Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 105, 13 March 1914 — Page 1

RICHMONB PAJXAJD) AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXIX. NO. 105. RICHMOND, IND FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1914 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS DECISION Texas Rangers Ready to Protect American Property and Lives Across Mexican Line EXPLAINS REASONS WHY CfTY SHOULD VOTE OUT SALOONS Cleveland Man Says Liquor Traffic Is No Respector of i Persons, Attacking Rich and Poor.

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WATER RATES III ABEYANCE UNTIL APRIL

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Attorneys of Company and City File Briefs March 23 Before Public Utility Commission.

VALUATION ITEMS PERPLEX MEMBERS Expected State Board Will Not Allow Company to Capitalize Cost of Pavements Over Mains. "I have not the slightest idea what action the state public utilities commission will take on establishing water rates for Richmond, but I think the city made a very strong case and the commissioners appeared to be impressed With our arguments," said City Attorney Bond today. He has just returned from Indianapolis, where arguments in the water works case were heard yesterday. Attorneys for the city and company now have ten days In which to file briefs with the commission and within a month It is expected the commission will establish the rates. Although Mr. Bond would not express any opinion on the subject he indicated that he was firmly convinced a substantial rate reduction would be authorized by the commission. INDIANAPOLIS, March 13. The public, service commission will not be prepared to give a decision In the Richmond water rate hearing before the middle of April, according to an estimate made by Chairman Duncan. The briefs of attorneys representing the city and the water company will not be filed until March 23 and until these papers are submitted the commission will not be able to make much progress in arriving at a decision. The commissioners have been working oh some of the law questions involved, but they will not be prepared to consider the case In earnest tontil after the briefs are received. On the day that the briefs in the Richmond case are to be filed, the commission is to begin a hearing of a water rate case from Vincennes. The taking of evidence in this case will, of course, cause some delay in the consideration of the Richmond case. Blue prints filed yesterday by Engineer Watts, employed by the city, gave the complete history of the Richmond water plant from the year it was established until last October. A copy of this report covering several pages and representing a great mass of figures was given to each commissioner to study. The question of what items are to be considered in fixing a physical valuation on the water works property received more attention than anything else in the arguments of the attorneys presented yesterday. The commissioners questioned the lawyers on different points from time to time, but they said nothing to give an intimation of how they stand on the question of the items which enter Into a valuation fixed for rate making purposes. In view of the commission's recent decision in the Union City gas case, it is assumed that the commission, in determining upon the cost of replacement, will not allow the company to capitalize the cost of pavements over mains where the pipes were laid before the streets were improved. Whether an allowance shall be made for "going value" and whether, the company shall be permitted to capitalize the cost of service pipes extending from the middle of the streets to the curb lines of properties and for which the consumers paid are other questions to be decided by the commission in determining the physical valuation. HENWOOD MARRIES Prosperous Farmer Weds Former Housekeeper. CENTER VILLE, Ind., March 13. John S. Henwood, 75 years old, one of the most prosperous farmers of Wayne county, owner of 400 acres of land and a prominent cattle raiser and buyer, was married to Flora Hower, 63 years old, his housekeeper at Covington, Ky., yesterday. The marriage of the couple was a distinct surprise to residents of Doddridge Chapel. Mrs. Henwood has been the housekeeper of her husband for a number of years, but neighbors did not suspect that the prosperous farmer was paying attention to her. Mrs. Henwood formerly lived at Cambridge City. WEATHER FORECAST ( FOR INDIANA Fair tonight and Saturday. Rising temperature. TEMPERATURE. Noon 46 Yesterday. Maximum 35 Minimum 9 W. E. MOORE'S FORECAST FOR RICHMOND. Continued fair tonight and probably Saturday. Warmer.

Type of men who were at first suspected of having Invaded Mexico to recover the body of Clements Vergara, the American ranchman who was lured across the border and slain by members of the federal army. Governor Colquitt has notified the United States that he Intends to protect the lives and property of the citizens of his Btate regardless of the Administration's policy and In taking this stand he will order the Rangers to patrol the shores of the Rio Grande.

POLING TO SPEAK E y Several Well Known Temperance Men Will Appear on Tabernacle Platform. SCHEDULE OF DRY MEETINGS Friday, March 13, 7:30 o'clock, tabernacle, John S. Rutledge, of Cleveland. Music by First Baptist quartet. Sunday, March 15, 2:30 o'clock, tabernacle, Fred Landis, of Logansport. Music by Honevwell chorus and Y. M. C. A. Glee club. Monday, March 16, 7:30 o'clock, tabernacle, Daniel A. Poling, Boston, Mass. Music by Y. M. C. A. Glee club. Tuesday, March 17, 7:30 o'clock, tabernacle, men's mass citizens' meeting. Short talks. A meeting for men only. Wednesday, March 18, 7:30, tabernacle, Rev. Father John Kubacki, South Bend. Special muBic. Next week the drys will have one, of the best speakers in the campaign, when Daniel E. Poling, of Boston, j Mass., who is head of the Christian Endeavor society in this country, comes here. Mr. Poling was formerly j of Columbus, O. Tuesday evening there will be a men's mass meeting in the tabernacle. A number of local men interested in the campaign will make ten-mintue talks. Wednesday evening at the tabernacle the Rev. Father Kubacki, South Bend, will speak at the mass meeting. The South Bend Catholic priest was one of the orators in the Muncie campaign. MEXICANS HOLD UP TRAINJNJLLINOIS Two Arrested After Killing Freight Engineer and Then Wounding Sheriff. PEORIA. 111., March 13. Two of the four Mexican laborers who held up a freight train of the Northwestern railroad near Manlius. were arrested here after a fight. Both were wounded. They were removed to Princeton, as the police fear they will bo lynched. Sheriff Byers, of Bureau county, was wounded in a fight with the train robbers. When the freight pulled into Manlius, the engineer was suddenly confronted by four men. who evidently had been stealing a ride. He was ordered to throw up his bands. He failed to comply, and fell to the cabin floor shot through the head. The train crew attracted by the shooting rushed to the cab and the Mexicans fled. Posses were quickly formed to pursue the Mexicans.

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Russia Threatens War On Austria-Hungary

BERLIN, March 13. Another war scare is hovering over Europe. Russia and Austria-Hungary are declared to be near an open break. Sensational articles appeared in the press here and elsewhere throughout Europe today. .The Jojurnal Germania today printed a story tb the effect that Rus3ia is engaged in mobilizing troop trains and commandeering troops for the purpose of sending them to the border. Strong editorial comment was made upon the news contained in dispatches from St. Petersburg that the Bourse Gazette, a supposedly organ in its issue of yester

Parents Remove Baby From Hospital Ward

The eighteen-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hart, Boyer street, operated on Sunday at the hospital to remove a piece of steel which had lodged in his windpipe and was slowly choking him to death, is back home again, ill with pneumonia, having been spirited out of a hospital ward by its parents yesterday afternoon when the nurse stepped out of the room for a few minutes to attend to some other duties. "We feel better satisfied with baby at home," said Mrs. Hart this morning to a newspaper man. "Anyhow, he wanted to be home. His condition is a great deal better today, and he will get along all right." Mrs. Hart had nothing to say when ; asked why she and her husband took i the infant from the hospital without notifying the authorities of their inten tion. The hospital superintendent knew nothing of the removal of the Hart baby until the nurse returned to I the ward and found the child absent from its bed. A search, of the hospital failed to locate the baby and its parents. Later TESTS MAY DIFFER Dr Macabee Defends Accuracy of Department Assailed By Dr. Smelser. "Because the three reports on the results of bateriological examinations of samples taken from the well of Herman Noss, in Richmond, differed in respect to the presence of colon bacilli, furnishes no reason for Dr. Smelser, Richmond's health officer, to reach the conclusion that these reports are inaccurate," said Dr. McAbee of the division of chemistry, state health department, today in a long distance telephone conversation. "You can make a half dozen or more tests of the same water and each time the result may be different. This is especially true of water tafcen from a dug well," Dr. McAbee continued. "Water taken from a dug well, after a dry period, may contain no colon bacilli of other impurities, but take the same water after a hard rain and you may find pronounced presence of colon bacilli, washed into the well by the water as it percolates through the earth." Dr. McAbee added that all three reports submitted by the state division of chemisry on bacteriological examinations of the Noss well water were to the effect that the water was impure. STUDENTS' HEALTH GOOD, SAYS KING That the health of the school children of the city is the best since the beginning of winter, was the assertion pf Dr. J. E. King, school health examiner. "Mumps and cold are the only diseases that are prevalent among the students at present," stated Dr. King. day, carried the phrase: "Russia is now fully prepared for war." The latest war scare has been sufficient to cause activity in German military circles and to work mischief on the Bourse here. The stock exchanges in Paris and London also felt the depressing effect of the rumors. M. Sazonoff, the Russjpn foreign minister, is at present in Vienna, the capital of the nation against which the wrath of the Russian government is directed. Questioned there by a representative of the Buda Pest Journal, the Rus

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it was learned they had hurriedly bundled it up in warm clothing and walked to town, the youngster happy in the arms of his father Last night one of the trustees of the hospital notified the police of baby Hart's disappearance, and requested that a medical chart, Bhowing the child's condition be secured at the Hart home and returned to the hospital. The child was quite ill, Roy Wenger, chauffeur of the police auto, reports when Chief Goodwin and himself arrived at the Hart home. Chief Goodwin was in an ill humor today when he told of the action of Mr. and Mrs. Hart, and expressed the hope that if fatal results attend the removing of the baby from the hospital, the parents would be prosecuted. Baby Hart wa taken to the hospital last Sunday, and a very delicate but successful operation was performed on his throat. For a day or two the child had to breath through a glass tube, and pneumonia set in, bat at the time of his removal his condition was im

proving rapidly, the police report. PLANS UNCHECKEDBY DEATH Westinghouse Names Trustees to Carry Out Details of Business. NEW YORK, March 13. The vast Westinghouse manufacturing interests will continue their operations without change of policy despite the death of their founder, George Westinghouse, it was learned here today. Mr. Westinghouse, who died yesterday of chronic myocardis, provided in his will for a trusteeship to continue the work he had begun and was carrying on at the time of his death. To this trusteeship will be given the voting power 'in all the twentytwo corporations in which Mr. Westinghouse was interested here and abroad. The Inventor was 68 years old and was a native of Schoharie County, New York. EARLHAM TEAMS START TOMORROW The Maroons and the Whites, the two track teams at Earlham, will hold their first meet tomorrow afternoon, in the school gym. The winner of the meet, which will be continued every Saturday for a month, will be presented with a cup. Harvey Cox is the Maroon leader, while Joe Roberts captains the White. Both teams will compete in track and field contests on the schedule, points being awarded for first, second and third place. sian official is said to have denied that there is any conflict of interests. He refused to explain, however, why the military estimates of 1914, just submitted to the Russian Duma, show an increase of 30 per cent. Should a breach develop betwe en Russia and Austria, Germany would face the possibility of embroilment. This country is linked to Austria by the triple alliance which also contains its controversy. 'On the other hand Russia would have the friendship of two powerful European nation England and Francr.

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TANGO AFFECTS HIPS COURT ORDERS LOVE SCHOLAR, 12 BY 155 THE PEN WITH WHICH SPEAKER Clark and Vict President Marshall will sign the Alaska railroad bill will be made of gold mined in Alaska. The holder was carved from the tusk of a mastodon unearthed by miners in Alaska. BY USING A WHITE CLAY PIPE as a "revolver" Walter Rector, charged with theft, drove back a New York crowd repeatedly but was later captured by a policeman. SUMMONED FOR NOT ATTENDing school, Gertrude Schwartz, a New York girl 12 years old, told the court that the classroom seats are too small. She weighs 165 pounds. MRS. MATILDA JONES OBTAINED a court order to make her husband love her and to devote his attentions to her for four days. The couple reside in Yonker, N. J. THE TANGO WILL PRODUCE BIG hipped women and slant shoulders according to Dr. Maude Dunne, a fashion expert of Philadelphia. INVESTIGATING A REPORT THAT two men were caught in the ice floes 300 yards off shore in Lake Michigan, Chicago lifesavers made a dangerous trip through the field of floating ice and found the "men" were two logs. SAGE F PROMISES TO AID Local Charity Bureau to Secure Help of New York Organization. Promising support in Richmond's movement for organized charity, the secretary of the charity department of the Russell Sage Foundation acknowledged receipt of the letter of Fred White, secretary and chairman of the special charity committee. Mr. White, in whose hands the formation of plans for systematic charity was placed is drafting a set of regulations which would govern the charity situation in Richmond. Within a week, his work will be presented to the special committee and later to the committee consisting of representatives of all charity organizations in the city. The special committee probably will decide whether to secure a charity expert from the Russell Sage Foundation by paying the transportation and hotel bills or to get assistance in the charity organization work merely through literature and suggestions of the Sage Foundation. JOSIAH WE DEAD Fountain City Resident Succumbs to Pneumonia. FOUNTAIN CITY, March 13. Josiah Bogue, a respected citizen of this place, died early this morning after a five weeks' illness with pneumonia. He was 64 years of age. He is survived by one sou, Walter Bogue, of Richmond and four daughters, Mrs. John Linthecum and Mrs. Earl Philtips, of Richmond, Mrs. Sam Brittenham and Miss Cassis Bogue, of this place, hiB aged mother Mrs. Harriett Keever. a sister Mrs. Martha Newbern of Centerville, and a brother Parker Bogue, of Huntsvillef Ind. The funeral will be held from the Wesleyan church. Fountain City, Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock in charge of the pastor, Rer. W. M. Bailey

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Quotes William Jennings Bryan oh Definition of Saloon Rutledge Speaks Tonight At Tabernacle. "I challenge the saloon and brewery forces to make a public statement that they will not run blind tigers j and make illegal sales of liquor, for I know well that Mr. Nicholson and the temperance forces will not engage in that business," declared John S. Rutledge, of Clereland, O., at the Second English Lutheran church last evening. "If the saloon business is an e'.evating and moral institution, then why not place a bar in the basement of the schools, the churches, and open one in the different residence sections. "To you people of West Richmond, the saloon roan can't talk personal liberty, because you shut out his personal liberty when you refused to permit him to locate a saloon in your residence section. "Is. the saloon business and liquor a physical aid? Ask your insurance ccmpaniea to insure the habitual drinker, and you will find that they will refuse. Why? Simply because they are in a cold-blooded money proposition, and they don't take any chances to lose. When the insurance companies refuse to recognize the liquor business, then you are sure that the business is an outcast. "The saloon keeper is not a philanthropist. He must pay his license, his room rent, his employes, and the distiller and brewer, and it has been figured that he generally makes eight dollars for every nine dollars received. No Respector of Persons. "The liquor traffic is no respector of persons. It is not always the poor j man who becomes addicted to the habit, I know of one state supreme court Jurist who is a degenerate and j a helpless man because of drink. He ; is prototyped in every state and in every section of the country. "It is no small thing to vote the saloon out of business after they have been established a quarter of century or so. I suppose here in Richmond they have been in your midst since the founding of the city. 'There are some fellows who conld not get drunk if they drank as long as they could swallow liquor, but the man who has fine, keen nerves is the one who is wrecked by drink. His tense nervous system is destroyed. "I don't know whether or not you have a business men's organization which comes to the rescue of the saloon. In most cases it is a boose- j ness men's organization and is com-1 posed largely of saloon keepers, al- j muugni uie names oi me memoers are not published. Believes in Heredity. "I believe a great deal in heredity. I think that a man can inherit the alcoholic appetite. The Bible savs that a man's sins shall go down to the fourth generation. Why doesn't it say the fifth generation? Well, it doesn't, because nature won't let a man who has wrecked his own life reproduce more than the fourth generation. So it is with the drunkard, he can only reproduce four generations, if that many. "It will be a race between Indiana and Ohio to see which has statewide prohibition first. Ohio now has but few wet counties, but Indiana has a few more. I believe. "The editorial. 'A Hell of a Parade,' which was reprinted in a dry newspaper, is a little gem in thought, and to think the same man who penned it is now in his own native city fighting to sustain an institution he once scoffed. What Bryan Says. "What kind of a place is a saloon? William Jennings Bryan says that In those he has investigated there is generally the bar in front, gambling in the rear, and a house of ill-fame upstairs. . "Why do you people want to uphold an institution that the courts challenge, that the reformers challenge, that religious people challenge, and that people with civic pride challenge? S. Edgar Nicholson presided at the meeting and announced the schedule for the remaining week night meetings and the Sunday afternoon mass meeting. Mr. Rutledge will speak tonight at the tabernacle. Fred Landis, of Iagansport, will speak Sunday afternoon at the tabernacle. It is expected that although B. B. Johnson, Governor Ralston's private secertary, will be unable to attend, he will send a letter which will be read by S. Edgar Nicholson. IDENTIFIES BODY AS THAT OF CLARKE CHICAGO. March 13. The final chapter in the life of Horace Greeley Clarke, formerly a prominent attorney and one time board of .trade member of Chicago and nephew of Samuel J. Kirkwood, war governor of Iowa, will be written tomorrow when his body is buried in Iowa City, Iowa. For twelve years he was given up as dead. He disappeared, from a steamer on his way from Chicago to Milwaukee 12 years ago. Nothing ever was beard from him. His bride of 6 months, who was Miss Knobloch, and with whom he had eloped from South Bend, Indiana, gave up after years of seRrch and decided that he had been drowned in Lake Michigan,

Action on $10,000,000 Six Per Cent Notes Postponed Until Monday by Holders Committee.

NEW YORK EXCHANGE SHOWS STOCK DROP Wall Street Believes Failure of Extension on Notes Means Receivership for Big Concern. NEW YORK. March 13. The common stock of the M. Rumeiy Company broke 14 points today and the preferred stock slid off 2 points on the Btock Exchange as the result of the company's failure to pay the $300,000 interest due on its issue of $10,000,000 6 not. . Action on the extension of the not has been postponed until Monday at which time the note holders committee, headed by John N. Platten. president of the United States Mortgage & . Trust company will make some definite statement. The plan is to extend the notes from March 1, 1915 to March 1. 1918. The failure of the extension plan will put the company face to face with a receivership in the opinion of Wall Street men. The M. Rumeiy company had defaulted on $300,000 Interest due March 1 on its $10,000,000 convertible notes. Under the notes indenture the company had ten days grace In which to pay. Members of note holders committee met today and extended time for deposit of note until next Monday. Secretary Murphy of the committee when asked how many notes had been deposited said about S3 per cent of them had been deposited. Iter he believed 90 per cent might be enough to put the extension plan Into operation and thereby enable the company to get the $4,000,000 promised by bankers. A short time ago Clarence Funk, president of the company, said that unless the notes mere extended the bankers would not lend the tompany the $4,000,000 it needs for working capital this year, nor would they see to the payment of the $300,000 interest on the notes which fell due March 1 this year. MOTHER GIVES OP BATTLE OF KEEPING CHILDREN IN HOME Mrs. Stella Moon Finally Consents to Have Girls Made Wards of County Board. After fighting through the winter to keep her two children with her and, furnioh support for them in the absence of help from the father, Mrs. St!la Moon yesterday surrendered to circumstances and allowed Mrs. Elizabeth Candler, city missionary, to petition juvenile court and have the children made wards of the board of childrens guardians. The children are Mary Maude Moon 5 and Elizabeth Arbell Moon. 3. Mrs. Moon's husband refused in furnish support, she sals, for her and the children and she has been dependent on her own means for money. Her case has been before the board for some time and she has steadily refused to give up the children. During the last month her wages have been Inadequate to meet the demands for food, clothing, fuel and rent and yesterday she agreed that it would be an advantage to the children to secure good homes. The eldest of the two. Mary Maude, will start to school in September. AMBASSADOR PAGE EXPLAINS SPEECH

LONDON, March 13. Ambassador Page today received from Secretary Bryan notification of the senate resolution calling for an explanation of Mr. Page's remarks upon the Monroe doctrine and Panama canal before the Association of Chambers of Commerce Wednesday evening. Mr. Page said he would reply c once. The explanation will say that newspaper accounts of the speech cabled from London were condensed so thoroughly as to give a wrong impression of the speech in the United States. As to the Panama canal. Mr. Page explained that he said England would derive the greatest benefit because she owns the great bulk of the world's : tonnage. - - v ' .

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