The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 39, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 28 January 1909 — Page 1

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Will Repeal oi Three Mile Road Law State Senator Mattingly says itworks an injustice on persons in distant parts of township from that affected by petition

Legislation which is now pending in legislature and which is of special interest to Syracuse commercial club is the bill in reference to the three mile law, Under the law in Question a petition signed by fifty landowners of the township could cause a public road to be constructed in any part of the township. It is held by (Senator Mattingly who introduced the measure asking the repeal of the present law, that fifty persons do not represent the opinion of the majority of the land owners m a township in all case and he would make the required number 100 instead of fifty. WMile this may make a more satisfactory law in some cases it is hard to sei where it wouid be any more justfthan the other. lhere are alwws some who will be dissatisfied no matter how high the number law requires that the a road three miles in expense of the entire towhere a petition is filed bearnßnity or more names. Senator Smallest Lady. i■ ■ ’ Elwbod is having as a guest what is believed to be the smallest woman io the state in the person of Miss Chlce Snyder of Laurel, Ind.,, who is 21 yeaas old. Her height is thirty four inches and she weighs thirty ciofit pounds. The little lady is the .guest of Guy Gill, said to be the smallest member of the Red Men’s order in the state, who is 19 years old, thirty ( five inches in height and weighs forty pounds. The little folks had a ride about the city in a carriage and were then taken to the fire de--partment, where they bad a halrrais- ■ mg run on the hose wagon at it dash- j ed to an imaginary fire, after which : a banquet was given them.'at a hotel, j Mr. Gill is a student in the Elwood high school and will graduate at the spring commencement.

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[Mattingly clams this an injustest tn persons living in a distant part of the township. This may be true in cases, however all parts of the township have the privilege of the use of the law and it is only necessary for them to secure the required names in order to benefit by it. The proposed Pickwick park road could have been secured under the old road law and it is not known what effect it would have on this proposed improvement should the present law be repealed’ BIRDS I FOR NOBLE COUNH. J . C* Kimmell has received a consignment of twenty five pair of Hungarian partridges from Z. T. Sweeney state fish and game commissioner. to be liberated on .the game preserve in Sparta township. The birds were imported from Austria by Wenz and Mackensen, nat uralists of Yardley Pa The English ringneck pheasants liberated last spring ■ are thriving and have multiplied to a considerable extent. The farmers owning land in the preserve are determined to allow no hunting or trespassing on the enclosure for three years and will feed the birds during the winter. Fof. S'at.v .Duplex Phonhgranb, best machine made. double hern silk finished, retails at $45. One record case value $5.00. and 90 records in | good order which cost when new $60.00' This outfit could not be ( duplitated ne.w for 'less than sllO. ;Trice all told $35, $lO. ca?h, balance I $5.00 per month. See. A. L. Cornelius Choice farm loan? at 5 percent. CORNELIUS & BUTT.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY MORNING, JAN. 28, 1909.

Boiler Exploded. With a roar that could be heard all over the west part of Warsaw a cylinder head on the engine at the 1 Donaldson saw mill blew off at 9 o’clock’ Tuesday morning, only a moment after Frank Johnson, the engineer-fireman had left the engine The heavy pice of steel tore a door from the building and alighted outside in a damaged “condition. Mr. Johnson had been working with the engine and completing his work,at* this point had stepped around the boiler, where he was standing when the accident happened. He regards his escape from perhaps death or serious injury as nothing short of a miracle. Thei’accident caused a temporary shutdown, while the cylinder head is in Ft. Wayne being repaired Fight is On. ——■i* ■''■■■ ■ fbe fight lor the repeal of the local option law is now on. The bill was introduced by a demcrat and the republican will no doubt try and shoulder most of 1 the blame onto that party in case it should be repealed, however we must all admit that should this occur some republicans must sacrifice their constituents. T. H. Ferguson of Nappanee was fined $25 and costs, for practicing medicine tfeiihput license. PECULIAR LAB CASE HEARDJJY BOWSER A peculiarjaase, once decided m the circuit court by Judge Royse, is being heard for a second time by Judge F: E, Bowser. The title is James Reed against Malilon Arnold and the finding in the case may have a great deal to do with real estate hording on lakes in Kosciusko county. The question'involved is that riparian rights, Reed is basing his claim upon the argument that, as a lake recedes from its ongnal bounds the bounds of the land owner’s rights are not extended. Arnold holds that the land owner’s property extehds to the bank of the lake, no matter how much the lake may recede from its original banks. The laud in question, lies along the east bank of Yellow Greek Lake in Seward township. Both Reed and Arnold own land near the lake, and both of their estates formerly were >owned by Robert Reed, father of James Reed, Robert Reed sold Arnold the land he now occupies. This land at the time, was supposed to extend West to the lake and the goverment survey showed just where the lake ended, and at the west end of the body of water was a highway. But the lake has receded along Arnold’s west boundary, and Reed purposes to build a barn on the land left by the receding water. Ho says that his father sold only that part of land extending west of the government survey of the lake, and that he, as heir to his father, owns the land that the lake has left high and dry. Judge Royse, in his finding, held that the land belonged to Reed, but it is said that there are federal and state decisions on the questions that are conflicting. The settlement of the case will be awaited with interest not merely for the reason that the case is peonliar, but because •here are aboui fifty lakes in. Kosciusko I County that the government survey- . cd. These government lines, if I Reed win?, will have everything to I do with farm boundaries, If Arnold I wins the government lines or eman-, ders, as they are called' will he set aside’and the. naiufal water line sub- | stituted for them. Thus, many oth- | er farms may bs affected by the case. ‘

’ AUDREY SNYDER IS DDINGOLO WOULD Writes the Journal from Vienna, 4 Austria. —To show seven months in London, England. The following letter from Audrey Snyder who is touring the old world with the “Marvelous Merrills” giving exhibitions on bicycles, is interesting and shows that the Merrila are extremely popular in the old country. Vienna, Austria, Jan. 11, 'O9 Editor Journal: Thinking perhaps my friends in Syracuse would like to hear how we are faring 1 decided to write you. j The Three Merriis are now playing at the Ropacher Establishment in Vienna for the month of January. We close our engagement here on the thirtieth of this month and taavel through five countries to Pans, France, touching the countries of Germany, Switzerland, Belgium besides Austria and France We will do an evening show in Vienna and when we have finished we pack up and orttch a train for Paris, We wiH travel twenty-six hour , that will ba too nights and one day and will reash Paris on February 1. at noon. We will go direct to the theatre arid put up our apparatus -o that it will be ready for the evening as we open the same evening, starting a months engagement at the Olympic Theatres After finishing 1 at Pans we will travel to 1 Eng , where we will work fjr seven months. T 1 Those who read these lines must not think traveling is all cream for ' I have my troubles at the customs, 1 where the baggage is inspected and at the steamer landings watching my ' and getting tickets and then traveling all night on a crowded train. . I expect to come to the land of lands, that is good old Uncle Sams country by next September, then 1 will have crossed the ocean four times and all 1 have to say, is there is only one United States and that is in America, as the Yankees over here all say. Yours truly, Audrey Snyder. Two Warsaw business men re cently employed a professional ad writer in the east to fusnish them copy for the “mammoth” January sales they desired to put on. It was given out that large space would be taken in every newspaper in the county, and negotiations were made to this end. But when the county seat heber dashers found that the self-respecting weekly newspaper publishers had set a fair price on the space, just as the merchant makes his price on the goods he sells, they attemptec name their own figures Xgr the advertising, about twenty five per cent less than the amounts asked by the publishers. The Record and practically every self respecting weekly paper refused to allow the Warsaw merchants to name their own priees for this newspaper pub licity and the was declined with thanks. The Warsaw gents who have so little respect for the | newspapers, attempted to cover the I I outside territory with .bills at the I Icxpence oi about sloper day. Per- ’ | haps this was economy, The bills, as I bills usually are, were in most Ins-| tknees east aside without reading, I Query—how much did these merchants save.by attempting to dictate the price of newspaper space, and j : bow much will they lose in profits by I I. failure to have theirTKTles properly j ‘ advertised?—Pierceton Record.

Might Have Been Bobery. What is supposed to have been a scheme to burglarize the store of Jeff Garber at North Webster the other evening, was frustrated by the wrtchfulness of one of the clerks, Arthur Phelps* _ AJr. Garber has been having a great reduction sale and when Mr. Phelps went to lock the large safe prepantory to locking up for the bight he found a large nail in one of the bolt holes of the look. The nail had been placed in such a manner as to prevent the dcor from locking and yet allow it to swing shut, it is not thought that anyone would have done anything of the kind as a’joke as the safe is known to have contained considerable money at the time. Gift of $150,000. Andrew Carnegie hae signifiied h a willingness to costribute $120,000 to the city of Indianapolis for the purpose of establishing branch libraries at different parte of the city. The usual conditirns however are rttaooed, vis.,utbe Falsing of a suffiioient sum, nut less than $12,000 to support the libraries. A bill was introduced in the senate for an appropriation of $150,000 for an executive mansion, Gov. Marshall is opposed to such « large appropriation. thinking $15,000 $20,000 sufficen , COMMERCIAL CLUB | pass raw The Commercial Association a+ a ' recent meeting adopted a resnuti n declaring that the citizens of Syracuse generally were under obligation to Anthony Deahl, J. K. Lilly D. Zook and Chas. A. Sudlow of the cottagers committee for tne bread liberal spirit manfested by them in the negotations which resulted in the settlement of its controversy be r tween the property owners and the Sandusky Portland Cement. Company, and instructed the secretary, Roy Riddle to transmit to each of themt a copy of it, _ Mr. Lilly in replying to Riddle’s letter transmitting the resolution, says it was very nice in the people of Syracuse to pass the resolution and add: “While it was a severe jolt to have dredges come into our lake, I rather think if the cement people will do the square thing the damage can be reduced to a minimum.” Mr. ISudlow says: “I am pleased to note that my Syracuse friends are satisfied with the compromise effected between the cement company and the Wawasee cottrgers if I hawe been in any way instrumental rn-'hririging about a ' settlement of the matter at issue I am gratiful, I hope that the results to all concerned may prove beneficial.” Not the least of the benefits resulting from the compromise, is the good feeling that exists amoung all psrtles concerned m it, PUBLIC SALESJMINB SOON * Wednesday, Feb. 10, ’O9 One 3-year old mare, squai-> trotter, sired by Jimohne, oi'e -o< 1 bay mare coming f ur years old, good roadster, weigh’ 950 lbs. or | 9 moaths old colt -i -d by Jimoli-,: ■ one cholera-proof brood soiv. n ~ • I sboats, 15 ewes, 24 full blood | White Leghorn obickans, j blood White Leghorn Cockerel?, ■ | 1 wide- tired-wag.h:, Deanes Linder, s . 1 Deering, mo we?-nearly new, 1 hay i rake', corn oultirator, spring tooth j harrow, spike tooth harrow. ..Oliver ■ | steel beam plow No, dj. louble ■ I’ shovel plow, sulkey plow, and num- | erous other articles. | I ELIAS

6ase floains' Trustee Lantz v wNoi De Tried Peculiar actions c the g&rt of his accusers lead to belii that The case may be withdrawn, fol j wing written request

Tho case of John Bender vs I se Lantz, trustee of Van Buren t wnahip seems to be a badly muc lied affair, and the following ar ile from the Warsaw Daily Tim in dioates that Mr. Lantz will\be indicated should the case «ever nine, to trial which is doubtful; Wli her or not the case of the state oi; relalion of John Bender vs Mose vntz of Van Buren township, for t return of township funds, alleg il •to have been miaippjopriated, wi ever eome to trial is a mystery i the present time. Several weeks go a comlaint was filed against La: z. by John Bander and FrOment ’em, Sence then the two relators a [seared in court and filed a dismif 1 of the cause. Later Fremonf Tom again appeared in court knd k to with-draw the dii rissal. Later Tom again appeared ar again a*k the court to dismiss tb< cause fi ing a written application I :• Lisin sal. Aft.-r ‘.hi 1 ' cat or- -» for the plaintiffs, J.,“C. Graves a d BruTo CoffeeXJbiismiii s. I rierces Golden Blend I’ic Jcffee'l will find enclosed m every ickage : ?eau •i U . st. ' 'J- J ;.. of • different scenes iq all pari of tl: I w;.-id free. Send iOsignat scut from th-» side of wrapper d 25c and we will mail postpaid neD gant stereoscope. Signati s are also good for premiums o list of same in package, i Durham Coffee & Spic Co., Lafayn te, Ind. ! •

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baker & Sons, asked leave to file an amended complaint and to substi tute the. name of Caesar Sargent as relator. Following this action Caesar Sargent filed a written declarations to become a relator in the cause. As it now stands no one is named as relator and unless some taxpayer of Van Buren township agrees to become a relator in the qause the case will hot come to trial, L. W. Royse, Anthony Deahl, J. C. MoLaughliu and North & Wagner are attorneys for ex-Trustee Mose F. Lantz. PREMIUM SCHEMES BARRED. The post office department is determined to make every newspaper stand on its merits as a newspaper and to solicit subscribers on that basis. Premium schemes, which were so popular ini the past as b means f,ho<m ; ng circulation, are ba red under the lottery laws. Guessing contests will'iro longer pass the I HgiC regulations, and now even the i cheap clubbing.- proposition are barI red by a new regulation which makes I i. a violation to offer a newspaper or macazmo in. a club ritffess than half I y..-‘ished subscription price Ti e ‘av, : aiumd at the cheap mail d r pub!ications, apd has put quite a number of them out of busines?Temporarily, the new order will work a hardship on the county-seat newspayer, but in tfie end it will be a benefit all around. It put the newspaper on a business basjs and demands that the publisher make the paper worth the price, »

J. S. VEIRS < / . Watchmaker and Jeweler SYRACUSE .