Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 177, 3 June 1913 — Page 1

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PLAN TO PUT THE CASE UP TO PRESIDENT Questions So Far Asked by Lobby Probe Committee 5 Indicate that Wilson Must Prove Charges He Made. SENATOR FALL OF NEW MEXICO, FRANK Admits He Is Heavily Interested in Industries Affected by Tariff, and Also the Income Tax. fNat'onal News Associatlnn) WASHINGTON, June 3. The Overman lobby Investigating committee today resumed its search of a "numerous, industrious and insidious" lobby in Washington. The questions asked persistently by various members of the committee so far indicate that the president may be left single-handed to prove his charges. Senator McLean of Connecticut was the first witness today. He said he owned 300 shares of General Electric stock. Howard Cheney of South Manchester, Conn., talked to him about increasing the rates on silk, he testified. Senator Dillingham has no financial interest in the bill, he stated, and said that Samuel Ullman of New York talked to him about the duties on furs. Senator Fletcher said that C. E. Berriman of Chicago, talked to him about the tariff on tobacco and Harold Power of California talked to him about the rates on fruit. Senator Fall of New Mexico admitted he is heavily interested in industries affetced by the tariff. He said he has about 10,000 head of sheep, 1,600 head of cattle, 300 horses, some coal lands, interests in several mines, 4,000 shares of life insurance stock, 15,000 shares of bank stock and an apple ranch. He is the first senator to admit that his income is large enough for him to be interested in the income tax. SEARCH Of BOURNE FARM MADE Nothing Was Found Which Would Indicate that Body Was Buried. DAVIS WAS NERVOUS When Questioned About His Business with Missing Camden Man. (Palladium Special) EATON, O., June 3. An exhaustive search yesterday over the 100-acre farm failed to disclose the body of Frank Bourne, missing farmer, of near Camden, O., thought to have been murdered. Elwool Davis, 53, a former farm hand of Bourne's, is still confined In the county jail on the charge of ilrst degree murder preferred by a cousin of the missing man, John Bourne. The search covered every nook and cranny of the farm, including several abandoned wells. Along with the deeper mystery confronting Sheriff Ed B. Werts and County Prosecutor Hugh R. Gilmore Is the question of what disposition was made of the body of Bourne, if he was killed by Davis on the former's place. Nothing whatever was revealed in the search that would tend to shed any light in the matter. Another phase was given the case late Monday when an Eatonian declared he had seen Bourne in Eaton about two weeks ago. He says he has known the man all his life, and certainly cannot be mistaken. Prosecuting Attorney Gilmore secured possession of the letter received by Davis a couple of weeks ago, and a comparison of the writing on the letter has been made with that of Davis. Both specimens are bad. contain words improperIyspelled, and officials think there is no doubt but that Davis wrote the letter and mailed it to himself at Camden from Hamilton. He is said to have been in Hamilton on the particular day the letter was mailed. In the letter, which was unsigned, it was stated that Bourne had been killed at Jackson, Miss., where he went last fall with the intention of buying a sawmill. Friends of Davis believe him innocent and are of the opinion that Bourne will later turn up. He has always been very eccentric and many think he merely left his country home for an extended trip. Although Davis 'grew a litUe nervous Monday when questioned by Prose cuting Attorney Gilmore concerning his business relations withBourne, he has since seemed litUe affected and

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$1,000 GAIN IN FINANCES

S EFFECTED City Can Use Sinking Funds for Retirement of Its Obligations Bill for Ordinance Presented. FUNDS NOW DRAWING BUT THREE PER CENT Bill Given First Reading in City Council Last Evening Drawn by the Finance Committee. A gain in city finances of approximately $1,000 annually will be effected hereafter by an ordinance presented last night to council by B. A. Kennepohl, president of the board of public works, City Comptroller E. G. McMahan and City Attorney William A. Bond, a special finance committee appointed at a previous council meeting to investigate the payment of city im provement bonds. In a communication to council City Attorney Bond explained that under the city and towns act of 1905, and as amended in 1911, a clause, hitherto overlooked, provides that when a city can not utilize its sinking funds from time to time for the retirement of the obligations that are being provided for, those sums may be temporarily invested in government, state of Indiana or Indiana counties' bonds, or in the street, sewer or other improvement bonds of the municipality itself. The city light plant and the general sinking funds are the two that will be affected by the new ordinance. The light plant sinking fund receives $660 each month from the receipts of the plant and by 1927 it will amount to enough to retire the bonds outstanding of the original 1902 issue of $144,000. The general sinking fund receives seven cents annually from the $1.10 tax levied by the city and is for the purpose of retiring from time to time or on maturity the various bond obligations of Richmond. About $9,000 annually is added to this fund. The two funds at present, amounting to approximately $40,000 are deposited with the various city banks at 3 per cent interest. July 1, $5,000 of the light plant sinking fund will be used to redeem that amount of the plant's indebtedness, leaving $35,000 in the two funds. Under the new ordinance this amount will be invested in various city improvement bonds which bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent per annum. This 2 per cent additional interest should make a clear gain to the city the first year of about $700, and thereafter it is estimated it will be $1,000 annually. The ordinance passed first reading last night and will be finally passed and made a law at the next meeting of council. The $15,000 5 per cent bond issue which will be made July 1 to take up the improvement bonds erroneously issued in 1903 and 1905, will be the first purchase by the city with sinking fund money under the new ordinance. THREAT OF DEATH BECAUSE OF LOVE Brings English Actress Hurrying to an American Girl in Paris. (National News Association) PARIS, June 3. Hurrying on a mission of life or death, Miss Josephine Howard, an English actress, arrived in Paris from London early today in response to a note from Mrs. Marie Van Ransaimer Barnes, an American woman, who threatened to commit suicide because of the marriage of Walter De Mumm, the rich vintner, to Miss Florence Scoville, daughter of a Seneca, Kansas banker. "Mrs. Barnes is infatuated with Mr. De Mumm and I am afraid she will carry out her threats," said Miss Howard. "She sent me a packet containing a few personal trinkets and -a letter and in the letter she told me of her intention to take her life. I hastened here at once to prevent her from carrying out her threat. I believe she is lonely, but with companionship she may arise from her flespondency. Mr. De Mumm once cared rery much for Mrs. Barnes and they ' were together often bat his marriage to Miss Scovflle shows that this ' live on his part is dead." " Mrs. Barnes was accused last December of shooting Walter De Mumm m her apartments following his decla ration that their friendship must end. Mrs. Barnes went to London although no criminal charge was lodged against her, the Mumm family desiring to keep the affair as secret as possible. Mr. De Mumm spent some time in a private hospital. Mrs Barnes has lived in Paris for some time,- and has attracted considerable attention by her dashing styl? and her disregard of money. She was born near Easton, Pa., and in her girlihood was a restaurant waitress,

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The above photograph was taken last month when the government engineers, after having completed the Panama Canal, solved the problem o f removing the great earthen barrier that had held back the waters of the simultaneous explosion of 19 tons of dynamite. (Copyright by International News Service).

ADDITIONS TO THE FREE LIST CERT President Sanctions Placing Cattle and Wheat on NonDutiable Schedule, (National News Association) WASHINGTON, June 3 The free list of the Underwood tariff bill will be augmented further by the addition of cattle and wheat, according to a statement of Senator Simmons of North Carolina after a conference with President Wilson today. It had been stated previously that the president was opposed to the inclusion of these articles in the free list, but Senator Simmons said today that the chief executive had signified his willingness to have the duty re moved from both these classes of imports. They, therefore, will be placed on the free-list before the bill is reported back to the senate. JAPAN AVOIDS THE PEACE PACT PLAN Informs Bryan It Is Interested, but Not Yet Ready to Take Action. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, June 3. Secretary of State Bryan after a conference with President Wilson today announced that Japan has not fully accepted the United States' peace overtures as reported. The Japanese government, the secretary stated, had expressed itself as being interested in the general peace movement but has not indicated that it will ally itself with the United States in an attempt to secure the total abolition of war. JAPAN MUST WAIT. TOKIO, June 3. In response to interpolations by the members of the diet Baron Makino, foreign minister, announced today that Japan could not institute legal proceedings against California's alien land law until the end of August, when the measure goes into effect. In the meantime diplomatic protests will continue to be made. A BAND OFPIRATES Operating About New York City Now. (National News Association) NEW YORK, June 3 In the discovery today of the existence of a murderous band of "bay pirates" infesting the Fens and bogs of Sheepshead and adjacent bays preyed upon lonely and defenseless women, is believed to lie the solution of the disappearance of Mrs. Olga M. Housman, a pretty young Brooklyn dressmaker, who was. last seen canoeing off Plum Island in Sheepshead Bay Saturday evening. The theory that Mrs. Housman was slain is strengthened by the fact that last one week earlier Mrs. Alfred Sherndal of Sheepshead Bay, was the victim of a strange death. Her body was found tied to a stake in a shallow part of the bay." Mrs. Housman had $300 with her when she disappeared and the police now believe she was murdered for this money. The police -boats and detectives in motorboats are searching every nook and cranny of the bay. BOUNCED FROM JOB (National News Association) WASHINGTON, June 3. Secretary of Treasury McAdoo announced today be has requested the resignation of Frederick Stratton, collector of customs of San Francisco. The secretary declined to state on what grounds he based his action,

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Lucas Tells of Murdering Parker; Story is Doubted

Place Where He Said He Placed Body to Be Examined, However Dr. Markley Thinks Lucas Is Dying. According to the statement of Dr. S. C. Markley, physician for the county jail, Seth Lucas, confessed wifeslayer, will probably never come to trial for his crime, because he can not live more than a week longer unless there is a radical change for the better in his condition. It was learned today that Sunday a prisoner at the county jail reported that Lucas had confessed to him that he had killed Winfleld Parker, the Center township farmer who has been missing since 190S, and another man whose name he would reveal later. Lucas, the prisoner stated, said he had thrown the body in a well near a deserted blacksmith shop across the creek from the Lucas farm. An investigation was made by the authorities, but nothing was found in the ,well. Last night Turnkey Rice Miller talked to Lucas, and the man repeated the same story he had told the prisoner, but added that he had later taken'the body from the well at the blacksmith shop and had dropped it in a shallow well on the farm of Ather Way, north of Webster. This well is only used for drainage purposes and is in an out of the way place. It is probable that an examination will be made of it, but the authorities place little credence in Lucas' story. Lucas told Miller that he had killed Parker with a sledge hammer on the night of Parker's disappearance, following an angry dispute in the abandoned blacksmith shop. Dr. Markley positively states that $50,000 IN JEWELS ARE STOLEN TODAY Daring Robbery in the Heart of the Rich Diamond District of Gotham. (National News Association) NEW YORK, June 3 Daring jewel robbers today robbed the office of J. B. Theise, eleventh floor, of 47 and 49 Maiden lane, in the heart of the richest jewelry district of America. They took a satchelful . of uncut diamonds worth $50,000. The gems had been brought from the safe deposit vault at 170 Broadway, where they had been kept after business hours. Theise made the trip to the vault in person to insure the safety of the jewels. When he reached his office with the precious stones he set the satchel cn his desk, then left the room for Several minutes, going to a washroom. . When he returned the satchel was gone. He said be did not notice any one following him, nor had he seen any one in the-corridor outside his office. His explanation of the theft made the case one of the biggest mysteries ever placed in the hands of the police to solve. STONE AGE JOKE MAY CAUSE DEATH (National News Association MILWAUKEE, Wis., June 3 "If you were my husband, I'd give you poison. "If I were your husband, Td take it." This veteran vaudeville joke was heard for the first time by Julius Jeswin, aged 34. He laughed so loud and so long that the show was interrupted until he was helped out to the sidewalk. He continued laughing until at the end of 16 hours he became ' so weak he lost consciousness. Physicians today were watching him every moment fearing the violent laughter will cause his death.

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Lucas' mental condition for the past four or five days has been such that no dependance can be placed in any statements he has made in that time. "Lucas is slowly starving and this, combined with the great nervous strain the man is suffering under and his refusal to drink or sleep makes his case very critical. I do not see how he can live a week longer unless there is a radical change for the better." said Dr. Markley. The doctor also stated that Lucas has not slept the past three days and nights nor had anything to eat or drink for the past two days. Last night he stood up in his cell 11 the time and this morning an attempt to force him to eat some food was unsuccessful. He was induced to take a little water but he promptly spat it upon Dr. Markley. "When Lucas was talking to me last night he appeared to be rational and followed the story he told the prisoner very closely," stated Turnkey Miller today. "Once I tried to trip him by saying 'so you killed Parker with a hatchet?' but he contradicted me by saying, 'no I killed him with a sledge hammer,' just as he had told the prisoner previously. He also said he had sent three people to heaven and would tell who his third victim was later." Today Lucas refused to talk to any one and spent most of his time picking at his face. Ather Way this afternoon stated that the well on his farm where Lucas said he placed the body of Parker was about five feet deep and was dug in 1908 or 1909. Kirk McMahan, who lives on an adjoining farm, and who dug the well, says that he does not see how Lucas could have possibly placed Parker's body in it for after its completion he covered it over with boards and then cemented it. However, he will make an examination of the well. TELEPHONE GABLE DAMAGED BY BOYS Cable Is Target for Youths With Air Rifles in South Side. Youthful "Wild Wests," "Pawnee Bills," and other famous shots, have nothing on a band of boys, who armed with Flobert rifles and air rifles, have been engaged in perforating lead cabbies of the telephone company in the vicinity of South Fifth and E streets. One piece of cable, exhibited by Wm. Bailey, manager of the telephone company, had fifty-seven holes in it, and three more shots had grazed the edge of the cable. The holes were not apparent from the ground, and when water leaked through and destroyed the use of the cables, many searches were made for the leaks. Monday the cable was tested again and the target for the boys" rifles found. ' About $100 had been spent by the telephone company in searching for the holes made by the boys' guns. If the culprits are caught, they will be punished severely, Mr. Bailey states. WERE BURIED ALIVE (National Newa Association) ATLANTIC CITY, June 3. Two of the three young children of George Walls, proprietor of the Chelsea baths who were burled alive by a maniac yesterday, were today believed to be dying. . The lunatic, who is said to be the wayward son of a prominent Philadelphia family is under constant guard in the jail and will be removed to an asylum for the insane. When Walls tried to rescue his children the maniac tried to drive him away and later the crazy man put up a teriffic battle when officers tried to arrest him. A child who saw the insane man bury the children notified Mr. Walls.

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work in the Miraf lores lock of the Pacific by blowing it away with a RICHMOND MAN MAY BUY SCHOOL BONDS Board Is Unable to Award $35,000 Issue to Fletcher American Bank Co. As school bonds can not be sold below par, the school board did not award the $35,000 issue to the Fletcher American Bank company Saturday afternoon. The bonds pay four per cent interest, and run for eight years. The only bid, that of the Fletcher company, was to take the bonds at par, the city to pay $500 for an Investigation into the validity of the issue. The school board believes the bonds will be disposed of at par, a local business man stating yesterday that he probably would make' a bid for the bonds at par. If he does so, he will be awarded the bonds. In case the school board can not get par for the bonds, the percent of interest will be raised to . four and one-half per cent. The bonds are issued to cover the cost of erection and furnishing the new West Side school on South West Second street. FIRST SPEECH OF CAMPAIGN IS MADE Candidate for Progressive Nomination for Mayor Talked at K. of P. Hall. Before a good sized audience of shop men and business men Alfred Bavis, candidate for nomination for mayor on the Progressive ticket, outlined his platform at the Pythian Temple last evening. Bavis told very plainly what course he ' would pursue if elected. In the course of his Bpeech Mr. Bavis said: "I have found it impossible to cover as much ground as I desired, hence this meeting. I have no desire to take advantage of other candidates and I hereby cordially invite them to share the platform and time with me. This does not apply to candidates for mayor alone but to all candidates. "I have been objected to because my parents selected the wrong geographical location for my birth. I am a foreigner and must plead guilty to that, though I have been in this country for 24 years. I came here from England. It is also claimed that I do not pay my taxes. This is untrue. There is a difference between a man who cannot and will not pay. Because I was working for fifteen cents per hour in a factory I was unable to pay them for a time and they became delinquent. I wrote to the county treasurer and asked him for an itemized statement of my taxes which I never received. I then asked the auditor for such a statement and did not receive it. When I was able to get a statement after many months I paid my taxes to the present treasurer. No Secret Sessions. "I promise to devote my entire time to the duties of the office if elected. If the office is not worth a man's entire time he should not take it. The mayor should be familiar with every detail of every department that he might intelligently exercise his authority In the management of the city affairs. I shall solicit the co-operation of the press. The latch strings to the mayor's office shall be on the outside and no star chamber sessions will be held." CLARK FORECASTS A VERY LONG SESSION (Nation! News Association) WASHINGTON, June 3. Speaker Clark's prediction that congress will be in session until October 1 is believed to forecast a long wrangle over currency reforms and a record-breaking debate on the tariff in the senate. While the Democratic caucus was adopting a resolution to limit the legislative program in the house Speaker Clark observed that with the work already cut out for it congress "will be here about October L. -

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SIDESTEPPED A No Attempt Made to Elect a School Trustee for Committee Not Pleased Over Outlook for Candidate. JOHNSTON REFUTES WILLIAMS' REPORT Denied that He Would Not Be Candidate Unless He Received the Unanimous Support of Councilmen. Presentation of nominations and the election of a member of the school board did not come up at the council meeting last night, despite the statement made yesterday afternoon by. Chairman Oscar Williams of th school committee that such acUon would be taken, and that there was no opposition to the committee's candidate. George SeldeL However, it developed before council was called f ordtr that -Williams optimistic ata-- .b9 .mad without any-f ' t instead of tfcr - -Seldel. the eomt. there was a decided vor of the re-election of Dr.VW". Johnston. Consequently, the commit tee discretely decided to postpone th school trustee election for two more weeks in the hope that during that time the prospects for their candidate) might become brighter. A few days ago Councilman WiW liams stated that the school oo mm It-

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tee favored Mr. Seidel to succeed Dr. Johnston on the board, becaua .he . would be better versed in vocational ' training, which course Is to receive) I more consideration In the future He J also stated that Mr. Seidel's nuns would not be presented in nomination , if he could not receive the unanimous A support of council. A Change In Front. However, the committee Is not cow insisting on its candidate's unanimous election, and no such demand is mads by the other candidate. Dr. Johnston, who stated today that Williams had no authority to make the statement he did yesterday that he (Dr. Johnston) had told Williams he would withdraw his . ca ndidacy unless assured that every member of council would vote for him. Dr. Johnston also refuted another

statement made by Williams yesterday, that Councilman Von Pein would

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.nr. von rein is to piace my nam in nomination," Dr. Johnston said, "and you can state that he will have the nnnnrtnnitv tn An art at thm nTt'

council meeting, for I am in the race i to stay." Dr. Johnston further stated that h

had had a conference with Mr. Seidel,' and the latter bad told him he did notknow Dr. Johnston was a candidate for re-election, bat that it was too late' for him to withdraw his candidacy) now, for he had pledged himself to make the race. i A Square Away Fight. . "That means it's a square awsyi fight between us, added Dr. Johnston. "and the man that gets the majority of votes wins." It is understood that one of the! most active opponents of Dr. John ston's candidacy is D. D. Ramsay, principal of the Whitewater school. Ram-J say was the leading advocate of the adoption of the school teachers pen-j sion grab, which was so bitterly and' successfully opposed by Dr.-Johnston.! It will be impossible for the school committee to hold up the school trus-l tee election any longer than the third Monday in June, for the law provide! that such elections shall be held la the month of June.

BOYS B1TTEII BY DOGS! ' Canines Confined on Order! of Health Officer

Two rat terrier dogs. belonging to Charles Pitman, city meat inspector, are being confined since they bit two small boys named Clemens Monday. Pitman says one of the lads attempted to pick up one of the dogs and was bitten on the finger. "Funny." the small terrier may or may not be confined for the full ten days which county health officer has ordered. Ten days will allow rabies to develop if the dog has the disease. "Funny" so far has chewed his way through two muzzles, two ropes tied around his neck, and through the end of a wooden box in which he was nailed. The dog was placed in the second story of the barn and Jumped out, alighting without a scratch, and running under another barn nearby. All exits were nailed and Tunny Is sow living nnder the barn with a family of half grown kittens. The mother cat cannot get into the barn without the dog being let out. The health officer refuses to allow the dogs to be killed. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Generally fair . tonight and Wednesday; slightly eolsr tonleM. . ... . .

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