Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 54, Number 18, Jasper, Dubois County, 2 February 1912 — Page 2
STATE WEEKLY COURIER BEN ED. DOANE, Publisher. JASPER INDIANA Indiana RECORDED IN BRIEF Brevities
CLARENCE DHOW gfe PAfMIS -A
HAPPENINGS
China Is now the land of the riling Bun!
The winter will be ended when the j.each crop begins to be killed.
It takes a young mother to toll what color her baby's hair Is when It hasn't any at all.
Lawyer Charged With Tampering With McNamara Panel.
NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER INDIANA.
The papers tell us that rabbits are cheap, but the papers and the butchers do not agree. Well, since we have to have some -printer anyway, the sooner we get it over with the better.
GIVES $20,000 CASH BAIL True Bills Returned in Los Angeles Come Almost Unannounced, Although Accused Had Been Notified of Action.
MINERS REJECT SCALE OFFER
BLACK HAWK
The year 1912 will long stand as a fatal one to aviators. The total number who were killed wsa 82.
His Indian name or the best known of his several Indian names was Maka-Taime-Shekia-Kiak. It means "Big bird that is black" and Is usually translated "Black Hawk." He had the figure of a Greek god and a head and face closely resembling Sir Walter Scott's.
Black Hawk began life in the Sac
The great American hen Is not doing her full duty to tho country. There should be some inducement to egg jber on. Perhaps Mr Edison invented the concrete cottage and furniture to go with the concrete biscuits of the young housewife.
Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 30. Clarence S. Darrow of Chicago, chief counsel for tho McNamara defense, was indicted by the grand jury on two charges alleging jury tampering and tho nnrrnn Hon nf a nublic official.
IJJlUVAi XAU IT U. J w and Fox Nation, near Rock River, in
indictments were imminent, was pres- iiiinois. By the time he was fifteen ent in court and surrendered. had gone through the torture and Has His Bond Ready. weird ceremonials entitling him to His bonds were ready, and after call himself a "brave." Next year, in the legal formality of placing him un- 1783, the sixteen-year-old lad went at der arrest had been complied with ho the head of a small war party against
was liberated. Cyrus S. McNutt, another attorney for the McNamaras, and Charles S.
Young qualified as bondsmen.
Burkank says he is able to get paint out of the cactus. It Is to bo hoped that It is not the nose paint the Mexicans get out of it.
The specific charges were the pay- Black Hawk with his own hand killed
A Chicago prophet predicts that 1912 will be the most prosperous year in history. If everybody thoroughly believed that, It would be.
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4 A Boston "professor says children do
not like tales that are purely imaginary." Possibly the professor really meant wives instead of children.
ment of a sum of money to Venire
man George Lockwood and to Juryman Robert Bain in the James B. McNamara case. Bail Fixed at $20,000.
Bail on each count was fixed at with 500 native followers he did val
$10,000. This was produced in cash. The indictments were returned almost without warning and created a
sensation, but they were not altogeth
brink of war with the government and with perhaps less than half the following he needed for such a conflict. He sent a flag of truce to a government, force that was pursuing him. The Indian who bore the flag was shot down by the soldiers. Whereat Black Hawk in fury attacked the troops (270 men under Major Isaiah Stillman) on May 14, 1832, and with only seventy Indians put them to ut
ter rout. The war wan on! Black Hawk swept like wildfire through the nearby settlements, leaving flame and death in his wake. The government saw it had a real frontier war on its hands and sent broadcast a call for troops. (In the conbiet that followed there were four
officers who were later to win national fame. They were Abraham Lincoln, Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor and Jefferson Davis.) Black Hawk attacked Apple River Fort on Juno 24, 1S32, and next day defeated a strong detachment of United States troops. But the odds against him woro tnn rpvptp. As the white sol-
iant deeds against the united States, dierg massed jn greater numbers Black
and incidentally learned mucn auuuu niv-ni?0fi wnrfnrp. Keokuk, head
100 Osage Indians and won nis nrst victory. At nineteen he led 2C0 Sacs and Foxes-against 200 Osages. Fully
100 of the Osages were slain, and
Refuse Tender of Operators to Lower Wages tothe Level of 1904-1906, But Conference Will Continue With Hope of Agreement.
Indianapolis, Jan. 30. The bituminous coal miners rejected the proposition of the operators to return to the wage scale of 1904-1906, submitted at the joint conference of the miners and operators of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and western Pennsylvania. The scale was ten cents a ton lower in Ohio and western Pennsylvania and six cents a ton lower in Indiana and Illinois than the present scale. The conference will continue.
olv oP life fnoc All
A Refusal to Yield. In the War of 1812 Black Hawk was nersuaded by Tecumseh to join the
British ranks as a brigadier general.
At last there arc indications that the cost of living is coming down. A Jury In Missouri has decided that the value of a stolen kiss is 50 cents.
er unexpected, as the affairs of the defense attorneys were known to have been under investigation for several weeks. Long Famous as Labor Attorney. For nearly twenty years Clarence S. Darrow has been recognized as tho chosen advocate of labor in the Uni-
chief of the tribe, was or pretended to be a friend of the government. Black Hawk hated Keokuk and started a strong opposition faction, with himself at its head. A treaty had been made whereby for a yearly payment of $1,000 the Sacs and Foxes were to turn over to the white men a 700-mile tract of land east of the Mississippi river. Accordingly Keokuk and his followers moved west
across the Mississippi. Black Hawk refused to go. He said the officials
first sousrht by
inhnr unions in fiVflrv cause where the
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crs. trial of Eugene V. Dens, leader ol tue ea mem inio uiu imi.au nutj, u
rreat railroad strike in 1S94. His
Coal oil noured Into the kitchen trrnnpnclnns afforts in behalf of Debs
stove to start a fire will cause just as held the attention of the country and
much trouble now as it used to do
when the practice was far more com roon.
The skull of a former king of Servia has been stolen by ghouls. Perhaps it was the act of insane patriots who believed Sfcrvla was in need of a good thead.
There h jti tp be, demand for American windmills In Egypt. There are several distinguished windmills in American public life that could easily be spared.
Somebody is endeavoring to create enttment in favor of a new alphabet. Well, if one has nothing else to do thai may be as good a way as any in which to keep busy.
A Jersey man got $1,000 damages from a surgeon who performed an operation on tho wrong side. Tho jury probably felt tho patient had a right to cut up about It
A Long Island girl danced herself to death becauso she was so popular that every your.g man at tho party Insisted on dancing with iier. Sometimes it is mot unlucky,. after all, to be a wallflower.
The wife of a song writer, suing for divorce, charges him with inhuman cruelty. If he Is the man who wrote "The Mysterious Rag," a long-suffering public will rise up as one and back her.
nermnnpntlv identified him' as the
champion of the cause of organized labor. His next noted legal fight was in 1S98, when he was retained as chief counsel for the defense of Thomas I. Ridd, general secretary of the Amalgamated Woodworkers' International union, indicted with two others for conspiracy in the woodworkers' strike at Oshkosh, Wis. Elected by Record Vote. In 1902 Mr. Darrow was elected to the state legislature on a public own
ership platform by a majority almost without parallel In the political history of Illinois. Soon after his election he was selected as chief counsel for John Mitchell and tho United Mine Workers' of America in the inquiry by the com
mission appointed by President Roosevelt to investigate the groat Pennsylvania coal strike. His work in behalf of the coal miners added to his fame. The defense of Moyer and Haywood on the charge of conspiracy in causing the death by dynamite of Governor Steunenburg of Idaho was one of the greatest efforts of Mr. Darrow's life. The trial held the attention of the entire country and consumed many weeks in testimony and argument. The result was an acquittal of the prisoners.
refused to be bound by any sucn agreement. Then he started a confederacy of neighboring tribes for the purpose of destroying all settlers who should try to seize the Indian lands. Bloodshed followed. Governor Reynolos of Illinois called out the militia. A brief campaign was followed by a new treaty, which Black Hawk signed. In accordance with this agreement he moved his braves and squaws across the Mississippi. But he only stayed there long enough to perfect his plan for a great Indian confederacy against the white men. Then, assured that
many tribea would Hock to his stand
ard, ho recrossed to the river's east
bank. But only a small proportion of
the warriors from other tribes whose aid he had relied on actually joined him. So he found himself on the
Hawk and his gallant braves were forced gradually backward, fighting furiously for every inch of the way until they reached the mouth of the Bad Ax river. A United States steamship lay off the shore.
Insult to a Fallen Foe. Black Hawk sent forward a flag of truce. The steamship disregarded tho white flag and hurled shells into the Indian camp, where squaws and papooses were huddled. The pursuing
troops finished the rout. The Indian army was cut to pieces. Black Hawk
escaped, but was soon captured. He was held prisoner for months at Fortress Monroe, then taken on a tour of New York and other big cities that he might see the full power of the white man. He was at last permitted to return home, only to find that the government had made Keokuk chief of bis nld-time warriors. Beaten, de
posed from rank and power, homeless, hopeless, the old chief did not long survive his disgrace. He died. Oct. 3, 1S3S, near Des Moines. Ia. When Black Hawk was captured in 1S32 he turned to his fellow prisoners and cried: "Farewell, my "nation! Black Hawk tried to save you and avenge your wrongs. He shed the blood of many of the whites. Now ho is a prisoner and his plans are overthrown. He can do no more. He
nears hH end. His sun is setting and will rise never again. Farewell to Black Hawk!" (Copyright.)
Drinks Chloroform; Dies. Anderson, Jan. 30. It was learned that Mrs. Dora Halm, forty-five years old, committed suicide by swallowing two ounces of chloroform. The woman lived with her husband and two grown children at 936 West Second street, and at the time she swallowed the poison the husband and daughter were not at home. She asked the son to get a bucket of coal, and during his temporary absence swallowed the chloroform. When he returned he gave the alarm, but his mother died before the husband and daughter arrived home. Continued ill health is given as the cause of her act.
Force Prisoners to Work. Lafayette, Jan. 30. Thirty prisoners in the Tippecanoe county jail havo gone on strike, and it was necessao to send a squad of police to the jail to make them work on the streets. The prisoners positively refused to work unless they were paid for their services. The police succeeded in getting the men out and placed at
work removing ice from the streets.
A few weeks ago the city made an agreement with the county, whereby all city prisoners would work their
fines out in the street department.
White River Overflows.
Petersburg, Jan. 30. White river is rising slowly and overflowing the low
bottoms. A twenty-hour rain has
alarmed farmers of the bottoms. All
streams in southern Indiana are at
flood stage, and the Wabash river is
holding the waters of White river back.
Much wheat and alfalfa was planted in
the bottoms last fall and an overflow
now means a great loss. Section men are constantly on the watch, keeping
the ice from forming another gorge at
the river bridge, just east of here.
Marion. Shot by a man wko summoned him to the door of his own residence for the purpose of robbery, Clarkson Wlllcuts, seventy-two, a wealthy and prominent resident o this city, died within a few minutes after the crime. Cecil Fordyce, twenty-two, a professional thug, confessed the murder immediately after hii arrest. Owing to the prominence of the vie- , tlm and circumstances of the crlna the city was plunged into a whirl of excitement Police and relatives, prior to the confession of the assassin, were completely mystified by the ap
parent lack of motive.. After it became known that Fordyce had confessed to the police that he fired the fatal shot, ugly threats wer heard on the streets. Fordyce vai taken into the third story of the Grant county jail and placed in a separate cell. Sentiment is stronqly against the prisoner. Vincennes. Mrs. Rose Cooper, thirty-five years old, wife of Frank Cooper, was accidentally killed by hrj seventeen-year-old nephew, Gladyt
Cooper. Cooper grabbed a rifle to kill sparrows, and it was accidentally discharged, the ball passing through Mrs. Cooper's heart. N James Weaver, fortyfive years old, was scalded to death when steam was turned into a boiler which he was repairing. The widow and three children survive. Gary. Saloon men of Gary ar much worried by rumors of a
threatened move on the part of the Indiana Anti-Saloon league to enforce the Sunday closing law. It is reported that the league will start impeachment proceedings against the city prosecutor for failing to enforce th Sunday closing law.
South Bend. Declaring that her husband, William Temple, insisted that she should cure herself by faith, that he had been cruel to her,
that she made an attempt to commit
suicide while on the Pacific coast, Mrs. Paulina Teniplo, one of the best
known of the younger social set of this
city, secured a divorce. Mr. Temple was formerly a student at Culver
Military academy and is now in the
auto business in South Bend.
Indianapolis. The Republican
State Editorial association elect
ed the following officers at the an
nual meeting here: President, Leo K. Fesler, Indianapolis; first vice-president, A. A. Hargrave. Rockville; sec
ond vice-president, John W. Lewii, Salem; secretary, B. R. Inman, Mid-
dletown; treasurer, Edgar Baldwin,
Fairmount.
CRAZY HORSE
A member of tho New York legislature wants to have flirting made a penitentiary offense. It is hoped that his resolution may not become a law. It would only Increase tho opportunities for dragging In technicalities.
ROBBED OF' $20,000 CLOAK Mrs. Paul A. Sorg of Akron, O., Loses Russian Sable Garment in New York Theater.
The joy-rider is again in evidence and saddened homes must pay for his reckless sport. The ago Is resourceful, but hardly enough so until it has found some way of protecting the community from this new danger of civilization.
The Massachusetts preacher who perpetrated the ten commandments for women has had his name printed broadcast throughout the land. If there was any other reason for perpetrating said commandments, ho has kept it a profound secret
Fifteen years ago a New York policeman helped a woman in distress and she left him $20,000. While tho Impetus of this exceedingly rare demonstration of gratitude lasts, life In Gotham for distressed maids and matrons will be one, long, sweet song.
A woman In New York went into a drug store, demanded justice and smashed up the place when Informed they did not keep the article She labored, apparently, under the rare delusion that justice Is a drug in ta market.
It is estimated by people who aro clever at compiling population ngures that there will be 300.000.000 peoplo In this country fifty years hence. Still there ii no likelihood that St Paul hav succeeded in overtaking jMlmiMftpolti.
New York, Jan. 30. A reward of $500 has been offered for the return of a Russian sable coat, valued at $20,000, which was stolen from Mrs. Paul Arthur Sorg while she was attending the Globe theater. The coat was taken from the box In which she sat. Mrs. Sorg formerly lived in Akron, O. Every employe of the theater was closely questioned, but nothing was learned that would clear up the dis
appearance of the valuable fur.
Through a village of the Ogalalla Sioux dasbed a pony, crazed by fright. A baby boy had just been born in the village, and the appearance of the maddened pony was taken by the infant's parents as an omen. So the new horn child was named "Crazy Horse' (Among various Indian tribes it has always been the custom to give each child the name of the first object on which its mother's eyes happen to fall nfter the baby's birth. This accounts for such odd Indian titles as "Crazy Horse," "Poor Dog," "White Steer," "Gold Dollar," "Ridge Pole," "Boiling Kettle," etc.) I Crazv Horse from the first hated
civilization and was the sworn enemy of the government He stirred up
the southern Sioux to keep on leading
their old-time wild life and to refuse to Settle on any reservation. In con
sequence he speedily found himself
the leader of hundreds of bad In
dians, both of his own and of other
tribes. He was the firebrand of the whole frontier. More than once, by
superior strength, the government sue ceeded in checking and even Imprls
oning him. But he would never admit himself conquered, and always until fhn lnct trnerlc enlsode of his
little value on the warpath. The
ponies were caught by the troops and
wore herded together. But Crazy
Horse and members of his band rushed through the blinding snow,
past the guards, straight into the
captured herd, waving blankets, screaming, firing guns and altogether
making such wild uproar and con
fusion that the whole panic-stricken
herd burst through the line of soldiers
and stampeded into the prairie. The
Indians, following the escaped ponies'
trail far more quickly and easily than could the troopers, soon caught up with their steeds, mounted them and rode to safety. General Crook followed up Crazy Horse's band, and first came upon them at Rosebud river, in Montana. There Crazy Horse and his 60C "braves" charged the soldiers with 3uch ferocity and knowledge of savage tactics that Crook, after a furious battle, was beaten back. He mached with his warriors to join Sitting Bull's red army. It was these two united bands that met and crushed Custer's troops at the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876. Sitting Bull
found his way to Canada after this campaign. But Crazy Horse and his
followers,, hotly pursued by General
Reason for Confessing.
Evansville, Jan. 30. William Lee, ac
cused of murder, was placed on the
stand and severely cross-examined by
the attorneys for the state. Lee said
when he made the three confessions,
in which ho admitted the killing of his parents and brother Clarence, he
was moved by his desire to get out of
the trouble, and ho felt now he would
admit anything if it would get him out
of the trouble.
May Restore Michigan Road.
Laporte, Jan. 30. An organization
has been perfected in Marshall coun
ty to interest boards of county com
missioners and the state legislature
in a movement to restore the Michi
gan highway extending from Michigan City on the north to Madison and
the Ohio river on the south. Promo
ters estimate the road can be con
structed at a cost of $5,000,000.
GIRL'S SLAYER IS EXECUTED
Albert Wolter Leaves Dying Statement Denying He Killed Fifteen-Year-Old Ruth Wheeler.
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fierce life-managed to wnggie i iree Mlh?Si went back to RoSebud ruver, and to resume his career of blood-' , . . , finfft(, p-rtir nn.
shed.
Ossining, N. Y., Jan. 30. Albert Wolter, murderer of fifteen-year-old Ruth Wheeler, died In the electric chair in Sing Sing prison. The girl went to Wolter's flat in New York In search of employment and he killed her after she had been attacked. Her charred body was found in a bag on a fire escape. Wolter left a statement with Warden Kennedy denying that he had committed the crime.
Hardwood Men at Cincinnati. Cincinnati, O., Jan. 30 The Slnton hotel is thronged with jolly and busy lumber dealers, for the Hardwood Manufacturers' association of the United States began its annual meeting today. President W. B. Townsend of Townsend, Tenn.. is conducting th sessions and the members are dividing their time between business and pleasure. The association will bt brt until tomorrow miht
The Sioux Revolution. In 1S75 many tribes of the Sioux and cf some allied "nations" went on the wannxth. Their Black Hills lands were stolen from them by the white men. Government agents had mal
treated and cheated them. Altogether they deemed it better to plunder at will and. if need be, to die fighting rather than to starve or be cheated on reservations. Up to this time Crazy Horse had confined his warlike efforts for the most part to conflicts with Crow, Mandan and other tribes hostile to the Sioux, and to raids on poorly defended white settlements. In such exploits he had won fame an I had learnedgeneralshlp. Now he became one of the principal war chiefs of the whole uprising, scarce second in importance" to Sitting Bull himself. During a blizzard in the winter of 1S75 General Reynolds, at the head of a force of regulars, made a sudden attack on Crazy Horse's camp. The general sought to cripple the Indians there by capturing all their ponies. For without a pony an Indian U of
whom thv had defeated Crook. Gen
eral Mackenzie fell upon Crazy Horse's camp and, with some loss of men, succeeded in destroying it. The Last Battle. Crazy Harse then retreated toward the Big Horn laountalns, trying in vain to shake off Miles' close pursuit. At length Miles caught up with him, and a terrible battle ensued. The soldiers could scarcely withstand the savages' headlong charges until the artillery was brought up. Then the bom bardment of shells broke the Indian
formation to pieces. Unable to cope with such overpowering odds as can nou and gatling. Crazy Horse was forced to retreat The following spring he and his fol lowers were captured and placed on a reservation. He at once set to work planning a new outbreak. The government heard of his plot and sen' a squad of men secretly to arrest him On September 7. 1877, he was over powered and seized. He wrenche himself free from the guard and whil making a dash for freedom was sbo' dead. (Copyright)
Would Impeach City Fathers.
Gary, Jan. 30. Alderman A. S. Hess,
R. E. Rowley and W. S. Feur, mem
bers of the Gary common council, have issued a call for a special meeting to
be held on Wednesday night. Action
will be taken on impeaching one or more aldermen. Alderman Walter
Gibson, convicted of bribery but hold
ing his seat pending an appeal to the
state supreme court, may be ousted.
Leaves Bed to Escape Fire.
Nashville, Jan. 30. Forced to flee
from her bed, despite a serious illness,
Mrs. Samuel McKee was found lying
unconscious on the ground, a few
feet from her burning home. Mrs. McKee was alone in the house when
the fire started. The residence, which was situated about five miles west of
here, was destroyed.
Strike Result of Misunderstanding.
Hammond, Jan. 30. Five hundred
men employed at the Inland mills in Indiana Harbor are out on strike and
the plant is shut down. The strike
resulted because the officials refused
an ultimatum due to a misunderstand
ing. They asert the men will return
to work, but the latter say the situa
tion is serious. Garv Taboos "Turkey Trot."
Gary. Jan. 30. Following the lead
of surrounding cities, Chief Martin of
the Garv police, has put the ban on
the "turkey trot" and "grizzly bear" dances, which were being conducted
in various dance halls.
Gets Life Term for Murder,
Bedford. Jan. 30. Charles Mitchell,
charged with killing James L. Mitch
ell, was found guilty of flrst-degre
murder and given a life sentence.
Evansville. Hoping to gain fame
and fortune on the vaudeville
stage, Marjorle Wright, seventeen
years old, living at Mound City, 111., who ran away from home, was taken
in charge by the local authorities and will be sent to her home.
Kokomo. Hoard, aged three years.
son ot unaries iuason, a
er. was drowned in a concrete water
ing trough on the Mason farm, falling through a hole cut in the ice.
Plainfield. The fourth of a series
of farmers' institutes, now be
ing held in Hendricks county, began
here with a good attendance. A con
certed effort is being made to estab
lish permanent joint township Insti
tutes for the instruction of farmers
In better methods, and which will afford opportunity for full discussion of
the various problems of agriculture, this being taken up In the meeting
and referred to a committee on organization.
Golumbus. The prisoners 'in th
Bartholomew county j ill here were frightened when the building was
perceptibly jarred as if by a nearby explosion or earthquake, and it was
some time before they were quieted.
Sheriff Miller was In the prisoners department of the jail at the time, and
he plainly felt the jar. No expluna
tion for tho jarring of the building has
been found.
Sullivan. Thelbert Godfrey.
Charles Gorby and Isaac Gorby pleaded guilty to a charge of having robbed
the store of V. D. Cummins, at Hymera. They received sentences of from one to fourteen years in the state
prison. Joe Gorby, arrested with them,
is being held, pending an investiga
tion. N
Hammond. While trying to throw
a pall ot scalding waier on a
number of companions whom he accused of ejecting him from a danclmg
party, Elia Gragg of Indiana HarlKM
was fatally burned about the face.
Cnmn rnn lHfkr(1 tho nail as Elia
kJUlilV W X M hurled it and the entire contents par
boiled Ella's face.
Martinsville. The highest judg
ment for damages ever awarded
by a jury in Morgan county was ghrern
In a sealed verdict In the ce ot
Charles Stilwell versus the VaaMfri
Railway company, the jury returnilKg,
verdict In favor of the plaintiff for fit-
000 after being out seven hours. Buh
we hralcnman on the VaadaJtA,
and fell from a ireigm car wmw
iwUching at the "Y" In this cdty May 12, 1911. His right leg was out oet W
low the kneo. Suit was brtMypfct mt
115.000,