KY-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest	7 Dec 1999		Volume 99 : Issue 56

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Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 03:10:08 -0500
From: geneva mckinney <grogers@infinet.com
Subject:NEWS:THE JACKSON HUSTLER APRIL 10,1891, Breathitt County, EXCERPTS   PART#1

  Hello
  These are the Excerpts Gary and I transcribed from April 10,1891 

  The Jackson Hustler(microfilm bought from The UK )
  Jackson, Kentucky        One Dollar Per Year In Advance
 


   OUR PREMIUM LIST
   -A Chance for Everybody
   We have made up our minds not only to deserve success but to have it.
  In order to achieve this we must have the co-operation of our friends.
  To increase the reasons for expecting their help we to-day offer a list
  of premiums as rewards for those who are willing  to assist in
  spreading  the HUSTLER all over this 'Promised Land" There is a higher
  motive  to prompt this action than the premiums. In getting your friend
  to take the HUSTLER you are putting into his hands an instrument for his
  improvement. By reading its columns he will become both a wiser and a
  better man. A good newspaper is a great civilizer, a great elevator. The
  press of to-day is moulding the sentiment of the world. It is for these
  ends that we are publishing this paper, and for these reasons we ask
  your aid. Here is the list:
   FOR ONE YEAR---1 subscriber, 1 dozen lead pencils.  3 subscribers, 1
  history of the U.S. in Monosyllables.              5 subscribers, 1
  silver butter  knife.   6 subscribers, 1 child's set, silver knife, fork
  and teaspoon.    7 subscribers, 1 silver cup.    8  or 9 subscribers, 1
  set of silver teaspoons.   10 subscribers, 1 Webster's Unabridged
  Dictionary.           12 subscribers, 1 silver butter dish.   This offer
  will be open till May 1,1891. The name may be sent  in one at a time or
  all together, only the money must accompany the name. Send in your  own
  way, and at your own expense. We will send the premiums as soon as the
  money is received, whether the names come or not. Be sure to give the
  name of the post-office and county of each subscriber plainly written.
  Renewels are not included. This list is made out on the gospel plan;
  every man is rewarded according to his works. Each one will get the
  premium he earns. There will be as many of each kind as may be needed.
  The names of the workers will be  published as the premiums are awarded.
  Address all communications to  THE JACKSON HUSTLER     Jackson, Ky.
  
   $500 Reward
  All persons are hereby warned  not to catch or interfere with any logs on
  the Kentucky River or its waters marked with any of the following
  brands,viz! A figure 4 in a circle which is the brand adopted by the Ashe
  Lumber Co., also 8 broken circles  and also the letter W enclosed in a
  circle and cross bars in white paint being the brands adopted  by the
 Moore & Whipple Lumber Co., also the letter T enclosed in a horseshoe and a
belt of white paint around the center being the brands adopted by the 
Kentucky Union Lumber Co., and with 3 white spots on each end. Any person or
 persons so catching or interfering with any logs so branded or defacing said
 brands or any of them or stealing or secreting any logs  branded as above, 
will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and a reward of ($500) five
 hundred dollars is hereby offered for the arrest, conviction and sentence to 
the State Penitentiary  of any person or persons so offending. Said reward
 will be paid in cash when a court of competent jurisdiction shall have
 sentenced the person or persons so offending to the State Penitentiary and 
to be paid to the person only who furnishes the evidence upon which the  
conviction and sentence is made.THE ASHER LUMBER CO.     MOORE & WHIPPLE 
LUMBER CO. KENTUCKY UNION LUMBER CO.         John Tevis     15-tf.
  The election  for town officers was held last Saturday. This was the
first held. The officers during the last year were  named in the Charter. The
  following are the results:  Police Judge, D.S. Hobson---   Marshall,
Jerry Cardwell- Trustees, A.H. Hargis,  C.J. Little,   Wiley  H. Combs,
J.C.M. Day and  D.F. Hagins. The only new man on the entire ticket was D.F.
 Hagins in place of J. Wise Hagins.
  
   GLORIOUS NEWS
   Daily Mails to Hazard and Hindman
   The Government has advertised for bids to carry the United States 
  mails, six days a week, from Jackson to Hazard and from Jackson to
  Hindman, the line to be put on July 1, 1891. This is pleasing
  intelligence. This was promised to begin last November, but the time was
  put off on account of the failure of the railroad to reach Jackson with
  the mails as it was expected to do. While the trains do not reach
  Jackson yet by three miles, horseback route, the mails come directly
  here when the train arrives at the station. The necessity for this route
  is evidenced by a letter from Hazard in this issue which says that seven
  days is about as soon as a letter can make the round trip, though it is
  only 35 miles. This arrangement  will give our sister towns the city 
  papers the next day after they are published. The Louisseville And
  Cincinnati papers reach here the day of publication. We would like to
  thank somebody for the prospect of these  mail facilities ; we will
  thank the Lord who is the first  great cause.  
                                                         page#1
  
   LITTLE  LOCALS
   Do you advertise?
  
   Vegetables are scarce and high.
  
   Little gardening done as yet.
  
   Shall the railroad come to Jackson?
   
  We have had plenty of the "beautiful" the past few days.
  
   Little Gretrude Patrick paid this office quite a pleasant call
  Wednesday.
  
   Work is progressing finely on C.J. Little store house.
  
    W.Z. Eubank has resigned his position with the Ashur Lumber Company.
   
   Elisha Clay, Esq., delivered a boat load of genuine George's Branch
  coal Wednesday. It is well received 
    
   Talmadge's sermons on the ten plagues of New York, Brooklin and  Jersey
  City, are attracting a great deal of attention. 
    
   We are under obligation to Hon. C. J. Norwood for the report of the
  Inspector of Mines of the State of Kentucky. 
   Green Back has moved from town to the Nimrod McIntosh property now
  owned by Miss Lizzie Hagins, located near town. 
   
   Several of the young men of the Academy went down on rafts during the
  recent tide. The change from rhetoric to river life is extreme, but some
  how,  they liked it.
    
   But little plowing is done yet for any crop. The weather is
continuously wet, and too disagreeable to do any sort of farm work. There 
will be a great rush when "Gentle Spring" arrives.Hurry up the Planting Mill. 
Don't plow your gardens too wet. The peach crop here will be a failure.
  
  Mrs Breck Hagins is improving.
    P.T. Barnum, the great showman, is dead. 
  
   When shall we have a good road and hack lines to the depot?
  
   Hunt up your white-wash brush and make your front fence shine. 
  
   There should be twenty Sunday Schools in Breathitt county at once.
There will be Sunday school at Elkatawa school house Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
   
   Quite a little town is growing up at the Elkatawa mines. The company
  provides most of the houses and the population is principally miners. We
  find many of them to be excellent people.
   Elkatawa wants  a Post-office and they ought to have it. Eli Jones has
  been working the matter up, and the  Government sent on a bond for the
  Postmaster to fill up. the prospects are good for a new Post-office.
  
   Chesnut makes fine finishing lumber. You will get  big money for yours
  yet.
  
   D.F. Hagins is having his new house painted. Geo. DeRoit is the artist.
  
   Clark and Davidson are getting the lumber on the ground for building
  their large hotel.
  
   Geo. Willits of Bedford, is here to put the tin roof on Little &
  Garriott's new store house.
  
   Rev. J.A. Sawyer will conduct  Quarterly meeting services in Jackson
  Saturday night and Sunday.
  
   Dr. Rader killed a large black snake yesterday, something less than ten
  feet long. He claims luck as his reward.
  
   J.M. Phillips has been appointed General Superintendent, and  T.W.
 Wilson Chief Engineer of the K.U.R.R.
  
   Charles Scott has been appointed General Freight and Passenger Agent of
  the K.U.R.R.. Vice J.L. Murphy resigned.
  
  Page #2
  
   John Goff,Jr., bought of Frances Clemons, fifty acres of land on the
 South fork of Quicksand. Consideration  $4 per acre.
  
   At Chaveis, Perry county, March 26, Wm. Baker was married to Miss Eliza
  Hensley, and Wm. Bush to Miss Lilly B. Akeman. We extend the
 congratulations of the HUSTLER.
   George DeRiot of Salyersville, dropped down on Jackson Wednesday.He
is a first-class newspaper correspondent, having enriched the columns of both
  local and metropolitan journals with the fruits of his pen.
  
   The Masons of Breathitt County lodge are talking of erecting a building
  that will furnish them a lodge room. No action has been taken yet. The
  sentiment among the members seems to be decidedly in that direction.
   Sheriff David Combs, of Perry county, passed through here Monday with
  Henry Fugate and Benton Brashears, who had been in jail in Winchester
 since last fall. They will be tried at Judge Lilly's court which soon 
convenes at Hazard.
  
   Hiram Campbell died at his home at Grape Vine, Perry county, on the
12th of March, aged  82 years. He was a Baptist and had been a member of  
that church for at least 60 years. He was buried in the family  graveyard.
  
   J.E. Patrick has succeeded in getting H.C. Robertson's claim for a
 pension allowed. He gets it under the act of June 27, 1890. It is twelve
 dollars a month, and dates from July 28, 1890. We congratulate both the 
attorney and the pensioner.
  
   We have a new millinery and dressmaking establishment in Jackson which
 has opened out with a large new stock of spring and summer goods in the
latest and most fashionable styles. Combs, Hagins, and Patrick are the firm, 
and we bespeak for them the liberal patronage of our people.
  
 
   More About The Mails
   There is no doubt that the Government in Eastern Kentucky is grossly
  neglecting its duty in the management of the mail service. This
neglect is  criminal. When it is punished, we will have improvement, not 
before. But there is another reason why mails are often delayed that is not 
the fault of the Government but of the people. The streams of the country are 
not fordable a great part of the winter season.They are not bridged, nor are
  there ferries. The mail is sometimes stopped for weeks, often for days.
 This is a matter with which the Government has nothing to do. It is the
 people's business to provide these facilities for transporting the mails. 
Anyone which does not want mail bad enough to provide a boat in which  it may 
be brought to them does not desire it. We hope the people in this part of
the State will take this matter to heart and will go to work to provide ferry
  boats at every important crossing of our larger streams. 
  
   Judge  S.H. Patrick informs us that Green  Irvine Whitaker has a small
  ferry boat over Quicksand at the mouth of the South Fork, and that he
  joyfully paid his dime and passed over.
  
   Hazard,Ky---.The mail service between this place and Jackson is much
  improved lately. J.M. Stewart wrote a letter to Jackson on March 19th,
and received a reply on the 27th. This is about as  soon as one could expect
  mail over this route, as it has to be exchanged twice. It is easier to
get mail from any portion of the U.S. than it is from here to Jackson.
What we need is a daily route opened up, and the people in this section 
afforded some mail facilities.We learn that the mail was detained at  
Salyerville six days at one time during the present winter, on account of the 
high water in the Licking River. It is reported that they have not a reliable 
ferry boat at that point. If this is true the people should certainly provide 
better accommodations for themselves.
  
    There will be no monkeying indulged in carrying the mails over the
  proposed mail routes from here to Hazard and Hindman. The men who take
  the contracts had better make a liberal calculation as to what it will
  cost as the Government proposes that it  be carried on time. No man
  should make a bid that he can not meet,as that is prima facie evidence
  of fraud, and is so held by the Government. The U.S. wants the mail
  carried and is able to pay for it.
  
  Page #3


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Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 20:01:15 -0700
From: "Phyllis Hill" <phill@redrock.net
Subject: MILITARY: Henry Co., KY War of 1812, McClain, Wm.

State of Indiana, County of Marion, SS: On this 17th day of April A.D.
one thousand eight hundred and Seventy One, personally appeared before
me, William J. Wallace, Clerk of a Court of Record within and for the County
and State aforesaid, WILLIAM McCLAIN now aged 81 years, a resident of
Southport P.O., in the County of Marion and State of Indiana who being duly
sworn according to law, declares that he is married, that his wife's name
was REBECCA HOAGLAND to whom he was married at Newcastle, Henry Co. Ky on the
30th day of September, 1810, that he served the full period of sixty days
in the Military service of the United States in the war of 1812, that he
is the identical WILLIAM McCLAIN who was enlisted in Captain WILLIAM RICEs
Company, of the Kentucky Regiment, of the Militia Brigade, of the Division,
at Newcastle, Henry Co. in the State of Kentucky or or about the 20th day
of September, 1813, and was honorably discharged at Newcastle, Ky on or
about the 25 day of December 1813; that he was a private, went to Vincennes
Thence to Fort Harrison. thence to Pottawattimie towns, and was not in
any engagement. Was mounted, and done duty guarding frontier against Indian
Depredations etc. He has had a land warrant does not now remember the number
of acres granted, that he at no time during the late rebellion against
the authority of the United States, adhered to the cause of the
enemies....., he hereby appoints with full power of substitution and 
revocation JOHN G. GREENWALT of Indianapolis, Ind., his true and lawful 
attorney, to prosecute his claim and obtain the Pension Certificate that may 
be issued. That his postoffice address is Southport, County of Marion, State 
of Indiana, and his domicile or place of abode is near said place on farm. 
/s/ WILLIAM (X) McCLAIN. Attest: C. M. RUUKER, DAN C. GREENFIELD. Is now to 
old and feeble to write his name.

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BRIEF CLAIM FOR A SURVIVOR'S PENSION in the case of WILLIAM McCLAIN........
enlisted Aug 15th, 1813, Discharged Nov 19, 1813...... Admitted Oct. 23,
1871 to a Pension of eight dollars per month, from February 14, 1871....

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State of Indiana, Marion County} SS On this twenty sixth day of October
A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty, before me the subscriber, a notary public
within and for said County of Marion, personally appeared SAMUEL B. WOODFIL
and being duly sworn on his oath says that WILLIAM McLAIN, by whom the
within declaration was subscribed and sworn to is the identical person
who served as a private in the Company Commanded by WILLIAM M. RICE in
the regiment of Mounted Riflemen Commanded by Colonel Allen in an expedition
on the waters of the Wabash under the command of Major General SAMUEL
HOPKINS in the fall of 1812. Subscribed and sworn to the year and day first above written. /s/ SAMUEL B. WOODFILL, JOSEPH T. ROBERTS, Notary Public

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State of Indiana, Marion County} SS On this twenty sixth day of October
A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty personally appeared before me
 ....WILLIAM McLAIN, aged sixty one years, a resident of said county....and
was honorably discharged at Busears? in the State of Indiana aforesaid
on or about the 6th day of November, AD 1812.....s/s WILLIAM McCLAIN seal

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The State of Indiana Marion County} SS. On this 15th day of May, A.D. 1855,
before me......personally came WILLIAM McCLAIN, aged sixty five years,
a resident of Marion in the State of Indiana.......He further declares
that he does not recollect the precise date of his enlisting and being
dishcarged but thinks it was in the years 1813 or 1814. /s/ WILLIAM McCLAIN
seal

We NATHANIEL McCLAIN of Johnson Co and MARY HOGLAND resident of Marion
Co. in the State of Indiana upon our oaths declare that the foregoing
declaration was signed and acknowledged by WILLIAM McCLAIN in our
presence.... and that we have no interest in this claim. /s/ NATHANIEL (X) 
McCLAIN seal, MARY (X) HOGLAND seal

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Henry County, I do hereby certify that WILLIAM McCLAIN served fifty two
days as a mounted rifle man in my Company on an expedition on the waters

of the Wabash under the Command of Major Genl SAMUEL HOPKINS in Fall 1812.
/s/ WILLIAM M. RICE, agst 20th 1813


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