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--.There could have been no finan-- & tmbm Mr. Bilharzs believes. thmuth ) always been a good saver and was considered "well off." He was also exceedingly temperate, rcording to friends, only taking a Klass of beer back in the "good old days." This indicates, in their .tMthopnlyesmh-m 1':::.""' his life was his poor _ The inquest, held at 11 o'clock at H showed that he had come his death from suicide by drown-- ing. Funeral arrangements have, not been completed. * _' That the installation of the motor bus service along the north shore in-- €lading the lines from Kenosha to &m Kenosha to Lake «eneva, wtc.. cost the North Shore Line an fial expenditure of $00,000 for the f twelive months, which has not "r been approximated in fares taken from the £62,000 customers the Arst year, was the statament made a few days ago by Britton --I. Budd, ,msldm of the line in addressing f Rotary-- Club g Evanston where the motor bus is to be in-- mtalled s@hortly. ~~~> *# . fish tugs by President Budd-s'ws Fare Re ~ceipts for Year Were Lower than the Cost. Then a quiet hunt was Mr. Budd mt!alnod that while the but lines at are not zum they help to m"m-': ' business to the cities they Rnd in Taiy way gradually build p'a ml.u business; He« said that the sould not he'. but build up the cities becauge they reach out and tap territory which --was practically in nccessible before.. . £. y A t the man. The police and Sher-- !wog,_nouned, but they were un fe to locate him. Even then they g:cmw\u.hmm Mr. Peterson was called to the ' being taken from the water to n Sohmuth, Deciared : Sui-- ie by Cofoner's Jury: Took uzmn:r'lmm &mm BAR CITY DOCK BY LAKE CAPTAIN ; his name, age, address, and giv-- ; the address of his nearest rela €e, & sister, Mrs. eBilike of Co-- ABY. e body was slightly mutilated, police are firm in' their belic! there was no foul play. . The ='M the head were thought | come from beating against ned Mr. Bilhars Monday mor learn if Schmuth was at w became alarmed because hbe . 'come: bhome. Mr. Bilbarz nday morning he s4G gons to doctor for nervous troubles, Hs --complained of being nervous for muth was last scen at 2 o'clock y safternoon when he left the of John Peterson at 301 Sher-- court. He had been a roomer 'for several years. * s r healith is thought to have the cause for the death. Police slose friends of the man Are ySntrrmsscces i« s= |14,000 BARBERRY _ "-------- _ | . BUSHES DESTROYED OTOR BUSSES ON _ | _ -- y waR ON RUST THE NORTH M smcs han in T mcite Wishes LIVED HERE 20 YEARS EDICTS BIG FUTURE COST CO. $300,000 LIBERTYVILL .--~----NQO. 40. say Iaziness is a con« e of ~Tunacy, <but. there ~ghys in Congress that by Capt. -- Richard the . Bmith Fishing he KIDNAPED GIRLS BACK, DAD MOVES ~ O GET THEM BACK Wiliam A. Taylor, Great o "rallroad bridge builder,: of M ~Wash., is reported to be spbeding back to.: Waukegan today in an of-- fort to get bhis two daughters, Ruth, 15, : and 'Harrlet, , 12, who. were whisked out of the Washington town last week by <their mother, Mrs. Jahn K. --Cook, 1505 Melrose Ave, Waukezgan, and. brought here. ;, Mrs. William A. Taylor De-- «~sclares ~She Will Fight to IS -- BACKED BY ~COURT The question of the custody. of the children following divorce pro-- seedings in Waukegan in 1920, has been a put aud take proposition, and sinte then 'Taylor and his ex-- wife have been"playing checkers' for possesslon of the girls. Taylor claims Mrs. Cook kiduazped the children, but sho --declared lnst pight that sho merely went out and got them and bas the backing of the circuit court in the possession ot them. They are now back in school in Waukegan and Mrs. Cook says she's going to.keep them here. Ars. ~Cook : fled divorce--against Taylor here July 6, 1920, charging him with cruelty. Ruth testified be-- foro: Judge Claire °C. Edwards that mabout May 15, 1919, she saw her father choke her mother, in & bed-- room in their home, and she was un-- 'consclous for some time and was 11 for a week afterward. The family then lived at 1202, Jackson Court. Judge Edwards grant the divorce Oct. 14, 1920, giving the father custody of all four children, there being Marion and Robert Taylor be-- sides the two over whom there is an interstate battle. In 1921, «how-- ever, Judge Edwards amended the order giving the custody of Ruth and Harriet to their-- mother; She remarried more than a year Ago, and . claims that relatives of her husband. xidnaped them and took -- them to Washington where they haye been with their father ever since. Efforts to bring Taylor back of charges of wife abandonment and non--support failed as the Washington authorities refused to grant extradition, °_ . . .Mrs. Cook waited unt!l the ex-- citement had blown over ~and ' two abouts he left Cashmere sudcuei/} and is now belleved to be on his way to Waukégan. The outcome 'of the case is being watched with in-- terest, and Mrs. Cook is reported to have laid the matter before the sher-- iff in an effort to prevent Taylor search. More than 14,000 barberry bushes were destroyed in Illinois during the summer eradication . campaign, ac cording to Gordon C. Curran, 'state leader of the department of agrt-- culture. Seven counties and parts AMEECIES 3 SPPWmP mPCPWEETTO CC © of two others were surveyed for barberrics by the depariment of ag-- rltc;ltm'o and three counties by the state. It has been definitely proved that the common barberry is the agent thru which black stem rust {s spread and that when the barberry is erad-- icated the rust will not survive the winter. . It is estimated around §,000,/ 000 bushels of grain are lost annually in this country due to black stem "One of the big advances in bar-- berry eradicatibon this year was the use of chemicals in destroying the bushes," Mr. Curran said. "Crushed rust, rock salt and sodium arsenite are used. Barberries infected with black stem rust were found as far south as Pana. o . # "Rock Island, Henry, Bureau, LA Salle, Grundy, Kendall, Will and parts of Lee and Cook counties were surveyed by the United States de-- partment of agriculiture. Members Oof the state department surveyed Livingston, Ford and _ Kankakee OL CRISIS PAST _ > _MOGUL DECLARES COhileago, Oct. 3.----(LN.8.))--The oriats in the ofl industry, which ho characterized : as ::t'm ::kmn: rompany '-n"m% N olny notors the + ore the convention ot American -- Oil Mon's : Association. "The present situation.is brought about by an economic condition dus to «over supply," ho »ventureds "We have gone through the transitory perlod and now are on the upward elimb. --A" groat -- future is assured. Within . the .gt five years the ol Keep Possession. he learned of their where a left Cashmere suddenly the girls. JINDEPENDENT Boyle Hears: Court . Order: Contempt : Victims 'Released; to Hear Arugments. * SET FOR HEARING OCT. 9 _ The Illlinois Supreme Court 'today granted Attorney eGneral : Brundage the --right to file briefs and set the date for hearing them as Oct. 9, in the case of Ben Newmark, now con-- fined in the county jalt in Waukegan who is serving a #entendo of -- siz months for contempt of court, as an. aftermath of the Gov. Smail jury firing tfl&.l.' ::lch resulted in the & f@&&)'!'.' v~ persops aAC-- brella Mike) Boyle, in which a *"AIn the case at Mithae! . (Om-- healts Wikeb Bovie. in which a mo tion for a writ of error and superse-- deas was filed Tuesday, the Su-- preme Court, according to a report be received this afternoon granted the motion. This means that Boyle, who has beenr in the Lake county jail for a month on action like that against Newmark,, will be admitted to bail until the Supreme court can hear the arguments, The Supreme Court last summer réfused to grant such a motion because Boyle was not in custody at that time. Boyle was informed that a dep-- uty:hefltthookmtyuon his way to Waukegan to serve notice on Sherif Ablstrom ordering his release OR INQUEST AROUSES INTEREST OF THE Attorney Inquest over the body Of FCrC) Tinsley, colored, was completed last night at Wetzel & Peterson's morgue bringing in a verdict of death from a fractured skull as the result of an automobile accident in which Ed. 'A:'mn'er. another negro, was the ver. Assistant -- State's Attorney 8. H. Block represented the state. He ex-- amined the smail number of witness es to the accident that happened last Saturday. it Sn en stt i5 Alexrander stated that he was driv-- ing east on 1l4th street. Chn{'ea Kas per was going . north on Ictoria. Alexander testified that ho didn't see the Kasper car and that he wasn't going over 15 miles an hour. He is being held under a charge of mah-- slaughter. * Kasper, who is um similar charge, declared that he almost come to a stop at the intersection of the streot. He stated he looked both ways but saw no cars approaching: He was almost Across the street when he was struck in the rear by the car driven by Alexander, _ : LIBERTYVILLE, LAKE COUXNTY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, Charles REdwards, who occupled a seat in the rear with Tinsley, testified that he was not familiar with automo-- biles and that he did not know the speed at which they were travaling. EEOERERE . CC Ees ERJce E* it Another witness to the accident de-- clared that the Alexander--automobile was traveling at a rate of 40 miles an hour, Kasper was exonorated of all blame by the jJury. Humans can't cesmo back,-- Melvin Poll, 11, tried *> equal the feats ot his Darw .. senitors and todiy is #uffering from abroken leg. The boy, with several playmsates, was c-fl- "evolution' which sonsisted clin.bing trees and jumping--from g: :- "n&u and yor d": , power T8vibey =_=--.-. the ghive. n itngs uin Central City, I!I., Oct. %.--(LN.8,) STATES ATTORNEY ney Block --Quizzes Wit-- es Following Death of Negro in Auto Crash. *comdm'u"h'tumuohw- champlon hog." Weight, 950 vpounds. with Frank!'in Deacon of Bordeatowa, N. J. Quite a few ham sandwiches, gh? -- --«»---- body of Percy Mn oi t UP orevin oi un prcmmizgitte # 6« Lake County' Mabe! McCullough (holdover); vice-- president, Mya. Jennié -- Hook (hold-- over); secretary, Mr. Richard Hook thoovider); treasurer, Mrs. C. D, The Gurnes Parent clation held jts firs the new year & TV cers were Russell. GURNEE P. T. ASSN. ELECTS OFFICERS PRINCE OF WALES UNABLE TO VISH WAUKEGAN NE SAYS Is TOO PRESSED FOR TIME ~Dr. Otto R. Thompsog, of Wauke gan, today récéived a letter from the Prince of Wales, who is vacationing on a ranch at High River, Aita., Can ada, stating that he would be unable to accept his invitation to come to Waukegan to visit his boyhood ac-- quaintance and also to be the guest of the Boy Scouts of Waukegan and North Chicago on his way home. _ _ 'The Prince, who became acquasinted with Dr. Thompson,; when the latter was a student at Oxford University, stated that there is no--possibility of his returning home through the Unit-- ed States because of limited time. "Lu~ _rince goes unds> he nameé of Lord Renfrew. As a boy he played with the village boys at Windsor, England, when his father, the present King of England, was the Prince of Wales. Lord Renfrew was known to the boys as "David." Dr. Thompson knew the Pr%eo about 22 years ago. His Royal Highness writes he very much appreciates<the' invitation and regrets his inability to accept. ALMOST TEMPTED 4 TO AGREE WITH WILBUR 6. VOLVA Under the caption "NO Sunrise--No Sunset," the: Los Angeles Express "Other "seemingly more important news development; have combined to obscure a really notable discovery made by Wilbur Glenn Voliva, over-- weer of Zion, I!1., and strong advo-- vate of the pleasing theory that this world of ours is quite flat and not round. hss t on l -- "According to Wilbur thers4s no such a phenomenon as & sunrise or a' sunset. Ift you insist to him that mnow the sunrises because other e have seen it rise,and that you know the sun sets becauso you yoar-- Helf have seen it set, he blithely an< awers: "Theso are only optical delu-- slons. --The sun is at the samb height above the garth at all times." The world being quite flat, of course does not revolye upon its akis, not having any axis. "It is in this fashion that the 'm errors we have been taught aro" to us to be the untrustworthy theories they are. Wilbur speaks with a per-- suasive conviction it is impossible to resist, not only on astronomical ~but theological ' problems. 'I belicre . in hell,' --he stoutly . asserts. ___-- o "When we consider Wilbur, . his sclentific discoveries, his rule of Zion, and other. qualitying and attendant factors, we aro almost tempted to agree with .him." . They say it costs to much to live, and you can't afford to die, so what are you going to do? A good chance Mufloamammcm to Agure thing out, --, .: ' to British Throne Writes 'Dr. Oifs h. Thompson, -- His Boyhood Playmate: Distinction s Big Weekly WAUKEGAN WEEKLY SUN ing for evening LAKE CO. SCHOOL GETS WRiTEUP IN LEADING JOURNAL again. -- This time it is one of its educational institutions. 'The Haw-- thorn school, located about two and a kaif miles from Libertyyille, is rated as a superior school, and the September issue of the Norman In-- structor and Primary Plans, one of Specialists in Rural Education Points Out_Hawthorn School. ~----. as Fine Example. _ PRAISE CO. SUPT. TEACHER the ~ foremost: publications-- of its kind, contains a full page writeup picturs * building, two being m 'school was completed County. Buperintendent T. Arthur Simpson said "all that is needed now is 'a. superior teacher." The board told him to go ahead and hire one. (He did. -- & Because of the modern furnish-- ings and equipment teaching 18 made easy.. The girl students have charge ol --ordering,. cooking and serving the noon lunch, and they thus get practical _ education in housekeeping, -- marketing, cooking and baking. The atmosphere in this school has developed real cordiality and self-- confidence, the timidity. and stgring eurlosity so often found in many schools being (missing. The article praises very highly the work of the county superintend-- ent and the teacher for the success ELKS PLAN THER _ HARVEST BALL FOR Wheels were started moving to-- day by Justice Charles Mason, gen-- eral chairman of the Elks dance committee, for one of the biggest balls of the year that is to be held at the Masonic Temple Oct. 26. .._. _ Charles E. Mason Named as General Chairman of the Dance Committee Today. Hoe has seleCted as his general committes Harry Hoyt, Lew Hendes, Frank Murphy and Jack Heath Jr. The event will be known as the Harvest ball. PLAN -- ELABORATE _ HOP _ _Other committes, such as refresh ment, 'musiq and floorg. committees will be named Jlater this week. . _ Lake county is in the limelight Washington, Oct. $,Natfonal banks mlormtom&nmban ing functions beyond the limits of the city in which they are located after a ruling just handed down by Attorney Goneral Daugherty, it was announced -- today ' by Comptroller ~of the Curreaty Dawes. POWER OF BANKS _ LIMITED TO CITY OCT. 26 AT TEMPLE school. It is shown here BRIDEGROOM WAS KIDNAPED, CHARGE BY PARENTS' FRIEND Lake Bluff Scandal Laid Be-- for Police: Hunt Prominent CLAIM 'BRIDE Is ONLY 16 Charging that hbe was kidunaped when he went to the home of his bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil-- Mam Pilerre De Vay, 534 Ravine Ave. prominent residents of Lake Bluff, the day after he and Miss Ruth Jeane De Vay were married in Wau-- kegan, Roy Kenneth Nance, a sol= dier in the Second Regiment, Fort Sheridan, today laid before the Wau-- kegan authorities charges that in-- volve a prominent local business 'I. who is alleged to have kidnap him and also impersonated--an UCHRUVOE The bngnn man is a neighbor of the De 'Vay's, and Nance claims that apparently he was acting for pe Vay, who opposed the marriage ot his daughter claiming that she is only 16 years of age. . Miss De Vay and Nance came to Waukegan Saturday and obtained a marriage license. She gave her age as 19, and according to the license clork appeared --to be of legal age. They said they had arranged with a local m'nister to perform the cere-- mony. The marriage certificate had not been returned today. _ when he went to the De Vay home, the nelighbor representing himself 'to be an officer of the law compelied him to get into his automobile and took him to Fort Sheridan under the pretext that the army officials wanted him for marrying a girb under legal ago.. He c.aims that after inquiry there it v is learned that there was no such clharge pending. Ffie calims that bhe would not have gone with the neighbor if he had not told him that he was an officer. j Nance informed the Fort Sherh: officials that he would lay themat before the states attorney. The name of the neighbor is withheld because no warrant has been issued. -- MORE MEN THAN JOBS IN STATE _ AT PRESENT TIME Chicago, II1., Oct. 3.--Due to tht influx of workers into Illinois from other industrial centers, there are at present only 85 "positions . for every 100 applicants, according to the an-- nouncement of the lllinois Free Em ployment offices. § Over on West Madison street, the "Bindle Stiffs" and '"Gandy Dane ers" have a different story Work is never difficult to obtain on the road when the weather is pleasant. But there are hard days abead. _ The "Bindle Stiff" is the jOWO! form of the genus homo in the hobo fraternity. -- His name is derived from the small bundle usually car-- Hed on a stick over his shoulder. The "Gandy Dancer" is one: Step higher in the order and gets hbis name from intermittent jobs as tie tamper. The bums who sleep in the parks belong to an entirely differefAt The girl is at the home of her par-- ents. Nance showed to the Fort Sheri-- dan officials whal is purported to be the marriage certificate, and announc-- ed his intention to have his bride re-- join him, it he has to take legal steps to do so. * o e mick m 5§ The alleged kidnaper® when inter" viewed today declared: "It is & cloted skipper." One "Gandy Dancer" opened up and said "There is always lots of jobs when you don't need 'em, but there is a long cold winter coming when there won't be half enough to. go around. Then when one of thesa labor agencies hangs out a sign say-- infg.--'Fifty men wanted for track work,' there will be two or three hundred Bos banging around trying to get a. ticket. The lucky stiffs are shipped out the same night, usually on top of a car of empty milk cans. <-- When they arrive at the construction camp they are is sued blankets, ~but before turning in, the--commissary clerk takes their coats and hbats and keeps them for security, because he is afraid the gang will pull out in the morntng after baving a good night's flop and breakfast on the company. "But ; don't let these blank-- ety--blank :intl get away with kick ing them around very long. As soon as. they get a stake of six or eight dollars they beat it back to '*Chi' and bave a big blowout and get a warm flop for a few nights, 'Then it starts all over again." Life i8 just one kick after another, Othat is why the boys are so tough." incident: you get nothing from=~me, ho eP c n g C Ip Benches in Grant . Park along Michigan boulevard ate well filled these sunny fall days. But Officer MHogan, who has been on the park beat for the-- last eighteen . years, gaid that this was no indication of the labor situation in the city. "These hobos you see in the park would not work for $100 a @Gay," Hogan said, "and as soon as the nights get too cool to sleep in -- the open they disappear like. fhes in the winter time.' ' When asked 1t they --#pent . much time over in Grant Park, one of the "RMindle Stiffs" said: | /. ds _"Naw! We don't hang out with them high--brows over on the Ave-- Waukegan Man. le Stilf" is the lowest genus homo in the hobo His name is . derived rall bundle usually car-- tick over his shoulder, -- Dancer" is one Step he order and gets his intermittent jobs as tie Due to the Statiatics ~show . that . nt . much |ette has made the ar© e of the |You might have t n . un! Lk : < . W se out with ! fanoit,. but Uiman -- the Ave--| becauso _ comparatively _| .Thaye the nerve to borrow | $1.50 PER YEAR, JIN ADVANCE ROBBERS CLEAN OUT PETERSON CLOTHING STORE Bending back iron bars over &A window, forecing the lock from the outside and entering a space about two fcet by four feet wide, robbers last night entered the J. K. _PAct:r- son and Company's men's furnishing store at 113 North Genesee street and carried away thousands of--doF lars worth of new overcoats,> suits and $60 in cash that had been left in the cash register for early morn-- The police are searching vainly in an -- attempt to apprehend the rob-- Hundreds of Winter Suits and Overcoats Stolen from Lo-- cal Clothing Store. ENTER 'REAR _ WINDOW VCHS. Mr. Peterson and his partner had worked until after 12 o'clock last night checking over new stocks of overcoats and suits for fall and winter wear. The. stocks had ~ just been resolved and the ~store Wwas crowded "with valuable merchandise, ber: and bent six of the ends of bars back to . leave. & space a % by 4 feet. The window was fc down from the top and the robber entered and opened the door which is fastened by a heary --wooden bar, «M was but Aafew minutes work for them to carry out hundreds of evercoats, 100 new suits and grab the $60 which was left in the open cash register for change. The safe door was open as it contains: only valuable papers Papers were scat-- tered all 'over the place and the robbers made good their escape with a valuable load of expensive cloth ing. The 100 new suits that were stol-- en 'are valued at $50-- each and more. 'The overeoits are valued from $45 to $§5 each and --although.no check on tha--goods missing has yet been $50was overlooked by the tobbers; Boxes containing many fine shirts to sell from '$6 to $10 were ignored and 'the stocks of new hats were not _ The police weer notilied of. the robbery and investigated, but up to a late hour today no trace had been found of the. missing. goods. Former Streator Mayor: Elect-- ed by Representatives. of °_ Six Candidates. ESSINGTON TO RUN AGAINST GOV. LEN SMALL ENDS DRAWN OUT BATTLE State Senator Thurlow G. 'Essing-- ton, former mayor of Streator, H1., was sgelected yesterday by the rep-- resentatives of six avowed or poten-- tial Republican candidates for gov» ernor to oppose Governor Len Smail for the Republican nomination. The selection was made after more than a score of bailots had been taken by the tweive men sitting in the conference, two representing each of the anti--Smail candidates. The selection of Senator Essington came after an all--day meeting of the representatives of the various candt dates, and he was picked by a pro-- cess of "self--elimination." Brundage at Conference, Thoseo -- represonted at the conféer-- ence were former Lieutenant Gover» nor John G. Oglesby, Elkhart; fitlto Senator Otis F. Glenn, oro; 8. 8. Tanner, Minier; Attorney Gen-- eral Edward J, Brundage; John H. Harrison, Danvilie, and Senator Es-- sington. William Boyes and 8. 8. Jones of Streator, represented : Mr. Essington at the conference. } Ends Long Battle. United States Senators Medili Mc« Cormick and . William B. lelm sitting in the conference with La n.zea ¥. lhermu;'ul former sonator: a present nat % committeeman from lllinois, at f request of twelve representatives called attention to the ity for the candidates to eliminate . thet selves by' withdrawing in favor. some one of the group as method of arriving at 4 h conclusion. N ARODF :\ The selection of Senator Bas ended x long drawn out battle the alx candidates, any one of was 'predicted to _ stand --A -- againxt Governor minutes ~woOrk it hundreds of uits and grab ft in the open nge. The safe . 'containg only yers were scat-- place and the #89