The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • 10

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 17 1903 TOOMEY USE nr AMID CHEERING 1 i eventful refrigerator r( VERDICT WITH THE PROSECUTOR her Robbery Cases THOUGHT PIECE GLASS A DIAMOND in for a roll top 200 WILL RIDE THE GOAT THIS EVENING tion the and fur CAUSE COAL SHORTAGE up MANHATTAN CLUB ORMED POTATOES STOLEN AX OR SLOT MACHINES SUBWAY TOO SMALL Prophecies $25000 OR AN ARM CONDITION NOT SERIOUS OUR ENGINE DISABLED is for those born Axle WAGON DEMOLISHED de 4 1 MW a few of the Edwards luul she to bring she had story to the restaur way to keep Toomey manager saved of the the The the ERCURY BttPS 20 DEGREES IK 1 HOURS pa bo anl STOLEN GOODS SOLD 8T WOMAN Bankers and Doctors Usually Sedate Become Like Wind mills with 'Waving Arms at Masonic Hall Meeting IT ir MANY VISIT ROUNDHOUSE AT BRIGHTWOOD TO SEE IT Prominent Business Men Heard as Witnesses Both Sides Confident HELPLESS MASS OE BROKEN IRON MAYOR SORRY BUT POWERLESS MUST CLEAN UP SAYS INSPECTOR Poolroom Keeper Will Know In ew Days Whether He Is Manager or Gambler who sold the Edwaris told She HATS AND UMBRELLAS ARE THROWN WILDLYJN AIR Receives Delegation of Cerealine town People Protesting Against Pesthouse COUNCIL UNWILLING TO BUY A SITE ELSEWHERE ew Broken Timbers All That Remains of Car in Which 1 6 Lost Their Lives Sell about all else 17 Expect Keep thj busl EACH OICIAL LEAVES NEXT STEP TO THE OTHER Knights and Ladies of Honor to Have a Class Initia Helm inds Conditions Bad at a Number of Small Restau rants Cold Wave from the Northwest Strikes Indianapolis with ull orce Coroner Tutewiler Mails Copy of Big our Wreck inding to Mr Ruckelshaus GIRL ARRESTED ON THE EVE HER WEDDING awyers Differ as to Whether Operator Byers Can be Indicted New Building to Stand for ive Years When it Will Likely be Destroyed Wife of Harry Edwards Twelfth Person Arrested in Car Harry Wood Ordered to be Sent to the Hospital by Insanity Commission I Inspector Epperson Attributes It to Strike and Decrease In Gas Supply Neither the mine operators nor the railroad were responsible for the coal shortage of last winter according to State Mine inspector Epperson In his report for the years 1901 and 1902 The Inadequate supply he says was due to the strike in the anthracite region the Increased demand for Indiana coal and the decrease In the supply of natural gas xwenty new mines wore opened in Indiana and eleven were abandoned During the year there were 8763197 tons of coal mined an over the production of the preceding year of 1743994 tons The coal mined last year was valued at $7 Oi 91212 The intro duction of mining machines is supposed to be the cause of the great increase in the coal production of Drivers Breaks Near Mt Jack No One Hurt engine 434 pulling fast freight No she was used excursions and took particular charge of Bought of Second Hand Dealer Willing to Pay Company" ull Value A big delegation of Cerenllnetown peo ple called on Mayor Holtzman yesterday to protest against the location of the pesthouse on the old "eleven In that section of the city The mayor snld he was sorry that he had been compelled to choose this site And he looked sorry when he said It lie greeted the callers nt the entrance to his office with the cordiality similar to that of the chief mourner at a funeral Ho invited his cullers to suggest a bet ter site They told him that they did not call to make suggestions The mayor again an Id lie was sorry He said that the posthouse would be sur rounded by a very high fence and that It would be surrounded by trees and would lie Just as pretty as such a place could be made Ills callers did not just see how It could be made very attractive They complained that their property would be damaged The mayor said It was all Imagination and their calling on him with such an objection would merely advertise the fact that they believed their property would bo damaged The mayor Insisted that he wanted to take the blame though ho said that even should lie wish to buy an expensive site and locate the pesthouse elsewhere the City Council would not make the appro priation and Ids cullers left with less un kind feelings toward him than the Republican Council The pcsthouse will bo built to stand for live years the mayor says In many cities such hospitals are destroyed every five years The city will likely buy a row of lots on the south of the "eleven acres" and will then own the property to ourteenth gtreet a tL MEN IGHT BUT ARE GOOD RIENDS WHEN POLICE COME Society Incorporates to Obtain Honestand Economical Municipal Rule A club formed for "literary and scien tific research and for the obtaining of honest ecanomical and efficient munici pal rule" filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State yesterday It was the imhattan Club of Indianapo lis cue directors mid incorporators being II Womack Dunean Vinson Robert Thornton Hayes Burns George Roches ter William Womack Robert Pogue Scott and James Tilford Articles of Incorporation were also filed by the Monticello Oil Company capital stock 325000 the Mitchell Telephone Company capital stock $30000 Hitch Home arm Company of Patoka capital stock $5000 and the raternity Building Association of Michigan City capital stock $10000 Swift delivery wagon was mollshed yesterday by being struck the yards by switch engine No 67 and the driver Antoine Smith was thrown to the ground He escaped uninjured Jesse Hendricks 1050 Oliver avenue and Hugh McElvey 425 East Ohio street are accused of stealing three bar rels of potatoes from the em ployer Arthur Jordan The deed was committed riday In broad daylight In the yards and what Is more astonishing delivery wagon was used to haul away the plunder The two were arrested yesterday aft ernoon by bicyclemen Duncan and Askin BABY IN CISTERN ONLY A RELECTION Superintendent of Police Says They Will Not Be Allowed Superintendent Kruger has an ax out for the slot machines John and Emil Valerath saloon keepers were arrested yesterday for having a slot machine and the superintendent will have the machines split Into kindling wood after the trials The superintendent says that no slot machines will pe permitted to be operated in Indianapolis He says all that are found will be taken to the police station with their owners and that the owners will be fined Judge Whallon willing and the machines will be demolished I BIG SEVERAL HOTELS TOO ARE GIVEN THE TIP CAS CONSUMERS ORM ALEACUE Two hundred candidates for member snip In the Knights and Dadies of Honor will ride the goat at a class Initiation at Masonic1 hall tonight The work will be done by the degree staff of Clay lodge Brazil Ind and the officers of the supreme and grand lodges wnl be among the spectators Delegations from Logansport Alexandria and Colum bus will also be present The class initiation bo a testimonial of the Indianapolis lodges to the supreme lodge in appreciation of Its establishing permanent neauquariers nere The ten Indianapolis lodges are nishlng the candidates Several Visitors Will Have Degrees Up to Thirty second Conferred on Them A banquet will be held tomorrow night by tho Scottish Rite Masons of Indiana nt the temple on South Pennsylvania street Several of the visitors will have de grees conferred on them up to the thir ty second This afternoon Adoniram Grand Lodge of Perfection will confer de grees Saralah Council Princes of Jeru salem will conduct tho class tomorrow morning and tomorrow afternoon the In dianapolis Chapter of Rose Croix will be In charge Thursday the Indiana Sov ereign Consistory will add the degrees from the nineteenth to the thlrty sdcond and riday evening flurat Temple of the Mystic Shrine will Initiate its candidates up to Coroner Tutewiler to take the first step In bringing indictment pro ceedings against the man held respon sible for tho wreck of the Purdue special He must bring the evidence to me before I can take any stops toward grand jury John Ruckelshaus prosecut ing attorney up to Prosecutor Ruckelshaus to bring about the Indictment of the man held responsible for the wreck of the Purdue special by the coroner As far as I am concerned I am done with the whole Coroner Harry Tutewiler These statements were made by the two officials last night when asked who will make the first move In bringing Bert Byers the dispatcher at Kankakee who was held responsible for the wreck by the coroner Into court to answer to the charge of criminal negligence The coroner yesterday mailed the prosecutor a copy of his verdict but this Is the only move that has been made Thoro Is a strong difference of opinion among the lawyers of the city as to whether Byers can be Indicted under tho law A new feature of tho case was brought out yesterday by Judge Alford who said that he doubted whether the case could be tried in Indiana since the act was really committed In Illinois Lawyers say that tho authorities differ as to whether tho man can be Indicted on the charge of manslaughter What ever Is done ultimately in regard to the matter It must first be determined by Prosecutor Ruckelshaus whether there has been a violation of an Indiana statute He Is looking into the law on the ques tion and will be ready to answer soon He said last night that should Tute wiler turn over the evidence to him he thought there would lie no necessity for calling an extra meeting of the grand jury Ho said: "Extra sessions are called only In cnseu of the greatest public concern If this man should make an effort to get away he could bo arrested so I see no need of an extra session If anything is done It will probably be done at tho next meet ing early In December" Van Winkle general superin tendent Of tho Big our refuses to dis cuss tho case further He snys that the question as to whether Byers will lie re tained in his position or whether an other investigation will be opened by the Big our Is the affair of the company Dr Pritchard Will Make the Rounds to See How the Meat is Kept Ed Helm city milk inspector is In vestigating conditions at restaurants in a quiet way and he has ordered several of them cleaned of the smaller said the inspector "I have found In bad con dition I would hate to eat in some of them after what I have seen In some of the big restaurants downtown I found the refrigerators dirty and I found that milk butter meat and vegetables were often kept In tlie same compartment But the conditions were fair in the larger places "At the hotels I ordered some clean ing too and I ordered one relined thought in several cases rant men could have a better their meats but I made no suggestions along this line Dr Pritchard meat in spector will soon make the rounds of the restaurants to see about the At the dirty restaurants the Inspector left word that the owners would have to clean up Immediately He told the pro prietors they jwould be given just twenty four hours to remedy the conditions But he has not been back to many of the places he visited and a week may elapse between the first and the second calls In some cases Tho Inspector does not anticipate trou ble with the restaurant men He was at several' restaurants at that time of day when kitchens are always disorder ly and that his Impression of the general conditions were likely not fair to the restaurant men Dr Spencer city sanitarian says the restaurants must clean up and stay clean He will have them Inspected oc casionally all through his term of office for he believes many of them are badly in need of watching Lizzie Wilson Charged With Theft Pleads that Sweetheart Be Not Informed of It Her wedding day only a few weeks oft Lizzie Wilson a domestic employed at the homo of Mrs McGuire in East St Joseph street was arrested yesterday by detectives Lancaster and Gerbar charged with the theft of a number of articles of small value from a neighbor's family The girl broke down when confronted by the detectives and pleaded that her sweetheart bo kept from knowing 'of her arrest don't know why I'tOoK those she said "I don't know what I was It Is alleged she stole a brooch a ring and several trinkets from tho snchel of Mrs Bergen of Kokomo who was visit ing next door and left her snchel nt the McGuire homo for a short time The girl Is also accuser! of taking two silk skirts from a clothesline In the yard of a neighbor Bleler'e Cows Can't Get Through When They are In a Hurry ielding Bleler a' farmer west of town Is having trouble with his cows and tho Martinsville interurban line Half a hundred farmers who live near Bleler came to tho city yesterday and were entertained In Judge court with a modern lawsuit Bleler says his land is worth $250 nn acre He also claims that because the traction company failed to build a suffi ciently large subway under Its tracks his cattle can not get through when they are In a hurry The case was continued ALL THAT IS LET THE CAR IN WHICH SIXTEEN LOST THEIR LIVES Nearly 500 Citizens Become Members of Organization to ight Trust Wreckers Accompanied by a din of shouts end cheers business and professional men men threw hats and umbrellas Into tho air as with a unanimous vote the Con League came Into being hist night i The scene in Masonic hall called to or ganize to support the new directors of the Consumers Gas Trust Company was a remarkable one Standing room was at a premium and the enthusiasm was of tne infectious kind Tho climax came eeling of Sympathy for Engine 350 Which Pulled Purdue Special in Wreck Ward The Rev Charlee Bacon May Not Operation Rev Charlea of tho Indhxna church who JUDGE HAS THE CUT GLASS INDS WAY TO WELL KNOWN ATTORNEY There Is a part of tho Big our round house at Brightwood that causes a feel ing of sadness In visiting It that part of It given up to the ward of wrecked locomotives In this department Is engine No 350 which pulled tho fatal Purdue special Silently like some grief stricken mon ster seemingly conscious of the tragic drama in which she played a prominent part she stands there Like a bird with a broken pinion she stands a helpless mass of broken and twisted Iron stripped of her haughty and proud appearance To a railroad man an engineer es pecially an engine is regarded as almost human and when an engine Is hauled In wrecked and battered up there is a feel ing of sympathy and tender respect for It George Roberts was Uio regular en gineer on No 350 and he had laid off only the day before the wreck No 350 was an' engine of the Rich mond type and was regarued as one of the best and fastest In the freight ser vice of the Chicago division of the Big our On account of her speed and abil ity to pull heavy loads considerably for Sunday special trains Engineers pride In being placed In throttle i ue picture she presents now is a thetie one Her tender is almost vend recognition the cab torn away as If to hide her identity the number is recognizable only on the sand box The machinery escaped and the reserve lever stands as engineer Shumaker loft It justa few notches back of center Repairs on No 350 are being pushed as tho Big our is In need of engines but It will be about four months before she Is again ready for service She Is only an engine but many a strong hearted railroader has dropped a silent as he has passed her in the wreck ward of tho roundhouse Three of the passenger cars that were in the Purdue special wreck are also In the Brightwood Big our yards These cars are the ones that were next to the engine Car No 435 which was directly back of the engine and In which sixteen young men were killed is reduced to just a few broken timbers loaded on a flat car There is nothing about them that has any semblance of a passenger coach Two of the other cars Nos 491 and 558 stand on their own trucks just out side of tho coach repair shop It Is doubtful if they can ever be made flt for service again In cur No 558 which was hurled down the embankment only two window panes escaped being broken Hundreds of people have visited the three cars in the Big our yards so many In fact that they have almost made themselves a nuisance to the em ployes of the shops Every home In Brightwood has a bit of broken glass or a piece of wood to keep as a ghastly memento ot one oi me worst wreeKS the history of the Big our railroad The latest addition to the sta'te' library Is tho manual' of civil government told as the author says' in tho language of the school room It Is for grown people also and will be Included In the Indiana ex hibit at tho St Louis exposition shoilpg the product Of Indiana writers1 Sanders the author says he has been a teacher In many high schools In tho state His portrait adorns tho 'first page of the book followed by those of Goncral Harrison the Indiana Senators state officials and Senator Goodwine chairman of the Indiana commission for tho St Louis fair In the opening chapter the author of tho book says by citizens Is meant not only the man but his sweetheart sisters and mother Referring to tho Indiana Senators Mr Sanders says: "You have probably hoard our Sena tors speak nt old meetings If so you should have paid close attention Wise boys and girls never giggle a speech Is being made" Of towns the author says: "In the country are a number of small towns and villages You have probably boon through several of them in uio cnai "Of course you think you' belong t7i000 volumes of his work BANQUET OR SCOTTISH RITE MASONS TOMORROW "A baby In a cistern" was tho startling report that reached police headquarters yesterday morning at 10 o'clock and bicyclemen Dun can and Askin were dispatched to tho scone of tho supposed oceur ronco 709 Bright street They found that several little colored children were playfully peering into a cistern Their faces were re fleeted on the smooth surface of tho water below and one little fellow with a very Imaginative mind thought he saw the form of a child In tho cistern and nt once circulated 1 tho report which spread in neighborhood like wlldllrc blcvclomen fished around In water for some time but were un nblo to substantiate the belief of the colored children Tillie Krentler by Engel Krentler Is the loss of an arm yesterday against the Bag Company She alleges that while feeding the press machine that stamps advertisements ona the' paper bags a pile of bags fell against her left arm pushing her hand between the fast revolving rollers The arm was so crushed that It had to be amputated above the eww She charges negligence rank Maney Cuts Gash In Albert Dor sey's Cheek and Lops Off the Tip of His Nose Albert Dorsey and rank Maney fought In front of a South Meridian street sa loon last night Maney cut a deep gash In Dorsey's cheek and lopped off the tip of his nose but when the police arrived the men had made up their quarral and were in the saloon drinking again Dorsey Is a bartender and lives at 35 West Henry street Ho wcrtto Christian saloon'' 456 South Meridian street and got into an argument with a tan over drinks Maney entered and joined In the conversation Dorsey then accused Maney of "butting and tho men adjourned to tho side walk to tight It out Maney It is said drew a knife when the men were outside and slashed Dorsey twice After bicyclemen Hull and Kiefer ar rived Dorsey was taken to the office of Dr Judson Moschelle 628 South Meridian street where Ids injuries were attended to uotn mon were loosed on the charge of assault and battery NEGROES PLEAD GUILTY TO ROBBING HOUSES Have to Undergo The condition of the Bason presiding elder polls district of tho was taken with an attack of appendicitis for the third time Thursday night was not considered serious last night Drs Clark and Dunning who are In attendance wore satisfied Inst night that an operation would not be necessary and that he would regain his strength speedily It was thought best not to cable his daughter Bertha who la tn Rome "Hitting the was given a hard blow by the Insanity commission yester day By a decision In the case of Harry Wood 903 Bates street the commission has drawn a tight line on the man who dreams The famous "Queen of at whose throne Indianapolis men have been prone to worhlp will be forced to pack up her pipe and her and seek greener fields No more will a man be allowed to dream of the millions at his disposal and wander through tho corridors of his "castles in This highly poetical pastime must stop or the dreamers must go to the hospital In the case of Woods Is found the first ruling on this point by any known court In existence Wood Imagined that he had $40009 In government bonds that he had unlimited at his com mand and that there was no such word as creditor In the dictionary His wife runs a boarding and rooming house at 130 North New Jersey street and was content to allow her husband to dream Woods's diamonds to be his downfall He carried a piece of glass in his hands constantly which he Imagined was worth thousands Last week some one took the glass away from him and Woods swore out a warrant for his ar rest Here the prosaic advocates of the law stepped in and he was taken before the insanity commission yesterday He will be sent to the Hospital for the Insane The Toomey case was finished yester day afternoon in Police Court and was taken under advisement by Judge Wh'al? Ion This morning the attorneys on both sides will submit to the judge authorities bearing on this case and not until then will he be able to determine how soon a decision will be handed down However several days will elapse before will know whether he is a or a gambler The closing session was ah one As on former days of the trial all of the 115 defendants did not appear and again Deputy Prosecutor Ira Holmes moved the court to order the bonds of the absent ones forfeited Judge Whallon also took this under advise ment until final disposition of pie case The witnesses' yesterday included some of the most prominent business men of Indianapolis all of whom were questioned tte to their know ledge of the reputation borne by the place In the rear of William Tron sa loon North Illinois street Yesterday's witnesses were A Pfeifer Dr Dublel Robinson John Paver Samuel Rubens James Brosnan Dickson Lee Louis Broghelm and Otto Deluse After taking the testimony of the last witness the prosecution rested Its case without argument which blocked the other side from making any display ot oratory Both sides are still confident of success Elmer Marshall local counsel for the telegraph company and one of attorneys said: "The law and evidence are In our favor and we had more than twice as many witnesses as the defense all of whom testified to the good reputation of place The detectives of course testified that gambling was car ried oni quoting other persons as their authority These persons have denied having talked with the detectives so it Is merely a question of veracity between1 the detectives and their alleged Inform ants" Deputy Prosecutor Ira Holmes is hope ful too He said: "We have shown that gambling has been carried on in place and so confident are we that the case was submitted without argument Ryan testified that he frequented the poolrooms and won and lost money on horse races there One ot their own witnesses Bryson of Covington Ky testified that bets were made on horse That Is What Miss Krentler Asks of Bag Company In Sult her next friend asking $25000 for The suit was filed Bemis Indianapolis ATTORNEYS TO SUBMIT AUTHORITIES TODAY ARRESTED OR AST DRIVING Two Men Racing Catise Another Hofse to fiytay 'Two men who it Is diovfa'thelr horses at breakneck spend at Washing ton and Pino streets' and caused the horse of Lovings 926 'East Wash ington street to run away were arrested yesterday charged with fast driving They are Jesse Larimore 3004 East New York street a peddler and George Tout 740 East Market a driver ot a coal wagon They were arrested by patrol man Dickinson on warrants sworn out byMr Lovings Mr Lovlngs's horse became frightened at the racers broke Its hitching strap ran nwny and was killed while the wngon to which it was attached was demolished 1 MANUAL IS NOW AT THE STATE LIBRARY "Make mine a short one please" "Guess I'll have a little drink or smoke so give me a bottle of They had been standing at the famil iar railing All had ordered save one He was a rosy cheeked corpulent good natured German "Are you asked the man with the In his hand The man be hind the counter had already twisted the faucet It was always the same with this man But hark! "Give me a little hot scotch" the voice said Three men almost fell over In a flt "Listen already to said the Ger man "You tink you make funny blzzl ness out of me Wait! Walt! I was up In that Majestic Building house a minute ago and that clerk said out for a cold wave' No beer now" And he put away what he was holding In his hand The German was right The mercury Is on a rampage and all going down and It will not come up again soon Twenty drop from 1 until 1 is the report of the weather clerk and he says further that it will not stop until It reaches 25 There may be a few snow flakes too but that Is improbable The cold comes from the place where all cold waves originate tne ixortn Northwest One more arrest the twelfth was made In the Brightwood car robory Investiga tion yesterday Mrs Lf Ilion Edwhrds the wife ot Harry Edwards one of the mon arrested was charged yesterday with receiving stoh goods The specific charge against the woman Is that she sold a cut glass cream and pitcher sot said to have boon stolen by her husband It is charged that she sold tho glassware to it Massachusetts avenue second hand denier and that he traded It to a well known attorney desk The second hand denier glassware said that him that it was a iweddlng gift seemed much aifectcd at having to part with it The woman showed a disposition to comply with the requests of the officers yesterday and she was allowed to go to her home on Depot street Brightwood without bond She had her little son in her arms and the little fellow attracted much attention at the police station ne police sain tnat Airs would not have been arrested merely permitted her husband tho stolen uiocles home but sold them and had invented mislead the second hand dealer The name of tho attorney who bought the glassware Is not to be mad public by tho police He has told the railroad company which had to pay for tho miss ing glassware that he would willingly pay the company for It He valued tho desk he traded at $15 but he said he would pay the company the value of the bout $20 Tho ease of Mrs Edwards was con tinued until a week from today when all of the cases except that of Ross Sours will bo trjed Sears who was arrested Sunday was represented bv Mnrtln Hugg and the at torney said he did not want Ills client tried with the rest of the men a week from Tuesday Ho will bo tried two days later than tho others Tho detectives believe that still other arrests will follow some political jiarty Very likely It Is the same one to which your father be longed That is all right it it is nil right Candidates often indulge In tho immoral habit of carrying a pocket full of cigars to hnnd out whore they will do the most good" In tho chapter on contracts tho author says: "A sale of goods Is a cotitraot? Mar riage Is a contract though not always Under the title of breach of contract Is tho following: "When a man falls to or refuses to do as he has agreed you make him do it and the law can't make him dn It That Is the sheriff can not take hold of his hands place tools in them and compel him to build house That would be as sault and Under a chapter on breach of promise Mr Banders says: "When a wealthy man agrees to marry a woman find then refuses to do so she is very likely to sue for oreach of promise and got damages When a men keeps steady company with a woman for year the law presumes there Is an agreement to marry" In closing his work on civil kovernment Qie author advises his young renders to nneiiia si ex Hhsa La hnKAHl hmS 1 II CIUTVSIAA VIA II1UUII VZSIlGi SUIIIVPI UUU pter on polltlcp1 parties and It was said at the State Library Mr Sanders says: ihat the luthor claimed to have sold Vrtii lilexl mu halAaa AAA mIiamas LI The first is advlca for ths current day Ths first paragraph ot tha birthday Infor mation la tor ths year tollowing the birth day the second paragraph this year Dally advice Birthday Information: TUESDAY NOVEMBER noon Unfavorable for TUESDAY NOVEMBER Expect losses changes sickness and nn un settled year generally Keep thy busl ness well In hnnd nnd do not risk thy money or thou wilt lose It Young women will have attention from tho opposite sox A child born on this day will be gen orally in trouble nnd will spend lt money thoughtlessly As js ji 49 on tho StJLouls division of the Big t'k our approached Mt Jackson at a slow rate of speed ascending the steep grade there last night at 7 tho oxle of one of the drivers snapped 441 Engineer Trimble and fireman Smith Jumped and wore uninjured The Brlght wood wrecking crew went to the place and took the disabled engine to the shops The track was torn up for several yards tho ends of the broken axle John Young and George Hert Held to the Grand Jury by Judge Whallon 1 John Young and George Hert negroes who confessed to robbing many houses In the neighborhood of Illinois and St Clair streets pleaded guilty In Police Court yesterday and their cases were sent to the grand jury Detectives Colbert and Hauser are still at work on the ease trying to find the stolen property which the men said they had disposed of at a yawn shop when Richards rose to speak Bankers and doctors usually sedate be came like windmills with waving arms Th'e'alr was black with hats while stand ing on a chair George Hitz let out a war whoop that was followed by a roar In accepting the office as chairman of the meeting Horman Lieber declared that the' capital back of the Eureka company or anywhere else was not formidable when opposed by intelligent public opin ion and he gave warning that the con 1p" of sneculators should not bo too flexible Honor and justice arc tho first considerations he said A Potts was received with cheers as he read a letter from Henry Schnull who said that the opinion of the attor neys employed by the board of trusteeswept him from oft his feet "Had I known the law as given by tho three ex judges I would never have con sented to vote for any of the old direct ors" said he "I will gladly contribute to defray expenses of the league you are Resolutions were read by Mr Potts to oppose the "Euwrecker company" They declared that believing a movement to be on foot to pervert the object ot the Con sumers' Gas Trust Company and to man ipulate its stock for private gain the Consumers' League qhould be organized to fight for the preservation of the com pany as the property of the public The resolutions closed with a demand on tho directors to supplement natural gas with manufactured gas A general committee to act In an execu tive capacity was then appointed It con flsts of leaders In every line of work In ndlanapolls beginning with Bishop O'Donahue and followed by attorneys bankers physicians and manufacturers une commutes win meet witmn days to complete the organization league "The Consumers company has Indianapolis $1000000 a year inaid Mr Potts "The beonle back Eureka company have bought $400000 worth of Its stock most of It by creaung a panic and depressing its values I be lieve that President A A Barnes is a true friend of the people and would lose a fortune rather than sacrifice their pity tho men who allow themselves to be made the tools of the unscrupulous manipulators back of the sold Mayor Holtzman "Our duty Is to oppose the perversion of the Consumers property to do less will be cowardly and a shame As mayor I am ready to use every right ful means to make this league mean something for the 0 Denny said the last legal opin ion rendered was the one of common sense justice and good morals and that in the fight the people were bound to win "No one holds a share of the Consum ers' said John Kern oeptlng the board of trustees and they hold It In trust for the people Even re garding the Consumers' Company as a corporation it is bound to live up to its contract with the people There Is no occasion for hysterics only deliberate ac tion and the sooner the question gets into the courts so much the better" Charles Thompson construed the worn ''PjureKi hh cofninir rrnm Greek meaning have found It" or freely translated Mr Thompson said "We are He advised the issuance of bonds for tho construction of an artificial gas plant "and then If the Eureka directors enjoined the board for proceeding further you will have them In court where von want thfm Mr Thompson predicted that citizens would take nil bonds for such a plant within one week 1 After several minutes of wild cheering as Major Richards rose to speak he said: "I would not be so silly as to think that this magnificent ovation Is to me It is for the cause that I temporarily rep resent" He gave a parable of the Eureka com pany and asked: it reek with corruption and dishonesty? If In our parable we should do parallel with the Eureka we wduld be thieves and robbers and deserved no bet ter than to bo drummed out of town is unfortunate that Chief Custodian renzel of the Consumers' company was the organizer of the Eureka company They say we have misunderstood his ac tions and that in the end we will under stand and raise a monument to him He is like the man who put an obstruction on a railroad track to flag the train of danger In this case Mr renzel has left the obstruction too long and we In tend to remove It The Eureka company has been getting ready for' a funeral but the patient will not die now or later" i After a letter was read from Lawson Harvey urging the league On to a fight in the courts If necessary blanks for membership In the League were signed to the number ot five or six hundred Additional requests for mem bership should bo sent to tho executive committee of the league The Commer i' dal Club asked for a large number of blanks and will take up the fight zW A' a THE hfAK Me lfflo I IZzL I 1 iw lll.