Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 28 June 1901 — Page 2

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WEEKLY JOURNAL.

ESTABLISHED EST 1848^ Successor to The Record, the first paper in Crawfordsville, established In 1831, and to the People's Prut, established In 1844.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1901.

THE number of new national banks which the west is getting shows the popularity of the system under which they are organized. The day when a big party in the west could get votes on a cry of "Down with the national banks" has gone forever.

CIVIL government and American schools is now the demand of the Filipino ex-insurgents. This a change in demeanor which is creditable to America's new wards. They are showing a temper that is admirably calculated to secure them many political favors from the United States.

ON the emigration and immigration movement England is losing population. In 1900 43,000 more persons left England than entered that country, which was double the emigrant excess of 1899. Nevertheless, the number of England's inhabitants is increasing. The increase comes through the excess of births over deaths. For an old country England is making a reasonably rapid growth. Yet the excess of emigrants over immigrants in that country, and the increase in this excess, are circumstances which English publicists will not like. England, however, is very far from being on the decline.

THE war department hopes to be able to submit plans for legislation to congress, at the next session, that will result in closer relations between the national guard of the states and the general government, and in more clearly defining the status of the national guard. At present, the status of the national guard is such that when a young man enlists therein, he can have no clear understanding of what his duties or responsibilities toward the national government are, who can order him out in time of war or where he may be ordered. It is by no means an easy problem, but the department hopes, with the co-operation of the officers of the national guard, to reach a solution that will be satisfactory enough to be approved by congress. It is desired that the national guard shall be an auxiliary of the regular army, which can at once be put in the field when there is necessity therefor, without the delays which occurred at the beginning of the war with Spain.

POWER FROM RIVERS.

Among the most striking features of the Buffalo exposition is the use of power generated at Niagara Falls and transmitted over wires. The largeness of the example impresses every visitor and raises the question why the idea of obtaining power from water courses is not applied more extensively. As a matter of fact the system is making steady progress. Street cars in Buffalo have been run by electricity sent from Niagara since 1898. Idaho has mines worked by electricity sent over thirty miles of wire. A suburb of San Francisco is running street cars propelled by electricity generated on the Yuba river, 140 miles away, and the same current has been successfully extended to San Jose, 190 miles from the Yuba. A large company has been formed to construct a $5,000,000 electric plant on the Susquehanna river, tho object being to distribute power in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Wilmington and other places in a radius of 100 miles. Large works to produce electricity by water power are going up at the outlet to Lake Superior, on the American side, and at Massena, N. Y., on the St. Lawrence.

The possibilities of rivers have been much neglected during the last forty years. They are vast storehouses of power as well as arteries of navigation susceptible to immense improvement. Enormous masses of water are constantly descending from the mountains and tablelands to the sea. Nature sends it onward by gravitation and returns it by evaporation to its starting place. The process is perpetual. Coal may fail, but water power will not. The United States geological survey is wisely studying the rivers, the size of their drainage area, their average amount of rain, the volume of flow and the location of water power and dam sites. It is a commendable, valuable and timely work.

Canal* in Hearanly Bodies.

Considerable doubt has boen thrown upon the suppoeed artificial origin of tbo Martian Canals by the discovery tkat they cross the polar oaps, and «lao by their reported detection in V#nuB, Mercury and two of Jupiter's satellites.

THE LOSS OF LIFE

In the West Virginia Flood Not So Great As First Reported.

DETAILS COMING IN

Conservative Estimates 1'lace the Number of Dead In the Valley At About Fifty.

Loss of Property About tlie Mines and to Railway Will Be Very Heavy.,

Bluolield, W. Va, June 26.—The West Virginia llood situation has not many new developments, but it is authentically stated that the loss of life has boon greatly overestimated, although the loss of property can hardly be estimated. The most conservative estimate obtainable places the loss of life at about f»u, a greater part of whom are colored miners and their families. A great many more are missing and are supposed to have been swept away. There are great piles of debris and it will take many days to lind all the bodies. The Norfolk and Western Railway company will lose, at a conservative lystimate, $000.000, not taking into cons-ideration the delay of traflie. etc. Their double track is practically washed away for a distance of six miles, and at least 8.500 men are at work day and night repairing roadbed ami removing drift. The Cumberland valley electric light car has arrived and will be used to prosecute the work at night. It will be four clays before any traffic can be resumed. The loss to the coal operators will reach about $-400,000 outside of the delay at the mines in loading. etc.. The property loss by private parties is very heavy and cannot be estimated at this time. It is thought it will reach the million dollar mark. General Boggs and Colonel Hudson of Governor White's staff have arrived to hold a conference with the general superintendent of the Norfolk and Western railroad to ascertain what assistance is needed by state authorities. The wires are deluged with press work and hundreds of messages are received hourly from anxious friends in all parts of the United States inquiring about, relatives and friends. Until traffic is resumed and communications opened it will be impossible to estimate with any decree of certainty either the loss of life or property.

FUUTHKIi DETAILS

Gruesome Cause for First Kcparts of Loss of Life.

Roanoke, Vn.} June —Persons coming in from the llood-stricken district in West Virginia place the number of drowned at UO persons, out have no dellnite or detailed information on which to base the estimate. It is said there that the coal lields will not be able to ship any coal for the next 30 days. The coal trade will sutler almost incalculable loss as a result of the washed-out tracks and damages to machinery.

A man arriving here from the stricken section gives as an explanation of the report first circulated that great masses of human bodies were to be soen floating around in the water, that there is a graveyard between Northfork Junction and Keystone, which towns are about a mile apart, and at which point the storm was very severe. This graveyard is near the bank of the river. When the flood came the graves gave up tueir dead and added greatly to the number of bodies seen.

J. B. Frances, a lioanoke man, who is in Keystone and who was tirst reported dead, has the following to say about the disaster in a letter to his wife: "A big flood visited the town last Friday night. Everybody had to go up on the mountain. Men, women and children were drowned in the streets and houses went floating down the streams with people in them. All our crowd are safe. We are entirely cut off from the outside world and provisions arc getting short. There is now nb water in the town." Another letter from Keystone says between 10 and 15 people were drowned and 40 houses washed away at that place. The people are hard at work clearing up the town and repairing damaged buildings.

At Cedar Bluff, 10 miles west of Tazewell, 17 dwelings were swept away, but no lives were lost. At Pounding Mill four lives were lost, Mr. Tate, aged 30, Mrs. Hoops and two children. Knobs, a little town seven miles west, was almost completely destroyed. Ravens, two miles west, was badly damaged and many business house were destroyed. The damage to country roads will be not less than $50,000.

Ohio Will Help.

Columbus, O., June 2G.—Governor Nash has issued an appeal to the people of Ohio for relief for the flood suffererB of West Virginia.

He Will Formally Apologize. Shanghai, June 2G.—Prince Chun, brother of the emperor of China, who has been selected to proceed to Berlin and there formally apologize for the murder at Pekln in June last of Baron VonKetteler, the German minister to China, sails for Europe July 20.

AT Tftlfl CAPITAL.

Some Current Gossip ol' General State Interest. Indianapolis, June 20.—Ex-Repre-sentative J. II. Terliune, one of Anderson's must prominent and wealthy citizens, is here. He says: "Anderson is very prosperous. 1 do not know of a single vacant dwelling or business room in the city, and good properly can hardly be bought at any price, while such real estate sales as are made are on a basis of three or four times what the same property would have brought three or four years ago. The greatest, wave of prosperity in its history has struck our city. Mr. Terhuue was asked if he believes there is any basis for the report that Gov ernor Durbin is assisting Indianapolis negroes to get places in political offices in Andersou to the exclusion of Anderson negroes. "There is not a thing in that report," he said, positively. "Mr. Durbin doesn't meddle with our own local affairs. Mr. Durbin has a lot more sense than Some people outside of our own city seem to give him credit for. 1 have known him for many years and never knew liim to do many foolish things." Mr. Terliune said he does not. believe that either George F. McCulloch or Charles L. Ilenry will Lo a candidate for the United Stat.es senate. "It should be understood, however," he said, "thai: George F. AlcCulloch has got a great big head and if he concludes to run he will have a strong following. I believe, however, that he would rallior direct how political affairs shall be managed than to hold any office himself. and 1 have no doubt that he is going to try to dictate who shall bo the next Republican nominee for congress in the Eighth district. I have no idea who lii.s hoice may be for the pl.ure.''

Jes*e rariiienter. a leading politician of Wabash, wmle here yesterday afternoon. took occasion to liomiuate Newton W. Gilbert for governor and Frank B. Slants for lieutenant governor. He said: "That is my tickei Gilbert and Shuns—and you will see that by the time of (he convention the Republicans of Indiana will come around to my way of thinking. Neither the extreme northern nor the extreme southern part of Indiana lias received its share from previous Republican state conventions, and both extremes are represented by my ticket. Both Gilbert and Siiutts are clean, upright youmr men, and the young men are going to control the convention. The old men will vote the ticket anyway, so we may as well make up our minds to accept Gilbert and Shutts. Mr. Shutts is the only Republican lawyer in Aurora, and in the race lie made for the nomination for lieutenant governor last year lie introduced himself to Republicans and won many friends."

Auditor of State W. II. Hart, who 'has been trying to recuperate at Atlantic City for a few weeks, has written to Cyrus W. Neal. chief of the insurance department, that he is recovering rapidly. The insomnia which caused grave alarm has almost disappeared. and Captain Ilart writes: "I sleep well now—considering my conscience." 1-Ie lias been taking frequent plunges in ttie salt water and feels like a new man. He writes that he will return the latter part of this week.

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Senator Fairbanks has consented to attend the camplire to be given by the Indiana Sons of Veterans at Muncie on July 2. The senator has stacks of invitatious to address Fourth of July celebrations from Kansas to Virginia, college commencements, Chautaqua clubs and old settlers' meetings, but of course he can accept only a limited number of them.

A Community Aroused.

Muncie, lnd., June 20.—A 15-year-old waiter girl, Georgia Davis, went to the police station yesterday and told how she had been assaulted two weeks ago by the same gang of men on trial for the alleged assault of Letha Puckett. She said they told her they would kill her if she told the authorities. There are strong threats of lynching the six men if the courts do not punish them severely.

EAST HOG HEAVEN. John Brain sports anew buggy. Susan Brown was in Ladoga [last Monday.

Pearl Alward spent Sunday wtth relatives north of Mace. James Chafin will go with Hinkle's threshing machine this year.

I. N. Vannice and M. E. Beard were in Crawfordsville last Saturday. Theodore Johnson delivered a load of hogs at Mace last Monday at $5.50.

Several from here attended the com mencement at Mace last Saturday night.

J. N. Vannice and wife attended the Odd Fellows' decoration at Salem last Sunday.

Harvey Minnich is seen going north on Sunday evenings. Wonder what's the attraction?

Arthur Brown will soon be seen out among them in anew buggy. "You'll have to hurry." v-

Hello! Rural Route No. 1. What's the matter, we have not heard from you for some time?

Frank Randal and family and Frank Walkup and family visited Guy Evans north of Mace Sunday.

Theodore Johnson was in Crawfordsville Monday after a load of lumber for Johnny Hugelheim, of Mace.

The storm last Saturday did considerable damage through here. Several trees and fences were blown down and the hail cut the corn badly.

GREAT bargains in millinery at the Big Store this week. L. BISCHOF

THE CRAWFORDSVILLE WEEKLY JOURNAL.

Waves of Indian Oo«an

Lieutenant Paris of the French navy In making a scientific measurement of waves in the Indian ocean, during a northwest gs.lc, found that thirty averaged twenty-nine and one-half feet in height. Six of these, following one another with perfect regularity, measured thirty-seven and one-half feet.

Wabash Special Kates.

San Francisco, Cal. On account Epworth League convention, tickets will be sold July 5th to 13th inclusive, final return limit August 31st, 1901. Rate 852.60 round trip.

Detroit,. Mich. National educational association, tickets on sale July 8th and 9th, return limit July 15th. Upon payment of 50c to joint agent, ticket may be extended until September 1st, 1901. Rate $9.40.

Rome City, lnd. On account of the Island Park assembly the Wabash will sell tickets to Rome City, July 23d to August 15th inclusive. Final return limit August 17th. Rate $3.85 round trip.

For detailed information call on or address THOS. FOLLEN, Passenger Agent, Lafayette, lnd.

Bigr Four Excursions.

Winona Lake tickets now on 9ale, $3.85 round trip. Good 15 days. $5.15 round trip good until Sept. 15.

One way settlers' rates to points in the south on first and third Tuesdays of each month. $34.10 round trip to Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colorado. To Glenwood Springs, $12 additional. To Ogden and Salt Lake City, Utah, $13.00 additional. Dates of sale, June 18th to 30th, and July 10th to August 31st, inclusive. Return limit, Oct. 31. Stop overs allowed. $29.80 round trip to Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Col. To Glenwood Springs $10 additional. To Ogden and Salt Lake City $15 additional. Dates of sale July 1st to 9th, and Sept. 1st to 10th inclusive. Stop over privileges.

Children under 12 half the adult rate on any of the above excursions. W. J. FLOOD, Agent,

Crawfordsville, lnd.

Vandalia Special Rates.

To Evansville, lnd., June 29 and 30. Knights of Honor. Good to return July 1. Oue fare, $4.90, round trip.

To everywhere, July 3 and 4, good to return July fth. One fare, 25 cents and over.

Pan-American, every day except Sunday. To Put-In Bay, Mich., June 30 and July 1 and 2. Music teachers' association. One rare round trip. Good to return to July 8.

San Francisco, Epworth League, sell July 5 to 12. Have until July 18 to reach San Francisco. $52 85 round trip.

To San Francisco, California, $52 85. Sell July 5th to 12th. Our Golden Gate special runs July 8th. Get leaflet at Vandalia station. Everything you need is on this train.

To Denver, Colo. Sell July 1 to July 9, $29.80. Good to return to October 31. Also cheap rates to many other points, same state.

To Put-In-Bay, Ohio. Sell July 1 and 2. One fare. Return to July 8. To Terre Haute July 3, 4, and 5. Return July 6. One fare, $1.60, account Terre Haute races.

To Detroit, July li and S. Good to return July 9 to 15. May be extended to September 1. $9.1)5 and deposit fee 50c

We now make good connections at Plymouth for Warsaw, Winona Lake, and Ft. Wayne.

Our Saturday-Monday Lake Maxinkuckee train begins running Saturday, June 29. Fare, $2.90 round trip.

Monon Special Excursion Rates.

On account of the Island Park Assembly, Rome City, lnd., July 24th to Aug. 15th, the Monon will sell special round trip tickets to Rome City at rate of one first class limited fare tickets, good going July 24th to Aug. 15th, good returning to and including Aug. 17th, 1901.

On account of the Christian Culture assembly, LaPorte, (Pine Lake) lnd., July 28th to Aug. 4th, the Monon will sell special excursion tickets to LaPorte, lnd., and return at rate of $3 35. Tickets good going July 28th to Aug. 4th, inclusive, good returning to and including Aug. 5th.

On account of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew international convention, Detroit, Mich., July 24th to 28th, the Monon will sell special excursion tickets to Detroit, Mich., at rate of $7.95 for round trip. Tickets will be sold July 24th and 25th. Tickets returning will be good leaving Detroit not earlier than July 25th nor later than July 31st, except that by depositing ticket with joint agent between July 25th and 31st, and paying him a fee of 50 cents at time of deposit, an extension of the return limit may be obtained to and including Aug. 15th.

On account of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 6th to 10th, the Monon will sell special excursion tickets to Cincinnati, Ohio, and return at rate of $4.60. Tickets will be sold July 5th, 6th and 7th. Tickets will be good to return leaving Cincinnati not earlier than July 8th nor later than July 14th, and will require execution by joint agent at Cincinnati by depositing ticket on or before July 11th and paying him a fee of fifty cents at time of deposit, tickets may be extended to leave Cincinnati to and including Aug 31st.

On account of the Fourth of July holiday the Monon will sell special excursion tickets to all points within a distance of 200 miles at rate of one first class limited fare for the round trip. Tickets good going July 3rd and 4th, returning to and including July 5tH.

On account of the Elks' (B. P. O. E.) grand lodge, Milwaukee, Wis., July 23rd to 25th, the Monon will sell tickets to Milwaukee, Wis., and return at rate of $8.95. Tickets sold July 21st, 22nd and 23rd. Tickets returning leaving Milwaukee not earlier than July 23rd nor later than July 27 th. Tickets will require execution by joint agent to whom a fee of 50 cents must be paid by depositing ticket with joint agent not earlier than July 23rd nor later than July 27th, and paying a fee of 50 cents an extension of the return limit to leave Milwaukee to and including August 10th may be obtained.

C. H. WASSON, Agent.

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These Prices Will Interest You.

2 packages Pearlinc $ .06 1 lb Old Dominion coffee 10 1 lb. Wabash coffee 10 1 a. XXXX coffee .12 1 BO. Lion coffee .12 1 lb. Arbuekles coffee 12 1 lb. corn starch 06 1 can good corn .05 1 can plums .05 1 can string beans 05 1 can tomatoes 08 lb. Town Talk baking powder 06 1 lb. Cash Fry's baking powder 07 1 lb. B. & C. baking powder .08 1 lb. Climax baking powder 12 lb Royal baking powder 28 1 lb. Royal .45 1 lb. navy beans .05 1 can red kidney beans 05

Express Wagons and Velocipedes

For all size boys at all size prices.

Jo I Block, IS') 8. Washington iSt

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made by those who purchased Oil Stocks the Right Oil Dis­

trict at the Right Time at the Right Price, managed by the Right People.

IRST ALLOTMENT OF TREASURY STOCK,

the proceeds of the sale of which will be expended on the development oi the Company's different properties. Contracts for the drilling of wells have been let, and work will be commenced at once. The recognized oil area is being rapidly extended, the recent discoveries having extended tho limits of the country, including Texas, Tennessee, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Kansas and West Virginia.

WHY YOU SHOULD BUY THiS STOCK.

Because the Company owns leases on 40,000 acres of land in the greatest oil district of the states noted above.

Because the money you now A invest will be spent in developing the Company's various properties.

Because those who buy stock at a low pricc make enormous profits when the ihares appreciate in value and .ell at or above par.

This stock now selling at

TWENTY CENTS PER SHARE

will, when the money so derived is expended on the development now planned, sell at $1.00 per share or more. The sale of Treasury Stock at the price (twenty cents per share) is limited, after which the price will be advanced.

This Stock

Is

Fall Paid

and Non-Assessable. Wire or write us the number of shares you wish. No order for less than 50 shares will be accepted. Send check, draft or money order payable to the secretary*

WHITE OS FOB FELL INFORMATION.

The Lightest Running and Strongest Btrilt Mill

"IN THE MARKET TO-DAY IS

The Star

T3ANDS and braces every five feet on tower, and full bull and roller bearing. We sell tliem as cheap as cheaper mills, because we buy them in car lots, and can Rive you any size you want at once. Pumps, Tanks and Pipe at lowest prices.

T.T*Hot*lelian

127 N. Wash. St.

1 tb. Michigan butter crackers 1 lb. broken rice 1 1b. good rice ......" 1 box Premium oats 8 boxes Quaker oats 1 lb. Arm & Hammer soda 1 lb cracked hominy 1 lb. Velvet starch ... 1 lb. good prunes 8 lb. evaporated apples 4 lb. dried apples 26 lbs. John's Best Hour 50 lbs. 25 lbs. Queen flour

50 lbs. 9 bars Star City soap 9 bars Star soap 9 bars Jaxon soap

Wide-a-Wake Store

SPECIAL THIS WEEK.

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And we have other bargains"

Fry,

White dinner sets, reduced from 8c to

and ends from the harness and buggy store will be offered at reduced prices to rlosp ™.t consisting of cotton fly nets, sun curtains, 1 boys' saddle and riding bridle" open biimrv bridle, buggy lines, strap work, and a great variety of saddles, hardware, harness .'tV Many of these goods we will continue to carry in a regular way, at much reduced prices We mri interest vou in those goods. vc tun

WIDE-A-WAKE STORE.

THE FAIR

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Ohio & Indiao\aL Oil Company

LOGANSPORT, IND.

Capital Stock, $1,000,000 Shares. $1.00 Each

F\ill Pa.id a.rvd Non-Assessable

This Company owns and controls over 40,000 acres of carefully selected Oil Lands in the Great Oil Belts of Texas, Indiana, Ohio, Kansas. Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia. Active operations already commenced. The stock of this Company offers inducementssurrounded by safe-guards which cannot be secured in any other company now operating in the oil fields at such favorable terms.

OFFICERS:

President— I-'liANK B. WILKINSON.

Secretary and Treasurer Logansport Foundry Company. Vice-President— B. F. Keesling, Capitalist, Logansport, lnd.

Treasurer—W. W. Ross,

Cashier First National Bank, Logansport, lnd. Secretary—S. M. Velsey, Investment Banker and Broker, Logansport, lnd.

DIRECTORS:

J. D. S. Neely, Lima, Ohio. W. D. Pratt, Indianapolis, lnd. A. P. Jenks, Logansport, lnd.

B. F. Keesling, Logansport, lnd. F. B. Wilkinson, Logansport, lnd. J,. W. W. Ross, Logansport. Ind.

J. G. Powell, Logansport, Ind.

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S. M. Velsey, Logansport, Ind. J. B. Shultz, Logansport, lnd* J. F. Troutman, Logansport, Ind.

John C. Dewenter, Logansport, Ind. Jas. T. Cockburn, Logansport, Ind. FIELD MANAGEMENT: L. G. Neely, President The Neely Clover Co.,

Oil Producers, St. Marys, Ohio.

J, D. S. Neely, Gen'l Supt., Ohio and Indiana Consolidated Natural and Illuminating Gas Co., Lima, OE. R. Curtin, Former General Manager Manhattan

Oil Company, Lima, Ohio.

A. P* Jenks, Local Manager Logansport and Wabash Valley Gas Company, Logansport, Ind. F. B. Wilkinson, President Indiana Hub Block Company,

Marion, Ind., and Secretary and Treasurer Logansport Foundry Company, Logansport, Ind. REFERENCES First National Bank, City National Bank, Logansport

State Bank, Logansport. Ind«

For Full Information Write or Apply to

S. M. VELSEY, Secretary, Logvuport, Ind.