wi CHAS, R. KURTZ, Proprietor. A CREDITABLE SHOWING Centre County's Financial State- corder and commissioner's offices at the sary to supply them with new stationery and blanks, | beginning of the year and it was neces. | | | Considering this, it will be | seen that the pre.ent printing bills were BELLEFONTE, PA, T OUR HISTORICAL | REVIEW | HURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1901. JU ‘CONCLUSION very | be out bunting, when they approached the cabin, antl espied the rifles leaning against the house, Moore crept cautiously up, secured the rifles, and then | the rifle in hand, called on the poor starved tories | opening door with his his Only a Few Important Cases Tried OF COURT enam— VOL. 23, NO. 6. FACT, FUN AND FANCY, Bright Sparkling Paragraphs— Selected and Original TOMEMORIZE | very reasonable and below that of the | [ndian Incursions in the Adjoining ment for the past year. CASH BALANCE IS INCREASED Economy and Prudence was Exercised in Handling Public Funds—Com- parison with the Former Statement Proves Interesting. With this issue of the Ceatre Democrat the Statement’ issued by the Commissioners we enclose a copy of “Financial of Centre Countylfor the inspection of the taxpayers so that they may know how and This public funds have been collected expended during the past year. supplement is a mass of statistics, and to the at meaningless compilation. average man, first sight, it isa After giving it careful thoaght and study, it is readily understood, as it is made out with great accuracy and detail. It is best to take up the Treasurer's Report first, found at the top of the first column, That in fact is an index, or rather a recapitulation of the contents of the sheet. The details are fully set out as you read through it. At the end of the last column will be found the other important showing, under the head of Financial Statement, which is a review of the assets and lia- | bilities, This statement was issued this week and, from a brief examinati m, we can congratulate the present Board of County Commissioners, Messrs. Daniel Heck man, Philip Meyer and Abraham Miller for being careful, prudent and econ lcal officials; and this political eftusion or sentiment, the facts om- county 15 not are there given to prove what we say To those of our readers who have of the statement showing work of the last year of the ‘Repub Board, Messrs. Riddle and that office, we urge them to hunt a copy former the ican Fisher, in same 'p, to make a few comparisons and to verify what we claim. For convenience we will reprint some of the items f; the last two statements, viz Re Gina 48 Dem Assessors Pay Bridge accounts pain « Comn wealth costs and iauterest for The first and most that Centre county is out that thewcash balance has heen from $12.827 to $4 assets 1 excess $24 000 There state that are in <ial condition. Now for many other items mparison, gratif of debt and increased 55, and that the abilities are ov n of Ii are few counties i i the such a flattering finan. some comparisons the work of the present democratic between and the last republican board: The first item, pay being about $1,000 more, will at first appear unfavorable: bat then it must be remembered that the present board had to make the special additional tri-ennial assessment in to assessors 1900, On account of recent legislation, there Was more work than three years ago, put the present Commissioners got rough for $5031.42 (in 1897 cost $5245 ) $214 less than the former board ex. nded three years ago, for less work Next you will notice that bills paid for ting bridges was $4000 ater than last year. In Common alth costs they managed to get through $500 less money than the former pard. While the Commissioners can pt regulate the proceedings before the ourt of Quarter Sessions, or check riminals over the county, they are en. itled to special credit for the Kreat care they exercised in the payment of all kinds of claims. Hundreds of dollars of almost fllegal and irregular costs were ignored | by them, and that money was thereby saved. In doing this they naturally in. curred the ill will of many litigants, but that did not deter them from their duty, | Someone will exclaim, how about the printing account? Yes there is a rub; but wait, and let us see. This year the printing account totals are $1942 35, while last year it was $1541 50. That looks as though when the democratic editors got their noses In the trough and tasted the political pap they crawled in bodily-yes ft looks that way, the middie of column three, and at the end of the printing account you will find that the present board had to pay last | year's printing bills to the amount of $222.35 which makes the former year's | bill really $1763 85, and this year's print. Ing account only $1720.00. This year the printing account was heavier owing to a presidential election, and the tickets cost much more. In addition, they hall to pay $228 dollars for the advertisement of the uvseated land sales, vomething the other board did not have to provide for that year. Then again new officials came into the sheriff, treasurer, register the re. facts are—tarn to | former year. | the old board, after defeat, got vicious | just what the word means. | spite some of us democratic printers they ordered several bundred dollars worth of { blanks from the 1epublican offices in this | { town, at frightful prices and same ( annoy i now be used. In the Commissioner's office there are yet stacks and drawers filled kind of it nearly all a dead loss, There would ba with this stuff and proved occasion to go into details and explain some of this kind of work: but then there are other reasons that appeal to us to be that 1 should be much for the printing account. silent, respected, So In regard to the outstanding taxes over the county. On this point the pres. When { the former board retired, the outstanding 22745 70, which ran back as far as six years. This bad mavagement, At that time were over jt duplicates that were over two years old, and unsettled. ent board bas made a record of taxes amounted to f some { showed negligence, poor financiering. there The situa- | tion now shows a decided improvement as there is only $178 outstanding taxes and there are only 8 duplicates, | two years old that making up the former statement /377 a are unsettled. In last year, in order to have larger assets, on the £22000 unpaid taxes the estimate of exonerations aced $500 by the present recorder was modestly This was a smooth piece of work who made up that statement, having been retai he onxo clerk for a Then commissions mouth , Or a total of $6;2 the $22000 unpaid | taxes ward were not with had After a year's experi the people in this statement that on f17000 of more acquainted tricks of padding assets, as they come nto office ence they now frankly tell the deducti d $800 a total cenl outstanding taxes should be $1000 for exonerations ar for commissions on colle of $1800 ianiities, board made it clions, or where the former $612 Io that way they swe ’ § Quis MR IATRET sum f bad accounts ed Jassels [rom 4] SOO On pa The present bo and gives the fa lown the bailar the tS 10 levy man and they reduce and so ce of urging the collection of all taxes this year they find themselves, a cess of $1200, which they must turn in to alter paving legitimate sheep claims, with an ex. the county fund, and in the future the dog tax may go st lower. In this case the Commissioners sin the which the former boar ply complied with provisions of the act of asse mbly, d ignored This vear the commissioners paid only Last year's statement shows that the former board, $10 for extra clerical hire for the same work, paid sundry persons over f270,for copying duplicates letc., and this year the present board paid bills of theirs amounting to $94; so that the total of extra clerical hire, rather soft snaps farmed out to political heelers during the campaign, amounted to over $164 14. un der a board that had been farming the office for the purpose of sec uring a re. election, and then got left, The present board did not have the occasion to em ploy any special clerical hire, as they were not playing politics The f10 item was at a time when an emergency arose and an adjournment of | the board occurred, owing to the death of a member, This is sufficient to assure the people that they have a competent set of men in that office and that public interests are being faithfully cared for by the present | democratic board, - Big Fire at Snow Shoe. Tuesday afternoon T. B. Buddinger's large retail and wholefale store at Snow Shoe caught fire from a furnace in the cellar, ous damage was done. Tht night at | 11 o'clock, apparently from the same | source, another conflagration broke out | that consumed the building with all its contents, which included Commercial Telephone exchange, postoffice fixtures, Kelley Brothers coal office and a barber shop outfit. Mr. Buddinger's insurance was §a5000 which is small on the large stock he carried. Very little was saved. Tun proposed new congressional ap- partment, makes Centre, Clearfield and Jefferson the 200d district. : At the close of their term | If was extinguished before seri. | | Counties. In order to CAPTURE OF BRITISH TORIES Thrilling Adventure of Samuel Moore Incidents in Mifllin and Hunting- don Counties—A Novel Bear Story from Mr. Houser. history of the relate to , but are (The idents in the carly in this chapter, Huntingdon and Mifflin « st the 1nd settlers ountie of tere Centre yunty equal 1 to reader The fo published, contains recently owing, fre ulars de rived from a respec 'n of Holls r L Z ting inci- dents They ment came here about the commence- the endured to of revolutionary war, and the fullest extent the priva tions and sufferings incident to a wilder- ness still inhabited or haunted by the red men. Stockade forts were built to protect the inhabitants in case of inva M1, occasion had not availed himself of the sion, Holliday however, on one fort, and was engaged in the labors of the field, when the savages appeared The y jumping on a horse with hus two His Janet, the the repeated suddenly famil Mr. H young childre took to flight n, John and James. thiter 4 cider som, daug were kil ile running from enemy. Kun, janet, run!’ said old his deadly t« man. words d William rv {o go there ry early one with M'Cartney. side morning, name i the of dian several bushes, which he should have natu: his brain being undoubtedly bewildered The 1 be ed be by the shot ¢, when Moore men (0 seek oft found assembled band of ’ a yrother, and if possible 1 The creex, 0 drive FAvVage man was at Brush against a pile of driftwood. poor nearly upright, leaning the The depredations and murders of Tes in lians became so frequent, that the few and scattered colonists were compelled to abandon the settlements, and retire below Jack's mountain, to Ferguson's valley, near Lewistown, where they re mained five or and then returned again. to their desolated b mes, SIX Years: and settled in Scott's valley Burgoon's gap'was about four miles north of Blair's and through it, or rather through the Kittaning gap near it, led the old war path through the north end of Cambria county to Kittaning. It was out upon this path that a band of tories, from the eastern parts of Huntingdon and Mifflin counties, went to escort the British and Indians from Kittaning, to cut off the defenceless settlements of the frontier. They met the fate that traitors always deserve, On arriving near Kit. taning, they sent forward messengers to announce their approach and their errand ; but as they had been for some time on short allowance, the whole body, on seeing the fort, were so elated at the prospect of better supplies, that they simultaneously rushed forward, and overtook their own messengers. The Earrison, seeing the rapid approach of such an armed force, took them for enemies, and welcomed them with a | warm discharge of bullets, which killed | many of their number, The rest fled, in the utmost consternation, on the route by which they had gove out. Their pro- | visions had been exbausted on the way oul, and the poor fugitives were com. | pelled to recross the mountains, in a most famished condition, Two of them contrived to crawl over the mountain, | and arrived at an old deserted cabin in | Tuckahoe valiey, where the inhabitants | had happened to leave a small portion | of corn meal avd hog's fat. Forgetting | everything but their hunger, they care. lessly stood their rifles against the house odtside, and fell tooth and nail upon meal, seated upon the hearth insid A where they had kindled a fire to cook it. Samuel Moore and comrade happened to to surrender ; which of course they did { They were conducted into the fort at the Holidaysburg, While going from cabin to the fort, the tories could scar ely walk without being supported them was disposed to be a little obstinate aud impudent withal, when Moore's com. immensely round his rade, an stout man, seized him, tied a rope neck, throwing one end of the rope over the lintel of the fort-gate, swung upon it, and tun the poor fellow int however, being of merciful this more prove of Summary immediately and cut the rope, in save the fellows's life lis, ( Kishycoquillas Valley was a distinguished Shawanese died in 1756, as aj pears frow the foll letter Philadelphia, June 13, 1756. the Sons of Kishycoguillas, the late 1 Shawanese Chief, deceased. lo I am obliged Lo you for your letter by our good friend, John father's and received by the late Governor Hamilton, Shickcalamy Your letter present were » who acquainted me with it ; and | intend, at a time when less engaged by public business, to have sent you my acknowl! edgments and answer, I heartily condole with yon on the lo of your aged father, and mingle my tes with yours, which however I woald n th 1} * away with the handke: 4 56° 1 cus, Asat and this government retals the pr estimony of love : You w to John Shickcalamy for your u May the Great Seyret pin Your assured f: Roser H. M in end MRIS The ansoved b first settlers this valley were y the lodians, and in great danger of being k made unted their livi This Moore bad made reference to him 1a my fo ve, and woods and man mer headwaters ring H with a pack borse, was returnin traded from the creek, now called userville, from E lewistown Coming along to where these settlers had vacated, he heard a hog squealing, soon heard the hogs mak K 5 E 4 fuss, and he rode a little off ing a great on S course in the direction of a field that t} lay in commons, to ascertain what this meant, and discovered & bear had caught a hog to her relief Its squealing brought the rest The that was getting into [close quarters let his bear seeing he bog go, jumped upon a stump that was handy to get out of the way of the hogs The hogs formed a ring around the stump, began to close in, and got pretty | close, when a big boar made a pitch for the bear, struck his tusks in the bear's side and jerked the bear from the stump, then the rest pitched in and killed the bear That last of bruin. Now it is a common thing for bears to kill bogs, but not hogs to kill bears and eat them. This is no hum. bug, bear and hog story. Mr. Moore re lated it to my father when a boy, and my father told me, and ate him up. was the e - - Sorely Afilicted. J. Irvin Ross, died at Lemont, on Sun- day, be took ill of the grip, followed by poeamonia. Mr. Ross was a well-known citizen and business man, and many BR. Houser One of and the Second Week. COURT ADJOURNED WEDN'D'Y Cases Settled or Continued —Jury was Discharged Wednesday Noon— Re ported for this paper Specially by S. D. Gettig, Esq THUR other water ri for ninety-nine years ht Kat aud to pay to the plaintiff's fifty dollars per year for the first five years and after that seventy-five dollars a year and to lay for the plaintiff's build a reservoir and the of brought to recover the fifty « the none performance of some pipe This ™ Ww use suit 1s ars rent for year 1899 and damage for the the other stipula- tious the first two The contract was made in order to get con- years rent having been pa d. defendants allege that the trol of a certain spring yrner of ASCs On next weeks list contin were as follows ern Rose St TE ¥ Gustave tl iL.yon vs ca not defer lant Henry Wohifort « ne Hougl adjoarned on ™% 3 " < . fv i nursday evening Monday January Court convened on for the second morning week of term of Court, with His Honor Judge Love on the Bench Some lime was consumed motions and loos ret it peu AS prese nile the several members of the Bar Henc! judgment Settied gold i ] pica n 1 & Drom vs. Nathan Hough opened, nm assumpsit MONDAY AFTERNOON. Moshannon Banking Company vs. Wil. ¥ Parker and Alice Ramsdale, liam exe cutrix under the last will and testament of John Ramsdale, deceased, judgment opened to John Ramsdale, plea non as judg was county the of the plaintiff bank for six thousand five hund sumpsit. Sometime in July 1505 a ment entered in Centre against defendants in favor red dollars on a note; dated on July 6, 185% in the early part 15g9 Mr. Ramsdale made application to court to have this judgment opened as to him allegive that he had never signed the note and that his sigwature thereon was a forgery, this application was so proceeded in that the judgment was opened, as to Mr. Ramsdale and allowed to stand against Mr. Parker, who was sold out by the sheriff sometime during Sometime of | 18¢6. Some time after this judgment was | ntrix substituted in his stead. opened Mr. Ramsdale died and his exec. Verdict in favor of the plaintiffs Tuesday noon ! | for $9002 s0. [years a resident of that section; he was a | Winslow, George Hendrix, Porter Kunes, grain dealer at Lemont of late vears. His age was about 75 years, | Ross, son of the above merchant at Lin. den Hall, is quite ill of typhoid fever, A brother of his wife, Mr, Musser, died on Saturday. Willie Ross, son of J, Hale J. Hale | George Gardoer, Warren Council and | Daniel Robb, summoned in trespass, recover damages for taking down a fence lof the plaintifis by the supervisors of Ross, above named, died at his home, at | Linden Hall, on Saturday last, aged about 16 years. He expired the same dime that his grandfather did. Spinal | meningitis and grip were his ills, When a man gets tight he usually has a lof of loose change, | It's peculiar that the product of the still makes men nolsy, | Liberty township and their employees sometime in the summer of 1809. The superyisors had been notified that the road leading from Marsh Creek to the Bald Eagle road would have to be wid- ened between the farms of Daniel and Darid Robb, when the supervisors not. fied the parties to move their fences back #0 as to give the road its legal width, ——— | kiewict's famous novel, David Robb vs. J. I. Wagner, BE. BE. | | simplicity, | Garman Opera House, on Tuesday, Feb, terner sex. know are dif- varber might a clipping Some men are like rl ese you and OTHE ’} tk 84) draw them out, em, then shut them up | — ROTHCHILD MAXIMS. an alphabetical which young He be- Mortgagees Beware which mierest to mort- to the suit was take possession of property on which a mortgage had been held for thirty years. In his charge to the jury, Judge Kelley pointed out that the mortgagees had died in the meantime and that according to law the other party to contract could not According to the also it is presumed that a mortgage is ‘hus the plaintiff would not give evidence and for Rive evidence law satisfied after twenty years the same reason, neither could his wife. Thirty years had elapsed and the mort- gage by law was satisfied tea years ago. Unless the plaintiff can find some remedy he will lose all, . - Aiden Benedict's “Quo Vadis.” That the earnest handling of religious themes and the portrayal of religious characters before the footlights is not in doubtful taste is thoroughly proven by the success which has greeted Chas. W. Chase's dramatization of Henry Sien. “Quo Vadis.” A wonderful production, reverently play- ed, finely staged and beautifully cos. | tamed, realistic that once seen it can | never be forgotten. plea not guilty. This suit is brought to The prayer scene by the Apostle Peter is beautiful tn ith It will be presented at the 1a. Slaughtering Foxes, The "Huuter Run Sporting Club" of near Howard, and of which Kline Halves is commander and has for its members Will Schenck, W. B. Haines, R. J. Maan, and John Smith, has killed nearly two dozen foxes this winter, and the good work has just begun,
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