BY PRP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
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—The Republican County Convention
met on Tuesday.
—It named a ticket that is scarcely
worthy consideration.
—Unless it be for its ponderosity of
beef and paucity of brains.
—The convention was tresided over by
county chairman REEDER through his
marionette T. M. GRAMLEY, of Gregg’
township. Sl
—Only one delegate out of the one-han-
dred-and-twenty-one. was absent, but: the
ticket would have been just the same had
they all staid away. 5%
— Aunt CLEMENTINA DALE nominated
Love for Judge, because LovE did so
much for her when she ran for Congress
and when her brother ALAN was an aspi-
rant for the post-office. And “Take and
Tell You’’ GOWLAND seconded it because
LoVE is going to make him post-master of
Philipsburg. : a
—GEORGE E. LAMB was nominated for
prothonotary over J. R. BIBLE ; principally i
because Mr. LAMB is the popular bartend-
er in a Philipsburg hotel and Mr. BIBLE is
a hard working, thoroughly competent,
well ‘educated. school teacher and farmer
from: Potter township.- The Republican
county organization does not need farm-
er votes. LOVE thinks he is going to
get all (he needs for his ticket from the
Clearfield border townships.
~—There were four aspirants. for the As-
sembly nomination. Only two of them
were ever in the race. The WATCHMAN
told you that six: weeks ago. Before the
balloting began A. A. DALE Esq. asked
. that his candidacy receive no further con-
sideration and withdrew; leaving little
PHIL WOMELSDORF, big JOHN KNISELY
and battled scarred, farm bronzed JOHAN A.
DALEY to fight it out on the lines laid
down by the arbitrary LOVE regime that
seeks a new lease on the bench.
—Ot! course the result is known. WoM-
ELSDORF was nominated on the first ballot
by 107 votes. He got so many because he
was such a hitter foe of the late Governor
HASTINGS and inasmuch as he is dead now
LovVE has begun the reward of those who
were against him. A second ballot result-
ed in 66 for KNISELY and 55 for DALEY. It
required some slick rulings on the new
rules of the party to couut the old Curtin’
township war horse of Republicanism out,
bat it had to be done because old soldiers
and farmers can’t get votes for his ticket
like the ponderous Bellefonte pool room
proprietor can.
—The probable explanation of the DALE
knock-out is to be found in the fact that
' they are sach'good Republicans that they
know no resentment. ‘Like ten-pins they
are put up to be knocked down; the lead-
ers all being confident that they will never
kick. Now it would have been different
with WOMELSDORF. - The Moshannon
would have been over-flowing with the
blood of the victims of his long knife had
Judge LovE ordered any of the precincts of
his home town taken away from him ou in-
structions. The difference is’ "that the
DALES are good Republicans and little
PHIL is a good kicker. DALE was killed
simply because he never makes a trouble-
some corpse.
—As to why JOHN KNISELY should have
been preferred to A. A. DALE Esq., that is
nohody’s business but Judge LovE’s. He
is the miin gazelle in the Republican party
and when he says thumbs up you can just
bet a plugged two-oent piece to his ruling
on the CONFER case that thumbs will be
up. Of course the fact that Mr. DALF has
a college education, is trained in the law,
comes of a family that was making history
in Centre county before Judge Love was
heard of and represents’ one of the largest
and most nncompromising Republican
clans in the county might bave bad some-
thing to do with it, because the Judge
can’t stand for anybody’s knowing any
more than he does himself.
—But what of Col. JOHN A. DALEY, he
that has fit the fights of his party from
morn ’til night for these many years. As
soldier, as farmer, as citizen he has always
been distinguished in the county, but as a
politician LOVE has certainly seen to i%
that henceforth be is to be extinguished.
Just: what the Colonel has done no one
but the boss knows. It was apparent, on
Tuesday, however, that he had captured
enough delegates to. nominate him and
would bave gotten the position on the sick-
et bad the orders not gone out to make all
rolings favorable to KNISELY. The new
rules were worked both ways by the astute
diplomats of the ring and every vote that
seemed heading towards DALEY was
promptly headed the other way and used
to save Mr. KNISELY. The sum and sub-
stance of the entire convention was the
carrying out of the plan to kill DALEY
and DALE. After that was done H. H.
HARSHBERGER was nominated for district
attorney, D. W. PLETCHER, of Howard, was
named for county surveyor and Col. W. F.
REEDER nominated for connty chairman.
Then Love spoke and his words were :
‘‘Notwithstanding the allegations of cer-
tain parties this Court is not in politics.”
In other words he denied the allegations
and likely would have licked the allegator
bad he shown up just at that time. The
Court's announcement that ‘‘it is nos. in
polities’’ is simply part of a speech it bad
written to deliver before the death of HAsT-
, INGS, for in those days the poor old court
never could ges ‘‘in it.”’ try as hard as ib
would, and had the Governor been living
Taesday the expression would have been
fraught with more truth than poetry.
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‘Pennypacker’s Grave Crime.
~ Governor PENNYPACKER has finally
written himself down as the most absolate-
ly oconscienceless and utterly slavish ser-
vant of the corrupt political machine.
Other servile agents of the bosses like SAM
SALTER stuff ballot boxes, but little better
is expected of them. Spawn of the slums
they are taught lessons of vice from the
beginning and are hardly accountable, for
they scarcely know the difference between
right and wrong. But Governor PENNY-
PACKER was probably born in a cultured
and christian environment and taught the
lessons of civilization and morality in the
orthodox fashion. He is learned in the
law and has had the advantage of 2 long
continued association with scholarly ..d
reputable people. Nevertheless he obeys
the mandates of the machine in a matter
which steeped his soul in the sin of perjury
and hypocritically defends his action by
pleading a confusion of mind.
On Friday last Governor PENNYPACKER
appointed Attorney General PHILANDER
C. KNOX to fill the vacancy in the office of
United States Senator for this State caused
by the death of MATTHEW S. QUAY. We
have no quarrel with the character or fit-
ness of the appointee. He is a gentleman
of the best type.. A lawyer of conspicuous
ability, and a public official who will do
whatever corporate authority desires him
to do, his service in the Senate will be use-
ful to the Republican ring if not valuable
to the State. . Our complaint is, therefore,
not against the man but against the method
by which he was “‘catipulted’’ into the of-
fice. It is against the immorality of vio
lating the constitution and the precedent
of usurping a power which‘ was deliberate-
ly and wisely withheld from the Governor
by the framers of the constitution. There
is the gravest danger in such actions he-
cause they imply moral delinquency on
the part of the authorities and provoke
crime on the part of the people. ;
The Governor had no excuse for com-
of the State other than a perversity of
nature which prefers wrong to right. = fis
pretense that there is a conflict between the
federal and state constitutions is the stupid
figment of a diseased brain or the un-
natural product of a bad heart. The feder-
al constitution provides that in the event
of a vatanoy, she Vexeoutive thereol may
make temporary appointments nutil the
shall then fill such vacaneies.”” : The State
constitution declares that in the event of a
vacancy ‘‘the Governor shall convene the
two Houses, by proclamation on notice not
exceeding sixty days, to fill the same.”
Therefore’ under the federal constitution
the Governor might have made a temporary
appointment and convened the two Houses
on notice not exceeding sixty days, ‘‘and
complied with both the federal and state
constitutions,
: But the exigencies of the corrupt political
machine of which PENNYPACKER is a con-
_temptible servant forbids the calling of an
extra session of the Legislature and agree-
his oath, fractured the provision of the
state constitution and marked himself
down as an official highwayman. In shat
be has forfeited all claims to public respect.
As he passes on the street the finger of
derision should be pointed at him and the
salutation ‘‘shere goes the executive who
perjured himself to serve a political a-
chine” should follow him. There is no
excuse for his crime. no palliation of his
offence. He has sinned in tLe light of
knowledge and deserves tle punishment
which attaches to perjury. QUAY isn’t to
blame for this. offence. It’s his own per-
verse natare.
The Supreme Court Will Decide.
The appeal of State Treasurer MATTHUES
from the absurd decision of judges Von
MoscHISKER and BELL in which the con-
stitutionality of the judges’ salary law was
affirmed, will bring that curious measure
to a real judicial scrutiny. ‘Of course the
opinion of the two too obliging jurists will
invalid. There is no escape from. such a
result, for though there may he one or two
justices on the Supreme bench who care
more for political exigencies than for the
law, the majority of the court is not built
that way and we feel confident that the
law will be obeyed under the guidance of
conscience.
Judge VON MOSCHISKER is no more fi$
to be a judge than the average hobo is to
be an archangel. This was revealed clear-
ly in the decision in gnestion. He not on-
ly ran counter to the lester of the constitn-
tion but put himselt diametrically opposite
the intent bf the framers of that instrument
as expressed in the debates of the conven-
tion. If additional evidence on the snb-
jeot were needed, moreover, it was pre-
sented the other day, when insurance
commissioner DURHAM, who has been open-
ly violating the law by drawing salary
years; returned from a five months vaoca-
tion, that bogus judge was among the
m itting this crime against the constitution
next meeting of the Legislature, which
ably to orders from ‘the bosses he violated |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. _
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 17, 1904
crowd that met him at the depot to extend
to him an obsequious welcome.
The constitution declares in specific
language that ‘‘no law shall extend the
term of any public officer, or increase or
diminish his salary or emoluments after
his election or -appointment.”’ If there
were no other guide to a. just decision that
would be ample and even overwhelming.
But as a matter of fact the debates in the
constitutional convention prove that the
language expresses with singular accuracy
the intent of the framers of the constitu-
tion so that the judicial treasury looters
baven’t a leg to stand on and the Supreme
court will point out that fact. It isa great
pity, though, that the court can’t also ad-
minister a deserved rebr.ke to the super-
servicable judicial servants of the machine
who want the observed decision.
Rumors Obviously False.
The administration organs are now busy
inventing and circulating rumors which
are intended to convey to the public mind
the idea that the transfer of Astorney Gen-
eral KNOX from that office to a seat in the
United States Senate will make no differ-
ence in the administration’s policy in re-
gard to trusts. We sincerely believe that
to be true. That is to say we are convinced
that whether KNOX had remained in the
cabinet or not the foolish pretense of ‘‘trust
busting’’ would have been abandoned. The
trust magnates, bave made terms with
ROOSEVELT beyond doubt. Bu it is true,
nevertheless, that KNOX’s transfer was to
cinch the agreement. s
The latest rumor in this connection is
that proceedings will 'be begun in the near
future against the anthracite coal carrying
companies. That rumor is absolutely with-
out foundation in fact. As long as ROOSE-
VELT remains .in the. White House the
anthracite coal trust is absolutely secure.
KNox was transferred for no other purpose,
The recent investigation of the operations
of that'combination bad resulted in sucl: |
discoveries of facts as wonld have made it
impossible for KNOX to avoid proceedings
in court. He never intended to develop
such facts when the investigation began.
But he developed them notwithstanding
and he bad to get ont of the office to avoid
the logical consequences.
The vacancy: in the United States Senate
afforded the opportunity he desired and
which had become a necessity to the ad-
ministration and heé bas availed himself of
it. ROOSEVELT was the first to discover
the opening and he communicated it to
president CASSATT of the Pennsylvania
railroad who was vitally interested. . That
gentleman did the rest by pulling strings
on PENNYPACKER, PENROSE and DUR-
HAM and there will be no violation of the
agreement. That would be too expensive
an operation to the machine of Penusyl-
vania. The gentlemen who control that
iniquitous organization may deceive others
but they. will never monkey with Mr.
CAsSATT. They need his friendship in
their business. : :
The Pennsylvania Delegation.
There have been all kinds of conjectures,
absurd and otherwise, with respect to the
Pennsylvania delegation in the coming
Democratic national convention. Most of
them have bad their origin in the offices of
Republican newspapers and practically all
of them are ascribable to Republican
sources. But they have failed in their ob-
vious purpose. They have not provoked
-any of the leading Democrats of the State
to reply. Dignified silence bas been the
Attorney General,
Carson’s Opinion
Attorney General CARSON is at present
of the opinion that the commission of
PHILANDER C. KNOX as ‘Senator in Con-
gress to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Senator QUAY will expire on the
assembling of the Legislature on the first
Monday of January, 1905. We say.at pres-
ent, for the Attorney General is not tena-
cious of his opinions and his views on this
question are liable to change at any mo-
ment on a hint from insurance commission-
er DURHAM that some other sort of opinion
would be more satisfactory to the machine.
Probably it is because the Attorney Gener-
al doesn’t know much about the Jaw or
possibly it is for the reason that he hasn’$
much pride of opinion.
he changes his mind to suit the exigencies
of the machine. - * 3
But in any event
When QUAY was appointéd Senator in
Congress to fill a vacancy ésused by the
failure of the Legislature to elect his own
successor, HAMPTON L. CARSON, of Phila-
delphia, was employed by the opponents of
the machine to argue against his admission
before the Senate committee. ' He perform-
ed that duty with satisfaction to those who
employed him because he showed olearly
that the only way to fill a senatorial vacan-
cy in this State was the method provided
in the constitution of the State.
STONE ought to have called an extra session
immediately on the adjournment of the
regular session, he said, and he proved the
proposition to the satisfaction ‘of the com-
mittee of Senators.
Governor has a right to appoint and the
commission thus acquired is good until the
day of the meeting of the Legislature in
regular session.
Governor
Now he declares the
Of course that is absurd, but CARSON is
absurd and nothing else could be expected
of him. If the Governor bas the right to
appoint at all under the state constitution
his appointee may serve until his successor
is elected, unless the Legislature fails to
elect, as it did in the session of 1899. Un-
der the federal constitution be. has the
right to appoint until the Legislature has
heen assembled ‘‘by proclamation on notice
not exceeding sixty days.”’ Bus the state
constitution requires the assembling of the
Legislature and unless the Senate stultifies
itself to promote party exigencies it will
refuse to admit Mr. KNOX to the seat alto-
her. That course will involve a vacan-
oy until after the Legislature elects, but
‘Pennsylvania is used to that.
Preparing for Frauds.
That there will be a record-breaking vol-
ume of fraudulent votes in Philadelphia at
the coming election is plainly indicated by
present signs. For some reason the ma-
chine managers appear to think that their
best efforts in that direction will be neces.
sary and for that reason they-are ‘clearing
decks for action.” That is to say, accord-
ing to reports in the daily papers of that
city, indictments of about 150 men accused
of ballot box frauds of one kind or another
were stricken from the calendar of judge
DAVIS’ court the other day on the motion
of an assistant district attorney. The rea-
son given for this extraordinary motion was
that some of the accused had since died.
‘The assistant district attorney added
that the indictments were returned in
1897, 1900 and 1901, that some of the wit-
nesses couldn’s he found aud that probably
some of the records had‘ been abstracted
from the office of the prothonotary. All
those things may be trme and it is more
than likely that they are. But they don’t
rule. Colonel GUFFEY has gone so far as
to say that the delegation will vote as a
unit fora suitable man and no one has gone
Our Republican friends may as well un-
derstand first as last that it’s none of their’
business what the Pennsylvania delegation
does at the St. Louis convention.
be set-aside and the law will be declared
without performing duty for nearly four.
made up of gentlemen who are entirely
capable of taking care of themselves and
fisly discharging the trust committed to
them. This they will do without doubt
and when it is'‘done the Republican prints
and Republican politicians will regret that
there was so much sanity and safety in the
outfit. Pennsylvania will be potential in
the convention and its voice will be for the
man who will best serve the interests of
Democracy and patriotism.
‘The convention is less than three weeks
off and the members of the Pennsylvania
delegation bave thus far found nothing to
worry themselves about except the im-
minent danger that anxiety as to what they
will do will give their Republican friends
heart disease. But if said friends will
compose their souls in patience until three
weeks from to-day, the WATCHMAN will
engage to give them full and accurate in-
formation, not only as to what the Penn-
sylvania delegation did in St. Louis, but
as to who will be the next. President and
Vice-President of the United States. It
will be the gentlemen for whom the Penn-
sylvania deiegation votes in the conven-
tion. :
——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN.
comprise the real reason for the motion
anyway. It was to give notice that fraud-
ulent votes are needed and that there is no
danger whatever in supplying the demand.
The present district attorney has been mak-
ing some professions of reform and judge
DAVIS was elected on a reform ticket so
that it was necessary to indicate in some
way thas ballot hox stuffing would be safe
in order to get it done on reasonable terms.
The motion of the district attorney was for
that purpose. : :
The result of these legal proceedings is as
obvious as the purpose unless the greatest
vigilance is exercised to prevent it.
is, there will be a vast army of ballot box
stuffers, repeaters and false coiners in the
city at the next election to earn the money
which is to be subscribed by the Manufac-
turers’ club for the purpose of debauching
the vote. It can be prevented by a careful
scrutiny of the registry lists and the coura-
geous resistance of frand by party watch-
ers.
therefore, to prevent or at least to mini-
mize the frauds that are contemplated.
They bave had plenty of notice.
That
It is np to the Democrats themselves,
——The movement of Dr. J. STEINBACH,
of Winona, Minn., to have the old Liberty
bell repaired so that it will give out the
same sound that it did in colonial times is
misguided,
standpoint it would be an impossibility to
repair the famous crack so shat the tone
would be the same; not to mention the
fact that this country has long since rele-
ated to the precincts of memory only the
Send of liberty the old bell proclaimed in
indeed. From a mechanical
1776. :
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‘of the federal constitution read ‘‘shall,”’
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How it Doesn’t and How it Does.
‘From the Philadelphia Inquire (Rep.) June 11th,
THE POINT OF VIEW,
Page 11.
There was a lively
stock market yester-
day, with a volume of
business amounting
to 27,278 shares and
$190,000 of bonds.
There was a more
hopeful tone, the feel-
ing on the street be-
ing that the retire-
ment of Mr. Knox
from the Cabinet was
the beginning of a
change in the attitude
of the administration
toward the big corpo-
rations. As the an-
thracite coal gronp
has been held back
by the prospeat of Mr.
Knox instituting pro-
ceedings to - disrupt
the community of in-
terest arrangement, if
was the first to feel
the effect of the “pros-
pective retirement of
the Attorney General.
It was urged not only
Page 8.
Booking under ev-
ery stone and peer-
ing into every corner
for an issue—any is-
sue—to found cam-
paign speeches upon
the Democrats are
showing a disposi-
tion to make capital
out of the selection
of Attorney General
Knox as Senator
from Pennsylvania.
Their newspapers
are declaring that
the trusts have been
at work to get Knox
out of his present of-
fice in order that
proceedings against
combinations = may
be halted or disabl-
ed. They take the
ground that in the
Senate he will beless
troublesome than
as the prosecuting
law officer of the
Government.
There is a good
deal of nonsense in
that sort of an argu-
mens. It is based
upon the proposi-
tion that the Attor-
ney General is the
only lawyer in the
country with the
ability to conduct
prosecutions. If that
were true you
would not find the
President acquiesec-
ing in the resigna-
tion of Mr. Knox
from his Cabinet.
of interest existing
among the Reading,
Lehigh Valley, Jersey
Central, Erie, Lacka-
wanna and Delaware
& Hudson would re-
main andistarbed, but
that it would be in-
creased so as to in-
clude. the Ontario &
Western, the Lehigh
& Hudson and the
Lehigh Navigation,
making the control of
the anthracite prod-
uct even tighter than
it is now.
Buncoed Again!
From the New York World. i 3
The Philippine census returns must be
disheartening to those patriots who have
stoutly insisted that we got all the natives
we paid for. The official count shows that
the rate per head for the ‘little brown
men’’ we rule “outside the Constitution’
was more than $2.63, instead of the bar-
gain counter $2 upon whizh Tom Reed lov-
ed to expatiate.
The total population of the archipeligo
is only 7,635,426, showing a clear loss, of
1,364,574 on the original estimates. * Apd
674,740 of this beggarly 7,600,000 are sav-.
age and uncivilized—wild,_ things to be
win as will by Dr. Wood any other
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velous promotion. ’ eh y
‘By the time the favorites are all promot-
ed and ‘the natives ‘‘pacified’”” we shall
have lefs probably only a paltry 6,960,686
wards of Duty and Destiny. The rest,
baving been benevolently assimilated,
must be charged off the books, and the
average net rate per Filipino at the original
price will not be far from $3—a good stiff
charge for ‘‘fluttered folk and wild”? who
are deficient even in the gratitude and
grace to patronize American industries.
6000 Miles from a Jury.
From the New York World.
‘No freeman,’”’ promised. King John
under the persnasion of the barons at Ran-
nymede, ‘‘shall be taken, or imprisoned,
or disseized, or outlawed, or exiled, or in
any way harmed—nor will we go upon or
send upon him—save by the lawful judg-
ment of the peers or: by the law of the
land.” Sola ;
For nearly seven hundred years that has
been the law of English-speaking men.
But the Supreme court of the United
States, by its favorite vote of five to four,
bas decided that not'only the Constitution
but Magna Charta stops this side of the
Philippines. American citizens living in
that favored land are not to enjoy the right
of trial by jury because Congress was under
no obligation to extend that right to a peo-
ple unfit to exercise it. gh
Of course, the law'is what the majority
of the Supreme court declares it to be.
But there is no disrespect to that lofty tri-
banal in saying that if our flag is floating
over seven million people who are unfit to
be trusted with trial by jury it is wander:
ing altogether too far from home.
A Nimble Nullifier.
From the Philadelphia Record.
As a nimble nallifier of constitutions the
Attorney General cannot hold a candle to
his excellency the Governor.
The Record has tried hard to unravel the
tangle of the Pennypacker mind and to
find some corkscrew path of justification
for seeming inconsistencies. - Is now ‘gives
up the job for good. In making the ‘‘may’’
and the ‘‘shall’ of the State constitution
‘‘may,’’ to suit his purpose in appointing
a United States Senator to fill a vacancy,
and in finding a conflict between the feder-
al and State constitutions where no such
things exists, Pennypacker has out-done
Pennypacker. Since the world was made
there hag been no such other man !
And What a Glorious Outlook it fis.
From a Republican Exchange.
The railroads of the conntry have just
discharged 75,000 men. Business houses
in Wall street turned 2,500 clerks out of
work. The Elmira bridge works has let
its several hundred employees go and a sim-
ilar story comes from other cities in our
land. Work will be hard for the city
dwellers this year, but expenses of living
will go right on, families will still need
food and clothes, rent will come due with
appalling regularity and heads of house-
holds will walk hot, paved streets all da
in vain search of any kind of a job.
that the community,
Spawls from the Keystone,
—The last outbreak of smallpox which
dates back to Jan. 31st, cost the borough of
Shamokin eight thousand dollars. In all
138 cases were treated.
- —At the, Perkiomen. paper mill, in some
'| old strap paper, an old deed of 1825, calling
for 240 acres of land in Somerset county,
was found. It had never been recorded.
—Walter Scott, ex-mayor of Erie, died at
a late ‘hour Monday night, aged 58 years.
He was a member of one of the prominent
families of Erie, and held many positions of
trust. Sm nally.
—Tliness struck the panel of jurors for this
| week’s term ‘of Montgomery county civil
court. Four did not respond to their names.
One was reported dead and three others
sick. Ten asked to be excused from duty,
four on the ground of illness.
_ —State Fish Commissioner Meehan has
made application to the United States Bureau
of Fisheries for a supply of 2-year-old trout
to be placed in the Bellefonte and Wayne
county hatcheries and also for a number of
black-spotted or cut-throat trout. The lat ter
variety will be sent to the Wayne county
station.
—A valuable deposit of iron ore has been
discovered in a ridge of hills north of
Wrightsville, along the Susquehanna. An
analysis shows about 91 per cent. iron. Phil-
adelphia capitalists are making preparations
to run the ore bank and ore will be supplied
to all blast furnaces around this part of the
State. :
—The reduction of force by the Pennsylva-
nia Railroad company in the Altoona shops
resulted in a shrinkage of $110,000 in
the amount paid out for May labor
of more than $100,000, as compared with
the payments for March and April, each of
which was about $612,000, while that for
May is $502,000.
—Leo Swarp, a lad aged 12 years, of Galit-
zin, fled from his home Friday to escape a
whipping, pursned by his father. Running
up the mountain side he stumbled on the
crest of the embankment at the western end
of the Pennsylvania tunnel and rolled down
to the tracks 80 feet below. His skull was
fractured and death resulted.
—Willis N. Dyer, of Curwensville,a former
prominent lumberman of this region, died
on Saturday evening while sitting in the
business office of his son, F. J. Dyer. He was
aged about 76 years. Mrs. Dyer and two
sons and two daughters survive. The sous
are Fred J. Dyer, of Curwensville, a promi-
nent business man of that place; ex-county
treasurer L. C. Dyer, at present engaged in
business at Hamilton, West Virginia; Mrs.
Strubbs, of Portland Maine, and Miss Carrie
Dyer, who lives at home,
—On June 15th the bass season opened
This season formerly opened on May 30th,
but under the new law it was made two
weeks later. The fact that the sunfish fami-
ly, under the new statute, are protected,
should be remembered. There is no specifi-
ed size relative to sunfish, but they are pro-
tected as to season, which opens on June
15th. ' No rock bass over five inches in
length must be taken, the law requiring
that all under this size be thrown back: im-
mediately. No black bass under] seven
inches can be kept.
—The deep toned whistle on the John E.
DuBois big mill seemed to carry a note of
sadness in its cadence Tuesday evening
when blown at 6 0’clock, quitting time, says
Monday’s DuBois Courier. It was the fare-
well ‘toot from the plant that has been a
‘familiar landmark of the town for 30 years,
James P. Roscoe was the engineer and he
gave the big whistle a variety of stops ‘and
starts that attracted general attention to the
farewell sound. All work was finished up
Saturday and it is probable dismantling will
soon start. !
—The planing mill known as the J. M.
Chestnut mill at Jersey Shore, was complete-
ly destroyed by fire Thursday morning about
1 o’clock. It is not known how the fire
started. The loss is estimated at $12,000
with $6,000 insurance.. The mill was located
in Bicknell’s addition. It was incorporated
under the name of the J. M. Chestnut mill,
but was the property of Frank Ulmer and
Dr. G. E. Bastian, of Salladasburg. Camerer
and Lambert were running the mill, having
bought the stock and leased it last August
for a year.
—Three of the youngest burglars to figure
in the criminal history of Northumberland
county, Henry Williams, Michael Trevitts
and Frank Shumansky, of Mt. Carmel, their
ages ranging from 12 to 15 years, were each
sentenced Monday by judge Voris Auten to
eighteen months in prison for a‘ number of
robberies they committed in Mt. Carmel.
According to the confession of one of them,
they plotted to kill a cashier and rob a bank.
They are the trio who almost escaped from
Northumberland county jail last week by
tunneling under their cell walls.
—Thirty-five trout, snugly tucked away
in the loose part of her shirt waist, caused
the undoing of Mrs. John Tobo, of near Em-
porium.’ When the fish warden held her up
near Potato creek, Cameron county, he found
that her fish basket was empty. Then he
noticed that she appeared stouter than usual
about the waist. Investigation revealed the
smuggled fish. William Tobo, the ‘wom-
an’s son, had 30 undersized trout in his creel
at the time, and the mother and son were
promptly arrested. The pair were taken be-
fore a justice of the peace, who fined the son
$300 and his mother $350. This is the rate
of $10 a trout, the legal penalty for taking
these fish under size. Neither of them
could pay the fine, and they went to jail for
the customary alternative of one day for
each dollar.
—The toy pistol as a ‘‘weapon’’ for the cel-
ebration of the Fourth of July by the small
boy is passing—in fact it has passed. The
edict has gone forth and let the sinner be
pitied who violates the law : says the Har-
risburg Patriot. The large number of deaths
last year from tetanus due to premature dis-
charges of Fourth of July toy pistols has
caused the state board of health to take de-
cisive steps in preventing the sale of these
death-dealing weapons. “Throughout ‘the
State attorneys have been retained by the
board to prosecute the violaters of the laws
in regard to their sale and heavy fine or im-
risonment is the penalty. ‘‘Here in Harris-
re: where last July four boys under 16
years of age succnmbed as the result of lock
jaw from exploding pistols, Hon. John E.
Fox has been retained by the State board
——Subscrihe for the WATCHMAN.
‘| and will prosecute dealers in these forbidden
toys.”