St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 8, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 September 1896 — Page 1

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VOLUME XXII.

CAMP LIFE IN ARIZONA. Phoenix, Arizona, August 29, 1896 We got in from our trip on Tuesday afternoon and were glad to get to town and home (hotel) comforts again. However. we have become so well acquainted along the route with the settlers and cow boy gangs that we usually know now just where to find a comfortable place to spend the night or get a good meal. The cow boys have comfortable camps and are very hospitable and the settlers always bid us a hearty welcome to their humble adobe or mud huts. Adobe is the clay of this country which is pressed into rude bricks, and dried in the sun. Nearly all Phoenix is built of these mud bricks the walls are made A ery thick aud the houses are much cooler than yuf thin walled houses but a good spell of rainy weather like you have there would melt these buildings back to the original mud. But in this desert , country of course such a catastrophe is unlikely. But I was telling you about our trip. We met with one mishap. One of our ponies either wandered away or was stolen from us one night while up in the mountains and we haven’t seen him since. He was an excellent saddle animal and my especial property and I was attached to him. He has carried me over many miles of mountain and desert. His departure left us 50 miles from Phoenix with 35 miles of desert to cross with one cart and 400 pounds of baggage besides ourselves, and only one burro. I told Foster if he could get along with the load I’d try it afoot. So he hitched the cart to the burro, piled on the baggage, jumped on top and started. He was only three days getting in: as for me 1 cut across lots (can you imagine what “across lots” is in this country of mountains and gullies?) in the direction of the stage line. 1 plodded along alone up and down through almost impassable gullies. Darkness came on. 1 lay down on the warm sand with the stars over head for company and slept till the sun shining in my face awoke me. I ate what I had in my knapsack and started on again and soon reached the well known track of fche stage line. Had to ^ait several hours for the stage but it ■^£^l last and I climbed in and reach IjjjP Thoen ix before Foster. ^Our work at the mine is progressing HM^ell as we could expect- We left sev cutting thuitersand others Tjookc _ n.g t., tali- the Shelter mountain but leave it in the valley and pack the ore down on bur ros. After being idle so lung it Seems good to be doing something again and whether our ore turns out well or not it will at least give us Occupation and there is an excitement about it too. The weather has been some cooler for the past few days and it makes me feel much more vigorous. Foster has just come in and says "Five minutes before mail goes,” so I ll close. .1, P. Jones. The New Court House. Architect Coolidge met with the coUn ty commissioners and advisory committee ■ Monday afternoon. The remaindo of I the specifications were gone through i with to the end. and are now fully agreed upon. By a vote of A to i it was decided that ft bids shall be advertised for calling for fcthe construction of the proposed new Kourt hotise with field stone up to the K hirer tables and from thereon upward of sandstone. Special bids a:- to be ^■iv ted for an all-field stone building, to ^■scertain the difference in cost of con^■ruction between tmld sba • and sand Coolidge will again b<‘ here in a days, when the proposals forbids be finally agreed upon. South 'imes. B Maine’s Big County, ar® y persons perhaps liv _ un the limits of Aroostook - anty, Me., who have a faint idea of I & size, says the Boston Herald. It is ajly a county of magnificent distances t immense forests. It is nearly as as the state of Massachusetts, and r than some of the kingdoms of )ld World. Its forests are the larist in New England, and there are ^kjces that have never been visited ex^MAt by the Indian or hunter. Os the largest counties in the United ^ates, Aroostook is second, one in Califoynia (San Bernardino) being a little larger. Only about one-fifth of the country is under cultivation. Bhn account of the state fair at Indian Sept. 14 to 19, the L. E. A. W. R. mLn these dtrtes will sell tickets to IndW»P° iig at of f ” r roiind trlPgood -eturning until Sept. 21.

WALKERTON. ST. JOSEPH COI'NTV. SATiqtllAY. SEPTEMBER 12. 1896.

THE INDEPENDENT’S CAMPAIGN.

> Editor Independent: । ■ In last week's issue of your valuable । paper over the signature of R. P., was the statement that the person wished to , । give some “plain, square truths.’ It J were much better had he properly I squared his truths instead of the inI complete, abridged form in which he J presented them. He says: “However, . ■ it was not discovered to be a crime until, by greater production, silver became, cheaper and was worth more to coin ; than as bullion and the silver producers , sought to dump their surplus silver onto j the Unito<t~StnteH Movei nni. iO .oxi found ; by the law of 1873 they were barred.; Then arose the great hovv I about the ‘crime of ’73." Just so. Let us look I around some, see if there was nothing ' said until his “over prodm lion' theory , caused them to “howl." Here we have a letter from unques tionable authority: “On THE CARS Nov. 26. 1877. My Dear Sir: To your request to write you a brief letter for publication on the silver question (or to allow an unsigned one I wrote to your paper to be reprinted with my name) I cheerfully summarize my convictions on the sub ject in a few propositions that seem to I me to be almost axiomatic: 1. This is in theory, and should be in practice, a government of the people, for the people, by the people, where the popular will should be obeyd. 2. If today gold and sihei were both equally legal tender, as when we in curred the war debt ami suspended specie payments temporarih a proposi tion as a preliminary to resumption in 1879, to now demonetize silver ami pay all debts public and private, in gold alone, could not carry Hu popular vote of any district in the land. North or South, East or West, ami if submitted to a popular vote would be voted down by millions. 3. No canvass was ever mad« in any district of the nation, pri >r to the act of 1873, for the demonetization of silver; no popular assemblage or ••invention of the people of any party evei asked for it; no political platform of mo orgauiza tion demanded it: no petitions from the ' people of an^^e^Uuui^ 1 num n. flight । it: and ofT^ie hundreds of financial plans • for theYelietof the country, be the pay meat of the debt, or for the coin re sumption which were published and ad vocated, none of them proposed such an act fur the amelioration of out financial ills not one. 4. The demonetization act. therefore, was passed not at all responsiv» to anv demand or desire, or petition ~f the p. o 1 plc, aud WAs so ingeniou-o . on. .-Med in a coinage act that m ith' th. p, --sMent who signed it nor the preen! president who has to execute if it me vpeuled. knew what had been dom till Lam after ' it had gone into effect. 5. If this is really a _■ v • : ment of the people, for the people. ..ml by the people." an act thus pas-, d though it may have legal effect, is a pop,dur vv rung that should be corrected by th, servants of the people promptly ami cheerfully m>t haltingly, or grudgingly. or relue tantly, or evasively. 6. If the explicit language of our nation al constitution means au'thim.’ gold and silver are equally th" constif । tional coin of our land. 7. If the explicit 1. ngum.o- of the first act of Gen. Grant's admimstration, “the act to strengthen the publie eredit," and which did strengthen it w ith our creditors ami the world means any thing, the nation pledged itself in March. 1869, to pay its debts in or its equivalent." not in gold alone. 8. If the explicit language us the funding act of June, 1870. means any thing the nation again pledged itself to nay the bonds funded under it in the , standard coin of that d which was . gold and silver and not c bm "■ 9. If in 1861, ISfifi ami Is’.o corn and . oats were both and equady legal tender for debts, “between mar and man," as ■ the phrase is, no consideration of equity, honor, or conscience would require that incurred under and in full view of a i promise should be paid in tie dearer of these products, because the other hap pened to be cheaper from ov.-r produc tion or any other cause w hatev m. 10. If the demonetizing m t was a popular wrong; if it was neither demanded, desired or petitione.l tor by the people: if it could not now. were a new and original proposition before the people, who ought to be the rulers of the land, command even a quarter of their votes ought it not to be promptly cor rected? And then when the status quo is thus restored, would it not be an excellent time afterwards to propose an international commission of European ’ J and American nations to determine

what should thereafter be the relation of the two metals to each other? I have endeavored as briefly and tersely as possible, to submit propositions, that, to a candid mind, would seem to demonstrate themselves with out wearisome argument, and hence omit all extended reference to the optional plan of resumption. I have several times in the past year submitted as sure to avoid runs, unsettling of values, and paralysis of business name ly, for the government to redeem at its own option in gold or silver or a national bond, as proposed when the green hack was first issued, approximating but not quite to coin in value; and using the greenbacks thus funded in the purchase of our six per cent loans in the open market, thus avoiding present contraction ami ultimately reducing all our government interest to 3 or 4 percent. This plan seems to have but little chance of success in congress: and as it is not necessarily connected with the righting of the wrong done in abolishing silver as money and legal tender, I omit any extended reference to it. Sum YLEK CoLF v.X.” Now, just a few more extracts from the utterances of men, to whom at that time the interests of their country were paramount. Gen. Garfield in a speech made at Springfield, Ohio, during the fall of 1877, Hiiid: “Perhaps I ought to be ashamed to say so, but it is the truth to say that, I at the time being chairman of the L'om mittee on Appropriations and having my hands over full duringall that time with work. I never read the l*il). I t<*>k it upon the faith of a prominent Demo crat and a prominent Republican, and I d<> not know that I voted at all. TU«Te was no call for the yeas and nays, and nobody opposed that bill that I know of. It was put through as dozens of bills [ are. as my friend and I know, in con gress. on the faith us the report of the chairman of the •ommittee; therefore. I tell you, bei-aitse it is the truth, that I have n<> knowledge riltout it.” < 'oiigri ■ -ionai Record. Vo| 7 l'art 1, Forty fifth Congntss; sce>iud session,; page ps'.i Mr. Holman in u Hvored in the Hcuhu of Reprtwntatives ■ July IJ, 1876. said; ‘ I have Iwfore me the p < ord of the prvweedings of this Hous" ■ n the pass ligc of that measure, a record which no man c m read without being cmv iiw i that the measure ami the methods of g - passage through this house was „ colossal swi.idle.” I as eii th-d the .ucasure never had the sam ti >n of this House, aud it does not p . ! force of law ," Uongresse ual Record, \ 01. I. Part 6, Forty fourth Co;.gres- t>> session, appendix, page 193. Xgain on August 5, 1^76. he said “The original bill wassmq iy a lejl p. organize a bureau of mines ami coinage. The lull which finally passed this IL u- . aud which ultimately became a law was certainly not rend in this House, Gong. Record, Vol. I. Pat' 6. I rty fourth <’on. first session, page >2.;.. Mr. K -Iley .of I’enc.sy Iv ania. ’■ .. t! ■ •Fatheroflhe House," and who had Charge of the bill, made a speech in the house of repn sentatives as follows. “In connection with the charge that 1 advocated the bill which i vmom ti/ed the standard silver dollar. I -ay that, though the chairman of the (. c.mit'.on Coin age. Iw. - ignorm : of th' f t that it would demonetize the silver dollar or of its dropping the silver L-ll : , from our sy stem of coins, as Wen llm-e distinguished Senators. Messrs. Blaine and Vorhees. who were then members of the House, and each of w hom a few days since interrogated the other; “Did you know it was dropped when the bill was passed?" "No," said Mr. Blaine "Did you?" “No." said M;_ \ ortmes. I rlo not think that there were three' mem hers in the House that knew it. I doubt whether Mr. Hooper, who in my absence from the Committee on Coinage and attendance on the Committee on Ways and Means, managed the bill, knew it. 1 say this in justice to him." Congressional Record, Vol. 7, Part 2. Forth fifth Congress, second session, Page 1605. Again: "In all the legislation of this country there is no myst wy equal to the demonetization of the standard silver dollar." And even Senator Sherman, in 1 Marietta speech in 1876, said: “Both Houses were in favor of

the old dollar, the dollar in 1 issuing tence since 1792, contai’ * egal eXlB ' grains, and only demo- ' lin & 412 8-10 when it was worth 3 p Aetized in 1 ? 73 ’ the gold dollar.” cent more than Pleading an ey , limited time ar , 1 oss of space used, and I Rcatterini? h’ " my reason for not further J n^s, tothW* truths, devoid of squareI present * winds, I shall close for the 1 E. R.

WINTER OATS IN INDIANA. Winter oats is a comparatively new untried crop in the State. Ad ver trte.'B claim winter oats to be hardv in Ind ana. heavier, more prolific, and a more eartuin crop than spring oats. The teats at the Experiment Station do BdW.tain these claims as to yield and hardiness, and the reports in the agrifiuli Uml press are conflicting. A | lumber of queries were sent recently ^ nnnerH living in northern, certtral Indiana. Kfolkming is a summary of the twen*vj repih's received: Eight state f? rown winter oats one y eai; W/E two yenre; one, three years. The a^^hrit^ twen • ; hn* acre. Fmir -**>J that in AugM six in Septnml berai^ ^oin Septomlw and Octowr.^ The qi^ntity of seed sown varies from three ^cks to two bushels to the acre. Most s>w but one bushel. Eleven state that they sow with a drill, ami one sowed a part of the seed broadcast. Five state that their purpose in growing winter oats ie to obtain seed. Six state that they sow both for pasture and seed. In reply to the l|ueßtion,“Would you advise your Neighbors bi grow winter oats as a regular farm crop?” five answer “yes." Two if these five correspondents live in Bartludomew county, and one each in Madison, Jennings and I^awrence coun tii>B. One Correspondent, each in Harri son, Morgan and Cass counties states that hirther trial of w inter oats is necess wry to determine their adaptability. One cbrr.-s]>ondent. each, in Ripley , Jack son Ami Tippecanoe counties answers the question with a "no." One corres poiidsnt. each, in Gilwon, Switz< rland, Whiti. Randolph, Noble and DeKalb county's is unable to learn that the wintsf aits are grown in the county. OnCc'brrospondent, each, in Posey and Putntftu counties states that winter oats hatFbeen tried in a small way without fav results. Judgii g from the replies r<'eeived winter oats are not a reliable crop even in wajtE rn Indiana In all jwirts of the ; State «hat> spring oats can l»> grown • ■ auccHßMully. it will Lo h-» risk to go w j ( then*. iT&is is especially true of the ■ north ImII of the State. Winter oats ( - cmrtpMHy nt the Experi* ; mmt Station in the winter of isu| ; | The winter of 1895 6 so seriously dam i agixi the crop that the yields on two I plats were only 28 and 37 bushels n-j ■ । tnely. Spring onto in the san field i yielded 17 to •<» bushels to the acre. Where spring onts i« an unprvtltabl- | crop, it » II 4 übt’ess be well to give i • oats a further trial in the hcq e us I ’ devvl q»ing greater hardim -.. An a- i' i or two wiu l»e quite < Hough for H.i- pur 'p- Fairly s’mx is ,Mv i-ed Uth ’r J , pasture and to enable the crop !•> pa—l the winter more successfully. Fanners are cautioned t« carefully ; J m’y'-A Umt’ th- ? ' ac’ a Lon.' lAu due Nw.-.ap-r Bl tn. Au .st 1 Receipt Lora Hood Fown. Grit. Vim. Push. Energy. Morality. Harmony. Cordiality. Advertising. Talk about it. WriteaUmt it. Cheap pn p« rty. Sj»eak well for it. * Help to improve it. Advertise in its pap- r. Patronize its merchants. Elect good men to office. Help all public enterprise. Honest competition in prices. Make the atmosphere healthy. । I'ne all h afersi croakers and dead beats, j L"t y >ur obje 't be the welfare, grow r ’ ; and promotion of your town ai p -z g people. Speak well of the pubF r S! ' irit . , ed men. and also be one vo' .. r z.rself. Ex.

Counts Stati .ittCS. The state statist 7 , . I , ~ , , Xml report shows I that St. Joseph < . . -vnintv this vear has ' 6.lpigs, 10.0 ‘ CQ . 1 . »b hogs and that 1,886 I hugs have < , . ~ I ~ uied of disease. 1 here are 8.884 shee* p. 5,858 lambs, and from these .... taken 53,925 pounds of wool. I n/»»' * .e were 678 sheep that died us dise; .se and 274 were killed bv dogs.

In this county 45,642 acres of wheat at an average of 11 bushels per acre produced 502,062 bushels. There are 36,116 acres of corn, 17,396 acres of oats. There are also 12,947 acres of rye, 173 acres barley, 2,902 acres of potatoes. 12,446 acres timothy meadow, 4,962 acres clover meadow, 73 acres of timothy seed ground, 1,014 acres of clover and none of tobacco. The county has 3,799 horses, of which 383 died. It has 147 mules, and 2 died. 7,065 milch cows and 3,799 other cattle.

Death Os Flora Pommert. Miss Flora Pommert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Pommert, of near this place, died Monday, Sept. 7, of typhoid fever, after an illness of 11 days. She was born Sept. 24, 1880, being 15 years, 11 months and 11 days old at the time of her death. The deceased was a bright, handsome young lady and was popular and highly esteemed among her acquaintances, who arc deeply grieved at her untimely death. The funeral services were held at the North Liberty M. E. church Wednesday at 2. p m., Rev. Johnson officiating. The lemains were buried in the cemetery at that place. Will be the bisUry of On account of L^Porte county fair the L. E. A W. R. R. will sell tickets to LaPorte and return Sept. 22 to 25 at a rate of 70 cents for round trip.

Annual Clearance Sale. For ten years I have each season made a clearing sate of </I % g w A- jAt a 8 S s wM j SI’RINC. AND SIWIAfKR STQGK , AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER And This Year Will be no Exception- - I ■ ’ ■ t i.\thing in Spring and Summer (loods , ,: .n of ONE THIRD to ONE HALF ami all new goods, and other FALL AND WINTER GOODS \t ,i i- w.t pii'-" than any of my competitors. Nothing is I during thissate. Come, get prices and witness bargains. TI rr CLOTHIER & a >1 a Ww ™ Gent’s Furnisher, Rensberger Block. ROSS, JARRELL & CO.*—

GENERAL HARDWARE AND FARMING IMPLEMENTS. “■ Barb and Smooth Wire, QUICK MEAL GASoiim STf ^

ELEGANT NEW DESIGNS — ^NEW OLIVERS and James Oliver Sulky.

iNUJU BEK 8.

Local Briefs. Try Rensberger's 18 cent coffee. The Davis sewing machine is one of the best machines on the market. Vin- : cent’s sell them at S3O to §35. Bread, pies and cakes always fresh at the Domestic bakery. The Independent and Toledo Blade §1.75^ A cheap combination. Take advantage of the offer. For Sale. A span of No. 1 work horses. George Pommert, , Walkerton, Ind. It is reported that backea over an enilrankn';^gHHP ial, | , saw, Tuesday afternoon, were killed and four serl s ^' W ° n ; J^.r j . The famous Hoosier Shoe and Hoe r (rmin Drills for one and tiffo , with prices right, at Machinery Hauk , — — WANTED—Several faithful men or won en to * ’ ’ T travel for responfiible established house in Indiana Salary 8780, payable Sls weekly and I expenses Position permanent. Reference. Enclose self-addressed stamped envelope. This National, Star Building, Chicago.