Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 20 April 1905 — Page 4

T"HE democrat ■VERY THURSDAY MORNING BY lew g. ellingham, publisher 11.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Bniered at the postofliee at Decatur,lndiana as second-class mall matte OFFICIAL PAPER OF~ADAMS COUNTY, '’Thurso ky april 20,1905 The price of Indiana crude oil fell again, Monday, with a sickening thud, two cents being knocked off. and it now rests at 84 cents. There is no doubt but that Rockefeller will make another gift, and the little man must suffer. BY WIRE Important News By Special Telegraph News Service. Indianapolis, April 18.—National Repulican Chairman Harry S. New —at least he may as well be called national chairman since Chairman Cortelyou has named as vice chairman—is back in Indianapolis from one of his famous hunting trips. He was down town today for the first time since his return, but he didn’t have any politics to discuss. “I can tell you all about two things,” he said “one of them is my trip which I have enjoyed ai d the other is that 1 wouldn’t run for the nomination for mayor of Indianapolis. I enjoy telling you this last about as much as I did nn hunting trip. I expect to sper d my time shaping up things for tin ether fellow to run and win and not to run myself.” There is a big majority of Indianapolis republicans who would Ilk? to h ave Harry New'run for mayor of tbi. c.ty. He has no enemies politically speaking who would fight his aspirations in this direction. Mr. New suggested that even those who would like to be mayor ought not to begin bothering the people about politics at such an early date. “Let them have a little ren, he ended. Charles Newsome, assistant chief Operator of the Western Unio. Telegraph company here in Indianapolis, who is known by every railroad and commercial telegraph operator in the state, who ha.been in the business a few year;is likely to draw a plum at the hands of Vice President Fairbanks Newsome hails from Elizabethtown. Ind., but has been here for several years. Vice President Fairbanks gets to name a telegrapher wh< draws a salary off 1,500 a year. William Jeffers, the present incum bent, has held the job ever since il wa- created. Mr. Fairbanks, how evei, f-els that an Indiana mai ought to have it. Mr. Newsonu would like t le place and he seem to have a cinch on it. It show Mr. Fairbanks desire to tnrov, plums Indiana ward wherever he Can. Governor Hanly will move from the Claypool hotel wheie he ha r been living since his inauguration, into his new home at 1208 North Ala Dam * street on May Ist. The state grants the governor house rent amounting to fl,Boo and Mr. ond Mrs. Hanly selected this hous« from among a great number that real estate men offered them. It is Hot given out whether the Hanlys will emeitain as frequently or as lavishly as diu the Durbins. Indianapolis, Ind., April 18.— Dan Storms, secretary of stat -, has proved himself a manipulator, strategist and an arb'pt at political and pie-counter jiu-jitso. Stoi ms wanted Frank Bowers, of Indianapolis. appointed on the state printing board as secretary. The leeent legislature enacted a law naming the reporter of the supreme court a member of the board. Storms would lave been outvoted on his hopes for Bowers unless the reporter o f the supreme court, George W Self, did not get on the board and tie the vote. So Storms hurried up the publication of the acts, which, under the new law, made Stif a member of the board. How ever, Sell had his own idea about who should be on the printing board as se cretaiy. and he didn't fulfill Storms’ anticipations. Self voted for Harry Slough. Hanly, of course, has been tor T. J. Clifton, of Covington; Storms for Bowers and Auditor Sheirick for Vern

Wicker, of Noblesville. Thus, they voted all day yesterday. Finally Storms went to Slough and Sherrick for Cliffton. But the tie re muined. The board adjourned at 4p. m. yesterday to meet at 8:30 Wednesday morning. The governor is determined that Clifton shall be the appointee. There are some other determined souls in the state house also. They think Clifton won’t be it To date this has been the hottest fight of them all. Indianapolis, Ind., April 18.— Looking big, robust and well-fed Congressman Jim Watson was greeting friends about the governor’s office, the other morning. While there, he expressed ,hitnself on the civil service methods being employed by the postoffice authorities regarding the length of term allowed appointees. He intimated from four to eight years, at the discretion of the congressman asking the recommendation, was long enough for any postmaster to serve. “So many offices.have been placed under the civil service that there isn’t such left for the constituents,” ue remarked. With the congressman, it is just having one loaf of bread to pass out, and the slices must needs be cut thin.” The boasted “middle course” of Senator Hemenway with regard to the congressional contest between Juuningham and Brady in the first district is treated as a joke by the democrats of the district. Tney contend that his silence and “keep-:ug-my-hands-of” policy is just the thing desired by the Cunningham supporters, and that he could give no stronger support to the latter caan by coming boldly to the front and avowing his preference of him. Cunningham, it is averred, has always trotted in the Hemenway string and has always been one of the newly-elected senator’s strongest henchmen. Consequently, the democrats say he will get the support of the Hemenway crowd and that the only thing that could defeat him would be the intervention of the senator himself. While the Brady element is claiming victory by a nice majority, 1 th >se who know of the opinion that he has no chance and that, Cunuinghim will roll up a safe majority. Joseph Stubbs, chief of the bu reau of statistics, his issued a tartling bulletin with regard to heat acreage of last year in Ini' na. The indications from this iu|letin are that farmers have in iany instances abandoned the raisi; of wheat, and the prospects tire iit more will do so. A look into ’n future reminds one that wh»at ■ sntuallv may become extinct • thin the borders of the state. 1 ports from thirty-six counties all er the state show that the acre last year was ’sixty pur cent low normal. This in even a ireatei degree was true of timothy ’>d clover hay. Os the fruits. ■ hile peaches were below the nor- > il, cheriies, plums, pears and ■erries of all kinds were about nori_. il. Thi- indicates that the farmers of the state are turning their .iter.tion to stock raiding and to th a cultivation of the smaller fruits. Indianapolis, Ind., April 17.— lere are thirty-four facts about the state of Indiana as compiled by Chief of the bureau of Statistics. Joseph Stuhhs Tne compilation required a great deal of labor, and is worth pasting in one’s hat. Indiana has a population of 2,516,462, an area of 35,910 square miles, or 22,335.629 acres; taxable property to the amount of $1,567,743,660; personal property to the amount of $377,416,783; corporate property to the amount of $196,858,021; 10 192 miles of railroads assessed at $165,873,369; 993 miles of interurban and street railways assessed at $.‘,240,198; 483,854 taxable poles; constructed 1,025 miles of free gravel road in 1904; spent in building new bridges in 1904 $1,455,082.19; has but three counties without railroais; ranks fourth in the production of corn ; produced 132,859, 473 bushels of corn in 1904; produced 49,82 02,909 bushels of oats in 1904; leads in the production of poultry and euits; has farms assessed at $621, 317,039; has 52 cities with a population cf 4 000; leads the world in building stone; ranks fourth in the output of coal; ranks second in its soheol fund; leads in the manufacture of farm machinery; its coal output last year was 11,866,023 tons employes 124,954 in factcries ; paid $53,020,776 in wages

to those employes last year; the value of its output in oil last year was $20,000,000; meat products last year amounted to 52,498,977; iron products 17,989,272; flour and feed 16,827,918; glass 16,463,643; wagons and buggies 11,774,962; furniture 7,559,767; dress goods, etc., 7,497,621. A meeting has just been held of the commission that has in charge the construction of the new woman's prison and girl's reformatory. It was decided to begin construction at once on the grounds that were selected almost a year ago seven miles northwest of the city. $250, 000 is at the disposal of the commission erection of these buildings andjit is hoped that fine pieces of prison architecture may go up~as a result of the legislature's liberality. Indianapolis, Ind., April 17. — State Auditor Sherrick, State Secretary Dan Storms, Attorney General Miller and k State Treasurer Nat Hill are today one-third of a mill ion dollars.richer than they were yesterday, by the receipt of 300,000 in cash from John R. Walsh, the millionai-e railroad man and owner of several Indiana coal mines, 'These four state officers a year ago bought a few acres of coal land in Sullivan county, Indiana, with the intention of prospeotin g for ooal.JJThey paid only a few thousand dollars for the land—less than 10,000—and today they rece’ved [thirty times that amount from Mr. Walsh. And it was paid in cold hara cash, deposited in the local banks. The deal makes David Sherrick, state auditor, independently rich, because he clears totally out of the transaction SBO,Ojo. The other men divide the remainder of the sum about equally. Never before were a group of state officers so quickly enriched in their private business ventures as in this case. Back of,the sale is shown the fine hand of railroad competition—between the Illinois Central and tae Walsn wealth. Dan Reid, formerly of Richmond, Indiana, is allied with the Illinois Central and the F'risco lines. Tae Illinois Central is going with both feet after the Indiana coal mines—so is Walsh. And in this pirtioular instance Walsh won out. The mine iwned by the state officers is to develop iutj one of the richest the - ate ever produced and luckily the -fate officers knew this before the.Id. The money brought hen today in national bank drafts and paid over by an agent of Mr. iValsh, M< ssrs. Sherrick, Hill, Storms and Millar are wearing unusually large smles owing to their uood luck. They have invested together in several ventures since ueir election as state officers, but this has brought them greater returns by far than any other. Indianapolis, April 19.—There is a vast population in Indiana which does not seem to have learned that C. W. Fairbanks is now vice president and not senator. The vice president daily receives mail from all parts of Indiant—especially from old soldiers—not only addressed to “Senator C. W. Fairbanks,” but also containing exclusively senatorial requests and they usually begin the letters wi’h “My Dear Senator.” The vice president is not supposed to distribute garden seeds, young tiees, man> public documents, etc. But Mr. Fairbanks gets a.juut as many requests for these as he did before or as Senator Beveridge does now. The peculiar thin... about it is that Senator Heinen way’s mail requests are confined almost exclusively to Southern Indiana and especially his now old districts. These letters du not signify any increased show of dignity toward the new senator. John W. Kern, democratic candidate tor governor in 19(0 and in 1904, has returned from New York, where he attended the Jtffeison day banquet given by the democrats <f New York and the east. Mr I Kern professes to believe that the democratic party was never any closer together than it is now, and Mr. Kern says he remembers when every good democrat stood shoulder to shoulder. He says there is grea' democratic enthusiam in New York and the east, and that it was evi deuced in no small way at the Jeff erson banquet. He says that Tho mas Taggart is very popular in the east and that all the canards about there having been a split bei tween Taggart and Belmont are the

veriest tommyrot. There was some | expression at the New \ork ban ■quet that National committee head quarters should be open in New York all the year around, through campaign times and out of campaign times. Taggart, himself, however, is opposed to this, and it is jOt likely that headquarters will be opened in the east for a good many months sine-* the nationa’ chairman gets the last guess. Washington, D. C-. April 19 — The regular triennial meeting of the General Society of the Sons of the Revolution will be held here to day and Thursday, and a number of the delegates have already arrived. Headquarters for the convention were opened today at the New M illiard hotel. The program of events includes a visit to Annap )hs and a reception in the state capicol of Marryland by the governor. Fol lowing this there will he a special drill and dress parade of the cadet corps of the United States Naval Acadamy. These events will occur tomorrow. On Thursday the mem bers of the society will go to Mount Vernon, and tn the evening a ban quet will be given in this city, at which a number of distinguished speakers will make addresses. Indications point to an unusually large attendance at the meeting. The states of New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Ohio will be especially well represented Indianapolis, Ind., April 19.—1 n response to an inquiry today Gov ernor Hanly dictated a statement declaring that by political pressure and otherwise he would compel the enforcement of the law in all the smaller cities, where there is no metropolitan police. The governor is confident of his ability to enforce the same restrictions that will govern the cities where police regulation virtually comes direct from the chief executive. The governor has seen all the recently appointed city judges, and secured from them a pledge that they would enforce the law in accordance with his wishes. Chicago, 111., April 19.—A sensation was caused among the federal court officials here, when it was learned that Carl Levi, one of the principal witnesses in the beef trust case, had left Chicago, and his whereabouts is unknown. It may result in knocking out. the proseou tion against the two beef trust heads. Ir. is said that Levi's complaint was excellent upon which b base a case of prosecution. Muncie, Ind., April 18.—Tin first arrest under the new law oc cnired here today, when Chestei Bell was fined $35 in police oour' for having cigaiette paper in hitpocket. Bell said he never smoked a cigarette in his life, and was arrested on another charge wher the cigarette papers were found The judge warned Bell that a second offense would mean a penalty o' one hundred dollars fine. Lima, Ohio, April 18.—The Stan dard Oil oompanv knocked th bottom out of the Kansas and othe western oil fields when they cut the price of western oil five cents It is believed to he a good thine for the central fields, where only a two cent reduction was made and in the east only one cent. The Standard evidently means to do all in their power to injure the Kansas oil workers. Monroeville, Ind., April 18.— William Erwin has purchased th< Robinson building on Smth street consideration being S2BOO. The room is occupied at present bv John Wybourn with a stock of buggies and harness. The building was owned by Mose Meyers, of South Whitley. As soon as the lea-e of the present occupant ex pires the stock of William Erwin & Sons, furniture and undertakers, will he moved into it. Indianapolis. Ind., April 17.— Frenzied by a false alarm of tire, several hundred eager newstoys, struggling to obtain their share of iree tickets to a local theatre, which I were being distributed by travel ing representative of a patent medicine Company, stampeded in a narrow stair wav i- the Masonic ternpie tonight, crushing the life ou. of four boys, and it is believed fatally injuring several others. Indianapolis, Ind., April IS Coroner Tutwiller declared thimorning that somebody is responsible for last night s awful accident, though he is not ready to report. The police say it was merely an accident, and believe no one will ever be punished or an attempt i made to do so.

UTE TELEGRAPH SPECIALS. ■ Elwood, Ind., April Max Bohrman a pawnbroker, suicided to lay. The cause is unknown. Tokio, A priTTsT—Torpedo boat Kiji was launche i at Kure today. The displacement exceeds two hunderd tons. _ Indianapolis, Ind., April 19Police Judge Whallon held the law a hich prohibits cigarettes in pis.ession. as applying to dealers only. St Petersburg. April 19. Dispatches from front say that rain has been filling and the roads are impassable. One attack by the Russians on the left flank failed yesterday. Indianapolis, Ind. April 19.—Returns to State Statistician Stubbs report that much damage was done to budded peaches and unprotected cherries and plums. On high ground not much damage was done. Indianapolis, Ind., April 19 The state health board will meet Friday and formally adopt the marriage license requirements. Such action is a mere matter of form, and is done to prevent any technicality. Bloomington, Ind., April 19.— Ex Mayor Dunn was the first witness in the Miller impeachment case this morning. His testimony was along the line of an existing con spiraoy between Miller, Hadley, Thorntown and Malott. London. April 19.—Not since the Black Sea incident has Great Britain and France been in deeper complications than bv the Russian squadron stopping in Kamrauh bay. England, moved by Japanese ambassador, is calling France to account.

X a Now is The Tim! TO QUIT PAYING RENI Rents will be Higher and Higher. Whv not Own your own Home? Here are a few sample properties we now have on the market. We csceft yau a large number of others. Call and see us, or write for larger, seriptive list New- properties are put upon the market each week J charge for edvertisihg property if left on the mark et for the time lisMi

City Properties 1. Isa five- ovui story ami a half residence j on lOJi street. (List N . 403.' ' UU.iO. 2. Is a four-room cottage on Grant street: ■ two porches. (List No 370. i 3. A full lot and tivc-rooni cottage on Elin ' street. (List No.-6».) $300.00 4. ' six-room cottage on I*’ih street, near Monroe street. (No 371 i $650.00 5. Is a well built five-room cottage on S. 15th > street. (No 104. i •H>so.uU, 6. A comfortable five-room cottage on \.. 12thstreet: large lot. (No. 20" i $7u0.00. | 7. Four-room cottage, with brick cellar, on -. ‘.th street, forty feet front. (No. 2.*9.< f7 >0 OK S. A well located five-room cottage on N. | luth street: stable, fruits, etc. (No. 332.) ( ss2s,os.$ 5 25,05. 9. An eight-room story and a half rest- | dence on S L nu s reel, i No. 329.) 10. Is a full lot; a four-room cottage auu store room o i 7th street. tNo. 295. i|9s«. I 11. Is a nearly new five-room cottage, brick i founciuiiou. <ni E. Grant street. ■ No. 4m < $350,00. 12. A good six- oom cottage on N. Decatur street, a corner .ot. (No. 308.) $950.00. 13. Is a nearly new. seven-room cottage in northwest Geneva, tile foundation iNo 387.) «lOJO.<JO. 14 A seven-room story and a half resident® onS. Mercer avenue; nice high lot. stable* etc. (No. 402 ) *’ooo.lo. 15. Cottage of five rooms, well built, bardwood fi >h: located on N. 10th street. (No. 393.) $1050.00 17. Story and a haif seven room residence on 10th ttreetnear Monroe street, drove well, etc. (No. 405,) *1175. 17. Three full lots and a four-room residence on N. llth street, near Nuttman street. (No. 29L) $1200.00, IS. First-class location on N <econd street; six-r >om cottage, drove well. etc. (No. 308.) $1425.00. 19. Fine corner lot. 86x1'»2 feet, at Oak and Mercer streets; ordinary .improvements. No. 339.) s2M)o.uu. 20. Modern cottage, lot 82x155 feet, on N. 3d streets celiar.fctc. (No. 407.) $2050. 21. Eight-room, story and a half residence on W 2) J21500T Cel * ttr ' cistoro ‘ vtc. (No. 22. Isa new. modern eight-room residence. Sjoo o ,'' 1 fu,n '' heii - bath. etc. 24 Modern nine-room residence on MarItc « l X 8 ’" D "’ er Klt< ' hen - 24. Two lots and a comfortable nine-room | etc N“aW.) S '*aoo.oo! !t: |M ’ reheß ’ etll “ r - West Marsh th street. (No. 367.) $2500.00, J 5. Brick business r »m. two storiesand cellar. on lot fowl f -et: front-ore on -’d st near Monroe st No . *woui*l. V o C n a 'M andS^ur V other busi.fess room, on Monro?

N>. 4JH la southeast Deeatur: Is on a stone''p'feet on the w Sts de K r o u r<d> eompnse about-i!4 acres withabou ic | i .sll' 11 * ” v h.i e . of Highstreet. The residence is a handset .• bra * "ura ni. i'‘cut s W „e wilt big windows f« s No<w trees o f ' ro<> ana can be b. ntght fortn.wu.-4ij oo an acr .. . and description!? 0 bUy ’ 8611 ° T tent P ro P er >y’ call and exa ' nlDe ' Home Seekers Excursion to Arkansas May 2,* Phone 230 Snow Agency Deca^ ur ’

Washington, April ig 71 miral Train, ano fleets, reports th is ~ ’ h ' 4 from Manila that he has n^"" 1 rious vessels of his fleet P along the Phillipi Deg f Or * ~w «l pose of observing the % of the Russians and J B , '’‘ eil eels and to compel neu Veinna, April 19. story co nes from Bfl gride ° n,i ’ pears t hat at a recent court k I number of foreign dipl Offiati J I tended, on the understands? none of them would come sonal contact with any of * spirator- actively concerned s murder of the late King Al.-x, ? When the cotillon was resell the gentlemen in one r ow J* give their hands t > those op J it happened that the minist«f one of the great powers had f / partner a chief actor in thetrta* He not only refused to gi Te \ hand, but straightway left the room, immediately followed bv the other foreign King Pi ter turned livid vith a » when rhe painful incident J brought- to his notice, a a j function was brought to an J close. John Lose, the barber, shim another large consignment of « to Rushville, Ind., today. N otice to the Public. Citaract and all diseases of thee cured without an operatihn bv Dr Thain. It makes no difference k long you have been blind or hows your eyes are, you can be cured: i deafness or hard of hearing cat be stored. Consultation and examine free. Dr. Thain will returnherew and be at the Murray House.Th” day, April 27. j]j

Farm Lands. 1. Tenacresof good land, with budfij about six miles from Decatur. M #IOOO (10. 2. Thirty acres of <aud loam, tract ia country, store, school, etc. (No.a« I 50U nu 3. A good 40 acre tract, near Heom) buddings, drove well. No i'* l 4. Well located 4U acre tract ' ' Decatur, frame house. No. w s»ai 5. Good average acre tract in nvrtb-vj I’rvble Township, no building-. ><> |1350 OU. 6. Nicely located and web tract, near Monroe. N" •-» ti-' » 7. A first-class 40 acre tract. »«» location, soil, and Improvement n 3431 *3*oo 00. S. is a->5 acre tract, averrge grade of» orginary Improvement.. iNo.W« 9 A 0.5 acre tract of good farming law* Decatur. (No. 394. *425u 00. 10. Well Improved >9l acre tract ont»J« road near Decatur. Good soil. *•5000 00. 11. Eighty acres-oue half nlsok Piekeaut Mllls-no budding-. > *3760 00. 12. Good average SO acre t met on road near Decatur, fair impro (No. 361 s>3so 00. 13. An MB a-re tract on the “VueHl**, Berne, new bui. dings -*o. 14. Is a93 acre tract on tbe stone rota» Monroe. G rod average land J 7300 l 4 - „ -.4 15. A9O ■■ -re tract that • .in* tbe I ?a, buy^this' farm*.** ' WmUd trade for « SSmkb -•;■ and cotnfortab.e buddings. uO _. A FEW SAMPLES Minnesota otmi that we are now offering *- -n*. tn impr-i-ea■ (n Minnesota: No. • " ■ . acres two miles from .< -■ • fian the pnbbc road: twenty act* an ten «cre« h*s■ b" n 1 . T|lp n>r»!*< acres in timb -r The. 'J e , m«: are a story and a half on 4 frame bar i l''X2o vr.mery. PriceglSHO-or »I 6 an acre No, 637 1« a«8 acre fa rm .rs Sai'ilClond, of which - • # i cultivation: the balata, mi K timlier. This tra"t :- ne fence, about 40u. aert - ‘ Pll . eD ts rest uudula iog. n ‘“ ,> r ib(i wind ad Os a residence, granerv nriw and larg. barn, fl- • In Arkansas. No. 473 I- Cd acre tract seven mile- frnm . . u | K r Seat. Twenty-seven • cre»uri. tion l orry acres f< u£ in good timber, suuo a* ; D _pn.fl oak. red oak and hn'koG e merits c insist of a • , »' house, good orcbar'l- ‘ sanl j»c«. crib.it.e. Price Si-W - No. 467. Is a 120 acre tra' ' the County seat. *r‘ - . ||nlW W der cultivation 40 a. r. ’ purM house ana all the m-ees-a Ba ,.ti»* Good well ot water and -onete ..j! This is an eicel .nt 'M ct ] and acre. — <