Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1902 — Page 3

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THE INDIAHAPOLIS NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1902.

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CWflt OITHII Iffi BilE M1DER CASE

FOWL WILL BE KILLED AND ITS BLOOD STREWN AROUND.

THIS WILL INSURE THE TRUTH

Ground Is Being Broken on Site of New Pos/o/ftc*?: MORTGAGE RULING’

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Contractor Has Force of Men at Work—Excavating to he Done in Six Weeks.

Bay Tho#r Who Af« Familiar with the Customs of the Chinese—Case Continued One Week.

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* The reauiatlon r>ath was administered to s score or more of Chinese that appeared In the Police Court this morning as witnesses In the case of Chin Hee. ■who Is charged with the murder of Doc Lung. However, this Oath Is not regarded seriously by the Chinese, and. according to their peculiar customs, a chicken will be killed In the Police Court and the Wood strewn upon the floor. This simple act. It Is said, will cause every Chinese that testifies to loll only the t?uth. When the Chinese heard that the "chicken oath” would be administered there was considerable excitement. When asked about the matter Judge Stubbs said: "If the Chinese do not regard our oath as sacred, I guess the only thing to be done

1* to kill the chicken.". Chin Hee Blamed.

When Chin Hee was brought Into the" Police Court this noon he smiled blandly at his countrymen who were seated in the room. He did not seem perturbed and appeared Interested in the trials of other prisoners. The State asked for a continuance in order that some of the evidence could be straightened out. Attorney W. N. Harding, who will defend Chin Hee, agreed to the continuance and the trial was set for next Thursday afternoon at

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CHINESE TAKE THE OATH.

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2. o'clock. Moy Kee, the restaurant keeper, was present as Interpreter, and he ordered all the Chinese In the room to Stand up and be sworn. He repeated the oath as given by Judge Stubbs, and the Chinese stood with their right hands in e atr apparently understanding little t was being said. They were Instfuct-

to return at time of the trial.

As they filed out Into the street one of the Chinese drew from his pocket a large bunch of joss sticks. Igniting the ends of 4he sticks he waved them about his head, causing the blue smoke In the hir to assume the shape of a spiral. This performgnee was repealed several times, and the Are was then put out by pushing the ends of the sticks against the pavement. Several of the Chinese were asked why the Sticks were burned, but they refused to say anything, except that it was one of their customs. Someone who claimed to know' said It was done to keep the evil

spirits away.

Chicktn Oath Sacred. Willie Moy, a tea peddler, who speaks fairly good English, said that the Chinese #nild regard the "chicken oath" sacredly. and that not a word' of untruth would

be spoken at the trial. He seemed con-' cerned when told that the chicken would be killed, and told hts fellow-countrymen in an excited manner. The detectives say that if the oath Is regarded as seriously as Moy Kee claims It will be. some startling developments will probably take One of them said that If Doc lamg rdered as the result of a conr _ among the Chinese, the facts

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Hee was secured this nese were again exnnd attorney Groninger, In the prosecution. Nearly Is being kept a close se-

meroial Club News. Club has received a com muthe Mexican Permanent Exchange n of the City of Mexico, which te cona three-story building, l«t by S» feet the exhibition and sale of American-made goods. Further information may be obtained of Secretary Hunt. " The secretary also la In communication with a local manufacturer who sayi he hat $20,000 for making a certain article, the production of which will employ IM men. He eava he has no drt>tv but need* tlX.000 or *15.000 to Incorporate a company and push the buainasa.

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BREAKING GROUND ON FEDERAL BUILDING SITE.

emoon, for the new Federal building in Indianapolis. O. D. Shover, who has the sub-contract for the excavating, lost no time in getting to work. He is Increasing hls force as rapidly aa possible. "I hope to have my part of the work completed within five or six weeks,” he

said.

•He had a force of twelve or fifteen teams and about twenty-five men at work to-day. The excavation is being started at what

will be the Ohio street f r ont. It is the Intention to move the aca to the north end of the ground. It Is expected that Shover's men will be out of the way at the Ohio street front within a few daya so the laying of she cement base for the foundation canfbegin. It Is understood that the teamsters receive the same for eight hours' work on the federal building as they do for ten hours on other contracts. They are receiving ZT'i cents an hour. The scale for teamsters on other contracts In Indianapolis is 30 cents an hour.

Under an act of Congress a few years ago eight hours constitute a day’s work on Federal jobs. E. C. Strathman, who Is to superintend the construction for Contractor Peirce, says it is a mistake that the Indianapolis Manufacturers’ and Carpenters’ Union has the contract for building the fence and temporary buildings. The Indianapolis Manufacturers’ and Carpenters’ Union will furnish the material and Brandt Brothers will do the work.

TILE OF S10 CHECK THAT CY DAVIS DREW

DECLARES HE GAVE IT TO CONGRESSMAN MIERS’S PARTNER.

NEVER CASHED; IT CAME BACK 3l John R. East Denies that Congressman Mlers Ever Saw It—What Davit Says.

Cyrus E. Davis, of Bloomfield, has a souvenir of the struggle for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Second district. It Is a check for $600, which he drew on the Cltixens’ State Bank of Bloomfield, and which was never cashed. ~ It was drawn by Cyrus E. Davis, chosen as Democratic leader in the House of the last General Assembly, and candidate for the nomination for Congress this spring in the Second district,

■VBIPBBCofcg-rM amount Mlers had spent in his campaign for renomination until after the close of the Daviess county convention, which selected delegates to the congressional convention. Had^ lt been cashed Davis might stead of Mlers. ” rnil ’ * f ’ r '' )ngus ' v ' ln Story Told by Davig’a Friends. According to friends of Davis, Mfers thought the outlook, after the Daviess county convention, so discouraging that he decided to withdraw, but he had expended considerable money, and asked to be reimbursed. Mlers asked Davis and Gilbert R. Hendren, Second district chairman, to meet him at Vincennes. Davis could not go. Then, the story runs, Mlers asked them to meet him at Swltz City. Davis did not go. but Hendren went, accompanied by John Cravens, who was then chairman of the Greene county Democratic committee, and who represented Davis. At S-wltz City Mlers told Hendren and Cravens, it Is reported, that he should be reimbursed for hls campaign expenses If he withdrew from the race. The two agreed that Davis should pay Mlers $500. It is understood, provided that Davis would approve of the agreement made by Hendren and Mlers. That was on Sunday, March 16, the day after the Daviess county convention. Deal Made at Vincennes. Davis approved of the agreement and the deal was carried out at Vincenne* March 17 In the Union Depot Hotel. Davis used a blank check of one of the Vincennes banks, scratching the name of the Vincennes bank out and writing In the name of the Gillens' State Bank of Bloomfield. The check was made payable on the order of Hendren. It Is understood, and Hendren Indorsed it at once and delivered It to Senator Edwin Corr, of Bloomington, in the presence <rf Congressman Mlers. Corr, it is said, had been sent for and acted aa agent of the Congressman. The alleged agreement was that Corr should cash the check and deposit the money to the credit of Mlers. It is said that while Mlers was present when the deal was effected, he refused to accept the Indorsed check from Hendren, but had Corr receive it for him. Before the County Convention. The Dawrenee county- convention to select delegates was to be held the next Saturday, March 22, at Bedford. Immediately after the Sw-ltz City deal was closed It is understood that Davis wrote letters to hts. leaders In Lawrence calling them off the fight, as he did not want hls friends to labor and spend monev uselessly. He regarded the victory as doubly won. It la aald, teo. that Mlers telegraphed to friends In Lawrence to stop a waste of energy and money: Mlers’ friends In Lawrence county went on working and an anti-Davis delegation was chosen. The Check Returned. Davis's friends thought they smelled a mouse about this time. On Sunday following the Lawrence county convention and the next Sunday after the Swits City deal, it Is understood that Mlers sent for Hendren to come to Bloomington; that Datva told Hendren before he went not to receive the check if Mlers attempted to return It. but that Hendren. after a conference with Mlers and Corr, was Induced to receive the check back, Corr delivering it to him. Hendren held the check until the Sullivan county primary came along. The conditions of the primary required Mlers to request that his name go on the ballot. Mlers made the request, and Davis, It is said, regarding that as evidence of a violation of the contract, got the check from Hendren. 8o the check was never cashed. ' ' Davis Telia Hls Story.

check, but In self-defense and to prevent the impression that my statements about it were untruthful, I am compelled, in answer to Mr. Miera’s alleged denial, to say that the giving of the check was not. as Mr. Mlers says, an act: of generosity on my part, but was given by me to Mr. Mlers, or rather to hla agent, at Mr. Mters’s request." "The statement that It never reached Mr. Mlers Is true, only In the sense that Mr. Mlers, so far as I know, never had the check In hls hands but it was delivered to Senator Corr at Mr. Mlers’s request in Mr. Mlers’s presence, with Instructions from Mlers that it be cashed and the money be deposited in bank in Mr. Miern’s name. Kept for a Week, He Says. “After being kept by Mr. Corr for Mr. Mlers one week It was without my knowledge or consent, delivered by Mr. Corr to Mr. Hendren in Miers’s presence, and at Mr. Miers’s request, with instructions to Hendren to hold it, for what reason I know not, until after the convention. After the £{ulllvan county primary and because I considered the entrance of Mr. Mlers into the Sullivan county primary as a violation of the terms on which the check was given, I demanded the check of Mr. Hendren, and received It. "Mr. Hendren told me, on returning from Bloomington on the 24th of March, that while at Bloomington, where he had gone at Mr. Mlers’s request, Mr. Mlers had given him the check, with instructions as above, and I told Mr. Hendren at that time that t did not recognize Mr. Miera's right to rescind the contract, since It had gone too far. and that my campaign would not then be restored to the condition In which the withdrawal contract of Mr. Mlers had found It."

MIERS’S MANAGER TALKS.

He Declares the Congressman Never Saw the $500 Check. John R East, of Bloomington, one of the managers of Miers’s recent campaign for the nomination, who was In Indianapolis to-day. admitted that there was a check transaction between Mlers and Davis men; but he declared that the check was never seen by Mlers. The check. East said, was given to Edwin Corr Mlers’s law partner, but It was returned to Davis after Lawrence county bad selected delegates in the interest of Miers. Mlers did not re-enter the race until some time after the selection of delegates In Lawrence county, and, according to East, he knew nothing whatever in connection with the check, and had never entered Into an agreement whereby he was to withdraw for a consideration.

MORE GRADE CR0« TROUBLE IS PREDICTED

COMMISSIONERS SIGN SHELBY* VILLE LINE FRANCHISE.

NO SUBWAY PROVIDED FOR

Union Traction Company will Fight Before It will Permit a Grade Crossing.

The Board of County Commissioners has affixed its official signature to a new franchise for the Indianapolis, Shelbyvllle & Southeastern Traction Company, thus repealing a franchise granted the Shelbyville Street Railway, Heat, Light and Power Company. It Is an old company under a new name. The franchise of the latter company expired by limitation on March 1. The new franchise gives the company until May 21, 1903, to complete Its tracks and begin the operation of cars. The commissioners did not, however, require the company to put up a $1,000 guarantee to show its good faith. It is claimed that the new franchise is but the renewal of the old, and the company can not be required to pay $1,000 guarantee because the original franchise was granted before the commissioners required the payment of a guarantee. The new franchise does not provide for a subway at the Prospect-street crossing of the Belt railroad. Representatives of the Union Railway Company yesterday asked the commissioners to lequlre the Shelbyvllle company to tunnel under their tracks. The commissioners, by their failure Xo insert a clause In t:»e franchise, providing for a subway. It is pointed out, sanotion the Shelbyvllle line's Intention to cross the Belt railroad at grade. Attorneys for the Union Railway Company sold this morning that the matter would undoubtedly be taken to court :f the Shelbyvllle company attempted to cross their tracks at grade. Injunction proceedings will be filed against the Shelbyvllle company If an effort Is made to build a crossing over the Union Railway Company's tracks.

Kingston Pool Room Is Wide Open

COMPANY INCORPORATED :: WHAT MANAGER TOOMEY SAYS.

THE KINGSTON POOL ROOM.

The Indianapolis office of the National District Telegraph Company, otherwise the Kingston pool room, at the rear of

Davis was in Indianapolis to-day. mlng- Tron’s salopn. Is still running without in-

ling with the Democrats that came In to attend the meeting of the State committee. He was asked as to the statement of Miers that the check was an act of generosity on Davis’s pari, and never reached ALers. Davis said: *T have no disposition, since the convention, to keep up a controversy

terft-renee by the police. Michael W. Toomey. Indiana agent and manager, was

asked to-day:

"Is the company incorporated?” “Yes,” he answered. ‘T think it’s in-

corporated in Indiana and Ohio both. My | In Indiana business aeordlng to attorneys. Marshall & Seyfrted, can tell i affidavit made by Toomey, is $260.

you all about It. I am the Indiana agent.’’ At the State House it was found that the company was incorporated in Ohio in November, 1S0O, and articles were filed In Indiana under the foreign corporation law, June 17, 180L The capital stock is 11,000. and Michael W. Toomey. Court and Bird streets, is named as Indiana agent. The proportionate share invested

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SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS THE INDIANA LAW.

80,000 MORTGAGES AFFECTED

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Property Owners Entitled to a Deduc-|| tion of $700 Each—The Court’s Opinion.

The Supreme Court to-day refused to j rehear the mortgage deduction case, and ! re-affirmed its previous opinion that the I law is valid. Tina settles the matter, and j owners of lands, mortgaged, who have | complied with the provisions of the deduction law, will be entitled to the deduction up to $700, according to the amount of their mortgage, provided that not more than half the assessed value of their property be exempted. , The opinion, written by Judge Gillett, covers the same ground as the original opinion, but because of the Importance of the question it goes Into the authorities exhaustively, and, according to AttorneyGeneral Taylor, greatly strengthens the position taken in the original opinion. Judges Dowling and Monks dissented from It. Eighty Thousand Mortgages Affected. 'Tho decision will affect 80.000 mortgages and straightens out the confusion existing in the different counties regarding the allowance of the deduction. Most counties allowed the exemptions on their tax duplicates this year, but Marlon county and a few others did not. In these counties the auditors will have to certify to the treasurer lists of persons who have compiled with the law." and are entitled to refund certificates. Such persons will either have their money refunded to them, or the amounts will be credited on their second Installment of taxes. Loft to the General Assembly. The opinion i’easserta the position of the original decision, and says in conclusion: "While the fact that the result of the upholding of this law may be to take millions of dollars' worth of property from the State’s assessment sheet, has caused us to consider this case with great care, yet we can not strike down the law for that reason. The question Is political In Its character, and. If the act Is inimical to 1 the Interests of the State, the argument mentioned should be addressed to the General Assembly.” Increase In the Duplicate. Attorney-General Taylor said this morning that as a matter of fact the tax duplicate had Increased $2,000,000 under the law, and that there was nothing In the claim that the State would lose. The mortgages are taxed against the owners. The case arose out of a suit on the relation of Martha Lewis and others, against Harry B. Smith, as auditor of Marion county. COUNTY TREASURER LOSES.

Whitley Official Gets No Fees for Two Years. John Gross, treasurer of Whitley county from 1890 to 1894. will have to be contented with hls salary of $1,800 a year for hls last term of two years. After he went out of office he was allowed $2,360.31 by the county commissioners on a claim for compensation under the fee and salary law of 1879. He had collected $360,773.42 in current and delinquent taxes, for w-hich he charged 1 per cent, on the first $100,000 and one-half per cent, on the remainder. The commissioners latter sued to recover their allowance to him, and in the Wabash Circuit Court they got judgment. Gross claimed that the decision of the Supreme Court in State vs. Bolce declared the statute of 1891 unconstitutional, and put in effect the law of 1879, under which he would be entitled to fees. The Supreme Court held the decision did not so operate. This decision in State vs. Bolce was later reversed, and as Gross had not acquired any contract rights under it, he could not claim under Ft COLLEGE WROUGHT UP BY A PAPER’S CHARGES.

Religious Journal Accused of Misrepresentation and Libel. There was a torrid atmosphere at Butler College ■’this morning, not altogether caused by tho hot weather. It was the result of the indignation of the faculty and students over a publication by the Christian Guide, a paper published at Louisville, that pays attention to Indiana through a traveling representative. In Us last number, this publication said that on Sunday, May 4, Vie Butler College football team (probably meaning baseball) had played another team at Greenfield. The article went on to say that, "In traveling over Indiana we find that the preachers are not very enthusiastic” In support of the college. It cited the alleged Sunday game as one of the causes of this supposed lack of fervor, and argued that the college ought to be condemned by every preacher, ought not to be supported by Christian people, etc. Authorities Were Amared. The authorities of the college were amazed at the publication and deny that any such game had ever been played, or that the college team, baseball, football, or any other kjnd, had ever, on any occasion, played Sunday games. A theological student Is the pitcher In the baseball club (and a good one, by the way), and the president's son plays in the team. The president asked the captain and the members of the team If there had been any Sunday games and received emphatic denials. The attention of college directors was called to the publication and some of them were savage In their comments. They said that some of the so-called religious papers had habitually poisoned the minds of churchgoers against the school and that as this last publication was false and malicious a retraction would be demanded and a suit would probably be Instituted for libel under the Kentucky law. Correspondent Talks. The Rev. B. L. Allen, Indiana correspondent of the Christian Guide and pastor of the Morris-street Christian church, said to-day: “I did not write the anticollege editorial in the Christian Guide, nor did I furnish any Information that could form the text for such an editorial. All I have in the paper is under the head of ‘Indiana Department.’ The first Information that I received that such a condition waa alleged to exist at Butler College, was when my wife read to me the. editorial. I suppoee that it was written’ by the editor of the paper, J. T. Brown, but I have no idea where he got the information upon which it was based.” DANGER AT TOMLINSON HALL.

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Piles of

Fire* Caused by Immense

Waste Paper.

William Schoppenborst, Democratic member of the Board of Safety, declared to Chairman Megrew, of the Board of Works, to-day, that the Uvea of people who attend gathering* in TranHneon Hall are erfU&ngered by the desire of the custodian of the hail to make a few dollars. PUe broke out In an Immense pile of paper •nd debris under one of the stairway* last evenin*’- 8choppeahor*t. who went to the fife, said he believed there waa more than two wagon loads of papers nndar each of the stairways. Ht thought ft waa being piled there so the custodian could sell It. "Bud” Richardson, colored, is custodian of the building. Megrew promised to ‘take the matter up."

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