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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-08


The time is here to file your mort
gage exemption certificates with the
county auditor. John Wingate, of the
state board of tax commissioner.
who has been visiting county seats in
this part of the state lately, explains
the mortgage exemption Law IS fol-
lows:
Each person who owes q mort
gage debt on the 1st of March and de-
sirss any exemption must file his own
affidavit. A mortgage given jointly
by husband and wife requires the affi-
davit of both to obtain a ded1ction.
An administrators can file no mort
gage exemption for the estate. Meth
er can one heir make an affidavit for
all the heirs. Firms or partnerships
and corporations are not entitled to
any deduction upon their mortgage
Indebtedness. One joint owner cam
not make affidavit for the benefit cf
the other joint owners it being a per-
sonal privilege A guardian can
make an affidavit for his ward. These
affidavits must be made out after
March 1 and filed with the county au-
ditor. before the 1st day of May,
showing the mortgage indebtedness
on The 1st day of March,"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-08

For the fiscal yer that began July
l last the government receipts are
now ahead of expenditures. The sur
plus at the end of last month was ST.
1o2,oo3. Yet $12,OoO.ooo has been
spent on public works this year, main
ly on the Panama canal account. A
payment of more than $4,000, 900 on
that great enterprise explains all but
an inconsiderable part of the deficit
since May /, 1904. 1t is a good time
to look back over the financial ecord
of the Republicans since they resum-
ed control of the treasury nine years
ago, period including the Spanish
war. The years of deficit during the
nine years ending with June 30 last
give a total Oh s211, ,756,4s2. The years
of surplus in the same time have a
total of $302, ,s30,0s7. The net surplus
since the Republicans returned to
power in 1897 is $91, ora, COS.
1t is great showing when it is re-
membered that war was fought with
Spain and one in the Philippines, that
a large payment was made to Spain
for the islands, and that 100000, 900
cash has thus far been drawn from
the treasury for Panama expenditures.
During nearly all these years the
Dingley tariff has been in operation.
Its practical wisdom has ben abun-
dantly proved in war and paece, in an
era of remarkable territorial and in
dustrial expansion, and of great public
undertakings.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-08

Congressman Brick arrived at home
from Washington Friday merely on
flying visit" as he expressed it,
with no special purpose or motive.
Washington dispatches, however, said
that the congressman had been i'm
portuned by his friends to make the
journey and satisfy himself that his
fences weer secure.
The announcement of Prof Merica
of Warsaw, as candidate for cong
ress and the persistent rumors that
Aaron Jones of South Bend, and men
from several other counties are con-
sidering the question of entering the
race, have stirred things up in the
district
1t is believed by Mr.. Bricks friends
that he can quiet what seems to be a
needless panic of his forces, and he
will remain in the district until after
the congressional convention is held.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-08
Passing of Old Landmark.

The Wolf Creek dam is thing of
the past. 1t was built sixty years ago,
and its erection at that time was hail
ed with as much joy by the inhabi-
tants of that vicinity and all the coun-
try for many miles around as its de-
struction is now hailed by the farmers
of Green township whose lands will
be reclaimed by the big ditch that
will carry the water from their
swamps and ponds into Yellow river
and on into the Mississippi.
For half a century the old mill, the
dam, and Michael Zehner have been
familiar figures in the minds of all
old settlers as we'll as to the boys
and girls who have grown I'D in the
surrounding country. The old mill
which for half century ground the
corn and wheat, made the meal and
Aostr, for corn-bread, biscuits, pies,
pound-cake buckwheat cakes and
bread of all kinds, ceased to be of
much use ten years ago, but Mike"
Zehner could not be made to believe
that his mill was useless and his mill
dam a nuisance
He fought the removal of the dam
SO successfully in the courts that the
farmers who wanted the dam removed
were compelled to compromise with
him and pay him almost $4,000. This
is more than the mill was worth in its
palmiest days, still its owner was so
attached to it. that he would really
rather see it stand there and roo down
than to have half the money that
Rockefeller is worth if he could pre-
vent the removal of the dam.
Last week large crowds were gath
cred about the old mill watching the
contractor and his score of helpers
open a passage for the waters of
Wolf Greek through the old dam. 1t
was hard job and when the opening
was made and the pent up waters of
the creek began to run away many
of the old settlers felt that they like
Mr.. Zehner would feel lonesome
without the old mill dam.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-08
THE STATEHOOD BILL.
Senators Lining Up for Action on
Measure Friday-Beveridge
Hopeful.

The vote on the statehood bill in
the Senate Friday promises to be
very close. Senator Beveridge, who
is in charge of the House bill for
joint statehood for Oklahoma and In
dian Territory and for Arizona and
New Mexico, says he has not given
up hope of passing the bill as it came
from the House.
The opponents of joint statehood
for Arizona and New Mexico are
more than confident however, that the
Foraker amendment providing refer
endum for both Territories will be
adopted. So confident are they that
they have alarmed the friends of Ok
lahoma and Indian Territory who are
now trying to see if they can save
from the threatened wreck statehood
for their two Territories. AS is we'll
understood, thebe is 10 opposition to
statehood for these territories as an
abstract proposition, but it is the ad-
mniistration's judgment that state
hood for Arizona and New Mexico
should be provided at the same time.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-08

The report of the Pennsylvania
Railroad for last year gives some fig
ures that are more impressive than
comprehensive. Briefly, the figures
are these: Tons of freight carried,
35,OoO,000; passengers carried, 1885,
100000, gross earnings, $266, 900, 900;
net earnings, $3,s0O,O00; increase in
net earnings over 1904, nearly $9,O0O,-
900. 1t is hard for the lay mind to
grasp the meaning of these figures.
This is the day of big things, but even
SO the fact of a single railroad having
gross income of $266,OOO, 900 in a
single year is more or less bewilder-
ing by its mere size. And what is true
of the Pennsylvania road is true, in
greater or less degree,of many
other of the big railways lines of the
country.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-08
Acted on Advice of Medium.

Frankfort, Ind, Marcn Alleging
that she was lured on by the direction
of her dead husbands voice, as she
supposed, Mrs. Minerva ]. Wynkoop
in complaint says that Adrian ].
Wynkoop, brother-in-law, through
the conspiracy of medium, tricked
her out of $4,000 worth of real es-
tate, and she has filed suit to have the
conveyance set aside. Mrs. Wynkoop
alleges that her brother-in-law took
her to seance, where she was made
to hear the voice of her dead husband
directing her to convey all the real
estate she had inherited to the de-
fendant, and in consequence, being
believer in spiritualism, she alleges
that deed was drawn up to this eff
feet and she signed it.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-08
Efficiency of Soldiers.

The Presidents ambition for an eff
ficient army and navy-in which the
whole country shares-gives added
interest to the recent work of DIR.
Louis Livingston Seaman. which en-
bodies the result of his observations
and experience as an army surgeon.
He was in our Spanish-American war;
served with our army in the Philip
pines; was with the allies at Pekin,
and twice visited the front in Man
churia during the Russo-Japanese
war. He takes the -Longmore tables
as the basis of the average mortality
OF an army during war; these assign
four men to death by disease to one
who perishes by the enemy's bullets.
He recalls that in the Crimea $4,000
perished from disease and 1000 from
bullets; in Madagascar the French
lost 1000 by disease and had twenty
nine killed in action. The English in
the Boer war surpassed our record in
our civil war.
But the crowning piece of imbecil-
ity was reserved for our war with
Spain where, in 1898, fourteen were
needlessly sacrificed to ignorance and
incompetence to one that was killed
or died as the result of wounds in
battle.
In contrast the Japanese lost 52,946
killed and 1892 by disease. So Long
more's tables are four to one for dis
ease and battle loss We had fourteen
to one in our Spanish war, while the
Japs reverse the proportion and made
it more than four. to one the other
way; that is, they had more than four
men killed in battle to one whose life
was lost by disease. The authors
conclusion is that the medical corps
of our army neds more authority-in
fact it has none now; it can not en-
force an order; it can only recon-
mend More than this, our medical
conception is to cure the disease that
may afflict an army; the Jap notion
is to prevent disease.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-08

The commercial news of the past
week has been interesting to the close
observer. The reports coming from
Wall street have been doleful; the
Washington news developed long
faces the insurance rumblings portend
disaster; the Hill-Harriman squabble
means ruin to business; the wheat
crop viii be failure Wall street has
peculiar way of presenting bad
news. If the rest of the country did
not appreciate this accomplishment it
would indeed be time to realize that
the prosperity that has blessed this
country for SO long is beginning to
wane-Indianapolis Star.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-08

AT the home of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H.
Koontz in Culver. Wednesday, Feb
ruary 2s, occurred the marriage of
their daughter, Maude and Mr.. Rollo
E. Hutchinson, Rev. Klopfenstein, of
the Reformed church, officiating. The
ceremony took place at o'clock o.
m. Those present were: Mr.. and Mrs.
John Hutchinson, of Clarence, III.
parents of the groom, Mr.. and Mrs.
E. w. Koontz and Mrs. Klopfenstein.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hutchinson took the
noon train on Thursday for Chicago
and Clarence, Ills, where they will
visit, after which they will return to
Culver where Mr.. Hutchinson is en-
ployed as private secretary to Col.
Fleet, of Culver Military Academy.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-08

George McCarty, a forme, resident
of North township, was killed on the
B. and o. railroad east of Lapaz lcnc-
ton Saturday night. McCarty was
once a respected citizen, but he NOV
ed to Hammond, got to drinking in
tensely, his wife left him and for
some months he had been leading the
life of vagabond. He got off train
at Lapaz Junction Saturday evening
and about 7:30 o'clock started east
on the railroad to the home of his
brother-in-law, Marshall Kirkiey.
lust before midnight train men re-
ported the finding of dead man on
the track and the body proved to be
the remains of McCarty. How he was
killed IS not known. There were sew
eral cuts on his head but no bruises
on his body and the skull was not
fractured. but it is supposed that he
was killed by a train, as he had no
enemies and no money. Coroner
Stephens turned the remains over to
the township trustee. He was 4s
wears old and has a wife and daugh-
ter living
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-08

Editor Metsker and John W. Vol
ford. who have always been chums, it
is reported had a Misunderstanding
Saturday evening which resulted in
Wolford's smashing the editors nose.
1t seems that the editor had heard
Wolford say that he had succeeded
in getting twenty voters to withdraw
their signatures from the anti-saloon
petition at Culver, and told this in the
Independent Saturday evening, never
dreaming that Wolford would not
want the statement made public.
Wolford seemed to think that
the editor had gone back on him
and this coupled with the Culver
knock out was too much for his nat
ure to bear with equanimity and the
result was as above stated. 1t was
simply a misunderstanding, a differ
ence in opinion. Nobody will believe
for a moment that Editor Metsker
was trying to assist the anti-saloon
people.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-08
Health Board Men Fooled.

Treated for two months for Dip
iberia, with a confrmatory misro-
scopic diagnosis of the Health De-
part of New York, to fall back upon,
Margaret Curl, years OLD, is today
Well because surgical operation re-
moved safety pin from her larynx.
The presence of the pin was indicated
by x rays, although for two months
the child had made every endeavor
to tell what was the matter with her.
Speeches, she submitted to serum
treatment and all others, and it was
only as a last resort that resource
was had to surgery.
While playing with her dolls at her
home near Bedford, the Bronx, more
than two months ago, the child put
the safety pin in her mouth. 1t slip
ped down her throat, lodging below
the larnyx in the trachea. Piercing
the wall it started an inflammation,
and before the child coulG inform her
mother she had lost her voice, infam-
nation had begun, and it is admitted
now that the external symptoms were
exactly those of diptheria or dipther-
etic sore throat.
In compliance with the law the
Board of Health was at once notified,
cultures were submitted for micro
scopic examination and all the re-
quirements of the law complied with.
1t was then that there began an i'll
ness which was battling alike to ply
sicians and nurses The child steadily
grew weaker, but her supposed dis
ease showed neither progress nor
diminution. The most powerful rem
edies that could be applied affected
it neither the one way nor the other.
Her condition remained about the
same, the irritation and inflammation
remained stationary, and long after
it was supposed the crisis would
come there had been none.
Finally, when all medical means
means had been exhausted, the child
was taken TO the hospital of DR.. Her
man Meeker. There the x-rays were
applied and photograph taken. The
negative showed the safety pin lodg-
ed in the trachea.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-08
Salaries of School Teachers.

There is considerable discussion in
regard to the salaries of teachers,
but the statistics show that the teach
ers of Indiana are better paid than an
many other states.
The average wages paid to teachers
for the year ending July 31st, 1904,
were: In townships, men $2.57 per
day; women 2.s7 per day; in towns,
men $3.45 per day, women $3.50 per
day; in cities, men $452 per day,
women, s2.54 per day; yearly salary in
state at large, 440.20. For the year
ending July 81, 1905: In townships
men $2.75 per day. women sass per
day; in towns, men $344 DER day,
women $2.53 per day; in cities, men
S4.52 per day, women $2.75 per day;
yearly salary in state at large, $443.4s.
The average per day in state at large
in 1904 was $2.65; 1905, it was $2.72.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-08

At Lafayette Thursday, March /,
for the sixth consecutive time in the
last ten years, Edgar u. Crumpacker
was nominated for congress by the
Republicans of the Tenth district.
His nomination was unanimous,
and there was more enthusiasm dis
played than might be expected at a
cut-and-dried convention.
The melting was a record-breaker
for brevity and was held at Colum-
bian hall Congressman Crumpacker
following his usual custom, was not
present. He has not appeared at 4
congressional convention since 1896,
when he was first nominated.
Henry w. Marshall, district chair
man, presided and Charles K. Nav
ity of Lafayette, was made secretary.
The delegates were called to order
at 80 o'clock and in fifteen minutes
adjournment had been taken. Most
of the delegates boarded a 2 O'Clock
train for Monon.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-08
The Epileptic Hospital.

Plymouth did not get the Epileptic
Village and it is probable that the
state loses more than Plymouth loses
by locating it at Newcastle The leg
islature made big mistake when
they did not put clause in the law
prohibiting the location of the village
in any county in which member of
the commission resided In locating
other state institutions tn; has al
ways been done. While the village
was not locateo where one of the
commissioners resided it was only
the frmness of Governor Hanly that
prevented its location at the home of
DR.. Whitesides on land for which the
state would have paid $136 an acre.
The commission spent $4,000 trav-
cling over the state and evidently
gave very little attention to any of
the sites offered until the last ten
days. Then when they found they
could not locate it in one of their
own counties they had to make a
choice without investigation.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-08

dispatch sent out from New Castle
last Friday says that Rev. c. Fenwick
Reed, who is to conduct revival meet
ings at the Methodist church, has at
tackled the dance which each year
closes the commencement exercises
of the local high school. The sermons
along this line have been so pro-
nounced that they have elected a
communication from the school board
in which it declaims all connection
with the affair. The Rev. Mr.. Reed
declares it is most sinful to open a
commencement exercise with pray
re and close it Wi hta dance.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-08
WILL FIGHT TO A FINISH.
If Rate Law is Not to Liking of
Roosevelt an Extra Session May
be Called.

The Senate is far from an agree
ment on railroad rate legislation. The
Aldrich- -Elkins- Foraker crowd is still
standing with firmness for court re-
view provision that will put the re-
sponsibility of fixing rates on the
courts. Nothing short of an amend
ment that provides for a retrival of
every case in the courts will satisfy
this crowd. The President, on the
other hand, will not accept a court
review provision that opens the way
for a retrival of the cases appealed
from the interstate commission. He
is convinced that if the review pro-
vision the railroad Senators are sup
porting should be agreed to the rate
legislation would not be worth. the
pare on which it is written.
The public it seems, has an i'm
preston that because the President,
ii,a semi-official statement the latter
part of last week indicated that he
was in favor of three unimportant
amendments to the Hepburn bill, has
surrendered to the railroad coterie of
Senator'S. Nothing could be further
from the fact He stands today just
where he has stood all the time, and
there is an unbridged gulf between
the position he occucpies and that
occupied by the Aldrich- -Elkins- For
aker combination.
The situation is critical. Either the
railroad Senators or the President
must yield, and the guess is that the
President does not intend to bulge
from the position he has taken. Un-
questionably if the railroad Senators
should prevent action on the rate bill
he will call special session of Cong
ress Immediately on the adjournment
of the present session. There can be
no doubt on this point
The situation in brief is this: If
the President will consent that the
railroad Senators shall insert in the
rate bill the kind of court review pro-
vision they favor, he will open the way
for the passage of the Philippine tar
if bill, the ratification of the Santo
Domingo treaty, secure the enactment
of all the other legislation in which
he is specially interested, and in ad-
dition, secure the confirmation OF
some important nominations that
have been held up. He tells his friends
that he will scorn the temptation. He
believes the people of the United
States are looking to him to secure an
effective rate law, and he feels that
he would be betraying their interests
if he should make terms with the
railroad senator's.
If the President adheres to his de,
termination it must be fight to the
finish with the Senate.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-08

A specific cure for cancer appar-
emily has been discovered by DR..
John Beard of the University of Ed
inburg, according to an article in Har-
per's Weekly for the coming Satur-
day written by DR.. c. w. Saleeby,
whose discoveries in the problem of
the origin of life, give great weight
to his account of DR.. Boards expert
ments.
1t seems more than. probable, "
writes DR.. Salceby, that in trypsin
has been discovered for the cancer
cell,that specific poison which must
exist for every cell. Only the philos-
ophic few could have guessed for a
moment that DR.. Boards long and
famous researches would ever enable
him-as they would indeed, appear
to have enabled him-to place in the
hands of the physician a veritable
cure for cancer"
Trypsin, the seeming agent of de-
struction of the cancer cell, is defined
by DR.. Saleeby as "the characteristic
ferment of the pancreatic juice, a re-
markable but quite familiar sub
stance" Experiments with trypsin
have been made on several thousand
cancerous mice and also on human
beings, with the conclusion by both
DR.: Beard and DR.. Shaw Mackenzie,
according to DR.. Saleeby, that "tryp-
sin is the substance which will de-
stroy the cancer cell with ease and
without danger to the individual"
The experiments of DR.. Beard have
not been completely described, but
enough of them is known to warrant
the general conclusion stated in the
foregoing quotation.
drug store.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-08
Spooner to the Front.
A Washington special to the Chi
cago Tribune saws:

A Washington special to the Chi
cago Tribune says:
Whenever any great Legislative en-
terprise reaches an acute stage it al
ways is Senator Spooner of Wiscon-
sin, who comes to the front just in
the nick of time with an amendment
designed to adjust the views of all
parties in such way as to permit
final action
He has done this on the rate bill
and formulated at least one section
OF an amendment which meets the
views of President Roosevelt as near
ly as can be understood, and which
is the most tangible step in the way
of compromise yet taken.
1t is admitted by all parties TO the
fierce controversy now going on in
the Senate that no matter whether
there is specific provision for a re-
view by the courts or not, the courts
undoubtedly will take jurisdiction un-
der their constitutional authority, and
If they have reason to believe a GER
tain rate fixed by the Interstate Com
merce commission is conhscatory of
the property of the railroad, they will
issue an injunction to prevent its op-
Grafton.
Senator Spooner's new idea is that
whenever rate is fixed by the COM
mission and suspended by the court
the railroad shall be required to pay
into court in actual cash the amount
of the difference between the two
rates on every shipment carried over
the road until a final decision is
reached. There will be no bond, and
each shipper would be entitled to go
into court when the result is an
nounced and get his money. The fund
in cash practically would be a depos-
it in trust, to be paid over direct in
the contingency that the decision is
favorable to the shipper.
This Spooner amendment would
prevent litigation between the rail-
roads and individual shippers; fur
thermore, it would render an appeal
to the courts more or less burden
some to the railroads, because of the
necessity of making these cash de-
posits, which are to correspond with
every individual shipment during the
period of the suspension of the rate.
The result would be, it is hoped, that
the railroads would not so often ask
for an injunction and would generally
seek to expedite instead of delay the
final decision, because their own real
money would be tied In all the time