Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1901 — A WEEK IN INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF H APPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. tV. W. Lnm»r, the Second In Two Fl* tm>u i Duls. Is Dead Refute* to App ar la Court A Colony of Old Soldiers. Refuses to Appear iu Court. Harry Crawford, the Chicago lawyer and owner of the Midland Railroad, declined to appear before Judge Baker of the Federal court at Indianapolis in answer to a summons, but on the contrary, sent the judge a very polite defiance, in which he told the court that it had no right to issue the order for his attendance and no power to defend it. The court’s order was based on the petition of T. Wilson Annabal, trustee for interests which secured a SII,OOO verdict against Crawford and could not satisfy the judgment. Annabal wanted Crawford to come before the court and answer questions about his property. In his paper Crawford says the court had no right to summons a citizen of Illinois to come to Indianapolis to answer questions to help somebody discover something, and lastly, had no right to issue the "order. As a sort of sugar coating Crawford adds: “Affiant says that he does not now, and for several years past has not, owned any property, either real, personal or mixed, in Indiana, subject to execution.” Judge Baker has not acted on Crawford’s failure to obey the court’s order. Chicago Men to Be Kept Out. The members of the Manufacturers’ Natural Gas company of Indianapolis who still retain their stock have been hustling to prevent further sales to the Chicago parties who have recently been purchasing through a brokerage firm, and it is announced that pledges have been secured that will certainly .prevent a majority of the stock from passing out of the hands of the present owners. It is said the negotiations have been conducted through Campbell, Wild & Co., an Indianapolis brokerage firm, and that a considerable amount of the stock had been sold before it was known that the purchasers were Chicago parties planning to close the pipe line to Indianapolis and pipe the gas to Chicago. F. A. W. Davis, treasurer and general manager of the company, said that the Chicago men had not secured a controling interest in the stock, and it is not now likely that they will succeed in doing so. Colony of Old Soldier*. The first division of the lands of the Indiana old soldier’s colony in Oklahoma will be thrown open about June 1 and the remainder in October. P. H. Fitzgerald of Wabash, who has charge of the scheme —which is cooperative in character—says that a committee of veterans is now in the territory buying the land, of which 80,000 acres will be secured. All of it is in the eastern part of the territory and will be suitable for grain and fruit growing. The town it is designed to establish will be on the Big Canadian river, the site having" been reserved and the land around tne town will be the first allotted. Mr. Fitzgerald says there are now 10,000 members of the colony company and 23,000 will be on the land by the close of the year, including the families of the veterans. If the experiment of co-opera-tion proves successful the colony will be enlarged next year. Chapin Gets Dam Rights. Charles A. Chapin of Chicago is now in full control of the great St. Joseph river dam privileges. Hugh H. Hosford of Wishawaka, who has charge of the affairs of the Chicago millionaire, has just returned from Grand Rapids and Jackson, Mich., where he represented Mr. Chapin in the injunction suits brought against Chapin by the Berrien Springs Water Company. He announces that when the cases were called in the Michigan federal court attorneys for the plaintiffs withdrew their suits. The matter recently came up in the United States senate and house of representatives and Chapin’s priority of claim to the enterprises which will convert the latent hydraulic powers of the St. Joseph river into electrical energy for several cities is now undisputed. Was a Second In Two Duels. W. W. Lamar of Dillaboro is dead from the effects of a fall. He was born in Saulsbury, Md., in 1811, and located in Aurora in 1866. He was a personal friend of Andrew Jackson, whom he visited frequently at the Hermitage. During his life Mr. Lamar acted as second in two duels. He was the second of Governor Caldwell of Mississippi when the latter fired the shot that killed Colonel Gwin. The next was near Maysville, Ky., when Colonel Castro, for whom Lamar was second, was killed by a man named Metcalf. Metcalf afterwards married Lamar’s sister. Mr. Lamar was one of the best-known business men of the southern part of the state. Courtship by Telephone. After three years of courtship by telephone Miss Alice Butler and Mr. Lewis Lane were married at Columbus. They were telephone operators at Columbus and at Hope, and their acquaintance by wire ripened into lore. Knights Templar at Banquet. The annual state meeting of the Knights Templar closed at Muncie with an elaborate banquet to the grand officers and their wives, 400 plate* being laid.