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Richmond, Ind., Tuesday Evening, April 2, 1907.
VOL. XXXII. NO. 80.
Single Copy, Two Cents.
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"BIG STICK" IS
LAID ON HEAD!
OF HARROVIAN
Ousting of Swettenham PleasedHim.
THE WEATHER PROPHET.
Railroad Wizard Attempts to
Make the President Out a
Common Campaign Boodler
And in Return Is Called a
Willful Liar.
HARRIMAN GIVES OUT
SENSATIONAL LETTER.
Document Was Supposed to
Show That Roosevelt Had
Solicited Harriman to Raise
Funds for Buying Votes in
New York.
Washington. D. C, April 2. Again
the nation witnesses the spectacle of
its president passing the lie to a figure
in the limelight. This time it is E. li.
Harriman. the country's greatest rail
load magnate. The president calls
the "wizard" a fabricator, but says
that "by rights a i stronger, shorter and
more ugly word should be used."
Accusation Harriman Made.
Harriman wrote to a friend saying
that Itoosevelt told Harriman "that ho
would appoint Chaunoey M. Depew am
bassador to France in order to get Do
pew to get out of the way, and thus
placate New York politicians.
Harriman says Itoosevelt was to do
this in return for Harriman putting.
up. with aid or linanciai mentis. ?i?.m,-
with which to buy .V,(hn.) purchas
able votes in' New York City.
Harriman further asserts that he car
Tied out his part of the bargain and
that rM'MM votes were thus produced
in New York city for republicans and
that Roosevelt then quit Harriman co'd
and refused to appoint Depew as he
had' promised.
In answer to this the president gave
a lie to all these assertions by making
public a copy of a letter that the presi
dent wrote to Congressman Sherman,
of New York last October.
Roosevelt Produces Letter.
In this letter he said: "I understood
you to say that he (Harriman) alleged
that I made this promise, (referring to
Depew as ambassador to Paris) at a
time when he had come down to see me
in Washington, when I requested hiai
to raise two hundred fifty thousand
dollars for the republican campaign
fund, which was then on. Any such
statement is a deliberate and wilful un
truthby right it should be character
ized by an even shorter and more ugly
word. I never requested Harriman to
raise a dollar for the republican cam
paign fund."
President Feels Fortunate.
After giving out his statement the
president said: "I feel pretty fortu
nate in having been attacked within
the last few days by both Ex-senator
Burton of Kansas, an ex-convict and
Mr. Harriman. After writing these
letters to Congressman Sherman I
was assured that Harriman had not
made any such statement."
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INDIANA Partly cloudy with
temperature.
OHIO Fair and warmer.
rising
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.
MONDAY
(April 1)
Total Circulation
Net Circulation
MEAT fNSPECTIGN
DEPENDS UPON IHE
ACTION OF COUNCIL
7,073 Passage of
6,845 1
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
LARGEST COUNTY CIRCULATION.
LARGEST RURAL ROUTE CIRCU
LATION. LARGEST PAID CIRCULATION.'
a Proper Ordi-
SIDEWALKSDISFIGURED
Hagerstown Marshal Hunting
For Guilty Ones.
PUNISHMENT IS IN STORE.
Hagerstown, Ind., April 2 Hagers
town citizens found their beautiful ce-
mont sirfpwalks disficured this morn-
nanCe Will ReSUlt in Nam-'ing by gigantic letters in blue and
white chalk announcing the coniing'of
mg Of Inspectors by GOV- ODonnel. the monologueist at the Odd
.... ... ! Fellows Hall, April 5. The letters are
ernment Authorities. i more than two feet in length and oov-
er large spaces of the sidewalks. The
! s!arns announce that this is '"April
; Fool, then the Fool O Donnel," April 3.
At the school house the signs were
made particularly large and the jani-
.l,-.-.t,l tlnio Hml lilor to
Richmond s greatest newsp?per. ,hn, marshal Dickson
"Doesn't skimp its news columns to ac-j wm be especially pleased to be in-
ommodate advertising. The more j peW QitfeS Will HaVe SUCh Op- ' formed who did the decoiatiug.
., iverusmg carried, tne greater ine
CITY HEALTH OFFICER
ADVISES PROMPT ACTION.
REAR
CultNfilN.T.WAtn.
ADMIRAL CHARLES H. DAVIS.
Rear Admiral Charles II. Davis, the man whom Governor Swettenham of
Jamaica "thanked' In the Swettenham style, has been assigned to command
the southern division of Rear Admiral Evans' great north Atlantic fleeL Ad
miral Davis is one of the most interesting men in the navy. He was bona in
the navy, so to speak, his father being the famous Rear Admiral Charles II.
Davis of civil war times. The present admiral has written a biography of his
father, besides other books. He has been superintendent of the Naval observ
atory twice and has held high commands afloat and ashore.
SUDDEN DEATH OE JOS.
FLOYD AT GREENSFORK
Venerable Resident Expires in
Postoffice.
PUBLIC SPEAKING ART
FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS
WAS OVER SEVENTY YEARS.
Greensfork, Ind., April 2. Joseph
Floyd, aged 72 years died very sudden
ly in the postoffice this morning,
shortly after seven o'clock. Death is
thought to have been due to apop
lexy. Mr.. Floyd. had gone to the postoffice
to get his morning mail as was his
custom. .Apparently, he was in his
usual health and greeted those in the
office pleasantly. He walked to the
rear of the office where a group of
men were standing and without warn
ing his face took on a peculiar expres
sion and he started to fall to the floor.
K. S. Martindale caught him and with
the assistance of some others laid
him in a large chair.
Physicians were summoned and Dr.
Kerr arrived just before he died. A
wife and three children survive the
deceased from his second union. One
of his Children Mrs. John M. Stauffer
is a resident of Richmond.- A son
Horace is a student at Purdue while
his other son, Jesse E. is a skilled
civil engineer now in charge of con
structing a . railroad at Armington,
Montana. Five children by his first
wife live in Florida.
New Department Added at the
State Normal.
INSTRUCTOR IS SELECTED.
CITIES WEST NOT WANTED.
National Cash Register Company Is-
sues a Letter.
Indianapolis, April- 2 The Dayton
Cash Register Company will not re
i move its plant to Indianapolis. The
final decision of the company has been
conveyed in an official letter to Rob-
The president went on to state that!crt G. McClure, secretarv of the Com
Harriman did come to see him and i mercial club. The club had decided
begged to have Depew apiointed and . to en(i a committee of twelve to Day
Roosevelt intimates that he only J ton to discuss with the management
laughed down such a suggestion. Har-jthe possibility of bringing the plant to
riman later wrote to him saying that j this citv but in"the letter the club was
I understand Mr. James Hazen Hyde informed that this Sstep would be use-
jimmy jtiyuej or insurance iame, is i less The Comianv. according to the
an applicant for the position as am
bassador to France. His appointment
will be quite satisfactory to me.
.Itoosevelt thereupon said it was out of
question to either appoint Hyde or
Depew.
The country now turns its attention
hack to Harriman. ' He will either
have to crawl into his shell and admit
untruth or throw down the gauntlet to
the president.
Torre Haute, Ind., April 2. The
trustees of the Indiana Normal School
have established the chair of public
speaking, and Prof. James L.. Gardner
has been chosen for the" position.
President Parsons for some time has
been impressed with the need of train
ing teachers in public speaking. He
found that teachers were called on in
their respective communities to ad
dress public meetings.
Professor Gardner comes from Mit
chell, S. D. He is a graduate of AVa-
Bash and of the school of oratorv at
Evanston and for five years has been
in charge of the department of ora
tory at the university at Mitchell.
The trustees have selected Prof.
James H. Englemau for principal of
the Normal Training school, which is
to be separated from the Terre Haute
public school system, and to eight
grades there will be added a high
school course. '
rnber of pages to the paper. Fresh,
s news on every page, therefore of
fcter value to subscriber and adver
Read the best paper.
CfJETED STANDING
HA JEER REACHED
ft LOCAL OFFICE
Postmasti Spekenhier and
His Aslant Are Elated
Over theowing Made the
Past Yeat.
NET RECEIPVG0
FAR 0 VSR THE MARK.
Result Has Not Eeen Secured
Without a Laqe Amount of
Work Small Increase in
Two Salaries.
4,
portunity to Secure Protec
tion for Meat Consumers
Milk Inspection.
FELL FROM A HAY MOW.
J. R.
Wharton Broke His Leg and Sus
tained Other Injuries.
Cambridge City, April 2 While
pitching hay from a mow to the lower
floor of his barn yesterday, J. R.
Wharton slipped through the mow op-
,The much " "A ff " flnWiTtr set
as a goal for the net receipts" the
local postoffice for the fiscal yeS end
ing March 31, by the pbstmastetwas
reached and passed, the total -pet
sales for the year being $61,924.
This amount is an increase over e
last fiscal year of $3,467.37, winch's
a very favorable showing for an offi
in a city of Richmond's size and wits0f that city
The United States government has
consented to provide inspectors for
the inspection of all meat slaughtered
in Richmond. This statement was
made Monday evening at council by
city health officer, Dr. C. S. Bond, after
an ordinance providing for the inspec
tion of meat slaughtered in this city
had been introduced and referred to
the ordinance committee.
Dr. Bond stated that he had been cor
responding with the secretary of agri
culture for some time and that the gov
ernment had consented to provide one
or two inspectors for this city provid
ing the government rules and regula
tions, such as relate to the method of
slaughtering and inspecting, the re
quired slaughtering floors, etc., were
observed.
Advises Prompt Action.
Dr. Bond stated that the least num
ber of slaughtering floors possible
would be the most satisfactory ar
rangement to the government and he
thought the council should take prompt
action on the ordinance, which pro
vides for only one general slaughter
ing floor, as the government has only a
limited appropriation to use for mu
nicipal inspection of meat. The first
cities that annlv for government in
spection probably will be the first to
be accommodated, said Dr. Bond.
Would Be a Distinction.
Dr. Bond stated that if Richmond se
cured government inspection of all
meat slaughtered here it would be the
only city, in this part of the country to
secure this service from Uncle Sam.
Dr. Bond said that Indianapolis had
been trying to secure government meat
inspection, but that the agricultural de
partment had given the health officer
no satisfactory answer,
COLORED MAN HAS
ASKEDADMISSIOM
Arthur B. Wimberly Wants to
Practice at the Wayne
County Bar.
MONEY IS VOTED
FOR FIEIO HOSPITAL
OVER MAYOR'S VETO
Discussion of the Subject
Brought on a Spirited Scene
At Monday Night's Session
Of the City Council.
DEUKER RAISES POINT
ORDER AGAINST STUDY,
Mayor Schillinger and City At
torney Set Forth Reasons
For Objection Lattcr's
Prediction.
HE IS WELL EDUCATED.
IN CASE OF HIS ADMISSION, WIM
BERLY WILL BE THE ONLY
COLORED ATTORNEY IN LOCAL
PRACTICE.
Arthur B. Wimberly, a young color
ed man, who has resided in this city
for the past year, has applied for ad
mission to the Wayne county bar. His
application is in the hands of Judge
Fox, who will appoint three attorneys
to examine Wimberly, as to his fitness
for being admitted as a practicing at-
Consideration of the ordinance ap
propriating $7,r for the Reid Me
morial hospital, which was passed over
the mayor's veto Monday evening, ?t
council meeting, terminated in a "hot
old, time," which drew party lines c-1om
The interesting feature of the pro
ceedings was the clash between Coun
cilman Deuker and City Attorney
Study. The former has been on the
point .of breaking with the field mar
shal of the Schillinger administration
for some time. Monday night tm
break came.
Raises Point of Order.
Mr. Study was in the midst of a fer
vent and. what promised to be, lengthy
argument. explaining why council
should not appropriate nionej- for the
hospital. After he had talked about
fifteen minutes and was in the middle
of a sentence, Mr. Deuker, pale, but
game, rose to his feet and to a point of
order. "Mr. President," said the coun
cilman from the second ward, "I rtae
to a point of order. When the city
attorney is asked by the council to ud-
It on some legal point I have iu
ietion to his talking, but I object
to his addressing council unless the
torney.
Wimberlv, if he is admitted to the
bar, will be the only practicing colored council gives him the authority to da
the comparatively small number otThe government will provide meat in
manufacturing plants which are Iocat-Wettors for the loc'al butchefs without
ed here. The postoffice is necessarily
the barometer, for the business done
in this city and the report indicates
therefore that the business pulse is
above normal. '
Work for Business.
The business does not come largely
of its own accord as many people are
inclined to think, as the postmaster
and his assistant have to work to in
crease their business as does any mer
chant. There are a few large manu
facturing firms in the city who have
branch houses elsewhere and they
could send their thousands of cata
logues and circulars by express to
these branch cities, for distribution
out of those points. By a little pres-
mv pvnpnse to them or the city p. jvid
hg the ordinance drawn up by the spe
cial committee and presented to coun
cil is passed by. that body and enforc
ed;
- , Proctection for Butchers.
ItVas explained by . City Attorney
Studthat if the ordinance were pass
ed itVould 'protect the local butchers
"Continued on Page Ten.)
ening and fell to the floor below, a
distance of about fifteen feet, break-!sme brought to hear upon the manu-
HAGEIST0WN RED MEN
mm TO CAMBRIDGE.
Degree St Under Direction of Exum
Cope!ad Will Put on the
Adaption. Degree.
1
ing his . left leg in three places,
sustaining other injuries about the
face and body. It will probably be
several weeks before Mr. Wharton
will be able to resume his duties at
his place of business.
HOW THE NEWS LEAKED OUT.
Harriman"s Discharged Stenographer
Gave It Away.
New Yoik. April 2 Not in years has
S uch excitement reigned as today when
a letter of E. II. Harriman to Sidney
Webster was published in which Har
riman declares that Theodore Roose
velt appealed to him to save the coun-
letter, will remove from Dayton, but
the management has decided to con
sider no cities west of Dayton as a
possible location.
Two for the Second.
At the regular meeting of Richmond
lodge of I. O. O. F., held Monday night,
two candidates were given the second
degree. They were Walter Witte and
Walter Leonard.
DR. CLARK SURPRISES
METHODIST DIVINES
Declares That Dogmas Are But Top-Shelf
Curios- Exception Taken to Remarks
and Sizzling Session Follows.
and laeturer, tne postmaster can probably
intiuence tne manufacturer or publish
er to mail all his catalogues from
Richmond, hence he has gained a
point in the increase of his business.
Sources of Revenue.
The Gaar, Scott company, the Starr
Piano company, the Hoosier Drill com
pany and the Nicholson Printing and
Manufacturing company, along wifch
Dignam's magazine and other con
cerns furnish the largest sources for
receipts at the local office. The cata
logues sent out by these establish
ments each year amounts to several
thousand dollars, which means that
the local postoffice sales boom.
- The record made during the last
year will mean that both Postmaster
Spekenhier and Assistant Postmaster
Smith will receive an increase of $100
on the year in salary.
Record by Months.
record for the past
IlagersjKwn, Ind., April 2 Practical
ly all f the" local lodge of Red Men
will goYto Cambridge City Thursday to
assist iiVthe important work to be per
formed "it the district meeting held
attorney in the county. George v.
Conrad, a well known colored, man,
was admittedsonie time ,agoto . the,
Wayne county bar, but he has never
engaged in the practice of law. Con
rad has a position with the Panhandle
company.
Studied at Howard.
Arthur 13. Wimberly is a native of
Washington, Di C, and studied law at
Howard university, which is located in
Washington. Wimberly states that
he attended law school at Howard uni
versity nearly four years. Five weeks
before he was to have graduated he
was forced to leave school because of
serious ill::ess of his father. He came
west in 1JK5, and located in Indianapo
lis. Wimberly came to this city about
the first of last year and he has taken
such a liking to Richmond that he has
determined to live here.
Impressed With Richmond.
"I noticed when I came here that
Richmond had a very large colored
population and I thought it would be a
good place for me to 'hang out my
shingle.' There are no practicing
colored attorneys in this county and I
think in case I am aditted to the bar
I will be able to do a gcVd business.
IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.
Official Board of Grace Church Met
Monday Night.
The official board of Grace M. E.
church met Monday night at the
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- ' will ovomn ifn- in iho nnnntion t 1 '
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the tribe. It ws npcted to have the 111,3 """ l.
Red Men's band ready to go with the
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does, with the railroad situation in an
acute stage and with the entire na
tion's eyes focussed on Harriman and
Roosevelt, the possible effect of the let
ter baffles the intelligent to guess.
It will be remembered that on the
Eight before election Roosevelt answer
ed Alton B. Parker's campaign fund
declaration that trusts were giving to
the republican campaign fund for cor
ruption purposes by saying .Parker's
story was "atrociously false." Harri-
Cintinnati. O., April "J. The Metho-jment about dogmas being "curios" in
jdist ministers had a sizzling session at j his reference to Prof. H. G. Mitchell of
been on
hops oa
dist Preachers Union, at which meet-1 charges of teaching heresy. Dr.
inskthe Rev. Dr. Davis Clark retired Clark said:
try and the republican party from de-itne Methodist Book concern in the reg-j Boston university, who has
feat in V.n) I. Coming at the time it!ular meeting of the Cincinnati Metho- trial before the board of bisl
afte? his term of two years as president
f the anion. All was serene until the
Revlttr. Clark declared that the the
ological dogmas are "curios that could
well be kept on the top shelf." Im-
protest. -
How vr. a few of the ministers sid
ed with Dr. Clark. The subject was
o enthralling that nearly everybody
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mans leuer puuiueu lo.iay sajs mat prest.lvt desired to voice his protest or
Roosevelt's letter to him was personal jhis defense of Dr. Clark's words.
tContinucd to Page Six.) ' Dr. Clark was led to make his state-
"I protest against the manner in
which the ecclesiastic authorities have
been trying his case. The board of
bishops receives him practically 'con
demned already and with his case un
justly weakened. Here is a great
scholar of whom wthe Methodists may
wr-11 be proud, virtually exiled."
A murmur of disapproval swept Gver
the audietice at the word "curios." an:I
as soon as Dr. Clark sat down half a
dozen preachers tried to get the floor
to voire their disapnroval.
so. lie n as been speaking tnls even
ing on a subject on which council hai
not asked his advice, and be ha hx.
ken without asking the permission of
council."
Leftwich Willing to Listen.
Mr. Study took his seat and imme
diately Councilman Leftwlch was oa
his feet. 'Mr. leftwich stated that
the subject under discussion could
bear general debate and he for one,
would sit in his chair and listen to Ihe
city attorney for an hour or longer.
This statement failed to arouse enthu
siasm on the part of the city fathers,
who had adjourned to the tree tops
to witness the fireworks. After Mr.
Leftwich's effort, Mr. Deuker again
took the floor. He had no objection to
the city attorney talking his head off
if he saw fit, but he thought the city
attorney should secure the consent cif
council to talk before he tried to dic
tate what it should and should not do.
Sustained Point of Order.
Mayor Schillinger was clearly aware
that council was going to hand him the
grape fruit, but he did not care to hear
any presentation speeches. He pound-
( Continued on Page. Ten.)
boys but it could not be organized and
drilled sufficiently for the occasion.
The band will be newly equipped with
instruments and be ready for public
appearances in the near future.
The
fows:
April..
May. .
June. .
July. .
Sales 1906.
year fol-
-$5,761."5
. 5.5S4.10
. 4.314.2S
. 4.927.G9
August " 4.63G.08
September. .
October..
November. .
December. .
January..
February. . .
March . .
1907.
4,422.36
5.7S5.36
4.213.55
5,423.27
3.3S7.17
5,933.17
5.615.15
Redeemed stock. .
Extras
Deducted.. ..
Net sales. ... . . ,
107 sales
1906 -sales .
Gnin . . .... . .
62.053.36
. 117.24
t ..j 5
'S.4C1.57
Recovering From Pferation.
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Miss Alice Minnerman. 'who was
operated upon Monday at Reid Memor
ial hospital, is improving and has with
stood the shock very well up-to-date.
Miss Minnerman is a daughter of C.
F. Minnerman, southwest of the city.
church is in excellent condition finan
cially and otherwise.
ANNIVERSARY
Plans
are Being Made foi
bration April .8th.
OF EAGLES.
It's Cele-
Wednesday night the Eagles will
make preparations for.the celebration
of their third anniversary. That event
will take place on the night of April
Sth and if present plans, materialize
there will be a big celebration of the
event.
OILING OF STREETS
BEFORE THE COUNCIL
City; Attorney Holds That the
Cost Should Fall on the
Property Owners.
EXPERIMENTS IN KENTUCKY
TOTAL FUND IS NOW
ABOVE $61 ,000 MARK
Over Twelve Hundred People Have Al
ready Contributed to ' 'the Y. M.C. A.
More $2,50f3.TGifts Needed.
Total Monday
Received Tuesday.
Grand Total.. ..
-$50,461
-- 735
..$6t,196.
Tffcere are needed seven subscriptions
dfi)2J00 each to secure Mr. Henley's
offer "'of 2,500. Those able to give
should think over this and let the com
mittee iave their name, for one of
these amounts. Monday a man gave
$100 each for his three sons and bis
nd self making a subscription of
The?e boys will grow up with
The Y. M. C. A. committee hoped
to be able to show $1,000 per day for
124.62 .the month of Amil and may average i'ife
.Cl.fl2S.94 , . .,. , , 1500;
.St.f.!U ima- U fW.iP Interest in tb: Y. II. C. A.
one of!sU,tft inai 1 i!W7vrji
EVIDENCE GATHERED THERE
GOES TO SHOW THAT THE RE
SULTS ARE OF THE MOST SAT
ISFACTORY NATURE.
Councilman Englebert stated Mon
day evening at council that he had
heard many complimentary remarks
about the streets in this city that had
been oiled and he wanted to know
whether the city liad the authority to
order the streets of the city oiled with
out obtaining the consent of the l-roi-erly
owners. ; '
President Merrill of the. board stat
ed that this question had been referr
ed by him to the city attorney and
that Mr. Study had expressed an opin
ion that the city had no authority to
take such action and that if the pro
perty owners on the. various streets
of this city desired the streets oiled
thAv wmilft have to meet the entlrw
expense of this work.
Results in Kentucky.
Mr. Merrill stated that a Kreat mai
ifaninAv rifles were oilinsr tl
streets and that he had correspori
with the authorities of several of
cities concerning, the results
experiments and that all the
he bad received spoKe most
ttmllv of the method. Mr.
r,
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lew davs. :th?m- r ivmu - .
i commence coming in
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