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Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., March. It, 1892.
P. GRAY MEEK, =~ ~ - Epitor
Get On the Tax List.
Every district in the county has its
people whose names fail to be upon the
tax list. In many instances this seems
to be a regular yearly occurrence.
Some are overlooked by the assessor ;
some are absent when the assessment
is made and are accidentally left off’;
others for fear of the few cents of tax
that would be levied against: them |
sneak around and think it a sharp
trick to evade this little bit of public
expense. We know of men worth
thousands of dollars and whose local
taxes run up to a very respectable
figure, who have refused to have their
sons put upon the assess list, giving as
a reason that they were going away
and would not become citizens of the
district; when the real purpose was to
escape the moiety of tax their assess-
ment would have required them to
pay. ;
There are but few districts mn the
county, in'which the personal tax as-
sessed against a young man amounts to
over one dollar. In addition to loosing
this, if his name is not among the tax-
ables, the district looses, of the money
appropriated by the State for school
purposes, the proportion that an addi-
tional taxable would secure.
When the state appropriation for the
public schools was two millions of dol-
lars per year, it amounted to about one
dollar and thirty cents for every taxa-
ble, and was paid over to the different
districts on this basis. After the first
‘of May next, the State appropriation
will be five millions per year, or about
two doliars and fifty cents for each tax-
able, so that the man who fails to have
his name placed upon the tax list, not
only deprives his district of the little
tax he ought to be proud to pay, but
cheats it out of two dollars and fifty
cents, that the state would pay it, for
school purposes if his name was upon
the list. !
With these facts understood, every
tax-payer, no matter what district he
lives in, will see how he is interested
in having the list of taxables for his
district as complete as possible.
——The Democrats up in Blair
county, on Monday last, had one of |
their usual cat and dog encounters, at a
convention called to elect delegates to
to the State Convention. As both sides
claimed to bs adinirers of CLEVELAND
we can scarcely understand, why they
should make the spectacle ot them-
selves they did, and require the inter-
. vention of police and sheriff to prevent
a riot. Such was the case however,
and when the convention adjourned,
Blair county had two sets of dele-
gates, both instructed for the ex-presi-
dent, and as unseemly a set of political
wranglers as was ever seen outside ot
a Puailadelphia ward convention.
While the action of the leaders of the
party up in that county, may be dis
graoeful in the extreme, there is some
consolation in the fact, that if they
don’t do any more damage to their own
party, througb their unnecessary and
senseless fights, than they have done
to the Republicans when they pretead-
ed to be making the most earnest fight
possible, there won’c be anybody hurt
10 any appreciable extent.
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Hopkins and the Keeley Cure.
The people who are ready to oppose
any new thing were all positive that
the managers of the Keenuy Institute
at White Plains, N. Y., should be
held responsible for ex-Congressman
Hopkins death last weels, and it will
be quite discouraging to these chronic
objectors to find that even his nearest
friends say, that ram, and ram alone,
was the cause of his mysterious death,
The Kerrey cure, like other temper-
ance movements,has more than alcohol
to fight. The New York legislature
has already appointed a committee to
investigate the bichloride of go'd treat-
ment, which it claims 1s a dangerous
remedy for a worse evil, but why in
the name of humanity will our law
makers interest themselves in a remedy
for a terribls disease, ‘when they alone
can exterminate the disease. No
doubt Hopxx's death like Joy Fra-
VEL Mixes’, will be cruelly, perhaps un-
justly used against Kuznav, for the
public will not keep in. mind that |
though'these men were brilliant and
intelligent, they were confirmed drink-
ers, with shattered nerves and worn
out constitutions when they undertook
the treatment, and unfortanately the '
cure in neither of these cases, that
were 80 well advertised, was permanent. |
They only ‘emphasize ‘the fact that
KEeLey’s or no other man’s treatment |
“will ever cure drunkenness, without a
positive controlling religious or moral
force to aid it,”
They Must Have Been an Extraordi-
nary Lot.
They were no common sailors, at
least in their own estimation, who got
into the street fight in Valparaiso,
with the Chilians some time ago.
Thirty-nine of them have filed claims
for indemnity, in the State department
—the aggregate demand amounting to
the wodest sum of $2,300.000. In
this, is not included the claims of the
heirs of the two men—TurNBULL and
Rigeins,—who lost their lives in the
same row, and which, if made upon the
basis of those already presented, will
demand about all that is left either of
the Chilian exchequer, or assetts be-
longing to that little government.
That thirty-nine sailors, many of
them not citizens of this government,
none of whom were fatally or per-
manently injured, suffered losses, ina
drunken row, amounting to over two
million of dollars, is as improbable as
it ought to be that the government will
present any such a claim or demand
any such indemnity. Tt isright and
proper that our citizens and even those
who are not citizens but are in our em-
ploy, should be protected in every
right accorded to citizens of any
other government, whether they be in
Valparaisoior elsewhere; but no gov-
ernment with any idea of right or any
respect for decency ‘would back up a
black-mailing scheme, such as the
lawyers at the botlom of this Chilian
damage question, seem to have cook-
ed up. :
In their greed, they seem to have
overstepped the mark entirely, and if
there is any delay in obtaining the
balm, for the bruised heads and bat-
tered bodies of the boys who were out
on a “lark,” in ihat Chilian port, it
will be on account of the size of the
plaster demanded, more than any other
cause that existing circumstances in-
dicate.
More of the McKinley Protection.
In another column of the Waren-
MAN reference is made to the fact that
the Pottstown Bridge Co., employing
500 men, has ordered a reduction of
wages amounting to ten per cent.
Since writing the article the newpapers
make the announcement that the firm
of Moreuran Bros. & Co., iron mak-
ers at Sharpsville, this State, have
ordered the same reduction in the
wages paid their 500 employees; that
Lreeerr & Co., machinists and axle
manufacturers,of Allegheny,have made
a similar reduction; that Hooven's
large iron mills, at ‘Norristown, have
closed down, throwing 250 working:
men out of employment; that M Hose
& Sox's blast furnace at the same place
have ordered a reduction, in wages of
10 per cent. ; that twelve iron furnaces
at Birmingham, Alabama, put into ef:
fect, on Wednesday, a ten per cent re-
duction effecting over 3,000 employees
and that the three rolling mills at Leb-
anon have posted a notice that after
the 2lst inst., their employees must ac-
cept a reduction of twelve and a half
per cent.
Whether it is the depressed condi-
tion of trade or the greed of the em-
ployer, that causes tiese reluctions,
we do not know. If the former, it
shows how false were the promises
made by the Republicans, that the
MoKiNLey tariff bill would boom
business and increase wages; it the
latter it shows the injustice of a meas
ure that protects the employer against
competition and at the same time al-
lows him to redace the wages of the
laborer to starvation points. In either
case, it shows that the Republican pro-
tective tariff, furnishes no “protec-
tion” to the workingman, and that the
laborer who voted for Harrison and a
high tariff, simply voted (0 tax himself
that others might be enriched,
-—-The Clearfield Democracy has |
determined to try the efficacy of a new |
apportionment of congressional and
senatorial conferees, and has called a
meeting of its county commiitee, to
divide the county into districts con-
taining five hundred Democratic votes
each, frcm each of which a delegate to
next fali’s congressional conference will
be elected. ‘This will give Clearfield
thirteen votes. in the congressional
nominating convention , while each of
the other counties, if they should ad-
here to the old conferee system, would
have but three. As our own county, |
however, took the initiative in this |
movement, of a change of representa: |
tion in district conventions, and adoph- |
ed resolutions similar to the ones the
Clearfield Democrats are acting under, |
we presume it will of necessity be com- |
pelled to stand by its action and elect
delegates” on the same basis, ‘which
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| will give it ten, to Ciearfield’s thirteen. |
As yet no movement looking to the
| districting of this county has been made |
and we do not know if it is the inten- i
tion of Chairman SCHAEFFER to put the
resolutions in force or not,
— Republican promises are like a
wigged head and dyed whiskers. They
don’t.deceive any body.
An Astonishing Growth.
sus, as taken in June 1890, is to be re-
lied upon, there is nothing in this coun-
try, the old world or anywhere else,
that will equal the Aladin-like growth
of New York city, since that date.
The booms that populate mining camp
towns in a single night or build up a
western city in a few weeks,would hang
their burrahing neads in euvy if put
face .to. face with the increase New
York has shown. In 1890, the census
gave to that city a population of
1,513,300. Last week, under the laws
of the State, anothér count was made,
and now the newspapers boast that it
has 1,800,000 inhabitants, an increase
in tweaty months of 286,700 people.
With people who have no particular
interest in the exact number of souls
that New York or any other city may
contain, a difference of a few thousand
one way or another, would scarcely
cause a thought, but when it comes to
a matter of a couple hundred thousand
difference, it makes such a gigantic
liar of somebody, that no one knows
exactly who to believe.
If the census of 1890 will lie, as
these later figures show it does, about
New York, what reliance can be plac
ed upon it as toany of the figures given
as to the population, wealth or indus-
tries of any other city ? And if it is not
to be relied upon, what was the use of
throwing away the millions of dollars,
it has already cost the country? It is
not a matter of particular import, just
how many people New York has, but
it is of very great moment to the pub-
lic to know whether or not, Mr. Por-
TER'S figures have any reliability or
not? :
At present the returns seem to be
against him.
——The Wartcumax tenders its con-
gratulations to judge Furst and his
associates on the wise manner in which
they acted upon the license applications
presented for sanction last week, All
of the old applications were re-granted,
with one new retail and two whosale
licenses, for the county. The conrt
witiiheld its deci~ion upon the new ap-
( plicants for several days, but we felt
sure that if they were given ample
consideration the justice of their pleas
would become apparent. The two
wholesale licenses will, in no way, in-
crease the amount of liquor used in the
communities in which they are granted,
but they will keep the money which is
otherwise gobbled up by the dealers of
neighboring counties, within the hands
our own people, In the Haag license
case, the only wonder to us is that it
was not granted long ago.
——While Ex-Czar REkep, is telling
the country through club reception
speeches, how his tyrannical rulings
and the actions of the Republican party
are being endorsed——by a Republican
supreme court, his fellow citizens of
Portland, are voting his party out of
power, for the first time in twenty-five
years. When it comes to practical
politics, the endorsement of the people
at the polls, is a much surer guarantee
of success, than an opinion of a parti-
san judiciary.
Ee —
——Congressman Krieps,of this dis-
trict, is recorded as having voted against
the fixing of a date for the considera-
tion of the free coinage bill, when that
question was up in congress on Mon-
day last. It would be a difficult ques-
tion to decide, whether the vote
represented the sentiment of the peo-
ple of Lis district or not. There is no
doubt, however, about it being entirely
satisfactory to the bankers.
ES I I STR
——The New York World tells us
that the anti-H, Democrats ot
Poughkeepsie, formed a permanent or-
ganization on the 8th inst. This, while
it shows that some people take an
interest in things, looks very much
like getting to the window afier the
band and procession have passed by.
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——The Sunday Phila. Times gave a
very comprehensive and excellent
sketch of the political life of our illus-
trious townsman Gov. CURTIN. It was
from the pen of its editor Col. A. K.
McCrLurk whose intimate acquaintance
with the War Governor gave him fucts
for a most interesting article.
Instructed for Cleveland.
Jonnsrown, Pa, March 9.~—~The
Cambria county democratic committee
met to-day and appointed six delegates
to the state convention. The delegates
| were instructed for Cleveland first and
Pattison second. The state adminis:
tration was heartily indorsed.
Col. Greenland Receives the Appoint-
ment.
HARRISBURG, Pa., March 8 -“Gover-
nor Pattison this evening appointed
Colonel W. W. Greenland, of Clarion,
to be adjutant general, and Colonel O.
E. McClellan, of Harrisburg, to be quar-
tarmaster general of tha National
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Free Silver Won,
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If Mr. Englishuian PORTER'S cen- : A Great Battle in the House Over a Special Or:
der For Bland's Bill — I'he Antis Were Badly
Defeated.— Every Vote Showed a Big Majority
For Consideration—~Three Days Will Be De-
voted to Its Discussion Under the Order Made.
Repubiicans Gave Much Aid.
WasnINGroN, March 7.--The silver
contest began with a rush in the house.
to-day, and after a good healthy tussle
between the silver and anti-silver men
the former carried their point and the
report of the committee on rules, setting
aside March 22, 23 and 24 for considera -
tion of the Bland bill, was adopted by a
large majority.
After changing - their minds several
times as to wha. course would be most
beneficial politcally to themseives, the
Republicans seetu to have decided finally
that they would have most to gain
by allowing the silver bill to come up
for discussion at this session, and so
they voted with practical solidity with
the silver Democrats to-day. It is pretty
well established that a few days ago they
decided to take the opposite tack in’
order to save the President from the
necessity of vetoing the silver bill, But
suddenly it was announced the President
was just aching to have a free coinage
bill come before him so that he could
veto it in a ringing message, which
would make him solid in the East and
bring to his sid the great moneyed in-
terests upon which ‘the Republicans al-
ways rely for campaign funds with
which to carry. elections.
This announcement, there is reason to
believe, was given out in hope that it
would have the eftect of making the ex-
treme silver men pause, fearful of com-
mitting the grave political blunder of
doing what their enemies wanted them
todo. Butit had no such effect, as to-
day’s proceedings in the house showed,
and little doubt remains that the Presi-
dent will have the opportunity of mak-
ing whatever political capital he can out
of a veto of the silver bill. ;
While to-day’s combat in the house
was exciting at times, it showed nothing
that was not understood before. It has
been all along known that a majority of
the house Democrats, some acting from
personal conviction, others influenced by
the supposed desires of their constituents
would vote for a tree silver bill. The
most significant fact developed was the
complete readiness of the Republicans to
lay aside their convictions on a conced-
edly important question, in order to
gain what they regard as a political ad-
vantage. Although they are almost to
a man strongly hostile to the free coin-
age of silver, they to-day voted solidly
to take up the free coinage bill. That
they felt the falseness of ‘their position
was well shown by the explanatory and
apologetic speeches made by some of
their leaders during the debate.
tis believed that most of the wrang-
ling of to-day was due to a misappre-
| hension. The free coinage men were un-
der the impression that it was the inten-
tion of the anti-free coinage Democrats
to filibuster on the approval of the jour-
nal. By making interminable motions
to amend the journal the antis might
have wasted the whole day and prevent-
ed action on the report of the committee
onrules fixing a time for taking up the
Bland Bill. To prevent this, and save
the time of the house, the report was
brought up immediately after prayer
and before the journal wasread. Against
this action General Tracy, leader of the
anti-silver Democrats, protested, but the
speaker held that the proceeding was
regular under the rule, which provides
that a report from the committee on
rules can be considered at any time. An
appeal was taken from the decision of
the chair, and for the remainder of the
afternoon the anti-silver men filibuster-
ed. But the speaker was sustained, and
at 4 o’clock the report of the rales com-
mittee was adopted.
During the contest a very grave mis-
take, which prejudiced their case, was
made by General Tracey and others of
the anti-silver Democrats. They went
openly to the Republican side of the
house and took counsel with ex-Speaker
Reed and other Republicans as to the
conduct of their side of the contest,
Before the reading of the journal Mr.
Catehings of Mississippi called up the
resolution from the committee on rules,
which the clerk proceeded to read, and
upon its adoption Mr. Catchings de-
manded the previous question.
Mr. Tracey of New York called atten-
tion to the fact that the journal had not
been read. The speaker declared it was
in order for the gentleman trom Missis-
sippi to call up the resolution, and the
reading of the resolution was concluded.
Mr. Dingley-—Has the chair ruled that
this report of the committee on rules can
be considered before the journal has been
read ?
the provision of the rule.
Mr. Tracey appealed from the deci-
sion.
It was now proposed to give the lie to
one of its pledges. In the North pledges
to the people meant something, and the
pledges of the Democrats in the North
great majority.
made up ?
publican party, and if these accessions
were lost it would be because the Demo-
The day of reckoning would come upon
this question. If free coinage was es-
tablished by Demozratic votes the reform
of the tariff at the end.
Mr. Reed of Maine cordially agreed
for once with the gentleman from Mas-
sachusetts. That gentleman had point-
ed out that the vast Democratic major-
ity had been secured by false pledges to
the people--pledges that were now in
process of being broken.
Mr. Pierce of Tennessee said that the
age of silver.
years 28 Democratic State conventions
in their platforms had declared for the
free coinage of silver.
send and Boutelle, the yeas and nays
were ordered and resulted in the adop-
tion of tha resolution—yeas 190, nays 84.
follows :
Yeus ~Duazell, Griswold, ‘Huff, Rife,
Wm. A. Stone.
Nays—Amerman, Beltzhoover, .Hal-
lowell, Harmer, Hopkins, Kribbs Mec-
Aleer, O'Neill, Reyburn, C. W. Stone.
The ' rewraining 13 members of tha
The Speaker—The chair has. That is |
had changed a great minority into a |
How was that majority |
By accessions from the Re- |
cratic party had been false to its pledges |
Democratic party bad favored, and ‘:
would ever favor, a bill for the free coin-
Within the last three |
PE EY Tee I SZ SRI ET BN
Pennsylvania delezation were absent or
not voting. 3
The Farmer's Ailiance men voted
with the tree coinage men and a fow Re-
publicans, but a majority ot them voted
with the anti silver people.
A Letter From Joe Wind.
He Defeats a Bunto Game and Saves an Old
Farmer's Money.
HELLERSTETLE, MARTZ 4, 1892.
Mr. KreLL -
Der onner owet hob ich en glany egs-
_periense kotta des ich denk ich kent for-
stzala mit brofit. So en holb dutzand
worren im stere kockt om ruhe. Der
Olt Dawdy Belseckert wor dort, un’ ich |
hob g’ sana des ebbes hut ean org b eas- |
ed’ Ivveren wile hut der olt mon’s nim- |
me holta kenna, donn sawgt er “Ich hob |
gute glick kotta hite.” Doraff frogt der |
Joe Grobscher “Konnst uns net dafoon,
sawga 7” “I, gawiss,” hut oder lt chap |
g’antwort, un” no sechter: “Ich hob so |
in Fildelphy, un’ ich expect se kummna
mit em gelt morya. Ich hob about tzwa
mole so feel ¢'frogt des we es tond werd
is; ovver de'party hut net feel drivver
g’sawt, un’ ich denk sis en barya. Won
ich ferkawf don shoff ick nimma un’ hock
mich in de rub im stettie.” Un’ der olt
monn hut hertzlich galocht. Des ding
‘hut mich netrecht gasuit. Ich hob en
mouse garocha. Sawg ich: “Well, daw-
dy, guckst besser ous odder de Fildelphy
chaps duen eich ‘aties awhenka, Se sin
org slippery.” Dodruft sawgt er‘So en
rutz bu we ‘du brouch mear kay rote
gevva’’ un’ is hame gonga. We er fort
wor sawg ich tzu de onnera “Bawa, sell
is en swindle. Des mus net erlanb si.”
De onnera‘hen gamaint es wor yust sport,
ovver ich bin hame gonga un’ hobs ae
lite fertzalt was der Dawdy Belseckert
het im sin. “Well,” sawgen sie, ‘Look
a little out, Joe.” Da naechst morya
wor ich. on de schier. Do sin tzwa
fremma litede waeg nuff noch Bettel-
hem. Denk ich, sell sin de swindlers.
In a short tzeit bin ich nv, un zch wor
yust in de tzeit gawest fer em dawdy si
gelt tzu sava. De Filadelphyer hen ean
drows kotta un’ aner hut eam shun de
safe game gawissa weich he bin kumma.
Se henr net gaglicha, nn’ we ich hob
g'sawgt se werren swindlers hut aner
unnernumma sassy tzu si, ovver er hut
mich uffgasized un’ mich gay galost.
Es hut se net long ganumma fer in era
woga tzu gradella un’ fort tzu forra.
Der olt monn wor seller owet im stet-
tle an’ hut unnerschillicha lite fertzalt
des er meren fertel dawler wot schenka
naechst Chrisdawg.
Ich bin yust en Willyums township
Dutchman, ovver ich lase de tzeitinga,
un’ waes wos om aw gay is. En chap
des waes wuder haws in peifer hockt is
der. Jor WIND.
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To Publish the List.
A proposition is before Congress pro-
viding for the publication of the pension
list. The idea is to collate all pension-
ers with the amount they receive and
the character of their disabilities they
saffer, so arranged as to enable anyone
to see at a glance who are receiving
such aid in every State, county, city
and borough in the country. The pro-
position it carried into effect will ua-
doubtedly result in revelations that
will be startling to every part of the
country. There appears to be a pre
vailing impression that many persons
are now receiving pensions who are
not justly entitled to the same, while
there are others who are entitled, who
for some reason unexplainable are de-
prived of the governmeat’s bounty. A
publication of the list will show who
the former parties are. No person
‘who is justly entitled to a pension need
object to the publication, as the uni-
versal sentiment among the people is,
that all veterans who have lost their
limbs, met with casualties or lost their
health while in service during the late
war, should be cared for by the govern-
ment. Itis only the frauds who should
object to the publication of the list,—
Exchange.
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Corbett Challenges Sullivan.
‘He Will Fight For $10,000 and the Largest
Purse Offered.
New York, March 7.—W. A. Brady,
| manager for James J. Corbett, to-day
| put up a forfeit of $1,000 in this city
! and issued a challenge to John IL. Sul-
| livan to fight for $10,000 a side, and the
largest purse that any club will give.
{ Brady said that he would add $1,500
| making a forfeit of $2,500 in all as soon
| as he learned that Sullivan had indicat-
| ed a willingness to meet Corbett.
Brady adds thai Corbett will sign to
| fight in August or September, or when-
everit suits Sullivan best. All we want,
concluded Brady, isa sign from him
that he will make the match.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
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——Philipsburz is soon to have a
new opera house. It will be built, on
| Presqueisle street, by a Philadelphia
| firm.
“IP’—- What glorious possibil-
itses are dependent upon this little con-
| junction of two letters, for their final
| consummation. The future, with all
| its unseen pleasures or sadness, wealth
| or poverty is ours only “if”’ we have life
to ses it. All the aspirations of man are
; limited by its introduction and never do
| we speak of fature hopes without defer-
ence to it.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES. —Issued during
the past week--Taken from the docket :
Harris © Hugg, of Boggs twp., and
| Maime Watson, of Tyrone.
After further debate. participated in |
by Messrs, Bland, McKeighen, Town- | EW PRS gat
The Pennsylvania members voted as |
H. M. Strunk, of Bzllefonte, and An-
Wm. A. Sencer,and Ella E. Shearer,
both of Fleming.
Franklin A. Hubler, of Rebersburg,
!and Sallie A. Myer, of Logantown,
James C. Miller, of Oak Halland Em.
ma Scholl, of Houserville.
Wm. W. Bowes, of Bellefonte, and
Bertha Li. Mayes, of Hublersbarg.
——The Freshman class, of the Penn-
sylvania State Col lege,numbering forty-
eight banqueted at Achenbach’s last
Friday evening. The boys attended the
Opera house in a body, but were sonie-
' what non-plussed when the comedians
roasted them with ‘take offs” on the
yells they were giving.
Two weeks ago when Dr. Hale's
death was announced the general im-
pression was that there would be trouble
in baving the body brought across the
ocean, but the old superstition among
the sailors about sailing with a dead bo.
dy seems to have died out entirely for
scarcely a steamer arrives ‘that does not
bear the lifeless remains of some Ameri-
can traveller. The steamship La Bour-
gogne that arrived last Saturday at
New York had three dead women
holver mi bowerri ferkawft tzu en party | abroad and no secret was made of the
matter for they were publicly registered’
at Havre and an announcement was
made of their arrival in New York.
——In our last week’s issue we men
tioned the fact that an attempt would be
made, by the Young Men's Temperance
club, of Bellefonte, to organize a
branch of the society at Howard, on
last Saturday night. We are pleased to
say that the members of our organiza
tion, who went down, found the How-
ard people waiting with open arms to
receive them. Two sleds took the par-
ty of reformers down, and after supper
ail met in Lucas’ hall to effect the new
organization. Sixty signers to the
pledge were secured and a self support-
ing society incepted. A number of short
addresses and a general jovial time fol-
lowed.
DEATH or HENRY WAGNER. —Harry
Wagner, whose serious illness at the
WL ranch we mentioned last week
died at the ranch, on Sunday morning.
The deceased was a valued employe,
having been with the LO outfit for over
five years. daring which time he had,
by constant attention to the interests of
his employers and genial manners, en-
deared himself to all. Last fall he had
a severe attack of jaundice, from which
he partially recovered, but was never a
well man since. The nature of his last
illness is not known, but it is presumed
that alow state of vitality developed
some inherent or heriditary disease that
made quick inroads on his depleted
system, and carried him off before he
was thought to be dangerously ill. The
distance from medical aid rendered this
possible. The deceased was of good
family, and has relatives who will spare
no expense to pay a last loving tribute
to the dead, as is evidenced by a tele-
gram received by Mr. Ben Holt from
Bellefonte, Pa., directing him to give
the remains the best possible care and
ship by express witha man in charge
Mr.eHolt sent to the ranch yesterday for
the body.
The above, we clip from the Daily
Journal, of Miles city, Montana, of
March 2nd. The remains of the deceas-
ed arrived at the home of his father
John Wagner,in this place, on Tuesday
morning of this week. A sad home
coming to the living.
It isalmost twenty one years since
this young man left his parental roof and
started to make for himselt a home in the
great West. For a time he located in
Illnois, but as the line of settlement
moved on toward, and over the Rocky
Mountains, he followed, and in the
)
years that have intervened, since he left
home,he traveled over a great part of the
middle and northwestern States and
Territories.
on the ranch in helping to care for great
herds of cattle.
During the administration of Presi-
dent Cleveland the decased had charge
of the Rosebud Indian agency, thus
showing that in all his travels he ad-
hered to the political faith of his father.
Some few years ago, while in Chey-
enne,he was afflicted with typhoid fever,
and was laid up for a full year. From
the eflects of this dread disease, it seems
he, never fully recovered, but ever after
was somewhat broken in health.
Henry Wagner was born,on what is.
known as the branch on the Henderson
farm in 1850, and there are now men
and women living along the branch who
will remember him as tie kind generous
hearted boy of their youthful school
days.
The remains of Mr. Wagner were
brought from the ranch, where he died,
to Bellefonte by Mr. B. H. Stanton one
of the members of the firm who own the
ranch, under very great difficulties. But
with true western energy and pluck he
succeeded in getting the remains safely
to . Miles city after which they were
brought homeas' fast as the railroads
could carry them.
Mr. Stanton speaks of the deceased as
being one of the most trusted and relia-
ble employes on the ranch and of al-
ways being just what he wasrecommmend-
ed to be by those who knew and associa-
ted with him in'his boyhood days, kind
generous, and noble hearted. Always
ready, even to much so, to lend a help-
ing hand to those about him. He leaves
his aged parents, one brother also in the
west, and t wo sisters Mrs. Michael Hess -
and Mrs. Adam Wagner, to mourn his
untimely death.
After reaching the north.
west, most of his time was spent in and