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VOLUME VI.
SALISBURY.
ELK LICK POSTOFFICE,
PA, THUR
SDAY,
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MARCH
1900.
NO. §.,
is
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ments.
Your Attention
s called to cur large stock of goods in all depart-
> have many great bargains.
DRY GOODS! mst
5 : We have a nice line of Dress Goods, Silk, Satin
pd and Velvet Waist Patterns, Calico from 44 to 6 cts,
3 Lancaster Ginghams, Chambrays, Cheviots, Percales,
Wrapper Goods, Lining of all kinds, Muslins of all
grades. Only a few Outings left.
J J
We carry a full line of Notions. Fine Table Lin-
1 en and Napkins, Table Damask in red, blue and
white, Lace Curtains and poles, Sheets, Pillow
Cases, Toweling and Towels, Lace, Embroideries,
Braids and Trimming of all kinds, Heavy and Dress
? Gloves, Umbrellas, Combs, Brushes, Water Bags,
Fountain Syringes, Nursing Bottles and Iittings,
Toilet Soaps and Perfumery.
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A good line of black and blue Worsted Suits,
nicely made up ; fancy Check Suits of all patterns;
Spring Overcoats in light and black. A few heavy
Overcoats and Men’s Suits left that are going at
half price.
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LADIES WRAPS! >»
We have clegant Royal Blue, Gray, Red and
Black Spring Capes, also Ladies’ tailor-made Suits.
We are selling heavy Coats and Capes at special
low prices.
mW) Po,
: SHOES! 2mm
A full line of Men's, Women's, Misses’, Boys’ and
Children’s Heavy and Dress Shoes. Felt-lined and
Fur Goods at cost.
'S
HATS AND CAPS!
Elegant styles of oy: Soft Hats and Dress
: Caps. Fur and Heavy Caps at cost.
! TE TC Tr 3] YD 13 Ct
DRUGS, QUEENSWARLE, GROCERIES!
i A full line of Patent Medicines and Ixtracts al-
Lo ways on hand. An elegant assortment of Glass and
i Chinaware. Handsome 100-piece Dinner Sets, Bed
Pans, ete. Fancy Groceries, Flour, Feed, Meats,
Fish, Potatoes, ete.
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If YOU att
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d AL al
i" try a sack of LICHLITER’S GOLDEN LINK
FLOUR,
gives the
Best Satis
of any
Preserver of health.
Runs so light.
: So easy to learn.
Sews so fast.
: Wheeler & Wilson
Sewing Machine
Rotary Motion and
Ball Bearings
ony
Purchasers say :
“It runs as light as a feather.”
“¢“It turns drudgery into a pastime.”
“The magic Silent Sewer.”
MANUFACTURED BY
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Bridgeport, Conn.
i Send for Catalogue.
it
i For sale by Rutter & Will,
i MevERSDALE, Pa.
and you
)
Flour we
S.A. Lichhiter,
Life istoo short and health too pre-
cious to waste with a slow, hard run-
ning, noisy machine, when you can
have the New Wheeler & Wilson.
will have it. : This Flour
faction
have ever handled.
Salisbury, Pa.
ave you ever used
DAVIS” MECHARICS SQAP?
UNQUESTIONABLY
$$ The Greatest Dirt Killer.”
20Cc. a Box of 3 Caizes.
If not kept by vour dealer, send
us his name.
Send Z0ec. For devge full-sized cake.
3 ot ad Its greatest
friends are
Mechanics,
Machinists,
Printers,
inv igraies
kin.
For Toilet.
| Agents wanted
n
MP every locality.
he DAVIS SOAP pil, Makers,
W. IH. KooNTZ. J. G. OGLE
KOONTZ & OGLE,
Attorney=-Ai-T.aw,
SOMERSET, PENNA.
Office opposite Court House.
Fraxcis J. KOOSER. ERNEST 0. KOOSER.
KOOSER & KOOSER,
Attorney=-At-T.aw,
SOMERSET, PA.
. BERKEY
Atltorney-at-I.aw,
SOMERSET, PA.
Office over Post Office.
R. E. MEYERS, DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
Attorney-at-T.aw,
SOMERSET, PA.
Office opposite Cook & Beerits! Store,
A. M. LICHTY,
Physician and Surgeon,
SALIS3URY, PENN’A.
Office one door east of P. S. Hay’s store.
O. E. JARRETT,
LEADING WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER,
Salisbury, Pa.
All work neatly and substantially done
on short notice.
Spectacles for 50 fs.
Have your eyes
correctly fitted by a
practical optician,
wide experiece.
W.GURILILY,
Meyersdale,
0.
The Jeweler and Optician.
Pa.
UNDERTAKING AND EMBALMING
ei F3 TN en ee
S. LOWRY & SON.
Long practical experience has espec-
ially fited us for this work.
hanking you for past favors we so-
licit a continuance of the same.
SS. J.owry & Son. - Balishury, Pa.
D ia C
Digests what you eat.
Itartificially digests the food and aids
Nature in strengthening and recon-
structing the exhausted digestive or-
gans. It isthe latest discovered digest-
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can approach it in efiiciency. It in-
stantly relieves and permanently cures
Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn,
Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea,
Sick Headache, Gastralgia,Cramps,and
all other results of imperfect digestion
Prepared by E. C. DeWitt & Co., Ch!cago.
Sold by IMedicine Dealers.
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THE MILD POWER CURES,
HUMPHREYS’
That the diseases of domestic anil.
mals, Honses, CATTLE, SHEEP, Docs,
Hogs, and POULTRY, are cured by
Humphreys’ Veterinary Speci=
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send messages by telegraph, or ecw with sewing
machines. It is as irrational to bottle, ball and
bleed animals in order to cure them, as itis to
take passage ina sloop from New York to Albany.
Used in the best stables and recommended by
the U. 8. Army Cavalry Oilicers.
£Z~500 PAGE BOOK on treatment and careof
Domestic Animals, and stable chart
mounted on rollers, sent free.
VETERINARY
Sree Congestions, Inflammation,
A.A. | Spinal Meningitis, Milk Fever.
B. B.—Strains, Lameness, Rheumatism
C.—Distemper, Nasal Discharges.
D.—Bots or Grubs, Worms.
E.—Coughs, Heaves, Pneumonia.
F. F.—Colic or Gripes, Bellyache.
G.—Miscarriage, Hemorrhages.
H.H.—Urinary and Kidney Diseases,
I. I. —Eruptive Diseases, Mange.
J. K.—-Diseases of Digestion.
Stable Case, with Specifics, Manual,
Vet. Cure Oil and Medicator, £7.00
Price, Single Bottle (over 50 doses), - 60
SPECIFICS.
Sold by Druggists; or Sent Prepaid anywhere
and in any quantity on Receipt of Price.
HUMPHREYS’ MEDICINE CO,
Corner William nd John Sts., New York.
AHUM PHREYS
HOMEOPATHIC 2 8
SPECIFIC No.
In use 30 years. The only successful remedy for
Nervous Debility, Vital Weakness,
and Prostration, from over-work or other causes.
$1 per vial, or 5 vials and large vial powder, for
Sold by Drugzists, or sent postpaid on reeclpt of pri
HUMPHREYS’ MEDICINE CO,
Corner William and John Sts,, New York.
CHICAGO -
Go To ~~» The Cel choate ed € i
JOHN W. RINGLER, Hearse Lift Callivaler.
—For Your—
COAL « HAULING
AND DRAYING.
Prompt service, square dealing and rea-
sonable prices have built up a large patron-
age for me, but I can still take care of more.
Term=:—Cash or settlements at end of
each month, when I am required to square
my coal billat the mines.
Respectfully,
JOHN W. RINGLER,
SALISBURY. DPA
Fistablished
Pr. HAY,
—DEALER IN—
i Notions,
& Hats and Caps,
Boots and Shoes,
GROCERIES,
ENSWARE, TOBACC(
CIGARS, ETC.
SAIJISBBURY,
.
QUEE
Dry Goods
PA.
B.&0.R.R.SCHEDULE.
WINTER ARRANGEMENT, IN EFFECT
I SUNDAY, NOV. 19, 1859.
Under the new
be but four daily
it Meyersdale.
angement there will
senger trains stopping
They will be due as follows:
WEST BOUND.
No. 47, Daily M.
No. 49, Da M.
No. 4¢ Daily . 4:48 PL ML
No. 14, Daily L304 A. Mm.
Salisbury Hack Iane,
SCIIRAMM BROS. Proprictors.
SCHED Hack No. 1 leaves Salis-
). bury at 8 z n ing at Meyer tle at
930 nom. Returnit rsdale atl
p- m. arriving at N p.m.
HACK No. 2 It ves Si u p. mM. ar-
riving at Mey t . m. Returns
ing ledves Me rsdale at 6 p.m, arriving at
Salisbury at 7,50 p. m.
you loosen tlic catch
the Horses do the rest.
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ne
ihipner Plow Bu.,
Sole Manufacturers. ;
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fhe
Defiance, C.
Just Teottved, ot Tur Stir
nice line of Visiting Cards.
office, =»
FE WEDDING Invitations at Tm
Star office. A nice new stoek just
ceived. tf.
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QUAY’S MACHINE
GONE TO SMASH
Philadelphia Leaders in Revolt
Break Away From the Ma-
chine Combination.
MACHINE DEFEATS IN STATE.
Penrose Mnkes a Scene in the Sen-
ate and About Ruins Quar's Case.
it Is
Weeks
Now Postponed For Two
and There Is Little Chance
of His Being Seated at AlL
(Irom Our Own Correspondent.)
March 20.—The rumors
of a smashup in the Quay ring in
Philadelphia were more than verified
in the events in that city during the
past week. The machine has practi-
cally gone to pieces and the general
demoralization is about as complete
as it was when the famous city com-
Harrisburg,
bine broke up several years ago, and
David Martin went one way and Israel
Durham, Senator Penrose and M. S.
Quay went another.
Teday State Senator David Martin
is the one man in Philadelphia whose
political supremacy is not endangered
Ly dissension among his followers.
Mayor Ashbridge is united with him,
and the best evidence cof this is shown
in the mayor’s desire to have Senator
Martin succeed the late Congressman
Harmer in the lower house at Wash-
ington. As for the Durham-Quay com-
bination, it has gone to smash, and of
the Quang combination that formerly
existed among the ward leaders al
that now remain are Insurance Com-
oner Durham and Councilman
McNichol .
Last weel
Harbor Master Klemmer,
one of Qu appointee Charles I".
Kindred, the special agent of the Phila-
delphia and Reading railroad, another
of Quay’s former ward leaders, and
Boss James B. Anderson, of the Fifth
ward, Philadelphia, cpenly revolted
and declared their allegiance to the
machine at an end. Subsequently they
made ovetures to Senator Martin for
a new rearrangement of political af-
fairs in Philadelphia.
REVOLT AGAINST QUAY.
That this break means war to the
knife was shown at the meeting of
Philadelphia councils on Thursday
ast, where the two factions, led re-
spectively by Councilman McNichol
and Harbor Master Klemmer, locked
horns befere an immense crowd gath-
ered there to witness the outbreak.
Three of Kindred’s Reading railroad
bills were slaughtered by his former
friends. The strength ot the factions
was shown by 45 votes for Kindred to
6¢ for McNichol. Thus it will be seen
that the rebellion of Kindred is a very
scrious one to the Quay ring in Phila-
delphia and means its pra al ruin.
On the same day that tt d
was happening to the machine in Phil-
adelphia a worse di ter was hap-
pening to Mr. Quay in Washington.
Senator Penrose, who is in charge of
the Quay case, in behalf of Mr.
made the worst break that any sena-
tor on the floor of that body has made
since the time of the memorable out-
breaks of Riddleberger, of Virginia.
PENROSE ENRAGE
Senator Penrose endeavored to se
cure a date for a vote on the Quay
case. he senate was not willing to
teke up the matter, and this no e tha
only senator from Penasylvania very
and he proceeded to make a
strong protest against what he term-
ed the dilatory practice of the oppovi-
ticn. It was an ugly charge to make,
and brought Penrose into direct col-
lision with Senator Gallinger, of New
Hampshire. CGallinger was charged by
Penrose with having said that he did
not expect to speak on the Quay case.
As a matter of fact the New Hampshire
senator will make a strong speech
against the seating pf Quay.
Penrose said, speaking of Senator
Gallinger, “He distinctly informed me
that he did not expect to speak and
that he did not think he would. He
may have changed his mind. I know
the senator may have become so inter-
ested in the earnestness of the debate
on this question that he may have
changed his mind and that his inten-
tion may now be to speak, but I as-
sert emphatically when 1 questioned
him upon the subject he stated he did
not expect to speak.”
THE LIE PASSED.
Senator Gallinger sprang to his feet.
“TI assert empha he shouted
angrily, “that the senator from Penn-
sylvania does not state the truth. The
senator did come and interrogate me
somewhat imperiously about the mat-
ter and I told him it was a matter of
doubt in my mind whether T would
speak or not. This is precisely what I
said to the senator, and I shall exer-
cise the privilege to speak or not to
speak as I see proper, and I shall cer-
tainly not be instructed by the senator
from Pennsylvania.”
Mr. Penrose replied hotly:
“lI do not know whether it is that I
did not state the truth or that the
senator from New Hampshire did not
intend to tell me the truth. If he did
not te'l me the truth it could not
expected that I could convey to this
body a correct statement of what he in-
tended to do.”
Mr. Gallinger—“That is unmanly”—
Mr. Penrose—*“It is no more unman-
I> than what you are sayir
Mr. Gallinger—*“And beneath my
serious notice. I have stated precisely
what I said to the senator, and I stand
upon that record.”
The senate was in a violent commo-
tion, and it looked as if a personal en-
counter would be the result, but the
matter passed over and no further in-
cident occurred until Senator Pen
encountered Senator Burrows, who is
Tending the opposition to Quay, in a
nate cloak room som? time after.
The Philadelphia Record’s account of
what occurred there is as follows:
ANOTHER ENCOUNTER.
“Penrose taxed Burrows with having
Jie
given an advanced cop
he intends to deliver
quay to the correspor ut of the Phils
wdelphia North American. Burrows de-
eec 7
of the
st
nied that he had given a copy of his
speech to the correspondent.
“ ‘But I know you have given him a
copy of it, for he has said so,” Penrose
sulleniy replied.
# “Well, Which do you prefer to be-
lieve, me or the correspondent?’ in-
quired Burrows.
“I prefer to believe the correspond-
ent,” was the reply.
“ “Very well,’ said Burrows, flushing
up, turning on his heel. ‘But I again
tell you I have not given the corre-
spondent a copy of my speech.’
‘“ ‘Ch, you're a liar,” grow]
as the Michigan senator moved’ indig-
nantly off. Whether the Pennsylva-
nian intended Burrows to hear or not,
the latter did hear, but tock no notice.
“Senator Penrose went to Burrows
and apologized. saying the debate in
be |
| that presides
the Chamber had s6 worked him up
that he hardly knew what he was do-
ing, or something to that effect.
“The result of these encounters was
that the Qua was about ruined
by Mr. Penrose’s action. A warm scene
occurred when Mr. Quay and Senator
Penrose next met, and there is general
chagrin in the Quay camp over the
outbreak in the senate. On the follow-
ing day, Friday, Senator Hoar got the
senate to agree to take up the Quay
case in two weeks from today, Tues-
day, which will be the 3d of April. The
case, however, will have no additional
advantages by the Hoar motion. and it
is, therefore, not as far along as it was
before. In fact, the leading papers of
Philadalphia and of Pennsylvania
agree that Quay’s chances of getting
into the senate this session are as
small, if not smaller, than they have
ever been.”
On Saturday last primaries were held
in six counties, in four of which dis-
tinct anti-Onay victories were achieved
agai the ring. In Lackawanna coun-
ty ex-Speaker John R. Farr, who be-
came notorious by his rulings two
vears ago, was defeated for re-election
by an anti-Quay candidate. In Frank-
lin county W. C. Kreps, who was the
Quay chairman of the bribery investi-
gating committee, was a candidate for
re-election by the machine, but so
overwhelming was the opposition that
Kreps was compelled to withdraw from
the fight. Two anti-Quay members of
the legislature and an anti-Quay candi-
date for the state senate were elected.
In Cambria county two anti-Quay leg-
islators were nominated. It was a
magnificent victory and a rebuke to
the ring.
~~
Wirar’s the difference between Mas-
sachusetts and Kentucky? Massachu-
setts is a great leather manufacturing
state and produces boots and shoes,
while Kentucky is noted for its distill-
eries, and produces shoots and booze.
-
Tie Burr Oak (Kan.) “Herald” shows
that the United States mint at New Or-
leans coins $50 a minute, or $24,000 in
cach working day. Working 300 days
in the year this mint can coin just
enough money to buy the Jewell coun-
ty crops, which last year footed up to
$7,074,305. All the mints in the country
can not coin the money represented in
the crops of 15 Kansas counties.
Lucirer Syrrin says in cunching the
treasury shortage there is danger of
traps. That’s a fact, Lucifer, there are
traps, and some of your own political
kidney are liable to get pinched in them
before this thing is all over. But don’t
think for a moment that anybody is go-
ing to be afraid of the old rattle-trap
over the Meyersdale Scull
organette. We know full well that
some of you old besmirched political
reprobates are very ticklish when that
treasury shortage is mentioned, and
you would like very much to frighten
aster |
| even though
people into silence about it; but rest
assured that all your bluffs will be
speedily called. Oh no, Lucifer, an old
| jackass like you can’t frighten anybody,
you should don a lion’s
skin instead of the lyin’ sheet you pre-
side over.
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Tiere is no com aiation that has
done so much for the welfare of Ameri-
can industries and American working-
men as the American Protective Tariff
League, an association composed of the
brightest minds in the United States
on industrial questions. It stood
for years as a bulwark against the en-
croachments of foreign labor and its
products the American people.
Its sole aim is the protection of our
home industries, and its power for good
is felt in all manufacturing circles.
Congressman Thropp was one of the
league’s organizers, and is now one of
its vice presidents, a position he has
merited by his ability. As long as
American industries are protected and
defended, so long will our workingmen
prosper. It is these friends and pro-
tectors of our industries that we need
to defend us in the halls of Congress—
men who have graduated from the
workbench. mill, mine, furnace and
farm, who know by actual personal con-
tact what our people and our industries
need, sturdy and practical men who be-
lieve more in doing than in theoretical
experiment. This class of men must be
given the preference over those who
follow polities for pay, if the prestige
of our people is to be maintained. —Sea-
ton Herald.
has
upon
Colbornism at the Poor House.
From the Berlin Record.
“Lacey” Colborn’s popularity as a
manager of poor directing Poor Diree-
tors is well known, as he has “worked”
them for fifteen years.
This year he successfully manipula-
ted the county Auditors—willing, sub-
alled report is an ad-
show nothing.”
jeets—as the so-¢
mirable piece of
The debtor side shows but two items.
Why not let the people know at what
prices you sold thé {imber off the farm?
We shall in all pbabilty take that up
in another issue.
The report shows only $15,665.38 ex-
pended during the year, but “Lucy,”
did not the Poor Directors, by your
management, create a debt of $5,000
against the county that is yet unpaid?
This is three times is much money as
it cost to run the County Home at the
beginning of your reign, which was
about 1886. The salary bill is now $1,-
755, of which the poor Poor Board re-
It is double the sal-
aries paid when you began your rule,
to say nothing of the etectera, but the
etcetera should receive attention laters
and it will be interesting reading if a
few more merchants “peach.” This
managing a whole poor directing Poor
Board, the half dozen employes, four
seore paupers, besides negotiating the
sales aud Bind and writing the
annual address and reading it to the
Grand Jury, and getting it published
by the county at an expense of $100, is
enough keep an industrious man
busy. Yet reports have it, “Luey?” still
finds time during the year to get in
ceives only $150.
to
3. Pentiosd
training a condidate for Poor Director
for the foliowing year, and that this
year his candidate is.a brother-in-law
“of William Henry Miller, late a mem-
ber of State Legislature and the
holder of several Quemahoning
the
town-
ship oflices, as his biography, as
{in Smull’'s Hand-book
man is “Lucey,”
states
worker”
asa’
FOR OUR WESTERN READERS.
New Villages o of Somerset County—
The County’s New Metropolis.
Some time ago one of our western
subscribers wrote a letter to the editor
of this paper in which he said:
“I wish you would give us old Elk
Lickers a description of the new towns
that have sprung up since we have left
those parts. Where and how much of
a place is Windber, Niverton, St. Paul,
Boynton, Grassy Run, Tub, Chestnut
Spring and Keystone Mines?”
In order to oblige the many old Elk
Lickers who have “emigrated to many
localities in the West, where they
eagerly read Tur Stag, their favorite
paper,every week, we will comply with
the request made, trusting that the in-
formation given will be of much inter-
est to our many western [riends and
patrons.
WINDBER,
Windber is situated in Paint town-
ship, at the extreme north end of the
county, just about one mile south of
the Cambria county line. It is a coal
town situated on a spur of the Penn-
sylvania railroad. Although Windber
is scarcely three years old, it is already
the metropolis of Somerset county, be-
ing at least twice as large as Meyers-
dale and Somerset, and having at least
three times as many business houses as
any other town in the connty. The
town is not yet incorporated, but will
be a borough in the very near future.
Windber has some splendid buildings,
also has electric light and water works,
and an electric railway connecting it
with Johnstown will be in operation
in the very near future. Windber is
about eight or nine miles south of
Johnstown, and is located in one of the
richest coal fields in the state. Ilere
are located the Berwind-White collier-
ies, the most extensive soft coal mines
in the world. All the coal is mined by
machinery, shot down and loaded by
men and boys, then hauled out by elec-
tric motors that run all through the
mines at a high rate of speed. The
population of Windber is variously
estimated at from five to seven thou-
sand, and the town bids fair to double
in population within the next two years,
as an immense amount of building is
going on continually.
NIVERTON,
This village is located at the terminus
of the Salisbury railroad, which is in
Elk Lick township, not more than afew
hundred yards from the old Thomas
Lee homestead. Here are located the
splendid coal mines of W. K. Niver &
Co, who have headquarters in Balti-
more, Md., Boston, Mass. and Syracuse,
N.Y. The coal at these mines is also
mined by machinery, and the openings
are on the Elias IHershberger farm.
Niverton has a large company store
and a grain and feed store, the latter
being operated by Eli Stanton & Sons,
of Grantsville, Md. The population of
Niverton is about 100. The village is
less than two years old.
Sr. Pavr.
This is a little mining and agricul-
tural village built up around the wi
helm or St. Paul Reformed church, 23
miles west of Salisbury. Keim post-
office is located here, and the village
alto has a store and a blacksmith shop.
The population of this village is not
ver 50.
Boyxrox.
This is a village located in the viein-
ity of Livengood’s mill, one mile north
of Salisbury. It is scattered about on
both sides of the river, but the post-
office, the two village stores, a large
planing mill and most of the village is
located on the old Boyd farm. This
hamlet was started by the Dill-Watson
Lumber Co. in 1879. Its population is
about 200. The inhabitants are chiefly
coal miners.
Coan Rus,
This village was called Grassy Run
until a few years ago, when a post-
oflice was established and the name
changed to Coal Run. The village is
located in Elk Lick township, about 115
miles northwest of Salisbury. The vil-
lage begins ai the old Jacob Lichty
farm, just north of Flog Ilill, and it
extends about *; of a mile up the val-
toward the Wilhelm church. Coal Run
is strictly a mining village, and it is in
the very heart of the rich Elk Lick
coal region. llere are the extensive
mines operated ‘by the Merchants Coal
Company, also the W. J. Chapman
mines, the Fairview mines, Rees and
Meager mines. Of all these collieries
the first mentioned are the most exten-
sive in the entire region. They employ
a great many men, and also use mining
machines, The
village has two stores, three schools
and a total population of about 300.
(Tes P.O.)
electric haulage, ete.
CHESTNUT SPRING
This is a little agricultural village in
Elk Lick township, about 4 miles south-
west of Salisbury. The village has a
store, blacksmith shop, school house,
Mennonite church, ete. The popula-
tion is about 50.
MNEs.
These mines are located in Elk Lick
township, about midway between Sal-
isbury and Meyersdale. From here
the first coal in the Elk Lick region
was shipped to tide-water markets.
These mines began shipping coal about
KEYSTONE
the year 1873. Shipments were made
via the Keystone narrow gauge road to
Keystone Junction, about two miles
east of Meyersdale, where the coal was
dumped from the narrow gauge ears
into the cars of the B. & 0. Railroad.
The Keystone mines were abandoned
about 1880, and they remained idle un-
til last year, when the Continental Coal
Company, of Baltimore, took charge of
them. Large shipments are now being
made from old Keystone over the Ral-
isbury railroad, and the narrow gauge
is a thing of the past. The Continental
people have built a great many
houses on the opposite side of the
from their works, and they have named
the village Glen MeLaran.
is situated in Summit
new
iver
The village
township. ht
has one store and a population of about
150.
RoMaxta.
This village is between Glen MeLar-
an and Meyersdale, in Summit town-
ship, on the Salisbury railroad. It is
on the west side of the river, near Shaw
Mines, and has a population of about
150.
WEST SALISBURY.
This village is just across the river
from Salisbury borough. The two towns
are built up together, with only the
Casselman river between, which stream
is spanned by two good wagon bridges.
West Salisbury is practically a part of
Salisbury, although it is not included
in the corporate limits. The Salisbury
railroad depot is located here, also the
Standard Extract Works, a foundry, a
grain elevator, a hotel, a blacksmith
shop, a shoe shop, a bottling works and
several stores. The village has three
schools, a Catholic ehurch, and a total
population of about 300. A post-office
has just been granted for West Salis-
bury, and the same will be in operation
within a few weeks.
Now then, we have given more in-
formation than our western friend has
asked for, and we believe the same will
be read with much interest by our
western readers, of whom Tir Star
has a large number.
THE TREASURY SHORTAGE.
“The Star” Has Forced the ‘“Nig-
ger” Out of the Wood-pile, but
the End is Not Yet.
readers remember how Tue
Star served notice on the Scull ring
that theshortage of Ex-Treasurer Win-
ters must be made good within a very
short time, and that unless the warn-
ing was heeded the editor would bring
legal proceedings and try to force the
payment of the money due the county.
Well, the old gang only sneered about
it at first, and they tried to smooth
things over by making it appear “that
the county was not in danger of losing
anything. But that didn’t quiet either
the tax-payers or Tue Svar, and when
the old gang found out that Tur Star
meant business, some of them began to
get very nervous.
Tune Star meant just what it said,
and when the editor last week went
over to Somerset to carry out his pur-
pose, the old gang got a hustle on, and
Mr. Winters eashed up to Treasurer
Dumbauld. But the end is not yet.
There are a few more Africans in the
wood-pile that have some bearing on
this case, and if you just keep your eye
on Tue Srar you will see them forced
out when the proper time comes, and
then there will. be more squirming in
this county than you ever saw before.
Lucifer Smith last week published
what Le pleased to eall “the truth about
that shortage,” but people who are fa-
miliar with the facts know that the
Commercial’s statement was noted
only for the absence or utter disregard
for truth. But poor old Lucifer couldn’t
help it, for the rot he published came
from his masters at the other end of
the line, and of course the poor old pair
of pants had to publish it.
The editor of this paper was in the
Treasurer’s oflice one day last week
when nearly all of the men were pres-
ent whom Lucifer mentioned in his ar-
ticle. The article was there read, and
one untruth after another was pointed
out and the untruthfulness waseven ad-
mitted by some of the Scullions, mem-
bers of Luecifer’s own political family.
Keep your eye on Tue Star, Lucifer,
and you will learn more within the
next few months than you ever knew
in your life before. You won't like it, to
be sure, but you will learn some facts,
just the same.
Our
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The EIkK Liek Strike.
The strike for a 5-cent advance in
this region is still on, with no prospect
of a settlement in view at this time.
Primarily, we believe the operators
have only themselves to blame for the
sudden stoppage of work. We believe
they made a sad mistake when they
ignored the miners’ request for a joint
conference in Meyersdale some weeks
ago. It would have been but manly
for the operators to meet their em-
ployes at that time and talk matters
over, and had they done so, we believe
there would be no strike to-day. In
fact we are quite sure of it. To meet the
minersat that time would have shown a
disposition on the part of the operators
to do the best they could, but to ignore
their employes was naturally interpre-
ted as a defiance and a disposition to
do just as they pleased, whether right
or wrong. Naturally this course of the
operators invited a strike, and during
this era of prosperity a man doesn’t
care much whether he vields up a job
or not, for he can easily secure em-
ployment elsewhere. Men are flocking
out of this region by wholesale, and
they are having no trouble in securing
work in other localities.
Although the blame for this strike
must rest with the operators, it is gen-
erally conceded that the miners made
the second mistake. No sooner had the
men struck than a number of the oper-
ators had a meeting with them in Hay’s
opera house, and we are informed that |
President Boswell, of the Merchants
Company, at that meeting offered five-
ninths of the 5-cent increase asked for.
was for machine
as 5 cents of an advance was all
But Bos-
and
This offer, of course,
mining,
the pick miners asked for.
well’s miners rejected the offer
der the present scale price of the dis-
trict, and we think the offer should
have been accepted. Especially-do we
think so since at least two of the oper-
ators who employ only pick mirers,
agreed to pay the price demanded.
We believe that if the men at the
Merchants mines had accepted the of-
fer made by Mr. Boswell, the whole re-
gion would to-day be working upon the
same basis George's Creek, viz:
Forty-five cents per ton for pick min-
ing, and 25 cents per ton for machine
mining. And if that is according to
the district scale, as many of the min-
ers inform us that it is, what more ean
the miners of this region hope to get?
We would like to see them get a doflar
a ton, but that is impossible.
as
The Defeat of Speaker Farr.
The defeat of John R. Farr for re-
nomination to the Legislature in the
First District of Lackawanna County is
one of the righteous results of the Re-
publican primaries on § Saturday. It was
a condemnation of Mr. Farr’s record in
the last Legislature, of Quayism and
its tri:k in precipitating the nomination
in the district with the purpose of tak-
ing snap judgment on the Republican
people. They have resented it in a
most pronounced and effective way.
Mr. Farr was Speaker of the House
at the last session. Ile was elected by
the whole Republican membership, but
he improved the first opportunity that
offered to show that he did not regard
himself as the voice and servant of the
House, but instead a mere tool of the
unserupulous political machine. When
charged with the duty of naming a
committee to investigate respousible
charges of attempt to bribe members
of the Mouse he selected a majority
from members whose purpose was not
to uphold the honor of the House but
to obstruct and prevent investigation.
Into so flagrant and intolerable an out-
rage did this act immediately develop
that the Ilouse took the matter entirely
out of the hands of its unfit Speaker
and reconstructed the committee. It
is not within recollection when the
presiding oflicer of a legislative body
has suffered such a rebuke, and it was
only through the extreme patience of
the members that he escaped deposi-
tion.
It was hardly to be supposed that any
constituency would want to return him
to the Legislature. He has been de-
servedly beaten, though all the re-
sources of machine corruption and
trickery were brought to his aid. The
district and the State will be the gain-
ers. The defeat of Farr and the en-
forced withdrawal of W. C. Kreps, of
Franklin, to escape certain defeat, are
two very large achievements of decent
polities in a single week.—Philadelphia -
Dress. du
Evidence of Weak Cause.
Since the campaign opened in Beds
ford county for Republican nominations
the assertion has been made, and reiter-
ated, that “Mr. Thropo bolted the reg-
ular Republican nomination for Con-
gress in 1896.”
Just why newspapers that need and
ought to court public confidence should
stoop to the publication of such a nak-
ed untruth must be beyond the under-
standing of the average man. The ex-
igencies of the present campaign must
be very great indeed to require it.
Everybody within the borders of the
Twentieth Congressional District who
knows anything about the matter in
question knows that the Republican
Congressional Conference of 1896 failed
to make a nomination—that it adjourn-
ed without giving the district a nomi-
nee. It is true that Mr. Hicks and his
adherents bolted the conference and
went to Harrisburg, where with the
aid of a few machine followers Mr.
iticks was “nominated,” but the court
of last resort repudiated this machine
“nomination” and declared that the
district was without a nominee. With
this state-of affairs in existence both
Mr.-Hicks and Mr. Thropp had their
names printed on the bulats through
nomination papers, and they thus be-
came candidates of equal merit, so far
as the right of either to be a candidate
was concerned. But Mr. Hicks had in
some way won the favor of the machine,
and the machine induced the Chairman
of the National Republican Congress-
ional Committee to “recognize” Mr,
Hicks as the Republican nominee. The
machine induced this Chairman, who
had no more jurisdiction than the Sal-
tan of Sulu, recognize” something
that the only court of justice which had
jurisdiction denied. This Babcock ree-
ognition in no way impaired Mr.
Thropp’s right to be a candidate, and
his being so was in no sense a bolt.
After Mr. Hicks and Mr. Thropp had
each established his legal right to have
his name printed on the official ballots,
they both came before the people of
the Twentieth Congressional District
as Republican candidates, and every
member of the Republican party in the
district was free to vote for either gen-
tleman without in any measure impair-
ing his standing in the party. The Re-
publicans of the district were anxious
to"
wanted as much of a raise as pick min-
ers asked for. In rejecting Mr.
Bos-
well’s offer, we honestly think the ma-
chine miners made a mistake,
offer made was in accordance with
scale price of the district.
we are informed by
miners themselves.
SO
For example,
for the
the
At any rate
some of the
if
the price for pick mining is raised from
40 to 45 cents per ton, the price for ma-
chine mining, according to the district
five-ninths of 45 ce
If this
| seale, should be
or 25 cents.
price
was offered
by Mr. Boswell for machine mining. he
offered all that could be
expected un- |
to elect a congressman, and the great-
er majority of them would have as
freely voted for Mr. Thropp as for Mr.
Hicks, but when anxiety was at a high
{ tension the Babeoek recognition,though
without any authority whatever, turn-
ed the tide in favor of Mr. llicks and
he was elected.
The newspapers that are re-iterating
the falsehood that “Mr. Thropp bolted
the regular nomination in 1896” are
putting their character for truth on
trial before their readers, and the loss
of confidence will indeed be a high
price to pay for the gratification of per-
sonal animosity. It must be a weak
cause that requires the employment of
such methods.—Someiset Staf dard,
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