Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 94, Decatur, Adams County, 19 April 1913 — Page 1

Volume XI. Number 94.

PETITIONS SALE Receiver French Quinn Asks That Interurban be Ordered Sold. THE INDEBTEDNESS Precludes Possibility of Payment from Net Earnings of Road. The second petition for the sale of the Fort Wayne & Springfield railway was filed late Friday afternoon by Receiver French Quinn. He states that, in his opinion, it will be impossible to ever pay the indebtedness of the company and to purchase the necessary new equipment and make the needed repairs out of the net earnings of the operation of the railroad and considers it to the best interest to be sold as a whole. The first petition for the sale was filed April 5 by the stockholders of the company. Mr. Quinn asks that the proceeds be applied to the payment of the costs and expenses of the receivership; payment of receiver’s certificates; payment of preferred claims made prior to the receivership; payment of bonds, judgments and all other claims. In his petiton he sets out that he was appointed receiver September 14, 1912. During his charge as receiver he issued upon court’s order, a total of $20,610.23 worth of receiver’s certificates. These are still unpaid and he

has no funds on hand from the net earnings of the company or other sources to pay the same. The company has outstanding $668,466.67 of common capital stock and no preferred stock. The said company also authorized the issuance of $1,000,000 first mortgage bonds. Os this, at the beginning of his receivership, $209,000 had been sold and issued to the several purchasers thereof, $271,000 were issued as collateral security for loans; while the remaining authorized issue, $520,000 are not issued and are in the hands of the trustees. These are

all secured by a first mortgage deed in favor of the Cleveland Trust company and John MacGregor, trustee, executed April 1, 1910. No of the interest and principal, has been paid since he has been receiver. The interest, at 5 per cent, aggregates a large sum, and he believes it utterly impossible to pay the same from the net earnings of the ( road. No dividends have been paid on any \pf the common stock since 1310. 1 He out that the property of the compatky includes a single track from the soutrkend of Calhoun street, Fort Wayne, tcADecatur, about 21.6 miles in length. Os this 18.6 miles is located on the private right of way, and three miles on public streets and highways. The company also has franchises in Monroe, Berne, Geneva, Bryant, Portland, Fort Wayne, etc. The grade south of this city is made two and onehalf miles, and the line completed nearly through the city. The right of way totals 63.89 acres, and the company also owns real estate, including 70 acta on which the gravel pit is located in Allen county. Other property : is the power house and its equipment,; which is set out in full; three passenger cars, one express car, one express trailer, thirteen flat cars, one steam locomotive, one steam shovel. Judgments against the company are the following: One in the DeKalb court in favor of John H. Bass for $3,50ft This is for the right of way appropriated over his land. The judgment was adjudged a first lien, receiver’s certificates were issued to pay it, but the judgment has not been satisfied. Another judgment of $4,730.62 was entered for William Fuelling, upon whose petition the receiver was appointed; and another judgment for $9lO for William H. Graham. All obligations caused by the receivership for material, labor, supplies, etc., except receiver’s certificates and current bills and extraordinary expenses caused by floods and high waters, are paid. .Not only is the burden of the present debts great, but the time has come when it is absolutely necessary to purchase new equipment, to reballast the road and improve the same to meet the requirements of the Indiana Railroad and Public Utility commission, thus requiring more funds, and as he believes it impossible to ever derive this from the earnings of the road, (Ooaumiea on Page 2) W. sirW'i-u' ■’*

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT — “DECATURi CAIM AND WILL”

A STRAW HAT APPEARS. F. V. Mills, the popular grocer. Is probably the first one to wearV spring straw hat. He wore it Friday afternoon. Mr. Mills says that when the thermometer reaches eighty degrees he begins to wear the straw. The thermometer reached that notch yesterday afternoon precisely at 1:30 o clock and he made a grab for the hat. And it is nearly a month after Easter! LEONARD FAMILY ILL. The D. F. Leonard family is quite a stricken one, four members being ill. Hallie and Mildred have the mumps; Muriel is ill with malaria, and Mrs. Leonard is confined to her bed, being in a run-down condition generally.

COURT HOUSE NEWS Name of Company Changed to The Lee Hardware Company.” DIVORCE IS GRANTED To Irvin Shaffer—Application for Easthaven Patient. i Application for the admission of Jai cob Olwein, a prominent Kirkland township farmer, to the Easthaven asyllum at Richmond, will be made again. I ' ( Application was made last August for his admission, and he was accepted. The family then decided that they did . not want him to be taken away, and (be did not go. His coftflition has become such that it was thought best to take him there and the board, comprising ’Squire J. H. Stone, Drs. CoverJi dale and Clarks, met this afternoon and made out the necessary papers to I file with the clerk. He is about sixty- ’ I one years of age and very highly es-‘ teemed, and it is trusted that with ’ the good treatment at the hospital, be 1 will regain his good health.

William Bernard, who secured a (judgment against W. J. Myers and Dan iW. Myers, contractors, for damages, filed a written remitter today for the •sum of SBO, and moved that the court (render judgment on the verdict for 'the amount thereof, less the amount remitted.

Irvin C. Shaffer was granted a divorce from Daley Shaffer. The sum of SSO alimony was allowed the defendant. The plaintiff is to pay the costs. Upon default of the defendant the prosecutor entered appearance for her. The name of the hardware company, “Lee & Stults C 0.,” was changed to “The Lee Hardware Co.” The costs were adjudged against the petitioners. The prosecuting attorney who entered appearance was allowed $lO. In the Anna E. Best vs. Daniel Best divorce case, answer in one paragraph was filed by the defendant. The final report in the Geo. H. Jacobs estate was approved and the administrator, Philip Gephart, discharged. C. S. Niblick, administrator-de bonis non, of the Samuel J. Laman estate, upon petition, was authorized to purchase and cause to be erected at the grave of the decedent, a monument, not to exceed S6OO. Gust Yake qualified as executor of of the Herman Yake will. He gave S4OO bond. Marriage licenses were issued to Lizzie Kipfer, born April 20, 1887, daughter of John Kipfer, to wed Ernest Pulser, farmer, born July 24, 1883; also to Elmer Waller Baumgartner, hardware merchant of Berne, born April 18, 1890, son of C. W. Baumgartner to wed Bertha Lehman, seamstress, born March 23, 1890. An amended affidavit was filed in the case against Dr. GeOrge Thain of Fort Wayne, charged with criminal operation, resulting in the death of Mrs. Winnie Marhenke. The charge remains practically the same as before, except that different means, the use of drugs, medicines and instruments were alleged to have been used. (Ckmaucou «® Page 2)

MAJORITY RULES Congressman Adair Explains His Position on Fight in Party Caucus. HAS HIS OPINION And Will Fight for Them But Will Vote With Majority on the Floor. The following letter from Congressman Adair will explain itself. No one in this district who has watched the efforts of Mr. Adair while a member of congress to give his constituents his very best service will doubt the sincerity of these words:

Washington, April 16, 1913. Mr. John H. Heller, Decatur, Ind.: Dear Mr. Heller:—l have received two letters lately which indicate that some newspaper, somewhere in Indiana, has printed a statement to the effect that I intended to bolt the democratic caucus on the tariff bill, if it did not suit me in every particular. In this connection I desire to state that such a thought never occurred to me. Personally, I have my own views as to what the iariff bill should be and I expect to make the best effort I can in the democratic caucus to carry out the pledges of our party madeto the people, and do justice to all concerned. However, my own judgment may be wrong in some particulars, but under no consideration would I bolt the democratic caucus. I believe in the majority ruling and when our party in caucus decides what our tariff bill is to be, I shall accept that decision as being the action of our party, and give the bill my hearty and enthusiastic support. I make this statement in order that I may not be misunderstood by my constituents. With best jyiehes, I peg to- remain Very truly yours, J. A. M. ADAIR.

HOUSE DESTROYED Home of Frank Carrier Destroyed by Fire at Five O’clock Last Evening. IS A TOTAL LOSS Was in Field When Flames Were Discovered—Origin of Fire a Mystery. Fire totally destroyed the large two story, home of Frank Carrier living three miles southeast of the city, last night. Mr. Carrier was finishing up a days work in the field when his attention was called by a fellow workman to the fact that the roof of his home was in flames. He rushed quickly to the house but the flames had secured such a headway that it was impossible to fight against them. Mrs. Carrier was in the kitchen at, the time and had just started a fire in the cook stove for the purpose of cooking supper and knew nothing about the house being on fire until Mr. Carrier rushed in. All of their personal effects and household goods with the exception of the cook stove, cupboard, and a, few dishes were destroyed, which with the loss of the house will entail a loss of approximately SBOO. Mr. Carrier carried insurance to the amount of SIOO on the house and S3OO on the contents and which will about half cover the loss. What caused the fire will remain a mystery as nothing is known to have been near the spot where the flames started. Mr. Carrier stated that he would in all probability begin the erection of a new home.

SOLDIERS’ HOME NOTES. In the soldiers’ home notes in the Marion Leader-Tribune/ are several items of interest regarding Adams county veterans. Among the discharges granted is that of John M. Blossom. Among those receiving increase of pension are the following: John M. Blossom, sl7 to sl9; David H. Detro, sl2 to $21.50; J. M. VaiiVoprhis, sl2 to sls.

Decatur, Indiana. Saturday Evening, April 19, 1913.

SPITTOONS AS SOUVENIRS. Mayor Teeple Had Twelve—Now Only Two. k One has read of the silver spoons and other table furnishings in large and prominent places, and at notable dinners and social funqjious being taken away by the guests as souvenirs, but Decatur can beat that. Mayor Teeple says that when he took his office, be had about a dozen large round spittoons—(known in polite language as cuspidors). I rom month to month they dwindled down until there remain only two . Whether they were taken away as souvenirs, or for a more prosaic purpose can be left to conjecture. FIRST COMMUNION Class of Twentv-four Bovs and Girls to Receive This Holy Sacrament at ST. MARY’S CHURCH On the First Sunday in May —Have Been Instructed by Father Wilken.

On the morning of the first Sunday in May, twenty-four boys and girls of the St. Mary’s chuych will march to the altar to receive Him whom the entire Christian world adores and recognizes as their king, in a most solemn way. This day is being looked forward to by the class as being the happiest day of their lives, and it should be, as they receive the and blood of the Savior under the species of bread and wine, and also of the great blessings connected with the sacrament. On this day the communicants or those receiving our Lord will renew their baptismal vows made for them by their god-father when they were baptized that they forever remain true and devoted members of the church. The services will be verj impressive on this day. A solemn high mass will be said ak9;3o o’clock. The little girls will be clad in pure white dresses and the boys will be dressed in blue or black and march through the center aisle of the church to communion, accompanied by their candle carrier. The class that is now receiving instruction from Father Wilken, who has taught and prepared the 'classes for the receiving of the holy communion for the last twenty-five years, is composed of the following: Misses Frances Schafer, Agnes Kellog, May Brown, Beatrice Keller, Mary i Meyer, Cecil Miller, Hilda Bosse, Victoria Ullman, Anna Metzger, Agnes Huttinger, Mary Bernard, Sophia Rumschlag, Mary Alberdeen, Matilda Heimann; Masters Richard Deininger, Edward Rademacker, Elmo Ehinger, Charley Starost, Theodore Bentz, Clarence Durkin, Leon Gass, John Gase, August Heimann, Anthony Spangler.

PROF. CLINE MAKES GOOD. Jrof. J/ D. Cline, a former Decatur boy, now a professor in the high school at Silver Lake, Ind., has successfully passed the examination before the state board of education at Fort Wayne, securing an eight-year teacher’s state license. This is the first division of 'examination for a state life license. He has one more examination to pass, in the second division, to get the state life. This is quite an honor, as well as an educational advantage. He is well known here, having been a student in the city high school, and he is a brother of Mrs. Dr. W, E. Smith. The Silver Lake newspaper also gives an of the commencement of the Silver Lake schools. A class of ten graduated from the high school. TO GO XO ADRIAN. Mrs. T. W. Watts, who conducted a sale of her household goods this afternoon, will leave tomorrow morning with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. William Walters, for Adrian, Mich. Both her daughters, Mrs. Myrtle Bouse, of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Mrs. Katherine Walters, of Adrian, Mich., with their husbands, are here. UNCLE HEZEKIAH OBSERVES. Es y’ don’t want t’ run up again th’ new Indianay game laws, y’ better begin t’ cut down yer fish stories fer th’ season.

NEW ACTS ARRIVE County Clerk Busy Today Distributing Law Books of 1913 Legislature. NOT EFFECTIVE YET — But Will be Within Ten Days as Soon as Governor Proclaims Same. County Clerk Bleeke today received i the first of the acts of 1913, and was busy handing them out to the attorneys, county officials, physicians, newspaper men and others en- | titled to receive them under the orders from the governor. The book this I year is one of the largest ever published in Indiana, containing 1132 pages. It contains 360 laws and three resolutions, that number exceeding the re* ord of 1911 by seventy-one laws, and . should be conclusive proof that the recent legislature was at least a buW one. The first shipment of these acts, was made yesterday, Adams county, coming first, because it is first on the J alphabetical list. They will all be sent I out within a day or„two and as soon as each county clerk has sent his re ceipt to the secretary of state, the governor will issue his proclamation and the laws will then be in effect. This will probably be about April 29. The first law is, as usual, the general appropriation bill, while the second bill is one concerning the sixteenth and sixty-fifth judicial circuits. The last law in the new book is one concerning the duties of the board of reg- i metry. Then following the resolutions I ratifying the new constitutional amendment which provides for the direct election of United States senators; one pertaining to interstate passenger fares and one providing that the carnation be adopted as the state flower.

DIES FROM CANCER Mrs. Perry Vine Passes Away This Morning After Having Suffered for » OVER ONE YEAR

From Cancer — Had Been Confined to Bed During Past Few Months. After suffering for a year from cancer of the womb, the last few months being able to be out of bed for only a few moments at a time, Mrs. Perry' Vine passed away this morning at 9 '• o'clock at the family home on South ( Twelfth street. Mrs. Vino was born in Putnam county, Ohio, March, 1870,. her maiden name being Miss Rosa Da-( vis, she being the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Davis. In 1890 she was I united in marriage to Amos Turrel. To this union was born one son, Amos Turrel, jr., now residing in Oklaho-1 ma. In 1904 she was married to Perry , Vine and moved to this city, where they have resided since. Besides the ; son and father, those left to mourn ( the death of the beloved woman is ( one sister, Mrs. Sarah Vine. Mrs. Vine : was of a kind and loving disposition and accepted her sufferings without a murmur, which only served to draw the friends and relatives closer to her during the time of her illness. No fu-' neral arrangements have been made at the present, but it is thought that the funeral will be held next Tuesday. NEW ACTS ARE HERE. County Clerk Receives Adams County's Share of New Law Books'. County Clerk Ferdinand Bleeke received Adams county's share of the new acts of the last legislature, which are being eagerly taken out by those entitled to them. The books are very thick volumes this year, including 1132 pages. The alottment received numbered 160 pages.

“UNCLE TOM’S CABIN.” I “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’’ one of the greatest stories ever written and the I favorite dramatic vehicle in the past of many famous actors and actresses, and one of the most powerful magnets jin the theatrical field today, will be given a notably artistic presentation by the Leon Washburn’s Stetson s | “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” company at the opera house, one night, Wednesday, April *3. This, the greatest of all (plays, is one of the real dramatic treats of the season. It will be ably interpreted by the efforts of a carefully selected company. Everything required in the way of scenic equipment and accessories has been provided which insure one of the best per■formances of this piay that has ever been presented. BYRON K. ELLIOTT Former Justice of Indiana Supreme Court Died at Indianapolis Today

AUTHOR - - - LECTURER j —— Mrs. Dietz and Nurmberg Thought to be Not Guilty of Killing Husband. (United Press Service) Rome, April 19—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Pope Pius X is continually improving uninteruptingly and *lf he passes two more nights and days at the present, rate of improvement he will be safely convalescing. Plymouth, Eng., April 19—(Special to Daily Democrat) —A suffragette bomb with the fuse blown out was found inside the gates of Smeaten tower today. “Death in ten minutes” and “votes for women” were inscribed on the metal.

1 Indianapolis, Ind., April 19 —(Special to DailDemocrat I )—Byron K. Elliott, aged seventy-seven, retired justice Os Indiana supreme court, author iand lecturer, died at his home here from apoplexy early today.. He was also a Scottish Rite Mason of the thir-(ty-third degree. The funeral will be (held from the family home Monday aft‘ernoon. Elgin, 111., April 19—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The bodies of Mrs. Maud Sleet and her two children, for whom farmers have been searching since last Tuesday, were found today ,in an abandoned cistern a short distance from the Sleet farm. A bullet hole through Mrs. Sleet s head lead the police to believe the woman had killed the two infants and then committed suicide.

I Chicago, 111., April 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Lieutenant Miller of j the police declared today that he is satisfied that neither Mrs. Dietz nor ■Numburg, her alleged affinity, swung the‘heavy hammer that crushed the 1 skull of her husband and then brutally ( mangled the body. Search was begun (today for another man. Mrs. Dietz (and Nurnburg are at liberty under a SIO,OOO bond each. I Washington, D. C., April 19 —(Specia Ito Daily Democrat) —Agitation here or abroad will not move President J Wilson to an admission that ( their exists any reason for a war scare between the United States | and Japan. He emphasized this todj>y I (by declining to meet the delegation of I Californians who have been here for a week explaining why California should not enact the pending legislation. But on the other hand he dims not minimize the stuation. He is also keeping in touch with the develop■ments in Japan as well as on the coast.

CARD OF THANKS. f ; ■ \ In this manner we desire to thank the kind neighbors and friends who so I thoughtfully helped us in our hour of need and bereavement in the loss of our loving husband and father. MRS. T. W. WATTS & DAUGHTERS. — Or* BUYS A NEW FORD. Henry Koenemann has purchased a new Ford automobile through the MOore agency. The machine is for use in making the trips to and from his I farm.

Price, Two Cents.

ITO DIE WILLINGLY Is the Accomplishment of Right Living Says Dr. J. N. Hurty. THE AVERAGE LIFE Is Continuous Physical Sin in Violatng the Laws of Well Beirtg. The poet exhorts us to so live that we will— Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch—approach thy grave , About him, and lies down to pleasant I dreams. The researches of Metchnikoff indicates that the average human life is a continuous physical sin, that is, we persistently violate the laws of our well being. Fojthis, we have disease, suffer bodily ills, endure pain, the fear j' of death comes over us and we die before one-half the years we should enjoy'are passed. Surely the punishment is severe, and to escape it we 'are told—"live rightly.’’ Bit it avails j little to commence late in life. "Youth

is the time to serve the Lord.” If the right beginning has not been made, the 1 pleasant ending cannot be enjoyed. The “right living” necessary to enjoy a long and useful life, continuing old age in possession of every faculty, is simple, plain, living. The great sickness maker and killer is immoderation. We eat, drink, think and work immoderately. We just will not be sensible and practical in our living. Our tables . “groan with good things;” we take , stimulants; our entertainments must be fired with excitement; we work or exercise until profound fatigue over 1 takes us; we actually cultivate impatience and anger, and we do things to 1 wrack and break our nerves. All o f this is wrong living; and, sowing the wind we reap the whirlwind. It is stated by not a few writers that, medicines, being foreign to the body, also stimulating and irritating, not infrequently bring about abnormal conditions. It seems impossible that medi--1 cine's which are intended to cure, ’ should cause disease, yet it is true. ’ But let a person continue the use of ’ cathartics for a period and the bowel 'will surely become diseased. Let one take morphine for a short time to pro--1 duce sleep and it becomes a habit, ■ for a diseased condition appears and then more morephine is craved to 'ijciake more disease. Self-dosing and 'the taking of patent medicines bring ’ disease, but after all the greatest • source of disease is the “riotous eating 1 of flesh," the eating of rich stimulat- ‘ ing foods, and the use of the drugs ■ caffein (coffee) and nicotine (tobac'co.)

1 Electricity, baths, massage, surgery and drugs trail after wrong living. We eat stimulating, irritating and constipating foods, neglect ourselves, suffer from constipation and its trains of ills, and for relief fly to drugs which in the end make matters worse. It is such foolinshness that brings premature old age. It is not "just old age" that does It, for we should live to a hundred years without decrepti- * 'tude, in possession of all our faculties, and die willingly—Like one who wraps the drapery of his coitch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams. TTR. J. N. HURTY.

A GREAT PRODUCTION. The production of "The Shepherd of the Hills” last night at the Bosse opera house was by far one of the greatest treats that the theater goers of the city ever had the opportunity of seeing. From the rise of the first curtain j until the fall of the final, every one in the audience was gripped with the Intense interest and heart-felt sympathy las the plot unfolded and the beautiful story of the Ozarks was told. Only a small audience was present, but each 'one considered themselves many times repaid for witnessing the production. FLOOD SUFFERS' SUNDAY. Sunday morning at the Evangelical church an offering will be taken fcr the flood sufferers, and turned over to , the committee appointed at the Indianapolis conference for distribution, i Any one wishing to give and cannot be present, may see the pastor. ’Phone |No. 509. BEV. J. H. RILLING.