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© —Today is Goed Friday. Can as much
be said of you ?
~Talking about grafters. The orchards
are fall of them these days.
' Who is going to keep politics a movin
‘with this pew ‘‘corrupt practices’’ act a
movin up behind you all the time?
—The first thing JOE BAILEY knows he
will talk himsdf into a nomination for
President and, if he does, RoosevELT will
have to support bim.
—The new spring hat seems to he noth-
ing more than the old “fried egg” with a
. few feathers on it—worn with a very de-
cided tilt toward the nose.
”
—An autograph letter of Senator De-
PEW recently sold for eight cents. It looks
bad to the public but it probably made
CHAUNCEY feel like thirty.
—1It is interesting to know that ROCK-
ERFELLER *‘did not wear his wig’ when
he cmerged from his three months secln-
sion at Lakewood on Monday.
—The scarcity of young men who are
willing to learn good trades is a question
that is going to give this country more
than a little concern ere long.
—What you are reading these days ahout
the way old Vesuvius is carrying on might
he saved for future use in describing the
meetings of the Bellefonte council.
-—Naming an American battleship be-
fore Congress bas appropriated money for
‘js construction looks a good bit like buy-
ing the haby carriage before the stork «r-
tives.
~The Easter eggs that will be given the
baby Sunday morning may not have all
the colors of the rain-bow on them, but
‘mamma's new hat will make up for all
that are missing.
" —The proposed retirement of RUSSELL
A. ALGER from the United States Senate
won't canse many tears to flow from the
boys who ate the embalmed meat at Cu-
‘ba and Poerto Rica.
~The h government owns more
‘than twentysfive thousand camels. Should
‘the American jingoes find this out they
‘will be after Congress to get a hump on
our Uncle SAMMY,
—Every one will be glad that Maxim
G OBEY, the Russian patriot, has found an
‘asylum in this country; that is, il it is his
health be is here for and not to stir up the
% # iar
a week ago—hetween the devil and the
d eep blue sea—and neither the strikers nor
the operators are willing to admit that they
are the devil in the equation.
—DowIE, self styled ELisan II, bas an-
nounced that hereafter he is to be Moses
II. It is probable that when he gets
through those bull-rushes that are growing
for him in Zion City his real name will be
DENNIS.
gearer
—In a Chicago church all the women of
more than forty years of age bave been
asked to resign their membership in cer-
tain societies of church work. It is not
surprising to learn that up to this time no
resignations have been received.
—The Connellsville Courier says the Un-
jontown Tribune is giving away $1.00
worth of garden seeds with each $1.00 sub-
scription to the paper. We rise to inguire
whether the editor of the Tribune was ever
in Congress, for if he was all is explained.
—It Judge JOHN STEWART leaves the
Supreme court bench to run for Governcr
on the Republican ticket he will prove
himself wotrue to the confidence reposed in
him when he was made the unanimous
choice of Pennsylvania for the high office
he now ills. He will not do it.
—If for no other reason the people of
Delaware county ought to send the Hon.
Toy CooPER hack to the Legislature just
to see what he will try to do to the Pennsy
for taking up the pass he has enjoyed ever
since he became a quantity in State polities
and that was shortly after the ark landed.
—1It is all right for ANDY CARNEGIE to
let on that he didn’t want those kisses
that the Atlanta women bestowed on him
on the occasion of his recent visit to tbaé
city, but his denial looks rather weak since
he confesses he didn’t ‘‘throw up his
guard’? until all the damage had been
done.
—A Johnstown girl ate raw camphor to
care a cold with the result that it acted on
certain nerves of her stomach in such a way
as to start ber laughing, and she nearly
langhed herself to death before physicians
could be summoned to couvteract the ef-
feots of the camphor poison. It would be
interesting to see camphor tried on a few
of the old sonr-balls around Bellefonte.
—The semi-official announcement that
the Hon. WILLIAM ALLISON, of, Spring
Mills, is to he a candidate for Congress will
make our friend Judge LOVE eit up and
take notice. Mr. ALLISON has hosts of
friends in the county and though we have
never been able to reconcile ourselves to
his political views, yet candor compels us
to say that when representing this county
in the General Assembly his actions were
always guided by his own conception of
the right and never by the crack of a boss’
whip or the subtle snazion of graft.
VOL. 5
A Bad Quarter of an Hour
Senator DOLLIVER gave the railroad lob-
byists of the Senate a real shock the other
day. Senator DOLLIVER, whose term is
about to expire, is anxious for re-election
and shoagh his heart is with the railroad
interests, political exigencies require that
he be with the President on the rate bill.
For that reason he aspired to be the floor
manager of the measure. His Republican
colleagues had set their faces against that,
however, and on motion of Mr. ALDRICH
that honor was couferred on Senator TILL-
MAN, of South Carolina, not that he loved
DOLLIVER less but because he hated
ROOSEVELT more. The incident didn’t
contribute to DOLLIVER'S amiability, how-
ever, and he has since been watebing bis
chance.
There ie a tradition that ‘‘everything
comes to him who waite” and DoOLLIVER'S
opportunity came to him the other day.
The railroad Senators, as the corporation
lobbyists are called, had been ‘‘chewing
the rag,’’ so to speak about the secret con-
ferences between the President and Seoa-
tors, favorable to bis rate bill notions, for
a couple of days, and finally DOLLIVER re-
marked that ‘‘be had as much right to
hold conference with the President of the
United States respecting veeded Jegisla-
tion as other Senators have to hold coun-
sel with railroad presidents with a view to
defeating that legielation.”” Then Senator
BAILEY, who has nothing to fear, ‘‘want-
ed to know’ and declared that if true the
statement is a national scandal. TILL-
MAN, who is always free with news, added
thas he bad seen President CASSATT go
into a committee room which is inacoessi-
ble to most Senators, and with that infor-
mation, according to a newspaper corre-
spoudent, ‘‘the subject was allowed to
drop.”
We bave never had any sympathy with
the habit which President ROOSEVELT has
developed of bossing Congress. It is a
subversion of the constitutional rights of
a co-ordinate branch of the government
and a menace to Republican institutions.
Bat it is infinitely preferable to the exer-
‘dents whoare m ler no obligations to the
‘public and can hay Bo purpose ater as |
the selfiech one of controlling legislation in
the interests of the corporations. It is
small wonder that Senator BAILEY protest-
ed. It is not surprising that the railroad
Senators grew ‘‘red and angry.”
Bug it is the people who shouid mani-
fest such symptoms of righteous indigna-
tion.
An Uncertain Litigation.
A test case having been instituted in the
Dauphin county court, it is probable tbat
the Senatorial apportionment bill enacted
during the special session of the Legisla-
tare will be declared invalid. Of its un-
constitutionality there is no doubt. ‘“‘No
county shall be divided unless entitled to
two or more Senators'”” is the exact
language of the fundamental law. Yet
Lancaster county is divided in the bill in
question, a portion of it being attached to
Lebanon county to form a district.
The reason given for this palpablejin-
fraction of the constitution is thas it was
impossible to dispose of Lebanon coanty in
any other way. The adjoining counties
being Berks, Dauphin, Lancaster and
Schuylkill, each, except Dauphin, cootain-
iog a full ratio, it couldn’s be added to
either of the others, while containing less
than half a ratio iteeil it couldn't be made
a separate district. But it might have
been attached to Dauphin county without
injustice to the people or violence to the
constitution.
For example, a Senatorial ratio, under
the census of 1900, is 126,000 and a frac-
tion. The population of Dauphin county
is 114,443, more than four-fifths but less
than a full ratio. Dauphin and Lebanon
together have a population of 168,270, 42,-
000 more than a ratio but 25,561 less than
Lackawanoa county, which is made a dis-
triot with one Senator and nearly 5,000
less than Schuylkill, which is similarly
disposed of. Besides, Berks county basa
greater population than Lancaster while it
gets one Senator and a little more than
bali of Lancaster gets one.
As a matter of fact, both the Senatorial
and Representative apportionments made
by the Legislature in extra session are un-
constitutional, unjust and partisan. They
reveal in every line the iniquitous spirit
which is expressed in ballot box stuffing,
false registration and the corrupt count of
the vote, which has given the Republican
party most of its majorities in the last doz-
en years, and is responsible for the parody
on manhood who is now masquerading as
Governor of the Commonwealth.
i.
_—
——Queer, isn’t it? Though the ‘‘no
bottle” ruling is now in effect some stray
bottles are still to be found on the streets
and in doorways most every morning; and
their appearance is very much like those
strewn around before the first of April.
~The weather thus far has not heen
very favorable for garden making.
BELLEFONTE,
Gordon May Guess Again.
In an address delivered before the Inde-
pendence club of Philadelphia, on the oc-
casion of a dinner in honor of the memory
of THOMAS JEFFERSON, the other evening,
former Judge JAMES GAY GORDON declar-
ed that if he were asked ‘‘to name tbe typ-
ical real Democrats of the present day,’’ he
would “write first the name of THEODORE
RooseveLnr.’”’ The distinguished young
jurist is not likely to find many Demo-
crats who will agree with him in that mat-
ter. In fact, taking the text of his speech
on the occasion as a standard of measure-
ment, it will be found that he disagrees
with himself most radically.
For example, Judge GORDON appropri-
ately estimates the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, written by JEFFERSON himself,
as an expression of the basio principles of
the party founded by JEFFERSON. The
keynote of that immortal document, as
Jadge GORDON states, is the proposition
that ‘‘all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
inalienable rights, that among these are
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
That to eecure these rights, governments
are instituted among men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the gov-
erned.”’ In otber words, according to JEF-
FERSON, governments have no power other
than that which conserves the life, liberty
and happiness of the citizen, and only that
with ‘‘the consent of the governed.”’
Under that construction of the duties
and powers of government how, in the
pame of Heaven, can Judge GORDON call
ROOSEVELT either a foremost or hindmost
Democrat. He is the assiduous and insist.
ent advocate of centralization and paternal-
ism in government. He aims to dominate
everything from the foreign policies of En-
rope to the rules of sport in the public
High schools, and he has no more regard
for the consent of the governed than a coal
bank mule has for the crop reports. He
bas consented to, and still encourages a
war of extermination to enforce govern-
‘ment upon an unwilling people.
Judge GORDON has another guess,
—
_ Aspeot of hie Rate BULL
a Th
The of opinion in Washington
is that Senator BAILEY’S proposition to so
restriot the power of the courts in review
ing the rates fixed by the Interstate Com-
merce commission as to make the legisla-
tion on the subject effective, will be de-
feated. The railroad managers are a unit
against the amendment and the railroad
Senators are vehement in their opposition.
It would be a palpable oantrage, they say,
to cast such an aspersion on the courts.
Pablic confidence in the integrity of the
courts, they add inferentially, must be
maintained at any hazard, and the only
guarantee of such a result is to all of them
absolute freedom in their service to the
railroads.
We are not in sympathy with the scheme
of the President and the Socialists for gov-
ernment control of the railroads to the ex-
tent of fixing rates. That discrimination,
whether in the form of rebates, terminal
charges or private car service, ought to be
prevented, is beyond question and there is
no doubt of the right of Congress to legis-
late on the subject. Bat it is not necessary
to usurp powers in order to achieve that
result. Effective penal legislation will
work the purpose. Bat if there is tobea
rate bill enacted at all it shonld be of a
character to accomplish the purpose for
which it is designed and the BAILEY
amendment to the pending bill is essential
to its efficiency.
As a matter of fact,however, the deliber-
ations of the Senate on the subject is de-
generating into a broad farce. Senators
BAILEY and RAYNER have shown the folly
of legislation which can be held up indef-
initely by the courts and the special pleas
of the railroad Senators have simply served
to confirm the opinions they expressed.
But we have the President ‘‘batting in’
on one side aud the railroad magnates on
the other until the subject has become so
confused as to be beyond understanding. It
might as well be abandoned at once, if the
K xox plan is to be carried out, for the leg-
islation proposed by him would be abso-
lutely worthless.
wd XP
——While the law provides April 15th
as the opening of the trout-fishing season
it also prescribes a penalty for fishing on
Sanday and as the 15th this year falls on
that day all fishermen are aware of the
fact that trout cannot be legally taken
until the morning of the 16th, Monday
morning next. At that time, however,
there is no doubt bus the usual large num-
ber of dicciples of Izaak Walton will make
their customary pilgrimages to their favor-
ite streams. The outlook for the opening
day as well as for the coming season is
bard to predict. Some fishermen say
that the trout will be very scarce while
others aver that they have seen just as
many in the streams this spring as in past
seasons. The present high water, however,
will likely cause the opening day catch to
"STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
PA., APRIL 13, 1906.
be quite small.
Don't be Teo Certain,
We wouid cantion ‘‘the rural public,’
as the Philadelphia newspapers usually
characterize the people of the interior of
the State, against placing too much coofi-
dence in the reform councils of that city.
Both branches of the municipal Legislature
were organized the other day on a reform
basis, according to the estimate of those
who believe that the extra session of the
Legislature onred all the ills of the State.
But we bave since learned through the
same medinm, that the reform effected is
of the spurious variety and that as a matter
of fact, it simply turned out the servants
of one firm of contractors and put in those
of another.
The truth of the matter is that the re-
form that has been exploited so loudly,
both in the city of Philadelphia and
throughout the State, is a bogus sort as-
sumed for the purpose of recovering lost
We would not be understood as
saying that there are no honest reformers
among the Republicans who deserted the
So far from it
that we know that some, and a considera-
ble number of them for that matter, are as
sincere and unselfish as it is possible for
men to be. Bat the pretense of the man-
agers of the Republican machine that they
have determined on a new course with re-
spect to public affairs, is fraudulent and
power.
machine standard last fall.
misleading.
The government of the city of Philadel-
phia and that of the State of Pennsylvania
will never be greatly improved until the
Republican party is voted out of power, or
at least notil all the grafters are relegated
into private life or public prisons. It
would he easier for a leopard 10 change his
spots, and infinitely more likely, than for
men who have reveled in grafs for years to
change thieir babite of life.
When Philadelphia councils are organ-
ized ay iust all corrupt contractors | there
will be some hope, and when the legisla-
tive delegation is made up of patriotic cit-
izens rather than banditti, that hope will
be fulfilled.
Go On With the Inquiry.
“« Thongh the Governor vetoed the
tion of Representative CREASY, of Colum-
bia county, providing for a legal inquiry
into the relations of the railroads aud coal
mining companies of this State, and of
both to the constitution, there is nothing
to prevent the Attorney General from pro-
Article
seventeen, section five, of the fundamen.
tal law declares specifically, as recited in
the CREASY resolution, that ‘‘no incorpo-
rated company doing the business of a
common carrier, shall, directly or indirect.
ly, prosecute or engage in mining or manu.
facturing articles for transportation over
ceeding with the investigation.
its works.”
Several of the railroads practically ad-
mit that they are violating this provision
of the constitution but contend that they
are exempt from any penalty, for the rea-
son that the Legislature has neglected to
enforce the provision by appropriate legis-
lation as provided in section twelve of the
But section ten of Article
seventeen provides that ‘‘no railrond, ca-
nal or other transportation company, in ex-
istence at the time of the adoption of this
article, shall have the beneiit of any fature
legislation by general or special laws, ex-
cept on condition of the complete accept-
ance of all the provisions of this article.”
Both the Pennsylvania and the Reading
railroads have bad the benefit of legisla-
tion, both general avd special, since the
adoption of the constitution and have
therefore, inferentially accepted the pro-
visions of the constitution and are amena-
ble to its restrictive conditions. That be-
ing true, if the Attorney General finds up-
on inquiry that the provisions of Article
seventeenth, which forbids carrying cor-
porations from engaging in mining articles
“for transportation over its works,” he
may abrogate the charter or inflict any
other penalty which seems to him just and
proper. Therefore, the Attorney General
same artiole.
ought to go on with the inquiry.
——It is a matter of considerable grati-
fication to the many friends of Rev. Morris
E. Swartz to note the continued advance-
ment be is making in the ministry as well
as in the Central Pennsylvania conference.
His transfer from Panxsatawney to Clear-
field was a raise, bat the fact that he was
assigned to the pastorate of that new filty
thousand dollar church, which was dedi-
cated but a short time ago, is evidence that
he merited the appointment. An old
Bellefonte boy, he carved out his own
carreer, and is deserviog of all the nice
aod congratulatory things that are be-
ing said about him now.
—-Owing to the coal strike and inability
to get a coal supply sufficient to run them
the Bcotia ore mines have been closed
temporarily. It is to be hoped, however,
the shut down will not be of long dura-
tion.
~The West Branch M. D's were in
their element on Tuesday.
Is There to be Another War?
From the Harrisburg Independent.
A sarprising piece of information came
from Manila on Saturday, to the effect that
the United States battleship Wisconsin bad
sailed at midnight under rush orders to
join the American fleet at Shanghai. The
reason for this burried departure for the
Chinese port is left to the imagination of
the reader, who has not heard of any dis
turbance in China that makes necessary
the presence of any American warships.
So far as the public is aware nothing has
occurred to disturb the friendly relations
of the United States, and China. There
have been some minor disturbances, it is
true, bus persons on the ground who were
in position to speak from knowledge of the
facts, have said again and again thas those
disturbances were not anti-American in
their character. Nothing to the contrary
has reached the public through any source.
It American prestige is to be maintained a$
Shanghai, certainly it will not cost more
to keep an idle battleship there than any-
where else. But if the Chinese govern-
ment demands an explanation of the pres.
ence in Chinese waters of a formidable
American squadron, what answer will the
Administration make? How can the rush
order to the Wisconsin be accounted for?
What will the battleship do in Chinese
waters ?
Of course it is a matter of common knowl-
edge that Washington is war crazy, thas it
sees a war behind every tree stump and ar-
mies and navies in every bush, and that it
wants to make itself! feel sale by Foating
the public money into the purses of favor-
ed contractors. But even that does not
throw any light on the mission of the Wis-
consi. What is doing in China, or at
least in the Navy Department of the Unit-
ed States ?
When “Jags’ Mast be Plentiful.
From the Scottdale Independent.
It is said that climate has a good deal to
do with drunkenness. We are told that a
raw, dull climate predisposes to drink.
Thus the northern counties of England are
more drunken than the southern, Scotland
is more drunken than Eogland, and the
west coast of Scotland is more drunken
than the east. The vigorous, predominant
races of Europe, if not of the world, seem
to have been always given to strong drink.
While reading on the subject of the drink-
ing customs of England the writer was as-
tonished to find the past ten years England
has spent on drink $875,000,000. Its av-
erage annual expenditure on drinkamounts,
therefore, to a sum that is more than the
entire annual revenue, that is equal to all
the rents of all the bowsesand afwg is she
, and that is only a little leds than
‘the cost of the South-Af war. Nearly
five-eighths of this goes in beer, about a
third in epirite, and one-thirteenth in wine.
The expenditure per head, on the basis of
the whole population works out a little
over $21 per annum ; but it is reckoned
that there are in the United Kingdom
nearly 3,000,000 abstainers and about 14,.
000,000 children under the age of fifteen.
Deducting these, the number of actual con-
sumers is estimated at 24,000,000, whose
annual expenditure per head thus comes to
over $35. It is also caloulated that the
English working-class family spends al-
most one-sixth of its income on liquor. No
wonder there is so much poverty and sul-
fering in the mother country, and the
trouble is there seems to be no means of
changing these conditions.
The Sonth in the Senate,
From the Springfield Republican.
It is a great mistake to assnme that the
whole south bas taken up with men of the
Arkansas “*Jeff’’ Davis type for its United
States Senators, and that this indicates a
changing public sentiment in that region
regarding fitness for high public station.
The same period which bas placed Tillman,
and now apparently Davis, in the Senate
has also placed there such brilliant men as
Bailey, Culberson and Carmack, all young
men of the ablest sort. The north has sent
no one to Washington in recent years better
unalified intellectually and oratorically for
torial service than the three Senators
named from Texas and Tennessee. Mr.
Bailey and Mr. Culberson make Texas one
of the most strongly represented States in
the Union. ‘‘Jeff’”’ Davis, too, while of
the type of Tillman in his early pbase, may
develop in Washington much of the same
wer that the South Carolinian now ex-
ibits. Governor Davis is certainly not ef-
feminate in his character, whatever else
may be said of him. As a whole, the
south’s representation in the Senate has
not loet in vigor, force and intellectual
power during the past fifteen years.
Beginning to Show What They Were
Created For.
From the Johpstown Democrat.
The real purpose of Penny
sacks is becoming very plain just now and
perhaps some of those =o organizations
which turned down the suggestion that
this new military force was created fox
some other purpose than that of protecting
are beginning to open
their eyes. The latest move of the Cos-
sacks bas been to enter the homes of miners
at Yatesville and to search the premises for
firearms. That this is a wholly illegal and
uncoustitutional proc reding does not seem
to affect the sensibility of the Cossacks.
Nor did it affect the sensibilities of Bell's
ey Jue
ex: atler, who
ns this invasion of his home by the
militia and refased to surrender his con-
stitutional right to bear arms, is still fresh
in the public mind. The Colorado experi-
ence with a relentless military despotism
may not be so far away from us here in
Pennsylvania as some people imagine. To
all appearances the State constabulary is
learning fast. Maybe labor will learn too.
er's Cos-
Wouldn't It Fix Us Nicely?
From the Connellsville Daily News.
The department of agriculture announc-
es that it bas succeeded in growing the
puckerless persimmon, Now if it gives us
an odorless onion, meltless ice, and a frost.
proof peach we will be satisfied.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Afler being dry for thirty years a license
has been granted in Williamsburg.
—Not a dollar has been spent on repairs to
the main street at Athens since it was paved
10 years age.
—Bedelia David, an Arabian girl, 18 years
old, was killed by a Pennsyivania railroad
train at Latrobe, Pa.
—Forty-three building permits issued in
Harrisburg in March represented building
operations of $286,725.
—The Knox Iun, one of the best-known
hotels of New Castle, Pa., closed its doors be-
cause it was sefused a license.
—Seventy saloonkeepers of Schuylkill
county were arrested last Sunday for vicla-
tion of the license law by selling liquor on
Sunday,
—Rev. Alexander M. Rich, of Baltimore,
has accepted the rectorship of Trinity Episco-
pal church of Tyrone and took charge last
Sunday.
—The city of Williamsport is rigidly en-
forcing the cigarotte law, and it is claimed
that the cigarette smoking habit bas been cut
down 30 per cent.
—While building a cofferdam in the
Susquehanna river at McCall's Ferry, for the
McCall's Ferry Power company, three men
were drowned on Saturday.
—A large leather wallet in the hip pocket
of Robert Bingham, of Chambersburg, saved
him from a bite from a vicious dog, which
made an attack upon him on the street. The
pocketbook shows deep imprints of the ani-
mal’s teeth.
—Five dozen quail, supplied by the State
game commissioner, were liberated on Mon-
day in the woods near Shamokin. They
were in fine healthy condition and good re-
sults are expected of them in the way of
propagation.
—Senator J. Henry Cochran, of Williams-
port, has authorized the announcement of
his candidacy for State Senator in the twen-
ty-fourth district. Mr, Cochran has already
served three terms in the Senate, having
been first elected in 1894.
—John W. Kephart, a Cambria county at-
torney, has secured options on eight farms in
Juniata township, Huntingdon county, for
the ostensible purpose of starting a game pre-
serve, though it is the general belief that
this is not the real object.
—Huntingdon borough receives interest
from local banks for every dollar of funds it
has on deposit. The county has also made
the same arrangement, and its revenues will
be the gainer to the sum of $350 on the in-
terest account for this year.
~The Cambria Steel company at Johns.
town advanced the wages of the men em.
ployed in its rolling mill mine beginning
with April 1st. The miners will receive 59
cents per net ton. The wages of other labor-
ers will be increased proportionately.
—Among the new court rules which have
gone into effect in Luzerne county is one pro-
viding that a deposit of $50 must be made
with the prothonotary by any person who
wishes to sue for divorce. The institution of
proceedings is conditioned upon this pay-
ment.
~The Quemaponing Coal company has
purchased 200 acres of coal land from Jere
Berkey, of near Stoyestown, the consid.
eration being in the neighborhood of $12,000.
Several other farmers in that vicinity have
sold their lands to the same company. Early
development of the field is lookea for.
=A. G. Grabam, of Clearfield, is probably
the heavinst timber dealer of the present
winter, He made fifty-three timber rafts
and succeeded in getting 41 of them to the
river, some of them being hauled a distance
of 6 miles. The timber was cut on what is
known as the Goodyear lands and is said to
be of the quality of ‘ye olden time,"
—David Braden Pore, chief of police of
Mount Pleasant, who was shot Thursday
night by Andrew Lindsay, died Sunday
morning in the Memorial hospital, Mount
Pleasant. The commissioners of Westmore-
land county have offered a reward of $250
for Lindsay's arrest, making a total of $500,
the council of Mount Pleasant having offered
a similar amount.
—Former Congressman A. C. Hopkive, of
Lock Haven, has placed his favorite driving
team on the retired list, one being 27 years
old and the other 28. They will spend their
declining years in pastures on the Hopkins
farm in Woodward township, never again to
feel the harness, Mr. Hopkins owned the
team 22 years, and the horses are as lively
and frisky as 2-year-olds,
—The sixteenth annual tournament of the
Pennsylvania State Sportsmen's association,
which will be held this year at Milton under
the auspices of the Milton Rod and Gun club
May 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th, promises to
eclipse anything in the shooting line that has
ever been held in Pennsylvania. The pro-
gram will be out early in April and will con-
tain many items of historical interest to
every shooter of the State.
—Samuel Nogel, aged about 20 years, em-
ployed at the saw mill of Kulp & Co. at
Lewisburg, was fatally injured Thursday
morning just before noon. He was attempt-
ing to replace a swift running belt, which
had slipped from the wheel, when the stick
used to lift the belt caught in the wheel aad
broke. One end was thrust into his body,
just above the heart, inflicting an injury
from which he died five minutes later.
—The American Gas company has secured
control of the Kittanning Consolidated com-
pany, an auxiliary of the Standard Oil com-
pany. The property consists of over 30,000
acres of gas territory, 100 producing wells,
and pipe lings running to Kittanning, Manor.
ville and Ford City. The consideration is
said to approximate $1,000,000. The same
company absorbed the Manufacturers Gas
company a few days ago, paying $55,000.
—Mike Shaulis, owner of a sugar grove of
4,000 trees in Jeflerson county, says that
now, with his new ‘“‘pocket’” sugar pan, he
can beat anything in that section of the coun-
ty boiling sugar. He has 2,100 keelers out,
and from these he gathered the other day
100 barrels of sugar water, and he boiled the
entire amount in less than 10 hours. Mr.
Shaulis says the runs of the first part of the
week were the best of the season, and he
thinks the crop this year will be well up to
the average if it does not exceed it.