Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 168, 12 July 1907 — Page 1

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BE III EVIDENCE rrhey Are Making Great Preparations to Take Part in the Unveiling of the Statue of Oliver P. Morton. FF0RT MADE TO GET A LARGE DELEGATION. bviass Meeting Will Be Held on Sunday, July 21, and at That Time Detailed Plans Will Be Announced. Great preparations are to be made fby the old soldiers of Wayne county :to take a prominent part in the cere iroony of unveiling the statue of Oiirver P. Morton, war governor of Injdiana and a son of old Wayne county, which event takes place at IndianaIpolis on Tuesday, July 23. Sol Meredith post, G. A. It., is taking the lead 'in this movement. The veterans of ;this post believe that inasmuch as 'Oliver P. Morton was a native of this county it behooves the people of Wayne to be most conspicuous when, tribute is paid to this great statesman and leader. At a meeting of Sol Meredith post Thursday evening it was decided to inaugurate a movement to send a big delegation to the Morton statue unveiling and a committee composed of John A. Markley, J. R. Milliken, J. F. Davenport, Michael GrifTin and Allien W. Grave was named to formuilate plans. This committee will problably arrange to have a band or drum and bugle corps accompany the delegation to Indianapolis and will proTide special badges to be worn by those who make the trip. Invitation to be General. Not only all the members of Sol 'Meredith post will be asked to be Included In the delegation. The comImittee will invite members of all the other G. A. R. posts 1: the county and tan Invitation will 'be extended to all io'.d soldiers and sailors in tho county who are not members of any G. A. R. post. An Invitation will also be extended the Denver Brown post, Span-'ish-American War veterans, and the Sons of Veterans posts in the county 'to be represented. If a big delegation Is secured the trip , to Indiana: polls will probably be made on a special train. A week from next Sunday there will be a mass meeting of old so'diers I at a place to be determined on by the committee later, and at that time fthe plans of the committee for attending the Morton statue unveiling 'will be announced and all features of the trip to Indianapolis discussed. Grandson to Unveil. Oliver Perry Morton, 8 years old, hthe grandson of Morton, will unveil !the statue erected in honor of his ; grandfather at the east entrance to ithe state house on the afternoon of ijuly 23. Young Morton Is the son of Wafter Morton of Hartford, Conn. He '"will draw the cord that pulls the veil Ifrom the monument at the request of ithe widow of Governor Morton, his grandmother. The monument com'mission left the matter of selecting (some one to perform this service to Hhe Morton family, and they promptly (selected the little son of Walter Morkon. At the meeting of the Morton MonTiment commission Thursday the proJgram for the dedicatory exercises July 23 was arranged in a general way. 'The unveiling exercises will take ; place at the monument at 3 o'clock immediately after the G. A. R. of the ,Ftate and a regiment of the National Guard has given a short street parade. G. A. R. Participates. The exercises will open with music rby a band to be selected later by the commission. It Is probable that a band from the camp of instruction at .Ft. nenjamin Harrison will be selected. Immediately after, the opening number the Rev. Joseph S. Jenckes, formerly a well-known pastor of Indianapolis and an intimate friend of the Morton family, will offer prayer. The invocation will be followed by music. The Rev. D. R. Lucas, secretary of the Morton Monument commission, will then make a report of the work of the commission. W. R. King, chairman of the commission, will present the statue to Governor Hanly. Oliver Perry Morton will then draw the cord that unveils the statue and 'this will be followed by an address from the Governor, who will receive the monument on behalf of the people of Indiana. GUESTS OF THE PRESIDENT Admiral Yamomoto and Party Are at Oyster Bay. New York. July 12. Ambassador Aoki and Admiral Yamomoto and party left this morning for Orster Pay where they lunch with the president today. .

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Judge Landis, of the IT. S. Court at Chicago. He presided at the hearing where John D. Rockefeller and other high officials of the Standard Oil Co. gave testimony concerning the operations of that gigantic concern.

CONCERTS PLANNED FOR THEN0RTH END Business Men Will Make a Bid For More Trade. ORCHESTRA IS ENGAGED. In order to attract prospective shoppers to the stores in the north end of the city located on E, Eighth and Ft. Wayne avenue, the merchants in that section have entered an agreement to give three musical concerts each week, on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday nights, when the stores in that section are open for business. Stout's five piece orchestra has been engaged and beginning Saturday night, will furnish a two and one-half hour concert to the public on the nights specified. The orchestra will be located on the balcony in front of the real estate office of S. K. Morgan at the junction of E street and Ft. Wayne avenue. HAVE ENTERED PROTEST Northern New York Does Not Want the 24th. Buffalo. July 12. Fearing a repetition of the Brownsville, Texas troubles, residents of northern New York are protesting against sending the Twenty-fourth infantry, colored to Sackett's harbor. ELKS HAVE A CANDIDATE. Frankfort Lodge to Present Name of Bayard Gray. Frankfort. Ind.. July 12. A number of Elks left the city today for Indianapolis, where tliey join the Elks of that city and go to Philadelphia to attend the national convention of the order. The Frankfort Elks go with the expectation of seeing one of their number raised to the office of grand esteemed lecturing knight, the Frankfort lodge having indorsed the candidacy of Bayard Gray for this position. At the meeting of the Elks in Denver a year ago Mr. Gray was chosen grand tyler.

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BASS LUKE WILL RE MAIN JUST AS IT IS The State Fish Commissioner Changes His Mind. WERE MANY PROTESTS. Richmond people who were plunged Into despair because they learned that Bass Lake would be turned into a state fish hatchery, will again have occa sion to look pleasant, when they learn that State Fish Commissioner Sweeny has decided that the state commission ers will not use the lake for this pur pose. Sweeny, in his statement to the public, says that he never knew Bass lake was so popular until he received multitudinous calls from all over the state requesting him not to close the lake. A party of Richmond young men will leave the night of August third to spend two weeks at the lake. GLIDDEN TOURING PARTY Machines in Bad Condition at South Bend. South Bend. Ind., July 12. Sixty cars of the Glidden tour party arrived at South Bend last evening and others straggled in later. The pilot ar rived at 1:45 o'clock and contestant No. 2, driven by H. A. Grant, Westchester, arrived at 3:33 o'clock. The other cars are in bad shape from rain and mud. L G. Clark, while attempting to steer car No. 6 clear of a buggy, upset. Clark was severely injured. The run "from Toledo to South Bend was marked by many hardships and the travelers were cheered when they reached the Oliver hotel, the resting place for tonight. LIGHTNING KILLS HORSE. A Severe Storm Passed Over Bethel Wednesday Afternoon. Bethel, Ind.. July 12. John Anderson had a horse killed by lightning in the storm which passed over this place Wednesday, afternoon,

TALKS III HIS OWII DEFENSE Takes the Witness Stand Pale And Trembling, but Regains His Composure. ORCHARD'S STORY REFUTED HAYWOOD'S TESTIMONY WAS CHIEFLY CHARACTERIZED BY POSITIVE DENIAL OF STATE'S EVIDENCE.Boise, July 12. Examination of" W. D. Haywood was resumed this morning. Pettibone'3 store was headquarters of members of the federation he said but he never saw Orchard there; he never visited Orchard's room and denied that he bought a horse and buggy for Orchard to use in his plot to kill Sherman Bell. Haywood emphatically denied all connection with the Orchard felonies. Haywood oxplained the one hundred dollar draft sent to Jack Simpkins, which the state contends was meant for Orchard. He said Simpkins drew his per diem and expenses and left one hundred to be sent by draft. Boise, Idaho, July 12. William D. Haywood took oath Thursday, a witness in his own defense, and in a lengtliy narrative of his life and his work as a leader of his fellow miners, that was interrupted by adjournment, denied guilt of the murder of Frank Steunenberg and the manifold crimes charged against him by Harry Orchard. Haywood was pale and trembled with nervousness when he left the table of his counsel and walked around to the elevated witness stand where lie faced the judge and jury and raised hi3 right hand to be sworn. When he began, to respond to Clarence Darrow's questions his voice was low and somewhat uncertain, but within ten minutes he had regained his composure and for the rest of the afternoon he was master of his feelings. As he told of hia boyhood that began with toil at the age of 9 and gave the history of his family his invalid wife, who sat just to the left of the witness stand, began sobbing softly. Her mother-in-law and her nurse soon comforted her, however, and during the rest of the afternoon she and the rest of Haywood's kinfolk remained quiet but deeply concerned auditors. Denies Charges of State. Haywood's testimony was chiefly characterized by positive denials of the allegations made against him by the prosecution. He denied that he met Orchard until some time after the Vindicator explosion, denied that he sent Orchard back to Cripple Creek to blow up the Independence station, denied participation in the Lyte Gregory murder and denied suggesting or discussing the Steunenberg murder. He swore that he never gave Orchard any money at any time or place for any purpose. He declared that he never made a threat against Steunenberg, whom, he said, he regarded only as he did any politician who was being swayed by capitalistic influence. He told of a number of occasions when he met Orchard in Denver in the ordinary course of his relations with the federation and George A. Pettibone and said he saw Orchard for the last time in August, 1905, when Orchard told him he was going to Alaska and Haywood said he chided him for deserting his wife at Cripple Creek. The direct examination had not reached the connection of Jack Simpkins and the -action of the federation after Steunenberg was murdered when adjournment Inter rupted iz. DURBIN IS FOR G00DWINE. Ex-Governor Shows Activity of a Po litical Nature. Indianapolis, July 12. Ex-Governor Durbin was here today in conference with Senator Fremont-Goodwine. It is said that the ex-governor thinks he has scanned the - political horizon aright and that he has found thereon a number of signs convincing to him that Senator Goodwine can be made a winner for the republican nomin ation for governor. THE LEATHER . PROPHET. INDIANA Fair, warmer Friday and Saturday; light north winds, becoming variable. OHIO Saturday fair, warmer, light fresh west to northwest winds. CIRCULATION STATEMENT. THURSDAY (July 11) Total Circulation 6,659 6,454 Net Circulation LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION. LARGEST COUNTY CIRCULATION. LARGEST RURAL ROUTE CIRCU LATION. LARGEST-PAID CIRCULATION.

STOPPED IN TIME TO PREVENU DISASTER Residents of Happy Hollow Happier Than Ever.

HIGH WATER RECEDES. Had the heavy rainfall continued during Thursday night residents of Happy Hollow would have had to move. The rainfall continued until late in the evening and the river was -rising rapidly, but about one bour after the downpour ceased, the river began to fall and the residents of Richmond living in the lowlands were saved. Gurgling and bubbling, the muddy old waters of the Whitewater attracted large crowds of people Thursday night. The river as it swept around the turn and down towards the Main street bridge, even with the banks and crashing over th concrete dam afforded a beautiful natural picture. There was practically no damage done other than reported in Thursday's edition of the Palladium. The farmers coming to Richmond today said that the rain had done a world of good although it to a great extent delayed the wheat harvest. Reports from the outlying townships state that the small streams and creeks are swollen abnormally and in many instances have gone into corn and wheat fields. But few people In this city or county remember a day when more rain fell than Thursday. IS AND WRECKS JAIL Harry Mote of Montpelier Will Be Brought to Easthaven Hospital. BURNS ALL HIS CLOTHING. FLOODED THE JAIL BY TWISTING OFF WATERPIPES - IMAGINES HE IS A DOZEN DIFFERENT THINGS. Hartford City, Ind., July 12. Stripped naked, Harry Mote, formerly a Montpelier barber, is confined in the county jail here, a raving maniac. Thursday he was raving mad and turned the inside of the bastile topsy turvy. Stripping himself of all his clothing. Mote set fire to it and then flooded the jail by twisting the water pipes in two, as though they were of straw. Every bed in the jail was broken up and the clothing was used to mop up the floor. He raced from one part of the jail to another and talks loudly all the time. He labors under the hallucination that he is an engine, a baseball promoter, booster, writer, compiler, poet, physician and lawyer, and a hundred other things besides a crazy man. Mote's odd action first attracted attention a few days ago. when he returned from Bartlesville. I. T., saying he was an official booster from that town. At Muncie he asked to borrow $40.km from the mayor of the city with which to promote a baseball team. He was arrested, but friends at Montpelier secured his release and he was taken to his former home. His condition grew worse gradually, until it be came dangerous for him to be at large. Wednesday he was declared of unsound mind and was brought here and placed in jail to await papers for his admis sion to the hospital at Richmond. HE WILL SELL 20, BUSHELSJT 90 CENTS James A. Boyd to Get Fancy Price for Wheat. A DROP MAY SOON COME. James A. Boyd of Cambridge City is about the luckiest man In Wayne county. He is a farmer residing near Cambridge City and has contracted to sell 2 . bushels of wheat off his farms at i cents per bushel. The price Is quite a fancy one and is probably the highest contract price in Wayne county. It is predicted among local grain dealers that unless the farmers hold back on their crops, the price of wheat will drop as soon as the July crops are harvested and begin to pour upon the market. SEVEN CANDIDATES GO IN. Elks Had Work Followed by Social Session Thursday. The Elks lodge initiated a class of seven candidates at the meeting Thursday night. There was an unusually large attendance. Following the work a light luncheon was served and the evening was turned into a social ses sion, sometimes known as an Elks' humdinger. The evening was a

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FIRST OF INCREASED PAY ON NEXT MONDAY Postoffice Clerks and Carriers To Receive It.

IS SOME DISSATISFACTION. On next Monday the city postal clerks and carriers Mill receive their first pay under the increase granted by the last congress. Each of the clerks will receive an increase of $im per year, while the carriers will receive $.. This is because the clerks heretofore have been paid less than the carriers and in the endeavor to even up, the clerks and carriers on the salary basis, the government made this rule. The clerks heretofore have received $Ntx and the carriers .$STo. Although there has been considerable dissatisfaction in other cities over the rule regarding the carriers' increase, they say they have been discriminated against in favor of the clerks, the local carriers have as yet not expressed their sentiments on the question to Postmaster Spekenhier. The carriers generally feel that they have been discriminated against, but are willing to stand the discrimination. QUARTERLY LOVE FEAST HELD. Quarterly love feasts were held at the First and Grace M. E. churches on Thursday night. They were largely attended and full of interest. They were In the nature of testimonial meetings. J.M.REYHOLDSDEAD AT FOUNTAIN CITY He Expired Suddenly Thursday Night as a Result of Apoplexy. HAD BEEN IN POOR HEALTH. MR. REYNOLDS WAS IN BUSINESS AT DAYTON FOR MANY YEARS HE WAS A NATIVE OF FOUNTAIN CITY. Fountain City, Ind., July 12. The death of J. M. Reynolds occurred quite suddenly last night at eleven o'clock. Mr. Reynolds retired about eight o'clock, apparently In as good health as usual, although he had been in ill health for a long while. His death was caused by apoplexy. After Mr. Reynolds had retired Mrs. Reynolds decided to fit by his bed a while and soon noticed that his breathing was unusual. Upon further Investigation she found Mr. Reynolds was unconscious and he remained so until his death. Mr. Reynolds was born In Fountain city in 1S.V and was r7 years old and remained here until lie was twentyseven, when he went to D-jyton, where he was engaged in business for thirty years. He was for fifteen years secretary of the G. II. Friend Paper company and for ten years held the same position for the K. C. Harley wholesale grocery. Three years ago Mr. Reynolds had to retire on account of his health and had been traveling for the purpose of bettering It, ever since hia retirement from business. Mr. Reynolds came back to Foun tain City last spring and had been declining in health all the while. He was educated at the old Quaker school at Fountain City. The funeral will be held at two-thirty p. m. Sunday. Services will be in the grove at the cemetery if the weather will permit and if not they will be at the house. Interment will be at the South cemetery. MISS THOMAS WILL BE LEADER Milton. Ind., July 12. The subject for the Christian Endeavor meeting at the Christian church will be "Presentday Applications of the First Four Commandments." The leader will te Miss Rachel Thomas. lU A CRITICAL CONDITION Dr. J. B. Summers, Milton, Taken Suddenly III. Milton, Ind.. July 12. Dr. J. B. Summers was taken suddenly ill Thursday morning and is In a critical condition. Baby's Adventure. Milton, Ind., July 12. Frank Adams's baby daughter had a narrow escape from being choked to death. The child was playing on the floor and found a screw, which she swallowed. When Mrs. Adams first noticed the baby It was choking. She ran her finger down the child's throat, but found nothing. The child grew worse and a neighbor was called, who assisted her to relieve the little one which finally expelled from its throat a sharp pointed screw.

TOBACCO DEALERS ARE WELL PLEASED B? TRUST CURBING; Local Men Are Hopeful That! The Government Will Be Successful in Its Effort toj Disrupt Great Combine.

INDEPENDENTS MENACED ' BY TRUSFS METHODS.) Prices on Some Lines of GoocTsi Are Put at Such a High Point That There Is No Profit to Be Made in Them Local tobacco dealers, both retail: and wholesale, are highly pleased overj the action of the United States govern ment In bringing suit against thv American Tobacco company, which 1 one of the largest and most powerful trusts In the country. Local dealer have long been wearing the yoke C this gigantic corporation and tlu prospect of being relieved of it bring sighs of relief. H. II. Englebert, a tobacco ret alien and cigar manufacturer on North Eighth street, states that if the government Is successful in Its suit against the tobacco trust, local tobacco deaU ers will derive Inestimable benefit. "At the present time local cigan manufacturers find It extremely hanfi to compete against the trust," saidi Mr. Englebert. "The trust annuallr buys up nearly all the tobacco crops :n this section of the country and as a re suit the independent leaf tobacco concerns, from which our local cigar manufacturers buy their tobacco, have found It necessary to advance prices oai us. This means that the cigars now make net but extremely email' profits. Jjcat tobacco that we formerly bought for 1.1, 11 and l. cents I now priced anywhere from 20 to ZH cents. Menace to Independents. "The United Cigar Store corporation, which is a branch of the tobacco truhf and mentioned In the suit just brought by the government, is a menace to Independent retail tobacco dealers." continued Mrv Englebert. "There la only, one of these stores here and the lo cal independent retailers have as yet felt no ill effects from It, but In other towns the establishment of these trust; stores have driven prosperous Inde pendent dealers out of business. "The trust employs this method. In many cases, in establishing one of it United Cigar stores. A . prosperous dealer will be asked to sell out. If hoi refuses the trust will lease or purchase adjoining property or property close byj to this store and will then begin, to cut rates on the Independent dealer The result Is that he is soon driven out! of business." Harlan Simmons at the Simmon Brothers' cigar store has the earns' warm sentiment for the tobacco tniPtJ as Mr. Englebert. He states that his concern feels the yoke of the trust mostly on plug, scrap and smoking tobacco. The rate on these goods ha been raised to such a high point that there Is practically no profit la. theim at the present time. RUSH ORDERS ARE GIVEII FOR TUBES They Are Wanted for the Boilers of United States , War Vessels. WORK WILL BE HURRIED' A MAN BELIEVED TO BE A JAPANESE SPY HAS BEEN ARRESTED AT FORT ROSECRANS I KM CALIFORNIA. Sharon, Pa., July 12. T!ush order, have been received by the Shelby' Tube company for boiler tubes for' United States warships. Naval oracerS' are here to see that the orders are' rushed. Jap Soy is Caught. San Diego, Cal., July 12. A report was In circulation that a "Japanese had beea arrested at Ft. Rosecrans In the act of making drawings of the fort. Maj. Getchell acknowledges that a Japanese was arrested, that he was drawing plans of the fort, that hi was not a servant, but a stranger, and! that therti is heavy punishment for' the offense. He declined to give the Japanese's name and would not eayi

what he Lad done with the prisoner i