Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 219, 16 June 1911 — Page 1

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GIFFORD PIIICHOT IT IS SAID WILL DROP UFOLLETTE Haft, Owing to His Change - of Attitude Toward Public Policies, Gains Former Forester's Favor.

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With Roosevelt Smiling on President, Garfield Ex pected to Come Out for I Taft's Re-election. V (Nation! News Association) Washington, Juno 16. It is stated y closo friends of Gifford Plnchot, Vbo are In iiositlon to speak for him, that the plan seriously considered ome time ago by him In association with Rudolph Sprccklcs of San Francisco and Senator Jonnahan Bourne, of furnishing money for a nation wide propoganda In favor of the nomination of Seuator Lafollette as the Republican candidate for President In 1912 has been abandoned. Friends of Mr. Plnchot say he is likely to be found supporting President Taft. A canvass was made of the political situation throughout the country and the outlook. It was said, aa disclosed to Mr. Plnchot and his friends, did not offer them any encouragement to hope for iAfollette's nomination over Taft in 1912. Just what the attitude of Mr. Sprcckles will be Is not disclosed. Senator Bourne will continue to be a Lafollette "booster." Mr. Plnchot has been pleased with the President's manifest change of attitude towards public policies In which Plnchot Is Interested. The nomination of Walter Fisher as Secretary of Interior, a former associate of Mr. Plnchot In the National Conservation association, pleased the former , Chief Forrester and Taft's selection of Stlraon aa Secretary of War was equally satisfactory. Roosevelt's Attitude. Ex-Prcsldent Roosevelt's growing Interest In President Taft Is Bald to have favorably affected Mr. Plnchot There are indications that Ex-Secre-tary Garfield, will come into the Taft fold soon. He will visit Washington shortly as tho President's guest The White House has been angling for him for several months or since Charles D. Illlles entered tho White House as Secretary to the President and began the .work of conciliation with a view to President Taft's renomlnation. LEEDS BLOCK SOLD TO H, UllELAtID tTo Be Leased to Woman's Garment Concern Another Big Deal Is On. ' Two new mercantile establishments Will soon be opened up on Main street. One will bo a woman's ready-made clothing store and the other a dry goods concern. Roth will be operated by out-of-town men. Upon the announcement today of the purchase of the Leeds building, 822624 Main street, by H. V. McLeland, of this city, for a consideration of $25,000, It was declared that Mr. McLeland would lease the building to a prominent clothing merchant of another Indiana city, who will use It for a ladles' garment store. The structure Is two stories high. 23.7 feet wide by '165 feet deep and Is built of stone. A report emanted today from sources which would seem to place the tamp of authenticity upon it. that the Central hotel. 823-825 Main street, had been sold by Mm. Hannah Swift to William Turner, a loading dry goods merchant of Kokomo and West Manchester. The report also had it that Mr. Turner Intends tearing down the present structure and erecting a building In which he will open up a new dry goods store. Mrs. Swift said she bad nothing to say concerning the ' matter. CHANGE THEIR MINDS The suit of Mary A. Winburn against Willis Winburn for divorce and custody was dismissed in the Wayne circuit court today at the costs of the plaintiff. Lf AVE the Palladium go J with you on your vacation. Tt n cents per week. Telephone your order betorc starting. Phone 2566.

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Frank B. Kellogg, special counsel of the Department of Justice in tho prosecution of the Standard Oil company and known as the "trust buster," who, as a witness before the Stanley Steel Trust investigating committee, said that he bad for years been special counsel of subsidiary companies of the United States Steel Corporation in Minnesota, and that he had no apologies to make for it. Kellogg denied that, while acting as special counsel for the government, he had performed services for the steel corporation, but frankly stated that a fee of 115,000 for services previously performed had ; been approved by officials of the United States Steel Corporation and was paid to him in October, 1907, after he had undertaken trust prosecution for the government. RAILWAY YARDS TO BE S0UTH0F CITY C. & O. Has Definitely Decided to Locate Its Terminal at Boston, Ind. (Palladium Special) Boston, Ind., June 16. With the officers oLythe C. & O. of Indiana railway company ready to close options on a large tract of land here on which the company proposes to locate its yards and construct its repair shops, Boston residents are rejoicing over the town's good fortune. Boston now promises to be one of the real railroad centers on the great C. & O. system. All details have been worked out and the local people have heard that the company will begin to close options on the land almost immediately. The site picked out for the yards and the shops is within a short distance of the town and is one of the most ideal spots on the line. The country is level and will require only a little grading and fill work. When the actual work begins on grading the land to be purchased and constructing the shops, business here will pick up wonderfully. Residences will have to be built for tho accommodation of the railroaders and their families who will be stationed here. One hundred families are expected to locate here. There are only a few vacant houses here now. New stores will also be opened. With the money to be spent by the railroad company, and that expended in construction of new homes and opening up of new businesses. It is probable the total amount which will be invested will be close to the $100,000 mark. GOTHAM GANGSTERS MURDER AGED MAN (National News Association) New York. June 16. William Bley. an aged musician in a theater orchestra, was attacked early today by six members of a gang known as "Paddy's Market crowd" in front of 349 West Thirty-eighth street and felled to the pavement with such force that he died of a fractured skull before an ambulance could reach the place. The men accosted Bley for money and when he refused they attacked him. AMMUNITION CARS SEIZED IN SPAIN (National News Association) Madrid. June 16. Two carloads or arms and ammunition, consigned from Hamburg to Portugal for the Monarchist plotters, were seized today by the Spanish authorities upon the fronj utr. roar utiier canuaas are saia lo ihave escaped detection getting over the border into Portugal.

Campaigners for Earlham College Hope by Evening to Announce $50,000 Indebtedness Subscribed.

EXPECT TO CLOSE UP SOME BIG PLEDGES Workers Met in Morning and Started Out With Vim and Vigor Phoenix Society Gives $250. EARLHAM DEBT FUND. (Richmond) Previously Acknowledged ....$5,575 Today's Pledges 848 Today's Total ..$ 6,423 (State) Previously Acknowledged ....$38,852 Today's Pledges 170 Today's Total Grand Total $45,445. .$39,022 The Earlham debt campaign in Richmond settled down today to a tremendous effort to complete by evening, if possible, the fund of $10,000 apportioned here in the $50,000 debt-raising campaign. Counting today there are but four days .left in which to complete the fund of $10,000 and in round numbers there is $4,500 yet to be raised. At the rate subscriptions have been coming in for the last two days the fund would still be incomplete when the campaign is ended next Tuesday evening. , Tomorrow is not looked upj on as a good day for the local cam paign as both the men who are helping in the canvass and those who are to be seen are busy winding up their j business affairs for the week. On Monday they are engaged in getting their personal affairs underway for the ensuing week, and for this reason Monday holds no very bright prospects It seemed advisable, therefore to concentrate the efforts of the campaign ers today, and with this view a special meeting was held In headquarters in the Leeds building this morning. Kelly Addresses Workers. These facts were set out by President Kelly in a short address to the men, and they were impressed with the situation as presented. They entered thoroughly into the spirit of "do it today for Earlham" and started out full of enthusiasm and determination to succeed today. There was more vim and vigor in the local campaign this evening than at any other time this week. The campaigners were encouraged by the fact that several large contributions which have been under consideration for two or three days might be definitely settled and reported today. If there is no hitch and thes targer pledges are received today they, with the others that will be brought in by the campaigners, will undoubtedly give the Richmond fund the greatest boost it has yet received in any one day. And, tney will surely push the total well toward $10,000. Phoenix Society's Aid. It has been reported that the Phoenix society of Earlham has given $251.90 to the debt fund. This gift was in the form of a cancelled note and interest given by the college and held by the society. The members of the Sophomore class have already raised a fund of $258 by individual pledges and this amount may be increased. The other classes have made contributins previously, the Senior class having started the fund with $1,000. The county canvassers are today in Cottage Grove, Hagerstown, Williamsburg, Greensfork. They are working hard and expect to meet with success. STANDARD OIL WAS GIVEN A BLACK EYE (National News Association) Topeka, Kan., June 16. The Standard Oil company today is ruefully contemplating another black eye as a result of the decision of the state supreme court which- prohibits three subsidiary concerns of the company from doing business in the state to stifle competition. The defendant companies are the Standard Oil company of Kansas, Standard Oil company of Indiana, and the Prairie Oil and Gas company. It was charged that the concerns worked in combination which put a quietus on all attempts at competition. ORANGE HARRISON GIVES UP OFFICE Orange S. Harrison, elected justice of the peace on the Republican ticket at the last election, handed in his resignation to the county clerk this morning. It is to taRe effect June 30. Mr. Harrison assigns as his reason that he no longer desires the office, that it Is unprofitable and that it interferes with his other work. His court is located in the Westcott block.

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This famous comic opera will splendidly trained corps of students. SLOWLY UNCOVER HISTORIC WRECK Ten Feet of Upper Works of the "Maine" Were Made Visible Today. (National News Association) Havana, Cuba, June 16. Gen. Bixby, of the United States board of Engineers, after inspection of the work of the raising of the battleship Maine, said today that it would probably be a month before the wreck is fully exposed to view although progress is being made. So far as can be seen at present, the Maine is but a tangled mass of wreckage. "In rpffr- oT LaudioapT thc-T-prk is going forward in a most satisfactory manner," said Gen. Bixby. "The full force of the explosion was felt in the forward quarters although the afterdeck is badly wrenched and the engine room is awry. "Toward the bow little can be seen save some jagged steel under the water." Heavy rains are choking the work, causing the water to raise in the dam. It is likely that the cofferdam will be reinforced with truss work. The pumps were kept busy all night. This morning ten feet of the upper works of the main deck were visible. MRS, FORDJS DYING Her Testimony Was Too Much for Her. (National News Association) Cincinnati, O., June 16. Mrs. Jeanette Steward Ford, the "Woman in the Big Four embezzlement cases," is believed to be dying at a Cincinnati hospital as a result of her testimony in the trial of fEdward S. Cooke yesterday. Following her confession that her 6 year old daughter was the illegitimate child of Cooke, who is accused of stealing $24,000 from the railroad company, she broke down and had to be taken to the hospital. Physicians believe the shock of the confession will prove fatal. A GREWSOML RECORD 223 Murders in Chicago Since October, 1909 (National News Association) Chicago, June 16. Two hundred and twenty-three murders and three hundred and twenty-five homicides have been committed in Chicago since Oct. 22., 1909, according to a report compiled by a Chicago newspaper today. Of this big list, more than threefourths of the crimes went unpunished and the abolishment of the execution system for murderers is blamed. More than fifty of the murders were attributed to the Chicago Mafia and it is a notorious fact that not one or the real slayers las ever been arrested. Following each killing several persons are arrested and released a few days later on the plea of "lack of evidence." EXPLOSIVES CAUSE BIG LOSS AT PERU (National News Association) Pern, June 16. McCaffrey's general store and the Peru Furniture company suffered the aggregate loss of $50,000 by fire yesterday morning, which originated among the explosives in McCaffrey's basement, ' ""'..

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CAMPFIELD MAKES A REPLY TO DILL Regarding Purchase Clause in the Bid Which Campfield Submitted. In an explanation of the purchase clause of his water works proposition, E. M. Campfield, who represents a bidding company, claims that he is misrepresented by the statement of the Richmond City Water works, which was printed in yesterday's Palladium. According to Campfield the city can acquire the water works plant, under his proposition at any time. Mr. Dill's statement says that under Campfield's proposition the city cannot take over the entire company until the, $525,000 common stock is paid ,up. He says the bonds for this amount expire at the rate of $25,000 per year, and at this rate the city could not take up all the common stock for 25 years. The Campfield bill provides that by the payment of $6,000 per year, in addition to the $25,000, the city also receives the $150,000 of preferred stock of the company at the end of 25 years. "There is nothing to prevent the city's purchasing the preferred stock at any time, from the stockholders. The common stock, being non-voting and non-productive of revenue, will be placed in a trust company with bonds for $150,000 preferred stock, and in case the city should decide to purchase all the preferred stock, it would merely assume control of the company, and continue to meet its payment of $31,000 per year to the trust company holding the bonds," said Mr. Campfield. Then he added: "Of course the stockholders having the preferred stock do not have 'to sell at par unless they wish to do so. But that would be the same with the Richmond City Water Works company. Dill says that his company may be bought by the city at any time. Yes, It can be bought at any time, providing, the stockholders wish to sell, or if the city will give them enough for their stock. The idea of placing the stock in bonds with a trust company is so the common stocK can be issued to no one but the city. It will be. placed with that agreement. Whenever the city makes a payment of $31,000, gold bond certificates equal to that amount of money, will be issued to the city. Thus the interest which the company pays on the bonds, equalling $38,000 the first year, will be cut down by each payment. The $31,000 bond held by the city pays no interest. The average amount of interest which the com pany would have to pay each year during the 25 year period, is $17,000. If interest was paid the city on each bond issued the company could not operate, tne expense would De so great. When the city pays, for the common stock, the preferred stock is cancelled and must be sold by . the stockholders to the city at par. This is at the expiration of 25 years." SHOT YOUNG WOMAN AND THEN ESCAPES (National News Association) New York, June 16. While she was working in a restaurant at 363 Grand street, Williamsburgh, with her two months old baby near her today, Carnielia De Gruocia, 20 years old, was shot through the heart by a man who entered the place and asked her to elope with him. As she fell to the floor dead, the man covered George Capos and Clanguis Korkas with his revolver, backed out of the place and escaped. Charles Sorlis, proprietor of the restaurant, told the police that the man who did the shooting was John Omega, 32 years old, who is married and has two childrea. The police are huntinf him. :

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I OFFER EVERYTHING GET TURNED DOWN Traction Company Not Even Satisfied with "Compromise" Board Offered. According to County Attorney John F. Robbins there is nothing to be con sidered by the commissioners in the controversy regarding the placing of the tracks of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction company on the National road west, when the board meets Saturday. He declared it was his understanding that the compromise which it was general ly believed had only been under con sideration by the board had been of fered to the traction company and rejected. This action, he said, makes the matter rest upon the decision in the mandamus suit entered in the Wayne circuit court by the commissioner's attorneys to compel the traction company to comply with the original specification for the - improvement of the road and place its tracks beyond the south curb line of the 46 foot improvement. Attorney Robbins declared that the mandamus suit now under headway since the filing of a demurrer by the traction company attorney, would be fought out and that its termination would settle the controversy between the company and the commissioners as to where the tracks should be placed. As it was understood the board would not officially offer the compromise to the company, Attorney Robbins' statement is taken to mean that it was unofficially made known to the traction officials, resulting in their declaring that it would not be accepted by them. The commissioners at their session tomorrow will take action on the petition for an option election in Wayne township outside the city of Richmond. BIG ST.10UIS FIRE $1,000,000 Damage Done in Factory District. (National News Association) St. Louis, June 16. More than $1,000,000 damage was caused by a fire which raged all night in the heart of the factory district In St. Louis. The plants of the Huttig Sash and Door company, Flathman & Miller planing mill, Missouri Stair company, Koken Iron Works and Mound City Box company were destroyed. A crowd of 20,000 persons watched the flames all night. For a time the fire threatened to spread throughout the district bordering on the terminal yards. BANKER ADMITS HE . WAS EASY VICTIM (National News Association) Chicago, June 16. Charles L. Johnson, former member of the board of directors of the Union bank, of Chicago, and former partner of Frank G. Jones, the $500,000 forger, today admitted that he had been an "easy mark" for Jones. Johnson declared that he knew absolutely nothing of the shady operations of his partner and said he resigned from the directorate of the bank because of his chagrin at his lack of business acumen in letting the forgeries "get by" him. Jones, who admitted to forging false acknowledgements of indebtedness on big firms and releasing cash thereby, corroborated Johnson's statement that he knew nothing of the opera-j tions. ' " - -

President Benton of Miami

University Congratulates the Richmond High School on This Record. HUBERT C SMITH IS THE HONOR SCHOLAR For the Four Years He At tended High School His Grand Average in His Studies Was 97.2 Per Cent. , Congratulating the school authori ties and the people of Richmond on the fact there were 6o many young men in the high school graduating class of 1911 and that the class honors fell to a young man. President Guy Potter Benton of Miami university, Oxford, Ohio, who was the principal speaker at the graduation exercises at the high school Friday morning, said he had almost come to the conclusion that the race was developing Into intellectual and moral Amazons, on the one hand, and into intellectual and moral "ninnies" on the other. - President Benton said that it was . most unusual to find a large percentage of a graduating class composed of young men, and he declared he was glad that when he learned of conditions here he had to amend his address so as to praise the school officers and people who had made this possible. The speaker called this comment a digression from his address, but it pleased his eight hundred auditors as was attested by the geperous applause his statement received. The class, the largest in the history of the school and the first to graduate front the new high school building, consists of seventy-seven students, thirty-two of whom are boys. Although the majority are girls, , the class is much more evenly divided, as regards sex than heretofore. " To the girls, chiefly due to the greater interest they have taken in their work, has most often fallen the clas3 honors. Honor to Young Man. However, in the class of 1911 Hubert Conover Smith averaged for the four years while in school 97.2 per cent of perfection, the other high averages being Charles Edward Smith, 95.7; Miss Gertrude Acton, 95.6; MIbb Violet Elmlna Stidham, 95.08, and Miss Frederica Clare Seifert, 95 per cent. Thirty-four credits is the required number for graduation, but during their four years Roland Nusbaum, Albert Wallace Gi fiord and Hubert C. Smith made 46, 42, and 41.6 credits respectively. None of the girls made higher than 40. "Immortality" was the subject used by President Benton for his address and well did he handle it, it being the general opinion that his subject was most ciearly and eloquently expressed. Three possibilities of Immortality were enumerated: First, industry; second, adherence to purpose, and third, conviction. The laborer and the housewives, with their drudgery, and not the scions of the Goulds, the Vanderbilts and others with their divorce scandals and whose vocations are golf, social attainments and cruising, are the ones who really enjoy life, in President Benton's opinion. Not the examples of the wealthy, but those of Jesus Christ, Moses, Washington, Gladstone and others were held up to the graduates 'for emulation. Diplomas Are Given. Presentation of diplomas was made by Principal I. E. Neff ; invocation and benediction pronounced by the Rev. J. F. Radcltff e. pastor of the First M. E. church, and the graduating program featured by several musical selections rendered in most pleasing manner. The numbers by the Richmond high school orchestra included an overture, "Light Cavalry," by Suppe, and "Edris and Hyperion (a legend) by Grunewald. Misses Helen Nicholson and Helen Jameson gave a piano duet, "Le Reveil d'Amour." by Moritr Moskowski; Roland Nusbaum rendered a violoncello number composed by Mozart, and another by Verdi; Miss Arleen Shreeve gave a soprano solo, "Joy'of the Morning," by , Harriet Ware and Miss Marguerite Hasemeier a violin solo in two parts. , The class roll is as follows: Gertrude Acton, Howard B." Ashley, Martha Marie Brown, Norman Arthur Brown, Blanche-, Leo Bayer, Ruth Ann Bradley, Esther Beatrice Beck, Charles Buell, Myrtle Glendyl Comer, Edythe Cory. Earl Rutherford Cotton, Lewis Craighead, Joseph R. Darnell, Lillian Bliss Dean, Charlotte Catherine (Continued on Page Six) THE WEATHER STATE Showers tonight and Satyr day.. Warmer tonight. LOCAL -Thunder showers tonight and Saturday. Warmer tonight east portion.