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HIE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1914

IT KELLY ASSAILS HONAN'S DECISION ON BIBLE Earlham Head Charges Attorney General's Opinion Against Use of Bible Dictated by Prejudice. That Attorney General Honan was Jictated by prejudice in deciding laglnst the use of the Bible in the public schools and that the question will now get into politics was asserted By President Kelly, of Karlham college, this morning. 'Our campaign to have a plan installed in the school system whereby credits could be given for Bible study done outside school hours has been cordially received throughout the state." he said. "In many cities steps have already been taken toward adoptng the plan. Mr. Honan has been personally prejudiced against this thing from the beginning. He is more 3f a politician than a lawyer and I have no doubt his adverse decision was made with a view to political interest. Handicaps School Work. "His decision to the effect that the school can k!v no credits except for work done in its own regular sessions flies in the face of the most progressive methods now being used over the state. It established a new principle which will greatly handicap the work of the State Board of Kducation and will involve them in no end of difficulties. I have no doubt that the whole matter will speedily find its way into politics and upset the school situation in Indiana. "According to Mr. Honan's idea, nobody knows anything, nobody is able to teach anything except a teacher in the public school. And he doesn't seem to think that a person can learn anything unless he learns it from a professional teacher. The idea that the school cannot give credits except for work done during its own sessions is nbsurd. Prevents Other Credits. "If his position holds good, it will make it impossible for high schools to give credit for work done in parochial schools or under direction of private tutors. Also it makes illegal the praetioe employed in a number of Indiana cities of giving credit for work done under controlled conditions in factories and at home. "The whole trend of thinps in educatii la to recognize the fact that knowledge is knowledge whether it. is gained in school or out and that the student should have credit, not merely for the time spent in school, but for his ability and knoledge." President Kelly said that among the indiana cities (-specially interested in the Bible study plan which he had championed. Indianapolis was most enthusiastic and that he believes the interest aroused would not permit the project to laps", "but would lead its promoters to work out some kitid of a plan that will pet around the attorney-geiu-ral's decision. Watterson Asks Rosalie to Pick Blooms W ith Him LOl'ISVILLE. Ky.. June 20 Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, declined today the challenge issued by "'General" Rosalie Jones that he debate the question of women suffrage on the court house steps at St. Louis. "a. nay. Rosalie." Colonel Wattei'fion wrote. "Dear Rosalie shall we not drop the unwomanly and unmeaning General' and eall on pet names you have the wrong pig by the ear. "Stick your pantalettes in your hoots, little girl, and instead of lacing that dreadful mob from the court house st. 'is let us go and hunt butl ercu ps. "Your brains. Rosie. if we may say it without offense, still run to your legs - naughtv brains for drains were made to think with and legs were made to walk with, and walking, not debating, has been, as may it. ever be. jour long suit, sweetheart." MASONIC CALENDAR ! Monday Webb lodge o. 24. K. $.- A. M., railed meeting, work in Fellow era ft degree Tuesday Richmond lodge No 196, F. A. M., called meeting, work gi) Fellow craft degree. Wednesday Webb lodge. No. 24. F. & A. M.. called meeting, work in Kntered Apprentice degree commencing at 7 o'clock. Friday King Solomon's Chapter No. 4, R. A. M . called meeting, work in the Past and Most Kxcellent Masters' degrees. Saturday Loyal Chapter, No. 49, I). E. S. Stated meeting. ENGLISH FRIENDS WILL VISIT CITY Young Friends from Kngland, who are coming to this country to study and learn more of the branches of the Friends' church on this side of the water, will visit Richmond. July :!-5. The visiting Friends will start, their tour at Pittsburg and travel westward to Indianapolis. They bring with them greetings from the Friends' church of Kngland. While in the city they will be entertained by the different congregations, at which special services will probably be arranged. HUERTA'S MINISTER DENIES PEACE END MKXICO CITY. June 20 Following the dispatch of important secret messages to the Mexican delegation at Niagara Falls, Esteva Ruiz, acting minister of foreign relations, declared today that the mediation conference will be resumed on Monday. "There is no truth in reports that the mediation negotiations have ben broken off," said the minister. The Kentucky senate has passed a ill authorizing the empolyment of convicts in the manufacture of article-r state use, v

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Company's Own Figures Show Tax Evasions For Many Years

President Bavis of the board of public works today made public the amount he asserts the Richmond City Water Works company has evaded in paying for taxes, since 1889, a total of $200,446. The following list he compiled from a brief submitted by the company to the Indiana Public Utilities commission setting forth plant valuation claimed by it for rate making purposes, and the property valuation returns it has submitted to the county board of review, year by year, for taxing purposes : Actual Value. Assessed Value. Undertaxed. 1889 $407,856.51 $ 32.710.00 $875,146.51 1890 424,614.03 50,000.00 374,614.03

1891 424,156.26 1892 428,991.06 1893 443,088.33 1894 471,504.36 1895 504,014.02 1896 507,981.37 1897 509,943.44 1898 514,247.59 1899 511,994.34 1900 517,580.32 1901 516,575.77 1902 529,154.96 1903 539,527.28 1904 546,673.69 1905 554,955.12 1906 574,320.50 1907 598,969.46 1908 616,770.70 1909 642,001.22 1910 700,000.00 1911 700,000.00 1912 700.000.00 1913 700,000.00 Total LATE MARKET- NEWS CHICAGO GRAIN Furnished bv Correll and Thompson, I. O. O. F. Bldg. Phone 1446. WHEAT Open 34 Close 82 V81 ',i 83 67 39 :-:8 3s 39 Vi July September 81 December 84' CORN July 69 September 67 4 December f8Vg OATS July SO' September 3XSS December 39"'8 NEW YORK STOCK QUOTATIONS Am. Can A ma!. Copper t". S. Sieel . . . Atchison St. Paul N. V. Central . Lehigh Valley No. Pacific . . Reading So. Pacific . . . Union Pacific . 28 '4 . 71 . 02 . fit '4 .loo 'a . . !1 . 138 4 Ill's .1644 . . ;4 . 155 vig 28 U 71 2 S!U ll 10 Li. !tl4 i:!S HI8 165 94 150 U CHICAGO LIVESTOCK CHICAGO. June 2d. Hogs: Receipts 11.000, market strong, top price .fs.45. bulk of sales $S.o5'7 S.40. Cattle: Receipts 200. market steady, beeves $7..',.5fi 9.:'.5. calves S7.oov( in. 25. Sheep: Reecints 4.000, natives and westerns Ja.ufi 6.4o, lambs $0.50'( 8. 10. PITTSBURG LIVESTOCK PITTSBURG. June 20. Cattle: Supply light, market steady, choice beeves $S.Sor x.fm, tidy butchers $s.0(K() 8.35, veal calves $ 1 (i.0(i'j 1 0.75. Sheep and lambs: Supply light, market steady, prime sheep $".7o'& .".K5. Iambs $4.00ft ".5t. Hogs: Receipts 25 cars, market steady, prime heavies $3.40t 8.45, pigs $7.oof( 8.25. CINCINNATI LIVESTOCK CINCINNATI. June 20 Cattle: , Receipts loo, market steady, choice! steers $5. 75 fa 8.65. Hogs: Receipts; l.tnm, mraket active, top prices K.30. j Sheep: Receipts o.iOO. lambs Stj.oOfay 9.40. INDIANAPOLIS LIVESTOCK INDIANAPOLIS, June 20. Hogs: Receipts 4.500, market higher, tops $8,15. bulk of sales $X.Hufa 8.40. Cattle: Receipts 250, choice steers $8.5018.75. other grades $8.10fa S.r, lambe: Receipts 350. prime sheep $4.25''' 4.75 6.50. 0. Sheep and market lower, , lambs ?6.uuVi INDIANAPOLIS GRAIN INDIANAPOLIS. June 20. Wheat, cash No. 2 red 8890; corn, cash No. 3 w hite 74 ''2 ( 75 ' 2 ; oats, cash No. 2 white 404'' 41. TOLEDO GRAIN TOLEDO. June Wheat 92; corn cloverseed, cash. 20, -Cash oats grain : 42 '; ! LIVE STOCK (Corrected daily by Anton Stolle. Phone 131C) HOGS. Primes (average 200 lbs.) per 100 i lbs.,$8.00; heavy mixed, per 100 lbs., $7.oTir' 7.25; roughs, per 100 lbs., $5.50 fa 6.00; light $8. 15 fa 8.20. CATTLE Choice steers, per lb., 74c to 8Uc; butcher steers, per lb., 7 74c, cows, per lb.. S 4 (ff 6 4 1' ; bulls, per lb., 5 41) 64; choice veal calves, per lb., 84c. PRODUCE (Corrected dally by Ed Cooper. Phcr.e 2577) Old chickens dressed paying 20 to 22c; selling 25 to 28c. Young chickens dressed paying 25c; selling 30c. County butter paying 15 to 25c; selling 25 to 30c. Creamery butter selling 33c. Country lard paying lie; selling 15c. Eggs paying ISc; selling 22c. FEED QUOTATIONS Timothy hay, paying $16. Straw, paying $5. Oats, paying 40c. Corn, paying 72c. Red clover seed, paying $6 bushel. Timothy seed, paying $2.30 bushel. Cracked corn, selling $1.75 bushel. Bran, selling $2S ton.

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50,030.00 374,126.26 50,030.00 378,961.06 119,810.00 323,278.33 95.280.00 376,224.36 150,000.00 354,014.02 150,000.00 357,981.37 200,000.00 309,94344 190,000.00 357,000.00 200,000.00 311,994.34 200,000.00 317,580.32 200,000.00 316,575.77 200,000.00 329,154.96 200,000.00 339,527.28 200,000.00 346,673.69 199,950.00 355.005.12 199,600.00 374,720.50 195,930.00 403.039.46 194,140.00 422,630.70 196.620.00 445,381.22 202,330.00 497,670.00 205,040.00 494.960.00 203,440.00 496,560.00 209,390.00 490,610.00 $9,523,372.74

EXCHANGE MESSAGES Wilson and German Ruler Communicate. BERLIN. June 20. That a new- era of achievement has been opened in wireless communication by the successful exchange of messages between Emperor William and President Wilson across n distance of 4,062 4 miles, was the confident prediction made today by experts. A message from President Wilson wan transmitted from the wireless station at Tuekertown, N. J., yesterday and was received at Hanover without being relayed. Emperor William answered the message, his reply being sent from the powerful apparatus at Hanover station. Announcement was made today of the successful exchange oT messages. Middlings, selling $29 ton. Chop feed, selling $16 cwt. Coin meal, selling $1.00 cwt. Salt, $1.10 barrel. HIDES AND WOOL (Corrected by Clendenin & Co., Phone 2436.) Wool Medium grade 22 4c lb; rejection 194c. lb. Green Hides No. 1 cows and steers, 11c lb; No. 2 cows and steers, loo lb; No. 1 calf skins 14c lb; No. 1 13c lb. Tallow A grade 6c lb; B grade 54c lb. GRAIN MARKET ( Corrected di.ily by Richmond Holler Mills. Phone 2,,1J) Wheat, paying 90c; oats. paying 35c; corn, paying 75c: rye. paying, 57c; bran, selling $28 cwt.; middlings, selling $30 cwt. FISH AND SEA FOOD (Corrected by Richmond Fish Market, Phono 1535.) Fresh fish Wlmefish 20c lb; pike 20c lb; bone-less herring 1 5tt lb; Spanish mackerel 25c lb: lake trout 18c lb; large pickerel ISc lb; small pickerel 15c lb; perch 15c lb; white bass 15c lab; catfish 18 to 20c lb; halibut. 20c lb; salmon 20c lb. Frogs Live and dressed 35c apiece. Spiced fish Sardeles 75c bucket. Turtles Live 12c lb; dressed 20c lb. Salt fish Holland herring 3 for 10c, salted mackerel 5 to 25c apiece. COAL MARKET. (Corrected daily by Haekman, Klefolh Co., Phone. 2015.) Anthracite nut. $8.20; Anthracite, No. 4 and egg, $7.95; Pocahontas lump or egg, $5.25: Pocahontas mine run, $4 25; Pocahontas slack. $4.00; Jackson lump or egg. $5.50; Winifrede. $4.50; Jewel, $4.75; Tennessee, $5.00; Hocking Valley. $4.25; Indiana, $3.75; coke, $7.00; Winifred washed pea, $4.00; nut and slack, S3.00. GROCERY PRICES (Corrected by Ed Cooper, phone 2577.) Apples, new, 15fT25c quarter peck. Asparagus 5c bunch. Bananas, lOfafne doz. Beans, green. 15-20c 4 peck. Cabbage, 5'? 10c head. Cabbage plants. 5c doz. Cauliflow er. 15ft 25c bunch. Carrot, new. 2 bunches, 15c Celery, 5ft 10c bunch. Cherries. 10c qt. Cucumbers. 5ft 10c each. Cocoanuts 10c. Dates. 10c lb. Egg plant 10 to 20c. Figs, 20c lb. Grapefruit 5ft 10c each. Honey, 20c comb. Kale," 10c 4 -peck. Lemons, 2 for 5c. Lettuce, heads, 5ft 10c; winter lettuce, 5ft 80 bunch; leaf, 20c lb. Lima beans, 35c, quart. Mangoes, 3 for 10c. Maple sugar. 20c lb. Onions, spring, 2 for 5c; Bermuda, 10c lb. Orange, 30ft 60c doz. Peas, 15c pk. Pineapples, 10 25c each. Parsley, 5c bunch. Potatoes, new, 15 -peck. Parsnips, 5c bunch. Red peppers, 15c pint. Radishes, 3 bunches 10c. Red beets, 10c bunch; 2 for 15c. Rutabago, 5ft 10c each. Spinach, 5e '4-peck. Squash, 5ft"10c each. Strawberries, 10ft20c qt. Sweet potatoes. 15c U-pecl:. Tangerines, 20(ff40c doz. Turnips, new 5c bunch. Tomato plants, 20c doz. Tomatoes, 10c. lb. Watercress, 5c measure. Nuts Hickory nuts, 10c quart; walnuts, 10c 4-peck; Philippine cream nuts, 20c lb.: English walnuts, 25c lb.; chestnuts, 20c lb.

MEDIATION SUCCESS

SEEMS Huerta Delegates Plan Dignified Surrender to Demands of United States Conferees. NIAGARA FALLS. Ont., June 20. Hope for successful conclusion of the Mexican mediation negotiations was revived this afternoon. A chance for a settlement through a dignified surrender of the Huerta delegates was discovered. This avenue of escape front the deadlock was found in the language of the statement they recently issued rejoCtinK the demands of the American delegates that a Constitutionalist be chosen to succeed Huerta. In this. Senor Rabasa and his colleagues said they had rejected the American candidate without "consulting" their government. Now that they have consulted their government and informed Huerta of the American refusal to modify their terms, there is a possibility that the Mexican delegates may change their position. Well informed men connected with the proceedings said that on this possibility hung the one chance of continuing the conference. That the American deleKates were optimistic was evidenced by the Keneral air of cheerfulness prevailing at their headquarters. NAON BLAMES WILSON. WASHINGTON. June 20. That the hurried trip to Washington of Minister Naon of Argentine, one of the Niagara Falls mediators, to confer with President Wilson and Secretary Bryan was aimed primarily to put the blame on the United States for the failure of mediation, was the opinion of diplomats here today. And that the plan had succeeded was conceded by officials generally, for be is said to have failed in his efforts to induce the administration to recede from its demands that a Constitutionalist be named provisional president of Mexico. Persons clone to the administration asserted that President Wilson is determined to stand by his original demand as to the presidential appointees. Minister Naon. it was declared, made it plain to Secretary Bryan that should a flat4 disagreement continue at the meeting of the delegates and the mediators, when they meet at Niagara late today, he and his colleagues will withdraw from further conferences. SUCCESS OF ARMY DEPENDS Of FOOD Field Bakery Turns Out Product Hard as Pig Iron But Palatable for Soldiers. BY A VETERAN. "I believe it was Napolean who said: "An army travels on its belly." The greatest commander of history put the grub wagon ahead of the rifle as a fighting weapon. Since Napolean overran Europe there have been enormous advances in the art of feeding an army in the field. Recently I visited a large army encampment and from a commissary oftij cer obtained some interesting facts. I Sixty to seventy-tive men bake for a division of troops, 20,000 men. and 'except tinder extraordinary conditions j they produce fine bread. They eon- : stitute a "field bakery." The field bakery comprises twelve field ovens, large affairs so lightly built that they can be readily transported on horse 01 auto trucks. The product is called "field bread." It is palatable although hard. It remains good for twenty days. The baking is done in a slow oven, and the bread contains little water. The loaves are arranged in pans so as to eliminate "kissing" surfaces. The loaves are entirely covered with crust. Just hefore the loaves are baked they are punctured, allowing the heat to get inside. The resulting bread is very solid and may be piled like pigiron. Other Foods Needed. But this field bread is only one item in the soldier's fare. If we should invade Mexxieo with a half-iniliiou men we would require every day: Paeon 2)2.500 lbs. field bread 500.OOO lbs. Sugar 100,000 lbs. Deslcated vegetables (potatoes, onions).. 37,500 lbs. Coffee, roasted and gound 40,000 lbs. Beans 75.000 lbs. Tonntoes 50.000 lbs. James 33,750 lbs. Vinegar 5.000 gal. Salt 20.000 lbs. Pepper 1,250 lbs. Of course this is only a sample day, and our commissary officers would try to vary the dietary as much as possible. They would try to buy fresh meat and vegetables from the people of the country through which they were marching. But if nothing could be so procured it would take fifty freight cars, or 214 army wagons to transport this day's food. The supplies have a total weight of 1,300,000 pounds. This would be an average of two and three-fifth pounds to a soldier. Rations are often much more concentrated. Colonel Maude, a famous strategist, wrote recently: "I have myself lived on rations of mixed meat and vegetables of which eight days' supply weighed only eight pounds, so that a single mule could carry a day's rations for a war strength battalion or a single wagon, loading up to two tons could transport 32,000 rations or enough for a cavalry division of 2,000 sabres, for nearly a fortnight." Brigadier General Henry G. Sharpe, commissary general of the United States army, recently called an army "a city flung down suddenly in the country, each day moving, each day requiring fresh alterations of the arrangeemnts by which food is conveyed from the producer to the consumer." GET WOMAN COP. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., June 20. Mrs. Vincent Meyerhoffer has been appointed a policewoman here. She will not wear a uniform and will censor I moving picture BhowB and dance halls.

IMMINENT

Liner Going Through Lock of Completed Panama Canal

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In one hour and twenty-four minutes from the time the AlHanca. the 3,000 ton liner owned by the Panama railroad, entered the lower lock level at Gatun, she steamed out under her own power, into the waters of Gatun lake, where no ocean liner heretofore has ever penetrated. In one hour and twenty-three minutes more she was back into the ocean, having ascended eighty-five feet, turned around in the lake and descended the distance in three hours and forty-two minutes. The Allianca was the first steamship liner to bo sent through the Gatun locks on the Panama Canal. The little engines seen in the picture pull the boats over the canal, similar to the way mules used to pull the canal boats in the states. There is no resisting these powerful engines.

Harvest Corn in Floating Tubs Writes Bates from Argentine

That shipments of corn from South American will be scarce this year is the statement of Walter Bates, a Richmond man, who is with the International Harvester Company at Buenos Aires. In his letter to Charles Carpenter of this city, he says most of the crop is under water, but that farmers manage to harvest a little of it by floating tubs between the rows. J lis letter follows: "Friend Charles I take my match in hand (sold to me in London for a fountain pen) to advise you that furthere shipments of Argentine corn are liable to be few and far between, and practically none from this year's crop, two-thirds of which still hangs to the parent stem, surrounded by water. The corn country is north of Buenos Aires and extends to Rosarie. All that section is and has been under w;..er for sixty days, and it is still raining. Farmers are getting a little by floating tubs between the tows and wading in the water hip deep. "Whole villages have been moved from houses to box cars, which, on graded roadbed keep them from the TWO WOMEN ELOPE WITH SAME PERSON SOFTH BEND. Ind., June 20. Two married women eloping with one man was the unusual occurrence reported to the police today by the deserted husbands. The women are Mrs. Thomas Towles and Mrs. Charles Taggart. The Detroit police have been asked to arrest the women and the man. ! NEWS NUGGETS 1 JERSEY CITY. N. J.. June 20. Mrs. Alice Carlson, suing for divorce, testified that her husband neglected her for a chicken farm and another woman. i STEALS MAN'S TEETH. j PUTNAM VALLEY, N. Y.. June 20. I A footpad who held up James S. ButI terworth. took the victim's set of gold j trimmed false teeih from his mouth. a watch, scarf pin and $1V SEPARATE TWINS. PARIS, June 20. Marie Anne and Anne Mane, born May 22 hist, the French "Siamese twins." joined together back to back, are to be separated by a surgical operation. ALLOWS BLOOMERS. CHICAGO. June 20. Women bath ers, if they are stim, may wear bloomer bathing uits, according to First Deputy Superintendent of Police Schuettler. Twenty mile of roadway around Chicago is soon to be concreted at a cost of $12,0(IU a mile. In Nurembuig. Germany, eight hun dred workmen are employed in making lead soldiers and lead toys. ;overnment salary in The average Washington is $1,079. and the average all over the country is $:48. Recent developments seem to indicate that the first newspaper in Engwas printed in 120, in Amsterdam. GET DIVORCES Two women, deserted by their husbands, appeared In circuit court today on trial in their suits for divorce. Both ; were granted divorces. Neither of the husbands appeared. They were Gwendolyn McCluxe whose suit was against. Glen McClure, and Bertha Witmer who sued Edward Witmer. Mrs. McClure was granted the custody of a small child. STEAMERS COLLIDE HASTINGS. N. Y., J.ine 20 The Hudson river steamer Tourist, with fifty pasengers on board, collided with a stone barge opposite Hastings and was sun ktoday. Most of the passengers were taken off by the tug which was drawing the barge. After the accident two persons were reported missing.

water. There are forty-two empty Fteamships at Rosario, chartered for corn which can not be obtained, and are sailing awav with rock for ballast; "This is quite a city, but the financial crisis has knocked the wadding out of ail kinds of business. Never saw such a deplorable condition. Failures are reported page after page and run into the millions. There are a few sizable pasture lots here, some 180 square leagues, all owned by one man. and theee big ranches are the curse of the country. It is said that less than two hundred families control the government and everything else here. "An enclosed clipping describes the condition of the corn crop as follows: "The maize is suffering considerably. All that has been stacked in the open will be practically unfit for transportation, and that which was left on the stalk will soon begin to mold. "A clear fine spell now would enable the farmers to put a large quantity of grain on the market, but the prospects of getting that fine spell are decidedly off." KANSAS HARVESTERS SUFFER FRJ HEAT TOPKKA, Kan.. June 20. Hundreds j of harvest hands have been prostra- ; ted by the extreme heat in the wheat (fields. Temperatures above 1U0 ruled ! yesterday in nearly all parts of the j state and the weather today was even j wanner. The harvest is about ouei third ox or. BOARD OF WORKS BUYS SCARIFIER The board of public works today i purchased a road scarifier from a Port i Huron. Mich., company for $425 and it , will arrive the first of the week and at once put in use on South Sixteenth ! street, which is to be macadamized. I The scarifier harrows up th street ; and is attached to tue street roller. It can turn up t.uuu square yards a day and will do the work of twenty men. CHURCH PICNIC. ; The Trinity Lutheran Sunday ' sc hool will hold a picnic at the : Wernle Orphans' Home tomorrow afternoon. A program will be sien by i members of the Trinity school and by children of the home. MAKE RECORD TRIP. ' Making (he return trin from Chicago on their nine horse-power Thor ! motorcycles in eleven hour? and fifty I minutes. W. (). Alexander and Harry : Burke arrived in the cit today. The trip was made without trouble of any i kind. MRS. LAMB DEAD. ! Friends have received word of the ! illness and death of Mrs. Lucy B. : - ' ' l'",b-. IT" . .' , ' ' ' the of A,,,or, l"mhGRANDPARENT DIES. NEW CASTLE. Ind.. June 20. Dr. W. A. Winters has received a message from Wisconsin informing him of the death of Mrs. Eliza Whistler. Catherine Winter's grandmother. The cause of death is said to have been worry over her little grand-daughter's disappearance. SUES TO EJECT The trial of the ejectment proceedings of Emily Turner against Cleo Rothemel to have Rothemel removed from a farm he leased from Mrs. Turner, was on in circuit court today before Special Judge Lindemuth. The trial was not completed. Mrs. Turner alleges the defendent failed to make payment according to agreement, while he said she had not fulfilled her part of the contract. More than four hundred patents have been issued by the United States for the devices intended to harness the power of sea warea.

KEEVER PUBLISHES COUNTY AGENT STAND New Garden Township Trustee Explains Methods Employed in Making His Census.

Claude S. Keever, New- Garden tow nship trustee, has submitted the following : "I wish to make a brief reply to the assertion quoted in Friday evening's Palladium from Mr. O. B. Hinshaw stating that 1 tried by leading questions to make him pay that he was not in favor of Mr. Cobb for another year, and that in taking the census or the other farmers of this township I had in the same manner lead the weaker ones to give reports unfavorable to Mr. Cobb. "I wish to refute this statement. I spent two days taking this census, and endeavored to get an expression from every farmer who visited town on these two days. I felt this to be the bes-t way of securing a representative opinion of this township, and I wanted such an opinion, unbiased as possible, in formulating my own position as regards the retention of Mr. Cobb. I realized that questions put persons, either for or against Mr. Cobb, would likely be construed as "leading." and I tried to ask as few as possible. Notes were taken from each man interviewed and were aa carefully recorded if favorable to Mr. Cobb's retention as they were if against him. These have beea tabulated and are on file in my offioe for any one caring to see them. Define His Position. "In this connection I wish also to define my position in the matter of the retention of Mr. Cobb as county agent. As representing the people of New Garden township with one vole in the rounty board of education matters. I feel that my actions should be along the line of the sentiment of the majority of the people of this township. I fe.lt some weeks ago that sentiment here was not such as to Justify my going to the county board of education meeting and becoming a party to resolutions asking for the return cf Mr. Cobb. 1 have since taken the above mentioned census, and while there are several who express themselves favorable to Mr. Cobb's reten'ion. the greater number express themselves in a manner that confirms me in the belief that the sentiment of the majority in the township is against him. I therefore, shall not be a party to resolutions favorable to Mr. Cobb's return unless convinced that majority sentiment in New Garden township in favorable to such action. "If by properly registered vote of the people of New Garden township recording those both for and against the retention of Mr. Cobb the majority should be found to be in favor of him, I would be one to ask for his return. "CLAUDE S. KEEVER. "Trustee New Garden Township." WILLIAMS IS SILENT Superintendent Refuses to Discuss Farmers Move. County Superintendent of Schools Williams, who returned today from Terre Haute, where he delivered a short address before the state convention of the County Superintendent's association, refused to comment on the steps which New Garden township men are taking to oust him from office by impeachment. Neither did he make a statement on the resignaj lion of County Agent Cobb except to say that he did not regard it in the light of a resignation but as a refusal to permit the use of his name as a future candidate for good reasons. Mr. Williams said several trustees had been in his office today and had read the Cobb letter but did not comment on it. The newspaper report of the action of O. B. Hinhaw and others of New Garden township, was also discussed by the trustet-s and the superintendent privately but their views were not given. GRIST FOR DAY IN POLICE COURT Thomas Bradway on his return to Richmond was arrested on a charge of beating a board bill of to. preferred by the proprietor of the Wajne hotel The case was dismissed on hia protnsie to pay the account. Charles Claw son. :' South Eighteenth street, was arrested for safe keeping at his home early this morninc. About 2 o'clock this morning Clawson began sprinkling his lawn, and in other ways had been acting qucerly recently. He is being held at the count v jail. Chief Helferen. of the Lima. Opolice department arrived in Richmond today and took Harry C. Burns, arrested here on complaint of the Limit officials, into custody. The chief was greatly pleased with the success of the Richmond police in apprehending this man. He snys Burns and two other men are suspected of having committed IS or 20 burglaries in Lima. Burns confessed to one burglary yesterday following his arrest two miles west of Richmond on the Peacock road. FALLS OFF WHEEL When the front fork of his bicycle broke this morning. S. W. Wells, an employe of the Miller Brothers' Hardware company, was thrown to the floor of the Doran bridge and painfully injured. Unconscious he was carried into the O. H. Little livertv stable. Mr. Wells' nose was broken and a long scalp would Inflicted. Chicago's noted Twentieth Century Club has decided to disband. SPECIAL OPENING DINNER SUNDAY We will serve Chicken. Home Style, at our opening dinner tomorrow. j) The Honje of Good Eats j WISE & MAYER GEM RESTAURANT 328 Main Street. i ;) 3