Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1901 — Page 4

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Judge Hollister of Cincinnati, decided against the proposed iJef-fries-Ruhlin prize tight, and the bout has been called off. Kansas is certainly a queer place Look at its list of “recent” citizens: Simpson, Pfoffer, Sheldon, Mrs. Lease and Mrs. Nation! Can any other state match them? The supreme court has affirmod the decision of the lower court in the gravel road case from White county, known as Hugh Lowe et al vs. Board of Commissioners. We believe this case related to the building of certain gravel roads through the town of Monon. There were more Democrats than Republicans at a night session on the subsidy bill recently, despite the fact that the latter party is so anxious to force the measure through. The fact is that the friends of the bill are the rich men of the Senate; men who have too many dinner parties on hand to spare the time to attend night sessions.

The utility and benefits of the county reform law are well shown by the conviction of George M. Ray or the Shelbyville Democrat. It •was when the county council began its work of inspection of the requisitions for supplies for the county offices that the conspiracy of Ray and his fellows was discovered. Ray was one of the bitterest opponents of the new law,- Monticello Journal. There is no doubt that Minister Wu is the plainest spoken and generally most delightful diplomat that the United States has ever experienced. He is a censor,without fear, of all American customs and practices. His latest is to refuse to attend a banquet to General Otis because he fears that he may say something unpalatable to that doughty warrior. With much blow and blaster, that hypocritical old fraud who presides over the (ifficial Apologist, a few months ago told how he was ?oing to prove in court how The democrat editor had robbed Jasper coupty in his charges for publishing some health notices, (which the Apologist, and the Barnacle failed to get) but when he has the opportunity to make his bluster charges good, he again weakens, and his attorneys are straining every nerve todefeat the case coming to trial. It would seem that a person so anxious to “expose” The Democrat editor before the public as a rascal, as the Apologist man claimed to bo, would be only too glml to waive any technicalities which might arise and let the case he tried on its merits. Looks a little strange doesn’t it?

“In my opinion the day of the email country town is ended, nml for a different reason than you suppose,” saitl John Warbritton. “Not but what the little town has its mission to till and not but wlrnt some of the brightest business men in the country operate places in the small out-of-town stores, but for the reason that the telephone, the rural route and the free gravel road have brought all the little towns closer to the county Beat just ns the same conveniences of mail and transportation and wire service hnve drawnCrawfordsville iu closer competition with Indianapolis and Chicago. Indianapolis does not seem nearly so far awnv as it did before one could talk to people in that city for a quarter of a dollar or go over thepe at intervals of three hours any day. The county seat is building out on tho rural lines till Newmarket don’t seem to be half as far from Crawfordsville as it used to be. Business conditions are all constantly changing, and the wise tradesman is busy studying them.”—Crawfordsville Sunday Star.

The Supreme court Thursday affirmed the decision of the lower court against J. Marsh Wilson of Shelby county, who is now serving a sentence of from 2 to 14 years for presenting a false claim against Shelby county. Wilson insisted that the indictment under which he was convicted does not cover his case, but the supreme court construed it to clearly apply to any case where a false claim is presented to the board of commissioners for allowance, with the ultimate purpose of getting money from the county treasury to which the claimant knows he is not entitled.

Ex-Treasurer Ligbtcap, the outgoing republican county treasurer of Starke county, refused to sign the annual settlement sheets Jan. 1, which showed him to be short several thousand dollars in his accounts, and the county commissioners granted him a few weeks time to go over the books with exports, Lightcapalleging that the alleged shortage did not exist and that an examination by competent accountants would show that there was a mistake in the auditor’s figures. The records of the auditor’s and treasurer’s officers were examined by Mr. Blotz, an expert accountant of Winchester, and Bert Ligbtcap of North Judson, covering the four years of Mr. Lightcap’s incumbency. The examination occupied three weeks time, and it was found that the auditor’s figures were correct. Lightcap now acknowledges that he owes the county the balance shown by the auditor’s report, and has signed the same. At the meeting of the commissioners last week representatives of Lightcap’s bondsmen requested the commissioners to take no legal action toward collecting the amount for a a few days, stating that Mr. Lightcap had turned over all his property as well as the residence of Bert Lightcap to his bondsmen and the latter were trying to have a note signed by all the bondsmen and negotiate a loan sufficient to cover the shortage, which is something over $7,000, says the Starke County Democrat. Representative Reser or Greaser, of Lafayette, who fought the county and township reform bills so bitterly in the last legislature, is again making a record by opposing every bill tended to give publicity to public business. His star performance this session was that of fighting the bill requiring school trustees of cities and incorporated towns to publish an itemized statement annually of receipts and expenditures, the same as is now required of township trustees, county commissioners, circuit courts, etc., etc. The greatest safeguard that can be placed around the administration of public business is PUBLICITY, and whenever you find an officer or officers who objects to making public ally matters concerning the conduct of his office, you can safely assume that he has personal reasons for not wartting liis constituents to know what is going on, and that those reasons are against the public’s interests every time. Under Uia present law the receipts and expenditures of each county and township in I the state are required to be published, but the school boards of incorporated towns and cities, which, in the case of our own city, probably expend at least onehalf as much money as does the whole county for county purposes, publishes no report at all, and we will venture the assertiou that there are not a half-dozen taxpayers in Rensselaer oritside the school board who have the least idea of the cost of our city schools or what any of our teachers are paid. What is true of Rensselaer is also true of every incorporated town and city in the state. It is folly to say that the publication of the receipts and expenditures of school boards is useless expense, for statistics show that the most economically governed public business is that wherein the most publicity is given. Besides, why should one branch of our local government he required to make public the expenditures of its office and another—which expends much more —be exempt from this. All should be placed on the same footing—require publication from all local officers or else abolish all laws intended to give publicity to public administration and give all the officers a free rein in the matter.

Two carloads all kinds fencing wire and nails to be received this month at the Chicago Bargain Store. “My heart was badly affected by an attack of grip and I suffered intense agony until I began taking Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure. It made me a well man.”—B. D. Holman, Irasburg, Vt.

Ray Found Guilty.

Readers of The Democrat will remember the recent purging of the Shelby county democracy and the expert examination of the records that was made. Shelby county, as heretofore stated, has for years been one of the most “reliably democratic” counties in Indiana, but a long lease of power engendered corruption in the administration of county affairs, and the honest democrats decided that a general cleaning .out of the rascals should be had. As a result of this decision and the movement which followed, exTreasurer J. Marsh Wilson is now serving the state at Michigan city—convicted by a jury of democrats— and George M. Ray, the editor and publisher of the “official organ,” whose trial ended last Friday, was found guilty of filing false claims against the county, and will go to join the ex-treasurer at the state’s big hotel on Lake Michigan. Several other indictments against the commisioners, who were apparently in league to loot the county, are still to be tried, and it is possible that Wilson and Ray may meet more of their friends in their new quarters ere long.

One commendable feature of the trial just closed is that the jury was composed of 9 democrats, 2 republicans and 1 prohibitionist, so Ray’s conviction cannot be said to be political persecution. Ray is the same fellow who gained such an unenviable reputation a few years ago in the selling of supplies to township trustees, and who sold the big bills of useless stuff to Township Trustee Stoudt of Grant tp.,Newton county, which resulted in Stoudt’s disgrace and downfall and much litigation over the township warrants issued in payment for the same. Some of these causes are yet pending, we believe, among which is that of Vannatta, the Brookston banker, vs. F. D. Gilman, the Goodland banker, and which was taken to White county on change of venue. Speaking of Ray and his newspaper career, the Indianapolis Press, republican, says'editorially: This is a case of the Democratic party purifying itself and the county government in its unquestioned control. Shelby County is and has been for years a Democratic stronghold, where the Republican minority has had little or no influence on affairs. A system of fortified corruption and public robbery was orgauized that seemed impregnable. But a few Democrats of Shelbyville had the courage to attack the gang of plunderers, and they have persisted in their efforts to clean out the Augean stables with a patience and courage worthy of their purpose. In time they won over public opinion to believe in their honesty of purpose and awoke it to the belief that it might be possible to bring about a better state of affairs. From this point on, their advance has been steady, until they have found ft court itnd jury no longer nfraid to act on the truth. The lesson that wickedness, no matter Row strongly in-i trenched, may be brought-to grief 1 by boldly combating it, is a salutary one and one that is much needed. Ray has prototypes in the “official orgijn” business in other counties whose career will some day be brought to a sudden close ns abruptly as was his own; when hyprocritical cant will no longer cover up rascality and official dishonesty; when the light of reason and common sense, devoid of political prejudice will show matters up in their true character. When the Rays and their ilk are placed in proper quarters the people will again have an inning in the management of public affairs.

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About Public Printing. The Democrat believes that many of the inland country newspapers are unnecessarily alarmed over the bill introduced by Senator Burns of South Bend, which requires all legal publications to be made in two newspapers at the county seat, representing the two political parties casting the largest number of votes, aa there is no prospect of thq bill ever being favorably reported. Even a republican legislature would hardly be foolish enough to pass such a measure. There are a few pvtbli-

cations relating to county and township matters which are now so required, but in the latter case they must also be published in the township interested, if there be /a paper published therein. In addition to the publications now required to be published in the two leading papers published at the county seaijshould be included commissioners’ court and circuit court allowances. All publications relating to the out-townships should be made in papers published in those townships, if there be a paper published therein; if not, the publications should be made in the leading paper or papers at the county seat. Outside the township in which it is published the interior newspaper has a much smaller circulation than the leading county seat papers, and the object of legal publications is to give publicity. We know whereof we speak in this matter, having been engaged in newspaper publication in the interior as well as the county seat. As an example, there is not a town or township in Jasper county outside of Remington and the possible exception of Wheatfield, but The Democrat has a much larger circulation than the papers published at Remington or Wheatfield. It is right and proper for legal notices which only interest those towns or townships to be made in those papers,’and no fair-minded man will object to this. But other publications, in which the people of the whole county are interested, should be made only in county seat papers of large circulation. This, the publishers of interior newspapers should not object to. It is unnecessary to require all legal publications to be made in two papers, thus creating additional and uncalled for expense. What should be done is to put a stop to legal publications in socalled “newspapers” of practically no circulation and which do not rise to the dignity of insignificance, even. Publications are usually made .in such sheets to avoid the very object of the law requiring publication—publicity. An object lesson of the “publicity” given by publications of this character was recently shown in White county. Monon had successfully defeated every applicant for a saloon license for about two years. Applicants tried every device known to ingenious attorneys, publishing notices of application at Wolcott, Chalmers, Brookston and other points, all to no purpose. But at last they inserted the notice in the White County National, 'a “paper” almost as obsolete as the Barnacle here, and no oue saw the advertisement. The result was a license was granted and tho will of a large majority of the people of Monon tp., was defeated. Publication of legal notices in “newspapers” of such character ought to be prohibited, and if Senator Burns would get a bill through the legislature to put a stop to such frauds upon the public he would be doing the people a greater service in the way of legal publications than he could in any other way.

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FARMS FOR SALE. BY Dalton Hinchman REAL ESTATE AGENT, Vernon, Ind. No. 33. Farm of 64 acres, 194 miles from Vernon. Frame house of B rooms, good barn, good orchard, good water at house. Farm well watered for stock. This Is a good gram farm; part of the farm broken on one aide of the creek. Price $3,000. No. 383. Farm of 80 acres, two story frame house, 7 rooms, barn 40x66,300 barrel cistern at house and a good well, a fine orchard of all kinds of fruit. 10 acres of good timber, farm some rolling, two and one-half miles of R. R. town, one-half mile of pike road. Price, $1,600. No. 388. Farm of 60 acres, bouse of 4 rooms, barn 38x48, orchard of all kinds of fruit, farm lays nicely. Price $1,300. No. 384. Farm of 88 acres, 1H story frame house of 6 rooms, barn 40x40 and shed on both east and west sides, orchard of all kinds of fruit, 8 acres of timber, farm mostly level. Price SI,BOO. No. 386. Farm of 111 acres 1)4 story frame house 7 rooms, fair barn, log, new corn crib, wagon and tool shed 34x86. fruit of all kinds. 8 acre* in timber, farm in good shape, 6)4 miles of Vernon, the county seat, 1)4 miles es the pike. Price SI,BOO. No. 387. Farm of 83 acres, 1)4 miles of Vernon. Frame house of 6 rooms, small barn, nice location, good neighborhood, on pike road. Cheap at SI,BOO. No. 388. I also have City property to sell in Vernon, North Vernon and Hayden. Come and see me. Costs you nothing to see prop erty- -.—-- —I _ No. 286. Farm of 180 acres, a large 2-story frame house of 8 rooms, large barn and a large wagon and tool house, with double corn crib and other outbuildings too numerous to mention, farm lays nice, 20 acres In timber, well and cistern at home, well at barn and a well in pasture and a good spring. Fruif of all kinds, apples, pears, cherries, peaches, plums, grapes, strawberries, gooseberries, blackberries, small fruits of all kinds, fencing in good shape. Said farm is on a good pike road. This is a lovely farm and in nice shape, everything in order, and if party that buys wish tp buy stock and farming bails with farm, can do so. or any part of them. Price of farm alone $0,500. This is a cheap farm at the price. Come and see this farm if you wish to get a lovely home, school H mile. 5)4 miles to city, 7,000 population. Correspondence Solicited. References: Judge Willard New, Kx-Judge T. C. Batchelor, First National Bank. Merchants: S. W. Storey. N. DeVersy. Jacob Foebel, Thomas & Son, Wagner Bros. & Co., Nelson & Son, J. H. Maguire & Co., W. M. Naur. Herbert Goff and Wagner's pi., w factory. Anyone that wishes to look over the coanty. would be pleased to show them whether they wished to buy or not. Stood Death Off. E. B. Munday, a lawyer of Henrietta, Tex., once fooled a grave diggei. He says: “My brother was very low with malarial fever and jaundice. I persuaded him to try Electric Bitters,and he was soon much better, but continued their use until he was wholly cured. I am sure Electric ,Bitters saved bis life.” This remedy expels malaria kills disease germs and purifies the blood; aids digestion, regulates liver, kidneys and bowels, cures constipation, dyspepsia, nervous diseases, kidney troubles, female complaints; gives perfect health. Only 50c at J. A. Larsh's drug store. When you come in to pay your taxes, take one of the dollars saved this year and drop in and subscribe for The Democrat, the paper that was the means of saving it for you. “I was in bed five weeks with the grip -nerves shattered, stomach 1 and liver badly deranged. Was cured with Dr. Miles’ Nervine and Nerve and Liver Pills.”—D. C. Walker, Hallsville, O. Subscribe for The Democrat. Grip’s Ravages Doomed. In this Grip epidemic everyone should know what a wonderful remedy exists in Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. That stubborn cough, that robs you of sleep, weakens your system and paves the way for Consumption is quickly cured by it. Chills and fever, pain in the back of the head, soreness in bones and muscles, sore throat and cough prove you need Dr. King's New Discovery 16 cure your Grip, ana prevent Pneumonia or Consumption. Guaranteed buttles 50c and SI.OO. Trial bottles free at T. A. Larsh's. V ,

TO NON-RESIDENTS. The State of Indiana,) In the Jaaper Circuit Johrr r St C o°u U d? ty - ) >® ourt ' April Term, 1901. Edxrardft Briggs. i C ° mPlalnt N °- 8070 ' Comes now the plaintiff, by Ira W. Yeoman hi* attorney, and files hi* complaint herein, with an affidavit that the defendant Edward H. Briggs, i* not a resident of the State of Indiana. .'f er^ ore u b « Riven said deI< a A unle “ a, i d appear on the fir ?f da y term of the Jasper CircnitCoprt to be holden on the 2nd Monday of April A. D. 1901, at the Court House in the CitY Of Rensselaer, In said County and State, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined in bis absence. (• 1 In witness whereof, I hereunto set ) SEAL f my hand and affix the seal of said ? ’—''T'J.Court-’at Rensselaer, Indiana, this 12th day of February, A. D., 1901. John F. Major, Clerk. 'J’BRM TIMB NOTICE TO NON - RESIDENTS The State of Indiana, ) Jasper County, ) l»OO the Jasper ® rcuit Court. February Term. William C. Kirk ) r „ v*. f Complaint No. 800$. Jesse H. Fcrdice et al. ) By order of Court, in said cause, the following defendants were found to be nonresidents of the State of Indiana, towlt: JamesV.W.Ktrk and the wife of James V. "tFtrue name is unknown; Mattie Miller, Daniel B. Miller, her husband; Elira J. Miller and John C. Stiller, her busband; Viola J. Kirk, and the husband of said y‘?. U i-S :,rk ' whoßetru * name is unknowrn; Julia B. Erwin. Notice is therefore hereby given said defendants, that unless they be and appear on the first day of the next term of the Jasper Circoit Court to be holden on the 2nd Mondav April, A. D.. 1901, at the Court House, in the City of Rensselaer, fn said County and State, and answer or demur to said cross-com-plaint, the same will be heard and determined in their absence. In witness whereof, I hereunto set j seal >my hand and affix the seal of said — 1 Court, at Rensselaer, Indiana, this 15th day of February, A. D., 1801. , l John F. Major. ClerkT _ James W. Douthit and E. P. Honan, attorneys fordft.

Application for License. Notice I* hereby given to the citizens *»f the First Ward of the City of Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, that the undersigned August Rosenbaum who is and bas been for more than ninety days last past a male inhabitant and resident ot the said City, and over tbe age of twenty-one years; and who-rs now and has been of good moral character, not in the Habit of becoming intoxicated, and a fit person in all respects to be entrusted with the sale of spirituous, vinous, malt and all other intoxicating liquors. that this applicant is and will be the actual owner and proprietor of said business herein mentioned, and will be forthe entire term of such license, if license be granted, will apply to tbe Board of Commission rs of Jasper county, Indiana, at their March Term. 11*01- for alicenseto sell and barter all hinds of spirituous, vinous, ma’t and all other intoxicating liquors, with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank on the premises where sold, in anv quantity, also in less quantities than Five ballons at a time, and also in less quantities than a quart at a time, as provided in the Acts of March sth. 1897; March 11, LH9ft and March 17th. 1875. that the location of the room in which this applicant will ash for a license to sell and barter liquors as aforesaid is on the lower floor of the two-*tory frame building situated on a part of the north thirtyfour (34) feet of Lot three (3), in block three (8), of the original plat of the town (now City) of Rensselaer, Indiana, being tbe only room on the said floor of aaid building; said room in which this applicant desires to sell liquor* as aforesaid is more particularly described as follows: Commencing at a point one hundred and twenty-five Ota) feet and (8) inches from the southeasterly corner of block thiee (8), in the original plat of the town (now City) of Rensselaer. Indiana, on the southwesterly boundary of Van Rensselaer street In Lot three (SLin said Block three (8); thence northwesterly along th.- southwesterly boundary of Van Rensselaer street a distance of twenty (20) feet and one and three-fourth* (ltf; inches: thence southwesterly parallel with Harrison street a distance of forty (40) feet and two and five-eighths (2H) inches; thence southeasterly parallel with Van Rensselaer street a distance of twenty (20) feet and one and three-fourths (IX) inches; thence northeasterly parallel with Harrison street a distance of forty (40) feet and two and fiveeights (2S> inches to the place of beginning. That the said room Id which applicant will ask a license to sell liquors as aforesaid is situated on the ground floor as aforesaid, and fronts on Van Rensselaer street, a public street in said ( tty. that the front of said room facing said street is furnished with two large glass windows of four lights each; two large glass doors and four large additional lights, two on each side of said doors; that the whole of said room may be viewed from said street: that there Is orte door in the southerly end of said room and one door in the northerly side of said room; that said room is separate and apart from any other business of any kind or character. and there are no devices for amusement or music in or about said room; that the same can be securely locked and admission thereto at all times prevented, and that there are no partition or partltlonsSn said room. That said license will be asked for a period of one year from the expiration of the license now held by applicant, and permission to sell tobaccos and cigars will be asked at the same time. August Rosenbaum, Applicant. “Grip robbed me of my sleep and I wins nearly crazy with neuralgia and headaohe. Dr. Miles’ pain mils and Nervine cured me.” Mrs. Pearl Bush, Holland, Mich. Ilf I had Grip I would I use Dr. Miles’ Pain Pills I and Dr. Miles’ Nervine. I Sold at all Druggists.