May Annex Territory

Evanston will endeavor to settle the problem of the "blind pigs" on the outskirts of the city by annexing the territory in which they are located and thus bringing them under the jurisdiction of the police.It is said that "if the district were under the authority of the Evanston police the "blind pigs" would not last a day."
Following the notion of Deputy Sheriff Changelon, who is also a local alderman, on July 4, in having a photograph made of Jacob Kuba, who had been stabbed, shot and beaten to a pulp in a fight in one of the "blind pigs," it developed yesterday that a campaign had been carried on for some time in secret and was well on its way for the annexation of the territory.
Many obstacles confront those pushing the plan. Although all the residents in the territory are more than willing to sign the petition, most of the property is owned by people scattered over the entire country from Florida to California. Letters by the score have been written to these persons but they have been reticent to sign for fear of an increase in their taxes should the territory be annexed.

To Show Photograph
Alderman Changelon decided it would be a fine thing to show the state's attorney's office in Chicago Kuba's photograph to impress on the oficials the need of wiping out what Evanston considers the pest spot of Cook County.
The Evanston authorities and the Four-Mile League complain that it has been impossible to interest the state's attorney's office in the need of wiping out the lawless places, and the showing of the photograph as a "horrible example" might arouse this needed interest, it was hoped.
Alderman James R. Smart, who is also an official in the Four-Mile league, told today of the quiet campaign that has been carried on for some time toward annexing the territory to the city of Evanston.
"We have to get a majority of the residents of the district to sign a petition for annexation," said Alderman Smart, "and, what is vastly more difficult, to get a majority of the property owners to sign. We have been sending petitions to these property owners, who live in almost every state of the Union, and they are making all sorts of objections, mostly on account of a probable increase of taxes. This seems to be the only real way to close the "blind pigs."
Chief of Police Shaffer has also ordered that the patrol wagon or the ambulance shall not answer calls hereafter for the district, but that any of the brawlers who cross over the city limits shall be at once arrested.