Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 163, 8 July 1906 — Page 1

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f y y 1 ' E fflCHMOM PA iADIUM VOL. XXXI. NO. 163. Richmond, Indiana, Sunday Morning, July 8, 1906. Single Copies, Three Cents. THE REAL DETAILS TERRE HAUTE IS -HOW JIGHT CITY New Police Orders Became Effective at Roll Call Last Night. THE SALOONS MUST OBEY STREETS TREATED THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Fair Sunday; warmer In south and centrar portions; Monday fair; variable winds. OHIO Partly cloudy Sunday; showers in east portion; Monday fair, warmer; variable winds. OF THE SE WITH CRUDE OIL What Congress Really Did Do Was Ascertained Yesterr day at Inquiry. The Board of Works of Rich mond Seriously Considering the Proposition. BOY BUYS THRESHER AND GETS SPANKED. WHY SESSION WAS LATE INVESTIGATION PLANNED

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JYSTERY OF THE PROLONGED DELAY ON THE AWFUL "LAST NIGHT" HAS BEEN CLEARED UP AT LAST.

Publishers Press Washington, July 7. The last sesrton of congress was a 6trenuous one. There were 28,236 bills and resolutions printed at the government printing office during the session, compared with 27,903 during the three sessions of the 58th congress. The comparison on enrolled bills, laws, reports of senate and house, and of the dally Cpngresslonal Record also shows that the session just closed produced tnoro printed matter than the whole of the last congress. This informatlpn was brought out at a hearing today before the Senate committee on printing for the purpose of determining where the blame, if any, should lie for the delay in the final enrollment of the public buildings bill, which detained congress in session until ten o'clock at night on the closing day of the session. Officials Testify. Enrollment Clerk Horn, of the Senate, said he had no specific Information on the bill, it being a House measure, but he said that errors and mistakes had been more frequent in matter received from the printing flee this year than ever before. Captain Brian, of the printing office, gave a detailed statement as to the exact time at which the copy of this bill was received and returned to the capitol printed. The evidence seemed to prove that the delav was In tho house enrolling room, but that it was entirely due to the physical impossibility of preparing the bill tor final printing in the time desired. Several errors, some of which originated In the printing office and others in the house enrolling room, caused 9 pages of the bill to be sent back to the printing offlc between 6 and 8 o'clock on the evening of June SO. It was the correction of these that kept congress in session late that night. Tho printing office proved by Its records that exceptionally good time was made at that end of the line. There was no representative of the House enrolling room present at the Inquiry today. INTERVIEWS CORTELYOU NEW ZEALAND'S PREMIER Postal Relations Between the Tw$ Countries Are Closer and Sir Joseph Ward Assured that America Feels Deep Interest In Matter. Publishers Pressl Washington,. July. 7. Sir. Joseph Georgo Ward, premier and postmaster general of New Zealand, had a conference with Postmaster General Cortelyou at the postoffice department today on matters of interest to the respective postal administrations. Sir Josenh was accompanied by Mr. Gray, the permanent head of the postal administration in New Zealand, and Mr. Wilson, of the same department. Mr. Cortelyou assured his visitors of the deep Interest felt by the American postal administration In the several suggestions that had been made looking to improved service between the two countries, and stated that for several months he had been giving serious consideration to the general subject After the conference the visitors were shown through the department and were particularly interested in the workings of the dead letter office and In the exhibits in the postal museum. Sir Joseph and his party leave this afternoon for San Francisco from .which point they sail on the 12th for home.

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MISSISSIPPI RAILROADS 6tate Authorities Get Out with Sharp Stick and Arrange Matters to Increase State Revenue About $12,-C00.000.

Publishers' Press Jackson, Miss., July 7. The railroad commission today Increased the assessment on all common carriers operating ia this state thirty three percent, and the total Increase will be ubout twelve million dollars. This action Is based on tho net earnings of the corporations' capital stock engaged in business and tho railroads are raising a storm of protest. They will endeavor to induce the commission to rescind its action. i

Hammond, Ind., July 7. (SpT. Alfred Larson, a Hobart man, was amazed yesterday when he received a notice from the First National band advising him that ' there was a draft for S1.000 there for him to pay for a traction engine and threshing machine, which was awaiting delivery to him at the Pennsylvania depot. Light was thrown on the mystery when he reached home, and his son Harry, aged 12, said that it was about time for his traction engine to arrive. The boy had found the Illustrated catalogue of an Eastern machinery house and had filled in the printed blank, accompanying it with a hurry up order for the machines. After his whipping the boy said: "Well, it don't cost us nothing. The company promised to pay the freight both ways."

FATE OF PEARY III FAR NORTH Belief Grows that the Brave Explorer May Have Perished. SILENCE IS SIGNIFICANT NO WORD HAS COME FROM THE PARTY WHICH SAILED ON THE SHIP ROOSEVELT JUST A YEAR AGO. Publishers Press! Wasington, July 7. That Capt. Robert E. Peary has sacrificed his life in the effort to discover the north pole is the fear of naval men here who are worried by the failure to get any tidings of the ship Roosevelt which sailed for the Arctic regions July 16, 1905. Advices from the American Geographical society add to their fears. Reports are that the weather in the far North this spring and early summer was more than usually rigorous, that severe storms have been frequent and that the Ice is heavy. Consequently It Is feared that Peary's ship may have been ground to pieces by the drifting floes. The explorer's plans when he left last summer, were to proceed to the farthest possible point of land north of Cape Sabine, and within 500' miles of the pole. There he was to establish a winter base and make all preparations for a dash across the ice this summer as soon as weather conditions would permit. This he expected would not occupy more than six weeks, and according to his calculations, he would reach home not later than October of this year. Esquimaux and dogs, it is suiosed, were taken aboard the steamer Roosevelt last summer, for it is on the hardy inhabitants of the polar regions that Peary always depends. It was thought, however that a whaling vessel might bring some tidings of the Roosevelt, and the failure of any news of the expedition to reach the outside world for so many months is arousing the keenest anxiety. STEVENS TAKES OATH PANAMA CANAL OFFICIAL Alarming increase of Tuberculosis in Panama a City Attributed to Dust From the Stone Crushers Operating in the Parks in the City. 5 Publishers' Pressl Panama, July 7. John F. Stevens, the newly appointed member of the Panama Canal Commission, was sworn in today. The commissioners have decided to rush the building; of the double track of the Panama railroad and push the work on the buildings for housing materials. It is expected that the canal work will be in full progress by September 1. There has been an alarming Increase of tuberculosis In the city and this Is attributed to tho stone crushers employed by Americans operating In the parks In the center of the capital. The newspapers have made an appeal for their removal to the suburbs but their request has been laughed at. Malaria is also on' the Increase throughout the canal zone.

INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN THAT CANNOT BE MISUNDERSTOOD ' QUIET SUNDAY IS EXPECTED FOR FIRST TIME IN YEARS. Publishers Pressl Terre Haute, July 7. Terre Haute tonight was a model city, so far as police regulations go and tomorrow will be the first Sunday in years that saloons will not have full sway. The new police board at its first meeting today issued a general order to Acting Superintendent Feiler, who read it to the police force at roll call tonight. The order says that "by consent of all members the board instructed the chief of police to enforce the law governing saloons." It is also ordered by the board that certain women must stay off the streets; that all names must be removed from above the doors and on the front of all questionable resorts; that no lights will be permitted above the doors of such houses, and no beer or liquor shall be sold in such houses. It is also ordered that all gambling must be stopped, and that any paraphernalia whenever and wherever found shall be destroyed. The chief is instructed to inform the members of the police department that the board means that these orders must be obeyed. The police tomorrow will use all possible vigilance to see that the laws and orders of the police board are obeyed, and it is likely that for the first time In months the saloons of Terre .Haute will not do business on Sunday. Laws to be Enforced. The policy of the Buckingham administration is that the saloons must close at 11 o'clock at night and keep closed on Sunday no back or side doors. The saloon keeper must obey the Nicholson law to the letter.

Committed to Jail. Publishers' Press! Mt. Carmel, Pa., July 7. Charles Fern, a local resident, charged by a coroners jury today with having criminally assaulted ten year old Anna Barryman, which caused her death, according to the jury, was committed to jail. CONSPIRACY IS CHARGED ARKANSAS .SHOWS NERVE Attorney General Will Take a Fall Out of Oil Company That is a Branch of the Standard Damages in Sum, of $2,000,000 Asked. Publishers' Press Little Rock, Ark., July 7. Alleging conspiracy to control the output and price of oil, Attorney General Rogers and Prosecuting Attorney Rhoton, of Pulaski county, today filed suit against the Webster-Pierce Oil Company. Damages in the sum of $2,000,000 is asked for and the plaintiffs also ask that the company forfeit its right to do business in Arkansas. In the bill it is alleged that the Waters, Pierce Company is associated with the Standard Oil Company, Republic Oil Company and others. THE EGLY CASE AGAIN SET It Will Be Heard Before the County Commissioners on July 16. July 16 Is the date set for the hearing of the Egly liquor case in the County Commissioners' Court. This is the case in which Egly, who is an applicant for a license to sell liquor in the Third Ward, made a mistake in the number of the lot on which he advertised his intentions to do business. HE FAVORS RACE SUICIDE Publishers Pressl Des Moines, Iowa, . July 7. Clinton Merrick of Forest City.Ia. known in Iowa as the "king of bacffelors," is chairmanof the old bachelors" committee which has called a convention of old bachelors and maids at Forest City, la., on July 25, to nominate a full state ticket to run on a race suicide platform which will declare that the race 6uicide danger is in too many babies being born", and that a shortening of the baby supply would be good for the country.

Walter Wellman, the American for the North Pole in His Air Ship.

THE SHAKING OF THE PLUM THEE Mayor-Elect Schillinger Has His Hands Full Selecting Official Family. PULLING FOR SEDGWICK PETITION SIGNED BY SEVERAL HUNDRED CITIZENS ASKS FOR APPOINTMENT OF WEST SIDER ON BOARD OF WORKS. There is still much speculation as to who will receive appointments at the hands of Dr. Richard Schillinger, mayor-elect, who will take office on September 1st, but so far, while impressions are strong, there is no official statement made in regard to the appointees. One place in which there is special interest is the Republican member of the Board of Works, several men regarding themselves as having a reasonable claim on this job. It Is understood that -Frank M. Clark of North 11th street, one of the best known men of the city, has received favorable consideration and it is known that a petition bearing many names has been filed with Dr. Schillinger, asking for the appointment of Richard Sedgwick, of West Richmond. B. B. Johnson and Clifton Merrill are still regarded as practically decided upon by the new executive, as members of the board. Some Republicans Left. As a matter of fact the change of administration apparently from a Republican to a Democratic one, will really not be as great a change as one might suppose, as the Council remains solidly Republican, one member of the Board of Works will be Republican as will one member of each of the other boards. While the Board of Works, appointed by the Mayor, will have a general direction of the affairs of the city, it will still remain for the Republican Council to control the purse strings, as all appropriations of money must come through the Council, as must also approval of many other important features of legislation pertaining to the affairs of the municipality. There appears to be no doubt -that Webster Parry, who has. long been active in the affairs of the Democratic party in Richmond and Wayne county will be made city controller. Three more meetings of the City Council, one in July and two in August, are all that remain for the present administration. AL0NZ0 BERTSCH DEAD Brother of Chas. Bertsch of Car bridge City Passed Away at San Luis Poyosi, Mexico. Charles A. Bertsch. of Cambridge City, has received news of the death of his brother, Alonzo Bertsch. at San Luis Poyosi, Mexico. lls death took place at the Hotel International, in that place, on Friday. Jury 6. The deceased was forty-seven years of age.

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Journalist, Bids Good-Eye to the July DISCREPANCY PECULIAR PULLMAN FARE SCHEDULE Ricmond Man Calls Attention of the Indiana Railroad System in Vogue Between Richmond and Terre Haute at Present. , The Indiana Railroad Commission has among its duties the investigation of any apparent discrepancies in the freight rates or passenger fares charged patrons by railroad companies, has had its attention called by a Richmond man to a peculiar schedule of fares which the Pullman Company has in vogue at the present time. The Richmond man in question is a commercial traveler and spends much of his time aboard trains. A few days ago he journeyed from Richmond to Terre Haute, leaving Richmond on train No. 21 at 10:15 in the forenoon. There is no parlor car on this train but a Pullman sleeper is regularly attached and the traveling man bought a seat in this car for the trip. Peculiar Discrepancy. The Pullman fare to Indianapolis was 50 cents; from Indianapolis to Terre Haute, in the same car. some seats and almost exactly the Eame mileage, the fare was 25 cents. Tho discrepancy was so apparent that the traveling man was amused and was inquisitive to know the reason. None of the Pullman employes could enlighten him, excepting to say that the rule was being obeyed and that there was double fare from Richmond to Indianapolis as compared from Indianapolis to Terre Haute. The Richmond man wrote to the Indiana Railroad Commission and asked to be enlightened. Yesterday he received a letter from Union B. Hunt secretary of the Railroad commission who said that the complaint had been received and would be taken up for Investigation. Mr. Hunt stated, however, that the Pullman company had previously entertained the position that as it was u separate corporation from the railroad that the railroad commission had no jurisdiction over it in such matters. WILL COPY "AMERICANS FRENCH ARMY CHANGES Minister of War Has Ordered the Commissary Reorganized Wines Will be Sold the Soldiers, but Spirits Will Not be Permitted. Publishers' PressJ Paris, July 8. M. Etienne, the minister of war, has ordered the reorganization of the army commissary on the lines employed in the American army. Another reform which the minister has ordered Is the suppression of vlvandieres or women sutlers in the French army, and the substitution of army canteens where light wines will be served to the soldiers. This change has been made on moral grounds. The vivandieres have been one of the most picturesque institutions of the French army and their suppression has caused much comment. At the canteens the wines to be-served the men will be sold at a low cost. No spirits will be kept in stock.

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CITY'S IS Guarantee List Reaches Sufficient Size to Begin the Work. CITIZENS TO THE RESCUE THE HISTORICAL DATA ALREADY COLLECTED AND MUCH OF IT IN READINESS FOR THE PRINTER. Prof. Walter Davis, who is editor-in-chief of the Centennial History, which is to be publshed this fall, has succeeded in obtaining a sufficient number of subscribers to guarantee the cost of the publication and it is now a settled fact that Richmond is to have a history In bound form. The sum necessary to guarantee the pub ication of 1,000 copies was estimated at $1,135. This sum was met by pop ular subscriptions from the citizens and business firms of the city. Should there be any deficiency in the cost of the publication by lack of sale's, such deficiency is to be prorated according to the amount separately guaranteed and paid to the committee in charge of the work, within ten days after for mal notification of such deficiency. Each guarantor will receive a volume of the History at cost of publication. Work Well Started. When the project was originally proposed, a large number of persons were assigned departments in the work of preparing the historical matter and many of these - had completed their work, either in whole or in part when the halt was occasioned by the abandonment of the Centennial project of which the history publication was to have been an important feature. So much valuable material was in readiness and because of the belief that it would be a matter of great regret in future years should the collected data be cast aside, those most directly interested set to work to procure a guarantee. The history as contemplated, will be, perhaps, the most complete and the best arranged ever published of any city in Indiana. Not being prepared with the idea of gain, every contributor to the work is giving his best efforts because of his interest in the success of the venture. KNIGHTS ARE GROG V Local Order Increases Its Member ship Annual Picnic on August Second. Eight new candidates were recently taken in by the Knights of Columbus, another evidence of the steady growth,, In membership this order Is enjoying. A change may be made in the date set for the Knights' annual picnic, August 2, in order to suit many who cannot attend at that time. Carnival Agent Coming. Early this week the advance agent for the Robinson Amusement Company, which Is to put on the Carnival for the Eagles .will arrive here to complete the v preliminary arrangements. The carnival will be b.eld the week of July 23.

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BOARD MEMBERS AND OTHER CITY OFFICERS WILL GO TO CINCINNATI WEDNESDAY TO INSPECT OILED STREETS.

The sprinkling of oil on tho raaca dam streets of Richmond is being se riously considered by the Board of Public Works, both for comfort of citizens and also to preserve the Ufa of the streets. The oil covering or dressing for macadam streets is now beyond the stage of experiment and it is claimed that it is the most effective preventitive for dust known and that it also brings about a hardening of the upper crust of tho street surface that will give many years of additional life. The Board of Tubllc Works has' quietly been considering the proposition for weeks, but not until recently! has the decision been made to give it a thorough investigation. Next Wed-' nesday the members of the board andl several other city officers, including! the mayor, will go to Cincinnati toi Inspect numerous Btreets in the su-J burbs of the Queen City that have been treated with crude oil by the1 Good Roads Improvement Company.' of that city. Representatives of tho local newspapers will accompany the' city officials. . " Law on Sprinkling. s ' Under the existing State law. sprinkling of streets may be let by, contract by the Board of Works and' the cost taxed up against the owners', of the property along the streets. In ' the same way it is possible for the Board ' of Public Works to sprinkle, the streets with oil, thoush the cost, comparatively speaking, would be less than sprinkling, with water. One coating of crude oil. will, it is asserted, last the entire season, keeping the dust down at all times. The crude oil that is used for street dressing comes principally from the oil fields of Kentucky and the south, this oil being particularly adapted for the purpose because of the fact that it contains a large percentage of asphaltum. The deposit of asphaltum left upon the streets that are sprinkled with this oil forms a coating or a veneer that practically renders the surface Indestructible under the bardest usage. In many cities of the country where macadam streets have ' been constructed, this treatment of crude oil has been found beneficial. It is asserted that there is absolutely no question that it will keep down the dust better than the constant use of water., -May Make a Test. The Board of Works is not rushing into 'the matter without due Invest?gatlon, however. It is possible that after an inspection of oiled streets at Cincinnati Is made, the Board will de cide to make a test on one of Rich mond's macadam streets. PROTEST FROM RICHMOND HIGH INSURANCE RATES New Schedule Declared Off for the Present and Insurance Underwriters of the State Will Meet to Aagin Consider the Proposed Changes. Recent notice served on fire insurance agents of Indiana that an increase in rates would be made, may, be recalled, owing to the vigorous protest that has gone up from ail parts of the State, Richmond included. The circular , announcements have been called in and another meeting will be held to consider the matter. The meeting will be held at Indianapolis and pressure may be brought to bear that will cause the previous ac-t tlon to be rescinded. HER DEATH WAS SUDDEN Mrs. Barbara Crowe, Wife of James Crowe, Succumbs to Heart Trouble. Mrs. Barbara Crowe, wife of James Crowe, died suddenly at her home north of Centerville, on Friday afternoon, of heart failure, having apparently been in the best of health up to the time she lay' down to rest on that afternoon. Mrs. Crowe was a sister of Walter George, Simon and Taylor McConaha, all well known men, and a half sister of Mrs. L. D. Commons. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock and interment will be at Earlham cemetery. Several children survive Mrs. Crowe. The Modern Woodmen. At the meeting of Modern Woodmen, tomorrow night, a report in reference-! to the recent big log rolling at Tipton wll be made. Next year a 'similarmeeting" will be held at Marion.