Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 62, Decatur, Adams County, 13 March 1916 — Page 1

■Volume XIV. Number 62.

WILSON RECOGNIZES CARRANZAJROPOSAL CONCENTRATION OF TROOPS ALONG I BOUNDARY UNDER FULL SWING—IN- | VASION NOT TO BEGIN TODAY

BULLETIN. J Washington, D. C„ Mar. 13, 3:00 p. m.— (Special to Daily Democrat) — The state department and the Carranza government have reached an agreement, said Secretary Lansing, this afternoon. United States troops will cross the border under a reciprocal provision for Carranza forces. .‘.Washington. March (Special to Hail) Democrat)—President Wilson and Secretary Lansing after a thirtyfive minute conference this afternoon JfW*ch»-d the decision, it is understood to accept General Carranza's proposal for a reciprocal agreement regarding i the crossing of the border by troops ■ of the Mexican and American governments. I This government, it is said, however will suggest that the arrangement be formally drawn and passed upon by both governments before it goes Into effect. That this stand would alienate many? republicans who thus far have supported the administration's recent actions,' ■was the positive assertion of republi-l can leaders. "If we think that we can whip Mex-I Ico in a few weeks, we will be woe-' . fully surprised.” declared chairman Chamberlain of the Senate military 1 committee during a warm debate on th Mexican situation in the senate this afternoon. “I believe Villa will become the national hero. Sixty thousand men maf> ; rally about him.” Chamberlain declaration came as an j interuption to a speech by Senator Borah who followed Senator Fall in opposing the Carranza proposal for a reciprocal agreement. "The United States has entered an enterprise the future of which no man can forecast,” said Senator Borah. "I am not criticising the president but wemust seriously consider the momentous step we have taken. We may have started a train of events, the result of which we cannot foresee.” B "Ami wherever these events leads us we must face the consequences. The Mexican situation is not the only one bids us to be prepared. There are situations which it would neither be wise nor proper for me to discuss now. but our president tells'us he cannot tell what tomorrow may bring. g (By H. D. Jacobs. U. P. Corr.) i El Paso, Texas. March 13. (Special to Daily Democrat) —Threatened with war bv an aroused Mexico, Uncle Sam s (jsfem lition to avenge the Columbus raid was still held in leash along the border today. ■ Coming on special trains toward the H»ar front” were regiments of infantry. cavalry, artillery, engineers and 9K-C-S of all the branches of the army. dither to take an active part In the. Invasion of Mexico after Villa or to ..ctfr' Pice the border troops sent in to rppe out banditry. ■The hour to ‘ go in” is now expe t«d to arrive some time Tuesday, al■tough* Major General Funston's policy yibf thorough preparedness and diploHJatic negotiations with the defiant Hki:r-inza government may further deHp the expedition. Carranza threatened armed opposition to the entry of troops and Villa's flight to IMrcrd the defenselness American Mor- ■ n colonists in Chihuahua has tom ti border country between feelings ■Bf anger and fear. ■ The problem of seizing all the north Krn Mexican railways and preparing ■to fight both Carranza and Villa, was B»w before the army heads. ■ Carranza officers were reported lo having trouble suppressing a muJaK>us spirit among their soldiers. An.iBAmerican demonstrations wete repor.Ked from several Mexican points. I United States Sonsul Marion l.etat Chihuahua City was arranging the speedy transportation ol th' American families there to tin ■border. I Six American residents of El Ea.-' from Chihuahua city state' ■their lives were threatened bv tw< ■Carranzista officers.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

I "We’re going to take all your grinl goes out and hang you,” one Carranzista said. Villa was last reported marching' southward from Corralitoe toward San I Buqjta Ventura near the Mormon col- ' ony. He was either determined to ■ carry out his threat to anihilate all of the five hundred American men, wo-' men and children or was fleeing o the mountainous Guerrero district to hide from the American pursuers. ' Villa is believed to have divided his' followers into small guerilla bands. Villistas even were reported in the northern part of Durango state where a band under "general” Urbalejo made an unsuccessful attack on a passen--1 ger train on the National Lines of | Mexico, killing a number of the crew. An armed Carranza guard drove off the bandits after they had dynamited a station at Conejos. El Paso had its first opportunity to display its war spirit last night. The remainder of the 20th United 'States infantry, about 700 men, pass- ; ed through the city on an El Paso and Southwestern train bound for “somcI where on the border.” The first intimation that the citi-l ' zens had of their departure were wild I cheers. They were happy over the : prospects of action. Thousands of men, women and children rushed toward the long train answering cheer for cheer. Carried away by the martial spirit' scores of excited civilians shrieked to [ i the soldiers to “give the greasers hell! I | Apprehentive that the depletion if. I the Fort Bliss garrison may encourage the twenty thousand Mexicans in the city to attack El Paso, hundreds of American residents are go-' Ing armed. Brigadier General Pershing in command at Fort Bliss, has given the assurance that the city will; ■be protected. Deputy sheriffs with automatic rifles have been sworn >n. The reports of the mutinious spirit; of the Carranza garrison at Juarez also. . aroused apprehension. I A former Carranza officer said today that all Mexico would rise against the. American invaders. "The Carranzistas hate the Villistas but Mexicans hate Americans more,” he said. Fen if Carranza made some reciprocal arrangements for Carranza troops ; to pursue bandits into the UnitedStates, this officer stated, the defactoi government would be unable to control its soldiers if the American armed soldiers entered Mexico. The Car-: ranzistas even expressed the positive! belief that the first American blood j spilled might not be by Villa but by. ' Carranza troops opposing invasion as the initial expedition sweeps into Juarez to take over the Mexican railways. The concentration of United States 1 troops was under full swing today. The 1 6th infantry left Ft. Bliss by train for "somewhere along the border.” The ' censorship has not yet been extended ' to dispatches from the front, but railroad employees on instructions from ' the army heads through the railway , officials, were told they would be expelled from the service if they gave ’ 1 out any information. ] The regiment was traveling under ’ 1 sealed orders but from various unof1 ficial sources its destination was be'{lieved to be Columbus or achita, both ’ i in Mexico. The 16th infantry was scheduled to I follow. It was believed to be going to ? | Columbus, where upwards of five 8 ( thousand men will be concentrated by | the time the order to cross into Mexico is given. The date for beginning the Villa ' hunt was still unknown here. As to ‘ I details of the thoroughness with which 'the expedition is being planned became ’ known, the hour of the invasion was being advanced. If Carranza prom- , ises to co-operate with the armed forces 'of the Ignited States, the march across 1 the border will probably be commeni ced earlier. Carranza’s definite anJ nouncement of opposition probably I (Continued on Page 4J

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, March 13, 1916.

THEY CAME HERE Horse and Rig, Believed to be One Stolen at Ohio City Saturday. PUT UP HERE For Couple of Hours Sunday Evening—Search is Instituted.

A horse and rig. hired from an Ohio , City livery stable, by a man and wo- , man who failed to return it Saturday afternoon, is believed to have passed through this city Sunday evening at five o’clock. The outfit which was put up at the Riverside stable here for a couple of hours, Sunday afternoon, tallies with the description of that Stolen at Ohio City and is believed to I be the one. The horse was a dark bay. weighing about 1,000 pounds. The rig was a single top buggy, with yellow running gears and rubber tires. Driving it, was a man of dark complexion, about six feet tall but instead of a woman, who left with him in the! rig at Ohio City, was a man, about five 1 feet eight inches high. Leaving here, they passed south from the Riverside livery stable. When Sheriff Green got the word from the Ohio City officials he visited the stables here, and learned that an outfit tallying with that stolen at Ohio City had been here, but no clue was gotten as to its whereabouts after leaving here. Officials ’n neighboring cities were in turn, noti-| fied by Sheriff Green to be on the lookout for the rig.

HERE FOR BURIAL Body of Mrs. Lucinda Erwin Johnson Brought Here from Richmond. — DIED THERE SUNDAY i Was Sister of Dore and Dan Erwin—Funeral to be Held Tuesday. I Mrs. Lucinda Erwin Johnson, wife, of Janies Johnson, former Adams county residents, sister of Dore and Dan [Erwin of this city, died Sunday morning at five o’clock at the family home at Richmond, at the age of forty-three | years. She has been ill several weeks I following an attack of pneumonia, I complications of heart and kidney ' trouble, and other ailments, arose and : her condition has been very bad for i some time. She was born in Union township this 'county on the old homestead, the daughter of David and Mary Erwin. She was married here to James Johnson. They lived near the St. Paul church south of this city for several years leaving here about fifteen years f(go. They lived at Kendallville for awhile and later at Wabash. They later went to Richmond where their daughter, Marna, about twenty years : of age, is attending Earlham college. The husband and one daughter survive. Her death marks the passing of just half of the children of the Erwin family. There are one sister, Mrs. Rose Rainier of Fort Wayne; four brothers Judge R. K. Erwin and Will Erwin of Allen county; and Dore and Dan of this city, living. The funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at ten o'clock from the residence at Richmond, in charge of the Methodist minister of that place, i The body will be brought here on the the 3; 22 G. R. & I. train in the afternoon, and the body taken to the Decatur cemetery for burial. Mr. Johnson was in the city this morning com- ' ing to assist in attending to details relating thereto. i TODAY’S HOOSIER ODDITY. (United Press Service) » Evansville, Ind., March 15 —John W. ’ Davidson, 68 the oldest bicycle rider ■ in this city, rides the oldest bicycle in ■ service here. He has used the same bike for 18 years and does all the repair work himself.

■+ + + + + + •?• + + + + + + •}• ' + NOTICE. + ’ ♦ + ,♦ Mrs. O. L. Vance will open her + ♦ home for a Civic Improvement * 1 + meeting, Tuesday afternoon at. + 4- 2:30. Any lady living north of + + Monroe street and interested In + + improving or beautifying her + + part of town in any way is invit- * + ed, cordially, to attend. It is + + hoped, also, that all officers of + ♦ the society be present. + + PRESIDENT + +++++++ + + + + + + + WANTS STATMENT. (United Press Service) BULLETIN. Washington, March 13, —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Tfie comptroller of ' the currency today issued a call on ' national banks to give a statement of ' their condition at the close of busii ness March 7th.

RECOUNTBALLOTS Republican Returns from This County Sent Back by Secretary of State. SECOND CHOICE VOTES Cannot be Distributed from the Report as Taken from Tally Sheets. —— It Is more than probable that the republican ballots cast in the rece.it primary in Adams county will be -e---counted. In only two precincts in the county were the votes tabulated la such a manner that it could be told where the second choice votes should be distributed. This could not effect any of the contests in this county or on the democratic ticket but County! Clerk Will Hammell today received a letter from the secretary of states office, stating that the return sheet for the republican ticket has been sent back to this county for correction, be cause it is impossible to distribute the second choice votes for senator, congressman and governor. Mr. Hammell replied that it was impossible to give them the returns from the tally sheets sent in to the election commissioners and asked for further instructions. It is probable that they will be directed to recount the vote in order that the distribution can be made as provided

under the law. A DAMAGE SUIT. Art Smith, aviator, wired atteorneys' in San Francisco, from Honolulu, at which place he stopped enroute to Japan, to sue Caples for slander, if he names him as correspondent in ids cross complaint in the Caples divorce case, Smith alleges that the charge that he is to marry Mrs. Caples when both have secured divorces is false. WOIll! IS STftRTED Work of Excavating for New Creamery Building Starts Tuesday. SURVEYED SATURDAY? > | Building Will be Hurried for Occupancy on or About July Ist. Work of excavating for the foundations for the new creamery building will be started in the morning, according to information given out today by the contractor. A large force of men will go to work digging the cellar which will extend under the entire building, covering nearly all of the lot which Is situated just north of the Burk Elevator Company on Winchester street. The work on the building will be hurried along so that the company may 1 occupy it by the first day of July if' possible. Orval Harruff surveyed the lot Sat-' urday and set corner stakes In order that the foundation dimensions might be laid out. The building will be a brick, with a cellar and first floor, and equipped for both creamery and ice cream manufacture. The company is capitalized at $25,000.

■ JITNEYS TO STAY I I Cities Having .Jitney Bus .! Systems Say That Jitj neys Will Stay. SOME QUIT BUSINESS But Large Percentage Still Work—Car Companies Investigating. (United Press Service) Indianapolis March 13, —(Special (o Daily Democrat) —Mr. Jitney and his busy little bus have passed through ;an open winter in Indiana and the

I tractions companies are taking inven- . tories in various cities where the jitneys thrive to learn something of what jto expect in the future. The report from the traction headquarters is that t the jitneys are losing ground. A traction official said today that jitneys are : fewer in Terre Haute and street car I receipts higher. This report is disputed from jitney ! sources in Terre Haute, one big center of jitney Industry in Indiana, and is affirmed by dispatches from Gary, ; the second big jitney center. United Press dispatches today gave decidedly conflicting views on the effect winter has had on the jitney bus. Terre Haute, Ind., Marchl3, —(Special to Daily Democrat) —-The jitney bus has come to stay. Business In the coldest winter weather this season has demonstrated that fact. The jitneys have received their best patronage in cold weather. These statements were made today by J. C. Holden, father of the jitney bus business here. LOSES BOTiTFEET ■ A Clover Leaf Freight Crushes Off Both Feet of Charles Swigert OF LIBERTY CENTER Accident Happened at Bluffton Saturday Afternoon —A Bad Accident.

The Bluffton News says: Charles Swigert, of Liberty Center, had both feet crushed off bya Clover Leaf fast freight when he attempted to jump from the bumpers between two cars in the west yards at Bluffton Saturday afternoon. Swigert had been working at Van Buren and was trying to reach his home at Liberty Center. | The train does not stop there and he rode on to Bluffton, thinking that he would have a chance to get off here. Three section men, Chauncy Perry. ; William Woodruf sand Peter Jones who I saw the accident said that he leaped from his perch between two cars and lighted safely on the ground but that the momentum of the train caused him to whirl around like a top, lose his balance and fall with his feet across the rails. He will lost both feet. | The section men placed Swigert on I a hand car and brought him to the Clover Leaf station where the Thoma ambulance was summoned with Drs. Cook and Severin. He was taken o Dr. Severin’s office to have his wounds dressed. > The train was No. 44, a fast meat train. The crew were probably unaware of the accident and did not stop in Bluffton. Swigert Is a married man with two children. He Is a day laborer. The accident happened near the i North-Frazier tile mill. A careful examination showed that the right leg is crushed off about six inches below the knee and the other at the knee. Swigert was able to say a few words and he told the doctors that he boarded the,train at Van Bur- | en, where he was working and was trying to get home to Liberty Center I but that the train went through Liber- ' ty Center so fast that he was afraid to jump. There are two adopted children In his family. LIBRARY BOARD MEETS TONIGHT The library board will meet at 7:30 • o’clock this evening at the library and I all members are requested to be present.

fI INVENTS SHOE RACK I j Frederick Kolter of Magley was In 'the city today getting his application I for a patent in shape for mailing tog 1 morrow. He has invented a shoe rack that can be put oh top of the kitchen stove to dry wot and muddy overshoes or it can be hid around the front door to keep the hall carpets clean. Mr. Kolter will manufacture the racks in , ' large quantities, possibly, after the \ patent is granted, and the factory may | sometime become one of the staid . . manufacturies of the hustling little • town. CHAS. STEELY3ETTER. Charles N. Steele head of the Chas. Steele Hardware company, who has been sick since last Thursday with , tonsilitis was able to come down to J the store today for the first time. In; i , his absence the business was looked I after by Otto Neilus. THE COURrNEWS Hon. John W. Aiken of Ft. Wayne, Special Judge in Matter of THE HARDISON DRAIN Judgment Rendered in Andrews Case—Cases Are Set for Trial. In the matter of the Archie P. Hardison drain, the judge, being or relationship to Interested parties, Is disqualified to serve herein, and the Hon. John W. Aiken of Fort Wayne, is appoint?d special judge.

Another attempt will be made to get the Mlers road through a petition, entitled Catherine Eiting, et al. having been filed with the county auditor by Attorneys Peterson & Moran. A petition was also filed to vacate the angling road, which the proposed new road will render unnecessary, was also filed Several petitions have been annulled in effect by remonstrance filed by Henry Eiting, et al. In the estate of Nelson D. Hook, sale bill was filed and approved. The case of the City of Decatur vs. John J. Bravy and Timothy Sullivan, was continued by agreement.

Cases were set for trial as follows: Frank Drake vs. Ruth Drake, divorce,' March 15, Sarah A. Fisher vs. Benjamin F. Fisher, on judgment, April 4: Cecil Miller vs. William Miller, di ! vorce, April 1. Hooper & Lenhart for Julius Hofer et al have filed a quiet title case. The ' defendants are George Pool et al. j The case of The State vs. Jacob | Friedt, for defrauding board bill, was ' dismissed. . . i In the case of America Fink, et al i vs. Thomas C. Buckmaster, et al. par- « tition, appearance by Lutz & Sim- 1 mons & Dailey for Rllla and Virginia Buckmaster. Rule to answer. Answer < In general denial filed by Rilla and < Virginia Buckmaster. Case set for on > April111. 1 I Judgment was rendered today in the < case of The Old Adams County Bank ( vs. Addie Andrews, administratrix cf , the Caleb Andrews estate, which was t taken under advisement some time ago < after the evidence was submitted. A ’ judgment for $449.50 for the defendant I Nathan Andrews, against the estate, i were rendered, the same to be paid out of the assets of the estate. Real estate transfers: Straus Brothers' Company to Bailey W. Gray, real estate in Monroe township, $16,046.10. Miss Leah Apt qualified as notary public for another four years, filing SI,OOO bond with the county clerk. DEATH OF COUSIN. T. H. Ernst and David Stoler have received word of the death of their cousin, Isaac Weir, which occurred at LaGrange, Saturday evening. The funeral will be held tomorrow. Mr. Stol--1 er will attend the funeral. . ■ .....o FOR CIVIC IMPROVEMi-.NT ’ All ladles living north of Monroe 1 street interested in civic improvement i work are requested to meet at the ■ home of Mrs. O. L. Vance Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock. ) o 1 Miss Cora Chrisman of Ohio City - transferred here this afternoon en- . route to Geneva where she is moving. ;

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IFACING DEATH Alone in Indian Jungle— Mrs. A. E. Rassman, Formerly DESSIE MERRYMAN Os This City, With Missionary Husband, Labor ’Midst Death. "The Herald of Light," a religious ' magazine, published at Indianapolis, tells of the terrible death which stared Rev. and Mrs. A. E. Rassman in the face, alone In the Indian jungles, where they had gone as missionaries. Mrs. Rassman was formerly Miss Dessie Merryman of this city, and is a sister of Leonard Merryman. She and her husband live at Raj Nandgaon, C. P., India. Their marriage took place In India, where Mrs. Rassman went from Indianapolis to join her fiance, with a party of other missionaries. The magazine cover shows a picture of Rev. and Mrs. Rassman in native costume. The article says: “Would we go again? Most certainly yes, and that right now. In fact we were very loath to leave, even though death was staring us in the face. Even though pain had been splitting Sister Rassman’s head and breaking her back, and tropical fever had been burning day and night we hated to leave and come back to our house thirty-five miles away. And we whould delight in returning to that same jungle district. Why? Because we were preaching Christ to villages full of poor heathen who had never heard the gospel before. “The very same divine love that drove Jesus from heaven to this sincursed earth and caused him to suffer, bleed and die; making even the blessed Son of God the First Foreign Missionary, we say, this very same love for those unlovely, unlovable idolaters, drove Sister Rassman and me away from the few white brothers

ttnu oißiei» hriu with üb, iui out into jungle regions, where no white I person has ever before pressed the ' terra firma. And just as the sinners ' never appreciated Jesus when he ' walked in their midst, doing good to all, just so do these people here fail to appreciate us or ouf sacrifives for | them. Furthermore, as Jesus did not ' look for apprehension from anybody but his Father, so we also do not expect these ignorant, superstitious souls to be thankful to us; but we do greatly seek the sympathy and apI predation of God our father. “From the place where we first ' pitched our tents, in less than two weeks we preached Christ in some i twenty-four villages and four open ito hundreds of precious souls. With • the exception of one village we be- ' lieve the gospel of Jesus was never before given. And this is 1915 years since Jesus came. Who is guilty, that these people have never had a chance before to hear about the only Name? “One night after we were retired on our little cots a crowd of men came arousing us and wanting to dance for us. We told them we could not see them now. As we were eating supper next day they came again, and soon were dancing before us in the dim light of the camp fire. The trees were so close together that, very little moonlight can pierce through the dense foliage. This only adds to the weirdness of the scene. Unless you have seen a wigwam dance of a tribe of American Indians, such as the Pima Indians dance on the rim of the Grand Canyon of Arizona, you can hardly imagine this dance. Some [twenty, dark-skinned men, with th Jr heads bound round with yards of white cloth, and thin, white cloth thrown around their bodies, with two sticks in one hand and one in the other, whirling, springing like cats, jumping, always keeping in a circle, and always keeping step and always beating the sticks upon the fellow ’ who came the nearest, all the while all dancers chanting a monotone and f the leader every few seconds uttering -a blood-curdling scream; can you • catch the picture? They danced and danced until we told them to stop. Then we asked them to sit down. All squatted down, as Is customary , here. We played the cornet for them; sang native Christian hymns, I I preached Jesus to them and ended up with prayer. Thus was a heathen dance turned into a Christian assembly. r “We have some of the burden for . these lost souls, upon our soul—.l - (Continued on Page 4.)