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■ different concerns, manufac-1 ■ turers and jobbers of water tube Y’.'P'- .■ j .■"boilers, wanted the contract for the ■'two 400-ton boilers let by the city ■ Tuesday evening. When the hour came 1 B’for opening the bids, Clerk Wemhoff ||l had nine envelopes in his possession, [ w each containing an offer, but of that H! number three failed to enclose the ■ certified check as required in the j ■ notice and consequently their bids ■ were not considered. The contract | M finally went to the McNauel company, ■ of Toledo, Ohio. The blds were as Hj follows: Bass Foundry, Fort Wayne, U $9,160; John O’Brien Works, St. Louis, | 17,900, no check enclosed; E. Keller Il company, Williamsport, Pa., $7,748, I no check; McNauel Company, Toledo, ■ Ohio, $8,560; Heine Safety Boiler Co., B Chicago, $10,588; Geary Boiler Co., Oil B City, Pa., $9,736; Babcock & Wilcox, ■ Chicago, $9,852; National Mills Co., ■ Font Wayne, no check; Atlas H Engine Works, Indianapolis, $4,100 ■ for one. From the above It will be ■ noticed that the lowest bid was that ■ of the Keller company, who failed to ■ enclose the SSOO check and the bld (■was therefore not considered. The ■lbid of the Atlas company for one B boiler only, they claiming that they B already had a contract with the city B for ohe boiler for $5,200. This would B make the two boilers cost $9,300 and B the council could not see it that way. U The Atlas representative made varB lous threats, but failed to alarm any Hfcone very much. In September, 1908, ■ a contract was let to that firm for II one boiler, but Mayor Coffee refused ■ to sign the same and stated that he ■ would not sign an order to pay for Hi same so the deal was dropped. The ■ contract last night therefore, went to I the lowest and best bidder, the McB Nauel company, who also offered to ■ furnish the Kelley shaking grates for t|] SIBO and the additional 35 feet of stack ■ for $4.00 per foot. They agreed to B have the first boiler here within | thirty days and set up in forty-five I days and the second boiler in sixty ffl days. The finance Committee were ■ authorized and empowered to con[l tract for the same and did so today. ■I Every member of the council was I present excepting Mr. Martin, who Is H quite sick. Mayor France presided. "-Sa- — y, > . ■' The funeral services for Mrs. Wil- ■ Ham Trltch. of Patterson street, will ■ be held this Thursday morning, ■ leaving the house at 9:30 and the ser- ■ vices to be held at the Methodist ■ -church at ten o’clock in charge of Rev. ■'C. B. Wilcox and Rev. I.lmler. InB torment will be made at the Alpha B -cemetery, four miles north of the etty. ■ Mrfe. Trltch was age sixty-three years, ■ three months and fourteen days. She I had resided here for many years and ■ was beloved by the many who knew ■ her. She was a loving wife and ■ mother, a kind neighbor and a Chris-. ■ tian lady who did unto others as she ■ ' would have them do unto her. H is survived by the husband, one' son, I . Jonas Trltch and a brother, Mr. Jesse I Warner of Root township. A daugh- ■ ter, Mrs. Eva Draper, died two years I ago, the twenty-fourth of this month. I Mrs. Trltch was stricken with paralyI sis about ten days ago, the stroke I affecting but one side of her body. I Yeserday It was noticed that the other ■ side had also become helpless, and ■ it Is presumed that a second stroke | caused her turn for the worse, which | resulted In her death at 1:30 o’clock | yesterday afternoon. ig. ■ o ■ ■' ■ I HAVE BEEN USING THE MAILS ■ Anonymous Letters Received by SevI eral Bluffton People. I Ind., April 14.—The postal I department has started an Investlgag tlon here In an effort to locate the I party or parties who are guilty of g mailing numerous anonymous letters ■ through the Bluffton office. There has ■ been frequent complaint, and while ■ some of the letters have been In the ■ nature of jokes others have been of If a character seeking to stir up domes- ■ tic troubles in prominent families. | There have also been a number of I warning letters mailed represented as i coming from the civic league, while I members of that organization strenI nously deny any knowledge of such I an affair and jay that they would I not think of mailing such literature. | There was a serious fight narrowly I averted last night when a prominent | man received a letter and took to I task a prominent aritl-saloon worker I and civic league member as the sendI er. He discovered later that he was I in error and sought the civic league | member to make an apology. ■T i-r— » I Eli Sprunger went to Michigan toI- day to look after business Interests. I

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[' New York, April 13.—Thomas R. Marshall, governor of Indiana, was the 1 principal speaker at the Jefferson banquet of the National Democratic Club tonight. Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio, Mayor George B. Me-. Clellan of New York and. Charles, F. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall, [were the other speakers. Governor j Marshall’s address In part was as follows: I “Let no one be deceived by the belief that I have to bear any new message from the west to the east, I am not vain enough to presume, that, standing here where the pulse of the nation’s life, both political and economic, beats ever loudly and surely, I could speak In such a tongue as to either charm your ears or touch your hearts. I wish merely to exhort for a few b/lef moments—to fraternize with my brethren of the east; to proclaim the old, old gospel of Democracy content if here tonight I may set my flickering taper beside tftje lambent torch of Thomas Jeffersonfc/which must ever light up the pathwy, not only of destiny, but of duty, for every true republic. I do npt pretend to have attained to that certainty which enables me to speak ex cathedra. I speak, therefore, with charity for all and malice toward none. I belong to the student body as yet, ready to recant when I am shown to be heterodox. I have„simply watched the doctors at their work for twenty-five years. Except the man with the barns who has much substance laid by for many days and hopes, by the grace of congress, to lay by more, all others know there is something unhealthy in state and nation. Hence, a wild effort to find a remedy for the ills; hence, every day a new nostrum advertised upon the political billboards of the land. New occasions mayfoach new duties, and time may make ancient good uncouth, but in the domain of statecraft, not so. It may be true that the founders of our republic who sounded every shoal and depth of statecraft, who knew the strength and weakness of every political system, and who clearly foresaw the sources of growth and the causes of decay, were mere tyros beside the modern manipulator of legislation in the interests of private gain, bdt I have my doubts? The rise and decay of peoples disclose that there Is as surely a law of national as of Indlviual l|fe. The law of the land may be to the autocrat a stumbling block, and to the opportunist, foolishness, but to all those who believe in the divinely appointed plan of our government It Is both the source of life and the cure for all Ills. What, then, Is the law of this land? A fairly great Englishman declared that the weakness of a republic consisted In the fact that it must Inevitably rest hpon an aristocracy oft wealth. If this' was, or Is, or shall be, so in America,, then the criticism is just. It is but changing the form of a government, not its effect upon a people, to take from one man and give into the hands of a few, power. In one sense it is the business of a majority to rule. We know no other way to jnove the wheels of government In one sense statutory enactments by constituted authority make the .law of the land. In another sense, they do not. The true law of this land flowed from the pen of Thomas Jefferson when he declared that all men were created free and equal and that they were endowed with the inalienable rights of life' of liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These rights appertain to men as man. They cannot be usurped by princes, legislated away by congress nor even ceded by the free consent of the governed. Such a law as this makes a republic weak in Its ceded powers, but strong in the Inherent rights of the Individual citizen. Majorities may torture if they will, will torture if they can,these ceded rights into a deprivation of the Individual rights of the man. They have done so heretofore. They will, if permitted, do 'so again. Such conduct may be called a people’s rule. We may still think we are frsp and, while the bread continues and the circus goes on, we may be lulled Into a sense of security. But somb day we must inevitably awaken to the fact that the usurpations of majorities, however obtained and however exercised, have all of the evils and none of the kindly graces of old-time kingcraft. This Idea of government marks a distinct line of clbavage. The east and the west are bound together by myriad ties. We are your children. We look to you for leadership, and you have no right to disappoint pi It] is your business, as it Is ours, to battle for the individual rights of man. \ Yet’there have been manifestations

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of recent years which convince us of the west that many of you are deeming the functions of government to be economic rather than political. 1 This has engendered slight friction 1 between us and unless a better under- [ standing Is reached, an Irrecondable . conflict such as onep existed between the north and south/ will arise. That friction results from an economic 1 I theory fostered under the. guise of a political principle. The economic theory of the Individual that while he can keep away from the criminal law : of the land he has a right to foster and develop his business is not to be : gainsaid. But when the Individual < seizes the powers of government to accomplish his purpose he loses sight of his patriotism In bis zeal for profit, i We of the west believe that such conduct Id Indefensible from the viewpoint of the law of the land. We insist that business and politics are two things which cannot lawfully be joined In a republic. ’ If my humble words, haltingly spoken, tend to Induce Democrats to hark baclu,to one or two of the Ideals of the republic, enable them to disassociate business from politics, and imbue them with' the genuine belief that American citizenship is the most priceless heritage which can be bequeathed from sire to son, then I shall be supremely content.” ' o- , R. S. Peerson has assumed jurisdiction in the case of Hattie Johnson vs. Edward Johnson, suit for divorce and alimony. Catherine Allison et al vs. Jane R. Stockwell et al, suit to quiet title, deed'repored and confirmed. Criminal cases have been set for trial as follows: State vs. Curtis Johnson, burglary, Monday, April 26; Samuel Bailor, receiving stolen property, Tuesday, April 27; Warren Reed, receiving stolen property, Tuesday, April 27; Luther Tehman, forgery, Monday, April 26; Charles Wolfe, assault with Intent to kill, Wednesday, April 28. Inventories have been filed by Ira Steele, executor of the Samuel Stetne estate and James M. Archbold, administrator of the Mary J. Meitz-Beg- ■ p lin estate. ' . - Real estate transfers: Jesse C. Sutton, to H. MC DeVoss, lot 886, Decatur, $1,650; Frank X. Miller to Vetena Miller, five acres in Washington tp., $1.00; Charles H. Lehman to C. C. Burry, lot 426 Berne, $300; Netty Backesto to John C. Brown, pt. lot 15 Berne, $1,200; Bert Cully et al to Buel G. Nye, 72 acres In Blue Creek tp., $2,575; P. G. Hooper to Edwin Fledderjohann lot 48 Decatur, $1.00; John Klelnhenz to Peter Holthouse et al, lots 28 and 74, Decatur, $6,000. o~ — Geneva* Ind., April 13.—(Special to Dally Democrat)—There is a great deal of talk here just now concerning the new traction line to be built from Bluffton here and on to Celina. The sum of $75,000 In stock has been raised at this place and Linn Grove and the company means business. They have let the contract for the steel and the ties and work on the grade will begin as soon as the weather will permit. The road will be rushed to completion and will be in operation within a few months from the present outlook . Margaretta, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Fristoe is very sick with lung trouble. She was quite sick during the night and is reported but little if any better today. • w; A. Aspy is planning anewceme- , tery which will be located a mile and ■ a quarter east of this place. It will i be one of the most beautiful places in tills section of the state and will be built in a sanitary manner, with a i drain beneath each lot The site chosen lies fifteen feet above the-level : of a creek into which the. property < will drain. The property will be laid out at once. t < — -o — The case of Alonzo Uptegraft, of ■ Jay county, is being investigated by • the grand jury at Portland this week. Uptegraft is the fellow who was shot by Marshal Depew, of Bryant, several days ago, he Having beeh want- < ed for attempted rape on a niece of i his wife. He was in hiding in his ' own house the offiders &p- I ’ proached to arrest him and was try- i ing to get away when the marshal < He will get well.—Bluffton Ban- ' ner. f <

Geneva, Ind., April 14.—(Special to Dally Democrat)—Little Margaretta Frlstoe who nas oeen ill for several daysAvith symptoms of is stilljvery sick, her condition today being Reported as no better. Her parents' are greatly concerned over her serldus condition. AijA. Mason, one of the landmarks of this locality, is very seriously sick and [his many friends have gravest fears for his recovery. —— - ? ■ There is an unusual amount of sickness in this town and township at present, grippe, cold, pneumonia and lung affection being the principal causes. ; - - LJG. Botkins, who recentl went out ■ of the saloon business in this place, has purchased an Interest In the Ellenbprger meat shop and has taken charge of same as the manager. The last saloon in Geneva will close Its doors on the evening of May 4th. This place is owned by .Burkett & Pitts, who have provided for a future llvilkood by purchasing a,saloon on Calhoun street In Fort Wayne, where they will be located after the date mentioned. Geneva has caught the autotaobile fever, and have caught it right. In fact it looks now as though nearly everyone here will soon be riding in this modern kind A of vehicle. During the past three weeks, ten cars of various makes have been sold and delivered here and there are as many mor figuring on new machines. Guess that id going some for a town of this size. —■ O FirTEEN HOUSES BEING ,BUILT Decatur Continues to Push Forward In a Sure Manner. The steady growth of Decatur is the One thing that makes it the best town in this locality. This spring when, other towns are tickled tc pfdcel, so W Speak, to hold their own. this town, goes constantly forward. Just at present we are reliably informed there are in course of construction, fifteen dwellings. As many as that have been completed and the season is only starting. At rate we will add a hundred homes to the city and that means something. There is no use talking, when you hunt the map all over you will find no place of 5,000 inhabitants that equals this for thrift and push and progress. GOVERNOR APPOINTS ENGINEER Indianapolis, April 13. —Michael H. Cain, of this city, was commissioned by Governor Marshall as chief engineer of the state house, to suq; ceed Samuel C. Shutt, who has served continuously in that capacity since the beginning of Governor Mount’s administration In 1897. The commission was signed by the governor before he went to New York city and left with his private secretary to deliver to Mr. Cain as soon as certain conditions had been fulfilled. o— TO BUILD A COURT HOUSE Boone County Council Make an Appropriation. Lebanon, Ind., April 14.—8 y a unanimous vote of the county council an appropriation of $50,000 for the preliminaries to the erection of a new $250,000 court house was made. In making the appropriation the members of the council urged the county commissioners to proceed with haste in selecting a design and letting the contracts. The balance of the appropriation will be made when the contractus let. The building of the court house will not'cause any Increase in the taxes. There a ■surplus of $173,000 in the treasury. With the payment of all expenses and the collection of taxes that will be due soon another surplus of $50,000 will be in he treasury Dec. 31, 1909. Bonds will be issued for the remainder of the cost of the building. An advisory committee was chosen by the council composed of four leading citizens which will sit in conjunction with the county commissioners, who will have charge of the plans. , NOTHING DOING IN TEXAS' Washington, April 13—The supreme court today denied the application for a rehearing In three cases of the Waters-Pierce Oil company vs. the State of Texas. This ends the cases, so far as the supreme court is concerned, and the result Is that the Waters-Piefce Oil company Is excluded from doing business In Texas.

t> A Washington dispatch sets forth a an interview with Congressman Adair 1 in which he clearly, concisely and s logically explains why he voted for . a tariff on hides. He says: “The boot and shoe manufacturers r appeared before the ways and means committee and said that if they were given free hides they would be willing 3 to have the duty taken off of boots t and shoes. I was In favor of putting t hides on the free list and either 1 greatly reducing the duty on boots : and shoes or taking It clear off. ' . However, • the Payne bill continued t the duty on boots and shoes but took 1 it entirely off of hides. Had the duty 1 on boots and shoes been reduced or removed, I would have favored taking all he duty off the hides; but I t thought It was unfair to the farmers of the country to remove all the - duty from and continue the ! duty on manufactured leather products, which would enable the manufacturer to charge the same old 8 price for his products. I thought that to leave the duty on the manut factored product and take it all off 8 hides was a discrimination against i the farmer Who produces a large e part of the wealth of the country e and whose interests as well as the interests of the manufacturer must be safeguarded. I received hundreds e of letters from my district and some ! petitions Insisting on a duty on hides y if the tariff on boots and shoes was a to be retained.” 5 o r - ANOTHER BIG SALE FRIDAY y Decatur Horse Company WIU Offer s 250 Head. s It’s not exactly a matter of news to remind you that the Decatur Horse Sale company has held some mighty big sales in the past, but it may be a little surprising for you to know j that the one they are planning for Friday of this week, April 16th, will likefy exceed anything of the s kind eveil’ given In this section of the t country, but this Is nevertheless true, g On that date they will offer for sale o at public auction 250 head of as fine) draft and drivers as ever went oh the I. auction block east or west. This - means that these horses will posi- - tlvely be sold. There are no strings y and there‘will be buyers here from e all over the country. If you have a e horse you want to sell you will never e have a better chance than at this sale, e o e BODY TAKEN TO FORT WAYNE e s Result of Examination May Determine a Murder Case. S Fort Wayne, Ind., April 12.—The [. body of Mrs. Sarah J. Snerly was ci brought to this city today for the - purpose of examination and was im- - mediately taken to the receiving vault j" at Lindenwood cemetery, where it e how lies, An effort was made to keep 3 the entire matter quiet, but this was - unsuccessful. The examinaion will r be conducted shortly, possibly tomord row, by Drs. George W. McCaskey and - B. W. Rhamy, of this city. Accoma panying the body were Dr. Lorin W. Smith, of Wabash ,who represents the state, and Dr. W. S. Linville, of Columbia City, for the defense. o —— - ANOTHER UNCONSTITUTIONAL - Wabash, Ind., April 13.—Judge A. a H. Plummer held the law passed by - the 1907 legislature, which attempted r to recover fees alleged to have been a illegally held by past clerks of the - supreme and appellate courts, to be f unconstitutional. He made this rule ing on a demurrer to the complaint e in the case of the state of Indiana - against Alexander Hess of thia city, a former clerk of the supreme and ap--3 pellate courts, retiring in November, - 1898. 1 7 O . NEW AGENT FOR THE G. R. A I. j 3 Mr., Merry, of Geneva, Appointed and ) - Begins Duties Here Tomorrow. r H. L. Merry, who has served as - agent for the G. R. & I. at Geneva > is the new agent for th,e company in ■ this city to succeed Mr. Jeff Bryson i who was transferred to Portland two j weeks ago. Mr. Merry will begin his duties here today, being checked out at Geneva yesterday. The promotion is a very dererving one from what b we can learn, the new agent being in r every way thoroughly competent. G. j M. MeFarland, of Kalamazoo, Mich., 3 who has been attending to the duties i, here temporarily will leave tomorrow -for New York City, where he will » enjoy a several weeks’ vacation, be- - fore returning to his duties at Kalai. mazoo. * *

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Edwin Fledderjohann vs. William Scott et al, suit to quiet title, deed reported and 'approved, commissioner allowed $2.00. Citizeds Telephone company vs. Fort Wayne* & Springfield Railway company, damages SB,OOO, the Hon. J. W. Macy having declined to further act as special judge in this cause, the court submits to the council the ' names of the Hons. James S. Engle of Winchester, Samuel E. Cook of Huntington and Owen M. Heaton as available judges from which they may select a special judge to hear the trial. Francis M. Elkins vs. William M. Pearse, note S7OO, rule to answer made absolute to answer in five days. Mary Knavel vs. Edward Knavel, divorce, defendant appeared on attachment to show cause why he should not pay the sls into court for use of wife, as ordered. The amount was reduced to $lO, which must be paid within ten days or defendant will be sent to jail. Henry and Sarah Tindall vs. Jacob Fogle, partition, cause removed from the trial calendar. Mary Neaderhouser was appointed Administrator of the estate of EYed Neaderhouser and filed bond for $7,600 signed by Andrew Gottschalk and E. ’ M. Ray. . ' ' John Weaver, administrator of Eldridge Weaver estate, filed a petition for sale of real estate. Sale ordered. Additional bond of SI,OOO ordered. Annetta Miller, executrix of John Miller estate, filed a report. Martin Burkhead, aged 20, a laborer; and Lillian Stetson, aged 28, both of Decatur, were granted a marriage license. They were married at four o’clock last evening by Squire Smith office. - Real estate transfers:.. Jacob D. Augsburger to C. Opllger, lot in Linn Grove, $110; Margaret Reppert et al to Samuel Fuhrman, 100 acres in Root tp., quit claim deed; John Bogner to Mary Bogner, part lot 219 Decatur, $1,150; F. M. Schirmeyer to P. W. Smith, inlots 19, 16, 49, Decatur, $520. z ■ ■ — — o - ■*— HARTFORD CITY IS “SCARED.” Fear They Will Be Made the Dumping Ground for Tramps. If the plan said to be adopted by the police judge of Marion becomes general in the “dry” towns in this locality, Hartford City will certainly become the. jumping off spot for all the tramps, thugs and yeggmen in eastern Indiana. A Marion man who was here yesterday stated that the judge over there suspends judgment against bums and drunks who are brought before him on the condition that they will depart at once for Hartford City. This place will soon have the reputation of being the only “oasis” in the thirsty desert and it is not unlikely that all of our dry neighbors will follow suit with Marion and send us their thugs, thieves and hoboes.—Hartford City Journal. '»-■" o IS 1 — WILL FIGHT LOCAL QPTION Anderson Business Men Opposed to a Dry Town. Anderson, Ind., April 12.—Five owners of business property and two men interested in local factories have asked several other business men and manufacturers to meet at the circuit court room Tuesday evening to discuss a movement to oppose a special election on county option in Madison county. They say they have not invited liquor dealers to assist. Among the men leading the movement to oppose organizing the business men are Horace 0- Stilwell, Thomas N. Stilwell, C. W. Hoover and I. E. May. o Robert Mann, who has been serving as principal of the Monmouth schools, closed his year’s work last Friday evening, though there remains three weeks of the term. Miss Florence Kunkle, tjie other tacher of the schools there will finish her year’s wor kand in addition to her duties is also competing the term with the sixth grade, which belonged to Mr. Mann. Though it is her first year in school work, Miss Kunkle has madea spjendid record and her efforts at this time are appreciated by the patrons of the school.