The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • 3

1 HOME MADE KITE igures in A bduction Case OUTSTRIPS RIVALS GAMES ENTERED BY 1200 DAV'5 of at MRS EVERETT IKE the PARTIES PLAN POLL TAKING TOMORROW a CANVASS WILL BE THOROUGH of the YOU SCHOOL LUNCH IN PERIL Are Still PUPILS MAY CARRY' BASKETS SENDS LAD TO SCHOOL CHAS STEGMAN ACQUITTED The Taste of the Nation GAYLE EDWARD BAKER TRY A CLASSIIED AD IN THE STAR1T WILL BRING YOU GOOD RESULTS Santae Baker Is due old fashioned kltq made sticks a little string and won the kite flying event kites of many colors and style mostly of cloth There were kites tails and kites without tails box banner kites and many other kinds and otherwise but when the old par Mlss will and up on 24 CHARLES IKE LIVERYMEN REMAIN IRM IN UNDERTAKER BOYCOTT Republicans Will Divide Precincts in Order to acilitate Gath ering of Names Old ashioned lier of Sticks Newspaper and String Wins Playground Contest Managers Arrange to Get Line on Voters Sixty Days in Advance of Election Alleges ormer reasurer of Schoo! unds ailed to Make ull Settlement INVESTIGATION MAY DROP Attorney Baker Says Remainder of Apparent Shortage Can Not Be Explained ills Three Dime Cards tor Babies NEW SKIN REMEDY STOPS ALL ITCHING AILURE DINING ROOMS AT SHORT BRIDGE AND MANUAL TO OPERATE SUCCESSULLY DISPLEASES COMMISSIONERS NEW COMPANY ENTERS IELD A license to do business In' the state of Indiana was yesterday given to the Monongahela Insurance Company of Pitts burg a fire Insurance company with a capital stock of $200000 by the depart ment of Insurance in the office of the auditor of state The company listed Its assets at $356000 and its surplus over all liabilities at $63000 President of Association However Sqy No Attempt Will Be Made to In fluence Independent Stables "If there Is a rumor current that the Association Is endeavoring to Induce the liverymen outside of the asso ciation to refuse to allow the use of their funeral equipment to the undertaking firm of Heiner Hockensmith it Is certainly unfounded" said A Beck president of the Liverymen Association last night "The association simply took the stand It did because the" majority of Its mem bers thought it to their best Interests not to do business with a "cut undertak ing firm but If that firm can get its equlp ment from stables not In our association we certainly will not try to Injure the busi ness of those stables However we will remain firm on the stand we have Heiner Hockensmith the boycotted firm 922 North Pennsylvania street said that they had no occasion to call on any of the liverymen for funeral equipment yesterday but would not call on any mem ber of the I Heiner Hockensmith yesterday re moved their casket wagon from the ash ion Stables adjoining their place of busi ness in the rear to Sheets's stables rank II Blanchard undertaker said yesterday that he was not a leader In the effort to have the association liverymen boycott the new undertakers He said that the Liverymen's Association had already called a meeting oefore he had spoken to a liveryman Death Cuts Short Railroad Career Gayle Edward Baker whp lives at 1438 Maiding street filled three dime cards to help the sick babies He is 7 years old and is very popular with the neighbors He filled one of the cards the first day he received it and had very little trouble filling the others He Is a reader of much ability and has appeared in many of the large halls and public amusement places of the city Lucky WHY? The voters of Indianapolis will tomor row get their first real scent of the com ing city election for the slxty day poll takers will take the poll then which Is just sixty days before the election Nov 2 Both political committee chairmen are planning as accurate a count as possible but Klausmann the Republican chairman is making special efforts to ward this end Word will go out to the poll takers through the ward committee men that tho count will have to be as complete and as accurate as tho thlrty day poll usually is and that the work will not be paid for until this demand is com plied with red Akin secretary of the Republican City Committee spent yesterday prepar ing the poll books that will be used to morrow They will be In the hands of the new ward committeemen today and while it 1 anticipated that there will be some on the books after tomorrow the Intention will be to complete the precincts In one day The 121 precincts have been subdivided into precincts as they existed before they were consolidated for the use of voting machines and In this manner the Re publican poll takers will have smaller units to poll There will be about 240 pre cincts aa far as the poll Is concerned Divides Larger Precincts or example In the irst Precinct of the irst Ward as it was made fur voting machines there are three poll taking precincts Three poll books are used of different colors One is the book another the book and the the book Chairman Klausmann and Secretary Akin believe this will greatly facilitate matters The Democrats will use the larger precinct units Chairman Klausmann Is still looking for COmmittM fnr the Pt! mn lorn He hopes to find the rooms and get Into them by the last of this week hut so far has been unable to find rooms that would be suitable because of the large amount of space that will be necessary for the work of the committee Within a few days he expects to ap point his executive committee and as soon as this committee Is appointed and headquarters are found the campaign will really be though the speaking campaign Is not to begin for some time EVERETT IKE Charles and Everett ike also George ike and Harry Gage were arrested yesterday in the home of Gage 2201 Shelby street The police wore Informed that the ikes were shelterd at the Gage home and tlie place was surrounded Sergts Streit and Stoddard Detectives Smith and Stewart Patrolmen Scott and Naughton and Merchant Policeman Ham ilton were participants in the arrest Charles and Everett ike with Alvy Leonard who is held at St Louis compose the trio which is alleged to have abducted Margaret Peterson known as Mrs Ever ett ike from her home ISIS Singleton street this city According to the state ments that have been made In regard to the alleged abduction the girl was taken by the three to St Louis where she grew suddenly wary fearing they intended to do her harm Taken sick she was given care in the home of a farmer named Caso When the three sought to remove her she resisted with a shotgun Charles ike was charged with' assault and battery with intent to kill Ha at tempted to cut his throat on July 11 according to the police His wife who recovered lives at 1442 letcher avenue Everett ike son of Charles Is charged with being a fugitive wanted at St Louis George ike a brother of Charles was charged with loitering pending an Investigation Gage was charged with harboring criminals When the police en tered the Gage house they found Ever ett ike under the house where he had crawled to escape arrest The ikes yes terday refused to discuss the charges against them except to deny the accusa tion of abduction Everqtt ike denies that he is married to Margaret Peterson Judge Stubbs ine Men who Had Beer Near Youngster William Wilkins a 14 year old boy who was found by the police In an Intoxicated condition was sent to tJie School at Plainfield by Judge Stubbs in the Juvenile Court yesterday Young Wil kin had been before the court before on other charges Harrison Miller Harry Little and John Denny who are said to have bought the beer drunk by Wilkins were arrested charged with contributing to delinquency and they were fined $26 and costs and given ninety days In the Workhouse with sentence suspended The men declared that they were driving in a wagon and that the beer was in a bucket in the rear of the vehicle and Wilkins drank from the bucket without their knowledge Sliornia Iplonisf Odd Suits and all Overcoats or smart style and intrinsic worth these Clothes have no counterpart in this city There fore they are values unmatchable $1000 Suits and all Overcoats choice $500 $1250 Suits and all Overcoats choice $625 $1500 Suits and all Overcoats choice $750 $2000 Suits and all Overcoats choice $1000 $2500 ine ancy Suits at choice' $1250 STATE TJE BUILDING Says Books Agree am not at all said Mr anv exnlanatinii from him for the reason that Mr Burdick (the ac countant) In his report says: Ln the ac count of Mr salary we find the and hooks agree the warrants checking to the number and Mr Baker suggests that Mr Burdick be asked to explain the con tradiction before an explanation Is de manded of Mr Williams 1 The opinion which was based on a personal investigation of the books takes up several instances of apparent shortage unexplained by the accountant and solves the problems to his own satis faction at least on the theory of partial payment of warrants the foregoing as a guide to a method of tracing says the opin ion have no doubt but that some one more experienced than I in such matters could explain them or some of Concerning the advisability of taking legal steps to recover any of the money that appears to be missing Mr Baker says: a my opinion the board has not suffi cient' evidence at this time to charge the auditor with Improperly drawing a war rant for any part of the $129332 or to charge any treasurer wltih the payment of any part of said sum without a prop erly drawn warrant therefor The char acter of the discrepancy and the way or ways in which it was caused are as far as Is shown in the report of the accountant or so far as my own investigations have gone purely matters of speculation and surmise The report shows that he has found and approved many items of payment by the treasurer which were partial payments of a warrant of a given Dishonesty Not Inferred Mr Baker then expresses a belief that rank Bird and Mr Williams formerly deputy auditors can not be accused of dishonesty in their accounting as referred to in the foregoing paragraph in the ac count of Mr Williams the deputy auditor which account the accountant says Is above criticism Such payments appear in the accounts of rank Bird another deputv auditor whose account Is set out in full in the report and which if correctly abstracted by the ac countant shows that 'in two months of Mr time he failed to draw his full salary and in no month did he draw more than his full salary the items reported by the account ant as found in the list of payments made by the treasurer and for which he finds in the register no corresponding warrant I refer to the items of that char acter as to which I have discovered no explanation there are several instances in which the treasurer has more than one payment on one warrant under the same warrant number It would seem therefore that the mere fact that the treasurer made two or more payments under the same payment warrant number Crowd of 5000 Spectators Wit nesses Annual estival at Garfield Park John Wocher Bro Off St Indianapolis Bank Building Boach Grova LOUIS SALES MANAGER playgrounds ball boys counting 12 scores up to 40 contests alone the a victory ol'y PRICE 72 SALE Pupils of Shortridge and Manual Train ing High Schools will probably pay more for their noonday luncheons next winter and may have to return to the lunch basket route Incomplete figures which were disclosed at the meeting of the Board of School Commissioners last night show that the lunchroom at Shortridge High School cleared only about throughout the year and that the lunchroom at Man ual Training High School ended the year with a deficit of $22 The figures met with immediate disap proval by Commissioners Emrlch and Tay lor principally for the fact that the two lunchrooms owe the School Board about $1600 for financial assistance formerly rendered and there was nothing In the year's receipts to show that the Board is going to be repaid "If these lunchrooms can not be self sustaining they ought to be saia xur jsmncn imetty soon mere be another load placed on the people we will be Comments on Support shouldn't be surprised If tho board were not asked within a short time to give more money for new silver or something else" said Mr Taylor The impression was that the lunch rooms should at least clear $400 a year The board started out last year with the understanding that 20 per cent of the indebtedness to the board should be paid yearly until the account was closed The figures showed that the lunchroom at Manual Training High School had a larger patronage and took in greater gross re ceipts notwithstanding its deficit This situation was wondered at by the board members It is probable that if the lunchrooms are not closed the price of lunches will be raised so that both rooms can make a reasonable profit In the meantime the board will make an Investigation of the receipts and expenditures of the two rooms The lunchrooms have been In operation for about five years Hlllll KI I1UII AH JIM 0 ENSLEY 1 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR WEDNESDAY? SEPTEMBER 1 1900 Oliver Ensley formerly county treas urer and treasurer of the Board of School Commissioners will be asked to repay to the board $160 which It is alleged he failed to account for in his settlement with his successor Edward Robison The demand is based on an opinion sent to the School Board last night by Albert Baker the school attorney which was a resume and a criticism of the audit re cently made of the School Board books by the ''National Audit and Appraisal I Company Mr sBaker also recommended that another overdraw of $25 in favor of I Williams a former deputy auditor be Investigated Concerning the remainder of the $129332 apparent shortage which can not be explained Mr Baker urged the board to drop further investigation The audit which Mr Baker indicates amounts practically to no benefit to the board was made at a cost of $1600 The money for which a demand is to be made of Mr Ensley was the refund of a municipal improvement assessment which the board made to the treasurer Nov 16 1905 The assessment had been paid inApril ofthe same year according to the attorney Can't ind One item do not find this Mr opinion read the register of receipts I conclude therefore that Mr Ensley did not charge himself with the item and did not include it in his settlement with Robison 'Incoming treasurer of the board Jan 1 1908 and that Mr Ensley still owes this amount His attention should be called to the Item and he should be requested to pay It to 1 the treasurer of the board and I have no doubt he will honor the Mr Ensley is at present in California and returns to Indianapolis this month The board will also make an investiga tion of the Williams overdraw Accord ing to Mr Baker three warrants of the same number apparently for portions of salary were found in the books amounting in the aggregate to $150 was $25' in excess of the salary Evidence Shows He Was Authorized to Indorse Checks Charles Stegman who was arrested at the Instance of Domb Bros on a charge of having forged Indorsement to checks was tried in Police Court yesterday and acquitted The evidence showed that he represented the interests of his father who Is a silent partner in the business and that he had been authorized and tn a number of Instances had heretofore in dorsed the checks for the firm It aljfd showed that the money was not converted to the use of Stegman but was turned over to his father All matters between Stegman and Domb Brosyhave been ad justed and the receivership proceedings filed by them have been dismissed Davis who died Sunday evening at the home of his parents Mr and Mrs George Davis 415 East Nineteenthstreet had been unusually successful in hts career Ho began the training for his vocation in the Big our shops where he wotked into a position of mechanical draftsman Later he was promoted to a position of mechanical Instructor of the apprentice school of the same road which he held until about two years ago He wont to Topeka Kas to Institute an ap prentice school system for the Santa Railroad in which he was successful In connection with mechanical drafting he taught mathematics and frequently gave lectures on me uinereni pnases 01 mechanical work of a railroad He was 26 years old Besides his ents ho leaves a widow who was I Madge Harvey of this city a brotherGeorge and two sisters Mrs Ralph Part low and Miss Hazel Davis Is not in or of Itself evidence of wrong doing on the part of any one although the practice was one that should never have been permitted I advise the board to take no action aaginst any one at this time to recover any part of that aval ouKera investigation cleared the mystery concerning $25210825Tuna IK 1 QAQ 1E4 rtArt az auu un reo 44 1904 which the accountant said were not to be found In the books This money was the proceeds of sales of school city bonds and according to Mr Baker Is safely and correctly credited in a dif of the register inally Mr opinion says that he fails to find any result In the work from January 1900 to June 30 and advises that the School Board drop its Investigation The entire report was ap proved without discussion by the board Heat School Under Contract The board received bids from the Mer chants Heat and Light Company and from the Indianapolis Light and Heat heating of Shortridge High School and the heating and lighting of the public library building This is an entirely new arrangement as the School Board has always superintended the lighting and heating of the buildings itself Only lighting for Shortridge High School has formerly been done by con tract The blds follow: Merchants Heat and Light Company for heating for a Period of five years 56624 annually for three years 720 for heating and lighting the library build ing $8600 annually Indianapolis Light a5Ld HXt Company for heating Short ridge High School $5500 annually for fi ve years: for heating the public library building $375 annually lighting 4 cents per 1000 watts difference in the amounts of the blds of the two companies Is based prin cipally on the proposition as to whether or not the present boilers In the build ings shall be used The Com pany proposes to connect its mains di rectly to the system without the use of the hollers and engines The Indian spoils Company however would use the boilers and engines and assume respon sibility for any damage more than usual wear It is the opinion of the School Board that the proposed arrangement to contract for the lighting and heating of the buildings will be more economical than the present system The contract will probably be let at a' meeting of the board riday noon Bids for plumbing and heatlnglsystems in several schools were opened and will also be considered riday The lowest blds follow: Plumbing In school No 49 Woollen Callon $2795 highest big for this work was $5395 for heating school No 49 Kruse Dewenter on the gen eral specifications $7649 with smokeless furnace 5516 additional without radia tors in vent flue $340 less plumbing in school No 54 $2565 heating In school No 54 Kruse Dewenter $4786 with smokeless furnace $300 additional Skin Troubles of Adults and Infanta Quickly Cured When it Is known that poslam the new skin discovery will stop the torturous itching attending eczema with first ap plication and bring immediate relief and comfort to sufferers from all skin troubles Its merits will be appreciated and Its wonderful success understood On the tender skin of chafing Infants poslam may be used with soothing and bene ficial effects It is applied externally and its remarkable healing power begin at once All skin diseases 1 Including eczema acne herpes rash tetter etc yield Im mediately to poslam Occasional applica tions In small quantities will quickly banish pimples hives blackheads blotches and will relieve and cure itch ing feet scaly scalp humors etc A special 50 cent package is prepared for those who use poslam for these minor skin troubles This as well as the regu lar two dollar jar Is on sale at I and other leading drug stores In Indianapolis An experimental supply of poslam may he obtained free of charge by writing to the Emergency Laboratories 32 West Twenty first Street New York We stated in our last ri advertisements that on September 1st you would absolutely have to pay $400 for the lots in Beech Grove between irst avenue and Seven teenth street and Albany street and Cincinnati street and we were honest in our assertion but ow ing to the tremendous crowd of people that visited Beech Grove last Sunday and the remark able interest taken and the splendid sales made and the impossibility of our large corps of salesmen to irive everybody at tention we propose to hold these lots the re mamaer or this week at the same prices that pre cuieu on last ounaay mw and $300 If you want to save or rather makp a nloan $50 or $100 in less than a time not iiesnaw in raKinff advantage or this onnnrfnhity Remember this is your and it is one you 11 always regret it you miss it A plain two light newspaper the annual play festival or tne Indian apolis public playgrounds at Garfield Park yesterday It competed with every manner of and filer but it won easily Miles eeney of the playground at school No 52 won with the newspaper kite because It went up so readily Others of tho boys in the contest had great made with kites fancy newspaper kite won the eeney boy was cheered The contest was what is known as the mile The boys were to let out a quarter of a mile of string and null their kites back to them winding up the string without damage to the kite and without allowing it to touch the ground Many of them had reels for their strings eeney used a stick His ad vantage was in the fact that the kite rose quickly It seemed anxious to fly and he had it going before many other contest ants had started He was winding hit string before some had their kites in the air Charles Smith colored of the No 28 playgrounds took second In this contest and the prize for the highest kite was awarded to De Witt Cromwell of the school No 13 playgrounds Contests Entered by 1200 Something like 1200 children entered Into the contests yesterday and an audi ence of 4000 or 5000 witnessed the games Music was provided by the A Band The children were taken to and from the park in special cars Only the work at tether ball and cap tain ball by the girls of the school No 55 playgrounds saved this playgrounds in the scoring for points for the day The score of this playground was 59 but fifty of these points were allowed because the girls won the games named Otherwise the prizes would have gone to the School No 26 playgrounds (colored chil dren) As it was tne latter took second mo wifiiuiig (ji inq championship by the points bringing their points In the athletic colored children The individual championship went to Chester Jackson a colored boy who won two firsts and one second Little Blanche Petry and Ray Brown tied for second place with one first and one second each The relay race for girls was won by the girls of School No 12 'playground and for boys by those from the School No 14 playground Among the prizes awarded were a num ber of silver loving cups of beautiful de sign The exhibit of manual training work Including sewing basket mailing crochet ing and other similar work by the girls attracted much attention or crocheting the first prize went to No 55 and the second to No 12 for basketry first to No 30 second to No 40 for general ex hibit first to No 30 second to No 55 It was announced to the children that their work would be exhibited at the State air The work of the children who have been attending the public playgrounds this summer will be on exhibition at the Lieber store 24 West Washington street this afternoon tomor row and riday Would you Ijke to get fl a home in golden Cali fl fornia Go this all' 5 fl Colonist excursions every Sentemher IK Railroad fare nnlv skk ok dlanapolls or $650 additional you get double berth In a Santa Js tourist sleeper (built by Pullman from St Louis roomy modern and scornfortable A Stop over allowed for Grand Cnvnn 'S and Salt River Valiev in ArizAn at moat point in California including the great San Joaquin Valley Santa tourist sleeper service to San rancisco is quicker than any other line Loa Angeles no other line is faster Personally conducted excursions tri weekly Meals by red Harvey Ask forjliustrated book folders To California in a Tourist and Joaquin CA'' Burnett Gen Agt 4 Ry ao9 Traction Building Cincinnati Ohio NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY Uneeda Biscuit has actually been changed and cultivated by Uiteeda DlSCUlt No longer are Deonle sat isfied with crackers taken from the box or Darrel exposed to dust moisture handling They have learned that the only crackers that are criso tender always fresh and really Mod are those wo tected Dy a moisture nroof package These are the kind they get as if just from the when they ask for 2 fl 4 I' W' I' I I Wks wHQhk I s(id fl A 111 I Ijljl 1 I flV I wj Jl i fl fl 1 fl II 1 If Iff pj'Wl 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