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"A FRIEND in need is friend indeed;" if you don't be
leve it, ask Rathbouc.
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Making the punishment fit the crime provides with
OF sscertaninR how the Nervousness OF crime is
measured The president is bent retiring General Miles
from the army for his uerance in criticism of the proposed
bill TO turn the rule Of the army to staff but he has
taken steps punish the officer who gave order to
massacre all Filipnos and and children
of Massacre venal oHense alongside of OPP
posing administration poices.-Foys Worm Register.
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One of our great daies says; England Germany and
the United States combined might maintain the peace Of
world Yes just two Of the nations mentioned are doing
now; With such combination in the field weak nations
would be gobhed up and the combination would cut the
earth in suitable sizes and take them time and thus
peace of the world would be maintained BY bayone
rule and orders would kill everything over 10
years old."-Fdrin and Ranch
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IT rs one Of the things about human nature that
when catch fellow Judging he will turn around and in
two minutes try TO make il appear that you were doing
sneak Now about that school trustee slate-but law,
what's thr
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THE transport Crook has sailed to the Philippines with
additional This is the FIRST crook we have sent
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OFFICE OF PUBLICATION,
Nos fot, f1os, f1o5, 1907 and 1toe Franklin Avenue
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CHICAGO is now complaining of the heat There's no eli
mate like that OF Texas, after all.
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CORRESPONDENCE Of ony description. rrheiher 81
tsnasd fer hs Bassss OF Editora! Department shoa 3
pidHa ond az checks drafts poney-odcrS ee MADE pay
cole TO THE HousroN PRrNr1NG CoMFAEY.
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THE liquor dealers of the State becoming frightened
Or fear the coming generation will grow up drunksrds
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Bmr1sH general the shipment of mules will not
&c stopped while America is ruled by the almighty dollar
md it really looks as II he knew whereof he spoke
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THE charge against General Smith is "unbecominr con
duct while Batson who only expended FIVE is to be hun,
for Emurder"
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RoosrvrLT will reprimand Funston talking too much
after which he will take him behind the pat him
on hack
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They are after The Houston Post for saying that Rr
bloom. Wonder what they will do with the iinv man f
saying the wild geese lighting in the ueesSmifLiie
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sUGAR-BEET ACREAGE.

The statistics which the Department of
Agriculture has just issued will not be ex-
tensively quoted by those who compare
sugar-beet raising a new industry with
the rise of the manufacture of tin plate in
this country. After special promoting by
national and state departments OF agricul-
ture there are this year 100000 acres devoted
TO beet sugar. When one considers that
the corn acreage OF Indiana in 1899 was
900 acres the insignificance of the ma
tiOnal acreage devoted TO sugar beets is
realized. 1t means that Indiana alone has
sixteen acres devoted to corn where one
acre is devoted TO sugar beets in the whole
country. Only two States have beet acre
age equal to the corn acreage in Massachu-
sets. which grows very little corn, while
Michigan. the leading beet-sugar-growing
State. has only about half as much land in
beets as it has in potatoes The Journal
sents the assertion of an anti-recprocity
organ that it is trying to belittle the beet
sugar industry and now points to the fig
ures given by the beet-sugar people regard
ing it TO prove that all that it has said OF
tie encouragement it's growth in nearly
twenty years has given TO justify the opin-
ion that beet-sugar production will ever be
leading industry in the United States I'M
der existing conditions. If the price of
sugar had not fallen 50 per cent. since the
rise of the beet-sugar industry in Europe
the price might stimulate the industry in
the United States, but ii seems TO now be
certainty tina. the price of raw sugar in the
worlds market will never exceed cents
pound.
The figures concerning the acreage and
the location of the beet-sugar interest ex-
pose the falsity of the loud and reiterated
assertion of the Oxnard lobby that every
farmer in the country is interested in
sugar-beet culture. These figures show
further that beet-sugar culture is of little
consequence compared with the advantage
to agriculture which will come from the
enlargement of the Cuban market by reci-
procity for their flour, bacon and other
products When Congress shall reassemble
much more will be known of the beet-sugar
industry and it will be shown that it is not
/ of sufficient Importance to dictate a policy
which will be harmful to the whole coun-
| try.
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NOT A WALLED TOWN.

Nothing which has come to Indianapolis
for years promises so much for the growth
OF the city as the interurban traction
lines. The building of a single station
in which all these systems shall terminate
will be as important to the business of
Indianapolis as is the Union Station for
the steam railways. Yet comparatively
few seem to grasp it's importance. 1t does
not seem to be realized that So per cent.
Of the people who will patronize the in
terurban roads will come from hundreds
of stations and scores of towns outside
Of Indianapolis to this city. where they
will spend money. Indeed, it is impossible
10 conceive that any person who can pay
a fare from any town beyond the limits
of the city can return without spending
a little money. These lines are being
built without dollars expense to Indian
apolis as a corporation. At the same time,
not one of them will enter the city which
will not bring tens of thousands of dol
lars annually to nOurish the trade and
industry of the city. No one who has
given the least attention TO this subject
will deny that the lines will help the
city UNNECESSARILY.
In view of this fact for fact it is,
what should be the attitude Of the repre-
sentatives Of an intelligent, progressive and
public-spirited city? There can be but one
answer, and that is to do all that city
as a corporation can do to encourage the
construction of as many interurban lines
/ I'm ha
contrary, a car tax has been imposed, and
now that there is a demand that this
tax be abolished it is opposed. One reason
which has been presented is that these
interurban lines will make a great deal
of money and the city should have a part
of it because if there were no indianapolis
they could not make money. To this the
answer is complete: The money the lines
will make will be in the carrying of people
outside of indianapolis into the city to
spend money; therefore, il is a tax imposed
upon people and interests bringing trade
| TO the city. Do the citizens of indianapolis
desire TO appear to all the people who will
| patronize these lines as greedy in a small
| way? But the retOrt is made that as
/ wagons are taxed Tor the use or the streets,
why not tax the interurban cars? For the
reason that the franchise in all the streets
/ the interurbans will use has been sold to
the Indianapolis Street-railway Company,
and the running of interurban cars over the
tracks of that company will not impose a
dollars additional cost to the city.
Several hundred years ago European
/ cities laid a tax called the octroi upon
all those who brought merchandise TO them
TO sell. collected at the cities gates This
tax has been abolished in Europe for the
most part as unwise, since a city should
invite rather than tax trade from the
country roundabout. This car tax on
the interurban lines is a revival of the
octroi by a prosperous modern city. I'm
less the citizens of Indianapolis wish to be
advertised as adopting a policy of the dark
ages, let the city authorities declare that
Indianapolis lis no mean city," and does
not believe in restrictions upon those who
would increase its trade.
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THE NOMINATING PRIMARY.

The fact that the Republican convention
in Wisconsin declared for nominating pri-
maries for every elective office in the State,
and made adhesion 10 the proposition the
test of party loyalty, is sure 10 direct more
attention TO that important proposition
than has hitherto been given it. All citi-
zens OF both parties who desire good gov
eminent are pretty well convinced that the
present system of primaries is not only
very questionable, but is fast growing
worse. From what has been seen of the pri-
mary elections in this city the law needs to
be radically amended. The first object of
such a law would be TO restrict the voting
in any precinct to the members OF the party
therein. This ought not to be a very diff
cult task in State in which both parties
have poll books which can be revised and
used as check tests.
The larger cities In Minnesota have had
primary election law three or four years
The Minneapolis Tribune, which was an
early advocate of such elections. is not now
so entirely confident that the best results
can be derived from voting directly for
candidates as ii was before the experiment.
The law was enacted to enable the two
largest cities in the State 10 secure salts
factory city officials. The first experiment
in Minneapolis was about as unfortunate as
it could be, and, in spite OF the opposition
Of the papers, man was nominated for
mayor by the Republicans who had made
so vicious a record in that office before
that he mad been defeated by a Democrat
at the polls. All of the disreputable eIe-
ments and all those who had designs on the
city treasury rallied 10 the support of Ames.
and he was nominated over one or two very
reputable men. OF course those who re-
gard themselves as the best citizens did not
so TO the primaries, while every man who
favored looseness or lawlessness was there
DR.. Ames was nominated. and his admin
istration has been so VIGOROUSLY bad that
he left the city three or four weeks ago.
In the opinion of the Minneapolis Tribune
there is danger that undesirable candidates
will be nominated in large cities by the
nominating primaries because their sun
pOrters will organize. while those who op-
pose will divide between two or more can
didates or not vote at all. So il comes. at
the end. to the failure of the citizens who
really desire good government to do their
duty which makes them the worst citizens.
The candidate elected is quite certain to be
minority candidate, which however. is
not Objectionable as IL may appear. as
the plurality system now prevails in all the
states. The paper referred 10 is rather in
| elined 10 have primaries elect delegates. in
sisting at the same time that every safe
| guard that lawmakers can devise shall be
put about the voting at the primaries
The primary election law is In force i'm at
/ least third OF the counties in Indiana. In
some counties the general result is salts
factory. and in others IL is not. Some OF
! the best Republicans in counties which
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People hereabout who read Democratic pa
pers may naturally come to the conclusion
that Organism is extinct. Missouri and Tex
as, both Democratic States, have declared
for the Kansas City platform. The Demo-
cratic convention in Minnesota did the same
thing. In Nebraska, Kansas and South Da-
kota the Democrats and Populists have
fused in support of Organism. In North
Carolina, by a vote of $50 TO 535, the Kan
sas City platform was Endorsed. For some
reason not known here the Democratic con-
vention in Maine Endorsed the Bryan plat
form, and the Democratic candidate for
Governor has been escorting Mr. Bryan
through the State. The Bryan following,
however, does not fully appear in the ac-
tiOns of conventions. The Democratic par
ty in all the States Of the Middle West
is tinctured with Populism. which sat
urates the Bryan platforms. This ele-
ment following Mr.. Bryan will not support
a candidate for President in 1904 who was
not open and active supporter of Mr.
Bryan in 1896 and particularly in 1900. Nj
Bryan, himself demands that no man who
snail
be candidate. Nor will he be pacified by
the appeal of David B. Hill that the dead
past be forgotten and that the Democracy
shall devote itself to the future. Mr.. Hill
can never win the Bryan following, and,
for that. reason. his nomination is doubt
York, but it will be asked, with allusion
to a super-heated region, who is Judge Par
kerr" But the point to which attention
is called is not to assume that William
Jennings Bryan is not large factor in the
future of the Democratic party. 1t is
very doubtful If detraction and misrep-
resentation by the Democratic press will
reduce the size of the sentiment for which
the word Organism stands.
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UNDER ONE CONTROL.
Falls Cities Public Utilities Pass to
Chicago Syndicate.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal
NEW ALBANY, Ind, July 29.-Negota-
tions, which have been in progress for the
purchase of the New Albany Street-railway
Company's system by the United Gas ana
Electric Company, have been practically
closed and it is reported the property Will
change hands next Friday. The terms OF
the deal have not been disclosed. The
system was for several years in the hands
of Louis Hartman, as receiver, and was
sold about a year ago at receivers sale
by r. S. Veech, of Louisville. The company
has an authorized bond issue of $250OO0, OF
which $4,000 is still in the treasury. The
stock is said 10 have earned per cent.
last year.
The syndicate of Chicago capitalists who
compose the United Gas and Electric Com =
pany have in the past few months acquired
the property of the New Albany Gaslight
and Coke Company, the New Albany Heat
Light and Power Company, the New Al
bany Water Company, the Indiana Water
Company the Jeffersonville Electric Light,
Heating. Gas and Coke Company and OH
Aug probably will buy the property OF
the Jacksonville Light and Water Com
pany, thus securing control OF the entlre
lighting, heating. water and traction prop
critics of both New Albany and Jefferson
Vile The franchise of each company Is
for forty-fiVe years.
The syndicate is composed of Samuel In
sulI president who also is president OI the
Chicago Edison Company; w Il. Hummer,
vice president; Robert w. Waite, secre-
tary and treasurer; j. w. Dunbar. general
superintendent, all OF chicago except MY.
Dunbar who resides here The capital stock
of the company is 81, 10000, and the author
lied bonded indebtedness is S75OOOO, of which
$500. 900 is still in the companys treasury.
IT is given out that the company Will spend
$4,000 in Improving the service OF the street
railway in this city.
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other Deaths in the state.

RUSHVILLE, Ind. July 29-Mrs. Eliza
beth Ross, aged over eighty-hve years, died
night after a three days illness. She was
born in Kentucky in 1917 and came TO this
county with her parents in 1924. They To-
Gated in Union township, near Smelser's
mill. Her father was one OF the largest
land owners in the past history of Rush
county. In 1881 she married James Ross,
who died in 1889 Their family consisted of
six children, three sons and three daugh-
ters. In 1861 she moved from the farm to
this city, where she had since lived. She
was the oldest woman in Rushvile. She
was member Of the Presbyterian Church.
MUNCIE, Ind, July 29.-Charles H
Clark. aged siXty-seven, one of the we'll
known older residents of Selma, this coun-
~, died yesterday morning. The funeral
Selma. w. F. Gray one of the older
residents of this city, died at his residence
in East Jackson street. this city, this morn
ing. He was born in Lawrenceburg, Ind,
in 1920. and came TO Muncie many years
ago. The funeral will be held Thursday
GOSHEN, Ind. July 29.-Dr William A
Whippy, aged .seventy-six. a resident of
homeopathic physician in Elkhart county
and one of the oldest practitioners of his
school in the State, died this afternoon of
paralysis of the throat, after a long illness
He was native of New York, and was a
prominent knight of Pythias. A widow and
three children survive.
WINCHESTER. Ind. July 29-Mrs
sheppard, aged eighty years, Wife OF
Joshua Sheppard, who lives near Trenton.
died at her home this morning of senile de-
bility- She was one of the oldest residents
of that part of the county. She was a mem
Der of the Rebekah Lodge of Huntsville
and that order will have charge of the
funeral.
LEBANON. Ind. July 29-Mrs. Ella
Richmann, wife of Mr.. Frank Richmann,
of Indianapolis. died to-day at the home of
her mother Mrs. Elizabeth j. Perkins in
this city after an illness extending
period of two years. She left two children,
Earnest. aged six, and Frank, aged three.
MADISON, Ind. July 29.-John Colds
borough fell dead at his home in this
city to-day. He served during the civil war
in Company f. Fifty-fourth Indiana Reg
iment, and in the Ninth Indiana Legion. He
was sixtyfour years old and left four
grown children.
PORTLAND, Ind, July 29.-Mrs. Andrew
w. Allen, of the best-known women
in Portland, is dead at her home from the
effects of a stroke of paralysis. She was
nearly sixty years old. Funeral services
will be held on Saturday.
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nounced this afternoon that the plant will
be rebuilt at once.
RIPLEY COUNTY FINANCES.
They Are Said TO Be in n Much
Tangled Condition.

Special 10 the indianapolis Journal.
VERSAILLES, Ind. July 29-For some
weeks past the books of the ex-county
treasurer have been investigated. The re-
ports thus far indicate a discrepancy OF
nearly 5000 in the accounts of eX-Treas-
urer Joseph Scoopmire, of Holton, and OF
over SLIGO in the accounts of ex-Treasurer
Grant Johnson. of this place. As both OF
these ex-officials are Republicans some OF
the Democrats are very much elated over
having made the discoveries, but the best
citizens of the county of both parties are
grieved to learn of the irregularities. AS
TO Mr.. ScoopmiTe the general opinion Is
that the claims against him were due 10
errors in bookkeeping and he has expressed
himself as being ready, as soon as the mat
ter Is definitely settled, TO pay the
amount due the county.
EX-TreaSurer Johnson is now IN Mlssls-
sippi on a business trip. and statement
from him therefore cannot be secured at
great excitement among his bondsmeh
thirty-five of whom are liable. Many OF
them were in town to-day arranging 10
pay off the Indebtedness.
The records show that While Johnson
was treasurer the County Commissioners
bought of w. u. Wilson the Osgood ana
Versailles pike for s. 200: that bonds were
son took the bonds The entry was made
Mr.. Johnson charging himself with the
amount, but afterwards the entry was
erased. The other amounts charged against
him are delinquent taxes, etc, supposed 10
have been collected but not accounted for.
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when its capital was far less than it now is,
the road could not pay per cent. div
idends. Now it must pay per cent on its
immense issue Of bonds Yet If the road
shall earn enough 10 pay the interest on
its bonds. l75 per cent. of water remains,
while the stock, which was exchanged for
bonds at par. was not worth 80 short
time since. But those who bought the
stock at 30 now have 100 of bonds and 10
OF stock. At best the value is doubled
in sound bonds and the road must be made
to pay the interest. which means that the
rates Of transportation must be kept at a
high figure.
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have tried the direct primary elections are
Of opinion that better results can be OBJ
tanned by nominations in conventions.
On the other hand. equally good men have
the utmost faith in nominating by pri-
maries. The subject is so important that
it should be freely discussed. To that end.
ii is hoped that the organization which held
meetings last spring will resume the public
discussion of the subject during the fall.
The first and most important thing to be
sought after, whether candidates are NOM
mated by primaries or delegates are
elected, is a method by which only those
who are entitled to vote in primaries shall
be permitted TO do so.
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INDIANA OBITUARY.
James Rufus BeardsIcy, Second May
or of City of EIkhart.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ELKHART. Ind, July 29.-James Rufus
Beardsley, one of the most prominent
citizens of this part of the State, died at
his home in this city at noon to-day, aged
seventy-three.
He was a son of DR.. Havilah Beardsley,
a native of Connecticut, who. after resid-
ing in Ohio for several years came 10 the
st. Joseph country in 1880 and settled on
the present site of Elkhart, becoming the
founder of the city. The son. James Rufus
Beardsley, was then nine months old. He
had ever since lived In this city, In whose
growth and prosperity he had unusual
pride. After securing a fair education he
was given practical business training by
his father in the line Of activity which
was to be the basis of his career-that
of manufacturer and business man. For
manufacture, and finally became president
of the First National Bank, Of which in
stitution he remained the head until Ill
health, over year ago, incapacitated him.
The son of an enthusiastic Wing father
became a stalwart Republican, and that
party twice sent him 10 the State Legisla-
ture as a senator, and he also sevred as
day, 1873, he married Miss Susan Ray, OF
the well-known Shelbyville family and
Mrs. Beardsley and sons Ray r. and Wal
lace Beardsley and daughter Helen survive,
as does also his brother. Edward r.
Beardsley, of this city, who is seventy
Beardsley and Lemuel Beardsley, also Of
this city, are first cousins.
The funeral will be held at 10 o'clock
Friday morning.