Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1901 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER SEMI-WEEKLY REPUBLICAN.

VOL XXXIV

Lively While it Lasted.

Frank King, the new express route owner and driver, hitched the sorrel team of his partner, Charley Murray, to the wagon Sunday, and drove out to the 10:55 train. The team became frightened when the train pulled in and started to run. They were caught by Charley Danford, the blacksmith, before they had run half a block, but they turned the wagon over, broke the tongue and riddled the harness. Had they kept up the same rate of destruction another half block, it would have reduced the wagon to kindling wood and scrap iron; and still another block would have left nothing of the horses except a few piles of bones and two tattered horse-hides. Frank will confine himself to a one-horse express wagon after this, and if that also proves too dangerous will get a push cart.

Improvement at the Telephone Central.

J. J. Montgomery, General Superintendent of the Jasper County Telephone Co., has been working his invention apparatus lately, and a number of changes in the company’s central office are the result. A separate table has been installed for the exclusive toll line business, and this is in charge of Miss Ritchie. The corps of regular operators has been increased and from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. there are two "hello” girls on the switch board. By this change both the local and long distance is materially bettered. If persons desiring to talk over toll lines would now asked for the toll line operator when they ring central the connection desired would be furnished without the delay heretofore experienced. A new copper metalio current has just been constructed to Remington, making two lines in regular use between that place and Rensselaer.

Arrested on an Old Charge.

Constable Vick went out to the John Makeever farm about 3 miles west Monday afternoon, and brought in Joe Ellis and put him in jail. Ellis was heavily fined and costed several months ago, for violating the fish law, but Squire Troxell suspended the sentence during good behavior, Ellie being a poor man. A few days ago Ellis got very hostile to Mr. Makeever, his landlord, being very abusive and also threatening to "cut his heart out” and other unpleasant performances. In view of these facts, it was thought that clemency was being wasted on Ellis and he was brought in as stated. He had previously said he would shoot the constable if he tried to arrest him, but he se em to have changed his mind on the shooting. It is likely that after this fine is served out that Mr. Makeever will bring surety-of-the-peaoe proceedings against Ellis. It was owing to Mr. Makeever’s intercessions in Ellis’ behalf that his fine was suspended in the first place. An effort is being made to get Ellis out, by having his costs remitted, and his paying the S2O fine-

K. of P. District Meeting.

The Knights of Pythias district meeting for the third district of Indiana will be held at Lowell on Monday, Deo. 16. An invitation will be extended to all lodges in the district, which comprises Lake, Porter, Jasper and Newton counties. The Lowell knights are making big preparations for the occasion.

Marriage License.

Nov 20 I Arthur 0. Prevo, Nov. f LiUiaQF Reed

Dressed turkeys and chickens for Thanksgiving at Moody & Roth.

NO. 24

An Enormous Land Sale Reported.

A report which seems to have started from Lowell and Tuesday reached the Chicago papers, by the way of Crown Point, is to the effect that B. J. Gifford has bought the entire Nelson Morris ranch, consisting of about 25,000 acres, for $278,000. This is very important news if true, but as yet it lacks confirmation but may be true. The Morris land is mostly in Jasper county, but some portions are in' Lake and Newton. His Jasper county holdings are about 20,000 acres. If this sale has been made it will make Mr. Gifford’s land acreage about 60,000 acres, and 54,000 of which are in Jasper county.

Elda M. Clouse has brought suit for a divorce from John W. Clouse. She charges cruel treatment, in often striking and cursing her, and calling her vile names, all at divers times. They were married in 1898 and separated Nov. 15, 1901. They jointly * own 80 acres in Barkley Tp., worth $3,000 and she wants her portion of that set aside. She also asks to have her maiden name, Whitebead, restored.

Padgett & Hardy did not sell all their Oregon horses in Chicago and brought 11 car loads here Monday night, and had them taken to the stock farm. There were 300 in the shipment including a few mules. The total shipment from Oregon, including one car load of mules, amounted to nearly 400 head. The railroad , freight bill was $3,000. A drive of about 210 miles was made overland before the railroad was reached. Two Oregon “buccaroos” were brought along to help handle the horses.

The new oil field at LaCrosse, Laporte county, was the scene of great activity Sunday. An excursion from Chicago was run to that place by the officers of the American Lubricating Oil company and the field examined. It is ciaimed that three new wells were sprung while the guests were there. About 75 persons comprised the excursionists, —Valparaiso Messenger. 1

Price of the Morris Ranch $400,000

Regarding the reported sale of the Nelson Morris ranch to B. J. Gifford, we have information from a reliable source that negotiations for such a sale have been pending for some time but the deal has prob ably not yet been fully closed up. The negotiation has not been on the basis of 1283,000, as stated in the Chicago papers, but for $400,000, or about sl6 per acre. If Mr. Gifford has not already made the purchase he is very likely to do so soon. If he buys he will no doubt fully drain the tract and subdivide it into farms, the same as he has his other lands in this county.

Studebaker’s First Automobile.

A test was made in South Bend on Saturday of the first automobile made by the Studebaker Manufacturing company, and the result was satisfactory. The vehicle carries under the middle of the bed an electric storage battery sufficient for a 50 mile run on good roads, and is geared for an average speed of 11 miles an hour. About two and a half months were devoted to the construction of this vehicle. It will be sent to Chicago to be tried on the streets there.

Fresh line of chocolates. Linn & Parkison. Go to Mrs. Purcupile for styles and swell hats, Order your turkeys, chickens etc. of Moody & Roth. Dressed and delivered to order,

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22. 1901,

A New Divorce Case.

A Big Shipment of Horses.

LaCrosse Oil Boom.

A Procession From Fair Oaks.

There has been quite a steady procession of Fair Oaks citizens to the county seat, Tuesday evening and Wednesday, each man with a guard of honor in of a constable or deputy sheriff. „ Ed Burns was brought down Tuesday evening. Ed was a witness before the grand jury in September, and being too drunk to testify against anyone else, the grand jury utilized his jag as the basis of an indictment for intoxication. He plead guilty, and it being shown that he has since taken the Keeley cure and is trying to reform, the court fined him only $1 and remitted the costs. John G. Liggitt, the noted hunter, was down again, Wednesday, He is charged with shooting at a quail and hitting the game law, on Oct. 15th. He gave bail for SSO and will be tried the fourth week of the term. He denies having any trouble either with quails or game law. ' ■ Ed Griggs, the whalor in last Saturday evening’s row at the Fair Oaks school entertainment, was also brought down. He gave bail -for SIOO and will be tried Friday, by the court. Richard Meyers, the party who started the row and got the thrashing, is still being looked for. He is supposed to be hiding somewhere in disguise, namely two black eyes and a bunged up countenance.

Wanted In Awful Bad.

According to the Indianapolis papers Francis D. Craig filed suit in that city Tuesday against the Empire Theater, for SIOO damages, alleging that he was denied admission to the theater when he offered to pay his way and was thus humiliated. He says that besides humiliating him the management caused him to “miss the opportunity of seeing a good and meritorious play and entertainment, disappointing him in the enjoyment of the evening and causing him loss of time.” We suspect that this is our own Francis D. Craig, who used to publish the Pilot here, as he is now in Indianapolis. But how awful bad be did want to see that show. And it was a very cheap show, too,

Reigle’s Mother Settles His Shortage.

The mother of C. F. Reigle, the young man who had charge of the Western Union Telegraph Co’s, business in Rensselaer during the month of October, sent money Tuesday to square his shortage with the company. His salary was S4O per month and he had spent that amount and $67.35 of the company’s money along with it. His mother is reported to be in very meagre circumstances, and the settlement of claims against her ungracious son have worked a great hardship on her. Board and room rent were the only legitimate expenses young Reigle had while here and the balance of the money was spent largely in the saloons. His present whereabouts are not known, but in view of the settlement of his defalcation, he will go free from prosecution.

The Turkey Crop is Large.

B. 8. Fendig is now handling more turkeys than at any other Thanksgiving season since he has been in business, For day after day there has been a constant procession of wagons at his place unloading turkeys, while all day and all night a large force of men and boys have been busy dressing and packing the birds, for shipment. He has already shipped one oar load and will send out another oar Friday. Each car contains 91 barrels, averaged 25 turks in each barrel, or 2,275 in the car load.

The ‘‘Melancholy Days” Fail to Connect.

This is supposed to be the time of year when the “melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sear,” but so far these days are not melancholy, but remarkably bright and cheerful. The winds seem to have nothing special to wail about and are wailing very few wails, The woods, of course are showing some rather naked limbs, but like high class ballet dancers they are no way obtrusive about it. The meadows and pastures instead of being brown and sear are still decidedly green. As to the “cold November rain” which is also supposed to be very much in evidence along about this time, we have seen very little of it. Two thirds of the month are now gone, and we have had less than two thirds of an inch of rain, and no snow at all except a slight flurry or two on Thursday the L4th.

A Mail Sent Out at 8:00 P. M.

A needed extension in the mail facilities of Rensselaer has just been received by Postmaster Meyer Heretofore the latest mail carried from the postoffice to the depot closed at 6p. m. A great many people, especially business men, often have letters they wish to mail after this time, and heretofore they have left them at hotels and restaurants, to be mailed at the trains, by hackmen. This inconvenient and uncertain method can now be dispensed with by all who get their letters ready previous to 8 o’clock p. m., as hereafter mails will be sent to the depot at that time. The postoffice will also remain open until that time, every evening.

Shelby Sugar Beets all Harvested.

C. B. Steward, who has been keeping tab on the sugar beet business all the season was up around Shelby again Monday, and took notes of the situation, now. All the beets have been pulled and are fast being shipped to the factory. A good many were raised and of a good quality, bringing from SSO to $5 per ton. Ten or twelve teams have been busy for days hauling beets from the Adams ranch alone. The Russian beet raisers from Nebraska, between 500 and 600 in number, are preparing to be taken back there. The railroads brought them out for S9OO but want $1,500 for taking them back. From which it appears that they must have increased in numbers or weight very rapidly. Mr. Steward thinks that if the factory had been built the beet raisers would have made money this year.

Inter Ocean Sample Copies.

Most and perhaps all of The Republican’s subscribers have this week received free sample copies of the Weekly Inter Ocean, one of the very best city weeklies published anywhere. Our clubbing rate with it, brings its cost [down to 35 cents per year; a price which scarcely more than covers the cost of the paper they are printed on.

A complete line of W. L. Douglas men’s shoes at the Chicago Bargain Store. Mrs. Puroupile’s prices are reasonable and she will make especial effort to please her customers. The best medicine you need. Fancy apples. At the Chicago Bargain Store. Leave your poultry order with Moody & Roth. Turkey, chickens, etc., for Thanksgiving delivered. A full line of the genuine E. Stout’s patent snag proof rubbers and Mishawaka knit boots that outwear two pairs of any other make, at the Chicago Bargain store.

ITEMS HERE AND THERE.

Some one in Indiana has said that man is a harvester. He begins at the cradle; learns to handle the fork; often has rakish ways and sows wild oats; threshes his way through the world, and when at the sere yellow leaf, time mows him down and his remains are planted on the hillside. Governor Durbin has appointed Parks M. Martin, Democratic member of the state board of tax commissioners, to succeed himself. Mr. Martin was appointed by Governor Mount to fill out the vnexpired term of Judge Thomas Buskirk. His present term of office will expire May Ist, 1905. The salary is $2,000. In addition to requests for permits to witness the hanging of Joseph Keith, Warden Reid received from different parts of the state requests for pieces of the rope as souvenirs. The rope was a brand new one, bought for the occasion, and as soon as it was used it was put in a furnace and destroyed. When the fifty -seventh congress meets next month it will contain no representatives of the populist party, so far as the senate is concerned. Neither will there be any free silver republicans, but the lines will be strictly drawn between the two parties, and each member of the upper house of congress will be classed either as a republican or a democrat. There 'will be no third party represented in the senate. The cigarette fiend must reform or follow in the footsteps of the tippler in the industrial world. The prominent railroads are adopting the rule that no one addicted to the use of cigarettes shall be given employment end a number of cigarette smokers have been dismissed. The Santa Fe is the last road to promulgate this order. The habit is one that certainly dulls one’s mental faculties. Engineman James Covington, of the Monon, with engine 111 made a record run between Indianapolis and Chicago Saturday night. The train left Indianapolis thirty-five minutes late and carried five extra cars, making a train of ten cars, five of them being heavy Pullman sleepers. Covington arrived in Chicago on time, having made up the extra time in spite of several stops. Big 300, the new “battleship” could not have done much better than that,

The Governor’s Proclamation.

Governor Durbin has issued his Thanksgiving proclamation, fixing Thursday, November 28, “as a day when the people of Indiana shall abstain as far as practicable from all secular employment in order that they may assemble in their respective places of worship to reaffirm their faith in the wisdom and justice of our Creator, and appeal with honest hearts for the continuance of his love and mercy.”

See Dr. Merrill, over Moody & Roth’s meat market. Subscriptions taken for any magazine or periodical published. Linn & Parkison. Don’t forget the special cloak sale, Friday, Saturday and Monday, November 22, 23 and 25, at the Chicago Bargain Store. Chickens, turkeys, etc-, for Thanksgiving, dressed and deliveied by Moody & Roth. Cloaks in all colors, lengths and styles, at the Chicago Bargain store. The horses we will sell at the stockyards Saturday, are mostly pasture-raised and not wild range horses. Padgett & Hardt. You can find anything you want in underwear and hosiery, at right prices, at the Chicago Bargain Store.

Regular Weekly Edition

Your Life Insured While You Wait.

Every person who now has the misfortune to be incarcerated in the Jasper county jail will either have to take out life insurance policies of several of the latest and most complicated brands, go into the “solitary” or be talked into nervous prostration. A. P. Baker, the insurance man, now has his talking machine installed behind the bars. Such a situation has its manifest disadvantages for a life insurance agent, as it obviously greatly circumscribes bis field of operations. but, on the other hand, those few whom he can get chin action on are where they can’t get away, and there is no help for them except surrender. Formal charges of forgery have been made against him by the Lakins, and his case is set for trial the fourth week of the present term of the circuit court.

Decision In Remington Injunction Suit.

The suit instituted by the Pan Handle railroad to enjoin the Remington corporation from making a macadamized street on what they contend to be their right-of-way, has been decided by Judge Thompson. His decision, if no appeal from it is taken, is calculated to permanently set at rest the long existing troubles between the town and the railroad. The improvement over which the injunction suit arose, was on the north side of Railroad street between Ohio and Indiana streets. The town is by the decision given 40 feet of that portion of the street; all that its officials had planned to use in the macadamized improvement. The railroad was given the full 150 feet of its original right-of-way from the w r est corporation line to New York street; 75 feet on the south side and 40 feet on the north side of the railroad from New York to Ohio streets; and from Ohio to the east corporation line on the north side of the railroad 35 running feet and on the south side of the railroad a wedge shaped strip 44 feet wide at Ohio and b 36 feet wide at the last corporation line. The decision is generally construed to be a victory for the town.

Union Young Peoples Entertainment.

The various young peoples societies, in the different churches, will give a union Thanksgiving entertainment, next Tuesday’evening at the M. E. church. The entertainment is for the purpose of providing for a distribution of Thanksgiving dinners among the needy. The price of admission will be some suitable article of provision, or a reasonable contribution in money. Following is the program. Opening Song Coronation Prayerßev, Work Scripture Lesson Lelia Coen Solo Miss Schock Recitation Jessie Makeever Talk... Mr. Chupp Solo .. Rev. Meads r». i-. i I Edna Thompson Pi»noDnet.... j v «»ie Grow Robs Dean . Mde Charles Mann Recitation Myra Watson Solo Carl Duvall Recitation Maggie Kenton p. . ) Mrs. English Duet f " Hollingsworth Closing Song America

Filly Hom al Mon The undersigned will sell fifty head of Oregon and California horses, on Saturday Nov. 23rd. beginning at 12:30 p. m, at the stock yards, near the depot at Rensselaer r These are not western ponies but good Englisshire bred horses, of good size and good bone; and will make good farm horses. Padgett# Habdy,