Daily Democrat, Volume 3, Number 170, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1905 — Page 1

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I STATE BOARD Interurban Doubled Since Last Year flectric and Steam Railroads Taking Their Medicine From the Tax Board. United Preet Newt Aeeoclatlon. Indianapolis, July 29—In (its assessments of valuation made public this afternoon by the Mate tax board it shows that the interurban railways valuation has doubled in one year. Last year its total assesswent was <13..702,394, while this year the assessment just fixed is <26,387,366. Thia is due more to the increase in mileage of roads than in anything else JThese raises in aaluation were made by the state board 'ln the steam roads however, the state board did not hesitate to crack on raises, for the total this year is twelve million dollars high er than last year. This year's assessments totals one hundred and ■ I seventy eight millions Tnere is I ' no increase on mileage so that B this twelve million shows the pres ■I snt administrations id»a of taxing ■ I ‘ t, '’ he J< * 8 Some very II B “Lr 1 ,noreal * ,! ’ were however, n IU ihe railroad, which ■ go<>.7 ’ half million higher The I B iltir'ure. Ohio, and Chicago.beI sng ftJ’Med a half million too. It I w»» fir this road that Hinlvgave |l| -to its tax agent such a drubbing for I | ashing for a reduction The China ■ go. Cincinnati & Louisville was I raise 1 about two hundred thousand. E Tn * only big railroad to get a reII du tton was the Big Four, which enjoys a slight reduction on all di visions. In the traction lines the Indiana Union was assessed a to i tai <C 1'2,591,190, this increase iieing <150,000. The Indianapolis <V East ern assessment just doubled. The r Indianapolis street railway was increased only <30,000. The board in a majority of the oases rethe local street railways in smaller Indiana cities. SUNDAY SERVICES. Methodist. The usual service tomorrow. Sunday school, • Manasse s Bin.” Public worship, "The Servant of Christ and verv delightful class service. The Sunday school board meeting at 3 p. m. The Epworth league service will be at 6:30 promptly. "Missions in Eastern Asia" Psa. 22, 27-28; Jer. 16, 19. The pastor leader. One of the pastors of the city will preach at 7:30. This minister w.ll preach in one of the other churches ’of the ■city. We hope, our memliers will be interested in this unique plan. Come. Be cordial Make friendship our strong hold. "REMEMBER—God always sees!" U. B. Church. Find a place for worship in some house of God tomorrow. You’ll be welcome if you go. Order of services at this church: Sabbath school 9:30. Preaching service at 10:30. Subject, "Ajßich Legacy. ”, Y. P. O. U. service at 6:30. Young Folks’ enjoy this service. The evening service will be conducted by some pastor of the city, to whom the lot will fall. Wherever yon go you will run an equal chance with the rest of hearing the best preacher in the oily. Yours for a good day. Pastor. Baptist. Rev. 8. C- Fulmer, of Indianapolis, secretary of the American Home Missionary society, will speak at the Baptist church Sunday evening. It has been ann >u need i that he would speak in the morning also but that, is a mistake. He will ’‘peak only in the evening. There will also be a business meeting of ‘ the church at the close of the Sunday school. (

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THE SICK Mrs. Buhler Unchanged and Mrs Brock Convalescing. The condition of Mrs. Alt»ert Buhler is unchanged, and she reals about the same as on yesterday. As before stated she cannot live, but she shows great vitality which surprises the doctors and causes them to marvel. It is p isslble that she may survive the night. Drs. Miller and Coverdale inform us today that the condition of Mrs. John Brock is encouraging, and that she was greatly improved, and unless other complications arise she will soon regain her former good health. NEW DEAL City Election on Seventh of November Under the New Law the Mayor is an Important Official-Is Head of City Government.

1 1 On the seventh ot next November will occur the first city election under the law passed by the last legis- ■ lature. The cities of the state are divided into five classes according to the population, as follows. First-class, 100,000 or .over.; second class, 45,000 to 100.00; third class. 20,000 to 45,000; fourth class, 10,000 to 20,000; fifth class, less tfi»in 1 10,000. Decatur comes under the i fifth class, and the officers to be ‘ elected are mayor, treasurer, clerk, one councilman from each ' i ward and two oouncilmen at I large. The mayor appoints the ' marshal, chief of fire department, 1 street commissioner, city engineer, humane officer and three members of the board of health, white the i council has the selection of the attorney. The officers elected in November enter upon their duties at the expiration of the terms of te present officers and serve until Jan 1, 1911. The salaries are to be fixed by the council as at present, but in some Instances the maximum salary is| limited by the statute. There is no limit to the salaries of mayor and city attorney. Councilmen and members of the city board of health can not receive to exceed <IOO per year. No person is eligible to any city office unless he has been a resident cf the city one year, and a councilman must have resided in his ward sixmjnths. No elective officer can serve more than four years in any period of eight year No officer, employee, ageut or servant of any corporation, firm, company or person holding or operating under franchise granted by the city or having any contract with the city, is eligible to anveity office. While the number of cuuncilmen will be reduced by two the expense of the city will be materially increased. TEA PARTY Mrs. Victoria Hill to Entertain Friends. The doors of the cozy home of Mrs. Victoria Hill will be thrown open thte-evening to a few invited friends at a tea'party. The guests will be Mrs. Adams of Brooklyn, N. Y., Rev. and Mrs. John C. White, Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Daniel, Mrs. Morrison, Mrs. Champar, Mrs. John Niblick, Mr’. M. B. Miller, Mrs. Simooke, Mrs. R. B. Allison and Mrs. Fred V. Mills. The occasion will be an enjoyable one, to say the least.

DECATUR, INDIANA, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 29. 1005.

STATE BOARD Raising Some of the Telephone Assessments The Citizens Telephone Company, Geneva and the United in List Raised. Special Telegram To The Democrat Indianapolis, July 29—The reorganized slate tax board, headed by Governor Haniy, in its partial list of asseessments fixed for this year and made public today shows that radical changes in old assessments is the rule and not the exception And contrary to most exjiectations there are changes that fur the most part lower the general total. For instance, in the assessment of telephone companies given out today the old Bell companies get big reductions, where the new company suffers increases The figures on the more important telephone companies follow: Company. Assessment Assessment per mile, par mile, 1905. 1904. C. U. (Ball) |4O <54 A. T..&T. 40 54 NL. D. Co.. 40 30 Del * Mad. 135 105 Cumb (Bell) 50 60 United Tel, 110 70 Gen Tel. Co., 35 20 M Tel Co., 15 15 S Line Co. 10 10 U S. Tel. 25 30 Some other companies follow: Citizens’ Telephone company cf Decatir. assessei jter mile. <7O; Citizens company of Kokomo, per mile. <110; Co-operative Telephone company of Portland, |»er mile <2O; Home company of Elkhart, par mile. <130; Home company of Portland, per mie, <6O; Knox county Home Telephone company, per mile, <150; Mutual of Shelbyville, per mile, <7O; Northern Indiana and southern Michigan company, per mile, <SO; Richmond Home company, per mile, <lB5. Some of’the most extraordinary raises were made in the express oompaies as follows: Assessment per mite 1905 „ 1904 Adams Express, <s*6 <240 Amer Express, 148 150 Nat Express, 148 150 Pacific Express, 89 7 5 Southern Express, 80 75 Southern Ind. Ex, 25 25 V. S. Express. 72 50 Wells Far A Co., 138 75 Postal Telegraj/tt 35 25 Western Union, ?44 40 successful Tale Monday the Last Day of the Niblick & Company Sale. Monday is the last day of the Niblick <Sr Co., July sale, and busineas thereabouts during the last closing days has been nearly as good as (the beginning, which shows that a thirty days' sate with a large stock is a success all the way through. The memliers of the company are smiling the real smile over the large amount of business done, during the slow month of July. They have turned a large 00-ner of 'their stock into cash, and this is something to desired at this time of year. Besides this the buyer was lienefited by getting a clean cut reduction, so the smile spreads two ways.

Smuggler Taken In By United Press News Association. Riga, Russia, July 29—A smuggler carrying a large bundle of revolutionary papers and proclamations was arrested at the docks here today. The officers then boarded the vessel from fwhich the smuggler came aud found two hundred and fifty sacks of literature.

GETTING PANICKY Yellow Fever Caning Much Uneasiness. Special Telsgrsm To The Democrat New Orleans, La, July 29—The most disquieting news tn the yellow fever situation today was the evidence of increasing panto in the smaller towns of Louisiana and Mississippi. The disposition is growing to revive the disastrous commercial quarantines of 1897. Several towns are already ret using to receive freight except hardware from New Orleans and Texas towns are asking that the mails be fumigated. Governor Vorning of Mississippi, has ordered out the militia to protect the state line against the entrance of any possible fever victims from Louisiana. THE NEWS Two Cases Filed at the Clerk’s Office

Martin Kirschner Appointed Administrator of the Estate of William R. Kirschner, De leased. Two cases were filed at the clerk's office today, one being filed by Merryman &• Sutton, who represent Christen F. Beberick, against Frederick Koldewey. The complaint recites the fact that the latter is a person of unsound mind and incapable of managing his own estate, and for that reason a guardian is a a ked. Shaffer Peterson represents W. E. Brown and Mert McKean against the Royal Oil company. The suit is on aoccunt and to foreclose a mechanic's lien. They asx damages in the sum of <450, which covers the amount k of their claim, interest and. attorney fees, The court house boys are loaded for Deputy Sheriff Butler, anu we advisejhtm to remain abroad indefinitely. They ci lam he has abrogated all court house etiquette, by getting married without putting them in on the secret. The offense is a serious one. and he will be given the limit Martin Kirschner has been appointed daministrator of the estate of William R. Kirschner, deceased. He filed a bond calling for <3OOO, as such administrator. Sheriff Albert Butler is absent in the country this afternoon, on offi call business, the nature of which he is keeping strictly to himself. ABOUT TWENTY Teacher's Examination Held at Central School Building. About twenty applicants for teacher's license was busy at the central school building today, where they put in several industrious hours, figuring out the correct solution to the questions propounded by the state board of education The examination today was the regular monthly event, which is held fur the benefit of those who want to get into the game of school teaching, and can pass the examination with the required grades. A very respectable class greets the county superintendent upon all these occasions, which speaks well for the public schools and for the educational ’spirit that prevails in Adams county.

ANOTHER ROBBERY Sixty Watermelons Stolen Last Night Worley A Company Are the Victims of a Hungry Horde of Thieves. Another bold robbery was perpetra’ed within the city limits some time last night, and as a result the fruit firm of Worley & Co., are the losers to the extent of sixty watermelons, or their equivalent in money—fifteen dollars. This firm, who have their place of business under the clothing store of Holthouse, Schulte A-Co., on yesterday received a car load of melons, and had stored them in their place of business. Last evening about eight o'clock when they closed for the day, Mr Worley made a close inspection of the doors and locks and left, thinking everything was secure. But this morning, when he came down to open up he found the lock on the front door broken and a close examination showed that his melons had been stolen. He at once began to examine the room, and found that by gaining an entrance the thieves had pulled a staple from the door, thus releasing the lock and permitting the door to swing open. After gaining an entrance the parties carried the melons from the front part of the room to the rear, thence liuuded them out of a small window to their confederates, who loaded them in a wagon and hauled them away. The melons taken were all large ones and sold at from twenty five to thirty cents apiece. Mr. Worley has no clew and does not even suspicion anyone, as to the thieves, but.nevertheless the loss is keenly felt by him. Decatur seems to he harboring a gang of thrives who are getting in their work’at pres ent to the best advantage. BOARD MEETS

The Library Board Talks Hardware The Building Progresses and It Is the Hope to Enclose It Before the Cold Snap. The Library board held a prolonged session last night, in which a free for all discussion of the light and fancy hardware was given a round. Samples} >f|what they want will be secured by the local dealers, and the purchase of it will follow. The heating contract has been awarded to P. J. Hyland, and the plumbing to A. B. Smith & Bro., and the electric wiring to be let August 15. The contractors, Mann & Christen, are beginning to make an impression, and quite soon the laying of brick will begin, and from that time on the building will make rapid progress. Its the manifested hope to have the building enclosed long before the weather gets cold. The board thus far has been loyal to the cause, devoting much time and care to giving Decatur her money's worth in a Carnegie library. When It is complete and the people become accustomed to the benefits it is capable of extending, then will it be appreciated to the extent it deserves. In the meantime the N>ard will wrestle with the knotty trials of the building itself. ,

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BIG ONE Forepaugh A Sells Show Has Great Menagerie. Nature, in her highest, strangest and wildest forma, is copiously and comprehensively represented in the Combined big menageries of the Forepaugh and Sells Brothers Enormous Shows United, to be seen at Decatur August 12th. The collection contains not only the extraordinary and unprecedented number of fourteen living, full grown Polar bears, but the most stupendous hippopotamus known, the biggest herds of educated elephants, thj most tremendous carnivious wild beast terrors, and every’rare animal from every clime, in tit int-ic flocks, droves and huge double dens. IN JAIL Nelson Woods Arrested on Three Charges The Grand Jury Indictment Charges Assault and Battery, Assault and Disturbing Meeting. Sheriff Butler returned last evening from Geneva, having in charge one Nelson Woods, whom he arrested yesterday morning on three charges, assault and battery and disturbing a religious meeting. The arrest'was the result of an indictment returned by the last April grand jury on information given by residents ot Wabash township, who were memi»ers of the church where Woods disturbed the meeting. Sheriff Butler had Ijeen after the young man tor several months, but wa> unable to locate him, owing tu the fact that immediately after the trouble he left the state. He returned to his home a few days ago and the sheriff being recently informed, traveled south yesterday and made the arrest. Young Woods is now confined in the county jail, where he will remain until the September term of circuit court convenes. THEY PAID The City Council Held an Afternoon Session Allowed the Claim of Charles F. Johnson as They Had Previously Agreed. The city council met in a spacial session this afternoon at three o’clock to consider the proposition made by Charles F. Johnson of whom they purchased the new dynamo and engine some time ago, and which was damaged to some extent in shipping. The council had the machinery repaired and at the time to settle with Johnson for the same refused to allow him the full amount of bis claim, the city desiring to hold out the amount paid for the repairs, as Johnson had agreed to deliver the same to this city in good running order. A great deal of communication had gone on back and forth, and at one time Johnson was (entertaining the idea of suing the city, but reconsidered his action and made a proposition to the city, that if they paid him <1,082.69, he.would receipt his claim in full. Hence the calling of this special meeting. The councilmen present were Buhler, Gaffer, Kirsch and Porter, they just making a quorum, and all voted to allow Johnson’s claim and ordered the clerk to so draw an order on the city treasurer and close the deal. Thus they will save the city the {sum of <4OO. , _