Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 16 June 1904 — Page 4

* THE DEMOCRAT r IVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHER £ 31.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana ; as second-class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER-QF ADAMS COUNTY. , THURSDAY JUNE 16, 1901. < . _ _ ( COUNTY TICKET ■ i ■ —. For Joint Senator JOHN W. TYNDALL For Representative JOHN W. VIZARD For Prosecutor JOHN C. MORAN For Auditor C. D. LEWTON For Treasurer JOHN F. LACHOT Fcr Sheriff ALBERT A. BUTLER For Surveyor L. L. BAUMGARTNER For Coroner JOHN S. FALK For Commissioner First District DAVID WERLING Tor Commissioner Third District MARTIN LAUGHLIN THE WAY IT WORKS. The common stock of the steel trust is quoted as being worth only about 10 cents on the dollar and this shows the kind of game which has been played on its purchasers. Not withstanding the extraordinary favors granted by the Dingley tariff law, this particular trust has found it worth while in its efforts to squeeze the market to close down a number of its mills. The beef trust is also carrying things on with a high hand. The farmer is selling his hogs and cattle for less money and this trust is making larger profits at the farmer's expense. All the farmer buys is at high trust prices but he cannot purchase enough to keep the trust mills going as their owners would I like and his brothers in the cities ! are in the same fix. If the tariff was revised so that trust productions that are sold too high here and too cheap abroad could be equalized, completion would force |

|~l Acres of Land for Solei I From $5.00 to $15.00-Per Acre I

g Most Prosperous fl T. H. Anderson bought 245 B acres in Ramsey count}- three B years ago at Si 2 per acre. The ■ first two years the land netted him ■ $25 an acre, and last year he ■ bought an 80-acre tract adjoining t ■ his farm at $25 an acre. He seedfl ed 75 acres of this with flax, from ■ which he threshed 1,725 bushels ■ and sold it for $2,242.50 or $242,50 ■ more than the land cost him. He B had 268 acres in flax, wheat, barfl ley, oats and speltz, which he sold W for an aggregate of $5,026, or more » than his entire farm cost him. ■ West of the Missouri B River W In this part of North Dakota ■ settlers find art agreeable climate, a i" rich and easily tilled soil, abundance of fine pasturage, good water, and large deposits of lignite coal. The winters are shorter and milder than in the eastern part of the state. Cattle and sheep require but little food during the winter months, except what the i open ranges supply, while horses do not have to be fed at all.

* ■„ I See Dick Townsend for Excursion Rates, July 5, 1904. Office with Clark J I I Lutz, over First tfafibnal Bank. J

the trusts to at least modify their exorbitant profits and the people would be able to purchase more t goods for the same amount of j money and the mills and work- ~ shops could Continue to run. Under the circumstances will the voter endorse the “stand pat” policy. Will they not rather vote for the ( candidates who favor revising the ( tariff to wipe out his trust monop- ( oly? If it can be shown that there,! is one good trust that is only charg- ( ing a reasonable profit .that would j be ruined by cutting off ita protec I tion from foreign comjietition. The sechedule that shelters it might for , the time remain unchanged. When \ President Roosevelt was swinging around the circle in 1902, he often spoke of good and bad trusts, but neither he nor any other protectionist has ever exhibited a good trust to an admiring public or offered any evidence that such exists. There has been plenty of evidence th < t nearly every trust is either sheltered by the tariff or is fostered by monopoly, and yet the Republicans, with ample time in the last sesson of Congress, refused to i investigate the plundering of the people and determined to stand by the trusts —Sentinel. Attorney General Knox is now slated to succeed the late Boss Quay in the senate of the U nited States. Debs has joined the “stand patters.” by sending a telegram to the Cripple Creek miners, advising them to stand pat. Thirty seven employees of the Erie shops at Huntington were ( discharged last week and that too right in the midst of republican < prosperity. Half a million dollars of the 1 $4,600,000 loaned to the St Louis exposition by congress will be due | June 15 and Mr. Shaw, secretary 1 !of the treasury, fears that the fair 1 I may prove a failure financially. i 1 If there is a default in any of the > payments the law gives Mr. Shaw authority to take charge as a rej ceiver and collect all the gate re- 1 ceipts until the government claim ! has been paid.

1- — = —* '' - ! ' ~ I, 1 .. . Ah*-* k ; J flgWj ■ -ATT WnESBwSiCa a&if S' *< b h7 •. • ? | f , . * IP’ I 1 ' ? 1 « • ( - This is a North Dakota farm. We can get you the land on payments of from 8300 to 8500, balance in three to five years. We can help you get the cattle.

- ——— ■ - ■ There is just this about it: If the , democrats elect Tom Taggart national chairman he will give the republicans the gosh dingdest scrap they ever had — Indianapolis Sun. (rep.) Marshal Field of Chicago the merchant prince is being mentioned as a democratic vice presidential quantity. Such a nomination would mean the carrying of Illinois for the democratic electors. According to schedule now strangl'd Senator Joe Bailey of Texas will be temporary chairman and representative John Sharpe Williams of Mississippi, permanent chairman of the St. Louis national convention. The Allen county democracy have nominated their county ticket, the convention which was held Saturday being harmonious in the ex- I treme. The convention was a fore | runner of redeeming the ‘ one green spot ' and getting back to their old place ot political importance. National convention tickets is! just now a bone of contention > among Indianians of both political parties. The allottments will consist of one hundred for the repub-, lieans and one hundred and twenty ;to the democrats the latter being I about twelve hundred short of sup-1 plying the demand. At a meeting of the democratic campaign committee it was decided to hold a grand raly in this citv on Saturday, November 5, the Satuiday proceeding the election- While! no arrangements could be made for I speakers yet the committee is assured- that a national character ■ will honor the occasion as speaker I of the day. The Journal deeply grieves over the retirement by the council of Dr. Holloway as the health officer of the city. There will no doubt be many things that will greatly affect the fine sense of respectability of the Journal, as the political tendency of the majority of the presnent city solons are ferninst that of our esteemed contemporary.

A Washington correpondent tells ; of conference in the capital be- ■ tween Senators Cockrell of Missouri, Gyrman of Maryland and Guffey ot i Pennsylvnia at which it was decided to cast the delegate votes of these states for Judge Parker. If this information can be relied upon the nomination of the New York jurists is almost assured. It has been but a few months ago that Hoosier Repubic ns were crowing over and Democrats were lamenting that a change of the Indianapolis Snetirel to an afternoon publication left Indianapolis. Indiana without a state morning Democratic papier. Now comes the further sudden turning rendition and the Republicans have no state paper—either morning or evening. It is allowable for Democrats to indulge in a passing smile —South Bend Times. The Decatur Democrat and Jour I nal both print a large story about I a voting man named Johnson who !is now police judge of an Arizona | town. Johnson formerly lived near Monroe. B<-th papers received their information from the same | source, but the Journal says it got I its information from a private letter, while the Democrat says its data came from a * i p f cial dispatch. |Of course it all depends upon the name ofwhich the editor chooses to i give the scource of information — it all reads the same.—Berne News. --- More than one thousand Indiana democrats will attend the St. Louis convention for the express purpose of showing their preference for the ■ Hon. T. Taggart for national chairman. Two special trains will start out of Indianapolis and in all it is safe to say that the national convention will hear much and see much of the hoosier preferance for I Mr. Taggart. The advantage gainled by Indiana having the national I chairmanship can not be estimated and it is hoped that success will crown the efforts of those who seek to place Mr. Taggart at t be head of the national organization. Mrs. Ruby McCall returned to Warren today, after having been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Anderson.

COURT NOTES. A I Albert A. Butler, guardian for Effie Ezley filed his final report uni was discharged. fl —o— Della M. Chapman applied for „ letters as adminstratrix of the estate t , of Walter H. Chapman and same were issued. —o— c William P. Bartling vs William 8 C. Cochran et al demurer filed by j defendants to complaint. il —o— a Emma Schalder has been granted f a divorce from her husband John p Schalder and her name changed to t Emma Krick. Judgment against t i defendant for costs. ■ i —o — Henry Patton vs Ft- Wayne & 1 Southwestern Traction Company, i 1 motion for new trial sustained by Judge Hecton. who now declines further jurisdiction in this cause. —o — The plaintiff in the case of ' George E. McKean vs The city of ■ Deeatur. asked for a change of 1 venue and the case was sent to the superior court of Allen county for trial. . —o— In the assignment of John B. ’ Stoneburner the claim of Maud Wass was ordered docketed as a seperate action. Stoneburner filed ’ a petition for an order an assignee to pav taxes. The will of William Beeler was ‘ ' probated in court today. He bequeaths his property in equal shares to his ten children after fua __ neral expenses are paid. He ap- ’ points Enos Beeler and Daniel I Beeler as executors. 1 ~° — a In the case of Mary Patten vs r Mo h n, Willham and Edward Fermin which #3OOO is demanded for in - j j juries sustained by the plaintiff by p falling out of a merry go ground, ] the defendants failed to appear and ij judgement will be granted against f them atfer the hearing of testimony. The defendants have disi posed of all their property and are o now in France. It is probable they e will never return to this country - and a judgement will be of little ‘ value.

Saturday was the closing o f the April term of the Adams circuit jourt and the summer vacation continues until September, he exception of the special session to be held June 20th. Judge Erwin will go to Lawrenceburg next week to act as special judge in a big case. Judge Erwin rendered his devision in the case of Nicholas Gosser vs L W. A. Luckey and James M. Rose, finding for plaintiff, tnat deed was intended as a mortgage and that sum of $13459.34 is due defendant Luckey and same shall be paid to clerk of Court within sis. teen days. L. C. Deboss appointed to commission to male deed. Judgement against Luckey for cost. Be good to your neighbors. They Snow all about your family skeleton and ban tell some entertaining stories about it.—New Haven Union. We earn our life by labor, and then. If we spend as the gods design, we spend our life in love.—Henry Harland. On the Other Hand. Lawyer—Your case would have been Stronger, Mr. McGuire, if you had acted only on the defensive, but you struck first. If you had let him strike you first you would have had the law on your side. Mr. McGuire—Yis. Oi'd had th’ law on my soide, but Oi'd 'a' bad him on my chest a-poundin’ th' loife nut OANK STATEMENT. W. H Niblick. Pres. RK. Allison. CashieR. B. Allison. Vice Pres. C. S. Niblick. A«s’t <’ashler. Report of the condition of The Old Adams ‘Counts Bank at Decatur.lndiana, in the State of Indiana, at the close of business on June s. lew. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts MI.S6 54 Overdrafts t.fie » ‘ >ther stocks, bonds aud mortgages B'.lw a Banking house 6.856 92 Other real estate 3,w SO Furniture and fixtures 4 758 82 Current expenses 4.727 S 3 Interest paid 4.159 11 Due from banks il >.335 •*> ' . . j i Currency. 42.269 00 ( ash on band •, Specie '. j, iS 17 :« Cash Items Bsß 68 I'U.aso’o Total 3897.996 St LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in 3120.000 ® surplus fund O.iOOiO Undivided profits l.*'o Discount exchange and interest 13.4i2 a Dividends Unpaid +0 00 Ind'l deposits on demand • 4 O.W 21 Ind'l deposits on time. 991.'.'22 ft) 712.M3 S Total »«.<7,W38 State of Indiana. Countv of Adams. - 1. R. K Allison. Cashier of The O i Adams County Bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true R. K. Allisos, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn » before ms. this 15tb day of June. 1904. Jhssb C. Strrros. N< tarv Puhllt My eoßimisslon expires Jan '. !.*•

You can buy a quarter section ■ and homestead a quarter section, g giving you 320 acres of land for a ■ very little money. ■ It will only cost you a trifle to ■ homestead 160 acres of land at ■ Mandan, North Dakota. J No better country out of doors f for reliable farming than North ■ Dakota, and especially this sec- ■ tion. A rolling prairie, good rich I soil, purest of well water from fit- I teen to fifty feet, land covered with g most nutrious grasses, coal almost ■ at the settler’s door, for the cost ot B digging; free homesteads adjoining g or near by, that can be had i* " S filing. Q A renter in the older States is I the most foolish man on earth. He can buy a farm in North Dakota a on terms so his yearly payments I will be less than he pays for rent now. Quit renting and own a home. You can’t do it where you I are. Come to North Dakota.