Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1909 — Page 1

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STOVER - ROBERTSON.

Married, at Lar*more, North Dakota, Dec. 3, Mr. Lewie Stover and Miss Allee Robertson, Both of Larimore. The groom is a son of William Stover, who formerly resided west of Rensselaer, now a resident of. near Larimore, and the brides’ parents are still residents of Jasper county, residing south of Rensselaer. The Democrat joins the Jasper county friends of the young couple In extending congratulations.

NOW COME ON WITH THE DOUGH

The northwestern Indiana Traction Co., which was recently granted a franchise in Rensselaer, is now asking for elections to vote big subsidies along the proposed line, and is asking for a $35,000 subsidy in Union tp., White county, in which Monticello is located. It will also ask for subsidies in Honey Creek, Princeton, Prairie and Big Creek townships in that county, and no doubt will soon be heard from here in this respect.

VACCINATING HOGS IN BENTON.

Not the Four-Legged Kind, But Real Genuine Porkers. Benton Review: Hog cholera is devastating the droves of Benton county and many farmers are suffering serious loss. Some of Will Smith’s porkerw died the latter part of the week and the rest of the drove have been vaccinated. It is said this treatment will ward off disease for a period of at least six months. Wilbert Hawkins has 280 head which he is having treated.

SELLS PART OF ARKANSAS LAND.

Parker Bank Trustee Gets 018,000 For 1,000 Acre* of This Part of Bank Estate.

We are told that the trustee of the Parker Bank at Remington, W. H. Cheadle, has disposed of 1,000 acres of the Arkansas lands owned by Mr. Parker at the time his bank went, to the wall, for sls per acre, or $15,000 for the 1,000 acres. The land sold had been leased to some parties who put a part of it out to rice the past season, and they had a fine crop, yielding 60 bushels to the acre. This tract comes up to the corporation line of a little settlement called Waldenburg, we understand, and is probably more valuable than the remaining 1,800 acres of the land owned by the estate at or near that place. The entire 2,800 acres was appraised at $2.50 per acre by the bank estate appraisers. Mr. Parker bought these lands at $1.75 per acre some ten or fifteen years ago, we are told, and inside of sixty days sold the best of the timber from it at $3 per acre, so this part of his investments must have been very good indeed. If the rest of these lands can be disposed of at as an advantageous a figure as this I, acres it will mean considerable to the bank creditors, who have got but little so far and have had mighty poor prospects of ever getting very much more. They will wish that all the assets had been in property that turned out as well.

PROMOTOR FAILS TO APPEAR.

Purtelle’s Electric Road Franchise Held Up In Lake County. Saturday’s Hammond Times had the following mention of the Northwestern Indiana Traction Co., which is asking various towns and counties in this section of the state for franchises to build electric lines, and which was recently granted franchises at Remington and Rensselaer and only last week was granted a franchise for 75 years by the commissioners of Jasper county: Crown Point, Ind., Dec. 11.—One adventuresome traction promotor has been rudely awakened from his fond dream of securing a franchise from the Lake county commissioners while they were not looking and then disposing of it to some one who might possibly build the line. That awakening was experienced by a Chicago broker by the name of Purtell, who presented an abomination of a franchise to the county commissioners and asked that it be passed. After the commissioners had pared the franchise down until it looked like a respectable document, they informed Mr. Purtell that they would award it to him only providing he was able to show them that he had the proper financial backing. Purtell said that he could furnish the references and that he would return to Crown Point if they would hold an adjourned meeting with the proofs of his ability to construct the line. The adjourned meeting was held and the sauve Mr. Purtell did not show up with his references. The result was that the commissioners after waiting around Crown Point all day Went home in disgust and the county was saved from another interurban promotor. Everything nobby for the men and boys for Xmas. C. EARL DUVALL.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol.

New djtch cause: No. 110. Petition for ditch by Richard Wetherell, et al.

New suits filed: No. 7546. lola J. McKean, et al vs. Felix Erwin, et al;- suit for wrongful conversion. Demand $350.

Pulaslk County Democrat: The Monon ditch hearing was not started last Monday as arranged, but was postponed until next Monday, Dec. 13. This change was made necessary because of Judge Nelson’s declining to serve any longer as special judge. He states that he cannot give the time necessary, and that he has a cold that he fears will develop into pneumonia unless he stays at home and takes good care of , himself. So Attorney Foster of Knox has been agreed upon to serve as special judge, and unless some change is made he will be on the bench next Monday. Judge Nelson was here from Logansport Tuesday night signing up the record of proceedings had under him.

WAS MR. SPINNEY BUNCOED?

When Charlie Spinney was elected treasurer of Newton county, some five or six years ago, he apparently did not have enough confidence in his qualification* as a book-keeper to handle the office alone, or was convinced that it was so complicated that only an expert could handle it. Anyhow, Charlie goes over to Benton county and employs one Harry Rank, who had been the republican auditor of Benton, for two terms, and was an expert from Expertville. Rank was put in as head man in the office, it is said, and Charlie sort of hurtled around the outside and jollied the taxpayers when they came in to liquidate. Though thorouhgly competent himself, no doubt, he having all his life been engaged either as clerk or merchant where it was necessary for him to have a pretty fair knowledge of book-keep-ing, he brought this republican exauditor in from a neighboring county and placed him in almost complete control of the office, because of the latter’s supposed ability. His awakening has been of a nature to make him lose confidence in reputations like Rank’s. Rumors that all was not correct in the treasurer’s office had been persistent during the last year of Mr. Spinney’s administration, and a recent investigation of the county offices over there showed that Spinney’s accounts were short aboutss,000. As the Brook Reporter, republican, says: “Nobody believes that Charley Spinney would wilfully take one cent not due him from the county treasurer’s office, directly or indirectly, yet a shortage appears against him, and no njatter if the shortage is five cents or $5,000, to the treasurer belongs the blame.” Rumor has it also, says the Reporter, that Mr. Rank’s book-keep-ing was of such an expert nature that the accountants *Lho conducted the investigation were all at sea for quite a while, and at one time it appeared that the shortage would be $25,000. Mr. Spinney and his republican expert are now engaged in checking up the figures of the accountants, and of course the former will make good at once any real shortage that may exist, but it seems too bad that he must suffer for what seems to be the fdult of his Rank expert from Benton, whom the public appears Jo think is to blame for it all. •

CITY COUNCIL MEETING.

Not Much Done at Monday Night’s Meeting But Allow Claims. At the regular meeting pf the common council Monday evening a full attendance was out, but very little was done except allow claims, of which there was an extra large number. Dr. A- G, Catt filed his resignation as a member of the city board of health, to take effect December 31. He is one of the members of the incoming council in January and of course can not hold the two ofces, hence the resignation on the health board. The city treasurer’s report showed the following balances on Nov. 30: Corporation fund (over d) $24.70 Water fund 1,464.86 Light fund 5,597.98 There are several hundred dollars outstanding in protested city warrants in the corporation fund which are not taken Into account in the above report. The city treasurer reported that a SSOO waterworks bond, due in 1929, had been sent here to a bank

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENBBELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 15, 1009.

asking if the city would not take if up now at principal, and . interest. from last August. The bond bean' 6 per cent interest, and it was the opinion that it might be taken up by the light fund, in which there was plenty of money, and thereby save the . interest. The treasurer was instructed to purchase the bond out of said light fund on the best terms he could make. , A resolution was adopted whereby the city accepts a quit-claim deed from the old Drainage Association for the land in the bed of the Iroquois river, on either side of the present channel, owned by the latter through the city, and same wHI be placed under the park law control. The object of this is to give the city authority to prevent encroachments by abutting property owners upon the river bed and thus Interfere with the free flow of water during flood time. The franchise to the Home Telephone Co., was taken up and read and modified at the request of the company In the following respects: That the length of time the franchise shall run be extended from 15 years to 20 years; that the period of time to get the system in operation and have 200 phones in the city be made two years instead of one year; and that for the common battery system, which the franchise requires shall be put in, the rates shall not be more than SI.OO and $2.00 per month for residency and business phones, respectively, up to 500 phones in the corporate limits of the city; that the rates from 500 phones up to 700 be not more than $1.25 and $2.25, respectively; and above 700 phones not more than $1.50 and $2.50, respectively. The matter was then ordered laid on the table until the next regular meeting in order that the public might have notice of the changes before its final passage. The following claims were allow: ed:

CORPORATION FUND. J H S Ellis, may0r........ .$63.50 H L Brown, councilman, same 20.00 James F Irwin, same 20.00 Eli Gerber, same 20.00 Geo F Meyers, same 20.00 W S Parks, marshal 30.00 E M Thomas, nightwatch. .. . 25.00 E D Rhoades, mdse fire com. 1.45 Healey & Clairk, claim blanks 7.00 A G Catt, sal bd health.... 5.00 L P Shirer, boarding prisoners 20.80 J L Griggs, firing, council.. 2.00 Geo A Williams, sal city atty. 66.66 Mose Leopold, same, treas... 100.00 ROAD FUND. Bert Campbell, work with tm 25.00 A Wheeler, shovel coal, etc. . 16.65 E Chestnut, work on street.. 6.15 Jake Gilmore, cleaning walks 7.00 A Fletcher, same 3.50 Healey & Clark, pub notice. . 23.50 E Chestnut* hauling coal. .. . 8.75 E D Rhoades & Son, mdse. . 1.75 Smith & Kellner, cem c and g 42.60 Hiram Day. cement and tile. 12.00 Donnelly Bros., grade stakes 4.63 LIGHT FUND. C S Chamberlain salary. . . . 50.00 Mell Abbott, same to Dec. 6 45.00 Dave Haste, same. 45.00 Tull Malone, work on line. . 27.00 Shirley Hill Coal Co, c0a1..257.89 Western Electric Co, supplies 24.40 General Electric Co, same. ... 53.60 Seehansen-Weber COj g’te base 67 75 Moran-Hastings Co, supplies 11.52 Hiram Day, fire b and cement 32.13 Smith & Kellner, lab at plant 5.50 C H Mills, insurance 63.60 R D Thompson, same.. 63.60 E D Rhoades, merchandise. 9.59 Same, same 33.08 Healey & Clark, stamp, envel 26.00 Mose Leopold, freight, etc.. 257.73 Donnelly Bros, lumber, lab. . 12.00 WATER FUND. Ed Hopkins, salary 45.00 John Hordeman, wk on main 4.00 Knapp Supply Co, lead pipe. . 22.46 Gould Co, supplies 4.47 Jud Moore, pipe 5.00 Donnelly Bros, sewer caps. . 3.40

NOTICE. The Jasper County Drainage Association’s last record was made in 1899, ■when a deed was made to the city and delivered to the clerk. Said deed is lost. Stockholders are called to meet at 2 p. m., on Saturday, Dec. 24, 1909, at Foltz & Spitler’s office to devise ways and means to Invest the the city with title. All who own stock are invited to attend. Deceased directors ’are Addison Parkison, Marlon Spitler and Alfred Thompson. GRANVILLE MOODY, 8. P. THOMPSON, | Surviving Directors. Look over our' line of fancy imported China for Christmas presentsJOHN EGER. Sale bills printed while you wait, at The Democrat office.

STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING.

There will be a meeting of Stockholders of the Commercial Club to-night, (Wednesday) Dee. 18, 1009, at T:«O p. m., at the east Court Room, for the purpose of electing eightydi rectors to manage the affairs of the Club for the ensuing year-

SIX DIE IN 20TH CENTURY CRASH

Flyer Rams Boston Special at Town In Pecnslyvanla.

LOCK SIGNAL DISREGARDED?

Bath Train* Were Eastbound and Whirling Their Way Through a , Storm Relief Sent From Three Cities With Surgeons and Supplies - Sufficient to Care For All of the Injured—Bodies Have Been Removed From the Wreckage. New York, Dec. 14. —*The Twentieth Century Limited on the New York Central lines rammed the rear end of the Chicago, Boston and New York Special at Northeast, Pa. Six persons were killed and sixteen Injured. The bodies were taken out of the wreckage. Relief trains were sent from Cleveland, Buffalo and Erie which is twelve miles from Northeast. Word was sent ahead and when the first of the relief trains drew -into the Erie station every ambulance in the town and enough surgeons to attend to the injuries of everyone were waiting. On account of a storm which was severe along the shore of Lake Erie all communication with the towns of Northeast and Erie was cut off. Telephone and telegraph wires were down all along the line. The cause of the wreck was a breakdown on the Special. The engineer of the Twentieth Century, eastbound, apparently disregarded the block signal set at the signal station just west of the wreck and he allowed his locomotive to run into the last car of the other train a t ahigh rate of speed.

FRANCE BARS AMERICAN OIL

Exports Were 8,157,822 Gallons In October—None In November. New York, Dec. 14.—Exports of Illuminating oil from this port to France, which amounted to 8,157,822 gallons in October, dropped to not a single gallon during November. This is due to the new trade agreement under which the Imports from the United States into France pay the highest French duties and the imports from France into the United States pay the duties imposed by the new tariff law.

WORD FROM MISSING VESSEL

Captain of the Jesse Spalding Sends Message to His Wife. Port Huron, Mich., Dec. 14.—Mrs. Garu, wife of Captain Louis Garu, master of the steamer Jesse Spalding, which was reported missing, has received a message from her husband. It states that the vessel had sheltered at Harbor Beach and that he had experienced a hard time in getting to a safe place. The Spalding left Port Huron late Saturday night and has been delayed by snow and rough weather. She is bound for Duluth and has a load of railroad iron.

KING LEOPOLD ASKS FOR EXTREME UNCTION

Dying Monarch Displays Courage That Is Admirable.

Brussels, Dec. 14. —Fully conscious but in a state of excitement. King Leopold of Belgium lies expecting death. Extreme unction has been administered to him at his own request. Reports from the palace say that the aged ruler is calm and shows not tho slightest fear for the future. While suffering excruciating pain he bears up with remarkable fortitude and displays • courage that is admirable. He greeted his physicians with perfect eerenity and to one of them said: *T am going to make a long journey soon.” Later to a member of his family he remarked: “I fear my end is near.” The king uttered no complaint and discussed his private affairs with a notary. In spite of the protests of bls family he insisted upon attempting to attend to affairs of state. He bade farewell to a number of court officials notably the court marshal, Count Doultremont, to whom he said: "You have served me well for more than twenty years and I want to give ytmmy thanks before I die. lamverv cnMaltom"

The count was greatly agitated and left the room weeping bitterly. The most affecting Interview of the day was between the king and his favorite daughter Clementine. He kissed her a number of times and tried to console her. She was terribly distressed and was led away half fainting. His eldest daughter Louise, from whom LL had been estranged, telegraphed asking for a final interview.

COULDN'T ENJOY HIS FORTUNE

Sergeant, Who Contracted Leprosy In Cuba, Dead In Hi* Cabin. Savannah, Dec. 14. —First Sergeant C. O. Mix, who became afflicted with leprosy while campaigning in Cuba, 1* dead in his lonely cabin on the Fort Screver reservation. Recently Mix’s father died, leaving the soldier $40,000. This money and the sergeant’s accumulated pay he could not enjoy as he never was permitted to leave the immediate vicinity of bls hut.

PRISON FOR ARMY CAPTAIN

Admits Misuse of West Point Funds and Filing of False Vouchers. New York, Dec. 14. Captain Thomas Franklin has pleaded guilty to charges that. he embezzled army money and presented false vouchers while stationed at West Point as commissary and treasurer. He has been sentenced to two years and six months in the federal prison at Atlanta.

KING’S MEDAL FOR HEROES

Reward For Gallant Act* In Mining and Other Pursuit*. London, Dec. 14.—King Edward has extended the scope of the Edward medal established in 1907 for the purpose of rewarding acts of gallantry performed in saving or attempting to save lives in mines or quarries. Under the new order similar acts 1* industrial pursuits will be rewarded.

CRITTENTON MISSIONS WILL GET $1,500,000

Employes Remembered In Will Lett by Philanthropist.

New York, Dec. 14.—The will of Charles N. Crittenton, the wholesale druggist, who founded the Florence Crittenton missions, leaves half of a $3,000,000 estate for the benefit of the missions and divides a large part of the other half among eight old employes, most of whom are officers of the C. N. Crittenton company. To all male employes who have been with the Crittenton company for over ten years the testator leaves $5,000 to be divided according to the salaries received last year. Those who have been with the firm over five years divide $2,000 equally. To all the women employed by the firm the testator leaves $3,000 in proportion to their salaries. Crittenton turned his attention to mission work in 1882 after the death of his daughter Florence.

CHRISTMAS TREES. There will be on sale at A. F. Long’s store one of the finest assortments of Christmas trees ever brought to Rensselaer, just the size for your home or school or church. As usual we are headquarters for Christmas Candies, all kinds of fancy Nuts, Oranges, Apples, Bananas, and Grapes for the holidays. JOHN EGER. We will help you to please your men with Xmas gifts, so before buying look over our line of clothes, furnishings and hats. C. EARL DUVALL. Mr. Hayner, expert piano tuner of Chicago, will be in town on the 16th of this month, or as near that date as possible. Patronage respectfully solicited. Please leave orders with Clarke, the jeweler. See the leather collar bags, combination sets, initial handkerchiefs, linen handkerchiefs, travelers’ sets, silk hose, silk neckware, silk suspenders, pin and tie to match. Everything useful for Christmas. C. EARL DUVALL. A box social will be held at the Union school house, one mile east of Surrey, Thursday evening, Dec. 23. Ladies please bring boxes. The proceeds will be used to buy an organ for the school. CLARE JESSEN, Teacher. Your father or husband will appreciate a good leather traveling bag or suit case, silk muffler, silk suspenders, fancy vest, fancy shirts, wool hose, and underwear. Call and see these lines. C. EARL DUVALL. It will pay you to look at the Christmas candies at The G. E. Murray Co. Store.

ZELAYA OFFERS TO QUIT HIS JOB

Estrada Toros Down Proposition ot Tottering President

WANTED TO NAME SUCCESSOR

Washington Representative of th* Nicaraguan Provisional Government Suggests In a Dispatch That Mor* Aggressive Action Be Taken Against Troops Opposing the Revolutionary Force—Report Marines Were Fired On Is Not Believed.

Washington, Dec. 14. —Dr. Salvador Castrlllo, agent in Washington for th* provisional government of Nicaragua, has received a dispatch from President Estrada saying that overtures had been made to the provisional government by an emjnlssary from President Zelaya and that Zelaya promise* to leave Nicaragua if the insurgents will allow him to name Jose Madriz as president. General Estrada says he has declined to accept the proposition. Dr. Castrlllo has sent a dispatch to Estrada suggesting a more aggressive campaign against Zelaya’s troops. It is said this word went to the provisional president in compliance with state department wishes. Jose Madriz is a member of the Zelaya party. -,He was the Nicaraguan judge of the Central American court of justice. Ita a decision handed down some time ago adverse to the Nicaraguan government, Senor Madriz endeavored to prevent the operation of the decree by declining to sign the decision. His candidacy would meet with opposition from Secretary Knox. No confirmation has been received either at the state or navy department of the report that a party of bluejackets from th* cruiser Des Moines had been fired upon in Bluefields by Zelaya’s troops. The report is regarded as being without foundation.

RAYNER ARRAIGNS ZELAYA

Sounds a Warning to Dictators In Central American States. Washington, Dec. 14. —Speaking In support of his resolution authorizing the president of the United States to apprehend President Zelaya of Nicaragua, and bring him to trial on a charge of the murder of Groce and Cannon, the two American citizens recently executed in Nicaragua, Senator Rayner of Maryland addressed the senate at length. Senator Rayner asserted that “if Zelaya is guilty he must be awarded the doom and fate that he deserves, so that every tyrant on this earth in every government, large or small, and especially these dictators in several of these Central American states, may take warning that when an assassination like this occurs the malefactor must take his place like any other culprit at the bar of criminal justice and must suffer punishment.”

REPLY TO CRITICS OF CHERRY RELIEF WORK

Bicknell Says Situation Isn’t Under Red Cross Control.

Chicago, Dec. 14.—After stating that he did not resent fair criticism, Ernest P. Bicknell, national director of the American Red Cross association, made a reply to the censors of the relief work at Cherry, 111. “Four rmembers of the committee of seven at; Cherry, of which I am chairman," said Bicknell, “are in no way connectedwHh the Red Cross association. They live in Cherry or in near-’ by towns and are affiliated with the mine workers’ union. They are in the majority and can do anything they desire.” Bicknell said that among the widows of Cherry there was so much jealousy that it was possible for anyone to go there and pick up scores of complaints against the relief committee. "For instance, when we distribute second-hand clothes, one woman thinks the woman next door has received better goods. She complains. And the investigators, hearing one or two complaints of that sort, base an entire conclusion upon it,” he said. Kaiser to Greet Fallieres In March. Berlin, Dec. 14. —The newspapers have been given to understand that when the kaiser opens the Prince of Monaco’s oceanographical museum tn March the “long intended meeting" between his majesty and President Fat Uerea of Prance will take place. We are paying 34 cents for butter fat this week at the Rensselaer Creamery. W. H. MORRISON.

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