Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1905 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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DIGNITY UPHELD

In Special Judge R. W. Marshall’s Court. SHERIFF O’CONNOR FINED $50.00 For Contempt In the Jasper flay Case Before Final Adjournment Saturday Night. Figuratively speaking, there was a great big red spot on the moon Saturday night, and it came to a head shortly after six o’clock, when special judge R. W. Marshall, appointed to sit in the state case against Jasper Guy, ordered the heat kept up at the oourt house, summoned the judge and ordered court officers all to'their places, turned on the electricity and convened court in due form. He then fined sheriff John O’Connor SSO for contempt in failing to carry out bis orders in the aforesaid case. The order of contempt of Judge Marshall, as it appears on record, is given below. The date therein is given as November 8, but the order it refers to was made December 8, Friday: "The State of Indiana vs. John O’Connor. (‘ln the case of the State of Indiana against Jasper Guy, this court on the 8 day ot November, 1905, directed the sberifi of Jasper County, Indiana, to-wit, the defendant herein, John O’Connor as sheriff of said county, to take into his custody the said Jasper Guy, the said Guy in a trial had before this court having been convicted of assault and battery and the court having pronounced judgment thereon, and ordered said sheriff to take charge of said Guy and confine him in the jail of said county until the fine and costs assessed against him were paid or replevined, and said O’Connor as such sheriff willfully refused and failed to obey said order of this court is now ordered to show cause why he should not be fined for contempt. "Defendant for cause says ‘Well your Honor I supposed that the bond he had given was sufficient to release him, that is that he could go that is the reason, I supposed that be was under bond.’ "The court finds the defendant guilty and aseessed his fine in the sum of fifty dollars (and the coroner of the county is charged with the execution of this judgment.) "It is therefore considered adjudged and decreed by the court that the defendant herein the said John O'Connor make his fine to the State of Indiana in the sum of fifty dollars. "R. W. Marshall, "Special Judge."

That part of the above order E laced in parenthesis by as was nally stricken oat of the record after the same was written np. It seems tronble had been brewing between Mr. Marshall and the attorneys in this case for some days, and in his ordero made the day previous in this case, which are given elsewhere, the attorneys mildly undertook to point oat to him that he should grant an appeal to the supreme court. The sheriff, not understanding the matter of the bond fully, bad let Mr. Guy return to Remington, and when Mr. Marshall heard Saturday that no replevin bond had ■ been executed before Guy was allowed to go home, he became furious. In the meantime, on Saturday, a bond in the sum of $1,200 had been made on the margin of the order book, signed by Mr. R. W. May, of Remington, who owns real estate to the value of $85,000, and accepted by the clerk. When Mr. Marshall saw this bond entry on the margin of the record he deolined to sign the record up, declaring he would not approve it, and called the court officers to their places and entered the fine against Mr. O’Connor,who, it appears, while possibly guilty in a technical way, had no intention of disobeying the court’s orders.

The clerk insisted that the bond given Saturday was not a part of the record of the judge in the case but was his own official act, and the signing of the record in the did not make the court accept the bond taken by the clerk. But Mr. Marshall would not sign up the record nntil after he had again donned the ermine and inflicted a tine on the sheriff, when he did sign it, and the December term of the Jasper oircuit court was adjourned by Judge Hanley. We understand that Mr. Guy will appeal to the higher court by what iB called supercedes proceedings, and file appeal bond there. — l 1 Don’t forget to go to J. H. Cox for Xmas candies. Prioes and candies to suit all.

GREAT CHANGES IN FIFTY YEARS. George Welsh, a prosperous farmer of southwest Carpenter tp , was in this oity a row hours Monday on business connected with the settlement of his father’s estate at Syracuse, N. Y., who recently died at the age of 92 years and 8 months. George was born in England, bat came to this country when 14 years of age. He tells us that he first came to Rensselaer in 1857, coming by stage from Monon —then called Bradford —and that it was so wet that every once in a while the stage-driver would yell to his passengers: “Hold up your feet thar!” In going through some of the low places the water would cover the floor of the stage. He was then eoroute to Brook to visit Henry Marsh, but was told here that there was so much water and the river was so high it was impossible for him to reach Brook, so he returned to New York state. Three years later, however,'he again came to Jasper county and has made his home here every since. He bought the 80 acre farm miles east of Goodland on which he resides soon after the war, paying sl2 per acre for sajne. A short time before he bought it the price was $6 per acre. He has resided on this farm for 38 years, and if he wanted to dispose of it could now easily get $l5O per acre.

SPEND YOUR MONEY IN RENSSELAER,

Do your holdiday shopping in Rensselaer. Our tradesmen have a nice line of everything you will want and their prides are more reasonable than you will find in the large cities, where rents and expenses are so much higher, and a greater profit must be made to meet such additional expense. Yon will find the advertisements of the more progressive and up-to-date tradesmen in The Democrat, and they will appreciate your custom. Give them the benefit of your trade and leave your money in yonr home town, where it will circulate in other channels, remembering that the dollar that ia sent out of town is gone forever, and never returns to help the merchant, the professional man or the laborer.

LAKE COUNTY SINKHOLES.

Only a few years ago the Monon was having lots of trouble in getting a solid bed for its road over a sinkhole north of Cedar Lake, hundreds of carloads of stone and other material being dumped therein. Now the new Indiana Harbor road is meeting with a like experience near St. Johns which the Morocco correspondent of the Newton County Enterprise has the following interesting mention: “Some of our citizens recently visited the far famed “sink bole” near St. Johns, and brought back samples of the soil, if such it can be called from this peculiar phenomenon. This hole turns out to be, upon close investigation, not an undergrown lake or river but instead a vast deposit of peat, very similar to that used for fuel in many parts of the British Isles. It is a water soaked mass of fine vegetation in a semi-decayed state. It is of a light brownish color, very light in weight when dry, and burns very slowly, giving off intense heat. This peat bog has caused no little trouble to the new railroad as the weight of the filling of one part of its surface causes unheavels at other places. Nothing is known definitely as to the depth of the bog and borings to a depth of thirty feet reveal no change in the nature of its substance.” • - - -

ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT FIGHT.

Harry Reed, the paper-hanger, and Dolph Day had a little encounter near the laundry Saturday night, in which the former got a severe bruise on the side of the head from a brick in the hands of Day. Reed had Dolph arrested, but it was shown that the prosecuting witness had laid in wait for him and was the agressor, so Day was discharged. The trouble is said to have been caused by young Reed’s becoming too attentive to Dolph’s sister-in-law, who was stopping with the latter, and Dolph told Reed’s wife of the affair. Fighting whiskey was also partly responsible for Reed’s laying in wait to assault Dolph. The girl in the case was told by Dolph to leave his home, we understand, whioh she did.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, December 16, 1905.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About The County Capitol. New suits filed: No. 6977: Irwin & Irwin vs. William J. Piatt; suit on note. Demand SIOO. —o — A record type-writer has been placed'in the recorder’s office, on trial, and will probably be purchased by the county. —o — The case of the American Stock Food Co., vs. Everett Halstead, of Newton tp., appealed by the former from the Newton circuit court, was affirmed by the supreme court Tuesday. —o — In the record of allowances made by the county commissioners at their December term and published in The Democrat last week, the allowance of $350 to John O’Connor, sheriff, “per diem com. oourt,” should have read salary for quarter, and the $46 “repairs county jail,” should have read per diem com., court for six months.

—o— It was expected to begin blasting on the Iroquois ditch rook east of the old Warner ice house yesterday. Drilling has been going on there for several weeks and several hundred holes six or eight feet apart and fourteen feet deep have been put down. A large number of blasts will be shot off at once by the use of an electric battery. —o — S. B. Moffitt has given potice that he will appeal from the decision of Judge Palmer in the Moffitt ditch case, which decision was reported in The Democrat last week. There have been many efforts to compromise with Mr. Moffitt, and his attorneys are reported to have urged a compromise, but he rejects all reasonable advances in this line, it is said. —o — Starke County Democrat: Franklin township, Pulaski county, lying south of California township in this county, voted for two gravel roads north and south through the township three miles apart yesterday. One of them extends on south from the end of the gravel road Jaoob Keller is now building to the south line of this county, past Bass station. It carried by the meagre majority of six. The one three miles west carried by 26. When these roads are bailt we will have a continuous hard road to Winamac. There is still “something doing” in the court house fight over in Newton. The State case against the commissioners, seeking to enjoin them from going ahead and completing the building has been appealed to the supreme court and the commissioners have employed E. B. Sellers of Monticello to look after the board’s interests. (Only a couple of years ago Mr. Sellers was on the other side fighting for Goodland.) Then, only last week, a petition from the north end asking Commissioner Skinner of the third district to resign, not having the desired -effect, an annonymous letter mailed at Hopkins Park, was received by Mr. Skinner threatening to burn him out and do away with him if he didn’t resign. But be is game and is still holding on. The situation is deplorable indeed.

The National Stock Co. will be the next attraction at the opera house, Monday, Deo. 18. This Stock Co. is without a doubt one of the best companies on the road to-day. Miss Louise Carter, the leading ladv, a well-known star, formerly of the leading stock companies of St. Louis and Chicago, will head the company, supported by a well known oast. The opening play is* "For Love and Honor,” a military play in three acts. Specialties will be introduced between every act. No waits. The prioes are within reaoh of all, at 10, 20 and 30 cents. Ladies free opening night. Rather than carry over, any overcoats, we place the entire new stook on sale at 15 per cent discount. . Rowlbs & Parker.

COMING SOON.

E. L. HOLLINGSWORTH.

The above gentlemen, Messrs. “B. Forsythe, proprietor of the .Chicago Bargain Store, E. L. Hollingsworth, cashier of The First National Bank of Rensselaer, and U. M. Baughman, of the.law firm of Baughman & Williams, of this city, have been selected by The Democrat and have kindly consented to act as the committee who will count the votes cast in The Democrat’s Popularity Contest. , On their count will be awarded the handsome three hundred dollar —Ch ase piano The Democrat is going to give away as a Christmas present to the most popular Church, Sunday School or Lodge in Jasper county, as determined by the votes cast by its subscribers, as set forth elsewhere. Only five days more remain to secure votes, as the contest will close promptly at 6 o’clock p. m., Thursday, Dec. 21, and after that hour no votes will be received. This committee will meet Thursday evening and canvass the vote, and the result of the contest will be published in The Democrat of Saturday, Dec. 23, 1905. We hope that every person who

PROP. MICHAEL ON FOOTBALL.

On another page will be found a very strong article on football, from the pen of Prof. G. W. Michael, a former resident of this city. Prof, Michael’s son was recently permanently injured in football at Lake Forest (Ill.) University, where he is attending college, and his father writes the president of the college a caustic letter that we commend to the perusal of every reader of The Democrat. It appears on the second page of this paper.

NOT A PERSONAL MATTER.

The Democrat man always pays his way, and he usually pays the price demanded once but if there is anything a true American detests it is being “held up.” The writer paid his way to and from St. Joseph’s college without a word, paid the price demanded, although the bussman himself said that the price used to be—when there were two busses here—2s cents for the round trip—and we personally know this to be so—whioh is surely a very reasonable price unless there is but one passenger, when 50 cents is not unreasonable. The fact is, there are several 2x4 people in Rensselaer so mighty selfish themselves that when The Democrat makes a kick in behalf of the public—which has not been the practice of other papers here—they consider it a purely personal matter—they can’t understand it any other way from their narrow way of reasoning. We may have a wrong conception of what a newwspaper ought to be or do, but we think that it should, for one thing, seek to protect the people, and to expose and abate grafts upon the public, and advocate measures for the public good. If we thought otherwise, and were running a paper purely for our own personal ends and profit, we would probably be publishing a republican paper, and might even be seeking to oust “Olarkey” as head of the raoing

The Committee Who Will Count the Vote .

desires to vote in this contest will get their name and the votes in on time, as no votes whatever will be received under any consideration later than 6 p. m., of Dec. 21. Do not wait until the last moment to get your votes in, for something might happen then to delay you, and delay may mean that your choice loses. The contest has been and will be conducted fairly and honestly, and no matter what organization has the most votes, that organization will get this handsome and costly Christmas present. The instrument is all paid for by us and is right here in Rensselaer. It will be delivered here to the fortunate organization receiving the most votes at any time Saturday, Dec. 23, together with the certificate of inspection by the Starr Piano Company’s inspector, and the Five Year Guarantee of that company, one of the most reliable manufacturers of high class pianos in America. Improve the few days remaining of the contest to secure every vote possible for your favorite organization, for if you were but a few short of the desired number

U. M. BAUGHMAN.

pool business in Rensselaer. We are well satisfied with the results, however, of our way of thinking in this matter, and if the time ever comes when must either betray our patrons —the public—or sell them out, or else quit business, we’ll quit. The writer was told by a friend when he came to Rensselaer what he must do to succeed here. We told that gentleman that if success depended upon so doing and running a paper of that kind, we would getout of town, but when we left we would walk. Well, we haven’t walked out yet, and while we have made enemies of some of the grafters and leeches who were feasting upon the blood of the public, we have made sufficient friends to render our efforts fairly remunerative. So much so, in fact, that we intend to stay right here and expose every leech and grafter we run across in the future, the same as we have done in the past. And The Democrat, gentlemen, is not for sale at any price, neither are its principles.

PARR FIRE LOSS ADJUSTED.

The W. L. Wood fire loss at Parr was fully adjusted Thursday, Mr. Wood receiving the full amount on stock, SI,BOO, and sl,800 on building. The property was insured in Irwin & Irwin’s agencies. Mr. Wood is now rebuilding the blacksmith shop and will put up an office at once. He is the postmaster at Parr, and about SIOO worth of stamps and supplies were burned in the fire, but it is understood that the government will reimburse him for this loss. Until he can get an office put up he is keeping the postoffice in one room of his dwelling. The papers in his safe were some of them charred somewhat but not practically intact, so that his loss there will not be heavy.

Wanted:— Plain and family sewing at my home on South Scott street. Mrs. E. T. Jones. 'Phone 28.

Vol. VIII. No. 37

B. FORSYTHE.

when the vote is counted you would then wish you had put forth just a little more effort. Remember, the opportunity to secure a S3OO piano for your church or lodge organization without the expenditure of a single penny of money is something unusual, and you may never have such a chance again. Remember, every person voting gets full value in a. year’s subscription to the foremost paper in Northwestern, Indiana, and that the votes are free and merely to assist their favorite organization to secure this fine S3OO Chase piano without the expenditure of a dollar. that each dollar paid by old subscribers, either arrearages Or renewals, entitles them to 10 votes, and each new subscriber, paid in advance for one year, gets 20 votes; each new subscriber paying two years in advance, 50 votes. In case of a tie vote, the value of the instrument will be divided between the tying contestants. Get busy now, and show what you can do toward rolling up votes for your favorite organization.

TO BE MARRIED TO-MORROW.

Shards are out for the marriage of Mr. Alvin Orville Garriott, son of Mr. John Garriott of Parr, and Miss Dorothy Mae Leech, to take place to-morrow at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs, Alexander Leech in the north part of the city, at high The groom has lived for several years in Union tp., but for some years past has been away from this county, serving for some time in the U. S. army and lately holding a position on the street car lines in Spokane, Wash. The bride is a well known and popular young lady of Rensselaer and- for a few years past has held a position on The Democrat as compositor. The young couple are undecided as yet regarding plans for the future, we understand, but will probably either locate in Spokane, Wash., or Indianapolis, where the groom will resume his street car work. The Democrat force extends advance congratulations.

FICTION CLUB PROGRAM.

The following program will be rendered at the Library auditorium Dec. 18, 1905: Style of Van Dyke Jean McFarland General Discussion of the Club Ethel Ferguson Current Events. Literary, Art and Music .Miss Mutb Political Mr. U. M. Baughman Religious ...... .......Rev. Klndig Scientific * —.Dr. Gwin Instrumental solo Glenn Day Life of James Lane Allen Rev. Clark Roll Call. Everybody cordially invited.

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT 6. Dec. 8, to Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Fox of Roselawn formerly of Rensselaer, a son. Deo. 11, to Mr, and Mrs. A. N. Bailey, in town, a daughter. Owing to the lateness of oold weather we find we have too many overooats. The entire st ook is placed on sale now to be disposed of at a big discount. Rowles & Parker.