Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1899 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

Si.oo Per Year.

MATTERS. City council meeting next Monday night. Mis. Henry Mackey is again quite rick. Morgan Dewey of Jordan tp., is on the sick list. Alonzo Wood expects to move to White connty soon. Washington Scott has been on the sick list a few days this week. Buy the Alexandria kid glove, best made, at the Chicago Bargain Store. Chase Kelly nas moved his newsstand two doors west of his former location. Michael Bernicken of Wheatfield, was in the city Sunday and Monday. W. H. Ritchey returned Tuesday from a visit with his daughter at Marion. J. Wood, of south of town, has been quite sick with lung fever. He is now improving. Miss Mary Meyer will be in Chicago for two weeks studying the latest styles in millinery. Four of the children of Mr. and Ts re. Oscar Dyer of Brooks ton died of diphtheria within nine days. Miss Mary Meyer will return in two weeks from the city with a full line of latest designs in millinery. A. G. Hardy purchased five head of Stock Farm horses, A. Padgett one,, and Walter White one. J. W. Speaks, of north of town, will move on the Gifford ranch in northern Jasper county. —Morocco Courier. Reduced prices on linen, one week only, Monday, March 13th, to Saturday, March 18th, at the Chicago Bargain Store. Farmers, look sharp to your seed corn. A prominent farmer has given it as his opinion that good seed corn will be very scarce this year. Advertisers should bear in mind that The Democrat has a larger circulation among the farmers than any paper published in Jasper county. The Democrat’s file is short two papers, Nos. 7 and 31. Ten cents each will be paid for the above copies in good condition delivered to this office. The little babe of Mr. and Mrs. John Blaze died Tuesday morning and the funeral was hela from the residence on Wednesday afternoon. It was born Dec. 19 1898. J. M. Hetmick, the Wheatfield real estate man, was in the city Monday closing up the sale of a . 206-acre farm in Walker tp., to ' Jess Stowell of Lake county, W. H. Beam, the genial railroad agent and councilman from the 3d ward, was taken seriously ill at Chicago last Sunday and was gotten home with difficulty. He is still quite sick. Some Chicago parties are building an elevator at Wheatfield, which will “fill a long felt want.” The north end of this county is coming out of the kinks very rapidly, and investments in that reS'on are being made nearly every iy. An ordinance will be presented . to the common council next Monday night to prevent riding on cement Side-walks. Under a recent decision the law now covers only walks made of wood, stone, gravel or brick. This ordinance should be readily enacted into law and that law enforced without fear or favor. The Democrat this week contains the mast complete and comprehensive review and synopsis o*T L. laws enacted by the recent legislature published in Jasper Tn addition to the county and township reform bills and other laws onitsoutride pages, three columns will be found on an inside page. Extra copies of the paper may be had at five cents per copy by calling at or addressing this office.

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M. G. Lewis of Remington, was in the city Thursday. County Commissioners must now give bond in the sum of $5,000. _j J, C. Kaupke, trustee of Kankakee tp, was in the city on business Thursday. Wednesday was another red letter day for marriage licenses. Four were issued. Wm. Lißk, an old and well known resident of Wolcott, died at that place last Sunday. Special linen sale one week, Monday, March 13, to Saturday, March 18th, at the Chicago Bargain Store. There are too many saloons in Monticello. They have begun killing snakes over there this early in the season. Several inches of very damp snow fell Saturday night, and several mornings the first of the week the mercury was down about zero. Next Monday Will Marshall will pack bis household goods and leave for Wheatfield, where he will follow the life of a farmer for the coming year.—Brook Reporter. August Schrieber of Wheatfield, was examined at that place Thursday of last week before Esq. Swisher on the charge of attempted criminal assault upon Miss Snsie Callahan, and bound over to the circuit court on SSOO bonds. A series of special evangelistic meetings will begin at the Methodist church of this city next Sunday. There will be services at 7:30 o’clock each evening. The pastor will have charge next week. Rev. C. Fenwick Reed of Terre Haute, Ind., who was so popular with our people a year ago. will be with us again. We expect him about the 19th inst. Everybody is invited to attend these services. * C. T. Miller of Stoutsburg, was in the city Tuesday getting bills struck for a public sale March 18. Mr. Miller and family will visit their old home in Tennessee during the next few months and perhaps the former and his son George, will take a trip to Porto Rico in the fall. Mr. Miller says they will probably return to Jasper again in a year or two to reside permanently. They are excellent people and we do not like to lose them. C. M. Reynolds has lately sold a half interest in the Monticello Evening Journal to Fred Clarke of that city, and the office has been moved into the rooms formerly occupied by Clarke with his job printing plant. The Journal has withstood the storms of three summers and winters and is one of the permanent fixtures of Monticello. May prosperity continue to smile upon it and its genial publishers, is The Democrat’s prayer,

We would call the attention of our readers to the new mortgage exemption law, published in another column of The Democrat. This bill as introduced allowed an exemption of SI,OOO, but was amended so as to allow but S7OO of real estate mortgage indebtedness. Parties wishing to take advantage of same must do so between March Ist and May Ist. As usual, this is a feature contained in no other paper in the county, and it alone will save many taxpayers enough in one year to pay their subscription to The Democrat for from ten to twenty years. It will be welcome news to the many friends of the boys in Co. I to hear of the mustering out of the 160th and 161st regiments at an early date. It is assured however, that within six weeks both regiments will receive their discharges. J. P. Simons received a letter from Congressman Crumpacker this morning stating that the authority was from headquarters and this wonld make it seem as if there must be something in it. Of course it may be a few weeks later than is thought at this time, and the Monticello company will probably arrive home by not later than the first week in May.—Monticello Journal.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, March ii, 1899.

For Sale:— Lots 5 and 6, block 13, Newton’s addition to Rensselaer. Enquire at Democrat office. John Stillman of northwest Carpenter, has sold his farm to J. G Schneider of Illinois, for $8,960. Get your job printing done at The Democrat office. Satisfaction guaranteed both in stock, prices and workmanship. Do not fail to attend the bargain linen sale, Monday, March 13th, to Saturday, March 18th, at the Chicago Bargain Store. “Honest Abe’s” $2,300 clock was groggy again yesterday morning and its long-drawn-out strokes gave promise that it contemplated another “resting spell.” T. E. Allison a former Pan Handle operator at Remington, now a bearded granger in the wilds of Walker tp., was in the city yesterday and dropped in at The Democrat office for a chat with the editor. Tom is somewhat grayer than when we knew him at Remington, but looks hale and hearty and says he enjoys farming better than fingering the key in the office of that soulless corporation, the Western Union. That telephone franchise matter should be taken by and recon sidered at the meeting of the city council next Monday night and the granting of same “indefinitely postponed,” unless the company is willing to pay a reasonable sum each year for said franchise. Talk to your councilman about it and urge him to lend his influence to this end. Rensselaer cannot afford to give away such valuable franchises for the asking. John F. Warren, of the firm of Warren & Irwin, will appraise the real estate in this city this year. If the appointment has been made of the appraiser of personal property his name has not been made public. Rensselaer people are in no humor to have repeated this spring the outrage of last year, when the required amount of taxable property was secured by doubling up the assessed valuations of laborers and poor people, and wholly ignoring vast amounts of property belonging to people in easy financial circumstances. The new fire alarm whistle was tested last Saturday afternoon, and, judging from the unearthly racket it makes, will be considered “the proper thing.” If all the dogs in Jasper county should unite in one place in one general howling match it wduld give some idea of the music of this new fire whistle. The agent who sells these instruments of torture is said to travel incognito to keep from being lynched, while the factory where they are made is somewhere deep down below the bowels of the earth at a place commonly designated Shoel.

The new county and township reform bills are published on the Bth page of to-day’s Democrat. This feature is contained in no other paper in the county. Every taxpayer should read the laws over carefully and preserve the paper for future reference. It will be of service to them in the future in posting themselves in matters which may come up in which they are vitally interested. Every taxpayer in the county should have a copy of these laws. A limited number of extra copies of The Democrat containing the bills have been printed and may be had at 5 cents per copy by calling at this office. Bob Walker was adjudged insane Monday by Squires Jones and Huls and Drs. Cook and Mayity. He has been failing for years, rapidly so for the past three months. Sunday night he became turbulent and uncontrollable. Sheriff Westfall took charge of him and he has since been confined in the county jail. The nightwatchman states that he frequently found him in the rear of stores after houses were closed. Last cammer he made the remark that there should be more fires and that > the elevator would go some night. The building was watched. Sob is the son of the late M. H. Walker.—Fowler Leader.

TAXING (?) CORPORATIONS.

“Every franchise (i. e. the right to use public property for private use) granted by any law of this state, owned or used by any person' or corporation, and every franchise or privilege used or enjoyed by aniy person or corporation shall be listed and assessed as personal property.” Sec. 8435, R. S. 1894. Within the city limits of Rensselaer there are two such franchises or privileges as are above referred to, the Western Union Telegraph Co., and the Jasper County Telephone Co. Together these taxes will amount to sl4 for 1898. The W. U. Co., was assessed on 1.18 miles of line in this city —that part of the line along the railroad track—in 1898, at $325 per mile, or a total of $384. Not a cent was assessed on its franchise along streets and alleys, which cost it nothing, nor on its double line from the C. I. & L. depot to its up-town office on "Washington street, eome 3,000 feet in length nor on its office and office appliances. Neither has anything ever been assessed against any of these properties. The Jasper County Telephone Co., was assessed on three miles of line at $25 per mile in 1898, or a total of $75! Not a cent was assessed on the franchise, which is the basis of every dollar of its Value, and without which its stock would not be worth the paper it is printed upon; not a cent on its office and exchange and fixtures and phones, about 300 in number, which are reported to be valued at $8,000! And what is worse, not a cent of this valuable property —this 12£ per cent dividend-paying property —ever found its way to the tax duplicate, although it has been in existence for more than four years! The American Express Co., has 1.18 miles of line inside the limits of this city and is assessed at $450 per mile. It also has an office up town. And these properties have been maintained and used since the new tax law went into effect in 1891, yet for the year 1898 this grinding corporation came near escaping taxation all together and was only placed on the duplicate last Wednesday morning, when we called the attention of the of- ; ficials to the matter and we understand some $531 was at once placed against them. It is assessed nil on its office and office fixtures and appliances. The Standard Oil oetupus —the worst trust of them all—has maintained a depot here for nearly two years and as yet the assessor has been wholly unable to discover that fact, and they, too, have gone scot free.

But justice over took three parties this week, who had failed to list for taxation three worthless dogs, and fines and costs were paid to the amount of $35.06. Since the dog business is satisfactorily disposed of, would it not be well to take up some weightier matters and thereby replenish the city treasury? The Democrat thinks there is dire need of some such action on the part of the tax officials.

Still Coming Home to Roost.

During the latter part of the recent political campaign in this county, The Democrat showed up the Keener tp. gravel road matter and was roundly denounced by the republican papers and ringsters as a liar, anarchist and possibly a Spaniard. The figures contained in that statement were taken from the county records and were absolutely correct, and now, like all other statements made by The Democrat for which it was roundly denounced, like the tax cases, stationery steal, balances due on court house, $4,000 loan, and many other utterancee, this also is being brought to the notice of the public and shows that it was the other fellow who lied. The contract was let for this sixteen miles of gravel road two years ago last Wednesday, for $31,500. Bonds were issued for $31,858. In the statement published in this paper last October $13,209.27 had been paid on account of this 16 miles of road and less than 2 miles was oompleted. Since that time probably $2,000 to $2,500 more has been paid, and we were reliably informed

by a resident of that locality Thursday that about 3 miles was now completed. The bond of the contractor, it will be remembered, “mysteriously disappeared.” The people of Keener’ ~ have paid (including the present) two installments of taxes on these bonds, $2 on each SIOO valuation and yet have no road. Copies of the statement published in The Democrat were sent to the benighted township of Keener for distribution previous to election, but like the contractor’s bond, they were mysteriously delayed until after election, when they “arrived” at the destination and were received by the addresses all right. The Keener people nearly all vote ’er straight, and we presume even now are thanking God they are permitted to vote the republican ticket and pay for a gravel road which does not exist. The commissioners have at last decided that something must be done about this gravel road matter, and the case was up before them Thursday, when a number of people from Keener were here, in eluding the contractor. A new contract was made with Mr. McGinnis by which he agrees to allow the commissioners to appoint a superintendent over him who is to give bond for the faithful performance of his duties, expend all moneys paid him by the board in the payment of material and labor and push the construction of the road to completion as rapidly as. possible. We are informed that one of the bondsmen remarked that it was probable that they (the bondsmen) would have to pay about $5,000 oat of their own pockets to complete the road. If everything was moving along so smoothly in this matter, as stated by the republican papers and ringsters here daring the campaign, why was this move made? The weather has been such a greater part of the time since the election as to make it impossible for the contractor to do much, and it would seem that he should have been allowed plenty of time to complete she work, instead of practically tin owing him over and putting a new man in his place. The Democrat is led to believe—if it accepts the ante-election gospel truths (?) of its contemporaries—that a great injustice is being done the contractor, and the commissioners should be severely ! censured for deposing him.

FARMS FOR SALE. We have for sale several tracts of land varying in size from 40 acres to 2ho acres, which will be sold at prices to suit the times. Only a small cash payment, 6 per cent, interest. Prospective buyers will find it to their advantage to call and see us. Hollingsworth & Hopkins. I have private funds to loan on real estate at low rates for any length of time. Funds are always on hands and there is no delay—no examination of land, no sending papers east—absolutely no red tape. Why do yon wait on insurance companies for 6 months for your money? I also loan money for short times at current bank rates. Funds always on hand* W. B. Austin.

MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Charles Pefley to Daisy Dean Warner, issued March 6. John Kettering to Mary Stout, issued March Bth. Allie V. Clark to Sadie J. Granger, issued March Bth. Alfred Wyant to Ervin Bell Craig, issued March Bth. Charles E. Hemphill to Lola M. Fiddler, issued March Bth.

Rensselaer Markets.

Wheat . .55 to .62 Com «*• .284 Oats.. 244 to 264 Rye .40 hay... $1.50 H0g5..... ......2.75 to 3.00 Potatoes.... ,-.75 to -80 Butter.....' 124 E KK9 1» liens *! .04 Young Chickens -34 to .04 Ducks .04 Roosters Turkeys..,. ..... 06# .07 Hides .05# .06 Tallow J .02

Morris* BacHsh Stable IV»wder For Lom of AMititj-Co—timtka, BoaA Hsir Hide BonixU SSI all " Sold by A. F. Loof.

VOL. I. No. 48

Public Sale. The undersigned will sell at Public Sale at his residence, J mile Southeast of Stoutsburg, Jasper county, Ind., commencing at 10 a. m. on Saturday, March 18th, 1899, The following property: 1 span of Moles, 1 Horse, wt. 1400; 2 Fresh Cows; 2 Calves; 1 Yearling Heifer; 1 Disk Harrow; 1 Lever Harrow; 1 Riding Plow; 1 New Mowing Machine; 1 Hay Rake; 1 Cultivator; 1 Broad-Tired Wagon; 1 Double-Seated Buggy; 8 Stands of Bees, 2 Sets of Harness, 1 Large Grindstone; 1 Chaldron Kettle —30 gallon; Household and. Kitchen Furniture, consisting of Cook and Heating stoves, 1 New Singer Sewing Machine, Tables, Chairs, Bedsteads, and other articles of minor mention. A credit of 10 months will be given. The 160-Acre Farm. Upon which this sale is to be held will also be offered for sale to the highest bidder. Farm lies on Wheatfield and DeMotte road, 20 acres timber, balance pasture and farm land, is well fenced, 3 wells, living water running through farm, 5 room honse, barn, etc. Terms: $1 ,200 cash, balance in ten annual payments. Chester T. Miller. John Greve, Auct.

How Is Your Grip?

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Craft’s Distemper and Cough Cure A Specific for Diatemper. Conghs. Cold*. Hem, Pink Eye, and all Catarrhal dieeun of borvea. Price. Wa ILWnrMlla Sold by A. F. Long.

W. H. PULLIN, Rensselaer. Indiana. AG EXT FOR THK Steel King No. 2, Duplex and. several other Fence Machines. Contracts for the construction of any kind of woven wire fence a specialty. I can suit yon on anything in this line. * Sold hr A. F. Long,