—Certain it is that there wasn’t any
presid ential timber made on Taesday.
—The trouble with most of us seems to
be that we want more things than are good
for us.
—The Gazette didn’t attempt the job of
figuring ont RUNKLE'S majority by the per
foot rule.
—Centre county wasn’t in need of a
police officer. She chose to have a county
attorney instead.
—It was a plain case of tbe people of
Centre county rising above party and doing
what they thought was hest.
—The Thanksgiving turkey is not only
climbing up onto higher roosts, but is the
dragging the price ap, as well.
—Certainly PENROSE should be re-eleot-
ed tothe Senate. Hasn't Pennsylvania
proclaimed in no small voice that she wants
him.
~The election is over. Forget it!;JCom-
meunce to worry now about where you are
going to get enough coal to keep you warm
this winter.
—The fellows who follow the political
game, either for pleasure or profitjare al-
ready beginning to think of what is to be
done in Febroary.
—The business depression that everyone
now believes is coming will be explained
pext spring as fear of the'eleotion of a Dem=
ooratio President in the fall.
—1It State should trounce Penn at Phila-
delphia tomorrow it would prove ahout as
satisfactory up this way as the county elec-
tion turned ous to be on Tuesday.
—It is quite evident that a large ma-
jority of Pennsylvanians have little "con-
cern about how their affairs at Harrisburg
are conducted. Tuesday's returns show
that.
—1It is all right about that Taylor town-
ship mystery, but the people up there were
introduced to a real ove after they raised
that $87.00. The mystery now is: What
pecame of their money ?
—Next week the deer season will open
but if the deer prove as scarce as other
game has been the fellow who goes to the
mountains merely for sport will have as
good results as the seasoned hunter.
~— Before the election we made thefpre-
diction that in the evens of BHEATZ'S
election nothing would ever come of the
proveoution of the capitol grafters. The
eleotion is over and our opinion bas not
changed.
—That was a splendid vote of confidence
Pennsylvania gave HUSTON, SANDERSON,
SNYDER, HARRIS, CassELL aud PENNY.
PACKER wasn’t it. After all PENNY.
PACKER wasn’t such a great fool for tell-
ing the people that QUAY was greater than
Cray. He knew the kind he was talking
to.
—Mayor Tom JOHNSON has been re-
elected in Cleveland. Mayor JOHNSON'S
victory over Congressman BURTON is inter-
esting in that the President some weeks ago
began meddling in the contest and the re-
sult can be construed as a decided rebuke
to that gentleman. The people of Cleve.
land evidently were not to he driven to
vote with a big stick.
—The only fanlt we have to find with
Tuesday's results is that there is no one to
crow over or rub it in to, unless it be the
machine Republicans who vote for any-
thing simply because it is on their ticket.
The better thinking Republicans stood
with us in such numbers that the victory
is as much theirs as our own, aud we ocon-
gratulate them ou it.
—Tuesday’s election results in Belle.
fonte can be regarded as an expression of
opinion on the Bellefonte postoffice ap-
pointment. RUNKLE received a majority
of one bundred and fifty-three votes over
the PENROSE candidate in a borough that
normally is one hundred and fifty the other
way. PENROSE made the postmaster in
Bellefonte, hut the postmaster can’t make
self-respecting Republicans vote for PEN-
BOSE men.
—In its issue of June 7th the WarCcH.
MAN published this opinion concerning the
effort of the Gazetfe to have Col. CHAM-
BERS run for the office of district attorney :
There is a nigger in the woodpile somewhere
and the probabilities arethat it is a scheme to
have Cuanszas beaten for a little county office in
order to advance the premiership of Judge Love
and his new Bellefonte postmaster among the
county Republicans,
The Colonel ran. The results are known
and you can bet your last son that every
time in the future he aspires to anything
the same wily ones who advised him to
ran will he using she result as a turn
against hm,
—Did you ever know of a man who can
beat RoosevELr. On Tuesday nighs,
whew It was proclaimed that KATZENABE
was elected Governor of New Jersey TeD-
DY was right ont with an interview that it
was an endorsement of his principles. But
when full returns changed the result on
Wednesday aod revealed that FORT was
really elected Governor of that State TED-
19 was right there with the opinion that
it meant a vote of confidence for his ad-
ministration. It certainly must be a hap-
py condition of mind that plays the old
game of “heads I win, tails you lose”
with itself.
VOL. 52
The President was almost persuaded,
the vther day, according to the dispatches,
to call Congress into extraordinary session
in order to secure some legislation which
the *‘frenzied financiers” imagine they re-
quire. The hook was beautifully baited
for him. The financiers assured him that
they wonld consent to any regulation of
industrial and sransportation corporations
that he might happen to desire, if he wonld
only agree to their extra session proposi-
tion. The prospect was most alluring.
What he could do to the Ananias club un-
der such circumstances would be plenty.
But like the sly old fish that he is, he
finally determined against the proposition.
The scheme of the financiers has been
stated in the dispatches in a rather indefi-
nite way. That is, the public is informed
that it is their idea to make ‘‘such amend-
ments to the financial laws as will result
in the maximum of flexibility with the
minimum basic change in our system. "The
meaning of that can only be conjectured.
Bat it must be important for the financiers
are willing that the President shall ‘‘em~
body his suggestions on corporation control
into suscinot recommendations for evact-
ment into law,’’ and that ‘‘the President
set Congress to the task” of putting both
propositions upon the statute books. It
could hardly be possible to imagine a more
comprehensive plan.
At first blush, of course, it looks as if
the President would stand to win every-
thing ont of this arrangement. He is very
anxious for a national incorporation law
which would give him complete control of
all corporations including ‘‘every big con-
cern engaged in interstate commerce.’
But there are reasons to think that proba-
bly the financiers discern some source of
recompense for their concession to the
presidential ambition. They are, accor-
ding to their ow n statements, on the verge
of “the woss dangerous situation which
has confronted the country during an ex-
tended historic period,” and the peril is
attributable to ‘‘lack of confidence based
on known irregularities in business meth-
ods. ”
who have heen contributing other people's
money to buy victories for the Republican
party are beginning to feel that they are
coming within the shadow of prison walls
and are willing to sacrifice every principle
of government in order to secure immunity.
The President was strongly inclined to join
in their schemes and gravely considered
the question of calling the extra session.
Some wiser mind intervened, however,
and influenced him to keep out of the mnd-
dle. He was probably shown that before
he could get the machinery of his vast en-
terprise into operation he will be voted ont
of power without a living chance of ever
getting back again.
Lesson for Democrats.
In the campaign just ended there isa
lesson which the Democrats of Pennsyliva-
nia should study carefully. It is the utter
and absolute insincerity of so-called inde-
pendent Republicans. The average Re-
publican is a bitter and bigoted partisan.
There are exceptions, of course, for they
are necessary to prove the rale, bat the
vast majority of Republicans who profess
reforms are simply disappointed place
hunters who make a false pretense of re-
form in the hope that it will accelerate
their progress into office and promote sel-
fish and usually absurd ambitions. The
recent campaign revealed these facts olear-
ly.
Two years ago these so-called indepen-
dent Republicans joined with the Demo-
orats in the support of a Democrat for State
Treasurer. It was claimed by those ocon-
cerned in she government that they were
influenced by purely patriotic motives but
that may be doubted for a year later they
came like huoksters demanding a prioe for
their wares. We mast have the head of
she tioket, they said inferentially, or else
we will return to the machine and ever-
lastingly destroy all chances of permanent
reform for years to come. Their demands
were allowed and a fight for the place en-
sued resulting in the nearly ball which met
defeat going back to the machine. This
year there being but one office to fill and
no chance for dealing, the other hall went
hack without even a ceremonial farewell.
The lesson to Demoorats is to make no
fasure combinations wish selfish and sordid
hypoorites professing reform. Men of the
ManLoN N. KLINE type, for example,
have no conception of unselfish patriotism.
They have an inordinate and insatiable
thirst for office and like the Reputlicans of
New York in the recent campaign would
combine with any gang of crooks or plun-
derers who would promise.them reward for
their recreancy in the shape of office. Mr.
KLINE and these of his kind would gladly
follow DURHAM, MCNICHOL and PENROSE
if there were a prospect of a share of the
plunder at the end of the journey.
S—————————————————
— Ever since the election the weather
been most disagreeable ; a fact hard to
account for as it was not defeated.
STATE RIGHTS AN
BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER
Roosevelt a Reactionary.
Sms,
President ROOSEVELT, it is understood,
has determined to modify his message 80
faras it relates to ‘‘malefactors of great
wealth.” Before be started on his recent
bear-hunting expedition in the South he
intimated to some olose friends that he
would give “beroic’’ treatment to the
HARRIMANE aud others who bave been
juggling railroad shares too freely for com-
mercial morality. During the subsequent
Wall street anpleasantness he declared
with much emphasis that his course with
respect to corporations wonld not he alter-
ed hy such trifies as speculative panics and
fiotisions monetary disturbances. Bat it
seems that his mind bas undergone a radi-
cal change on the subject.
In other words the latest information
from Washington is to the effect that the
President ‘will make it plain’ in his an
nual message ‘‘that in his pursuit of some
dishonest heads of combinations of capital
he has no intention of aiming a blow at
the small stockholders nor of injuring insti-
tations iv which they are interested.’”” To
be exact it may be said that the President
doesu’t intend to ‘‘run amuck’' against
corporations, as he hiwsell declared after
the court dissolved the Northern Securities
company and criminal prosecutions of those
responsible for that lawless combination
were all hat was necessary to pus an end
to inimical trasts for all time.
The President veed hardly have given
the public this assurance. Everybody
knows that he would willingly exterminate
snoh corporation managers as disagree
with him on certain fundamental ques-
gions and make a ‘‘rocky road to travel”
for such ae fai! to respond promptly and
generously to the demands for campaign
funds for his party. Buthe has never
done anything to seriously interfere with
the trusts and it is not likely that he ever
will. On the previous occasion referred to
he abandoned the fight at the crucial point
and now under pretense of sheltering the
interests of small stockholders he is getting
ready to pursue the same course.
Result of the Election.
The vote of Tuesday is significant. It
indicates that the oitizenship of Peonsyl-
vania is more than ‘‘corrupt and content
ed.” [tis actively venal. The Republican
candidate for State Treasurer not only rep-
resented the most atrocions ‘‘erim,
inal conspiracy’’ ever organized in
any oivilized community, but he wae con-
victed of falsification. A people who will
honor such a man ander any circumstances
bave something the matter with them.
There is necessarily an sbsence of that
moral fibre which guides men to the right
course. The result of Tuesday's election
is a prolific source of shame.
There weré abandant reasons why the
verdiot of the ballot should have been dif-
ferent. The inigaities of the machine were
fresh in the minds of the people. The ex-
posures of graft in the construction of the
capitol were green in the public memory.
The candidate of the Republican party bad
been a servile instrument of the machine
and his Democratic antagonist was a splen-
did specimen of the best citizenship
of the State and country. These
things were known to the voters.
There could be no misunderstanding of the
issues or the result. Yet by a majority
something above the average the Republi-
can candidate was eleeted.
The victory was, of course, a triumph of
the machine, and it makes Bois PENROSE
the undisputed leader of the Republican
party as well as the head of the machine.
When the Legislature meets a year from
pext January to elect Mr. PENROSE'S suc-
cessor the ““mollycoddies’ will probably
ask the Democrats to save them from the
effects of their own stupidisy. Bat they
are not likely to find an acquiescent
minority in shat evens. The Democrats
are not responsible for PENROSE. He isa
product of she malignant Republican ma-
chine. But the Republican party has adopt-
ed him and must accept the consequences.
——On Wednesday James Miller, who
lives near the Nittany furnace, was arrest:
ed by fish warden George D. Shannon, of
Philadelphia, for the illegal use of fish
baskets. The law regulating the use of]fish
baskets provides that the number of the
basket aud the name of the owner must be
on it while every day from sunrise until
sunset the bottom slats must be removed.
None of these requirements were being ob-
served by Mr. Miller, hence his arrest. He
was taken before justice of the peace John
M. Keichline who bad vo alternative but
to impose the stipulated twenty dollars
fine and costs.
Mrs. James Gregg, formerly of Cen-
tre Hall and Milesburg, bus now of Ty-
rone, was the unfortunate victim of an
automobile accident the laster part of last
week in which she was thrown outand
had three ribs broken, as well as eunstain.
ing a number of bad cuts and bruises,
Fortunately her injuries are not of a oriti~
oal nature.
D FEDERAL UNION.
A Reservoir of Iniguity.
Now that the election is over it is to be
hoped that somebody, clothed with the
authority, will make a thorough investiga-
tion of the State Highway Department.
Charges of various kinds of irregularities
have been made against that Department
and they have gone unanswered. It hae
been alleged that every contractor who
gets work from the Department is ‘held
up” for some sort of tribute by some one in
the Deparment. There have been reports
| that contractors are required or were, to
{bay a certain kind of road roller atan
exorbitant price becanse the manufacturer
gave a rake-off to some ove in the Depart.
ment and no denial has heen made, thus
far, of auy of these serious charges.
These charges may have been indefinite
in some respects and come from irrespon-
sible soarces, of course, aud in that event
there would be some exouse for paying no
attention to them. Where there is a great
deal of smoke there is tolerably certain to
be some fire, however, and gossip which is
80 common usually is not without founda-
| tion. In any event the charge that the
| Highway Commissioner has been appoint.
ing a vast number of inspectors without
| authority of law and paying them as arbi-
trary rates in violation of the provision of
the constitution which forbids payments
in the absence of appropriations, is both
definite and on substantial authority, and
the people ars entitled to fall information
concerning it.
The State Highway Department was
fundamentally wrong in its organization.
It never ought to have been oreated in the
way provided by the several acts under
which it is operated. The universal desire
of the public for good roads was taken ad-
vantage of by machine politicians to foist
upes the State a reservoir of inigaity and
until the present department is legislated
out of existence and the place it occupies
in the ‘Palace of Graft’’ completely fumi-
gated, it will continue. Necessarily this
work will involve the imprisonment of
some of those.coucerned in she crimes that
bave been committed under the sanction of
the Department and the energies of the
ptopei. authorities ought to be turned to
ward a remedy at once.
Will the Coming Comgress Act!
Prices of all kinds of necessaries of life
continue to advance and are readily ap-
proaching the point thas is inaccessible to
most families. Even men of moderate
means are forced to gravely oonsider the
question of supplying the table. It used
to be said that American mechanics had
meat at every meal while those in Europe
were fortuuate if they got meat at their
Sunday diuner. There is dauger of the
Earopean cuisine heing forced npon us ba-
cause of the excessive prices of necessaries.
We must bave vegetables, bread, shoes and
raiment whether we have meat or not and
we are being compelled to a choice in the
matter.
All the high prices are not the result of
tariff taxation bus most of them are as-
oribable to that evil. Tariff taxation in-
oreases the cost of production in every line.
Farw implements, tools, stable equipment
and everything else used on the farm are
inoreased in cost by tariff taxation. The
producer fixes the prices of farm commodi-
ties by the cost of production and the con-
gamer pays the price at she last analysis.
As Mr. HAVEMYER, president of the sugar
trast testified, the tariff is the mother of
trusts and trusts are she agents through
which exorbitant prices are fixed and fore-
ed upon the people.
Congress will meet three weeks from
next Monday and if the majority of that
body is 80 inclined a revision of the tariff
that will remedy the evil may be complet.
ed by the middle of January. It will not
be necessary to resort to free trade. In
fact thas would neither be desirable, nor
possible, for tariff taxation is necessary to
meet the fixed charges of the government.
the tariff schedules, within that time, as
to bring pricee to a just level without im-
pairing the fair profits of the producer.
Will the coming Congress perform this
service for the people?
-—The election is now over aud though
it may seem a little tough at first the de-
feated ones will simply bave to grin and
bear it while the victorious candidates can
afford to be magnanimous enough not to
gloat over their fallen foes ; aud in the
meantime the next thing to engross the
attention of the people will be the teachers
institute which will be held the week be-
ginning November 18th, while aféer that
we'll have to do a lot of thinking to find
out where the Thanksgiving day tarkey is
to come from.
~——Centre countians who were granted
an increase in pensions the past week are
as follows : Henry Clay, Coburn ; Jackson
Watson, Moshannon; James Harris, Belle-
fonte; William Hartsock, Julian; Columbus
ipsburg.
8. 1907.
But there can be such a modification of | Company, to the “trust,” as the United
| States Steel Corporation is usually called,
C. Shultz and Frederick A. Shultz, of Phil
Ss
From the Johnstown Democrat.
This does not seem a propitious moment
for the members of the cabinet to open the
discussion of another increase in salaries.
Last year the cabinet salaries were in-
ell to $12,000 per annum. The pay of
senators and representatives was increased
to $7,500—which, with various allowances
for secretaries, stati , free offices and
other privileges, is equivalent to a $10,-
000 salary for the average business man.
But the proposition is to be made early in
the coming congress that the salaries of as-
sistant secretaries of the various depart.
ments shall be raised from the varying fig
ares of $4,500 to $5,000 a year, to a gen-
eral and uniform figure of $6,000.
ing at rand om the Congressional Directory
we find as Qvsistan destetary & the navy,
Mr. Truman N. New Detroit. Mr.
Newberry is a multi-millionaire. He fit-
ted himself for assistant secretary of the
pavy by owning his own steam yacht and
by learning to pavigate it so well that he
was within three or four days granted a
master’s license for navigation on she
ocean, while he bad for some time possess-
ed a like license for lake navigation. If is
worth nothing that one of his predecessors
in the office he now holds was Theodore
Roosevelt. The assistant secretary of
state is Mr. Robert Bacon, who was taken
out of the firm of J. Pierpoint Morgan &
Co. to fill this position. Mr, Bacon bas
pot ever heen thought in grave need of an
inorease of wages.
The proposition would not bave any
great importance except for the light that
it throws apon She peliey iat the t
administration as Washington. Not one
thing has been done by that administra
tion to reduce the taxes which she people
must bear. Asa spender it has been a
marvel. Everything that costs money has
appealed to it. Where we had ministers
at $12.000, it found need for embassadors
at $17,500. Where we have bad a senior
rear-admiral we are going to be urged that
be be made a vice-admiral, with an in-
orease in commensurate with the
enbancement of his dignity. Salaries all
along the line are to be raised, bus not one
thing is to be done to lessen the burden
apon the er. It is something of a
reversal of the revolutionary m of
millions for defense, bat not a cent for tri-
bute. The polioy of this administration
seems to be ‘‘millions for tribute to politi-
cians, but not a cent for the defense of the
mpage.
If these suggestions for inoreased pay of
everybody in public service had come at a
time when the plain people of the coun
were not beginning to feel the pinch of in-
creasing for all that they have “to
‘buy, without any compeneatiog rise in
wages, they might be passed over without
criticism. Bat if everyhody who holds a
federal job, from the senior member of the
cabinet down to the last enlisted man in
the army, is to bave his pay increased at
the gencral expense, when the mass of the
prople are suffering from an increasing
difficulty to make both ende meet, there
will be criticism and that of no uncertain
sort,
Results of the Elections.
From the Pittsburg Post.
The election in Pennsylvania Tuesday
showed that a majority of the voters of the
State were singularly indifferent to their
own interests and to the importance of the
issues involved. As a result John O. Sheatz
was chosen State Treasurer by a consider-
able majority. Itis true that uo doubt
many voters were persuaded to support
him because of his reputed bigh personal
character and alleged independence, and
the helief that he wonld antagonize the
corrupt machine which has so long domi-
pated his party. His success, however,
cannot fail to strengthen that machine.
Certainly it will cause great rejoicing
among all its followers, as well as among
she capitol grafters and their friends. * * *
In New York city the unnnatoral fosion
between the members of the Independence
league and the Republican party met an
overwhelming defeat as the bands of Tam-
many.
Congressman Barton, backed by the in-
dorsement of the National administration,
was unable to defeat Tom Jobnson in the
strong Republican city of Cleveland.
Columbus aod Cincinnati have gone Re-
publican, while Toledo's citizens have
dove great credit to themselves by re-
electing Brand Whitlock, the Independent
candidate for mayor. Itis to be hoped
thas the citizens of San Francisco were
equally wise in re-eleoting Mayor Taylor.
The Steel Consolidation.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The traosfer of the principal Southern
iron interest, the Tennessee Coal and Iron
is curionsly effected. The merger has been
expected for several years on business
grounds, and it now comes as the resuls of
an accident in order to save a New York
trost company from bankra . Itisa
by- TR. ‘‘panio.” ey
true significance of the combination
is likely at such atime to be overlooked.
It is really a most important step in the
direction of putting onr iron and steel in.
terests into control of a single company
fora oconceried regulation of the output
and the ih Of peice. fhe oo,
etion of the ts at Gray
Di will mark another inevitable move
ment in the life of the iron industry in this
country. It indicates, as in the career of
the Standard Oil Company, a deterimnation
to wanafasture at bose points where the
process can most advantageously oat-
ried on. Plants less well situated, wheth-
er in Ohioor A
will gradually be
olosed and business will he centred with a
view to economy of production. Whether
the union of Northern and Southern inter-
esta will be beneficial to the public remains
to beseen. The state of this im s
trade will be followed with unusual atten-
tion during the next five months on more
than one account.
—Sabsoribe for the WATCHMAN.
.
Spawls from the Keystone.
~Mrs. Boyd Fetter, of Mainville, Colum-
bia county, has put up 2,000 cans of fruit of
various kinds during the past summer and
fali, giving her the houor, without doubt, of
having canned more fruit than any other
woman in the state.
—Four hundred of the empioyes of Stehli
& Co's silk mill, in Lancaster, struck om
Monday afternoon for nine bours’ per day
with Saturdays. They have been working
ten and three-fourth hours per day and Sat-
urday afternoon off,
—Mrs. Adam Kront, of York, heard ghost.
ly noises on the garret of her house early on
Monday morning and went to investigate
when she discovered a burglar outside of a
window on the roof trying to force ad en~
trance. Her appearance caused him lo flee.
—Representative Reynolds has promised
Altoona residents to procure a supply of can-
non, mortar sud balls for a park display at
at Gospel Hill park which was dedicated in
that city on Arbor Day. Lewistown bas
secured a couple pieces of ordnance for their
public square.
—Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Martin
has made all of his arrangements for the
opening of the farmers’ institutes this month
and it is expected that this will be the best
season ever held. Over seventy lecturers
have been engaged and the number of dis-
tricts have been increased.
—8heriff Kimberling, of Mifflin county,
shot a wild turkey the other day that meas-
ured 6 feet 1 inch from tip to tip and 4 feet
9 inches from toe to bill. Three unmutilat
ed apples as large as walnuts were found in
the craw of the bird. The turkey was placed
in cold storage for preservation.
In the great apple belt between the Mary-
lard line and York Springs, where the York
Imperial is the prize apple as to quality and
prolifice bearing, there is going to be a full
crop. The picking season has just begun.
The orchards of Adams county are loaded
with a bumper crop, believed to be worth
$200,000.
~The Williamsport boom had been empty
of logs, owing to the low water up the river,
but 4,000,000 feet of Brown, Clark & Howe
logs arrived safely within the boom and the
balance of the drive, 8,000,000 is expected
to get in on the present water, as the result
of Saturday’s downpour of rain in the city
and at up river points.
~Orders for 360,000 tons of coal have been
declined in the Clearfield region during the
last few weeks because the operators are un.
able to obtain cars and secure help from
miners. A similar condition exists in the
anthracite region, and it is predicted that
prices for both grades of fuel will be advance:
ed before the end of this year.
—In Wells township, Fulton county, one
of the best fruit growing sections of the
county, an inspection recently made by a
representative of the state department of
zovlogy showed that of 103 orchards 100 were
badly infested with San Jose scale. Prompt
attention by spraying is necessary there, or
goon there will be no fruit forthcoming.
—Among the milkmen of Altoona and
ry | vicinity there is a firm belief that the best
‘butter will retail at 50 cents a pound during
thecoming winter. With milk at eight or.
nine cents a quart, the highest it bas ever
been known in ordinary times, fifty-cent
butter is not unreasonable and if thie should
come, householders must use it or take
a cheaper article. .
—The deed for the transfer of thirty acres
of the Carothers farm, at Newberry, to the
Pennsylvania Railroad company, was record-
ed on Wednesday in the office of the record-
er of Lycoming county. The consideration
was $25,495.80. Of this amount the Williams-
port hospital will receive about $14,000, in
order to meet the requirements of the will of
the late John F. Carothers.
—@G. D. Shannon, one of the state's fish
wardens from Tyrone, has instituted action
against some of the illegal fishermen of
Huntingdon county. As a result of his cru-
sande three men from Shirley township have
appeared before ‘Squire Kelly, of Huoting-
don, and paid fines amounting to $65. The
men were J. M. and M. T. Schrist, charged
with using illegal fish baskets, and William
Pecht, for fishing with a net.
—Rare presence of mind and courage en-
abled Miss Gertrude Hughes, a Pennsylva-
nia Railroad telephone operator recently to
save the life of Hilda Milligan aged 7, at
Eldorado, near Altoona. While Hilda was
crossing the tracks her foot became fastened
in a frog aud she was unable to release it.
Miss Hughes, seeing her plight, ran out and
flagged an approaching passenger train,
which was brought to » standstill within
three feet of the child.
—Johustown wholesale and retail liquor
dealers bave heen invited to share in an en -
largement to the Somerset Distilling Com-
pany’s capital to $125,000, the subscriptions
being limited to $2,500 per dealer, by which
the new stockholders will be enabled to se~
cured their whisky at a reduced price and
at the same time be insuring the success of
the venture whose plant is located at Bens-
creek. Stockholders will be enabled to buy
for $1.15 whisky which usually costs $2a
gallon. :
—The dam of the Juniata Hydro Electric
company, located at Warrior Ridge, Hunt-
ingdon county, in the Juniata river, which
has been in course of construction for the
past two years, is practically completed and
the gates were closed on Wednesday morn-
ing. The height of the dan: is twenty-eight
feet and there has been an outlay of $1,500,
000 on the enterprise. Besides the dam,
which it is caiculated will furnish 4,000
horse power the year round, there has been
erected a large steam plant for generating
electricity. The current is to be used for
furnishing light and power to Huntingdon,
Altoona and other points.
—~Work on the mammoth dam at McCall's
Ferry on the Susquehanna river, near York,
Pa., which was suspended Saturday throw-
ing nearly two thousand men out of work,
will be resumed when the financial situation
permits the company to negotiate farther
loans according to H. F. Dimock, president
of the McCall Ferry Power company, who
denied to-day the report that the company
had been forced to suspend construction be-
cause its funds had been tied up in the
Knickerbocker Trust company, Mr. Dimock
said that he believed that the company
would be able to furnish some power in
Baltimore this coming year.