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SMALL'S VICTORY ~GOES DOWN ST ATE : ~AND COOK COUNTY 5». i ner for fi_aoneral j DENEEN WINS FOR SENATOR s BULLETIN 11:30 A. M. * The -- Plursality : _of" Governer Len Smail in his rase for renomination now is' estimated / at between 50,000 and 60,000. He parried Cnicage by approximately 30,000 ang seemed to have at least an ¢qual margin out in the state. Normal L. Jones, Deme-- crat, will oppose him in the gléstion. Cl o be : _ e 4 SRUNDAGE j*lELV BEATEN . Latest Agures on the © dafeat -- of Brundage for the renomination for atforney general on the Republican ticket, based on returns from ~3043 precinets out "O0f©§668_are : ~Brundage, 1¥1,432; Carletrom . 147,198. » P es o on ooo Nee st yx DENEEN LEAD CUT DOWN-- : --___--_ SMALL LEAD 18 GROWING . 'Chicago, April 9.----What. had seemed a 'victory for.Charles 9. Deneen in the ngut for the Republican ~nomination 'into a nip--and--tuck affair early this af-- ~ternoon and the hopes of Senator Me 'dill McCormick went soaring.again~ . * gTATE 'BUYS" PHEASANTS VOL. @anA C CA AERAE REREWE EMEA MDUIIC TD 5 DCsm #9 mu counties with a majority of -- 40,000. His Cook. county majority was placed at 15,000 and the tity of Chicago went to him by around 5290 votes. © > Governor Len Smal oday wa® C M ceded as the nominee of his party for re--election by a plurality of 69,000 to 140.000 --mxer.Senator Thurlow G. Es-- sington. -- @mail ~apparently. --carried Chicagoe by approximately 30,000 and down state by --a margin that kept rrawing As znmuoremm came Senator Medil! McCormick had bnl{ defeated for renomination by former Governar Charles 8. Densen by a margif which might be wiped out by complete returns, but which probabiy will give the former governor a sub stantial plurality of between 20,000 and 50,000 in the state. a Attorney General Edward J. Brun-- dago apparently has been defeated by Oscar Carlstrom. Latest figures in Cook county and downstate show in 12%1 precincts of .5688, Carlstrom, 12.991: Brundage 62.953. 3 In the Democratic camp, there was little opposition for Col. A. -- A. Spragne, who had a walkaway over Wiliam McKinley for the nomination for Sehator. Mhdb Governor Smail was leading Sena-- tor Essington today by a majority of 38,.290 votes in 2,575 of the state's £,68% precincts. 1,500 precincts in Chicago gave Smaill, 122,45%?; Essing-- ton 105,984. Downstate 1075 pre cincts gave Sman 22%6.418;. Essing-- ton, 198,128. lna . * All indications so far are that ex-- Governor Deneen will be nminated on tha Republican ticket for United Htates Senator over Senator Medili McCormick. While Col. A. A. Sprague, on the Democratic ticket has a safte teal over his opponent, William Mc-- Kinley, former speaker of the lower house of the General Assembly. _ Governor Smail's victory was made a ¥ * Y i pe xt «S @SeC ' w it uts in . r en .2 mgete C ° n f * f + ¢ T g § i# j #1%4 ) y ,...'. '.'. ' hiptve m ~" 20 O 36 ; o s *« . A > g f 4 se _ bay y B # 4 se w * L P t i h '.. avlb $ e * W Jh.p"' * LX o in ; y * 8 h STRATTON STOCKS STREAMS OF L wITH GAME FISH A Send Out 100 --Carloads of Varioug Types to Rivers and Lakes of State. Game fAish, the largest proportion of which are black bass, Aro being di#s tributed in HMlindis -- streams,~ rivers "'lht."'m conditions as to nad- tura m M flu'-&mn dopth add wator--rights permit their planting, according .to ",l?to Game and Fish Wardea William --J. Stratton. Chicago, 'Aptr: The fish now being ibuted, Mr. Stratton sald, are the type Alh for m:dln p:nz:n wouh' b'o'- tween two an 3 and . some cases Ave m Public atreams, (lakes and country --clubs where the public has agcoss to the Asbing grounds are tho only locations enansiderol by tho state division of game and fisb. Morse than 100 cars o varicus types have already bechn diaiributwl, ho addod. --~ neck p by the 'At the same tline, it appeared that m%i:n of English or ringed-- . phesuants itito been purchased T &l?&t':"hm"':;.l'. "® terost H m of these birds in their taty are alkad to got in louch (TURN TO PAGE SIX) LAKE COUNTY INDEPENDENT * 9,..--(9:3%. o'clock) # + INMATE OF POOR-- _ _ HOUSE MAY BE HEIR TO $12,000 ESTATE Ernest . Faulkner-- Who Left Poor House a Month Ago is Being Trailed. DISAPPEARS ~FROM ~SIGHT Bearch for Ernest L Faulkger of Antloch, who is being sought in order that he may claim a 'Tortune ot $12,000 left by John Faulkner of Wausau, Wis., received impetus to day when it was lcarned that a man named "Erpest Faulkner", {formerly of Antioch, was an inmate of the poor farm at Libertyvilie up to a month ago when he was reéleased to return to Antioch. Since that time he appears to 'have dropped. from sight, -- . | Ernest Faulkner formerly resided at Libertyville. From there he mov-- ed to Rondout and from there to Antioch, -- About two months ago he applied for--admission to the peor farm and was accepted.~ He re mained there a month and then asked to be released in order that he might return to Antioch and do little odd jobs. uks . * Attorney E. L. Edwards of Wausa, Wis., is conducting a search in Lake county for "Ernest L. Faulkner". who lived in Antioch up.to recently. The search was started ~following: the death in Wausau of John Faulkner, and after it became apparent that the Faulkner of Antioch . was the only Itving relative, + . > > _> . . Gové_ruor Len Small Swampg His Enemies in Ava-- lanche of Votes Not Only Carrying Cook County But All Down State as Well,' | All the facts in the case indicate that the Ernest Faulkner who has just been releaged from the -- poor farm <is the man for whom the fortune of $12,000 is waiting. If he can establish the claim it means that he Will be independent during his remaining years. The Antioch Business Men's club, recently organized, will holid a meet-- ing and banquet Monday evening at Antioch at which E. H. Clifford, m.ry of the Waukegan and Chicago Chamber of~ Com-- merce, will be the rpfinelpul speaker. The club there is in the «carly stagos of organization, but promises to be ANTIOCH CLUB TO HEAR CLIFFORD a live: wire HAIL STORM AT _ LIBERTYVILLE Southwoestaern Lake county was hit :' a Aestructive hbail storm Taesday and "..mtro At 1Aberty» ville u*.':nmm ko windows and globes. Branckes were atripped: from trees.. At Gilimer -.2:-\ of" Liberlyville, the wires of the Public. Sorvice 'company . wore put out of commission, Damazo of a lossor nataure is reported from oth Or nearby points, SECTION TWO LIBERTYVILLE, LAKE COUXNTY, THE VICTOR ACTIVITIES AT .. --GREAT LAKES STXL. Air -- Station Trufiw t. :'malawm: "vg: tion Opens April 22. RESUME RADIO ACTIVITY The U. 8. Naval Reserve Air sta-- tion at Gréat Lakes, under the di-- rection of Lieut. Comdr. H. W. Scho-- field, USNRF--1, is rapidly getting into shape preparatory to the open-- ing of that station for the training season June 1924 Three -- planes have been erected, flown and tested. Two additional planes are under course of erection and wmrbf flown "and tested shortly. An additional plane will be shipped from Pensacola The equipment is new and first--class iln every respect. The hangars have been reconstructed, repaired _ and \clq'nod. and the run--ways are being l;?a:!;ed and put in first--class con-- Navigation on the Great Lakes is expected to open about April 22 and the calibration of th eradio compass stations will} follow shortly thereat-- ter. The Chicago radio control sta-- tion has been closed and all equip-- ment and material moved to Great Lakes. This control station is now located in the district communication superintendent's office in the Admin-- istration Building at Great Lakes. All personnel attached 'to the radio and control stations at Great Lakes took down the antenea of the radio station a week ago and in stalled a new type of insulator. CAR TURNS OVER ON BELYVIDERE ROAD Mrs.. Plllip Pedro of Milwaukeo was slightly injured early this morn-- ing when the car in which she was riding éasy on Belvidera road near Green Bay road, got out of tfhie con:-- trol of her husband, Philip Pedro and crashed into. the ditch ~beside the road. Mrs, Pedro was able to get odt from under the car herselft and ansist her husband to extricato himsel{ from under the steering wheel. The ear was towed to the John Kennedy garage in Lake Blaf while Mr. and Mra. Pedro returned to Milwaukee on the train. & FILES LAWSUIT _ | _ AGAINST TENANTS Peter Millor, residink near. Mc MHoenry,;--has Aled suit in the Lake County -- court, -- agaiAst -- Mustay D. Achen, and Joscop'Y ii'rimus, of | St. Charlea, . 0'a'~ !~~1"the latter did Rot carty c=-->*--a 2>@:c=senis of h's leassa on a :_..~, aud therefore is yoe\> PA# to compel' the defendants to vacato, Lake County's Big Week!s WAUKEGAN WEEKLY SUN | wOmAN.OWNER OF h noveL. CiaReFs MATE IS CRUEL Mrs.. Nora O'Connell Alleges Husband Hangs Around tnd : Drives Business Away. Mrs. Nora O'Connell, proprietress of the Central hotel, High'and Park, charges-- +~~* ~hber-- husband, -- --John, hangs ar * the place, annoys her and mak nimself so untavorably consplcuoss that he is' driving away business, and. therefore she filed a m-. and. therefore sbe LDied a tition in circuit court at Waukegan today, and obtained a t junction against . him. tor: separate maintenance the injunction--clause. . Mre. O'Connell charg never~ has contributed toward ~the <support of their three children, Jo %#; > Versa, 18; 'and Rob they were married at O Marck, 1901, and that # compelled to 'go out a: GETS L dicin it apiatcat fln qi lt lC 3700 tor separate maintenance, but carries Mrs. O'Conmell charges that he never -- has contributed adequatéely toward the 'support of hérself or their three children, John, Jr., now they . were rnrhl at Ottawa, IH., in Marck, 1901, and that she has been compelled to go 'out and work for a living. ~By saving part of her earn-- ings she--was able to enter the hotol business where she and her children make © their home, the petition de-- clares. She also charges that he has falsely 'accused her of being friendly with other-- men. PATIENT AT FT. ---- SHERIDAN HANGS _ RIMSELE TO TREE Hungary, but who served overseas with the American -- expeditionary forces, and Who has been undergo-- A. Kovitz Forms Noose by Un-- Wrapped His-- Leggings Corpse Found by Change.© POE es > CECNle, . Bm s MR OME PS C ing treatment at the Fort Sheridan base hospital, for several months, is dead, apparently a suicide. His dead body, suspended by his army leg-- g:.u. was found suspended from a ' in s clump of woods on the HAD BEEN IN ILL HEALTH "--The body was found Thursday aft-- ernoon but from the condition of the body it was figured that' ho had been dead--for a few days. A man who chanced to be 'walking through the woods was the one who dis-- covered the dead man. --« The matter was reported immedi-- ately to headquarters and the body was cut down and removed to the morgue. No letter was found in« dicating why the war veteran had committed suicide but it is assumed that he became despondent--over con-- tinued ° ill health and abandpned hopes ~of .ever getting any better. Acquaintances had noticed <for the last few weeks that ho appeared to be despondent and morose but they had no inkling that he in_t_endod to take his own lite. So far as known Kovitz had no relatives in the United States and plans are be-- ing made to bury his remains in the reservation cemetery. _ The leggings with which the vie-- tim hurg himself are the type that are wrapped about the,. legs of the service man. They are of strong mA terial® and served in lieu of .a rope, It is figured that Kovitz must have climbed the three, adjusted _ 'the noose about his neck, fastened the other end securely to a Jimb and then leaped down. ® Captain W. ZEvans, USN, command-- ant at Great Lakes, shared in i broadcasting record established by WGN--the new Chicago broadcasting station. His speech . was heard in part in Australia, some 8850 miles ~distant as figured by Liout, Melvin 'C. Kent, USN, the officer in charge of the branch hydrographic office, Chicago. pmur t 73. CAPT. W. EVANS' VOICE HEARD 8850 MILES AWAY Anton Kovitz, a native of Austria-- LAKE COUNTY 14TH IN AUTO LICENSES Lake County contributed . $126,981 in state automobile Ncenses according to statistics announced. by Sectetary of State Louis L. Emmerson in his review for 1923 and this county stands fourteenth in the state in the number of autos in use. Cook coun-- ty stands first with $3,230,180, The Lake County ~Chisopractors Association held their roguilar meet-- ing Thursday night in the office of Dr.'J. E. Meyer of Wankogan.~The proposed ml week that is to be observed ing Aprlil 240 wase dia cussed and It was decided: to co--0per-- ate in cvery way possibi>. ~The plan matts the ~hearty approval of, the associatlon. © Variousa matters of bus Insss also were taken up and de-- CHIROPRACTORS FOR HEALTH WEEK ; THURSDAY, APRIL, 10, a temporary in-- n. The bill is INJUNCTION Charles Russell, Whom Fina! Returns Showed Won Handi-- ty for:County Survéyor Over 'James Anderson, Both Being CENTRALIZATION OE COLLEGE WORK IS URGED BY MKINLEY Centralization of state educational systems in large universities such as the University of. Illinois is more efficient from--the fAnancial and edu-- cational viewpoint than disperson U. of 1. President Tells of Ad-- vantages of Big University; -- Aids Other Schools Too. from Lake Forest. of such systems into several univer--, sities teaching agricuiture, mechan~ ick, literature and-- arts and other %lz' subjects, according to Kinley, president of the Uni-- .versity of Illinois, who has prepared statistics on the subject for use in his annual report to the board of trustees. C a se Ha y Y.OF 1. HAS 12--COLLEGE * ~When the University 'of Iilinois was founded, President Kinley ex-- plained, it was founded as a land grant college and was helped by the government. A majorit; of the lan grant colleges in other states taught only agriculture, but. the founders in Illinois insisted on including the liberal arts as well, 'with the result that IlHnois is one of the few states that combines its colleges of engim-- eering. liberal arts and agriculture. "The state university is made up of twelve different colleges .nd( schools," the; report states. "The work of these different colleges could not be carried on withou; a greater expense if the students were dis-- tributed in other places because nearly every student in every col-- lege of the university takes some, subject in the curriculum of some of the others, and each of these col-- leges furnishes early in the" course some of the, technical or special work needed for the /different de-- "In addition to. duplication of plant and prob&@bly other additional expenses, $201,500 would have to be added to the annual operating ex-- penses if the university's college of agriculture were Picked up and lo-- cated elsewhere, according to the statistics. ~ R Aids Other Schools. -- 'That is true because the college of mgriculture does work for students. in other university colleges to the extent of $59,000, while its own (agricultural) students recelve the benefit of $142,000 worth of instruc-- tlon from these other colleges. _ AGAIN SURVEYOR "Of the tital sum of $433,294.50, expended by the college of liberal arts and sciences for salaries, Bf instruction, $227,433.18. was for in-- strution of students enrolled in that college, while . $77,883.81 . was for instruction in lberal arts and science courses given to students of the college of commerce. This same college expended $58,776.60 on stu-- dents of the college of enginecering, $43,375.59 on agricultural students, etc. g.n-u ldg Each Oother. "The same things are true of each of the colleges. Each one helps in the training of hte students 'of all the others. . "That is to say, each college, while taking care of its own stu-- dents is also a 'service college' for the students of other colleges and schools on the univeraity campus." Wilbur Glen Vollva of Zion in list« ed as ons of the creditors of Irving R. Itving, for whom an involuntary petition in bankruptcy bas been (lled in federal court -- in ~Milwaukeb Ir-- ving now is serving a JTil scntence for _obtaininng money ~under false mm«a Irving was sentenced to for collecting fire Insurance mo-- VOLIVA CREDITOR : OF MAN INJAIL a building after he had din 10924 STATES ATTY. SWEEPS INTO OFFICE BV BIG MAJORITY; ZION vOTE BIC FACTOR IN RESULTS 'GTATE'3s ATTORNEY -- A. V. Smith. . ' STATE SENATOR--Rodney Swilt. , ~REPRESENTATIVE--W. F. Weiss, ghr_les Francis, F. W. Ackerman or N. 1.,Jackson, former of MeHenry, nur of Boone. Failure of neighbor-- 'ing counties to compile returns makes result uncertain at this time). «. Never before in the history of poil-- tics in Lake County has it been nec« essary for the Dailly Sun to write its election story so late and in such an | uncertain manner-- so far &8 Lake County returps are concerned as at this time when the results of Tues day's primary are chronicled. In fi eral precinets the ones in charge not complete their counting untll to-- .day. In some places they worked all night, in other places they got their returns late sealed them and did not co--operate with those who are fur-- nishing the county returns to the ex-- tent of turning them in for a compil-- atlon in order to get the complete county returns. * , T. 1%) _ State's Atty. A. V. Smith has, been renominated 1y a tremendous major-- ity, this is positive. c y h . _At this 'tTime, 12:15 o'clock, to--day the way the situation lo_op:_ is thh Senator Swift seems to have been-- renominated by a safe majority but at this time the réturns are not in from McHenry and Boone Counties and telephone messages there 'seem 1to bring very indefinite «eports as to the vote on state senator there. . -- _ -- For surveyor it appears as though the race is very close between Sur-- mor Russell and Mr. Anderson of e Forest. .Coroner -- Taylor . has: been renominated without any: ques« ion by a big majority. It appears as though Gov. Small may have lost Lake County as a re sult of Zion plugging its vote for his op% However, the fact is that Gov: carried all the country districts an'd most of the procincts in Waukegan over Essington. > A casual glance at the fAigures also indicates that Carlstrom went along at about the same ratio as the gover-- nor and that the total vote betweeu McCormick and Deneen for U. 8. Sen-- aor was very close. T * milz Cm.c c¥ _ LC. A4 ¥Fawes" Thath. For Congressman at Large Rath-- bone and Yates will run to--gother and Mrs. Huck is defeated so far--as Lake County i# concerned. ~~In the--hmatter-- of ~Represcntative, Weiss of course leads not only Lake County but the entire district by. a tremendous vote. -- Francis is second in the race. The third place will go to Ackerman or Jackson but the in-- complete returns make it uncertain as to just who has won third place. Predictions are 'made by friends of both and until the final returns come in from Boone and McHenry County it will be uncertain. Zion of course plugged solidly for Weiss and the other candidates therefore did not get any vote in' the township of Benton. Wilmot for Clerk of the Circuit Court and:Brockway for Recorder of Deeds were unopposed as was Carl Chindblom for representgtive in con: gress. _ Cl + eeeennmetic nn® Lieut. Gov. Fred Sterling* swept Lake County with a tremendous vote and indications are that Chas, T. Stevenson got Lake County's support for State Treasurer. . _ us At this time the vote between Coo= lidge and Johnson so far as Lake County is concerned is running very close and'it is any man's majority up to the time the votes are counted. GLANCE AT FIGORES Seventh . precinect in Waukegan gave Small the biggest vote, 333 in fact that was the--largest vote polled in any Waukegan . precinet. Essing-- ton's vote in that precinct was 272. The Deerflelds did not as many peo-- ple predicted go solidly against Small, in fact bhe carried a number of the precincts,. For example he carried Desrfleld 1, 6, and 7 so it was in @Shields where he carried 3 but lost %. The Governor's greatest majm came in the township of Grant w precinets 1 and 2 gave a tremendous majority. This is the territory in which W. J. Stratton chief game war-- den resides. Wauconda came thru with a splendid majority for the gov: ernor as well. The (onr_gn, carried Avon 2 but lost Aven 1. Thais was a surprise as it was generally felt that he would carry both of those: pre-- cincts. » L It is noticed that Essington carried the north part of 'the city of Wauke gan whereas the southern precinets generally went to the governor, The governor and Esaington. rtdod atout even in the Doedrfield precinets. Es sington carried all three precinets in LibertyAIlle township. On the mat-- ter of State's Attorney there® wore very tew precinets in the entire coun: ty which A. V. Smith did not ug. His only oppapent of course was Mr. LitchBeld as the Agures show . that Deane and Weich made no M-a whatever in any precinacts in any of the county. . C l The vote in Benton Townbhip ahowas plainty rlt the Voliva: Crowd voted ans a unit and strangely hu.,% fArst time in political w LAKE COUNTY WINNERS Brock $1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE Lake | satisgfi¢ed --wit as at | have : the : s Tues. | that qutside n s6ye tm by so e ata | and ® that . Z! 11 to-- one¢an _nev edf ali | the governor thin i4 be w""' ; William J. Stratton,. chairman' of the Republican County Centrat Com-- mittes and chiet game warden. of the state, in speaking of the Lak®e County results, today said; * "I am entirely satisfied with the governor's showing, tor, with Zion vote against him solidiy and . with the golid=coast along the lake shore to the south, Lake county: was the hardest county in the state for us ¥6 Garry and the feltows down state' all conceded it. That's why | am eatigfied: with what we did. We have : the~ satisfaction of knowing «hat qutside of Zion, we carried the C y by something like 1,000 votes and | that . _Zion -- vote. is something engrcan never figure on. I'm sure the governor and other leaders will 'be # with what: Lake county has done in this avalanche of votes 'given to return. him to office.". > Stratton Says It's O. K. given to return.him to office." * _ THE RETVURNS : h _The . clection <returhns, q._i.far- as compiled, are printed in detail on the last page tonr.ht. There are a ftew tigures missing but not ~sufficient C NC 2 C pHati® 272 H0T Web o1 2. P to change resuits with the possible exception of coroner. : same candidates that the Zion chureh endorsed;s c 0 0o C0 . c i coorz : SsUARVEYOR UNCERTAIN At this time it is not certain wheth-- er Russell or:-- Anderson had won for Surveyor and that fact proves that it Zion had not endorsed Russell An-- dersou would kurely be victor. . An-- derson led in most of the precincts of the county outside of Zion. Hasty glance at. the : tabulations --does. not show any precinct in the county which' Coroner Taylor did not carrty. »fore, his total" majority --will be an --unusgually: big one. > For state senator George's strength seemed .to be on the. south side of Waukegan but in the total Swift car-- ried a large majority of the precinets alt orer the county. * Rush Call for Ballots. yes Proof that the deluge of votes was greater than those in charge of elec> tion matters had believed, was seen when, at 2;:30 County Clerk Hendea seceived a call for the second precinet. of Waukegan for a hundred additional ballots. Then at 3%:30 came another rush order for 200 additional ballots for Shields fourth. Rarlier in the day, at noon, 100. additional ballots had been ordered for Waukegan 1ith and 1%th. These rush orders> indicated that the voting was far heavier than rm the previous election for the orig-- Inal orders were based on the records of those eloctions. Thrse to One. Carlstrom beat ~Brundage . almost three to one in the 10th, the voto be-- ing 204 to 82. This was a--record shov-- ing in the race for attorney general in Lake county. .. _ f The First Returns. The Arst Waukegan precinct to com-- plete 'a vote was from -- the Tenth when J. A. Jensen of the Sun sent in the vote at 5:30 on state's attorney; the firat country district to report was Avgn 2 which reported Smail 117 and Essington 37. 'lépe Tenth was -- also the first precinct in the. county to make a complete return on all offices, THE SLOWEST COUNTING _ The slowest and most non--resultant situation in any Waukegan precinet was in ~Waukegan 12th on McAlister avenue,~where the vote was held up all night. 'The counters followed the ihckward method of counting vote for vote for every candidate, ballot after ballot rather than following the plan observed in all other precinets, . Of counting up the vote for respective candidates and 'etung totals m ingly. * x NA -,fi The result was that the 12th was the only precinct where no returns at all were available during f ing, in fact, none came in from. precinct until: this morning. . It was the only Waukegan precinet which fell down d?lonw. +338 999 However, the same was true of the Deerflelda--they were so slow and their returns that their fAgures were not availible until this morning when judges mada ~returns to the eu? hou'n'e. This was true of Deerflield 1, ;:1 4. Kiphe f "(:thm w:'lch did nglt":'c: in :fi were: Newport, # Deerfleld and Vernon, Antb:' 2, MBb-- ertyville 3.« _ -- * + < t Waukegan Fourth was also the slowest in the city. They get figures on the covmty until 9 o'clock and even then vote on' governor wasn't in that procinet. They followed a plan similar to the 12th but dospite the rounabout way o counting the 12th best. t*%«~ * L county: candidates. 3 «t % First Mm C soik ." ' are of having the fArst ,5','.? l Graham got 97 voes thero while . w P IF 6