Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 9 April 1908 — Page 3

oF F HIS LEG it Two Miles |8... Relapsing—Died IT Jwo Days Later Q rticb with brought most ■g* es to Chauncey Stetson, ■t,. has reached the city antie tragic death of his broth H while felling a tree O s British Columbia, got had his right leg all but ■■ M .-- ... . erring as a result of jULied Tue ueceascd visited •'ears ago and was well josnua FurriKi family KB'.'. ...... made his acquainhe was the guest of his as will be ascertained u dispatch from Tacothe unfortunate man cut tha' connected the injur- ■ . I'..- b sdy and carried his fcgff... in his arms for more than before he relapsed into un-O.KiSe.-r Wash . March SI —Carryright leg -with him. Stetson. logger, crawled jK., n miles of bush to tidewater pßr'inie-. B- C.. got into a boat JM,.,.,;.:!;. -two miles down the |W,, ; vifil r.g camp before fin;.ll v stetson was haad-logging Ur.ve felling a tree, he was the tree fell. It crushed K. leg into a shapeless mass. Mkiiy Vearinß it off. Stetson

■■Ld the work by cutting the EK of skin which remained. Al|K tiding :o death, he retained Kelts and laboriously made IKdtbrough the bush to the coast. Ufr fax he crawled over logs K«Hi swamps until he reach-IKnt-t s edge. Suffering untold |K>go'. in'o a boat and managed ramp two miles away. |Ki' ohapsed The men procurIKkirth and took him into Lund. he was conveyed to the Kfc hospital ..here every atmade to save his life, but jijSS: 4 and the loss of blood had and he died. deceased was forty-three rears IKtOas a surviving divorced wife K ONE WILL BID and Cass County to be at a StandStill on Improvements |Kh< Ind.. April 2—Although rr-<is- rer and auditor have many inquiries concerning |Sp3Mi) worth of gravel road sale here no offers to buy been received since the |KtA S. Kean & Co., of Chicago, BHwtr followed up their offer las’ fall The question of the bonds will sell is Bl? import unt at this time, for AM :ors an i farmers are anxious M* whether the roads can be summer and to know o plan for the work. |K;' pe’itioners are anxious the reason that if the bonds sold and the roads are not |BW* r the petitions now on tile aecmt elated costs. These HHwuid be especially heavy in of these petitions will be SHastaices in Nottingham townBlH’iKre several signed as many and ten petitions. county board of commist®** the grave] road bonds. Aciß’ 10 the Logansport Tribune |H‘ ar that the bunds are taxable. |K*J-h the comparatively low rate in such case, is one reaI® 1)011(18 do not sell. The TrlW says: eommlssluners held a jesrerday for the purpose of bids for the gravel road |B»t none were sent in. The I °t f, rs did not decide whether re-advertise or not. but f^F ual>le that the matter will be The bids were for roads in U^ 81 ' Washington and Jefferson “ the bonds were not ‘ s ?rol>aD,e that they could HTj,' °*- but with the tax take Per cent the men T^Py eoul(1 make any th 6 uea '' If bonds are gST . S cost tbe advertising - ms will be taxed against MhX S;ir&nces of goo<l wiU n lbe democratic congressHff " ! ° n was aln <ost assured SR j; _ aDy ° f tbe le tters sent n democrats have been Mhg*. SD ' al! with assurances jK^] n l 5houl(1 be the place seWtnn Newg

HARD FOUGHT CASE New Partition Case Filed Suit on Note Will Be Heard Tomorrow Attorney A. P. Beatty filed a new case entitled Warren W. McQuiston et al vs. Charles F. Felty et al, petition for the partition of real estate.

City of Decatur vs. The Toledo, St. Louis & Western Ry. Co. to collect S2OO for electric light rental, dismissed and costs paid. The case of Henry C. Davis vs. Fred W. Fuelling, suit on note, will begin trial tomorrow morning. Levi L. Baumgartner filed a Federal Union Surety bond for K.OOO as superintendent of’the Mathias Miller ditch. The bond was approved. — I A marriage license was issued to Lloyd B. Campbell, aged twenty-one, a school teacher, and Florence B. Hettler, aged eighteen, both of Blue Creek township. Benjamin Habegger was granted letters of administration in the estate of Caroline Duer and filed bond for* 11.300. • — - o— FASTEST COLT IN INDIANA

The fastest colt, by inheritance, ever foaled in Indiana, has been brought to Jay county, an’ is now at the Dell Palmer slock farm, south of this city. It is a brown filly, from Bernice, 2:07% and is sired by New Richmond, 2:07%. Both are race record for mares over half mile tracks at Pa., on July 12, 1902. Nfcw Richmond, 2:07% is considered by many to be as great a race stallion as lives. His race at Galesburg. 111, where he stepped the sixth heat in a winning race tn 2:07%, is seldom equaled. This is the third foal at the Palmer stock farm, out of mares with race records better than 2:08. Roberts, of Warsaw, came Tuesday, and returned with the new team recently purchased' by Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, the evangelist, in his summer driving. They are half sisters, both being sired by Stately, 2:11%, and are considered by judges of horseflesh, to be as fine a pair as ever left the Palmer stock farn^ —' Portland Commercial-Review. o LOOKED • SUSPICIOUS For a While but Dr. filler and His Assistant Dr. • ® McKean Do Good WgrX

The French township farmers and their families who have been terrorized by the spread of that dread diseast smallpox, are again at ease as all traces of the eipdemic have been stamped out. Some weeks ago a man of French township went to Ohio for a visit and after returning he inoculated the community. Several of the patients were treated for chickenpox, and not enough precaution was taken for the prevention of its spread. After the afflicted persons broke out and it was ascertained that they were sufi sering from genuine cases of smallpox. ■ Dr. J. M. Miller, secretary of the board of health, immediately set at work to prevent its further spread, and as a consequence twenty homes were quarantined. Dr. T. J. McKean, of Linn Grove, was deputized to assist in the work. The people of the neighborhood became so alarmed that the fourth district school was closed about three weeks ago, but only after every pupil had been exposed. In the meantime Joseph Schwartz, ofe Wells county, moved to French township and his home was immediately quarantined. It was at one time suspected that genuine cases would exist in twenty different homes, but by the efficient and timely work of Dr. Miller and his assistant, Mr. McKean, the deadly germs are extinct. The school re-opened last Monday and the scare is all over. o — A FANCY SHIPMENT. S. E. Shamp Shipped Some Fancy Eggs to Kentucky. S. E. Shamp, of this city, breeder of fine Rhode Island Single Comb Red and Wyandotte chickens, received a fancy order from Kentucky recently which called for one hundred eggs from the former and two hundred from the latter. The shipment was made to a Mr. Kimball, who resides at Calhoun, Kentucky. Mr. Shamp has the very best of chickens and the eggs obtained therefrom are in a large demand over the country. He handles nothing but the best full blood fowls. V

The platform includes planks favoring: An arbitration law. A plank indorsing the laws passed ' in Indiana regulating enuti labor and urging additional regulation of child labor as far as the constitution will permit. A plank advocating an employers’ liability law Protective legislation for miners. A plank condemning convict labor when placed in competition with contract work. A law preventing salary increases of public officials from becoming effective during the incumbency of the officer working for the increase. Ixical option with the county as the unit and supplementing and not supplanting existing liquor laws. A suggestion for tariff revision, with a maximum and minimum rate in the revised schedule for negotiating with foreign countries, by special session of congress immediately after election, congress meanwhile gathering data and information eitHbr by special songressional committee or a special commission.

A plank advocating general currency reform, without the indorsement ,of the Aldrich or Fowler bills, but urging sufficient currency to minimize periodic money stringency, but so safeguarded that these will be ns doubt of its redemption in gold.* A plank pledging the party to progressive labor legislation. , A plank declaring for the establishment of a mine bure&i at Washingtofi, D. C. A plank denouncing corruption in public office and demanding more rigid economy in public office.

Planks indorsing aM that has been done by the party in pension leglsla tion; favoring a snjpll standing army and moderate navy; urging proper regulation of,railroad corporations; Indorsing all that has been accomplished along that line, and pledging the party to all additional safeguards; favoring tfte settlement of international difficulties by arbitration; asking, an early completion of the Panama canal; favoring systematic, progressive and liberal improvement of public waterways; advocating a continuation of the reclamation service by which arid lands are made productive; favoring the preservation of the forests; favoring a law providing for notice before in- 1 junctions can be issued where the destruction of property is involved and speedy trial for contempt of injunction before a different judge where practicable; urging a law providing for the codification of the corporation the state; the appointment gs the mine inspector®by the governor and a new employers’ liability law. o IN OUR HIGH SCHOOL

Jonas Tritch Made merits to That Effect p Today ; Jonas Tritch, who h* charge of the commercial department of the Det catur high school, made a special trip • at Ft. Wayne Thursday where he con- . ferred with the management of the > International Business Cololefee for the purpose of arranging so that stu- ( d*nts in the Decatur high school who • take commercial work will be given : credit for same in entering their . school. Our commercial department consists of a three year's course. > three t> ookl£ee P in g and three semesters of work in shorthand , and typewriting. This, in connection . with the work in commercial law, commercial arithmetic and business correspondence makes an unusually . good course and should appeal to ev- , ery student of the schools. The same means a great saving of money for . students who care to graduate from . high school before taking up work byway of industrial training. The above mentioned course has been met with favor by the business college management and hereafter students from our school will be given credit for work done here before entering the Fort Wayne college. Mr. Tritch is doing much in making the commercial course better each year and much credit is due him for the advancement he has made thus far. Th® project of giving commercial — • —o — FUNERAL OF JOSEPH REPPERT. Preble Township Citizen Laid to Rest This Afternoon. Quite a number of Decatur people attended the funeral services of Joseph Reppert at the Magley church at one o’clock Friday afternoon. Rev. Schneider delivered the sermon and had charge of the services. Mr. Reppert was one of the best known men of Preble township, and his death has brought sadness to tbe hearts of those who knew him. —o —■ —~~ Leo Yager left on his regular trip after spending Sunday in the city.

WAS A PRETTY AFFAIR Only a Few Guests Were Present Including Mrs. Dorwin of this City A pretty home wedding, and one of special interest to the many friends of both families, took place at 8 o clock last night at the home of Mrs. James Wilding, in west Wayfie street, when her granddaughter, Miss Myrtle W ilding became the bride of Dr. Charles Giffen Beall, the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. E Beall. The bride, who is the daughter, of Mrs. Ella Wilding, had no Attendants, and the only guests at the wedding were relatives and the members of a little club of which she is a member. The parlor of the Wilding homestead was simply decorate! with vases of delicate pink enchantr.ss carnations mingled with the deeper pink of the awson variety and bride roses of white combined with pink bridesmaid blossoms. The chandeliers throughout the house were hung with graceful sprays of plumosus £er*n, and the top piano, where Miss Jessamine Bailey played the wedding music, was covered with the delicate vine. In the living room, where the ceremony was read by the Rev. Frank Fox, of the Third Presbyteritfh church there were many pots of Easter lilies, and these pure white blossoms were grouped against a background ol small paffns and ferns. One corner of the room was banked solidly with the green and white, and heqf Dr Beall, with his best man, Mr. Charles Porter, of Buffalo, awaited the coming of tbo bride, who entered the rootr with her uncle, Mr. Charles Wilding to the strains of the '‘Lohengrin" bri dal musicl She looked unusuallj sweet in her bridal costume, and hei dark beauty wSs heightened by hei •girlish gown of white silk, simplj , fashioned, and trimmed with orienta . laces. A bridal bouquet of white rose buds was carried, and a wreath o . buds was worn in the coiffure. Dur i lug the service Mr. Clinton Willson, i , brother-in-law of the bride, san; • charmingly. After the relatives ha; ~ presAted their felicitations a buffe , supper was served in the dining room [ where decorations of red made th , room exceedingly attractive. The ts , Ble had an epergne of bright scarle , carnations, with many red hoode i candles surrounding it. Vases of cai > nations were placed on the mante . buffet and serving tables. Miss Ann Newton, of St. Louis, a cousin of th bride, presided at she table and wa assisted by the younger cousins, Elizt ' beth Porter, Dorothy and Margare Wilding. Miss Mabel §,nd Miss Clar Newton, of St. Louis, assisted in ust 6 wring into the dining room. After th wedding collation the bride arfti groor left on a short trip and will be at hom upon their return on east Pontia street, where the house is all read: for occupancy. For traveling dhi , bride w-ore a tailored suit of copenha gen blue, with silk waist of the sami shade and a smart hat to correspowl Both bride and groom belong to prom inent Fort families. Th< groom is the son of the Rev. and Mrs Marion E. Beall, former residents o the city. The groom received his med ical training here and has been housi physician at the state institution, but has resigned from that office and wit devote himself to general practice Among the guests from out of towwho were present at the wedding last night were James Porter, who is at tending college at Ann Arbor: Mr Charles Porter, of Buffalo, a cousin o! both bride and groom; Mr. C. 11. New, ton and the Misses Newton, of St. Louis; Fred Huston ,of Pittsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Porter and Miss Jeanette Porter, of Geneva; Mr and Mirs. Ned Hodgman, ipf Coldwater, Mich., and Mrs. Samantha Dorwin. of Decatur.—Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette.

CIRCUS WAR FOR INDIANA. Ah the Big Ones Will Battle for Business. Indications point to a “circus war' this coming season and that Indiana w’ill be a storm center. Recently an agent of the Wallace-Hagenbeck combination spent two days at Kokomo trying to get an option on all the available show lots but stipulating a nominal price in case they were not used. He was not successful. Then came a representative of the Buffalo Bill wild west aggregation, and he contracted for the use k>f sixteen acres in Markland avenue for June 6, He announced that the BarnumBailey shows would want the same ground for July 1. There is a belief that these two great shows are trying to pick the field against the Wal-lace-Hagenbeck but it is possible that the Wallace-Hagenbeck people will take the road a little earlier than either of these concerns. It is expected that the Ringlings will also jump into the Indiana arena at the earliest date possible.

NEARLY EVERY DAY Came in Bad. Goes Out the Same Way With Half Dozen Storm Periods The first weather worth noting on the Hicks program is a reactionary storm period on the 3rd, 4th and sth, with a tendency to electrical storms and rainfall throughout. Decided change to cooler, witn snow squalls, followed by frosty nights, may be expected In most Sections over central and northern states, from about the 4th to 7th. Change to warmer, southerly winds and failing barometer will be noted in western sections by the 7th to Bth and during the 9th, lOtr and 11th storm areas will spjead eastwardly, bringing April showers and thunder storms to most parts of the country on and touching those dates. Late snow squalls will most likely come with the last stages of the period, 7th to Uth, and sharp change to cooler, with frosts, may be expected about the 11th, 12th and 13th.

The reactionary storm period is central on the 14th, 15th and 16th, there will be a sudden rise to very high temperatures, attefided by a marked fail of the barometer and southerly winds will pressage dangerous storms. The general conditions of atmosphere and clouds should be carefully noted at the culmination of this period, violent disturbances are entirely possible and probable. A seismic period embracing about five days, central on the 16th. is alss quite probable. ■ Change to higher barometer anp much cooler weather, with frost in most sections central and northward, may . reasonably be expected between the • 16th and 19th. This period is fully within the Mars . and Venus periods and near the cen- , ter of the Mercury period. Moon is at I extreme south declination and last . quarter. As we center into the storm p period, 19th to 23rd, the temperature . will rise phenomenally high in southi ern, western and central sections, the r barometer will fall to correspondingly > low readings, and from about the 21st t to the 23rd many vicious storms of , lightning, thunder, rain and hall will B visit wide areas as the storm center? t . ( sweep from west to east across the t country. At the culmination <W thii j period, say about the 21st, 22nd ant .. 23rd, no reader of these forecasts I should be wholly surprised by violent a if not tornadic storms. Central and B northern parts of the country may s reasonably anticipate snow and sud t . changes to unseasonably cool or t the w’estem and northern tangent ol a these storms, say from about the 23rd to 26th. Such prolonged and unsea e sonable conditions as prevailed in the j spring of 1907 are improbable. In B which event the weather will be warmE er, rains and storms will be more tropical and° be followed ’by mild j changes to cooler. On and touching the 26th, 27th and 28th. look for decided storm developments, high temperature, falling baro- . meter, great humidity and south > winds. Thunder storms, excessive rainfalls, hail and violent winds will f reach a crisis on and next to the 28th. The last day of April is the center . of another seismic period, extending from April 28th to May 2. I — ° YOU MUST PAY DOG TAX. Township assessors direct the attention of dog owners to several new features of the law governing the taxation of dogs. When a dog is born after May 15th of any year and on its attaining three months age, the owner, keeper or harborer must report it to the township trustee, pay tax on it and get receipt. When the assessor calls after the first of March following, a similar report must be made and tax paid for the current year. A purchaser of a dog before May 15th must pay the tax on it. Dogs bought after that date must be reported and tax paid, even though the previous owner had paid the tax. Dog tax receipts are not transferable. When one person buys a dog from another, the receipt for the tax cannot be transferred. o— — WEARS A FINE NEW WATCH. Trustee Jacob Huser, the Victim of His Friends. Trustee Jacob Huser, of Monroe township, is wearing a m’ghty fine gold watch, a present from the teachers of the public schols of Monroe township. It is a fine jeweled timepiece, and Mr. Huser will wear it to the last day of his life, feeling all the time a deep sense es appreciation of the good will that made him the recipient of so handsome a 'present. The teachers called at his home last Monday evening, and after expressing their high regard for him as a man and as a worker with them in the education of the youth, they presented the watch. Jake is proud of his new possession, and we do not blame him.

We SeU Yinbl on the positive guarantee that if it does not give satisfaction we will return the entire amount of money paid us for it. We mean this — and ask all-those who are sick and need strength to try it with this understanding. SMPTH, YAGER & FALK THE ENTIRE TICKET Goodwiije Won Easily, Though Opposed by Governor Hanly—Notes Indianapolis, April 3.—The Fairbanks machine carried their candidates through to victory, after a contest which though fairly bursting with enthusiasm, left sore spots. Watson's victory was one in which he trampled over friends and foes, used every means known to the game of politics to secure tfce coveted honor. The other contests furnished but Hittie excitement after the Mrenuous race for governor. Goodwine, so bitterly opposed by Governor Hanly, was named for lieutenant governor on the first ballot. Branch, his oppor nent, withdrawing when the balloting wag but half over.

J. L. Peetz, eg Kokomo, won the nqpiination for state statistician. The contest was not settled on the first ballot and the second ballot was more than half finished before the other candidates got out of the way. Tetz’s opponents were A. C. Alexander, of Marion, and John F. Warbrltton, of Crawfordsville. The vote on tlfe first ballot stood as follows: Peetz, 616; Alexander 572; Warbritton 277. Contrary to the expectation of many who had watched the contest between the three candidates for the nomination for superintendent of public instruction th£ contest was settled on the first ballot. Lawrence McTurnan, chief assistant in the office of Superintwident F. A Cotton, was the choice of the convention. defeating James H. Tomlin, of Shelbyville, and E. G. Bauman, superintendent «f schdbls at Mt. Vernon, Posey county. Th- oallot resulted in the following vote: McTurnan, 814; Tomlin. 475; Bauman, 187 The last contest to be settled was the race between Judge John H. Gillett and Quincy A. Myers for the su. preme judgeship nomination in the Fifth district. The contest was easily won by Myers, who is one of the leading lawyers of Logansport. Judge Gillett, who is a Lake county man, was a candidate for renomination. The convention adjourned about six o'clock, immediately after the supreme judgeship nomination had been settled. Many of the delegates left the hall before the last nomination was made. The complete ticket is: For governor—James E. Watson, Rushville.

For lieutenant governor—Fremont C. Goodwine, Williamsport. For secretary of state —Fred A. Sims, Frankfort. For auditor of sta£<> —John C. Billheimer, Washington. For treasurer of state —Oscar C. Hadley. Plainfield. For attorney general—James Bingham, Muncie. For supreme court reporter —George W. Self, Corydon. For superintendent of public instruction—Lawrence McTurnan, Anderson. For state statistician—J. L. Peetz, Kokomo. For judge supreme court, fifth district—Quincy A. Myers, Logansport. For judge appellate court, first district—David Myers, Greensburg. Six of the nominations were by acclamation as the candidates were the present republican state officials and were conceded a second term without opposition. o — Hundreds of acres of oats have gone into the ground in Wells county this week. Seed oats are scarce and are selling at 65c a bushel, the highest price for years. Seed corn is hard' to get and farmers who have some left over from the 1906 crop are getting from $1 to $2 a bushel for it.— Bluffton News. The resignation of James D. Reid warden of the Indiana state prison at Michigan City, has become known although efforts had been made to keep it a secret for the past three weeks at Mr. Reid’s request. Reid’s health is failing. William 11. Oren, once county treasurer of St. Joseph c >unty, wants to succeed him.