Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 269, 16 September 1912 — Page 2

THE RICHMOND TAL LADIU3I AND SXJX-TEtEGBA31, 3IOXD AT, SEPTEMBER 16, 1912. SNEED-BQYCE WAR ONCE MORE FEARED Following the Latest Outbreak in Feud Between Rich Texas Families.

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OVER CALIFORNIA T, R, SWEPT TODAY Predicts Wilson's Tariff Program Would Soon Bankrupt the Country. (National News Association) SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Sept. 16. Into Southern California came Col. Roosevelt today to renew his attack upon Gov. Wilson. The ex-president assailed the Democratic candidate for his tariff stand, saying that if Wilson gets the presidency and attempts to put into effect the tariff program enunciated in the Baltimore platform he will plunge the country into bankruptcy

BANNER ATTENDANCE AT L0CALSCH00LS Whitewater and Baxter Can Not Accommodate Pupils Enrolling There. THE PRIMARY LAW. IS BEING TESTED Receives Irs First Try-out irT Minnesota at Nominating Election Tuesday. ELBERT RUSSEL Orthodoxy of Earlham Biblical Head Satisfactory to Friends, He Says.

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FRUIT GROWERS TO RECEIVE ADVICE Purdue Expert Will Hold a Demonstration in Orchard Near Cambridge City. Indiana orchards when well cared for are capable of earning enormous returns on the money invested. The

(National News Association) .AMARILLO, Tex., Sept. 16. That he killed A. G. Boyce to prevent him from taking his wife from him again wjll be the defense of John Sneed, the rich Amerillo banker in his trial for the murder. Sneed will claim that he and bs wife . had- become reconciled two -months ago and" had planned to move to Mississippi and start life anw when he came upon evidence- of a plan of" his wife and Boyce to elope again. This plan, he will claim, he discovered in a letter from Boyce to

his wife, telling her he had come from Canada to Amerillo and outlining a plan for her to leave her husband and flee with him a second time. Young Boyce had been offered the management of a big cattle ranch in the Argentine Republic. The grand Jury took up the killing of young Boyce. A feature of the inquiry was tb effort to discover whether Sneed had an accomplice in the killing. It has been deinitely established that two men, one answering the description of Sneed, rented a cottge next to the Methodist church, in front of which the tragedy occurred. The second man has disappeared. Mrs. Snead has also left for her home. AMARILLO, Tex., Seut. 16. City and county officers today have established a strict surveillance to prevent any outbreak of the Sneed-Boyce feud hee, since the gathering of the members of both families following the killing of Al Boyce by John Beal Snead Saturday. Fears that the" family difficulty may break out into an open battle between the members of the two families are entertained by the authorities. The three brothers, ' Al Boyce, Linn, Will and Henry," are here. Today they wired for other relatives and staunch friends to hasten to Amarillo. Joseph Snead, John's brother, and '. H. Sneed, an uncle, arrived late yesTday. J. T. Snyder, father of Mrs. na Sneed, whose elopement with oyce started the trouble that ended the killing of two men, is expected nrrive today from Roswell, N. M. n yder, during the trial of his son-in-Jfiw for the billing of the elder Boyce, nitfed with Sneed and declared he believed his daughter Insane. J. H. Bowman, Sneed's brother-in-law of Plane, Tex., was also expected today. The members of the two families afc -said to be armed. John Sneed, in his cell in the Potter county Jail, showed Indifference to the tragedy of Saturday. He held a number of conferences with his attorneys, ate three hearty meals yesterday and smoked a number of cigarettes. Armed deputies are constantly at his SP NT NOTHING FOR NOMINATION ; For the nomination to the office of recorder on the Socialist county ticket, F. E. Richie spent nothing, according to a statement that has been filed in the office of the county clerk. Richie Is the second nominee of the Socialist party to file his statement with the clerk. The first was Hugh L. Spink, who spent only twenty cents to secure the nomination for prosecuting attorney. TRIBUTE WAS PAID -LATE MR, CAMPBELL District Progressive Leaders Express Regrets Over His . Untimely Death. Charles O. Campbell, the prominent Progressive leader, who died last week following an automobile accident, was buried at Shelbyville, Indiana, today.. At the meeting of the district committee of the Progressive party at Connersvllle on Saturday,' the following resolutions relative to the death of the Progressive leader, Charles Campbell of Shelbyville, were passed : The untimely death of our friend and co-worker in the Progressive cause, Charles Campbell; has removed one whose advice we valued and whose leadership we trusted. The Progressive party of the Sixth District and of the state has suffered a loss it could 111 afford at this or any other time. Much as we feel the loss of this faithful friend and leader, we realize the Inestimably keener loss to those loved ones he has left to mourn the passing of a father and husband. " To the family of Mr. Campbell we extend our heartfelt and sincere sympathy. Lloyd Fosdlck, Union county, E. A. Schultze, Franklin county, George Carter, Fayette county. William Rob bins, Wayne "county, W. R. Wilson, Kenry county, Carl Rock, Hancock county, Benjamin McFarlane, Rush county, Oscar Hall, Shelby county, Rudolph G. Leeds, District Chairman. Psople Who Rrty Wink. There are people who rarely wink. How they manage to get along without doing so Is a marvel, but somehow or other they do. Some eyes are naturally more moist than others, and the Tery moist eye does not so much need .the assistance of the lids to keep the eyeball bright. It Is a constitutional matter, for winking, though under the control of the will, is done so Quickly that It Is practically an involuntary action. Men wink when they feel that the eye Is uncomfortably dry. and when It does not become dry the necessity for winking Is not felt..,., .

"It is amazing that the Democratic party is brazen enough to try to Jam such a platform down the people's throats," said the Colonel. "They are fooling only themselves. The people are going to show by a decisive vote that they are not bam-boozled by the empty Wilson theories." ' Roosevelt glowingly referred to the prospects of the third party winning this fall. "From what I've seen here in the West I believe we are going to beat the bosses," he exclaimed. "It's a sigriicant thing that the bosses have directed their whole fight against us. You don't hear Penrose, or Guggenheim, or Barnes railing at the Democratic party. They are after the Progressive party. Well we are in the lead and they'll never catch us." The ex-president glorified California for its recent primaries. "Your slate leads In the whole progressive fight," he said. California put up a solid front in the Republican convention, that is it did with what delegates were not unseated. "I could have been the nominee

there if I had agreed to wink at the bosses. But I would not come their way. They tried it and failed. Then they -were bound to cheat us. In November the progressives will show the bosses where they belong." Roosevelt left San Francisco last night at 10 o'clock after a day of rest. He winds up his California campaign tonight with a speech in Los Angeles. TO SPEAK Vice Presidential Candidate Here Next Friday. Governor Hiram W. Johnson of California, candidate for vice president on the Progressive ticket, will speak in Richmond next Friday afternoon from the rear end of his car at the Pennsylvania station. He will arrive in this city at 3:45 and will speak for five minutes. The governor will depart from Richmond for a campaign through Ohio. It is expected there will be quite a large crowd hear hir speak. HARVESTER TRUST TRIAL WAS BEGUN Clarence S. Funk Was First Witness Before the Special Examiner. (National News Association) CHICAGO, Sept. 16. Clarence S. Funk, general manager of the Inter national Harvester company of New Jersey, was the first witness grilled before special examiner Robert S. Taylor, heating evidence in the government suit for dissolution of the harvester trust, which began here to day. The only important point brought out was that his company, which manufactures millions of harvester 'machines, has no selling department but dis poses of its products to the International Harvester company of America. Mr. Funk is virtually the head of the selling department of the latter concern, however. The suit is similar in many ways to that against the Standard Oil company which resulted in a victory for the gov ernment, and the testimony to be taken by the special examiner -will be submitted to the court, where the attorneys will argue the case. It is ex pected the taking of testimony will require many months. Among other witnessed summoned are Cyrus H. McCormick and Charles L. Deering. HARD METALS. They Come From Titanium and Are as Firm as th Diamond. The diamond has ever been regarded as possessing one quality that placed it beyond rivalry namely, that of hardness. There are several gems that com pete with it in beauty, and at least one the ruby when of rare size outranks It in costliness, but none in the -whole list equals it in hardness. The hardest steel cannot equal the diamond In that there are at least two products of chemical experiment that have proved, according to French chemists, to be as hard as diamonds. These are produced from the rare metal titanium. One experimenter, it is claimed, succeeded in preparing titanium in the electric furnace. In the pure form it is much harder than steel or quartz, and when combined with silicon or carbon so as to form a silicide or boride of titanium it matches the diamond itself in hardness. Titanium resembles tin in its chemical properties, and it is the characteristic element in the beautiful red and brown crystals of rutile. These, in the shape of needles, are sometimes found penetrating large swbite quartz crystals, forming gems that the French call "love's arrows." New Tork Press.

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That the action taken by the Western yearly Meeting of the Orthodox Society of Friends in appointing a

committee to investigate the orthodoxy of the Biblical Department in Earlham college has not met with the approval of the college nor the body of Friends in general, was evidenced in a ser mon delivered by Dr. David W. Dendis, of the Earlham faculty, in South Eighth Street Friends' church Sunday morning. Dr. Dennis took the position that the world had progressed beyond that point where a creed was greater than the truth. He said that ignorance and prejudice no longer ruled the world of thought but that an enlightened period had dawned in which every man was given the right of way in his religious and intellectual course; and, he said, that each stood aside for each and gave all a respectful hearing. Trials For Heresy. In these so-called heresy trials, or investigations into the special orthodoxy of some exponent of a creed. Dr. Dennis stated that the point at issue often hinged on the interpretation of some more or less obscure word, phrase or entire passage and that in the end it was of no moment, no matter how it was decided, since there were various versions which might be Interpreted in a variety of ways. Dr. Dennis said the Bible, first written in Hebrew, was later put into the Greek and had been translated into various languages and that naturally, in the different mediums through which it was interpreted, some meanings must be left in doubt; that the alleged heretic and his persecutors might both be right from their own sources of supply, so to speak, and that any decision rendered at such times was neither authoritative nor final. Dr. Dennis stated that, so far as Elbert Russell was concerned, no committee could touch him. That if a committee of picked men were to make an investigation covering a period of ten years they could not consistently or intelligently criticise a man who had given a lifetime of study to this one department of learning. A Ridiculous Plan. And that for a committee of uninformed persons to be appointed, with the proviso that they were to report in two days' time, as was this committee requested to do, only made the religious organization which they represented ridiculous. Dr. Dennis further stated that such committees were appointed not so much to seek the truth as to stir up unrest. That they were not doing the will of God but making a God of their creed. The speaker further stated that when an aggregation of persons or an individual or a religious body sought to bend everything to the form rather than to the substance of their belief, they were animated not by the spirit of Christ but by that of prejudice and intolerance. Dr. Dennis quoted Kipling's famous poem which has for its motif the futility of people making Gods of their creeds and of the fallacy of the arguments of such committees as that appointed to investigate the teachings of Professor Elbert Russell. Dr. Dennis paid a tribute to Professor Russell's erudition, sincerity and distinguished achievements and deplored the short-sightedness of such action as that taken at Western Yearly Meeting. CRAZED FROM FEAR A NEGRO EXECUTED Grewsome Spectacle Witnessed in the Death House of New York Prison. (National News Association) AUBURN, N. Y., Sept. 16. The most grewsome spectacle ever presented at an electrocution was seen at Auburn prison today when James Williams, a negro, was executed. Fear of death had driven the negro insane and he struggled and talked incessantly from the time he was taken out of the death cell until the electric current ended his life. Nevertheless the execution was one of the most rapid on record, requiring only one minute, 40 seconds. One contact of 1,880 volts ended his life. Williams was accompanied to the chair by a priest of the Roman Catholic faith -which he had embraced. Despite the priest's soothing words, Williams struggled to the last against his captors and insisted upon making a wild speech. He entered the death chamber in a working suit and golf cap, but was angry when the cap was taken off. He struggled to rise but the stripes held and he delivered his rambling argument saying, "Don't kill me gentlemen, I want to warn you about women. Keep away from women. That's what got me here. That's my last voice. Lord Jesus, I was the first one. Hello, I'm the one, but gentlemen don't kill me." The current ended his wild harangue. SOCIALIST MEETING Dan Farrell, of Dayton, Ohio, will speak on the subject of Socialism, Tuesday evening at the corner of Sixth and Main streets. Farrell is on a speaking tour In the interests of the Socialist party.

Purdue horticultural department has nine orchards located in different parts of the state run by their owners under expert direction. These orchards everyone netted their owners

over $100 per acre in the season of 1911. They were neglected when taken by Purdue. Now they are paying 10 per cent interest on valuations of $900 to $1,000 per acre. Purdue does not do the work. Her representative merely tells the owner how. Several leading fruit growers of this community have requested Purdue to hold a meeting in this neighborhood, explaining how these resultJ have been obtained. This meeting has been granted. It will be held next Wednesday, September 18, in the Purdue demonstration plat located in the H. A. Whitley orchard, four miles southwest of Cambridge City on the Connersville pike. In the morning, various orchard problems, such as orchard cultivation, cover-crops, fertilization and pruning will be discussed. The demonstrator will have with him a kit of pruning tools and he will actually prune one or two trees so that those present may become familiar with a properly pruned tree. In the afternoon, spraying problems will be taken up. The reasons for spraying will be given and the proper times for applying the mixture will be mentioned. Several of the most prominent spray materials will be made ona practical scale and will be applied to the trees. Every person in the county who owns an orchard is urged to attend this meetingg. MRS. FQULKE WILL ERECT A F She Proposes to Erect Fountain for Children in Front of Public Library. Permission was given Mrs. William Dudley Foulke by the board of public works today to place a children's sanitary drinking fountain in front of the Morrisson Reeves library.The fountain will be low enough to permit small children to drink ylth.ease. The fountain will have a s&all overflow pan at the bottom for dogs. The board extended a vote of thanks to Mrs. Foulke for her donation. The board, in this connection, instructed City Attorney Gardner to investigate the number of free fountains in the city to BOO if the water works company must supply free water for the fountain. Mrs. Foulke will install the fountain complete at her own expense. The board of directors of the T. M. C. A. will be notified at once to repair pt its expense the sanitary fountain north of the association building. Municipal light superintendent Johnson presented a plan to buy one or more horses for his plant. The board took the matter under advisement. The light plant employes have registered complaints against .the horses rented from the liverymen of the city. Assessments Arranged. The board of works settled details of the assessment of benefits and damages on the opening of South Seventh street. Harmon Swisher, who loses one lot, and ha twenty-five feet cut off another, will receive a benefit of $800. Matt Von Pein will receive $200. The territory within a radius of one square of the improvement will be assessed to secure a sum of $365 needed to pay the amount of $1,000 awarded Swisher and Von Pein. Residents of the south side and Beallvlew have subscribed $235 to help pay the damage. The city will pay $500 and the balance of the $1,000 will be assessed against lots nearby. The board allowed Park Superintendent Hollarn $200 to complete the bowldered cement basin, south of the first bridge on the East Main street entrance. The sum of $800 will be4 transferred from the account of labor in the street department to the account of crushed stone. The amount will be paid back later. Commissioner Genn needs money in the crushed stone funds. Commissioner Genn submitted a report on the improvements done in Fairview, showing that it cost more than $1,700 to repair the Fairview ttreets with gravel and crushed stone, to make sewer repairs and to install a new fountain. Ask An Inspection. " Four residents of South Eighth street appeared before the board of works and asked that its members inspect the reinforced concrete streets used at Connersville. The board took the question under advisement. The applicants said that Connersville residents pay only $1.02 per square yard for cement streets, reinforced with a heavy patented steel bridge work arrangement lie that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

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FARMERS FORM AN ORGANIZATION To Keep City Hunters from Trespassing on Farms with Guns and Dogs. Local followers of the elusive bunny and quail will be interested in the announcement of an organization of farmers near Hagerstown for the suppression of hunters. The farmers have posted many placards announcing "No Hunting" and "Penalty for Trespassing," and will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law, all persons hunting on their grounds. The farmers state that hunters have caused the scarcity of many species of birds, to the point, almost, of annihilation. Especially is this true, they state, of the quail, a bird of inestimable value in destroying insects and weed seeds. Their determination on this point is further strengthened by the repeated loss of farm animals that have been killed by stray bullets. Barring this danger, they are losers, they claim, by the flocks of sheep, herds of hogs, horses and cattle becoming demoralized through fear of the hunters' dogs and the noise from the repeated discharge of guns by hunters. These farmers assert that hunters have no civil nor moral right to enter the premises of citizens of our towns and cities for the purpose of plunder and that they have not the right to trespass on farm premises and destroy and carry away the game.

ACCEPTS INVITATION Ministerial Association Meet at Parish House. to A paper read by Dr. Addison Parker on the subject, "The Second Coming of Christ," featured the first regular meeting of the Richmond Ministerial association held this morning at the lecture room of the Young Men's Christian association building. The paper was very interesting. The association accepted the invitation of the Rev. John S. Lightbourne, of the St. Paul's Episcopal church, to hold its regular meetings In the parish house. The invitation was accepted. No other matters were brought up at this week's meeting. T Was a Cake Maker and Lost Four Fingers. He Joseph O'Brien, aged 27, an expert cake maker, who has been an employe of the Richmond Baking company for several months, was severely injured this noon while at work at the plant. His right hand became caught in some unknown manner in the blades of the cake mixing machine where he was working. "He succeeded in preventing the blades revolving and with wonderful nerve held the machine in check against the power exerted by the belt until help came. Then the power was shut off, and his hand released. He was taken to the hospital where the four fingers of his right hand were amputated. Had it not been for the loose belt on the mixing machine his death would probably have resulted. O'Brien was working alone on the third floor cleaning his machine during the noon hour. It is thought probable he had the machine working while cleaning and that a paddle he cleaned the blades with caught in them, drawing in his hand. If the belt furnishing power to the machine had been tight, he could not have stopped the machine and slid the belt about on the pulley as he did. ' His cries for help were heard by a girl working on the floor below, after he had been held fast in the machine for some time. He was conscious when removed to the hospital and suffered excruciating pain. O'Brien is single, boarding near Fourth street on Main street. He came from Cleveland to this city last spring. Ways of the Oyster. Oysters after they have been brought away from the sea know by instinct the exact hour when the tide is rising and approaching their beda and so of their own accord open their shells to receive the food from the sea as if they were 6till at homeLondon Telegraph. It Reminded Him. "I have seen in my Journeys several tribes," said the traveler, "who voluntarily undergo all sorts of self inflicted lacerations." "That's nothing," answered Mr. Tntt "I know a lot of people who Insist on shaving themselves." Great Little Sight. "Where are you going so fast?" "My wife has Just telephoned me that the baby is asleep, and 1 am going home to see what it looks like." Toledo Blade. " " Gas Lighted Buoys. There are 2S7 gas lighted buoys located on the waters of the United States.

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With a ruddy glow of tan and a happy smile on their countenance, significant of a three-months vacation well spent, between 3,000 and 4.000 Richmond school children wended their way to the school buildings this morning, ready and willing to start upon another year of schooling. Very little trouble was experienced by the pupils in arranging their preliminary work for the opening term. Following the roll call and remarks of the teachers on the coming school year's work, the pupils were given instructions regarding the required text books. A "run" on the book stores took place immediately after the closing of the morning session. School children from the ages of 6 to 18 crowded bookstores and drug stores, where school

supplies were on sale. Some bookstore I-roprietors will be obliged to order increased supplies. Inspect Buildings. T. A. Mott, superintendent of the city schools, with Drs. A. L. Bramkamp and J. E. King, school physicians, visited every school in the city today. The superintendent conferred with teachers and straightened out difficulties. The school physicians inspected the buildings to see that they were sanitary. The physicians found the buildings in good condition. Supt. Mott stated this afternoon he was unable to 6tate the exact number of pupils enrolled, but he believed the total enrollment would equal. If not surpass, that of last year and. in fact, all previous years. The total enrollment of last year was a trifle more than 3,600. Buildings Are Crowded. In several rooms In the Whitewater building and in the Baxter buildings there were more students than the seating capacity could accommodate. The school board decided, after the superintendent had reported the matter, to transfer Baxter school pupils living north of Richmond avenue from the Baxter building to the Sevastopool building in the Fairview district. The school board will arrange that some of the Whitewater pupils be transferred to either Starr or Warner bulldings. During the past summer two new rooms were added to the Fairview school. A new heating plant was also installed there. The total cost of these Improvements amounted to $7,000. Minor improvements will be made to other school buildings within the next few weeks. NEED A TREASURER City Officials Believe One Will Be Appointed in 1913 Richmond may have a city treasurer in 19 13. A state law provides that whenever a municipal public utilities service company's receipts total 1100,000 gross, the appointment of a city treasurer is necessary. The receipts for the light plant will approach this sum at the close of 1912, according to Superintendent X. Johnson. It is probable that If this eum is not reached in 1912, the increase In the business of the light plant in 1913 will swell the gross receipts to J 100,000 or more. This will necessitate a city treasurer. City officials would accept this addition to the office force with great relief. The duties of the city controller have become a burden lately. A Misunderstood Toast. Even a toast Is liable to be misunderstood. Mr. Hack wood In his book "Good Cheer refers to so anecdote preserved in Notes and Queries "which tells that during the short lived peace of Amiens (1802) the chairman at one of the city banquets proposed the toast of the health of the three present consuls.' which the toastmaster took op in bin stentorian accents and by mistake or a happy Inspiration translated Into the health of the three per cent consols.' The company, we are told, honored the toast with greet entbusisstn." London Standard.

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sota's direct primary law. which, ha a second choice provision as Its distinguishing feature, win be given4 Its first try-out tomorrow, when the sever' al parties will name their candidates to go on state, congressional, legislative and county tickets at the general election in November. The main State-wide contest sofar as a gubernatorial nominee is concerned is between Governor A. O. Eb-; erhart, who Is seeking renorolnatlon, and a field of five rivals In the Republican camp. C. M. Andrist of 'Minneapolis and P. M. Rlngdal of Crookston are aspirants for the Democratic nomination for governor. United States Senator Knute JCeW son la seeking indorsement for re-elec-tion and is opposed by James A. Peterson of Minneapolis on the Republican' side. The Democratic choice for the senatorshlp is Dan W. Lawler, of SL Paul. , Republicans and Democrats have plural candidates for most of the places on the state ticket Other contests are embraced in several of the congressional districts. The Prohibitionists have practically an entire state ticket in the field and the Public Own ership and Socialist Labor parties have selected candidates for governor. The Progressives have not determined tho stand they will take with regards' to the Republican candidates. A definite decision as to whether an Independent state ticket will be put in the field is expected to be reached,, at a conference of the Progressive party leaders at the end of this week. IN POLICE COURT , Bert Williams, and Eli McClerney received $1 and costs each for drunk In police court this morning. A faulty affidavit against Tom Rand, charging him with provlke, caused the quashing of the affidavit. As the case was caused by a neighborhood squab-' ble, and started ina fight of the chll-' dren of the affiant and defendant over some grapes, the case will not be prosecuted. Sam Jones, arrested Saturday night, left a plea of guilty and 111 to cover a fine of $1 and costs for drunk. Bert Helms, charged with drunk and destruction of property was released. He promised to pay for a dashboard broken from a rig hired at the Zimmerman livery barns Sunday. Marriage Licenses. Walter O'Conner. 21, moulder, city, and Mary Tiffany, 19. city. " ' Thomas E. Page, S3, polisher, Indianapolis, and Goldie Rowe, 23, Ctty. See us for Leading Brands of 10c Cigars La Ssrsmlta, La Preferencla, La Azora, La Vsrdad, H. Cortsz, Webster, Corina, Richmond Rose. 1 ED. A. FELTMAN DEALER CO) Main Street QUALITY ALONE would not have won for us the immense patronage we now enjoy, yet it Is a most important factor and one we would least think of cutting. We realise, however, that, attractiveness, cleanliness, prompt and efficient service and courtesy are necssary and we provide them alL Tour pleasure and your comfort Is oar principal consideration. GREEK CANDY STOKE teles

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