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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-08
NOT 4 SHINING SUCCESS.

The advocates of municipal owner- ship of public utilities don't point with much pride to the experience of Kansas City with it's waterworks. That city began to furnish it's own water when there were 35,000 inhabitants and has gone on adding to the plant to meet the needs of population Of 100000. To do this well daily output of 20,o0ooOO gallons is required. The citizens have appropriated money for the installment of pumping stations and pumps capable of supplying four times as much water as the city daily needs, but the super irtendent alleges that he cannot meet with them the daily requirements. The Kansas City Journal says of the situa- ton: It is rather amusing to hear the superintendent refer to his dear old pumps as hard-working creatures whom it would be simply criminal to put under greater strain. With all due regard to MT. Goodwin's sympathetic tenderness, these pumps were installed to pump water regardless of their in- diyidual feelings, They have total daily capacity, force and suction of S3,500O0o gallons, or far more than is necessary to supply the city's consump- ton of water. if they were all in use to the best advantage. That they are not so in use is not the fault of MT. Goodwin. but it is the fault of & ml- nicipal' system which essays to manage and operate sgreat public utility through the agency of political ma chimes and in accordance with politi- cal methods.
 The people of Kansas City will soon go to the polls to vote on proposition for issuing new bonds for the improve rnent of the waterworks, and they hope that the waterworks will really be im- proved. but they don't feel very cheer- ful about 1t.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-08
FRI QUHs TIT.

Ethel-"Do you really think the lieu tenant will propose to Beth?" Edith "oh yes: he has several medals for bravery, you know."-Puek.
 T told papa your poems were the children of your brain What did he say?" Said they were bad enough to put in the reform school. Judge. Value of His Opinion.- you think it's going to rain?" she asked. "Oh. I'm sure it's not he replied. "Then I'll take my umbrella,'' she announced with decisfon.-Chicago Evening Post. A daring theft Jack wrought last night
 On darling little Rose.
 He stole thing he wanted right
 Beneath her little nose,
 Philadelphia Press.
 Mamma" queried little Mary Ellen, ''is the pen nlightier than the sword?"
 ''Of course it is" replied the wise mother. Your father couldn't sign checks with a sword. d."-chinese News.
 In New South Wales dwells a witty farmer, who inherited from his father the patronyn1ic of 'Stealing.''a The sur- name carries nasty light handed sag- gestfon, and so our farmer has deter mined to soften 1t for his progeny. His daughter has just been christened, and he got around the surname by giving her the Christian name of Worth Worth Stealing; but surely that is clearly an encouragement of kidnap- ping.-London Globe.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-08
BENEVOLENT.

We are indeed benevolent both in our assimilating and in our giving. We benevoIentIy freed Cuba from Spanish bondage. and we are now benevoIently giving her trade to other countries which perhaps need it more than we do. Our benevoIence is having a cheer ing effect in a steady decline in our exports to that island. For the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, four years ago, the value of those exports was tfirty-seven million dollars, for the fis- cal year ending three years ago thirty two millions, for the year ending two years ago twenty-eight millions and for the year ending one year ago twenty five millions. The figures for the year ending last month have not yet been compiled, but they are known to be smaller still. Simultaneously with the decline in our trade that of our Euro pean competitors has been increasing. In other words, our rivals are reaping the main benefits of our vast expendit- ure in establishing Cuba as an inde- pendent republic and securing safe and active industrial conditions there.
 Good work. Verify this is Chris tian nation.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-08
arAKIhG JUDGES.

There has been popular theory in Connecticut that it would be better to have all the judges appointed by the governor than to have any of them elected by the people or picked out by the peoples representatives. This the ory was apparently on a firm founda- ton, but it got a rude shock the other day when it was plainly seen that ap- pointment by a governor might be only an indorserI1ent of a, purely political picking-out. It is interesting to notice that Law Notes, a legal publication, is not disposed to concede that the ap- pointive method of selecting judges for the courts is so very far superior to the elective method as many think. In speaking of the courts of Massachusetts it says: Massachusetts is indeed to be congratulated on the uniform excellen- cy of her courts. But to our thinking, if the ideasof change in the judicial sys- tenn should be mooted she would find encouragement rather than the reverse in the example of States in which the judges are elected. Tn almost all these States, apart from local courts. where sometimes different conditions may pre- vail, 9 very high standard in the per- sonnel and learning of the courts has been maintained. Now and then wave of popular, madness may raise some unfit parsonage to the bench for time. but such instances are rare, and the interested observer may be proud of the sound sense and conservatism of the American people as illustrated in its elective courts. Nor does the ap- pointive system always secure the ablest occupants of, the bench, as sev- eral examples in the memory of persons now alive might illustrate.
 No system is perfect. The app5intive system ~in Connecticut was working pretty well until its extension seemed to require the help of a political board of arbitration. And perhaps that was only sporadic case and should not be cited as anything against the appointive system.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-08

@ Eh z,haNa ask
 AN ALPINE SHOOT THE cHUTEs. The summit of the Rothorn is shat tered spire of rock on which we stayed photographing rather longer than was advisable. We were. a party of five, and to gain time in the descent, we decided that the two porters and friend should climb down first, while my brother afld I followed on a separate rope. We got safety down the rocks and were just rejoicing in the fast speed we were making, when an agonized yell from our friend, who was tied to the porters, caused us to look down.. There we saw what gave us severe shock. The two porters, seated on the snow, were slid- ing or glissading down as fast as they could go. They had jokingly pulled our unlucky friend off his feet and he was unwillingly skidding down the steep snow after them. It is quite a common practice to glissade down snow in this fashion so long as one can keep ones speed we'll under control, and the porters were having recourse to this pleasant method of descent. Re- rnembering the deep crack at the bot tom we yelled to them to stop at once, but just then the leading porter slid on to some ice, and away he went at a terrific speed straight for the yawning bergsclrund, pulling the other two after him.
 We were powerless to help, but just stood and watched them jerking each other about with the rope and slipping faster and faster, their legs and arms all asprawl, till suddenly with dreadful velocity their bodies vanished over the edge of the crack. Half-dazed, we still looked, and to our great astonishment saw them reappear on the snow below. Their bodies had luckily shot straight across the bergschrund, and, as the slope eased off, they gradually stopped and lay quite still on the snow, three small black objects, with their limbs il, all conceivable attitudes. We hurried down to their aid as fast as we could, but before we reached them, great was our relief to see first one and then a1- other get up and shake himself, and by the time we joined them they were all sitting up, rubbing their bruised bodies their faces almost rivaling the snow in wiiteness.
 Luckily they were not too badly
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-08
A MoTHERLY MALLARD,

My friend Nolan, down from Gull lake, tells the following: We were out on the lake rowing, when from the rushes emerged mallard surrounded by brood of tiny balls of feather, handing the way the mother headed across an arm of the lake. When they were too far away from their hiding place to turn back we closed in upon them, drawing closer and closer; and with every stroke of our oars the moth CT bird quacked encouraging1y to her brood to hurry along, the little ones giving out plaintive peeps that no doubt went deep into the heart of the mother. Wondering whether on close approach the mother bird would aban- dom her brood, we rowed until along side of her, when she could easily have been dispatched with an oar, but with one eye upon us and the other upon her brood, she swam along in the lead, sim ply unmindful of the danger to herself. By this time the little ones began to string out until they formed a thin, feathery peeping line behind the mother. There was one little fellow who could not keep up and who was yard or so behind the end of the line, and who struggled and peeped bravely but slow ly and weakly along. Upon him was the attention of the mother engaged. Her voice seemed directed toward him and her gaze, as she turned her head, concentrated upon him. Her eyes showed just such love and solicitude as one would see in the face of a young mother watching her child in a trying Illness. It was suct, a sight as one but seldom has the opportunity to witness.
 Allowing our boat to rest quiet, we kept close watch on the mother, who took the opportunity to spring clear of the water and fly to the little one. In moment the feeble and tired duckling was snugly eilsconced upon it's mothers back, and with a gladsome quacking, faintly answered by the peeping of the rest of the brood, she once more led the aquatic procession, and in few moments was within the welcome rush. es and we saw them no more. It cer- tainly was an impressive sight, the
 devotion of that wild bird to its young, facing what would at other times have meant death to it, for the sake of its lit- tie ones. I don't know just where this may fit in in ''The Intelligence of Wild Things, but it certainly does come in under the head of maternal solicitude and devotion even into death.--Charles Cristadore in Forest and Stream.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-08
pnrantni Grnt,tnda.

If it warn't fur Bill, my oldest son, l dunno what I'd have ever done, Savin up cash was easy huff, What puzzled me was to spend the stuff, When you've lived in plain, old fashioned
 way You can't be a sport in jes' one day. The coin would have laid there in the till Like lead, if it hadn't have been fur Bill. Of course. it wouldn't have done fur me To bet on hosses where folks could see, Nor talk ill slang, nor stay out at night; An l never could tie my necktie right; But Bill, he was quick to understand, An he took the enterprise right in hand. We was ies' plain folks. Wed have been
 so sti!l. E;@ 9.. No doubt, if it hadn't have been fur Bill It's comfort to sit on the new back stoop An look at my fancy chicken coop, An the painted barn with the weather yane And the other tokens of worldly gain. I've labored faithful to let folk see That moneys no object at all to me, But enyious people would doubt It sttll, I'm sure, if 1t hadn't been fur Bill.
 Washington Star.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-08

Peter. with its vigorous denunciation of the ubiquitous and accursed" crime, came as an unpleasant surprise to the Russian government, which felt that it was necessary to take some step to place Russia in the eyes of the world on footing at least of equality with Austria Hungary. A few hours af- ter the publication of Emperor Francis Joseph's dispatch it was announced in Vienna that Russia would by diplomatic representations at Belgrade seek to bring home to the Servian government the heinousness of the massacre. On the following morning the Vienna jour nals briefly announced the appearance Of note in the St. Petersburg Official Messenger demanding the punishment of the Belgrade conspirators, but it was not until the afternoon that the text of it was forthcoming. The Russian gov- ernment is understood to have explain ed conadentially that its intention to formulate it's views in secret diplomatic representations had been abandoned in consequence of the prevailing opinion in Russia and of the attitude of the En- peror Francis Joseph. In Vienna the conviction is that the note was an af- terthought, prompted by an unwilling ness to occupy a lower moral ground than Austria. or to miss a possible ex- cuse for future intervention in Servia.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-08

Clark Howell of Atlanta was asked by northern man if 1t were true that the negro in the South abstains from voting because he fears bodily harm. Not exactly said Howell. ''It is rather because he knows that on the whole his life will be longer and freer from care if he refrains from the ballot- box habit entirely
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-08
wAs AN 4 AFrEsvHoUe Hye

It's queer how an apparently natural and noble act can sometimes be made to look. An explanation of the rather be-
 Messenger of St. Petersburg that the assassins of the late King and Queen of Servia must be punished comes from Vienna. The correspondent of the Lon- don Times in that city says that the Austrian enaperor's dispatch to King
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-08
ADVERTISING RATES.

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 Display advertisements. per inch. one in. serrlon. 20; each subsealent insertion, 4o ceDtsi one week. $S.20; one month, SAO; 0ne year. $40.
 Obituary Notices. In prose or verse. 10 cents per line. Notices of Births, Marrl' ages, Deaths. and Funeral. 50 cents each. Local Notices. 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to thelE own immediate business fall matter to be unoDjetcIonabiej, and their contracts do not iuclade Wants, To Let, For Sale. etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-08

bruised and cut to resume the descent, and after a very painful frudge we got down to Zermatt late the same night; but never wish to witness again such Q narrow shave.-Ashley P. Araham in AfcClure's
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-08

< Bank consolidation seems to have worked well in Boston. Five years ago there were f1fty-seven national banks in Boston with a stock capital of $49.- $50, 1000 on which an average dividend of 2.3 per cent. was paid. There are now thirty-seven national banks, with a capital of Ss,soO,OoO. which pays 6 per cent.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-08

Dr. Wiley, chemist for the depart ment of agriculture at Washington, says people should eat more bread and butter.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-08

Within twenty years about half mill lion divorces have been granted in the United States. and three times that number of children consequently de- prived Of their natural homes.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-08

THE VALUE OF LANGUAGE STUDY
 An indispensable part of truly liberal education consists of training in the science and art of interpretation. Language. is the distinctively human
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-16
Witness Says He Was offered $2,5OO
by Powers and Taylor to XIII
william Goebel.
HIS TESTIMONY DENOUNCED
CECIL CALLED A PERJURER BY EX-
GOVERNOR TAYLOR.
Kentucky Democrats Accused OF Still
subOrning Perjury In Order to
Make Political Capital.

FRANKFORT, KY, April 15.-Frank
Cecil, who has been away from Kentucky
since his indictment last year as accessory
to the murder of Governor William Goebel
and who recently surrendered, gave sensa-
tional testimony In the trial of James
Howard to-day. Cecil corroborated Culton,
Broughton, Golden and others as to the
alleged conspiracy. He also said that
Caleb Powers then secretary of state. told
him that a man had been secured to come
here from the mountains to kill Goebel
If this man failed to arrive, Powers told
him, he (CeciD would be paid $500 If he
would fire the shot. Cecil says he declined
Governor w. s. Taylor, he testified. called
him into his private Office and told him
the same thing. Governor Taylor said he
had saved $500 from his campaign fund
and that he would pay Immediately. Gov
ernor Taylor also mentioned Youtsey to
the witness and referred witness to him.
Altogether fourteen witnesses for the
Commonwealth went on the stand to-day.
The witness Frank Cecil was the only one
among them who had not testified at for
mer trials The Commonwealth expects to
close its case tomorrow afternoon or Fri
day morning. Henry Youtsey will take the
stand tomorrow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-16
KILLED BY THE MAfIA
DETECTIVES SOLVING THE LATEST
NEW YORK MURDER MYSTERY.
Italian whose Body Was Found I'm a
Barrel Alleged to Have been Slain
by q Secret Society.

NEW YORK, April 15.-Eight Italians,
who the police assert, are members of the
Malta and Of a big counterfeiting gang,
were arrested tonight by detectives in
connection with the murder of a man whose
unidentified body was found in barrel yes
terday morning at Eleventh street near
Avenue d. Inspector McClusky said that
for months he had been working in con-
junction with the United States secret-serv-
ice men in keeping the members of this
gang under surveillance. Three of the Sc
cret-service men declare that on Monday
night they saw the murdered man In COM
butcher shop In Stanton street.
Inspector Schmittberger said tonight that
the murdered mans identity soon would be
disclosed and that he had information which
led him to be almost certain that the man
was decOyed from out of town so that he
might be killed lest he betray secrets of the
Malta.
Late tonight detectives arrested another
Italian. Ignatz Lupo, who is believed to be
the chief of the Mafia Society in America
Lupo, when arrested, was I'm bed and pre-
tended to be Ill of diphtheria. He was
found to be armed with three large re-
volvers. He was identified by secret-service
men who saw him enter the store in which
the shoes worn by the murdered man were
bought.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-16
MIR. PittingilI'. Statement.

SAN JUAN. Porto Rico. April 15.-Dis-
trict Attorney Pittingill has issued the fol-
lowing statement regarding the interven-
tion of the Washington authorities in the
smuggling cases:
II am reluctant to make statement but
in view Of the discussion in the local press
and after yesterdays action by the grand
jury. which Is matter of record IL seems
advisable to make dispassionate state
ment as TO how the matter stands III has
been current rumor for some time past thai
the defendants have made strenuous efforts
to settle with the treasury. The authority
to make a settlement in these cases is
claimed under section 376 of the statutes
and Mr.. Olney when attorney general de-
cided that he had such authority The
latest instructions received from ATTORNEY
General Knox by cable April Is were as
follows: Dismiss the pending proceedings
in the smuggling cases and present no new
cases TO the grand jury unless otherwise
directed. Hereafter report fully by mail
on the nature and status of the said cases
while | did not advise the course which
is being pursued, IL Is not for me to criticise
the action OF a superior. Doubtless the
course seemed proper TO the wise officers
at Washington. under the circumstances.
IL will be observed that Mr.. Knox's cable
does not finally dispose of the case The
actual effect OF the instructions Is TO carry
the case over the term for such other dis
position as may seem proper then"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-16
Will ARRIVE THIS NOON
MOSES FOWLER CHASE EXPECTED
AT LAFAYETTE TODAY.
The Duhmes VIII Contest His Fathers
Other Features of the Case.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, April 15.-Moses
Fowler Chase, mental wreck. but physic-
ally strong and well, will arrive in La
fayette at noon tomorrow. He is in the
care of his father, Fred s. Chase, who is
accompanied by Dan w. Simms. lawyer
of this city. Until tonight it was sup
posed that young Chase would not arrive
until Friday.
Mr.. Kumler, of Kumler & Gaylord at
torneys for Mr.. and Mrs. Duhme, said to-
day that they would contest the petition
Of Frederick s. Chase to be appointed
guardian for the person of his son,
as he now is for the young mans
property. He also said that the Tippe-
canoe county Circuit Court has no juris-
diction in the case. as young Chase became
legal resident OF Ohio four years ago. at
the time the court in that State declared
him sane. This took place at Cincinnati
some time after the Duhmes got posses
sion of the young millionaire, and the law
yers for Frederick S. Chase claim that the
boys renunciation Of his father at that
time Qf such a thing occurred as alleged
by the Duhmes), was done while he was
demented. The Chase attorneys declare
that the courts would not recognize such
an order made when young Chase was men,
tally unsound.
Charles H. Duhme, uncle of Moses Fowl
er Chase. will be in the city tomorrow to
consult attorneys. and 1t is thought to be
on deck at any steps that may be taken to
secure the appointment as guardian of
Frederick s. Chase. father of the boy Mrs.
Duhme has far refused to come here.
but 1t may be that both will be in the city
by Tomorrow noon to meet Moses Fowler
Chase on his arrival.
Addison c. Harris. attorney for Frederick
s. Chase, said yesterday that he probably
would go to Lafayette to-day to be present
when Moses Fowler Chase arrives from the
East
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-16
new DANGER FOR WOMEN
WEALTHY SHOPPER GIVEN KNOCK
OUT DROPS AND ROBBED.
Returned to COnscfousness I'm Belle
vue Hospital, Where She Was
Taken I'm a Hanson.

NEW YORK. April l5.-Considerable
mystery surrounds the case of Mrs Clar-
ence v. Graham. of this city, who was left
at Bellevue Hospital yesterday suffering
from what the doctors say was the effect
of Knockout drops some other drug. In
a hanson. which was driven rapidly to the
hospital was Mrs. Graham, who is about
thirty years old She was semi-conscious
and had the appearance Of having been
drugged. On her fingers were a number of
valuable rings. Two of the rings. however,
had had jewels extracted. The woman was
ants and physician attended her AS soon
as she had left the hanson the driver drove
rapidly away without saying a word The
drops or some other drug.
Mrs. Graham became unconscious after
being put to bed. After two hours she re-
gained consciousness and was able TO tell
her name and that of her husband Later
the woman's husband visited the hospital
and she told him she had left her home
about noon on Monday to go shopping She
visited department store In Broadway
and afterward went to a restaurant near
by. She said she did not remember what
happened after that. except that she had a
faint recollection of being placed in a ham
som cab and being driven up Madison ave-
nue. The two rings that had been tam
pered with. Mr.. Graham said. had been
set with a diamond and a ruby. The stones
were worth. he said. about $780, all told.
Mr.. Graham said he had received a tele-
phone message from his wife about $50 y.
m. on Monday. when she told him she
would meet him at his place of business
at O'Clock That was the last he heard
from her until yesterday. Mrs. Graham
was later taken to her home. Besides the
missing jewels Mr.. Graham said his wife
had lost $50 In money.