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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-06-24
SETTLES
UNDER WEIGHT
OF 400 MAS0NS
Third Floor of Masonic Tenn
pie at Cambridge City
Gives Way During Lodge
Work.
FORESTALL STAMPEDE

Cracking Of timbers when the third
floor of the Masonic temple at Cam
bridge City sank six inches and came
near collapsing under the weight of
about four hundred men came near
causing a stampede last night.
Lodge work, in which visitors from
Richmond and neighboring towns par
ticipated. had been completed on the
third floor, and the crowd was form
ing in line to march to the dining
room on the second floor.
Without warning the supporting
beams creaked and then crashed. The
floor settled, but stopped before the
surprised crowd had time to STAN
pede for the door.
Filed Out Orderly.
The lodgemen quickly and orderly
filed out of the room without undue
commotion. Persons who experienced
the sensation of the settling foor de-
clare that stampede or violent move
ment by the four hundred men might
have resulted in the greatest disaster
in the history of Wayne county.
Had the floor under its human
freight collapsed it would not only
have caught about sixty men who
were waiting to serve the spread in
the dining hall on the floor below. but
would have pulled the walls down upon
the men above, who would have been
helpless in their death trap. Damage
to the lodge hall and the steps neces-
sary to repair it has not been ascer-
tanned
Although Masons were present from
Eaton, New Paris, Whitewater, Cen
terville. Williamsburg, Webb and Rich
mond lodges, John Rupe and Charles
Marlatt of this city were among the
oldest members of the order present.
Lateness of the hour after the COM
pletion of the work and the banquet
prevented carrying out of twenty-five
short talks which had been arranged.
Attorney John Rupe made short talk.
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but that this was not to be interpret
ed as an attack on DR.. Harold.
Addison Harris of Indianapolis, a
native of this county, has been Sc
cured to make the principal address.
Claude Bowers, secretary to Senator
Kern, and F'inly Gray also will speak.
William Dudley Foulke will read his
tory of the National road. Miss Bes-
sic Buhl of Centerville will give
reading. e. M. Haas was selected
chairman of the county program CON-
mittee.
A tentative, program provides for
band concerts at 10 o'clock and 1:3O
O'Clock, and speeches at 2, o'clock. The
main program will be held on the large
tract of land surrounding the school
in Centerville.
Mark Stevens was appointed to sue
ceed Fred Teas on the arrangements
committee. Clarence Bertsch was
named chairman OF the publicity COM
mittee.
DR.. Harold opened the meeting last
evening with statement OF why the
county organization wanted the cele-
bration changed from Jackson park to
Centerville He said committee in
spected the park, and found the en-
trance too narrow to accommodate
heavy automobile traffic. the ap-
proaches dangerous, the park Wild
with briars and weeds and accommo-
dations for a large crowd. He resent
ed the imputation of bad faith made
- rf outside Of Center
township, and expressed his willing
ness to have the celebration held
wherever the organization decided.
Fred Teas of Centerville said he be-
leved Jackson park offered induce
ments, but was willing to abide by the
vote of the organization. Lawrence
Handley explained fully the advan-
tages of Centerville and the drawbacks
of Jackson park. 0. B. Medearis
pleaded for Centerville, as did T. R.
Jessup, c. B. Beck and E. NJ. Haas.
Prof Baldwin of Webster moved
that the decision on the place for
holding the celebration be recons1d-
cred, whereupon Centerville was chos-
en-. Others who spoke were Clyde
Lundy and Steve kuth.
The Centerville delegation left last
night with the purpose of arranging a
celebration that will be credit to the
township and bespeak the patriotism
which its residents hold for the great
men who were born there. Commit
tees will begin work at once.
A booster trip to Hagerstown from
all townships has been called for We'd
nesday evening. when band concert
will be given there. All townships are
asked to send bands and automobile
delegations to Hagerstown, meeting
there at 7:3O in the evening.
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Cambridge City ............ $3.50
Cambridge City Lumber Co.,
Cambridge City ............ 1920
Ideal Concrete Cement Co.,
Cambridge City .......... 500
National Drill Co., Cambridge
City ................... $4,000
Paul Casket Co., Cambridge
City ............. 5000
Standard Mfg. Co., Cambridge
City ....................... 12,7oo
Centerville Creamery Co. ..... 1890
Davis Bros. Floral Co. ..... 2,61O
Dunbar Bros. Co., Centerville. 500
Wayne County Lumber Co.,
Greensboro $500
Hagerstown Natural Gas Co.,
Hagerstown .'....... 900
Hagerstown Gas Co., Jefferson
township 600
Teeter, Hartley Motor Car Co.,
Hagerstown ............... 1870
Connell-Anderson Grain Co.,
Milton ..................... 1.s4o
Doddridge Grave Decorating
Co., Milton ............... $500
Milton Mfg. Co. .......... 1,84O
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COUNTY ORGANIZATION
SUPPORTS PRESIDENT IN
WANTING PLACE CHANGED
Wayne County Old Trails Road Association Hold Fourth Of
July Celebration in Old Historic Town and
Rushe. Through Arrangements. M&
REPUD|ATES CHARGE OF BAD FAITH


for fede construc he ona
at
Jackson meeting
hodh the celeb Centervile.
committee
originally did
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WASP
HITS CRUISER

BERLIN, June 24.-(By Wireless.)-
pedoed a British cruiser last Sunday,
the Admiralty announced today. The
cruiser was struck by torpedo, but
its effect could not be learned.
The official statement issued by
the Admiralty follows:
"A German submarine attacked on
Juns 20 British armored cruiser ap-
parently of the Minotaur class about
100 miles from the Firth of Fourth.
A torpedo hit the ship but its effect
could not be ascertained by the sub
marine
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Had the municipal plant at Rich.
mond been able to reduce its operating
expenses to 31.5 Of its revenue. il is
quite probable that a worlds record in
electric plant operating efficiency
would have been established, but il
was discovered that the city plant had
not been operated at such a low rate
ior the year ending March l. 1915, the
flrst year under the rates which now
prevail for the two Richmond plans.
The alert Mr. Beasley, one of the
attorneys for the company, and the
equally alert Chairman Duncan nv do
Ing some adding, subtracting and mul.
tlplyfng with the figures Kleinknecht
submitted as his basis for obtaining
the rates OF operating expenses dis.
covered that the per cent of operating
expenses was fraction shy of 40
per cent instead of 3l.5 as said by
Kleinknecht
Admit Error
we are all liable to make mis-
takes! klefnknecht assured Chair.
man Duncan and the other city offic.
lals looked very sheepish City Attor.
ney Bond and Supt. Kleinknecht did
some calculating and both admitted
that the operating expense per cent.
age kleinknecht had testified to was
incorrect. Bond stated he had not
gwen this matter previous considera-
tion.
After Kleinknecht had testified that
during the year March /. 1915. every
kllowatt hour had been produced on
3.5 pounds of coal Chairman Duncan
remarked that the city's report for the
year ending June 80. 1914. showed 4S2
pounds of coal had been required.
Inc first six months of this year
n. n. johnson was superintendent of
the plant Asked how the coal con-
sumption had been reduced Klein
knecht said he had used a better grade
of coal obtained through tests he con.
Quoted
Your last annual report elbows your
per cent Of operating expenses to your
revenue was 43.8 and you say that for
the year ending March 1, last, this
per centage was reduced to Bis. This
is quite remarkable. How did you ac-
complish it," asked Judge Duncan.
Praises His Economy.
Il reduced the coal expenses and
other operating items" Kleinknecht
replied.
"cIc you tue only economic factor
which entered into this great saving"
he was asked.
Yes. sir. myself and my efficient
assistant was the answer
1t was then that Judge Duncan and
Mr.. Beasley informed him that the
percentage of the plants operating
expenses was about per cent higher
than he had anticipated.
Under questioning by Beasley. Klein
knecht testified he had never had any
experience in managing central pow
er plant until placed at the head OF
the city plant. He said he had been a
line foreman for a telegraph company
and had worked about two years as A
line man and hole digger for an cleo
trio plant at Coshocton, Ohio.
A perusal of the inventories OF the
two Richmond plants compiled by the
state accounts revealed the fact that
wrong form had been employed in
both instances in estimating the cost
to produce one kilowatt hour. The
report shows this cost is 35 cents for
the city plant and "a cents for the
privately owned plant, which is higher
than the rate charged consumers in
many instances
The last witness for the l.. H. & p.
company was S. S. Wyer an electric
CONTINUED On Page
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RUNS SKUNK FARM,

ADVANCE, Ind. June 24-There's
more than one way of making a liv-
ing. Take the case of George Dale,
Jr., southwest of here, for instance.
George has a skunk farm. His thirty
skunks are the finest in these parts
and he expects to have many more
like them. George says you can get
used to anything if you try hard
enough.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-06-24
RECEIVES CERTIFICATE

Pettis A. Reid who was elected to
fill a vacancy in the Richmond school
board has received his certificate of
election from City Clerk Bescher, but
has taken no steps to qualify for hold
ing the office.
Mr.. Reid will wait until he has re-
ceived an opinion from the attorney
general stating whether he can accept
this new position and remain a mem
Der of the state board of education.
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THREATEN WARSAW.

VIENNA, (via Amsterdam and Ber-
lin) June 24.-Outflanked by the Aus
tro-German forces which have swept
through Galicia, successfully taking
Jaroslau, Przemyl and Lemberg, the
great Russian army in southwestern
Poland, north of the Vistula river, is
in full retreat, according to an officia!
report from headquarters today. 1t is
being pursued by Teutonic troops.
The Galician drive of the Germanic
allies is thus bearing fruit. opening a
new way to Warsaw, which has sue.
cessfully resisted attacks frorn the
north and west.
Threaten ivan9orod.
From Lemberg, which has been cap
tured by the Second Austrian army
under General Won Boehm-Ermolli, the
Austro-German forces can strike north
west against Ivangorod, the southern
defense of Warsaw.
With the greater part, Of Galicia
cleared of the enemy. Vienna military
experts look for an immediate resump-
tion of the attacks against Warsaw,
the Austro-German forces which have
swept eastward from the Dunajec now
turning northward to cooperate with
the forces that hem in Warsaw from
the north and west.
In the meantime, the pursuit of the
Russians who evacuated Lemberg is
being continued. The Austro-German
forces inflicting heavy losses upon
the fleeing enemy. The Russians are
retiring rapidly along the railway to-
ward Brody, near the Galician from.
tier
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london'S Version.

LONDON, June 24-The British
Admiralty announced last night that
the cruiser Roxburgh was struck by a
torpedo in the North Sea Sunday, but
was not seriously damaged. 1t is prob
ably this vessel to which the Berlin
announcement refers. The Roxburgh
is a vessel of 1O,85O tons, while cruiser
of the Minotaur class are of 14,6O0
tons.
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Yester day.
DR. Riehmond-Unsettled

For iehmond-Unsettled tonight
and probably Friday. Occasional
showers.
GENERAL CONDITIONS-The ives.
tern storm is movi.g toward the lakes
and will cause unsettled weather dur
ing the next Sc hours. Occasional
showers and somewhat warmer.
w. E. MOORE. Weather Forecaster
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-06-24
EFFICIENCY FIGURES
OF PLANTS MANAGER
RIDDLED BY EXPERTS
Claims Percentage Of City Plants Operating Expenses
Revenue Only 31.5 Per Cent, But Big
Discrepancy Is Shown.
CITY CLOSES CASE FOR PLANT condemnation

INDIANAPOLIS June 24car called
proceedings
dmnaton of the electric plant Of the H
nounced with unconceaed pride the ending
1915 the Of the municipal
only s15 cent brought himself
municipal plant was launched by the L.
Keinknecht Chairman in
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-06-24
With Przemysl and Lemberg
Retaken, German Allies
Open New Way to Big Po-
lish City.
RUSSIANS IN RETREAT
Vienna Military Experts
Look for Immediate Re-
sumption of Attacks on
Great Stronghold of Russia

LEMBERG, June 24.-Austro- Hun.
gary's victorious troops entered Lem
berg at noon yesterday. The com.
manding officers attended a solemn
thanksgiving after their arrival. As
the troops marched into the city they
were given an enthusiastic greeting
Children threw flowers before them
while their elders gave them refresh
ments. The city has suffered little
during the Russian occupation, the
cars troops treating it as a capital
When they retired they set fire to the
large oil tanks on the outskirts, but
otherwise destroyed little of value.
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Weather Forecast

For Indiana-Showers this afternoon
or tonight. Warmer Friday. Fair.
Temperature.
The Coconino sun., 1915-08-27
LET US MAKE ROOM FOR HIM

Make room for the political leader
with the foresight and courage open
ly to espouse the cause of business
big and little.
Make way for the legislator, the
governor and president whose most
earnest effort shall be not to win the
favor of the voters of any class but
to reduce the burden of the taxpay-
ers. and thus win the votes OF all
classes.
Make way for the leader who shall
have the nerve to oppose schemes OF
new taxation and to demand that pu-
bile expenditures be kept within the
public income.
Make room for the leader who will
declare against every new fad to bur-
den the taxpayers, who will show par
TALLY neither to capital nor labor, to
sociologists nor socialists, but who
will stand in the old-fashioned way
for the bill of human rights embodied
in the constitution of the United
States and in the Declaration of In
dependence.
The need of the hour is for this
kind of man. When he appears
above the horizon, there will be a
scattering of the cheap demagogues,
selfish place hunters, bogus reformers
and imitation uplifters who are occu-
pying the center of the stage as well
as the tops of the soap boxes and bar
rel heads at street corners.-John A.
Sleicher in Leslie's.
The Coconino sun., 1915-08-27

The New York Times Annalist In
dex Number on wholesale prices OF 20
leading articles of food for the first
week in August, 1915, was 145.l7,
compared with 1887 for the first
week in August, 1913, under Republi-
can law. The Index Number for the
year 1914 was 146.7 compared with
1898 for the year 1913.
Men and women of an earlier gene
ration have a clear recollection OF
"blackstrap" molasses by product OF
the manufacture of cane sugar. 1t
was a common article of food half a
century ago but the children of to-day
scarcely know it even by name. But
the European war has suddenly Gre
ated a large demand for it for use in
making denatured alcohol, which, in
turn, is used in making smokeless
powder. A fifty per cent increase in
the price of blackstrap has been a
great help to cane sugar producers
and has further impressed upon their
minds the fact that the European war
alone has saved them from the dis
astrous consequences of a Democratic
tariff law.
The Coconino sun., 1915-08-27
LAW TO PREVENT TOO MUCH

The constant reiteration of the fact
that we have too many laws, and
that people generally agree we
have too many laws, does not seem
to help the situation any. On we 60
multiplying them by legislatures and
initiative. A preventative would be
a constitutional amendment or law
Initiating the number of laws that
could be enacted during any design
ated period.
Arizona has the latest up to date
machinery for making laws and there
are always few who want little
brief notoriety by advocating a few
"catchy titled laws" The people are
slowly and gradually discovering that
the people are being "outlawed" but
they are not sufficiently awake to the
idea yet that it isn't justice they are
getting when they get tangled into
laws meshes, it is only law.
The most abject, helpless individual
is the citizen who is precipitated into
a law suit. He has had ideas all his
life that law was for the protection
of the honest citizen and bumps up
against the proposition that the other
fellow, by a close scrutiny and some
preparation before hand has beat him
to the legal end of the game.
Each individual who has bumped up
against this proposition has said: 80,
well, I'm stung, but what can | do?
No one else cares about me being
stung, unless they have been stung
too; maybe their Sting came some
other route and at some other time,
consequently they have no interest in
the way got mine."
An initiated law preventing too
much law might help all the people
all the time.
The Coconino sun., 1915-08-27

According to an official statement
by Senator Shafroth of Colorado, over
92 per cent of the land in Arizona is
under government ownership. Sena-
tor Works of California makes the
strong argument that government
lands within the several states of the
Union are held in trust for the people
of the state according to constitution
of the United States and were not in
tended to be held in perpetual owner
ship by the central government. The
lands belong to the people Of the state,
the people who build their homes
here, live here and pay taxes for the
support of the government. A vast
tenantry system with the government
as landlord was never intended by the
trainers of the constitution. The peo-
pie make the country, not the land.
The Coconino sun., 1915-08-27

1t is reported that bootlegger was
bootlegged at Bowie last week. A
young man of Stafford went to Lords
burgh, N. NJ, on little excursion and
secured dozen quarts of whiskey.
At Bowie a stranger touched him on
the shoulder as he set his suitcase
down and told him he was under ar
rest for bringing booze into the state
and requested him to meet the local
justice in the afternoon. The stranger
confiscated the suit case and left. That
afternoon the victim was told by the
justice Of the peace that he had no
knowledge of the case. Now amt that
some cute work?
The Coconino sun., 1915-08-27

business he is engaged in. 1t not only
pays the advertiser, but lets the peo-
pie at distance know that the town
you live in is prosperous community
of business men,"
And could be added to this, many
callers in newspaper Offices are look
ing for papers from different parts of
the state, endeavoring to find the
names of persons and their addresses
that they would like to secure for
good business reasons. 1t happens
every day in newspaper office, yet
many have vain idea that-"every-
body knows me-"
The Coconino sun., 1915-08-27

Many papers over the country are
condemning the lynching of Leo
Frank in Georgia. We have no knowl-
edge of this special case, but it begins
to look in Arizona as though the peo-
pie might resort to the same thing
since their opinion, votes ana deci-
sions in such matters have no effect
In other words what's the use of hav-
ing laws and a governor that do not
agree?
The Coconino sun., 1915-08-27

Sun" for the said period of ten days
was not a compliance with the law.
Hence, in our judgment, the Council
of the town of Flagstaff never ac-
quired jurisdiction to go forward with
the proposed work.
1t follows that the contract entered
into between the town Of Flagstaff
and yourself for the doing of the pro-
posed work of paving is absolutely
void, and you would not be justified
in proceeding to do any work what
ever under said contract. 1t is prob
able you would be restrained by the
Court at the instance of any person
interested. No valid assessments
could be made upon the property in
the district described in the resolu-
ton of intention, and no valid lien
would exist for the payment of any
bond that might be issued account of
such assessment.
There are other irregularities in the
proceedings taken by the Council to
have said paving done which, while
they are serious, are not as vital as
the matter adverted to above. How
ever, they would themselves be suffi-
cient to raise grave doubt in our
minds if it would be safe for you to
proceed under your contract.
The people of Flagstaff are anxious
to have the proposed work done, and
it is manifestly very much to their
interest that it should be done. But
proceedings Of this kind are neces-
sarily technical in their nature, and
it is imperative that there should be
a substantial compliance with their
nature, and requirements of the law in
order to accomplish the work and
render it safe for the contractor and
those to whom bonds might be sold.
Very truly yours,
BORDWELL & MATHEWS,
Walter Bordwell
Chicago, ILL.,, Aug, 2lst, 1915.
"Hon. Common Council of the Town
of Flagstaff,
Flagstaff, Arizona.
Gentlemen:
We have employed Mesrs. Bordwell
& Mathews, attorneys of Los Angeles,
experts in matters of street bond pro-
ceedings, to examine the proceedings
taken by you to have the streets of
your town, in what is known as Dis
trict No. 1, paved.
We are today in receipt of their
written opinions and hand you here
with copy thereof.
Advised as we are that we cannot
safely do so, we are obliged to decline
to do the work contemplated.
This we very much regret, realizing
the Importance of the work to the
The Coconino sun., 1915-08-27

The receipts from the Forest Ser
vice of the United States for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1915, were nearly
$2,500,O00, an increase of about $40,-
900 over the previous year.
This is undoubtedly more money
than the United States received for
all the land that was grabbed east of
the Mississippi river during the pal
my days of land grabbers. The west
is paying for the reputation the east
made years ago.
The Coconino sun., 1915-08-27
Compliments Special Edition

Flagstaff's points of interests and
Importance as a commercial center
were splendidly emphasized by the
special Commercial Development is
sue of the Coconino Sun of July 9th.
1t was well written, illustrated in an
attractive way and splendidly printed.
-Yavapai Magazine.
The Coconino sun., 1915-08-27

An unknown dead man was found
along the track west of Bowie. There
was nothing on his person to indicate
who he was. Every little while an
unknown" man is killed or found
dead along the railroad or other pla-
ces. Can there be much wonder at so
many missing men whom search is
being made for by relatives and
friends back east? The unknown
dead of the west fill many a grave.
A little bad luck and they don't want
their folks back east to know of it.
The Coconino sun., 1915-08-27

The Albuquerque Herald has a
headline taking steps to bring farm
and city closer together" Steps are
not necessary nowadays when you
have an auto. Years ago the festive
real estate agent sold the farmer lots
out mile or so beyond his farm.
The Coconino sun., 1915-08-27

George w. Perkins has written a
letter to the New York Evening Post
denouncing what he calls "the Wilson
tariff" But Mr.. Perkins, by his plan
to maintain the Progressive party
organization, is the most potent sup
port the Wilson tariff" has. Which,
however is not saying much.
The Coconino sun., 1915-08-27

Caranza insists on being recognized
by the United States. If the United
States can't recognize him they could
at least notice him some. 1t isn't as
if he had shaved off his whiskers, then
he might be harder to recognize.