Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 229, 4 August 1913 — Page 1

3LAJDIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVin. NO. 229 RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1913 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS MILITIA IS READY TO CHECK TROUBLE FOLLOW BATTLE Ten People Killed and Many Wounded in California Hop Fields. F Is Noi Estranged From Husband THREE GUARANTEES ASKED OF L Hi & P. TO BE SAFEGUARDS RIFLE DRILL WILL BE ADVOCATED BY LOCAL DELEGATION FLIGHT OVER WATER TAKEN BY A WOMAN WILSON TO RETIRE AS AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO VERY SOON Important Provisions Stipulated Before Any Change of Contract. Richmond Eagles Plan Service in Cause of National Defense. His Resignation Was Accepted By Secretary of State Bryan Today.

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I. W. W. MOB ATTACKS

Posse and Desperate Fight Ensues, Following Higher Wage Demands. (National News Association) WHEATLAND, Cal., Aug. 4. Five companies of state troops were under arms here today to quell the expected rioting of hundreds of hop pickers who engaged in a battle with a sheriff's posse last night, killing nine and wounding 25 others. Leaders of the Industrial Workers of the World were the guiding spirit of the rioting strikers. The dead in last night's riot: A, E. Manwell, Maryville, district attorney. D. Riordan, Marysville, deputy sheriff. Three strikers. Three other members of the posse. Two negro bystanders. List of Injured. Among the injured, some of whom may die, were: Sheriff George II. Voss, of Marysville, Constable L. C. Anderson, of Wheatland, Marshal Scoggins of Wheatland, postmaster John Johnson of Wheatland, and George Bllby of Marysville. Many of the strikers were reported suffering from fatal injuries today. The striking hop pickers urged on by I. W. W. agitators attacked the small sheriff's posse that had entered the strike region to preserve quiet. The strikers had demanded higher wages, and when this demand was refused, walked out of the fields, the leaders asserting that they were aggrieved because of their low wages and the presence of Japanese workers in the fields where they were picking. In addition to the troops on duty here, 300 citizens of Wheatland, armed and in charge of police chief McCoy of Marysville, were kept in readiness to quell trouble that was expected to start today. There were about 500 hop pickers on strike and the I. W. W. leaders were trying to add to their forces by calling out the picker from all the surrounding farms. TO AVOID ARREST

DROPPED OFF Mlives without the city

But Intoxicated Man Who Insulted Woman Is Gathered in. A cut four inches long on his face and innumerable small cuts and i bruises on his body, to which was add-! ed eleven days In jail, was the pun- j ishment of C. H. Doran, a middle-1 aged farmer residing south of CenterTille, for insuliinc a woman on an InterurbanOcar. l5ving Jackson park Saturday night. ! Doran was Intoxicated at a dance given at the park. Only one car was provided to carry the crowd of one hundred persons from the park. Do-' ran was forced to stand on the steps when the car started, and believing he would not be noticed, he seized t v - .w a . tne ankle or a woman who was stand-. , . lng on the step above him. She told . her husband however and Patrolman j Henry Westenberg, who Is deputized ! to act as sheriff at the dances, was then notified. Fell Off the Car. The car was nearlng Centerville, vhen Westenburg made his way toward the rear platform where Doran was standing. When the Intoxicated man saw the limb of the law approaching, he promptly fell off the car, which teas going at a rapid rate of speed. The lnterurban conductor was notified of the accident, and the car was backed slowly In search for Doran. He was found lying in the road, unable to move. He had just returned to consciousness when he was placed under arrest, charged with public intoxication. His wounds were treated in Centerville. Yesterday Doran was so stiff from his bruises that he could not walk, and he groaned audibly when forced to more in police court this morning. He -was fined $1 and costs, which he did not pay. THREATENED TO KILL MEMBERS OF FAMILY "Bud" Freeman got on one of his periodical" Saturday afternoon and along ate in the evening he strolled to his home, immediately east of Thistlethwaite's Falls. Becoming angered at his wife he drew his pocket "knife nd threatened to slash her throat and when his young son interfered he issued the same threat to the boy. The" thertff and his deputy were called but Hvhen they arrived at the Freeman ome. the intoxicated man had left.

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The Count and Countess Laszlo Szechenyi, from a recent and hitherto unpublished photograph. NEW YORK, Aug. 4. Alfred G. Vanderbilt laughingly denies the story of the alleged estrangement of his sister, Countess Szechenyi, formerly Gladys Vanderbilt, from her husband, Count Laszlo Szechenyi, head of the ancient and honoraWe Hungarian family of, that name. A story has been circulated by many people arriving from Europe to the effect that the Countess, utterly disgusted with the high handed manner in which her noble husband is reported to have squandered her fortune, had formulated plans to divorce him. The pair were married in 1908 and have two little daughters. Alfred Vanderbilt said that his .sister and titled brother-in-law were now at Surrey, England, where they are preparing for a most Important family event. He added that both the Count and Countess were praying fervently that the child would be a boy who would perpetuate the name of Szechenyi.

LIMITS, ROBERTS CAN'T RUN

Latest Candidate For Mayor Today Regretfully Withdraws From the Contest After Legal Advice. Albeit he says the prospects of his being elected mayor of Richmond on an Independent-Progressive Democratic ticket were becoming brighter each hour, A. Monson Roberts, ascertained this morning that it will be a legal impossibility for him to make the race for the office. Robert's lives a "stone's throw" outside of the city of Richmond and this is the cause of his decision not to make the race. He was informed by an attorney that if he did run it would ue liKeiy mat ovner candidates wouia ... . . x , . . . use this fact against him in their effort8 to brlng about his defeat. clinging tightly to his "confession ... i . i i ? -i . i i ,

A RUDE "COP" INTERRUPTS AN ELOPEMENT AT ST A TION

Gathers in Chester Hecathorn, 18, and Clemma Bishop, 15, Preble County, During a Spooning Match. The romance of two lovers from Preble County, Ohio, came to an abrupt termination here Saturday night when ill fate led Patrolman Menke to look twice into a dark corner of the Pennsylvania depot, shortly after 11:30. Low murmurs and dove-like coos attracted his attention and lw promptly investigated the case. Several resounding smacks occurring simultaneously with his discovery left him dumbfounded. Unconscious of the survey of the patrolman, Chester Hecathorn, aged IS, and Clemma Bishop, aged 15, continued their love-making until the gruff patrolman, with no sentiment in bis. heart, interrupted their spooning. Startled, But Game. "What are you doing here?" he demanded. Hecathorn retained his presence of

of faith," Roberts today called a caucus of his friends who had urged him to announce his candidacy for the office and informed them that he would be unable to continue his campaign. Regards It Misfortune. "It is a misfortune not only for me but for the taxpayers of this city," declared Roberts. "But I can say that I will use all my influence to bring about better city government and municipal ownership of all public service corporations. Standing in the shadow of the offices of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction company, I reiterate that I will cling to my plank which agitates three-cent car

fare with all the pugnacity of a , French bull dog. I stand for five letters t-r-u-t-h, to the people. I will try to get other candidates to take up my platform and push it through, if possible. I feel highly grateful to my friends who have backed my candidacy, thus far?" mind in spite of .the. startling interruption. "We're waiting for a train for Chicago," replied the yuth. "We're on our way to Strelter, Illinois." Further questioning by the patrol man revealed the fact that the two had Pinned hivin? rmr,A frnm patnn !

on an interurban to get a train fromlNorth Seventh street, narrowly eshere to their destination. Both. were caped death or serio8 injury when taken into custody. ine was knockei dovrn at Sixth and

u Chester told the police this morning j hot n A 41 rI jn.m T-- nnnAniAlm11i near Lewisburg, Ohio, June 1. and that they did not take long to find out that they were exactly suited to each other. Then Chester secured work on the farm of his uncle eight miles from Streeter. I had just been going with her a t little more than tyo weeks," said Chester. "I asked he- to go along with me because we could not bear to part with each other. me promised to marry me if I would' come back later. Just Like a Woman. "We fixed it up bymail and I arranged to meet her at Eaton Saturday night. It took hr so long to get" ready that we missed the train so we came here on the interurban to get a train. I can't figure out why they don't let us (Continued on Page Sis)

DUNCAN CAME TODAY

Plant Valuation Is One of the Principle Items Entering the Question. The public service corporation committee of the Commercial club at a meeting with the city attorney this morning decided that the matter of the transfer of the franchise granted to the Allegheny Gas company to the Richmond Light, Heat and Power company be laid before the public ser vice commission with the request that the local company make certain declarations as to what items it intended to include in its valuation figures. The members of the committee and the city attorney are unanimous in the opinion that the local company should be required to make a declaration before the state commission that it will separate and keep separate the artificial gas plant and the natural gas distributing system in Richmond. 3 Important Items. There are three important items which stand in the way of permitting the transfer of the franchise of one company to the other, ? erefore it was thought beBt by the committee to lay the matter before the commission and request that the local company be required to make a satisfactory statement to the commission before the transfer is sanctioned. There are three requirements which the committee will ask the commission to demand of the L. H. and P. company: First, that the local company will not make the artificial gas plant a part of the valuation of the natural gas plant; Second, that the Ileal company shall immediately start improvements which will allow natural gas service on or before November 1st. Third, that there shall be no clause in the contract which will allow the local company to cancel the natural gas contract and return to the artfficial gas. The city attorney fe"ls that If the local company will make hese additional declarations to the commission the city will be protected against Increase In rates in the future and will insure an immediate and pemranent supply of natural gas. Chairman Duncan Here. Chairman Duncan of the Public Service commission,' was scheduled to be In Richmond this morning to hear the gas case, but he did not arrive until about noon today. The representatives of the local company and the Logan company together with the Commercial club committee members and the city attorney. while they waited for the arrival of Chairman Duncan, discussed the ques tions in an unofficial way. The representatives of the Richmond Light, Heat & Power company were Informed that the city would not permit the franchise to be transferred until the proper declarations were made (Continued on Page Ten.) DIDN'T KNOW GUN WAS LOADED PLEA "Just in fun," Robert Jones, a Kentucky negro, pointed a hammerless revolver at Harley Simpson, colored, 22C North Fourth street, but contrary to his expectations, Jones claims, the gun went off. Both Jones and Simpson stated to the police yesterday that the revolver was pointed for fun and that the bullet exploded when the hammer was accidentally struck. An investigation revealed that the revolver was hammerless and that it had been loaded shortly before the "accident." The bullet missed Simpson and crashed through the door of his home, lodging in the wall. Jones was fined $5 and costs in police court this morning, charged with carrying concealed weapons. His fine was paid. BOY ESCAPES FROM A SERIOUS INJURY With his foot caught in the front whele of an automobile Saturday night Frank Johnson, aged 8 years, 212 Mam streets, and dragged several yards by tne machine. e w in. fully bruised. The boy crossed the street and started back when the machine, driven by a woman, struck him. He was thrown beneath it. his foot catching in a wheel. Had the machine not been stopped promptly, his injuries would have been very serious. Several persons were required to free his leg from the wheeL THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Fair tonight and Tuesday. Slightly warmer in north portion Tuesday. TEMPERATURE Xoon 7? Yesterday. Minimum 67 Maximum ........................

DRAFT A RESOLUTION

Will Be Presented to Grand Lodge Local Drill Team Goes East. An important resolution will be brought before the grand lodge of Eagles at the Baltimore convention this week by the delegation from the Richmond aerie. This resolution calls for the adoption of rifle drill by the various degree teams of the order. The local arerie believes such action would give thousands of young men valuable military instruction, which, in consequence, would prove of great service to the country in case of war. Local Eagles also believe such a change in the drill regulations of the degree teams would make this feature of the order's activities much more popular than it now Is. The resolution to be presented is as follows: Copy of Resolution. "Whereas, The Fraternal Order of Eagles is a patriotic organization which encourages military drill through the maintenance of degree teams by various subordinate aeries, and "Whereas, By the encouragement of military drill and rifle practice by members of the degree teams of the various subordinate aeries of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the members of such teams will be benefited and a patriotic service rendered our country. Therefore, be it "Resolved that all drills of the subordinate aerie degree teams shall in the future be with rifles, to be procured from the United States war department, if possible, under the manual of arms of the United States army. ! its drill regulations, and with occaj sional rifle practice to make the team ' members proficient in the use of that I weanon." Those Who made Trip. ' Yesterday afternoon the degree team of the local aerie of Eagles and a few other members of the organization and their wives left for Baltimore over the C. & O., by way of CincInnaU. At Cincinnati other Indiana delegations joined them and left that city In the evening on the"'Wayne Aerie Special." The Hoosier Eagles spent a few hours in Washington today, and will arrive in Baltimore this evening. The member of the team and the aerie officers who made the trip were: B. L. Bulla, captain. Charles Ashenfelter, lieutenant. First Squad E. WilliamB, Matt Schroeder, Ray Robinson. Ben Shafer. Second Squad Earl Clark, Jimmy Burns, J. W. Henniger, H. Fuller. Third Squad Clyde Moore, William Mercurio, Leonard Hubbel, Phil Mercurio. Fourth Squad Cal Stevens, Lou Esmaker, Elmer Williams, Abe Cox. Color Bearers A. Yedding, Ray White. The officers of the team who will take part in the exemplification of the ritual are the following: Worthy President Henry Schroeder. Worthy Vice Prsident W. R. Bloom. Worthy Chaplain Albert Morel. Conductor Charles Morgan. Floor Chaplain Walter Sauers. Inner Guard Charles Ashenfelter. Secretary Gus Johanning. Other members of the party were: Mr. and Mrs. Adam Elstro, Mr. and Mrs. Al Steen, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Bloom, W. B. Snelle, Ben Schroeder and Frank Eikenberry. Past Worthy President Patsy Oats. UNEXPECTED DEATH OF ELMER POTTER Elmer Russell Potter, 18 years old, son of Township Assessor and Mrs. Charles Potter died at the home of his parents, 110 South Third street shortly after 9 o'clock Sunday morning of peritonitis. His death was sudden and unexpected. Until Sunday morning, though his condition had been critical, his parents believed he was improving and the attending phyr sicians entertained hopes for his recovery. Mr. Potter was brought -home III from Terre Haute where he had been taken sick Sunday while attending a picnic He was accompanied by his mother, They arrived here Friday morning. Mr. Potter had been manager of Story and Clark's piano store in Terre Haute since last October. Before that he managed a dry cleaning business of his own in this city. Besides his parents, a sister survives. He was unmarried. Funeral at two o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the residence. Interment Webster cemetery. Friends may call at any time. A SMALL BLAZE A flue Ire at the home of George Avey, 121 North Eighteenth street, this morning, resalted in a loss of $10. The hose companies extinguished the burning shingles which threatened u spread the flames to other parts of the house.

MRS. WALTER PULITZER. NEW YORK, Aug. 4. Mrs. Walter Pulitzer, wife of the young publisher, made her first air trip in George on Utassey's hydro-aeroplane or "flying boat." Mr. von Utassey took his fair passenger on a fifteen mile trip over Long Island Sound, and then, to exhibit the versatility of his craft, descended to the surface and sped the machine about the water for another ten miles. TOWNSEND ATTACKS LOBBYISTMULHALL Denies All the Charges Made Against Him By Mulhall in Letters. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. Senator Townsend of Michigan, branded the charges of Colonel Mulhall, the lobbyist, as absolutely false when testifying before the senate investigating committee today. Mulhall had asserted in letters that he had had confidential Interviews with Townsend and had referred to Townsend as "one of our best friends." Townsend admitted that Mulhall had called upon him in company with J. A. Emery, counsel for the National Association of Manufacturers, when the so-called Madison injunction bill was before congress. This visit was paid while a convention of the N. A. M was being held in New York city and Townsend was invited to make a speech. Townsend said he declined the invitation. Townsend at that Ume said he favored an amendment which would limit the life of the injunction. "When I saw Mulhall recently. I recognized him as the man who called on me with Mr. Emery," Townsend said. "No one could forget him, who had talked with him. Therefore I Bay it was an unqualified falsehood when he said he had a confidential interview with me." Berated Gompers. During Mulhall's first call on Townsend, according to the latter, the lobbyist berated Gompers and the labor crowd and stated In a loud voice that congress was under the dominaUon of Gompers. Townsend declared that Mulhall met him a couple of days later and apologized for his conduct "He then paid 'me the doubtful compliment by saying that I was the only honest man he had met in Congress." continued Mr. Townsend. "He offered me his help and then without slackening my pace, I told him I did not want his aid." Townsend took up each reference to himself in the Mulhall correspondence and denounced it as false. "I cannot be mistaken." said Townsend. "He was particularly offensive to me during the first interview and I could not forget one that looks like this fellow looks if I met him in perdition." Mulhall sat at Townsend's elbow while the senator from Michigan branded him as an unqualified liar. Former Senator Foraker. whose name was mentioned frequently in Mulhall's letters, appeared before the committee in response to Chairman Orerman's call and will testify tomorrow. WOMAN AND CHILD ARE FOUND SLAIN (National News Association) KIRKS VILLE, Mo.. Aug. 4. Mrs. Ivy Chevalier, aged 40, and her daughter Ella, fifteen years old, were found murdered in their home on South First street at 7 o'clock this morning. Apparently they had been dead for two hours. Both had been beaten over the head. , -

HIS PLANS UNKNOWN

v No Armed Intervention in' Mexico, the White House .j Positively States. A WASHINGTON. Aug. 4 Secretary of State Bryan, acting for President Wilson, accepted the resignation of Henry Lane Wilson as ambassador to Mexico today. The resignation will go Into effect at the end of sixty days. Ambassador Wilson was closeted with the secretary of state for about two hours, discussing Mexican matters. On leaving th state department, he stated that he had no comment to make on any proposed policy of the president or of the secretary of state for peace in Mixico. The ambassador said he was sure the president and secretary of state were actuated by motives of the highest patriotIsm, and that he is sorry that he can not consider himself in accord with their ideas. When asked what he Intended to do In the future. Mr. Wilson replied: "Frankly. I do not know. I cam Into the state department, and I am going out naked. I probably shall return to the pracUce of law. It has not been decided whether It will b necessary for me to return to Mexico City to wind up the affairs of the em-1 bassy there, that this will probably be the case, as I left the Mexican capital on twelve hours' notice." Ambassador Wilson, who was suddenly summoned from New York by Secretary Bryan, arrived here this forenoon. Secretary Bryon. who had intended leaving Washington Saturday' to resume his lecture tour, conferred with the president before Ambassador Wilson arrived. The white bouse today evinced strong Indications that a peaceful solution of the Mexican situaUon was becoming more probable erery hour and that armed intervention would be opposed unalterably by President Wilson. It is expected that an official announcement of policy soon will be forthcoming from the white house, and that this will end the present tenseness of the situation. ' Just what developments hare occurred within the past twenty-four, hours to place the administration la -such an optimistic frame of mind hat not been announced. The clear and-1 definite word which came from the; white house today was striking. It' makes clear that the United States' will not hare war on Its hands as the result of the efforts to restore order: In Mexico; that it Is not going to recognize General Huerta; and that diplomatic efforts have been successful. STREET OILED AND IS THEOORII UP South Fifth Street People Say They Did Not Get "Square Deal." Did the city give Will Qulgg and John Zwissler and other business men and residents of the first square on South Fifth street, a "square dear after they had paid to hare the street oiled and the city had rolled it with a street roller, destroying the effect of the oil? Quigg and Zwissler, representing the entire square, state that the city should replace the oil and hare told Mayor Zimmerman their views on the matter. The matter was laid aside by the mayor with his usual sign of dismissal: "111 look Into the matter." The street was oiled almost three weeks ago under private contract, Quigg and Zwissler agreeing to make the payment for the work for those la the block who were not able to afford oil. It cost these men $10 each. Five or six others on the street donated to the fund. Before the oiling was contracted for. the men petitioned the city, asking that the street be repaired. A few repairs were made then and the oil placed on it. The street dressing had not dried when a force of men from the street department tore up the street. A new macadam surface was made but even this Is not satisfactory. The men who paid for the street oiling now ask that the city reoil the street but believe the prospects for saUsfactlon arc smalL USED BUGGY WHIP ON THE AUTOISTS Joyriders using the CentervHIe streets for speed courses were slightly annoyed Saturday night by a man who wielded a long buggy whip. Every autoist who drove through the town on the Main street felt the long lash for the man whose name could not be ascertained, struck at every machine. One party upon returning to this city informed the sheriff who with his deputy made a trip to the town but were

usable to locate h