Joseph Petroshius undertaking rooms where an <inquest. was held today by Coroner J. L, Taylor, of 1 s ville, who found that death had § due: to heart trouble, 'Angins peo-- toris' was> the technical . term in which the jury expressed the cause of death. it Pittaburgh, Pa., Jan. 2%8.--Har ki-- mona affame from gunfire and three butlet wounts in her side, Mrs, Anna Marsden, 47, was found -- néar the body of her husband, Alfred Marsden, 52, in their apartment at McKooesport, near here today, victims, according to police, of a mad rage which over came the husband during--a quarrel. KFrom stories tolid by apartment neighbors and by Mrs. Mersden in her brief pertods of consclousness on the way to the hospital, authorities believeo Marsaden wounded ~his --wite nm: then turned his weapon on him-- solf. +s un been completed. At the hospital it was said Mre. Marsden may die. °s t MAN AND WIFE DIF IN GUN BATTLE Mrs. Ellen Cartright, 48, colored, of 1375 Commonwealth avenue, North Chicago, dropped dead in<a store at 13th and Victoria streets, North Chi: cago, late Tuesday, as she--was pur-- chasing groceriées for the evening had died within a minute or two after shoe had .fallen to the floo#. She is survived by a husband, Wil-- Hard. «~ . Another customer saw her fall and shouted to the proprietor of the store who summoned Dr. Joseph Mieczyn-- ski. ~The physician found that she Mrs. Elien Cartright, Colored, Drops Dead Tuesday After-- noon in North Chicago. 'The deceased had been ailing for many months, and hbad complained several times of being in ill health. Merico City,--Geologists ac an-- der government instructions . ) in vestigating today the re notivity aoft the volcano Popocal bo detor-- ming whethor the vil of Ixtiabhuat! was in danger, cano :s amok-- ing hearily. ] WOMAN DIES IN <TORE SUDDENLY; -- INQUEST CALLED DEAD IN A MINUV T E & good time and still having the: highest scholastic grada among 2500 students at Oklahoma A. and M. College She earns her board and room, doing the housework and car-- Ing for three babies, at the home of John L..Arnold, 21, Waukegan. Neva Hutchison, 1'. Lake Fotest. Albert A, Kahn, 23, Chigo. Marcella Johnson, 20, Chicago. # teams and was recently pledged to Aipha Deta P1, natiqnal sorerity. The funeral arrangements have not gember of the swimming and hockey Honor Student nft EME C 0, Chicago. & giste ac ®@t otions ; it / wotivit bo deto: $1.50 PER YEAR. IN ADVANCE Into the still & ® boing C of unknown origin dos allo and barn and all | tents on the farm. of . a"nndoll near Paddock's lake , reguliting in a loss eatim between $8,000 and $10 PG. _ head of cattle two horses, M and a amaill amount of food silo made up the major item plotaly de k _ > :A Mrs. Bridgid MeNamara, $2, died at h:r home, 644 :gou_ atroot, Tul,t'l:'y afternoon rat 2:30 0 <after bay» ing 'been th pior Vm:r two years, Bhoe had . & resklent of--the com-- Mra. Joseph--Slomer, ° Lillian and Rlisnor, 'and Mrs.--F. Hoealy, who re-- g Joseph,--George and Thomas. are k sons, -- Thomas is employed as & city Areman, & position he has held Ror a number of years. uis ~Thé deceased bad a large eircle of Ariends in Waukean and Lake ._ . 'aneral "S:"' :ro to . ,." Friday morn at w } Immaculata Conception . church 4 burlal in 8t. Mary's etery, :. / Please omit R MRS. MNAMARA . _ .. QLD RESIDENT, -- _ / --~ TAKEN BY DEATH _ most important among them were bills .calling for a bond issue to connéct South and Lincoin Park in Chicago -- by a bridge; requiring ail . Representative ~W.. F. Weisk -- was named chairman 'of the committee on --education in the House and Sen-- ator R.. B. Swift of Lake Forest was named chairman of the Community Welfare committes.> The < appoint FUNERAL S --F R 1 DA Y Organized laoor was rewusu.%ed in the 'senate aiso, in the naming of 1WlLam Sneeq, union miner of Hel rin, as chairman of the ® on corporations. --The house, e ever, balanced Sneed's selection . bY choosing Kepresentative Charles W. LaPorte-- of FPeoria, leader of the corporations committes, -- -- é driving across hard surfaced state highways; requiring executions to take place in thé state prison; grant ing a racing commiission under the department of agriculture; repealing the fishing 'license law. : «L Was Mother of 7cmdfe&'su 8 of Whom Live in the City, ~ _ Had Resided Here 60 ¥rs. --=.. Mild surprise ran through the as semoied legis,ators when the house commuttee l.st 'was announced with R. G. Sonderstrom, 'champion of un lon labor, heading the committeo on public utilities,-- > + C w A number of bills were on the desk of iLeut, Gov. Fred tSerling, presiding officer 6f the senate, await ing reference to committee. 'The "Representative Thomas U'UGrady introduced a. bill in the house calling for the repeal 'of the Illinois liquor ame governor won a s.gnal v.ctoOrp in a meeting of too senate commiIt we on committees when by a" vott of 3 to 2 it ass.zned Richard Meents of! Asakum to tose chairmanship 0A the --appropriacions committee, thus ending the bitter fight made by Ur. harty G. Wright of (DeKalb, who held the position in the last session, The selection of Meents was rat ifled today--by senate 'republicans. With the announcement of com mittees in both senate and house. the G4th general assemtbly was ready. for the full swing of, a yvast amount of business due to dom§ before it. "It ~Is the samo measure 1 intro= duced: last® session," he sald." "It carties a. referendum --and 1 am cer-- tain . it -- will . have :81 votes 'in----the house, four more than is necessary to Springfield, I1L; Jan. 28.--Governe Smail scored heavily in both branck es of the illino.s generfl assembly soday when iis ciose person& Ir.eads we.e maue chairmen Of tht Appyropriatious and roaus commMitle® Personal Friends of Exd@éutin Named Heads of Important GOVERNOR SMALL SCORES IN.COMMIT-- TEE APPOINTMENT! LOCAL MSN ARE APPOINTEL wte