in,
wi
—~What will the sticky-fly paper manu-
facturers do for a living if this keeps up.
—Two weeks from today summer is
chronicled in the calendar. Weare glad it is
somewhere, because we have almost given
up hope of ever seeing it again.
—Three schools in Philadelphin had to
be closed on account of the cold weather,
which sounds as though the preparation for
the Christmas exercises would be seriously
interfered with.
—There was a bug convention at Car-
negie Institute in Pittsburg on Tuesday
and we imagine that mixed in among all
the big and little bugs there were a few
very green bogs.
—The theory that the earth is off its
axis may be all theory, but the time has
come when the layman looks around him
and agrees with that part of the scientist
proposition that something seems to be
wrong.
—The Warren woman who was blown
ont of a second story window and after a
fall of eighteen feet to the ground came off
unhurt must have heen what our distin.
guished District Attorney calls ‘‘able
bodied.”
—The weather man seems to be able to
send the mercury knocking down in the
thermometer at will but he can’t scare the
average girl out of the white skirt and
peekaboo waist. She may look blue with
the cold, but she is game, all the same.
—PENROSE has selected the candidate
whom the Republican party of Pennsylva-
nia will be harangued into supporting for
State Treasurer—at least that part of the
party which doesn's believe the old adage
that you can lead a horse to the water but
you can't make is drink.
~Now it has been discovered that the
“Trimmers’’ charged the State $650,000
for air space in the new capitol. As that
rate the place must be a veritable balioon.
Perhaps it is just as well that those metal-
lio fixins’ were put in the cellar because
they can serve as ballast.
—Qur merchants are still showing straw
hats, bat, like the ice cream and soda
water signs, they don’t seem to have the
drawing power that they did in the old
fashioned summers when seer-sucker coats
and palm leaf fans were as regular in ap-
pearance as the first of June.
—What Wall Street needs now is the
advertising manager from some big de-
partment store to start the rush on ite bar-
gain counters. The bargains are all there,
but the public wants to be told about it by
some versatile writer who has persuaded it
to buy ‘‘marked down’’ linens at marked.
up prices.
—Boss PENROSE has duped the Republi:
cans of Pennsylvania once more. After
bringing out several fences as aspirants for
State Treasurer they fell ip and nominated
SHEATZ with a whoop. SHEATZ was PEN-
ROSE'S candidate from the very first. He
always was a machine man, else he never
could have been chairman of the House ap-
propriation committee,
—The Rev. B. F. GRro¥rr, of Lockport,
Ill.,, played crap in a bar room in that
place from Saturday night until Sunday
afternoon and won five hundred dollars,
The parson was unfrocked some time ago
by his church and has been ‘‘going the
pace’’ ever since. If he could do that well
every day be would find bis new role more
profitable thau preachin’, though uot as
conducive to a future happy state.
—The first trial of the new primary law
in Centre connty has convinced men of
both parties that it is vothing more than
an expensive fake. Its provisions are so
ambiguous as to afford ground for contin.
ued litigation and contests and its opera.
tion can he manipulated so that far more
political trickery can be worked than was
possible under the old system ; not to men-
tion the fact that in some precincts of this
county the expenses averaged more than a
dollar for each vote cast.
—Governor SWANSON, of Virginia, put
it up to the President pretty pointedly on
Monday, when, during the unveiling of a
monument to JEFFERSON DAVIS, at Rich-
mond, he declared : ‘The war of seces-
gion was right. The recent action of the
federal anthorities at Washington in sus.
taining and aiding the secession of Pana-
ma, from Colombia, was a complete and
thorough endorsement of the southern se.
cession movement.’’ Come to think of it,
the cases were about parallel, but we bave
contended aj! along that RooSEVELT bad
no right to meddle in that Panama trouble.
~The Gazette's insistence on the eandi-
dacy of Col. E. R. CuamBers looks very
like it had rome other motive than that of
the Colonel's success. The editor of the
Gazette can scarcely claim much honest
friendship for Colonel CHAMBERS because
the memory of the precipitate haste with
which he tried to get the Colonel's brother
out of the Bellefonte post-office is too fresh
in the public mind. There is a nigger in
the wood pile somewhere and the probabil.
ities are that it is a scheme to have CHAM-
BERS beaten for a little county office in or.
der to advance the premiership of Judge
LOVE and the new postmaster among Cen-
tre county Republicans. This thing of im-
molating himself for a party that so uncer-
emoniously dumped him out of a twenty-
one hundred dollar office in which he was
an acknowledged success will scarcely ap-
peal to Col. CHAMBERS.
VOL. 52
Attorney General BONAPARTE is not
likely to continue long in ROOSEVELT'S
official family. He was shifted from the
Navy Department not long ago hecanse be
couldn’t coincide in the President’s views
on the subject of a big navy. He did bis
best to cultivate that KooseveLT-ian fad
and went so far as to express the hope that
the navy woald always be kept ap to its
present strength. Bot he deprecated the
ocean leviathans npon which the President
bas set his heart and even doubted the
wisdom of constructing #0 many ordinary |
sized battleships as the jingoes of the ad-
ministration favor. For that reason he was
taken out of the Navy Department where
it was thought his opinions might work
barm and anchored in the Department of
Justice where it was believed he would be
barmless.
Bat it appears to be a case of ‘‘ont of the
frying pan into the fire’’ with BONAPARTE.
In other words, having been put ous of the
range of making mischief in the matter of
naval equipment he has developed a faculty
of making infinitely greater trouble in his
new employment. Thas is to say, be is now
interfering with the President's most cher-
ished notions in the matter of railroad rega-
lation. The President is insisting with all
the earnestness and vehewmence which he
can command that the only way to restrain
the criminal propensities of railroad man-
agers is to pus the railroads under the con-
trol of the ROOSEVELT administration while
BONAPARTE comes forward with the com-
moo sense proposition that the right way
to stop criminal practices of railroad man-
agers is to put the criminally inclined rail-
road managers in jail.
We congratulate the administration on
the possession of one member who has the
saving grace of horse sense and the courage
and intelligence to point ont the only real
remedy for the evils of which the President
constantly complain but makes no effort
to check. For years the WATCHMAN has
been advocating the very policy which
Attorney General BONAPARTE bas just
enunciated. As long ago as when PAUL
MoRTON, then a member of the President’s
cabinet and Mr. BONAPARTE'S predecessor
in the Navy Department, openly confessed
his guilt as a rebater, we said that if he
were taken at his word and put in jail there
would be no more rebating while the mem-
ory of his punishment endured. Bat
RoosEVELT who didn’t want to stop rebat-
ing half as much as he wanted to fool the
public protested that the only way to pun-
ish rebaters was to fine the innocent stock-
holders of the roads and the resalt was
that the evil continued withoat abatement.
BONAPARTE is right, however. The in-
carceration of one railroad magnate will do
more to stop the excesses of railroad cor-
porations than a million silly speeches such
as that made by ROOSEVELT at Indianap-
olis the other day. Every sensible man in
the country understands this fact. It is
not necessary to subvert the government in
order to control the railroads and the sooner
the President is brought to an understand-
ing of this fact the better.
The Capitol Graft.
The testimony taken before the capitol
probers grows more interesting and surpris-
ing every day. It is wot surprising that
every item in the construction of the bauild-
ing was made a source of graft. The ad-
ministration duriug the four years in which
most of the work was performed was cor-
rupt. A public planderer never selects
honest men to help bim in bis work and
when QUAY nominated PEXNYPACKER for
Governor he had no idea of conserving the
interests of the people. He wanted to pro-
mote hisown sinister plans and nominated
PENNYPACKER because he was corrupt and
would serve a corrupt purpose.
But it is surprising that PENNYPACKER
was credulons enough to believe that he
could fool the public with trands which
were 80 transparent and prodigious. The
people were fooled, is is true, and up until
the moment that State Treasnier BERRY
made the exposure even close ohgervers be-
lieved that the capitol construction wasa
model of integrity. Now, however, every-
body knows the contrary. Even the treas-
urer of the commission had appropriated to
his own use the interest on the building
fund and only gave it up alter the appoint.
ment of an investigating committee made
further concealment impossible.
The extent of the corruption is also a
subject of astonishment. If she rake-off
had been moderate nobody would have been
surprised. In all public work there is more
or less corruption, Bat the average grafter
is satisfied with a small percentage on the
value of an article. In this affair, however,
there was no limis to the capidity of the
grafters. On some articles HusToN and
SANDERSON got two or three times the
value of the article in graft. This is really
the greatest source of sarprise. If the rob-
bery had been more according to rule it
would have been less sarprising.
~The auvnual commencement at The
Pennsylvania State College will be the in-
teresting evens of next week.
STA
TE RIG
HTS
AND FEDERA
BON PA JUNE 1007,
The Republican State Convention. i
i
The Republican State convention met
yesterday in Harrisburg and nominated
Joax O. SHEATZ, of Philadelphia, for
State Treasurer, endorsed PHILANDER
CHASE KNoX for President, and made all
kinds of promises about what they will do
with their State capitol! thieves, if the peo-
ple will only place the State Treasury un-
der their management again.
SHEATZ is known as the late chairman of
the House Appropriation Committee, who
tried to deprive the little hospitals and
the State institutions outside of Philadel-
phia of appropriations justly due them, in
order that private institutions and the
Philadelphia charities conld have all they
were asking.
KNOX is better known as being the HEN-
RY C. FRicK aod Pennsylvania Railroad
United States Senator than for anything
he has done for the public since the cor-
porations named him for the position he
holds.
The State Pension Bill,
It would be difficult toimagine anything
more absurd than the proposition advanced
by some esteemed contemporaries that the
Governor may cut the appropriation for
State pensions to a couple of million dol-
lars. It is soggested that while the hill
was pending in the Senate, where it origi-
nated, it was held that a million dollars
would be ample to cover the amount of the
appropriation and that that figure was ex-
pressed in the law. Subsequently the
House raised the figure to six millions and
the Senate concurred in the amendment.
The idea of those who favor the limitation
is that avy sum fixed by the Legislature
will be adequate.
The bill provides for the payment of a
specific amount to each soldier of the Civil
War who comes within its provisions. That
is to say, soldiers who served a certain
period are entitled toa certain sum asa
minimum and those who served a longer
term, specified, shall receive a greater
amount. The aggregate of the appropria-
tion, therefore, must be equal to the mini-
mum and maximum penison of each class
multiplied by the number of pensioners.
Otherwise it would come to a case of
‘‘first come, first served,’’ with nothing
for those who happened to come late to the
mill. It would cause confusion, disap-
pointment and injustice in various ways.
The original bill was conceived in the
spirit of benevolence, no doubt, and enact.
ed without anderstanding. The House
amendment was the result of investigation.
The pension agent of the Federal govern-
ment in Philadelphia was asked for an es-
timate of the number of pensioners there
would be under the provisions of the bill
in classes and the total was fixed in accur-
dance with bis estimate aud those of others
who had information on thesubject. To
cat the appropriation, therefore, would be
to destroy the purpose of the bill for the
chances are that those most deserving of
the gratuity wounld get nothing. The other
fellow would be in first.
Roosevelt Goes the Limit.
In his Decoration Day speech at Indian-
apolis President ROOSEVELT gave expres-
sion to a purpose which involves the com-
plete subversion of the government. Hith-
erto be bas frequently enunciated the spirit
of centralization and paternalism to an ex-
tent which has alarmed thoughtful citizens.
In at least one previous speech he declared
tbat the autbority of State governments
ought to be minimized in order that the
Federal government might exercise every
element of power possible under the con-
stitution. Bat in his Indianapolis speech
he goes far beyond that limit. He propos.
es the obliteration of the constitation.
He was invited to Indianapolis to de-
liver the oration at the unveiling of a mon-
ument to the memery of the late General
LawTOoN. General LAWTON was one of the
victims of that lust for empire which is
expressed in our conquest of the Philippine
Islands. In the dedication of a monument
to his memory there was no room for politic.
al discussion or stump oratory and prob-
ably no mau on earth other than Roose-
VELT would bave prostituted the opportu.
nity to make a political speech. But he
not only did that. He made an barangue
enunciating policies which ball a centary
ago would bave been denounced as treason-
able in every section of the country.
Mr. ROOSEVELT'S theme was government
regulation of railroads and iv order to make
that heresy complete he asserted the theory
that railroads not engaged in interstate
commerce conld be brought within the
Federal control because they carried mail.
If that be true every street railway which
carries mail could be put under Federal
control and every by-road in the country
traversed by mail carriers would he subject
to the same conditions. It is unquestion-
ably the boldest defiance of the Jriusiples
expressed in the amendments to the consti-
tution ever uttered and an absolate sub-
NO. 23.
Senator Knox and the Presidency.
Senator KNOX would have a better chance
of the nomination for President if bis party
had been less corrupt in the past. The
immense majority, cansed mainly by frand-
ulent votes, has fixed Penvsylvania so
firmly as a Republican State that no cod-
dling is necessary. As a matter of fact the
State has vos been certainly Republican for
a good many vears. In 1898 JENKS car-
ried is over STONE by a sabstantial majori-
ty sod was counted out. In 1902 the
fraudulent votes cast in Philadelphia and
Pittsburg elected PENNYPACKER aod his
knowledge and appreciation of the fact was
shown in his opposition to ballot reform
legislation during his term of office.
The country would be better if Senator
KNOX rather than Secretary TAFT were
nominated for President by the Republican
party. TAFT is tainted with the crazy no-
tions of ROOSEVELT ou the question of im-
perialism and the endorsement of such no-
tions menace the perpetuation of the gov-
ernment. There can be no enduring Re-
public laid on imperial lines and the Roosg-
VELT policies are imperial rather than Re-
publican. It may be possible that Roose:
VELT really intends that TAFT shall sue-
ceed him in office. Bat he expects to con-
trol the government while TAFT is in office
and finally succeed him after which the
succession will be a matter of heredity.
This is no false alarm.
We do not believe that Senator KNox
will be nominated for the Presidenoy by
the Republican party. The power of pub-
lic patronage is too great for that and
ROOSEVELT too skillfal a politician to be
defeated in a primary battle. No Presi.
dent has ever prostituted his power as
RoosEVELT has. Daring President GRANT'S
term of office the prevalence of official ven-
ality was a subject of popular execration.
It was even intimated that President
GRANT encouraged it ina way. Bat his
administration was a model of integrity
compared with thas of ROOSEVELT who is
the greatest grafter of his generation. No
public official has ever worked the public
offices as ROOSEVELT has.
“ Mitenge Pay for Election Officers.
Considerable consternation and no little
friction was caused in the commissioner's
office on Monday when it came to the pay-
ing of the return judges for Saturday’s pri-
mary election. As has been the custom in
the past the commissioners started paying
them ou the basis of hall pay for a regular
election and for making the returns mileage
on the basis of ten cents a mile one way
traveled. The note on the retarn blanks
specifies that return judges shall be paid
mileage at the rate of ten cents per circular
mile. After about one-fifth of the judges
had been paid on the basis of ten centsa
mile one way Col. CHAMBERS appeared at
the commissioner's office aud told the re-
turn jodges that the ‘‘ten cents per cir-
cular mile’’ meant that amount for every
mile traveled on the round trip, or just
double the amount they were being paid.
Quite naturally this caused more or less
friction.
turns demanded mileage for every mile
traveled and just as naturally the commis-
sioners refused to pay it. Ten cents a mile
one way is all that bas ever been paid for
making the returns for a general election
and that is all they would pay for this.
And when the question of mileage is
fully investigated it is a question il the re-
taro judges are entitled to any, or if the
county will be re-imbursed by the State for
the amount paid ont. The Uniform Pri-
maries act specifies that the primaries shall
be held by the regular election boards, who
shall receive one-half the pay they are en-
titled to for holding a general election, and
that returns to the county commissioners
can be made either in person or by register-
ed mail. It is not compulsory on the board
to bring the returns in and there is nothing
in the act providing for mileage pay for
their doing so. On Monday, however, the
judges were paid mileage and it now re-
mains to be seen if the State will reimburse
the county for the amounut thus paid.
~The large bank barn of John Soy-
der, near Lamar in Nittany valley, was
entirely destroyed by fire on Tuesday
night. Three valuable horses, two colts,
two calves and a lot of pigs composed the
stock burned. Most of his farm imple-
ments, harness, etc., were also destroyed,
as well as four hundred bushels of wheat,a
lost of oats, hay and straw. The loss is
estimated at over three thousand dollars,
only partially insured.
——Last Sanday Frank Barnhart, the
filteen year old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Barnbart, of Curtin, disappeared from his
homie and up to this time vo trace of his
whereabouts has been discovered. He wore
corduroy trousers, blue coat, cap and a pair
of shoes. Any information in regard to
him will be thanklully recieved by his pare
ents.
~The second hail storm of the season
passed over Bellefonte Wednesday alter.
version of the plan of our government.
Where Monopoly Gets Its Warrant.
From the Pittsburg Sun.
By every d subterfuge known the
leaders of the blican party now are
trying to blind the American people to
what long ago should bave become evident
to all. For forty years the Satan of privi-
lege has been dazzling the e with bis
promises of peace and plenty if they would
worship him.
They have fallen down and done him
homage. have in power almost
uninterruptedly the blican party
which bas elected to do his bidding. Now
at the climax of its predicted prosperity
the masses of the people are dismayed to
find there is no peace or joy in it.
They areno better off than they were.
They bave given wmonopolistio favors to
certain great manulactaring interests that
thereby vast industries might be built up
and the prosperity of the whole people
would be promoted.
Th. 1 ies, unmindtal
i lic, Saviigaiet
“A the
og hd
’ ve own
limit where it is cheaper to yield than fight
the unions.
Privilege in business under the tariff has
led to privilege in ¢ ander re-
Joe aed Slast ination ost which law
now desperately struggling.
Capital, privileged under the tariff into
monopoly, ht and gained the same
ie ong dogpisadiigpinr ig
everywhere in country ’
the sole reliance of the people against ex-
tortion, bas been d .
Yage, bat only because of the labor un-
ions, have gone up slowly. The devil of
Privilege is here being fought into compro-
mise with fire kindled from lis own flames,
by militant organized employees who have
caught their Smploysie spirit without a
single redeeming feature.
norganized labor, that on and in
small enterprise which scorns to use meth.
ods it knows are wrong, gets a constantly
diminishing net return.
It must pay tribute for what is needs to
monopoly and privilege in both labor and
capital. eure Bo ie) ef ( ggtlt
t such impersona
steel trust fostered by the tariff, the oil
as the
trust and meat combine created by the
railroads, and such public service monopo-
lies as that held by she Philadelphia Com-
pany be permitted without protest to con-
tinue to exploit the Sonutey a few years
and their extortionate profits on wickedly
swolen capitalization will make them im-
pregnable to such resistance as oan be
brought against them.
All these evils of monopoly spring from
that tap root of which the protective tariff
was the first and worst offshoot.
The Democratic party bas stood always
for equal rights to all, special privileges to
none. The people have followed these
other and false gods of Republicanism to
their sorrow and dismay. Will they re-
$50 to the true faith while there is yet
time
Our Atlantic imports Exeeed Our
Exports.
From the New York American,
The dominant political argument in favor
of our present trade relations with nations
is that it is resulting in a preponderance of
exports over imports. The iatesi figures
show that this is not true in regard to At-
lantic ports.
For the 10 mouths ended April, 190%,
the total imports into all the customs dis-
tricts of the Atlantic coast amounted in
value to $943,729,026. The exports in the
same period were valued at $913,909,432.
In those same 10 months the imports
into New York city aggregated in value
$714,914,749, and the exports only $529,-
The men who brought in the re: | 104,267
Import trade, as all commercial na-
tions are discovering, is as important to
a country as the cargoes that go out of it.
But the condition of commerce in our At-
lautic cities very clearly disproves the Con-
gressional contention that a high tariff sac-
cessfally keeps ont fofeign goods and there-
w wakes more certain American conquest
foreign fields.
The sections of America whose shipments
make our total exports exceed our import
trade are those that have raw materials to
sellabroad. The imports iuto the Gull States
for 10 months ending April, 1907, amounted
to only $52,265,592, while the exports from
the cities that ship raw cotton and other
unmanufactured supplies were valued in
the same period at 865,653
The God's Truth.
From the Wall Street (N. Y.) Journal.
‘Whats America needs more than railway
extension, and western irrigation, and a
low tariff, and a bigger wheat crop, and a
merchant marine, and a new navy, is a re-
vival of piety, the kind mother and father
used to have—piety that counted it good
business to stop for daily family prayer be-
fore breakfast, right in the middle of har-
vest; that quit field work a half hour
early Thoreday night =o as to get the
chores done and go So fuayer meeting. * * *
That’s what we pow to clean this
country of the filth of graft, and of
greed, * * * of worship of fine houses and
big lands, and high office, and grand so-
cial functions. * * * Great wealth never
made a pation substantial or honor-
able. * ¥ * Ig takes greater and finer bero-
ism to dare to be poor in America than to
charge an earth-works in Manchuria.”
~The class of 1906, Bellefonte High
school, held their first annual reunion in
the reception room at the brick school
building last Thursday evening. Almost
every member of the class was present and
they had as their guests supervising prin.
cipal Joho D. Meyer and Miss Ella Levy.
It is the intention of this class to holda
reunion every year in order to keep in
touch with each other, an innovation that
other classes might pattern after.
~The cow bas jumped over the moon
again and meat prices are necessarily high-
er.
Spawls from the ¥
—Butter is selling at 18
and eggs at 14 ceats per ”
Hamilton. . il “ols “8
—Suyder county do §§t wo |
county officer this yeai, thi
not happened in forty years. »
—Reading has forty-two school teachers
who have taught more than twenty- five
years each, and all of them are women.
—The Williamsport school board is dead
locked over the election of a treasurer.
Twenty-two ballots have been taken and no
result reached.
~The Clinton Clay company is going to
add a new red brick plant to its buildings at
Lock Haven and the work of building is to
be commenced soon.
—Hundreds oftons of bark have been
hauled to the tannery at Newport, Perry
county, during the past few weeks. One
hundred tons were delivered on Thursday.
—During May the death rate in Harris-
burg was less than for any month in five
years. The number of deaths was 57, against
71 in April. Since the city water is being
filtered typhoid fever has been almost wiped
out.
—(Governor Stuart has signed the bill pro-
viding that the compulsory education act
shall not apply to a child between the ages
of 14 and 16 years who can read and write
the English language and is regularly em-
ployed.
—Grace V. Seamon, aged 14 years of Boil-
ing Springs, Cumberland county, who left
her home mysteriously on February 4, has
been located in Ohio, having married Scott
L.Sunday, who left Boiling Springs about
the same time she did.
—The directors of the Indiana County
Railways company have decided to expend
$150,000 for the erection of a power house
and also for equipment. The plant will be
erected on the south side of Two Lick creek,
about a mile from Homer City.
—With men lining the sidewalks and no
one making a move to stop it, Miss Florence
Straub, junior at the Bloomsburg State Nor-
mal School, put them to the blush last Fri.
day by dashing into the street and capturing
a runaway horse and leading it to its owner.
—The Harwood Electric Power company
of Hazelton, charted by the Pardee inter-
ests, proposes to issue bonds to the amount of
$2,000,000 for the extension of its business,
the object being to furnish light and power
over a circuit of about twenty-five miles
about Hazelton.
—About twenty-five years ago Mrs. John
Frank, of St. Mary's, lost her wedding ring,
and although days were spent in searching
for the missing treasure, it was never found.
The other day while working in the garden,
she found the long lost ring and is conse-
quently rejoicing.
~The Juniata Valley Electric Railway
company formally opened its line in Hun-
tingdon Monday and with one car running
from the union depot to the new Carnegie
library, the Juniata college and the Pitts-
burg Industrial iron works, carried 1,500
passengers without a mishap of any kind.
~After litigation extending over several
years the supreme court has decided that
the great power plant of the York Haven
Power company is in Lancaster and not in
York county. The plantis located in the
bed of the Susquehanna river and is worth
considerably over a million dollars, yielding
a county tax of about $1.5
~The new law increasing the school teach-
ers’ salary became effective Jume 1. All
teachers who hold a professional, permanent
or normal certificate will he paid not less
than $50 per month, and teachers holding
certificates of less grade will be paid not less
then $40. The state will pay the increase
and so the new law will not work any bazd-
ship in the small districts.
—Herman Seibert, a resident of Johns-
town, was murderously assaulted and stab-
bed on Memorial day evening in that city.
He was passing along the street with a male
companion when some foreigners passed.
Some jeeriug remarks were made by the
Americans, when one of the foreigners is
alleged to have drawn a knife and stabbed
Seibert in the left shoulder.
—A special agent for one of the depart-
ments at Washington has been taking some
figures in Pennsylvania counties relative to
marriage and divorce. In Clinton county he
finds that within the pasl twenty years there
have been 4,819 marriage licenes granted and
4,640 returns of same made. During the
same time there were granted 344 divorces.
The examiveris quoted as saying this is
much below the average as compared with
some other counties.
—Wilbur Husband, aged 20 years, took his
gun and left his home, about four miles east
of West Newton, Westmoreland county, on
Thursday morning, to shoot crows on the
farm. He did not return during the day and
it was at first thought he had gone to the ball
game at the neighboring village of Mendon.
At night, however, his father, David L.
Husband, started out in search of him and
found him doubled up over a fence, shot
through the heart. He had been shot with
his own gun while climbing the fence.
—After working six months to secure a di-
rect clue to the parties who killed a deer be
fore the opening of the last season and left it
hanging in the woods in Goshen towuship,
Clearfield county, Game Commissioner
Humelsbaugh finally succeeded, and on
Tuesday at Clearfield secured their convic-
tion before a justice of the peace, who fined
them $100. The guilty parties were William
George, Melvin Gagahan and H. A. Troxell,
of Arrow, Somerset county, who came over
into Clearfield county on a hunting expedi-
tion before the opening of the hunting sea-
son.
—The Broad Top Lumber company has
been organized at Clearfield. It is composed
of a number of business men of that place
and will develop a 2,800 acre tract in Bedford
and Huntingdon counties. Two large saw
mills are to be put up and work commencad
as soon as possible. The Huntingdon and
Broad Top railroad passes through the
holdings of the company and thus it has
a convenient way of getting its product to
the markets. The timber belt of that section
of the state is practically untouched and the
company should be able to make consider-
able money.