Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 17, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 October 1896 — Page 2

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The snow was mantling the wild waste of barren prairie stretching toward the white peaks of the Big Horn, •brooding its desolation, hiding its accustomed ugliness and warning scont, •oldier or cowboy to look well to his landmarks before venturing forth upon its trackless sea, for even the cattle brails were hidden and the stag? road lost to view. Between its barks of glistening white the Platte rolled black and swollen, for a rare thing had happened —one so rare that old trappers and traders said they never knew the like before since first they sighted "Lar'mie" peak or forced the passes of the medicine uow—tnere nad Deen tnree days of softly falling snow and not a whisper of a Wyoming gale. There had been a thaw in the Laramie plains, preceded by a soft south wind in the park coontry of Colorado, and whole fleecy hillsides, said the natives, were "slumping off" in the upper waters of the river. And that was how the Platte came to bo tossing high its wintry wave under the old stockade at the ferry and sweeping in power, instead of sleeping in peace, beneath its icy blanket, around |g the huge blnff where waved the colors of old Port Frayne.

The roadway winding from the riverside up to tho adjutant's office at the southern end of tho garrison was still unbroken. Tho guard at the ferryhouso had been withdrawn, and as for the veteran stockade, solo relic of the early if days of the overland stage route, it looked now in its silence and desolation, heavily capped as it was with its weight of snow, liko some huge, flattened out charlotto do rnsse—at least that was what Ellis Fr.rrar, daughter of tho post commander, likened it to as she peered from the north window of their oozy quarters on the crest of the bluff. "And to think of Christmas being almost hero and not«chance of getting a wagon through from the railway," eho murmured, "and I so longed tomako it bright and joyous for mother!

It is always her sadder.t season. Theso low toned words were addressed to Captain Lealo of her father's regiment, a strong, soldierly looking man of nearly 40 years, who, with fleldglass in hand, had been studying the wintry landscape to tho north and east. Fe turned as tho young girl spoke, and, lowering his glasses, followed her eyes and looked anxiously across the bright army parlor to where tho firelight from tho blazing logs upon the hearth fell full upon a matronly woman whofo luxuriant hair was already turning gray, and whoso sweet., patient face bore tho unmistakable traco of deep sorrow. She was seated at a desk, an unfinished letter beforo lu-r, and had paused in tho midst of her writing and droppod off into tho dreamland of faraway aoenes and memories. From a drawer In the desk she had taken what wtis evidently a portrait, a small photograph, and had been intently studying while the only other oooupants of the room were busy at tho window. "It is—you know—Royle's, my brother's picture," whispered Ellis. "I know it, though I haven't seen it in ever so long—flvo years, I think."

Again tho captain bowed, inclining his head in tho slow, grave way that was habitual with him. "I know," he said briefly, and tho gaao ho fixed cron his colonel's wife was full of anxiety and sympathy. "I have often wished that your father's promotion had brought him to any other garrison in the army. Yon remember he was stationed her© when lieutenant colonel, and it was from here that Royle went to West Point." "I remember it but vaguely. That was nine years ago, captain, and I was but 7. We saw him during his cadet furlough two years later—in 1888—and that was the last. Mother only rarely speaks of him, and father never unless —unless," ahe added, with timid appeal, "ho does to you. Does he?"

Captain Lealo paused a moment beforo replying. Chily that very morning had his colonel talked with him, the most trusted of his troop commanders, of Ellis' long missing brother. Only within an hour had Farrar sought again his advice as to one whom ho eonld not bring himself to name and referred to tn shame and sorrow as "my eldest,'' and only rarely as "my son." First of the little flock, the boy had been given his father's name. Tho only child for sovoral years, petted, spoiled, I overindulged by a fond, pure hearted mother, then reared among tho isolated army garrisons of the fnr west, the

handsome, headstrong, daring youth Leale for conns* and support but nil tx ratly luul shown a tendency to wild oompanionahip and reckless living. Kow rnon in the cavalry arm of the service TO held in higher esteem than Colonel Farrar, who, entering the service with the first regiment to be sent to the front from New York city in the spring I8fll, had fought his \v to t'x1 eonun ?i a brigade in the last ui:d then been commissiond &* a juhier luajer of cavalry at the reor£rt m*-anon of ihe tvgnlar army. T? president himself had triwieml Farr. ?, long aft« rw urd. a cadetehip for his sen. And it i« gratefully yet almost ftvarfully aoet vt» .. The mother could uot be brought to bel»« ve tear boy veoahl not strm» to do boror to fci* mane at the Point The father dreaded that the waywanl. rteklow fWlovr, intolerant of restraint ur liwcipliwo, would mori! punishment, and, being perished.

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would resent. Boyle stood the ordeal only fairly well at first. Demerits in profusion and "light prison" twice had clouded his record before the furlough year, but the mother's eyes rejoiced in the sight of the handsome, stalwart young soldier after his two years of rigorous training, even though the mother heart grieved over the evidences of dissipation and vice which speedily marred the iong looked for days of his vacation. Between him and his father had been more than one stormy scene before Royle returned to the academy— interviews from which the senior issued pale, stern, sorrowful, the young man gloomy, sullen and more than half defiant

In his second class year came tidings of misdemeanor that almost broke the mother's heart. Farrar hastened from the distant frontier to the banks of the Hudson, expecting nothing short of dismissal for the boy, and promising the mother to fetch him at once to her. but the court, even in sentencing, had signed a plea for mercy for the cadet who bore so honored name, a plea that his clawmates would never have indorsed, and the president remitted the punishment to a term of confinement to barracks and camp. The father wasted no words in reproach. He pointed out to the son that this was his last chance. Royle, Jr., had sullenly responded that his disgrace was due entirely to spies and talebearers and showed neither contrition nor promise of amend. A year later came tho last straw. Reported for a violation of regulations in having liquor in his possession, Cadet Farrar wrote a lying explanation to the effect that it was placed in his room by parties unknown to him and for the purpose of bringing him into trouble, but he had been seen "off limits" at a questionable resort in the neighboring village the previous night, had been drinking and card playing thore, had lost money and refused to pay, had been seen returning by two lower classmen, to whom he offered liquor, then staggered to his quarters only an hour or so before reveille roll call. He was placed in close arrest after being confronted with the array of evidence, and that night deserted and & seen no more. Again the colonel mado his mournful pilgrimage to the Point, and old comrades pityingly, sorrowfully told him tho whole story. He went back to his regiment looking ten years older, took his wife and two younger children, Will and Ellis, to his heart, and from that day never spoke again his first bora's name. It had been for years his custom to sign all official papers in full —Royle Farrar—but the very sound of the Christian name seemed from that timo on to give him distress, and R. Farrar becaine his signature personal or official.

The young man was heard of ooca sionally, however, borrowing money from officers and friends and relatives on his father's account. Then he went to sea, then returned to New York anu wrote a long letter to his mother, telling how ho mourned the old days am. was going to lead a new life, and she too gladly sent him all the money she had. Then there was another interval, and after a year he again appeared as a suppliant for aid. He had been desper ately ill, he said, and kind but poor, humblo people had cared for him, and they .ought to be rewarded. The mother would have sent again her last cent to him direct, but Farrar interposed. Hi^ check went to a trusted friend, with instructions to investigate, and that friend was his old comrade, Major Fenton, and, as he expected, it proved only another lie.

Then there came an era of apparent prosperity, and now the poor mother in joy besonght her husband to recognize the Bon, for he reported himself in good employ with a fair salary and brilliant prospects. He even sent a draft to repay a small portion of what he termed his father's loan, but this was soon follow ed by a draft on his father for double tho amount, and later another, and ther. letters of inquiry came from his employer, and then rueful complaint of how that trusting person had been swindled. In her agony of grief and disappointment the mother's health was giving way, and Farrar concealed from her particulars even Tvorre that their wretched son hod won the love of fc' employer's daughter and that she had followed him from her father's house. There had been a nccrvt marriage. There was another Royle, This news had come to the colonel but a day or two bofom It was this that had unsealed his lips and tumeU him to Captain

"My daughter," wrote the bereaved father, "was the idol of my heart, the image of tho mother who was taken from her long years ago. Yet she turned from iiie in the passion of her love fnr fvr.?, r.r.1 r.y hr.vpese Cod aicco knows wheux If you can find liim, say that though he has roll ed mo poor I csn frr ,ive him all if he will but be rvA to her. SJ:edclicate-tinr.-Tn-'tl, as carefully c.Incited as o-Aii daughter could be, sir, and he tr re to me, for she was myall I own t!u t, having married him, hex doty was with her hnsba"J, but why ehould she have hidden tLu: marriage fcer father? My own famine is well nigti wrecked, bat she has her mother's little portion—emmgh if hi eati wswt his craving for drhsk gemfclirg h» support them hit wutwi 1 yon hH| tra

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All thin sad history was now well known to Malcolm Leale, and his eyes were full of sorrow as he bent them upon the gentle, yearning woman at the desk, lost in her study of her firstborn's face Ellis in turn stood watching him She was a gi*l of 16, yet seemed older far, because' of the years in which she had been her mother's companion and closest friend. Then, as he made no an swer to her query and seemed plunged in thought, she turned and stepped lightly over to the mother's side. "Day dreaming again. Queen Mother?" she asked in the half playfnl way that was habitual with her. "If you don't go on with your letter to Will, it won't be ready for the courier. Captain Leale tells me they are to send one out at noon." "Will they really?" asked Mrs. Farrar, rousing suddenly. "Why, I had given up all hopes of hearing from him this week or of getting a letter to him. Who is to go, captain? The pass must be breast deep in snow." "I think not, Mrs. Farrar. There was very little wind, you know, and the fall seems to have been very uniform. Corporal Rorke and a couple of my men arc getting ready now. The colonel was only waiting, hoping that there might be still some news from Red Cloud." "Why, how can it come? The wir^B are down the road hidden and the river unfordable," said Ellis eageply. "The last news was bad enough. I. own I don't want to hear further."

Over Leale's face a graver shadow felL "There are Indian riders who could easily make the journey," he said, "Crow Knife, for instance, whom the colonel sent over with the scouts five days ago. The fact that he hasn't returned makes me hopeful that matters are quieting down," but here he turne 1 again to the window to level his glass upon the broad, rolling expanse of whit', stretching in wave after wave to the bleak horizon. "God forbid there should be further trouble," said Mrs. Farrar slowly, lingeringly replacing the portrait in its drawer. "Surely the general has fore* enough there now to keep those Indians in check," she ventured appealingly.

Leale lowered his binocular again. "He has, provided the renegades captured on the Cheyenne are not sent back there. Those people should not be taken to the agency. They are Minneconjous Uncapapas, Brules, a turbulent, ill con ditioned lot, who make trouble wher ever the others are peaceably disposed. They should have been disarmed and dismounted and put under guard Fort Robinson until this question is set tied. What I fear is that Red Wolf's band is still out and is defying the agent, and that the revolt will spread to Kill Eag'e's village. If they go on the warpath, some of our beBfc scouts will be involved. That boy, Crow Knife, i^ worth his weight in gold, but his fa ther and mother would follow Kill Eagle." "Do you think—do you think that if they should revolt we—our command would have to be ordered out?" asked Ellis anxiously. "It might be," he replied cautiously, "but I am hoping that no winter campaign is in store for us. Think of march over such a waste as that," and he pointed to the snow clad scene before them. "We couldn't cross the Platte this side of Laramie either, even if tl stream were fordable. The running ice would cut the horses from under us."

Out across the parade, clear, yet sofas though muffled by the enow, the ca^ airy trumput began sounding orderly call. "Rorke and his men will start as soon as they have had dinner, Mrs. Farrar, said Leale, "and I must see the colonel beforo they go. I will send for your letters." He took up the glasses again for one last survey, Ellis narrowly watching him, while her mother went on with her writing. For a moment the search seemed barren of result, as before, but suddenly Leale started, stepped nearer the window and riveted his attention on one spot Ellis quickly noted it "You see some one?" she asked.

A brief nod was the only answer. Then, glass in hand, the captain suddenly turned to aside door, let himself out into another room and thenoe to the outer gallery surrounding the house. Here his view was unobstructed. Two gentlemen were coming up the pathway from the adjutant's office, and a soldier in immaculate uniform and side arms following a short distance behind indi

"You tee tome onef the asked. rated that the one in uniform was the port commander, the elder one, a distinguished looking man of nearly 60, whose pointed mustache and imperial were well ki^fu as wiiiie as the new fallen snow about him, whose complexion, bronwd by years erf exposure to prairie son and wind, was ruddy brown, almost like Russian leather.

Ove* Leale's face fell the same shadow of anxiety that was when he stood gazing in silence upon the sorrowing mother at the desk within. The colonel was talking in an earnest manner to the man at his side, a civilian, so for as his dress would indicate, yes a civilian with the fws carriage and briak step cf a r*U?ie»—a handsrns Mk»w. tea, «l perWps sswai awl frs—ip n«* Lnta tmmti, ft«a tboa wftfc

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"I'd beta month's pay if I ever bet a cent in the world, "he muttered to himself, "that old Fenton'8 nephew had no theinght whatever of hunting when he came here in midwinter. The question is, What else has brought him besides what I have already learned, and why does he haunt Farrar from morning till night?" 'f

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At the window the fau\ girlish lace brightened an instant at sight of the coming soldier, then clouded as quickly as the civilian came in view. "Mr. Orrnsby again!" murmured Ellis below her breath, and the bow of recognition which she gave him in answer to the quick uplifting of his sealskin cap lack ed all erf the warmth and interest that beamed in Ormsby's face at sight of her. Seeing Leale, the colonel pressed on to join him on the northward porch. Catching sight of Ellis, the civilian fell back, entered the gateway and came briskly to the door. An instant later and his step was heard in the hallway. Ellis turned to the window in something not unlike aversion. The mother it was who rose eagerly to welcome the coming guest "Prompt as ever, Mr. Ormsby," she cried as he ertered the purlor, fresh and rosy from tLj keen air. "I wish you might teach my husband to be more punctual at luncheon." "Indeed I feared I was detaining him, Mrs. Farrar. He's merely stopped one moment to speak with Captain Leale. He was showing me over the barracks. Sou have no idea how vividly interesting all this is to me. I have shouldered the musket with the Seventh for eight years and have never visited an army popt before." "Oh, didn't you see your uncle when he was at Riley? He used to write to my husband of you time and again and of your pridr in your regiment" "No, he was in New York on recruiting service then, a iew years ago, you remember, and we used to get him up to the armory or to our camp occasionally." "And he was very, very kind to my poor boy, my Royle," said Mrs. Farrar wistfully, searching the face of her guest, "and when you came to us wit' letters from our old friend, for we hau known him before our marriage," she continued, a faint color rising to her cheek, "it seemed almost like welcoming him. There

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for Major Fenton th"Sd our home afforded after all ho tried to do, at least for —him." The sigh with which she spoke seemed to well up from the depths of the mother'" heart Ellis, with light footsteps, had left the room to greet her father on the piazza without, and for the first time since his coming, three days previous, just in time to be hemmeel in and beld at Frayne by the .great snowfall, Mrs. Farrar was alone with her guest "There is something I have longed to psk you, Mr. Ormsby,"she went on, "something I must ask you, for a mother's intuition is keen, and I feel sure you have seen or known my peor boy in the past Have you heard— do you know anything of him now?" "Mrs. Farrar, I give you my word I have not the faintest idea of his whereabouts." "Forgive me if I am intrusive, importunate, she persisted. 'But—Major Fenton—he was Major Fenton then, you know, and I think of him with the title he bore when he was so good—so friendly—when my unhappy boy most needed friends. You were with your uncle often then. Did you not meetdid you not know my Royle?"

Ormsby'8 honest eyes betrayed the deep embarrassment under whieh he labored, and she, watching every sign with painful intensity, read the truth, despite his faltering reply.

Once or twice, Mrs. Farrar, but I know him only very slightly." Tell me still more, Mr. Ormsby. You have been most considerate to m^. You have sought to spare me, but in my husband's sad face and abstracted manner I have read the truth. He hp heard news—worse news of Royle—and so you have been tBe bearer. Is it not so?"

But Ormsby pulled himself together, this time at least like a man, and braved her.

I assure you it is not so, Mrs. Farrar. From me at least the colonel has heard nothing new—nothing worse. I beg you to dismiss the thought"

But he did not say that he had oome prepared to tell, aye, instructed to tell, of crowning disgrace—oome with the written propexrition of his employers to relinquish pursuit of Royle Farrar pro vided the father would make good the sum they had lost through the son's forgery. "God bless you, Mr. Ormsby, for the load you have lifted from my heart," she cried. "Ever since you came I have dreaded more and more each day that you were the bearer of evil tidings of him who has almost broken his father's heart and yet cannot must not, shall not be beyond redemption if a mother's love and prayers are of any avail. Even Ellis has seemed to share my dread. I have read it in her manner, as perhaps you have too. She did not mean to be unkind, inhospitable to our guest, but that sorrow has overshadowed us ail. Even my bright brave Will, who is doing all a boy can do to redeem the name at the Point—even Will, I say, is sometimes confronted by the record that his erring brother left"

The tears were starting from her e?™ I now, and in uucontro 3le emotion turned away. Then cume a loud rap at the front door, and a servant hastened to open it A l^nd, cheery Irish voice resounded throt:^ the Jway an instant later. "Corporal Rorke to report to the colonel for ti patches," and, glancing Ormsby caw a stout trooper,

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And that meant that the Twelfth must drop its Christmasing and fetch the wanderers home.

CHAPTER IL

"Hushi Silence there!" fejr dimly seen through the drifts Colonel Farrar, with his little party erf attendants, came riding to the front of the line. Long, long afterward they remembered that clear cut soldierly, high bred face, with its aquiline nose, keen, kindly, deep set eyes, the gray white mustache, snow white now, as was his close crop ped hair. 'Men," said he in the firm tones they had known so long and well, fully half the band are some miles away, but Kill Eagle, with over 100 warriors, is right here in our front so, too, are his women and children so, too, worse luck, are iome of our owu unhappy captives. You all know the first thing those Indians would do, were we to attack as usual, would be to murder those poor white women. This snow storm is in our favor. We can creep right in upon them before we charge. The ponies ire down in the valley, to the south. Let the first 1 ine dash straight through the village and stampede the herd, then rally and return. Let the second follow at 100 yards and surround the tepees at the eastward end. What white women are with them are there. The Indian men, as a rule, will make a dash in the direction of the ponies. Shoot them down wherever you can, but mark my words now, be careful of the women and children. 1 had intended summoning Kill Eagle to surrender, but we did not begin to know he had so many-warriors close at hand and did not know about the captives. Bat has seen, and that is enough. There is no other way to settle it It's the one chance of rescuing those poor creatures. Now, keep together. Watch your officers' commands and signals, and spare the squaws and papooses. Bo ready in two minutes."

And then every man took a long breath, while the colonel rode through to say similar words to the second lino. Then, returning, he placed himself just in the rear of the center of the first squadron, the second line noiselessly advancing and closing up on the leaders, and thta he seemed to think erf another point "Ask Mr. Ormsby if he will ride with me,'' said he to the adjutant. "Now, Leale, forward at a walk. Follow Bat It's all level ahead of you. You'll sight the village in three or four minutes."

The tall, p^alwart captain touched his hat took off his "broad brim," shaking away a load of snow, and spurred out a little to the front There, looking back to both his right and left, he gave the signal "Forward 1" and with almost a single impulse the long, dark rank of horsemen, open at the center in an interval of some half a dozen yards, without other sound than the slight rattle of aocouterments and the muffled rumble of 600 hoofs, moved steadily forward. A moment the colonel sat and watched them, smiled acerdial greeting to Ormsby, who, pistol in hand, came trotting over with tho adjutant then, signaling to the second line, he, tco, gave his horse the rein, and at a steady walk follerwed close to the center of Leale's command. In his hand at the moment he held a little pocket oompass and smiled as he noted tho line ff direction. "Almost due southeast at this instant," said he. "We eraght to bag erar game and be well across the Mini Pusa with them in less than an hour."

Unconsciously the pace was quickening. Foremost of all, well out in front of the center, rode the half breed Indian guide, bending low over his pony's neck, his black, beady eyes peering ahead. Well out to the right and left were other scouts, eager and alert like Bat himself. Then, squarely in the center, on his big, powerful bay, rode Leale, comrrander_of the foremost line, [CJOITTINUED ON THIRD PAGE.]

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CONTRACTORS AND PROPERTY OWNERS. Notice is hereby given, that on the 18th day °. 1896. the common council of the city of Terre Haute adopted a resolution declaring an existing necessity for the Improvement of Ohio street from the east curb line ot ^eeotid street to the east curb line of Third street, bv grading, curbing and paving the same tho full width thereof, the sidowalks to be sixteen feet wide on the south side and paved with cement next, to tho property line the width of sixteen feet, and curbed with hard limestone: the roadway to bo 53 54-100 feet wide and paved with Trinidad Pitch lake asphalt for a width of 47 54-100 feet and with brick for a width of 3 feet in each gutter, laid on a concrete foundation 5 Inches thick also, from east curbline of Third street to the west building line of Sixth street by grading, curbing and paving the same, the full width thereof, the sidewalks to be lti feet wide and paved with cement next to tho property lino the width of 10 feet, and curbed with hard limestone the roadway to be 49 54-100 feet wide and paied with Trinidad )itch lake asphalt for the width of Hi 54-100 feet, and with brick for a width of 3 feet. In each gutter, luid on a concrete foundation 5 Inches thick also, from east building line of Sixth street to west building line of Seventh street, by grading, curbing aud paving the same, the full width thereof, the sidewalks to be 16 feet wide and paved with cement next to the property lino tho Width of 8 feet, and curbed with limestone the roadway to be 49 54-UK) feet wide and paved with Trinidad pitch lake asphalt for a width of 43 54-100 feet and with brick for a width of 3 feet In each gutter, laid on a concrot.e foundation 5 Inches thick also, from east building lino of 8eventh street to west building line of Ninth and One-half street, by grading, curbing and paving the same, the full width thereof, the sidewalks to be 16 feet wide and iavod with cement next to tho proporly lino nho width of 8 feet, and curbed with hard 11 Dies tone tho roadway to be 49 54-100 feet wide and paved with Trinidad pitch lake asphalt for a width of 43 54-100 feet and with brick for a width of 3 feet In each gutter, laid on a concrete foundation 5 Inches thick the said Improvement to bo made In all rospects in accordance with tho general plan of Improvement of said city, and according to tho plans and specifications on Hie In the office of the city engineer, the cost of the said Improvement to bo assossod to the abutting property .owners and becomes due and collectable Immediately on approval of tho final estimate, unloss tho property owner shall have previously agreed In writing, to be filed with said plans, to waive all Irregularity and Illegality of tho proceedings and pay his assessments when due.

Sealed proposals will bo received for the construction of said Improvement, at tho office of tho city clerk, on tho 30th day of October, 1896, until five (5) o'clock and not thereafter. Each proposal must bo accompanied by a bond with good freehold sureties or equivalent security, In the sum of ono thousand dollars, liquidated damages, conditioned that the bidder shall duly enter Into contract and give bond wlthlng five days after the acceptance of his bid for the performance of tho work. Tho city reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

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IT. J. BAKER, Plaintiff's Attorney. •J^OTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS. The State of Indiana, Vigo County, in the Vigo circuit court. September term, 1896.

No. 18,341. Mattlo llallett vs. Benjamin F.

lie it known, that on the 12th day of .September. 1896. said plaint!IT filed an affidavit in due form, showing that said Benjamin F. llallett Is a a non-resident of the state of Indiana.

Said non-resident defendant Is hereby notified of the pendency of said action against him. and that the same will stand for trial November lltli, 1896, the same being at tho Soptembor term of said court In the year 1896.

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In the matter of tho Koonec, deceased. In the Vigo Circuit court. September term. 1890.

Notice Is hereby given that Eliza M. Koonce as executrix of the estate of John S. Koonce. deceased, has presented and filed her accounts and vouchers in final settlement of said estate, and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said Circuit court, on the 9tli day of November, lWfl. at which time all heirs, creditors or legatees of said estate are required to appear In said court and show cause. If any there !e, why said account and vouchers should not be approved.

Witness, the clerk and seal of said Vigo Circuit court, at Terre Haute, Indiana, this 8th day of October. 1*96. [SEAU] HUGH D. ROQUET, Clerk.

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IMPROVEMENT PINAL ESTIMATE.

Notice Is hereby given that the final estimate report of the cost of tho Improvement of College avenue from east curb line of Third street to west curb line of Fourth street, was on tho 6th day of October, 1K06. referred to the committee on streets aud alleys, and any person aggrieved by such estimate may appear before said committee, on fhe Wst day of October. 1896. at tho office of the city civil engineer In said city, and make objections thereto, which objections will be reported by said committee to tho comm« council of the city of Terre Haute at the next regular meeting of wild council after the said committee shall conclude the hearing upon said objections* and all person* h«terest^d may be heard In reference stirh objections before the council.

CHAS. H. GOODWIN. City

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