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7 JÖUENAI IHBIANAPOI lZZu" 0. L1V. NO. 100 INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 9. 1904 TWELVE PAGES. ' PRICE '2 CENTS. c cLli!a - . i . ; i ; ; ' HUW OF ANOTHER SEA FIGHT BETWEEN RIVAL REEISATPORT ABIHUR Admiral Makaroff Said to Have Sailed Out of the Harbor and Engaged the Enemy. DETAILS ARE LACKING Japanese Ships, According' to An other Report, Are Busy Prepar ing for Landing of Troops. NO CLOSE WATCH KEPT Admiral Togo Apparently Not v .Worrying About the Situation at Port Arthur. PARIS. April HiThe St. FelfMlinrK correspondent of the Echo de Pari uayn that Admiral MnknnilT unit out from I'ort Arthur thin niornlnc, n Japnnrie squadron lutvlnjc heen nnleri an In the oflin. It in rumored, the correspondent mnyn, thiit se fleht took place, hut nothing con cern in k it Is oflii-Ially known. NEWSPAPER MEN NOT PERMITTED TO LAND SEOUL April 8. The steamer Sumlnoye Maru called in at Chemulpo to-day to take on board 300 men belonging to the first division. The newspaper correspondents on board the Sumlnoye Maru were not permit ted to land and a correspondent who was here waiting to go forward with the Japa nese troops whs refused permission to em bark on the steamer. A dispatch from Tokio dated April 1 said: The first party of correspondents, con sisting of sixteen men, mostly British and Americans, left Tokio that day for the frcnt and that they would sail from Moji, Japan, on April 6 for an unknown des tination. While th-3 departure of these newspaper men from Mojl has not been re ported, possibly because of the Japanese censorship, it is possible that, the corre spondents referred to in the above dls- Jatch are those who were to have left loji last Wednesday. Chemulpo is about a two days' run from Mojl. It has been said also that correspondents who attempted to go forward contrary to the wishes of the Jaianese authorities would not b3 afforded the facilities given to writers who waited until the authorities were ready to have them move. PLAGUE MAY ATTACK RUSSIANS AT HARBIN ST. PETERSBURG, April 9.-The unsan itary condition of Harbin, which, it is feared, will lead to an epidemic, is revealed In a dispatch to the Novosti. Harbin is the center of Russian military and civil authority In Manchuria. All troops pass through this point, and all provisions and medical supplies are taken there. An ar rangement has been made for Harbin v to become the first station for the, sick and wounded during the war. Despite a dry spring and summer and peaceful conditions in the territory last year, there were cases of cholera and typhoid fever, the further development of which was stopped by frosts. The chief cause of contagion is the water of the Sungari river and the shallow wells, which are sunk in unsanitary places. Another source of contagion is that the fdth of the winter lies exposed above ground in the heart of the city, the streets of which are filled with refuse. Protests have proved unavailing because of the prosecutions of persons for publicity referring to the conditions. The warm weather, which caused the disappearance of the mow, has shown the true state of . affairs. RUSSIA TO MOBILIZE HER NAVAL RESERVES ST. PETERSBURG. April 8. The mobi lization of the Black sea reserves Is ne- cessitaieu in oraer to mi gaps caused Dy drafting sailors to the far East. It is ex pected that a similar mobolization will come Into effect in the Baltic provinces within a month. An authoritative denial is given of the rumor of a Russian reverse on the Yalu, "Which was circulated in Paris to-day. No official telegrams were received from the front to-day. It is officially announced that In conse quence cf the departure of Russian rep resentatives from Korea, the protection of Russian interests in that country has been temporarily Intrusted to the French dip lomatic and consular representatives. A dispatch describing- the burial of Rus sian seamen slain in the naval battle at Chemulpo says that a detachment of sail ors from the United States gunboat Vicks burg as well as those from other foreign warships, followed the bodies to the grave. General Kurop Atkin has returned to Liao-Yang. RUSSIANS WILLACT ON THE DEFENSIVE ST. PETERSBURG, April 9. The Vos toony Vestlks Harbin correspondent says everything shows that on account of un preparedness It has been decided to oper ate on the defensive. It is believed that the Japanese will never pass Mukden. In anticipation of the cutting of the railroad the correspondent says families south of Mukden have been ordered north. He adds that the regular railroad guard has been implemented by volunteers armed by the government and drilled by instructors. Troops travel thirty miles an hour going to Liao-Yang, according to the correspond ent. TOGO IS NOT WATCHING PORT ARTHUR CLOSELY LONDON. April f. A correspondent of the Times at Wei-Hai-Wei. cabling under yesterday's date, says: "The result of a week's cruise leads me to believe that the Japanese fleet Is engaged In covering arrangements for a new land ing of troops recently mobilized. A close blockade of Tort Arthur is not maintained, presumably because of information regard ing the state of the channel. Certainly up to the present no Japanese transports have entered the Gulf of Pe-Chi-Ll." MILITARY ATTACHES NOT WANTED IN FAR EAST CHICAGO. April S. Secretary of War William If. Taft arrived In Chicago to night from Cincinnati. He will remain over to-morrcw, when he is to speak at the Appomattox lmnnuet. given under the auspices of the Hamilton Club. "Early in the campaign now In progress In the far East." said Secretary Taft to night. "I sent Brigadier General Allen, chief of the Philippine constabulary force, to Manchuria, hoping to have him observe the oiK-ratlons of the Japanese as a mill- iCUNTXN UED ON "lVGlTuTCO-TSJ IM' I I - JfM Received a Few OR SHOW PROMISED FOR INDIANA THIS DAY Spring Finery Must Again Be Laid Aside for More Appropri ate Garb. MERCHANTS COMPLAINING The unwelcome Intelligence is heralded by the weather bureau that to-day it will either rain or snow in Indiana and the weather will be much colder. This means the laying aside of Easter millinery and spring overcoats for a time. There Is, of course, the promise of slightly warmer weather to-morrow, but hopes are some times blasted. local merchants are down In the mouth those that deal In men's and women's finery and complain of the backwardness of spring. v Baseball fans are in open re volt and on all sides there is manifest dis content with the unusual conditions. HELPED HANG HER FORMER HUSBAND Woman, in Jail with Present Mate, Confesses They Committed Murder. SIOUX CITY, la., April 8.-Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rocker, of Boone, la., are in jail under an Indictment for murder, and Mrs. Rocker has confessed to Attorney C. A. Irwin, of this city, that her present hus band murdered her former husband, August Schroeder, June 30, 1900. She says that Rocker, who was at the time Schroeder's hired man, went to town with him, got him drunk and chloroformed him on the way home. She says that Schroeder was nearly dead when they reached home. She says that she helped Rocker hang Schroeder in the barn, to Indicate suicide. After collect ing the insurance on Schroeder's life she says she 'gave it to Rocker, who -went to South Dakota and that she married him. CAN NO T DISCHARGE MAN HELD AS JUROR Tobacco Company Official Given a Severe Check by Judge at Richmond. RICHMOND, Va., April S.-Yesterday Judge Clopton, of the Corporation Court of Manchester, received a letter from the secretary of a prominent tobacco company, requesting that one of their foremen be excused from jury duty and stating that if the foreman was not at work to-day the company .might be compelled to em ploy some one in his place permanently. The judge at once ruled the secretary into court for coutempt and he purged himself under oath, but was Informed that if the foreman was discharged, another summons would be issued and the Judge would hold that the threats had been carried out and declare the secretary again guilty of con tempt. TWENTY-FIVE PERSONS KILLED BY EARTHQUAKE Many Victims Injured and i, 500 Houses Destroyed in Macedonia. VIENNA. April 8. According to a dis patch to the Neue Freie Press, an earth quake April 4 killed twenty-five persons, In jured forty, destroyed 1,500 houses and caused great distress in the vilayets of Kossovo and Salonica, Macedonia. SOFT COAL PRICES ARE CUT FIFTEEN CENTS CLEVELAND. O., April 8.-At a meeting of Ohio. Pennsylvania and West Virginia soft-coal operators here the price of lake coal and steamboat fuel has been cut 15 cents a ton. as compared with last year's prices. Under the new schedule three-quarters coal will be quoted at J2.30 a ton and one and a quarter coal at $2.40. The operators express the opinion that the movement of lake coal this season will be very heavy. CLASH WITH THIBETANS. British Infantry Encounter the En emy, but No One Is Killed. LONDON, April 8. A dispatch received at the India offices to-night said that Gen eral MacDonald's Infantry, while rccon- noitering near Kalapange. encountered 3) Thibetans, who opined üre. There were no casualties, ämkmr. ml ,,IA. . ii. . aar. a , . - Scars but Tied Up to the Old DEAD BODY OF OLD FOUND INVIOODY BLOCK Thomas Howard, Seventy-Four, Years Old, Probably Succumbed to Heart Trouble. PREMONITION OF DEATH I The body of Thomas Howard, an old man, was found lying in a small room In the Moody Block, at New York 'street and In diana avenue, last night. The discovery was made by Charles E. Sorters, who went there to see if the old man was sick. How ard formerly lived with the family of the late John T. Kelly, 711 Ogden street. About one year ago he moved to the Moody block. He had always been a su ferer from heart trouble and a few weeks ago he told Mrs. Kelly that if he did not appear fo. several days some one should look for him. Not having seen him for several days Mrs. Kelly asked Sorters to Investigate. Sorters knocked at the door of the old man's room and not receiving an answer climbed on top of an ice box and saw him lying on the floor of the room. He called Sergeant Milam and Patrolman Gun- olus, who broke In the door. The Inmates of the block said they had not seen How ard since Tuesday. The City Dispensary ambulance, in charge of Dr. Mackey. was called and the body was removed to the city morgue. It is not believed that Howard had any-relatives living in the city. He had a brother who is a physician somewhere in Ken tucky, but the exact location is not known. Another brother is a merchant in Louisville and a sister, Mrs. Kmma Acrew, lives near Mattoon, 111. Howard was a carpenter and was seventy-four years old. CHARGED WITH THE LARCENY OF $25,000 Former Clerk of a Co-Operative Association of Mill Employes Arrested. LAWRENCE, Mass., April 8. General De Wherst, formerly clerk of the Arlington Co-operative Association, was arrested to night on a warrant charging the larceny of $25,000 from the association. He furnished $15,000 ball for his appearance in court to morrow. The Arlington Co-operative Association is a local profit-sharing body, composed of several hundred mill operatives. It con ducts one large grocery storei. five branch establishments, several small clothing stores, a coal pocket and woodyard. The association wa3 formed twelve years ago and for several years paid considerable in dividends. Dissatisfaction with the man agement resulted recently in the resigna tion of Clerk De Wherst and other officers. An investigation of the association's af fairs was then instituted. STUDENT SHOOTS BOY AND CAUSES RiOTAT BALL PARK Kenttickian Wounds Victim Who Peeped Through Fence and Then Defies Police. PLACED UNDER ARREST LEXINGTON, Ky., April 8. Coley Hay den, nineteen years old, was shot at State College Baseball Tark to-day by Lee An derson, State College student, who was acting, as guard at the park. The bullet entered Hayden's left shoulder and in flicted a serious wound. Police Captain Brown went to the park to arrest Ander son. As soon as Anderson lcarne'd his mission, he pulled his revolver and de clared that he would not submit to arrest. A crowd of 200 State College students backed him up in his refusal. Captain Brown rushed in before he could shoot, however, and after a tussle, disarmed him. He was placed under arrest and the students made no further attempt to cap ture him from the police. He was later released on bond. Central University and State College were engaged in a game of baseball and Hayden was looking on through a crack in the fence. Anderson ordered him away, when it is said Hayden cursed him. Anderson thereupon shot him without further words. Two Murder in Kentucky. HAZARD. Ky., April 8. James Mcintosh was killed by Joe Miniard on Big creek to day. Mcintosh, who had Just returned from the army, went to work upon a piece of land which Miniard claimed. Min iard has hid in the mountains. John J. McCombes shot to-day and in stantly killed John Greasy Combe. In lSTti John J. Combes was cut by Greasy Combes in a fight, crippling hlra und C-Uö-lu partial puraly.U - MAN GS n.. Taggart .Post. CASHED A BAD CHECK; IS NOYJJNOER ARREST V. I. Stansifer, a Railroad Man from Pittsburg, Secures Re lease on Bond. HAS FAMILY IN CITY W. I. Stansifer, a railroad man of Pitts burg, was placed under arrest by De tectives Gerber and Trimpe last night on the charge of obtaining money under false pretense. The officers say that several days ago Stansifer went into the saloon of Frank Heidrick at Meridian and Pearl streets and cashed a check on the Farmers' Deposit and National Bank of Pittsburg for $15. In a few days the check came from Pittsburg protested. The officers also say that he has passed a number of other bad checks in the city. He has his family here and is stopping at the Illinois House. He was released late last night under a bond of $50). OAKMAN REFUSES TO PRODUCE BOOKS A President of Trust Company Again Testifies in Chicago Union Traction Case. NEW YORK, April 8. The hearing In the intervention petition by the city of Chicago against the Guaranty Trust Com pany of this city and others, charging fraud and collusion in connection with the reorganization of the Chicago Union Trac tion Company, was resumed to-day before Master in Chancery Bishop in the Mutual Life building. Joseph S. Auerbach, of the law firm of Davies, Stone & Auerbach, was the first witness to-day. In the course of his testi mony Mr. Auerbach declared that the in solvency of the traction company had not been forced by creditors. It was the nat ural outcome of conditions. Mr. Oakman, who testified yesterday, was recalled, to the stand in the afternoon and was asked once more to produce the books of the Guaranty Trust Company or to give the names of the participants in the $1, 500,0 K) loan. He refused to produce the books of his company, though requested to do so by Master in Chancery Bishop. MUTILATED BODY OF MAN FOUND IN CELLAR COLCHESTER, Conn., April 8. The body of a man with both arms cut off at the shoulders and otherwise horribly mutilated was found this afternoon in a bag In an unfinished cellar on the farm of John Marks of this place. The body was identified as that of a former helper on Marks's farm. Marks, who is sixty-five years of age, has disappeared. It Is reported that he had frequent quarrels with his help. SIX SHOTS FIRED AT II AS SHE SLEPT Cold-BIooded Attempt to Murder an Elwood Woman by Shooting Through a Window. SUSPECT IS UNDER BOND Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind., April 8. Although the bed on which she slept was riddled with bullets, while two of them found lodgment in the wall on the opposite side of the room, Miss Cora Schawgo, a prominent young woman of this city, escaped what appears to have been a cold-blooded at tempt to murder her at an early hour this morning. William Farr, aged thirty-eight, a re jected suitor of Miss Schawgo, was arrested this morning for the shooting, but secured his release on a $300 bond. The officers claim to have evidence that Farr had threatened the girl when she refused his attentions, but he stoutly asserts innocence. Miss Schawgo spent the night with Mrs. Henry Long. a. neighbor, and It was there that the attempted shooting occurred, six shots from a revolver being fired through a window at the side of the bed. ST. LOUIS FOOTPAD ATTACKS A JAPANESE ST. LOUIS. April 8. S. Makino. treasurcr of theilmpcrlal Japanese Exhibit Associa tion, was knocke-d down to-night by a high wayman in the western part of the city. The footpad was frightened away by the eppearauco of a polieeman and Mr. Makino a)S that fco waa not robbed. . . will"' "s WOMAN WALTER BROWN W STAND TESTIFYING IN 01 BEHALF iN THE BANK FAILURE GASE Contrary to Expectations, He Blames J. L. Brodrick lor In stitution's Insolvencv. OWN CONCERNS SOLVENT He Needed Money, However, Be cause His Factories Were Un 1 dergoing Expansion. ALL CHARGES DENIED Tousley and Alfortl Note Trans actions Explained Cross Examination To-Day. At 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon Walter Brown, who for teu days has been prose cuted by the government, charged in sixty seven counts with illegal financing in con nection with the broken Indiana National Bank of Elkhart, stepped from the witness stand, having in five hours told the story of his part in the transactions which, it is al leged, wrecked the bank. With a composure and self-confidence that did not fail to elicit much comment. Brown denied firmly the sixty-seven charges placed against him, and explained with apparent ease and directness the deals in which he is alleged to have been a knowing participator. His explanations were clear and apparently reasonable and throughout the long examination conducted by his attorney, W. A. Ketcham, he did not hesitate with his answers. This morning will witness the crucial hour of Brown's defense, when Attorneys Keal ing and La Follette will begin their attack through cross-examination upon the de fendant's story. The cross-examination will begin this morning at 9 o'clock and is awaited with nervous excitement and cu rious interest by those following the trial. Should the attorneys of the government fail to shake Brown's testimony his chance of acquittal will have lost much of Its threatening aspect; should they break the barriers of his testimony the future of the Elkhartian will be still darker. ATTENDING TO DETAILS. The fight made by Brown's attorneys Ketcham, Van Fleet & Van Fleet was much stronger than had been expected In the face of the formidable array of testi mony which the prosecution had piled up. Attorney Ketcham is conducting the de fense and throughout the entire sessions of yesterday covered his ground step by step, going minutely into the long list of counts against his client. He completed his ex amination of Brown at adjournment of court late in the afternoon, making ma terial progress toward the end of the trial. The defense will probably end Its case to day, after which arguments will begin. It is now thought the trial will come to a close about next Tuesday. Brown was called to the stand about 10 o'clock yesterday morning, after Ketcham had Introduced three witnesses to testify to the values of the National Manufactur ing Company and the Consolidated Paper and Bag Company, Brown's two concerns. They were John C. Collins, of the Buescher Manufacturing Company, of Elkhart, and Charles A. Tripp, and F. W. Spaake, of this city, expert machinists, who made an ap praisement of Brown's two plants- The Consolidated exclusive of real estate, bills receivable and patents they valued at $'J0, 633 and the National plant, with the above reservations, at $lll,tt)S. On cross-examination the government brought out that this estimate was placed on the basis that the plant was a running concern when in real ity it was a dead concern. BROWN'S TESTIMONY. At the outset of his testimony Brown went into an explanation of conditions leading to his ultimate close connection with the Indiana National Bank, following with minute explanations of his part in the deals and transactions carried on by the bank. The feature of his testimony was that portion relating to the Alford and Tousley notes, the meetings in the bank on the nights before the bank failure, and his statements denying knowledge of the critical condition of the bank itself. He declared that on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 15, 1903, Brodrlck called him to the bank, where was also Collins. "That aft ernoon was the first intimation I had that there was anything serious in the condition of the Indiana National Bank," Brown said. Ketcham continued: "Mr. Brown, were you at the bank on the evening of Nov. 16?" "No, sir; I was not," Brown answered. "Did vou have any consultation with Mr. Collins on that night?" "I did not." "Mr. Brown, were you at the bank on the night of Nov. 17?" (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4, COL. 6.) YOUTHFUL DESPFRADOES HELD ATJI01 FOIIIT Had Perpetrated Many Crimes and . Were Planning to Rob Coun ty Treasurer's Office. FOUR YOUTHS IN JAIL Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HAMMOND, Ind., April 8. Crown Point has been amazed for some time at the se ries" of daring robberies executed at Inter vals during the past few months. Safes have been entered and large sums of money stolen and business houses and other places robbed without the authorities being able to fasten the guilt on any person. Yesterday Ray Knight, aged twenty, and James Linton, aged twenty-one, of Crown Point, sons of leading families, and James Scone, aged sixtee-n, and Albert Hahn, aged seventeen, of Remington, were arrested in a lonely hut near Crown Point, where they had been concealed for some time. After being- put in Jail they confessed the wholesale robberies and said they were emulating the Chicago car-barn bandits. They confessed that they intended to blow up . the vault in the Lake county treasurer's office at Crown Point during the taxpaying season and "get avay" with a hundred thousand dollars. They had se cured keys to the courthouse and had made other arrangements. Dentlia from the I'liiKue. LIMA. Peru. April 8. The Peruvian con sul at Antotagasta, Chile, cabled to-day th&t there had been twenty-two deaths from bubonic plague there and that there are now hfty-one persons suffering from the plague. The consul adds that steamers from the north and south do not touch that HQiU - r Tr-. ...... . -.fr,', . . . . J. . - - . . . . . & Y . -. . V . f , . -if 4 THOMAS TAGGART. Who Won Success for the Parker Forces at the Democratic Primaries Yesterday. OR, MELDEN DENOUNCES SOUTHERN SENATORS Says Tillman and Money Would Reduce Negroes to a State of Peonage. VARDAMAN ALSO SCORED NEW YORK. April 8.-In the New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the session being held under the auspices of the Freedmen's Aid and South ern Education Society, the Rev. Dr. C. M. Melden, of Providence, R. I., formerly president of Clark University, Atlanta, Ga., discussing the negro problem, said in part: "Unfortunately, there are m'any people In the North who think that the business of solving the negro problem ought to bo left to Southerners. Do you know what that means? It means that if such work was left to Southerners like Senators Till man and Money and Governor Vardaman, the colored man would be reduced to vir tual peonage. They threaten a massacre rather than allow the negro his rights under the Constitution. Senator Money is a man of the same stfipe as Tillman, but not such a loud talker. But the men I have mentioned represent a loud-mouthed and large class In the South. "To me it seems to be a national question. It is impossible for America to take a high place among the nations while millions and millions of the colored people are sunk in darkness and, like a festering mass, are breeding disease that is like moral malaria. Because of this menace to the couutry the subject is a national one." STRIKERS PARADE WITH A BRASS BAND Force All the Miners and Coke Workers About Latrobe to Stop Work. LATROBE, Pa., April 8. pleaded by a brass band, striking miners of the Loyal Hanna Coal and Coke Company marched to the various plants about Latrobe to-day and succeeded In making general the strike begun on Monday. It is estimated that 3, 500 men are out to-night and operations at most of the plants have been stopped pending a settlement of differences. All but three of the mines of the Saxman interests are idle and the working forces of the Loyal Hanna Coal and Coke Company, the L-itrobe Coal and Coke Company and the Bessemer Coke Company have bee'.i seri ously crippled. So aggressive have the strikers become in their efforts to induce men to quit work that Sheriff John H. Trescher was to-day appealed to. He left Greensburg to-night with forty deputies, who will be distributed about Latrobe and Bradenville. DAMAGE SUITS FILED BY EXPLOSION VICTIMS Sums Aggregating $13,000 Sought by Marion Plaintiffs from Citi zens' Gas Company. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind.. April 8. Damage suits, three in number, aggregating In their de mands $13,000, were filed this evening- against the Citizens' Gas Company, now leased by the Marlon Gas Company. The suits are for injuries received in the de struction of the Golding block at Twelfth and Branson streets May 5. 13)2.' There are six plaintiffs. Cassius Fansler asking for $5.000, Leon Thomas $3.00o, and the sum of $3,000 is demanded by Martha Busick. Grace Bennett, Mary Frazee and Edward B. Thomas. It is charged that gas escaped from mains of the Citizens' Gas Company ninety days before the explosion . and that no repairs were made. Electrolysis is regarded as being responsible for the rotten condition of the mains at the corner where the ac cident occurred. IS OITO TIB ELEMENTS Dr. Baskerville the First American to Discover a Chemical Element. TEN YEARS OF RESEARCH NEW YORK, April 8.-Dr. Charles Baskerville, professor of chemistry and di rector of the laboratory In the University of North Carolina, announced to-night be fore the Chemists' Club in this city his discovery that thorium, hitherto known as one of the primary elements, is complex in its nature. Dr. Baskerville has resolved thorium Into two new elements. He has named one of these carolinum. after the State, the other Berzellum, in honor of the great Swedish chemist who nearly a hundred years ago discovered thorium. It has never before been the good for tune of an American chemist to discover a chemical element. Dr. Baskerville's dis covery of two elements is the result of ten years of persistent labor. PLEADS GUILTY TO . SWINDLING BY MAIL CHICAGO. April S.-Pleading guilty to using the mails to further a scheme by which newsjapers all over the country were sVlndlcd of a large sum. John H. Dal ton was to-day fined $1.5"0 by Judge Hum pnrey in the United States Circuit Court. DaltOn escaped the penitentiary on the same charge two years ago because the United States Circuit Court of Appeals re versed the sentence of the lower court. He was charged with organizing an advertising agency through which he is said to have swindled 7,tud newspapers. THOR UM HEARST FAILS TO SECURE A SINGLE DELEGATE AFTER A Parker Forces Win an Overwhelm ing Victory at Marion County Democratic Primaries. CHECKBOOK IS THINNER $5,500 Estimated to Have Been Spent Yesterday by the "En sign's" Managers. T. TAGGART NOT NAPPING Fully Prepared to Meet the Meth ods of the Imported Lieuten ants of Hearst. Democratic ward heelers in all rarts of the city appeared yesterday and last night with new shoes, new clothe and new jags the outward and visible evidences of the peculiar brand of prosperity of which William Randolph Hearst Is the advance agent. Primaries for the selection of dele gates to the Democratic state convention were held in all the wards ami in the out townships of the county between the hour of 4 and 8 o'clock p. m., and the advance agent of prosperity, through the numerous local disbursing agents, materially In creased the per capita circulation among the willing workers of the party. The professional repeaters imported from Chicago by the Hearst managers were not permitted to get in any of their fine work. Mr. Taggart controlled the election ma chinery, and with the police force at his back his position was Impregnable. The Ilea ret people evidently realized this, and abandoned their plan to use the Chicago ward heelers, for the organization forces had no complaints to register last night. They said that a few strangers attempted to vote in the First and Seventh wards, but that when the votes were challenged that put an end to that sort of work and no clashes occurred. Hearst did not carry the county. In fact, according to the returns made to the Democratic county committee at the head quarters in the Thorpe block up until II o'clock last night, Hearst did not elect a single delegate in the county. T. Taggart, long known as the "wily boss" of Indiana Democracy, marshaled his forces well in his home county and district and the 118 delegates to the state convention will vote as a unit for Parker delegates to the na tional convention unless the Hearst people are able to capture men who were elected on the Parker slates. In the city a total of 3.309 votes were cast for Parker to 1,14 for Hearst a shade bet ter than 3 to 1, which Mr. Taggart and his associates had predicted. Official returns were received from but two of the out town ships last night Warren and Center (out side) but unofficial reports from the others indicated a clean victory for the Parkerites. In Warren township the Parker slate re ceived 15 votes to 8 for the Hearst slate. In Center (outside) the vote was 28 to 2 for rrkcr VOTE IN THE CITY. The vote in the city Is as follows, accord ing to the compilation of Secretary Tettl john, of the Democratic county committee: Wards. Parker. Hearst. First ZZi 1S7 Second 1S1 6 Third ISO 22 Fourth 210 C3 Fifth 141 6 Sixth sr3 23 Seventh 176 14 Eighth I06 Ninth 105 S8 Tenth 210 L'3 Eleventh 4s5 2H Twelfth SS' 1" Thirteenth cno 'ji Fourteenth 143 1 Fifteenth yj Totals 3.3C3 1M The Hearst people made their hardest fights in the First. Seventh. Ninth and Eleventh .wards. Klght votes more would have given them the delegates from tho Ninth, and they lacked but twenty-nino votes of carrying the Seventh. In the First they were beaten almost 2 to 1. and in the Eleventh they were up against the same odds. The heaviest vote In the city was polled in the latter ward, the total being 6S5, according to the inspector's report. The Hearst people claim that they were robbed in this ward and that the figures reiortel to the county committee were not correct. They claim that the tally sheet should show 34S votes for l'arkcr to 210 for Hearst. Jacob Baker, who led the Hearst fight in this ward, claimed last night that h was not permitted to enter the voting place to watch the count until five minutes after the polls were closed and that when l.e claimed the right to contest the e lection of the Parker plate, his pretest was ig nored. "We didnf get a square deal." said Baker, "but we knew that we wt re up against it. We didnf stand any show to win with the machinery against us. We showed them, though, that Hearst ha some friends in the Eleventh. I don't blame them, however, for doing us. If I had h?d control of the machinery I wouldn't have let them cast as many vot as they gave us. We were vt against Mr. Taggart down there, but we were for Hearst." ROBBERY CLAIMED. The Hearst people also c!aim that they were robbed In the Seventh ward. They say that after the polls were closed, the Parker ptople took the ballot box upstairs to make the count, did not pe-rmit a Heartt watcher, and fixed up the vote to ruit themselves. The Parker people, on the other hand, say the Hearst forces wero given fair treatment and that every vote was counted honestly. They admit thai they we. e surprls-l at the strngth de veloped by the Hearst jM-ople In thU war!. Mr. Taggarf s famous smile was a trif.e mere radiant than ever last night as he sat In the committee headquarters and heard the reports from the various wards. "I'm feeling pretty good, thank you." he said, when asked what he had to ay -f the primaries. "Of coiirs-e I am pleased, but 1 am not In the least surprised. 1 was satisfied that tlint there was no real stnnglh In the s.-called Hearst movement, and I think the nsult of the primaries iu this district bear me out in that. 1 have also heard from three or four other coun ties to-night that selected dei gates to day. Madison county gave Parker thirty four delegate to seven for Hearst. Pos y and Jennings counties went solid for Parker. I donf think thire can be mucli question now how Indiana stands." Charles Maguire aid J. Oscar Hender son, the managers of Hearst's interests here, would make no comments last idsht on the res-ult of the primal ies. They inti mated that the result was not a surprise to them, because the patty maehinery as all against them, but further than that would tay nothing. PREPARED FOR TROUBLE. There was comparativt ly little trouble la any of the wards. Trouble, if there -wat to be any, had been anticlpatd in the South, Side wards and there were some lively brushes in the T nth. Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth. The Hearst people had lit tle hoiH of doing anything on the North Side and concentrat-d their efforts in the wards name 1. In the Tenth thy mad.- a fairly good showing, but Councilman Mlk Shea, who was looking after the ward for the Parker forevs. claimed he would bni them easily by from lift y to one hunrl votes out of a total of 4 . In the Eleventh there were Iiv ly sc nes about the polls at 641 Virginia avenue, and the jatrolmcn who wttv stationed theie had to intercede several times to prvver.t fights. Councilman James Moriurlty uai the inspector in this ward ami wiun the Hearst workers grew boisterous and crowd ed attout the window through which th votes were deiositcd tiut-lc ned to cto3 0 6 A 1