Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 55, Decatur, Adams County, 5 March 1907 — Page 1

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BLOCKEDJHEGAME Democrats Defeated the Ship Subsidy Graft PENSION AGENCIES LET ALONE A Monument for the Tippecanoe Battlefield—lndiana Senators Absent Some Time. ' Washington, March s.—Republican :members of the house who voted for the ship subsidy bill now wish they lad not. The outcome is what some of these Republicans of the house .feared it would be, the defeat of the bill in the senate. If the bill had become a law these disappointed Republicans say, the storm would have soon blown over, but now that the bill is defeated, which means that the whole Subject of subsidy remains to be considered, the representatives ■who voted for the legislation will have to do a whole lot of explaining. The four Republican members from Indiana who voted against the bill in the house were feeling very good today. “I do not want to do any bragging," said Representative Charles Landis, “but I felt and still feel that this is an inopportune time to enact a subsidy law, and my judgment is that when we do take up the question of subsidy again, we should take it up in connection with the revision of the tariff. My friends know that I also take the view that the present is an inopportune time to revise the tariff There is a time coming when these two subjects should be considered together.” Washington, March 5. —The final decision of congress is that the present plan of paying pensioners shall not be disturbed. The conferees on the pension bill reached a compromise agreement which provides that during the coming years the secretary of the interior shall cause an investigation to be made for the purpose of ascertaining if saving could be affected by the consolidation of the eighteen payment agencies here in Washington. Washington. March 5— Among the last of the laws of the session signed by the president was one appropriating $12,500 for a monument on the Tippecanoe battefield near Lafayette. Representative Crumpacker got the bill through the house last night. The special appropriation is made on condition that the state of Indiana appropriate a like sum. Washington, March 5. —The two Indiana senators will not get back to Indiana for several weeks. Senator Hemenway will be detained here until about April 1 by the Brownsville investigation, and Senator Beveridge after recreation, will return here to write the next installment of the Reader Magazine joint debate. — VAIL SELLS HIS OSSIAN MILL Located There Many Years—W.ll Move to Fort Wayne. A deal in real estate and business was consummated at Ossian Sa .u day by E. A. Vail, a life-long resident and p. thoroughly informed timber man, selling his stave factory, togeth er with the ground, about two and a half acres, and all the machinery a. d stock on hand for a consideration ol $6,000. The purchasers are Amos Mendenhall and L. W. Davis, formeily well known residents at Liberty Center and near Markle, but who for several years have been engaged in ti stave business at Cardwell. M l ’-, - the employ of the Decatur Egt- < a ”'- Co„ of which Mr. Vail is secretary an treasurer. They are both nianie men and will soon remove to as they are now in possession the business. Mr. Vail, while out of business, will not remov< the place, but will remain in thi home with his mother. He 1 a? <)t hj.S move his desk to the otn • brother, A. T. Vail in Fort v i> ; '‘ who is engaged in the same a 1 business and from that pom few davs each week will take a g er interest in the inanagi , large and increasing business Malden. Mo. —Bluffton News.

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MONROE IS TO HAVE A BANK Menno Lichty is the Promotter—Will Open Soon. Menno S. Liechty is the promoter of a new enterprise for Monroe, and the enterprise is nothing less than a bank. Although this is not the first attempt in this line, yet, this time it seems to be a "sure go.” Mr. Liechty has been working very quietly, but with persistence and prudence, and the new venture is so well under way that by next Friday the complete organization can very likely be published. The capital stock is to be $25,000 and this has practically all been subscribed by forty stockholders. The movement was made independent of any other bank and not until the organization Is perfected will a larger bank be asked to father it. Mr. Liechty will probably become cashier of the new bank. Here is success and long life to the new financial institution. —Berne Witness. o COURT HOUSE NEWS Jury Returns a Verdict in Linker Case FINDS AGAINST JOHN RUNYON «udge Erwin Gees to Bluffton to Hear Motion > f’C Terrel Car.e — Oth.T Legal Business. The Marthi !• Linker v-> John Runyon, paternity suit, went to the jury at four o’clock yesterday afternoon, a sealed verdict being returned at ten o’clock last night and read in open court at nine o’clock this morning, finding the defendant, John Runyon is the father of Miss Linker’s child. Henry Barkley was foreman. The judge will fix the amount which Runyon must pay for the support of the child, which may be any amount from S2OO to SIOOO. It is probable by an agreement of the parties in this case the sum will be fixed at S3OO. The coqrt will render bis decision as to the amount next Tuesday. Frank R. Hill vs. Elias R. Liby et al., suit on note, S2OO. Appearance by Peterson & Moran for defendants, rule to answer. Viola M. Gilbert et al., vs. Ruby V. Sheets et al, partition, plaintiffs’ attorney allowed S3O, to be paid by plaintiffs. The claim cases of Andrew Gottschalk and Hoffman & Gottschalk vs. Andrew Gottschalk, adminstrator of Silas Oliver estate, were set for trial Wednesday, March 13th. E. Franz has entered his appearance as attorney for the defendants in the attachment cases David Bailey, A. O. Smith and Wilson P. Clymer vs. W. H. Gardner, et al The plaintiffs were ruled to reply to the answer of defendants in the case of Sixby & Gramme Co., et al., vs. Hirschy Bros, et al., a conversion suit. Doug Bolser vs. Louis H. Boknecht et al, suit on note, demand S6OO, demurrer to complaint overruled. Julius Haugk vs. James W. Place et al., suit on contract, depositions on file ordered published. Daniel N. Erwin, guardian for Benjamin and Clarence Hoagland, filed a petition to re-in vest funds, so orrederd, appraisement ordered and Isaac Babcock and J. C. Patterson appointed appraisers. Dyunis Schmidt, guardian for Peter a et al., nled a petition to borrow < ito pay leins on real estate and i was so ordered. Judge Erwin went to Bluffton at ■ m today to hear a motion ir. the 1 Terrell case and to also look after ! other legal matters pending before 1 i.n in the Wells Circuit court.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening March 5, 1907.

AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM MRS. MORRISON

Monterey, Mexico, January 26th, 1907. To the Editor of the Decatur Democrat: There are so many friends I would like to write and tell of this curious old city, the commercial metropolis of Northern Mexico, but time will not permit me to do so, and I thought maybe you would permit me to reach them all with one letter through your paper. There 1- such a wealth of carious things to tell, I do not know where to begin. I suppose our arrival wifi be the best starting point. We were fortunate in becoming acquainted with an American lady coming down, who told us a great deal about the city and the customs of the. people, and we have seen and learned much since. This lady had lived here and gave us the names of hotels, boarding houses and rooming houses. She told us when we took a coach, as carriages are called here, to not pay more than SI.OO Mexican, 50 cents our money, for a whole party ,for an hour. So S. and I took a coach and started in search of an abiding place. It was seven a. m., warm and clear. Monterey is about 1700 feet above sea level, in the Sierra Madre mountains. The peaks tower high above us all around the city, but owing to the hot sun there is no snow upon them, neither trees nor grass—just rock. Well, we started in our coach, big enough and heavy enough to hold four of the biggest, fattest men in Decatur, and then some room to spare. The wheels were like the front wheels of a farm wagon, big hubs and broad tires. Our driver was a Mexican peon with high peaked hat, and zerape, (a blanket of brilliant color the men wear like a shawl or scarf )* and bright blue cotton trousers, skin tight. Our driver could not talk English and we could not talk Mexican or Spanish, but it was daylight and we were assured we would be safe anywhere in Monerey, so our one horse pulled us along in our mammoth coach and we looked around at the curious scenes with the greatest interest and contentment. We passed two companies of soldiers, dressed in dark blue uniforms, piped with red, white muslin caps over wire frames, bare feet with a thick sole fastened with a thong coming between the big toe and a flap of leather over the top of the foot to keep the sun from burning it. But you could see the bare feet plainly. The officers wore long swords and there was a lot of yellow stripes and ball fringe on thedr coat sleeves. There was no band, but they seemed to be happy and were marching along with speed. We saw many orange trees loaded with fruit, and many banana trees, but the fruit was picked from them. The farther down town we rode the narrower the streets became, until down in the city we found them bricked. The houses are of one and two

IN SOCIAL CIRCLES Some Little Folks Enjoy a Birthday Party A SIX O’CLOCK DINNER Woman’s Home Missionary—Mr. Fred Sellemeyer the Victim of His ? Sunday School Class. The Koran has a beautiful fancy about guardian angels. To every person two angels are assigned at birth — one the angel of good deeds; the other, the angel of evil deeds. The angel of good deeds accompanies the man all day and puts down in his book every good thing the man does, repeating it ten times, that nothing may be omitted. The angel of evil deeds writes down every evil thing the man does. At the close of the day they fly home to God with their report. The angel of good deeds says to his fellow- angel: “Forbear to report the mans wrong doings for seven hours. Peradventure he will repent and be forgiven, and then the record need not be made against him." It is this that our Master feels toward us. He is quick to commend us for the good we do, for our obedience, our service, but he Is reluctant and slow to set down the evil against us. A merry crow’d of little folks went to the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Helm Sunday to remind their daughter Mary, of her seventh birthday anniversary. At one o'clock an elegant dinner was served of which all par-1

stories, flat roofs, built of adobe or i stone, cemented smoothly on the outside and plainted blue or pink or yellow or brown or white, preferably some shade of blue or pink. All the houses have shutters, mostly inside, with window barred with iron, something like a bay window, because the peons (the lower class of Mexicans) are such thieves, and the iron bars are far enough from the window that they cannot reach through the window and steal things within rqaeh. They tell us. to leave nothing near the window at night, as they will reach through with a pole and a hook on it, And steal your clothes. Almost all the houses are built flush with the street, and there is a solid front of houses, but if the big doors are left open into the court yard and you get glimpses of flowers and palms and orange and banana trees, and long' cool galleries, or porches as we would say. In our hunt for some place to stay we drove here and there. All the hotels were full, so were the boarding houses, but we got a room in a private family who are Americans and lovely people. Through them we have learned a great deal of the customs of the people. This is an old city founded in 1596, and I believe some of the old stone houses are about that old. The floors are cement, only the window frames and shutters, door frames and doors are of wood, and some of them are wormeaten. There is nothing to burn. This is the capital of the state of Nueva Leon, one of Mexico's thirty states, and has about 75,000 inhabitants. We are only a square and a half from the principal cathedral which fronts on Zaragossa Plaza. The rear of the cathedral and bishop’s palace comes up within a half square of us. On this same plaza is the hotel where we take our meals. And here twice a week, Thursday nights and Sunday nights are the great parades. The Military Band plays and from eight till ten, crowds of the better class of people—the Spanish-Americans, the society people parade around and around this little park of one square. In the center is the band stand. Around it are flower beds, orange and banana trees; palms as tall as a maple tree, of different varieties. Outside of these is a broad stone paved walk with some seats on each side. We sat and watched them, but this being Lent the crowds are not so great. The young men all walk in one direction; the young women with their chaperons, in the opposite one. This is their sole chance of meeting, with one exception, of which I shall speak later. If a young man is pleased with a young lady he raises his hat as he passes. The next time they come around the circle, if he continues to be pleased, he raises his hat again. After the third time he raises his hat, and his attentions are acceptable to the young lady and her chaperon, then she is allowed to walk on the other side of her chaperon and in passing he is allowed to touch her hand. After several courses of this, they talk together a little, the chaperon takes his name and address, and takes the young lady home. The parents or guardian looks up the record of the young man, family and position (Continued on Page 23

< took heartly. The day was spent in ) music and games. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Helm and family, Misses Essie Kook, Clara Tricker, Hilda Kern, Blanche and Orpha Smith I and Goldie and Nellie Helm. Miss Mary received many beautiful gifts. Another delightful event that was not mentioned last evening was the charming six o’clock dinner given by 1 Mrs. Fred Reppert, in compliment to Miss Emma Hoffman of Preble, Sunday evening. The home, and especiall ly the dining room, was artistically decorated with the decorations of the season. The Woman's Missionary Society of the Prebyterian church will give r their annual dinner, Thursday, March 7th, at the church parlors. The public is most cordially invited. Dinner twenty-five cents. The menu: Noodles. I Pan Chicken Jelly 1 Mashed Potatoes. Gravy. Creamed Potatoes Cold Slaw Pickles PIE ; Lemon Apple Pumpkin Salted Nuts Apples Bananas Coffee ■ Mr. Fred Sellemeyer was the victime of a surprise party, last evening, ■ given at his home south of the city, : by the members of his Sunday school ; class of the German Reformed church, to celebrate his fifty-fourth birthday anniversary. Games and music occu- . pied the evening, during which a delicious two course luncheon was served. The Shakespeare Club will meet it the home of Mrs. John Niblick on Third street, on Wednesday afte Harvey Harruff was attending to 1 legal matters at Fort Wayne today.

JAMES HENDRICKS SURPRISED i Wife and Daughter Plan a Successful Event. A very pleasant surprise was perpetrated upon Mr. James Hendricks of Monroe, rural route three, on March 2nd, having been planned by his good wife and his daughter, Mrs. B. M. Smith, the occasion being his sixtyrsecond birthday. He was enticed to Monroe by his wife during the morning and at noon was called home’ by phone, presumably on veryimportant business. Entering his house he was greatly surprised to find it occupied by his friends and to see the table loaded with all good I things of the season. A happy afternoon was enjoyed, at the close of which, Rev. Jones of the Monroe M. E. church, read a scripture lesson and offered prayer. All enjoyed the occasion and separated for their homes, wishing Mr. Hendricks many more such events. Those present were: Messrs, and Mesdaraes James Hendricks, sr.; Rev. Jones, Robert Shirk and son, Glen, Jacob Longenbarger, Jonathan Andrews, David Laisure, Albert Hendricks, son and daughter; James V. Hendricks, John Hendricks, Frank M. Parrish, Date Hendricks, Mrs. James A. Hendricks and son McGee, Mr. Jude Hoffer, Mrs. Sadie Scherer, Mrs. B. M. Smith, Mrs. Hattie Sells and Miss Stetler of Peterson. THE SECOND DAY Clark J. Lutz Reappointed County Attorney IRWIN CARTER ROAD TO SELL The Board Has Taken up Considerable Business of Importance Thus Far. The board unanimously appointed and entered into contract with Clark J. Lutz as county attorney for another year. Mr. Lutz has acted in this capacity for the last nine years, has given close study to all the features of what is known as the county council law, and has guided the commissioners clear of all breakers. His reappointment is well merited and is a just tribute to a clean record as a counsellor for the board of commissioners. The James Hoagland macadam road petition was granted, Michael Miller and H. W. Sellemeyer were appointed viewers and L. L. Baumgartner engineer. They will meet and qualify as such viewers on March 8, and file their report on said road, at least ten days before the April term of commissioners’ court. The road petition of Otto Reppert et al., was granted and Clinton Borne and Henry Wolfe were appointed viewers with the county surveyor as engineer. They will meet to qualifyat the auditor’s office on March 7. Licenses to retail liquors were granted to Wiliam Hartings, Lafayette Ellis and John Meyers. The board passed an order that they will not construct any bridges, where the cost of said construction is less than one hundred dollars. Surveyor Baumgartner was ordered to prepare and present specifications for all the bridges and abuttments for which appropriations were made by the county* council at their meeting last September. Bids were ordered for the construction cf the Irwin Carter macadam road, one of seven voted roads in St. Marys township. Bids will be received April L the first day of the April term of commissioners’ court. CORONER’S INQUEST TODAY A continued coroner's inquest on w ,.a i.-x - ’ , ’-w days ugo, u ... Heller’S office his afternoon. No startling developments are expected.

A NOON DAY FIRE I Egg Case Co., Loses a Row of Sheds LOSS IS NOT VERY HEAVY Fire Looked Dangerous for a While, Owing to a Brisk Wind Blowing, But was Finally Controlled. Fire broke out at noon today in the sheds that are used for the stor- . age of heading at the Vail factory in the west part of the city and for a time threatened to destroy- all the buildings surrounding, but by hard work was confined to just one row of sheds which were totally destroyed. The fire originated from sparks that were ejected from a passing freight ' engine, on the Chicago & Erie railroad and the fire spread rapidly. The , alarm was turned in by employes of ‘ the factory and the fire company responded promptly. The fire, however, had gained considerable headway and ’ it was utterly- impossible to save any portion of the sheds that were on fire and the company devoted themselves ’ to saving the other buildings that close at hand. The sheds contained no heading, this having been shipped out several days ago, and the ' loss will in all probability reach in the neighborhood of two hundred dollars, which Is fully covered by insurance. The sheds stood on the edge of the railroad company’s right-of-way and 1 a spark from an engine could be carried that far easily. The high winds that were blowing fanned the spark to a blaze and the fire was soon raging beyond control. The fire company did good work and the boys are entitled to their share of praise. A MODERN RAFFLES Kokome Young Man in ; Arrested at Chicago r _____, j PROVED TO BE SMOOTH THIEF 5 ■ Son of Prominent Indiana Lawyer Baffled Chicago Police for t Several Days. Chicago, March 5. —Charged with * innumerable thefts, ranging from trin- ( kets to diamonds and fine jewelry, . Richard Hoopes, son of Ira G. Hoopes, • a prominent attorney of Kokomo, In- . diana, is under arrest here. Young i Hoopes ,is developed into a youth- . ful "Raffles” in real life. Several weeks ago he was dropped from the rolls of the Lake Forest University, where his parents thought he was ’ still in attendance. He was dropped , on account of his low grades. When this association furnished the first news of Hoopes' arrest to the University officials, the "president’s assistant said: ‘‘lt seems preposterous. Other than being a poor student, Hoopes ' conducted himself in a good manner.” ’ For a week the police have been trying to locate the thief but were baffled at every turn. Finally some innocent remark gave the tip, Hoopes was arrested, broke down and told all. 1 His father is coming from Kokomo to try to get him released. A brother, Donald Hoopes, is a graduate of 1 Lake Forest and is now a newspaper ' man at Madison. Wisconsin. At Kokomo the family stands high and that city is greatly shocked by the news of the young man’s downfall. Over 500 pieces’ of jewelry were found in Hooped’ room. o VERDICT IN SANFORD EXPLOSION (Scripps-Mcßae Special.) Terre Haute, March 5. —Coroner Leavilt today filed a finding in the case of the powder car explosion at Sanford. January 19th. . hought it does not solve the mystery, it casts reflection on the Big Four railroad company because of carelessness in I carrying explosives and declares their printed rules were disregarded. Prosecution may follow.

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