Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1911 — Page 4

HE m GOSH? BEDGIRT f. E.BI6COGI.EOITOR (ID POBLISIII. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Entered as Second Class Matter June 8, 1908, at the post office at Rensselaer, Indiand, under the Act of March L 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issui 4 Pastes; Saturday Issue 8 Pages. Long Distance Telephones Office 315. - Residence 311. SATURDAY, OCT. 14, 1911.

WORKS WELL IN KANSAS.

“Blue Sky” Statute For Protection of Investors Against Fakes Is Success. Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 12— The last Legislature of Kansas enacted a law popularly known as the ‘‘Blue Sky” law. This act requires all companies offering shocks, bonds or other securities for sale within the state of Kansas to secure formal permission from the Banking Department. A comprehensive report as to financial standing, plan of operation, organization, etc., is required. The department also investigates the reputation and financial standing of the Directors and others associated with the enterprise. If it is deemed necessary expert opinion as to physical valuation of properties and other data is secured from disinterested sources. This law has been in force about seven months, during which time over 500 companies have asked permission to offer their securities to the people of Kansas. But 44 of these have met the rigid requirements of the department. Many fake promotors did not file applications, one concern went as far as Winnipeg, Canada, to escape the jurisdiction of the department. A Utah mining promotor is now languishing in a county jail and faces long imprisonment and a heavy fine for selling stock without a permit. The people of Kansas have been victimized, so the Bank Commissioner savs, to the extent of $4,000,000 to $8,000,000 each year by fake promotion schemes, many of which never were intended to make any return to the investor either in principal or dividends. Few investors could afford to go to the expense of a personal investigation, as many did not know, how or where to secure the desired information. Under this law investors accept the per-j mit of the Banking Department i as a certificate of corporate j '“moral character.'” • The administration of the law by J. X. Dolley, Bank Commissioner, and F. J. Partridge, special deputy iri charge of invest-! ment companies, has been such that the Kansas people accept their certificate in lieu of a per-j sonal investigation. Especially, is this true in the smaller towns' and in the country, where peo-| pie do not have easy access toj other sources of information. ! Kansas is the first state to supervise the sale of stocks and bonds. The law has attracted attention from practically every state in the Union. British and German Consuls have asked for copies of the law for transmission to their respective Governments. Requests for informa-; tion have been received from fi-j journals and official sour- ! ces in many parts of the world.'

MONON DITCH ORDERED

Will Affect Considerable Land In East Jasper. The Monon ditch ‘has been established. Special Judge Henry A. Steis this afternoon made public his findings in the j case, the, report being favorable to the petitioners, and showing that the big drain , would be of benefit to all concerned. The findings show a liberal reduction of„assessments all along the line. •“Mt;. Steis, during the few months he has been trying the case has saved the people something in the neighborhood of $20,000 by his system of personal inspection of the affected lands, instead ,of compelling the land owners to bring all of their evidences into court, j- Mr. Steis estimates that the cost of the personal inspections, which he made, including clerk’s and sheriff’s expenses, will average about $650 or about one-half per cent per acre. He was able to inspect about 130,000 acres during his trip.] Had the owners been compelled to bring in all of their witnesses, etc., the expense per acre would have averaged 26 cents, or a total of $22,500. Thus bv comparing , this sum with the $650 which Mr. Steis actually

expended, it can be seen at once just what a saving he has made for the property owners. There have been nine judges presided over this old case, each of which except Mr. Steis, passed the matter up as a bad job. Mr. Steis is to be congratulated for having put an end 1 to this problem which has confronted the westsiders for so many years. — Winamac Journal.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

RICHMOND There was an echo of the mysterious and unsolved Joseph Lucy murder case at the trial of Earl Dubois, charged With robbing the Jones store at Milton. Miss Emma Gunsaulus related a conversation which she alleged she over* heardt between her brother, Guy Gunsaulus, and Dubois on the night of the robbery. Dubcis, she said, was urging her brother to come to Richmond and get a "jimmy.” Gunsaulus, the witness said, declared he was afraid to tackle the job. To this Dubois replied, according to Miss Gunsaulus’ story:: “Oh! .I’m not afraid, for I hafe been in scrapes before and never was caught. I killed old man Lucy, and they did not get me.” Duboos, on taking the stand, flatly denied that any such conversation took place with any persons. Joseph Lucy was murdered four years ago. Lucy was a recluse and was known to have considerable money. One morning his body was found in the house. His head had been mashed with a club and the house was in disorder, indicating that robbery had been the motive for the crime. The murderers failed to find Lucy's secreted wealth.

INDIANAPOLIS Miss Florence Woods, fifteen years old, who took carbolic acid with suicidal intent, is dead at the city hospital. The suicide follows that of a sister, Anna, seventeen years old, who took poison about six weeks ago at St. Vincent’s hospital, where the girls were employed. The reason for the older girl’s act was parental objection to a young man to whom she was engaged. Through her parents the attention of a probation officer was called to her and she became despondent under surveillance. Her parents say the younger girl was despondent over the death of her sister, the ill health of her father, who was in the hospital, and the general bad luck of the family. ANDERSON Some mischievous boys cast a large doll under a street car here and the car wheels crushed a sawdust limb from the doll. A man thinking the doll was a baby, called for an am’ ulanee. Galls brought two ambulances to the scene, but the man discovered the hoax and dropped the crushed doll to the pavement. The first ambulance men to arrive on the scene promptly gathered up the doll and haJuled it away although they discovered they also had been the victim of a prank by the boys. The street was filled with people when the ambulances dashed to the scene of the supposed accident. SOUTH BEND Stepping on a burglar crouching in his bedroom, Justice J. N. Calvert, aged sixty-five, engaged in a hand-to-hand fight with him and finally threw the burglar headlong downstairs. The burglar then escaped by jumping through a window. Mr. Calvert awakened during the night by a noise in the house, but found no one. His wife then suggested that he look under the bed. As he turned to do so, he stepped on the n.an’s foot, which protruded from under the bed. After throwing the intruder downstairs, Calvert dressed and started in pursuit, but the burglar escaped. INDIANAPOLIS After Judge Remster of the circuit iourt had filed his conclusions of law and special findings of facts in the constitution case, : the necessary formalities for taking an appeal from Judge Remster’s re- | cent decision, that the act for the proposed new state constitution is unconstitutional, were disposed of and ■ Judge Remster granted the petition of , the attorneys for the defense for an appeal to the Indiana supreme court. MOUNT VERNON Mayor Moeller has started a new system of punishment: for city prisoners w ho refuse to work. William Saxton refused j to work on the streets, and Mayor Moeller ordered his ankle adorned with a twenty-five pound ball and : chain and turned him over to a police- ’ man with instructions to parade him through the principal business streets until he decided to work. EVANSVILLE A dastardly attempt was made to assassinate William Wriver, aged twenty-five, night watchman at a basket factory. Two men in ambush fired several shots at i him, one shot taking effect in his arm. | He opened fire on the'assailants and j thinks he wounded one of them, i James Reddish was arrested on svis- | picion. j OAKLAND CITY A man and a woman, who are not known, drove to the home of Mrs. Houston Montgomery, and left a baby six months old at her house. There was no mark on the child’s clothes to identify it, and Mrs. Montgomery says she will keep and rear the child.

Sale bills printed while you wait' at The Democrat office

QUAKE AND TIDAL WAVE ENGULF 500

Hurricane that Follows Lasts Five Days. THREE CITIES ARE DESTROYED Earthquake Hurls Wall of Water Upon Hapless People of East Shore of Gulf of California Before Daylight Oct. 4. Mexico City, Oct. 13. —The cities of Ban Jose de Guayamas, Empallo and Ortiz, on the eastern snore of the Gulf of California, were destroyed on the early morning of Oct 4, by a tidal wave of thousands of tons of water cast up by a terrific earthquake in the gulf. Guayamas, Altata and Topotobampo were terribly damaged by the same wave, which lost some of its force by the time it reached them. Owing to the fact that the hurricane succeeding the tidal wave lasted five days, cutting off every means of communication with the outside world, no definite news of the terrible disaster came out until word was received from the governor of Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora, calling for provisions, tents, clothing, etc, for the stricken survivors. His message states that from 300 to 500 persons lost their lives in the tidal wave or in the hurricane, and that it is impossible to estimate the damage done to property along the coast. The earthquake occurred before daylight and, almost before the inhabitants of the coast towns had time to become alarmed at the earth tremors, a huge wall of v. • twenty feet high, swept in from the gulf, carrying everything before it. Ships and houses were swept far inland and deposited half a mile or more away on the sand dunes of the interior. The survivors, many of whom are suffering from broken arms or legs, tell heart-rending tales of the scene. When the huge wave struck the sleeping town and country men and women were drowned in their beds or crushed beneath the falling wreckage. Men fought for boards to enable them to keep their heads above the swirling water and women held their babies aloft, crying for some one to ome and save them. Many of the dead, and, it is feared, a number of living, were washed back into the gulf and there devoured by the great school of sharks which infests this arm of the Pacific.

LOSS WILL BE MILLIONS

Great Ranches and Mining Camps Are Swept by Flood. El Paso, Tex., Oct. 13.—1 n the tidal wave which swept the southern Mexican seaports three or four big ranches near Guyamas, among them the San Jose, had all their buildings and cattle washed away and the loss to these is over a million dollars. Santa Rosalia, a copper camp in Lower Californa, suffered to the extent of five millions of dollars. This is an American concern and the Guggenheims are said to be interested in it. The Southern Pacific railroad at Guyamas, Empalrae and all the way north in Souora almost to Hermosillo, the state capital, is said to be washed away and practically all bridges and much steep grading destroyed Throughout the coast country of Sinaloa and Sonora, the damage has beer, tremendous and dead bodies, as weli as the carcasses of cows and horses, are hanging in trees, where they were left by the flood.

BOMB FOR LIQUOR FOE

Explosion Occurs at Home of Knox College Professor. Galesburg, 111., Oct. 13. —At 1 o’clock in the morning a bomb was thrown at the home of W. P. Drew, a;professor at Knox college. The bomb missed a window that had been opened to receive it and fell upon the side porch, tearing a large hole and breaking seven windows. The family was sleeping upstairs on the back porch and escaped injury. Professor Drew has beqn instrumental in the prosecution of illegal liquor selling here and it is believed by anti-saloon workers here the bomb was thrown with a view of checking the prosecutions. This is bomb No. 2 for Galesburg, the rear of the Heidelberg club having been wrecked by a bomb a year ago.

Offer to Hang Jury Revealed. Kansas .City, Mo., Oct 13. —An affi. davit signed by Dr. B. Clarke Hyde, irt which, it is charged that Deputy County Marshal Harry C. Hoffman told him that for $1,500 he could hang the jury in the first Hyde trial and Jot $3,000 could obtain acquittal, was introduced into the hearing of Hyde’s application for elisors here. No Old Powder on Warships. Paris, Oct. 13. —Minister of Marine Delcasse issued orders that hereafter no powder shall be kept aboard warships over four yehrs. The oMer is the result of an investigation of the explosion on the battleship Liberte at Toulon a few weeks ago.

DAVID R. FRANCIS

St. Louis Leader Attends Deep Waterway Convention.

NURSE BREAKS SILENCE

Mabel Sexsmith Makes Denials in Webster Case. Says that Most of Things Said About Her by Chicago Papers Are Untrue. Oregon, 111., Oct. 13. —Attorneys for Dr. H. E. Webster, under arrest, on a charge of murdering Bessie Kent Webster, held consultations with several persons, who they expect will aid in the fight to free the physician. Mabel Sexsmith, a nurse, who was employed by Dr. Webs’ter at one time as a detective to watch Bessie Kent Webster, was one of the persons with whom Attorney James Callahan talked over developments in the case. Miss Sexsmith wrote out a statement on a typewriter and declared it was the only one she had authorized. She said: "I never said that I loved Dr. Webster and could not love any other man I know him only as a friend and am very sorry he is In rhis terrible trouble. I said nothing of the character of Bessie Kent Webster and I have every reason to believe that Bessie Kent Webster was a good woman. I also most emphatically deny the report that I sent any money to Dr. Webster to help him. "I did not at any time make any statements in favor of or against Zoe Varney Webster, inasmuch as I did not know her. “I never was in Oregon, 111., or Dixon, 111., in my life, and certainly knew nothing of the death of Mrs. Bessie Kent Webster until a reporter called upon me Saturday evening before Dr. Webster’s arrest”

FLOOD NOT YET OVER

Fears Expressed that Wisconsin River Will Go on Rampage. LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 13. —Worst apprehensions in regard to the flood in this vicinity are now felt in regard to the Wisconsin river. At Portage a rise of two feet in twenty-four hours is reported anfl the levees are at the breaking point. Railroad tracks, a 3 well as country highways, are under water, and the railroads are operating at Portage only with the utmost difficulty. A dam on the Lemonweir river at Mauston went out, further flooding the Wisconsin, which receives the waters of the Lemonweir. Above The tow n the Black river, which empties into the Mississippi at this place, is going down steadily, but it is still impossible to go through the flooded district and ascertain the loss County officers estimate the damasre at the bridge at McGillivray’s at $12.000, and other bridges are yet to report. The railroad loss in this county will be many times that sum.

PORTUGUESE ROYALISTS LOSE

Incursion from Mountain Stronghold Repulsed by Troops. Lisbon, Portugal (via frontier), Oct. 13. — advantage of a storm Tuesday night, the royalists made a foray from their mountain stronghold in'the direction of Vinhaes. Republican troops intercepted and engaged the enemy at close quarters. The firing from both sides was intense for some time in the darkness. Then the royalists gave up their attempt and retired to their positions in Serra da Corda within half a mile of the Spanish frontier. They left several dead and wounded on the fieldv

Olympic Severely Damaged. . Belfast, Oct. 13.—A survey was held on board the White Star steamship Olympic in the dry dock of Harland & Wolfe. It was estimated that it will cost $1,000,000 to repair the damage caused by the cruiser Hawke when she rammed the liner near Cowes on Sept. 20. Paris to Fez by Wireless. Paris, Oct. 13.- —Wireless communication was inaugurated between Paris and Fez, Morocco.

SHEPHARD ADMITS BROWNE MEETING

First Acknowledgement of Discussion of Bribe Expose. ASSUMED NAME IS ADOPTED Entry “A. J. Schafer and Wife” in Hotel LaSalle Register of 1910 Identified —Edward Hines Is Interrogated. Chicago, Oct: 13. Henry A. Shephard of Jerseyville, the former Democratic state representative named by Charles A. WJiite as one of the men who met Lee O’Neil Browne and Robert E. Wilson in St. Louis on occasions when Lorimer and jack-pot money was distributed, made revelations of circumstances hitherto concealed, while under a constant fire of questions from members of the Lorimer investigating committee of the United States senate. Mr. Shephard told of a conference with Representative Browne ani} Representative Wilson in the Briggs House in Chicago on April 24, 1910, at which the expected exposure of legislative corruption was discussed. Four days before Mr. Shephard had learned that he was implicated in the White confession which then was being corroborated by investigators. The White confession was published April 30. Until this time Mr. Shephard had not admitted that he saw Brcwne or Wilson during those days when the legislators involved m the scandal are said to have been getting together to think up explanations- for the St. Louis visits. Mr. Shephard denied before the Cook county grand jury that such a conference had been heM! Representative Browne testified before the former senate committee that be coijld not recall - having seen Shephard at the time mentioned. Mr. Shephard admitted that w\ien he came to Chicago to see Browne and Wilson he registered under an asat the Hotel LaSalle. The hotel register was brought in and Mr. Shephard identified the entry “A. J. Scnafer and wife” as having been written by him. In his talk with Browne and Wilson at the Briggs House, Mr. Shephard said, he asked them about White’s story that he had received SI,OOO Lorimer money and S9OO jackpot money. Browne told him, Shephard said, that White was a liar. Mr; Shephard was on the witness stand the entire day and had a highly uncomfortable time John H. Marble, attorney for the committee, and members of the investigating body hammered away at him and trapped' him into several minor contradictions of his testimony before the previous senate committee The witness stood firm in his declaration, however, that he had received no money from either Browne or Wilson. Previous to the testimony of Mr. Shephard, the committee conferred with Edward Hines in executive session. Books and records showing Mr. Hines’ business and personal transactions have been under investigation by a firm of accountants since Mr. Hides testified at Washington. It is said that the examination has produced no results.

WEATHER FORECAST

Indiana —Fair today; probably unsettled tomorrow; light to moderate northeast to east winds. Illinois — Local showers this afternoon or tonight; probably fair tomorrow; light to moderate easterly winds becoming variable. Wisconsin Showers today; probably fair tomorrow; moderate easterly winds becoming variable.

MARKET QUOTATIONS

Chicago Live Stock. Chicago, Oct. 12. Hogs—Receipts 22,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] choice heavy, [email protected] choice light, [email protected] heavy packing, and [email protected] good to choice pigs. Cattle —Receipts 6,500. Quotations ranged at $5C2&@8.60 prime steers, [email protected] good to choice fed beef cows, [email protected] good to choice heifers, [email protected] selected feeders, $3.65 @4.35 fair to good Stockers, $9.00@ 9.75 good to choice veal calves. Sheep—Receipts 42,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] choice to prime native-lambs, $4.40@ 4.75 good to choice fed yearlings, [email protected] choice to prime fed wethers, [email protected] good to choice handy ewes. Live Poultry. Turkeys, per lb., 15c; young turkeys, 15c; chickens, fowls, 11c; roosters, B%c; springs, 11c; ducks, 13c; geese, 11c. Potatoes. Wisconsin, 65@70c per bu; Michigan, 65 @ 7.0 c. East Buffalo Live Stock. Dunning &, Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle—Receipts 4 cars; market slow. Hogs—Receipts 20 cars; market slow; heavy, $6.90@, 7.00; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, $6.40 @6.50. Sheep—Receipts 30 cars; market slow; top lambs, [email protected]; yearlings, [email protected]; wethers, $4.00@ 4.35; ewes, [email protected]. Calves, $5.00 @IO.OO. <

|gifl.WJtt. [Under this head notices w_d be published for 1-cent-a-word for the 3r»l insertion, V4-cer:t per word for each additional Insertion. To save book-keep-ing cash should be sent with notice. Ne notice accepted for lees than 25 cent*, but short notices coming within the above rate will be published twe or more times, as the case may be for 25 cents. Where replies are sent in The Democrat’s care, postage will be charged for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.] For Sale—Five dozen nice Plymouth Rock chickens. Phone so they may be caught if you want them.—SMITH NEWELL, Star Route, Rensselaer, phone 516-G. For Sale Cheap—A hot-blast heater; good black walnut wardrobe; black walnut, marble topped, stand; also several good historical books.—Enquire at DEMOCRAT OFFICE. For Sale—An 18-inch, hot blast heating stove, onOy used a few months; cost S2O, but will sell cheap.—Enquire at THE DEMOCRAT OFFICE. For Sale Cheap—Three good house doors, with locks, 1 twosash, 4 light window, 1 good wall or ceiling register, 1 five or six foot oak grill, two or three transoms and cellar windows, several iron wall ventilators, etc.—F. E. BABCOCK. For Sale —Good work team, wt. about 3200, - three and four years old; 3 good spring calves (bulls), one Shorthorn, one Durham, one Polled Angus.—A. T. KEIPER, Rensselaer, R-4, phone 529-E. 019 Dictionary for Sale—Webster’s New International, full sheep binding, and good paper, cost sl2 net; will sell very reasonable.—THE DEMOCRAT.

Pears for Sale—Fine Keifer pears at 75c per bushel.—M. Y. SLAUGHTER, Rensselaer, Ind., R-4. Phone 294-F. 012 For Rent—24o acre improved farm in Jordan tp.—THOMAS E. REED, Remington, Ind., R-3, phone 79-J. Estrays Taken Up—Came to my place in Newton tp., Saturday last, two stray calves. Owner may have same by identifying property and paying charges.—GEOßGE HARMS Rensselaer, R-3. Wanted—Companion and nurse for elderly invalid lady.—BOX 531, Rensselaer, Ind. For Sale—Seven Shropshire yearling rams, good ones.—THOMAS E. REED, Remington, Ind., R-3, Phone 79-J. For Rent—Brick store building lately occupied by C. A. Balcom in town of Remington, Ind. Equire of J. R. WILSON, Remington, Ind. 016 Wanted Salesmen—We want a good live representative in every county in the United States. To this man we will guarantee an income no less than $150.00 per month and expenses.—HUßEßT MNFG. CO., 400 Monticello Ave., Chicago, 111. Timber For Sale—ln acre tracts at right price, 10 miles north of Renssolaer on gravel road; till April 1 to get it. —Write or call, J. DAVISSON, Kniman, Ind. Farm Loans—Money to loan on farm property in any sums up to SIO,OOO. E. P. HONAN. 100 Envelopes—Printed with your return card in corner—something every rural mail route patron shonld not be without—for 50 cents at The Democrat office. For Sale—Pure bred Duroc Jerseys, If you ivant a good spring gilt or boar, call, wite or phone—VICTOR YEOMAN, Phone 521-G, Rensselaer, Ind. R. F. D. 2. nl Farms For Sale—l have a number of farms for sale in different parts of this county and adjoining counties, and I have made up my mind to devote my time to the business. Therefore if you have any farms or town property to sell or trade give me a chance and I will give you a square deal. —JOHN O’CONNOR, Ex-sherift Jasper county, Kniman, Ind.

Farm For Sale—6o acres near county* seat of Jasper county, black loam, 3 miles of good town, telephone and R. F. D., at door, on graveil road, all under cultivation except grove about house, well tiled, fine orchard of all kinds of fruit, cement milk hotise, good house, barn, double cribs, granary and other outbuildings, all practically new, fine drilled wel-l 75 ft. deep. Am getting to old to farm and want to sell. For name of party address, with stamp, THE DEMOCRAT, Rensselaer, Ind. G.K.J. For Exchange —A section of land in Logan county, Colo., 9 miles to R. R. station. 400 acre c good farm land; balance grazing. $16.50 per acre. Incumbrance SI,OOO. Also, 316 acre tract 5 niiles of Ovid, Colo. Except possibly a small part, all fine, smooth land. S2O per acre, incumbrance $2500. Trade equity for land here.— Lock Box 2, Remington, Ind. o 4 3t I flnt hn f Without Delay Tnll ll Without Commission I UUI lu Without Charges for nj Making or Recording -Instruments. ; W. H. PARKINSON.