Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1909 — Page 4

Country Correspondence

REMINGTON. REMINGTON R. R. TIME TABLE. “Sabt: trains west: •:10 am Mall and Psaaenger 9:58 a m >:lßam Local Freight 12:42 pm U :88 am Mall and Passenger 5:12 pm • :10 am Pass’g'r (Sun.only) 7:50 pm

R. W. May was in Rensselaer on business Monday. Miss Vivian Cheadle is attending school at Valparaiso. Miss gertha Kirk has gone to El Reno, Okla., to visit her father, W. C. Kirk. Ezra Whitehead and W. E. John-I son were Chicago visitors several days last week. Miss Stella Lock returned home last week from a visit with relatives in Crescent City, 111. Mrs. John Shetland of Ooodland visited with her daughter, Mrs. Dr. Robinson last Thursday. Jesse Phillips and Charley Capes leave this week for their new home near Highmore, So. Dak. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Fisher of Columbus, Ind., are visiting relatives here at this writing. B. G. Parks of Aetna Green, Ind., was visiting relatives and friends here a few days last week. Mrs. Wm. Broadle was called to Lafayette last week by the sickness of her father, Wm. H. Marquess. David S. Gigley of Chicago was down last week looking after his real estate interests near here. Miss Mary Goff of Anderson visited here last week with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hawkins. Principal H. O. Burgess of the Remington high school was married lapt week at Crawfordsville to Miss Hfelen Ruth Myers, a prominent young lady of that city. Louis Hunt and sister Lydia have gone to Ashlanw, Oregon, for an extended visit with their brother, Edward. They expect to also visit In Colorado, California Washington. Lloyd Cummons left last week for Lawton, Okla., with Wm. Zeas car of household effects. Mr. Zea and family will follow this week and Mrs. Cummons and baby expect to go at a later date. Arthur Hartman, who has been in Denver, Colo., for the past five or six years, came nome last week for a vhrit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Hartman, and other relatives and friends.

The old Parker bank building, which is a part of the assets of the defunct bank, has not been sold at this writing, although we understand as high as $3,700 has been bid for the property. The newly organized state bank and Charles Beal, it is said, are after the building, and if the latter gets it he will start a new bank therein. Grant Hall will go to Monticello next week where he will defend the, Farmers Mutual Insurance company in a suit brought by Mr. Bissonette to recover the insurance of the big Parmalee barn which was burned last summer. The defense is that Mr. Bissonette neglected to pay his assessments. .. . The referee of the Parker bank allowed Mr. Pagett’s collateral. There is a law which barred his •claim against the bank, but it appears that the securities he held were exchanged for others which had been in the- possession of Mr. Pagett longer than the time limit in the statute. He has $3,000 First National Bank stock and $7,000 of common stock in an autoengine shop, to satisfy a deposit of $6,875. It is believed that all will be satisfied. —Fowler Leader.

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BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

LETTTER FROM W. B. YEOMAN,

Columbia City, Ind., Feb. 27. Dear Editor—-Will write a short letter giving a brief description of things here. We got through sooner than we • expected as they put our car on the through freight. We arrived at Raber at 1 o’clock a. m., and got all of our stuff moved the same day by the help of some of our neighbors. We were lucky to get in as good a neighborhood as we left, which is quite an item. The sleet storm was not as bad here as it was with you. It broke a few limbs off the trees, and in Columbia City broke some telephone poles where they were pretty well loaded with wires, but the country lines were not damaged much. Sugar-making is all the go here now. A great many of the farmers have sugar camps and one can see buckets hanging on trees all through the woods. We have a fine lot of trees but did not have time to open our camp this spring. If any of the Rensselaer people want some simon-pure maple syrup they can send me an order and I can get it right from the camp. We like this country first-rate so far. It is a great deal more thlckley settled here than there, and most of the improvements are better. On next Friday, March 5, Whitley county votes on local option, but of course we cannot vote. The supposition is that it will go dry. Yours very truly,

Nothing in the way of a cough is quite so annoying as a tickling, teasing, wheezing bronchia-Cough. The quickest relief comes perhaps from a prescription known to druggists everywhere as Dr. Shoop’s Cough Remedy. And besides, it is so thoroughly harmless that mothers give it with perfect safety even to the youngest babes. The vender leaves of a simple mountain" shrub, give to Dr. Shoop’s Cough Remedy its remarkable curative effect. A few days’ test will tell. Sold by all dealers V There is no better wagon sold than the Weber. Maines & Hamilton are making a special price - pf $73 cash. Offer good until May Ist at which time all manufacturers will advance wagons 10 per cent. THE BENSON GRAIN SEPARATOR. We now have for sale the Benson Grain Separator for cleaning oats, grading corn, and wheat for sowing, cleaning all kinds of grass seed, in fact you can clean any crop that grows on your farm. Call and see this mill work. Every one guaranteed. EGER BROS. For Sale: —My property at Alx, Ind., including dry goods and groceries, also store fixtures, will take live stock as part payment; will sell at the right price. This is a good opportunity for some one that wants to go into business of this kind. Reason for selling, want to try farming. JAMES WISEMAN. We have something special in Fertilizers. Call and inspect these: No. 4322—0.8 per cent N. 10, Potash, 5, P-2 0-5, at $25 per ton. No. 4325—0.6 per cent N. 10, Potash, 8, P-2 0-5, at S2B per ton. These Fertilizers are bone basis and contain no rock, and are therefore the very best obtainable. Maines & Hamilton, Phone 273. NOTICE TO CRIDITORS. Having sold my medicine business to V. M. Peer of Kniman, and expect to make but one collecting trip, all . persons knowing themselves indebted will please be prepared to settle. R. B. HALLIGUS, Watkins’ Agent. AUTOMOBILE FOR SALE OR - TRADE. A 5-passenger Lambert, double opposed engine 4%x6 * cylinders, all in excellent condition. Will sell cheap, cash or on time, or trade for any property I can use. Will be glad to show and demonstrate ihe machine to anyone interested, at my residence near \Forseman. Ohly reason for selling is that I want to buy a smalle car. J. W. SAGE, R-R-3, Brook, Ind. Firm For Rent. 160 acres of farm land and 350 acres of blue grass pasture. Grain rent for the farm land and run the pasture on the shares. Splendid Improvements. Three miles south of Medaryville, Ind. Adress, C. GUILDS Medaryville, Ind. » House Cleaning—l have purchased a new vacum house cleaner, which does the work perfectly. Don’t move anything out of the house. Cleans the carpets right on the floor, also the walls and ceilings. Get your orders in early. See me or drop card to O. S. Baker, Rensselaer, Indiana. For Sale—Bargains in farms offered by G. F. Meyers. See descriptions in another column of this paper. See him for full details. Genuine “Quaker Parchment” butter wrappers, blank or printed, for sale at The Democrat office in any luantlty desired.

W. B. YEOMAN.

THE DEMOCRATS HAVE MADE GOOD

With Legislature Nearing End Record Is Clear. HANDICAPPED BY SENATE With a Working Majority. Operating Against Them In the Upper House, the Assembly Majority Finds It Impossible to Carry Out All Platform Pledges, but on the Issue of Economy vs. Extravagance the Record Is Clear and Can Be Pointed to With Pride. Indianapolis, March 2. —The regular session of the general assembly reaches its sixty days constitutional limit next Monday. No bills can be passed after Friday midnight. It is a busy last week and there is still much to be done, but even now something can be said as to the general -result. As the Democrats, by reason of controlling one house and having a presiding officer in the other, and a governor to whom all enactments must be submitted, have a large share of the responsibility for what is done, the question is, have they made good? It can be answered that they have made good so far, and there is every reason to believe that the finished product will be entirely satisfactory to the people. Of course it must be remembered that the Republicans control the senate, and that no bill can get through that body if they oppose it along party lines. This fact will account for the failure of the Democrats to carry into law many of their platform pledges. But on the leading issue of the state campaign, viz.,'economy versus extravagance, the Democrats have been able to make a very creditable showing despite thd* handicap of an adverse senate. And in this Governor Marshall has been a good deal more than a silent factor. He has been an aggressive force. The whole state understands at last that the Democratic charge of bad management and extravagance on the part of the Republicans is true. The Republican state officials have been forced to admit the desperate condl,tlon of state finances, and they appealed to a Democratic governor and a Democratic house for relief from the effects of their own short-sightedness ,and folly. On the figures furnished by the Republican officials, supplemented by his own investigations, Governor Marshall sent a special message to the legislature which went directly to the point. He told the members that expenses had to be reduced —it was either that or an increase in the tax levy or an issue of bonds. He made the situation so plain that the most indifferent had to sit up and take 'notice. And even those who have made the fact that Indiana is “a great and rich state” the excuse for all sorts of extravagance were compelled to realize that It is just as disastrous for a state to habitually spend money beyond its Income as it is for an individual to do so/

The first thing done was to pass the bill making it the duty of cqunty treasurers to pay money over'to the state whenever it is called for. It will not be a new experience for the county treasurers. They have been doing it for years. Last year they did it to the extent of $1,772,000, the largest amount advanced in one year in the state’s history. It is, after all, a mere makeshift arrangement, but it will save the state treasurer the shame of stamping honest bills “not paid for the want of funds.” Tn the light of recent developments Governor Hanly’s statement to the legislature in his last message that “the financial condition of the state is exceptionally good” looks like a case of attempted deception. When he first went into office Mr. Hanly batted the administration of his predecessor, Colonel Durbin, right between the eyes because of the “embarrassing” financial situation he had brought about. But the situation now is worse than "embarrassing.” It is little less than scandalous. During three years of his administration Governor Hanly used for general expenses the whole of the sinking fund levy, amounting to about $500,000 a year, a total of $1,500,000 for the three years. And yet with that great additional sum the last treasury statement showed a book balance of only $493,000. Without the use of the sinking fund levy there would have been a deficit of $1,000,000. As has been stated before, that special leVy is not now available for general expenses and cannot be used to meet appropriations unless it is again transferred to the general by legislative act. If it is so transferred it will mean that the state will not exercise its option to pay its bonds in 1910, but will hold them off until they are due in 1915.

• • • Before this week ends the Democrats in the house will have passed a bill in redemption of every promise contained in their state platform. If they could only reach the governor they would become laws. But unfortunately before they can get there they must pass the senate' alley, where they are likely to be sandbagged by the Republican majority. Aside from the political bills, there are hundreds of others still pending and members are

trying almost savagely to ears thstr favorites from slaughter. It hi only death that they fear at this stage. The bill that gets through during the last days, can point to its scars and mutilations as evidence of the fight it made, and even, perhaps, as marks of honor. But not many of the pending hundreds will escape death. Most of them will die because they do not deserve to live. If all of them should pass it would be necessary to wall in the state and turn half of It into a penitentiary and the other half into a lunatic asylum. Now and then a good measure is killed and a bad one is given a vote of confidence, but there is in most instances a fair discrimination. But the goats so outnumber the sheep! And so crowded tumbrils go to the guillotine every day and decapitations are performed with neatness and dispatch by the executioners. And the multitud&tApplauds—and so do most of the lawmakers. Those amiable Frenchmen who frequented the Place de Greve from morn till night in the good old days of Robespierre and Marat never saw a head fall with greater I satisfaction than "is felt by the average legislator over the killing of another fellow’s bill after one of his own has suffered a like fate. • • •

The most important thing the legislature has on its books this week is the general appropriation bill. Much depends on its construction. The question whether the state will be able to weather the financial storm without borrowing money will be answered largely by the character of the appropriation bill. The present fiscal year ends on the 30th of next September

and the appropriations for it were made two years ago. This legislature must provide for the fiscal years 1910 and 1911. So far as the regular appropriations are concerned it is believed that there will be a substantial reduction in the total. It is the special appropriations that worry the legislators and make them wonder where the money is going to come from to pay them. Now here are the various state institutions holding up their plates for special appropriations amounting to nearly three and a half million dollars. Governor Marshall has called attention to the fact that there will be less than two millions available for these purposes. If more is voted the state will either have to "go broke” or borrow money. It is going to take some close figuring and not a little diplomacy to shape things up satisfactorily. In view of the existing “financial stringency” the demands that the three state-supported schools have made upon this legislature Jiave been most remarkable. These schools are Indiana and Purdue universities and the normal school at Terre Haute. Among them they ask for special appropriations amounting to more than a million dollars. In addition, they asked that the special tax levy made for them be Increased from "2% cents on each SIOO to 4 cents, thus making their income nearly $700,000 a year. - But then, the pulling and hauling that is going on before the appropriations committees of the two houses is something frightful all around. Apparently no one institution cares a rap what happens to any other institution, just so it gets what it is afters You can recognize a member of the appropriations committee as far as yau can see him. He has a weary and furtive took, like a fox that has been chased over three counties.

To make matters worse, the two committees —the Democratic ways and means committee of the house and the Republican finance committee of the senate—have different views about what should be done. The Democrats are determined to carry out, if possible, their party’s economy program, while the Republicans, judged by their past record, don’t care a hoot about any economy program, to say nothing of one of Democratic origin. • • • Governor Marshall has found it necessary to veto a few bills, including four to create new courts. Doubtless before he gets through he will veto some more. What he has done in that line so far has been generally approved, and it is not probable that he will make any mistake hereafter in the exercise of his constitutional right to disapprove proposed legislation. In the first place both the public at large and Hie members of the legislature have confidence in hiq purposes and also in his judgment, "and this is a combination with which it is hard to find fault. In the next place the governor has the happy faculty of being able to disagree with others without making it a personal matter. Some of his predecessors—no more in earnest than he—frequently managed to rub the legislative fur the wrong way and thus provoke a row. As a rule, Governor Hanly did not rub the fur at all. On the contrary, he made bold to skin off the whole hide. • * ■ •

The legislature has been trying to find out who sold several tons of public documents and what was done with the money. About twenty years ago, when the Republicans had possession of the state offices, a negro Janitor was accused of selling wagon loads of doc'uments and books to junk dealers and pocketlfig the money. Among the articles thus disposed of and lost were many records and papers of great official and historical importance. How serious the present operations of thrifty officials or employes will prove to be, no one knows yet The tons of books and documents which have been surreptitiously sold and carted off cost the taxpayers a lot of money. If they had no value save as waste paper it is proof that the state officials have been very kind to the public printer. MILLARD F. COX.

ALIENS DEFEAT EXCLUSION ACT

Undesirables by Thousands Enter United States. REPORT ON IMMIGRATION Investigation Shows That Many Worn- , en Are Being Imported Under Conditions Which Amount to Absolute Slavery—Much Importance Attached to the Inquiry Into Alien Criminality —Commission Needs from Congress Money to Carry on Its Work. Washington, March 2. —Some facts showing the far-reaching character of the work of the joint commission on appointed by congress Feb. 20, 1907, were presented to congress through the publication of a preliminary report by the commission. The report Was printed and circulated to show the necessity for an appropriation of $250,000 to carry on and complete the work. The expenses of the commission from April 1, 1907, to Feb. 27, 1909, have been $344,796. Thousands Defeat Law. The commission says it is generally admitted by those acquainted with the subject that, notwithstanding that the present law proposes to provide for the exclusion of every undesirable immigrant, thousands of undeniably undesirable persons are admitted each year. It has been found that the law in theory, so far as its exclusion provisions are concerned, is exceptionally strong, but in effect it is in some respects weak and ineffectual. One of the most important features of the work is connected with evasions of the law resulting in the importation of excluded classem Notwithstanding the expenditure of about $500,000 annually to enforce this law the commission finds that it does not prevent the coming of Chinese laborers in considerable numbers. Women Held as Slaves.

An extensive investigation is being made into the question of the importation and harboring of “white slaves.** The''results show that many women are being constantly imported under conditions which amount to absolute slavery. As the results of its inquiries and the evidences it has gathered there has been a noteworthy attack upon this business which has resulted in a marked decrease, since the commission began its work. It has been found that in numerous Instances persons afflicted with contagious diseases, and even criminals of a dangerous type, have been able to evade the immigration laws and come to this country under the pretense of being seamen.

Subject of Allen Criminality.

Importance is attached to the inquiry being made into the subject of alien criminality. The higher criminal courts of New York city are, at the request of the commission, keeping records in detail of each person convicted of crime, and it is intended that a study of foreign-born criminals of the second generation will be made in that city. The investigation, however, is not confined to the larger cities, but is being carried into smaller centers and industrial communities in various parts of the country.

ACT ON ROOSEVELT HINT

No Poll Tax In Hawaii If You Are the Father of Six. Honolulu, March 2.—The house of representatives has approved President Roosevelt’s views on the advantage to the state of large families. It has adopted a bill which provides that fathers of six or more children shall be exempt from poll tax. Beats Record Made by Roosevelt. Piqua, 0., March 2. —Dr. G. C. Throckmorton, sixty-five years old, beat the military ride of President Roosevelt of ninety-six miles, military gait, when he rode three horses in relays from Sidney through Piqua to Troy, twenty miles and return, three times, 120 miles in all, in thirteen hours and forty-five minutes. Attack on Roosevelt Within Rules. Washington, March 2.—The special committee appointed to examine the speech of Representative Cook, in which he violently attacked the president, reported that under the rules there is nothing in the speech whereby it should be stricken from the Congressional Record. Proposes Monument For Garfield. Washington, March 2.—A $50,000 monument in memory of President James A. Garfield is proposed In a bill introduced by Representative Langley of Kentucky. Nurses' Pension Bill Passed. x Washington. March 2. —The senate has passed a senate bill pensioning at the rate of sl2 a month dependent volunteer army nurses of the civil war.

BLAST KILLS AN ENGINEER

five Others Fatally Injured When Locomotive Boiler “Lets Go.” Findlay, O„ March 2.—The boiler of an engine pulling a passenger train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and 'Dayton railroad exploded ten miles west of here, killing the engineer. f Five other persons were fatally injured by the explosion-

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COOPER CASE WITNESS BOUGHT BY DEFENSE

Post-Mortem Examination an Aid to Men on Trial / - -- Nashville, March 2. —The spectacle of counsel on one side not only selling a witness to the opposition, but haggling over the terms, was one of the incidents in the trial of Colonel D. B. Cooper, Robin Cooper and John D. Sharp for the slaying of former United States Senator E. W. Carmack.

The subject of the commercial transaction was Dr. McPheeters Glasgow, who had been employed by the prosecution to perform an autopsy on Carmack’s body. He was subpoenaed by the state but not used. The defense then summoned the doctor.

Attorney General McCarn made thia proposition: That if the defense would pay the state the costs of the autopsy, including Dr. Glasgow’s fee, the state would waive its rights. As Judge Hart said, "the defense wanted to see the goods before they bought,” and they offered to confer with Dr. Glasgow. To this the prosecutors entered an emphatic veto. "Pay whether you use him or not,* they said. Finally Dr. Glasgow became a witness for the defense. The significance of his testimony was \hat any one of the three wounds was necessarily and instantly fatal and. that if the senator did not fire the first shots be could not have fired at alt

S. J. Binning, formerly of 111., testified that on the day of the tragedy he saw Carmack examining a revolver near the scene of the shooting. Under cross-examination this wife ness became confused and weakened his direct testimony.

Starts Repayment of $12,000,000. New York, March 2.—The paying of $12,000,000 in rebates, due to gas consumers In Manhattan and the Bronx, under the eighty-cent gas law, is going on at the offices of the Consolidated Gas company.

THE MARKETS

j > 4 Cash Grain Market. Chicago, March 1. Winter wheat by sample: No. 2 red, [email protected]; No. 3 red, [email protected]; No. 2 hard, $1.15% @ 1.18%; No. 3 hard, [email protected]%.. Spring wheat by sample: No. 1 northern, [email protected]; No. 2 northern, No. 3 spring, [email protected]%. Corn by sample: No. 3, 63%@64%c; No. 3 white, 65@65%c; No. 3 yellow, 64@64%c; No. 4, 62 %@ 63%c. Oats by sample: No. 2 white, 55c; No. 3 white, 53@54c; No. 4 white, 52%@53%c. Chicago Live Stock. Hogs—Receipts 60,000. Quotation* ranged at [email protected] for choice heavy shipping, [email protected] light mixed, $6.35 @6.40 choice light, [email protected] mixed packing, [email protected] heavy packing, [email protected] good to choice pigs. Cattle —Receipts 24,000. Quotation* ranged at [email protected] for prime fat steers, [email protected] good to choice steers, [email protected] good to choice beef cows, [email protected] good to choice calves, $5.00 @5.95 selected feeders, $3.85 @ 4.40 medium to good Stockers. Sheep—Receipts 25,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for good to choice wethers, [email protected] fair to choice lambs, [email protected] choice ewes, [email protected] western fed lambs. East Buffalo Live Stock. East Buffalo, N. Y., March 1. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle—Receipts 110 cars; market steady. Hogs —Receipts 90 cars; market steady; heavy, $6.85; Yotker*, $6.65 @6.75; pigs, $6.30. Sheep and Lamb*—-Re-ceipts 110 cars; market active; best lambs, $8.00; yearlings, [email protected]; wethers, [email protected]; ewes, [email protected]. Calves —Best, [email protected]. Elgin Butter Market. Elgin, March 1. Creamery, extras, 28c; prints, 82c; extra firsts, 27c; firsts, 25c; dairies, extra, 25c; firsts, 21c; packing stock, 17c.