Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 122, 11 March 1911 — Page 1

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SALOON QUESTION MAY START A ROW III CITY. COUNCIL

Will City Fathers Agree to Increase Fee Ordinance to Maximum Amount Being Asked Now. ONLY 2 WEEKS NOW TO REACH DECISION With No Action Taken at End of That Time the License Fee Automatically Becomes Only $200. Borne of the wise ones around the city hall, seem to think that the city llcenso will not go above the present rate, $251, and possibly it may drop to $200, as fixed by the elate law if no ctlon Is taken by council within the 30 dayi prescribed by law. The mayor's motion in a board of works meeting yesterday, that the ordinance be taken from council and a $500 city license fee clause substltuted has roused opposition among the city fathers, it is claimed. Tbo board has already recommended that the license be made $300, which was at first believed to be the limit. One of those with the "Inside information" says council is not tickled to death over the prospects of raising the liquor license anyway, but that if the board or mayor tries to dictate an amendment fixing tho license at $251, the present rate, is coming forth. An Adjourned Session. Now that Monday's meeting will be an adjjurned session from last Monday, the liquor ordinance Is still on first reading, and for a passage then, must get a unanimous vote on the suspension of rules. The wise one say they would stake money that the motion for suspending the rules will be defeated. Thus the ordinance could not be passed until Monday, March 20. .It appears no that council, holds the balance of power as to fixing the license fee. By the Proctor bill, thirty days .from March '1 is given city councils to fix the license fees In any aum not exceeding $500, but if action Is not taken by the council within that time the license for cities drops to $200, the minimum rate fixed. Any rate under $300 is objectionable to the mayor it Is claimed. Council holds power. If the mayor should veto an ordinance providing for a license fee of 9300 or less he thereby will fx the license fee at $200, for council will not have an opportunity in the prescribed time to pass another ordinance meeting the requirements demanded by the mayor. The meeting of March 20 Is the last of the month. It Is not believed likely that the mayor would call a special session to get an ordinance passed over his veto. Not a councilman has committed himself on the liquor bill which is be-1 fore council, but it is generally understood a maximum license measure would not be received favorably. City Attorney A. M. Gardner has received copies of the Proctor bill which are being mailed to councilmen. so tbey will know Its provisions Monday. A spicy meeting with plenty of action Is the promise made by one of the councilmen. FILE A CLATM ON CONVERSE ESTATE Claim for $416 Including principal and Interest on a mortgage has been lied by the Second National bank against the estate of the late W. C. Converse, former city Judge. In January 1910 the decedent borrowed $700 from the bank, the loan being secured by a mortgage. On this amount $300 was paid during 1910. leaving $400 due on the principal and $18 accrued interest on the unpaid amount John L. Rupe is attorney for the banking Institution. The estate of the decedent Is Insolvent CRANORS FRIENDS REFUTE STATEMENT Friends of Martin Cranor, a large land owner near Williamsburg, who was placed under the guardianship of John Manning, assert that the chargo ha bad offered its property at figures below its value are untrue, growing out of an offer which was made him but which be refused. PcTlczn's Tctal DaUy Avercae Grcnlattcn (Except Saturday) faeladlng Complimentary Lists, for Week Ending March 4. 1911. 03,767 City Cireslxtloa 'Bw1ag at paid, news stands and regular complimentary list does not Include sample copies. 5,793

Tennessee9 Flagship of the American Fleet in

The nagship Tennessee, of the fifth division of the Atlantic Hcct and her officers. From left to right are Lieutenant Halsey Powell. Captain Knapp and Rear-Admiral Staunton, commander of the fifth division of the Atlantic Fleet. The fleet comprises the Tennessee. Montana, Washington and North Carolina. .

REPORTERS WILL ANSWER CHARGES Of Spreading False Reports as Soon as They Can Be Arrested. . " (American News Service) Spokane, Wash., March 11. Correspondents in Spokane, Seattle and Olympia, Washington who flooded the newspapers in the Middle-Western, Eastern and Southern states with telegraphic dispatches on February 27 and 28 and March 1, that the bubonic plague had caused the deathof three members of the family and that seven other persons are in a critical condition from the same malady, will be arrested as soon as located and charged with spreading false statements. Section 2431 of the Remington and Hal linger Code provides that "every person who shall willfully state, deliver or transmit, by any means what ever, to any manager, editor, publisher, reporter or other employe of a publisher of any newspaper, magae, publication, periodical or serial, and statement concerning any person or corporation, which if published there in, would be a libel, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor." The council of Spokane has direct ed F. B. Morrill, corporation counsel. to make a thorough investigation of the source of the misleading dispatches, and the Spokane chamber of commerce has retained Frederick W. Dewart of Spokane, to assist in prosecuting the offenders. It is declared the "scare" originated in Seattle. "So far there has been no intimation of proceeding against the newspapers that published the dispatches." said R. J. MacLean, secretary of the Spokane chamber of commerce, "but It is likely they will be requested to give space to a statement showing the true condition of public health in Spokane, as there have been no cases of bubonic, typhoid of typhus fever in this city. The three deaths in the Oliver family were caused by severe Influenza and pneumonia, which facts were known at the time the dispatches were sent to the newspapers of the country." EXPRESS DRIVERS OUT ON A STRIKE (American News Service) New York. March 11. For the third time in as many months all of the drivers of the Adams Express com pany In Jersey City struck today. One hundred and fifty men went out because of a dispute over working hours. The leaders said that 400 men employed by the company In New York would go out in sympathy during the jday. Police precautions were imme diately taken to prevent violence. MAY ASK CONTRACT ASATAX FERRET Tax ferret Washington E. Lowe, whose contract with the county was revoked before its expiration in September. 1910. has transferred the unfinished work to Gentry L. Taylor of Indianapolis, and the latter probably will ask the county commissioners for a contract as tax ferret. He now has a representative in the county working on Lowe's uncompleted business.

VACANCY NOW IN SIXTH DISTRICT

Finly Gray Anxious to Appoint Young Man as Cadet at West Point. Washington, March 11. If there are any able-bodied, bright-minded young men living in the Sixth, Tenth, Twelfth and Thirteenth congressional districts, in Indiana, who have ambitions to begin a military career, they will have the opportunity to take the entrance examinations for West Point on May 2, at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis. A statement just issued from the general staff, calls attention to .the fact that for several years the cadet corps at the United States Military academy has been from 15 to 23 per cent, below Its fuil quota. It is regarded as Important to the army that the institution turn out the largest possible number of gradu ates. Because they believe that many young men are deterred from taking the examinations by the expense of the long journey to the present centers, candidates will be examined at the nearest suitable military post. Fur ther to stimulate applications, the war department makes public the existence of vacancies in the congressional districts. Staff Announces Vacancies. The general staff began this campaign of publicity by announcing vacancies present and prospective, distributed among the western states as follows: Arkansas Districts 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7. Kentucky One at large; Districts 4 and 11. Missouri Districts 2 and 12. Texas Districts 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13 and 13. California Districts 2 and S. Idaho One at large. Illinois Districts 2. 11, 12, 11, 13, 16, 1$ and 24. Indiana Districts 6, 10, 12 and 13. Iowa Districts 5. 9, 10 and 13. Kansas Districts 2, 3 and 4. Nebraska Districts 1 and 6. North Dakota One at large. Oklahoma One at large; Districts 2 and 4. Oregon Oue at large: District 1. South Dakota One at large. Utah One at large. Washingtou One at large; District 5. Wisconsin Two at large; Districts 4, 6 and 11. Barnhart Is Anxious. Representative Finly H. Gray, of the Sixth district; Representative Crumpacker. of the Tenth, and Representatives . Cline and Barnhart, of the Twelfth and Thirteenth districts, respectively, are anxious to make appointment on one candidate and two alternates. Representative Barnhart. who Is now at his fcome in Rochester, is especially desirous to name a candidate for West Point, as the fifteen applicants he has nominated for cadetship since he has been in congress have failed to make good. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Unsettled weather. Rain tonight and Sun- - day.-

FARM VALUATIONS TO BEJNCREASED But Assessments on Richmond Property Will Remain About Same.

On completion of the assessment,, of Richmond real estate sometime before May 15, many changes in valuation will be found, some properties being assessed at a lower value than four years ago and others at a much higher figure, but on the average the assessment will remain the same during the next quadrennial period. On the other hand while the assessment will not show that city property in general has increased much in value, yet noticeable increases of from five to fifteen per cent will be found in the assessment of farm properties. The reason why city property will not be raised in the same proportion as farm lands is that assessors believe the city land owner in 1907 was assessed too high. In proportion to the valuation placed upon farm lands. Receiving Reports. County assessor William Mathews Saturday received reports from the different township assessors and their deputies as to the progress made in appraising values of real estate in their respective townships. By these reports it was found that farm lands all over the county have increased in value in the last four years and the average county increase on such real estate Is estimated by the county assessor to be five per cent higher than the assessment fixed four years ago. -The most general increases reported were from 5 to 10 per cent over the assessment four years ago and in some cases, where farm values have grown because of the extreme productiveness of the land or the improvements to it, the .increase has been 15 per cent. There are instances on record where the 1911 assessment on farm property is lower than the 1907 assessment, due primarily to assessors finding the farms run down. less productive and therefore less valuable. These are not many, however. Wayne township assessor Charles Potter and his deputies who are assessing real estate are endeavoring to make the assessment of city property on - a , basis 'whereby its value will be equal to the assessment of farm property, in proportion to the actual or sales value. Main street property, particularly in those sections which have been built up or much improved in the past four years, will be assessed higher than in 1907. This also is true in the factory and North E and Ft. Wayne avenue districts. " There are a few residence sections where property values have increased greatly, but taking the city in general, property owners need not anticipate paying more tax on their real estate holdings in the next four years than they have been in the past four. TOOK GUN TO BED; HIS WIFE IS SHOT (American News Service) Princeton. Ind., March 11. T. E. Thurman. a prominent railroader of Mt. Cannel. 111., accidentally fatally shot his wife with a revolver he was replacing under a pillow early today. It had slipped down in the middle of the bed.

Texas Waters

L OF POWDER MILL Residents of Stricken Wis- , consin Town Hold Indignation Meetings. . American News Service) Kenosha,"' WMs.r March 11. With nothing but a mass of ruins marking the places where their homes once 6tood, citizens of Pleasant Prairie and the neighboring country today got together and planned a campaign that would for all time take from their city the Laflin-Rand Powder mills, which exploded and destroyed the town on Thursday night. Meetings held last night and today in Pleasant Prairie and Kenosha were attended by indignant citizens all of whom expressed an intention to safeguard their homes even to the extent of taking the matter to the state legis lature. No attempt yet has been made to replace the shattered homes, but temporary patchwork has been done to provide roofs for hundreds of homeless. Practically the only inhabitants of the ruined village today are men. The women and children are staying away fearing another explosion. Liability a Question. Liability for the damages inflicted to themselves and their homes is a serious question to the villagers and it is likely several hundred suits will be brought against the Dupont De Nemours company, which owned the Laflin-Rand plant at Pleasant Prairie. In the last ten years tne powder plant, has spread destruction nine times, although th explosions were not anything like the last one which completely wiped out the plant. One of the freaks of the explosion was the fact that a glazing cylinder from the mill was hurled two miles. It is three feet thick and six feet long and was made of heavy steel. A gigantic hole in the ground marks the site of the former plant. It is 200 feet long, 100 feet wide and sixey or seventy feet deep. None of the injured here or in Pleasant Prairie will die. Experts of the powder company who arrived today declared that it is marvelous that only one man was killed. Today's estimates of . the damage place it at nearly $3,000,000 at the plant and in the town of Pleasant Prairie. PARTITION SUITS ARE FILED TODAY

DEMAND

REMOVA

Three suits to partition real estate have been filed in the circuit court. In one Patrick Madden and thirteen others are asking that ive city lots, in which Bernard Madden and two others also claim an interest, be divided or sold and the receipts of the sale divided according to the interest of each shareholder. Charles H. Sell is suing Bernard Madden and two others for the same purpose, excepting that two city lots are involved. William Threewits and others are asking the partition of five acres of ground in which Alvin Threewits also has an interest.

LOCKED IN CAGES

WHEN TAKEN INTO COUHTJOH TRIAL Italian Terrorists, Forty-one in Number, Were Placed on Trial for Lives at Viterbp Today. SELECTING A JURY A DIFFICULT TASK In Such Dread Do People Hold Cammorist Band They Fear to Sit in Judgment Over Them. (American News Service) Viteibo, March 11 Locked in steel cages to prevent rescue," thirty-nine members of the notorious Italian Camorra were placed on trial here to day. The prosecution is chiefly directed against Enrico Alfano, alias "Er ricone" head of the Neapolitan Canior ra. Forty-one members of the murder ous body are under indictment but two of them were not arraigned. Although the defendants are nomin ally charged with complicity in the murder of Gen. Naro Cuocola and his wife, "the beautiful Sorrentino," on June 5, 1906, the authorities hope to draw aside the curtain hiding the real secrets of crimes committed both in Italy and other countries and which have baffled the international police. Among the crimes which may be explained is the murder of Joe Petrosino, the New York detective who was shot to death in Palermo, on March 12, 1909. His assassination was plot ted by Gaetno Denadio, who is one of the defendants. One Is a Woman. Of the 39 put on trial today, only one is a woman. She is one of the calmest prisoners in court. She i Marie Standari, who is accused of har boring members of the Cammorra in Naples where she owns a hotel, and sharing in their councils of assassin ation. The defendants are all members of the Catholic faith, and they express ed a desire-to attend mass before the opening of court. Accordingly a priest entered the monastery prison and said the mass while the Neapolitans knelt and responded with their prayers. From their prayers the prisoners went to court to be tried for their lives. The prisoners were led into court under a heavy guard of gendarmerie, Before the main body arrived one of their number, Giovanni Abatamaggic, the former member of the band who betrayed his fellows in a series of con fessions, had already been smuggled into the court house and was encased in a steel cage to protect him from any attack by his former associates in crime. Herded Into Cages. In a second and larger steel cage, built In the center of the room Alfano and the other defendants were herded despite their protests. The great trial of the international band of terrorists opened with promise of becoming the most sensational legal melodrama of the age. Never before in Italy or any other country were such scenes enacted at any trial. While the tril was getting under way more troops arrived here to reinforce the little army already on the scene. The sentiment of the populace toward the members of the dreaded band is mingled. In the minds of many these hardened masters of crime have already become heroes and martyrs. As a result there was a great deal of wagering that, with the exception of possibly three or four all would be acquitted. The first hitch to the proceedings and material evidence of the fear in which the Cammorra is held came with the very opening of the session. Cavalieri Santero, procuratore del Re, who has charge of the prosecution, arose and notified the judge that several of the forty talesmen who had been drawn for jury duty had disappeared. "We are beset with difficulties through the fear in which this dreadful organization is held," he said. "It is my duty to inform this honorable court that several of the talesmen, drawn for jury duty, have either been inveigled out of the community or else have fled through fear of the awful vengeance which this society is wont to wreak upon its enemies." Immediately after learning of the disappearance of the1 talesmen, the presiding judge issued orders for their arrests and asked that the minister of justice in Rome be notified so that a general search for the missing men could be started. WORRIED BY CHARGE, FARMER KILLS SELF (American News Service Logapsport, March 11. Jesse Bussard, a wealthy farmer Clinton township, came to Logan sport today and committed suicide in the rear of an undertaker's establishment He used a revolver. He was worried over an accusation of theft of two bushels of clover seed,- "

STATE DEPT.

SNUBBED BY PRES . TIFT Knox's Department Reported Conditions on Border Favorable, but the Army Officers Did Not. SAN ANTONIO TODAY IS AN ARMED CAMP Thousands of Troops Pour-i ing in and Are Wildlv' Cheered by Excited Citizens of Place. REBELS STORM A TOWN And It Is Reported That the Loss Has Been Heavy on Both SidesGeneral Carter Is on Job. (American News Service) . Washington. March 11. The President snubbed the state department in planning his Mexican invasion because of conflicting reports of conditions on the border, it was learned today. The state department persistently reported the situation not serious while reports from army officers scouting on the border indicated otherwise. Mobilization plans are progressing splendidly. A second army division is under contemplation and the state militia is available for a third division If developments require. GEN. CARTER ARRIVES. San Antonio, Tex., March 11. By night the United States Hag will float Over about 15,000 regular soldiers upon the great government reservation. The roar of thirteen guns this morning boomed out the commanders salute and welcomed to the 'seat of war" Major-Ceneral William II. Carter, who will command the division at San Antonio. General Carter was met at the train by Brigadier General Jos. W. Duncan, commander of the department of Texas and a squadron of cavalry which escorted him to his post. As he assumed command of the troops, a heavy battery stationed nearby sounded a royal welcome. Troop trains poured in all night long, but the soldiers did not immediately detrain. They spent the balance of the night in the cars and reveille this morning awoke them from their cramped positions. A Long Line of Blue. Within an hour a long line of blue was marching through the streets toward the great maneuver camp, while hundreds of visitors joined in the greeting. As though by magic, a city of thousands had sprung up over the govern ment reservation, divisions were in their allotted quarters and complete military discipline quickly established. :.:-;i-.'-:';v The following regiments arrived in camp early today: Eleventh cavalry from Ft Oglethorpe, Ga. First battalion of 18th infantry from Whipple barracks. Arizona. .; 15th infantry, from Ft. Douglass, Utah. 13th infantry from Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. . Sentries were placed about the cantonments while the day was spent assigning the men to quarters and getting the routine of the camp in shape. Suffering From Heat. The men suffered greatly from the intense heat as many of them came from sections of the country where snow is still upon the ground to find the thermometer in the nineties here. The quartermaster's department work ed all night getting a sufficient supply of khaki uniforms out for the entire army. As soon as the soldiers got their tents up, the light service uniforms were distributed among the enlisted men. Gen. Carter today denied knowledge of any invasion of Mexico, declaring with soldiery precision that he is here to obey orders and that, as far as he knows, those orders are for maneouvers only. "That nothing more than maneuvers is intended has been said enough," declared the commanded. "It is hardly necessary for me to say it again. I am here to obey orders and the orders are for maneuvers. Soon as all the troops are on the ground, military problems will be worked out. The first move will be an attack on Galveston in mimic warfare. Part of the troops will defend the city whole others will try to storm It." ' ' Sunday Day of Rest. Sunday will be a day of rest for the soldiers. However, those who have

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