Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 27 February 1907 — Page 1

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SEED CORN TRAIN Will Arrive Here Afternoon of March 7th. exact schedule announced Each Stop is For Twenty Minutes— The Program as Carried Out and the Men in Charge. The first seed corn special under the supervision of Purdue was run yesterday. The trips will continue until March 13th, and the train will reach this locality on March 7th. It will arrive at Geneva at 12:15 p. tn. t>n that date, leave at 12:55; arrive at Berne 1:10, leave 1:40; arrive at Monroe 1:55, leave 2:25; arrive at Decatur 2:45, leave at 3:15; arrive at Hoagland 3:40, leave 4:10. Preparations have been under way for months for running this seed corn •special. Under the directions of Professor G. I. Christie, associate agriculturist of Purdue university, thousands of circulars and pamphlets have >een printed and large charts have >een drawn, dealing with corn grow.

ng and seeding in all Its phases. The data in the circulars is the result of years of experiment by the Purdue Agrciultural station at Lafayette, Indiana. It was found that the ordinary method of disseminating this matter by mail was not as satisfactory as could be desired and being anxious to get in personal touch with the farmers, Professor Christie arranged with the Pennsylvania, whose rails traverse nearly every section of the state, to run a special train free of any cost to the university. This train will be made up of four coaches, a special car, on which the members of Professor Christie’s party, numbering ten or more, will be accommodated, two day passenger cars, which will be fitted up as school rooms on wheels, and a baggage car to carry the posters, charts and literature which will be distributed to the growers. A regular schedule for the train has been prepared by the railroad and circulated throughout the territory which it will visit. Besides this, in each station along the fiine, notices have been posted of the date and time of arrival of the train, so that farmers from the neighborhood can be on hand to meet it. On arriving at the station, the audience coaches will be thrown open and the farmers take seats, while an instructor in each car will give a talk on seed selection and com growing. Arrangements have also been made to hang charts along the sides of the cars, and overflow meetings will be held when the seating capacity is not sufficient. Professor Christie is enthusiastic ■over the possibilities of the trip. He asserts that at no time in the history of the state has the seed corn been in a more serious condition. He believes that if a little care is exercised at this time, the average yield will not only be maintained but materially increased. There are something more than four million acres of land in Indiana devoted to the growing of corn. During the last ten years the average •crop has not exceeded thirty-five bushels an acre. Professor C hristie declares that this is very low. and

that land properly planted, with the right variety, under good car is capable of producing from sixty to eighty bushels per acre. He hopes by this campaign to increase the yield not less than five bushels an acre, raising the crop more than twenty million bushels, and at the same time putting million of dollars in the pockets of the farmers. Besides all this he is confident that the effect of the tou. will be to Improve the entire crop t > the benefit of both grower and buyer.

With the members of the agrcimtural faculty of the university on the train will be: D. F. Maish, president of the Indiana Corn Growers association; T. A. Coleman, vice presides - of the Indiana Corn Growers’ associaticr, C -B. Benjamin member of the state board of agriculture; J 1 Davis, corn expert and practn. farmer, and J. P. Prigg, ° ne of : “ e largest com growers in the s.m drain men and newspaper men ' ■ join the train along the route, to stud, the work that is being done and to give the matter of the select.o... preservation and preparation of see. ■corn the widest publicity.

The Daily Democrat.

TO CELEBRATE GOLDEN JUBILEE Fort Wayne Catholic Diocese Planning for Great Event. The golden jubilee of the organization of the Fort Wayne diocese of the Catholic church will be celebrated some time next fall and already preparations for the event are being made by the local clergy. Bishop Alerding is now engaged in writing a history of the diocese to be published at the time of the event and clergy from all over the country are expected to be present during the observation of the jubilee. The lecture delivered by Bishop Alerding before the Knights of Columbus last evening on "The Early History of the Fort Wayne Diocese’ was in the nature of a preparation for the anniversary. The bishop hopes by his lectures to stir up considerable interest in Fort Wayne’s early history and thus induce his parishioners to take an active part in making the coming celebration one long to be remembered. Last evening the speaker devoted a large portion of his address to the work accomplished by the early missionaries in the seventeenth century and so led his audience up to the splendid achievements of the present day. The talk will be followed by others, all tending to increase interest in the golden jubilee. It was in the fall of the year 1857 that the diocese of Fort Wayne was organized. At that time the whole state of Jndiana was contained in one diocese with the episcopal see at Vincennes. The increase of population and the wide stretch of territory made it impossible for the work of the district to be successfully conducted from Vincennes and consequently the state was divided into the northern and the southern dioceses. The northern section was called the diocese of Fort Wayne and the episcopal see was located in this city. The Rt. Rev. J. tl. Luers, who had charge of the St. Joseph’s church in Cincinnati, was appointed bishop and he arrived in Fort Wayne in the early part of 1858 to assume charge of the diocese. Since then there have been numerous changes in the state, but the episcopal see of-the Fort Wayne diocese has remained in this city continuously since that time.—Ft. Wayne News. I

ARRANGEPROGRAM < ■ ' :O if." Delegates Complete Arrangements TO BE HELD AT PORTLAND On March 20th—Nearly Two Thousand * Delegates Are Expected to Attend. Delegates representing the lodges at Decatur, Berne, Geneva, Roll, Redkey, Montpelier, Ossian. Pennville, Bluffton. Hartford City and Portland met in the Knights of Pythias castle hall at Portland at 10 o’clock Mon. day morning to arrange the program for the district meeting to be held in that city on Wednesday, March 20th. The meeting lasted until 2 o’clock and a complete program was arranged. I which will be ready for publication in a few days. The representatives of the various lodges reported much interest in the coming meeting and assured Portland that it would be called upon to entertain from 1,500 to 1,800 visiting knights. Every ■ lodge in the district, save three, Dunkirk, Tocsin and Uniondale, were represented at Monday's meeting. Those there were O. L. Vance, Deca. tlir . H s. Michaud, Berne; J. A. Palmer, Roll; Austin H. Williamson, Redkey; Ira p - Nelson, Montpelier; Wilson A. Woodward, Oraina; H. W. Me. Ginnet Geneva; W. C. Waltz Pennville C H. Hcuck, Bluffton; S. B. Borden, Hartford City, and Clarence Waltz, Portland. Deputy Grand Chancellor O C. Fink of Geneva, was also among ;he visitors and assisted in the- prep-•.j-ikm of the program. Th meeting will be held in the land opera house, where the dework will be given on the stage. Van Wert team will give the dramatic -d first rank work, while the third rank work will be given by a ■ c -mnosed cf one man from every I lodge in the district.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednsday Evening February 27, 1907.

COURT HOUSE NEWS Quiet Day Before Judge Erwin PROBATE BUSINESS TRANSACTED Maurer Case Comes up Friday—Several Important Cases to be Tried Next Week. Today was another of those extremely quiet days that seem to come at regular intervals in the Adams Circuit court room, there not being a single entry on the civil or criminal docket. In probate court Daniel N. Erwin, guardian for Benjamin and Clarence Hoagland, reported a deed for real estate as ordered and same was approved. Samuel Stahl, guardian for Henry B. Stahl, filed his current report which was duly allowed by the court. John Meyer, administrator of the Charles Bixler estate, filed an inven. tory and a showing of settlement with the Chicago & Erie railroad company. Bixler was killed in the Lima yards several months ago. The settlement calls for $175 and $64.52 back pay. The only case set for tral this week is the claim of George Maurer against the Samuel Maurer estate, of $350, which comes up Friday. Several cases are set down for next week which promises to be quite busy. The Linker vs. Runyon paternity case comes up Monday. Andrew- Miller vs. the G. R. & I. railway company, damages, and Ninde vs. Klein, damages, are set for Wednesday. William Pyle et al., vs. Town of Geneva, to set aside an ordinance for the annexation of territory, is set for Thursday. Julius Haugk vs. J. W. Plaee company, suit on contract, $250, Frday. A marriage license was issued to David D. Habegger, aged twenty-fiv.e, and Miss Fannie Huser, aged twentythree, both of Monroe township. t . __ Joseph E. Russel has been granted a license to purchase junk from house to house in Adams county. o NEARLY KILLED ON THE ERIE Young Van Wert County People Had Narrow Escape. While driving to church at Kings, ley, in York township, Reed Heath accompanied by his sister and Misses Ada and Clara Faurot, had a narrow escape from death under the wheels of the Wells-Fargo express on the Erie railway. Reed Heath is aged about twelve years and is a son of William Heath of South York. The boy was driving the family horse which was hitched to a closed carriage. His sister, who is older, cautioned him as to the trains. To this he paid but little attention and was in the act of driving up the track, w-hen Miss Ada Faurot saw- a train, which was then almost upon them. She grasped the lines from the lad’s hands and turned the horse in time to save them all from serious injury and probable death. It was by the slightest margin that they were missed by the cars. It is thought that the boy became frightened as he saw- the coming train and instead of stopping, drove ahead with greater speed. Outside of suffering from the nervous shock, no evil effects resulted to the occupants. —Van Wert Times.

MRS. MARGARET SARGENT DIES Mrs. Margaret Sargent, wife of Nesbit G. Sargent who resides near Steele's Park, died yesterday afternoon at three o’clock, after an illness of several weeks, death resulting from inflammation o fthe bowels. She was sixty-five years of age and was well known in our city. The funeral services will be held Thursday morning at ten o'clock at the house. Rev. John C. White ofiiciating and interment will be made in the Mt. Tabor cemetery. She leaves a hueband and several children to mourn their loss.

MEXICANS FROZE to DEATH Russ Harruff Tells How a Cold Snap Effects the Tropics. A letter from Russ Harruff of the Oaxaca Herald, in Southern Mexico, tells of a cold snap which struck that country, causing the warm-blooded Mexicans to turn up their toes, though people of Indiana would scarcely thought an overcoat necessary. He encloses an Associated Press dispatch which said: “The unusually severe storm which held the Vadey of Mexico in its grip from Sunday night to this afternoon claimed four victims among the poorer class of residents of the Federal district. Four deaths from exposure, all men, were reported to Guillermo Landa y Escandon, governor of the federal district, this morning. All were cold and stiff when found and to all appearance had been frozen to death, despite the fact that Mexico City is in the tropics. “That there were no more deaths is without doubt due to the prompt and philanthropic action taken by the government. Every police station in the city received strict orders from the governor of the district yesterday afternoon to personally superintend the alleviation of suffering among all the poorer people of the city and last night fires were built in all the plazas in the poorer sections of the city. Big pots of steaming tea were kept boiling all night and every poor person applying was given draughts of the warming fluid as often as he wanted it. Be. sides this there were a number of blankets provided. This afternoon when the sun came out it was evident that the worst of the storm was over and that the eternal spring of the Valley of Mexico would soon again be in evidence.”

RULE IS ADOPTED Ship Subsidy now has a Show of Passage LANDIS JOINS PANAMA PARTY Mine Explosion to be Investigated— First National Bank at Fort Wayne a Depository. Washington, Feb. 27—Although a good many members of the house express the opinion that the adopting of the rule bringing the ship subsidy b'll up does not necessarily indicate the passage of the bill, the probability is that some sort of subsidy measure will receive a majority in the house on Friday. Speaker Cannon is hopeful that the existing bill will be so amended as to provide for subsidy for lines to South America only. Washington, Feb. 27. —Representative Fred Landis has signified his intention of joining the congressional party on its trip to Panama next week. Mr. Landis makes the fifth Indiana member tp join the party, and the Hoosier state will be better represented on the trip than any other state tn the Union. The party will oe made up ~f forty-five congressmen The company leaves Washington next Tuesday and will sail from New York the following day. Washington, Feb. 27.—Senator Hem. enway has persuaded the appropriation committee of the senate tv adopt an amendment to the Sundrv civil bill appropriating $25,000 for an investigation of explosives and explosions tcoal mines. He believes the government as a result of such an investigation might be able to recommend steps that would reduce the number of these deadly explosions. Washington, Feb. 27. —Senator Hemenway has had the First National bank’of Fort Wayne made a national depository bank. Washington, Feb. 27. —Senator Pc bridge has declined an L. Ration to make the commencement address to the Portland high school class in June.

SCORED A VICTORY Senator Tyndali’s Ditch Bill is Preferred SUBSTITUTED FOR PARKS BILL A Final Hearing Will be Given it at the Session Held This Afternoon. The first preliminary skirmish of the ditch bill contest was fought out in the senate yesterday and Senator Tyndall came out with flying colors, his bill having been subtituted for the measure introduced by Senator John W. Parks. The Tyndall bill was substituted after less than an hour’s discussion, and then by motion of Senator Farber further discussion of the measure on third reading was made a special order for this afternoon at 2 o’clock. Senator Tyndall .after moving to substitute his bill for that of Mr. Parks, explained his measure. The chief difference, he said, was that his measure left the work of allottment for the cleaning of ditches in the hands of the county surveyors, while Parks’ bill placed it in the hands of the township trustees. “The chief ob. jection to the present ditch law,” said Senator Tyndall, "is the unusually heavy expense required. What the farmers want is a ditch bill which will require as little expense as possible, and I have framed this bill with a view to having the least expense possible. My bill does not provide for a third ditch commissioner to be appointed by the district court. This commissioner, as provided in the Parks’ bill, would draw a salary, but it has long been understood that the third commissioner is of little use in the ditch work. My bill eliminates the preliminary report on ditches and prevents the ditch litigation from being brought into the courts twice.” Senator Tyndall said also that the remonstrance feature of his bill was superior to the other, and that he provided for an itemized statement, qf all expenses in ditch work _tp_ be filed in the court. He said, too,, that he provided that the coufity surveyor should take up the question of cleaning out a ditch on petition of 25 per cent of the property owners interested. The Tyndall bill was substituted and adopted by a vote of 30 to 14. The session this afternoon will likely be red hot. HIGH LICENSE BILL IS KILLED But a Local Option Bill Advanced to Second Reading. Indianapolis, Feb. 27. —The house today ordered the insurance committee to report with or without recommendation on the Farber insurance bill as passed by the senate. The. house today killed the Shimp SI,OOO license bill, but advanced to second reading the bill permitting SI,OOO to be assessed by a town or city or county, in other words, a local option bill. The vote on the Shimp bill was 48 to 45. FATALITIES IN NEW YORK FIRE New York, Feb. 27.—Two firem-n were killed and eleven others serious, ly injured in a fire which occurred in the basement of an Eighth street building today. The men were all un. scious when rescued and several will die. EXPERTS COMPLETE THEIR WORK Chicago, Feb. 27.—Experts finished the examination of the books at the United States sub-treasury here today, showing the exact amount stolen to be $173,000. The secret service men have admitted this. ——n- — FAVORS GOVERNMENT OWNERS terson, whose .. ..-o march 4, made a long speech in the senate toda>. favoring municipal ownership I of railroads.

IS NOT AN OFFICE SEEKER Judge Artman Says He is Not Even a Hero. Judge Artman, at Lebanon, who decided that the whiskey business is illegal, has given out the following statment, which he earnestly desires shall be taken to mean exactly what it says, and which he hopes will stop all future reference to any suggestion, that he shall seek any political place other than the one he now holds: “I have been nominated by some Prohibitionists for president; by fifty Republicans for governor; by one hundred for supreme court judge and by a great many for anything I may want. “My answer is that I do not want anything in the political line from any political party. I do not feign great, ness, and I am very reluctant *o assume the attitude of a hero. I have merely discharged conscientiously what I conceived to be my duty, under my oath, without regard to any effect it may have on my political future As I have said, I have no political ambition whatever, and, unless I undergo a change of heart, I am ab. solutely and forever out of politics as an aspirant for office. It is my candid, simcie. judgment that the status of the sari a Is a legal q< es' on, open d»termiua. ,11” : nd, as sticn. I have determined it to the exte-: f mj Juris lb tion. I film credit f■> irfr-g, bu having conscientiously endea'ored to discharge my sworn duty. ’ o MRS. THAW AGAIN Was on the Stand This Morning DEFENSE NEARING THE CLOSE Delmas Says He Will Get Through This Week—Evelyn Weeps When Sertt From Room. New York, Feb. 27>-District Attorney Jerome's aids , 'brought great stacks of Insanity authorities to the court room today. Evelyn was recalled by Jerome and denied that she had told her brother after her return from Europe that Thaw had mistreated her and abused her to get her to tell lies about White. “Didn’t you tell Howard that Thaw had threatened you at the point of a revolver?” asked Jerome. “I did not.” “Didn’t Howard tell you that you ought to carry a revolver to protect yourself?” “He did not.” “Did he buy you a revolver?” “He did not.” “Did you ever have a revolver?” “Never in my life.” “Didn't you give him money and send him to Seigel Cooper’s to buy a revolver?” “I did not.” Jerome then excused her and Delmas called Dr. Benjamin, the Thaw family physician, who told of Thaw's strange conduct while in the Tombs last fall.

Delmas stated today that he thought the defense would get through this week. Much to her disappointment, Evelyn was not allowed to remain in the court room at the side of her hus. band and she cried when compelled to leave. —o NEARLY NINETY YEARS OF AGE Was George Cline Who Died This Morning. George Cline, one of the best known citizens of Root township and perhaps one of the best known in Adams county, died this morning at the home of his daughtr Mrs. A. R. Wolfe, east of this city, after an illness ot several months’ duration, death resulting from old age and a complication of diseases. He was eighty-nine years old and had practically made his home in this county ail his life and was held in high esteem by his neighbors and fellowmen. The funeral services will be held Friday at ten o’clock, sun time, at the Union Chapel church and interment will be macle in the A pha cemetery.

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