Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1908 — OUR NEW EXECUTIVE [ARTICLE]

OUR NEW EXECUTIVE

Indiana’s Govern or-Elect Was 'a Very Hard Man to Go Up Against. ' \ K. ' KNOWN TO MOST EVERYBODY Had a Big Personal Following—Good Story of His Experience with a Woman. Indianapolis. Nov. B.—Thomas It. Marshall, the newly elected governor of Indiana, discovered to Hie states at large on Tuesday, has been known for a long time by every Hoosier as the “champion Fourth of July orator,” anil he has a tremendous personal , popularity. He lives at Columbia City which is described In the gazetteers a '’the county seat of Whitley county, about 100 miles north of east of In dianapolte on the Wabash (railroad.]" He began there to piny the Hoosier game of progressive politics at an early age, advancing successively from village polit'clan through intermediate steps of county and district chairman, judgeship and memtoer of the legislature to his present triumph. Everybody Knows ••Tom” Marshall. He has traveled so often up and down the state to |K>lltlcal meetings, lodge gatherings, conferences, picnics and barbacues that he is said to be a familiar figure to every station agent nt every railroad junction in Indiana, and there are hundreds of them. Every place he stops he picks up a new story to tell at the next station, and Tom Marshall’s yarns are repeated from Peru to Posey county and from Terre Haute to Fort Wayne. Good Story on the Governor-Elect. On one of these periodical railroad “Jogs,” as he terms them, the train stopped at every station for 100 miles across the northern part of the state, at the rate of a mile a station. A woman who had l>een much Interested in the understanding which seemed to exist between Hie conductor and engineer turned in her seat to find- herself face to face .with the present newly elected governor. "Excuse me. sir,” she said, “but could you tell me what the conductor means when he sticks his arms up like that to somebody up ahead there?” He Informs • Woman. "That's the conductor's way of telling the engineer what be thinks of him." responded the lawyer. “He is wiying in arm language: ‘You longlegged, freMile-facek loqreared. homely galoot, go ahead.” "Thsnk you.” said the woman, turning back to her original position. When Lawyer Marshal} reached bis station he felt tliat he had been rude to the woman, and as he got up to go out he Ptopped at her side and said: Woman Gets More'n Even. "Sorry I spoke to you the way 1 did. You don’t know me, perhai>s, but my name is Tom Marshall, and 1 have to live tsp to a reputation as a humorist.” Saying never a word, the woman reached oat her arm and gave him the conductor's signal to go ahead, and Tom went ahead.

COAL ONLY FIFTY FEET DOWN Vein Is Twenty-Five Feet Thick and the Coal Is of Very Good Quality. rColumbus, Ind., Nov. B.—John Ott, who for ten years was superintendent of the Bartholomew county poor farm, and who is now a farmer near Lowell, this county, believes he has a fortune Oh bls farm. He employed Lase Rurtas, • local well digger’, to drill a deep well •n his farm, and at a depth of about fifty feet a rich vein of cost coal was ■track. The coal was shown to local experts and they pronounce it as good as any coal on the market. The drilling was continued and tlie vein was Lwind to be twenty-five feet thick. There is a big hill running back from the place where the well was drilled and it is thought the vein extends into the hill. Local prosj sectors are of the opinion that one of the best coal mines in the state la awaiting development On the Ott farm.

Trial of Kay Lamptiere. ; lAPorte. Ind.. Nov. 6.—Announcement Is made by Prosecutor Smith that when the case against Ray Lamphere Is cal 1/41 Monday In the LaPorte circuit court he will take up the indict meet against him charging the murder of Mrs. Gunupss and three children, instead of trying him first for being an alleged accessory to the murder of Andrew Helgelein, the last victim of Mrs. Gu lines*. Smith said that this change waa due to the desin* to settle judicially the question of whether er not Mrs. Gtmness was dead. Cleaning a Loaded Gun. Princeton. Ind., Nov. 6.—While Wlk Ham Chester, forty-eight years old. ■nd his brother were cleaning a shotgun preparatory to an election celebration the gun was accidentally disdmrg ed. The calf of William Chesser’s leg was torn off and he bled to death. The victim was a preacher. Kan Over by a Freight Train. Fort Waj-ne. Ind., Nov. 6.—William Ault, aged flfyt-nine. was instantly killed and Mrs. William Dowden fatally Injured when they were run over by a freight trata on a railroad bridge. ’