VOLUME 7.
McCONNHLLSBURG, PA., JANUARY 17. 1906.
NUMBER 17
THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Another Interesting Letter Prom Mist
Beegle. Tells of a City tbat In Twen
ty Years Grows to a Population
of 73,000.
IMMENSE FIELDS OF GRAIN. INDIANS,
. . President Roosevelt has said
"i never saw two sucli cities any
whore as Spokane and Seattle. If
ray eldest boy were large enough
to be choosing a place i would ad
vise him to locate in one or the
other of these two cities."
.Spokane is situated in the gar
den spot of the Northwest, being
surrounded by country thatyields
abundantly in any agricultural
crop that has beeu tried. No oth
i er section of equal acreage m the
United States yields, or is capable
of yielding, the quantity, quality
or variety of farm products as
does this section. Of all products
wheat is king. One-sixth of the
bread supply jf the United States
might be raised here. From 40
to BO bushels are raised to the
acre. The price of wheat ranges
from 50 to 80 cents pjr bushel
The Spokane country farmer
has the market of the world at his
command. The flour manufac
tured by local mills with a daily
capacity of 10,000 barrels finds its
way to nearly every country on
llio globe. It is a magnificent
sight t i view this country from
height. For miles and miles, or
as far as one's eyes can reach, im
mense fields of waving grain with
here and there a harvester in op
eration are to be seen.
The '.Jalouse country and the
i ak 1 m a Valley ar e es pecially beau
liful. As the train moves along
through the Yakima Valley which
stretches many miles east and
west, as beautiful a valley as eye
ever witnessed, while as far in the
distance toward the west the
handsome snow-cove-ed Mount
Adams stands like a sentinel
guarding this fertile valley where
fruit trees and wheat fields a
bound.
A large proportion of the wheat
Irom these sections is sent to
Spokane where it is made into
Hour. Spokane is one ot the larg
est manufacturing towns west of
Minneapolis. The Spokane Falls
furnishingabundant water power.
Great cities are often situated be
side great waters. It is evident
that the hand of destiny marked
the region around the falls as a
popular city. No wonder the
gloves around the city were the
camping grounds of the aborigin
al Spokane Indians for ages un
known, for a more delightful spot
would be difficult to find.
In twenty-live years Spokane
has grown to be a city of 73,000
people and a steady increase of
7,000 per annum. There is pos
sibly no city in the world of such
rapid and steady growth, unless
it be, Seattle, whose population
shown by a recent directory can
vas was 183,000.
Seattle is most beautifully lo
cated on a dozen lofty .hills over
looking Puget Sound. The city
is almost surrounded by rivers,
lakes and innumerable inlets and
bays of the great arm of the Pa
cific. Although the city is built
on the hills, yet it has the appear
ance of being situated in the heart
of a great amphitheatre with the
lofty ranges of the smow-capped
mountains to form the outer wall.
On all sides the view is a never
ending landscape study, unlimit
ed in variety, never looking the
same, but always offering a grand
expanse of skies, waters, islands
and mountains.
The Indian history that clings
to this city is worth note. It be
ing named for an old Siawash In
diau chief named Sealth. Seat
tle's grandson Moses has written
a history of the ehlef 's daughter
Angeline. He says : "She creep
thro" big woods, tell white men
id Indians sum mountains, kilj
11 white faces. Say her father
hief all Siawash tribes cum in
,wo sleeps with 800 cauoes to Du
wamish river. Bad Indians cum
down mar night tirno, trees uptt
'ui. urro.va l!,y, nm threa d
200 killed, village save, Hi-Yu pot
tatch call it 'Seattle. ' Injuns kike,
no cum back. Chief Sealth 100
years old, die at Port Madison
(near Seattle), Angeline was pet
all town, cottage give her. She
died 90 years old, buried in Yes-
ler plot, Lakeview cemetery.
School childr jn's buy her granite
marker."
This country abounds in Indian
history and mythology. The In
dian myths are quite sweet and
pretty. And 1 think we as Amer
icans should make an effort to
learn more about the once savage
yet noble, race that is fast dying
out of existence. However the
United States government
spending thousands of dollars in
trying to writo a correct history
of all the tribes that once inhabit
ed our land.
Out let us take a peep into some
more places of interest in the vi
cimty of Seattle. A few hours
ride on the Sound northwest
brings us to Bremerton; here are
situated the largest drydocks in
the United States. Four ships
were at anchorage undergoing re
pairs, namely, the Boston, Con
cord, Albany and Celtic. The Gel
tic was used to carry provisions
for the men during the Spanish-
America war in 1898. It costs
$15,000 to anchor a ship at the dry
docks and $500 a day thereafter
until repaired.
Visitors were allowed on board
the Boston and the sailors used
every effort to show us the ship,
The machinery in the hull rf the
vessel was undergoing repairs,
hence we did not see that. The
conning tower is interesting, sit
uate I on the prow of the vessel is
small apartment from which
the captain can, through the moans
of pert holes, see every move of
the enemy without their detect
ing him. A kind of telegraphy is
used here too by which he cau
talk to any compartment on the
ship and give orders. The cap.
tains apartments, dining-aoom,
parlor, etc., are what one would
term magnificent. The sailors
have a library room stored with
many good books.
The boys sleep in hammocks
and must arise and put away their
beds in three minutes. They are
sent ta the "dungeon," as. they
call it, if they fall short of duty.
Their -tank is known by certain
marks of distinction on their
blouse. An appren tice has a bow
knot on his sleeve; a star indicatis
a first class gunner; three stripes
a first class sailor; a chiel wears
brass buttons, he gets $70
month, the highest salary paid;
an apprentice gets $10, the low
est paid. There is much to be
told and learned of our great war
vessls and the way they are man-
fed.
Another trip on the Sound from
Seattle is to Tacoma, another of
Seattle's rivals. Both cities have
large factories, there are possibly
400 in each city. In the vicinity
of Tacoma are the great hop fields
where acres and acres are utiliz
ed In raising hops. The Siawash
es with all the family, even the
lttle papoose strapped on the
squaw s back, are to bo seen in
the hop fields during the picking
season. The Siawash Indians are
a thrifty tribe. They have for
saken nearly all the old Indian
customs, many of thom are
Christians, principally of the
Catholic faith.
Della Bekgle. -
NEW BANK.
Directors Elected Last Wednesday, and
Officers on Friday.
The stock forthe First National
Bank of McCounellsburg having
been subscribed, a meeting of the
stockholders washeldintheCourt
House last Wednesday afternoon.
The following persons were elect
ed directors for t ne year : Peter
Morton, Daniel L. Grissicger, R.
M. Kendall, Jno. A. Henry, John
P. Sipes, L. H. Wible, Ohas. .15
Barton, Geo. A. Harris, and M. R (
Shaffner,
At a meeting of the director
on Friday afternoon, L. II. Wible
was elected president, and M. R.
Shaftner vice president.
STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Wants Vaccination Law Amended.
It Is
an Injustice to Children.
State Superintendent Schaef
fer has taken a vigorous stand as
against the Vaccination Law. He
points out its ghring defects aud
demands prompt amendments.
In his annual report he says :
The law should bo amended so
as to impose the enforcement of
the vaccination law on t ho school
directors, the physicians and the
health officers.
Dr. Schaeffer calls attention to
the opinion of Attorney General
Carson to the effect that no fine
can be imposed ou a parent or
guardian for the non-attendance
of a child that has been excluded
from school because that child
does not present a certificate of
successful vaccination.
"In other words," says he, "if
the children are . to attend school
they must be vaccinated, or have
smallpox, but the statute does
not say that they must be vaccin
ated. An unvaccinated child has
its school rights suspended un
til there is compliance with the
law." Continuing, Dr Schaeffer
says :
"I am m hearty accord with
the suggestion of the Attorney
General that at this point addi
tional legislation is needed. As
the law now stands, the unvaccin
ated child has no school privileg
es and must grow up illiterate
and uuprepared for the duties of
citizenship and civilized life. For,
under the existing statute, the
unvaccinated child is excluded,
not only from the public schools,
but also from the private schools
and Sunday schools. Unless a
private tutor can be provided, ig
norance and illiteracy must be
the doom of the child whose par
ent or guardian neglects or op
poses vaccination.
"The law is further detective
because it punishes the Innocent
for the guilty. The guilt for neg
lect of vaccination belongs to the
parents and perhaps to the phy
Sirian, whilst the child is made to
suffer the double penalty of loss
of schooling and loss of protec
tion against a loathsome disease.
'Either vaccination should be
made compulsory, as in England
and Germany, or some provision
should be made by which educa
tidn becomes possible in the case
of children whose parents will
not permit them to be vaccmated-
"Those who framed the pres
enjt law supposed that the desire
tot schooling would cause all par
ents to have their children vaccin
ated. In this respect the act of
June 18, 1895, has been a source
of disappointment.
WHERK IT FAILS.
"In any future legislation all
power over the admission and ex
elusion of children should be re
stored to the school board, as was
thd case before the act of 1905
was passed. Without doubt the
act was designed not as a peuulty
but as a preventive. But in
this respect, it has tailed because
mere exclusion from tho schools
does not prevent the unvaccinat
ed child from associating with
others upon the streets. No.-
does it compel teachers to be vac
cinated, who are just as likely to
bring the epidemic to school as
the child reu themselves."
Superintendent Schaeffer sum
marizes the defects fn the pros
ent law as follows :
"It has failed to make vaccina
tion universal.
"It has d Borgauized the schools
in communities, wlere there w is
no apparent danger from small
pox. "It does uot exclude unvaccin
ated children from public places,
and yet assumes that they must
be kept a way from otlmr ctnldren.
"It does not i,mpoe vaccina
tion on toacheis but obliges
them toshoulder the odium which
ansua through, the neglect of h
duty for which
parents, phy hi
wans ond health officers should
lie held responsible,
Superintendent Schaeffer says
that "the efforts on the part of
the Heaith Commissioner to mako
BEEF HIDES STOLEN.
James Sipcs & Sons the Losers.
Some
of the Hides Recovered.
In the balancing of books at the
close of business Monday, the
bookkeeper for the firm ol James
Sipes & Sons, butchers and deal
ers in hides, found it necessary to
charge up to lhe"Protit and Loss"
account about a hundred and fifty
dollars, an,d it came about in this
way :
The firm owns a blacksmith
shop adjacent to their butcher
shop, in which they store the
hides from their own killing, and
those they purchase from out
siders. When a quantity have
thus been accumulated, a dealer
comes along and they close out to
him.
Last Friday, as they were thus
disposing of their stock to a city
dealer, they were surprised to
find their pile of hides just twenty-nine
''short."
These twenty-nine had not been
taken all at one time, nut evident
ly one, two, or three at a time.
Not having suspected that they
were losiug any hides, one or two
taken from a large pile would not
attract any attention; ospecially,
as the shop was kept locked and
there was no evidence that the
lock had been disturbed.
The twenty-nine hidesof course,
were not included in the sale, but
the rest were careful examined,
weighed, and rolled ready to bc
tiken to the railroad station for
shipment.
Cal McQuade, who was to haul
the hides to the railroad station.
found that he could not take all of
them Saturday, and left part of
them for Monday morning.
As Mr. McQuade leaves for the
railroad at an early hour each
morning, he was given the key to
the shop, so that ho might load
the hides without disturbing any
of the Sipes people. When Mr
McQuade reached the shop early
Monday morning to load the re
maining hides left from Saturday
he made the discovery that the
lock had been broken and most of
the hides taken
Thomas Sherman is a farmer
residing "over the ridge" about
two miles west of McConneils
burg. On Sunday as he was in
his barn his attention was attract
ed to the corn fodder stored in the
barn, and upon making an invest
igation, found that secreted un
der the fodder were a lot of hides.
This was a surprise to Mr,
Sherman, and not liking the
"looks of things," he notified his
neighbor, Mr. Brant. Upon con
sultation, they concluded that the
hides had been stolen and secret
ed in Mr. Sherman's barn, until
a favorable opportunity to remove
them to market. "If this is their
game," thought Mr". Sherman, "I
will block it," and he removed the
hides to Jiia cellar and placed
them under lock ., and key. The
next morning he sent a messen
ger to to town to find whether any
hides had been taken from either
Mr. Wagner or the Messrs. Sipes,
ooth of whom deal in nidus . As
soon as the Sipes poopl-3 heard of
the find, they secured a wagon,
and in company of Sheriff Alex
ander, went to the homo of Mr.
Sherman, who turned over to
them the missiug hides twenty
four. Up to this time no arrests have
been made, but it Is likely t'.iat
the guilty party will be made to
suffer for their folly.
They are still "out" the twenty-
nine hides . stolen prior to last
Friday.
In remitting a dollar for the
News James A. Funk, who ra
contly moved from Thompson
township to Ohio, says they like
their new home very much.
viiccmntion universal should bo
seconded and hupporttd by all
who are now in any way connect
ed with the public schools. '
He adds, however, that "the
excitement caused by the drastic
enforcement of the vacillation
law has obscured for many minds
the real purposo for which schools
are estublis) ed aud maintained
!
THE SUNFLOWER STATE.
Bennett Palmer In Kansas, Tells of the
Crops, and How They Hunt Rabbits.
Stcxikton, Kas., Jan 5. Mr.
Kditor, if you will permit me, I
will take tins method of talking
to my oldtlme . Fulton county
friends. Of course, some of
them may think I am just full of
Kansas wind, like some other
people that have written from
tnis breezy state, but such is not
the case; I am as well as ever I
was in my life. So here goes for
my story :
I left Mifflin county, Pa., on
tue 27th of last September, over
the"Pennsy," slopped in Pitts
burg a couple of days with my
sister Louise, went on to St.
Louis, where I stayed five hours,
and then steamed on to Fairfield,
I1L In that city aad surround
mg country, I stayed about six
weeks. While 1 was told that
country was very fine for wheat,
I saw but little of that kind ol
grain, the chintz bugs having eat
en it soon after the crop had teen
sown. In the absence of a wheat
crop, farmers were depending on
Redtop grass seed as their main
crop. After the threshing of the
grass, dealers in grass seed
would go around among the farm
ers and take samples of the seed,
grade it, ,nd name a price. The
grading is done by taking a small
quantity, sifting the dirt and
chaff out, then weighing the
cleaned seed, and thus estimat
ing the value of the farmer's en
tire crop. The - scheme is the
same as when a dealer gees to a
farmer and says, "I will not
name you a price on your wheat
as it came from the separator
out we will take a bushel of it,
clean it thoroughly, and I will
pay you in proportion as the
cleaned wheat is to the unclean"-
el." Understand.
i hey claimed to have a good
crop of corn. As 1 saw it in
Wayne county, theaverage would,
I suppose, be twenty-seven to
thirty bushels the acre.
Leaving Fairfield, I arrived at
Hiawatha, Brown county, Kas
on the 11th of November, and
stayed in that section about five
weeks.
tVhilu I did not travel over as
much of the country here as I
did m southern Illinois I find
that the land does not lie as flat
here tis' there. In Illinois the
country. is so flat that you cannot
Hi which way the streams are
Mo ving unless you follow along
them; and then you are not sure
whether -you re going to the riv
er or to the source of the stream,
until you reach one or the other.
I have seen very little of tht land
in Kansas that Is perfectly level,
and yet a native of Fulton county
would not be likely to think it
hilly. You may stand on a little
elevation and see several towns
and cities. They do not seem to
be far away, but if you inquire
about the distance, you are likely
to bu told that they are anywhere
fro n fifteen to forty miles away.
The land is full of little "hol
lows" which affords excellent
drainage.
While in Brown county I tried
my nand "shucking " corn, as
they say here, but I found that I
could only gather about half as
much in a day as those who were
accustomed to the work. The
corn was fairly good, in the fa je
of the fact that it had had but
one rain after wheat harvest.
Some of the crops I Baw, made
about 17 bushels to the acre.
That means about 95 bushels of
shelled corn; for when corn is
spoken of here by the bushel,
shelled corn is always meant.
The growing wheat in. Brown
county looks line, and there is a
big lot of it sowd. One man will
seed tilty acres hero us easily as
twenty five in Pennsylvania. One
man can plant and attend sixty
acres of corn very nicely, but he
must have four horses to do the
work.
Leaving Brown county, I came
to Stockton, Kas , on the 16tb of
December, where I was. met by
my bi other and his wife.
Corn is not as goo a crop here
as in the eastern part of the stale,
yet the farmers are not bad off
for corn They do not build a lit
tle corn crib at the side of the
wagonshed in which to store
their corn crop, like they do In
some places that 1 have lived.
Here it is hauled to a convenient
place on the farm and thrown in
a pile on ihe ground, frequently
as much us live oi six thousand
bushels in a pile. After it is thus
gathered together, they get a big
steam corn3heller, and run the
big pile through it, allowing the
shelled corn to lie in a great heap
on the ground. I have seen
thousands of bushels of shelled
corn lying in heaps on the ground
without any kiud of protection,
whatever, from the weather.
From this statement you will
easily infer that they do not have
the wet weather they have in the
East. A raiu m August and one
the latter part of November are
the only rains since the last of
Jui.e, although that seemed a
plenty.
Having a fall of about four inch
es of snow New Years' night, the
boys decided to have a rabbit
hunt. Being a non-resident, I
took no part in it other than to
drive on j of the wagons. I will
tell you how they hunt rabbits
out here.
On Wednesday morning, the
3d in St., the men gathered at II.
H.. Palmer's, and he and a man
named Frank Wilson chose sides
six men on a side. 1 went
along, out am not included in the
twelve.
They had three men to a wagon
and four wegons, In the hunt.
iney went through pastures,
stubble fields, corn stalks, and
even through fields of corn that
are not husked yet and the side
that killed the. least number had
to give an oyster-supper for the
men in the hunt, including their
families. They will have their
supper this (Friday) evening.
The winning side had in ihe
first wagon 118 rabbits; in the
second 146. The other side had
in one wagon 106; and in the oth
er, 133 making 264 on one tide,
and 239 on the other- a total of
503 in all
Palmer's side came out win
ners, and theirs were the last
teams getting started. His team
was in mote than an hour ahead
of those of the other side, and yet
they lost in the game. There was
one skunk killed, and I do not
know how many quail as they
are not allowed to kill quail nor
prairie chickens.
They killed mostly small rab
bits, or cottontails, as they call
them' them here, while there was
quite a number of Jack rabbits.
I hey will weigh seven or eight
lbs. each Those Jacks are fine
sport for any one that is a good
shot with a rifle. They are about
the size of a large cat, or a little
bit larger.
I have seen two coyotes. They
looked to me like a gray fox.
The prairie-dog, from what they
tell me, is a little larger than a
fox1 squirrel.' .
S. B. P.
Mrs. Catherine Hockensmith.
Mrs. Catherine Hockensmith.
widow of Samuel Hockensmith,
deceased, died January 11th, and
was buried Saturday. January
3th. It is thought she died as
the result of a stroke. She was
a consistent member of the M. E.
church for the pastseventy years.
She died in the faith she embrac
ed m her youth. She chose as
her funeral text II Tim. 4 : 7.
' The funeral sermon was preach
ed by Rev. S. J. Pittinger, of the
M. E. church. Funeral services
were held it the house at 10 o'
clock and interment in the fami
ly cemetery near Andover.
Had she lived until March 17,
1906, she would have been eighty
nine years old.
' S. J. P.
'! Our old friend Davia Lamber
son of Ilus tontowu, was a wel
come cdler yesterday.
THE WORK ROAD TAX.
How a Township May Proceed to Abol
ish It, and , Get the Benefit of the ,
.State Aid.
TOO LATE TO DO ANYTHING THIS YEAR
Under the new law providing
for three supervisors, townships
desiring so to do, may abolish the
work tax, and by so doing, re
ceive fifteen per cent of the a
mount of road tax collected in
said township from the State.
The method of procedure is as
follows :
A petition of not less than twenty-five
taxpayers of the towuship
must be presented to the court.
The Court theu authorizes that
the matter shall be submitted to
the voters of the township at ihe
next February election. Thirty
days public notice prior to said
election must be given.
Inasmuch as nothing has been
done to secure th change, it. is
too l ite for this year, and town
ships desiring the change must
get in shape to submit it at the
February election of 1907.
FORMER TAYLOR TOWNSHIP BOY.
Writes From Benedict, Nebraska Under
Date of January 9th.
Fulton County News: I
send herewith one dollar to keep
the News coming another year.
I still see so many Hems of Inter
est to me iu your columns that I
do not think 1 can do without the
paper. Besides the news from
the old home friends in Taylor
township and elsewhere In the
county. I often see correspond
ence from former residents who
are scattered over the great West,
and although I am unacquainted
with the writers, in most cases,
yet I rend with interest what they
have to say. For instance, lam
always pleased to see a letter"
frjm Rev. Geo. B. Shoemaker, of
Eldora, Iowa. Again, I saw last
week a letter from John H. Wln
terof somewhere in tueSunflc wer
State. I presume he is the same
Mr. Winter who was county su
perintendent when I was a school
boy 35 or 40 years ago. if so, ho
will no doubt remember Forest
Grove school in Taylor township,
and can perhaps recall s'oino of
its teachers; although, ot ioui so,
he will not remember any of the
boys and girls who were pupils.
Ihese are only examples of the
many features that make iho
News a welcome visitor in the
homes of its widely separated
readers.
I can safely say without flattery
that the News is as good a paper,
in every way, as county papers
usually are in counties of many
times the sizo of old Fulton.
We are having a fine winter here
in Nebraska, but there is ample
time yet for all the cold weaiher
we care 'to see. We'had a lew
cold days in the beginning of De
cember, but had not oni storm iu
the month.
We had plentiful crops of 'every
thing except fruit, and had a
moderate amount of that except
peaches.
You are at liberty to throw this
in the waste basket (all but the
dollar) if it does not entirely suit
you I would always rather road
letters than write them.
Yours truly
D. W. Baker.
The J. H. Winter meutioned
above is a brother of lliraiul, the
county superintendent. -Editok.
Licensed Undertaker.
H. S. Daniels, of Harnsonville,
hag received from the State board
of undertakers, his license and is
now a regular licensed undertak
er of this State. JJo was in town
yesterday and' registered. Hav
ing now complied with all the re
quirements of the late law, Mr.
Daniels of course, intends to re
main in the undertaking busi
ness. D. B. Naue, of jChaiuL ":
has reau in tr.-.u n I