The Cenire Bemoerat ion, Over 3700. SURVEYORS Work Done in Pennsvalley Causes Excitement WABASH MAY BE COMING Through This Part of the State—Seek- way Politics in Pennsylvania— Some Early Surveys On Monday of lust week a corps of civil engineers arrived at Coburn, where they rented quarters for a term of six weeks, There are over a dozen in the party, and in addition gaged a number of men to assist them from that locality. They have been busy since then making surveys in dif- ferent parts of the valley near that place. The principal work done isa survey running along the mountain westward towards Spring Mills, cutting a clear path through timberland and over culti- vated territory, often destroying timber Pr valuable trees, always informing the owners that they would be compensated fully for all damages to property. The appearance of these men in this section naturally has aroused interest, and speculation is rife as to the meaniog Ioquisitive people who usually of their work ply them have about as much information when they stop as when they began, for such engineers, as a rule, know nothing, ap parently. Then again the engineering corps may be honest, they are sent out by some one who pays the bills for a they know no with interrogations survey—who it is for, more than the general public. In the minds of many, the purpose of this survey is the location of a connecting link for the Wabash system to reach the seaboard. This railroad now extends through the great west and is gradually working eastward; now is in Pittsburg and this is thought to connect the At- lantic & Great Western railroad, with the Catawissa railroad at Milton for them. In the past a number of elaborate rail. road surveys were made through this county for the purpose of locating an air ime from New York to Chicago and other points of the West. Some of the surveys were through Nittany and over portious of the route now oc- Valley cupied by the Bellefonte Central, and by the Central R. R. of Pa routes were run from the extreme west: through Ia Penasvalley ern parts of the county, down Pennsvalley, and Brushvalley, passing through the Brushvalley narrows to Mil. ton and Watsontown, but nothing resulit- ed from any of them. It is claimed these engineers are tracing earlier surveys and especiaily that of the Sir Morton Peto which was made at the instance of an English syndicate about 1860 to construct a great known as the Atlantic & Great We from New York to the west, but the pro- ject failed. The Warfield survey was important routes run think. This survey Catawissa railroad at through the Pennsvalley Narrows, up Pine and Sinking Creeks to Centre Hill and Boa!sburg, thence direct to the Penna railroad at Spruce Creek sarvey, trunk line rstern one of the 1849 from about we started the Catawissa, ran There were a number of experimental surveys made by the Penn’a railroad company previous to their buiiding the Lewisburg & Tyrone railroad. One through Brushvalley via Millbeim into Penvsvalley another through same valley passing through the upper end of Cen. tre Hall, near the mountain, reach Bellefonte via Gregg's gap. Several to Centre Hall; another south of Old Fort up the plaics to Lemont and avother from Coburn to Spring Mills via Mill. heim, Railroad men are a foxy lot of schem. ers, and when a lot of railroad surveyors are put to work there may be no more intention of constructing a line than fly to the moon. They may even goso far as to construct road beds for the purpose of a blufl, to gain some concession from some other live that is invading their territory elrewhere. Again, they may make a survey in one section when they have a purpose of locating somewhere else, to divert attention from their plans and deceive other railroad {uterests. These things happen so frequently in | all parts of the country, that the | valley means very little, For that rea. | son there is no definite assurence to date | of any new line coming in the county, | What the purpose of the surveying corps, now operating in Penosvalley is, we doubt if any one in Pennsvalley or the county has authority to make a state ment, | dalism, | seated bitterness somewhere | was against Gould, who has the co-oper- | | ation ot Rockeleller, ing a Seaboard Terminal—Rail- | | evidence of this struggle, they have en- | Among the tending Snauciers of the | country, and the great railroad systems, there is considerable clashing. When the Penna. R. R. last summer cut down the telegraph lines of the Western Union in this state that were on the company’s lines, destroying millions of valuable property, the act was that ef vicious van- It meant that there was a deep The blow the great oil mag- nate, The bitter fight of the Wabash to get into Pittsburg was one but the Wa bash finally won, Now we seethe board of trade in Philadelphia passing resolu. tions urging that system to come to Phila delphia, offering them all possible en. couragement, In the past month there has been evi- dence that some one has been gunning after the Penna. R. R ket, as their stocks have been dropping and Rockefel on the stock mar- ler with the millions at his command is credited with directing the fight. It g that the Wabash system was back of the can of John P. E and that the Pennsy through Quay ceeded in knocking him out, so that there is enerally conceeded didacy kins for governor, Suc. would be no hostile administration in this state to the Peunsy. Some one put of and at these two factions during thousands of dollars the disposal the contest, the money was not spent for the love of E'kins or Qaay nor for idle glory —it was and things show some of the side political this state not generall also the rail road interests that have been bitterly at work all If the survey now being made in Pennsvalley is for the actual loca- tion of a trunk line for the Wabash, there certainly is an immense amount of capi- tal back of it. Some time ago a railroad war from start to finish the Pennsylvania won. are mentioned to lights on the These situation in vy known, in recent years and what it means, indirect information reached us that a project was conceived by certain capitalists to locate a complete throughout this t tht has been done very extensively in the eastern part system of trolley lines state, and io “ac of Penn a sylvania, and this be h Altoona and from thence may be extend. may tone through to Tyrone which now reaches ed westward, - No County Surveyor. There has been some misunderstand. ing this campaign in regard to the office of and the Democratic County Convention a nomi- that office, een found that ne County Surveyor, at last pation was made for and y such office is vacant and therefore will not be since then it hast voted for this year. Some of the Demo- cratic papers tu the county bave carried the name of a nominee for County Sar veyor regularly at the head of their col. umns during the which was The for such name Campaign, an error or an oversight official baliot contains no space and therefore it will not be voted for. For the St. The Democrat is Centre county will Louis Fair, to note that at the The entries jast now coutain the following Bullock Swing and Chair Manufactariog Company, of The great trout caught within our boro limms last spring Wm. Wolf, flour, feed and grain, of Philipsburg. Fish Commission er Mechan says the state will bave the most complete exhibit of fish that has pleased have a “‘show"’ Loaisiana purchase centennial fair Bellefonte. ever been made at any exposition in the | past. It will equal iu extent the exhibit { of the United States Fish Commission. surveys through Pennsvalley, one pass: | ing through Centre Hall by the foundry; | and another via the former Wm. Keller farm passing through the lower end of | _., _. bunting Saturday in the vicini- ——— Bears Turn the Tables. While Krebs Stewart and Peter Kim- ty of Bear Rocks, in the Allegheny moun, tains north of Altoona, they uoexpected. ly encountered a group of five bears, a male, female and three cubs. fired first with both barrels, slightly wounding the entire family Before Kimmel could load up with buckshot the bruin family was after the hunters, Kim. mel and Stewart retreated, with the bears after them, for half a mile down the mountain before the chase was aban- doned, A new free rural mail route Is propos ed to start from Mill Hall to Cedar Run road; thence to 1'4 miles above Abdera, | cross the bridge at that place and then come down the pike to the starting polat, The route will be 20 | 146 families aloug the route, anxious to | ‘have this service. The route gone over | was satisfactory to the examiner and | would go into operation next April, Some men who clamor for justice ure lucky to escape it, These men now seem to be deter. | mined to give the Peana. R, R. a battle | | royal in their own territory, by | competing lines along the entire system | { of the Pennsy. building | along Logan's Brauch, { reach its highest perfection Stewart | BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 903. FISH HATCHERY OPENED | First Shipment of Eggs Received | on Monday 'A VISIT TO THE HATCHERY { Main Building Completed a nd Water Turned in Purchased-- Trout, Monday-—More Land A Complete Institution Bass, and Goldfish The Bellefonte fish hatchery, located is making good headway towards completion, and there is no longer any question that fish cul. ture—trout, bass and gold fish—wi!l here Weare led to this assurance, after an inspection of the plant in its present stage, through the kindness of N. R. Bull perintendent, who took pains to show us er, acting su- all that had been done on and about the new hatchery, fully explaining the of the pools, sious of the plant The batche pleted, There uses troughs and various divi ry house is now com- ted keep arge are eleven ith itt cemer nursery 0 poOOis connecle young trout until they are one year old The pleted All nish pools for adait trou! are also com the springs are connected abundance the divest seasons neve an of fresh water | the r having shown a fall pur poses of extensive hatchery ing off in the flow to any The pools and appreciabie ex tent, water was tained into the main batching house on Mon. day, and the flow worked to the entire satisfaction of superintendent Baller, in its Courses On Monday morning $000 trout CHES were received in healthy condition, from the Bloomingrove, Pike county, hatchery soon to be followed by A car which week The cag house, wit muiions more house is next to be erected, for the lumber will be received this icity of the main hits 98 tr JURAOS, Ww lon trout Th hatcher joining spring, the spring from the Hoy arge trout CEES v are the plant—the Hoy 3 spring, and a u bE iagert inor near the road leads Ther past residend < pool, f the hatchery, This the plant side meadow be the its use intended for this from the and The will on large trout water to supply be utilized fcBr which sinks and appears pear bere as Branch above the main gold fish for hatching about one dam, in part, stream which Sows from de's Gap, the source of Logan's In a pool building are 12% purposes, now and hom epart me year old, lively seem to The enjoy their Centre county real bass and go'd fish 4d nt be begun next spring. Allents voung fish and The hatchery at wn 18 dismantled, belongings wi hatchery beng other liefonte CERES, be moved to the Be Commissioner of fisheries W. BE han recently parchased the two acres fromS. H Hoy the bat Mee of the southwest grounds land mn hery ing corner of w ich contain the dwe house and farm The consideration is $2 60, ege for Mr. Hoy to I'ie hatchery plant now em buildings with a privi remove the barn braces upward of 20 acres, Buller, may feel proud of the success of the work thus far, under his directions—and he is proud of it, fish culture, and Superintendent well He has bad a life long experience in for the last been actively twenty ergaged He feels confident that if the plant is carried to its completion in accordance with his plan, the Bellefonte trout hatch. {ery will be the largest in the world seven sears has in it The work thas far has rapidly advanced [to its present stage, successfully, since | August 15, in spite of unfavorable | weather, Mr. Mechan, principal of the state fish | commission, came up on Monday after | noon’s train, accompanied by Prof. Sar: face 10 view the progress reached in the | work, — Turkeys Plenty, The war on wild turkeys this season In our county has been a successful one for our sportsmen. be unusually plenty this year, and we the season on the 1h, to this date about | one hundred have been killed already, | Unionville hunters have brought home about 59: a few miles above that the { Julian Aol killed no less than 20; | other localities come in with 4 miles in length, | fact of a survey being made in Penns | It will give the people along the route | mail once a day if adopted. There are | smaller | numbers, haviog killed nine of the birds, but he | { declares only two in one day. Two In | one day is the limit for wild turkeys, On Thursday evening last Pan! Shaffer and Mr. Musser, came to Bellefonte with two of the birds, Conscience fse't fn it with the hamil. {ation of betng found out, These birds seem to | can safely say that from the opening of | One Unionville hunter ¢laims | | POSTOFFICE ROBBERS CONVICTED. Last week ‘oe Cenire Democrat went ‘OUR HISTORICAL | to press, while the trial of the four post- | was Pa. | office robbers from this county, drawing to a close, at Scranton, | About fifteen witnesses were there from | | this county, as well as some from Union county and a number of postoffice offi. cials and detectives. The against the robbers was strong, showing that they had been in Union and Centre counties and committed a number of robberies of stores and postoffices and { held up a man in the vicinity of Laurel- ton. The the Faust barn did much to prove their guilt and they stolen goods found in were identified by numerous | witnesses, The accused had the assistance of a young that The prisoners on the stand and denied all attorney and one was ap- poioted by the court. were all put knowledge of any of the charges pre fered against them. They also that they never saw one the where swore another prior to met the night they at they barn fi to Faust were captured by Sheri Taylor's possee. Some claimed have been at Milro others came from Peur il met there by ct strangers RR very short time until t a verdict against them at Woodw frsrdd for robbing the ard, 1] Hall and Lewis re postoffices Ruth cived six years given latter hav. utified as haviog held op a man at Rutherford. Anden and Ryan ¢ Palmer and Shir the per ing been ide whi cman were seven in itentiary, the — Ex: iting Train Race. Assengers P on the afternoon trains of the Beech Creek and Welne The Bald Eagle train Bald Eagle wed an rai roads sday en) exciting race Mill Hall a senger left itt'e before the the riy seconds ahead, his where the and crossed the The engine tracks of latter about thi let Beech Creek eng — . r 83 } Tapcly neer and two few the Passengers tracks runs para aud within a rods of each other for sever ting to the platforms and waved al miles, race became very ex hed win« re from Both en. Gradua. the git ing at 'u iy the Beech Creek Ur lows of either train, Cf were runt | speed a ain galoed on the ald Eagle and finally secured a lead of tracks di These in a while when two train lengths before the verged at the Haagen farm Faces ooCur every once the Bald Eagle train is a few minutes late Ax Trust Gives Inte a Rival. The Mann E Lewisto ige Tool company, of wo, has secured an option on the Ax Trust, at and will, on January 1, The Mann business just large works of Ha the | cont Mill Pa. buy tks there will if this atler w inne as outside dea! had n« A bit of diplomacy shook the Trust til] it made the offer to sell Mill Hall R. Manon, company, t been made out its without “water.” of the went to Mill Ha cured a good Jocat plant, Jos { » resident lewistown sowe months ago, se jon and began prepa rations for ev The T try such competit ecting an additional fac tory rast, havieg vo desire to was som ready Mion on its Mill Hall IN ADJOINING COUNTIES. on, to Kive an of pi ant The First Lutheran church at Selins grove celebrated its handredth anniver. sary with special evening and Sunday. Daniel V. Williams, the man who as- sanited his father with a hatchet neat Beech Creek, was taken to the asylum at Danville by Sheriff Shearer. Mrs. Rebecca Crider, | Crider, residing near Woolrick, Clinton county, died last Thursday evening at 5 o'clock, aged 72 years. She is survived by hef husband and the following named children : Thomas, Millard, Mrs. Han. noah Shoemaker, Mrs. R. K. Merrill, | Woolrich ; Jobn, Mrs, Edward Spong, Oak Grove, and William, of Swissdale. Interment was made in Crider's ceme- tery. A commission {n lunacy appointed by | the court and consisting of District At. services Saturday torney McCormick, Dr. A. Prieson and | Constable Ellis Myers, went to the (lig. [ton county jail and after examining | Daniel V. Williams, of Beech Creek, who | attacked his father with a hatchet, ad. | judged him insane. Willlams was taken ‘to the Danville asylum by Sheriff Shearer, Jesse McClenahen, one of Mifin coun. | ty's oldest school teachers, died very sud. !denly, Mr Mc had been quite {ll for sometime, but bad the pluck to stick to ‘bis work, as he taoght on last Friday. | Although ke was a cripple and had to vse & wheel chair he was a remarkably efficient teacher and a good disciplin. arian. He died at the home of Jacob Gearhart, wife of Jobn | evidence | in Beech Creek pas- | the | in, 1 I told | ride oyer, REVIEW Famous Race Courses Many Years | Ago WAS KILLED ON THE TRACK Trotting and Pacing Unknown—All Were Running Horses- ~f (the Henry Dale House in 1819 Some Famous Rifle Shots, Robbery | —— VOL. 25. XO. 43. | PACT, FUN AND FANCY. Bright Sparkling Paragraphs Select ed and Original. AT BIXTY CENTS AN HOUR {Appropriate for Bellefonte) raed ironed "Twas long ago: a man discs A faucet that had And yet It A lesson th not been t faked twas then he carned at he'd faln have spurnede- He to Down to} The ph “By gun f un t Gap Among the amusements of the earlier this borse which was days in county was racing, largely Race courses were provided for this purpose indulged in and large crowds attended the races. the usual ones and The princis Running TACEesS were the most exciting. Potters, of Pot- ters Mills, were the al of the sport and had the of Potter's Old Fort extenddi a race course laid out on level about a half mile south ng east and west one mile. On the mountain bench north of Aaronsburg there was also a and t at this length race course that saw many chases, the track can be plain] day;it was a fine level, one mile in The turnpike road leading from Belle fonte to Pleasant Gag about 18¢¢ H used for oid that was TACIng, Bg at an furnace stood out near the cement mills, a Valentine farm, down y the Stee ice on the pike—were ne oc known Frenct ; Miller, a Cana lian, was accidentally thrown from his horse upon a woodpile at the Tibbens His and home, and face struck a piece of cordwood, the writer was reliably informed, with such violence that one or more of his teeth were found sticking in the wood. Shooting matches for stakes, in money, ‘ and those days al bogs, or lutkeys, were common, ttended by the marksmen of who were numbered by inherited fathers SCOTeS, baving the sk and desire from their before them, who needed the training as a protection agair the In. dians and to kill bears other food avimals, as well as of olin g rue up! its game for for large prizes were in ve in forty years ag Among the the mark men who could drive nail at sixty and one hundred 2 ialer years of the matches, wer hn Gelstweite, of am Mu Millheim, as the best marksmen: also the oy Haives, Daniel and seer, of IETS, of the Kerstetters, Ertels, and others lower end of Penns valley. The preachers began a crusade from their i and ike the racings puipits against shooting matches the sport finally died off Whi fe € giving accounts, in late chapters he Review of the fo h bear reproda 0 pleresting incidents of Owing March 17 Mr Person Came t away back, robbery of Henry Dale's wi nl Dale savs, on that evening some car my house and hal We were in to the matter wed, red, and got up and went loor the He has killed himself said he bad his re and tore and asked what was answered, Your How? horn On He and nt i asked, powder caught § him amazingly all to pieces: if you do vot burry, you will not see him alive. 1 put on my clothes and told him to come he my but said be wag in a great hurry. son to come and we would and told my wife to come with | the lantern to let us get the horses out. | we rode over, saw no light, and my son | Samuel said nothing was the matter, 1 | was afraid some injury was and we turned to go home intended, { of the lane | met my wife, my youngest | son, and a girl that lives with me and | Lewis Longwell, coming with the lan. | : : | Sam before be could die, tern. They said they were going to see I said nothing was the matter, but our house could be | robbed. Longwell began to halloo, and | we went around by the lane, and Long: well and the women across the fields, | went into my room and found my chest broken open and the papers on the floor; searched but found no one, but found a window broken in. I took my rifie, put the dogs on the track which they took, and I fired my gun in that direction. Next morning | found a box and two pocket-books and about eighty dollars fn money. There were four pocket books taken. Ose had a ring in it and silver sleeve buttons ; another belonging to my son, had four miver dollars in it. There were three purses, one with eight dollars in stiver, French coin, etc., aa: other with small silver, seven or eight dollars; another with seven dollars in sliver. The prisoner has been at my house twice, once with a horse and cart selling goods, staying from Saturday until Monday. Mrs. Phillona Dale testified. After my husband and son had started the person halloved again, I went to the door, and the man was standing near At the end | The } And Thet Fat promotors The dead bey alive t's the statuesque gis hat generally Kives you the The Wars Ther marble heart fellow who makes unpleasant re. 15 by no means remarkable reason why an Odd Fel. OCCasion 411% wan! to get WATTERSON ON SMART SET. Speaks Frankly of Simpering and Silly Women. Hen Watterson, efore an appreciative johonies of Ken- audience, burg gave a amming as man reading come to us {1 SO $ that that ucarnation some of the reg the boredom, m of lity inper circies of that tation, which takes it the Corinthian the eddies apo! Deosis of stupi and affec $ cue from and which of Paris Leicester Square Club demi-mondaine cmu.ates which luxary and alimony in London | round the abodes of | at Newport, and thinks no more of run. ning down an ordinary pedestrian in its | automobile than you and I would think of brushing away a spider or a fly Sarsum cordes! lift up your hearts? at least have never wasted many thoughts, nor nursed any serious fears, | about such catde, nor shall 1 do so until moukey-dinpers become as popular fa | Pennsylvania as they seem to be in | Rhode Island. | 1 know that in each of our centres of | population and wealth there is a little | coterie of silly women and simpering Johnnies which would imitate the imita- tors; but they are too shallow and too scattered to make much beadway apainat society. By society I mean not merely those who by their character, their genius and their good fortune have earned the right to dwell in great houses, without the suspicion of the ostentatious display of wealth, but behind them that great army of the well.bred and well-to-do that American commonality, clean of birth and clear of grit—those cultivated men and women who live without scandal and travel without adventure, not rich indeed, but quite able to pay as they go, the rose and expectancy of trae man. hood and womanhood, the very buttress and bell tower of our free Republic, These constitute what I call Society, When a fellow has nothing to do you Continued on page 8, find out how worthless he really is.
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