Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1907 — Page 2

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JM COnNTT DEM. f i. BIBCOCK, HHTOI HD POBUIIH. Official Democratic Paper of Jasper County. Entered at the Poet-office at Rensselaer. Ind as second class matter. Office on Van Ranaaeiaar Street L..e D.sva.os Teaseeo.se | SI.OO PER YEAR. IN ADVANCE. AdTcrtlslnff rates made known on application SATURDAY. OCT. 19,1907.

So longlas the Roosevelt administration operates its immunity bath-house in Washington, under the management of the attorney general, the difficulty of convicting ’‘rich criminals” will continue. The officials of the beef trust, of the Alton railroad and so on found the immunity bath so attractive that other wealthy sinners are crowding each other in the government tubs. In the meantime the trusts remain unbusted and proceed with their business of rifling the pockets of the common people.

During the last campaign what were known as “clean election” agreements were entered into between the Democrat and Republican organizations in several counties of the state. After the election it was discovered by the Democrats that these agreements had been violated by their opponents in many places. One of these places was in Tipton county. John O. Behymer, editor of the Tipton Times, the Democratic organ of that county, openly charged the Republicans with a breach of their agreement. On what he believed to be clear evidence of their guilt, he accused them of buying votes and of using money corruptly in other ways. As a result, the Republican “fine workers” are in a panic, and are threatening Mr. Behymer with all sorts of trouble, but he stands by his guns and if he is supported by the authorities which unfortunately are Republicaus he may get a few rascals in jail, where they belong.

A WORD AS TO 1908.

In considering the question as to which party will win in Indiana next year, many things must be taken into consideration, but the principal one is, which party deserves to win? Properly considered, there can be only one answer to this question. The Democratic party should be returned to power in Indiana in 1908, and will be if the people vote as they think and if every member of the party does his duty between now and the election. This duty requires him to attend bis party primaries and conventions, and to urge the nomination of the best men for every office to be filled —men whose character and fitness will be a guaranty of honest and efficient service at the least expense to the public. , The principles of the Democratic party—the things that it stands so unquestionably approved by a large majority of the people. With the right men in the forefront and with the right spirit ani-

mating the rank end file, a victory can be assured. In the 1906 campaign the party forces entered the contest dispirited and discouraged by the extraordinary result in 1904. When election day came in 1906 the Republicans carried the state by a greatly reduced majority and for the sole reason that thousands of Democrats didn’t take the trouble to vote —not that they were not interested in the success of their party, but simply because they thought that success was not possible. After the election those who stayed at home realized that if they had taken an active part in the campaign and added their votes to those of their party brethren who went to the polls, the Republicans would have been disastrously routed. This sort of thing should not happen in 1908. The party deserves to win. The Republican management is discredited. Besides, Indiana is not normally a Republican state. 1> It is fighting ground and general conditions favor the Democracy. The thing for every Democrat to do, therefore, is to resolve to do his full duty in the next campaign and do it until the last vote is in the ballot box.

A MELANCHOLY FALSEHOOD.

The following paragraph ’from the Covington Republican is a fair sample of the kind of stuff that a certain class of Republican papers give to their readers. “One false step might put us back into the slough of industrial depression out of which President McKinley brought us,” says Vice President Fairbanks. He might have added that it was just such a false step that the people took in 1892 when they imagined that by the election of a Democratic president and congress they might improve upon the greatest degree of prosperity that up to that time had ever blessed the land, and this is no doubt a part of what be had in mind when he declared that in his opinion the paramount issue today is prosperity. Some ignorant or unthinking person may be fooled by such a solemn political falsehood as the above, but their number should be few. Mr. McKinley was elected president in 1896, but before that he was the author of the McKinley bill, the highest protective tariff measure ever passed up to that time. This bill became a law Oct. 6, 1890, and thirty days later the panic started. It was in full blast and hard times had settled upon the country before Mr. Cleveland was elected in November, 1892. Mr. Cleveland went into office March 4, 1893, but the McKinley high tariff law remained in force until Aug. 27, 1894. During all of the time that it was in force there were strikes and lockouts, banks and trust companies failed, mercantile houses tumbled and there was depression in all lines of business. It was K period of “hard times,” for which neVthe slightest responsibility rested on the Democratic party.

It was the duty of the Democratic party to adt as receiver of the national business, whiph the Republican party had wrecked. The party did its best, and so administered public affairs that when the Republicans again came into power they found the business of the country in vastly better shape than it was when Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated. And now again after another period of Republican rule, another panic is threatened. There are ominous business disturbances, the cost of living outruns the income of the common man, and the few prosper at the expense of the many. And we are operating under the Dingley tariff, which is worse even than the McKinley law.

LAND BARGAINS 48(5 acres, mostly smooth black prairie land in meadow or pasture; has large ditch, on main road, near good markets, fenced but no buildings. Fine for cultivation or pasture. Will divide to suit and sell on easy terms at the low price of |3O per acre. G. F. Meyers, , Rensselaer, Ind.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and General Gossip of the National Capital. Special Correspondence to The Democrat. Since the whrk of the Reclamamation Service has done so much for the arid region west of the 100th meridian, there have been a number of suggestions about doing something on approximately the same line for the east. The Reclamation Service so far has dealt with desert lands, putting the water on them. It has reclaimed hundreds of thousands of acres of desert and the increased price that land sells for to the settlers has furnished more money to reclaim more land. So that by„ the time the government gets through with the 50,000,000 or so acres of land which there is water to irrigate, the work will have paid for itself and there will be an empire added to the area of the United States.

But there is another problem on the same line so far as reclaiming land is concerned but diametrically opposed to it in the matter of water. That is in draining the swamp land of the country and getting rid of enough of the water to make the soil available for agriculture and homesteads. A report on the subject has just been rendered by J. O. Wright of the Department of Agriculture and some of the facts shown are startling. The swamp land area of the United States that is waiting to be reclaimed is 77,000,000 acres. The most of this lies in the middle north, along the Atlantic Coast or in the Southern States. It is an area bigger than England,lreland, Scotland and Wales, bigger also than the whole of New England, New York and a part of Pennsylvania. A good deal of this land has been drained by private enterprise and it has been shown that when drained it is the finest agricultural land in the world. The matter of draining is simple, much simpler than reclaiming land for irrigation, for all that is needed is a comprehensive system of canals and ditches and the water flows off by itself, The cost of draining this immense area by the most approved modern methods would be abouta billion dollars, but the land itself would be worth four billions when reclaimed whereas now it is worth nothing. It would furnish forty acre farms for 1,900,000 families, and the work, like the irrgation, could be done gradually and made to pay for itself. Mr. Wright makes no recommendations in his report as to whether the work should be done under federal or state authority, The draining can easily be done by the individual states without interfering with each other. In this it is different from irrigation where frequently a river runs through more than one state and where the federal government is the only authority that can well handle and adjust the claims between the states. It is a fascinating problem, this draining of the swamps—adding to the national wealth, adding to the available home area of the country and largely wiping out malaria and mosquitoes in the process. How soon the work will be undertaken on a large scale, it is impossible to say, but it is something that would cost practically nothing and should be done at once.

t t’t The railroad commissioners who have been holding their convention here this week are confronted with a problem. They are well content to let the Interstate Commerce Commission deal with the inteiniaie ilroraad problem, but they concerned with th e intra-state roads and they want some method whereby the interstate and the intra-state earnings of the roads can be separated and shown in different reports. This is a delicate and complex problem in bookkeeping and one about which the commissioners are not at all decided, so if anyone can come forward with a cheap and easy solution of it, they would be glad to hear from him. ttt

The question of oil burning in warships has been studied by the Navy Department for some years. They have watched the progress that has been made abroad in this line and after seeing all that has been done and watching a good many experiments taken up and abandoned, they have gone into the business with a view of meeting American conditions. One reason that nothing definite has been accomplished heretofore is that coal has been much cheaper than oil on the Atlantic coast so there was not the motive of economy. But now that the battleship squadron is going to the Pacific where the cost problem is reversed, there is likelihood of more being done. The Monitor Wyoming which is now at the

Mare Island Yard in San Francisco, is being fitted for oil burning The work on her will be completed before the battleship squadron reaches the Pacific and she will be given sea trials under service conditions. The new 20,000 ton battleships, the Delaware and the North Dakota, are being planned touseoilas an auxiliary fuel. They will be able to carry 350 tons of oil in their double bottoms and this will be equal to about 600 tons of added coal capacity. This will give them altogether a steaming radius of abobt 7,000 miles, meaning that they could go 25 days at cruising speed without recoaling. It is not likely that oil will ever be used as the sole fuel for any except perhaps some of the torpedo boats and destroyers, but with the coal, it helps out the consumption greatly and in a forced draft emergency, -it will crowd up the steam as coal alone cannot possibly do. Ip the same connection, it may be said that the Navy Department has looked with the greatest interest on the performance of the Lusitania which has just broken all trans-Atlantic records. The Louisiana is a turbine ship and the layman will naturally ask why if the turbine produces such high speed in a trans-Atlantic liner, should it not be a good thing for the new warships also? The Navy Department has taken this seriously into consideration in planning the new big battleships, but the feature of the turbine is that while it is good for high speeds, it is wasteful and unsatisfactory for low speed?. The most of a warship’s traveling is done at what is termed “cruising speed,” and this is too slow for the economical use of the turbine. So in planning the new ships, the Department has arranged to have them fitted with ordinary reciprocating engines and with auxilary turbines so that in the pinch of battle when the highest speed is required, the turbines can be brought into play and the monster ships can be speeded up to the extreme limit. They will be the finest ships in the world when fitted with both types of engines.

MUCH CONCERN FELT.

Ordinary Methods for Treating Catarrh Prove Unsuccessful. Recent statistics showing an increase in catarrh have shaken the confidence of medical men in the usual prescriptions to safeguard human health from the ravages of this disease. When stomach dosing proved ineffective, it was natural to look for some other treatment, and it is believed that in Hyomei an absolute cure for all catarrhal troubles has at last been found. Breathed through a neat pocket inhaler, its healing medication reaches every spot where there are catarrhal germs, destroys them, prevents their future growth, and soothes the irritated mucous membrane so that relief is felt almost instantly, while lasting cure is practically sure to follow. The complete Hyomei outfit costs but SI.OO, and is sold by B. F. Fendig under an absolute agreement to refund the money if it does not give satisfaction. It is the only cure for catarrh that has ever been sold under a guarantee to cost nothing unless it cures, but B. F. Fendig has so much faith in its power to cure all catarrhal troubles that be is willing to take the risk, so if Hyomei does not help you, there will not be a penny’s expense. Get an outfit at once on this liberal plan.

KEEP WARM By buying a Safe Storm Front for your buggy. You pay $5 00 for the same front anywhere else, —54.00 at Worland’s Buggy Store. An armful of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office. BALLAD OF GROUCHY SPELLS. Cloud* often dull the brighest ikiea. Occasionally the rain must fall; And tear* mutt dim the bluest eye*— The sweet* of life are mixed with growl. Of happiness no man ha* ail, Although contented here be dwell*, The gayest man that we recall. At time* must hare hi* grouchy spell*. The kindest dog may sometimes growl, And even has been known to bite; The man who seldom kick* will howl At things that may be just and right. No man can be forever light. A simple set-back joy dispel*; A* day must fade before the night, Bach man must have hi* grouchy spells. Canary bird* don’t always sing, Though sugar may be always sweet. It 1* not so with everything. For happlnea* 1* often fleet. The fairest maiden that you meet, ' Whose laughter ring* like silver bells. Some day is cross, so I repeat. We all must have our grouchy Spells. <■ B’aavor. As skies are not forever blue, A* gloom each day some joy dispel*; This fact I hold forever true, AU nature ha* its grouchy spells. —Detroit Free Press.

The Anvil Chorus “Order is Heaven’s first law,” DeArmond’s work’s without flaw; “Instinct builds a nest that’s true,” DeArmond shapes the horse shoe. W. S. DeARMOND, Tefft, - - Indiana.

The Garden Spot of Indiana Buy a Farm There While You Can i Several thousand acres of land yet for sale in the “Gifford District” of Jasper county. Many of the farms are well improved with good buildings and the crops are there to show for themselves. Will sell on easy terms. Call on or write to me at once if you want to get a farm in this garden spot of the state before prices of land double. Also have other lands for sale in Indiana and other states. ED. OLIVER, Newland, - • ■ • Indiana.

Real Estate Transfers.

Alice Stemple et al to Lucinda Roe, May 24» pt its 1,2, 3, bl 3, Remington, original plat, 100. q. c. d. Warren T. McCray to ChristopherE.Nelson, July 25, a 54 nw se 11-31-6, 554 ae 11-31-6, pt sw 11-31-6, pt n 54 14-31-6,460 acres, Walker, fl, q. c. d. Walter Doolittle et al to Christopher E. Nelson. July 6, a % nw se 11-31-6, s H se 11-31-6, pt iw 11-31-6, pt n 54 14-31-6, 460 acrea. Walker, *«». Frank B. Ham to P. R. Storts, June 1, n 54 ne 25-31-7, n 54 nw 25-31-7. ae aw 24-31-7, se ne 24-31-7, se 24-31-7, e 54 sw ne 24-31-7, 419 acrea, Union, *24,840. Samuel T. Coding et ux to Homer W. Hennegar. Aug. 30, w 54 nw 16-28-5.80 acrea, Milroy, *2,800. Homer W. Hennegar to Cornelius M. Horner, Sept, 11, w 54 nw 16-28-5, 80 acres, Milroy, *3,500. William Edwin Perkins to Ruth A. Sayler et al, Sept. 4, pt It 2, bl 34, Rensselaer, Weston's add., 61.000. John A, Reeder, to Morris Steurm, Sept. 4, e 54 se 28-29-5, 80 acres, Hanging Grove, 67,200. William B. Austin to MinaDahncke, Aug. 2, nw 22-31-5,160 acres, Gillam, 63,700. Mina Dahncke to William B. Austin. Sept, 13, it 7, bl 2, Hogan, *BOO. A matida Morlan to James C. Parsons et ux, Sept. 14, pt out It 81, nw 30-29-6, Rensselaer, *1,5<,0. Frances W. Reed to William F. Corbin et al Aug. 31, s % nw 1-30-5, ne nw 1-30-5, 120 acres, Gillam, 612,000. Hugh Daugherty to Thomas A. Fletcher, June 6, w 54 32-32-s,32oacres, Kankakee,*ls,ooo. Lewis M. Wells to James E. Plew. Sept. 12. Its 10,11, bl 2. Demotte, McDonald’s add. $550. Phebe DeSeim, to Harmon Clark et ux. April 22, Its 1,2, bl 1. Wheatfield, *230. Harry E. Fleming to R. M. Carr, et al. Dec. 31, nw 23-29-5, w 54 23-29-5, e 54 ne 22-29-5, Hanging Grove, $25,600. Herod W. O’Neal to Frank G. Prevo. Sept. 16, pt Its 11,12, bl 3, Rensselaer, original plat. *12,000.' Herod W. O’Neal to Frank G. Prevo, Sept, 16, Its 11,14, bl 15 Rensselaer, Leopold’s add. $2,500. Elizabeth Blake to John J. Pullins, Aug, 30, Its, 11,12.13, 14,15,16.17,18, b!4, Fair Oaks. *4OO. John J. Pullins to James A. Blake et ux, Aug, 30, its, 11,12,13.14,15,16,17,18, bl 4, Fair Oaks, 6400. Albert H. Littlefield to Charles W. Littlefield, Sept. 26. It 1,2, 3, bl 3,Remington, Western add., *750, Albert H. Littlefield to Charles W, Littlefield, March 18, pt. It 4, bl 13. Remington, original plat, 62,500.

JQOTICE TO HE! CREDITORS AND In the matter of the estate of Mary J. Daniels, deceased, in Jasper Circuit Court, November term, 1807. Notice i* hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of Mary J. Daniels, deceased, and all persons Interested in said estate, to appear in the Jasper Circuit Court on Monday, the 11th day of November, 1907. being the day fixed and endorsed on the final settlement account of John M. Ott. Executor of said decedent, and show cause if any, why ■uch final account should not be approved; and the heir* of said decedent, and all other* interested, are also hereby notified to appear in said Court, on said day and make proof of their heirship, or claim to any part of said estate. _ John M. Ott. Executor. Notice of Sale of School House. Notice 1* hereby given that the undersigned, a* Trustee of Barkley Township, in Jasper County, Ind., will, on Tuesday, October 29.1907, oifer for sale at public outcry to the highest bidder at 19Q o'clock a. m,. the school house and out-buildings situate on the southwest corner of the Northwest quarter of Section Three, Township Thirty North, Range Six West, known a* “Snow Flake" school house. Said property if sold will be sold for cash at not less than two-thirds of the appraised value thereof. Privilege is reserved of rejecting any or all blds. GRANT DAVISSON. Trustee Barkley Township. For Sale:—Two good building lots in good residence location in Rensselaer, each 67x150 feet, well drained and set out in fruit; cash or on time. Enquire at The i Democrat office.

1 ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE. Notice is hereby give! that the undersigned, wm* 1 ,nI S trator 2 f the ®state of Karah L McKillip, deceased, will, on WEDNESDAY, THE 23d DAY OF OCTOBER, 1907, at the Ute residence of said deceased, in MBroy township, Jasper County, Indiana, 8 miles Northeast qf Wolcott and 7 miled Southwest of Monon, offer for sale at aucP ro P« rt y« f decedent, consisting of farming implements, wairona harness, buggies, hay-ladders, road swappers, colts, horses and ponies, about 500 bushels of oats, and many other articles too numerous to mention. g( will begin ot ten o’clock a. m„ of Tbbms—Sums of 65 and under cash in hand. Over *5 a credit of six months will be given upon execution of a note with freehold lure .*®. be “PP rovt *l by the undersigned, with interest after maturity, payable without relief from valuation or appraisement “rJJh a ?j with attorney's taS? Cash must be paid or notes given before removal of the property. The right is reserved to reject any bid where the amount bid is wholly inadequate to the value of the property. , t j nr.— . CHARLES M. SMITH, T. J. Clink, Auctioneer. Administrator NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATRIX State of Indiana, ) County of Jasper) M: Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed as Administratrix of the 2?tate of Emil Bernhardt, deceased, late of County, yihnois. Said Estate is sup. posed to be solvent. p MYRTLE BERNHARDT, October Bth, 1907. Administratrix. Ditch Notice. <9 i . ,ber LA Mitchell; Andrew M. Mitchell and Sylvia D. Mitchell. You are hereby notified that Jeremiah J. Shea and others have filed their petition for the construction of a large main tile ditch commencing at a point 104 rods east and 40 rods north of the south-west corner of the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 36, township 31 north, ranges west. In Jasper County, Indiana, and from thence following the line of an open ditch inanorthwesterly direction to the Robinson Ditch: that said petition was filed with the Auditor ?£x a,pe . r . Co «n*y. Indiana, on October 14. 1907, and is set for docketing on November 5. \ t fi^ theh . a z? d a . ,,d se “* of the Auditor this 14th day of Octol,er, 1907. JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, ~ i. Jasper C.hh ».». Indiana, roltz & bpitler, A-ttya. for Petitioners.

Ditch Notice NOTICE OF FILING AND DOCKETING OF DITCH PETITION, To Jamra Parks, Peter H. Parks, Laura Kenyon, George Hardy, S. E. Swinehart, Florence M. Johnson, Christ in u hc’eman, Andrew Beller, Mary C. Wetherci., Angelina < Bull, Emma Bull, Elmer Bull, You '\‘l d each of you are hereby notified that I, Charles V. May, have tiled m the office of the Auditor of Jasper County,lndiana, with the Auditor thereof, my petition, and the same is now pending in the Commissioner* Court of said Jasper County. Indiana, for the drainage of my real estate, described as follows: The Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section Thirty-three (38,) in \ Township Twenty-seven (27) north. Range S 1? ISI T**h. ,n Count?, Indiana, to establish a ditch as follows: Commencing at a point about Twenty feet West of the Southeast corner of Section Thirty-two, in Township Twenty,seven north. Range Six west, in Jasper County, Indiana, and running from thence North along the West marginal line of the public highway along the Bast Section line of said Section Thirty-two, a distance of One Hundred and Eighty rods; thence East Forty-four rods; thence Northeasterly Two Hundred rods to a point which i« Sixt/ rod* East of the East Section Line of Sect ion Twen-ty-nine, in said Township and Range; thence West Sixty rod* to the East Section Line of said Section Twenty-nine: thence North along the margin of the public highway on the East Line of said Section Twenty-nine Thirty rod* or to a point which is Forty rods South of the Northeast Corner of the Southeast Quarter of said section Twenty-nine; thence northerly and westerly across the right-of-way of the Pittsburg,Cincinati,Chicago and St. Louis Railway and terminating , at a point about Sixty-eight rods east and Forty rod* South of the Northwest corner of said Section Twenty-nine, terminating in a large and commodious open ditch now constructed from said last mentioned point to Carpenter* Creek, Said ditch to be partly tile and partly open ditch a* set forth in *aid petition. That real eatate owned by each of the above named persona will be affected by said proposed ditch. That said petition and the required bond were filed with the Auditor of Jasper county, Indiana, In September 30th, 1007, and that said petition is docketed for hearing on Tuesday, December 3rd. 1907, Dated this Ist day of October, 1907. JAMES N, LEATHERMAN, r cj .• Auditor Jasper County. Jasper Guy, Att’y for petitioner*.