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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-06
THE HIRING OF EXPERTS
BOARDS OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
MAY EMPLOY THEM.
The Fee and Salary Law of 1879 still
I'm FOrce-Ofher Cases i'm
the Courts.

Boards of county commissioners may en-
ploy expert accountants TO examine public
records and collect money due to counties,
according TO the decision of the Supreme
Court yesterday in the case of Milton Gar
rigus, county auditor. against the Board of
Commissioners of Howard county. The ex-
perts assigned their claim TO Garrigus be-
fore they obtained their warrant for pay
for services rendered, and the latter sued
the Board of Commissioners, who defended
on the ground that they had no power to
enter into contract with outsiders to do
work that was a part of their duties; also.
that the agreement to pay the experts one
half of all they collected was unjust and
unreasonable. The court held valid Section
80 of the fee and salary law of 1879. saying
that it was not repealed by the law of
1891. Judge Bowling. in his opinion. de-
clared that the work performed by the ex-
perts, which consisted in hunting out
claims with great care and labor. was not
auditing the accounts of officers. which the
Board of Commissioners is required by law
TO do by itself.
The appeal of John Banks will be argued
orally before the Supreme Court June is.
which will be ten days before the summer
adjournment Banks was convicted in the
Marion Criminal Court OF attempting to
bride j. w. Bridges, an election judge in
this city. TO furnish him ballot last cleo
ton day.
In affirming the decision of the Pike Cir
cult Court in the case of James z. Rumble
ct al. vs.. Joseph D. Barker, trustee. etc,
yesterday. the Appellate Court held that
after trustee has without fraud, decep-
ton or corruption. hired teacher. patrons
of the school cannot make objection, ex-
cept by a petition TO dismiss the teacher
for cause
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-06

A petition addressed to the judges Of the
Supreme Court, naming them individually,
was filed in the Office of the clerk of the
court yesterday by the attorneys for Milton
Shrk, executor Of the estate of Ebert II.
Shirk. deceased. asking that tribunal 10
reverse a decision of the Appellate Court
declining to interfere with Judgment re-
covered in the Kosciusko Circuit Court by
John Lingeman against the executor. This
applica ton based Section of the
act of March IL. 1901, and Is the second of
it's kind thus far filed. the judgment
sought to be reversed in this unusual man
ner amounts to si9304.10. Deputy Clerk
Batchelder said that, inasmuch as the APP
pellate Court HAD rendered its decision.
overruled petition for rehearing and certi-
fed the opinion down to the lower court,
the application would doubtless be rejected
by the Supreme Court. THE Supreme Court
has already held that the act OF March Il.
elder.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-06
HOD CARRIERS UNION SUED.
Charles G.. Baker Resents Dismissal
from the Organization.

Charles c. Baker yesterday filed suit for
$4,000 damages against the American Hold
Carriers Union, No. l. and g. Weathers.
w. NJ. Nelson, ID. Roberts. w. M. Freeman,
r. Teeters. 3. Stout. S. Doyle and A. Enell.
officers of the organization, for an alleged
illegal suspension from the union without
a proper hearing or trial. The plaintiff
saws that he has been a member of the
Hold Carriers Union for twelve years. and
May IA. 1901. was summarily suspended. He
says the bylaws of the union provide that
charges must be filed with the executive
committee for investigation before men,
Der can be recommended for expulsion, and
that the member may have trial by jury
before the union and counsel. He says he
was denied these privileges and was sus-
pended and fined $50 by vote OF the union.
He AYERS that he has been unable TO get
work since he was expelled and cannot Sc
cure employment because of the action of
the union.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-06

In Virginia, as well as I'm South Carolina
the one-party system does not bring har-
mony and JOY, since ambition and desire
for official honors and emoluments are
rather intensified under the influence of
single-party rule. With one party noml-
nation makes election certainty; conse-
ouently many are candidates who would
not be If nominations were followed by
campaigns which made success a matter Of
doubt. The result of this one-partyism is
that bitter contests arise over the nominal
tions, all the more bitter because no prin-
ciples are involved in the struggles. Rep
resentative Swanson desires to be Governor
OF Virginia. and other men are moved by
the same ambition. The machine element
which overthrow Fitzhugh Lee a few years
ago is supporting Mr.. Swanson Never
theless, the opposition to him is both ac-
tive and bitter. and is making Roadway.
So bitter is the conflict that some Repub-
licans think the party has a chance. An
able man who is seeking the Republican
nomination is native of Virginia and
belongs to the best class in the State. He
calls attention to the fact that large part
OF the white counties gave Republican
majorites last year and that the heaviest
Democratic majorties were recorded in
counties in which the blacks have MAORI
ties "After-sunset majorities' these are
called because they were counted by cleo
ton officers by using the names of colored
men. The Republican difficulty in Vir-
gInia is the same in other Southern
States-namely. that the organization Is
largely of the Observation-Disclosures variety,
kept up to control federal patronage and
nothing else. the better-grade members of
the party being gradually driven out of
the organization by those who believe in
just enough of a Republican party to take
care of the federal offices.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-06
A MISTAKE ABOUT FARMING.

The Boston Herald may speak for New
England where ii complains of 1.-The de-
clining price of farms in dstinctvely farm
ing towns" and says that farms worth
from $4,000 to $4,000 thirty years. ago are
now worth only from 5000 to $780, and
that nearly every one owning farm
would be glad to sell ii for something less
than he paid for It," but it does not speak
for the West, its general observations
member of the Presbyterian Assembly,
whom the Herald quotes, state the fact
when he said that economic conditions
have converted the great middle West from
land OF prosperous farmers into a land
OF tenants renting their lands of distant
holders The excellent clergyman who
made this statement has been victimized
by populistic demagogues who went up and
down the country in 1896, making such as
sertions. which even then were not true. In
recent years values of farm lands in Indi-
ana have been improving, and it is safe to
say that those who till the farms hold
larger value in them than at any time In
the past Twenty, and even ten years ago.
farmers sought money-lenders to take
mortgages at from s to II per cent Now
money lenders in every considerable village
in the middle West are hunting mortgages
farms at from 5 TO 6 per cent. Formerly
farmers bid for money on mortgages; now
the mortgage-seekers bid for mortgag GEES
The aggregate of mortgages discharged the
past few years is simply enormous. while
the banks in farming villages all over the
central West and Kansas and Nebraska
have doubled and even quadruped their
deposits. If there was no profit in farm
ing this would not be the case. AS a mat
ter of fact. all things considered. no class
has more fully shared the prosperity of the
country than have the farmers.
As for the renting of farms. there Is
but when investigation is made 1t will not
appear that the landlords are distant
holders" Many farmers are able to move
into town because they have fallen into the
prevalent heresy that there is more of life
in the small city. Many of them rent
rather than sell their farms, because the
rental yields larger return than mort
gage. Many of the best farmers in the
West, men who are now forehanded began
as renters. Doubtless this is the case to-
day. The late Governor Mount. who reared
and educated a family and accumulated
competency as a farmer, began as a renter.
and said few days before his death that
sion that farming in Indiana offered surer
and better returns to industry, energy and
brains than any other vocation open to
men of limited means. He spoke from ex-
perience and wide observation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-06
BOARD OF WORKS ROUTINE.
FINAL NOTION TAKEN.


For bricking the first alley north of Ohio
street, from Meridian street 10 Illinois
street. Estimated cost, $ll15.
For gravel roadway, cement walks and
curbing on Cottage avenue, from Spruce
81 sss' 10 Draper street. Estimated COST
For local sewer along the first alley
east or Windsor street and other streets
end alleys, from Windsor street to Ster-
ling street. Estimated cost. $1,000
For a main sewer along Rowland avenue.
from Brcokside avenue TO Rural street.
Estimated cost, $4,000.
REMONSTRANCES FILED.
Against the Improvement of Isabella
street, from Twenty-seventh street 10
Udell street.
Against cementing the south walk on
Twenty-second street, from Bellefontaine
Against bricking Scioto street. from st.
Clair street TO Pratt street.
RESOLUTION ADOPTED.
For asphalt roadway and brick cutters on
Ohio street. from Pennsylvania street To
Illinois street
PETITIONS FILED.
For bricking the first alley west of Cap
itol avenue, from Eleventh street to
Twelfth street.
For local sewer along the first alley
north of New York street. from Oriental
street to Arsenal avenue.
For cementing the east walk on Chadwick
street. from Wilkins street to Ray street.
For bricking Mechanic street, from South
street to Henry street.
For cement walks on Minnesota street,
from Orleans street TO Ringgold avenue on
the north side. and from the second alley
east of East street to Ringgold avenue on
the south side.
ADVERTISEMENT OF PROPERTY
ORDERED.
For brick pavement on Pierson street.
from Twenty-second street to Twenty
fourth street.
from New Jersey street to East street.
For cement walks and curbing on ottawa
street. from Massachusetts, avenue to Coy
For cementing the east walk OF Steele
street, from Brookside avenue TO Coyner
CONTRACTS AWARDED
To w II. Albert & Son. at 50 cents pc.
lineaI foot, for cementing the south walk
on Lambert street, from Lee street 10
Reisner street. and for cementing the east
walk on Birch avenue. from Oliver avenue
TO Henry street.
FINAL ACTION DEFERRED.
For block pavement and curbing on OIL
yer avenue, from Harding street TO River
avenue south. Estimated cost, $1,000.
For brick cutters: cement walks and
ate avenue 10 Northwestern avenue. Esti-
mated cost, $500.
For gravel roadway. brick cutters and
curbing on southeastern avenue, from
State avenue to Rural street. Estimated
cost, 1880.
For cement walks and curbing on Penn
sylvania street. from Thirty-second street
to Thirty fourth street. Estimated cost.
s., 200.
CONTRACTS AND BONDS APPROVED.
In behalf OF Henry Mag. for cement
walks on Virginia avenue, from South
street TO Prospect street.
In behalf Of w. c. Smith, for gravel road
Wav cement walks ana curbing on Park
way avenue from Wright street 20 a point
132 feet west
In behalf of julius Keller. for cemen:
walks on Arsenal avenue. from Twenty
fifth street to point 4S5i feet south OF
Twenty second street.
In behalf of George T. Carton. FOR cement
walks on Capitol avenue. from Thirty
fifth street
In behalf of a. F. Shower. for a local
sewer along Blake street. from New York
street 10 North street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-06
HOT AFTER ASSESSORS
SOME OF THEM FAIL TO PROPERLY
FILL OUT BLANKS.
Statisticfnn johnson Informs Them Of
the Law-The rIay Crop Bull
Ietin Finished.

State Statistician Johnson announced yes
terday that he intends TO make rigid in
vestigation in order 10 discover the reason
why township assessors do not exercise
more care in filling out the statistical blanks
that are furnished them by the county
auditor every year between Jan. Is and
March Is. Under the law the statistician
is required TO send the county auditor a
sample of blank containing a list of ques-
lions upon which he needs information.
and from this sample the auditor causes to
be printed enough blanks to supply each
township assessor in the county.
The assessor is then required 10 take
these blanks with him when he makes his
trip to list and assess property for taxa
ton, and direct each property owner to
answer such questions as are pertinent.
The questions are so arranged as TO show,
when answers to them are received from
all over the State. how much of various
commodities are in the State They also
furnish information as 10 acreage of farms
and with what kinds of seed farms are
planted wages of farm hands. number OF
horses, cattle and sheep that have died
within the year. and other interesting facts.
Mr.. Johnson returned yesterday from a
tour or investigation, and says he found
that a number of township assessors have
answered the questions on these blanks i'm
the way that suited their individual fancy.
without asking property owners for any in
formation at all. The assessors have de-
clared their belief that the law does not
make the answering of the questions COM
pulsory The statistician has caused 10 be
printed on this years sample blank two
sections of the law of March IL, 1895 I'm
which ii is expressly stated that ANY per-
son or persons authorized by the bureau [of
statisticsI TO collect statistics or TO answer
questions relating thereto who shall neg
lect or refuse 10 make true return shall
be subject 10 the penalties now provided
by law for such neglect or refusal,r which
Is fine of not less than Sl0 and not more
than $500. Mr.. johnson says that he i'm
tends TO enforce the law 10 the letter. IL
necessary. in order 10 get statistics that
snail be as nearly accurate as possible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-06

All the larger cities are considering with
some impatience the crowded street-car
problem. There is no exception; the more
street railways. it is said. and the greater
capacity TO handle crowds. the greater the
crowds. When ears were hauled by horses
they were not so much crowded as now
fact due TO the growth and shifting
OF population in large cities incident to
rapid transit The crowded conditions in
all cities prevail during the hours when
everybody is intent on going home. Two
remedies are suggested: more cars. and
less time occupied in making trips II must
have occurred 10 many observers that one
OF the hindrances 20 better accommoda-
lions Is the time taken or allowed to people
10 crowd into cars after they are well
filed. In this city. at the crossings where
crowds await cars a minute and often
more is allowed TO persons TO crowd into
cars already well filled. II cars would run
at fair speed without stop after they are
filled. could they not make an extra trip?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-06
MAY CROP BULLETIN.
The Work Completed by Deputy
Statistician Machan.

r. d. Machan, chief deputy statistician,
completed and sent TO the printer yester-
day the official crop bulletin for May,
which contains information Of unusual in
terest and value. The estimates OF crops
are all based on 100 per cent. as an aver
age crop. The showing as TO wheat. made
by reports from seventy-four counties. is a
crop averaging $40 through the State. The
April reports showed an Average of 70
per cent. The showing made as TO other
cereals and also as to fruit is as follows:
Oats, Is counties reporting. show an aver
age of ia per cent. april. S0); timothy.
"A counties. 1872 per cent. april so: clover.
% counties $50 per cent. april s6)' rye.
81 counties, 500 per cent. (April. So, corn,
% counties, 1874 per cent. april reports
gave no percentage. since crop was being
planted them; barley, IL counties. Il per
cent. april. So: apples 70 counties. las
per cent. april 3d. cherries. "a counties.
SIS per cent. (April, 93); pears, Y counties,
76.S per cent. april. 800; plums. So cunties.
l6.S per cent. april Sol; peaches. Il coun-
ties. Sc per cent. april, So.
THE May bulletin is much more reliable
and satisfactory than the one issued for
based upon reports received from 20 or IS
counties. while the April bulletin was made
up from reports of only 50 or So counties.
Then. too, the April reports were largely
personal estimates. while In May cereals
and fruits were both far enough advanced
in growth TO enable an approximately ac-
curate estimate OF crops 10 be formed. The
cool. rainy weather that we have been
having has impaired the chances for fruit
gravely, but has been the making of good
grass crops, especially clover, which is
showing up unusually well
THE prospects for good wheat crop
are increasing. and il looks though In
diana is 10 have more wheat this year
than last despite the fact that the acre
age is considerably less-from = 10 50 per
cent. Last year so many farmers planted
their usual amount OF wheat and had
IL frozen in winter and eaten up by the
Hessan fly in summer that they became
discouraged and planted corn this year in
SIC
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-06

Cyrus F. Neal. chief clerk OF the insur-
ance department of the state auditors Of
flee. said yesterday that the insurance rec
ords OF the Office show that the mortality
rate among policy holders in life insurance
companies transacting business in Indiana
has been heavier the first half of the cur
rent year than for number of years past
\ certain company has already paid losses
aggregating more than $lc0 900. which figure
covered its entire losses last year. The
State loses 3 per cent on each life insur-
arce policy when a loss is paid. a reduction
being made I'm the amount the company
pays the State when II suffers a loss.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-06

The Journal has already expressed itself
in favor of Indiana limestone as the most
desirable material for the body of the
new federal building. Its extreme dura-
bility. its strength. workable qualities
pleasing gray color and the fact that it is
an Indiana product and the quarries near
at hand combine to make il the stone of all
others for the new structure. But while
this is true, ii is TO be remembered that the
best architectural effects must be held in
mind. and that these are sometimes pro-
duced by the use of more than one kind
of material. especially in so large a build
ing. If stone of another character be better
adapted TO certain uses. such as columns
ornamentation. etc, il should be left to the
discretion of the architects TO so employ
It. but il will require better argument than
has thus far been presented 10 convince the
INDEPENDENTLY the Indiana public
that anything else is better adapted for
general use in the construction OF the new
federal building In this city than is our
own Indiana limestone.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-06
FIVE COUNTIES SETTLE.
All Are Expected to Make Reports by
June ID.

Settlements are being made by Indiana
counties With tho auditor OF state NJ
rather rapid rate just now. but Deputy Au-
ditor Frank Martin said yesterday that ne
does not believe all the counties will have
made settlement by June Is. which Is the
time fixed as the usual limit for completing
settlements Five counties made their an
nual adjustment yesterday. Jacob Shelf
fer. treasurer OF Martin county. turned
over SIG, 707.SS 10 the State and received in
return SlS2.l5 FOR school purposes. George
stephan. treasurer OF Huntington county.
paid In So, Sy6..O and received back Sl3lsi.-o.
James A Flippo. treasurer OF Hancock
county, paid over SOS. 479.iS and received s.
SlO.OS. Henry Tuition, treasurer OF Wabash
county. paid Sl.5S0.S6 and took away &c.
a1O.25. William Gardner. treasurer OF Scott
county. handed over Si.9i4.yl and received
for school purposes 81 0S1S5 Deputy Mar
tin said that the settlements thus lar made
indicate that $4,000 Of the State debt can
easily be paid on July l.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-06
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Astor House
CHICAGO-Palmer House. L. q. News Co., 2f7
Dearborn street. Auditorium Annex Hotel.
CINCINNATI. r. Hawley & Co.. la Vine
street.
LOUISV1LLE-C. 7. Deering northwest corner
OF Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co. 256 Fourth avenue.
WASHINGTON. D. C.-Riggs House. Ebbitt
House and Wizards Hotel
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-06

they profess to be. apparently the only safe
thing for manufacturers TO do is to stop
improvements on old lines and wait for de-
velopments in new directions. However. as
inventions have fashion of turning out TO
be something less than was promised for
them, promoters of new enterprises have
a habit Of going ahead regardless of them
and taking their chances. and will be likely
TO do so now
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-06
New system Of Telephone Calls.

The Central Union Telephone Company
will during the next month change its sys-
TEN of numbering telephones. using the
system which is in use in the larger cities.
The numbers will be smaller and prehxed
TO each will be the name OF the circuit upon
which the telephone is located. The names
will in a measure indicate the streets upon
which the telephones are located-as Park.
$50. Main. 81" North. 49, - This method
will expedite the work OF operators and IL is
said result In better service. The company
has 500 instruments in use here. Several
branch exchanges. IL l. said. will be estab-
lished. The new system Will be illustrated
in the new directory. which will be issued
I'm a few days. and about Aug. ! another
new directory will put the system into OPP
ION,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-06

most OF his power 70 keep out Of Indiana
all companies that DC n rebate business. no
matter how il may be disguised. III any
such como into tile STATE. he said. III will
be By mandate. RcbRting under any name
Is to-day the Injustice tho Insurance public
have thrust upon them. and T. 81 such
large volume as to be serious menace.
Relating has no place In so sacred a bust
ness as TIE ISSUANCE OF lie insurance con-
tracts such as will do 20 live By and TO
liz hxrf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-06

Judge Allen. of the Circuit Court, yester-
day reappointee Thomas Madden and Will
liam Pollard members OF the Board OF Re-
view. The board will meet one week from
Indye Allen has also appointed Garrett
shower and Mrs. Julia Goodheart members
of the Board of Children's Guardians. Mrs.
Goodheart succeeds ~. A Hyoe. recent
bership on the board unless they have chill
Sren. and Mr.. Hyde has not this sualinca-
ton
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-06

There is no fresh demonstration of hos
tility against Great Britain by the conti-
mental powers that would warrant Mr.
Carnesies prediction that they will unite
to crush the British nation. In China Great
Britain and Germany have held together
against Russia. The truth is that Great
Britain. by reason OF the war with the
Beers. seems TO be less the object of envy
and distrust than it years ago. Mr..
Carnegies idea of one English-speaking
Eation. set forth several years ago. seems
TO have come to life again.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-06

Councilman Munro registered protest
before the Board of Safety. yesterday,
against the removal of the fire engine from
North indianapolis to Haughville. but only
succeeded in getting himself laughed at for
his trouble. Chairman Hyde told him that
the engine was no good and that the engine
from the No house, at Fifteenth street,
could be taken to North indianapolis before
said if that was true he could see no rea-
son why the engine should be taken TO
Haughyille.