Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 170, Decatur, Adams County, 19 July 1909 — Page 1

VII. Number 170.

■MAYOR IS BUSY ■Number of Law Violators Got Theirs in Court this Morning —* A PLAIN DRUNK ■Was Fined and a Mar. Who I Was Charged with Running Indecent Show

■ Mayor France’s court was the bus|S»s|est place in town this morning, when ■pve alleged violators of the law were before him for a hearing first to be recognized by the offi ||*ial was a twelve-year-old boy. The Mrouth was found to have possession . , a bicycle which Saturday night was from the home of Milt Leave:’, rafie was closely questioned and in reto queries he protested that he purchased the contrivance from •a farmer boy whole identity he was /.dßnable to disclosb. He said he paid on- dollar for it and immediately took It home. His case is still under inand probably- will be placed in the hands of the juvenile court. ■ A man giving his name as Albert MgjtilbT ,and his place of residence - Monroe, was the next on the ■frogram. He peladed guilty to pub- ' lie intoxication and was promptly fined fifteen dollars He staid the dockel and was released. feiTU three men who had charge of J*lhe disgraceful show which exhibited BKaturday night on the corner of Mad9soi and Second street, -were ar‘•Taigned next. They protested their ■fonoeence of the charge of operating K’an immoral show-, and from the lack w .-of evidence, two of the men were disV charged. Reece who seemed to be ■ the responsible one, being fined elev- ■ en dollars. He paid the fine and was K released. fON NEXT FRIDAY The Fort Wayne Primaries to Be Held on That Day OXCITING RACES " 'The Mayor's Race is LeadI ing All Others in Speculation - ■fl:- entry lists for the municpal primaries in Fort Wayne closed Satixilday evening and now the full list of candidates who will wage a nomhjation battle is known to the voters Fort Wayne. Under the new priUfari law both parties make their ’ nomin.itions on the same day, and the Aninations are made by primary eßetion in which all the voters are i SBvilegeti to participate. The priHis called for next Friday and at pHlent there is something doing ajmong the candidates and their ® s fbiemU in Fort Wayne. The race that I*exciting the most interest In that the Democrats for mayor, in which ’ four candidates are making a red hot finish. Henry P. Scheerer. August M. ■gpnnidt. Albert E. Melching and ' McCullough, all four of them | . ~ibiim: well known and all of them too, ESBiug more or Ices merit to their, --‘claims for the place they seek, and aßag with that they have many frier,': ryho want to see them win. The Republicans have but two canpßytes f° r ma >' or ’ Jesse Grice and ,W. Skeleton and it is said . that the manipulators are all for the : ' fttmfr, and that he will be nominated. f It will be a busy week for thp politicians of Fort Wayne. 7? o— — E PROSPERITY HAS ARRIVED ■Blington, July 19.—The controller ot the currency has received advices from Indiana which indicates that the M nation:, 1 banks of the Hoosier state U aj’eS.in a flourishing condition, with increasing deposits. Every word which he has received bearing upon the’lndiana situation convinces him that prosperity is now in full ffi Wring in Indiana, or soon will be.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

THINK THEY ARE EXTRAVAGANT Congressman Cullop to Speak About White House Extravagance. Washington, July 19. —Representative Cullop of Indiana will be prepared, when the house meets, to make a scathing speech attacking former President Roosevelt and President Taft on the ground of extravagance land wastefulness of the people’s money. His attack will be based on the fact that President Roosevelt expended $65,000 for the erection of the white house office building and President Taft is asking for $53,000 to build a three-room addition to it. “I will venture to say,” declared Mr. Cullop "that $5,000 is an extravagant amount to pay for such a building and yet President Roosevelt paid $65,000 for it. It is the cheapest and most inexpensive sort of a brick structure. It seems to me that somebody must have imposed on President Roosevelt and got a lot of graft out of it. How President Taft figures that it would cost $53,000 to add three rooms to it in the same cheap style of architecture is more than I can understand.” NO MAPS FOR SALE A Pinkerton Officer Visits Bluffton and Fools the Boys Proper HE PLAYED POKER Then Pinched the Gang— Manson Reiff Will Get a Solar Plexis Blow Bluffton, July 19.—(Special to the i Daily Democrat) —“Have you bought I a map?” is a very popular expression about this place just now and the reply is usually “no map, thank you.” Its a joke for a good many, but for others its a real serious matter. The town is all agog over a raid made Saturday night a lone Pinkerton officer, brought here by the Good Citizens’ League, and the smooth ,wayin which he worked the boys. About a month ago a nice looking young fellow- came to the city, with his wife and little son. They stopped at the best hotel, and Clark immediately began to mix with the boys. He was a pleasant fellow supposed to be representing a big map house, and at all times and places proved himself a prince of good fellows. He drank with the fellows whenever and wherever he could, at their homes, at the clubs, up a stairway or any place else. He also played poker and pinnucle and all the other games of chance and strange tq say, nearly always won. Saturday night he was one of a party of seven who spent the evening at poker in the booms over Manson Reiff’s pool room. He played until about 11:30," and then cashed in a bunch of checks, making him about seventy-five dollars to the- good, and /emarking that the game was too slow walked out into the hall, put the money away, pulled a revolver and w-alking back into the room pinched the gang with w-hom he had hobnobbed for a month and whom he had beaten at cards and with whom he had many a drink. The six men pinched were Claire Bulger, Clarence Cupp, O. S McKee, Grover Swartz, Frank Unger and Charles Robinson, an oil man, and also of course the ■proprietor, Manson Reiff. The place w as searched and a quart of whiskey [discovered. The men were all re.leased on their own recognizance until ten o’clock this morning. Clark claims to have the record of forty different times during the past month when he has bought drinks from Reiff, and the League will doubtless insist on the prosecution of all. This may- put him out of business, as there are already five indictments against him, which were returned by the last grand jury. Clark who did the work, is a real Pinkerton, and lives at Indianapolis. He expresses himself very sorry that he had to do what he did, but says its his line of business. He says he will not report the boys who took him to their homes and allowed him to indulge in the delicious Budweiser. 1 —o— — Adam Buetell went to Berne where ; he delivered a suit of clothes and looked after other business.

IT WAS A BAD SHOW “Moral America Refined’’ Was Not in Keeping With Its Title ROTTEN EXHIBITION Officers Arrest Men Who Persist in Operating a Bad Show Os all the exhibitions which revert the minds of intelligent Americans to the days when civilization was the least factor in the personel of our now glorious country, a few would be men hailing from no one knows wjiere, pulled off a stunt on our main thoroughfare last Saturday night which for disgracefulness goes on record in our city without a parallel. Men named Hart, Reece and others, members of a company who left Bluffton Friday evening by the aid of the shoes of the Bluffton police, erected a tent on the corner of Madison and Second streets Saturday and in glowing letters a sign placed in front of the tent read “Moral America Refined.” Hundreds of people gave up fifteen cents to witness the performance and left the tent utterly disgusted with the disgraceful maneuvers oi the pair of females whose further moral descent would be impossible. Ere the show- was in operation a half hour Marshal Butler and Policeman Fisher ascertained the nature of the performance and they ordered the immorality ceased. This the proprietors did not feel disposed to do and immediately after the disappearance of the officer they would sell tickets and resume operations within. The officers returned and arrested the men, placing them in jail to await hearing this morning. The Decatur public who heard the line of talk given by the spieler took resentment to it and the ■actions of the officers in stopping the show- have met with hearty approval of the people. Hart, one of the men connected with the show Jias been in Decatur three times before. He was here only last year with the fairies in the well and this was ajlsgraceful affair enlisting the disgust of the people. Decatur will not stand for such an exhibition and those who attempt to operate one will be vigorously prosecuted.

THAT BIG PICNIC M. E. Sunday School Will Have Glorious Time Thursday AT ROBINSON PARK Two Special Cars Will Leave Decatur Thursday Morning The M. E. Sunday school teachers have distributed the tickets for the big annuai picnic to their scholars and practically all the preliminary arrangements have been made for the 'gala day at Robinson park. The committee has arranged affairs so that the baskets will be taken charge ot by Mr. Burke. Those who attefad and have baskets w-ill take them to the interurban station, where they will turn them over to Mr. Burke. The names are to be written plainly on the baskets or a paper attached thereto. This will avoid confusion. The first car will leave between seven and eight o’clock and the next will follow a short time afterward. All Sunday school scholars will be transported to Fort Wayne and retuijn free of charge. The day w-ill be a glorious one, and hundreds of people have planned to attend. Members of any Sunday school are cordially invited to attend. A fee of fifty cents will be charged them for transportation. Any other information can be secured by calling on Rev. Powell or J. C. Tri/ch. The picnic will be held Thursday.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, July 19, 1909.

UNCLE NATE FLEW THE TRACK Patrons of Bryant Bank Wouldn’t Stand for Him. According to the Bryant Independant the report circulated that Senator N. B. Hawkins, of this city, had purchased a controlling interest in the Farmers' & Merchants' bank of Bryant, is untrue, or rather after the purchase was agreed to, Hawkins refused to complete the deal and that the bank will continue under the old management with James Ruped as president, for the time being at least. The Bryant bank has grown to be a very solid little instiuttion and isi quite well patronized by Bryant citizens and farmers in the northern part of the county. However, it is said that after the report had been spread that Senator Hawkins had purchased a controlling interest in the bank a portion of the deposits were withdrawn and deposited in other banks and this may have been the incentive that caused “Uncle” Nate to "fly the track” and throw up the deal.—Portland Sun. r

THEBATTLE BEGINS Democratic Congressional Committee Organizes Tonight THE SLATE MADE Congressman Dixon of Indiana Slated for Secretary Washington, July 19. —The battle for control of the next national house of representatives will begin tonight when the Democratic congressional committee will be reorganized. The : following are slated, for election as ■ officers of the committee: Chairman —James T. Lloyd, of Missouri. Secretary of «the Campaign Coifimittee —Lincoln Dixon, of Indiana. Three cities are under consideration for national headquarters, Chicago, St. Louis and Indianapolis. i Lincoln Dixon, who is to be elected ' secretary, has entered upon his third ' I term in congress and is dean of the 1 Indiana Democratic delegation. As ' secretary .he will succeed ’Rep'resenj tative Frank Clark of Florida, who ; was not reelected a member of the ■ congressional committee by his state delegation. He will be provided with a competent force of stenographers and assistants who will look after the clerical details of the office. Dixon was strongly | mentioned for the congressional chairmanship, but he I would not be a candidate against Representative Lloyd. It has been I decided by the controlling forces in the congressional committee that Indiana shall be one of the chief battlegrounds in the contest for control of the next house. A red-hot fight will be w-aged in every Indiana district in the hope of at least holding eleven Indiana districts ip the Democratic column. The storm center of the ( congressional contest will be in states like Indiana, Ohio and the northwest. The two issues that will be forced to I the front by the Democrats are the I tariff and economy in national ex- : penditures. It is intended to begin ( at once a series of attacks on the j tariff bill now before congress on the ground that it is of no benefit to the ■ consumer, and thd agitation for an- " other revision of the tariff will be ’ started even before the present bill ■is signed. The Republicans have a ' majority of thirty-five in the national house of representatives. A gain of I eighteen would wipe out this major- . ity and give the house to the Democrats. Democratic congressmen of the east and south, who stand in with ■ the Wall street interest and w-ho have been voting for protection, are opposed to the reorganization of the congressional committee at this time, and . they will be on hand to make a fight for delay. The meeting may be a lively one, but the reorganizers are in the Saddle and w-ill control. o Pat Kinney is looking after the real estate business at Berne this afternoon.

PRESIDENT’S HAND Some Modification in Tariff Bill Now in Conference PUSH THE SLATE Hope to Have the Bill Out of Conference the Last of this Week Washington, July 19. —President j Taft’s tariff program made surprising headway yesterday. Opposition |to it in the house of representatives 'melted away like frost before a sum■mer sun. It became apparent for the ; first time that the president's program will go through the bouse with practically no resistance. Even members of the immortal band of twenty-three who went up to the white house to tell the president that if he did not desist he would send Democrats to congress in their places, have become reconciled and are inclined to believe that, after all, there may be a silver lining to the cloud. When the bill is called they will answer “aye.” They will do so with some trepidation and mental reservation, but, after all, it is the votes that wilt count, and the president is sure of enough votes in the house to put his program through. In the senate the outlook for favorable action on the substantial features of the program grows brighter every hour. With the house certain to put its “O. K.” on what the president wants the storm center of tariff agitation now shifts to the senate. It will be necessary for the president to recede a little to make ' stfre of enough votes to pass the conI ference report through the senate. The ■ important task this week will be in I rounding up enough senators to furnish a majority for the reduced duties that the president is willing to stand for. To give sufficient time for this milling process the tariff bill, was to have been reported to congress Wednesday, may be held in conference until the latter part of the week. The' exact form in which it will be (reported out has not been decided, | but the indications are that iron ore and oil will be reported free, while hides will have a duty of 7% or 10 per cent. Coal, 67 cents under the Dingley law, will be 45. Lumber will ibe either 1 or 1.25, with senate 'differentials in favor of finished lumber. CALLS ON FRIENDS Harry K. Grubb Here After Absence of Twelve • Years ' HAS GOOD POSITION Represents a Big Oyster House of South Norwalk, Connecticut Harry K. Grubb arrived in the city Saturday afternoon. For twelve years

he has heen away and his visit in the city yesterday was his first in that length of time. Since leaving Decatur he has made good, being employed as road salesman for the Seal Ship i Oyster company of South Norwalk, ! Conn., and when given this territory to work he arranged to come here and visit old friends. His territory extends west to Omaha from Buffalo and he works from Manitoba, Can., to Tennessee which keeps him busy. After transacting business for several days in this state, Harry will return to South Norwalk to take a high position in the company’s offices. It has been a long time since Mr. Grubb, left and he has noted many changes, but he found most of his old playmates land schoolboy friends still here, and j they took great pleasure in calling up incidents of former good times. o SCARCITY OF HARVEST HELP Shelbyville, Ind., July 19.—The farmers in all parts of Shelby county are complaining of the scarcity of 1 help to take care of the crops at the present time. They are offering J 2.50 a day, together with board. '

THEY WILL TRY IT AGAIN » - Another Effort to Get Testimony of Rev. W. E, McCarty. Attorneys for Mrs. Isabelle Williams against whom her former husband, Rev. McCarty, has filed suit for an accounting on their ante-nuptial contract, will again make an effort to examine the plaintiff out of court, seeking to secure facts on which to base their answer, which is due to be made at the September term of court. They have once more served notice on McCarty, directing him to apear at the office of Emerson E. McGriff, on Friday, July 23, at 10 o’clock, and answer such questions as they care to ask him. McCarty w-as once before given notice to appear for this examination but failed to appear on the day fixed, acting, it is said, on the advice of his attorneys. It is anticipated that he will again ignore the summons. The wife's attorneys declare that if he persists in this refusal to submit to examination, they will move, when court convenes, to strike his complaint from the files.—Portland Commercial-Review.

A GENEVA SPECIAL Much of Interest Transpiring in That Hustling Little Town A SACRED CONCERT What Street? — Twilight Services—Business is Going to Hum Geneva, Indiana, July 19. — (Special to the Daily Democrat)—E. P. Menefee, of Jackson, Ky., and an old Geneva boy, visited over Sunday with S. j Cook and family and other friends, jit was Mr. Menefee’s first visit here I for a long number of years and there I many of the old boys who were |glad to give him the glad hand. The Epworth League of the M. E. church*will give a sacred concert at the church on Tuesday evening. They will be assisted by some outside talent and everybody should go ajnd enjoy a pleasant evening with this body of Christian workers. The general topic of conversation now is where and what street will the Bluffton, Geneva & Celina Traction company enter Geneva. There is a great objection to Butcher street, ?fnd we think the objections are well taken. Mrs. Clara Anderson and children are making an extended visit with friepds at Auburn. Rev. C. M. Myers, pastor of the U. IL church, was called to Muncie on Saturday, where on Sunday he preached the funeral of a long time friend. The twilight services on the Pontius lawjn on Sunday evening was well attended by both congregations, and the speaker, Rev. C. J. Graves, delivered an able sermon upon the subject, “Difference between reputation and character." The sermon was one of the best ever heard here, and many compliments have been be-sfow-ed upon the speaker of the evening. M. E. Hutton, proprietor of the moving picture show here, is putting ( on some-of the best shows ever seen, and is making good.

Business in all lines seem to be reviving, or the presumption is that business will revive, since President Taft has told the conference committee of congress how to dispose of the tariff. We wish that the presiidejnt had spoken sooner so that our Chautauqua senators could have filled i their summer season engagements. I This will make them hard up and shy on poker money. Mrs. Susan Prince, of Spencerville, Ohio ,is making an extended visit with her daughter, Mrs. William Pratts. I Mrs. Prince is eighty-one years old, j and made the drip from Spencerville to this city without fatigue or mishap. ;i — r O. G. Rathbun, wife and sdn left it for Chicago Saturday morning and , 1 (Continued on page 4.) i

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WILL ASK FOR WRIT Theodore and John A. Hendricks Say Their Mother is Not Insane WILL FIGHT CASE Employ Attorneys and Will File Habeas Corpus Proceedings Soon

Theodore and John A. Hendricks, two of the best known men of Wabash township, were here Sunday, and employed the firm of Peterson & Moran, attorneys, to bring habeas corpus proceedings that will prevent the sending of their mother, Mrs. Sarah Hendricks to the insane asylum. These men were very much surprised when they read in the paper that such action had been taken and insist that while their mother may act a little childish at times, that she is not insane, and that the action is taken by parties for some other purpose. They first called on Clerk Haefling who directed them to see an attorney,which they did and as soon as the application is accepted at Richmond, probably the last of this week they will have the habeas corpus papers issued and the case will be heard immediately, this being the rule, even in vacation time, in cases of this kind. x Theodore Hendricks says his mother lives with him, and that he is well able to take care of her and the responsibility. The action to declare her o£ unsound mind was brought by A. J. Meyer, a son-in-law, who lives at Berne, but the sons say their mother has never made her home with him and is not doing so at this time. Mr. Meyers also wanted to take out the necessary papers and be appointed guardian for Mrs. Hendricks, but this could not be done until she had been admitted to the asylum. It looks as though some unpleasant affairs may be disclosed if the cause goes to trial.

I OPENING PROPER * Os Maple Grove Park, Will Occur Next Sunday TO HAVE A BIG TIME First Class Attractions Will Be There to Afford Pleasure —* The opening proper of Maple Crhove park will occur next Sunday, when a number of first class attractions will be on the grounds. The directors of the association have arranged for a balloon ascension whicn will be given by a lady from Greenville, Ohio, and besides this a very good electric show wiix be on the grounds. The merry-go-rov|nd which was at Steele's park last Saturday will move to Maple Grove and many other amusements willie found there. The Maple Grove people expect to make the park more attractive than it has ever been. They will land none but the best of attractions and without the resort will be well patronized. Professor- Dickey who last year made the slide for life at the park will probably be booked for another exhibition in the near ‘future. He is in the city at the present time. Everybody prepare to spend I' the day ijn the beautiful shade afforded at Maple Grove next Sunday and enjoy a day of pleasure and recreation.

d AFRICAN LION CAUSES PANIC !. y Refuses to Fight Bull, But Gives Spectators Bad Scare. •, I Elpaso, Tex., July 18.—Escaping i from a cage in the center of the bull ‘ring, Nero, an African lion, that re- .; fused to fight, bounded up among the bleachers and created a panic among .the hifndreds of persons assembled to [witness the lion-bull fight in honor of a fiesta at Chihuahua yesterday. The ,lion harmed no one, but the ensuing panic resulted in several injuries.