The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-01-15
David b. ]. shafer. of South Bend

David Il. j. Shafer. of South Bend,
was not able to capture the position
of secretary of the senate at Indiana
polls, but he was appointed assistant
journal clerk. David is perpetual
cflice seeker and his persistency usual
ly secures him a position
The authorities at Washington have
taken up the subject in regard to the
survival of the Indians. 1t is stated
that 80 per cent of the Indians die of
tuberculosis, and the question has been
raised as to whether this disease has
been introduced by contact with the
whites.
The move in the senate to pur-
chase revised statutes for each mem
Der Of the legislature comes under the
head of what the lieutenant govern
or called waste and extravaganza.
Such extravaganza would be bad be-
ginning. 1t would be a waste of at
least 50. 500.
The following business men of
Plymouth have agreed TO close their
stores every evening excepting Mon
day and Saturday, at O'Clock, until
March 1st. NJ. Altman, Ball & Co.,
Bosworth & Shambaugh, j. E. Mar
shall, Kloepfer's n. Y. Store, j. Z.
Hartle. NJ. Lauer & Son and G. r.
Beattie.
Senator Parks fares we'll in the
make up of the senatorial committees
at Indianapolis. He is chairman of
the judiciary committee and is a mem
Der of other committees as follows:
Military affairs, congressional ap-
portionme0ts. phraSeology of bills,
natural resources, and constitutional
revision.
Not penurious parsimony. but an
intelligent and business-like expendi-
ture of money for the maintenance of
the states institutions is the policy
set forth by Governor Durbin in his
message which was published in the
Plymouth Daily Tribune two hours
after it was read to the JOINT session
of the Legislature.
The blizzard born IN Manitoba
sweeps down through the Dakotas,
Minnesota and Nebraska. and on
through Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin.
Michigan and Indiana until almost
the entire country is within its grasp.
Telegraph wires are blown down,
trains delayed and everybody shivers
when its icy blast strikes them.
Three men dead and fourteen per-
sons injured, one fatally, was the re-
suit of a rear-end collision Thursday
night between two trains of the
Pennsylvania railroad on the main
street of Ada, Ohio. Among the dead
are Joseph Stein and NJ. McPool. of
Fort Wayne. while Benjaim Zook and
Andrew Bremen, of Fort Wayne, were
injured.
The annual meeting of the Lincoln
League of Indiana will be held in In
dianapolis, February II and Is, ill.,
stead of at Evansville, as originally
arranged. d banquet will be given
the night of 18th, at the Denison
House. An effort will be made to get
some speaker of national reputation.
a member OF the league from each
congressional district will respond to a
toast.
The recommendation of State
uperintendent Jones that some pro-
vision he made by law to consolidate
the small schools scattered over the
state into large schools. which can be
better graded and have the advant-
age of better teachers, is sound. 1t
is much cheaper to provide Transports
tion than to operate schools having a
dozen or twenty pupils. and much bet
ter for the pupils.
j. r. Walters, formerly Of Kokomo,
is running a sort of matrimonial
bureau at Rugby, n. D. He writes
that he has received forty-two in
Quiries from Kokomo and Howard
county girls, each of whom is seeking
husband, and an interest in quarter
section of land. He stated that he
gave each of the letters to a good
looking young bachelor who desired a
wife, and that he felt sure the matches
would be arranged.
The United States department of
agricultural has taken steps for the
commercial development of the i'm
,mense forests in the Philippine is
lands. IL has been estimated By
Capt. George P. Ahern, 9th United
States Infantry, temporarily in charge
of the forestry interests, that there
are at least $50, species of valuable