Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 14 November 1907 — Page 7

A YS E. S. SHUMAKER eader of the Anti-Saloon forces of Indiana—Tuesday’s Election Pleasing. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 6.—Basiig j conclusions on a careful study of lesday’s election results in the difrent states, E. S. Shumaker, supertendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon jgue, today declared that the temrance question will be the "burng issue” before the people of Inana in the campaign next year. "By the term ‘burning issue,’ ” k id he, "I do not mean that it will scome a partisan measure, but that K>d citizens regardless of party will terest themselves sufficiently to see at candidates for governor, lieutenit governor, secretary of state, state presentatives, prosecuting attorneys, id all other officers whose duty it is enforce the laws, will not be the ■rvants of the liquor interests. “From now on, the effort will be to iify the temperance vote in Indiana, lie example in Ohio two years ago at caused such a landslide which tired Governor Herrick and elected overnor John M. Pattison has been ie inspiration of the decent citizens politics everywhere and especially >r e in Indiana.” Superintendent Shumaker and his rworkers in the cause of temperice appeared to be highly elated toiy over the gains made by them in uesday's elections. They professed to , e a strong temperance wave headed raight for Indiana. — o may repudiate mortgage. ight of Wife Under Ruling of the Appellate Court. Indianapolis, Nov. 6.—The appelite court today held that under the iw of Indiana where a husband and ife for the purpose of borrowing toney out of a building association 1 relieve the necessities of their aughter conveyed the wife's land to er husband and he mortgaged it to a uilding association, the wife could epudiate the debt and defeat the lortgage. Judge Roby was evidently issatisfied with the law so declared nd said: “But no matter how strong the mor--1 obligations may be nor how anx>us the wife was to have the busand make the loan the law as contrued permits her to repudiate any ability. The remedy for this anomlous condition lies with the legisiture.” c The telegraph strike is ended. Afsr thirteen weeks of labor struggle hich has involved nearly 15,000 comlercial telegraphers throughout the ountry, the final action toward jrminating the strike was taken yesjrday affternoon, when Chicago local nion. the largest local in the country, oted to call off the strike and return o work unconditionally.

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WILL OBEY MAYOR Say They Were Employed by Him and Will Take Orders from Him Only. Regardless of the order made Tuesday evening by the council in relation to the two night policemen, they continue to pursue their former duties and say they will continue in that capacity until the mayor orders them to cease. The city clerk in compliance with the order made by the council to notify each in writing that their services were no longer needed and that the city wouia not be liable for their pay. did notify each of the men namely, Samuel Frank and Joel Reynolds and in response thereto they stated that they were not under the orders of the council, but were acting under orders issued by the mayor and would continue so to act until he saw fit to discharge them. Mayor Coffee is confident that he is the sole authority in the matter of selecting and ordering out policemen and says that under the pressure that has been brought to bear upon him by numerous citizens, who are demanding protection for themselves and property, he expects to have the men doing regular police duty during the night, regardless of what the council may say or do. The situation is a peculiar one and public sentiment is divided upon the question as to who is the proper person to exercise this authority, and whom it is vested in and it will not practically be determined until a higher court hands down a decision. The council are equally determined that the men shall not serve and say that if they do they will never allow them a penny for their services, and as the question now staads Decatur is getting police protection at a very small cost. FRED RINEHART LEAVES MARION Bluffton Newspaper Man Goes to Crawfordsville. The Banner is informed that bred Rinehart, who was connected with the Bluffton papers in a reportorial way most all his life, just leaving this city last spring to take a position as reporter on the Marion Chronicle, will leave Marion Saturday evening to take complete charge of the Crawfordsville Review, a democratic daily newspaper. The paper has just lately passed into the hands of W. B. Westlake, proprietor of the Marion Leader and three or four other papers throughout the country. and Fred will act as managing editor for Mr. Westlake. The field is a good one, Crawfordsville being a good sized city and the paper a fairly good property.—Bluffton Banner. o Before the week ends City Treasurer D. H. Hollingshead will demand $1,732 from Ex-City Treasurer Louis Willman. If the ex-treasurer refuses to settle, and it is a cinch he will, Mr. Hollingshead will demand payment from the bondsmen. They will likewise refuse to come forth with the long green. The next step will be to I institute suit in the circuit court. I City Attorney Sprague will prepare the complaint at once in the hope of | filing it before the close of the present term. —Hartford City News.

ACCEPTS NEW PLACE As Head of the Law Department at the State University at Bloomington. Indianapolis, Nov. 7. —Hon. Jesse J. LaFollette, assistant United States district attorney for Indiana, resigned his position yesterday, to accept a position at the head of the law department in Indiana university at Bloomington. He was succeeded by Clarence Nichols, of Indianapolis. The above telegram will no doubt cause some surprise among the many friends of Mr. LaFollette, who is well know.- here. He is a native of Portland, and has frequently attended to legal affairs here. He has held his present position about ten years and has gained a reputation as performing his duties in a manner equaled by but few of his successors. A few of his most intimate friends knew that he had been tendered a chair at the state university, and was considering the acceptance of same, very seriously. The new position is one of honor and Judge LaFollette's efforts will without doubt; make the law department at Indiana, equal to that of any college in the country.

COTTON’S CASE TO BE APPEALED Judge LaFollette Has Motion for New Trial Under Advisement. Prosecutor A. G. Emshwiller is home from Portland, where he took part in the argument for a new trial for Frank Cotton, convicted of perjury. Judge LaFollette who heard the argument, has taken the same under advisement. The attorneys for Cotton asked that a new trial be granted on the ground that the court had not taken into consideration the main fact introduced by the defense at the trial. This was that the Wells circuit court records do not show that the jury before which Cotton is alleged to have perjured himself was a legal one, there being no evidence, it is said, that the jury had ever been impaneled and sworn. Should the motion for a new trial be overruled an appeal will be taken to the higher courts. —Hartford City News. o HAVING NO TROUBLE They Want Contracts for Two Hundred Acres Close to Town. Frank Peterson, who is acting in the capacity of agent and solicitor for the new pickle industry that will be established in Decatur in the near future, reports that he is meeting with great success and that most of the farmers he has talked to have taken hold of the proposition with a willingness that is surprising. Mr. Petersn's object in this matter at the present time is to solicit the farmers and get them to agree to cultivate from one-half to five acres of their land for the raising of pickles exclusively, and should he be successful in getting contracts for two hundred acres, the factory is assured. The contracts must represent land within five miles of Decatur, so that it is easily accessible, too, and that the crop may be brought to the factory without much of a haul. Mr. Peterson is more than satisfied with the present turn of affairs, and says that if the farmers take hold in the future as readily as they have in the past, that he will experience no trouble in securing the amount of land desired and more, too. The farmers should take hold of this proposition, as it means much to them and they will always have a ready market for their produce.

HUNTING PARTY TO LEAVE. Will Pitch Camp in Northern Michigan. A party of hunters left here Friday morning for the wilds of the northern peninsula of Michigan, where they will locate a oamp In Dickinson county, and for about three weeks will enjoy the sport of killing deer and other wild game. They expect to arrive home December Ist. Included in the party are J. Q. Neptune, of this city; George Nettle, Union township; Dr. Leslie and son, Convoy; Frank Gideon and son, John Gideon and the Sugar Brothers, of Paulding; William Baxter, Wolfcale, Ohio, and Mr. Mumma, of Gideon, Mo. — — Judge John W. Headington, of Portland, has been by Governor Hanly, as a member of the Board of Regents of the Soldiers and Sailors monument, at Indianapolis, the appointment being made on Wednesday.

DEMANDS TO BE MADE Timothy Woodruff, Starts the Ball Rolling from Brooklyn. New York, Nov. 6. —Chairman Timothy L. Woodruff, of the republican state committee, wired the president today that yesterday’s republican victory in Kings county was due to Mr. Roosevelt’s strength in Brooklyn, and said tonight that he believed the demand would be such that the president would be obliged to accept a renomination. Chairman Woodruff had been asked where he stood on the presidential situation, when he replied: “I propose to adopt a new policy—the policy of silence, but I don’t mind expressing my opinion which cannot in any way indicate where I stand on the question at this time. “I am firmly of the opinion that the demand for the re-nomination of Theodore Roosevelt will be so strong next spring that the president will be obliged to accept the re-nomination. Every indication points to his being swept into office by an overwhelming vote. “Under the leadership of Roosevelt in the nation and of Hughes in the state, the rank and file of the independence league will, in my judgment, vote hereafter with the republican party,” o COUNTIES AFFECTED Jay and Wells Have Reported, But the Books Were Kept Open Here. County Auditor Smith has just made his report to the county commissioners, of the collections made by him, on account of the re-dredging of the Lob. The total assessments in this county was, $24,813.38, of which all but five thousand dollars was paid without the necessity of issuing bonds. The remaining amoun: will go on the tax duplicate, and bonds will be issued, payable one each year, for five years, the first being due November 1, 1908. A report received from Auditor Brinneman, of Wells county, where a portion of the affected land was situated, shows a collection of $740.87, all but $42 of the amount assessed in that county. The auditor of Adams county has not yet reported, but it is understood that the collection there is almost the total assessment. The books have been kept open there till the present time, for the benefit of those who wanted to pay without issue of bonds, while payments hers were shut off last February.—Portland Commercial-Review.

LEFT THIS MORNING Has Been Kicked About Here for Many Years, but Now Has a Chance. Mike Touhey, who for many years has been one of the old land mark characters, found in every community, and whose principal occupation has been that of spittoon cleaner and porter about the saloons left Friday morning for Cleveland, Ohio, where, if he makes any effort at decency, he may spend the balance of his days at ease, surrounded by every comfort to make one contented. A few days ago Mike received a letter from a daughter whom he has not seen in years, asking him to come to her, offering him a home and all the necessary requirements to make him comfortable. Mike was financially embarrassed, but happened to show the letter to Robert Blackbum. who, seeing an opportunity to do a kindness, wrote to the daughter, whose name is Mrs. Edward L. Gorris, her husband being in the plumbing business and well-to-dp. Thursday came a message authorizing him to draw a sufficient sum the western union company to send Mike to Cleveland, on a first class train. Mike was willing and Mr. Blackburn saw that he had his ticket, a lunch and he sailed for Cleveland this morning. He is a kind hearted man, his own worst enemy, and it is to be hoped he appreciates this kindness from his faithful daughter. —, . - oA physician has just announced his somewhat startling discovery that he has succeeded in making the dead heart beat. If the doctor would now discover how to make the dead beat pay, the business men of the country will fall over each other in an effort to erect a suitable monument to hie memory.

TO LATE TO CANCEL According to the Opera House Managers—Women to File Objections. The women of Bluffton are up in arms over the fact that a “Black Crook” snow is scheduled for that city next Saturday evening. Speaking of affairs the Banner says: Unwilling to permit their husbands, sons, brothers and fathers to visit the Grand Saturday evening and become contaminated by witnessing the spicy production of the "Black Crook, Jr.” the ladies of Bluffton, through numerous committees, have vigorously remonstrated and there is hardly a moment in the day but that Smith and Tangeman, the managers of the opera house, are wating upon a body of irate women or listening to a frenzied appeal over the telephone that the show be canceled. The management booked the show under another name,not knowing that it was the same company which entertained a crowded house for men only last winter. When they learned the true nature of the show they told the advance man that they would not allow the degrading spectacle the use of the stage again, but the wily showman already had the managers under contract and by threatening them with a damage suit they were forced to submit. However, they in turn placed the agent under contract that the show would be conducted along moral lines. When the foregoing was explained to the ladies they still refused to be appeased and persisted in their demand that the date be cancelled. The managers stand to lose between $l5O and S2OO if they cancel the show, besides laying themselves liable to a damage suit and they have made a proposition to the remonstrators. This is to the effect that if the women of Bluffton will raise $l5O and back up the management in a possible damage suit their wishes will receive accordance. Otherwise the show will be put on.

WAS BADLY SINGED Republican Made Unholy Alliance With Hearst in New York. Washington, November 7. —The results of the elections were very accurately foretold by persons who watch the trend of political events. The impression prevailed here all the while that President Roosevelt and the managers of the presidential boom of Secretary Taft made a mistake in persuading Congressman Theodore E. Burton to become a candidate for mayor of Cleveland. It was well understood here that there was politics in the maneuver. The program was to elect Burton mayor and then push him as a candidate for the senate to succeed Foraker. Many friends of Burton said from the outset that a man of so much real worth should not be used in that way. It was also expected that the election of Burton would tend to add to the prestige of Taft in Ohio. Now that Mr. Burton has gone down in defeat, there will probably be any amount of speculation as to the effect on the candidacy of Mr. Taft for the presidency.

The Muncie Star says several hundred inactive members in two of Muncie’s most prominent churches have been relieved from membership, and this action is being followed by different churches in other parts of the state. The erasures from the rolls have been made in both the First Baptist church and the High Street M. E. church, the pastors and congregations believing it is better to have fewer earnest workers than a larger number, some of whom have little interest in the welfare of the organization. Willie Miller, tne only son of Nick Miller, the barber, who has been an invalid for a number of years, is now confined to his bed in a very serious condition. The young man hook a turn for the worse on Tuesday and since that time has been gradually growing weaker. The doctors offer but little hope and are of the opinion that the end is not far distant. A newspaper can print the grandest sermon that ever fell from inspired lips and not 20 per cent of the professedly pious will read it; print a detail amount of some female bunco'game or a sensational divorce in tiigh life and 99 per cent of the very elect will make a dive for the paper before breakfast, swoop down upon it, devour every word, then roll their eyes heavenward, like a Calf with the colic and wonder what the wicked world is coming to.

BY THE COMMISSION To Attain the Benefit from the College and City Libraries—ls Satisfactory. The Indiana Public commission, at its annual session held Tuesday in its rooms at the state house, decided to remove its summer school for librarians from Winona Lake to Earlham college, where the students may derive benefit both from the college and the Richmond city libraries. The lack of library facilities has seriously handicapped the school at Winona. One hundred and twenty-five librarians attended the school last year. Miss Merica Hoagland, who has been the recording secretary of the commission, tendered her resignation. Her duties will be looked after from now on by the secretary, Chalmers Hadley. A report submitted by Mr. Hadley Tuesday, for the year ending Sept. 30, 1907, was in part, as follows: “During the last year libraries were opened or library boards organized at Goodland, Auburn, Bloomfield, Montpelier, Linton, Kendallville, Mishawaka, Spencer Ligonier and Martinsville. The number for the year was eight libraries opened, with two library boards having completed their organization. The Connersville library was completely organized, with every prospect for a most successful institution. It is expected that several additional libraries will opene in the near future. Library campaigns during the last year have been carried on with the commission's aid at North Manchester, Roanoke, Angola, Rushville, Fairmount, Brownstown, Lagrange, North Vernon, Vevay and Bicknell. The secretary of the commission is writing to Mr. Gary, urging that the Steel Corporation make ample provision for a public library at Gary, Ind.” Mr. Hadley reported that during the last month fifty-six traveling libraries, of 2,120 books, were sent over the state. During the year just closed 13,227 books were sent out by the commission. A great part of the second floor of the new library building is admirably adapted for this purpose and the course will be opene to Earlham students under certain conditions. The school will be moved next summer.— Richmond Paladium.

ON NOVEMBER 26TH Democrats from All Sections of the Country Will Attend Banquet. Washington, November 7. —Wifliin easy range of the White House William Jennings Bryan will be bailed Tuesday evening, November 26, by 500 prominent democrats from all parts of the country as the next president of the United States. The committee of arrangements for the Bryan love feast will meet tonight in Washington and will make known the names of the men selected to deliver the principal speeches at the Bryan banquet. If all the democrats and part-way democrats invited to meet Mr. Bryan at the capital put in an appearance the gathering will be a love feast in very truth, provided, of course, that the bidden ones forget their differences and think of nothing but the Nebraskan and his cause. It is said by the managers with every evidence of good faith that Mr. Bryan will be flanked at the dining board by such staunch democrats as Tom Johnson, of Cleveland; John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi; Hoke Smith, of Georgia; Governor Edward Warfield and Senator Isador Rayner, of Maryland; Senator Joseph W. Bailey, of Texas; and William Randolph Hearst, of New York and elsewhere. If the enthusiastic followers of Mr. Bryan succeed in getting Senator Bailey and Editor Hearst at the same board and succeed in keeping the peace throughout the eating and the speechmaking, they will give final proof that in this world the seemingly impossible always is possible. Furthermore, if Mr. Bailey and Mr. Hearst abide lamblike at the board it will be an earnest that all the democratic and half-democratic factions in the country can be brought together in one harmonious whole. Everett King, formerly of this city but a number of years with the engineering department of the Rock Island road in Oklahoma and Texas, has given up railroad work for the time being and is now a member of the faculty of the state university at Stillwater, Oklahoma, instructing in engineering. Mr. Wing has been away from Huntington several years and has made great progress In his work. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John King of south Jefferson street. —Huntington Herald.