S— CHAS. R. + TZ, Proprietor. OUR HISTOKXAL REVIEW How the Famous “Doty’'s Hole” Was Named INCIDENTS IN BALD EAGLE Some of the Early Settlers and Names on Assessment of Garrison at the Forts to Resist In- dian Incursions CHAP. XXXXIII. Dory's HoLk : ~The drowning of an Indian in the Bald Eagle, is thus related | to the Centre Democrat : On the Bald Eagle, near Curtins, there is a point on the stream, a deep place, that goes by the name of ‘“Doty’s Hole," | named thus after an Indian called Doty, The incident that led to thd naming of it thus occurred upwards of 100 years ago. Doty was in the habit of shooting fish with bow and arrow, common among the aborigines when they “went fishing At this point on the Bald Eagle there was a large tree on its banks which leaned partly over the stream. Then, as | uow, there were good sized fish in that hole, and Doty was in the habit of lying on the leaning trunk of the tree, over the water, watching for big fish, which be shot with his bow and arrow. Upon one of his fishing exploits, as he lay upon this trunk, quietly watching and waiting for a “big one’ to make its appearance, the Indian fell into a deep sleep, as it was supposed, he rolled off his roost, fell into the deep water and was drowped. Whether Doty had any fire-water in him or had an attack of some kind that rendered him helpless, was not known. His body was found a day or two after. wards. From that time that locality on the stream went by the name as | This is a tine story, | “Doty’s Hole.” which we have from reliable tradition. Bald Eagle township, mentioned be. low, is now Spring. Of events in 1779 80, Gen. Potter writes to President Reed ; PENN'S VALLEY, May 14, 1779. “Capt. Carberry (of Hart horsemen, leaving his lieutenant seven horsemen. He is gone to Buffalo vallev. Im a few days Iexpect the lien. tenant to follow him. We will then be left in this valley with one lieutenant and fifteen men in three forts as a guard, and on the 4th of June their time will ex pire, and then most probably we in this valley will have to fly. There are mo inhabitants but in Penn's Valley, and they in forts.” The departure of Hartley's regiment from the West Branch valley to join | Gen. Sullivan's expedition was followed by the temporary abandonment of the | settlements in Penn's valley, in July, | 1779. and Armagh township (then in Cumberland) became the frontier. Gen. Potter retired to bis farm on Middle Creek (now in Sayder County). He wes tlected a member of the Supreme Ex. ecutive Council in 1786, asd in May, 1781, dates his letters from Middle Creek, and ic 1781 and 1782 is upon the assess ment list of Penn township (now in Say- der County). iers. Ou the 14th of November, 1781, he was elected vice-president of the State, and served as such until November, 1782, A letter from William Brown, Esq, shows the fact that Armagh towoship was still the frontier in April, 178,, and | the assessment hooks of 1782 show there were no inhabitants taxed in Bald Eagle, Potter, Muncy, or White Deer townships in that year, As appears by Gerge McCormick's testimony, the country was entirely abandoned lo the bard winter of 1779. So aud spring of 1785, and its history is a blank until 1784 Ln July 26, 1784, Beojamin Davis, Maj - lawrence Keene, and Joseph |. Wallis entered into an agreement to take up a large body of lands The cost of the lands were 10 be defrayed by Benjamin Davis, the locating and sarveyiog by Messrs Keene and Wallis, Davis’ interest to be one-half, and Keene's and Wallis’ one-quarter each. Joseph J. Wallis was deputy surveyor, The agreement cov. ered twenty-four tracts which had been applied for before, and warrants issued for July 1, 1784. The twenty-four tracts were surveved, or at least returned as ved, the 22d 10 29th of Novem » 1784 Gen. John Patton bought Joseph Wal "interest as early as May 8, 1790, and subsequently Benjamin Davis’ interest, and, fo connection with Col. Samuel Miles, these tracts with other lands were beid as appendant 10 Centre Furnace and the Milesburg Iron Works. Samuel Hunter, member of the Coun- «cll of Censors, haviag died, Gen. James Potter was elected in his place, and took dus seat July 7, 1784. 1784—Small | ley’s regi. | ment) left last Sabbath with ten of Nis | and | In September, 1781, he | marched a body of one hundred and | sevenly men oo a tour about the fromt- | during the summer of that year and orig. inal settlers of that year. Robert Flem- ing was assessor, Robert Love and Cleary Campbell, assistants : Arthurs, John, Horn, William, Balto, Adam, Johnston, Richard, Bennett, Willlam, King, Joseph. Boggs, Margery. Limber, Cornelius, Bowen, Danforth. Love, Robert, Campbell, C eary. MeGrady, William, Carson, John. Mahan, Wiliam, { Clark, Frank. Millegan, John. {| Clark, John, Murdoch, Alexander Davis, Jonas. Rellgh, David. Delong, David, Richey, Robert. | Dewitt, Barvett, Richard, Casper, | Fleming, Ezekiel. Richards, Frederick. | Fleming, Johu, Sr, Smith, Abraham, | Fleming. John, Jr. | Fleming. Robert, | Ghormley, Joseph. Gordon, T. (lived with | recently come in). | | Turner, John, Wileot, Paul. Jonas Davis, at the Wileot, Silas, | Nest, in 17) | Horn, Samuel witha mili), | Young Men's Names! | Horn, Andrew { Mahon, Alexander Murray, William. Religh, David Richards, Frederick tichards, Matthias Gilmore, Richard. Rodgers, Thomas In 1784 we pote the settlement of Abraham Elder in the new territory of Half-Moon, then in Bedford county, In the territory west of Beech Creek and north of Nittany Mountain, circling around the end of Nittany west of Pot- ter, we fiod the following additional residents on the assessment for 1785 ; Balto. John, | Bowen, Danforth | Campbell, Williams | Carson, James. Delong, Jonathan, | Fleming, John Allender, Joseph Arthurs, Thomas Askey (or Erskine), Capt. Thomas Evans, David Gonsaulus, Richard Hamilton, Archibald Hamilton, James Holt, John MeQonnel, Hugh Malone, Francis Malone, Richard Reed, John William Williams, Capt Hamilton, John Richard Malone bought the Charles | Worthington tract (below the present, 1882, Thomas farm, in Boggs township), nn both sides of the creek, in 1795, of Samuel Wallis, for thirty shillings per { #cre. He built on the part south of the creek. — Linn, Swansey Joshua CASHIER KLOSS ARRESTED A sensation was caused in Tyrone Monday by the arrest of D. 8, Kloss, cashier of the First National Bank, on {the charge of fasie pretense, red by Attorney G. L. Owens. Owens, together with § 8. Blair, sup. erintendent of the Tyrone branch of the | Pennsylvania Railroad Company, owned | & controlling interest in the Home Elec. tric Light Company, of Tyrone, which has been paying 15 per cent. dividends They had an agreement that neither would dispose of his stock without the consent of the other. Kloss, who is president of the Tyrone Electric Rail way Company, wished to secure control lof the Electric Light Company so that he could supply the trolley company with power. He offered to buy Owens’ | stock, and was told he could have it if | Blair would agree to sell also. Owens | went to Blair, secured his option | for the sale of the stock at $62.50 per share, and delivered it 10 Kloss. The latter paid the required sum to Blair and prefer- | secured his stock. Blair was under the | . i | their compensation or none at all sitnation therefore presented the dilemma | { impression Owens had made a similar | deal, Meanwhile Kloss bought other shares, thas secaring a majority of stock without taking Owens’ Since the purchase of the stock it has | been turned over to BE. A. Tennis & Co : |of Philadelphia, on a mortgage placed with the [utegrity Title, Insurance, | Trust and Safe Deposit company, of Philadelphia Kloss, Owens and Blair have been | close business associates for many years. 145th REUNION. | Arrangements have been completed | by which excursion tickets, for the 148th | Reunion, at Bellefoute. Feb. 19'h and : { 20th, at the rate of one fare for the round | sylvania, New York Central, P. & R. sale February 17th and good until Feb: raary 22a d inclusive. The arrange. nent for these tickets will be bulletined by the Trunk Line Association and or. ders will be sent to all the survivors of the Regiment and the friends of those who were former members who desire to attend the reunion. The Central Rail. road of Pennsylvania will honor the cards of the Pennsylvania system as well as those of the P. & R. and New York Central, It may be well to announce in this connection that Gen. Mulholland, of Philadelphia, who command the Bri. gade of which the 148:h was a part, dar. ing the latter part of the war, and Gen. Brooke, of New York, who com- manded the Brigade at an earljer period, will both be present, unless imperative erders or official duties prevent. The survivors of the Regiment are sesponding in a most enthusiastic manner and it seems to be settled that this will be the most numerously attended re- union which the Regiment hus ever had, | trip, will be sold on all lines of the Penn- | ! and other roads in Pennsylvania; on | Stewart, Charles {only | BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JANU IMPORTANT DECISION No Pay For Fire Wardens by the | Commissioners ACT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL | All Old Claims Will be Paid but None in the Future—Special Effort to Hunt and Prosecute Those Who Start Mountain Fires The Commissioners of Centre county { have issued the following notice to the | Constables and Fire Wardens of this | county : Whitman, Jacob (taxed On the 30th day of March, 1897, the | Governor of Penn’a approved an Act of | Assembly making constables of town. | tinction of forest fires, ete. | 1897, page 9. | this law went into operation on the 1st of ships ex officio Fire Wardeus for the ex- P. L By the terms of this Act see January, 1808 It was carne stly believed that a remedy bad been found through this legislation to prevent the devasta- tion of forests and to preserve the timber of the county which has been Or years rapidly disappearing But observation that the Act above referred to has sadly failed of a has shown of Assembly complishing the end sought Forest fires in this section of the state seem to the ihe bave mcreased in number and in amount of destruction wrought, and Act piled up in the Commissioners Office to an f Ra" Q 1 Oly bills authorized under the Alarming degree. The County Commis Sioners of this county began the payment of bills in 1568 with the £590 appr ed by the county and the $500 appropri. ated by the State, but in 189g this appro priation was entirely exhausted and the bills unpaid were carried forward to the succeeding year, and the funds appropri. ated for that year were relied upon to enable the Commissioners to pay all claims then filed, in full. By this practice of paying claims in the order in which they were filed until the funds for a Riven year were exhausted and then paving the unpaid claims in the next year out of the funds appropriated for that year, it was believed a way could be found for compensating Fire Wardens aod their | assistants in full for services rendered in the extinction of forest fires In the year 1900, bowever, the Auditor General's department notified the Commissioners that the amount appropriated by the state could only be applied to claims for services rendered in that particular year, and that a statement from the County Commissioners must clearly show that the services were rendered daring the year for which the appropriation was re. Quired. The effect of this was that a serious hardship fell upon the Fire War dens and their assistants in that the claims for such services were largely in excess of the funds at hand for their payment, and in consequence these offi- cers and those called upon for assistance | were either forced to accept a fraction of | The | of either having to postpoue or refuse the payment of those claims not reached be. | cause of lack of funds or cause the pro rata payment of all claims which would pecessitate withho!diog the payment of | all claims until the ead of the year and then making them all pro rate. The Commissiovers of Centre County. have therefore determined to honor all Claims for extinguishing forest fires in. tended under the Act of March joth, 18g7, | that have been filed prior to the date of this notice, and Fire Wardens are there- fore requested to present their claims at the County Com missioners office in Belle. | fonte on the 27th day of January, goa, and receipt for the amount of their claim if the same is found tc be regular, and under the Act entitled to payment From and after the date of this notice the Commissioners will nat hofior or pay any claim for extingaishing forest fires under the said Act unless required by law to do so, but notice is hereby given that the law will be strictly and rigidly enforced to ferret out and detect the ef. forts of such who wantonly or wilfully and maliciously set fire to forests in this county, and every means known to the law will be resorted to bring them to punishment. The Commissioners have come to this conclusion because they have been advised that the Act of March joth, 1897, P. L. 9, Is unconstitutional and for that reason they have decided to make no appropriation for such claims filed subsequent to the date of this notice, ARY 16, 1902. PLEADED WITH SAMPSON. | Schley’s Request for Honor of a Su render Was Ignored. "Schley and Santiago” is the title of a { book written by George E. Graham, a war correspondent who was on board the cruiser Brooklyn during the battle with the Spanish fleet, in which a pew. ver- | Sion is given of certain features of the fight. The book is said to have the une qualified indorsement of Admiral Schley, aud the narrative therein is the same as that given by Mr. re and After Mr. Graham had finished bis narrative on that occasion of State officials Legislature Governor Roosevelt, addressing the com- | pany, said : “I am sure you fee! as pleased at hav. ing listened to Mr. Graham as I do, for I have the best listened to fighting during this war." SIGNAL IGNORED BY SAMPSON. Cone Io New York, after the batt e, Mr. Gra- baw says “The Commodore reached over to me, : kv a ses took my glasses and looks to the east, saying slowly as he did ‘There is the Texas Vixen Ul 1 don't see And and there is the PL Lhe ntly Y ‘Yes, there she is. | New then, as he ke glasses up, in had found her, vide remarked her by her smoke.’ the Captain Was at 4.18 after had Cook bad ree 0 CioCk ' Color gone ashore, while cived the surrender of the At 2 0% New bad got within signaling distance, KE wd ock, just as the Commodore Schiey ordered the signal ‘A has been achieved ; deta This signal re- piaced the one which we had been f ying for ‘The enemy has su: rendered,’ and which raised orious victory § later.’ nearly three-quarters of an hour the New York had not answered, “Yainly the signal officer on the bridge the Nq York courtesy of an answering pennant show. watched " for even the ing that she understood our signal. Noue then it apparently dawned upon Commodore Schley’s mind was displayed and that Sampson's flag captain on the New York was ignoring him, Picking up the me Kaphone, Commodore Schiey did that day for which 1 always criticized him lowered his dignity sufficient to plead intent upon the one thing bave with the commander of the fleet that be might bave the surrender of the ship | where escape had been frastrated by the Brooklyn and Oregon, thus making com- plete the day's victory, NO CHEER FROM NEW YORE. "I request the boner of the surrender of the Cristobal Colon,’ he said in a clear, | distinct voice ; and from ‘he commander. | in chief's flagship came wafted back the insolent avswer from aloft : ‘What » 75 request the bonor of the surrender of the Cristobal Colon,’ again called the Com. modore, and this time his voice trembled slightly. We watched the bridge of the New York closely, waited intently for but none came. And that message, as had all the others preceding it since the destruction of the Spanish fleet, which bad been addressed by Schiey to the New York, answered, SU answer, remained un- raised a broom at our masthead on one of the pennant hal yards and the crew of the Oregon follow. "Somebody ed suit and then gave three cheers for | the | Commodore Schley. On the Texas men lived up on the forward deck and at the request of somebody aboard. | presume of Philip bunself-—gave three | cheers for Commodore Schiey. The | little Vixen circled around three or four times, her crew jelling themselves hoarse for the Brooklyn, for Schley and for the crew. But from the New Vork | IMPORTANT TO DELINQUENTS. The Postoffice department at Washing. ton has recently made a ruling that will be of great importance to almost every newspaper in the country. It denies the right of a publisher to extend credit to any subscriber to the paper, under pen. alty of withdrawal of mailing privileges, This announcement has been published in the leading papers, and if enforced would cause some inconvenience, especi- ally to those who are delinquents, One advantage, would compel professional beats to pay for their reading matter. The Moser Heirs. The following intelligence will be dis: to many of the M Centre Grabam to a group | composed of President Roosevelt, then | Governor of New York, and a number | members of the | account | | have ever heard or read of the naval | tion with the arrival of the came never a sound and never a cheer.” | | UNITED STATES’ | GREAT WEALTH, | Now Surpasses That of any Other Country 'A STARTLING COMPARISON | We Have the Smallest Indebtedness In Procuction of Wheat, Iron and Ahead—Commercial | Steel We are Activity Flourishing tions, the figures of wealth being : United States, $81,750,000,000. United Kingdom, £59.0130,000,000. France, $48 450.000,000. Germany, $40 270,000,000 Russia, $32.125,000,000 While the United States heads this list of countries in its wealth, it shows the Smajiest national indebtedness, the figur. es being United States, $1,125.000.000: ( sermany, £5 000,000; Russia, $3,555 155,000,000; United Kingdom, $3,530, 000,000 ; France, $6, 195,000,000 The percentage of debt to wealth is giv- 1 States, 1 4 per cent en as: United United Kingdom, 6 per cent; Germany, 8 1 per cent ; Russia, 11.1 per cent: France, 12.8 per cent, Under the bead of “Commercial Com. petition’ it says that ‘the vear of the twentieth century opened badly for two of the leading industrial na- The trade of the United States was good and showed no decline from the booming period of 18g and 1900, but rather, in most industries a continuance of the boom of which the United States bas large a share, and France, which bas responded first four tions. "’ bad so disproportionately ess expansively to the boom, remained unaffected by the decline and progress cisewhere. In Hoagland and Germany, however, the decline was felt acutely Under the bead of the “World's Wheat shows the United States far abead of any other country in the produc tion of wheat, the estimate of the world’s crop for 1901 being Crop,” it United States, 90,000,000 quarters Russia, 42,000,000 quarters France, 38 000.000 quarters. India, 3,000,000 quarters Italy, 17,000,000 quarters. Hungary, 16,000,000 quarters Spain, 13 000,000 quarters, Roumania, Bulgaria, 12,005,000 quart. ers. Germany, 11,000,000 quarters. United Kingdom, 7,000,000 quarters. Australia, 7,000,000 quarters. Quarter equals 8 bushels. | Under the head of “Fight for the Iron Trade,” it calls attention to the fact that | the United States is now the world’s larg- | est producer of pig iron and steel, and | says : “It will be noted that the United {| Kingdom has lost ground, producing | 396,749 tons less in 1000 tuan in 1899, the | {total for Great Britain being pearly s, 000,000 tons less than io America. An unsatisfactory feature in the British iron | | and steel trade is that in 1900 we import. ed more iron and steel than in any pre. vious year, and exported less, while the United States exported more than ever The tables accompanying this statement shows the pig iron production of 1990 to be: United S:ates ed Kingdom, 8 908 570 tons ; Germany, France, 2699 404 tons; Russia, tons. And United 10,087.322 tons ; Great Britain, 4 901,054 tous ; Germany, 4 799, 000 tons ; France, 1,62,,046 tons ; Russia, 1,404 000 tons, 8.494 852 tons; 2,821,000 States, Fight on Edge of Precipice. Os a precipice edge in Tiadaghton [RoTge 300 feet above Pine Creek the other day a man named Wood had an encounter with a bear that stood her | ground to defend ber two cubs. Shoot. ing ove cub Wood advanced toward the old bear as the other cub ran away, but the infuriated mother began the attack before the hunter could fire and advance ed rapidly until halted temporarily by a bullet. A hitch on the working of the gun gave the bear time to strike at Wood and he was obliged to use the firearm for a club until the bear retreated enough toallow him to reload Seven quiet shots brought down bruin and in her death struggle she fell over the preci: pice. Search for Bodies Abandoned. The bodies of Kugincer Marz and Fireman Glass, who went down with the train at Lycoming Creek bridge some time ago have never been found and the The standing of the United State with | | ber neighbors, and especially with those | of Europe, is illustrated by some state. ments wade by the “Daily Mail Year| | Book," of London, for 1902. Under the | | head of “Wealth,” it places the United | States at the head of the list of great na. | 13.78. 242 tons : Unit. | of steel, | emocrat, En! Ra VOL. 24, NO. 3. | FACT, FUN AND FANCY. | Bright Sparkling Paragraphs— Selected and Original. [ | “Now the ground Is white Go It while you're young, | Take your girl to-night, | And sing youl sleighing song." | MUTUAL CONCESSION, | “Dear husband.” said a tortureq wife, | “Binee you have turned a new leaf o'er I wish you'd swear, upon your life That bencelorth you wiil snore po more.” “I will,” the husband made reply ! “If you will one condition mest. | Before retiring you'il sit by A red hot stove and thaw your feet” And then they kissed and sid good night, Confessing that It was not wise For each the other thus to spite But then they both told frightial les For he kept up his snoring feat And she retires with feet half froze. IV nip and tuck which one can beat The other, (no 1ile’'s woetul WOE, = BYARR, Hosiery covereth a multit It's the chronic ude of shing, kicker who stubs his toe, Marriage is often the result of a maid. en effort, The breath of suspicion is often caused by cloves, A mao can’t starve as long as he has a bank roll. A laugh on the face is worth two in the sleeve The electrician ing language. sometimes uses shock Love of money may be the root, but man is the rooter Even a smallpox sign won't keep the wolf from the door. A writer in an ex change points out the “The ‘good fellow’ is only good for a crowd of grafiers who will be the first to throw him down when his money runs out, The real good fellow isthe one whe saves bis pay and provides for himself and family, folly of being a “good fellow.” The two most absent-minded people beard of up to date was a man in Wil. llamsport who thought the other day that be bad left his watch at home and then took it out to see if he had time to go and get it, and the man in Lock Haven who recently put on his office door a card saving, "Oat, will be baek soon,” and on his retury sat dows on the slair step 10 wait for himself INTERESTING SPARROW SHOOT. Since the game season is over local | Sports have been uneasy for something te | do, 50 as to expend their surplus energy. | Two teams were selected for a bunt, ia | which Buglish sparrows was the princi pal game. Seven men were selected on a side and the bunt oecarred on Friday | last, with the understanding that the | side making the least score was 10 serve | & banquet for the victors. Ia the hasnt la sparrow counted one poiot, crow io hawk 25, and fox 50 larly that morning the guns were | banging ino the back yards and alleys | aad it continued during the entire day. Never did a set of men work harder and | the poor sparrows were driven from bash to bush, their numbers being fairly de- timated. Ia th: evealng the sport brought their trophies to McGinley's | where the faal eount was made and re. sulted as follows : Bruce Garman Capt 2" J Nightnour Capt T. KN. Harter 45 Gee Meek Joba Trafford LS Ha'vy Gerberiek | John Bower # Geo Canningham {| John Metiinley Geo. Beeger K. 8. Brouse Ai Casmiay * Ed. Rianchard Fred Blanchard * Total Total “Id nt hunt, Captain Garman's side was declared the winner and are entitled to the bon. {ors as well as the repast, which to this date is still forthcoming. Oae of the | amusiog features of the count was Can. | ningham’s “crow” which John Trafford { faithfully counted and later was found to be nsthing bat a dead black rooster. Another bunt is being arranged —— ———————— - nm Wants Women to Propose. Dr. Charles L. Kloss, pastor of the First Congregational Church at Webster Grove, Mo., has caused a sensation by suggesting in an interview that women should propose marriage. There aie nearly 300 members of the cov gregation, and last year there were ouly about a dozen marriages among the members, Dr. Kloss is disposed 10 blame the women. He says that they are too timid, and there is po reason why they should vot do the proposing themselves. “The idea seems to have always been
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