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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-03
SLATE MAY BE IGNORED
OHIO REPUBLICAN CONVENTION MAY
BE A LIVELY AFFAIR.
Contests for All Offices Except the
Hanna's Friend, Herrick.

COLUMBUS, o., June 2.-The indications
are here tonight that the Republican State
convention here tomorrow and the next
day will not be such harmonious ratifi-
cation meeting as was expected. While
there will be no opposition to the indorse-
ment of President Roosevelt, Senator Han
ma and others and no differences on ma
tional issues, there are differences of opin-
ion on State questions and very animated
contests for places on the State ticket
except for Governor, auditor of state, at
torney general and member of the board
of public works. There will be lively bal
loting on the second call in the order of
business for lieutenant governor and it
will continue for treasurer, supreme Judge
and school commissioners.
The only opponent of Myron 7. Herrick
for the gubernatorial nomination that has
not withdrawn is Albert Douglas, of Chill
licothe. and at his headquarters tonight he
said the delegates OF the Eleventh congress
sional district would be relieved from their
instructions at their meeting tomorrow. so
that Herrick will be nominated on Thurs
day for Governor without opposition.
Senators Hanna and Foraker. Governor
Nash. Congressman Dick and Longworth,
Wade Hampton Ellis, Judge A c. Thomp-
son and others were in conference until late
tonight, when IL was decided TO recommend
to the committee on resolutions favorably
ernor's veto power. the repeal Of the double
liability statute and legislative representa-
tion to every county separately, and unfa-
vorably the proposed amendments for the
grading of cities and the classification of
property for taxation.
After midnight an army of billposters was
discovered plasterfng every available space
about the city with large, highly-colored
posters reading:
mo third-termers The gallant Foraker
was once defeated for third term. Don't
jeopardize Hanna's reelection as senator -
Those who seeking nominations for
third terms are Auditor OF State Gui,bert.
Supreme Judge Burkett and School Com
missioner Bonebrake. In 1889 Foraker was
renominated for a third term Governor
and was defeated by James f. Campbell
the last Democratic Governor Ohio has
had. There have never been any third-term
In Ohio State offices except for auditor and
supreme judges. but the posters are not
so much against the breaking OF precedents
as desire on the part of those In the field
TO break the slate which includes at least
two third-termers.
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WINDOW GLASS HIGHER.
Advances Announced Last Week by
Represenfative JObbers.

PITTSBURG, June 2.-The advance in the
price of window glass announced lass week
has been confirmed and made official at
a meeting OF representative jobbers held
here. The new rate is 20 and 10 per cent.
off on the first three brackets and 90 and
20 per cent. of on the larger sizes. This is
equivalent to an increase of 20 per cent. in
the price of the small sizes and about I
per cent In all sizes above the third brack-
ct The new prices have been agreed 10
by the jobbers in Pittsburg and Buffalo
Arrangements were completed to-day for
the meeting OF the executive committee OF
the National Window Glass Jobbers' Asso.
citation and the representatives of the three
principal producing companies. the Ameri.
Reid in the rooms OF the association IN
New York on Thursday. AT this meetina
a sale OF 100000 boxes by the ASSOCIATED
manufacturing concerns will be confirmed
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Great Bridee Goe. Down.

KANSAS CITY, June "A dispatch from
Kansas City. Kan. says: "It is reported
that the Missouri Pacific bridge has gone
down. A great crash was heard in that
direction and IL looks as though one span
had fallen. The bells on the switch en-
gines standing on the bridge can be heard
ringing and men are calling for help. The
report is verified by firemen at No. sta
tion.'
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of 1885, in connection with conditions exist
ing in postoffces at Portland, Tacoma and
Seattle incident to the handling of the
Alaskan mails and local congestions, for
which a strict accounting was made. Pos
sibly Tulloch did not deem these trips nec-
essary, but / doubt IL he had the slightest
conception for what they were made or
what was done.
There are two personal references to me
in the Tulloch assertions that l desire to
mention briefly, and the others / will pass
over as unworthy of mention or for reply
from those who had later access to the Off
cial records, for these incidents occurred
four or five years ago. Complaints were
made to me by clerks in the Postoffice De-
partment, the office of the auditor for
the treasury, that an employe Of the latter
named Gilmer frequently entered their
rooms, and in a surly, offensive and per-
emptory manner demanded recards and car
ried them away without leaving any re-
ceipt or simply helped himself, and when
receipt was requested snubbed the clerk
making the request. / was asked by our
clerks to request, and did request, of treas
ury officials that Gilmer be instructed to
act like a gentleman and to protect clerks
in the Postoffice Department by leaving re-
ceipts for all records taken by him from
the department. A displaced document
would naturally subject the responsible
clerk to censure. If not. indeed. to a charge
of dishonesty. What purpose Gilmer had In
CARRYING these records from the department
/ do not pretend to say. This incident had
no connection with Gilmers work as audi
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PRESIDENT AT DENISON.


DENISON. Ia. June 2.-During the early
morning hour the Presidents train passed
through much Of the flooded district Of
Iowa. Extra precautions had been taken
by the railroad authorities and the tracks
over which the train passed were carefully
watched and in some cases shored up
Secretaries Shaw and Wilson and Senators
Allison and Dolliver Joined the party here
President Roosevelt was greeted by a large
crowd, and spoke as follows:
"Friends-At this time as I come into
your beautiful State there have come ca
iamities upon our people here in Iowa and
10 an ever greater degree In Kansas and
Missouri. / see also by to-days papers
the awful disaster in Georgia. We have
biblical authority. well the authority
of common sense for the statement that
the rain falls on the just and the unjust
alike When the hand Of the Lerd In heavy
upon any body of men. the wisdom OF man
CONTINUED ON PAGE Z. COL. 81
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streets during the day and nine hundred
sides OF beef were received from Swifts
packing house. This is the total number
of beeves saved at that plant.
Merchants of Kansas City, Kan, have
bought up large quantities of supplies,
which will be shipped into the suburbs
as fast as possible over the only line of
road open-the electric road from Leaven-
worth, Kan. Street cars in the suburb be-
gan TO run after a fashion this morning
with power furnished by the dynamos at
Leavenworth. The lack Of gas is severely
felt and oil is scarce.
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TULLOCH'S DEMANDS

"The other reference relates TO Tulloch's
displacement from the position of cashier
in the Washington postoffice. The first dis
tinct recollection 1 have of Tulloch was
shortly after the induction of Postmaster
CONTINUED ON PAGE 5. COL. 81
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FEUD CASES vENUED.


Liberty, q Lonely Town.
JACKSON. Kys June A chan q of
venue has been granted In the Jeti and
White cases to Morgan county under Judge
Kenner and the trial set for June 81 Judge
Kenner's court II at West Liberty seven
miles from a railroad. Judge Pedwine's q
brother Is prosecuting attorney Of Morgan
county.
Commonwealth Attorney Byrd and the
attorneys assisting In prosecution have de-
cided TO 80 into court tomorrow and con-
test Judge Redwtnes order.
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MAID SOLD HERSELF.
Wonderful Devotion of Indian Girl
to Fathers Memory.
Ringing Swan, Belle of the kiowas,
AuctiOned Herself to Pay q Debt
OF Honor Contracted By
Chief Iron Talk.

Singing Swan, the belle of the Nowa
Indian village in Indian territory, has
just auctioned herself to pay debt of
honor of her dead father.
Old Jim Crow, famous, wealthy
''white" Indian and character OF I'M
usual force, originality and honesty,
was the successful bidder. He paid
$4,000 for the handsome young wom-
an. Then he took her to his home and
introduced her to his family Of grown
up sons and daughters as an orphan
whom he had adopted, and told them to
treat her as sister.
The old man is widower, but those
who know the sterling sense of honor
believe that he adopted the girl to keep
her out of bad hands and in the hope
that she would find an acceptable hus-
band in one of his handsome sons.
In the meantime the debt of honor
has been Cancelled in an unexpected
way, says the New York World.
Singing Swans father was Chief Iron
| Talk, a man of wealth and influence IN
| the tribe, and was distinguished for
his hospitality and his progressive and
philanthropic ideas. He had his daugh-
ter we'll educated. Her fine qualities
and her beauty attracted many white
suitors, but she held aloof from them
and stuck to her father.
He, by reason of his constant wish
to improve his people and to do the
greatest possible good with his for
tune, was induced by INSCRIPTIONS
whites to embark on an enterprise that
swept away every dollar and left him
at his death $4,000 in debt.
This amount he had borrowed from
a money lender, and while for years he
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THRIFT ENCOURAGED
British Post Office Savings Bank
Employs $1,000 Clerks.
Children Are Urged to Save Their
Pennies-Every Postal once In
England II Bran CHI Of This
Great Institution.

England's remarkable system of post
office savings banks, started several
years ago, has been brought into no.
tice of late on account of the transfer
ence of the prodigious clerical force
which the system keeps busy, from
the big building in Queen Victoria
street, London, which they have out
grown, to their new home in West
kensington, a vast beehive of place,
covering five acres of ground, close to
the amphitheater called Olympia,
sacred to the memory of Buffalo Bill,
Barnum's circus, and such shows. This
new government building has just been
completed especially for the national
department of thrift, and will be for
mally opened in a few days.
The moving day concerns 5000
clerks, the thousands of ledgers in
which are kept the accounts of the
banks 100000 depositors, and the
simply innumerable documents relat-
ing thereto. Enormous as is the job
of conveying them across London, how
ever, it is now certain that it will be
accomplished without the depart
ment's business being hindered in any
way.
What has been brought out most sig
nifcantly in consequence of the atten-
ton which the biggest savings bank
in the world" has been receiving of late
is the remarkable growth of this
unique institution. The number of
deposits annually has jumped from
100000 to 15,OOO,OOO; the number of
depositors from 100000 to 100000.
In other words, on every business day
of the year 10000 persons make depos-
it's. through $4,000 government substa-
lions. No wonder, then, that since the
postal savings banks were established,
nearly 500 private institutions of the
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pany's work in Canton, the industry,
it will be remembered, with which
Paul Revere was so long connected.
Frederick w. Lincoln, afterward
mayor of Boston, was adopted by Col.
Lincoln, and because of this, as we'll
as because he was the patriot Paul's
great-grandson, he would have been
the natural heir to the watch. just
here, however, an interesting bit of
romance came in to divert the relic
to the present owner.
Col. Lincoln had in DR.. Phineas Miller
Crane, late of East Boston, the father
of Mr.. Crane, of Maiden, q friend as
dear to him as Damon was to Pythias.
Often DR.. Crane had admired the
Paul Revere watch, and in his love for
the timepiece his bride heartily
shared. This fact he let drop to Col.
Lincoln one day in the course of con-
versation, proposing, half in jest, that
he sell him the watch, to give his
fiancee the day she became his wife.
Naturally Col. Lincoln was averse
to letting the watch 60 to one not of
the Revere blood, but his friends re-
quest seemed to offer to him an ad-
mirable opportunity to set the seal
on friendship which had meant much
to them both, as we'll as to Miss
Dwight, so he consented to part with
the watch, and it became the property,
the day she became Mrs. Crane, of
the woman both men wished to please.
The number of the watch, which is
in an 1s-carat gold case, is 24,650, and
that. it was we'll made is demonstrated
by the fact that to-day. 1Ss years after
the night it served the cwner on his
famous ride, it keeps good time.
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New Mexican Sanctuary Which Was Built
Many Centuries Ago.
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. like those they
put upon their pottery to-day.
But the most interesting thing in
San Miguel, says the New York Her
aid, is the old bell, St. Joseph. Black
with age, it looks like mass of old iron
in it's dim recesses. But strike it and
it gives forth mellow note of silvery
clearness, echoing with marvellous
sweetness through the vault-like old
church. The quality Of the bell metal
makes the richness of the note, and
there is a tradition that it was made
of the gold and silver ornaments of the
Spanish, as thank offering for VIC
tory over the Moors.
At any rate, the old Spanish padres
brought the bell, already ancient,
across the seas from Spain, and over
mountains and plateaus from Mexico.
The Moors are gone, Spain's great en-
pire of the west has vanished, and still
the old bell stands there, older than
American civilization.
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familiarize themselves with the feel
ings of the natives and of the Amer
lean administration in regard to the
friars and their vast possessions. The
pope himself is taking a deep interest
in this matter, and has personally sum-
moned a number of prelates to Rome
to supply him with authentic informa-
ton. Among the most popular church
men who have been called to the vati-
can to throw light on the Philippine
situation is Rev. Edward j. Vattmann,
who is now a guest of the pontiff. Fa-
Their vattmann is the senior of the II
Roman Catholic chaplains in the
United States army, and was former
" stationed with the Fourth infantry
at Fort Sheridan, III. He has been
an army chaplain since 1877, and has
served through several campaigns
against the Sioux and the war with
Spain. During most of this period he
has been with the Fourth regiment,
and has been especially active in pro-
noting sobriety among the soldiers of
the post. He is 62 years of age, was
graduated at the University of Pader
born, and came to this country in
1863
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\0u0 ~ = xdSI MlDLEeSS III Tue 0cHtlc AIS
OF Baggage SlinginE.) ~.
her trim, energetic figure, busting
about the platform.
Her position as station agent is
unique, and interest in her work be-
comes personal when 1t is known that
she is only 20 years old, and widow,
who is working to support a toddling
baby of two. ~ &c
In the year that she has been agent
Mrs. Gumprecht has inaugurated .
new regime, and the villagers who for
merly found the station q convenient
loafing place, have been forced to seek
a haven elsewhere. Men inclined to
hang around are peremptorily ordered
off, and it has come to be pretty gem
orally understood in the community
that the agent is to be obeyed. She
keeps a watchful eye out, too, for
children, and never allows them to play
about the station or the tracks. Her
own baby is kept safely at her home.
mile distant.
Unlike many widows, Mrs. Gum
precht did not get her position by be-
coming the successor Of her husband
in the place, but was led to apply for
it through the belief that she was COM
petent, and the knowledge that the
male agent, disgruntled, was about to
depart. She is paid $50 month for
her services.
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CHURCH OF SAN MIGUEL.
New Mexicans Claim That 1t In the
Oldest Christian Sanctuary in
the United States.

The church of San Miguel, at Santa
Fe, is claimed by New Mexicans to be
the oldest in the United States. There
is much dispute over the exact date of
its erection, but it was certainly built
between 200 and 300 years ago by the
first Indian converts, under the direc-
ton of the Spanish padres-some say
as long ago as 1915. Inside it is like a
vault, black and crumbling, with
cracked adobe walls and roof, and a
gallery whose woodwork still shows
traces of the figures painted there by
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PAUL REVERE'S WATCH.
Time piece Carried by Bold Bostom ian
on His Midnight Ride Ii Still
r2 in Running Order.

The watch which Paul Revere car.
ried on his midnight ride 12s years
ago is still servicea BILE timepiece, and
is owned by Frederick Lincoln Crane:
of Maiden, Mass. This relic, pro.
nounced by expert antiquarians to be
undoubtedly what it is claimed, fell
into Mr.. Cranes hands something over
a year ago by very interesting chain
of circumstances.
Paul Revere left this watch by will
to his son, Joseph Revere, who in turn
passed it down to Col. Frederick w.
Lincoln, of Canton, his nephew, and the
grandson of the revolutionary scout.
This Col. Lincoln was for many years
the head of the Revere Copper com.
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made him one of their counsel. He
himself has done the rest, and no one
who knows the man wonders at his
success. Energy radiates from him as
from a dynamo. When he speaks it is
at first with drawing deliberateness
that is almost exasperating. Now and
then, when put to the issue or
badgered little, as he was on the wit
ness stand the other day during the
proceedings before the interstate
commerce commission, grin spreads
over his face, sardonic, hard, knowing,
and with less of humor than of irony,
less of sympathy than of aggression.
With his rugged, stern countenance,
harsh iron7gray hair and beard, and
eyes that never finch nor turn, Mr..
Baer gives an impression of virility,
honesty, infexibility and shrewdness
in perfect combination. That all men
are impressed by his character and his
achievements was shown by that scene
in the courtroom when the commits
sioners showed him q Difference that
no other witness got, while the law
yers for the railroads did not even try
to direct his testimony. For four
hours he dominated the situation.
Dominate, says the Philadelphia
Press, is the word for George T. Baer.
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had paid the interest, he had never
been able to pay the principal.
On Iron Talks death the money
lender seized property belonging to
the estate. This, however, did not sat-
isfy the creditor, and feeling her IA
theirs debt to be one of honor Singing
Swan finally decided to give herself in
expiration, reserving, however, the
right to reject the final bid.
AS soon as old Jim Crow had given
Singing Swan check for the $4,000,
he hunted up John McRae, the money
lender, and asked for the note he held
against Iron Talk.
Singing Swan chose for her auction
feast day, when a large crowd com
posed of white traders, cattlemen, In
dams, half-breeds, nomads and gam
blers had gathered in the quaint vii
lage street.
When she appeared among them,
clad gayly in the rich royal robes of
her tribe, all eyes were turned upon
her in admiration. Suddenly mounting
a box, she stood dramatic figure amid
most picturesque surroundings.
"Who wants a wife," she asked of
the astonished crowd. There was an
earnestness in her voice and face that
forbade a jesting reply.
The young warriors could hardly
credit their eyes and ears. "Singing
Swan" never looked lovelier. Her black
eyes sparkled and Ter long dark hair,
falling below her belt, mingled with
the brilliant colors of her apparel.
Strands of fresh-water pearls and hun
dreds of elk-teeth, FURNISHED and
tipped with gold. flashed from her neck
and arms and every seam of her cost
ly garments.
Finally young Kiowa brave spurred
his pony nearer. Few heard the words
of the bidder, but the next instant th e
girl exclaimed: "One thousand dollars
I am offered! Who bids more?'
Six-Killer, rich Cherokee, instantly
shouted: II will give $4,000 in gold for
Singing Swan"
'It is not enough to pay my fathers
debt of honor" said the maiden.
At that moment old Jim Grow spoke
up. II need housekeeper," he said,
"and if Singing Swan will take kindly
to old Jim I will put check for $4,000
in one of her little hands"
"You can't get her." roared the
Cherokee; "$11 .000."
"Can't II" retortsd Jim, throwinghis
Winchester across lis left arm and
drawing long piece glittering steel
from his belt. eve will see about that,
Mr.. Injin. Shout $4,000, Miss Singing
Swan, and tell 'em tc come again.
The two men glared at each other, to
the great delight of the crowd, and 40
doubt to the intense satisfaction of the
Indian girl. They continued bidding
until Jim shouted "$25.OOO" AS the
angry Cherokee turned his horse and
galloped away the crowd rosred with
laughter.