BY PRP. GRAY MEEK. EE EE BE PS A AS ity, Ink Slings. —1It is beginning to look as if Japan is afraid and Russia dassent. —The righteous man is not so sure of his standing in slippery places these days. —Like BANQUOs' ghost the shade of HANNA'S presidential inclinations will not down. : —The Republicans hope to dig a grave in Panama for the skeletons in the Post-of- fice Department. —Has HANNA made friends or has ROOSEVELT made enemies ! Which is i$? 1904 will tell. -.—— Philadephia should cheer up. It isn’t so worse to be side-tracked. Why, the Pennsy backs in to Bellefonte. —Japan and Russia both seem to be guided by the CORBETT-FITZSIMMONS tactics. It is all wind, nothing more. —Congress has acted on the civil service reform appropriation bill, but congressional action doesn’t always represent congres- sional sentiment. —How thoughtful of the physician who recently explained the dangers of too fre- quent bathing, to do it just in advance of this awful cold weather. —Having licked all the would-be rival bosses in Pennsylvania QUAY is sighing for * new fields to conqa er and has started in to take a fall ont of HANNA. —The war clouds in the far east are not ¢ arrying near as much misery to the Jap and Russian as are the storm clonds to the people of the occident. —For something they neither shared in providing nor partaking of Mr. BRYAN’S dollar dinner at Lincoln seems to be giving certain eastern papers a needless amounus of concern. —Some held Mt. Pelee respousible for the weather vagaries we experienced last winter, but for this one there is no doubt of old Boreas’ fine Italian' band being at the helm now. —Poor old “Uncle RUSSELL SAGE’ has had to retire from business. And to think ! He has only about one hundred million to live on. Here’s a case that needs SAM DIEHL'S attention. —Eight thousand murders and one hun- dred legal executions in the United States last year is a monumental testimonial, eith- er to the obtusity of policemen or the ela- siveness of the technicalities of the laiv. —Tomorrow the precinct primaries will be held in all precincts of the county. The really good citizen will attend and lend his voice to the making of a ticket that in- eludes nothing but intelligent, honest men. “The worst is over in” Butler and that stricken town has reason to rejoice that the fever epidemic has been broken so that it is safe to send home the untiring nurses and physicians who hastened to their re- lief. —It is stated that there are eight thou- sand ‘stranded thespians somewhere in the west; making their way homeward over the ties and through the snow drifts. Here is another calamity to be laid at the Democratic door(?) —The county school directors are in session in Bellefonte now, but up to the hour of our going to press none of them has been discovered with a patent kid-catocher designed to help the enforcement of the compulsory education law. ? “The deeper the probe goes into the sad end of MABEL BECHTEL, of Allentown, the more certain it becomes that there are far more fertile fields for the work of the christian missionary right here in Pennsyl- vania th an are to he found on the plains of India. —The volcano that threatened to get in- to action down in Kentucky last week has turned ont to have been the burning of a lot of moonshiner’s stills that were conceai- ed in caves in the mountains. In other words, the volcano story ‘‘was all moon- shine.”” ° —QUAY’Ss case of insomnia very likely is the result of long activity in politics. ‘‘Pol- itics makes strange bed fellows’’ and we suppose that the ‘‘old man?’ had to sleep with the one eye open so much of the time in his early political days that now that t hings are safer be finds it hard to get it closed at all. —When the trustees of The Pennsylvania State College are called upon to explain how they ceded property that had been taken over for the use of that institution for ever there is likely to be a division of opinion as to the astuteness of the legal mind that made the deed for the ground the Tnn once occupied. —The WATCHMAN commends mosh heartily the effort on the part of the wom- en of Connellsville to prevent the notorious KATE SOFFEL from opening her new play, ‘A Daring Woman’’ in that city tomorrow night. We hope, Yor the fair name of Con- nellsville and the honorable men and won- en of that city, they will sacce ed. al ; ~The effort of JACQUES LEBAUDY 40 | induce President ROOSEVELT to persnade a portion of our bolored popalation to flock fo | . the new empire the eccentsic Frenchman is going to try to build ap-inithe ‘desert of Sghara is decidedly misguided at this time. 1t might arouse more of the President’s in- terest afte r November, b isn’t the man to encourage the deportation of voters just at this stage of the —— fe VOL. 49 Demac 7’ RO STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., JANUARY 22, 1904. Ys A 9 NO. 3. sosmasnis osm. Approaching a Crisis. The case of Mormon Apostle REED SMo0T, now a United States Senator for Utah, appears to be approaching a crisis. Mr. SmoorT has answsred the charges against him and the Senate committee on elections will be obliged to determine in the near future whether or not the answer is adequate. The charges are first that SMmoor is a polygamist. To this accusation he enters an emphatic denial. He has only one wife and never had another, he declares and offers his wife and six or eight children as witnesses to prove his statement. To the other charges he re- sponds with a ‘‘confession.’’ That is to say he admits them, but declares that they are irrelevans. For example, it is alleged in the protest that he is a member of and an Apostle in the Mormon church. To this he replies that he, is but that he can’t be kept out of the Senate on that account. The Mormon church is a religious organization and the constitution of the United States declares that “‘no religions test shall ever be re- quired as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”’ The Mormon church tolerates polygamy and under the law polygamy is a crime, but Mr. SMOOT protests that he doesn’t practice polygamy and can’t be held re- sponsible for what the church teaches or tolerates. No man can be punished for thinking in this country. Obviously those who are annoying Mr. SMooT with protests against his service in the Senate are insincere or else they wouldn’t predicate their case on proposi- tions so obviously weak. As a member of the Mormon church and Apostle of a polyg- amous organization SMOOT is accessory be- fore and after the fact tothe crime of polvg- amy and could be expelled from the Senate for that. But in converting ihe Salt Lake Zribune from a relentless and tireless antagonist of polygamy to ap en- thusiastic supporter of that iniquity Sen- ator HANNA is also accessory before and after the fact to polygamy and both must go orstay together. Both are guilty of a corrupt bargain for the election of Syoo0T, moreover, and if the opposition to Smoor was earnest both would be thrown out for that. : : w—— 1 Roosevelt Imagines Trouble. Senator HANNA protests that he didn’t hold back the call of the Republican Na- tional convention for any sinister purpose and for that matter that he didn’t hold it back at all. When Mr. CLARKSON was chairman, Senator HANNA adds, the call wasn’t issued until two months after the time had been fixed by the national com- mittee and nobody conjured up fake fights against a candidate in consequence. The trath is, Senator HANNA inferentially de- clares, that ROOSEVELT is such a craven and coward that he imagines everyone is conspiring agaiust him, whereas nobody pays enough attention to him to give hiul serious thought. ‘‘He will be nominat- ed,’ Senator HANNA sobstantially adds, because defeat is inevitable and nobody will accept the place. As a matter of fact, the wail issued from the W hite House to the effect that Senator HANNA, as chairman of the national com- mittee, was withholding the call for the purpose of prejudicing the President’s po- litical interests was both premature and ab- surd. In the first place no suck result of withholding the call could have been obtain- ‘ed. The national committee fixed the time of the national convention and if the chairman had never issued the formal call at all, the convention would be held at the time and place designated by the committee and ev- ery delegate entitled to a seat wonld have been ‘‘present or accounted for.’”” This fact is proven by the calling of several state conventions, including that of Peun- sylvania, to elect delegates to the conven- tion. : President ROOSEVELT and his friends know, however, that the idea of his nomi- nation is repulsive to ‘a vast majority of the voters of the Republican party and that the most nnpromising organized move- ment for his defeat would compass the re- gutt. To any man“witha reasonable meas- ure of common sense these palpable signs would be ominous enough. They would admonish him to get out of the way of the impending disaster. But ROOSEVELT doesn’t take that view of the matter. He imagines that after he gets the nomipagi he may be able to create ent] command support. Therefdfe ward wich childish. impetuosi lessness oi ‘with eve doesn’t. voldiiteer support.” ishisi. gp wratiBzaiust the 14g FB a By EERE = ~The people of Shate ol mento the ; Tuns from Le- mont to that place should think well be- fore they take any such radical step. A: turnpike, once abandoned, soon deteriorates intoa bad road, as bas been the case in every instance in this county, aud the Col- lege people would do well to hold onto ; theirs, rather than work for its abandon: | ment. vicinity who re dso he” amp rd Not a Radiant Prospect. It is not altogether certain that we will escape war with Colombia on account of the Panama outrage. A war with Co- lombia would probably not be a very seri- ous affair, so far as this country is concern- ed. In other words we could send force enough on sixty days notice to overwhelm the country and take possession of its gov- ernment. But it would cost a good many lives on hoth sides to achieve the result and the expense in the sacrifice of honor would he infinitely greater. No country can afford victories with are achieved at the expense of justice and such a victory would be so tainted. But there are other sources of danger at- tendant upon such a war of conquest or chastisement against Colombia. It would be ample and just cause of alarm fo every other Spanish-American Republic and in self-defence they might make common cause with Colombia. That wouldn't pre- vent the final trinmph of the United States, bat it would vastly increase the expense of the enterprise in life and treasure and fasten upon this country a perpetual guerilla warfare. This is not a matter of careless conjecture. It is a practical cer- tainty according to the most thoughtful students of international politics and law. With all the forces of the South and Cen- tral American Republics constantly nagging at our heels and outbreaks as regularly re- curring on the Philippine Islands the future of the conntry is not radiant with signs of peace and prosperity. We have made great progress in the past, but it was for the rea- sou that we cultivated the arts of peace and aspired to the triumphs of commerce. In that way we have become the ware- house of the world for food stuffs and were becoming the supply station for manufac- tures. But this distinction will not re- main with us long if we turn our attention to destroying instead of creating wealth. Too Frank or not Frank Enough In av interview published in New York on Monday PERRY S. HEATH, formerly first assistant Postmaster General, said among other curious things: “I was put into the Postoffice Department to carry out the pledges made by President MCKINLEY ‘| and if Iam to be crucified for that,'I guess : I can stand ih castro BAe RAE an . ‘Mr. HEATH is either too frank or not frank enough. He is being condemned for perpetrating frauds in the Postoffice Depart- ment. It is alleged that he made vouchers for expense bills of his own that never existed and compelled the payment of them. Had president MCKINLEY pledged himself to such violations of the law? One of the charges for which Mr. HEATH is being ‘‘crucified’’ is that he hada couple of immoral women put on the pay roll and paid regularly, though they performed no service. Was that official action in fulfill- ment of any pledges made by President MCKINLEY. If so the secretary of the Re- publican national convention ought to give a bill of particalars. \ According to the statement of fourth assistant Postmaster General BRISTOW Mr. HEATH received, without consideration, stock in companies supplying the Depart- ment with various articles at exorbitant prices. In fact giving him stock was nec- essary to gitting the business. Was it be- canse MCKINLEY stood pledged to, such things? i We are inclined to the opinion that HEATH has lied about the matter and is putting a stain upon the character of the late President in order to justify himself before the country. But of course this is only a matter of conjecture with us. Still if what he says is true, he ought to support .it with testimony. ; Dresser’s Vote Against Civil’ Service. Judging from the vote cast by the Hon. SOLOMON DRESSER, who represents this district in Congress, on the matter of strik- ing out the appropriation for the civil serv- ice commission it would appear that the Hon. SoLoMON has no use for proficiency or the merit system. In other words about the only interpretation that can be put upon his action is that he believes in the old theory that the spoils should be- Tong to 'the vietor and as the victor in this case happens to be a man who isn’t averse to such things are we to believe tha competent federal af bi oh h t 11 while there were but 88 against it. Mr. DRESSER’S vote was one of the 83 and we have been wondering how he will explain himself to his constituents as going on record against a system acknowledged by the best men of both parties to be the very best in keeping the clerical force of the departments up-to-date, while BOUTELL, GILLET, HEMENWAY, HITT, DALZELL, es os nadl Aiton “|'are aceessori fies who are protected | Quay Could Make a Row. We learn from the Washington corres- pondent of an esteemed Philadelphia con- temporary that ‘Senator QUAY and other supporters of President ROOSEVELT, QUAY and his friends will split the party and put the Democrats in possession of every branch of the government.” The same correspon- dent adds, ‘Quay is still in frequent conference with President ROOSEVELT and is the most frequent visitor at the White House after the Cabinet members.” He continues, ‘‘he has warned those who have approached him that if the movement in favor of HANNA goes much further he will stir up a row that will not he healed for years.” So that is the way the land lays. Sen- ator QUAY has determined to employ his customary tactics to bring opponents to his terms. It will be remembered that during the discussion of the WILSON tariff bill during the session of 1894 QUAY demanded some concessions in the interest of some of his clients on pepalty of pre- venting the passage of the bill and when the majority of the body refused to accede he sent to the library for a wagon load of books which he threatened to read. The operation would have consumed all the time of the session and the Democratio managers consented to his propositions. Last year when he tried to force through the omnibus statehood bill he parsued the same course and though he failed, it was by a narrow margio. There is no doubt, however, that he could carry out his threat in this matter. It would be easy enough for any deter- mined fellow, well informed, ‘‘to stir up a row’’ which ‘‘will he sure to bring about Republican defeat this fall.”” There are any number of ways for a fellow on the inside to do that. Suppose, for example, the whole truth of the postal scandals were revealed. There would bea row on your hands as big as a mountain and sin- ‘gularly enough all the sufferers except ROOSEVELT, himself, wonld be friends of HANNA. There are RATHBONE and PERRY HEATH for example, and scores of others. Indeed QUAY could stir up a ‘‘beaut”’ if he were so inclined. Let us hope that he will carry out the purpose. | ; sa iim Postal Frands Confessed. It is practically settled tbat there will be no real investigaton of the Postoffice Department frauds. In other words the Democrats of the Senate having failed to get such a resolution as wonld secore a searching investigation adopted, agreed the other day to refer the question of investiga- to the committee on postoffices and post- roads. It is barely possible that Senator PENROSE of Pennsylvania will consent to an investigation after the election. Bat it is more than likely that he will conveniently forget the matter and allow the resolutions to slumber in his pigeon-hole to the end of time. : This is the first actual confession of official participation in looting operations brought to public attention. That ie to say it has been admitted frauds have been perpetrated aud the trail of corruption actually Jed into the office of the Post- master General where his private secretary was inculpated. It bas been confessed that “the secretary of the Republican National committee defrauded the government in various ways while an official in the De- partment and that he bas escaped 'punish- ment because of the failure to prosecute ‘within the time limit of the statute, with the consent if not upon the advice of the President. Yet the leaders of the party responsible for the mal-fearances refuse to allow an investigation. . What is the natural inference to be drawn from these facts? Simply that every accusation is true and that those concerned are endeavoring to conceal the particulars of the rascalities until after the presiden- tial election. If there had been a possible chance of disproving the charges the inves- tigation would have been welcomed. In that event the scandal would have been converted into a first class campaign document. But as it is the action of the Republicans is a confession of guilt and we have a right to charge not only that the Departiient is permented. with frandabot Postmaster’ General wid Biesitons es to theGrime. | V, féntion to it. Mr. Horsburgh is the staff lecturer in history and literature for the Oxford and American societies for the ex- tension of university teaching and is con- sidered the strongest man on the platform doing this great work today. His coming to America has been looked forward to with delight in the large cities and how Belle- foute was able to secure him for a course when he expects to spend only thirteen weeks in this conntry is really something to marvel at. Seats for the Horsbargh ‘and other heavy weights in his party voted in favor of the system. series can be gotten from any member of the eommittee. : | to receive less than $250,000. ub te | have she poorest el lof > Be Dore: He bélieves that no one | or in this bill. Hanna is Neither Down Nor Ont. From the Philadelphia Record. Only three times upon the Lupercal did Cesar pus away the kingly crown, and Mark Hauva says he has sent two thousand letters announcing that he is not a candi- date for the Presidency. The Ohio Sena- tor bas beaten all records in declination. No other American can boast that so great is the passion of his fellow-counteymen to make him President that two thonsand per- sonal letters, in nearly identical phraseolo- gy, are not sufficient to stay the demands for his nomination. Can it be expected that Mr, Hanna shall send a copy of his type- written declination to every Republican voter in the country? This is unreason- able. Mr. Hanna's health is poor; he has been ill in New York; that is the reason why he has not issued the call for the Na- tional Convention. He has also been busy getting himself re-elected to the Senate by’ a record-breaking majority, which could not fail to commend his availability to the National Convention, and he has not bad time to issue that call. Can aman so busy and in such delicate health—encumbered, too, by the burden of vindicating Perry Heath and Major Rathbone—be required to tell every Republican in the United Siste that he has no personal ambition to serve and cannot be considered in any sense a candidate for the presidential nomination,” and that his only desire is to serve his par- ty to the extent of his ability ? oo He is in no sense a candidate, but there is nothing in his letter to justify the appre- hension that he would not serve if elected, or that he would refuse a nomination if it were pressed upon him by the National Convention. No one questions his patriot- ism, and earnest patriots are frequently compelled by a sense of duty to accept the nomination for the Presidency, though they would far prefer ‘‘to serve their party to the extent of their ability’’ in some hum- ble station. Furthermore, a dispatch from Cleveland says that Hanna has issmed in- structions to bis lieutenants in that city that only Hanna men shonld be elected from the two Congressional districts includ- ed 1 the city. Under these circumstances persons who desire the nomination of the Ohio Senator will continue their efforts in spite of the two thousand declinations. But Roosevelt Thinks He is Infalli- © ble. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. Ope of the most striking examples of crass reactionism is the statement in the Washington dispatches that the adminis- tration cannot consent to the submission of any of the phases of the Colombian dispute to arbitration because that would be a con- fession that its course had been wrong. This excuse, if really offered by the ad- ministration, sets the progress of eciviliza- of international disputes save by brute force. Is it necessary that every govern- ment shall set up the claim of absolute in- fallibility and refuse arbitration because ‘that would imply fallibility ? If so, what was the use of supporting. The Hague project, recommending arbitration, and supporting that cause for thirty years? How on that theory could Esgland and the United States submit the Alabama claims to arbitration ? What arbitration is possible if every government must refuse is because it would imply a confession of wrong-doing ? : The fact is that this especial case, less than almost any other, implies such a con- fession. It concerns the interpretation of a treaty and the rules of international law, and a consent that such questions be arbitrated implies only the admission that there is a dispute between Colombia and this government as to the proper interpre- tation. The man who takes a dispute with his neighbor into the courts does not con- fess or imply that he is wrong. He claims thas he is right, and welcomes the oppor- tunity to prove it before an impartial tribunal. Why, on the hypothesis of the correctness of our government’s course, should it not seek the chance to demon- strate that claim by the verdict of an in- ternational court? However that may be, it is self-evident that this nation cannot refuge to suhmit its own disputes to arbitration without giving the lie to its long-standing professions in favor of the peaceful and civilized methods of international arbitration. Congress Takes Up the Good Roads : Movement. From the Altoona Evening Gazette. There is now pending in Congress a hill introduced by Hon. Walter P. Brownlow, of Tennessee and the Hon. Jacob H. Gallinger, Senator from New Hampshire, appropriating $24,000,000 as national aid for the building of wagon roads. This sum is to be distributed to each State according to its population, except that no State is The States tion back te the refusal of any seétlement | Spawls from the Keystone. —During the year 1903 the freight shop department of the Pennsylvania railroad company of Altoona was kept busy. One ‘hundred and twenty-nine thousand, eight hundred and ninety-one cars were repaired during the year. —Samuel M. Taylor, of Clearfield, a freight train conductor on the Beech Creek railroad, whose run is between Clearfield and Patton, was struck by a water column while leaning out of a car to exactly ascertain where a hot journal was and instantly killed. He was 32 years of age and leaves a wife and two small chilaren. —Mrs, Leah Keith, the oldest woman in Western Pennsylvania, died at her home near Grinsmore, Indiana county, Friday evening. She was born in York county in September, 1802. She saw but one train of cars during her life time and never visited Indiana, the county seat, although residing but a few miles from it for ninety-three Fears. —Albert Barner, who is considered a des- perate character and was arrested near Sayre after a hard fight with the officers and only surrendered after being badly wounded, is, said to answer the description of the man seen at Brown’s tower the night operator Clendennen was murdered. Detective Lebo, of the N. Y. Central force, will investigate the case. : —William H.Albert, a sturdy and prosper- ous resident, whose post office address is Clearfield Bridge, Clearfield county, has welcomed the eighteenth addition to his family in the shape of a bouncing boy. Nor is that all. Every one of the 18 children is living, hale and hearty and keeping the old man bustling for grub enough to fill the mouths of such a large family. —From the effects of a wound inflicted two weeks ago by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of her little grandson, Mrs. Jane Watt died recently av her home in Paulton, Westmoreland county. She was in her 80th, year. The grandchild bad taken the gun from its accustomed place, and, be- lieving it was unloaded snapped the trigger. The shot took effect in the grandmother's right shoulder. —Mrs. Ella Soles, who conducts the depot restanrant at Lewistown, made a very narrow escape from a horrible death by fire Satur- day, when the sleeve of her woolen waist was ignited by a spark. The garment blazed up like powder and was soon burned from her body. Her husband, who was close by, recognized the danger, and grasp- ing an overcoat which belonged to one of his patrons, quickly smothered the flames. —John A. Schwab, of Loretto, father of Charles M. Schwab, the former president of the United States Steel corporation, returned several days ago from New York, where he had been the guest of his son. He declares the latter to be in better health than he has been for some years and he believes that, having laid aside the cares of business, the recovery of the former steel king will be more rapid in the future. —The large general store of D. Ross & Co. at. Woodland, was totally destroyed by fire at 8:30 o'clock Monday morning, the fire originating in a flue. A desperate effort was made to save the building, but to no avail and the workers turned their efforts to. sav- ing the stock. The building Wasa frame one and burned so rapidly and fiercely that but few goods were taken out. The loss amounts to many thousands of dollars, the store be- the largest in Woodland. ’ —A. F. Boynton, one of Clearfield’s lead ing citizens, died on Tuesday morning after a hingering illness, in the 61st year of his age. Mr. Boynton was identified with many. of the improvements of Clearfield. He was pres- ident of the water company and was one of its largest stockholders. He was a life-long member of the Clearfield Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Boynton was a good man; con- scious, honest and honorable in his dealings with all men. His place in the community will be hard to fill. He is survived by his wife and his aged father, Jonathan Boynton, who is in his 94th year, and his mother, who is 88 years of age. Humphrey Chilcote, aged 85 years, who left the Huntingdon county home Shirleys- burg on Novenber 5th, and had not been seen since, was found last week in a hunter’s shanty on Sandy ridge some miles from the home. He was in a sitting position and dead. He had placed his red handkerchief on a stick and raised it above his cabin, which attracted the attention of some fox hunters. His wife died many years ago and he has since spent his time with relatives and friends. On October 24th he wandered to the alms house and asked for shelter as he said he had no home and it was cold. . No- vember 5th he left suddenly and no trace of him could be found until his body was found in the isolated cabin. —Preston E. Brackhill, a prosperous Lan- caster county farmer, courted Elizabeth D. Rauck twenty years, aud one day a time was fixed for the pair to be married, but when the day arrived Brackhill worked in the harvest field and did not appear at the place the wedding was to have occurred. The patient and tolerant girl decided thag, Brack- or counties receiving this money must add’! a like amount, so that $48,000,000 will b expended in the building of wagos ~ Colonel Brownlow says that ‘Over $25,000 miles of the, finest the world, more miles of railway the rest of the globe thing: will do this country so much goed as ‘the building of wagon roads, as provided As these are to he built in every State of the union, they will be especially valuable as an object lesson. Experience has shown that wherever good roads exist every one wants more of them. + Under the pro rata of the new bill Penn- sylvania would receive $1,828,000 to im- prove her roads. This sam would certain- ly be a handsome addition to the fund for good roads provided by the recent act of ‘Assembly. 100,000 are Homeless. BosTON, Jan. 18.—The latest reports to the American hoard from the relief centers in Macedonia show that there are now 100,- 000 persous who are homeless and without means of support for the winter, Of this number hetween 52,000 and 53,000 are. in Monastir vilayvet. The Turkish govern- ment is affording seme relief, and funds are coming from America and England. |e hill had carried the joke far enough, and ad- s | ministered a dose of law to the gentleman. | Phe jury that recently tried «her breach of romisé suit rendered a verdict of $3,000 in ar'favor, and the Lancaster county court ained the verdict. So Preston E. Brack- ili will bave to fork over the cash and hunt another girl, for Elizabeth is done with him as a lover. —The long expected deal for the purchase of the Beech Creek Coal and Coke company by the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke com- pany, it isstated, is practically consummated. The Beech Creek company’s property is lo- cated in the north of Cambria county, prin- cipally at Patton. Ex-Congressman James Kerr and Senator Patton, of Clearfield coun- ty, are heavily interested in the concern, which is backed up by the New York Cen- tral people. With the transfer goes all the coal tonnage of the Beech Creek railroad. The New York Central's support thus goes to the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke company, while the Pennsylvania railroad controls the Berwind-White Coal Mining company, the largest operating concern in the Central Pennsylvania field. It is believed that in time a general cousolidation of the soft coal interest in the Central Penusylvania field will take place. +
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