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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29
Legal Reform Needed.

When lawyers are asked, as they
were in Illinois by Mr.. Gilbert re-
Gently what they have done i'm a 100
years to simplify and 1cnprove the
administr alton OF justice they must
either frankly answer nouhing O.
preserve eloquent silence. But t.lere
is ground for hope that they will be
Stirred to action in the next several
years. The evils OF the laws delays,
abSurdities and technic aiites are nOl
orly becoming uncomfortable, but the
advance of efficiency and mettrod in
all other departments of activity sim
ply makes it impossible Tor jurispru-
denbe to lag behind and become a by
word and reproach
1t is a gratifying fac; that eminent
Judges and successful lawyers are be-
ginning to use plain English in dis
cussing the question and TO voice the
public's protests and demands for i'm
mediate reform. The other day JUS
tfoe Brewer spoke strongly on the
grave injustices and disgace OF our
procedule and specifically characteriz-
ed as outrages the reversal OF verdicts
on tivial or technical grounds and the
waste of weeks or even months in
smpaneling jairies that on the whole
are no more representative than those
selected in a few hours by fair and
business like methods.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29
England Invaded at Last.

The straits of Dover have been for
centuries to England what the moat
was to medieval castles, guard
against surprise from enemies Jlliu.
Caesar crossed them 1000 years age
and England became Roman prov
ince A little more than a Thousand
years later William the Norman sail
ed across and established the mon-
arclly that still remains The Spanish
armada tried it, but failed, and Napo-
leon frightened Englishnnan into hys-
terics by threats of passage \ tun-
mel under the straits has been per
sistently opposed by England in a
nightmare dread OF invasion. Hence
it is worthy of note that on Sunday
morning. July p, Frenchman nam
ed Louis Blerict, actually sailed
above these straits in a sh p from
Calais to Dover and landed safety Oh
English soil 1t was a peaceful nva-
sion and won the prize of $1,000 offer
ed by an English newspaper.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29

In recent banquet speech at In
dianapolis, John W. Kern declared
with good deal of vehemence faat
henceforth brewers and saloon keep
ers must not undertake to use the
Democratic par for their selfish
and sinister purposes. Such noti6ca-
tion may have been in order on this
john W. G[dn't think of tlns n 1907.
when he joined the brewing inter-
e,sts in the foolish work OF defeating
the then pending high license bill.
He knew then as well as he knows
now what rs what and who is who.
He also knows who it was that
struck Billy Patterson.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29

WHO TOOK THE DOUGH.
Helped Himself to County Money
Then Hid it in the
Barn.

All day Tuesday, Sheriff Miller.
County Clerk Ed Murphy and others
OF Rochester were on a hunt trying
to locate the sneak thief, who some
time Monday might raiser window
on the south side of the court house
climbed dnto the vault of the county
clerks office and helped himself to
$1,000, several checks and a post OF
fee order.
No clew to the thief was found un-
til after dark, when Murphy was call
ed to the Telephone and timorous
Voice asked if there was money mss
Ing from the clerks office The ans
wer being n the affirmative, the voice
said, You will find it in your barn. +"
This proved to be true, for the money
order, and checks were found in the
same box stolen. Who took the
money no one knows and the case
seems one for Sherlock Homes to
unravel.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29
Governor Exercise clemency.

Moved by the condition. OF the
mother, Mrs. Robert Stephens, Gov
ernor Marshall has decided to release
from The Indiana Boys school at
Plainfield, Charles Stephens, sixteen
years old, and allow him TO return TO
bis parents AffIdavits signed by ply
siolans to the effect that the mother
is worrying over her sons detention
in the reform school TO such an ex-
tent that her mental condition is i'm
paired Horned the basis OF the COVER
nor's action. A three page petition
signed by Judge McMahan, who or
dered the boy committed to the insti-
tuition because he was int torrigible,
and many other Valparaiso citizens,
was filed asking for the lads release
Superintendent York of the school,
also favored his release. Young Ste
phens has been at the school since
june II, 1908.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29
WILL ATTEND
STATE SHOOT
CAPTAIN JOHNSON AND COR
PORAL POWELL WILL RE-
PRESENT PLYMOUTH co.
A List of Marksmen Who Will Com
plete in Three Regiment Conn
petition.

Commanders of the three regi-
ments of infantry OF the Indiana ma
tional guard taveL made the an
nouncement OF the men who will re-
present these regiments in the state
rifle and revolver shoot at Fort Har-
rison range July 81 to August 2.
Those who will represent the Third
regiment are:
Major Joseph R. Harrison. team
captain, and Major George w. Trey
ermuth team coach. The members of
the team are: First Lieutenant AL
bert Black; Company A; private H.
A. Thrush, Company H; Sergeant w.
t. Van Auker, Company B. Second
Lieutenant Valevens L. Clear, Com
pany A; Sergeant Dallas Wilford,
Company d. Sergt. George W. Gin
der Company K; Private Emmett
Douglass Company H; Musician
Warren Goodwin. Company B; First
i~iCutShdi1 JOuil Sld''i, ~ 'tpdHy ID
Corporal c. P. Mickey, Company Ii,
and Corporal Clarence Baldwin,
Company A.
The alternates are: Quartermaster
Sergeant Guy Hisdenbrook Com
pany A; Quartermaster Sergeant G.
c. Lowe, Company c. and First Lieu
tenant Earl A. Smith, Company G.
Other third regiment competitor
will be: Sergeant G. Denison, Com
pany K. Sergeant Major George w
Coe, Second battalion; Sergeant
James Grain, Company B. Corporal
]. b. Ruct, Company G; Captain
Orville B. Kilmen, regimental staff
Corporal Paul Bowman, Company X
Sergeant c. p Chaffee, Company E;
Captain Carl Bever, Company II;
First Lieutenant Guy E. Kimble
Company F; Musician S. F. CARRIER
Company G.; Corporal Frank Powell
Company l.; Private Fred Barber
Company c; Sergeant John B. Glar,
gloff, Company NJ; First Lieutenant
II. d. Woodwortlr, Company M. ant
Captain Orlando Johnson, Company
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29
HELIOGRAPHS IN FORESTS.
Experiments Will be Made to Find
Means of Protecting Ties
Against Fires.

Washington, ID. c. July 2s.-Ex-
periments will be made during the
summer with the standard hello
graphs which are nolw used in the
war Departments for signaling on the
1ational forests. One of these expert
ments will be on the Kaniksu national
'orest in Idaho and the other on the
S.anisiarrs lforest in California.
1t is intended TO discover whether
lhese instruments will be OF use on
rational forest TO report fires or
transmit Other messages in areas
where there is no quick method Of
communication.
The conditions OF climate and lati-
tude. as well "a the species of
nilammable trees in two forests are
sufficiently different to determine
whether tle instrument is suited to
some localities and not TO others
Easy and quick communication to
all parts OF a forest must be had ii
FIRE is to be kept down. Anyone who
knows of the fearful damage wrought
by forest fires on private and unpro-
tected lands each year, will easily see
that through fire patrol, Use OF tele-
phone lines and other means Of com-
nunication such as is maintained on
he 1875 million acres contained in
Dfe national forests, the losses can
We reduced to nlili1num
For the administration and protec-
tion OF the las national fo-~Sts IN
10 states and territories and Alaska,
the government spent $2,526,09s. .O2,
,r about one and one half cents an
acre for the caledar year 1905 OF this
amount S592, 1919 was spent for per-
manent improvements including the
construction OF 3,4O0 miles of trails.
100 miles of wagon roads. 5000 miles
Il Telephone Zines and forty miles OF
fire lines.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29
HEFLICK BROUGHT HERE.
Plymouth Man Who Was Arrested
in Mishawaka Being Confined in
Local Jail.

John S. Hehick who was arreLted
in Mishawaka a few days ago, IN a
dememed state and who could not
give connected account OF himself
was returned to plymouth Saturday.
Officer Foust OF ,Misnawaka conduct
ed the man to this city and left him
at the county Jail, in charge OF
Sheriff Voreist
Heflick told the police, when ne
was first locked UP, that his mother
lived near Plymouth and that her
name was Craig The officer found
that the man had msinformed him
and that no such family lived. there
The demented man was "a familiar
figure about Plymouth till he skipp-
ed out a few weeks ago. He was al
one time a bartender.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29
Death of Jefferson Dunnuck.

Jefferson Dumnuck, died at Fitz-
gerald. Ga, on last Friday and was
taken to Bremen for burial today
taken TO Bremen for burial Monday
Deceased wa 35 years oh age. and
has been a resident of North Town
ship for uwerty years Death was
caused from catarrh of the stomach
With his family Mr. Dunnuck had
been spending the summer in
Georgia He Is survived by his wife
and two daughter. Edna and Rose
The funeral will be held at the Evan
gelfc church in Bremen tomorrow at
at II a. m. Interment at the Bremen
cemetery.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29
YELLOW RIVER DITCH CONTRACT
WAS AWARDED LAST THURSDAY
Nappanee Drainage Company Will Dredge
Yellow River for Fourteen Miles
Several Bids Were Received

a new course will be cut for the river
Through the city of Plymouth, the
dredging viii be done by scraping the
river bed The course OF the dredging
includes the removal ,of the old midi
dam. known as the Zellner mill dam,
in the north part OF the city A to.al
OF 5,9545 cubic yards OF dirt must
be removed from the bed of the river
in the consumation OF the dredge The
length on the river to be dredged, has
been divided into 753 s. ations of which
COS stations are to be dredged, and
As to be Scraped
When Work Will be Done.
The lowest bidder on the dredge
was interviewed by a representative
OF the Tribune Thursday afternoon,
and stated the following in reference to
their plans, should either receive the
contract MIR. W. J. Ddlli,sgham, esti-
mating engineer for the Nappanee
Drainage company said that if his
company received the contract, work
would be begu on the river By De.
ceanIber 1st OF this year. The size of
dredge to b.. used will be as follows:
Length 90 feet, widrfl 3s feet, boom
6s feet, dipper handle so feet. The
will have to be increased as the work
progresses down stream A force of
about fourteen men will be employed
on the dredge and -four to cut the
right of way. If the weather is fair
the work will progress AT the rate
OF about one mile in :. month. Mr..
Dillingham; states that mis- mrany
would not scrape the nive- in the city,
but have a much better plan, which
they will keep secret. He stated that
it would be impossible - ge: teams
in the river to scrape the bed
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29
Race Program Issued.

The program race events of the
northern Indiana and northwestern
Oflio fairs circuit issued list meetings
beginning in LaPorte August "a and
continuing until t,,e week of October
6, when the last meeting WILL be held
in Bourbon Purses are announced to-
taling $4,000 The ASSOCIATION en-
braced in the circuit are Laporte.
North Manchester, Lake county, Full
ton county, Montpelier (Oho), Elk
hart, Valparaiso. Bremen. Angola.
Hicksville (Ohso) Kendallwlle and
Bourbon.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29
Boys Body Turns to Stone.

The body OF Jesse Mayes, ten
year old cotored boy. is gradually
urning to stone in the morturary at
St Francis Hospital at Trenton, N. j.,
where it is being kept until it can be
sent TO the boys home at Knoxville,
Tennessee.
The boy became i'll during visit
wo mortdls ago with party of ju-
lee singers from the Anderson col
red Reform School OF Knoxville He
vas taken to the hospital and died
a few days The body was embaim-
ed and word was received from the
South that it should be kept until sent
or. A couple OF weeks ago it was no.
iced that the body was becoming
lard A number OF physicians who
have examined tie body say that it
is genuine case OF petrification.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29
The New Tariff.

As matter OF course, President
TAFT will not get such a tariff bill out
oi the conference committee as he
would like to have drafted; that has
been entirely clear from the begin
ming But he is going to get all that
can be obtained In the framing OF a
tariff, under the existing order OF
tiings, it's dar9ely a matter of give
and take or take and give 1t has
ever been so, and will continue 50 un-
al the details of the tariff adjustment
are turned over to a competent COM
mission composed OF men OF inflexi-
lie integrity-South Bend Times.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29
Aaron Worth Draws Crowd.

The little Wesleyan church in this
city was crowded at all services from
Saturday evening until $50 Sunday
evening. Rev. Aaron Worth, he pio-
neer of the church, in Indiana, was
the attraction. He is several years
more than three score and ten, but
seems TO have lost none OF his old
time vigor He is Billy Sunday,
Sam Jones and Moody combined, and
no matter how long he breaches he
holds the attention OF every person
IN his audience from the first sem
tence until the close of his sermon
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29
Jackson and Roosevelt.

Andrew Jackson, while president,
had no hesitancy about leIttmlg con-
gress understand what sort OF legs
lation ne iavored and even demanded
of the 'law-making power. When con-
gress hesitated or refused to listen to
his WISHES he resorted TO methods
which the critics OF President Roose-
Welt would have characterized as ex-
Unconstitutional, arbitrary, arrogant
and autocratic. But when "Old Hick-
ory felt THAT he was in the right, SUCH
protests gave him veny little concern
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29
Kring Family Feasts.

The first reuraon of the Kring
Family was held at The home OF
Emanuel Krinlg and wiie four miles
nonth-easr vi Plymouth Saturday.
Jt,ly "a. 1909. A large gathering Of
friends and relatives we're present
Frey we're, Emanuel Kring and wife
and four children Mriah Kring and
wife and one child, Homer Kring and
wife and -four children, Henry Kring
who resides in Arkansas, Edward
kring wife and four children, Ira
Kring and wife and three children.
from Nappanee; John Becknell and
xife and two children, Charles Beck
nell and wife and son, Jerry Miller
and wife Mrs Wesley Krtrg and
rhree children of South Bend two
daughters Of Will Kring from South
Beaid, Samuel Frlck, VIM. Frick and
Alfred Frick and wife and two chil-
dren of South Bend. Hiram Baugh-
man and wife and one son and family
South Bend Simon Shoemaker and
wife and two children and two
;Tied,is from Chicago Clarence
Kring and wife and three cifildreri,
NJ. and Mrs. Berkey, Verna Shafer
All Hepler, George Miller Photog
rapher from Nappanee who took the
,icture of the entire company. There
we're 20 people who sat down TO the
list tables which were set the full
'ength OF the barn floor, and twelve
IT fourteen were seated at the second
able All did Justice TO the spread,
which the ladies had prepared, and
t was one Of the best ever eaten III
Marshall County All wertt home feel
rig that they had jolly good time
One who was there
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29
SAYS COUNTY OPTION LAW WILL
REMAIN ON INDIANA STATUTES
Attorney General Bingham Addresses
Crowd at Methodist Church Marshall
County Civic League is Organized

tnodtrced providing that all clergy
men engaged in the sale or fandkng
of Intoxicating liquors, he declared
not in good standing. The resolution
faSed to pass. In 1916 the resolutions
only succeeded in passing, by having
malt liquors excluded from the res
'Jlstion- Now we have the county op-
ton law, the greatest law of its kind
ever passed. by any legislature. A law
abiding sa1oon-keepers according TO
the Attorney General Bingham WIS
the exception and not the rule. The
offenders must be prosecuted and the
laws enforced.
Court Reform Needed.
The speaker continued that the next
thing needed after the liquor traffic
was dispensed with, was a reform in
the court procedure IN This state. An
instance WAS given an the prosecution
OF breweries, brought by the Attorney
General Suits TO revoke the charters
of several brewing companies were
brought in june Jf 1908. The issued
of those cases have not yet been made
up, thanks TO present court methods.
Since then the county option aaw has
been passed, almost AIN of the state
mas voted ort aiquor, and in all prob
abilities the state would be entirely
devoid of liquor. before the issues
were made in the brewery cases. To
show what hold the breweries have
on the state, the speaker stated that
OF 759 saloons in the city OF Indlan-
apolis, all but 79 were Jwned and
controlled by the breweries
Organize League.
The meeting proceeded 90 organize
a county civic league, with president
secretary and treasurer, and vice-pres~
sdent in each township of the county
The object VIII be co-operation in the
enforcement of she laws, and espec-
tally tn Kquor ia'ws. in Marshall c'oun-
ty.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29

Editorialiy the Fort Wayne Sent
mel noted this recently: 'SThe tobacco
trust is Said to have hurried its heav-
lest artillery to Washington to RESIST
the charge led by the intrepid Beve--
ridge Somebody must have spiked
the big guns The Beveridge amend
ment for raising the tax ON tobacco
has been fully accepted by the finance
and in all probability viii
become the law" Senator Bevendge
did good job when he mercile ssly
dissected the greedy, grasping cor
morants composing the American
Tobacco Trust. If exact Justice were
cone, every mothers son of them
would be be4sind the bans.-South
Bend Times
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29
MARRIED I'M PLYMOUTH.
Rochester Woman Asks for Separa-
ton from Her Husband Charging
Desertion.

Through her attorney, JuEas Row
ley, Mrs. Christie Steel OF Rochester
has filed with the Clerk of the Cir
cudt scourt petition for divorce from
her husband, Silas Steel residence
unknown
In her complaint Mrs. Steel, who
is more Familiarity known in 'Roches-
ter as Mrs. Bright, states that she and
the defendant were married in Ply
mouth I'm March 1891 and hved po-
geuher In peace and harmony until
April 1902, when without just cause
or reason the saathless Siaas, disup-
peared never to return, nor has he
contributed to her support since that
time.
Mrs Steel further states that her
occupation. is that oh a hoaxsekeeper
and that she has been a resident of
Rochester for the past fifteen years
No children were born to union, and
she asks legal separation
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29

Bids for the construction OF the
Frank Miner ditch, known as the
yellow River DITCH" were received
in the office of cDapnty surveyor Percy
J. Troyer at 2 o'clock Thursday after
noon. The contract was awarded to
the Nappanee Drainage Company
at $3.50 O'clock Thursday afternoon.
Seven bids were received. A large
number on dredge men and engineers
were present when the bids were
opened, The bids received were as fol-
lows: Charles Sterrlburg and Sons,
Chicago. for dredge work ten and one
hall cents per cubic yard, for scrap
ing work, 12 AMID one-half cents per
cubic yard Boyles and Lizenby Win
imac ten and one-half cents per cubic
yard For dredging ten and one-hah
cents per cubic rd for scraping. ].
J. Brumbaug Elkhart, cens per Gu
bic yard, for dredging no bid ON
scnaprng. A total bid of $22, 500 on
the dredging. Clyde A. Walb La
Grange, dredging alone, II cents per
cubic yard. The Nappanee Drainage
Co, eight and three-fourths cents per
cubic yard for both dredging and
scraping OF the total job for the lump
sum OF $23,271. +. B. Wade. Geneva,
Indiana, dredging work alone eight
and one-half cents per cubic yard.
What Work Consists of.
The proposed dredging consists OF
the deepening, and widening OF Yel-
low river, for distance of fourteen
miles from the fork made by the
Junction OF the Dausman and Armey
bitches eleven miles above Plymouth,
to point three miles below the city.
The river wild be deepened and IN
some places widened. In some places
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29
GIVES HISTORY Of POTT0WAT0M|E
INDIANS IN MARSHALL COUNTY
VIM. E. Curtis Tells of Plans to Unveil
Monument to Chief at Twin Lakes
on September 4th.

WilIiam Z. Curtis the special cor
respondent OF the Chicago Record
Herald gives the following account
of plans to kopor the former rulers
OF America, the Indians at Twin
Lakes. Marshall County, He says:
The celebrations OF the anniver-
saries OF Hendrix Hudson and Sieur
Champtain are serving an important
purpose in reviving interest in his
torical events and in stimulating the
study OF our own short past as a ma
tion. In collecting material for Sc
ries OF articles upon monuments
wlndC h have been erected to American
Indians | have found that much more
attention has been pari to the sub
ject than | had supposed, and there
are historical societies supported by
public appropriation in many W the
States as we'll as private organiza-
tons which are keeping alive stories
OF heroisrn and sacrifice among the
abcrignes as well as the explorers OF
the con.iDent and the pioneers OF
our civilization
Within the last year no less than
five new monuments have been erect
ed to American Indians, the most OF
them have been a tardy recognition
of nobility OF character and obliga-
tions for services rem 1ered the whit :
race, while others have been erected
to emphasize wrongs that cannot be
otherwise redressed. The latter is
particularly true OF monument wl1ich
IS TO be dedicated Sept. next at
Twin Lake station on the Vandalia
Railroad, in Marshall County, Ind.
near the center OF the former reser
vation OF the Menorninee band OF the
Pottawattomie Indians, who were
driven from their homes by military
force under the authority OF the gov
ermnent of the United States amid
circumstances OF merciless injustices.
The monmen., which is now being
Put into position, consists OF a ped
estal of Barre granite ten feet high,
supporting a statue seven feet high,
Of an Indian cilieitain in ceremonial
dress. 1t bears the following inscrip
tion-
In memory OF Chief ,Menominee
and his band of $50 Potbawattomie
Indians, removed from this reserva-
ton Sept A. 1888 by a company ol
soldiers under the command of Cen
eral Joan Upton, authorized by Gov
ernor David Wallace
The monument will be dedicated
on the 71st anniversary of the evic-
ton with appropriate ceremonies anc
viii be unveiled by grand-daughte
CT the late Pot29attomie chief, Pc.
ka-gDn OF Hartford, Mich.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29
Still Claims Boys Body.

Lake Michigan still refuses TO sur
render the body sof Harold Banks,
one of the little victims it's treacner-
Gus waters claimed Thursday 1t is
the opinion OF Captain Egle, OF the
life saving station, that the body fell
nto a hole, presumably made by the
.rruptions of the sand suckers, and
hat it is held there while the under
CIV and waves pass over the hole In
has opinion the body will not come
20 the shore until the sea subsidies
which may be several days
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29
Diaries in Bad Condition.

Inspection OF South Bend dairies
has disclosed conditions far from sat
isfactory and Calling for immediate
acton on the part of the authorities,
according to Frank W. Tucker, state
food Inspector. OF the ten dairies
which he has so far visited in COM
parry with local officials only two
were found passable. and these two
did not come up to the law.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-29
Death of Infant Wade.

The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed Wade, OF Chicago. was brought
to this city for burial Monday. The
child w5s born Sunday moming and
lived six hours. Mrs. Wade was for
merly. Miss Clara Richard OF this
city