Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 84, Decatur, Adams County, 19 April 1904 — Page 2

(HEDAILY DEMOCRAT. IHBT BVKNINO. BXCIPT SUNDAY, BY LBW Q . ELL.IMQHAM. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 3> carrier, per week 10c 8y carrier, per year $4 00 By mall, per month 25*’ By mall, per year $2.50 Single copies. Two Cents, AdwertlainK rates made known on application ■ntered In the postofflce at Decatur. Inditaa, at second-class mail matter J, H . HELLER. Managcr. COUNTY TICKET For Joint Senator JOHN W. TYNDALL For Representative JOHN W. VIZARD For Prosecutor JOHN C. MORAN

r For Auditor 0. D. LEWTON For Treasurer JOHN F. LACHOT For Sheriff ALBERT A BUTLER For Surveyor L. L. BAUMGARTNER For Coroner JOHN S. FALK For Commissioner First District DAVID WERLING For Commissioner Third District MARTIN LAUGHLIN CITY TICKET For Mayor DAVID D. COFFEE For City Clerk JACK MeFEELEYj For Treasurer W. J. ARCHBOLD For Marshal ED GREEN For Councilmen—First Ward AL BUHLER ALEX LzBRUN For Oouncllmen—Second WardH. 8. PORTER HENRY STETLER For Councllmen—Third Ward PETER GAFFER PETEK KIRSCH

THE city campaign The surveyors office was last night jammed full of democrats, at Which time the city campaign was uncorked. The meeting was all kinds of a success and revealed manv things of interest to every democrat in the city. The fallacy , of the republican morality issue was shown up in its true deception, as up to this time there has never been , m case of law violation presented to “Mayor Coffee, where the evidence warranted a conviction, that the , full penalties as prescribed by law was not invoked. It revealed the .fact that the marshal as custodian of the peace and sobriety of the city, ' 1

had no string attached to his sworn | obligation, and could have none as ’ j he labors under no instructions from ] any other officer. It revealed the fact that the republican majority in the city council have no record i to warrant the people in again conferring officii honor upon them Their promises of economy has develop ed a rank case of increased ex penditures with nothing to show for the money spent. Their seats were hardly warm until they raised the electric light rate from fifty to one hundred per cent when the income already derived was sufficient to sustain the piunt. It revealed the fact that if the republican party contained all the honesty afloat they would have nominated candidates for every office to bo filled, instead of dividing the honors as they are pleased to term it. It revealed the fact that with a majority to transact the business they saddled off on the mayor twenty-nine ties

Bosse’s Opera House Monday, April 25 Daughters of Rebecca Benefit "A Southern Gentleman" By Local Talent Admission, Cents, Seats reserved at the Holthouse Drug Co ft Pleasing Performance — at a Popular Price

in order that they might not assume ■ the responsibility and that they could go before the people and say the mayor did thus and so. This number of ties exceeds in number all the ties made since Decatur has been tin incorporated city and stamps the majority in the city council as a spineless lot of official cowards. It revealed the fact that while democrats Support republican i candidates, republicans seldom if ever support democrats, and the common expression among republicans two years ago was to the effect that democrats were dead easy. The J truth of the matter is the democratic candidates are all capable and honest and will make efficient officers and they deserve the votes of everj’ democrat in the city. Chairman Miller is making a good sensible campaign and *he election of every democraton the ticket will

no doubt result from the efforts being made. Do You Know That the consumers of beef fail to find any benefit from the triumph of justice in pronouncing the beef trust illegal. i That the farmers are viewing what might have been instead of a promising wheat crop. That here Is more exercise than cleanliness and economy in gathering dirt from one part of the street and dropping it on another part. That it is hard for some landlords ; to realize the situation and accept a [come down in rents, which have I been too high for the renter, even I in the best of times. That a boy sixteen years of age has more need to go before the spanking society, than before a justice of the peace to be tried for life, or till divooe, to a wife as immature as himself. That business men will meander to the base ball park in the balmy of spring just for the sake of their

health, and that they would not look (?) upon a game for anything. “A SOUTHERN GENTLEMAN A grand dramatic and musical production by local talent for the benefit of the Daughters of Rebecca at Bosse Opera House April the 25th promises to be the event of the season. “A Southern Gentleman" is a funny comedy drama in four acts and deals with life in “Old Virginia”. The plot is natural and oonsistenly developed Containing besides excellant comedy a beautiful heart story that is sure to winthe sympathies of the audience. The admission price will be 25c and

the Rebecca ladies promises a pleasing performance at a popular price. Remember the dale April 251 L 180-4. Marriage Licenses. Frank Spanglr to Nettie Case, James Murphy to Catherine Lange. Sylvester Staub to Rosa Hackman. r. iTNofict~ All members of the Uniformed R ink Knights of Pythias are requested to meet at their hall this I evening. Business of importance will be discussed. NOTICE TO TAY-PAYERS. Taxes’are now due and payable at the County Treasurer’s office. Books will close Monday, May 2nd 1904. Truly J. H. Voglewede.Treas. Cal on Alex Leßrun if you desire to paint your house or any- . thing in painting line. ts

"HONEST INJUN." How the ChickiiwawN Were Taught the Mewnini; <iC the I-> predion . Among tlic earlnsi comers to the Hatchee country, in western Tennessee. was a Mr. Barnes, a blacksmith, who became a friend of the Chickasaw Indians and often mended their guns without charge. Barnes was a poor man, but obtaining on credit a donkey named Moses, which was valued at a considerable sum, be imported the animal and stabled it at the smithy, says the Youth’s Companion. It was the first In that region. One morning he found the door open and Moses gone He followed a trail to the bank of the river and lost it. The stream was in flood, and he believed his valuable animal was drowned. Unless he found some way to raise the money to pay for it he was a mined man.

Two months later a trading scow came down the Hatchee from Bolivar and on the roof, spread out in the sun. was the hide of Moses, unmistakable In its soft ar.d handsome grays. Barnes related his story to the trader and received the skin, which bad been bought at Bolivar from a trader there. As no white man would have shot a donkey Barnes concluded that the Indians, who had never seen one, but who were then hunting on the Hatchee. were the offenders. To trap them he tried a little stratagem. He organized a shooting contest and offered as a prize "the handsomest I

skin ever taken on the Hatchee, the pelt of a beautiful animal.” A Chickasaw brave was the winner ' of the contest and claimed the prize. Barnes brought forward the skin Os Moses and spread it on the ground. "There is your prize,” he said. "Me shoot uiu! Me shoot uni:” cried the winner, running to the skin and pointing to a bullet hole. Then he told how he had been wandering down the river Isink and had seen this strange wild animal, like bottling he had ever seen before, breaking through the cane. He had shot it and sold the hide at Bolivar. He was delighted to get it back. This was what Barnes had hoped for. Standing, he addressed the Cbickasaws. "My brothers." he said, “you know me lam a poor man. but I am a friend to the Chickasaw. I mend his gun for him and deal fairly by him This animal was my white man’s pony. I bought it far away and brought it ; here. It cost me much wampum, the price of many Indian ponies. To lose it will lose me all. It ea,-a|>ed me and went to the woods, and there a Chickasaw killed it. “When I am In Chickasaw country. I obey Chickasaw law. When Chickasaw is in white man’s country, be should obey white man’s law. White man's law Is that whoever kills my pony must pay me for it. What will Chickasaw do?"

The Indians had listened attentively. When he had finished, they went to their ponies, tethered near by. The whites watched them meanwhile with intense interest. The Indians untethered their ponies and brought them ftp. “Take urn.** they said. "Indian have only ponies. Give um all.” "How many?" asked Barnes. “You say how many.” Barnes appointed an appraiser, who j selected a number of ponies equal in value to the donkey, These the blacksmith sold to his neighbors. The Indians gsve up their hunt and went back to their villages, p<Hirer, but satisfied. They had maintained, for their tribe at least, some claim to the title, “Honest Injun.” Follow loar I)renm«, “To compel our thoughts to fellow the memory of dreams ami on no account to revert to any subject of wak Ing thought, pleasant or otherwise"— that is a woman's formula for sleep. “If we have already slept in the night.” she says, "we should, in trying to sleep again, recall the dreams of the previous sleep and carry them on. If we have not slept, then it is necessary to go back to old dreams, which is rather more exertion and less certainly successful. But even this is far better for sleep than allowing the memory to revert to any waking thoughts or to the familiar old devices of counting a hundred or picturing sheep, etc.”

Humeseekers Rates from Chicago i to North and South Dakota. Every Tuesday until Oct. 25th, the Chi- ( cago Great Western railway will. sell ronud trip tickets to poi its in i the above named states at a great reduction from the usual fare. For further information address J. P. Elmer, G. P. A. Chicago, 111. Through Pullman sleeping cars to California points via Iron Mountain route, leaving St. Louis 8:30 a. m. daily for Loe Angeles via “True Southern Route,” also tourist sleeping cars on this same train for Los Angeles and San Francisco every Wed □esday and Thursday. Best winter route to California. For further information call on or address G. A A. Deane, Jr., T. P. A., 200 Sentinel Big. Indianapolis, Ind. The Black Hills, in the southwest part of the State of South Dakota* produces one third of the gold found in the United States, and is said to he'the richest one hundred square miles in the wold. A new booklet on the Black Hills has been issued by the North-Western Line, with a tine detailed map of this wonderful regton. Bond four cents in stamps * for copy of hejrooklet.j W. B. Knis- » kern, .PT. M , Chicago,lll

Found Lady’s purse containing 151.21, which the owner can have by i calling at this office. Dr. E. H. Lcßrun has for sale a | lot of nice young maple trees which he will s< 11 at reasonable prices. ! Call at once. 69<13 Wanted A boy about 15 years old ito work on a farm. Enquire of I George Flanders at Haviland's livj ery barn, Decatur, Ind. 78-lw Wanted—Lawn roller returned. The parties who borrowed the lawn roller from A. J. Smith are re quested to return it at once. 78d3 THE EDITOR

Os an agricultural paper will tell the farmer he should breed only to draft stallions. His adviee may he good, but there is a bare possibility that he may be mistaken. The reader will understand that I have trotting bred stallions and ain, of course tooting my own horn. Suppose a farmer breeds a good draft mare to a good draft stallion, he will for the produce, if large and sound at four years of age receive about |2OO. On the other hand, suppose he breeds a well-bred trotting mare to a well-bred trotting stallion that is sound and individually good, the produce, everything ■ being equal, will at least sell for as ’ much as the draft horse, find if a ; handsome road horse, |SOO to $1000; and if a high-olaSs trotter fr in 10000 to $25,000. It costs no more ito break one than the other. It is a mistaken idea that a farmer, if he breeds to trotting stallions, must have a track on his farm and keep a trainer or do the training diinself. If he has a handsome road horse there will be a dozen buyers for him as soon as he has him broken. If a I trotter comes his way he will tell! him a hundred times before he is ' even broken that he is a trotter, i and it will not cost him a cent to I find it out. Great trotters are born trotters. In Grander 35996, and Major Online by Online 2:04 I have, it is safe to say, two high-class trotting ttallions as are in the state. They are royally bred, good size, very speedy, and will make great sires. Stallion cards, giving breeding. description and service fee can be had for the asking. A. N. Acker, Pleasant Mills, Ind.

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Don't forget the date of the Re- ; becca ladies benefit at Bosse Opera House April 25th Admission 25c, Money to loan on farms at lowest rate of interest. Any sum, any length of time and privilege of partial payments. The Decatur Abstract and Loan Co., 257dtf. C. W. Bohnke of R R. No. 3, Decatur has two fine two year old oolts for sasle. One roan Belgian weighing 1307 pounds, and one strawberry Belgian weighing 1300. |76d12 Mr. Jonathan Burkhead has I been appointed agent for the Daily and Weekly Democrat for Monroe and vicinity and is authorized to take subscriptions and receive mon ey. ts We are making special low prices on monuments to be erected by Decoration Day. We have all the latest designs, and invite you to call and see them.

Wemhoff's Monumental Works, Decatur, Indiana. Leaders of North eastern Indiana.

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For Sale—3 head Eberdeen malcalves. They are a fine stock anda bargain. John Hessler, R. R 2. 3WSiu Ten thousand dollars private funds left with us to loan on Decatur real estate, first mortgage Lowrate of interest. Will mu in sums of |SO upwards. The Deutur Abstract and Loan Co. 257dtf Bob Polham, of Geneva, Ind., has a very fine black horse, named Ben Scott, by Ben Adam, dam by Orator. Ben Scott will make the season at Geneva, Ind. It will pay any person to see this horse. If your uncle has an aunt who has a nephew whose wife has a cousin that married an old friend's friend of your wife's sister, whose grandfather used to live in the same town with an old schoolmate of yours, whose son in law is now in St. Lcuis, you should at once renew the acquaintance with a view of saving hotel bills while attending the world's fair. This scheme will work successfully in many cas, -