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1 ... .v. . M AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVII. NO. 03. RICHMOND, IXD., SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1912. SINGLE COPY CENTS. CITY CAR TRACKS CLEARED Of SHOW CITY FOOTS BILL Street Car Company Calmly Dumps Snow on One Section of Main Street for the City to Remove. Mrs. Bacon Building Stone Wall WILD WITH FRENZY STRIKERS ROSH AT LAWRENCE POLICE Men and Women Fight Fifty Patrolmen When They Refuse to Allow 100 Children to Leave the City. F A MEDICAL STAFF IS APPOINTED FOR RICHMOND SCHOOLS SOLUTIOII TO THE TRUST PROBLEM IS . EMBODIED HI BILL Gary, Chairman of Steel Corporation, Suggests Method by Which U. S. Could Control Corporations. HUSBAIID III FIGHT OVER LITTLE ONES Jacob Moore, Armed with Divorce and Custody Decree, Makes Futile Trip Here From Hamilton, Ohio. Board of Education Last Night Decides to Provide for Medical Inspection of All Pupils.

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JT COSTS TAXPAYER FIFTY CENTS A LOAD

Main Street Kept Partially Clear of Snow the Past Thirteen Days by City at a Cost of $742.69. "Arrangements for taking the snow -off Main street? We are not making any," stated Alexander Gormon this morning in reply to a query by a Palladium reporter. A force of men employed by the company is working on Main street, from Eighth street west, shoveling the snow from the tracks and from a space on each Bide, about eighteen inches wide. The snow, by a series of deft movements on the part of the shovelers, is deposited on the street proper, where it is to be removed by the street cleaners of the city, each load of snow costing the taxpayers of Richmond about fifty cents. The city street cleaning department t an expense of $742.69 for the last thirteen days, has kept Main street partially clear of snow, at the intersections, so that ordinary travel is not Impeded. The street car company put its snow plows to work and forced enough snow off its tracks to double the work of the street cleaners. The car tracks were clean enough to Insure safe traffic after the plow had been used, but the company believed It necessary to "put on the finishing touches' with a gang of laborers. No respect for even the street intersections Is manifested, removing the snow from the car tracks being of more importance than clean passages for the passengers to and from the cars, apparently. The snow is now piled from eighteen inches to two feet in a neat ridge on each side of Main street where the shovel brigade of the traction company bas thrown It." Cltliens who cross Main street and . get their feet wet and muddy are not blaming the city street cleaning department, which has already done its duty by once cleaning the street. ENTIRE COUNTY TO BE IIIJWRAIITIIIE Unique Event in History of County Will Take Place Next Tuesday. For the first time in the history of Wayne County, the entire bounty will be placed under a rabies quarantine Cext Tuesday according to a statement iven out this afternoon by County Health Commissioner J. E. King, who 2tas Just determined to order a sixty May ban on all unmuzzled dogs in the district Dr. King has secured assurances of Cooperation from Sheriff Albert Steen and promises to wake a vigorous war t gainst stray canines. The sheriff will tart an active campaign as soon as the order goes into effect, and the Eounty officials threaten to kill large umbers of unmuzzled animals, and f rotecute the owners found violating he order. The new quarantine is without precedent' In the county. It Is the first lUme a general quarantine has ever peen placed on dogs because of hydrophobia, and is possibly the only time a general edict has been Issued for jnny disease. It Is also unique in that jit rovers a longer period than the city (order now in effect, and therefore the ttunty health department will be overriding the authority of the city officials by enforcing it. Dr. T. H. Davis, city health officer, promises that there will be no conflict on this score, for ie will support the action taken by X. King. The direct cause of the new quarantine was the receipt of a letter by lr. King today from Dr. J. P. Simonds of the state health board. Dr. Simonds reported that 'another mad dog had been found in Hagerstown, and recommended that the universal quarant'n be established. THE WEATHER ftTATERsin tonight; colder In extreme north portion tonight; Sunday, rain or snow and colder. LOCAL Rain tonight; Sunday rain or anm; colder. HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY Forecast for Richmond and vicinity, rain and warmer tonight and Sunday. Temperature in last 24 hours, S at boon, Saturday. Minimum temperature In last 21 hours. 28 at 3 a. m., Saturday. Temperature at 12:30 u. n.. today. 39. Barometer ( normal 30 Inches 130.1, falling. Direction and reloclty of wind, southeast, 2 miles an tour.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24. Mrs. P. W. Bacon, the wife of a wealthy man here has shown her skill in the building line, by way. of recreation, by building a handsome chicken coop, barn, fences and a stone wall. Outdoor work appeals to Mrs. Bacon, and the building of the coop, which she started in fun, led to her love for building other useful additions around her handsome residence. Mrs Bacon does not believe that a woman's usefulness is limited to the kitchen. Mrs. Bacon declares that outdoor work is the greatest antidote for nervous complaints common among women.

ALLEGED MURDERER OF CLUBMAN TRIED S.' R. Timothy, Chauffeur, Said to Have Killed J. J. Moore, Millionaire. (National News Association) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 24. A lively public interest is manifested in he trial of Samuel R. Timothy, the li'llsborough chauffeur who shot and killed J. J. Moore, a millionaire clubn;nn, in San Mateo January 27. A veniro has been drawn and other prepara tions competed for beginning the trial in the superior court at Redwood Citv next Monday. Mrs. Moore, widow of the slain man. is expected to be the chief witness for the defense. Several months before the tragedy Moore had sued for divorce, charring cruelty and other things, but not speci fically accusing his wife of misconduct. Mrs. Moore filed a cross-complainLask-Ing for divorce on the eround of cruel ty. The court denied a divorce to eith er. Mrs. Moore was charged with many offenses and too much familiarity with servants and others, and seri ous counter-charges were made. Timotny, tne chauffeur who is to be tried fof, murder, was one of the witnesses for Mrs. Moore. The divorce suit at tracted unusual attention because the name of Rear Admiral Thomas S. I helps, retired, was brought into the case in Moore's cross-complaint. On the night of January 27 last Moore was called to his home' by a detective whom he had employed to watch his wife, who had continued to occupy their home in Hillsborough,-a fashionable suburb of San Francisco. The husband lay in wait at the sate of the grounds and about 10:30 Timothy drove up in bis employer's machine. According to the statement of Moore beiore he died Mrs. Moore was in tne automobile with the chauffeur. Moore jumped from his place of concealment and opened Are. Timothy jumped from The car and took refuse before a tree and ired one shot. The shot struck Moore in the abdomen and he died a few hours later. The friends of Timo thy believe that he never will be con victed of . murder, especially as Moore in els dying statement admitted that he had fired the first shot. SURRENDERS AFTER FIGHTING POLICE (National News Association) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 24 Lieutenant E. V. B. Doudedore, of the Marine corps U. S. Navy, was arrested in his room Friday after a pitched battle with policemen. Fifty shots were fired without effect. The charge against Doudedore is intoxication. He defied the police to arrest him. He finally surrendered after a panic that prevailed for several hours. OPPOSE SUFFRAGE LONDON. Feb. 24. Influential support is promised, tor the great meeting: in Albert Hall next Wednesday which Is to mark the beginning of a very active campaign against the granting of voters to women. Lord Cromer will preside at the meeting and among the eminent speakers will be Lord Curxon, Lord Loreburn, Lewis Harcourt, M. P. asd Mrs. Humphry Ward.

ELSA JONES THIRD III STATEJOIITEST Earlham Orator Made Splendid "Showing- OeBauw Man Won First Place.

T. Elsa Jones, representing Earlham college in the- annual intercolle giate oratorical contest, held last -even-j ing at Tomlinson Hall at Indianapoj lis secured third place with his oration, "Co-operation and Democracy." Ralph Boll man, of DePauw, speaking !o "Brutus," and William T. Milroy, 'of Notre Dame whose subject was "A True Hero," carried off first and second honors, respectively. Jones made a deep impression with his critical and well-based arguments on his subject, which pertained to soiCial welfare and present day politics. . His delivery was most excellent and i convincing, but his manuscript was a trifle below the required standard. Prior to the opening of the contest the babble of college songs and yells was deafening. Jones was given one of the longest rounds of applause when he concluded his oration. Bollman, the winner, secured the high' honor op the merits of his accurate and well-balanced delivery of his oration. Boll man's dissertation of the meaning of a life as exemplified in that of the stalwart friend of Caesar, fraught with sincere convictions and a love of liberty, was the high point of his oratorical effort. Among the delegation from DePauw was Albert J. Beveridge, once victorious in the intercollegiate oratorical contest in this state. Ferdinand Tannenbaum, of Wabash, won fourth place; Fred E. Schortemier, Butler, fifth; J. Speed Rogers, of Hanover, sixth, and Clarence Hall, of Franklin, seventh. SMITH FAMILY IS III MAJORITY tJave 136 Branches in Richmond New Directory Is Now Out. Complete information regarding Richmond is contained in the new city directory, which has Just been Issued from the Nicholson press. The Smiths lead the list of large families for another time. There are 136 Smiths of all varieties included In the directory, not counting all the women and children. Antonio Abatantuo, a laborer on the Pennsylvania railroad living at 615 North Twelfth street, has the distinction of heading the city's population iist as set forth in the directory, while John Zwtssler still concludes it No estimate of the city's DODulallon Is given by the directory, as it has been only a short time since the last government census. '

OFFICERS CRACK A NUMBER OF HEADS

Wholesale Arrests Are Made by Police Fifteen Women Were Arrested on Other Charges Today. (National News Association) LAWRENCE, Mass., Feb. 24. A riot more serious than any which the authorities have had to handle for days resulted from the attempt to embark 100 strike children on the 7 o'clock train for Boston today. Twen ty-five men and women who had charge of the children while the little ones wer; dispersed and gruffly ordered back to their homes. When the train pulled in, a delegation of fifty police appeared suddenly and stretched along the train, blocking every approach, while more than one hundred men and women strike sympathizers attempted to board the train but were pushed aside by the police. The officers cracked several heads. Women fought and tore at the patrolmen and men made rushes at the car steps, but all were pushed back. The acting city marshal, Sullivan, who was in command, gave the signal to the conductor of the train and it pulled out, leaving the strikers and their sympathizers on the platform. The police had brought with them a big motor car truck from the Watertown arsenal. In this, under guard of policemen, those arrested were herded and two police vans were also on hand. As soon as the train had pulled out and the station platform had been partly cleared, the prisoners were bundled off to the police station and booked. - v. - '.' .V-.. City Marshal Sullivan said after the trouble was over: - "We had no militia to help us to day. That was arranged on purpose so that we might demonstrate to the world that we are able to control the strikers." William Yates, a strike leader, said: "Whether we will make another attempt to start with these children to"day, I cannot say. The police, who are sworn to uphold the law, have broken and trampled upon ' it. They have ignored our constitutional rights and we may appeal to the courts." This being but a half working day, there was but little change in the strike situation. William D. Haywood was among the crowd at the station but was not arrested. Twenty strikers, fifteen of th'em women were this morning arrested on charges of obstructing the sidewalk, intimidation and similar "offenses." The arrests took place on the Common and Essex street and in front of the Everett Mills. SAYS TAFT'S TALK WAS MISCONSTRUED Statement Issued Denounces Persons Who Misconstrued Speech. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. An official statement issued from the Whltehouse today denounced persons and newspapers who purposely misconstrued Taft's Lincolnu)ay speech. The statement follows: "Among the falsehoods that are being assiduously sccredited by persons and newspapers opposed to the president. Is one that in his Lincoln day speech the president argued that the people are not ntted for self government. President Taft said nothing upon that occasion which could possibly be tortured into that construction. The speech in which the president made reference to popular government was delivered at the banquet of the state bar association on the night of January 29th in New York. What he said on the subject, and it was correctly quoted in the newspapers the following day, was this. 'Popular government we all . believe in. There are those of us who do not believe that all people are fitted for popular government. The fact is we know they are not. Some of as do not dare Fay so, but I do, and the ' question whether a people is fitted for' popular government, so as to make that gov ernment best for that people, is de termined by the ability of the majority of that people to place upon itself the restraint by which the minority shall receive justice from the majority. It is the question of self-imposed restraint that determines whether a people is It to govern itself.'

WOMAN REFUSES TO GIVE UP CHILDREN

Moore Has Three of Children at Hamilton and Demands Custody of Three That the Mother Has. Twice thwarted in his attempts to secure three children of himself and '.vife, Mrs. Cord Moore, 75 Ft. Wayne avenue, Jacob Moore returned Thursday from Hamilton, O., his home, armed with a decree of divorce, obtained at Hamilton, which granted him the c tody of all the children, and again tried to take the three living with the mother. Three other children live with Moore at Hamilton. Mrs. Moore took the two smaller children, a girl, aged four, and a boy, aged two, to the l elice station. There the matter was explained, and an attorney for Mrs. Moore instructed her to take the children home again, as the decree was i not binding in its provisions. She did so and the same night, the father, who had visited the house several times in the day, trying to secure the children, watched the home from the street, according to the story told by Mrs. Moore. Last night another man, known to Mrs. Moore as a friend of her former hueband, watched the house, so she Mated today, biding where he thought he could not be seen. This morning Mrs. Moore stated she received a letter from her former husband, telling her that if the children were not turned over to him in a week, he would come to this city armed with documents and with the sheriff and would take the children away by force if necessary. Keeps Boarding House. For over a year, with the help of the eldest child, a daughter, aged 16, who vorks 'out, the little mother, has been supporting herself and her three chlland has been rendered desperate by the thought she might lost the little ones whom she has kept by hard work and . suffering on her part. She says she is prepared to resist to the last, any "and all attempts of her husband to secure the children. Over a year ago the couple separated, and the father took the six children to his home in Hamilton, Ohio. They remained at that place for some time, until the older daughter secretly bundled up the two smaller children and boarded a train for this city, going to the home of her mother. She toid her mother that her father had not treated her and the two smaller children right, and that she thought the best step would be' to bring them here. Mrs. Moore stated that she did not know if her husband had really secured a divorce; that If he did, it had been secured without her knowledge. and that the decree had been granted without her being notified. Will Keep Chldren. Mrs. Moore was advised by her attorney to retain possession of the children at all hazards, it being the opinion of the lawyer that the decree giver at Hamilton granting her husband the custody of the children would not hold here, as she was not notified of the proceedings, and because the children were not at Hamilton and under the father's care when the divorce was given. In addition Mrs. Moore stated that her husband since the separation, over a year ago, had not contributed a cent toward the support of herself or chil dren, and that she had worked hard to keep the little family left her. TOWNSHIP ASSESSORS Have Been Appointed by -Charles Potter. Township Assessor Charles Potter has announced the list of deputy assessors for Wayne township. They are Will Ratliff. Theraas F. Swain, A. C. Brown, Frank Goodrich, Benjamin F. Parsons, Lester Hunt. Abram S. Jefferls, Allen W. Grave, Henry J. Hiatt, David S. Reid, George Maiscb, Benjamin B. Duke, Joseph E.- Reid, Levi M. Jones, John Deitz, Addle M. Parson, Leonora Harris, Ellen N. Swain, and Albert E. BonsalL Assessor Potter has appointed John Deitz to make inventories of each piece of machinery used in factories and mills and to submit the same with the assessment to the : county board of review. ' Levi Jones will assess additional improvements. The county assessor, according to resolutions adopted at the meeting of the State board of Tax commissioners recenUy, will furnish the township assessor with an itemized list of all farm implements and machinery and the market price of each piece.' Most . of the deputies of Wayne township's - assessor this. year are - in this

TRI-WEEKLY TESTS BY THE INSPECTORS

Protest on Action of Board Expected from Christian Scientists Bramkamp and King Chosen. Medical inspection will be instituted in-all the local public schools except the high school, as a result of a decision reached by the school board at a special meeting last night. The inspections will be conducted tri-weekly by Drs. J. E. King and A. L. Bramkamp. the two examiners, and are to be started at once. According to the school board members, the ruling made by them yesterday evening was merely an inevitable step, brought about by the general progress in education, and is the climax of agitation started last summer. Public opinion, as a whole, strongly favors the inspection, but Christian Scientists and Homeopathists may give opposition if their children are forced to submit to the ruling of the school board. To Be Two Districts. The city will be divided for the inspectors into two sections. All schools east of Ninth street are to be under the jurisdiction of one inspector, while the other .will have those west of that street. The high school has been excepted because inspection is already in effect there under the physical training department. Dr. King and Dr. Bramkamp have not yet been assigned to a district, but each will have between 1,300 and 1,400 scholars under his direction. According to the board's -plans, the power of the inspectors will not , be limited to treatment of contagious diseases v As soon as convenient, the two inspectors will make a complete physical test of every pupil in the schools. This examination, which .requires include particularly tests of the eyes and throat After the first examination, the physicians will visit each school three times a week to look after all pupils either sick, or thought to be so. The complete test will be repeated every year. An important limitation on the powers of the inspectors, is that they are allowed only to send advisory reports to parents, and can not prescribe. In this way, family physicians do not lose patronage through the inspection, and parents do not have to be burdened with doctor's bills against their will. The inspectors will look for any abnormal conditions in children. Mott Much Pleased. Superintendent T. A. Mott this morning stated that the present ruling of the school authorities was one of the best steps taken by them in recent years. He points out the fact that an incredible number of pupils are unnecessarily handicapped both in growth and study by defective sight, adenoids, and other physical ills which escape the attention of the teacher, but will be noticed by an examining physician. It is Prof. Mott's opinion that the careful inspection by experienced men will save many children from suffering and failure in their studies. In outlining the history of the present movement. Dr. Johnston,' speak ing for the school board, asserts that last summer the board contemplated action of thla sort, after reviewing the marked success which medical Inspection has met , in r the schools of conti nental Europe, and for twenty years in the eastern part of the United States. Feeling that the demand of the people and of progress made the ruling Inevitable, the board finally ordered inspection. Much agitation was caused today by the announcement of the decision, in Christian science circles. Some Sclens assert that they will not submit to having their children examined by physicians. MEN AND RELIGION (Katlona.1 News Association? SAN FRANCISCO. CaL. Feb. 24. Tomorrow will mark the formal opening of the Men and Religion Forward movement campaign in Ban Francisco. The. meetings here will continue until March 3 and will be followed by a similarcampalgn in Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley. The features that bare characterized the campaign In soaay Irrge cities in the East - and mdkUe. West will be duplicated here and in addition there will be a series of special meetings in which the Chinese and Japanese residents of San , Francisco and vicinity will take part. - IN PROBATE COURT t The report of Robert F. Callaway. commissioner - in the , , matter of r the complaint of Nancy O. Doian, admin istratrix of- the estate of Andrew J, Lyons, versus Effle Gibsoar et al for partftioav and sale of decedent's snare for Bayssent of debts of

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SENATE COMMITTEE WILL CONSIDER IT

Some Radical Clauses in the Measure, One Being the Fixing of Maximum Prices on Commodities. (National News Association)' WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. Solution of the trust problem through the control of corporations by the United States is embodied in a bill drawn up by E. H. Gary, chairman of the billion dollar United States Steel Corpora- ' tion, which has been submitted by Invitation, to the senate committee on interstate and foreign commerce. The committee is expected to give consideration to the measure soon and may . make a report on it during the present session of congress. , j ; , There are radical clauses in the measure, the most Important 'one being the authorisation of the government corporations commission 'to 'fix a maximum price on commodities sold' by any corporation holding a federal license. 4 The measure, which Is designated as a' bill for control of interstate in- : dus trial corporations other than com- l mon carriers, is an elaboration of the" ideas expressed by Judge Gary when he was a witness before the commit- -tee. The salient features are the following: 4; ...... Establishment of a corporation commission to supervise corporations! ',- . The Issuance by the government ef :- oerttflcates of license. . Annual reports from corporations to the commission on the condition of business, with' heavy , penalty for -aoiKKsnptlaaee. v " , r" - - "f , ' ' -The , flla wxlma prtew f , commodities By the cxnamioa.T!r ' hlbition of any corporation controUtns; fifty per cent 'or more of the boat- ' ness in which it' is engaged in the V. S. from acquiring further property of the business or any other corporation engaged in a pursuit of similar charao- " ter. , , , ' ; ;- ' " Forfeiture of license of any corporation found guilty of attempting to re-; strain trade or strangle competition. ! Decisions of the-corporation commission shall be'subject for review by the court of commerce or by the federal district court. . The commission may hold bearings v such as those of the present interstate , commerce commission. Judge Gary's bill provides that the commission shall be made up of three members appointed by the President of the United 8tatea with th iymium ' of the senate, each member to receive a salary of 110.000 annually It further provides that any licensed corporation failing to make an annual report may be fined $100 for each day that, the report Is in arrears. Special , re- -ports may be called for by the commissioners. Only 'corporations of 110,000,000 capitalization or over are to come under the regulation of the commission and none doing a basiling business shall be licensed. COMPLETES AHSWER : TO THE GOVUS Roosevelt Will Announce .His Position, the First ? of the Week. (National News Aseoclatlen) NEW YORK. Feb. 24.Havln pleted the draft of his answer to the

eight western governors who met recently in Chicago and drew op a memorial urging him to announce his no- -eition relative to the presidential nomination, CoL Theodore Roosevelt left New York this morning for a five day , invasion of New England. Men who are politically close to the ex-president declare bis trip Is an invasion, while -he, In turn, asserts that bis Journey !' has no political significance. In Boa- -ton the' former president will be the . guest of Speaker Cashing of the Mas eachnsetts house of , representatives; and ft is expected while there be will ' be visited by several leaders - of the ' " ' progressive movement in New", EttflK.land. Efforts have also been made to induce him tor visit Coward; K. H, , where the chief exponent of progre fcive ideas Is Governor Robert Baa " This afternoon CoL Roosevelt wl3 '

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