Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 93, Decatur, Adams County, 20 April 1910 — Page 1

Volume VIII, Number 93.

THE WATER PROBLEM Is Receiving the Earnest Consideration of the City Councilmen. WILL MAKE A CHANGE In the Plan of Rental July Ist—Every Citizen Should be Interested. The waterworks committee of the city council Is having much trouble deciding the best plan for charging for the use of city water. The question has been thoroughly investigated by J. D. Hale, chairman of the committee, as well as the other members, and they are still undecided just ■what action should be taken. They will be glad to receive any suggestions from any citizen or to talk over the question with them. It is likely that some plan will be adopted and will go into effect July Ist. If you have any idea now is the time to spring it. Don’t wait until too late and then “kick and knock." The committee and the council want to treat all fairly. The present plan is that all users must own a meter and a minimum rate of five dollars per year is charged. Some think that where a meter is used the exact reading should be charged, whether less than five dollars per year or not. However, when this is done the revenue is too small to conduct the plant, as the average pmount of water used is about 10,000, and at twenty cents per gallon makes the rental but two dollars per year. There are about 600 meters and it can readily be seen that this amount will by no means pay the bills. In other towns in this vicinity a plan that has met approval is a minimum rate of five dollars and where the property owner does not want to buy a meter the city puts one in any charges a rental of sne dollar a year. The meter is placed in simply as a guard against becoming negligent. The plan may be adopted, here. The council last night passed a resolution and a form of contract, which, hereafter it will be necessary for the property’ owner to sign, guaranteeing the payment of water rent before the water will be turned on. The committee is going to work out a plan that will be fair to every one and will also make the plant self-sus-taining. They deserve the help of every citizen of Decatur. From now on any property where the water account Is delinquent more than three months will have the water shut oft and it will cost a dollar to have it turned on again. Pay your water rent. Mr. Mylott has been working several weeks trying to collect the old accounts and get the books in proper shape. ——o— JOHN RHUE GETS APPOINTMENT As a Bank Examiner —Marshall Too 111 to be Interviewed Today. ' (United Press Service.) Indianapolis, April 20-(Special to Daily Democrat) —John A. Rhue of Greenfield, Indiana, was today appointed state bank examiner by State Auditor BUlhelmer to fill the place of W. D. Frazier of Warsaw, who resigned recently. Rhue will begin his duties May Ist He was for thirteen years cashier of the Greenfield Ban ing company's bank. (United Press Set’lce.) Indianapolis, Ind., April -6 1 ial to Daily Democrat)— Governor Marshall, who is ill with tonsilitis, was too weak today to be interviewe and was unable to make any state ment relative to the victory of James S. Havens of New Work. —onew man. Lon Wagner of Poe, Ind, has accepted a position with the Meyer ■ Scherer furniture store and began is duties there Monday morning. • Wagner is an experienced hand in the business, and. has been engage d in the undertaking business at 1 oe , or some time. The addition of Mr. Mag ner to this up-to-date firm a very much to their already well es tablished line of trade.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

LEAVE FOR LIMA TODAY. Peter Stein and family left this afternoon for Lima, Ohio, where they will make their home. Mr. Stein has been engaged in the cigar business in this city for about fourteen years, and has met with excellent success. He finds the outlook at Lima much better, however, and has decided to move his manufactory there. He will not be a stranger there, however, as it was his home prior to coming here, and his relatives, the greater number of them, living at Lima. The many Decatur friends regret their leaving, but wish them abundant success. HAVENS WINS OUT Democrat in New York State Given Large Majority in Election. WAS TARIFF FIGHT District Which Gave 10,000 Republican Majority Was Turned Over. Rochester, New York, April 20 — More than 16,000 voters of Monroe county changed from the republican to the democratic column yesterday and elected the first democratlq congressman that has represented the Trirtysecond district in twenty years. James S. Havens, a democrat, riming on a tariff reform platform, defeated George W. Aldridge, for a score of years the ruler of the county republican organization, by 5,900 votes. Monroe county, which comprises the Thirty-second congressional district, is normally republican by about 6,000. James B. Perkins, whose death in the middle of his third congressional term, necessitated a special election yesterday, carried his district in 1908 by 110,167 votes. Havens had arrayed agaist him one of the strongest political organizations in the state. Yet in a campaign lasting but seventeen days, and with a hastily constructed machine, he accomplished one of the most remarkable overturns in political history. The result of Tuesday's election takes its place beside the democratic victory in the Fourteenth Massachusetts district, where Eugene N. Foss was sent to congress from a district supposed to be as rock-ribbed republican as this one. Mr. Havens’ platform, advocated tariff rform in tne interests of the consumer, a revision of the duties on wool and woolen goods, a removal of the tax on hides and lumber, a removal of the tariff on iron ore, an income tax, and, finally advocating independence of all political bosses of any party. Mr. Aldridge, his opponent, contented himself with general proclamations in favor of the policies of the republican administration. On the tariff proposition he was regarded as a “stand-patter.” WILL ATTEND HAGUE MEETING. And Meet Roosevelt —The Colonel Arrives in Paris This- Evening. (United Press Service.) Washington, D. C.„ April 20 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Senator Root here today announced that he will go to Europe May 21st to attend The Hague arbitration of the New Foundland fishery dispute. It Is believed that he has an appointment to meet Colonel Roosevelt. (United Press Service.) Paris France, April 20—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Colonel Roosevelt will arrive here tonight from Budapast. This city is gaily decorated with flags and with pictures of the former president of the United States and due honor will be extended him. o— — ONE MORE MEMBER. Wade Meyers, living south of the city, received a letter this morning and enclosed was a wooden man for the Coon Skin club. A number of men from this city belong to it and with this new member will make I things more lively.

Decatur, Indiana. Wednesday Evening, April 20, 1910.

ABOUT THE SICK J. H. Voglewede Somewhat Better Today—Chas Voglewede Also 111. MANY ARE SICK B. P. Harkless May Return From Hope Hospital This Week—Other Notes. J. H. Voglewede, who has been dangerously ill with erysipelas, is somewhat better today. Unless the erysipelas reaches the wounds received at the side of the head, when he was thrown from a carriage in a runaway a week ago Sunday, there are chances for his recovery. The erysipelas began on the side opposite to the gash received in the-fall. It is rapidly spreading to that side, in case of which it may prove fatal. Charles Voglewede is seriously sick at his home on Monroe street. A heavy cold following a case of grip has settled in his back and he is rendered bedfast and unable to move. Mrs. B. P. Harkless went to Fort W’ayne this morning to call on her husband, who has been taking treatment at Hope hospital for some time. He is much better and it is hoped that he can return home this week. David D. Coffee, who has been suffering from rheumatism for some time, is growing better slowly. Andrew Appleman, .one of the well known farmers west of the city, who has been quite sick for some time, remains about the same, and is holding his own very well. A. J. Teeple, who has been dangerously sick with Bright’s disease, is gradually recovering. o- - — ' THE USUAL GRIST Was Ground Out at the Regular Meeting of the City Council. HELD TUESDAY NIGHT The Water Question Was Discussed —Russell Street to be Improved. The regular grist of business was considered and disposed of at the session of the city council Tuesday evening, when all members were present and Mayor Teeple called the assembly to order promptly. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. The G. R. & I. railroad sent word that they would establish a watchman at the Jefferson street crossing here as per instructions within a few days. The street and sewer committee reported favorably on the proposition to improve Russell street from the Clover Leaf railroad south to Grant street. The street will be graded and the sidewalks on each side will be raised to conform with this and will be rebuilt, either of brick or stone, as property owners desire. The report was approved. The purchasing committee was authorized to buy two cars of screenings for the repair of streets where necessary. The matter of putting in a concrete floor in the coal room at the city plant was referred to the purchasing committee, who will report at the next meeting as to the cost. They will also look after the securing of a clock for the station, it being reported that the men who work about the electric machinery cannot keek their watches timed. The old question of the proper water rental was discussed and referred back to the committee for further investigation and it is likely that some new method will be adopted about July Ist. A mix-up in the payment of water rentals in the Big Store block resulted in a motion to shut th* water off there until the same is adjusted. The amount Ss $61.73, there being seven renters in the block who use water.

J. H. Stone asked for a rebate on his bill for a leak that was not reported and the matter was referred. The fire chief asked to be allowed to fill his quota of nine men and this was allowed. The following bills were allowed. C. U. Dorwin *.s 40.36 L. G. Ellingham 47.60 Ft. Wayne Electric Works .. 2.88 Henry Stevens 3.67 Illinois Electric Co 96.04 National Express Co 1.70 Chicago & Erie 115.69 L. A. Holthouse 59.05 W. G. Nagel Electric Co 56.93 Rail & River Coal Co 18.36 Sunday Creek Coal Co 94.29 LOCKWOOD ADMITS That He Has Purchased the Muncie Press But Not For Political Use. MONTE CARLO BOOMS Declare Enormous Dividends —American Press Has New Alliance. (Continued on page 2.) Marlon, Ind., April 20 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —George B. Lockwood, editor of the Marion Chronicle, has affirmed the report that he has purchased the Muncie Press, but indignantly denies that the deal is for any political purpose. He says he will remodel the office, add new machinery, has taken a long lease on the building and is going to make the paper a good evening sheet. (United Press Service.) Monte Carlo, April 20—(Suecial to Daily Democrat) —No signs of hard times here. The gambling casino corporation today declared a dividend of seventy dollars on the SIOO share, which now have a market value of $1,140 each. (United Press Service.) New York, N. Y., April 20 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The contracts were signed today covering a long time agreement between the United Press and the British and Colonial Press Service of Canaga. The alliances gives the United Press clients an extensive and valuable facility for gathering the news of the world. ANOTHERFACTORY The LaFountain Handle Factory Will Move Here Within Few Weeks. EMPLOY LARGE FORCE Will Locate on the Krick & Tyndall or the Lynch Additions Here. Decatur is to have a new factory that gives every outlook of branching into a good sized manufactory. For several days Messrs. C. E. Bell, the secretary, and William Beik, president of the LaFountain Handle company, whose plant is now located at LaFountain, Ind., have been in the city and vicinity prospecting for a location and they have definitely decided to locate here, removing their factory at once. The exact location has not been decided upon, but we are authorized to announce that it will be either in the Krick & Tyndall addition or in the old Lynch factory building. They have found considerable of the timber they need here and have definitely decided to come to Decatur. They will let the contract for the buildings at once or additions if they select the Lynch building, and will have the plant running by June Ist if possible. They ha%e an established business, and will employ quite a number of men at fair wages and it means another industry for the town. Ths men are thorough gentlemen and are asking no aid from the town, though such recognition would of course be appreciated. They mean business and will soon have a factory in operation here.

THE COURT NEWS ■ II ■■■!!!■ ■!!■■■ t Judge Sturgis Heard Arguments Today on the Telephone Case. ON THE DEMURRER Two New Claims Filed— Van Camp Case Postponed Until Saturday. Spcial Judge Charles Sturgis of Bluffton heard arguments today on a demurrer to the complaint in the case of the Citizens’ Telephone Company vs. the Fort Wayne & Springfield Ry. Co., an SB,OOO damage case. Speeches were made by Lutz, Beatty and Smith. Attorney Armantrout filed a new case entitled Harry Imboden vs. Harry Imboden, administrator, claim, sl7. Attorney Lutz filed a new case entitled Schafer Hardware Co. vs. Laura A. Van Camp, executrix, claim, $77.33. Anna E. King vs. Jacob King, divorce, answer filed by prosecutor, cause submitted, finding for plaintiff. Albert W. Taylor vs. Aaron Irian, account, $65.45, demurrer overruled. Answer filed. Appearance by Peterson & Moran for defendant. Laura A. Van Camp vs. Charles Van Camp et al., partition, evidence heard in part, cause postponed until Saturday, April 23rd. A marriage license was issued to Henry W. Fuelling, 29, farmer to Louisa Kuklehan, 27, daughter of William Kukelhan, of Root township. o HISTORICAL PLAY “The Man in the Iron Mask” Will be Presented by the Dramatic Club of ST. PETER’S CHURCH Os Fort Wayne Under Direction of Father AichOpera House. Drama in four epochs, by W. J. Lucas, Esq., to be presented at the Bosse opera house, Wernesday, May 11, 1910. Snyopsis. This drama is based upon historical grounds. Historians are at a loss regarding the personage of this mysterious man, who, upon order from Louis XIV of France was cast into a dungeon of the ill-famed bastile and for the rest of his life had to wear an “Iron Mask.” There are some indications sustaining the hypothesis that this unhappy man might have been a twin brother to Louis IV. However, there is no positive proof. In the drama W. J. Lucas, Esq,, has assumed the hypothesis that “The Man in the Iron Mask” was a twin brother to Louis XIV, and upon this thesis he developed his plot. The play is divided into four acts, or rather four epochs. Immediately after his birth, Gaston, twin brother to Lewis, had been removed from Paris to Semur. A Jesuit was to bring him up, in ignorance of his rank and royal descent. D’Aubigne, a banished nobleman, knew the secret, and determined to make Gaston king of France. Gaston goes to Paris, and while there, by accident, discovers the documents, proving his royal descent beyond all doubt. However, the conspiracy is discovered and Gaston is cast into the dungeon. His features differing in no way from those of Louis XIV, Gaston is by many mistaken for the king. Hence, an iron mask was placed upon him to evade detection. After having for twenty years lived a life of untold misery and torture, broken

down in body and spirit, delirious and on the verge of despair, Gaston one day falls into a profound state of lethargy. While in this state his jailor orders one of the soldiers to thlust a dagger in the breast of the apparently dead body, when, with a horrible sigh, Gaston starts into canoulsive and agonized life again. Solemnly calling upon God to be a just judge in the awful crime coinmlted against him, Gaston expires, forever carrying with him the secret of "The Man With the Iron Mask.” There are twenty characters in this play and the elaborate costumes for this play are rented from a Cincinnati house. Prices, 35c for opera chairs; 25c for the rest. A GREAT OIL WELL Charles Hammell Writes Interesting Letter From Calfornia. THE GREATEST EVER Is the New Oil Well Just Struck—A River of Black Oil Every Day. Will Hammell has received an interesting letter from his brother, Charles, who has been engaged in the oil fields of California for several years. He tells of the famous Lakeview well, recently struck there and which is the most phenomenal ever drilled in the United States. He says: “The well has a production of 60,000 barrels a day and is the wonder of the west, shooting out a river of oil every day.” The tremendous production is beginning to worry the owners. Two 5000-barrel tanks are full and there are 500,000 barrels in the eight sumps nearby. No sooner does a crew of 100 men finish a sump until they have to rush work on another to keep up with the flow. Facilities are inadequate to handle the volume, and report has it that as a last resort it may be necessary to burn some of the oil after it has run a safe distance away from the well. It now runs in a deep stream, four feet wide, from one sump to another. Three pipes of six, ten and twelve-inch diameter, run from the first sump. Miller & Lux, owners of Buena Vista lake, have served notice on the Union company that if the oil gets away and runs into the lake, they will institute damage proceedings. The lake is three miles away. For two and a half miles on all sides of the well the land is black with the oil that has fallen in a spray. Buildings at some distance are dripping with the falling oil. The engine house has been completely buried with the sand thrown out. The oil shoots out of a pool of oil showing that the casing has been worn and torn away, but to what depth is not known. The well doesn’t invite close inspection, but those who have gone as close to it as they could say the opening is four feet across. The derrick is a wreck. How long the well will keep going no one can say. It has been steadily at it for twenty days, and is the wonder of the oil world. —.—o —— ——■ SAYS IT’S ALL DEMOCRATIC. And That Indiana Will Send a Full Quoto to Congress This Year. (United Press Service.) Indianapolis, Ind., April 20—(Special to Daily Democrat)-Relative to the election of James S, Havens to congress from New York, Thos. Taggart here said today: "It means only that a democartic house will be elected and that these high-handed dictators must go." Mr. Taggart declined to discuss the Indiana situation fur-, ther than to declare that thirteen democrats will appear in the next congress from this state. Asked for a statement concerning his candidacy for the senate, Mr. Taggart naively remarked: “Indiana voters will take care of that. They will assert for themselves this year." — — o ■ ■ — The Union Chapel Aid society held a very interesting meeting at the home of Mrs. Abe Brown this afternoon.

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CALL DEMOCRATS County Chairman D. N. Erwin Asks All Democrats to Attend Convention. OUTLOOK IS GREAT For Democratic Success— Interesting Letter From the Chairman. Adams county has always given her democratic majority to all state and local candidates, and often furnished the banner majority in the state of Indiana. Tne outlook at present is that Indiana' is in the democratic column to stay, and that her leaders are worthy of the position and honor. The uncompromising division in the republican ranks with those who work only for personal gain upon the one side, ignoring campaign and platform pledges, and the few upon the other hand who listen to the voices and demands of their constituency, no doubt, will “as it should," aid the democrats in the coming election in Indiana. The issues are already declared,, the broken pledges of the party in power on the tariff, revision and revising upward instead of down, the domineering rule of Cannonism, the high cost of living, and last, but greater and more disastrous, expensive, disgraceful and criminatory graft in high places make plain our duties and define clearly the present issues. Already they are on the retreat,, offering to resign and declining a reelection. The harmony that exists in the democratic ranks,, which will be maintained and even grow stronger, the united and unbroken ranks, the honorable career of democratic officials in Indiana and elsewhere, give greater strength to the cause and confidence in leaders. A pledge from the governor “to give an economic administration,” well kept, adds much to the outlook and encourages us to follow more faithfully our leaders. The meeting of the democratic state convention at Indianapolis April 27th and 28th is interesting more democrats than any previous convention held in, Indiana, and no doubt will be more largely attended. The harmony that will prevail will add enchantment to the occasion. Tho address of Governor Marshall as the temporary chairman in the afternoon of the 27th, and that of Senator B. F. Shively on the 28th, as permanent chairman, will no doubt be great intellectual treats, which none of us can afford to miss, and for the «ood of the future campaign, and for our own personal good, and enlightenment politically. It is desired that all who can possibly do so, join us in the convention. We will without doubt have a worthy representative on the state ticket from Adams county. The word has already gone out that his campaign will be a hard fought one, and no one can get from the newspaper accounts of the convention the practical benefits he would derive by being on the ground when the plan of action is formulated. It is earnestly hoped that all precinct committeemen, local candidates, democratic voters and all others interested in their success, will meet us there the 27th and 28th. Come, let us reason together. Yours for success, • DAN ERWIN, County Chairman. o — ■ SHIP CIGARS TO GIDEON, MO. Fame of Popular Decatur Cigar Traveling Over the Broad Land. Lose & Thomas have received a good sized order for their famous White Stag cigar to be shipped at once to the Gideon-Andrson Company at Gideon, Mo. The company conducts its own stores there and it is safe to say they will find the White Stag a popular one. The fame, of the Decatur made cigar is traveling from one end of the land to the other, and the boys who make them here are working overtime to keep up with their orders. Try one if you are not a regular smoker of this cigar. ■ o CHAPTER WILL MEET TONIGHT. A meeting of the Decatur Chapter of the Masonic lodge will meet this evening for the purpose of conferring the Mark Master degree upon Will Winnes. All members are requested to attend.