FULTON COUNTY NEWS. " EDWARD WEST. Sketch of the Life of a Ptnnsyl. vanlan Who Went West hi Early Life. Continued From Klrst Pane.) tlio village of Milwaukee, paying jj;00 for the claim and in the fall of 1839 went to live on it to make his pre cmption good. For several years thereafter Mr West lived on his claim and was occu pied a part of his time In survey Ing in the western part of Milwaukee county, now Waukesha county. In he took up a farm In that county at a place called Summit, and followed farming and surveying there until 1S45. In that year he located on a 400 unre tract of land which he purchased from the government. In 18,12 he leas ed his farm and larie stock of cattle and sheep for a term of years and re moved to Appleton, which was at that time a small village, whose first per manent settlers had located only three years previously. At Appleton he purchased a tract of 100 acres on the north boundary of the village and farmed there for two yearrf, later selling u portion of the hind for the first fair grounds in the county of Outagamie, for which pur pose they were used for many years. Better than any one else resident at Appleton at that early day, Mr. West saw the water power possibilities of the Fox River . at this point, and in January, 1855, he purchased 533 acres of land on the south side of Fox riv er, alongside the Grand Chute Rapids and including "the flat" and Grand Chute Island. Here he determined to make his life work one of building up a water power center, and how well he succeeded the subsequent history of the city of Appleton has shown. He at once began improving the flow of water at the upper end of the island in a small way by constructing a wa ter power dam which has since been replaced by the needle-dam of the mid dle level and selling a few small water power lots. In 1857 the first maufac Hiring plants at Appleton were estab lished on Grand Chute Island, a ma chine shop and a small woolen mill which has since become the large plant of the Appleton Woolen Mills, manufacturing paper-machine felts, cassimere cloth, flannel and woolen yarns. In 1858 he dug a small water power canal about .'100 feet long, which fur nished power for the woolen mill and u hub and spoke factory. In 1870 he begun the great work of digging the West water power canal through the entire length of Grand Chute Island. This was the begin ning of the systematic development of tlio Appleton water power, which has resulted in making Appleton one of the greatest water power centers of the West and established here the hub of a maufacturing region known as the Fox River valley region which is known throughout the country. Work on the canal was begun April 1, 1870, with 130 men and 29 teams, and under his personal supervision and plans, was completed late in De cember of the same year. Upon its completion a mass meeting of citizens was held and Mr. West was presented with a solid silver tea service hearing the Inscription : "Presented to Ed ward West by the citizens of Appleton as a token of their appreciation of his enterprise in building the Grand Chute Island canal " The presentation speech was made by the late A. L Smith, then mayor of the city, and letters of congratulation were received from Gov. Lucius Falrchlld, Col.C.D. Robinson, and the Hon. Hiram Bar ney. The completion of the water power canal made Mr. West a dominant fac tor in the water power interests of Ap pleton, and the remaining years of his life were devoted to managing the large interests thus created for his disposal, and in improving his prop erty and making other real estate in vestments. Most of the land included in his original purchase of "the fiat" and Grand Chute Island have been disposed of to various manufacturing interests which now occupy the avail able sites, but the fee of the water power Interests created by his canal and other improvements remain in his estate under leases and rentals. Edward West was married at Ap pleton in September, 18(15, to Mary A. Fmino, a daughter of Mr, and Mrs. L. U. Fenno, who were among the pio neers of Appleton. To this union were born two daughters, one of whom died in infancy, and the other, Nellie M., . being the wife of Dr. Frank C. Stud- ley of Milwaukee. He is also surviv ed by two children of a former mar rlage, William S. West of Chicago, and Mrs Williams of Milwaukee. During the years of his residence at and near. Milwaukee Mr. West had many experiences of a picturesque na ture with the Indians and incident to the rough pioneer conditions. In 1830, while living on bis first claim, he be' came very friendly with the Indians, who helped him build bis cabin, I'll let Menominee was particularly filoiidly with Mr. West and did him many good turns. One time when Mr. West had just finished planting bis potatoes he Invited Chief Menominee to dine with him, and their fare was potutoes and tea, the latter of which the chief relished greatly. But after dluner Mr. West discovered that while he and the chief were dinlug, his band outside had dug up and euten all bis newly planted potatoes. For this they were punished by Chief Menominee, and made for months to bring pres ents of game to Mr. West. In 1838, while Mr. West was living uu hi claim on Root rlvor, tun ' stock: of flour In Milwaukee became exhaust ed, and none was to be had for any price. Mr. West and his neighbors lived for two months on potatoes. One midnight, lato In November, his nearest neighbor, a Kentucky family named Howard, sent their sons over to tell Mr. West that their father had just returned from Milwaukee with a barrel of flour, he having been in town when a schooner loaded with flour arrived and relieved the famine ; that their mother was even then bak ing bread, and Invited him to come over and feast. All that night Mr. and Mrs. Howard kept open the house while the women mixed dough and baked short cakes on a tin reflector at the fire place, while the neighbors ate until daylight. Flour was at that time 125 a barrel, and money was very scarce among the settlers. But hospi tality was as free as the air. On one occasion while on a survey ing expedition near what is now Muck wanago, his pack pony laden with all his supplies strayed and was stolen by the Indians. He made his way back to Milwaukee on foot and told Solomon Juneau of his loss. The In dian wife of the latter sent word to her people, and In a few days the pony was returned, but the supplies had been eaten. Again the loss was made good In game and furs. In his deal ing with the Indians Mr. West learned to speak the dialects of four tribes, the Winnebagoes, Chippewas, Potta watomles and Menoininees, the latter tribe being his particular friends. in uecemoer in.m, wnue on a sur veying expedition a few miles from what is now Waukesha, and while traveling on foot late at night he heurd a gun fired, and turning a mile or two out of his road came upon a family of three -man, woman and child -in a sled drawn by a yoke of oxen with a boy to drive. The man was sick and all were suffering with the bitter cold. They had been living on the east side of the Wisconsin river and were try ing to reach Milwaukee, but had lost their bearings and were going direct ly away from the village. The man's foet were frozen and the oxen were ex hausted and refused to move. Mr. West Anally coaxed the oxen to pull the sled into the shelterof a thickly wooded swamp, and began to cut wood to build a fiie. The sound of his axe, heard a Ion? distance on a clear. frosty night, brought a settler from two miles distant to investigate the cause of chopping In the forest at mid night. The party were taken to the settler's cabin and made comfortable for the night, the man's feet being thawed in cold water and treated with ointment so that he lost no toes. But for Mr. West's assistance tho whole family would undoubtedly have frozen alone in the woods that night. In 18.1G, at Walker's Point, while busy about his camp, a drunken Indi an with several drunken friends press ed his attentions upon Mr. West, and the latter having no time to humor him the Indian became abusive and finally attacked him with a knife, stabbing him three times once in the face, once in the body and once in the thigh, the latter a dangerous wound. The other Indians and some bystanders rescued him ' from the infuriated Indian and saved his life, but the scars Mr. West carried to his grave. During all his long life Mr. West never lost bis love for farming and for the soil. All his means were in vested in real estate, mostly farming and suburban property, aside from his water power interests, and as long as his health permitted he supervised a farm In "West's addition" on the southern outskirts of the city, merely for his own pleasure. Some years ago, Mr. West ex perienced a partial stroke of paralysis from which he recovered, but his health has since been so precarious that he has been able to get about but little. Up to the time of his paralytic stroke he was active in public affairs, though never a practical politician and stead fastly refused to accept any public, of fice. In politics he acted with the re publican party from the date of its birth in the little school house In the village of Ripon. Personally, Mr. West was a man of kindly nature, genial at the core, but somewhat reserved in manner. He was public spirited, and Invested more than (100,000 in permanent improve ments In the city of Appleton where his home had ,been for more than half a century. His death is universally de plored in the community where he was. much respected. AN INDIANA FARMER WHO COULD SUPPLY BA88 bINGERS BY THE DOZEN. The extent to which the agrlcultured portions of the middle west are now supplied with modern conveniences may be Inferred from the story which follows: There came a ring at the tele phone In a farmhouse in northern In diana one day last summer, and the farmer himself responded, relates Youth's Companion. "Hello!" he said. "Hello!" said the voice at the other end of the wire. "Can you furnish me a bass linger for to-morrow night?" "A bass singer? Why, yes, I reckon so," answered the farmer laughing. "What do want one fori"' "Because the one we've had up to now is sick. What would be your terms?" "Well, I usually furnish, 'em by the doxen. I won't charge you anything tor one. How do you want him out?" "What are you talking about?" - "Who do you think you're talking to?" "Isn't this the Indianapolis opera house?" "No. This it the Barataria frog farm." PRAIHIH DOGS. I 1 ivory now nntl thru oik? hears uljuiit invasions of grasshoppers Mint stop railroad trains. The old yarn was being unreeled tin other night on the way down to the Atlantic Highlands, when a skeptic put in his uubulief: ! "I have been through several grasshopper epidemics," he said, 1 "and 1 never saw any such thing, 1 but I did encounter an exodus of prairie dogs once on wh;it whs theu a prairie iu Nebraska that held up a long etnigraut train for ' a day and night. "It was during the rush for Pike's Peak. It was no unusual; sight to see miles anil miles of covered wagons wending th.-ir . way like an army toward what was supposed to be the better land. , "We had beeu out about two weeks from Omaha, when one of j the advance guard hurried back along the lino with tho iuforma-! tiou that a drove of prairie dogs , was crossing the road a mile or I so ahead, and that they were so : numerous that the vanguard of j the prairie schooners had beeu j stopped. A temporary halt was : made. "No one supposed it would be j ol long duration, but, daiknessi coming on, we rounded up for j the night. The next morning the line did not move forward, nor did it gain an inch all day. "Then a few of us mounted our horses and rode forward to re connoiter. When we got within a quarter of a mile of the head of the lino we looked forward. The face of the earth was in motion. "As far as the vision extended, north and south, it was the same. They were moving from the north to tho soutli the prairie dogs were. They were so close to gether you couldn't have tossed your hat between them. They did riot seem to be panic-stricken but just moved on and on like a great cloud. "It was the strangest sight I ever saw. Old plainsmen said they never saw anything like it. When they were first seen we turned the dogs in the train loose upon them, but the dogs soon gave out. Maybe there is some sort of affinity between domestic dogs and prairie dogs which prompted the former to strike when it came to exterminating their species. "Anyway, the domestic dogs just gave up the job. As for shoot iug the little brown rascals, that would have been folly. We hadn't the ammunition. "The last night of the great ex odus everybody, tired out with watching it, gave up the job and sought rest wherever it could be found. The next day there was not a prairie dog in sight. We re sumed our journey. As we near ed our destination and the long line of prairie schooners began to disintegrate, men had something else to think about, and the sight was forgotten, I suppose. "But I never forgot it, and now and then occasionally I have met some one who also saw the sight, and as I knew they were men who never drank or dreamed, I satisfied myself that I was not mistaken in what I saw. I reck on it was the grand army of prai rie dogs looking for places to burrow. I know where some of them located, but where the dev il did they come from ?" New York Sun. CABLE LA8T8 A LONG TIME. A section of cable in the Car ribbean sea was recently raised from 1,359 fathoms ot water, where it had lain 30 years. Tests showed its core to be in perfect electrical condition, and the rub ber insulation uninjured. A fear of sulphur from the rubber might injure the copper wire had no foundation. FARMING IN THE SOUTH. The Vuwenger Department or the Illinoln Central Kullroud Compuny W burning monthly circular ouncnrnlns fruit growing' vegetable gardening, "took milling, duirylng, etc, in the SUte of Kentucky, West Tenneaxee, M ippl. nd l.oullun;. Kvery Furnieror Home aoeker, who will forward bin name and addrex to the undnrHlgued. will be mailed free, Clrou larx Num. I, li, 8, 4, and , and other a they are published from mouth to month, E. A. RICHTER, TBAVKUNU 1'ASSKNUKit AC1KNT PARK BUILDING, PITTSBURG PA . To Cure a Cold in One Day . a? r tcm icxcuvq urorao quinine Tatiets. svm icsm koM mm la past la noath. This signature, A MllicbivllvifcK HcALITY. If von tviml it Imt or 11 linum f, Willi Mower or fcin ln'i's on it. tf tiiiri' and into wii,icr'n ro, Tlio Htyln i tli'TP In plenty , Your pui'HO you neeil not empty, For tlio prices uro all you wish to know. The embroidery nnd the luces, To Ret off tlin pretty fneos, Ol the niitiden who must look so very sweet. And the nppli(tie so new, nnd theallovertoo Within everybody's rench. It makes you Inuvrh they are so chenp. Olovcs of the very bent, To match up every dress. Hlack or blue, In fact of any hue, To suit the most facetious, Trliimiinjrs, bruids and linings too, Velvet ribbons shirt waists new. Mrooch pins and shirt waist sots: Corsets, hose ami lute stj le belts, Fans and turn over collurs, (Jombs und hair-pins all sizes und colors: Safety pins nnd spool cotton. Hewing sill: and peurl buttons. I.inen table cloths and towels, Linen crash of various colors, Potted swiss for window curtains, Fancy (joods for cushion covers, All to make a house-wife wonder V.'hut to do w ith her old plunder. Dainty dimity the sweetest, Indiu llnon from cheapest toMearest, And the fancy flowered lawn, All to make the muiden churminir, Last of all unto tlio wiser l'rolit by the nge adviser. T. J. Wiener, Hancock, Md. Rouss Racket Store SOME SPRING BARGAINS. The time is here for cleaning house and getting things in readiness for the summer. We think we are in better shape this spring to save you money than we ever were. Compare a few prices: Table oil cloth 14c yd., roller window shades S,;, ol! window shades with fringe 2,"e, scrim for curtains 4 and iic yd., luce curtains a rice line ;!!), .10, and 8" pair, clothes baskets 50, 00 und "'):, knives and forks 42, 55, iiO and 85c, silver steel tea spoons 7c set, table spoons 14c set, wash boilers i. and Kile, wooden wash tubs (i!) to85e, galvanis ed tubs 45, .VI, and 55c, clothes pins le do., Aunt Lydiu's linen thread 4c a spool, machine thread :ic spool, garden rakes 15, IS and 22c, hoes 20 to 25c, steel shovels 50c, manure forks 3.1 to 45c. The best broom on the market 20 nnd 25e, carpet tacks ;i bbls for 5c or 4 boxes for 5c. Underwear ! Underwear ! To say we have the best is putting it mild. Ladies gauso vests with tape only 5c with lace neck and shoulder II, 10 and 1,'lc, men's balbriggan 2.'! or (5c suit, better 45c each," men's dress shirts 2:!, 45, 4S, (i5 and 00c see them, men's huts in the latest shapes 45c to $1.20, looking glasses 12 to 40c. SHOES! SHOES! SHOES! We have sold more shoes this month than iu any month since we have bee-i in business, and why is this? Simply because we are selling shoes that will give good service for less money than yon can get them anywhere in the coun ty. For instance we sell you a shoe for 1 that you pay 41.25, and one at $1.20 that you pay 1.50 und one at iH.nr that you pay $2.00. The time was when some of the merchants In our town could make the peopln believe that our goods were no good, but that time is past. If you haven't bought any shoes from us why not try us and save 20c on the dollar? Trunks 1 .11(1, 2 10, 2..'15 and $2.05, telescopes, 50, to "5c. In overalls and shirts, we handle tlio Ship pensburg goods. Shirts, 2i to 44c: Overalls 25 to "0c; Punts 50 to 12.110. Clothing, in children's 08 to $1.05. Hoys' piece suits, $1.05 to $.1.25. Men's suits $2 45 to $ 7.25, also, a nice lot of from $0 to $12.50. Call and see them. HULL &. BENDER, oooooooooooo oxxxxxoooxx When You Come to Chambersburg 1 4 Just go up Main street till you come to Queen street. Right at Bloom Bros.' corner turn to the west half a block and you will come to a modern 3-story cream- i colored brick building. the nicest rooms, and toe A ture and its belongings, to be seen in the Cumberland Valley. You will fiud many articles here that you do uotsee in other stores. There has beeu a furniture store on this spot for 75 years and yet there are many of the younger people and some others who don't know it. That is tho rea son wo are telling you about it. About a block farther, on the bank of the Couococheaguo, whose water drives the machinery, you will find Our facto ry ; where with skilled mechanics aud soasoned lumber we can make almost anything you may require. COME TO OUR STORE and look around Much to sou that is interesting eveu if you don't want to buy. We want you to know what it is and where it is. Open till S o'clock in the evening now Saturday till uiue. H. SIERER & CO., Furniture Makers on Queen Street, Chambersburg, Fa. oooocooxxxxx FULTON COUNTY NEWS is the people's paper $1.00 a Year in Advance. samples of men's suits made to order Ilespectfully, PROPRIETORS. McConnellsburg, Pa. Step inside and you will find largest stock of good furni oooxxxxxxco CirN Crip b Two Dcyv. on every mf 00000X0000,0l0000QQil'li ' 0 0.0rJj09J.0J09.0L0X00jx0J0000) 1 ' r ' f f 0. a r 0 jrs xe 0 0 cf JJ jr f 0 EISNERS' 0 .0 We cordially invite Sour friends to see ff 8 our stock Dress Goods in white If from 5 to i from 5 to Scolor Dress Ging-g ghams 6, 10, 12 l2c. 6 A large line of wool- ? genSutings. Silks for g waists and suits. 8 A fine stock of$ gtrimmings of every g Bkind, the largest H 0. J d stock we ever had.ff g Ready-to-wear j Walking and Dress fl g skirts Ironi $1.75 up, g Sf We have a lanyeB stock of Ladies' KnitB Underwear. We will :i 0 n show you the best 5c g g Vest in town, the range 8 is 5 to 25c. g Look g week. Reisners' of Summer 40c; lawns 6 1 7c. Fast for ad next g -SK55nS5J5Sifi?ifi!fz,','' B00T ji0 )
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers