Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 January 1895 — Page 5

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Large Red Figures.

Our entire line of Winter Clothing, Men's Suits and

"Overcoats, Boys' and Children's Suits and Overcoatsjare now

included in our great Red Figure Sale. We will endeavor to

dispose of our entire line of heavy clothing 'before placing on

our tables the great Spring stock now being prepared for us

Manufacturing Cost!

A Child's Suit for A Boy's Overcoat for A Man' Suit for A Man's Overcoat for A Man's Ulster for

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costs to manufacture them, because they are made in our own

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CRAWFORDSYILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY,

FROM FAR OFF MONTANA.

A. T. Kellison Writes Interestingly Montana State Affairs and a Most Successful Hunt.

Correspondence of The Journal.] GREAT FALLS, Mont., Jan. 12, 1895.— Since my last communication, "Great Falls has voted a heavy bond issue and finances are much improved. Owing to the immensity of the water power at this city all bonds are sold at a good premium, though on county, township and city the bonded indebtedness aggregates more than half a million dollars.

The silver smelter at this place is now enlarging its smelting capacity and announces that it will employ more hands next Spring than at any Other time during its history. This indicates that it has inside information and the remonitization of silver may be expected. In fact, the three party organs here publish that free coinage is near at hand.

The Farmers' Institute is holding a session this week and we clip from a morning paper the following item:

Prof. Emery, of State Agricultural College, gave the audience some particularly valuable and interesting facts about potato culture in Montana. He claimed that the climate and soil of Montana was particularly adapted to the growing of this vegetable, and mentioned a yield of 1,200 bushels to the acre, raised by a Mr. King, of the Yellowstone valley. Experiments made with the different varieties with a view to determining the respective yield of each showed the following results, expressed in pounds, per acre:

American Wonder 19,251, Delaware 16,385, Koshkovving 13,882, Leviathan 10,200, Crown Jewel 14,744, Reed's 86 13,228, Polaris 10,830, Red Ohio 6,600, Early Oxford 16,820, Early Ohio 8,867, Thornburn 13,133, Freeman 13,168, Rural New Yorker No. 2 12,825, Vanguard 11,292, Alexander's Prolific 20,011, World's Fair 11,884, Fannie Campbell 10,636, Arizony 17,(571, Beauty of Hebron 15,404, Summit 11,600, Lee's Favorite 10,651, Acme Seedling, 6,758, The Vaughan 7,252.

In the valleys or under irrigation on the "bench," this State is A. No. 1 for agriculture. Attention is turning from stock to agriculture. One sheep man last September shipped his flock to Chicago, and it netted him 40 cents per head above freight.

We live where Indians may be seen each week and know interesting things concerning them that do not reach the press of the East. For example, there is a law allotting 160 acres of land, new farming implements, and plenty of stock, to each Indian as an inducement to them to become self-supporting and civilized. One of the wealthiest business men of this city died leaving his young widow 88,000 life insurance, together with much real estate. Her children were sent East to attain the highest education. She shone as a belle in society as had ever been her custom. She rented her 850 acre valley farm and her city property and salaried an attorney by the year to look after her property interests. Then she discovers that one drop of Indian blood courses her veins —with only black hair to indicate it— and applies to the agency and gets the aforesaid government allowance worth several thousand dollars. We admire such enterprise, but the point to be made is that this kind of work is the rule rather than the exception. Spoils of office and its attendant opportunities seem to have superseded duty and patriotism long since. Indian education might be defined as being a leak in the public treasury. Half-bloods have the opportunity of free public schools and full bloods prefer to select their meats from the vast herds of cattle on the range and to capture thousands of wild ducks and geese in hatching season round our lakes, and enjoy other privileges denied a citizen. It is remarkable how few real Indians receive apart of the great distribution.

During holiday week, C. C. Kellison and your humble servant went to the Belt Mountains to join others in a hunt. As we sped along, the arst fifteen miles of the distance was monotonous, passing only vacant "shacks" that had been occupied by city or county officers and real estate agents, etc., to utilize their land rights. Soon the scene became varied. Three thousand sheep With their watchful herder and trained dogs were on the sunny side of a slope. About two miles down in the fiat a sheep had fallen by the way and four large wolves surrounded the carcass. They were too wellfed, however, to let us approach within gunshot. We passed through Red Coulee where you seldom fail to see antelope. Here, a few days before, C. W. Kellison had stationed himself at a crossing while "old timers" were to start the chase. A large band of antelope came dashing noiselessly within fifty yards of him. Springing from his horse he shot one on the fly and dropping his arm, re-mounted, ran upon his crippled game and had the real sport of galloping upon the heels of the antelope a couple of miles (for the want of a gun) till another of the party came up and killed it. C. W. finally found his rifle and helped to tie two antelope onto the pack horse. We reached Belt river about sunset. The ten-inch snow had driven all the chickens from off the prairie into the trees of the valley. There they were actually loading down the trees

What a luscious looking orchard. They sat loose-feathered and appeared to be as large as Hoosier turkeys. We took the two large sacks from under the

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seat and prepared to fill them, at same time wishing for sideboards and more sacks. Your humble servant realized Of his poor marksmanship and carefully got about a dozen treesful in range and then pulled both barrels. Before imprinting the snow he saw big chickens and bright stars fall intermingled.

He killed seven chickens, and C. C. K. got ten, while C. W. Ii. bagged thirty in less than an hour. One party of two, from the Falls, loaded up one hundred and two of the birds, but our sacks would not hold so many and for this and other reasons we came out second best. On the last day of the hunt the thermometer struck nineteen below zero. At dusk we returned to the hospitable roof of that noble mountaineer, John B. Wetzel. To our surprise one of the group was missing.

be lost. Horses were saddled and spurred across the dangerous ice of the river to the point where the missing man was last seen by the rest of our party. Four lanterns were thrown on his track and he was followed slowly seven miles while the thermometer went down to 25 below. At 2 o'clock in the morning he was found. Fortunately he had found a house when not able to have gone a half mile farther.

Inquiry at four nearest houses brought oranges are being picked from the no favorable news. Knowing the dan- trees and packed for shipping. People ger for one strange to the locality to ,5, undertake a near cut, no time was I are living on their verandas and the

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A. T. KELLISON.

HAWLEYWAS AHDMMER.

One of Our Former Fellow Citizens Develops Into a Napoleon of Dry Goods Finance—Biggest Fraud of the Season.

The Chicago papers during the last week have been telling of the exploits of one J. T. Hawley who Crawfordsvillian, a clerk for one of the old dry goods firms. Mr. Hawley was a young man when he left here and very talented but withal quite dissl pated. His character was such that his reccnt escapade does not surprise any of his acquaintances. His short career in Milwaukee was like a sky rocket. He sailed high and brilliantly for a short time and then went into the outer darkness. By means known only to himself Hawley was able to unlimited credit and bought a tremendous stock on long time. His first bills were met promptly when due which established for him a gilt-edged credit although he was comparatively an unknown man and had no commercial rating with R. G. Dunn or Brad street's Agency. It now developes that this was the beginning of a John Law Swindle unparalleled in magni tude and unadulterated gall. Ilawley bought wildly and yet with the taste and discretion that captivated the wholesalers because he showed himself to be thoroughly versed in all departments of the dry goods business and would have only the best and latest styles spring -and su goods such as the factories are sending out for the trade of 1895. He at once began to unload the stock, claiming that he had overbought him' self and by selling at less than wholesale prices he soon disposed of 860,000 worth of goods. The prices excited the people and if the attention of competitors had not been attracted he would have cleaned out the whole stock. As it was he gobbled in this vast sum of money spoken of. One of Hawley's methods to attract attention was to roll fine carpeting from the back part of the store across the sidewalk and into the gutters and to hang fine silks fluttering from the top of his building to the street in stormy weath er. He seemed to be a Monte Cristo and people besieged the store and he caught all the cheap class of trade as well as careful people of means. Last Monday morning the sales people ported for duty but the janitor had in structions to admit no one until the appearance of the proprietor and he

Nor did Mr. Smythe, the

book-keeper and cashier, show up The clerks waited several hours before they drifted away. Customers to unparalleled advertisements in the Sunday papers began to block the walk and the police had to clear the throng away. Investigations were made and and it was discovered that Hawley and Smythe had left for other locality without leaving their address, taking with them all the cash on hands amounting to 840,000 or 850,000. The bank with whom Hawley had been doing business telegraphed Chicago houses of whom Hawley had been buying goods and the matter now in their hands. The stock will not invoice more than 820,000 while Hawley's indebtedness will reach 875,000. Alike swindle was perpetated at Lincoln, Neb., three years ago by W. L. Smythe and he is supposed to be the confidential clerk employed by the Milwaukee man Hawley, that they

of swindlers who operate after this manner. We have met a number of parties who state that they remember young Hawley, but claim that he is in business in the far north west and not to be confused with J. F. Hawley, though the initials are the same.

1895.—TWELVE PAGES PART SECOND

A LONG RIDE..

IMlly lteeves Tells of His Trip to California ami What he Saw by the Way..

To tho Editor The Journal. POKTERVILLK, Cal., Jan. 10, 1895.—1 have just completed a journey of three thousand five hundred miles through the southern part of the United States and a portion of Mexico. I have been accompaniud by S. W. Gulley and through his hospitality have been enjoying a free pass. When we left Chicago the 3d inst. people were fcleigli riding here in California the flowers are blooming in the gardens. The

are living on weather is as balmy as May. The native inhabitants of southern California who have never been north have never seen it snow. In Pasadena, which is made up principally of Indiana people, and the city being formerly called Indianatown, is a perfect paradise. Tongue cannot tell or language cannot picture this place. Every residence of the city occupies from oae to four acres of land, literally covered with orange trees, fig trees, lemon trees, Chinese persimmons, roses, geraniums, vines, flowers, palm ti'ees and tropical fruits of all description planted in both front and back yards, making a sight that must be seen to be realized and appreciated. In tho east people put their money in their residences here it is different. While you see some very fine ones yet they pay more attention to their fruit and lawns. The residence is set back well on the lot and is almost hid from view by the very thick clusters of tropical fruits and flowers. On January 4 we took our departure from the Union depot at St. Louis, the finest depot in the world, costing four million and a half dollars, and having thirty-five tracks entering it. We made a mistake by going to Chicago to purchase our tickets as they cost us the same as they would from Crawfordsville, thus losing us about $15, or two round trips from

Crawfordsville to Chicago. We saw H. Alirey's factory at Poplar Bluffs, Mo. It is a mammoth industry. Arkansas is the best poor man's country in the United States. It has but two drawbacks, too much water and too much Democracy, but it is rich in soil and timber, and is like Boone county, only needs draining and clearing. We missed our train out of Chicago the 3d and escaped being in a real train robbery below Benton, Ark. It is in the vicinity the Cook boys are operating, but from the way it was botched no one thinks they had anything to do with it. The robbers stopped the train, ordered the engineer to detach his engine from the train and go up the track two miles. He did so but returned immediately. The robbers first went through the baggage car and before they got to the express car the engineer returned. The robbers thought it brought back an armed posse, and took to the woods in flight. As we went through this place at night the passengers all pulled down the window blinds but myself and as I thought that some one might make my plug hat a target I pulled down mine also. The people of Arkansas are, as a rule, in sympathy with the Cook gang, and those that are not are afraid to say anything. When one robber is killed ten rise up to take his place. They never bother passengers, consequently the railroad company has a lone fight against them.

Out of St. Louis to the Texas line the cars have signs hung up at the end, This car for colored people," "This car for white people." But when you strike Texas they take down the colored sign and hang up the following:

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are part and parcel of a notorious gang which., contrary to my expectations, the soil is a real sandy loam, like the bottom soil of our creeks and rivers, and if it was well watered would be a perfect garden. I believe the great lakes were placed where they are to irrigate this vast plain and the coming generation will see the great American desert blotted from our map.

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This car for niggers." When we reached Texarkana two coaches of emigants from Georgia and Florida were attached to our train. We had a coach of colored people also, and of the two the colored people were the best dressed, the best behaved and the best looking.

The colored man of the South is a son of toil, the white man the son of idleness and poverty. We were two days and nights going through the State of Texas, at the rate of thirtyfives miles an hour. We arrived at ElPaso, Tex., Sunday, Jan. 6, at one o'clock. It borders on Mexico and is a town of 10,006, surrounded by mountains, perfectly barren. The greater portion of the population are Mexicans, who were all astir over a bull fight at Paso del Norte, Mexico, just across the Rio Grande. The Mexican is a good worker when well fed. They are employed on the rail road, with a white foreman. Their chief food is a little flour, Mexican beans and meat when he can get it. Their dwellings are about the size of a box car, the same shape, made of brick 8 by 18 inches long, dried in the sun, then laid on top of each other, and then poles are laid across the top. Then on this a mortar of mud and straw. The house has one door, but no windows. Their mode of living is very simple. They do not know the value of money. If he has got two squares to go and only has five cents he will ride and go hungry.

They are perfectly contented and happy. Their domestic animals are goats, sheep, chickens and Spanish donkeys, all living as one happy family.

For two thousand miles we rode through the great American desert,

WILLIAM M. REEVES

THE NEARASKA SUFFERERS.

Something Should lie Done lly Crawfordsville and Montgomery County For Their ltollef.

THE JOURNAL has received a letter from Mrs. T. B. Sands, formerly of Garfield, but now of Arborville, Nebraska, in which -she confirms the story already familiar to our readers of destitution and suffering in that State. D. W. Cox has a letter from a brother in another part of the State of the same tenor. Capt. Billings has similar advices from friends there and many other people have written, making appeals for aid. All these and similar reports leave no room for doubt that a great deal of suffering' exists there. Several thousands of industrious and deserving people have been reduced tp poverty by the failure of their crops, and the lack of employment to make a living. The destitution is general, and there is no means of local relief, the country being new and the settlers, all alike, dependent upon the products of their farms. It is impossible to borow money on real estate, or to obtain food or clothing on credit, and so there is no course left but that of an appeal to charity. Outside assistance is needed to carry the sufferers through the winter and enable them to retain their homes and plant another crop. The calamity in Nebraska serves to remind us of the debt we owe to these people, and the sympathy we should extend to them when misfortune overtakes them. Other

States and towns are generously sending out aid. Crawfordsville and Montgomery county have never been behind in sharing their surplus with the destitute and suffering. They nobly came to the 'assistance of Chicago, New Orleans, Johnstown, Louisville and other places in times past when they were in dire distress. Can we do less when the appeal comes from stricken Nebraska? Let a movement be inaugurated at once to send out a car load of the comforts and necessities to ameliorate the sufferings of the people, many of whom were formerly our friends and neighbors. THE JOURNAL suggests a public meeting at the court house as an initiatory step.

Crawfordsville Cases.

Frankfort Times: In the circuit court yesterday Judge Doyal rendered a big judgment in the case of Joseph N. FulJenwider vs. Noah J. Clodfelter. It was a suit on foreclosure of mortgage, and after hearing the case the court gave judgment against the defendant for 85,161.50. In a similar case by the same plaintiff against Noah and Hanna Clodfelter the plaintiff was given judgment for" $285. Harris vs. Midland R'y. Co. was tried. Attorney Ristine, of Crawfordsville, appeared for the plaintiff and Stover, of Anderson, for the defendant. The suit was for stock killed. The court took the matter under advisement. Attorneys Gray and Kent were heard in the case of George Davis vs. D. F. Allen. This suit involves 8100 which the plaintiff claims to have paid on grain bought at Colfax for the defendant. The last chapter of the celebrated case of Stout vs. Stout, so far as our court is concerned, was written yesterday. The court overruled the motion of the defendant for a new trial, and entered judgment for $2,718 in favor of the plaintiff. This case too was from Crawfordsville. Yesterday seemed to be a bad day for Montgomery county defendants.

Death of ltobert Harper.

Robert Harper died Tuesday at his home, one mile north of Elmdale, of heart trouble. The funeral occurred Thursday at 11 30 o'clock.

Mr. Harper was born in Ohio July 4, 1817, and came to Indiana when quite young. He served through the war in Company C, 125th Illinois Regiment and was a good soldier. He was a member of Stedman Post G. A. R., of Wingate, and that body had charge of the funeral.

On Committees.

Montgomery county's representatives fared well in the appointment of Legislative committees.

Capt. McCrea is chairman of the Committee on Roads and a place on the Committees of Military Affairs, Soldiers' Monument and County and Township Business.

Mr. Moore is chairman of the ComCommittee on Reformatory Institutions, second on the Judiciary Committee and is also on the Committee on Indianapolis Affairs.

Knoll Cottage Sold.

John L. Davis has purchased Knoll Cottage, the handsome residence property of N. J. Clodfelter on south Green street, the consideration being $6,300. Mr. Clodfelter retains possession until next June,, when Mr. Davis will leave his model farm and move to Crawfordsville.

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