Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 15, Plymouth, Marshall County, 16 January 1908 — Page 1

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REM0NSTRAT0RS IN CENTER TP.

ANTI-SALOON MOVEMENT STARTS AT INWOOD, TO MAKE TOWNSHIP DRY. WILL NOT AFFECT PLYMOUTH. The liquor remonstrators have at last started to work in this township. Their efforts are directed against Edward Brown of Inwood. The saloon at Inwood is the only one in the township, outside of the city of Plymouth. It will be necessary to obtain the names of the majority of the voters, in the township, in order to put this one saloon out of business. The cause for the dry movement in Inwood, is said to the demoralized way in which the wet goods are disposed of there. A resident of that town says that it is almost impossible for a lady to go through the streets after night without being accosted or insulted. Liquor has been sold to young boys, and has been the cause of many rows and drunken fights. Among the remonstrance workers are Edward Burden and Chas. Gerard, both well known in this township. So far they have been very successful. It is said they have obtained the signatures of every farmer on the Michigan road from Plymouth to the Walnut township line. There are 1418 voters in this township, and it will thus be necessary for the remonstrators to obtain 710 signatures. War Scene in Italy. News of the AbyssinL.n rising against the Italians o:i Somaiiland has created a veritable panic in the Quirinal. The government has by no means forgotten the crushing defeat of its army by; King Menelik's forces in 189G,as a result of which Italy was compelled to surrender all th territory south of the Mareb, Belesa and Muna rivers to the natives, and the hint of friction with Abyssinia instantly creates a flurry of alarm. Until definite advices are received from the embassy at Addis Abadanelik's capital, it will not be definitely known whether the king himself ordered the Somaiiland hostilities. Ltigh, the furthermost Italian post in the inferior, is not held by agreement with Menelik, who considers it within his territory, but under a treaty with the sultan of the territory, according to the latter's view. The official statemer.t is, however, happened at Lugh, is that the own was captured by a foice, of 2000 Abyssinians and that all of the garrison who survived the battle were put to death. Lugh was held by a body of oily 12.1 natives under Caot. Botigovanni.. The official statement is, however, that the' garrison, though beseiged, is: holding its own. It is conceded that the surrounding country, m which there "Were many Italian traders' was swept by the native forces; that the settlers' property was confiscated; that a number were killed and that the rest have been made prisoners. While the Italian squadron in the Red sea has been ordered at once to protect the coast towns, it is conceded that th situation in the interior will be desperate in the event of warfare. The garrisons there do not exceed 2,000 men, all natives with the exception of the officers. Lugh s 30 days' march from the coast. Thinks Woman's Suffrage in America Certain. Predicting that woman's suffrage is bound to come in America, Mrs. Cobden Sanderson, the English" suffragette," sailed for home Saturday. Af ter investragting the movement in the United States Mrs. Sanderson said she did not believe that the move jnent could be checked, because it had gained such an impetus. "My "trip to America," she said, "has shown me thait the best women in America are making valiant efforts in the movement for . woman's suffrage. By the- best women I mean the women of the working classes'. I da not mean the women of the upper classes, because the latter are indifferent to the work. They are comfortable' themselves and care little for others. though' there are some exceptions. "The chief obstruction here is; the indifference of the upper classes, but that can be overcome. The chief ob struction mi England is the politicians I think, however,-that woman's suf frage in England will be an accomp lihed fact in five years. I shall only come to his country when I am a voter ;n mv own country. I should be ashamed to do so before." Failed to Water Stock. ' Violations of the 28-hour law, pro viding that cattle and sheep must not be confined "in transportation for a longer period than this, without re lease for water and food, have re suited in fines aggregating $C75 assessed against the railroads 'during the past fiscal year, according to the report of. Solicitor McCabe, of the department of agriculture. More than too cases are ;ill pending. The .maximum penalty; for each violation is $500. The Northern Pacific appears to have been the most persistent viola tor, with 11 cases decided against it, and a total fine of $5250.

MANY PROMINENT MEN TO SPEAK FOR WATERWAYS.

Program for Meeting to Organize Indiana Branch of the Rivers and Harbors Congress. Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 21 and 22, the state convention to organize the Indiana branch of the Rivers and Harbors Congress was held in the Board of Trade Assembly Hall at Indianapolis. The program has been prepared, and is in the hands of he printer. The convention opened promptly at 9:30 o'clock Wednesday morning, with Henry Reisenberg, vice president for Indiana, presiding. Rabbi M. M. Feuriicht opened with prayer. During the sessions addresses will be made by Goverror Hanly, Thomas A. Sims, John W. Kern, Joseph E. Ransdell, president National Rivers and Harbors Congiess; J. V. Ellison, secretary National Rivers and Harbors Congress; Joseph L. Vance, president of the Ohio Valley Impiovement Association; Albert Battingcr of Cincinnati; Congressman J. A. M. Adair of Portland; Thcnas R. Shipp, secretary International Waterways Commission; B. Mailing of Chicago; Perry A. Randall of Fort Wayne; Henry Warrun, Frank O. Fitton S A. Thompson and Wv H. Freeman of Indianapolis. Tuesday evening an illustrated lecture was delivered by O. P. Austin chief of the Bureau of Statistics at Washington. The lecture is free. On Wednesday Frank B. Posey of Evansville will speak, also Congressman W. E. Cox, Prof. R. L. Sackett of Purdue, Charles E. Zollars of Chicago, Frank B. Taylor and Charles' S. Bash of Ft. Wayne and Horace Starr of Richmond. , Depository; Law Ruling. A decision on one phase of the new depository law was rendered at Bloomfield Thiysday afternoon by Special Judge Henry W. Moore, of that city, who was appointed to try the case of the Bloomfield State Bank against the boards of finance of the townships of Beech Creek, Jackson, Cass, Taylor and Fa-irplay. jThe bank filed its bid, together with a bond, according to law with each of the boards named on the day they had advertised to receive bids, but no parts of the funds was awarded the bank. Suit was therefore brought to determine whether the boards of finance of townships not having bank ing institutions can discriminate among a number of banks bidding for funds. Judge Moore's decision was as follows: "When two or more banks of ad joining townships apply to become depositories of the public funds of a township having no banking institu tions, the board of finance of the township having no banking institu tions is not entitled under the law to show any discrimination or partiality among the proposing banks in the es tablishment of public depositories. There is no discretion on this pro posal, but in the depositing of the township money and the mai itaining of the deposits in the banks which have been made public depositories! there may be discretion based on business economy and practicability." Pay of Road . Supervisors. James Bingham Attorney-General, has given a number of opinions recently, in which he holds that road supervisors will not receive the increased paj provided by the last Legislature for services rendered previously to the second Saturday after the first Monday in December of last year. The law enacted by the last Legislature provides that road supervisors shall be ejected once each two years on the second Saturday after the first Monday in December. This law al-so provides that the pay of road supervisors shall be $2 a day, instead of $1.50, and that the maximum period of service each year shall be sixty days, instead of forty days. This new law has "looked good" to some of the supervisors who were in the service from the time the law was enacted until the time for election List December. They believed that thev should receive the increased pay for his time and scores of requests for opinion have been received by the Attorney-General. Mr. Bingham holds that that part of the law relating to increased pay would o into effect simultaneously .with that part which provides for the election in December and, therefore, that the supervisors would not be entitled to the increased pay for work done jeviously to the election in December Warsaw Threatens War. Mayor C. A. Rigdon of Warsaw, has set about to devise some plan to force the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to give Warsaw a flat 2 cent- a mile rate to and from Chi cago. He has received information to the effect that such a condition has been brought about at South Bend and has written Mayor Fogarty of South Bend, for information. May or Rigdon proposes to force the Pennsylvania company to cut the speed of its eighteen-hour ChicagoNew York flyer down to six miles n hour through the city of Warsaw, and to cut the speed of all other fast trains unless the people get the same consideration by the Pennsylvania company as is given the people of South Bend by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern and Grand Trunk railroad companies.

BAD GAME LAWS

FISH AND GAME ,LAWS OF THIS STATE DO NOT PROTECT AND ARE IN SORE NEED OF REVISION. The many cases which have arisen in this county in the last few months from violations of the fish and game laws, have excited much talk and comment among the farmers especially, and also lawyers, relative to the justness and constitutionality of the fish and game laws of this state. During the past year there was $558.55 collected from violators of the fUh and game laws. This, added to $028, which amount was obtained by the issuance of hunting licenses, makes a total of $1180.55, that was obtained from Marshall county people in the past year, through these laws. The large sums of mone" obtained by the state from the issuance of licenses, and from convicted violators of these laws, will not much more than pay the fish commissioner and jame warden and his many depu ties, whose duty it is, not so much to protect the fish and jame of the state, as to arrest and convict violators of these laws, and exort heavy fines from those violators. It is not much wonder that fanners resist being arrested for killing quail and game that has been raised and fed off their own bounty. In speaking of spearing and nefting fish, which are now both illegal, a farmer who has lived on i the edge of a lake all his life, and who has spent much of his time fishing thereon says, that spearing and etting of fish are not nearly so destructive, as fishing with a hook and line. "Nine fish out of every ten, said he, "that bite, on a baited hook, are female fish that are bedding. Upon opening these fish, often they are found to be filled with eggs, every three of which would represent two hatched fish. Furthermore a fisherman will drop a hook and line into a bed of sun fish, or perch and will take twenty or more of these small fish, if he has luck enough, before he has caught a mess. With a spear, two or three larger, say five-pound fish will be caught. These fish so speared, or caught in a net ore far more often male than female fish. One large snapping turtle, one dog fish, or one gar fish, will kill more small fish in one day than can be represented that one spear would kill large fish in a month. If the small .fish are killed off, there will be no large fish. "A few years ago", said this man, when spearing was allowed, any large tur tle, gar, or dog fish that showed be neath the light, was speared and killed. In this way the lake was kept pretty well cleared of these fish destroyers; in those days; there were forty times the number of fish in the lakes that there are now." ' Thus, if instead of paying a fish commission er a b:g salary for arresting violators, this money would be paid as a bounty on turtles, gar and dog fish, the other fish would have by far more protec tion than they are now receiving. It is well known that the lakes of this state arc becoming gradually devoid of fish. The same principle will hold in reference to game. One weasle will kill a whole covey of quail in on night. One crow will destroy several nests of quail eggs in the same amount of time. Remove the deputy fish commis sioners and game wardens, revise the fisfh and game laws, give a local farmer a salary for watching over the fish and game in his neighborhood, and put a hounty on vermin and natural enemies, that are mofe destructive to the fish and game of the land, than either gun or ppcar. Agent Urges Commercial Relations With Colombia. A rep rt on trade conditions in Colombia by Charles M Pepper, special agent of the Deaprtment of Commerce and Labor, has been issued by the bureau of manufacturers. The importance of establishing intimate commercial relations with Colombia, the nearest South American neighbor of the United States, is strongly presented. The great natural wealth of the country in soil, forests and mines has not been dis tributed largely on account of lack of transportation facilities, but active efforts are in progress to remedy this condition by constructing railroads which will icireate a large demand for railroad materials. The classes of foods to be exchanged for the nat ural products of Colombia include many articles manufactured in the United States, particularly farm implements." The market requirements are explained and information fur nished regarding commercial and industrial conditions which should be helpful to Americans in establishing and extendng trade with Colombia. Bryan Story Not True. Mr. Bryan declares that the report of estrangement between his daugh ter, Mrs. Leavitt,, and her husband, has "absolutely no foundation; none whatever." The country will be pleas ed to read this authorita.ive denial ot an unpleasant story. Whatever may he said of Mr. Bryan as a political leader, he is in private life a man above reproach, and no one can wish on any account to see the felicity of h;s domestic relations in any way dis turbed.

PLEA FOR TRAIN SERVICE.

Rochester IntereätS Taken Up by Indlanapolis Commercial Bodies. Representatives of the Board of Trade, the Merchants' Association and the Indianapolis Manufacturers' Association met with the members of the committee on city interests of the Commercial club at Indianapolis Wednesday by invitation of the com mittee, to discuss the matter of improved train service on the Lake Erie & Western for Rochester, Ind. The meeting had resulted from the following petition, signed by a number of business and professional men of Rochester, which had been received by the Commercial Club: "Gentle men As the Lake Eric & Western Railway company has taken off the morning and evening trains in and out of this? city, thus making it impossible to get to and from your city in a one-day trip, we appeal to you to help impress upon the L. E. '& W. management to do something for Rochester train service that will en able us to get to your city and home in one day. Otherwise we will be compelled to shift our business from Indianapolis to Chicago, where we have convenient train service.' It was decided that the following committee be appointed to call on officials of the L. E. & W. to ask for better service between Rochester and Indianapolis; Hiram Brown, chair man of the committee on city inter ests and chairman of the special com mittee; W. J. Mooney, representing tlK Commercial Club; JohnS. Lazarus representing the Board of Trade; W. S. Balch, representing the Mer chants' Association, and E. H. Davis, representing the Indianapolis Manu facturers' Association. Indianapolis News. Bound to a Tombstone by Hazers; Death Follows. As a result of exposure while being h'ized by fellow s'uaents when at tending Rose polytechnic institute at Terre Haute, Ind., two years ago, William Keiper, Jr., of Louisville, Ky., 20 years of age, died at San An tonio, Tex. His father was on his way to Ttxäs at the time and did not learn of his son death until his arrival there. Keiper was a student at a Louis ville training school from which after being graduated, he went to Rose. He was an athlete at the local school and entered the freshman class at col lege in the engineering course, with bright scholastic and athletic prospects. While studying in his room he was set upon by masked students, who carried him to a cemetery and tied him with his back to a tombstone.1 Keiper took the matter in good part, but made the' request that his over, coat be given to him. The others rolled up his coat collar, but left him on the chilly ground and so securely fastened that he could not even move his chilled arms and legs. Thus; he was found by the sexton on the fol lowing morning completely exhausted. For two weeks afterward he had a severe cold which developed into pneumonia and he was taken home. He never recovered hisi strength and was unable to return' to school. Af ter being an invalid for more than a year tuberculosis deV eloped and he was sent to the southwest, leaving Louisville, Ky., on New Year's day. He grew rapidly worse aui (lied at San Antonio after having been forced to abandon a plan to go to Colorado. Keiper was G feet 2 inches' inieight and before his severe hazing was in perfect physical comlitron. He play ed full back on a local eleven and is remembered as a star player behind the line Hevlid not tell of the hazing or make any public matitr of it until taken ill with pneumonia. His parents have observed his carnest request that no trouble be made for the thoughtless fellow (students who caused his illness and death. Cuba for the Cubans. As far as he can, Secretary Taft has committed the American Government to a promise to withdraw completely from Cuba -in the beginning of the spring of 100U. This pledge is contained -in a letter from the War Secretary to the President, transmitting the report of Governor Magoon for the last year. After declaring that the report frnfthc Governor shows the conditions in Cuba to be encouraging, Secretary Taft says: "It was hoped by some that the census might be completed in September last. I did not think so, and I am not' at all surprised to learn that the census has not yet been completed and probably will not be until April or May. This will postpone the local elections until June, the presidential election until December, and the installation of the President and Congress and the turning over of the island urtil about March or April of 1909. This is in compliance with our promise when we assumed temporary control of Cuba, and it seems to me that we ought to allow nothing to interfere with carrying out that promise. There are important interests that would be glad to delay our stay there for years, but good faith and good policy both, in my judgment, require v.9 to leave at the twne appointee." The repont of Governor Magoon constitutes an exhaustive history of the American intervention in Cub and of the passage of the island under American control

ELECT CHAIRMAN

REPUBLICANS OF THE COUNTY ORGANIZE. ELECT ED GARN CHAIRMAN. The precinct committeemen of Marshall county met at Albert's hall Monday afternoon and elected the following officers: county chairman, Ed Garn; vice chairman, Ed Grant; secretary, Alva Porter; treasurer, Lewis J. Hess. After the meeting was called to order, C. E. River of Bourbon, was elected temporary chairman, and Alva Porter secretary. The following are the precinct committeemen who were present by person or proxy: I UNION TOWNSHIP Precinct 1, Samuel Wise 2, W. S. Easterday 3t N. J. Fairchild CENTER TOWNSHIP Precinct 1, Henry Haag 2, Fred Koontz 3, H. E. Hess " 4, Isaac Resslar 5. D. C. Smith . " C, Frank Arm'anlrout 7, John Caldwell GREEN TOWNSHIP Precinct 1, Bert R. Hand 2, E. J. Robinson TIPPECANOE TOWNSHIP Frecinct 1, Will ,Coar D. W. Ritter GERMAN TOWNSHIP Precinct 1, Dr. O. C. Vogeli 2, Geo. Stock ,v 3, Wm. Schlosser 4t W. A. Roose BOURBON TOWNSHIP. Precinct 1,'W. H. Folk 2, Chas. E. River 3, Harry Steinbach 4, Glen Dillingham NORTH TOWNSHIP Precinct 1, W. L. Hoover 2, II. A. Way POLK TOWNSHIP Precinct 1, J. H. Lehman 2, Delbert Beard " " 3, C. A. Powell WEST TOWNSHIP. Precinct 1, L. J. Hill 2, S. A. Garn WtALNUT TOWNSHIP Precinct 1, Harrison Brewer ; ' 2, Simon Railsback ' ' - -3,-CrT-MidxflctcnT 4, J. W. Powers An Old Fashioned Political Year.' We are in January now and the month is going fast. Business, even spring business, is not likely to receive great attention so we s all have a political year which has already begun as lively as any presidential year in a long time, if present signs come to fruition. Politics is engaging the attention of both press and people. What with the meeting of committees, the fixing of convention dates, the efforts of individual candidates on both sides, there will be ample occupation for the grea pastime which isaid to be ours preeminently. One thing seems at this early stage to be a feature common to the affaiirs of both parties, that it is (with some qualification) a free-for-all-race in the sense at least that it has not been for years. And this is said in the face of the belief that Bryan is as good as nominated on the Democratic side. There rises visibly sometimes a spirit that there may be others, and so the Denver convention (although the presumption is still in favor of Bryan) rhay not, after all, be merel) a recording m -vli ln r rrl c t -r mi t and A TMP A suits'. On the Republican side there if, of course, an open contest and a free course. The formations have not all been made; none for the matter of that. But the point is that the situation is such that events seem likely to crystallize naturally and the Chicago meeting be in fact an entry of several men with any one of whom the party may feel that it can go before the counry. On both sides he situation is still in the early formative stage, but the Republicans at least have not reached the condition in which there is presumption of one against the field. As the months f late winter and early spring come on we shall see the various eleme;-s grouping in the fight for posfition, combinations forming and all of the exercise of free political conditions which it is the American boast are freest among us of all peoples. It is this formative and developing stage that gives interest to these early political movements and promises a presidentfial year of politics of 'he old fashioned kind. Republicans Plead Guilty. Charles A. Davis, ex-county commissioner from the Müddle district (Goshen), and Francis E. Berlin, county commissioner from the Southern district, appeared before Judge Dodge in the Elkhart circuit coun Saturday and entered a plea of guilty to the grand jury indictments charging them with having illegally allowed bills. They were each fined in the sum of $50 which with the costs figures $83.75 each. They immediately settled with the county clerk and this ends the prosecution of the commissioners for careless business transactions, except ing the case -against J. H. Cainon, commissioner from the Northern dis

trict (Elkhart), which will be con tesed. Warsaw Union. t

POWERS APPEALS TO ALL

KENTUCKIANS. Asks Men and Women to Sign a Petition for His Pardon. A statement to the public was issued by Caleb Powers Wednesday in which he asks the people to sign a petition to Governor Willson for his pardon on the main grounds that he was tried unfairly three times and at his last trial ten jurors asked for his acquittal. A committee, composed of four Democrats and three Republicans, has charge of the petition. The petition will be circulated among the women as well as the men. Powers has spent eight years in jail since he was arrested on the charge of plotting th murder of William Goebel. At the fourth and last trial, ten jurors voted to acquit him, and the eleventh juror agreed to vote for acquittal if Price, the foreman of the jury, would do the same. 'Price held out for conviction, and the jury was finally discharged and a mistrial recorded. Judge Morris, who presided at the trial at Georgetown, refused to release Powers on bail, and fixed the next trial for early next summer. When it became known how the jury stood Powers was overwhelmed with congratulations in the courtroom, Democrats and Republicans alike, offering him their hands. From the moment Judge Morris discharged the jury Powers seemed possessed of a fresh hope and when court adjourned it was announced that a petition for his pardon would be presented to the people of the State. 75 Perish in Theatre Fire. Seventy-five persons were burred to death Monday night in a fire which completely destroyed Rhoad's opera house in Boyerton, Pa." The opera house was crowded with the members of St. Joseph Lutheran Sunday School, -who were attending a benefit given for the church. When the show was in progress a tank exploded. The actors endeavored to quiet the audience, but in their anxiety to make themselves heard, and to avoid he awful stampede of the women and children, the coal oil lamps which were used at the footlights were overturned, setting the place on fire. The flames, fed by the oil, shot almost to (rhctceilingandjth eewaia rush oi the several hundred persons to escape from the burning building. Scores of women and children were trampled n, and several who escaped being burned to death, died after be ing dragged from the opera house. In many cases, it is said, entire families have been wiped out. The scene which followed the ex plosion is indescribable. Scores' of persons who were in the balcony ait the time the explosion occurred jumped from the windows and sus tained fractured limbs and skulls'. To add to the terrible disaster, the fire apparatus became disabled, and the structure -was left entirely to the mercy of the seeih'ing flames. It is almost certain that not a ves tige of the bodies of the unfortunates who were overcome by the smoke and perished ever will be found. Assistance was asked from Pottstown, but before the fire apparatus from that city reached Boyertown the entire center of the structure was a roaring furnace. Had the women and children heeded the warning of the cooler heads in the audience the horrible loss of life might have been avoided but there was the usual panic and stampede which invariably follows at such a catastrophe. Rolling Prairie Furnishes k Good Sensation. Rolling Prairie" is in the throes of a sensation. Saturday night Joseph Llewellyn, a Rolling Prairie harness maker, reported to his friends tiat his wife had been out with a man naVied Applelon. A crowd was organized to tar and feather Appleton. He was located at his house but 'e begged so pktifully and was released on promise to behave himself and to care better for his family, which he is alleged to have allowed to starve. Mrs. Llewellyn wars also interviewed by the moh and given a lecture. The white-cappers also read the riot act to several other citizens whose actions in the past have not been just right. At one time the crowd numbered as many as 75 men and boys. The actions of the crowd is the talk of Rolling Prairie and vicinity. LaPorte Herald. Moorman by Acclamation. The delegates selected to meet at South Bend today were called to order at two o'clock by district chairman Moorman. Dr. Burkett of Warsaw, was selected temporary chairman, and Hon. John L. Moorman of Knox was elected chairman of this district 'by acclamation. The committee on resolutions presented resolutions endorsing Hon. C. W. Fairbanks for president and Hon. Chas. ,W. Miller for congress. An attempt was: made to recommend Brick for re-election but the committee refused to concur in this action and only presented to the convention a report commending his acts in Congress. Speeches were made by Hon. Chas. W. Miller of Goshen, J. L. Moorman of Knox and Herbert E. Hess of Phnouth, Hon. L. W. Royse and C O. Merica of Warsaw.

RIGNEY IS GUILTY

DEPUTY GAME WARDEN IS FINED $28 FOR TRESPASS. WILL BE MORE CASES. PROBABLY COUNTER CHARGES. The farmers of this county who have been showing resentment against the deputy fish commissioners and game wardens for numerous! ar resits, made, in this vicinity, weTe treated to a piece of sweet revenge, when Deputy Game Warden John Rigr.cy of Goshen, was found guilty of malicious trespass on the property of John Kaufman, by a jury in Jus tice Unger's court, Thursday evening. It has been esimated that several hundred dollars has been collected from persons in this county, mostly farmers, for violations of what are considered unjust fish and game laws. This charge was that on December 3, Floyd Kaufman and a friend were hunting rabbits in North township. While hunting, deputvwarderi Rigdney and Chas. Miles drove up, and Miles alighted from the buggy and proceeded in the direction of Kaufman, calling to the latter to stop. Instead Kaufman became frightened and fled, leaving behind a shot gun, a bag containing three rabbits and a ferret. Miles fired a pistol shot at Kaufman and then appropriated the gun and rabbits. John Kaufman, the father of the lad, finally succeeded in findings the gun, and brought a charge of trespass agaünst Rigdney, for damage suffered by loss of the rabbits." Th is case is the second of a series which have been filed againt the deputy game wardens, and local personages who have been aiding fhem. The first case against Rigney for hunting on the property of An 'ev Thayer without permission, resumed in a disagreement of the jury. This case will be given another trial. The second charge, filed by John Kaufman, against John Rigney for malicious trespass on his premises, resulted in finding the defendant guilty. A case against Wm. Ormond for hunting without permission, has been set for Jan. 13th, and another against Deputy warden Stoneberger, will be heard on Jan, 27th. John Rigney has. taken an appeal from the Justice cour decision, to the circuit court. The""jTiry 6n thefreipass"case was out from 5:30 until 9:30 Thursday evening, when they returned with a verdict of guilty. A fine of $2 was assessed, which with costs will amount to about $28. The jurymen were: Clarence Slaytcr,' Morris Agler, James' DeLoney, Chas. McLaughlin, John Cullen, Samuel Gretzinger, Wm. McDuffV, Daniel Wiltrout, Corey North, Samuel McDonald, Edwin Gibson, and John Freed. Japanese to Build U.S. Fortifications? The War Department has not been informed as yet of the reported .with- j holding of the contract for the con struction of fortifications in Hawaii for the-alleged reason that the Japanese were really the lowest bidders. Investigation at Washington shows that only a limited amount of fortifi cation work is now in progress; there and the officials' see no reason why any line should be drawn on account of the nationality of those who are to do this work, the nature of which can not be concealed so that they would hesitate before 4hey rejected the lowest bid on that account. The principal work now on hand in Hawaii consists in the construction of two sets of mortar batteries for which Congress has specifically appropriated $300,000. One of these batteries is at Diamond Head, the great promontory commanding the entrance to the harbor at Honolulu, and the other on the point at the entrance to Pearl Harbor. In addition to these large works' there are some rifle gun replacements near quarantine and along the vater fornt of Honolulu. This year's estimates contemplate the expenditure of $1,110,000 to perfect the fortifications of the Sandwich Islands, and for that amount it is said an impregnable naval base will be established on the Island of Oahu. The breakwater is under construction in Hilo bay, on tthe island öf Hawaii, but as this is not complete yet, Honolulu and Port Harbor are the only harbors which now could be used by naval vessels;. With a full comprehension of the fact that the Japanese immigration question is being made an important issue in the political campaign now in progress in Jppan and a consequent desire, to avoid in any way embarrassing the Saitnaji ministry and perhaps- causing its overthrow at the approaching election the State Department is resolutely declining to publish any information respecting the progress of the negotiations with Japan on that subject. Criminals ControUing New York. . Police Commissioner Bingham in his annual report has startled New York by the bold assertion that the city "is in the hands of criminals" and tthat many of the magistrates) and highest judges are in league with poli ticians to protect certain offenders known to the system. He asks how it is possible for tie police to be free from political influence when the whole election machinery is placed in their hands. Lawbreaking, he contin ues, is fhe easiest business now con ducted in New York.

CHARGED WITH HORRIBLE CRIME

JOHN H. PLETCHER, OF TIPPECANOE, CHARGED WITH INCEST, BY HIS MARRIED . DAUGHTER. The most dastardly crime that has been committeed in this county for several years, is charged against John H. Fletcher, aged 40 years, of Tippecanoe township. His seventeen year old married daughter, stands as his accuser, to the awful crime of incest. The complaint was made by the girl's husband, Boyd E. Boyce. His girl wife had come to him and poured out her miserable tale and the outraged husband instead of taking the law in his own hands, as many would have done, has determined to put this beast of a father behind prison walls , where he belongs. The charge was filed with Prosecutor Molter Monday. Tuesday morning Constable Miles and Deputy Sheriff Shroeder drove to Tippecanoe and arrested Pletcher and supoenaed Mr. and Mrs. Boyce to appear against him that afternoon. The hearing was held Tuesday afternoon. The girl testified that her father had illicit relations with her but a few days after her marriage, which was on Sept. 9, 1907. Justice Unger found the evidence sufficient and bound Pletcher over to circuit court, and affixed his bond at $2000. Pletcher is a brutal looking fellow, and does not seem much disturbed. He asked the officers who arrested him what the penalty would be, and has practically admitted his guilt. The case will probably be tried during the February term. If convicted his penalty will be from 2 to 21 years in state's prison, or 6 months to 2 years in the county jail. Council Meeting. The city council met in regular session Monday; evening, with all members present except Ness. Superintendent of water works re ported that the west boiler of the water works plant had been inspected and was reported to be in excellent condition. The prima face assessment roll, against property owners for the con struction of North Walnut street sewer, was met with no remonstran ces, and was confirmed by the (council. Committee on accounts and sta tionery, reported bills to the amount of $693.08, which were allowed. Finance committee then reported Cash on hand $740.14 Bills allowed 693.0S Bdance on hand $l.0(i Report of city treasurer was read and placed on file, also report of street commissioner. Compla:nt was made' to the coun cil that C. D. Snoebcrger had been charging for meter rent, which was thought to be not in accordance with the electric light franoise. ' Matter was referred to committee on electric lights. Street commissioners report ed that considerable road tax had not been worked out. This wa referred to city attorney. Hits Child With Hammer. With their throats cut from car to ear, Mrs. JamesJ Valentine and her six-year-old child are lying at the point of death at Brokaw hospital at Bloomington, 111., Mrs. Valentine in a fit of insanity Friday morning-, during the absence of her husband from the house attacked the baby, boy with a keen razor. She cut his hroat and slashed his face and head. Ob serving that the infant was still breathing, the insane mother seized a hammer and dealt it a crushing blow over the head, fracturing the skull. Mrs. Valentine then turned up.n herself and cut her own throal from ear to ear. Neighbors attracted by the screams of the child, rushed in and overpowered the frenzied woman. She has been in poor health and des pondent. Mine Fatalities Increasing. A recent bulletin of the Interior Department on coal mine accidents shows that American mines are now killing three times as many men per 1000 as those of Europe. Of he 22.840 men who have lost their lives in American mines in the last seventeen years one-half m Meir death in the last six years. In all Europe the rate of deaths" in m'ne.s has decreased. Chief Holmes of the technological branch, who presents the report, says that this increase in our country has been due in pari to the lack of en forceable mine regulations, in part lo the lack of information about the ex plosives used in various mines. Gathering of Hearst Claru Charles Walsh, former member of the Democratic national committee rrom xowa, wno rragnea irom that committee in the last presidential . campaign because he i said a square deal was not given W. R. Hearst, is in Indianapolis arranging for a meeting of the Indiana committee of the Independence League. The meeling was held at the Hotel English at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon. The Independence League is the Hearst political movement. R. M. Isherwood, former editor of a Delphi Democratic paper, is! also there assisting Walsh in framing up the meeting.

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