Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 91, 7 February 1909 — Page 1

(CUTTY PEOPILE AMD FARMERS TO OBSERVE LEMCOLM DAY

t; EICHEONB PAIXATOXJM AXIL SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXIV. NO. 91. RICHMOND, IND., SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7, 1909. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS

COMPLETE PLANS FOR CELEBRATION OF "GREAT EVENT Nowhere in Indiana Will the Observance of Lincoln Anniversary Excel That in This City. HAVE ARRANGED FOR VARIOUS EXERCISES Big Meeting Will Be Held at Coliseum Thursday Evening And William D. Foulke Will Be Speaker.

There Is reason to believe that the celebration of the centennial of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln will not be observed in Indiana in any more fitting manner than in Richmond. The principal exercises will 'take place at the coliseum the evening of February 01. The anniversary of Lincoln's birthday does not occur properly until the following day, but in order to secure William Dudley Foulke, as a speaker, it was necessary to hold the ceremonies Thursday evening. Arrange the Program. A committee, which has had the matter in charge has concluded its arrangements. The program is ready but has not been announced in detail. This will be done probably tomorrow. The program will be of some length and It is believed it will be unusually impressive. A large sized audience is expected to attend. The chief address will be delivered by Mr. Foulke. He has been at work on his manuscript for . several weeks with the intention of delivering the speech before the students of Indiana university. Mr. Foulke has made an especial study of the period covered by the civil war in preparing his biography of Governor Morton. He is thoroughly acquainted .with many facts relating to Lincoln that have not appeared prominently in the biography of "the saddest of the presiHents." Rv. Lyons to Preside -xJ The meeting will be presided over by the Rev. Mr. Lyons of the Reid Memorial church. He is a veteran of the civil war and a great admirer of Lincoln. He has been a student of his life and works and his selection lias been met with favor by the members of Sol Meredith Post O. A. R. The presentation of the memorial tablet will be made, also. This bronze tablet, which now is j being iriade by the Standard Pattern & Manufacturing company will measure thirty by forty inches. It will be of bronze and attached to the immense bowlder in the rear of Glen Miller park. The bowlder is a conglomerate in formation and has been found unusually hard. It will be necessary to dress down one face of the rock to receive the plate. This work is in progress. It will be carried on as rapidly as weather conditions permit. The 'tablet will bear the dates of Lincoln's birth, death and the centennial year. Jt will be adorned with a ten Inch medalton head of Lincoln and contain the text of the famous Gettysburg speech. There will be almost 1,200 letters on the tablet. Which is the gift to the city of Rudolph G. Leeds. Honor to the Veterans. In order to pay due honor and respect to the veterans of the civil war, a reservation of seats will be made for them. They will be the real guests f honor on the occasion. Music will be furnished by the Apollo club and a brass band. The Apollo club is composed of sixteen male voices. The band will have a program of its own made up of patriotic end appropriate selections. The coliseum will be decorated and arrangements made to accommodate a large crowd. The exercises are to be presented under the supervision of the Young Men's Business club. Merchants Will Decorate. It is expected that the uptown merchants will decorate their places of Vilns- for th riav. Tho Ynnnp

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picture of Lincoln and it will be used In the decorations. By the sale ot'the pictures the funds will be raisrfd to defray the expense of the undertaking. One Main street dry goods shore has taken the lead and presents -,he of Its display windows decorated Artistically wun uaga ana mnograpns. Comal Charles M. Freeman of Durngo City, Mexico, writes that nearly all of the engineers, con rectors, master mechanics, station ageiis and chief officers of Mexican railroad are Americans. Few openings existS though, for Americans in the mercantile line. The British Protectorate of northern Nigeria, Africa, has an area - 30,60 square miles and a population of ft least t,00,00. : Railways-are try there.

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The centennial of Lincoln's birth, the twelfth day of February, is to be appropriately celebrated throughout the United States. Few places will allow the day to pass without special programs in honor of the occasion. The real center of all the celebrations naturally will be that held on the Kentucky farm where Lincoln was born. Here President Roosevelt will lay the corner stone of the impressive memorial to be con-

strutted to care, for all time, born, and in which he spent CELEBRATION OF LIHCOLH'S BIRTH BEGAN SATURDAY Chicago Began Observation Of the Centennial by Big Meeting at the Great Northern Hotel. ;UPGE GROSSCUP WAS v PRINCIPAL SPEAKER Sounds Merits of the Matyr, But States Oblivion. Would Have Been His Fate in This Present Age. Chicago, Feb, 6. The preliminary celebration of-the centennial anniversary of the Wirth of Abraham Lincoln began in ijhicago today, the first notable ajair being gathering of the Irish fellowship club in the Great Northern hotel. Judge Peter S. Grosscup was the principal speaker. Flags anif bunting have made their appearance on many buildings. That Lincoln's nomination for the presidencyaddress. Judge Grosscup's Address. "How came that convention to name Lincoln as deliverer?" asked the eminent jurist. "It was pre-ordained. I answer; not as much in some decree of . Providence, miraculously communJlcated to men, as in the fact that In i the Lincoln-Douglas debates and the Cooper Union speech this Lincoln of the west had taken bold upon the public mind. Great aublic convictions that in the providence of God come finally to settle all struggles to which mankind falls heir, are those convictions that often in the stress of porttics or of commercial Interests and lie for a Ions time obscured in the public mind. But let some one once truthfully and courageously proclaim them give voice to what in their -thoughts, -people 4Bth4akina?--

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the first tew years of his me. and that man becomes at once the people's guiding hand. "Oblivion would have been Lincoln's fate had he died in the present age of President Roosevelt," said Judge Grosscup. "Born in Kentucky, February 12, 3S09, reared in Indiana; practiced low jn Illinois; was in the legislature and in congress one term. Such would have been the mention of the name, Abraham Lincoln, In any short history of Illinois and no mention at all in any other history, had Lincoln died in the present age of President Roosevelt." GREATLY EXCITED OVER M MUBOEB Police and Amateur Detectives Hunting for the Dayton, 0., Fiend. TERROR FILLS EVERY HOME EVERY INDICATION THAT SAME MAN MURDERED BOTH ELIZABETH FULHART AND PRETTY MARY FORSCHNER. Dayton, Ohio, Feb. 6. All that the police force, aided by several thousand amateur detectives, can accomplish is being done today to find the man that and last victim on the list of Dayton women mysteriously attacked and slain. Since the body of this 18-year-old daughter of a prominent faniilj was found last night In the cistern of a vacant bouse in the heart of the city, Dayton has talked of nothing else. Terror fills every home. Last Thursday night, two weeks after Mary Forschner's body was found, the total attendance of unattended women- at Dayton prayer meetings was just five. Every Indication points to the same criminal and the same kind of crime. While the police have arrested Albert Wilke, Miss Fulhart's- sweetheart, none believed him guilty and his release was expected. It Is believed the slayer first stripped his victim and then . before be had put the body In the clstecn, bad restored the outer garmania. The coroner bas not yet decided how the girl met, her death. ; It is possible that she was thrown into to water wall sttU lUre.

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FOUR HONORED MEN HOWATHAGERSTOW Imported by Tide Water Oil Company to Lay Pipe Line In That Section. TENTED CITY SPRINGS UP J eaa---a-a WITH THE TRENCH DIGGERS CAME CARLOADS OF HORSES AND EQUIPMENT RENTS HAVE GONE SOARING. Hagerstown, Ind., Feb. C The Tidewater Oil company is now in readiness to lay the pipe for the transporation of iol through this section of the country. The company has leased ground for the period of ten days on the farms of Dave Hoover, west of town and Mrs. Minnie Havemeier east of town. The ground Is to be used for the pitching of their tents in which the employees will eat and sleep, -eta A Carload of Tents. Already there has arrived a carload of tents, a carload of horses and four hundred men, two hundred being Italians. These men will be used only for the laying of the pipes and have nothing whatever to do with the pumping station, which Is being established west oft own. A superintendent, a sub-superintendent, a telegraph operator and a commissary are among the most important of the men in the four hundred. It is thought that the work in this section can- be done in ten days, when they will move their camp on farther, east. ,Vork at the pumping station grounds is being repidly pushed. Although the hours are short, "much Is accomplished owing to the great staff of men who are given employment. It is a noticeable feature that there are several men employed in the work that are doing It for the noTelty of the thing; some that are seeking recreation in the open air after spending the greater part of the winter indoors; still others that are enticed here from the surrounding towns by the tempting thought of the good wages offered, being often more than they can get in their home towns throughout the winter months. . Many of the homes have taken in Misting la acjOkT. to - Uw

ELECTION CLAIMS

NOT ALLOWED BY To Avoid Technicalities County Board Will Wait Until County Council Takes Final Action. DISPUTE IN REGARD - TO ADDITIONAL PAY As Matter Now Stands It Is Believed That Election Officials' Claims Are Perfectly Legal. The board of county commissioners at its session yesterday did not pass on any of the bills presented by officers serving at the Friday's election. This was due to two reasons. The first being that in order to avoid any techinal entanglements with the law the county council at its meeting next Thursday will be called on to inappropriate funds for the election expense as well as all other funds whic'i were designated for various purposes at the special session held in January. The council's session will cover two days the ordinance calling for the appropriations to be read the first day and adopted on the second, as is now required by law. The other reason the commissioners did not pass on the claims of the election officers was due to the fact that there has always been a question as to just how the law governing the pay of election officers should be interpreted. Statutes Are Not Clear. The statute simply points out that the rate shall be $2 a day. A majority of the clerks, judges, sheriff and Inspectors who served at Friday's election-contend that two days pay should be allowed for the service on election day, more than twelve hours being de voted to the work in all cases and in some precincts fourteen hours being required. The commissioners decided yesterday that there was' some ground for taking the position that two days pay should be allowed, and though the matter rests entirely with them, they agreed that County Attorney Bobbins should investigate and give the board his opinion as to the course to be pursued. Drys Want Money Also. The men who are demanding additional pay point out the fact that in all general elections the officers re celve two days pay lor service on election boards. As the matter now rests, it Is be lieved likely, that the affirers have a good chance to have their claims de clared legal. One thing that was in teresting in a review of the claims filed yesterday was the fact that with the exception of two or three cases none of the "dry" election officers tendered his services to the county free. The commissioners had not expected them to do so. In fact beHeved that the officers on both sides of the liquor question should be paid. But at the opening of the campaign some of the managers for the temperance forces made the statement that It was likely that they would be able to select men who would agree to give their services. It developed however, that a vast ma jority of the men selected were com pelled to give up other duties to serve, and consequently they felt as lawfully and justly entitled to compensation as other officials at the election. REPORT .FAVORABLY House Comittee Recommends Admission of Arizona and New Mexico. SELECTS THE CAPITALS Washington, Feb. 6. The house committee on territories today favor ably reported the Arizona-New Mexico statehood bill. The report recom mends that the territories shall be admitted to statehood within ten months after the passage of the enrolling act. Under this bill New Mexico will be entitled to two representatives and Arizona one with .each state two senators. A provision in the bill provides that Phoenix shall be the capital of Arizona and Santa Fe of New Mexico until 1915 when a vote shall be taken on the location of new capitals for each state. booming of the town. For when there are no available houses to rent, the men must have board and their families must necessarily remain- where they are. Owing to 'the scarcity of houses, rents are going up rapidly, and those who have money invested in tenant properties mar consider it Lracta; Jn vestment. .

COMMISSIONERS

WILLIAM WALTERS

HAS AIUCCIDEUT In an Encounter With Another Man He Pulls Gun But Only Hits Himself. PISTOL ARTIST IS MISSING POLICE HAVE. SEARCHED FOR HIM BUT WITHOUT SUCCESS HIS WOUND ONLY OF A SLIGHT NATURE. Last evening William Walters, a po lice character, walked into the Kennepohl saloon. North D street, and became ugly: He was ordered out of the place by the proprietor. After leaving the saloon Walters met a man, whose name is unknown, employed as a bartender at the Kennepohl saloon. This man was just coming on duty. Walters had words with him. being in toxicated, and a scuffle ensued, during which Walters drew a revolver and accident ly shot himself in the hand. Menke in Pursuit. Subsequent to the shooting, patrol man Menke was talking to Walters. At the time Menke did not know of the affair. When he reported later. Night Sergeant Winters told him of the case. Menke went in search of Walters, but he was seen coming. Walters hotfooted and the officer took up the pursuit. Walters is lithe limb ed and the race was to the swifter. who chanced to be Walters, and the officer was distanced. Has a Jail Record. Walters was released from the county jail but recently. He was convicted of the charge of assault and battery on John Hart. In a fight in a North E street saloon Hart was cut severely. It was shown that Walters bad not done the cutting, which was attributed to a man named Kroma, who managed to escape and has not returned to the city. - " 1 VICTORY FRIDAY IS APPRECIATED RY SALOOIIISTS Statement Is Made That Citizens of Wayne County Will Have No Cause to Regret Their Action. LIQUOR ORGANIZATION TO BE PERMANENT ONE No Rowdy Jollification Held Last Night by Celebrating Wets Only One Drunk Arrested. Saloon keepers are deeply appreciative of the substantial wet victory of Friday and they state, through members of the committee which conducted the wet campaign, that the residents of Wayne county will have no cause to regret, so far as Richmond is concerned, their action in voting for the retention of the saloons. . "We intend to see that the saloons hi this city are conducted in an orderly manner, and we will see to it that no sales are made to minors or to drunkards," stated Edward H. Roser, a well known saloon keeper, xwho has always conducted his establishment In an orderly manner. Well Conducted. The local saloons in past years, as a whole, have been especially well conducted, a fact that, no doubt, con tributed largely to the wet victory. The saloonists' executive committee has gone on record to the effect that this condition of affairs is to continue. It is highly probable that the organ ization effected by the local saloon proprietors at the opening of the past campaign will be continued for the purpose of seeing that all liquor establishments maintain good order and strictly observe the laws governing their operation. Saloon proprietors feel that so long as this is done the voters of Wayne county will see no cause to eliminate them. It is understood that should any saloon proprie tor violate any of he laws he will be promptly and vigorously disciplined by the organization. "Quiet as Sunday." It was, the impression yesterday that some of the "wets' to give vent to their enthusiastic delight over the outcome of the election would attempt to wreck: tho venerable water wagon Saturday night. However this was not tbe case. The saloons did a good business and there was a general air of jubilation, but therm aras orJ-ae case of disorder.

CORII SCHOOL FOR

NEXT YEAR BEING PREPARED FOR Centerville Will Endeavor tc Secure Event and Will Offer Success of First Trial as Proof. SAME SUBJECTS WILL " FURNISH DISCUSSIONS Business Affairs Closed Up Show Course Was Success Financially as Well as in Attendance. Centerville, Ind., Feb. 6. Preparations for the Sixth District Fanners Short Course of 1910 havn rxvn fnm. menced. This morning the executive committee met with Prof. Christie of Purdue and talked over tbe success of this year's school as well as prospects for next year. The last session of the school was held this morning with the judging of horses exhibited . for both practical and show purposes at the live stock pavilion. That Centerville will be the probable place for holding the meeting is almost assured. There are. however, other places making bids for the school, including Cambridge City. Richmond and Connersville. However Centerville possesses several advantages not to be found in tbe other places. It is easily accessible to all parts of the county and district. Another advantage and a strong one Is that there are few other diverting influences .in the place. Cambridge City, Richmond and Connersville all possess better hotel accommodations and possibly better meeting places. ' Use Same Subjects. The subjects Included in the course next year will be the same as this year, consisting of Instructions In corn. animal husbandry and domestic sci ence with a few additional lectures on other subjects of general Inter est. The committee this morning dis cussed the advisability of securing souvenirs to be given this year's mem bers. This among other things will be considered at a meeting to be held Monday morning by the committee at the office of Superintendent Jordan at the court house. Was Financial Success. t Financially the school was as suc cessful as could be expected. All bills have not been presented, " but the school organization will be able to meet them. , The expenses were quit heavy. There were 521 students to enroll In the course including those in the Domestic Science department In the latter subject there were 200 pupils. The work In this course was very satisfactory and instructive. This subject promises to be the outcome of one of the big features of the coming schools. The women were somewhat "handicapped with a limited equipment and the time had to be tak en up with lectures. Attendance Irregular. The 324 persons enrolled in the corn section and the animal husbandry department, including a few women did not attend regularly. However the registration showed that practically all were in attendance at least one day and no complaints were made to the officials that the course had been unsatisfactory in any way. OFFERED GOOD JOB Enrico Caruso Can Earn $7,500 a Week llHeJ7il Sing Under a Tent." IS WANTED IN COLORADO Denver, Col.. Feb. 6. If Enrico Caruso, the famous Metropolitan Opera singer of New York, will consent to sing under a circus tent he can earn 7..VM a week for a period of thirty weeks with ample bank guarantees that his salary will be paid either in advance, after each performance or a: the end of each week or in any manner he may designate. This big offer was mailed in contract form to Caruso yesterday by Otto Floto on behalf of the Sells-Floto shows, together with a certified check for $10,000 as an evidence of good faith and an agreement to deposit S75,00O in any New Tom bank to Insure the payment of - the If Caruso accepts this offer, the big gest ever made to a singer, he will be expected to sing twice at each of the dally performances of the show, but the maximum time he, could be in the) boards would perhaps be fax leas tho a) he is now forced to appear in grand opera duriaa&is. srand stoat