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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-27
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mistaken in things they thought they saw.
life on the night of Jan. D. He continued
making admissions until he had done for
the defendant what the defendant failed to
do for himSelf-make statement telling of
his connection with the attempted robbery
of Job Eldridge He admitted that Burton
was the man who bought the cap at Busch
mans, had his mustache shaved off and
Nashville penitentiary He compared the
testimony of Philip Kile and William Pruitt
and declared that one or both must be mis-
taken, as their testimony was at variance.
He called attention of the jury to the man.
ner in which the different witnesses identi-
fled Burton. which he said was unfair, the
prisoner being brought out at the county
He made a good point of the testimony re-
garding the time that Burton met Phillips
and Harvey at the Park, Theater restaurant
and the time that he had his mustache
shaved off. Burton must have been at both
places at once he said. Mr.. Kline had tes-
titled that it was nearly o'clock when Bur-
ton left his shop. while it was shown that
he was in the Park saloon at about $50 or
7:40 o'clock, and at the same time the
state claimed that he had his mustache
shaved off on the way down to the Park
saloon. Mr. Spahr took up the evidence of
all the witnesses and made the claim that
there was so much contradiction that none
of the testimony could be considered very
reliable. He asked the jury to acquit the
defendant
Colonel Black began the closing speech for
the defense but did not finish. He will con-
clude the first thing tomorrow morning and
will be followed by Mr.. Wiltsie, who Will
make the closing speech to the jury. The
case will reach the jury about noon.
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HOW BAILEY BEAT BARNUM.
And that at the Veterans own Game
of Advertising.
New York Press.


One of the elephants that were put aboard
the Massachusetts Friday with the Bar
num- Bailey circus was the means OF max
ing the fortune that Mr. Barley Is creul.so
with possessing. 1t was as a baby phenom-
enon that the pachyderm did the good turn
for the successor of 1.-The Great and Only
Barnum" Columbia is the name OF the
creature. and of the hundreds of rare ami
mails in the aggregation none is treasured
more highly than she, now huge, ungalnIy
and overgrown creature, with not halt the
wit nossessed by the smallest elephant con-
nected with the circus.
1t was away back in 1880, when the news
got around that the first elephant born IN
captivity was living and travelling with the
Bailey show. Mr.. Bailey was a struggling
young circus owner then, bathing against
fearful odds. Barnum was at the nelght
of his most remarkable career-at the very
topmost notch of circus fame.
Mr.. Barnum, quick TO see the advantage
of having so important an attraction as
real American baby elephant, telegraphed
to Mr.. Bailey as follows: VIII give SiVV'OVO
for your baby eephdant. mGs1 NAYS .sW 1i NOT
This seemed daring thing for Mr.. Bailey
to do. for 100000 would almost have pur-
chased the entire show. Even Mr.. Baileys
best friends, whom he consulted in the
matter. advised him to accept the oHer;
Instead of doing that he refused 1t and
hustled East with his circus TO meet Bar
mum on his own ground.
BY the time that the Bailey circus reached
the East the whole country was billed with
posters on winch was pIlnlSu nat Aooi
mum Thinks of the Baby Elephant Under
meath that heading was printed Barnum's
telegram to Mr.. Bailey AS the Bailey show
followed in the wake of the Barnum circus
each town in which the Barnum aggrega-
ton appeared was billed with the Bailey
posters.
Probably the Bailey advertising did not
affect the attendance at the Barnum cir
Gus. Mr.. Bailey has since said that he
thought that it did not But the advertise
ments staring the veteran Snowman in the
face everywhere he went worried him, and
finally, to dodge the huge posters he
changed the route of his circus, although
that route had been determined upon near
ly twelve months in advance. He jumped
from New York TO Kansas City and sur
rendered the whole Eastern field to the
Bailey show. The next year the two shows
were consolidated and have been one show
ever since.
Mr.. Barnum's one joke with Mr.. Bailey
as long as the shrewd old circus manager
was alive was Well have you any more
baby elephants that you do not want to
SELF"
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"STRONG MAN IRVING"
Agrees with other Athletes on Points
In Diet.

Montgomery E. Irving. who is said to be
one of the strongest men in the world, in a
recent interview with the Baltimore, Nd,
News. said, in regard to diet: keep away
from coffee. 1t should be taken off the
MARKET"
Whenever one talks with athletes nova
days, lie finds the same expression in regard
to coffee. 1t weakens the heart shortens the
wind, ana unless one is very strong in the
digestive apparatus, interferes seriously
with that portion Of the body.
If ii is necessary for a strong imam to
avoid narcotics and drugs of this character
Il would seem especially important fer the
brain worker or the highly sensitized and
delicately organized woman TO avoid them
as they would any other poison. IL they feel
and a comfortable pOise of the nervous sys-
tenn.
True, many people seem to use coffee
without direct harmful effect but a little
careful inquiry will nearly always develop
the fact that coffee users have some dis
turbance of the body. which they always
attribute to some other cause Than coffee
but which, by a curious law. is likely to be
helped If they can ever be induced to
abandon coffee for ten days 10 a month,
and take on Postum Cereal Food Coffee
which, instead of narcotiZing and destroy
elements demanded by nature TO rebuild the
gray matter in the nerve centers through
out the body
Postum Is widely Endorsed by athletic
trainers, famous bicycle riders and boxers,
as well as thousands of well-known men
and women who earn their living by men
tal occupations.
Postum is the only Cereal Food Coffee
Jet discovered, with a coffee taste, that is
pure and free from low-grade coffee or 9TH
e. drugs.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Nov. pm. Golden, of
Guthrie, o. T., nephew of Senator Thurston
and protege of Senator Quay, has termi-
mated his quest for an Indian agency by noti-
flying his brother that he has squandered
$500 in trying to land the appointment.
Golden fell into the hand of office brokerage
sharps who bled him of most of his money
by a process of false pretenses that would
have brought the blush of shame to Hun
CRY joe and other professional confidence
men. These wolves pervade the Washing
ton hotels and fleece unwary office seekers
out of their money. They make fat livings
at the beginning of every administration
and prey off greenhorns by selling their al
legged boundless influence with the appoint
ing powers Golden, of Oklahoma, was the
best pluckling they have had this year, so
far as known.
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Pay warrant for s1s.1o4.e1s.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-Assistant Sec
rotary Vanderlip to-day signed what is
known as a pay warrant, directing the
treasurer of the United States to deposit in
the treasury ire sum of $1S,194,61S, repre-
senting the proceeds of the sale of the
Union Pacific sinking fund bonds and the
uninvested cash in that fund, which have
been transferred to the treasury as part
payment of the settlement of the reorgan-
ization committee of the Union Pacific road.
This operation is merely a book transaction
in the treasury, and while it does not of
itself result in formally taking up the
amount as a treasury receipt, ii is an i'm
portant step, which leads to placing the
sum in the treasury cash, where it is be-
yond recall and cannot be withdrawn, ex-
cept in consequence of an appropriation
made by law. The full transaction will not
appear in the statement of treasury receipts
until the close of the present month.
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Memorial Notes.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26-To-day's state
ment of the condition of the treasury shows:
Available cash balance, $215 149,459; gold re-
serve, $156, 654, $40.
Orders were issued to-day by Secretary
Alger to advertise for proposals for build-
ing the breakwater at San Pedro harbor
California This is irrespective of the de-
cision of the controller of the treasury,
who has been asked whether there is any
available fund from which the expense OF
advertising can be paid
The Austrian minister to-day had an in
terview with the secretary of the treasury
in behalf of the forty-eight Austrian stave
cutters recently arrested in Mississippi and
Tennessee for violation of the alien contract
labor law 1t is not thought that the repre-
sensations made were sufficient to change
the secretary's determination to direct their
deportation.
Ex-Attorney General Judson Harmon APP
peared as counsel to-day before the secre-
tary of the treasury in an important inter-
nal-revenue suit involving the classification
under the tariff law of cherries preserved in
SpiritS
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uorris Lost Money at Peru.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
FINDLAY, O., Nov. 26.-Another oil gush-
err is lust added to the list of Ohio wells
by the completion of No. well on the Geo.
w. Roller farm, in Section 6, Big LICK
township, Hancock county. 1t did eight
hundred barrels the first twenty-four hours,
and is owned by oil magnate Mr.. Carey 6.
Harris. of this city This well will do much
toward making up his great loss in the Peru
field where he paid fabulous prices Tor some
they were written on; at least, all the wells
he mas completed there show this to be the
fact He got the wrong property at Peru;
drilled a very small we'll on them, and ne
put up a bonus for 159 acres, which was
81 0U3, and has nothing to show for the cash
maid out
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reached the department that certain per-
sons are declaring their intention to organ
ize a large party in the State of Kansas or
elsewhere to invade the Wichita lands with
the object stated. Instructions have been
wired to all the agents and inspectors in
that section TO make inquiries and ascertain
and report here The agents are called on
to exercise great vigilance to prevent any
such INVASION and in case of necessity,
where the Indian police force is Inadequate
military assistance will be promptly fur
nished This action is more of a precau-
tiOnary measure than in anticipation of real
danger. Officials. while taking proper steps
to meet the contingency, do not apprehend
any serious disorder.
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PERU'S RICH OIL FIELD.
1t Is Now Definitely Settled that the
Pool Is Playing Out.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
PERU, Ind, Nov. 26.-The future of the
Peru oil field can now be seen at a glance
The town-lot operations have been hemmed
in with dry holes, showing that this field
is just what it was first termed, "a pool by
itself" 1t has proven a very rich one for
the time being, but the later wells are small
producers, and will never pay out. The
money makers were the first wells COM
pleted, as they have had an opportunity to
produce a large amount of oil before the
rock was so heavily drained. For some
weeks the Standard was purchasing Part
Blacks oil, thinking 1t was the clear crude,
but when it was steamed it would shrink
to at least half, owing to the large amount
of water that the gauger'S devil would
not detect, and it could not be detected in
cess. Some nifty strings of tools are at
work here yet, and at least two wells d
day are being completed, but they are not
such large producers as the first wells in
the pool. OF late there is a growing feeling
among oil men that the market will take an
upward turn in the near future. The Klon-
dixie Oil Company has completed we'll on
the Harrington property, and it shows for
a faRly good producer. The sand was
Switch Oil Company has disposed of its
pipe and other material in the we'll on the
W 1lliam Coucher farm to the farm owner,
who will put pump at work and supply
water for his STOCK. The Wall-street Oil
Company is removing it's derrick from the
Mccartney lot to the Wilson land on the
Blair road, west of the bagging mills
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MIR. CAGES REPORT.
II VIII BE Sent to Congress soon Aft
er the Presidents Message.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-The annual re-
port of the secretary of the treasury, ac-
cordins to present plans, will be sent to
Congress either on the first or second day
of the coming session. As to the secretary's
plans for the reform of the currency
enough has been learned to give confidence
that the President is in full accord with his
views and recommendations, although in his
official utterance, as expressed in his forth
coming message to Congress, he may not
give a complete and specific Endorsement to
all the propositions covered by the secre-
tarv's report. There WILL however, be no
differences between the President and the
secretary. 1t is also understood that the
forthcoming report of the monetary COM
mission will cover recommendations not cs-
sentialy different from those embodied in
Secretary Cages report to Congress Those
most familiar with both of these important
papers give assurance that the difference
between them will be easily reconciled and
that to the support of the propositions SO
harmcnized the monetary commission will
be able to bring the powerful influence of
the great body of business men Which the
commission represents.
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AN EXTERNALLY UNFINISHED TOWN.
ComnIoint from New York Writer
of the Condition of the City.

Now York Commercial Advertiser.
a tcountryman in town said thal the
most characteristic thing ne saw III view
Yo1. was a parcel of fools tearing Gown
eight-story buildings to put up elshusen-
story buildings in their place. Andeeu, II -
a bit fatiguing to see the restless forever
at work making over New York. one Won
ders if the town will ever be finished. YOU
rarelv meet a block which the builders
will long admit to be done. Inc puHlM,
crane is at work everywhere. All over TOWN.
there are stretches where the SIDEWALKS are
transformed into tunnels. Everywhere are
dirt, hustle, giant iron beams oangilhs III
the air, sidewalks partly or wholly impas-
sable.
Then they are reconstructing the streets.
Happy is the block where there is not a
parcel of men tearing up the paving stones
and upraisng a mound while they do some
thing or other to the pipes The Traction
Company is tearing up whole avenues 10
Law sllbterranean trolley wires. Gen. Coils
steam roller has at length slowly trundled
half its way up Fifth avenue, and left a
beneficent track of asphalt behind 1t. But
the roller has still weary ana dreary ROAD
ahead Of 1t.
This wearying sight of a great city being
made over and rendered hideous to look
at in the process has no end in sight. NO
one can say when the town will be even
approximately finished. Broadway will not
cease to be just as much scene of bricks,
mortar and sidewalk tunnels when the
Smith building is done or the Jones build
ing. Some avenues will be ripped up by
the mile when the wheelman is Swimming
over asphalted Fifth avenue from Washing
ton Arch to the park, and the business man
is conveyed by underground trolley from
the postOffice to the Grand Central Station.
The town is pretty sure to remain In us
present state of transition indefinitely.
1t is all right. of course. The disturbance
is worth going through for what is to come
after it. People want the new buildings
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X. of p. Rally at NobIesviIIe.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. Nov. 26.-The
knights of Pythias of Hamilton county had
a rally at this place to-day and tonight.
Delegations from Westfied, Carmel, Sheri-
dan, Arcadia and some lodges outside of the
county were present. The exercises began
in Castle Hall of Bernice Lodge at 2
o'clock. Chancellor Commander w. F.
Longley made the welcome address and
responses were made by representatives
from the different visiting lodges. At 4
O'Clock a street parade was given by the
Uniform Rank and members of the differ
ent lodges headed by the Military Band of
this. city. This evening exercises consisted
of third-rank work by Sheridan Lodge, and
lecture on Third Rank by Prof. Milo
II. Stuart, of Sheridan. After these exer-
cises came the banquet. Mr. l.. S. Baldwin
was POSTMASTER. The womens committee
held entertainments at Odd Fellows Hall
at p. m. and D. m.
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New wells Completed.
\ the IndiananoIis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MONTPELIER, Ind, Nov. 26.-Operations
are somewhat quiet in the Montpelier sec
ton of the great Indiana oil field. The Dia-
mond Oil Company appears to keep the ball
rolling, and is enjoying the usual good luck.
This company has completed another well,
which is No. II, on the Godfrey reserve, and
it is rated close to the hundred-barrel mark.
This company has been operating this lease
for a little over year, and 1860 barrels
of crude have been sold from the land,
making it one of the richest pieces of oil
property in the State. Another we'll is I'M
der way for the same company on the Mey
ers farm. The Manhattan Oil Company has
a well under way on the j. P. Williams
farm, west a short distance from Hartford
City. The Ohio Oil Company has located
strings of tools at work. The report OF
Northumberland well near Matthews is
without founoation. 1t has silght lndica-
lions of oil, and may never make paying
producer. The Carroll Brothers Oil Com
pany has completed well No on the T..
McCullam farm, in Section IS, J 1soa
at tifty-nve barrels. The Northern Indiana
Oil Companys No: l, on the joel FIelds
farm in Seftion rs ty Sarree
Kerr, Lineman & Co.'S well No. g. on the
s. Foust farm, in Section l, jackson town
rals The Ruby Oil Company has completed
NO on the John L. brush farm, in Sec
ton 26, Harrison township, Blackford coun-
IT, and it did fifty barrels The Acme Me on
frev farm in Section 27 Chester township,
WeIls county, started at twenty-five bar
rels The Beatty-Brady Gas Company has
completed a gas well on its property at
Hartford City The tin-plate company has
just completed a good-szed gas well on on It's
property, and will have sufficient fuel TO
supply the factory The kerlne BTothers
have their gas line completed to Liberty
Center and have about hundred nres
connected SO far for the winter.
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and will swarm to hire quarters in them.
Otherwise they'd not be built. But it all
costs something in wear and tear of nerve,
and we are the most nervous townspeople
on earth. What a happy thing it would be
if six months in the twelve, or one year
in two, could be set apart during which
new buildings should be put up and streets
torn up the face of the town TO be pre-
served from. Disagreement at all other
times. Won't the kind good gentlemen Of
the new municipal assembly pass an ordi-
nance to that effect? OF course they won't,
for the best of good reasons. And if you
don't like 1t no law forbids you TO move to
the borough of Brooklyn.
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strike of CIoak Malxer.

NEW YORK, Nov ga strike which in
volved two hundred cloak makers occurred
to-day at Delaney-street shop. The cause
of the strike was a threat alleged to have
been made by the employing contractors to
reduce wages. This is the first result of
the expiration of the peace contracts en-
tered into three months ago between the
eight hundred contractors and nine thou
sand organized employees in the cloak
making industry. According to the agree
day. A series of meetings will be held to
outline plans to avert, if possible a general
conflict between employees and employers.
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Counterfeiter Grow Arrested.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
PAOLI, Ind, Nov. 26.-Sheriff Lindley
Jones to-day arrested Henry Crow for coun-
terfeiting Crow is an itinerant clock tin
ker, a Seventh-day Adventist preacher and
a mechanical genius. He has been making
large quantities of the queer" mostly
dollars, and half dozen agents to handle
the stuff are said to be in hiding. The
sheriff claims to know where the counter
feiting tools are secreted and says he and
Deputy United States Marshal Andrew
Fit9 will seize them tomorrow. Crow was
years ago, along with others and was
sentenced to six months imprisonment
The rest of the gang escaped with little or
no punishment. He says now that he will
never again carry the whole load.
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Marble Monastery to Be Erected.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-Work is about
to be commenced on the foundations for an
immense marble monastery which is to be
built on grounds contiguous to the Catholic
University in Washington. 1t is to be
erected by the Franciscians and will be I'M
der the direct patronage of the Pope, who
has contributed a large sum of money for
the enterprise. The site comprises fifty
four acres of land purchased for the pur-
pose about six months ago. The plans for
the monastery are being drawn in Rome
and will be forwarded to Washington in a
few weeks. The ground for the foundation
is being cleared and everything put INTO
readiness for the construction. The colony
which will occupy the monastery will come
from Italy
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ming expenses, and that a due regard Is
necessary TO the relation of the national
expenditures to thu national revenues
The department therefore recommends
that the authorization of new ships by the
coming Congress be limited TO one battle
ship for the Pacific coast, where, after the
I'VE now under construction are completed,
there will be only two, while on the At
lantic there will be seven: and also to a few
torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers.
botn of which are comparatively of little
cost, and more of which are desirable in
order to bring this swift mobile and ham
Oily effective arm of the service up to its
place in the general scheme for coast de-
fAurn
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NJ. Patenotre Says Good-Bye.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-It has come to
be understood. apparently, that the Presi-
dent is too busily engaged with the mat
ters that he must bring to the attention of
Congress to devote much time to the con-
sideration of candidates for public Office, so
this morning there was only one congress
sional caller. namely--Representativ Har-
mer of Philadelphia. About fifteen min
utes to IL o'clock Secretary Sherman came
over to the White House from the State
Department, accompanied by the French
ambassador, M. Patenotre, with the secre-
tary of the embassy NJ Thiebaut. The
party was shown into the Blue parlor,
where President Mckinley waited by APP
pointment, and the ambassador presented
his letters of recall. He made felicitous
speech expressing his regret at the termina-
ton of his pleasant official relations with
the authoritieS here. and the President, in
turn made few remarks in the same
strain. NJ. Patenotre goes to Madrid to as
sumo the position of ambassador there and
will be succeeded here in a few weeks by
NJ Cambon. the former governor of AL
geria. Meanwhile Nj. Thiebaut will act as
charge.