Marshall County Independent, Volume 4, Number 36, Plymouth, Marshall County, 19 August 1898 — Page 1

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Marshall County Independent Vol. 4. PLYMOUTH, MARSHALL COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1898. No. 36.

Remnant Sale! Remnant Sale!

Beginning Saturday, July 16, 1898, we inaugurate a Great Remnant Sale.

In every department we have found the accumulation of odds and ends which we brought together under one separate department. Every article is marked in plain figures at WAY DOWN PRICES. We are especially strong in Dress Goods Remnants.

Boys' Department. A new line of Linen Pants, both in the knee and long lengths. Just the article for hot weather wear.

To those who wish to go visiting and are in need of a Trunk, Valise or Telescope, we can supply your want. Have these goods at all prices.

Ball & Carabin,

PLYMOUTH, IND.

FIRE AT WARSAW. OUR NEIGHBORING CITY SUSTAINS A $10.000 LOSS. Large Ice Hoii-.es Burned to the (iround Shortly After 9 O'clock Tuesday Morn iiiK Kreiht ant Aluo Burned and Train Deh.yed on Account of Hone Laid AcriNti Trackit- Small Insurance. Yarsaw, Ind., Aug. 10. Nine ice houses belonging to the J. H. Cisney Ice company were burned to the ground at 1:30 o'clock this morning. These houses were situated on the east bank of Center lake, just north of this city, aud contained several thousand dollars worth of ice. Several box cars belonging to the lüg Four Hallway company were also burned, which were standing on a sidetrack nearby. Owing to hose being laid across the track, the north and south bound passenger trains were held here for nearly an hour. How the tire originated is a mystery. The total loss will reach $10,000, with but 82,000 insurance on the ice. A LKTTKK FROM ALASKA. Frank L. Thomas Send an Interesting Account of Hin Experience. Tayish House, X. W. Territory, June 16, 1808 J. W. Thomas. Dear Parents I wrote you last at Hennett about a week ago. I did not: start for three or four days later than I had intended, owing to the fact that the wind changed from the north. I could have made this place from Hennef t in two days time but 1 stopped one day at Cawsbine crossing and one day at Lake Tayish. This is the police headquarters and we all have to unpack and have our goods examined. There is a post office here. This station is on the river between Lake Tayish and Lake Marsh. There is not much here, only a few log houses and a few lazy police men and a great big British flag. It is a little too windy today to sale

so most everybody is laying by. 1 have come about A miles since I left Bennett. Lake Tayish is a beautiful body of water and just alive with fish. 1 have a short piece of gill net which I brought along. I and some other boys set it one night at Cawabine crossing and got

a load of fish. There are trout, grayling, bass and white fish. The white tish are the same kind as those caught in Lake Michigan. The country here is more level and the mountains not so high. There is a fairly good soil in some places. The police have a garden planted and the truck 18 just commencing to peep through the ground. There is a nice grove here at the pnst. They have it tixed comfortable and they take things eaay. They did not look through my goods at all and only asked me if I had any whisky aboard, and then O. K'd. my papers. I have my stove set up right in my boat, so 1 cook my meals and sleep in the boat. It is the nicest place to camp 1 have found yet. They have a couple hundred dogs here wtfich belong to the government and they are lighting all the time like a lot of wolves. They have four Indian prisoners here who shot a man and stole his outlit down at Hootalinqua. Well the mosquitoes, are getting rather numerous here now. One can hardly stand it out in the woods without a case. I have plenty of netting a piece over toy hat when I get where they are bad. Well good bye. I will write you at my next opportunity. From your loving son, Frank L. Thomas. Much sicknen in 'um p. The army authorities declare that the sanitary conditions at Fernandina are the best, but there is much sickness in the 157tb, the hospitals being filled. No dangerous case of fever has been reported. Since the close of the conflict the boys are said to have lost their spirit and enthusiasm and there is a dullness of things in general. Apparently an order to break camp and depart for northern homes is eagerly awaited.

TEACHERS AT WORK.

ALL ARE PLEASED WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS. Sunt. Murks EsareiMd OimI t'nr iti the Selection of I Ml motors Kvery Interet in I'liae ot School Work Will Be Thoroughly Covered- Enrol 1 owa I creaThe County Teachers' institute was opened Monday morning at theM. . church, the early rain delaying the organization somewhat as a great many teachers from distant portions of the county were unable to reach the ci-y at the usual hour for organization. Supt. Marks met the instructors at one of the early trains Monday morning. Immediately upon assembling Monday County Superintendent Marks took up about half an hour explaining the work at hand and James Trowbridge, of North township, who wan elected last year as secretary assumed the task of enrolling the teachers present. Peter I), Hergner, of this city, is treasurer of the institute. A committee on Introduction was appointed, consisting of the following: Ftta Harmon, F.lmer Heckner, Mate (Jonter, (ilen Dillingham and Helen Disher. As heretofore announced Prof, Sanford Hell, of the Northern Indiana Normal school, is handling psycology and pedagogy. I'rof. Sherman Davis, of the State university, discourses on English composition, literature, gram mer, history, civics and science. Prof. W. T. (iifl'e, of Logansport will devote the week o instructions as to "How Music Should be taught in the country schools." The enrollment at the close of the day's wjrk was 117. The County Teachers' institute was exceptionally interesting Tuebday. Monday was devoted largely to outlining the work for the week and was explanatory of the purposes of the several instructors, but Tuesday they had gotten down to business, advancing theories which experience on the part of instructors justihe I them in recom mending to the practice of common school teachers. On assembling Tuesday morning, the roll had grown to 140. The minutes of Friday afternoon of last year's session and the doings of Monday were read and approved. Supt. Marks then appointed the following committees: Auditing Committee H. J. Curtis, L. (;. Harley, Anna Kensinger. Library Committee (lertrude Woodbury. Harley Taylor, .Jennie Davis. ltesolutions Committee Fred Hite, W. S. Hostettler, E. K. Monroe. A Youlhrul Sneak Thief. On Wednesday Linkenhelt's money drawer was robbed of $3 25. No one was seen to take the money but Fred Hill, the lif teen-year old son of Westley Hill was suspected of the theft. The lad afterward acknowledged his crime. Immediately upon obtaining the money he went to the Corl livery barn in company with two other boys, who are at present unknown, and hired a rig for Pretty Lake, The city marshal found the rig about fifteen minutes atterward tied to the stock yards fence near the Pittsburg depot. There is convincing evidence that besides being guilty of this misdemeanor, he is the one who stole Harry Huck's Columbian half dollars. A warrant for his arrest has been 6Worn out. It is safe to assert that the boy will be sent to the reform school as soon as possible. Another M iii i ia;e Kev. Thornbury was called to the residence of Chas. Holcomb Wednesday morning, where he united Chancey Holcomb and Nora McDonald, of Tyner, in the bonds of holy marriage. No , one but a few relatives and friends were witnesses to the marriage. Wm. Holcomb, of South Hend, was among the guests. The newly married couple will live in Plymouth. Later Letter From Krank Thomas.. Dawson City, N. X. Territory, July 12th. John W. Thomas, Plymouth, Ind. Dear Father and Mother. 1 wrote you last I think at Hootalinqua. Well I got here tour days ago. I am camped about one mile above Dawson. Have not been to Dawson yet. 1 was out to the mines the last three days. It is about fifteen miles from here over to Honanza and Fldorado creeks. Well the gold is here and plenty of it. ( f course the reports of the amount taken out has been greatly overdrawn by the papers, but still there is enough here. The output this spring was in the neigh-

borbeod of $10,000,000 and considering that this was worked out in the crudest way imaginable, and from two small creeks not twenty miles in all, the amount is enormous. I think 1 will stay here, at least for awhile. I think there are some rare chances here yet. Of course every creek in the country has been Rtampeded and staked, which cuts one out from the chance of locating a creek claim, but they are finding it on the hill tops and in places where no one would look for it before. French hill was just discovered and staked this spring, and some of the richest claims in the country are rig it on top of the hill. The worst thing is the te rribly oppressive anadian iaws and the overbearing police. They are ileecing and robbing the miners at every turn with their royalties and licenses and fees. The miners are getting worked up to such a pitch of indignation that every body is expecting a riot to break out at any time. This is not strictly my observation, but it appears to be the sentiment of the camp. Hut very few of the claims are being worked, and will not be worked this winter, except merely enough to represent them as they say that none but the richest can be worked at a profit under the present grasping and usurping Canadian laws or rules. That with the royalties and fees and all the miner's license, wood, water and moss license, etc., the prolit is all gone. F.very body is hoping for a speedychange in the laws to give them a fair chance. Well I am going to stay here aud learn the country and try and get a claim. The majority of the people who came in this spring are getting out as fast as possible. They are selling their outfits very cheap and are drifting on down toward St. Michael's. 1 think it will be better for thobe who stay here after a luajonty of the tenderfeet or the cuckoos, as they call them here, clear out. 1 will go over to the C'ty this afternoon where 1 expect to get some mail. The weather is warm but not hot, delightful weather. Rains a little now and then. Cool nights. Mosquitoes n. t half sc bad as represented-to be. Am in the best of health and hope you are all well at home. From your loving son, Frank.

W. II. SMITH LECT1 KKS. He Stirred Up Feelinj; ! State I'ride at the M. K. Chureh Monday Nlfffct. W. H. Smith of Indianapolis, a veteran newspaper man, and who is now giving his time to compiling a history of Indiana, made his audience proud of Hoosierdom at the M. F. church Monday night. He believes that our school children will sing "My native country, thee" with feeling only when their minds are filled with the heroism and greatness of their own countrymen rather than that of the ancient Greeks and Komans. One of his main purposes was to show up the resources of Indiana and create a feeling of pride on the part of his audience in these resources. Mr. Smith would second State Superintendent (ieeting's appeal to the school children of Indiana for a penny collection on Indiana Day, but he would use the proceeds to building a monument to John Heard, the pioneer legislator Irom Montgomery county, who, by his untiring efforts, made our educational sinking fund a reality. State Superintendent (Jeeting has suggested that it be appropriated in erecting a cottage at the soldiers home. A Wedding in .Fail. The new jail at South Hend has had its first wedding, the high contracting paities being ''Major" Evans, a French negro, under arrest for killing the woman he professed to love, and Nellie Heinkle, white, who caused his arrest. Thev were married in the cell room of the jail, the prisoners being witnesses and the curfew bell ringiog out the greeting. The prosecution against "Major" Fvans will be dropped. 1 . It. IMcnle. The l'nited Urethren Sunday school held their picnic Tuesday at Twin lakes. They report a line time. The dinner was one of the beet ever served at a picnic. There were nearly one hundred and fifty on the grounds. The little tots had a joyous lime splashing and wading in the lake. Swimming and boat riding was al6o a part of the sport enjoyed by the crowd. Mr. Nichols did all he could te make it pleasant for the picnicers. Murder at South Hend. Harvey (irady, a colored man at South Hend was shot and instantly killed Sunday by McClellan Calloway, another colored man, at the home of (Jrady's wife's uncle. Mrs. (irady was sitting on Calloway's lap. (Irady angered and hit Calloway with a brick. Calloway recovered and shot (irady dead.

THAYER'S LECTURE.

A SMALL AUDIENCE DELIGHT FULLY ENTERTAINED. l'reliminary Remarks Rattier sar-u-t ihul Due Amends Made Later On A Fine Description of Historic Italy ami Southern Fram-e. Hon. H. (i. Thayer was not favored with a large audience Tuesday evening though it, was an appreciative one. This was partially due from the fact that the evening was quite warm and partially because the subject selected by the speaker was similar to his popular lecture which most people in the city and country had already heard. Hut those who attended were given a rare treat. While some of the descriptions were recognized as a part of the lecture which has given Mr. Thayer a state prominence, they were supplemented with an easy, off-hand, jocose prelude that kept the audience in exceptionally good spirits. Mr. Thayer seemed somewhat inclined to sarcasm when he began his lecture, no doubt because of the lack of interest which he had not anticipated on the part of the teachers, and apparently felt a disposition to curry the vanity of the instructors, if they were at all vain. It is a mystery if these instructors could feel themselves any more engrossed in wisdom than the rest of the teachers, after the speaker's preliminary remarks. However, the speaker was as discreet as he was cunning. Like the repentant assailant who knocks down an antagonist, he lifted them up and in language with which few people are gifted, made them feel that Cod in his wisdom had not created them in vain. Mr. Thayer told how variously men became educated, some in high schools, some in colleges, some in universities, some by reading, 6ome by travel. All educated men are great factors for good, but the greatest of them all is the man who becomes educated independent of schools. He thought the observant man who has travelled in the old world has a great advantage over these not so favored. Mr. Thayer told of his experience at Marseilles, (ienoa, Home and other historic points. His descriptions of the magnificent sceuery at these places was grand, and as explanatory of the misconception of the Americans as to the inhabitants of Italy, the speaker referred to the great Garibaldi, Savanaroli, Michael Angelo and others that Italy has produced. In the knowledge of these -men's works and attainments, no one should refer to Italy as a nation of organ-grinders. In his description of the ascent of Vesuvius and the ruins of Ilerculaneum and Pompeii, the speaker certainly accomplished his purpose that of inspiring an almost irresistible desire on the part of his hearers to sail forthwith to this land of historic renown. The lecture was delightful throughout and those present are guessing now how much better Mr. Thayer would have succeeded if he had made the "speech he had intended to make." At the close the audience was taken into the confidence of the speaker who told a joke at his own expense, an instance when he became lost among the princes and princ-ess's. Wilher P UotM Writes Home. Fernandina, Fla., Aug. 11. Mr. ami Mrs. C. F. Pontious. Dear parents. Yours of the ith m6t. received and I was glad to here from you once again. Well I can still say I am well and on my feet, although there are a great many getting sick. At our present camp there were .'110 reported sick one morning and 280 another. There were 20 reported sick at the hospital this morning and there are about 18 sick in their quarters to whom we have to carry meals. I think we will all be sick if they keep on giving us such drill as they have the past week. They march us to the sea and back again in a skirmish line at double time. The chaplin told them what he thought of it and I think they will shut down pretty soon. We are commencing to have rainy weather here tco. 1 guess we have had rain the last three days and it is raining now. We have a very nice camp here, but the maleria is coming out on the boys from laying around in those swamps at Tampa. The captain of company F, of Flkhart, went home night before last; hit sickness was running into typhoid fever. They are going to seud us further north soon. They say Fernandina has 5,000 inhabitants. It may have, but it is scat

tered over a good deal of ground. These southern towns are not in it with northern towns. They are not up to date. These cities that are talked abut so much in the north, seem nothing more than ordinary country towns. No sidewalks to 6peak of and the 6treets are sand three inches deep. The houses are old style and on the high land are built low on the ground, but on the low land they are cottages on stilts. We had a pay day yesterday but I will keep it until 1 see how I am going to come out. If we go north I will have to buy some traveling rations, as I can't possibly hat what they issue to us. Well with this I will have to close. From your Son, WlLBEB.

CA M I .IKK. A Description of the Soldier Hoy' Home or a Tented Village. Camp Cuba Libre, .Jacksonville, Fla.. Aug. 17. Dear Friends As one reads the papers and magazines the imagination is drawn upon and a mind picture is cast of how a camp looks and the beauties connected with it. Hut if the real camr could be seen by you all after this picture is painted what a disappointment would be the change. When a camp is layed out, regiments are place in such a way that all the companies will face the same and the ends will be uniform. It is an easy matter to figure how much space it will take. There are five men in a tent, and one for the first sergeant making 22 tents, 11 on each side facing each other with a space about 'AO feet wide between the two rows cf tents called company street. A street runs aiong the end crossing all the company streets called ollicers street. The regimental colors and the national Mag are always stationed in front of the colonel's headquarters which is at the bead of this street. At the end of the company streets where they cross the ollicers street the captain and the lieutenants tents are located. So it is seen that the soldier villiage is a small town in itself. The seventh army corps is situated near Jacksonville in what is called Spingtield and Panama. Nine regiments are in a division and three divisions in a corps. A guard line is stationed around the camp and at two hour intervals the guards are changed. There are three reliefs so a soldier on guard does duty 8 hours out of 24. A certain number of guards are detailed from each regimtnt every i.i irning and at nine o'clock they are called together for guard mount, which is noth ing more than relieving the men that have been on guard the 21 hours previous. It would take too long to de scribe the duty of a guard and the man ner in posting the relief. Fach regiment has a hospital and surgeon with nurses and each division has a hospital for them all. If a soldier is only suffering from a light fever he is left in the regimental hospital, but if he does not recover in 48 hours he is transferred to the division hospital where the finest 6iirgeons and medical men in the country have charge. The hospital tents are arranged so that they meet at the center and run in various directions. Patto beach, twelve miles east of Jacksonville, has been litted out for a recuperating hospital and as fast as the men recover enough so they can be transferred they are sent to the beach. The drill ground of this camp is one of the finest in the I nited states and on Friday when there is a division review, it is one of the grandest sights to be seen for a civilian, and many come out to take advantage. Tbe men are marched by the reviewing stand in platoons, and a pistol ball would cut the nose of every man in line, they march so straight. As you look over the camp from the top of a hill and see the 1,000 small tents and as many large ones one can hardly think that the number of hemes is larger than that of Ft. Wayne, and occupying less space than the north Side in 1'lymouth. The health here is generally good and everyone seems in good spirits. Hespectfully, Chas. Brown. Miss fttaj ton Wins. In the popular lady contest conducted by this paper, Miss Mary St ay ton of Argos received the most votes and will be given free transportation to Niagara Falls and return. he received 11 10 votes, liss Nettie Crawford was second in the race receiving 886 votes, Jennie Davis was third receiving MS votes. If Miss Stayton will call at this otllce arrangements will be made for her trip at any time convenient to her.