Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 112, Decatur, Adams County, 7 May 1907 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume V. Number 112

COBT HOUSE NEWS Wilson Perjury Transcript is Filed TO BE TRIED NEXT TUESDAY Comes Here from Wells County— Judges Erwin and LaFollette to Exchange Benches Thursday. Two claim cases entitled Barclay Smith vs. Clara D. Sheets, admx. of the estate of William Sheets, have been set for trial Wednesday, May 22. The case of the State vs. John Wilson. perjury, brought here on change of venue from Wells county and which was mentioned several days ago, has been filed here and set for trial next Tuesday, May 14th. The office of county treasurer Lachot was a quiet place today compared with the rush of yesterday, which marked the close of spring tax paying. Eli Crist and Noah Mangold, appraisers of property in the city of Deca: ur are sending out notices of the amount of said appraisement and notifying property owners that if not satisfactory they may appear before the county board of review which meets June 3rd and will continue in session forty days. Judge Erwin will go to Portland Thursday to act as special judge in a case to enforce the forfeiture of a lease. On the same day Judge Lafoliette, of Portland, will be here to try the case of George A. Bohrer Brewing Co., vs. Harry Cordua et al; suit on bond, demand $650. thFterOnds Commissioners Complete Business of Session SPECIFICATIONS FOR BRIDGES Union and Kirkland Township Divided into Two Voting Precincts —J. D. Hale Gets Coal Contract. The board completed the business of the session today. L. W. Lewton was appointed superintendent of construction for the Reiter & Buhlman macadam road. Henry Koeneman was given the use of the old fair grounds upon his bid of $53.40 rental for one year. Mr. Koeneman will use it for pasture purposes. Plans and specifications were adopted for the repair of the Dan Beeler bridge in Wabash township, the William Kuklehan bridge in Root township. J. W. McKean bridge in Monroe township. Jay county line bridge, George Jacobs bridge in Blue Creek township, concrete arch on French township line, arch at John Hirschey s in Hartford township. The auditor was ordered to give notice for June o. Specifications were also adopted and bids ordered for June 3. for the furnishing of material for macadam road repair. The contract for eight cars of coal for use of the court house, jail and county infirmary was given to J. D. Hale. The contract calls for five cars of Hocking Valley, two cars of Pocahontas and one car of washed egg coal. The last legislature enacted a law whereby townships having a voting population of two hundred or more could divide the township into two voting preceincts. In accordance with this enactment of law, petitions we.t presented from Union and Kirkland townships, casting respectively 224 and 233 votes at the last general election, for such a division. The petitions were granted. John Herman was granted a license to retail intoxicating liquor at his (Continued on pM*

MEMBER OF THE STATE BOARD Dr. M. T. Jay, of Portland, Receives Appointment from Governor Hanly. Dr. M. T. Jay of this city, was named Monday by Governor Hanly as the oculist member of the state board of optometry, created by the last legislature. The board consists of five members, four opticians who have been five years or more in the practice and one oculist who has the same experience. Two members named at the time the act goes into effect are to serve for one year, one for two years and two for three years. The term assigned to Dr. Jay was not stated in the telegram announo ing the appointment. The board is required by the law, to meet within 15 days following their appointment, at Indianapolis, for organization.— Portland Commercial-Review. WERE RETAINED Old Board of Directors Again Commissioned THE COMMERCIAL CLUB MEETING The Best Meeting Ever Held at the Club—lnteresting Report by Trustee of the Factory Fund. The annual election of Commercial Club directors ended in the retention of the old board. They are W. P. Schrock, Clark J. Lutz, E. X. Ehinger, Earl B. Adams, C. S. Niblick, Dr. Roy Archbold, L. C. Waring, W. H. Fledderjohann and Lew Ellingham. The board will meet Wednesday evening for organization. The annual meeting was the best ever held by the club. A spirit of good feeling being manifested throughout, and it is this feeling superinduced by that spirit of energy and push that has made the club a success as a club and made it an important factor in the commercial develment of the past few years. Many kind words were spoken, and many things discussed for the future of the club, and for the city. One of the things mentioned was that of membership in the Commercial Club. Every business man should be enrolled and show where he stands. Every business man should give his personal influence toward making Decatur commercially greater and better. They should also help pay the fiddler. They should help support a club whose first duty is and always has been for the advancement of the business interests of Decatur. Send in your application. In addition to many other reports, he one made by Frank M. Schirmeyer, trustee of the factory fund, was the most interesting. It showed the payment of more than $14,000 to the factory fund, and nearly all of this amount has been paid upon the obligation made in the purchase of the real estate, which was platted into lots and sold. The contracts in operation and which are as good as old wheat in the bin, aggregate more than $40,000 more, and this amount will be used to add to the manufacturing assets of our progressive city. o TWO MEETINGS TONIGHT. Business Men's Association and City Improvement Society to Meet. The Business Men’s association will have a meeting at the Commerciil Club this evening. Among the important things to be done being the election of officers. C. F. True of the firm of True & Runyon, has served the past year as president, and has filled the place well. The association has accomplished much good since their organization. The City Improvement society will meet this evening in the parlors of the Commercial Club. Committee work will be assigned and an effort made to clean the city. ISSUING BAD CHECKS. Elias Bartholomew Was Arrested at Fort Wayne today. FL Wayne, Ind., May 7.—Elias Bartholomew, posing as an Electric Railway promoter, was arrested today by the postofflce inspector. He was formerly president of the Exchange Bank at Pleasant Mill, Ohio, which was closed two months ago, and it is alleged that he had been issuing orders on this bank ever since.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, Evening, May 7, 1907.

WILL FEEL LOSS Clover Leaf Would Miss George 11. Ross SHOULD HE RESIGN HIS OFFICE As Vice President—Will Probably Become Vice President of New York Central Lines. If, as a New York rumor has it, George H. Ross, vice-president of the Clover Leaf, leaves the company to become vice-president of the New York Central lines, his loss will be deeply felt by the Clover Leaf. Mr. Ross has been the acting head of the Clover Leaf ever since President Shonts was appointed chairman of the Isthmian canal commission, and is credited with being tjhc only man who was able to put that property on a paying basis. As proof of this, attention is called to the fact that March 14 the directors of the Clover Leaf declared a dividend of four per cent on preferred stock to be paid out of surplus earnings. This is the first time in the history of the road that such a measure was possible. Mr. Ross came to the Clover Leaf as genral traffic manager at the time the property was purchased by Mr. Shonts and his associates. Soon after President Roosevelt selected Mr. Shonts to head the canal commission, Mr. Ross w’as given the title of second vice-president. He is also a director of the Detroit & Toledo Shore Line. Mr. Ross is a Bostonian by birth and is 53 years of age. He was educated in Dwight school at Boston, and entered the railway service in 1877 as expense bill clerk for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and his rise in the railroad world has been rapid. CUT artery Fred Metchler Nearly Bled to Death AN ACCIDENT LAST EVENING Piece of Glass Fell on Wrist and Before He Could be Taken to a Physician he Had Lost a Quart of Blood. Fred Mutchler. the butcher, met with an accident about five o’clock last evening that nearly resulted in his bleeding to death before he could reach the office of Dr. J. S. Boyers. The accident happened at the packing house where Mr. Mutchler was assisting in doing some work. In some manner which is unexplainable, a piece of glass fell from a board over his head and fell on his right wrist, severing the main artery. The wound was thought to only be slight, at first, and the wound w r as tied up in rags and still the flow of blood could not be stopped, and kept flowing in a way that alarmed his fellow workmen. The delivery wagon was procured and a race for life was started to Dr. Boyers office. While enroute to the office Mr. Mutchler became faint from the loss of blood and when they got him into the doctor's office he was quite weak. Fortunately the doctor was present and the wound was quickly sewed up and the flow of blood stopped. From what Dr. Boyers says his patient lost over a quart of blood, and had he been compelled to have, driven much farther might have bled to death. The escape of Mr. Mutchler was a close one and he is indeed thankful that he arrived at the doctors office in time. NO COMPROMISE AS YET. The Taft and Foraker Forces in Ohio Still Wear Hatchets. Columbus, Ohio, May 7. —Nothing in the form of a compromise has come from the visit of Senator Dick to Cincinnati at which place he was in confedence wijh Senator Foraker and Boss George B. Cox. It is thought that an effort will be made to bury the hatchet, if such a thing could be possible. The politicians throughout the state are becoming thoroughly frightened.

MONROEVILLE WOMAN IS DEAD Pneumonia Claims Popular Lady as Its Victim. Monroeville, Ind., May 6. —Mrs. W. D. Gilmore died at her home near Monroeville yesterday evening. She was about fifty-six years of age and death resulted from pneumonia from which she suffered but for a short time. The deceased was from Auglaize county, 0., but had lived in this vicinity for many years. Surviving her are four daughters — Mrs. Stella Binkley and Miss Clara Gilmore, of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Emma Shlory and Miss Ethel Gilmore, residing at home; also one brother—Jos. Jackson, of this place. The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at the United Brethren church, Rev. I. L. Powers officiating. Interment in the I. O. O. F. cemetery. o NO THIRD TERM Such a Precedent Would Revolutionize America NEW YORK SITUATION CRITICAL President Desires to Help Governor Hughes—A Report on the Rural Mail Service has Been Made. Washington, May 7. —The venerable George F. Edmunds, who represented Vermont tn the United States Senate for many years, who was a member of the electoral commission in 1876, and who has been one of the wheelhorses of the Republican party since its birth, is spending a few days at the national capital. Asked by the correspondent of the News if he thought President Roosevelt would have to accept another nomination, he said: “I do not think Mr. Roosevelt can be persuaded through any amount of what may be called popular emotion to allow himself to be a candidate for, and to take a third term election, for that is what it is, although they may say he has only been elected as president once. President Roosevelt is a man of wide and patriotic views. However much he might be demanded to carry on the government for another four years, he would see what an enormously big precedent it would be. By and by the man who ipight go up for a third term might take a majority of the voters of the country with him, and it would then require a revolution to get rid of him or else, like some of our southern republics, we would have to take him as president for life, just as Diaz is in Mexico the supreme ruler. Diaz is the absolute master of the situation in Mexico, and has been for years and years. Washington, May 7. —The New York state Republican situation was under consideration at the White House again. The president had with him Herbert Parsons, chairman of the Republican committee in New York city, and congressman Bennett, of that city. The chief executive is anxious to do something that will assist Governor Hughes to get his reform legislative program through the legislature, but how to proceed without offending the governor, who has shown a disposition to resent interference from Washington, seems to be the problem. When the president dismissed the internal revenue collector at Rochester two weeks ago, it was announced that the action was taken for the purpose of helping the governor. A commission for a successor to the deposed official was made out, but Governor Hughes let it be known that he had not asked for any such action on the part of the president, and the appointment was held up. Washington, May 7. —The report on the operations of the rural delivery service up to May 1, last, made public by the fourth assistant postmastergeneral, shows that the total number of petitions for the service received up to that date was 54,837, upon which 15,537 adverse reports have been made. There are in operation 37,597 rural routes, served by 37,447 regular carriers. A balance of $1,340,478 remains of the appropriation for new services during the current fiscal year. o Mrs. Charles Stahl, the widow of the ball player, has been paid a $2,000 insurance policy carried on the life of her husband.—-Fort Wayne JournalGazette.

SHOWED A ROLL Frank Johnson Served Out a Small Fine THEN FLASHED FIVE HUNDRED Had Money Hidden in His Sock— Romance and Mystery About this Pipeliner. Frank Johnson, alias Robart Branam, who was arrested, tried and acquittd of horse stealing here a month ago, and who a few days later was married to Bell Schlegel Longacher, and the same week “pinched” for plain drunk and went to jail, was released last evening. When given his liberty he coolly reached down into his left sock and produced a roll of greenbacks which sheriff Meyer estimates contained not less than SSOO. He then came down town and made an effort to secure the liberty of Ed Touhey, who is serving a sentence in jail and who became Johnson’s intimate friend while the two were thus strangely thrown together by the hands of fate. This morning Johnson’s wife was on the search for him, and it was whispered that he had left town. There is a mystery unexplained where Johnson got his huge roll. He came here with the pipe line gang. In court after his arrest he stated he had no relatives and now he claims to have inherited S7OO from home. Usually estates are not settled so promptly and some developments are expected that may clear the mist away. o A. J. Smith was attending to timber matters at Pleasant Lake today. Mr. Smith took his fishing tackle along, and if a good chance presents itself he expects to do a little fishing. o HELD UP THE TRAIN Five Bandits Make a Bold Attempt ON THE NORTHERN PACIFIC At Welshes Spur near Butte—Kill the Engineer—Fourth Attempt at Same Place in Three Years. Butte, Mont., May 7.—The Northern Pacific crack flyer, North Coast Limited, was held up at Welches supr, fifteen miles east of Butte, shortly before daylight and the engineer was killed. It is presumed the robbers sought the contents of the express safe, carrying assignments of money from western banks to eastern cities. A heavy armed posse, headed by the sheriff, left here for the scene at once. The first reports from scene gave no details, and it is not known whether or not the robbers were successful. The scene of the holdup is near the spot where the robbery of the Burlington flier took place two years ago, midst a wild and rough bit of country. Today's attempt makes the fourth in the last three years on this train. There were five men in the party. They placed a danger lantern in the center of the track and when the train stopped two men with rifles dashed at the engineer and fireman and the other three started for the safe which contained SIOO,OOO. —o A NEGRO WAS LYNCHED. He Shot His Employer Without any Provocation. Augusta, Ga., May 7—Charles Harris a negro was lynched near the White Oak Camp grounds, McDuffee county, last night. The negro shot Harvey Pearson for whom he worked, because the latter had remonstrated with him for the way he was doing his work. o — HAS LEFT A DEFICIT. R me, Italy, May 7.—That the quarrel between the Pope and France has left a deficit in the Vatican balance sheet was admitted today and unless constant donations are received from wealthy Catholics the Pope says the church will become as poor as was its divine founder.

FORMER DECATUR CITIZEN DEAD Mr. Streit Died at Montpelier—Remains to be Brought Here. Mr. Streit, a former resident of this city, but who for the past few years has made his home in Montpelier, died last evening at five o'clock at his home after an illness of two weeks, death being due to old age and other complications. Mr. Streit will be well rememberel by the citizens here as being the gentleman who conducted a notion store where the Racket store is now located, and who, after being in business here for several years, moved to Willshire, where he engaged in the same business, moving from Willshire to Montpelier, where his demise occurred. The remains will be brought to this city tomorrow morning and the funeral services will be conducted Thursday morning at ten-thirty o’clock. Interment will ba made in the Decatur cemetery. frW~spokane Another Budget of News items WOODMAN INHERITS A FORTUNE Letter Carriers’ Place on Official Census—Northern Pacific Claim Biggest Division Office in World. Spokane, Wash., May 7. —Edward W. O’Brien, a shopper in the Watt’s logging company’s camp on Pack river in northern Idaho, northeast of Spokane, has come into his own, having been advised by the British consul that his uncle, Patrick O'Brien, who died at Sydney, Australia, recently, left his a legacy of $120,000 and several parcels of land near the Australian city. He also received a letter, supposed to contain $2,000 as a first installment, but the money was missing, the envelope having been rifled in being transferred from the coast to Sandpoint, Ida., where mail for the camp is received. The postoffice department is making an investigation. O’Brien announces he will establish a camp in the north woods, also that hew ill send for his sweetheart, Katherine Harney, now at Hammond, Ind., and invite his fellow workers to a big wedding in Spokane. Officers of the Letter Carriers’ Association of Spokane are not satisfied with the estimate of the population of this city, made by Director North's experts, and to prove to the postoffice department that it is more than 75,000. or nearer to 96,000, claimed by the directory makers, than 60,000, the expert’s figures, they are planning to have an official census taken, bearing part of the expense of the work. The matter will be presented to the city council and chamber of commerce at meetings called for next Thursday. If the contention of the association is proved the pay of th carriers will be raised to the first class, 30 of them being advanced from SBSO to $l,lOO a year and 10 to SI,OOO. Officials of the Northern Pacific Railway claim the Spokane division of that system is the largest in the world, 22 operators and a night chief being employed under the direction of Harry Lantry, chief operator, to handle 425 miles of track, extending from Trout Creek, Mont., to Ellensburg, Wash., and including feeders to Sandpoint, Ida., Ritzville and Pasco, Wash. Th edivision it is officially given out by President Howard Elliott, leads all others in tons pr mile of freight traffic, the tonnage amounting to 1,304,351,530, against 1,572,191,439 the year before. The importance of this becomes apparent when it is understood that the entire tonnage was handled on a single track line between the points mentioned. — o TWO THOUSAND ON A STRIKE. That Many Hod Carriers Went Out Today. Chicago, May 7. —Two thousand hod carriers today joined the bricklayers on a strike and as a result building is at a standstill. The outlook for a settlement is anything but bright. Chicago is the worst labor union city in the country except San Francisco, and as a result many factories are leaving.

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DIED LAST NIGHT Oran Reynolds a Victim of Paralysis SICK BUT A FEW DAYS Hard Working and Popular Citizen Called from the Labors of this World—Funeral Arrangements. Oran Reynolds, a well known resident, died last evening at his home in the west part of the city at six o’clock after an illness of four days’ duration, death resulting from a stroke of paralysis. Mr. Reynolds was fortyfive years of age and was born and reared in Adams county, and continued to make this his home until his demise. He was a hard working and industrious young man, and never permitted an idle moment to rest on his hands. For years and years he had been in the employ of Smith and Bell in the timber business, and alw’ays proved to be a proficient workman, and was held in high esteem by his employers. During the past year he had been employed at Krick & Tyndalls tile mill. On last Thursday evening, while at home waiting upon his wife, who has been ill for several years, he was seized with a stroke of paralysis, which rendered him helpless. On Friday following he had another stroke and from that time his decline was rapid, death relieving him from further suffering last evening. The funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at the M. E. church. Rev. Wilcox officiating, and the interment will be made in the Decatur cemetery. ■ ■ o CAME BACK HOME Silas Saxton and Party Return to Indiana AFTER A YEAR IN MICHIGAN En Route to Portland—Attracted Considerable Attention Here —Tell of the Many Hardships Endured. Silas Saxton and Jesse Weible and families and Levi Saxton went through here at noon today enroute from Manton in far northern Michigan to Portland, their former home, where they expect to reside. They went to Michigan a year ago, but Silas Saxton says that twelve months winter is just a little too much for him. He has no use for northern Michigan and Indiana looked like paradise to all of them. They had been on the road three weeks, traveling in movers wagons with a stove in each wagon and the first week they traveled through ten feet of snow, making only eight miles a day. There were thirteen in the party, one of those who went with them last spring, a daughter of Levi Saxton, died in the northern country, and her remains were shipped home several weeks ago accompanied by her mother and husband. The trip has been an expensive one, filled with many hardships, but the men of the party were in good cheer and said they had enjoyed parts of the year exceedingly well. They say about the only crop raised in that country is potatoes and they sold for from sixteen to twenty-two cents a bushel. o DIAMOND TO BE SOLD. The Game Little Pacer to be Sold Next Friday. Diamond D, the game pacing horse owned by a company of Decatur horsemen and who had such a brilliant future before him, is to be sold next Friday at the horse sale. Diamond D is a pretty black horse with a mailt that is favored by all horsemen and who, for the past few months, lias been in training at Montpelier, Ind. A number of eastern horsemen have written their intention of being present at the sale and this horse should be sold at ah andsome figure. He will undoubtedly be raced in the east this coming season.