Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 24, Plymouth, Marshall County, 16 March 1905 — Page 1

LYMOUT Recorder's Office VOLUME IY PLYMOUTH INDIANA, THURSDAY, MARCH 16 1905. NO. 24,

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OYAMA A VICTOR

-Kuropatkin Is Defeated, But Tries to Save His Army. Tokio, March 9, 8 a. m. It is offi ciality announced that the Russians began retreating yesterday morning. The Japanese armies are pursuing them. Tokio, March 8. Advices received liiere indicate that General Kuropat kin is badly beaten in the bloodiest battle of the present war. His forces have been driven into Mookden from the south and west and a big Japanese army on the north bars his retreat to "Tie pass. London, March 9. The Times' St. Petersburg correspondent says that General Kuropatkin received considerable enforcements a few days ago and that it is hoped these fresh troops -Avill stave off a crushing defeat and en able his retreating army to remove stores and guns. St. Petersburg. March 9,3 a. m. The battle of Mookden has resulted in a Russian defeat. Field Marshal Oyama has once more proven himself one of the greatest masters of offensive' strategy since Napoleon, while General Kuropatkin is now engiged in endeavoring to defend his title as a master of successful retreats and Taring off his army, with its immense train, safely to Tie Pass, where a position was long ago prepared with this contingency in view. The problem before the Russian -commander in chief is much more difficult than the one he met successfully at Liao-Yang, since now he is threatened on both flanks, his left wing being entangled in a mountainous region far from the railroad. Nevertheless Russian military men express a fair degree of confidence in General Ku ropatkin's ability once more to extricate his army and avoid a Russian sedan. Besides his skill in rear guard action, they base their hopes on the physical condition of the Japanese soldiers, who, though they are conceded to be the greatest marchers in the world, are well-nigh exhausted by their strenuous endeavors of the last fortnight. Hunters are Excited. The hunters of this section are very much excited just now over the fact that the new duck law will ?o into force just about the time hunting becomes good. This would not worry the person who is not on the inside, but the fact is that before a person can bag a bird, he must first get his license. This license must contain a full description of the person who holds it must tell how he cuts his hair what kind of a moustache or whiskers he wears in fact must give a -minute discription of himself. And . that is not alL He mrst have his photograph attached to the license and it must fit the description. If the -picture and the make up of the man should differ, he would be liable to arrest and a lot of trouble. And all this preparing will have to be done while the ducks are flying overhead. This is enough to drive a hunter -stark crazy. Culver Citizen. Big Gas Well Near Kokomo. Kokomo, Ind., March 9. A local oil company that has been sinking experimental wells in this ccunty drilled in one yesterday at Oakford -that was a surprise. Instead of penetrating a pocket of oil the drill opened up the strongest gas well that has been developed in local territory in fifteen years. The gas bearing rock had been penetrated but a few -feet when a pressure of 250 pound to the square inch was disclosed. The bole was as dry as a powder horn and the company at once drew the SI 3j au,J paddBD puu sjooj near a pipeline leading to th' city, and the intention of the company is to sell the well andapply the proceeds .to farther prospecting for oil m Howard county. Liquor Packages Doomed. Topeka, Kan., March 9. The Kansas legislature has passed a law jo"hibiting express companies from delivering packages of liquor to any other person than the consignee. This will remove one of the most common violations of the prohibitory law. It long has been the custom of the wholesale liquor dealers in Kansas City to send liquor into Kansas addressed with fictitious names. These packages would be left in the care of the express agent. Any person in the town wanting liquor could go to the express man, sign for one of the packages, pay the express charges and pay for the liquor on the C. O. D. plan, and it was his. No Emergency Clause Attached. The statement that the anti-cigarette bill became a law when Governor Hanly signed it is not correct, as there is no emergency clause attached. "When the laws are published, which will be about May 15th or Tune 1st, the law will go into effect. This will give the dealers plenty of opportunity to dispose of their stock on hand before they are restricted in the sale of the"coffin nails." One noticeable fact is that the law does not restrict peoole from smoking cisrarettes. but dealers are prohibited from selling cigarettesor cigarette papers and also from givinsr them awav or in any other way disposing of them. Russo-Japanese War. . Czar calls a war council and Europe expects that the first steos toward peace will be taken today On account of the internal situation it is not believed that a new Russian army can be mobilized and that an effort call fresh troops to the colors will result in renewed disorders. Russian troops arriving at Tie Pass are hurriedly preparing fortifications to resist a fresh Jaoanese attack. Correspondent withRennenkamofFs army says the troops wept when they received the order to retreat, and Icnelt and kissed the blood-stained earth".

New Marriage Law.

The governor has signed the Boyd marriage bill. The bill provides that applicants for marriage license shall furnish complete statistics as to them selves and their parents, falling out blanks that shall De furnished by he state board of health. .Licenses will not be issued to im beciles, epileptics, or persons of tin sound mind. Those suffering from incurable ior transmissible diseases will be barred from marriage. No male person who has been an in mate of a poor asylum within' five years of the time of application will be granted a license unless he be able to show tha the cause of his be ing an inmate of such an asylum has been permanently removed. When the county clerk refuses to grant a license to marry, the applicants shall, without cost and without delay, have a hearing before the cir cuit judge. False statements for the getting of a marriage license will be finable in any sum not excedding $500 and a similar penalty may be inflicted for the wrongful marriage of a couple not having a proper license. Should a clerk fail to comply with the kaw it is made the specific duty of the pros ecuting attorney to bring action against him and he may be fined in any sum a jury may see fit. The prosecutor will get a fee of $20 for his trouble in such cases. Preparing for Vacation of Indiana Cigarette. Since the anti-cigarette bill was passed there has been little change in the demand for cigarettes, wholesale dealers say. The restricted demand from retail dealers who were afraid to place orders, fearing they might be caught vhen the law went into effect and lose their stock was about offset by orders from dealers that anticipated an unusual demand from cigarette smokers desiring to lay in a stock for their own use, rather than begin buying outside the state as soon as the law become effective. Letters have been received by jobbers over the State stating that the com rany "had been informed that the Indiana legislature had passed a law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes and cigarette paper." The letter said that the company would buy all stocks of cigarettes in the hands of dealers when the law went into effect: refunding the net cost price for all stock in merchantable condition. The company says it has been informed hat the law will be effective about Tune 1. when copies of the orinted law will have been distributed. The order includes all of the cigarettes manufactured by the American Tobacco Comoany. Shnaisi Bros., and Monopal Tobacco Works. Dog Law Should Be Enforced. The last dog law provides that if a township trustee fails to enforce the collection of any dog tax he shall be liable to a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $20. Sheep raisers and other owners of live stock who areannoyed by dogs, are insisting that the provisions of the dog law shall be strictly enforced. And since every person keeping or harboring a dog who" fails to paj' the tax thereon is liable to a fine of from $5 to $20, it would seem that the law does not intend that any guilty dog or dog owner shall escape paying his dog tax. 'Three Days Grace" Custom on Commercial Paper Dead. The time honored custom of "three days' grace" on commercial paper is done away with in Senator Roemler's bill relating to the maturity of negotiable instruments, which has been signed by the governor. A provision of the bill declares that all negotiable instruments must be paid at the time fixed therein. The bill provides that if the day the instrument matures chances to be Sunday or a legal holiday the instrument shall be paid on the next succeeding day. Instruments falling due on Saturday are to be paid on the next business day except in cases where the instrument is payable on demand. This at the option of the holder may be presented for payment before Saturday noon in the event the entire day is not a holiday. - A further provision of the bill says that in cities of more than 33,000 population Saturday, after 12 o'clock noon shall be considered a half-holiday tor banks, trust companies and deposit institutions. Tippecanoe Wants It. Tippecanoe township, Kosciusko county, voted a subsidy of $7,000 to the proposed Huntington, Columbia City and Northwestern railroad company on Friday at a special election held in that township. The election was carried in favor of the railroad a majority of 93 -votes. The company proposes to build an electric line from Huntington toGoshen.passing through Columbia City, North Webster and Syracuse. , Another election will be held in Turkey Creek township on Tuesday, March 14, for the purpose of voting : subsidy of $10,000 to the proposed toad. ' Named Game Commissioner. South Bend Times: James W. Jester, of 1907 South Michigan street, has been appointed deputy game commissioner of fisheries and game for the counties of the entire state. He assumed his duties March 2, at which time he received his papers from Z.T. Sweeney, commissioner of fisheries and game. Plymouth Band will Give Concert. The city band is preparing to give a grand Easter concert at the Centennial Opera House, Friday April 23. They have purchased several new selections and will present one of the best musical entertainments ever given in this city. The Mozart club", which has gained for itself quite a reputation will assist at this concert and will put forth their best efforts to make the entertainment a success.

DEATH OF HENRY A. PEED.

He was Formerly a Plymouth Editor. Henry A. Peed, formerly of the South Bend Times, before that of the Plymouth Democrat, where he was editor for a short time; later editor of the Shoals News, and more recently editor of the Warrensburg, (Mo.) Journal-Democrat, is dead at Warrensburg. The deceased went to South Bend from Plymouth in 1881, buying out the late Hon. Charles L. Murray's South Bend Weekly Herald, and then changing it to the Times, which he conducted as a daily and a weekly until after the election of 1882, when he and the then Times Printing Company conducting the paper since the previous September, changed the same to a weekly, which it continued up to the time of J. B Stoll coming to South Bend in April 1883., to assume the proprietorship. Peed later became a government printing office employee and then a pension examiner under Cleveland. He later drifted back into editorial work, his wife leaving him, however, and she and the daughter Stella residing at South Bend for some time, the latter becoming a teacher in the city schools. Peed was a veteran of the rebellion, was once a member of the legislature, being a senator from Martin county before coming to Plymouth; had a wide Indiana acquaintance; was a man of rather striking personal appearance and very genial in his intercourse with men. As an editor he failed signally in the local field. May Live to be A Hundred and Fifty. Chicago, March 10. Man may live happily and usefully for 150 years, ascording to Dr. Lyman B. Sperry, of Dberlin, O.. who expressed this belief in an address delivered before the Young Men's Christian Association of Chicago. "After a third of a century of scientific study, such is my conclusion," said Dr. Sperry. "The destructive forces which bring about the present low average of longevity are manifold, but I believe it is possible to enjoy good health and activity up to a century and a half by a proper understanding of the human possibil ities and the exercise of this knowledge." Dr; Sperry's tonictwas "The Science of Living," his main object being to noint out the influences which retard longevity with stress on the theory that immoralitv has a direct bearing on the physical being. Climatic conditions, according to Dr. Sperry have been reduced to stat istics, proving beyond doubt that both torrid and frigid atmosphere tend to shorten existence. All the longevity worth mentioning, it was claimed, existed in the temperate zone. In relation to the destructive force of evil habits Dr. Sperry spoke at length and his scathing treatment of drink, tobacco and opium was said to be derived, from personal association with victims. High School Entertainment An entertainment for the benefit of the Plymouth High School A. A., at the Washington bchool Auditorium, Friday, March 24, 1905. PROGRAM. 1. P. H. S. Orchestra. 2. Recitation, Eva Wickier. 3. Solo, Howard Wilson. 4. P. H. S. Band. 5. Reading, Olive Beiden. 7. Piano Solo, E. Pesch. 8. Solo, Stella Reynolds. 9. Reading, Paul Singrey. 30. Violin; Solo, Fred Kuhn. 11. Band. 12. Paper, Ethel Yockey. 13. Solo, Hazel Neff. 14. Orchestra. 15. Reading, Miss Robinson. 16. Solo, Week Harris. 17. Duet, Neff and Wilson. 18. Quartette. 19. High School band. The P. H. S. will render on Friday evening, March 24, 1903, an excellent musical and literary program for the benefit of the Athletic Association. The musical talent of the Plymouth High School is .recognized in this community, but we want you to come and b satisfied as to ;ts merits. Elocutionists of note will talk to you in a manner that will be pleasing to, .and appreciated by you. Avail yourself of this one opportunity of hearing one of the finest musicales ever given in this city. We cordi-lly invite our rural teachers and fellow students to come and be inspired by the mellow strains of the proficient orchestra and t'.ie thunderous peals of the magnificent band. Remember the day, Friday, March 24, 1905, at 7:30 o'clock in the Auditorium of the Washington school. Admission 15 cents at the door. Those securing tickets in advance may Ho so at 15 cnts eac or 2 for 25 cents. Come. A Bremen Case. 1 August Beehler, of Bremen, was arraigned before Justice Young Tuesday forenoon on a charge of assault with intent to commit rape. A number of Bremen people were present and a sensational trial was expected but the state withdrew the last clause of the charge and Beehler entered a plea of guilty to the charge of assault and battery and was fined $5.00 and costs, amounting to $21.50. Those who expect to hear something smutty were disappointed. - There was a short session of the city council Monday evening. The usual allowances were made. Further time was allowed for the examination of sewers in the east part of town. Linkenhelt & Co., were awarded the contract to furnish coal for the water works. Arrangements were made for planking the Reeve and Michigan street bridges. Eastern Star at Valkerton. Grand !?atron Conrad, of Warsaw, assisted by the Eastern Star lodge of North Liberty organizes an Eastern Star at Walkerton, this (Wednesday) evening.

The Baby Saloon League.

"Our Standard," the organ of the state liquor league, is terribly worked up over the temperance legislation of the past legislature which it says has "hurled another boulder at the pros trate saloon keeper. It abuses Gov ernor Hanly and says the Republican party is short of executive timber. But the real facts are that Governor Hanly is displaying executive ability which has paralyzed the Indiana Li quor League. This organization boldly announced that it would defeat Governor Hanly, Lieutenant-Governor Miller and all candidates for the legislature and prosecuting attorneys who were not indorsed by the league. It was an oath-bound organization and every member was sworn to vote for saloon candidates, regardless of party. The saloons now realize that they made a great mistake in attempting to make all other issues, state and national, subservient to saloon interests. In doing this they did more to secure temperance legislation than could have been accomplished by all the anti-saloon people combined. The "baby" action of denouncing Governor Hanly for not standing by the saloons when every saloon in the state of Indiana opposed his election and the people gave him over 80,000 majority is indeed surprising. The saloons will fare a great deal better if they take their medicine without kicking and abolish the saloon league now and forever. There will never be a time when the people of Indiana will place favorable saloon legislation above all other issues. The saloons believed that with the aid of the prohibition party, organized to draw votes away from all temperance candidate and throw them away on crank candidates, thew would be able to secure any kind of saloon legislation thev wanted; but they have realized their mistake. f The Cabinet Secretary of State John Hay, District of Columbia. Secretary of the treasury Leslie M. Shaw, Iowa. Secretary of war William K. Taft, Ohio. Attorney General William H. Moody, Massachusetts. Postmaster General George B. Cortelyou, New York. Secretary of the navy Paul Morton Illinois. Secretary of the interior Ethan A. Hitchcock, Missouri. Secretary of agriculture JamesWilson, Iowa. Secretary of commerce-and labor Victor H. Metcalf, California. There is but one change in the president's cabinet, and ir was announced semi-officially some weeks ago that it was to be made. Mr. Wynne ceases to be postmaster general and Mr. Cortelyou succeeds him. Secretary Wilson, the veteran of the cabinet, who has been at. the Had of the agrU cultural department 'for eight years, remain there for four years more unless he should tire of his work of helping American farmer to grow rich. Secretaries Hay, Hitchcock, and Wilson were first appointed by President McKinley. All the other members of the cabinet Shaw, Taft, Morton, Metcalf and Cortelyou were selected by President Roosevelt. It is said that Secretary Shaw is resolved 'o leave the treasury department next February, when he will have served four full vears. In that case the president will have to find next year another capable man for an important office. Mr. Cortelyou was appointed the first secretary of the department of commerce and labor by President Roosevelt, but resigned in order to take charge of the Republican presidential campaign. The president has a high idea of his ability to fill almost any position satisfactorily and hence has given him anothr cabinet office. Mr. Moody ha a1o filled two. President Roosevelt first made him secretary of the navy and then transferred him to the attorney generalship. Burglars at Burr Oak. Burglars broke open the Vanderweele saloon at Burr Oak, Sunday night, blew open the safe, got. it is reported, over $300 in cash. They escaped with a horse and buggy stolen from the barn of Calvin Marsh, near the saloon, and so far there is no clew to where they are. Later reports say that three men men were seen leaving Burr Oak in in a buggy about three o'clock in the morning. They answere the descrip tion of the strangers who were seen in town Sunday, and are supposed to i bethe burglars, but no trace of them had been obtained at noon. Deputy Sheriff Head and severaj others are investigating and it is hoped they will be apprehended. Electric Sign for New Store. Ferdinand Eich has just completed a new electric sign for Ball & Co. It is eleven ieet long and two feet wide and contains 140 two candle power lamps. Over the words "Ball & Co." It is the first electric sign in this city and will no doubt attract considerable attention. Beautiful Floral Pieces. Two of the finest floral pieces ever seen in Plymouth were secured from Chicago by the K. O. T. M lodge and the Plymouth Fire Department for the late Ira Zumbaugh. One is an emblem of the Maccabee lodge, of which he was a member, made of white lilies,, carnations, sweet allsysum, violets and ferns, with the inscription K. O. T. M. in the center. The other is a beautiful ladder made of white lillies. carnations, sweet peas and ferns, with the letters P. F. D. inscribed on it. Will Be Sold April 15. The Chicago and South Shore Interurban line, connecting Laporte and Michigan City and which was built by J. J. Burns, will be sold at receiver's sale Aoril 15.

MORE TROUBLE IS BREWING

In Credit Exchange Affairs at Hammond. That the so-called Commercial Credit exchange which has been playing a high-handed game among the merchants of South Bend, Michigan City, Laporte, Plymouth, Niles, Hammond and other places for the past two years is traveling a "rocky road," and to all appearances is about to go "up the flume," there seerrs to be every indication. Troubles have been brewing for the past year and these troubles have been "ghosts" that would not down, although the high cock-a-lorums at the South Bend end of the deal, aided by some of the over-enthusiasts at the various local exchanges, have put forth "strenuous" efforts to hoodwink the rebellious members and to club some of them into line again. Gradually, one by one, members of the exchange who were induced by representations and misrepresentations to hastily go into the scheme have been seeing the breaking of true light upon the graft until larg numbers of them openly rebelled and many of them have told the exchange and some of their representatives to go to until the uprising has become practically a rev olution in many of the exchanges Even in the local exchanges here, some of the brazen, bombastic manipulations of some of those in whose hands was placed a little authority, have brought about a condition of affairs unpleasant to say the least, and by their imprudence have created feel ing among the local members which has had very unsatisfactory results with some of tho?e formerly identified wih the local branch. The latest revolt in the Credit Ex change affairs has recently broken out in Hammond where the merchants have become tired and disgusted with the South Bend crowd and refuse to be duped and called bv thm any loncT. The Hammond Tribun neaks of the affairs over there as folio"- : "The Commercial Credit Exchange after a stormv career of about six months in Hammond has piven un the trhnst and is no more. Inc'dentallv ;t ? said there are a number of unpaid Kill M-hirh th exchange incurred nd which it is allcvf, i. conveniently forgot. Michigan Citv News. Compared as Fighters. That the Japanese have outfought the Russians in the war in the East is a fact that, can not be denied. The Japanese rank and file, inspired by patriotism and a conviction that only war could end the threat of foreign encroachment, have been terribly in earnest. Radically, they have little fear of death and prefer it to surrender. While they are physically much smaller than the Russians, they are healthy, hardy and temperate. In point of endurance and simple re quirements they are unsurpassed. But it is necessary to remember that the Russians are cumbrous in movement and trained merely to be fighting machines. The war in the East had no element of patriotism for them. With stolid courage, they obeyed their generals and have made many brave assaults, as well as stubborn retreats, but their heart was not in the work beyond the natural pride in striving for victory. The Russian policy has been too defensive to prevail in such a war. At Port Arthur their powerful fleet final ly went to the bottom without having fought a general battle. That rec ord is a blot amounting almost to dis grace. Immensely strong fortifica tions were built south of Mookden, but the Japanese general marched around them on both flanks and forc ed a series of battles in the open country, the result of which was that the massive works and their heavy guns had to be abandoned. The Jap anese commander has been the master of his antagonist in strategy and tactics, as well as the possessor of much the better army of the two. Russia's line of supplies, over a single-track railway 6,000 miles long, made defeat almost certain in any case, unless Japan had become financially exhaust ed. The Russian defeat, in view of the Japanese earnestness and efficiency,may be called a foregone conclu sion. Action in Perjury Case. Lanorte. Ind.. March 15. The com mittee of lawyers, which will le proper charges against the attorneys inw -"O w volved in the sensational Lulu-Duck-Darrow case, will probably do the same Friday of this week. The attorneys have had several informal meetings during the past few days and it is thought that an outline of the charges to be made has been formulated. Circuit Court. Circuit court convened Monday, but most of the time since then has been taken up in hearing motions and setting cases for trial. The new law does not lengthen or shorten the terms of court in this julcial district. It simply reverses the order of the terms. Hereafter ' the Marshall circuit court will convene in September and will be followed by the rnnrt at Rochester and the same or der will be preserved throughout the year. This will close the spring term if Circuit court here a month earner han formerlv and the Fulton Circuit court will close five weeks later than under the old law. The Case of Walter Brown Chi-acro. 111.. March 14. On the plea that he is dying of consumption, friends of Walter Brown, convicted of wrecking the Elkhart National bank, of Elkhart, Ind., are seeking to secure his release. His attorney, John M. VanFleet, appeared before Judge F. E. Baker, armed with a physician's certificate, showing the state of the banker's health. No decision was reached today en a motion allowing Brown his liberty on bail. The matter went over until April 15.

This Man Failed.

A writer in Success gives the following reasons why a man's life may be a failure, even though he ac cumulate great wealth: He stopped growing. He stuffed his pöcketbook, but starved his brain. He never learned to take the drudg ery out of his work. He regarded his business as a means of making a living instead of a life. He lost his early friends by neglect and had no time to cultivate new ones. He made life a grind out of which he got neither pleasure, profit nor instruction. Society bored him, children bored him, music and the drum were un known languages to him. He never learned to enjoy himself as he went along, but was always postponing his happiness. When he retired from business he found that, in his struggle to get the means for enjoyment he had mur dered his capacity to enjoy., He knew nothing about what was going on in the world outside of his own narrow circle;; another state was like a foreign country to him. He read only marked reports in the newspapers. He never read articles in magazines, and books were an unknown quantity to him. The idea of helping others or of owing society, his city or his nation any duty outside of caring for his own interests, never occurred to him. The Prosecuting Attorney. Prosecuting attorneys are about as badly abused as any-other set of men. They are elected to office by the people and then the people desert them and expect them to run down and convict every man who cemmits a crime. Everybody, except the guilty, wants a public proecutor to be a Joe Folk, but nobody wants to step up and help a prosecutor out or give him any moral support. People argue that a prosecutor is elected to run down and prosecute criminals which is all very true, but the people forget that a. prosecutor, unless he has a strong public sentiment back of him, is helpless. These same people who clamor for. the conviction of thieves make all sorts of excuses from serving on a jury, and evade in every possible way their duty to the community, leaving the prosecutor to fight it out alone against overwhelming odds. Joe Folk could never have convicted the St. Louis boodlers if he had not had a strong public sentiment with him. He had to have brave men to help him run them down and earnest men from whom he could absorb earnestness and pure men from whom he could draw inspiration After he determined to make his fight after he had the enemy on the run as it were, this sentiment came to him, as it always comes to prosecutors who start in the game with a good, strong club. Springfield (Ohio) Sun. Long Lost Son Found; Insanity Follows Quarrel. Logansport, Ind., March 13. Lee Weaver, who disappeared from his home in Dunkirk several months ago, has returned. His hands and feet were terribly frozen while wandering in the woods about Warsaw in a deranged mental condition. Weaver is 25 years old. A few days before he disappeared he quarreled with a woman to whom he was great1v attached and brooded over their misunderstanding. Then he disappeared. Months later nis parents learned that a man answering his description had been found near Warsaw, roaming through the woods, singing and shouting incoherently. When farmers tried to approach him he ran from them and was captured only while asleep in a snow drift. - There was nothing on his person to identify him and he was known as the "wild man ,of Warsaw" when admission to a hospital was obtained for him. Weeks later he recovered sufficiently to say he had lived in Dunkirk and his description was sent here. His father went to Warsaw after him but was unable, on account of his critical condition, to bring the young man home until yesterday. He has fully recovered mentally, but may lose his hands and feet. Resolutions Passed by the Plymouth Fire Department on the Death of Ira Zumbaugh. WHEREAS, In the ordinary course of human events, and in the providence of the Supreme Being, in whose inscrutible wisdom all things are ordered, death has claimed our comrade, Ira Zumbaugh. It therefore becomes us who remain of the Plymouth Fire Department, to pay a fitting tribute to his memory. Therefore be it Resolved, That in the death of Comrade Zumbaugh the Fire Department of the City of Plymouth has lost a member who was ever ready at the call of duty, and we testify that he always performed the service to which he was assigned, being ever in the front ranks where true men were most needed. We therefore acknowledege our great loss as a Fire Department in his removal from us by death, and realizing that we each must meet a similar fate, we should be at all times prepared to face the future that the All-Wise God now so graciously hides from our vision. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be given to the family of our deceased Comrade, with the assurance that we as a Fire Department extend to the afflicted ones all the sympathy of our hearts in this their time of trial. Also that these resolutions be spread upon the records of our department T. F. CHANEY, F. A. FORBES, A. R. UNDERWOOD, F. H. KUHN, C. F. D. Committee. Card of Thanks. I desire by this method to express my thankful appreciation of the kindly ministrations of friends and neighbors during the illness and passing of my mother.. W. M. NICHOLS.

CULVER WINS DEBATE.

Secures Victory Over Lake Forest School. Culver, Ind., Mar. 14,. Culver Military academy won the interacademic debate from Lake Forest school Saturday evening, by an unanimous decision of the judges. The question was stated as follows: "Resolved, That the cities of the United States should own and operate their own street railways," Culver having the affirmatie side. Thejudges were Prof. C. O. Davis, principal of the high school, South Bend, and Samuel Parker, counsellor-at-law, and Mr. Smith N. Stevens, president of the school board of Plymouth. The character of the debate was excellent throughout. Both teams had evidently made an exhaustive study of the subject, and the arguments presented were logical and effective. The points advocated by the cadets centtered around the general historic trend toward municipal ownership, while Lake Forest based her arguments chiefly upon the deplorable unreliability of public officials, resulting from the policy of grafting, as a constant menace to the cause of efficient city government. All the speakers cited numerous instances in substantiation of their arguments. Test Your Seed Corn. Some recent germination tests of seed corn from farmers' supplies indicate that there is probably a let of corn intended for seed "which will not germinate, or, at least, has b?en seriously injured.on account of its having been exposed in out-buildings while still in a more or less moist condition during the period of extremely low temperatures early in February. An view ot tins probability we deem it wise to urge jpon farmers the necessity of making thorough tests of the vitality of any seed corn which was not protected from tho?e severe frosts. A convenient home tester can be made by taking an old baking pan of large size or a shallow tray made of boards, tightly wrapping around it, at intervals of about an inch and a half, crosswise and lengthwise, a long piece of strong cord or light wire, and filling it with fine, moist soil or sand. The surface of the soil or sand in the tray will thus be marked off into inch and a half squares. The squares may be marked more permanently by fast ening the cross wires in the sides and ends of the tray. A tray of this kind two by three feet in size, will be large enough to make an individual ear test of about five bushels o; seed ears at one time. The test will not be complete unless each ear is tested by itself. Take five kernals out of each ear, from different parts, and place them in one of the squares in the tester, pressing them firmly into the soil. The ears of corn should be so arranged i nsingle rows on a shelf, table or floor that the one corresponding in each square in the tester can be easily located. After the tester is filled moisten the soil thor oughly, cover with an old gunny sack to keep the surface from drying and set in a warm place, but not near a stove. The ordinary living room or a place of similar temperature will do perfectly. Keep the soil thoroughly moist. All kernals which do not send out strong root and stem sprouts within FIVE DAYS, under these con ditions, should be considered as too weak to properly germinate urdsr or dinary field conditions. If the germi nation of any lot of kernels is unsat isfactory the ear from which they came should be discarded. About 03 oer cent, of the kernels should ger minate strongly within five days. Farmers who wish to do so may have small lots of corn tested by sending samples to the station. Address. Agricultural Experiment Station, LaFavette. Tnd. A. T. WIANCKÜ. Associate Agriculturist. Auditor of Lake Forced Out. Some rather unusual scenes trans pired in Lake county last week, when at a meeting of the county commissioners Auditor Grimmer was ousted from office, bv irtue of his term hav ing expired. The commissioners appointed Walter L Allman. of Crown Point, to fill the vacancy lapsing from March 1. 1905. to Tan. 1. 190. The first date is when, according to law. Grimmer's term of office is uo. The second date is when C. O. John son, auditor-elect, takes his office. The Grimmer incident has been oneof the sensations of the hour. It bade fair to be a nasty fight, for it was going to be a fight, and a fight to the dath on the oart of Grimmer's ene mies. Valparaiso Vidette. Baker to Tell Startling Story. Tt is beincr bruited about in Rochestpr and other towns where the name of Ananias Baker is spoken with awe and reverence, that it was m .uogansport that William Blodgett, a correspondent for the Indianapolis News, secured lniormanon irom wmui c wrote the phraseology of which but ill f concealed the comic opera aspect in which the Indianapolis scribe regarded the sage of Rochester and his effort to stamp out the claret evil in The article, sav the triends of Baker, gave opportunity for a Roches ter paper unlnendly to üaicer to attack the legislator viciously, anent his partiality to Lake Erie & Western mileage. However that may De, öunday Ananias Baker. 'gave out that, wViII nil the ieers and insinuations could not alter his purpose, he would in a few days disclose some tacts which will create a sensation. "T am still workintr on some things, said he, "and, in a few days, I mav he ab1 to make a statement that will be. a sensation," Several Logansport parties who were with Baker during is visit here last weeic sre autnoruy for the statement that Baker has more disclosures, of a most startling charaster, which he will make public when the course of the grand jury toward O. A. Baker is decided. Logansport Journal.