Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1908 — INSPECTION OF MINES [ARTICLE]

INSPECTION OF MINES

State Inspector’s Force Busy Finding Out the Conditions for His Annual Report. L COMMENT ON THE NEW BIT LAW Peculiar Suit. Against Attorneys—Mao of Many Orders Dead—Lure for t • Gymnastic Class. .4 . . • • Terre Haute, Ind., Oct 30.—The State mine Inspector’s force is now unking the final visit to the mines of ttie state to be covered in the annual report. They are having less trouble with both miners and operators as to violations of the law than ever before. At the beginning of the year there were many prosecutions which kept up until operators and miners learned that the old lax methods due to the lack of • sufficient force under the inspector were not to continue. Bit Law Is Still Protective. While the Inspector opposed the amendment to the law passed at the recept special session by which the size of the bit in the drill Is enlarged the amendment did not restore the old dangerous conditions, as many supi>osed. Under the old law the driller drilled a foot or more beyond the line where the machine had cut the coal, and thus lodging powder charges in the fate of the coal tlrere were frequent instance* of the shots being forced out of the hole Instead of breaking the eoal. The law now prohibits drilling ahead. Sues for SI,OOO Witness Fee. Terre Haute, Ind., Oct. 30.—Florence Ricketts has brought suit against at<smeys Hamill and Catlin for SI,OOO for services as a witness in the litigation by which Mrs. Salee obtained most of the estate of Warren Soules, who died leaving more than SIOO,OOO. The Silee woman was his housekeei>er, and abe produced what were held to be contracts to deliver deeds. The Ricketts woman testified to conversations betireen the old man and the Salee woman, and was the star witness for the plaintiff. She does nto set out specifically what service she rendered to the two lawyers, but makes the claim that they got big fees and owe her SI,OOO. I Had the Record in One Wpy

Terre Haute. Ind.. Oct. 30. —John G. Hyneman. who died Tuesday at the uge of fifty-eight, was one of the wid-est-known German citizens of Terre Haute, and especially among fraternal ordets. It is thought that he belonged to more different orders than any other man in the state. He was born •t Baden-Baden, and his uncle there •was head chef at the hotel at which Eknperor William, grandfather of the present kaiser, used to stop, and John •when a young man was only twenty feet away when the emperor was shot at by a Russian red. Knows How to Imre Them. Terre Haute. Ind., Oct. 30.—Physical Director Franklin, of the Y. M. C. A., has invited all the women friends of members of the gymnasium class of young business men to make themselves at home in the gymnasium on the nights this class Is engaged. He Copnd too many members of the class absent, with an explanation that they had calling engagements. WANTS TO BE PREPARED Wlwe of a Man Still Alive Writes to His Home Town for a Coffin. Columbus. Ind., Oct. 30. —Although Jacob Noblett, age sixty-four, is still alive in Indianapolis and is in as good health as numerous people wso have ao thought of death, his niece, Miss Helen Noblett, who lives tn Buchanan street. Indianapolis, has written here, asking that the county commissioners buy her uncle a coffin and ship It to her. For tiiree years Noblett was an Inmate of the Bartholomew county poorhouse. His eyesight was very bad, he was ataqost blind in fact, and the first of this month he decided to go to Indianapolis and consult some physicians there. The Indianapolis physicians evidently failed to benefit the man because his niece wrote to Superlnteiident Alonzo B. Ooons, of the county asylum, that he was in very poor health and they felt certain could not recover, she said. She declared that his aon-would not pay his funeral expenses and said her family was unable to do so. Deft With His Dad’s Cash. Sullivan, Ind., Oct. 30. Walter Thompson of Bicknell, has been arrested in the Davis hotel here on a charge of larceny. Thompson left Bickneit? it Is said, with SSOO of his father’s money. He had been making collections for his father and took the money, dispatches to local officers said, to “have a good time on.” Petersburg Corn Show. Petersburg, Ind., Oct. 30.—The mercfaants' -annual corn show will be held here Saturday,. Nov. 7. A large number of cash premiums will be distributed, and the interest in the show is such as to insure a large attendance. Pioneer Merchant Dead. Lafnyette. Ind., Oct. 30.—Samuel Churchill Curtis, a leading business man, Is dead. He was eighty-two years •Id and very active in business. He <was born at Stockbridge. Mass., Sspt 7, IS2&.