Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 127, 21 June 1908 — Page 4

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REPUBLICAN TICKET. NATIONAL TICKET. For President William howard taft of Ohio. For Vice-President JAMES S. SHERMAN of New York. STATE. Governor JAMES E. WATSON. Lieutenant Governor FREMONT C. GOODWINE. Secretary of State FRED A. SIMS. Auditor of State JOHN C. BILLHEIMER. -Treasurer of State OSCAR HADLEY. Attorney Genera JAMES BINGHAM. State Superintendent ' LAWRENCE McTUENAN. State Statistician J. L. PEETZ. Judge of Supreme Court QUINCY A. MYERS. Judge of Appellate CourtDAVID MYERS. "Reporter of Supreme Court GEORGE W. SELF. DISTRICT. Congress WILLIAM O. BARNARD. COUNTY. Joint Representative ALONZO M. GARDNER. -Representatli WALTER S. RATLIFF. Circuit Judge HENRY C. FOX. Prosecuting Attorney CHAS L. LADD. Treasurer ALBERT ALBERTSON. Sheriff LINUS P. MEREDITH. Coroner DR. A. L. BRAMKAMP. Surveyor ROBERT A. HOWARD. Recorder WILL J. ROBBINS. Commissioner Eastern Disk HOMER FARLOW. j-Commlssionsr Middle Dist.BARNEY H. LINDERMAN. Commissioner Western Dist. ROBERT N. BEESON. WAYNE TOWNSHIP. Trustee JAMES H. HOWARTH. Assessor CHARLES E. POTTER. A FACTORY FUND. The establishment of a factory fund a sum of money with which to subsidize new manufactories and assist old ones is the latest scheme of the Richmond Commercial club. The plan has as its object the growth of the manufacturing, business of Rich mond, and if properly carried out, can work great benefit to the city. But in the management of such a proposition, there must be a decided tendency toward conservatism and at the same time a keen appreciation of real merit. Numberless letters are received from would-be factory owners asking what inducements are offered to locate in Richmond. At the present time there are valuable lots to offer and exceptional railroad facilities. But other cities have more; they guarantee a cash bonus. And of course, if they are as well situated as Richmond, they get most of the new factories. But then again, where would lie the benefit of a factory that would be transient in its habits as many of them are and when operating in a city would not employ many men? Now and then a man says he would like to come here to manufacture nail files, or cheese cutters, or left-handed-monkey-wrenches. Anything, almost, to get a bonus from the city, if one were offered. It will be a hard thing for the directors of the Commercial club to sort out the pure kernels from the chaff and great discernment must be exercised or the fund will idly slip through their fingers and amount to nothing. Factories already located in a city sometimes encounter a period of business depression that makes ready money a necessity. These also may bej the chaff, for they may have a mortgage Indebtedness that makes them worth little or nothing to the community. It is of no advantage to

keep these. . Let them go and the city would really stand higher.

If a factory fund Is established It must always be borne in mind that those who contribute expect some advantage to the city in return for. their money. If that is not forthcoming, then subscriptions will cease and the situation become worse than at present. It is only a note of warning. May a factory fund be raised for the perpetual advancement of manufacturing in Wayne county, If it can be properly applied. THE ICE "TRUST." Founded on at least an atom of fact and, more to the point, the word of more than one reliable patron of the local ice company, charges of short weight and dishonest dealing form the latest sensation in Richmond. There has not been time for an answer from the ice company although one is assuredly due, and at once and for that reason there will be no condemnation by the Palladium. It Is necessary, however, to call attention to the deplorable state of affairs that exists in the administration of the city's department supposed to attend to these mat ters. Gross negligence seems to be a just accusation, and by the words of the democratic city attorney himself. The combination of the ice compan ies of Richmond early this season did not augur well for the consumer. Ice trusts and combinations have worked for graft and suffering in other cities and they have never been broken up until the people took up arms against the corporation and demanded a "square deal" at reasonable prices. Already the results of a lack of competition have shown themselves. Prices have risen, service is no better, and a code of rules has been put into effect that throttles the small consumer unmercifully. However, a monopoly may continue unmolested until attacked in a legal manner. The laws of Indiana and the ordinances of the city of Richmond have provided for an inspector of weights and measures and also for dealing with the more serious question, i. e., a combination in restraint of trade. But neither seem to have been enforced. In fact, no investigation has been made and complaints from long-suffering consumers rise to the heavens unheard. Richmond is about to demand that some action be taken and no doubt the proprietors of the ice company will be the first to insist that every step possible be taken to clear their names of the unsavory accusation. But the administration must not hesitate either. Let the investigation go on at once and if the laws have been broken, let council instruct the city attorney to proceed with the prosecution. GREAT BEEF SHORTAGE FRIGHTENS PACKERS Price One-third Greater Than A Year Ago. Chicago, June 20. Packers are becoming alarmed over the shortage in the beef supply. The price has risen in the last week from one to two cents and is now one-third greater than a year ago. Practically no exporting is being done now, the packers preferring to pay their freight rate contracts with the steamship companies and to keep their meat in this country. Cattle on the hoof are the highest since 1906 and receipts at the Chicago stock yards are the smallest in twenty years. CROPS IN CANADA PROMISE BIG YIELD Reports Estimate Wheat Crop Double Last Year's. Winnepeg, June 20. Crop reports being received here from all over wes tern Canada are 'becoming every day more brilliant and now hopes for a full crop in western Canada are re as onably entertained. Various estimates place the increase in acreage over 1907 at from 30 to 50 per cent, and keeping in mind the comparatively poor yield of that period, it is con fidently expected that the wheat crop of 1908 will be double that of last year. SETTLEMENT BETWEEN RAILWAYAND STEEL MEN Large Buying Orders for Steel Rails Recently Filed. Pittsburg, June 20. Indications promise an early settlement of differ ences between the railroads and the steel rail makers. Among the buying orders ' which have been held up are 55,000 tons for the Pennsylvania, most of which will go to the Carnegie Steel Co, and 52,000 tons for the Illinois Central, of which the Illinois Steel Co, of Chicago will roll 42,000, the Tennessee Coal & Iron Co. to furnish the other 10.000 In open-hearth rails.

STORIES FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL From The Palladium's Special Correspondent, Ralph M. Whiteside

By Ralph M. Whiteside. Washington, June 20. Congress was pretty good to Oklahoma. The donation of $180,000,000 of taxable property to a new state, just started with distinguished purpose, is not to be overlooked. This donation was made by process of removing the restrictions on alienation of Indian lands. For many jVars the lands of five tribes of Indians have been held under the condition that the Indian allottees might not sell them without the permission of the Department of the Interior. It was very hard to get such permission. While the lands were held under such restriction they could not be taxed. This was a serious matter to the new state, which had, a place for all the money rightly due it. The question of removing the restriction was, therefore, of paramount importance. The Indians have long had every right of citizenship, with the exception of the privilege of selling their lands. Now that Indian ownership of these lands in Oklahoma has been established and confirmed absolutely, the lands may be placed on the market. Thus the new state will benefit to the extent of their value for taxation purposes. When Representative J. Hampton Moore, of Pennsylvania, introduced a bill imposing a heavy penalty upon any District of Columbia laundryman who uses acids or heavy machinery in his business, many of his colleagues knew immediately that he had a reason for demanding such a law. They were patient and their expectations were justified, for Mr. Moore, after informing the House that the steam laundry has the heathen Chinese '"beat to a frazzle ' when It comes to destroying linen, told of a personal experience. "The question of the wholesale destruction of laundry is one of the most important of the hour," he said. "When I came here last December, I bought two brand new shirts for a dol John B. Hegger and wife leave today for Milwaukee to attend the national convention. It is safe to say that John will no doubt endeavor to "bull the market" on Pabst Best, and we do not know of any one that is better able to get satisfaction out of the effort than he is. J. E. Thatcher will also leave at the same time to attend The National convention, but in view of Ed's modesty he will no doubt feel that he cannot keep the pace of the average Milwaukeean. A most excellent ,program is provided by the Post of Milwaukee for the delegates, and no doubt a week of pleasure, as well as profit, will be had by all the delegates in attendance. Elmer E. Lebo and family leave about the first of July for a months stay at Chapman's lake in Northern Indiana. On June 1, the national association had in its treasury $17.Wi).3S. There was a total membership of 38.315 and there was paid out for indemnity dur ing the month of May, $8,224.71. and it is worthy of note that no indemnity was drawn by any member of Post C during the month of May. a It is with pleasure that we note that the city council of Richmond has approved the agreement entered into between the board of public works of our city and the Terre Haute, Indian apolis and Eastern Traction company, whereby the right of freight service is restored. We sincerely trust that at a very early date freight cars will be running in and out of Richmond again to give the shippers what they badly want freight service. Lots of credit for the accomplishment of the settlement of the difficulties be tween the city and interurban company must be given to the committee from the T. P. A. and the Commercial club, and Post C Is glad to say that the committee appointed by the Post took the initiative steps that led to the settlemen of the difficulties. The excellent work of Adam H. Bartel and John Y. Poundstone of T. P. A. committee and Edgar M. Haas of The Commercial club committee and Henry Deuker, chairman of the Franchise committee of the City Council cannot be commended too highly, as these gentlemen certainly showed that they were aDle to hustle, and went after what they wanted, and got it, and got it in a way that was satisfactory to every one. The shipping interests had hoped that the council would see fit to grant the interurban company the right to run its freight cars over Its present lines until the extensions called for in the agreement could be built, but as they do not seem to view the matter favorably in this light, it is to be hoped that the interurban company will lose no time in building its extensions and give us the freight service, and we sincerely hope that the matter will be settled for all time to come. We notice by the report of the secretary and treasurer of Post C that the Post has no money to loan at the present time. It is a note worthy fact, that the expenses the last several months have been quite heavy, but each member can console themselves that all money spent was spent judiciously and for the betterment of the Post. We feel that money spent is better for the members than having it on hands and doing nobody any good, and we do not question hut what the Post will be able to go through the year without any additional cost to the membership. It is reported that every night after the troubles of his day's work Is over.

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lar each. I liked those shirts and you can imagine my feelings when I tell you that this week is the last time I can wear them. The laundryman has done well. ' I maintain that I have a right to destroy my shirts if I want to, but I have a right to feed them to the goat direct, without the agency of a laundryman." Chairman Jenkins of the Committee on Judiciary, took his stand against the bill on the ground that a man who wears linen 6hirts when it is possible to buy celluloid fronts deserves to suffer loss.

When Postmaster General Meyer announced a reduction in the postal rates between the United States and Great Britain and Ireland, there were many in the postal department who predicted that a two-cents-an-ounce rate would not pay the government, consequently would, in a short time, require that the rates be raised. Under rules established by the Universal Postal Union, which governs the international postal transactions of the civilized nations, a rate of five cents for the first ounce and three cents for every ounce added was established on October 1. 1907. This rate has been further reduced to the flat rate of two cents an ounce, the same to take effect on October 1. Postmaster General Meyer announced that he expected an increase in receipts as a result of the decrease in rates. It has always been found that a reduction causes a more general use of the mails, consequently the business is much greater. Mr. Meyer also places much importance on to the fact that-a lower postage will lead to freer commercial intercourse. Merchants depend more and more on the mails for the conduct of their business and the saving in postage means much to them. Then there is the boon to adopted English-speaking citizens, and their connection here, particularly those of limited means, who will correspond with relations and friends more regularly now that the death rate and he hies himself to his cozy room in the best hotel in town, that Ross Bowman says the following: Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my job to keep. If I am bounced before I waks. Then let me sleep. For mercy's sake. W. H. Q. WAR VETERAN IS 109 Missouri Resident Claims to Be the Oldest Sirvivor of The Civil War. ALWAYS CHEWED TOBACCO Liberal, Mo., June 20. Henry Dorman of Liberal, has the distinction of being the oldest survivor of the civil war. He has just begun to show the effects of his extreme age of 109 years. Several other honors belong to this veteran. He has lived in three centurles ho is tho nlrlest man In hfs state and draws one of the largest pensions I paid by the United States. Congress recently increased his pension to 50 a month. Dorman was born in New York state, enlisted in 1863, at the age of sixty-four, from Michigan, fought at Gettysburg and other important engagements, and has lived in Missouri since the war. This veteran never drank, but for eighty years he chewed tobacco. He gave this habit up in 1901 when his health began to decline. Since then he has been under the care of the widow of the youngest of his ten sons, all of whom he has survived. LABOR LEADER IS NEAR DEATH'S Leader in Parliament Is Critically III. London, June 20. John Burns, England's labor leader in Parliament is critically ill and little hope is entertained for his recovery. Burns has been in failing health for a long time. The doctors have not been able satisfactorily to diagnose his ailment. Burns is fifty years old and for many years has led the struggle of the English working people. OVERTHROW OF SULTAN NOWJMMINENT Mulai Hafid's Followers Fanatical.

Tangier, June 20. Additions are being made to the ranks of Mulai Hafid the pretender, almost dally, and the overthrow of Abdul Aziz, the recognized Sultan, is believed to be imminent. Mulai Hafid's followers are becoming more and more fanatical and all hope of a peaceful settlement of the uprising is at an end. Only a bitter struggle will settle the question, and unless Abdul Aziz strikes, he will find his army unable to ,cope with the growing force. PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY.

to England is the 6ame as the domestic rate.

Government officials and distillers are now satisfied by the decision of the court of appeals in the District of Columbia, establishing that whisky and neutral spirits are not "like substances." This question has bjen in dispute for a long time and the dis tillers carried it to the attention of President Roosevelt and Attorney Gen eral Bonaparte before it finally went to the court of appeals. The court also decided that Bourbon whiskey can be made in one state on ly Kentucky. It also must be made from a certain kind of sour mash, the principal ingredient of which is corn. This settles an old controversy which has been an Institution in the state of Kentucky ever since Bourbon whisky was discovered. A kentuckian maintains that Bourbon cannot be manufactured in any other state. It was more pride than an establishel knowledge of the subject that caused this contention but the result, by the recent decision Is the same. Referring to the cause of the high price of meat, Secretary of Agriculture ilson says he does not look for a return of low prices and points out that the country is tending in a direction that will make it more and more difficult for the poof to eat meat. The soil, he says, is being wasted and. in time the effect will be that poor fami lies in this country will not have meat any more than do the poor families in Europe. "The problem of the cost of living is Intimately connected with the problem of the conservation of the productive ability of th" sll," says Mr. Wilson. "The present high prices of meat have been brought about by the fact that the production of meat animals is not keeping pace with the growth of the population that is engaged in other pursuits than that of raising live stock." NEARLULL SMOKE Russian Czar Gets Away With Thirty Cigarettes Daily. London, June 20. Most of the European monarchs are smokers. King Edward smokes fine cigars and occasionally a pipe. Franz Josef of Austria smokes a pipe. Leopold II of Belgium smokes a dozen cisars daily. Alfonso XIII likes cigarettes best, and the Czar smokes about thirty cigarettes a day. Emperor William has been advised by his doctors to smoke little or not at all. He lights an occasional cigarette, but never uses up more than half of it. WOMAN MOST DIE IN ELECTRIC CRAIR Murder One Of the MOSt Fiend' ish Known. Watertown. N. Y., June 20. Guilty of murder in the first degree was the verdict of the jury today in the case of Mrs. Mary Farmer, charged with the killing of Mrs. Sarah Brennan. The jury was out three hours. Justice Rogers sentenced Mrs. Farmer to be executed by electricity at Auburn prison during the week beginning August The crime for which Mrs. Farmer who is thirty-nine years old, was convicted, was fiendish. Her victim, Mrs! Brennan, who was fifty-five years old, was her neighbor and intimate friend, and the motive was to gain possession of the Brennan home, deeds of which Mrs. Farmer had forged in October. The crime was committed April 23. Mrs. Brennan was hacked to pieces with a hatchet and her body stuffed in a trunk. Mrs. Farmer's husband is also under indictment on a charge of murder in the first degree as accessory to the crime. NO LIKELIHOOD OF HIGHER FREIGHT RATES At Times Like This, It Would Increase Stagnation. Washington, D. C, June 20. It is believed here that no general increase in freight rates will be made by the railways in the near future. The concensus of opinion at a recent meeting of railroad heads was that an increase in a time of depression like the present would tend to increase freight stagnation rather than to stimulate traffic. NO MORE AMERICAN EGGS FOR AFRICA. Transvaal Can Now Prepare Its Breakfast Independently. London, June 20. A Transvaal journal boasts that it is now possible to eat a breakfast that is almost entirely South African. Two years ago, the importation of eggs from America and Madeira amounted to 70,000,000, but this has all but ceased.

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Fair Contestants in Palladium's Special Voting Feature Bring in Ballots and New Subscriptions by the Hundreds Miss Goldie Myers Holds Second Place.

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Bundles of ballots and subscriptions received at the office late yesterday afternoon raised the totals of several of the fair contestants in the Palladium and Sun-Telegram Niagara Falls and Canada special trip feature. By the addition of almost four thousand votes. Miss Goldie Myer. of Centerville Rural Route 11, took second place in the race, with Misa Jennie Wine, 1117 North G street, a close second. Miss Lucie Benton, of Fountain City, made a pretty gain yesterday, being now close to Miss Goldie Dadisman, of 402 South 12th street. All of the girls are working aa hard as ever in their quest for votes and eight of the more diligent ones will be rewarded by the sight of one of the seven wonders, and from the deck of the "Maid of the Mist." The regular ballots will appear In each issue, entitling the lady voted for to one vote. Remember you can enter the contest any time you wish to, so "get busy and keep busy." The conditions of the contest are as tollows CONDITIONS. , One year's subscription, paid In advance entitles the lady voted for to 2,500 votes Ons six months' subscription, paid In advance entitles the lady voted for to 1.000 votes One fifteen weeks' subscription, paid In advance entitles the lady voted for to 800 votes One month's subscription, paid in advance entitles the lady voted for to 100 votes

Ida Beeson, Greensfork R. R.22 , Jennie Wine, 1117 Nj G street , Goldie Myers, Centerville R. 11 Goldie Dadisman, 402 S. 12th street . Lucie Benton, Fountain City Maude Pettibone, 409 N. 16th street . Elsie Wyatt, 1114 N. G street , Rosa Kuehn, 17 South 8th street Hattie Lashley, Centerville Marie Hodskin, Cambridge City Lena Cornthwaite, Cambridge City Ethel Wysong, Lynn, Ind . Ruby Hodgin, 25 South 7th street Esteila Coates, 201 N. 8th street ... Adda Study, Williamsburg, Ind

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CHICAG0 IS A CITY More professional freaks live in Chicago than any other city in the world. Circus and museum freaks, side show freaks and human prodigies of all sorts, have their homes there. Probably 5O.000 living wonders are there at times. There are eighty or ninety dwarfs, among them Zelda, Chief Debro and Duvilla Rogers, the only known dwarf with dwarf children; Major Nichols, Major Gantz, Chema, the Chinese Boxer and Princess Neuma. The only giant is Witte, the German. Flossie La Blanche, who lifts elephants; James Wilson ,the fat boy; Blanche Alexander, Zoa and Julienne, snake charmers; Fred Walters the blue man; James Morris, of the elastic skin; the spotted Davis family, all sorts of Circassian beauties, Barney Nelson, the armless wonder; Eli Bowen, who has four feet, and George Volney, who dislocates every bone In his body, are In Chicago's blue book. So are Capt. Ringman, who passes iron bars through his flesh, and Bill Doss the human telescope. Dave Mushrow, the bear man. and Nicodemus, the hog man, claim Chicago as home, and Alice, the dog-faced girl before her death, was long a resident of Chicago. It is not generally known, perhaps, but the Wild Men of Borneo, became Chlcagoans after they retired and died there of old age. Psycho, the maid of the mist, an electrical

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