Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1910 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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CAL PORTER DIES SUDDENLY.

"'W. C. Pqpter died suddenly at ni& home on North Culfen street yesterday about noon from heart disease. He was up town during the forenoon and seemed" to be in his usual health. He had 'eaten his dinner and told his wife that he would go in another room and lie down, as he had a pain in his side. She heard a noise a few moments later and went to where he was lying and found hint dead. ; Deceased was an old soldier and a highly respected citizen. His age was about 65 years. He leaves a wife and one son, Charles H. Porter.

HAS SEEN THE ERROR OF HIS WAYS.

At the democratic convention in Benton county Saturday to select delegates to the 'state convention, Edmore Barce, the well' known attorney and a son of Lyman J3arce of north of Rensselaer, who has been a life-long republican, caused something of §. sensation by going into the convention, confessing he had been wrong in the past and saying he woud support the Jeffersonian principles of the Democratic party in the future.

H. H. VAN VOORST DEAD.

Was Once Connected With the Parker Bank at Remington. Henry H. Van Voorst, cashier of the Monticello State Bank, died suddenly from heart disease at his home in that city Saturday noon. He had been at >the bank all forenoon and on going home to dinner he lay down for awhile and when his wife went to call him she found him dying. Mr. Van Voorst was a partner with Robert Parker in the Bank of Remington along in the eighties and early nineties, Mr. Parker later buying his interest

A WANT AD FOUND .IT

Miss Effie Wallace, a trained nurse, of M'pnticello, who had been nursing a patient at Remington for several weeks, "was in Rensselaer one day last week, and while here lost a handsome gold, nurse’s pin, highly valued by the owner. Miss Wallace inserted an ad in The Democrat’s classified columns, and Marion Cooper, who had found the pm on the street, saw the ad and brought the pin to this office. It was mailed to Miss Wallace at once and she was highly pleased to get her property back.

GOLDA SAYLOR IN JASPER

Golda Saylor came Thursday from Watseka, 111., where she has been attending the trial the past five weeks, and will ’ make her home for the present with the J. M. Shindler family north of Goodland. While all the papers reported her to be in Chicago and other places before the trial, she was comfortably located at the Schindler home awaiting to be called to the trial. This young lady who in no way is responsible for the crime of one of her parents has the sympathy of this community. Miss Sayler is about seventeen or eighteen years pf age, small with,a large mass of pretty dark hair and pretty dark blue eyes. The type of girl you ( Usually see in the pretty picture books. —Goodland Herald.

KENTLAND HAS BIG FIRE.

Elevator, Corn and Freight Cars Consumed in Threatening Blaze. Kentland, Ind., Ap'ril 15.—The McCray, Morrison & Co. Transfer .elevator burned here last night causing a loss of $60,000. ''Fifty thousand bushels qf coin in the building were burned. For two hours the fire company and citizens fought the flames to save adjacent property. Automobiles patroled the residence section and their occupants reported a dozen fires in different parts of town, caused by flying sparks. The fire could be seen for twenty miles, and a hundred automobiles brought in persons from neighboring towns. McCray, Morrison & , Co. carried about $50,000 insurance. Eight loaded freight cars on a Pennsylvania siding were also burned. ,

FINED $100.00 FOR CONTEMPT

In Not Obeying the Court's Order In the Bader Case. ANSWER HELD INSUFFICIENT. */. “Sheriff Set An Example That, if Followed, Means the Substitution of Lawlessness for Law, aind the End of Judicial Control Over the Officers of My Own Court,” Says Judge Hanley In Ruling On Defendant’s Answer. f'he case of the State of iana vs. Louis P. Shirer, riff of Jasper county, who was ruled to show cause why he should not be punished for con-, tempt of court in failure to carry out the court’s orders in the sentence of C. L. Bader, superintendent and general manager of the Winaniac Bridge Co., convicted at last term of court of having filed a false claim against the county in the construction of the Milroy tp., bridge across the Howe ditch, which is familiar to our readers, came up in court Monday forenoon and the defendant was fined SIOO. V Mr. Shirer filed an answer Saturday to the affidavit for contempt, in which he set out that he had no intention of disobeying the court’s orders; that Attorneys Williams and Hathaway for the defendant, came to the sheriff’s residence on the evening after sentence had been pronouncd and had a talk with Bader, and told \jie defendant that he had five days in which to take Bader to prison; that relying on said statement from the defendant's! affcolrneys he took' the prisoner next day to Winamac and allowed- him to arrange his business affairs while parties there went to Indianapolis to see about getting a reprieve of parole from the governor; that he later (Saturday forenoon, we believe) got a telegram from Attorney Hathaway that the reprieve would be granted and on Saturday evening he- got a letter from the governor instructing him not to take the prisoner to the penitentiary until he* (the governor) made some investigation before granting a parole; that temporary bond was furnished, the prisoner released, and Sunday afternoon the latter brought him (the sheriff) to Rensselaer in his (Bader’s) automobile, as charged in the affidavit; that several v days later he .received instructions from the governor, bearing the official seal of the. governor’s office, granting the parole, etc., etc. Mr. Shirer was represented by attorneys Williams, Foltz and Halleck. The Court overruled the answer of defendant and fined him SIOO. In holding the answer insufficient the Court said: “The Sheriff’s answer, in my judgment, does not purge him of the contempt charged in the affidavit. The Sheriff set at naught the verdict of the jury and judgment of this Court by his proceedings as set but in his answer, and absolutely ignored the Court’s authority, and set an example that, if followed, substitution of- lawlessness for law, and the end of judicial control over the'-officers of my own court. t “He with as much reason could refuse to serve a warrant or any other writ. “The Court officers are the real hands of the Court. The Court itself can do nothing without their active support and help. “Officers owe to the Court not merely a passive and apparent obedience to its mandates, but every efficient aid they can bestow to secure 1 respect for its influence and regard for its orders. “In this case I know that I prepared the entry for the clerk in the afternoon of the 9th day of March and sent ■it down to him. About 5 o’clock the clerk came into the Court room and I asked him if he had certified the mittimus to the Sheriff* and hq. said that he had; and I know that the prisoner could have been taken to Monon and thence

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1910.

to Michigan City by 8 o’clock that evening, or could have been taken the next morning to Hammond on the milk train and over the Michigan Central road, and the Sheriff been home the same evening. But, on the contrary he conveys his prisoner to Winamac and there knowingly holds him while others conspire to defeat a jury’s verdict in this Court. He keeps him there Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and then with a letter or telegram as his authority accepts bond for the prisoner, an authority that no Court in this State has or any other officer that I know of. In other words, absolutely refuses to do his duty as commanded by his commitment, but without a legal reprieve from the Governor, arrogated to himself the authority to release his prisoner, set at naught the verdict of a jury and judgment of his own Court. „ “This Court would be helpless should it permit such things to be done. “According to the answer here in this case the Sheriff received his order under the seal of the state on March 19, ten days' after he should have acted. ' “It is the judgment of the Court that the defendant be fined $100.” Defendant’s attorneys moved for a new trial, which motion was over-ruled. They then asked for an appeal to the supreme court, and were given sixty days to file their bill of exceptions.

TRYING TO BUST THE HOG MARKET.

'kWilson Shaeffer of west of town had the good fortune a few days ago to have a “mamma” hog that* gave birth to 16 pigs, 15 of which are now living. With hogs at ten cents or better a pound Wilson is on the straight to road to wealth and affluence.

HANLY AGAIN IN POLITICS

In Indiana as Chief Defender of County Local Option Law. Indianapolis April 16.—J. Frank Hanly, former Governoi, is about to make another grand entry in Indiana politics as chief defender of the county local option law. He is said to have sent letters to some of the candidates on the Republican state ticket and to other Republicans, in regard to theii toward the county option law. The letters, it is said, refer to the fact that no reference to the option question was made in the state platform, and Hanly takes it that the Platform Committee was not strongly impressed with the option law. Hanly was told to-day that such letters signed by him had been received by certain Republicans, but his reply was that he did not care to discuss the subject.

AN APRIL SNOW.

Lower Temperature Comes But No Freezing As Yet. The fine April weather took a turn for the worse Saturday, when a slow but much needed rain came and the mercury dropped several degrees that night and Sunday. Monday flakes of snow Tell practically all day, but melted almost as soon as it fell until towards night, when the ground was covered white. This disappeared for the most part Monday night and a change ot the wind yesterday, it was thought, would save us from a killing frost. In some parts of the state the ground was covered with four to five inches of snow. The previous frosts we have had have done some damage to wheat on the muck land and also to oats. Charlie Pullins says that it killed about two acres of wheat for him and curled -the leaves of his alfalfa, which was getting almost large enough to cut the first time.

ADVERTISED LETTERS.

The following letters remained uncalled for in the Rensselaer postoffice April 18. They will be sent to the dead letter office if not called for before May 2. Jessie Hagle, Geo. Demuth, Buck Hendrick, Ray Pence, Charlie Aery, S. A. Richardson, Mr. C. E. Goble, John Yoder, Harry Young, Miss Mary Pary, Mrs. Ida Parkinson, Mrs. Marion Reede, Mrs. A. ® Grer-r birt, Mrs. Fred Anderson, Miss Elite Bisher, Mrs. Etta BriggS Wilson, Katie Brown, Mrs. Dora Berris. In calling for the above please say “advertised,” giving date of Tisti “ . ■ 77 •*

CONVENTION TO-MORROW

To Nominate a Democratic County Ticket In Jasper. The democratic county convention will be jheld to-morrow in the east court room to nominate a county ticket. The indications are that the convention will be well attended and it is hoped that a ticket will be nominated that will commend itself to the voters of Jasper county regardless of their political affiliations. A change is certainly needed in the management ot businss affairs in this counjy, and we believe a great many taxpayers who have heretofore held blindly -to party ties heve come to a realization of this fact. Let the convention’s work be such that no just criticism can be made of any of its candidates, and the results in November will be surprising. Following is a list of the delegates and alternates to the convention so far as reported to this office, except Milroy, which list was mislaid and we are therefore unable to give: MARION TOWNSHIP. FIRST PREClNCT—Delegates. Edward Herath Emory Garrlott Lee Glazebrook Eli Gerber i N. S. .Bates Jydson Maines Robert Yepman Lewia Welsh Theodore George W. L, Nowels W. H. Beam Alternates. George Maines , James Walter J. C. Norman Bruce White George Markin Larkin Potts F. M. Parker George Pumphrey William Clouse Frank Alter Benjamin Welsh SECOND PREClNCT—Delegates. C. F. Stackhouse Newton Pumphrey Nelson Randle Lucius Strong James Donnelly John Carmichael W. R. Nowels Jack Hoyes „ James Halllgan Isaac Saidla Conrad Kellner John Mann" John Culp William McElfresh Alternates. E. Mabb Matt Moosmlller Andrew Gangloff, Jr. Ernest Cockerell B. N. Fendlg W. H. Mackey John Webber *> J. A. McFarland E. V. Ransford Philip McElffesh J. T. Culp Lewis Davisson

Dolph Day .Peter Wagner THIRD PREClNCT—Delegates Marlon I. Adams Oscar Hauter r DeVere Yeoman Stephen Kohley Barney Maienjbrook Joseph Halllgan Allen Catt Alternates. Ray Adams A. K. Yeoman John Martin J. M. Shields Henry Luers Thomas Cain Joseph Luers FOURTH PREClNCT—Delegates. F. L. Hoover Joseph Putts . Henry Eiglesbach j Joseph Nagel Edward P. Honan George Ketchum , C. B. Stewart F. E. Babcock D. M. Worland Alternates. W. H. Ritchey Edward Phegley Tony Kanne Adam Nagel James' Watts A. A. Hoover John Kohler William Washburn C, A. Roberts ( JORDAN TP.—Delegates. Andrew Kahler James Lamson Samuel Blake ■ Michael Kain Frances Welsh J. U. Illff: r ' Riley Tullis - ' * , V W. H. Wortley Joe Nessius, Sr. Alternates.

Continued on Last Paga

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Judge Thompson, who has been confined to the house since returning from spending the winter in Florida, seems to be improving somewhat and may be able to soon be about again. His trouble is heart and kidney ailment. Walter Doty-of near Lake Village, who is supposed to have been connected with the robbery of an old man near that place for which young Bumgardner was sent to the reformatory last week, was brought over from Kentland yesterday and lodged in jail to await trial in the Newton circuit court. * * New suits filed: No. 7598. Lizzie B. Faris vs. Lizzie B. Faris, adm. of estate of William Paris, deceased.; claim of $119.60 for funeral .expenses of wife of said decedent, $136.50 for money advanced for the purchase of medicine for wife of said decedent and also for said decedent; SSO for moneys loaned in May 1908 and note taken, and $5.50 interest on said 1 note. Total, $311.60. No. 7599. Lizzie B. Faris, adm. vs. Charles W. Faris, et al; petition to sell real estate. No. 7600. John C. Vanatta vs. American Lubric and Refining Co., et al; action to quiet title. —o— As The Democrat has previously stated, we don’t know whether the state accounting law is going to prove a good thing or the reverse, it not having yet been tried long enough to determine, yet there are some localities that have been benefitted in which the people are loud in its praise. Down in Delaware county, for example, an ex-city treasurer of Muncie was found to be SIO,OOO short after three sets of expert accountants had gone over his books. The money was paid in after the public accountants had found the shortage; and now, in the same county, a township trustee is found to owe his township $12,368.53. The total expense of the field examiners there has been trilling, and it will be hard to convince the taxpayers in that county that he law is not a good thing. ——o Not very much has been doing in the circuit court since our last report. The jury is called for to-day when the cases of Babcock vs. Washburn are called. Following is a report of the proceedings since our last issue: Harvey j. Dexter ditch; report filed April 18, and ten days given for filing remonstrances. Same entry in A. G.. Pancoast ditch. Same entry in R. E. Davis ditch. Rompke Sipkema ditch; Ella V. Mitchell files remonstrance. Time of commissioners extended to April 19 to file report in the Robert C. May and Charles Meadel ditches. » * Patrick Hallagan vs. George Wenner; judgment for return of property, judgment for sls for failure to return. Wm.' B. Austin vs. Harvey R. Hartman, assignee dt G. G. Garrison.; cause re-set for trial April 30. Wm. P. Gaffleld vs. James T. Morton, et al: mofion for new trial overruled, bond of S3OO approved and 90 days given to file bill of exceptions. Appeal to the < court granted. - Lizzie B. Faris vs. Lizzie B. Faris, adm.; judgment for claim of s3l lM ! In the case of Silas 11. Moore, vs. William E. Moore, wherein the. former sued the latter recently for some S4OO alleged to be due him for medical services, the defendant through his attorney, E. B. -Sellers,-, has filed an answer denying each and every material allegation of the complaint* and asks judgment for costs; that the cause sued upon was fully paid and satisfied before the filing of said'complaint; that plaintiff had been making his home in. part at the home of defendant, _ and that they had entered Into an agreemnt

whereby plaintiff was to administer medicine to defendant i"n pay ment for which he was to have certain mals at dfendant’s home; that all plaintiff ever contributed to defendant’s . table was one beef-steak of the value'of 50 cents, and no more; that lie ate 587 meals of the value of 25 cents each and that defendant loaned plaintiff $79,05, none of which has ever been repaid; also, that defendant sold plaintiff one bushel of clover seed of the value of SB, which has never been paid. Wherefore defendant demands judgment for SSO and costs..

BENTON TRUSTEE RESIGNS

Accounts Alleged Badly Muddled —Will Likely Be Succeeded By a Democrat. Fred F. Killen, trustee of Boliver township, Benton county, has resigned his office under fire, and will likely be succeeded by a democrat, the auditor being of that political persuasion. It is reported that there is some $2,300 discrepancy in lvis accounts. The Fdwler Leader (rep.) says of Mr. Killen’s troubles: Attorney Berry has been Mr. Kjlllen’a lawyer and advisor ever since he became trustee’ At the beginning of his term Mr. Berry repeatedly Warned Killen that he should obey the law to the letter and only spend money when tho cause was justifiable and tho expenditure according to law. Mr. Berry claims that Killen’s expenditures were not made with criminal Intent but were duo to Incompetency. There can be little doubt that Fred Killen, In his capacity as township trustee, did a great many foolish things. The fact that he could be talked Into buying unnecessary supplies was probably discovered by traveling salemen as soon as he took the office, and as a consequence Mr. Killen has had more chances to buy gold bricks than all the other trustees combined. His resignation was consistent with his other acts, that Is, It was foolish for him to do so. If he Is square, as he affirms that he is, the best way for him to clear himself was to stand up before the limelight of Investigation,' and go through the fire ol criticism. Killen’s attorneys, although they do not know what Inaccuracies' the state accountants discovered, believe that they can clear Killen from being guilty of any criminal act. Mr. Killen Informed the auditor that he would balance up his books and have them ready to turn over any time they would be demanded of him. •

If you wish an A No. 1 job of heating let Rhoades & Son do your work. p . Don’t forget Racine Shirt day as you will get the best work shirts made for 3&c or two for 75c at Duvall’s Quality Shop,— C. Earl Duvall. We do plumbing and do it rights We do lead work as well as iron pipe work, as it should be done.— Rhoades & Son. While we. are selling you Racine shirts we will show you the best and nobbiest line of men’s and boys’ suits in our city, all at moderate prices.— C. Earl Duvall We have almost everything, what we do not have we will use our utmost efforts to get for you. Try us. We appreciate it. —Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera,House Block, Rensselaer, Ind. v'T ;■ ' ' «f Have you seen those nobby" blue serges at Duvall’s Quality Shop as they have got anything beat in town for quality, fit, tailoring and price. All sizes.—C. Earl Duvall. The Bath Room once considered a luxury, is to-day a necessity. Even a tenant house must have a bath, if it - rents as it should. Let its * put one in your home.— E. D. Rhoades & Son. RACINE shirts next Saturday, April 23rd for 38c or two for 75c at C. Earl Duvall’s. If we install yOur heating plant, or bath room fixtures, you must be satisfied, or we are not. ' —E. D. Rhoades & Son. racine, Racine, racine work and dress shirts > next Saturday, April 23rd for 38c each, or two for 75c. Get busy and stock up.—C. Earl Duvall.

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