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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-28

Contestants i'm OratOry-Annua1 Hal
IOween Entertainment Held.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
RICHMOND, Ind, Oct. 27.-Great inter-
est is now being manifested in the Earlham
College oratOrical contest, which takes
place Monday night in Lindley Hall. The
representative to the State oratOrical con-
test will be chosen at that time. Prof +.
P. Trueblood, instructor in elocution, who
has charge of the contest, says the pros
poets for selecting a strong contestant were
never better The following will take part: :
"Oliver p. Norton Arthur Ellis; National
Disrespect," r. Roy Barrett; "TOuissant
L'Overture," Joseph Kenny; Queen Vic
tOria," Florence Morgan; THE Legacy Of
John Marshall" Harry Michael; 'Anar-
chy," Clinton Williams.
Last evening at Lindley Hall the annual
Halloween celebration was held The girls
rendered the hOnOrs TO the boys this year
and issued neat invitations for the function.
The death of Robert Shoemaker, a gradu-
ate of the college, in such a tragic manner
at Wellsville. o., has called attention to the
fact that three young men who have been
principals of the school at Fairhaven. o.,
have met untimely deaths. The others were
Curtis r. Roberts, who was accidentally
shot last June, and VIII Evans, who died
very suddenly at Columbus. O.
Tennis has never been more popular at
Earlham than il is this fall. The five courts
are in almost constant use. The new
students, especially, show a liking for the
game. Tennis, after having given way TO
golf for few years, is undergoing a re-
ViVal
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Cause n Notwithstanding Situation at
the EIizabethtOwn Bank.

Special 10 the indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS, Ind. oct. 27.-An amusing
incident is reported from Elizabethtown
this morning wherein supposed bank rob
bers. firearms galore and frightened bank
officials figure. The thriving little town of
Elizabethtown is the proud pOssessor of a
private banking establishment. Some time
late yesterday afternoon three suspicious
looking strangers applied for entertain
ment at the town tavern. Each was pos
sessed OF a package which the landlady at
once suspected TO contain burglar tools and
when, after retiring early, the strangers
were heard 10 raise rear window which
opens on low roof, the watchful landlady
was convinced that burglary was the in
tentiOn Of her guests and the bank the OBJ
jective point She hurriedly impaired her
fears to the banker. \ hasty consultation
was called and IL was decided that the bank
must be watched throughout the night. As
II would never do 10 brighten their wives
by remaining out all night 10 cope with
three burly burglars, the banker and his
assistant called in two trusty and fearless
townsmen. and, after arming them 10 the
teeth, they were posted on the roof of the
bank building, where they waited in the
moonlight TO surprise and capture, If not
kill, the unsuspecting robbers should they
attempt to loot the bank
Later in the night two three Elizabeth
town boys returning home from Columbus
espied the watchers on top OF the bank
building and at once concluded that the
bank was about 10 be robbed through the
Skyl1ght and, after armlng themselves,
crept cautiously toward the building in the
hope of surprising and capturing the rob
bers at work. About this time the watchers
on the building saw the dark forms stealth
lily approaching and at once prepared to
give a warm reception to the robbers, as
they supposed them TO be. By mere acct
dent the identity of both parties was dis
covered in time to avoid bloodshed, and
while the pack peddlers were at the tavern
peacefully dreaming OF their intended COM
mercial conqUests with the farmers wives
on the morrow, the embryo sleuths, after
mutual explanations, went to their beds
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PART OF HIS OWN SALARY
Used by Mr.. Leach in His Efforts to
Prevent Gas Waste.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO, Ind, Oct Estate Natural
Gas Supervisor Leach has sent out notices
TO his assistants all over the gas area in
structing them to at once institute legal
action in all cases where gas is being used
to propel engines. In hundreds of small
factories and shops motors are in use
which are propelled by raw, unconsumed
gas passing through the cylinders in place
Of steam, operating somewhat on the plan
of a water motor. In most cases the gas is
taken from d high-pressure main, and after
passing through the engine is emptied into
a lOW-pressure pipe. but in many instances
the gas after going through the motor Is
permitted TO escape in the air. This waste
will be stopped Immediately. Mr.. Leach is
using all of the 81 900 annual appropriation
and part of his own salary in policing the
field with assistants, and has instructed
them to ferret out every avenue of escape
and promptly plug il. There will be a rigid
tightening throughout the gas and oil fields.
Mr.. Leach will begin prosecution against
the Chicago Pipe Line Company as soon
as he receives instructions to that effect
from the attorney general. 1t is said that
the Chicago corporation is using pressure
of 700 pounds to the square inch in forcing
gas to Chicago, but a test a few months
ago at the GreentOwn pumping station in
d1cated that the pressure was within the
300-pOund limit
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"WHO MOVED THE POLE?"
QUESTION THAT Is AGITATING THE
KENTUCKY HORSE BREEDERS.
Meeting Called at Lexington to Inves-
tigate the Matter-Sharp Trick on
the Track Had Big Results.

LEXINGTON, KY, Oct. 2.-The follow
ing is a portion of the call tonight issued
by local breeders:
"All those interested in the breeding,
training or racing of thoroughbred horses
are requested to meet at the Phoenix Hotel
in this city on Tuesday noon for the pur-
pose of taking such action as may be neces-
sary to determine the truth of reports that
a pole supposed to mark three-eighths of
a mile from the wire, at the Kentucky As
ISOLATION race track was removed, and if
the reports be found correct to take such
action as may be necessary to expose and
punish the person or persons guilty of
moving it,"
The call is signed by H. n. Engman,
Tevis Wilkerson. Milton Young, 7. c. Nc
Dowen, p. p. Mcdowell, ]. c. Rogers, G.
d. Wilson, B. G. Thompson, F. A. Dan
gerfield T. ]. Carson o. H. Chenault, Ed
Kane. Charles McMeeken, II. 2. Headley
S. c. Lyme. w. S. Barnes, +. f. Clay and
Campbell Scott.
Few incidents in recent years have
created as great a sensation among horse
men as the suspicion, first given utterance
last Thursday, investigated on Friday and
proved on Saturday, that one OF the poles
marking the distances at the race track
had on Wednesday night been moved so
as to make the pole marking three-elghths
of mile from the timers stand forty to
forty-five feet less than the supposed dis
lance, and then moved back again on
Thursday night.
Had it been that only the usual work
outs were given il would have made no
further difference than that several men,
who on Thursday thought they had phe-
nomenal yearlings, would have found out
the mistake later. There was, however a
gentleman from New York, Mr.. Hill, the
representative of Clarence Mackay, who
was there on Thursday and timed a year
ling he had been invited here to see make
the short three-eighths in 3612 seconds He
returned with option on the colt, said to
be So 600. Trainers at the track made the
discovery as to the change in the position
of the pole. While no one is suspected, a
popular demand for an investigation led
TO this call for meeting of breeders on
Tuesday.
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BLAMES THE DOWAGER.
The Rev. Mr.. Ament on the Boxer
Uprising I'm China.

LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 27.-The Rev. A s.
Ament, tonight, at the Vine-street Con-
gregational Church, recounted before a
large and intensely interested audience the
siege of Peking, during which he was a
prisoner, together with his version of the
Boxer uprising. The Boxer movement orig
inally, he believed, was harmless, but its
outlawry began when the leaders realized
that they had the tacit approval of the
Empress dowager, described as one of the
wickedest OF women, to commit deeds of
bloodshed.
The enmity of the Empress dowager to-
ward missionaries and foreigners in general,
Or. Ament admitted. was perhaps natural,
because they had taken slices OF her terri
tory. Nothing, however, excused this un-
natural woman for the murder of her own
government ministers and innocent natives,
which, the speaker said, she countenanced,
and even demanded DR.. Ament said he
would return TO China.
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HTHE BREAD PROBLEM"
GreencastIe Preachers View of the
Temptation in the Wilderness.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
GREENCASTLE, Ind, Oct. 27.-The Rev
]. S. Hoagland. pastor of the College-ave-
nue. Methodist Church. in this city, this
evening preached a characteristic sermon
on the Bread Problem in which he ex
pressed the sentiment that wealth itself is
not wrong; Jesus temptation to turn
stones into bread was a natural thing and
not supernatural; He was induced to do it
from natural motives, but too many of the
people of the world are turning stones into
bread and laying it away on orders from
the devil, forgetting that the bread is for
use and not for storing away The more
bread the better, used rightly.
The clerk, hungry for pleasures. finds
his salary insufficient and the devils COM
mand to make bread my way is listened
to, and defalcatiOn results. The newspa-
per men and the preacher. hungry for pop
clarity, practically take their orders from
the devil. and we have yellow journalism
and "sensationalism.'
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MORE SEALERS SEIZED.
Russia Is Actively Protecting the
Copper Island Rookeries.

VICTORIA, B. c., Oct. 27.-According to
advices received by the steamer Olympia,
which arrived here yesterday from the
Orient three more Japanese sealing
schooners have been seized by the Russian
cruiser Yakut for sealing within the limit
around the Copper and other Russian
islands. This makes six schooners and a
boats crew of another which have been
seized this year, or about seventy-one men,
most of them japanese, but some Amer
leans and Canadians.
The schooners were taken to Petrohau-
lovski, where they were condemned and
taken to Vladivostock, where some of the
men were sentenced TO a year in Jail and
others are waiting trial.
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NEW YORK. oct. 2L-Columbias foot
ball players and the undergraduates gen.
orally are indignant over the insinuation
made by Yale that Columbia had ringers
on her team, even though an hour after
they were made the insinuations were re-
tracted. Prof. George w Kirchway, of
the Columbia faculty committee on ath-
letics, when seen in relation TO the eligi-
bility of Columbias gridiron men, said to-
day:
vide that no one shall be allowed to repre-
sent the university in any public contest
unless he can satisfy the committee that
he is, and intends TO be throughout the
academic year. a bona fde member OF the
university. taking a full years work So
far as the committee has been able TO de-
termine every member of the Columbia
varsity football team has fulfilled this re-
Quirement."
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Indiana Notes.

MUNCIE.-John Thomas almost ended
his own life Saturday night while shaving
He had his razor his throat when his
three-year-Old daughter ran into him and
cash that barely missed the jugular vein.
PERSONAL---VERY. marriage of
Luther NJ. WOrrall, Of this city, and Miss
Elizabeth Brinkworth, of indianapolis, will
take place Wednesday evening at the home
of the bride. The young couple will reside
here.
EVANSVILLE.-PrisOn Sunday was OBJ
served by the various churches in this city.
Amos Butler, of Indianapolis secretary of
the State Charities Board, made three ad-
dresses.
TERRE HAUTE.-Merrill Avis, the six
teen-year-old boy who was run over by
coal train at Ehrmandale died at st. An
thongs Hospital on Sunday.
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TEXANS GO TO WAR.
fractional Troubles Lead n Judge to
Ask for State Troops.

NACOGDOCHEZ, Tex, Oct. 27.-County
Judge Mcdonald, of San Augustine county,
has appealed to the Governor for rangers
on account of intelligence that reached
here to-day that about eighty members of
the Wall faction had assembled at lobe,
Sabine county, and were making prepara-
tons to march on San Augustine for the
purpose of avenging the death of the six
Walls who have been killed on the border,
the latest killing being that of Eugene
Wall last week The opposing factions
have been armed ever since the killing, and
the news from Sabine county caused the
partisans of the other factions to take
steps so that they could not be surprised.
Telephone lines have again been cut and
no news can be had. The excitement is
great throughout this section and a number
of heavily-armed men have passed here to-
day en- route TO the scene OF the trouble.
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NEW MOTOR RECORD.
Champion Lowers 1t to 1 IL 2-5-New
Man Wins n Race.

NEW YORK, Oct. 27.-At the Vailsburg.
n. j., bike track to-day Albert Champion
on a motor bicycle made mile in lip 2-5,
breaking the worlds record for this kind
of machine. Champion made the old rec
ord of Ills about three weeks ago. He will
try again to lower the record next Wednes-
day at the Empire City track.
Frank Kramer. the sprinting champion,
rode his first race behind motor pace and
defeated Monroe in two straight heats
Krebs and Freeman INDUCED in a match
race. Freeman captured the first heat, but
the Newark man won the next two. Sum-
mary:
Motor paced match race, best two in three
heats: Frank Kramer, East Orange, versus
Bonnie Monroe, Memphis. First heat
one mile, won by Kramer. Time, 1:33. Sec
ond heat and race, two miles, won by
Kramer in 3:11.
Professional match race: r. p. Freeman,
Portland, versus Floyd Krebs, Newark
half-mile heats. First heat won by Free
man. Time, 2:4i is. Second won by Krebs
Time, 2:30. Third heat and race won by
Krebs. Time 2:34 1-5
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ALL CALM AT TAMPA.
Citizens Committee Says Strike Is
Thing of the Past.

TAMPA, Fla, Oct. 27.--The following
statement was issued tonight by citizens
relative TO the strike situation here:
1.-The strike Of cigar makers known as the
Resistencia Union is practically a thing of
the past. The strike has not been declared
off by the leaders of the organization. but
the mass of the members have done so. A
census OF the cigar makers actually at work
during the week just closed gives positive
evidence that so far as a strike is con-
cerned none exists and the statements
made TO the contrary by men who try to be
leaders are untrue. There are now very
few idle cigar makers in the city. No men
who have returned TO work have been mo-
Tested in any manner, and all have been
afforded whatever protection they need. but
low there Is no necessity for guards at any
OF the factories. and business is progress
ing smoothly.
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MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.

LIZARD. Oct. 27-Passed: Kaiser viii
helm der Crosse. from New York for
Plymouth CherbOurg and Bremen: Mime
haha, from New York. for London: Penn
land. from Philadelphia, for Antwerp.
NEW YORK. Oct 27-Arrived: La
Champagne. from Havre; Nord Amerika
from Genoa and Palermo; Potsdam, from
Rotterdam
MOVILLE. Oct. 27.-Arrived: Partisan,
from Montreal and Quebec, for Liverpool
and proceeded.
CAPE SPARTEL. Oct. 27.-Passed: Lain.
from New York. for Gibraltar. Naples and
Genoa.
GIBRALTAR Oct 27.-saned. Trave.
from Genoa and Naples, for New York.
QUEENSTOWN. oct. 27-Sailed: I'm
bria, from Liverpool, for New York.
CALF OF MAN. Oct z7.-Passed Sarma-
tan from MonI<eal. Tor Glasgow
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SOUTHERN TROTTING CIRCUIT.
Terre Haute to Be the Most NOrtherly
City in 1t.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct. H-'The South
ern Trotting Circuit is practically assured
said Secretary Murray Howe, of the Mem
phis Trotting Association to-day. THE
fact that the ending of the Lexington, Ky,
meeting left the owners of harness horses
no alternative, but to go home until the
present meeting at Memphis demonstrated
that the South opened a field for success
full operation has caused wide discussion
among horse people as to the ACCESSIBILITY
of arranging a Southern circuit that would
afford enough paying cities. at convenient
distances apart, for prolongatlon OF the
regular season"
Climatic conditions prompted the discus
sion and Secretary Howe was the first to
put the scheme in tangible form. Terre
Haute, Lexington, Cincinnati and Memphis
are the cities more certain to be in the
circuit with possibly Nashville and New
Orleans.
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MOUNTAINS OF FLAME.
Hunters Responsible for Destructive
Fires in Pennsylvania.

UNIONTOWN, Pa, Oct. 27.-The western
slope of the Allegheny mountains, through
Fayette county, are ablaze from the
Youghiogheny river through to West V1r-
ginia and mountaineers are fleeing from
their doomed homes with their families.
Careless hunters started dozen fires dur
ing the past week and the bushes are as
dry as finder Streams that were never
known to go dry are without water and
only drenching rain will stop the swiftly
spreading destruction.
The fire has been spreading for a week
and the glare at night can be seen Tor
miles The destruction has been enormous
to crops, fences, barns, stock and dwell
ings. with many narrow escapes from ere
nation i'm homes that were surrounded by
the flames.
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Time to Quit Pooling.
Rochester On. y Post-Express.

NOCIVSItI N. II TOSI-EApItss
After Mrs. Carrie Nation had lectured in
Wheeling w. Va, she went out on one of
her saloOn-smashing expeditions. As a re-
suit, she was arrested and fined. Refusing
10 pay her fine, she was sent to Jail Has
not the time come for regarding this per-
son in a little different light than hereto
fore? Instead of regarding her as a re-
former, promoting the welfare of society,
ought she not TO be regarded as a lawless
person, doing what she can to impair So
cial welfare? Ought she not to be
eschewed by all persons that are opposed
TO the violence doing so much to make
American civilization a by-word and a re-
preach? When it is remembered that law
lessness in saloOn-smaShing differs only in
degree from lawlessness in the assassina-
ton of a President, no one need have any
difficulty in understanding the danger in
volved in even the smallest approval of
her methods or in showing her any social
consideration.
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sary step for this court to adjudicate and
settle his estate in bankruptcy.
Kansas City's seventh annual horse show.
the most successful event Of the kind ever
held iIT that city, closed Saturday. There
were ca. 900 paid admissions at the eight per-
formances. Cresceus, the king of trOtters,
was exhibited by his owner George II.
Ketcham, Saturday. The celebrated horse
was given a great ovation, AID after trot-
- around the ring several times at "A
pretty rapid gait he was presented with a
beautiful cut glass punch bowl, the gift OF
the Horse Show Association.
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Forest Fires in Colorado.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, Oct. IA
big forest fire is raging on the mountain
range in the vicinity of Garfield mountain,
directly south of Pixies Peak The fire
started this afternoon from an unknown
cause and, driven by a high wind, spread
over a big area. The blaze is easily dis
cernble from this city. So far as can be
learned there are no houses in danger, but
much damage will be done to timber.
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UGLY STORIES AFLOAT.
Yale Men Say COIumbia's Players
Were Not All Students.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Oct. 27.-Ugly
stories are heard about the game between
Columbia and Yale yesterday, the students
of Yale declaring that several of the men
on the Columbia eleven were not bona fide
students. The Yale football authorities will
not make any statement to that effect, but
admit that an investigation has been
started The undergraduates demand that
there be no game next year with Columbia,
but the management Will not say that that
will be the course pursued.
Coach q. Foster Sanford OF Columbia
while here denied absolutely that a single
man on the Columbia eleven was not a
student in good standing in that univer-
sity. The Yale coaches have said that no
protest will be made about yesterdays
game, but they do not deny the report that
Is current on the campus that Yale will re-
fuse Columbia a date hereafter.
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SALT LAKE, Oct. ga bad cave-in oc-
CURED in the Highland Boy mine. near here
last night, in which four miners were en-
tombed. After working for twelve hours
rescuers succeeded in reaching and getting
two of the men out alive. The other two
miners are still entombed They are still
alive, however, for their signals can be
heard distinctly by the rescuers, who are
bending every effort TO reach their COM
rades.
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Fine Gift to a Hospital.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal
MADISON. Ind, oct. 27.-Mrs. Pauline
Fowle Durant, of Boston. last night gave
to President Powell. Of the National
Branch Bank. check in favor of the
Kings Daughters Hospital. of Madison.
for 5000 The hospital building was
present from Mrs. Drusilla Lanier Cravens
widow OF John Robert Cravens. who. at the
time of his death. recently, was Madison )
most distinguished citizen.
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Indiana Obituary.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. Oct 27.-Word was
received by his family here to-day of the
death by typhoid fever of Homer ID. Winch
in the hospital at Poplar Bluff, Mo. He
was hub and spoke manufactures and
contracted the disease while buying timber
in Arkansas. The body viii arrive here to-
morrow for burial.
BEDFORD, Ind, Oct. 27.-The funeral of
Mrs. Mayme VOris, wife of Harry NJ. Voris,
who died at Indianapolis on Friday and was
brought here for interment, took place to-
day 1t was one of the largest ever seen in
this city.
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worlds Fair FraternaI Building.

ST. LOUIS, Oct 27.-The Worlds Fair
Fraternal Building Association. which rep
resents many OF the leading fraternal or
ganizatiOns of the United States is at work
raising a fund Of 100000. which IL will
spend in the erection of a magnificent
structure on the fair grounds for the use
during the exposition of fraternal and ben
eficiary societies of the entire world.
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WASHINGTON. oct. 27.-The speech of
Gen. Rafael Reyes, one of the delegates to
the Pan-American Congress, at a banquet
yesterday in honor of the delegates has
created considerable comment in diplomatic
and other circles. While considered in
oppOrtune by some. yet il is not believed the
remarks OF General Reyes will cause any
embarrassment. nor do they call for any
notice from the officials of this government