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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-24
BREWERS AND THE SALOON
BUSINESS.

The brewers of the central West have
been holding conference in Chicago, with
a view to ''elevating the saloon business"
ming to read the handwriting on the wall
any too soon. The business of promoting
the drink habit by means that have hereto
fore been in vogue has about run its course
in this country. It's results are getting to
be too we'll understood dangerous to the
general welfare. The brewing business has
gradually drifted into methods that are ut
terly unbusinesslike. to say nothing of the
effect on public morals and public safety.
There is nothing in the rest of the earth
like the corner saloon in America. A man
practically without capital applies to the
brewery to start a saloon for him. He has
a location picked out. All in addition that
the brewer requires of him is that he have
friends in the neighborhood and that he be
honest with the brewery, whether he is
with anybody else or not. The brewer
rents the room, pays the license fee, stocks
the place and installs the proprietor" who
is compensated by a percentage on the
sales. Not all saloons are conducted in this
way, but many of them are. The saloon
soon becomes little center of political in
fiuence. The proprietor violates the law
and looks to the brewer to exercise his
pull to keep him out of trouble. In order
to protect his investment. and in the belief
that a multiplicity of these little saloons
promotes the sale of his beer, the brewer
has found it necessary to be more of a
politician than business man. and thus has
come about the political efforts of the
brewers, all of which runs up into expense
very fast. The whole plan has proven a
most fruitful source of political corruption,
contempt of law. disorder and violence
Probably all this would not interest the
brewing fraternity very much were 1t not
for the fact that the whole game has come
TO cost more than II produces In the way of
profits on beer and has made the whole sa-
loon business so odious that throughout the
country local option in one form or another
is crowding the business into uncomfort-
ably close quarters.
That the motive OF the brewers In at
tempting TO elevate the saloon business
is a selfish one is neither here nor there.
but IL is important that they are thinking
and talking about some way OF eliminating
the disorderly saloon II they will they can
easily accomplish this by azitatin< for high
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license and by declining the whole business
of financing saloons-and. most of all. by
keeping their hands of municipal politics.
THE CASE OF HEDGES.

The case of Charles Hedges, who has just
been removed from the office of superintend-
ent of free delivery. discloses a new kind of
official malfeasance. Other officials who
have been removed recently had profited by
contracts made with the government or by
purchases made for the postal service, and
had pocketed sums of considerable amount
Hedges showed as much dishonesty but less
shrewdness and enterprise. In his official
capacity he was entitled to free transporta-
ton on travelling commission and also to
per diem allowance to cover expenses
while actually on duty. 1t is in evidence
that on various occasions he loaned his trav-
entitled to use it. and that in his expense
accounts he sometimes reported himself at
places he had not reached at all, and drew
per diem for time when he was not per-
forming official duty. These were not large
transactions, but they were dishonest. The
use of travelling commission by person
not authorized to use it was a fraud on the
railroads rather than on the government
but it was Violation of instructions and
rules. Charging per diem for time when
he was not engaged in the performance of
official duty was fraud on the government.
In statement regarding the per diem
charges Hedges says that while he was as
sistant superintendent of free delivery, with
headquarters in New York, he was called
to Washington to take charge of the entire
service while Sunerintendent Nachen was
sick. while so acting" he says, II got
5000 salary as assistant superintendent,
while Mr.. Machen received $500. 1t was
necessary for me to get the per diem allow
ance to make the services and the compen-
sation equal" In other words, Hedges con-
the place of a $500 a year man and was
himself only receiving 5000 a year. he had
a right to make up the difference by dishon-
est charges for per diem while he was not
travelling. A man with so blunt conscience
and so little moral as that is not fit
to be in the public service. He is said to
be greatly exercised over the ingratitude of
the former friend whom he allowed to use
his travelling commission because the latter
betrayed him and furnished information
that brought him to grief. Hedges does not
seem at all ashamed of his conduct in per-
hitting an unauthorized person to use his
official travelling commission, but he is high
ly indignant because the person betrayed his
confidence. Again it must be remarked that
such moral obliquity of vision as that shown
by Mr.. Hedges is out of place in the public
service
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-24
WOMANGETSHERDIAMOND
FAY WOOD CAUSES THE ARREST OF
HOWARD SMITH.
She Let Him Have Her Ring to Wear,
and He Pawned 1.-THE Prop
erty Recovered.

A young man giving his name as Howard
Smith was arrested yesterday afternoon by
Detectives Kinney and Morgan on war
rant charging him with grand larceny.
Smith said at the police station that his
home was in Lebanon, Ind, but it is under
stood that he is the son of a prominent
business man in town close TO Indian
apolis.
The warrant for Smiths arrest was sworn
out by Fay Wood. of No. 225 West Pearl
street. She claimed that Smith. who has
been calling on her for some time, borrowed
her diamond ring, which she valued at $50,
and refused to give ii back.
She says Smith called at her house and
asked to take her ring and she gave it to
him to wear for day or so. He later went
to Martinsville, she said, and when week
had passed she wrote to him asking that the
ring be returned, but never received an an
swer to her letter. Yesterday she went TO
Martinsville and saw Smith, telling him
she wanted her ring. He told her that he
had just mailed it TO her at her Indianapo-
lis address in a registered letter. She board
ed the next train for this city and on her
arrival went to the postoffice and secured
the letter, which she opened in front of the
man at the delivery window in the post
office. but the ring was not there she then
called on the prosecuting attorney, who is
sued warrant for the young mans arrest.
Shortly after the warrant had been issued
Detectives Kinney and Morgan. who were
walking along the street, met Smith and
placed him under arrest.
Smith at the police station said that he
did send the girl an empty letter, but had
no intention of beating her out of her ring.
He had pawned the diamond for $65 in a
local pawnshop, he said, and had come 10
the city to get it for her and had hoped TO
have the ring returned to her before she
caused his arrest.
With the detectives he went to the pawn
shop and secured the ring, which he re-
turned to her in the presence of the officers
of the law. Miss Wood says that she does
not wish to prosecute the case, now that
she has recovered her property, and Smith
probably will be dismissed in the Police
Court this morning.
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A THOROUGH CLEANUP.

The summary dismissal of Charles Hedges
and the statement as to the cause of this
dismissal well illustrates not only the thor
oughness with which the President is push
ing this investigation, but also the network
of graft" that had. through years of COM
plaisance. come TO enmesh the whole Post
Office Department. Hedges had falsified his
official diary. made under oath, in order to
collect the "a per diem to which he was en-
titled while travelling as superintendent of
free delivery. and had loaned his travelling
commission to one OF his clerks. In reply
to the charges Hedges explains that such
methods were the regular thing. and were
approved by his superior, Machen, also in
disgrace for various abuses of his authority
If Theodore Roosevelt had never done any
thing else for the country than to institute
this investigation of the great business de-
partment of the government and follow 1T
up as ne has DONE this service alone would
entitle him TO a high place in history 1t
has required courage of very high order.
for not few of the men hurt in this bust
ness were able TO command in one way
or another very great political and social
influence. Had the President shown weak
ness hesitation at any point he would
have been overwhelmed with appeals and
demands for leniency from all quarters. in
Guiding, doubtless, many personal and polit-
ical friends. For many Of the irregularities
presidents have been found, running back
through half dozen administrations. and
there seems to have been a very general
practice of twisting legal interpretations to
the personal convenience and profit of Off
Gals.
1t needed just such a man as Roosevelt to
clean the Augean stables, and he has given
to the work unfinching courage and
tireless patience that must command the re-
spect and admiration of every right-thinh-
Ing man. When he gets through with it the
Postoffice Department will be what it ought
to be-a clean and honest business organ
ization.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-24
THIS BOY Is A WONDER.
He Has a Great Disposition to Do
Himself Bodily Harm.

Louis McCarran, a five year old lad liv-
ing with his parents at 321 East ST. Joseph
street, has had world Of trouble during
his brief existence on this earth. Yester-
day morning he discovered that he had two
holes in his nose and proceeded to I'LL one
of them up with a collar button which he
found on the street Once in the button re-
fused to come out and it was necessary for
the frightened mother to secure the aid
of DR.. A j. Mullen who, with few dex-
ferrous movements of an instrument, ex-
tracted the troublesome article and mo-
ment later the lad was out in search of
new discoveries.
About two months ago the boy put few
bird seeds in each ear and three or four
weeks later the mother notices little green
sprouts protruding from her chi1d's hear
ing apparatus. She called a doctor at that
time and on examination ii was found that
the seeds had taken root and started TO
grow. The doctor pulled the plants out and
explained to the boy that his ears were not
intended for hotbeds
Several months previous to the planting
of the seeds this same boy decided that he
wanted red hair and in order to satisfy his
desire poured bottle of iodine on his head
and within a few days had no hair at all
and his complexion was like that of an In
dian. Mrs. McCarren said yesterday that
she did not know what her son would do
next, but supposed that he would have
some surprise in store for her before many
days had passed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-24
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The Atchison Globe doesn't pretend to
understand the Latin inscriptions on tomb
stones. but il has an idea that they mean
in English: He's all in"
Eugene F. Ware, of Kansas, United
States pension commissioner. has under
taken to obtain and restore for presentation
to the Kansas Historical Society the scat
fold upon which John Brown was hanged
at Harper's Ferry in 1883.
pair of women's shoes made in Lynn,
Mass, to establish record for rapid shoe
making required ffty-seven different oper-
atoms and the use of forty-two machines
and 100 pieces. All these parts were as
Sembled and made into a graceful pair OF
SHOES, ready to wear, in thirteen minutes
Lolita NJ. Crabtree, once stage favorite.
has just sold, for $4,000, piece of San
Francisco real estate for which she paid
$4,000 some twenty years ago. Miss Crab
tree made deal of money as an actress,
and is now reputed to be several times
millionaire, owning $1,000,000 worth of prop
erty In Boston alone.
The practice of exchanging children by
parents living in French and German Swift
zerland, in order to enable the children to
learn another language, is spreading to
Italy. Recently an exchange agency to
foster this was founded in Zurich, and now
a swiss child can pick up three languages
In short time at no cost to its parents.
few days ago Florence Nightingale en-
tered upon her eighty-third year. Miss
Nightingale has long lived in seclusion and
in some suffering, so that the world hears
little of her now. The results of her enter
prise in the hospitals of Scutari are mat
tiers of history. 1t was through her that
the nursing of the sick by women of edu-
cation came to stay
Lee j. Spangler, of York, Pa, who has
been close student of the Bible for many
years. making deductions from the proph-
ecies found therein, has come to the con-
clusion that 1.-The world will be destroyed
by fire in the year 1907" He gives his fell
low-men fair warning. Mr.. Spangler is a
successful merchant, but he has not begun
to close up his business affairs.
The people living in summer homes at
Muskegon, Mich, were surprised to see the
other morning what appeared to be a ver-
liable city, with it's fine buildings and wide
streets, in the Clouds with the base rest
ing on the placid waters of Lake Michigan.
The city's inner limits were few feet from
shore, while the western terminal was lost
on the horizon. Report of the phenomenon
soon brought hundreds to witness the
mirage. Some of those present easily rec
ognized the principal buildings and distinct
i've features of Milwaukee, which is nearly
opposite MuSkegOn. The mirage lasted for
about two hours and gradually faded away.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-24
A dispatch from Berlin says that at

A dispatch from Berlin says that at a
conference of financiers appointed by Ger
many to consider the proposals of the
American-Mexican international monetary
commission. two resolutions were unani-
mously adopted. viz. one that a uniform
circulating medium in China is urgently de-
sirable, and the other that, provided no
serious alteration in the value Of silver
is made, the uniform face value of coins
in siIver-using countries should be in re-
lation to gold as one to thirty-two. This
shows that the proposals of the American
Mexican commissioners ELECTED friendly
response in Germany. They contemplated
nothing more than the establishment of a
fixed ratio between silver and gold in sill
ver-using countries, and the establishment
of uniform rate OF exchange. and this is
the substance of the resolutions adopted by
the German financiers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-24
DEFENDED HER MOTHER.


Little thirteen-year-old Freda Lillian
kentrup made a determined effort in the
Juvenile Court yesterday to clear her moth
er. Catherine Kentrup, of charges made
against her by neighbors. Her efforts. how
ever. only convinced the court that a child
of her intelligence should not longer re-
main in the sort of home her mother kept
The girl is sister of Katie Kentrup.
whose case in Police Court attracted atten-
ton some time ago, where it developed that
Katie had come to Indianapolis from Gin
cinnati at her mothers request. When
she arrived here she refused to live with
her mother when she learned how she lived.
Judge Whallon became interested in the
girl and secured charge of her from the
board of guardians and she is now living
at the Whallon home
The home of Mrs. Kentrup is on Morris
street Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and Mr.. and
Mrs. Cole complained against the woman.
They said that men frequently visited Mrs.
kentrup and that beer was taken into her
rooms often. The mother came to this city
from SharpSville last March.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-24

Two Painters Fall Three Stories and
Neither Is Dangerously Hurt.

Thomas Weldon. $50 Massachusetts ave-
nue.. and L. D. Williams. 2527 North Ala
bama street. painters employed in painting
the building occupied by the Kahn Tailor
ing Company. at Meridian and Washington
streets, were seriously injured yesterday
morning by falling from the third story OF
the building TO the cement sidewalk below.
the fall being caused by the breaking of the
ropes which held the painters board in
midair while they were at work
Crowds who the men fall thought
that both had been killed, but found them
sitting up and asking each other how IL
happened when they arrived on the spot.
The painters were taken 10 the City Hos
pital in the Dispensary ambulance, attend
ed by Drs. Cunningham and Seaton, and
were last night reported as being fairly out
of danger.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-24
LAD LOSES HIS LIFE.
Claude Gregory Crushed to Death
Under a Load of sand.

Claude Gregory. eight years old. was
fatally injured yesterday morning by the
upsetting of sand wagon on which he was
riding and was carried TO the home OF
Louis Quackenbush. 16l Douglas street.
where he died shortly afterward.
Young Gregory was riding on the seat
with the driver when the wagon tipped
over The lad fell beneath the load Of sand
and was crushed 10 death. After assist
ing TO carry the boy 10 the home OF Mr.
Quackenbush the driver disappeared and up
TO the present time has not been located
although Deputy Coroner Gels made a
search for him yesterday. The accident
happened on Douglas street, above the old
treStle work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-24

- intimations made by counsel for MUIR
phy. treasurer of stonecutters' union in
New York. charged with embezzlement, are
even more serious than the open charges
preferred against Walking Delegate Parks
In questioning tslesmen the lawyer gave
reason TO believe that ii was the habit of
the leaders of this union to regularly con-
spfre to extort large sums from employers
On threats of strikes ard divide the money
among themselves. The trial OF Murphy
promises to bring out some very interest
Ing Developments as TO the way the building
trades unions have teen managed in New
York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-24
New Indiana Indu.trie..

The Richmond Realty Company. OF Rich
mond, Ind, he's filed articles OF incorpora-
ton with the secretary OF state. The
capital stock is $4,000. The directors are
Edgar G.. Hibberd. Walter S. Gayle and
James w. Morrison.
The Angola Medicine Company. of An
COLA, Ind, filed articles showing $4,000 capt.
tai stock and announcing Sumner w Blk
ler Andrew ID. Smith and Curtis G.. Heck
enliyely as directors
The Sterling Electric Company OF La
fayette filed a certificate showing an in
crease of capital stock from 100000 TO
$4,000
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-24
MR.. LOCKWOOD REPLIES.
Mine Workers Journals Criticism
Not Based on Facts.

George B. lockwood, secretary to Gov
ernor Durbin, in commenting on the edi-
torial criticism of Governor Durbin's atti-
tude toward the Evansville riot. contained
in the Mine Workers Journal, declares that
1.-The EDITORS talk about the mob arising
because of the feeling that Judge Rasch's
court would not bring criminals to speedy
justice and that the Governor ought to call
a special session of the Legislature for the
purpose of impeaching him. is merely, of
course. a mess of hyperbolic nonsense"
Mr.. LOCKWOOD further declares that the
demonstration at Evansville was against
the militia, pure and simple, undertaken out
of pure anarchistic cussedness. 1T is sur
prising," he says, that there is q person
in Indiana, claiming to be a loyal citizen of
the country, who can talk about the mat
ter to the extent of a column or two and
find so many things TO criticise EXCEPT the
lawless spirit of the mob. The lodging of
that issue is sufficient indication of what
this editor wanted to say, but he aid not
dare to-"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-24
Prominent Republicans of Michigan are

Prominent Republicans of Michigan are
organizing a movement to celebrate the
fftieth anniversary of the formation of the
Republican party They claim that the
party had its birth at Jackson, Mich, in
1854. though they do not give particulars.
A state convention of anti-Nebraska citi-
zens. irrespective of former political affilia-
ton, was held at Detroit, July 6. 1854, and it
is claimed this convention was the first
to adopt the name Republican. The truth
is the Republican party sprang into exist
ence in many places about the same time.
and its birth as national party can only
be said to date from its first national con-
vention, in Philadelphia. June II, 1856
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-24

The community will of course extend its
tenderest sympathy to the Barkeepers'
Union in its distress due to the malignant
circulation of a dastardly rumor that 1t
had adopted a rule prohibiting its members
from drinking at the expense Of their Gus
toners. The officials of the union indig-
nantly deny the SANDER and declare that
the paper shat published ii never sent re-
porter to them to find out whether or not it
was true! This is dreadful 1t is to be hoped
that the esteemed contemporary that made
this blunder, far-reaching in its effect,
will make haste TO spread the glad news
that the ''barkeep' Is open to all friendly
courtesies an easy public may yearn to
shower upon bin.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-24
WILL ENFORCE THE LAW.
Revenue Officers Will Keep Their
Eyes on Tobacco Dealers.

Instructions received from Washington
will make the officers of the internal
revenue service more watchful in regard
to the infringement of the revenue laws by
tobacco dealers of this city. 1t is stated
that in selling to some of the smaller deal
ers, the tobacco men have been breaking
packages of manufactured tobacco and that
these portions have been kept in other than
the required stamped packages.
According to the federal law. there Is
heavy fine for selling or offering for sale
tobacco not prepared in packages and
stamped as prescribed. A violator OF this
and imprisonment from six months 10 two
years A penalty OF $50 Is attached TO the
receiving. or buying for sale. of such pack
ages.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-24

Justice Shepard held an Insanity; inquest
on John G. Mccoy yesterday morning in
the clerks Office. AS a result Mccoy will
be taken to the Central Hospital for the
Insane He had a delusion that some per-
son. who had paid $3.50 for his body. was
after him with a rope to hang him. He
went to the police station and asked to be
locked up so he would not be caught
In the afternoon Justice Stout took similar
action in the case OF Alfred ID. Weizman.
He imagined that burglars were in his
house. which had been entirely changed
and remodeed On one occasion he got
hold OF revolver and drove his family
out of the house.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-24
MAY FILE INJUNCTION SUIT.
Ruckle-Street Improvement Does Not
Suit the Property Owners.

1t is reported that the property owners
in Ruckle street will to-day file suit to en-
join the Board of Public Works from ac-
'cepting the gravel road Improvement on
Ruckle street. The property owners claim
the Improvement does not comply with the
specifications or the intent of the board and
that the contractor used so much sand and
dirt in place OF gravel that the new ma
terial on the street will not pack. The
board has informed the property owners
that il will not accept the Improvement, at
least until il Is investigated by City En-
gineer Nelson. And il was reported yester-
Improvement.