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The daily tribune., 1903-05-23
WILL EXTEND DISTRICT.
Free Mail Delivery Will Reach
More of the People.

Postmaster Davie is making an
effort to have the free mail delivery
district extended to include all por-
I'll ons of the city so that practically all
the residents may enjoy the benefits of
the system.
When the free delivery was first es-
,tablished it was thought that it would
be impossible for the three carriers to
cover all the remote sections of the
city and the district was therefore not
laid out to the city limits in all direc-
lions Mr.. Davie found. however,
that the carriers have time to cover
longer routes, hence he made applica.
tiou. while in Denver this week, to
have the district enlarged He asks
that all of Union avenue which in
cludes the ID. u r. G.. station be taken
in. There are forty nine numbered
houses on that street alone. He also
includes in his request Railroad street
and Deibert street to Robinson avenue
south, thence north to Main. Also
the Bernard addition and all the
north side of town to the Santa Fe
railway.
II this reques, is granted it will
please a great number of people who
free mail delivery and vino will show
er blessings upon the head of the post .
master.
The daily tribune., 1903-05-23
TWO GOOD MOVES.
A County Fair and Monthly Racing
Matinees.


G. E. Reeves. Canon City livery
man wss in the city today. in the in.
terests of the Canon City Driving club
and the Fremont County Fair asso-
citation. A movement is ON foot in
Canon looking to the holding of an
nual county fairs. and its promoters
hope that Florence may become in
terested.
And i'll connection with this the
Canon City Driving club is trying to
secure the cooperation Of Colorado
Springs, Pueblo and Florence horse
men, for the purpose of holding
monthly matinees at these various
cities.
Both the ideas are good and should
receive the endorsement of Florence
people. Horse racing is true sport
and if we can have an occasional meet
in Florence it will help out.
The daily tribune., 1903-05-23
Spittoons on the Streets.

The local Improvement societies
every where have had a hard struggle
to bring the public at large in to line
for keeping the highways free from
waste paper and other scraps In net
few cities and villages this sort of
trash is still visible on all sides in
spite of the number of years that the
campaign for unlittered streets has
been in progress. The most effective
means used in educating populace
appear to have been the wildly color
ed scrap boxes set up at certain corners
and inscribed with legend asking
the passer-by to throw his waste paper
into them instead of dropping it in
discriminately. Shall we be driven
to some device in breaking mp the side
walk splitting habit Washington
Post.
The daily tribune., 1903-05-23
Wanted, Men.

Men with back bone who can resist
the temptation of dollars and dimes,
men who dare for the truths sake to
stand by their principles, men who
will not try to balance the littleness
of life against the immensely of eter-
nifty. Judas sold his master for thirty
pieces of silver aud the excavations of
eighteen centuries have not yet oblit-
Grated the record of his treachery
The history of politics is the history
of Judas repeated in the actors, men
who are sacrificing manhood and
principle for tho emolumepts of petty
Offices The price for the protection
of sin and crime is the dollar that
slides so conveniently into the open
pocket of the successful juPgler. The
men are few who dare to risk popu-
larity or business in defense Of right
and law. They do not like to be
called "kickers' and 'agitators. -
The only thing the law breaker wants
in any community is TO he let alone
He does not want any string of tie
muddy drift that covers his methods
His tools are men of all classes He il
quick to detect the hypocrite. the man
whose soul Is smaller than the dollar.
so the church furnishes new Judns
and the thirty pieces of silver is passed
on. The business man fears for his
business and he too falls below hi
own stand rd of manhood but the
great rank and file of supporters for
the law breaker comes from the class
whose appetites ana passion have car
ried him beyond even the percet ton
OF truth and Justice who know no
law but the qualification of british
impulses. This class would be but
comparatively poweriess faction in
politics and in most communities were
it not for reiDforcements from the
more respectable class who through
lack of courage or svarice for indif-
ference allow the law breaking ele-
ment to predominant and control com
munities. Pueblo Post
The daily tribune., 1903-05-23
A Free Press.

The most conspicuous article in the
anniversary number of the New York
World was written by Associate
Justice Brewer of tie United States
supreme court. 1t was splendid
tribute to the free press of America.
He makes the following strong and
telling points:
First. the etfect the press has had
on the recent advance in American
life has been in realizing the corsti-
tutional purpose to form IA more per-
feet union Forty years ago bitter
civil war prevailed. North and south
were enemies. Now sectional ami
mosities are disappearing. patriotism
The daily tribune., 1903-05-23

A. l. Hadley aud DR.. Yard were out
driving last evening and while cross.
Peak and Second, the horse broke
through, throwing the animal to the
ground, but fortunately neither the
horse or the occupants were injured
beyond bad shaking up.
The daily tribune., 1903-05-23

Louis d. Eichhorn has just closed
contract with the Nebraska Epworth
assembly to conduct the music for the
coming meeting at Lincoln, August
5-lS Mr.. Eichhorn is to use his own
new book for all the services and
fruinsh solos aud special choruses with
a choir of hundred voices
The daily tribune., 1903-05-23
Governor Van SAINTS Old Fogy Idea

A funny sort of an old fogy must
be Governor Van SAINT of Minnesota.
The representatives of the Minnesota
legislature passed resolution just
before adjourning to take to their
respective homes al the desks, chairs
and other detachable furniture as in
adequate remuneration for their SER
vices to the state. When the vans
began TO back up to the capitol Cover
nor Van SAINT was there. After a
lively debate, in which several honor
able noses were fiattened out, the fur
niture was wrested from the law
makers hand and locked in the COVER
uor's private office. II such action as
tins of Governor Van SAINTS inst un-
contitutional it is untrsditional, ire
gular and indelicste. We cannot in
dorse the undiplomstic attitude of
Governor Van SAINT, for the Legislators
might take revenge by refusing to ad
journ. Detroit journal.
The daily tribune., 1903-05-23
ToDAY's OIL NOTES.
New Company Formed to Drill in
Florence Fields.

The Blaney Oil Gas and Refining
company was organized last night for
the purpose of drilling in the Florence
filed. The company has lease on
forty acres in section 20. another forty
in section 10 and l6 lots in the state
addition near North Pixies Peak ave
nue..
The officers of the company are, L..
Blaeny. president; E. S. Blaney, vice
president; @. W. Blauey. secretary
and treasurer. These three also com
pose the board of directors
The company is capitalized at 500.
600.
Owing the the bad luck with casing
the Taylor & Cooper company has
done no boring on the McCumber place
for two months past The drill was
tarted again last week. Canon City
Clipper.
The daily tribune., 1903-05-23

promoting national unity. hastening
the. solution of the great social prob
lens, and bringing all matters before
the court of public opinion. a court Of
increasing wisdom and power. Lead
willie Herald Democrat.
The daily tribune., 1903-05-23

Old papers At tins Office for 70
cents per hundred Just the thing
for putting under carpets II
The daily tribune., 1903-05-23

DR.. Watson has moved his Office
over Gibbs Jewelry store, with DR..
Rambo. tt
The daily tribune., 1903-05-23

The best opportunity for an invest
ment ever offered % the public. Ask
Jas. Montgomery. 6S-73
The daily tribune., 1903-05-23

j. J. Hessick, in charge of the drill
ing of the we'll for the Lobach Oh
company, has cased off the oil whicl
was entered yesterday, and will sinl
the well deeper
The daily tribune., 1903-05-23
Florence & Cripple
Creek Railroad. and
Associate Companies.

To the Cripple Greek District
Through. Gigantic and Marvellous
Canons and over Magnificent
Mountain Passes
The daily tribune., 1903-05-23

f. ". Nixon has resigned bis posi-.
tion with the Florence Oil company
to accept the position Of head book
keeper for the Portland Cement COM
pany. Mr.. Nixon has been with Mr..
Gumset tor the lsst avs or aix years
aud is considered one Of the most cou,-
petent accountants in this section of
the country. An his new position
came to him unsolicited and as far a.
remuneration is concerned is promo
tion, Mr.. Nixon is to bc conRratulat.
ed upon his preferment
The daily tribune., 1903-05-23

The ladies OF the Grand Army will
serve home cooked dinner circus
day. Strawberry short cake will be
part OF menu. "a 1910 72
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-08-02

Special train leaves Indianapolis at 7:30
a. m. Returning leaves Aurora at 7:20 p. m.
H. NJ. BRONSON, A G. p. A.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-08-02
JUDGE CARTER'S RULING
DEMURRER TO RUCkLE-STREET
COMPLAINT SUSTAINED.
The Case VIII BE Taken to the SUI
Gibson-News of the Courts.

In the Superior Court yesterday morning
Judge Carter sustained the demurrer filed
by Assistant City Attorney Hay to the
complaint for temporary injunction filed
by the Ruckle street property owners. to
prevent lthe Board of Public Works from
approvinE- certain improvements made on
that street. By the ruling of Judge Carter
1T was held that the action of the property
owners was premature, that no action had
been taken by the board in the matter and
no fraud had been shown. An exception
to the ruling was filed by Attorney Edgar
A. Brown, who represented the property
owners, and notice given that the case
would be appealed to the Supreme Court.
Judge Carter said that IL the work had
not been done according to specifications
it ought not to be accepted by the board,
but as to that matter he was not the judge.
He stated further that in case the board
should act fraudulently in accepting the
street, then the property owners have a
right to take legal action, but the act mus
have been committed. The mere intention
of the board is not enough.
Fraud had been charged against City
Engineer Nelson, but the court in alluding
10 this point said that the suit was not
against the city engineer, but against the
Board of Public Works.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-08-02
GROWTH OF NEWSPAPERS
1T HAS AN EFFECT ON THE LOCAL
POsToFFICE BUSINESS
Indianapolis Is Becoming One of the
Largest Publication Centers i'm
the Middle West.

According to postoffice officials Indianap-
oils Is rapidly becoming one of the largest
publication cities in the nIiddle West. Be
sides the daily newspapers sent from here
there are large number of other publica-
tons, especially weekly papers. mailed
from the local postoffice.
The increase in the newspaper and period
ical matter which passes through the hands
OF the mail clerks. said John E. ShideIer
assistant postmaster. is noticeable each
year. He said most people would be sur
prised at the amount OF second-class mat
ter that goes out from Indianapolis The
annual report OF the newspaper and period
ical department has just been completed
hnd shows increase over last year Of
- per cent. little more than one-quarter
The report also shows that the amount of
postage expended on newspapers sent from
the city during the last fiscal year ending
June 30 was $40, ,45S.9S. and the postage used
on periodicals was $31 1855, making the
total receipts of the department S72.445 So
with an increase in figures of S. 472.63. The
increase in the secondaclass matter has
been due to a greater increase in the circu-
Iation of local papers and the institution
OF a number OF new weeklies.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-08-02
HE READ DIME NOVELS
THEN ATTEMPTED TO BRIGHTEN
PERSONS INTO GIVING HIM MONEY.
Charles +. Hess, of Columbia City, i'm
the Hands of the Federal AuthOri-
ties-WiII BE Brought Here.

Deputy Marshal Martin went to Columbia
City yesterday to arrest prominent young
man of that city, who is wanted by the
Postoffice Department on the charge of
blacknail- The young man is Charles F.
Hess, who for some time has been causing
quite a scare around Columbia City by
threatening to blow up the postoffice. Hess
stands well in the city and was engaged to
one of the prominent young women of the
town.
He was addicted. however. to the reading
of dime novels, and through them con-
ceived the scheme of frightening people into
leaving him a large sum of money at a GER
tain place, under threat of burning their
homes. He was caught waiting for the
money at specified place, but was re-
leased by the authorities on a bond of 81 600
He will be brought here by Deputy Marshal
Martin to stand the charge which the post
oce officials have against him for using
the mails for carrying on his scheme.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-08-02
PHOTOGRAPHERS TO MEET
NATIONAL AND STATE ASSOCIATIONS
HERE THIS WEEK.


The annual convention or the Photogra-
piers Association Of America and the meet
ing of the Indiana Association will be held
and 1t is expected that the two gatherings
will bring at least one thousand visitors
to the city. The attendance may exceed
that figure by three or four hundred. as
over 100 attended the convention at Buff
falo last year and indianapolis is regarded
as a much better convention city so far as
central location and railroad facilities for
reaching every corner of the country are
concerned.
A number of the officers of the national
association, representatives of the large
Photographic supply houses and commit
tees to look after the national and several
State exhibits arrived in the city yester-
day to make the preliminary ARA ngements
for the convention. Among the early ar
rivals were G. r. Reeves. Anderson, first
vice president; National Secretary George
G. Holloway, Terre Haute. and National
Treasurer Frank Il. Barrows, Boston. Ma
tional President J. George Nussbaumer.
Buffalo, will arrive some time to-day. Ma
tional headquarters for the convention are
the Claypool Hotel, while the various State
delegations will establish their headquar-
ters at the other hosteries.
The sessions of the convention, the art
salon and the exhibits of the supply houses
will be held at the German House. The
German House has been elaborately deco
rated for the occasion. The convention will
be opened at 10 o'clock Tuesday forenoon
and Governor Durbin is expected to deliver
the address of welcome. President Nuss-
banner will deliver his annual address and
the mornings programme will conclude
with a trade talk by w. l. Scanlin, of New
York. on Business Conditions" In the
afternoon w. Forsyth, of indianapolis,
will deliver an art lecture and that evening,
a reception will be rendered the delegates
at the German House by the II. Lieber
Company. Wednesday will be manufacture
ers' and dealers day, and there will be no
business sessions of the convention.
Thursday the reports of the several off,
GERS and committees Will be received and
the meeting place for next year will be Sc
lected. st. Louis and San Francisco would
both like to entertain the photogra piers
chances are in favor of the exposition city.
The annual election of officers will follow
and C. r. Reeves, of Anderson, will be adj
vanced from the first vice presidency to the
presidency. The programme for the con-
vention is regarded as the most attractive
and most artistic ever issued for a con-
vention in this city 1t is embellished with
reproductions or pictures made by the lead
ing photographers of the country.
The Indiana Association will hold a busi-
ness session one day during the week, but
the exact arrangements have not yet been
made.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-08-02

John F. Geckler. who preceded Charles
N Elliott as city clerk, has found an ex-
PLANTATION for the charge of John w. Coons.
an expert accountant. that Gecbler owed the
city $47, or, in other words. was short that
amount I'm his accounts. Mr.. Geckler says
the expert could have found statements to
account for the SAT, If he had not failed to
examine the records carefully.
An item of S25, which CoOns says was not
accounted for, was a fine imposed by Judge
DAILY attorney for contempt of court.
The fine was paid by check, but before it
was entered on the docket the police judge
remitted il. and the check was returned 20
the attorney. The first item, $3 which was
not entered in the cash book, was found To
be referred to in the receipt book as fol-
lows: unable to find case in docket.
Money in safe" The item of s. reported TO
be due the city was based on a receipt of
$11, but the judges docket showed that the
fine and costs amounted TO So instead of Sl1.
Mr. Geckler says the records will bear him
out in all these statements.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-08-02
FISH FOR STATE MUSEUM.
An Immense Tarpon Presented by the
Evans Family, of Liberty

The State Museum has come into posses
sion of an immense fish, handsomely mount
ed and about five feet in length. When
caught it weighed 196 pounds. 1t is of the
species known the tarpon, sometimes
called the Silver king. 1t was caught in an
inlet of the Gulf Of Mexico called Aransas
Pass, in the State of Texas. The fish was
sent to the late L. ID. Evans, of Liberty,
by his son, who resided in Texas. Mr. Ev-
ans is now dead, and his family has for
warded the fish to Indianapolis to become
the property of the State. AT present the
fish is at the office of Cass Connoway, in
the Law building. Mr.. Connaway is an ac-
Quaintance of the Evans family, and
through him they presented the specimen
to the State. 1t will not be moved to the
library for several days. The tarpon grows
the largest of any of the game fish and is
especially sought after by fishermen who
cast their lines in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-08-02
wHITTAKER's BOND APPROVED.
Reformatory Board Spends an Hour
Going Over Report.

The board of managers of the Indiana
Reformatory held meeting yesterday
afternoon in the Governors office at the
Statehouse and approved the bond Of Will
II. Whitaker, superintendent-elect. The
bond is in the sum of $4,000 and is signed
by the following men: Edward w. Brown,
Charles Harley, James w. Weidner, Isaac
Dreifus, Hiram Kirlin, John II. Burr, John
A Cartwright, Charles Pigman. all of Del
phi; A. Z. Bradshaw, OF Indianapolis, and
James p. Goodrich and w. 3. kizer, of
Winchester.
Mr. Whitaker submitted a report on the
conditions at the Reformatory as he found
them during his investigation of the past
month. 1t was a lengthy document and
considerably over an hour was devoted to
the discussion of it by the board. The re-
port was not given out for publication yes
terday, but Ii is understood that 1t Will be
made public tomorrow, when Mr.. Whit
taker takes charge of the institution.
Mr.. Whitaker will go to Jeffersonville
to-day and tomorrow morning Supt. j. z.
Byers will step out and he will step in.
Tomorrow evening the board of managers
will hold another meeting at the Reforma-
tory and it is understood that Governor
Durbin will be present.
Those present at yesterdays meeting
were President ID. j. Terhune, of Linton, ID.
j. Crittenberger, of Anderson, and DR.. III.
c. Hobbs, OF Salem. l.. =. Newly. of
Knightstown was unable to be present
owing to business engagement. Governor
Durbin Was not at his office du- g the
meeting of the board.
Up to this time only two changes in the
force of employees at the Reformatory have
been decided on by the new superintendent
NJ. NJ. Barnard. who for eight years has
been deputy warden of the State Prison at
Michigan City, has been appointed assistant
superintendent of the Reformatory, and
John s. Hathaway, of this city, is TO be-
come assistant clerk and stenographer. Mr..
Barnard goes to the Refofmatory with the
full consent of Warden Reid, of the prison.
He will take the place of Mr.. Reibling. who
was Mr.. Byers's chief assistant. Barnard
took employment at the prison eight years
ago under Warden Harley. He first became
a wall guard and finally worked up to the
position of deputy warden. In speaking of
Barnard last night Mr.. Whitaker said he
was considered one of the best disciph-
narians in the country. Jack Hathaway,
as he is best known, was one of the expert
stenographers employed at Republican
state committee headquarters the last cam
paign. He will take the place of two young
men who have been acting as assistant
clerk and stenographer.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-08-02
CITY NEWS NOTES.

The Woman's Auxiliary of the Railway
Postal Clerks will meet at Spades Place to-
morrow at y. m
Miss a. Elizabeth Ssh. who has been
spending three weeks at York Beach, Me-,
returned home yesterday.
The womans auxiliary to Typographical
Union. No. 1, will meet tomorrow with
Mrs. j. III. Konnorsman, 20I0 Cooper street.
Miss Esther Cole has gone to Chicago to
visit MIR. and Mrs. John Cummings. Later
she will go to Bay View, Mich to be the
guest of Judge Wileys family.
Rev. Mr.. Patton, Rev. S. III. Johnson, the
Rev. Slaughter and number of deacons
have organized a new missionary Baptist
Church. The church will be know as the
Union Baptist Church.
Miss Ethel Duncan, of Morton Place,
left last night to spend the remainder of
the summer at Bay View Mich as the
guest of Mr. and Mrs J. w. Pinnell, of this
city, who have a summer cottage at that
place.
On the Atlantic transport line steamship
Minneapolis, of the international Mercan-
tile Company, which sails for London to-
morrow, these residents of Indianapolis
have engaged passage: Coruthers Ewing,
r. b. Snowden and L. H. Trip.
Charles Swain Thomas has been selected
as principal of the indianapolis Summer
High School for next year, and Prof. Dan
iel I. Weir secretary and treasurer An ef
fort will be made TO make the school next
summer even more successful than the term
just closed.
w. p. FouIk an employe of the Comstock
& Coonse Company, while at work yester-
day afternoon was stuck on the head with
a large pipe filter and fell unconscious TO
the floor of the factory. He was taken to
.e City Dispensary, where his numerous
scalp wounds were dressed by DIR. Cunning
ham.
L. z. Mccormack, state labor commits
siOner, will go to Marion tomorrow to see
what can be done about arbitrating the Ia
Dor troubles there. He was there two or
three weeks ago but found nothing could
be done at that time. The commissioner
does not anticipate serious trouble at Ma
rion.
The August number of the T. B. Laycock
Factory News Mark Dennis editor and IL
illustrator, is of more than usual excellence
The matter is bright and interesting. The
illustrations are artistic. One of the fea-
lures of the little book is the attention
given to pleasant gossip about the en-
ployes, especially to the factory baseball
club.
Ernest Mopley, 62S Agnes street, colored
man employed at loading potatoes for James
L. Reach, fell from the top of his wagon
yesterday afternoon and struck his head
on the pavement. He suffered several deep
gashes and was picked up in unconscious
condition and taken to the City Dispensary,
where his injuries were dressed by DR.. Cum
l. ningham.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-08-02
EPPERsoN INVESTIGATED.
BOlcak's Shoulder Touched Trolley
Wire and He mt Once Died.

Mine Inspector Epperson has been investi-
eating a case Of death by accident in one
of the mines of the Keller Coal Company at
Clinton. Joe Bolcak, Slav, employed as a
car coupler in the mine. was killed by an
electric shock. Inspector Epperson says the
accident was a most unusual one. While
coupling cars Bolcak's shoulder came in con-
tact with the trolley wire, which contains 250
volts of electricity, and the shock caused
his death The inspector thinks that Bolcak
must have had heart trouble and that the
current passed directly to his heart. Mr..
Epperson declares there have been frequent
occasions when men have come in contact
with this wire and no one was ever Sc
verely injured before. Epperson is preparing
a report To be made to the coroner of Yer
million county.