Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1885 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME IX.

THE DEMOCRATIC SENTINEL. A DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, Jas. W. McEwen. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year SI.W» Six months 75 hree months 50 Advertising Rates. One column, one year, SBO 00 Half column, “ 40 o) Quarter " 30 ot) Eighth “ “ 10 oo Ten per ceot. added to foregoing price if advertisements are set to occupy more than .Angle column width. Fractional parts of a year at equitable rates Business cards not exceeding l inch space, f 5 a year; $3 for six months; $ 2 for three All legal notices and advertisements at established statute price. Reading notices, first publication 10 cents -* fine; each publicati on thereafter s cents a ane. yearly ndveitisements may be changed quarterly (once in three months) at the option of the advertiser, free of extia charge. Advertisements for persons not residents of Jasper county, must be paid for in advance of first pnblic vtion. when less than one-quarter column in size; aud quarterly n advance when larger.

MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE, Attorney-at-Law RENSSKLAEB, .... IVDIANA Practices fin thb Courts of Jasper and adoinlng counties. Makes collections a specialty. Office on north side of Washington street, opposite Court House- vml SIMON P. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselaer, - . Indiana Practice in all the Courts. MARION L. SPITLER, Collector and Abstractor. We pay j irticular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. v 2 niß FRAJK W. B iICOCK, Attorney at Law And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtor \nd Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. Collections a. Specialty. JAMES W. BOUTHIT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW and notary public, , Office upstairs, in Maioever’s new building, Lent seiner. Ind. EDWIKP.HAMMONO, ATTORNEY-AISLAW, Rensselae , Ind. S®“Offlce Over Makegver’s Bank. May 21. 1885. 's/■ H. W. SN fDEK, Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. JOLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. Yf W. HARTSELL, M D , HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. Diseases i Specialty.^) OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11,1864. DD. DALE, ■ ATTOKNEY-AT LAW MONTICELLO, - INDIANA. Back building, up stairs.

J.H.LOUGHEIDGE. F. P, BITTERS LOUGHRIDGF, & BITTERS, Physicians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running uusettlcd longer than three months. vlnl DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer , hid . Calls promptly attended. Will give special atter tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. OTIBII’ BANK, RENSSELAER, IND., R. S. Dwigoins, F. J. Sears, Val. Seib, President. Vic-President. Cashier. Does a general banking business-. Certificates bearing interest issued; Exchange bought and sold; Money loaned on farms at low;st rales and on most favorable terms. April.lßßs. ALFRED M COY. THOMAS THOMPSON. Banking Mouse OF A. McCOY & T. THOMPSON, successors to A, McCoy & A. Thompson. Banker*Rensselaer, Ind. Does general Hanking bu. •megs Buy and sell exchaoge. Collection* made snail available points. Moneylot interest paid on specified timo deposits, y o«ce same place as old firm of A. McCo A Thompson. aprU/gl

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER HO 1885.

A Captain’s Fortunate Discovery. Capt. Golan i: , sehr. Weymouth, plying between Atlantic City and V Y.. had been troubled with a cough so that he was unable to sleep, and was induced to try Dr: King’s New Discovery for Consumption. It not only gave him nstant relief, but allayed the ex'reme soreness in his breast His children were similarly affected and a single dose had the same hapny effect. Dr. King’s New Discovery is now the standard remedy in the Coleman household and on board the schooner. Free Trial Bottles of this Standard Remedy at F. B. Meyer’s Drug Store. 4

WHERE TO ATTEND SCHOOL 1. —Where you can get good instruction in whatever you may wish to study. 2. —Where you can get good accommodations and good society. 3. —Where the expenses are least. 4. —Where things are just as represented, or all money refunded and traveling expenses paid. Send or special terms and try the Cenral Indiana Normal School and Business College, Ladoga, Ind. A. F. Knotts, Principal. Good Results in Every Case. D. A. Bradford, wholesale paper dealer of Obatt .nooga, Tenn., writes that he was seriousiy afflicted with a severe cold that settled on his lungs; had tried many r-medics without oenefit. Being induced 1o try Dr King’s New Discovery ior Ojnsumption, did so and wag entirely cured by use of a few bottles. Since which time hf has used it in. his family so- all Coughs aud Cclds with bepf results. This is the experience cf thousands whose lives have been saved by this Wonderful Discovery. Trial Bottles free at F. B. Meyer’s Drug Store. 5

Comfort from Newspapers. Many years ago, in one of the severe winters when there was much hardship among the poor, a city paper suggested that old newspapers, spread over the bed, would form an excellent substitute for blankets and coverlets. This brought upon the journal a great deal of harmless ridicule from other papers, but it brought comfort to many a poor family. In the matter of bed-clothing, especially, we are apt to associate warmth with weight, and do not consider that there is no warmth in the coverings themselves, but that they merely prevent the heat of the body from passing off. Whatever is a poor conductor of heat will make a warm covering. Paper itself is a poor conductor, but still poorer are the thin layers of air that are confined when two or three newspapers are laid upon one another. A few newspapers laid over the bed will keep one much warmer than some of the heavy, close-woven blankets. We do not propose newspapers as a substitute for blankets and comforters, but it is one of those make-shifts that it is well to know. In traveling one may, by the aid of a few papers, secure a comfortable rest in a thinly-clad bed, and if we cannot afford to give a destitute family a blanket |or a comforter, we may Show them how to increase the usefulness of their thin coverings by stitching a few layers of newspapers between them. It may be well to remind those who grow window-plants that, by removing them away from the window, and arranging a cover of newspapers over them, they may be preserved from harm in severely cold nights. With the plants, as with ourselves, it is not so much that cold comes in as that the heat goes off, and often a slight protection will prevent the escape of heat.—Americon Agriculturist. To Forget Misery. Some great writer has written, “The way to forget our miseries is to remember our mercies.” That is splendid in theory, but it is the hardest thing in the world to practice. When a person is perfectly miserable, it is impossible to forget it, and to go to work and try to think of some mercy that has been enjoyed at another time, is simply impossible. The misery of the present knocks all thoughts of the mercy of the past out of the mind of the miserable person, and misery gets in its work. It is well to try and cultivate that idea of forgetting miseries, by remembering mercies, and may be it will work a little, but most people w-ho try it will score a failure, and be more miserable than ever. The best way to forget miseries is to go fishing. If you get a bite you can forget the misery till you land the fish, and if you don’t get a bite you can’t be any more miserable unless you fall out of 'the boat. If you get lots of bites it will be nip and tuck between misery and fun.— Georae Peck.

B. Austin, Esq,, has been drawn to serve as a juror in the U. S. Circuit Court, which . begins at Indianapolis, Nov. 23d.

THE PUBLIC LANDS.

The Wholesale Method of Stealing Them From the People By Cattle Barons. To the Editor of The indianopolis News : There be land-rats and waterrats, water-thieves and land-thieves —I mean pirates.—[Shakspeare. An Englishman who had suborned his employes to swear to false pre-emption papers in Colorado was recently convicted in Denver and sent to the penitentiary for ten years. —[Newspaper Item. A few days ago in California a settler gave testimony to the effect that a rich neighbor had made false proofs of land entry and soo.. after giving his testimony was shot by ihe land-tliief against whom lie had testified. —[Newspaper Item. It is reported that *. bill which passed the Lower House of Congress at its last session and was ready for the action of the Senate, providing for the bringing of suits by the Attorney-general to reclaim lands stolen from the Government by means of perjured and forged pre-emption papers, had been stolen from the files. This will necessitate the introduction of a new bill, and the land-thieves hope to have force and influence enough to prevent its passage. —[Washington dispatch.

The above items should arrest the public attention. It is plain to any one who has studied the subject that, unless Congress and the people shall sustain the eft* rts of the administration to stop landstealing and to reclaim, as far as may be, lands already stolen, what is left of the public domain of the country will soon be in the hands of corporations and individuals who have been stealing themselves rich by the abuse of the homestead and pre-emption laws which were enacted for the benefit of actual settlers. For the present I say nothing of the enormous land grants to railways. The people are sufficiently aroused on that subject and the effect of a healthy public sentiment is manifest in the recent and proposed congressional legislation. The Mormons have created over one hundred million dollars of wealth in Utah, and have shown that what once was regarded as worthless land is capable of sustaining a large population. The whole Rocky Mountain region, from the Mexican border to the British possessions, if reserved for the use of actual settlers is capable of supporting and producing a race of men which, in point of thrift, courage and independence, will compare favorably with the Swiss mountaineers at their best estate. Unless something is done to prevent English and Scotch capitalists and American corporations and land pirates from appropriating this land, the conditions will be such that it w r ill be impossible for bona fide settlers to avail themselves of the Nation’s offer of these lan- s for homestead and preemption entries. In some instances cattle companies, consisting entirely of foreign stock-holders, have built hundreds of miles of wire fence across the public domain, and have employed armed men to guard these fences with instructions to shoot down American citizens who insi . ted upon removing them for the purpose of going upon Government lands with the view to select locations for their homes and grazing grounds for their cattle. A district judge in the Territory of Wyoming decided a year or two ago that such fences were nuisances and ought to be removed, yet such is the influence of the powerful men and corporations who have thus appropriated the public domain that their inclos-

ures still remain unmolested. The humble settler is too weak to make the fight alone. As we have seen in one of the items at the head of this letter, if he even gives testimony in a court of justice against one of the land pirates, he is liable to be shot down with no more compunction than if he were a coyote. President Cleveland has reinforced the decision of the j dge in Wyoming by a proclamation calling upon all persons who have erected such inclosures upon the public domain to remove them. The land pirates defy the President and mai tain their inclosures, and it is very seldom that Government officers in this Territory have the courage to prosecute the offenders. I know of instances where settlers upon valid pre-emption claims are fenced in by these unauthorized inclosures, and whose families are rouudl • cursed . and threatened with violence if they are not careful to close the gates through which they may pass from their premises by going several miles out of their way; The wir' fence theft is a bold defiance of all law, and it remains to lie seen how long the President and Congress will allow the rascals to enjoy the fruits of their crime. The records of the Land Office at Washington show that some of the corporations that are engaged in stealing the public domain are backed by the powerful. influence of senators and members of Congress.

There is another way by which many of the choice parts of the public domain have been fraudulently appropriated under color of law. Those who have visited the grazing lands in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and elsewhere, in the Rocky Mountain region, know that the only eligible locations for homes a. e to be found in the valley,* near +he springs and water courses. 'he law allows but. one pre-emption claim and one bomesfead claim. These must be made by actual bona fide settlement and the erection and maintainaneeof valuable improvements The utmost that one person can take under these laws is a half section or 320 acres. Before the tide can be perfected under a pre-emption claim, the claimant must make proof of his personal occupancy of the jpremises and that he has made valuable improvements to a certain amount within a limited time. These facts must appear by writt n documents sworn to arid filed in the office of the Land Register of the Land Office for the District. have seenl the “Mikado” will remember how Koko and his friends furnished proof of the execution of the wandering minstrel. His death had been decreed by the Mikado. It was a principle of law that what ought to be done might be considered as having been done, and if it might be considered as having been done, there was nothing wrong in saying that it had been done and swearing to it. Upon the same principle the large land rats in the territories have been in the habit for some years of procuring obscure men to make false entries, false proofs of settlement, cultivation, and improvements, and, what must be very shocking to you, procuring the editors of papers to swear that notices of the entry had been published in their papers, contrary to the facts. All this having been done, the obscure person who had been the instrument of this fraud, would make a conveyance to the man who had hir d him to do it, and upon this an application would be made to the Land Office for a Government patent. In some cases where a pliable instrument was not at hand, the more convenient plan of forging all the papers has been resorted to. By the use of such methods, thousands of the best water rights in the territories which would have made eligible homes for settlers, have been stolen and appropriated by foreign and home corporations and individuals who had the money and

means to pay for suborned evidence and forged documents. It also uppeiirs b the records of the Land Office at Washington that in many cases tli© Reg sters of the Land Office have connived at and assisted in these villainies. In a future communication I will give in detail some of the methods by which these frauds have been accomplished. W. P. Fishback. Had the Democratic House bill (reported in one of the above items as having been stolen from the files) been promptly passed by the Republican Senate the President would not very long permit the “wire fence theft” to continue nor the “rascals to enjoy the fruits of their crime.” “President Cleveland has reinforced the decision of the judge in Wyoming by a proclamation calling upon all persons who have erected such inclosures upon the public domain to remove them, and backed by proper law ho will completely wjpe out what has thrived under the fostering care of Republican administration '.

Mr. Hendrieks’ Opinion.

He Does Not Believe that President Johnson Wanted a Rebel Congress. The attention of Vice President Hendricks vas yesterday called to the controversy started by Mr. Depew’s letter, and he was asked liis opinion regarding the story. “It won’t do,” said he, “and public opinion will not sustain any such charges, made twenty years after the alleged events happened, and after all the persons who were directly connected with th in are dead. Personally, I know nothing of Mr. Johnson’s opinions or intentions further than the information that came to me m the position th t I held. I was in the United States Senate and both spoke and voted against the irnpeachmant of Johnson. Wlrlo I never had any conversation with him n the subject referred to by Depew, I am sure that Johnson had no such intentions. He be lieved in restoring and not reconstructing the States; and that the Federal Government had no right to charge or abrogate their Constitutions. I think Mr. Lined* had this view also. I have no doubt that Johnson wanted Mr. Stanton removed, but it was on personal grounds, for they were not friends. I can’t believe that he had any such purpose as that attributed to him, and I never heard it charged before the last few days. It is not likely that such an important po•litical matter could have remained a secret for twenty years. I have read the various statements about it in the papers and I am inclined to give the greatest credence to that of Judge Gooding, of Greenfield, whose reccolleetion about such matters is always accurate, and who was then in a position to know what President Johnso t wanted to do.

Monticello National: Jas. W. McEwen, of the Rensselaer Sentinel, was in town the fore part of the week, and while here paid the National office a visit. Judging by the feeling in this vicinity as well as at bis own home, Mac’s prospects for the appointment of post-master at Rensselaer seem to be excellent. J ames W. McEwen, of the Sentinel is pressing his claims for the appointment of postmaster at Rensselaer. We wish Bro. Me. success, if the office must be changed.—Brookston Reporter. “B_n” Smoot, departed for Indianapolis, Wednesday, by b ;ggy conveyance.

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