Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1909 — Page 2

tIE JIM GOUKTY mil. I. [. BIBCOCK. EDITOUIO MBll&atL OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Entered m Seoond-CtaM Matter June t, IMS. at the poet office at Renseelaeer, ■Hndiana. under the Act of March S. IS7S. Lona Oletanco Tolophonee Office SIS. Roeldonoe Sll. Published Wednesdays and Saturdays Wsdnssday Issus 4 Pagss; Saturday Issue S Panos Advertising rates made known oa application. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 17, 1909.

COMPARISONS ARE SOMETIMES ODIOUS.

The Republican thinks the average man—which means the man who works for a living—is so prosperous under these piping times of Aldrich, Cannon and “Possum Bill 1 ’ that big fat turkeys and great mammoth plumb puddings will be found on every one of their tables Thanksgiving day. It speaks of the 15 cent corn under a democratic administration, when the laboring men were all hunting work and turkey was but 8 cents a pound! We remember corn being 52 cents under the last democratic administration, but think it hardly reached so low a figure as 15 cents. Of course the Republican has forgotten about the higher figure, and only remembers the lower. Be this as it may, however, it is not so very long ago that hundreds of thousands of workingmen were crying" for bread under the hightariff republican regime,’ and practically all the bankers in the country took to the woods, figuratively speaking, and a man who had money deposited in bank couldn’t get a dollar out to buy a sack of flour or pay a debt he owed. This never happened under a democratic administration, neighbor, and the lesssaid about the latter the better. But just a word about those “terrible times’’ under a democratic administration: There were many farmers making money right along in those times, the land boom started in this county, and Rensselaer enjoyed the only boom the town ever had. The number of sheriff’s sales in Jasper county were not much greater than now, although the country was new then and the people had many obstacles to overcome. The writer has lived right in this section of the state for the past twenty-five; years, and he has never seen the time here when a manreally wanted labor could not find work to do and at better wages than now taking the purchasing power of his wage into consideration. Along in 1888 to '92, turkeys sold as low as six cents a pound, and i utter and egg- could scarcely be given away. Corn, oats, cattle and everything else was low, but. $1 to $1.25 per day for a common laborer was the regular price then at Goodland where we were living, and that was under the benificient republican reign of Benjamin Hat risen, too. From '93 to '97. (a democratic administration) $1.25 to s’.sb wa the prevailing wage in town for a common' laborer, and his dollar would buy as much food or clothing then as two dollars' will to-day, when he is getting only a few cents more $1 50 to $2 being the high wage mark. With prevailing high prices lor foodstuffs and other necessaries, few mon who depend upon their daily wage for a living are able to more than keep body and soul together, and lew turkeys will grace their Thanksgiving board this year unless the Republican furnishes them, which in the light of recent developments it is hardly thought it will do on a very large scale?

STAY DENIED LABOR LEADERS

Application of Gonipers, Mitchell and Morrison Is Refused. Washington. Nov. 16.—Application was made to the district court of appeals by counsel for Samuel Gomper.i, John Mitchell and Frank Morrison, the leaders, whose sentences of imprisonment for contempt of court wer-i recently affirmed by that tribunal, 'n stay the issuance of the mandate to the supreme court of the District of Columbia until Jan. 2. 1910. After hearing both sides the cou.t denied the application for a stay.

MARINA GLADDENS SPAIN

Sends Word From Morocco That tbs Tribes Have Capitulated. Madrid, Nov. 16.—General Marina, commanding the Spanish forces in Morocco, telegraphs from Nador that the hostile tribes there have surrendered unconditionally. The news, which was unexpected here, hu been received with the greatest satisfaction as it is believed to signalise the end of the war which has caused much concern for several months.

TERM IN PRISON FOR EX-SHERIFF

Joseph F. Shipp and Others Put In a Federal Prison. SEQUEL TO NE6RO LYNCHING Victim Had Been Granted a Stay of Execution by the Supreme Court and ■ Mob Took the Law in Its Own Hands and Hanged Him—Sheriff and Jailer and Others Found Guilty of Contempt of Court In Falling to Protect Prisoner.

Washington, Noc. 16. —Ninety days* imprisonment was imposed on ex-Sher-iff Joseph F. Shipp of Chattanooga, Tenn., by the supreme court of the United States. The sentence was for contempt of court in failing to prevent the lynching of a negro, Ed Johnson, whose execution had been stayed by the court. Luther Williams and Nick Nolan were sentenced to imprisonment for ninety days and Jeremiah Gibson, the jailer, who is seventy-six years old; Henry Padgett, and William Mayers, all of Chattanooga, for sixty days. All except the sheriff and jailer were accused of participation in the lynching. The court, in finding Shipp guilty, commented on a published interview alleged to have been had with Shipp. “The people of Hamilton county were willing to let the law take its course until It became known that the case would not probably be disposed of for four or five years by the supreme court of the United States.” it quoted Shipp as saying. “But the people would not submit to this, and I do not wonder at It.” The prisoners w ere locked in the District of Columbia jail.

CHINAMAN IS HORSEWHIPPED

Woman He Tries to Make Love to. Chasesand Beats Him. Chicago, Nov. 16. —Cries of fright and rage, uttered in the Chinese' tongue, heralded the spectacle of Mrs. I Frank Rylander running as fast as her) feet could carry her upon the heels of a Chinaman employed in a laundry in, her neighborhood. And as she ran sho applied a horsewhip vigorously. Not until the Chinaman had entirely outstripped his less fleet pursuer did the horsewhipping cease. Mrs. Rylander says she was tending store and that when the Mongolian found she was alone Me attempted to make love to her. She seized a whip from a grocery wagon and used it. I

MAKES WOODS A PESTHOUSE

Jurist With Smallpox Flees From Homo to Keep Family Comfortable. Texarkana, Ark,. Nov. 16.-—Judge L. A. Byrne, who disappeared Friday last, has been located in the woods, where he is living in a tent with two men who have had the smallpox and who are treating him for the disease. | Judge Byrne sent word to the, authorities tlgit he assumed all re-1 sponsibillty for taking to the woods and quarantining himself. He said In left Texarkana in order to relieve hit family of the inconvenience which, would have followed the isolation cf his home.

The Weather. Rain today and tomorrow, with snow probable in northern Illinois and Indiana.

THE MARKETS

Cash Grain Market. Chicago, Nov. 15. Winter wheat by sample: No. '3 red, $1.2001.22; No, 3 red, $1.1101.17; No. 2 hard, $1.090 1.10; No. 3 hard. $1,040’1.07. Spring wheat by sample: No. 1 northern, [email protected]; No. 2 northern. No. 3 sprin $1.030 1.07. Corn by sample: No. 'J. 64c; No. 2 white. 64%c; No. 2 yellow, 64%@64y/c; No. 3, 63% 0 64c; No. 3 yellow, 64’4.c; No. 4, 63%c. Oats 'ey sample: No. 3. 39%c; No. 3 white, 39%©>40%c; No. 4 white, 37@40c; standard, 40’4041%c. Chicago Live Stock. Hogs--Receipts 28,000. Quotations ranged at $8,20 0; 8.25 for choice heavy, $8,000)8.15 choice light, $8.1008.20 heavy packing. $7.2507.75 good I to choice pigs. Cattle —Receipts 30.000. Quotations ranged at $8.25©9.10 for choice tn prime steers, $4,0004.75 good to choice beef cows,. $4.50176.00 good to choice heifers, SB,OO 0 5.25 good to choice calves, $5.0005.25 selected feeders. $4,000)4.45 good to choice stockers. Sheep—Receipts 27,000. Quotations ranged at $7,000)7.50 for fair to choice lambs, $4.7505.50 good to choice wethers, $4,750)5.25 good to choice ewes.

Live Poultry. Turkeys, per lb, 16c; chickens, fowls, roosters, 9c; springs, 13&c; geese, 9©loc; ducks, 13c. East Buffalo Live Stock. Dunning & Stevens. Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle—lßo cans’ market strong. Hogs—Receipts 110 cars, market steady; heavy, 8.25; Yorkers. 18.00©8.15; pigs, |7.80. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts 110 cars, market slow; best lambs, >7.25; yearlings, |5.50©5.75; wethers, |4.75©5.00; ewes, 14.2554.50. Calves—Best, 14.5059.00,’

NEW FIRES STOP MINE RESCUERS.

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was caused by open torches, Used to take the place of a burned-out electric lighting system in the second vein. E. P. Buck, chief clerk of the St. Paul Mining company, said: “The fire was due to the use of torches. The part of the second vein where the hay was ordinarily is lighted by electricity. A week or so ago the electric lead cable running to the vein burned out. We ordered another cable. but it was slow in coming. So we

APPEAL BY GOV. OENEEN Springfield, 111., Nov. 16.—Governor Deneen has issued the follow ing appeal to the people of Illinois for aid for the families, of the: miners at Cherry, Ill.: “A terrible disaster has occurred in the mine of the St. Paul Coal company at Cherry, Bureau county II). The number involved in the disaster is not definitely known, but sufficient is known to Indicate that it is probably the worst in the state, and one of the worst that has ever occurred. “I therefore ask the well disposed' people of every state to contribute liberally to the relief of those dependent upon the miners who have been injured or lost their lives in this terrible disaster. “Contributions should be for ■ warded to Mr. Orson Smith, presi-l dent of the Merchants’ Loan and, Trust company, 135 Adams street.: Chicago, who is treasurer of th“ National Red Cross society, through: which funds can be most quickly distributed.”

had to use torches there, and it seems as though fate waited for the chance. “A torch was fastened in the wall and someone carelessly pushed a car into it or near enough to it to set fire to the hay, which started the conflagration. “Either the car of hay ran into It or It was pushed under the torch so clo«e that the hay caught fire. Then the men tried to dump the burning bale but the timber caught fire and the whole shaft was ablaze.” Governor Deenen with several companies of Illinois guardsmen are in the stricken village to take charge of the situation: With over 300 dead, according to the latest estimates, food lacking and a famine actually at hand, and the survivors of the horror and their relatives desperate and half-crazed, the situation is fast becoming desperate. More than 10,000 men and women, many of them mourners still keeping a last desperate hope alive, but the greater part (furiosity seekers, were banked around the mine. So dense was the press that special officers had to drive the crowd back repeatedly, and all the newspaper men. including several score sent from Chicago, were sworn in as deputy sheriffs and given deputies’ stars to enable them to penetrate the throng, as well as to help in conserving order and property. While the shaft was open frantic women and children tried to leap in after loved ones.

Farmers Contribute Provisions. The famine in the village was of equally pressin" irhpdrtance with the situation in the mine. Hundreds of families, deprived of their breadwinners, were actually .destitute and without food, and there was practically no food to be had at the stores. Men were sent out on horseback to the surrounding farms with appeals for provisions, and the response came instantly. Scores of farm wagons loaded heaping full with vegetables, hams, bacon, fresh beef and all kinds of farm products, cooked and uncooked, were driven into the village. Pitiful scenes attended the first distribution of food. Women and children with tears streaming down their faces, fairly fought to reach the coveted supplies. Many of them had not eaten for twenty-four hours, and the first supply of food was exhausted in a short time. The relief committee, led by Ernest P. Bicknell, head of the National Red Cross society, and Sherman C. Kingsley, superintendent of the United Charities of Chicago, strove to bring order out of chaos in distributing the food. Cars of provisions were on the way, but they came slowly, and the committee could do little but relieve the first pressing necessities in most families.

“They Are Lying All About.” President T. L. Lewis of the International Mine Workers* union telegraphed from Toronto. Ont., to Secretary Perry of the union at Cherry to use $5,000 of the union’s funds at once in relieving suffering, and the money would be sent from Toronto. More than twenty volunteer nurses arrived from Chicago, as well as a number of physicians. Many of there rescued from the mine after the fire started were burned and injured, and those who need medical care have had plenty. In many families whose heads are dead in the mine there is sickness, and to these the nurses ministered. The telephone devices attached to the oxygen helmet&aised by exploring parties sent down tne main shaft enabled the men to talk directly from below. The first words out came from Henr.t Smith of Peru. “They are lying ail about,” he said. The next words were, “Pretty thick down here, John.” That a determined effort will ba made to fix responsibility for the disaster is apparent. State’s Attorney Leonard M. Eckert said:

C. EARL DUVAL RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Exclusive Clothier, Furnisher, Hatter. A $3.00 Kingsbury Given Away FREE This Week With Every $25.00 Purchase fjL, BUY YOUR SUIT AND W OVERCOAT THIS WEEK as you will get a $3.00 Kingsbury Hat Free with every $25.00 Purchase. I can fit you out in a Collegian, Pre-Shrunk or /J If w Bllm7 Frat Suit or Overcoat I and you can buy no beter as every body knows, IWrAMHHI that These makes are the best that is made and all ' guaranteed to hold their ' u\ color, shape, and a pens’ j gflfflnrofrl \ feet fit, too. \ Fur Overcoats of all \ kinds in stock, all at reasonable prices. A full line of swell manish gloves for ladies in all sizes and also sweater coats. It is time for you to be looking around for your Christmas gifts and we have a full line of Neckwear, Mufflers, Combination Set of Tie, Handkerciefs and Socks to match. A nobby line of Silk Hose. Be sure and buy yourself a new Suit or Overcoat for Thanksgiving so that you will have something to be thankful for. C. EARL DUVALL

“I cannot see any other explanation so far than utter lack of common sense and judgment in the cage operative contributed to this horror. There has been criminal negligence somewhere."

Big Public Sale The undersigned is going to move to Colorado, and will offer at Public Sale at his residence, 7 miles north and 1% west of Rensselaer, 1 ’X- miles west of Aix and 2 miles east and 1 mile north of Parr, on the George Hammerton farm, commenting at 10 a. m., on THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 10094 Head of Horses —Consisting of black horse 11 years , oid; 1 gray mare 1? years old, in foal; 1 bay filly 2 years old. 15 Head of Gattie—Consisting of 8 Milch Cows with calf; 2 two-year-old heifers; 4 yearling heifers; 1 yearling steer. Implements, Wagons, Etc.—Consisting of 2 Wagons, 1 Gang Plow, 2 Cultivators, 1 Harrow, 1 Hay Rake, 1 Set Harness, 2 Buggies, 1 Oats Seeder, 1 Stalk Rake, 1 Stack Millet Hay, 1 DeLavei Cream Separator. . , Household Furniture:—l Cook Stove, 2 Heating Stoves, 1 Sideboard, 1 Kitchen Cabinet, 1 Extension Table, 1 Bedstead, 1 Safe, 1 Commode, 1 Settee, and many other articles too numerous to mention. A credit of 12 months will be given with the usual conditions; 6 per cent off for cash. ABE AERY. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. C. G- Spitler, Clerk. Hot lunch on the grounds.

Governor Haskell Must Stand Trial. Oklahoma City, Okla., Nov. 16.—Governor Haskell and others indicted with him for alleged fraud in the Muskogee town lot cases must stand trial. Judge Marshall so decided when he overruled demurrers to the indictments. Spurious Bills In Olive Oil Cans. New York, Nov. 16.—Secret service agents have under arrest fourteen counterfeiters who have been importing spurious $5 and $2 bills in olive oil cans from Italy. Beresford Seeks Parliament Seat. London, Nov. 16.—Admiral Lord Charles Beresford will be the unionist candidate at the bye election for a seat in parliament. NOTICE OF LETTING CONTRACT. Notice is hereby given that on Monday. December 6th, 1909, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana. will receive sealed proposals for the furnishing of supplies for use at County Poor Asylum for the quarter ending February 28th, 1910. All bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. JAMES N. LEATHERMAN. Auditor Jasper County. NOTICE OF LETTING CONTRACT. No. 9881. Notice is hereby given that on Monday, December 6th, 1909, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of a steel bridge in Walker Township, across the Grover Smith Ditch between sections 13 and 14. Said bridge to he 55 feet long with 16 foot roadway. Said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s office. AU bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law and to be on file by 12 o’clock noon of said day. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all blds. By ord£r of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, Auditor Jasper County.

NOTICE OF DITCH SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, as Superintendent of Construction of the Edward W. Culp, et al ditch, being Cause No. 9606 of the Commissioners’ Court of Jasper County, Indiana, will let such work by contract to the lowest and best responsible bidder, at the office of the County Auditor, in the Court House, at Rensselaer, Indiana, on the 27th day of November, 1909, at eleven o'clock a. m. Said proceeding calls for the construction of a large tile drain and a lateral thereto, and the contractor will be required to excavate the tile in a tile drain which has heretofore been constructed on the line of the above mentioned ditch, and to use all of the tile thus secured which are suitable for use. The plans and specifications for said Improvement are on file in the office of the. Auditor of Jasper County, Indiana. and are open for inspection. The said work is to be let as a whole or in parts at the option of the Superintendent, who reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Bids will be received from this date until the date above given, at which time said bids Will be published and said sale made at public outcry, and let to the lowest and best responsible bidder, reserving my right to reject any or all blds. Dated this Sth day or November. 1909 GRANT CULP, Superintendent of Construction. NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT. " County of Jasper,) __ State of Indiana, ) sa - < ■ Before Schuyler C. Irwin, a Justice of the Peace in and for Marion Township William P. Gaffield vs. James T. Morton. The plaintiff in the above entitled cause having filed his complaint therein, together with an affidavit that the defendant, James T. Morton, is a nonresident of the State of Indiana. Now, therefore, the said defendant is hereby notified that unless he be and appear before the undersigned Justice of the Peace at his office in the City of Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, on January 3rd, 1910, at 10 o’clock A. M., and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined lr his absence. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this 13th day of November, 1909. [Seal] SCHUYLER C. IRWIN, Justice of the Peace. Folts * Spitler, Attorneys for Plaintiff,