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8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Sitngs.
—Tuesday’s was truly a business men’s
picnic tor there were no drunks nor rowdies
there.
—There being fifty-two thousand ways
of dying it seems to us that the doctors
might change the tune a little some time
and tell us about something else than
“hears failure.”
—1It is not often that a farmer is a can-
didate for sheriff, therefor the farmers of
Centre county should rally iound FRED
SyirH. He is a good man and deserves the
support he will get.
—The only sure way to get rid of the
domineering, trust truckling taotios of
Uncle Jog CANNON is to elect a Demo-
oratio Congress and to do that we must
begin at home. Vote for WALKER.
—HueHes, La FoLLerre and KNoX
are all to take the stamp for TAFT, but
they won’s be enough. There will bave
to be more than talk to pull Big Brin
through. It will take votes, and they are
going the other way this time.
~—1It you bave a Democratic friend or
neighbor who ie sick, or away from home,
or negligent in such matters, see to it thas
his name is upon the Registry before the
list closes on Wednesday, September 20d.
This can’t be attended too after that day.
—The so-called BRYAN papers in Penn-
sylvania are so busy fighting GUFFEY that
we presume many of them don’t know that
they have county, senatorial, congression-
al and judicial tickets that might stand a
show of election if these papers would turn
in for them.
— Another shocking murder has occurred
in New York and there ie no telling where
the end will be unless Justice gets busy
and decides once for all whether her
statutes on the hooks or the ‘unwritten’
instrament is to prevail in meting out
punishment. ‘
—HARRIMAN is reported to be gathering
up all the water powers along his railroad
lines for the purpos: of ultimately running
his trains by electricity. Let the good
work go on so successfully that the little
wizard forgets entirely te pat avy of the
water he gets into the stook he issues.
—Governor JOHNSON has been unani-
mously renominated for Governor of Min-
nesota, notwithstanding his announcement
that he would not be a candidate again.
Now if he can can carry his State again he
will remain in the very eligible list of pros-
peotive presidential candidates for 1912.
—The whites are driving the blacks oat
of Springtield, Ill, at the muzzles of shot
guns and borning the buildings they flee
from and not a single one of var super- |
sensitive northern Republican papers have
a thing to say about it. The reason is be-
cause Springfield is north of the Mason and
Dixon line. o
—Don’t fail to get registered before Sep-
tember 20d. You know how mad you get
if the assessor happens to miss you and
your vame is not on the list when the time
tor voting comes. The only way you can
be absolutely certain of avoiding this is by
seeing to it yourself that you are on the
list and that your taxes are paid.
. —A good, capable and economic board
of commissioners is something that the
taxpayers of Centre county intend to hold
onto and that is the reason that they will
vote to re-elect WEAVER aod DUNLAP.
They have worked bard to pull the county
out of debt and have succeeded even be-
yond the expeotations of the most san-
guine. DUNLAP and WEAVER have earn-
ed their re-election and should bave it.
—A good, old time Democratic vote in
the county this fall is what we are looking
for. There is every reason why there
should be one. We have a good ticket and
a demoralized foe so that everything points
to Democratic success. The country is
ready for a change and, on the theory that
most anything would be better than ‘She
present condition of things, many Republi-
cans are going to vote with us in the fall.
—FRED SMITH, our nominee for sheriff,
isa farmer and knows what bard work
means. He has started hie canvas and
wherever he bas gone he has made a most
favorable impression because of his open,
manly, sincere way of meeting and talking
to people. Mr. SMITH'S life will bear the
olosest investigation and he comes before
the voters of Centre county a clean, straight.
forward man whom anyone oan feel honor-
ed in supporting.
—Mr. THOMAS LAWSON'S new game is
*‘National Stock,” all of which the public
is buying as fast as ToM can bave it print
ed and then he is to use the money he re-
ceives from the sale of it to beat HARRI-
»4N, MorGAN and HILL at their own
game. It looks pretty enough, but sup-
pose he did? We would bave to buy a
“Second National Stock’ shen to help the
other fellows to lick LaAwsox. The pub-
lic is always supposed to be in the middle,
but the wise public won't get into this
game at all.
—Do you realize that the last Congress
voted just exactly twelve dollars of your
money way ; much of it in needless ap-
propriations. It voted the same amount of
your wife's mooey and aleo the same
amount from every child you have. In
other words just twelve dollars for every
man, woman and child under the jurisdio-
tion of Uncle Sam was voted away by the
last Congress and Mr. BARCLAY helped do
is. Dan's you think it is time to have a
change. You
have a chance to make one
by voting for WALKER.
JoL%.
Roosevelt's Fool Movement.
Sell-respeoting farmers are not flattered
by President ROOSEVELT'S latest move-
ment to improve their lives. He has ap-
pointed a commission to inquire into their
*'s00ial, sanitary and economic condition,”
in order shat he may recommend legisla-
tion in their interest. The plain inference
is that in she President’s opinion the farm-
ers of the country have not sufficient intel-
ligence to take care of themselves and it is,
therefore, m:oeseary that the government
shall take charge of their affairs as the
States have cared for the indigent insane
aud helpless orphans from the foundation
of the government. He pays the farmers a
left banded compliment in this estimate of
their capacities.
The farmers of this country need no help
from the governments. They have never
asked for nor received special privileges or
unearned bounties, and they expect none.
From the earliest period of the history of
the country they have been the leading
wealth producers and the main source of
dependence of the people. In times of
peace they have produced abundant crops
aod from the surplus of their product have
filled the bank vaults. In war times they
have abandoned their homes and farms and
constituted themselves the defenders of the
country. In every emergency they have
been equal to the requirements of the high-
est standard of citizenship. Such men
don’t need the patronage of office-boldivg
demagorues.
Of course RooSEVELT had no idea of im-
proving the conditions of farm life in this
absurd proposition of his. He doesn’t care
a snap of his fingers for the farmers, as is
shown by the indifference with which he
rides over their fields when it suits bis
orazy fancy to oross lots in hie horseback
rambles. Bat he wants to fool the farmers
by absurd pretenses of concern in the hope
that he may thus induce them to vote for
the candidate for President whom he has
chosen to succeed himself. Io his inordi-
pate conceit he imagines that this result
way be achieved in this way. In bis pre
posterous vanity he believes that all cit-
izens are enamored of him, and anxious to
obey his commands.
That he is gravely mistaken in this vo-
“tiopmmy-be i
some farmers: mpon his scheme. One
them writing tdan esteemed contemporary
saye: ‘Let us bave a free field with no favors
to the men who want to ride us, and the
President will see us very emiliog, very
happy, very good.’ Another declares that
if the President can in any way improve
their crops they will be willing to accept
such service but that they neither need nor
desire politicians meddling in their affairs.
Others resent his impertinence with equal
emphasis and all show the keen intelli:
gence and splendid independence of that
vast portion of our population upon which,
in the last analysis, our prosperity rests,
Taft Admonished His Friends.
Manifestly Judge TA¥r doesn’t share
the sublime confidence of his less thought.
fal supporters. In an address to the Chio
Republican committee, recently, he ad-
monished them in this language: ‘‘We
must know, those of us who face the facts,
that we are meeting a large, strong party,
headed by an able, forceful and experienced
candidate, and we should be exceedingly
imprudent if we belittle the foroes behind
him and the resources of an able leader.”
Io other words he would have them under-
stand that vigilance as well as energy will
be required to secure viotory this year.
The result of the election is nocertain.
It would be better for the Democratic
party, and, this year, for the entire coun-
try, if all the Republican leaders were over-
confident fools. ' It would make the work-
ers less zealos and the contributors to the
corruption fand less liberal. The predatory
trusts want TAFT eleoted. They would
prefer even ROOSEVELT to BRYAN for
RoOSEVELT splatters and fumes but ac-
complishes nothing while they know that
Mr. BRYAN wonld proceed along constitu.
tional lines to the achievement of results.
But as long as they imagine that TAFT is
safe they will keep their money in their
pockets. Danger to their interests is the
ouly thing that arouses them,
The fact is that the present indications
all point to the election of Mr. BRYAN.
The people are becoming alarmed at the
predatory operation of the trusts. The
recent achievements of HARRIMAN in the
direction of railroad merging, the failure
of the Interstate Commerce Commission to
even try to enforce the law against un-
justly increasing freight rates, and various
other incidents which confirm the suspicion
that RoosSEVELT bas become a reactionary,
bave aroused the public mind not only in
the South and Wess but in some portions
of the East, and unless the electorate is
completely debauched BRYAN'S election is
inevitable.
—After being closed down for some
time the Netherland shirt factory at Phil
ipsburg will be started up on full time in
a few days, a number of large orders hav.
ing been booked within the past few weeks,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL
In bis admirable speech of acceptance
Mr. BRYAN observes that ‘‘so long as the
Republican party remains in power itis
powerless to regenerate itself. It canoot
attack wrong doing in high places without
disgracing many of its prominent members,
aod it, therefore, uses opiates instead of
the surgeon’s knife.’ No more accurate
discription of a condition was ever given.
A criticism of trusts is an arraigument of
the present treasurer of the Republican
National committee, who was compelled, a
few years ago, to make restitution to the
victims of the shipbuilding trust swindle,
in order to save himeell from criminal
prosecation and certain conviction. An
attack upon the methods of the Standard
Oil company puts an aspersion on the Re-
publican leader of the United States Sen-
ate, and so oun shrongh the list.
The Republican platform omits reference
to the most vital issues of the campaign,
for the same reason. It makes no promise
of currenoy legislation for the reason that
Senator ALDRICH is opposed to any reforms
in that direction. It makes no pledge to
reduce the tariff schedules because Senator
SCOTT and others are interested in coal and
iron industries. Itfails to promise legis-
lation for publicity of campaign contriba-
tions, the most prolific source of official
corruption, for the reason thas the “male-
factors of great wealth’' might refuse to
contribute out of trast funds to debauoch
elections if the truth were known. And as
Mr. BRYAN adds, in the absence of such
pledges they ‘‘construe each Repablican
viotory as an endorsement of their conduct
and threaten the party with defeat if they
are interfered with.”
Obviously the only remedy for the exist
ing evile lies in the defeat of the Republi-
can party. Judge TAFT, the Republican
candidate, himself acknowledges the exist-
enoe of the evils. Io his speech of accept-
ance he declares that ‘‘these evils have
crept in within the last ten years.” He
might bave added that during all that time
the Republican party was in complete con-
trol of every department of the govervment
and it not only failed to stop the evils but
didn’t even try to achieve that result.
Daring the last Cougress every
e need
dent urged it constantly and such leaders
in Congress as Senator LAFOLLETTE de-
manded it. But the Republican majority
insolently refused to obey the mandate of
public opinion and JAMES S. SHERMAN,
now the Republican candidate for Vice
President, declared on the floor of the
house, that the party would assume the
responsibility for its action.
—— Don’t fail to see that your own sou,
or your neighbor's son, who voted on age
last fall, is Registered. He cannot vote if
be is not. And Wednesday, September
20d, is the last day that this important
matter can be attended to.
Demoeratic Leaders at Work,
The Demooratic organization of this
State with commendable zeal and energy is
engaged in the work of preparation for the
election. At the meeting of the State
Execntive Committee, in Harrisharg, on
Tuesday the greatest enthusiasm was mani-
gested. Members of the committee from
all sections of the State spoke most en-
couragingly of the conditions at present
and the indications point to an extraor-
divarily large vote. We are unlikely to lose
any of the congressional districts now
represented by Demnorats and there is a
strong probability of gaiving two and prob-
ably three. We will certainly gain in both
branches of the Legislature.
The most important work of the cam-
paign demands immediate attention and it
is gratifying to learn that it ie not being
neglected. In all portions of the State
outside of the cities the registration and as-
sessment of voters must be completed on or
before the 20d day of September. It is
less than two weeks, therefore, until the
olosing of the assessment for this year and
voters who have not paid a tax within two
years will be hopelessly barred ous of the
privilege of voting if they are not as-
sessed. We hope there are no Demo-
orate in this coun ty who will thos neglect
their civic obligations.
That Mr. BRYAN will be elected is prao-
tically admitted by ail who have given the
subject intelligent consideration. It is not
probable that Pennsylvania will contribute
directly toward the result, but more sar-
prising things bave occurred in politics.
Three years ago the Democratic candidate
for State Treaurer was elected by nearly 80,-
000 majorty and there was infinitely less
reason for political revolt then than now.
But admitting that TAFT will oarry the
State Democrats of Pennsylvania will
achieve something if they make the Re-
publicans remain at home and keep their
money in the State. This much can easily
be done and those who comttibuted to that
result will be entitled to the favor of the
successful party leaders of she country.
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Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
| workers.
The Steel trust has just closed a contract
with Mr. HARRIMAN for 28,000 tons of
steel rails, to be delivered in Mexico, at
$20a ton. There is wo tariff in Mexico
and if the Steel trast had demanded more
for the rails Mr. HARRIMAN would bave
gone to England or Germany for the goods
and got shem for that price. Bat if the
Pennsylvania railroad, or any otber Amer-
ican railroad bad wanted that amount of
rails, the price would have been $28 a ton.
The tariff tax makes up the difference and
better. It might as well, therefore, pay
the added cost and keep peace in the fam-
ily.
If the Steel trust would sell Mr. HagRI-
MAN and other American mavagers of
American railroads located in America,
steel rails as $20 a ton there wouldu’t be
an idle steel mill between Maine and Cal
itornia. Every road would buy rails and
it would tax she resources of the steel mak-
ing establishments to supply the demand.
Bat that would be bad for the Steel trust.
It prefers a smaller output and greater
profits, especially if that polioy involves
idleness and poverty among the steel
Poverty of workingmen is the
ideal condition in the estimation of the
Steel trust magnates. Huoogry men bave
no heart to resist oppression.
But the Steel trust is not altogether to
blame for this iniquity. If the railroad
presidents and purchasing agents were
just to those they represent steel rails
woald cost no more here than in Mexico.
The fact is, however, that the railroad ol-
ficials own more stock in the Steel trust
than io the railroads and they saorifice the
interests of the railroads in order to con-
serve those of the Steel trust. The stook-
holders of the railroads are robbed by this
process hut the officials are made rich and
alter all that is what they live for. These
facts make them not only gralters but
oriminals of other degree, though not
amenable to law.
The Steel trast violates the law with im-
punity bat it contributes liberally to the
Republican campaign faud and bas no dif-
fionlty in keeping out of the courts. ROOSE-
possible | VELT pretends an opposition to the trust
by. the | 138 ready for a “‘deal,” square or
reform legislation. The Presi , shat helps bis party. The trust
magnates understand this and freely over-
look his false pretenses. They are work-
er for 4
partisan advantage with
nt that in the event the
:
result i
VELT
trast will enjoy ite franchise to plunder.
It ic a spre of pirate’s agreement.
velt Wants War,
sgldent has determined to involve
tavith Japan according to some
ptemporaries. He wants a
positive determination of this va-
tlon’s intenfious in the eastern hemis-
phere,’ those papers say. That is the
diplomatic ‘why of stating that he wants
war to proméfte the obances of his candidate
for the Presfflency. Such a war would
involve vast &xpense in life and treasure,
Gt doesn’s wind that. It will
gin-storm hysteria which fol.
h war and probably cause
[sance toward militarism.
o#n’t patiently endure the
lowed the Spat
a step in
ROOSEVELT
tameness of trahquility. He wants to see
blood owing} freely. He believes in
slaughter. 4
The pretens# for this cruel and costly
policy in thak® Japan bas some ulterior
designe on sonighody. Japan is broken in
pin resources and helpless
pest. She has no more in-
#arb the friendly relations
ment than the man in the
a quarrel with tbe chief
© But a war with Japan or
anybody else ¥8uld help ROOSEVELT in hie
political’ jes and that ie all he
cares for ce bas no place in his
equation. He has no idea about right or
wrong. He @hote to win at any hazard
and regardles of consequences. He would
resort to any #xpedient to achieve his pur.
. PR
Possibly ’RoosEVELT will sucoeed in his
purpose tg create a war before the end of
the present campaign. He would prefer
geation with Japan because he
t Japan is comparatively help-
hile her past achievements would
make eoungnest there a matter of conse
quence aod there would be little risk. But
he isn’t altogether particular. He is will-
ing to bully any weak and helpless power
for a war will serve his purpose, just or
unjust, right or wrong. He bas no sense
of justice, no regard for right. He is
simply a buccaneer ready to scuttle a ship
or out a throat if the barbarity will help
his selfish interests. Altogether ROOSE-
VvELT is the most despicable figure of pres-
ent day life.
2% Sept. 2nd BE
Do you ask why we point to that date?
It you are not Registered on or before that
time, your vote may be lost. It is the last
day that you can Register.
| it should be
the American railroad could have done no | . ramoy
etn ee ——
NO. 33.
Boasts of Plunder.
From the Pittsburg Post.
Gradually, but surely, the voters of the
United States are getting their eyes opened
as to what was meant by the Republicans
when they promised to revise the tariff
after election. The delay was made for
po other purpose than to get funds with
which to carry on their campaign.
Treasurer Sheldon is raking in the coin
by the thousands, and, of course, on the
omise that the contributors, the tariff
rous, shall be reimbursed with higher
duties on the articles they manufacture.
If there has heen any doubt on this point
after reading the
current number of ‘* American Industries,"
the official organ of the National Associa-
tion of Manafacturers.
$ man Sereno E. Payne,” says
this organ, ‘‘has pressed the bution. We
oan now expect that the vast and intricate
machinery of she tariff investigation anthor-
lized by Congress at its last session will
move smoothly to the desired end.” Mark
that carefully : ‘‘Smoothly to the desired
end.” Isn't it delightfal ?
The trust organ further says it is reason-
able to hope that ‘‘statistics of rare value
will soon be placed before the eminent
statesmen who, by authority of Congress,
will bave fall control of tariff revision,”
and ends with this affront to every self-
respecting citizen :
“What we will get from av investiga
tion supervised hy statesmen of the stamp
of Payne and Hopkins is easy to conjeo-
tare—that is, if based upon their present
affiliations and past performances.”
Of course, it is easy to conjecture what
tariff revision at the hands of Sereno Payne
and Albert J. Hopkins means. Is means
just what Candidate Taft declared in his
acceptance speech, that there are ‘‘other
sohedules’’ that muss be revised to a higher
rate. It means thas every tariff fed oon-
tributor to this year’s sam paign will insist
that he be reimbursed. ho better equip-
ped for this pueillanimons work thao
Sereno Payne and Albert J. Hopkins ?
And, of course, not to exclude our own
Dalzell ?
A Sensible Campaign,
From the Altoona Times.
The impression that we are to have a
really sensible campaign somewhat miti-
gates the fear and trepidation with which
we contemplate the contest that quadren-
nially shakes the nation from centre to
ciroomference.
It is assured that there will be consider-
ably less of diverting noises and confusion,
of verbal pyrotechnic and flamboyant
flamdoodle that bave characterized preced-
ing presidential canvasses.
Mr. Bryao will eschew whirlwiodapsoch.
making tours, while Mr. Taft will do alls
his talking at Cincinnati and contiguous
territory. This will relieve newspapers of
the necessity of reporting day after day
columu of painfally tiresome repetition that
adds nothing to the sam total of public
information.
It is ridiculous to assume that a cam-
paign speaker can make several addresses
every dav and tell something new in all of
them. The phraseology may be changed,
but the argnments are always the same.
The candidate who flits from place to
place may afford a kind of satisfaction to
the constantly changing crowds by per-
mitting them to have a face-to face squint
at him bat their comprehension of vital is-
sues will not be materially enlarged by
anything he might say. ‘
Speech making tours are of doubtful
value, av hest. While Mr. Bryan was
traveling from one end of the Sounkiy to
another, holding the attention of millions
of people, Mr. McKinley held down an
arm chair at his Canton home.
Isis really gratifying to know that the
Present campaign is to he conducted along
nsiness lines. The voters are already
doing a lot of hard thinking, and they will
the more readily make up their minds
as to the proper course to pursue by baving
thiogs jguiet.
One Trust That Does as It Pleases,
From the New York World,
The sale of 28,000 tons of steel rails at
$20 a ton on a Harrimau railroad in Mexico
is a timely illustration of how the Dingley
tariff works. In the home market the price
of steel rails is still being maintained at
$28. Railroads which need material must
come to that figare or withhold their or-
ders until business looks up.
The ordinary merchant, when trade falls
off, reduces prices in order to attract ous-
tomers. This is his way of keubing his
establishment running while ing the
best of dull times. It ia no secret that the
Steel Trust is badly in need of orders for
steel rails from the railroads, and that the
railroads, in the effort to economize, have
deliberately deferred new construction.
The reductions made recently on a few
minor products were adopted by the Steel
Trust only after an independent concern
had begun to undersell. At all the recent
conferences hetween members of the steel-
rail pool the Steel Trust has stood for keep-
ing up prices at any oot.
Charles M. Schwab testified before the
Iudustrial Commission thas steel rails
could be manufactured at a profit for §16.
The Steel Truss is actually selling them
abroad for $20. It refuses to sell them
chea) than $28 at home, although it
would proven bring the railroads into
the market by doing so, because the Ding-
Jey tariff enables it to charge the top price.
The lesson shonld not be lost on
when it nndertakes the revision of the
tariff sobedales next year.
Tell It Not.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Tell it not to Chairman Andrews ; make
no mention of the matter of Boss MoNichol
—they are already laboring under a suffi-
cient weight of discouragement—but offi-
oials in the service of the Federal, State or
county and city governments cannot be
legally assessed for political Forpones in
this year of our Lod Whether oy sual)
pay or not pay anything to prom e,
eleoticn of Bonabhoan candidates is entire-
ly a matter of option. cannot
made to contribute as a matter of pressure.
spawis from the Keystone.
. ——
—The borough authorities of South Fork
| have advertised for a policeman at s salary
Jee :
of $60 per month. They want a man who
is sober, indastrious and of good moral char-
acter. :
—A fter having been declared legally dead
three years ago by the Cumberland county
court, Robert P. Fleming, who left his wife
sud three children sixteen years ago, turned
up at the home of his family in Lancaster,
on Saturday.
—An order was received on Saturday at
the Pittsburg office of the National Tube
company for 500 miles of 12-inch pipe from
the Standard Oil company, for a new pipe
line from Robinson, Iil., to Coalgrove in the
Bradford oil district, this State.
—Mr. Charles M, Schwab has offered to
pay the county and township share of macad-
amizing the public road from a point near
the Half Way house, Cresson, to Loretto, a
distance of about five miles, The drive isa
picteresque and very charming one.
—At the Hostetter and Whitney plants of
the Hostetter-Connellsville Coal aud Coke
company, in Westmoreland county, prepara-
tions are now being completed for undertak-
ing the $250,000 worth of improvements an-
thorized by the directors of the company at
a meeting held in Pittsburg last month.
—A new $12,000 power house at the West.
moreland county home, just completed, col -
lapsed at noon on Sunday, the damage
amounting to $2,000. A seven-inch concrete
floor, fourteen feet above the ground, had
insufficient support and gave way. The
floor was completely wrecked and the north
and south walls fell in.
—A dispatch from Scranton says that the
Pennsylvania Coal and Coke company, whose
property is situated in western Pennsylva-
nia, went into the hands of a receiver Satur:
day. Thomas H. Watkins, of that city, was
appointed by Judge Edwards. Mr. Watkins
furnished a bond for $125,000, signed by the
Title Guaranty and Surety Co., of Scranton,
as surety. 4
—The Shiloh Coal and Clay company’s
mines, located along the Susquehanna river,
in Shiloh, Clearfield county, and eight miles
from Clearfield, and three miles from the
village of woodland, are about ready for
operation. The company is composed eutire-
ly of Reading capitalists. The mines will
employ about fifty men and their capacity
will be about 250 tons daily. .
—Benjamin Smith, of near Salladasburg,
Lycoming county, who some weeks ago
was accidentally shot by his son in mistake
for a burglar, was operated on at the Wil.
| lismsport hospital on Thursday, his left leg
being amputated about four inches below
the knee. He is now getting slong nicely.
Every effort was made to save the leg, but
amputation was finally decided upon,
—Dickinson seminary, at Williamsport,
will open this year with the largest emroll-
ment of students in its history. Over 400
students will enter the institution on the
hill this full, an increase over last year's
number, which at that time held a record for
attendance. The school will be opened on
Tuesday, September 15, and the repairs now
being made are being rushed in order that
there may be no delay.
—The Jason Coal company, operating
mines on the Steiner lands south of Philips-
burg, has found it necessary to go into the
hands of a receiver, the result of the strin-
geucy in the financial market during the
past year. Jacob Swires, of Philipsburg, has
been appointed receiver and will operate the
mines and it is hoped that he will be able to
bring about a satisfactory adjustment of the
business of the company.
~The survivors of the Spanish-American
war in Danville have already actively en*
tered on preparations for the reunion of the
Twelfth regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer
Infantry Veteran association, which will
take place in that vity on October 28th. Be-
tween 300 and 400 members of the associa~
tion from other towns will be present in’
Danville on that occasion. Major C. P. Gear
hart has been chosen chairman of the com-
mittee of arrangements.
— Approximately 3,000 patients were rege
istered at the 67 tuberculosis dispensaries of
the state health department at the close of
July, according to reports just received at
Harrisburg. Oae of these dispensaries is
maintained in each county. Allegheny
county had 366 patients registered, Luzerne
344, Philadelphia 317, Delaware 275, York
219, Daaphin 148 and Lackawanna 122. The
demands in some counties have grown so
that the dispensaries will have to be en-
larged.
—Ridgway and Sykesville capitalists have
formed a company for the purpose of thor-
oughly testing the territory in Elk and
Clearfield counties, between DuBois and
Caledonia for oil and gas. The corporation,
which is known as the Clearfield Gas com-
pany, was organized last Saturday and a
charter has been applied for. The pro-
moters have the oil and gas rights on 36,000
acres under lease and are negotiating for 9,~
000 additional acres, including the Craig
Blanchard tract at Winterburn.
—At the first reunion of the Gamble fami-
1y, held near Cedar Run, Lycoming county,
on Thursday, there were present eleven
grandsons of Andrew Gamble, a Pine Creek
pioneer, not one of whom was less than six
feet in height, and none weighed less than
175 pounds. One of the men is six feet aix
inches; another six feet three and a hsif
inches. The largest of the eieven weighed
250 pounds. The Gambles went into the
Pine Creek section immediately after the
Revolutionary war, and the name Gamble is
given to a township, a creek and a church
in Lycoming county.
~—There will be no more state money for
the scalps of noxious animals for a year at
least. The last legislature appropriated $50,-
000 for this purpose, authorizing the pay:
ment of $4 for each wildeat, $2 for each fox
and $1 for each mink or weasel. Oaly $2,347
remains of the appropriation and bills for
bounties were received at the auditor gen-
eral’'s department Wednesday aggregating
$22,079. The money on hand will be distrib.
uted pro rata among these claimants, who
will thus get about 10 per cent of their
claims. Many hunters have made out well
on the bounties. One Huntingdon county
be | men collected $1,500. The next legislatare
will be asked to double the appropriation.