Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 62, Decatur, Adams County, 14 March 1910 — Page 1

Volume VIII. Number 62.

ITS LIEE OR DEATH For the Rockefeller Octopus or the Anti-Trust Law in This Case. ■THE JURY IS OUT ■ln the French Lick Hotel Case—Evidence in the Marker Case. i (United Press Service.) | [ Washington, D. C., March 14— ■ (Special to Daily Democrat)—The ■government's biggest trust busting ■suit, against the biggest corporation Nlln the world, the Standard Oil com- ■ pany of New Jersey, is scheduled to ■be argued late this afternoon in the ■supreme court of the United States. ■Upon the verdist of the highest trib■unal of the land the life of the Sher■nian anti-trust law depends as does ■also the life or death of the Rockefeller ■corporation and other big monopolies. ■The present litigation involves thir■tyseven district corporations, which ■the Standard Oil either owns, directs ■or controls. (Continue don page 4.) ' ■ Paoli, Ind., March 14 —(Special to ■Daily Democrat) —The case of the ■State against the French Lick Hotel ■Company is today in the hands of the ■Orange county jury. No difference ■what the result of the case is, this ■trial will not conclude it. If a disa■greement results the case will have to ■be retried and if either sides scores victory the case will be appealed to ■the supreme court. Judge Buskirk ■charged the jury today, outlining the ■defense of the company and if these ■are, followed the verdict will be for ■the defendants. £ (United Press Service.) Hj Indianapolis, Ind., March 14 —(Specto Daily Democrat) —Wesley Benspecial bank examiner, employed * 'toy the government, who has been on ■the stand since Friday, continued his ■evidence today in the case against ■William H. Marker, the Tipton bank■er, who misappropriated SIOO,OOO. His ■testimony has been along the lines of ■identifying the entries on the bank ■books and comparing them with those ■of the Chicago company. j THE SCHOOL TERM | Longest in History of the County for the Various Townships. I MUCH INTEREST ALL ■Over the County--The Spelling Contest Created Much Interest. I The school terms over Adams coun■ty this year are to be the longest ■H'verv held in Adams county, another ■victory for County Superintendent ■vOpliger and the county board, and one ■for which they have labored earnest■]y. It means a better opportunity ■for the young people to educate them■selves. Te exact number of days that ■will have been allowed in the vari■ous townships when the schools close ■is: Union township school, 160 days; ■ Root, 160 days; Preble, 160 days; ■Kirkland, 160 days; Washington, 160 ■days; St. Marys, 130 days; Blue ■Creek, 1.33 days; Monroe, 133 days; ■French, 140 days; Hartford, 143 days; ■Wabash, 130 days; Jefferson,. 160 ■days; Berne and Geneva, each 160 ■days. The schools have enjoyed a ■successful year so far. There has ■been great interest in every depart ■inent, the attendance has been good Band the teachers and children have ■worked together in a manner that has ■been particularly beneficial to the stuHfcents. The spelling contests were so ■much of a success that it has been agreed already to hold ■similar contests next year. o I Miss Leota Simms of Willshire was Bentertained over Sunday by the ■blisses Dorothy and Helen Walters.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

I TO SELECT STATE DELEGATES. Adams County Republicans to Meet in This City Saturday, March 26. > The .republicans of Adams county will meet in this city Saturday, March 26th, at 10:30 for tlje purpose of naming nine delegates and nine alternates to the republican state convention. , The chairman, P. L. Andrews, and the secretary, W. A. Lower, have divided the county as follows: St. Marys I township and East Union, one delegate; West Union, Root, Preble and North Kirkland, one delegate; ■ South Kirkland, Washington and North Monroe, one delegate; Middle Monroe, French and Blue Creek, one delegate: Berne A and B, North Wabash and Ceylon one delegate; Geneva B and Hartford, one delegate; Geneva ! A and Jefferson, one delegate; Deca- ' tur, two delegates. 1 o, ■DIDN’T ACCEPT IT Methodist Trustees Posti poned Accepting New Home for a Week. 1 TO BE READY FRIDAY ’ And Will be Accepted on 1 Thursday April 7th—Applications in Now. i 1 Bluffton, Ind., March 14 —Contrary 1 to expectations, the Chopson M. E. Old People’s Home at Warren was , not accepted last week by the board ■ of trustees at a meeting which was ' held at Warren. There were a few minor details to have been completed before the board was ready to accept the structure, as completed, and the ■ board arranged to return to Warren [ on next Friday, March 18th, when the home, which is being built by the ; North Indiana Conference, will be formally accepted from Contractor James Griffith. The buildings and , grounds will be entirely completed ' ready for the dedication of the home on April 7th, Thursday of conference week in this city, on which date the entire North Indiana conference will adjourn to Warren for one day. Next wefek when the board meets to accept the buildings they will receive from William Chopson deeds for $25,000 worth of real estate and $15,000 worth of bonds. Mr. Chopson's proposition was that the trustees raise the sum of $25,000 to meet his endowment. One year ago it was necessary for the trustees to borrow $14,000 on notes on their own security in order to make the cash showing which Mr. Chopson required. During the year the trustees have raised $25,000 in real estate and money subscriptions and the last payment on the notes was made last Thursday. When the home is dedicated it will be absolutely unincumbered and will be opened on a firm financial basis. The contractor who has had charge of the heating system has finished his work. The system was inspected and a full settlement made. The board ’ has also fixed the valuation of the home building and the fifty-six acres of land immediately adjoining at $50,- ! 000. Several applications for admission r were received but the board took no action on them. The applications were placed on file and will come be- " fore the board immediately after the ' dedication, during the conference? j —o LECTURE HERE MONDAY NIGHT. ) Captain Alberta. Formerly in Russian Army Service, Coming. Captain Alberta, a former captain ) in the Russian army, ’whose experi- ) ences are well worth hearing, and i who is a man of great learning, will 3 lecture at the Bosse opera house next - Monday evening under the auspices 1 of the Masonic lodge, each member , of the lodge being allowed to take as s his guest a number of friends. Cap- - tain Alberta lectured at Bluffton Frij day evening and the papers there say x it was one of the most interescting 1 addresses ever heard there. On the following evening, Tuesday, March 22nd, he will lecture to the Masons 3 at their hall. He goes from here to B Fort Wayne, where he gives his lecture in the new cathedral.

Decatur, Indiana. Monday Evening, March 14, 1910.

MURDERER IS DEAD Sanford Love Expired in the Fort Wayne Jail Saturday Evening. HE ATE MATCH HEADS Had Also Swallowed Five Pennies to Make Exit a Sure Thing. —————— A (United Press Service. Fort Wayne, Ind., March 14 — (Special to Daily* Democrat) —Sanford Love, murderer of his sweetheart, Dottie Murden, at Marion a few days ago, died at the jail here Saturday evening at about 6 o’clock, the result of his having swallowed the heads of a dozen sulphur matches and five pennies. He took the mixed up dose Thursday morning, just as he was being taken from Marion to this place for safe keeping. He was attended by physicians, t«ut they did not consider his case at all serious and believed he would be as well as ever in a few days. About 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon he suddenly became much worse and soon went into convulsions, dying soon after. A post mortem examination proved that his death had been caused from thd matches, the sulphur having eaten through the stomach in several places. Up to the time he became worse it is said his pulse was normal, he had no fever and the death sickness came on him very suddenly. His remains were shipped to Decatur, 111., Sunday night and the funeral will be held there, that city being his former home. Love was twenty-seven years old and was worth several thousand dollars. He seemed to be of sound mind in all business affairs and in everything else excepting his love affairs. The funeral of the murdered girl was held at Marion Saturday according to messages received and was attended by 2,500 people. — o- —■ BONDS ARE SIGNED Caleb Andrews Macadam Road Bonds Signed and Ready for Delivery. THE ROAD VIEWERS They Will Report on the Schuh Highway—The Assessors. Martin Laughlin, commissioner for ■ the southern district, was in the city today and joined the other members of the board in signing the Caleb An- ( drews macadam road bonds. They will immediately be delivered to the > purchaser in exchange for the cash ; and the road will be built the comI ing summer. I , C. D. F. Bieberlck, E. L. F oreraan i and David Steele met at the auditor’s ’ office today and qualified as viewers on the Schuh highway. They began 1 upon their report this afternoon and ’ will have the same ready for the commissioners at their April session. ’ County Assessor Gentis reports that the township assessors are making rapid progress in their work of assessing the personal property in , the diffeernt townships, and that it will all be done within the time as specified by law. t ° A BEAUTIFUL FIRST PART. I I John W. Vogel of the Big City Mint strels, has gone into expenditure ret gardless in his sumptuous Velour ■ First Part settings, with its 1,000 in--3 candescent lights, and drapings at - $10.50 per yard—the spectacular - splurge cost SIO,OOO completed. Less r enterprising rivals carped “Reckless,” ; but the liberal output and the gori geous display has already proven to i the proprietor and his patrons that s he is quite rational indeed. John W. > Vogel’s Big City Minstrels will ap- - pear at the Bosse opera house on Friday, March 18th.

WANTS CONFERENCE IN 1911. Kokomo M e thodists Will Ask the Privilege on Entertaining Body. The congregation of the South Main Street M. E. church at Kokomo is after the’next session of the North Indiana M. E. conference and will make a strong bid for the honor at the conference this year at Bluffton. That they will succeed in getting the conference at Kokomo in 1911 is very probable as the conference body has very pleasant recollections of Kokomo. In 1896 the Kokomo Methodists entertained the conference and the membership and visitors were loud in their praises of the hospitality which they enjoyed during their stay there. A • new church is beng built at Kokomo and it will be completed by the spring of 1911. Thus far the Kokomo church is the only one to make a bid for the 1911 conference. —Bluffton news. IS TAKING A HAND The President Interested in the Indiana Republican Platform. TARIFF INDORSEMENT President Wants Payne-Al-drich Law Given Platform Approval. Washington, March 14 —President Taft is giving some attention to sug- , gestiong for a tariff plank in the Indiana republcan state platform. The attitude in regard to the Indiana situation is not different from hs attitude as to other state situations. He does not wish to be considered as' interfering in any way with matters of more or less local concern, but it is one of bis ambitions to be of assistance, if he can, in composing whatever differences may exist between Indiana . republicans. Saturday Former ' Representative James E. Watson was a caller at the white house. It was reported that he went to persuade the president to use his influence toward obtaining a strong indorsement of the Payne-Aldrich bill in the Indiana state platform. A congressman who happened to be near spread the word that Mr. Watson was emphatic and that he said something about the probability that the democrats would sweep the boards in Indi“ana unless the indorsement of the Payne law is made strong and unequivocal. Mr. Watson denies this report. He made the following statement: “I went to the white house to introduce a friend to the president. I had no other purpose in going. While I was there the president himself brought up the subject of the Indiana platform’s probable treatment of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law. It was evident to me that it was a subject in which the president was considerably interested. I did not venture an opinion one way or the other, as it is a matter which I am in favor of leaving to Senator Beveridge.” About as soon as Mr. Watson left the white house a telephone message came to Capitol Hill from the white house inquiring for Representative Crumpacker. Mr. Crumpacker at that time was attending a meeting of the committee on insular affairs. He was found at the committee room and informed that the president wished him to come to the white house at once. He went and they had a conference, which lasted for , a good while. The subject of the conference was the Indiana platform declaration on the tariff. Mr. Crumpacker is anxious that a plank be prepared which all Indiana republicans can indorse. He submitted his views to the president and other conferences will follow. — _ WHITRIGHT SALE TOMORROW. The Whitright sale will occur tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock from the house on Sawdust avenue, just opposite the Clover Leaf station, at which time all the household effects, including a good range, carpets and various other articles will be sold. Colonel John Burkhead of Monroe will serve as the auctioneer. Dr. J. M. Miller will conduct the sale as the administrator.

STORMS AND FIRES Cause Suffering and Loss Over the Country as Reported Today. ANOTHER SNOW SLIDE Business Section of Jamestown Suffered a Big Loss From Fire. • (United Press Service.) Rapid City, Mont., March 14 — (Special to Daily Democrat) —Word reached here today of the burning to death of three small children, Vera, Florence and Violet, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Willis, when fire destroyed their home on a farm near here last night. (United Press Service.) St. Paul, Minn., March 14—(Special to Daily Democrat) —A landslide attended with a serious consequence, occurred late yesterday a few miles west of Wellsburg, Washington, according to advices which reached here yesterday, Tons of snow and ice, tearing down the Cascades, carried a rotary plow with it, killed John Animal and an unknown Italian and wounded many. A number are missing. Relief trains have been sent out. (United Press Service.) Jamestown, N. Y., March 14 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Starting in the ruins of the Gokey building, which was practically destroyed yesterday, flames, fanned by a fierce wind, threatened to destroy the entire business section of this city early this morning. Guests in the hotels were forced to flee for their lives and most ■of them escaped in scanty apparel. Several buildings were destroyed and the loss will reach $500,000. SERVICES CLOSED Evangelist Klein Closed .a Successful Revival at the Evangelical Church. ON SUNDAY EVENING Thirty Persons Confessed Christ During This Series of Meetings. One of the most successful revivals ever held at the Evangelical church in this city closed Sundayevening. Not only was the church greatly revived and encouraged, but many were converted and added to the church. The Evangelist, Rev. W. F. Klein, of Reading, Pa., is an evangelist and also a great preacher with out question. Few men, if any, clarify the scriptures as does he, and veryfew men reach the masses as does he. Long after Rev. Klein has gone from Decatur will his marvelous sermons be remembered. The good he has done in our city will only be revealed in the great beyond. Something like twenty persons have confessed Christ during' his series of meetings. The following persons united with the church, viz.: Mrs. Nora Linn and her two sons, Joe and William; Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Cress, Mr. and Mrs. Mcßarnes, Mrs. Clark Eddington, Robert Garard, Mrs. Irene Fuerst, Zelpha Hibble, Mary Winters, Laura Blazer, Allie Burrel, Wilda Van Camp, Mary Fuhrman, Naomi Van Camp, Mary Barkley, Ethel Fuhrman, Ida Fuhrman, Edla Gentiss, Hope Hoffman, Zelda Schnitz, Edwina VanCamp and Mrs. Charles Van Camp. The members and pastor wish to express their sincere gratitude to all who assisted in making the meeting a grand success. 0 BUILDS NEW HANGING OFFICE. The Steele & Weaver Rocket store is building today an overhanging office at the rear of the store to which will be moved the desk, books and other office fixtures and supplies, making things more convenient for this department.

SENT THE WRONG ENVELOPE. D. M. Hensley thinks he has a good joke on Charles Weaver of Fort Wayne, who is known to all Decatur citizens who spend their summers at Fort Wayne. Sometime ago Mr. Weaver had the Hensley cottage and mislaid the key in some way. This morning Mr. Hensley received an envelope in which was enclosed another envelope containing some broken bits of glass. A letter accompanying this explained that he had found the key and hastened to return the same. Notations on the envelope show that the glasses were the lenses from the spectacles belonging to his daughter, Mildren, which had been returned , from the optician. They were mark ed $2.00. Mr. Weaver had no doubt been mistaken in the envelopes and picked up the wrong one to send. The postmaster's stamp ground the glasses to atoms. IS IT WORTH IT? Government Spends Much Money to Educate Indian —Then He Loafs. SOME IDEA OF COST Interesting Letter From the Jabergs—School Began There Today. Toreva, Ariz. Feb. 28, 1910. Dear Friends:—Uncle Sam no doubt shows bis generosity more to the Red man than any other of his inhabitants and it is at a great expense that the Indian is being taught. One would hardly imagine the sums spent just for the support of one reservation. We will endeavor to show a few items of expenditure just for this one (Moqui) reservation. The agency consists of two physicians, a general mechanic, a farmer, blacksmith, two field matrons, two interpreters, five police and three judges. It Keam's Canon they have employed four teachers, three matrons, a laundress, baker, carpenter, two engineers, seamstress, cook and three miners. At the Oraiba schools they have employed a principal, two teachers, a housekeeper, seamstrees, cook and teamster. At second Mesa schools, a principal, two teachers, a cook, seamstress and assistant, and at Polacca, a principal, a teacher, a housekeeper and two assistants. At Chimopovy we are left for all the work ourselves, unless we should get more than fifty pupils, but on April Ist we are allowed to make estimates regarding supplies required, buildings needed, additional help, etc, so next year we will possibly have three assistants, viz.: a teacher, a cook and a seamstress. This makes a total of seventy, with pay ranging from S3O to $l2O per month, and the montly pay roll exceeds $6,000. Then, too, Uncle sam stands the board bill of all the children on the reservation, the clothing bill, the fuel bill, etc., and when wood is $8 per cord this is no small item. Just at present the Hopia are getting their land alottments. Each man .woman and child gets 640 acres of pasture land and forty acres of corn land. This in itself is not a small gift. The allotting agent gets $8 per day, the surveyor $6 and the chain men $4, and surveying in this country requires time. So this item in itself costs $5,000 per month in this one reservation. It costs S3OO per year here to feed a team of horses, as hay is $55.00 per ton, and oats four and one-half cents per pound, and they heve eight teams. Each year the various superintendents make an effort to place all the large boys at some of the industrial schools. The government furnishes transportation both ways, which in any case is not less than $75.00 per pupil. Wo have a young man in our village who says the government spent at least $2,000 on him. He is an eighth grade graduate of Phoenix, a i tailor and baker by trade. He is now ■ married. His wife can't speak a word i of English. He bakes “pikke,” uses 1 ashes to make it rise instead of yeast, , hasn’t baked a loaf of bread for three r years, hasn’t cut a coat for the same (Continued on page 2.)

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DEATH SUMMONS Ben F. Middleton Passed Away Saturday Night at Easthaven Infirmary. CEREBRAL TUMOR Remains Brought Here for Funeral—Services Tuesday Afternoon. Benjamin Franklin Middleton, long a resident of this city, but who for the past two years has been a patient at Easthaven infirmary at Richmond, passed away there Saturday night at 11:25 and the remains were brought, to this city this morning, arriving here at 8 o'clock over the G. R. & 1., the body being taken to the family home in the south part of the city. His death was caused by cerebral tumor with which he had been suffering for some time.. Mr. Middleton was born and reared in this county, and at his death was fortysix years of age. Seventeen years ago he was married to Miss Emma Overhusser, who, with four children survive. The children are Lucile, Leia, Bernard and Helen. He also leaves the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Peter Gaffer of this city; Mrs. Burt Mann of Liberal, Kansas; James Middleton of Jonesboro, Ark. The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock from the Evangelical church, the sermon being delivered by the Rev. D. O. Wise. Burial in the Decatur cemetery. o WANTS TO BE JOINT SENATOR. James W. Sale of this city will be a candidate again for the nomination as the republican candidate for joint senator to the state legislature from the district comprising Wells, Blackford and Grant counties. For some time Mr. Sale has been mentioned in connection with the nomination, but not until today did it become known positively that he would be in the race, when he informed his friends that he would seek the nomination. The convention date has not yet been set, but it will not be held for several weeks. —Bluffton News. ANOTHER BLAZE Home of Mel Butler on Tenth Street Catches on Fire From Sparks. FROM THE CHIMNEY Discovered by Teachers at West Ward School Who Hastened to Put it Out. Sparks from the chimney of the Mel Butler home on Tenth street set fire to the southwest corner of the roof this morning and in the playful whirl of the wind the roof was soon blazing away merrily. Had not Glen Warner, principal of the west ward school, located adjoining this home, and Prof. E. E. Rice not happened to glance from the window just in time to discover it before it had gotten much headway, the fire might have proved a most serious one. As it was, they gave the alarm and themselves hastened to render assistance. A ladder was hastily procured and water carried to the buring roof. The fire was extinguished in a very short time before the arrival of the fire department, but not before a good sized hole had eaten its way through the i roof, cracking and breaking the plasi tering in the room below. Mrs. But- ’ ler was sewing in the house at the time, and had no knowledge of the - fire until the people rushed in. t o 1 DELIVERED AUTO HERE TODAY, i J. F. Hocker returned on the 10 r o’clock car to Fort Wayne after de--1 livering a new automobile to C. E. s Hocker and Chester Johnson for use , in their insurance and real estate buss iness. The auto is a Ford flve-passen--3 ger and is certainly a handsome ma- • chine.