Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1909 — Page 2

THE JISPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. I. BIBCOCK, EDITOR MO PUBLISHER. Official Democratic Paper of Jasper County. Published Wednesdays and Saturdays. Sintered as Second-Class Hatter June Lit 08. at the poet office at Rensselaer, L, under the Act of March a, l*7t. Office on Van Rensselaer Street. Lons Distance Telephones: Office 316. Residence Sll. Advertising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1009.

SPEAKER HONAN.

No judgment on the work of the Legislature would be at all adequate that did not take into account the services rendered by Mr. Honan, Speaker of the House. He was “on the lob” at all times. His influence was ever on the side of what Was right. He was a sort of executioner-in-chief of bad bills. The number of these that were left over in the House proves how great was the work done by the Speaker. The Legislature did well, , and the House did particularly well. The Governor helped in every way possible. But without the loyal support and co-operation of the Speaker it would have been impossible to get the results that were achieved. Mr. Honan showed marked ability in dealing with a difficult situation. As we showed yesterday the lobby was never more active, and, it may be said, more desperate. With the House and Senate differing in politics there were many temptations to trade—and,lndeed, much trading was . done. Many of the Democratic members were new men, therefore was difficult. And the difficulty was aggravated when Mr. Garrard, the Democratic floor leader, became the champion of the schoolbook bill and the public utilities bill. But Mr. Honan had no other thought than to do what was fair and right. So he soon won the confidence of his party and the respect of the Republicans. He showed good nature as well as good sense throughout, and so was looked to as the real Democratic leader. Under the guidance of such men as Governor Marshall and Mr. Honan the Democratic party in this State ought to make great headway. The old influences seem to be dethroned in State politics. By the end of Governor Marshall’s term they ought to be hopelessly discredited.—lndianapolis News.

OFF WITH THE LUMBER TARIFF.

It is extremely gratifying to The Northwestern Agriculturist to observe the very general protest against the retention s os the present tariff on lumber, which is being made by most of the intelligent and public spirited journals east of the Rocky Mountains and north of the extreme southern states. The tariff on lumber ranges from $2 to $3,50 thousand and is largely prohibitive. The only demand that can in any degree be called popular that comes up to congress for the retention of the present tariff on lumber corngs from Coast, especially the states of Washington and Oregon, and from certain southern states, which always vote for tree trade and which are now clamoring for the retention of an indefensible protective duty on lumber. The great bulk of the population from which our present government derives its power, the agricultuarl people and those directly and indirectly dependent on agriculture and the consuming millions of the east, are almost a unit in clamoring for the repeal of the tariff on lumber. Even in the Pacific coast states, the farming classes demand a repeal of the duty on lumber. In the middle west states even the retail lumbermen demand free trade in lumber. The country has been promised tariff revision. The people have waited expectantly for it, and congress is about to assemble In special session, presumably to give us genuine tariff revision. Throughout the agricultural west the test of the genuiness of the revision will largely be taken to the action in regard to the lumber tariff. Our people feel that if the tariff can not be taken off anything; that if the lumber industry needs protection, everything needs protection, and all this talk about tariff revision is pure bunco. Our forests are dwindling and unless we choose to speak in defiance of all available statistics, tbey are almost on the verge of exhaustion. On the whole, the price of lumber soars ever higher and higher, and the value of timber holdings advances with leaps and bounds. Here in Minnesota we have seen standing timber advance in value from $1

to sl2, per thousand feet inside of ten years. Everywhere there has been a big advance in timber values. Yet, now the lumbermen come to us and plead for a tariff largely because their timber is so much more valuable than it used to be. For that is just what they mean when they say stumpage costs so much that they must have protection against the cheap timber of Canada. This la simply a demand for protection on an "unearned increment.” Cost of production and wages are as high in Canada or higher than here. Here is the situation in a nutshell. The price of lumber and timber has increased enormously within a few years. In good times our domestic mills cannot supply the demand. The forests are almost gone. Every year the demand on them Increases. Soon they will be wiped out. Canada has vast forest resources on which we can draw both to the relief forests and to the benefit of our consumers. But our lumbermen, after all their years of prosperity, fattened on the richest forests the world has ever known, enjoying the greatest home market that any industry ever had, competing with Canada and all other timber countries in the markets of the world, (even in those of Canada itself), to the extent of one-hundred twenty-five million dollars a year, now have the “nerve” to ask congress to retain an obsolete duty. It is up to congress now, but a little later it will be up tothe people; the people of the great agricultural valleys and plains of the nation. What will congress do? —N. W. Agriculturist.

WONT RECEIVE WHITE WIFE

Pugilist Johnson’s Matrimonial Venture Stpps Galveston Celebration. Galveston, Tex., March 16. —The home coming of the colored pugilist, Jack Johnson, is creating much excitement among negroes here. Committees have been selected and they are preparing to meet Johnson at the train with a band and a long line of carriages for a parade. Dispatches indicate that the lighter is accompanied by a white wife and, according to leaders of the reception committee, if this is found to bo true Galveston colored folk will show their disapproval by calling off the entertainment arrangements. Committeemen say that they consider the marriage of Johnson to a white woman to be in violation of the laws and customs of the country of his birth.

MAKES LONDON STEP LIVELY

Thousands of Women Attend Opening of American Department Store. London. March 16. —The opening in London of Its first American department store a memorable event. The new '‘Yankee" enterprise, as It Is generally called here, has electrified the old firms to frantic efforts to outdo the new competitor. They are resorting to concerts, anniversary celebrations and other entertainments, even employing grand opera singers, military bands and music hall performers. The doors of the American store were opened at 9 o’clock and shortly after the establishment was crowded with thousands, mostly women.

BALANCED ROCK KILLS BOY

Topples Over on Him When He Attempts to Climb It. Middletown, N. Y., March 16.—A balanced rock, weighing two tons, which has been one of the curiosities in Tuxedo park, was upset by a small boy. crushing him to death. The victim was Frederick Cox, the fourteen-year-old son of William Cox, a park policeman. Frederick attempted to climb to the top of the rock while his little sister looked on and laughed.

HOUNDS HUNT FUGITIVE

Negro Kno-ks Down Two Women and Escapes From Jail. Springfield, 0., March 16. — After knocking down the sheriff’s wife and a woman attendant, Alfred Frey, colored. leaped through a window in the county jail and escaped. Bloodhounds were obtained and a posse headed by Sheriff Lawrence has gone in pursuit.

Horse Being Trained For Taft.

Oklahoma City, Okla., March 16.—A big Oklahoma horse, purchased for the army, is being trained at Fort Reno, Okla., for President Taft. The animal will be shipped to Washington in a few days.

The Weather.

Following is the official weather forecast; Illinois and Indiana—Rain or snow today; fair tomorrow. Lower Michigan—Snow flurries today; fair tomorrow. Wisconsin and lowa—Snow today; fair tomorrow.

Kills Would-Be Slayer

A merciless murderer is Appendicitis with many victims. But Dr. King’s New Life Pills kill it by prevention. They gently stimulate stomach, liver and bowels, preventing '■ that clogging that Invites appendicitis, curing Constipation, Biliousness, Chills, Malaria, Headache and Indigestion. 25c at A. F. Long’s.

INSURGENTS WIN IN HOUSE FIGHT

Successful Is Campaign For Change of Roles. CANNON GIVEN 204 VOTES Amendment Offered by Representative Fitzgerald of New York Is Adopted—Speaker Announces That In Making Up Committees Minority Leader Will Not Be Consulted—Wife of President Taft Spectator at Btormy Session. Washington, March 16. After a stormy session the house of representatives, regardless of party alignment, adopted, 211 to 172, a resolution by Mr. Fitzgerald, a New York Democrat, whereby the rules were amended in several important particulars. The resolution substituted for one offered by Champ Clark, the minority leader. This vas accomplished only after the “insurgents” with the aid of the Democrats, with one or two exceptions, had won a preliminary victory by voting down a resolution by Mr. Dalzell of Pennsylvania, making the unamended rules of the Sixtieth congress applicable to those of the present congress. Changes Are Analyzed. As analyzed by parliamentarians, the amendment makes these important changes: First, it establishes a "calendar for unanimous consents,” the effect of which is to enable a member to have a proposition brought be fore the house without having to go to the speaker for recognition. This change, they say, will be a relief to the speaker. Second, when consideration of a bill is concluded and the previous question is ordered the rules heretofore have provided for a motion to commit with or without instructions. It

CHAMP CLARK.

has- been the practice to recognize a member of the majority party to make this motion and thuß prevent the minority from offering such instructions as it may desire. The new rule gives the minority the preference in making such a motion and thus enables them to get a record vote on propositions which would otherwise be settled in committee of the whole house, where no record vote is possible. Third, it protects the calendar Wednesday by requiring a two-thirds instead of a majority vote to set it aside. Fourth, it is also claimed that the amendment will have the effect of preventing favoritism by the action of the committee on rules In special cases. “Improvement," Says Cannon. Speaker Cannon Is inclined to regard the amendment as a slight improvement on the present rules, in thatinstead of throwing the responsibility for recognition on him, it sets aside certain days for the consideration of measures under unanimous consent; but, he says, under the new rules members will have to wait for those days. In the balloting for the speakership Joseph G. Cannon received 204 votes as against 166 for Champ Clark, 8 for Cooper of Wisconsin, 2 for Norris cf Nebraska, and 1 each for Esch of Wis consin, and W. P. Hepburn of lowa, p.n ex-member. All the Democratic mem tiers voted for Clark, so that the scattering vote represented the Republican defection from Cannon. One of the most interested spectators during the session was Mrs. Taft, who remained for four, hours.

TRANSPORT STILL AGROUND

British Cruiser Fails to Float Btranded American Troopship. Honolulu, March 16.—The British cruiser Cambrian attached a line to the stranded American troopship Logan to assist the tugs in their attempt to float the transport. When the tide reached its height the Work began. The big vessel had moved slightly from its position on the sees when the hawser attached by the Cambrian parted and the effort to get the vessel into deep water was suspended.

Thirty Forged Paintings Seized.

Paris, March 16.—The police have Seized thirty palntlngß which bore the alleged forged signatures of Jean' Jacques Henner, Narclsse Diaz, Gustave Courbet and Felix Zlem. The paintings were destined for sale at New York.

HAINS’ TRIAL APRIL 19

Oaptain Will Face Charge of Murdering William E. Annla. Flushing, N. Y., March 16. —Captain Peter C. Hains Jr., U. S. A., will be put on trial April 19 here, on the charge of murdering William E. Annis at the Bayside Yacht club in August of last year. Justice Garretson of the Bupreme court will preside.

NAGEL ON OFFICAL TRIP

Goes to New York Today to Study Question of Immigration. Washington, March 16.—Secretary Nagel of the department of commerce •nd labor has informed President Taft

DANIEL J. KEEFE.

that he will leave today for New York to study immigration subjects at that port. He will be accompanied by Commissioner Keefe of tne immigration bureau. Nagel will be the first of the new cabinet officers to take an official trip.

ITALIANS PROTEST TO SECRETARY OF WAR

Complaint by Women Keeps, Laborers Off West Point Walks. West Point, N. Y., March 16. —Several hundred Italian laborers, employed on the government reservation here, were stopped by army officers when they attempted to use the walks leading to the military academy buildings. Recently an order was issued that all laborers excepting mechanics should take a back road in going to end from work. Complaints were made that tobacco smoke has been blown in the faces of women. The laborers returned to Highland Palls and mass meeting. It was decided to send a telegram to the secretary of war, charging that the West Point authorities were discriminating against the Italians. Major J. M. Carson, quartermaster, has given the strikers until Thursday to return to work.

ILLEGALIZES BRIDGE WHIST

Anti-Gambling Bill Is Passed by the Nevada Senate. Carson, Nev., March 16.—The senate has passed an anti-gambling bill. The measure today will.go to the house. It contains a provision placing bridge whist and all games of chance in the same category as faro and roulette. .

THE MARKETS

Cash Grain Market. Chicago, March 16. V’in’-r r heat by sample No. 2 red. No. 3 red. $1.16%@ 1-23; No. 2 hard, [email protected]; No. 3 hard, $1.12% @1.17. Spring wheat by sample: No. 1 northern, $1.18%@1.29; No. 2 northern, [email protected]; No. 3 spring, $1.12%@1.16. Corn by sample, No. 3, 65%@65%0; 'No. 3 yellow, 65% @66c; No. 4, 64@64%c. Oats by sample: No. 2 white, 54 %c; No. 3 white, 53@54%c; No. 4 white, 52@52%c; standard, 54 %c. Chicago Live Stock. Hogs—Receipts 64,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for choice heavy shipping, [email protected] light mixed, $6.60 @6.70 choice light, [email protected] mixed packing, * [email protected] heavy packing, [email protected] good to choice pigs. Cattle—Receipts 26,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for prime to fat steers, $6.25 @6.66 good to choice steers! $4.35 @5.50 good to choice beef cows, [email protected] good to choice heifers, $7.50 @8.25 good to choice calves, $5.00 @5.30 selected feeders, $4.40@ 4.75 good to choice Stockers. East Buffalo Live Stock. East Buffalo, N. Y., March 15. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y„ quote as follows: Cattle—Receipts 90 care; market strong. Hogs —Receipts 80 care; market lower; heavy, $7.10; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, $6.30. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts 80 cars; market strong; best lambs, *58.25; yearlings, [email protected]; wethers, [email protected]; ewes, $5.25@ 6.76. Calves—Best, [email protected]. Elgin Butter Market. Elgin March 15. Creamery, extras, 28 %c; prints, 31e; extra firsts, 27c; finite, 25e; dairies, extra, 21c; firsts, 21o; packing stock. We.

PUBLIC SALES.

The Democrat has printed bills for the following public sales: Thursday, March 18, Hugh Brosnan, 3 miles west and 3 miles north of Rensselaer. General sale of horses, cattle, hogs, chickens, farm tools, household goods, etc. Thursday, March 18, Isaac Parcels, 3% miles east of McCoysburg, % mile east and 1 % miles north of Lee, 10 miles east and 1% miles south of Rensselaer. General sale of horses, cattle and household goodß.

Oliver Chilled Plow goods are sold by Maines & Hamilton. g Incubator Oil, Incubator Thermometers, Incubator Lamps, and Sanitary Hen Coops and Nests— We have them. EGER BROS.

GOOD COFFEE I For DreaKfctst Nothing better to fit one for a good day’s work than a cup of coffee at breakfast time. But. get good coffee. Poor coffee Is little from a health standpoint, than roasted snowflakes. There Is nothing there which your system demands or palate relishes. Say—try our Ferndell Coffee. That’s all. McFarland & Son \ F J Reliable Groeers

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X We have a supply of mon- ♦ f ey to loan on farms at •’ f Five Per Cent t and a reasonable commis- ;; I sion, and shall be glad to ;; X answer inquiries by mail ;; | or by ’phone it Hiii iii X North Side Public Bquaro ♦

Millions to Loan I We are prepared to care of all the Farm Loan business In this and adjoining countlea at Lowest Rates and Beat Terms, regardless of the “financial stringency.” If you have a loan coming due or desire a new loan If wIN not be necessary to pay the excessive rates demanded by our competitors. FIVE PER CENT. small commission • Prompt service ' •• ... .\ . Irwin & Irwin Odd Fellows Bldg. Rensselaer.

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We also handle all kinds of Pumps and Cylinders, Pipe and Fittings and do Plumbing of all kinds. Steam and Hot Water Heating Ali repair work promptly attended to. Call and bee ns before buying or ’phone 141 or - 262.

Weil Drilling and Repairing 1 1 We have Just purchased a !| 1; brand-new well drilling out- ; i fit and solicit patronage In '! ' | our line of work. Phone !' j; 298 or 364. j! MOOBE & HOCHSTtTLEB

J.W. HORTON ’ mmUmm ' DENTIST Opposite Court House

Chicago to Northweat, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and tha South. Louisville and French Lick Springe. RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. In Effect March 7, 1909. SOUTH BOUND. No.3l—Fast Mall 4:45 a m —Louisville Mall (daily) 1(i:66 a'm' No.33—lnd polls Mall (dally).. 2:01 d'm No.39—Milk accomm (dally).. 6:02 p! m! " NORTH BOUND. No. 4 —Mail (daily) 4.59 « m ■JJo.40 —Milk accomm. (dally) 7:81 &. N0.32-Fast Mall (daily)'...." 10.05 am. No. 6—Mall and Ex. (daily).. 3:17 n m N °^»~p in -,t° Chi. Ves. Mall 6:02 p! m! JNo- 4. will atop at Rensselaer to let oft passengers from points south of Monon, and take passengers for Lowan. Hammond and Chicago. *** N ° s - 31 and 33 make direct connection at Monon for Lafayette. FRANK J. REED. G P A W. H McDOEL, Pres and Gen's Mgr , CHAB. H. ROCKWELL, Traffic Mgr __ „ Chicago. W. H. BEAM, Agent. Rensselaer.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. Treasurer. Moses Leopold Ai U ?i Geo. A - Williams i £ Engineer ...H. L. Gamble c w h i e /den::::::::::j J /- SB2SEg At Large. .C. G. Spltler, Geo.' F. Meyer/ JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney Fred LonxweU Terms of Court—Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS Charles C. Warner Auditor James N. Leatherman Treasurer j. D . Allman Recorder j. W Tilton Surveyor W. Fl Osborne * Coroner W. J. Wright SupL Public Schools... Ernest Lamson Assessor... John Q. Lewis Health Officer M. D. Gwln , . * , COMMISSIONERS. Ist District John Pettet 2nd District Frederick Waymhe 3rd District Charles T. Denham Commissioners’ Court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Trustees Township Wm. Folgar Barkley Charles May Carpenter J. W. Selmer GlUam T J a l*' er - Hanging Grove Tunis Snip Keener £° hn - • Kankakee Edward Parkison Marion George L. Parks Milroy t Newton £ Un,on g. p. Ctatrit Wheatfleld Fred Karch ..Walker Ernest LAmson, Co. Supt.... .Rensselaer E. C. English Rensselaer James H. Green Remington Geo. O. Stembel Wheatfleld Truant Officer..C. B. Stewart. Rensselaer TRUSTEES’ CARDS. JORDAN TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Jordan township attends to official business at his residence on the first Saturday of each month; also at George Wortley’s residence, on the west side, the second Wednesday after the first Saturday of eO -ch month.. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postofflce address, Rensselaer. Ind., R-R-4. Telephone 629-F. W. H. WORTLEY, Trustee. NEWTON TOWNSHIP. . The undersigned trustee of Newton township attends to official business at his residence on the First and Third Thursdays of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address, Rensselaer. Ind., R-R-3. E. P. LANE, Trustee. UNION TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Union township to official business at his store in Fair Oaks on Fridays of each week. Persons having business with me will .please govern themselves accordingly. Postofflce address. Fair Oaks, Indiana. < ISAAC KIGHT.

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