Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1913 — Page 1

No. 303.

DEATH CAUSED BY GREAT EXERTION

Harvey Morehouse Had Wrestling Bout With Schoolmate and Died of Heart Trouble.

Jnd., Dee. 19.—Harvey Morehouse, aged 15, died very sudaenly yesterday morning at 11:30 o’clock from an attack of heart trouble " The boy was stricken at the Glcnncseo school house, two miles west of Battle Ground, as he was wrestling with a playmate. The friendly scuffle occurred during the recess period and the lad lived only a few minutes after he fell to the floor. He was taken to the home of Monta Browh, who lives near the school houses after the Battle Ground physician, Dr. O. E. Throckmorton, had pronounced him dead, and Coroner Boy V. Hannell was called . The deceased was one of the most popular lads in that locality and his untimely death has, caused much sadness. He was the son of Mrs. Sallie Morehouse, a former resident of this county, but now living in Arp, Montana. He had been making his home with his cousin, Benjamin ConeHy , of Tippecanoe township.

Obituary of Rev. Samuel V. McKee.

Rev. Samuel Vigo McKee, who has been making his home in Peoria, HL, for several years, died Dec. 9 at the Proctor hospital at that place. Mr. McKee had passed the ripe old age of 80 years. His childhood and youth were spent near Vincennes, Ind, He attended Hanover and Jefferson colleges, graduating from the latter in 1857. He was united in marriage to Miss Busan Van Netta June 28, 1858, his wife having preceded him to the “land o’ .the leal” some nineteen years ago. Mr. McKee was a graduate of the Western Theological seminary and spent his active ministry in Indiana, Illinois and Michigan. His last pastorate was at Remington, Ind. Since his retirement he had made his home for the most part at Crawfordsville and South Bend, but for the past three years he had been living with his daughter, Mrs. W. M. Elliott, of Peoria, 111. Besides this daughter there are left to mourn the passing of this stalwart man of God, a son, Wm. N. McKee, of Long Beech, Cal., and two daughters, Mrs. Geo. Benedict, of Detroit, Mich., and Mrs. C. C. Fuller, the wife of a missionary tn the heart of Africa. Of his immediate family there survive him three brothers and three sisters. Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock, from the Grace 'Presbyterian church. Interment at Remington cemetery.

California Woman Seriously Alarmed. “A short time ago I contracted a severe cold which settled on my lungs and caused me a great deal Of annoyance I would have bad coughing 'spells and my lungs were so sore and Inflamed I began to be seriously alarmed. A friend recommendedXlhamberlain’s Cough Remedy, saying she had used it for years. I bought a bottle and it relived my cough the first night, and in a week I was rid of the cold and soreness of my lungs,” .writes Miss Marie Gerber, Sawtelle, Cal. For sale by A. F. Long. C Dinner Set Given Away. The one hundred piece Dinner Set (on display In our window) will be given away Christmas Eve. TRAUB & SELIG. Call Tel. 6 for all kinds of hard and soft coaL quality and service guaranteed.—J. O. Gwin Lumber Co.

$5.00 Given On Each of the Following Dates: Wednesday, Dec. 24 Wednesday, Dec. 31 All canons good for the S2O in gold, which will he given away Jannary 1, 1914. THE MODEL CLOTHING CO. S. LEOPOLD, Mauler. Profit Sharing System. ./• 11l V ’ ►7': :, . ; The next $5.00 given away will be on on next Wednesday at*B o’clock. Everybody comeand bring your coupons.

The Evening Republican.

WAITED TOO LONG IN GIVING NOTICE

Claim of John Eddy Against Honey Greek Township for the Killing of Hogs Denied. Monticello, Dec. 19.—The bench of the White county circuit court was occupied here today by Han. Henry H. Vinton, of Lafayette, who was called to decide the case of .John Eddy vs. Honey Creek township. Eddy is a farmer living near Reynolds, and on July 1 dogs attacked a number of hogs belonging to him. Six of the animals died from the effects of their injuries, and Eddy led a claim against the township for the value of the hbgs. The law requires that a report must be made within ten days, but the question in this case was whether that report should be made ten days after the hogs were bitten or ten days after the hogs died. Judge Vinton railed that the report should be made within ten days after the injury was inflicted. As the hogs did not die until more than ten days after they were bitten, he decided the case in favor of Honey Creek township, was denied damages. .

Why is a Good Fellow? He is Surely Worth While.

They’ve everything needed and luxuries many, The friends and beloved ones remembered each year, Any you worry and fret planning something to please them And wish that ,_the holidays ne’er would appear. But far down the street in a tum-ble-down cottage Where poverty reigns and misfortune is known Are little ones all too familiar with hunger Who suffer and weep through no fault of their own.

A wholesome disdain for the cause of their tatters May fill you with loathing and turn you away But what of the wee ones whose faith in a Santa Depends on your help ere the next Christmas day? Why puzzle your brain o’er the friends who have plenty? O’re homes where the presents are heaped in a pile? Go down in your pocket and bring up a gold-piece, And be a Good Fellow! It’s surely worth while! —N. P. Jones.

Get Your Automobiles Registered For 1914. I now have “Registration Blanks” for automobiles, motorcycles and chauffeur’s licenses. Am prepared to properly file same for you prior to January first as well as later. JOHN M. KNAPP, Nptary Public.

Methodist Church Services. Sunday School 9:30; preaching at 10:45. Christmas anthems and Christmas sermon by pastor. 1:30 men’s committee. 2:30 Junior League. 6:00 Epworth League. 7:00 Program, Christmas songs and recitations. Everybody invited.

Attention Redmen. All members Pinkamink Tribe requested to attend lodge Monday, Dec. 22nd. Important business. Signed: Sachem.

Michigan Potatoes at 80 Cents Per Bushel. I have for sale Michigan Rural potatoes at 80 cents per bushel in sacks. Alf Donnelly, Phone 548-B.

How to Bankrupt the Doeton. A prominent New York physician says, “If it were not for the thin stockings and thin soled shoes worn by women the doctors would probably be bankrupt.” When you contract a cold do not wait for it to develop into pneumonia but treat it at once. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is intended especially for coughs and colds, and has won a wide reputation by its cures of these diseases. It is most effectual and is pleasant and safe to take. For sale by A. F. Long. C

We have a nice line of student lamps, cedar chests, sewing baskets, Lea foot stools, rockers of all descriptions, davenports, china closets, buffets, sectional book cases and one especially nice diningropmsuite in fumed oak. WORLAND’S.

Don’t use harsh physics. The reaction weakens the bowels, leads to chronic constipation. Get Doan's Regulets. They operate easily. 25c at all stores. *

WEATHER. '"'j ? Rain turning to snow tonight; colder west portion tonight; Sunday clearing and colder.

* * ■ man matter. »Uhe pot oMtp at Roaaoelaor, ladlesa, OTMr the at of March », UH

“When Executive anarchy is suppressed legal racing will proceed.” The troops stopped the races because the governor had been informed that there was betting on the races. The promoters contended and still contend that there was no betting. Knotts and his crowd sought to have an injunction issued to prevent the troops from stopping the races and to compel the soldiers to leave their property and permit the -races to continue. The injunction, however, was not granted. Last summer Another effort Was made to hold a meeting at the track. Governor Ralston followed the same plan as Governor Marshall and sent the state troops to stop the races. The promoters say that they were having a fine business when the troops stopped the meeting. There was a gold mine in sight, say the backers. Now comes a sequel to the promotion scheme. Lumber and other material had not been paid for and no one wanted to pay the bills. The Manhattan Lumber Co., the largest creditor, brought suit. Others then joined in. The case was venued to this county for trial and Judge Hanley has been hearing it since Monday. The claims aggregate something like $40,000 and the race track people would like to escape payment. The plaintiffs are trying to show that there was a partnership and besides Knotts, Retsch, Daley and Crumpacker quite a number of others are named as defendants, among them the officials of the races, the judges, starters, etc. A man named Riley, editor of Racing Form, was the judge; William Day, of the Inter Ocean, was an associate judge, as also was Mi 1 , Murray, of Chicago. Dick Dwyer, of San Francisco, CaL, was starter; Mike Malone, of Valparaiso, was steward; Mr. Durham, of the east, was paddock judges and a Mr. Bradley was honorary judge. Mr. Ryan was the timer. Badges of free admission were sent to mayors of nearby cities and also to judges and prominent and influential per sonages. Mr. Knotts explained that they were sent to persons whom the board thought .would appreciate them.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA SATURDAY, December 20, 1913.

BRIEF HISTORY OF RACE TRACK SUIT

JUjffort to Collect for Lumber and Wither Things Being Made in w Jasper Circuit Court. • » The poetical review of the race track project as published elsewhere in this paper does not undertake to give the details of the promotion of the race track at Porter and the eventual shutting down of the races by the state troops under the order Of Governors Marshall and Ralstoffi Most of the facts surrounding this are familiar to newspaper readers, but the names of some of the men alleged to have been connected with the project and some of tfie transactions may be of* interest at this time.

B. B. Hyman, one time regarded as one of the greatest newspaper cartoonists of the country, and who is now a promoter a very interesting and persuading gentleman, went to Gary in the summer of 1912 and told several gentlemen that he had a great money making scheme. Gary citizens are looking for money, easy money, and several men sat up at once and took notice. Mr. Hyman explained that there were thousands of people in Chicago who like horse racing, real running races, where the ponies had the appearance of running fast and where the jockeys wore all the colors of the rainbow. Clarence Betsch, a Gary lawyer, and Armenias F. Knotts, a lawyer until fie found that too slow a means of accumulation, and Peter Crumpacker, a Hammond lawyer, and William Daley, a Valparaiso lawyer, and some other legal and lesser lights, were induced by Mr. Hyman to take hold of the project. The land was purchased for a race track plant A mile track was built barns and a grandstand erected and a very modern plant was established, except that it lacked a few finishing touches which were to have been given later if the plan to conduct the races in Indiana was not interrupted. Races were staged in the tall of 1912 and Governor Marshall, or his private secretary, Mark Thistlewaite, in his absence, sent the South Bend and Rensselaer militia companies there to stop the races. Indignation ran high among the promoters and the feeling of Mr. Knotts and his associates was expressed in the bulletin which Knotts posted on the grand stand and which read:

H. A. Hyams, of Indiana Harbor, is one of the defendants; W. J. Sheetz and Tim Englehart, real estate men of Gary, and W. H. Gain, a democratic politician, of that city, are among the numerous defendants and all have been here with lawyers to show that they don’t claim any of the race track responsibilities.

Mr. Knotts was on the witness stand for some time Thursday. He

GERRY HAYNES IS NOW UNDER ARREST

Man Alleged to Have Wrecfleg Columbia Casualty Found in Fashlonablo Chicago Hotel. Lafayette, In<L, Dee. 17—After a pursuit that began in Texas and ended in Chicago, Gerry Haynes, who is said to have been the archconspirator in wrecking the Columbia Casualty company, was arrested in a fashionable hotel in the windy city Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock. The arrest was made by L A. Lyons, of Crawfordsville, who was selected by a committee of the defunct company to hunt Haynes down.

Detective Lyons followed Haynes from Texas to Toronto, Canada, and then to Chicago. He was not sure that he had located the man for whom he had looked so long, and communicated with Charles McCabe, who has been directing the search, at Crawfordsville. Mr. McCabe sent Homer Kron, who is acquainted witfl Haynes, to Chicago to point out the fugitive to Detective Lyons. Tfle men found Haynes at the Blackstone hotel and be was placed under arrest. Detective Lyons started at once for Indianapolis with his prisoner and traveled by way so Lafayette. He came down on the milk train Tuesday evening and took Haynes to the Bohemia cate, where they had supped. The officer and his prisoner, who has now gained a national reputation, left at 9 o’clock Tuesday night for Indianapolis, where, Haynes will face indictments for grand larceny and embezzlement, returned by the Maron county grand jury. Haynes is a citizen of Texas and did not have any official connection with the Columbia Casualty Co. He was not an officer and was not employed to sell stock. The part he had in the wrecking of the company was in the purchase and transfer cf some property. A flat building in Indianapolis was bought for $33,000 and was sold to the directors of the company for SBO,OOO. It is alleged that Haynes and his confederates pocketed the difference between the purchase price and the amount for which the property sold and then left the state. ' ■ •„ -

Haynes went to Texas after he left Indiana and is reported to have lived in luxurious style in that state. Edward Tousey, who was under the contract by the company to sell stock and who lived in this city for some time, joined Haynes in Texas. The same charges that now confront Haynes are hanging over Tousey, but he has managed to escape arrest. Tousey and Haynes spent money like, water during their short residence in Texas and attracted a great deal of attention.

The Columbia Casualty Company was thrown ihto the hands of a receiver on the application of Horace Fletcher, of Indianapolis, one of the stockholders, who claimed that the company had not invested in the right kind of securities. One of these Investments was a house that was sold to the company. After the receiver took charge, it was discovered that the books had been falsified and that other offenses had been committed by the men who had conspired to Absorb the money that was paid in by scores of stockholders, not a few of them citizens of Lafayette.

Cured of Liver Oomplaint. “I was suffering with liver complaint,” says Iva Smith, of Point Blank, Texas, “and, decided to try a 25c box of Chamberlain’s Tablets, and am happy to say that I am completely cured and can recommend them to every one.” For sale by A. F. Long. O A Classified Adv. will sell it

admitted signing a contract for the lumber after Bretz and Hyman and Daley had signed it L L Hagaman, manager for the Manhattan Co M at Gary, made a trip to the race brack to procure the signature of Mr. Knotts before, the lumber would be shipped. The defendants wish to show that some of the lumber was whipped before Knotts signed the contract Knott®, on the witness stand, said that he was very Indignant when he found that Peter Crumpacker and others had not also signed the contract for the lumber. ■ The defendants will show that there was a corporation, the charter having been granted in South Da kota. Thus they hope to escape liability for more than double the amount of their stock. The incorporated name is The Racing Foundation of America, and the names the Mineral Springs Oo M were mis the Minteral Springs Co., were misnomers, although some of the reeepts for material seem to have been signed in that way. There so considerable bitterness, it seems, in the proceeding, and It Is probable .that the decision of Judge Hanley will be appealed from no matter how be decides.

i * 111| \ zSbw I 11 h WE ARE NOW READY TO YOU TBELARGEST :: : * AND BEST SELECTED HOLIDAY DISPLAY IN THE CITY ; The Early Bayer Has the Best Selediaa. We are Layiig < > ; Away Presents Daily for oar Patrons Who Have the Wisdom to < • ’ Bny Early. We Would Suggest to the Meditating Pirchaser a : ► ; Few Appreciative Gifts. ’ .A Victrola, A Kodak, a Safety Razor, a ‘ Traveling Madicure Set, a Shaving Set, a ; Fountain Pen, a Pennant or Pillow, a box of ; Cigars, a Smoker’s Set, a French Ivory <► ; Toilet Set. < J ► Remember we have a mammoth line of Books, Toys, Games and ■ > ; Dolls for the children. Our line of F, each Ivory ineludes almost ■; ’ everything in the Toilet Line and we can furnish yon the separ- ; ► ate pieces at reasonable prices. . DON’T FORGFT US IN YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. GREEN TRADING STAMPS GIVEN AWAY • FENDIG’S REXALL DRUG STORE • ►_. . < *

Make your gift worth tj *l7 I I while by selecting it from W Ifour stock of fine furniture. ▼ FafAer will never get through frf’ y ’WI W enjoying a luxurious Morris KI J K chair, every young girl wants an K attractive dressing table like the fetuA I 's K illustration, all the fariiily will value H W a handsome table or library lamp. W (I ■ To please Mother most, give her a I Hoosier Cabinet that will save her slls ■ millions of steps, hours of time and H make cooking easy forever more. AH on exhibition in our showrooms, ” which we invite Holiday shoppers to visit r f Choose what you want and we will keep it until Christmas N Eve. Then our wagon will J3L play Santa Claus Special The Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet, ®ay, if you wish, be bought on sasy terms* Come in and we will explain the special selling plan. I W. J. WRIGHT <m> MORSE’S BUNTE’S Z Milk Creams Bitter Sweets * CHOCOLATES News- TOBIAS Masa ~ Papers ■ zines

Baptist Church. L Sunday School 9:30 a. m. Morning service 10:45. * Wednesday, prayer meeting 7:15 p. m. We are to have an offering for Crawford Home, from the Sunday School and church and hope everyone may have a hand in this gift for so worthy a cause. R. B. Wright, Pastor.

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Special For Christmas. Holly wreaths, 10,15 and 25 cents; ferns, 25, 40, and 50 cents each; Norfolk Island pines $1; primroses in bloom 25c; ent flowers, many kinds. King Floral Co. Phone 132Fit His Case Bxaetly. “When father was sick about six years ago hs read an advertisement of Chamberlain’s Tablets in the papers that fit his case exactly," writes Miss Margaret Campbell. of Ft Smith, Ark. “He purchased a box of them and ho hat not been sick since My sister had stomach trouble and was also benefited by than.” For b, A. P. Unr C Phone 273 for coal

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