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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-15
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
Seminoles-gives timeliness to a re-
view in 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, plan originated by
Jefferson and carried out in Jackson's
time, is well known to al intelligent
Americans ,and it is the facts con-
corning their development since
which are of most interest, especially
as they are now soon to be citizens
of the 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
whitek, dress like white people and
the majority of them belong to some
Christian determination. 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 mans
methods, including all the tricks of
the political trade. In short, they be-
long 40 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 matter of fact, of the $4,000
members of these tribes who are
classed as Indians only $4,000 are
full bloods 41,500 are of various de-
grees of mixed blood, and most OF
these would pass anywhere as pure
whites; 1900 are whites who have
been adopted into the tribes, and
$4,000 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 misnomer. These Indians
of the coming State of Oklahoma
have now ceased to be national
problem, and those elsewhere in the
United States are rapidly becoming
transformed into peaceful a.id indus
trious citizens.
Only 10000 blanket Indians are left
in the entire country, and the gen.
eral progress of the red men since
1877, when the present system oi
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 creature of tradi
ton.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-15

The Democrats of this state are SO
anxious for 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 would 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 initiating against
she party in power is really feather
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 straightforward, honest
and economical administration.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-15
PASSING OF WOODEN LEG.
Paraffin, 1t is Declared, Will Make
Amputation Unnecessary.

The passing of the wooden leg was
presaged at meeting of the Chicago
Medical Society, when DR.. Emil
Martens, of Client, 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. Martens, "opens
up new field in surgery. Instead of
amputating bones which have been
crushed, provided that the injury is
between the joints, the crushed por-
ton 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 grow into bone.
In Belgium we rarely amputate
unless it is one of the joints of the
limb which is injured. There has, as
yet, been no satisfactory method of
repairing discovered for crushed
joints
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-15

Delegates to the congressional and
state conventions were chosen in ali
the townships of Marshall county Sat
urday afternoon. There was a large
attendance in all the townships. TIE
congressional delegates are as fol-
lows: Center township Delegates
fred Corse, L. Tanner, John J. Sta
ley, and ]. F. Caldwell; Alternates, D.
c. Smith, Henry Haag, Amos c. Mil
Ter and Harrison Riddle.
German. S. ]. Hayes delegate, Ben
jamin Shafer, alternate.
North, Paul Logan delegate, Har-
vey Way alternate.
West, Sam earn 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.
NJ. Schroeder alternate.
Green, f. G. Robinson delegate,
1 rank Morgan alternate
Tippecanoe, Frank Wood, delegate
IC. F. Cooper alternate.
STATE DELEGATES.
Center township, Monroe Steiner
John c. Kuhn, Geo. H. Thayer, Rob
ctr Liggett-
German, James H. Ranstead
Bourbon, ]. II. Matchett, H. H
Tyrell.
Walnut, Anderson Yoast,
Green, L. N. Bair.
Tippecanoe, c. St. John.
Polk, Charles K. Powell.
North, w. l.. Hoover.
Union township elected two sets O
delegates, DR.. Parker being elected
state delegate by one convention and
DIR. Rea by the other.
For congressional delegate George
Spangler and Fred Thompson are The
contestants.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-15
Henry on State Depositories.

In a paper read before the Cur
Tuesday night, w. E. Henry, state
lirarian, brought out entirely new
facts with reference to the law in diff
erent 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 probably
take up the matter.
In starting Mr.. Henry gave the
two arguments against the present
system of handling public funds
First, the presence of considerable
amount of money in the hands of al
most any man is 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
fair compensation for his time and
effort in the salary attached to the
position, and he should not be doubly
paid for rendering single service" ;"
Continuing Mr. Henry said: "In
every state where repositories have
ben designated, with one exception
Qowa) the depository receiving the
money has paid to the state or coun-
ty 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
to its paid up capital stock.
North Dakota was the first state to
inaugurate this system of handling
public funds, and it has worked ad
mirably there since 1898. The daily
balances from the state funds for the
year 1905 was $6a2,6O2, making the
interest returned to thestate, $19,596.
Certain counties in North Dakota
whose taxables range from FIVE and
one-half to seven and one-half mil
lion dollars gave tax returns to the
county for the last year sums ranging
from $500 20 $1,000 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
from letters from the following gov
ernors, all in favor of the public de-
pcsitory law: Morrison, Idaho Muir
ply, New Jersey; Otero, New Mex
leo; White, West Virginia; Cummins,
Iowa; Pardee, California; Gooding,
Idaho; Hoch, Kansas; Elrod, South
Dakota; and Lafollette, Wisconsin.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-15
Opposition to Editor. Metsker.

Rochester, Ind, March s. The ru-
NOR is -noat in this section of the
State that the Democracy of Marshall
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 Okeefe
ex-county treasurer, and Peter Kruy-
er, superintendent of the Marshall
County Infrmary, are said to be in
terested in the venture.-Indianapolis
News.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-15
The Chronicle Still Kicks.

This weeks 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, earn and Med
bourn that he would meet them al
Culver for the purpose Of 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
Sc Mr.. Boys and did not attend the
meeting; neither did Mr.. Norris.
1t seems that Boys has some men,
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. 1t 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 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 committee.
He has 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 be
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 will work together to
elect Republicans next November.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-15

In an attempt establish the city
of Zion on a firm financial and iadus-
trial basis and restore the shaken
confidence of the followers of DR..
John Alexander Dowie the old poll
icy of exclusiveness has been cast to
the winds and entire publicity will be
given its business management from
now on.
1t 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.
orally 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 night
in Zion City and following detailed
statement by Deacon Judd of the f.
nancial condition of Zion City, tc-
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
aggregate to 100000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-15

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 DIR. 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 ]. F. Caldwell
be chosen delegates to the congress
sional convention, with D. c. Smith
Henry Haag, Amos Miller and Har-
rison Riddle as alternates; that Mon
roe Steiner, John c. Kuhn, George
II. Thayer and Robert Liggett be
chosen delegates to the state conven-
ton with Calvin Yarrick. Fred
Koontz, F. E. Garn and Richard Tea
as alternates.
The motion of Mr.. Hendricks was
seconded and was carried without any
dissenting votes and the convention
adjourned.
D. {. KNOTT, Chairman
C. F. HITCHCOCK, Secy.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-15

A newspaper man who recently re-
turned from Southern trip tells this
story: Il happened to spend Sunday
in 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 l came in he spoke
something like this: And the Lord
froze the Red sea into 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
egyptians into the water and they
were all drowned The congregation
was still for about minute Then
tall, thin colored man arose and
said: Mister Preacher, / 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 loud, angry
voice replied: 81 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. In the days when the Israel
ties ran away from Egypt, long, long
ago, there was no such thing as jog
raphy or an equator, neither. Phil
adelphia Record.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-15
The Passing of the Sentinel.

The Greensburg Graphic, 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 state organ. Many reasons
probably contributed to that end, but
the most potent probably was lack oi
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 fol-
favors in the other direction then the
politician was smiling in another di-
rection and dozens and hundreds
of Democrats and some ol
them of national reputation would
never have been heard of iH politics
outside of their own precincts except
for the persistent laudations of this
same Sentinel. 1t takes money to rur
newspaper whether that plant is 10
Gated in large city and attempts tc
be state paper or in small towr
as al organ of county. 1t can hard
lly get the necessary financial suppor
from its friends. It's sure thing
| that its enemies will not give it mucf
encouragement. The Democrats o
Indiana will need state organ some
day and they will find it hard to ge
another that will be as loyal to it
party as was The Sentinel Farewell
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-15

The 2-cent fare Jaw went into eff
feet 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.
The Pennsylvania instructions an
nounce the withdrawal of twenty-siS
and fifty-trip family commutetior
books. All of them withdraw the
Sunday rates of one fare for the
round trip.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-15

An old woman asked il dry goods
store to be shown some silk. The
young clerk showed her some saying:
We can do this for you at SLIGO >
yard." The woman asked for some
thing better, but the clerk replied that
they had nothing better Whereupon
the proprietor came forward and said:
You must excuse my assistant, mad
am; he is new to the business. Here
madam, is a superior article, $2.60 =
yard. If it were not for the fact that
| bought it some tim ago we would
have to charge you $3.75, for, as you
are doubtless aware, owing to the
recent epidemic among silk worms,
the price of silk has increased enor-
mously of lzte." The customer took
the silk A few days later the same
old lady Dame in and asked to see
some tape The clerk said elibly:
Here is ,ome that we can let you
have at 16 centsa yard. Ii it wasn't
for the fact that we had it in stock
some time we would have to charge
you 25 cents. for, as you are doubtless
aware lowing TO the recent epidemic
among the tape-worns the price of
tape has gone up enormously" It was
then she hit hin wifh her umbrella.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-15
A GREAT GENERAL.
Death of Scho6eld Removes a Great
Civil War Commander.

The death of General John Meal
lister Schoheld removed almost if not
quite the last of the commanding
officers of the great civil war who
rose to what may be called great dis
tinction in that conflict.
He had been less than eight years
graduated from West Point when the
war broke out. Fortne placed him
then in Missouri, where he became at
once one of the most efficient cowork-
ers with General Lyon in the very ar
duous but not fame-breeding work of
holding that great state for the ma
tional cause
The magnitude of the military op-
erations ir Virginia and in the central
south has always thrown the early
operations in Missouri into undeserv-
ed shadow and historians have not
even yet fully estimated their impor
tance to the union. In thera Schofield
bore gallant and eminently intelli-
gent part.
Without some of the brilliant and
dashing qualities of his classmate,
General Phil Sheridan, he was, in all
the solid and dependable qualities of
the trained and prudent soldier, en-
tirely worthy to take rank with lead
ers of his time. Not always success
ful to the extent of his desert, he new
er suffered himself to be overtaken by
serious disaster.
His handling of the Twenty-third
corps on the hazardous retreat before
Hood, when Sherman had sent him
back to form the neucleus of Thom-
as arnly-as yet largely or paper
was as steady, sturdy and mastery
military movement as the war re-
vealed.
Hood was another of his class
mates and SchoieId's judgment of
what he would try to do was we'll
nigh faultless, while his tactical man
agement and the stubborn fighting of
his little corps in the battle of Frank
lin have been commended by those
who fought against him as e,inring
soldierly qualities of the highest dis
tinction.
So also was his transfer of his en-
tire corps from Tennessee 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 eminentIy a man and soldier
to be trusted.
1t 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-
ton as a diplomatist equal to what he
had won as soldier. and in that
particular at least his fame. is unique
among our civil war commanders.
He died leaving an unblemished
fame for modesty, steadiness and de-
pendable good sense and discretion
as well worthy of emulation. Chi
cago Chronicle.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-15

A new map just issued by the An
ti-Saloon League shows there are
now 6sl dry townships in Indiana
as against $50 a year ago. OF these
l35 have been made dry under ths
Moore remonstrance law. 12s under
the Nicholson remonstrance law
and 36s are dry without remon-
STRANGE. The population of these 631
townships is s6S,o54.
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 without remonstrance;
while seven cities have become dry
by council action under the "resi-
dence section" provisions These
thirty-nine cities have a population of
800. The number of saloons
closed and prevented during the last
years is 364, under both forms of re-
monstrance.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-15

While excavating for boat house
along the river below Elkhart, David
Walter unearthed silver cross of an
tique form, apparently inscribed with
Greek letters. Mr.. Walter believes
his excavation was made into TIE site
of an Indian burial ground Fis pos
sible that Father Marquette pr some
of his contemporary Jesuit mission
aries, who were known to have visit
ed the site of ST. Joseph, Mich, about
800 years ago, may have assembled 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 member of this race and was
either lost by him or buried with him
on his demise
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-15
sSo. 600 Damage Case is Up.

The $4,000 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. Attorneys Sutherland and
Smith of Laporte, represent the plain
tiff and Jas. S. Drake and f. ID. SAILS
bury of the law firm of Miller, Drake
& Hubbbell, of Goshen, appear for
the defendant company. Johnson
was thrown under car at Walls
s.sti0n in Laporte county, May Goth,
1905, and suffered the amputation of
his right arm.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-15


John Spires, an engineer on the
Lehieh Valley Black Diamond ex-
press, living at Sayre, has received
mes of a legacy of s25, 5000 in novel
manner.
Twenty-six years ago at a Fourth
Of July celebration. nail was blown
into his neck. The wound healed and
he did not know the nail was there
until few months ago. when sharp
pain in his neck caused him to con-
suit DIR. OFT. of the Sayre hospital.
DR.. OFT discovered the nail and re-
moved it. An account of it was seen
in London paper by a London law
yer who had been searching for
Spires for two years.
The lawyer wrote to the engineer,
who established his identity to the
lawyers satisfaction and has just
been informed that legacy Of $2s. 900
left him two years ago BY m amt
in England awaits his orderA
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-15

'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-
vile entertainers. The big horn was
tested Tuesday in the presence of the
purchasers. 1t is in reality seven in
struments in one, three comets, two
altos, one trombone and one bass
the tone being ampli6ed on the mega
phone principle. The bell of the horn
is eight feet long. The 'Inmensi-
phone" will produce great volume
of sound and is expected to make
hit when presented on the vaudeville
stage.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-15
Chicaeo's Police Force.

If all of Chicago's 5000 saloons re-
main in business after their present
licenses expire, the city will derive a
revenue of eight million dollars. II
1000 saloons quit, the revenue, avail
able for police purposes, will still be
way up-$6, ,o0o, 900. If none but effic-
lent 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 makeup of Chi
cago sspolice force.