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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-09

Company and the trust company
could not affect that between the
city and the Fulmer-seibert Company.
though it may have incapacitated Holt,
stakeholder in the trust company, from con-
tinuing to act a city official. So far as
he is concerned 1t is not likely that an off,
cial who would accept 5000 for his inhu-
ence would feel disqualified or lncapaci-
tated by the fact that he had an interest,
through the trust company, in a sewer
contract. Mayor Taggart knew that Holt
was stakeholder in the trust company
and also that the trust company had be-
come the assignee of the sewer contract
and was furnishing the money for it. 1t was
his duty to have called Holt to account for
acting in a dual capacity, but he either did
not know his duty, or he neglected it. If the
city had contracted directly with the trust
company the contract would have been alb
solutely void on account of Holt. but the
subsequent contract between the contrac-
tors and the trust company did not invali-
date it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-09
A STEAL is A STEAL.

The Journal desires to state case: The
cashier of a bank who is paid good salary
finds an opportunity to use for his own adj
vantage $4,000 of the banks resources. He
can do it without being detected, and he
does it. Would the directors of the bank
continue him in position where he could
divert ten, twenty or any number of thou
sands in the future? No one believes that
they would do so. On the contrary, before
the year for which he had been engaged
should expire he would be removed.
Another case: A council and mayor of a
city feel that they will have a hard time
to secure reelection unless they can ex-
pend considerable money to keep the heelers
in good humor. They conceive the scheme
of voting $4,000 for job which has not
thing to commend it and which would not
have been thought of but for the necessity
of fleeing ward heelers. The scheme is
brought into the Council, where it and an
other has not sufficient Democratic votes to
carry it. Thereupor a trade is made with
Republican member of the Council whereby
a portion of a new bridge fund shall be ex-
pended upon his bridge in return for his
vote, and the appropriation is made, thus
morally compromising felony. The law
looks upon these cases differently, it is true.
but in ethics they are the same, since both
involve the taking of money which does
not belong to them to be used for their own
purposes.
But for the pending election there would
have been no Pogues run appropriation.
Moreover, 1t is the general opinion that
the work which has been done is of no use,
since when the floods come again the dirt
entertainments will be swept away The
money was voted and has been so expended
as TO promote the election of the Taggart
ticket. Morally, the use of the peoples
money in this manner is the same offense
as the taking of banks funds by the
cashier Moreover, the transaction involves
the bribing of voters, which is no small
offense of itself.
A few weeks ago, when this outrage CT
taking $4,000 of the peoples money for the
bribing of men to vote the Taggart ticket
was first made public, it did not seem to
attract much attention. Just now, when the
public mind has been aroused by series
of irregularities commiv.ed by the mayors
political associates, it may be in a condition
to give a little candid consideration to the
taking of $4,000 for no other purpose than
to elect the Taggart ticket Mr. Holt has
resigned because he received $1,000 to OBJ
tain a. concession in a contract. No one will
ever know who shared this money with Mr..
Holt. but the taking Of it is regarded as
grave offense. Would it have been as grave
an offense if the $1,000, like the Pogues run
$40 900, had been devoted to buying votes?
OF all the scandalous transactions of the
Taggart regime none is more scandalous
than the Pogue's run affair. If being in
yolved in a grave offense is cause for resig-
nation Mr.. Taggart should have resigned
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-09
RAPID TRANSIT FOR MAILS.
Preliminary Tests of Pneumatic Tubes
Between New York Stations.

NEW YORK, Oct. 8.-Several hundred
persons crowded into one of the rnailrooms
on the ground floor of the general postohlce
building yesterday to witness the first pub
lie trial of the recently completed pneumatic
mail system between the main office and
Station p, in the Produce Exchange. Chaun-
cey M. Depew, former Postmaster General
Tyner and Second Assistant Postmaster
General Shallenberg were on hand to see
that the installation should not lack ora
torical exploitation.
Mr.. Depew began the ceremonies by put
ting into one of the big cylindrical car
riers copy of the Bible wrapped in an
American nag made of silk grown in this
country. In a trifie less than minute and
a half bell rang, announcing the arrival
of the carrier at the other end of the line
mile and third distant. delay OF a min
ute and half followed, and then the big
nickeled cylinder flashed out of the tube in
the postothce building filled with a great
bouquet OF violets for Postmaster Van Colt
by way of acknowledgment, from the Prod
uce Exchange end of the line. The time
occupied by the round trip was four and
three-quarters minutes.
In all about thirty carriers were tested
One brought a peach from the Produce Ex-
change for MIR. Depew, another a complete
suit of clothes for Mayor Strong by way of
compensating him for the suit he ruined
some time ago in inspecting the under
ground conduit for the pneumatic tube svs-
tenn When the second carrier that had
been sent from the general postoffice came
back there was a suspiciously active bag in
it addressed to George II. Daniels, of the
New York Central Railroad. Mr.. Depew
took up the bag rather gingerly and sur
prised everybody by lifting out of ii a big
cat very much alive and apparently none
the worse for its trip. Then came a stuffed
elephant labeled &c. o. P.," very fierce
looking Tammany tiger of similar construc-
ton and gold brick and deed to the klon-
dixie for w. j. Arkell.
The carriers. which are twenty-four inches
in length a trifie over seven inches in
diameter and weigh twelve pounds, were
sent over the space between the postoffice
and the Produce Exchange in ffty-six sec
onIG
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-09

The revelations concerning Mr.. Taggart's
boys and the attempt to sell them to the
city at an extravagant price grow more
convincing in character. The Journal this
morning presents statements from Mr..
Bookwalter, Mr.. Duncan Dewar, Colonel
Perry and Mr.. w. E. English, and invites its
readers to give them careful study. If the
mayors organs morning and afternoon, de-
sire the real facts about this much-disputed
point, and are not satisfied with what is
men named, they can obtain verification by
questioning them. Everything said on this
topic by Mr.. Boekwalter and by the Jour
nal has been on the authority of members
of the Parks Board or of the Council finance
committee
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-09

The life sentence which Ferriter, the muir
derer OF Patrolman Ware, received in Nor
gan county yesterday was richly deserved.
If there were no possibility of pardon or
other interference with the sentence i'm
posed it would be sufficient. He belonged to
q lawless gang which is a scourge to the
community which it infests and which is
ready at any time to assail policemen. The
prompt trial and life sentence of the man
who has killed an officer will tend to i'm
press the rufiianly element that shooting
policemen is q crime which is certain to re-
Dakota are noncommittal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-09
A FALSE PRETENsE EXPOSED.

The SentinePs defense of the Taggart adj
ministration in the White river sewer scam
dal is based or an assumption that is with
out a shadow of foundation. In it's local
columns yesterday 1t said.
Because his (IIolt's) influence could not
secure what they demanded of him as a
return for the $1,000, according to their
story they (the contradictory threatened
suit against Holt and succeeded, they al
1ege in forcing him to return the money.
In an editorial which attempts to load all
the sins of the administration onto Holt
and make a scapegoat of him the paper
says:
5 The fact stands out that he was unable
to render the service for which ne was pald
or to influence any member OF the admlnls-
tration in any way in favor or his clients
This fact does not stand out for the very
good reason that there is no such fact
Holt was able to render the service for
which he was paid, and did render it. He
agreed to have the contract modified in
accordance with the wishes of the con-
tractors, and it was modified. Robinson's
affidavit shows that Holt did have infu-
ence with the administration and did use
it. He says:
Affiant further says that he is informed
by Mr.. Seibert that Mr. Holt took Mr.. Sci
bert to see Mr.. Thomas Taggart, mayor OF
the city of Indianapolis and had some
conversation with them about 1t; that Mr..
Seibert told this aff1ant that both Mr.. rag
CART and Mr.. Holt said to him that they
would see what they, could do about It,
This was before Holt had received the
$4,000. AS to what happened after he had
received the money Robinson says:
Affiant further says that he is informed
and believes that within few days there
after Mr. Holt, Mr.. Seibert, City Engineer
Jeup and City Attorney Curtis went TO the
Board of Public Works of said city, and
that said Holt, Jeup and curtis ADVISED
that the sewer be raised two feet from the
bottom and to be finished in that manner,
as had been requested of City Engineer
Jeup long before the matter set forth IN
this affidavit took place Affiant further
saws that within a few days after Sept. 80
the sewer was raised two feet from the
bottom at a point close to where the Michi-
gan road and the canal intersect and was
Continued in that manner to the end of the
sewer. under the direction OF the city en-
gineer and by order of the Board of Public
Works
This shows how Holt got in his work and
carried out his agreement. Let US have
no more of the false pretense that he was
threatened with suit because he was unable
TO render the service for which he was paid.
He was threatened with suit because the
money which had been paid him belonged
to the assets of a bankrupt corporation, the
Fulmer-Seibert Company, and could be re-
covered in equity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-09
MORE MONEY ORDER OFFICES.
System to BE Greatly Extended by the
Government.


WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.-The Postoffice
Department has adopted a policy of gem
eral extension of the money-order system.
First Assistant Postmaster General Heath
believes that any postoffice wanting money
order facilities should be given them. Com
plants have been constantly filed by bust
ness houses that their correspondents at
villages are unable to send money orders
because their postofices have no such fa-
cilities. During the past fiscal year almost
%. 900, 900 money orders were issued, amount
ing to a little less than $500, 100000. The in
ternational money orders issued during the
year purchased principally by workmen
sending money to relatives or friends in
foreign countries amounted to SIS, 600, 900,
While amounts drawn on the United States
by foreign countries did not exceed IS, 900, .
Co., During the Harrison administration it
is stated at the department there was a
large extension of money order offices,
about 10000 having been established. Dur
ing the last four years the number was in
creased only 16O0, on the theory it is said,
that there were too many postoffices. The
total number of money order offices now
in operation is about q 900 and the number
probably will be increased to 10000 before
the next fiscal year.
General Superintendent Metcalf, of the
Money Order Office, said to-day that the
cost to the department Of maintaining a
money order service at poStofnce is less
than cents year, even ii the office tram
sacts no money order business. If it issues
orders amounting to SO, it is a source of
revenue, and helps pay the general postal
expenses. The money order business now
brings to the government a gross revenue
of 81 900 in fees, mostly net, and ac-
cordingly the more money orders issued
the more revenue.
The Russian empire, which has recently
established a money order service, has just
submitted to this government a proposition
asking for a convention or agreement for
a money order exchange between Russia
and the United States similar to the money
order exchanges now in operation between
this government and thirty-seven other
countries The details of the arrangement
are now being perfected and it is probable
that money orders can pass between the
two countries early in the coming year. The
only difficulty in the arrangement is the
payment of the balance, as exchange issued
here is only in paper roubles, which differ
in value from the gold roubles This OBJ
stacle, however, will be satisfactorily adj
jnStQH
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-09
ORGANIZATION AGAINST THE
LAWLESS.

There seems to be danger that the warn
ing of the lynching in Ripley county will be
lost upon us and that ruffians, white-cap-
pers and criminals generally will continue
to make property, and life even, uncertain in
several counties in Indiana and other States.
1t is because the officials feel that they
do not have the support of the people in
prosecuting lawbreakers. The warning
should not be lost. The law-abiding people
who desire security are very large major
ity in Indiana and in every county; they
should see that the laws are enforced.
There are counties in Indiana where the
white-capper never appears and the ma
rauder never molests isolated and defense
less households under the cover of night.
There are other counties not far distant in
which the harassed people scarcely resent
the stealing of stock and personal property.
There is really little difference in the char
acter of the people. The large majority in
both localities are law-abiding people. Why
is it that lawless persons are not found in
one locality and practically overawe the peo-
ple of another? 1t is because the people in
one locality look after the arresting and
punishment of criminals. Montgomery
county has had little trouble with thieves
and marauders. 1t is not a congenial climate
for them because the Horse-thief Detective
Association has enrolled large part of the
good citizens in the rural townships. The
association gives attention to other offenders
than horse-thieves, since any offense against
life and property is reported and looked
after. Marauders who stand women on hot
stoves TO compel them to disclose the hid
ing place of money which they might be
suspected of having would come to grief
very soon in that county. The members of
the association would pass the word around
in few hours and every member would be
on the lookout for them, and if found they
would be detained until officers with war
rants were notified. When practically all
the law-abding people are organized to
| punish the commission of crime no one need
| be afraid to testify against lawbreakers
lest he be assailed or his property destroyed.
The professional plarauder, horse-thief,
general thief and lawbreaker is a shrewd
coward He will not make his home in
counties where the people and officers show
a purpose to punish such lawbreakers. These
petty criminals soon learn where they can
and cannot prosecute their vocation. They
give counties like Montgomery wide berth
and flock TO tipse where robbing can be
done with impunity. Like all towards, as
soon as they find that it will answer, the
country thieves and marauders become bull
lies and seek 10 terrorize their victims. Peo-
pie who are robbed or otherwise out
ragged are told that If they notify the officers
they win be put out Of the way or their
buildings will be burned in the night. Each
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-09

of the Taggart administration 5000 for his
influence in securing a modification of their
contract it could and probably would have
put a stop to the deal. But, of course, it
knew nothing about it, although Holt was a
director in the company. If Holt had re-
tanned the 5000 the company would have
been out just that amount by the diminu-
sets. and the disagreement by Holt is real
~ for the benefit of the trust company.
The action of the company was perfectly
legitimate
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-09
anne MiIitary Acaaemy.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.-CoI o. H.
Ernst, of the engineer corps, superin-
tendent of the Military Academy at West
Point, has made his annual report to the
secretary of war. The rumber of cadets on
Sept l, 1897, was $685. the largest number
that has ever belonged at any one time.
There are now thirty-four vacancies. and
there will be more at the end of the
academic year. The superintendent recon-
mends a moderate increase over the present
limit of 81 The health of the command has
been decidedly better than the year before
Various Improvements have been made
about the academy during the year The
superintendent recommends that the sword
master be given military rank on account
of the discipline he is required to maintain
over the cadets. Colonel Ernst concludes
his report by saying: II have to report that
the Military Academy is doing the work as
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-09
General Notes.

WASHINGTON, Oct. S.-To-day's state
ment Of the condition of the treasury shows:
Available cash balance, $2l3 245, 143; gold re-
serve, $149. O99 664.
Maj William r. Livermore, corps of en-
gineers, has been selected for engineer off,
Ger of the Nicaragua canal commission.
Major Livermore is in charge of the second
lighthouse district, which includes the New
England coast, and has been stationed at
Boston. He stands very high professionally.
Secretary Alger telegraphed to Major Liver
more yesterday and he arrived in Washing
ton to-day to discuss his new duties.
Secretary Wilson, of the Agricultural De-
partment, has decided to devote all of next
week to speech making in Ohio.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-09
Gen. Swain Had Guiteau,s Pistol.

WASHINGTON, Oct. S.-The late Gen.
David G. Swain. a close friend OF President
Garfield. and formerly advocate gen.
eral of the army according to to-day's de-
velopments, was the possessor of Guiteau's
pistol, recently recovered by the police,
after having been missing since the trial
of the assassin. General Swain was in
charge of the arrangements for President
Garfields comfort during his last Illness,
and took a deep interest in the trial. Ii is
believed that Colonel Corkhill, the district
attorney, presented him with the pistol,
which he preserved with great care. Cen
eral Swain died some weeks ago, and his
executors turned the pistol over to the po
lice
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-09

The Sentinel regards Henry George as
the Democratic candidate for mayor in New
York because the odds and ends which put
him in nomination indorse the Chicago
platform. Mr.. George takes occasion to say
that he is not an out and out 16-to-1 man,
but he is an advocate of single tax and
specially urges that the street railways.
water gas and many general necessities of
cities be owned and operated by the mu-
inequalities These are the important fea-
lures in the Henry George platform, since
national issues cut a small figure. There is
nothing in the Taggart platform about
municipal ownership-nothing of the sort
On the other hand, the George platform
generally comedies with that of the Citi-
zens' party whose candidate for mayor is
John F. White. If, therefore, the Sentinel
is as much devoted to the George platform
as it claims to be- it should drop mayor
Taggart and advise all who believe in the
George platform to vote for John F. White.
AS a matter of fact. Mr.. Whites friends
adopted the theories in the George plat
form long before he was nominated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-09
Dakota are noncommital.

Among other attempts to relieve the Tag
CART administration of the odium of the
sewer scandal, it is charged that Holt was
an appointee of Mayor Denny. In limited
sense he was, as Mayor Denny appointed
him to fill an unexpired term. He served
less than six months under Mayor Denny,
and Mayor Taggart reappointed him for five
years. Holt had three years yet to serve as
park commissioner, and if the sewer scan
dial had not come out till after the election,
he would have defied public opinion and
held on. and Mr.. Taggart would not have
removed him either
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-09
TORN FROM HIS BRIDES SIDE.
Arrest of an Alleged "Terror' While
He Was Being Married.

POMEROY. o., Oct. S.-Charies HysaIl
and Bert Wines, two members of a gang
that has been terrorizing the inhabitants of
Meigs and surrounding counties have been
arrested near here under sensational cir
cumstances Hysall was standing beside
Miss Georgia Marley at the home OF Squire
Long awaiting the words that would have
made them man and wife when the officers
suddenly appeared on the scene and made
prisoners of the trio before any resistance
could be offered. Wines. who was a guest
at the intended wedding, started to run.
but was captured after leading the officers
a spirited chase. Rewards aggregating g. 001
have been offered for the capture and con-
vicuion of these two men, and feeling is run
ming high against them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-09

NEW YORK, Oct S.-Carl Faber, the de-
faulting cashier of Oelrichs & Co.. was
taken into custody when the steamship
Barbarossa, from Bremen, arrived at her
dock in Hoboken to-day. Faber took his
arrest very coolly and was locked up at once
in the captains cabin. His wife. however
was completely unstrung ana almost went
into Mysteries Faber is accused of en-
bezzling at least $40 COO, and it is said that
it may reach three times that figure. He
has been a trusted employe of OelrIchs z.
Co, who gave him vacation in April,
which he spent in Europe. The defalcation
WAS discovered during his absence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-09
Radford NAV Get a New Trial.

WASHINGTON, Oct. S.-United States
Consul Herran at Medellin, Colombia, re-
ports to the State Department that the
American. Radford, is still in irons there.
but otherwise his treatment is good. The
consul expresses the opinion that the pris-
oner will be granted a new trial. Radford
is citizen of Alabama, who was convicted
in Colombia of numbering native and was
sentenced to death. His friends here and in
Colombia believing that the killing was
justifiable, have made strenuous efforts to
secure a new trial for him before a COM
petent tribunal, and the consul believes this
effort will succeed,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-09

WASHINGTON, Oct. S.-The secretary OF
the interior has made the following APP
pointments. Frank NJ Conser, of Ohio,
supervisor of Indian schools; Allison l.
Aylesworth, of Minnesota. secretary of the
Dawes Indian Commission Howell Jones,
of Kansas commissioner to investigate and
report on the detail of individual members
of the Chippewa and Christian reservation
in Franklin county, Kansas, to the several
tracts of lands therein which have been al
lotted to them; ChrleS e. Keisley, of Iowa,
trustee for town site lands in Oklahoma;
Prof. f. w. Clark, of the Geological Sur
vey, member of the board of control of
position at Omaha.