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THE STATEHOOD BILL.
Senate Refuses to Admit Arizona
and New Mexico. Situation Now
Complicated.
After a prolonged campaign of edu
cation during which it has been made
manifest that public sentiment gener
ally favors the admission of the four
regaining territories as two states,
the senate again has declined to con
form to the popular will. The bill
which it passed Friday permits Ok
lahoma and Indiana Territory to en
ter the union as a single state, but
omits any provisions for the admis
sion of New Mexico and Arizona.
The mining and railway interests that
have fought the bill from the start
have prevailed. The Republicans
wbo were influenced by these inter
ests were joined by the Democrats,
who oppose the measure on partisan
gröunds.
The action of the Senate in pass
ing the joint statehood bill, with all
reference to Arizona and New Mex
. ico eliminated, creates a highly inter
esting political situation in the
House. ' - t
In a bipartisan vote of 42 to 29 the
Senate first declared that New Mex
. ico and Arizona should each vote up
on the qustion of joint statehood.
Subsequntly the Senate, by a vote oi
37 to 35, contluded that Arizona and
New Mexico should be left out al
together and that only Oklahoma and
Indian Territory should be offered
statehood.
The House leaders will now be
forced to determine whether they
shall let the entire statehood question
slumber in committee or whether
they will consent to the admission of
Oklahoma and Indian Territory.
As amended by the Senate the bill
-provides for the creation of the State
of Oklahoma and Indian ' ierritories
upon the adoption of a constitution.
Tiie -state is allowed the usual quota
of executive, judicial and legislative
officers, two United States senators
and five members of the National
House of Representatives. A consti
tutional convention with 110 mem
bers, fifty-five of which are to be
chosen by each of the territories
comprising the State, is provided for,
and all male citizens or male Indians
21 years of zt are made 'eligible to
membership itf it. There is an es
pecial provision protecting the Indi
ans in their rights and continuing the
prerogative of the National Govern-
ment to control their affairs.
.The sale of intoxicating liquors in
what is now Indian .territory is pro'ruie
itiuiicu iur xwemy-one year aim
longer unless the Constitution is
changed. Sections 16 and 3G of each
townsnip ot tana m UKianoma are seti
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of the proceeds of the sale of public
lands. There is an appropriation of
$3,000,000 from the national Treasury
for the benefit of schools. Provision
is made for the support of higher
education and charitable institutions.
Two districts for United States
Courts, one in Oklahoma and the oth
er in Indian Territory, are provided
for.
Guthrie is made the temporary seat
of government, but the House pro
vision continuing it in that capacity
until 1915 was eliminated.
The house leaders have threatened
to remain firm for the measure which
they labored so nara to pass, it tne
senate refuses to give in, Oklahoma
and Indiana Teritory may be kept out
of the uinon in spite of their plain
right to admission.
Rather than permit this injustice
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ine iiousc miuuiu pass a uui iciaun&i
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to these territories alone. The coun
try will look to it, he wever not to
take this action without first making
a vigorous fight on behalf of the orig
inal measure. The question of state
hood is not the only thing at stake.
The larger issue involved is whether
the senate, through the subserviency
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of some of its members to certain
corporate interests, is to be allowed
to hold up indefinitely legislation
plainly demanded by the, people.
Finds an Antique Cross.
While excavating for a boat house
along the river below Elkhart, David
Walter unearthed a silver cross of an-
tique form, apparently inscribed with
Greek letters. Mr. Walter believes
his excavation was made into t;e site
of an Indian burial ground. P. is pos -
sible that Father Marquette or some
of his contemporary Jesuit mission
aries, who were known to have visit
ed tjie site of St. Joseph, Mich., about
300 years ago, may have ascended the
St. Joe river, and that the cross was
lost by some member of the party;
or in their efforts to convert the In
dians, the cross may have been given
to a member of this race ,and was
either lost by him or buried with him
on his demise.
Advertising Dodges.
Notwithstanding the deficits at
, tending all the "great industrial ex
positions" except that one in Port
land, where one was expected the
great fair mania dies hard. Atlanta
spsaks for one in 1910 and 'iles '
caveat on the date. Jamestown, Vi.,
though practically there is no such a
place, is to have one in a year or two.
Tampa, Fla., wants one in 1903, ap
propos of "the beginning of the work
on the Panama canal.." There are
benefits growing out of such occa
sions, but the thing begins to look
like nothing so much as local adver
tising, and Uncle Sam can not afford
to advertise every town in the coun
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Letter from Mexico.
San Pablo, Mexico,
Feb. 21t luoti.
C. L. Morris, .Plymouth, Ind.,
Dear Father:
Well we arrived here O. K. after a
trip lasting almost a month and we
saw some sights I shall always re
member. We had quite a bit of ex
perience coming from Laguire here,
so are pretty well broken in to Mex
ican people and their ways. .Every
body takes their time to everything.
A nay or a week makes no difference
to them. We have been a week get
ting done what could be done up
there in two days.
We have the mill ready lo start up
in the morning and are hoping that
it will run. We have no practical en
gineer so are a little afraid of that
part. He don't know as much as 1
do about it so he don't know much. I
rigged the boiler and engine up the
best I could and fixed the other part
except lining up the carriage track,
and I will have to saw some lumber
to fix it with before I can change
that. They have the track now so
the" carriage blocks don't come within
two inches of the saw. The whole
outfit is Siftker Davis and almost new
but has been badly abused. t The car
riage is about forty feet long and has
three 5G blocks with a spring receder,
and is in pretty good shape as is also
the saw plane and feed.
We have a gang of Jamaica niggers
and have to drive all but one or two.
One, nigger is a good one, as good a
hand as I ever worked.
We have a mule and a cart to go
back and forth to the mill with, and
the nigger makes it sail too. Some
times the car jumps the track and on
again without stopping and then
again the mule takes a notion to start
across the fields with us. ' .
There is something going on here
all the time so time passes rapidly.
There is quite a crowd here now but
I think they will- thin out some in a
few days. Mr. Markley and Mr.
Boyd are going to leave 'in two or
three days and Mr. and Mrs. East
left yesterday as did also Mr. Guir
west who went out to camp No. 22 to
superintend the logging.
The Mexicans are great people,
they all drink auguenta, a whiskey
made from torn. They furnish that
to them twice a day and whenever
they do a little extra work. They, all
line up in front of the house here
and pass along and get their drink at
four in the morning and six in the
evening. The women nearly all wear
a kind of blanket around their waist
r, the kids dont weaf anything as a
j getting so X can understand
anJ tak enQUgh Spanish ihat by us.
mg my hands i can get aJong prctty
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afe 0Q acres hefe &Q l
h j of foom around,
bu, a greater paft of h is foreSt They
L ,ots of wJd catUe back on the
ranch eight or ten kilometers and the
tigers have been getting quite a good
many calves. i
I was going down through the
woods to the cteek to take a bath last
evening- and a deer jumped out of the
path not over thirty 'feet from me.
He was gone before I could pull my
revolver to shoot. We also saw a
whjte faced monkey last Sunday. The
parrots do a lot of jabbering in the
evening.
Part of the machinery came up
from Laguna yesterday but only a
belt sander and an automatic gauge
handle lathe is all that is up from
Cheukan.
The laborers here get $1.00 per day
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eat so they are practically slaves
They pay them in advance so they
all owe the company and the law is
such that they can't leave a place
where they are in debt so they make
them work just like they owned them
The last bunch they brought here
rnc hTn ahmit in OOrt trnA Thaf
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lis they brought their debts and make
them work it out.
Feb. 22.
Well we run the mill today and had
fairly good success. We had to re
pack a manhead in the boiler and
had quite -a bit of ttrouble with the
I injector
The niggers were pretty
j awkward but will work into it al
j right I think. AH the niggers on the
J ranch are after me to let them work
I for me at the saw mill. They cal
I me chief. Well I will close for this
J time. I think a horseman will take
the mail to Champotaw tomorrow
Court D. Morris.
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$5Q,000 Damage Case is Up.
The $30,000 damage case of Chas
A. Johnson vs the L. S. & M. S. Ry
company, sent to South Bend from
Laporte county, went to trial in the
St. Joseph circuit' court Friday fore
noon. Attornevs butnerlancl and
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Smith of Laporte, represent the plain
tiff and Jas. S. Drake and E. D. Sals
bury of the law firm of Miller, Drake
& Hubbbell, of Goshen, appear for
the . defendant company. Jonhson
was thrown under a car at Walls
rtafü-.n in Laporte county, May 20th
1905, and suffered the amputation o
his right arm.
Baptized While Dying.
John Replogle of Goshen, seventy
years old, realizing that he was very
sick and near the grave, requested to
be baptized in the German Baptist
church, and a large tank was taken
to his home, in which the ceremony
of immersion was had. The rite was
administered by the Rev. Eli Hoke.
Soon after the baptism Replogle
died.
WONDERFUL SIGHTS.
That May Be Seen by Making Use
of the Eyes God Gave Us.
The Indian having to depend large
ly upon his vision in his chase for
food, is noted for his keen sight. Thus
one can find an Indian following a
rabbit across an open field, just as in
this country a boy follows a rabbit
when there is snow upon the ground.
To the white m.m there are no visible
tracks of the rabbit in the grass, but
your Indian will point out to you the
identical place upon the sod where
the rabbit has set foot. He will show
you how the tender blades of grass
are here bent down, how a leaf has
been disturbed,,how a briar was hang
ing to its tiniest hair. But the Indian
does not see the landscape, nor the
beauties of the heavens.' His eye has
ben trained in another direction. The
sunset means nothing to him, nor the
moon nor the stars, nor the clouds
forming and reforming into a million
beautiful shapes and hues.
Thöreau was probably one of the
greatest seers this country has ever
produced. He could see the rabbit's
trail across the sod, and he could
spend hours seeing the glories of the
6ky. He told of the great beauties
of the mountain sides, and of the
equally great beauties of a dried leaf.
Summer or winter, there was always
something for the wonderful Thor
eau to behold, and he beheld it in all
of its gorgeousness, whether it was
the radiant streak of a cardinal dart
ing across the shrubbery, or the
soothing green of the lichens upon an
old rail fence. There was always gor
geousness to him to the man behind
his eyes..
We get out of life what we put in
to it. There are pictures for those
who would see them, mlisic for those
who would hear. The Attic Philos
opher of Paris, living high up in a
garret, wrote chapters about the
roofs of houses, the gutters, and the
smoke, the eot, the dirt. He found
beauty in it all, lessons in everything.
Listen to him as he tells about it:
"I open my window and the pros
pect of roofs opens before me in all
its splendor. He who has only lived
on a fin floor has no idea of the
picturesque variety of such a view.
He has never contemplated these tile
colored heights which intersect each
other; he has not followed with his
eyes these gutter valleys, where the
fresh verdure of the attic gardens
waves the deep shadows which even
ing spreads over the slated slopes,
and the sparkling of windows which
the setting sun has kindled to a blaze
of fire. He has not 'studied the flora
of these Alps of civilization, carpeted
by lichens and mosses he is not ac
quainted with the thousand inhabi
tants which people them from the
miscroscopic insect to the domestic
cat; he has not witnessed the thous
and aspects of a cl:ar or a cloudy sky,
nor the thousand effects, of light
which make 4hese upper regions a
theater with everchanging scenes.
Ah, there was your seer, par ex
cellence. There was your, man behind
the eyes eyes which poverty could
not dim. There wr.your man who
saw things, and, in seeing, loved life.
Hear him a, moment longer as he
closes the chapter:
"How many times have my days of
leisure passed away in contemplating
this wonderful sight, in discovering
its darker or brighter episodes, in
seeking, in short, , in this unknown
world for the impressions of travel-
nig that wealthy tourists look for
lower down."
This world, this city, this country
is a grand symphony, a royal paint
ing, a concert prepared by the gods,
the scenery touched by the greatest
of all Artists glorious in all its as
pects, mighty in its proportions, in
spiring in its designs. Look at it;
see it, and, if you are not now, let it
make a Man behind your eyes.
E. L. B. in South Bend Times
Two-Cent Law in Effect
The 2-cent fare law went into ef
fect Saturday and at midnight all
Ohio railroads began the sale of
tickets at the new rate. Local pas
senger agents of the Big Four, Balti
more and Ohio and the Pennsylvania
lines received their instructions un
der the new law Friday. All of them
authorize round-trip rates, good for
thirty days, at double the one-way
fare; all of them rescind the clergy
permit so far as it relates to Ohio and
all of them forbid selling interline
tickets pending the arrival of fur
ther rate sheets.
ThJ Pennsylvania instructions an
nounce the withdrawal of twenty-six
and fifty-trip family . commutation
books. All of ' them withdraw the
Sunday rates of one fare for the
round trip.
Investigate Storms Indebtedness.
The investigation of the books o
Secretary of State Storms has been
started by the experts employed by
Governor Hanly. Mr. Sforms stil
owes the state between $5,000 and
$6,000. This includes $2,944.41 inter
est on money Storms held after reg
ular settlement periods; $900 from
the automobile law appropriation and
$700 from the foreign incorporation
appropriation. There is one item o
$1,000 Storms is said to have collect
ed as fees for issuing commissions to
justices of peace and others. Th
committee will make an especial ef
fort to learn the exact amount of fee
Storms collected. It is said that hi
attorneys have advised him that he is
entitled to the fees. Storms will va
cate his office April 1, at which time
Fred A. Sims will take the place.
Henry on State Depositories.
In a paper read before the Cur
rent Topics club of Indianapolis
Tuesday night, W. E. Henry, state
lirarian, brought out entirely new
facts with reference to the law in dif
ercnt states on the subject of public
funds. Mr. Henry has devoted some
time recently to investigations along
this line, with the idea of collecting
the information for the use of the
next legislature which will probabiy
ake up the matter.
In starting Mr. Henry gave the
two arguments against the present
system of handling public funds:
First, the presence of a considerable
amount of money in the hands of al
most any man is a temptation to him
to attempt to make gain from it, us
ually without any dishonest motive
whatsoever. This leads to unwise in
vestments. Second, almost every
man who serves the pubic is given
air compensation for his time and
effort in the salary attached to the
position, and he should not be doubly
paid for rendering a single service."
Continuing Mr. Henry said: "In
every state where depositories have
ben designated, with one exception
(Iowa) the depository receiving the
money has paid to the state or coun-
y 2 per cent interest on daily bal
ances, which is credited to the state
or county, -and not to the treasurer.
Before any institution is made a de
pository, it is thoroughly examined
by state authorities and can receive
only limited deposits in proportion
o its paid up capital slock.
North Dakota was the first state to
naugurate this system of handling
public funds, and it has worked ad
mirably there since 1893. The daily
balarces from the state funds for the
year 1905 wal $032,602, making the
inftcst returned to thestate, $19,596.
"Certain counties in North Dikota
whose taxables range from five and
one-half to seven and one-half mil-
ion dollars gave tax returns to the
county for the last year sums ranging
from $800 lo $1,600. Several states
have had legislation on this subject,
Ohio, Idaho, Minnesota, New Jersey,
New York, Virginia, West Virginia,
South Carolina, Kansas, Wisconsin
and New Mexico."
Mr. Henry ended with quoting
rom letters, from the following gov
ernors, all in favor of the public de
pository law: Morrison, Idaho Mur
phy, New Jersey; Otero, New Mex
ico; White, West Virginia; Cummins,
owa; Pardee, California"; Gooding,
daho; Hoch, Kansas; Elrod, South
Dakota; and Lafollette, Wisconsin.
The Passing of the SentineL
The Grecnsburg Graphic, a leading
Democratic newspaper down in the
south part of the state, gives vent to
its pent up feelings by the following:
The announced suspension of the
Daily and Sunday Sentinel adds an
other tombstone to the newspaper
graveyard of Indianapolis and leaves
the Democratic party of Indiana with
out a state organ. Many reasons
probably contributed to that end, but
the most potent probably was lick of
party support. As long and as often
as the party politician could use the
Sentinel to further their own personal
ambition that paper was all right, but
just as soon as. it began to look for
favors in the other direction then the
politician was smiling in another di
rection and dozens and hundreds
of Democrats and some of
them of national reputation would
never have been heard of in-politics
outside of their own precincts except
for the persistent laudations of 'this
same Sentinel. It takes money to run
a newspapA whether that plant is lo
cated in a large city and attempts to
be a state paper or in a small town
as an organ of a county. It can hard
ly get the necessary financial support
from its friends. It's a sure thing
that its enemies will not give it much
encouragement. The Derrocrats of
Indiana will need a state prcan some
day and they will find it hard to get
another that will be as loyal to its
party as was The Sentinel. Farewell!
, No War with China.
"There will be no war between the
United States and China," said Major
General Henry S. Corbin, upon his
arrival from the orient on the steam
er Korea Friday." So far as I have
been able to observe, the reported
uisturbancs in China have been gross
ly exaggerated, and conditions are
not nearly so alarming as one would
be led to suppose from reports that
have been published abroad through
out the western world.
"That there have been disturbances
is auite true, but I do not think they
wi.l break the peace of China and thtjihe party in power is really a feathei
United States or any other nation.
"The feeling against Americans in
China does not exceed that entertain
ed toward all other foreigners, and
as I' understand the situation tho en
tire anti-foreign feeling is due in a
lafe measure to the exploitation of
business enterprises which the Chin
ese feel sure should be controlled by
their own people. There is a feeling
against those who have in various
ways obtained through scheming and
corrupt official franchises and con
cssions, abrogated and vested in their
own people.
Two women sat in the gallery of
the House of Representatives at
Washington, studying .the scene be
low when one of them said "See that
bald headed young man talking to
that fine looking old gentleman; his
wife can never pull his hair out. The
young man was Nicholas Longworth;
the old man was Ex-Speaker Keifor.
PASSING OF WOODEN LEG.
Paraffin, It is Declared, Will Make
Amputation Unnecessary.
The passing of the wooden leg was
presaged at a meeting of the Chicago
Medical Society, when Dr. Emil
Maartens, of Ghent, Belgium, gave it
as his opinion that the use of paraffin
would make amputation unnecessary.
"The discovery that tissues will
grow into and form themselves in
paraffin," says Dr. Maartens, "opens
up a new field in surgery. Instead of
amputating bones which have been
crushed, provided that the injury is
between th joints, the crushed por
tion of the bone may be removed and
paraffin injected. The bone will then
form itself anew, renewing the os
seous ; tissues from shoots sent
through the injection and, in time,
throw, off the paraffin by liquidation.
In the course of three or four months
the cartilage will have been formed
which will gr"ow into a bone.
"In 1 Belgium we rarely amputate
unless' it is one of the jovnts of the
limb which is injured. There has, as
yet, been no satisfactory method of
repairing discovered for crushed
joints,"
i Passing of the Indian.
The ending on' March 4, of the tri
bal organization of the Five Nations
of Indian Territory the Cherokees,
Choctaws, Creeks. Chickasaws and
Seminloles gives timeliness to a re
view n. the Atlantic Monthly of the
history of the Indians and their pres
ent condition. The history of the re
moval of these tribes to the West of
the Mississippi, a plan originated by
Jefferson ,jnd carried out in Jackson's
time, is well known to al. intelligent
Americans ,and it is the facts con-
mm
cernmg their development since
which' are of most interest, especially
as they are now soon to be citizens
of the5 State of Oklahoma on equality
with their white brethren.
These five tribes ceased long ago
to belong in any sense to savagery.
For more than two generations they
have been self-supporting, have en
joyed good school facilities, live in
the same sort of dwellings as the
white, dress like white people and
the majority of them belong to some
Christian denomination. Their land
holdings and their own enterprise
and industry have made them rich,
and "many of them live in luxury.
They have conducted their own trib
al governments after white man's
methods, including all the tricks of
the political trade. In short, they be
long ao an advanced stage of civiliza
tion and are fully qualified for the
full citizenship now belonging to
them with the abandonment of the
tribal system.
As a matter of fact, of the 86,000
members of these tribes who are
classed as Indians only 25,000 are
full bloods 41,500 are of various de
grees of mixed blood, and most of
these would 'iss anywhere as pure
whites; 1,500 are whites who have
been adopted into the tribes, and
18,000 are of negro or mixed negro
blood. Whites outside of the tribes
are in the majority, outnumbering the
Indians five to one, and the title of
Indian Territory has long been some
thing of a misnomer. These Indians
of the coming State of Oklahoma
have now ceased to be a national
problem, and those elsewhere in the
United States are rapidly becoming
transformed into peacefuj and indus
trious citizens.
Only 26,000 blanket Indians are left
in the entire country, and the gen
eral progress of the red men since
1877, when the present system of
dealing with them was adopted, is
said to have been more rapid than
ever achieved by white men within
equal time. The time is not far dis
tant when the American Indian as he
Is known in history and literature
the'' strange, silent, treacherous,
bloodthirsty savage, whose country
we tooK will 'be a creature of tradi
tion. Anxious for a Change.
The Democrats of this-state are so
anxious for a change that they pre
tend they see one coming, because a
few men decline to run for office on
the Republican ticket. If they really
believe what they say their own as
pirants for office vould be rushing
pel-mell. for the usual coveted nomin
ations, but they are not doing so, all
of which proves that the Democratic
game is simply to stampede the Re
publicans and make the way clear for
themselves. The fact that a few state
officers have been removed for "good"
cause, so far from militating against
in its cap, because it shows that the
party is in earnest and is sincere in
its claims to purge the organization
of dishonest office holders, to punish
its own party delinquents and give
the people a straightforward, honest
and economical administration
Opposition to Editor Metsker.
Rochester, Ind., March 8. The ru
mor is "?oat in this section of the
State that the Democracy of Marshal
county is striving to establish another
party paper in Plymouth, the idea
being to "even up" with editor Clay
Metsker, of the Marshall County
Democrat, who worked in behalf of
Parker in'the matter of selecting del
egates to the last State convention
John W. Wolford, William O'Keefe
ex-county treasurer, and Peter Kruy
er, superintendent of the Marshal
County Infirmary, are said to be in
terested in the venture. Indianapolis
News.
The Chronicle Still Kicks.
This! week's issue of the Plymouth
Chronicle says Chairman Hendricks
is responsible for two conventions
at Culver. The facts are that Chair
man Hendricks notified Behmer,
Norris, Easterday, Garn and Med
bourn that he would meet them at
Culver for the purpose df adjusting
party matters. He received no reply
from Norris, but saw Mr. Behmer
personally in this city, and he agreed
to attend; but immediately after
talking to Mr. Hendricks he went to
se Mr. Boys and did not attend the
meeting; neither did Mr. Norris.
It seems that Boys has some mem
bers of the committee under his
thumb and they cannot act except
as he permits.
Mr. Hendricks went to Culver as
he had promised to do, but the Boys
members of the committee did not
show up, consequently it will be
seen that Boys, not Hendricks, is the
man who is trying to prevent har
mony in the party.. It seems that
Boys was imported into Marshall
county for the purpose of disrupting
the Republican party of thic county,
and his persistency in this direction
is worthy of a better cause.
His paper bolted immediately after
the organization of the county com
mittee and he has ever since that time
refused to publish any official notice
issued by the county cemmittee.
vHe has a right to do this if he
wishes, but when any members of
the county committee choose to place
him above the county organization
and obey his orders they cease to bej
members of the organization. S. E.
Boys is not the Republican party of
Marshall county and the county does
not need him or any other man as a
"boss." The real Republicans of Mar
shall county will try to secure party
harmony and wiil work together to
elect Republicans next November.
Center Township Convention.
The Republicans met in mass con
vention at Kuhn's hall Saturday after
noon for the purpose of selecting del
egates to the Congressional'and State
conventions.
The convention was organized by
electing Dr. D. C. Knott chairman
and Dr. G. F. Hitchcock, secretary,
A motion was .made and seconded
to elect each delegate separately. This
motion was lost and W. G. Hendricks
then moved that Fred Corse, L. Tan
ner, John J. Staley and J. F. Caldwell
be chosen' delegates to the congres
sional convention, with D. C. Smith,
Henry Haag, Amos Miller and Har
rison Riddle as alternates; that Mon
roe Steiner, John, C. Kuhn, George
H. Thayer and Robert Liggett be
chosen delegates to the state conven
tion with Calvin . Yarrick, Fred
Koontz, F. E. Gam and Richard Tea
as alternates.
The motion of Mr. Hendricks was
seconded and was carried without any
disssenting votes and the convention
adjourned. .
D. C. KNOTT, Chairman.
G. F. HITCHCOCK, Secy. ,
Marshall County Delegates,
Delegates to the congressional and
state conventions were chosen in all
the townships of Marshall county Sat
urday afternoon. There was a large
attendance in allfthe townships. The
congressional ' delegates are as fol
lows: Center township;1 Delegates
Fred Corse, L. Tanner, John J. Sta
ley, and J. F. Caldwell; Alternates, D.
C. Smith, Henry Haag, Amos C. Mil
ler and Harrison Riddle.
German, S. J. Hayes delegate, Ben
jamin Shafer, alternate.
North, Paul Logan delegate", Har
vey Way alternate.
West, Sam Garn delegate, Levi Hill
alternate.
' Bourbon, H. Steinbach and W. S.
Ramsay delegates. No alternates.
Argos, H. C. Brewer and Jonathan
Pickerl, delegates. No alternates.
Polk, J. H. Lehman delegate, J.
Ml Schroeder alternate.
Green, E. G. Robinson delegate,
i rank Morgan alternate.
Tippecanoe, Frank Wood, delegate,
C. F. Cooper alternate.
STATE DELEGATES.
Center township, Monroe Steiner,
John C. Kuhn, Geo. H. Thayer, Rob-
etr Liggett.
German, James H. Ranstead.
Bourbon, J. II. Matchett, H. H.
Tyrell.
Walnut, Anderson Yoast,
Green, L. N. Bair.
Tippecanoe, G. St. John.
Folk, Charles K. Powell.
North, W. L. Hoover.
Union township elected two sets of
delegates, Dr. Parker being elected
state delegate by one convention and
Dr. Rea by the other.
For congressional delegate George
Spangler and Fred Thompson are the
contestants.
Monster Horn Completed.
"Immensiphone" is the name of a
wonderful new musical instrument
which has just been completed at the
Conn factory at Elkhart, for Lasky,
Rolfe & Co., of New York, vaude
ville entertainers. The big horn was
tested Tuesday in the presence of the
purchasers. It is in reality seven in
struments in one, three cornets, two
altos, one trombone and . one bass,
the tone being amplified on the mega
phone principle. The bell of the horn
is eight feet long. The "Irumensi
phone" will produce a great volume
of sound and is expected to make a
hit when presented on the vaudeville
stage.
E. A. Thompson and wife are visit
ing at South Bend.
A GREAT GENERAL.
Death of Schofield Removes a Great
Civil War Commander.
The death of General John McAl
lister Schofield removed almost if not
quite the last of the commanding
officers of the great civil war who
rose to what may be caled great dis
tinction in that conflict.
He had been less than eight years
graduated from West Point when the
ar broke out. Fortne placed him
then in Missouri, where he became at
once one of the most efficient cowork-
rs with General Lyon in the verv ar
duous but not fame-breeding work of
holding thai great state for the na
tional cause.
The magnitude of the military op
erations in Virginia and in the central
south has always thrown the early
operations in M;ssouri into undeserv
ed shadow and historians have not
even yet fully estimated their impor
tance to the union. In them Schofield
bore a gallant and eminently intelli
gent part.
Without some' of the brilliant and
dashing qualities of his classmate,
eneral Phil Sheridan, he was, in all
th
e solid and dependable qualities of
e trained and prudent soldier, en
th
tirely worthy to take rank .with lead-
rs of his time. Not always success
ful to the extent of his desert, he nev-
suffered himself to be overtaken bv
serious disaster.
His handling of the Twentv-third
corps on the hazardous retreat before
ood, when Sherman had sent him
back to form the neucleus of Thom
as' army as yet largely or. paper-
w
as as steady, sturdy and masterly
military movement as the war re
ealed. '
v
Hood was another of his class
mates 'and Schofield's judgment of
what he would try to do was well-
igh faultless, while his tactical man
agement and the stubborn fighting of
is little corps in the battle of Frank
lin have been commended by. those
who fought against him as cinHne
soldierly qualities of the high.-st dis
tinction.
So also was his transfer of his cn
ire corps from Tennesseee to North
Carolina in sevnteen days, landing it
in perfect fighting condition and do
ing brilliant work at once, another
fine feat of independent soldiership.
He was eminently a man and soldier
to be trusted.
It was a high compliment to his
sound sense and discretion to select
him for the difficult and delicate ne
gotiation with Napoleon III over the
situation in Mexico, and the success
of the transaction gave him distinc
tion as a diplomatist equal to what he
had won as a soldier, and in that
particular at least his fame, is unique
among our civil war commander?.
He died leaving an unblemished
fame for modesty, steadiness and de
pendable good sense and discretion
as well worthy of emulation. Chi
cago Chronicle.
' When There Was Ho Geography.
A newspaper man who recently re
turned from a Southern trip tells this
story: "I happened to spend a Sunday
in a little town 'way down south, and
in the morning went to a colored
church to listen to the sermon of a
colored preacher who was a character
in the community. He had for his
text the escape of the Israelites from
Egypt, and when I came in he spoke
something like this: 'And the Lord
froze the Red sea into a solid cake
of ice an de Israelites crossed safely
over to de odder side. Then the 'Gyp
tians followed them over the ice, but
when they got into the middle de
Lord sent down a heavy thaw, which
melted the ice and precipitated the
'Gyptians into the water and they
were all drowned.' The congregation
was still for about a minute. Then
a tall, thin colored man arose and
said: 'Mister Preacher, I begs to dis
agree with that last statement of
yours. According to the geography
the Red sea is in the tropics, close
to the equator, and the water there
never freezes.' The minister listened
attentively, then in a loud, angry
voice replied: "I thought there would
be one of those smart niggers in this
here congregation to contradict me.
But he is not so smart as he thinks
he is. Jn the days when the Israel
ites ran away from Egypt, long, long
ago, there was no such thing as jog
raphy or an equator, neither." Phil
adelphia Record.
Fort Waynes Water Supply.
A well driven at Fort Wayne by
the city water works department of
that city to augment the city water
supply of that place opened a flow
from the earth at the depth of 152
feet estimated to expel from 700,000
to 800,000 gallons per day. In a test
of the well the highest possible ca
pacity of the fire department's best
steamers resulted in '.owering the
head of the cloumn of water only five
feet and the instant the speed was
reduced the water ag?Jn flowed over
the top of the casing in a powerful
and copious stream.
Chicago's Police Force.
If all of Chicago's 8000 saloons re
main in business after their present
licenses expire, the city will derive a
revenue of eight million dollars. If
2000 saloons quit, the revenue, avail
able for police purposes, will still be
way up $6,000,000. If none but effic
ient men were put on the police force,
half that amount of monev would
secure ample protection for that wick
ed city. But efficiency cuts only a
slight figure in the make-up of Chi
cago's! police force.
A Proposed Investigation.
The joint resolution instructing the
Interstate Commerce Commission to
investigate railroad discrimination,
and monopolies in coal and oil, has
been signed by the President. In the
message announcing his action, Mr.
Roosevelt says that he hesitated
about signing the resolutioon because
lie- thinks that in its present form it
can accomplish little or nothing of
value, and also because he Mhinks it
"highly desirable that a resolution of
this kind shall not become a law in
such form as to give the impression of
insincerity, that is of pretending to do
something which really is not done."
But he concluded to sin, believinj
that the defects in the resolution can
be remedied by legislation. '
But the resolution is now in force,
and it is 'for Congress to say how far
it wishes to go. The Presidmt in
forms it that nothing can be accom
plished without an appropriation cf at
least $50,000, and he recommends
that if Congress really wishes the
commission to make a thorough in
vestigation it should confer on it the
power to administer oaths and to
compel the attendance of witnecctw.
It is not easy to see why there
should be any serious objection to
such an investigation as that v.-hica
is proposed. It may at least cive us
a little additional liht, and trill cer
tainly give us a much ntei:d pullis-
Qoir-3 the r.c'r-.l
' An old woman asked in a dry zczlz
store to be shown some s:l TLj
young clerk showed her some siyizj:
"We can do this for yoa tt CLC3 a
yarc." The woman asked for some
thing better, but the clerk replitd Czt
they had nothing better. Vhereuoa
the proprietor came forward and erid;
You must excuse my assistant, mad
am; he is new to the business. Here
madam, is a superior article, a
yard. If it were not for the fact tt
I bought it some tim ajo we weald
have to charge you $3.75, for, as ycu
are doubtless aware, ' owin j to the
recent epidemic among silk wemr,
the ppce of silk has increased enor
mously oi lste. The customer took
the silk. A few days later the Erne
old lady fame in and asked to ttz
some tapj The clerk zzii c'"-ly
'Here is isome that we can Itt ycu
have at l(M:centsa yard. It it-wesn't
for the fact that we had it in stock
some time we would have to c.:zrz
you 23 cents, for, as you are'deulilrcs
aware .owing to the recent epiimic
among the tape-worms the price cf
tape has gone up enormously." It w"s
then she hit V i -''"; htr i:breIIaJ
Zicn City is Thrcitrnrd.
In an attempt o establish the city
of Zion on a firm financial and indus
trial basis and restore the shaken
confidence of the followers of Dr.
John Alexander Dowie the old pol
icy of exclusiveness has been cast' to
the winds and entire publicity will hi
given its business management froni
now on.
It is admitted that this desperate
expedient was resorted to only after
it had become evident to the direc
tors of its present policy that the sur
vival of the city depended on ex
treme measures. The action of Gen
eral Overseer Wilbur Voliva is Gen
erally taken in Zion City as direct
criticism of the ' business methods
pursued by the first apostle.
The announcement was made at a
a large mass meeting held last niht
in Zion City and following a detailed
statement by Deacon Judd of the fi
nancial condition of Zion City, to
gether with the inside history of the
land deals which preceded the incor
poration, a demand was made on his
auditors for sums amounting in the
agregate" to $200,000.
An ti Saloon Fijiaxa.
. A new map just issued by the Anti-Saloon
League shows there are
now 631 dry townships in Indiana
as against 552 a year ago. Ok thest;
135 have been made dry under th?
Moore remonstrance law, 123 under
the Nicholoson " remonstrance law
and 303 are dry without remon
strance. The population of these 631
townships is 8GS,054.
In the matter of the cities acting
by ward remonstrance there are six
dry under the Nicholson law; seven
dry under the Moore law and nine
teen dry vnthout remonstrance;
while seven cities have become dry
by council action under the "resi
dence section" -provisions. These
thirty-nine cities have a population of
101,300. The number of saloons
closed and prevented during the last
years is 364, under both forms of re
monstrance. His Mishap was Lucky.
John Spires, an engineer on the
Lehigh Valley Black Diamond ex
press, living at Sayre, has received
nes of a legacy of $25,003 in a novel
manner.
Twenty-six years ago at a Fourth
of July celebration, a nail was blown
into Lis neck. The wound healed and
he did not know the nail was there
until a few months ago, when a sharp
pain in his neck caused him to con
sult Dr. Ott, of the Sayre. hospiul.
Dr. Ott discovered the nail and re
moved it. An account of it r.äs.cs:n
in a London paper by a London lzrr
yer who had been stirchir j fcr
Spires for two years.
The lawyer wrote to the cr:r.::r,
who established his identity to t'2
lawyer's satisfaction ,ar.d 1.13 y-'i
been informed that a hrcy cf Cr."
left him two years r jo 1 n c. 1
in En-bnd awit3 his czizrz.