Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 19 August 1898 — Page 7

WASJSTRICTLY IN IT.

Elijah Taylor, of This City, Writes Interest[i)g ly|lle£arliiiK the (jrcat. liattlo of Santiago.

Elijah Taylor, the Crawfordsville colored boy who beloDgs to the ninth U. S. cavalry, writes the following interesting letter to his sister in this city:

JJkak Santiago Dk Cuiia,

July 21.—

Dear Sister:—I would that it were possible for me to givo you a description of all that haE passed since I wrote to you on June 2ti. More has passed than I at present have time to tell. You may remember of hearing me say that I had served live years and had never been shot at, or had the privilege of shooting at any one, but those words I can not use any more. I think I told you of the first battle that the Americans had, on June 24, in which we lost 10 men and had about 84 wounded, and in which my regiment did not get fired at or did not fire a shot. Tbe next battle begun on July 1, and my regiment had its share of the fighting, and .we lost our lieutenant-colonel and three privates. Dear sister, the story is great and hard to tell. Many different reports have been published in the papers but I was an eye witness of the battle and a subject of the game, but

I am not able to tell it all for it can not be told in a few words. Tbe truth of the whole is hard to find ior the authorities and reporters are ashamed and afraid to tell the truth about the dead and wounded. But what I want you to understand is that one man is so insignificant here that his life or death is not noticed. 1 do not know how the report of the battle is, but I will try to toll you some time what I know about it, as I was in the battle myself and in the hottest of it, too. The battle began July 1st, early in the morning, about 6 o'clock and lasted until July 3d at 12 o'clock. The line of battle covered no less than forty miles from right to left and my regiment was about the center, from which the charge was started and we swept over about a mile and a half to the front during the charge. The day of the first is the one we lost bo many men. It fell my lot to carry off some wounded men and it gave me a slight view of the dead and wounded, for while you was on the firing line you could not see whether anybody was getting killed or not you would see some fall and you would pass on. As I started to say I helped carry four men of our troop to the rear that were wounded on either side of me. I found that our hospital men were overworked. And on hunting a doctor after using our first aids for wounded men I passed at least 50 dead men and no less than 300 wounded. Now you want to remember that these were out of four regiments, which were only a twelfth part of the line. There were no less than 15,000 men in the line that morning and at sundown there were no less than 500 dead and 1,000 wounded. After the first day we never lost many more men. The 9th cavalry yet holds its record as fighters. I give a better light on the fight by a poem that I will send to Brig in this letter. Dear sister, I am proud to say that 1 am doing well and am in good health. 1 have not been sick as yet. When you see in the papers that the soldiers in Cuba are in good health don't believe it, for out of the 8,000 Boldiers supposed to be on this Island there are not more than 1,000 lit for duty. I may as well say that all of them are sick or have been sick, and every now and then someone dies. 1 feel that it is my time next to be sick or die as I have already dodged many bullets. The disease of the men is said to be mountain malaria and yellow fever. You will favor me very much if you will find a large envelope and put several small stamped envelopes in it and I will repay you as soon as I can. Your true brother,

E J. Taylok, Troop C, 9th Cav.

Death of Lyman M. Gentry.

News has been received here of the death of Lyman M. Gentry which occurred lastThursday morning in a sanitarium at Tipton. He had been ill for some days with malarial fever. Mr. Gentry was graduated in the class of ••'04 of Wabash College. He was in Wabash for several years and was a most popular student. He had many friends in thi6 city and all are greatly pained to learn of his death.

Kusheil Willi AVork.

The Wire Fence and nail company of this city is not a member of tbe trust and is just now reaping the reward of virtue. All the employes of the trust mills are out on a strike and as a consequence the Crawfordsville mill is rushed with orders. The price of the product has gone up too, so all is very lovely hereabouts.

Honorably Discharged.

Will Richmond has been honorably discharged from Company M, of the 158th regiment. Be arrived in the city Friday, having left camp Thursday. His discharge was secured through physical disability. Mr. Richmond has been serving as cook of the company and his skill will be spdly missed.

The great American Incrustation Preventative, the best boiler compound on earth. Sold by J. W. Faust, Crawfordsville, Ind.

CLAIMS OF $300,000.

Indiana War Kxpense Accounts to bo Sent to Washington.

The last of last week Auditor of State Daily forwarded to Washington verified claims agaiDRt the United States government on account of the mobilization of Indiana volunteers. Deputy Auditor Hart last Friday was unable to give in detail the amount of claims, but. they will aggregate about §300,000, including 8125,000 pay

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equipments, transportation and other items bringing the total up to about the amount named. As the the claims were paid out of the gen .ral funds of the state, an effort will be made to have the treasury department consider them as special claims. By this method it is hoped that the state will bo reimbursed in a very short time, six weeks to two months.

Last year Indiana was not at the expense of an encampment, so that the 545,000 appropriated for that purpose was entirely consumed in new equipments. Most of tbe equipment with which the volunteers were furnished was entirely new, including tents, wagons, uniforms, hospital supplies, etc.

The Health Ofiicer Speaks.

To the trustees and school directors of Montgomery county:—I wish to call your attention to the fact that it will soon be time for the commencement of schools in most of the school houses in the county and I desire that each and every school house in the county, together with the grounds and vaults of same, be put in the very best sanitary condition possible and to that end I would respectfully request each director to see to it that the weeds are cut and burned, and the grounds around each building thoroughly cleaned, and that desks that have been marred shall be re-varnished and the house scrubbed, ventilated and if necessary disinfected also that the waste water be disposed of in such a way as not to become stagnant near said house, and that fountains and bucketB be well supplied with small CUDS for drinking. I also request that each director insists on the use of sterilizing pencils each day, and can assure them this matter will be looked after during the coming school term, and teachers who ignore the rules bb laid down by the state board of health may expect that the penalty will follow. I also especially desire that the vaults be clc aned out and thoroughly disinfected before the opening of school* I would be glad to see each and every director of schools in the county before the schools open so that we may be the better able to understand and carry out the sanitary rules governing the same.

The trustees and directors will meet me at my office for consultation Saturday morning, Aug. 27, at 10 o'clock.

Respectfully, E. M. Kkegan, M. D.,

Health Officer Montgomery County, Indiana.

Notice to Republicans.

To the Republican voters of Montgomery county:—The Republicans of Montgomery county will meet in mass conventions in the several townships of the county on the 20th day of August, 1898, at 2 o'clock p. m., at the several places named below and nominate candidates for justices of the peace and constables, to be voted for at the November election, as follows:

Coal Creek township will meet at New liichinond and nominate two justices of the peace and two constables.

Wayne township will meet at Waynetown and nominate two justices of tbo peace and two constables.

KiDloy township will meet at Alamo and nominate two justice! of the peace and two constables.

Iirown township will meet at Waveland and nominate two justices of the peace and two constables.

Scott township will meet at Center school houso and nominate two justices of the peaco and two constables.

Clark township will meet at Ladoga and nominate two justices of the peace and two constables.

Walnut township will meet at Center school house and nominate two justices of the peace and two constables.

Franklin towns tip will meet at Darlington and nominate two justices of the peace and two constables.

Sugar Creek township will meet at Center school house and nominate two justices of the peace and two constables.

Madison township will meet at Linden ana nominate two justices of tiie peace and two constables.

Lnion township will mc-et In thelarge court ri om in the court house in the city of Crawfordsville and nominate four justices of the peace and four constables.

Uy order of the County Republican Central Committee. \v. t.Fi v, Chairman. Fjied Pobehty,Secretary.

IWnrritMl On Lovert,' Leap.

An immense crowd was at the Shades last Sunday to see the L. A. W. riders from the national meet at Indianapolis. Only a few wheelmen arrived but the crowd had a good time for all that and all day

were lively. The feature of the -day was a marriage performed cn lovers' leap. The groom was. a benighted young man from Lapelle, Ind., where he is said to manage a newspaper. The bride was a girl whose sillinees was commensurate with that of the fool she tied up with. A big crowd saw the marriage and gave the young couple the horse laugh ail through the ceremony.

TROUBLEISBREEDING

Attitude of Cubans Toward Americans One of Sullen Hostility.

CLASS OF RABID ORATORS

lieApnnftihle For the Situation—Humor That tho Cuban Army Will Attack Santiago anil Capluro It as Soon as the

American Garrison Is Weakened—Advised to Ignore the Armistice.

Santiago do Cuba, Am:. 10.—Trouble with the Cubans is breeding. Their attitude is oue of sullen hostility toward Americans. The better class iu Cuba favor the annexation of the island to tho United States, and a majority of the masses are ready and anxious to work and accept tho shelter and protection afforded In* an American protectorate but they are influenced by a certain class of rabid orators and breeders of sedition and rebellion against unything smacking of law and order.

This inflammatory class demands and urges the recognition of Cuba for Cubans, and spurns all offers or suggestions tending to prosperity under an American protectorate and excites popular discontent. This is exactly the class that pushes itself most into evidence and whose views aud opinions are most overheard and published.

Their advice to the Cubans is to repudiate all offers of peace or a cessation of hostilities and to look upon an armistice as an agreement between the United States and Spain on their own account and not binding upon the free and independent state of Cuba, whose liberating army not only repudiates pacification, but will ignore the armistice to the point of continuing to wage war and shooting every Spaniard in the field.

There is a rumor afloat to the effect that the Cuban army will attack Santiago and capture it, to the glory of the Cuban arms, as soon as the American garrison is weakened. This is directly traceable to the same source.

The influence exerted by such a body of men again.- law ana order is formidable. This historical people demands suppression with an iron hand. While still in embryo their influence is already felt among certain classes who refuse to work or servo the government until a clear statement of the freedom and independence of their country is made clear.

A knowledge of this condition is imperative to the molding of future policy and to explain whatever harsh steps rendered necessary in dealing with the insurgents.

BURNING THE BODIES.

Dead Spanish Prisoners Saturatad With Kerosene and Cremated.

Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 15.—The Spanish steamer Isla De Luzon sailed yesterday for Spain, having on board 2,136 Spanish soldiers. The Isla de Panaya will probably sail today and she will be followed by tbo P. De Satrustegui. The Montevideo has arrived and will begin loading at once.

The embarkation of the prisoners is being pushed with great activity. This is rendered imperative by their horrible condition. The mortality is so great in the Spanish camp, where disease is rampant, that no longer are the dead buried. A funeral pile of 10 or 12 bodies is made, saturated with kerosene and set fire to, cremating the bodies in the open air.

The transport Breakwater sailed yesterday with the Twelfth infantry and the City of Macon with the Seventeenth regiment, and the Leona left today with Battery of the Fourth artillery, the remnants of the Ninth and Tenth cavalry, the Gatliug gun detachments aud Colonel Parker's two companies of the Thirty fourth Michigan.

The Cliuton has arrived from Tampa with medical supplies and several doctors.

Collector of Revenue's Keport.

Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 1(5.—The official report submitted to General Shafter by Collector of the Port Donaldson shows the customs revenues from July 30 to Aug. 13 to be $64,215, an excellent showing for the first fortnight of American administration. Miss Clara Barton of the Red Cross society has cabled President McKinley requesting that a vessel be given her at once for the purpose of taking relief supplies to the starving Cubans iu Havana where, according to reports, want and distress prevail.

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Washington, Aug. 16.—Acting Secretary Allen has ordered tho Prairie and Badger, now at (iuantauamo, to report to General Shafter at Santiago to bo used in transporting troops toMuntauk point. They each carry about 500. Genera! Shafter has abked lor these vessels order to hurry the embarkation of his troops.

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GOOD ROADS PROBLEM.

The State Should Aid tho Farmer la tho Construction of Highways,

"With all tho advances made within recent years in the direction of better highways there are still many who profess to believe that the cost of these improvements must necessarily fall upon the agricultural portion of our peoplo. Just as the farmer was tho pioneer settler in most of tho states, so ho has been the pioneer roadbuilder. At his town meetings ho has determined whero new roads should be laid out, which of them should bo "worked," or improved, and how much of a tax should bo oxpended upon each section. As it was left to him to plan this important work, so its expense has rested to a great degree upon his shoulders.

Now, however, when the call for macadamized highways is to be heard in city aud town alike, farmers are prone to believe that they are called upon to share the larger expense of their building. Farmers reply that they have already enough in tho way of taxes to pay without undertaking the building of elaborate systems of gravel or stone roads. It is unfair, they contend, that such a burden should be added to their already heavy load, and whatever may be undertaken in the way of constructing permanent highways should be done at the expense of those who are to reap their benefits. True it is that the saving in the cost of hauling crops would be considerable, and this saving would result almost entirely to the farmer.

This is, however, no reason for asking him to pay the entire cost of building such roads. He is not the only one to use them, because they serve to bring city people and city produots into the country as much as they servo to bring the farmers with their products into the city. The merchant who has business with the farmer is as much benefited through a good road to travel over as is the farmer who comes to town on business of any kind.

Nor is the use of the roads limited to those living in the near vicinity. The travelers from a distance share the benefits resulting from the improvements. It would bo the height of injustice to the farmer if he were asked to stand the cost of the highway movement. State aid will solve the proper division of the cost of good roads. This is the system by which tbe macadamized highways of New Jersey have been built.

GOOD ROADS IN INDIANA.

Farmers Awakening to the Necessity of Highway Improvement.

At a dinner given recently by tho state board, Commercial club and board of trade of Indianapolis for the members of tbe state board of commerce Governor James A. Mount responded to the toast "Indiana's Development." He said: "If the name Hoosier ever carried with it any reproach, that time has passed. Indiana now takes front rank among the states of the Union in the march of progress and development. Our state is interlaced with railroads and checkered by telegraph and telephone lines. During the last 20 years more than 12,000 miles of free gravel roads have been constructed. Tho toll roads, with but few exceptions, have been purchased aud made free. Good roads being absolutely essential to the higher development socially, intellectually and financially, therefore road improvement is indicative of substantial growth, and no state in the Union can point with greater pride to her roads than Indiana. "The good work has only just begun. In every county in the state the farmers are awakening to the necessity of better highways. They realize the advantages of good roads, and in almost every community they are lending their cordial support to any plan which provides for the improvement of tho roads. Hundreds of miles of dirt roads in this state are now being made into graveled turnpikes, and as this work goes on and tho different communities are connected ono with another by good graveled roads, so will Indiana develop all pf her boundless resources."

STATE ROADBUILDING.

Work Done In Massachusetts Produces Excellent Results.

In scientific construction in Massachusetts the highway commissioners find tJhat the most important part of tho work is in the reduction of the hills, as the draft over any road is, of course, measured by tho power necessary to surmount the grades. This explains in part the policy of the commission in doing its work in small sections, tho 45 miles constructed during tbe past year beiug scattered over 80 towns. The'other reason for thus scattering tho new pieces of good road is to give an important object lesson to the authorities of tho several towns. This policy is having the desired effect.

The officials of tho different municipalities havo been compelled by public opinion within their own towns to build Letter roads from the money appropriated by their towns. Tho townspeople, seeing tbe high typo of roadbuilding by the state, can iaro readily discern a poor grade road within their township.

As a result of this observation 25 towns have appropriated fairly liberal sums of money, with which they have constructed roads of the samo typo as the roads built by the state. One positive proof of the extent of the work done within the towns, outside of the state work, may be found in tho fact that, whereas in 1802 there were 27 steam rollers in use, at the end of tho year 1897 there were 125 of the same kind, and the number of stone crushers has increased in the same proportion.

Cost of Old Roads.

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HORSESHOES OF PAPER.

Attached to the Horses' Hoofs Without Mails and Better Than Iron.

A trial of paper shoes for horses Is shortly to be made in London. Enthusiasts think it will have a great effect upon the business of farriers and horso dealers. Snugly reposing in a glass showcase at J. A. W. Dollar's veterinary establishment in New Bond street is a horseshoe which looks strangely out of place in the glittering collection of shoes of all sorts, strongly nailed on to models of hoofs. The new horseshoe is made of compressed paper it requires no nails to secure It to the hoof, and, while lighter than the most fragile of racing plates, it Is claimed to be nearly as durable as the solid iron shoes which have hitherto secured to horses immunity from the effects of constant traveling over rough surfaces.

Mr. Dollar, who proposes to shoe a large number of horses, experimentally, shortly with the new shoe, which Is a German invention, says that in Berlin, where cab and carriage horses have been shod with paper shoes for some time, good success lias resulted. One of the first advantages of paper shoes for horses is the decreased cost. It is believed that a saving of 20 per cent in the actual cost of keeping horses shod can Ijo effected by the use of the new shoe. But the cost of keeling horses shod is the most inconsiderable burden of the old method, with iron shoes, with which all the world is familiar. The real tax of iron shoes is the danger of their use, from tho necessity of their being nailed in place. TheMiew paper shoes are secured with a very strong glue. It is no exaggeration to say that almost all hoof troubles are caused by improper or' careless shoeing. By far the largest part of the evils of improper shoeing come from injury to the foot through bent or misdriven nails. Thousands of valuable horses have thus been injured for life.

The facts that the new paper horseshoes can be applied by any one that they are slightly elastic, thus accommodating themselves to the natural contractions and expansions of the hoof, and axe not capable of producing hoof galls, or cuts, should one horse be kicked by another, are considered as among the other advantages which, make horse owners—if not farriers— hope for the success of tho coming experiments.—London Mail.

V. Intelligent Instructions. "I don't quite understand the latest exercise you have given the king," renarked tha Spanish queen. "You mean the one in which he selects a number and proceeds to count rapldbackward?" Inquired the tutor. •Yes." "That's to discipline his mind to that he can at all times keep account of the number of ships In his oavy."—Washington Star.

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