Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1903 — Page 7

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstract*, Real Estate. Loan*. WIR practice in all the courts. Office over Fen* ell C’s Fait. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Judson J. Hunt, low, mm Loons ond Real Estate. RENSSELAER, IND. Office up-stairs In Leopold block, first stair, west of Van Rensselaer street. Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The .N. A. AC.Ry, and RensselaerW.L. A P.Co. f3k»ofiice over (Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. V- : U. M. Baughman. G. A.AV illiams. Baughman & Williams, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law. Notary work, L-oans, Beal Estate and Insurance. Special attention given to collections of all kinds. Office over "Racket Store,” ’Phone 320. Rensselaer, - Indiana. J. F. Irwin S. C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections. Farm Loans and Fire ImUrano*. Office in Odd Fellows' Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. R. W. Marshall, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Practices in all courts. Special attention Siren to drawing up wills and settling decedent's estates. Office in county building, east side of court house square. ,U*< .OLT Z. C. O. SPITLR*. HARRY X. KURRI, Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successor, to Thompson A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law. Real Estate, Insurance Absracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in the County. RENSSELAER, IND. Ira W. Yeoman, \ ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. L> " Remington, - - - Indiana. - Law. Real Estate. Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand Block. Drs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. I- R. Washburn will give special Attention to DineaseH of tho Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat and Chronic Diseases. Ho also testa eves for glasses. Ornci TiUfHONi No. 48. Rcsidincb Phoni No. 17. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over Imes’ Millinery store. Rensselaer. Omici Phoni 177. * RiliOinci Phoni, 111, Dr. Anna Francis, OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, Graduate American School of o»teopathy, Office over Harris Bank, Rensselaer, Ind. Hours : 9t012 m; Ito 4:30 p. m. Doctor A. J. Miller, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. Office un-stair9 in Forsythe block. General practice of medicine, surgery and X-ray work. Calls answered promptly, day or night. Office ana residence 'phones, 304 (Jasper Co.); also (Halleck) 43 at residence. W. W. MERRILL, M. D. Eiectic Ptiysician ond surom RENSSELAER, - INDIANA. Chronic Diseases a Specialty. Office 'Phone 308. Residence 'Phoneß4B H. O. Harris, E. T. Harris, J. C. Harris, President. Vice-Pres. Cashier. Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call, Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit issued on time, Exchange Bought and Sold on principal cities. Notes Discounted at current rates, Farm l Loans made at 6 per cent. We Solicit a Share of Your Business. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsli’s drug store, £*& injni / “5 Crown, Bar and Bridge T Work. Teeth Without Jar I /a Plates, Without Pain. .. J.W. HORTON .. I# YEARS IN SIN S 3 SLAIN, Teeth carefully stopped with gold and other fillings. Consultation free. Nitrous Oxide Qas administered dally. Charges within the leach of all. omes oeroeiva court nous*. PLENTY OF EGGS And no sick chickens wbsrs W.lls’ Booster Poultry Powder Is used. Cures Cholera, Oaoee end Soup. Keep, poultry healthy. Prlee, SS eesita Sold by A. F. Long.

GARDEN AND FARM

WOOD ASHES ON FARMS. Wood ashes have been known for many years as excellent for alFkinda_ of crops. Long before fertilizers were placed on the market wood ashes were highly esteemed by farmers, and if they can be had at fair prices, on guarantee, they sell readily. But ashes vary greatly, those from hardwoods being more valuable than the ashes from soft wood, and yet it is difficult to decide upon the value of ashesheven when the kind of wood is known. The ingredient sought in ashes is potash. Hickory ashes contain as high as 9.17 per cent.; red oak, 5.75 per cent.; rock elm, 6.30; walnut, 4.65; cherry, 5.28; quince, 6.30; pear, 9.70; butternut, 3.98; plum, 4.50, and peaeli, 6.95. The cuttings of grapevines produce j ashes that are exceedingly rich in pot- j ash, containing 12.20 per cent., while the pear tree, as may be noticed, pro- j duces more potash in its ashes than does hickory. These facts make the purchase of wood ashes a matter of uncertainty, so far as the actual value to the farmer is concerned, for unless he is informed of the kind of wood from which they are made he will have no* .Jfhowledge of the amount of potash diey contain. Should he purchase butternut tree ashes he will not get one-half as much peftash .as from hickory ashes, while ashes from old trees, young shoots, limbs, trunks and j branches differ, even from the same tree. The bags containing a lot. of ashes will also vary In percentage of potash, while he will also find it very i difficult to distinguish ieached from unleaehed ashes. 'Then, again, the. weight of ashes dep«ncs largely upon the humidity of the atmosphere. If purchased when the weather is damp ! there will be more moisture in the 1 ashes than during dry weather, as they quickly absorb moisture. Analysis of ashes shows that different lots vary greatly.

Potash alone does not give value to ashes, as they contain phosphoric acid and lime. The recognized average for unleaehed ashes is 5 per cent, of potash, per cent., of phosphoric acid and 32t£ per cent, of lime. A ton of ashes, therefore, contains 100 pounds of potash (worth about $5), 30 pounds of phosphoric acid (worth about $1.50>, and 650 pounds of lime. The value of the ashes depends upon the potash and phosphoiic acid, the total being $6.50, as the lime is given no value in fertilizers that are purchased as such, yet it really has a value, which is the same as the market value for stone lime. The proportions of phosphoric arid and lime also vary according to the kind of ashes, but owing to their hulk for shipment, and the fact that they are sometimes leached before put upon the market, the price of ashes is frequently much greater than their actual value to the farmer. Every farmer, however, should carefully save all the ashes made from wood on the farm. Coal ashes have little or no value as fertilizers. Com cobs, the cuttings from vines and trees; and even dead weeds, make ashes which are rich in potash! hut the ashes should be kept under shelter and not allowed to become wet, as they are more easily applied on the land when in a perfectly dry condition. If mixed with barnyard manure they cause loss of ammonia from the heap, hut ashes and manure may be applied on land at the same time and worked into the soil. Potash in ashes is in a pure, uncombined state, very caustic, and at once exerts a chemical and mechanical effect on the soil, while that in fertilizers is combined as a ‘‘salt,’’ with acids, of which about one-half only is pure potash.

As there are about 600 pounds of lime in a ton of wood ashes, it is apparent that some of the benefits imparted io land by ashes is through the lime, which is in the finest possible condition, and is also produced from vegetable matter; that is, unlike stone lime, it has been used in the growth of plants and returned for use again in the wood ashes. But the objection to buying lime in wood ashes is that in such form it is costly, for if a ton of wood ashes costs $lO, and the value of the potash and phosphoric acid is $6.60, as staled, the 650 pounds of lime would cost the farmer $3.50, and, as he can buy stone lime much cheaper, he will not be benefltted correspondingly by purchasing ashes in order to procure the lime. Lime sells at from 60 cents to $1 per barrel, the cost of the pure lime being 3H4 cents per 100 pounds when lime is 75 cents per barrel, while the cost of transportation may he but a small sum if the lime can bo procured near the farm. Ashes contain all the mineral elements of the woods from which they are derived, which includes also soda, magnesia, silica, etc., hut the nitrogenous matter Is eliminated during the burning of the wood. Farmers who desire to use ashes will probably find them profitable If the price does not exceed $7 per ton for unleaehed, but some lotß may be worth more. Fruit growers have a preference for ashes, as they serve to neutralize the acids of the soil when vegetable matter la plowed under, and for clover, peas, etc., ashes are also excellent.—Philadelphia Record. SOME SHEEP SENSE. The more experience one has with sheep the more convinced he becomes that success depends to a large extent upon what might be called good “sheep sense,” as distinguished from

horse sense so commonly used. It It impossible to make profit out of sheep unless one possesses or acquires thi3i sense. Such a little thing will sometimes upset all the good work that a man can do. Here is a neighbor who had a fine herd of sheep which he carefully bred and fed, and seemed to do everything for them; but a good deal of his pasture land was low and wet, and the sheep spent about half or three-quarters of their time with wet feet. They seemed to prefer the low, wet lands, but that was because there was better vegetation therfe, and not because they liked wet feet. Well, about half the herd oecame sick and after a disastrous season the owner woke up to the necessity of fencing off his low, wet lands fiom the sheep pasture. Rape for sheep Is much like clover for the pigs: or potash for peach trees. One might just as a,-ell give up sheep feeding if he will not try rape for their food. Sheep and rape must go together, and they do on most farms where the owner has good ‘‘sheep sense.” Yet it is not necessary to go into many counties in almost any State to find sheep raised without the owner ever having once thought of rape for them. It is not at all strange that so many claim there is no money in sheep laising or farming. Considering the ignorance in some quarters of all changes and improvements that have been going on in this country in the past quarter of a century, it is not at all surprising that failures are common. Do men who know nothing about modern farming ever read? Or are they so set in their ways that they refuse to adopt any methods except those which their fathers taught them? I met a farmer oi this character recently. He had one of the scrubbiest lot of sheep that a man could find anywhere. He had been raising that kind of sheep for half a century. Did they pay? No, there was no money in sheep raising any more. Price of wool was too low. It was ruining farmers and sheep raisers. How much wool did he raise? He wasn’t sure, hut lirobably five pounds of wool to a head. Now is it possible for any man to make money from wool raising when each sheep averages five pounds of wool? Over against this I told him of two-year-old rams of mine shearing twenty and thirty pounds, and good fat ewes giving a similar proportion o# wool. He listened respectfully, but when I was through I could see that he was impressed, teat unbelieving. That man had no “sheep sense,” and all ye can expect of such a case is that his children may wake up and study modern conditions and read of what is going on in their particular indust ' T .—T. M. Mandrake, in American Citiavatqr.

AVOIDING FOOD LOSSES. It has been affirmed that from one- : half to one-third of all the food which ' enters the average American home is j wasted. There is the waste in paring ! and preparing vegetables, the bone in meat, and'the scraps which are left from meals and which cannot appear cn the table a second time. But this loss in rural homes can be readily, and is in most oases, reduced j to a minimum. The parings, vegeta- j ble tops, etc., go usually to the pigs, 1 by which animals they are converted into pork. If pigs are not kept, they can be fed twice each day to the cows, for when fresh, they are absolutely wholesome for either pigs or cows. The scraps from the table can with profit be fed to the chickens, to be returned in eggs. Thus there Is no loss at all of any food which has entered tho house. In our own case the cow gets the garbage (parings, vegetable tops, pea pods, etc.), night and morning, and the chickens get the crumbs from the table. All is gathered up, there is no waste. In our town, where it is not convenient for many to keep either cows, pigs or chickens, the scraps and garbage are gathered daily by a number of poor persons, who make a living assorting the same and feeding it to pigs and chickens. These persons call daily at the kitchen door and remove the accumulations while they are in a fresh and wholesome state. In this case, there is no waste either for one may consWer what is not eaten as given to those who can utilize it, and hence, as one form of charity. It is one way of aiding the poor to help themselves. The plan is applicable to all small towns. —C. G. Gross in New York Tribune Farmer. RED CLOVER. Red clover is valuable for the abundance of pasture it produces and for its excellence as food. Rich in lime and nitrogen, as well as containing a large proportion of starchy matter, It is one of the best balanced foods used, and is also highly relished by ail kinds of stock. In addition to promoting a large flow of milk from cows, it is unexcelled as pasturing for hogs. Its value as a fertilizer is also admitted, and many farmers grow it for that purpose as well as for food. Muocie, Ind., has almost been having halrpulllng over its new library, a gift from Andrew Carnegie. The title over the entrance is "Muncie Public Library," the two words being spelled with the old Roman “U,” which is a “V.” There is unanimous approval In art circles, the old letter conforming to tho architecture of the building. Tho ‘‘plain citizens’’ want plain United States letters, and con ♦end that the town may be thought a “dead one” if it uses old style letters. The sculptor says that tho lettering cannot be altered without marring . the front of the library, and still the factions squabble.

BIG TRIP IS BEGUN.

PRESIDENT NOW ON A TOUR OF THE WEST. I Longest Trip Ever Undertaken l>jr a Chief Executive—Journey Will Occupy Nine Weeks, and Will Extend Into Twenty-two States. The President is now on a journey to which that much overworked word “unique” may be applied not. inaptly, lie left Washington Wednesday for a trip which trill continue for sixty-six days, and during which lie will visit twenty-two States nml cover n distance of 14,000 miles. Chicago was his first stopping place l , and from 0 o’clock Thursday morning until midnight lie was occupied in a way not only typical of the western metropolis, hut peculiarly adapted to the President’s idea of strenuous living. It is expected that during this remarkable journey the President will deliver several addresses on matters of the highest importance, ns well as many minor speeches suited to localities where he has agreed to take part in certain ceremonies. As the special train pulled out of the Pennsylvania station in Washington Wednesday morning the President stood on the platform of his private car tipping his hat and smiling in response to the enthusiastic cheers of hundreds of admirers and personal friends. As early as 8 o’clock a crowd began to gather at tho White, House to witness the President's departure. As he enter ed his carriage to drive to the station the men made the historic grounds echo with cheers, While women waved their handkerchiefs and many of them their hats. I’rccuutions for His Safety. The Pennsylvania station and platforms were crowded with people anxious to extend to the chief magistrate their good wishes for a safe and successful journey. Notable precautions were taken to insure the safety of the President. The police arrangements were under tho personal supervision of Commissioner West and Chief Sylvester. Uniformed officers, headquarters detectives, plainclothes men and secret service operatives surrounded the President "and covered every point.

As President Roosevelt alighted from his carriage lie was joined by Secretary j Hitchcock and they walked down the ; station platform arm in arm, the Pt'fisi- J dent stopping now and then to greet personal friends. He was attired in a black cutaway coat, dark striped trousers and wore a black felt hat. He was in the best of i.pirits and chatted enthusiastically to friends of the trip on which he was about to start. The most notable incident connected with the President’s departure arose out | of the presence at tho station of Baron ! Speck von Storuburg, the German minister. He was the only member of the diplomatic corps who went to the depot to see the President off and the President greeted him most cordially, telling him that be greatly appreciated the courtesy. Cabinet Members at Station. No member of the President's immediate family, except bis sister, Mrs. Cowles, was at the station, Mrs. Roosevelt and the young children being down the Chesapeake bay on the Mayflower amU-Miss Alice being in Porto Rico. Several members of the cabinet, including Secretaries Cortelyou, Wilson and Hitchcock, were present. Tho President and Secretary Cortelyou chatted several minutes, the President expressing his regret that the Secretary was not to accompany him. Other members of the cabinet had taken their formal leave of the President at the White House. Among other notable people who were at the station to see the President depart were Assistant Secretary of State Loomis, Col. Theodore A. Bingham aud Capt. W. S. Cowles, respectively the President's military and naval aids; Second Assistant Postmaster General Shalleuberger nnd District Commissioner West. In addition to those officially designated as members of tho President's party three secret service men and two postofflee inspectors accompanied the President as a personal bodyguard. Tho Journey ns planned will occupy nine weeks and three days and the party will travel a little more than 14,000 miles.

PULPIT AND PREACHER

I.ucas Malet (Mrs. Harrisou), who wrote “Sir Richard Calmady," has become a convert to Catholicism. It was a colored preacher who said all 1 he had to complain of was the “contributory negligence" of his parishioners. A Catholic Filipino is a student at Yale this year. On Sundays he attends services nt St. Mary's Church, New Haven. An appeal is being sent forth to ail the clergy of the United States for contributions to a memorial to the philanthropists, Baron nnd Baroness Hirsch. The Aev. Louis Stickney of Baltimore, a member of tho American college at Rome, lias been appointed secretary to the apostolic delegation in Canada. Bishop Potter says: “No bishop who is wholly cut off from contact with rural life can fnil to become tlint prejudiced, unsympathetic and opinionated thing.” Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, li.ts been invited by tho Methodists of Savannah, (In., to he present at the bicentennial of John Wesley's birth, on June 28. At the next session of the Vermont conference tlie Rev. 11. F. Forrest, after forty-ovo conseeutivo yenrs of service in the itineracy, will take n supernumerary relation. The Rev. Dr. \V. S. Rninsford of New York, when asked how Tie regarded the action of Vermont In repudiating prohibition, said: "I would rather see a man freo than sober." The Rev. Edward M. Duff, rector of St. Thomas’ Church, -Buffalo, has been appointed instructor in New Tenement interpretation In tho De Laiicey DivluIty School of the diocese. The Rev. C. M. Sheldon le at the hend of a movement to establish at Topeka, Kan., a life Insurance compauy that will only Issue policies on the lives of Christians and total abstaiuera.

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

John B. McDonald, who is mentioned as the leading spirit in the syndicate Mild to be forming to build the Panama canal,

is probably the biggest contractor in the world. It is he who has thus far constructed the great subway, in New York, paying $35,000,000 for the privilege of building the tunnel and disposing of the franchise afterward. He built the Jerome Park reservoir, put down 400 miles of

J. B. M'DONALD.

the Canadian Pacific road, did. $18,000,000 worth of work on the harbor of San Francisco, helped to build the Northwestern “L” road in Chicago, and has undertaken immense work elsewhere with great success. Mr. McDonald began his career as an excavator of cellars. He is a friend of Richard Croker and was formerly prominent in New York politics. Admiral James G. Walker, said to be slated for the presidency of the commission which the President will appoint to

construct the Panama canal, is the authority par excellence on the canal question, and since 1807, when President McKinley made hint chairman of the canal commission, has devoted his whole time to the study of the subject. Admiral Walker, during his long career in the navy,

ADMIRAL WALKER

which lie entered from lowa in 1850, lias diitiuguished himself as an officer of remarkable ability. He commanded tho squadron of evolution from 188!) to 1893 and was later in command of the Pacific station. Since his retirement ho has been occupied exclusively with tho affairs of the great anteroeeanic canal. Lady Sibyl Primrose, Lord Rosebery’s daughter, is now twenty-three and still

pite the rumors that went the rounds a few years ago that she was engaged to this, that and the other sprig of the English nobility. The Earl of Beauchamp was the lat* est favorite reported, but so far as the gladsome daughter of Lord Rosebery goes the nobsf earl is still without his primrose, and, in

LADY PRIMROSE.

the language of the poet, she “was nothing more” to him. Lady Sibyl is a sweet looking, nut brown beauty inheriting the looks of her mother, who was n Rothschild, as is well known. She is reckoned one of the fairest belles of England’s aristocracy. Charles William Fulton, recently elected United States Senator from Oregon,

has been prominent in the public life of that State ever since he went there ns a young lawyer from Nebraska in 1875. In 1878 he was elected State Senator, and he served four terms in that capacity. The now Senator is u most eloquent speaker, a debater of note and a really brilliant

C. W. FULTON.

man. He is married nnd has one sr-n. The recent offense to the Kaiser when Herr Bebel, the German socialist, declared that every speecli of his Emperor

“made n hundred thoumnd Social Democrats,” is not calculated to make his political pathway any smoother than it was. In fact, llerr Ferdinand Bebel has had a thorny road to travel, in n in 1 y through his outspoken independence ns a socialist nnd opponent of the throne.

HERR BEBEL.

He made acquaintance with prison life early in his career, having been several times imprisoned for leze majesty, yet be still continues to agitate fearlessly. Probably the oldest carpenter in tho West holding a continuous membership in his organization, the Amalgamated

Society of Carpenters, is William Hudson of Chicago. Mr. Hudson is really the father of the branch in which ho holds a member ship, ne joined the Worcester (Eng.) branch In 1805, and has never nllowed his membership to lapse. lie located in Chicago in 1870, nnd a few months

WILLIAM HUDSON.

later he secured the co-operation of a few other carpenters and organized the Chicago first branch, which is the oldest carpeuters' organization In the city. Mr. Hudson is n believer in the old school of unionism, nnd always has been a devout Christian. Former Speaker Henderson says that his home will he in Davenport, lowa, nlthough he may practice law In other cities. When he dies ho wants to be buried In tho Dubuquo cemetery. International Union of Commercial Telegraphers and tho Order of Commercial Telegraphers have consolidated under tho name of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America. John McCarthy, 17, Baltimore, Md., killed himself because he didn’t like t» week.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Fortune Hinges on Adoption—Kokomo Girl an Enemy of Baloons-Mechan-lea In New Union—Suicide in Church —Nevada Postmaster le Missing. Indianapolis society is greatly interested in a suit instituted some time ago by a sister and brother of Mason J. Osgood, one of the wealthiest citizens of that city, whose estate had been inherited by his adopted daughter, now Mrs. Ida Stanley. Mr. Osgood died without a will, nnd Mrs. Stanley received all of his estate of $1,000,000. The brother and sister of Mr. Osgood filed suit for the property, alleging that Mrs. Stauley had not been legally adopted. The case was decided in the Superior Court the other day, the court holding that the adoption was not legal. If the decision is sustained by the higher courts, the property will go to the brother and sister. Girl Knocks Out Saloons, Miss Carrie Slyer, who was discharged from her position in a Kokomo store because she headed a hand of shimmers among the saloons, is likely to pat the whole liquor fraternity of Kokomo out of business. After her dismissal she canvassed the town with remonstrances and in court put thirteen saloons out of commission for two years. She has remonstrances almost ready for use against all other applicants for licenses and will possibly knock out every drinking place in town. Miss Styer, who is a sister of ex-County Treasurer Charles Styer, lias the backing of the churches and Civic Federation. Break from the Old Unions. In Muncie 200 representative craftsmen were initiated into the Independent Association of Mechanics. The action is backed by business flken owing to the many strikes which have been on there for a month. Carpenters, plasterers, telephone linemen and other crusts have been on strike and business is stagnated. The wave of enthusiasm which threatens to disrupt local unions is without precedent. Many cities throughout the State ure taking up the new organization. Contractors are becoming affiliated with it and will employ all its members and pay according to merit. Commits Suicide in Church. The hell did not Ving fur mas* nt St. John’s Catholic Church at New Haven the other morning, nnd investigation reveait d that Joseph Kroch, the aged sexton, had climbed to the organ loft and b id knotted th - end of one of the ropes that hung from the belfry and taken his life. The deed was prompted by ill health, and in the selection of the instrument of deatli the sexton had chosen the rope attached to tile clapper of the* bell and used only when the bell is tolled for funerals. Nevada Postmaster Missing. J. G. Powell, postmaster 'at Nevada, is mysteriously missing. Several days ago Powell went to Kokomo with S2OO. lie told bis wife lie would deposit it in a bank. So deposit was made in the hank named, and Powell, who sent the office keys home to his wife, has not been seen or heard of since. Diligent efforts are being made to locate the miss- | ing official. The postotfice accounts will be- investigated. Will Hefu.c lligli Position. Col. C. A. Carlisle of South Bend has been offered the position of assistant secretary of the new cabinet Department of Commerce and Labor, but will refuse it because he cannot afford to take it in view of his business connections. Col. Carlisle is a member of Gov. Durbin’s staff and is vice-president for Indiana of the National Manufacturers’ Association.

State Items of Interest. A non-refillable bottle is being manufactured at Ingalls. Richmond carpenters want the wage scale fixed at 30 cents an hour, and a strike may result. An old log school house, built in 1812, will be moved to the city park at Richmond and preserved. A factory, Wilkesbarre, Pa., employing 300 people, desires to locate iu •Elwood, under certain conditions. Thieves raided Plainville, robbing the postofliee, depots anil the stores of M. If. Bunch, William Little and John Denny. As a result of a family fetid Davtil Gaines shot bis son Lloyd, 14 years old, in the breast at Franklin. An older son, who interfered, was shot through the left hand. The younger brother will die. Clement Studebaker, Jr., president of the South Bend Watch Company, pressed the button the other morning that started the new $1,000,000 watch factory which will employ 1.5Q0 watchmakers nud manufacture 1,200 watches a day at South Bend. L K. Davis, C. W. Cutter, W. C. Wright, T. C. Summerville and L. B. Bird of Chicago, members of the Merchants’ and Manufacturers' Coal Company, have taken options on several thousand acres of coal land in Clay County. They expect to begin drilling at once. The company will have headquarters at Chicago. At the instance of Chicagoans owning summer cottages nt Bass Lake, a bill was introdueed and passed in the last Legislature prohibiting the construction of drains in such manner as to lower the water in the lakes of the State. The measure was vetoed by the Governor and already n petition lias been filed for the building of a ditch tliut, if openfd, will be detrimental to Bass Lake and damaging to the property of resort owners and Cottagers. The farmers near the lake are determined to have the ditches and the hundreds of cottage owners are resisting. Hampton West of Fisher’s Station, who has beeu in jail at Noblesville for several weeks on the charge of grave robbing, was rearrestod ou a grand jury indictment charging him with stealing the bodies of Newton Brackeu and Walter Manhip from Beaver cemetery, southwest of Noblesville. His bond was fixed at $1,500 in each case. He could not furnish the security and is still In jalL Lucius R. Stout of Eagletown was arrested on a grand jury indictment, charge ing him with helping West get the body, of Manhip. Hia bond was Qxed at sl,* 500, which he gave.