¥ CHAS. R. KURTZ “Proprietor. OUR HISTORICAL" REVIEW Notes from the Expedition of John Ettwein, 177 ALONG THE SUSQUEHANNA How Clearfield Secured its Name—De- pended on Venison Largely for Food —Defliculties that were En- countered. From Rev, John Ettwein's Notes of Travel from the North Branch of the Susquehanna to the Beaver River, Penn. sylvasia, 1772, we copy that portion of his journey through this section of the state, as of local interest : June 29 —Joshua [convert] convoked the men, and persuaded them, (despite their yesterday's deliberatiousto the con. trary), to carry Elizabeth [convert] who was sick, along, and also to send lame Jonathan [convert] with a string of wam- pum ahead to Languodontenink,* Kas- kaskunk,* and of it, bat it proved, however, the begin- ning ot diverse perpiexities, *Friedenstadt, on the Beaver, *Located in Lawrence County, *In Oxford Township, Tuscarawas County, Oho. My fifty second birthday. We set out from tke island by lard, and I with sev eral others, from this day on, caravan. Traveled fourteen miles to Beech creek, on the path agreed on. After camping here, the men returned with borses to fetch up the baggage. This they did daily, and thus were com- pelled to travel the road three times. June 30. —Bro. Roth and wife came up from rear with the others, excepting Elizabeth and her friends, she being too ill, to allow of her being carried. There- upon I moved on nine miles toa salt lick. As I was in search of Reth's horse, to send back to his camp, I trod upon a fifteen year old rattlesnake my fright, that for days I took every step led the “with dread, fancying every rustling leaf | | corn, to the movement of a venomous. serpent. Fhe tuo ladians with. we, despat be traced to the circumstances, that some | thirty years ago an Indian resided here { (a hermit life apon a rock)—who was | the reptile. July 2.—Bro. Roth and others again came to the front. July 3.—In company of Cornelius and William [converts] I advanced early in the morning. Up passed only through a beautiful and fer. tile region of couutry,* but now our way lead across mountains. summit, when eight miles along, we saw the bold peaks between the West Branch | and the Juniata, Were compelled to en. camp on a dry elevation, water from the foot of the mountain, A poor little cripple, aged ten years, a son of the Jonas [convert], one station to another, was very weak, today, and expressed the wish to be baptized. Bro. Roth administered the sacrament and named him Nathan. *Thus far, on leaving the site of Lock Haven, they have pushed down the valley of the Bald Bagle Ridge to the south and the Allegheny | : { their general is the backbone of | Howard, Snow Shoe, Boggs and Houston Town- | proper on the north cent of the latter, Now they began the as which ships, Centre county, a traet of broken and | wild Alpine region of country. Early today there came two Indians | from Kaskasky, enroute to Stockbridge whom I invited to breakfast. One of | them spoke English fluently. In his child- | hood, he had been taken by the whites | prisoner, but since then turned a com- plete Indian in his mode of life. We proceeded four miles into the mountains, Roth from this point summoned to Great Island by an express. Thither went Joshua with twelve men [converts], to | fetch up his sick friend, and when he ar- rived there she was near her end. She died on the evening of the sth, just an hour prior to Roth's arrival, The next day he buried her, On the evening of the 6th. Roth re. joined us in camp. July 8.— Advance six miles to the West Moshannek® over precipitous and ugly mountains, and through two nasty rocky streams. In fording the second, I fell peck deep into the water. Had it been at any other season of the year, we could pot have endured so much wading in streams, “This stream emption Into the West Branch, between Clearfield and Centre counties, July g.—~Advanced but two miles to a run in the swamp, We were almost broken down, and those who carried the luggage, could with difficnlty climb the mountains, July 10.~Lay in camp, as some of our horses had strayed, and I had to send mine back twice to the other camp. July 11.~We found Nathau released from all suffering-<his death had been unobserved. His emaciated remains interred along side of the path, and I cut his name into a tree that overshad- owed his lonely grave, and then we mov- ed eight miles to an old beaver-dam, July 12 (Sunday), ~Bro. Roth and his party came up. In the evening we met Ll for worship, and afterwards a collection of corn and beans, taken up for the poor, July 13, —~Proceeded six miles to a spring, in a beautiful widely expanded mountain meadow. Scarcely had we encamped, when a frightful storm swept over us. The angry clouds, like moun: tains, piled themselves up in the heavens, the lightning, like snakes of fire leaped in forked flames over the sky, the thun. der ro'led like siege artillery, and the rain came down with the sound of many waters, or the rushing of a mighty cala- ract. It was a war of theelements The tall oaks howed before the storm, and where the timber failed to do odeisance, it was snapped like glass, in the grasp of the roaring wind, My companions, my surprise, heeded none of this, cut sapplings and collected storm passed over July 14.—~Reached where the large tracts of undergrowth, so as to give them the appearance of cleared fields: bence the Indians call the creek Clear. Clearfield creek, buffaloes Gekelemekhpeekink.* | As they consulted ueither me or Roth in | this business, we took no farther notice | | for his private portion, the skins and in | wards, the meat he must bring into camp { for distribution, Such was | On reaching a | . | and full of ripples. whom his mother had carried all the way in a basket from | | following its public | economy in the manufacture and distri. | machinery was | | the motive for the $120,000,000 merger, | bas made a move in that direction. Sev. | eral of the Chicago companies that make | field, to the great joy of the hungry, nine deer were shot. Whoever shoo!s a deer, has It proved advantageous for us not to keep so closely together, as we bad at first designed, for if the num. one or two afforded but a scanty mor. sel to each individual. So it bappened that scarce a day passed, without there being a distribution of venison io the ad- ber in camp is large, deer when cut up, vance, the centre, and the rear camp (Oa the route and fifty deer, there were one hu: dred and but three bear shot ) As there was a growing impatience ob- | servable amoung those who were callers on tb aid others with their horses, press on, and not be detained, I spent a sleepless night, July 16. After representing the state of the case to dissatisfied, I felt reassured, | and journeyed on with a few of the men two miles in a pelting rain to the site of | Chinkiacamoose, where we found but three huts and a few patches of Iodian | The name siguifies; ‘No one tar- ries here willingly.”'* It may, perhaps, wont to appear to the Indian hanters in | frightful shapes. Some of these too, he to this time we had | killed, : i and this he did for many years. We moved on four miles and were obliged to | other be robbed of their skins, wade the river three times, here rapid | *C'hiristian F. Post lodged here on his way to Ohio country in August of 178 | Beull's map. and to fetch | (Concluded next week.) 10,000 Men to be Discharged. The International Harvester Company, | declaration that | bution of agricultural up the combine have issued letters agents throughout to | the | three fourths of the total number of em. ployes representing these companies in | the field. The other companies in the combine are preparing to do the same, Equally | radical reduction in the official forces are being planned for the near future. Ten | thousand men in all aré expected to lose | their positions. This is the true result of trusts—con- | centrate all industries in the hand of the millionaires, discharge thousands of hands and raise the price of whatever the few rich have to throw upon the market. The Harvester Trust will now put up the price of their machinery, make farmers pay big prices for it and discharge 10,000 men who have families to support. Meeting of Friends. The "Centre Quarterly meeting of Friends” will be held in their meeting. house in Halfmoon valley, near Storms. town, Centre county, commencing Sth mouth (August) joth, 1902, continuing three days. The progrm is as follows: Seventh day (Saturday) Aug. 30: 10 a. m., meeting of ministers and elders, not pubiic. First day (Sunday), 31: roa, m. and 3 p. m., public meetings. Second day (Monday), Sept. m. meeting of delegates, The public is cordially luvited to the Sabbath day meetings and are resquest- ed to be punctual in attendance at the hours named. I oa, State Forest Lands Opened. The State forest's are open to ali who wish to camp, hunt, fish or rest, Persons who set up a camp on State lands must obey the game laws of the State, Break. ers of the law may be arrested by peace officers without written warrant, to | but | bark and | built buts, which were completed, as the | formerly cleared | Here at night and next morning, | to | it is noted In | country, ordering a reduction of about | entre Democrat, &¢ BELLEFONTE. PA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, THE DISTRICT CONFERENCES Nominations Made for Senate and Congress CONSCIENCE VS. BOODLE. Men of Great Wealth Selected to buy up Our Elections-—The Issue is Clear- ly Defined—A Flood of Boodle Coming. The Democratic Senatorial Conference, { met at this place, last Thursday, and the schedule published in last issue was followed and proved a success. Thurs. day evening the streets of our town were througed with people from all sections, | As soon as the evening train arrived | High street was made as bright as day by the glare of colored works. The Cole ed by a dozen carriages containing the ville band led follow. | conferees and delegations from Clear field and Cli aut Gap band to the Court House was most tastefal and The large Al once the nton counties, and the Pleas. roceeded direct. The iunterd th flags They p ly or y¥ decorated wi bunting TOO Was soon filled. conference was of Wm. E rman oiganized the ele Wallace, of Clearfield, Hon. Heury Mevers, H. A. Meyers, of taries. The call z present ; Clearficid—-Dr. A. M Burns, W. E. Wallace Ciinton-—A. F. Rs |H. A. Mevers. Centre—W_ C Patterson, er. Joho Q Miles A. F. Rson, of Lock Haven, made a | strong speech placing Wm. C Heinle in nomination for Senator, ied by Dr. A. M. Buzzard, of Clearfield, and the roll call showed it to be unani- by ion as ch 1] of Rebershurg and Loganton, as secre. of conferees showed the following Buzzard, John H A on, | Drauacker, Henry Mey | mous, {tor. He responded in a strong, forcible speech, that was timely and courteous, | yet emphatic. D. F. Fortpey followed in a [ thom he gave the audience some goopel truth. Chairman McGrath, of Clear field, followed year. The chair then declared the | meeting adjourned. It was a large and enthusiastic gather | ing and was not gotten up by Mr. Heinle, | either. His friends in Bellefonte paid | { for the bands and fireworks, and the | | not stop thems. When he saw its dimen. 1002. Kean county. the republicans ~he secured the nomina- tion by virtue of his resources, Dresser’s nomination was predicted long ago, simply because he had money. He is enormously rich, can count his wealth by millions. When he became a candi date he simply declared he would be nominated, and how he secured it we leave our readers to surmise from the satisfied look om the faces of those who returned from that conference. Dresser is quoted as saying that he will put f40,- 000 into the district to make his election sure. This comes from republicans who were there. That means that this man own trict because he kas the money and will | debauch our elections deliberately. He was nominated for this purpose. We have every follow, well. unless the manly, sober, lights and fire | | nition of his efficient services | not eulogize | | done ! tate | as the people | honest man as jor Qu | Clearfield It was second | This was the occasion for a dem. | oustration and loud calls for the Sena. | 87¢ bopeful. { tions of Patton and Dresser will | flood of doodle into the campaign that vigorous talk paying high tribute 10 | | Senator Heinle's public services, in addi. | te8 thousand dollars will be thrown into | tie republican campaign in this county | the last week. It is a powerful argument in a short enlogistic talk | | and promised much from Clearfield this | | we have some hope in public sentiment i of Senator Heinle and Mr. | demonstration was not exactly approved | | by him, but the boys did it and be could | The Wu. C. Heinle was expected, iu recog- For Senate — renomination of Hon Mr the p He Heinle, by ress in all parts, of the Will Carry an recogoise 1a him a strictly well as a legisiator of usual ability 14 sent a more than ne district They have—why Cannot pre citer man know should exactly what they they desire a change They do ug at Harrisburg and the Quay machine do want a chauge. Sena tr Marshal support their y st. The ri tor Heinle would not he Ripper Bills He spurned their bribes Such a of tricksters and they have would the ay, franchise steals -he was honest, and man in the Senate is in the way To defeat him Alex. Patton, of county, the millionaire coal operator, to run on the republican ticket, boping that his great wealth and numer. ous employees in Clearfield mines, can defeat a man who did bis duty by bis looters induced constituents, The Republicans in Centre county now They feel that the nomina- bring a will simply swamp the entire democratic ticket. We know (ull well that five or ~ most mighty convincing to many peo- ple on election day. At the same time The election Hiboer de- pends therefore on securing the support lof law abiding people. - WILLIAM'S REL NI0N. Saturday, Avg. 16, was a day long to | be remembered by the people of Martha, to resent such a campaign, | sions and the attendance of the public he | and many others who met with them. | bad to admit that "it was all right.” It Iwas a compliment to Senator Heinle | from his friends, that he fully apprec: ated. | The Republican Covgressional Confer | ence at DuBois, which was held last | | Thursday, was short and decisive, the | result being the nomination of 8. R. | Dresser, Esq clamation. Four candidates were pre. sented: Dr. M. J. Locke, of Centre; | Hon. W. C. Arnold, of Clearfield ; Capt. lc. F. Barclay, of Cameron ; 8, R. Dress er, Esq, of McKean. Twenty ballots were taken, motion was made to unasimous'y somi- nate Mr. Dresser, by Mr. Blanchard of Centre. = 34th Senatorial conference met at Ty | nation Hon. Alexander E. Patton, of Curwensville, for State Senate by accla- mation, LAsT Friday the democratic Congres. sional Conference for this district met at DuBois, and nominated D. BE. Hibner, of that city, for Congress, He was the only candidate voted for and was nomin. ated by acciamation. The conferees from Centre county were : John Todd, Philips. burg; W. Harrison Walker, and J. Ken. nedy Johnson, both of Bellefonte, Sena- tor Heinle also was in attendance. Oug purpose here is to make some com. ment on the various nominees : For Congress—This district, on a con. servative estimate according to the vote cast in recent years, is safely republican by about from 1200 to 2000 majority. For that reason not many democratic politicians in the district were anxious to také up such a fight. At the DuBois conference but one name was presented, D. BK. Hibner, of DuBois. He is an ac tive, prosperous hardware merchant of that city; a man of ability and high rank, In Clearfield political circles he has been one of the staunchest and most enthusiastic workers. He has the quali fications, and merits the support of all , of McKean county, by ac. | | The president gave a short address of when a | The republican conferees from the | rone last Thursday and placed in nomi. {| Favored by delightful weather, about 1000 persons gathered in Miles’ Grove to | participate in the third annual meeting | of the Williams Reunion. The associa. | tion was called to order at 11:15 by the president A.C. Williams. The exercises | were opened by singing by the choir fol | lowed by prayer by Rev. Houck anda | pleasing selection by the Scotia band. welcome, this closed the forenoon session, | The afternoon session was opened by music by the band. Rev. E. C. Houck | was then introduced who very fittingly | and eloquently spoke to the association {on the theme "Honor thy Name.” A | quartette rendered "A chappie had a | sweet heart.” | T.H. Harter, of Bellefonte, spoke to | the young people on a name. He spoke | of the responsibility resting upon them, not particularly of class name but of the | | value of a reputation as the shadow of a good mame preceding the ways of all human creatures. The choir gave another selection. A greeting was then read from Mrs. Mary T. Williams Bailey, of Ridgers, Ark, Officers were then elected for next year : A. C. Williams, pres.; Michael Williams, vice pres.; A. Y. Williams, treas.; 8. T. Willams, sec’y.; W.S. Williams, poet; E. L. Williams, historian. Deadly to Vegetation. In the Highvalley correspondence this week you will find an interesting item. Emanuel Eisenhuth, while killing a rat. tiesnake saw the reptile sink its fangs in a sumach plant, at the bottom. Ac cording to his observation the leaves on the stalk had withered inside of two hours and at the point of the wound the sap had ran out, This is an unusual oc. currence, but indicates that the rattle snake venom is deadly to vegetation as well as animal life, Another Smallpox Case at Jersey Shore. | 111 with the same disease at her L He was not selected hy | proposes to go to congress from this dis. | thinking people revolt at the spectacle. | We need | that bas been | SKINNING APPROPRIATIONS | lic Institutions CLARION ample of Machine Rule—Yet Pen- nypacker says no ills — From the Harrisburg Patriot, | worse than the blackmailing of normal schools, hospitals and homes for orphans and the aged infirm case of the Clarion State Normal § which has just Philadelphia | typical of scores laid bare by North American, is the persons familiar with Leg- h are d ifficult of of the unw fhcer which have had to subn of part of their appropr been | the of cases within fmmense vole | knowledge of islative matters, but whic proof because testify of the % of the institutions it to be robbed ation or receive no appropriation at all In the case of m State Nor. AM Quay the Clari i mal! school State Senator Clarion, one of the the Assembly, bas made the public statement that form. er Senator Jas G. Mitchel county, Neely, of Democrats of {f the General last session Normal school | that he told | for by the Clarion State to pass the appropriation ; Mitchell all right, to go abead and pass | the appropriation ; that he meant Mitch Corrupt Officials Steal From Pub- | NORMAL SCHOOL | Rake-offs for Politicians —Another Ex- | “Pennsylvania has | Among the many shanieful things that | [the Quay Machine and its subservient | | Lewislature of the session of 1901 must | . : | answer for there can hardly be anything | reason to believe that it will | y any E which a-ked for | State aid in carrying on iLeir work. The School, | ngness to of Jefferson "eC v 1 Qiate (oy it | Secretary of the State Comm ee | but they keep more men down. on Appropriations of the last Legislature, | came to him and said that it would cost | 10 per cent. of the appropriation asked | | VOL. 24. NO. 3p FACT, FUN AND FANCY. Bright Sparkling Paragraphs—Selects "ed and Original, ANOMALOUS. Happy Jack is the farmer's boy, Who really knows 1ife’'s fullest joy! His work is bard, and iv lasts all day From the reddening dawn to evening gray. He sleeps like a babe when bedtime comes, And eats Lis meals to the very crumbs! No indigestion lurks around ; His lungs are good, and his heart is sound ! He has his share of fun and play: Temptations prow! not in his way; And yet, "Us strange to say, he yearns For the town and his bome life spurns! Popular airs—millionaires. Solid truth sometimes leaks out, The magician seldom misses a trick. A grass widow is anything but green. A yarn manufacturer -the press agent, The worm and the organ-grinder will turn A man is apt to be in a stew when he has a boil. The chorister believes in giving every man his chants The mining expert goes through some iryibg ore deals. fo t's funny | that girls who don’t fancy fancy work The deeds that live after men are usually mortages A dressmaker though she seams well, The Railroad Trust might be called the Colossus of Roads Stimulants may keep some men up, work do longest be very may delicate, The young man who is a slave to his | best girl is a miss-guided youth. A man who would travel the road to | literary success must keep to the write, A St louis lawyer attempted to try a case the other day, while he was balf | pony but the judge stopped him saying: ell to understand that the terms were sat. No lawyer can practice at two bars a istactory ; that the appropriation of $27, $2 750 was paid corroborated by R. G. Yingling, principal stockboider of the Clarion | schoci, who says that a fictitious bill for | repairs, amounting to $2,750, was put in his name and approved by the trustees of the institution, pot paid to him, but was spplied to the pavment of the “rake off" which Senator Neely guaranteed to ex-Sesator Mitch. ell This is a typical case. Nothing comid be more rtascallvy and contemptible There is no doubt that similar demands were made of nearly every school, hos. pital and charitable institution that ask- | ed aid from the stale. Some of them paid it, others refused and because they refused got no appropriation at all only a very small part of what they were justly entitled to, Méreover it is perfectly well known | that this is no new device but that the sane system of robbing poor students, | helpless orphans, the insane poor, the aged, crippled and the sick in hospitals of the money voted to them by the state has been practiced by other Legislatures | and in fact has been the custom ever since the Quay Machine came into pow. er except when an honest Democrat in the Governdt’s Mansion made such ex- tortion impossible. This is only one of the many dishonest | | and dishonorable methods enrich themselves and procure money to squander in evil ways practiced by the creatures of the machine whose power all honest men should unite to break at | | the election in November, to Centre County Fair Races. The speed program for the Centre County Pair has been sent out and con. tains some large purses for various events The following races will be given : . WEDNESDAY, OCTORRR 1ST. 1.15~Trot and Pace, Horse men's purse. Running race THURSDAY, OCTORER IND, 2 35~Trot and Pace........ $200.00 2.25~Trot and Pace.......... 200.00 2 20~-Trot and Pace, Hotel FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3RD, 2.27~Trot and Pace....... $200.00 Running race. . An additional purse of £50.00 Is offer: ed to the first horse that beats the track record of 2.15. Hotries close Tuesday, September 16th, 1902. Snecezed Herself to Death. . Mrs, Sarah Mackey, of Porterfield, pear Franklin, Pa., died Ptiday morn. ing, the result of constant sueexmng, She sneezed soo Umes tn an hour by actual count. Previous to this she had made a an hour, Her physicians were unable to do anything for her relief, and that this money was | or | | the same time." 500 was passed and the ‘rake off of | Neely's statement is | the - A —————— Swallowed by an Octopus. In last week's issue of the Journal we | mentioned that Peter Shires, of this place, | bad embarked in the onl oil business. With a horse, wagon and two barrels of | ofl Peter started out last week om his first trip selling and delivering the oil and was fairly successful in his trade. But vole what bappens: The Standard oil | octopus has a delivery station at Coburn and as soon as their agent there reported that Peter Shires with his old borse and wagon was selling coal oil to the people throughout the valley at the same price the merchants, who bought their oil from them, were selling it, these merchants | were potified to sell the oil two cents lower than Shires did, and if Shires low. ered the price of his oil, to sell at five cents per gallon, or give it away for no- | thing. Mr. Shires is a poor man with a crippled arm and unable to do hard man. | nal labor. He thought he could make a liv. ing for himself and family by selling and | delivering coal oil, but the octopus swal- lowed Peter, and be is now floating in ot] iu the stomach of the trust. —Millheim Journal. This 1s a sample of the method of trusts to freeze out wen who wish to make an bonest living. (Ed. Democrat), Red Men Organize. The Improved Orderof Red Men, of | Bellefonte, organized and installed the | officers of the camp last Thursday even. ing. The camp is named Ne-ba-sa-ne Camp No. 71, Improved Order of Red | Men. The officers installed were as fol. | lows Prophet—Harry T. Miller. Sachem —Jacob §. Knisely. Senior Sagamore— Wm. Beever, Junior Sagamore—J. W. Rightoour, Chief of Records—Harry Walkey. Assistant Chief of Records—Charles Hazel, Keeper of Wampum — Wm, Rider, Guards Frank Sasscrman and Seneca Walker, Trustees— Bruce Garman of Bellefonte; Charles Reese, of Snow Shoe; Isaac Shaver, of Centre Hall. There will be a special meeting of the order next Friday night at 8 o'clock. Business Men's Picnic Schedule. The following is a condensed schedule for Business Men's Picnic, Aug. 21st, at Hecla Park, when the C. R. R. of Pa. trains will run as folllows : Leave Bellefonte for Hecla Park—6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 and 11:00 A m; 1:00, 2:40, 4:00, 5:50, 6:50 and 8:30 p. m. Leave Hecla Park for Bellefunte—11:1§ A. Wm; 1:38, 2:00, 4:00, 4:49, 4:45, S00, 9:00 and 10:3 p. Wm. Leave Hecla Park for State College and Bellefonte, Central peluts—gq:00 and 8:00 p. m. leave Hecla Park for Coburn and poluts on L. & T. Branch-—i:35 and §:00 record all thie way from 100 to 200 sneeres | p,m. Leave Hecla Park
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