Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 142, 16 June 1906 — Page 1

RIGHMOIB A ADIUM '5? L.XXXI. NO, 142. Richmond, Indiana, Saturday Morning, June 16, 1906. Single Copies, Two Cents,

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HOT lllOII DEAL President Winters Wires Palladium that Randall Morgan Will Lease D- & W. STOPS ALL OTHER STORIES THE WIDEN ER-ELKINS SYNDICATE HAS NITHING TO DO WITH MEN WHO GET PERPETUAL CONTROL OF LINE. Dayton, O., June 15, 1906. Morning Palladium, Richmond, Ind.: Negotiations are now pending with Randall Morgan and W. Keleey Schoepf, representing themselves and Thomas Dolan for a perpetual lease of the Dayton & Western road, but nothing has been closed as yet. Messrs. Widener and Elkins are not in on this deal. . VALENTINE WINTERS. The above telegram was received by the Palladium last night In answer to a query tills paper made of President Winters, regarding the reported sale of the Dayton & Western. There have been many stories afloat In regard to the transfer of the Dayton and Western to Eastern Interests and the Palladium desired to give Its readers the most authentic Information possible. For this reason the following telegram was sent to President Winters at his home In Dayton: Valentine Winterc, Dayton, O. Please give the Palladium the benefit of a statement as to whether or not the Dayton and Western has been leased or sold to the . .Idener-Elkins syndiccte, as Is persistently reported. MORNING PALLADIUM. In his reply President Winters gives the same facts that were presented to the readers of this paper on Friday morning. It Is now plain that the control of the road is to be transferred, but that It will go to the Randall MorX7? Bvndlcate' rather than tor the yvruener-Elklns crowd. The Randall Morgan syndicate Is one of the largest in the central states and contro'ls many of the best roads in Ohio and Indiana. In addition to the leasing of the Dayton & Western, the deal which is now under way, the Morgan syndicate has purchased outright the Dayton and Northern traction line, which runs from Dayton through Greenville and Winchester to Muncie. A telegram was received yesterday afternoon at the office of Attorney Grafton C. Kennedy, in Dayton, from Philadelphia, Morgan's headquarters, saying that the deal had been closdd and that the money had been turned over to the stockholders. D. &. N. Sale was Profitable. The Dayton & Northern is not as good a road as the Dayton and Western, and on account of its heavy in debtedness, did not bring as much as the D. & W. will. The bonded indebtedness of the D. & N. is $1,250,000 and Its floating indebtedness is $500,000. In addition to assuming the debts of the company, the syndicate paid over to the stockholders, $360,000 in cash, making a fine profit for them. There were about forty stockholders. Where Wrong Story Originated. The Dayton News was the originator of the story that the Dayton and Western had been sold to the Wide-ner-Elkins syndicate. All stoties that have been printedn other papers to the same effect came from the columns of the News. The News, after publishing its first statement of a sale, qualified it by saying that the road had only been leased and in their edition published last night, tried to cover up their statements by saying that the Widener-Elklns syndicate And the Randall Morgan company is one and the same. Telephonic communications with traction officials in Dayton show this to be a mistake and conjured up to hide the first "bull" made by the paper. Had a Trolley Party. Palladium Special. Cambridge City, June 15, . 1906. The ladles Whist Club of this city entertained their husbands at a trolley party at Jackson Park Thursday afternoon. Progressive pedro and other f junusements occupied the greater V&rt of the afternoon, after which an elegant lunch was served by the ladles. Following this were recitations by Benton Wilson and other members of the party. Altogether U. was a yery enjoyable event

THE WEATHER PROPHET

INDIANA Fair Saturday and Sunday; variable winds. OHIO Occasional showers Saturday except fair in extreme southeast portions; Sunday fair; variable winds. GENERAL CONDITIONS. The storm center, which was over Illinois, has moved northward and is now over Wisconsin and lower Lake Michigan. Occasional rains are reported from that section. More or less cloudiness and occasional showers still prevail over the Middle Atlantic States and In Eastern Tennessee and North Carolina heavy rains have fallen. Elsewhere fair, but generally unsettled weather prevails except in the North Pacific States, where there is an area of low pressure with cloudiness, and rain in the North Pacific States. In the Missouri valley there is a high pressure area developing, which will probably move eastward and southward and which will cause fair weather in this vicinity. HOUSE DECIDES ON LOCK CANAL Republicans Were Unanimously in Favor of It and Also Many Democrats. WILL BE DONE BY 1914 THE AMENDMENT TO ALLOW THE PURCHASE OF SUPPLIES IN ALL MARKETS WILL PASS THE HOUSE. Publishers' Press Washington, June 15. By a vote of 110 to 36 the House today decided upon a lock canal for Panama. The action was taken in committee of the whole during the consideration of the $25,000,000 provision of the sundry civil appropriation bill for continuation of work on the canal. The Republicans were unanimous for the lock canaji proposition and a number of Democrats voted with them. An unsuccessful fight-was made by the Democrats to so amend these appropriations that no supplies for the canal other than those of American manufacture can be purchased. Upon the statement of Republican Floor Leader Payne, of New York, that the Senate joint resolution providing for the purchase of all materials in the American markets, unless in the opinion of the President the prices for specific articles are too high will be speedily presented to the House, the majority voted down the Democratic proposition. Only one speech was made on the canal subject. It came after Mr. Littauer, (Rep. N. Y.) who moved to amend the appropriation so that no funds shall be spent upon a canal of the sea level type. Chairman Burton of the river and harbor committee then addressed the members for over an hour upon the desirability of the lock over the sea level type. The sea level canal will cost $400,000,000 more, and he said consume twenty years in building. The average width of the sea level canal will be only three hundred feet, while the lock canal, which he said can be completed by 1914 will have a width of six hundred feet. OLD U. P. CHURCH SOLD UNITED BRETHREN BUY IT Meeting Will be Held Today to Close Up Deal It is Reported That the Purchase Price Was $7,000 May Buy Parsonage. A meeting of the special committee appointed to arrange for the sale of the old United Presbyterian church, was held last evening, and the propositions made by the different congregations of the city were discussed. As only one of the offers was for the outright purchase of the property, the others were not consid-. ered. It was decided to sell the church to the United States Congregation, and it is reported that the price is to be $7,000. The members of the committee stated last night that the deal has not yet been closed and that another meeing will be held his morning to arrange the details of the transaction. It was received from another source that the U. B. people had secured the church and that the deed will be transferred either today or next week. The Christian Scientists desired to rent the church, but this, the committee did not wish to do. It is said that Daniel G. Reid, when visiting here recently, was consulted and advised the congregation to sell, rather than rent the old building. It is not known what will be done with the money, but as a new parsonage is needed it is presumed that It will be expended for a house for the pastof- -

GETTING SIGNERS TO A PETITION

Central Union Telephone Company Trying to Influence City Council. BUSINESS MEN SIGN PAPER 'PHONE COMPANY IS ASKING THAT IT BE ALLOWED TO GO UNDERGROUND WITHOUT SIGN ING A RATE AGREEMENT. In a final attempt to secure from Council and the Board of Works the necessary permission before building an underground plant, the Central Union Telephone Company is circulating a petition among the business men of the city, asking them to sign the paper addressed to the Mayor and the Council, which asks that the requests of the company )e granted. The whole' point of the petition, as explained by Manager Noah H. Hutton, who is in charge is whether or not the business taen of the city believe that Council has a right to force the Bell company toestablish a maximum rate clause in the contract which it asks the city to sign. The Central Union company has been asking Council to be allowed to place its wires underground for several week3, but at each meeting, the matter has been laid over, until finally it was referred to the Board or Public Works and the City Attorney. A meeting of the telephone officials and of the cltv officials wr.s held and a contract pre sented, ready to sign. The city attorney then asked the telephone company to place in its contract a maximum rate, in order to protect the residents in the future. Many Sign the Petition. Insisting that if is not receiving any additional rights, and feeling that It was not necessary to relinquish any of the rights already possessed, as outlined in the franchise erranted years ago, the company refused to put in the maximum rate clause The board then refused to allow the construction of the conduits. Among the signers of the petition are soni of the most prominent men in the city. Bank ofiicials, merchants, factory presidents, heads of big establishments, besides doctors, lawyers and other professional men think that the company should not be compelled to install the maximum rate clause in its contract. FRACTURED HER LEFT LEG Miss Mary Ostrander Fell From Ladder While Picking Cherries at Home on IM, 15th St. Miss Mary Ostrander of 119 North 15th street, daughter of ex-Mayor Ostrander, sustained a painful accident yesterday morning while picking cher ries in the back yard of her home. Miss Ostrander was standing on a step-ladder which was leaning against a tree when the ladder slipped throwing her to the ground. A physician was at once summoned and it was found that the jwung woman had sustained a fractured of her left leg below the hip. She suffered great pain from the accident and she will be confined to her bed for several weeks. MANY ATTEND THE TRIAL Attorneys in Case of Miller vs. Ful ler Hope to Dispose of Witnesses Today. The trial of the Miller vs. Fuller case will be continued over today in the Circuit Court, and it does not now look as if the case will be fin ished before the middle of next week. It began last Monday and every day has been spent in the examination of witnesses. The attorneys hope, to fin ish this work tonight, and on Monday morning will commence to argue. No new turns were taken in the case yesterday. There was a large number of visitors to hear the testi mony, showing that much interest is being taken. Judge Rupe has prepar ed his instructions which are auite long. SUITS WERE COMPROMISED Red Men Who Were Injured in the C, C. & l Wreck Get Damages For Their Injuries. Five of the six damage suits filed against the C. C. & L. by victims of the wreck of the Red Men's Special, in April, were compromised yester day and judgement entered opposite the numbers of the cases in the circuit court records. Samuel W. Cook received $725; John E. Fye received $330; Theodore Allen received $400; Don II. Draper received $325; and Emmett Wolfe, $200. The total amount asked in the complaints was $22,000. The suit of .William H. Ben nett, for $20,000, has been taken to Winchester on a change of venue, and will be tried, as . no satisfactory agreement has been reached between Attorney B. C. Robblns, for the plain tiff, and Attorneys Robbins Starr, for the Railroad. .

The on ly way to enjoy a summer would not rai se your finger to stop WILL DECIDE OH PICTURE TONIGHT Art Association Will Purchase Another Painting for Its Collection. CITY WELL REPRESENTED RICHMOND ARTISTS HAVE SOME VERY FINE WORK AT THE EXHIBIT THIS YEAR COMMENT ON THE DISPLAY. This evening the board of directors of the Richmond Art Association will meet at the Garfield School building and will decideon the painting which the Association will purchase this year with the fund provided by Mr. D. G. Reid. . The general public interest in the exhibit still continues and daily the school is thronged with people. Among the out of town visitors at the exhibit yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. Francis T. Root and daughter of Connersville. Mr. Root was loud in his praise of the work at has been accomplished by th ,en and women at the head of the art movement in this city and he pronounced the local exhibit to be one of the best that he has ever seen. Work of LocaT Artists. The exhibit of local artists at the exhibit this year is of a higher standard than at any previous exhibit and the canvases of the "Richmond group" occupy conspiouous places. This year J. E. Bundy, the dean of the local artists, is represented with only two landscapes, but they are both splendid examples of this veteran landscape artist's skill. Both of the canvases are paintings in oil of woods interiors and they have exacted most favorable comment. A local artist remarked yesterday that the two pictures exhibited by Mr. Bundy were among the best the . artist has yet produced. George H. Baker, who Is rapidly coming to the front as a landscape artist, is represented by one oil entitled "A May Evening" and two well executed water colors. The work of Mrs. Maud Kaufman Eggemeyer is a revelation. Mrs. Eggemeyer was one of the honor scholars at the Cincinnati Art Institute last yjear and the work she has exhibited this year shows the rapid progress she has made In her art. In the keramic room can be seen "Blossoms," "Iris" and "Snowballs," the later being considered one of Mrs. Eggemeyer's best works. It is a striking bold study thrown Into splendid relief by a brilliant background. The other two canvases are well executed studies In still life. Mrs. Eggemeyer's portraits of "Miss Z" and "Miss K." are splendid but her masterpiece, perhaps, is "The Dutch Cap" which is a most forcible character stuy. Girardin Has Six Pictures. William Eyden has four canvases at the exhibit, all of them showing splendid execution. The most admired of the lot is "Morning," which is really a beautiful landscape. The "Blacksmith" by the same artist has also attracted much attention. One of the artists of the Richmond Group whose work stands out pre-eminent is Frank J. Girardin and six land

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CITY WILL AID HOSPITAL WAS DECIDED LAST NIGHT Committee from Council Met Board of Trustees of Hospital and Learned That Money Is Badly Needed at Worthy Institution Last evening at the Reid Memorial Hospital the trustees of the institution and the members of the council committee, appointed to investigate the financial condition of the hospital met and discussed plans for financial relief on the part of the city. A comprehensive statement concerning the resources and the cost of maintaining the institution, was presented by Treasurer Adam H. Bartel, and the council committee, composed of Messrs. O'Neal, Deuker and Bartel, were greatly impressed with the necessity of council taking some action in the matter of an annual appropria tion for the city's part in the maintainance of the institution. At the first meeting of council In July a report will be submitted by this committee to council urging that action to this effect be taken at once. Just how much the city will be called upon to contribute annually to the maintainance of the institution was not stated, as the committee and the trustees preferred not to give out any public statement until the council committee's report had been made. DDL LIVER SHEDS GOWN A SUBJECT OF LAUGHTER Honorary Degree Was Conferred on Senator From Iowa at Miami University Commencement But Wearing the Token was Distasteful I aMadium Special. Oxford, O., June 15. Miami University authorities don't know whether to be amused or indignant over the reception which Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver, of Iowa, gave 'the degree of doctor of laws, conferred upon him Thursday afternoon, at the commencement. Before the Senator appeared to deliver the annual address, the college authorities provided him with a doctor's academic gown, which he dutifully put on. After he had spoken a short time, he turned to President Benton, an old friend, and remarked that tha. audience was laughing when he hadn't said anything funny, and he believed that they were laughing at his gown. Thereupon he deliberately took off the toggery, threw It in the floor and concluded his address. At the close he picked up the gown, but would not put it on. The Senator' said he felt like he had on a bath robe and a peek-a-boo bonnet. Coming to Earlham. Misses Ethel Carter and Susie Fries will go to Richmond Monday, where they will take the teachers summer course at Earlham college. Miss Carter taught In the Maplewood school and Miss Fries at the Poplar Grove school, the past winter.-TCon-i nersvme iews

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E STILL III FULL SWING Police and Military Patrol Fail to Stop Rioting at Bielostok, Russia. JEWS SUFFER TERRIBLY FIFTY HAVE ALREADY SEEN KILLED AND THREE HUNDRED WOUNDED SIX THOUSAND GUARDED BY SOLDIERS. IPubllshcrs' Press Bielostok, Russia, June 16. Despite the fact that the military and police patrols were reported earlier in the day to be guarding all points of the city, and were said to have matters well in hand, renewed rioting broke out here Friday evening and the work of pillaging, murdering and firing, which begun with the bomb throwing and the massacre of Jews on Thursday, is in full swing. Hourly, peasants, tramps and hooli gans are arriving in the city and al ready thousands of these characters are in the vicinity of Thursday's disturbances, venting their spite on the Jews. Burning Many Homes. Going from house to house, which have been deserted by their occupants the Holligans first loot the premises of their contents and then set fire to the houses to cover up their dastard ly work. All the houses robbed and set fire were formerly occupied by Jews who fled from the mob's vengeance. After finishing their work in the houses the mob turned its attention to the Jewish shops and stores and as soon as they pilfered the con tents, again applied the torch. Forming In broken columns the mobs began marching through the streets, flogging almost to death ev cry Jew who happened to cross their path. Fifty Jews Dead Already. Already fifty Jews have been killed, and more than 300 wounded have been unable to enter the hospitals because of lack of facilities. The sufferings of the wounded are beyond descrip tion. Their wounds, owing to the lack of doctors, and the necessary medicines, are uncared for. Escaping from the mob's vengeance six thousand Jews are encamped in a forest near the town, guarded by troops. THE PROGRAM IS CHANGED Richmond City Band and William Dudley Foulke Change Places on Art Exhibit Program. A change In the entertainment program, aranged for the Richmond Art Association exhibit, has been announced. The Richmond City Band will give a concert at the Garfield School building next Thursday evening Instead of Friday evening and on Friday evening, Mr. W. D. Foulke will deliver the address which he was to have delivered Thursday night. Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock Mr. James Morrlsson will deliver his addressMjn books and book plates,-

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CITY'S POWER TO CLOSE THE STREET

Comprehensive Review of the Legal Status of Much Talk of Case. THE OPINION OF GARDNER CITY ATTORNEY HOLDS THE VIEW THAT BOARD OF WORKS HAS VESTED IN T SOLE POWER TO DECIDE. City Attorney Gardner yesterday morning submitted, to the Board ot Public Works a written -opinion concerning the statutory powers of tha board relating to the closing of pub lic thoroughfares, and in substancethe city attorney holds the view that the board has vested In It the solo power to vacate a street; that suclv action must not be exercised arbitrarily, but in the inteivest of the public n that, in the absence of fraud and col-: lusion, courts cannot Interfere and also that the fact that a private corporation Instigated the proceedings, to vacate so that the corporation may uso such vacated part in the extension of its premises, does not authorize tha courts to Invalidate the ordinance. Comprehensive Review. The opinion is a comprehensive and altogether thorough review of the legal aspect of the proposed closing ot North Fourteenth Street and was presented to the board following its decision to defer action until next Thursday, which is elsewhere referred to. The city Attorney's opinion in full fol lows: To the Board of Public Works ot Richmond, Ind.: Gentlemen: In the matter of the vacation of North Fourteenth street from the north side of North E street to the north line of the right of way of P. C. C. & St L Ry. Co., which you now have under consideration, I sub mit the following as my opinion of your power to vacate said street: The power to vacate streets in cit ies of the class to which Richmond belongs, under the Act of 1905, is vest ed in the Board of Public Works; Sec. 93 c. 5 Provides that "The Board of Public Works shall have power to lay out, open, change, vacate and fix or change the grade of any street, al ley or public place in the city, &c. Sec. 97 of said Act provides the meth od of procedure in vacating streets, and says "that the action of the Board shall be final and conclusive on all persons." Elliott, on Roads and Streets, Sec. 879 says: "When the authority to discontinue is delegated to local officers, and no restrictions are placed upon (Continued on Page Three.) L. L. LQEB WAS III CITY "PAUL REVERE OF WEST" Man Who Saved Hundreds of Lives lit Great Flood In Colorado, and Be came a Cripple by So Doing, Was at Arlington Last Night Im Tj. Loeb, of Chlcagd, known all over the West and particularly in Colorado, as the "Paul Revere of the West," was at the Arlington Hotel last night. Loeb won the name of "Paul Revere" by a daring and death defying ride which he made in Colorado four years ago this summer, to save the lives of half a hundred people who were In the path of a great flood, caused by a cloudburst. Loeb, who had gone West to be come a cowboy, and who was, at that time, but a "tender foot," was at Woodlawn Park, Colorado, on that memorable morning in August when a cloudburst in the TJte Valley was sweeping down upon the helpless settlers who were without means of warning. Risking his life to warn them, Loeb' started down the valley, and rode at break-neck1- speed for 17 miles, notifying the settlers and giving them an opportunity to escape with their lives. . At the end of his ride, he and his pony were plunged over Rainbow Falls, a distance of 175 feet and he la permanently injured as a result He is now on his way to Vienna, to be treated by a noted doctor for paralysis which has rendered useless one whole side. NO ADDITION THIS YEAR Word Is Received Here That Improvements at Pan Handle Freight Hcuse Must be Postponed. The proposed addition to the freight house of the Pan Handle Lines In this city, wll not be made this summer, according to a communication received from the financial headquarters. It Is claimed that the present facilities for handling freight are inadequate, but It appears that the agent will have to make the best of the situation for another year, at least.