Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1906 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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LEAKS IN SUNDAY LID.

Sunday Lawlessness at Cedar Lake Furnishes Object Lesson for Hammond. Lake County Times: Encouraged by the obortiveness of the attempt on the part of civil officers who look to Gov. Hanly for instructions and by the self evident fact that this town, of all towns in the quarter section of the governor’s jurisdiction is the focus of zeal in the enforcement of the restrictive laws, the majority of the licensed victuallers of Hammond dispensed with the key and curtain yesterday and bid all who were thirsty to come and be comforted. Today they have put this question up to Gov. Hanly: “What are you going to do about it?’’ Gov. Hanly may accept the defi and order his myrmindons to redouble their energy to the end that the restrictive laws shall be inforced. The spirit which prompted some of the saloonkeepers to open up yesterday is the spirit which prompted them some Sundays ago to proceed against the dealers in non-intoxicants. Only in. this case they have assumed a broader ground and arrogated to themselves a better excuse for defying the law and are not availing themselves of a dead law but a live one. Hammond has been trying to do right. It has stood the abuse of down state politicians and Indianapolis correspondents who have come up here to “investigate’’ things that did not exist; to find horns on every head that bobbed up and vice, villainy and graft in every nook and corner. The correspondents have “made good” with stories along the lines laid down for them before they picked up their little turkeys, hung on their blue hardware and availed themselves of the “courtesies” of the Monon. Hammond is a good town, a clean town. It is so busy on week days that it hails Sunday as a day of rest. Its Sunday rest is not broken up by internal disorder. The most potent factor in the breaking up of its peace is the horde of Sunday roysters which hold forth at Cedar Lake and rounds out its days fun by knocking brakemen off freight trains on the way through town, playfully insulting our women and throwing rocks through our plate glass windows.

Cedar Lake is in Indiana. More than that, is in Lake county. Who is on watch there for our worthy governor? One can get any kind of game he wants at Cedar Lake on Sunday. Who is on watch at the university town of South Bend where gambling bouses flourish? Who is on watch at Lafayette, Logagansport and Fort Wayne? Who is on watch at Indianapolis?

The Lake County Times stands for Law and order and the strict and equal enforcement of the laws.

That is what the sane and practical citizens want. Those sane and practical citizens are goaded to the quick by the infernal accusation of maintaining a "tough dump" which must be watched day and night. If Gov. Hanly will look after Hammond’s extraneous abuse. Hammond may be depended upon to look after the rest.

GOVERNOR HANLY IS COSTLY.

Claud Matthews, the last Democratic governor got a salary of $5,000 and was allowed nothing for house rent. J. Frank Hanly, the present republican governor, gets a salary of SB,OOO and is allowed SI,BOO a year for house rent. Governer Matthews’s secretary received SI,BOO a year; Governor Hanly’s secretary gets $2,400. Governor Matthews’s clerk got SI,OOO a year; Hanly’s clerk gets $1,200 a year. Governor Matthews’s messenger got s72oa year; Hanly’s messenger gets SI,OOO. Governor Matthews was allowed a civil and military contingent fund of S3OOO. to which was attached a proviso "that no portion of these contingent funds shall be need for any purpose but to execute the civil ana military laws of the state in any emergency not provided for, and that no more of either anch funds shall be drawn or expended for the respective purposes for which they afresever-

ally apportioned than may be necessary.” Gov. Hanly is allowed a civil and military contingent fund of 110,000 and an emergency contingent fund of $30,000, and there is no proviso of any sort attached to the appropriation. There are some of the items which show the difference between the economy of the Democratic legislature of 1893 and the extravagance of the republican legislature of 1905. _ If Governor Matthews needed a restricted contingent fund of only $3,000, why does Governor Hanly want a contingent fund of $40,000, with no string tied to it. . _— Gov. Matthews served the state, faithfully and well and went out of office with the respect of the whole people. Can Hanly do as well, even with his big- contingent fund?

TRUTH ABOUT FRENCH LICK.

Hr. Taggart JShows That His Company is Opposed to Gambling. Because Hon. Thomas Taggart is chairman of the Democratic National Committee, an attempt has been made by a partisan and unfriendly press to hold him both personally and politically responsible for certain alleged gambling practices in the vicinity of the French Lick Springs. It is true that Mr. Taggart is president of the French Lick Springs Hotel company, a corporation which owns the ground on which the most famous natural medicinal waters in America are to be found. It is also true that the corporation maintains at the springs an immense hotel, surrounded by a magnificent park, patronized annually by thousands of the best people in the United States. But it is also true that there are other hotels, under other ownerships in the neighborhood, including the great West Baden hotel, and it is true, too, that Indiana has been justly proud of the fame of its curative waters. No denial is made that at times there has been gambling in different forms in the locality, but it is strenuously denied by Mr. Taggart that gambling has been carried on with the consent of the company of which he is president. On the contrary, he shows that his company is opposed to gambling, and has made strong efforts to suppress the evil. The singling out of Mr. Taggart as an individual in connection with the recent activity of the State authorities because of his prominence as a democrat, is ■the work of petty politicians and unfriendly persons. It was'done to deceive and mislead those not informed as to the facts and is wholly unworthy. The New York World was misled, and an editorial utterance in that paper brought forth the following reply from Mr. Taggart: “The New York World has allowed itself to be imposed upon by the false and scandalous publications of a rival newspaper whose editor is my personal enemy for reasons best known to himself. There has been no raid nor attempted raid upon the French Lick Springs hotel, nor has such a thing been thought of, save by Mr. Hearst and his correspondents.

A building owned by the French Lick Springs company, wholly disconnected from the hotel property, was leased to a party to be used for billiards and bowling alley. with a strong clause against gambling in the lease. After a time this tenant permitted gambling. We brought suit for possession on the ground of the breach of that provision in the lease and reooverd judgment. He appealed the case, and it is pending for trial in the present term of court.

The state authorities have supplemented our efforts to recover possession by raiding that building, and that is ail there is to the grossly sensational publications in which the World has placed credence. "The French Lick Springs hotel has not and will not tolerate gambling in any form on its premises. This is attested by the court records, which show our efforts to suppress it." In spite of the big sale of suits we had, we still have the choicest and newest styles left. The Ideal. Two good second-hand binders for sals cheap. Gall on L. 8. Renicker.

Renssblabr, Jaspbr County, Indiana, Saturday, July 14, 1906.

LETTER FROM THE “OLD MAN"

Sojourning In the East, -While‘‘The Boys" Sweat at Home to Keep Him In Spending Money. Perhaps some of The Democrat readers will be interested in a brief letter regardig the writer’s trip east, and may be some who are contemplating visiting the eastern states this Season or at some future time may find something that will be of value to them. Leaving Rensselaer Saturday at 4:45 a. m. I went via the Monon to Delphi, where at 6:26 I took the Wabash for Detroit, Mich., the “City of the Straits ” Evidence of the lack of rain this season was seen all along the route to Detriot, and oats and hay ..are generally light. From Delphi to Logansport and to Wabash the crops were best, corn being more even than in Jasper, while wheat appeared generally good everywhere, with an occasional poor field, of course. In about Ft. Waynp for some distance the crops were better than further south, but after a few miles north they began to look worse again, and in the extreme north, near Butler, peon fields were the rule rather than the exception. About Montpelier, Ohio, was a stretch of country that looked fairly well, but in Michigan, nearly all the way along from Adrian to Detroit crops were very poor and the hay, which was being harvested, was very light.

Arrived in Detroit about noon and remained there until 5 p. m. when the boat started for Buffalo. Detroit is a very pretty city and the afternoon was pleasantly spent in visiting Belle Isle Park—the popular park attraction at this time —and a pretty place it is, being an island in the Detroit river some three or four miles from the Wabash station. Also visited Electric Park, an attraction similar to White City, in Chicago, went across the river to Windsor, Canada, etc. Several pleasure boats ply back and forth in the river here, and one, “Pleasure” is a large new picnic boat accomodating probably 3,500 to 4,000 people. This boat touches Belle Isle and other points in going back and forth' and it is said that one can take his lunch with him and remain on the boat all day for a dime, if they choose, as after you are on board once you are not asked to get off until the boat ties up at night, or about midnight, rather.

The trip via boat to Buffalo nearly 300 miles is a most enjoyable one and anyone going east should not fail to take it. If your ticket is via the Wabash you have the option of going from Buffalo to Detroit via boat without extra charge. The regular one way fare is $3.50 with $1.50 for lower and SIOO for upper berth. Week end excursions are run every Saturday at $2.50 for the round trip, so 1 bought a round trip ticket for $1 less than the one way fare and sold the return portion in Buffalo for 50 cents. The boat I was on accomodates 3,500 people, and it was about up to its capacity Saturday night. Most people took their lunch with them, although dining service may be had on the boat for about the same price as that charged on dining cars. There is much of interest to be seen as the boat passes out of the river into Lake Erie. Windsor and other towns along the Canadian side, Detroit on the American side. The lighting system of Detroit, by the way, is by steel towers 100 to 200 feet high, and there about 150 of these towers scattered over the city. A stranger wonders jvhat they are. At night they must present a pretty picture when seen from the deck of a boat some distance away. The change from rail to water, leaving the close, dusty car to the cool exhilarating breezes of the lake, a most welcome one for the traveler at this season of the year, and by eight o’clock the most of the people remaining out on the decks had donned overcoats and wraps Lake Erie is said to be the roughest of the five great lakes, it being quite shallow, but it was as smooth as a floor almost, going over Saturday night and the vibrations of the huge engines was the only perceptible motion as the boat glided through the water. These boats are luxuriously furnished and an orchestra discourses mutic until late at night, but there was no dancing that I saw. By midnight most everyone had ‘ turned in,” those not fortunate enough to secure a berth ora bunk

spread in the hallways (there not being enough berths to accomodate such a great number as was ■ft board) put in the night sitting in the saloons or in chairs, and there were many such. I could secure neither berth or bunk, but for a reasonable consideration the purser gave me a pillow and a couple of sheets and took me up to the luxurious smoking room on the upper deck and gave me my choice of the fine leather covered Seats, and I had the whole thing to myself after 12 o’clock, when the loungers are run out and the lights turned out there. It was a dandy place and cooler than the best of the state rooms. The moon shone in the side windows and I could look out over the waters and see here and there a passing craft and hear the faint chug, chug, of the engines three or four stories below. I really thought that I was fortunate in failing to secure a berth in a state room. At five o’clock the next morning I was up and went out on deck, but found hundreds of others already there before me. drinking in the splendid morning air that made one feel younger at every draught. Nothing was to be seen on either side but the vast expanse of blue water. The engines were still chugging away down in the bottom of the boat as they had been for the past twelve hours with unceasing rythm. A morning on Lake Erie such as was last Sunday morning is certainly enjoyable, ana I wished for all my family and relatives and friends and their friends to drink in the pure air as it came sweeping at a moderate breeze across the waters. At 9:30, eastern time, or 8:30 as shown by my watch, I was “put off at Buffalo,” and 30 minutes later I was speeding along on a Lakawana train for Binghamton, where I arrived at 2p. m., and had to remain there until 6:10 for a D. & H. train to carry me to Worcester, 82 miles east on the line to Albany. The Wabash and Lakawana are good roads, and the accomodations are superior to any that I have heretofore traveled over to the east, while the scenery along the latter is, to use a slang expression, “out ont of sight.” Especially is this true along about Dansville, New York. Here the road runs along the side of a range of hills with the apparently fertile valley dotted with well tilled farms lying below, while beyond stretches range after range of gently sloping hills, covered with farms, patches of timber and farm houses. Reaching from the railroad to the valley below are grape vineyards for a long distance along the road, they lying along the western slope of the hill range. This was the prettiest sight I ever saw anywhere, and I do not believe it can be surpassed for beauty. If you should ever make a trip east at this season of the year be sure to make the trip from Buffalo to Binghamton at least in the day time. There is much other fine scenery along this route, especially near Corning, Waverly, etc., near which latter place the road winds along the western bank of the beautiful Susquehanna river.

Apparently there has been plenty rain here, for crops all look well and I saw a number of small fields of corn that looked as well as any we have at home. It is, of course, a different variety from what we have, yet it is now as large as ours. Wheat, rye, oats and hay look well the latter especially seeming to be extra heavy, I noticed many large fields of potatoes, beans and sugar beets east of Buffalo, and along about Darning, Waverly and Oswego there were several goodsized fields of tobacco that looked well. The hills are dotted with timber and cultivated fields, and it looks strange to me now to see nice green fields away up on the hillside, several hundred feet above the valley, apparently as green a color and producing as good crops as the valley land. It seems as though the hills ought to be seared over brown, as they would be were the soil here the same as ours. If I dont get too far away from the postoffice and can spur up sufficent energy I will try and send something next week to keep the boys busy “sticking type. ” I write this at Binghampton, while waiting for my train, and while 1 am writing the obnroh bells of this handsome oity are chiming out “Jerusalem” and other sacred music, evidently a Sunday afternoon 'concert. I have been killing sev-

eral birds at one shot—resting a little frqm the rail trip frotq Buffalo, listening to the chimes and getting up a little early in the week fillin’ for the Democrat.

F. E. BABCOCK,

AND THEY DID GIVE SATISFACTION.

Goodland Herald: Last Friday morning the manager of the Goodland band received a check from Rensselaer for sl2 more than the contract called for. He also received a letter complimenting the band on its good work and expressing their appreciation ol the music. The band arrived about eight o’clock, played all day and gave a concert at night and tried in every way to give satisfaction and they were very much gratified that their efforts were appreciated.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Trustee Sage, of Jordan township, Is making arrangements to build a good school house this year. The advertisement for bids appears in this issue. —o — Marriage licenses issued: July 11, Arlie Othniel Rowen, age 40, residence Rensselaer; Nancy A. Bunnell, age 21, residence Rensselaer. First marriage for. both. —o — Information has come to the State Board of Tax Commissioners to the effect that the Monon Railroad Company probably will not ask for a reduction of its assessment this year. The Monon last year asked that its assessment be reduced and the board declined to grant the request. The company sent word this year that it would be satisfied with the former assessment. —o — Auditor of State Bigler is sending to the Prosecuting Attorneys and undertakers in every county copies of an opinion rendered by Attorney-General Miller that “graveyard” insurance companies, organized for the purpose of paying funeral expenses and death benefits to their members, are con-, trary to the insurance laws of the state, whether the assessment is made before or after the death of a member. Prosecutions will be instituted against companies that refuse to quit business. —-o In a suit by G. E. McColly, of Union tp., he wants to have restored and probated the will of his mother, Mrs. Mary McColly, who died March 2, of this year. He alleges that she made a will in the year 1898, and that such will is lost or destroyed. He further states that the will was witnessed by Mrs. Sarah E. Timmons, now of Elkhart, Ind., and by James A. Burnham, of Rensselaer. Also that the substance of the will was that after all just debts were paid the entire estate, both real and personal, should go him, the said George E. McColly. And that he cared for her many years with the promise and should all come to him, as a recompense. The defendants named in the complaint are all the other heirs at law of the estate, who are very numerous.

. —oThree sets of bonds were sold by Auditor Leatherman and Treasurer Nichols Tuesday: The Iroquois ditch bonds to the amount of §74,500, drawing per cent interest, were sold to W. J. Hayes & Son, of Cleveland, at §74,500. The Jordan township stone road bonds were sold to E. L. Hollingsworth, of Rensselaer, for §13,082, or a premium of §B2. They draw per cent interest. Other bidders were: Breed & Harrison, Cincinnati, §13,005, E. T. Bush, Cincinnati, §13,020; E. T. Harris, of Rensselaer, §13,081. The §BO,OOO worth of Rensselaer and Marion township stone road bonds were sold to Breed and Harrison, Cincinnati, at a premium of §475. They draw 4# per cent interest. E. T. Harris, of Rensselaer, bid §80,451; Union Savings Bank, of Cincinnati; §§0,194; E. M. Campbell & Co., of Indianapolis, §80,330; Kleybolte, §80,430, and E. T. Bush & Co., §80,207, The sales were all made subject to all the former proceedings being in accordance to law. The best Standard Binder twine you ever saw 10|c lb. Chicago Bargain Stork. Restaurant For Sale. Must be sold at once. Hascall Bros,

Vol. IX. No. 15

TRAIN WRECKED.

Going North At a Speed of One Flile a flinute. NO ONE IS REPORTED L: KILLED But Traffic is Delayed Several Hours By the Blockade. “ s ' The north-bound train going through here at 5:37 a. m., was wreckked near the milk station, about three miles north of Fair Oaks, probably caused by the spreading of the rails. When the train left Rensselaer it was about four minutes late, and was going at the speed of one mile a minute. The engineer and fireman both escaped without injury, except being shaken up pretty badly. The engineer climbed out the door on the top of the engine, which was turned over on its side when it left the track on the west side. The baggage car and all the other cars except two sleepers, jumped the track on the east side. The rails weere all twisted out of shape and one went up through the cor'ner of the baggage car and turned it over on its side across the track. One waman passenger, whose name was not learned, was reported badly ininjured. Charles Grow of this city, the mail clerk, was thrown from one end of the car to the other, but caught on some rings and received onlya few scratches on the head. The train was drawn by one of the new engines that the Monon company recently purchased. There were about fifty passengers on board, and the train going at such high speed, it is strange to say no one was killed. Doctors from here went up to the scene of the wreck on the freight engine about 730 this morning.

FOUNTAIN PARK.

The Marienville (Pa.) Express, says: “One of the most enjoyable lectures ever given in this town was by Dr. Lamar on Dixie. His vivid descriptions, wit, humor and pathos make the lecture very interesting, while it does an unlimited amount of good.” At Fountain Park, Remington, Ind. August 14th, 1906.

Gin COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

Shirley Hill Coal Co., Gets Contract To Furnish Coal for City. At the meeting of the City Council Monday night the city enginneer was instructed to locate the lines of the kum road near the cemetery. The mayor was authorized to sign a contract with the Shirley Hill Coal Company for coal for city to April i, iq >B, at §2 for mine run; $2.20 for steam lump; §2,45 f° r domestic lump, and §i.6b for slack, f. o, b. Rensselaer. Petition from G. A. R. Post that McCoy avenue be changed to Milrov avenue, refused on the ground that property owners interested bad not asked for the change. A remonstrance against improvement of Division, Main and Washington streets placed on file. The following bills were allowed. CORPORATION FUND. Scott Bro*., mdae | 3 10 Venn Robinson, firemau July 4th 2 00 E. W. Hartman, fireman July 4th 2 00 Ray D. Thompson, insurance.. lb 00 John O'Connor, boarding prisoners 9 00 Lyman Zea, night watch . 25 00 J. H. S. Ellis, salary 10 00 Jas. V. Irwin, councilman 10 00 Henry Hildebrand, councilman 4 00 Eli Gerber, councilman 4 00 C. G. Spitler, councilman to 00 John F. McColty. councilman 2 00 ROAD FUND. W. S. Parks, marshal 22 50 Joe Borroughs. work on street 5 25 John Mackleuburg, same 2 TO H. Daniels, same 2 00 Chas. Seelman, same. ..* „ 1 50 B. W. Irwin, drain tile 1121 W. N. Jones, painting water tank 1 00 White A Marion, labor and material.. 190 Chas. Pox, work on street. 1 35 John Albertson, same 2 35 Bruce Hardy, labor.. 38 40 M. B. Price, assessment Norman ditch 24 48 WATBM FUND. Mell Abbott, salary .. 30 00 Gould Co., supplies ..... 75 32 , BLBCTBIC LIGHT FUND. C. S. Chamberlain, salary 50 00 C. L. Thornton, salary.. . 30 00 Lem Huston, salary 30 00 S. (J. Dobbins, board bpiler maker 5 00 Chas. Parker, hauling sand 1 2ft Art Bailey, labor on boiler 4 CO Shirely Hill Coal Lo.. c0a1..., 87 (0 Monarch Electric A Wire Co., supplies 37 M Standard Oil Co., oil 10 31 Geo. M. Halm A Co., coal . MM J. H. Chapman, frieght Come to The Democrat office for all kinds of job printing.