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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-04
THE CORNSTALK AS A COMMERCIAL
COMMODITY

The Journal, few days ago, noted the
presence in this city of Prof H. w. Wiley,
chief chemist of the Department of Agri-
culture at Washington, who was on his way
to Rockford, ILL.,, by direction of the de-
partment, to investigate and report upon a
new process of manufacturing paper from
the shive or outside of the cornstalk Prof.
Wiley was expected to arrive in Rockford
yesterday and the indications are that he
will be able to report the new process a
complete success. 1t is one of the most in
bids fair to result in the establishment of
an important new industry. Like many
other valuable discoveries it is sort of
side result or sequence of other discover
les preceding it. The corncob has, for some
years, been utilized for pipe purposes, and
recently the pith of the cornstalk has been
converted into cellulose which has become
an important component in the manufac-
ture of modern battle ships. This still left
the smooth and shiny outside of the corn
stalk unutilized, and this it is which is now
converted into paper. The rapid accumula-
ton of corn shives, or the outer covering
Of stalks, deprived of their pith for the
manufacture of cellulose, led to expert
ments with the refuse, resulting in the dis
covery that it could be converted into a
fine quality of paper and superior card
board. The patentees of the new process
claim that it will make the shive the most
valuable part of the stalk from a COM
mercial standpoint and they also claim
that they will be able to control the discov-
cry. 'Of course the secret is ours" says the
superintendent of the Rockford company,
land while it is not such secret after all,
all have to say is that company in the
world can manufacture paper from the
cornstaiks unless they manufacture cellu-
lose from the pith, and when they do this
they infringe on our patents, and, conse-
quently. we are perfectly safe in saying
that nobody else will ever make paper from
shives.'' That remains to be seen. 1t also
remains to be seen what the ultimate effect
on land will be of converting wheat straw
into boards and cornstalks into cellulose
and paper. thus depriving the soil of ma
lures great fertilizer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-04

isolated from the system 1t Endorsed that
part Of the park act giving the board au-
thority to have lands condemned by the
court and the owners paid the amount fixed
by competent board of appraisers, as the
board was proceeding to do when IT was
got rid Of. The Journal and large numbers
Of citizens are opposed to a badly located
park the Improvement of which will be very
costly. 1t objects to beginning a park by
the purchase of territory which the best
disinterested judges Of values in real estate
say is not worth one-third of the money
paid for it If any Taggart organ wishes
to defend such transactions it can do so,
but after so doing. 1t cannot consistently
rebuke extravaganza or seeming Irregular
ity elsewhere. Nor will feeble facetious-
ness divert attention from the land deal
which no organ will attempt to defend.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-04
CAN FIX IT'S OWN TOLLS
MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILWAYS SPE-
CIAL CHARTER UPHELD.
Governor Pingree Beaten I'm the SUI
a TwO-Cent-Per-Mile Rate.

LANSING, Mich, Oct. 3.-Governor Pin
gree has failed in his effort to compel the
Michigan Central Railroad to sell family
mileage books at the rate of cents per
mile 4 decision filed by the State Supreme
Court late this afternoon decides that the
Michigan Centrars special charter unques-
tionably confers the right upon the COM
pany to fix its own rate of tolls, and that
this is a vested right which cannot be
withdrawn by the State without adequate
compensation therefor. The court also de-
sides that a law passed by the Legislature
of 1891 regulating the cost of mileage books
to cents per mile has no application to
the Michigan Central and that the only
way to effect the change desired by the
Governor is to have the Legislature amend
the charter of the company. which means
that the State must compensate the COM
pany for any damage involved.
The suit was begun by Governor Pingree
on the refusal of a Michigan Central ticket
agent at Detroit to sell him a family mile
age book in compliance with a law passed
by the last Legislature. The Governor ten
dered his money in the presence of wit
nesses and the agent stated that he had
no such tickets. Thereupon the Governor
brought suit to compel the company to sell
him a thogsa nd-mile ticket of the charac-
ter demanded for $40. The mandamus suit
was tried In the Wayne county Circuit
Court at Detroit before Judge Donovan.
The lower court held that the law in ques-
ton applied to all railroads in the State
and that reasonable justice and public policy
demand that the State control the charges
of the railroads, lest in time the railroads
should control the State and the people in
that particular: This holding is reversed by
the Supreme Court, which decides that q
mandamuS cannot ISSUE
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-04
COLONEL wATTERsoN TO COLONEL
BRYAN.

There is reason to fear that Colonel
Henry Watterson did not attend church on
Sunday He scarcely could have attended
to that duty and have written the two and
q third columns entitled, ''They Say It's Up
to You, Mr.. Bryan" in the Louisville Cour-
ier-Journal. 1t is in double column and
double leads. In it Colonel watterson tries
to persuade Colonel Bryan that it is better
that he should name the next Democratic
candidate for President than to be the can
didate himself. The editor tells Colonel
Bryan that he can name the candidate, and
that there is deal more of honor and pos
thumous fame and less vexation in being
classed with the Websters, the Clays, the
Tildens. the Stewards and the Blaines than
in trying to be President.
This is all very fine, but we fear that Col.
Bryan will not be caught with that sort of
chaff. If Mr.. Watterson had offered to
guarantee an audience every day in the year
Colonel Bryan, raging to let go the floods,
might have accepted the advice. Colonel
Watterson begins by telling Colonel Bryan
that "the silver issue no longer affrighss
the souls of conservative men, being to all
practical intents and purposes as dead as
the issue of African slavery" He goes on
to declare that the Democratic party can
win victories, but not with free silver at
the ratio of 16 to l." and down with gov
eminent by injunction on it's banners, but
with the inspiring words THE legions of
jefferson and Jackson against the janizar-
les of Mckinley, Alger and Hanna"
This is glowing if vague. 1t might cap
ture the imagination of Mr.. Bryan if he
were let alone but those nearest him real
ize that it is long way from the camp of
the silver-mine owners to the old lines
which the aforesaid legions once occupied,
and those who forced Mr.. Bryan upon the
party at Chicago know that they will be re-
tired to the rear rank as privates when the
party shall return to the old and now bat
tered legions
1t is not, however, difficult to divine the
meaning Of this appeal to Mr. Bryan All
the Democratic newspapers in the larger
cities agree, by silence and by opinion, with
Mr.. Watterson. The New York Journal
months ago urged the dropping of 16 to l.
the Brooklyn Eagle comes back to the sup
port of Van Wyck, and the Cincinnati En-
quirer and the st. Louis Republic, by the
acquiescence of silence, indorse the drop
ping of 16 to 1 by the Democrats OF New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Penn
sylvania.
We fear, however, that Colonel Bryan
will not heed the Kentuckians appeal. STILL
it might be we'll to send him marked copy
of the Courier-Journal containing it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-04

One Of the horrible stories which has
been made to do extra duty by the yell
low and copperhead papers is the following,
published after the arrival Of the troops at
Montauk Point:
One of the fever patients IN the hospital,
who had fallen into a comatose condition,
was pronounced dead by an incompetent
medical officer. The remains were hustled
into a pine box without a covering, which
with others containing the dead bodies of
fever victims was placed outside the hos
pital tent and exposed for hours to the broil-
ing sun. The agony of the supposed dead
man was excruciating. He realized that he
was about TO be buried alive in the shallow
trench which had been dug to receive the
bodies of those who had no relatives to
claim them. After enduring mental and
physical torture for hours some soldiers
came to move the box in which he lay. By
a supreme effort he managed to slightly
raise an arm and move his fingers. The
soldiers saw the motion. and instead of
carrying him to the trench, they took him
10 the hospital tent and dumped him on the
ground, where he lay for hours without at
tention, and finally died. victim of neglect.
When those in authority at Washington
read the foregoing. an investigation was i'm
mediateIy set on foot. At the hospital it
was found that no soldier OF the name given
IN the story had died at the hospital. It
was found that one Of that name was then
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-04

a patient in the hospital, but was rapidly
recovering his health The reporter who
gave out the story was found. He said that
had written 1t. and he was able to give the
officials making the investigation the name
of his informant. Thereupon the officials
decided upon court-martialing the soldier to
whom the story was attributed by the re-
porter. Before doing so they took the pre-
caution to send for the soldier and ask him
why he had circulated such a falsehood.
The soldier frankly admitted that he had
told the story to the reporter, but insisted
that he had also told the reporter that it
was a dream. That information ended the
investigation of one of the most shocking
outrages of the war, for which it has been
proposed to hold the President and the
secretary of war responsible. Possibly this
particular story is not on duty at the pres
ent time, but no one can tell when it will
appear in the Sentinel with the emphasis CT
double column and large type.
In this connection it can be stated that the
number of deaths in the army to the end
of September, as reported by the adjutant
general to the commission investigating the
conduct of the war, was 1924 from all
causes. OF this number seventy-five officers
and ESQ men died of disease. The army
reached maximum of 265 900 men, so that
the mortality by disease has been less than
per cent.
These figures may surprise those who have
been reading papers which have made it APP
pear that soldiers have been dying by thou
sands. 1t can be added that persons familiar
with military history insist that there has
never been campaign in any country in
in which the percentage of deaths by dis
ease has been so small during the same
period. 1t is also asserted that the mortal
ity in the army has been less than has oc-
CURED in any city in the world during the
months when disease is most prevalent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-04
WAR ON money SHARKS"
Fight Against st. LOuis Usurers Who
Charge 40 Per Cent. a Month.

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 3.--Governor Stephens.
Police Commissioner Halves and Chief OF
Police Campbell, who have inaugurated a
war on the usurers of this city. have re-
turned from New York. where they went to
see officials of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company and get them to rescind
the rule under which employees were dis
chaged when served with a garnishment
For years the employees of the telegraph
companies, as well as those of railroad and
other concerns in st. Louis, have suffered
from the exorbitant interest charges made
by. so-called money sharks" for loans,
which in some cases were as high as 40 per
cent. per month. Several men who We're
unfortunate enough to get into the clutches
of ne sharks have given up hope of ever
paying the accumulated interest, and more
than one, ii is said, committed suicide
rather than face their troubles. Recently
the teiegraphers of st. Louis started cluD
to fight the usurers, and now the matter
has been taken up in this city by folice
Commissioner Harry b. Halves, prominent
attorney, who announces that he will pro-
coed against any of the uSurers when
proper cases are presented free OF charge
1t is stated that, while the party that went
to New York failed to secure a complete an
nulment of. the rule calling for the dis
missal of offending employees, they did re-
ceive q promise that it would be used only
in the most fragrant cases The outcome OF
the fight is looked for with interest, as its
results may he far reaching.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-04
NANCY GUILFORD HELD
IN A LONDON COURT AND
REMANDED FOR WEEK,
Initials "N. A. c." Found ON Articles
IN Her Possession, Though She
Called Herself Mrs. McAllister.

LONDON, Oct 3.--Nancy GuiIford. the
midwife of Bridgeport Conn, or the woman
suspected of being DR.. Guilford. was re-
manded at Bow-street Police Court here to-
Gay Tor week, after evidence had been
presented proving her identity with the
woman who landed at Liverpool last week
from the steamer Vancouver The initials
N. A. g." were found on articles in her
possession. The prisoner listened unmoved
to the evidence presented against her.
Dr Guilford was brought into court be-
tween two policemen and placed in the
dock. The court was crowded She was
handsomely dressed in a black silk skirt.
plain silk waist and fur cape. and wore a
small black hat. trimmed with feathers
She was not veiled and did not show any
emotion or interest in the proceedings. Her
only sign of excitement was the occasional
picking of the fringe of fur about her cape.
She was given seat in the prisoners dock.
The accused woman had secured counsel,
but ner lawyer was unable to be present on
account of sickness. When the prisoners
name was called as Nancy Guilford she did
not protest.
Inspector Froost. of Scotland Yard. de-
scrloed the arrest He said that when he
asked the prisoners name she said she was
mrs. McAllister, from Chicago, and assert
ed that she had been in England for six
months past. To this the inspector replied
that he believed she was Nancy GuiIford
ana mat he arrested her on the charge of
mnanslaugnter committed in the United
states Thereupon the prisoner protested
against being taken into custody denounc-
ing the proceeding as an outrage. and ask.
ing II she could communicate with counsel.
Wnicl she was allowed to do. Continuing,
the inspector said he then removed the pris-
oner to Bow street.-the examined a trunk
ana hand bags,of American make and
9 Tlrf bod
possession, and found that the initials had
been cut out of them. Some silver spoons
winch she had bore the initial .G." Among
the prisoners effects the inspector found a
gold thimble marked IN. G., from F. a
silver thimble having on il the initials IN
A. Co. and a surgical instrument, sound
was also found in her trunk.
A Liverpool detective identified the pris-
0ner as the passenger who arrived by the
vancouver and clerk of the United States
embassy asked for her remand pending the
arrival of papers from America. DR. Gull
ford was then removed TO the cells without
having spoken word during the proceed
ings.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-04

The eighteenth semi-annual meeting of
the Southern Indiana Press Association will
be held at vincennes Oct. and z, and
promises to be the best attended and most
pleasurable assembly ever held by the as
scciation. The headquarters of the associa-
ton at Vincennes will be at the rooms of the
Pastime Club. The directors of the club
have kindly extended all privileges to mem
bers of the association and request that
their quarters be freely used. At the close
of the meeting Friday. Oct T. those who
desire may take Pullman sleeping cars at
Vincennes and go to Omaha to visit the
Transmississippi international Exposition.
All editors and publishers south of the old
National road are eligible to membership
in the Southern Indiana Press Association.
The membership fee is 81 and 81 a year
pays all dues thereafter. Further informa-
ton can be obtained by addressing j. w.
Cockrum. president, Oakland City, or ]. r.
Simpson, secretary, Paoli.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-04
CREMATORY FOR HIMSELF.
Joaquin Miller Constructs an oven
Where His Body Is to Be Burned.

SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 3-Joaquin MIL
Ter. the poet of the Sierras. has perfected all
arrangements for his own funeral and the
incineration Of his mortal remains when his
death comes. If his wishes are carried out
his body will be burned upon funeral pyre
Of his own building. On the top of an emIn-
ence in the bills back of Fruitvale the Quaint
man of letters has built his bier. It is a
solid mass of masonry covering a space
l0xlO feet and standing eight feet high. 1t
Is composed of $40 granite powders set in
cement Tho queer structure is approached
by three immense steps laid across the en-
tire west frontage and of sufficient height
to permit bearers TO place body on the top
OF the heap The upper surface is followed
out 70 depth OF two feet and IN the shape OF
. cofiin. This space viii be filled with wood
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-04

The Boston Transcript, commenting upon
the increase of the regular army to 10000
men, says that before enlisting men should
demand a guarantee of three meals day
and a bed. Yes; before campaigns are
begun the War Department should send
a force OF men ahead to construct hotels in
territory like that in which the battle of
Santiago was fought. The world over fight
ing armies have seized the territory or been
beaten back in attempting to seize it. I'm
der the method proposed the fighting army
would come up when assured that arrange
lnents had been perfected by which It could
have three full meals day and good bed
at night
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-04

The war between the Sugar Trust and the
Arbuckles in the sugar refining business
comes too late to benefit those who preserve
fruits in their season, but the decline in
prices viii be welcome if. with it. the power
of an insolent combination can be shattered.
uct to a retailer because he has purchased
once or twice of other parties has few
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-04

Minnesota is or was the quartermaster of
one of the Minnesota regiments. In recent
address he declared that he received light
weight in grain and inferior quality in shoes
issued to him. Thereupon a county news
paper tells the candidate that If he took
40 pounds of grain when he should have
had leo pounds. and accepted worthless
shoes for good. he, and he alone. is the Off
cial who failed to do his duty. The point
Is well made.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-04

The Journal was not opposed to the sys-
tern Of parks proposed and laid out by the
Board OF Park Commissioners 1t believed
that the land which the board was In the
way OF getting when the law creating the
board WAS declared unconstitutional should
be secured and the improvements made
gradually 50 as not to burden taxpayers.
Much larger and richer cities have proceed
ed in that manner It did oppose the
hampering OF the board by the Council in
forcing the purchase Of small tracts Of land
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-04


The Indianapolis Sentinel sheds gracious
drops over the closing of the Boston ALL
crank organ, the Arena, unique among
American high-grade magazines as forum
for advanced thinkers in all lines. Adj
vanced thinkers will never want a forum
while there is air 10 set vibrating and pa
per to write on. TO the HoOsier mourner,
however. there is something sinister and
suspicious in the taking off of the Arena.
Who killed Cock Robin? I, says the Money
Power. In the words of the Sentinel on the
SILVER Matcn tower, the indicati s are
played in order to stop the publication OF
the Arena or account Of its advocacy OF
free coinage and the other PRINCIPLES Of the
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incompetent to Manage Her Afra,r..

NEW YORK, Oct. 3.---Mrs. Harriet Beach
Rogers. wife OF Henry Richardson Rogers.
the spir1tualistic medium, was to-day adj
judged incompetent TO manage her affairs.
Prior to her marriage TO Rogers, the re-
spondent was the widow of Alfred f.
Beach, editor Of the Scientific American
The property left by him was said to
amount to over a million dollars His chill
dren were appointed administrators of the
estate and Mrs. Beach claimed her dover
right in the property An application will
now be made to the Supreme Court for the
appointment Of committee OF the personal
estate Of Mrs. Rogers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-04

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Astor House.
CHTcAGO-Palmer House, p. o. News Co, 217
Dearborn street. Great Northern Hotel ana
cfNcINNATi~J. r. Hawley & Co.. 154 Vine
street.
LOUIsvILLE-C. T. Deering. northwest corner
Of Third and Jefferson streets. and Louisville
Book Co.. 256 Fourth avenue.
ST. LoUIs-Union News Company, Union Depot
WASHINGTON. d. c.-Riggs House, Ebbitt
House and Wizards Hotel.
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and the body of the poet will be placed ON
ton OF fl. The structure has been built So
that good draft will fan the flames when
the torch is applied and assure the crema
tion OF the body. The ashes OF the poet viii
mingle with the ashes of the faggots to be
scattered to the thirty-two points of the
compass by the winds that play about The
HEIGHTS" This is the end the poet of the
Sierras has designed for himself.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-04
WOMEN IN THE WAR.

The City of Mexico is far enough away
to afford a good perspective. and the
Herald, published at that place. viewing
the incidents of our war with Spain. notes
the fact that whatever the blunders made
by army officials in handling supplies, the
women of the Red Cross and other volun-
teer aid societies made none. The Herald is
right. Miss Barton and her staff have
handled and distributed an enormous guam
tity of food, clothing, medicines, ETC., meet
ing the same conditions that confronted and
disconnected the army quartermasters and
successfully overcoming them. The society
was well organized, it prepared for its work
in advance; it had system, and at its head
a woman with clear brain and good exec
utive ability. 1t was not stampeded by Off
cial opposition nor by any of the difficulties
that commissary and medical men found In
surmountable. Without the services rem
dered the hardships of the soldiers in camp
and hospital would have been ten times
greater and the scandal thereof correspond
ingly increased. If the country will profit
by its experience it will provide better
facilities for the Red Cross and kindred or
CARNATIONS in another war and give them
greater powers. A class of hysterical
and foolish women who visited the camps
at Montauk and elsewhere and were over
come by the sight of a sick soldier no
doubt added to the sensationalism that has
been feature of the war, but they are not
to be considered in connection with the
others who controlled their nerves and went
calmly and intelligently about the work of
making the men comfortable. The country
owes debt of gratitude to these practical
women that it will be hard to pay.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-04
CircumstantiaI Evidence.

at seems rather ridiculous that the in
surance company should refuse to settle
with Swindleowski just because he whistled
a tune while his store burned
1T wasn't the whistling; it was the tune"
"Hmh! What was to-
Get Your Moneys WORTH"