Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 215, Decatur, Adams County, 12 September 1913 — Page 1

Volume XL Number 215.

MAYOR GAYNOR LEFT FORTUNE —, Property is Estimated to be Worth Between One and One and Half Millions. WILL BE OFF YEAR For Apples and Potatoes Says Department ol Agriculture in Report. X ll'nitcd press S. im. .•,) - New York. X. y., Sept 12 (Spiv *“* to Dally Democrat) The fortum l>‘ft by the late Mayor Gaynor ot \eYork was today estimated Io lie )«■ I ween otic million ami one ami one hah million dollars. Arrangement* will be made* today lor the funeral h.v tile members of tlie family ami Mayor Kline. Washington. h. c., sopt. 12 (Spec ml to Daily Democrat > The depart Went of agriculture In their new pub Bention which appeared today anil which is designed to Rite the farmer ml of the market new- declared that the composite average of all the crops to September 1, was |n.l per cent lower than the ten year average. |*ri« - e» made an unusual increase of s.T jer cent. The weather is consider(Continued on I’age 2) MADE BIG PART Os Total Taxable Property of Adams County-- Corporate Holdings ARE NOW ASSESSED Railroads Assessed at More Than Million—Telephone Companies Heavy. ■F-btate tux board assessments r< tin .1 by Auditor T. II Baltzc'.l show i ■ I oof till’ t-’lal ill ' ' ''' I able property in Adan.* county. The railway pro|>eities in the nnm ty at axaerxed ala total of 11 0M». This is divided as follows among the several companies The Chicago k Erie has 7131 X mil’’* with n total assessment of Clncliiiiuti. Richmond A Ft Wayne lias 2t.<!" mil 's, with total assessment ot |SP2.m > (I. Ct. • I. o«r c I! *>• Ft Wave*, han Ufsesstnent of Toliito th Mmi* A Western. I«i miles valued at |2*t.v.<i. I The aaai-ssment ot traction prop, rt' totals »S«.tM)7. This is divided a* fol lUitfftou. O’tieva * •' H«*». *" '' mile, MMWU>d nt V I. Fort Wayne * Si rtngfleld ID. • '<• 8.11 miles, assessed nt IlMal Improvements on right <>( »«> and n dally use on r.illwa? property Chicago A Erie. |!i.2 Cincinnati. Hi' * l ‘* ’SL at laws * Western. I Fort Warn* * Rprltmileld. E The Pullman SlcplnK Car . otu|*>'> [ lias 57i.7l mile*. Mswued al »■> ' L mile: the Western |.oininu> h»» "" |p * 1 The express < " r “ j i ‘"Xmile; I nil'll i4n,hH ' .. . ,12 per mile: Wells ui 1130 per niih* r *waphonc companies show th* lolluwlnif iaaeaanwmtm T „|,. an ipli' I. tmenean Teieihon-. . Teh «ra. Co., (H.3U mlw«. •" ’* ' Sid "', st Geneva T'l* rattir. , irrnwu . Crulgvlb.", n ., u . 1)pl< at isn | ,-do Tofrpben.. 09 “ r O »b mile* *1 »*’• r '*“* d

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l ilies, at Willshire Telephone ' ■>’) miles, nt s.‘o. Pipe line companies have the follow iny assessment: Indlann Gas 'l'ransportation Co., *T,42.‘>: Indiana. Pipe Line Co.. |«I4, •’■■7; Ohio Oil Co., $2Ti.470. — TO DENVER TO SCHOOL. Mrs. Ernst Schlickman and her Io: re. ,\|is ß Aug. |ln.- Firkes, left fol D uver. Colorado, where they will oin th.- Schlickman children for this winter. They go that Miss Firkes may > liter the business college or a higher school for tin- nine and a half months' term, alter which they expect to rei turn here for the next siinimer. They expect to return about the middle ot I -lune. BIS SALE BE LOTS Will be Conducted Saturday and Sunday by the Erwin Real Estate Company. AT FORT WAYNE Ten Dollars Down and Five Dollars a Month—Mr. Rice Assisting in Sale. Th<- Erwin Real Estate company Is advertising the sale of llfteen lots for next Saturday and Sunday in a new addition at Fort Wayne. They have ( list tilteen lots left, located in Wood-! land Heights, one ot the most beuu- 1 tiful sc< lions of that grow ing ano liriylng city, and they are offering j them lor >3 is, payable ten dollars I down and five dollars a month, witii ■i' per <ent interest. There is nidoubt but that they will be valuable I roperty in a few yeaia. for that |u»rt of the tow n is grow ing at a rapid rate and lots whit II sold atl MX a year ago are now worth |SW. The lots are near the Lewis street car'line, four squares from a public school and six eouares Irom the St. Andrews parochial school, two Mocks from the X< w Haven interurban line and twelve minutes ride from the court house. E Rh e of this city Is assisting in dinpoaing of the lots and can give you any information. A small Investment hi re should make you some money. SECOND DEATH In Two Months Calls Rev. Wehmeyer to Home of His Eldest Sister. AT NEW BREMEN. O Ten-year-old Son Dies or Brain Fever—An Elder Brother Died in July. Iley It. Welimeyer ol the Zinn's 1.11 j thiran church of West Monroe street it this morning for Sew Bremen, iihlii where he wns called by the .h ath el Illa nepiiew 'I he deceased j | i art Wueldietihnrsi. aged n-n vents. i Min of Rev. Wehmeyer's eldest sis* t , r His death iMcprred from brale lever Tuesday. A pei ullarly and fen uno of the family's Unit till* Is lhe second death in the nunily within two months Only lost Inly th* boy's elder brother died Irom .unsumplhm He as* just In tin m hue of y< .mg manhood, being but ' eighteen years of »«" «*"* ~" ‘l J"»* ma il gradimitid from ihe high nchool. lhe second ilenth. coming no very .ih>ii thereafter, makes lhe family's grief the heavier. POSTOFFICE VS HIGH SCHOOL. — I srmer Wins in Game of Bast Bstl Thursday Evening. As the tanebers failed to show up Ihursday evening after Institute for Hie game with the high school boys. Hit posiodlc* teiim wot prevailed up i , tn clash baim halt aims ' with | , ihcm. The g««*e resulted in a score; ,n || to «in fl * vor '* lh " Poeio*""'] ijvsni.

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/——■ ■ .. l ' ■ " c I ——— t ' i i , i, . - iXwBL?’JAPANESE AT PEACE OCNFERENCE. (Copyright bv International News Service; supplied by the New Process Electro-Corporation, N. Y.) The Jingo Press Will Get A Decided Set-Back As A Result Os The News Received From The Hague. The part played bv .lapnn during the present peace conference nt Th<Hague has attracted the attention of the Western World. The representatives of the Mikado, two of whom are shown here on their way to the Peace Palace, entered fully Into the spirit of the Congress, to the gratification ol 1.11 present Their most conspicuous aition was the overtures made to the delegates from the t’nlted States, the object of which looks towards a peace pact between the two nations whose relationship recently was so sensitive as to cause alarm throughout tlie civilized world.

TO REFORMATORY Frank Miller, With Many Aliases, the Youth Who - Trailed Through — THIS COUNTY TO OHIO With His Stolen Horses Seni tenced to from One to Fourteen Years. Frank Miller. the young man with; tunny alia*, who trailed through Ad limn county with Ills stolen horse* and wagon, and camped one night near the John Fuhrman in Root town ►.hip. before <u|iture.| near Imlplios Ohio. has been xente:ic’*d to tile re lormatory The Hun'inxton Herald says: "On entering a idea <>( guilty In < Ir < nit court on Wednesday afternoon. Finn!; Miller, conlesxed horsethief tciehed a sentence in the Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville, consisting <f from one to fourteen year* and a I tine of l.’ott, lie will 'ietran.<|H<rted t.r I the Jeffersonville prlsou Saturday. Owing to Miller's age of twenty years he wax sentenced to the jeff**r ’ xonvllle prison Instead of the stat' i hostile at .Michigan City, \ previous | i .infexxloli of the horse stealing from ’ the camp near Huntington. of a trims l-nt hors.- rosier had been made. "Hie theft of tlie horse liv Miller will he remembered by county real I dents as mm h feeling was arous ii i by the Incident and the long chase led I by Miller through Northern Indiana and Ohio. Although sheriffs and farm , era of Huntington mid adjoining roun I Ilex united In n search for Miller, the ‘ man eluded ofll'dala for more than n ! week and wax finally captured nent IMdpim. Ohio. "After being lodged In the county I .all. MiHer maintained his Innocence j until attempt to escape from the I county Imstlh wan prevented by the officials Discouraged nt his futile efforts to lente Hie jail, Miller confess cd to the charge of horse stealing. ■'Since being arrested Miller Ims re fused to tell his former home or fam ily connection. Muses of county ot Ito era in placing 'decoys'* In cell* with .Miller were unavailing. At different times sup,timed prisoners were lodged In the same cell with Miller in an endeavor to leirn of hl* life previous to coming to Huntington, but I Miller has cleverly hidden his past I life. •The fact that Miller tv connected j with lirtien Harnish end Dale Town* ' M ild, also lum.lte" nt the county I jx.ll, In an attempted jail delivery !«' I < onxldvrgd by officials as xulMtantlal

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, September 12, 1913.

. reasons for Miller’s not being pit- . roled." HEARING TOMORROW. (United Press Service) Colebrook, N. H. Sept. 12 (Special 'to Daily Democrat) Fearing that i .li.stii e of Hie Peace Carr might discharge Harry Thaw front the fugitive .of justice complaint and turn him I loose here. Thaw a tawyers and JeI rente today agreed to postpone until ! tomorrow the h**arit:g which was set lor today. Thaw's lawyers proitoxed that New Vock state allow him a fair trial before Governor Sulzer and also agree to give him five days for Im l.eus < orpus prtu endings In < ase tin* I governor's decision was against him. TO CONSOLIDATE St. Joseph U. B. Conference Votes in Favor of Union With M. P. Church. A FINE REPORT For Year Shows Big Gain ir. Conference—Were 2.300 Conversions. The St Joseph conference (>! th*' I nlted Brethren church In session at Waterloo yesterday xltvrmsin voted to consolidate their denomination with the Methodist Protestant, which Ir almost similar In creed ami to merge with the White River and Southern Indiana conf* rencex. MUk I lug hut one division of the < liter* h in tea slate, • • f At Its session a *ew weeks nun the Southern Indiana conference voted against joining with tn* M. I* church, ' but the White River < onfeteme last 1 week went on record as favoring th* move. The rpiesthm Is being put to all the conferences in the United St it las and the result will tie known ' late this fall Tim other Indiana eon ' forern va have already voted to merge with the St Joseph • The session* continue with Interest and are being carried out ni vordlng ■ to the regular program. One <>( the interesting things of yesterday was the report of Rnperlnl undent I, K. (tritpex. for the ■ <mfeienen year just end’d, and who »«» reelected. Dur mg the year the conference has lost I three by death Rev. W H Gandy. Rev Cummins anil Rev. It'* hntdxon The number of conversions during II the year lx estimated nt 2,nob. with I about •<2OO actesslous to the i hur< h.

TO ASK NEWTRIAL — Attorneys S. Peterson and L. C. De Voss Will go to Muncie Tomorrow. ■" ■■ TO FILE A MOTION For New Trial in the Murray Hotel Liquor Application Case. Attorneys Shafer Peterson ami I. C. DeVoss will go to Munej, tomorrow where they will file in the D (aware circuit court, a motion asking lor a new trial ol the case ( ,i the Murray Hotel Coiupany's appeal for a liquo: license. A short time ago tile cap- was <l> elded iiy S|H-ci.-il Judge Thompson in favor of tlie remonstrators against the i.-suaiice <>f tlie license. Spe< ial Judge 1 Thompson was serving during th . past term of court in the pla< e of the . tegular Judge who is ineapneitated I from serving on account of illness. I special Judge Walteriiouse Was ap | pointed lor tlie September teim ami . is now on the bench as judge pro I tem iii tile Delaware circuit court ami the motion for a new trial thus . one la-fore a judge other Ilian the one be fore whom tlie case was tried a short time ago His pro|M>se<| ruling on tip l : motion, of course, is not known. LECTURE COURSE High School Seniors Enter Into Contract With Redi path Lyceum Bureau. ■ - — FOR ENTERTAINERS 1 : And Lecturers for Winter Season — Same Bureau That Gave Chautauqua. E. D. Persons, representing the Red > futh Lyceum Bureau, vas in th- eit 1 ’I liiirsdav and el.ceil ■ contract vltli tlie thirty mile selllm.. ol the D -a ■ tur high s< liiMil for s course of le> . I lutes to In- given tlie . omillg season | i nd- r tlu ir auspices Tills is tlie slim > company that put t-.i tlie < hoiitauqiia here this summer. .Hid tlie numbers u‘ th'- lecture ionise will be equally as g'sid as tlie cliau tauqiia mimlu-rs. but different. As all v ere so w ell pleased with the cliau t .uqiia. It is safe to any that Hie tick i vts for the winter season will lie tai . <n up witii eagerness, ax tlie imtie ’ Redpatli” -lands lor tlie le-t The tickets will arrive in nhoiit t< i miys mid tin- settlori will Hun be i ready for tlie sal*a. There will b<< live number* In the course ami tl< k<-t I will sell f<lt II Ml. dingle ticket will ' be thirty-live cents for the lecture* mid i titty cents for the musical numbers. I It <mi therefore lie seuti that It I very mmli to th-< advantage <»f the imrihiiMer tn buy sea*on tickets, na • the aggregate of only a lew of th-* " single numbers, would be as em h as it the entire a<neon's coulee. Home Ol the best lecturers, numl 'inns ami general entertainers In tli*' " fluid ar. llstcil lor thi- course, whl'h I will l>e Interesting. Ins'rnrtlve and <‘ii **i terttilnluu. mid Um program will * • 'I i varied to suit nil tastes 1.1 The f'lllowliig are the lists* nml t th- entertainer* >*l November d Harmony Concert e * Company. rt November 21 Everett Kemp, enter i j tiilner, i iniemlwr tx I G Whiting, im-tur I* j I I t February !• The Wilson Comiuitn i April .1 Regimental QuaH<q. a " ■■■' -« — 11 r lb VEhY LOW. 1.1 Mr*. Mary Elzey, who wns stricken t with iMit’lilyxia nt the home «il het i I'rother. lien Butler. In Iliait townt: ship, yesterday nlternoon, la lying . : very low thia Afternoon, mid it I* said i very little hope Is extended tur her r. < mt cry. Hhe la entirely helpteas. i Mrs. Elzey ha* beeg unconx'lous i. j sinew during the night.

FIFTH STREET IS COMPLETED. ■ Michael Miller, lontiactor lor Fin tie t has conipletc.l the maciidaiun. lug of Hint Ihoiougiiiari' and tlie Joi; i is a good one. Il< begun on Vlii.- I'uh last ami completed th“ work •est"rday It is likely the street v ill I. luned next year a ~| Il will til' ll I" one of the best street- in tlie city Tlik improvement extends irom tinllniigii mill north to \<lntn; sire..< > i roiitli and will mid it: ire titan a mile | to tile paved boulevards. K OF C. NOTICE. (Regular meeting of our council Mon "lay. Sept ttilu-i 15. \ goo<l attend1 nine is desired a- ■ I important ; intentions will be tip for ills.u-.-ion G. K. WILL PLAY "TIE i ! • | "" ’ 1 Rockford. Ohio. Base B••h Team Will Play Sham- >' rocks Next Sunday. ONE GAME EACH i , Has Been Won by These ' Teams and Tie Game Will be Most Exciting. The lloekliiid. Ohio base ball team will meet the Im ai shaniro. k t< am next Sunday afternoon in a stiff bat i tie lor lit tie uatrn- On Decoration Day the Shamrocks p!ny*-<| Ro. ktonl on their home iimnd and wet -o i mlly d'-feated that Ile y were unable to get their heads Iho k lot . Veal weeks, in fact they received a nice. Juicy aged piece of hen fruit in the shape of a In to os< ore Late. In the season the lioikford team aimover here to ugaiti do Hie same thing, ba this lime Hu- tsblc- were r i<-t < d am) they went back horn- with the 1 small end of a I*l to 7 score. The genie Sunday will decide the sir rental v ol Hie two team* amt will with 1 out a doubt prove to l»- a most ex , citing game. The line-up for Un i SlimniiH-kx w ill be prm ti< n’ly Hie j -aim as wlum they placed the Haw al--1 lans, and will put up some fight Bea I son and Brigg* will form lhe hat t< ry. AGED LADY DEAD 1 Mrs. Geo. Moyei Succumbed This Aternoon After Four Year’s Illness. I WAS 70 YEARS OLD Leaves Husband and Eight Children—Funeral Monday Afternoon I Ellznbetli. w|l« of George .Moyer o lhe south putt of the city, pux-ml away this afternoon it ll' •»'«Io k at' • t the #«<■ of xevi nly v< t» Mrs Hover; i |.;.d been ill the t <-I four your* " >j an ullnwmt that wn- o l ' a luiffhng mi . ■ lure, iitul |diyil<’iah- were nnt'lde to, 'late poxitlxely what it wn> It Mipclt induced uri ,<*u nl compllcet-l'Hl-. limi she hud loti. Men nil .iivuliil . Iler maiden name whs Elloilh-iI I Huurrs anil she torn In tin- vlcln i tty ni Linn Grow*. Metin' litu- alt< their nuirrtage, tli- inmth livid nt Tih xin. eiimlug to Hile city nhoul 1* | yenrs ago. Mr. Moyer lx the wnt' h man at tli« Wln< hosier *tre< t < t< *«lm; I i.t the Erie lallroa'l. Hid lx quit'* well known With th- htixiuiml, tli< r - are surviving, eight cliildn-tl Marc. Wife l of Tarlton Selby, amt Sum Moye Sturgis. Mu h : Ben Mover, Linn Grove; Lmy, wife of rliotiiax Flslict'. Gi-rirml'- Huddllh. huatur, ehn Mo) ir. Mlchlmin; \ndi<-w I'iirt \Vayu< I'i’iiry, llhiwutlis, Mhh Mrs. Moyer wn* a kind and faithful ■ v Ifo ttml imdhi'r iiiul vu* liked by nil f | «Im knew her Tlie fqiier.il will be held Mondl'V It'* ’. i rtmon nt 2 o'< Im k xt tin- home, ' i Itcv. it. N. Bull In clmrge i A post mortem will lie held till* nfl i moon to ih’D rminc the cans* «’ Mr*, st Moyer's ilcitth nnd to throw some j light on her baffling Hineaa.

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REV.BUNNERBUYS : I , Purchases Old Schoolhouse and Grounds at Bobo— Will Rent Same. v AS A DWELLING School Will Not Begin In New Until Completed About October 13. lhe old Bobo s< lit. .limit-' and it* , grounds, <<imt.rising itl-ouf four lets. Ims been sold Io th»' Rey I-;. I’uiii tier. :< former Itobo hoy now t silling tit Spiceiaml. Indiaim. wlh-io in- m minister of the M.-thixiist church. Th- - was made for S 4. wtilch la I'.vothi'ds ot the mqitr'isi-ment tml I- ’ unite n bargain, ax the building co-t, when new. several thousand dollars. It in a two story brick and 'iii be r<- , modi led ami!' ; a ellI pm|'o-<■« by tin- Rev. Bntirwr. The m-w sclioolliims ■ whi n is now In course of construction I* located j just IKK;** the street from tlie old. land is sitmited hetw. <n tlie t'nlted brethren and Methodist ih.irch'- It ; ;* a fine three story brick with two < lass rooms, and will lie a model sc|n-ol building. Trustee o. .1. Human >• lu> was in the city today on business stat<*d that school would mu begin in tliat district. nitmlH-r four, until Uri .school is completed, which will net he until al«iiit (h tolier I" ARE ON PROGRAM Decatur Tri-Kappa Gills. Will Repeat "Stunts” Given at Convention. AT BENEFIT PARTY At Columbia City— Left To-day-Will go tc Lake for Over Week-end. The Dm ntui Tt i Kat t a ■ bai-ler how , icen Invited to he tt- g <<< tie. t'oliinililn t'liy litapl*-. ami a num ler "■I til- member- will Hite alter--1 no. ii fora weekend sit Huie S ituriixy evening the' wtH attend a I ■ nofit party ami will take a j art on the i program, gl' inn the anffle st’.uts” i 'hut th- y did at the onvcutlon t<t Lagrange rt* ently Oyer Htuuiay tliev ill visit with the clmpt r it a cottage they huve lensed at T-1 lake and c>pe<t to have .i del litlal lime. A ' lew weeks Mo. former Grand Brestd tit Hazel Hiorison ami M'-* tilldreth Sharpe of Coin .ibis City were : guest* of the local <. tpt and this I- n retrtrn visit. Not ail of the ;>e* Ltnltir girls can go. hmf it la thought use who <nu will lie hide th- M ■« Fannie Frlslnger. Ft itt> < » and Nn<<ml lumiin. .lean Hutu*; and Madge ltlt>. Mix* lean Lutz, whois visiting n Peru, will meet t; -o In Ft vvaytte i and HccomiMii.v them t tere. •■■—<» —-» — - % CORNER STONE LAVING. I 01 New Lutheran Churcn at Schumm, Ohio. Sunday. The Iv<-<ntur G«tmai' t.nth< rnn << nc.r- cathiti la Invited to itt< n<l the la Ingot the < otm-rstu-'e tor the new i hurt h at H< Irumtn. Ohio. Urn Holte nf Houtli Bt nd will pr< tsch in German In the morning nnd the ttey Wehmever oi lie<nttir in l-Insh-li in the after--1 noon. There will lu* u<< very |< ■■ Huniiny nt the lx<atur ihtirch. When "impletr. the Ilt’W !*< humi" • Il'lH’b ! w ill coat alioiit |2'UM»«i ™ -o — FEAR BIG SWINDLE. i ' — OTiih.l Preaa Kenlc|l New < Plea ns, lam Hept, 12 ■'flfl*lai to Dally I letmit rat I - Charge* thnt n "iilltlrt Ide .ooaptM'V •» »' lb'Be I t!u Imae l<all f “»" «" ,|M ' * wW ‘* *•' II rle» gant'z hr ti«i»M Wlr»sfl made W lh* nolle* hsl*t bt t< In « | y th* name of Connell H* 'txt"d I hat lie had been lead Into * tup aw In die in a local hillie'd halt, rte v* »l|o - i let him Inin the d*Sl prtimUed to I*l , 1 him ktmu lhe result oi en< b plat two • minutes hetm-e the *ti"t.tl pitbllu I