Plymouth Tribune, Volume 1, Number 32, Plymouth, Marshall County, 15 May 1902 — Page 2

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Established October to. 1901. HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers. rlepnone No. -7. OFFICE in Bissen Block. Corner Center and La port e Street. 1UVKUTI31NH RATES will be mad knon on application. Euiervu tr.e Por-toffice at Fl mouth. Ind.. as eo.rd class ciatter. SUBSCRIPTION: One! Year in Advance $1.50; Six Months 75 cents;Three Months 40 cents.deHvereJ at any posteffice. Plymouth, Ind., May 15, 1902. The Ilavemeyers are erecting four beet sugar mills in Colorado. They do not see.11 to fear that a possible 20 per cent -eduction in the Cuban tariff will destoy the beet sugar industry. "When an earthquake comes along the theory that the earth's surface is a mere crust seems easy to accept. It is- plain enough then that the human creature skates on very thin ice indeed. "That old fool from Soutli Carolina" is the name applied by democratic senators to Mr, Tillman. They do not object to his defamation of Americans in the Phillippines, but to the truth he tells about the South. At every congressional convention held in the Twelfth Illinois district for thirty years, Joseph G. Cannon has been nominated for congress by acclamation. He is recognized by all parties as one of the ablest congressmen in the United States, and his honesty' has never been questioned. The death of Bret Harte leaves Mark Twain practically alone as the survivor of a coterie of literary men who budded their genius in the wilds of California. Twain and Harte were fast friends from their youth when they did reportorial newspaper work together in San Francisco, almost half a century ago. The brazen audacity of Reeves, the man who was implicated with Neely of Muncie, in the Cuban postoffice frauds, and who was released by turning state's evidence, in coming to Washington to apply for a job in the postoftice department, illustrates the "cheeky of the whole crowd of postoffice swindlers in Cuba. The wanton murder of Paul Leicester Ford, author of "The Honorable Peter Stirling" and "Janice Meredith," removes another light from the literary field. Within two weeks, three writers of note, of literary ability and achievement, Frank Stockton, Bret Harte and Paul Ford, have paid the debt of nature. The death of the last, however, was tragic, and at the hands of his own brother. The house committee on library, which has in charge Congressman Brick's resolution appropriating $50,-. for a statue of Count Pulaski at Washington, has never had a meeting. Mr. Brick has been trying to get the committee together, but has not yet succeeded in inducing the members to shake off their lethargy long enough even to consider his request and it looks as if bis resolution is in a bad row for stumps. Chairman Goodrich of the republican state committee has signalized his succession to the head of the committee by changing the republican headquarters at Indianapolis from the Denison to the English hotel. This change has in view, it is said, making the new Claypool hotel, which will be completed in September, the headquarters in the future. The Denison has been the headquarters for years, dating as far back as the memory of the oldest politicians, and the change has caused u great deal of comment. The organization in South Bend, Ind., of a million-dollar corporation in opposition to the watch trust, composed of the Elgin National Company and the "Waltham Vfatch Company, . proves anew that no trust can escape competition for any great length of time. As Mr. Carnegie said a few days ago, "No trust will long be allowed to enjoy exceptional returns." The Studebakers and other capitalists are back of the new company, which is called the South Bend Watch Company. Clement Studebaker, jr., is 1 president of it. "American energy and American millions are making themselves felt iu China more and more powerfully. That country will exercise a favorable influence in world politics. " So said Count von Waldersee in an interview ' at Dresden. Although he chose his language with caution, Count von Waldersee made several statements of the first importance. "The AngloJapanese alliance Is of pre-eminent - significance," he 'said. "It reveals the seriousness of the world situation. , In JapaD, which I Yisited after leaving Chin?, a. collision with Russia is regarded as unavoidable, The w - , , , m Japanese troops .which I saw are excellently trained. Several of the Russian .positions in east Asia seem still to be exp6d, . but this will not be for long because" Russia is making the best ose of her time." v

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A Washington special saysCongressman Crumpacker is the only Indiana republican that will vote to admit the territories of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona into full Hedged statehood. Washington dispatches all agree that Tillman's extraordinary speech was very demoralizing to the democrats and very pleading to the republicans. It will probably be circulated by the latter as a campaign document. An increase of prices is the result of good times, and there are few thinking men who will desire to change the general employment of labor at advanced wages for the half-employed labor and lower wages of 1894, 1895 and 1896. The late Congressman Amos J. Cummings was one of the democrats who supported the appropriation for the shelter and protection of American soldiers in the Philippines, Mr. Cummings said he would rather be paralyzed than vote against such a measure. Gen. Sickles offers to lead a band of veterans against a newspaper devoted to the slander of soldiers. The onelegged general should not worry. No copper-head would make a stand against him. The only fighting ever done by copper-heads is to hide in the tall grass and shoot into the backs of American soldiers, St. Louis Globe Democrat. The Yates-Hopkins combine controlled the Illinois republican convention Thursday and endorsed the state administration. Hopkins was declared the choice of the republicans of Illinois for United States senator by a vote 1,052 to 492 for all other candidates. Dawes has withdrawn from the race, but Billy Mason says the members of legislature will elect the man they want for senator and he pioposes to right it out on that line this summer and win out in Januarv. Richard C. Davis, who was sentenced by Judge Baker, of the federal court, yesterday, to rive years' imprisonment is to become a bookkeeper in the prison, it is said. One is disposed to wonder whether it is a wise course in imprisonment to keep the softy, places for such criminals as bank wreckers. If they were put at hard labor, would not such offenders at the end of their sentence have a better idea of honestv the worth of money and their duty to their fellowmen? Indianapolis News. It is the best kind of an argument that the republican administration is a decided financial success, when in spite of the repeal of the war tax, the sur plus in the treasury keeps on accumu lating. If the people are not satisfied with this prosperous condition of things, they should by all means elect a democratic president. As surplus reducers the democrats can be depend ed upon every time. They never vet have failed to bring a period of adver sity when given the power. South Bend Tribune. The Cherokee Advocate, the only newspaper printed for Indians in the Indian language, is soon to be abol ished, as its circulation has. dwindled to 300 and there is little demand for the paper. The publication has been published at Tahlequah, Indian territory, since 1852, and before that time was published at New Echota, Ga., where it was established in 1830. The Cherokees are the only Indians in the United States having a printed lan guage, and now that this paper is to go out of existence that one language will not last long. The opposition in the house to the bill for the admission of Oklahoma. Arizona and New Mexico collapsed at the last minute and the bill . passed without division as it came from the committee except for a few verbal amendments. The real test came on an amendment offered by Mr. Over street, of Indiana, to join New Mexico and Arizona and admit them, as the state of Montezuma. It was beaten 28 to 106, and all opposition then ceased. The bill will not be reported out by the senate committee on ter ritories this session. The friends of the bill think that it would be useless to attempt to secure favorable con ideration of the bill at present. Fogarty.the new democratic mayor of South Bend.has a majority of 1056, the largest majority ever given a can didate In South Bend. For fourteen years previous to 1894 the democrats carried South -Bend by majorities ranging from 200 to 700. The results which followed the election of a dem ocratic president and a democratic congress in 1902 made South Bend a republican city,.1 and it remained , so until last Tuesday. If South, Bend andMishawaka vote In November, as they, voted InMay.St. Joseph will be a democratic county. Republican leaders of St. Joseph county, must allow the rank and file to help in selecting candidates if they expect to : win In November.

THE BEEF TRUST. The State of Missouri seems to be

making some progress in its campaign against the beef trust. In the pro ceedings Thursday at JelTerson City evidence was presented which showed the existence in St. Louis of uniform and fixed meat prices and the secret rebate svstem. A St. Louis meat dealer swore that Armour, Swift, Morris and Cudahy had fixed agreement regarding prices. lie said furth er that they did not compete in buy ing any more than in falling. The packers buy cattle on successive days, and- thus each buvs at his own price. The big packers, so it is said, keep others out by telling the cattlemen that if they sell any cattle to independent buyers they must sell all to them. A meeting is held the last oi each week to fix the prices at which meat shall be sold for the following week. It seems that the seller of cattle, whether he sells in East St. Louis or ships them ,asi, must sen at prices fixed by the trust. For when he ships them East, the packers send a telegram ahead of him instructing the buyers to pay only so much. Several witnesses testified to the same effect. POLITICAL CORRUPTION. The air is full of rumors of corrupt tiou at Washington. Doubtless there is exaggeration, as there usually is In such cases. It may be doubted whether we have yet wholly adapted our selves to the new conditions in which we suddenly find ourselves. . The vast interests with which we have to deal politically, and the great wealth and power of the few men that control our industries, make it necessary that we should have at Washington men who are .themselves great enough and trong enough to resist temptation and to steer a straight course. In the swirl of the politico-buness life n Washington, one can imagine even an honest man making a false step, and perhaps even going wrong without having had the slightest corrupt or wrongful purpose. This possibility proves that the talent of the country is not in congress, but In the loooy that is seeking to control congress. And that is the danger. The great trusts command the brains of the nation, and they pay salaries which the people could not, and ought not to, af ford to pay. But with or without bi-j salaries the people must manage to find men who are intelligent enough to know a corrupt proposition when thev see it, and honest enough to m 7 scorn it. Indianapolis News. Republican Defeat at South Bend. The South Bend Times commentinsr on the election of the democratic ticket in South Bend by majorities ranging from 250 to 1056 savs. There were many reasons for the defeat of the republican ticket. Mr. Rutherford, the republican candidate for mayor, excellent man and citizen that he is,labored under the disadvantage of having been considered the choice of what is known as the republican machine. The machine has become very odious to a large number of republicans, who regarded this an op portune moment to record their dis satisfaction and their displeasure. Machines methods are not regarded with much favor by the average South Bender. Caucuses and conventions are presumed to be held for the pur pose of gi zing those attending the same opportunity to make known and felt their desires as to the selection of candidates and the shaping of party policies. The exercise of this prerog ative is hampered and often frustrated when caucuses and conventions are controlled bv machine methods. The m candidates selected may personally and politically be wholly unobjectionable. and yet the fact that their nomina tion was the result of manipulation and dictation creates a feeling of dis content that is hardly ever entirely eliminated." . r Get Outdoors. There is no tonic to tired nerves like the open air. It is better than all the nervines and nerve tonics , found in the doctors' t books. Fresh air, pure water and clean sand are the greatest known disinfectants. And the beauty of these forms of microbe killer Is that they will clean out the brain as well as disinfect the body. Aided and abetted by vigorous but well-modulated exercise, nothing can compare with their powers to raise depressed spirits, brighten rusty facul ties, stimulate fagged energies, arouse dormant ambition, develop wastinff muscle and, in short, make impaired health robust. Queer Find in a Log. While sawing a white oak log at the mill of the Deering company at Petersburg, Ind., a bone was found in the heart of the log.. The bone was six and a half inches long and had two prongs, each starting off from the cen ter. One of the prongs was sawed in two. As the tree stood in the woods the bone was about five feet from the ground. It Is thought that a , wild animal years ago carried the bone to the . tree and that the . wood grew around it. - The log was not hollow, but showed that it once had a small opening in it.r' It is thought that the bone was' from the breast of a large fowl.

The Municipal Elections. Careful study of the results of the municipal elections of Tuesday will probably disclose some interesting tendencies, but decisive party gains either way or any material change of party lines will not be among them. If the democrats made gains in some localities the republicans did in others, and a slight preponderance either waj has no particular sigdificar.ee. Each party carried some cities for the first time. Municipal elections in an off year seldom have much significance in their bearing on national or state politics. The Journal is well aware that it is the custom of both parties to attach considerable importance to such elections, but it believes both parties have overdone the matter. And such elections have even less

Apolitical significance now than they had when party lines were more closely drawn and when party spirit was higher in this state than is the case at present The tendency is towards the removal of city governments and city elections from the arena of jreneral policies into that of home rule and local issues, and all must admit it is a healthy tendency. Party ties and affiliations are less binding with both republicans and democrats than they formerly were, as compared with local issues and interests. The independent voter is more of a factor in politics than he formerly was, and he 's particularly apt to exercise his independence in a municipal election. Indianapolis Journal. Taken From Cell to Altar. Vera Burns, 21 years old, was sentenced indeterminately to matrimony by Judge Smith at Chicago Thursday. She had been indicted for stealing dresses andjjewelry valued at $40 from Laura Jones, 1425 Park avenue. When her case was called in Judge Smith's court, she pleaded guilty and threw herself on the mcrcv of the court. She was up tor sente nce Thursday. Ralph Van Etten. is years old. told the Judge if his sweetheart were allowed to gc free he would marry and care for her. The Judsre anoroved ' a a the scheme, and Van Etten procured a marriage license. When he returned Judge Smith performed the cere mony. "Matrimony is a severe penalty for larceny," said the Judge. "It is better .than the bridewell," answered the bride promptly. Then she hurried back to the county jail, where she had been for three weeks, to get her belonging and bid the turn keys good by. Didn't Expect a Change. A little incident that occurred in one of the district schools of tnis township during the winter term of school has just leaked out. The school marm and the janitor had a lit tle quarrel and the latter . was accused of telling a falsehojd. The teacher asked him where he expeeted to go if he persisted in telling lies. He replied that it didn't matter much as he expected to be busy punching fires for school teachers wherever he went. Pierce ton Record. A Valuable Tree. A man in North Carolina,, says the Chicago Journal, was selling standing timber walnut traes. The man who was buying came to one very hand some tree. He told the owner he would pay as much as $50 for that tree. The owner did not sell, but sent for experts. He got $1,500 for the tree curled walnut as it stood. The man who cut it down realized $3,000 for it on the cars. It was shipped to .New York and veneered one-sixth to half an inch. The sales were watched. The tree brought $60,000. Specehes That Make; Votes. Congressman: Zenor of "Indiana in giving his opinion of campaign literature says: ."The speech that counts in winning votes is ' the one that is filled with argument, not the one that is filled with abuse or ridicule. 1 know that the speech in which . the other speaker skins the other fellow or the other party will enthuse, his own party followers and such , speeches might' make good campaign material if they could always be confined to the party to which the rpeaker belongs, but the trouble is that they draw party lines. The kind of campaign literature that counts is well put, straightforward argument that appeals to the practical common sense of the voters. " Marries. Washington Woman. Laporte Herald: Rev. Milo. W. Nethercutt. formerly ol Rolling Prairie, who recently brought suit for $5,000 damages against Edward G. Kitsmiller and Hattie Gordon, charg ing them with conspiracy to destroy his domestic felicity by alienating the affections of his wife, was Monday granted a license in Chicago to marry Cora A. Overton, of Washington, D. C. Rev. Nethercutt 's first wife se cured ä divorce from him in the Hunt ington circuit court and then married John Gordon, of Argos. She was before her marriage to Rev: Nethercutt o . - - . - Miss Strickland, daughter of the 'com noser of sacred ' sonsrs. whose works A , J were quite popular a few years ago. Rev. Nethercutt is pastor of the Christian church at Knox.

The Politicians and the People. An Oklahoma business man says the agitation for the conversion of the territory into a state is confined almost exclusively to the politicians, and that the people arc indifferent. They rather wait, he says, for the annexation of the Indian Territory to Oklahoma and the admission of the two as one state. Then there would be a new state with great natural resources, and a certainty of a large population. The two territories could not become a rotten borrough. It is almost invariably the case that the urgent demand for the grant of statehood to a territory comes from the politicians and not from the people. Kansas was an exception, but the conditions which obtained there were exceptional. The politicians see in the statehood man vertices, national and state, which they hope to fill. They appreciate the fact that a state government will be run on a grander and more expensive scale than a territorial government. There will be more money spent and they look forward to the handling of it. The people who are not seeking for offices, who are trying to build up their homes, take only a languid interest in an agitation for statehood. They admit that it is pleasant to be able to vote for president and to have senators and a representative who will make more stir and exert more influence in congress than a territorial delegate does, but they do not see clearly what material benefit they are to get by the conversion of their territory into a state. Many of them understand that the change will mean higher taxes. It is not surprising that the Oklahoma politicians should be more eager for statehood than the people are. The same may be said with even greater truth of New Mexico and Arizona. Chicago Tribune.

New Country School Houses. The state board of health Is trying to reform the sanitary conditions of the country school houses. Dr. Ilurty, its secretary4 has prepared at his own expense model plans for a single-room building, which can be had by school trustees on application. It is out of the conventional design, and shows an attractive exterior. The light is thrown on the school room from oue side, which is almost entirely of glass. This gives an even light, and relieves the strain on eyes from shadows thrown by conflicting lights. Ventilation is carefully provided for, and the heating is to be dene by means of a hot air furnace. Dr. Hurty says that the adoption of his plans would do away with much of the headache and disease of the eyes from which pupils now suffer. Beer Drinkers and Trusts. The men who drink the most beer are among the loudest objectors to what they call trusts, says the Elk hart Review. They declare that the fixing of prices on those things which the people must have are oppressive and illegal. These same men forget the fact that the price of beer is controlled by a great combination, and unlike the price on any other commodity which men use with any great profusion, is never below five cents in city or in country, and seldom varies from that price except in some of the high-toned saloons. The quantity produced and sold has no effect what ever upon the price. When beer ought to be cheap and could be fur nished at a big profit at from two to three cents a glass, this violent grumbler at the operation of trusts gracefully and willingly pays his five cents, and never says a word. A Widow's Right's. Judge Hadley, , of the supreme court, has handed down the following decision: (1) Where a widow fails within 90 days after the death of her husband, leaving a will, to make an election äs to whether or not she will take under the' will, Fhe becomes en titled, underacts 1891, page 404, to one-third of his surplus property, not withstanding the will makes, some other disposition ofit.,;(2) Such an --.-' ' - - . election must be acknowledged peiore an officer, or it is void. or without effect. '(3)' Where' such a widow dies witnoui uaving maae a vana eiecuon, her administrator is entitled to onethird of the deceased's personal property after payment of her debts. School Enumeration. A comparison of the school enumer ation of Marshall county shows a net gain over last year of 26. The enum eration of the towns and townships for the two years is as follows:

1901 1902 Town - Townships I 3 2 g" 3 5 S S H 3 fa H O J Plymouth 488 5H 10C2 515 547 1062 Ü0 ... Bi4mcu 230 240 470 2K 232 4ffl ... 8 Bourbon 179 167 34 156 181 347 1 ... ArgOS 153 162 317 143 176 309 ... 8 Culver 96 72 168 101 81 182 14 ... Union Town'p 25 352 511 245 Z 483 ... 28 Center " 403 385 788 435 405 "840 52 ... Green M 5 161 171 332 158 KG 334 2... Bourbon" 255 249 504 24G 23 509 5 ... Tlpp'noe'i . 302 58 440 206 231 437 ... ?. German " 424 323 747 108 322 725 ... 22 North- 308 290 598 801 290 591 ... 7 Polk V 370 298 6f? 375 296 671 3 ... West "i : 290 204 5 281 224 506 ... 30 Walnt " 223 1X4 407 237 174 411 4 ...

Gain, 141. ' Loss, 115. Gain in county, 26. Gxorgk D. Mabks, Co, Sopt. Schools.

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