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r V TTho Palladium Mao 1,000 ilflore Circulation Than All the Other Papers In Richmond Combined TP MIC. MOM) TP A X A TTDTTTM" : 1 ft' AND SCTN-TKLEGIL1M. VOL. XXXVI. NO. i:u. RICHMOND, IXD., 3IOXDAY EVENING, 3IAUCII SO, 1911. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS HAS DREAM OF A RIVER PARK Fourth U. S. Cavalry Arriving at El Paso, Texas GIRTOH SUFFERS WITH FRACTURED SPINEsJAY DIE Former Manager of Local Of fice of Indiana Loan Com pany Badly Injured at Portland, Ore. COMMITTEE FOR ENCAMPMENT IS THIRTY SLAIN III A MEXICAN FIGHT; PEACEPREDICTED American Officers at Ft. Sam Houston Think American Show of Force Has Had Good Results. GREATLY AROUSED As Start of Big Project, Supt. Johnson Recommends a Park Near the Municipal Light Plant. .WEST FIRST STREET WILL BE IMPROVED In Event of Valley Park Pro ject Being Carried Out It Would Make a Splendid ' Boulevard. When tho dreams of t'.io board of works come true tho Whitewater River Valley, from the Pennsylvania railroad bridge, to tho oUI slaughter house, on tho river bluff near South K street, will be one of the most beautiful parks la tho state. Growing from N. II. Johnson's su Rest Ion that a atrial! but pretty park could be made In tho valley near the light plant, Engineer Charles said that pome day the elty would build a huge dam near South K street. Then a deep waterway could be made as far hn the railroad, or perhaps Nort'.i Tenth street, making fine boating, canoeing and Ashing. Charles Bald he anticipated that within wven years all the city sew'ago would bn sent throug'.i a filter In a single sewer, thus purifying tho river. Tho stream would be clear, making rood swimming, also. To Improve Street. This morning, when the board order ed tho plans and reflations prepared for Improving West Firm street, to Front street, with grading and gravel log tlio roadway, with cement side walks, curb and gutter on certain sec tions of the thoroughfare, tlio begin ning of tho Kngineer's plans were real ized. This street will be at the top of the bluff and can bo made one of tho most attractive residence streets In the city, if the valley Is improved. In Johnson's proposed light plant park, ho suggested that slioot-t he shoots, roller coasters, and other amusements be placed. He said the only ex pen ho would be filling up some of the ground and sowing grass seed With the purchase of the ground near West Seventh street, for park purposes, tho West Side Improvement association, will probably give up their fight for u river valley park, although In a communication to the board this morning. It was suggested that the south end of the river road, which for nirrly lend from the old National bridge, ho filled up and a road built connecting It with the streets on top the hiuff. The old road under the Main street brldne extends as far north as Klnsey street. The Improvement, of West First street, which Is assured, will cost tie city considerable money, Inasmuch as a number of lota on tho cast sido of the street are owned by the city. AWAITS HIS ADDRESS Arizona Eager to Hear What T. R. Will Say. (American News Service) rhoenlx. Arlt., March 20. All Art tons is eagerly awaiting the speech of Col. Theodore Roosevelt this after noon because It will touch the Inter ests uppermost in affairs of the state statehood and the new constitution Col. Roosevelt said today that he would have many things to say on both these subjects. His decision to discuss them was prompted by the defeat of the statehood bill in the sen ate, ostensibly because the state con atltutlon, adopted at a constitutional convention, did not meet with the ap proval of the upper house of the nat ional congress. The former president will depart tonight for Los Angeles, where he will apeak tomorrow at Throop Institute. RICH GOLD STRIKE STARTS STAMPEDE (American News Service) Reno. Nev.. March 20. A rich gold strike in Lascen county, Cal., that sur passes Goldfleld of Tonopah. has caused a stampede from here. A train left today with hundreds of prospect or. Some ore runs $20.n0o to a ton. PsitediucTs Total Daily Average Circulation (Except Saturday) fnrlrdinc Complimentary Lists, for Week Knding March IS, 1911. 6,615 City Circulation snowing net paid, news stands and regular complimentary i:t docs not Include sample copies. . Q of, ffijJM poo or Qua &i I -Tsr A photograph of the 4th Cavalry arrival of these troops about completes ATTORNEY JESSUP PRAISES NEW LAW Tells Sunday School Class New Liquor Statutes Are Good Ones. Declaring that the Democratic legis lature had fulfilled its platform pledge ho far as tho liquor question was con cerned had given the people of the state the best law possible, under the platform promises, attorney Wilfred Jcssup praised the work of the legis lature In his address on the temper nncc question at the First English Lu theran Sunday school Sunday morn ing. The speaker's attitude in discussing the new litjuor jaws was friendly, he declaring that as the people generally had, by their vote, expressed a desire for a change from the drastic county option law to the. town, and -township option law, the Democrats had careful ly planned the best law possible under these conditions and had passed it. Ho said the Proctor bill was satisfac tory as a whole. Temperance was the general theme of the Sunday school lessons, on Sun day and lii each of the schools of the city, in addition to the lesson, address es were made by those familiar with the situation. At. St. Paul's Lutheran church Kvcrett Hale, the superintend ent of the County Temperance league, spoke, ' re ferring to the fact that in toxicating liquors were not necessary. and showing how the human system was poisoned by it3 use. The attendance at the different Sun day schools was especially large, cou blUcrlng the subject for the occasion. TO COME TO TRIAL Jones Slander Suit May Be Heard Soon. Although it has been rumored that the slander proceedings instituted in the circuit court recently by Dr. A. II. Jones, of Whitewater against Manford Walllngford of the same place, de mand $j.000, would never come to trial, one of Wallingford's attorneys stated on Monday there was no dispo sition on the part of Wallingford's council to prevent a trial by compro mising out of court with Mr. Jones. He left the Impression that the case would be tried early in the April term, of court. Dr. Jones, who enjoys a wide coun try practice in Franklin township, de clares in his complaint against Wall lngford. a prosperous farmer, that the latter at a Methodist revival told those attending that a religious meeting in Whitewater would never be success ful as long as Dr. Jones was in the town. He is accused of declaring that Jones was a saloon keeper and a mal practioner. Jones was on two ocassions tried for operating a blind tiger and on each ocassion the Judy disagreed. The charge was then dismissed. C. & O. RAILWAY HAS SECURED NEW LINE (American News Pervtc) Cincinnati. March 20. Through the award of a thirty-three mile construc tion contract to Langhorne & Lang borne of Lynchburg, Va., it became known in Cincinnati today that this will be the connecting line between the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Caro lina, Cllnchfield & Ohio railroad. The link is to extend from Dante, Va., to Kikhorn City, Ky., which latter city is the terminus of the Big Sandy -division of the C. & O. The building of this conrectlon will give the C. & O. the shortest, possible route from Chicago to the southeast and Florida. The C. (c O. is said to be In a position to ab sorb th O. C. & O. and if this Is done it lll be without any competition in the southeastern part of the country. leaving the train upon their arrival at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas. The the 20,000 ordered to the Mexican border. TARIFF TINKERING STARTS THIS WEEK Plan of Action Will Have Been Mapped Ou.t by the Fourth of April. i American .vs Scj vtcei Washington. March 20. It is the ex pectation of Chairman Uuderwood that the Democratic members of the House ways and means committee will begin work on tariff questions this week and by the time the extra session of con gress convenes on April 4 some plan will have been mapped out to govern the committee's proceedure In the bill necessary to carry out the Canadian reciprocity treaty. The most complex questions will be placed upon the Can adian bill as riders or whether such schedules as the committee decides should be revised shall be treated as separate measures. The certainty that hearings, will be demanded' 6y"pf6Iiiclng and manufac turing Interests affected by any pro posed revision of the tariff may deter mine the. committee not to complicate the Canadian question with considera tion of such schedules as wool and woolens, cotton or agricultural imple ments. In reorganizing the house of repre sentatives under the new rule which precipitated the downfall a year ago of Cannonisin. the Democratic mem bers of the ways and means commit tee appreciate that they are putting to its first test the new order of things for which legislative warfare was wag ed for years. PEST HOUSE FIGHT West Richmond People Are Making a Protest. The proposed location for the new city pesthouse, the ground for -which has been condemned and which the Earlham Cemetery association, the owner of the property, is unwilling to give up at the amount offered by the city, is not an entirely pleasing one to West Richmond citizens and property owners. The proposed site is just north of Earlham cemetery. This sec tion of the city is being built up rap idly and with the opening of some pro posed streets and improvements to other highways, the improvements in this neighborhood will become even more general. Those who condemn the proposed location of the new pest house, say it should be situated in some section where the city's growth is not now be ing manifested. A site north of-Reid Memorial hospital has been suggested. There are those who maintain that the city does not desire the proposed site for a pest house, but that in con demning the ground for this purpose, it is doing so as a "blind." These peo ple 'declare that the city's real pur pose is to obtain tho fine gravel bank, probably, if exploited, worth in the neighborhood .of $1S,000 to $20,000, while the city's best offer has been $ 1,000. The contest of the condemna tion proceedings by the Earlham Cem etery association will be aired in the circuit court early in April. CRAIGHEAD CASE STILL CONTINUES Were it not for the arguments re sulting from the conflicting opinions held by attorneys interested in the trial of the Craighead ' Plumbing and Electrical company against A. H. Brown, owner of the Westcott hotel building, demand $10,000 on mechan ic's lien, the case would be void of all interest so far as the general public i3 concerned. Monday hearings were resumed before Special Judge John L. Rupe. The case is being warmly contested and consequently there is some little feeling between counsel, including W. H. Kclley for the plumbing company, and Henry V. Johnson and Thomas J. Study tor ih defendant. " v B. T, WASHINGTON VERY JADLY HURT Noted Negro Educator Could Not Appear Against His Assailant Today. (American News Service) New York, March 20. Booker T. Washington, the famous negro educat or was unable to appear in court to day against Albert Ulrich,- of 11 West Fifty-third street, who is held under a fifteen hundred dollar bond on a charge of assaulting Washington at 10 o'clock Sunday night. The case was postponed until Tuesday after noon. , Although not seriously injured Washington is confined to his Manhat tan hotel apartment with sixteen stitches in his head. His left ear was torn nearly off. Mrs. Ulrich was in court and declared Washington insult ed ..her .lnthe hallway--o tk?ir apart ment building, using the words, "hello sweetheart." Attorneys for Washing ton presented a doctor's certificate to Judge Cornell, who refused to parole Ulrich on the ground that the case was too serious. Washington declares he waited in and around the building to see a friend, who evidently had not yet returned home up to the time Ul rich, whom be believes was intoxicated attacked him, using a club. LOSS WAS MILLION And Three Chicago Firemen Severely Injured. (American Xcws Service) Chicago, March 20. Three firemen were seriously injured and 25 other people slightly hurt and 1,000,000 pounds of butter destroyed in an all night fire at the ware house of the Monarch Refrigerating company. The damage was $1,000,000 and the flames were not controlled until long after midnight. The were still smouldering this forenoon. The injured firemen were overcome by ammonio fumes and were rescued by comrades. In the course of the by ammonia fumes and were rescued his brother who had been overcome. Flames, fed by the butter, made the night as bright as day around the plant at 40 East Michigan street. Floating on top of the water which flooded the nuilding, the butter burn ed fiercely and defied efforts of the firemen to extinguish it. Several persons employed in the building leaped for their lives from up per stories, but none was seriously in jured. Seventy-one fires were reported in the 24 hours ending at midnight. OPERATORS TAKING VOTE ON A STRIKE (American Kews Service) Chicago, March 20. Fourteen hun dred telegraphers employed by" the Illinois Central railroad between Chi cago and New Orleans are taking a strike vote, as a result of a refusal by the company to grant a wage increase of 23 per cent, with 30 cents an hour for overtime. Demands for the increase were made by the telegraphers a year ago, and the matter was submitted to arbitra tion under the Erdman law. The men were given a reduction in hours of la bor, with a racation of two weeks each year with pay, in all offices where the hours of work were ten or more a day. They did not receive any wage in crease, however, and never were satis fied with the award. The strike vote has been ordered re turnable in Chicago frcrn March 27 to April 1. HAS A BIRTHDAY Wayne township trustee James How3rth celebrated his fifty-sixth birthday on Monday.' - HIS INJURY RESULT OF A CAR ACCIDENT One Report Says He Was Run Down by Street Car Another Says He Fell While Boarding One. Alonzo Girton, formerly in charge of the local office of the Indiana Loan company and during his residence here one of Richmond's most promi nent citizens, is confined at the St. Vincent's hospital at Portland, Oregon, where he removed with his family last June, with a broken spine, paralyzed from the hips down. He is enclosed in a cast from the shoulders to the waist. He is also suffering from in ternal injuries. Hope for his recov ery is small. Mr. Girton's condition is due to a street car accident, word of which re ceived in this city conflicts as to de tails. A letter to a friend of the fami ly here states that he was attempting to board a car and was t'irown to the street receiving a fracture of the spin al vertebrae and internal injuries, while a letter to his sister, Mary Jane Girton. declares that he was struck by a street car. The severance of Mr. Girton's spinal column is responsible for his loss of control Of the lower portion of his body. The exact extent of the inter nal injuries does not . seem to have been determined according to the let ters received here. ' The letter to the friend of the family stated he was suf fering excruciating pain. Previous to his departure to Port land. Mr. Girton had a residence on the National Road, east of the city. He had been engaged in the lean busi- nesst here .foe pa any. years.He X'aslfwr tomwrow afternoon at-whieh 'time accompanied West by his immediate family, consisting of his wife and two sons. Mr. Girton is engaged in the real estate business at Portland TRACTION RATES MAYjOOOSTED Report T. HM I. & E. May Announce an Increase Effective April 15. While none of the Richmond offi cials of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction company profess to know anything in regard to the pro posed increase of interurban passen ger rates on the eastern division of the line, it is being constantly rumor ed that the increase, whatever it may be. will become effective on April 15. Since the recent session of the legis lature, several Indiana traction lines have increased transportation charges, some of the roads demanding 2 cents a mile, ttti same as charged by the steam lines. The legislature legalized this charge. The travel on the east ern division, particularly between Richmond and Dublin is exceptionally heavy, with the possible exception of two or three traction cars running early or late in the day. The charges in this county vary from five cents to thirty cents, per passenger, according to the distance traveled. The charges to and from Richmond and the principal stops and towns of the county are. Graves stop, 5 cents; Centerville, 10 cents; Jackson's Hill and Pennville, 15 cents; East Germantown. 20 cents; Cam bridge City. 25 cents, and Dublin, 30 cents. At the time the company se cured a franchise from the county commissioners the maximum charge per' mile was fixed at a cent and three quarters, no charge under five cents. By the new law it is said the company could raise some of, if not all of, the above rates five cents. BRODERICK TODAY PLACED ON TRIAL (American News Service) Springfield. 111., March 20. State Senator John Broderick of Chicago, to day was placed on trial here on a charge of bribery. The trial grows out of the confession made by State Sena tor D. W. Holstlaw of luka, that Brod erick paid him $2,500 for his vote for Lorimer for U. S. senator. In all probability a special venire will be necessary before a jury is se lected. Attorneys for the defense are considering asking a change of venue on the ground that Broderick cannot get a fair trial here. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Fair tonight and Tuesday; moderate tempera ture. Threaten to Have G. A. R. Meeting Held Elsewhere if Eagles Decide to Hold Car nival Here. EAGLES WILL MEET TO HEAR PROTESTS State Organizations Incensed Last Year at Terre Haute Because Carnival Was Held There. A decision not to hold the state en campments of the G. A. R.. Sons of Veterans, and allied women's organi zations in Richmond, May 16. 17. 18, ! and 19. as has been planned, is threat ened and the resignation of at least one member of the executive commit tee in charge of arrangements is prob able if the local lodge of Eagles insist on bringing a carnival to the city dur ing the encampment week, May 15 to 20. On the ground that it is in viola tion of a direct promise macle to the old soldiers, upon which Richmond was selected, at the last encampment, for the 1911 meeting; and that the merchants of the city would be unwill ing to lend financial support to the event in case such an attraction is to come into the city and carry away the money which would otherwise be put in circulation here, the local commit tee is opposing the carnival proposi tion. It is declared that if a carnival is booked the officers of the various state organizations will pass up Rich mond and select some other city for the meetings. Eagles to Decide. A special meeting of the Eagles com mittee having the carnival arrange ments in charge, of which Alphonse Weishaupt is chairman, will be held either this evening or tomorrow even ing to consider the opposition, while the secretary of the local encampment committee has called a special meeting steps will be taken to formally pre sent the matter before the Eagles lodge for consideration. The old soldiers were highly in censed over the fact that a carnival was held during their engagement at Terre Haute last year, and the com mittee which secured it was severely criticized. One of the most important factors in the selection of Richmond as the next meeting place was the promises of Attorney Will W. Reller and Lawrence A. Handley, members of, the Young Men's Business club, who attended the meeting to present Richmond's application for the honor, that no carnival or counter attraction would be held here if thi3 city was de cided upon for the encampment. ' , One member of the committee de clared today that in case the Eagle's persist in holding the carnival, he would notify the heads of the various ; state organisations in time to allow ' them to select some other city for the" encampments and he predicted that they would take such action. If such was done, it i3 believed the choice would go to South Bend which . vied with Richmond so bitterly at the last meeting for this year's convention. If the Eagles were to attempt to hold te carnival within the city lim its it would be within the power of the G. A. R. committee to stop It, as the mayor and board of works has con ferred upon it the power of granting privileges and concessions during the encampment week. There is no doubt, however, but that the carnival, in case it is held, would hold forth without the corporation line. Rather than face the old veterans with a broken pledge one of the com mitteemen has threatened to resign, provided the Eagles do not recognize the position of the committee and the consistency of its claims, which it Is hoped they will. This same commit teeman pointed out the fact that it was also promised to the veterans that an old soldiers' monument and Morton statue would be either erected or be in the course of construction by the time of the encampment, but there is practically no indication that this pledge will be kept. The G. A. R. committee also bases its complaint on the hardships a car nival would inflict upon the commit teemen in securing funds to meet the expenses of the encampments. They are reliant wholly upon the merchants and are confident that if a carnival, which would take away about as much money as the encampments . would bring into the city, were arranged for no donations would be forthcoming from the business men. They also de clare that it would "not be fair for the merchants to pay for an elaborate dec oration of the city and have the Eagles lodge reap the benefit, - SOSTMEYER KICKS ON METER CHARGE Marcus Sostmeyer complained to the board of works this morning, that the Richmond City Water Works company charged him $7 to install a meter, and were also going to charge him ?3 perjemng of an alley from I to; J street year rent. Sostmeyer said it was out - rageous. He' said some other things - J too, that wouldn't look weU in print. HEALTH OF TROOPS IN TEXAS IS GOOD First Fatality Occurred To day When a Private Was Drowned - Rebel Army. Has Entered Sonora. (American News Service) El Paso, March 20. News by cour ier today from Torreon, Mexico, re ports that thirty wero killed and a hundred wounded in a battle between Mexican federals and insurreetos at Colonial Siding, near Torreon, Thurs day. ? H. E. Odriscoll, the American man ager of the Hacienda Guicha, owned by St, Louis people, was shot four times, but will recover. Rebels de manded money, but Odriscoll refused. FIRST FATALITY. San Antonio, March 20. Tho first fatality of the war game here was re corded today. Private , Brown of com pany E, Fifteenth infantry, drowned, while in swimming. Officers at Fort Sam Houston now believe that the show of force made by the United States has accomplished its purpose. An invasion of Mexico is not thought ' likely now in view of the reported progress of peace negotiations. Aside from measles, mumps and a few cases of fever the health of the bigr camp is considered remarkably good. WAR IN SONORA. Douglas, Ariz., March 20. The seat of active .warfare in Mexico. is being moved into the state of Sonora. Re-' ports received from several places in that state today told of skirmishes between insuprectos and federals. 1 Gea. Blanco, the 300 rebel, w-ith the re mainder of bis force, has crossed the line from Chihuahua to Sonora to take charge of the operations there. How-. ever, his force has been greatly depict- ed, 175 of his men deserting to "Red" Lopez, the outlaw soldier, who is still encamped in the mountains near Agua. Prieta. ' . Cause for an international misun derstanding and one that; may prove important to the United' States and , Mexico has arisen here over a number ' of photographs taken while Blanco and his rebels were camped just over ' the border. Scores of Americans with cameras visited his camp taking'' pictures. In almost every , picture there was a group of Americans who ' had gone to the camp merely as spec- i tators. Many of these pictures were' placed in windows here. For several days agents of the Mexican govern- ment have been securing eularced "JPtes wbich they, are sending to the, f'ty of .Mexico. . They declared that iue guteiumeui. ai luexjeo City 13 com piling a sort of "rogues gallery" and. that orders are being given to capture and execute oh sight every person In . the photographs. In view of the fact that many Americana are fighting un-; der the rebel flag the government was led to believe that the Americans In' the pictures were insurreetos. ' , PEACE IN 8IGHT. EI Pajso, Tex., March 20. That the ' terms of peace between Diaz and Ma dero, as drawn here last week have been accepted by the insurrecto presi dent and that the end of the revolution : is expected within a fortnight was the announcement made here today by the insurrecto junta.' Details of the peac7 terms were carried to the Mexican government by Joee Yves Limantour, Mexican minister of finance, and upon his arrival at Mexico City today, the insurreetos declared, would be formal ly presented to President Diaz. The peace terms as given exclusively by the American News Association last week call for the retirement of the ' aged president, the insurgents seem to be absolutely confident that they will be accepted. v Madero's inactivity during the last few days is attributed by his advisers to the peace plans which were con-V veyed to him after being drawn up here. The insurreetos say that if Li- mantour is successful in his mission which ij undoubtedly one of peace, ne- -gotiations will be begun immediately and the peace pact. will be signed by, envoys of Diaz and Madero on the border while American troops guard the negotiators. . SATISFIED WITH IMPROVEMENT BID The Starr Piano company notified the Board of Works this morning that . the bid on the improvement of South A street, from First to Second streets hi satisfactory with the company. The board ordered the improvement. The company will pay. all costs , of the street, workl. , A petition was presented for the op-v t between. South . Ninth and Tenth street?. It was acted upon favorably by the hoard. , ' . " V .1