Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1909 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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JASPER COUNTY IN LIMELIGHT

As Result of Tiptoe Bank Troubles. SIIO,OOO WAS 'EMBEZZLED And An Insurance Concern, of Which H. J. Kannal is President, Going Into Hands of Receivers—Cashier of Failed Bank Owns 800 Acres of Former Nelson Morris Land In North Jasper, and Was Also Con- ~ netted With the Kannal’s Insurance Co. According to further newspaper reports of the Tipton bank troubles, the total peculations of Noah Marker, the assistant cashier who left Saturday night, supposedly with $50,000 to $60,000 in, currency taken from the bank’s vaults, utterly gutting it, will reach SIIO,OOO at least. The books had been manipulated to cover up large sums of money taken by Marker in financing various enterprises that turned out failures. Forged notes were left with the bank’s papers to take the place of the originals which had been put ujfr with other banks for colateral for loans made to Marker personally, it is alleged. One of the enterprises in which the iashier, W. H. Marker and his brother Noah are alleged to have been interested in, is an insurance company In Ohio of which an Indianapolis paper publishes the following dispatch: Lima, 0., July 27.—The First National Bank, of Tipton, Ind., yesterday entered replevin proceedings for $40,000 in the Cuyahoga county • bonds, placed in escrow here by the Farmers and Citizens’ Live Stock Insurance Company at the command of otate Insurance Inspector Lemert. The action forced a recievership for the insurance company today. M. L- Becker is named as receiver. The company was floated and owned by capitalists at Tipton, Ind. The two Markers, cashier and assistant cashier of the Tipton bank, are said to be heavily interested. Attorneys for the insurance company say the Tipton bank has no interest whatsoever in the Cuyahoga bonds, and they declare the company is solvent in every way. Harvey J. Kannal, president of the insurance company; J. E. Baxter, vice-president, and William White, secretary-treasurer, are all Indiana men. Although the insurance company was incorporated in Ohio, most of its business was transacted in Indiana.

The Harvey J. Kannal mentioned in this dispatch is now believed to be Dr. Harvey J. Kannal of Rensselaer, the veterinary surgeon, whom some of his close acquaintances say has been interested in some insurance concern. Mr..Kannal left here Monday afternoon on the south bound train and has not returned at this writing. If he was connected with this insurance company it is evident that he did not give it very much of his personal attention, and kept the matter to himself. It is thought by some that he is in Ohio now looking after the company’s interests.

W. H. Marker, cashier of the looted bank, owns 800 acres of land in Wheatfield tp., this county, which he purchased of the Northern Indiana Land Co., in December, 1907. It is all of section 10 and 160 acres in section 9, and is a part of the old Nelson Morris land.

Tipton county has on deposit in the bank about >72,000. This is secured by a bond for $93,750, signed by Nannie R. Shirk, W. H. Marker, George Shortle, Jr.„N. R. Marker and A. J. Hobbs. This bond was given December 29, 1908, and in it W. H. Marker certified that he has personal property in Tipton county amounting to $50,000 and real estate ip - Tipton and Jasper counties to the amount of $25,000.

PARENTAL OBJECTIONS

Lead to John Critser’s Arrest On a Kidnapping Charge. John Crltser, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Crltser, living in the east part of town, was arrested Thursday on the charge of kidnapping preferred by Harry McGee, to whose daughter Crltser has been paying attentions which were strenuously objected to by the said Harry. The trouble has been brewing for some months and came to a climax Thursday when Miss McGee stealthily crept out of the house and fled ■with her Lochinvar to his uncle’s farm in the north part of the country.

Her father summoned Marshal Parks and they followed a blind trail to Wolcott, where they discovered that they had been out-generaled and the pursued pair had escaped. Later in the evening their whereabouts were learned and young Critser was arrested, but was discharged yesterday by Squire Irwin for a lack of evidence and owing to the fact that the girl is of legal age-

SMALL MANUFACTORIES BEST.

If we could locate a dozen small manufactories like Kalberer’s cement tile and fence post factory, it would be much better than one big factory employing twice the number of men that all the small ones would employ. The shutting down of a factory employing 200 to 300 men by strike, financial stringency or other cause, would be a very serious thing for a town of this size. But it would be scarcely probable that a dozen factories of diversified output, and employing from ten to twenty-five hands each, would all close down at once. Therefore, we say, let our Commercial Club be on the watch for smaller legitimate manufactories that are likely to grow’ into larger concerns, which will be satisfied with a small bonus, rather than some big enterprise which is likely to be more attracted by the bonus offered than anything else. In other words, don’t pass by dollars to pick up cents.

WILL ORGANIZE IN A FEW DAYS.

Subscriptions to Stock In Proposed Mutual ’Phone Co., Coming In Briskly. The organization of a mutual telephone company in Jasper county along the lines proposed and worked for by The Democrat will likely be made next week. There are perhaps 25 to 30 stock subscription blanks now out over the county to which | names are being secured by farmers lin those neighborhoods, for shares of stock, and while we do not know’ the exact number of names secured on all of these blanks, we do know that on one, 8 shares were secured ten ■days ago in less than two hours time, and that, too, at the little town of Kniman. They have likely more than doubled the number there since then. The blank at The Democrat office has nearly 50 names to it, and quite a number of the subscribers said they would take more than one share if it were necesary or there were plenty to be had; they wanted everyone to have an opportunity to subscribe, but they were not afraid of it and ■ would really like more than one ; share. One of this number is a ' prominent stockholder in the Brook Mutual,, who resides and owns land in this county. He also confirmed everything we have said in The Demorat regarding the success of the Brook company, of which he is a director. The Democrat has no financial interest in the establishing Of a mutual company here, except that we expect it will make quite a saving to us in phone rates in news-gathering, and we w’ill take one or two shares of stock and pay for it the same as any one else- In pushing the organization some one had to take the lead, and we have necessarilly had to be quite prominent in the movement. When the organization is perfected we are ready and anxious to step down and out and let some one else take the lead. The Democrat will do everything it can to help the cause along thereafter, of course, and thqt, too, without pay. We want to see the cause succeed and a good set of officers chosen by the stockholders, and in order to make it a success the organization should be formed outside and entirely independent of the move for a •’mutual” (?) that J. F. Bruner—who of late has been so closely conferring with the old company—is trying to form. The old company, it seems, does not want to recede from its position of $1.50 per month for county phones, so a deal has been hatched up by which Bruner is alleged to have got control of its country lines and is now offering service at the old price of $1 per month. However, if this move of The Democrat for a mutual should fail, it is very probable the old company would again j come into possession of these country I lines and $1.50 be demanded. Bear in mind, that the move of The Democrat and the stock subscrip, j tion blanks circulated through its es- : forts has nothing whatever to do with the so-called rthtual meeting advertised to be held at the court house today, the call for which is i this time signed “Committee,” of j which J. F. Bruner is the sole and ■ whole thing. The move is intended Ito divide the mutual sentiment, and should have no encouragement whatever. Some fine bacon—special 17c a pound at the Home Grocery. Subscribe for The Democrat.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1009.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Commissioners’ court meets Monday. G Township trustees should publish their annual estimates and tax levies next week. The Democrat has the necessary blanks if any of the trustees are not supplied with them. New’ suits filed: No. 7473. Mlsael R. Paradis vs. Edward J. Steinke, et al; suit to foreclose mortgageDemand $640. No. 7474- Michael Jungles vs. Thomas B. McCarthy et jp; action to quiet title. No. No. 7475. Albert C. Swing and J. G. Swing vs- Joseph G. Hobart, et al; suit to foreclose mortgage. Demand SII,OOO.

MANGLED IN MANURE SPREADER

Little Son of W. W. Sage Gets Arm Badly Lacerated Wednesday Afternoon. 9-year-old son of W. W- Sage of Jordan tp., got his arm caught in some manner in a manure spreader which was being used on the farm Wednesday afternoon, and it was so badly lacerated that it was necessary for the doctor to take seven stitches to draw the wounds together. Fortunately no bones were broken.

A. F. LONG DRAWS HOUSE AND LOT.

The Commercial Club lot drawing was held in the west court room Thursday evening and A. F. Long, on the 107th draw, pulled down the prize of lot 2, in block 19, on which a good house worth S7OO to SBOO is located.

There were 151 lots disposed of at this drawing. C. G. Spitler was elected chairman for the evening and C. CL Warner secretary. Chairman Spitler appointed S. E. Sparling, Prof. I. N. Warren and M. Leopold as a committee to decide on the manner of conducting the drawing and to verify the secretary’s list of eligible names. The Louisana lottery method, which B- F. Fendig plead guilty to having seen, was adopted, and J. P. Hammond, C. A. Tuteur, A. Halleck and Perry Gwin were appointed to conduct the drawing. The names were placed in one box and the lot numbers in another, and as the names were drawn from one box a lot was awarded them from the other.

A large number of ladies were present and vigorously applauded the speeches made before and after the meeting.

FUNERAL OF IRA W. YEOMAN.

KThe funeral of Ira W. Yeoman, vyio died at Remington Tuesday from a cancer in the side of his mouth from which he has suffered more or less for the past dozen years, was held at that place Thursday forenoon and the remains brought to Renselaer for interment in Weston cemetery, where his deceased children lie buried. A widow and six children survive him— George, of Benton county; Adella, Mrs. Harriet Hicks and Frances, of Remington; Stephen of Indianapolis; and Cleve, of New Orleans. V Mr. Yeoman was a life-long Democrat and served four years as auditor of this county. He was a genial, free-hearted man and had hosts of friends. ,

The following biography of him, except for some alterations caused by death, was written by Mr. Yeoman himself some 15 years ago: Ira W. Yeoman was born in Fayette county, Ohio, April 28, 1843; he came with his father and family to Jasper county, Indiana, locating near Rensselaer in June 1844. His father, Stephen Yeoman, was of English descent and married Hannah Smith, who was of German descent. To this union were born ten children, viz.: Joseph, Sarah, Elvira, James, Mary, Minerva. Elizabeth, John, Ira W. and Stephen, all of whom are now living except Sarah, John and James. He was educated in the common schpols of Jasper county, mainly, having attended one term in an academy in Dayton, Ohio. He was marred at Rensselaer October, 1866, to Harriet A. Sayers. By this union were born to them nine children, viz.; George 0., Minnie, Cornelia, Ernest, Elvira, Dell, Hattie Bell, Stephen 8., Ira C. and Frances F., all of whom are now living except Minnie, Cornelia and Ernest. He passed the earlier part of his life on a farm and later taught school in the winter seasons. He crossed the plains in 1864, going to the newly discovered gold fields beyond the Yellowstone river in Idaho Territory. He was elected

Auditor of Jasper county, Indiana, in October, 1867, and served as such for four years, and he w r as also a member of the board of town trustees of Rensselaer -for several years. He turned his attention to the study of law in 1871, and was admitted to practice in the Circuit Court in January, 1872. He has followed his chosen profession from that time to the time his sickness compelled him to remain at home, a year or more ago, with the exception of about one year, when he was engaged .in the service of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Minnesota railway, at Vinton, lowa, in 1877, after which he returned to Rensselaer, and remained there until October, 1879, when he removed to Goodland and followed his profession until March, 1887, when he removed to Remington, where he resided until his death, Tuesday, at 11 a. m. Mr. Yeoman’s grandfather, Stephen Yeoman, was a soldier and hero of the Revolutionary War. He was an unyielding Whig, and intensely hated by the Tories for his loyalty to Colonial Government- On one occasion he was visited by a band of Tories, who, finding him alone of Tories, who, finding him alone, at the plow, captured him and took him to a tree for the purpose of hanging him, but upon consultation, they agreed to lash him Instead, and having fastened him with his plow lines, each one of them inflicted thirty lashes by means of straps and then fled. He was found bleeding and nearly insensible, from which horrible cruelity he never fully recovered.

FORMER RESIDENTS HOLD REUNION IN SPOKANE.

Spokane, Wash., July 26, ’O9Editor Democrat: I suppose it is fairly well known —if not known, it would be very natural to presume—that all this great western country is or has been at one time filled up by people from the eastern states. But it will be a surprise, I am sure, to some to know how largely Jasper county, Indiana, has contributed to the growth of this one great city of the far west.

On Sunday, July 25, a few Rensselaer people called for all Jasper county people to fill their baskets and meet at Liberty Park and lunch together. It was a sample Spokane day, cool and pleasant. Liberty Park is an ideal lounging place in the heart of the city, one of the many beauty spots of nature. So, in response to this call, thirtyfive people came together to shake hands and congratulate each other on having come this way. And as we talked together many others could be mentioned who had not met with us, who had hailed from Jasper county, Indiana, and I am sure it will be a pleasure to all their Jasperite friends to know that each one reports this to be a goodly land, and that they are doing well in this new country.

Much excitement is in the air here just now over the registering for a homestead in the Indian ’Reservations, soon to be opened for Settlement. Many are coming in from the east, and it is to be hoped that among the successful applicants will be found a goodly number of persons from Hoosierdom, and some from Jasper county. Yours truly, M. V. BROWN.

CITY COUNCIL MEETING.

Nothing except allow claims was done by the Common Council at its regular meeting Monday night. All members were present except Councilman Meyers. Twelve members of the fire department were allowed SI.OO each for responding to the call at Eger Bros, gasoline blaze recently. Following claims were allowed: CORPORATION FUND. W. S. Parks, marshall $30.00 E. M. Thomas, nightwatch... 25.00 Chas. Morlan, clerk 25.00 G. H. McClain, insurance. . . . 39.00 M. L. Hemphill, wk on h wg’n 12.60 Matchless Metal Polish Co, mer 3.75 B. F. Fendig, mdse 6.45

ROAD FUND. B Campbell, labor with team 11.67 Earl Chestnut, work on street 21.00 Jean Sniith, work on rock. .. . 22.75 Philip McElfresh, blacksmith. .85 M. L. Hemphill, same 9.35 Hordeman & Platt, cement wk 8.30 ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND. C. S. Chamberlain, salary. .. . 50 00 Mell Abbott, same 30.00 Dave Haste, same.... 30.00 Terence Thompson, wk on line 23.70 Shirley Hill Coal Co., coal. . . .184.29 Central Electric Co., supplies 1.10 Western Electric Co., same. . . 45.64 B- F. Fendig, mdse 4.25 Hartford St’m Boiler Co., ins. 135.00 Moses Leopold, freight 48.22

UNION VESPER SERVICES.

Subject, “Basic Religious Principles.’’ “Theological Axiom,’’ Q. H. Clarke “Religious Axiom,” H. L- KiAdig “Moral Axiom,” O. E. Miller? In case pf rain preventing services at 6:30, the same will be held one hour later at Baptist church. Threshing Coal— All kinds, lowest prices. COEN & Brady. Try “Beauty” condensed milk, 5 and 10 cents, at the Home Grocery.

GANDERBONES FORECAST

FOR AUGUST. (Copyright 1909, by C. H. Reith.) Last year— Sagamore Hill, Fever and thrill, Never a minute When it was so still. Always a liar To put in the club, 1 A rogue or a rascal To raise a hubbub. Last year— Sagamore Hill. This year— Lo, and alas! Beverly, Mass., With Bill on the flat Of his back on the grass Dreaming a dream Of the faraway sky, And how and then stirring To bat at a fly. Last year— Shindy and sass, This year— Beverly, Mass. Last year— Quarrel and grudge, This year— O, fudge!

August was originally the month of Sextilis, but in the time of Augustus there was a movement in the Roman Senate to name it for the reigning Caesar. The resolution was bitterly opposed by the insurgents and Democrats, but Agrippa Aldrichus and Maecenas Cannonus put it through, and Consumus Ultimatus, the leader of the opposition, was made a galley slave The fight was one of the most thrilling in the history of Rome, and it kept the Senate in session so late in the summer that some of the senators almoet missed their Chautauqua engagements.

In the beginning, too, August had but twenty-nine days, and it was pretty generally felt that this was enough; but Julius Caesar added two days, and only the entreaties of the people restrained him from adding two or three more He liked August. It was a glorious season in the Pontine marshes, and the hardiness and manhood which subsequently made him Imperial Caesar he attributed to swimming in green ponds, fighting mad dogs and going around with his big toe bandaged in the good old days when the boys called him “Red.”

The cow will wade the pasture pond With each day boiling hotter, And the luckless calf will have to learn To suckle under water, To stick his head up, wanting breath, To duck it, wanting rations, And otherwise amuse the ducks. Mud-turtles and batrachians.

The farmer will survey the field and pray to have a rainstorm, and the dog will look upon the pool and have another brainstorm, the weary world will make its rounds with sweltering and yawning, the sun will try a brand new lens upon the summer awning.

Mr. Rockefeller will give away money this month on the 2d, 17th and 26th. He will receive it the other twenty-eight days of the month. The moon will be full on the Ist, Mercury will become evening star on the 4th, and the consumer will eat on the Bth and 21st. Lectures will move in the regular outdoor orbit from the Ist to the 20th, and elocutionists will be at large for the first fifteen days. No trusts will be busted this month, but the regular monthly installments will be collected on all fines. Mr. Roosevelt will range into the Albertine Basin, and the Cabifiet will meet under a bush on the President’s lawn Persons trying to tour Europe on S3OO will cable home for more money, summer boarders will come back to town for something to eat, and Mr. Bryan will mount the squared platform in the wilderness and continue to supply the opposition with ideas.

Our Mr. Taft will play at golf, And the sun will burn and tawn him The while a nigger follows up And throws ice water on him

The canning seasqn will return, and the Sugar Trust will manage to make us pay that one or two odd million it was damaged when I ncle Sam inflicted justice upon Its deep-laid plot to bust us. O, would that we could find a trust that would so far indebt us that after we had blistered It there were no way to get us! Or that the mad consumer might lay one trust in its coffin with some Invention where he did not sting himself so often!

Vol. Nil- No. 31.

But hold! enough of these vain hopes—■ There is no promise there: ■ The average consumer’s head’s A loafing place for hair, ; And not a rendezvous for bright I Ideas; if it were, He’d have a trust himself and lift The other fellow’s fur.

Meanwhile, Mars will advance by easy stages, and the signal corps practice daily for the interplanetary communication we are to have in October. Mars will at that time be distant but 36,000,000 miles, and there is some hope that he may have seen prosperity, which appears to have gone that far, anyway. On the twenty-second the month will pass from the influence of Leo the Lion to that of Virgo, the sixth sign of the zodiac. Persons born under Virgo lack the» audacious brilliancy which makes presidents and great men of those born under Leo, but they are shrewd and soft-step-ping, and got what they wanted in the new tariff bill. Virgo babies are born with only one eye shut. No Virgo person ever had both eyes closed at the same time, or tried to put a letter in a fire-alarm box.

The summer camper will desert the city for the woods, and fill a wagon with his traps, his duffle and his goods. He’ll pitch his tent upon some wild and shady bit of ground, and take a spade and raise a slight embankment all around. The birds will sing him welcome, and the trees will sigh aloft, and the earth will teem with beauty in the gloaming sweet and soft. The stilly night will drop its robe and pin it with a star, and when the morning dawhs they’ll find a torn mosquito bar, a million or so little holes through which he has been bled, and nothing but an empty skin deflated on the bed.

The Chautauqua lecture rates for this month are the most tempting in years, viz.: U. S. Senators, insurgent, $2500; standpat, $250; Democrat voting with Aldrich, $100; Standard Oil, $1000; sugar, $800; steel, $750; woolen stuffs, $600; other industries, S3OO. Standard Oil judges: preferred, $2000; common, S3OO. Congressmen: heard of, $500; unheard of, S2OO. Governors: Democratic who ran ahead of Bryan, $1200; who have defied federal courts, southern variety, $1200; plain, $125. Reformers, civic, $300; prohibition, $75; general, $5. Suffragettes: pretty, $3500; intellectual, $750. Trust busters: U. S., $800; local, $75. Crators, fancy, $125; medium, $75; plain, SSO. Heroes: army, $100; navy, S2OO. Talkers, sßs'. Thinkers, $65. Prophets: $325; prosperity, sls. Windjammers; ordinary,sso; extraordinary, S3OO.

And then September will step up And hammer on the gate, And keeping sweet will not be half The trick it’s been of late.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH SERVICES.

The subject of the Sunday morning sermon is, "The Wisdom of the Cross.” Miss Carrie Pierce will sing. All are welcome.

GRAND BALL AT VIRGIE.

There will be a grand ball at the opera hall in Virgie, Saturday night, August 7. Good music will be furnished by the Fair Oaks band. Everybody invited. Lunch and refreshments will be served. JOHN REED, Prop.

COAL. COALDon’t wait, but come and get a ton of Big Jack lump coal—the cleanest and best prepared. The cheapest coal on the market; ■ the great seller. Only $3.25 per ton, at JAMES’ COAL YARD, Goodland, ' Ind. HORSE STOLEN—S2S REWARD. From my barn, in the east part of town, a sorrel mare, wt. 1075 pounds; four- white stockings and blazed face. 1 will pay $25 reward for information leading to her recovery. ISAAC PARCELS. Besides all the other grades handled and sold by them, the Home Grocery sells weekly a hundred pounds of that famous pillar “Cuban” 20c Coffee. Evidence that it is truly a coffee above its price. THE INDIAN MOTORCYCLE Holds all the world’s records, 1 mile to 100 miles; holds all long distance records, San Francisco-New York, New York-Chicago; won New York-Chicago touring contest, has led every hill-climbing contest for ‘ years, it’s closest competitors have never equalled it. Ride an Indian and lead the procession. Always on the spot. M. R. HALSTEAD, Agt. R-3. Rensselaer, Ind. The Democrat and tne Indianapolis Daily News, each a full year for enly $3.50.