Corbett-Fitzsimmons delayed fight in 1897, YouTube.
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday,
October 8, 1895.
LO, THE POOR PUGILISTS.
Not Even
as Indians May They Do Battle.
THE
GREAT FATHER HAS SPOKEN.
Any
Effort to Pull Off the Big Mill in the Chickasaw Nation Will
Be Promptly
Checkmated by the Federal Authorities.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.—The following is a
letter of instructions which Indian Commissioner Browning has addressed to
Agent D. M. Wisdom at Muscogee, I. T.:
"It is stated in the press dispatches
of yesterday and this morning that arrangements are being made or have been
completed by parties interested to have a prize fight between Corbett and
Fitzsimmons to come off in the Chickasaw nation, the plan being to pay into the
treasury of the Chickasaw nation the sum of $5,000, in consideration for which
the two fighters are to be adopted into the nation with a view to defeating the
authority of this department to prevent such fighting.
"It would be, in the opinion of this
office, a great detriment to the peace and welfare of the Indians in the Indian
Territory to permit a prize fight to take place within that territory, and you
are therefore instructed to use every precaution necessary to prevent anyone
from entering the Chickasaw nation or any other nation in the Indian Territory
and under your charge for the purpose of having said fight come off in that
territory.
"You will advise the governors of the various
nations in the Indian Territory that this office will not permit a prize fight to
take place within your jurisdiction, and you will call upon the United States
marshal, and if necessary report to this office and troops will be furnished
you to prevent the fight.
"Section 2,149 of the revised statutes
authorizes and requires me, with the approval of the secretary of the interior,
to remove from the limits of any Indian reservation any person found therein
without authority of law or whose presence there would be, in my opinion,
detrimental to the peace and welfare of the Indians.
"In the United States vs. Crook, it was
held that the commissioner of Indian affairs had authority, under the section above
cited, to remove an Indian from the reservation as well as a white man.
"As I have said, it would be, in my
opinion, decidedly detrimental to the peace and welfare of the Indians to
permit anyone to enter the Chickasaw reservation, whether he be adopted a
citizen of that nation or not, for the purpose of carrying on a prize fight,
and the whole force of this government that can be brought to bear will be
exerted to prevent the same; and you are instructed to keep this office constantly
advised in order that proper steps may be taken in time to prevent the fight in
case an effort should be made to pull it off in the Indian Territory.
"You will make these instructions
public, so that the people interested in the fight may be advised as to what
the government intends to do in the premises if called upon to act."
Another
Daily Dies.
The Rome, N. Y., Evening Citizen, which
began publication last June, announces that it will be discontinued because
receipts do not equal expenses. Rome is a
city of 15,000 inhabitants and had only one daily, (Democratic), before the
Daily Citizen was started. The Citizen has been publishing the only Republican
semi-weekly in the place, and was the leading Republican paper. Its
proprietors, with this well established and prosperous semi-weekly back of
them, thought they saw money in a daily also—and so they started it. They have been
looking ever since for what they thought they saw, and have failed to find it.
But they have found that however much glory
there may be in running a new daily in a place of the size of Rome there is no
profit, and have been wise enough, having learned this lesson in the school of
experience, to stop short without waiting to have the lesson pounded in still
further. They have had all the experience they care for and are willing that
some other fellow shall monkey with the buzz saw if he wants to.
If any men could make a second daily live in
Rome the publishers of The Citizen were the ones, and their chances were better
than ninety-nine out of a hundred who start new enterprises of this kind. As a
general rule only lunatics on their own account or the catspaws of politicians
who want chestnuts pulled out of the fire plunge into the daily newspaper
business on small places.
Hearing
on Granting of a New Franchise Held Last Night.
Last evening occurred the hearing by the
village trustees in regard to the granting of an additional franchise to the
Cortland & Homer Traction Co. to build and operate a street railway on
Elm-st. from its intersection with Church-st. to Pendleton-st. The Traction
company was represented by Messrs. D. F. Van Vleet of Ithaca and H. L. Bronson
and R. E. Dunston of Cortland, who argued that the new line would straighten
the route to McGrawville, thus being more convenient for the public, especially
those wishing to catch a train at the E., C. & N,, as cars are often
delayed a long time at the D., L. &
W. station on the present route by the stopping of so many trains.
Mr. Hugh Duffey also favored the granting of the franchise.
The petition was opposed by I. H. Palmer, C.
T. Peck, Riley Champlin, L. W. Peck and others, property owners on the street
in question who objected to the new line on the grounds that there were already
sufficient street car accommodations in that section of the town, that such a
line would depreciate the value of property on that street, that the noise of
passing cars was very annoying
at night, and that the street should not be converted into a switchyard for the
accommodation of the D., L. & W.
and E., C. & N. railroads. No action was taken upon the matter by the
trustees.
It was moved and carried that James R.
Schermerhorn, A. M. Schermerhorn, Susie M. Milne, Burnett E. Miller and A. L.
Cole be required to raise the walk opposite their premises on the east side of
Main-st. at the end adjoining the walk of The National Bank to a level with the
grade of said walk, also on the north side of Court-st. at the end adjoining the
walk of The National Bank to a level with the grade of that walk.
The following bills were audited:
Street commissioner's pay roll, $298.55
H. F. Benton, supplies, 37.24
Thos. Donnelly, labor, 2.60
Hitchcock Manufacturing Co., supplies, 20.25
F. A. Bickford, Salary, 85.00
W. H. Morgan, supplies, 12.40
Police force, 182.00
Glann & Clark, 9.45
W. T. Linderman, supplies, 1.40
C. S. Bull, salary, 250.00
Fred Hatch, salary, 25.00
A. M. Jewett, police badges, 3.00
W.J. Moore, health officer, 27.75
Empire State Telephone Co., 18.00
Burdell Meades, refunded taxes, 6.34
W. B. Landreth, services, 15.50
PROHIBITION
CONVENTION.
T.
Blackman for Member of Assembly, Dr. Nash for Coroner.
The Prohibition county convention was called
to order in Collins' hall at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon and was organized by
the election of P. Knight of Homer as chairman and C. F. Cobb of Scott as
secretary. Rev. B. F. Rogers of Scott offered prayer and, upon motion of Lewis
S. Hayes of Cortland, the new county committee was named as follows:
Cincinnatus—Oliver Cooper.
Cortlandville—E. M. Van Hoesen, C. W.
Collins, Walter B. Stevenson, Adolph Frost, Jr.
Cuyler—John McAllister.
Freetown—William Bates.
Harford—I. C. Estes.
Homer—T. Blackman, Charles Fairbanks, L. L.
Clark.
Lapeer—[name missing.]
Marathon—W. F. Brown.
Preble—Henry Manchester.
Scott—C. F. Cobb.
Solon—Mr. Byron.
Taylor—J. S. Cass.
Truxton—[name missing.]
Virgil—L. Southworth.
On motion, the convention proceeded to
ballot for candidate for member of assembly which resulted as follows:
Whole number of votes cast, 18.
Necessary for choice, 10.
T. Blackman received 8.
L. S. Hayes " 6.
R. J. Lucas " 3.
L. L. Clark " 1.
On motion, Mr. T. Blackman of Homer was
unanimously nominated for member of assembly.
Dr. E. B. Nash was nominated for coroner.
No nomination was made for county judge.
Resolutions were adopted as follows:
Resolved, That the attitude of government towards the liquor traffic should, within
the limit of law, everywhere be relentless hostility.
Vital
Statistics.
Following is the report of Health Officer W.
J, Moore for the month of
September:
Total deaths 15—males 7, females 8; nativity—United States 15; social
condition—single 8, married 3, widowed 4; ages—under five years 7, between 30
and 40, 2; between 50 and 60, 1; between 60 and 70, 1; between 70 and 80, 2;
between 80 and 90, 2; causes of death—cholera infantum 4, convulsions 1,
marasums 3, apoplexy 2, consumption 1, typhoid fever 1, paralysis 2, old age 1;
births 24—male 13, female 11; marriages 1.
Sewers
Nearly Completed.
Superintendent Peter Scott has two gangs of
men at work on the sewers on North Main and Madison-sts. and it is thought that
only a week will be required for their completion. North Main-st. is finished
nearly to the bridge which is as far as the sewer is to extend, and work on
Madison-st. has nearly reached Homer-ave.
Mr. Scott states that he is ready to put in
connections at any time at the same rate as heretofore, and application can be
made to him where he is at work on one or the other of the above streets.
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| Trolley on Main Street, McGrawville, N. Y. |
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| Trolley at A. P. McGraw Corset factory in McGrawville. |
Will
Soon Be Completed at the McGrawville End.
Work is rapidly being completed at the east
end of the electric road at McGrawville. The cars now run to the corset
factory. The track has been laid from Elm-st. through South-st. to Main-st. and
east through that to the feed store of Oliver Perry which is as far as it will
go now. The only thing lacking is the bridge over Trout creek on South-st. This is to be built beside the carriage bridge
and on the west side of it. The abutments are ready and the timber is expected
at any day now. It has been decided to build a temporary bridge of wood at once
as an iron bridge could not be obtained under sixty days.
A STANDARD reporter went to McGrawville yesterday
and took a look at the work. Mr. Thomas McCarthy, the genial and efficient
foreman who has pushed the road building so vigorously and successfully this
season, left his work to walk over the line of the new road with the reporter
and point out changes and improvements past and future.
As far as is possible without materially interfering
with the proper grade for the track it has been the intention to adjust it to
the wishes of the property owners before whose premises it passed. For instance
before the livery stable of Charles Wavle on South-st. the track was lowered
three inches to accommodate Mr. Wavle and not interfere with easy passage to
and from the stable. This makes the grade a little steeper between the stable
and Main-st. but the difficulty is not serious. Before the Rogers House the
track is exactly on a level with the street and it will trouble Mr. Rogers very
little. The bridge over North brook on Main-st. was widened and the railroad
track takes the north side.
Just north of Trout brook on South-st. was a
culvert and bridge, the canal below having been prepared to conduct water from the
brook above the dam to the box factory. An eighteen-inch sewer pipe has been
laid for this purpose and the bridge is to be removed and the whole thing
filled in.
A retaining wall of stone is to be built along
the north side of Trout brook from South-st. nearly as far west as the box
factory. A half dozen teams and a score of men are busy in filling all that low
ground along the bank of the creek and leveling it up. The new waitingroom is
to be built here for the benefit of passengers.
Switches are being put in at the various factories,
so that the freight which it is expected will soon be hauled over the road can
be unloaded at the very doors. A switch will go to the corset factory on the
east side of South-st., another to the brick factory across the street at the
corner of Elm and South-sts. Just north of the site of the proposed waitingroom
on South-st. a switch will turn west to the box factory. On its way out there
it will run over the top of a trestle, sixty feet long and raised high enough
to be used as a coal dump.
Oliver
Perry also contemplates putting a switch in at his mill and feed store.
Mr. McCarthy says that the bridge over Trout
brook can be put up in a week and in less than ten days he expects to have the
road connected and all work completed in McGrawville. Mr. A. P. McGraw has made
application to the postal authorities at Washington for the contract for
carrying the mail to McGrawville to be transferred from the stage to the
electric cars. In this way the morning mail, which is always the heaviest of
the day, can reach McGrawville five hours earlier than at present.
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| Cortland Steam Laundry on Clinton Avenue. |
The
Cortland Steam Laundry Purchased by Gladding & Card.
Mr. R. E. Gladding has sold the Cortland
Steam laundry to Messrs. A. L. Gladding and B. I. Card of Norwich who took
possession yesterday. Mr. Gladding has had twelve years' experience in the
laundry business and understands it thoroughly. The new firm will be known as
Gladding & Card and
they are giving the establishment a thorough renovation and are also putting in
new machinery.
The carpet cleaning department will be in
charge of Mr. E. E. Frisbee of Norwich who understands the business well. Both
members of the firm are bright hustling young men and will no doubt sustain the
already high reputation of the Cortland Steam laundry.
BREVITIES.
—The law office of J. &T. E. Courtney has
just been connected with the telephone.
—Whiteson, the clothier, gave away 967
souvenirs on his fall opening day last Saturday.
—The trial of Edward Huguenin, who was
arrested yesterday on the charge of assault in the third degree, has been set down
for Oct. 18.
—The Wick wire roller mills on Clinton-ave.
are receiving a new coat of paint. The new color will be a dark brown with
white trimmings.
—The young people's society of Grace church
will serve an oyster supper this evening from 5:30 to 7:30 o'clock, at Mr. A.
M. Jewett's, 15 Monroe Heights.
—The Loyal Circle of King's Daughters have
added the name of the circle to the list of those who will pay $5 a year for
five years to the Cortland hospital. This makes 28 out of the desired 50 names.
—The boiler in the washroom of the Lehigh
Valley car shops exploded yesterday afternoon probably fatally injuring one man
and cutting another seriously about the arm and wrist. Cold water was
carelessly let into the hot tank.—Ithaca Journal.
—Invitations are out for the wedding of Mr.
H. Arthur Bennett of Cortland and Miss Harriett Marie Montfort which will be
held at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Montfort, at
Peruville on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at 4:30 o'clock.
—Every young man who intends to take up
bookkeeping this winter should be at the Y. M. C. A. rooms to-night at 8
o'clock. The class will begin work tonight and all those who have given their names
for this class as well as those who intend to join are requested to be present.
—The many Cortland friends of Mr. John
Brown, Jr., of Hamilton, N. Y., will be saddened to hear of his death which has
just occurred at his home in that place. The funeral services were held
yesterday morning in St. Mary's church in Hamilton and were largely attended.
—About November 1, a new train is to be
added on the Lehigh Valley route called the New York and Buffalo express which
will cover the distance between these two places in nine hours. The officials
are certain of their ability to do this and if so it will be the fastest run made
on any road in the country.—Ithaca Journal.
—That the population of Cortland is increasing
at a great rate will be evident by a glance at our record of vital statistics for
September in another column. The total births for the month were 24, which is
from ten to twelve above the average. It is doubtful if the record ever went so
high for this village before in a single month.
—B. L. Webb has bought the interest and stock
of J. L. McKee in the McKee & Webb Manufacturing Co. Mr. Webb will
not leave the bank, but the business will be conducted under the sole
management of Mr. Arthur Webb, whose name appears in the title of the firm. A general
line of foundry and machine business will be conducted as formerly.
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