St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 5, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 22 August 1896 — Page 1

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VOLUME XXII.

CAMP LIFE IN ARIZONA.

Pi escott, Arizona, August io, iS96. It is early morning, the coolest part of the day. It is quite cool, only 105 de- j grees here in my room and I will write a , little now, for before noon it will be 118 ; degrees. Yesterday at 2p.m. it was 115 , degrees in the shade on the third story ! porch, the coolest place in Phoenix. I ' sleep out doors, sick or well. My doctor : leaves for Pennsylvania today and 1 am ’ improving so fast I think 1 shall do with- ■ out medical attendance. The boarders at the Mills House all toll me how much , better lam looking. When 1 came in j ten days ago Mrs. Mills when she saw j me said to herself, “There will be a death j for the Mills House.” They don’t like to ' have people die in their hotels as it makes them unpopular. What a dread we all have of anything pertaining to 1 the only sure thing we can count on— I the fate that awaits us all sooner or * later. Strange, isn't it! I 1 think it was only the heat and exer ? tion of the trip that brought me down ' and the packed victuals. lam begin ] ning to find out that I cannot rough it like the others and must hereafter make । arrangements accordingly. I can t drink i the alkali water for one thing and 1 that is all we have only in the moun- ' tains. I let ice melt and put lemon ; juice in it and drink that and find it ; does very well. I believe if I could have 1 just one good drink of the water from ' our well at home I’d be well. I received the legal documents this 1 morning making me the half owner in a copper mine 60 mines north of Phoenix. It may amount to something and may not. We will go out and work it sufficiently to find out, however, soon. Fos ter left Saturday for a visit to the mine ' and will be gone about ten days. The mine is on Cave creek, a desolate place, in the mountains of course, ami 16 miles

from nowhere. It was in getting to this ; mine that Foster mM with the almost ' fatal accident, his horse slipping on th • narrow mountain trail and falling m t » him. I think you will not accuse tn < f not possessing ‘•western enterprise" when I tell you that we are going to pack a smelter weighing 2600 pounds on burros, besides lumber for making camp; and provisions sufficient h’r sef^Try men over those mountains along those tortuous trails. Our train will consist of five Mexicans and 25 burros. It will be an awful pull getting up there some old prospe ters tell us that All h—l couldn't get that smelter up there" —but Foster believes that we can. and once up there he says “our fortune is assured.’' To tell the truth I haven't much faith in the scheme financially but it will cost comparatively little to give it a trial. There is nothing gained without some effort and risk. Foster says, “Os course we expect a few Mexi cans and burros to get killed in the climb.’’ Such trips are not new to him. We shall begin smelting rock that has assayed 85 per cent copper with pr >s pect for better. This rock it is claimed also contains silver (free of course and gold too, but we don’t go much on that. There is a w mderful fascination about the mountains. When I came in sick ten days ago I thought I never wanted to go back to them, but now just as I am beginning ‘ ! e able to crawl around I long for the mountains and wish I was among them again. The sun is getting high in the east and it is getting warm up here. These hot days the chairs and door knobs are actually hot to my touch. Did I tell you the story they tell of that fellow here who died and went to well it must have been some time ago for they comfort us nowadays with the assurance that there is no such place. But anyhow he went there, as the story goes, but after living in Phoenix he found it so chilly there that he had to send back for blankets. J. P. Jones. DR. KI L M E R’S —— ft ; KIDNEY LIVERS %*M." Rheumatism, Lumbago, pain in joints or back, brick dust In urine, frequent calls, irritation, inflammation, gravel, ulceration or catarrh of the bladder. * Disordered Liver, Biliousness, headache. Indigestion or gout. SWAMP-ROOT invigorates, cures kidaey difficulties, Bright's disease, urinary trouble*. Impure Blood, Scrofula, malaria, general weakness or debility. Swamp-Root builds up quickly a run down constitution and makes the weak strong. «uarontee-Vse content* ot One Bottle, it not benefited, Druggists will refund to you the price paid. At Druggists, 50c. Slate, SI.OO Size. •'lnvalids’ Guide to Health" tree- Consultation frse. i Dk. KiiMzn & Co., Binqhamton, N. Y.

WALKERTON. ST. JOSEPH <’<>l-NTY. INDIANA. SATURDAY. AUGUST 22. 1896.

THE INDEPENDENT’S CAMPAIGN.

Editor Independent: In your last issue you published a 1 campaign gold argument from the Indi 1 anapolis News to show the danger of the I United States going to bimetallism. That 1 article stated that “ Costa Rica has been : on a silver basis for twelve years. The i rate of exchange has risen steadily until :it has paral}zed trade. Practical!} <dl the gold left the country. The effort to keep Costa Rica on a silver basis has resulted in a debased currency." Silver is blamed for the existing poverty of that Gold-forsaken little country. the tiuth is that years ago they trusted to the gold syndicate of London and the result is that they have silver the p—' mans friend. Gold, the bondholder’s money, they have not, and as a result they have been bankrupt since 1873. I quote in proof the exact words of the latest edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which is authority up to 1895: “ Costa Rica, area 21,495 square miles, j Population 154,000, of which 17,000 are ; Indians, Chinamen and Negroes. In 1873 ; that government contracted a loan in j London of 3,4oo,(XX)j»ounds sterling (g< >hi . for the purpose of building an inter oceanic railroad. The work ceased Ih> fore completion in 1875. The interest and sinking fund of this loan are far in arrears, the country is bankrupt and the government has made no attempt t pay even a part of its liabilities.” This looks as if a gold basis did not save them prior to twelve years ago and now they arc in the clutch's of the gold speculators of Ixmdon and nothing short of God's grace can save them. It was British gold that ruined Costa Rica and it will yet ruin the United States unless as freemen we rise up and cast off this “ cross of gobi.” * -4 s Another O< L! A’gu’n-nt.

। Mr. Brownlee in his speech last Satur ' day night held up two Mexican silver ! thdlarr stating that he had bought th< two for on" American dollar. He seem I cd pleased with his argument. Now the fact is that he clearly proves that going to a gold base has doiihl *J the purchns ing power of the \meriean dollar. In 1873 when the L'uiU’d •silver tTm wiw worth 103 cents in the markets of the world. The Mexican silver dollar, ;w bullion, was worth li>-» cent •. the Amer ican gold dollar, as bullion, was worth 100 cuts and in spite of this fact they demonetiz' d stiver and n.>w claim " it n because silver is tn । lentiful." Why did tiny denuwi!." in Is7 , when a silver d> u tr w s worth mor. than a gold dollar? so day ‘he bull mina M< xi< a’ dollar will buy as mm I the products of lalxir in Mexico as cv> rit did. The same is true of the American silver dol lar: melt it oto imlhc mt it will buy as much product < f h> w in Walk erton as ever it would. Silver today has kept the level of aE >ther i"m modities the world ove -. Tm-re is but one exception ; ' : ' k wm you want to buy gold takes tw is as mu h silver, i. e., two silver d»d: .i > > - I 1 dollar, but in wheat, corn, oats or other property stiver buys just as much as it did before wo wem. to a■_ d Hasis Now is it not clear that the law has played into the hands of the go’ syndicates and thus by law and e rnenng of’gold has doubled the value of the gold dollar and silver has not depreciated? To-day al! gold basis < untriee are having hard times whii silver countries are having prosperous times. The fol lowing article is from a leading gold authority: FINANCIAL Pi AV: .O"M£ST IN MEXICO. There seems to be a remarkable financial development going on in Mexico A number of great foreign bai kshavel>een looking into that field, and several have arranged for important branches, the most notable being a branch of the Deutsche Bank. '1 ■ ■ " k■d L- nd-m. which is located in the < ily of Mexico, I is about to increase its capital from • 85.000,000 to JKVK* ‘ jhe particu ; 1 trly notable feature of this movement । is found in the fact th- new capital is to I be subscribed entirely by local financial I Interests. The large dry goods houses and textile manufacturers will be chiefly interested in the increased capital. Rand .McNally Bankers' Monthly, July, 1896. POOK MEXICO! J. W. Arlington. *'* A Mexican dollar is worth 54 cents in Mexico and is not receivable by the Mexican government or by any one else as an equivalent for gold. That government has free coinage of both gold and silver at a ratio of 16to 1. ■ Its ten dollar gold pieces which do not 1 : circulate are worth 810.30. Ten of its silver dollars may be bought for 85.40— , these are facts to be learned at any 1 broker’s office. —Goshen News. *** The New York World says: “We are now using 8618,000,000 of gold coin and certificates, and 8779,000,000

of silver coin and certificates, and we are keeping all these dollars, together with our greenbacks and treasury notes of 1890, at par absolute with each other. ' This is real bimetallism. It is not bimetallism al all. The gold ' money is the only real money in thecountry. All the other kinds lean on gold, and the silver dollar might just as well, | under the arrangement,be paper dollars. Bimetallism means that a nation hug j double standard, and that all its profile . who an 1 in debt may use their option ' ( pay any debt either in one metal or other, as they may elect. Frit** are fix ed by the amnnnt us «»oney that is represented by the standard, which is gold only, and all the other forms of money count for no more ii' the realm of prices than a check on a bank counts as real money. A man who has SI,OOO in tie bank and who has given checks for S9OO of the 81 ,001) cannot say he has 81.900 in ■ the bank. It is only the real money in ' the bank that counts. The greenlmdk is i simply a promissory note given by the I government. On its face the govern meat ; says it will pay money for the greenback. It might just as well be on the face of every silver dollar. Neither is primary money: neither goes to the question of ■ values al all. Salt Lake City Tribune. When you are worrying over the fact that certain men have tieeonie rich under the present money standard and some *1 lege, are getting richer all the time look at the matter squarely. If thv. monied men of the country have bvcnnblcio make money in hard turn's when the dvr va'i, claim there has bee ’ a (NMJ traction of the currency, isn't it rcaM® able to suppose that they v. ill be just {capable of making money when it is more plentiful 9 If they are miih-main* today, how long will it l>e before are multi millionaires* Certainly fc»» one for a moment < xputs that a < hroge in the money standard t* g icg b» make the rich jsior and the |««»r rich. Yet, you might think that this idea pi- vailed from the talk w> hear. Ba!tim«e World, _ h , ... W ~ . What do you understand of a mtn ‘a logic mho contends that, under fr-v C« r age <»f gold and silver this <'»»Untry would br om -i. ‘ dumjun; • - no I” i for all the foreign silver, when at the sin e time he tells you that frv r. n Wgt ! will n<’t mere IS! the i.u11i..: ] ..• • of , silvoi and tha* th cih» r d liar ut.d«r fr« c«mage would only lx» worth. «ny ' 53 cents? Thnt kind of Lie n, beyond ; ■ar < nprehensu-n. Naj j,n - - Ne« i( From North Ilakota. ’ r I. N . JUk t D / I EdlT< I NDFCI Nil! NT. I will again ask y-m to publish a few lines in your pa|wr to inform the j< - pie of Inai ma in regard to -ur cn ps All crops that were put in in p - d are g-kI, but stubale wheat will not make t-ore than half a crop. What I mean by stubble is land tha! was in ' wheat la.-t year and .--me ' r two and I thr- e years and sowed in the stubble without plowing the ground: L-.-l ; ■ such sowing was good, but to take it one year with :mother I think gosi farming in N tl; Dakota pays just .s a<4l as any place I know of. Rye. • ats, liarley ami flax are good. Flax is extra g-->d, fiotatoes are a big crop, corn b - ks w< il and all otlmr v- getabh s are better th .n they were last year cm aecou’t of the warm weather we had this sue a.er. We have had a nice uame r. 1 tl. nk it was to offset the bad spring we had. It is getting very dry hero new but as our crops are made the dry weather makes it all the nicer for us to take care of on-crops Harvest has commenced and in as -w more weeks I vi’l toll you how our crops are turning out. There ' was.,., 'e i mistake intbe;,.-i t' . I wr< ! 4- regard to the government land. 1 n i for the price to be sixteen dollars instead of sixteen hundred for a 160 aci farm. With these few remarks I will close hoping there will be lots of Indian:’, people up hero to Like a view at our country and investigate our crops that we are raising on land that was , given to us: and there is lots more to , give away just as good as that which we have. Yours, H. W. Ford. County Surveyor Good completed a preliminary survey for widening and enlarging the Robbins dredge ditch last ' Friday. The excessive wet of the season has about convinced all the property owners along the line of the ditch of the necessity of the proposed enlargement, and there will probably be but little opposition to it.— Knox Republican. f Your Job Printing will receive prompt ) and careful attention at this office.

i The Walkerton Farmers Play The South Bend Senators. The Walkerton base ball club, accompanied by a large delegation from Knox, Walkerton and North Liberty, went to South Bend last Sunday morning over । the Fhree I to play the Senators, of । that city. Xo stronger team ever went ; out of Walkerton than this one. but the I boys placed in hard luck. It was decidedily an off day for them. They put up the I worst game that they have played thia j iu fact it wan an indifferent, , lisrth*s» game, far below their average ulgy:ng. It was the first game they have m this season, having defeated lioth Plymouth and LaPorte in hotly contest ed games. The game was called at 3 p. m. in Springbrook Park and the grand stand was well filled with spectators. Lussenhopp, the Walkerton pitcher, lost his grip at the beginning of the game which confused the catcher, Walter Owen, and the rest of the boys then soon lost their nerve, all going down in a heap. This made the game simply play for the Senators. The Walkerton boys made some good plays but nothing seemed to count in their favor. They hit the South Bend pitcher right along but the ball was nearly always krnn'kixl squarely into the hands of one of the Senators who scarcely had to move out of his tracks to get it. If there is anything in good Im k the Senators certainly had it last Sunday It is doubtful if they could win another game like it from Walkerton in a hundr- d games. I'he Walkerton boys are anxious t > get another date with the Senators Ivefore the season cliwvt. Followir g is the «e >re Senn? rn n 1 « i t •> n n 18 Bs«w» hits 2 2 I 5 1 2 2o <• 15 Walkert u 00noo oO(l 0 O B~e hits lit) 0 u 1111 6 I’he Campaign Opened. p The rrp'ibl’cnns of Walße.-t a and vi cir.it} opened the campaign in this end of St ,L ■ • pl. r si. - } b} h>4<io g a rotis ing mwtitqt last Saturday evening. The audience va ■ hell* red bv a ap.M ious w’l&wa.m .vpi. b was built i dpllble quick Otiic <xi ^V»u>en<» I >**r>unds during Saturday 3’ •• * vam w.ai I wot quit ■ n; ’< tc for tin C > 'ting but I saswered a very }- «-l purple. The akt '' '’ ’ nir;- was I i. Hiram i Rn-w he, .f” H.■ -a'. . v intro ! IJiordb T! > .ij Turm ch dnnnn of th < lit . Mr. Brow touched ;ui th ' <!u •qm sti-ms.and ' I tii.h t l * }U' ‘ i i . s >H th<m* I I amlp ant H” was folio Ibv Count} i R.<. •!> II hMuaml. <1 • >th Bend, p.MVr - M I Ii :.e me d ? ... r ’..,1 . .urn A sjsN ml over the Three I brought a dole Igation o<’about 13> fr S nth Bend land N->; h I. ■ !y. The u ’.am was ^filled to it full .a; aeit}. time being at h- tp-l’le in and ab ul tl huil ding. < hnid mm ■wis fir isln d by the ’ Walker! n cornet band. Jo .jh 11. Bowers, an industrious I yuuog 1...^ : «f Tog; 'er., aod M. s Maud Han—-n, a popular }< ar g ady, were joined in matrimony Monday evt . gir.g by Rev. J ob il ! I- t d. । Rayoi Beall, who u-u I’v has great sue ■. s in r : water meloi •< has Hie th - k - t v « Independent for two fine PURFLY VEGETABLE.

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Local Briefs. Try Rensberger's 18 cent coffee. The indications in Ot Townsend’s case are reported very favorable at this writ ing Friday morning. The Davis sew ing machine is one of the best machines on the market. Vin cent’s sell them at 830 to 835. We desire to remind those owing us and who promised to pay at this time that we are in need of the money, and depend largely upon these accounts U> meet our obligations. Wetrust thatour friends will respond to this notice at their earliest possible con venience. Ross, Jarrell & Co. To Cider Hake s. 1 will be ready to commence running my eider mill on the Archie Williams place Monday, Aug. 3. Those wishingeider made will do well to see me. Price one cent a gallon. Wesley Lopp.

Annual Clearance Sale. For ten years I have each season made a clearing sale of A A W ® / .A « \ Etß i ' § ks .■ - - J i 1- l" 1 -v— I SPK'XG S LOCK AUGUST B'STOB And This Year Will be no E^cep Ki- — I 5 r u \ thing in Spring and Summ i G rids t reduction O’ ONE THIRD to ONE H' LF and all new goods, and other FALL ANS WINTER GOODS At a lower price than any of my competitors. N. Thing ii i.. d .lurii.g thissale. Uon.e,get prices ..td witness bargains. IT. J. WOLFE, cSffK Rensberger Block. RCSS, JARRELL & GIL - GENERAL M. .RDV/ \F E AND ^FARMING IM EL- - iFS. C 'i. 2 • Baid) and Sinooth © V.- o A QUICK .— ELEGANT NEW DESIGNS. — ^NEW OLIVERS and James Oliver Sulky.

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Bread, pies and cakes always fresh at the Domestic bakery. The Independent and Toledo Blade ; 81.75. A cheap combination. Take advantage of the offer. For Sale. A span of No. 1 work horses. George Pommfrt, Walkerton, Ind, Miss Cora Garrett, of South Bend, formerly of this place, is said to have lost her voice to such an extent that she is unable to even whisper. Dr. Kelley, of Knox, - ho recci.tl; had his leg amputat' d, is said to he getting along very slowly. An old a-roy trouble has set in which compl;gg:es the doctor's condition. Samuel Woodward has an ingonius piece of work which he did . ita a pocket knife. It is a chain cut. Lou. a poplar stick 3 feet and 8 inches long and I^4 inch thick. It is a beautiful and intricate piece of wood carving. All druggists sell Dr. Miles' Nerve Carters.