The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-22
Surprising Pressure Found
According to Reports to
State Geologist.
BEVERIDGE NOW IN POWER.
RISING IN INDIANA POLITICS
OVER HEAD OF FAIRBANKS
OTHER STATE NEWS.
Special Correspondence.

Indianapolis, July 22.-The state
biologists office is in constant receipt
of reports from different parts of the
state showing such a marked increase
in the supply and pressure of natural
gas that several towns that once used
the fuel exclusively are to return to
its use the coming winter The Muncie
gas field is striking example of this.
company is at work in this field
sinking new wells with the intention
of piping the supply to Chicago. In
every case where gas has been struck
a. surprising pressure has developed.
when it is considered that this field
was supposed to have been exhausted
some years ago and was practically
abandoned. In fact, the entire gas
belt is again booming active and old
wells are being tested with the hope
that the pressure will show sufficient
strength to warrant turning the fuel
into the pipes that have so long been
idle. The state geologist believes
that nature has been at work reviv-
ing her rich gas resources and that IL
economy be shown, many towns may
soon return to the old order of things.
AS for Indianapolis the old natural
| gas pipe lines have fallen into hands
| Of the New Citizens Gas company, and
L yujn ha
has been guaranteed to the city at GO
cents per thousand. and IL is doubtful
| whether the natural fuel will ever
again be burned in the capital city.
| Jurys Uncertain.
| Again II has been proved that there
Smoothing more uncertain than a Jury.
Over at Bloomington, Ind, where the
so-called temperance drinks are being
sold without a license. an arrest was
made as a test case. 1t was the inten-
ton to settle. at least In the lower
courts. the question as to whether
these drinks, manufactured partly
from malt and put out by a brewery
In indianapolis, are liquor within the
meaning OF the law, requiring the sell
| Ter to hold a license. About a week
ago Judge Moore. at Franklin, held
that the drinks in question are malt
liquor and that they cannot be sold
without license. This case is going to
the supreme court. But at Blooming
ton jury trial was demanded and
the verdict was directly the opposite
of the Frankfort finding. The jury
held that the temperance" concoc-
tons are not liquor and that they may
be sold without license. Only one of
the jurors held out for conviction of
the arrested man, and he gave in after
four hours. In the Bloomington case
it was found that the percentage Of
malt in the drinks objected to was
much less than in the Frankfort case,
but the law seems so plain in CHASING
any drink containing malt as an intox-
icating liquor that il is hard to under
stand how the jury reached its conclu-
sion. This case will also go to the
high court of the state and this tribu-
nal will have to decide whether the
Temperance" drinks contain sufficient
malt to class them as revenue produ-
GERS within the ruling of the United
States government.
Beverage Rising.
Indianapolis and the state at large
are preparing to send big delegation
to Cincinnati on the occasion of Taft's
formal notification of his nomination.
There Is to be no half-hearted dness
about 1t, despite the disappointment
that grew out of the Chicago conven-
tion. There is a wild scramble to
mount the Taft band wagon. and the
scramble will continue until all are
abroad. The notification is to take
place next Tuesday and at least one
big special train will be run from In
dianapolis for the event Postmaster
Bryson is the leader in the affair. Bry-
son is Beveridge man through and
through, and IL was the senior sena-
tor who recently landed for him the
postmastership snap. Bryson was de-
. feated for county auditor at the last
. county election and he had previously
met with nothing but cold deals politI-
cally. He was never able. IL seemed.
to strike at the genealogical moment.
, Now that he has landed. however, he
! is busy showing how glad he is. and
: the Taft notification trip is all his
own 1t is simply another evidence of
the easy manner in which Beyeridge
; Is coming into possession of the state
machinery long controlled by the Fair
banks crowd. As predicted weeks
: ago, the senator was shrewd enough
10 catch his drift of the tide Taftward
and he took a few bad-tasting doses
from the hands of the anti-Taft crowd
without making a face. merely hiding
: his time. His time came-in fact. it
: is here. and while everybody is for the
nominee. Beveridge is the center piece
: and will continue thus for many
. moons. II is well to learn the adj
: dress Of Mr.. Beveridge and use it II
: anything is wanted in the way OF poll
, tical favors in Indiana from now ON
indefinitely,