Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 77, Decatur, Adams County, 9 April 1903 — Page 1

VOLUME 1

DAILY TELEGRAMS United States Govern- ■ ment Wins Suit. ine Man Killed by a Railroad k Sentinel at Rotterdam. sspe ial to the Dally Democrat. 2:30 p. in. ■bt Paul. Minn., April u. —North Security euse decided tixltiy in Mc<>rnf United State* government by he circuit court here. Kbcial to The Dally Democrat, 2:30 p. m. April < ity bus resumed scrmal quiet after the turbulent •nes of yesterday. ■Stoclal to Daily Democrat. 8:110 I*. M April —Sentinel on railroad today fired on four men who refused to leave the line after being warned. One was killed. STILL A CANDIDATE Judge Hench Defended j by Ft. Wayne News. As a Congressional Candidate He Measures lip the Wrong Way. Kdge Hench, politician, states- , and a chronic candidate for ress in the twelfth district, now a defender in the Fort Wayne Sews. The judge is somewhat crest Mien and but for the timely aid of the News would have given up his fort,’, 'leventh race tor congre-.-. tefore he begun. He now feels greatly stimulated and i- au'aiu ri n\ iue>-d that his cause is a worthy one aiul that he is a bright and shining star ip'his attitude as a fix' to. Congressman Robinson. We advise another inventory. An impartial one, by the way. Go out into the back yard and look at yourself. Take a meter mea nirement of your ability and see if it isn't a little light to hold down a congressional seat. Take Mr. Robinson as a model and try and calculate the insufficiency of your cause, and < o not te misled by the clever j'-®er on the News. That is his business The Demix-rat has a moral aii W< 11 as a legal right to give Mr. Hem h a few pointers he dix-s not know, without the same being interas a desire to inflict our eounsfflkpon the twelfth district demo- • Tats We resent tins insinuation as a rank case of getting yellow. LANDOFFICE BUSINESS. The >Treasurer’s Office Taking in Long Wads of Cash. tPT‘asurer Voglewede and his assistants are now expereineing a busy season at the treasurer's office in th* collection of the spring instab ment of taxes. Up to this time the <*dll|fctions aggregate the usual auKnnt or more and with three weefcs from Monday in which to wi)M* up the balance. there is but little protebility that but little de linquiney will te report!xl. Uderthe systji m now in vogue at that office, it takes hut little time to transact theAmsmess All receipts an' made outpnd wlien’a taxpayer appears at tho [window it is but necessary to teaif out the receipt. stump it jxiid and count the cash turned over for theranu*. It greatly facilitates the time as compared to the old system and is appreciated by everv one ha v in# business at this public office

The Daily Democrat.

CLAIMED BY DEATH. Miss Blanche Adelsperger Died Today at Noon. Miss Blanche Adelsperger died at the home of her mother on South Fourth street attoday noon. For two years she has been suffering with consumption and though it could plainly lx 1 seen that her life was drawing to a close, the end was not expected so soon and the fact that she is dead comes as a shock to her many friends. Miss Adelsperger was very popular in this city and for two years was music instructor in the public schools, teing obliged on account of her health, to withdraw from the position after serving that length of time. After leaving the schools, in company with her mother, she went to Colorado, with the hope to improve her health, and only returned from that place a few months ago. No funeral arrangements have yet Ix-en determined on as the relatives are away from home. AMONG THE CLUBS Reception at the Home of Mrs. C. A. Dugan. 'The Ladies’ Shakespeare Club to Close the Season April TwentyFourth. The closing of the club season foi* the Ladies’ Shakesjx-are chib, will occur this year on Friday, April 21, and at a meeting held yesterday at the home of Mrs. L. G. Ellingham, it was decided that the usual club reception will occur at the home of Mrs. C. A. Dugan. At this event the husbands, as well as many other guests, will be invited and the occasion will be made one of social brilliance as well as literary excellence. The season then to dose will end one of the most profitable and pleasant of the twenty odd years of their existence. They have already began the systemizing of their work for next year, which to them is a happy anticipation. The reception at the Dugan home will lx l an elaborate affair and of course a pleasant one. The committee having same in charge refuse to divulge the program. and if they can cork it up for two whole weeks, all precedence that a woman can not keep a secret will lx- smashed to smithereenFINALLY CONSENTED. The President Follows the Aduice of His Friends on Tariff Revision. It comes from an authentic source that President Roosevelt pulhsl I lack a good while before he finally | consented to the program of his ] jxjlitieal lieutenants, agreed on shortly before he started west, that there shall lx’ no revision of the | tariff by the next congress and that the trusts shall not suffer any I material damage as a result of the 'legislation by the recent congress, iHe wanted, at least, to start the tariff revision business next winter \ by the creation of a commission to study the subject and rejxirt to the I fifty ninth congress, but after it was demonstrated to him that any ■ movement toward disturbing the ■ Dingh y rates might endanger his re-nomination be acquiesced in the “stand i>af policy, and approved the plan for Secretary Shaw to deliver an anti revision sjx'ech in Illinois, and Secretary Root the same kind of n s|x*ech lx-fore the Home Market club of Boston.

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1903.

MORE BUSINESS. City Council Were in Continued Session. Marshall Street Sewer Presents a Difficulty and Necessitates Another Meeting. The entire body of the city council met in continued session last I evening and considered that busi- . ness which had teen left over from | the previous session. The judiciary I committee presented several bills that had teen continued and the , same were allowed. Upon motion the J purchasing committee was' ordered 'to buy a suitable safe to’te used by j the city treasurer for the projx’r ■ keeping of his records and other pa]xts. The Marshall street sewer was a. difficulty with which the city dads : wrestled for some time, but no decil sion was reached and it will be act■ed upon next Friday when Attorney Shafe Peterson will be in the I city to assist in its disjxisal ccord- [ ing to a late record, the sewer committee was authorized to contract with E. Woods & Company for the construction of the Marshall street sewer but as Mr. Doerhamer announces that such a contract must withstand his disapproval, the couneilmen are at a loss to know just how to procacd. The action next Friday, however, may be pre-under-stood to tejto this effect: That the i former record which may te considered us a clerical error, lie changed .sons to read Doerhaemer & Com- [ pany, and then should the sewer [committee fail to contract with that firm within forty eight hours the ■contract for constructing the sewer should te allowed to the next lowest bidders. Eugene Christen was hired for the sum of thirty-five dollars as the supervisor of construction of the water works addition. Mayor Coffee statixl that the postoffiee inspector has advised him that the city should immediately have the names of streets placed in conspicuous places and the houses numbered. This of course is convincing proof that before very long the citizens of this place shall have the great convenience of free jxistal delivery. ■ The building committee was ordered to rejxirt at the next regular meeting as to the advisability of building an addition to the electric light jxiwer station. The city council has instructed the building committee to rejxirt on the jiroposition that the electric light power station Jie enlarged There ,is hardly room to anticipate their i report to te otherwise than favorable and when such an addition is made the jxissibilities for a day current of electricity are increased. At last night’s meeting of the city duds the question was considered and the majority of that Ixxly seemed in favor of the necessary improvements requisite for u day current. The new equipment would consist of a dymi mo and possibly an engine, lighter and smaller than the one now used at nights. The dynamo would possibly lx* a double pluizc machine which would lx 1 cujxible of running small funs, arc and incandescent lights, and motors as high as ten horse jxiwer. Indications jxiint to a heavy use of electricity by day and even should the revenue for the first year he a little short it will increase and inevitably place the day ojxtii tiims on a jxiying Ixisis. Many bus iness men are heartily in favor of this proposed undertaking and earnp'stly bojx* that it may materialize. SERVICES. We are requested to announce that Ella Rudy will conduct services at the Antioch chuch <>n Saturday and Sunday evening and also special services Sunday afternoon. Everylxxly invited to attend these meetings and bring your friends. Rememter the date next Saturday and Sunday.

FRUIT IS SAFE. I Recent Freezes Did Not Injure Crop. Indiana probably will have a good fruit crop this year, despite the freezing weather of the last ten days and the zero weather of last winter. B. F. Johnson, state statistician, has been using a magnifying glass in the examination of peach, jiear and cherry buds gathered from trees in different parts of the state. He ' asserts that the peaches were not ! killed by the cold weather, of last I winter, and that they were not injured by the recent freezes. Under i the glass the embryo peach is green lin practically every bud examined. The pears are in good condition ,but some of the cherries were found to te killed. For instance, in a cluster of three or four buds, one, and sometimes more .were found to te black, indicating the effect of frost, but it is not unlikely that there are plenty yet alive to make a fair crop. Mr. Johnson says that peaches are hardly ever injured at this season of the year. He says that when the thermometer gets 12 or 15 degrees below zero in midwinter the injury is done. Peaches are ateut ready to bloom, as are the cherries. From many quarters have teen heard the wail that jx-aches are killed and Indiana need look for no crop this year. Mr. Johnson says jx-aches are in good condition. The trees are not so heavily loaded with bloom as in some other years, but there are still enough blooms to make a gixxl crop, FORT WAYNE THE HUB. ■ .1 :As an Interurban Center it will Soon Eclipse the Field. Fort Wayne will te the hub from which northeastern Indiana interurban lines will emerge, according to a correspondent of the Indianapolis News. He says that the northeastern corner is the scene of tremendous interurlmn development. The i Union Traction comjiany have teen active of late and a big merger of | lines is cxjx-cted sixin. The counties ■ now being x> thickly covered by jirojxised electric lines are Dekalb, ■ Allen. Stouten. LaGrange and Elkhart. As soon as the lines that are now on paper arc constructed in these five counties and connecting links in other localities are made one can travel via intcrurlian from Waterloo to Jackson Mich., and thence to Detroit and other Michigan cities or go from here to Chicago and other cities west and south of Chicago. Again, one cun go from here to Indianapolis and other Indiana cities, or. by taking the interurban at this point, a trip e in te made to Toledo, Cleveland, and, in time to Buffalo, if projected lines are built. WERE HERE. Horse Theives Passed Through the City Last Night. Sheriff Butler was informed about eight o’rloi k hist night by the sheriff of Wells county, that a horse and buggy had Ix-en stolen in Bluffton and that the thieves, when last six n were headtsl toward this city. The outfit is deserited as an old buggy. I witout a top, unhd ii tine npjx-aring bay horse of medium build. Ateut ■ ten o'clock two men drove up at | Hart's livery tern hut were refused the uceomimxlations which they ask ed for. When the keeper of that stable heard that the authorities of this city had Ix’en warned to lixik out for n horse thief he informisl Sheriff Butler of the strangers whom he hud sixm and his description proved that those two men were the guilty parties. They were true ed up town but successfully eluded the officers and are thought to have crossed the north bridge on their wuj* toward Wayne.

COMMERCIAL CLUB Plans Maturing for Its Organization. Untold Benefits to Decatur Can be Derived From Compact Influence. The preliminaries are under way I for the formationa nd organization lof the Decatur Commercial club. [ whose object in life will ever te to I advance the interests of the best ■ town in the universe. With such an ■ orgnaization it will te an easy mat ; ter to talk b.usinses from the shoulder with any one who may desire a location for manufacturing or other purjxises. It will be a place where the business interests of the town can always te discussed and official action taken, and the results anticipated from such an organization will te more than realized. Decatur has long netsded the help that naturally comes from a commercial club, and we hope every business man will see the necessityand give it hearty sanction and loyal support. Should the project te carried through the much talked of similar clubs at Bluffton and other towns will not tea eompirison to the beauty and grandeur of their club rooms, or for the good they well accomplish for the town and community surrounding. In other words Decatur has her dander up j and will follow past precedence in ■ excelling in whatever she undertaki es. The task would be too trying to ■ enumerate the benefits that will te realized, but any man with a gixxl computing head can read Ix'tween the lines and count up endless blessings to te derived. INVESTIGATE. Mr. Cordesman Will be Here Tomorrow so Talk Factory. Mayor Uoffee is in rec«>ipt of a I second letter from the Cordesman i Machine company of Cincinnati, in i which it was stated that Mr. H. J. Cordesman would represent the firm ■and te here tomorrow for a conference with our people. They lay I claim to having an investment of SOO,OOO which they will lay down in this city, their demands being free grounds for the factory purposes and local capital to become interested with them in the business and have charge of it. They claim that ■soon after becoming established they will employ one hundred men <>r more and if this be true, they would soon become an interesting addition to the business of this city. Here is another ease where it will pay to put your investigating powers to work and discover the leaks—if any—ateut this proposition. It i may lx l gixxl. atid there is no way of i telling until you investigate. i HARD AT WORK. The Township Assessors Are Up to Their Eyes in Work. Rejxtrls to County Assessor Crist are to the effect that the work of the township assessors and their assistants is moving along nt a merry ]>nee with n view of completing their ■ work on schedule time. The nssi'sxi ment of real estate makes the duties i of these officials much more burden some but they will no doubt complet their efforts indue season. From the tone of voice expressed from over the state there will likely te n healthy increase in the valuations as i taken by this years corps of assessors. which on the whole will richly increase the tuxables when totaled, ! and ready for the scrutinizing eye of th teard ot review, when 1 they meet the first of June.

NUMBER 77

WESTERN FARMS. Land Quickly Taken in the New West, ern Settlements. One month has passed since the period of land settlements in the now ■ States of the West, the date for such | transactions being March 1, and | landlsaes now being made indica,te that the craze for farms is unabattxl. i Prices in fact, are higher than ever j before. One interesting fact is i shown by the land department returns of the Union Pacific, which ■ has tens of thousands of acres in western Kansas and Nebraska. It is now reporting large sales to small ■ farmers, rather than to the cattle ! and sheepmen as heretofore. The truth is that prices have gone beyond the figure at which it is profitable to put together great ranches. They are selling at from $5 to >lO an acre. The farmers who try to make a living on small ureas of these lands, on such u basis of purchase, will some day have a hard struggle. The semi-arid region is ■ not yet conquered, though it is [utter understood than a decade ago. This season, however, prom ises to tea good wheat year, and the immigration will be large. WANTS A LINE. Geneva will Make an Effort to Land One. I I ,— A Communication From J. Morgan of Toledo, is Very Encouraging. | Geneva is after an electric railway and J. Morgan of Toledo is the promoter, according to this week’s is . sue of the Herald, which says: Fin'day J. H. Reiff received a eoui- “ munication froniJ.Morgan of Toledo , Ohio, who is at the head of a syndi- ■ eate engaged in the building of elee- [ trie and steam railroads. He asserts that they ex)x‘et to build an electric road in this community. He also says: ‘ The line would tea great. : benefit to your community and we are very anxious to build it where the jx-opb’ want the road. We have ! teen offered the right of way along several roads running through your section of the country. We intend [to employ the jx'ople living along the line to do the grading and team work, and will give employment to all who want a position." Whether this is the proposi'd line through here or not the article does not say but anyway an effort will lx? made to get a line through the southern capital. AN OPERATION. Willis Sprague Undergoing Delicate Treatment. Willis Sprague, la-other of Harvey Sprague,is in Columbus,Ohio, to un dergo an operation there to remedy an injury and disfigurement which he received when lie was a small child six years of age. The ojx*ra ■ tion and treatment which he will receive is for the straightening of his nose. All who are acquainted with him know how his nose is disfigured, but there are probably few who know how the disfigurement ixx'uwd. A kick from a horse explains it. When a child he enter ed his father's stable and when found by his parents was lying unconscious with his face covered with blixxl. A horse had kickisl him, breaking his nose and crushing it out of shape. It was never striiightened to its natural position. He will te in Columbus three weeks to receive treatment. His wife and children are with him. Willis lived ■ here until a lew years ago when liw I moved to Bluffton.