Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 25 November 1909 — Page 6

Ron Johnson is greeting his Decatur, friends Thursday and incidentally telling them about the great steel city and of the marvelous growth and chance of riches in Gary, Ind. Rose has been located there since the first of June and at present writing is in on the ground floor and has a cinch on making lots of the filthy lucre in the next few years. He with Schug Bros., Drs. Iteecer and Simpkins of Berne, purchased forty acres of land there in what is certain to be the ideal residence district of the already great city. The land has been platted and subdivided into lots and Ross is now selling the lots, the prices on them ranging from two to five hundred dollars. He is already making considerable headway, many people in all parts of the country buying lots there with a view of holding them for speculation. Gary is now a city of twenty thousand population and is rapidly growing, and some day will be among the great clt-. les of the state. It is now but three: years old, <yet they have forty miles . of paved streets, all their public and j private buildings being modern and, strictly up to date. The steel plant, there which has made Gary the possibility that It now is, cost forty millions of dollars to erect, and the company have set aside forty million more which will be used in improvements and extension during next year. They employ one thousand mbn now and this number is being steadily increased. Their pay roll amounts to four hundred thousand dollars a. month, and in a few weks more it will reach a half million monthly. Besides this several gigantic manufacturing concern* are locating there, among them being the American Locomotive Company, tinplate company and many more. So it will be seen that the possibilities of Gary is not of the mushroom order, but that it rests on the solid rock of stability,, wealth and the sort of enterprise • that does great things and does them In a great way. We are willing to concede that there are no flies on Gary. / .—■ , ■— o —-■*— — The largest brief that ever went

from here to the appelate court has) just come from the Democrat presses I and consists of one hundred pages; and is the arguments of the appel-; lants and a history of the Ludlov i Falls Quarry Company—Calvin Miller ; case, and Is appealed from the Jay: . circuit court where the ease was t tried. The attorneys for the appel-j lants are Clark J. Luts and Amos P. j Beatty, and judging by the size of j the brief mentioned they have ttar-i oughly covered all the points leading; up to their conclusions of the law and • the errors in the trial of the case. | There is perhaps less practice In the supreme and appellate courts from this circuit than in any other in Indiana, this being caused by the thoroughness of the trial judges of the circuit and by the additional fact that the clientage here have never been educated to the additional chance cf perhaps winning in the higher courts a losing fight in the lower courts. The ice will be broken some day and the Adams circuit court win be heard m the trial of cases In the higher tribunals, just as other circuits are frequently heard now. ... ’ O'"- " Word reached M. Burns Thursday morning that his brother, C. A. Burns of Belton, Missouri had suffered a stroke of paralysis and that his condition was serious, and it is thought

by the family and the physician in | charge that the afflicted man will not j v be able to long stand the ravages of this disease. He is now put seventy l a years of age and this fact makes re- « covery a most serious question. Some ’i of the old timers around Decatur willj c remember Mr. Burns as he lived t ] here most of his life before going• j to his present home near some forty J i years ago. Before leaving here he < was a well known figure here and wu 1 Interested in many of the things of 1 public importance at that time. After : settling In Belton he married and i now enjoys the company of a charm-! j Ing family and for many of the late i years of his life has lived a retired ] life. He has done well there in a i financial way and has more than a i fair competence to live on and leave ': his family after he is gone, which is . the story of an Adams county ‘ product no matter where he may go. | The news cast a gloom of sadness over the relatives here of the afflicted i man, and it is the wish of every one that it may not be so serious as they now believe. M. ■ o A marriage license wu issued to Rev. M. S. Swarti of Dalton, 1 Ohio, and Miss Louisa M. Sprunger who lives eut of Berne. The marriage ceremony will be performed Friday at the home of k the bride, Rev. Kleiver of Berne being the officiating minister. The groom is h bride is a popular young lfty and v possess** • of friends at and near her home. i ■■ > ■ I

- 1 i Lawyer A. P. Beatty was at Fort Wayne Friday and had the case of Fort Wayne & Sprtngfle’d raHroad vs. Andrew Miller, condemnation proceeding*, set for trial in the Allen circuit court f«*r December 80. - "O —— Fort Wayne, Nov. 18.—The lion., Henry G. Colerich, a life long resident of this city, and one of the best known and most brilliant lawyers in Fort Wayne and northeastern Indiana, was found dead on a couch shortly after 5 o’clock last evening at the Baltes hotel. No announcement that has come to the citizens of Fort Wayne for a long time has been such a shock to the public in general. It is believed that a blood clot on the heart was responsible for Mr. Colerick’s death. Apparently in good health and the best of spirits. Mr. Colerlck left his home shortly before 9 o’clock yesterday morning and on his way to his office dropped in at the Baltes hotel. It had frequently been a custom of his to sit in the j smoking'room and chat with Michael I Baltes, the owner of the hotel building, and although Mr. Baltes was not !in, he sat at a table in the lobby smoking for some time. Apparently he did not appear to be well And after he had been there for a while David Crosby, the clerk on the desk at the time, stepped to his side and asked him if he did not wish to He dowp. Mr. Colerich said nothing as to how he was feeling, but consented to rest on a couch in one of the rear rooms. He soon fell asleep and apparently was. resting easily. Shortly after 5 o’clock as he was to all appearances still asleep, the clerk went to arouse him and at that time made the discovery that he was Apparently lifeless. Dr. E. J. McOscar was hastily summoned and found that life was extinct. The .body was yet warm, proving that it had not been long since the end came. Dr., McOscar expressed the opinion that death had ’ probably been caused by a blood clot on the heart Mr. Colerick had at times had troub’e with his heart and on several occasions expressed th* opinion that one day it would take him off very suddenly.

'■ - o ■ Peter HOffman of Linn Grove, was ( :in the city Thursday for the first time ; ]for a long time, and he spent the i ' morning calling on his old friends, i many of whom live here. Mr. Hoff- , ! man has for years been a landmark i ' in Linn Grove, and that part of Adams i county, and he looks .good for many , {more years of activity. He says that i Linn Grove is looking up some since ; the building ot the Bluffton, Geneva \ 4 Celina traction line has been acer- ; itainty. A few days ago Studabaker & Company purchased two acres of ] ground there and will at once begin , the erection of an elevator, stock ( yards and coal sheds, and that thev will be right in business there of aK kinds, just as soon as the first car : runs on that Hne. Linn Grove will < :be benefltted by this line, as they hav* : lived there always without any means of travel or traffic during all these i years. With that Ltan Grove has kept up well and always has been a good trading point for that immediate section, but the traction line will greatly improve it In every way, and business there will increase at a.merry pace, and building will begin. She deserves all this good fortune and the > Democrat hopes she will grow and , prosper as she never grew and prozjered before. <• > . . ' -—. » -

What do we know about dynamite, what are its uses and what amount is used in this city and vicinity? These are questions which few people could answer and which have probably never bothered the minds of most of our readers. The stone quarries of Decatur use about four hundred pounds of dynamite a year and a much larger amount is shipped to the city annually. Beside the demand for dynamite for quarry use perhaps ten or eleven hundred more pounds are used by farmers for blasting stumps and for various other purposes. These high explosives are shipped in over the railroads In cars probably the most dangerous place they are ever kept Any one who sees a powder magazine is sure to retreat If he is very near, but he ! passes by cars of explosives in the [Small towns often and very often in j the city and never knows it. How(ever the greatest care is taken in I shipping. A stone quarry man of this city said that dynamite is shipped in paper cartridges which are dipped into parafln to make it somewhat waterproof. There is danger in transit of wet weather for curiously enough the explosives absorb the moisture and causes the nitro glycerin to break through the paper casings, and ruh on the car floor. A slight shock may then mean an explosion. He also said, that, very little nitro glycerin was contained in .the dynamite shipped'to this city. Formerly ft in sawdust, but’ now it to rpapked .lA tlMt «o , that the .sticks of expl«d«*>ftfe.'nqt knocked i loose by any jar. ; . ' ——" ' - A r _

Indiana held SS' other all day session Friday but nothing definite was determined as to the future course of the enterprise, which means so much to the people of this county. Ine first thing on the program was the election of officers which resulted in Thomas Baltzel! being chosen as president, George Brewster pf Jefferson township was made vice president, Charles Magley of Root township was chosen secre tary and Charles 8. Niblick, president of the Old Adams County Bank, as the treasurer. The rest of the day until three o’clock this afternoon, was spent in discussing plans for the payment of the debt and as to whether or not there will be a fair next year. Various plans were talked over but rrthing was proposed which seemed to please all the members of the board, and they again slipped away one by one, until there was no quorum left and it became necessary to quit What the result will be cannot be told at this time. The board has an offer of SSOO for their lease which runs seven years yet, and it is possible that another association may be organised if this one decides ot to proceed. ———————o— ——— ■ MIGHT HAVE BAD CATASTROPHE Indianapolis, Nov. 19—According to W. S. Blatchley. state geologist and head of the mines department, there are fifty mines in Indiana where a catastrophe similar to that of Cherry, IU., and equal in its horrible results may be expected to occur at any time and in order to reduce the danger of such a horror in this state, Mr. Blatchley will at once take up with James Epperson, chief mine inspector a plan under consideration for compelling the mine owners to remedy the dangerous features said to exist in the coal mining sections. Mr. L. C. Waring returned recently from a visit to hte old home in Mississippi. and ever mindful of his friends in Decatur, brought- with him the necessary articles for the preparation of an old time southern dinner. Mrs. W. A. Kuebler, whose fame as a hostess and for the style of dinners she can serve, is well known to all who have partaken of the hospitality of that home, was easily persuaded to take charge of the dinner, the hour being fixed for seven o’clock. At that time there were present Judge Edward O’Rourke and J. It. McCullough vice president of the Hamilton National bank, L. 0. Waring, W. A. Kuebler, C. K. Dugan and H. L. Confer. The feast for such it was included all the dishes which have made the south ffitich talked of in a hospitable way, ‘possum, yata* of the real old fashioned variety? black eyed Susan peas, persimmons, and all the side dishes which were necessary. It was a great occasion of the kind and the gentlemen who enjoyed same do not hesitate to say so. ' v , „ -ri'fr ■ .1, iiiiiii ii.n . ' Tipton, Ind., NOv. »>-The indictments against William H. and Noah R. Marker reported late yesterffity’ afternoon from Indianapolis were W surprising to the people of this vicinity, but there was little speculation as to the counts upon which the brother*, to whom had been in-1 tainted the management of the Flnft j National Bank, hid been charged. Th*] fact that William H .Marker had been ] indicted oft 'double the number of ae- j counts of that of hte brother, who] ran away with $60,000 of the bank’s I funds, it is alleged, was not clearly! understood. Following the statement ! that the grand jtiry found no indict- | met against E. W. Shirk, the preal- I det of the bank, who was arrested at the Calumet Club fn Chicago on the charge of misappropriating the funds,, the officials of the bank declared that’ they would issue a statement tomorrow. The president of the bank, who was also the head of a bank at Pert, and whose home is in Chicago, loaned the Tipton bank money in time of panic and then withdrew St from time to time. He made his last withdrawal just before Noah Marker left with the funds, and the books did not show 5 the transaction. Among the indictments returned by the federal grand jury yesterday is one against James H. Phillips, a book- ■ keeper in the Terre Haute National ’ Bank, who is charged with embezzling ■ $15,000 of the bank’s funds. The ’ money was taken, it is alleged, by the manipulation of the books of the bank i to a similar extent as that adopted ’ by Max Emmerich, the bookkeeper' of » the Capitals National Bank of thi* i city, who was also indicted. 'W ■ t Another Indictment is against Ed- . ward N. Detzer, a paying teller ta * the First National Bapk at Fart • Wayne. He is charged with ’ zlement by misapplying funds to th* ’ amount of $7,800. > ■. t / L Frank H. Nicolai, assistant cashier of the City National Bank at Auburn,

‘ a V JS *' ’ Aft ’ '-22. • Ar AAA I ' oZthe shortage and after he had been arrested following his disappearance from his home in Auburn. - The improvemets under way at the , Krick * Tyndall manufacturing plimt are about complete and it will be but a short time until their capacity will ; be well nigh doubled, and anyone acquainted with, the enormity of this institution will be Impressed with the statement that they are going to do, more business than heretofore. They have been large manufacturers in their line of drain and sewer tile, but they will soon be doing more business than ever. This addition to their plant and capacity was made necessary by the Increased demand for more of their finished product, which now finds its way to many parts of western Ohio, northern Indiana. and southern Michigan. New kilns have been bufft and a drying room 130x46 feet, four stories high is now about complete, at least it will be when a heatiqg system is completed, this heating sjtatem being, used for the proper drying of the tile before they are placed in the kiln for burning. These tile are most all shipped out of this place, although many of the smaller sizes are sold to Adams bounty farmers, and they helped make the soil in this part of the globe the best that is cultivated. During the coming year the Krick & Tyndall company will greatly increase their business, and whieh will easily make them the leaders in their Ifae of manufacture. ... m \ fr*-'- \ 1 " r "" ‘ . The Decatur Masons who attended the Scottish Rite meeting at Fort Wayne came home late Thursday evening, tired out but happy. Among those from here who took the work from file eighteenth to the thirtysecond degrees yesterday and thia became members of the Rite, were Judge J. T. Merryman, D. M. Hensley, C. C. Schafer. E. B. Adams, J. D. Dailey, H. R. Molts and John H. Heller. The thirty-second degree given last evening was the culmination of three days of work, including the dedication Os the new and beautiful temple and this was the first time the Scottish Rite work has ever been given in Indiana outside ot Indianapolis. Many distinguished visiters were there and a number of prominent men from all over northern Indiana were in the class, which was the largest ever initiated in the state, therj being 298. The big week will conclude this evening when the order of Mystic Shrlners will hold their session. The only candidate from here who will travel the hot sands is C. C. Schafer. The ne*r temple is certainly a model one, is the finest in the entire country and was erected at ft cost of $200,000. In its completion William Geske, the greatest of all Hoosier Matone has realized the rffream of his life and he was a very happy man. r*.- \ ,, . ..I. . „ y Indianapolis, Nov. 19.—The supreme court has decided that the law for building gravel roads by taxation Is unconstitutional. The decision is not limited to declaring the tavaHdtty of Die’three mile la#.” but applies to, all the provisions of the amended (highway act of IMS, which authorises free gravel roads to be -paid for by (taxation levftffi on sH theTroperty ffi| (the township, instead of assessments] |bn the laftds beefitted. The court | ( decides that this part ot th* law is | (invalid because it only authorizes: (gravel roads to be constructed by fteatation on “a petition signed by fifty: [or vibro freeholders and voters of any township • *■• whfeh Includes any (incorporated city or town • • •'having a population of less than thirty thousand inhabitants." Thte provirion is held to make the law a local add special act. Judge Jordan said: “These requirements of the law manifestly exclude, first, every township which does not hate an incorporated town or city with a population of fewer than thirty thousand; second, every and all townships which have no Incorporated town or city whatever. • • Can it, with any color of reason her claimed that townships, wherein there is an incorporated city of less than thirty thousand inhabitants, are in a class by themselves, so as to afford a reasonable basis for making a law applicable to improving highways applicable alone to them? • ♦ • Certainly guch a classification is not a natural 4>r reasonable one. ’ It cannot be said to Inhere in the subject matter of layfag out. establishing and improving public highways. • • • We conclude and so hold that Section 68 of the art in question (Section Hl2, Burns, IMS) is unconstitutional and therefore void. Excepting Section 81, it may be said that air of the actions rrf the act which appear and follow *der the caption, ‘Gravel road, by rerttfan > from Section 6$ to 88 (Seci mi-M iM* lncta *

the°° con* . . . , * . ’ ‘ , | ▼nuien s under at law, I should, in turn, be rUini..i. f,r o . A new complaint has been filed In tiie case of Leota Ross vs. Homer Raudenbush, for breach of promise, the demand being $2,000 instead'of] $6,000. This complaint Is only in one paragraph, alleging that the parties promised to marry each other, but later the defendant refused to do so. The plaintiff filed an application fbr leave to prosecute as a poor person. Motion sustained and L. C. DeVoss appointed counsel for plaintiff. The $6,000 case has not been dismissed. Ah appeal from a justice of peace court, a new case has been fiMM in circuit court entitled Linda Yoder vs. Peter Hoffman et al, damages and possession ot property. Francis M. Cottrell vs. Amos D. Buckmaster et al, note, default of all defendants. t - t Leota Ross vs. Homer Raudenbush, breach of promise $5,000, demurrer overruled; rule to answer within five days. A marriage license was issued to John F. Debolt, 25, a farmer from Jefferson township to Jessie Lankhart 20, of Jefferson township. They will be married by Rev. Kohn At Willshire, Ohio. Jeremiah Leichty, guardian for Myrl, Mabel, Frieda, Justine and Judith Llechty and filed bond for SBSO. Real «state transfert: fffarah EL Wolf et al to William P. Colchito, 61 acres Root township, $3,000; Margaret Sphar to Clara Bphar, inlot 1 Decatur, $600; Elizabeth Steffan to Joel N. Kipper. 6 acres French towdship $1,500; Sarah E. Leßron to C. F. Omlor, ouclot 39, Decatur, $1,260. The grand jury continues Its labors and there Is apparently no chance of an adjournment for several days. ' ' " I Q 111 ■■ I ,II !■ MANY WITNESSES HERE Vera Cruz Citizens Here Before the Grand Jury. Sheriff Meyer of Decatur, was in .the city today, going from here to Vera Cruz, in which vicinity he is getting witnesses to appear before Hop. county grand jury in the ,investigation of the death of the late Mrs. Al Kindle. Several witnesses from this city and vicinity went to Decatur today for the purpose of testifying while more will go tomorrow. The prosecuting attorney, has had a large number of witness?* near. Vera Crtz summoned to prove that Boegley, whose motorcycle ran into the buggy, was under the influence of intoxicating liquor at the time. He was reckless in the driving of the it «s |ctaln»ed. William Kerfoot, of ths city, a friend of the irbiaia family, was one of the people who Went to Decatur.—Bluffton Banner. ' - ;■ . ' | — — —: — { Thursday evening at 8:30 o’clock (at the home of Mr. Warren Hammerwere Miss Alice Highlen lot thi* city to MnDavid J. Williams of Lima, 0, SX 5 £ services, and the ring ceremony was used. Miss Gold* Biggs at the »p---pointed /time played a wedding march which was very beautiful, and added much solemnity to the services. Ths bride was gowned in a pretty sky blue silk which was very appropriate for ■ the occasion. The groom wore; the. I usual black. After the yedding service a sumptuous suppe? was served in which the near relatives and some friends took part. The evening was then spent in a good social way and the event will be a long s remembered one. The bride is a beautiful young' lady and ha* a large host of friends who wish them well. Mr. Williams is also a respected young man and is engaged in the cigar business at Lima where they will reside. They left l for that place Friday morning. . The bridal couple received many costly presents, and the hearty congrat- ;■ stations of their friends, who are i numerous in this city and elsewhere. 7 ' ... . o — Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 2$A. . tlon raised concerning the validity i of the bonds issued in ft large number j of counties under the township levy, gravel road law. declared unconstitutional by the supreme court last week, ha* set the Indianapolis - yers, a* well a* those in ottw ckies to asce n

under that particular law, and in the other three case* the court held that a proceeding to construct a gravel road under that law must be dismissed If timely objection is made before any bonds have been issued. “Bonds which hake already been sold and the proceeds used in building gravel toads are fully protected by the Constitution of the United States and by the rule of estoppel, which has often been applied by our supreme court “Sectnon 16, of Article 1, of the United States Constitution provides that ‘NO state shall • • • pass any • • • laW impairing the obligation of contracts.’ And under repeated decisions of the supreme court of the United States and also of the state supreme court outstanding bonds issued under the law for making ‘gravel roads by taxation’ come within the protection of this rule. I'. z “The supreme court of Indiana hag also frequently laid down the principle that when the people of a community have benefltted by a pubMc improvement, without objection, they are estopped to deny their HabHity ftr lti cost ' “The decisions last week were all cases in which objections were interposed to the improvement proceedings before any bonds had been sold or any work had been done toward improving the highway?. “The greater part of the outstanding gravel road bonds were not even issued under the taw held to be unconstitutional, but under other stat> ntes which do not have the defect found In this one.’» , , ... ~ , .i»qii . j, ■ Over forty Indictments were returned by the grand jury today, which • has been in session since last Monwhen the member, were Instructed by the court. A large of these indictments were for alleged blind tigers and some of them were tor gambling. Neither WHam Uptegraft nor Fred Kump were indicted by the jury. Wnile there was some contradictory evidence given-by Kump there considerable doubt as to whether an iMOsettt on th* charge of perjury would stick. Uptegraft ta stiU fa jail, with the $2,000 bond hanging over fam, but it is probable that this bend will be decreased within ft. Short time, far that arrangements will be made for him to plead guilty to the charges of carrying concealed weapons against him.- While Kump was not indicted it is barely possible that he may yet be brought before the court on the charge of contributing to the delinquencies of the Williams girt The forenoon was spent ift 4 further esScTthe part of the juror, to Itort somethin# more concerntag the Haar murder case. A number of witnesses Were called fa the caSe last week were before'Uta Wimd Jury toddy and nothing of apparent special importance was learned from the witnesses. -Bluffton Banner. , * oy* 11 #* ‘taWtaßfayS? tsiSl TSifwmSWWv CzMrSS' -<L ■■ ■ : Q ' '• -T'"-. Mwty Children see Biddy r,. 'it. '• ; 1 ’■ ’ . - ' x"*'. Mother Gray* Sweet Powder, for Children, used by Mother Gray, nurse in Children’. Home, New York, faeak up Colds in 24 hours, care Fer•rishness, Headache, Stomach Trots- : Mee. Teething Disorders and Destroy 1 wonns. At all druggists, 25c. Sample mailed FREE. ’Address Aflea 8. 1 Olmsted, Leßoy, N.Y. j — •- — ‘fa * Pinch,uro ALLEN’S ’ A powder to shake into your shoes. It cures hot, tired, aching, sweating feet and makes walking 1 easy. Takes the sting out of corns nfty Y**rs> Experience. . ____ . ’I r far,, w. w. Ralston. Hopkinsvfl* ’ KT. *ay»: "I h*r® b «« n rdfang. t chickens for fifty years and Benrben . paltry Cure is the most rotiMHfaCT 11o / a—t sit Rm