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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-02
WIFE PROTECTS
BRUTAL HUSBAND
Mrs. Fred KOfski Refuses to
Prosecute Husband Aft
er Severe Beating.

To the charge of public intoxica.
ton Fred Wofsh, who was arrested
last evening by Patrolman Menke, at
ter having mercilessly beaten his wife
at their home, 36 South Sixth street,
entered plea of not guilty in police
court this morning. Owing to the fact
that two of the prosecuting witnesses
were not present the case was post
poned until tomorrow morning at 8
o'clock.
It is alleged that Kofski, who is a
plumber in the employ Of Waking and
company, has been in the custom OF
becoming beastly intoxicated and OF
cruelty beating his wife until she
would fall PROSTATE to the floor.
Dreadful screams, coming from the
Kofski residence would cause the
neighbors to notify the police but az
his wife has absolutely. refused to file
an afidavit OF any kind against her
husband the police have been power.
less and Kofskf has escaped the penal
ty of the law. The state laws protect
Kofski inasmuch as police cannot ar
rest man for such an offense without
an afidavit signed by the victim.
Last evening the police we're called
to the Kofski home by neighbors who
declared that the man was brutally
abusing his wife. According to the Do
lice kofski was arrested on South
Sixth street, but Kofski asserts that
he was not arrested on the street and
that consequently he cannot be con
victed of the charge. When asked tc
file an AFFIDAVIT against her husband
on the charge of assault and battery
Mrs. Kofski steadfastly declined. It Ii
alleged that Kofski is fully aware OF
his wife's devotion to him and of his
immunity.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-02
Uniform Records of Exami-
nations and Reports of,
Students in County Hight
Schools to Be Kept.
GRADUATES UNABLE
TO TAKE UP Work.
Turned Out from Common
Schools Without Neces-
sary Education to Enteri
Colleges, Is Claimed.

Needing the complaints of Indiana,
colleges to the state board OF educa-
ton that graduates Of the certified and
commissioned high schools in many,
parts of the state were not properly
equipped to enter college work. coun-
ty superintendent c. o. Williams. OF
Wayne county. Ernest Black Of Della
ware county. H. B. Roberts. of Henry
county and Lee Driver Of Randolph
county met on Tuesday with Prof.
Roberts at New Castle and took action
to comply with the state boards re-
quirements.
The colleges complained that there
were hundreds of students entering
each year who had their high school
diplomas but evidently were not yet
prepared for college life. On inquirtng
for the records OF these students OF
the county superintendents OF tho
counties from which they came. tho
colleges were unable to get any infor-
nation which was satisfactory This
condition OF affairs was reported to
the state board and it in return CEN
sured the county superintendents.
Offered an Excuse.
The latter declared they were ex-
cused from keeping records on file OF
the students who graduated from COM
missioned and certified high schools
in their counties by former state su-
perintendent r. j. Alley. The excuse
did not set well with the state board
and consequently the superintendent
of Wayne, Henry. Randolph and Del
aware counties determined to organ
ize an association of their own and
thus help each other in the discussion
of school matters. These four super
intendents each have Jurisdiction over
about the same number of schools and
pupils.
Hereafter each of these superintend-
ents will keep the record Of graduates
and will have a uniform system Of
examinations and reports. There are
three certified and three commissioned
high schools in Wayne county, the
commissioned schools being Fountain
City, Williamsburg and Greensboro
and the certified high school. White
! water and Milton.
Teachers Announced.
Township Trustee william Brown.
of Green township. on Wednes-
day reported to the county superin-
tendent the employment of the follow
ing teachers for next year: Williams
burg, George Hanlin, superintendent;
Margarite Button. principal, Stella
Colvin, Elam Alexander. Bessie Mead
ows and Helen E. Helms in tho
grades; Marie Pegg. teacher Of district
school No. 2. and Mabel King teacher
in the joint township school IN Green
There are about twenty pupils In this
joint township school. ten being from
New Garden township. Henri Kampe
has been employed as instructor Of
music.
Center township trustee, James Har-
ris, on Wednesday announced the
teachers who would serve under him
this year to be as follows: District No.
2. Callie Tremps, No. Forest Kemp
ton, No. S Ruth Tremps. No s. Cora
Cook, No. Ethel Harris. No. Ollie
Castetter. No. 9 Mabel Aschbacher
and Miss Nellie Jones, instructor In
music and drawing.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-02
FINED FOR DRUNK

, At o'clock this morning. Jim
Holmes was arrested by Patrolmen
Longman and Little at Twelfth and
North r streets on the charge of
drunk. He was taken to police head
quarters In wagon, used as a pa.
troll. A fine OF 81 and costs was i'm
posed on Holmes In police court this
morning.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-02
STRUCK BY A CAR

A team Of horses driven by Joe Wal
lace. teamster for Charles Piehl. was
struck by the 5:45 o'clock city car. at
Seventh and Main streets last even
ing. As the car was running at a slow
rate OF speed the animals were not
seriously injured. The driver was not
nutured.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-02
CUBAN SITUATION.

HAVANA, Aug. 2.-The government
is taking energetic measures to pre-
vent any serious outgrowth of the up
rising headed by General Acovedo,
veteran of the war OF 1905. who start
ed revolt In protest against the al
legged graft In the Gomez administra-
tion.
Acovedo has but few followers and
very little prestige. Administration Of
flcials say that unless others in large
numbers join in the revolution. moth
ing serious will develop out of it.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-02
EXPRESS COMPANIES
MUST REDUCE RATES
National News Association,

WASHINGTON, Aug. Express
were given an order by the
interstate commerce commission un-
der the long and short haul clause,
prohibiting the charging of lower
rates from producing to consuming
points, than from intermediate places
Tariffs must be curtailed by February
l.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-02
GATES IS EASIER,
BUT STILL WEAK
fSational News Association)

(National News Association)
PARIS, Aug. John w. Gates was
resting easy this afternoon but was
very weak Kidney trouble which has
been absent for several days returned
today.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-02
POSTMASTER DROPS
DEAD ON WEDNESDAY

tNational News Association)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Aug Post
master Joseph H. Montgomery drop
ped dead at the courthouse this after
moon. ---
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-02

with showers tonight
and Thursday; not much change
/, Ia temperature.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-02
THE WEATHER

STATE-Probabiy local showers TO
NIGHT and Thursday.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-25
FOREIGN.

The Morning Post of London, says
there are isolated cases of the bu-
bonic plague at Glasgow and East
Anglea.
The shaft of the silver mine owned
by Cyrus w. Baker of Denver, at
Winnipeg, is now down fifty feet and
the ore is improving in value.
A special dispatch from st. Peters
burg says a rumor is current that a
whole army corps of $4,000 men is
preparing to re-occupy Kulja, a dis
trict of Chinese Turkestan.
There is noticeable activity by the
Chinese government to stay the
spread of the plague, and sanitary
measures are being strictly en-
forced in all the towns where few
weeks ago the disease was allowed
full swing. Instructions have been is
sued that every village burn its dead.
Relations between the government
and the navy at Lisbon have reached
almost the breaking point as a result
of a demand from the navy for the
reinstatement and appointment to
command of the battleship Almirante
Refs of Capt. Jose Cerejo, one of the
naval heroes of the revolution.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-25
GENE ERAL.

The Tennessee Packing e Provision
Company, a $2,000,000 corporation of
Nashville, has been thrown into bank
ruptcy.
w. S. O'Brlen, forty-two years old,
enc of the best known trainers of trot-
ting horses in the United States, died
at Waukegan, Ill.
Fire destroyed the Calumet ele-
vator, siX-story structure, in Chica-
go, containing 100000 bushels of
grain, causing loss of 100000.
AS the result of mutiny, seventy.
seven students, mostly third class
men, at the Lexington, Virginia Mill
tary Institute have been expelled.
Six nuns driven out of Portugal by
the Republican government which de-
throned King Manuel have arrived in
New York en- route to Baker City,
Ore.
The Full Crew" act of Arkansas
has been held to be constitutional bv
the United States Supreme Court. All
railroads in the state must carry fun
crews.
An explosion occurred in the gas
purifier house of the Danville, Va, mu-
nicipal gas plant, wrecking the two
story brick structure and putting the
plant out of commission.
The West no longer has monopoly
on irrigation. The agricultural East,
with its abundant anual rainfall, has
found it profitable to emulate the eX-
ample Of the West, and is learning the
value of irrigation. Even the swampy
lands of tho South are now being sue.
cessfully cropped through artificial ap-
plication of water.
Increased activity in the securities
of the so-called Gould railway compa-
nies served to again call attention to
rumors of further absorption OF these
properties by Standard Oil-Kuhn Loeb
interest step which was marked re
Gently with George Gould's announce
ment of his forthcoming retirement
from from the presidency of the Mis-
souri, Pacific.
Mrs. William A. Clark, wife of for
mer Senator Clark of Montana, was
successfully operated on for append
cities in Roosevelt hospital in New
York. Senator Clark was at the hos
pital while the operation was being
performed.
Seven persons lost their lives in
fire which destroyed the home of j. D..
Hardin in Sutton, w. Va. Only Mr..
Hardin escaped, the six remaining
members of his family and a little
girl who made her home with the Har-
dins perishing in the flames. Natural
gas caused fire.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-25
1n Educate State Farmers.

Fort Collins.-Colorado' Agricultur'
al college on wheels has started from
Fort Collins to carry education to the
farmers of the state. Never before
has there been an attempt to send out
such well equipped institute tram
in the interest of the farmers of the
West as that prepared under the dl-
rection of C. II. Hinnman, director OF
institute of the college, and which mas
started on a five weeks tour.
These exhibits occupy four cars. Ia
one of them women will find EXHIBITS
of interest to them in the homemak'
ing: the department of domestic sci
ence showing how to cook food, how>to
choose the proper cuts of meat, now
TO decorate the home and to do other
things which will fall upon the wives
and daughters.
The department of animal husband
ry is carrying along one of Its cham-
pion hogs to show the farmer wnat
scientific feeding and proper care VIII
produce in this branch of the industry,
and the dairy department Will sho"
what can be done by the proper handl-
ing of COW with an exhibit OF tlfty'
eight pint bottles of milk, compared
to eighteen bottles from the ordinary
COW.
In the horticultural exhibits are
samples of fruit and vegetables, the
result of proper care of orchards and
gardens, and C. l.. Fitch, Colorado's
potato expert, will show what kind OF
potatoes can be raised in Colorado
sail, also his model potato cellar Tor
the storage of spuds.
For the first time many Colorado
ans will have an opportunity to see
the Grimm alfalfa, which promises SO
much for the state. Two specimen
plants growing in pots are on the
train.
In the veterinary science exhibits Is
one of the most complete collections o.
tubercular LESSONS prepared by DR..
F.. Kaupp, pathologist at the college,
and one of the most prominent veter
inarians in the country. This exhibit
shows the effect of tuberculosis on the
various animals.
The department of irrigation engin-
eering has prepared, under the direc'
ton of f. ID. House, head OF the de-
partmeut, a complete reprouuctlon, III
miniature, of bitches, head gates and
other apparatus for the carrying and
measuring of water on the farm, and
the department of mechanical engin
eering will show examples of work in
wood and machinery construction done
by the students in that department.
In fact, every department of the
college, together with the school of ag-
riculture, where the boys and girls OF
the lower grades can get practical
training for farm work, is represented
in the exhibits, comprising an agricul-
tural college in itself on wheels.
In addition to the practicable eX-
hibits, there is an immense quantity OF
literature especially prepared ito aid
the farmers to a clear understanding
of everything shown on the car, and
also in following their own particular
industry.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-25
New Irrigation District.

Pueblo.-Plans are being made for
the establishment of a new irrigation
district to be located near here and in
a few days a petition to organize the
Pueblo County Municipal Irrigation dis
trict will be presented to the county
commissioners by o. L. Brown, H. NJ.
Shoup and Edward Case. The pro
posed district will comprise about co.
600 acres south of the Arkansas river
and east of here. The water rights to
be acquired comprise water from the
western slope which will be diverted
into the Arkansas, and direct flow wa
ters with old priorities.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-25
SPORT.

Art Edenfield. wrestling champion
&C Kansas, threw Jack Brauman of
Denver twice within an hour at Wich'
ita.
Ad Wolgast, lightweight champion
has been matched to fight George
Memsic twenty rounds March 18th at
Los Angeles.
In wrestling match here Frank
Gotch threw Frank McGrath in %
minutes and Otto Beiger in IL minutes.
at Willamette. Conn.
Willie Gibbs of Philadelphia and
Tommy Dixon of Memphis, feather
weights, fought ten fast rounds to a
draw in Kansas City.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-25
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN

During the recent cold spell the tenn
perature has stood at twelve degrees
below zero at Cripple Creek, Colo.
Governor Carroll vetoed the Oregon
primary bill which had passed both
houses of the Iowa Legislature.
The President has rendered to Rep
resentative Albert f. Dawson of Iowa
the office of secretary to the Presi'
dent.
w. II. Corbett, president of the Will
lamette Iron Works of Portland, Ore
one OF the largest plants of its KIND
on the Pacific coast, is dead.
Reports from the Pan Handle of Tex
as state that throughout north Texas
where peach and apple trees are in
blossom and vegetation of all sorts
has been green for two weeks, the
temperature touched freezing. Rail
way traffic is blocked.
Twenty-Five women and men are ly-
ing in ahospital at Elko, New, being
treated for injuries received when SIN
cars OF Southern Pacific passenge'
train, eastbound, left the rails abou-
one mile west of Palisade The injuries
of three may be fatal.
The United States Army transport
Buford, which will carry cargo OF
provisions for the relief of the famine
victims in North China, will sail from
Seattle March 10th. according to an
announcement made by the relief
committee of the Seattle Commercial
Club.
Using one of his hydro-areoplanes
Glen Curtis alighted on the water
alongside the armored cruiser Penn
svlvania, at San Diego, Cal, and was
hoisted on board. Soon afterward the
aeroplane was dropped back into the
water and the aviator flew away to
his hangar on North Island.
Two hundred lawyers in all parts
OF the country acted as a jury to de-
termine the proper fees to be allowed
attorneys in a Kansas case, and one
firm which asked 100000 VIII get
50 500. another firm that sought $780,
600 will receive $500, and thlrd
who asked $4,000 will get what he
asked.
Twenty years after the crime was
committed, Gov. Cruce has honored
the requistion for James Bremen, a
wealthy farmer of Kiowa county,
Oklahoma, to be returned to Woods
county, Kansas, to stand trial for the
murder of Sam Woods, the founder OF
Woodsdale, Kan, and pioneer OF
Stephens county.
That twenty-five million of the hun
dred million dollars rehabilitation
fund raised for the Gould lines would
be used to double track the Rio Grande
from Denver to Salt Lake was the
statement made at Salt Lake by a
hugh official of the Gould system.
The work, he added, would be fin
shed by 1915.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-25
WASHINGTON.

All the developments now favor a
vote in the Senate on the Canadian
reciprocity agreement before adjourn
ment, March 4th.
In the court room of the United
States Court of Customs Appeals, the
recently established Commerce Court
held its first public session.
The Supreme Court of the United
States found the mayor and certain
members of the council of Clay Center,
Kan, guilty of contempt of court fos
destroying the subject matter of liti-
cation before it,
Representative Amos Lawrence Al
len, who succeeded the late Speaker
Thomas b. Reed as congressman from
the First district in Maine, is criti-
oally i'll with pneumonia and is not
expected to live.
when the plans of the two battle
ships to be appropriated for by this
session of Congress are submitted for
fInal approval. it will be recommend
&c that the motive power be derived
flom fuel oil exclusively.
The text of a new treaty with Japan,
designed to replace that of 1894 anG
drawn with the special design OF
eliminating the restrictions upon i'm
migration contracted in that treaty.
has been laid before the Senate by
President Taft.
The House completed the naval ap-
preparation bill and will pass it. As
agreed to when read for amendment, it
provides for two new battleships, two
fleet colliers, eight torpedo boat de-
stroyers and four submarine torpedo
boats.
Representative Martin introduced
bill for the relief of the confederat-
ed bands of Ute Indians of Colorado,
providing that jurisdiction be con
ferred on the Court of Claims to rem
der final judgment on all claims OF
the confederated Utes."
The Senate committee on agricul-
ture authorized a favorable repor.
upon Senator Guggenheim's bill au.
thorizing the secretary of agriculture
to enforce a quarantine against impor.
I
and other potato diseases.
The House passed the Warren bills
previously passed in the Senate to
grant rights of way across the Fort
Russell, Wyo., military reservation to
the Colorado Railroad Company for a
branch of the Colorado & Southern
branch of the Burlington system and
for Laramie county public road.
The United States Supreme Court
dismissed the suit of Clarence II. Ven
ner ct al, plaintiffs in error, VS.. the
Denver Union Water Company, the
Denver Water Company, the Farmers
Loan & Trust Company, defendants in
error, the ground for dismissal stated
by the court being want of jurisdic-
ton.
Colorado, Washington, Idaho and
Oklahoma, the only states rot now rep
resented by memorial tablets in the
Washington monument, are to be in
vited to join their sister states in
thus honoring the memory of George
Washington at meeting of the Wash.
ington National Monument Society.
Arizona and New Mexico probably vii!
be invited to participate.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-25
DISPUTE over Sadie Mine.

Greeley.-By a decision of the Fed
eral Court to be given probably about
April l, will be determined the owner
ship of a valuable mining property in
the business district of Central City.
known as the Sadie A mine, claimed
by Greeley and Denver men and by
parties who made up the company
years ago known as the st. Louis No
company.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-25
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO
ALL COLORADO
Pc PIE
Homesteader Admits THEFT.

Greeley.-By the confession of Hen
ry Gooch. homesteader of Grover,
arrested by Sheriff McAfee, the mys'
terry over the disappearance of vat
liable cattle belonging to Grover farm
ers is cleared. Gooch admitting that
he has stolen. killed and disposed o.
seventeen steers and COWS during the
last few weeks.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-25
Natural Gas at Tiff.

Iliff.-I. A. Collard who recently
struck a flow of artesian water on
lis farm adjoining Tiff at a depth of
40O feet reports enough natural gas
to heat and light his buildings. Mr..
Collard and other property owners in
that locality are considering the or
ganization of a company to bore a
deep well in Tiff and believe that
there are good prospects for oil here.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-25
western slope Development Congress

Grand Junction. - The official call
for the Western Slope Development
Congress, to be held in Delta March
22nd and 23rd, has been issued by
President Horace T. De Long, and
copies will be sent to all chief men
OF Colorado. Wyoming. New Mexico,
Arizona and Utah and to all CONNER
ciaI bodies, associations and clubs in
those states who are interested in the
upbuilding of the Western states in
general and the western slope in par
ticular
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-01-19
TRAVELLERS GUIDE.
DETROIT UNITED isTERURBAN
LINES.

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and every two hours TO y. m; sun
DAYS only, IL y. m. Through locals
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hourly TO 8 D. m, including hmiteds.
hourIy TO IL ID. m Shore Line TO Mt
Clemens. s.2s a. m, hourly to ii;1s
tnTINr LIMITEDs-.T:s5 a. m. s:ss
n m. sl2.S5 y. m, 2:3S y. m. s4sse p,
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hours TO p. m; oxford only, II y. IN.
Flint. Sundays only. IL y m To Romeo.
n m, a. m. and every two hours
40 10 ~ m. IL u. IN.
10 Jackson LIMITEDS-s;15 a m. ana
every two hours 10 els p. m Through
,crats 4 a m and every two hours TO
nm. Ann Arbor only, a. m. $3.50 y.
ms p. m. 10 p m. III y. m Northville'
nniv $50 a. m. hourly TO $3.50 p. m.
f:s6 y; m,,sp m, II D. m saline cars
iry TsnI.Epo LiMITEps--7:ao a m. and
every two hours to $40 z. m: saturday
and SUNDAY, 1870 p m. Through locals.
e.so n. mn. and hourly TO s.SS D. M
Monroe only, $40 y. m, ~ .. m
hourly 20 siSs p. m. hourly 70 n;ss
D. PoNTIAc pIv.--s a m. 20 20 70 rin
service 20 sac p. m. hourly 20 ieDs
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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-01-19

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MiLAEr-Jan- ~, aged %. John Milan.
los Eourteenth lave. fsther OF John
Funeral Thursday from rssidence. 6
a. m. 81. Vincents church $50.
OWEN-Sudenly, Jan. ~, at 10 a. m.
Russell Ward Owen. Funeral from
NEST Ms ia Tsn rss,ssnes; 70 Hsnsosk1 nav
SIMMONS Suddenly, at Worthwhile.
Mich, Huida. wife OF the late Rich
ard Simmons. mother OF II. P. and ~,
L; simmons Funeral Thursday az
o'clock from the residence OF her son.
II. Il. simmons. 49, ~
ROBERTsON-Matt William, at his
home. 100 Elizabeth-st. west, Jan. ls.
youngest SON Of the late Robert and
Agnes Robertson. Notice Of the fu-
neral later.
Observation-Disclosures H., died
Jan. 18th, aged as years. beloved
husband of Minnie Runstadler, and
father OF Adeline. Herbert. George
.. m. from residence. sis chene-st.
sLoAN--Jan le, Mrs. Orrissa Sloan. at
the home OF her daughter. Mrs. Geo.
Holme. 739 Third-ave. Burial from
house, ! p. m. Thursday Jackson
and Charlotte papers please copy.
sMITH-william. aged 50. died Jan. ls,
from residence. i45 Deauindre-st..
Thursday. Jan. 10. at 1880 D. m.
MARKLEY--Jan. II, 1911, at her
|, east. Caroline Markley beloved
mother OF Rose and Henry Marley
Mrs. John Mansfield, Mrs. Anna Cor
man and Mrs William Charles. Fn-
neral from residence Thursday. jan
10, at 2 o'clock.
SEITZ--At her home. 210 Palmer-a
east, Olga Frances. daughter OF the
late Frederick L. and Anna r. Seltz
D. and Mary l.. Seitz. Funeral Fri
day at 2 p. m Burial private.