Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 219, 16 June 1911 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AXD SUX-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, JUXE 16, 1911.

PORTLAND TANGLE TO BEJIRAVELED Quarrel Over Postoffice Site in Indiana City Is Nearing an End.

COAST STATE FETES Celebrate Opening of a Great Reservoir.

(Palladium Spwlal) Washington. June 16. Assistant Secretary Robert O. Bailey, of the treasury department expects to settle the matter of the Portland postoffice site before the end of this week. The indications at prewnt are that this long drawn out fight will be won by Representative Adair, who recommended that a site offered to the government by his brother be taken. Following the usual course in such cases the department after bids for the site were opened, tent an inspector to look over the three offerings and report on the most desirable one. The Inspector reported that a site offered by the estate of the late N. D. HawkIns and other owners was the most desirable. This report was made by Major Brackett, one of the treasury department's oldest Inspectors, a man who has been In the service since the days of President Harrison and has probably reported on more building sites than any other Inspector ever sent out by the government. Representative Adalr'a brother had offered a site and it was classed as the second most desirable in the competition. Besides the price of the Adair site was higher than that of the others offered. But Representative Adair was dissatisfied with the report of the Inspector and entered his protest declaring that the Portland citizens wanted the Adair site. The treasury department was on. the point of closing with the Adalrs for the site offered by them and the papers passing title were actually drawn up when a protect was Hied with the department by Morton 8. Hawkins, of Indianapolls, son of N. B. Hawkins. He took the ground that the department should follow the recommendations of its special agent as a matter of good faith wrlth bidders. Too Much Courtesy. Mr. Hawkins came to Washington with other citizens of Portland and made his protest in person. He was told that it was a courtesy extended by the department to allow a member of congress to dictate where a public building should be located if the construction was to be in his home town. Mr. Hawkins thought this was carrying the matter of official courtesy too far and said so. As the result of his earnest protest a second Inspector was sent to Portland. This man was Col. Low, chief of a division in the supervising architect's office and one of the oldest and most experienced of lnpecotrs. He made a persona) Investigation of the sites offered and reported In favor of the Hawkins site as the most desirable and placed the Adair site third In the list of those offered. In point of desirability. When

this report was laid before Represent-1 alive Adair he was very mad and de-i

clared that he would wreak several kinds of vengeance on the treasury officers if they did not take his brother's site. The house of representatives Is Democratic and Mr. Adair is a Democrat and a leading factor in the house. The treasury officers manifestly stood in awe of him. They tried to reason with him on the basis of the two adverse reports of the inspectors but he would listen to but one solution of the matter and that was to take the site offered by his brother regardless of what the Inspectors reported. Then the treasury offlctals held their breath. The matter semmed hung up Indefinitely. Finally Assistant Secretary Bailey, who came Into office after the controversy arose decided to investigate the matter personally. Mr. Bailey has had no experience In public building matters. In fac he wae an Associated Press reporter when Secretary McVeagh appointed him private secretary and later advanced him to be assistant secretary to succeed Mr. Hilles. But Mr. Bailey thinks he knows a. public building site when he sees one. Mr. Bailey went to Portland incog, and came back with the conclusion that Representative Adair's site Is far and away the best and he is unable to understand how the treasury inspectors found otherwise. But he believes the price high.

And he has concluded that if Mr. Adair will reduce the price of his brother's site to that of the Hawkins site he will accept the congressman's brother's land. Whereat Mr. Adair smiles. This may not end the matter for some of the other bidders are disposed to ask the Democratic house which is investigating so many matters to give a hearing to the Portland ease and ascertain Just how far a congressman may go In a matter of that kind. There is a long political struggle back of the site controversy and a touch of pathos. N. B. Hawkins, formerly a senator in the Indiana legislature waa . the Republican nominee for congress against Adair in 1908, and was defeated. That has not served to soften the animosities of the fight. While Mr. Hawkins was making the rounds of Portland gathering signers to a petition for his site he dropped dead. His son then took up the fight. The Portland postoffice site may be settled this week so far as the treasury department is concerned. It will probably be many a day before the Klghth district will hear the last of it. It is likely to play a part in the future politics of the district. Senators Shivcly and Kern have backed Mr. Adair in his demand that his brother's site be taken.

(National News Annotation) Orland. Cal., June 16. Orland 13 holding a two days' carnival and Jubilee to deliberate the opening of the United States government's reclamation reservoir installed here to irrigate 11,000 acres in the Orland unit district In tllenn county. The festivities were ushered in this morning with the crowning of the carnival queen, followed by a streit pageant and a program of speeches. Other parades, importing contests and carnival attractions will carry the celebration over tomorrow. Many visitors are here from the surrounding country. The great East park reservoir, in honor of the opening of which the celebration is being held. Is 26 miles In circumference. The reservoir s created by a dam across Stony Creek. The dam Is 249 feet long, 93 feet high and 86 feet thick at the base, and contains a total of 321.000 cubic feet of concrete. The water from the reservoir la to be distributed over 14,000 acres of land by means of a system of canals more than 100 miles in length. The entire project cost $650,000, which sum was advanced by congress.

HONEYMOON BEING SPENT IN HOSPITAL Chicago, June 16. The strangest honeymoon on record is being spent in Chicago. The bride occupies a cot In the Washington Park hospital, the groom occupies a cot in room 45 of the same Institution, while the parson who married them is being wheeled about in an invalid's chair. The best man at the wedding, with the assistance of the two nursebridesmaids, performed operations on all three of them. A white lacquered hospital stand was the improvised altar, beside bride lay on a cot and the bridegroom reclined on an operating table. William Ringland, the bridegroom, was recently taken to the hospital after being smasned badly In a motorcycle-automobile colllssion. Miss Rose Spooner, his fiancee, was stricken with appendicitis a few days later and taken to the same hospital. Rev. O. S. Ohsiund, who performed the ceremony, was convalescing from an operation for appendicitis. Dr. H. N. Bundeson, who operated upon all of them, and Misses Gruel and K. Atkinson, nurse-bridesmaids, assisted In operations and wedding.

CHARGES INFORMER WITH MURDER

democratic wool schedule: unjust Longworth Sees Injury to the Grower and Manufacturer by Proposed Change.

(National News Association) Washington, D. C, June 16. Declaring the Democratic wool bill is "founded on total ignorance" and that "it is improperly drawn," Representative Longworth, of Ohio, attacked the Underwood measure In the house today. His speech was the opening gun of the debate. Longworth said that it is no wonder the newspapers are paying so little attenti?n to the debate on the wool schedule, since the Democratic plan has been cut and dried and there Is no possibility to defeat the bill in the house. Longworth criticised the Democrats for not wanting a report of the tariff board before attempting the revision of the woolen schedule. He also scored Speaker Clark and Representative Underwood, because, he said, they had permitted a filibuster to kill a permanent tariff board bill in the closing days of the last session. Iongworth declared that it is admitted that schedule "K" of the Payne law is not perfect but he asserted that the Democratic bill Is even worse than the Payne bill and that it will work harm both to the growers of wool and to the manufacturer of woolen products. He characterized it is a clumsy effort "founded on vogue rumor or total ignorance." Cullop in Support. Representative Cullop, of Indiana, spoke for thirty minutes in the house today in support of the wool bill. He had a fair audience while on the floor and attacked ancient schedule "K"

with unusual vigor which called forth applause.

SUCCEEDSFERLIIIG Marshall Appoints a Terre Haute Man to State Board

NICHOLSON WILL IS FILED FOR PROBATE

By the will of the late Mary Nicholson, her estate goes entirely to her husband, Timothy Nicholson. In the palition for probate and letters filed in the Wayne probate court on Friday it is declared she left a personal estate of the probable value of $5,500.

John H. Nicholson and John H. Johnson are named executors. Bond in the sum of $11,000 was filed by them and John L. Rupe on Fridoy.

(National News Association) Indianapolis, June 16. 'Governor Marshall today appointed Robert S. Kelly of Richmond as member of the state board of education for three more years. C. I. Fleming of Terre Haute was made a menber of the State Board of Veterinary Surgeons to succeed Dr. George Ferling of Richmond. His appointments were: Trustees of Woman's Prison Mrs. Jacob P. Dunn and Mrs. Wm. J. McKee, of this city (both reappointed), Mrs. Paul Poynter of Sullivan, and Etta Hauk Ossian to succeed Mrs. Dan Waugh of Tipton and Mrs. W. Bent Wilson of Lafayette. Trustees of the Indiana Village for Epileptics L. M. Sniff, of Angola, succeeding George Nichols of Anderson. Trustees for the Northern Hospital for Insane Moses Epstein of Frankfort to succeed W. A. Morris of Frankfort. Purdue University Board of Trustees Samuel M. Foster of Ft. Wayne to succeed II. A. Miller of Montmorenci, and William V. Stuart of Lafayette to succeed Andrew A. Adams of Columbia City. On the Board of Veterinary Examiners O. R. Boor of Muncie was reappointed and Chas. A. Fleming of Terre Haute succeeds G. G. Ferling of Richmond.

SUGAR TRUST PROBE FAVORS GOVERNMENT Evidence of Watered Stock and Stifling Competition Is Brought Out.

IMPROVEMENT ASSN. TO BUILD STREET

Notice of the dedication of property owned by the South Side Improvement association in the South End for the widening of three streets and the approval of the dedication, by the board of works was filed with the county recorder Friday. The property dedicated will provide for the making of the street parallel and extending along the east right of way line of the C. & O. railroad from O street to Eighth street, 66 feet wide; and the street extending from Eighth street west of the park to Eighth street east of the park, along the east right of way line of the C. & O. railroad, 52.8 feet wide.

(National News Association) Washington, June 16. Further light on the watered stock of the American

Sugar Refining company was furnish

ed the house investigating committee

today by Henry T. Oxnard. vice presi

dent of the American Beet Sugar company, who testified how he and his three brothers cleaned up a half million in a transaction with the Havemeyer company in 1887, by selling his refinery, worth $200,000, which they had established in Brooklyn to the Havemeyer combine for $750,000 in trust certificates. When the American Sugar Refining company was formed in 1891 the Oxnards got dollar for dollar i

ing their Havemeyer stock for that of

trie American concern.

"So you got about three for one.

part of it in watered stock?" asked

cnalrman Hardwick. "That is rieht." said Oxnard. -r

think we were a little better treated

than some of those who went into the

Havemeyer combine," he continued. "I guess this was because Havemeyer wanted the Oxnard brothers in the trust, and we were glad to go in because the proposition wos inviting, and unless the beet sugar industry developed, it was not certain that we could hold up." "Exactly how much of the stock was watered?" asked Hardwick. "I can't say," was the reply. "But you got three for one," said Hardwick, "and when the trust was reorganized in 1891 your certiicates were exchanged dollar for "dollar, and

the same proportion of watered stock

Is now in the American company." "I suppose so," replied Oxnard.

230 BANKERS WERE IN DANGER ON LAKE

W, H. TAFT'S ITINERARY

(National News Association) Cleveland, June 16. Two huudred and thirty passengers, mostly delegates of the Michigan Hankers association while enroute to Niagara Falls, were tronsferred in the middle of Lake

Erie from the Steamer ""Western! States" to the Steamer "City of Clove-j land" before daylight this morning f-1 ter the "Western States" had become;

disabled and had successfully used the wireless telegraph to bring her sister ship to her side.

Fourth of July Visit to the State Is Planned.

RECIPROCITY VOTE WITHIN TWO WEEKS

Washington, June 16. Senator PenIrose, chairman of the senate finance ' ....... : t .-. .-. I . . . ...I, y i : I TV . -

at the White House that he believed a vote would be taken on the Canadian reciprocity agreement in the senate within the next two weeks.

THAT'S GRATITUDE'

After getting "well loaded," Ask K. Brooks, of the North End. took his wife's horse from the barn and soon after sold it for $20. The police say the horse was well worth $50. It will he returned to the owner. He was fined $1 and costs In police court on

I Friday morning. His wife paid his

fine.

(National News Association) Washington, June 16. After taking his family to Beverly for the summer. President Taft will leave there July 1 at night for Marion, ind., arriving there Monday morning. Monday night he will be ex-Vice President Fairbanks guest in Indianapolis, and he will spend the morning of the Fourth at. Senator Kern's home. He will view the noon parade as Senator Kern's guest. As the guest of the Railroad Brotherhood he will witness the headon collision at the Fair Grounds during the afternoon. He will attend the Marion club banquet in the evening and start for Washington on the midnight train.

SENTENCE CANADA'S FINANCLVL WIZARD

(National News Association) Montreal, June 16. C. D. Sheldon, the financial wizard, who embezzled a half million from Canadian clients, was today sentenced to five years" imprisonment. Sheldon was extradited from Pittsburg. Similar charges are pending against him in Scranton, Pa., and Brocton, Mass.

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.(National News Association) ', Cincinnati, June 16. Mrs. Mattie McDermott of Morrow, Ohio, testified in behalf of Edgar Street Cooke former Chicago broker, accused of embezzling $24,000 from the Big Four, railroad. She said that Mrs. Jeannette Ford In discussing the case with her had declared she ("Mrs. Ford") could not swear Cook had ever stolen a dollar. Mrs. McDermott boasts that it was through her efforts that Frank M. Couden of Warren county, former cashier in the customs office at Cincinnati was deposed. She testified that Couden had killed her son and through a desire for revenge she testified for Cooke, who said he would have had Couden Indicted. Couden was the informer in the Warriner embezzlement case.

$1.00 Fountain Pens Warranted non-breakable, special price lor tomorrow

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It ii planned to establish a Japanese hydroelectric company to be named the Yokohoma Sulryoku Denkl Kalsba. with. a capital of $2,500,000. It la intended to obtain power from the rapids on the upper reaches of the 8akawa river, in Kanagawa prefecture. Denver Republican.

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