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EERS OF COUNTY TELL OF OLD DAYS (interesting Narratives of Deer and Bear Hunts Heard at Old Settlers' Picnic Last Saturday. iRECALL TIME WHEN INDIANS WERE HERE Ljames Martindale Was Playmate with Indian Boys and Learned to Speak Tongue of Tribe. (Palladium Special) CENTER VILLE, Ind., Aug. 19 Not Btaid historical facts and the data drawn from the historian's chronicle, but thrilling anecdotes from the biographies and lives of pioneers, stories of bear and deer hunts, and anecdotes of the lives of the pioneers of Wayne county, held the attention of the hundreds who thronged to the nfty-third annual picnic of the Old Settlers' association held here last Saturday. The visitors evidently were satisfled to know that the historians of the county had chronicled faithfully the events that made for the history of the county and the district, and they were eager and on the alert to hear what the sons and grandsons had to recount about the lives of their forefathers. The address of Judge Henry C. Fox of the circuit court, who began his study of law in Centerville in 1854 with George W. Julian, was replete with episodes of the lives of some of the noted early lawyers of the Wayne county bar. Daniel Drooks, o Liberty, was the oldest person attending the picnic. He said he was born near Abington, July 13,1820, and that his parents came to this county from Virginia in 1812. Fled To Block Houses. "Many Indians," he said, "harassed the settlers, and frequently danger from the natives became so oppressing that the settlers had to take refuge in; the block houses along the river. Wild turkeys and deer were plenty ' and not " infrequently " bears would come out of the woods into the clearings oJ"the settlers. We made many trips to Cincinnati, over rough roads, with barrels of flour and returned with barrels of salt to trade with the Indians. My parents planted peach seeds as soon as they had cleared several acres for an orchard, and by the time I was a boy the trees were bearing fruit. We made brandy of the peaches and traded it for commodities on the Ohio river." James Martindale, born in Greensfork, which was named after the Miami Indian chief, John Green, was a playmate of the Indian boys of that tribe. He learned the customs of the Indians and was able to converse with them. At the age of fifteen he made his first trip to Cincinnati. He helped transport dry goods for a store at Greensfork, and also helped In the transportation of coke for a foundry at Hagerstown. Nathan Modlin, born December 23, 1827, in Wayne county, entertained the descendants of the pioneers with stories of the trips he made with a four-horse team to Cincinnati. His first trip was made via Eaton and Hamilton. He almost lost his life, he said, in the high waters of the Miami river. His father crossed the Allegheny mountains in a one-horse wagon. Joshua Mackey, a native of Preble county, Ohio, where he was born in' December 1829, said that he was interested In the milling business in early days, which kept him along the rivers where he constructed water power mills. He was an ardent sportsman, having many encounters with ferocious bears and savage wolves, he averred. Corn Husking Bees. Isaac Chamness. born in May, 1829, spent his early years In Wayne county. He told of the early log rolling contests and corn husking bees. The days when there were no bridges across the Whitewater river, and Indians were still to be seen, were revealed by Ed word Y. Teas, who came to Indiana in 1832. He saw several hundred Indians pass through Wayne county on the National Road from Ohio to eastern Kansas, where they were placed on a government reservation. The mulberry silk worm "craze" and the rhubarb wine excitement, "get rich quick" schemes, which impoverished many prosperous families in Wayne county In the first half of the last century, were the topics with which Charles' W. Starr entertained the assembly. He built the Starr house, a hotel at Main and Eighth streets, from which the stage coaches departed for Indianapolis. SUIT ON ACCOUNT Suit on account has been filed in the Wayne circuit court by Gardner, Jessnp and White vs. Samuel Horch. The plaintiffs allege that they represented the defendant In a case tried in the Wayne circuit court, May 11, of this year and that they have not received compensation for their services. They Major X52.45.J - ' ar

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(Left to Right: Ex-King Manual of Spain, and His Mother the late Queen Maria Pia.) LONDON, Aug. 19. The gay escapades of young ex-King Manuel since he was deposed from the throne of Portugal have resulted in the crown jewels of his mother, the late Queen Maria Pia, being seized and sold at auction to settle some of the "Boy Monarch's" debts. $275,000 was realized at the sale of the jewels. Ever since the successful Portuguese revolution Manuel has been traveling about in lavish style. Dividing his time between the fashionable hotels of the cities of Southern Europe and the mansions of fair hostesses in Paris and London, and all the time he has been spending money with a free hand. But this has stopped now, and the people of title and society in England and on the continent are wondering where the ex-King js going to secure funds to continue his "exceeding-the-speed-limit" pace. REYNOLDS IS TAFT MAN BUT

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Lee J. Reynolds, of Hagerstown, and candidate for the legislature from Wayne county on the Republican ticket, today issued a statement in which he says that he will make the race on the Republican platform and support the national Republican ticket, but considers himself a Progressive at heart. The following is his signed statement: ' To The Voters of Wayne County. The recent breach in the Republican ranks and the formation of a new party has made it necessary for the candidates for representatives to decide where they will stand. In all fairness to the new party as well as the old, I make this statement that my position may be clearT Some days ago I was invited by some leaders in the Progressive party to resign from the regular ticket with the assurance that I would be placed on the new ticket. The same proposition is made by Mr. Leeds in his paper of August 15. I appreciate the consideration that the leaders as well as the rank and file of the members of the new organization have given me, but I feel as I have been honored once with the election to the legislature and have been "nominated again by the Republicans, before there was any division i among them, that I am duty bound to remain on the Republican ticket. I am Progressive in spirit and endorse the Progressive platform, and if elected to the legislature will favor the direct primary commission form of government for cities that desire it, the initiative and the referendum and either the recall or a liberal impeachment law whereby inefficient or corrupt officials can be removed. I stand as I BERG AND WEBBER NOT INTOXICATED Fire Chief Miller stated today, to correct a current report, that Firemen Elmer Berg and Harry Webber were not drunk on the evening before they resigned and their condition and actions did not warrant such an assumption. He stated that although the men had once before been given a reprimand for drinking they had never appeared for work while drunk. He also stated the men had been good firemen, and that he did not like to see them leave. Both men state they had made plans to leave the fire departments Saturday to work In a Richmond foundry. SOCIALIST LECTURE The local Socialists have secured Ross D. Brown of Muncie to speak Taesday night at corner of Sixth and Main street, and on the following evening at corner of North F and 11th R-TVtl . - .

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always have for county local option, for a constitutional convention and j woman suffrage. j I have been asked a number of i times for whom I am going to vote. I feel that is an unfair question, as it is a matter of personal privilege. The question that the public should know is how I will vote in the legislature, but since I have been asked and having no desire to mislead the people I will say that I now expect to support the Republican national ticket, and in so doing it would be unfair for me to go on the Progressive ticket. I would have no other motive at this time to go on the ticket other than it might give me a better chance to be elected, but I have no disposition to gain political prestige by sacrificing a position that 1 believe to be right. I thank my Progressive friends for offering me a place on their ticket. I thank them for the support that they gave me in the last primary, also the large number that have assured me of their support this fall. To those who do not feel that they can support me because of my remain ing on the Republican ticket, I ask ', you to support the other men who ; were nominated with me last spring. ! I do not want my position or any op-, position that may be placed against me to affect them In any way. They , entered the campaign in good faith, and were nominated by Progressives , and Republicans alike before there was any division, and now I hope that you will see your way clear to support them. Again thanking the voters for the support you have given me, I am Yours truly, LEE J. REYNOLDS. STAFHORST DIES AFTER OPERATION After having been operated upon at the Reid Memorial hospital Saturday afternoon for appendicitis, Frederick Stafhorst, aged twenty-one years, 310 North Seventeenth street, died at the hospital about 11 o'clock Saturday night. Mr. Stafhorst's condition was too critical, it is said, before he was removed to the hospital. He was well known. He was an employe of the Pennsylvania Railroad company. The mother, one 'brother and one sister, all living In this city, survive him. The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home. The Rev. Mr. Bunyan will have charge of the funeral services. Friends may call at any time. Burial will be in the Lutheran cemetery. THE WEATHER LOCAL Thunder thowert tonight or Tuesday; slightly cooler. STATE Same In south and -central - prtlona.

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A uction Sale SCHEPPS PROVES A . SPLENDID WITNESS Tells District Attorney Vital Features of New York Scandal. (National News Association) NEW YORK, Aug. 19. "Sam Scheppr, has told me enough to clean up several vital points." This statement was made by District Attorney Whitman today after a conference with Schepps, the alleged "murder paymaster" in the Rosenthal assassination, in the train coming down from Albany. Mr. Whitman said, "I have received all the corroboration I expected, enough to clear up several vital points and strengthen the case. Although Schepp3 confirms the statement of Jack Rose that he had gone to Harry Pollocks home (where Rose was hidden immediately after the murder) for Lieut. Becker, he would not admit that he paid the murderer for killing Rosenthal. He declared, he was not on the scene of the murder but had ridden in the murderers automobile early in the morning. A clash between Assistant District Attorney Rugin and five detectives of Deputy Commissioner Dougherty's staff, occurred at the Grand Central station. The detectives had authority to arrest Schepps and take him to police headquarters. Rugin, however, refused to surrender him, declaring Schepps was a state witness and not a prisoner. An earlier clash at 125th street, where the train was boarded by two Central office men but failed to get him. L PENROSE CHARGES Denies Knowledge of Receiving $25,0Q0 from Oil Trust in 1904. (National News Association) OYSTER BAY, N. Y., Aug. 19. Col. Rooseve't made a vigorous answer today to the assertion of Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania that the $25,000 check which Penrose got from John D. Archbold of the Standard Oil trust m 1SU was usea Ior lBe ""8veit campaign in New York. The colonel emphatically denies that he was aware of any Standard oil money being deA . . 1 A. 1 - T" 1. voted to his campaign But, as a matter of fact, added Mr. Roosevelt, "in the campaign of 1904 1 wrote to Mr. Cortelyou stating that I wished no money from the Standard Oil company. If any money was solicited from that company it was not only without my knowledge, but in spite of my written prohibition. I have no more knowledge of the funds raised in Pennsylvania than I have of those raised in Ohio and Illinois. Penrose was not the Pennsylvania leader in 1904 and as far as I know he was supporting me simply as all other Republican senators were likewise supporting me." A CALL EXTENDED MISS KUNDWORTH The board of trustees of the Wernle Orphans Home has extended a call to Miss Agathe Klindworth, of Galena, 111., to take charge of the primary department of the home school and to assist in the management of the smaller children. Miss Klindworth j IchooThf Wr NOrm&1 r.hw? aCtlvT!,y enggw nf v? 1 Wrk ,OT a nmn" Lylt nZ., v The board has not been apprised of I"1 action Bhe -UI take regarding the nffa, . GhA 1 1 J . -. guvvnu anas jiarxna Hennings, who resigned at the close,! of the school in Jane, and la now at the home of her- parents in Toneka, w r-u a ja"ar vn

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FULL COUNTY TICKET IS A QUESTION UP Sentiment, However, Is at Least Unanimous for Congressional and Legislative Nominations. ROBBINS MAY HEAD COUNTY COMMITTEE A. E. Smith, Provisional Chairman, Announced His Resignation Today Wants Robbins to Lead. The Progressive county central committee will wrestle with the problem of putting a full county legislative ticket into the field at the forthcoming election, in a meeting called for Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock, in the Masonic Temple for the purpose of organization and deliberation. 'f x:i bcntiment of the committeemen elected at the primaries last week is un-,itrjxis in insisting that a congressional candidate, also candidates for epresentative and joint representa tive to the legislature, shall be nom inated by the Progressives. The committeemen assert that it is useless to elect a Progressive presl dent and governor of the state if those executives are not backed and supported in the state and national legislatures by representatives of the same political faith and imbued with the same political principles and aspirations. Must Have Support. . It would be suicide, or at least a slow death, declared a prominent Progressive worker, if the Progressive governor of the state does not have a Progressive legislature to enact measures and carry out the plans of the chief executive of the state. The same obtains in a still greater degree, it is argued, with respect to the relation that must exist at Wash ington between a Progressive presi-i dent and congress. If the latter is not composed of Progressives, or is hostile to the measures and suggestions of the executive, nothing will be gained by electing a Progressive to the executive chair, it is held. Holding this conviction, the Progressive committeemen say it is a matter of life and death that Progress ive legislators and congressmen be elected at the fall election. This determination, they say, will impel them to nominate candidates for the state legislature and to insist that a progressive candidate be named in the Sixth congressional district for the lower house at Washington. Committee Divided. The committee, it was learned today, is about equally divided on the question of naming a list of Progressives for the offiices of the county administration. Some favor the retention of the slate nominated in the spring primaries on the regular Republican ticket. Others believe that these candididates should declare their political affiliations, and if they espouse the Progressive cause should be retained as Progressive candidates. If the candidates stand by the Republican state and national platform, it is held, they should not be considered worthy of Progressive support and be left to fight out their political destinies with the Old Guard. Smith Will Retire. The resignation of A. E. Smith, provisional Progressive county chairman, which was made public today, probably will result in the selection of Will Robbins, country recorder, to that important post at the meeting of the central committee Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Robbins recently resigned as county chairman of the regular Republican party In Wayne county. His selection it is believed, will be satisfactory to the Progressives of the county. A. E. Smith, the provisional county chairman, stated to a representative of the Palladium today that he would retire as provisional county chairman tomorrow, and ask the committee to appoint Will J. Robbins In bis place as head of the Wayne county organization. In making this announcement Mr. Smith said that he felt this action would be best for the good of the cause, as Mr. Robbins had served in a very efficient manner on the old com: mi t tee, and was familiar with organization work in the county. Mr. Smith said that he would serve In any other capacity to which the committee might assign him. Morton W. Grills, of Hagerstomn. today announced his candidacy as representative to the state legislature on the Progressive ticket. Adherents of the movement at a meeting In Hagerstown last Saturday voted for a legis lative ticket, bat held that the Pro gressives should not put a county t in tre neld. TbeVelteTh; following chairmen of the three preicincts of Jefferwn township: First, IR. B. Worl; Second, M. T. Fox. and , r .- .Yhin rr,, 1 ' - on the central committee by L. M. Jones. Theodore Martin. William Barton, Richard Davenport and Levi

TTO STATE G. 0. P. Sixth District Elector States that If Elected He Will Vote for Roosevelt and Johnson. HAD BEEN REGARDED AS TAFT SUPPORTER Buggie in His Public State ment Also Says He Intends to Vote for Beveridge andtLandis. BY CARL MOTE. Further dismay was added to the broken spirit of Republican state chairman. Fred A. Sims, when he received the announcement that Fred S. Buggie, Taft elector, would vote for Roosevelt and Johnson, if elected. Buggle's announcement, the regular Monday morning disaster of the current week, might be called the worst rebuff the Taft forces of Indiana have suffered since the beginning of this epoch marking campaign against bosses, political high-binders and patron age-seeking porch climbers, if any one rebuff is worse than another. Mr. Buggle's announcement is all the more unfortunate to the Taft forces, however, because he is one of the electors, who, the Republican state convention believed would stay put Consequently he was not removed from the electoral ticket named by the various district conventions that elected delegates to the June convention at Chicago. The state convention went over the entire list of electors chosen early in the year and did cot hesitate to remove any thought to be favorable to Colonel Roosevelt. Also For State Ticket. Buggie was one of the electors left on the Taft slate. In his announcement, he not only declares he will vote for Roosevelt if elected as a Re publican, but will cast his own personal vote for the Progressive electors and for Senator. Beveridge for governor. In other words, Buggie is running as an elector for Taft and will not support him if named by the Taft voters. Mr. Buggie was secretary to Charles H. Campbell, Roosevelt national committeeman for Indiana, early in the year and until the Republican state convention was held at Chicago. After the convention, It was stated by the Taft forces that Buggie and Mr. Campbell had refused to join the third party. The announcement, forthcoming at this time, indicates bow far they were wrong. Mr. Campbell, like Mr. Buggie, will support Roosevelt and Beveridge for president. Mr. Campbell's contention, however. Is that Taft did not steal the Republican nominaUon at Chicago be simply borrowed It. In announcing his withdrawal from the Republican party. Mr. Buggie sounds a note of deaance to the bosses. He says: Buggle's Statement. "I was named by the delegates, unanimously, as an elector for the Sixth Indiana district. Named by del egates representing voters of whom eighty per cent favored then and favor now the election of Colonel Roosevelt as president. I could not have been selected had it not been that it was distinctly understood that I represent ed this majority. By a rule gaveled through the corrupt and misrepresentative Chicago convention, the Interestowned bosses declare they have the power to remove me through action by their Indiana agents. I deny the right of Mr. Keallng. or any of his partners, to assume this power and therefore void the Sixth Indiana district part of the tremendous majority that was defrauded by the larceny at Chicago In June. MlsrepresentaUves by their corruption they should be de nied the opportunity to pre-empt a place on the ticket. "I, however, shall cast my ballot for all of the Progressive candidates and urge every voter to aid In placing the welfare of our ninety millions in the hands of those champions of righteouv ness those men who have a record of achievement for the common good Theodore Roosevelt and Hiram John son. "Tens upon tens of thousands of Indiana voters, with Beveridge, 'stand at Armageddon and battle for the Lord. "I shall support Theodore Roosevelt, the foremost citizen of his generation, for president, and Albert J. Beveridge, the arch enemy of the powers of pillage, for governor. . Reaffirms Allegiance. "In reaffirming my, allegiance to Mr. Roosevelt and his policies, I continue to have the same faith In Republican principles. Bnt Republican principles, as Interpreted by the statesman Beveridge, rather than the corruptiontainted Keallng, Fairbanks and company ring. "In supporting the national, state, district and county Progressive tickets I am indorsing the successor, not the competitor, of the Republican party. I am adhering to the true principles of the Republican party. The princi-

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ACTOR LEWIS IS ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT Serious Charge Is Placed" Against Manager and Owner of Repertoire Company by Young Girl. MISTREATED EDITH MOON, TIS CHARGED Took the Eleven-Year-Old Girl Riding in Carriage Last Evening. Girl Returned Home Crying. BULLETIN. "Jack Lewis, the actor, who was arrested on the charge of assault and battery with intent to rape last evening, was arraigned in police court this afternoon. The affidavit was dismissed, on motion of the acting prosecutor, and Lewis was immediately rearrested on an affidavit Issued from the Wayne circuit court. The charge in the second affidavit was the same as that In the first. Lewis was then released upon a f 1,000 cash bond. ARRESTED AFTER DRIVE. John Lewis, better known as "Jack" - Lewis, owner and manager of the Lewis-Oliver Repertoire company, which has been playing at the Murray thtater throughout the summer, was arrested last evening on the charge of assault and battery with intent to rape. The prosecuting witness is Edith Moon, the eleven-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Moon. Lewis, who has been taking the role of the hero in his plays. Is alleged to have met the little Moon girl about 7:40 o'clock last evening on North Sixth street. The girl, a cording to the story told the police, asked to accompany Lewis, whom she had seen at the theater. Lewis is said to have consented, telling the girl that she could walk to the Shofer livery stable on South Sixth street "with him and that he would bring her back to her home. However, after securing a carriage at the livery stable, Lewis and the girl drove west on South A street to First street, the police were informed and then drove to the piano factory. The girl declared that Lewis kissed and hugged her while driving on First street. About thirty minutes later, according to the girl's story. Lewis drove to the corner of North Fifth and A streets, where the girl says she alighted from the carriage. Lewis then drove to his boarding house on Ft. Wayne avenue and D streets where his wife met him and they, with two other women, friends of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, drove about the city. Complain to Police. In the meantime Mrs. Moon, became worried over the disappearance of her daughter and telephoned police headquarters. Shortly afterwards the girl returned to her home crying,. Asked what she was erring about she declared that Lewis had mistreated her. Mrs. Moon then talked with her husband, from whom she is separated, and the two, with the girl, went to police headquarters. Supt. Gormon, after hearing the girl's story informed the parents to have the girl examined by physicians before the affidavit was filed. This was done, " three - physicians raying, according to the police, that the girl had been mistreated, although they would not say that anyone had assaulted her. When Lewis and his wife returned to the boarding house about 10 o'clock Supt. Gormon and Patrolman Hebble placed him . under arrest. "This will ruin me, Lewis Is said to have declared. "I can't help that," Chief Gormon replied. This is not a personal matter, yen know. It's just my plain doty- - ' ' ' Finally Gets Attorney. Lewis was taken to the city building and then placed In the city jail Two attorneys were called to his celL but both refused to take the case, but a ' third attorney was finally secured to defend him. . Lewis admitted to the police that fee had taken the girl in the vehicle but denied the charge that he had mis treated her. He said that he had made a mistake by allowing the girl to accompany him. The case was called in police court this morning but .was postponed until 2 o'clock this afternoon, owing to the fact that Will Reller, acting prosecutor, had no authority to open the prosecu tlon. inasmuch as the death of Charles Ladd. prosecuting attorney for this county caused a vacancy In the office. Later, however. Mayor . Zlmmennaa called Governor Marshall by long distance telephone and asked what course he should pursue In appointing a prosecutor temporarily. The governor informed the mayor to appoint anyone be deemed best qualified for the position uxttn a permanent appointment could be made. The mayor, then apnolnted Attorney Reller. Lwic n r.

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