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J nn L HMONB FAJ &BIXJM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXIX. NO. 25 RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING. DEC. 9. 1913 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTX INTEGRITY OF NAME Shoots Twenty Federals QUARRIES SHOOTER BLOWN TO DEATH BY AH EXPLOSION DR. CRAIG ACQUITTED OF DR. KNABE MURDER ARCHAIC TAX LAWS HINDER ASSESSMENT OF PROPERTY VALUE COUNTY CANDIDATES TO PROTEST SLATE NAMED BY BOBBINS SOUGHT BY FRIENDS Judge Instructs Jury to Re turn Verdict of Not Guilty. Oppose Use of "Quaker" As Advertisement of Whis key Brand. Negro Carries Lantern Into Room Containing Gaso line and Dynamite. Tax Commissioner Wolcott Pleads For Assessment At Real Value. Progressive Aspirants I)e nounce Appointments A Pledge Violation. j PETITION CONGRESS 5 MINUTES TO DECIDE BUILDING BURNS; LOSS ABOUT $1,400 Shock Felt and Heard By Persons in Radius of Twenty Miles. Twenty-five gallons of gasoline, fifty pounds of dynamite, John Barrett, 32, negro, -walked into dynamite thawing room at the Rheinheimer quarries at New Paris with a lighted lantern at 7:35 o'clock last night Barrett's dead body was picked up In a field twenty yards from the foun dation of where the building had been His right arm was found ten yards farther on. The explosion was heard and felt for twenty miles. Centerville and Liberty felt it to the south and west while it was heard beyond West Alexandria to the east. , No one knows whether it was the gasoline or the dynamite that explod ed. Some say that both exploded si multaneously. Noted For Daring. Barrett was called the "shooter" at the Rheinheimer quarries. He was not ed for his daring with dynamite. He had charge of the vault in which the explosive is kept at the quarries and it was routine for him to set off fifty small charges a day and charges of 600 to 1,000 pounds two or three times a week. Dynamitt freezes at forty degrees Fahrenheit and it must be thawed out almost every day during the winter. This is done in a "thawer" which is a double tank holding 700 pounds of dy namite, under which a small fire is built. A few bucketfuls of water is put In the outer tank while the explosive is laid on an iron plate in the inner tank. Sometimes Barrett kept fire un der the thawer for several days keep ing the water warm enough to prevent the dynamite from freezing. Barrett was in Richmond yesterday and returned to New Paris at 6:30 o'clock. J ;. '"r'-T-w An hour later he was seen swinging his lantern and walking towards the quarry. He had stopped there on his way to New Paris and lighted the fire under the thawer. He was returning to attend to something. He passed his chum. Bob Kennedy, who asked him not to go to the quar ries but to stay in New Paris. No dan ger was thought of and both passed on. Terrific Shock. The passengers on the interurban which comes into New Paris at 7:30 o'clock waved at Barrett, as he passed. When the shock came no one was looking in the direction of the quarry and although the ground shook and a pile of soap was shaken from the shelf of a grocery store, people thought that it was a blast. Then a second shock was felt al though not as loud nor as distinct as the first. By that time, half the popu lation of the town was aroused and (Continued on Page Six) CAN A RESIDENCE HAVE TWO FRONTS? QUESTION A PUZZLE Which shall be the back and which the front of the houses which will be built on lake shore lots in Morton park or whether to have two fronts or a combination front and back on each end, is what lot owners want answer ed. Richard Sedgwick and Charles Jor dan, as officers of the Morton like and Park company, wanted to decide and establish a fashion or style of architecture to prevail and save others the worry. They talked over the proposition for an hour today, but fail ed to reach an agreement. Both agreed that there must be a back and a front to each house. How ever both have lots which face on the lake and a road and they want the front of their houses on the lake and road also. They decided to leave It to the build ing committee to create a new freak of geometry by which they can have fronts on both ends of their houses. Mr. Sedgwick will be the first to tommence building. He has his ma terial on the ground and will put up a fine log house and garage. He has Eurchased one of the choice lots in He park. , Many others have plans made for their houses and some have already ar ranged for construction work to begin. WEATHER FORECAST K5R INDIANA Fair toniflht and Wednesday. Slightly warmer Wednesday. TEMPERATURE. Moon . .',4 - 33 YESTERDAY. Maximum - 30 Minimum 16 RICHMOND, BY W. E. MOORE Continued fair weather is expected tonight and Wednesday. SUMMARY. High r".'8ure controls the weather vt the greater portion of the United itates at present The lowest tem ier4tur yesterday was 12 degrees be d zero on the northern border of Ake Superior and freezing weather xtended into Southern Alabama and Louisiana Accused Man Hears Verdict Without Show of Emotion. SHKLBYVHXE. Dec. 3 Dr. Wil liam C. Craig, dean of the Indiana Veterinary college, was today acquit ted of the charge of murdering Dr. Knabe, who was found dead in her apartment in Indianapolis with her head nearly severed from her body. Judge Blair of the Shelby circuit court, instructed the jury to find for the defendant on the ground that the state had failed to establish a suffici-1 ently strong case to warrant the trial i proceeding. ! The defense did not introduce a sin- ; gle witness, and the judge sustained, the mot ion made by the attorneys for the defense that the jury be instruct- j , . , ed to find lor acquittal. Verd.ct is Popular. j The verd.ct was a popular one and t Dr. Craig was the recipient of many i congratulations. Judge Ulair stated that in his opin ion Dr. Craig's attentions to Dr. Knabe were those of respect rather than in fatuation and love. "There is no evidence whatever that the defense was ever engaged to Miss j Knabe or even contemplated mar- riage," held the court. That not one of the witnesses who saw the "peeper" who looked in the window of Dr. Knabe's flat, had iden- . : : i r-v i . . i ! imeu wr. wais as uie pioier was , be written down low all other pr0per the opinion of the court. ty holders demand an equal rate; thus Hear Charge Unmoved. ! we come to have a Bill Smith assess or, uraig ana nis aaugnter Marian sat unmoved after the judge had in structed the jury to acquit him. Save for the murmuring of the voices, the court room was undisturb ed. Dr. Craig would make no state ment for publication. He simply ex pressed his gratitude for the treat ment accorded him by the newspaper men, and save for a slight expression of satisfaction, he betrayed no emo tion. The jury remained out only five minutes and returned the verdict as instructed by the court. SQUASH RAGSDALE INDICTMENT, INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 9. The in dictment of Alonzo M. Ragsdale in dicted jointly with Dr. Craig was nolled by the prosecutor of Marion county. The charge against Ragsdale hinged on the outcome of Dr. Craig's case, it was said and Mr. Bakes' ac tion was taken as soon as he heard of the action at ShelbyviHe. TO SELL SEALS T Red Cross Day Expected to Prove Big Success. ' AM ERiSSRE TcROSS One hundred women will canvass the city tomorrow selling Red Cross seals, Wednesday having been set aside as Red Cross day. The women will carry their stamps in baskets with red crosses tied to them. All money collected in the morning is to be hanuVd to the district chairmen by 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The Red Cross campaign is the only campaign in which the Domestic sci ence association will engage for the purpose of raising funds for the vis iting nurse during the year, providing the Red Cross seals rund amounts to sufficient for that purpose. Should it not do so. later in the year a canvass may be made for the purpose of com pleting the fund.. This does not pre clude the giving of sums of money from lodges, organizations and busi ness meu who wish to give separate from the sale of Red Cross Seals. It is planned by the Anti-Tuberculosis society that practically the en tire amount of funds raised during the Red Cross seal campaign will be devoted to the nurse's fund and Cf-n. WOMEN OMRROW mm mm , iH.Vl fslfflf MERRY CHRISTMAS tim eral education work. Practically one-!and discriminatory practices in corn third of the entire amount of work pelling all users of natural gas not whic h the visiting nurse will do will be jf reeholder3 to give a personal cash All monev can hP s,-nt t rar. ! oline Carpente street, city. 35 South Thirteenth CHURCH TRUSTEES DISCUSS PASTORATE ! A consultation of the elders and the board of trustees of the First Chris-i lue "l visit the out-of-the-way places in the tian church, was held at the home of;Jen 'tars the artificial gas company nortnwest and js stopp.nK in thi3 Dr. J. A. Walls last night, regarding lcsl about f ,,000 a year in bad bills ; place enroule t0 thal terrtorv. the selection of a pastor to fill the pul-: and that since the average natural gas ; The car has accomnKdations for sev pit to be Seated by Rev. S. W. Traum. I bl11 be f.our. Vmes as large as that entv four persons in rigidly censtruct whose resignation will go in effect : for the artificial gas. the company j ed pews Bv using tfce rear piatform soon. A minister from Evansville, ! win stand to lose a large amount of ani aisie neariy 100 worshipers may whose name the elders refuse to give, money each year if it is not adequate-; and a;s2e neariy ioo worshippers may was present at the meeting. j b protected. pHj to represent a minature church. The elders, who take the initiative ; Applications for the installment of t Wjth its permanent confessional, altar, in the selection of a new pastor, favor- j 89 furnaces have been received. Ow-; communion railing and other equip ed the Evansville man. but he has an-fing to the fact that, the workmen can ' ment. other call which he says he will take; in prererence to the Richmond church, wisnea owing to tne targe amount of There are several other ministers on I work to be done a number of appli whom the elders will pass before raak-j cants have already laid In their win ing recommendations to the board of ter's supply of coal and will not in trustees. stall the gas before next summer. 4,000 WAYNE COUNTY PERSONS DODGE TAX Twenty-Seven Per Cent De linquent and Auditor De mands Change. That Indiana's methods and princi ples of taxation are obsolete and that a better plan would be to assess all property at its real value and have a limited tax rate was the gist of former j jn Washington, D. C. Monday after Senator E. H. Wolcott's address to the i noon following the session of Con- Commercial Club at its regular month- ly meeting last night. Mr. Wolcott 1S a - member of the state tax commission and suoke as an authority on the prac- tical side of taxation rather than of it ,h(ories in.i .hmnpt nrincinles ts uuories and abfetratt principles. .Nothing is more vital to the com- mutnty, he said, t han taxes, yet ther: are r7 thin abo"t which people are more foggy. Present methods are out of date impossible of successful appication. The newly admitted states nnd ,hosp wi;h r!n-,..,prt mn it. tlons are ,n the best 8uape. But in ; j spite of its imperfect machinery Indi ana is in advance of many states. The Indiana system is that of as sessing all forms of property at the same rate except those exempted by law. Authorities do not consider this a very satisfactory principle In prac- tice it means that the lowest assess-' ment in a community sets the stand ard for all other assessments. No Just Assessment. "If Kill Smith's nronertv hannens to - 1 - ' 1 ment instead of a just assessment." "It is impossible, "he said," to make an assessment on full cash valuation of property. Although according to state law it is perjury to give wrong valuation it is universally done. I re call but one case where a man was charged with perjury and he was not convicted. We have a dead law." One fault with the present method he found in the local election or ap pointment of tax assessors. They tend to favor local friends, he argued, and this introduces anarchy into the tax machinery of the state so that no two Tcounties assess at- the-same rate. He quoted Prof. Schuerman to the effect that the states must some day engage experts to do this work, with first class machinery to work with, and with clear principles to work by. Tax Power Limited. The present Indiana state tax com mission has no authority to make as sessments in a county and can only cope with the local matters when an appeal has been made. In 1912 fifty-six appeals were made of which twenty three new assessments were granted. The commission has discovered a very wide variation among the various counties. Farm implements range from $25 to ?150: house-hold goods from $43.50 to $102.00; automobiles from $.300 to $400; horses from $81 to $130; cattle from $27 to $50; and hogs from $7 to $18 Real estate is assessed at about 40 per cent on an average though It is higher in cities. Poor farm land is assessed at higher rates than good. Mr. Wolcott pointed out that with the present methods tangible property carries more than its share of the tax burden. Intangible property, he said. such as stocks, bonds, mortgages, is very elusive and different to get at. Most of the tax dodging is done with this form of property. Delinquent Tax Problem. Fred II. Lemon, chairman of the special committee of the Commercial V iliu, ill' ii rniucu xt iiir iiitr-i.ni3, j said the chief difficulty in Wayne ! many years ago Richmond was nick county was the collection of delinqu- J named the' "Quaker City," and with (Continued on Page Six) BOND TO SUBMIT COMPLAINT City Attorney Will Give Pa pers to Commission With in a Few Days. S93 WANT FURNACES The complaint being prepared by City Attorney Bond, charging unfair guarantee for the payment of their bills will be ready for submission with- in a few days. The officials of the company remain undisturbed by the proposed action j SLfV1!? ; commission will fail to sustain their; j '"l, . TV - , not get around as fast as could be; SOON S. Edgar Nicholson Presents Bill to Senator Kern for Introduction. Resentment to the use of church names by manufacturers of articles that enter into interstate commerce by the Friends of the United States even to the point of the framing of a bill to be presented before Congress is expressed by S. Edgar Nicholson, who is representing the Society of Friends gress. Mr. Nicholson went into con Kern re- t'tiT-cmo with Senator .T W ( gardjng. the proposed bill, j ' TheDui will apply to the using of !:.,,,, rinr,,r,c .... riip n-imp i p u fiurch names ah trade names. 1. e., a certain manufacturer of a well known brand of roed oats nas operated that j article on tne United States market J f a ber of vears undf,r the trade , .. ,, . : ,,,5,.c. j mark ot "nds ats , t r, Oats.'' and using a pen sketch of V U- I Ham Penn, the tounder ot the Quaker Society in America as an aid to adver tise the commodity. Oppose Use of Name. The widespread use of the trade mark, "Friends" or "Quaker" Oats was not opposed by the Society until a few months ago a southeastern dis tillery placed on the market a brand of spirits named "QuaKer nisaey. This proved the straw that broke the camel's back for the opposition, which had been mildly expressed against the oats manufacturer, became so fierce that the monthly meetings throughout the United States dis cussed the apparent outrage against the Society of Friends. To further aid in the distribution of the whiskey the southern distiller ad vertised the "Quaker Whiskey" wide ly throughout the entire country in both newspapers and magazines. The protest from the Society of Friends as expressed by S. Edgar Nicholson will be founded on the grounds that the Quakers as a whole throughout the United States and world have been radical in their op position to the manufacture of whis key and intoxicating liquors and then oii.th.Q'.tfther hand to have one of the leading brands of whiskey bearing lhe name of the denomination flaunted before the American people is not a situation which is coveted by the so ciety. Draft Restricting Bill. Mr. Nicholson went to Washington, Saturday to arrange a conference with the Indiana junior senator and his meeting was slated for Monday after noon. From the news of the result of the conference it is quite probable that Senator Kern will introduce a bill which has been prepared by the representative of the Friends' church. The bill as will be introduced by Senator Kern does not apply to the Friends denomination alone. In the wording of the measure it states tjiat it is an act prohibiting the use of any church name by manufacturers of ar ticles used in interstate commerce. A Richmond Friend in speaking of the agitation, said that he was of the opinion that. if the manufacturers' mo tives in naming their products as "Quaker" products was because of its purity, then he had no objection to the using of the denominational trade : mark, but on the other hand, should I the manufacturer desire to do it for the purpose of gaining popularity of profits and at the same time does it as a matter of ridicule, then it should be stopped. Cites Local Example. As a home example, he stated that that title in mind a certain candy man- ufacturer named his establishment the Quaker City Candy company, and uses that corporation name on his products. "Of course," said the man, "the Qua kers have no opposition to the use of the name, as many thousands of Friends will tell you. but the recent outrage of a whiskey distiller to name his product as a matter of ridicule against the denomination, which stands as an optonent of the whiskey traffic, is too much." CAR, "ST, PETER," HERE TOMORROW Considered One of the Most Unique Worship Houses in the World. One of the most unique worship houses in th a nrM a rht TcA frtr "fif j Peter - wm be set on a side track nea,: the Pennsylvania station tomorrow ' morning, to be inspected and visited ! by Rlmond people The car is being ?c7ZL cTei and was the eift of a Davton resident. Itk v, i , 1 ! The car has been put The car is attended by a chaplain who has charge of the masses and oth er religious services, and a corps of assistants. It is expected that many Richmond persons will visit the unique car. f SIB fi..' n vfci jc I, -M Sergeant. Marie Terra7ft. th MTics.n "Joan of Arc." photographed on the march from Juarez aa she. appeared at the head of the "Petticoat Brigade." one of the'.most unique divisions of General Villa's rebel army. In the fighting at Mesa she distinguished herself as one of the most val iant fighters on the rebel firing line,, and was credited with having "nip ped" no less than twenty HuertiBtas." LOBBY COMMITTEE SUSTAINS WILSON Presents Report to House Showing Presence of "In sidious Lobby." WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. President Wilson's charge that lobbies existed at the capital to influence legislation was sustained in the report of . the house lobby investigation committee presented to "the "house today. The charges preferred by Martin M. Mul hall against Rep. Bartholdt of Mis souri.Calder of New York, Sherley or 1 Kentucky, Webb of South Carolina and Fairchild of New York were, how ever, declared unfounded. The report, also found that while the American Federation of Labor main tained a lobby here, it does not permit its activities to transgress the law or g beyond the bounds of proper privi leges. The report does find tbat Mul- ' hall and James A. Emery working for the National Association of Manufac turers, went "beyond the limits of de cency" in trying to influence legisla tion. Points in Report. The national counsel for Industrial defense and the National Tariff Com mission association also were found to have maintained lobbies to influence legislation. Other points brought out in the report are: That the main purpose of the Na tional Association of Manufacturers was to prevent, legislation curbing the uses of the injunction against labor unions. Tbat the tariff commission legisla tion of 1903 was not improperly influ enced by lobby. That no improper influences have been exerted in nominating or elect- j mg iungre&iiieu as iar as iuc iuiuluii- 1 tee can ascertain. ! Accuse McDermott. J That Rep. James E. McDermott of i Illinois " had been guilty of acts of i grave impropriety unbecoming to the dignity of the distinguished position he occupied." ; That Muihall and Emery should ) change their ways .or "remain away I from the capital." ; Representative McDennott's rela tions with the pawnbrokers and liquor j dealers of Washington were gone over ! by the committee at length. The com j mittee states that a loan of (500 given McDermott by M. F. Harvey secre tary of the Washington Liquor Deal ers association probably did not in- fluence his vote,- but the transaction is j severely condemned, j The committee bays that Its conclo- sion is that most of the money Mc I Dermott got from Muihall was bor- rowed in a social way. GARDNER ATTACKS RECALL OF BONDS Zimmerman Acts Without Authority and City Must Pay Interest. In the opinion of former city attor ney, A. M. Gardner, the Zimmerman administration had no authority for its action last July in using the sink ing fund of the Municipal light plant for the purpose of purchasing special street improvement bonds bearing 5 per cent interest and the money tak en out of the fund for this purpose must be replaced, and until replaced the city must pay the legal 6 per cent rate of interest on the money it bor rowed, from the fund, a little more than $15,000. As to the money taken from the city sinking fund. Mr. Gardner says that it must be replaced, but that the city had the right to use it for the pur chase of the bonds as the paying off of a legal obligation of the city. Mr. Gardner says the calling in of the bonds in November, 1912. was per fectly legal and that advertising of this call was not required by law. It was only necessary, he stated, to no tify the interested contractors and the banks of the call. This call also provided that It was the intention of the city to pay off the bonds in question, but that the city never made an appropriation for this purpose, consequently the action of the city in using its sinking funds for this purpose merely constituted a purchase of the bonds, not the act of paying them off and retiring them. Holders of the bonds presented them at the banks for the purpoa of hav ing them retired, not to be purchasd by the city as an investment for its sinking funds, consequently the whole transaction was irregular. Mr. Gard ner declared. It is suggested by hiro that the city now do what was first proposed last spring: authorize a new city bond is sue and transfer this issue to the city plant sinking fund in exchange for the street improvement bonds it now holds, and then retire the improve ment bonds. j REWORK ROAD GRADE t A work train on the Chesapeake Sc. Ohio Railroad has been sent to rework the grade between Williamsburg and ! Economy. The scrapper, grader and ; steam shovel has been despatched to aid the force of men la repairing the ! grade which at that point was consid l erably lower than the remainder of the road. During the next month the work crew and road building equip ment." will be working on the road grade north of Richmond. SEE BLOW DIRECTED AT PARTY'S FUTURE City Attorney Bond Charged With Advising Selection of Inefficient Men. . I While Mayor-elect William J. Rob bins was informing friends today that he had expected there would be "soras kicks" against his appointees, and thai be intended to stand pat on his se lections, a movement was launched to hold a meeting of candidates for nom ination on the Progressive countj ticket for the purpose of preparing vigorous protest to Mr. Robbtni against some of the men he has se lected as members of his cabinet, not ably Clarence Kleinfcnecht. Harry Goodwin and Dr. S. G. Smelser. It is planned in this protest espe cially to emphasize tbat the appoint ment of an inexperienced man as po lice chief, another inexperienced man an superintendent of the municipal light plant, and a man who will not have the necessary co-operation o! the majority of the physicians as cit health office, can only be constructed as a violation of the mayor-elect's plat form pledge to recognise only effi ciency in his appointments. Has Injured His Party. It' also will be charged that Mr. Robbins' action in violating his effi ciency plank has had the effect ot bringing discredit upon the Progres sive party, the cardinal principle of which is governmental efficiency, and that the county candidates are the In nocent victims of the blow he has administered the party which had ele vated him to the office of mayor, and which bad won the trust and support of the majority of voters of Richmond and Wayne county. The date of holding this meeting ot candidates will be announced later. There appears to be no doubt that Mr. Robbins' principal adviser on his appointments was William A. Bond, who Is the premier ot the new cabinet in the capacity of city attorney. The various members ot the execu tive board of the ProgTessrre city committee frankly state that to the best, of their knowledge Mr. Bond's advice as to the appointments was practically the only advice heeded by the new mayor, and that Mr. Robbins never consulted with them. Close friends of Mr. Robbins were kept In Ignorance of the personnel of bis cam inet practically up to the time he an nounced his list ot appointments. Bond as Chief Adviser. One active worker said today that he knew Mr. Robbins frequently went to Mr. Bond's office for consultation with him concerning appointments, no he soon began to realize tbat the city attorney was the "power behind the throne." Consequently when he heard tbat a certain man was under consideration for appointment to on of the principal offices, he called on Mr. Bond to register a protest. Mr. Bond, this man says. Informed him that Mr. Robbins had the right to se lect his own cabinet and that the Pro gTepsives of Richmond should Indorse whatever slate Mr. Robbins decided on. "I took this to mean that advise on my part was not desired, and that Mr. Robbins and Mr. Bond thought themselves perfectly competent to fill the city offices," this party worker added. He also showed a list of probable appointments jotted down two weeks before the election, he said, which he had prepared from information gath ered from different men to whom he had talked. He said that prior to the election he showed this list to MrTt Robbins, who remarked that It was almost right, or something to that ef fect, and a perusal of the list today! showed that It was authentic, with) the exception of street commissioner, one member of the board of public works and one police commissioner. The men slated for these positions on the pre-election list prepared by the party leaders were, resepctively. Ollle Staub. George Staubach and Benjam in Price, and it is known that all three were considered for these appoint ments after election. Motive of Mr. Bond. Final approval was given to the list of appointments announced last Satur day at a meeting held early Friday ev ening at Mr. Bond's office. There are those who say that the active part Mr. Bond played in assisting the new mayor In the selection of his cabinet was a move in his campaign to secure the Progressive nomination for judge (Continued on Last Pa) WIGGS ISJRRESTED Faces Larceny Charge in Cir cuit Court. When he returned to Richmond. Harry Wiggs. who recently took mon ey and watchs from Ora Stegall's barber shop. 4-0 North Eighth street, and left for Dayton, O.. was arrested by Patrolman Lawler. Lawler found Wiggs at the home of J. H. Scbell. COO North Twelfth street, last night. Wiggs is being held for larceny. i Charges probably will be filed in cir ! cult court. i During the robbery scare which j swept the city, Wiggs. who was em ! ployed by StegalL rifled two small ! savings banks containing about $25 ' and left the city. TO INSPECT WATCHES The inspection of watches of ail rail road men is ordered to be completed this month.