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AND SUN-TELEGRAM t. - VOL. XXXlfcfllO. 200 RICHMOND, IND THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 1914 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS MAYOR INSTRUCTS POOR OF RICHMOND TO RAISE PRODOCE Present Leaders of the I. W. W. Worry Police of Many States WORTH OF WHEAT YIELD TO EXCEED EVANS 'BIG ARMY

BOARD TO IDENTIFY AND COIIDEMII ALL DEAD POLES IN CITY City May Require I, H. & P. and Telephone Companies to Mark Poles Used Separately and Jointly. Members of the board of publio works today decided to call a meeting of representatives . of the Light, Heat and Power company and the Home Telephone company to identify all "dead" poles in the city, and to have them removed. The board also adopted a resolution to present to council an ordinance which will require the owners of all

SPEECH ROUSES IRE 0OARTERMILLIO!l Cobb's Estimate Shows the County Crop Will Reach)

Bobbins Inspects Garden Plots Under Cultivation by Deserving Persons Helped by Mrs. Monarch. Mayor Robbing is teaching the poor how to support themselves. Thirty-nine lots, twenty-eight located at South Fifth and P streets, and the remainder located in West Richmond, the north end and the east end, have been apportioned to Richmond children whose families will be benefited by the produce raised. All but three of these lots are under cultivation. This afternoon Mayor Robbins proved to the satisfaction of a large number of boys and girls and their parents that ha has not forgotten all the gardening tricks he learned when a boy on a farm "down by Abington." In company with Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Monarch, who have been particularly

active in carrying out Richmond's first expjUjjlment with city gardens for the .poor, Mayor Robbins visited the various lots now transformed into very promising looking gardens, and to the delight of the children who proudly call their -lots, or half lots, "mine," he took shovels, hoes and rakes from grimy, industrious little hands and p ho wed them just how to plant or care for various kinds of vegetables. Watch the Spuds. "Keep sharp watch on your sweet potatoes, boys," once the mayor said to the youthful gardeners. "It's kind of late to plant them, and unless you give them much ca re you will have trouble with them. I planted some once on the Fourth of July and the early frosts got them." An interesting group on the big South Fifth street field, which is now being used almost entirely as a gardening place, was an aged Russian peasant, surrounded by his six children, all industriousiy working their lot." Some time ago he was arrested for not properly feeding his brood. Now he is working every day in his fine looking garden, doing his best to provide for his large family. One let was not under cultivation at this place, to the great displeasure of Mrs. Monarch, and she instantly issued an edict that unless its "proprietors", a colored man and his children. made use of it before Saturday it would either be given to some other (Additional Society on Last Page) WHY DID FARMERS - 0 ESERP-MARKET? Market Master McKinley Seeks Answer to Question Before Acting. A thorough investigation will be made to learn the underlying reason for the failure of the city markets. City Marketmaster McKinley is anxious that the markets should be continued, but wants them to serve the people. To this end he has made efforts to break up the "price fixing," which has created a veritable trust. His efforts, however, have been misconstrued as an attempt to ruin the markets. Mr. McKinley announced today that he would send out a number of letters to persons who formerly offered their produce at the city stalls. Through these queries, the market master hopes to find out why these men have discontinued coming to the market. He recalls the time when stalls and stands completely surrounded the market on all days when it was open. Gardeners and farmers were included among those who regularly competed for the patronage of the housewife. Now Mr. McKinley says only grocerymen and commission merchants occupy stalls. With the information which he receives through these letters the marketmaster hopes to be able to solve the market question and again bring to the house a large number of gardeners and farmers. No further action will be taken until he has made additional investigations. FRIENDS JEACH CITY .Visitors From England to Speak. The party of visiting Friends arrived in the city this morning. Members of the Friends' churches of the city met the visitors who were taken to homes of members. Those in the party were Raymond Whilwell, James Douglass, Ethel Crawshaw Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rees, Harriet Newman, Margaret Thorpe, Sylvia Marriage, Margaret Jenkins and Robert Davis. Prayer meetings will be held at the East Main street. South Eighth street. West Richmond and Whitewater churches tonight. At nine o'clock tomorrow morning a conference for fixing future plans will be held at the South Eighth Street church. CABBAGE KILLS FLY SAYS READER Edi IdiWv 1 etlroy Palladium: best and cheaneat vdt tn deiliov flies is to boil cahhniro for dinner, open the kitchen door and let the blow flies in by thousands and then swat them. We killed a pint full of flies each day we boiled cabbage. The smell of cabbage boiling brings them a farther dis tance than any other smell. A Reader.

- Here are shown some of the most notable men andwomen now identifiedwiththe ten-year-old I. W.W. movement. Bouck White is a clergyman and novelist who is now serving six months in a New York city workhouse for trying to tell the story of the wrongs of the masses to John D. Rockefeller's fellow churchmen. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was arrested in Spokane at the age of 18 for addressing street meetings and has since led in New Jersey mill strikes. Elizabeth Freeman and Upton Sinclair, the latter a novelist who wrote "The Jungle," are of the intellectual type which has of late been drawn into the I. W. W. ranks. William Haywood, "Wild Joe" Carroll and Marie Gans are leaders sprung from the people. Haywood has led scores of strikes. He is a big, coel man of commanding power. Carroll and Marie Gans are agitators of the explosive type, who have led recent New York city disorders.

C, H, k D, ON FINANCIAL ROCK New York Bank Asks Receiver, Alleging $10,000,000 Due on Bonds. CINCINNATI, July 2. The Bankers Trust company, of New York, today filed suit asking for a receiver for the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railway in the United States District court here alleging failure of the road to pay interest maturing on about $10,000,000 of bonds and asking foreclosure of mortgages and the sale of tne road. The court appointed as receiver former governor Judson Harmon and Judge Rufus B. Smith and fixed their bonds at $50,OU0 each. The trust company charged in its petition that the railroad had defaulteu on the interest on $29,190,000 first mortgage and refunding fifty year gold bonds; on $3,162,000 bonds of the Indianapolis, Decatur and Western railroad and $4,722,000 bonds of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Western Railroad company. The suit also alleges that the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton has outstanding Obligations of $5,250,000 and that it is without means to pay them. The petition recites that the earnings of the company do not meet the expenses and that the railroad has been at great expense and loss because of the disastrous flood of 1913. M. R. Waite attorney for the C, H. & D. filed an answer in court admitting all the allegations in the petition. "WE'RE JF BOOZE" Fairview Boys Swear Before Goodwin. Ten half-grown Fairview boys, looking very sheepish but trying to appear very dare-devilish, were herded into Chief Goodwin's private office this morning and received a heart-to-heart temperance lesson on the evils of drinking booze. Two of them did not need it, for with very white faces they told him that they were "off of booze forever." They had been so deathly sick that their parents had to summon physicians. Goodwin suspected that the boys had purchased a keg of beer, but they all protested that they had found it in the river bottoms near the C. & O. railroad, explaining that it apparently had fallen off a car. They consumed nearly all the contents of the keg Tuesday night and all got uproariously drunk. Parents of several of the boys complained to the police yester

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LSON TO DROP EFFORTS FOR PROBE OF OPTION ELECTION Dry Leader Says Citizen Committee Has Disbanded Leaving Further Action With Fox and Prosecutor. The dry forces' will make no further efforts for an option election probe. Probably no further moves will be made by the committee of One Hundred or E. Edgar Nicholson, chairman of the temperance forces of the city, toward bringing about a grand jury probe of the alleged election frauds perpetrated prior to March 24, the date of the local option election here. This statement was made today by Mr. Nicholson who has just returned from a ten days trip through the east where he attended the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends at Vassalboro. Me., in the interest of the American Friend of which he is editor. "The responsibility of calling a grand jury rests not with us, but with the prosecuting attorney and other authorities," Mr. Nicholson said. "We had been promised that our affidavits which were made out and others which were ready to be presented, would receive consideration. "We feel that under the circumstances we should be given consideration. If Judge Fox wants to hear what evidence we have and determine by that whether a grand jury should be called, I am willing to go over the matter with him. It is my understanding though that such matters are usually taken up with the prosecuting attorney and it looks like a peculiar method to me, for the judge to ask the evidence instead of leaving it with the other authority." The citizens committee of One Hundred has disbanded with the intention of taking no further action in the election matter until persons in authority ask for the evidence. Mr. Nicholson denied the statement of Judge Fox that the swearing out of affidavits is in any way a personal matter. The Weather For day. Noon Indiana Fair tonight and FriTEMPSRATURE. 78 68 69 -Yesterday Maximum Minimum

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MORGAN MEETS WITH PRESIDENT WILSON Banker Presents the Street's View on Business Depression to Executive. WASHINGTON, July 2. J. Pierpont Morgan conferred with President Wilson today upon the various aspects of the business and financial problems now before the country. The interview was the first of a series which President Wilson plans to hold with prominent business men. Henry Ford of Detroit, the automobile manufacturer, will call at the White House next week. Mr. Morgan's visit was at his own solicitation and no formal statement was made at the White House as to the purpose of the call. It is believed that Mr. Morgan presented the Wall Street view of the prevailing business depression and possibly attempted to persuade the president to "go easy" while business is passing through a period of readjustment caused by the tariff and currency laws. It was stated at the White House that Mr. Morgan's call had nothing to do with the New Haven railroad situation. President Wrilson is now making a strong effort to get in touch with the business interests of the country and assure them that much of their apprehension is -unfounded. He feels that he can accomplish by personal contact what his speeches may fail to do.

SERBS DENY PLOT Insist Charge of Austrians Unfounded in Fact. VIENNA, July 2 A dispatch from Sarajevo says that M. Nikoleta, a Servian agitator, has been arrested and executed in connection with the investigation Into the plot that resulted in the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife. The dispatch came to a local news agency and no confirmation could be secured from official sources up to noon. The international situation involving Servia and Austria threatens to become acute as a result of the latter country's demand, that the Belgrade government institute a rigid investigation of the conspiracy and punish the plotters. This demand is a direct charge that the assassins were given aid In Servia and is likely to strain the relations of the two countries, almost if not fully, to the breaking point. The demand for the inquiry was sent to Belgrade today by the. Austrian foreign office. It was given to the Servian premier by the Austrian envoy.. " . - . .

515,772 Bushels, Breaking Records for Several Years. BY A. D. COBB. From present indications the Wayne county wheat crop this year will exceed yields in recent years by almost 100,000 bushels. This figure is based on an estimate that the yield for the county will average eighteen bushels to the acre. Other estimates that the average will run from twenty to twenty-five bushels are not to be relied on. It is true that a number of fields will show such an average and that many will even show a much larger yield These are the crops we hear about. But there are also any number of fields from which the farmer will not realize more than an average of eight to ten bushels to the acre. When estimating crops we never hear reports of these poorer fields but they must be taken into consideration in estimating the yield for the county. Based upon the acreage of the last three years, it is safe to say that there are 28,654 acres of wheat in Wayne county this year. With an average of eighteen bushels to the acre this will make a total yield of approximately 515,772 bushels. What this means to the country may best be realized when we figure that new wheat is now selling at seventy cents. This makes the crop in the county worth $361,040.40. Compared with the yield for the last three years this is a decided increase. Crops in 1911, 1912, 1913 respectively were: 273,809, 30,444 and 425,038. Considering the bumper crop everywhere it is doubtful if even this year's showing will place the county among the first ten in the state in either acreage or average yield, a place which it has not held for the last three years.

CLOBS ASK STREET IIAMESJ PLATES Women Want to Aid Auto Tourists by Putting Signs on Poles. To encourage tourists, members of the Federation of Clubs of this city favor the placing of street signs along East and West Main streets. At the meeting held last night, representatives of the federation on the mayor's advisory cabinet, were directed to bring the matter up at the next cabinet meeting, and ask that the board of works attend to it. Motorists are puzzled as to names of streets because the names and numbers plates are imbedded in the cement sidewalks. These serve for pedestrians, but do not aid automobile parties, the women claim. Automobiles from Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Pittsburg and many other points in all directions arrive in the city every week. If properly directed it is believed they will leave the city with a much better impression than if they are forced to hunt for every street and to inquire about every road. At the first meeting of the mayor's cabinet the matter was discussed, and members of the board of works agreed that it was an excellent plan. Because of organization work at the meeting, nothing was done. The matter will be presented at the next meeting in the form of a motion. LEADERS OF REBELS ON VERGEJOF SPLIT Reports Say Villa and Carranza Ready to Fly at Each Other. JUAREZ, Mex., July 2. That the forces of General Carranza and General Villa are on the verge of actual hostilities was the declaration made here today by friends and supporters of Villa. They declared that Carranzas troops were fortifying Monterey and Saltillo in expectation of a complete break with Villa and the fear that he would send his army to take the two cities. According to men in close touch with the situation efforts to effect a reconciliation between the two men have resulted in separating them still further. Present indications are that the final campaign against Mexico City will be postponed for several weeks. Villa will not attempt to move southward while the Carranza men are threatening him in the rear and Carranza will refuse to let his men help Villa until the latter gives assurances that he will support the claims of Carranza that he is entitled to the presidency of Mexico. FORD BUYS DEER FOR GLEN MILLER Park Superintendent Charles Ford announced today that he had purchased two does from a Henry county man and that they would probably arrive this afternoon or tomorrow. They are to be the mates of the little red buck deer who has been leading a very lonesome life ' for several months. Ford also announced that the boys and girls who have been, playing havoc with South Tenth street park must cease, their vandalism or be haled into court.- - " ' ,

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BRIGADIER GENERAL EVANS. ROBERT K. President Wilson has ordered an investigation of a speech reported to have been made by Brigadier General Robert K. Evans before members of the Sons of the American Revolution, in New York, to the effect that the United States was a "meddlesome nation," and that the country needed a greater army, and is said to have called the Monroe doctrine a "Pandora's box." When asked about it. General Evans said that his speech bad been misinterpreted. WEST SIDE TO ASK SALE OF OLD PARK Residents Want Proceeds From Land Applied to Riverside Boulevard Plan. After a public . meeting of West Richmond citizens tonight in Baxter school house, the city government! probably will be asked to dispose of a $3,000 piece of woods and gravel pit it purchased several years ago for a West Richmond park. The matter will be brought up tonight when West Slders get together to discuss plans for the proposed river bank park to displace the much-hated i dump. The citizens of West Richmond look upon the park provided by the expensive deal with disgust. The grounds are unlighted and unimproved. The land is rough and half gravel. The park is located at the farthest edge of building activities and is inaccessible. The ground was unloaded on the city at a price unheard of for land in that section. Even though the price of land has gone up in the vicinity considerably, it is doubtful if the city government could realize from a sale of the property what a former administration put in it. However, the citizens believe it is a matter worthy of consideration .nd that the money tied up there should be placed where it will do good. According to John Foster, one of the leaders in the park plan, no stone will be left unturned to improve the dump district. It is probable that later the Whitewater boulevard scheme will be brought up again. The sewer system will also be gone over with the idea of placing the trunk sewer outlets on a level with the river instead of having sewage trickle down the whole length of a hundred foot bluff. HUNTER VSSQU!RREL Game Without Protection of Law. The squirrel crop this year is short, but the crop of hunters is good, unless the holders of all hunting licenses paid their $1 fee to fish legally. The squirrel laws were out yesterday. Last month eighty-four licenses were issued. The licenses are combination affairs costing $1 and lasting one year. They are for both hunting and fishing. There is so little fishing in the county now, that the occasional angler who throws his line in some deep, shady pool In one of the county's crawling creeks, scarcely remembers that there is such a paper as a fishing license. The clerk has no record of what use the applicant will make of his license, but it is generally understood that all hunting and fishing licenses are issued for hunting purposes. During the winter when there is rabbit hunting, the biggest number of licenses Is Issued. HUNTING ACCIDENT COLUMBUS. Ind., July 2. While Councilman Charles H. Rhoades and Dr. Roy Marshall, of this city, were squirrel hunting near here today Dr. Marshall's gun was accidentally discharged and Councilman Rhoades was shot just above the left eye. The -wound is serious but It is not believed that it will prove fatal-"

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them. Poles in use under the joint agreement' will also be branded. In the event of wire trouble, which is frequent, poles under such an arrange-' ment can be identified easily. The board was informed today that! F. E. Slick, who received the contract . for paving Main street from Fourth street to the bridge, has arranged to assign his contract to Mather Kelsey. with the board's approval. This probably win be given Monday, when Kelsey has promised to file $8,000 bond. Slick" recently received the $30,000 Morton park sewer system, and wants to be relieved of his paving contract. Open Pearl Street. The board adopted a declaratory resolution for the opening of Pearl street from West Seventh street to West Eighth street. After brief discussion the board approved the contract with the Pennsylvania Railroad company, already signed by the railroad officials, for placing a single track, on a concrete base, across Neff street, for the con venience of business concerns. After this work has been done Neff street will be paved. The contract becomes effective when adopted as an ordinance by council. The day of hearing on the contract- was fixed for July 23. The city clerk was ordered to advertise for bids for the paving of North Sixth street from D street to the railroad and Neff street from Sixth street to Fort Wayne avenue. Today was the final hearing ? the improvement of East Main k- reet from Twenty-second street to the corporation line by paving. It was csed without remonstrance. The .tty'8 share of this expense was $2,371, and the property owners paid $1,269. The alley between South Fourth and Fifth streets, from C to D street, which was cemented, was today accepted by the board. The cost of the work was $632.70. The board ordered the city clerk to advertise for bids for the improvement of South Nineteenth street from B street to the Reeveston road, with concrete street, sidewalks and gutters, parkways in the center of the street, and conduit systems for wires. All rights of remonstrance were waived by property owners, who will also pay the entire expense of these imporvements. The city agreed to place a j fire hydrant at Nineteenth street and Reeveston road, with the understanding that if in one year there are five houses on the street, the hydrant rental shall be refunded to the city by the realty company. TRUSTEES ACCEPT COUNTY ROAD PLAII Officials Approve Jones' Plan to Abolish Expensive Township Highways. Township trustees are falling In line with the idea of converting all township roads into county roads. Today Trustee Enos T. Veal of Perry township stated that he has seven miles of township roads which he wants added to the county system. In Perry township there are fortythree miles of township roads and only eight miles of county roads. The plan of the trustee will practically double the mileage of county roads. Township roads in other parts of the county will be included in those changed within the next two months. All the changes must be made before the tax rate is fixed. A small increase in county road tax will be necessary, while townships relieving themselves of the financial burden of keeping up roads will have a lower township road tax. Road Superintendent Jones expects so many new roads to be placed under the jurisdiction of the county that he will be forced to reorganize his entire system of road districts and secure a number of new superintendents. Mr. Jones and other road superintendents have been discussing a plan of asking the legislature to convert the roads of Indiana into county roads. There are now 700 miles of roads in Wayne county, and only 240 miles are under the county supervisor. RICH JOB PRINTER STRANGLED TO DEATH BROCKTON, Mass.. July 2. Fred F. Tollman, a millionaire and one ol the largest job printers in the country, was found strangled to death under two ladders in the rear of a barn not far from his home today. The authorities are investigating.' READERS NOTE! On the Fourth of July, The Palladium will not issue a paper. Carriers will make, their collections Friday, and patrons ire requested to. be ready to pay the boys, in order that they will " not be forced to call again. -