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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10
On the WAY to Heaven.

Some IS years ago when Harvey
Runnels was the proprietor OF a sa-
loon in New Carlisle (on the site now
occupied by Frank Quay as a resi-
dence) his saloon was robbed of a
quart of whiskey and a box OF cigars.
AS there was no clue at the time,
he matter was dropped and the Incl
dent had long been forgotten by Mr..
Runnels. The other day a letter was
received from Battle Creek, Mich, by
Mr.. Runnels from which the follow
ing is quoted: Some 90 years ago
when you kept a saloon in the base
ment at New Carlisle you left your
saloon door open and a friend OF
mine and | went in and took two
glasses of beer and he took a quart
of whiskey and a box of cigars and
| helped him drink the whiskey and
smoke the cigars. Now since | have
been converted and am on my way
to Heaven, I am willing as the Serb
ture says to make all wrong right
Inform me of the damage. (Signedt
Homer Town, Battle Creek, Mich"
Mr.. Runnels answered and receive !
a money order for 800.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10
Clean Out the Soaks.

Ii we have many more such goings-
as the affair at Brownsville, Tex,
the act of riotous troops at Leaven-
worth, Kan, and the panic caused by
United States sailors at Cienfuegos,
people will begin to think that, in
stead of being protected by our army
and navy, we will need protection
from them. At Leavenworth drunken
soldiers kicked out all the windows
of a street car, beat the conductor
and the motorman locked them in
and raced with the car to Fort Leav-
enworth, where the rioters were plac-
ed in the guard house. Several white
women were or the car during the
trouble. and some of them leaped off,
but none were injured. They might
well have been injured as to be
to death. The panic at
Cienfuegos was caused, at night at a
in a park, by sailors from the
United States cruiser Cleveland.
They engaged N a fight and fired
many shots. Nice men to be repre-
senting the flag in foreign countries!
The excuse given for all this deviltry
is that the persons committing 1t
were drunk. II Uncle Sam can't run
army and navy without the as
sistance of a lot Oh drnukards he
would better stop trying TO do bust
ness; for that class of beings are no
benefit to anybody, or anything, not
yer to themselves. Every soldier
knows that drunkards are no good in
the army. A man needs to be sober
and have his wits about him there.
especially in time of war. All the
blunders and disasters met with in
the army in war are. as a rule, due
to muddled brains. Put only sober
men on guard.-Laporte Herald.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10
Patron.
South Whitley's Po~stofice.

South Whitley people who have al
ways felt rather chesty over the large
business done by the Atoz printing
comran at that place are getting .
practical example of what prospe.i ty
means t o the town. The printing
plant is a large patron of the post
Office. 1t buys stamps at the rate OF
81, 900 a day some times and at one
time paid $4,000 for stamps to mail
three million catalogues. The South
Whitley Office is the best one in that
congressional district outside Of Fort
Wayne. Hovever the recent govern
ment order regulating the price OF
postofic box rent does not strike a
similar chord Of joy with the people
of that place. The rental price is
fixed according to the amount of bus
mess done by the Office and South
Whitley being a good town will have
to pay good box REM prices. The
lowest priced call box will be As
cents a quarter and the highest price
is $50.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10

Rev. Josiah Strong. president OF
the American Institute of Social Ser
vice, who has been making a study
of the subject Of death by violence
and accident. especially railroads.
said:
"Fifty-hve thousand five hundred
persons are under sentence of death
in the United States, to die by vio-
lence during 1907. They are hourly
awaiting their end which may come
at any minute-which surely will
come before the year is out. Every
week over LOO persons will die by
violence. 1t may he in a railroad
wreck, an elevator accident, trolley
car smash, explosion. fire or any 9TH
er of the thousand and one terrible
forms that death may assume.
Last year on or railways. we kill
ed as many every 81 days, and wound
&c as many every ~ days as all our
killed and wounded in the 1851 en-
gagements of the Philippine war"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10
Lynchings of 1906.

There were seventy-two ~lynchings
in the United States in 1906. This
was seven more than in 1905, but hf
teen less than in 1904 and thirty-one
less than in 1903. In o there were
135 lynchings and in 1902 the numbe.
was ninety-six. Fourteen States were
represented in last years hist of law
less executions, Maryland being the
farthest north. The distribution OF
lynchings was as follows:
Alabama, 8; Arkansas, A; Florida
6; Georgia, Q; Indian T ritory, 1:
Kentucky, 3; Louisiana, 9; Mississippi
10; Maryland, L; Missouri, 3; North
Carolina, 5; South Carolina, 6; Ten
nessee, 2; and Texas, g..
OF the victims of mob vengeance
according TO a summary prepared by
the New Orleans Picayune, one was
killed because he carried a pistol, one
for stealing a calf, one for stealing a
silver dollar, one for disorderly con
duct, one for robbery one for i'm
proper proposals and one for misce
genation. Murders and assaults, at
tempted and achieved, were charged
in the other cases Seventy of the
victims were negroes, one of them be
ing a woman. In North Carolina AMI
in Louisiana zach a white man was
hanged.
As indicating the influence of the
weather. on the mob, it is noted that
ten lynchings occurred in August AMI
only one in December.
The white maj hanged in Louisiana
was a murderer whose case had come
TO a mistrial more than two years
after the crime. Dissatisfaction with
the cour proceedings here moved a
mob to deliberate action Passion
due to racial feeling is traceable IN
the lynchings for trivial causes
Criminal assault by negroes fur
nish the gravest provocation to sum
mary vengeance. Yet only fourteen
of the se~venty-two lynchings were
for the usual crime" while nineteen
were for alleged attempts at criminal
assault. More than half of the cases
of mob violence had nothing to dc
with attacks upon ome
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10
AS to Pensions.

YIN
now before the House of Representa-
tives goes through the Board of Pen
sion Appeals of the Interior Depart
ment will be reduced from twenty
eight to thirteen men. 1t is to this
board TO which applicants for pen
sion may appeal when their claims
have been unfavorably passed on by
the pension commissioned and when
they believe that justice has not been
done them. That such apeals are nu-
merous is shown by the fact that a
board of such size was considered
necessary to attend 10 the work.
Some years ago., when it was COM
posed of a smaller number, it fell
two or three years behind in its de-
cisions and the increase in member
ship was made in ORDER to expedite
business. Now an appeal can be pass
ed on within two months OF its filing.
AS a matter of course the proposed
reduction will again cause a conges-
ton of pension business, when IT is
more important than ever before that
applicants for pension should have
prompt attention. The Washington
Star very truly says that with the
veterans of the civil wal SO rapidly
passing away it is a matter of urgent
Importance that nothing be done to
lessen their chances or securing all
that is coming to them under the
law. A few months delay may de-
prive them in their last days of the
pittapce which should be theirs.
1t will not TO do to say that the
decision of the Pension Bureau
should be sufficient without appeal.
Pension examiners are not infallible;
they may be Indifferent 10 the ques-
tons and evidence before them; they
may be careless, they are likely to
be uniformed as to many points of
law and evidence, and it is undoubt-
eddy true that in many instances .heir
attitude is hostile to the applicants.
Their effort is not to determine if the
claimant has proved his case, but to
show that he has not. They are per-
haps unconscious that they take this
attitude, but persons FAMILIAR with
the workings of the Office know that
too often they do so.
The tendency of the time is to in
dulge in hippant sneers at pensioners
and the careless charge is frequently
made that a veteran who applies for
a pension at this late Gay is not just
ly entitled to one. AS a matter OF
fact, the old soldier who makes his
frst request for a pension now is al
most invariably one who has taken a
pride in the fact that he has MT
needed to ask for one before. He haS
provided for himself heretofore. and
If fortune were kind he would still
refuse to claim the stipend promised;
but old age and poverty have come
upon him and he turns trustfully to
the Government he fought for and
asks for his due.-Indianapolis Star.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10
Taylor for Great Waterways.

Robert S. Taylor of Fort Wayne,
a member of the Mississippi river
commission, who is in Washington
to urge congress to make a liberal
appropriation for the improvement
of the Mississippi river, is enthusias
tic about the future of the Mississip
pi valley.
81 believe the ultimate destiny of
the valley would be aided by the
building of a f~ourteen-foot waterway
from the great lakes to St. Louis"
said he. "The project is entirely feas-
IDLE. | believe that the construction
and maintenance of a fo~urteen-foot
channel from St. Louis to the mouth
of the river is a project that is worth
investigating .aho, but the former
should be authorized and pushed 20
completion as soon as possible
About three years would be required
for the work.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10
Wants Local Option.

Or. c. Z. Scholl, representative for
Carroll, Howard and Miami counties,
has prepared a bill on the temperance
question which he will use his efforts
to have enacted into law. II is simply
a local option measure with a high
license attachment. 1t provides that
an election shall be held in each
township or ward on petition of one-
third of the voters and that a ma
jority of the votes cast shall deter
mine whether the township or ward
shall have saloons or not for a period
of FIVE years. If saloons are voted in
the license shall be $500 to $1,000 as
may be fixed by the city council or
town board, and the cost of the cleo
tion shall be paid by the petitioners.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10
Spends Fortune in Defense.

Charles Dunn of Allen county
twice convicted of the murder OF
Alice Cothrell and sentenced to
Michigan City for life, has been sue
cessful each time in having the case
reversed by the supreme court. Wed
nesday in preparation for a third trial
he admitted he had spent all his for
tune on previous trials.
He appeared as a poor person and
asked the court to give him a de-
Tense. Judge O'Rourke then then ap
pointed S. L. Morris and Henry Col
erick, who have defended him on
former trials. Dunn has been in jail
and in prison for FIVE years and is
still an innocent man in the eyes OF
the law.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10
Will Pilot Health Bill.

The State Board of Health has
placed in charge of Representative G.
A.. Elliott OF South Bend the bill for
the proposed amendment of the
health laws of Indiana and he will
look after the matter during the scs
sion OF the Legislature.
He has been in correspondence
with Secretary Hurry of the State
Board of Health and material changes
have been made in the proposed gen
eral health bill recently published
Instead Of being presented as : new
measure the provisions desired will
be brought up in the form of an am
endment to the present law.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10
Use Skull of Murderer in School.

According to the of the
first and only hanging at Laporte
Ind, written by r. B. Oglesbee and
published in the Michigan City News.
the skull of the murderer is now be-
ing used in the city schools of La
porte. The name of the man was
David Scott and that of his victim
Joshua Coplin. The crime was com
mitted Feb. 1, 1888, near the village
of Rolling Prairie, and on the 18th of
June, Scott was executed. The hang
ing took place out in the open, and
was witnessed by an immense crowd
of people.
The execution being finished"
writes Mr.. Oglesbee, SCOTS corpse
was placed in the coffin and delivered
to a relative for burial. 1t is said that
Scott, becoming fearful toward the
end that his body would fall into the
hands of medical men, made some
sort of a confession to this relative
on condition that the place of inter-
ment should be kept secret. The
body was accordingly conveyed to a
spot in the wood of Galena township
six or seven miles from Laporte and
there by the side of a fallen. tree on
land owned by the family of his vic
tim a lonely grave was dug and in it
the murders corpse was covered up.
But the funeral wagon had been
stealthily followed and that night two
young medical students in DR.. Tee
gardens Office resurrected the corpse
and brought it to Laporte for dissecs
ton.
1.-THE skull was preserved in DR..
Tegarden's Office and later it was
given by him to DR.. George M. Oak
in, the present owner. 1t has twice
been used in the physiological class
es of the Laporte High school and is
at this time loaned to the school for
that purpose"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10
Many Titles for Roosevelt.

President Roosevelt has received a
letter from the sultan of Morocco ex-
pressing his gratitude for the ap-
po;itment of Samuel r. Gummere as
American minister to Morocco. The
letter is written in Arabic.
The sultan adore ses the president
as "The beloved, the most cherished.
the exalted, the most gracious friend,
most honored and excellent president
of the republic OF the United States
of America, who is the pillar of its
great influence and the director of
its most important affairs, the most
celebrated preserver of the ties Of
rue friendship, the faithful friend,
Theodore Roosevelt"
Minister Cummere, the letter says.
will be shown every courtesy and at
tention by the government of Nor
Deco.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10

We beg the peoples forbearance for
dereliction of duty but at this late
day we desire to report the letter
advertised Dec. IS, for Verna Shafer,
belonging on Route number one, she
being the daughter of Hugh Shafer,
The letter was received in the post
called for it at the window Dec. 20,
just three weeks after it should have
been delivered to her at her home.
You have all seer the picture of a
gun called a blunderbuss with a muz-
zle like a horn that scattered the shot
all round and didn't amount tic any
thing. How would it do to call our
postmaster a blunderbuss. You all
remember how, during the late cam
paign, the jumpers" proclaimed the
good graces of Jones Grant and his
peculiar fitness for county treasurer
Well this is how Yockey served him
Up a dish.
Mr.. Grant sent out to his many
friends a little self advertisement adj
dressing one to VIM. Harrington. In
the multiplicity of his multitudinous
duties drumming attendance at Brick
gum-shoe meetings and hotfooting
between Parks Office the Chronicle
office and the postofice, Mr.. Yockey
forgot where William lived and OF
course advertised it. William lived
two miles east of town on route
but by the time he received it, Mr.
Grants little batch of self-rising had
already risen and fell "kerplunk'
again. Now what do you think OF
that. Let's have him fired and get a
man that can and will attend to bust
ness.
Patron.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10
Wants a New Constitution.

Under the decisions of the supreme
court Of Indiana, it is practically i'm
possible TO secure the ratification oil
an amendment to the constitution, as
provided by that instrument, remarks
the South Bend Times. People simply
won't vote on amendments submitted
at general elections. The only way
out is to call a constitutional conven-
ton and frame a constitution that is
adapted to the times in which we
live and have our activities. The pres.
ent constitution belongs to a past age
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10
Clean Hands and Pure Hearts.

"Who shall ascend into the hill OF
the Lord? or who shall stand in His
holy place? He that hath clean hands
and a pure heart; who hath not lifted
up his soul unto vanity nor sworn
deceitfully." To the Jew, believing
that Jehovah was the actual head OF
their government, political power as
well as worship, vas indicated by the
hill of the Lord, and the holy
place" There are indications that the
American people are also setting up
the standard of clean hands and q
pure heart" for those whom they en-
trust with authority.-South Bend
Times.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10
Sherrick in Business.

David f. Sherrick, the former state
auditor, who was recently given a
new trial by the supreme court, and
was released from the state prison.
has formed a partnership with Ed. G
Souibier, who has just retired from
the Office of sheriff in Marion county
and will enter into the real estate
business at Indianapolis. He and his
par. ser will devote attention to in
surance business.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10
THEN AND NOW.
Hundred Tears Compared With the
Prospect of 1907.

When on his death bed Benjamin
Franklin said he would like to come
to life a hundred years later, so as to
see the changes which time would
bring, he was talking to a leisurely
age. We do things quicker today.
More things Of consequence in the
social and political world take place
in a week now than did in a year
then. Perhaps in one point in the
comparison a century ago has some
thing TO say for itself. Not even
William H., the mikado or President
Roosevelt is shifting national bound
airy lines so swiftly or t~umultously in
1907 as Bonaparte was changing Eu-
ropes nap in 1907. But we are keep
ing the map makers busy, nevertne-
less. Only a little over a year ago
the mikado swung his boundaries
outward so as to take in Manchuria
and Korea, and if there is any truth
in the tales which some of Europe's
gossips tell us, he is preparing now
to gather the Philippines and Hawaii
in. We saw about four years ago,
the two little Boer republics painted
a British red on Africa's map. And
in the canvass which is now raging
in Germany to elect a new reiohstas
to take the place of the one which
the kaiser recently turned out of
doors, a large portion of the German
electorate are working to take their
country out of Africa. and let the
black man there bear his own bur-
dens. Possibly before another New
Years day appears Cuba will be as
permanently and as officially under
the stars and stripes as is Oklahoma
or New York.
But it is in other fields than that of
political map making that the world
of today surpasses that of the age
of Franklin, George III and Bona
parte. Mexico has opened IT'S railway
across the Tehuantepec isthmus, and
a dream of a short cut between the
worlds two big oceans which has
been dreamed of by every generation
since Balboa AMI Cortez will become
act. In New York, the railroads,
banks and other big corporations are
beginning to distribute $3.50, 00O. 900 in
interest and dividends. The disburse
ment Of this vast sum OF money
would have been as incomprehensible
to the people of a century ago as
would rhe spectacle of the steam
horse which will be racing today
across Ferdinand Wis isthmus. The
money which New York is about to
pay out for tie earnings OF a small
fsrt of the people Of the United
States for a part of a year is a larger
sum than that which would have rep
resented the entire available real and
personal property in the United
States when Franklin. Samuel Ad-
m Patrick Henry and their asso-
ciates were beginning to lay the foun
dations of the United States govern
meat. There are enthusiasts on both
sides OF the Atlantic who take liter
ally Santos-D umont's prediction tina
the day is very close to us when an
tomobiles of the air will be as plen
tiful as those of the land are now.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10

The State Board of Charities, in
accordance with the law has prepared
a report on its recommendations to
be made the legislature for the enact
ment of new laws. Employment of
inmates of the Woman's Prison is
suggested; a house of correction for
women; probation for adults: a board
with power to condemn unfit county
jails; making desertion of families a
felony; establishment of colonies for
the insane are other recommends
tons made.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10
To Make Engagements Public.

State Senator Smith will INTRODUCES.
a bill in the Kansas legislature pro-
viding that all marriage engagements
must be published in local papers and
churches at least thirty days befors
the wedding ceremony is to be per-
formed. Mr.. Smith claims such a law
would tend to prevent divorces, un-
happy marriages, and declares it is
a highly satisfactory rule in several
European countries.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10
II She Will She Will.

Now a woman proposes to lead an
expedition to the North pole. She de-
clares she will rely on the Esquimaux
Indians and dog sledges. The terrors
of the frozen north do not discour-
age her, and she says if success can
be won she means to get there. These
are days of feminine triumphs in
every line of activity, and if the wom-
an says she will who car gainsay her?
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10
Progress in the South.

In 1906 the south built 3,055 miles
of railroads. produced $4,000, 600. 900
ON its farms, dug s. ,OOO,OOO tons Of
coal from its mines cut at least 49,
000, OOy, 900 feet of lumber, gave $780,
900. 900 worth of merchandise to the
American export trade, manufactured
81. 600, 600, GOO worth of goods in iron
and steel and wood and leather and
cotton and wool and other materials,
and added So, CSC, 600, 900 to the value
of its real wealth.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10
Gov. Hanly Looks Worn.

Either Governor Hanly has been a
very sick mar or is overworking him
self on mis- bienn ial message which
goes to the legislature next Thurs
day. He looks like a man who had
gone through a long seige of sickness
and has come out of it badly worsted.
His friends say he does not appear
able to go through a years work con
nected with the coming Legislative
session.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10
Senator Guggenheim.

Simon Guggenheim will succeed
Thomas NJ. Patterson as senator
from Colorado. He is the Republican
caucus choice and thar mans that he
will be elected by the legislature.
By his election trust representation
in the senate will receive a decided
addition. Mr.. Guggenheim is one of
several brothers who are the control
ling power in the lead trust. The
American Smelling and Refining
company not only controls the lead
industry, but it commands at least SIS
per cent of the silver in the coun-
try. The concern is also largely in
terested in copper and other mining
industries and comes near dominat-
ing the western mining world be-
cause it controls smelling facilities.
In this way mines operated by others
are really at the mercy of the smelter
company. Thus the so-called lead
trust is a close corporation, a fanny
concern, which doesn't con6ne its op-
I ations to any sint.le branch Of min
ing. 1t is a monopoly and is sup
posed to work in dnison with other
huge corporations.
Mr.. Guggenhei elm is a director in
the smelter corporation and his
brothers fill the other executive off,
oes- His position on all questions af-
fecting corporate interests will be on
the side of the interests. Mr.. Cuggen-
helm may be a very fair-minded man,
ordinarily speaking, but his business
connections are against him. They
are likely to keep him from being a
true servant of the people. The ten
dency to select such representatives.
is not encouraging.-South Bend
Tribune.