Walkerton Independent, Volume 25, Number 7, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 September 1899 — Page 1

VOLUME XXV.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. A Letter Descriptive of the Dis couraging Conditions in that Clime. Jack Cattling, of this plaee, has received a letter from Mrs. L. R. Barnes, of Southern California, which pictures a desolate state of affairs among the people in Kern county of that state. The letter contains some valuable informa tion and is a good warning to people

who entertain a desire to locate in that drought-ridden climate. The letter is as follows: 1 Bakersfield. Cal.. / Acgvst 12,1899. Mr. Cattling, Dear Sir: Yours received and contents noted. In reply I will ask if it can be possible that the people in the east ern states do not know the present condition of this state. This is the fourth year of the drought. I can only tell what I know of Kern county, as 1 have not been out of it. But I will tell you that from start to finish this state is the hell that the preachers talk of sending us to when we die. If you have money to burn just go on a spree, have one good time, then commit suicide, but come to California and give it up . to the land company. ' Land that sold * for from S6O to SMM> per acre at the time 1 came here, the land company now buys back from us at $2.50 an acre. This company owns the whole county of Kern. The drought has ruined everybody. About' 50(F"fam’lies'have moved out of this county- in two years and gone over into Oregon. lam going if I live till spring. Hundreds of people have starved to death through this state. Why, Mr. Cattling. I have seen thousands of head of cattle, horses and sheep die all around me for want of food and water and money could not buy it because it was not here. The rich people sent to Kansas and had hay and corn shipped here to feed their stock and so they saved some of their’s. This year Califor^ a has to go to outside states for her meat stock. The poorest kind of beef is 25 cents a pound. . I have not had a beef steak on my table in two years. The country went down because the water supply was exhausted. The capitalists have bought up all the timber that grew on the mountains and have cut it down to make lumber. Saw mills are plentiful in the mountains. Now all the snow storms that used to fall up there go over into the Atlantic states and destroy them while this state is dried and burned up. When I first came here it was a paradise, now it is hell. Alfalfa fields containing thousands of acres that used to yield six tons to file acre are the streets of a •Hty. Willow wood is six UiAuu-a a euro: • orchard wood is tour dollars a cud. AU ■ the great orchards are dead. Nothing will grow without water and there is none for anybody. Some of the northern counties had a little rain last winter and are better off now. We have had only two light showers in four years. The climate is fast changing: the last three winters have been very dry and cold. One must wear heavier clothing than in the east. The summers are not so hot as they used to be. The small towns are from 200 to >\) miles apart. You have to take your hay and barrel of water in your wagon as one cannot get it except in towns. Do not join the pauper land of California. Only God can tell how I have suffered for food since I came here: if I had not been made of iron I would have died long ago. Poor old Barnes had to go to the soldiers’ home. I have been a helpless cripple with locomotor ataxia for four years: about two months ago I began to walk again and am now working about among the people for my board. lam seven miles from a post office, out on the desert: my sole com panion a dog. If a working man’s wife gets a blouse waist and a pair of overalls and a sunbonnet she is satisfied. Everything is overdone and everybody underpaid— when there is any employment it is given to the Chinese in preference to the whites because thev work cheaper. There are about two 1 thousand inhabitants in Bakersfield and j

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, 12 millinery shops, besides all the dry goods stores keep a milliner’s shop. i Tlmre are 140 saloons and about 200 ■ houses of ill repute. We average two ' murders per week. A few men own all and the poor class, who came here with a little money, were robbed by the land

company and are now turned adrift, to starve or walk out of the state, penniless. Half the merchants doing business in Bakersfield have failed because the people are leaving. Still the lying papers of the land company keep on trying to

5 induce more people to come here so they can fleece them. The coyotes are howling around my . cabin and it seems like old friends returning. The Mexican element pre dominates; all you see in a week is a greaser. One must sleep with a shotgun on his pillow to protect himself from greasers and heathen Chinese. In San Francisco last winter there were 60,000 unemployed men. many of whom starved to death. The army has absorbed most of them now, yet women and children perish there; were some 2,000 in their county house. Kern county with all her boasted wealth can’t feed । her starving poor. The curse of the ; Almighty hangs over the state ^^alii fornia on account of th< S I and crime. The company still hold their land at SIOO an acre if within 10 miles of town, outside of that it can be bought for SSO an acre. It is no good without water and we will never have water here again. Resp’y yours, Mrs. L. R. Barnes. Old Settlers’ Meeting. The old settlers of Union and Liberty townships, St. Joseph county, and North and Polk townships. Marehall county, will hold a joint meeting in Longaker’s grove on the county fine, one mile and a half northwest of LaPaz, Saturday, September 16, 1899. The townshi[« mentioned can boast of some of the oldest people in the state. These old persons will be present and speak of the days "when we were pioneers." They will tell of their dealings with the Indians, hunting deer, fighting wolves, etc., etc. Good singing will be one of the features of the occasion. Spinningwheels, flintlocks, horsepistole. etc., will be on exhibition. Old books, papers, coins, etc., will find a plaee in the list of curios. Prominent speakers of some of the cities of northern Indiana have been invited—Hon. J. B. Stoll, Hon. Aaron Jones. Daniel McDonald, Jerry Hildebrand and others. Come with your baskets well filled and have a good old time. Exercises will begin promptly at lIU o clock a. m. The Walkerton pevjue are cordially invited to be present. , Il^ks will meet ^ll Uaius al Lul’az and . the junction. Complete pr gram will be given later. Committee. Our Latest Music Offer. Please send us the names and addresses of three music teachers or performers on the piano or organ and 25 cents in silver or postage and we will send you all of the follow ing new and popular pieces full sheet music arranged for piano or organ: “The Flower that won my Heart" now being sung by the best known singers in the country, I “Mamie O’Rourke’’ the latest popular waltz song, “March Manila, Dewey’s March-Two Step" as played by the famous U. S. Marine Band of Washington. D. C., and five other pages of popular music. Address, Popular Music Co.. Indianapolis. Ind. Brave Men Fall Victims to stomach, liver and kidney troubles as well as women, and all feel the results in loss of appetite, poisons in the blood, backache, nervousness, headache and tired, listless, run-down feeling. But there’s no need to feel like that. Listen to J. W. Gardner, Idaville, Ind. He says: “Electric Bitters are just the thing for a man when he is all run down, and don’t care whether he lives or dies. It did more to give new strength and good appetite than anything I could take. I can now eat anything and have a new lease on life.” Only 50 cents, at all drug stores. Every bottle guaranteed. Quickly cure constipation and rebuild and invigorate the entire system—never gripe or nauseate-DeWitt’s Little Early Risers. B. E. Williams.

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUN ■

WATER WORKS MEETING. Arrangements Completed for Transferring Individual Shares of Water Stock to the Town. The directors and officers of the Walkerton Water Works met in the banking office of the Bank of Walkerton Tuesday evening, Aug. 29. The meeting was called to order by the

president, W. A. Endley, who stated the 1 purpose of the meeting, viz: The Walk--1 er ton Water Works Company was in need of a loan to carry on its business and to further promote its interests, to improve the plant and to pay a mortgage on the plant now held by M. V. Beiger. Geo. P. Ross offered the following resolution: Whereas: This corporation, the Walkerton Water Works Co., desire to borrow the sum of four thousand dollars to be used solely for the usee and purposes of this corporation, viz: To pay a debt due to M. V. Beiger, of Mishawaka, Ind., for the improvement of its water works plant, and for the purpose of retiring a , imrt of the stock of the Walker tor Water Works Company, to execute and deliver to the Bank of Walkerton ten I nromisory notes of three hundred do! lars each, the same to become payable one each year as follows: The first note to become due and payable August 29, - 1900, and one each year thereafter 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909 and two notes of five hundred dollars each, the same to become due and payable August 29, 1910, five hundred dollars, and August 29, 1911, five hundred dollars, and to execute intereet notes which shall represent the interest due and payable on said loan semi an □ually at 7 per cent intereet and said notes shall be due and payable on the 28th day of February and the 29th day of August of each and every year and for as many years as are enumerated above. The said notes payable to the Bank of alkerton at its banking house at Walkerton with intereet at the rate of 8 per cent from maturity and to ‘ secure the same by a mortgage to the Bank of Walkerton. Now therefore be it Resolved: That said resolution is approved and confirmed and that the t president and secretary of this corporation is hereby empowered to make, execute, sign said notes and secure the I same by a mortgage on the real rotate of said corporation, together withall mains, pipes, hydrants, appartenaouea. fixtures, rights and privileges, franchises, contracts and revenues, which may accrue to this corporation and its choses in action, now or hereafter to be made of every nind and nature, whatever, to gether with all future renewals, additions and improvements which shall be made to its real estate, plant and i equipment, said notes to be paid with out relief from valuation and appraise ment laws and attorney’s fees. And the question being upon the adoption of the said resolution the call of the directors was asked for and those favoring this resolution asked to vote “aye," those opposed to vote “no." All | the vlii vuture being pre^ont the call of | r<>!! voted “aye" The for .unit g f: Ju tion was dnelim* I There being no further business to transact on motion of D. W. Beall, seconded by F. A. Brady, the meeting adjourned. S. E. Koontz, Sec. Local Brevities. Snoberger for drugs. School supplies at Snoberger’s drug store. Those sls sewing machines sold by i Ross A Brady are warranted for 10 years. A choice list of premiums given away at the Red Star. It will pay you to go and see. For Sale.—The McCool property. Six room house and two lots. Apply to S. J. Nicoles. The foundation of our success is. good goods at the bottom prices. Stephens A Grider. Prof. D. A. Anderson is billed to make a balloon ascension in Walkerton Sept. 7 in connection with the G. A. R. reunion. With every S3O worth of goods bought at H. A. Yearick A Co.’s you will be presented with a flour bin and sifter or a bread box. Go and see. For Sale. — A large refrigerator, specially arranged for the economical use of ice. Just the thing for a hotel or grocery. E. Lei bole. Sept. 4 is Labor Day and South Bend aiH celebrate it with the largest and grar deot dieptar of K O r manufactured I qooda and exquisite turnouts ever seen. H-ry HeH^-^e of South Bend ' B old citizens and a well known barb w I will remove from that city to Saginaw, Mich., where he will engage in the wholesale grocery business. Remember we have an ents-e new stock of clothing, hate, caps, ai^ gents' furnishing goods. The largest^ver bei fore shown in Walkerton. Steph eks & Grider. I,d I’ofHy while working in Wiley’s gravel pit the fore part of the week w’as painfully injured by the pit caving in. One leg was caught and badly wrenched and bruised by the heavy weight of gravel. ou assume no risk when you buy Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. B.E. Williams will rei fund your money if you are not satisfied I after using it. It is everywhere admiti ted to be the most successful remedy in use for bowel complaints and the only one that never fails. It is pleasant, safe and reliable.

11: —C News of ■ ’ There 5 the »choolE^s7^r=r x - F LaPorteFCTly men are iy, Co ttn * ' teric “- '] Jk ? i The 1 -WW* ( enkuckeeiCTß W® Ui|< (>. A. My has been , elected wara» X u • i 4 M K- T’ t t prison at MiehiganL ^ f CharlM Harlev, re«^ ,L of It is beli6i^<« present rate ( five weeks mo. the sscur , ing of the reqn^, R of acreaM , ; for the beet^^ WI a t North , Judson. n Mills Bros- ' d—a. ‘ron^ whotemvley W t -.4 - -— *»eorge Kj^u® .i-ar South Bend, committed stTIJL Sunday by taking arsenic. He yearn old and a pioneer of St. J^^Bk c-ounty. It seems that a man at I age could wait a little longer for^L ura l death. A raccoon in a jyi LaPorte county scared the threshera-iymost into spasms causing falls which Meant bumped heads and bruised bodies Mbd caused women to go into hysterica Buntil the animal jumped into the hA^r o f the separator all thought it £» a wildcat. ( ’Sorge Snyder, &e man who disap peared from LaPofl > six weeks ago. has returned to hia he L He has been trimming hedges io |he vicinityof South Bend and Niles. I e supposition for a time was that he h 1 been drowned in ! Fish Trap lake, wh re he was last seen. The teachers of St. Joseph county have been in se«.i<4 at South Bend this week. The enroHident reached »»0. exceeding that of wy former institute, i Able lecturers and| muaicians have been ■ praseot each day U instruct and enter j tain, and the session has been the meet interesting ever field by the teachers of ! St. Joseph county. H. S. hmf. J Lai'orte, was killed by 1 a Wabash train at Kingsbury last • i Thursday evening. He was driving I home from Hamlet where he had b-cn working. In attempting to drive over a crossing his team was struck by a stock I train and Schoq ’ and the horses were I killed instantly {e was a teamster by occupation. He Jp years old and I leaves a family. * dings have been insututeu by crK . ciuzvos-smbmh., . to prevent the cA struction of a new' water works syste/ in that place, but notwithstanding .'this the common council has authorized the mayor to sell the bonds issued for this purpose, the city having decided to take $30,000 worth of slock in the new company. The total cost of the plant is estimated at about $90,000. Plymouth has let the contract for a new electric light plant to the Famous Electric Light company, of Ch icago. The plant is to be completed by Febru- j ary 16, 1900. The arc lights are to be furnished to the city at $4 per month for each light until midnight, or $6 per month for each light for all night lighting. The incandescent lights are to be furnished the citizens at 40 cents each per month until midnight or 50 cents for all night. A Great Drainage Enterprise. A mammothl ditch known as the Chapman ditc|i will be put through from the B. A Q. railroad through Eng lish lake to the west part of Starke county. The ditch will affect 64.000 acres of land, pnd will be 24 miles long with 18 miler of laterals. The peti tioners are Dn W. Place and W. W. Chapman. Wbrk will be commenced on the new watei^Sns ~»erphaps ’next year. Nelson Morris) aisu v John Brown, of Crown Pobi<p v. aoj^njamin Gifford; of Kankakee jo jaywd who own 200,000 acres oiAOJd ss^| o lands, held a meeting last IO sp/°wn Point, and . continue this made arrangw - ditch from iJr/’’ HI. They .wide and 14 A* u.. x part of the way. zr. ’ V ,It part of the cost at $100.000., w ith the Chapman ditcl, f/ will be by far the greatest o e enterprise that has ] ever b^ lertakcn in the Kankakee valle; ’ *Oll iß| - 1 stings, bites, scratches, i\ o ?J?.^ s , an ^suts soothed and healed by e titts Wjteh Hazel Salve,—a sure i and safe application for tortured flesh, i , Beware of cej^erfeits. B. E. Williams, i AUGUST flower. ii ' 8 a surprising fact,” says Prof. Ilouton, 'thk t j n my travels in all parts of the worlt, f or the last ten years, I have met I lore people having used I Green’s Aug Ust flower than any other I remedy, for. d y S pepsia, deranged liver i and stomaci ( apd for constipation. 1 j find for tou i s ^ s an d salesmen, or for . persons fill b g office positions, where | headaches general bad feelings . from irregul lr habits exists, that Green’s i i August E^lo’ rer j s a grand remedy. It' does not inj | re the system by frequent, j use, and is t Kce n eD t for sour stomachs and indigef ; i on ” Sample bottles free at J. End y’ e drug store. Sold by dealers in a* civilized countries.

^uses for Inferior Quality of Musk melons, and Remedy. 4 T„f UrdUe Unlve "“y Newspaper Bulletin. I the niUßk ‘ lielon ha « “me to be one 11 kT 8 ’ 7 ,UXUHeS Os Hf *’ HO J t should be, and doubtless is, the ob f me 77 ,Uek>n Rr ° Wer to P^-ee melons of the very highest quality, but . here has been much complaint this season, even among the growers them selves, concerning the poor quality of the melons found upon the market. Various causes are given, such as leaf blight, too much rain, a lack of smue necessary element in the soil, poor varieties, etc., any one of which would undoubtedly have a tendency to affect the quality of the fruit. The appearance of (Mt blight during the growing season always has a tendency to rob the fruit of the necessary amount of nourishment, and cause it to ripen prema turely. This may be prevented in a large degree by spraying the vines with Bordeaux mixture, two or three times. Impending upon the amount of rainthe disease makes its ap v amount of rain ja undoumtedly one of the causes of trouiwe. It is a well known fact that during a very wet season strawberrne are of much poorer quality, containing a lees amount of sugar, than when the ripening season is comparatively dry. The same is true with muskmelons; the crop may be larger during a wet season, the fruit may be finer in appearance, but the sugar content which gives the melon its delicious flavor is comparatively low. Hence it frequently happens that a variety may give good satisfaction one *won, and be very unsstiefactory the next. Thorough drainage, either naturally or artificially will do much towards preventing trouble from thie source. The use of fertilizers, rich in potash and phosphoric acid will have a tendency to produce a fruit of high quality. A not her cause for poor quality in melons is found in the fact that many are picked too green. This is especially true when they are shipped long distances. Like California peaches, j they must be picked early in order to j hold up until they reach their destij nation, and also like California fruit, । they lots' very much of that richness of i flavor, which can only come by ripening on the vines. There is much difference between varieties grown on the same l soil, because all varieties are not adopted to the same conditions. Thia has been । very noticeable in our experiments for a ! series of years on a rather heavy sandy i loam which is naturally underdrained, j Those varieties giving the beet results are the small Emerald Gem, Netted Gem, Osage. Hackensack and Montreal. Paul Jones is a new variety, fruiting for the first time and giving good satisfaction. it is said to be < itoh^ between l UW ra.iu.mta oou (•eage, and in some degree it contain* -i ibiics of both. In general, varieties that come the nearest to perfetion every year are the ones to grow. J vmes Troop, Horticulturist. The I lorcas Society will hold a special business meeting at the home of Mrs. C. C. Farver on Saturday evening. All members are requested to be present. Working Night and Day The busiest and mightiest little thing I that ever was made is Dr. King’s New Life Pills. Every pill is a sugar-coated globule of health, that changes weakness into strength, listlessness into energy, brain-fag into mental power. They’re wonderful in building up the health. Only 25 cents per box. Sold by all druggists. A Word to Mothers. Mothers of children affected with croup or a severe cold need not hesitate to administer Chamberlains Cough Remedy. It contains no opiate nor narcotic in any form and may be given as confidently to the babe as to an adult. The great success that has attended its use in the treatment of colds and croup has won for it the approval and praise it has received throughout the United States and in many foreign lands. For sale by B. E. Williams. [ SCOTT’S I "EMULSIONI J is a food medicine for the M S* baby that is thin and not w well nourished and for the $ V mother whose milk does y $ not nourish the baby. Sit is equally good for the boy or girl who is thin and V S’ pale and not well nourished § by their food; also for the ¥ anamic or consumptive J adult that is losing flesh ¥ y and strength. ¥ In fact, for all conditions ¥ of wasting, it is the food ¥ medicine that will nourish ¥ * and build up the body and * ¥ give new life and energy ¥ J when all other means fail. * ¥ Should b» taken in summer as ¥ M well as winter. i W 50c. and SI.OO. all draggisti. W I S SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York.

I iybenjnDoubtt [ S B ,k , T-l UMBER ’ B ' IICK - LIME . CEMENT and all I H Vara Y , u "’ 8 a ‘ th ° 01d i-unA,,, g 3 retail a “ r » safe in doin B thia, bocauea no E 3 W? Part lho “““‘'X “n underanl! E I ^.pneatoMi: ““ | I First-Class Paints. E | D. N. Hudelmyer,| The Old, Reliable Lumber Dealer. [ 5,800 I | Yards Simpson’s Guaranteed x | BLACK Q c I | REMNANTS U per yd. I I Can Shoes | ♦ 25 per cent off. • | Underwear... | • 25 jDer cent off. A 1 Sale lasts two issues of the Walkerton J Independent, # | Stephane; Grider,! t THE BIG DOUBLE STORE. { JI Good Sewing machine tor sls, - ifiaffaMMleM I ' '~' r ' •> '‘jji'i '|f i: '''' • ifth' f -inn*- : — '. . , —- • WARRANTED FOR 10 YEARS. FOR SALE BY « « Ross $ Brady. -- — — M II — iw School Supplies! A full line of Tablets, Composition and Exercise Books, Pens, Pencils, School Satchels, Colored Crayons, etc., AT — B. E. WILLIAMS’ DRUG STORE. PURE DRUGS, MEDICINES AND WALL PAPER.

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