Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 187, Decatur, Adams County, 3 August 1907 — Page 1

DECATUR DAiIY DEMOCRAT.

Volume V. Number 187

AT ROBINSON PARK • '* M. E. Sunday School Go There Thursday ARB angements all complete The Sunday School to Enjoy a Day at thia Beautiful Fort Wayne Park. The committee which was appointed to make arrangements for the transportation of the members of the M. E. Sunday school to Robison park on next Thursday, has completed its work. On next Sunday morning, checks which will be good between Decatur and Ft. Wayne,, will be handed to each member of the school. Tickets for the trip out to the park will be distributed on the way down to Ft. Wayne. On arriving at Clinton street in Ft. Wayne, the cars will be met fry the city cars and the transfer of the school will be made at that place that the possible confusion in the city may be avoided. After the transfer has been made the school will be taken directly to the park. All members of the school will be taken free of any charge whatever. Parents, not members of the school, but whose children are members, may go for fifty cents. All outsiders will be charged the full fare. The first car will leave Decatur at 7:30, the second at 7:40 and the third at 7:50. A fourth car has been secured and will be used if the same be needed. A committee has been appointed to care for the baskets, after they are taken to the station. Returning the first car will leave at 6:00, the second at 6:10 and the third at 6:20. All arrangements having been made complete it remains for the weather man to decide whether or not this shall be a great day for all the members of the school. A band will be on the grounds and a great time is anticipated. Let all turn out to make it a great day. Mr. Fledderjohann and his co-workers have left nothing undone that w'ould tend to help make the day a success and no little credit is due them for their effort.

GETTING SERIOUS Congressman Watson Is ? Thinking Hard WANTS NOMINATION GOVERNOR Will Make Public Announcement in a Few Days —Politicians Holding Their Breath. Indianapolis, August 2—Word seeps up from Rushville, Ind., that James E. Watson, sixth district congressman, is going to make public his announcement to become a candidate for guber natorial honors at the hands of the republican party within a few days. Some announcement is regarded as certain, and close personal and po.it i cal friends of Watson who have been here within the past few days, have given out the word that atson will be a candidate. The word has already slipped along the line, and the politicians are trying to figure out how they stand. W atson will draw strength from the fact that he belongs to the dominant wing of the party in the state, and his frat< r nal associations will not be without their advantages. He is regarded a an excellent campaigner, a goo speaker and a good handshaker, an it is conceded that he will make a very vigorous campaign. The personal following of Charles W. Miller, the candidate of the other wing of the party in the state, will cut considerable of a figure to VS atson s disadvantage. Miller, during his four years as attorney general, made a os of friends that are for him in his race, whosoever may oppose. Some of t ? friends are nominally in the camp t a trains with Watson, but they will probably stick to Miller and let their ol friends go.

FOR ASSAULT ON PEDLER. Harve Smith Had an Inning in the Justice Court. Harve Smith, who resides south of this city, and is better known as “Musk Melon Harve,” was arrested last evening by Marshal Green on a charge of assault and battery upon the person of a Syrian peddler and for a few moments it looked as if Smith was billed for the jail. However, by earnest pleading, he was immediately arraigned before Squire J. H. Stone and plead guilty, but before the court could impose a fine Smith suddenly turned upon the peddler and again struck him, this being in the presence of the court and numerous witnesses. Squire Stone with a stern look ordered quiet in the court room, and he then read Smith’s title clear and to perfection, telling him he ought to impose a jail sentence for contempt of court. The fine was fixed at two dollars and costs, amounting in all to eleven dollars and eighty cents. The prisoner was permitted to go home last evening under the promise that he would return today, pay his fine and straighten all matters up pertaining to the case. THeIaTTLE LEAD Some Beauties at Great Northern Fair SYLVESTER PONTIUS IN CHARGE Many World Beaters are Scheduled for the Greatest Fair in Indiana. At all county fairs some department of the exhibit always excells and with the Great Northern Indiana Fair it is ho exception, as the past fairs clearly demonstrate that the cattle department has led all others in the number of exhibits and bids fair to outshine all former events this year, as reports from all over the county clearly indicate that the farmers are preparing their stock for this show, and the exhibit promises to be grand. This department of the fair has been placed under the supervision of that well known gentleman, Sylvester Pontius, of Geneva,, Ind., who is and has been rated for years one of the best judges of cattle in the state, and who ' will afford the cattle exhibitors the best accommodations the fair affords. Mr. Pontius is making a great effort to place this department in the lead again this year, as to the number of exhibits and is also endeavoring to induce every cattle raiser in the state to come to this fair. The premiums offered are among the best inducements, they ranging from two to twenty dollars, and are equal to any other fair in the state and there is no reason why the farmers of Adams county should not enter then stock and compete with stranger and neighbor. The association has laid down a number of rules to govern this department, and all exhibitors must govern themselves accordingly. Among them are the following: Bulls more than a year old must be kept secured by a ring in the nose or otherwise, to the satisfaction of the superintendent, or they will not be permitted to remain on the ground. All cows or heifers four years old or over, in the several classes must have borne a calf within a year previous to the exhibition. In all classes of cattle, only those of approved pedigree will be allowed to compete. All such animals will be considered equal as to pedigree, no one strain of pure blood having preference over another. Exhibitors will be required to have blankets removed from cattle from 10 a. m. until 2 p. m. after class premiums nave been awarded. With the splendid inducements offered and the accommodations furnished every farmer in Adams county should show his stock at this fair on August 27, 28, 29 and 30. , The hot bunch of players at Dimkirk have scattered and the organization broken up. Dunkirk money grabbers was the cause of the town not having the boys finish playing the season at that town. The players have good positions. Campbell and Hall both going to Kokomo, Carmichael to Bluffton, Stewart to Lebanon, while Hay went to Van Wert, Perdieu i W. V. -R.dto Times. |

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, August 3, 1907.

IT IS WILLIAMS lion. John Sharp Williams a U. S. Senator OVER GOVERNOR VARDAMAN Mississippi Has Witnessed a Great Political Warfare for a Seat in the United States Senate. Jackson, Miss., August 2.—Returns today bear out the Indications that John Sharp Williams has been nominated for United States Senator by from 10,000 to 15,000 majority, although the suporters of Governor Vardaman say that his majority will be less than 10,000 and may not go much above 5,000. Governor Vardaman later issued a statement in which he said he was not willing to concede defeat, and that he believs that he will yet be a winner by a small majority. Returns have been very slow, due to the effort to tabulate full county returns before sending in reports. Vardaman lost his home county of Laflore by a small majority. Noel, of Holmes county, and Scott, of Bolivar county, will go before the second primary for governor. Never in its history has anything so disturbed the placid trend of events in Mississippi as the Williams-Varda-man senatorial contest. The Mississipffians are a proud race. With memories of Prentiss, Robert J. Walker. Jefferson Davis, Lamar Z. George ever fresh in their minds, many of them felt that Williams has inherited and exemplifies all the traditions that made her great statesmen and orators distinguished, and is their natural successor. The first man in two decades to lift the reputation of her public men above mediocrity and representing the old-fashioned conservatism of Lamar and Walthall and George, occupied a dashing place in the hot fight that has been waged for the senatorship. William Craig, of Bluffton, the man who had charge of the construction of the narrow gauge Clover Leaf railroad. was in Warren a few hours Monday afternoon. His work here was done nearly thirty years ago. He is a sufferer from chronic rheumatism and for many years has been an invalid. —Warren Tribune. o AN AGED CITIZEN Ashley Mann of This City Is Dead BEEN ILL SEVERAL YEARS The Funeral Will Occur Sunday Afternoon from the Evangelical Church. Ashley Mann, of the oldest and most respected citizens of our city, died last evening at his home in the north part of the city after an illness dating back several years, death resulting from a complication of diseases. Mr. Mann was seventy-eight years of age, and during the most of that time he spent in Decatur, where he followed the trade of plasterer. However, several years ago he was stricken with a complication of diseases that seemed to baffle his physicians, and it was then that he came near dying, as all hope for his recovery had been given up. He rallied and after being bedfast for several months, was again able to get up and around, but practically since that time he had been unable to do any work. He was a member of the Evangelical church, and was one of the leading workers in its behalf, and when able, was always in attendance at the services, and his many little deeds in its interest will be sadly missed by those who came in touch with him. The funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon leaving the house at two-thirty o’clock. Services at the Evangelical ' church at three, Rev. A. B. Haist officiating. and interment will be made • in the Decatur cemetery. oD. P. Roop, of Pleasant Mills, was a business caller in our city today.

TO DRAIN KANKAKEE SWAMPS Coingress to be Asked to Thaw Out for the Improvement. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 3- —According to the members of the state board of tax commissioners, efforts will be made at the next session of congress to secure an appropriation of several hundred thousand dollars with which to assist the state of Indiana in opening the Kankakee river so that an outlet may be provided for the water in the Kankakee swamps and other lands in that part of the state. ’The proposition is entirely too big for the state to tackle single handed,” said John McCardle, member of the state board, “and if is to be carried through it will be necessary to get some assistance from the government. The state board of tax commissioners is having a great deal of'difficulty In arriving at an equalization of real estate values in the country that is affected by this lack of drainage. Q The Detroit American league team defeated Washington two games yesterday, which puts them at the top of the per cent column for the first time this season. o ATTACK THE RATE Interstate Passengers Pay Three Cents a Mile A DEFICIT FOR JULY It is the Usual Thing However— Fourth Class Postmasters in Indiana to Meet. Washington, August 3. —An attack wks made oh the three-cent-a-mile passenger rate of the Union Pacific railway company, by Charles A. Sibley, a resident of the state of Nebraska. Sibley’s complaint was filed with the interstate commerce commission and. in its nature, is practically novel in the history of the commission. The complainant alleges that the Union Pacific railway exacts a rate of 3 cents a mile from interstate passengers, although within the limits of Nebraska, it charges a rate of only 2 cents a mile. He says he travels from a point in western Nebraska through a part of Colorado, tb another point in Nebraska, and is re- | quired to pay the 3-cent rate, because the railroad company holds that this is interstate business. This, he asserts, is a showing by the company of undue preference to interstate passen- | gers, and he asks the commission to fix a just maximum rate which the company shall charge on interstate business. Washington, August 3. —The comparative monthly statement of the government receipts and expenditures issued today shows that for the month of July, 1907, the total receipts were $55,906,465, and the disbursements $66,813,345, leaving a deficit for the month of about $11,000,000. This deficit is explained by the fact that at the beginning of each fiscal year nearly all of the appropriations made at the last session of congress become available, and large sums are immediately withdrawn from the treasury. It is a rule, hardly without an exception, that each July shows a deficit. A year ago it was about $13,500,000. Washington, August 3.—Acting Post-master-General Hitchcock has granted leave of absence to fourth-class postmasters in the state of Indiana for as many days, not exceeding five, as may be necessary to enable them to attend the annual convention of the Indiana State League of Postmasters of the fourth class postoffices, to be held at Indianapolis, September 11 and 12.

That personage known as “umps” to Bluffton sporting writers is a wonderful personage no matter what name he may masquerade under. Sometimes one man and sometimes another wears the “Giant’s Robe,” but whoever it may be he always colors the tone of Bluffton dope talk. If you want to tell now the game went just look at the dope notes and you won’t need to read anything else. If umps is good and has a future you know that Bluffton has won: if umps is very bad you know Bluffton has lost; if umps is “so-so" you know that Bluffton almost lost, but just happened at the last minute to get a score. —Ossian News.

A GREAT TIME Camping Life at Steele’s Park Is Over DINNER YESTERDAY THE LAST The Boys Claim that it Was the Greatest Event of Their Life— Praise for Dr. Wilcox. The twenty-two boys who have been camping at Steele’s park since last Monday night under the supervision of Dr. C. B. Wilcox, broke camp yesterday afternoon, as soon as dinner was over, and their paraphernalia was removed to the city. A representative of this paper was a visitor at the camping ground in the morning, and he could see the little fellows sitting around the camp fire, fishing, bathing, playing ball and most every kind of amusement that appeals to the small boy. It does not seem possible that only twenty-two boys, whose ages range between eight and fourteen years, would consume a large amount of provisions, but a glance at the following menu and amount will be coni vincing evidence that they do. Breakfast consists of seventy-five pieces of buttered toast, four gallons of hash, three gallons coffee and one gallon of milk. Dinner, seventy-five potatoes, five pounds beef, three gallons coffee or five gallons lemonade and comparatively the same amount for supper, not including the different things the boys took with them in a basket. Dr. Wilcox has been the chief cook and from what the boys say, he is well up in this line. The little lads declare they have enjoyed the best time of their life this week, and they are loud in their praise of Dr. Wilcox for the clever manner in which he has entertained them. An ice cream dinner was served yesterday and this was the last meal at the camp. o— — There is much food for thought in the statement made by the chaplain of the Jeffersonville reformatory. He says that the majority of the young criminals confined there are such because of idleness, fully 75 per cent of them having no trades. Another leading cause is divorce, with the consequent disruption of families. Os the 1160 inmates of the prison, there is but one graduate of a high school.

EIGHTH DISTRICT Jesse LaFollette Being Groomed for Congress WORK OF FAIRBANKS’ MACHINE As Now Stated There is Two Candidates in Jay County —Politicians Getting Busy. The Fairbanks’ state machine is said to be preparing to make Jesse J. M. LaFollette, assistant United States district attorney, a candidate for congress, according to the latest political gossip. Mr. LaFollette’s home is in Portland, Jay county, in the Eighth Indiana district. The Fairbanks politicians are paying a great deal of attention to the Eighth district just now, as it shows very alarming signs, or at least signs alarming to machine politicians. In the expected selection of Mr. LaFollette as a candidate in the Eighth district. the Fairbanks organization will be deliberately ignoring the aspirations of a strong man who has at times been a worker in its own ranks, state senator Nathan B. Hawkins, a fellow townsman of the assistant United States district attorney. It is said tha Mr. Haw-kins, who is a wealthy banker at Portland, has strong political support at his home and that he has given ear to the hum of the congressional bee. Although it is yet rather early for much talk concerning congressional aspirants, politics are already seething in the Eighth district, where some of the republicans have grown weary of machine influences from which they say they have been suffering for a 'ong time. The Fairbanks people have not been slow to note this unrest and they are doing everything in their power to subdue it. ]

A LITTLE BASE BALL DOPEOur Captain Played a Great Game at Bluffton. Old man Behringer, captain and second baseman of the Decatur team, played a great game, having two runs, one hit, six put-outs and three assists, without an error. Tom Railing gave it out while in Bluffton yesterday that he would leave this morning for Tecumseh, Mich., to again join that team. Tom received word yesterday that he trouble over his release has been fixed up and that he has been bought by the Tecumseh club. While Railing is considered a fast man, both as a pitcher and fielder, he has poor luck against the Bluffton team, and has lost more games than he has won against our team. — Bluffton Banner. o Mrs. Counterman, of Missouri, arrived in the city last night to make a visit with her sister, Mrs. Shafer Peterson, and this is the first time for eighteen years that these sisters have seen each other. HELDTHECROSSING Clover Leaf Conductor in Police Court BLOCKED CROSSING 30 MINUTES Marshal Green Went to Marion to Land the Violator of our City Ordinance.

Conductor McMullen, of the Clover Leaf railroad, who passed through the 1 city yesterday morning in charge of a west bound freight train, left his 1 train blockade Grant street for thirty minutes, while in the city, and this morning he appeared in the police court, where he was relieved of twenty dollars and thirty cents for the violation of the state law. During the time the street was blockaded many 1 people had gathered on each side of the train, waiting to cross the railroad, and several of them demanded the crossing cut, but no attention was paid to their entreaties, consequently Marshal Green was notified of the affair. He hurried to the railroad, but just in time to see the train leave the city. He then tried to get the sheriff or nfarshal at Bluffton by telephone, and when he found it impossible to locate either, he boarded the ten-thirty-seven passenger train with the determination of overtaking the freight, if he was compelled to go the limit. The freight, however, was given orders to take the siding at Marion for the passenger to pass, and here was Green’s chance. He hurried to police headquarters and engaged the assistance of a plain clothes officer and the two easily located McMullen near his train. He was taken into custody by the officers and had not given cash bond for his appearance in police court here, he would have been taken from his train and returned to this city last night. Mr. McMullen arrived on the morning train and was given a hearing before Mayor Coffee, where he plead guilty to the charge, and was promptly fined twenty dollars and thirty cents. Mayor Coffee took this opportunity of notifying the conductor that the law forbiding trains from holding crossings wiuld be rigidly enforced hereafter and that he will profit by noting same. Althought we have city ordiances forbidding trains holding crossings, there is a state law to that effect also, and when a case is such that it can be prosecuted under the state law, the city ordinances are null and void, and the action must be take nunder the state law. * o— The new electric theater was well attended last night by lovers of a good show and tonight they present two shows in one for the same price of five cents. “Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp” from the original film, bought from Pathe, of France, recently, will prove most interesting besides the extra film representing a pathetic scene. These shows will no doubt be well attended. o— Mrs. Ed Coburn and sons Robert and Richard, of Warren, and Miss Mary Coburn, of Huntington, passed through our city last evening enroute to Oden, Mich., where they will spend 1 several weeks.

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BOUND HER OVER Ella LaPointe Waived Preliminary Examination A GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION Dailey, Simmons and Dailey Will Defend the Slayer of Mrs. Florence Besancon at Bluffton. There was any amount of badly disappointed people this afternoon when it was announced that Mrs. Ella LaPointe. the slayer of Mrs. Florence Besancon, would not have a preliminary hearing at 2 o’clock a tthe council chambers and hence there would be no opportunity of seeing the dusky murderess as she crossed from the jail to the city building. This morning Frank Dailey, who is handling her defense for the firm of Simmons, and Dailey, apeared before Mayor A. W. Hamilton and entered a plea of > not guilty for his client, waiving the [preliminary hearing. Neither the ■mayor, before whom the hearing was to have been held or Deputy Prosecutor Chas. Dailey objected to this course, and Prosecutor Emshwiller was telephoned of the decision in time to prevent him from coming over to appear for the state. Nearly a thousand people have visited the jail and seen the murderess in her cell, but a good view of her cannot be obtained there and the more curious were counting on feasting their eyes on the entirely unusual looking little woman this afternoon. The mayor bound her over to the grand jury who will investigate the evidence against her and return the indictment upon which she will be tried in the circuit court. The grand jury will be called the first week of the September term of court.—Bluffton Banner. o Uncle Sam is to improve the quality of his stationery; not that upon which he conducts his official correspondence, but that which he sells at postoffices for the use of the public. Better quality postal cards and envelopes are promised in the near future. Oomplaints from all sections have been particularly numerous concerning the inferior postal cards, and an investigation by the department has resulted in a change of manager at the factory where the cards are made, and the designation of a new and more discerning government inspector.

FUNERAL SUNDAY Mrs. Peter Fulk Died Yesterday the community shocked The Funeral Will be Held Sunday at Ten O’Clock from the Pleasant Dale Church. Mrs. Peter Fulk, one of the best known and most respected women of Kirkland township, died Friday at her country home at eleven-thirty o'clock after an illness dating back several months, death resulting from a complication of diseases. Mrs. Fulk, although ailing for some time past, had not been considered in a dangerous condition until two weeks ago, when she took a sudden turn for the worse, and was confined to her home and bed. From that time on her decline was rapid, death relieving her from all suffering at noon Friday. She was a member of the Pleasant Dale church, and was a devoted worker in its behalf. and a conscientious Christian. Her many kind acts and deeds of charity will be sadly missed by those who came in close touch and contact with her. The entire community was shocked to learn of her untimely death, and her grief stricken husband has their heartfelt sympathy. The funeral services will be held Sunday morning at the Pleasant Dale church at ten o’clock, standard time, and interment will be made in the Pleasant Dale cemetery. She leaves a husband, four children and a host of relatives and friends to mourn their loss. The 1 deceased was an aunt of W. E. Fulk lof this city.