The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-08-05
The Telephone.

ness is not as lovely as it might be, according
to the Yorkvllle Record: 1.-THE people are finding
1t harder to settle with the attorneys than to
get rid of paying the railroad bonds. The
town of Evans, IN Marshall county, has en-
ployed firm of Chicago lawyers to defend 1t
against the Outrageous charges of the attor.
neys who defended 1t in the Fox river bond
suits. And 1t is probable that there will be
more litigation before the lawyers are satisfied
who had charge of the case for our county and
towns. 1t Is better sometimes to put up with
little seeming injustice than to spend the
money on lawyers and court fees
The Mendoza Reporter, In the peaceful soil
tude of Its sanctum, unornamentcd doubtless
by even label "Schlitz Export" has figured
1t all out The facts are not above par as TO
worth, but the article reads prettly and may
be soothing to the admirers of the ostrich idea
AS the time approaches for calling the coun-
ty convention to nominate candidates for The
different offices, waters political become great
ly rolled and the most careful observer &C
knowledges his inability to see bottom. AS
vet the old parties are the only contestants, but
there is a strong probability that the demo
cratic. prohibition movement which is being
zealously urged by democratic press and poll
tlclans of the county, IN the hope of drawing
off enough republican votes from the straight
republican ticket to insure the election OF the
democratic ticket, will be an element OF dis
cord in the fight The democrats are quietly
scheming to make the organization Of county
prohibition party complete, and laugh IN their
sleeves when they see any signs of success.
Already men are stumplng the county IN the
interest of the prohibition party. They hon
estly admit that they do not expect to succeed,
but claim that they are not honest to this
principle in voting for other than temperance
candidates. AS they have no possible show
of success, and as the majority of the votes
given the prohibition ticket will come from
the republicans, intelligent temperance men
in this vicinity have concluded not to be led
by the nose Ivy party OF men who afterwards
will chuckle over their duplicity."
The editor should attend prohibition con.
ventlons and love.ieasts occasionally.
The wellknown correspondent, Phoclon
Howard recently made speech on roads to
the supervisors of Vermillion county. Among
other things he said:
In the sixty-four years that Illinois has been
state there has been expended on roads and
bridges S3,29l ,475. In the same period the
taxable property of the state has paid in aid Of
railroads $22,3l6,OOO
For this outlay OF S25 ,G07 Ats we have grasp
ing railway corporations ramifying the whole
state, and yet not one hundred miles of psssa
BILE roads
To-day Illinois stands the fourth state In the
Union, owes no man dollar. and her property
is listed tor nearly one halt of what it was in
1873. Why? Because she has no use for
money, the state treasurer reporting 81 ,974,2S
lying idle IN she treasury at the last fiscal pc
Rod
For the last fiscal two years the state col.
lected $6,1S4, 091, and yet not mile of road
was built for all this money.
The proposition now is to extend tax upon
all the property of the state for the purpose OF
building gravel or macadam roads, under the
direction of competent engineers and to be
done at state expense and by contract. To
this end, and as being largely interested par
ties, Col Howard said he was authorized by
the management of the Chicago & Alton, the
illinois Central, and the Wabash railway com.
panies to offer either the state or any county
moving IN the matter, free use of trains for
of material IN aid of construc-
ton of roads tributary to their several lines
Bearing upon the subject Is the following,
from the La Sale Press:
A good material for macadam has lately
been found by road makers in La Sale in the
refuse rock from the cement quarries on the
PequamsOggen. 1t may not be superior TO
Judge Cations pulverlzed Engagements" but
1t seems to possess the quality OF packing into
a solid mass after being broken ard ground
down by the passing OF vehicles over it. ltls
comparatively cheap, 1t must be mined and
removed in order to allow the mining of the
valuable cement rock and is dumped from the
miners cars into the railroad cars and deliver
ed on the track here at nominal figure
Third street is beng macadamized with it and
the indications are that when finished 1t Will
be one of the best thoroughlares in the city.
The contractors are breaking the rock fine, at
least on top, and this is something that has
not heretofore been done to any alarming eX.
tent by the road builders in this city who have
not used gravel. A force of men has been at
work filling the holes on First street with this
material.
Such material should make the best kind
of road, when the material becomes reduced
and the cement has set. The best Ohio roads
equal to the best country roads in the world,
made d cement gravel, and
will wear for years and years. 1t is matter
of congra,ulaton, 10y the way, that the mana
gers Of the building Of the new Deer Park road
have found gravel, which they will use, very
similar to The Ohio gravel.