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Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-12-21
HOLY CROSS,

Washington and tombstone streets.
Rev. Sidney H. Dixon, M. A.. Bill,
priest in charge.
Sunday school at 10 a. m. Com
munion services, IL a. N.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-12-21
EPISCOPAL
ST. E

Rev. James l.. Lancaster, rector.
Services tomorrow at 1890 and
1880 o'clock. Sunday school, $3.50
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-12-21

Tho news when it 10 news in the
EVENING NEWS.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-12-21

>r Forecast.
Fair II colder today; to-
ntOrrov-A west wtndA
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-12-21

Observations OF the United
Statea weather bureau taken 1t
3 p. NJ yesterday follow:
The Washington times., 1912-08-05
TAFT TO PARTAKE
OF 'P0SSUM FEAST
At DINNER TODAY
On Menu for Second Time
During Presidents
Tenure. i

When the swinging door of the White
House kitchen watts from that culinary
sanctum the odors of the Presidential
dinner menu today the smell of pos
sum and taters a-cookin' in de pan"
will dominate. For the second time
since the White House has housed its
present occupant Mr.. Possum has un-
tremendously usurped the place OF
other delicacies on the bill of fare by
lettering in and about the grounds of
the Executive Mansion.
The Presidents dinner was found on
a window sill of house within stones
throw OF his own domicile. 1t was ap-
parently very much at ease, and was
temporary home, When II. {. Allen.
who happened along, caught II and de-
cided to pay tribute to the cpicurean
tastes Of the Chief Executive. And this
'possum, ordinarily very wary Of human
beings, courted capture. For what rea-
son? .a
This second visit has caused the super
stitious to puzzle what tue omen
means. Some suspect a certain class Of
picion at a recent convention, with max
ing an effort to win the Presidential
heart through the Presidential stomach.
1t has been said that a mans heart can
surprise some II Federal patronage" is
playing part in the visits OF the South 8
table luxury to the white House.
What does II all mean that the place
of the Teddy Bear should first be taken
UP by a. 'possum as soon as Theodore
Roosevelt left the White House, and
then as IL to make sure the place was
thoroughly usurped second member
OF the same TRIBE puts in his appear
ance at this critical juncture?
possum. Probably II is fortification
that will give way, no matter how great
its numbers. should the bear continue
its battering. At anv rate when all else
is said the visit of the 'possum is mys,
terry. pure mystery of great depth and
probably meaningless.
'Possum No. Is of the white variety
He was found in the window of house
near the Metropolitan Club. AS mas
cot for the coming campaign the prede-
cessor OF the present Mr.. 'Possum may
be pitted as a mascot against Mr. Teddy
Bear.
The Washington times., 1912-08-05
CONVENTION TALKS
WILL Be RECORDED
UPON O|CTAGRAPHS
Congress of Chemists to
Have Novelty At Ses-
sion in Capital.

Some real novelties in convention man
agement will be tried out when the
International Congress Of Applied
Chemistry. meets Jointly in Washington
and New York next month. These will
be occasioned by the fact that mere
than GOO delegates from twenty-four for
eign countries, and 1000 from the United
States, will participate in the sessions
A dtctagraph, or a near-dictagraph
called the micrographophone, will play
a leading part in the convention meet
ings. The words of each speaker will
be recorded permanently on a phono-
graph cylinder. from which they will be
transcribed. At the banquet in the
Waldorf-Astoria on Thursday night,
September IL all the tables will be
equipped with small trumpet
shaped instrument. which is simply an
enlarged telephone receiver. and will en-
able even the delegates in remote parts
of the hall to hear the speaker dis
tinctly.
Among the more prominent delegates
are the following:
. Sir william Ramsay, K. c. B., F.. r.
g., the great authority on .radium; Sir
Boverton Redwood, ID. &c., who has
visited every mineral oil district In the
petroleum.; Sir Robert A. Hadfield, d.
Met, r. r. s., who developed the
manganese, nickel, and other methods
of hardening steel; DR.. Samuel Eyde, OF
Norway, who developed the electrical
process of extracting nitrogen from the
air for the manufacture OF fertilizers
Prof. M. L. Lindet, representing the
French ministry Of agriculture, the
foremost proponent of establishing in.
ternationally' uniform methods of analy.
sis.S and Prof. William H. Perlkin, OF
the Victoria University of Manchester
| who is the father of the analine dye
| industry.
The Washington times., 1912-08-05
SPECIAL AGENT OF
INDIAN SCHOOLS TO
DEFEND CHARGES
Depositing of Natives Funds
In Own Name Done to-
~A# ~
Save Trouble. 81

Charges of violation of the letter
and spirit of the law governing the
expenditure of Indian funds. and neg
ligence or carelessness in office, with.
particular reference to the accounts,
have been filed from various sourcs
against Samuel w. Campbell, special
disbursing agent and superintendent
of the Indian School, La Poipe
Agency, Wisconsin, d. "a.
AS a result of these charges and a
recommendation of the auditor for
the Interior Department, the Comp
troller Of the Treasury today disal-
lowed alleged expenditures from the
funds of individual Indians amount
ing to S5+77191, made by Superin-
tendent Campbell. - - ' -t ..''
ally allowed by the auditor March g..
but records later brought to light led
him to recommend that his own ac-
ton be reversed and Superintendent
Campbell be disallowed credit for the
expenditures. a. f1 '"-t ~
Indians Sign Big Checks. .-
In letter to the Comptroller of the
auditor declares that the records tend
to show that Campbell had the In
dians sign and indorse checks for
large sums Of the money credited to
individual Indians. and that these
checks were then countersigned and
retained. being later indorsed to the
Northern National Bank and placed
to the credit OF Samuel w. Camp
bell, Indian Agent" -. y -.
Mr. Campbell explained. II, seems. thai
these funds were deposited to him tC
save bookkeeping and clerical work
but the law provides that the funds
are only to be drawn by the Indians
and 'disbursed for their benefit. ane
that no check, larger than twenty-five I
dollars Is to be drawn without authors
zation from the Interior Department. (
Interest On Fund Lost.
Through the transfer of the funds
from credit, of the Indians in various
banks to the sredit of Superintendent
Campbell in the Northern Nationa
Bank, the Indians ceased to draw inter
est on the funds! 1t is charged, even Il
the funds, were TO be retained and dis
bursed for the beneht of the Indian!
| to whom they belonged.
The cvharges against Mr. Campbell
| have been before Secretary of the In
| terror Fisher and Mr.. Cove. assistant
to the secretary, for some time.
The Washington times., 1912-08-05
Detective Held for
Stealing $50 Purse

ATLANTIC. CITY, Aug. 5.-Mrs. Ellen
Knox, of Elizabeth, N. j., boarded a
train bound from this City at her home
yesterday. 1t had not proceeded far
when julius Hart. a former New York
detective, took his seat beside her.
When the train reached the draw
bridge entrance to this resort, Mrs.
Knox started to collect her belongings
fer quick departure from the coach.
She discovered the loss of her pocket
book containing $50. The woman ac-
cused Hart of picking her pocket. He
denied the charge. but when the train
pulled into the station the plucky little
woman trailed him. She saw him check
a parcel. Then Mrs. Knox called an
officer who opened the package. The
missing purse and money were inside.
The officer awaited Hart's return two
hours later, and took him into GUS
tody. He is now in jail here. and will
have a hearing this afternoon before
Magistrate Jagmetty.
The Washington times., 1912-08-05
Hunger Drives Escaped
Prisoner Back to Jail

SCRANTON. Pa. Aug. Sworn out
with hunger Mike Drauchak, one of the
three prisoners who escaped from the
county jail here Friday morning by
scaling the rear wall, has returned vol
unfairly Drauchak said that he had
been hiding In the woods on the western
himself for fear of capture. He is un-
der a years sentence on four separate
charges Of larceny.
John Costigan and Oscar Oberweis.
the other escaped prisoners, narted COM
pany with Drauchak as soon as they
got outside, and have not vet been re-
taken. They made toward Binghamton.
Police in all nearby towns have been
notified to be on the lookout
The Washington times., 1912-08-05
MODERN WOODWARD
WILL BE BUILT ON
SITE OF OLD ONE
Northwest Business Prop
ertylLeased and Resi-
dences Sold.

Several real estate deals involving
business and residence property are
reported today. DR.. A. c. Merriam has
sold to Theodore Diedrich. the coal and
wood yard property at 1l12 Ninth street
northwest. and the latter has leased It
for a term of years to B. H.. Swart. The
property is 25.2 by 1889 feet In size and
runs back to a thirty-foot alley.
The present buildings will be razed.
and contract has been given to the
Melton Construction Company to trect
new. buildings for a modern wood, coal,
and feed yard to be operated by Mr..
Swart. The price at which the property
was sold Is not reported. The sale and
lease We're made through the office of
Weaver Brothers.
Buy Residences.
]. NJ. Chamberlain has purchased
from Middaugh & Shannon the new
three-story residence at 1909 Twentieth
street northwest for 1880 and will oc-
cupy It. The house is one of eight re-
gently completed and facing Rock Creek
Park. 1t contains ten rooms and three
baths. go '.'} w. ..".
O., A. Walter has purchased from the
SAME builders the new six.room dwell
ing at .92t X street northeast for $3,575
for his residence. .
Both sales We're made through the Of
fee OF Shannon & Luchs.
Will Build Home.
Charles E. Baines has commenced the
construction of twelve-room resi-
dence on the south side OF Rhode Island
avenue, just east of Twelfth street
northwest. The construction is being
done by W.. C. Blundon. The plans
were drawn by A. B. Mullett & Co.
architects.
The Washington times., 1912-08-05

lengthy statement has been made
public by the provisional National Pro-
gressive committee for the purpose OF
showing that the efforts Of the Taft
managers to defend their course In the
chicago convention are utterly without
basis. when the facts are considered.
The statement takes UP the contest
cases one by one in the order In which
they were presented in the statement
In behalf Of President Taft. The facts
are presented In these cases and sub
stantialiy the same conclusions are ar
rived at as CONGRESSMAN Norris, in his
speech In the House, reached.
That is, that the facts are sufficient
to convince any fair-minded person that
the necessary majority Of the conven-
ton which nominated President Taft
was obtained only by unfair. unjust,
and wrongful methods or In plain Eng
lish. was stolen. r.
Made Plain To Layman.
The statement begins with a presenta-
ton Of the methods by which the ma
tional committee has been organised,
explaining the entire party Organization
for the benefit of the layman who is
not familiar with the subject.
1t points out that many of the men,
bers of this committee who calmly
threw out regularly and honestly elect.
ed delegates who favored Roosevelt in
favor of delegates who favored the
candidate whose nomination they were
determined to accomplish at the price
OF any kind of political crime, are men
who were repudiated In their owr
States and who cannot for that reason
be expected in any sense to represent
the sentiment OF the voters they pre-
tended to represent.
Stress Is laid upon the fact that the
committee Is not o committee of the
convention and does not report to the
convention, yet II was this misrepre
sentative aggregation of oss-controlled
men who actually did the nominating
in the convention, rather than the del
been selected by the people to attend
the convention as representatives ol
the voters who sent them there.
or the thirty-nine members OF the
committee, fifteen were defeated IL
their home States shortly before the
committee met. Yet they were no
denied the right to assist in the stran
gulation of the voice of the people.
Thirteenth Indiana Case.
They ignored evidence that would
have convinced any honest Juror In any
case, notably in the Thirteenth Indiana
district, where affidavtts were waved
aside, and Taft delegates seated, not
because they were legally chosen, bu
because they were needed to make GER
The Washington times., 1912-08-05
CONSTITUTION
is BIG ISSUE
Of CAMPAIGN
Progressive Declares Battle
Will Become Test of
Modern Ideas.
Continues from First Page,

Continued from First Page.)
lots OF people who don't oven laugh
when the suggestion Is made that the
country doesn't need written consti-
tuition at all that the oldest ana most
stfble AID progressive scheme aof con-
stitutionsl government in the world In
that of Great Britain, which has never
heen written down, and which repre-
the nation as presented in The body Of
laws and adtudications.
Men Dare To Think How.
That would have been set down a
decade ago as plain treason; today
serious-minded, scholarly men discuss
II seriously. Discomfort with the form
able; there is no violent prejudice
against the application Of cerebral
processes to the institutions of our
government Men actually dare to
hidden subjects.
The platform. as has been said in
these dispatches. would be charter of
humanities. Age pensions, in which
terested, will undoubtedly come in for
Endorsement. on plan not dissimilar to
that of Germany, which places the
burden Jointly on the industry in which
men are engaged. and on the Govern
ment.
Industrial insurance against accident
and death will be favored on the piar,
Of contributions by the industry and
specific amounts which shall be paid for
specific injuries, SO as to cut out the
activities and the profits of tire dam
age,suit shark and the claim agent"
cial opinions will almost certainly be
written into the platform, on something
very much like the line laid down by
Colonel Roosevelt at Columbus. This
proposition has grown marvelously in
favor Of the public since 1t was first
put forward, and Is recognized now as
being a natural corollary to the plan
Of making the Constitution easier to
amend"
Minimum Wage Scale.
A minimum wage proposal finds op-
position. even in this gathering of radi-
calls; but II will go into the platform
In some shape. Said one Of the plat
form rTa builders tie apropos Of this; ~
! wages shall be fixed by a commission.
In the vastly greater proportion of
cases, no interference would be neces-
sary, with the natural economic pro-
cesses that determine the rate of
wages.
But in industries or enterprises in
which wages are SO low that they make
II impossible for men decently to main
tain their families and to live in com.
fort in those in which women are paid
SO little that they are subjected to the
temptation of how to supplement their
earnings and live-then there will be
opened, under this minimum wage pro-
posal, a method for reorsanizing these
Industries in such manner as to place
them upon basis of social decency
and fairness to the employees.
when this platform, with its de-
mand for effective factory regulation.
shorter hours Of labor, the abolition Of
such excesses as the twelve and twen-
ty-four hour shifts in certain industries
like smelling and the like, is before the
people, 1t will be understood why these
socially conscious Progressives are con-
| fdent that they are going to get the
vote of the working population"
The Washington times., 1912-08-05
Warden Knew of
Prisoners Innocence

WILMINGTON, Del, Aug. 5.-John
Wesley Manlove, colored. who was re-
Gently granted a full pardon after being
whipped with ten lashes and serving
over two years for an offense of which
he was pronounced innocent, yesterday
issued a statement, in which he said
that he had repeatedly called the atten-
tion of Warden Crawford, of the county
workhouse, to his case,
The night following the conviction the
warden consulted his records and found
that the prisoner was In the workhouse
at the time of the larceny of which he
had been convicted, serving a sentence
for drunkenness. ...
In his statement Manlove asserts that
the warden showed him an entry in the
prison record that established his alibi,
and promised to work to secure his par
don. To his later protestations the war
den would say, II will look into it,,
The Washington times., 1912-08-05
DEFENSE OF TAFT
TACTICS SCORED
Progressive Statement Exp aims Methods Used to Steal
Nomination Against Will of Majority Contest
Cases Shown In Another Light BY Facts.

tain the theft that was their set pur-
pose.
Senator Root is especially scored for
his ruling which permitted Taft alter
mates from Massachusetts, to vote. de-
spite the fact that Roosevelt delegates
were present In the hall and declined
to vote.
The whole story is told In a
statement made by Dave Mulvane, the
said: I'VE can't elect Taft. but we we
are going to hold onto this organize
ffon, and when we get back four years
from nov We will have II. and not those
Much attention is paid to the Texas
contests, where the Taft managers null
lifed the Terrell election law with a
typewriter proclamation which decided
poses. 1t was unjust and after a regu..
lar convention, properly called, had
selected the delegates and pledged them
to Roosevelt, eighty-nine persons who
disregarded the law held convention.
seated. Thus the national committee.
as in the case of California, absolute-
ly nullified a State law because to OBJ
serve It would have been inconvenient.
Full of Misstatements.
That the Taft defense is full Of mis-
statements and disingenuous language
is another assertion in the Progressive
reply. citing specifically the California
case, wherein II was declared that the
registrar had certified the returns in
the Fourth California district. To this
Is added the information that this certi-
fication was later nullif1ed, because II
port the vote. The Taft attitude Is de-
scribed in the following paragraph in
the reply:
but the Taft defense says, on page
Is, still speaking of California;: 1t is
absolutely Irrelevant to the question at
issue how much majority the Roose-
velt ticket had In the State at large.
Majority View Ignored.
I'm this admission is contained the
key to the whole policy of the. Taft
majority on the national committee.
Again and again the attorneys for the
Taft contestants or contestees, In cases
where the proof showed an overwhelm-
ing vote and sentiment behind the
Roosevelt delegates. assured the ma
tional committee or the credentials COM
mittee that the Taft credentials were
all regular, that the t's were crossed
and the rs were dotted. that the call
had been copied into the minutes OF
the convention, and that everything had
ITO the steam-rolling majority or
both national and credentials commit
tees this seemed to determine the ques-
ton. They also thought II absolutely
irrelevant to the question at issue how
large a majority the Roosevelt dele.
gates in contest might have behind
them"
The Washington times., 1912-08-05
Warrant Served on
District ATTORNEY

WILMINGTON. Del, Aug. 5.--Mahlon
B. Foster. now under Indictment for
having used the mails to defraud
Saturday succeeded in having a warrant
served for the arrest of United States
District Attorney John p. Nields. The
warrant was issued by Magistrate
Householder. of Delaware City, and the
district attorney will appear before him
next Friday afternoon.
Foster charges that the district attor-
ney impeded justice when he acted as
counsel in litigation over a steamboat
here in August. 1909, which boat was
controlled by Foster. The United States
Government has over thirty charges
against Foster and Nields will be the
prosecutor.
The Washington times., 1912-08-05
Big Steamer FlOated.

The big German steamer Blaralen-
eel, which was hard aground at
Laureetze station, of Savannah, Ga,
was tioated by the Revenue Cutter
Yamacraw and a fleet of tug boats
this morning. The big ship was not
seriously damaged.
The Washington times., 1912-08-05
For the Recall.

Senator Ashurst Of Arizona today in
troduced measure for an amendment
to the Constitution providing for the
recall Of all Federal judges below that
of justices of the Supreme Court
Imperial Valley press., 1912-11-11
SUPREME COURT DECISION
RESTORES THE OLD STATUS

water to the plaintiffs, out of one of
its mains. The theory upon which tho
mandamus proceedings were brought
and upon which Mr.. Hutton, who was
trial judge, probably formulated his
decision, was that the water was held
for general sale and distribution.
The California Development Com
pany, Col. w. H. Holabird, receiver,
and Imperial Water Company No. l,
intervenor, were all interested in the
outcome.
Judge Hutton found for the plain
tiffs and entered judgment according
ly. But the higher court reverses
his opinion and sets forth some of
its reasons. In brief, the supreme court
declares that the development company
is not a public service corporation and
cannot be compelled to sell water 10
every person applying for the same.
The opinion of the supreme court
reviews the purpose for which the Cal
ifornia Development Company was
formed and mentions some of its eff
forts for the upbuilding of the Imperial
valley.
Hunsaker & Britt and w. n. Good
win appeared for the Imperial Water
Company No. l, and it is said that
their briefs were largely upheld in
the opinion that has been received in
Los Angeles at the office of the su-
preme court clerk.
1T is evident that the California
Development Company has not dedi-
Gated to public use the water which
it diverts from the Colorado river"
states the supreme court. In its no
tice of appropriation it declared that
it claimed the water for itself and 9th
ers 1t did not claim ii for use by
the public nor designate the Others
to whom il was to be furnished.
There never was any declaration
by the company that the water was
to be devoted to public use or that
it was to be offered generally for sale
in California or to all land owners in
the New river. No such offer has
ever been made nor has it been the
practice of the company or its aux
iliaries to sell water in that way"
The supreme court goes on to state
that the method employed by the Cal
ifornia Development Company in dis
posing of its water as well as the
manner of distribution has been wholly
inconsistent with the idea that the
water was held for general sale or
distribution.
1t declares that the whole opera
tions show that the intention was 10
retain control of the water to the eX
tent at least of choosing for itself the