VOLUME 7. McCONNELLSBURG, PA., NOVEMBER 22, 1905. NUMB ER YELLOWSTONE PARK. Interesting Description of this Beautiful Territory Its Ocysers, Springs, and Other Curiosities. MISS DELLA K. BEEGLE, OF EVERETT. Billings, Mont., Oct. 31, 15105. So much has been written and 6poken about the Yellowstone Park, and yet so much remains to be said, for every one who vis its this groat wonderland, sees and writes something that has i.ot been seen by a previous visi tor, or, at least, did not appeal to him." The Yellowstone National Park is situated in the northwest cor ner of Wyoming, in the heart of the R.-cky Mountains, its bound aries overlap a few miles into Montana and Idaho. Because this United States reserve-is call ed a park, you must not think it is little. The Yellowstone Park h almost as big as tho State of Connecticut. The Park dimen sions are sixty live u.iles east and west and seventy-five miles north and south. No valley within its limits is less than a mile above the sea and tiiere are mountains in and about it over two miles in height. The most curious features pi this region are its geysers and hot springs. The geysers of this region outclass anythiug of the kind in the known world. There are six thousand of them within the Park limits. This region was first discover- ed in 1807 by a man named Colter, a famous hunter. When Colter came back to civilization and told of his discovery the unbelieving hearers derisively called it "Colt er Hell." Other men explored it but their reports were regarded as romances, and it was not un til Professor Uayden made his re port of the marvelous region in 1871, that Congress was induced to reserve the whole region as a public Park. Besides the gey serf, all over the Park can be seen such sights asabsidian cliffs, hills of sulphur, mineral springs, gayly covered basins of inactive geysers, paint pots and geysers. Professor Hayden lias said, "the banks are literally honey combed with springs, pools and geysers that are constantly gurgling, spit . tiug, steaming, roaring and ex ploding. " Theu two hundreds of petrified trees stand like the col umns of a ruined temple along the hlopes of the Amethyst Mount ains. No fence surrounds this part other that the serrated Mountains. 1 he only accessible passes to this wild wonderland are on the north ern and western side of Montana and Idaho, besides the wagon road lrom Cody, on the eastern side. Thus far only one railroad runs to the Park limits. By tak ing tho Yellowstone branch of the Northern Pacific at Living ston, Mont., we reach the Park station at Gardner alter a filty four mile ride. The railroad fol lows the valley of the Upper Yel lowstone Kiver the entire dis tance. This valley is narrow and really is a magnificent natural en trance to the wonderland which li '8 just beyoud, part of it being called, "The Gate of the Mount ains." This gate is a canyon al most a mile long and just wide enough to admit the, road and the river, while the mountains tower perpendicularly to a height of ov er 2000 feet. After passing v throutrh this canyon vo enter in to a valley, for some reason nam ed Paradise Valley, it extends from the mouth of the canyon some thirty miles up the river; it is from seven to twelve miles wid'3. . This valiey has been set tlad by ranchmen lor sweral years and by irrigation the bar ren desert is being converted in to fertile farms. The people in this valley seem uuusually hapDy.: Every summer they pitch their tents In the Park for a few weeks, many of them milking the tour on horseback. It was avery common occurrence OLD TOLLGATE HOUSE BURNED. Dwelling of J. K. Trlllc, on the Ridge, West of Town, Destroyed by Fire. Mr. J. K.Tritle, owner of a farm includiug the old tollgate house on the turnpike at the top of the Ridge west of McConnellsburg, has been up against a streak of hard luck recently. Twoyeais ago last March, his almost new bank barn was burned to the ground, and last Friday morning he lost his house and almost all the contents in the same way. The men were away from home at the time the fire broke out. Mrs. Tritle and two daughters were busy housecleaning, and Mrs. Tntle's mother was visiting in the family. The first to notice anything un usual was the grandmother who noticing smoke driving out from the house remarked to one of the girls : "What does all of that smoke mean?" The girl went out, and in a moment was heard to scream, "The house is on tire !" Sure enough, the whole root on the west side was in a roaring flame, and the women set to work to save as much of the contents as possible. Most of the bedding and wearing apparel was in the upper story, and when an attempt was made to reach that, it was found to be all in flames. Very soon neighbors began to be on the ground and worked he roically to protect the adjoining buildings, and succeeded in sav ing a summer kitchen, where Mr. Tritle's family are now housed. Only one bed, the cook stove, and one other stove, together with a few chairs were saved. Mr. Tritlecarried in the Friends Cove Fire Insurance Company, $300 on the building, and $100 on the furniture. We learn that he iu tends o rebuild at once. The house was erected by the Turnpike Company during the War, and-the tollgate was remov ed to it from tho west side of Scrub Ridge. It was first occu pied by the family of Ellis Hampton, and later by Alex. Mayne, Adam Grissinger, Jacob Rinedollar, respectively and dur ing the last twenty-one years by the present owner, Mr. Tritle. WillBreweraud his sister Mary left last Friday for a few day? vis it among friends in Altoona. to see men and women, boys and girls galloping along on their rid ing ponies over the smooth roads of the Park, seeing free what we easterners must pay for rather dearly. If you enjoy camping, Dext year bring your friends and come out to the Yellowstone National Park, and spend a few weeks see ing tho wonders which t here abound. And at the same time enjoy being away from civilization and the busy whir of business. "So wondrous wild, the whole , might seem, The scenery of a fairy dream. As the train winds in and out, we soon reach Yankee Jim's Cun yon, this is much grander and far more picturesque than the first. The mountains are higher and the gorge in which the river is compressed is narrower. One is int-pired with awo as they ga.e at the immensity of this canyon as the car moves slowly along near its base. Several years prior to the building of this rail road, Mr. Janes George, or bet ter k nown as Yankee Jim, an early prospector and an enterprising individual having constructed a wagon road through the canyon and enjoyed a lucrative business in collecting toll from each visitor to the Park. The Ciunibar Mouutaiu is a conspicuous land mark on the Up per Yellowstone, about three miles from the Park line. An the train passed along its base one has a glimpse of the "Devil's Slide," composed of a reddish colored mineral resembling cinni bar, aud extending up the moan tain 2000 feet. (Coin luued ntixiweak,) SOMETHING MUST BE "DID." Governor Calls Legislature Together in Extra Session. It Is, erhaps, knowa to all our readers by this time that jOovernor Pennyp.icker has called the Pennsylvania, legislature to reconvene in extra session on the 15th day of January. It did not take the old gentleman long, af ter the election was over, to con clude that something had to be done, and to be done quickly. The people, without respect to party affiliation had spoken, and that in no uncertain language. The legislation which the Gov ernor now wants is Personal registration of voters. Legislative reapportionment. To mcrease the interest on State moneys and other remedies of Existing State Treasury Evils. To repeal . the Philadelphia "Ripper." To regulate expenditures lor county bridges. To allow the consolidation of contiguous cities. To abolish fees in the State De. partment. Every bit of this legislation should have been done last win ter. All tho moral force possi ble was brought to bear on the legislature to do the work that the Governor now calls them back to perform. But it was leg islation that did not suit the boss ess, and jf the people had not ns en up in their might now, there would have been no extra session. Extra sessions are expensive. This little job will cost the tax payers of Pennsylvania a half mil lion of dollars. .Each member will get his little $500 salary, $100 in postage stamps, $50 for stationery, and forty cents a mile (one way) for car fare. There are 204 members of the assembly, and HO members in the senate. Their salaries are only a part of the expense connected with the extra session; for it must be borne in mind that there are elev en vacancies, one in the senate, and ten in the house. These must be filled, and it will involve the expense of a special election In all these districts. It has been but a few years since this county held a special election to fill the place made vacant by the death of Dr. Cook. While the Constitution requires that the State hall be reappor tioned into Legislative, Senator ial and Judicial districts every ten years in order that there may be a fair i epresentation of the people, the Gang-controlled legis lature, have ignored the Consti tution and defied the people for many years. It is now thirty one years since the State was ap portioned into Senatorial dis tricts, and twenty eight years since the apportionment into leg islative districts. The power of the Gang has depended much on keeping the districts as they are now. A new apportionment, howev er fairly made, will be to strength en the power of the cities and weaken the country. Conditions have changed sinco the present State Constitution was adopted iu 1873, and there cannot be an ap portionment that will not be pre judicial to the interests of the country districts until there is an amendment to the constitution, so that the representation from the cities could never exceed a given number. Both Philadelphia and Pitts burg will gain lsrgel by a new apportionment, while the couutry districts will be the losers. This is manifestly unfair; and since we have done so long without a "new deal," it would ho better to have the constitution changed he. fore a n.w apportionment ia made. ' , In regard to the legislation reg ulating the placing of State de posits in banks and increasing the amount of interest and otherwiso safeguarding State) funds the Governor has been moved by the recent developments in the break- FAMILY REUNION. Mr. Irvln Hamll s Children Gave Him an Agreeable Surprise Last Saturday. There is, perhaps.no day in the experience of parenis passing down in the afternoon of life, so full of real pleasure, as that which brings" children and grandchil dren together around tho board in the old home. Last Saturday was just such an event in tne experience of Ir vin Hamill, of Knobsville. It was the sixty-eighth anniversary of his birthday, and it occurred to his children that it would be about the proper thing to give the old gentleman a pleasant sur prise. So, all the necessary ar rangements were made, and on that day all the childreu and grandchildren assembled in tho old home, and a delightful time was had. Among those present were: John, Edward, Daniel and Charles Hamil; Maggie Hamil, Mrs. Les lie McGovern and daughter, Nel lie; John Gunnells, wife and son John; Harvey Wible, wile and son Russell; William Hamil, wife and two sons Frank and Paul, aud G.-W. Wagner, Sr., wife, and grandson Rush Wagner. A splendid new suit of clothes was among the other gifts, Mr. Hamill received from his children that day. BIRTHS AND DEATHS. A Law Goes Into Effect in January Which Will Relieve Assessors. After the first of January, eve ry birth and death in the state of Pennsylvania must be reported to the oificers in charge of the dis tnct whe ein it occurs and certifi caties issued by the authorities. The late assemoly appropriated $20,000 for the establishment of a central bureau of vital statistics to be under the supervision of the State Board of Health and have chargeof the State Registration of births and deaths. The State will be divided into registration dis tricts, one for each city, borough or township. This new depart ment will relieve the asseesors of a portion of the work, as hereto fore they have attended to the registration of births and deaths, receiving a fee of five cents for each on p.' A state registrar, a medical practitioner for at least ten years, will be at the head of this department, and a local regis trar wilh preside over each dis trict. All deaths must be prompt ly reported to him and no one can be interred until a death certiti cate has been issued, giving the name and occupation of the de ceased, the cause of death, par ents' names and addresses, etc. Each birth must always be report ed aud a certificate issued. In case of plural births a certificate must be issued lor each child. The local registrar provides all blanks and receives a fee of 25 cents each birth and death re corded. The state registrar gets a salary of $5,000 per year with $8,000 lor four assistant clerks and $5,000 for incidental ex penses. ing of the Enterprise bank. The events since the bank went to pieces and the connection f the Gang with its ruins followed clime ly by the utter repudiation of the Gang by the voters of the State have opened the gubernatorial eyes. The Governor iu his 1 ist mes sage also recommended the aboli tion of the fee system in the State department, aud he makes legis lation of this kind an important feature in his call for an extra session. The fees now enjoyed by the Secretary af the State are variously estimated, anywhere from $15,000 to $110,000. the latter amount being Mini to hnv boon carried away by Secretary W. W. Griest during his incumbency of the office. It is believed that the legisla ture when it convenes will be free to a large extent from the tram mels of the Gang and that it will act upon its own initiative to a large extent. SAVE YOUR TREES Important Public Meeting to be Held for Fruit Growers and Others by Staff Experts at the Court House. Millionsof dollars worth of fruit, fruit trees, ornamental trees and shrubbery ha'e been destroyed in Pennsylvania during recent years by a very small msoctknown as the San Jose Scale. This pest is so inconspicuous that it has de stroyed many orchards without owners knowing the cause of the trouble. It can be detected only by an expert or by one who has seen it, and it can be successfully treated only by special methods which the Division of Zoology, of the State department of Agricul ture, is arranging to demonstrate in each township where this pest occurs. Twenty experts have recently been trained at the Pennsylvania State College'by Prof. H. A. Sur face, State Zoologist, and within a few days one of these trained men is to start through this coun ty inspecting premises for the San Jose Scale, and giving prac tical demonstrations of the best methods of making and applying remedies for it wherever it is found, It is very important tb locate it and check it at once in every township where it now oc curs and prevent its spreading to other region?. A general preliminary meetiug will be held in the Court House, at McConnellsburg, on Tuesday, November 28th, State Zoologist Surface, or oie of his regular as sistants from Harrisburg will at tend this meeting with the expert Mr. R. F. Lee, who is to work in this county during the next month. This meeting is for the purpose of starting the work in this coun ty, determining where the San Jose Scale occurs as far as possi ble, and making appointments for local spraying demonstrations.J AU persons interested are invited to attend and bring specimens of infested fruit and twigs for in spection, hear the addresses, meet the State representatives, help arrange places for orchard demonstrations and practical spraying aud save their trees. The State bears all the expensp. Expert Leo will spray Frank P. Lvnch's plum orchard, near the C iurt House, at the time of the above mentioned meeting. Every body interested, come, see the demonstration and attend the Farmers' Institute. OFF TO AUGHWICK. Belvidere Hunting Club Pitch Their Tents in Aughwick Valley Monday. The Belvidere Hunting Club as sembled at the City Hotel last Monday morning, and proceeded to move to their old hunting camp in Aughwick Valley. Leslie Mc Govern and Samuel Mellott furn ished the team, aud C. P. Car mack had charge i,f the ribbons; The party reached the grounds in good time and all went to work with a will and soon had in jxisi tion their sleeping tents, board ing tent and cook tent. Dinner was prepared by Bert Doyle and Bob Downes; and with the. invigorating mountain air, all hunds sat down with appetites that made the eatables disappear like a dewdrop before the morn ing suu, or a turkey caller before a game warden. We are not informed as to thuir success since that time, but have no doubt that there will bo some thing doin' when they all gstdown to business. The party consists of Leslie McGovern, Jacob W. Mellott, Roe Mellott, Daniel McQuade, Robert. M. Downes, Samuel Mellott, Bert Doyle, ot this vicinity, aud A. D. Reese and Robert Sherry, of Al t'mna Samuel Ro1z, Sr., who carne ovor to this county last Friday re turned to his home near Marion, Fi tnklin couuly, Monday, taking with him hi 4 wife, who had been vUuing among her Fulton coun ty ft tend two wouk. THE FARMERS' INSTITUTE. McConnellsburg, Nov. 28th and 29th; Fort Littleton, Nov. .10th and Dec. Ist. Every farmer should impress it upon his mind that the annual sessions of the Farmers' Insti tute will be held at McConnells burg Tuesday ar'noon and ev ening, and Wednesday morning, afternoon and evening, November 28th aud 2!th, and at Fort Little ton, Thursday afternoon and ev ening, and Friday morning, after niKn and evening November 80th and December 1st. Every farmer in the county that can possibly get away from home at that time should attend these meetings. Thousands of dollars ot publ'c money are spent every year to hold public county insti tutes for our school teachers, and the State thinks the investment a good one. If it pays to spend this money to help our teachers do better work, it certainly pays the State to spend some money in helping the farmer along, espe cially, since the farmer has to foot the bills. There are many farmers in the County who have never attended one of these meetings; and, con sequently, do not know just how much they are missing. Farm ers are not toiling on their farms from one year's end to the other just for the sake of their health, any more than printers, or any other class of people. They hk3 io make money just as well as other people. The farmers in stitute is intended to help them get larger returns for their labor help them to work to a better advantage to point out to them some of the mistakes they are malting, and to give them broad er views of the noble work in which they are engaged. A farmer who had just emptied a bushel basket of corn into a miry, filthy pen for his fattening hogs, complained to a friend who was standing near, that his hogs were not doing well "Perhaps," said the friend "if you were to fix up a trough for them, give them a clean place to sleep, and a clen place to eat their corn, they might do better." And thus it is. Some people think a hog's a hog, that the more mire he has to sleep and wade in, and to root in to get his corn, the better he will thrive, and the more of a hog flavor will the meat have. Arrange your work so you can attend these sessions, and, if, af ter having done so, you will say that you were not well paid for the time and expense, we shall miss our guess. Among the sper.kers that will be present we notice the names of Prof. Meuges, R. P. Kester, Hon. R. F.. Schwartz, Hon. D. H. Patterson, Hon. Jno. P. Sipes, Supt. Chas. E. Barton, Prof. B. C. Lamberson, Ex-Supt. Clem Chesnut, and others.- ' J0SABED LODGE. One of Brush Creek Township'i Most Respected Citizens, Dead. Josabed Lodge, oue of Brush Creek Valley's oldest and most highly respected citizens died at his home near Eminaville, on Wednesday of last week, aged about 70 years. Interment at McKendree church. Mr. Lodge had been in ill health more than a' year, the result of a combination of diseases incident to advanced age. A man ot ster ling integrity, he enjoyed the re spect and confidence of a large circle of friends. His wife diod about three years ago, i Mr. Lodge is survived by a son and two daughters at home Hen ry, Georgia, and Laura; one son, Henry, in the West; and one daughter, Alice, wife of William H. Hoop, of Licking Creek town ship. Johu W. Fields, Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station at Stillwater, Okla., stayed over t ist Sunday with his father, D. T. Fields, of this place, returning home from 'a business trip to , Washington, D. C. 'v ABOUT .PEOPLE Y01KN OW Snapshots at Their Comings and Goings. Here for a Vacation, or Away for a Restful Outing. j NAMES OF VISITORS AND VISITED ! Ma ry B. T ro u t i s v i s i ti n g f r iei id a in Lancaster, Pa. . Urnef Truax and wife spent a day in town last week. Merchant G. J. Mellott of Gem, was a business visitor at the Cou n ty Seat yesterday. J. W. Fraker, of Fort Littleton , called at the News office for a friendly greeting while in town yesterday. Dr. A. K. Davis, of Hut!.outown, spent last Wednesday in McCon nellsburg on professional busi ness; James Hampton of Laidig, re membered the printer in a sub stantial way'' while in town lust Wednesday. M. li. Shaffner, K-q , attended the funeral of Miss Maggie ( lakes at Montgomery, Pa., on Thurs day afternoon of last week. Nelle D.aniels, of this place.ar.d her cousin, Etla Mann, .of Saluvia, left last Wednesday for a trip to Colorado Springs, Colo., aud oth er points in the West. Amos Wilkinson and Samuel Yeaklo, of the firm of Yeakle & Wilkinson, blacksmiths in this place, spent Sunday in Hancock recently. Lizzie Bender returned to her home in this place last week after having had a very pleasant visit among friends in York, Harris burg and New Bloomtield. Mrs. John Barmont and httlo son Paul, of Chambersburg, came over last Saturday and are spend ing a week or two among friends and relatives in tins county. ; P. K. Brandt of Newport, Pa., was the guest of his son-in-law and daughter, County Superin tendent and Mrs. Chas. E. Bar ton over Sunday. Frauk Deshong, wife and little son Ralph, of Fannettsburg, and Miss Newcomer, of Waynesboro, were guests in the home of Jno. P. Sipes over Sunday. Mrs, Thomas B. Stevens, of thic place, spent the past wren with her son, N. H. Stevens; v ah her brothers, - John A. and N. l i. Henry, and with other friends at Clear Ridge. Joseph Snotts aud daughter Alice, after having spent a week very pleasantly among their Ful ton county friends returned to their home in Altoona on Mou day. Elijah N. Palmer of Everett, iiud his sister, Mrs. FIffamy Maun, of Needmoro, have been spending the past week with the family of their brother',' Joseph at Newt u Hamilton, Pa. The Knight of Ashland ami his brother, tlie Knight of Maryland,' were the guests of Judge Hum bert ou Monday or last week aud spent the day huntiug pheasants on the Judge's game preserves at Shenstone. - S. D. Ste.'ens and family are on this side of the mountain this week. Mr. Stevens is visiting Ins mother at Laidig, and Mrs. Stev ens and the childreu, Grace and Harris, are at the home of Mrs. Stevens' mother, Mrs. L. K. Har ris on North Second street. Morse Sloau, who has been in " the employ of the .People's Gas Company in the western part of the State, visited in the homo of bis parents, Thos. F. Sloan and wife from Friday until Monday, and then left for Lexiugtou, Ken tucky, where he will be located indefinitely. O. F. Rexroth, a . prominent commission merchant, of Omaha, Neb., who has been in the east ern states several weeks on busi ness, celebrated the fiftieth anni versary of his birthday by tali; dinner at the Fulton House . his mother. Otto came k n Saturday even nig aud 1 - day noon.
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