Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 266, 2 August 1911 — Page 1

MIC TP A X A TDTTTM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS, VOL. XXXVI. NO. 266. RICHMOND, IND.t WEDNESDAY EVENINO, AUGUST 2, 1911. CO, EDUCATORS TO ' HEED COMPLAINTS DISCOVER PLOT TO REESTABLISH 01 A f AS MEXICAN RULER ORIGINATOR OF THE UNDERWOOD GIVES LIE TO BRYAN III THE HOUSE TODAY TAXING VALUE OF COUNTY LAUD WAS INCREASED 4 PCT, Champion of American Husbands DES MOINES MARKET

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flVladerist Arrests 300 Conspirators in States of Nuej vo Leon and Sinaloa ! Soldiery to Front.

! CUBAN REVOLT IS LACKING PRESTIGE fHaytians Force President Simon to Disembark For- . eign Property Loss in Hayti, Enormous. (National Neva Association) i MEXICO CITY, Aug. 2. A plot to ) recall former President Porflrio Diaz and re-establish him as dictator of Mexico In the event of a cabinet crisis, has been discovered and many arrests are being made. The conspiracy is said , to have been hatched in the states of i Nuevo Leon and Sinaloa where 300 artreats have been made to date, the I most of them In the capital cities of (Montgomery and Culiacan. The Maderists are taking ' strong 'measures against the counter revolution which followed the announcement 1 of Oen. Bernardo Reyes candidacy for 'the presidency. Forty-live, hundred Maderlst soldiers have established permanent camps In the states of Guerrero, Jalisco, Oaxaca and Campeche, strongholds of the new uprising. Reports of disorder caused by starvation are coming In constantly at Hultzllac, state of Morelos, soldiers looted the town, getting 15,000 pesos with which to get food. Announcement Is made that Minis ter of the Interior Vasquez Gomez, a Mederlst, Intends to resign and that his place will be filled by Manuel Cal- . ero. CUBAN SITUATION. HAVANA, Aug. 2. The government Is taking energetic measures to prevent any serious outgrowth of the uprising headed by . General Acovedo, . a veteran of the war of 1905, who start ed a revolt in protest against the alleged graft In" the Gomez administration. ' Acovedo has but few followers and very little prestige. Administration officials say that unless others in large numbers join in the revolution, nothing serious will develop out of it. HAYTIAN3 8UCCEEO. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haytt, Aug. 2. The success of the revolution is complete. The departure of President Simon on assurance that his departure will be protected' by American warshps, will remove the last mark of the old government. ' The jails are filled with political prisoners, who are . treated with the greatest brutality. Exiles are Becretly entering the capital, awaiting a chance for pillage. The British warship Melpomene and the United States cruiser Des Moines, are ready toland marines to protect are ready to land marines to protect troops enter the capital. The feeling against foreigners is very strong. The' property of American railroad builders at Cape Aux Palx has been destroyed including sawmills, and their mules stolen. The national railroad company of Hayti has entered a claim against the government, for between $70,000 and 1100,000 damages for Interference. COUNTY BOARD TO VIEW THE BRIDGES Annual inspection of the bridges in fthe county on the part of the county 'commissioners began on Wednesday. ! There perhaps will be several bridges replaced, new ones built over fords, land repairs to old ones made in 1912, and on this inspection the cotumisjsioners and the bridge engineer will .estimate the cost of these Improvements. The board probably will apMiwiMUta lnA AAA airain Vt J 4 taw fv,vvv agaiu aji kJl IUU work In 1012. Because the board does not believe fit can go over this expense each year, this precludes the construction of perhaps more than four new bridges. Repairs to the old bridges must be kept up and with the money expended on jnew structures the appropriation will bo exhausted. FINED FOR DRUNK t At 2 o'clock this morning. Jim (Holmes was arrested by Patrolmen Longman and Little at Twelfth and North E streets on the charge of drunk. He was taken to police headquarters in a wagon, used as a pa- , trol.- A fine of $1 and costs was Imposed on Holmes in police court this tnorning. STRUCK BYACAR A team of horses driven by Joe Wallace, teamster for Charles Piehl. was truck by the 5:45 o'clock city car, at Seventh and Main streets last evening. As the car was running at a slow rate of speed the animals were not seriously injured. The driver was not jfajured.

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Mayor Hanna of Des Moines, Iowa, who originated the idea of a municipal market, which has met with such success in his city. The cost of living in Des Moines has been lowered forty per cent by the new scheme. The farmers drive in with their loads of provisions and camp in City Hall Park where, they sell their goods far cheaper than the retail stores of the city. Were this thing to be done in every city the food trust would soon have to go begging. HEALTH REPORT OF JULY WAS UNUSUAL Despite Terrific Heat, Death t Rate Was Normal and Contagion . Scarce. , With the filing of the city health report today, Dr. T. Henry Davis, city health officer, said he was exceptionally pleased with the fine showing made by the health department during the month of July. Without exception last month was one of the hottest Richmond has experienced for many years and not a single death was recorded as due to the heat. During the month there, were 26 deaths while the number of births was 44. There was very little contagion In the city. In speaking of the cause for such a small number of cases of contagion Dr. Davis says it is due to the fact that nearly all the houses of the city have sewer connections, and use city water. There are residents who have ground wells which are always a source of contagion. The only thing which cannot be commended about the city is the disposition of garbage. Citizens of the city, it claimed are not particular enough and there are many complaints, but with the additional wagon the city has just purchased. the situation is much improved now. The report for the month is as fol lows: Births. 44, male 22; female 22. Deaths, 26; male 17 female 9. Diseases Typhoid fever, 4; meas les, 6; diphtheria, 2; scarlet fever, 1. NO DECREASES MADE By the Pennsylvania in Its Working Forces. A careful canvass of the railroad situation reveals the facts that with few exceptions the Pennsylvania lines of the Southwest system is about the only road In the middle west which is not cutting down its forces. In fact it is the only one in the central section of the United States to increase the pay of its employes. On the first of July the salary of all block station telegraph operators was increased from two to five dollars on the month. The New York Central, the Big Four and other subsidaries of the New York Central lines have let out nearly one thousand men. As is the general practice the railroads gather together every year large forces of men in the . spring and summer months to lay steel and do ballasting, put in ties, and other needed roadbed improvements. This work is generally finished immediately after the Foutrh of July, and then the working forces are decreased. Some of the economies being practiced by the railroads at the present time is astonishing, but they are keeping down expenses to the ' lowest notch. Students of railroads aver that if all railroads could save one quarter of the coal being used at the present time they would more than break even with what they have lost be adverse freight rate decisions of the commerce, commission.

Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee Says Bryan's Charges Against Him Are Falsehoods.

GIVEN AN OVATION FOLLOWING ATTACK Even Republicans Cheered Alabama Man and Shook His Hand He Defends Course on Steel and Iron. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. Arising to a question of personal privilege in the house today Representative Underwood, chairman of the ways and means committee, denounced as an ab solute falsehood the statement made by William Jennings Bryan that Underwood had stood in the way of a revision of the iron and steel schedules. Underwood received one of the greatest ovations ever accorded a member of the house, as it was fully two minutes before he was allowed to continue his denunciation of Bryan. Amid cheers from the Democrats, Underwood declared he had told the ways and means committee he was ready to take up the iron and steel schedules at the beginning of the session but the committee voted to take up wool and cotton first. Not Out With Bryan. Underwood also denied that he and Speaker Clark were out of tune regarding legislation, as alleged by Bryan. "When I brought out the free list bill Bryan did not accuse me of being a protective Democrat. Not until I differed with him on the wool schedule, not until I refused to take his dictation as to the duty on raw' wool did Mr. Bryan bring his charges against me," said Underwood. Underwood then called upon Representative Kitchen of North Carolina to stand up and - tell the house whether he had upbraided Underwood in the caucus and accused him of protecting the iron and steel industry as charged by Bryan. Kitchen stood up and said, "Bryan is a badly misniformed man when he is talking about publicity of caucus action. He ought to make public the name of his informer." When Underwood concluded Republicans and Democrats applauded and marched up and shook his hand. It was a remarkably dramatic scene. HENRY KEMPER DEAD Well Known Man Victim of Liver Disease. Henry George Kemper, a well known resident, and for many years employed in the machine room of the Starr Piano company factory as a machinist died Tuesday afternoon after an illness dating back about three months. Death was due to liver trouble. The decedent was 60 years old. The funeral will be held on Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the de cedent's home, 404 South Fourth street, where he died, and at 2 o'clock at St. John's church, Seventh and South E streets. The Rev. A. J. Feeger, pastor of the church, will officiate. Burial will be in Lutherania cemetery. Friends may call any time, on Thursday afternoon or evening. The surviving relatives include the widow, Mrs. Anna Kemper; a son, Alvin A., advertising manager of the Palladium, Miss Emma, who made her home with her parents, and Mrs. Ada Studybaker of Dayton, Ohio; four grandchildren, children of Mrs. Studybaker; a broth er, John Kemper of this city, and a sis ter, Mrs. August Rost of Indianapolis. About three months ago Mr. Kemper was taken ill and from that time on was confined to his home. His condition was regarded by the attending and consulting physicians as very grave from the first. His condition during the past week was most critical. His splendid physical condition, particularly his heart and lungs, enabled him to ward off the encroachment of the disease for a time. Mr. Kemper was born in Richmond. He had resided here his entire life. GATES IS EASIER, BUT STILL WEAK (National News Association) PARIS, Aug. 2. John W. Gates was resting easy this afternoon but was very weak. Kidney trouble which has been absent for several days returned today. POSTMASTER DROPS DEAD ON WEDNESDAY (National News Association) BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. Aug. 2. Postmaster Joseph H. Montgomery dropped dead at the courthouse this after Uioon. . " .

Improved, but Unplotted Lands in Wayne County Are of the Average Taxing Value of $42.63 Acre.

WAYNE HIGH UP IN APPRAISEMENT LIST Farming Land in Wayne County Ranks High, but It Is Not the Best in the Sixth Cong. District. Ordinarily counties in the state with the highest valuation placed on unplotted but improved lands increased in a greater per cent than the same kind of lands did in counties with a low valuation, according to a report submitted by the auditor of state. Wayne county is high up in the list, but there are many others where a greater gain in taxing value was indiacted. Improved but unplotted lands in this county are of the average taxing value of $42.63 which is a gain of 4.3 percent over the valuation placed on these same landsat the quadrfennial assessment of real estate in 1097. Lands and their improvements in this county are now taxed for $10,640,560. Lands exclusive of the improvements are taxed for $8,488,700 or on an average of $34.30 an acre. In making the assessment this spring the township assessors and their field men did not increase the value of improvements percept! bly, but the increase on the lands alone averaged about 9 per cent over the assessment of four years ago. Mortgage Exemptions The mortgage exemptions in Wayne county for 1911, aggregate $973,000, or approximately $40,000 more than in 1910. The state board found the average appraisement per acre for lands in the state to be $31.22, which does not include reports on appraisement val ues in Marion and Delaware counties, as these have not been reported. The average per cent of increase for eighty-one counties is 9.5 per cent. There were nine counties showing a decrease in assessment valuation, including Dubois, Floyd, Fountain, Gib son, Montgomery, Putnam, Steuben, St. oseph and Ripley. The percentage of decrease in Ripley- county was 16.5 per cent. The valuation per acre be ing fixed at $15.22 per acre this year. Lands in none of these nine counties are assessed as high as in Wayne Wayne county. While the assessment value of lands does not represent the market value, yet in each county the appraised value of lands in comparison to the market value is very nearly the same or forty-five per cent. Counties topping Wayne in appraised value of lands and therefore in the market value, with the average appraised value per acre are as follows: Appraisement Values. Benton, $56.25; Boone $51.72; Clinton 52.85; Grant, $45.92; Hamilton, $47.90; Hancock, $51.21;. Henry, $47.31; Howard, 49.38; Johnson, $49.66; Madison, $49.76; Rush, $46.85; Shelby, $48.99; Tipton, $49.81; Vanderburg, $42.93; Vigo, $46.36; Wayne $42.62; and Lake $79.93. Cheapest lands in the state will be found in Brown, Crawford, Martin and Perry counties with an appraised value of per acre of $6.45, $5.93; $9.70, and $6.48 respectively. The greatest percentage of gain in the state was 43.1 percent in take county where lands are now assessed at $79.93 per acre. Wayne county is not in a poor farming belt, though some sections of it contain poor land. It is not the richest forming county Jn the Sixth district by any means. Hancock, Henry, Rush and Shelby top Wayne county by several dollars per acre on the assessed value. THROWN INTO LIME; ASKS, FOR DAMAGES Damages in the sum of $500 from the Pennsylvania railroad company are asked by Henry Tieman for injuries received on June 11, when assisting in unloading a car load of lime at the Mather Bros. Co. switch on North F street. The complainant avers that he was ordered into the car by the yard foreman and that the switching crew of the Pennsylvania railroad, on whose switch the carload ef lime was located, ran another car or engine into the lime car. He was thrown violently in the lime and declares he sprained his right knee and had the ligaments torn loose. Since the accident, he avers, he has, been unable to work because of the injuries. LI A VE the Palladium go I with you on your vacation. Ten cents per week. Telephone your order betore starting: Phone 2566.

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Madame Karin Michaelis, the Danish authoress visiting in this country, ' who declares that American husbands are neglected and are not appreciated. American women are selfish, she declared. "Observe the multitude of American women following their own selfish pursuits," she continued. "The suffragists shouting for equal rights, and the pleasureloving wife and daughter going on vacations whjle husband stays at home and works. And look at the great army who prefer a 'career to a husband, and you see a neglected and unappreciated man."

MAYOR RELEASES A NEGROJTO PAROLE Was Held 500 Days in Connection with H. Dayton . Disappearance. The story of the mysterious disappearance of Henry Dayton, a white resident of the north end of the city, was revived again on Wednesday when Mayor Zimmerman ordered re leased on parole, Joseph Snyder, colored, whom he sent to the county Jail for 500 days, in March for chicken thefts, thus affording the police opportunity of learning if Snyder was implicated. Dayton has not been heard from and the police are inclined to the theory that no man could have so suddenly disappeared, especially . a man in Dayton's circumstances, unless he was murdered. However, there is not evidence to substantiate such a belief, except that Dayton was in the habit of carrying a fairly large sum of money with him. Snyder was a suspect. Since in the jail he has done nothing which would, compromise him. He has instead been, most helpful at the county jail, on several occasions conquering insane who have attacked the turnkey and prisoners. ; Since March 7 Synder has not been from behind four brick walls and the most of the time in the interior of the jail. Because of the suspicions of the police, he never was made a trusty, except on the inside of the jail. In case of future good behavior Snyder will be allowed his freedom indefinitely. AD MEIIATB0ST0II Four Days' Convention Being Held at the Hub. (National News Association) BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 2. Nearly three thousand delegates, represent ing practically every important city in the United States and in Canada, and a delegation from London, England, were gathered at historical Faneuil Hall today, when the seventh annual convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of America opened its four day's session there. Among the delegates are many noted advertising manufacturers, publishers, agents, bill-posters, etc, all of them interested in the subject of advertising. To accommodate the delegates twelve halls and the Boston Opera House have been engaged by the Pilgrim Publicity Association of this city, which is the host of the gathering. The convention program includes business sessions, of a general ifiture. special departmental sessions, a public meeting at the opera house, excursions and picnics and a closing banquet at Symphony hall on the evening of August 4, - - "

WIFE PROTECTS -RRUTAL HUSBAND Mrs. Fred Kofski Refuses to Prosecute Husband After Severe Beating.

To the charge of public intoxication Fred Wofuki, who was arrested last evening by Patrolman Menke, after having mercilessly beaten his wife at their home, 36 South Sixth street, entered a plea of not guilty in police court this morning. Owing to the fact that two of the prosecuting witnesses were not present the case was postponed until tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock. It Is alleged that Kofski, who is a plumber In the employ of Waking and company, has been in the custom of becoming beastly intoxicated and of cruelly beating his wife until she would fall prostrate to the floor. Dreadful screams,' coming from the Kofski residence would cause the neighbors to notify the police but as his wife has absolutely refused to file an affidavit of any kind' against her - - husband the police have been powerless and Kofski has escaped the penalty of the law. The state laws protect Kofski inasmuch as police cannot arrest a man for such an offense without an affidavit signed by the victim. Last evening the police were called to the Kofski home by neighbors who declared that the man was brutally abusing his wife. According to the police Kofski .was arrested on South Sixth street, but Kofski asserts that he was not arrested on the street and that consequently - he cannot be convicted of the charge. When asked to file an affidavit against her husband on the charge of assault and battery Mrs. Kofski steadfastly declined. It is alleged; that Kofski is fully aware of his-wife's devotion to him and of his immunity.' - - EXPRESS COMPANIES MUST REDUCE RATES National News Association) WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. Express companies were given an order by the interstate commerce commission under the long and short haul clause, prohibiting the charging of lower rates from producing to consuming points, than from intermediate places. Tariffs must be curtailed by February 1. - . SB . i ,pp THE WEATHER STATE Probably local showers night and Thursday. toLOCAL Cloudy with showers tonight and Thursday; not much change , in temperature.

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nations and Reports of i Students in County .High! Schools to Be Kept. . ' GRADUATES UNABLE TO TAKE UP WORK Turned Out from CommonSchools Without Necessary Education to Enter! Colleges, Is Claimed. Heeding' the complaints ot Indiana? colleges to the state board of education that graduates of the certified and commissioned high schools in manjr, parts of the state were not properly; equipped to enter college work, county superintendent C. O. Williams, of Wayne county, Ernest Black of Delaware county, H. B. Roberts,' of Henryj county and . Lee Driver of Randolph' county met on Tuesday with Prof. Roberts at New Castle and took action to comply with the state board's requirements. , The colleges complained that them were hundreds of students entering each year who had their high school' diplomas but evidently were not yet " prepared for college life. On inquiring for the records of these students of the county superintendents of the counties from which they came, the colleges were unable to get any information which was satisfactory. This condition ot affairs was reported to thes state board and it in return cen sured the county superintendents. Offered an Excuse. ; . The latter declared they were excused from keeping records on file of the students who graduated from commissioned and certified high schools in their counties by former state superintendent R.' J. Aley. The excuse did not set well with the state board aad consequently tha . superintendent -of Wayne, Henry, Randolph and Delaware counties determined to organize an association of their own and thus help each other in the discussion of school matters. These four superintendents each have jurisdiction over about the same number of schools and pupils. Hereafter each of these superintendents will keep the record of graduates and will have a uniform system of examinations and reports. There are three certified and three commissioned high schools in Wayne county, ' the commissioned schools being Fountain City, Williamsburg and Greensfork and the certified high school, White water and Milton. ; ! Teachers Announced. . Township Trustee - William Brown. of Green township, on Wednesday reported to the county superintendent the employment of the following teachers for next year: Williamsburg, George Hanlin, superintendent; Margarita Button, principal. Stella' Colvln, Elam Alexander. Bessie Mead-' ows and Helen E. Helms in the grades; Marie Pegg. teacher of district school No. 2, and Mabel King teacher in the joint township school In GreenThere are about twenty pupils in this joint township school. ten being from' New Garden township. Henri Kampehas been employed as Instructor of music, t v- " -;" ... ; : ' Center township trustee, James Harris, on Wednesday announced . the teachers who would serve under him this year to be as follows: District No. 2, Callie Tremps, No. 4 Forest Kempton, No. 5 Ruth Tremps, No. 6, Cora Cook, No. 7 Ethel Harris, No. 8 Olllo Castetter, No. 9 Mabel Aschbacber and Miss Nellie Jones, instructor in music and drawing. ; ' LOCAL EAGLES GOING To Attend. National Meeting at Frisco. There will be a large flock of local Eagles to attend the National convention which is to be held in San Francisco, August 21-28. A big time is be-. ing planned, and It is expected that fully 100,000 visitors will be in atr tendance from .all parts of the United States and Canada. The business of the convention will be a secondary affair, for the aeries of San Francisco are arranging a festival, carnival and -jubilee which will eclipse any former gathering of the order. The festival win be entirely a California affair In spirit, the pageantry and special events being reproductions -of the pioneer; days 'of '49 with the vivid descriptions of Bret Harte as the setting. ; "Roaring Camp." immortalized by Harte. will he established as one of the bis features of the carnival and of all of Bret Harte's leading characters will introduce themselves, represented by the ' Eagles of San Francisco. A his; old fashioned barbecue in which whole beeves will be roasted, will be held on the 'beach. Extensive plans for illumination and carnival decorations hare beenmadav;