Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1885 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME IX.

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MORDECAI I*. CHILCOTE. Attora«y-*t-L*w-*BM>SKDAIB. .... INDIANA Practices |tn tho Courts of Jasper and adoinlng counties. Makes colleetions a specialty. Office on north side of Washington Street, opposite Court House- vinl SIMON F. THOMPSON. DAVID J. THOM PBON Attorney-at- Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Benssxdaxx. - - Indiana Practice in all the Courts. MARION L. SPITLER, Collector and Abstractor. We pay p xrticular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. v 2 n4B FRANK W. Bal COUK, Attorney at Law And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all'Courts of Jasper, Newtor snd Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. Collectloxxa a. ®yocle.lty. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, ATfoRNEYsAT-LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, t Office upstairs, in Maieever’s new building. Rent-seiner. Ind. H. W. SN [DEE, Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. JOLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. W. HARTSELL, MD. 3OM(EOPATHIO PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, « . INDIANA. ’©“Chronic Diseases a Specialty. OFFICE, in Makeever’g New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11,1884. D. DALE, PUffi ATTORNEY-AT LAW INDIANA. Issi Bank building, up stairs. X. H.mAuGHBIDGE. .. F. P, BITTBBS ohnGHRipOE & BITTERS, Physicfltos and; below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running unsettled longer than three months. vlnl DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, tA Rensselaer Ind. Calls prouTjitly attended. Will give special attei tlon to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. ' ' - R. S. D wiggins. Zimri Dwiggina, President. Cashier Citizens 9 Bank, RENSSELAER, IND., Does a general Banking business; gives special atteh(ion to collections; remittances made on day of payment at current rate of exchange; interest paid on balances: certificates bearing interest issued; exchange bought and sold. This Bank owns the □Bu-jglar Safe, which took the premium at the Chicago Exposition in 1878. This Rafe is protected by one of Sargent’s Time Locks. The bunk vaultused i« as good as can be built. It will be «een from thn foregoing that this Bank furnishes as good sacuritj to depositors as can be. ALFRED M COT. THOMAS THOMPSONBanking; House OF A. McCOY AT. THOMPSON, successor to A, McCoy & A. Thompson. Banker nsselaer, Ind. Does general Banking bg ess Buy and sell exehaoge. Collectlo u ’ de sn all available points. Money loan erest paid on specified time deposits. &e ce same place as cld Rrm of A. McCo y mpson. aprl4,*Bl

RENSSELAER JASPEB COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY APRIL 10. 1885.

Notice of Election. Notice is hereby given that there will be a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Jasper County Agricultural Society, at the Court House, on Saturday, April 18th, 1885, at 10 o'clock a. m., for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year and fixing the time for holding the next Annual Fair. Ezra C. Nowels, Sec’y. Rensselaer, Ind., March 28,1885. WHERE TO ATTEND SCHOOL 2.—Where you can get good instruction in whatever you may wish to study. 2. Where you can get good accommodations and good society. 3. —Where the expenses are least 4. —Where things are just as represented, or all money refunded and traveling expenses paid. Bend for special terms and try the Central Indiana Normal School and Business College, Ladoga, Ind. A. F. Knotts, Principal.

THREE SENATORS ACCUSED.

Are Messrs. Teller, Ingalls and Plumb Grabbing Oklahoma! Washington, D. C.—Ex-Govern-or Glick, of Kansas; Col. S. 8. N. Wood, of the Kansas State Journal; J. G. Maybury, of the Osage Democrat; W. F. Toler, of Wichita, Kan., and ex-Representatives Clark and Weaver are here in the interest of the Oklahooma boomers and will to-morrow have an interview with the Lecretary of the Interior. Col. Clark, the spokesman of the delegation makes very serious charges against Senators Ingalls, Plumb and Teller and declares that these gentlemen are pecuniarily interested in the Oklahoma question; that a piece of land belonging to the Cheyennes and Arapahoes has been leased for grazing purposes to a Mr. Malaly, who represents Teller, 564,480 acres being involved. H. B. Denham, with 175,000 acres, is only another name for Senator Ingalls, while A. G. Evans and L. M. Briggs, with 456,960 and 318,723 acres respectively, are the agents of Senator Plumb. These charges they propose to lay before the President, who they say has been imposed upon by lawyers representing the cattle-raisers and induced to issue the proclamation of several days ago. It will be shown that the declaration that there are no wire fences in Oklahoma is utterly at variance with the facts, and a map has been prepared by the Kansas State Journal which gives all the information obtainable as to the men whs have cattle and land in this part of the United States. According to Col. Clark, Oklahoma is covered with wire fencing and there is not an Indian in that section of the country. It has been represented at Washington that the boomers are a mob of desperadoes whose sole aim is pillage. “Pillage!” said Col. Clark, “when the fact is that they are colonists who want to go into this country and settle it up the same as Kansas was colonized. But to this the cattlemen demur, for as soon as the question is raised as to the title of these lands it will be demonstrated that they possess them illegally and in violation of section 2,116 of the Revised Statutes, which prohibits the Indians from granting or leasing any land or lands owned by them.” Two plans are to be submitted to the proper authorities with a view to a permanent settlement of this dispute, one to have a judicial decision and the other to have the President to appoint a commission to investigate the rights of the cattlemen, if any exist. Military, the delegation say,, are not necessary, and the only question at issue is whether the lands are public or not. By the action of Secretary Teller the cattle raisers were allowed to pick up without a shadow of right about 1,609,000 acres of the best grazing land in the west. T Senator Plumb, so the delegation say, is interested in several stockrais’ng associations, but Renator Ingalls is more cautious and only

h&s’one association, while Senator Teller is continually adding to his stock. Thus far the agents of the boomers have been hampered in their efforts on account of the many officials involved, and other Senators have been 'offered blocks of stock in cattle to obtain their support A lobbv has been organized, and upward of SIOO,OOO has already been raised from the stockholders, $40,000 of which went it was said, to the Creek Indians, and the remainder was sent to this city to be judiciously applied under the direction of Senator Plumb.

CAUGHT IN A BIG STEAL.

Attempt to Plunder the Nation of 600,000 Acres of Land. The Old Emissaries of the Southern Pacigc Railraad in the Land Office Used as Go- . Between*-—Chandler’s Order Regarding Wivetof Naval N. Y. World Washington Special: Every day new proof is bro’t forward to show the wisdom of the change in the administration of national affairs. Each day new evidence is brought to light showing that the changes in the personnel of the departments can hardly be too sweeping or radical if a thorough reform in the administration of public affairs is to be secured. The other day a dispatch was given in the World describing the radical steps being taken by Gen. Sparks to protect the interests of the Land Offico from the-corporation interests which have so long controlled it Their audacity in holding on to the very last moment is something very extraordinary. Yesterday General Sparks found evidence of an attempt to steal over half million acres of laud right out from under a contrary order of Secretary Lamar’s a few days before General Sparks gained possession of the Land Office. For a number of yrs the Southern Pacific has claimed 15,000,000 acres assigned to them by the Texas Pacific Railroad. Congress at the last session declared this grant forfeited, and directed that the land should be restored to the public domain. Upon March 18 Secretary Lamar .issued an order directing the Registers of the various land offices throughout the country to hold these lands subject to entry and settlement. In the survey of the Louthern Pacific Road it laps at the junction with the Texas Pacific Railroad in such a manner that for a number of miles it runs across the lands of the TexasiPacific grant. After Mr. Lamar had issued his order the agents of the road, anxious to save something out of the wreck of 15,000,000, applied thro’ their old friends in the Land Office to have the lands adjoining their road where it laps upon the Texas Pacific line exempted from the order. Such an exemption was made and was issued March 18 by the acting Land Commissioner Harrison. The tract exempted embraces, nearly 600,000 acres of land. This violation of Mr. Lamar’s order was very quietly accomplished. It was only yesterday that General Sparks discovered it. He called upon Mr. Harrison to explain his issuing such an extraordinary order. He said that he had signed it merely in a routine way. This is a favorite defense for every job unearthed in the departments. The order was traced back to the Chief Clerk and the head of the Railroad Division in the bureau. Neither one of them would assume the responsibility of the order. General Sparks intends to carefully investigate the whole subject and find out who is responsible for it. Here under the beautiful workings of the civil service the expert agents of the plunderers of the public lands have been left in the departments in such positions that accident only disclosed their attempt to take out over half a million acres of land contrary to the order of the head of that department throwing these lands open to

public entries. There is no defense to be made for such an attempt It was as deliberate a theft as was ever planned, for if the order could have stood undisturbed for s number of years it wo’d have given the Southern Pacific Road a good claim to title in the courts.— What is true of the Land Office is probably true of any one of the great bureaus of the Government where the corporations of the country have had! large interest* at stake.

Gen. Black 1» His New Office.

A reporter of the Washington Post sat long enough in the office of Geh. Black, Commissioner of Pensions, the other day, to convince him that the new Commissioner is master of the situation, and will look out for the interests of the soldier quite a* sharply as he will those of the government He is quick, without being abrupt, in his disposition of all matters which come before him, and hears the complaint of the humblest pensioner quite as respectfully as he does the requests of members of members of congress. One of the latter asked Gen. Black to make a certain case “special” —that is, take it up out of its order and dispose of it in advance of thousands of other claims filed before it.— ‘‘Please put your reasons in writ, ing,” said the Commissioner, “and we will then take pleasure in considering your request” Next came a Hibernian, who wore the blue in the war of the rebellion. He was inebriated, but respectful in his manner. The Commissioner read attentively a paper which the ex-soldier handed him. “You say you have a wound on the knee; is it a bad one?” “Yis, gineral; here it is;” and rolling up his pants he disclosed a ghastly scar. “Let me look at your wounded hand,” said the Commissioner, and the veteran exhibited a crippled hand. “And you get but $6 a month?” said the Commissioner. “Only $6, gineral. For ’leven years I wint without a pinsion whin I didn’t need it; and whin I got poor be Ja ——” “Tut, tut; don’t swear. I’ll have your case looked into, and you’ll hear from me;” and, turning to his secretary, he said: “Write to the lady who is the attorney in this case, and tell her I would like to have her call at this office as soon as she can make it convenient.” “The blessin o’ God rist on ye, gineral! Yer the b’y that’ll luk after th e sojer, more power to ye. The Lord be good to ye, gineral!”

HER SEX CHANGED.

A Girl for Fifteen Years and Then Metaphosed Into a Boy. Philadelphia Record: A subject, apparently a young girl of fifteen, appeared for clinical operation at Jefferson Medical College a short time ago. The patient wore short dresses, looked like a young school miss and had the manners of a girl. The trouble with the patient was an inability to retain secretions of the kidneys. Dr. W. H. Pancoast made an examination and discovered two exceedingly interesting facts: First, that his subject was not, as at first supposed, a girl, but a boy, and that he had been born without a bladder. Dr. Pancoast explained this to the class before which he performed, and then proceeded to supply an artificial bladder, a surgical feat first accomplished by Dr. Pancoast’s father many years ago, and now not an uncommon operation. The parents of the supposed girl, now transformed into a handsome boy, at first refused to credit the facts related by the doctor, and would not keep the subject in boy’s attire, dressed in which the professor had returned him to them. A further operation was (made at the request of the parents. This was done last week, and so fully developed other organs that doubt was no longer

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possible. Now, in addition to this metamorphosis, the lad has been S' ven a boy’s name in exchange for e female one, with which he was christened. Proj. Pancoast has recently also had another case of somewhat the same nature, altho’ not quite so interesting, the subject being a boy of four years, who had always been supposed to be a girt The operation in each case was about the same, and both patients have recovered.

Editing a Newspaper.

Editing a newspaper is a very nice business, says a contemporary, ana those who know nothing about it consider it a y ery easy business. If we publish jokes, people say we are rattle-headed, and if we oadtjokes, we are an old fossil. If we publish original matter, they blame us for not giving selections, and if we publish selections, folk* say we are lazy for not writing something they had not read in some other paper. Ignorant of what good editing is, people imagine the getting up of selected matter to be the easiest thing in the world to do where it is really the nicest work on a paper. If they fidd the editor with scissors in hand, they’re Sure to say, “Eh, that’s the way they get up original matter, eh? r * accompanying their new and witty questions with an idiotic wink or smile. The facts are, thot the inthe morality, the variety and usefulness of a paper depend in no small degree upon its selected matter, and few men are capable of the position who would not be able themselves to write many of the articles they select. A sensible editor desires considerable selected matter because he knows that onemind can not make as good a paper as five or six. If we give aman a complimentary notice, we are censured for being partial, and if we fail to give complimentary notices, we are informed that we are a hog. If we insert articles that please the ladies, the men are jealous, and if we do not cater to the wishes of the ladies, the paper, in the ones’ opinion, is not fit to make a bustle of. If we remain in our office and attend to our business, folks say we are too proud to mingle with our fellows, but if we go out they say we never attend to our business. If we wear old clothes, it is insinuated that business is bad, and if we wear good ones, they say we are extravagant. A newspaper and a newspaper editor that people don’t talk about and sometimes abuse are rather poor concerns. The men and business that an editor sometimes feels it a duty to defend, at the risk of making enemies of another class, are of the very first to show ingratitude. The editor who expects to receive much charity or gratitude will soon find out his mistake; but he should go ahead and do and say what he conscientiously thinks right, without regard to the frowns of grumblers. He should collect his subscriptions promptly and keep his weathereye on the postoffice or some other good government job. Send the grumblers to the rear. Public Sale! —Wm. H. & E. S. Bergman will offer at public sale, at their farm, two miles north-east of Rensselaer, on next Tuesday, April 14, 1885: Two of workhorses, 2 pony, 1 yearling colt, 17 head three-year-old steers, 1 sulky plow, 1 corn planter, 2 mower, cultivators, plows, harrow, 3 set heavy harness, 1 double set light harness, 1 set light harness, 1 top buggy, 1 wagon, 1 road cart, and other articles too numerous to mention. Sale to commence at 10 o’clock a. m. Simon Phillips, Auctioneer. The W. C. T. U. will meet at the residence of Mrs. Berry Paris, on Tuesday afternoon, April 14th. <** I W. C. T. U. selections came to hand too late for insertion this week. Get your Horse and Jack bills printed at this office.