St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 23, Number 6, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 August 1897 — Page 1

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VOLUME xxni.

An Alaska l etter From Theodore Needham. Theodore Needham, who resided in this place about 12 years ago, writes to friends at Mishawaka concerning his ex periences in the gold fields of Aliska. Mr. Needham left Mishawaka several years ago, locating in California. Later he went to Washington and from there to Juneau. Alaska, where he became in terested in the publication of a news paper called the Searchlight. In 1896 he severed his connection with the paper and went to the gold fields to seek his . fortune, in which, it seems, he was not disappointed. Mr. Needham writes very entertainingly of his experiences in the new Eldorado. In his letter lie says: “When 1 left Juneau I weighed 203 pounds. With Charles G. Graham and Fred Idgeole we left Juneau for Doug las island, and went thence 200 miles on sleighs. Then we brought out our him ber, constructed a boat ami started up the Yukon, and came near meeting death in crossing the treacherous Miles’ canon. Arriving at Dawson City we met some miners who were in hard luck and were contemplating a trip homeward as soon as means could be procured for trans portation. We then started for the Kit chican regions, arriving there in May. There are, 1 believe, some good claims here but they cannot be worked very soon, owing to the enormous cost of getting machinery in. We pushed on to Franina island, where we took up a claim and established ourselves. Provisions were scarce and we should have suffered but for the ample supply we had so lab oriously brought with us. Here, as in the Klondike region, a few partially opened fields presented themselves to the persevering hunter. “Daily we made long and wearisome journeys. One day, however, we made a fortunate find and pushed our work with a persistency born of despair. As our provisions showed no signs of giving out, we were a jubilant trio, far from home and any human beings. Our claim here is one of the richest in the Kitchican territory, and though we have secured many a valuable ounce of the precious metal, our prospects are still good and if my fortune remains with me I shall some day return with enough wealth to purchase one of the largest newspaper plants in the states. “In regard to persons starting from the Union now, I would say that it is a fool-hardy attempt. The terrible Alaska winter is not far off and the transpor tation companies have not means at their disposal to supply Alaska with necessary food and provisions. There will be great suffering in the Yukon ami Klondike regions and I consider it a little ruu;ide Rm men to under —*►— take the danger**,,, trip- Mad) <>f the wealth is also greaii* exaggerated and the perils and hardships which cannot possibly be avoided are not receiving proper consideration from the crazed seekers after Alaskan gold.” A New Study of American Fashionable Life. Julien Gordon (Mrs. Van Rensselaer Cruger l has used for her last novel a study of New York. Newport and Bust n life, which promises to be read with vv ide interest in American fashionable life. No one knows the society of these three centers of fashion better than Mrs. Cruger. From her girlhood up she has had every opportunity to observe, and we have had no American woman of more brilliant powers, not only of read ing the human heart, but of putting her impressions in delightful fashion. A charmingly fresh Massachusetts girl is sacrificed in her youth to the ambition of a “rich marriage.” Deprived of love, she throws herself into the race for social leadership, and we follow for twenty years,with ever increasing inter est, the career of this able and beautiful woman as she captures outpost after outpost. failing in Boston only to change her base of operations to England, and then attacking the main works of the enemy at New York, and so on to New port, and finally beholds the capitulation , of Boston itself. The first chapters open ' in the September Cosmopolitan. MOUNT VERNON. George Goppert’s are riding around in a nice new buggy Mrs. Maggie McCarty and daughter Mary, from Knox, were visiting at Mrs. McCabe's last SunAV after Beall and sister Nora went to C liicago last W ednesday morn ' ing. Nora will remain and visit with I relatives for a couple of weeks I John Bell, Sr., and daughters. Pearl, Myrtle and Grace, went to Indianapolis last Sunday on the excursion Willard Rinehart was in Tyner on business last Tuesday John Gilder and friend, Patrick Shunning, of South Chicago, are here visiting with the former’s many relatives and friends John E. Wenger and wife went to South Bend last Wednesday, where they will visit relatives and friends; also in Mishawaka Mr. Covert, the ice man, renting Dan Koontz’s farm, it was his son-in-law Pat Shannessy and wife, of Chicago, visited with Mrs. MeCabe and family last Sunday. Trebor. We are closing out cotton buggy nets at reduced prices. Too many in stock and must sell them. F. M. Ake.

WALKEKTON, ST. JOSEPH OILVU. INDIANA. SATTRDaY. Aid. 28. 1897.

Walkerton vs. I nion Mills. The Union Mills nine played a return game with the Walkerton nine on Thurs day afternoon in Dare's field just east of town. The game was called about 2:45 o'clock. A large and enthusiastic audience was present to witness the con test. A large score, which appears to be the rule in this locality this season, was made by both sides. Eight, innings were ■ played, and in the last one the visitors 1 did some good work, scoring five tallies. The scores in the several innings were . as follows: 1231 5 G 7 8 Walkerton.. 1 12 0 3 2 5 17 LaPorte 0 12 2 11 1 5 16 ; batteries. Walkerton, Voder, Owen, Wolfe, and I Rensberger,. - I.aPorte. Clark. Hoover, and Keil. BASK HITS. Walkerton. 13. LaPorte 10. Two base hits Walkerton, I. I nion Mills. 2. Errors, too many to count. The main features of the game were Harry Owen’s pitching, Ehr Wolfe's bat ; ting, making two 2 base hits, and a tine double play made by the visitors. Owen pitched in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh innings, striking out lo men. No earned runs were made oil of him. In the eighth inning Owen relieved Wolfe in th* box after the tallies had been made, saving the game for the home team. MID IVA Y [OR 11 VRB won. I Everyone prepare to get their mail at I the new office in a few days Do me fail to attend the picnic to do held at Olive Branch Saturday Mr and Mrs. A. IL Price and daughters, M<“’ dames Knepp and Klopfer, and J I Price, of North Liberty, and Mr. and Mrs. Levi Smith pent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Hively Maili: ILw has sold twenty new buggies this season. Wilson Row is working for Martin ■ Row \. 11. Price was in Southi Bend Monday on busine ■ A. lb ns berger is the record breaker in threshing this year. He threshed LV) bushels of i wheat in just one hour .. Farme rs J are nearly done plowing The corn I crop promises to be a failure- Pota I toes are not worth digging .. Clover J «^-lAcidentiful 1" be of good i quality in this locality. OMOUiINNII s OREGON. Jack Frost was an unwelc »me caller in this locality on Thursday night of last week. He did but little damage Levi Hill is erecting a new barn his I premises. His eon Italic is doing the work Mrs. Robert Rinehart, daugh I ter and son and Mt-s Grace Hell called at Samuel Dipert - on Friday of las’ | week. Flo Peddycord was m South I Bend last week visiting relatives The party at Clark Phillips' was well at 1 tended last Saturday night, there ben g in the neighlxirhood of a hundred pres ent. A merry time was enjoyed In ail J. P. Dipert and friend. Alta Boots, attended the part) at Phillips Saturday night Messrs W. H. Di pert and Frank Hall were at Eagle lake last Sunday fishing. They returned with seven black bass and many other fish Harry Baird was the guest of J. I’. Dipert Sunday Clark Phillips and family entertained relatives from i Chicago, Knox and North Liberty last j Saturday and Sunday Lily Davis j entertained her friend. Leonard Boots, i last Sunday evening \ sher Stillson, | wife, daughter and san, and Sam Dipert. ' I wife and son were the guests of L. R. I Dipert and wife Sunday.,.. Peter I A wald is building a new boat J. IL I Peddycord and wife were at LaPaz last ! Tuesday on business John Wol 1 fram and James Lampson, stewards of the M. E. church at this place, were making their quarterly calls last Tuesday Mrs. L. R. Dipert’s sister, Mrs. John Good, of North Liberty, has been i visiting licre for tliH past wrok 1 Jessie Corner, of South Bend, in visiting with friends in this locality Chas. Davie was in this locality Tuesday. Tnaro. An Art Journal says: “What do you think of an artist who painted cobwebs on the ceiling so truthfully that the hired girl wore herself into an attack of nervous prostration trying to sweep them down?” There might have been such an artist, but never such a hired girl. Huntington News. Order Your Hard Coal Early, You can get the best grade of hard coal for $6.50 per ton delivered by ordering of R. F. Dare, the wood and coal dealer. Oblige me with your order and I will do my best to please you. i The Boston dry goods store, South Bend, has a special announcement of , | fall goods in this issue.

THE FOUR COUNTIES. News of St Joseph. LaPorte, Marshall and Starke Counties Briefly Told. Christopher Ivnuth. a LaPorte bar nessmaker, has assigned for the amount of about 84,010. LaPorte \rgus Sim Itx-mrman ship pod 20 cars of corn from New Carlisle and Terre Coupee on Saturday. Oo Wednesday he will ship 20 more. The I whole goes to Baltimore for ex|H>rt. He has already sold S 3 cars to the buyers of - these lots. A dispati-h from LaPorte sayethat the 1 . appointment of Jont. W. Crumpackvr to ! a district judgeship in New Mexico will ! be made oi. the return of President McKinley from his summer outing. The I decision for the appointment of Crum packer to the Imm h was Hiadeaoon after | another app-'intment was <letcrw»ine<l I upon. The surveyor generalship of New i Mexico had been previously tendered to , him. ■ Louis \ ke, who broke out of the St. ; Joseph jail and in company with three I | other convicts ewaped several weeks vg". was arrested in Chicago 1 hureday, ! He was found at 2H» Blue Dland avenue by two Chicago detectives Before he ■ was capture! he made a determined effort to escape through a window. Ake was arrested in this city for having stolen a wheel in South Bend, but the i otlivers nt St Joseph had a better ; I against the man and the South Bend ■ ■ ofticials gave him up It was wh<»e he I ' mg held at St J>«eph that h* *WA|’ed. ! \ most thorough search was made ■ around here for him. but he **• not! found. It devrhq* now that fee went ! direct to Chicago and ha* been there 1 ever m■ e A reward of w M offered j for his capture He was taken lw kU> j St J.-eph I^Portr Herald NOH TH LlHf R I K Hei ry and Ed King, of Three Oaks J Mi -h. visited rehdire* here the j^t j ! week Mdi* Vaner w viMUnff •» South Bend thia week Mr Hak, of Lowi-n. IS renovating feathers in th*- ’ J McKinzie building Mr* II F. Houser, of Likevilhc 1 MHted friends her» 'this week P. A. WlUtapa. of’ i Riverton, Neb., was here la*', wcvk on I ! hi« way home fl mu a tMt w.’n relative * Iff M one xPhr-T* . I daughter Fl “ ■ ■ j this wink |vn Fink >• visiting rela ' the* at Bremen . XJrs Ora Hartman lof South Bend, and Mr. and Mrs Del 1 ' bert W.» D, of Kaiwuxs City. Mo., are j risiting at D W. Houaefa ... Rev. Pav.-y, of Walkerton, preached at the I M. E. church Sunday morning . Nathan K k, of Wolcottville, and his! granddaughter. Grace Keck, of Wood ruff. Ind, visited relative here the past week The town and township | ( sho-Is will open Monday Sept. 6 . .. I D. (Cole, of Plymouth, was in town I j this week Mrs. Emma Hale is vis . iting her parent- at IxhmH, Ind.. i Madge and ll—-. mnd Ai.der-on of Uv j ’ Porte vi.-ited it J. C. Andenmns this week Dr K. B Dugdale and fam j ' ilv. of South Bend, visited at W. F. Hotfman’; Sunday . J, B. Witwer I and family, of Riverpark, are visiting I relatives h-re tins w<i-k ... Mable Flood is visiting at LaPorte . .Char ley (’oil and Geo. Brown, of South Bend, were in tor n Tuesday. . Olio Styles and wife and mother, of Muskegon, Mich, left for Plymouth Tuesday. Balloon Ascension in Walkerton. Prof Frank T. Casad and his dog “Topsy will make a balloon ascension and double parachute dr<>p in Walker- ! ton, Saturday, August 2s. The business j men of Walkerton have secured this at । traction as a treat to the people of Wal- f kerton and the surrounding country and cbrdially invite everybody to come and witness Prof. Casad's daring exhibition. Farmers, drop your work and come and enjoy a holiday. Ascension will take place in the afternoon about 2.30 o'clock. | Yearly Clubbing Rates. i New York World, three times a i week, and the Independent, 82 00? j Toledo Weekly Blade and the Inde- | pendent, ^L7S Weekly Inter Ocean and the LndeP en ^nt Subscriptions by mail will be looked after promptly. Address, The Independent, I Walkerton, IndJ Before buying any farm implement | inspect the line carried at Machinery I Hall. We endeavor to keep the latest improvements at prices that defy com petition. Take Notice. Barkley’s dental office is upstairs oy Endly’s dn.g store. Sets of teeth, । best, and every set warranted a fit, atr^ j duced prices for the next 30 days. e ' 1 A. Barkley, Denti^

PEN AND SMEARS. A lady informs the Valparaiso Mes e-nger hovv it is posnible for a housej ^’^‘per to rid her domicile <>f ants i a damp spong®." she says, “put •Ugar on it and place it in the track of I Iheantg, | n time all the ants will ini »ade the sponge and then all that re I mains t«» do is to drown them.” j A Kendallville man swallowed a five j dollar gold piece. When bis friends j asked him what physician should be called, ho replied: “O never mind a physician. Send for my wife, sho will .autu^ the purp<*e. When asked for Wij^Blanat.ion. lie said I f she doesn t -miMM it will be the first time she ever m uh. of-mR 1 ' i« a gtoto •• •’nokh '* by a society lady, and which i« vc “w‘ t 5 * or r * n Hhe procurf-a a tin l»>x a jar ■ ' A 'W’ '*'* fitting cover, and puts intA^e U.;-, , a |,, t . r p (l , , ia | 1 h|n «he suspends the gl"' • “ in the box ior ^r, cloaca it tighllv at d allow it to । tv'&in four or five days At the end of this time she removes the glove®, and ■ every Mpot w ill Is- found tn have \an I i«hed One dny a preacher called on Horaci’| i Greeley to a«k for a sulwriptinn ton ■ temperance ws iety. AV hat are its ' olijscta’” querulously a^keti Horae, without looking up from the aianuempt ’ vp*m which he was working “To pre j vent people from going to h .' was the pious man’s rewponse 111 not gmyo® a d rent,” pipe! the maddened ; Hore. ® in his well known shrill tome ••There are not half enough people going jto I now.” Miw Omatancw Ingalls daughter of I <•» Viator John J, Ingalls always has i !»*4 a u -ti“n that a w>>mai> omld operate ’angler trie street car as w>ll as a man. I and to demonstrate it she wured a per imk f«v*tu Superintendent F<ei ,r> M•: i da, night, and for .i ■■' liim- .q ip l lan siretnr car on Main st, Atchison, J Kgs The Mam st run is over a mile i likr. and, although the stric t is filled I wiki earring’* in the eveo i * In ran the car without nosh q Her | at^Mssful work ?w* m c-rm.u. Attention, Comrades! t [ Iftdi*aap<diß Sunday Sept 5 via L. E 4 W„ 81 f- r r m.d trip I arm (or Sale. I? An SO acre farm, one mile west of Walkerton, well im| roved, with fur tendings Uali at Indujnihnt office oraddrvM I' O. b « 77. Walkerton, Ind. j jßefor® buvn g a grain drill se* those I 4 Machinery Hal! | > ■■ • | 4id improver.ent® 2*» acres w ithhouw ! *id improvements, or 2’> acres without improvements. Enquire at this oil e. A B. <*H -E. Hl NTINGTON. This Incomparable line of the world s best Pianos is for sale for cash or on easv time payments by ELBEL BROS, 111 N Mi. li. St.. South Bend. Ind. Depression of Spirits ;S0 common in summer-time, ^accompanied by loss of energy, Jack of thought-power, means Jr deficient supply of nourish%ent. The vital force is lost, ilt isn’t a question of muscU and | sinew, but of resistance and endurance. At any age,,but especially in youth, it involves the risk of lung disease. Loss of flesh and a cough are threatening signs. SwlßCimitai of Cod-liver Oil, with the hypophosphites, meets these cases perfectly. It tones up, fattens and strengthens. In Scott’s Emulsion the taste of the oil is fully disguised, making it almost as palatable as milk. For Bale at 50c and ~by all druggl«t«. fiCOTT & Bownk, Mfg. Chamiatx, N«w York

1 | A ©ood ^ime. to Build —I Js when material is cheap. The hard I times have made everything cheaper, and | building materia! is very lew new. Ip you I think of building new is a good time. Estimates Cheerfully Furnished. I GARAY A COMPLETE STOCK OF . LUMBER, Lath and Shingles, Sash, Doors, Blinds i and Mouldings, Lime, Brick. Hair, Stucco and Cement, Hard, Soft and Blacksmith’s Coal, Mixed Paint, White Lead and Oil. D. N. Hudelmyer. New Goods! New Goods! dime the :n February we have received over d >.)ee \ housand Teilars worth of new goods ~l i tarter cur l:ne complete, zeith all the laCLOTHING, HATS, SHOES A May. .L..6tsu< and best selected stock of ance. jr»| >■ were MEN'S FUL^ BI HING GOODS, 3 w Mi) 'siWe •p fSdjejis ns and »p<Maqi>’7i t with U pug Rtp q 01 with y T B -ible. hire Sale! Red Tag Goods! W> j. -. .1 t-’worth of "damaLH'd gnods" on hand yet, ? a -it ’ the <ld!b d Tag Price on, and sell them k* • ■ < day ■' i ciie, <t giv»> 10 per cent off for SPOT CASH. Come to us for your Goods and Save Money, as you always have done. Thos. J. Wolfe. THE CLOTHIER. Mt I GENERAL MBH WE. | | Paints and Oils, I £ Rubber HOSE and all Attachments, 3 Screen Doors and Window Screens, | A Good Line of Cook and 2 [ Wiiie Siwes, ] g Barbed and Smooth Wire. 2 I ROSS & JARRELL, j iiuiuiiiiumuiuuiiui^^

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