Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 5 September 1907 — Page 3

i tlvill test case thoroughly » iDemands Over Ten Thousand Dollars and Will Carry Claim Through Supreme Court. ? 1 , » County clerks In all parts of the state will watch with close attention the progress of a claim filed by ForCounty Clerk William E. Davis vnth the board of Marion county comgnissioners. Davis asks $10,214, which he says is due him in fees that he did not take for himself while he held office, the four years preceding the term of the present clerk, Leonard Quill. 'The hoard of Marlon county commissioners is expected to decline to alllow the claim and Davis will then appeal. It is desired to get a decision of the higher courts in the matter. Dtfring his term Davis says, he did not reserve for himself the fees for “Criminal court allowances, the insanity fees, the transcript fees on appeal or the fees for certified copies of documents. He Was advised not to take these fees, he Bays, by his atItorneys, and to wait until. his term tended before asking for them. Otherwise, it was suggested, he might find it necessary to turn them back into “the county treasury. There has been -dispute throughout the state as to the 'Tight of county clerks to the fees rnamed, under the fee and salary laws. In many counties the clerks have been taking them. In others the course pursued by Davis has been taken. In Hamilton county the clerk obtained a favorable ruling by the circuit court on his right to keep transcript fees and the county appealed ■the case. Davis’ case will cover these fees and all others that are in dispute. ' -o——— —— PLEASE HURRY TO DECATUR i Indianapolis, Ind., August 28. — That the state railroad commission aiwill order an Investigation of general Tailroad depot conditions later in the fall does not seem at all unlikely. In "-fact, a talk with one of the commissioners, coupled with a letter sent out recently to the superintendent of one of the large roads, indicates very definitely that the commission has In *mind the ordering of a general invest!A 'gation. This one commissioner, who talked about the matter this week, was very , positive that such ah investigation should be ordered. “Our information I is that only about one-fourth of the ' -depots of the state are what they should be in every respect —as to size, convenience, sanitatiop, etc., considering the size of the towns wherein they are. - “Larger cities should have stations - -commensurate with their needs,” said the commissionr. “80, too, the Smaller citiek and towns should have decent, respectable, commodious and sanitary depots. Why, in small towns the depot is the center of the social i life. Every one comes down to the 4 o’clock train. There they gather and there they loaf. The depots should be respectable places for them.” 15 . • ________ Now you don’t suppose they could . do Anything at the Clover Leaf do you? . Why, it’s painted; perhaps they mean ; the Erie. * . 1

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ENTIRE PROGRAM WAS GOOD 9 Everybody Happy—Races Were Exciting—Stands Did Big Business —Rains Spoil Today’s Crowd. As predicted, the Thursday crowd at the Great Northern fair exceeded all previous records more than 20,000 people being on the ground when the first race was called at one o’clock. It was a great crowd, orderly, jolly out for a good time, liberal and happy. Everything was conducted in a clean, moral manner. The shows are good, the races exciting, and everything was up to expectation but the blamed old ball games. The free exhibits were excellent attractions, the display of stock, etc., pleased everybody and it was a good humored crowd which left the grounds at dark last evening. The rains last night and early this morning spoiled today’s crowd and l lost association several hundred dollars, but still quite a crowd visited the grounds. The races, though not crowded \*ith starters, were very Interesting and each proved a real race, every competitor apparently striving for the first money. The 2:25 fiace, S3OO, was taken by Marie King, who won the three last heats, after Main Line had tdken the first. Equor won the 2:30 trot* in straight heats; Ithuriel King taking second, and Bob third. The running race went to Starter, with Walter D. second and Miss Falkner third. The summary: 2:25 pace, purse S3OO. Marie King 3 i 11 Main Line 1.3 3 2 Birth Mark 2 2 2 3 Best time 2:26%. 2:30 trot, purse S3OO. Equor 11 1 Ithuriel King . 2 2 2 Bob 3 3 3 Best time, 2:28%. One half, mile run, purse $75. Starter 5 11 Walter W .1 3 2 Miss Falkner 2 2 Red Seal 3 5 Wycatui 4 4 Best time .51. r o The Winona Park School for Young Women, with a capital stock of SIO,OOO, and the Winona Academy, with a capital stock of the same amount, were incorporated at Indianapolis on Saturday last. Both of the schools have been in operation at Winona Lake for several years and are now planning to enlarge their scope of work a!nd "increase the attendance. Several Warsaw people are directors of the two schools, the list of directors being as follows: Winona Park Sschool for Young Women —Benjamin M.Nyce, Ellen Cooper, Rose M. Clark, Elizabeth A. Dickey, Edgar S. Scott and v Sol C. Dickey; Winona Academy—E. F. Parnelle, Paul C. Curnick, Charles Little, Ralph C. Norton, Frank Grandstaff, H. E. Dußois, Harry H. Nyce, Edgar P. Hill, C. M. McDaniel, Sol C. Dickey, E. S. Scott, George Knox, Parley E. Zartmann, J. Wilbur Chapman. ° | '—.— T o Through the Frank Mosure real estate agency of Vera Cruz forty acres of the Eli Mosure farm in French township, Adams county, has been sold to Samuel Seicrlst for $3,500. —Bluff-, ton Banner.

ESTATE GIVEN TO CHILDREN A marriage license was isseud Friday Moser Asks for Divorce from Wife Who Deserted Him. A marriage license was issued today to Henry L. Waggoner, a railroad man from Berne, and Edith Rex of this city. Both have been married once before and divorced. Each Is twen-ty-three years old. The last will and testament of Polly Steele was probated. She provides for the payment of debts. She bequeaths to her daughter Mary F. Swartz, twenty-six acres in Root township. To her son John D. Steele she gives lots lour and five section 36 of Root township and SSOO. To Eli W. Steele, another son, she gives $1,500 and to her daughter, Elizabeth E. Koos, she gives $l,lOO. The rest of .her estate, real and personal, is 'to be divided equally among her three children, excepting John Dayton Steele. Joseph W. Smith is named as executor. The will was writfen November 11, 1904, and witnessed by J. W. Teeple and Will P. Schrock. Lawyers Peterson and Moran filed another new case today, it being one wherein Paul Moser asks for a divorce from Lucy B. Moser. They were, married November 27, 1902, and lived together until April 30, 1904, when the defendant' abandoned her >husband. Their married, life prior to that time was not happy and Mr. Miser now asks that he be granted a divorce. o According to Coroner Dewey, of Elkhart, the body of the man found dead along the Big Four right -of way at Elkhart last week is not that of Monroe Highway, of Pierceton, as was believed by his brother, Charles Highway, and his uncle, J. M. Mabie, who visited Warsaw Monday and telephoned to Elkhart in an effort to obtain more information regarding the description of the victim of the fatal accident Information furnished by Coroner Dewey was such as to satisfy the relatives of Monroe Highway that the body was not his .and the remains were not exhumed. SEVERAL SLIGHTLY INJURED Horses Hitched to Loaded Hack Took Fright at Automobile —Occupants Were Dumped. A serious looking runaway occurred Thursday near the fair ground entrance when a two seated rig used as a hack and driven by Sim Straub was wrecked and a party'' of people strewn over the ground. The horses took fright at an automobile and were soon beyond control of the lad who was driving and tore down the hack driveway at a speed which made the races look lilse they were standing still. After going a short distance they ran into the fence and the occupants of the carriage were hurled about promiscuously. All were jolted and bruised slightly. Bob Andrews received a broken thumb, John Coats a bruised hip, Scott McDonald several bumps and the others a few minor injuries. The buggy was badly demolished, putting if out of business for the day and the horses got loose and ran up towards the center of the grounds, where they were captured. It was rather a lucky affair after all. One little boy leaped through the air like a frog and fell unhurt fifteen feet away. o NO PANIC IN A NIGHT. •* ’ \ ' ‘Z. ■ The Pacific Northwest Have No Fears of Financial Trouble. - - Spokane, Wash., August 30. —Bankers, capitalists, builders and merchants throughout the Inland Empire, comprising 150,000 square miles in eastern'•Washington-and Oregon,, northern Idaho, western Montana and southeastern British Columbia; and, in fact, throughout the Pacific northwest, do not believe a panic can come to this country over night, or that the' era'of prosperity can be chipped away by the efforts of individuals, however strongly they may be fortified in the financial world. In justification of this belief they point to the enormous general business, the immense crops from fields and orchards and the tremendous activity in all lines of building and construction,work. —> « —o Paul Wooten will leave here Friday for Wninepeg and other cities, where he has important business to transact He will return to Oaxaca some time before October Ist. His delightful stories for the Democrat have been greatly appreciated. , ' ; ■ -7 ’’ ■'

NEW FURNITURE HAB ARRIVED Everything up to Date from Top to l Bottom —Mr. Murray Has Made Hls Word Good. The New Murray hotel is nearing completion and .another month at the very farthest will find every detail finished and Mr. Murray's statement that he would give Decatur one of the finest and best equipped hotels in the ■ country win have been made good. The big three story structure containing nearly a hundred rooms, is just now being furnished from top to bottom, with new and tasty material. Each bedroom has been frescoed and finished so as to give a different artistic effect. John H. Edwards, an oldtimer having done this part of the work and proved his ability as a decorator. In each room also will be fsund handsome new beds, furniture and pretty rugs, with modern electric fixtures and in a number of the rooms, baths. The dinfng room is an inviting apartment, finished in away which proves the good taste of the Murrays. In the big office, just being arranged, the tile floor, steel celling . handsomely decorated in tints, the marble stairway and the well arranged lights give an effect bound to be pleasing, to each person who enters. The furniture. for this part of the house recently purchased in Chicago, has arrived, and adds a charm for the tired traveler. This Includes two immense leather davenports and fourteen big leather chairs built especially for ease and comfort. Mr. Murray will probably add some other features to his • t hostelry soon, among them being another addition on the north >ide in the near future. The hotel is a palace and the Murrays are prepared to entertain their large patronage in a most pleasing and satisfactory manner' I , O- ■ ' GETTING BUSY AT PORTLAND -- - . • City Electrician Fired Because He Failed or Refused t« Worship the Cromer Calf. i That the once powerful Ctomer machine, which was smashed into smithereens less than one short year ago, is again under proces of rehabilitation with Boss Cromer at the steerage wheel was made plain at Monday evening’s session ,of the city council when Charles W. Bailey, was decapitated as head of the electric light department,, and in his stead John Milligan, a staunch Cromerite, but an untried city electrician, by a vote of three to two, was hired in his place for the ensuing year beginning September Ist. Bailey has served as superintendent of the city ' water and light department for a little . over three years. That he has been , industrious and efficient in that capacity even his political enemies , concede. His greatest sin and only : '-fault lies in the fact that he thought , and acted for himself and failed to . fall down and worship at the Cromer [ shrine. He even refused to do the [ bidding of the powers that be in the . local Cromer camp. This was enough, , and his head was slated*" for the t political guillotine, thus avenging alleged wrongs done the Boss. —Portland . Sun. , o - [ TRACTION LINE WAS BUSY1 ■■■- , Additional Cars Ne«ded to Handle the Crowds Today. : ’ The traction line brought big crowds to the fair this morning every car being packed to the platforms. When the car due here at nine o’clock reached the nine mile house they carried a t full load and found another bar load waiting there. A telephone call to the offices here was made and cars sent , out at once to handle the crowds. This delayed the freight car, which was an hour and a half late getting out of here. The other cars all day did an immense business and the streets, here were lined, with people all day. The G. R. and I. from the south also brought big crowds. o — BRUNNER “HOUSE IS DESTRdVED \ . I Fire Causes. SI,OOO Loss in Monroe Township. The house owned by Louis A. Brunner and located in Monroe township, northwest of Berne, was totally destroyed by fire at noon Wednesday. The fire originated from a defective flue, while the dinner was being prepared and was soon beyond control. The flames gained headway so rapidly that it was only possible to save a part of the household goods on the lower floor. Everything on the second floor being destroyed. The loss js estimated at SI,OOO, partially covered by in- ( surance. x

WOOD THE ONLY MATERIAL 1 Substitutes Have Been Tried But Always Fall—Steel Ties Caused a Serious Wreck. Shortage in railroad ties is becoming a serious problem to the railroads of the United States. Only recently the forestry bureau of the departmeat of agriculture predicted a lumber famine in the country in seventy-five years if the present consumption of lumber was maintained under present conditions of preservation of forests and manufacture of output When it it realized that the railroads used last year 103,000,000 railroad ties, averaging thirty board feet each, and that this number of tics aggregated more than 300,000,000 board feet or onetwelfth of the saw lumber produced in the entire country for one year, the problem can be better understood. That such a shortage has been foreseen by the railroads is manifested by their almost frantic efforts in the past to find a for wood (from which to make railroad ties. A few years ago a steel tie was invented which it was predicted would produce a revolution in the tie business. A serious accident on the Pennsylvania railroad during the last winter, which was attributed to the use of steel ties on a curved track, resulted In their displacement and a return to the old wooden railroad tie and the steel tie is now temporarily if not permanently abandoned. A good many “freak” Inventions have been tried without success, such as attended ever the steel tie, with the result that the railroads, now seem absolutely wedded to the wooden product by force of circumstances. Efforts are now being made to prolong the life of the wooden tie with some considerable success, and the railroads are looking to the future for an inexhaustible supply of wood to meet their demands. 9 — o. DURING MONTH OF SEPTEMBER Is Taken Every Six Years by County Auditors —Is Us*d by Legislators and Others. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 28. —Within the month of September sometime, there will be compiled a new list of the white and colored voters in the state by districts, counties, townships, cities, villages, by every natural and artificial division. This enumeration, the most exact that the state undertakes, has to be taken every six years. In the late summer and fall of 1901 it was taken. It is now being taken again, the sO-called septennial enumeration of voters. For so it is provided by law. The enumeration is taken in order that the general assembly in making its legislative district apportionments may have new data every six years upon which to base the formation of such districts. The enumeration when completed and compiled will be used by the Indiana legislators in the general assembly of 1909. The compilation will occur in the state office. The county auditors are making up the enumeration for their respective -counties and these will be turned in to the state auditor, who will make the compilation. The number of colored people in the state generally, and in some of the cities in particular, will be the particularly interesting feature of this year’s enumeration, as compared with that of six years ago. —-7 ——- REFUSED FOURTEEN PAROLES Governor Hanly Investigated Recommendation for Paroles. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 28. —AfteS having spent several days investigating their claims, Gov. Hanly refused paroles to fourteen people confined in Indiana prisons and Jails- Two men were paroled by the governor, however, on the condition that they keep the peace and refrain from the use of strong drink/ Henry Tuckenbrook, who was convicted at Fort Wayne of petit larceny in January, 1899, and sent to prison for a term of from one to fourteen years, was one of the men who received paroles at the governor’s hands. Delbert Overman, who was convicted of petit larceny-ip Henry county in January, 1899, was the other. Tuckenbrook has been paroled before, but had violated the terms of the parole and was reincarcerated. Overman had been paroled by the- state board of pardons subject to the will of the governor, and Governor Hanly’s action gives the man outright parole. i — 0 J ■“tar." and Mrs. A. Stemens have?re-1 turned to their home at Fort Wayne after visiting with friends here for some time.

—- T 1111 ■ WITH BIG HAPPY CROWD | — I. . - , - Races Yesterday Were Great—Stephen Decatur Wins Pace—Laura Davenport the Trot. The racing, which proved one of the surprises of the day, was called promptly at one-fifteen o’clock by Starter Bartholomew, he being assisted by Dr. D. D. Clark, D. W. Beery, Dr. J. M. Miller and W. A Lower, who acted in the capacity of judges. The first race on the program was the 2:24 trot, five horses being entered, but only three facing the starter. The first heat went to Lottie M, who proved to have the most speed, but in the remaining three heats she broke badly several times and this feature practically lost her the race, as Laura Davenport came strong and nosed Lottie M out. Bob, a big rangy trotter, was always a close third. The monqywent as follows: Laura Davenport 3 11 1 Lottie M 1 2 2 2 Bob 2 3 3 3 Time: 2:32%, 2:30%, 2:29, 2:31%. The 2:19 pace was the next feature on the program and this was a horse race from start to finish. Six horses faced the starter and were each time sent away to a perfect start Stephen Decatur won the first heat, but lost the second to Black Maid owing to a bad break at the first turn. Stephen Decatur got away nice in the third heat which he won handily. In the fourth and fifth heats Stephen Decatur, who by this-time was a decided favorite, broke again, but in each heat was a close second by magnificent drives in the stretch. Pearl Coastman won these two heat, but owing to the recent ruling of the National Trotting assoclalon, the first money was awarded to Stephen Decatur, on account of his showing, he winning two firsts, two seconds and a fifth. The purse was $350, and every driver was out for the money. The race was determined as follows. Stephen DecaJjir 1 5 1 2 2 Pearl Coastman 5 6 2 11 Black Maid 3 1 6 4 3 Lady Hamilton 2 2 4 3 4 Silver Ore 6 4 5 5 5 Blue Fornian 4 3 3 6 ds Time: 2:19%, 2:21%, 2;22, 2:21%, 2:22. * Considerable trouble was experienced by Starter Bartholomew in sending away the five runners that faced him, but after a tedious wait of one-half hour the horses were sent away to a perfect start, the first heat going to Flying Brook in easy fashion. Lady Patchmore, however, showed the best speed in the second heat and won the heat in a close race. The third heat but .the two horses faced the starter, and were given the word at once and it was a contest well worth witnessing. The horses raced 'neefc and neck from the wire for the entire half mile. Lady Patchmore winning by but a mere length. The purse, which was $75, was split as follows: Lady Patchmore 4 11 Flying Brook .’... 1 2 2 Starter 2 3 dr Otsego ?...?. 3 4 dr Miss Falkner 1.5 5 dr o TELL OF THEIR CAMP LIFE Every Moment Was Enjoyed—Were Given Place of Honor in a Big Parade Saturday. The ten days’ camping at Winona Lake by the Knights and Esquires of the Holy Grail proved most enjoyable to the boys who attended. Last Saturday was the banner day for the boys as they were given first, place in a gorgeous parade by the Sunday schools that had gathered there. Musie was furnished by the Salt Lake City boys’ band and was excellent. During their stay at .Winona the boys of this city state that they had the time of their life. Every exercise and sport known was indulged in and the camping expedition was a grand success. Last Saturday night thirty candidates, were initiated into the order. The initiation took place a the West Minster chapel before an audience of 200 boy workers, who expect to establish castles in their home towns. Sunday the Holy Grail boys were given reserved seats in the auditorium for the Chautauqua salute and the Sunday school. Many people visited the camp and the boys and their work proved quite interesting to all. —-o Mrs, Clarence Baughmann went to Portland yesterday afternoon to buy goods for their five and ten cent store. ■ —O ■ WORKED LIKE A CHARM. Mr. D. N. Walker, editor of that spicy journal, the Enterprise, Louisa, Va., says. “I ran a nail in my foot last week and at once applied Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. No inflammation followed; the salve simply healde the wound.” Heals sores, burns and skin diseases. Guaranteed at Blackburn Pharmacy. 25c.