Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 366, 8 November 1908 — Page 10

THE RICHMOND PALLAD1 (J Ai A2x IS t v" NEAR COLLAPSE; Wl MONDAY Ray Lamphere Must Face the Charges of Burning Mrs. Bella Gunness. BOOMS COMMERCE OF SOUTHLANDS Commercial Congress of the Southern States Becomes Assured Fact. Special Sales Dust Pan 5c 23 PROSECUTOR IS CONFIDENT MUCH WILL BE GAINED.

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HAS TWO WITNESSES WHO SAY THAT LAMPHERE FOR A LONG TIME THREATENED LIFE OF ARCH MURDERESS.

Laporte, Ind., Nov. 7. Startling revelations are promised by the prosecution in the trial of Ray Lamphere, accused of burning to death Mrs. Bella Gunness, the modern borgia, and her three adopted children by setting fire to the Gunness house of death last April. Judge John Richter will try the case which opens Monday. Correspondence between the Gunnesj woman and two men now living in the vicinity of Laporte in the possession of Prosecutor, Ralph N. Smith, indicates that Lamphere had for a long time been threatening Mrs. Gunness with exposure, unless she regularly paid him stipulated sums of money. The letters are said to make plain Lamphere's motive in' committing the crime. Both these men will be summoned as witnesses and their identity is being closely guarded. Prosecutor Smith is confident that Lamphere will be convicted on the evidence. Lamphere Confident. Lamphere declared in the jail today that he was confident of acquittal. They may twist and turn the evidence all they like." he said, "but if they prove that I set fire to the house they will have to do it by false testimony. Whatever I may have been guilty of, I did not do that. I have been the vic tim of circumstances and my actions on the night the house burned have been misrepresented. "I have been made to tell twenty different stories, according to other people, but really I have only told one. I have led a pretty loose life, maybe, and possibly I drank too much at times, but there are others who have done as bad as I who are walking the streets of Laporte free today. I knew nothing about the house of crimes, as they called It. I worked for Mrs. Gunness once, but I didn't see her kill anybody and didn't know she had killed anybody. I think that something could be cleared up about all these bodies that would show a great mistake has been made." Defendant Near Collapse. Lamphere is in a state of nervous collapse bordering on wreck. He Jumps clear off the ground when his name is spoken in an ordinary tone of voice and his eyes roll continuously. The accused has been allowed no drugs since his confinement and enforced abstinence from alcohol has made a remarkable change in his appearance. Aside from nervousness he is far more presentable than he appeared when arrested. OF PROSECUTION Licenses Secured Last Year Are Invalid This Year. RUSH FOR CERTIFICATES. TANGLE IN LEGISLATIVE ACTS REGARDING HUNTING CAUSES CONSIDERABLE CONFUSION IN INDIANA. There has not been the usual rush for hunters' licenses at the county clerk's office during the last few days. At this season of the year a large number of the licenses expire and others must be procured. The county clerk has been informed a number of hunters intend to try their luck this season with permits issued last year. Such licenses are invalid now and provide absolutely no protection whatsoever. A man hunting under a license that has expired is subject to prosecution the same as if he were without the document altogether. The state game commissioner has been supplied with the names of those persons, who took out licenses last year and which since have expired and not been renewed. The game laws of Indiana are in a heterogeneous condition and the commissioner trusts to the county clerks to help him protect the game as much as possible. A license bears an iden tification card of the owner and if lost can not be duplicated except upon affidavit. The licenses cost but $1 and enable the owner to hunt any place in the state where permission is obtained from the land owner. As the result of the mixup Involving the solons of the Indiana legislature In 1903, the poor rabbit finds himself without any protection by the law, The legislature passed a law which made the time from October 1 to No vember 10 a closed season for all kinds of game except water fowl. This protection was accorded rabbits and it looked as if the bunnies would have a chance to propagate and live in safety for a short time at least. However, the legislature in an act concern ing public offenses tangled the game laws almost beyond recognition and cow the law, which provided the protection, stands repealed by the act of

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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HAS ASSURED PROMOTERS OF HEARTY COOPERATION TO HELP PROPOSED AFFAIR.

Washington, Nov. 7. The Southern Commercial congreses is an assured fact. President Roosevelt has given It his approval. Forty commercial bodies of the southern states have already enthusiastically adopted the idea. President Roosevelt has promised that every influence that he can command will be enlisted with a view of seeing that the congress proves to be a success and serves completely the end which its projectors have in mind. Mr. G. Grosvenor Dawe, secretary of the Commercial Club of Montgomery, Ala., suggested that a Southern Commercial congress be held at the national capital. He suggested that it be held early in December, when the congress of the United States would be In session, and as near the date for the holding of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress as would be possible without conflicting with that meeting. Since that time Mr. Dawe has been working in every state south of Mason and Dixon's line to arouse interest in the congress, and see that if attempted It would prove useful for the purposes intended. Last Monday, Mr. Dawe, heading a committee of leading representatives from the southern states reached Washington. The way had been paved for them, and before the day was over they had seen President Roosevelt and secured from him most hearty co-operation in the cause. He not only said he would co-operate with the southern gentlemen in the movement, but that he saw in the proposed congress the working out of a plan which he had often considered. The president was glad to have a movement of this sort originate in his adminis tration, and he believed it argued well for the future development of the south and a proper understanding of that section by the whole country. Before Mr. Dawes and his commit tee left Washington It was definitely settled that the southern commercial congress shall be held ; here In the auditorium of the New Wlllard hotel, December 7 and 8. The president him self will appear at the congress and deliver an address. From Washington Mr. Dawe and his associates went to New York city wnere they secured the co-operation of leading men there. Before he left here Mr. Dawe was able to outline with some degree of definlteness the program of addresses. In addition to enlisting the interests of President Roosevelt, Mr. Strauss of the department of commerce and labor the head of the bureau of forestry, and many others of the Washington officials agreed to do everything they could to put forward the interests of the commercial congress. Mr. Dawe has only been at Mont gomery, Ala., for a few years, as he was connected with one of the largest publishing concerns in New York city. He was only induced to leave his employment by a most generous salary offer and being shownshrdlgof-wmue offer and through being shown what possibilities the work, of the Mont gomery Commercial club offered. He J talks entertainingly of his interviews with President Roosevelt and how earnestly and enthusiastically the pres ident entered into all of their plans. Mr. Dawe said: "When one of us remarked, 'The south do- not understand itself on all that It possesses, and the north doef not understand the south,' the presi dent . nodded and said, 'That's so. Then we were easily able to show him that though the words, southern com mercial congress sounded sectional they were really anti-sectlonal: for movements would lead to a fuller understanding on both sides and a fuller comprehension of one another's ideas. "When we told the president that we wished his advice as to a speaker on the Panama canal and its influence he leaned back in his chair, hesitated a moment or two, ran over, half audibly, a few names of men associated with the work, then brightened up, saying, 'I have it, Just the man. He can make you a corking fine talkLuke Wright. Now you gentlemen go over and tell him what I said.' "Of course we went, and of course Gen. Wright complied withshrdltshr Gen. Wright complied and accompanied us back to the White House. When we entered the . president's office he said at once, 'Gen. Wright I want you to represent the present official family of the administration in this great movement. I know you can say just what ought to be said.' Gen. Wright not only complied, but expressed his pleasure In participating. Thus our Interview with the president was most satisfactory, for In less than five mln utes we had his promise to secure the support and co-operation of every de partment of the government. THE CITY IH BRIEF Guns for rent. Waking & Co. 7-7t This week, donation of can goods, fruits, vegetables, staples and Money thankfully received at Margaret Smith Home. 31-7t AVwaWA Relieves tour stomach,

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Ballots Used in ' Chicago, if Piled, Higher than Tallest Building

Chicago, Nov. 7. Election day cost the city of Chicago this year a quarter million dollars. The mere distribution of paraphernalia kept seventy teams busy for a week, there being 340 tons of it. Besides the 2,600 ballot boxes there were the election booths, 80,000 pounds of official ballots and all the inciientals, except cigars, which equip a polling place complete. In Chicago the ballots supplied would have made a plie three hundred feet higher than th etallest building. As they were over two feet square the string of them would have reached from the Masonic Temple to the dog pound In Hutchinson, Kas., according to the nimble statistics of Secretary

"Stay Out of Politics Boys" Advice of Chicago Alderman

Chicago, Nov. 7. Many disappoint ed candidates will echo the warning, Stay out of politics," the solemn ad vice to young men in general given by Alderman John Coughlin, of "de Foist" "Bathhouse John" of political notoriety in addressing the children of a Catholic parish at a church fair. He has been in politics in a practical way so long he ought to know. "Now this is what I want you kids to re member: "Stay out of politics," he said. "Be good citizens; get a busi ness of your own; and if you can't do that, work for some one who has a good business. Remember that honest labor and having a happy home and a family is better than holding an office that is always a disappointment to you. Remember what I say. I

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aaaal I. N. Powell, of the board of election' commissioners. The judges and clerks numbered 6,300 and their vouchers for service totaled to $142,000. The closing of the 7,000 saloons during the day meant a matter of $20,000 to their proprietors and the public service during the day cost over $10,000. No figures have been offered by an enterprising press as to how long voters of the city would have been in passing a given point In case they had marched In Indian file to headquarters to hear the returns announced. The voters outnumbered the entire population of Illinois in 1850, the year that Millard Fillmore defeated Daniel Webster for president. know what I am talking about." Was he dashing ambitious hopes of youth to succeed him? He was emphatic about the personal cost or practical politics. "No boys," he addel, "don't go into politics; if you do you'll be sorry. This is straight. Take my advice and you'll never run for office. If you should lose well, that ain't so bad for you might quit then. But if you win it's all off. You don't even own yourself any more. You've sold yourself to the public You're everybody's servant. You can't enjoy the Joys of private life like you could If you had lost. Running for office looks good, but if you win the fruit turns to gall and ashes as the poet says." Coughlin is a poet himself, having done, he says, the lyric "Dear Mid night Love." Cor. Main and 5th St

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