Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 22, Petersburg, Pike County, 5 October 1900 — Page 5

FROM .CALIFORNIA. Interesting Letter From Horace Thomas to Ills Uncle. * Presidio, SanFrancisco. Dear Uncle Mai, I’ll try and give you a short description of our trip from Columbus,' Ohio, to SanFrancisco, Cal. We arrived here safely on last Friday evening and have been assigned to our Regiment and Company. Marion Upton and I are in Co. D, 18th regiment, while John Lindy was assigned to the same regiment but to Co. A. We hated to be separated from John, but are very thankful it was no worse. All of us are well pleased, much better than at Columbus. We get first class eating here, which we did not get at Columbus. We have first class beds, a goodj library, bath rooms and everything |

that goes to make one comtortaoie. The only thing that is repulsive tome here, is some of the boys that we are thrown in contact with are not of the best character, while that is true, others are all right. Marion and I are together continually and associate with others as little as possible. On September 19, I was called out to help bury eight dead soldiers and had to cut my letter off for the time being. These soldiers were shipped here from the Philippines with 150 other dead soldiers. Well, Uncle Mai, my,trip over the Rockies is worth $500 of any one's money besides the sight on the Western Plains. We started from Columbus, Ohio, at 3:00 o’clock p. m., on the 9th inst., went by the way of Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Springfield, Illinois, St. Louis, Kansas City, Pueblo, Colorado, Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah, across Nevada by way of Sacramento to San Francisco, arriving here at 7:00 o’clock p. m. Friday the 14th, thus spending five days and nights on the train. We had Pullman sleepers the entire route. There were 125 of us came together. Some of the grandest scenes we saw were the large grain fields of Central Kansas. There were as much as 000 and 700 acres of wheat in one field. One in particular, I remember along the side of the railroad, it took us three minutes to pass it at the rate of a mile a minute, thus making the field three miles long and I don’t know how wide it was. There were eighteen headers at work harvesting it with large wagons along at the sides, receiving the heads with not more than one inch and a half or two inches of straw to the head. The people at the stations told me that the wheat crop was ektra good this year. One man told me at a small station that he had ten acres of wheat that yielded 1,040 bushels of wheat. That seems incredulous to us, but all along the route in Kansas, people told me that they had no crop unless it averaged seventy-five bushels per acre. Coming next on the route are the great and grand Rockies which we entered Tuesday morning some time

before the break of day. You can imagine my surprise on getting up and seeing great masses of rock rising thousands of feet above our heads when the evening before on retiringv we could not even see a hill, could see only a vast plain almost as level as the floor as far as eye could see. Wednesday morning vre got up, and to our great surprise it was winter time. We had not even as much as had our blouses on since leaving Columbus, but now putting on our blouses we could not keep warm. We ate break? fast at Sheridan Lake, Colorado, where they have perp&tual winter. This is a great mining town of about 2,500 people, with the railroad shops of the Missouri Pacific located here within twenty miles of the Eldorado Gold mines. Sometimes we would be riding along with a solid rock wall 2,000 or 3,000 feet above us or 900 or 1,000 feet below us. You can imagine how it would effect you, but it would be nothing compared to a reality—or at least it was not to me. The deepest canon we saw was the Grand Canon of the Grand River which is a branch of the Colorado River. The condiittor told me that this canon was 1,800 feet deep and God only knows how high the walls are. Next came the renowned Salt Lake City. We stopped here about one hour; a half dozen of us boys walked six or eight squares from the depot and saw the Mormon Temple. It covers a space fully equal to two squares in Petersburg. The city has irrigating ditches

running along each side of the streets carrying water from' the mountains. It is a very beautiful city, having nothing only an alkali desert surrounding it. The city was made what it is only by irrigation. There are trees and fertile gardens all through the city. It certainly took a brave man to face such obstacles in order to found a city for his people. We left this citv for Ogden following the lake for twenty miles. It is very narrow but long. All land in Utah is cultivated by means of irrigation. Nevada is the most barren state we passed through. It is practically good for nothing save lumbering and mining. A great deal of the timber is out of reach of mankind. The grandest scenery on the trip is in the Sierra Nevada. We entered them Thursday noon and left them Friday

noon spending twenty-tour nours m them. It was merely a repetition of the Rockies with exception the Rockies have been properly named, they are mountains of rocks while the Sierras are heavily timbered from the bottom to the snow line. We passed over one peak where they told us the depth of the snow was not known. ’ They keep snow plows and snow shovels at work continually tp keep the track clear. We passed through one snow-shed forty-three miles long. At the foot of the Sierras we find the great fruit orchards of California continuing to Oakland. We are stationed at the extreme point of land and just over the hill from our quarters is the mighty Pacific with all of its sights. Our quarters are just on the edge of Golden Gate Bay. Large ocean steamers are continually passing. The large transport Thomas left yesterday for the Philippine with 1,450 soldiers aboard, consisting of 500 of the Eight regiment, 500 of the Fifth regiment and 450 volunteers. I don’t think wre will get to go as our regiment just returned from there in June. The Pacific Ocean is something wonderful to behold. At Golden Gate Park there is a point of land 260 feet high where one can look out upon the mighty waters of the Pacific and see nothing but water on all sides of him as far as the eye can see. I caught a. star fish last Sunday and will send it to you in a few days. Well, I must close or else I can’t get my letter in an envelope. I remain yours with best wishes. Write soon. Horace Thomas, Co. D. 18th Regular. No Right To Ugliness. ■, The woman who is lovely in face, form and temper will always have friends, but one who would be attractive must keep her health. If she is weak, sickly and all run down, she will be nervous and irritable. If she has constipation or kidney trouble, her impure blood will cause pimples, blotches; skin eruptions and a wretched complexion. Electric Bitters is the best medicine in the world to regulate stomach, liver and kidneys and to purify the blood. It gives strong nerves, bright eyes, smooth velvety skin, rich complexion. It will make a good-looking, charming woman of a run-down invalid. Only 50 cents at Stearnes drug company.

Bryan Is The' Only Hope. In an editorial, entitled ‘‘republicans and trusts,” the Indianapolis News (Ilep.) said, Feb. 16, 1600: “The democrats are going to have the advantage of the republicans in the approaching campaign on the question of trusts unless the republicans do something at this session of congress. There is a widespread feeling among all parties that something must be done to control the great industrial corporations and combinations that are more and more in evidence. It is clear to everyone that they exercise at times monopolistic power and extort unfair prices from the public. It is clear also that vast aggregations of capital are a menace to our politics. . . . If the republicans having the power, do nothing, outline no policy, make no effort to curb or curtail trust making and trust manipulations, whatever political capital there is in the question the democrats will be able to claim as particularly their own. * * * One thing at least they (the republicans) could do—unless the power of combined wealth really has the upper hand of the party—they could remove the tariiLfrom every product which in this coxmtry is now controlled by trusts.” August Flower. “It is a surprising fact,” says Prof. Houton, “that in my travels in all parts of the world, for the last ten years, I have met more people having used Green’s August Flower than any other remedy for dyspepsia, deranged liver and stomach, and for constipation. I find for tourists and salesmen, or fpr persons filling office positions, where headaches and general bad feelings from irregular habits exist, that Green’s August Flower is a grand remedy. It does not injure the system by frequent use, and is excellent for sour stomachs and indigestion.” Sample bottles free at Oliphant Drug Co's. Sold by dealers in all civilized countries. .\ '3*.

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! Will Have a Cabinet Place If liryan Is Elected. j In his great speech at Elmira, N.Y., Tuesday night. Hon. David B. Hill said: ‘•I call the attention of the workingman to the fact that for the iirst time in the history*of the country, one of the great political parties, towit, the democratic party, has adopted a plank in its national platform favoring the,establishment of a department of Labor in the cabinet of the president.. If this proposition j shall mtet the approval of the American people by the election of the democratic candidates, a Department of Labor will be established which will add materially in advancing the interests of workingmen and adding to the importance and ^dignity of labor.” The plank in the democratic platform which Mr. Hill refers to is as follows: “We are opposed to government by injunction: we denounce the blacklist, and favor arbitration as means of settling disputes between corporations and their employes. " “In the interest of American labor and the upbuilding of the workingman as the corner stone of the prosperity of our country, we recommend that congress create a department of labor, in charge of a secretary with a seat in the cabinet, believing that the elevation of the American laborer will bring with it increased production and increased prosperity to our country *at home and to'our commerce abroad.’^ «. On this subject, William J. Bryan recently said in one of his public addresses: “But the laboring man is even more interested in the proposition to establish a labor bureau with a cabinet officer at its head. Such a bureau would keep the executive in constant touch with the wage-earners of the country, and open the way to the redress of their . present and future grievances. If labor is given a place in the president’s official household, the man selected will necessarily oe a worthy and trusted representative of the people for whom he speaks, and his presence at cabinet meetings will give for those who toil for their daily bread assurance that their interests will be properly guarded.” Volcanic Eruptions Are grand, but Skin Eruptions rob fife of joy. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, cures them; also Old, Running and Fever Sores, Ulcers, Boils, Felons, Corns, Warts, Cuts, Bruises, Burns, Scalds, Chapped Hands, Chilblains. Best Pile cure on earth. Drives out pains and aches. Only 25 cents a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by Stearnes drug company.

McKinley's Twenty Commissions. First Philippine (after battle of Manila.) $210,000. Second Philippine (Denby, Worcester and Schurman), $117,500. Peace Commission, $222,931. W. J. Calhoun, Special Commissioner, $7,000. Bimetalic Commission, $75,000i Alger Army Commission, $150,000. Samoan Commission, $50,000. Queen's Jubilee Commissions $00,000. Special Paris Exposition Commission, $940,000. Reciprocity Commission, $30,000. Joint High Commission with Canada, $210,000. Cuba and Porto Rico Evacuation Commission, $50,000. Hague Peace Commission, $35,000. Hawaiian Commission, $30,000. Isthmian Canal Commission. $1,000.000. Insular Commission, $50,000. Industrial Commission (labor) per year, $150,000. Charles Hamlin, Special Commissioner to Japan, $15,000. John W. Foster, Special Commissioner, $30,000. Robert P. Porter, Special Commissioner to Porto Rico and Cuba, $30,000. •When Your Heart Flutters. That is not heart disease. That is no terrible heart failure; that is indigestion, the prime cause for all short breath and sudden jumping of the heart which so frequently follows an exertion of any kind. Go to the drug store. Get a bottle of Dr. Caldwell’s Pepsin. No more need be said, for after you see it once, you will never fail to keep it in the house. Oliphant drug company. * « On February 21, 1900, the Indianapolis Press said: “The republican party will make a very grave mistake it it fails to enact reasonable legislation on the subject of trusts before the session closes. Of course it will have an anti-trust plank in its platform, but that will not be enough. Congress is in session: both branches are republican. The people will be likely to hold it responsible for the failure to check or regulate these great combinations of capital. Congress knows quite as much now as it will when the national platform is made.” The people surely will hold the republican- party responsible. It had the power, but it not only failed to enact legislation, but through the man who absolutely controls its policy it is no* denying the existence of trusts.

Do your best, boys, you can’t v p ’em; they ar§ The Famous Leather Breeches Warranted not to rip; plenty of room in leg and hip; wear ilce leather. We have them at 63c, 75c and $1.00 a pair. The best and cheape »t jeans pants made. The Star Clothjjng House, Petersburg, Ind.

Sheriff’s Sole, By virtue of a certified oopyof a decree, to me directed from the clerk of the Pike circuit court, in a cause wherein Edward P. Richardson, executor of the estate of Finis Hornau.v.deceased, ts plaintiff', and John Catt and Elizabeth Catt are defendants, requiring me to make the sum of flfteeu hundred and fifty dollars and thirty cents, with interest on said decree end costs. I will expose at public sale to the highest bidder on Saturday, the 6th day of October, A. D. 1900, Between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o’clock p. m. of said day, at the door of the court house In Petersburg, Pike county, Indiana, the rents and profits Tor a term not exceeding seven years of the following described real estate, to-wit; Part of location number fourteen 114) in sections twenty-seven .27). thlrty-four (34) and thirty-five (35), In township one (]) north, range nine (0) west, described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at the south corner of the said locatiou fourteen (14), running thence north thirty-eight and one-half (38**) degrees west, nineteen (19) chains and filty toO) links to a post, thence north filtvone and one-half '5H2) degrees east thirtyfour (34) chains aha twelve (12) links to a stake, tliepce south thirty-eight and one-half (38>j|) degrees east niueteen (191 chains and fifty [50] links, thence south fifty and onehair 151}*];degrees westthirty-four [311 chains and twelve 112, links lo the place of beginning. containing sixty-six and fifty-three hundredths [66 53-100] acres. Also part of location number fourteen (14). town one (1) north, range nine (9' west, described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at a stone on the sontb-west boundary line and thirty-seyen (37) chains and forty <40) links, north thirty-eight and onehalf[38),| degrees west from the south corner of said location fourteen, running thence south thirty-eight affd one-half [38)4 ( degree* east two [2] chains and fourteen [14] (inks to the middle of Petersburg and Princeton road, thence with said road north thirtyeight and one-half [Sfe] degrees east eight [8] chains and seveuty-nve |75| links, thence south fifty-one and one-half l51>j] degrees west eight |8| chains and fifty [of] links tolhe Slace beginning containing ninety one-hun-redths (IRM00) ofan acre, all In Pikeconnlv, Indiana. Ifsucli rents and profits will not soli for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and costs, I will, at the same time and place, expose to public sale The fee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof as may ue sufficient to discharge said decree, interest and costs. Said sale will be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws W. i\l. R IDG WAY. Sept. 12.1900. Sheriff Pike County. Richardson A Taylor, at torneys for plaintiff

Evansville & Indianapolis Railroad Company, Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the Evansville & Indianapolis Railroad Company for the purpose of electing directors and the transaction of anv other business that may come before it, will be held at the office of the secretary in the city of Evansville, Indiana, on Monday, the 13th of October. 1900. between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and id o'clock noon. Witness mv hand this 20th day of Septemlier, 1900. Gilbert S. Wright, 21-4 Secretary. Notice of Final Settlement of Estate. In the matter of the estate of John S. Ross, deceased. Pike Circuit Court, November term. 1900. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, administrator of the estate of John S. Ross deceased, has presented and Hied his account and vouchers in Anal settlement of said estate, and that the same will come up for examination and action of said court tnereon, on the 13th day of November. 1900, at whicbtime all persons interested in said estate are required to appear in said court and show cause, if anv they may have, why said account and vouchers should not be approved. And the heirs of said estate, and all others interested therein are also required at the time and place aforesaid to appear and make proof of their heirship or claim to anv part ot said estate. Dated August 80th. I90(\ If Vinson France. Admidistrator. Notice of Election. Notice is hereby given to the stockholders of the Petersburg Mining and Manufacturing Association that an election will be held on Friday night. October 12, 1900, at the office of Se Association in Petersburg, Indiana, for e purpose of electing ten directors tor said Association to serve during the ensuing year. Each stockholder is entitled to one vote for each share of stock held. JACOB E. SOHCRZ- Secy. ^08 r

A good looking ^W^ horse and poor look- ■£. log harness is the worst kind of» com* : binatian. }, i not omy makes the harness and the I I horse lack better, but makes the ■ < leather soft and pliable, puts it in con* (I uti a/ , ditlon to last—twice as long ulmwii/', as it ordinarily would, v oESiKii'/. Said e»ery where ia cant—ait r^^wUB! 4 by STANDARD ! ^WMvV. OIL CO. Give Your Horse a Chancel

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jO. Having leased the Borer Coai Coal Mine, and being the nearest mine to town, we are prepared to furnish coal at all times. All orders promptly filled. TELEPHONE NO. 16 2.

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