Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1907 — Page 4

JIM flOOlffT DEMOCRIT., f. L BIBCOCI. EIMTOR Ml Milan. SATURDAY. SEPT. 28,1907.

RUDELY INTERRUPTED

Banquet to County Commissioners Is Suspended Be- ' 1, cause of Wind. NOT REFERRING TO ORATORY Just * Squall That Blows the Tent Down on the Diners—Buttered Watermelon?—ltems. Indianapolis, Sept 25. A real “nor’easter" coming down White river with Atlantic seaboard velocity played havoc with the big tent on the Emerichvilie bridge in which the visiting county commissioners from all parts of the state were being dined by the Marion commissioners and caused consternation among the 200 and more guests. Striking the tent full from the north, the wind made the side bulge like those of a half-filled airship and the top to careen like a storm-tossed sail boat. Those sitting at the foodladen table rose in a body to hold tight the tent, but before John MeGregord and his fellow commissioners from this county could so much as think, the tent collapsed, burying diners, tables and food in its canvas. They Saved the ‘‘Grub.’’ For a few moments great excitement prevailed and then a sufficient number of the commissioners got themselves disentangled to raise the canvas and allow the others to get out. No one was Injured, but the table was a sorry sight. Chairs had been upset, dishes had been scraped off on the floor of the bridge and a genera) wrecked condition prevailed. Notwithstanding this, the litter was cleared away and the dinner was concluded, each man getting aa. much of the good things to eat, perhaps, as ks everything had gone along as smooth as McGregor had planned. Bridge Is Duly Dedicated.— The dinner was the opening feature of a convention which will go down In convention history for Its novel arrangements The l<x-al commissioners regard the Kmerichsvllle bridge as a monument to their business acumen o it was selected as the place for holding the opening day’s luncheon. A tent was erected on it and this was thought to be substantially “guyed" to the sides The "nor’easter," however, was too strong. Following the luncheon, short speeches' were inad< by Mayor Book waiter. ex-Mnyor John Iloltztiian. Commissioner McGregor and Cyrus Clark, county auditor. th« last named concluding bis remarks by dedicating the new bridge, which he did by smashing a bottle of wine <w the Ijridge floor.

WATERMELON IMMUNITY V Judge Disniissen a Jury Because It* Member* Sampled Fruit Owned by Plaint it!'. Danville, Ind.. Sept. 25. Five luscious watermelons graced tin* porch Of Alva B. Smith when it jury went to view the premises in considering the suit brought by Smith against the Big Four Hallway company because the company had condemned two acres of ground for additional right-of-way. These melons were sampled by the jury while attending to their duties. Representatives of the company then filed affidavits alleging misconduct on the part of the jury in partaking of the hospitality of Smith, and demanded a finding of mistrial. After an allday argument. Judge Cofer concluded that the watermelons might have exerted a sinister effect, and dismissed the jury. The company followed the dismissal by demanding a change^of venue. ....

He Slept in the Open. Evansville, Ind.. Sept. 25. “CastIron” Jack O'Connell is dead at the county Infirmary. He was 83 years old. O’Connell was a well-known character in this city. For fifty years or more, till removed to the county infirmary, he was never known to sleep In l>ed. but. instead, he lay on the Iron grating in the rear of Fliekner’s factory, in First street. No night was too severe for him to sleep in the open His food came from the free lunch counters. Four Deaths? from Fire. Kokomo. Ind,, Sept. 25.—Mrs. John Routh, aged 40. a deaf mute, was burned to death when she tried to •tart a fire with kerosene. Ashland City. Inti., Sept. 25.—James Dossett, bls wife and his babe were burned fatally, all dying, in the fire that destroyed their home near this place they were all burled in the same grave. , Bananas by the Pound. Peru, Ind., Sept. 25. Bananas are selling by the pound in this city. Merchants luy-e decided that In this waypeople get what they pay for. Under the so-mneb-per-dozen plan, the first buyers get the large bananas, and the people who buy later have to pay the same price for little bananas. Victims of the Tank Scrap.} Lafayette, Ind., Sept 25.—A1l of the students Injured in the tank scrap are recovering. Clyde C. Elms, a sophomore, who dislocated his shoulder, is •till confined to bis bed, and Lawrence Redmond, of Terre Haute, a freshman. Is at St Elizabeth hospital, with minor Injuries.

WANTS MORE SCALPS

Judge Landis Start* the Grand Jury at Chicago on the War path Again. INCITED THERETO BY MOFFETT Standard Oil Man Who “Said Things” About the Big Fine. Made Charge* Also That He Will Be Called Upon to Prove —Alton Railway Given Its Imm unity Bath. Chicago, Sept. 25.—Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis granted the Alton road immunity from prosecution on the criminal charges against it In connection with the case of the Standard (Ml Company of Indiana, but he also delivered a counter blow, apparently directed alike at the Standard company and the Alton road, which staggered the counsel representing both corporations. In brief, Instead of discharging the grand jury, as was expected, be directed it to assemble next Tuesday morning, and Issued a subpoena for tire presence of James A. Moffett, president of the Standard of Indiana, to appear and make good charges alleged to have been spread broadcast by him casting reflections on Judge Landis. - Believes in the “Square Deal.”

“It shall never be truthfully said," declared Judge Landis, solemnly, and his voice rose to unwonted intensity, "that this court has discriminated unfairly against any defendant appearing before it, nor that it has been guilty of inflicting upon one guilty party the punishment that should be meted out to others. It is my highest ambition so to administer the authority vested In me that no man can have just cause to complain that he has not been given a square deal.” The subject that called forth the jurist’s censure and filled him with Indignation was a pamphlet containing reprints of pewspaper clippings of statements made by President Moffett immediately after the naming of the $29,Ooo.OGO fine against the Indiana corporation. “Thousands of tons of freight have been shipped in this same .territory during the last fifteen years." reads one of the statements, “under the same circumstances as the Standard's shipments, and if the Standard Is guilty in this ease, so is practically every shipper in this great manufacturing territory. Is there a purpose in selecting the Standard as a victim?” And it was this last sentence that seemed to be most offensive to the judge.

TO HUNT SOME MOKE GAME Grand Jury Instructed to Handle the Probe Again. The assertion that every shipper was guilty if the Standard was guilty, however, was what resulted in the judge ordering the grand jury to “get busy.” lie said to that body; "I charge you to listen to the testimony of President Moffett at 10 o'clock next Tuesday morning, and give careful attention to It. And if he gives you information 'confirmatory of these alleged statements, you need no instruction from me as to what you are called upon to do other than to exhaust your full duty.” This may mean that the Alton will have Itself to look after, in spite of the immunity just granted, in a new case against that road. The immunity was given in a letter from Attorney General Bonaparte that said that the government thought it wgll to make and did make, a promise of immunity to the Alton, and though some of the Alton's evidence was not up to the standard of honest performance of obligations still the road’s co-operation was of great assistance, if not absolutely essential; and therefore the government must keep its promise. —That Judge Landis vehemently disapproved of the action of allowing the Alton to go unscathed was emphasized in the sharp language in which he recited its part in the Standard Oil case, and in the severe arraignment to which he subjected Its methods, ‘‘Among other things that appeared,” he deciarefl, “and weighed heavily in the stand taken by this court in calling this grand jury together for the hearing of evidence against the Alton road, was the keeping of false records by this railway company. There are many men In the penitentiary today justly serving time for offenses such as this company required of its employes.”

“CRIMINAL CLASSES” HIT Caustic Remark by the Judge—That Pamphlet Again. In addressing the jury with reference to the immunity granted tbe Alton Judge Landis said that it was generally known that “in dealing with the criminal classes,” in order to get evidence against the one conceived to be the most culpable, it is not infrequently the rule to make arrangements with the other party to the crime to release this other party for testifying against the one considered the most culpable. In instructing the jury as to the law tn the matter of freight rates the judge •aid: “A tariff to be legal must be put down on paper and two copies of It posted for public inspection in the freight stations of the railway and another copy sent to Washington to be filed with the United States Interstate cotnerce commission. Those who have failed to observe this plain and slm-

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pie requirement of the statute have violated the law and, of course, you understand they should be indicted.” The pamphlet which had angered the judge contained unfavorable comment on his $29,000,000 fine from twenty-five newspapers in all parts of this country.

STANDARD OIL INQUIRY Tidewater Pipe Company Found To Be Part of the Trust. New York, Sept. 24.—The ways and means by which the Tidewater Pipe company, of Pennsylvania, came under virtual control of the Standard Oil company were unfolded in the hearing of the government’s suit against the oil combine. The affairs of the Tidewater company were disclosed by the testimony of Robert Benson, prest dent of the company, and from a mass of records and contracts. The Standard was shown to own at present 31 per cent, of the Tidewater stock, and by an agreement entered into in 1883 between the two companies the oil business was divided in such proportion that the Tidewater did 11%. per ceyt. and the Standard 88% per cent. When Wesley 11. Tilford, treasurer of the Standard, was cross-epmmined by John <4. Milburn, chief of counsel for the defendants. Milburn sought to show that the troubles of the' independent companies were due entirely to natural causes in the Colorado field. Tilford explained that the reason why the supply of crude oil had been cut down to the sixteen independents in the Pittsburg field just before the agreement was made with the Standard was because the oil supply in that district was diminishing. Milburn developed that the oil firm of Schofield, Schurmer & Teagle, of Cleveland, 0.. an independent company, was not forced into the Standard’s control, but had been taken over after many suggestions from the officers of the Schofield company. Tilford denied that there was any manipulation of prices of export oil by the Standard or that there was any intention to make things disagreeable for the independents. Tilford could not say whether the Standard made a contract to supply certain gas companies with oil when it took over the Manhattan Oil company; but he admitted that jthe Standard had a contract of tile kind with the Indianapolis Gas Light company and the People’s (las Light and Coke company, of Chicago. He did not know that the reason tor the contract was that E. C. Benedict and Anthony N. Brady would not sell the Manhattan Oil company unless the gas companies were guaranteed a supply of oil for ten years. The contract was made for but two years. , . .

MINNESOTA’S RATE CASE Measures Taken That Will Bring It to the Highest Court. St. Paul, Sept. 25.—Attorney General Young appeared before Judge Bunn in the Ramsey county district court and asked for a writ of mandamus directed against the Northern Pacific Railroad company to compel that road to put into effect the commodity rate law recently declared illegal by Judge Lochren, of the United States district court. Judge Bunn issued the writ, which is made returnable Oct. 5, and the papers will be served on the, railroad officials this afternoon. If the railroad officials do not want to comply with tbe order their next step will be to appear before Judge Bunn and ask for a dismissal of the order, and if that is not done they will probably go before Judge Lochren and ask for an order citing Attorney General Young for contempt of court in that he is Interfering with the injunction recently issued from the United States court in trying to put into effect the commodity rate law. If the attorney general is declared in contempt a wilt of habeas corpus will be issued and the matter taken to the United States supreme court. Subscribe for the Democrat.

PERJURED TESTIMONY

Witness in the Senator Borah Land Fraud Case Makes Startling Admissions. _ 4 PROSECUTION IN A BAD LIGHT Swears Ho Was Hired to Swear to Any Old Thing. Being Offered Complete Immunity ibr Himself in Return —Forgets Who Hired Him, Too— Other Testimony. Boise, Ida., Sept 2G.—The first sen sation the trial of United State, Senator Borah came when Albert Kianop Nugent, the second witness pro duced by the government, admitted on

cross-examination that he committed perjury in taking- out a timber Ifimi claim; admitted that be had been promised absolute immunity by an officer of the federal government for testifying; admitted that at the request of the federal officer he had sworn to a complaint against a man whom he did not know, and lastly proclaimed that he believed it to be the part of his bargain for immunity that he should swear to any complaint against any person, regardless of any knowledge that he might have as to the person’s guilt.

Couldn’t Remember tbe Man. When the name of the federal officer who induced him to sign the complaint was asked by Senator Borah’s counsel the witness swore positively that he could not remember it. The day was given over to the introduction of a mass of paper on file in the land office here at Boise, and to the evidence of two men who said they received money from John I. Wells with which to prove their timber land claims. Wells is one of the men Indicted with Senator Borah. Counsel for the latter did not object to this testimony, on the understanding that the transaction in question would ultimately be connected up in some way W’fth the senator on trial. Perjurer Can’t Swear to Intent. The defense scored its first point of the. trial early in the examination of tbe witness, a man named Anderson. He was asked by Special Prosecutor Rusli what his intent was when he took out a timber claim. Judge Whitson. who Is. presiding, sustained an objection based on the ground that a man confessing perjury, as Anderson did, could not properly testify as to any secret intent he may have had locked up in his breast. Anderson and Nugpnt both testified that they received from John I. Wells $412 with which to prove their claims, and each received $250 additional for transferring the claims Barber Lumber company’s interests. Agreement Followed tbe Filing. Anderson, an elderly Swede, was not cross-exam filed, but Nugent admitted that Jie had made no agreement to transfer his lands at the time he filed upon them. He said that there never was anything but a verbal agreement and he could not remember where or In whose presence such a contract wns made. Nugent said he witnessed the papers filed by Anderson, and was then confronted by a complaint signed by him charging Louis M. Pritchard with having conspired with Anderson to get title to the land. Prosecutor Asks tor Time. Nugent said he did not know any such person, or anything about his connection with the alleged laud frauds; he declared that all he knew was what he had read in some newspaper, a story to the effect that Pritchard was involved. Prosecutor Rush

demanded to know of tne witness If any officer of the government had ever asked him to swear falsely. Nugent replied that he had always been told to tell nothing but the truth. Rush said he had never heard of Nugent’s connection with the Pritchard complaint and desired time to look into the matter. and the court adjourned for the day.

Vandals Cut 500 Shade Trees.

Sterling. 111., Sept. 26.—Personal violence may follow the capture of a band of vandals who cut down 560 hard maple trees 2 years old on three of the principal residence streets of this city. A reward of S7OO has been offered for information lending to the capture of the vandals.

Physician Dies of Cancer.

Green Bay. Wfe., Sept. 23.—Dr. H. M Beck aged 52 years, one of the best known physicians in Wisconsin, Is :>”<l from cancer of the stomach. T'( mrved on the United States board of ;-on -ion examiners under the Harn ; nd McKinley administration.

Moor War Is Ended.

i\ , : - Sept 21—Peace lias been dein Morocco. Tlie delegates of three important tribes have accepted t lie l-’r ip ii peace overtures inaugurated yesterday, and will see that the terms of theagreement are carried out Hostilities are now at an end.

Indiana White Capper Killed.

. Bloomington, Ind., Sept. 26.—Tobe Gaddy met a would-be whitecapping mob at his front door with a shotgun and firing into the men killed Jefferson Robinson, one of the white cappers.

Fighting a Grain Congestion.

Chicago, Sept. 23.—Western railroads are making special efforts to prevent a congestion in the grain traffic which is extraordinarily excessive for this time of the year.

RAILROAD WAR UP IN ALASKA

Workers for the Home Company Are Surprised by an Ambush. I Valdez. Alaska, Sept. 26.—Forces of the Guggenheim railroad, the Copper River and Northwestern, shot and wounded six surveyors and workmen employed by the Alaska Home railway in Keystone canyoh, fifteen miles from Valdez. The party was making a preliminary survey for the Home railroad, which Is planned from Valdez to the summit. They had advanced about 100 yards up the canyon when I they were surprised by an ambush of the Guggenheim headed by Edward I Hassey, an ex-United States marshal. Hassey halted the surveyors and ordered them to stop, saying bla men would shoot If any further advance was The surveyors believed Hassey was bluffing and continued working. They were then met by a fusilade of bullets. Ordered to Charge Higher Kates. LaCrosse, iVls., Sept 23.—8 y a decision announced by the state railway commission, the electric fighting rates charged by the LaCrosse Gas and ' Electric company are declared to be ; so low as to be unremunerativdj and ; the company is ordered to put a highier scale of rates Into effect The company appealed to the com mission ■under the. new state law for relief. Anybody Sympathize with Loop? Marion. Ind., Sept. 25. —James Loop, o( this city, it is alleged, gave a clairvoyant S6OO. hoping, it is said, the act would cause his wife to become in-' wine. Tlie clairvoyant skipped out rapposedly to,Chicago.

Cuba Revolutionists Arrested.

Havana, Cuba, Sept 26.—The secret police early in the day arrested General Masso Parra, and a little later took into custody General Juan Ducassl and General Lara Mlret charged with conspiring against public order, in plotting a revolution.

Grain Dealer Bankrupt.

Springfield. 111., Sept 26.—A petition in bankruptcy was filed in the office’ of the clerk of the United States district court by John E. Hawthoren, a grain dealer of Bloomington, who eebedtiled his liabilities as $83,816 and his assets as $60,673.

THE WEATHER Following is the official weather forecast up to 8 o’clock tonight: Illinois and Indiana —Showers; rising temperature. Lower Michigan and Wisconsin— Probably showers; rising temperature. • lowa—Showers; warmer in east portion.

THE MARKETS

Chicago Grain. Chicago, Sept 26. Following were the quotations on tiie Chicago Board of Trade today: Wheat- Open. High. Low. Close. Sept. ...$ .95% $ -96% $ -95% $ .96% Dec 99% 1.00% -99% 1.00% May ... 1.05% 1.06% 1.05% 1.06% Corn— Sept 62% .63 .62% .62% Dec 58% .58% .58% .58% May ... .59% .60 .59% .59% Oats—** Sept.... .50% .52% .50% .52 Dec. ... <51% .52% .51%. .52% May ... .53% .54 .53% .53% Pork— z Oct. ...14.35 14.35 14.20 14.20 Jan. ...15.32% 15.35 15.20 15.20 Lard— Sept 9.07% Oct ... 9.12% 9.12% 9.07% 9.07% Jan. ... 8.72% 8.72% 8.70 8.70 Short Ribs— Sept. .. 8.30 8.30 8.15 8.15 Oct ... 8.32% 8.32% 8.15 8.15 Jan.-... 7.95 7.97%, 7.92%j 7.92% Cash sales—Winter wheat—By sample: No. 2 red, 98®98%c; No. 3 red, 9%@97c; No. 2 hard, 98c@$1.01. Corn —By sample: No. 2 red, 62%@63c; No. 2 white. 62%©62%c: No. 2 yellow, 63%®63%c; No. 3. 62%®C3c: No. 3 white. 62%c; No. 3 yellow, 63®63%e; No. 4, 61% (b 62c. Oats—By sample: No. 2 white. 48%@50%c; No. 4 white, 47%®45%c.

Live Stock, Poultry and Hay. Chicago, Sept 26. - Hogs—Receipts 18,000. Sales ranged at $6.35®6.45 for choice heavy shipping, [email protected] choice light $6.10® 6.25 mixed packing, $6.00®6.25 choice Pigs. Cattle—Receipts 7,00. Quotations ranged at $6.75®7.30 for prime fat steers, $3.90® 5.00 good to choice cows, [email protected] prime heifers, $7.50®&00 good to choice calves. Sheep—Receipts 10,000. Quotations ranged at $5.25® 5.50 for good toprime native wethers, $5.00® 5.25 good to prime native ewes, $6.75®7.40 good to choice native lambs, [email protected] medium spring lambs. Live poultry—Turkeys, per lb, 13c; chcikens, fowls, ll%c; springs, 12c; roosters, 7c; geese, $5.00®'7.00; ducks, IO%C. Hay—Choice new timothy, $16.50® 17.50; No. 1, [email protected]; Nor 2 and No. 1 Indiana and Wisconsin feeding prairie, choice, sll.oo® 12.00. East BuflMo Live Stock. East Buffalo. N. Y.. Sept. 26. Dunning & Stevens, Llyj Stock Ommission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle—Receipts 4 cars;, market slow. Hogs— Receipts 20 cars; market strong; heavy, [email protected]; mediums. $6.80@ 6.90; yorkers, $7.05; pigs, $6.70. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts 10 cars; market strong; best lambs, $8.25; culls, $5.50 @6.00; wethers, [email protected]; ewes, $4.50®5.25. Calves—Market strong;