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WA1A IUM EDITORIAL DEPARTHEItT PHONE 1121 BUSINESS OFFICE PHONE 25G6 AND SUN-TEI.EGRAM. VOL. XXXVI. NO. 253. RICHMOND, ISiD., FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1911. SINGLE COPT 2 CENTS THE RIO MONB AD NOTED EDUCATORS TO SPEAK BEFORE COUNTY TEACHERS 'Annual Wayne County Insti tute, in Conjunction with Chautauqua, Offers a Very Strong Program. ifASSETT A. COTTON ONE OF LECTURERS .fformer Superintendent of In diana Schools Dr. L. H. Vincent, Educator and Au-t- thor, Also Secured. r PerbapB the strongest program ever 'prepared for the Wayne county teach ' ers' institute which is held in connec tion with the Richmond Chautauqua, will be the one arranged for the 1911 assembly in Glen Miller park. The teachers' institute will be in ses sion one week, from August 28 to September 1. Two of the most noted educators of the United States will be on the program, including Fassett A. Cotton, former state superintendent of instruction, who is now president of Wisconsin state Normal school at i LaCrosse, and Dr. Leon H. Vincent of i Boston, Maes., a noted author. Dr. Vincent is the author of "The iBlbletaph and Other People" and 1 equally well known for his lectures before Chautauqua assemblies in the least, and the Brooklyn Art Institute jon "American Men of Letters." He ls known as a man who uses the qual ities of good taste and common sense, which makes his lectures so satisfac tory and Berves to make his literary studies and essays not less so. : Mr. Cotton is well known in this city where he has lectured before on several occasions. He was county (superintendent of Henry county for :a number of years and in 1903 was el ected state superintendent of instruc tion. In 1909 he resigned before the expiration of his term to accept his , present position. He perhaps more than any other educator in the state is receiving the credit for making In .jilAna the.. ranking "tiQ Jnjtheunion from the " standpoint of its public schools. Teachers of the public schools of the county , are expected to attend. The course tickets are $1.50. While the Institute is more particularly for i the benefit of the teachers, yet there ,are hundreds of others who find much of interest in the lectures to this body. Both Dr. Vincent and Pres. Cotton will have places on the regu lar Chautauqua program. The pro gram follows: PROGRAM FOR WEEK Monday, Aug. 28. 10:00 a. m. Pres. F. A. Cotton, "Schools of Indiana.' 31:00 a. m. Dr. Leon H. Vincent, ' "Franklin." ' 1:30 p. m. F. A. Cotton, "Complete j Education for the Masses." t Tuesday, Aug. 29. f!0:00 a. m. Leon Vincent, "Emer- on." ai:00 a. m. F. A. Cotton, "What is the Matter With Our Common Schools." a: 30 p. m. Leon Vincent, "Haw thorne." Wednesday, Aug. 30. &0:00 a. m. F. A. Cotton. "Country Life and Country Schools." 11:00 a. m. Leon Vincent. "Lowell." 1:30 p. m. F. A. Cotton, "Schools of ; the 20th Century." ! Thursday, Aug. 30. !10:00 a. m. Leon H. Vincent, "Burns." '11:00 a. m. F. A. Cotton.. .".Country Life and Country Schools." 1:30 p. m. Leon H. Vincent. "Scott." 1 Friday, Sept. 1. 10:00 F. A. CotUm. "The Decline in the Enrollment In II. S." .11:00 a. m. Leon Vincent. "Jane Austen." 1:30 p. m. F. A. Cotton, "Industrial Education. In addition to the above Leon H. Vincent wili deliver- a lectare at- 2:30 p. m.. Monday, August 28 "Ameri can Oratory Patrick Henry to Dan iel Webster." Also on Wednesday, Aaugust 30, at 2:30 p. m. Dr. Vincen will lecture. Subject "American Humor Artemus Ward to Mark Twain." State Supt. Chas. A. Greathouse will be in attendance one day, probably Tuesday, August 29. AGED INDIAN DIES AT PERU, INDIANA (National News Association) Peru. Ind.. July 21. William God frey, ninety-one. the last member of the family of Francis Godfrey, war chief of the Miami Indians, is dead at the county infirmary. He was married nine times. On son survives. TJ A VE the Palladium go il with you on your vacation. Ten cents per week. Telephone your order before starting. Phone 2566. Cholera Scare in Dr. A. H. Doty, whose administration as Health Officer of the Port of New York is being investigated at the ord er of Governor Dix because of the chol era scare in the metropolis, and (be low) the quarantined home of night watchman Patrick Cushing, who died as the result of Asiatic cholera con tracted during his work at the Swin burne Island Quarantine Station. The cholera specter in New York has become genuine and drastic meas ures are being taken to prevent a gen eral epidemic of the dread disease. BULL LEADERS ARE CAUfiilTilL A TRAP Bear Traders in Successful Attack Cause Bulls Loss of $2,000,000. (National News Association) New York, July, 21. Bull leaders in the cotton market today admitted that they had been caught in a trap set by the bear traders and as a result are figuring their loses at some $2, 000,000 to $4,000,000 because of the slump in prices. It is estimated that Eugene J. Scales stands to lose from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 alone and that C. W. Thompson and others will lose large amounts. Experts say the decline has not yet ended. Since July 5, there has been a drop of xrt to 2 cents a pound in cotton which means from 7.50 to 9.00 a bale. The commitments of the bulls are es timated at over half a million bales. The chief aid to the bears in the de cline has been the weather. Severe drouths in Teaxs in June materially reduced estimates of the cotton crop and cut the price in October in the southwest and as a result the price dropped to below 12 cents for October. Cotton for delivery next July dropped one cent in price from Tuesday to Thursday and other months were cor respondingly weak. According to cotton exchange ex ports growing conditions in the cot ton belt never have been so good as they are now. WILL BEJ0 APPEAL C. & O. Satisfied with Ruling of the Court. Rather than to carry on the fight to the higher state courts to keep closed the South N street crossing over the C. & O. railraad of Indiana, the company officials have abandoned all such intentions and on Friday com menced its work on construction of the crossing. The township will begin work on the approaches and within a few days the famous crossing fight will be a matter of history. The cross ing when completed will open up a j great deal of available territory for j factory sites and residences in the Beallview addition. The railroad company bitterly op ! posed the construction of the crossing iat this point, chiefly because it wish 'ed the land for switching purposes. Now that the company will locate its yards near Boston, it has no use for its sidings here. It has already issued j orders that trains which are placed jupon the side track shall be cut open land thus avoid blocking the crossing. l-fVR.-?rvA: sTllL, till- New York City n ijr ilk 6. M'CLELLAN BUYS INTEREST IN SUN Well Known Newspaper Man Becomes Associated with Rudolph G. Leeds. George A. McClellan, former owner and editor of the Dayton Journal and at one time general manager of the' Indianapolis Star, Muncie Star and the Terre Haute Star, has become asso ciated with It. G. Leeds in the owner ship of the Indianapolis Sun. Mr. Mc Clellan will make his home in Ind ianapolis and look after his interests as president of the Sun Publishing company. Mr. Leeds retains his fi nancial relations with the Sun and will continue to be represented in the man agement of the editorial and business departments of the paper by Charles M. Morgan, general manager of the Sun and the Palladium. There will be no change in the edit orial policy of the Sun. It will contin ue as a militant progressive journal. A SENSATIONAL TURN Taken in Mysterious Beattie Murder Case. (National News Association') Richmond, Va., July 21. The mur der case of Mrs. Harry Beattie, Jr., whose head was nearly blown off with a shotgun while out automobiling with her husband, took a sensational turn at the coroner's inquest today. Beat tie was the principal witness quizzed. Miss Beulah Binford, to whom Beattie is alleged to have paid attentions, was subpoenaed. Rumor says she was of fered big money to disappear. De tectives told Beattie the results of their investigations pointed to him as the murderer. This he calmly denied. All the parties are prominent. An ar rest is expected soon. HOLD AUTOPSY ON CHOLERA SUSPECT (National News Association) Boston, July 21. An autopsy was held today on the bod yof Mrs. Tom assina Mastrodomenico, who is be lieved to have died of cholera. The doctor who attended the woman said his diagnosis indicated Aasiatic chol era. The officials have taken every precaution to isolate the people liv ing in the tenement where the woman died. There are more than 25 fami lies in the building, including 50 chil dren. MARSHALL IS HOT ACTIVE -PURSUING PRESIDENTIAL BEE His Mood Is Receptive, but He Is Not an Avowed Can didate It's Up to Demo Icrats of ThisState. 0 FOUR MAIN ISSUES Cost Must Be Made Public if His Name Is Taken to the Democratic Convention, He Makes Plain. BY JOE HU Indianapolis July 21 shall is not a candidate fojrthe presi f in the sense that he iacactivefy dency seeking the nomination. In his letter to Charles W. Bryan, brother of William J. Bryan, and ed itor of "The Commoner," in which he gave answers to a number of ques tions as to his views on national is sues, the governor makes it plain that his attitude in regard to the nomi nation remains unchanged, notwith standing the report carried to Wash ington by Representative Ralph W. Moss that the Indiana executive is an avowed candidate. Gov. Marshall does not believe, however , that the position he has tak en prevents him from expressing views on questions before the people or giving his ideas as to party plat forms. He advances the theory that platforms usually cover so much ground that voters are confused. He therefore suggests a short platform setting forth the party's position on a few fundamental issues. Four Leading Issues . Tariff for revenue only, economy in public expenditures, the preservation of the rights of the states andppo- .. - - Ism are' the issues upon which he hopes the Democratic party will wage its next campaign. In regard to his attitude as to the nomination Gov. Marshall wrote to Mr. Bryyi: "I funy approve of the plan of ask ing candidates questions as to their views on great public questions. In two campaigns in Indiana I have in sisted that the people should insist upon answers to questions which they deemed vital to themselves. I do not, however, consider a candidate for the nomination for president. I hold it to be such a position that no man is big enough to run for it and no man is small enough to run from it. I am leaving it entirely to the will of the Democracy of Indiana as to whether my name shall be presented to the convention or not. "I have been impressed with the be lief that our recent platforms have presented so many good things that some votes have been lost to us upon minor issues. "This view of mine does not, how ever, absolve me from the duty of answering as fully as I can the ques tions which you have propounded." For Campaign Publicity. Gov. Marshall is explicit in outlin ing his .,yiews as to campaign contri butions and promises. He states em phatically that shourd the Indiana Democracy present his name to the convention he desires an announce ment of how much money has been spent and from what sources it is ob tained. His letter says: "I believe that men should work and spend their money for principles and not for men; that public officials should gladly listen to the views and advice of all citizens; that in the determination of policies and the making of appointments they should not be subjected to the suspicion ev en of having been influenced by eith er campaign contributions or pledges. If the Democracy of my state shall present my name to the convention, I am anxious that they shall announce what they have spent and the sources from which they have obtained it. I have no fear that they will promise anything in my name because the Democracy of Indiana believes that public office is a public trust, and that an official should not be hampered by ante-election promises. They will not mae any promises in my name and they and I will welcome the ful lest publicity." Other things advocated by Gov. Marshall in his letter are strict regu lation of the railroads and regulation of public service corporations. POPULATION CENTER HAS BEEN LOCATED (National News Association) Bloomington, Ind., July' 21. Prof. Cogshall of Indiana University today definitely fixed the center of popula tion on the Samuel Stephens farm, six miles east of here. The longtitute was established from the stars during the night and the latitude from the sun this morning. i THIS CITY WOULD HAVE TO PAY OUT OVER ONE MILLION In Twenty-five Years to Pur chase Water Works Plant Under the Proposal of -the Campfield Company. STATISTICS GIVEN OUT BY C. JORDAN fin Other Respects Commer cial Club Committee Be lieves Proposal Is Better Than One of R. C. W. Co. Because of the enormous purchase price the city would be required to pay under the terms of the water works franchise proposal of the E. M. Campfield company the Richmond Commercial club, judging from the statistics on the proposal, collected by Secretary Jordan, believes its ac ceptance would practically preclude municipal ownership. The statement prepared by Mr. Jordan on the Camp field proposition does not say this in so many words, but the figures pre sented speak loudly for themselves. By the proposition of the E. M. Campfield company, as understood by Secretary Jordan whose figures were approved by -Mr. Campfield, the city would have paid out at the end of 25 years, including the interest lost on funds, a total of $1,619,500. Not un til then would the city be the owner of the plant. The city would the first year as a copartner of the company, expend $90,687.50, another impossibility point ed out by Mr. Jordan. Not the Net Cost. But $1,619,500 would be the actual amount the city pays under the Camp field purchase 'plan, the net cost would be $1,062,620. This conclusion posai, womu receive annually in profits from the operation of the plant. Deducting the profit which is figured at $566,880 for the twenty-five years, it would leave the net cost $1, 062,620, though the actual cost would be over a million and a half dollars. However, by the proposal of - the company, it is also stated that in case the city does not wish to agree to Campfield's plan of purchase, the city may purchase the stock in the open market if all other conditions are sat isfactory. Though objections arise to this method in the minds of some of the club's committee, these objection have not yet been outlined in con crete form. The committee feels that in other respects the proposal of the E. M. Campfield company is better than that of the Richmond water works company, in that the consumer will be furnished water at a cost much less than that proposed to be charged by the established company. In his examination of the E. M. Campfield company's proposal, Secre tary Jordan made in part the follow ing deductions, which were pronounc ed O. K. by Mr. Campfield on his in spection : Jordon's Statement. "The city is given the right to pur chase the plant. "The proposed Company will incor porate with capital stock of $825,000.00 $625,000.00 common stock; $200,000.00 preferred stock. "The $625,000.00 common stock is non-participating and non-voting and shall be placed in some Trust com pany's hands to be. held until bought by the city in annual payments of $31,000.00 each, which will require 20 years, 1 month and 28 days. Then in 4 years, 10 months, and 2 days the city shall pay $150,000.00 for the re mainder of the preferred stock. Of the $200,000.00 of preferred stock the city shall take $50,000.00 worth and the water works company $150,000.00 worth. The city to have one member on a managing board of five directors and be entitled to one-fourth vote in all stock-holders meetings and receive one-fourth of th-3 net profits of the water company. "To cover this $25,000.00 of capital stock $775,000.00 o 5 bonds shall be issued which with the $50,000.00 paid in by the city makes the $825,000.00. These bonds bear interest at 5 pay able semi-annually and made $31,000. 00 payable each year for 25 years. The water company to pay the accrued in terest from the gross income of the company. "Whenever a $31,000.00 bond is paid off, $31,000.09 worth of the common non-voting and non-participating stock is transferred to the city from the Trust Company holding the common stock in trust. ' "Thus at the end of one year the Ctty . would have $31,000.00 invested in non-participating stock after hav ing paid 14 interest on $775,000.00 bonds, making a payment of $40,687.50 plu3 the $50,000.00 of preferred stock makes $90,687.50 for the city to raise the first year," YANKEE YACHTSMAN ES TO f IRE ON HAYTI CAPITAL Evan R. Dick on His Ship, "American" Gave Foreign ers Refuge and Awes Riot ers in Port Au Prince. U. S. VESSELS ARE RUSHING TO HAYTI One Gunooat Already on the North Coast to Be Rein forced by Three Others Rebel Army in Control. (National News Association) Port Au Prince. Hayti, July 21. President Simon, the members of his cabinet and the remnant of his army are in this city today in a broken and demoralized condition. They arrived here as fugitives on the German ship Syria which took them aboard at Port Haytien after they had been routed by the rebel forces. The Simon re gime is believed to be virtually at an end and it is predicted that the next few hours will see the aged executive an exiled fugitive. His supporters are fast deserting him and the rebel cause is gaining strength hourly. He probab ly will flee to Jamaica. Port-Au-Prince is the only city now left to Simon and the rebels probably will take that soon. The entire north ern end of the republic is in their possession while scattered bands of them are sweeping practically all of the territory south of here. A Reign of Terror. Reports from Cape Haytien today state that the reign of terror there is still in full swing. Hordes of armed blacks are parading the streets after having looted the . wineshops and are threatening to attack the foreign con sulates which have given refuge to American and - other foreign women. cummanueu uy cvan i. ijick, a new Ynrk broker is rpnnrtd tn ho fit ill standing off Port Haytien, threatening to turn the guns with which she is equipped on the town if the drunken mobs attack the consulates. Mr. Dick has given refuge on his yacht to all the Americans that the vessel will ac commodate. Within a week three American war vessels will have arriv ed in Hayti with others in effort to reinforce the little gunboat Petrel. The cruiser Chester, cruiser Des Moines and the gunboat Peoria have been ordered here. The German and Italian ministers have appealed to their governments to send warships and -vessels are also expected from both France and England unless the menace to foreign lives and interests is soon removed. As conditions are to day the country is in a state of abso lute anarchy. WILL HOLD REUNION Old Bear Creek Students to Meet Saturday. The reunion of former students and teachers of the Bear Creek school, a mile west of Hagerstown, will be held on Saturday at the school grounds. There will be many from this city who will attend and it is anticipated the total attendance will be in the neigh borhood of 500. The event will be featured by tne laying of the corner stone for the new school building which is about a half mile distance and which will be used hereafter in stead of the Bear Creek school build ing. The Bear Creek school is one of the oldest in the county. It has been in use nearly fifty years. The program prepared for the reun ion is most complete including five minute addresses from perhaps fifty or more, several from this city. DRASTIC MOVE LOST BY A CLOSE VOTE National News Association) Butte. Mont., July 21. At a session of the Western Federation of Miners here a heated discussion . arose over the question of declaring a general strike in this country and Canada dur ing the trial of McNamara brothers in Los Angeles. When the question was finally put to a vote it was lost by the close margain of 172 to 124. It was finally voted to levy a monthly assess- ment of 25c on each member, the j money to be used for the defense of the McNamara brothers. THE WEATHER STATE Fair tonight and Saturday, probably preceded by showers in extreme south portion. LOCAL Fair tonight and Saturday; not much change in temperature. PROM FORGER HELD HERE INSANE WOMEN P, P. Apkins, Who Will Be Charged with Forgery, Corresponded with Women All Over United States. MOSTLY POOR GIRLS VICTIMS OF APKINS. Man Is One of Most Peculiar Prisoners County Has Ev-I er Had Love Letters of Apkins Are Read. Charged with forgery, P. P. Apkins, tbe love making bigamist and bogus check manipulator, arrested Wednes day evening by Chief Gormon, of the local police department, was arraign., ed before Mayor Zimmerman in police court this morning. He plead guilty and was taken to the county Jail. Prosecutor Iadd says he will be given an opportunity to enter a plea of gull-' ty in circuit court whenever he chooses. He is said to be anxious to begin serving his sentence in the pen itentiary. The penalty for a convic tion for forgery is an Indeterminate period of from 2 to 14 years. His bond is fixed at $2,000. The man is. not represented by an attorney. The specific charge against Apkins is that he cashed a check for $11. written on a blank of the Second Na tional bank, signed E. H. Mason, and made payable to himself. Since Ap kin's arrest, Gormon has been investi gating his past record. On Wednes day he cashed a bad check in Con- nersville, receiving $20 from Thomas O'Brien, of that city. It bore the forgedi signature of E. Hensley, a Rlchmondpalc5cm keepr. O'Brien til- ' so keeps a saloon. At Connersvllle Apkins did business under the name of Fred Snyder. In Richmond last May he also cashed checks for small amounts with William Waking, a bi cycle dealer, and with John Hewitt, a restaurant keeper. Since his arrest these crimes have come under the no tice of the police. Long List of Girls The condition of Mrs. Elizabeth Young Apkins,' the Nicklaville, Ky., girl who Apkins married after being married to Mrs. Bertha Kohler, of Richmond, is unknown to local police. Mr. Gormon says he is investigating and will probably communicate with the authorities at Nicklasville. In a letter among the papers of Apkins, was found a list of girls, on which were checked 21 names, presumably women with whom Apkins was corres ponding with matrimonial intent. An swers to many matrimonial advertise ments were found in his suit cases. From his correspondence nothing as to the purpose of Apkins life can be gained, excepting that he desired, to marry many women. Not only did he subscribe for matrimonial bureau publications but he has placed adver tisements in Denver, Toledo, India napolis and Des Moines papers, where personal notices are carried. His ad vertisement is usually Inserted, thus: ' "Wanted To correspond with poor working girl or widow. One who needs a home and companion. ; Ob ject matrimony. Address Lock Box 75, Stegar, III." . , - There is no other, correspondence excepting from a Terre Haute liquor firm, which contains some order blanks. Apkins, although he speaks five dif ferent languages, used a Twentieth Century Letter Writer", as a form for all his correspondence. He would copy from the book deep sentiments and lofty ideals, signing his name to them. He seemed to have had no trouble in gaining the confidence of his victim. The most pathetic of the letters are from the Nicklasville, Ky., woman who he married, then drugged, robbed and abandoned. The letter In -which she ac cepts his proposal c' marriage in part reads: A Pathetic Letter.; "Yc3 I will be your wife; it 'trill tie the p-idle of my Ufa to shield you from all corrcw and give you all the happi ness that there is in the world It will be grad to tear the sorrows of life together. It will make them seem easier for both of us Will we live in Richmond or Chicago?" The following quotations are taken from other letters received from girls, all over the east and middle west: "I love my steady, but oh you once in a while! Come down and see me. This letter, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is signed "X. J." "My sweetest dreams are of you, fram a Cambridge, Mass., girL One from Petersburg, Va., signed, "yours in life and death, Lucie, reads in part: "My far off lover; I received your letter while I was sweeping the front walk this morning. 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