Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 174, 1 May 1909 — Page 4

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ii iii n i iiimIm EiKor. W, . FMw4itM... Sdlter. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. In Richmond fS.ee per year (In advance) or 10c per week. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. fne year. la advance '5 25 flu month. In advance 2.0 One month. In advance ....... v. .46 RURAL ROUTER One year. In advance ............1200 Six month. In advance l.Je On month. In advance Addrea cbang-ed aa often a deatred; both new and old addresses muat be given. . Subscribers will pieaao remit with order, wbleb should be aiven Cor a specified term; name will not bo entered until payment is received. Entered at Richmond. Indiana, postoffice Mecond clans matt matter. lis Association of American (Now York City) has aad esrtttted to tte etrenlattoa el tkis foblieatlon. sly the fls-srae el J eVMUMM aoiUUM IB ItS rtport guraatMi by tfce astsslstlsa. tJaTiet A REPUBLICAN REVOLT. No observant citizen can fail to take comfort In the first really promising revolt against the Aldrich dictation. Senators Nelson and Clapp, of Minnesota, and Senator Carter, of Montana, yesterday severely denounced the lumber schedule. These men evidently propose to express their opinions in regard to other schedules, notably wool and glass. We have heard from Senators Cummins and Dolliver. There Is reason to hope that Senator Root will refuse to follow the Aldrich leadership in all things. No one can say how far the revolt will go or what Will ' be its effect. But we think there can be no doubt of the earnestness of the men who are leading It. The effort is really to break the power of the Aldrlch-Hale-Lodge oligarchy And to assert and uphold the right of the West to receive consideration in the making- of a tariff. The question really Is whether Aldrich, who represents the smallest state in the union, shall of himself legislate for all the rest of the country. The center of power, wealth and population is rapidly moving westward, and leadership , must - follow it. The senators who are standing ; out against, the old dictation correctly reflect the feelings of the people in this section. We are told every now and then that Aldrich can get through any tariff bill that be favors because he has power to confer benefits on those who oppose him, and thus is able to break the opposition. But he has no power to confer any ' favors except such as the senate permits him to exercise. Undoubtedly trading is now going on. : But still not ope of the bargains can be ratified except by the vote of the senate. This truth seems to be dawning on the consciousness of several influential republican senators. The more completely it is realised the stronger Is their opposition likely to become. The revolt is not confined to the senate. Tt has spread, or is spreading, throughout thje country. We may be on the eve of great political changes, on the eve of a new political adjustment. Protesta should : not cease because It seems impossible that they can accomplish anything. As to that one can never tell. One thine at least can be accomplished, and that is the breaking down of the present despotism. Senators Dolliver, Cummins, Nelson, Clapp and Carter have performed a great public service. The people should rally to their support. The Immediate question is whether the senate shall be ruled by Itself or by Aldrich, whether Rhode Island is to say what taxes the rest of the people shall pay. . With the house under the control of the speaker and his rules committee, it is specially important that the senate should be a free and uncontrolled, body of equals. Indian apoli8 News. FORUMOFTHE PEOPLE Articles Contributed for This Column Must Not Be in Excess of 400 Words. The Identity of All Contributors Must Be Known to the Editor, Articles Will Be Printed in the Order Received. Dear Palladium: Allow me a small space in behalf of the good citizens of Richmond. To some of our people Dudley Foulke's letter, in Thursday's . issue came like a bomb iu the. camp. However some of the more discerning have pronounced him a. fraud, which he has demonstrated beyond cavil.. As for bro.ther NVade, .whatever confidence the people may have , had in his temperance proclivities is entirely gone to the four winds., .Since both of these professed reformers hare allied themselves with the saloon - element. In espousing ; Gordon's . :t cause, , in a pretence of. , defeating , 'Zimmerman, why not espouse 'the cause of an honest, upright citizen as Harris . has proven himself. ' The Wade. and Foulke . combination nave ' serious objections to Gordon. He espoused the cause of the '"wets"' and Is guilty of many misdemeanors which they can't approve, but Bennie Is their "Rock a bye Baby on the Tree-top Whichever tray the wind blows the cradle will rock, . ' ."-'. Wonder if Dudley fa being carried on some body's shoulders? Such a . spectacle would be an addition to the ' ITallacs sad Hagsnbeck circus. ;

More Gordon Consistency . Here is a little more evidence that J. .Bennett Gordon has not "always, been'' in .favor of the retention, of the light plant by the city. He now announces that municipal ownership Is all right. Here are extracts from the editorial column of the Item. T.We quote from an editorial of August 4. 190 this ia the conclusion. This is loos. - - "WE HAVE STEADFASTLY MAINTAINED THAT THE PLANT WILL PROVE A WHITE ELEPHANT ON, THE TAXPAYERS HANDS, AND WE WILL SEE OUR STATEMENT VINDICATED INSIDE OF FIVE YEARS. BUT THE WAY TO HAVE EVERYOXE SATISFIED IS ' TO GO THROUGH TO THE BITTER END. TO AWARD THE CONTRACT FOR CITY LIGHTING TO THE x LIGHT, HEAT AND POWER COMPANY AT THIS TIME WOULD OPEN THE DOOR FOR CHARGES OF ; CORRUPTION AND BRIBERY. A GREAT MANY PEOPLE WOULD THINK THAT THEY HAD BEEN SOLD OUT AND THERE WOULD ALWAYS BE THE FEELING THAT MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP HAD NOT BEEN GIVEN A FAIR TRIAL IN THIS CITY. NOTHING COULD BE MORE ROTTEN AND THOROUGHLY CORr RUPT THAN THE CONDITIONS WHICH MARKED THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MUNICIPAL PLANT, HUT BECAUSE IT WAS CONCEIVED IN INIQUITY AND REARED IN CORRUPTION IS NO ARGUMENT WHY IT SHOULD BE ABANDONED IN THE SAME MANNER. 'v;;-?1". "GIVE MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP ALL THE CHANCE ON EARTH. LET THE TAXPAYERS PUT UP FOR THE EMPTY HONOR OF OWNING THEIR OWN LIGHT PLANT UNTIV THEY GET GOOD AND PLENTY OF IT. LET E ERY ONE BE ABSOLUTELY SATISFIED THAT MUNK IPAL OWNERSHIP IS A SNARE AND A DELUSK N, THE SCHEME OF POLITICIANS, THE OPPOHTt NITY OF PUBLIC GRAFT, .' AND THEN HAVING LEARNED OUR LESSON WITH SADDER, BUT WISER r E ARTS, MAKE A DECENT BUT BUSINESS-LIKE CCNTRACT WITH A PRIVATE CORPORATION TO FURM H LIGHT FOR THE CITY AND TO PRIVATE CITIZENS AT RATES PROVIDED IN A FRANCHISE AND TURN OUR $200,000 PLANT OVER TO THAT CORPORATION. WE LEARN ONLY BY EXPERIENCE. EDITORIAL IN THE ITEM AUG 4, 1904. "THE MUNICIPAL LIGHT PLANT. "The complaints against the management of the municipal light plant are unfair, and if those uttering them are not careful they will condemn themselves out of their own1 mouth. The board of light commissioners is composed of business men who have made far better success in life than those who pose as their critics. They know their business and they know how to conduct a business. They are serving the city practically without salary and it is showing them a lamentable lack of good breeding to rake them over the coals because the light plant is not making a financial success. ' "As we have taken occasion to say many times before, you can't make a silk purse cut of a sows ear, and there is no use wasting time trying to breed a derby winner out of a government mule. The municipal light plant will never pay unless the day of miracles returns. It will pass through the history of every other municipal enterprise. It will be an eternal and ever increasing expense. Thousands of dollars will be spent in the first years of its operation for new machinery and charged to original cost in order to keep the expenses small. Thousands more will be spent later on and charged to equipment in order to keep the expense account down. But the taxpayers will foot the bills and damn the men who saddled it on the city, no matter to what account the money is charged. As time passes and the plant does not pay, the commissioners will be unjustly criticised because they do not perform impossibilities. These commissioners being business men, and working for nothing, will not care to take criticism and will resign, and political wire pullers and incompetents will fill the board, because self-respecting men will not accept the places. Then will begin a period of graft and open theft. Competent superintendents will soon shun the place, because it will add nothing to their reputation, and men picked for Apolitical reasons will run the plant. IT WILL GO TO THE DEVIL. AND THE PEOPLE WILL FINALLY THROW UP THE SPONGE SELL IT FOR WHAT THEY CAN GET FOR IT AND GO BACK TO PRIVATE OWNERSHIP.' "SUCH IS THE HISTORY OF MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP AND WE HAVE TAKEN THE FIRST STEP' ITEM, AUGUST 19, 1903.

Do you need better evidence? What does Gordon say now ?

HE SAID, IN THE ITEM. MAT 18, lus: "IF IT IS THE PROVINCE OF THE CITY TO ENTER INTO THE LIGHTING BUSINESS IN ORDER TO FURNISH LIGHT, WHICH TODAY IS A COMMERCIAL NECESSITY, AT COST OR LESS THAN COST. THEN WHY IS IT NOT THE PROVINCE OF THE CITY TO ENTER INTO THE BUSINESS OF FURNISHING WATER. FUEL FOOD. AND CLOTHING AT LESS THAN THEY ARE NOW BEING FURNISHED BY PRIVATE CONCERNS?" , "OH, NO, GENTLEMEN, THE REASON YOU DO NOT WANT TO GIVE UP YOUR BOOKS IS BECAUSE YOU HAVE DECEIVED THE PEOPLE, THEY WILL PROVE THE LAST REPORT OF THE CITY CONTROLLER TO BE A TISSUE OF FALSEHOODS AND THEY WILL PROVE THAT THE CITY PLANT HAS NEVER MADE MONEY, IS NOT MAKING MONEY, AND WILL NEVER MAKE MONEY. EDITORIAL BY J. BENNETT GORDON, MAY 6, 1908.

"The fact is that the whole practice of municipal ownership is wrong. You can not admit its correctness in any one commodity unless you adopt the entire theory of SocialismsEvening Item, May 18, 1908. Do you need better evidence? v

Items Gathered in From Far and Near GOSSIP FROM THE PROVINCES. ' Boiling It Down. (Kansas City Journal) Mr. Bryan took three columns of the Commoner to prove that Secretary of War Dickinson is not a Democrat. A sheer waste of space. One line would have been sufficient: "He did not vote for me Lest We Forget. ' T. Springfield Republican) The reports from East Africa fail to give prominence to the duly attested fact that the Smithsonian Institution has ah, expedition somewhere in that neighborhood -devoted to the advancement of science.' Oh Mabel, Ain't It Awful! (Detroit Free Press) You cau gamble that Mrs. ' Abdul Hamid, the Damned, is the' maddest woman cast of the setting sun. Add

the fact that there are so many of her, and it may turn more light on

the Turkish situation. , Will Start Something. (Omaha Bee) The new bust of ex-President Roosevelt is ready for the Senate Chamber. w nenever the sessions become too dreary, all that will be necessary will be to show it to Bailey and Tillman. He Is Too Fond of Fiction. (Philadelphia Inquirer.) , Mr. Broughton Brandenburg seems entitled to just one more chance to tell a straight story, but there is no reason to believe that he will Improve If Abdul Hamid should seek asylum in America, as some reports say he may, Utah would probably give him a more or less cordial welcome. (Denver Republican) Now if Castro could only find Tom Hisaren's retreat and . crawl In there with him. bow quiet the world would

WHICH?

HARRIS v f A HARRIED MAN WITH WOTS !AND CHILDREN. A MAN WHOSE WORD 13 GOOD kN LAW ENFORCEMENT. AN UNIMPEACHABLE RECORD. ; A MAN WHO WILL. DEVOTE .T. "HIS TIME TO "ADVANCING THE INTERESTS OF THE TOWN. A MAN WHO WILL STRIVE TO DECREASE THE TAX RAT3 BY CAREFULLY OVERSEEING THE CITY BUSINESS WITH UNQUESTIONED HONESTY.

A MAN WHO IS HONEST. A MAN WHO CAN BE ELECTED. A MAN WHO WILL" LOOK OUT

FOR THE INTERESTS OF ALL THE CITIZENS.

, To The Voters of Richmond Yesterday afternoon a commute of women, representing various wo. men's clubs, held a meeting at the library and decided to make an appeal to the wives and mothers of Rlcamacd to use their influence in defeating Dr. W. W. Zimmerman In his candidacy for the republican mayoralty nomination ; and to use their influence in securing the nomination of a suitable candidate. The following corarcunicatfcn was drafted and given to the ' press for publication today: Four years ago this Tall the women of Richmond, incensed past endurance by the appalling conditions existing In their city, sent the following message to every house in it: "The Women's League of Richmond, a non-partiean body, organized in the interest of civic purity, earnestly dasires to call to our attention certain statements in the report of the Grand Jury of last August. "Tills grand Jury, after finding ia ID-. Zimmcrircn, while mayor of the city, had issued in hia professional capacity, certificates of good health to the inmates of a disreputable fcourt In tUe city, makes the following comment: "The Jury cannot understand, however, the action of Dr. Zimmerman In this matter, for until the recent municipal codo was enacted, as mayor of the city. Dr. Zimmerman likewise had Judicial powers and presided at police court, and his position as such mayor and police judge, certainly required him to use every effort to stamp out misdemeanor and to cause the arrest of any person committing any misdemeanor within bis observation. which every inmate examined by him was doing, as fie well knew. . The dual position in which Us has stood has extended over a period of several years, and certainly no defense can be given on the ground that It was purely a professional matter." "The women of thU city, feeling that the casdidacy of a man who could do this thing was a disgrace to tha city and an insult to every decent woman in it, held on Tuesday laet a mass meeting of protest, which was attended by I.20O women of all parties and creeds. "At this meeting the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: "Resolved, That the issue ia the present municipal campaign, is not whether there shall be elected as mayor of this city a republican or a dem- , ocrat, but whether vice in Its dangerous forms shall be protected or suppressed. ,. . "Resolved, That our present mayor has by his dealings with and recognition of a most revolting traffic, which he was by law bound to suppress .shown himself faithleca to his trust, and unworthy of re-election. "Resolved, That we resent this attack on the purity of our homes and the morality of our sens and daughters, and individually pledge ourselves to do all-in our power to prevent the election of the man capable of making it. Their appeal was heeded Zimmerman was defeated. The same problem, but more serious than before, confronts ns now. The Metropolitan police law has been repealed and the mayor is onre more the city judge. It lies in his haed3 to determine whether violators of the law shall be punished or go free; whether vice shall regain its hold on this community. And Dr. Zimmerman is again a candidate for mayor. He has not changed he has not even prc-tondr-.l to reform, he stands for a wide open town. We can not advise you which of the- other candidates will make the best mayor that is a matter for you to decide. But we can earnestly entreat ycu not to deliver!the city over to Zimmerman, and in the face of this impending danger, to sink all differences and unite on the man best able to defeat him. even though he may not be your personal choice. Will you not save us from the disgrace and danger of having for mayor a man who could do what this man has done? MRS. JAMES W. MORRISON, President. MRS. W. K. BRADBURY, Secretary. By order of the Executive BoarJ cf the Women's League.

riUuitt'no. Men Made to Look Like Beasts by Chinese Methods. To transfer a man into a beast would at first seem to be impossible. It Is accomplished, however, by the Chinese, to whom nothing seems to be unknown. The skin is removed in small particles from the entire surface, of the body, and to the bleeding parts bits of the hide of living animals, bears and dogs, are usually applied. The operation requires years for its full accomplishment. After the person has had bis skin completely changed and becomes a man-bear or a man-dog he is made mute to complete the illusion and also deprive him of the means of Informing the public he is intended to amuse of his long torture. A Chinese journal, the Hupao. prints a description of one of these human animals exhibited In the Kiangsi. His entire body was covered with dog skin. He stood erect (although sometimes the feet areso mutilated that the beast la forced to walk on all fours), could not utter articulate sounds, rise and sit down In short, make the gestures of a human being. A mandarin who beard of this monstrosity had him brought to his palace, where his hairy skin and bestial appearance caused quite as much terror as surprise. Upon being asked If he was a man the creature replied with an affirmative nod. He also signified in the same manner that be would write. A pencil was given him. but he could not use it, his bands were so deformed. Ashes were then placed on the ground In front of him, when the man-dog. leaning over, traced in them five characters indicating his name aad district. Investigation showed that be bad been stolen. Imprisoned for years and subjected to long tortures. His master was apprehended and condemned to death. London Spare Moments.

PALLADIUM WANT ADS. PAY.

ZIMMERMAN AN UNMENTIONABLE PRIVATE LD7E.

IN FAVOR Or DIVES AND OPENING HOUSES OF ILL FAME. A HAN WHO WAS INCOMPETENT WHEN FORMERLY IN OFFICE. A MAN WHO HAS HELD OFFICE TIME AND TIME AGAIN FOR A SIDE LINE TO FURNISH HIM OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROFIT. A MAN WHO HAS HELPED BY BAD GOVERNMENT TO INCREASE THE TAXES OF THE CITY. ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION. A MAN WHOM MANY REPUBLICANS WILL BOLT. A MAN WHO WOULD RUN THE TOWN FOR HIS OWN INTERESTS. A BOWLDER BRIDGE. Probably Placed In Position by an Ancient Cloudburst. One of the most remarkable freaks of wind and erosion known In the west is to be found In one of the smaller side canyons of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado river in Arizona. , lu a narrow gorge, carved through centuries of flow of water and wind tiriven sand down the little valley, there lies a huge bowlder as big as the average house moving van seen on a city street. It is held up solely by friction on the sides of the gorge and is entirely free from any solid connection with the sides of the sandstone walls. From the sandy bed of the little gorge to the rock is fully seventy-five feet The Indians who once roamed over the Grand canyon country nave, of course. legends to account for the location of the big round rock, but as a matter of fact it Is believed to have rolled off the slope of a rocky and precipitous mountain about five miles distant from the canyon and to have been picked up in the path of some cloudburst years ago and rolled to its present resting place. The stone bangs only by a small projection on each side, bat It Is so solid that It forms a convenient foot bridge across. the gorge over which the pedestrian may take bis way. Kansas City JonrnaL - - Liquid air made from carbon dlox ide, according to Dr. David Hubbard, liquifies at a pressure of 2,000 pounds to the square inch. When liberated at a low temperature it become car bonic acid snow, crystalizing into substance resemblln common white chalk, though of greater brilliance. This snow has been applied with great effect to many skin diseases, such as moles, warts, birthmarks, etc.. a ten second application ending the growth

and causing it to disappear

TWINKLES

' Progress of Agriculture. (New York Sun.) Knlcker The old-time farmer kept his horse in the barn. Bocker And the new farmer keeps his wheat in the garage. Why. Should They? (Pittsburg PosL) "They oughter "do something fcr me. I always vote their way. They won't do nuthin fer ye as long as ye stick to that policy, me good man." Rather Fancy. (Chicago News.) The cueerest names in all this world, we'll bet our bottom dollars. Are on the Pullman cars, the flats, and gentlemen's linen collars. Nothing Like Being Obliging. (Life.) . Customer Walter, Isn't there something peculiar about these oysters? Walter Is there, sir? Try another, sir. and if that's oft I'll change the order. (Atchison (Kan.) Globe.) Bad habits are always stronger than good resolutions. A woman looks prettier getting a baby to sleep than" she does on a public platform. . A good woman's Idea of something disreputable is to make a practice of attending more than one church. You can't make us believe any woman loves her husband when she refers to him as "he" instead of by his name. A girl who has been engaged as many as three times must have a heart that looks as badly mussed as the top bureau drawer. Before demanding your own way It is well to consider whethcrou would be willing to grant every one else the same privilege. There is an old saying that a woman who persistently refuses to get married, though she has chances. will be Compelled to mend all the old bachelors' clothes In the next world. - A CHEERFUL OUTLOOK. Making It Pleasant For the Ctudleue Traveler. An English tourist traveling oa foot through one of our mountainous regions, studying the people, aaked a man whom he met to direct him to a certain csbin at which be bad been advised to stay overnight. "Going tharr said the man. "Well, Tom's a first rater, take him Just right, but oes mighty queer. "What do you mean r asked the traveler. "Well, it's like this." ssd the man looked at the stranger In a calm. Impersonal way. "He'll be setting outside, most probably, snd he'll see you coming. He ll tak a good look at you. and ef you don't suit him be may set the dos on you. "Ef be don't and you get to talking with him and say anything be don't Just like he may throw you down and tromp on yon. But cf you're too careful in your talk, on the other hand, he's liable to take you for s spy and Use his gun fust and listen to explanations afterward. "But it's no use trying to get by without stopping. concluded the man, witb evident relish of the prospect be was opening up to the stranger. "Ef you was to undertake that 'twould be all up witb you. for he'd think you was proud and biggetty. "Ef you want to come oat of the mountain whole, don't go past Tom's cabin without stopping; whatever you do!" Youth's Companion. The Unemployed. - Lack of employment is not a new question. Says the Liverpool Mercury of Feb. 14. 1812: "It is of the highest Importance that s committee of the legislature should Immediately Inquire Into the causes of the present want cf employment among the laboring classes and whether mesns might not be found In a nation of which the revenue is Immense by which a succession of public works." etc. There were st that time 10.000 unemployed In Liverpool. The same writer after ssking "Is war the only employment that the) state has to give the poor?" goes on to show that the pyramids of Egypt and the "elegant edifices of Greece" were built with the object of "giving continual employment to the laborer. Women's Work snd Infsnt Mortality. In eight industrial towns, where the proportion of married women of child bearing age at work In the factories was 43 per cent, the Infant mortality rate for ten years averaged 182 per 1.000. In eight industrial towns of a different type, where the proportion of married women at work was only 3 per cent, the Infant mortality was only 150 per 1.000. The excessive rate la the first group is not due to bad wages nor to bad conditions, but to the absence of the mother. London PosL A Financial Genius. , 'Ta, will you please tell me what a financial genius is?" . "A financial genius, my child. Is s man who can spend money that be has never bad and which the people who think they are getting it will never see." Chicago Record-Herald. , His Muaie. , Mrs. Nagger ibe noise you make at night Is very unpleasant music. Mr. Nagger Do you call snoring music? Mrs. Nagger I should say so sheet music arranged for the bugle. Chicago Kecovd-Herald- , ; Tslleyrsnd's Reply. Napoleon once aa!d to Talleyrand. 1 wish t bed the key to beiL for 1 conld then put you In there." The reply was. It wouM be better, sire, that I should

have than, fat tfco 1 cocil 1st jm

A MOTHER FIGHTS TO KEEP HER SOU Bay State Senator's Wife Gets Out a Writ of Habeas Corpus.

MANY MILLIONS IN FRAY FATHER OF THE ARRESTED WOMAN IS RUSHING TO HER AID THE SCANDAL PROMISES TO BE INTERESTING. Santa Barbara. Cel., May T. Defy-" ing the polke. her husband, and every one connected with the case. Mrs. Nettie E. Shaw, the runaway wife of a Boston millionaire, railroad president, -and state senator. James F. Shaw, secured a writ cf habeas corpus to regain possession of her son. taken from her yesterday morning after a countrywide search. That the fight will be Interesting Is promised in the news from Boston aad Portsmouth. N. H.. that millions of dollars mill back both sides. The' scsndsl will be sired fully also, judging by the following words of Mrs. Shaw: "Mr. Shaw dare not make a fight foi Eldridge. He Is not a fit person to have the boy. He knows that J know It Ma Knnandftreri SllllfUSt of m'father's money and t can and will te'l I how. Mrs. Shaw put up a strenuous legal fight. Detectives vainly searched the east for the missing boy, who was found here in the company of his mother and H. Keno Marble. Senator Shaw's former chauffeur, with whom the vonan has been ltrlna" Mrs. Marble" tor over a. year. Released Son to Officers. Mrs. Marble was found by two deteo. s Uvea, an attorney, and Chief of Folic Ross at the Tremont house, signed a document releasing claim to the son. Last night she retained Attorney Henley C. Booth and . the habeas corpus proceedings were Immediately begun. The writ was made returnable on Monday. In the meantime Mrs. Shaw la saying little becaaae she Is closely guard-, ed hv attorneys. Marble, a moving picture theater proprietor, refused o bo interviewed. He was at the theater this evening, but bad nothing to say. . Mrs. Shaw notified her father, H. Fisher of Portsmouth. N. H.. who leaves Boston tomorrow morning for this city. - He has provided funds for hie daughter pending bis arrival. Is the meantime little Eldridge Shaw has ' been in charge. of Chief Ross, who. Is. caring for him at home until the court ' orders disposition of him. Eldridge. the 12 yesr old boy over whom the fight Is being made, said tonight: "I would like to go back to Boston to see papa. He always treated me well and I love him. I nope he will come and get me. lames Her Colored Butler. . Mrs. Shaw is angry at her colored butler, Lewis Field, whom she blsmes for the discovery. "I si ways was kind In Mm ' In Rmlnn " th nald. "He should not bare gotten me in trouble. . Yes. be knows some things, but dare not tell. He Is a cunning fellow, though, you better wstcb him." The boy was seized at three o'clock yesterday morning in a raid by officers of the house where Mable and Mrs. Shew were staying. Mrs. Shaw deserted her husband at Brookline. Mass.. In June. 10O7. and came to California witb Marble, bringing her son. The couple went to Pasadena, where a home was established. They came then to Santa Barbara and went Into the moving picture show business. They established a little theater called the La Petite, where Mrs. Sbsw sold tickets.; behind the wkkeL "J . Detectives employed by Shaw trallel the couole to Pasadena.' thence to San ta Barbara. . A day r two ago a boy of fire and a half asked bis aunt, "Who Is Washington T Her reply was. The Father of Our Country. ; ' The perfectly us rural question came, "Asntle, was our country s little boy or a little glrlr Political Announcements Advertisements in This Column Cost Ten Dollars for alt Offices Except Coancttmen which An Five Dollars FOB MAYOR. c&NRT W. DSUKER Is a candidate foi mtyor. subject to the Republican, nomination. : CAM U EL K. MORGAN, candidate for' Hsyor. subject to the Republican noialnatiox . ' EDWARD It HARRIS is a 'candidate for Mayor, subject to tie Republicaa nomination. : . for crrv CLERK. BALTZ A- BESCIHX is a candidate fer tto of Ic cf city c!erk of Ricbaicnd, subject to the Republican nomination. . ' ' 1 FOR .UOOC OF CITY COURT. LUTHER C ABBOTT is a candidate for Juigs of the City Cent f Richcroud, Ind., subject to the Republican nomination. , COUNCILS AN-AT-LARGE. -SfATT VON PEIN la a candidate for ths office of ; "Coundlman-st-large, subject to the Republican nomination. .' I ' FOR COUNCILMAN. JESSE J. EVANS, candidate for Councilman for Second Ward, aub,

" ject to the Republican nosslnatioa.'