Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-08-27
AS THE FILES TELL IT.
From the Centropols Sun. Edited BY
Joseph Gordxn. AT CentrOpolis, PraLis
Co., Colo, September fth.

Il
Co., Colo, September fth.
BY L. w. JOHNSON.
Jim Fsdden and Pete Tolmes, Of
lsmenied Sparks City fame, have
bobbed up again with their usual
smiles, smooth schemes and slick con-
hdsnce gp mes, and this time they have
entered the arena for the county seat
of Prairie county They have scripted
. quarter section on Coyote Flats, and
have the gall to advertise that they will
lay out the future metropolis of Prairie
| county on that alkali bottom, cactus
| covered desert and land Of :" stink ing
water" BY the way, the script with
which they have entered the land 10 the
old Waiterfield issue that has aever yet
been able TO hold anything but suckers,
aud should the scheming pair be able
to talk any tenderfeet into buying lots
in such a forsaken spot. the poor un-
| fortunates would have absolutely no
title TO their land.
Fadden passed through here yester-
day with corps of surveyors and a
wagOn-load of bright red stakes to
lay out his town site with, and Ms he
passed by the temporary courthouse
l
| Col. Began, the enterprising sec
retary OF our enterprising Town Com
pany, that he would have that build
ing on wheels moving over TO Prairie
| City inside of two months. The crowd,
very properly, gave Mr.. Fadden the
.'horse" laugh, foreshadowing his
treatment AT the polls next November.
To assist in his nefarious scheme to
retaId the growth and settlement of
his magnificent country by involving
all in dirty country seat fight, these
| professional town builders have ar
ranged to import a newspaper from
| back in Kansas somewhere, and il il
said the first issue will be out next
week. We don't know what the sheet
has been named, but would suggest
Cactus Bud as a fitting cognomen,
since the Cactus is there, and there is
no hope that this promising Bud will
ever bloom.
The editor, J. c. Purdee, is reported
to have been hired for his fighting
qualities alone. Fadden seems to be
counting on a bloody county-seat war.
and has commenced early 10 bring i'll
buffers and thugs, and as they will need
them all, has economical material by
combining both in al editor. This
Purdee hss q sweet-scented reputation
back East He once just escaped get
ting his just dues from n mob in
| Texas, and was last month turned ont
of the penitentiary in Missouri, where
he learned his trade as u printer on the
prison paper.
Il fha 80 -. ,I.sr
is not afraid OF the contest. Her nat
ural advantages and central location
make her pre-eminently the site for
tho county-seat, and Fadden and his
buffers will find little encouragement
from our honest, fair-minded farm
Iers.
| From the Prairie Flower. published At
| Prairie civ. Prairie Co, Colo, by Jane e.
Purdee, September 10.
How DO YOU Do?-Since our gentle
manly contemporary at Centropolis
introduced us in his issue of the 9TH,
il is, perhaps, unnecessary for us to
apologize for our appearance. Yet we
feel we would be better friends for
this short hand-shake.
The Prairie Flower is planted here
to-day with the hope that il will be a
10y and comfort for all. and we shall
aim to make il as pretty and as neat as
our namesake-, the flowers that bloom
1 about on this pleasant nook of the
footstool. We thank our kind Sun for
suggesting the name, Cactus Bud, and
for time were tempted TO adopt it.
The cactus is beautiful blossom, and
we shall favor its adoption as the na-
| tional flower.
! 1t is hardy, straight business. only
gives up a few days of each year to
such foolishness as blooming; is a
standing menace after the fashion of
our old "don't tread on me flag" an
embodiment of the Monroe doctrine
and our protection policy, and when
man can make money out of the ground
| where il grows, the cactus must go,
Just as sentiment must fade from our
American life. The laurel, the pansy,
the golden rod are all very pretty rs
flowers, but if type Is wanted, what
is the matter with the cactus.
| But Flower is broader and takes
them all in, just as Prairie City hopes
TO throw open her doors to all Prairie
| County and invite il TO come and make
its home where the water is pure, the
climate delightful, the grass green, the
flowers growing, and where good
Dame Nature intended the county seat
should be.
And with this short salute we must
close, for modesty reminds us that
we must not make our visit too
long until you return our call, and
write us to come aud see you again.
| Yours,
| Miss JANE CARRIE PURDEE-
! THE sun, September 2l.l
We are forced to take it all back
about J. c. Purdee, since il now ap.
pears the new editor of the Prairie
| Flower is a lady. But while we ar.
too gallant to enter a fight against the
| paper, we want il distinctly under
stood that We shall fight this town,
booming scheme of Fsdden and
ToIme. TO the bitter end, and if they
think 10 disarm us by such a trick, they
| will find themselves mistaken, and tha
the Sun Is neither TO be cowed mol
cooed into submission
The farmers heresbout are too intel
Iigent to be hoodwinked or bribed int
putting the country seat at Prairie
City, and will laugh at Fadden snG
Tonnes for their pains
CThs Flower, September e3.l
We were pleased to see that Mr.
Gordan, of the Sun, drove over from