Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-07-30
FINALLY Fixed.


About ten years ago dispute aroseas
to the proper boundary line between
Indiana and kentucky on Green River,
island. Judge Davis is reported by the
Louisville Dispatch as having said that
the Indiana people claimed the low
water mark was at the south end OF
the channel, and the Kentuckians
claimed 1t was considerable distance.
back, whore channel ran from east to
west. When Kentucky was taken into
the union it was given to the low-water
mark on the Indiana ,side, and at hat.
time the channel was eXtant. But since
that time the channel has been filledin,
and instead of running around por-
ton of the island, as heretofore, the
water stops on the Kentucky or south
side. Indiana claimed that Kentucky
was entitledto property extending only.
as far as the island. The matter was
taken before the supreme court of the
United States and the decision was rem
deredl in 1889. The court held that as
Kentucky was given to the low-water
mark on the Indiana side when the state
was annexed, it was entitled to that
same boundary now, notwithstanding
the channel had since dried up. The
court ordered commissioners to carry
out the decision of the court, and the
commissioners have just reported. The
line is marked by three monuments of
stone and 16 monuments of iron.
One stone monument is placed at the
starting point at the eastern extremity
of the island, one near the midway dis
tance and one at the western extremity.
On the north side of each of these 1nonu-
ments appears the word Indiana"
and on the south side the word "Ken-
lucky" The iron posts We're placed at
each of the 16 intermediate angles. On
each of these iron posts the word "In-
diana" on the one side and the word
Kentucky" ON the other We're cast i'll
raised letters, the words reading down
| ward. Under the decision of the SUI
| preme court of the United States Ken
lucky gets most of Green island. The
commissioners report the entire ex-
pense of fixing the boundary line to be
$1,122. The state of Kentucky will pay
half of this amount.
The people of this country have got
ten so used now to saying President
Mckinley that it seems queer to think
that there should be anyone who did
not know, until few days ago, who
| had been elected the head of the repub-
lie for the next four years. There is
such person, however, and he lives
near Winsted, Pa. When George Tick
nor went to the front during the STIR
ring days of '61,, he left behind him n
sweetheart who had pledged herself to
wait for him, should he return alive.
| When the war was over Ticlknor re-
turned, to find that the girl had married
and gone away. When he learned this
he went into the mountains in the vicin-
ity, and built himself cabin in the
wilderness, where he has lived alone
ever since, coming down into the in
habited sections very rarely. His latest
visit was few days ago, when he heard
of the result of the battle of the money
metals last November.
While the opportunities for making
wealth are not so great on the farm as
in the city, there are other advantages
in rural life that completely Offset that
questionable privilege. The work is
healthy, independent and free from the
harassing care that besets the toiler ir
the crowded, rushing tide Of municipal
life. Back to the farm" says the st
Joseph (Mo.) Herald, should be the cry
of hundreds Of men:
The work of failing" goes steadi
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