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ter power dam which has since been
replaced by the needle-dam of the mid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
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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,
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When You Come to
Chambersburg
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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
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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.
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$1.00 a Year in Advance.
samples of men's suits made to order
Ilespectfully,
PROPRIETORS.
McConnellsburg, Pa.
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