Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 282, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1903 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1903.

THE DAI LT JOURNAL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9. 19C3.

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Do they get municipal reform from Democrats nies? Wlnerooma were in existence during the six years of the Taggart regime, but no keeper of one was ever sent to the workhouse, v Tha News seems to be mad at Mayor Bookwalter for not adopting the Charies E. Haugh method of making offi ial appointments. On tha question of maintaining her domination in Manchuria Russia stands pat, and after sornf palavering all other powers will conclude to let her stand. The defeat of Book wait er would oc a real Republican victory. News. Yen, if a better Republican were running against him. but not with a Democrat. The Louisville Courier-Journal charges that the Republican managers are importing negro voters from this city. Only think of it, with Kentucky full of the raw roatarial! Did anybody really believe that Russia would comply with her promise to evacuate Manchuria? Superior force of arms is the only thing that ever drives Russia out of any territory. Professional reformers make the "easiest picking" Democratic politicians meet with in the course of their professional work. Getting their support is just like robbing a child's bank. Prof. Langley's hard luck balloon has finally eno 1 In total collaps. and the pulv lie is not half so eager to know the secret principle on which it was to work as it a few months ago. The Hammond School Hoard has tacitly admitted serious irregularities, but. strange as it may seem, the members do not like Mayor Knotts, who discovered the frauds and insisted on an investigation. "There la a generation that are pure in their own t yes. and yet 1 not washed from their Althing." (Prov. xxx. 12.) And the promisers of Democratic refjrm arc they who ay: "We are h dier than thou." 'The ancient and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacher lies, he is the tall." (I?aiah x. 15.) In this campaign James L. Keach 1 the head, and the tail Is but that is another story. Th editorials of tha News In support Of Holtxman are music to the gamblers, who always have things their own way under a Democratic administration, and who know "Johnny" as th?ir favorite lawyer when they get into trouble. If there were a few weeks more of the campaign Holtxman might begin to believe Ma typewritten speech himself. Just like the fellow that told his companions so much About a mythical bulldog at his home that lb finally got to believe that he really had a dog. Of course, the British stock market was mot disturbed by the failure of Russia to evacuate Manchuria. Great Britain is not Coin to Indulge in a fruitless war on that subject a fact which the Russian government understood pretty well when it determined to hold the prov in A hopeful sign of the times is the meeting In this city of the national officers of a large number of building trades unions to devise measuree for abolishing strikes. With large employers and conservative labor leaders co-operatit g to that eud good results ought to be reached. Considering what the Governor of Kentucky said to the Governor of Indiana at 8 festive camp table, and what followed the remark, it Is not at all likely that the Governor of Kentucky would purposely affront the Governor of Indiana. It was Imp y a little misunderstanding. The chances are largely thut the Might f Govei.-.or Beckham to Governor Durbin WSJ purely accidental. It Is sincerely to be hoped that there will be no bellicose demonstrations in consequence thereof, for with the troops of both States on the ground under arms w- niixht dvelop a OtvM war in less than no time. Among the "assets' of a national bank at Red Bank. N. J., have been discovered notes aggregating $30,000, bearing the signature of a carpenter working by Che da: od owning no property, Indorsed

by the cashier, who recently pleaded guilty to embeszlement. Evidently a new bank examiner for New Jersey should be appointed forthwith. And, by the way, a provision In the banking act for the punishment of criminal carelessness on the part of bank examiners would not be a bad thing. THE PEOPLE OT FOOLED. In the closing days of the city campaign it seems very evident that the effort to fool the people of Indianapolis into the notion that a mediocre lawyer, backed and controlled by a gang of Democratic politician? who have in the past fattened off local politics, stands for reform in local government and that good government can be had by boosting such a combination into office, will miserably fail next Tuesday. It may be possible to fool all the people sometimes, but this is not one of these times. About the only people that have been deceived are two or three members of the Citizens' League executive committee. The professional reformers in this organization and the News are not deceived much, if any.

but they have such strong personal reasons for opposition to Bookwalter that they are willing to grasp at anything for that purpose, even to the point of sacrificing the city of Indianapolis to a repetition of the Taggart regime. The great body of the people of Indianapolis are neither blinded by personal grievances nor fooled by the remarkable campaign of mlsrepreientatiou and abuse waged against the mayor. They have eyes to see the improved physical condition of the city and they are not so foolish as to believe that the city has been thrown "wide open" since Logsden brought his libel suit, which marked the beginning of the daily publications of descriptions of gambling games that nobody but News reporters seem able to get into. That paper daily declares that three different gambling houses are running. The men said to be operating them say they are not, and the police are unable to lind indications of their operation. The paper speaks of large crowds present, yet seems unable to name a single man and thus its tales are taken by the public at just about their true appraisement. Mr. Bookwalter's administration has not been perfect, by any means, yet it must be admitted that he has had many difficulties to contend with. One cannot take a city in which the administration has been corrupt for six years and clean It up in a day, nor in a year. He cannot take an empty treasury and a big floating debt and bring about a highly satisfactory financial condition in a few months. But the progress made by the Bookwaltef administration in the financial regeneration of th' city, in its physical Improvement and in its moral tone has been a very real progrcss'toward better things, and the people know it. And the developments from the very beginning of the campaign to the present have indicated that they have no notion whatever of interrupting this progress by turning the city over to Messrs. Keach, Holt, Taggart and Polster to be milked through their puppet candidate, Holtzman. THK NKYV YORK T Willis' At this distance it Is just a bit difficult to see why Grout and Fornes, nominated respectively for controller and president of the Board of Aldermen with Mayor Low on the Fusion or reform ticket in New York, should be ousted from this ticket because Tammany indorsed their nomination and they were not disposed to repudiate such an indorsement. If Grout and Fornes were honest and capable men when they were first nominated with Low, their indorsement by Tammany did not make them either dishonest or incapable and it is to be supposed that the leaders of the various parties and factions making up the fusion ticket had looked well into this question before they were nominated. On the presumption that they were honest and capable, why was not their indorsement by Tammany a good thing since it assured their election and made it certain that at least these two important offices would be filled with men of the right kind? Presumably the new nominees of the Fusionists are also honest and capable men, and thus it m ikes no particular difference as to which side shall win, as related to these two offices, but undoubtedly it will make a difference which wins the mayor alty, and it seems to one not familiar with the details of the situation thnt the Fusionists have lost a distinct tactical advantage. So long as Tammany indorsed a part of their ticket the Tammany people did not have much of an argument, for by thus admitting that part of the Fusion ticket was good the Democruts necessarily implied that good judgment had been used all along the line by the Fusionists in selecting tin :r nominees, but now the latter have shown that they were not at all sure of their men and stand as having at one time heartily indorsed two of the men on the Tammany ticket. One cannot pretend to fathom the intricacies of New York politics from "out West." but it looks very much as if Tammany had outgeneraled its opponents in this particular episode. THE XEWS AM) THE HAUGH STORY. Striking proof of the unfairness and malignity of the News is seen in its attempt to connect Mayor Bookwalter with the Haugh-Seibert transaction two years ago, iu which Haugh tried to buy an appointment on the Board of Public Works by contributing J30U to the Republican campaign fund. When the story first came out everybody saw at a glance that Mr. Bookwaiter had no connection with the transaction, beyond repudiating it when it came to his knowledge, and presumably ordering Haugh's contribution to be returned to him, us was done. Haugh's present attempt, under the coaching of the News, to connect Mr. Bookwalter with the transaction does not amount to anything, because by his own confession he is a discredited witness. A Democrat who will try to buy an office under a Republicau administration by contributing to the campaign fund is too devoid of moral sense to be believed regarding anything. Having discredited himself and ! :i repudiated by the Republicans, he is just about fit to train under the banner of Holtxman and reform, where he now is. The News aerves the story up again In an editorial which garbles the facts, suppressing those which show that Mr. Bookwait r h id nothing to do with the transaction, and says: "Whether Mr. Bookwaiter was a party to the deal Is a question." A question with whom? Certainly not with any fair-minded person conversant with the facts. Almost in the next seutence the Newa says: "Mr. Book waiter told Haugh that he knew nothlug whatever about the affair until after the election." 'hen, as there la not a particle of evidence that Mr. Bookwalter had an-thin to do

with the transaction, and as he told Haugh that he knew nothing about it. It Is not a question whether he was party to it. On the (outrary. It is evident that he was not, and the fact that Haugh was repaid the money which he had contributed to the Republican campaign fund on the assurance of some unauthorized person that he should have an office shows that the whole transaction was repudiated by some person in authority as soon as It came to the knowledge of that person. Who was that person in authority if not Mayor Bookwalter? Who else could it have been? The News grows quite earnest in behalf of Haugh, who failed to get the office he thought he was paying for, and correspondingly Indignant at Mayor Bookwalter for repudiating the transaction 'instead of carrying It out as Haugh hoped he would. "Th s is a matter to which we think Mr. Bookwalter should give some attention," it says. Why should he give it any attention? Nobody believes he had any connection with it, nor does anybody believe that the News believes It. It is simply trying by garbling the facts and by innuendo to create the impression that Mr. Bookwalter was a party to the transaction, and that he did Haugh great injustice by repudiating it. It holds Hatgh up before the community as a man who has been wrougVd because he did not get the office he thought he was buying. In its anxiety to smirch Mr. Bookwalter it has placed itself in the position of indorsing the Haugh-Seibert deal as a proper way of making public appointments, and of concit b wing the repudiation of the transaction as an act of gross injustice to Haugh. If there is any truth in the story at all, the guiltiest man of those connected with the transaction was Haugh, yet the News, without a word of condemnation for him, grows indignant at Mr. Bookwalter, who had nothing to do wih the transaction beyond repudiating it. If this is the kind of fairness practiced by "independent" papers, the Journal is thankful that a party organ does not have to resort to such methods. The Journal has the greatest respect and the kindest feeling for the independent Republicans who are going to vote for Mr. Holtzman. It admires men who have the courage of their convictions, even If they are mistaken. Tb next be.st thing to being right is to think you are right. The Journal does not think these Republicans have suificient reason for their course, but th;it is their affair. Th. y are still Republicans, and in due time they will come

back to the party fold with an improved appetite for true Republicanism for having fed a while on the husks of Democratic reform. Then they will fall on the Journal's m k and admit that they were mistaken, and the Journal will forgive them. The fatted calf will hang high and everything will be lovily. The relations between Russia and Japan have suddenly become strained, leading to some warlike movements, but there will be no war. Japan is spoiling for a fight and is foolish enough to think she could whip Russia Single hind Sd. but other powers know better and will find some way of convincing Japan of the suicidal folly of attempting such a thing. The real bone of contention is not Manchuria, but Korea, and if Russia can convince Japan that in holding the former she has no designs against the latter, Japan will probably consent not to whip Russia, and the war j cloud will blow over. As far as modern , civilization and progress are concerned, it is much better that Manchuria should re main under Russian control than revert to Chinese. ' THE HUMORISTS. (cuius Defined. Detroit Free Press. Oussle What is genius, anyway? Gertrude To ray mind, it consists in always having clothes that lit. The Fool Supply. The melancholy autumn days return, And many an erstwhile gay and festive soul Who seemed in summer to have cash to burn Is worrying now about the price of coal. Washington Star. Is There Onef Good anecdotes Is lots o' fun. Hut sometimes I git thinkin' I'd kinder like to hear jit one Thet hain't bin swore on Lincoln. Catholic Standard. Looking for Sport. ChlcaRo I'ost. She was city bred, and had the usual fear of COWS. Why." she asked, when the danger was past, "did you take me across this lot?" The small country lad chuckled. "I thought it would be fun," he said, "to see you try to climb a tree." Then, after another chuckle : 'And it was." Cnpnhlc Appetites. Nrw York Evening Sun. The man paused. "Perhaps I am only casting pearls before swine," he moaned, sorrowfully. Aprightly young sow cocked up a coquettish car. "Kven so," she answered. "Even so, you don't suppose for a moment, do you, that we are iniv. pa tie of diing the Cleopatra act?" A New Expluuntlon. New York Si-n. The Prodigal Son was explaining matters to his father. "You're 'way behind the times, dad." he exclaimed; "I have merely been a sociologist on a latle slumming trip." Overjoyed at this view of the matter the old man look him to his arms. Life's Incertnlntiea. They advertised a lawn fete They wire game. In spite of zero weather People came. But the ice cream that they had Smelled of moth balls mighty bad. Fur the folks had worn thiir overcoats Anu sealskins Just the same. New York Evening Sun. Thnt Would Settle It. i t leveland Plnin Dealer. "Just think of it, George! Both your maiden aunts are cumin" to make us a visit to-morrow, ard cook has Just lei't." "Can't you gat them to postpone their visit?" It's too late." "And what do you propose to do?" "Why, 1 suppo 1 11 have to put on an apron and do the cooking myself." "Will ycu? Then y. u needn't worry any more. They aun t iftay lung." Corsets untl llarburiNni. Chicago Post. The women's congress at Hnburg- haa 1 .tred the corset to be barbarous. We must object to this, as we do not believe any barbarian ever was benighted enough to wear one. Let the Proclamation laioe. Washington Post. Mr. Brysn has decided that he will go to Europe after all. so there is no occasion for further delay by the Preaident In issuing nia Thanksgiving proclamation.

FROM SWAMP TO FARM

REMAHKAMLE TRANSFORMATION IX THK KANKAKEE VALLEY. Thounnnd of Acres on Which Cat tails BSS if In i;mm) Now Maacnlfieent Fields of Corn. MANY MILES OF DITCHES CUT Ahoi I SEVENTY-SIX S(IAHE MILES OF LAND TO HE DRAINED. Great Expendltnie of Money That Has Met with Rich Reward-Corn Stalks Over Twelve Feet Illnrh. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. I. A PORTE. Ind., Oct. S. From cattails in 1900 to magnificent fields of corn in tells the story of the wonderful development of the Kankakee valley, in the southwestern part of Laporte county, as a result of tlie remarkable achievements of a syndicate of m n who came to this county two and one-half years ago with energy, capital and a discernment of the future possibilities of the south end of the county which many nearer home failed to appreciate. These gentlemen undertook their herculean task with an abiding faith in the soundness of their Judgment, aryi in less than three years they have brought about a condition of affairs along the valley which had scarcely been dreamed of and which has converted swamps and marshes into as beautiful and productive lands as lie out of doors anywhere. The story of this great transformation reads like a romance. Less than three years ugo a party of six Pontiac, 111., men formed a syndicate, and in the name of W. F. Cook, one of the six, secured an option for the purchase of T.uOU acres of Kankakee swamp land from the Iluncheons, the purchase price being 16ö,u00. The new owners at once formed the La Crosse Land Company and began the development of the land on a scale of magnitude never before heard of in this country. While they were working out their plans for the reclamation of the Huncheon tract agents for the company gradually acquired other pieces of land, until the Tuesburg Land Company, with 1.4SU acres, and the McWilliams Land Company, with 5,2j0 acres, were formed, while still more land was bought by friends of the men in the syndicate. To-day the syndicate and its friends own or are redeeming a total of 10,000 acr i of land in the Kankakee vallev. Lhfl estimated value of the holdings being more man .uou.uuu. The members of the land companies composing th- syndicate are Charles 11. Tuesburg, David 11. Meyers, John Murphy, C. A. Legg, A. L. Legg and W. F. Cook, in the La Crosse Land Company; Charles EL Tuesburg, Lemuel Darrow, James Brown, B. F. Johnson, Frank J. Cook, Rev. Charles Doney ami Thomas Foohey, in the Tuesburg Land Company, and John McWilliaiiis., jr., John McWilliams, sr., David S. Meyers, . F. Cook and J. S. Van Buskirk, in the McWilliame Land Company. Heavy individual land owners in and outside the syndicate are C. H. Tuesburg. D. S. Meyer, W. F. Cook. S. L. Knapp, W. J. Keller and Judge White. SEVENTY-SIX SQL'ARE MILES. The allied interests now working the grand transformation in the valley have a total acreage covering approximately seventy-six square miles. This land is located in Dewey, L'nion, Prairie, Johnson and llanna townships in Laporte county, while some lies in the southeastern part of Porter county. All of it butts on the Kankakee river and stretches in unbroken line along that stream for forty miles. Mosf of the land lies on the north side of the river, but some scattering tracts are in Starke county and on the south side of the stream. As fast as the land was acquired from the former owners the syndicate, with C. H. Tuesburg and George C. Cook as managers and directors, joined in the general reclamation scheme, and steps were taken to drain the ground and get it under cultivation. The first thing that was demonstrated to them by observation waa that the land, which then lay under water the greater part of the year, was not submerged from the overflow of the Kankakee river, but the water came from the streams above and that the land by proper drainage could be made as free from surplus water as any other farm lands In Laporte county. With this purpose in view the syndicate, through its official head began the great task of securing ditches and drains. There were many long and bitter struggles in the courts before the famous M teil! r. Cook. Place and Kankakee reclamation ditches were Anally ordered and later constructed. The Place ditch was by far the greatest undertaking, for it is over twenty-tWo miles long. Is uniformly sixty feet wlde eight feet deep and drains an area fifty miles square. It cost 000 and the time consumed in litigation and construction was about eighteen months This and tho Machler ditch were the beginning ot the wonderful development which has since steadily followed. The Cook ditch is about fourteen miles long and drains more valuable land. while the Machler ditch, constructed under authority of the Laporte Circuit Court, is of almost equal importance with the Place ditch and is ten miles long, fifty feet wide and eight fast deep. These are the public drains, and while all of the contiguous property ben - rited pnld a proportionate part of the coat, the syndicate bore the bulk of the burden, as its holdings were so much larger tnan any other land owners. Supplementing the public ditches the syndicate built over IS miles of private drains on and around its own lands, spending $33.000 for this purpose last year, has laid over 100 carloads of ten and twelveinch tiling, has built bridges, opened and graced r.-ads, built homes, rhurcn schoolhouses. etc.. until the expenditures st .er the ordinary citlren to contemplate As fast as a particular section of land was drained by the big ditches and the private drains it was set off for cultivation. i: utlful dwellings, barns and outbuilding-' each group costing over $4.000. have been erected ;ind a tenant placed on the ground to till the soil. The syndicate has about twi nty tenants, and will have more than fifty when all the land has been reclaimed These farmers have taken the virgin soil and after ireaking the .od for the first time have planted corn and allowed It to take care of itself. It has done so to such an extent that it is no uncommon sight to ei stfilks twelve and fifteen fed high. Such corn is rarely seen elsewhere. The ears are immense, full and we'l-rounded out and average more than fifty bushels to the acre. IMMENSE CROP OF CORN. A party of Laporte gentlemen was, the other day, taken over this immense plantation and in driving through a field of corn a mile square the corn towered over the topa of the buggies. This extends over 6.'"io acr-s of reclaimed lnnd. most of it Bader cultivation this summer for the first time. It is estimated that the crop of corn which the syndicate will harvest this fail will exceed 300,000 bushels, which will make 370 carl, ads, or more than five big trains. One of the peculiar features of this monster project, for nothing like It exists elsewhere in Indiana, is the fact that not one acre of the nearly 50.000 acres in the control of the syndicate can be bought, but, on the other hand, the companies are in the market to add to their holdings, for they :ze the great possibilities of the Kankakee valley land. The statement is made that the entire holdings cost the members of the pyndleate an average of $21.90 per acre, while the current price of similar land in the neighborhood is now $47.50. some tracts being held as high as $100 per acre. It is expected that when the drainage scheme is fully perfected and the river finally straightened all of the land in the vjclnlty will be worth the latter figure. The syndicate intends to place a farmer on every half section of land it controls as

rapidly as reclaimed. The lessee is to be furnished with a suitable home and other necessary building?, but he must apree to keep 9o many men, so many horses, cultivate so many acres in corn, oats or whatever the owners may select, according to the size of his tract. The first year the company exacts one-third 'f the earnings of the farm for rent and thereafter it will require the payment of two-fifths of the income. It is calculated that In eight years the tract will pay itself out on this V and then the owners will have their money back and still own a vast amount of the b st land In Laporte county the garden spot of the world. One of the assets secured In the purchase of the Huncheon tract by the syndicate is the site on which the present town of Lacrosse is built It is the plan of the gentlemen composing the syndicate to ultimately make this place one of consequence, but Mr. Tuesburg says that it is the purpose to bring all the farm lands to a nearly perfect state of cultivation before the town is allowed to boom much. The village in its present state has felt the influence of the wonderful growth, more than twenty new homes, many elegant, occupied by the heads of the syndicate, have been built in the past year. All of the newcomers are cultured and of the best types of American citizenship. GATHERING OF BAPTISTS

PROGRAMME ARRANGED FOR CONVENTION AT BLOOM IN GTON". Fhe Hundred Visitor and Delegates Expected to Attend News of Indiuua Churches. Special to th Indianapolis Journal. BLOOMINGTON, Oct. 8. All details and the programme have been arranged for the meeting of the Indiana Baptist State Convention to be held here next week, Oct. 13 to 16. It is expected, judging from the correspondence, that fully 500 visitors and delegates will be here and they will be entertained as guests of our citizens. Dinner and eveniug lunch will be served by the Baptist ladies in the church basement. The convention closes Friday evening at 7:30 and every congregation in the State is expected to have a representative. The programme opens Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock by the address of welcome aud after the annual sermon by the Rev. J. V. Field an informal reception will follow. The sessions of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday will be divided into three parts 9, 2 and 7:30 o'clock. A visit to the university will be au incident of the convention. BISHOP GRANT'S WORDS. He IIa Something to Say Rcvurdiue the Hare Question. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PARIS, 111., Oct. 8. At the second day's session of the Illinois Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in this city to-day the delegates to the General Conference were instructed to secure, if possible, the return of Bishop Abraham Grant, D. D., of Indianapolis, to the Fourth Episcopal district, and resolutions highly praising the bishop were adopted. During the morning session Bishop Grant referred to the race question. During his remarks he made this statemerft: "In the problem of developing let us bear in mind that men anu women will be killed, they will be lynched, but what we ask is that the country will take its eyes off the men and women who are being lynched and turn to the 2OO.O00 who stand for each one lynched and who are working hard. Investing their money in homes and educating their children. I hear men say that we do not seek social equality, but I have never made this declaration to any white man, because I want all that my position, my behavior and manners warrant me in having. I have been entertained by Gladstone, by Senator Allison and other great white men of this country and abroad, and I do not want to step below it. 1 have also been entertained by eminent men of my own race, and, of course, 1 felt more at home with them." The election of delegates to the quadrennial General Conference, which will be held in Chicago next May, resulted as follows: Delegates, the Rev. A. J. Burton, the Rev. N. J. McCracken and the Rev. P. C. Cooper; alternates, the Rev. H. Simons, the Rev. II. Lackey and the Rev. P. M. Lewis. John L. Turnbo and George Jesse were chosen lay delegates. ' FRIENDS' FOREIGN MISSIONS. Annual Meeting of the American Board Held at Richmond. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 8.-The annual meeting of the American Friends' Board of Foreign Missions was held in Richmond today at Earlham College. All the members of the board were present except one, James Cary, of Baltimore. The board is composed of the following well-known members of the society: President, Thomas Brown, of Carmel, Ind.; secretary, Mrs. Mahaia Jay, of Richmond: treasurer, James Cary, . of Baltimore; Charles Cury, of Fairmount; David Hadley, of MooretviUa; Joseph Goddard. of M uiicie; Lydia Taylor Painter, of Monrovia; William J. Hadley, of Marshalltown, la., and Mrs. Ida S. Henley, of Carthage, lnd. After the board had been called to order by the president this morning it Immediately passed to the consideration of the school policy. The points dwelt upon mainly were the matter of furnishing tuition free or free scholarships to certain worthy students who are in penr circumstances. The report of Zenas L. Martin on the Cuban field was then read. This was Quite an encouraging report. Mr. Martin's time will expire op Dec. 31 next and the appointment of his successor was considered. Among other topics that were up were the following; Ministers needed and missionary candidates, should the appointment of elders in the mission meetings be confirmed by the board, the financial problem of th- board, the development of the work in Cuba, there being some delay on account of a lack of funds, and development of the advisory work of the board. Colored Minister's Condition. Special la the Indianapolis Journal. PARIS. 111., Oct. 8. The Rev. G. J. Waiden, a colored minister who came here from Champaign to attend the Illinois A. M. E. Conference, alighted from the train in an intoxicated condition and was taken in charge by the police. He had no money to pay his tine and left his ministerial garb with the magistrate and promised to send the money on arriving home. They Swap Their Meats. Philadelphia Telegraph. It is during the summer month3 that the average housekeeper experiences difficulty in securing choice cuts of meat. For it is during these months thnt the majority of butchers keep their supply of meats In refrigerators and if a customer calls for lamb, veal or pork chops they don't have the same opportunity of getting choice cuts as they do in cold weather, when the juicy steak or succulent chop is exposed for sale upon the counter or hooks. They cannot U . whiit it in the i 'e boxes. A well-known butcher on Ridge avenue was questioned this morning upon the subject and gave this explanation: "During the summer monirft." said he, "agents of s. -aside and other reports visit . - tid buy ! up as many of the choicest cuts as we will sell them. They want the middle cuts of rib beef, certain cuts of rump steak, all the beef kidneys, also the loin; and hind quar ters or veai ana lamDS. mis leaves nothing but the Chean r cuts, wnich the more prominent hotels have no use for. Oct asioiially a good customer whose family spends most of the time in the city during the warm weather will send for a choice steak or a roast and then we have to hustle around and get it so that we can retain the family trade during the remainder of the year. Then, again, there are butchers who every day at all seasons of the year send their best meats to the butchers in the most fashionable residential quarters and in return get from them the cheaper cuts, for which they have no use. Of course, the one disposing of the higher grades of meat Is paid the difference in e-ash. This only alludes to districts populated entirely by the working classes, who can't afford to buy the expens:e cuts. We have a regular system of exchange, but ft w people outside of those directly engaged In the traffic know iL"

PLEADED NOT GUILTY

I D. V. MILLER ; AND JOSEPH JOHNS BEFORE FEDERAL COlRT. Both Hnd Bc4 a Indicted for Conspiracy to ioniuiit an Offense Against t'tc I nited States. WELL KNOWN IN INDIANA MILLER LIVE! AT TEURE HALTE AND JOHN AT ROCKV1LLE. Were Arrested Last May on Charge of Extorting a Bribe from John J. Ryan, Turf Commissioner. CINCINNATI, O., Oct. 8. Daniel V. Miller, late second assistant attorney general for the Pottofflce Department, and Attorney Joseph Johns were indicted by the United Suites grand Jury to-day, charged with f:oni piracy to commit an offense against the United States. Daniel V. Militär was employed as second assistant, to Attot-ney General Tyner. of the Postoffice Department. Joseph Johns was an attorney at iRockville, Ind., where he was arrested Mrfy 27. Miller was arrested the same day in Shis office at Washington. The allegation! upon which the arrests were based related to a charge of extorting a bribe from Join J. Ryan, of J. J. Ryan & Co., turf com?nissioners. Prior to their arrest postoffic; inspectors had recommended that a fraud order be issued against the Ryan firm, suspending all its mail. Ryan & : Ryan and Judge Outcalt went to Washington to argue their case, Attorney Miller Jepresenting the other side. Ryan claimed his company had enough money to pay ah depositors in full, and, as a result of the- hearing, acting Attorney General Christie ncy recommenled that the post office inspectors make another investigation. They tdid so, and a second time a fraud order "Vas recommended. A few days later, according to the telegrams produced before tPe grand Jury, Miller telegraphed Johns to deal with Ryan. A meeting was held at the Gibson House between Johns and Ryan, in which Ryan paid $4,500, of which $2,500 Was for a favorable decision on the scheme -allowing Ryan's continued use of the mail? and $2,000 was for revising Ryan's advertising matter so as to conform to the ruling of the attorney general. Ryan paid the amounts in checks, which are held as evidence agdinst Johns and Miller. Later both Miller and Johns appeared in court and entered pleas of not guilty. Johns made his plea conditional, reserving the right to change it after reading the indictment. The defendant? were allowed until Friday to file jdemurrers or motions and their bail was - fixed at $2,500 each, which both were prepared to furnish. The chief witness before Lhe grand Jury was John J. Ryan. who. it s said, produced telegrams received from Miller directing him to meet Johns in Cincinnati, where he paid to Johns the mor.y by checks. The checks ulso have been presented as evidence. Beavers Surrenders Himself. NEW YORKj Oct. 8. Geo. W. Beavers surrendered hin-iself to-day upon the fourth indictment returned against him in Washington, chargiuk conspiracy to defraud the government through contracts for the purchase of canceling machines from the Doremus Mach'ne Company, the indictment alleging that leavers, on Feb. 27. llil, accepted from Cfeo. E. Green and Willard D. Doremus, pi!esident and vice president of the company, 1500 in pursuance of a corrupt and unlawful agreement alleged to have been entered into between Senator Green, Doremuft and himself to procure the purchase of the machines for the Postal Department at! an excessive price. Beavers furnished $5,000 bail to appear for a preliminary Examination Oct. 27. GALLANT H00SIERS. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) Brigade were ithe reserves. Three miles and a half frejm camp, at Grimes's farm house, the resfjrve was ordered to take the Blakeley road, 'In order to assume its posi tion at the RahTi house on the Tip Top road. The orders were executed precisely, but the brigade was hot destined ever to reach Rahm's and tSe position designated. The blunder chang?d all that, aud the battle broke over it t mile from its proper place and an hour before the time. THE E NGAGEMENT OPENS. Lieutenant Oolonel Thayer, commanding the Second Regiment, took his men through a woody lane,, almost a cow path. As the advance of trie regiment reached a knoll at Bieler's farmhouse, with woods on all 6ldes, ritles t-egan to crack directly in e front from heavy timber. A Brown tiring line ran frorr! cover. bent double, and opened on Co'onel Thayer's men. At thia time the Flrr; Regiment. Colonel McCoy's, was in the refcr and to the right. Colonel Bowman's waj In front and to the left, all under cover snd invisible to the enerjny. Colonel Smith; took in the situation at a glance, rightljt' estimating that although the situation was astounding he had but one duty to .lick the enemy. Colonel Thayer, in tie center, brought up his column, deploying it for battle in eschelon. In perfect posltlou. The men lay in a road sunken four f?et, ready to fire through and over a rail iience. The positions of the First and TMN were evidently unknown to the enemy, trhe Brown regiments began to advance rabidly. Colonel Simth gave the word to fire and with rifles sweeping every inch of the ground receding before them the Second Regirrs-nt hoys began to play tunes with their rits. In the face of this devastating fire the Browns leaped forward, firing rapidly, although Colonel Smith's men were so 'erfc-etiy concealed that their fire was ineffective. The Browns advanced so far that a flank movement became of the utmost importance. Colonil Smith sent his orders to Colonel McO'y on the right. The movement was ev.ecuted with beautiful precision. The firitt battalion of the First, commanded by Maj. Theodore Louden, occupied a grove of tr-es, from where the men proceeded to poir a terrible fire on the left flank of the Prowns. From front and right the Indium Regiment used their rifles fo destructively hat in real war the opposing forces would, have been slaughtered like rats in a tirp. A few minutes later the remainder of 'the First got into action, and at almost th; same time the Third found the enemy. For tw. nty -minutes rifles cracked vic'ously. The umpire with the Second Regiment. Capt. Francis J. Kernan, of the Second Infantry, ordered a cessation of hostilities. The men s biiod was up and it was several minutes beftire the battle music was silenced. The umpires with the Brown army conferred wijh Captain Kernan, with the result that he casualties were fixed as given, and that the victory lay plainly with the Indiana brigade. Half an hour later the general recall Was sounded and the march back io Camp Young began. I .ptain KcYnan made no secret of his approval of Che position established by the Indiana trooj'S, of their effective firing, of the excellence of the officers work and of the general rerlt of the force. a "Their portion was impregnable,"

he. "No troops could have lived In the faca of that terrible fire." PROUDEST MAN IN CAMP. Colonel Smith, as brigade commander, la the proudest man In Camp Young to-night. The fact that the Second Regiment tarried off the chief honors add to his delight. General McKee missed thla, the second engagement of the day. He was riding with General Bates at the front. The Indiana Battery also got in Die war game in good shane. engaging the Twentyfirst Artillery with good effect J. Stevenson. Captains Glascock and Cleary and Lieutenant Railsback operated the guns. Of the three Indiana regiments which took part in the big fight Lieutenant Colonel Thayer. Majors Hack man and Conde. Captains Hoyt N. Mc.lain and R. P. Van Camp, of the Second Regiment; Colonel MoCoy. Lieut. Col? James F. Fee, Majors Theodore Louden, William J. Coleman and Thomas B. Coulter and Capt. David R. Gebhart, adjutant of the First, deserve special mention for coolnes under fire, intelligence and celerity in obeying orders and general good handling of their men. Lieutenant Colonel Bowman and his officers had little to do, but they did that little well. As for the men, the hlkera,'' their commander has every reason to be proud of them. When it is considered that they simply whipped the life out of the crack Eighth Ohio, the regiment known as "The President s Own,'" and the Second aud Third Kentucky Regiments, the pride of the Blue Grass State, it may be realized how Indianas National Guard "stacks up. There, indeed, is the new army slogan of "Excellence" put into practical operation. To-day's was the last maneuver of tha militia forces at Camp Young. To-morrow the boys will be paid off and on Saturday morning will leave for home. Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock the grand review will be held, and 10,000 troops will march before Maj. Gen. John C. Bates. Thousands of people w ill visit t amp You: to witness the beautiful spectacle. Second Lieutenant Mark E. Dawson, of Company D, Second Regiment, an Indianapolis boy. received high commendation la

a letter written to-day by General Bates to General McKee. Lieutenant Dawson attended General Bates on Monday as an aid. and his conduct was so meritorious that the commanding general found the young Indianapolis officer deserving of ?peclal mention. EDWIN C. HILL. FROZE HUSBAND TODEATH SALOON KEEPER WHO SOLD HIM LIQUOR HELD RESPONSIBLE. Orange County Damage Suit in Which Temperance and l iquor Elements Are Interested. Special to tha Indiana poll Journal. PAOLI, Ind., Oct. 8. A damage suit was tiled hero yesterday. In which Mrs. Nancy E. Burton, of Jasper, seeks to recover $2,000 damages from Noah S. Snyder and nia bondsmen. William 8. Tlndall, Philip A. Cox, William E. Trimble. Silas Mills, Jas. M. Beatty and William P. Jacobs. She alleges in her complaint that Snyder sold her husband, Hiram E. Burton, liquor when he was already intoxicated, and on Sunday, and that as a result he was o stupefied that in trying to return home on a cold winter night he fell into a ditch and was frozen to death. Burton was found frosen to death on the night of Feb. 15 last, near French Lick Springs, and the finding of the coroner was that he was Intoxicated. This case will be watched with much interest by both saloon and anti-saloon people here, inasmuch as it is the first case of the kind to be filed in this county. DIVISION OF A TOWXSHIP. Agitation in Laporte County Orcr Complicated Affair. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAPORTE, Ind., Oct. 8. It Is claimed the State officials will take a hand In the fight resulting from the division of Hanna township and the creation of Prairie township in the southern part of this county. The persons who secured a division of the township claimed they were unable to secure proper school facilities. The case has been appealed from the Commissioners' Court to the Circuit Court. Attorneys for the petitioners stated today that State Superintendent of Public Instruction Cotton had interested himself In the matter and that the attention if Governor Durbtn would also b.' called to the affair. Threats of damage suit against the trustee of Hanna township are being made. The southern 'part of the county Is very much agitated over the complicated affair. Lively Lawsuit Arertrd. ; Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NVA HASH, Ind.. Oct. 8. What promised to be a lively lawsuit wag settled hers today when Oeorge Meyers, an attorney of Marion, and two Wabash residents repaid the purchase price of a big tract of land in Mississippi bought by three Wabash county farmers. It waa alleged by the purchasers that Meyers and his associates proposed to go In with them and buy the land, that the price agreed on was exorbitant and that Meyers and his friends really did not put up a dollar, using only the funds I of the other parties to make the purchase , and divirlinK Ue larger nhate or that with the sellers. Suit was threatened, and today $4.000 was refunded and the land bought was deeded back. Trial of Salt on otes. Special to the Indltina)oli Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Oct. 8-The Rev. A. S. Whetsel. of this county, and other farmer friends bought territory In which to sell the Calendar aafe clocks and gave their notes to the company for t&Ai. e notes were made payable to the Dunkirk National Bank. il lore th company could dispose of them the bank changed to tin Dunkirk State Bank, and the company, after being refused the purchase of them here on this technicality, i it. -red the notes so as to read State bank. Then Mr. Whetsel and his farmer friends refused to pay tln ni when the not were presented by William Bates, a Dunkirk business man, The case is beii.g tried in the D .aware Circuit Court. Our Adamantine Society. Chicago Post. Society is reported on the qui vivo soi :y is always on the qui vive. that's what society is fur through reason of the announcement that one of the most notable representatives of our very best people is to BSarrjr a very charming young woman la New York "who is at present securing a divorce through the South Dakota courts." It will be observed with pride and pleasure that nothing detinlte will be attempted until the lady has secured her divorce. There la where our very best people are adamant; they sternly and positively refuse to marry any man or woman who haa not secured the preliminary liberating ulvorce. We are nothing If not moral and law-atldtng lit th ranas of the aristocracy, snd we defy the most carping critic to point to a single instance where the marriage ceremony has been solemnized before the divorce courts. in cases calling for their intervention, have been properly and respectfully Invoked. It may be true, as Colonel Watterson says, that our best people are careless in little ways, and sometimes given to exurbcranoa of conduct and extreme 5rightltnea of deportment, but the marriage relation is sacred, and no married man or woman is per mitted to take a place at the head of another household, with the full approbation of society, until he or she can exhibit a legally attested decree. We venture to hope that the South Dakota courts will proceed with their customary swiftness, and that the word which will make two loviug heart beat happily will be speee 11 pronouncca. nut patience ouen removes hui bands as well as mountains.