Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 62, Decatur, Adams County, 13 March 1909 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VII. Number 62.

IT IS NOT ADREAM Artificial Gas Assured for this City at an Early Date AMENDED FRANCHISE They Will Appear Before the Council on Next Tuesday Evening Mr. J. M. Barrett of Fort Wayne, spent some time in the city this morning, he being here In the interest of the Indiana Lighting company, who but recently purchased the property and rights of the Deitrich syn■dicate which included the property known as the Wabash Valley Gas company, with lines and other property in this city. They will appear before the city council at its meeting on next Tuesday evening and ask for an amendment to their franchise, said amendment to affect section fifteen, and as amended will read as follows: “Section 15. The said grantee hereunder, its successors and assigns, including the Indiana Lighting company, its successors and assigns, shall have the right under this ordinance to manufacture, sell and deliver artificial gas for light, heat, and power purposes, which shall be of not less than sixteen candle power, and not less than five hundred British Thermal Units to be delivered to the consumer at not less than two-inch water pressure, but subject to the laws of the state of Indiana, and the ordinances of the city now in force or which shall hereafter be ordained relating to

public health or welfare, and to supply such gas to consumers and shaft have the right to charge and collect therefore the sum and price of $1.15 per thousand cubic feet, and no more, provided the minimum amount of charge to any consumer for any one month Shall be fifty which shall include meter rental, and provided further that the amount due for the gas consumed during any one month shall be paid on or before the tenth of the next succeeding month, but if any consumer sha\l fail to pay for such gas within said time, an additional ten cents per thousand cubic feet may be charged and collected for any month for which such consumer shall fail to pay.” Under the ordinance that is now in force and which this company now has, the price is stipulated at $2, and this amendment with its reduction to $1.15 will be acceptable no doubt to those who are watching over the welfare and the rights of the eity. According to the information brought by Mr. Barrett, the Indiana Lighting company are intending to push this enterprise to a finish and will have artificial gas in Decatur ready for the use of their consumers by July of this year. They intend to build a line from Fort Wayne to Kingsland, and from there they will put in branch lines to this ctty and to Bluftton.They will use the lines now in and which were in service during the time when natural gas was in Its prime, and until it winked out. This means that they can no doubt be ready to supply the need of their Decatur consumers by the time specified by Mr. Barrett. It will likewise be a relief to our people to know that it will not be necessar to tear up any of the streets and alleys in order to get the use of this gas. It is a big card in their favor and ought to secure for them the sacred privilege of no competition. But be that as it may. it is cheerful news to know that we are to have something that will relieve the monotony of soft coal and gasoline. D. E. Smith will appear with Mr. Barrett before the council at its meeting on next Tuesday evening. — o— Ida, the three weeks’ old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bulmahn, six miles north of the city, died Friday morning at 8:30 o’clock from a cold. The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon, leaving the house at 1:30 o’cock for St. John’s church, where the Rev. H. C, Jaus will officiate.

WILL VOTE AGAINST CANNON Eleven Indiana Congressmen Among the Insurgents. Washington, March 13.—The eleven Democratic congressmen from Indiana are expected to vote as a unit to carry out the program of Bryan and Clark. If there is any disagreement' among the Indiana Democratic members it has not yet crept to the surface. W. A .Cullop, of Vincennes, the new congressman from the Second district, arrived with a chip on his shoulder. “I made Cannon an issue in my congressional campaign,’’ said he, “and I know of 500 Republicans who voted for me because I made it clear that I was against Cannon. I have not talked to the other Indiana Demooratlc members, but it goes without saying that we will be a unit in upholding Champ Clark. I don’t know of any Indiana Democratic congressman who could vote for Cannon and stand any show of re-election.”

IN CIRCUIT COURT Sale is Ordered in the Jesse Butler Estate BOND APPOVED Hilgeman Bond Approved— Receiver’s Oil Sale Peterson & Moran entered their appearance for the defendant in the case of Watkins vs. Meibers. Nancy Sheets, guardian of Ruby V., Sydney S., and Noah T. Sheets, made a report which was ordered i ecorded. Albert A. Butler, administrator of the estate of Jesse Butler, deceased, filed petition to sell all personal property at private sale, the usual time being given, one-third cash, one-third in one year, and onethird in two years. William Hilgeman as executor of the estate of George Hilgeman deceased, filed bond of $2,000. which was approved. Through his attorneys Dailey & Simmons, of Bluffton, James S. McCray receiver, will sell at receiver's sale at the east door of the court house in this city, all the leases and personal property belonging to the Philmont Oil company. The sale will be on Saturday, April 17. Noah Rich of Monroe township, and Adella Schindler, of French township, were given a marriage license today. They are two of the highly respected young people of the southern part of the county. o COST FIFTY-FOUR DOLLARS Some Hunters Made a Pot Shot Into Flock of Geese. Winamac, Ind,, March 13.—Dr. John E, Shill and Oscar Warden, proprietors of the Frain hotel, of this place, while out hunting ducks along the Tippecanoe river near here, found a large number of geese asleep on the bank of the stream. The men, believing them to be wild geese, fired four charges of shot into the flock, killing nine. They brought the dead birds to town this morning and after having had their photographs taken with their guns and the geese, the geese were turned over to the chef at the hotel Frain. Felix Frain, a farmer living south of here, appeared and charged Shill and Warden with having killed a part of his flock of sixteen African geese and demanded that the men settle with him. As the birds were valued by Mr. Frain at six dollars each, the hunters were compelled to pay $54 to square things with the fanner. Miss Hazel France is hostess at ’he reguar meeting of the Shadow Club this afternoon. Riley will be the subject of a life sketch.

OUT OF POLITICS The Judiciary in Montana Not Mixed in Politics NO NOMI NA T IONS Political Parties Can No Longer Nominate These Candidates Helena, Mont., March 13.—The judiciary of Montana has been removed from the domain of politics, and accordingly from the domination of po-, litical parties, by a bill which was signed by Governor Norris. Hereafter no political party or political convention can nominate candidates for the bench. Candidates in future can only be named by a certificate of nomination, signed by a certain percentage of the electors. The death blow Is thus administered to the possibility of a political judiciary in Montana, this state having in the past frequently been made the subject for criticism as to the alleged close connection between some of its judges and the politicians. This was particularly true during the litigation in Butte over the copper mines, in the days when the war was on between the Amalgamated and F. A. Heinze. The measure which now becomes law provides that candidates for the bench shall be nominated by the filing of a certificate of nomination, to be signed by not less than 5 per cent of the electors, who voted for the same office at the last election within the county, township, ward or other political division where the certificate is filed. The certificate is to contain, in addition to the name of the candidate, information as to who he is, where he lives, where he practices, hew long he has been at the state bar and other facts about the man seeking to don the ermine.

HOME FROM SOUTH Harry R. Ward Home from an Absence in the South GREAT IN SPOTS Many Places Are Coming to the Front in Great Shape Harry R. Ward came in last night from an extended absence and visit in the south. He spent the most of the time in different parts of Florida, being at Tampa, Jacksonville and in fact in every part of importance in that state. He likes it in spots, there being much if it that is simply beyond endurance, while at places there is much to admire and live for. It is entirely new to one living in this part of God’s domain, the cultivation of the orange groves, celery, lettuce, pineapple and other vegetation being intersting, and it is paying, too, where business principles are involved in the manner and methods of its cultivation. The south is, generally speaking, making great strides in the right direction,and in many places is coming out of the kinks, northern methods and blood being responsible, for this increase in the actfrites there. Many of these places are prospering and new people are going there constantly and as a result there is no denying the fact that there is a new south much nearer to a relfzatlon than many people may think. Mr. Ward enjoyed every minute of the time spent in his travels over this new country, and also came homa much benefitted in health. - ■ o T s A, Baker and son Adrain are in Marlon, where they are awaiting the arrival of Mrs. Baker and the other children, who are visiting at Craigville. The family has just moved from their home at Pleasant Mills to that place.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, March 13, 1909.

MAKES EIGHTY-TWO DOLLARS Gust Werling Works a Cincinnati Post Puzzle and Gets Money Gust Werling, of Preble, is ahead of the game just SB2. and he made it in one evening while he was watching the pumps at the oil station where he has worked for a long time, and for that occupation he draws nice long money. He received the amount of money for working a puzzle which was in the Cincinnati Post, and for which a prize was offered. Gust saw the puzzle in the evening, worked it that night, and sent his answer to the Post the next - morning. The reply coming now with the enclosure made that about the best night’s work ever done by Mr. Werling. His friends are now busy congratulating him over his good luck.

IS A LIVELY SCRAP The Effort to Break in Upon the Cannon House Rules PLEASANT CALL Senator Shively Calls on the President and They Jolly Each Other Washington, March 13—Theodore Roosevelt has thrown in the scales the great weight of his personality and influence in behalf of the insurgents who are attempting to overthrow the power of Speaker Joseph Cannon by changing the rules of the house of representatives. The official announcement is made that the Outlook, of which Mr. Roosevelt is an associate editor, will uphold the efforts to change the rules at this session. The remarkable fight, thus made more acute by Mr. Roosevelt’s action, also has these significant features: Mr. Roosevelt will work in hand with W. J. Bryan to overthrow the house rules. The Outlook editors have decided that new is the time to effect the reform. Through James E. Watson of Indiana, Mr. Taft announced that he regards the fate of his administration bound up in the re-election of Cannon and the defeat of the insurgents at this session.

Washington, March 13. —Senator Shively called on President Taft and they had a pleasant conversation over the Indiana political situation. The senator reminded Mr. Taft that the Democrats of Indiana made considerable of a killing in the last election. “W r e got the scalps of several of your Republican friends out there, Mr. President,” said he, “and we tried to beat you, but we found there was too much of you.” This reference to Taft’s gigantic proportions caused the chief executive to smile. Shively called to pay his respects. There has been a large calling list of Democratic senators at the white house since Mr. Taft became president and it has been demonstrated that he assumes the chief magistracy with the general good will of the members of the legislative branch, both Republican and Democrats. Washington. March 13, —A full lifesized bust of former Vice-President Fairbanks was placed in the senate chamber. In order to make room for it the bust of Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky, who was vice president under President Van Buren, was removed to a less desirable niche in the capitol. The Fairbanks bust is the work of Franklin Simons, an Amerisculptor, and was made in Rome. It is of white Italian marble. THE PRESIDENT’S DOCTOR. Washington, March 13. —Major Guy Edie, of the United States army medical department, who accompanied Mr. Taft around the world on his now famous tour, is to be the president's family physician, according to a wellfounded rumor. He will replace Rear Admiral P. M. Rixey, who served as physician to Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt. Dr. Rixey entered the navy in 1874 and soon is to be retired. Major Edie is the eighteenth man of his rank in the United States army and conducts the army dispensary in Washington. He has been an intimate friend of Mr. Taft for many years.

WANT NEXT MEET Bluffton Will Ask for the 1910 Session of Conference APPOINT COMMITEE To Extend Invitation to North Indiana M. E. Conference That Bluffton will endeavor to have the next session of the North Indiana conference held in their city is now au assured fact, as resolutions have been passed to that effect. They were after the 1909 session, but Greenfield being the stronger contender, was given the meeting, which begins the last day of this month. The following from the Bluffton Banner states their position in the matter: At an adjourned session of the fourth quartely conference of the Methodist church last evening, it was decided to make a bid for the next session of the North Indiana conference, a unanimous rising vote was extended to Rev. Cecil to return to this charge another year and resolutions were unanimously passed asking the conference to return to this district Superintendent C. U. Wade. A motion was made that this church invite the next session of the North Indiana conference, which was carried, and a committee appointed to extend the invitation to that body which will be in session at Greenfield this year. As Bluffton was a strong contender for the honor last year, but was beaten out by Greenfield, with the expectation of letting Bluffton have the next meetlug, in ail liklihood Bluffton will have no opposition and the invitation will be accepted for the next year.

HAS NO RUSH ON The Governor Will Take His Time to Making Appointments ACCOUNTING LAW He Has Sixty Days to Make Appointments Under the Law Indianapolis, Ind., March 13. —Applicants for appointment under the provisions of the public accounting act have already begun to consume the time of the governor when he will consent to receive them, but if it is known what they desire before they get to the governor he does not hesitate to keep them on the outside. “The act will not become effective until after the acts of the legislature are published,” said the governor, "and after that I will have sixty days in which to make my choice. I am going to take as much o fthat time as is necessary to fill the place with the best man I can find in Indiana for the job. Meanwhile it is not going to do anybody any good to hang about my neck, or bear down on my shoulders in behalf of this applicant or that. Recommendations when properly presented, in writing, will be received and considered. It is a big job and will require a big man, the biggest I can find and induce to take it I may make some mistakes in filling it but if I do they will be my own mistakes; I am not going to have it said that I helped anybody else make a mistake.” The governor has a number of names ou file and a number of persons have called to see him concerning the chief and minor appointments under the act. 'O ■'■ Miss Anna Amspaugh is entertaining the Queen Esthers at her home on Eighth street this afternoon. Miss Neva Brandyberry will read a paper ( on “Frontier Life.’’ Miss Vera Ham- I mond will sing a solo. Devotional is services will close the meeting. |d

I WAS TAKEN TO JEFFERSONVILLE Orville Crum to Serve Two to Twen-ty-One Sheriff Lipkey left this morning on the 7:10 car over the Union Traction line for Jeffersonville with Orville Cium in his charge and the young man is by this time lodged in the state reformatory and has begun serving his sentence of two to twenty-one years for the killing of Peter Poffenberger. Sheriff Lipkey made the trip today unaccompanied by a deputy and there was no necessity for the extra man whom the law provides may be taken, for there was no danger of trouble with young Clum. Sheriff Lipkey also did not subject him to the indignity of handcuffs. Clum seemed perfectly cool and collected this morning as he swung onto the car to start to prison. Only a few persons were at the car, as it was not generally known the hour he would depart, and the good-byes were few. —Bluffton News. WANT A NEW TRIAL Attorneys for Adam Mosure After a New Trial for Him ANOTHER HOT CASE A Family Scrap Being Settled in the Wells Circuit Court Attorneys for Adam Mosure have filed a written motion for a new trial, and arguments will be made upon this motion today. Mosure was a former resident of this county, living in French township, and a few weeks ago he pulled a sentence from the Wells circuit court which admits him to the state institution for criminals at Michigan City. The reasons given for a new trial number fifty, and his attorneys will make a supreme effort to get a re-hearing of the case. Mosure is known to many of our people, and while he cut no particular ice over here, yet the crime for which he was accused and convicted was about the last one that would have been surmised that he would have been guilty of. No particular sympathy is being expressed for him. The Wells circuit court is now pulling off another case that is causing considerable Interest over there, more owing to the magnitude of the property involved. Five daughters of Milton Davis deceased, are suing their stepdaughter for the possession of real estate, the value of the real estate being fifteen or twenty thousand dollars. A real live scrap is in progress. O ' ■ . . CONTROVERSY AT LINN GROVE Fight for Possession of Forty Acre Farm. John Mock returned yesterday evening from Linn Grove,where he tried a case yesterday for possession of a forty acre farm. The case consumed the entire day, there being a jury trial. The best thing about it, according to Mock, was the country dinner which was served. Over a year ago Mrs. Snyder rented her forty acre farm to William Eiker. She understood, or at least she claimed she did, that the farm was rented for a year. The first of this year she leased the farm to Chris Mosier, he to get possession the first of March. When the first of March came about Eiker wa sstill on the farm and Mosier brought suit for possession. The attorneys wrangled all day on the law points relative to who should have possession of the farm, apparently ail to no purpose, as the case will be taken to the circuit court no matter which way the decision goes. —Bluffton News. — —1

, .... ...—o- I ——» Hon. J. M. Barrett, of Fort Wayne, was in the city today in the interest of an amended franchise which the Indiana Lighting company will present to the city council on next Tuesday evening.

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DEATH HAS COME Mrs. J. E. Moser Passes Away After Long Illness WAS HOPEFUL L ntil the Last—Sorrow to the Community Conscious of her surroundings until almost the last, bereft for the first time during her long siege of illness of the hopes for recovery and wonderful vitality which have so conspicuously characterized the days and months of suffering she has uncomplainingly withstood, Mrs. J. E. Moser known and beloved by many, sank into the deep slumber of death last evening at 5:40 o’clock, thus severing the earthly ties of innumerable friends in whom she has found implicit loyalty for many years. The last hours of the estimable woman were passed peacefully, calmly and although loath to leave the companionship of those dear to her, death came as sweet release from the excruciating pain which attended her dread illness during its several months duration. Mrs. Moser was a good woman. She was universally beloved responsive to her fidelity to all obligations which fail to a woman of high ideals. She was ever mindful of her duties as a mother, as a wife, and the life of the departed woman though ended prematurely, will serve as an inspiration to many. The awful results of a cancerous growth of 'malignant nature has robbed Decatur of the activities, the sociability, the uprightness of one of her most highly respected citizens, and words of consolation from the lips of mortal man will fall far short in assuaging the anguish of the bereavement of a multitude of friends, regardless of how well spoken. Mrs. Moser was first taken ill last July fourth, and her condition became worse and more perplexing each day. August seventh she was taken to St. Joseph hospital. Fort Wayne, where a surgical operation revealed a cancerous condition in an advanced stage. The surgeon as best he could relieved the complications and in a few weeks Mrs. . Moser came home, feeling improved. She soon, however, relapsed into a siege of serious illness again and ten weeks hence was taken to the hospital . for further treatjment. The efforts of surgeons were all in vain, and the statement was given out that the woman could survive but a short time, at the most. She was brought home, and her wonderful vitality baffled surgeons and physicians alike. Mrs. Moser had hopes until the last day of her life and she battled vigorously and heroically against the coming of the death angel. The deceased was bom near Willshire, Ohio, Nov. 10, 1868. and nineteen years ago on the same day of the same month she was united in marriage to J. E. Moser, the ceremony being performed at Willshire. Later they removed to this city and engaged in the photography business, Mrs. Moser taking an active part in the work of the studio and she developed into an artist of ability. Until her illness the deceased had charge of the china store which was conducted in connection with the studio, and she was always proficient in her work. She leaves beside a multitude of friends, a busbend, son Ralph, four brothers, George Melvin and Joseph Roop, of 'Willshire, and Charles Roop of Van W’ert, beside two half sisters to mourn her loss. The funeral services will be held from the Presbyterian church Monday afternoon as 2:30 o’clock, the Rev. Spetnagie officiating. The friends may view the body any time tomorrow and Monday mornin« and the casket will not be opened at the church. o

Mr. and Mrs. ±*. J. Hyland will b< to Fort. Wayne tomorrow to make a visit with the latter’s brother. James Touhey, who is a patient at the St. Joseph hospital. Jim is getting along as well as can be be expected, accordng to reports from that institution.