Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1900 — Page 5

Farms for sale. BY Dalton Hinchman REAL ESTATE AGENT, Vernon, Ind. No. 253. Farm of 240 acres, very large two story brick house of 10 rooms, 2 large stock barns, good tenant house, large orchard, 40 or 50 acres of second bottom land part rolling, balance level land. IJ4 miles from R. R. town. Price $7000; can give good time on part payment. No. 254. Farm of 80 acres, 1 % story frame house: new barn 30x40 feet. A fine orchard ijf all kind of fruit. miles of Vernon and H mile of the pike and church, % miles of store, school and postoffice. This is a level farm and lays nice. Cheap for SI7OO. No- 255. Farm of B 0 acres, frame house of five rooms, frame barn, good orchard 40 or 50 trees in number. 40 acres in one piece, 20 in the other, H mile apart. Both on the road and nicely laid. H mile from store, school and postoffice on R. R. also close to church and on a pike. Price SISOO. No. 258. Farm of 800 acres, large two story frame house of 8 or 10 rooms, large frame barn, good tenant house, 100 acres in wheat, 50 or 60 acres in clover, 80 or 40 in timothy, 75 or 80 in pasture, balance in timber. miles of a thriving R. R. town on the B. & O. and 6 miles of Vernon the County Seat, Thisisoneof the best farms in that township, lays nice and is a good stock farm as well as a grain farm. Price $25 per acre. Will give good time on half of the amount secured by first mortgage. Said farm ts in good repair. No. 259. Farm of 200 acres, frame house of 4 or 5 rooms, lurge frame barn, 160 acres lays nice and 40 some broken, not bad. This is a choice farm. A fine blue lime stone quarry on the 40 acres. 1H mile of a R. R. town, 10 miles of Vernon the County Seat. Price $25 per acre. Reason for selling, old age and no children toworry- over. Half cash, good time on the remainder. Farm of 768 acres, large two-storv brick house and a one-story frame house, two large barns, two orchards. The farm lays nice and the railroad runs through one corner of farm, 5H miles of county half mile of Vernon and Madison pike road. This is a choice stock farm as well as a grain farm. Pricesl2.60 per acre, or $9,600; $-1,600 cash, $5,000 on longtime at six per cent, interest, secured by first mortgage. This is a great bargain in a farm if sold soon. Write Me For Full Particulars. Correspondence Solicited. References: Judge Willard New, hx-Judge T. C. Batchelor, First National Bank. Merchants: S. W. Storey. N. DeVersy. Jacob Foebel, Thomas & Son. Wagner Bros. & Co., Nelson & Son, 4. H. Maguire <& Co.. W. M. Naur. Herbert Goff and Wagner’s plow factory. Anyone that wishes to look over the county, would be pleased to show them whether they wished to buy or not. Carpets, Rugs, Pictures and Oil Cloths, at Williams’ Furniture and Carpet Store. Money On Farms AT 5 PER CENT. A special fund to loan on Farms For Five Years at 5 per cent interest. with privilege to make partial payments any interest paying time, and Commissions as low ns can be had in the county. Call at Commercial State Bank, No. side Pub. Square, Rensselaer, Ind.

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The Circuit Court.

£ The Third week of the Jasper circuit court has been grinding day and night practically all. week, and then it will be impossible to get through with all the cases this term. Some of them, notably the Kline case, Hasper vs. Monon Ry., and Harris vs. Town of Remington, have already been continued to next term. The state cases were finished up last Saturday. In the two cases against August Rosenbaum, the court dismissed one and the jury acquitted him on the other. The cases against August Hoops for illegal selling of liquor, three were dismissed and on the other one he was fined $25. George Meyer of Remington, was fined sls in one case aud $lO in another for illegal selling of liquor. The appealed civil case of the Town of Remington vs. Ira W. Yeoman, et al, was tried by jury last Friday and the Jasper uounty Lumbar Co., again found to owe for the crushed rock in controversy. It is said that the Lumber Co., is not yet satisfied, although twice beaten, and will go up with the case. The case of Frank Abendorth vs* Henry O. Harris et al, for alleged medical treatment rendered Mrs. Harris, occupied quite a little of the time of court. It seems that Dr. Abendorth while at Monticello treated Mrs. Harris some five or six months aud that she had paid him over- S7OO. He sued for SSOO more and the jury gave him $5.64, which throws the costs on plaintiff. It is said that more will be heard from this case. The Putts will case, in which the two daughters of old Mr. Putts seek to have his will set JisidfLWfls the longest winded case thus far. It began Tuesday and was given to the jury yesterday forenoon. The plaintiffs set up the plea that the old gentleman was not of sound mind at the time of making the instrument and codicils. The jury was ont about 5| hours, and returned a verdict holding the original will good, but set aside two lutter codicils. Yesterday morning a new jury was empaneled to try the Cornstock vs. Sheriff Reed injunction case. Have you a sense of fullness in the region of your stomach after eating? If so you will be benefited by using Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. They also cure belching and sour stomache. They regulate the bowels too. I’rice, 25 cents. Sold hv !. A. Larsh.

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SOME FACTS CONCERNING THE CHICAGO A WABASH VALLEY RAILWAY CO’S RAILROAD AND REASONS WHY THE ELECTION IN BARKLEY TOWNSHIP SHOULD CARRY. , It must be remembered that Mr. Gifford did not come before the people of Barkley and other townships voluntarily, seeking aid for the construction of his railroad, but was approached numerous times and assured by representative citizens that the people would gladly aid him if he would consent to bring his road to Rensselaer. He finally, rather reluctantly, agreed to make the effort if a one jand one-half per cent, aid by way of a tax was voted him, and proceeded at once to incorporate under the laws of the state of Indiana The Chicago & Wabash Valley Railway Company. The elections were ordered in accordance with the statutes and it will be remembered that all of the townships failed except Marion township, which gave a majority of more than two to one in favor of the levying of the tax for the appropriation, and exceeded the opposition vote in all four of the townships by 111 Barkley township the vote was very close and no doubt would have carried favorable to the tax by a handsome majority had the people thoroughly understood the proposition. Many of the voters thought that a two per cent, tax was asked and some thought that it was payable in one instalment, and a few that the tax would be a permanent thing, and some that the donation would build the road. The amount to be voted for in Barkley township is 88,700, and requires a levy of about one and one-half per cent, which is paid in two annual installments, j. e. the taxpayers have two years in which to pay this and it is paid as other taxes. Something near $2,000 of the said amount Mr. Gifford will pay in shape of taxes, leaving the citizens and property! owners aside from Mr. Gifford $6,- 1 700, or practically one and one-i quarter per cent. Now think of this amount building a railroad 7 miles long including a bridge across the Iroquois river. Mr. Gifford answers the proposition in this way: Any taxpayer in the township where aid is voted who desires any part of the stock «pd© one-half of all the stock can have it at actual cost to him. He will throw his own labor in and give the party or parties desiring to take stock a year to make np their minds. And I assure you he will not include the $2,000 which he will pay in Barkley Township. ,As any part of the cost. Some people say they want gravel roads in Barkley township, look at your neighbor, Union township, with her two railroads, the Monon and the Coal Road They until recently paid 55 per cent, of the road tax in the township and now pay 45 per cent, of the road taxes, enabling the enterprising farmers by donating work to build gravel roads in every direction. The laws of the state of Indiana have thrown every safeguard possible around the money raised to aid the railroad to which it is ! voted, guarding every possible j chance of fraud upon the people ! by the Corporation to whom aid |is voted. However, in this j instance, Mr. Gifford being the j controling factor in the Corpora- ! lion, is a sufficient guarantee that ! no fraud whatever is contemplated ! or perpetrated.

Should the people of Barkley township vote this aid asked for at the coming election Mr. Gifford assures them that he will commence work immediately on the line to Rensselaer and prosecute the same as rapidly as possible, and when the line in contemplation and the other lines already under construction are completed he will have more than 18 miles of main line of railroad in Barkley township. The Monon railroad’s assessed valuation in Marion township per mile is $16,000. Suppose that Mr. Gifford’s railroad in the near future is assessed at one-half of this amount, or SB,000 per mile, he will have increased the taxable property of Barkley township approximately $150,000, not alone for one year but perhaps until Gabriel blows his trumpet. But remember this does not include the many miles of side track, depots, express offices, telegraph lines, elevators, lumber yards, cattlo pens and numerous other permanent fixtures that usually follow the construction of a new railroad. Will any honest and fair-minded man tell me that to vote this inconsiderable sum of $6,700 on the citizens of Barkley township is a public calamity aud a mistake witn the assurance of getting these improvements as permanent fixtures?

Think what a vast storehouse, ever increasing in value from which to derive revenue for the Building of electric light plan's, high school buildings, water works, gravel roatjfej and many other items that will present themselves as public necessities in rapid succession to the enterprising citizens of Bjrrkley township. Mr. Gifford takes this comparatively small sum of money voted the Corporation and with’ many thousands added thereto spends it right among you, employing any worthy man who seeks labor at liberal wages. Will any laboring man vote his fellow laborer out of a job, though it costs him a few dimes in taxes? Will any resident land-owner vote against this permanent, gigantic improvement at such a trivial cost to the individual? Let me suggest how to answer this question. Suppose the man who is opposed to this tax will assume for one day that lie favors the tax, figuring from his own honest judgement all the possible advantages of this improvement, and make a note of his conclusions. Then assume the other side, write every phase of the objectionable questions carefully and make comparison of your conclusions. Then let your vote be cast on the side that assumes the best interest for your home, your children, your neighbors, your township and yourself. And in view of the fact that an opportunity to get such an improvement as this and such nn enterprise seldom comes more that once in a life time and may j never come again, it is well worthy j of our honest and careful consul- j erntion. Warren Robinson. Our County Commissioners Against Us. Mr. Editor: While I have always been a republican and "voted ’er straight” on all occasions, be- i lieving but little I heard about official rascality in Jasper county —perhaps because I had never investigated the matter any and only read what you have rightly named the "Official Apologist”—l saw enough in the action of our board of county commissioners in calling another railroad election in our township to convince me that there IS something mighty "rotten in Denmark,”' and I am now ready to at least pause and reflect for a moment before echoing the official cry of d— lie! d— lie! ns an answer to wlmt I see in the Jasper County Demcxrat's columns concerning the management of our local affairs. I KN< )W that our county tax levy has been reduced, and I don't remember of ever having seen any cry for a reduction in our republican papers, j while 1 do know that your paper] did advocate a reduction. I also know that you alone stood for the people in the Gifford railroad scheme, and that all the other papers in the county were against 11s. Such being the case I can at last begin to lay aside prejudice a little and think for myself, and I want to say that from what I have already observed I am thoroughly convinced that your efforts have been of great value to the people of Jasper county and have saved them thousands of dollars that otherwise would have entered the pockets of the favored few. Concerning our railroad election, any fair-minded man must admit that it is an outrage to call another election hero so soon to vote upon the same proposition we voted down by n decisive majority on July 17, and it was only by the favoritism shown the so-called Chicago A Wabash Valley Ry. Co., as against the taxpayers, that such election could be again held, the commissioners holding five petitioners resident freeholders who were certainly not entitled to any such distinction. In one case a life interest in acres of land was left to a party and at his death the land goes ip two brothers of former decedenT The party who owns the life interest is still living and may out-live the two brothers who are the final beneficaries of the will of their deceased relative. Yet the commissioners held them to be land-owners now. Another case is that of two brothers who are heirs of their deceased grand-father, the land still being in the old gentleman's name yet the commissioners held them as freeholders. Another case was that of a man and his wife holding title by entirety, both were held to be freeholders. By counting these five “freeholders’’ the commissioners held that out of the 172 petitions for the election-many of them secured through questionable means—that there were 27'FREEHOLDERS! Think of it, friends, 172 signers to a petition to make us give B. J. Gifford SB,700 and only 27 of them freeholders! 145 of them not owning a foot of land in our township and therefore being but small payers if such at aIX What subtle power has this man Gifford over our coramjs-

r : sioners that they should desire to force this obnoxious tax upon us? Do we want to continue in office public servants who are only servants of Mr. Gifford to the exclusion of the taxpayers who placed them in office? If they have so little regard for other people’s rights in this matter will they not be and have they not been against us in other matters? Think over this, friends, and consider well whether we can afford to elect men to office whose actions show are “agin" us. Barkley Township.

flore Circular Letters.

Mr. Gifford is again seudingout his circular letters to the voters of Barkley tp., begging them to vote him a donation of $8,700 for HIS railroad. Here are a few extracts from one of the letters: “A large majority of the land-owners (in acres! have signed the petition for this second election, who have the most tax to pay;* 1Yes, of’l72petitioners our "honorable” board of commissioners who wanted to favor you as much as possible, could not by stretching their imagination to the utmost, count but 27 land-uwuers. "She (Barkley tp.) has no indebtedness.” If the present township trustee would publish a sworn to report, ns required by law we would be better able to answer this statement. "Rensselaer has recently voted for an appropriation about four tim-s as large by a majority of five to one. ’ Yes, and that Rensselaer appro- ] priation is just what your fingers I are evidently itching for. and if ]we will give you $8,700 you can | no doubt afford to ran down to the I south line of Marion tp., and take lin her little gift of $31,000. But | your figures are slightly "off - ’ on i majority. Marion tp., voted 497 i for, to 221 against, a little over i two to one instead of five to one. “Let us build the road and run a FREE : EXCURSION from Rensselaer to Cedar i Lake every year, which I have promised j the children of the Catholic school south j of Rensselaer, and 1 will do it.'! We believe there are no “cllilI dren” at the Catholic school, Mr Gifford. But there .students, young men who could hardly be cnlled children, so if only tin? I children are to ride free the exJcursion train wouldn’t be crowded. Another thing. Mr. Gifford: * The Chicago A Wabash Valley ] Ry- Co., is incorporated and you -j_are~ —the—a! leged - presni< -111 gsd i principal owner; why, in soliciting 1 votes for aiding its construction, do you not sign your letters as j president of said road instead of plain B. J. Gifford? Can B. J. j Gifford, president of the C. A V . | promises made by B. J. Gifford, ] the individual. x x

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Via Monon Route. Good going ] October 3 nnd 4. returning < )ct. 5 W. H. Beam. Agent.

DENTISTRY.

When in town it will pay those requiring dental work to visit Dr. Horton’s new dental office and investigate his various kinds of dental work and prices. This will cost you uotlniig. Extracting 25 cts. Office, first door west of the Makeover hotel.

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DO YOU WANT TO BUY OK SELL A FARM? IF SO, VISIT HONAN'S REAL ESTATE AGENCY. 320 acres in Newton Township, 3 miles [ from city, best farm of its size in Jasper Co.; ; price SSO per acre. | 80 acres in Milroy Township, S miles from I city, good jbouse, barn, wind-pump, orchard, I etc. Price J-12 per acre, | 100 acres in Jordan Township, well drained, I good house and barn, orchard, best land in tp.; i S4O per acre. j 80 acres in Marion Township, in prime state of cultivation, young hearing orchard, all j thoroughly tiled.good houseand barn, 0 miles from city, good roads all the year round; $55 per acre. 40 acres in Walker Township, good barn, orchard and small fruits; $22 per acre. 100 acres in Marion Township, 5 miles from town, bes Harm in the Connty for the price, 90 acres in cultivation. Price S2B per acre. 93 acres just outside corporation line, every foot in cultivation, thorougly tiled, good houses and outbuildings, admitted to be the best body of land In the County. Price SIOO per acre. 100 acres in Jordan Township, good Improved farm, well drained and fenced, dirt cheap at S4O per acre. 80 acres in Jordan Township, good black loam, entire farm can be cultivated, a bargain at $42 an acre. 20 acre* fine timber land in Milroy Township, cheap at $23 per atre. 00 acres to Marion Township, 5 miles from city, 10 acres timber, good house and new barn, good well, all drained, price $35 per acre. 80 acres in Gilliam Township, 90 acres in cnltivatloa, 12 acres of the best timber in township, bouts, barn, good orchard. Price S4O an acre. 80 acres In Morion Tp„ 1(4 miles from city at $55 pec acre. 80 acres adjoining can be bought at same price. For particulars call on or write K. P. Howa*. Rensselaer, tod.