The Fulton County News McConnellsburg, Pa. e- : - FRIENDS OF THE FARMER. The Department of Agriculture has rome to the relief of the grosbeak. He It a very much maligned bird, this high authority avers, and instead of being destructive to crops, Is of great benefit to the farmer. A bulle tin Just Issued by Secretary WllHon ays that seven kinds of finches known ai grosbeaks summer within the boundaries of the United States. They are easily distinguished from other finches by their stout form, bright plamnge, massive bills and melodious voices. Those which most Interest the farmer are five In num ber the rose-breasted, the cardinal or redblrd, the black-headed, the blue and the gray. The bulletin concludes as follows: "Present Investigations prove that the services of the gros beak In destroying Insect pests are in valuable. Each kind pays especial at tention to certain pests which If un checked would cause enormous loss. Few of our birds are to be credited with more good and with fewer evils than the grosbeak, and none more clearly deserves .protection by the practi.'il farmer." The probability is that the farmer would do better to protect the whole race of birds than to look with toleration on their Indis criminate slaughter. New York and New Jersey are mak ing a Joint study of the evils of cold storage. A bill is pending in congress looking to a reformation of the same vll, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The question Is a large one, with ' many angles. It Is not so much talked .bout as It was a year ago, but still merits the attention of legislative bodies. Cold stornge of food products Is a modern necessity. Rightly used, It serves the public by keeping prices steady, by storing in the season of plenty for use In the season of nat ural shortage. No one argues against cold storage as an Institution. It is when food is held back in order to maintain abnormally high prices, when It Is kept so long that It be comes poisonous, when cold storage Is made a curse Instead of a blessing to mankind, that government must tep in with a restraining hand. The period of storage should be strictly limited, and the sale of stored prod ucts rigidly regulated. Long ago the wasp waist, consid ered so fnshlonnble, departed from feminine favor. Now the small foot 1s following In Its wake, which proves that womankind is falling into line in approving safe and sane fashions. Occasional freaks like the hobble skirt may appear, but In the main women are deciding in favor of com mon sense and freedom as opposed to the ridiculous and unbcautlful restric tions of other days. A woman In Pennsylvania got two licenses simultaneously one to get married and one to tench. This was a, wise provision, as In ense one failed there was the other to fall back on. A western aviator who flew over three states In an afternoon was em braced, wept over and kissed by Mme. Bernhardt when he landed. Next time, probably ,he will keep on flying. A Philadelphia woman says the na tion's best cooks are farmers wives. And the old dinner bell makes sweet er music than the hotel orchestra. A high-hatted and opera-cloaked burglar w'as given the option of leaving the country or going to Sing Sing. He chose to go abroad, as they do not dress for dinner at Sing Sing. When It becomes necessary to ar rest a man for sobbing too loud at a funeral we begin to suspect that there Is something more than sorrow In his system. A rachelor puts himself up In a raf Je, the proceeds to apply upon a church debt This Is taking commercial ac count of a well-known and unrc mantle estimate of marrlnge. A monument has been erected in London to William Penn. It is up to Philadelphia to go the Londoners one tetter and raise a monument to Con nle Mack. Another attempt will be made to fly cross the Atlantic, this time without n equlllbrator. How do they expect to prove an alibi In case of failure? A French aviator has succeeded tn flying 102 miles In an hour. Luckily be didn't do any of the record-break ing coming down. New Jersey has taken to dynamiting mosquitoes. The scientific crusade for their extermination has apparently wound up In desperation. Some people believe Implicitly In (he prophecies of the katydid who re fuse to believe the weather man. Men should be careful bow they take their pens In hand to write let ters, as In the course of human events nobody knows how or when Abe letters will show' up In court Occasionally a day passes without eiews of a broken aeroplane record or a broken neck. A Brewste. 0., man banged him self for a Joke. This Is our notion pt going W far to be funny. r ALL OVER THE SWc TOLD IN SHORT ORDER v. Pottsvllle. Angered becauHe her lover, John Phtlliston, put off carry- tnv An! hta Intnnttfinn tn innrrv her. S v u w ut ihiihiwm w - J r Miss Clara Boyster, uKed twenty- thrn vnari triad to commit suicide by throwing herself from the high breast of the I pper Tumbling Kun Lake, a pleasure resort, Into flf ty-flv feet of water. The attempt at sulcldt was made in sight of many plcnlck- rs. ins girl was oui waising wnn her lover and suddenly broke away from him and ran toward the lake, declaring she would take her life. When his sweetheart made her des perate leap Phllllston was close be hind. Losing no time, be Jumped In and supported her despite her plead ing to let her end her troubles, until Peter Pfelffer, a fisherman; C. Fred Cauffman, and several others, In boats, dragged the couple ashore. A half-hour later the couple walked from the water's edge, arm in arm, a complete reconciliation having been affected. It Is believed the long-delayed wedding will now take place. Easton. For eight years com plaints have been received at the Eas ton postofflee from cltiiens of repute, men and women, ministers and busi ness men of the receipt of letters of a defamatory ana inaecem nature. Pnatnl anthnrltlPH hnva renpfltedlv en- j, tn Jlmniioi. lU urttnr fnr all apparently came from one source. Postal Inspector Schenberger Wed nesday arrested Miss Harriet He- Witt, of 418 Frry street, aged thirty-five years, daughter of George De- Wlit. She denies her guilt, hen asked by the Inspector, who did not Inform her of any charges against her, to go to the postoffice, she ap peared with counsel. Stroudsburg. George Bellls, aged fourteen, was shot and killed by Harvey Osborn, aged fifteen. The youth then made hla escape, and County Detective John M. Decker, is scouring the county for him.. Both boys were paying attention to a young girl who was staying with the Bellls family. The Osborn boy is re ported to have said he would shoot the Bellls boy If he would tell some thing the girl Is alleged to have said about him (Osborn). The Bellls family live near Henryvllle. The Bellis hoy stood at the top of tne stairs and the Osborn boy at the foot of them when Osborn pulled the-gun and fired up stairs. York. Earl Leppo, 14 years old. son or ira r. keppo, oi mis cuy, placed his toe to the trigger of a dou ble-barreled shotgun on the farm oi E. P. Fllnchbaugh, a short 'distance sotith of the city, and blew off his en tire head. The boy Is said to have been reading "Wild West" novels and other cheap literature. He had been employed on the Fllnchbaugh farm for the last year. After dis agreeing with some of the members of his family he left the house. When found the gun was lying between his legs. Hollldaysburg. Daniel S. Fergu Bon, a wealthy grain merchant of Al toona, and Mrs. Sarah Crawford were married here by Rev. Thomas Reiseh, pastor of Zion Lutheran Church. The license authorizing the ceremony was granted twenty years ago. The al llance was displeasing to the bride' groom's son, Harry E. Ferguson, a former Trothonotary of the Blair County Court, who hid the license The death of the son last week re leased the license from custody and the wedding followed. Pine Grove. Pine Grove has a school tax collector who received the Job by contract. The board and the regular tax collector could not agree as to commission and advertised for bids. Harry Carl, a prominent bar ber, was awarded the contract at two per cent, commission. York J. M. Grove, L. C. Grove, Benjamin Chaffer and I. F. Grove, all of Glen Rock, were fined seventy-five dollars and costs of prosecution by Judge Wanner, charged with pollut ine Codorus Creek, in Glen Rock. The costs amounted to $750. Hollldaysburg. A physical endur ance test was responsiuie ior win i t iL. death of Frank Fusco, a young man of Altoona, at Frankstown, in the Juniata River. Fusco bet his fellow bathers he could stay under the water two minutes. It was two hours before his body was recovered Harrisburg. William H. Eyles, a Pennsylvania Railroad freight con ductor. fell on the tracks while try lsg to get out Qf the way of an ex press train In the yards here and was killed. He had been In the Pennsyl vania service for twenty-five years and formerly lived In Columbia. Steelton. Two cases of Infantile paralysis were discovered here, the first in this county for some time and immediate steps were taken by the State Health authorities to observe the cases. Reading. Truant Officer George I). Stoeckel Instituted a suit for five thousand dollars damages against Stephen 8. WUser and Charles F Wlsser, his son, of WeBt Reading, for Injuries received in being run down by an automobile belonging to the Wlssers last April. Mr. Stoeckel claims to be permanently injured. Reading. William H. Haag, a former court house tipstaff here, died of apoplexy, In his seventieth year. A daughter, Anna, lost her life in a factory fire In Newark, N. J., several months ago and this 1b believed to have hastened his end. Huntingdon. William A. Clark, aged Blxtv. for twenty-four years sec tlon foreman of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Huntingdon, waa aroused from his sleep to answer a telephone at midnight. He fell down' stairs and was found unconscious. He died In a few hours. Harrisburg. Socialists of Harris burg filed petitions to nominate a complete city ticket for the first time In years and will follow it up with nominations for school board and Councils. Among the nominating natitinns filed was that of Mrs. L Crlssy for school director, r tmiiniinn mi DlnlMMJ UIL TRUST DISSOLVED ii . n . - j n..i .1 CuIa Legally raSSCU UUl Ul tAia fince SentembeP 1. EDW Or COURT IN trrtUI. Stock of Subsidiary Companies to B Distributed Among Stock holders ef the Faient Organisation. New York. The Standard Oil Company, sf New Jersey, ine cor poration which has been the storm center of anti-trust agitation throughout the country for years, Thursday passed out of existence, so far as its present form and iuiicuoiib are concerned. This famous cor tmrntlon will cease officially to carry on Its operations as the head of a vast organization, whose activities ex tend Into almost every part of the world. In obedience to the decree of dissolution of the Supreme Court, it is to relinquish its control of the sub sidiary concerns, and sepiemoer was the date set for the ending or me old regime. With the ena oi tne hminess day the company s transfer tinnka. containing the list Of BtOCK tnlrluri pinna and the stock of its subsidiaries will be distrioutea among the stockholders In the parent organisation as ou record at mat time. The work of apportioning tne com pany's holdings of the stock of more than 30 subsidiaries affected will oc cupy at least three months, It is ex pected, so that the readjustment will not be complete prior to uecem- fcer 1. The New Jersey company, in aciai- tlon to acting as the holding corpora tion, conducts a large oil business and has extensive property holdings. The company, however, has never made a public report and no oppor tunity has been afforded for gauging the value of Its business and of Its tangible assets. An official of the company says that the only element of doubt as to the general effect of reorganization upon the present stockholders lay in the ability of the constituent com panies, operating Independently, to produce as large a total or pronis as has been possible under the present form of management. As to whether this can be done, he said, only the future will disclose. PRESIDENT TAFT'S TRIP. Advance Guard of Secret service Has Started. Beverly, Mass. So far have plans for President Taft's Western trip ad vanced that L. C. Wheeler, the ad vance guard of the Secret Service, has started out to make the prepara tions for the President's reception. Mr. Wheeler will visit all the towns and cities at which the President is to stop on the swing around the cir cle, make arrangements for the speeches, dinners, etc., in whicn tne President will figure, and see that the police are ready to take care of guarding the Chief Executive, un the last long trip the President made Mr. Wheeler started out weeks in ad vance of the presidential party, but was unable to keep the lead, and along toward the homestretch the President was within a few days or his advance guard. 69.760 HAVE STOCK. Largest Number In History of Penn sylvania Railroad. Philadelphia. An Indication of the number of people dependent for the whole or a part of their incomes uDon the prosperity of railroads Is afforded by the compilation Just com pleted of the holdings of Pennsyl vania Railroad stocky on AuguBt 5, 1911, the date oi recora ior ine Au gust dividend, which amountB to $6,- 64,610.75. The total outstanding capital stock of the company on that date was $460,974,050, divided into 9,019,481 shares. These shares were held by 69,760 persons, the largest number of stockholders in the history of the company. The average holding of each of these persons was 129.29 shares, of a par value of $6,464.50. Would Oust Negroea. Muskogee, Okla. Farmers In Okfuskee county, the most populous nogro county in the State, have organized a "white farmers' congress and immigration bureau" for the pur pose of discouraging the negro who seeks to locate in that part of Okla homa, and to encourage the white farmer. Members of the organiza tion aro required to take an oath that they will not sell or lease a piece of land adjoining that of a white farmer to a negro. Ate 98 Ears of Corn. Boston. Mass. Charles W. Glid- den, of Lawrence, came to this city, and cornered much of the visible supply by stowing 68 ears of the suc culent cereal somewhere under his belt. It took 1 hour and 55 minutes In an Atlantic avenue restaurant for him to atow the cargo. One Mr. Dugan, of New York, who heretofore has worn blushingiy the tasseled wreath of Ceres with a record of 61 ears of corn, now takes his place with the discredited heroes of other years. Cholera Vlotlms In Italy. Chasso, Switzerland. According to an official statement Just Issued by the Italian government, there were 1,635 cases of cholera and 593 deaths from the disease throughout Italy be tween August 20 and August 26, In clusive. Women War en High Prices. Paris. The agitation against the high prices of provisions continues and disorders of considerable pro portions were reported from many places. MADE HIM H'opyrlKhl. lfl- DON'T WANT PATCHED UP MEN Surgeons Want War Department to Dismiss ThemGovern mant Loses. Washington. Army surgeons are urging the War Department to act with greater promptness in discharg ing soldiers for physical disability In stead of trying to patch up worthless men for duty which they cannot properly perform. The chief surgeon of the Depart ment of the East has called attention to some specific Instances where sol diers transferred to recruiting depots with a view to their discharge had been held under observation and treatment for several months. "One case," he says, "diagnosed neuritis' remained 218 days; an other, 'ununited fracture,' 161 days, still another 'hammer toes, 128 days. When it is recalled that these men were probably on sick report at their posts an average of 90 days before being recommended for discharge, It reasonable to estimate that the government lost by the present plan with theBe cases alone the equivalent of the services of an effective soldier for more than an entire enlistment. "The army is neither an elee mosynary institution nor a place for the physically inefficient and such should not be kept In It to the exclu sion of fit soldiers. Four months should ordinarily be the maximum period for keeping men on the sick reports, then discharge and the sol diers' home. If recovery ultimately occurs the question of re-enllstment can be considered on its merits." NEW CENTRE OF POPULATION. Haa Moved 39 Miles East to Bloomlngton, Ind. Washington. The center of popu lation of the United States Just an nounced by Director of the Census Durand, is In the Western part of the City of Bloomlngdale, Monroe county, Indiana. This is eight miles farther west than the location an nounced,' July 17, when director Durand placed It four and one quarter miles south of Unlonville, In the same county. The exact longitude of the center of population is eighty-six degrees thirty-two minutes and twelve sec onds west, a difference of nine sec onds, or eight miles from the pre vious announcement. Bloomlngdale Ib In Southern Indiana. Ten years ago the center of population was six miles BOutheaBt of Columbus, Ind., thirty-nine miles east of Its new loca tion. GET $5,000,000 SCHOOL Southern Bureau of Education to Gat It at Raglandvllle. Nashville, Tenn. Ragland, Ala., will get the five million dollar In dustrial school for white children, which is to be established by the Southern Bureau of Education with fundB to be given, it Is said, by John I). Rockefeller, the Russell Sage Foundation, Mrs. E. H. Harrlman and others. This was decided at a meeting In Nashville of the board of directors of the bureau. Ragland offered five thousand acres for the F.lte, 200 lots In town. water power and other conswera tlons. The location Is about 40 miles from Birmingham. Fifteen Men Killed. Saint Moritz, Switzerland. A rail road bridge, which was being con structed across a deep gorge at Brull, in the Upper Engadin, six miles south of this village, collapsed, carrying with It 30 workmen to the depths below. Fifteen of the men were taken out of the wreckage dead and the other 15 are probably fatally hurt. Uchlda In Japanese Cabinet. Tokto. Viscount Uchlda, the Jap anese Ambassador to the' United States, has been named by Marquis SalonJI, who is forming the new Jap anese Cabinet, as Minister of For eign Affairs. California Congressman Dying. Los Angeles, Cal. Congressman Sylvester Smith, of the Eighth Dis trict, is dying from consumption in a sanitorium at Monrovia, Cal. American Dollars Sent to China. Washington. Treasury officials who have been making a study of ex portation of money to China have concluded that no less than $7,000, 000 In gold Ib sent home by Chinese In this country every year. That sum does not Include the amounts carried there by returning natives. With the further development of the postal bank system officials predict not only these particular exporta- tlons but those to all other parts of the world will steadily Increase. GROWL A FIVE-YEAR DM HUNT IS ENDED Negro and Wife Arrested on Counterfeiting Charge. COINS AND OUTFIT CAPTURED Bogus Sliver Doliere Were Most Dangerous In the History of the Government Caught Ntir Memphis Washington. A wavering red line, straggling across a street map of the city of Memphis, on the wall at secret service headquarters here, re cords the story of a five-years' hunt for a counterfeiter of silver dollars, which reached Its climax In Memphis with the arrest of John G. Payne, a negro, and his wife. For more than five years the dol lars, which Tayne is charged with making, have been passing through banks In Memphis and some have even reached the subtreasuries. They were accounted among the most dan gerous counterfeit money with which the government has had to deal. All the resources of the secret service failed to turn up a clue as to their source. Three months ago, Assistant Chief W. H. Moran, the government's crack man on difficult cases, sent Bill Nye, also one of the flower of the service, to Memphis. A few weeks 1 later at a negro emancipation cele bration at Paducah, Nye picked up the first information which led to the Identification of Payne as the man alleged to have been passing the dan gerous coins Nye followed Payne back to Memphis, consulted with Moran and the two men laid out a campaign. . Then almost inch by Inch Nye be gan picking a trail through the streets of Memphis to Payne's house. Every day Moran in Washington with a pen and red ink, recorded the prog ress of Nye's search upon a map of the city of Memphis. A few days ago the thin red line came to an end In the suburbs of Memphis, eight miles from the heart of the city. It stopped In front of an Isolated farm house, surrounded by a high board fence, which made it impossible for Nye to see In the windows. Moran flashed a message over the wires to Memphis and a few hours later Nye reported the arrest of Payne and his wife, as well as his capture of several of the counterfeit coins, the outfit for making them and the genuine dollars from which the moulds were made. On the counterfeits have been peculiar little dents and scratches. Nye reported that he found them in the genuine coins he took in the raid. Moran says that proves that the moulds from which the counterfeits were made were so perfect that they even reproduced the scratches and nicks of the genuine coins. TROOPS FOR THE CALNA Tenth Infantry First to Be Ordered to the Canal Zone. Washington. The mobilization of a military force to guard the Pan ama Canal was begun T-iesday. The entire Tenth Infantry, commanded by Colonel Henry A. Greene, was order ed from San Antonio, Tex., to the Canal Zone, near the Pacific entrance, as its permanent station and will sail within a week from Galveston for Colon. The unexpectedly early movement of troops was made pos- Ible by the Improvement In the Mexican situation. Robhid In State Senate. AuBtln, Tex. During an all-night session of the Texas State Senate, held on account of no quorum, while Senator Claude Hudspeth, of El Paso, slept on a cot near a window with his trousers on a nearby chair, a thief climbed to the window and took the Senator's purse, which contained $74. The special Besslon ended by limita tion Tuesday. The upper branch of the legislature had on its calendar 40 bills already passed by the lower House. Solder Sta ts Fire. Akron, O. Hot solder spilled by tinners ignited the roof of the First Methodist Episcopal Church here, and in an hour the building, which eost 1260.000. was destroyed. The steeple, 100 feet in height, fell, en dangerlng hundreds of persons, but no one was hurt. Joe Jefferson's Grandson Dead. Buzzards Bay, Mass. Joseph Jef ferson's grandson, Joseph Jefferson third, is dead at his summer home aero from epilepsy. NEW NAVAL AEROPLANE GUN Experiments That Bode III to Mili tary Avlatora Alrahlpa for Scouting Only. Washlnton. The encouraging Initial peifortnance of the new naval aeroplane gun has created much gos sip among officers of the Navy as to the promising possibilities of the new weapon, The consensus of opinion of the naval ordnance experts Is that the problem of finding a means to repel an attack by a squadron of aeroplanes or to destroy a scouting airship Ib close to solution by the American Navy. While the new gun can be fired from any angle In the half circle, It is the general belief that it will never be aimed at 90 degrees or In a per pendicular position, for the reason that the shell might return to the deck of the naval vessel, probably un exploded, working the destruction In tended for an enemy. The angles of firing, It Is said, will likely range from 50 to 86 degrees. The strenuous efforts which are being made to perfect an Instrument of war capable of demolishing an air ship, It was pointed out, demonstrat ed the seriousness with which the possibilities of the aeroplane in any future conflict is regarded by naval experts. Many American officers still cling to the belief that its mission In warfare will be confined largely to scouting purposes. But even this, they admit, is of tremendous Import ance. The scout cruisers, the "eyes of a navy," by the utilization of aero planes which could be sent aloft from their decks at any moment, could In crease their radius by hundreds of miles. Few believe that the airship will ever be resolved Into an attack- I lng force. With the carriage of the new gun perfected, the ordnance officers are now engaged in designing an ade quate sighting apparatus. They look upon the problem optimistically and believe that this feature will shortly be solved. MADERO NAMED FOR PRESIDENT The Candidate of Progressive Party In Mexico Revea Follow ing Strong. ! Mexico City. Francisco I. Madero was nominated for the presidency by the Constitutional Progressive party in convention here. Not content with the platform as adopted Tuesday by the national con vention of the National Progressive party, delegates at the convention proposed as amendments numerous pledges, the most Important of which was thut to bind the candidates to the support of the "laws of the reform," which were the measures whereby the separation of church and state was effected during the administra tion of Benito Juarez. NEED MORE MONEY. Plans With Reference to Work on the Wrecked Maine. Washington. As much of the wrecked battleship Maine as the available funds will permit, will be removed or prepared for removal from Havana Harbor, it was made known Tuesday, and then the mam moth cofferdam surrounding the ruins will be refilled with water to await an additional appropriation by Congress to finish the raising opera tions. Congress failed to act upon the President's request for an addi tional $250,000 and the War Depart' ment has mapped out Its plans for the expenditure of the money on hand, which probably will be ex hausted by the time Congress con venes In December. Because of the lack of funds, even funeral services over the recovered remains of the dead and the erection in Arlington National Cemetery of the mast of the Ill-fated vessel as a monument to them must be post poned. The remains and the mast will be sent to the cemetery to be stored there until Congress acts. The terribly wrecked forward part of the vessel, or about two-thirds of It, will be cut down to the level al ready reached by pumpage, then taken out and dumped Into deep water outside Havana Harbor. Togo Thanks Wlnthrcp. Washington. Acting Secretary of the Navy Winthrop received the fol lowing wireless message from Ad miral Togo on board the steamer Tamba Marr In the Pacific returning to Japan: "Permit me to express to you myt high appreciation of the special honor you have kindly done me in giving me an escort of the squadron upon my departure from the port of Seattle." Another Aviator Killed. St. Petersburg. Lieutenant Zolot- nehln, a Russian military aviator, fell with his aeroplane while making a flight here and was killed. Mother's Quick Wit Tlerre, S. D. Myrtle Olson, a hlne-year-old girl, of Lantry, was bitten In the leg by a rattlesnake and was hurried to her home. Her mother, .considering the case requir ed heroic action, slashed the wound with a table knife, washed It out with kerosene, then covered the in cision with salt and waited for a physician. As a result of the treat ment the child Is walking about little the worse for the experience. U & Steel Report New York. Unfilled orders on th books of the United States Steel Cor poration on August 1 show a tonnage of 3,584,000 tons, a gain over June 30 of 225,000 tons, it was announced at the conclusion of the regular monthly meeting of the board of dl rectors. This does not Include an Intercompany business of 850,000 tons. The steel-produeing plants of the corporation are operating to ap proximately 78 per cent, of capacity. STATE CAPITAL NEWS 1500,000 Trout Cuught. More than half a million trout were 'caught in the streams of Penn sylvania during the season of 1911, according to an estimate made by William E. Meehan, State Commis sioner of Fisheries. This figure is based upon returns made to the com missioner from clubs affiliated with the United Sportsmen of' Pennsyl vania and by individual fishermen, together with observations made by Mr. Meehan and his wardens. This catch, the commissioner said, would amount to about 100,000 pounds, or $40,000 in value, and should go far toward disproving the statements made and printed that trout fishing Is declining In Pennsylvania and the streams are being "fished out." The returns made came from twenty-six clubs, whose officers reported that 1,345 of their members caught 73,902 trout in 194 streams. Ten other clubs reported Inability to got accurate data, in addition 387 per sons reported the catch of 2,680 trout in forty streams, so that 1,732 people took 76,682 trout from 239 stream, enabling estimates of the total catch to be made. First List Of Private Banks. State Banking Commissioner Wil liam H. Smith is compiling what will be the first complete list of the pri vate banks ever made in this Stale. It will embrace every kind of bank that receives deposits, and the num ber Is expected to be surprising. The Information Ib being gathered for the enforcement of the new State law regulating banking by concerns not under State supervision, which will be in the hands of a State board which will organize under the terms of the Alter law before the first of December. The work of Mr. Smith will be of Importance', because the larger cities of the State have numer ous banks which make a business of handling the money of foreigners and they have never been under State supervision, to the occasional misfor tune of many depositors. Mr. Smith, who was formerly a newspaper man and later a bank examiner, has given the gathering of Information about private banks, especially those man aged by foreigners, personal atten tion and the results bid fair to be Interesting. It is stated that loss than one hundred private banks are taxed by the State, more than four times that many being officially un known, although having large de posits. Dry Headquarters. The State headquarters of the Tro hlbltion party In Pennsylvania will be removed to this city from Frank lin within the next few days, ami It Is possible that a location on Market Square not far from the headquarters of the Democratic State Committee will be selected. As soon as the headquarters are selected the office furniture an papers will bo moved here and Mr. Rockwood will spend Beveral days a week here directing the campaign work. The Prohibi tion policy this fall is to name full tickets In each county without regard to what other parties may d. this being a course in accord with the principles of the party to which its members have clung for several years. Mr. Rockwood will meet Dauphin county lenders here unu m cuss the naming of a ticket. Views Of Milk Shipper. The State Railroad Commission re ceived two unique letters from farm ers in reply to requests for state ments as to views of the mliK prouu. ers and shippers in regard to use or Iced cars for shipments, one ium. Informed the commission thai a tem perature of sixty degrees U nhout that of the water which nature sup plies from wells and springs, una that if God, "in His all wise provid ence, had Intended us to drink any thing cooler, He would nne m ' r.n!rtor water." The other tier ......... ihot nnolilnrlnc the fact that BIUICB urn. - a farmer shipping one hundred quarts of milk a day pays more in, a passenger on a passenger 'lr than a similar trip he is enuueu accommodations. Mahogany Colored Tags. Pennsylvania's automobile Ik-en" tags for 1912 will be ota "" ' color with the letters and flu white. This color has been ad P by State Highway Com,,, ' Bigclow, who will open bid fori nlshing fifty thousand the department on September tag will bear a keystone In soft ".e which will contain the "a 1 . era' number, but in a rlt cept base color will be like the Uio tags of this year. Can Ot Water Charter. moral's IPa" The AUorncj ment has informed the State Water no Supp y Commissiuii v. fttl(11 nhaf.ele exists to the Incorpow of the Evltt's Cree'tW.tor io. It was stated in the appl " the compnny . . ... n tn nnin aiv -- ..I- MP berland Valley iow. county, but charges wer mafl fl( It was to furnish waie. w Cumberland, Md. n , h the company transgresses us after Incorporation action taken. Issue A general orner .. Gen general '""-. Maj0r up front the heaaquaru-.- - mu eral C. B. Doughert y com the National Guard, that 0 be resumed by all organUj ofl. September 18, and cers are directed to rf'u,BVt?c.ble W maximum strength as prac that time. Two cour . Hons are outlined or the t0 first to begin September cln run until October . clse.. manual of arms, setting up steps and marching tare and squad and company dm
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