The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-15
ARoUND THE sTATE.

Hugh Woods. the ~well-known West Ma
rion rolling mill man, has recently devel-
oped a new industry, that of hunting mush-
rooms with dogs. He has two CANNES which
he has trained down so fine that they are
now able to trail to their forest lars the
most ferocious of these toothsome fungi.
Yesterday he and his son, with the aid or
the dogs. gatheerds nearly a DuShel OF the
finest mushrooms ever seen in this city.
Marion Leader.
Elders L. II. HoIsinger and L. Fl. Eby left
Tuesday on a prospecting tour through the
| States of Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas,
Texas and New Mexico to look over the
availability of different sections of the coun-
try for colonization with members of the
Dunkard Church. They expect TO be gone
two weeks or more, and will look over the
ground pretty thoroughly. The Dakotas as
a place for emigration has resulted both
members of the church are looking for
some more suitable place where their mem
berS may locate IN the 1uture.-NOIlH Mall
chester Journal.
Business in the oil field is unusually slow,
and little drilling is going on, principally on
account of the low price of oil. There is,
however, a good demand for oil property
cheap. Producers went into debt in put
ting down wells, and the supply companies
want their money. Producers. who have
are obliged to sell to discharge their obIi-
cations. A well can be put down in this
field for Is cents a foot, though the usual
price is 40 and 45 cents. Drillers who gen
orally get $3.50 a day are glad to get work
for SO and $3.50 now. Oil men hardly expect
conditions to improve until the price of oil
rises.-Hartford City Times.
1t is claimed more acres of wheat ground
have been plowed up for oats this spring in
De KaIb county than ever before. The
cause of the wheat failure is somewhat a
mystery, and farmers do not agree upon the
raa1 90 1caC Tho Uhaot in a good CON
dition last fall. and the loss by freezing in
the spring does not seem to be the cause.
Some believe the fly in the fall killed it,
others that the wheat grew underneath the
snow, and when the snow melted that the
tender wheat could not endure the late
freezing, but if this We're true the good
fields ought to have heenzaffected the same.
No one seems to be able to give a satisfac-
tory solution, but the damage is greater
than was eXpected.-Waterloo Press.
A communication in an Indianapolis paper
referring to the age of the condemned and
abandoned wooden wagon bridge at Indian
apolis came under the observation of John
M. Guy, who is making his home with his
son-in-law, c.. r. Ellis, of this city. MIR.
Guy states that he remembers the building
of the bridge well. The contractor, Will
liam Wernwag, came to Ohio to employ his
father, w. B. Guy, as "boss'' Trainer on the
bridge, and he moved his family to Indian
apolis in July, 1881, for the purpose of ac-
0CDllIS liz 4 d. W AQJ was lI1Gll
thirteen years old, and was about the work
much of the time and remembers the names
OF many of the Workmen. Among them
was Andy Wilson, who laid the
He links the work did not last much over
a year, and this would place it's completion
in the year 1882. His father afterward as
sisted in erecting other bridges along the
National road. At that time Washington
street was called Main, along which the
greater part of the town was located. The
street was not graded, and he remembers
seeing men grubbing stulnps where now is
pavement.-Owen County Journal.
Delaware county is supplying horses for
the cavalry in European armies. For the
last six months strange men nave been in
this county and adjacent points buying the
animals in large numbers for these new
markets across the sea, and thousands of
the best animals to be procured have thus
been taken out of the vicinity. Charles
Goontz, of De Soto, one of the best in
formed stock dealers in the State, said yes
terday that last week one Of these strange
buyers passed through De Soto inquiring of
to find good stock. He was given some
pointers, and it is supposed that he has
made purchases and that a shipment will
be made in a few days. The horses are
shipped to Buffalo and New York and
thence across the water to Europe. Ger
Russia and England, it is reported, are also
buying in large numbers. Mr.. Goontz said
that, since the first of the year, he esti-
mates no less than five hundred head have
been bought and shipped across the sea.
Only the best animals are desired, and it
scarce in the rural districts of the county.
-Muncie Times.