CHAS. R. KURTZ, Proprietor.
HISTORICAL
REVIEW
Incidents From the Early History
of Centre Co. Republished.
INTERESTING NEW FEATURE
To be Established in the Paper—Will
be Continued as long as it is Appre-
ciated—Contributions to this De-
partment Earnestly Solicited.
(The following was compiled from vari.
ous authorities and from reliable tradi.
tion for the columns of the Centre Demo
crat. Au interesting chapter of rare
historic value will be published weekly
and will supplylour readers with facts
relating to the early history of Centre
County.
The large and costly histories
beyond the means the
this method all will be enabled to become
conversant with the interesting history
of Centre county, in
were
of masses, By
its dark days, at
little or no expense, save the great labor
the writer will bestow upon it, for the
‘““love of the cause.'’)
When the Europeans first came to this
country, they found the western conti- }
nent inhabited by numerous nations, to
the name, ti
This
aborigines of this continent,
1000
whom they applied gh
erroneously, Iodians. name was
given to the
having
under a mistaken notion, of
rived, as Columbus
eastern shore of India
of any others
The
themselves,
Delawares or
Lenni Lenape, or Linag
people "”
riz : the
the
Po
emphatically, ‘‘the original
were divided three tribe
ato
Bh ¥
Unami, the Wusalachtikos, and
Mousys
The Iroquois, as they were named by
the French, called themselves Aquanus
chioci ; that is, “United people.” They
were called Mengwe, by the Delawares
Maquas, by the Dutch;
Eoglish and Americans
Mingoes, by the
They
consisting
were a
confederate Mo-
hawks, Cajuga,
Seneca and Tuscarora ; the latter joined
nation, ol
Oneida, Onondago,
them about 1714
“In common life,” says Loskiel, who
knew them well— "and conversation, the
They
usually treated one another, and stran.
gers,
Indians observed great decency
and
In the con-
verse of both sexes, the greatest decency
and propriety They
were "sociable and difference
of rank, with all its consequences,
pot to the
hey were equally noble and free.
with kindness and civility,
without empty compliments
were observed
riendly
was
Indians.
The
only difference consisted mn wealth, age,
be found among
dexterity, courage and office.”
The Indians were hospitable to stran-
gers,
To refuse the act or kind office of
hospitality was looked upon as a flagrant
violation of a laudable practice in vogue
among the of the forest,
Hospitality, they counted a most sacred
duty, from
“Whoever,”
any one, commits a grievous offence, and
not only
abhorred by all. but
tawny sons
which none was exempt.
said they, “refuses relief to
detested
makes himself and
liable to revenge
from the injured person.”
In their conduct towards their enemies,
as will be seen from the sequel, they
were ‘bloody cruel,” and when exasper-
ated, wvothing the their
pemy assuag= or allay anger,
hich rankled coucealed in their bosom,
waiting only for a convenient opportunity
to strike the fearful blow, inflicfed with
fury that knows wo bounds
mived in revenge upon their enemies
were (hey, that they would solemnly
enjoin it upon their friends and posterity
to resent injuries done them. The long
est space of time, the most remote place
of refuge, afforded no security to an In-
dian’s enemy.
but blood of
could
HO deter.
Drunkenness, after the whites were
dealing with them, was a common vice.
It was not confined, as it is at this day, |
principally to the |
amoug the whites,
“styong -minded,” the male sex ; but the
Indian female, as well as the male, was
infatuated alike with the love of strong |
drink ; for neither of them knew bounds |
their desire : Drunkenness was a vice, |
ugh attended with many serious con-
quences, nay, murder and death, that
was not punishable among them. It was
a fashionable vice. Fornication, ad.
ultery, stealing, lying and cheating,
principally the offspring of drunkenness,
were considered as heinous and scanda-
lous offences, and were punished in
| various ways.
The Delawares and Iroquois married |
| early in life; the men usually at eighteen,
and the women at fourteen; but they
never married If
indian man wished to marry, he sent a
near relations, an
present, consisting of blankets, cloth,
linen, and occasionally a few belts of
wampum, to the nearest relations of the
If he
the
formally
person he had fixed upon. that
made the present, and present
leased, the matter
ased
was pro
to the girl, and if the avswer was
ifhirmatively given, the bride was coun
the
further
ducted to bridegroom's dwelling
without any ceremony ; but if
the other party chose to decline the pro
posal, they returned the present, by way
of a Inendly negative,
‘After the marriage, the present made
by the the
re
suitor, was divided
among
friends of the young wife. These
turned the civiity by a present of Indian
hatchets,
corn, beans, kettles, baskets,
&e. into
The
friend's
, brought in solemn procession
the hat of the new married couple,
lodged in a
latter commonly
house till they could erect a dwelling of
their own.” :
An Indian hut was built in the follow.
ing They pe the
abounding in sap; then cutting the bark
manner cled trees
into pieces of six or eight feet in length,
they laid heavy stones upon them, that
they became flat and even in drying.
The frame of the but was made by driv-
1 poles it
to the ground, and strength.
them by cross beams. This frame
1
" !
anda
outside with
had been pre.
A Fine
val deer pa
Collection
£, COMPrising a sum-
{ acres, is that of Joba G. Uzzle, at
Snow Shoe, and has been maintained by
him
these many years. The park is na-
supplied with all needed for
the comfort of his deer, especially in win.
ter The number of deer now in the
forty The animals
e and Mr, U
and
park is some are
quite tam ze
of his
care
is very proud
The
makes the
We
the royal parks in Eu.
pets, well he may be.
he
animals
bestows upon them
sleek and fat question
whether any of
rope excel Mr. Uzzle's display of deer;
M:
the forests,
perhaps none match it Uzzle's dis-
play of denizens of foxes,
bears, and such, in captivity
but the beautiful deer are his delight.
is fine,
Has Undergone Fourteen Operations
Michael
to the Kane Summit Hospital to undergo
bis fourteenth operation within three
years. Five years ago at Cross Fork he
fell on an icy sidewalk and injared his
ack
Kepler of Renovo, was taken
Two years later it was discover.
ed that some of his vertebrae had been
fractured. He was taken to several hospi-
tals in different parts of the State and by
two was sent home to die, but, although
a considerable portion of his backbone
had been cut away, he has never given
up hope
A Peculiar Incident.
At
Wednesday of last week in which the
the grade crossing accident on
team driven by John Jordan was struck
by fast mail and himself and two horses
killed, a very peculiar incident occurred.
The one horse was knocked to the side
of the track while the other was carried
to the ene of Granville and when remoy
ed from the front of the engine it was dis-
coved that both collars were around this
horse's neck as well as part of the harness
from the other horse. — Lawist own Senti-
nel.
Against Free Delivery,
The postofiice department at Washing.-
ton has decided against the establish-
ment of the free mail delivery system at
PhilipSburg, for the present, though the |
receipts are ample, on account of some
of the houses not being numbered and
for the farther reason ‘‘that no move has
| been made toward repairing the side-
walks or laying new ones where needed,
and that the people apparently evince
little or vo interest in the matter "Ty
rone Herald.
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| Horrible Find.
Amos Ober, an aged widower of Pay-
| ette township, Juniata county, died of
| paralysis or heart fallure, and his ody
| was not discovered by the neighbors un-
[til about twenty-four hours thereafter,
He lived alone, with a cat for his com-
pavion, and when found the cat had
ota his pose and part of his face and
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1900,
ACTIVITY IN
THE COAL FIELDS
Fancy Prices Being Paid on Coal
Leases and Options.
LARGE CAPITAL INTERESTED
Central Pennsyl-
vania Rapidly Being Developed
Railroads are Building New Lines
Through this Region.
Coal Causes the Boom
There is an industrial boom, unprece.
dented in the history of Central Pennsyl.
vania
Recent purchases of coal land
and options will aggregate something
over £1,000,000
* []
Options for thousands of
ago; but
not a single acre in this section is on the
acres went beggiog a month
market to-day.
Possibly the most important of the re. |
cent deals was consummated by Attorney
A. H. levy, of Hamilton, Canada, who |
represents John Hamilon, a Canadian
capitalist
few days ago and secured options ou 60
tracts. He has filed a bond for the pur-
chase money, over $500,000
The New York Central Railroad is run-
ning a feeder into the undeveloped sec-
tion. A
Hillside a
miles, tapping a fiel fg
The
through the Black L wg section, where a
$ 1
aeid
* spur iil be run from
Indiana, distance of 130
(reat richness
Pennsylvania is running a new line
of equal richoess is awaiting de.
MI In lwo weeks,
ttle less than $5
aii par
XD, OX
hases of
ands are innumerable
posing of pasture hields hitherto rated at
$1 an acre for hundreds Mining experts
are swarmiog over the fields, discovering
coal where it was not
Jabez a
was pad $ro00
even suspected,
Fair, poor Cambria County
farmer, ast week for a
tract of mountain land be accepted last
year in
Mrs. A
who had
ayment of a claim of $400
melia Sullton, of Yellow Creek
a small dugout mine on ber
land for home consumption, a few days
ago received an offer
of $5500 for
she had been trying to sell for $800
from a New York
concern property which
Coal men are looking at a
tract Hill, Indiana
A bid of $200,000 has
made for it
OOO-ace
over near Cherry
County, been
Towns are springing up which were
pot on the map when the census of 1000
was taken. The activity in seizing coal
options has left only a few thousand
acres in this section not taken
Potters Mills Hunting News.
The hunting clubs of this place re
last, from a two
The Juniors, or "R.AM."
lead
turned on Saturday
weeks’ camp
the highest
There are three clubs in our village, viz
"R. A M ‘Boers."”’
The “R. A. M."” club is an organization
with officers
of members,
McCoy, F. A. Carson, Wm
Frank Moyer, Wm. Work
A. McKinney,
Johnson, F. W
club is mn and glee
“Regulars,” and
constitution, by<aws and
and is composed twelve
to-wit: |. F
McKinney,
joger, |. H
Chas. Lucas,
Sweetwooq,
Bitner, C
Samuel
Ed
Auman
The
season, thus far reported
in the lead for the
They exhibit.
ed cabinet pictures of the club, taken in
camp, by J. H. Bitner, photographer,
showing the club and all game which
consisted of four fine deer, one of which
above club is
was a s-prong buck and is the second
largest deer ever brought to this place,
| weighing nearly 400 pounds, The camp
is also well decorated with pheasants
and other fowl. The club was camped
within 400 yards of another club which
{came out with nothing but empties
This shows the skill of the boys.
and several empties,
The third or “Boer” club composed of
| some of our best huntsmen, were not in
camp, but have two deer to their tally,
{ killed by J. R. Smetzler and Thos. Pal.
| mer, The score stands as follows: R.
A. M., 4 deer; Boers, 2 deer; Regulars,
| 2 deer,
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Band for State College.
Andrew Carnegie, of Pittsburg, has
donated $500 to State College to purchase
instruments for the band recently or
ganized by the cadets of that institution,
Arrangements are also being made to
take the entire battalion, including the
band to Washington in March to partici
pate in the inauguration of President Mc.
Kinley,
levy appeared in the field a |
Foreman and Jacob |
The Regulars came out with one deer |
ROOM FOR ANOTHER MARKER.
Massacre of the Standford
Penns Valley,
122 years
soldiers, YanDoran
Family in
It
the
was last July that
and Shadacre,
were massacred
in an
Old
encounter with
five Indians near Fort, and
only a week ago a becoming monu.
ment was placed over the grave that
holds their
the
Rive n
Democt
remains, an account of
dedication of this monument was
at length in last week's Centre
at. We had frequently called
attention to
years
performed,
this neglect in the past few
this duty
1 call
Since has now been
we woul attention to
that |
another incident would call tora
marke: The Standford family which
McBride's
| massacred by the red gkins, and they
lived pear Gap, was foully
lay scalped about their home until some
one happening along there, finding all
quiet about the premises, on examina.
| tion, found the bodies of the murdered
family
This massacre took place in May, 1778
lived at McBrides Gap,
about three miles west of Potter's |
The |
one
| The Standfords
‘ort
dies were buried in a corner of
of the fields of Ephraim Keller's
farm. Henry Dale, grandfather of the
now among the
No stone marks
Dales us, assisted in
burial of the Standfords
the grave, The Standford
family came
from Germany resided there as
early settlers ‘he Democrat thinks
effort sh
an
nade to ascertain where
2
the gt saat red Standford
and tha
ook
Jacoh
be
wile
scalt
years
on was
| farm, three
Henry
who bel
ford and four
They were rie
the fields the
graves may be seen
WAS kx
phraim Ke
of Potter's 1
ila,
corner of one of
on where their
The following was obtained from an.
other authority
Arthar
One of the
but
Bu letter
boys
them, after
returned to the
hanan, in a
the an
SOME years
took with
he escaped
scitiements in
I became acquainted with two of
children in Clarion codbty,
The nearest neighbor to the Stand
s was Johan Wilcott, (Earlystown
and the body of the daughter who was
killed, was found on the path to Wi
cott’s to which place she was trying to
make her way.
Lend
ina
and
184
hat boy's
Pa.
A
ord
In the Centre Democrat, of May,
y
1831,) it was stated
“Standford was a German who lived
on the farm now owned (1811) by Peter
Ruble. On the path leading to the spring
Mr. Moore saw the body of Mrs. Stand
| ford, scalped, and blood oozing yet from
| the wounds. A few rods distant lay the
| bodies of two children. Life was hardly
| extinct in the body of Mrs. Standford.’
‘he Democrat would repeat, here is
an incident for a monument. Nothing
interest of
dot
can add more to the out
Eistory, than to it with
that
passer-by
county's
indi the
the
monuments will ate to
visitor and spoils where
pioneers had their encounters with the
red man, and where the remains of the
massacred lie in their final resting place
These monuments would do honor to the
patriotic spirit of our people
State and County Census
| The complete census returns for the State
of Pennsylvania were made public this
that the
of the State is 6,302,115, an increase of
week, showing population
1,044,101, or 19.8 per cent, over the po
pulation in 18g0 when the total was 5258, .
014 the
population was returned at 4,282,891 the
| percentage of increase during the decade
from 1880 to 1890 being 22.7 per cent,
Centre county, the new census shows,
Ten years previous, in 1880,
| bas a population of 42,804, whereas in
| 180 it was 343,260, a decrease in ten
[years of 375. Thete was no prosperity
| for old Centre
| Sixteen counties of the state show a
| decrease in popalation,
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Furnace Will Start.
The iron furnaces, known as the Pow.
| elton furnaces, at Saxton, Bedford coun.
ty, which have been idle for the past ten
years, as a result of the fluctuating con:
dition of the iron market, have been re.
sold to a company of capitalists and will
the Saxton Furnace company. Charles
H. Scott, of Philadelphia, is president of
the new organization, and William
Lauder, of Riddiesburg, has deen chosen
general manager,
You can always
cerity of a dog when
sin.
d upon the
tail,
wags his
built and put in first class condition and |
be put in operation under the name of |
KARTHAUS
| TO CLEARFIELD
Another New Railroad Being Con-
structed,
ARE AFTER THE COAL TRADE
Many New Towns ar Springing uj
the Central Portion of the Sy
Demand for Coal Causes the
this Season
The portion
railroad betw
haus
has been start
of
Work in
about one
a few d
about
£20,000 >
section
ry mile
as there are four
It
haus the
line road wh
mile of
and there connects with tl
and Ene rails
The official
compiete the line
thin
SAYS
a
A Renovo special Sit
sylvania railroad «
trol of the We
MMPany
tern New
syilvania and Allegheny
mors have been
dia
Clearfield and
New York Central Ra
Houses are going
and railroad
ug
yards branches have been
established and water svstem
A gravily
secured from a bailfdozen wountain
is being stalled
springs,
The deal by which the Clearfield
Indian Coal Company came into posses
of
coal
Arcadia
| The land n
previously secured by the
The D and B, or Moshannon
veins, underlie the
sion of the 1500 acres
which
bas just been ¢
territory,
on a part of is situated
me
1021 acres
company
tract, and it is estima-
ted that they
tons of
will produce 100,000,000
coal
Three openings are now in oper;
and they will cach have an output
1000 ton daily within six months
tonnage cast will be controlled b
Pennsylvania division of the New
Central
INDIANS NOT DECKEASING
The t
ment
from March 4
July 3
nal expenditure by the govern.
}
on account of the Indian service
178g, up to and including
1900, has been fos 455.217, ac
cording the annual reportof Commission «
er of Indian Affairs William A
for the fiscal
Jones
The expenditures year
ended last July amounted to f10,1776, 107.
Of this amount least $1,130,000 was
devoted to the cause of Indian education
at
The report reviews the change in the sys.
tems of transporting supplies by which
supplies are shipped in open market by
common carrier at tariff or better rates
and estimates that this saves twenty per
cent. in cost
Under the head of obstacles to self sup-
| port of the Indians the report deprecates
the ration system, annuity payments
and the leasing of allotments. The ra
tion system.
The Iodian population of the United
States is about 267.800, of which 45,270
receive a daily ration. The ration is.
sued and its value vary according to the
tribe.
Wreck on the Bald Eagle.
An east bound freight was wrecked
Thursday night on the Bald Bagle Val
ley road about two miles east of Julian,
Thirteen cars were derailed and the
track was torn up for a considerable dis-
tance. No one was injured,
sili —
Poets take in the beauties of nature,
Their wives usually take in washing.
| buck that weighed
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VOL. 22, NO. 46.
FACT, FUN AND FANCY.
Bright Sparkling Paragraphs—Selected
and Original.
Uneasy lies the female head that wears
no new bonnet,
[]
her father
This
This is an age of hustle, and
is The Estate of Man
sweat, A
the
ght for three meals
man busties from early dawn unti
1:4 +3 oF
katydids sing
aday and a ¢
at night and
verwork he is
verwork be
saves through t youth so
a
uxury,
his
ife’s late
as been vic
that when he grows he can wear
silk hat and sit on the knees of
but when bis hair tar to snow and
whiskers grow thin and gravis
afternoon be fiods he bh
timize
ed and grievously buncoed by his own
sm and
shattered a his
tured his Jong hopes.
- - -
alculations, and that rheamat
poor relations have
dreams and put
Mistaken for Deer,
ate Ran, was
ww. W.
, of Reading, on a bunting trip on
py Robe.
ru fired
Win.
a
While
guiding M. J Polnde
Hier
Simon oe. of S
xter and
he was mistaken for
of Hyner
at first sight and the ball
a deer
Mulh
from
ert Mulhern,
bis
chester rifi= passed through Ailes
missing the heart by about
The # fall and
Allee, who wore a brown suit, was taken
an ing
rest was of hunters
for a deer as he dodged and out be.
hind the trees. He may recover
——
in
Furious Tornado
A terrible tornado yesterday spread
death and destruction through Tennessee
Ninety loss
and 18 towns devastated
and Mississippi lives were
Latest Gossip.
The talk of the town is the great price
redaction sale of clothing, at Faubles.
A dollar can be made do almost double
duty during this great sale. Any one
who cares to save moaey shosa take
advantage of this opportunity,
Killed a Big Deer.
Jacob Test, of Philipsburg, while hant.
ing for deer last week, shot and killed a
195 pounds.
Tun latter part of October the Altoona
Iron company gave notice that on the
| 1st of November the price for pudding
would be reduced from $4.25 to $3.00 per
ton, and when that date arrived the {ron
workers refused to go to work, Satur
day a compromise between the company
and the iron workers was effected, the
price per ton being $340. Reduction of
wages don’t help to keep the dinner pail
full,