Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 11 January 1901 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1901.

Sknatoh McComas predicts the formation of a Socialist party in tlie United States and that Mr. Bryan will be its leader and candidate for President. lie cites Mr. Bryan's speeches in the late campaign as proof that he is already more of a Socialist than anything else.

When the grand jury meets next week it should most assuredly take time to consider the perjury cases in the Osborne murder case. Something should be done in this matter, possibly not so much in the case of those who on the witness stand acknowledged having perjured themselves previously as in the case of those who swore falsely before the coroner and whose well known capacity for perjury prevented them from being called as witnesses. Perjury is a heinous crime and there has been altogether too much of it in Montgomery county. An example should be made.

Thk senate has made considerable progress in considering the army reorganization bill, and, although no time has been set for a vote, it is believed that tlie bill will be passed during this week. The debate has compelled the opponents of the bill to acknowledge that the troops provided for in the bill are needed in the Philippines. They have been compelled to base their opposition on details of the bill, and some of them have gone so for as to propose furnishing the men in some other wa--There is no liklihood of such a proposition being accepted, however, as, with with the exception of Senator Hoar, every Republican is believed to oe prepared to vote for the bill. He is the only Republican who has spoken against it. Senator Teller rather amused his colleagues by stating that he withdrew his speech of two years ago, in which he scoffed at imperialism under the American llag. and professed to see imperialism in the acts of the Philippine commission, which is engaged in setting up civil government in the pacitied portions of the Philippines. Some of the Democrats pretend to see in the bill discrimination against the volunteer officers now in the Philippines, but that is the veriest nonsense.

TIKN'UY CLEWS,

the well known New

York financier, sees some vexing problems arising from our new industrial expansion. He says: "We cannot ignore the growing effect upon the leading commercial nations of the new and effective industrial competition coming from the United States, it is not so much a matter of the present volume of this new competition, as it is the effect of the full revelation of what may be soon expected. Germany, already in the throes of a reaction from excessive over-production of goods and of overcreation of industrial corporations, sees Americans entering the markets on which she has most centered her hopes and producing leading staples at lower prices than any other countries: and the nation so recently hoasting of its .••••progress is now deeply alarmed at inevitable invasions upon its industries.

A similar feeling of alarm, though less intense, is appearing in Great Britain also. These symptoms of change, must from this time for .vard chill the spirit of European enterprise and produce a certain measure of collapse, with which business interests on this side the Atlantic must more or less sympathize: for we cannot invade the territory of our competitors without sharing in the consequences. Thus, no sooner has the nineteenth century placed us in a position of vantage in the world's competition. than we have to face a set of new and perplexing problems growing out ol the largeness of our successes."

Married.

Bert Cedears and Ida May Whitaker, of Waynetown, were married by 'Squire Stilwell at his home 700 south Walnut street, at two o'clock on Wednesday.

It has been fully demonstrated that Ely's Cream Balm is a specific for nasal catarrh and cold in the head. This dis tinction has been achieved only as the reBult of continued successful use. A morbid condition of the membrane in the nasal passages can be cured by this purifying and healing treatment. Sold by druggists or it will be mailed for 50 cents by Ely Brothers, .06 Warren street, New York. It spreads over the membrane, is absorbed and relief is immediate.

IN CALIFORNIA.

A. W. Wilson Writes Interestingly of Their Trip to the Golden Gate.

Tut.hr Editor Tlie Journal.

Selma, Fresno County, Gal., Dec. 2t, WOO.—In accordance with a number of promises made before leaving home, we will try to give through Thk Jour­

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TERMS Of SCBSCHIl'TION.

some report of our journey from Indiana to the Golden Gate and other points on this side of the great divide. We left home on Nov. 25, driving to Odell, that wo might be ready to start the following morning with our broth-er-in-law. John F. Bortnn and family. The morning1 of the 20th was cold and cloudy, ground frozen, and we drove nine miles through a still' northwest wind to Attica where we took the train. After securing tickets, checking our baggage, etc., we were confronted with the usual intelligence that our train was an hour late. It had run into a freight train that attempted to cross in front of it, picked up two cars and smashed them up at either side of the engine. Both trains were moving slowly, however, and no one was hurt. We bought some accident policies and left with our friends to soften their grief in case we wound up in a wreck, and finally, at 10:.'i0, we made the start on No. over the Wabash via St. Louis to Kansas City. In a few minutes we were speeding through the fertile lields of Illinois. The ground looked very black and the roads very muddy. The streets of the various small towns through which we passed appeared much like the roads. The clouds soon broke and the afternoon was bright and it soon became warmer. Our route took us through Danville, Decatur and Granite City to St. Louis, which we reached at !i:20 p. m.

We passed some beautiful farming lands in Illinois, and although much of the corn had been injured by too great a rain fall, some of it was remarkably good and farmers claimed that it was making ninety bushels per acre. Southern Illinois shows te largest acreage of winter wheat, with the best prospect of any section seen east of California. The town or city most interesting to us thus far is Granite City, which appears to be almost exclusively a manufacturing town, containing many large factories which contrast sharply with the shacks and small cottages scattered over a large area. It appears to have all the modern improvements such as electric cars, water works and electric lights. Our train lingered at St. Louis much too long to please us, for we wished to go as far before dark as possible, and little of the great city can be seen from the central d-jpot. Finally we moved on and had a good view of the city from the west.

We passed over nearly one hundred miles of Missouri before dark, and we think it makes good its reputation suggested by a common pronunciation of its name. There appeared little evidence of enterprise either in country or town. The greater portion of the land seems to be uncultivated, much of it covered with brush and scrub oaks. To be sure the greater part of the state was passed after dark and may appear better than this. We reached Kansas City at ten o'clock and to our delight found our train awaiting us, although we were much behind time. We now took the Burlington route via St. Joseph and southern Nebraska to Denver. We had tried both at Crawfordsville and Attica to get tickets that would take us by way of Jiardy and Superior, but the agent at both places said they could not sell us tickets over that road, and that our train would go via Lincoln. However, after passing St. Joseph we secured a folder and' soon found that we were going just where we wished, and atonce arranged with the conductor for stop-over privileges, and just as day dawned on Tuesday morning we left the train at Hart, Nebraska, a small town within sight of the Kansas line, hired a livery rig and drove six miles over into Republic ___ county, Kansas. to make a short visit with a brother-in-law, Jas. N. Albertson, a

Montgomery county boy, who was raised in the vicinity of Yountsville, his good wife being a Black Creek girl, Mariamna, the oldest daughter of Rev. Abram Utter, and sister of Dr. J. A. I'tter, of Crawfordsville. We gave them a complete surprise, which was not longS'premeditated, but none the less intense. Remained only one day and night, which time was pleasantly spent in looking over the neighborhood, talking of the prospects of the west and of old times in Hoooierdom. Mr. Albertson's farm consists of KiO

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acres^of the finest land in Republic county. He had twelve hundred bushels of splendid corn in crib and a lot of shock corn still out, although he said that chintz bugs and drouth combined cut the crops one-half short.

On Wednesday morning, Nov. 28, we drove to Hardy before daylight to find that No. 13 was an hour late again. The hour was passed in pleasant conversation and so seemed short. Now we were again on our way for a full day's ride over the broad plateau, extending through western Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado, up to Denver and the American Cordilleras, and known in geography as the Great Plains. The stretch of agricultural country between Hardy and Superior, with its good farm houses, orchards and level fields is hard to beat anywhere. Fine farms are seen on every hand, bub as we travel west the country changes, gradually, from agriculture to grazing. Large herds of cattle and horses begin to appear and although in many places the grass seems.short and dry to the starvation point, some good looking stock is seen. Nearly all of the fat cattle had already been shipped east, and the ranchers were just returning in good spirits over the high prices realized. The prevailing breed of cattle on the plains, along this route at least, is the white-faced Hereford. But an old cowboy from northwestern Kansas told us that the Polled Angus, with its long woolly hair, is the best breed for that climate, and many black cattle were mixed up with the others in places.

Our train reached McCook, Neb., at 12:l(i and left at 11:21. We had neglected to take our lunch and so had to turn our watches back an hour and wait :S9 minutes for dinner time to come again. Here is the land of the dugout and sod house, and many of each may be seen. In some places the only evidence of a house in sight is a stove pipe protruding from a hillside or upon the level plain. Prom this city on for more than a hundred miles, towns, as well as houses become less frequent, and the unbroke pvairie, almost as level as a tloor inmost places, stretches away almost as far as the eye can reach and looks as though eternal silence reigns supreme, unbroken save by "the rattling noise of the passing train and the occasional screech of the locomotive whistle, which seldom needs to blow. Now and then maybe seen at one view three or four ranch houses which, perhaps, are situated miles apart, but are located within sight of each other in order that the occupants may be neighborly (?). But the scene that elicits one's sympathies is that of an isolated dwelling whose inmates apparently have no companionship whatever, except a few domestic animals and by night howling wolves and coyotes. One is impressed with the utter loneliness of such a habitation and by the superhuman courage displayed by a family that can consent to face such conditions for the hope of a comfortable home somewhere in the dim, dismal, distant future. How eagerly the children look for the coming of the daily train, and how joyful they seem if some passenger but raise the window and wave at them as the cars lly past. We could only feel sad to see children growing up with such small opportunities. GBut on the other hand, in our imagination we drew the more cheerful picture of unnumbered thousands of happy boys and girls who will some day live upon these now treeless wastes, enjoying cooling shades and magnificent crops of the world's best products when enterprising men and women have transformed this dry, though fertile, soil into splendid farms and gardens, and produced beautiful, ornamental and useful trees and shrubs, and built neat and comfortable cottages, ideal homes. This will all be possible when Uncle Sam has erected immense reservoirs in which to store up the waters from the melting snows and ice in the mountains, so that it may be used judiciously when needed to water the fields and thirsty vegeta tion.

Alfalfa seems to be a God send to all sterile regions of the west. Wherever a little water can be had for irrigation, or where the ground is at all moistened by rain, snow, or fogs, it is raised and used as forage, or hay for all kinds of stock. Even hogs are fattened on it without grain, and many thus fed are shipped direct to market and slaughtered. It is the basis of a good living for many a family

Upon the whole the great plains are much more level than we had imagined, although we had before been as far west as Ellis and Graham counties in western Kansas.

AtWray, a small Colorado town, a brokenifreight engine delayed us more than an hour, which delay cheated us out of part of our daylight ride, tbrowing our train into Denver late at night, where we'remained two nights and one day. We fspent Thanksgiving day sightseeing.tTooktourists' trolley car, with a humorous guide, who pointed out all places of interest, stopping the car while he delivered his short lectures. He started out by telling us that Denver before the :-census was taken, had a populationiof 200,000, but now it contains only 133,000. Denver has so often been described by much more able writers that we shall not attempt an

THE CRAWFORDSVILLE WEEKLY JOURNAL.

extended discription. We had pictured it among the foot hills, and so the site, like the great plains, is more level than we thought, while the nearest foot hills are fifteen miles distant, a statement entirelytincredible to one looking upon them^for the first time. If we had been told that they were five miles away, we should have thought the distance doubled by exaggeration. So our first view of thefgrandest mountains on the American continent was a little disappointing, and it was only after contemplating the long range of the view, 6hat we could comprehend its graudeur. It was the first time in our lives that we had been permitted to look upon objects one hundred miles away. It was the perfect day for which Denver is noted. The air seemed remarkably pure and bracing, and ths guide said the beautiful waters of the Platte are made up of the tears of eastern people, shed because they cannot stay there forever, We took snap shots of the capitol jand a number of other fine public buildings, and from Capitol Hill took a picture of the Tower city with the mountains for aback ground. We also visited the smelters where much of the ore from the mines of Colorado is treated. Thus we ended the day and prepared to move on by day runs over what is known as "The Great Scenic Route,•' through the Grand and Black canyons, and over Marshall Pass to Salt Lake City, which we will try to describe in a future article.

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Yours truly,

Albert W. Wilsox.

ROAD SUPERINTENDENTS.

Senator Johnston's Bill Provides Their Appointment.

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Tndianapolis Journal: William H. Johnston, of Crawfordsville, Democratic joint senator from the counties of Montgomery and Putnam, has arrived at the Grand hotel with a valise full of bills which he will introduce at the request of constituents. "I'm plentifully supplied with prospective legislation," said Mr. Johnston last night, "and I've half an idea that I've got a lot more of it than I will ever be able to get through.

One of the most important measures in the hands of Senator Johnston is a bill to change the system of maintaining gravel roads. The bill was written by Peter S. Kennedy, farmer and lawyer, of Crawfordsville. Mr. Kennedy prepared the bill at the request of the farmers' institute of Montgomery county. Whatever Mr. Kennedy does he does well, it is said of him. and his gravel road bill may be considered an important measure. "Under the present law the gravel roads are looked after by the supervisors of districts," a id oh to in an at on the bill. They receive small pay for their work, and of course they can't be expected to devote their time to it as if they were better paid and had nothing else to look after. This new bill will provide for a superintendent of gravel roads for each county whose business it will be to take care of these roads. He will let all the contracts for supplies for keeping the roads in good repair and will award these contracts by the year. The office will ye an appointive one. Mr. Kennedy and the farmers of Montgomery county are greatly interested in the measure."

Mr. Johnston will also introduce a bill providing for a license for telegraph operators. The bill will require them to take an examination before receiving a license that will permit them to work as telegraphers. It is understood that the telegraphers' organization of the state is behind the measure and that it is really in the interests of union labor.

Death of Mrs. Omer Cox.

Mrs. Lora A. Cox, wife of Omer Cox, died on Tuesday at the family home near Freedom church in Brown township. bhe had been ill only a few days with peritonitis. She was a daughter of Thomas P. Patton.of Brown's Valley. The funeral took place at Freedom Thursday afternoon at one o'clock.

Preliminary Continued.

The preliminary of Joe Douglas was set for Wednesday but was continued until Friday morning at 10 o'clock upon motion of the defense, Attorney W. A. Swank being too ill to appear. 1 A. B. Anderson has been retained by the defendant's father to assist.

A Proposed Highway. v,

The county commissioners Monday acted on the Mary L. Denmau et al. proposed highway. Thomas Sutton, Sanford Nutt, and J. F. Boots wore appointed as viewers.

How's This?

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Viewers Appointed.

The commissioners Tuesday passed on the proposed Henry Tenant road in Brown township to which Aaron Graham and others made such vigorous objections. Thomas West, David Remley, and Fred Gardner were appointed as viewers.

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We Call Yot»r Attention

Bertrand E. May,

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ABSTRACTS' OF TITLE.

Are now required by carerul business men in all real estate deals and examinins: attorneys are demanding more complete showing of the records, so it is more diflicult now lo make a satisfactory abstract than ever. I can truly claim to have tlie Ion-jest experience and the best equipped abstract facilities, as well as the best abstract clerk in Montgomery county and will guarantee the correctness of'all my work. Kates less than charged in any of the adjoining counties. A. C. JKNNISON, The Abstracter.

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In addition to the transaction of legal business this office buys and sells real estate on commission, and loans money. The office is supplied with a large list of very desirable property, Including'fnrms from 10 to 320 acres in this and adjoining counties, for sale or trade. Houses and lots in all parts of the city, ranging in price from $400 to 17,000 vacant lots in Whitlock Place, Schultz & Hulet's addition, and in other parts of the city. Also some very desirable business locations and suburban tracts.

Try our job printing department and get first class work at reasonable prices.

reduced prices on holiday pictures will prevail. Take advantage of the low rates now and get first class work, which is the only kind we turn out.

From |1.50 a dozen up.

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have several handsome ones that are going to be sold cheap. All the best sleighing of the winter is yet to come and it is a good idea to be reody for it. If you don't want a sleigh buy a buggy. I have the reputation of selling the best things in the vehicle line in the city, and my long experience has taught me a thing or two about the business. Seeing me first will put dollars in your pocket.

A. S. MILLER.

124 N. Washington St.

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End of the Season.

We are now at the end of the regular selling season. We have gathered together ends of lots of SLITS. OVERCOATS and TROUSERS and propose to close them out at such attractive prices as will give an opportunity to people with the slenderest purses to own the best Clothing that it is possible to produce.

especially to the fact that while there is no complete line of sizes in any one pattern, there is a perfect assortment of sizes at each price, so that every man, no matter what his size or proportion, can be properly fitted, liven among the best there is always a first choice, therefore the early comers are apt to get the best pickings.-

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