Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 101, Decatur, Adams County, 24 April 1907 — Page 1

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TO SHELVE LANDIS Ninth District to Have Many Candidates ALL KINDS OF FUN THERE Harry Sheridan of Frankfort Already Announced and Will Try to Land the Place. Making liberal allowance for •'moonshine" in the talk that is being indulged in throughout the Ninth district touching the matter of the next Republican congressional convention, it must be admitted that there are signs that point to an interesting and exciting contest, says the Kokomo Tribune. From nearly every quarter of the district come reports of the grooming of candidates. One story is that five of the eight counties already have aspirants. There are those who profess to believe that the Republicans of the Ninth district will have a new standard bearer in 1908. They argue that the time is ripe for a change and that the party will see to it that a change is made. Still others are hazarding a guess that Mr. Landis will not be a candidate for renomination for congressman believing that long before the congressional convention is held he will have announced his candidacy for his party's nomination for governor. Up to this time the only man who has unqualifiedly asserted his intention of being a candidate for the congressional nomination is Harry Sheridan, a prominent attorney and leading Republican of Frankfort. Mr. Sheridan authorized his friends several weeks ago to let it be known that he would ask for the place.

A POSTAL ORDER Prevents Sending of Tinsel Postal Cards IS BEING ENFORCED HERE Such Cards Must be Enclosed in Envelope—Why the Order Was Issued. Postmaster Frisinger requests us to again call the attention of our readers and patrons of the Decatur postoffice that the sending of tinsel postal cards through the mails without enclosing them in an envelope is a strict violation of law and same never reach their destination. Quite a number of these cards have already accumulated at the office here, and as usually only initials are signed, the attention of the writer cannot be called personally to the postal law, which must be strictly enforced. This law is only about two weeks old and followed the death of a Detroit postal clerk, who, while handling the mail, scratched his hand on one of these tinsel cards and died a few days afterward from the effects of blood poison. Please remember that when you send one of these cards to inclose it in an envelope or 11 will never reach its destination. A VAST ARMY OF SHEEP. Ready for Shearing in the Yakima District.

Spokane. Wash., April 24.—Three hundred thousand gheep, which will yield more than 2,000.000 pounds of wool, are ready for shearing in the Yakima district, southwest of Spokane. Shearing camps have been established in Yakima, Douglas, Chelan and Kittitas counties and the work of removing the wool is under way. Electricity is employed in one of the Kittitas Canyon camps, where 2,000 sheep are handled daily. One firm of ranchers oyns 75,000 animals and they are being grazed on 50,000 acres of deeded land and 24,000 acres leased from the state. The herders will start their flocks westward in a few- days and if the favorable weather continues they will be sent into the summer ranges, going afterward to the Wenatchee mountains, wb/ore they iwill remain tail late in October, returning to the winter range near Trinidad in December.

‘furniture man under arrest To Test New Law in State of Washington. Chehalis, Wash., April 24.—For the purpose of making a test case of the recently enacted law, declaring that all employes must be paid in cash, H. B. Coffman, manager of the Chehalis Furniture Company is under arrest as an individual and corporation for aleged violation of the statute prohibiting the issue of time checks. The information was filed by Maurice Leghorn, prosecuting attorney of Lewis county after a conference with state labor commissioner Hubbard and assistant attorney-general Falkner. ■ The court records show that corporation and manager appeared when Coffman answered to the charge before Judge Rice, and at the request of the defendants’ attorney were given further time in which to plead. Mr. Falkner says with the evidence in his hands he can convict corporation and manager, declaring that both will be fined. o THE TAFT BOOMERS Do Not Like Third Term Talk GRAIN INSPECTION NO GOOD Produced Many Gallons of Denatured Alcohol —the President Wants the Figures.

Washington, April 24. —The William H. Taft partisans do not quite understand why one of the spokesmen for the White House should in the hour of the return of the secretary of war to this country have given out a carefully prepared interviwe favoring the renomination of Mr. Roosevelt. United States senator Jonathan Bourne, of Oregon, who gave out the statement, says the interview was prepared without consultation with any one, but persons who know that the senator has been at the White House every day for the last ( two weeks are inclined to wonder if he is really solely responsible for the “feeler.” Only yesterday afternoon Bourne had a long conference with the president’s secretary. Bourne is the man who gave the dinner out of which grew the storv of the $5,000,000 conspiracy, and ever since that famous event he has camped ai the White House. Washington, April 24. —John L. Griffiths, United States consul at Liverpool, has communicated with the state department at some length on the complaint, general throughout Europe, he says, of the methods nowin force in the United States for the weighing, grading and inspection of grain. The subject is important, he says in view of the increased importation of grain from Russia, India and Argentina. European dealers, Mr. Griffi dis says, declare they cannot depend on the grain inspection made in th/s United States. They charge the trouble to the carelessness of the inspectors. It is pointed out by the consul that any delay in adjusting the I friction that has arisen will jeopardize the grain exportations of the United States. Washington, April 24. —From January 8 to April 20 there was produced in the Sixth and Seventh collection districts of Indiana a total of 162,566.89 wine gallons of denatured alcohol. Terre Haute is the greatest producing point in the state. There are twenty manufacturers in these collection districts who are using completely denatured alcohol. Only one manufacturer in the state is using what is known as specially denatured alcohol. Figures also show that in the period above mentioned the collectors of internal revenue have had to deal with twenty-two wholesale dealers and 158 retail dealers in the two internal revenue districts of Indiana. Washington, April 23.—1 t is by direction of the president that the war department officials have undertaken to find out just how much the Philippines have cost the United States government. The president wants this information so that he can answer intelligently the charges that the islands annually cost the taxpayers of the country hundreds of millions, and •»hat the burden of carrying them is growing heavier and heavier.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, fcvenmg, April 24, 1907.

COURT HOUSE NEWS Two Marriage Licenses issued Today THE FRONEFIELD DIVORCE CASE Decided Today—Divorce Granted— Cause Was in Court Only Five Days—Judge Erwin at Bluffton. Marriage licenses have been issued to Lewis S. Schilling, aged twentytjiree, a telegraph operator, and Dora M. Hower, aged twenty-two, both of Decatur; Verlow L. Ott, aged twentyone, of Boliver, Indiana, and Evelyn Stevens Brown, aged twenty-one, of Decatur. The latter bride has been married once, having been divorced last September. Special Judge Lutz this morning gave his decision in the case of Malinda Fronefield vs. William Fronefield, suit for divorce and alimony. He rendered a finding and judgment that plaintiff be granted a divorce from the defendant, and that the plaintiff's former name of Malinda Zimmerman be restored. Judgment vs. plaintiff for costs. The alimony was settled by agreement. This case was filed last Thursday morning and though there was more record than usual in making the issues in such a case, it was disposed of in five days, showing that the wheels of justice can grind rapidly. Judge R. K. Erwin is at Bluffton today acting as special judge in a criminal case. He conducted legal business in the Jay circuit court Tuesday, going from there to Bluffton. Deputy Sheriff Butler Tuesday evening arrested Theodore Hendricks, of Monroe township on a charge of petit larceny, the result of a grand jury indictment returned last November. Hendricks is accused of purposely short changing a neighbor at a public sale held last fall, and the case, if it comes to trial, will no doubt prove quite interesting. Hendricks gave bond for his appearance and was released. RECOVERS PRICE OF WHISKEY Lawyer Moffett, of Hartford City,Wins Out in Peculiar Demand.

E. D. Moffett, as attorney for a Hartford City man. has recovered the price of a part of a consignment of ; whiskey from the state laboratory which after making an examination of i the whiskey found it to be a very bad article. The price paid was for "the samples sent to the chemist to be ex- , amined. The whiskey was purchased by a well known Hartford City man who read in an advertisement that so many bottles of the “pure article” would be sent upon receipt of so much money. The amount of whiskey offered was wholly out of proportion to the price, but it was suckers the firm was after and the Hartford City man bit. The whiskey was shipped and duly sampled. After consuming one bottle the purchaser became aware that it was not palatable and the other bottles were sent to the state chemist. The name of the purchaser is not published on account of his church membership. It may be said in truth however, that he bought the consignment of whiskey wholly for medicinal use. He believes there are many ills which can be reached effectively only . by the use of good whiskey. It is not necessary to say that the manufacturers are not selling any more of the brand in Indiana. The strangest thing about the whole business is that the distillery which made the goods is in Kentucky, a state which was supposed to make no bad whiskey.—Hartford City News. o — STATE PERPETUALLY ENJOINED The Jeffersonville Reformatory Contracts no Good. Indianapolis, Ind., April 24. —Judge Leathers of the superior court handed dow-n a decision this morning when he perpetually enjoned the state of Indiana through the reformatory and its board managers from carrying out the contract) for the manufacture of chains by prison labor entered into in 1905 with the Indiana chain works. The decision involves the construction of the law of 1901, which abolished the contract labor system.

MRS. CHARLES DRAPER IS DEAD Well Known Lady Victim of the White Plague. Mrs. Charles Draper, a well known young woman of our city, died this morning at her home on Eleventh street after an Illness dating back several years, death resulting from that dread disease, consumption. She wad twenty-three years of age and was beloved by all who knew her, as she had numerous good traits and her many kinds acts and deeds will be sadly missed by those who came in constant touch with her. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Fritch, who reside in the west part of the city and they are grief stricken over the sad event. The funeral services will be conducted Friday afternoon at two o’clock at the Evangelical church, of which she was a member, and interment will be made in the Salem cemetery. Rev. A. B. Haist will have charge of the services. A SOCIETY DINNER Mrs. W. A. Keubler Entertained Afternoon Club MRS. FLANDERS TO ENTERTAIN Ladies Aid Society at Locke Home— Odd Fellows Anniversary— Many Other Events. •, I Cut flowers and ferns arranged in an artistic manner were the simple, but yet beautiful, decorations of the prettily appointed six o'clock dinner given last evening by Mrs. W. A. Kuebler, in honor of her birthday anniversary to the ladies of the afternoon club. Each guest found their place by dainty place cards with sketches on one side and the menu on the other. The table was spread for twelve covers. After the dinner a couple of the ladies had planned a pleasant surprise for Mrs. Kuebler by inviting in thirty ladies to spend the evening. Progressive pedro prevailed throughout the evening and the Mesdames Charles Niblick and Charles Voglewede led the ladies in having the highest score, while the next w’ere Mrs. John (»arard and Mrs. Frank Gass. The guests presented the hostess with silverware, which is prized highly by her. The eighty-eighth anniversary of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows will be celebrated by the St. Marys lodge No. 167, of Decatur, Thursday evening at the lodge rooms, the services beginning at 7:30 o’clock. The anniversary sermon will be delivered next Sunday morning at the Baptist church and the large membership will attend these services in a body, meeting at the lodge room at ten o’clock Sunday morning. Mrs. George Flanders will give a dinner party at twelve o’clock tomorrow noon in compliment of Mrs. Mae Wittgenfeldt, of Cincinnati, Ohio, who was formerly Miss Mae Trout, of Decatur. Mrs. Noah Locke will entertain the Ladies Aid Society of the E. V. church at her home on north Second street on Thursday afternoon. All ladies and their friends are invited to attend. The Ladies Aid Society of the Christian church will meet at the home of Mrs. Noah Mangold on First street on Friday afternoon. All members are requested to be present. Business of importance is to be discussed. Mrs. Phil Macklin will entertain the Ladies Aid Society of the Presbyterian church on Thursday afternoon at 2:30 at her home on Market street. Every one is invited to attend. The Ladies Aid Society of the Presbyterian church will meet at the home of Mrs. P. Macklin aS 2:30 on Thursday. April 25th on south First street. All members of the church and their friends are Invited. —o Lase Ellis is having the front of his saloon neatly painted in a light color that is bound to help the appearance of the same. It seems as though the painting fever had struck a number of our business men.

THEY ALL WANT IT Many Inquiries for Stock in Good Concern AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY The Stock in Krick Tyndall & Co. is Good and will Pay'Dividends From the Start. Inquiries are coming in thick and fast for stock in the reorganized Krick, Tyndall & Co. tile plant. Investors are beginning to think that opportunities are few and far between to Invest in a reliable company and get therefrom dividend paying stock right from the start. The money paid for this stock goes into the hands of the company and will be used to enlarge the plant and increase the plant and increase its business and capacity. Thus it can be seen that the value of the stock increases whenever this money is thus expended. Stock that you will buy for one hundred cents on the dollar will easily go to one dollar and ahalf in a very short time. But without this increase in value, where can you invest money that will bring you better returns, free from taxation? Idle money in the banks with the present returns and tax rate is not a very good business proposition. The proposition has been thoroughly investigated by practical and substantial business men, and there is no chance to lose in the transaction. Do not delay in getting your name on their stock subscription list. The additions mentioned means the employment of more men, and it is this feature that the business men and the boosters for a better city are vitally interested in. Decatur is making great progress, and is destined to be a better business and manufacturing place. Everything helps. The boosters should now get busy and talk earnestly and long for the sale of this additional stock. o A warrant was issued yesterday by Squire Smith for a man by the name of Stump, who is wanted on a charge of disturbing a religious meeting. The warrant has been turned over to the proper officials and they are now on the look out for Mr. Stump.

| SUCCESS OF THE HOME TALENT The Receipts of "Uncie Rube" Over Two Hundred Dollars. The Christian church ladies who had in charge the home talent production, “Uncle Rube,” are about, as well pleased as is possible. Their effort was certainly a success in every sense of the word, the total receipts amounting to over two hundred dollars. Bosse's Opera House was packed again last evening and every person who attended went away with the knowledge that they had received double their money’s worth. The performance was even better than the previous one, every member of the cast doing his part nicely. The audience received with enthusiasm the various specialties, “Pansy,” by Mr. Carroll and chorus being encored four times and several of the others three times. Mr. Henry Thomas, who had charge of the work, is deserving of great praise for his success. a INJURY TO THE CROPS. Plant Life Generally was Materially Injured by Freeze. The crop prospects in this section of Indiana are not as good as they were a month ago. The cold weather of April has injured materially all kinds of plant life. The wheat was seriously injured during March, when the ground froze solidly without any covering of snow to protect it. The unprecedented warm weather which followed la'.er in March set all kinds of vegetation to growing. Then came a serious check occasioned by the freezing weather in April. The freeze killed the blades and it is feared that in many fields the roots were injured. Anyway the wheat fields do not look as well as they did a month ago. Oats that were sown before the present cold spell have been greatly injured and the plants that survived have nearly perished because of the cold, dry weather. The early sown clover has also suffered and many fields will have to be re-sown. Clover sown in February had sprouted before the April cold spell came on.

ARRESTED TODAY FOR CRUELTY Even the Millionaires Have Their Domestic Troubles. New .York, N. Y., April 24.—A romance begun eight years ago, when a couple met in London, was shattered loday when Mrs. Augustus Post, wife of a banker nad millionaire had him arrested and charged with cruelty and assaulting her. Mrs. Post appeared in court and bared her arms to the elbow to show scratches. Post is thirty-two years old and his wife has grey hair and is about sixty years of age, but still has the bloom of youth in her cheecks. Mrs. Post says it is sweet to recall how tender he was on their honeymoon. I know' I was older, much older than he, and I only wish that I was still older and he then would not have fallen in love with me. The case was continued until May Ist. o ANOTHER DEATH Uncle Billie Burdg Died this Afternoon SUFFERED FOR OVER A WEEK .-i:.. * Never Regained Consciousness After Paralytic Stroke —No Funeral Arrangements Made.

Uncle “Billie" Burdg died this afternoon at his home on Mercer avenue after suffering for a little over a week from a stroke of paralysis. Death relieving him at two o’clock. Mr. Burdg was seized with the stroke that eventually caused his death a little over a week ago and from that time until his demise he never regained consciousness. He was one of the oldest and best known citizens in Adams county and was always hailed by those who best knew him as “Uncle Billie.” His entire family had been summoned when he was first stricken and were at his bedside when he died. No funeral arrangements have been made at this time, but will be announced later. Q FOUND RICH TIN ORE MINE Miner's Lucky Discovery in Old Lead —Silver Mine. Evergreen, Wash. April 24.—Miners working in open cuts in a lead-silver property near here, abandoned by Patrick Clark, of Greenwater fame, last fall, encountered tin ore, running from 10 to 40 per cent, the seam being 20 inches high and nearly 100 feet wide. Assays made by A. W. Stowell and Richard March show an average of 15 per cent and it is given out that more than $1,000,000 worth of commercial ore, similar to that found in Wales, is already in sight. As this is the first deposit of pay ore encountered upon the continent, outside Alaska, there is much activity among mining men and options are being taken upon lands in various parts of the district. Four men are interested in the find near Evergreen, as follows: Col. W. J. C. Wakefield, Charles Theis, Charles P. Robbins and Richard March. They will work the mine and install machinery for refracting the ore, and as they have the capital necessary. none of the stock will be placed upon the market. The finders will claim the government reward for the finding of the deposit. BOSTON LAWYER UNDER ARREST New York, N. Y., April 24. —It was hinted today that a Boston lawyer is the high-up man connected with the Douglas thefts from the Merchantile Trust company. Dennett, a broker, was arrested in connection with the case, and was given a hearing this afternoon in police court. He declined to discuss the matter at this time. Douglass says there are others connected with the Trust company in the game and if they do not get him out of the fix he is in he will name them. o It is declared that a representative of the. Ringling circus has been looking at several large farms near Warsaw with a view to purchasing new winter quarters for the big circus. The show has been housed for many (years at Baraboo, Wis.

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HEART TROUBLE Death of a Well Known Van Wert Citizen DEATH CAME SUNDAY NIGHT W. S. Johnson, Phominent Lawyer and Citizen is Dead—Had Relatives Here. W. S. Johnson, one of Van Wert's well known attorneys, died at his home on North Washington street Sunday night, of heart trouble. For some ten or fifteen days he had been ailing with the grip and had not been at his office. Friday he was feeling much better and was up in the city transacting business at his office and in the probate judge’s office, where he filed an account. Friday night he felt well enough, after the day’s work, to go to Convoy to attend a meeting of the Red Men’s lodge. He arrived home at about 12 o’clock and at once retired. He had scarcely done so when he had an attack with his heart. A physician was called and after receiving treatment he rested easier until morning. Saturday he did not go to his office and seemed to be suffering no ill effects from the attack of Friday evening. Sunday he made no complaints, and w'hile he was in bed all day yet he atg a hearty dinner and a light supper. At about 8; 30. in the evening it was seen that he was suffering from weakness of the heart, and about 10 o’clock death came. —Van Wert Times. Mr. Johnson is quite well known here and has numerous relatives in this county. o Oliver Kern, of Elkhart, is here the guest, of his uncle, Howard Shackley. o IT IS IMPORTANT Session of the Retail Merchants Association IS TO BE HELD TONIGHT \ Report of Fire Department Committee and the Election of Off'cers Will Occur. The regular meeting of the Retail Merchants association, of Decatur,will be held at the Commercial Club rooms at eight o’clock this evening, when business of the utmost importance to every member, as well as to every citizen of Decatur is to be discussed. One of the principle subjects to come before the meeting is the report of the committee appointed a month ago to investigate the possibilities of securing better fire protection in Decatur. This committee we are informed have thoroughly investigated the matter and it is hoped that some definite steps may be taken on this matter at tonight’s meeting. Other subjects of interest and future profit to many will be heard and every member is expected to attend this meeting. At this time will also occur the election of officers for the ensuing year. o ON THE MAY TERM DOCKET Wells-Adams Macadam Road Petition to be Presented. The petition for graveling twelve miles of road on the Wells-Adams county line has had more than enough names attached to it and it will be presented to the commissioners at their May term. The petition asks that the county road be improved from the southeast corner of Lancaster to the northeast corner of Jefferson. The law only requires seventyfive signatures including ten from each township interested in the two counties, and the petition which was circulated now has about 16» names attached to it and has been placed in charge of attorneys ready for filing. Another petiion for improving a county line road is in relation in Jefferson township and in the adjoining township in Allen county. This petition asks for the graveling of six miles of road, beginning at the northeast corner of Jefferson township and running east six miles on tfce county line. —Bluffton News.