CHAS. R. KURTZ, Proprietor.
TRIENNIAL
ASSESSMENT
Valuations in Centre County Were
Reduced
DROPPED $£280.000 Since INOS
Commissioners Must Raise Some Valu-
ations in Order to Make an Equit-
able Assessment—The Decrease is
Mostly on Real Estate
The following is the result of the T
ennial Assessment as returned to
Commissioners Office, by the assess
will be ed that we
the county It hsery
give only the totals, also for the sake of
comparison the totals on the san
as published three years ag
commissioners formerly
entire assessment, giving
each district in a
compiete
form. This year they have
not to publish it as det
Iu
necessary expense
the state the ta
the Trem
lished whi
done so
obligator
on the balan
$13.27 The
is due to the
m certain districts’who
dargely for the purpose
with their home
this kind the
as a board o
the
nated!
appeals where
are often rea
mdividuals and distr
€qualzed as nea
thing as an equa
ment will never
body is anxi
as low as poss
amount of tax
When
this year the com
the va
to raise them two
crease the amount «
ter will not like
w t
standard
HE CAUGHT THE TURKEY
By Burying a Man, But
Hand Exposed
Leaving
Charles Kryder, a
ster,
we Known team
Hottom
While
m to
was working on Pin
Lycoming county, the other day
busily engaged, a wild turkey flew
the log ou which be wa
Rooting that it was not as wild as it
general
snare, in which
working Charles
is the
reputation of those fowls, set a
the turkey
its foot Kryder pulled the
looo closing two
toes By
the turkey without iui
caught the
Dis careful att take
AWAY
1 Mr,
that it
would be back. so he resorted 10 a unique
method Mr
secured a quantity of corn, and
It was very thin from
Kryder came to the usiot
of capturing it Kryder
bnrying
John Edwards out of sight in the snow,
placed the corn in and about that gentle.
man’s bands, which was |
exposed on the surface
ermitted to be
In ashort time
the hungry turkey reappeared and a ight
ed on the snow mound and began to
feast on the corn
on Mr, Edward's hand, and became a
prisoner sure. Mr. Kryder has the tur
key in his possession alive, and after a
season of good feeding will be in a con
dition to make good eating
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Presently it stepped
Coal Companies Consolidate
The Pardee Patton Coal
company, Clearfield & Indiana Coal com.
pany, James Kerr & Company, BE. P
McCormick & Company, Chest Creek L
I. Company have disposed of their prop.
collieries,
erties to the Beech Creek Coal & Coke |
company, whose general offices are on
main floor, Bowling Green Building, No,
11, Broadway N. Y., of which Hon.
James Kerr, of Clearfield, is president,
It is undoubtedly the whole duty of a
married man to provide good quarters
for his better half,
COAL IN PENNS VALLEY.
Talking about coal in Penns valley in
a recent recollect of a
1ssue,
of
various p
we now
number shafts having been sunk in
1ts upon belief that coal could
be struck, but without success thus far,
Some Thomas Crommiller
the mountain
of Aaronsburg,
db retend
i5
two
years
ago
sunk shafts on side
north
about ne mie
been assure ed coal
coal ot \ be found, It
having
experts tha was
money usely
was there
aunt we
vg found
NEW
DIOL
The Con
approved
thi
forwarded at once to Ag
The Rev. John Bos C, ¥
Pittsburg diocese, has
petition, the pope was
hhishop Ryan
Car forane of the
been mentioned
as first bishop of the
The
made
new are
new diocese of Altoona will be
Redford
are lo dq
up of Cambria, Somerset
and Blair which de
d of
inton and Fulton counties. de.
counties,
tached from the Pittshurg diocese. an
Centre, (
tached from the diocese of Harris urg
Annual Election of Officers
The Sportsmens of Centre
county held a meeting Friday evening
at which they elected their officers for
the ensuing year. They are as follows
President, Hardman P. Harris; vice
president, T. H. Harter ; Secretary, John
J. Bower; treasurer, John McGinley ;
auditor, Harry Gerberich ; directors, W,
C. Cassidy, Dr, George B Kivmp and
John Knisely
League
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Northumberland Presbytery,
The cighteenth stated meeting of the
Northumberland presbytery will be held
{in the Presbyterian church at Jersey
| Shore on April 15.
S——— —— A ——————
When the dentist pulls wisdom teeth,
isn’t he drawing wise conclusions
3
| the
BELLEFONTE,
OUR HISTORICAL
REVIEW |
[Incidents About Fort Agusta and
Other Settlements
INDIAN HOSTILITIES INCREASE
Story of the Last Journey of “Turkey,
A Vicious Indian—The Wyoming
Massacre Caused Alarm and Act-
ive Steps Were Taken,
CHAPTER IX
When Captain John Brady leit Sh
peusbuarg, the
Standing . wk and
located himself at
the
ne
Juniata
town of Hunt
in Huntingdon county stands, in
where the present
Standin
0 attend
oted day
d shaking
parted n
ning ith
Brady leared (0 trust the friendship so
warmly expressed, and took a different
his
gone and are
route in returning with company,
from that they had ived
sale at home
.
On the day appointed tor ho ding the
treaty with their
There
men, all
the Indians appeared
chi
bundred
wives and their dren wer
about one Warriors,
ssed in war costume
that
look as fierce as possible,
and dre Care had
been taken the little fort shou d
and every man
was on the alent
In former
received
the
presents,
Indians had
and
treaties,
iarge were ex.
pecting them here; but finding the ort
100 poor to give any thing of value, (and
all efforts to
form a treaty with them proved abortive
an Indian vever trusts)
They left the fort, however, apparently
in good bumor, and well satisfied with
and taking to their
canoes, proceeded homeward. The re.
mainder of the day was chiefly spent by
officers and people of the fort in devising
means of protection against anticipated
Alla ks of the Indians, Late in the day,
Brady thought of Derr's trading house,
and forboding evil from that point,
mounted a small mare be had at the fort,
and crossing the North Branch he rode
with all possible speed. On Nis way
their treatment,
| home he saw the canoes of the Indians
on the bank of the river near Derr's.
When near enough to observe the pad. |
dies, to work canoes over to this side of
the river, and then when they landed |
| they made for thickets of sumac, which
€rew in great abundance on this land to |
height of a man's head, and very |
PA., THURSDAY,
MARCH 7, 1901.
thick upon the ground, He was not slow
in conjecturing the cause. He rode on
to where the squaws were landing, and
that
tomahawks and knives
saw they were conveying rifles,
into the sumach
thickets and hiding them. He immedi.
ately jumped into a canoe and crossed
to Derr's trading house, where he found
the He saw a
before
He in.
it, and sj illed the rum,
“My
done
Indians brutally drunk.
barrel of rum standing on end
»
Derr's door with the head out.
stantly overset
saving to Derr God, Frederick.
what have you Derr replied,
“Dey dells me you gif um no dreet town
on de ford, so I dinks as 1 gif um one
here, als he go home 1
One of the Indian
but
told Brady
Was
he
that rel. Belog well ac.
he
wi rue the
ing of
p ng of
quainted with
kuew
an
With him
before a good un
uvasion and the
* there had been
, And 1t created some surprise
when known that be was with the bloody
id who had come on an errand of
who com.
Mr
battle,
ruction It was Turkey
manded the party that came to
Weeks’ the Sunday the
778.) an
after
1 taking the old gentleman's
hat, shoved his nto
rocking.chair the
street and sat down and rocked himself
of March
Tarkey was bere again, and in an en
the
shot through the thigh and surrounded
In the invasion following
Ragement, on flats, was
Kingston
Oy our people. ‘Surrender Turkey, ‘said
they wont hurt sou ‘robab'y
conscious of his own cruelties, he de fied
them, and fought like at ger-cat to the
ast Some of our boys, malicious
sport, took his body, put it into an old
canoe, fixed a dead rooster in the bow
fastened a bow and arrow in the dead
Indian's hands, as if in the act just to
fre=put a written ‘pass’ on his breast to
et the bearer go 10 his master King
George or the a and lawnched the
Canoe into the river, amid the cheers of
men and boys."
we
in
the narrative of Lieut. Moses
Van Campen
As the season advanced, Indifn hos
tities increased, and notwithstanding
the vigilande of our scouts, which were
out constantly, houses were burst and
families murdered. In the summer of
1778 occurred the great massacre at
Wyoming ; after which the governors of
Connecticut, New York and Pennsyl.
vania, petitioned congress to adopt
speedy measures for the protection of
the western frontier, which subject was
referred to a committee of congress and
Gen. Washington. The committee rec.
ommended that the war should be car.
ried into the enemy's country, and a
company of rangers raised for the de.
fence of the frontier, * * + » =
On the return of the army, | was taken
From
with the camp fever, and was removed |
to the fort which I had built in 1778,
where my father was still living. Inthe
course of the winter
health, and my father's house having
been burnt in 1778, by the party whic
attacked the before mentioned fort, my
father requested me to go with him and
& Joan t brother to our farm, Shou
rm distant, to make
for buliding aul, 0 and ation
grain,
I recovered my |
RAVENOUS
HS —————
VOL. 23, NO. 10.
FACT, FUN AND FANCY.
WOLVES Bright Sparkling Paragraphs Selected
Become Exceedingly Bold Owin
to Hunger
SEVERAL PERSONS ATTACKED
st Wer
Dogs
to be Vicious
Almost an Ex
Section Lon
Thought
Ar
Thi
sidered Dangerous
Animals
tinct species in
One would think that
terminated from this par
but such i{ tt
$ not the (
broke two, and it was +
for Weaver that the anima
it Weaver ¢
escape
aims he had a ver
The long-continued ¢
and the mountains beis gf
a
have had a tendency to make these an
mals very bo
Some of the timid people who
reside in
sending a petition for
lo leave Washington at
kill these voracion beasts
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prowling about our forests
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A Great Army
The strength of the
syivania and the
of the giver
report of the adjutant gener
mila
UNOrRAn ize mi
resources Same are
Annus
congress as follows
(senerals. ¢
tld and st
officers, 45%
Pennsylvania
staff, 45; regimenta
ficers, 190; company tota
officers, 724. non commissioned officers,
406 G1 ;
total, 8,008 ; grand total officers and men,
The total
Pennsylvania available for military duty
unorganized is given at g17,528
Tragedy at Woodland
Wouds Appleton, living at Woodland
near Clearfield, shot his wife Monday
afternoon, and then, putting the weapon
to his head, fired twice, the second bul
let causing almost instant death.
Mrs. Appleton is living, but her death
isexpected. Family troubles are Suppos.
ed to have been the cause of the tragedy,
as Appleton was under bail to keep the
peace,
2,100 musicians, privates, ¢
QT number of men in
Water Election,
Some prominent citizens in Millhelm
the water question was not strictly legal
owing to the wording of the ballot. In.
quiry at the commissioners office and also
[Interviews with attorneys acquainted
| with the matter resulted in being inform.
od that every feature of the ballot law
was complied with and that the election
will stand for the jerection of water
o
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and Original.
Anybody's Business ?
Anybody bus
Is i
ness
ks his
photog-
P a nega-
and
marks of
. NES
the
th a hatchet
has no ax to
upie pet
two silent
me in rout
have reflect.
who sent to
He.
in
Ha'chet
a woman
cllier
held
men
pe man out
0 woman carries out ber
be an end to the
By the hatchet, won't
Au end will be put to
human race, sure
the men catch it!
on earth in less than
121 the men stand by
perpetuate the human
men and women
two generations
Kuns
their and
face
Selfridge-Merriman
In St. Joha's Protestant Episcopal
church Wednesday A pretty
wedding occurred which united Mr. Ra.
ward A. Selfridge, Ir. of San Francisco,
Cal, and Miss Evelyn G, Merriman, of
Bellefonte. Mr. and Mrs. Selfridge were
immediately driven 10 the depot where
they boarded the ¢.51 train west enroute
to San Francisco where they will make
their future home. The bride is an ac.
morning
| complished young lady and the daugh.
ter of Mrs, Bmily C. Merriman, of thig
claim that the election In Millheim on | PF
Berger- Yost.
Tuesday evening Martin Berger, of
Beliefonte, was united in marriage to
Miss Lydia Yost, of Lock Haven, at the
brides home in the latter named place,
The best man was Mr, Joseph Thall, of
Bellefoute, and the bridesmaid was Miss
Mable Smith, of Lock Haven.