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,
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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,