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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-16
MISSING GIRLS
HIDDEN ON SHIP
Charges Will Be Investigated
BY Commander.

St Louis. Mo, Feb. 15.-Charges
have been made that Government
sailors have been using the naval
training ship Huntress. anchored at
Bisseu's Point, North St Louis, as \
rendezvous and hiding place for runa-
way girls under age. will be investi-
gated by Lieutenant Commander W.
F. Roberts. of the Missouri Naval Re
serves.
Mrs Bertha Pradlers reported TO the
police that she had learned that her
sixteen Y ear-old daughter, Meta had
spent the week before her disappear
ance from home as guest on tho
HuntreSs Complaint has also been
made that Miss Lulu kIeine aged IL
missing from her home here spent
some time on the federal ship since her
parents last saw her.
Roy Sanderson. a handsome seaman
in charge of the Huntress, admits these
girls spent some time on the ship since
they left home He says he does not
know where they are.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-16
TAX CATHERERS
MORE SUCCESSFUL
Increase Is Shown in CoIIec.
ton of All Taxes.

The annual report of the auditing
department of the state auditors Of
flee shows that tax officials have been
busy collecting delinquent taxes dur
ing the last year. A decided increase
is shown in the collection Of taxes for
nearly all the funds.
Total settlements of county treas
urers for the year give the following
payments to the different funds:
State tax, general fund, S2,0l5, ,0S1.75;
State benevolent institution fund.
S7S1.40S.l4: state school fund, $780,,
9S9.15: state educational institution
fund, $43o312. 80: county tax, $5.525.
5S6.oG: township tax. 81 .::}2222 623. 81: tu-
ition tax. S3.405. .S1o.21: special school
tax. S4,OI7.:f92 4t; road tax. S1.o27.-
66S.36: relief of poor tax, $303. III 30.
The total of taxes collected during the
year amounted to Sal $50. .595.44.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-16
Asserted That Many in Wayne
County Have Been Using
Discrimination in Selection
Of Teachers.
WAGE SCALE HAS BEEN
RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS.
Poor Teachers Employed at
Minimum Scale in Prefer
enCe to More Efficient Ones
RESOLUTIONS Adopted.

BE il resolved that the trustees or
Wayne county in the future apply the
minimum wage law SO that there will
be no discrimination against any class
of teachers"
The above was one Of the resolu-
tions adopted at the close of the
Wayne county Teachers association
Saturday. 1t followed an attack upon
the methods of several trustees. 1t is
asserted that some of these officials
desiring to save money hired teachers
who are not fitted for their positions
simply because they have certificates
calling for the lowest scale of wages.
In these townships it is difficult for
an able teacher holding a first grade
license TO obtain employment.
In other townships it is the method
of the trustee to get hold of all the
teachers in sight who have the first
grade license and to reject all appli-
cants who hold second or third class
license.
The teachers of the county have
taken decided stand against such
nigh handed proceedings because they
believe that it is working hardship to
the schools, and to the profession Of
teaching. Unless the trustees change
their method and abandon the discrim-
inatiOn thew threaten to expose the
offenders.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-16
ANOTHER RUSH To
THE GOLD FIELDS
Rivals That of KIondike Ten
Years Ago.

Tacoma. Wash, Feb. IA spring
rush to Alaska. rivaling that to the
klondike ten years ago, has started.
Indications are that 10000 miners and
prospectors will go to the Northwest
gold camps in the next few months.
High wages reign in every mining
camp of Alaska and the British Yu-
kOn. In addition the MorganGuggen-
heim-Havemeyer interests are build
ing a trans-Alaskian railway up the
Copper River valley 10 reach what
Henry Bratnober, for years the Lon
don Exploration COMPANY copper eX-
pert, declares is the richest copper
district Vet discovered.
New gold strikes are reliably re
ported from the outlying klondike
creeks from the Stewart, White and
PelIy rivers and the Tanana, koyouku
and Copper river districts.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-16
About Everything in Center
Township That Was Loose
Was Taken by Them, Ac-
Cording to Confessions.
POULTRY DEALER ALSO
ENMESHED IN TOLLS.
Claimed That He Operated a
'FenCe for the Youthful
Band-TWo Boys Were Civ
en- Their Freedom.

As the result Of an appeal made by
residents of Centcrville and vicinity,
Chief Bailey of the Richmond police
department has rounded up a clever
band of young thieves who have been
making life burden TO the good peo-
pie of Center township. In the police
dragnet George Limiting, a CentervilIe
poultry dealer. has been shared. II is
alleged by the police that Limiting has
been acting as a fence for the
youthful crooks.
The entire gang. the members OF
which were not known to Chief Bailey,
were taken into custody as the result
OF confessions made by Tom Ammer-
man and Rolly Savage, who were ar
rested the first of last week for steal
ing about SIS worth Of catalpa seed.
When the boys were examined by
Bailey he charged them with being
implicated in other thefts. Finally the
lads broke down under the investiga-
tion and related story of wholesale
thievery. They implicated Karl Oar
nell. Charles Blue, Billy Newman. Roy
Hilbert and Charles Thrine. They al
SO stated that all the chickens and
turkeys stolen by the gang We're sold
to Limiting.
When the lads implicated by Am
merman and Savage were brought be
fore Chief Bailey, they were persuad-
ed TO make complete confessions. A
perusal of these documents shows
that about all the gang did not at
tempt to steal were the houses in Cen
tervlle. Collectively and individually
the members of the gang during the
past six months have figured in about
twenty Jobs
At various farms in the neighbor-
hood of Centerville numerous chick-
ems and turkeys were stolen. butter
was stolen from the creamery meat
was taken from a slaughtering estab-
lshment and catalpa seed was appro-
priated. All told the property stolen
by these young crooks is estimated
to be valued at three or four hundred
dollars. Darnell and Blue are just
mere lads and Judge Fox has allowed
them their liberty on a promise OF fu-
ture good behavior. Charley Thrine
known as 'Dickey Rat" is an orphan
boy and has knack of being perpet.
uately in trouble. He appears to be
q second edition of Huckleber Finn
"Dickey Rat in his confession stated
that zimmerman offered to allow him
TO live at his home if he stole half a
hog from the Strengthening house
Many of the statements made by
Thrine are very amusing. Limiting has
been released on bond. Three char
Ees of having received stolen goods
have been placed against him.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-16
CULEBRA CUT YIELDS
GOLD AND SILVER
Returns of Find May Insure
Government.

Harrisburg. Pa, Feb. 15.-Ores con-
tanning gold, silver and copper have
been found in the celebrated Culebra
cut of the Panama canal. This has
been ascertained by chemical investi-
cation at the laboratory of Col. H. c.
Demming. consulting state geologist
in this city. Three lots Of the ore
were sent here for determination and
in every one of them the three metals
We're found, one of the samples being
considerably richer in the precious
metals than the others.
Larger quantities are TO be shipped
TO ascertain what the profits will be
when the ores are properly worked up
in bulk, The belief here is that all
the returns of the rich find will insure
10 the United States government.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-16
THE SHAH STILL
LIVES, II IS SAID
Report That Persian Ruler Is
Dead Not Believed.

London, Feb. 1J-No credence what
ever is attached here to the reports
from Vienna that the Shah of Persia
had been assassinated. The charge of
the Persian legation in London de-
clared today that there was no ground
for apprehension, and that if anything
had happened to the Shah the lega-
ton undoubtedly would have been no
titled A telegram received here from
Paris says the Persian minister to
France received several messages
from Teheran last night on ordinary
business and that no mention was
made OF any incident that could have
occaSioned the rumOr.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-16
COUPLE WILL MARRY
AFTER FORTY YEARS
Aged Globe Trotter to Take
Old Sweetheart.

New York. Feb. 15.--Parted by a low
er's quarrel more than forty years ago
marriage ceremony today reunited
William Dixon Spaulding and Mrs.
Mary Field Bates. Back in civil war
days Spaulding was suitor for the
hand of Miss Field. but a misunder-
standing parted them. and they did not
meet again until a short time\ago. Miss
Field. in the meantime. had married
DR.. James Hale Bates. who died four
years ago, leaving her a fortune esti-
mated at S10no.OOo. Mr.. SpauIding.
who is we'll known writer and globe
trotter. is seventy-five years old, and
his bride few years Younger.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-16
Will Send Protest to Governor
HanIy and to President on
Behalf of People to Stop
Political Activity.
CANDIDATES RECORDS
WILL BE EXPOSED.
Labor Committee Has Made
Investigation and Four
Candidates for Governor
Will Get Axis Kuhn One?

Indianapolis, Feb. 15.-Candidates
for Indiana state offices, both demo
Gratis and republicans, are now being
scrutinized by organized labor. 1nflu-
ential labor leaders from all parts of
the state are in indianapolis at this,
time. and they are here TO go over the
records of the men who aspire to the
office of governor.
Two republican candidates and two
democratic candidates for governor. it
is said, will have their records placed
before the people.
One of the most important of the
things to be done by these labor lead
ers will be the sending of committees
10 the state house and TO Washington,
D. c., to protest against the activity of
state and federal officers and en-
ployes in state politics. Labor men
say that these servants Of the people
are paid salaries by the people to do
the peoples work and that they
should not give the peoples time to
boosting this or that candidate for
governor, or for other political pre-
ferment. The people do not pay their
servants to do political hustling. A
committee of labor men will ask Gov
ernor Hanly to put a stop to the politi-
cal activities of state employees and Of
ficers. Another committee will travel
to the nations capital, and there lodge
a complaint against federal employees
who are said to be working on the peo-
pies time in the interests of can
didates for state and other offices.
1t is expected that the next few
weeks will see an unwonted stir in the
Indiana political situation as a result
of the efforts of labor leaders to get
at the truth and to reform what they
regard as their proper political func-
tiOnS.
Labor leaders have given three
months to an investigation of the men
who now aspire to state offices. AS a
result of these inquiries, several can
didates will be permitted to defend
themselves and to explain their rec
Ords to the assembled labor men.
1t is intimated that some surprises
will be sprung. The democrats who
are to be put on the griddle, it is said
are such men as will furnish a real
surprise to the public and to the dem
Ocratic party.
The men who have this matter in
charge say they do not desire to in
jure any man. They declare that they
feel the time has come when political
DaTtieS in Indiana ShOu1d make IN
clean states of honest men in whom
the people may place the utmost con-
fidence.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-16
SHERIFF ACCUSED OF
ASSAULT AND BATTERY
Charges Filed by His Daugh-
ter-in-laW.

Kokomo, Ind, Feb. 15.-An affidavit
charging Sheriff Joseph NJ. Lindley
with assault and battery has been
filed in Justice Dotys court by Maud
n. Lindley, the sheriff's daughterin-
law She alleges that on the evening
of February 4. the sheriff entered her
home, cursed her. struck her in the
mouth with his fist. kicked her and
finally dragged her to Jail and locked
her up for several hours. releasing
her only when her friends threatened
the sheriff with prosecution for un-
lawful arrest.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-16
WATSON WANTS TO
AID RA|LR0ADERS
Introduces Bill Which May
Meet With Favor.

Washington, Feb. 15.-Representa-
tive James E. Watson has introduced a
bill in the interest Of railroad employ
es. Under its provisions it shall be
unlawful for any common carrier en-
gagged in interstate commerce. "to haul
or permit to be hauled or used on it's
line any car not equipped with secure
ladders side steps, running boards and
roof handholdo and the location and
application of said ladders, side steps
running boards and roof handholds
shall be as prescribed by the Master
Car Builders association in standards
for the protection of the train men"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-16
.BECKHAM FORCES
TO CANVASS STATE
Will Ask Commonwealth to
Endorse Him.

Louisville. Feb. 15-If the Ken
tucky Legislature should die in a
deadlock. the original plan of former
Governor J. c. W. Beckham and his
followers will be carried out. This
program comprehends long and bit
ter contest within the Democratic
party with the former Governor the
central figure. He will take his
cause to the people, will canvass the
commonwealth, and will ask the next
state convention 10 indorse his candi-
dacv for United States Senator. with
the hope of receiving the solid vote of
the Democrats i'll the next General
Assembly,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-16
PATRICIA
TO WE'D 4 COUNT
Conversion to Catholicism De-
lays Marriage.

Rome. Feb. 15.-The rumor of the
betrothal Of the Princess Patricia of
Connaught, and the Count Of Turin is
apparently we'll founded. The delay
in the official announcement is due
TO the question Of the conversion of
the princess to Catholicism not yei be
ing settled.
The constitution does not insist that
the wife of a royal prince be a Catho-
lie. but mixed marriage would be uu-
pgscsdspted iu the House Of Savoy.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-16
"P|CK It Up"
TOPIC OF ADDRESS
Tilman Hobson to Address
Men Today.

This afternoon Tilman Hobson, the
evangelist, will speak at the Grace NJ
=. church on the subject OF Pick II
Up" This meeting is for men only.
and it is expected that there will be Il
large number in attendance. The
meeting will start promptly at 8
O'Clock. Since arriving in this city
Evangelist Hobson has attracted large
crowds 10 his meetings and has con
Terted large number OF people,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-16
Why Not Make q Trade?

than a make
dispose Of why offer in exchange
body
best quickest to put FOR
of
pie or of
it.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-16
RESIGNS POSITION.

Irma Horn has resigned her position
as bookkeeper and stenographer with
the firm of Z. +. Shideler and COM
pany of this city.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-01-30

stand IA thing like that There's n
happy medium between a slave and a
s%ultan."
But the trouble is" declared the
Mere Man TRANQUILITY. that in matri-
money there's always one slave and
one Sultan-or sultana. Marriage is like
q pie or n %doushnut. difficult to divide
evenly. Somebody is sure to get tho
iarger half. and the other person has
IN be satisfied with what's left. The
important thing is to pick out an OPP
lonent'---
"A-what:"
"A husband or wife" explained the
Mere Man. who is weaker. not strong
, er than yourself; smaller, not bigger.
Then you'll get all the prizes, instead
of the leavings and
And spend our life" exclaimed the
bachelor Girl scornfully. sitting with
your feet on--a doormat!'
That's better" retorted the Mere
Man c~heerfully, than sitting at the
foot of "A throne and gazing W until
you get a crick in the neck
But not half so NICE" declared the
Bachelor Girl. with II toss of her chin,
AS sitting on a tete a tete-''
o across Il table, put in the Mere
Man.
With somebody exactly on your own
level
"Who wears a pink picture hat" mur-
INJURED the Mere Man. and a frilly
frock and m adorable"
And who can appreciate you" con-
ttnued the Bachelor Girl, ignoring the
h%ippancy. without straining his intel
lect."
And whom you can admire began
the Mere Man.
without losing your mental bal
ance.' finished the Bachelor Girl sig
%nificantly. That's just what / meant"
she declared.
Why. so do L." exclaimed the Mere
Man delightedly. Now. we. for in
stance. are on exactly the same level
You fiatter yourself, Mr.. Porter"
And while you are my Ideal
You aren't mine!"
No" sighed the Mere Man. reach
ing over and catching the Bachelor
Girls fingers across the table, but I'd
a a beautiful"
Don't. DON'T" whispered the Bach
eior Girl. b%lushing.
"A perfectly
"Oh. Bobby. It's bad form, and you
mustn't. and besides"
"A perfectly ideal doormat,H
TIE waiter is looking!''
The Mere Man withdrew his hand and
straightenea himself with a sigh.
Hell never believe" he remarked.
that that was merely a physiological
emphasis in Il psychological argu-
reft.'
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-01-30

'hal The world or the stage 81 the state
needs your husband; but it isn't quite
so satisfying to discover tina it's the
world or the stage or the state that
gets MIN. and thai about all that Is
left to YOU is his next morning head
ache and mis- nervous exhaustion and
a chance to sit around and keep luiet
while lie sleeps OF his excitement. It's
much more comfortable to spend your
life with Il man who can mend a broken
bedspring or fix the faucet when it
leaks mat with one who can play Men,
d~eissohn's Spring Song or write you Il
sonnet. And it's much wiser to marry
somebody who will button your shoes
ami walk the baby than somebody VINO
expects you to sit ut his feet and walk
Il chalk mark
And I suppose it's more satisfac-
tory added the Bachelor Girl. TO be
tied 10 the sort of man who knows
how 10 say pretty things across the
tablo viii lead the dog out to the
paris after dinner than to the brilliant
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-01-30

person VIII" knows how Il. carry Il
GROVE away IN his oratorical outbursts
and can had the nation on to glory"
Yes agreed the Mere Man, putting
iGlr. Tho great man who can hold an
audience ~spellhound and work the
country both Ways by pressing a small
button is apr to be moro pecNish about
!ne waN his hain ANA eggs are cooked
and more childish and freiful when
he finds n button Oft his shirt or is
hunting for a lean ncck,ie. than the
little chap Who can merely sit IN the
gallery and Try Hear. Hear Be
sides. 4 wife sort Of loses her
and admiration of Il genius after she
has helped him reheaNsc his speeches,
ana heard MIN swear 1T the cat and
struggled to gel him into his frock
coat and to make him put on the prop
er shirt and part his hair in the mid
die. Ideals. like anything else. need
distance to lend them cnchantment-
and the longer you are married to one
the more distance YOU are likely 10
give him.
The Bachelor Girl poured herself a
coffeepot with :, little thump.
Then I'll give it up!" she exclaimed
with conviction.
What" The Mere Man jumped.
The search for Il h~usband--'
But DIDN'T know you were search
iGS. tNtIciNleu tie Mere Man. Il
thought you were lodging"
= For a husband" continued the
Bachelor Girl. Ito whom / can look up
for a man so big that l can't see
ovcr him ard through him and all
around him; for a companion who viii
be an inspiration and an example and
4 matter of pride: for -
For a thing of beauty and a JOY for
ever broke in the Mere Man %cynically.
mat & what most women prn Siuh;,r
mo searching for; but the sad part of
IT is. that the thing of beauty is never
the JOY forever, not even for a minute.
The joy forever is the little. unobtru-
sivo chap in Il tweed suit and a brown
derby. who is SO far beneath you that
he has to strain his eyes to look up to
you. and will run his legs off to wait
on you. and work his fingers off to
buy you frocks. and part his hair and
buv his necktieS anywhere on earth to
please you. and do his smoking in the
Kitchen and spend his evenings by the
fire and his whole life trying to find
out what you want. The sort of a
husband who makes a woman really
happy is the one to whom she can play
leading lady-the one she marries.
merely as a favor. and who is so deep
~ impressed by that favor that he
feels under obligations forever after
ward. Haven't you ever noticed that
all the most brilliant and happiest
women are tied to little '%anneXes.' who
aacre mem ana SIT under their thumbs
with perfect eQuanimity and sing their
praises II echo their words and aren't
sure what they think or know ahort
anything until they run home and find
out what their wives think and
Mr.. Porter!" exclaimed the Bache-
lor Girl. bringing her nut cracker down
or the table with a thud. II couldn't
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-01-30

AN husbands are" she remarked
placidly.
ideals are likely" continued the
Mere Man. leaning back to light his
ciSaret. ito develop em%bonpoint. OF
chronic dyspepsia. or a bald head. or
nerves, or the asthma
All husbands do that repeated the
Bachelor Girl. cmphatically.
But it's so much worse in an ideal
protested the Mere Man. "A IN
places him so high that he has further
to fall than an ordinary chap; and he's
bound to come down with a crash.
The trouble is" he continued. putting
thoughtfully, that all husbands look
about alike after marriage. In the dim.
damp dawn of the next morning. you
can't tell IN ideal from an ordinary,
everyday misunderstanding if his
mouth is open and his top-hair is stick
ing up in tufts and he needs Il shave
and Il clean collar and -
oh" cried the Bachelor Girl. put
ting her hands before her eyes with
a little shldder, do they ever look
like THAT"
The Mere Man shifted ~uneasily in his
chair.
Yes" he acknowledged. regretfui,y.
"but it's much easier to get used 10 it
and to come out of your dream if you
have married a plain, commonplace fell
low than"-
"Perhaps.' cried the Bachelor Girl.
with sudden inspiration, that's why
women who are married 20 great men
never seem to appreciate them nor to
stand in w of them. l suppose poets
and bakers and ACTORS and brewers and
81 tesmen and stoTekeepers are all eX-
actly the same around the house. and
when they are hungry. or can't ind a
collar button. or want to go to sleep.
or have indigestion. or the night
mare"-
'tOr n CROUCH" finished the Mere
Man. "EXactly-only thai poets and
actors and statesmen are-are more so.
l once knew a r1veet girl who married
a virtuoso. She had a fond illusion
that her life would be set to a Chopin
waltz tune or a Beethoven sonata or a
List melody. and that she would rip
pie down the stream of matrimony to
tho alluring notes of a violin; but the
sweet strains became Il horrible strain
after she had been liSte- ing to chro-
matte scales for six hours u day for
several years; and the melody turned
into n G;ceord and ended in a-clash."
n the Mere Man sighed sadly.
II suppose" unused the Bachelor Girl.
cracking n nut reHectively. that it is
different. Listening to the dreamy voice
of a poet while he reads you his fancies
on a summer afternoon. after all, isn't
exactly like listening to the click of his
typewriter and the muttering Of his
groans while he is turning out those
fancies IN Il winter MORNING."
''Of course" assented the Mere Man,
land an actors flights of tempera-
ment; on the stage IRE considerably
more inspiring than his flights Of tenn
per when dinner iyn t ready or his
costume doesn't fit. or he is struggling
with his dress shirt or his wig or his
make up. It's refy fattering to feel