Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 215, 18 July 1913 — Page 1
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HALE SAYS HUERTA v REGIME IS TO' BE jHORT LIVED special Diplomatic Agent Advises Against Any Recognition Now.
CONFERENCE HELD President Discusses Mexican Situation Bryan Being Criticised. 'TT (National News Association) WASHINGTON, July 18. In preparation of the arrival of Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson from Mexico, President Wilson today requested the state department to furnish him with a full and complete file of all the information relative to the troubles in Mexico from the beginning of the Madero revolt to the present time. This vast mass of documents will be read thoroughly by the President so that be will be informed as to all the developments of the Mexican situation before the arrival of the ambassador. Bryan Sees President. ; Secretary Bryan who returned from the first lap of his Chautauqua tour this morning called on the President and brought with him a large bundle of telegrams and correspondence relative to conditions in Mexico. They included a number of dispatches from William Bayard Hale, President Wilson's personal representative in Mexico City. Mr. Hale does not consider that the Huerta regime will last long and advises the administration against present recognition. . The Mexican correspondent also formed the principal topic at the cabinet session today. Suspicions of the sincerity of the representations made to the United States by several nations on the Mexican situation have been raised by the trial of high finance that has been found running through them all. HE NEEDS THE MONEY. WASHINGTON, July 18. While Mr. Eryan was delivering a lecture at Mountain Park last night an American citizen was being tortured in Chihuahua. TeleeraDhic appeals for help calmly reposed on the secretary's desk until he returned. Today he canceled most of his lecture tour. " On July 12, a prominent member of congress received a letter from owners of a million-dollar sugar plantation in Chihuahua notifying him that their superintendent had been kidnapped and taken into the mountains where he was being tortured and held for $5,000 ransom. The bandits supposed the ransom would be promptly paid. No one in authority, however, was on the plantation after the superintendent was carried off, and appeal was made to the owners. This letter was forwarded to Mr. Bryan, accompanied, with a strong plea for immediate action. The member of congress waited anx iously for five days expecting definite news from the department that it had secured the prisoner's release. Today lT telephoned .the department for information. The Latin-American bureau answered that Mr. Bryan was away making a speech and nothing could be done until his return. 2 T THE CAR COMPANY W. Weatherly and Jones Estate to Make Demand For Settlements. Two claims for damages will be Jlled with the Traction company as the result of the death of Mrs. A. E. Jones and the serious injury of Wil- j liam Weatherly by street cars, accord- j ing to statements made by Attorneys Clark and Allen, this morning. Cecil L. Clark, attorney for William Weatherly, 809 North I street, who was struck by an Eight street line car at the corner of Eighth and North C streets, stated this morning that his client would ile a claim for damages with the company. The amount to be asked, he 6aid, had not been determined, and would depend upon Weatherlys condition. At present he is able to be up for a few minutes at a time. Because of II severely wrenched back he will be kept from his work for many weeks. He also suffers from severe headaches, from the blow which he received on the back of his head. Attorney Clark said that the company had made an offer of settlement, but that it was not satisfactory. If settlement can not be made out of court, he said, a suit would be brought. Weatherly is still under the care of ft physician. That a claim for damages would be filed with the Traction company because of the death of Mrs. A. E, Jones, who was struck by a belt lise car at the corner of Eighth and North A streets, was the statement of Joshua Allen, attorney for the estate. The claim has not been filed, he stated, . but would be as soon as he had completed his examination of the Witnesses. He said the estate would be willing to settle the matter by compromise, but that if satisfactory ad justment could not be obtained, thei &se would go to the courts.
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TAKING TESTIMONY T PATENT CASE HERE Priority of Invention of Ma? chine at Local Fence Co. in Question. A BIG SUM INVOLVED Testimony is now being taken in Richmond in the case of John W. Dwiggins of Knightstown, Ind., against Pettis A. Reid, Walter V. Reid and James Kelly of the Elliott Reid Fence company, Richmond. Interference in the patent office is alleged. The case was filed in the United States court at Indianapolis. Attorney Charles W. La Porte of Peoria, 111., representing the plaintiff, and Attorney Julian C. Dowell of Washington, representing the defendant, are in the city conducting the taking of testimony. The plaintiff and the defendants in the case each claim priority in the invention of a fence making machine now used by the Elliott, Reid Fence company and thousands of dollars are at stake. In fact, it is stated, the case In one of the most important involving a patent filed in Indiana for many years. Both Claim Priority. It is understood that the Dwiggins machine and the machine used at the local factory are practically the same nd Dwiggins on the ond hand and the Reids and Kelly on the other claim their invention was the first perfected. Mr. La Porte admitted today that question of whether the Elliott, Reid Fence company is a part of the steel trust enters into the case and that this fact will undoubtedly be definitely determined in the course of its progress. He said, however, that the United States government was not officially interested in determining this fact in the case in question. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Fair tonight "and Saturday.
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ing his remarkable bronze portrait of I Ascoli for the kindness of Mr. Morthe late J. P. Morgan. gan. The bronze will be placed on a specially designed pedestal In "Florl NEW YORK, July 18. Sciarriano j Port Maggiore," the most beautiful Cartaino Pietro, the foremost Italian , park in the town, as a special tribute
sculptor in this city, has completed his bronze portrait bust of the late J. Pierpont Morgan, and it is a truely remarkable work. J. Pierpont Morgan, son of the late financier, and his sister, Mrs. Herbert Saterlee, have pronounced the bust to be a perfect work. The bust was ordered by Ascoli Piceno. a little Italian city, where it will be placed as a lasting memento
VAN BUS KIRK ASTOUNDED 'OVER NUMBER OF OFFERS
Young Man Looking For a Wife Surprised So Many Girls Are Ready to Embark on the Seas of Matrimony Gets Nearly 100 Letters. Young girls, old girls, slender girls, and those with considerable avoirdupois; brown-eyed lassies, with- long, flowing hair; the affectionate kind, the good-looking kind; those who know how to cook, and those who don't; and, oh, yes, those who-wteit marjy: just for love only in fact, every kind of a girl imaginable, answered the advertisement of Lawrence Van Buskirk, the New Lisbon farmer, wno wants to find a life mate before he celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of his birth, said anniversary occurring July 29 of this year. Van Buskirk Bewildered. "I don't know what to do," said the bewildered and lonesome Van Buskirk. "I have received between fifty and one hundred letters from girls in Richmond, Wayne county and surrounding towns and cities, and I tell you it's hard to choose. When I start to go over the letters, and kind a sort them out, I just think- what's the use. I guess the only way I could decide on the right kind of a life partner would be to line 'em all up on a street and take a look at each one. "You know you can't tell anything about a girl by the kind of a letter she writes. Well, it's a fact. One girl, living north of the railroad in Riverdale, wrote me a letter. She was a good writer. She used the 'highfalutin English language, and her penmanship was above the average. I thought that this was the girl for me, so I dolled up and took a taxi to her residence. I tell you I was so pleased with the world in general, and myself in particular, that I tipped MACHINE HAS NOT BEEN USED SO FAR The motorcycle which was furnished to the police department for use for week, has not been used as yet. The reason for this, it is understood, is because the police authorities are adverse to using the machine unless they Intend to purchase it. The motorcycle is still at police headquarters and may I be used in case of necessity. GIVEN LOW FINES Charles Kidwell and Robert Simpson were fined $1 and costs, each, in police court this morning for public intoxication.. The men were in the Starr Park last night and refused to return to their homes when ordered to do so by a policeman. SWISS GUARDS AT VATICAN IN MUTINY ROME, July IS. A mutiny among the Vatican Swiss guards the second within four days occurred today. Upon orders from Pope Pius X., the soldiers were seized, disarmed and placed under arrest. They were replaced by gendarmes who may remain as the permanent military police at the Vatican. Attempts to curtail the wine supply of the Swiss guards led to the disaffection. Hitherto the guardsmen were allowed an unlimited supply of wine. When orders were issued cutting down the drink allowance the men began to murmur and finally refused to do guard dutyl That was four days ago. A truce was patched up but when the second outbreak took place today the men were put under arrest.
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of the appreciation of the people of to Mr. Morgan for his act in returning the stolen cope of Pope Nicolo IV. The cope, which was stolen many years ago, came into the hands of Mr. Morgan through a dealer, the price paid being 375,000 francs. Later, when Morgan Jearned that the cope had before its theft been one of Ascoli's most revered relics, he returned it to that city voluntarily. the taxi driver two bits. .Well, I knocked at the door, and the girl had an expression on her .face that would signify that the world owed her something, so I beat it. Reads a Sample Letter. "I got letters not only from girls in towns in Wayne county, but from Marion, Anderson, Newcastle, Muncie, Indianapolis and other cities. Just as a sample to show you what kind of letters they write, I will read you one which I received from Indianapolis this morning. Here It goes: " 'Dear Lawrence Does she need to be a really beautiful woman? Couldnt she be attractive and affootlnnnto nA 51t lu V.o ntM4i:i. -A " 'Plenty of others who want her, but still she might take Just you. 'If you wish to know more about her, address CELIA DEERWESTER. 'Indianapolis, Ind.' " Van Buskirk says many Richmond girls asked him to meet them on some corner or at lovers' roost in the postoffice, but he says he Goes not like to do this. In explaining his adversity to meeting girls on street corners. Van Buskird speaks thusly: Against Street Meetings. "You see about, a year and a half ago I was in Anderson, and I met a girl on the street corner. We were talking quietly, when a copper came up and pinched me. I don't recollect the charge, but I do recollect that I paid $22 as a fine. So. you see, I take no chances. They've got to make regular dates with me at their homes, or they don't get to have the chance to rope me in on a matrimonial scheme. See?" The news ferret didn't exactly see. However, Van Buskirk was informed that anything the scribe could do for him would be done.- "I've heard so much about the smooth seas of domestic joys that I would like to sail out on the ocean of life with a mate before my thirtieth milestone comes," Van Buskirk concluded. RIVERDALE IS AN ORDERLY PLACE NOW Riverdale is one of the most orderly sections of the city, according to Groville Bundy, night patrolman for that section of the city. "Years ago Riverdale was considered one of the 'toughest' sections of the city, though there has not been a burglary committed there for over a year," said the officer. "A bicycle can be left standing along the streets of Rtverdaie and" It won't be stolen, which is more than you can say of North Eighth or Main street," he said. Most .of the trouble on Bundy's beat is caused by Oghting, he said. 300 MILES AUTO TRIP FOR JUDGE I ! "Doing any literary work these days. Judge?" some one asked Judge Henry C. Fox of the Wayne circuit court, who is the author of several popular books. "My literary" days are over," he replied. "Most of my spare time is now devoted to preparations for the Kingdom of Heaven. Right now I am going to a doctor's office." It was then learned that a little automobile tour of some 300 odd miles last Sunday had somewhat fatigued the 77 year old jurist. If he had not told it no one would ever have known the judge was not in the very best of health. His many friends believe he will have a long time to jyepare for the next world.
William Bayard Hale2 M On a Mexicn Mission
Former Richmond Man, It Was Learned Today, Is in That Republic Representing President. His Reports Will Have Great Weight With President Wilson in Forming His Mexican Policy. William Bayard Hale, formerly of Richmond, now editor of "World's Work," and one of the most famous journalists in America, is now in Mexico on a personal mission for President Wilson. This fact came to light today, although Mr. Hale left for Mexico two months ago. Mr. Hale is a brother of Alton Hale and Miss Minnie Hale of this city. Mr. Hale is one of President Wilson's closest friends and most trusted advisors and it has been said of him that he had more to do with Wilson's election than any other one man, having had
ICE IS SENT TO HOT ROOM OF SICK CHILD
Family of Joseph Pyles, in Destitute Circumstances, Is Helped By Palladium Free Ice Fund. Living in a two-room house at 272 Fort Wayne avenue, surrounded by brick streets and buildings, where the passing wagons make a nerve racking roar all the day long, lives Joseph Pyles with his wife and two little children, one of whom is seriously sick. The family sent an appeal to the PaV ladium ice fund for help, and when the case was Investigated, the family was found to be in very destitute circumstances. The house, if it can be called such, isas hot as an -oven, for the sun beatstf6wh on It incessantly, and to augment this, all the cooking must be done on a large coal oil etove; the flies are very thick, and there are no screens at the doors and windows. The little girl, Vontello, aged 6, Is very sick with lung trouble and leakage of the heart, and is so weak that TABLES TURN AND GETS FINE Mrs. Stella Tracy Absolutely Refuses to Testify Against Her Husband. SHE STARTED BATTLE The tables were turned on Mrs. Stella Tracy, colored, 924 North Fourteenth street, today in police court when she tried to protect her husband from a charge of assault and battery preferred by herself. She said he was defending himself from her blow when he struck her on the nose. Prosecuting Attorney Reller filed an affidavit against the woman after she said that she had started the fight and she was fined $5 and costs. Yesterday the prosecutor heard her long story of her husband's abusiveness and when she pleaded to have the persecution stopped she was given an affidavit against her husband which she signed. When placed on the witness stand today and asked to tell her story to the court she replied at that it was "just a little family affair." The prosecutor asked her where her home was. She became sullen and replied three times in an undertone which could not be understood. When asked the fourth time she jumped and shouted her house number. She was fined $1 by the mayor for contempt of court. Irs. Tracy refused to tell the story of her troubles to the court. She was asked if her husband had not stuck a penknife into her side a month before. "No sah, he did not," said she. "He had a knife in his hand and ah run against it and got cut. He did not cut me," said the woman. "Tom my rot" Says His Honor. "Tommyrot," said the mayor. "Unless you get down to brass tacks and tell me what happened. I will send you to the penitentiary for a year and a half for perjury. For every time you i act smart to me I'm going to add another dollar to your contempt fine." "I tell you I am telling the truth, replied Mrs. Tracy. "My husband did not hit me until I hit him. I got this cut on my nose when I fell over his foot." "So you're guilty of assault and battery," asked the prosecutor. An affidavit was immediately procured and she pleaded guilty. Mayor Zimmerman dismissed the case against her husband who left at once to procure the money to pay Mrs. Tracy's fine.
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practically entire charge of the president's publicity campaign. "Published New Freedom." A few months ago Mr. Hale published the "New Freedom." a book containing all the principal addresses of President Wilson on vital questions. This book attracted nation wide attention. Mr. Hale has also written the life of Woodrow Wilson. It is probable that the president's
Mexican policy will ! based for the i most part on the reports he receives from his special envoy so great is his confidence" in the ability of the former Richmond man. After Mr. Hale completes his investigation of Mexican conditions he will visit all the other Central and South American republics and report on their political conditions to the president. Miss Hale Gets Letter. Miss Hale stated today that a few days ago she received a letter from her brother, mailed at Mexico City, in which be stated that conditions in Mexico were much more serious than he had imagined and that he would enter into a more detailed explanation of the situation in that republic in another letter. Asked If she believed that in riew of the present acute crisis in the Mexican situation Mr. Hale would be recalled to Washington to give the president first hand information. Miss Hale stated that she did not know, but she believes he will be allowed to continue his mission without interruption. she can not keep the flies away from Ver, and so the mother sits beside her, carefully brushing away the swarms that bo persistently annoy the little sick girl. The mother, in reply to a question, look up with a tired expression on her face and said, "It is so hot in here. even at night; we never get a chancel to cool off. The little girl is very sick today; her cough has been troubling her. I wish I could take her back to my home, this is not a fit place to keep her. .The father of the family is employed as a worker on the city streets. The house is in a bad condition, and the furnishings are incomplete. The one bed which they have Is padded with straw. Besides this they have only a small cot, on which there are a few old blankets, and they do part of their cooking in tin cans. The little boy, Howard, aged 3, takes his nap with a small piece of mosquito netting spread over him, but the flies are .numerous enough almost to cover this and crawl under.lt. The girl is so weak that she can scarcely sit up. Ice will be furnished to the family by the Palladium ice fund. IS-ARRESTED AFTER A RUNNING BATTLE Necessary to "Knock Out" Cooper Before He Would Submit to Patrolman. STRUCK MRS. MEYERS It was necessary to "knock out" Stanley Cooper last night in order to arrest him after he had struck Mrs. . Stanley Meyers, Fort Wayne avenue, j with a poker and then attacked Patrolman Wenger and Chief of Police Gormon. Wenger arrested the man after a chase from Sixth and Fort Wayne avenue and a running fight from B 6treet to A street on North Ninth street. Four men were required to arrest Cooper in April when he attacked a colored boy. Cooper stayed at the boarding house of John Meyers on Fort Wayne avenue following his recent release from the county jail, where he served sixtyfive days as a result of conviction on an assault and battery charge. He had been drunk for the last two days, and last night became abusive to the Meyers family. Mrs. Meyers seized a poker to defend herself, but Cooper twisted it from her. and chasing ber to the front of the house, struck her a blow on the face. Chief Gormon, who resides next door to the Meyers, was entering his house with Wenger. when they heard j the screams of the woman. Cooper struck Wenger on the head, and then attempted to strike Gormon, mho dodged. Cooper ran east on C street to Seventh street, followed by Gormon and Wenger. The men were unable to gain ground on Cooper, and Wenger stopped a laundry wagon in which he continued the pursuit, capturing Cooper at Ninth and B streets. There another fight started between the men and they scuffed until they reached Ninth and A streets. There Wenger was forced to knock Cooper down three Umes before he would submit to arrest. Cooper was placed in an automobile and taken to the city jail. He pleaded not guilty, and stated that his head was in such a whirl that he could remember nothing of what occurred last night. He was fined $25 and costs and sentenced to thirty days in the county jail in addition to hfa fine. In" April he struck Walter Tracy, a colored lad. and a riot call was sounded before he .was safely landed in the city bastile.
SIMMONS REPORTS) THE TARIFF BILLf DEBATE NOW BEGUN Chairman Says the Measure Will Provide Relief to the People.
DEFENSE OF MEASURE Is That It NX'ill Reduce the Cost of Living Cuts House Bill. National Xrws Association) WASHINGTON. July IS. The report of Senator Simmons, chairman of the senate finance committee on the Underwood-Simmons tariff bill as amended by the senate, was placed before the members of the upper housa at noon today, and debate upon the measure was Immediately begun. The text of the report is largely devoted to defense of the senate Democrats action in reducing rates under the original house measure and to extensive tables showing the percentage and effect of these rates. In a brief introduction. Senator Simmons expressed the belief that the senate bill, if enacted into law, "will result in an equitable distribution of burdens and incidental benefits of the PayneAldrich system of customs taxation, that will tend to disintegrate monopolies. Built up under a protecUve tariff; that will reduce the cost of living: that will increase the opportunities of the individual citixen. and relieve the people frow the burdens of a former scheme for taxation." Says Trusts are Hit. The senator points out that the Interests hit by the reduction of duties under the bouse bill are. In almost every instance, trusts which - hav grown rich under a high protective tariff. Among these are the steel, aluminum, cement, callera, asphalt. Standard Oil, sugar, wool and paper trusts. To counteract the million! In import revenue lost to the government through the admission of foreign markets under a free listed or reduced rate of tariff, taxes have been placed upon bananas solely controlled by a trust, upon gambling In cotton futures, upon the Incomes o the rich, upon brandies used in fortifying wines, and upon luxuries In general. The total outcome of the senate tariff labors is a decrease or 27.64 per cent under the Payne-AIdrlch tariff rates, and of 4.22 per cent under the house tariff rates. Nevertheless, the report predicts that the business of the government will be run at a profit. The Total Revenue. The official figures, based upon compilations of treasury experts for tb fiscal year 1913. place the total revenue, exclusive of the possible revenue from the Panama canal, the sinking fund and the national banknote re demption fund, at 1998,810,000. against an estimated disbursement of 994790,000 for the same period. This would leave a surplus of $2,020,000. Free listed products In the senate bill amount to S147.267.0O0 In Imports as against $103,000,000 In the bouse measure. Among the market basket products, in addiUon to the house free list, are: Wheat, eggs, lard compounds and lard products and domestic animals used for food. GILES TO BE HERE IN A SHORT TIME J. T. Giles, newly appointed snperintendent of the schools of this city, will be in Richmond after next week to line up the work for the coming school semester. Mr. Giles official duties will start August 1. - High School Principal Pickell will not come to Richmond from South Bend cntil the latter part of August He completes his summer course In the university of Columbia at New York city August 24. Both official have communicated with -each other relative to the work of the school. No definite changes have been announced for the next term of school. The enrollment of children in school next year will be larger than It has ever been before especially in the high school, where a decided Increase la expected, despite the fact that - there were between ninety and 100 graduates from the school In June. NELL BRINKLEY Has a series of drawings Illustrating an article on how to make a "comfy round-t he-house apron, that are the cutest ever Page 10 Magazine Page H. L. HAYWOOD Reappears in the Palladium with the first of a series on "Social Certainties." Not heavy reading by any means just a bright - man's philosophy applied to answering everyday questions you ask yourself every day. - Page 4 Editorial Page