Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 230, 23 September 1907 — Page 1

RIO MOM) A ABIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. RICHMOND, IXD., 3IOXDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1907. VOL. XXXII. NO. 230.

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AT VARIANCE WITH FACTS III THE CASE At Frankfort, Ky., Little Stock Is Taken in the Statement Given by Mrs. Clark in the ' Goebel Case. ATTORNEY FRANKLIN SAYS IS ABSURDITY. Powers Admits That He Has The Affidavit But Refuses to Discuss the Matter Some Of Rumors Afloat. Frankfort, Ky., Sept. 23. The statement sent out from Richmond, Ind., purporting to give the substance of an affidavit of Mrs. Lula Clark that she was on the steps of the state house the day Governor Goebel was shot and heard Turner Igo say te shot him, is regarded here as being a fabrication, Us it is at variance with all witnesses ;who have testified in the case. Commonwealth Attorney Franklin, when naked about the story, said: ."Mrs. Clark's story Is an absurdity On its face. Of the hundreds of witnesses who have testified in these assassination trials not one for either prosecution or defense has testified to the presence of a woman anywhere on the walks, steps or grounds within the state house square. There is but one rear door opening from either state house or executive building. That door Is a basement door and opens into the gentlemen's toilet under the auditor's office. Certainly Mrs. Clark and her friend, Miss King, were not entering there. "She could not have meant that she was on the steps at that door for there are no outside steps at that place. There is a west entrance door In the hallway of the executive building and there are several steps leading up to that door, but Mrs. Clark and Miss King were not on those steps as has j been absolutely proven by Senator Newton Fratier, who stood about twenty feet from those steps immediately facing them when the shot was fired and he has sworn In all these trials that 'until after the shots were fired there was no ono on those steps at all ! Entrance Doors Closed. "The west entrance doors were solid wooden pannelled end were closed. There was no one in sight in the open space west of the executive building and east of the legislative building at the time of the firing of the shot. "E. T. Lillard and Col. Jack Chinn have testified in substance to the eame. Mrs. Clark's statement that at the time the shot was fired she noticed a man standinr just inside the door whom she recognized as Sanford is disprcven by Llewellyn F. St. Clair, the republican postmaster at Georgetown, Ky., one of Caleb Powers closest friends and warmest sympathizers, who on the first trial of Caleb Powers, testified that he alone was in the hallway at the time the shot was fired and on Jim Howard's third trial this name St. Clair was asked this question: " "Was there any one in that hallway or on those steps or about the foot of the steps when you went down there or while you were in the hallway? he was asked, and he answered unequivocally, No, sir, so Sanford was not Just Inside the door. Neither was Mrs. Clark and her friend. Miss King, on the steps, 'starting to enter " POWERS REFUSES TO TALK. Bays, However, That He has Woman'i Affidavit. Lexington, Ky., Sept. 23. Caleb Powers was called on the telephone from his room in the Scott County Jail at Georgetown and heard the story sent out from Richmond, Ind. Powers was surprised at the news of the affidavit, but said he could not tcive out anything additional just now. Powers said: "Yes, I have Mrs. Clark's affidavit In my possession and have had for some time. Whether or not Igo Is the person I meant when I said I had discovered who killed Goebel I do not care to say now. I never knew Mrs. Clark or Turner Igo personally." Turner Igo, the man whom Mrs. Clark says she saw run to John Sanford and tell him he had shot Goebel, has been dead about three years. He lived at Farmers, Rowan county, fifty miles east of here, and was a typical mountain bad man. About fifteen years ago, during a fight in which several men attacked him. Igo killed one of them with his pistol. For this he served several years In the Frankfort penitentiary. He has never before been mentioned in connection with the killing of Goebel and Mrs. Clark's declaration caused a sensation. Mrs. Clark is highly connected In Kentucky and her friends say she would never have made such an affidavit had she not (Continued on Page Four.)

THE WEATHER PROPHET.

INDIANA Tuesda y fair, variable winds. OHIO Showers Tuesday; fresh east winds becoming variable. TEMPERATURE RANGE WAS MANY DEGREES Mercury Ran From Fifty-five To Ninety. RAINFALL CLOSE TO INCH. When it is learned that on the warmest day last week the thermometer registered 90 degrees and then sank to 63 degrees, one can well imagine the changeable weather in each twenty-four hours. The entire week was features by weather peculiar to mountainous altitudes. The nights were cool enough to make the use of winter bed clothing comfortable. The days were warm, as a whole, ranging from 77 degrees to 90. The lowest temperature was on Sunday night, the loth, while the minimum temperature was 63 on Thursday. There were only two clear days during the week, Sunday and Thursday. There were cold rains four days in the week. The precipitation was .83 of an inch. The week's record follows: High. Low. September 15 89 55 September 16 85 59 September 17 86 63 September 18 86 61 September 19 90 65 September 20 86 61 September "21 11 62 HORSE THIEF GETS III WORK AGAIN Jesse Hormel Lost a Good Outfit at Cambridge City Saturday Night. AUTHORITIES NOTIFIED. OFFICERS OF THE HORSE THIEF DETECTIVE ASSOCIATION HAVE TAKEN THE MATTER IN HAND AND WILL ASSIST. Cambridge City. Ind., Sept. 23. Sat urday evenlne Jesse Hormel, who lives about two miles north of this city, drove to town and hitched his horse to a hitch rack on the east side of Fronanfel's grocery. About 10 o'clock he decided he was ready to depart for his home, but when he went to get his horse and buggy, found that it had been stolen. The city officers were notified at once of the theft and they were succersful in tracing the horse and buggy for a few squares, but lost the trail when they got to Main street. The officers of the Horse Thief Detective association have taken the matter into their hands and have telephoned a description of the horse and rig to all surrounding towns and there is no doubt but what the thief will be caught, but up to the present time nothing has been learned of his whereabouts. It was a small black mare, hitched to a cushion tire top buggy. DIVORCE WAS REFUSED TO MATTIEJ. TAYLOR Claimed That Husband Had Not Provided. A WOMAN IN THE CASE. In the circuit court Saturday Judge Fox refused to grant Mattle Neal Taylor a divorce from Edwin C. Taylor, who is a passenger brakeman on the Panhandle. On the witness stand Mrs. Taylor stated that her husband had not provided for her support. He came back by producing postal order receipts. Mrs. Taylor then stated that her husband made his headquarters in Indianapolis and that lt3 Kept company with a Mrs. Stevenson. Mrs. Taylor was asked If Mrs. Stevenson was in the court room. The witness replied that she was, she arose from her chair and pointed to Mrs. Stevenson, who sat by the side of her husband. Taylor stated that he had had trouble with his mother-in-law, in fact he could not get along with her. He stated that he had offered to provide a home for his wife and her mother In Indianapolis but that Mrs. Taylor had refused to live with him. Mrs. Taylor stated that she would not live In Indianapolis on account of her husband's relations with Mrs. Stevenson. The court refused to grant the divorce. MRS. L. E. ILIFF IMPROVED. Mrs. L. E. Illff, who has been under a physician's care at Lima, O., for two months, has been brought to her home in this city greatly improved. " She returned Sunday.

WATSON GOES AFTER

PITCHFORKTILLMAII Arraigns United States Senator on the Problem of The Negro. ADDRESS WELL RECEIVED. MIXED AUDIENCE AT EATON, IND., HEARD EMANCIPATION DAY SPEECH BY GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE. Muncie, Ind., Sept. 23. In an emancipation day speech yesterday at Riverside park, eleven miles north of Muncie, near Eaton, Representative James E. Watson, candidate for the republican nomination for governor, declared that the "wild beasts of the African jungles" would be discredited by some of the thoughts advanced by Senator Tillman in his tirades on the race question. An enthusiastic mixed crowd assembled around a flag-bedecked stand In the park and applauded to the echo as Mr. Watson propffAcA to exnress his views on "the gospel according to St. Benjamin," as he termed his text. There were as many whites as negroes in the audience and before Mr. Watson had concluded the finishing touches of hi3 oration there was a sort of general agreement all around that "St. Benjamin" is anything but sanctified. He "Skinned" Tillman. It had beon advertised far and wide that Mr. Watson would "skin" Tillman, as a sort of punishment for some radical racial ideas advanced by the "pitchfork" statesman, and he lived up to the high-sounding manifesto contained in the advance notices. If Tillman had any skin left when Watson got through it was simply hanging in shreds in isolated spots. Mr. Watson was loaded for bear. He had typewritten copies of some of the choice remarks made by Senator Tillman and he read them to the audience, pausing to express his opinion of both the remarks and the author. Every time he "swatted" the Carolinian there were strong manifestations of approval from the audience and shouts of "That's so' and "That's the truth," etc., from distinguished colored men on the platform. Mr. Watson said that of all the great problems confronting society none looms up larger than the problem of the colored man in America. He stated it to be his belief that God la back of all history that "through all the ages one increasing purpose runs." The Idea of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man is expressed, he said, as men can best express It in laws, institutions and constitutions. Though for a time men may be borne down by the heel of tyranny, the human spirit will not always brook oppression and man finally, somehow and some way, comes Into his own. Emancipated by Lincoln. He asserted that when Abraham Lincoln, the greatest of all the loving dead, struck off the manacles of slavery he emancipated 4,000,000 of colored people. "All of them together had not a dollar," he said. "They had no literature, no education, no wealth. They had had no chance to make literature or to gain wealth or to do anything but work with unremitting and unrequited toil for the masters who drove them to the field3 by the lash. The accursed institution of slavery had for years sat supreme In the seats of the mighty. In the shadow of the dome of the United States capitol, dedicated to human liberty, slaves were driven like cattle to market. This damnable system took little children at their birth and s tamped them with the seal of unending bondage. Souls that were created to shine undimmed forever were sold for enough tobacco to last a man a month. TO TO DELIVER LECTORE Representative of the Curry Normal School. DISCUSSES NEGRO RACE. Prof. G. F. Richings, formerly traveling representative of Tuskegee Institute, but now acting In the same capacity for the Curry Normal Industrial Institute of Urabna," O., towards which a number of Richmond citizens have contributed, will deliver a stereopticon lecture on the "Progress of the Negro Race in America," at G. A. R, Hall, Tuesday evening. Oct. 8. Prof. Richings has traveled throughout Europe, delivering this lecture and has been well received. The lecture at G. A. R. hall will be under the auspices of the Crispus Attucks Loyal League, a local organization. Mr. Richings is a white man. BUYS A $1 0,000 STOCK. Hoosler Store Has Made a Purchase At Dunkirk. The proprietors of the Hoosier store have bought a $10,000 stock of shoes and dry goods of John Weaver of Dunkirk. Mr. Ackerman is now in Dunkirk invoicing the stock.

COMING

RICHMOND

RIG CROWD EXPECTED

ON TUESDAY NIGHT South Side Will Dedicate Its New Pavilion. USED ALL YEAR AROUND. One of the largest crowds ever attending any event In Beallview Is expected Tuesday night, when the dedication of the handsome new pavilion takes place amidst a veritable shower of oratorical fireworks. The completion of the new pavilion marks the end of a dream which the members of the South Side Improvement association have held since Its organization, and therefore they feel that Its dedication should be a most auspicious one. Judge Henry C. Fox, L. C. Abbott, Ray Karr Shiveley and City Judge Wm. C. Converse will cpeak during the evening. An orchestra has been engaged to furnish music. Refreshments will be served to all those who attend the dedication. At the close of the evening's exercises dancing will prevail. The new pavilion can be used at all Being forty feet wide and seventy feet long it can be used for meetings as well as social functions. In summer it Is expected to furnish shelter for picnickers. seasons of the year as it is enclosed. DOLLAR IS MOVING Palladium Coin Keeps Up Its Work of Showing Value of Home Patronage. COVERS MUCH TERRITORY. HAS BEEN FROM THE EASTERN TO THE WESTERN LIMITS AND IS STILL MOVING MUCH INTEREST SHOWN. Never still a minute, the Palladium dollar continues to traverse the business avenues of Richmond as a conclusive demonstration of how much more a dollar spent in our home city will avail for the business Interests of Richmond than money spent outside the city with foreign merchants. The dollar No. 2, which has been doing such valiant service during the past week, was spent at the City Bowling alley on Ninth street late Saturday night. It did not remain there long, however, as it was soon paid out to Howard Thomas of the Emmons tailoring establishment. Mr. Thomas then spent the dollar with the Alford Drug company, where it remained until Monday morning. This morning the dollar was spent by Everett Benham. an employe of that store with Mr. Miller at the Ninth street news stand. Mr. Miller spent the dollar about noon at the Central hotel. Interest increases relative to this coin and it goes without saying that it will have a very busy week among the merchants of the city. So far in its travels it has gone from the extreme eastern limits to the extreme western limits of the city and it is safe to predict that it will have covered all of the principal sections of the city before the end of the week. .G. ROCKEFELLER MAY ESCAPE STAND Attorney Kellogg Does Not Consider It Necessary To Call Upon Him. TILF0RD KNOWS ENOUGH. KELLOGG SEEKS TO SHOW UP THE CIRCUMSTANCES AROUND THE SALE OF THE MANHATTAN OIL COMPANY. New York, Sept. 23. Before examination in the Standard Oil hearing was resumed today, Attorney Kellogg said he might not call Wm. G. Rockefeller to the stand. He believed Wesley H. Tilford, treasurer, has all the information in his possession that he desired. Mr. Tilford was recalled to the stand by Mr. Milburn, attorney for the Standard. Kellogg sought to show that sale of the Manhattan Oil company to the trust was accomplished only after the Standard entered Into a contract to supply several gas companies in which E..B. Benedict and Anthony I. Brady were Interested Tilford declared he knew of no such agreemenL He said the Standard had a contract to furnish crude oil to certain gas romjianl

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BIRTHRIGHT QUES

TION ISALIVE ONE However, It May Not Come Before the Indiana Yearly Meeting This Year. TO THE FIVE YEARS BODY. MANY BELIEVE THAT IS THE PLACE TO SETTLE IT IF A CHANGE IS DESIRED SESSIONS OPEN WEDNESDAY. Whenthe sessions of the Indiana Yearly Meeting begin in earnest Wednesday, it Is not thought that the question which has been the source of much discussion and even contention in Friends, circles of other yearly meetings, pertaining in the main to a change In the present system of admiting children of Quaker parentage into the church, will be discussed to any extent. It is very probable that the Indiana yearly meeting will entirely ignor this feature, depending upon the Five Years meeting to definitely settle the question, as it will .without doubt come before that body when it convenes in this city in the course of the next few weeks, as the Western Yearly meeting, in which the proposition has been much discussed, will undoubtedly bring it up for consideration. From the first organization of the church, a child born of Quaker parentage was considered a member of the Society of Friends. Old ideas were swept aside a few years ago when the Five Year's meeting ruled that children should not be considered members of the church until they so decided themselves. It was argued then that the child should not be bound to the Quaker church if he did not desire and believe otherwise. It was largely through this feature that the ruling was made, but from present appearances it seems that the question will again be a bone of contention and discussion at the coming sessions of the Five Year's meeting. Unless the question is brought up by some quarterly meeting, and according to Timothy Nicholson, this, is hardly probable, the Indiana meeting will completely ignore the subject. Owing to the wido variance of opinion on the subject It would undoubtedly call forth much comment to the hindrance of more important subjects to come up for consideration. The interests of the Indiana body are varied, including reports on education, Indiana affairs, home missions, temperance, foreign missions, African Industrial Mission, evangelistic and pastoral work and other matters, including reports from the various officers of the meeting of epistles from the other yearly meetings in America and those at London, England and Dublin, Ireland. Many prominent workers in this denomination will attend from various parts of the country. The sessions will be held at the Yearly Meeting House on East Main street, this city, the largest place of assembly of the kind in the city. Clerk Active Charity Worker. The present clerk of the Indiana body is Timothy Nicholson, who is widely known for his activity In the National Charities Conference and as a member of the board of state charities. Mr. Nicholson, despite his advanced years, is very active and disposes of the heavy duties incumbent upon the clerk with apparent rase. Mr. Nicholson also is chairman of the committee that is making arrangements for the genera! conference in October. Another of the faithful workers of the Indiana body Is the Rev. Allen Jay of this city, who for many years has been distinguished for his services in the financial field, both In behalf of the yearly meeting and of its chief educational Institution Earlham college. Mr. Jay has no doubt raised more money for endowments of- various Quaker colleges and to meet Indebtedness than any other man in the denomination In the entire country. He Is also well advanced in years, but is still as active as a man of 40. EIGHT PERSONS SHOT FOR ALLEGED CRIME Young Girl Vas Included in the Number. SAMPLE OF RUSSIAN WAYS. Lodz, Poland, Sept. 23. Eight persons, Including a young girl Just out of her teens, were officially shot down without trial today for having participated in the murder of E. Silberstein. He was the owner of a large cotton factory whose workers went on a strike. When they returned they demanded pay for the time they were out and when he refused they beat Silberstein to death. LADIES ADMITTED FREE. - N Ladies will be admitted free at the Gennett tonight by the Bishop stock company under the usual conditions. The orchestra has been retained to slar all week.

HORATIO SM ALLEY IS

DEAD AT CAMBRIDGE Was Well Known in Western Wayne County. FATHER MRS. T. R. JESSUP. Cambridge City, Ind., Sept. 23. Horatio Smalley, aged eighty-four years, one of the best known residents of Western Weyne county died this morning at his home near here. His death was due to general senility. Mr. Smalley was a resident of Wayne county for almost fifty years. He was a farmer all his life. He is survived by his wife and two children, Mrs. Belle Hammond, of Detroit, Mich., and Mrs. Thomas Jessup of Richmond. The funeral arrangements have not yet been made. BUILDING GOES FORWARD. Abel and Robert Study. Are Erecting Handsome Residences. Abel L. Study, who retained a lot in the rear of his Main street residence, at Eighteenth, recently sold to John Weller, has a new residence well under construction there. It will be modern and complete In every way. Robert L. Study Is building on South Sixteenth street, the excavation having been completed and the foundation laid. This will also be a pretty and modern home. SENATOR BORAH IS FACING BAD CHARGE Placed on Trial Before a Jury, Accused of Fraud in Land Matters. PROSECUTED THE MINERS. BORAH ENTERED SIMPLE PLEA OF NOT GUILTY AND REFUSED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF TECH NICALITIES. Boise, Idaho, Sept. 23. United States Senator William E. Borah, who acted as one of the principal prosecut ors for the state of Idaho at l.ie recent trial of William D. Haywood, secreta ry of the Western Federation of min ers, was placed on trial this morning in the United States court here, charged with conspiring to defraud the govern ment out of title to 17.2NO acres of Idaho timber lands. Twelve other per sons have been Indicted with Senator Borah, but he is the first to face a fed eral jury, having demanded a trial prl or to the time he shall present his cre dentials as a senator next December in Washington. The other of the defend ants have interposed demurrers because of abatement and other legal technicalities, many of which are still pending, and have charged that the United States district attorney, Norman H. Ruick, used improper and ille gal methods while securing the Indict ments. But Senator Borah has simply enter ed a plea of not guilty and has forbid den his attorneys to take advantage of any technicalities whatsoever. He has stated as his desire that the case should be tried on Its merits. Conspired to Defraud. The indictments against Senator Borah and the twelve others charged that the yentered into a conspiracy with H8 residents of Boise, whereby the latter were to take up timber land claims of 10 acres each.jpaylng a minimum price to the government,, and later, when the claims were finally approved, to transfer the land to the Barber Lumber company, an Idaho corporation, whose principal officers are residents of Wisconsin. James T. Barber and Samuel G. Moon, of Eau Claire, Wis., are among those indicted. It Is claimed that the 10S entrymen swore that they were taking out the claims for their own use and benefit for speculation. The statements are alleged to have been false and the government attorneys claim the entrymen had all entered into a contract to turn the lands over to the lumber corporation as soon as their claims were proved. It Is further claimed that Senator Borah and the other alleged conspirators provided funds to many of the lOS entrymen to cover the expenses cf taking out their claims.The interest aroused by the trial is intense in this section of the country, owing to the prominence of all concerned la the alleged conspiracy. One of the co-defendants with Senator Borah is Frank Martin, attorney-general of Idaho under former Governor Frank Steunenberg, who was assassinated by Harry Orchard. HAS BOUGHT REEVES HOME. Albert Gayte, President of First National, Makes Purchase. Albert Gayle, president of the First National bank, has bought the handsome home of Jesse S. Reeves on South Sixteenth street and will occupy it within a short time. Mr. Reeves recently removed iroa Richmond.

WILFRED JESSUP

WILL MAKE DACE FOR JHE PLACE He Will Issue a Formal Announcement to the Republican voters of the District Within a Few Days. SITUATION LOCALLY BECOMES INTERESTING. Shiveley May Also Be a Candidate and With Kuhn for the Democrats Richmond Will Be. Political Center. . Wilfred Jessup, proecutins attorney for Wayne county, will, within the course of the next few days, make a formal announcement of his candidacy for the Sixth district republican nomination for congress. This is not only freely asserted among the friends of Mr. Jessup, but Mr. Jessup himself made the statement that he would make a formal announcement soon. The death of Mr. Jessup's grandfather at Cambridge City, called him there and for that reason he woud not make a formal announcement today. Little did the friends of Jessup think, when they were discussing the matter with him a few days ago, that he would enter the race for the republican nomination this year. At that time, when he was approached upon the subject, he simply stated: "What young man Is there whose ambition Is not to represent his district In congress?" This was not thought at the time at all peculiar, neither was it considered indicative of Jessup's intentions, so far as the present campaign Is concerned. For that reason the formal announcement that Mr. Jessup desires the republican sons of the Sixth district to crown him with lasting honor, in the shape of the. nomination, will be received with some surprise among local politicians. Situation Is Interesting. With an announcement coming from Jessup, affairs politic will undoubtedly take on an interesting condition locally. Although Charles E. Shiveley has not yet announced his candidacy, it is thought he will do so within the course of the next few weeks and then there will bo two Richmond men in the battle for the republican nomination. Incidentally this battle to determine the fittest, Is waxing quite warm In the old burnt district In addition to Mr. Jessup and Mr. Shiveley as candidates, the sixth district press is claiming that the Rev. T. II. Kuhn of Richmond will undoubtedly be the choice of the next Democratic convention owing to the excellent race which he made against Congressman Watson in the last campaign, and if this is the case it is freely predicted that the next two congressional candidates, democratic and republican, will be Richmond men. Candidates for congress in the Sixth district and particularly on the republican side of the fence, are as thick as mushrooms in early springtime. They are springing up from all quarters and indications are that there will be still others before the nominating convention convenes. IIEWKIRK PROMOTED BY ROCK ISLAIID PEOPLE General Manager of Real Estate Department. ADVANCE WARREN NEWKIRK It is reported that Thomas J. Newklrk, a former well known resident of this city, had been appointed the general manager of the real estate department of the Rock Island Railroad systemThis appointment Is the result of the splendid work Mr. Newklrk has accomplished at the Rock Island real estate agent for the state of Arkansas. As general manager of the real estate department of this gigantic railroad system, Mr. Newklrk will com map d a large salary and his headquarters will be located in Chicago. Warren Newklrk, who has been In Little Rock, Ark., assisting his father, has been appointed to succeed his father as district real estate agent of thm tompany. THREATENING TO KILL THE KIDNAPPED CHILD Mother of Annia Orlando Is Prostrated. New York, SepL 23 Kidnappers of little Annia Orlando today sent a letter to her father threatening to kill the child unless a large ransom is im mediately paid. The mother Is pros trated.