Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 95, Decatur, Adams County, 30 April 1903 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. EVIRY EVENING. EXCEPT SUNDAY. BY LEW Gt. EL.L.INOMAM. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By carrier, per week. .. 10c By carrier, peryeai $4 00 By mail, per month... 25*' By mail, per year $2.50 Single copies. Two Cents. Advertising rates made known on application Entered in the postoftice at Decatur. Indiana. as second-class mail matter. J. M. HELLER, Manager. The dedication of the St Louis exposition begins today. The president is there. Conies now Charles L. Henry of Anderson, and planks down the gilt > that makes him the owner of the , Indianapolis Journal, the g. o. p. ( organ of the state. Now comes the j politicians—the fellows who know ( it all—and sets it up in Italics that . this newspaper deal means nothing , less than that Mr. Henry is an ( avowed candidate for the birth be- ( ing so admirably tilled by Senator , Beveridge. If it be true. Mr. Henry j will soon learn to his sorrow, that ( the newspaper route to political , fame is a rocky road to travel. A. E. Rose went to Bluffton today to look after business. ; Jesse Sutton made a business trip to Geneva this afternoon. John Stoneburner made a business trip to Curryville today. Fred Miller of Berne, was a business visitor here this morning. James H Hardison, the oil man .»f Genevaj was a business culler . here this morning. Mrs. Adam Brown returned from Fort Wayne this afternoon after a few days visit with friends. Mrs. T. M. Reid, who lias been visiting her sister Mrs. Bogill, at Fort Wayne, re turned home this afternoon. Jerry Coffee left last night for St. Louis to attend the dedication ceremonies of the Louisa na Purchase Exp. •sition and to take in the other sights. Ed Luttman, a juror on the Reynolds case, had an attack of functional heart trouble last night about midnight. Dr. Covredale called to attend him and succeeded in rallying him from what at first was thought to be a very serious attack. E. W. Johnson went to Monroe -this afternoon to visit a few days with his jsirents. Mr. Johnson will leave here next Tuesday for Douglas, Arizona, where he will work for the mining company of which his brother. Ross Johnson, is the president. The reviewers of the Sheets ditch. Sim Soldner of Berne. Joe Winans and Wilson Lewton. who were appointed by the commissioners have finished their w< >rk so far as the making of assessments are concerned but will not hand in their report until May 26. Young Man Fatally Hurt. Evansville. Ind.. April 30.—A freight train on the Southern railway jumped the track at Troy, and Frank Baker, twenty years old. was fatally hurt.

MAY CAPTURE NATIONAL CONVENTION

Indianapolis. April SO. —Indiana Democrats may make a serious effort to capture the next national con vention for Indianapolis. The word which has emanated from Washington to the effect that many of the active politicians there would look with favor «n Indianapolis in case the city can turwish an adequate hall has encouraged some of the leaders here to think that the project of securing the convention for Indiana should not be let slide They think that there is an excellent chance for them to succeed if the, set out once to land the convention, and for this reason they are anxious 'o make the attempt That the building can be secured if Indianapolis fans the promise of the convention, no one here doubts The coliseum project is well under way. and while It has temporarily been allowed to drop from public attention, the prime movers in the movement have no intention of giving up their plans. They are only taking a short rest before renewing the quest with even greater energy. The Democratic leaders here are very anxious to get the convention for the effect it would have on the pr.rty. They think that if a national convention were ever held In Indianapolis the greater part of the workers over the state would attend The influence of the meeting with the great I! jilts of the party would be felt, and in the campaign to follow the m<n who had come to Indi-

OIL BUSINESS. April Reports Show the Boom in Oil. Foreign Syndicates Will Spend Millions in the Indiana Oil Fields. A dispatch from Marion says: Millions of dollars will be invested in the Indiana oil distircts the present season, which bids fair to be I the greatest oil development year i in the history of the field. Oil pro- i duction is in good demand at high I prices. Immense stock companies are being organized all over the \ country for development purposes, ' and as Indiana is the most prominent field in sight for a high grade | illuminant oil, it will certainly be closely watched by the trade over tb ; s country as well as in Eurojie.' Large foreign syndicates are dabbl- 1 ing in oil and at the present time : hold options on some of the leading ! producing properties in the state. | The French syndicate alone expects to invest close to >10,000,000 in the , Trenton limestone oil districts of i Indiana and Ohio. They will ac-, quire production, leases and put in ; pipelines and refineries, and will j not only be a producer of oil. but ’ will buy oil. refine it and sell it to I the trade across the water. The ; late advance in price of the crude ; product has been encouraging to the trade, and they all look for a steady , and healthy market for the entire | season. Stocks of crude are | dwindling down rapidly and the I scarcity must be changed or it will• • become alarming. The Seep pur-1 I chasing agency, the buyers of crude | for the standard, is aware of the fact that a better price will have | to be paid the producers to induce them to push’ the drill, therefore, j slight but healthy advances in prices can lie looked for. A large acreage has been leased a few miles northeast of Decatur, and a couple of ventures wlil lie made. To the south of Decatur, toward Berne, a Toledo company has a block of leases, and a te*t will be started \ ' in June. The Camden district in • Jay county has been stirred up of I late, and test wells will be drilled in ’ Greene and Knox townships, also • quite an amount of development • work will be done in Wabash township. near the state line. During April seventeen wells have been completed in Adams county, twenty , are being drilled, sixteen new rigs . are up. Os the wells in but two » were dry holes and the other lift *en . have a daily production of 360 I barrels. * t J H. Lenhart is still recovering from the illness at the Masonic banquet at Geneva last i week, although the recovery lias , not attained the point of admitting him away frdm his home.

anapolis would be the hardest workers for the party success. The recognition of the service of the Indiana Dem ocracy to the party through the sending of a convention here would likewise be a boon to the whole party and would have the effect of offsetting any dissatisfaction that might arise. The work of the Indiana codifying commission will be done at the homes of the various members for the time being. This was the statement made last night by Judge T. E. Howard of South Bend. Democratic member of the body. Mr. Howard said that the early labor is of aueb a nature that the commissioners cannot work to any great advantage together. Esch man has accordingly been given a certain portion to do and this will be looked after tn his own offices. The early work in a large measure pertaius to going through the statutes and collect ing all the laws relating to any one matter so that when the commission gets together in the future it can work intelligently on harmonising and codifying these statutes. As toon as the actual work of codification and compilation begins the commission will take up Its headquarters h'-re and tbs members will work together. n——» I ( Major George W. Steele of Marion former congressman from the Elev-1; enth district, accompanied the govern- < or’s party to St. Louis. ; ,

FITTING CEREMONY Louisiana Purchase Exposition Grounds Formally Dedicated. President Roosevelt end Ex-President Cleveland Take Part in the Day’s Doings. 8t Louis Welcomed the Most Distinguished Gathering She Ever Had. St. Louis. April 30.—This city today is thronged as never before. Nor were there ever before so many notable visitors gathered here at one time The president of the United States, the only ex president, several cabinet officers, nearly the full corps of diplotnates accredited to this country. United States senators, the governors of many states and representatives of the highest in every walk of life make I up the most distinguished gathering that ever assembled in this city. Participation in the ceremonies incident to the formal dedication of the Louisiana Purchase exposition is the object of those comprising this dis-

i W Ji ROLLA wells. tlnguished assemblage and thousands from every part of the nation are here with them as witnesses of the impos ing ceremony. The ceremonies proper began at 10 o’clock, when Mayor Rolla R. Wells tendered to President Roosevelt at the St. Louis club the freedom of the city. At 10:30 o'clock, under the com mand of Major General Henry C. Cor-, bin. adjutant general of the United States army, who acted as grand mar shal of the day. the great military parade was formed This parade was made up of representatives of the na tlonal guard from many states and made a strong showing of the militia. It started west in Linden boulevard from Grand avenue. At 11:30 President Roosevelt, in advance of the guard, reached the World's Fair ground, his arrival being signalized by the firing of the presidential salute. The president took his place at once in the reviewing stand and reviewed the parade. During the time after noon that the crowd was gathering in the liberal arts building for the dedicatory ceremonies. there was a band concert. At 2 o'clock President David R. Francis called the meeting to order and the invocation was delivered by Cardinal Gibbons. President Francis introduced Thomas H. Carter, president of the day. and the grand chorus sang "The Heavens Proclaiming.” The address of presentation was then made by President Francis, and President Roosevelt delivered the dedication address. The great chorus again sang and ex-President Cleveland delivered his address. Following a prayer by Bishop E. R. Hendrix and the benediction by Bishop Henry C. Potter, there was a centennial salute of 100 guns and the dedicatory ceremonies were at

an end. Tonight there will be a great display of fireworks. The city has put forth every effort to entertain its visitors and all streets are lavishly decorated with flaps, streamers and drapings of red. blue and yellow. Boy Tells How It Was Done. Grand Rapids. Mich.. April 30.— Henry Hasse, fourteen years old. has confessed he shot and killed Charles Pohiman. seven years old. on April 10 and with the assistance of his younger brother Otto, carried 'he body in a bag to the Ijike Shore railroad and placed it on the tracks. The Hasse boys say the shooting was accidental. Snow in Nebraska. Lincoln. Neb., April 30.—A enowstorm last evening descended on IJncoln accompanied by a brisk north wind and steadily lowering temperature. It is below the freezing point, and It is feared that fruit and early vegetation in Nebraska ia ruined. West and north of here conditions are worse. Committee Completes Its Work. Springfield. 111. April 30 — The legislative investigating committee has completed the work of hearing evidence. The report of the committee w’ll probably be submitted to the house at once. Members of the committee declined to discuss the charac ter of its contents.

A MOUNTAIN FELL And More Than a Hundred Villagers in Alberta Are Overwhelmed. Terrific Explosion of Turtle Mountain Creates Devastation in a Mining Town. Mine Buried Beneath Millions of Tons of Rock and Many Lives Lost. Vancouver. B C., April 30. —Overwhelmed by countless tons of rock hurled from the top of Turtle mountain by an eruption as yet unexplained, which killed 112 or more persons. Frank, a mining town in southwes’ern Alberta, is threatened with destruction by flood. Old Man's river, which flows through the middle of the town, is dammed with the fallen rocks to the height of nearly 100 feet. The waters of the river are backed up for miles and th entire valley above Frank is flooded. A big body of water is pressing with force against the dam Should the water burst from the im promptu dam the entire village probably would be swept away. A dispatch from Frank says: ”A tremendously loud reverberation shook the whole valley of the Old Man's river. and before the inhabitants had awakened to a realization of the impending danger from the top of Turtle mountain there were hurled millions of tons of rock.” The Frank mines, operated by the French-Canadian Coal company across the river from the towu were seen to be buried under hundreds of feet of rock. The volunteer relief force was unable to get into the mine, but managed to get near enough to deter mine that not a man at the workings had ercaped death. Many had been mangled The disascer was merciful to those who were employed above ground in that they must have been killed instantly, while those in the workings of the mine may yet be alive if they have air to breathe. If ail the airshafts to the mines were closed under the avalanche, all the men must be dead. The disaster was not confined to the vicinity of the mine alone, for many of the dwelling-houses in the town of Frank were demolished by the falling rock. Some of the occupants ■ of these houses escaped death, but many others were Instantly killed. Il is conservatively estimated that the loss of life will exceed a hundred, and the latest returns place the number of dead at 112. It is impossible to arrive at any accurate estimate of the loss of life, an owing to the excitement and hurry and rush of people on the streets no person can say who is missing and who is not. There are no records available which will tell how many men were working in and about the mine at the time of the disaster. When reports concerning the magnitude of the disaster and details concerning it began to come in from trustworthy men. it transpired that the earth had opened for threequarters of a mile in length and for many feet in width, and that the whole northern face of Turtle mountain had slipped from place. It is generally thought that the disruption of Turtle mountain was brought about by a seismic disturbance, although there are those who deciare that the origin of the eruption was volcanic. No lava has been seen, and aside from the smoke from the mountain the atmosphere is clear. There is. however, no explanation for the continued upheaval of rock. The eruptive influences seem to center right at the crown of Turtle mountain.

Frank is a n®,. town of about 1.000 Inhabitants and lies in the valley of the river at the entrance of Crow a Nest pass. The coal company has been operated for eighteen months The mines are gaseous. The latest theory as to the cause of the disaster Is that it was due to a rockslide which carried the top of Turtle mountain down on the village It is now thought that what was supposed to be the smoke of a volcano was dust, and that the continued fall of small bits of rock during the day was merely the aftermath of the original rockslide. A repetition of the calamity is now considered unlikely. T-ater Information from Frank Is somewhat more reassuring than earlier news, in that there now seems to be less danger than was at first anticipated by an extensive disaster The threatened flood seems less probable. A large force of men has been at work trying to create a new channel no that the dammed up water of the Old Man river may run off Most of the men imprisoned In the mine, whose death a’ first seemed certain. got out alive There were seven teen men In the mine Two died from suffocation, but the other fifteen work *d their way out uninjured after cut ting their way through thirty feet of debris. One of the men who escaped went home after emerging from the mine and found hie house destroyed and hie wife and six children dead. Now in Jury's Ha.ids. Frankfort. Ky.. April SO.—The case ©f Jaw vs Howard, twice tried and cot: vlcted as a principal In the murder of William Goebel, Is now in the hand" of the jury.

GO WEST! 100,000 Acres for Sale in Nebraska, N. Dakota, Montana and Washington. Adapted to general farming, fruit growing and grazing. IMPROVED and UNIMPROVED. Healthy climate; convenient to schools and churches. EXCEL LENT RAILROAD FACILITIES and good markets. Low rate railroad fare to h prospective purchasers, either one way I B or round trip. I also have a few rare | bargains in ILLINOIS FARMS. | For further information call on or address E. M. Schirmever DECATUR, INDIANA. Comparative Statement of FIRST NATIONAL BANK Decatur, Indiana. RESOURCES. Apri1.9,1903. April 30,190-.'. Loans and discounts... .• 5 406,036 42 $ 359,846 '.<3 Overdrafts 6,016 24 7,737 26 U. S. bonds 26,034 37 25,500 00 Adams county bonds 31.042 00 27,160 00 Real estate and furniture 4,000 00 6.453 64 Exchanges 93,368 75 81,205 59 Cash 32,751 72 25,980 57 S 599,249 50 J 533,883 99 LIABILITIES. Capital S 100,000 00 « 100,000 00 Surplus 15,000 00 11,000 00 Undivided profits 3.688 09 7,260 43 Circulation 25,000 00 25,000 00 Deposits 455.561 41 390.623 56 $ 599,249 50 -^.533,883 99 DIRECTORS P W. SMITH. President. C. A. DUGAN, Caskter. W A. Kt’EBI.KH. Vi,-e-Prt-eident. E. X. BHINGF.K. AM’tCzxh • J. H. HOBROCK. D. SPRANG. J. B. MASON. | CLOSING OUT | I Buggies, Com Cultivators—Riders and Walk- ■ ■ ers, Check Rowers, Breaking Plows, Har- ■ rows, Grain Drills, Lawn Mowers, WeedW ers and Horse Cultivators. ■ All these goods will be sold very low, as I am going ■ to close them out. 1 AGENT FOR > McCORMICK MACHINES, WHITE PLYMOUTH B ROCK EGGS, TRACTION ENGINES. AND ■ THRESHING MACHINERY. I T K NIBLICK

Confessed to Wife Murder. Riverside. Cal.. April 30.—R. C. i Psher has confessed to Judge Noyes that he murdered his wife. Maria Fisher, who was found dead last Thursday; that ail his life he had been a criminal, and that his mother before him was a professional thief. Fisher said the murder was not premeditated, but the result of a sudden whim. Fisher expressed no remorse for the deed. < The Renewal of Kentucky Derby. Louisville. April 30.—The 29th renewal of the Kentucky derby, to be run at Churchill Downs next Batur day. promises to be the most open race since the inception of the historic event, for nine colts are nearly sure to face the flag, with at least two more as possible starters. Will Serve Three Yearn. Milwaukee. Wls.. April 30—Arthur M Kuehne.'who was arrested charged with embezzling 313.000 while admin istrator of the estate of Charles W Stolls, pleaded guilty In the municipal court and was sentenced to three years tn the house of correction.

Dr. Canada, ophthalmic specialist at Dr. Coverdale'g office Tuesday May 12. ROY ARCHBOLD, DENTIST. I. O. O. F. BLOCK. Phene -' rnene > Heeidenoe *4&. LAWN GRASS SEED. Renew your old lawns by sowing the beat seed - BULK (ADEN SEEN, fresh and true to name SWEET PEAS. NASTUrrKJMS and Hewer Seeds st all Uadi. J. D. HALE, Corner Jegerwvu and Second Sts. Phones. <Md>