Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 89, 5 February 1909 — Page 2
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1909.
INDICTMENTS Ifi THE PANAMA SUIT Attorney General Says True Bills May Soon Be Return- . ed Against Editors. flOOSEVELT HIGHLY ELATED
HOWEVER IN WASHINGTON OFFICIAL CIRCLES OPINION IS EXPRESSED THE ACCUSED WON'T BE TRIED. Washington, Feb. 5 Indictments of Joseph Pulitzer, editor of the New York World, and of Delavan Smith, editor of the Indianapolis News, on , charges of criminal libel are expected by the law officers of the administration during the coming few days. President' Roosevelt has been Inf or .lied by Attorney . General Bonaparte that the federal grand juries now sitting in New York and Washington, either or both of them, may return indictments at any roment. No information Is obtainable as to whether the true. "llls are to be found in New York or here, though it Is considered probable they will be returned in both cities. The program of the administration, it Is believed, Is to prosecute the.casesln the federal, courts of New Yorlc first, and afterward, if necestary.yln this jurisdiction. President Pleased. - President Roosevelt is naturally Mated over the information brought tiin hy the Attorney General and believes Mr Bonaparte is not mistaken 'in his eBtimate-of'what the grand juries are about to do. This news, in connection with the word from Oklahoma thati Governor Haskell has been Indicted for alleged land frauds, has given the President a great deal of Satisfaction. He feels that at last he 8 getting even with some of the men who haver fallen under his displeasure. Hiswchlef regret is that in the cases of the editors against whom he Instituted proceedings they cannot be (brought to trial during his administration. Declines a Forecast. ' Attorney General Bonaparte, in anticipation of the return of indictments, Is now preparing a statement to the public giving the government's side of the case. He declines to forecast the substance of this statement, but It is understood to be a justification of the action of the President and an outline of the method of prosecution which the government is to follow. Then will be revealed, it is believed, the mystery of the prosecution, whether the offending editors are to be arraigned for libel of the President's brother-in-law, Douglas Robinson, and the brother of .the President-to-be, , Charles P: Taft.or whether the President's original contention that the government' hasebeen .libeled Is tentatively sustained by the federal grand jury. The President's legal advisers claim to have discovered a method by which the defendants may be tried In Columbia, any territory, navy yard, reservation, fort or arsenal. government district attorney at Kw York "hfts nuhllr.Iv declared the tfef enaapta- can. be tried In any one of tnany , federal jurisdictions, and that circulation, of their publications in bach of these jurisdictions constitute a separate offense. Regret the Move. In political circles here the prevailing comment la one of regret that President Roosevelt embarked in this enterprise. Senators and others who are tolerably familiar with the case do not hesitate to say that If federal Indictments are returned they will be presented more- to please President Roosevelt than for any other reason, but that the defendans will never have tostandii trial in a feder1 court. These enactors predict that writs of habeas corpus "win promptly remote the defendants from federal custody and that With Mr.' Roosevelt's disappearance Into the wilds of Africa, President Taft will drop the whole affair. Ernst Haeckel, the venerable scientist, who will be seventy-five on February 16, intends to resign at the ciose of the winter session the professorship of soology in the University of Jena, which he has held for forty-six years, and give all his time to his phylogenetic museum. Going South I To Florida? The C. C. a L. R. Offers Very Low Round Trip Rates During the Winter Season to R. Jacksonville, Fla. De Land, Fla. . Melbourne, Fla. Oiiando, Fla. .1 Palm BeachFla ...$36.05 ...$42.15 . ..$47.63 ... $43.85 ...$54.55 ...$29.60 ...$32.50 , ..$78.50 good for 1909. Pensacola, Fla. New Orleans,, La. Havana, Cuba. ....... . Winter Tourist Tickets return until June 1st, -".. Round Trip Home Seekers Tickets (21 day limit) on sale 7 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each f month,' to the South, East and I North East. , For particulars call on C. A. BLAIR, Pass. & Ticket Agent. Home Tel 2062. Richmond. Ind. f.
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The Man Who Feared He Was Soon Going to Die
Dr. J. N. Hurty. Once there was a man who said he feared he would die. "I am all in," he remarked to his friends. "Come off," they said. "Just listen to my heart beat," said he. "I can't get my breath right, my tongue Is coated every morning and I am dizy quite all of the time. I have an all-gone feeling most of the time and a pain in my heart." "Oh, pshaw," said his friends, "let us have a cocktail and a steak, that's what you need." So they had them and the man who feared he would (lie awoke In the night and had a spell with his heart and his fears and depression of spirit were awful. Next day he went to a new doctor. All of the dozen or more he had already consulted were very mysterious after listening to his heart. They didn't say much, simply looked away off and absently remarked: "Don't know exactly what the trouble is, but Several Long Distance Running Events Soon to Take Place. . NEW ORLEANS RACE FEB. 23 Many Prominent Entries In Big Southern Contest Frisco Run Feb. 7 Loe Angeles Event Feb. 22 Annual Boston Road Race April 19. By THOMAS F. CLARK. Should the ancient athlete of Greece be permitted to return to earth Just now the popularity of one form of contest would make him feel immensely at home. The Marathon race, the modern revival of the most notable of all tests In the days of ancient Greece, when the development of the physical body . was accounted the most important of ail man's duties, has become a veritable rage in this country. In the past we have paid much attention to all forms of track and field athletics, except distance running, and there we have in the malu been lamentably weak. But now that the country is troubled with "Marathonitls" we may safely count on the rapid development of more than a few native runners, who will before the year is out give promise of making new history in this excellent event. We are dally reading of the New York Marathons, the Chicago, Boston, St. Louis, western and Pacific slope T PUT HI DOBiNDO, GREAT ITALIAN SCXNEB, WHO MAY- COMPETE IS FlilSCO BACK. events and even the southern Marathon. In fact, there Is hardly a week passes but what there is a Marathon of some sort being run. Recently one was held on tbe deck of the monitor Wyoming. Eleven sailors entered the race, a 130 yard lap being possible. J. r. White came out the winner. The first event of importance of this nature in the south will take place In New Orleans Feb. 23, and already half a dozen of the cracks from New York, Chicago and St. Louis and elsewhere are entered, and a field of forty men will start San Francisco is to hold a professional Marathon run on Feb. 7. The event will bo the regular distance, 23 miles SS5 yards, and will be held on a track that will be laid out around the ball field at Recreation park. The track will be of cinders and a little over five laps to tbe mile. It is expected that Connoly. King and Miller, all prominent Marathoners on the coast, will enter. It has been decided to limit the field to six entries, and three other well known athletes will be obtained. A purse of $1,000 has been offered, of which $600 will go to the winner, $250 to the second man to cross the line and $100 to the third. Sanction has been granted to the L03 Angeles Athletic elub tjy the Pacific Amateur Athletic association to hold a Marathon run on Feb. 22. The race will be run on a track instead of across country, and the spectators will thus be enabled to see all the contestants from start to finish. It is proposed to turn the gate receipts into a general fund the object of which Is to further amateur athletics in Los Angeles. The annnal Boston Athletic association Marathon road race will be rust on Patriots' day. April 19. All the prominent long dlstancers of the east are expected to participate In the Hub classic and prerarauoas are already
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you must be careful." The new doctor was the most mysterious. "How long doctor?" said the young man. "Oli, six months to a year." This didn't make the man feel any better. "Can't you give me something?" he asked the doctor. And then the man's heart fluttered, he had trouble getting his breath .and his head went round. A breath . of fresh air revived him. "I'll tell you what," said the doctor. "Just cut out one meal a day and make the other meals very light for a month or so. Especially pass the cocktails and meats." The man did so and got well and the doctor charged him ten dollars. MORAL Stimulate your appetite with alcohol and ketchup, they will make you eat twice as much as the body needs and get your works to' going wrong. Lastly, pay a doctor to tell you to eat reasonably and let alcohol alone.
under way to make the run tne most successful that has ever been held In that section. A novel idea will be introduced la that electric drays will follow the Marathoners, ready to pick up the men in the event of their succumbing to the pace. It Is also proposed to have a dray carry the nthletes clothing from the starting line at Ashland to the finish at the clubhouse. Ruth Dillon After Records. There is a strong possibility that Ruth Dillon, the four-year-old Indiana trotting filly, will be trained to breaJC the world's trotting record. SCHOOL TOWN OF MILTON IN CASE Named as Defendant in Suit On Loan. The school town of Milton is named as defendant in two suits brought in the Wayne circuit court today. The plaintiffs are Charles Cal laway and Charles Wilson. The complaints allege that in each Instance money was loaned the board of school trustees and it has not been paid. Judgment for $400 is asked in each case. EYE EXERCISE. One Method by Which Poor Vision May Be Improved. "Hare you a high roof?" was the apparently irrelevant question put by the distinguished oculist to the woman who had complained of having bad eyes. "Higher than the roofs of the surrounding houses?" "Oh. yes," said the woman, "a good deal higher." "Then what I want you to do," said he, "is to go up there every day and look around for half an hour. That will do you more good than glasses. One trouble with your eyes, and with many pairs of eyes in New York, is that you exercise them so little at long range. They are used to looking at short distances only. Long distance looking is good for eyes. Persons who habitually have a wide expanse of sea or plain to gaze upon very seldom have weak eves. Of course you cannot move ct to the plains, neither can you spend a life on the ocean wave, but you can let your sight travel across the Hudson river every day, and I advise you to do it." New York Press. Vagaries of Memory. The vagaries of tbe old man's memory are indeed curious. Lord Houghton told Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff that he had once been present when Lord Lyndhurst and Dr. Lnshington were asked what was the most interesting thing that they remembered. "Oh," said Lyndhurst, "undoubtedly the day which I spent with Washington at Mount Vernon." "Oh," said Lnshington, "undoubtedly the week which I spent with Burke at Beaconsfield." Naturally they were asked to tell something of what had passed on these occasions, but neither of them could remember anything whatever. There Is much to be said for assisting tbe memory of good things with a diary, as Sir Mountstuart himself did. London Chronicle. Paid For a Peep at Royalty. In the eighteenth century tbe Londoner could look at royalty on Sunday for a modest fee. In a guide' to London, published in 1767, it was said. "At St. James' chapel royal by knocking at the side door and slipping a shilling for each person into the hand of the verger who opens it you may have admittance and stand during divine service in tbe presence of their majesties, and for a shilling each person more you may sit in their royal presence, not In pews, but in turnup seats oh the side of them." A Vague Idea. During his first visit to a farm little Willie came Into the bouse crying softly. "7. "What is the matter, daarr asked his mother. v "I went out to see the cows, and they didn't give nothing trat milk." sobbed the boy. i "What did you expect?" Inquired the mother. "I'm not sure what 1 expected." replied Willie, 'but. mother, where does beef tea come from?" Judge. ''' A Hint :- Tea," said tbe young student thoughtfully, "when I get interested In a subject I never stop until I bare embraced It thoroughly."
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FALL TERM SCHOOL WAS CLOSEO TODAY
About 2,800 Children Pleased Or Sorrowful When Reports Were Received. SUPT. M0TT IS PLEASED HIGH SCHOOL NEXT TERM WILL BE TAXED TO CAPACITY, MANY COMING IN AND BUT FEW ARE LEAVING. About 2,000 pupils Of the Richmond public schools were glad or sorrowful today, when they received their report cards for the fall term. Today was the last day of the fall term. Monday the spring term will open. At the high school there were but four students to complete the required work in the public schools. Those who have this distinction are James Chapman, Ada C. Heath, Abbie Schaefer and Bernard Knollenberg. There There were others in the senior class who could have finished this term but decided to take elective studies instead and complete the course during the spring term. There has been no graduation exercise at the high school during the midwinter for several years and the size of the class this year made it impossible. Suptv. Mott Pleased. Superintendent Mott in discussing the work this noon stated that from verbal reports made to him the percentage of pupils passing in all of their studies was quite large and possibly above the average. The schools organized after the promotion exercises this afternoon in order that everything might be in readiness for the opening next Monday. In speaking of the conditions for next term Prof. Mott stated that it was probable that the high school would be in a very crowded condition. This is clue to the fact that there will be a large class to enter and but very few to leave at the end of this term. The need for the new high school building will be emphasized emphatically. ASKS FOR GAME BIROS Clerk Penny Wants Several Pairs Hungarian Partridges Placed in County. WRITES TO GAME WARDEN In the.effort to induce Z. T. Sweeny, state game and fish commissioner to place several pairs of Hungarian partridges in Wayne county, H. E. Penny county clerk has written a letter to the commissioner. Mr. Penny set forth the number of hunting licenses issued in Wayne county to show the great interest its citizens take in the sport and asked the commissioner, if he could not help the cause by supplying the game birds. The law provides that the money received for hunting licenses shall be expended for replenishing the game. Last year Wayne county paid over $800 for hunting license and the year before more was spent. Not a penny has been expended by the state on the other hand toward stocking the steams with fish or the woods with game. CLEVER TELEPHONE DEVICEJOB POLICE Three Officers Can Talk at Same Time. A new telephone has been Installed at police headquarters. By a mechanical arrangement it will be possible for two or three, patrolmen to report to headquarters over this phone at the same time. With the old phone, whenever one report was being sent in another officer who might be seriously in need of help could not get his call in, as the phone would be in use. EASTERN STAR. The Eastern Star will meet Saturday evening in the Masonic Temple. Refreshments will be served. When Marshal Bernadotte got the offer of tlie Swedish throne Napoleon bitterly opposed the idea. It was a simple answer which quelled the Emperor's antagonism: "What," said Bernadotte, "would you have me greater than yourself and refuse a crown?"
54 WERE MIMED Garfield Exercises Held This Morning at High School Before Big Crowd.
PROF. TRUEBL00D SPEAKER The Garfield SA class hold its gradu ating exercises in the high school : auditorium this morning before a large audience. The class address was given by Professor Edwin P. Trueblood of Earlham college. At the close of the address fifty-four mem-i bers of the class received certificates ; of admission to the high school. The class has been very faithful in all its duties and the individual members have maintained high averages in i their work. A special effort has been ; made this year to get every member to enter high school. As a result- it ' seems at this time that, with one or two exceptions, all the members will do so. Professor Trueblood c'aose as the subject of his address "Running Water." He directed his address to the members of the graduating class rather than to the audience. He told of the stream of water which used to run through his home pasture and how he was early impressed with the fact that it never ceased to move. Its destination was then a profound mystery. Now since he has realized its long journey to the sea, he understands why it could not tarry. He gave some excellent readings of poems, chiefly from Sidney Lanier. The Garfield school orchestra gave several selections and Miss Elizabeth Haaemeier played a piano solo. Mrs. F. W. Kruger, accompanied by Miss Ruth Peltz, sang "The Year's in the Spring" and "Mammy's Lullaby." v- - Ha Could Tame Lions. He was a giant of a man and brought a meek looking little woman before the magistrate and shamelessly charged her with cruelty. He described her at being uncontrollable and Incorrigible. The magistrate looked the big, fellow all over and glanced at tbe meager partner of bis joys and finally asked. "What line of business do you follow?" "I am a Hon tamer," he replied proudly. Exchange. Turkish cigarette manufacturers want Kentucky to grow Turkish tobacco, imports of which have grown from $25,000 to $4,000,000 in only twelve years. HATED JAPANESE OUSTED FROM THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Continued From Page One.) ure in the assembly upon reconsideration, and it was with this in view that Assemblyman Walter Leeds, of Los Angeles, after a roll call, changed his vote from no to yes, and gave notice that he would move to reconsider the vote of 48 to 26. which the bill was passed. It will require 41 votes to carry Leeds' motion. In the event It is adopted It is freely predicted tonight that one of the fiercest battles ever waged in the California legislature will result in the effort to kill tbe bill. The assembly debated all day on the three anti-Japanese bills. The first one taken up, preventing .aliens from being directors of corporations, was beaten easily, the votes standing 54 to 15. The next, providing for the segregation in residential districts of all undesirable aliens, resulted in a tie vote, 37 to 37, the measure being defeated as it was, four voting short of a majority. GREAT USUI DECIDED AT THE POLLS THIS DAY (Continued From Page One.) wife and children. (Mark the 'yes')." These were banded to each man as he passed between the ropes. Women Accost Voters. Other women were putting up the argument and whenever opportunity afforded a voter was corralled and told just why he should mark the "yes." No phase of the question was left untouched. If it were the economic side of the matter that the voter wanted enlightenment on. that was presented. If he endeavored to talk morality, they had other arguments to advance. The women remained firm at their posts and some there were who appeared first at ti o'clock this morning, who will be found on duty at fl o'clock this evening, when the door is closed and nnnmMPc
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the blinds drawn. The weather did not deter any of these women from their purpose. When the cold wind began blowing stronger about 0 o'clock, they sent home for heavier wraps and furs. When it began to rain they sent for umbrellas and remained at their posts. Establish a Precedent. It was the first time in the history of Wayne county that women had taken such a prominent part. One 'old man visited the voting place at the city building. He stood around and watched the women hand out their cards for about ten minutes, then said: "I'm seventy-two years old and this Is the first time ever I saw women working at the polls. I havn't missed voting any time, either." At the court house the women sought shelter in tho corridors. They handed out the cards and did what they could, but tbe first ward had been conceded to the weta. before ever the race was started. On the outside of, the building stood two men who are interested in the Minck brewery. At one time there were nine saloon keepers and several bartenders assembled on the outside also. Within the time of ten minutes three rigs in use by the wets arrived and brought voters. A number of negroes congregated about and these were sought as soon as they arrived by the wets. Condemn the Women. Many voters condemned the presence of the women. They said it was not the place for them. One bystander remarked that if -he found his wife "doing that way, I'd send her flying back home." The sentiment he expressed was approved by others in the group discussing the proprieties presented by the question. Another man remarked that he bet the bed hadn't been made and that the "old man" would have to go hungry for dinner, because his wife was campaigning. A prominent business man and member of the city council was quoted on the streets as saying ho had favored tho drys, but when he saw the women at work at the polls and the tactic they pursued it made him angry and he voted wet. Not All "Goody-Good." The women were not all from the class termed the "goody-goods" by their enemies. At come of tho voting places the women most active In their work are wives of shop laborers. One woman was heard to say to a voter: "My husband work at the same place you do. I know how you fellows down there drink and all of you would be better ofT without it." Fair Weather Wanted. Tbe dryi had hoped for fair weather in order that the country vote would be out in full force. It is generally regarded as a fact that the farmer, who may have to drive a number of miles to vote, will not make the tripMf the weather be very Inclement. For this reason the dry had hoped for a day such as Thursday or Wednesday. The advance predictions proved true and the day broke damp and cloudy. About 10 o'clock a drizzling rain began and it continued Intermittently throughout the day. Farmers who came to the city stated that they did not believe the weather would have much effect on the size of the vote. It was not too bad to drive and the rain did not come down with force great enough to dismay the weak hearted. One well known farmer declared that today's election differs from political contests by being solely a moral question and that farmers would go father to express their opinion on a question like that confronting them than they would on one of political preferment only. Make Round of Pells. This morning Sheriff Meredith and Superintendent Bailey made a round of the voting places. No attempt was made to keep the electioneering fifty feet distant from the rope enclosures. This section of the law has not been enforced for many years in this county. At one polling place, the sheriff measured off the distance with a table line, but his good intentions were waisted after his departure from the place. The voting was unexpectedly rapid this morning. At noon It was esti mated that if the rate continued the of ana! SCK. BUNGZ, wlotmopera. MBsABtY"3 1
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Thursday and Saturday M total vote would be 9.000 or 10.000. The census bureau places 12.000 men of voting age in Wayne county but this number never has voted. Tho official figures adopted by the state are about 11.150. This was determined by the vote cast for secretary of state at the last election. Ratliff Casts Hi Vote, Among tbe first men to Tote In tha entire county this morning was Walter Ratliff. He voted almost immediately following the opening of tha polls and then caught the first car for Indianapolis, where the business of the legislature attracted him. Ratliff, . as Wayne county's representative Is quite In tho limelight. It 1 expected that his vote on the repeal of the local option act will be governed to some extent by the vote of Wayne county today. At Indianapolis It haa been declared Ratliff favors the repeal of the law and those wbo claim to have authority for their statement declared his vote today would intimate further that he desires the repeal. Several young men. who are attending college out of the city were home, to vote. To some It was the first ex-! perlence and they did not care tamisa the opportunity even if it were, but a county affair. These returning young men declared they had heard of tha fight in this county, but had no Idea that it had reached anything like tts present magnitude in interest. Watching Wayne County. This Interest is not confined localfH Throughout the state the eyes of tha ' liquor and temperance forces are directed eastward. .Wayne Is tha thirteenth county in which tbe local option measurehas been put before the people to decide. It la tha largest county In which an eleetloa has been held. More saloons are located in Ways county than in all tha com sties that have voted on any one day prer-1 iously. If the temperance force-wins.' it will be taken a proof that a thick ly populated county In which tha saloons have big holdings can he voted dry. - If they lose the wets will claim tbe option measure can not be -applied to counties In which there Is aiarge. city. I The returns of the vote-wlllnbe re ceived at a number, of places. . Thar will be submitted to The PaBadram, office, the wet and dry headquarters respectively, the vaudeville theater and to all who care ' to assemble at Grace M. E church. i PaEac "My, motherd,,..4"great- zxd ferer-frotmrhenmatisrn,ardllfl Miles Anti-Pain-PUla isnhttdhlj remedy that relieve her" MRS. G. DAVENKTIT, RoycefieWr T. iTh'e pains of rheumatisnware almost invariably relieved with Dr. Miles' Anti-PaituPilla. fTheyj also overcome that nervous- irritation which prevents sleep be cause they soothe themerves. fTo chronic suffers they, are in vain-, able. .When taken as directed they relieve the distress and save the weakening influence of pain, which so frequently prostrates. Many sufferers use them whenever occasion requires with the greatest satisfaction, why; not you? They do not derange the stomach nor create a habit. Why not try them? Get a package fromjvour druggist. Take it according to directions, and if it does not benefit he -will return your money.
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