Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 214, 17 July 1913 — Page 1

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MAYOR WILL GIVE OPINION ON RATES OF PLANT MONDAY

'Some Councilmen Believe City Light Rates Should Be Lowered. ! A HEARING IN SEgT. Zimmerman Now in Favor of City's Paying For Its Street Lighting. The city light plant will seek a Ihearing from the public utilities comtnission in September according to a fclan of Superintendent Nimrod Johnon and City Attorney Will Bond. The purposes of the hearing -will be to settle any disputes arising over contracts, joint poles, right-of-ways and other matters. The question of 4 downward revision of the rates may also be brought before the commission but this has not been definitely decided, as yet, and will be brought fcefore the councilmen for their views. The city light plant and the Light, Heat and Power company, hold many joint contracts with companies in the -city and any question as to these will be settled. The question of running La Joint pole system through certain I parts of the city will be brought up I for the decision of the commission. Superintendent Johnson does not ' want the hearing to be before September as the light plant Is very busy j at present. Part of the new machinery "will have been installed at the plant by September. The question of ldwering the light 'plant rates for electricity has been ! before council several times prior to the formation of the public service commission but no action was taken ' towards a revision of the rates. When the public service law was passed the councilmen believed that the matter should be left entirely to the com- ( mission. Talk on Rates Monday. Mayor Zimmerman refused to commit himself on the matter today, but announced that he will talk on the subject at council Monday night. Superintendent Nimrod Johnson, while he formerly stated that he was in .favor of lowering the light plant rates, refused to express' himself today but stated that he wants toe pub,11c service commission to go over the plant and decide the question. The councilmen are divided on whether the rates should be lowered. Several of them believe the present rates are fair while others say that a 1 cent or 2 cent reduction per kilowatt should be made. May Make City Pay. There seems to be no doubt among city officials that the commission will require that the city pay for the street and city lighting at the same rate that Is charged other consumers. Mayor Zimmerman stated that he is in favor of this and will recommend It to council if the commission does not make the ruling immediately. An entire revision of the bookkeeping system of the light plant is necessary on account of the complex reports required monthly by the commission. A form Is being prepared ,by the commission and every public service corporation in the state will be obliged to keep Its books on the same system. Must Get New Books. The light plant has not adopted the '.new form as the commission has not jsent full explanations of the requirepents. It will cost the light plant ;and other public utilities of the city Hundreds of dollars to change the j bookkeeping as new books must be i printed for every department, of which there will be many more than formerly, according to the ruling of the commission. CLUB FOR FARMERS NOW CONTEMPLATED County Agent Cobb and C. W. Jordan Arrange For Organization. County Agent Cobb and Charles W. Jordan, secretary of the Commercial 'Club will meet with the farmers at District No. 6 school house Sunday afternoon. At this time it is probable a permanent organization, called the Farmers' Club, will be perfected for the purpose of studying farm conditions and the means for improving methods. The Club will bear the same relation to the community that the i Commercial Club does to the city. ; It will also co-operate with the local Commercial Club, realizing that the interests of the city and the country Are identical. (TEN DOG OWNERS TO BE PROSECUTED Ten persons will be prosecuted for failure to pay their dog taxes which became delinquent several weeks ago. (The affidavits were filed In tbe office of Justice of Peace Luther Abbott. Thirty-five names were given the authorities but many had moved to different localities or denied owning a Pog. , , -

NEW VICTIMS OF J. ED. MOORE BEING ADDED TO LONG LIST

Peter Smith, FarrrfSr, Who Never Saw Moore, Had His Name Forged to Note That Melli -Bought. Tuesday Peter Smith, a wealthy farmer, living two and a half miles north of Kagerstown, received a notice from the Dickinson Trust company that his note for $500, endorsed by his brother, John S. Smith, was due. Much surprised. Smith came to Richmond Wednesday and notified the Trust company that he had no note out. An investigation disclosed the fact that J. Ed Moore had fraudulently signed Smith's name to the note and sold it to Julius Melli, who had given it to the Trust company for collection. Smith Was Indignant. Mr. Smith was Indignant when he received the notice and stated while here that he had never seen Moore and did not know such a man was in existence. Thousands of dollars worth of notes fraudulently endorsed and signed with names of prominent men in Wayne and Preble counties have been circulated and each day new victims of Moore's are being listed. The name of Frank Orr of Williamsburg was among those signed to notes sold to Mr. Melli, it was learned today. The shoemaker alto held notes

TRAFFIC PA TROLMAN DOES NOT

CARE TO WEAR He Would Have 'Em Soiled in Five Minutes Has Little Or No Trouble in the Direction of Traffic. "White gloves are all right in their place but I don't believe they should be worn by traffic patrolmen in Richmond, "said George Staubach, genial traffic patrolman stationed at Eighth and Main streets. "Why, if I were to wear white or yellow gloves, such as traffic patrolmen in larger cities wear, I would have them soiled within five minutes after I donned them. Whenever a driver gets in trouble or his horse falls down I always help him, while in other cities the traffic patrolman is not required to do this. The gloves are just for style any way and I don't go much on style. "It's let George do it, but I should worry. Whenever there's anything to PLAN TO WORK ALL PRISONERS AT FARM Some County Officials dorse the Proposition. InINMATES CANT WORK The inmates of the county jail may be put to work at the Wayne County Infirmary if the plan submitted to the commissioners and Sheriff Bayer is put into effect. It is proposed to force I the inmates of the jail to work at the farm and do the work of the men now hired by the county. Men sentenced to the jail are not adverse to cutting grass at the court house or mopping the floors of the county building. Whenever repair or cleaning work is needed at any of the county buildings the men are always willing to work and apparently enjoy the diversion. According to Supt. Brumfield, of the infirmary, there is not a man confined at the institution who is capable of doing a day's work. All of the inmates he says are shiftless and lazy or incapable of working. Sheriff Bayer said the plan would not work as the prisoners would refuse to work. Other county officials believe if the men can be sentenced to a workhouse they can be sentenced to labor at the farm. Commissioner Anderson said the inmates of the infirmary are unable to work and the plan of working out the jail prisoners would be looked into. The men can be hired out to the city to work on the city streets but the sum of $2 per day would have to be paid into the county treasurrer for every man used. They are permitted to do the county work in many instances. AN EIGHT YEAR OLD BOY ASKS LICENSE TO MARRY Philip Wilmer Long, aged 8, 32 North Seventh street, is the youngest applicant for a marriage license who has ever applied at the office of the Wayne county clerk. Barefooted and with a dirty face. Long went into the clerk's office and said he wanted to get married. "Who do you want to marry" the boy was asked. "Any nice girl" he said. "I thought maybe some one around here would find me a girl." "You will have to wait until you are old enough and then maybe we can find someone for you. You are too young to secure a license," the official told the boy. Philip is a very industrious young man and is very successful as a business man. He sells peanuts and chewing gum and said he proposes to use his savings to buy a monument for his mother's grave.

signed by Harrison Wooters, a prominent farmer living west of Fountain City with his brother-in-law. E. E. Ford as indorser; Charles Knoll, William Bennett formerly of Fountain City. August Knoll and Charles Coppock. The notes were for $500 each and were all forgeries. Departs With Rentals. It has been learned that Moore Is alleged to have obtained much money through the collection of rents. The Saturday night prior to his departure he went to several properties and

collected rents for a prominent busi- j ness man of Richmond. At 5 o'clock Monday morning he was at work again completing these collections which he took with him when he left town a few hours later. The name of the man whom he swindled in this manner has been withheld. Why no effort is made to capture Moore is not explained. Indications point to the fact that he swindled Melli of considerable money, but the shoemaker firmly sticks to his opinion that "everything will come out all right." No estimate can be made yet of the amount of money Moore is alleged to have raised by illegal methods. Prosecutor Reller has received no official notice of the fraudulent deals and the police have not been asked to find the missing real estate agent. WHITE GLOVES be done regarding the control or direction of traffic they come to me and I do it for as long as I am traffic patrolman at this corner I'm going to see that it is directed in the right manner." Staubach declares that he has had little or no trouble during the period he has held the post. All Follow Directions. "Everyone seems to be willing to follow directions," said Staubach. "Street car and interurban motormen are more than willing to hold their cars until I give them directions to proceed. The only trouble I have is with strangers or persons living out of the city. "On Saturday nights Richmond could make good use of more traffic patrolmen, but during the daytime I believe no more traffic men should be put on the 'force as there is no necessity for more right now." AUTO BACKS OVER A STREET CUBBING Machine, Dashing Backwards Almost Strikes Two Women and a Child. A machine driven by an employe of the Auto Inn backed over the curbing in front of the garage last evening, bursting the two rear tires, springing the axle, and nearly hitting two women and a small child. The car is owned by Frank I Braffett. The driver of the car was in the middle of Main street and had hi?, car in reverse. When he attempted to change his shifting gear his clutch would not yield and the car backed ever the curbing at a fast clip and continued to run over the sidewalk and up the grass bank in front of the garage. Two women and a child were standing on the sidewalk and did not know which way to turn as the car was making a zigzag course. They were directly in the path of the car when it swerved from its course, backing up the incline in front of the garage. FACULTYOFEARLHAM Two New Teachers Will Take Up Work in Fall. Miss Gladys Bassett, who has been appointed to take the place of Miss Marshall as physical director at Earlham college, will assume her new duties next fall. Earl Stanley Allen has been appointed to succeed Prof. Roderick Scott, who is to gb to China as a Y. M. C. A. worker. ARE HUNTING FOR A LEPROSY VICTIM (National News Association) CHICAGO, July IT. Somewhere in Chicago or a nearby city a leper is at large. Many persons in Chicago and Gary, Indiana, are known to have met the man who is suffering from leprosy. Two weeks ago the existence of the case was reported to the health department by a physician on whom the man called. When health inspectors attempted to find him, they learned that he had gone to Gary. Trace, of him was lost there, although the health authorities of Indiana and local police departments have been making a determined search for him. The persons who have met the leprosy victim in Chicago are being watched for symptoms ol the disease.

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WOULDN'T APPEAR T But Wash Hamilton Pleaded Guilty to Hitting Wife and Was Fined. Because his wife Mildred, refused to accompany him home last night while he was intoxicated, Wash Hamilton, colored, seized her and tried to drag her with him. She resisted and he beat her but when a patrolman interferred she defended her husband and stated that she would not appear against him for assault and .battery in police court. It was necessary for the patrolman to arrest her and .she was held in the city jail last night as a witness. She did not appear against her husband as he pleaded guilty to the charge and was : fined $1 and costs. APPOINT OFFICERS FOR LOCAL BRANCH Ensign and Mrs. Van Deville to Have Charge of Salvation Army. A MEETING TONIGHT Adjutant Emma Westbrook, specal worker in the Salvation Army, who was appointed to take the place of Ensign and Mrs. Deuter until regular officers could be appointed here, announced today that Ensign and Mrs. Van Deville, who. have been engaged in the work, in Indianapolis, will take charge of the local branchj They are to arrive here on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. Miss Westbrook says (hat they are thoroughly competent to handle the work in a satisfactory manner, as they have had experience in some of the larger cities in the state. The work under Miss Westbrook has been very successful, consider ing the short time that she has been in the city, and the . attendance at meetings has been increasing very rapidly. Tonight members of the North ! End Mission will attend in a body and hold special services in the' Salvation Army hall. IS SENT TO JAIL George Black, an aged man, who was arrested yesterday for public intoxication, following a fall down a stairway, was fined $5 and costs in police court this morning and was committed to the county jail. Black was in a serious condition yesterday from his fall which resulted in a cut on his head. He was delerious part of the time and it was necessary to watch him for some time. He has been intoxicated for seven weeks and is in a weakened condition.

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JUDGE REFUSES TO APPOINUOURBEER Latter Intended to Buy Estate While Acting As Administrator. Because he was a prospective purchaser of the estate of the late Catherine Fadley, Judge Fox refused to appoint Harry Sourbeer as administrator of the estate. Information to the effect that Sourbeer intended buying the property, while acting as administrator, was furnisjied the court iby Will Reller. Sourbeer was on an interurban and met Mr. Reller, who was going to Cambridge City to Investigate the charges against Sourbeer, made by relatives of the late Mrs. Fadley. Sourbeer frankly informed Reller that he was a prospective purchaser of the estate, which is valued at' $2,500 or $3,000. Bardick Not Critically Hurt, Attendants Say. The condition of Richard Bardick, who was injured yesterday afternoon by a C. & O. freight train south of Richmond is unchanged. Bardick was sitting on the track and did not notice the approaching train. His left arm was broken and his left side and leg were severely crushed. His condition is not critical, the hospital attendants believe. Bardick is a laborer employed by the railroad. HUNTS TENTS FOR LOCAL CHAUTAUQUA Ed Shera of the Chautauqua Committee is in Dayton today looking after tents for the assembly this season. Notice was given this morning that the plats for camping sites would be j opened to the old campers from August j August 6, The copy for the catalog was placed in the bands of- the printer yesterday. The Chautauqua association of Cambridge City has asked the Commercial club for the loan of the seats and fixtures used at the local grounds. The request will probably be granted, as the Cambridge assembly begins July 20 and will be over before, the Richmond Chautauqua opens. ABBOTT TO LEAVE Judge Luther C. Abbott expects to leave for a month's vacation in Massachusetts and New Hampshire the latter part of the month. He will spend some time with his children who live at Sommervllle, just outside Boston, and then go to a summer home of the family, ia the state of New. Hampshire.

CONDITION UNCHANGED

AMBASSADOR WILSON MA Y NEVER RETURN

WAYNE CO. MEN FORSAKE MEXICO; ANARCHY REIGNS Senator Walter Commons stated today that he had received word from his two sons. Dr. E. L. Commons and Charles Commons, sent from Los Angeles, to which place they m-nt after leaving Madera. Mexico, In the state of Chihuahua. The young men said that conditions in that part of Mexico were so intolerable that the lumber company for which thy were working had suspended operations, and that the anarchy-ridden republic was no place for Americans to live in. "My sons told me that there was really not a state of rebellion in Mexico; that the so-called rebels wore merely brigands who pillaged the country for loot." Senator Commons stand. "Bridges along the railroad line leading from Madera to El Paso. Texas, have been repeatedly burned down, the rails torn up. the general store of the company raided and its other properties looted. While no violence has been attempted against Americans the Mexicans are hostile to them and have been robbing them." "Do your sons think that intervention in Mexico on the part of the United States is advisable?" he was asked. As to Intervention. "When they were there they opposed sucn action, knowing such a movement would be a signal for a general massacre of Americans. Whether they have changed their minds since leaving Mexico I do not know." Warren Grubbs, formerly of Richmond and a grandson of Col. John F. Miller of this city, has also left Mexico. He was in the employ of the Madera Lumber company. E. Reynolds, a Wayne county man, recently returned to Hagerstown from Mexico. He had been at Metamoras, near Vera Cruz, but decided the country was not a healthy place to live in so he started for the American border, walking most of the way. For several days he and a companion walked through the jungles, living on wild fruits. Part of the distance they traveled on a handcar. Mr. Reynolds is now in northern Michigan for his health. Before leaving he told Hagerstown friends tnat the United States would eventually have to take a hand in the Mexican situation. LIVERY MEN WERE VICTIMSJF THIEF James Dolan, of Cambridge City, and E. A. Girton, of Eaton, Suffer. SHIPPED FROM CITY A clever horse thief, who made arrangements for shipping horses before he stole them, operated in this vicin ity last week and secured a horse from James Dolan of Cambridge City and another from E. A. Girton of Eaton. The thief shipped them to the Union Stock Yards at Cincinnati. Chief of Police Gormon was notified of the theft of Girton's horse Tuesday morning while Dolan did not come to him until this morning. Both men stated that the man who secured the horses is not more than 20 years old. a smooth talker and a fashionably dressed and well educated person. He informed them that he was a book agent, giving his name as C. J. Matthews. Brought Horses Here. Matthews hired a horse from Dolan on Saturday and drove it to this city. The police do not know where he left it then but on Monday he brought Dolan's horse and Girton's horse to Taylor's livery barn on North Eighth street and told the men there that the buggies would be called for but that he would take the horses with him that night. The thief had secured a car for the horses on Saturday before he hired either horse Monday night he billed the two horses to the Union Stock Yards at Cincinnati and left here at the same time. Said He Was Agent. Chief Gormon believes that Matthews is an experienced horse thief

and that he has been stealing stock ! heat crop in Wayne county has for some time. Gordon sent Girton been threshed. . j to Cincinnati and Dolan went there j The wheat has been seriously Imthis morning where It is believed Mat-JDaired because of the scattering of the ( thews can be caught unless he has whet shocks in order to dry them, i succeeded in disposing of the animals. jThey no sooner are in condition to The victims were told the same thresh when rains make it necessary S

stories by Matthews. He carried a valise to substantiate his story that he was a book agent. He paid both men for the hire of the horse for three days in order to ward off suspicion when he did not return at once with the animals. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAI Local showers tonight or Friday, except fair in extreme southeast portion; cooler tonight in northeast portion. TEMPERATURE Noon 87 Yesterday. Maximum S6 Minimum ... . . . . .j.. . . . . .. ,A (6

MEXICO CITY MUCH EXCITED OVER THE RECALL OF WILSON

Diplomat Departs For Washington to Explain Mexican Situation. A CONFERENCE HELD By President and Senator Bacon, Who Urges Recognition Policy. (National News Association MEXICO CITY. July IT. The following official statement was issued by the United States embassy here today relative to the trip of Ambassador Wilson to Washington. "The ambassador's trip to Washing ton is solely for the purpose of placing before the administration exact information in a thorough way, relative to the existing situation In Mexico. It has this purpose and no other and no construction should be placed on his departure other than the real one stated by the ambassador . In spite of this assurance a big sen pation was caused here by the depar ture of the diplomat. HE MAY NEVER RETURN. WASHINGTON. July IT. That Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson, now on his way northward from Mexico City, never will return to Mexico as the representative of the United States was stated authoritatively at the white house today. While the administration Is opposed to any act which might be taken as a recognition of the Huerta regime It is believed that the sudden crisis In Mexican affairs will force Washington to J accept Ambassador Wilson's resigna tion and to appoint his successor within a short time. Recognition Is Certain. The Huerta Government would be recognized if the United States were to send an ambassador to Mexico as a successor of Wilson. This was asserted -by state department officials today who added that there is no way in which the United States can change its attitude towards Mexico at present without involving a formal and solid recognition of President Huerta. There is no middle ground on which the United States could stand so as to save its fate in its present embarrassment and at the same time yield to the pressure now being placed u-on it by certain European powers. President Wilson conferred with Senator Bacon chairman of the Senate committee on foreign affairs today. The Georgia senator pointed out that the opposition of the Wilson administration to the Huerta government, if continued, would be fraught with an immense amount of danger to the Monroe Doctrine, the principals of which are considered to be in great peril. He said he was informed on all sides that a recognition of President Huerta by the United States would end the present trouble south of the Rio Grande and prevent the necessity of active in-, tervention. It is considered likely that the president will consider it wiser to, , retreat from his announced Latin! American policy and recognize the: ' present Mexican government . rather; war. Before taking decisive steps however the president will await the arrival of Ambassador Wilson. FARMERS SAY RAIIi HAS INJURED WHEAT Some Wheat Has Now Started to Sprout, According to Commissioner. More rains may result in a loss of many thousands of dollars to the farmers who have wheat in the fields un- i threshed. Only a small per cent of to again dry tnem ont. Farmers east of Richmond reported that a few more rains will necessitate : the selling of the wheat at a much lower figure from what it is worth aa ; It will be partially sprouted. County Commissioner Anderson 'has visited farms in the northern part of . the county and says the danger of the wheat sprouting In that community was great. Clarke Brothers, millers, of Fountain City, reported that If one , grain of wheat was found In a carload, by grain scorers which had sprouted, the entire shipment would be rated third class. This rating would be made though the rest of the shipment might be first class. Crops. In general. In Wayne county never looked more promising than this year, according to Mr. Anderson, - A

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