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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-21
TOWN SITE REGULATIONS
ISSUED BY THE INTERIOR DEPART.
MENT FOR LAND SALES.
Everything Done VIII Be by Order in
New Reservation Towns-But One
Chance for Each ArgOnaut.

WASHINGTON, July 20.-The regulations
governing the disposition of the town site
lots in the Wichita and Kiowa. Apache and
Comanche reservation in Oklahoma, to be
opened Aug. 6, We're issued by the Interior
Department to-day. They direct Assistant
Commissioner Richards. of the General
Land Office, to take charge of and super
intend the Offering and SAFE OF town lots
in the county seat town sites of Lawton
Anardarko and Hobart. The blocks IN
these town sites will be divided into lots
of twenty-five feet for business lots and
fifty feet for residences. No person shall
purchase more than one business and one
residence lot in the same town site Town
lots in each town site will be auctioned off
to the highest bidder for cash only. The
sale will begin at a. M, Aug. 8, and ex-
tend until all lots are sold but not beyond
Aug. 81. The business lots will be sold
first.
The regulations require each commissioner
to make daily remittances of all receipts
to the United States subtreasury at St
Louis When these sales have been APP
proved by the secretary, patents on them
Will be issued. Each OF the commissioners
TO be appointed will furnish 100000 bond
receive SIS per day for the first twenty
days of the sale and $40 per day fO1 the
remainder of the sale and while closing up
the accounts. The expenses incident to
the sales will be betrayed from the pro-
ceedS of the lot sales.
Assistant Commissioner Richards L. au-
thOriZed 10 suspend the sale for any ncces-
sary period If it should become apparent
that the bidders have entered into \ CON-
binatiOn TO suppress competition or other
wise affect the sale, raise any disturb
ance interfering with its orderly progress.
The official report on the Oklahoma iand
registration as telegra phed to the Interior
Department to-day announces toJGI OF
81, 100 registrations up to this morning at
FL Reno and Fort Sill The registrations
at FL Reno yesterday 1885. ana at
Fort Sill 1904
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Picture Framing
Reduced Prices During Summer Months.
w. II. ROLLS SONS
so5 East Washington Street.

woman. whose parents may have made
great sacrifices in order 10 enable her 10
become self-sustaning.
II Is claimed by the ethical quibbler on
this subject that II Is not the business Of
the school board 10 inquire whether the
woman Is married or unmarried. whether
II married her husband earns large OF
small salary. or whether her own children
are well provided for or neglected. whether
she performs ner duty wife and mother
or not And yet when Il j. considered that
social conditions may have bearing upon
the pursuit OF a profession. that marriage
Is more frequently a hindrance than an adj
vantage 10 the woman teacher-it becomes
the school boards duty To recognize facts
and not theories
But Is the married woman teacher prefer
able 10 the single woman? Ar not tho
cares and duties Incidental 20 wlIehOoc and
motherhood apt 10 d'stract IN the perform
ance OF schoolroom iabors? Is the woman
who has small children OF her own at home.
constantly waiting her return. m TO teach
other peoples children
School boards which have passed rules
against the employment OF married woman
teachers have been confronted By con.
dition. not a theory" and have not ninched
In doing their duty.
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Beers AT ST. HELENA.
Nearly Five Thousand on the island
CrOnje Weary of Detention.

NEW YORK, July 20.-The British steam
ship Reading, fresh from Ascension and st.
Helena, is now at Jersey City. There are
just 400 Boer prisoners on the island"
said the Readings commander. Captain
Fishley, and of these IL per cent. are Trans
walters and Orange Free Staters. The re-
naming 50 per cent. is made UP of other
natiOnalities in this order: Scandinavians,
Germans, Italians, a few Russians, irish
men and even Englishmen, a handful of
ScOtchmen. few Americans, few Cheeks
and scatterings from other natiOnalitieS
The farmers are complaining because tie
Governor has impressed the surplus labor
for work on the breakwater \ large num-
Der of Boer prisoners are also employed
on the breakwater at five shillings a day
Some do not choose TO work, others labor
for the farmers. and the older prisoners
whittle out toys, which they sell General
Cronje is also weary Of his detention, nut
says little l was told that the proportion
of native Beers was representative Of their
entire army.
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scissors and pincers. The petals also
removed. leaving the stigma exposed. This
is all done before the blossoms are fully
opened; for by that time there is danger
that bees other insects might have car
ried the pollen from some open blossom and
deposited II on the stigma
When the stamen has been completely
removed, pollen is gathered from the bios
SONS Of the trees In the government green
houses and shaken lightly upon the pre-
pared flower. Then the bag is tied tightly
in place to make sure that no pollen from
the same tree becomes mingled with that
already used. After the fruit has had time
to begin forming the bags are removed
and the tvig is marked with a tag giving
the name of the other parent
As soon the seedlings bud they are sent
TO different parts OF the country to be graft
ed on plants which have already been
started. Thus ii is soon discovered whether
the plant is sufficiently hardy, and the only
remaining question is as TO the quality Of
the fruit
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WILL Not GIVE DETAILS.
RABBIT Frey Refuses to Talk of His
Invention for the Present.

WABASH. Ind, July 20.-Rabbi Sigmund
Frey who has proposed TO the postmaster
Feperal o transmit postal matter 10 Europe
in TO days. has been invited 10 explain
r. invention. but beyond few hints de-
clined 70 20 into details until he received
advices from Washington.
II have he said. made the offer. but
supposed that my attorneys alone knew of
it, IL would interfere with my plans were
] 10 state just how / purpose TO achieve
the res uits, but my scheme is feasible.
Il have been in conference with cele-
brated electrician. working out my ideas.
and have progressed to point where i may
put il to a practical test. Electricity Will
be the motive pow Cr and the vehicle VIII be
n car. which. with safety, may travel over
sea and land at a speed OF from 200 to 300
miles an hour IL the government sees fit
10 make a conditional contract with me
expect to demonstrate the success of my
invention at an early date.
II am irritdtcd that the matter has got
into the newspapers, but hope TO take the
work uD in earnest with the POstofice De
partment. Until the contract IS made
must refuse 10 partcu.1rlGe
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-21
VISITING AT THORNTOWN.
Gen. Arson Mills. &. =. A, Retired, In
ventor of Woven Cartridge Belt.

Special to the Indiana polls Journal
THORNTOWN. Ind, July 2O.-General
Arson Mills. a retired brigad!er general of
the regular army. is here with his wife, his
daughter Constance and niece Miss Cath
crime Klein, all of Washington. d. c. They
are visiting the generals sisters and other
relatives here.
General Mills is one of the best-known
men in the service. Besides having a long
and honorable record as a soldier during
the war of the rebellion and several Indian
wars. he is known as the inventor and
manufactures of the woven cartridge belt,
In general use in the American army and
several European armies. He sold to the
British government 100000 belts for use in
South Africa. He has a factory at Worces-
ter, Mass, besides branches In London. Rer-
lin and Paris.
General Mills is also one Of the Mexican
boundary commissioners. He travels q
great deal, and has just completed eX-
tensiye trip in the West. At DeadwOOd, 5.
D.. he was one of the guests of honor at the
recent founders anniversary. The general.
with his force and those of Generals Crook,
Custer and others fought many engage
ments in the Northwest and helped to make
ii possible to live in peace.
General Mills was born on a farm only
a few miles east of Thorntown, and spent
his bOyhoOd here.
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ALLEGED SHORTAGE.
$4,000 Charged Against County
Treasurer.

COLUMBUS. O., July 20.-Attorney Cen
eral Sheets, in an opinion sent to State Au-
ditor Guilbert holds Charles Brumfield,
treasurer of Richland county, responsible
for an apparent large shortage in the tax
fund. The attorney general finds that $4,000
back taxes collected from the Altman &
Taylor Machine Company of Mansfield
should be charged in full to the county
treasurer. He rules that the attorneys in
the cases, which were compromised in the
courts, had no authority 10 retain any sum
whatever of the amount collected.
MANSFIELD, o., July "a sensation
was sprung here to-day when Alfred Black
burn. of Steubenville. expert accountant. on
the order OF the auditor of state, appeared
at the office Of the county treasurer.
Charles Brumfield. and demanded that the
Office be turned over TO him. Blackburn Is
now In charge.
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SEARCH FOR A HARDY ORANGE.
Experiments i'm LIBERALIZATION Now
Carried on by the Government.
New York Sun.


A large crop of paper bags seems to be
the yield of a little tree which stands in
the grounds Of the Department of Agricul-
ture at Washington. There are about fifty
of these ba gs, each with the neck tied firm
w. as close inspection dsclOses, about one
of the terminal twigs. The effect is rather
groteSque.
The tree is the particular charge of Prof.
Herbert ]. Weber, who, with his assistant,
is responsible for its bagging. 1t Is
species of orange tree, the variety having
been brought 10 the United states from
China about ten years ago with the luea or
using ii for hedges. 1t is evergreen, grows
about thirty feet high, and has sharp
thorns. The fruit is small and runty and
quite unfit for food. But the fact that IL
fourtshes as far north as Maryland, Ken
lucky Indiana and Missouri gives il a great
value TO the scientists who are experiment
ing with a view to securing a more hardy
And this is the explanation of the crop
of paper bags. The blossoms of the tree
have just been crossed with the 81
Michaels and Sanguina oranges, which
are the standard varieties of sweet Florida
fruit. Professor Weber is trying TO secure
a hybrid which will retain the edible quail
tiles of the sweet Florida orange, and at
the same time preserve the hardness Of
the Chinese mother tree.
One plant with these characteristics
would be worth more than a bonanza gold
mine. 1t would serve "a the parent stock
for thousands of plants which would be
grown throughout the Gulf States. revo-
and yielding millions to the growers.
Experiments with this end in view began
several years ago. At the present time The
department has about three hundred by
brid seedlings. 1t is expected that some OF
these Will bear their first fruit this fall
though the majority OF them viii not bear
much before next year.
The three hundred hybrid seedlings which
Professor Weber has secured represent a
deal of patient labor. TO cross varieties
which are closely related is a compare
lively simple matter but the Chinese or
ange and the Florida variety have been
so long separated. and have grown in sucn
different environments. that they have ~
most forgotten that they belong TO the
same genus. and that they do not take
kindly 10 each otner. Consequently. no1
more than one blossom out of a hundred
fertiIzed with the foreign pollen bears
fruit; and then not more than seven out OF
fifteen seeds in that fruit viii terminate
and produce plant.
The paper bags are used 10 protect the
flower which has been fortified with the
pollen of the sweet orange. The first step
In the operation OF cross-fertiization is
the removal OF the pollen bearing stamen
from the blossom. This 10 done with small
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-21
MAKE THEIR ACTION FORMAL.
Vigo County Commissioners stand by
the walsh stone Deal.

Special TO the Indianap polls Journal
TERRE HAUTE. Ind, July 20.-The Dem
ocratic majority Of the Board of County
Commissioners has formally changed the
specifications for the stone for the new
100000 wagon bridge over the Wabash
river at the foot of Main street, so that
none except stone from the quarry of John
Il. Walsh. the Chicago capitalist, and owner
of the Southern Indiana road may be used
by the contractors. The specifications, as
prepared by the expert engineers employed
By the county. called for buff Bedford
limeston or stone equally good, and this
was changed to read for stone from the
HOOsier quarry of the Bedford Quarry
Company" The engineers had also stipu-
lated that 10 stone with glass seams or
"clay streaks" should be accepted. This
was stricken out by the commissioners.
The County Council is yet to pass on the
matter. and several members say they will
not vote for the appropriation if the con-
tract is 10 be let in this manner.
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BUT ONE CHANCE FOR EACH.


Ell RENO, o. T., July 2O.-As to attempts
that may be made to register more than
once for claims in the Kiowa-Comanche
country at the registration now in progress.
Commissioner Richards stated to-day that
the identification card of each person draw
ing lucky number will be traced, and if
the person has registered more than once
stead.
Among the thousands who registered here
to-day were Delegate Dennis Z. Flynn and
his daughter, judge John II. BurfOrd, chief
justice or the Oklahoma Supreme Court,
and Jerry Simpson, eX-congressman from
Kansas.
When the registration booths closed to-
night 1922 71 persons had registered. To-day
1897 registered at FL Reno and 1,60 at Law
ton. Total, Ell Reno Is, 492, Lawton BIB
Five days yet remain for registration. The
booths will not be open Sunday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-21
Had Their Trouble for Nothing +.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
GREENSBURG. Ind, July 2O.-F'ive or six
burglars blew open the large safe at the
Office of the Lincoln carriage factory about
Friday midnight. but secured only few
cents for their trouble John Kirkpatrick
the night Waterman at the factory. was
held up and relieved of his watch. revolver
and SIS and then locked UP in box car
where he was found this morning. He did
not see the men. because they slipped up
behind him and threw a towel over MS eyes
before throwing him in the car. Saturday
being pay day, the burglars probably
thought the money for the employees would
be IN the safe Friday evening. The ma
RAIDERS left on a hand car. going north.
Several houses have been broken into
lately and a number of local characters
are under suspicion
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Special TO the indianapolis Journal
RICHMOND. Ind. July 20.-The city has
won. SO far. in the suits TO recover wages
alleged TO be due under the provision OF the
new wage law that minimum OF 20 cents
an hour must be paid Justice Frank NJ
Conner to-day sustained the city's demurrer
TO the suits and the case Will now go 10 the
Circuit Court. liz Is the intention 10 get a
Supreme Court ruling.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-21
Stricken Man May Die.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
JEFFERSONVILLE,I Ind, July 20.-E. 5.
McHale, the foreman in the shoe shop at
the RefOrmatOry, who was struck by Con-
Wet Lee Kelley, yesterday, remains in d
delriOus condition, and his physicians will
not forecast the outcome The front part OF
McHale's skull is fractured from the left
TO the right ear, and there is a partial frac-
ture In the back of the head An operation
was performed to relieve the pressure of
the skull on the brain. Kelley is now iso-
lated, and will be held there awaiting the
outcome of McHales injuries before he is
given a hearing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-21

On Sunday last the Journal printed from
it's Bedford correspondent a dispatch to
the effect that Jesse Richardson, the Gin
cinnat Posts local BEDFORD correspond
ent, placed under detention at noon
Saturday by papers fled in connection
with a suit against his paper. Mr. Rich
ardson takes exception to the language
used, and in a letter TO the Journal says
Il have never been arrested and have
never been in jail in my life. 1 have been
cited TO appear, etc.-but no papers were
ever served on me-" Mr.. Richardson asks
that correction be made, which is best
done in his own foregoing statement.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-21
Hearing Again POstpOn ed.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
NEW ALBANY, Ind, July 2O.-The pre-
liminary hearing of Benjamin Shadley,
charged with killing Robert Wright, last
Tuesday night, was set for to-day. a
change of venue 10 Justice AIx's court was
granted and the hearing was reset for next
Thursday morning. Shadey, who had been
taken TO the RefOrmatOry at Jeffersonville
for safe keeping was brought down this
morning. His attorney, G. d. Kelso, made a
protest against his being taken back. but
Sheriff Nipple declared he would take no
chances Of a mob getting Shadley and he
was returned to the RefOrmatOry at noon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-21
UNLIKE EBERT GLENN.
Lillian Ackerson Says EEis Glenn
Does Not Resemble the Man.

PARKERSBURG. W. Va. July 20.-From
the time court opened until 2:SO this after
noon arguments were made in the Ellis
Glenn case on the question Of examining
the head of the defendant in court. The
State was not willing TO take the testimony
OF the defense on the matter and wanted an
examination by the jury so that they might
see IL there We're any scars there. The
defense refused to allow this, hence the
long argument.
Lillian Ackerson, of Marietta. testified
that she knew Ebert Glenn in 1897 She
said the defendant had much lighter hair.
than Elberts
DR.. a. X. Ross stated that he examined
the defendant to-day and found that in the
left limb there had been a fracture where
the leg had been broken The limb was also
thres-quarters OF an inch shorter than the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-21
New Albany Grocer Fails.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW ALBANY. Ind. July 20.-Richard
a. Huncilman, a retail grocer of this city.
filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy
to-day before Deputy United States Clerk
Cardwill His assets are placed a about
1000 and his liabilities are scheduled at the
same amount. The creditors are principally
wholesale firms of Louisville and Indianap-
oils Uncollectable book accounts caused
the failure.
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Commissioned Second Lieutenant.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
RIDGEVILLE, Ind. July 0.-Bates
Tucker, son OF the Rev D. Tucker, Of a
church in Ridgeville late corporal in the
Thirty-first United States Volunteers who
returned from the Philippines on July %.
has been commissioned a second lieutenant
and assigned to Company \, Fourteenth
United States Infantry. He has been as
signed 10 duty at Fort Brady, Mich, and
left tonight on the @ r. * /. for his new
duties. Young Tucker was on special duty
with General Bates on the Island Of Min
danao In the engineer department and Sc
cured his promotion by a competitive eX-
animation
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-21
OPTIONS ALL IN HAND.


Special 70 the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE. Ind. July 2O.-John T.
Bays. who has been getting the options on
Indiana coal properties. says the last are
Just in hand and that the committee will
meet the first OF the week in Chicago TO
look them over 1t is known that many
are far TO high in the value placed OH the
properties. and that should the projected
consolidated company be completed there
must be a scaling down of values.
The men who are most intimately &C
quainted with the enterprise say there is
absolutely no foundation for the reports
that the Indiana industry is 10 be gObbled
up by a big interstate trust, not this year,
anyway. and that the promoters of the
Indiana company have had no conference
with the men who are said 10 be forming
the greater company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-21
Big Traction Franchise Granted.

Special 20 the Indianapolis Journal
FORT WAYNE. Ind, July 20.-The com
mssioners to-day granted to the Indiana
& Ohio Traction Company the right to
highways in Allen county for line from
IIicksville to Huntington through Fort
Wayne Work on the line must begin with
in ninety days. and the road must be COM
pleted within eighteen months. -Four trains
must run each way daily
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-21
killed in Moving Machine.

Special 70 the Indianapolis Journal
VALPARAISO. Ind. July Civilian
Bahcock. a Porter county farmer, forty
year old vas thrown into the knife of a
moving machine yesterday afternoon, in
lis field the horses running away Bah
cock bled 10 death before physician could
arrive. lie was q member OF the Grand
Army.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-21
INDIANAPOLIS Journal.

ELKHART. Ind. July 20.-Miss Jean
Tucker. third and only unmarried daughter
OF the late Col \. NJ. Tucker. who was
prominent in civil affairs. the military serv-
ice during the civil war and in the affairs
OF the Lake Erie & Western Railroad man
asement I'm later life. will be quietly mar
rico at the home or sister In this city
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-21

WASHINGTON, July 20. In response to
representations to the State Department
the British government has declined to re-
lease Americans who were captured while
serving in the Boer army The only ex-
ceptions Will be in the case Of prisoners
whose health is such as TO make their con-
finement dangerous.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-21

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
MONTPELIER, Ind, July 2O.-The oil
market made the biggest individual jump
to-day that has been made since the In
diana field was opened. The advance was
cents which makes u cents added to
the price within four days. The oil men
are all happy, but do not understand why
the Standard is marking up the product
SC rapidly. Other advances are looked for.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-21
Small Amounts of Gold Found.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
NASHVILLE, Ind, July N.-William
Young, farmer. living in the vicinity of
Bear creek placer yesterday sent 500 in
crude gold to the United States mint at
Philadelphia. Frank Wells has also col
lected, by means of pannng, what Is esti-
mated a 800 of gold. The farms through
which these streams flow are being bid on
by spectators. but the owners seem little
inclined to sell Modern machinery has
been placed upon the ground recently and
will soon begin operations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-21
Must Evacuate Their Farms.

DURHAM, Natal, July 2.-In consequence
of Boer raids into Natal and the support
given the raiders by the Republicans, the
military authorities have ordered all white
men, with their live stock, foodstuffs and
Iugela and Sunday rivers. Any white
man remaining in this section of the coun-
try after July 81 will be subject TO martial
law
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next Thursday, her prospective husband
being Leon l.. Collver of Boston, who is 4
member of a prominent family of the Old
Bay State Mr.. Collver was the conductor
OF party around the world within the past
year, and Miss Tucker was one of the
party. Ii was then they first met, and
their marriage next Thursday Will be the
elimination Of the courtship.