Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 56, Number 7, Jasper, Dubois County, 5 December 1913 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER BEN ED. DOANE, Publisher. JASPER INDIANA

Where there's a will there are a dozen lawyer. The man who jumps at conclusions Tery often gets stuck. Getting about time to think of what one's going to swear off. The front porch spoon will change to the kitchen stove squeeze. Not at any season does anvbodr grow ecstatic over prunes. At the wedding of the oceans not & voice was heard In protest. A piano phonograph has been InTented. Another terror to flat life. The rest cure was Invented for people who get tired out doing nothing. For people who like queer dances the present kind are the right thing. The tango is a first class winter dance, as. It keeps the blood, circulating freely. Those Russian explorers who saw a green sun can no longer withhold their Identity. An Oregon hen has laid 285 eggs in a year. We assume that she laid off on Sundays. Wooden shoes, which are gaining in popularity, must be fine to throw at a serenading cat. One irrepressible optimist is the man who buys the wedding ring on the installment plan. A German prince is trying to obtain a loan of $5,500,000. Undoubtedly he is already married. Consider the majestic confidence of the man who eats free lunch sausage and never asks a question. Doctors never kick, say garage owners. Why should they? They, too, make their living on repair work. The other day a man was fined $50 for winking twice at a pretty girl. Moral: Only wink once. It's cheaper. A phonograph is bad enough at best, but there ought to be a law to suppress those that never change their tunes. There are 160 dramas end 21 melodramas based on the life of Joan of Arc. Evidently there was nothing funny about her. A 12-ton Sphinx has been received in Philadelphia from Egypt. Thus has the population of the stone heads Increased by one. Cannibals are now said to object to white men as having an unpleasant salt and peppery taste. They are altogether too choosy. A Frenchman seventy-two years old has challenged another one seventyseven years old to a duel. There's no fool like an old fool. Parisian costumers say the trouser skirt is soon to come: that means no 'doubt that they'll wear 'em literally .as well as metaphorically. If the whale that rammed the Danish tanker belonged to any particular school of fish, it ought to qualify as center on the football team. Since the oyster Is becoming less (popular in society 11 has more opportunities to pass an evenlngi now and then at home with its family. The czav of Russia has claimed the new continent reported to have been discovered near the north pole; and, so far as we are concerned, he is welcome to It. Even the dignified United States ''bureau of agriculture will have Its little joke. Inevstlgators employed by the bureau report that a crow is a crow just becaws. A Chicago man who tried to commit fiuicide by drinking hair tonic is expected to recover. Hair tonic hardly ever does what people who use it ex pect it to do for them. A big money prize is to be offered at the San Francisco exposition for the best baby In the world. The project will cost a great deal of money, for every family In the country has that baby. A New York girl has broken the typewriting record by averaging 125 words a minute for an hour. It was a marvelous performance, even if incompatibility and transubstantiation did not occur often in her copy. Oy being sponsor at a baptism, besz i man at a wedding, and pallbearer at a funeral, a New Jersey man claims to have run life's gamut in a day. But no man can make such a claim unless, In addition, he has been a witness in a divorce case. According to Doctor Schmoll, four milligrams of radium, properly harnessed, would generate SO.000,000.000 horse power a second. These figures send a wild, sweet hope surging through the breast of the young m&u jwlth the racing automobile habit.

AMERICAN TROOPS ARRIVING AT MEXICAN BORDER

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Owing to the critical state of the relations between our government and General Huerta, many additional American troops have been hurried to the towns along the Mexican border. The photograph shows the arrival of one regiment.

TO FIRE ON MARINES HUERTA ORDERS ATTACK OF U. S. TROOPS IF THEY LAND. General Mass Told to Tear Up Ralls If Defeated and Retreat Fifty Miles Inland. Mexico City, Nov. 25. Resigned apparently to those conditions which make it necessary to carry on a dilatory campaign against his enemies, President Huerta and his official dependent appeared serene Sunday, convinced that the United States will not take more drastic measures toward the Mexican government than those already taken. . Vera Cruz, Mex., Nov. 22. 'Provisional President Huerta on Thursday ordered General Mass, commander of the garrison here, to resist the American marines, if an attempt is made to land them. Failing to repel the "invaders," Mass was directed to retire along the line of the Mexican railway, destroying the tracks as he retreated as far as Paso del Macho, 50 miles from the coast. He was instructed to plant artillery there and oppose the advance of the Americans. If compelled to evacuate Vera Cruz Mass will destroy also the tracks of the Interocean Narrow Gauge line to the capital as far as possible, according to his orders. Washington, Nov. 22. President Wilson conveyed to callers on Thursday the impression that he was leaning heavily toward Carranza and the constitutionalist forces to solve the problem of a recognizable government in Mexico and that he had not been moved to turn against the constitutionalists in any degree by the reports of military murders at Juarez. SAVE MADER0S FROM HUERTA Kin of Slain Mexican President Are Taken Aboard U. S. Warship at Vera Cruz. Vera Cruz, Nov. 24. A request for the surrender to the local authorities of Evaristo and Daniel Maredo, who took refuge in the American consulate here, was made on Consul Canada by the federal commander of Vera Cruz. Mr. Canada promptly refused the request. Soon afterward the refugees were taken on board the American flagship at this port by direction of Rear Admiral Fletcher, who had communicated with Washington. DES MOINES, IA., IS DRY Liquor Men Lose Appeal and Police Close More Than Ninety Bans. Des Moines, la., Nov. 25. Every saloon in Des Moines must close immediately, according to a decision handed down by the Iowa supreme court on Saturday. The decision ends the appeal of the liquor interests. Within an hour after the decision had been handed down officers served the saloon keepers with notices to quit business. By 5:30 o'clock virtually every one of the ninety-odd saloons had closed their doors. Gompers Re-EIecttH Head. Seattle, Wash., Nov. i'5. Samuel Compers was re-elected president of the American Federation of Labor at the closing session on Saturday. At the same session John Mitchell retired as fifth vice-president. Canada Bars Mrs. Parsons. Seattle, Wv.sh., Nov. 25. Mrs. Lucy E. Parsons, widow of Albert TL Parsons, the Chicago anarchist who was hanged for participation in the Haymarket riots, was turned back by Canadian immigration authorities here. Gridiron Season Kills Fourteen. Chicago, Nov. 25. -Fourteen dead, a host hurt that Is the gridiron's toll for 1913. Of the many injured 56 have been incapacitated, temporarily at least. The rest, too numerous to keep track cf, have suffered from bruises.

ROAD'S FAILUHETOLD

AMAZING STORY REVEALED BY COMMERCE BODY QUIZ OF FRISCO GOES TO CONGRESS. SAYS ROAD FORCED TO WALL Report of Commission Will Show That Approximately $32,000,000 Was Paid to Bankers and Many Others In Commissions. St. Louis, Nov. 24. The cause of the Frisco failure, revealed by the interstate commerce commission's four days' inquiry in St. Louis, shall be laid before congress in December. It will be shown in the official report that the railroad was forced to the wall because: 1. It was compelled to carry and pay interest on a fictitious indebtedness of $40,000,000 created by enormous commissions paid to bankers and brokers for the sale of its securities, and profits to promoters of feeder lines in the southwest. 2. The chairman of its board of directors and controlling factor in its management, B. F. Yoakum, made profits for himself and associates by trading with himself in the capacity of promoter and builder of Texas roads which he caused to be sold to the Frisco at big prices. The report of the commission to congress will show that approximately $32,000,000 figuring in the Frisco a total funded indebtedness of $244,000,000 was paid to bankers and brokers in commissions and more than $7,000,000 to Yoakum and his associates as profits on their feeder lines. The average rate of commission to brokers and bankers was 12.5 per cent., while the profits of Yoakum and his associates in the promotion of the feeder lines sold to the Frisco ranged from ten per cent, to more than 100 per cent. These facts, in the opinion of Examiner Brown, who conducted the Frisco investigation for the interstate commerce commission, show clearly why the road was forced Into the hands of receivers. The company was compelled to pay interest charges aggregating more than $1,600,000 a year on this fictitious indebtedness, representing money which never went into the Frisco treasury. According to the figures Introduced Into the record by Examiner Brown, Yoakum made a profit of $52S,413 by the sale of the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico railway to the Frisco. The total amount of profits from all the lines investigated at the St. Louis hearings amounted to $7,413,000, all of which went into the pockets of the promoters, and was at the same time charged up against the bonded indebtedness of the Frisco. Chairman Clark of the interstate commission ended the public hearing in St. Louis on Friday. The inner syndicate of .five men, who, according to the evidence, split up $900,000 among themselves, were Yoakum, Samuel W. Fordyce, capitalist; Robert S. Brookings of Washington university, Thomas H. West, chairman of the board of directors of the St. Louis Union Trust company and now one of the receivers of the Frisco, and Edwards Whitaker. Ice Trust Head Is Guilty. St. Paul, ' Nov. 24. William A. Wells, president of a St. Paul ice company, was found guilty by a jury in district court at Hastings. Sherman's Daughter Is Dead. Mobile, Ala., Nov. 25. Mrs. Minnie Sherman Fitch, wife of Lieut. Thomas W. Fitch, U. S. N.l retired, daughter of William T. Sherman, is dead a Gulfport, Miss. The remains were interred beside the body of General Sherman. Send $1,000,000 to End Run. Washington, Nov. 25. Huge motor trucks carried $1,000,000 in bills of small denomination from the treasury to the branches of the United States Trust company in expectation of further demands from depositors.

RUSS POST TO PINDELL

PRESIDENT NAMES PEORIA EDITOR AS U. S. AMBASSADOR. Chief Executive Sends Many Other Names to the Senate for Its Confirmation. Washington, Nov. 22. President Wilson sent to the senate Thursday the following nominations: Henry M. Pindell of Illinois, to be ambassador to Russia. George J. Fuller of Wisconsin, to be consul general at large. William Brown of Illinois, to be naval officer of customs in the district of Chicago. John M. Rapp of Illinois, to be collector of internal revenue, Thirteenth district of Illinois. Edward B. Craig of Tennessee, to be collector of internal revenue for the district of Tennessee. Fred Morris Deering of Missouri, to be secretary of the embassy at Madrid. Hugh S. Gibson of California, to be secretary of the legation at Brussels, Belgium. Gustave Scholle of Minnesota, to be sooretary of the legation at Havana, Cuba. Consuls general: William W. Handley of New York, at Callao, Peru. Michael J. Hendrick of New York, at Christiania, Norway. Eansford S. Miller of New York, at Seoul. George H. Scidmore of Wisconsin, at Yokohama, Japan. Robert P. Ginnis" of Ohio, at Berlin, Germany. Consuls: Charles L. L. Williams of Ohio, at Dalny, Manchuria; Henry D. Baker of Illinois, at Bombay, India; Cornelius T. Haeberle of Missouri, at St. Michaels, Azores; Charles W. Hathaway, Jr., of Pennsylvania, at Hull, England; Milton B. Kirk of Illinois, at St. Johns, Quebec; Mirl S. Myers of Pennsylvania, at Swatow, China; Robert J. Thompson of Illinois, at Aid-Le-Chappelle, Germany; Jay White of Michigan, - at Naples, Italy. JOHN H. MARBLE IS DEAD Interstate Commerce Commissioner Succumbs Suddenly to Uraemlc Poisoning. Washington, Nov. 24. John Hobart Marble, interstate commerce commissioner, died suddenly at his home here on Friday of uraemic poisoning. He is survived by a wife and a nineteen-year-old daughter. Mr. Marble was attorney for the commission for several years. Ho was made secretary to the interstate commerce commission in February, 1912, and was confirmed as a member of the commission March 10, 1913. He was born at Ashland, Neb., February 26, 1S69. Burned to Death by Upset Auto. Fairfield, Neb., Nov. 25. One child of C. Sibly was burned to death and another so badly that it will die when the auto Mr. Sibly was driving skidded on a wet road, upset and caught fire. Mrs. Sibly was severely injured. Prominent Grain Man Drops Dead. Omaha, Neb., Nov. 24. W. C. Sunderland, formerly of Springfield, 111., dropped dead at the grain exchange. For a number of years, Sunderland had lived In Omaha and had become the best known grain man in the state. Mrs. Ellsler Celebrates Birth, New York, Nov. 25. The ninetieth birthday of Mrs. Effie Ellsler, a famous Portia of the days of Edwin Booth and believed to be the oldest English speaking actress, was celebrated at Nutley, N. J. U. S. Train Kills Four Soldiers. Galveston, Tex., Nov. 25. ITour soldiers were killed and two mortally injured when a fast passenger train over the Galveston-Houston & HenI derson railroad, crashed into their auto.

HAPPENINGS INDIANA Roachdale. Mr. and Mrs. William Call celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their home. The relatives and a few friends were entertained with dinner. Gary. December 1 has been set as the trial date for defendants arrested in the anti-election riots at Gary. The cases will be tried in Crown Point. A special grand jury is now sitting in Hammond and is expected to return many indictments. Shelbyville. Henry Witts of Union township was beaten and painfully injured by two hunters whom he ordered from his farm. They used their shotguns as club3 in the fight. The matter was laid before the officials here, but the identity of the assailants has not been established. Jeffersonville. Edward Morton was found guilty of the murder of Charles Bartle, a fellow inmate at the Indiana reformatory, by stabbing him with a shoe knife August 21, 1913, and his sentence was fixed at life imprisonment. The jury reached a verdict after having the case two hours. Prjnceton. The strike of the fourteen machine operators at the local coal mine ended, word having been received from Terre Haute that representatives of the company operating the mine here and miners had reached an agreement. The strike was to have the company taking oil the bit carrier and requiring the operators to carry their own bits. Vincennes. The last will of Mrs. Ellen Cohen, who died last week, was probated. Many bequests are made, principally to nephews and pieces, besides $500 to Rev. James Gregoire for masses, $100 to the Altar society and $200 to the benevolent societies of St. Francis Xavier's church and $300 to Bishop Chatard of Indianapolis for the orphans. The estate is valued at $500,000. South Bend. The bottom fell out of the reported antagonism to United States Senator B. F. Shively when announcement was made by S. N. Stephens of Plymouth that he was In no way a candidate to succeed the senator in the upper house of congress. Representative H. A. Barnhart of Rochester also issued a statement to the effect that he was not interested in a movement to bring about the defeat of the South Bend man. Evansville. leaving letters directing that his body be cremated, Bartlett Wiley, forty-five years old, a prominent stock and bond salesman and clubman, blew out his brains. It was his second attempt to commit suicide, friends having saved him November 4, when he took morphine with suicidal intent. Wiley was unmarried, and without relatives. Fort Wayne. Joseph Bolere, employed at the Bass Foundry & Machine company, yawned while at work in the founbry and at the same time a kettle of molten metal slopped and splashed a quantity of the hot metal into the mouth of the unfortunate workman. He swallowed it, and is now in a critical condition at the Hope hospital. Attending physicians say that even if he should recover it is probable that he will never speak again. Muncie. "I've got a date to be married at five o'clock, and I'm going to keep it if it kills me," said Harry Johnson, an electrician, as he lay on a cot with several fractured ribs, arguing with physicians to allow him to leave the hospital. Johnson had been unconscious for three hours, as the result of falling from a telephone pole. Johnson had his way, and after physicians had bound him up in plaster casts, he was loaded into a cab and taken to the parsonage of Rev. L. A. Reynolds, where he became the husband of Miss Ethel Stephenson. Kendalville. The body of Charles Stotts, aged twenty-one, son of John Stotts, a farmer near Avilla, was found in a woods eight miles south of Kendallville. He had gone hunting early in the day and it was presumed he accidentally shot himself with his shotgun, there being no known motive for suicide. All evidence near the body showed that he must have lived some time after the shooting. The body was discovered by a neighbor, who was attracted to the spot by the continual barking of the young man's dog, which refused to go from the side of his master. Columbus. John F. Kinney,' son of Justice E. H. Kinney of this city, was arrested on an affidavit filed by the People's Savings & Trust company, charging forgery. A few weeks ago Kinney cashed a check for $410 at the People's Savings & Trust bank, which he says he cashed for a stranger while Kinney was racing a horse at the Kentucky state fair at Louisville. The check was issued to J. Frank Bryant on a Louisville bank and was signed, or purported to be signed, by the Kentucky State Fail association. Kinney gave bond in the sum of $600. Warsaw. Warsaw residents were greatly exciteu because of the kidnaping of Joseph Shultz, the five-year-old son of O. P. Shultz, Sheriff Charles Knitzel chased the kidnapers and was surprised to find that it was the child's mother. She was caught at Mentone, nine miles from Warsaw, as she was boarding an In- j terurban car for Indianapolis, and placed in jail. A year ago the father and mother were divorced, and ths father was given custody of the baby. The mother came here from Marion and took the child from the home ol IU grandparent.

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