Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 19 September 1907 — Page 4

THE, DEMOCRAT ITBTTICMDATMOIIIIM6 BY .KW * ELLINGHAM, PUBLMMCM BjMFBB TBAB IM ADYAMCB. Baltr ed at tha jtoOoSca at Dacatur.lßdlaaa as aasesd-claM Mali matter. IrfICiAL PAFtt OF ABAMS ttSITY ALL ABOUT SEVERAL IMPORTANT THINGS In the face of all the efforts to control rates on railroads, both for passenger and freight service, it is rather remarkable that the profits of the big roads this year will far exceed those of any previous year. This merely goes to show that there is a good deal of bluster about railroad legislation. Every man who pays freight on shipments of goods is aware that the present rate is higher than ever before. That is why the earnings of railroads this year have reached such enormous figures.—Columbia City Post. Social unrest, the New Orleans Picayune thinks, is perhaps the most general expression of popular feeling in every country today. In this country it declares, the social discontent is directed wholly against the owners and handlers of wealth, enlisting the people against corporations and combinations of capital and inciting employees against employers. It continues: It is the war against wealth that is at the bottom of all the social discontent in this country. The only aristocracy in this republic is based on wealth. It is money that makes ail our social classes and distinctions, and they who would rise socially must get money. This is at the bottom of all the political and social unrest in this country, and it is being worked up to a dangerous degree of excitement. The News confesses that it is unable to see how the return of Mr. Taylor to Kentucky would give the Democrats ammunition for their political campaign. Powers will not be tried until after the election, and even if he were tried before, one might naturally suppose that the evidence of Mr. Taylor, far from helping the Democratic machine, would place upon it the depest sort of damnation. The truth is that Mr. Taylor’s explanation simply doesn’t explain, and his friends are under the painful necessity of believing that he is showing a remarkable streak of yellow.—Fort Wayne News. The New York Press (extreme Republican) opposes Secretary Taft’s nomination to the presidency on the ground that it is dictated by administration pressure and that the bulk of its support will be from the south, which cannot give him nor any Republican candidate an electoral vote. It says in part: There is nothing which reveals the weakness of Secretary Taft as a seeker after the Republican nomination for president with more startling vividness than the territory which furnishes his strength in the way of possible delegates. This is the south, which will not give him, probably a single vote in the electoral college. New York and J New Jersey, with 51 votes, do not want Taft for the Republican candidate; nor these states: Pennsylvania, with 34; niionis, 27; Indiana, 15; Wisconsin. 13; California, 10. Now, of the 30" that must determine the defeat or election of the Republican candidate, here is half unqualifiedly opposed to the nomination of Taft. But there are more. New England, with 41 votes, takes absolutely no interest in the candidacy of the secretary of war. It is now proposed that congress shall pass a law whereby men who have served in the Philippines in official positions paying “not less than $3,000 a year’’ may be retired after ten years on a yearly pension equal to one-quarter of their salary, to be paid, of course, by the Filipinos whom “divine destiny” threw into our hands. The $3,000 limit would exclude the teachers and other hard-working Americans who have gone to the islands. but it is a great scheme —for the $3,000 fellows.

BUILD MORE HOUSES The building of more houses in Decatur is no visionary anticipation, but a stern reality. Numerous strangers practically covered every foot of walking space in the city last week in a vain search for a house to live in. Daily inquiries at this office for houses are becoming so numerous and insistent. that we now believe-one hundred houses would much nearer supply the immediate demand than would any less number. Tonight at the Commercial Club this subject will be discussed, and every single, solitary booster should be on hand, in order that aid and encouragement be given to an important feature of Decatur’s growth. Attend the meeting. MANY WILL ERECT HOUSES The house situation in Decatur is critical. A realization of this fact is fast impressing itself in the minds of our people, and relief will come, and that speedily, when it becomes a grounded fact. Many individuals will erect houses at once and many more are giving the question serious consideration. The formation of a company who will build ten or twenty houses will add life to the movement, and this fall and early spring will find many buildings completed, others under construction and still others contemplated. It is no idle, irredescent dream that one hundred new houses could find occupants within the next sixty days. It is a simple truth and fact, and our people who are looking for investment should build houses and thus put an earning value to their idle money. The people of boss ridden and corporation controlled state of Wyoming and other northwestern states are in favor of the Dingley tariff “for the present” according to Senator Warren. But if the Dingley tariff is protecting the trusts and making the people pay high prices for trust products, it would seem that every one not especially protected would be anxious for immediate tariff revision. If there is anything wrong, or predatory, about the tariff, why should it not be at once devised to eliminate the evils, and if the tariff is as efficacious as Senator Warren and the other standpatters declare it is, why promise to revise it “after election?” When people have a good thing they hang on to it. Why don’t the Republican politicians tell the truth like the former Congressman McCleary, of Minnesota did, that “if the tariff is to be revised it must be revised higher.” Still McCleary’s openheartedness was his undoing for his Republican constituency repudiated him and like other Republican “lame ducks’’ he was rewarded by Presient Roosevelt with a federal office, so his example hardly commends itself to other standpat statesmen. Taft has sailed for the Philippines, leaving his presidential boom in the care of friends. Senator Foraker will try to puncture it while his royal fatness is away, but the trouble is the Ohio senator will not be able to get within stabbing distance of it. The Fairbanks’ boom is being nursed on buttermilk with the result that it is afflicted with a badly distended stomach and is getting pot-bellied. THE NEW PURE FOOD AND DRUG LAW. We are pleased to announce that Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs, colds and lung troubles is not effected by the National Pure Food and Drug law ae it contains no opiates or other harmful drugs, and we recommend it as a safe remedy for children and adults, THK HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO.

The South Bend Times contends that tax-dodging should be made odious everywhere. “The idea of a $338,000 estate paying taxes on only $500,” it ays, "as evidenced in Chicago, is an outrage that ought not go unpunished. Just why people should want accumulate large estates, without being willing to pay a due proportion of the taxes repaired to keep in operation governmental machinery fqr the protection of such property, is an enigma beyond the power of comprehension.” The Wellman expedition to the north pole has been put in pickle till another year. Meantime people have lost interest in the Wellman expedition. The man who likened it to an attempt to ride over Niagara Fa Ils in a barrel was n/arer the mark than sarcastic suggestions usually are. —Hartford City News. Messrs. John Hendricks, Daniel Reynolds, Andrew Teeple and Frank Snyder went to Greentown, Indiana, this morning to attend the reunion of the 83th regiment. Many people from Decatur and vicinity went to Fort Wayne today to attend the great fair. The cars were run every hour and a half and the interurban company did a good business. It is currently reported that Robert Guseman. who lost his wife and two children in the Lake Erie and Western crossing accident near the paper mill, two weeks ago, has retained attorneys and will bring an action for damages for $33,000 against the company.—Hartford City Gazette. Dr. Z. T. Sweeney, state commissioner of fish and game, says that for a long time he has favored a closed season for fish. He says that the laws of Indiana protect game, but do not provide a protection for the finny tribe, and that the fisherman who catches a string of six or seven fish in the spring when the fish are spawning destroys several thousand fish. Bob Peterson and family left last evening for Sherwood, 111., where they expect to make their future home. Mr. Peterson will act as agent in that section of the country for the Watkins’ Medical company, he having been assigned to that vicinity. Mr. Peterson is a hustling young man and will no doubt make good right away with these people, as he has had considerable experience dealing with the farmers. His many friends here, however wish he and his family unlimited success. The Purdue experimental station is telling farmers and truck growers how to keep the frost away. The plan is to keep fires burning through the night to the windward of the crop to be protected. The smoke warms the atmosphere and prevents freezing. If any farmer finds that he hasn’t enough work to do during the day, he can put in the night fighting frost in the manner suggested. One man suggests fixing up a wagon so that it cannot take fire and burning straw on it. driving back and forth as the straw burns. Congressman John A. M. Adair left Tuesday for a ten days' trip to Washington. visiting enroute, the Jamestown exposition. He was accompanied by his wife and son Herbert. The latter will be placed for the winter in the Fishburne Military academy at Waynesboro, Virginia. Congressman and Mrs. Adair expect to spend the greater part of the winter at the capital, and file boy is placed in the eastern school, both for the military instruction and also that he might be nearer his parents than he would be here at home. —Portland Review. Winona, one of the greatest religious centers in the country, has never had a bad fire. The assembly was established about twelve years ago and since that time the park city, with its hundreds of houses and numerous larger buildings has never had the semblance of a disastrous blaze. The park, however, is prepared for any emergency, having a volunteer fire department and a fire engine. Every man at the park is a fire fighter, it being an ironclad rule that should a blaze occur, the moment the alarm is sounded every man is required to drop everything instantly and assist i-. fighting flames. No. 3 the west bound passenger du a here at 11:59 a. m. on the Clover Leaf, hit and killed a child yesterday morning at Herbst, a small station eight miles west of Marion. The child, the eighteen-year-old boy of James Hubbard, was playing on the track near his home. He had run away while his mother was at a neighbors, and went out on the track. Number 3 is not scheduled to stop »♦ the small station and the child was almost upon the track before the engineer noticed its presence. Although every effort waa made to stop the train, it hit the baby, killing It instantly.—Bluffton Banner.

( IN NEW STATE OF OKLAHOMA ' Fight Was a Bitter One With Taft 1 and Bryan as Opposing Leaders of Force. . Oklahoma City, Sept. 18—The first i state election in Oklahoma was held . yesterday, the Democrats electing their entire state ticket; C. N. Has- ’ kell of Muskogee, being elected governor. The prohibition plank also carried and the state will be “dry.” , All of the elements of a national campaign were at hand in the canvass. Secretary of war Taft was the ’ chief representative of the Republicans ’ side and William J. Bryan was’brought i in to answer Secretary Taft and to t lead the Democratic fight for the constitution and the Democratic ticket. The election was held under the terms of the act of congress granting joint statehood to Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory. The statehood [ bill was passed at Washington after . a strenuous fight which was carried through several sessions of congress, j President Roosevelt intervened on behalf of the people of the territories, and. while each territory was anztons for separate statehood, a compromise ' effected by the friends of statehood accepted the joint bill rather than have none at alt Immediately after the statehood bill was signed by the president the battle • for the political control of the new I state opened. I The Democratic convention went ' squarely on record as favoring the • adoption of the constitution, praising 1 its provisions, and named a full state ‘ ticket The Republican convention, while not openly condemning the con- ■ stitution, pointed out the alleged weak- ■ nesses of the code, but in effect ad- [ vised that the constitution be acceped ■ rather than to force another fight for i statehood at Washington. A state ticket was nominated and later both i parties placed in nomination candii dates for congress in each of the eight districts, to which the state will be entitled when full statehood is granted, and also nominees for both houses of the legislature and a complete list of county officers in each of the counties. All of the candidates for office took . part in the campaign, which grew very bitter in the closing days of the fight. National politics played an important part, inasmuch as two United States senators hung in the balance, and looking forward to 1908, the electoral vote of the new state was a matter of much concern to the national leaders. o OBITUARY. Jessie Thomas Watkins was born in Knox county, Ohio. April 16, 1838. He moved to Adams county, Ind., when but a small boy. where he grew to manhood and followed the carder trade for a number of years. He united with the Disciple church about the year 1877 and remained a member of said church until his death, which occurred September 13, 1907. He was married to Mary Teeple November 8, 1859, and they had born to them nine children, four of the children died when small. He leaves surviving him his widow, and the following named children: Sarah E. Ritter, John W. Watkins, James W. Watkins. Mary E. Case. Stewart Watkins. He was a true husband and an affectionate and loving father and he leaves the above and many other relatives and friends to mourn their loss. He was well known as a good neighbor and one among the best citizens. His funeral sermon was preached at the Baptist church in Pleasant Mills Sunday at two p. m. by Rev. H. Kohn, of Willshire to a large concourse of sympathetic relatives and friends. There we ll met the loved departed When lief’s weary wheels stand still Meet the noble, the true-hearted, ■Who life's mission here fulfill. Love and sympathy to the bereaved. o — A deal was consumated this morning whereby James P. Haefling. county clerk elect, purchased the old Ad'lesperger homestead on Fourth street. By the terms of the sale Mr. Haefling will not obtain possession of the prop erty until next April, but has the privilege of making any repairs before that time. It is his intention to remodel the old home and make it modern and up to date in every respect, and after April Ist will be found in his new quarters. Several young boys, while playing on the streets last evening, hurled a banana stock through the large glass window at the John Myers saloon, breaking it in a thousand pieces. The boys showed their manly spirit by poand telling Mr. Myers who broke ■ it and early this morning a man was on hand and put in the glass. The acident was purely accidnetal, although the boys were well aware of the fact that they had no business throwing while on the streets. With the damage remedied the matter in so far as all are concerned is closed.

. Monday night Squire J- H. Ston officiated at a wedding uniteing Miss Marv Evans and Isaac Zimmerman In . the holy bonds of wedlock. This is ’ the same couple that were arrested by the police Saturday evening. The directors of the Clover Leaf have declared the regular semi-an-nual dividend of 2 per cent on the , preferred stock, payable Oct. 15. This lis the second dividend the road has ' paid and is considered a favorable >' comment on the manner in which the - property is operated at the present - time. - Another prettily served twelve o’clock dinner of Sunday was the 1 one given by Mrs. Isaac Brown in - compliment to Mrs. Noami Hurst, of > Wabash. Sweet peas and ferns were s used on the dining table. The guests t were: J. R- Peoples and family, S- ) E. Brown and family. Noami and Ejf - ther Peoples. The Clevland short line is making ‘ a fill 6,000 feet long just outside of the > city limits, says the Cleveland Plain I Dealer. It extends from the Radway I homestead on the west to a point near ' east Seventy-first street on the east. I The work is one of the most difficult • on the beltline job. The valley in ’ which the roadbed is being built is ■ about 400 feet deep at some places. ' The fill was necessary in order to ' maintain the low grade in which the ' road excels. 1 The September peach cuts so small a Sgure in the market that housewives ' have given up the idea of canning it. ' What few peaches ar offered for sale : are usually of inferior quality and they bring high prices at that The heavy L frosts in November of last year are ' held resiwnsible for the failure of ’ the Michigan crop. The peach ! orchards of Ohio w-ere also damaged ’ in the same way. It is doubtful if Michigan ever regains its prominence as a peach state. 1 Another interesting development r on the rate question was that various > roads in Ohio and Indiana have begun ! to gather in statistics to use in a test . of the constitutionality of the 2-cent t laws in these two states. The 2-cent > law has been effective in Ohio since . March 10, 1906, while in Indiana it 5 has been in force only four months. t And from statistics procured by sev- . eral of the roads the officers expect to prove the low rate unremunerative E thus making the law unconstitutional. r There’s going to be a pie famine be- • fore the snow flies according to pastry 1 cooks in various cities in the state. ’ Not only is fruit for pies scarce, but 1 it is also exceedinly high, and the 1 average pie today costs from fifty to f one hundred per cent more than it • did a year ago. Even the good old custard pie, with mTlk and eggs up several notches, is expensive. Apples 1 and peaches are sdarce and high- • priced and about the only thing left 1 is the pumpkin, so that pumpkin pie ' will fie something not to be sneezed at this fall and winter. , It looks odd to see farmers hauling j loads of coal out to their homes from town, but that is what many of them . are compelled to do. While there is . plenty of wood in the county and large ( quantities of it are allowed to go to t waste every year, owners of it object , to letting their neighbors go in and ’ make use of it for the reason that L some of them take advantage of the . privilege and take timber that they should not. Many farms are entirely j stripped of wood and the only thing , for those who reside on them to do is . to buy wood or coal. At the present I price of wood, soft coal is considered , the cheaper and for that reason many I farmers buy it. , When the old New England railroad : was in enjoyment of ai independent - corporate existence, a trotting horse - that had been entered in all the races in the New England fair circuit was killed in an accident to the train upon 1 which the animal was being transported. The owner put in a claim not only for the value of the horse, but . also for the first prize in every event in which he had been entered. The - total was something startling, espec- - ially for a bankrupt railroad. In pros- - ecuting his claim the owner maintain- . ed that the horse was the re- : markable trotter the country had ever - seen and that he would have been a - dead sure winner throughout the seaj son. The court, however, took a more - moderate view of the animal’s trot- - ting abilities and based the sum of the , damages upon the actual value of the i equine wonder. DEMOCRAT WANT ADS. PAY.

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AT THE K. P. LODGE Ro J A Social Session on Thursday E Ve|| I I Other Events of 1 Day. 1 Twenty young people troni „ ■ Wayne gathered at the l.onie of h ™ Dirkson on Sunday. The dav very pleasantly in music anj At five o’clock an elegun, SUpw ‘II served, while at the ar.ivai Jwl nine-thirty o’clock car nimy wen. Ji • congratulations which Entered u ■| the family for their charming ' tainment. The guests were: y.-jM i Clara Bultemeier, Lydia an] \ t l| ; Heckman. Ada Zwick, Delia Martha Bultemeier, Louise Zwick, ma Heckman, Messrs. Charley z W j*l Theodore Draege, Edwin . haun, Martin Henock Reckman, Chat-1 1 ,Jley Berning. Charley Nuirge,’ j Nuerge, Martin Bultemeier, Martini Annan, Gust Fuhrman. I ' On Thursday evening all member, ■ ..of the K. of P. order are request J to be present at their meeting. After ■ , the business session a smoker willbeß held and refreshments served, gy I , order of the committee. K —o — B ALSO MURPHY DAMAGE CASE ■ Jury Will Report Monday When tin I Trial of Criminal Cases Will I Begin—Other Items. E — ■! B H The case of Nettie Druly vs. Dennis I ‘ Druly, divorce, was set for trial Sat- I , urday, September 21st. I In the case of Martin J. Bligh vs. I Jonathan M. Andrews, account $73.7L I t the defendant was ruled to answer . I i absolute within five days. I t t Joseph W. Murphy vs. John Fox et : al, for damages, demand $1,375, ast swer in one paragraph filed denying s the allegations. Cause set for trial t October 10th. Cora M. Archbold, guardian, filed; t an inventory in probate court, also a ! petitlon/for au order to sell real es- . tate and William Haggarh and Jacob Sprunkle were appointed commia r sioners. t Four cases have been set for trial , next week, beside the criminal suits, , three to be called Wednesday and . one Friday. The jury will report , Monday and real court will probably ( begin at that time. . o—- ’ STRUCK INTERURBAN POLE • ■ Bolt of Lightning Awoke Many People 1 this Morning. • The first thunder storm in several 1 weeks came Tuesday. One vivid 1 stroke of lightning followed by a ter- 1 ’ rifle crash of thunder, awoke many ! people at about 5:30. The bolt struck • one of the interurban poles in front of : Marshal Green’s residence on north 1 Second street and threw splinters all - over that section of the city o A new lid now adorns Hartford City. It was put on Sunday afternoon ’ to replace the old one which was so ’ badly perforated that it was no longer of any use. The old lid has been in a ' bad state of repair for some time but it probably had not the evidence of its weakness been made so plain by a I number of saloonkeepers who persisted in doing business over the front bar s during illegal hours. An officer made : i the rounds early in the evening and ; gave all orders to get under cover.- 1 i Hartford City Gazette.

THE HANDICAP > S<-ed Cleaner and Grain Separator will take 99 per cent of the Buckhorn ■ out of Clover and Alfalfa. "hl make . a marketable seperation of oats from 1 wheat, and grade all kinds of grain for > seed purposes. ‘ HENQV KNAPP, Agent Decatur, Ind