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MATTO ON MORNING STAR. MEMBElf PUBLISHERS' PRESS ASSOCIATION-COMPLETE TELEGRAPH REPORT DAILY Cook with Gas Clean, Cheap, Safe and Comfortable Light with Gas Best Artific al Light Known to Science VOL 10. NO. 196 MATTOON, ILLINOIS. SUNDAY OCTOBER 21.1906.

EIGHT PAGES PRICE 5 CEIUS DEMURRER SUSTAINED home business 1IL VISIT OIL FIELDS OOllDIl HINT STARTED BY III TO ERECT WJUHT OVER GRAV WEEKS, THE WINDSOR MAN WHO LOST HIS FOOT, RESTED WELL SATURDAY NIGHT. Of Sarah Bush Lincoln, Step-Mother of Abraham Lincoln, Who is Buried in the Gordon Cemetery Near Charleston a pile" of brush over the grave of the died. He married her and brought her to his Indiana home. It Is sold that the woman's heart almost bro' when she behold the homo to whleh he had brought her. She brought with her furnltu knives and forks, table and bed linen and other utensils of refinement and education, and It is said that the and his sister had never seen siifh articles before.

Sducated Abraham Lincoln. She. changed the atmosphere of the home, managed to get Thomas Lincoln to do some work and apply himself. She began to educate the boy and the girl Abe and his sister. According to the testimony of Lincoln himself, it was she who infused the tad with higher aims.

Of her he said: "She was an angel of a mother the first mother that made me feel like a human being." Of him she said: "My boy Abe- he was the best boy I ever saw. He never disobeyed me. He never spoke an unkind word to me." Sarah Bush Lincoln when an angel was needed to guide and bring forth the emancipator, and as such she discharged well her duty. The name of Sarah Bush Lincoln should be at least engarved on a grave marker, say the people here. MEAT SHIPPED BY FARMERS' EX EMPT FROM INSPECTION PVE- REQUIRED SCRIPTION MUST BE FILLED OUT.

'N. NEW DECLARATION WILL BE FILED BY STATE'8 ATTORNEY MONDAY. The demurrer filed by the attorneys for Ralph Jeflris in the case in which the county is suing him for $750, was sustained by Judge Thompson Satur day morning. In giving his decision Judge Thompson said that it was not necessary to allege what account money was taken from, but from any funds in his hands would do. He also stated that counts must allege this fact alone and that the present declaration was double.

A new declaration will be filed Monday by State's Attorney McNutt, TEA" REPUBLICAN CHIEFS AND HENCH MEN HOLD A FEAST AT CHARLESTON HOUSE. With the object of promoting a closer feeling between the Chiefs and their braves, the Republicans held another of their pink teas at Charles ton Saturday night The candidates decided that the best way to reach the workers was through their stom achs and believed that if it was once possible to get the lanky ones fatten ed and the stout ones satisfied, they might then coax them to get out and yell for the county ticket for awhile, and when thfelr enthusiasm slackened have another tea. The "Big Chief" promised the "boys" and if they would take off their coatj) and hustle he would give mem several more ieds Deiore doom day, Tuesday, Nov. 6. AT LOXA STORE OF CHARLES JONES ENTERED AND SMALL QUANTITY OF GOODS TAKEN.

Burglars early Saturday morning entered the general store of Charles Jones, at Loxa, and stole a small amount of merchandise, consisting of several pairs of pants and two or three Suits of underwear. The police of this city were notified Saturday evening and are working on a clue which may result In the arrest of a couple of persons who were In town Saturday night and acted in Ba rather suspicious manner. STSESEP1H OF FATHER HHD SON Lived Only a- Few Miles Apart and Believed Each Other Dead Reunion Follows. Morning Star Correspondence. Tuscola, Oct.

20. Separated by only a few Illinois counties, the Rev. .1. W. Crane, of Indianola, and his aged father of Carterville, lived for ten years believing each other dead.

A chance remark dropped by Rev. Crane while attending the Baptist Asociation at Carbondale removed the false impression and brought father and son together. The story of this strange separation is told by Rev. Crane, who stopped over in this city to visit Rev. G.

W. Stoddard while enrmite to his home in Indianola. Fiction-does not offer a stranger case. In hi boyhood days the lie v. Mr.

Cram" was 'a resident of Carterville. 111., but he drifted away from there and took up the ministry as his profession. Although he had maintained a residence In Illinois he never returned to his boyhood home. In some way his father had heard that his son was dead and the son had heard a similar report concern ing his father. Both accepted the story as true, During the Baptist Association convention in Carbondale the Rev.

Mr. Crane met with a minister supplying the pulpit in his old home of Carterville and naturally the acquaintance brought forth a reminiscent talk. The Rev. Mr. Crane talked of persons that he had known there and referred to the fact that his: father had formerly been widely kr.own in tV.afc' sec tion.

"Perhaps you have heard of him," suggested the. Rev. Mr. Crane, men tioning his name and initials. The minister with whom the Rev.

Mr. Crane was talking replied that he knew Mr. Crane well and spoke In the present tense of him. He did not deviate from this throughout the conversation? and the Rev. Mr.

Crane finally learned that, instead of being dead his father was alive and well. The son lost no time in making his way to Carterville and a happy re The sub-committee of men selected from the committee of twelve, recent If anointed at the instigation of the Commercial dub of Indianapolis to Investigate the new natural gas field 'in Illinois for the purpose of again obtaining natural gas for Indianapolis If feasible; will leave on Monday afternoon at 3 'clock for the towns of Robinson and Casey to look over the grounds and to see what can be done. W. S. Blatchley, state geologist of Indiana, and one or, two other experts will accompany them.

Members of the Committee. The subcommittee is composed of Joseph C. Schaf; for the Commercial club, chairman: W. L. O'Connor, for the Board of Trade; J.

W. Lilly, for' the Merchants' association, and W. D. Allison, for the Manufacturers' asso TAYLOR IS INDICTED FOa FORGERIES BY THE DOUGLAS COUNTY GRAND JURY-FURNISHED BOND. William Taylor, of Rardin, was indicted by a Douglas county grand Jury for forging the name of James Gough to notes aggregating $5,500.

He was taken to Areola Saturday, where he gave bond in the sum of 310,000 for his appearance at the next "term of court. A few months ago Judgment was taken In the Edgar county circuit court on notes which bore the signature of Gough, and which the latter claimed was forgeries. GO PRESIDENT DEAD JOHN ROLL, PRESIDENT OF BROC-TON BANK AND PROMINENT DEMOCRATIC POLITICIAN PASSES AWAY. Morning Star Correspondence. Paris, 111., Oct.

20. Mr. John Roll, president of the Brocton Bank, and a leading citizen of Edgar county, dfed at his home in Brocton after Ji few days' Illness with typhoid fever, on Friday night. Mr. Roll wag born in this county, Oct 17, 1857, and was the son of Abraham and Hannah Roll, both nap tires of Edgar county.

Mr. Roll was reared on a farm and ba been great stock-breeder, having made specialty of breeding pedigreed Short- horn cattle. His farm comprises acres of Embarras township Jand, worth probably $150 per acre. He was the chief organizer of the Brocton Bank, of which he had been president ever since it was established. was married Oct.

13, 1881; to Miss Mary E. Markle. To this union five children have been Mr. Roll was a Democrat and was a supervisor for two terms. The funeral will take place Monday.

MARRIAGE LICENSE8. Yearb H. Saaiau, Humbolt. Rosa Zlkes, Areola .38 .40 23 Tracy W. Higgins, Neoga Bina R.

Baird, A trip through the oil field in and about Casey shows considerable operations are bjeing carried on; of twenty wells inspected eighteen were being pumped and of the three remaining idle two were due to lack of pipe. More work would be carried on but the question of storage and transportation is of deep concern to the operators and until the problem is- solved the drill will be rather quiet Standard Not Pleased: In the Illinois field for the past weeK, tne production nas exceeaea what was to have been expected, and Is not very pleasing to the Standard, which hart hoped that wells would be held on top of the sand. This has been done in many cases in Crawford and Clark counties, but in the former strings had to be released; and many wells were drilled in even against the wishes of the operators thenu selves. As a result there is a big excess on lea.ciB, which can not be cared for by the Standard lines. The comparative operations for the past two weeks is as follows: Wells Prod.

Dry Week ended Comp. Bbls. Holts 1 ha nnn an uuaiwr ia po i sz October 20 .....113 13,675 15 OIL PRODUGTIOH HOT PLEASING i ciation. At a meeting in the Cora mercial club rooms Saturday after noon the committee perfected plans for the trip. The start Will be made from the Union station at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon and the party will arrive at their destination at about 8 o'clock.

On Thursday morn ing they will begin a systematic in vestigation of the field in order to de termine the quality of the gas, the amount add permanency of the sup ply and the rate for which it can be obtained for Indianapolis. Mr. Blatchley visited the Illinois fields in the late spring of the present year, and while he found a number of wells that are entfrmous producers he did not push his investigation far enough to determine the depth and extent of the fields. HAS NEW" HEAD USE MISS RUTH AKERS, OF TERRE HAUTE, ACCEPTS POSITION AT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. The superintendent at the Memor ial hospital has retained the services of Miss Ruth Akers, of Terre Haute, a graduate trained nurse, who will report for duty Monday morning.

Miss Akers will act as head day nurse. The hospital Is progressing nicely and has done considerable work so far during the present month. The superintendent would be pleased to receive from any of their friends con tributions of old linen which is al ways in demand at such institutions. GED MILLED DEAD GEORGE 8TARGER, OF TOLEDO, DIES OF TYPHOID AMA88-. ED A 8MALL FORTUNE.

Morning Star Correspondence Toledo, 111., Oct 20. George Star-ger, a well-known German miller of this place, died Friday at his home, after a few weeks' illness with ty phoid fever. Mr. Starger was one of the best known characters IiJ this vicinity). He had been in the milling and eleva tor business here for many years and by hard labor and saving had amass ed a fair fortune.

He had erected a large brick mill here several years ago which was at one time one of the nest mills in central He is survived by a' wife and one daughter, who were at his bedside when the death summons came, Messrs. Ralph Jeffrls, Jack. Louder-milt, Tom Pendergast, Doug Poulter, O. McAllister, Jack Jeffrls, Sam Nation, Al. Livingston, John Llnder, Charles Hawkins and J.

iZmmerman, of Ashmore, were In Mattoon Friday night to hear Gov. Deneen speak. ARRIVAL OF A 80N. Mr. and Mrs.

George Brady, of 3008 Cedar avenue, are rejoicing over the arrival of a son. Try a Mojnlng Star wane ad. Increase in production, 6,877 barrels. Wildcat Drilling Ceases. The wildcat drilling In Illinois is gradually ceasing and in the report of the week but six outside counties show tests, all being failures of the rankest kind, and -but four counties figure In production.

The work in the various counties of the-jjlnois fiefd was divided, with net initial production noted as follows: Wells Prod. Dry Coxinties Comp. Bbls. Holes Crawford ...61 11,330 6 Clark 30 2J60 2 Cumberland 8 130 0 Coles 4 45 1 Edgar 4 10 1 Champaign 1 1 This month will see the end of field activity in the Jiigh-grade fields and it will require a higher market to Btart It again in' the spring. The pipe line from Illinois will then have been in use and it Is estimated this double line will be able to handle lift double line will be abte to handle fifty thousand barrels of crude a day, which will virtually solve the Illinois problem.

On inquiry at the Memorial hospital at an early hour this morning it was learned that James S. Weeks, of Windsor, who was run over by a West-bound Big Four train Saturday and had his leg cut off above the ankle, was resting very comfortably and that his wounds were not fatal. Weeks attempted to Jump on the front end of a caboose and slipped, his left leg falling across the rail. He Is an unmarried man about thirty years of age and was employed in a butcher shop at Windsor. MAY LOSE USE Of WILLIAM CROWDER VICTIM OF A PECULIAR ACCIDENT WHICH OCCURRED FRIDAY.

WJlllam Crowder, a laborer of this city, may lose the sight of an eye because the lids of the member are growing together. Crowder was Injured by the explosion of a can of lye several days ago. The lids of the eye were badly eaten and now the attending physician announces that he fears the raw flesh of the two lids will grow together and thus destroy the sight The accident in which Crowder suffered injury occurred Friday morning. He is janitor In the south school and was preparing to scrub the floor with lye. He had difficulty In re-inovin gthe lid of the can and struck it with an axe.

The explosion re sulted. GAME RESULTS IN TIE MATTOON BOYS HAND CHAM PAIGN LADS A 8URPRI8E PACKAGE. The members of the Mattoon High School football eleven journeyed to Champaign on Saturday, where they handed the High School team of that city a surprise package in the line of football. The long-haired youths from the university town had an idea that it would simply be a one-sided affair, but they learned different very shortly after play was started, when the local boys began to break down their defense and toyed their halfbacks around at will. At the close of what was said to be one of the hardest fought games ever on the gridiron' at Champaign for some time, the score was a tie, each side having scored five points.

After the game the Mattoon boys were ten dered a reception and dance. HOME FROM NEW ORLEANS. J. Stump, Col. J.

H. Kemper, L. Rothenpieler, W. R. Herron, and Bl mer C.

CIsna arrived home Saturday from New Orleans, where they at tended the National encampment of the Knights of Pythias. All report having spent a most enjoyable time. LONE 8TAR. James T. Wart-en and daughter Mattoon visitors Monday.

Will Nihiser and family of Windsor visited Butler Tull Sunday. Bert Cooter of Indiana is working for his brother, O. L. Cooter. Chas.

Llnvllle, who has been" sick with typhoid fever, is getting better. Candidates were numerou Monday. Had Gladville of Sullivan is boring a well for Richard Younker. Richard Younker sold his broom Corn for $85 a ton. Dick Deckard and Charles Linville sold their at $90 per ton.

Rev. M. Moffette will besin a meet ing at the Waggoner church Friday night. Rev. Oliphant is expected to be present to assist I Dr.

E. P. Hilligoss and wife of De catur visited R. J. Luttrell Sunday.

Miss Ethel Reed visited relatives near Palmyra Saturday and Sunday. Jerome Walker of Windsor was a business caller here Saturday evening. Horse buyers from Mattoon were here Saturday. I Messrs. Meredith, Selby and Ben Newport of Mattoon were here Tttes- buy ing horses.

Wm. Pullen finished making sor- ghaui and accompanied by his family have gone to Kentucky for a month's visit. Mrs. Sarah Batson has- returned from Indianapolis and will spend the winter at Tobias MillerV. W.

O. Nichols and W. E. Hamilton and families returned Saturday from their' visit in Kansas and Oklahoma. Mrs.

Flora Merkle of Windsor visit ed her brother, Enoch limner here this week. About 50 relatives of John Perry held a reunion at his home on the Avenue Sunday. A movement is on foot among the women of three states, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky; to erect a monument over the grave of Sarah Bush Lincoln, step-mother of Abraham Lincoln, and who in fact was the real mother of the president during his boyhood and early manhood. The unmarked resting place of this grand old woman is in the Gordon graveyard, eight miles southwest of Charleston, on the Greenup road. It is also the burial place of Thomas Lincoln, the father of "Honest Abe." Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the mother of Abraham Lincoln, died in Indiana, and a monument marks her grave in Lincoln City, but Sarah Bush Lincoln, who cared for him from childhood, and was really the only mother he ever knew, died near Charleston and her grave is covered by a heap of brush.

The old Gordon graveyard in which Thomas Lincoln and Sarah Rush Lincoln were buried and in which the tatter's grave Is unmarked except In that it is by the side of the grave of her husband, lies two miles west of the old Lincoln home. It is a typical country graveyard and is in a very Isolated locality and kept in repair and condition that, as a rule, char acterizes country graveyards. A picture of it taken recently shows THE LEAVES FURNISHES SPORT FOR HUN DRED8 OF YOUNGSTERS AND MANY BON-FIRES DOT THE STREETS. Falling leaves furnished sport for hundreds of youngsters yesterday and bon-fires dotted the streets of the city from early in the afternoon until late at night. The leaves falling from trees have littered the city with this sort of rubbish and the "younger generation is more than anxious to get it out of the way.

The leaves and subsequent bon-fires furnish more weather news than any of the data issued by the weather bureau in so far as new records were concerned. For the falling of the leaves is surely without precedent in the city. Bcm-firefe furnish new records and the number of accidents has happily furnished like marks. No accidents from bon-fires have been reported. A storm of tropical origin is mov ing northeastward off the Carolina coast.

It has caused heavy rainfall the south and the Middle Atlantic states, measurements in excess of an inch having been registered at several stations, This influence, in connection with the high pressure area the northwest will cause cold nor therly winds in this locality during the. 'ensuing twenty-four hours. In the past thirty-six hours the precipi tation area has been extensive, em- iracing tin- extreme northwest, and most of the region east of the Rocky Mountain slope. The temperature has alien 10 to 20 degrees in the central allevs and the northwest: it has teen in the Middle Atlantic and the states. Fail weather is indicated for this ocality today.

ANSWERS DEATH GALL BLOOD POISONING PROVES FATAL TO MRS. FRANCES GATTLING YOUNG BOY DIES. The death of Mr. Frances Gattling', of 2213. Broadway, occurred Friday, after short illness from blood poisoning.

Deceased was born s.u i-i 111'-' Besides 'her husband, two daughters' survive. The remains were taken to Higginsvllle. for burial. At the 'family residence, three miles northeant of the city, John Allen Ar-terburn, the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Kdwin Arterbiirn, died about 3 o'clock Saturday The funeral will be held this morning in the Christian church and the remains will be intered in Dodge Grove cemetery. woman who had much to do with giving the country a man worthy of being Its greatest president. Much Credit Duo Her. It seems that the world probably never will give this woman the credit due her. It Is a sad commentary on the justice of mankind that while so much is being said about the neglected condition of the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the woman who gave Lincoln birth, that few, ff any, remember Sarah Bush Lincoln, who had most to do with making him a man to meet the duties that were to confront him, and that her grave is unmarked and practically forgotten.

"Abe" Lincoln was but nine years old when his mother fell ill and died of milk sickness in the Spencer county, cabin. The Llncplns, at that time, were In most abject poverty. Thomas, the father, had few of the traits that made his son great. It is recorded that for a long time the In-liana cabin had but three walls. It was then that the new light shone into the little cabin and into the soul of the boy.

Thomas Lincoln went back Into Kentucky, and, It is said, painted a glowing picture of his home to Sarah Bush Johnson, whose husband had OLD RUMOR REGARDING SHOPS IS AGAIN CURRENT Attorney Guy R. Jones Has Been Appointed Master in Chancery Other Item. Morning Star Correspondence. Tuscola, Oct 20. The old rumor that the Illinois Central is preparing to move its shops here from Champaign is again current in Tuscola, and it is claimed that officers of the company were here during the week looking over locations.

Agent Harlan claims to know nothing about the matter, but It is known that the com-pany Is going to move from their present location in Champaign and as Tuscola has been favorably spoken of by high officials in the past it is thought that there is some grounds for bellevelng there may be some truth In the present rumor. Master in Chancery. Attorney Guy R. Jones was appoint ed master in chancery of Douglas county this week by Judge Philbrick, succeeding Jo M. Walker, who moved to Arkansas last winter.

Mr. Jones has been acting as special master for the past few months and his appoint ment was expected by the members of the bar in this county. A Famous Case. The case against. Dick McQueen, who was alleged to have tried to poison Kmma Cutsinger at Newman some time ago.

was dismissed from court this week on account of lack of evidence on the part of the prosecu tion. This was the. last of the fa mouS CutsInger-Hair-McQue'en cases which held the interest of Douglas and Clark counties for' nearly three years and it is probable they will never be heard of again. PREPS DEFEAT SULL IN GAME WHICH IS REPLETE WITH MANY INTERESTING PLAYS. The Illinois Preps defeated a team representing the Sullivan High School Saturday afternoon at' Sullivan by, the score of 12 to 0.

The game was interesting throughout and was iad wl.h sewval plays by the Vnivorsity boys, who were on "Hie defense front start to finish. The honors of the contest were ear-lied off by Sherrick. of the college team, who made a run of seventy-five yards. The officials were: Umpire, Corbis. Kankakee: referee, Patterson, Louisville, Ky.

The college expects to visit this city in a few weeks and take scalps of the local boys. When they play Mattoon they will discover, how ever, that they are uo against the a I 1 1 Farmers who ship meat or meat food products hereafter will be re quired to furnish certificates showing that the shipment conforms with the requirements of the Bureau of Animal Industry. Such meats or food products are exempt from Inspection. The form of certificate follows: (Date) 190 Name of Express Company to which offered Shipper Consigne Point of shipment Point of destination Car number and initial I hereby certify that I am a farmer, and that the following described uninspected carcasses or parts thereof have been slaughtered by me upon my farm, and are offered for. shipment In interstate commerce a exempted from inspection according to Act of Congress of June 30, 190(i.

The said meat or meat food products are sound, healthful, wholesome and fit for human food. '(Signature of farmer. I i Address of farmer A duplicate certificate 'will for-' warded, by the agent 'at the shipping point to the chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Washington. 1). NINTH ANNUAL MEETING OF PEDAGOGUES AT PARIS NOW A MATTER OF HISTORY.

Morning Star Correspondence. Paris, Oct. The ninth annual: meeting 'of the Eastern Illinois Teachers" Association closed here to day with a short memorial service held in honor of the late B. F. Arm itage.

of Mattoon. The -aJjonrned at noon, alter having selected Charleston wi the next, meeting place and fixing i'ie date as the third Friday and Satui in October, 1907. Tne treasurer reported a bal.iui't on hand of Sl.1H.72 and the audi use committee reported the expend! cue of S281 for talent. Resolutions were adopted convev- ing an expression of thanks to Runt. E.

B. Brooks, the citizens of. Parts, III ILLINOIS. TO STANDARD tne unrisuan church, the Charleston Choral club and especially to the exe- cutive committee, headed by "Prof. I union followed.

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