Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1910 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

91.60 Per Tear.

NO FOURTH OF JULY

Celebration at Rensselaer Will Be Held This Year. A very slimly attended meeting was held at the court house Friday evening to talk 4tih of July celebration, and, while the ttendance scarcely justified, commutes were appointed to go around and see the business men and learn the sentiment. After interviewing some of the business men Monday the committee reported no interest taken in the project, and the matter will likely be dropped. The dedication of the Milroy monument on that day will no doubt draw a number of people here who prefer a quiet program, while the young folks who enjoy something more strenuous, where firecrackers of at least the length of one’s finger may be shot-off, will go to neighboring towns. , The small boy whose patriotic instincts yearn for cannon crackers must hike to the country or to some more noisely patriotic town than Rensselaer to give vent to this enthusiasm,- and he cannot even buy the big noisemakers here, either.

FIRE AT FAIR OAKS.

Sharps Hanley Lost All His Household Goods Saturday Morning. Fair Oaks, Ind., May 7. (Special to , The Democrat.) — Sharps Hanley\ house with all its contents burned to the ground at an early hour this morning. The fire was discovered by comet-gazers. The family were not at home at the time. The doors were all locked and the men who gathered at the alarm opened a window and the flames almost immediately enveloped the entire building. The house and contents were entirely consumed. The. house was insured for S3OO. It belongs to Susannah Karr, Mr. Hanley being her tenant. No insurance on contents. . The school house and the Al Helsel barn were saved by hard work. Burning shingles were carried over into the Lawler woods and set the dry leaves on fire. The fire spread there very rapidly.- The only man that fought the Lawler woods fire was Uncle John Casey, who fought the hardest fought battle of his life for 3% hours and succeeded in getting the fire under control and put "it out, saving Lawlers hundreds of cords of wood and a vast amount of damage to timber.

PURTELLE HEARD FROM.

Northwestern Indiana Traction Co. Getting Busy for Franchise at Hammond. Saturday’s Hammond Times says the Eugene Purtelle Northwestern Indiana Traction Co., is renewing its efforts to get a franchise at that place and promises to get busy p. d. q. if given a franchise. This is the line granted a franchise in Rensselaer last fall, and which is scheduled to run from Logansport to Remington and thence north to Rensselaer and then parallel the Monon to Chicago. Since “the subsidy elections failed in White county a few months ago but little has been heard of the project, but a Monticello paper states that Mr. Brucker of that place who is an officerin the company, received SIOO,OOO in blank bonds last week which he is to sign up and return to Chicago, where they will be placed on the market. Concerning the Hammond franchise the Times says: “The company says that it is ready to break ground forty-eight hours after the franchise is granted, tut the board of public works has allowed them ninety days’ time In which to begin their work, but cars must be running in Hammond within six months after the granting of the franchise. While the company is ready to furnish the required $.1,000 forfeiture money, to be paid the city in the event the company does not buiid, there was some talk to-day that the city council may raise this amount to $2,500. The company has furnished the mayor.and the board with good references as to the personal integrity of the men behind the project, but the board is gong to make the test of good faith on whether the company is willing to put up cash forfeiture money.”

EIGHT INDICTMENTS RETURNED

By Brand Jury Which Adjourned Saturday Afternoon. NO ARRESTS YET BEEN MADE And the Charges On Indictments Has Not Been Made Public— Prosecutor Files One Affidavit Which Is Believed to Deal With Bridge Graft—Probably Some Liquor Indictments.

The grand jury adjourned Saturday after having been in session four days. t Eight indictments were returned, although for what offenses is not made public -at this writing because no arrests have been made on the warrants. It is believed these are for minor offenses, however, Some for violation of the liquor laws, etc.' Prosecutor Longwell came over Saturday and filed one affidavit. It is believed this has to do with the bridge graft proposition, as it was not generally thought that some- members of the grand jury were very eager to do anything along that line. Whatever was done in that respect will likely be made known in a few days, as the warrants, if any, can be served at most any time. It is believed that considerable . evidence of bridge graft wenLbefore.the grand jury, and with the strong charge made by Judge Hanley, to that body along graft lines, it would seem that some indictments should have been returned.

MUST GO TO JAIL.

Watseka, 111., May 9.—Judge Debill late Saturday evening overruled the motion for a new trial in .the case of Mrs. J. B. Sayler and Dr. W. E. Miller, convicted of the murder of J. B. Sayler, a banker, at Crescent City, last July. The prisoners will be taken to Joliet immediately. The attorneys for the defense have not yet determined whether they will carry the case to a higher court.

FOUNTAIN PARK

United States Senator J. P. Deliver, of lowa, will Speak. Fountain Park Assembly, at Remington, will open on Saturday, August 13th, and the officers of the association are making every effort to provide splendid speakers and to make this session the best of any so far held. United States Senator J. P. Deliver, of lowa, will be one of the speakers and his well known insurgency will doubtless call out one of the greatest crowds that ever gathered in the park. ExGovernor Hock, of Kansas, will also be one of the speakers. Season tickets for the Assembly only $3.

SOUVENIR ENVELOPES GOING FAST.

If you have not seen any of those souvenir envelopes df Rensselaer you are sure to want some when you do see them. We have put out upwards of 25,000 and the supply on hand is limited.’ Owing to the cost of making the plates no more will be gotten after those on hand are closed out. We have to order them in case lots in order to sell them at a reasonable price, and it will not pay to order another case. .Come in-and get a supply of them while they last. The cost is only about the same as the ordinary envelope wlhen ordered, in 500 or 1,000 lots, and we retail them but by the package for only 10 cents for 25. -

May and Cash wheat has advanced 10c a busiheLin the past week, but we are ,still offering you the best flour made!, Aristos*, Gem of the Valley, and Lord’s Best, at $1.50 a sack. Golden Glow, equal to what Others ask $1.30 for, only $1.40. Every sack guaranteed or money -refunded. —John Eger.

THE T WICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY’. INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1010.

A NEW NIGHTWATCH.

Frank Critser the Unanimous Choice of the City Council. lAt a regular meeting of the Tty. council Mjonday evening; Frank Critser received the full vote of the council for nightwatch to succeed E. M. Thomas, who stood no show for re-elect-ion, it is said, and was therefore not a candidate for the place. There were several other ‘‘receptive candidates” for the position, but C. W. Platt was the only one of these who filed Olis application. N Mr. uritser will make a good officer and his selection by the council will meet with prettygeneral satisfaction. Other business transacted by the council follows: Supt. of light plant was directed to install lights in Commercial Club rooms, over Roth Bros, meat market, without charge for light rentals. Ordinance 130, prohibiting the sale and use of firecrackers more than 2% inches in length within the corporate limits of the city on penalty of $1 to $lO fine, was placed to third reading by a unanimous vote. Ordinance 131, ths “fly ordinance,” for Hie protection of public health, was also unanimously passed to third reading, as was also ordinance 132, providing for the letting of the contract for hauling coal from the railroad tracks to the water and light plant to the lowest bidder. The City attorney was instructed to prepare an ordinance defining the duties of fire chief and report at next meeting. An amendment to ordinance 107 was introduced and passed on the suspension of Rules, providing that the nightwatch shall come on duty at 7 p. m., and remain op duty till 5 a. m. The following claims were allowed: CORPORATION FUND. J K Davis; marshal $30.00 E M Thomas, nightwatch..........25,00 J A Grant, use of dray for fire wag 12.00 Ray Thompson, express 65 Peter Anderson, gear for fire wag. 225.00 ROAD FUND. Bert Campbell, salary ... 25.00 E Cockerell, shoveling c0i1«....... 3.50 Fred Irwin, same 1.00 Marion. Cooper, same.... 6,12 LIGHT FUND. C S Chamberlain, 5a1ary,......... 50.00 Mel Abott, saiiie. 30.00 Dave Haste, 5ame...... 30.00 Chas Platt’, labor on b0i1er......... 1.40 John Hordeman, 5ame............. 5.40 Firrpan Rutherford, 5ame.......... 7.00 Robt. Wartena, work on 1ine...... 13.75 Scott Chestnut, work on boiler.... 7.40 Rensselaer Garage, pump.......... 3.00 Ray Thompson, freight.. 1.72 WATER FUND. T E Malone, salary..... 30.00 J B Clow & Son, water supplies.. 11.06 Irwin & Irwin, insurance,......... 6.78 R D Thompson, freight.......... 38.59

AFTER BUCKET SHOPS.

Government In Earnest In Putting Such Institutions Out of Business. Washington, Miay 6. —The complete suppression of the “bucket shop” business throughout the United States is sought by the department of justice. Prosecutions already started are to be continued with unremitting viligance. “We have a plan to put all the bucket shops out of business, and that, too, without additional legislation by said an official of the department to-day. Just what are. the plans of the government to accomplish this end was not stated, but officials declared the statement was not thoughtlessly made. The cleaning up work in the east already has been systematically begun, and a number of indictments have been returned. More are promised as a result of the investigations by the local grand jury the last few days. After the department is through with the east, operations will be begun at Chicago, and, working from the center, it expects to conduct proceedings in such a manner as to break up any business radiating from that place. That feature of the traffic which includes the sending out of alluring literature, probably will receive the serious attention of the prosecuting officials, in which case the postal laws will be invoked as an instrumentality in its suppression.

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THE PARKER PAROLE.

Remington Press : Robert Parker, piesident of the Bank of Remington, who was sentenced April 23, 1908, tp serve from two to fourteen years for embezzlement, was paroled by the State Pardon Board last Saturday. -

He left immediately to join his wife at Huntington, where they spent Saturday and Sunday, leaving Monday for. Logansport. Tuesday morning Fred Berger (his nephew) and family went to Logansport and spent the day with them, taking dinner at the Barnett Hotel. M,r. and Mrs. Parker left for St. Louis Tuesday evening where their daughter Mirs. Jones Templeton, resides. Fred Berger and family returned on the evening train, and reported Mr. Parker in good health, and say he will probably never return to his old home here. The circumstances surrounding the parole are very peculiar as no on here heard of the action of the pardon board until Tuesday and no account of it appeared in any of the daily papers. The report at first was not generally believed until Tuesday when a number of persons saw his name qn the register at the Barnett Hotel. The paroling of Mr. Parker meets with the approval of a few of our citizens but the majority of'the people of Remington and vicinity think he should have served a longer time. The indictments returned and to which Parker plead guilty, for embezzlement from the following persons and the following amounts: James Hogan...s79; fine..slsß Thos Calligan.. 90; fine.. 180 Jas Calligan.... 75; fine.. 150 M A Gray...... 20; fine.., 40 Andrew Eller.. 25; fine.. 50 Hattie E11er.... 9; fine.. 18 The total of the fine was $596.

Concerning the parole of Mr. Parker, the Indianapolis News of •Monday evening had thisto say: “The law gives the parole board of botfi the state prison and the state reformatory the right to make rules for the release of prisoners under the indeterminate sentence act. Under these rules, a prisoner whose record, preceding the offense far which he was convicted, is clear, and whose record in prison is dear, presents himself . automatically before the board at the expiration of his minimum term for parole. Under the rules adopted, his parole generally follows, the board having consideration for the nature of the crime committed in addition to the prisoner’s record. “Governor Marshall has taken the stand, since assuming office, that the prisoner whose record is clear should not, under the law, be held after the expiration of the minimum sentence. It was on this score that he and former Superintendent Whittaker, of the state reformatory, differed widely. While the Governor knew nothing personally of the case of Parker, he held that Parker should, under the law, have had his release at the time it was given, provided his prison record was cttear. “The Governor also took exceptions to an editorial criticism of him printed in The News, in so far as it referred to the release of Rufus Cantrell, the negro grave robber, who was sentenced in the Marion county court for from two to fourteen years in 1903. Cantrell was paroled about a year ago by the prison board of the state prison, and the first intimation the Governor had of the release was in a letter which Cantrell wrote to him from a city in the north part of the state, After he had been released. The first official information given the Governor concerning his release was given by M. F. Foley, a member of the board, after Cantrell had, been out one month.

‘‘Considerable feeling is understood to have been caused in Remington and vicinity by the release of Parker, according to reports from that place.” - As stated in Saturday’s Democrat, Governor Marshall had nothing’whatever to do with the parole of Mr. Parker, and according to the News the first notice he had of his release was in a letter received from Remington Saturday.

For this week only—-4 cans of Peas, Hominy, Sauerkraut, Wax or String Beans or Pumpkin for 25c; and if these goods are not equal in quality to what others charge 10c or 3 for 25c, we will cheerfully return your mohey.— John Eger.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Attorney John'A. Dunlap was called to Elkhart', Ind., Monday on legal business. He will probably return to-day. New suits filed: No. 7607. Aetna Life Insurance Co., vs. Iva Moffitt; et al; complaint on note and mortgage. , Demand $3,500; Thomas Jensen, I. N. Warren and County Supt. Lamson.. attended the commencement exercises at Wheatfield Friday night. There were eight graduates in the clKss, this being the first class of graduates since that school was commissioned. —*b — Marriage licenses issued : May 7, Walter Harold Noel of Boston, Mass., aged 33, occupation traveling salesman, to Anna Louise Sorenson of New York, aged 36, occupation seamstress. First marriage for each. The groom, was bom in Posey county, Ind., and the bride is a native of Denmark. Kentland Democrat: Kentland’s special election last Friday, on the question of improvement or the town’s water works system, resulted in almost a unanimity of the votes for the improvement. The election was a very quiet affair—since there was no strife over the question —and only 114 votes (a little better than a third of the normal vote of the town) were cast, of which 102 were for and only an even dozen were against the improvement. The school" enumeration for Jasper county shows a net loss this year over 1909 of 62. Following is the enumeration by townships and school corporations : 1909 1910 Loss Gain Barkley ...........362 332 30 Carpenter .........277 281 4 Gillam .......206 188 8 Hanging Grove.... 128 128 Jordan ............205 198 7 . Kankakee 149 153 4 Keener ;205 205 Marion ..305 298 “7 Milroy 74 74 Newton .....140 144 4 Union 405 445 40 Walker ....286 254 32 Wheatfield ........151 144 7 Rensselaer 649 620 29 Remington 262 257 5 Wheatfield ........106 117 11 Totals 3912 3816 125 63 Following are tlhe proceedings of the closing days of the April term of the jasper circuit court, which ended Saturday: Horace Marble ditch; time extended to first day September term for commissioners to make report. S. H. Howe ditch; final report filed. Harvey J. Dexter ditch; cause submitted and evidence heard, assessments confirmed as modified. Allowances made as reported, ditch established, W. Frank Osborne appointed superintendent. A. Halleck allowed $540 attorney fee. Cordelia M. Williams excepts-to judgment and finding and moves for new trial; motion overruled and appeal granted to second Monday September term to file report of commissdoners. John P. Ryan ditch; time extended to second Monday to file report of commissioners. W. H. Berry ditch; time extended to first Monday in August to file report. Same entry in Richard B. Wetherell ditch. R. E. Davis dltchl notice ordered for hew parties brought in report. Charles Meadel ditch; assessments confirmed and ditch ordered established; allowances as reported. Halleck allowed $240 attorney fee. Wilson Shaffer appointed superintendent. Phoenix Mutual Ins. Co., vs. Curtis, J. Hand, et ait; receiver files report showing charges of $146.59 and credits the same. Caused dropped.,, Robert H. Morrow vs. James B. Albertson, et al; report approved and money ordered paid on tax. Frank Krempel, et al. vs. Horace Marble; cause dismissed at plaintiff's cost. ' Lavina Bishir, et al. vs. Laura Bishir, et al; defendant files motion for new trial as of right.

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ANOTHER’S OPINION OF IT

What the Indianapolis News Says Editorially of the Bader Parole. That The Democrat and 99 per cent of the people of Jasper county are not alone in their opinion that Governor Marshall made a grevious mistake in stepping in and halting the operation of the law in paroling C. L. Bader, the convicted Winamac bridge graftef, is shown by the following editorial in Friday’s Indianapolis News: “In our opinion Governor Marshall made a serious mistake in paroling Clinton L. Bader, president of the grafting bridge company. This man, from the moment of his conviction, has been treated with the most distinguished consideration. The sheriff simply “kept him in custody,” and appointed a deputy to look after the prisoner while he was going about his business much as usual. Finally the motion for a new trial was overruled, Bader was sentenced, and still the sheriff refused to do his duty. Even after the commitment was issued, and the order to take Bader to the penitentiary had been made, the sheriff declined to act. Theh it was that the Governor was approached by one of Bader’s attorneys. And the result was that this man was paroled, pending appeal, though he had not served one minute of his sentence. “We understand the Governor’s theory, and there fcs something to bo said for it. It is that a man convicted of a bailable offense ought not to be pent to the penitentiary pending motion for a new trial and appeal For it might turn out that he was Innocent, or at least that he had been improperly convicted, in which case it would be a hardship to subject him to punishment. In this case Governor Marshall says that he was. Informed that the trial judge had said that he would be forced to grant a new trial, and from this it was natural to Conclude that there had been error. This statement was made by Hathaway, one of Bader’s attorneys. It seems to us that it would have been better to get the word of the judge on the subject. As a matter of fact, the motion for a new trial was overruled. Of course, it is to be said for the Governor that his action will not shorten the.,term of the man’s imprisonment,,if he is finally found to be guilty. The action Is equivalent to a suspension of sentence till all doubt of the man's guilt is removed. It is to be said further that there are many who think that the law ought to be changed so as to make It impossible for a man to be sent to prison till he has had a hearing In the supreme court. Such a bill was passed by the legislature at its> late session, but was vetoed by the Governor — and rightly—because its effect would be to shorten the Imprisonment of the guilty man. “But in spite of all explanation#; we still think that the Governor was wrong. It Is no easy matter to get a verdict in such cases as this against the men “higher up.” The trial seems to have been fair. Few people doubt the man’s guilt. The judge could find no reason for ordering a new trial. Littlefield, chairman of the Democratic county committee of Jasper county, one of the signers of the petition for parole, withdrew his name from the petition and telegraphed this: “Misinformed. Please withdraw my name from the Bader petition.” F. E. Babcock, editor of Thei Jasper County Democrat, wired the Governor as follows: “Court investigated thoroughly the question of Bader’s guilt. Inadvisable to interfere with verdict. If in doubt, wire, telephone or write Edward Honan.” If Mr. Honan was consulted there is no record of it in the Governor’s office. The action seems to have been based largely on the statement of one of Bader’s attorneys that the-cdurt had said that a new trial would be ordered. Further investigation would, we believe, have convinced the Governor that a parole should not have been granted. Governor Marshall is a kind-heart-ed, sympathetic man. We fear that in some cases his feelings get .the better of him. He certainly has been liberal in this matter of paroles. We believe that in some of these cases, the case of Rufus Cantrell, for instance, serious mistakes were made. As to Bader, every one knows that for years the people of Indiana have been in the clutches of a corrupt bridge combine, one that It has peen almost impossible to break up., It seems tq us that no men are less entitled to executive clemency than high-placed grafters. It would have been far better to allow the sentence of the court to go into effect.”

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