Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1908 — Page 4

JUKI COHIT OH. 11. bums. [mtm in nuiaii. SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1908.

CANVASS TO BE MADE

Bryan Approves of an Elaborate Scheme* to Discover the Public Sentiment. HE WILL SPEAK AT DES MOINES Mack Names the Members of the Fi* nance and Speaker Committees. Haft Talks to the Virginia Lawyers and Goes Into a Test of Luck —ldaho Democrat* In a Split.

Lincoln, Neb., An*. 7.—As the result of a visit to Wm. J. Bryan of Senator “Bob” Taylor, of Tennessee, who Is here to deliver a Cbautanqua lecture, the national committee of the Democratic party, with the concurrence of Bryan, will soon enter upon a most elaborate plan for ascertaining the sentiment of the country toward their standard bearers. This plan contemplates the formation otf a national Democratic club, with state and county subsidiaries, whose duty It will be to report to the central organization data favorable or unfavorable to the national ticket. It Is proposed also that these clubs shall poll the voters of the United States, and to every section where the feeling is adverse to the Democratic candidates send literature and speakers. Bryan to Speak at (Mi Moines. Aside from this the most important announcement from Falrview was the derision of Bryan to make an extended speech on the tariff question at Des Moines, la.. Aug. 21, and to spend the three following days In Chicago In consultation with Chairman Mack and other of the party leaders over the plan of campaign. Bryan gave out for publication bis reply to a circular letter sent to business men of the country by James W. Van Cleave, president of the Manufacturers’ association, urging them to go to the polls in November and “bury Bryan and Bryanlsm for ever.” Bryan accuses Van Cleave of having a narrow idea of what constitutes a business man, and enters into an elaborate defense of his policies. Names Two Important Committees. Buffalo, Aug.. 7. —Chairman Norman E. Mnek, of the Democratic national committee, has announced the appointment of a finance committee for the campaign with Moses C. VVetmore, of St. Louis, ns chairman and John E. Osborne, of Wyoming, as vice chairman; and a speakers' committee, with John H. Atwood, of Kansas, as chairman. and Champ Clark, of Missouri, as vice chairman. The finance committee is made up of twenty-nine members and the speakers’ committee Is composed of twenty-seven members. Announcement was also made by Chairman Mack that Senator Culberson. of Texas, lias been appointed to succeed David R. Francis, of Missouri, as chairman the advisory committee . Among tlie inentbers of the committee are I). ,T. CampaU, of Michigan; W. R. O’Brien, of Indiana; M. F. Dunlap, of Illinois- E. C. Wall, of Wisconsin. On the speaker*’ committee are Henry Warren, of Indiann; B. R. Tillman, of South Carolina and John J. Lentz, of Ohio. The chairman of the two committees will probably have headqunr tors at Chicago, to which city Mack started last night.

TAFT TALKS TO VIRGINIANS I I ——— Two Embarrassments Removed—Test of the Rabbit's Foot. Hot Springs, Vn.. Aug. 7.—There was un reservation in the southern hospitality a coord ed to William 11. Taft by the Virginia State Bar association here on the occasion of the address of the Republican candidate on the law’s delay. His presence and Introductory pleasantries were applauded by an and clue representative of the social life of the Old Dominion, and the burden of his speech met the expressed approval of. the lawyers present, the >• tli of his speech being that to the law’s delay and uncertainties was to be attributed tlie national disgrace of lynch law. At the banquet which brought to a close the twentieth annual session of the association. Taft responded to the the toast “The President." Taft prefaced his forty-minute speeeli on the law’s delay by expressing two embarrassments he felt in apiiearlng before a Virginia audience. The first he made clear by this anecdote: “As I was en terlng the hall here today I was Introduced to a very charming daughter of Virginia, a mnrrled lady, of whom I in qtilred on hearing her name, which wn« • Virginia name, whether she was a relative of g friend of my own from Virginia who bore the same name, j ‘Ob DO,’ she replied, 'my poor husband Is a Yankee.’ The story seemed to remove the first embarrassment. The other was Taft's diffidence in discussing before the bar of Virginia a technical question, '‘because you know,’’ he said, “eight yfrars ago I ceased to be a Judge and became a mere politician.*' That the question may be finally detertnined whether a rabbit's foot is a more sure talisman than g horseshoe John W. Frazier, of Philadelphia, has

sent Taft a gold mounted rabbit foot In doing so Frasier contributed this bit of history regarding campaign trophies. “Toward the close of the t presidential campaign of 1904 Grover | Cleveland sent to Alton B. Parker the lucky horseshoe that had been seat to Mr. Cleveland daring the campaign of 18S4 with a letter expressive of the hope that It would prove as lucky for Parker lu 1904 as It had to Cleveland in 1884 and 1892. That letter and horseshoe led me to send to President Roosevelt a lucky rabbit’s foot for the purpose of counteracting the influence of the Cleveland horseshoe. “As the president may not care to part with that lucky rabbit foot—once part of a rabbit shot on the 7th day of the week, and the seventh day of the month of the year, at full moon, In a country church yard, by a colored clergyman—desiring, It may be, to carry it with him to the Jungles otf Africa, I herewith present you with a foot from the same rabbit mounted with the luckiest of gold from Alaska.” At the Bar association banquet. In responding to the toast “The President of the United States” Taft said that it might be appropriate for him to respond to that toast—“ Not because of any relation I bear to that office, but because I was summoned to the Whits House when the Invitation was extended and directed [laughter] to corns here and do what I could —If need be use the big stick —to uphold the administration.”

Today Judge Taft, with Mrs. Taft, end others was driven by Tate Sterrett, proprietor of the famous Passlfen farm, to White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., to attend the Green Brim county horse show. Idaho Democrats Split. Wallace, Ida., Aug. 7.—The Democratic state convention split In twain and both the Dubois and antl-Dubols factions organized separate conventions The split in the convention ea<me when the convention failed to sustain a protest of the antl-Dubols faction against the seating of the Dubois delegates from Bear Lake, Oneida and Fremont counties. The antl-Dubols faction left the hall. The Dubois faction then formed n permanent organization by the election of A. L. Freehafer, of Washington county, permanent chairman. The anti-Dubois faction calls itself “regular” and made Judge Slackslager chairman.

New England Democrats Get Busy. New Haven, Conn., Aug. 7.—Alexan" der Troup, prpldeut of the New Eng land Democratic Progressive League, has issued a call for the vice presidents and members of the executive committee of the league to meet at the Quincy House. Boston, Aug. 11, “to take into consideration the political sitation in New England and devise ways and means for propaganda work.” Gompers’ Action Indorsed. Elmira, N. Y.. Aug. 7—At a largely attended meeting of the Trades and Labor Assembly of this city a resolution was passed unanimously indorsing the action taken by President Gompers In regard to the political situation. nnd urging all to vote for “candidates and platform known to be friendly to labor interests,”

MAKES TWO CHARGES

Athlete Says British “Fair Play" Is Rot ten—Hints at Suspicious Hospitality. New York. Aug. 7.—Criticism of the conduct of the Olympic games was freely given by Ray C. Ewry, rhe New York Athletic club’s broad jumper, and C. H. Daniels, the swimmer, both of whom arrived from Liverpool on the steamer Adriatic after having participated in the games. The athletes from this country, they said, were well treated socially by the Englishmen, but got the worst of the bargain as athletes. “Englishmen treated us fine socially.’’ declared Daniels. "In fact, they were anxious to treat us a little too fine for athletes. “We were invited to tea dinners before and during the eveuts. When the boys politely declined to eat or drink dozens of young Englishmen came to our quarters and (‘hided us for not being We had every reason to drop our condition quickly if we had accepted their hospitality. As dthletes we were treated ‘rotten.’ ‘Rotten’ does not even express the sentiments of the Americans.’’

Tow at Fernie Is $2,000,000.

Toronto, tint.. Aug. 7—J. O. S. Lindsey, president o.f the Crow's NestCoal company, summarizes the north west fire situation thus in a dispatch received here: "The fire area is about thirty miles long and from two to ten wide, and is still burning In many places at the outskirts, but Michel is safe, except in the ense of high wind, and may lie even then. Hosiner Is quite safe and Coal Creek may be said to be almost certaiily safe.” He says the loss at Fernie will total $2,000,000.

Fairbanks Tells of Pure Food.

Mackinac Island, Mich., Aug. 7. Vice I*resident Fairbanks, In an address before yie twelfth annual convention of the Association of State and National Food and Dairy Departments, told liow he had watched the fight at Washington for a national pure food law for twenty?flve years. He said that not only national, but state laws were needed, and congratulated the association on the work It had done.

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GLOOM IN THE SHOPS

Canadian Pacific Electricians Re* fuse to Work with Msri Carrying No Card. COMPANY IS GETTING JEW HELP Pickets on Duty to Head Off Men In- | tending to Work. Talk of a Strike That Would Tie Up the Trains—Locomotive Dumped Into a Turntable Pit. - 3» “1 Winnipeg. Man., Aug. 7. —All the Canadian Pacific railway shops are In darkQesa, owing to electricians operating the light plant declining to work with non-union labor. Three coach loads of strike-breakers have reached here from St Paul and Chicago, and these, added to the Japanese used In roundhouses, and Italians and Gallclans at work in other parts of the yards, add somewhat to the activity around the buildings. Porters on- cars are now compelled to dean out their cars, and every extra laborer that can be utilized by the company is being pressed Into service. Several hundred mechanics are expected from Pacific coast states, while the eastern shops will draw their supply from the New England states. Picketing Ha* Been Begun. Sixty union pickets have been placed on duty at the local shops the company not being adverse to passive picketing, wbloh Is not Illegal. At some shops In far western cities armed police are on guard, but this is not considered necessary here. The most striking feature of the situation Is the placing of between, fifty and sixty pickets at the various railroad terminals and in the vidijlty of the shops, to meet all mechanics coming into the city and dissuade them from going to work for the company, if they had any such intention.

Tie-Up Predicted by Sunday. There Is a report that the trainmen will go out tomorrow. This Is denied by J. H. McVey, local chairman of the strikers, but It is affirmed by all the strikers who will talk, and they assert that the whole system will be tied up by Sunday. Tranmen here do not consist of engineers, firemen and conductors, but of switchmen, brakemen, baggagemen, and some of the conductors. It Is pointed out that there Is a federation of conductors, engineers. firemen and telegraphers, all of whom work together In harmony. They form a most conservative organization, which for a number of years has had an iron-bound agreement with the company, anil this agreement has never been broken, which is a matter of pride with both the company and the men. Charged to tpe Strikers. At Kenora. Ont:. a divisional point enst of here, a locomotive was run into a turntable pit. and it is alleged that the act was done by one otf the striking shopmen. The hostler had brought the locomotive out of the shop, and It hail been turned over to the engineer. who had placed it on a siding in readiness to take it out on an eastbournl train. While the engineer was al>sent for a few minutes In the shop getting something he had forgotten someone sneaked up to the engine and opened the throttle. The siding leading up to the turntable was open and the engine ran into the pit. The wrecking crane was ordered out at once. It picked up the disabled engine and placed It back on tbe track, the company maintaining Its train service.

PARIS STRIKE A FIASCO

Electricians Go Out, but They Soon Go in Again Paris. Aug. 7.—'Paris was plunged into darkness for two hours because oi an attempt of electricians to carry out a general strike similar to that of March, 1907. The maneuver, which fortunately proved abortive, is attributed to a desire of the revolutionary iaborites for revenge for an order issued by the perfect of the Seine closing the labor exchange to the federated unions of the department of the Seine because of the part the labor exchange played in the recent disturbances. The strikers were told that If. they did not go to work at once they would be peremptorily discharged, and they concluded to go to work again. Shortly before 9 p. m. the current was abruptly cut off. This caused the greatest inconvenience In the hotels und restaurants, a majority of which are almost entirely dependent upon electricity for their lights. There was a recurrence of the scene of last year when the lights were extinguished, the diners finishing meals by the glimering glare of candles stuck in bottles .Most of the theaters are closed for the summer season, but the Theater Frnncais and n number of mhsic halls were compelled to abandon tbelr programme and dismiss their audiences owing to the darkness.

Shot by a Trap Gun. Ascutneyville. Yt., Aug. 7.—Frank Smith, of Philadelphia was accidentalshot and killed on the farm of If. m Bdauchard. Blanchard has been lotting grain lately, and tie and Smith set a trap gun which-would explode when the barn door was opened. Smith later went to the barn and, forgetting about the gun, opened‘the door. He received the full charge, of shot In the face and died half an hour later.

PEOPLE or THE DAY

Custodian of G. 0. P. Campaign Fundi. George R. Sheldon of New York, the new treasurer of the Republican national committee, has been active in politics for many years. He was a member of the Republican national committee in 1903 and 1904, treasurer

GEORGE R. SHELDON

of the New York county Republican committee from 1899 to 1903 and- treasurer of the New York state committee In 1906.

Mr. Sheldon’s standing In financial circles gives him peculiar advantages for the position of custodian of funds. He Is a director of the Bethlehem Steel corporation, the Detroit Edison company, the Metropolitan Trust company, the Milwaukee Light, Heat and Traction company, the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light company, the New Jersey Terminal Dock and Improvement company, the Republic Iron and Steel company, the Rogers Locomotive works, the Trust Company of America, the Union Bay and Paper company, the Union Electric Light, Heat and Power company of St. Louis, the United Railways Company of St. Louis and other companies. Mr. Sheldon Is president of the Union League club of New York and Is fifty-one years old.

Congressional Campaign Manager. On James T. Lloyd of Missouri, chairman of the Democratic congressional campaign committee, devolves the task of directing the tight for control of the national house of representatives. This is Mr. Lloyd’s first essay as a national campaign manager, a position, however, for which he is well equipped by a long and successful political career. Elected to the Fifty-fifth congress to fill a vacancy, he has since been regularly returned to represent the First Missouri district. For the greater part of his congressional service he has acted as minority whip on the floor of the house. As Democratic whip Mr. Lloyd has been successful In getting the full

JAMBS T. LLOYD.

voting strength of his {iarty when important legislation was about to be discussed and on more than one occasion has caught his opponents napDimr. Chairman Lloyd Is a native of Missouri and was born and educated at Gaston. After being admitted to the bar he removed to Shelbyville, where be has since resided and practiced Ills profession. Previous to going to congress he had held no office except that of prosecuting attorney of his county.

HINTS FOR FARMERS Breed and Variety. The distinction between breed and variety is not always remembered, says the Farmers Advocate. Some of the editors of poultry papers use the two words interchangeably; but, according to the standard of perfection, the two words are entirely distinct. . The word breed applies to any class of poultry, such as Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Cochins, Brahmas. Leg-, boms, Orpingtons, etc., while the word* variety denotes the different divisions of these breeds. Thus the Plymouth Rock “breed” Is divided into the three “varletlek”—Rarred, White. Buff. The Barred Rock Is not a breed, but la a variety of the Plymouth Rock breed. It is not correct to speak of the Buff Cochin breed, but the Buff Cochin variety. the other Cochin varieties being the White, Partridge and Black. These four varieties make up the one Cochin breed. . , ■ Dairy Qeasip. Get rid of the hard milking cow. It

takes aa much muscle To mTHTEer as it doe* four or five easy milker*. _ 2 I It is good policy to keep the cow up to her maximum production from the time she freshens until yon want her to go dry. j Special purpose Ideas In the dairy management are Just as essential to successful butter production as Is the special purpose cow. v Cows of strong dairy temperament are what we must strive to produce. When we get ipto the dairy business for what there is in it none other is worth fooling with. Breed the cows to give the largest yield of milk at the time when butter fat is worth the most money. Give the cow a two months’ rest when butter fat Is lowest.

Notes About Bsss. Success in beekeeping depends largely on the man. The orchard Is one of the best places to keep bees. The best way to keep millers out of hives is to keep the hives full of bees. The life of a bee during the busy season Is very short Often during the honey season they do not live longer than six or eight weeks. The prime swarm yields the surplus. Keep honey, whether In the comb or extracted. In a dry place, as it will readily absorb moisture and become thin, watery and worthless.

Waste In Poultry Raising. ,

There is lots of waste iu handling poultry, and waste wherever it appears should be combated. One common waste on the farm Is seen about this time of year, when a lot of old broody hens are permitted to occupy nests Indefinitely, fighting among themselves, sometimes breaking the eggs of other hens that are sitting or breaking new laid eggs. A little good management can avoid most of this trouble. Often hens are allowed to sit in summer till they die on the nest, literally devoured by lice.

Poultry Notes.

If the eggs are all gathered every day and marketed frequently you can safely offer strictly fresh eggs for sale. If not, you cannot.

j Now, they tell us that twelve eggs contain as much nourishment as one bushel of wheat You can figure th# difference in cost of production, i Medium sized turkeys sell most readily upon the market Keep the drinking vessels clean If you would keep the poultry healthy. 1 Good separator milk will make the chickens grow.

Hopper Feeding a Success.

According to a recent experiment St the Pennsylvania experiment station the method of feeding dry ground grain In hoppers was proved a success. The hopper fed pullets gave better results in gain of weight production of eggs, weight of eggs, hatching power of eggs, loss in molting, health and profit of the hens as compared with those fed by the usual plan of ground grain mixed with water. However, those fed with the wet grain ration produced eggs at slightly less cost per dozen.

Handling th* Bull. The advice of the late Henry E. Alford, chief of the dairy division of the department of agriculture and a practical farmer, with regard to the raising of bulls was good. Accustom the bull, he said, to being bandied from calfhood, but without fondling or encouraging frolic. Give him kind, firm and unvarying treatment and keep him always under subjection that be may never know his strength and power.— American Cultivator.

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TRUSTEES’ ESTIMATES j- -4-; " ■" Of Expenditures and Tax Levies for the Year IOOoA j6rdan township. fn8 t ami , unU B for^fi/°S. n « estitoate » townsh?iT n tk h x P e * < 5? n n t dltures - .U.OOO. and Sr? “ 5 ts on th ® hundred Loc&l tuition expenditures $2 700 tors t& x 35 cents on the hundred dol> .4 dd , U , onal r road l* l * expenditures, dollars d *** 6 Cents on the hundred , Tot JT* expenditures, *6,400, and total tax 70 cents on the hundred dollars. _ . CHAS. E. SAGE, r , , . Trustee of Jordan Township. Dated August 6, 1908.

WALKER TOWNSHIP. The Trustee of Walker Township. Jasper county, Indiana, proposes for the yearly expenditures and tax levies by the Advisory Board at Its annual meeting, to be held at the trustee’s office on the lat day of September, 1908, commencing at 1 o’clock, p. m., the following estimates and amounts for said year. 1. Township expenditures, *1,471, and township tax 20 cents on the hundred dollars. 2. Local tuition expenditures, *2,156, and tax 40 cents on the hundred dollars. 3. Special, school tax expenditures, *1,065, and tax 20 cents on the hundred dollars. ' xi, -. « 4. Road tax expenditures, *972, and tax 20 cents on the hundred dollar*. 6. Additional road tax expenditures, *133, and tax 5 cents on the hundred dollars. 6. Poor expenditures for preceding year, *l3O, and tax 3 cents on the hundred dollars. Total expenditures, *5,927, and total tax *I.OB on the hundred dollars. Net taxable property of township, *539,308. No. polls, 182. FRED KARCH, Trustee of Walker Township. Dated August 6, 1908.

HANGING GROVE TOWNSHIP.

The trustee of Hanging Grove township, Jasper County, Ind., proposes for the yearly expenditures and tax levies by the Advisory Board at its annual meeting to be held at the school house of school district No. 5, the following estimates and amounts for said year: o Township expenditures, $616.00, and township tax 10 cents on the hundred dollars. Local tuition expenditures $1,032.00, and tax 20 cents on the hundred dollars. Special school tax expenditures, $516.00, and tax, 10 cents on the hundred dollars. Road tax expenditures, $1,032.00, and tax 20 cents on the hundred dollars. Additional road tax expenditures, $258.00, and tax, 5 cents on the hunred dollars. Poor expenditures for proceeding year, $100.50, and tax 2 cents on th* hundred dollars. Total expenditures, $3,481, and total tax 67 cents on the hundred dollars. WASH. COOK, Trustee. July 30, 1908.

NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS.

The State of Indiana, Jasper County, m: In the Jasper Circuit Court, September Term, 1908. Rudolph J. Schwab , • vs. Duluth-Indlana Oil & Asphalt Company a corporation, et aL Complaint No. 7346. Now comes the plaintiff, by Judson J. Hunt, one of his attorneys, and flies his complaint herein, together with an affidavit that the defendants James McGee, W. H. Dean, L.. M. Jeger, Charles F. F. Puffin. John J. McGrath, Edgar L. Wood, I. J. Rosenberg; J. D. Budd, M. D. Kelly. F. C. Clifford. Jultus Wechselberg. The American Lubricating OH Company John J- McGrath, President. M. D. Kelly. Vice President, and F. G Clifford Secretary of said American Lubricating Oil Company, the Du-luth-Indiana Oil and Asphalt Company and J. D. Budd President, James McGee Secretary and W. H. Dean, First Vice President of said Duluth-lndiana Oil and Asphalt Cbmpany; The Crown Lubricating Oil Company and Julius Wechslberg, President, L. M. lager, First Vice President, and James McGee, Secretary of said Crown Lubricating Oil Company; Edgar L. Wood, Trustee, are not residents of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given said defendants that unless they be and appear on the 29th day of September, 1908, the same being the fourteenth day of the next term of the Jasper Grcuit Court, to be holden on the second Monday of September, A. D. 1908, at the Court House in Rensselaer, in said County and State, and answer or demur to said complaint, for the foreclosure of a mortgage and the appontfinnat of a receiver, the same will be heard surd determined in their absence. In Witness Thereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said Court, at Rensselaer. Indiana, this Ist day of August A. D. 1906. C. C. WARNER. Clerk. Judson J. Hunt, Ally, for Plf.

Jordan Township. The undersigned, trustee of Jordan township, attends to official business at his residence on the tint Saturday of each month: also at the Shlde schoolhouse on the east side, on the third Saturday of each month between the hours of • a. m. and % p. m. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. "PostNewton Township. The undersigned, trustee of Newton township, attends to official business at his residence on Thursday of each week. Persona having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postofflce address Rensselaer. Indiana. rl "” b* Union Township. The undersigned, trustee of Union township, attends to official business at his residence on Friday of each week. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postofflce address.. Rensselaer, Indiana, R F 'HARVEY DAVISSON. Trustee. When you want any furniture call on Jay Williams.