Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 8 July 1893 — Page 3

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VORY IS "WITH US.

He Arrives from V? ashiugton and Speaks of Various Things. Hon. E. V. Brookshire, "Our Vory," arrived last Saturday from Washington looking somewhat fatter. He went to Ladoga in the afternoon but returned Monday to bless us with with his presence for several shining days. He was held up at his hotel by THE JOUENAL upon his arrival and spoke of the extra session. "I 6ee," said he, "by the morning papers that the expected has happened and that our President has called the extra session for August 7. I ajaprehended as much. It was my expectation and desire. We all anticipated*it at Washington. You see I had a confidential chat with our President on Monday last. I happened to find him alone. I called just ufter 12 o'clock and he stated chat as soon as he had shaken hands with a big crowd down in tbe east room he would be with me. He left and soon returned. He sat down by my side and we had quite a confidential chat on the financial question. Our President asked me how our folks were out (here and I told him that we wanted silver money. We did not believe in doing away with it and would insist that we have it. He seemed much interested and stated that he was being deluged with telegrams, resolutions and declarations clamoring for an extra seesion to consider the financial question. Our President's proclamation appears this morning. The

Sherman law has been operating badly and will be repealed. There are a number of us though who will insist on some silver legislation. We do not believe in doing away with the white metal. However, it is impossible to tell just what will be done." "Will the session take up the tariff, Mr. Brookshire?" "Well, ah, perhaps not. You see it is called to consider the financial question —the financial question. It is hard to tell, but perhaps not," and Mr. Brookshire looked off toward the hills where the sheep were grazing to make wool which won't bring 4 cents a pound if the session does go against the tariff. "How about the collectoiship fight?" "It is still brewing. It is in statu qno. Mr. Hulett's chances are still bright and getting brighter. I did not see last evening's Indianapolis News, but its correspondent is speculating. Ho is indulging in vagaries. I see no reason why Mr. Hulett should not be appointed. I believe he will be. I have his candidncy well before the President and feel confident of success. However, Jump's friends are stacking in everything they can find or makeup, so we can't always tell you see. Nevertheless, we shall see what we shall Bee."

Galioway-Pletcher.

At the residence of the bride's parents in Clear Creek precinct, Sunday evening, June 18,1893, Prof. J. M. Galloway, of Crawfordsville, Ind., and Miss Bertha E. Fletcher, of Clear Creek precinct, Kev. C. P. Hackney officiating.

The parties to the above contract start out in their wedded life under very favorable circumstances. The professor is an accomplished educator who was formerly principal of the public schools at Darlington, Indiana, and has just been chosen to that position in the public schools at Mead, where r,hev will make their home. They will find very pleasant neighbors in their new location, and we cordially commend them to the people of Mead. May their lives always be Bpent in pleasant places is the wish of the Gazette. Prot. and Mrs. J. Oalloway left yesterday morning for Bedison, Mo., to spend their honeymoon.—Ashland, Mo., Gazette.

May Have No Fair,

The board of directors of the Tippecanoe County Fair Association have been called to meet next Saturdav, and the main thing for discussion will be the advisability of holding a fair this fall. The directors, or a portion of them, fear the World's Fair will demoralize any attempt that may be made to give an exhibit here in September, and the matter will be thoroughly canvassed Saturday. Some of them feel that money will be close, attractions elsewhere too great, and that the fair, will not be a success. Others think that the association will not be hurt by these causes and that the fair, if held, will be just as successful as in years gone by. The meeting Saturday will decide the matter.—Lafayette Courier.

Gen. Wallace's Novel.

Gen. Wallace's new novel, "The Prince of India," is being advertised by book sellers over the country as ready for sale on July 1. The book will be in two volumes similar to "Ben Hur," and will cost 82.50. The book will not appear, however, so early as has been advertised. Gen. Wallace etill has the last proof sheets and in order that the copyright may be properly arranged it is not likely that the work will appear before August. The publishers state that the indications point to an enormous sale in spite of the high price set upon tha, novel.

The Annual Examination.

Secretary Rhoderick, of the local Civil Service Board, last Friday received notice from the National Board that the annual examination of applicants for letter carriers for this office would be held on Saturday, August 5. The Secretary has not received the list 0? eligibleB under the last examination.

BOUND OVER,

Glenn Ooppaee Waives Examination and is Placed Under $500 Bond. Saturdav George Hurley, acting under instructions from L. J. Coppage, appeared before Mayor Bandel and waived examination for Glenn Coppage, charged with robbing the 99 cent store a week ago last Friday. Glenn was not present and the Mayor fixed his bond at $500. He is still in jail and will have to stay there until court convenes in September as his father does not deem it expedient to furnish the required bail for the young man. Upon his return from Chisago yesterday Mr. Coppage was informed of the condition of affairs and visited Glenn at the jail. It is understood that Glenn is now willing to acknowledge that he committed the robbery and has withdrawn the rather fishy story of the goods having been given him by a Chicago crook. It is not unlikely, the fact is it is altogether probable, that he will enter a plea of guilty when the proper time arrives. An effort will be made to have the Judge give him a jail sentence^ and then have this commuted by the Governor to the reform school, as was done in the case of Sammy Randolph, the boy burglar. The fate of Glenn Coppage seems to rest with Judge Harney.

Precocious Infants.

The Danville, 111., Neics of Friday narrates the trials and tribulations of a little Crawfordsville girl named Hoxie and a little Crawfordsville boy named Tibbs, who came there to get married, evidently under tbe impression that marriage licenses blossomed on ever bush and that their fruitage was housekeeping outfits. Although the marriage laws of Illinois are scandalously lax, nevertheless Mr. Tibbs and Miss Hoxie were too young by a long way to be able to culminate their happiness in matrimony. Inquiry developes the fact that these children reside in the north end, back of theNutt House somewhere, and that they have been ardent lovers for fully three weeks. Miss Hoxie is a buxom little lass and the would-be groom is a jaunty little Dago about as big as a minute. The two have taken long strolls together these soft summer nights and pledged vows of unswerving love and undying fidelity. They asked the consent of their parents to wed but Miss Hoxie was spanked and put to sleep in her trundle bed, while when Master Tibbs asked the consent of his the senior Dago, who is the presiding genius at a banana

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child on his head and smiling indulgently said from force of habit, "Giva de munk a nick. Nice freisha banan, tin cints, a dime a dozen." This was all the English he knew, but he meant it to stand for a flat refusal. The children, however, were in nowise put out by the parental frowns and sought surcease from sorrow in the salubrious climate of Danville, 111. They failed to make the ripple, however, and are now at home sucking their thumbs and making mud pies in a most docile and domestic manner.

State Encampment.

The encampment of the Indiana State militia will in all probability be held at Terre Haute. That city has made a proposition to Adjt.-Gen. Robbins, which, while it is not as good as was expected, is such that the adjutant-general has recommended to the governor that the encampment be held there. The city agrees to furnish ground, wood, straw, rifle range, horses and §600. This is not asked as a bonus as is understood by some, but is simply a payment, by the city securing the encampment, of a part of the additional expense incurred by holding the encampment away from Indianapolis. It is estimated that it will cost at least $2,000 more in railroad fare alone to hold it at Terre Haute than it would to have it in Indianapolis. July 21 to 27 is the time set for the encampment.

Surprised.

Zack Williams, the father of Miss Bessie Williams, who was married to A. J. Cannon at Kokomo Thursday, July 29, was greatly surprised to hear of his daughter's marriage. She went to the Sunday school convention at Frankfort and he had heard nothing from her until yesterday when he received a letter with a postscript to the effect that she had been married. Mr. Williams is very fatherly and kind in his consideration of the affair, however, and states that if Miss Bessie wished to dodge the parental roof in marrying she was entirely welcome to do so. In point of absolute fact it was a very happy little arrangement as it saved him the expense attendant upon the wedding reception.

Circuit Court Statistics.

The following are the circuit court statistics for the year ending June 30: Convictions for felonies 9 Convictions for misdemeanors -tti Divorces grautsd to husbands 0 Divorces granted to wives 19 Decrees of foreclosure 8

From the above it will be observed that Montgomery county has been both peaceful and prosperous during the past year. The ladies have been better than the rude men, 19 of whom were found too disagreaable to even live with. The number of foreclosures was very small. Back in the '70's as many would frequently be made a day as were made all laBt year. It was nuts for the sheriff but rather rough on every one else.

ORAWFORDSYILLE INDIANA SATURDAY, JULY

SEVENTH DISTRICT 00LLE0T0RSRIP

Brookshire Workine for Hulett—What Be Has Already Done. The Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis News says: An impression has prevailed here that Representative Brookshire was of the opinion that neither Joshua Jump nor Walter Hulett would be appointed collector of the Seventh district, but that a dark horse would come in winner. Mr. Brookshire is indorsing Hulett and is working for his candidate tooth and nail. He to-day filed a nufnber of additional strong indorsements, and is of the opinion that his man will ,be appointed. Joshua Jump is backed by Senator Yoorhees. Mr. Brookshire leaves to-morrow to join his wife at Battle Creek, Mich. During the past few days he has been getting in some good work for his constituents. E. B. Miller, of Brazil, has, through his iniiuence, received the appointment of deputy consul and clerk at Bordeaux. This position pays about $1,500 a year. Thomas B. Eaton, an ex-Union soldiei, of Sullivan, has been appointed a messenger in the Pension Office. Wm. A. Huff, of Shannondale, will be appointed a member of the treasury watch.

Every foot in the Oar Exposed. A good story is told by an employe of the Big Four railroad which is too good to keep. A few nights ago a newly married couple boarded a train at Crawfordsville, bound ea&t on a wedding tour. They occupied a berth in a sleeper, and their love making was one of the chief attractions of the other occupants of the car. They cooed and billed to their hearts' content. The couple did not start to retire until all the other passengers had gone to bed. Just before getting into her berth the bride said sweetly to her husband: "Dear, I am going to get a drink of water. When you hear me coming back stick your foot out of the berth so I won't make a mistake."

When she turned to come back every berth had a foot exposed.—Danville Commercial.

The Arlington.

Crawfordsville and Montgomery county people who visit the World's Fair nearly all stop at the Arlington. Two very good reasons suggest themselves for this step. One is its accessibility to the grounds, being located within 100 feet of the main entrance at 65th street and Stony Island avenue. This saves car fare on a crowded car. The other is that an old Crawfordsville man in the person of John W. White is the manager. They know personally that he is clever and obliging and will spare no pains to add to their comfort. The scores who have registered at the Arlington and have returned home are enthusiastic over the hospitable and fair treatment they receive at this hostelry.

Poster's Predictions.

The next Btorm wave to cross the continent will reach the western mountains by close of the 30th, the great central valleys from July 1st to 3rd and the eastern states about the 4th.

This disturbance will be at its greatest force July 4th and 5th on the Atlantic coast. The rainfall for the week will be about an average of the corresponding weeks of other years.

A warm wave will cross the western mountains about June 29, the great central valleys about July 1st and the eastern states about the 3d. A cool wave will cross the western mountains about July 2nd, the great central valleys about the 4th and the eastern states about the 6th.

The Vacancy on the Board. The vacancy on the board of trustees of Wabash College caused by the death of Judge Hains of New Albany, will probably be filled before the semi-annu-al meeting in December. No one has been suggested as yet as Judge Hain's successor but it is more than probable that Dr. Burroughs will be elected to the position. He is not now a member of the board and it has heretofore been customary for the president to be a trustee. He has always been a member of the executive committee of the board and from his position it is eminently fitting that he should be. Dr. Burroughs will probably be elected to fill the vacancy.

Good Music for the County Pair. The Montgomery county fair association met last Saturday and settled the music question in a very satisfactory manner. It contracted with the Crawfordsville band to furnish a band of seventeen pieces for the entire fair. On Thursday the famous Peru band of forty pieces, the best band in the State will be here and will play all day. In the evening the Peru band will give a concert in front of the grand stand to which an admittance of fifteen cents will be charged. The music this year will be better than ever before.

House Burnea.

There was a costly little blaze in Madison township Thursday at the expense of John Peterson. One of the tenant houses on Mr. Peterson's place, occupied by Wm. Cox, took fire about 10 o'clock from a defective flue and was burned to the ground, considerable of the furniture being consumed with it. The loss on the house was about $800 with no insurance. A peculiar fact is that it was the only uninsured building owned by Mr. Peterson.

Preparing for the Encampment. McPherson Post in connection with all of the Grand Army Posts in the county will attend the National Encampment at Indianapolis next September in a body. It is the expectation to have five hundred uniformed men from this county in line on the day of the great parade. At the meeting of the Post on Saturday evening a committee on transportation was appointed consisting of C. M. Travis, J. D. Tracy and Warner Wilhite, whose duty it will be to confer with the Big Four railroad authorities and make arrangements if possible to have a special train run from Crawfordsville on the mornings of the 6th and 7th and return each evening, leaving Indianapolis about 10 or 11 o'clock. A committee on music was also appointed consisting of M. V. B. Smith, B. R. Russell and T. H. B. McCain, whose duty it will be to procure the services of a band or bands to accompany the delegation. This is probably the last National Encampment that the opportunity will be presented that our county Posts oan attend in a body and it is very desirable that they should make as good an appearance as any in line that day.

Trying to Break Mary Tapp's Will. Kennedy & Kennedy, acting for Margaret A. Petro, D. P. Paxton and Thomas Paxton have entered suit to set aside the will of the late Mary A. Tapp. John A. Sterling, the executor and the other beneficiaries of the instrument are made defendants. The complaint alleges that Mary A. Tapp was of unsound mind at the time she signed the document and that undue pressure had been brought to bear to induce her to will her property otherwise than had been her intention. The will was made about two months before the deaths of Mrs. Tapp, and was made in Illinois where she was visiting John Sterling. It will be attempted to show that Sterling and others induced her while there to make a will favorable to them. If the will is set apide tbe property will go to Mrs. Tapp's legal heirs, the plaintiffs, who are her brothers and sisters. The amount of property involved is about $4,000 or $5,000.

Devoted to Improvement.

The July number of that most excellent magazine, Municipal Engineering, has just appeared and like every other issue, is full of valuable articles, suggestions and facte for all who are interested in improving cities. Even the advertisements are valuable as they show the very latest things in material and machinery for making such improvements. Among the subjects treated are "Sewerage Disposal," "Tests of Paving Brick," "Street Paving in Australian Cities," "Garbage Disposal," "Exclusive Street Railway Franchises." The jjrice of this magazine is $2.00 a year and we believe it ought to be in the hands of every councilman as well as every citizen who takes an interest in the permanent improvements which are going to be made in Crawfordsville in the next few years. It is well to be informed on such subjects as sewerage and paving.

The Temperance Meeting.

8, 1898.

The union temperance meeting at the Methodist church Snnday was quite successful. A church full including Mayor Bandel fas present. Rev. G. P. F11 son led in prayer and the principal address was by Dr. R. J. Cunningham. He said the coming reform was municipal reform but that nothing could be accomplished except each individual be alive to his responsibilities and each church be active in work. The speaker deplored that the efforts at reform heretofore in this city had proven to be nothing more than spurtB. Dr. Tucker elosed the meeting with a short talk endorsing what Dr. Cunningham had said and adding a few ideas of his own. He was in favor of encouraging the officers to enforce lije Jaws in Crawfordsville and if they refused to turn in at the next election and,put some one in office who would.

What Has Become of the Committee. A committee has been appointed at Crawfordsville, Ind., consisting of the city engineer and three members of the council to report on a system of sewers for the city. A part of the system will probably be built this season.

The above interesting item is from Municipal Engineering, the Indianapolis magazine devoted to the improvement of cities. It reminds us that a long while ago a committee on sewerage was actually appointed, but where is the committee now? It has never reported but simply disappeared from public view without ever giving any excuse for its existence.

Edith Butler's Success.

Miss Edith Butler, late of Crawfordsville, won the first prize offered for the best"essays to the students of the University of Wyoming, at Laramie. Her subject was "Music as a Factor in Education," and the production is published in full in the Laramie Boomerang. It is a thoughtful and very mature essay and must have merited the honor it received.

Edited by fl. A. Cuppy.

Hazlitt Alva Cuppv, formerly of Waveland, is making quite a stir in the wide, wide world. After traveling and studying abroad for some time he has settled down in Chicago and now appears as the editor of a new magazine called the Altruistic Review. The first number has appeared and looks healthy.

PROM WYOMING.

Dr. Walter Johnson Writes an Interesting Letter from the West. The able article in Harper's Monthly for June on Wyoming by Julian ltnlph, is in the main fair and truthful. But Mr. Ralph lays the opposition of the people of this State to the arid land bill to ignorance and suspicion. I think the average voter here has made a thorough study of the bill in all its phases. All the small ranchmen have made a thorough study of the land question, and Mr. Ralph is right in saying that they are ready to suspect a land grabbing scheme in all such measures, but not because of ignorance.

In another place he deprecates the prejudice of cattlemen against the industry of sheep raising but on this arid land cession question he seems to sympathize with the promoters of the scheme in their efforts to add to the prejudices of the two classes of stock growers but he and they find that the sheep and cattle men of small holdings are joining hands against their common enemy, the land grabber.

The lamp of experience is the best guide. When Wyoming became a State there was a land grant to the State for university and other purposes. All this land is now fenced in by companies with large capital in such tracts and in such localities as pleased them.

The handling of the water question by the authorities of the new State has been highly satisfactory and it seems to have been kept out of politics. The Democrats and Populists attacked the arid land bill—the ceding oJ! the arid land to the State—as a land grabbing scheme, in the last campaign and were sustained by the votes of the people. But we are afraid that wil lwake up some fine morning and find that the land grabbers will have had their way.

We are now using our own flour for the first time. We raised the wheat in our own fields and ground it in our own flouring mill. The quality is extra good, but the quantity not sufficient for the whole valley. This year five times as much wheat has been planted and we think enough for our bread for one year. Wheat raising is in its infancy yet in this valley. Many start with but a few acres. The yield on these small fields is often as high as fifty bushels per acre.

It is big work to build dams and irrigation ditches and plenty of work to grub out the sage brush and plow up the new ground. The fences are made in sections like the ends of a saw buck with round poles nailed between.

Some new comers have put in crops of grain on other's land. They get the use of the ground, water and fence for two years for breaking new ground.

Fine potatoes are raised with very little irrigating. Potatoes, fresh meat, butter, cream and milk are the plentiful things now. Ten years ago the big cattle outfits would not keep a milk cow nor kill their own beef, except during round up, and would not raise potatoes.

Saratoga has two churches, a public library, a Masonic lodge, a building just erected by the Sierra Madre club, and a good school. The hot springs are superior, in many cases, to those of Arkansas.

The amusements go by fashions. Dancing and cards are always in fashion, amateur theatricals, concerts and tableaux occasionally. Our school gives public entertainments several times a year. Last winter skating and the toboggan slide were popular.

About ten days ago when the willow bug made its appearance for bait every one went fishing. This summer every little fellow who has a sheep owner for a friend has a pet lamb. There is one at nearly every house on our row. There is plenty of snow in sight, on both the east and west mountains ranges.

The North Platte river runs at our doors. Ten days ago it was at its maximum height for the year, from the melting snows on the mountains. It is falling fast now. There is plenty of water in the North Platte for irrigation, and plenty of land out on the benches. The land convenient to water is all taken up. Those who take up land hereafter will have to employ more capital and labor to get water on it. There is plenty of pine timber on both ranges, to the East and to the West, fifteen miles away. The coal is even better than that at Rock Springs, and sold in Saratoga last winter at three dollars a ton.

The Democrats of Wyoming, like those of Indiana, are getting restless under the delay of the change in the Federal offices. But last week we had news of the appointment of Chairman of State Committee, A. L. New, as collector of internal revenue for the district of Wyoming and Colorado, and the county chairman has received his notice of appointment as postmaster at Rawlins, the county seat. But the postoffice in Saratoga is still in a drug store, that reminds me of the old "Mud Turtle" in Crawfordsville, the headquarters for a ring of noisy and belligerent Republicans and is owned by the chairman of the county Republican committee, while the precinct Democratic committeeman, who is your humble servant, awaits with patienee to see if the postoffice plum will not fall into his lap. State Chairman New is an Indiana man and we had an Indiana style of campaign with blanks and documents with Chairman Tnggart's name attached.

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seven thousand feet, and is considerably cooler than Denver. W.vLTKit L. JOHNSON, M. D. Saratoga, Wyoming, June 28, '93.

No Tippecanoe Pair.

The board of directors of the Tippecanoe Agricultural Association met in the council chamber this afternoon at 2 o'clock, for the purpose of taking a vote on the county fair question—to be or not to be. It had been a matter of considerable thought in the minds of the directors, and the meeting was called to discuss tha advisability of holding a fair this year, all questions regarding the prospects being considered by the members before a vote was to be taken. The big fair at Chicago, and the present hard times have caused some of the directors to feel shakv concerning the success of the local fair this year. There are thirty-six directors and twenty of them were present this afternoon to vote on the mooted question. There were two sides to the question, and both were loyally supported. Some were as anxious to hold the fair as others were against the movement, and at first it looked as though the vote would be close, although the supporters of the fair never expected at any time to overcome this opposition that had come up againBt it. It remains for the public to say whether the action taken was a ]udicious one or not. The vote stooc 14 for closing the fair and 6 for keeping it open this season. It is

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Tippecanoe county will have no fair this year, the first omission in years.—Lafayette Courier.

Must Settle With the State. In accordance with an act of the last legislature, Monday was the day set for the payment into the various county treasury of all moneys held by Bchool corporations unexpended from the State tuition revenues. Trustees and school boards in the different counties and cities have yearly received their apportionments in June and January, but have heretofore retained that portion remaining unexpended. By the new law they are compelled to settle with the State on the first Monday in July and pay over every dollar, exoepting a standing fund of $100 which each official is allowed for curreot expenses. Superintendent Vories apprehends no difficulty in collecting the amounts, save in a few of the larger cities, where the boardB claim they have no surplus on hand.

Drunken Fight.

On Saturday evening about seven o'clock a drunken fight began in a saloon between John Downs and a man named Graham. It finished on Truitt's corner, by which time about half a dozen had became implicated and blood had flowed as free as city water at a public hydrant. Downs and Clarence Patton were arrested but the others escaped. Patton, who had been hit in the ear with a brick, was released, there being not enough evidence to hold him.

Come Out on Top.

Ed Stonebraker was before Mayor indel Monday charged with assaulting Clarence Crowder, of Wingate Saturday. Edward's face was a study and his eyes were artistically draped in black while his nose was aesthetically skinned. He was in high feather, however and exultantly declared that he came out on top. "I'm banged up," he admitted, "but you had ought to see Clarence."

MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Wm. W. Swank and Cynthia A. Rose.

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