BY PP. GRAY MEEK. i EE ——————————— Ink Slings. | —Is the rain holding off for the great Centre county fair ? i —Don’s forget that your taxes must be | paid by Oct. 3rd or you can’t vote. —The campaign is fairly well under way now, bat it is too dry for much mud sling. ing. —Vote for SMITH for sheriff and puta man io office who looks like a sheriff ought to look. —From the tune of the metropolitan papers these days ove wouid iofer that HEARST and ROOSEVELT are the candidates for President. —Seeing that they are only Academy boys the lads that gave State the hook on Saturday bad a right to celebrate a little Monday evening. —DuNLAP and WEAVER bave been cut- ting down the county debs very rapidly. Keep them at it. Don's swap horses in the middle of the stream. —I¢ is a little early to make predictions, but you can paste this in your bat right now. MEYER will bave a majority of at least eight hundred in the county. —The way Mr. BRYAN bas them ail up in the air makes it appear as though that old 16 to 1 Shibboleth might be heard again in November. That is, sixteen BEYAN electors to one for TAFT. " —That Bucyrus, Ohio, farmer—who bas reported that it has been so dry and hot out there that his pop corn actually popped on the stalks before he could get it husked ought so be in this Standard Oil squabble. Some of those excited worthies would call him what be is quick enough. —A few drops ol rain fell yesterday morning and for awhile we bad hopes, but they were all blasted by ten o'clock when the sun tried to peep out through the smoke that bas overhang the county for weeks. Thus even the change of the moon bas been as disappointing as was the Granger's pienic. —Well, it is just as we expected. TEDDY has jumped into the game and now TAFT, Hircucock and all the rest of the fellows who thought they had something to do with the Republican national campaigo find out that they are mere pin-head politi- cians when the great swinger of the ‘‘big stiok’’ begins to do business. — Because the hasks on the corn are very thin it is said we are to have an open win- ter. Because the weeds are so high it ie said the snows will be many and deep. Thus do the signs of the times conflict and leave the unweatherwise to abide what comes with the conscionsness that what- ever it may be it will be best for us. —Why all this talk about what Mr. TAFT has done ? What has Tarr done? He has held office nearly all his life and has never heen elected to anything. He comes of an office-bunting family, all of them bkaving been appointed and none elected. Mr. TAFT has never done any- thing to arouse even comment except when asa judge he issued the first injunction ever issued out of a court against labor. No, when it comes to having done thiogs, Mr. TAFT bas nothing on Mr. BRYAN. —That proverbial little bird that seems to find out all things told us that chair- man HARRY KELLER and the other local satellites had a regular leg-pulling fest when the Hon. BARCLAY was here a few days ago. They landed on him like a lot of buzzards on a dead sheep and began to tear five thousand of his good round simo- leans right oat of his inside pooket. But the congested gentleman from Sinnama- boning fought back in such a way that they really got only four hundred. He told them that he didn’t expect much from Cen- tre connty, which was very nice of him be- cause it will be so easy to fulfill his expeota- tions. In lact, just as easy with four huo- dred as it would have been with five thous. and. —Are you on Mr. TAYLOR'S special list? While talking with a gentleman a few days ago as to how his chances appear- ed in a certain district, she young legisla. tive candidate was told that several Demo- orate were going to vote for him. Then he asked whether any Republicans were goiog to vote against him. Upon being told that some were, with that characteristic manner of his, he handed bis informer a little pass hook and said : Here I want you to write down in there every —— — — —— of » Republican that is going to vote against me. Are you on any of these liste? Of course it is really none of our business, but it Is interesting to know just how Mr. TAYLOR regards those of his party who do not intend supporting him. —The average man considers his own interests first, especially when the ques- tion at issue affects his living expenses. That is the question at issne in the contest for commissioners of Centre county. It is a question now whether the old board shall be re-elected or a new one put in its place. It isn’t much of a question, after all, for the prudent man will prefer to take no chances on a change when the present administration of the office is as economical as it is. When Messrs. DUNLAP and WEAVER went into office three years ago the county was very much in debs and the public properties run down. They bave served three years, reducing the indebted- ness materially and improving the public property everywhere. Under such ciroum- stances it would be entirely without war- rant to makea change. oo YOlL.58 - Taft, Sherman and Foraker, SENATOR FORAKER'S relationship with the Standard Oil company bas been reveal- ed. He was the agent, equal in power and authority, with Senator ALDRICH for that corporation in the Senate. The exposure has put bim out of touch with WILLIAM H. TAFT, the story goes. FORAKER was to have presided at a meeting in Cincinnati at which TAFT was scheduled to make his initial set @peech of the campaign. But when TAPT read the story of FORAKER'S connection with the Oil trust, he called the arrangement off. He couldn’t speak from the same platform upon which a boodler stood. He became very virtuous and exceedingly panetillions all of a suod- den. He compelled the managers of the campaign to notify FORAKER of bis deter- mination. It was a delicate situation. As a matter of fact the Republican can- didate for Vice President, JAMES SCHOOL- CRAFT SHERMAN, maintained precicely the same relations with the Standard Oil com- pany in the House of Representatives that FORAKER held in the Senate. The Oil trust bad lobbyists in both chambers and they were not cheap fellows at that. In| the House Speaker CANNON, SERENO E. PAYNE and JaMEs 8S. SHERMAN served | them. In the Senate ALDRICH and FOR- AKER were sufficient. Bat the Senate cor- | ruptionists cannot be condemned without | aspersing the House agents. In other words | if Judge TAFT feigns indigoation at For- | AKER'S relationship with the Standard Oil company, be must denounce with equal | vehemence the relationship of his associate on the Republican ticket witk the same company. The truth is that FORAKER is no worse aod probably no better than the other leaders of his party. They are all bitched up with the predatory trusts in ove shape or another. ROOSEVELT during his cam: paign four years ago begged HARRIMAN to raise funds fog the purpose of debauching the election and HARRIMAN got it from the venal managers of the insurance com- panies. Bat it served the purpose as well as if it bad been obtained from the church- esand Sunday sohools. TAFT probably knew a year ago that FORAKER was milk- ing the Standard Oil company but thought that it wouldn't be found out. When he publicly thanked. FoRAKER for past favors he knew as much about it as he does to- day. But there was no risk in the associa- tion then and it was welcomed. Now it involves danger and Tafe, like a poltroon, disowns the friend who gave him his first preferment. Lincoln's Advice Ignored, The panic of the Republican managers hae been revealed in various ways, lately. Last week we referred to the danger signal thrown up by the editor of she Chicago 7vi- bune and the fear expressed by President ROOSEVELT. “Something muss be done,” the Chicago editor said, ‘‘to make the West- ero and Middle Western States safe for TAFT.” RoosevELT followed by declaring that he didn’t like the reports he was get- ting andsupplemented that with an hyster- ical letter to one of the western cattle barons who bas many and large reasons for keeping the government in the bands of his friends. That was the dernier resort of a desperate man. But things have bappened since which have multiplied their distress. The cor- dial welcome with which Mr, BEYAN has been received in the east and the exposure of FORAKER'S relationship with the Standard Oil company are equally demoral- izing and the Republican machine hasn’t in the least underestimated their import. ance. The first demonstration of this is in the rubstitution of United States Senator MURRAY CrANE, of Massachusetts, for FRANK HITCHCOCK, as chairman of the Republican National committee. HiTCH- COCK was big enough for a small job. If Mr. BRYAN bad been antagonized by the eastern Democrate as he was twelve and eight years ago, HITCHCOCK would have been a good enough chairman. But conditions are pot as they were twelve and eight years ago. When Mr. BRYAN was in Delaware, a few days ago, he dined as the residence of Judge GRAY and slept at the home of WILLARD SAULS- BURY. Last Sunday he took dinner with Judge PARKER, at Esopus, and spent the night with Davip B. HiLy, in Albany. There are no gold Democrats or silver Dem- oorats, this year. They are all just plain Democrats and heart and soul for BRYAN's election and that means that he will carry Delaware, New York and a lot of other States and be elected. The Republicans understand this and in their panic bave ignored LiNcoLN’s advice to never trade horses while crossing a stream. ——The prolonged drought is hard on the trout in the mountain streams. Many of the small streams have gone dry and thousands of tront were left stranded and died. This was especially the case with small trout from three to six inches in size, the larger ones seeming to possess STATE RIGHTS AN BELLEFONTE, PA., § Conspiracy of Frand. sn The Republican managers are thorough- ly alarmed. The election in Vermont was admonitory. The vote in Maine was dis- counragiog. Bat that of the special elec: tions held in Indiana the other day was disastrons. The Democrats gained vastly in every section of the State in which elec- tions were held. In fact the ratio of gains would give that State to the Democratic candidates by something like a hundred thousand majority in November. Not only that bat if carried into other States it would guarantee BRYAN and KERN the electoral votes of Illinois, Iowa, Wiscon- gin, Minvesota, the Dakotas, Cnlilornia, Oregon, Washington, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and New Hampshire. It will give the Democracy not only “‘a | clean sweep,” but a landslide. Of course the ratio won’t be maintained in all the States named. The Republicans will flood the conotry with money and try to buy the election. President RoOSE- VELT can’t afford to allow Mr. BRYAN to be elected. It will he remembered that five years ago he prevented a congressional investigation of the Postoffice Department by entering the lobby and buying votes with promises of patronage. It was whis- pered about that the President bad paid for some of his imperial special trains by giving contracts to carry mails at exorbi- tant prices. He ohoked off the investigation to prevent the exposure of that iniquity. He ix now afraid that the election of BRYAN will reveal all the facts. He in- gisted on naming the Republican candidate because he wanted to make concealment certain. With President ROOSEVELT'S consent and connivance there will be a saturnalia of cor- ruption at the coming election that bas pever had a parallel in this country. It ie pecessary in order to carry out the plans of the Republican machine which contem- plate the election of TAFT this year and the nomination and election of ROOSEVELT as his successor. It is necessary to ROOSE- VELT's personal #afety that this programme be carried ont. The people must be im- poverished by tax burdens, The army and navy mast be increased so as to make the subjugation of the people absolutely sure and the result of the elections in Iudiava bas admonished them of the danger. Bot the people can defeat this conspiracy of frand. Ii they will refuse to sell their votes BRYAN will be elected. Roosevelt's Greatest Atrocliy. President ROOSEVELT'S last letter in behalf of TAFT, is probably the most ex- traordinary incident in the public life of the country. It is a vicions and vindictive attack of a man already helpless and pittiful. Senator FORAKER, who has practically confessed sinister relations with the Standard Oil company, is the subject of this assault. TAFT himself was more decent. in the United States,” he ie reported to have said, ‘‘I cannot hit cs man when he is down.” But the bully who boasts of his prowess and delights in tales of blood and carnage had no such compunctions. He would strike a man if he was down and bound and gagged, if the assault would serve his purpose. He basn’s the vestige of manliness. He is an arrant coward and a confirmed poltroon. Bat even il his abhorrent methods of warfare were justified his attack on For- AKER is weak and ineffective. For exam- ple he declares that over a year ago TAFT wrote a letter reflecting on the Ohio Sen- ator and declining political affiliation with him, which letter, under agreement was to be kept in concealment until its publica- tion became necessary. Daring all the intervening months nothing was said about it until it appeared to ROOSEVELT that a quarrel with FORAKER would be more profitable from a party standpoint than an alliance. Then he sprung the letter avd indicated that it served a year as an instru. ment of blackmail and was used when the use of it seemed good politics. There could hardly be more convincing evidence of moral turpitade. Ever since the nomination of TAFT his friends have been trying to get a reconcilia tion with FORAKER and finally about two weeks ago a meeting between them was arranged at Toledo. We all remember how ostentationsly they exchanged pro- fessions of friendship. TAFT reminded FORAKER that bis first public office was a gilt from FORAKER and declared that he would always be grateful. If the letter of July, 1907, to which ROOSEVELT refers in hie preposterous screed of Tuesday morning is not a myth, then TAFT koew tha! FORAKER was a political ontlaw but was willing and anxious to join hands with him for bis own aggrandizement. Asa matter of fact ROOSEVELT has not only shown that he ie himself a contemptible and cowardly traducer but that TAFT is little better. —John A. Whiteman, of Milesburg, bas secured the privilege to conduct the enough sagacity to go down stream to the larger oreeks and deeper water. boarding house on the fair grounds daring the county fair week alter next. “It it would win me every vote | D FEDERAL UNION. Foraker as a Sacrifice. { been proved by docamentary evidence. He accepted big fees of the company and favor- ed such legislation as it wanted and op- posed such as iss officers regarded as in- imical. The recent exposure of these facts bas driven FORAKER out of the present campaign. He declined to appear with TAFT at a meeting in Cincinpati on Mon- day on this account. He bas practically withdrawn from public life in consequence of this exposure. He even admits bis guilt while protesting hie innocence. Bat in taking himself out of the limelight he pleads for the election of Tarr. To the end be is faithtal to his client, the Stand- ard Oil company. Bat Senator FORAKER is no worse than bie associates in the leadership of the Re- publican party. Senator ALDRICH, of Rhode Island ; Treasurer SHELDON, of the STOTESBURY, the financial agent of the party in Pennsylvania, and Mr. DUPONT, of Delaware, are quite as deeply involved 88 FORAKER. Why, therefore, is the Ohioan to be made a sacrifice? Why is FORAKER to be humiliated and disgraced ? Because the igterests of the Standard Oil company require the election of TAFT and FORAKER as counsel for the company is willing to submit to the operation. As a lawyer he is faithfal to his olient even though so great a sacrifice is involved. But the Republican machine is not de- ceiving the public by the lame and im- potent subterfuge of sacrificing FORAKER. While HircHCOCK, SHELDON and STOTES- BURY are in control nobody of intelligence will be fooled by the abnegation of FoR- AKER. The political morality of Pennsyl- vania gained nothing by the death of Quay. The party was as bad after that event as before, and the party will be as bad after FORAKER has been thrown out of the campaign as it was while TAFT and all his satellites, with the full knowledge of his inignities were enticing bim into the sup- port of the ticket. A leopard cannot change ite spots and a political conspiracy is not | likely to appear as a patriotic organiza tion. The State is Encouraging 1 | When the Legislature passed tbe ap- | propriation for county fairs within the | State it was dove as an incentive to build | up such iustitutions because they are a | ®ood thing. The appropriation bas enabled the Great Centre Connty Fair management | to offer higher premiame for exhibits of | stook and farm products and if you don’t grasp the opportunity that is presented to vou this year it will be your own fault. For very little tronble and practically no expense a number of people were awarded preminms aggregating from twenty to filsy dollars last year. The exhibits they made probably did not have as much merit as articles of the same kiod that you have grown or raised. But theirs were at the fair. Yours were not, therefor they got the premiums, The idea of the fair is to promote a friendly rivalry in the production of all things of the farm, garden,home and work- shop and through this rivalry to improve the production in a!l branches. You proba: bly don’t know it but the Centre county fair bas already done more to make chicken raising in this community more of a pleas- ure and a profit, by improving breeds and inciting favciers on to greater perfection in their strains, than had been accomplish- ed in an hundred years before the fair started. What it bas done for the chickens it can do for the cattle, the horses, the farm, gar- den and household products. Thas is, il the people become interested. The idea of the fair ie not to make money. It never has done it and probably never will. Bat if it succeeds in bettering she agrioulture, the horticulture, the domestic arts, the manufactures of the county it will fulfill its mission to the entire satisfaction of its promoters, Won't you, then, lend your assistance by exhibiting something. Anything you bave that has merit in its olass might help if he sees how well yours is done. Think of this pbase of the fair. Ponder over it well and possibly you will come to the conclusion that it conld be made the great- est boon the county bas ever had if you all tarn in and belp ever so little. ———The Republicans have opened up a working room on the third floor of Temple Court where Comrade SAMUEL MILLER is the man-of-all-work handing out campaign literature, which includes a lot of stale speeches oulled from the Congressiona Record and that wonderful art poster on which appears the pictures of all the Re- publican candidates to be voted for in the county, from Tarr down toDr. HUFF ; some of whose ohances might have been better if their mugs were not on the poster. ~SJubscribe for the WATCHMAN. Tema TREE EPTEMBER 25, 1905: That Senator FORAKER was an agent of | | the Standard Oil company in Congress has | Republican National committee ; E. T. |9 gome one else to do his work a little better Richard Olney Writes, From the Pittsburg Post. : Mr. Tafs bas been betraying a necessitous fondness for diverting attention from cur- rent issues affecting the people’s present welfare by voluminous relerence to past questions that were su or settled by ordinary proneness toward the past, his eagerness to retreat far from the wadding crowd of modern days ought to find satiety opon bis perusal of the letter of Richard Oluey, ex- secretary of state under Grover Cleveland. He will find the ‘‘ex’’ she liveliest wire he ever oncountered. Mr. Oloey Quidly removes the skin from Mr. Roosevelt his fantasies, and while so doing is compelled to scalp Mr. Taft. With the voice and the spirit of the old Cleveland Democracy this letter inspires a united party $0 march onward toa now assured triumph. There are no stragglers or deserters. Both wings flap together. Mr. Olney does not deign to mention a spurious document foisted by some huck- ster upon the seducible Taft organs, but iStuuige Democrats ize what Mr. leveland, if living, w have written as uickly as they bave detected the earmaaks of a now discarded forgery. One point Mr. Olney makes deserves special mention. To the slur of luck of constructive promise or on by Democrats, he answers that planging head. long in the wrong direction must first be checked before traveling in the right can higin: So cur constitation provides checks balances and leaves to appointed pow- ers thee on of constructive work. Every plea for Mr. Talt receives its guietns in this memorable letter. It rings as true as Mr. Olney’s initial Venezaela notes or his enunciation of the Federal daty to stop mob violence in Chicago. Foraker in Trouble. From the Lancaster Intelligencer. The Republican journals do not like Hearst's disclosures of the Standard Oil's letter to Senator Foraker, which seem to prove clearly enough that he bad beeo in their service in the Senate and in their pay. We may assume that these letters are genuine, both because it would be tco dangerous for Hearst otherwise to publisn them, and because the Republican press would otherwise have no inclination to overlook them. They show, however, clearly the close relations between the senator and the Standard Oil official who has succeeded to the supreme direction of that corporation, it is understood, since its oirole of ruling elders has been go reduced by physicial decay ; and leave no room to doubt that Senator Foraker is a kingpin in the organization's congressional wagon. They show, furthermore, the elaborate- ness with which this vebicle is equit-ed for the work given it to do, and how close- ly legislation is watched that touches Standard Oil interests. It manifestly has a thorough organization in watching this important end of the business, as it is its babit to have in all its departments. Or- ganization bas been its strong point, and we see that it has not omitt using a costly lobby and cutting out work for it to do. It is a very important and interesting revelation that these letters make, and their publication apparently will suffice to pus Senator Foraker ont of public business. Taft and Wages. From the Johnstown Democrat. In his speech of acceptance, Taft says the Republican system of protection ‘‘has led to the establishment of a rate of wages here that bas greatly enhanced the stand- ard of living of the laboring man.” What rate of wages does he mean and what standard of living ? According to the pro- teotive theory, the cotton mill operatives are highly protected, as are the garment workers. Is Taft speaking of the wages of southern and New England cotton mill operatives ? Is he speaking of the standard of living and the wages of the garment workers of New York’s East Side ? If Republican protection protects, estah- lishes wages and a standard of living, why are the wages of unprotected brioklayers bigher than the wages of protected garment workers ? Why are the wages of highly protected pottery workers lower than the Wageh of unprotected nters ? If protection fixes high wages, why are wages in the eame lines of proteoted in- dustry different in different partsol the coantry ? If protection insures high wages, why are there so many strikes against wage reduotions and why are there so many wage reductions ? Is Mr. Talt trying to fool the people? Taft's Inconsistency. From the Rochester (N. Y.) Herald. It will have to be allowed that in one respect Mr. Taft is inconsistent. In his speech of acceptance he put himself rather forcibly on record in opposition to the Democratic platform proposal for the guarantee of bank deposits, the same plank which the Kansas Republicans subsequent. ly incorporated in their own platform. “The fundamental objection to the pro- posed plan to guarantee deposits in national banks,” said Mr. Taft, ‘‘is that it uts a premium on reckless banking, and san inducement to reckless banking;" and thas with euch banke ‘‘relieved of the responsibility to and the fear of the de- positor, the tendency would be to induce exploitation, manipulation and the use of assets of banks ina speculative way.” Ohto Election Figures, From the Kansas City Star. It is one of the remarkable coincidences of election returns that Mr. Bryan received exaotly the same number of votes in Ohio in 1896 and 1900. Both years his total vote in the state was 474,882. In 1896 MoKinley beat him by 51,000 and ix 1800 by 69,000. But this increase was due to Kinley's gain and not an’s loss, The figures By counties show that in 1900 Bryan had lost votes in the agricultual counties as compared to 1896, but that he made up for this loss by increasing his vote in the centres of population. z am—c Spawls from the Keystone. —Four car loads of potatoes were unloaded at Reading on Wednesday and sold at 75 cents per bushel. | —It is estimated tbat South Woodbury | township, Bedford county, will have a crop | of 4.000 bushels of cloverseed this year. ~—Typhoid fever, which raged in Hastings’ Cambria county, for nearly three montbs, but was gradually abating, has taken anoth- erspurt. On Friday three new cases were reported and it is feared there will be a number of others. ~In an effort to keep a cow from being killed, Brakeman Frank MeMullen, of Ty- rone, stepped in front of a westbound freight train, just west of the Tyrone station, short- ly after five o'clock last Thursday evening, and was instantly killed. ~The sixth case of smallpox has appeared in the Enola district of Camberland county the patient being G. H. Burkholder, an em- ployee of the Pennsylvania railroad. Pre- cautions to prevent further spread have been taken and men are being ordered to be vaccinated at once. —W. H. Myers, clerk to the eounty com- missioners, has completed the computation of registered voters of Mifflin county and the books show that there are 7,108 voters in the county. Of this number quite a number will not be entitled to a vote owing to the fact that they have not paid their taxes. ~—Edward Morris and Mrs. Margaret Ham. ilton, each aged 77 years, were married at Titusville on Tuesday evening. They were sweethearts sixty years ago, but became es- tranged and each married another. After all these years they met again as widow and widower and now are husband and wife. —When Daniel Cram, of Harrisburg, came to his home late on Friday night he found it in possession of some intruders who had the doors locked so that he could not enter and they laughed at his dilemma. He went for help and when he got back they had fled and carried with them much valuable plun. der. —In broad daylight on Wednesday after. noon a sneak thief entered the home of Da- vid Smith, a well known carpenter of La- trobe, and walked off with $84 in cash, which Mr. Smith had allowed to remain in the pocket of a pair of trousers. The robbery was one of the boldest to be pulled off in La- trobe for a long time. —Following the christening of a baby of a foreign resident near the California quarries, east of Tyrone, early Monday, and because he was ejected from the place, Andy Marti- ni set off eighty sitcks of dynamite in front of the home of his enemy and was himself blown to pieces, various sections of his body being strewn over the road. The house was blown to pieces but the occupants were un. hurt. —Half a dozen men passed by a fat look- ing wallet lying on the Main street sidewalk in Monongahela, on Wednesday, each chuck. ling a¢ he thought he was too smart to be fooled. Then Ernest Milward, a busines man, came along, picked it up and found it contained $237 in bank notes. He left it with a trust company and two hours later the owner came and identified it and left $37 as a reward for Milward, -A girl who gave her name as Mary Kelly came to the home of Mrs. John E. Marsden, in West Philadelphia, last Thursday, and applied for a position as domestic. She was engaged and got to work at once. On Sat- urday she went out ostensibly to muil a let- ter. Time passed and the girl did not re. turo and then it was discovered that she had looted the safe aud carried away about five thousand dollar’s worth of jewelry. —A well was drilled at the Sunshine works in Unity township, Westmoreland county, that, notwithstanding the drought proved a gusher, the flow being sufficient to fill their reservoir and furnish water to start up their string of ovens. The stream is so strong that the water flows out of the top of the well in a stream. The well is 108 feet and the find insures them against drought hereafter as it will not likely ever fail. —On Friday DuBois was surrounded on all sides by forest fires that were eating up millions of feet of timber and day and night a thick cloud of smoke hung over the town. Many people in the wooded districts were fighting the flames, several thousand men taking part in the unequal contest against the element that is going on in the surround. ing country, but the scarcity of water pre~ vented them from getting any decided ad- vantage over the fire, —Through attorneys Lewis, Jones & Lew. is, of Coudersport, the Buffalo and Susque- hanna Railroad company has filed a bill to set aside the county commissioners’ power to fine the company $1,000 for each passenger the company charges more than two cents per mile for carrying, as stipulatea by the Dunsmore two-cent rate law. This is the same mode of procedure as followed by the Couderspoit and Port Allegheny Railway company, and undoubtedly will have the same outcome, which will enable the com. pany to increase its rates to those in vogue before the Dunsmore bill came into force. ~The Monarch machine works at 714 and 716 Green svenue, Altoona, have received a sub-contract from Colclessor Bros. at Eldora. do, for the steel die stamping of the initials of the United States government on the head of axes used by the forestry reserves. The axes are forged by the Colclessor Bros., at Eldorado by the thousand and sent to Mon. arch Machine Works to have the initials stamped on the head. The shape of the axes are unlike those used for chopping wood. The blade is the same but the head instead of being long and blunt is forged like that of a hatchet upon which are stamped the letters Hu. 8." ~—Three Clearfield county men were ar. rested last week charged with being mem- bers of a gang which has stolen more than 200 head of cattle and disposed of their car. casses to butchers. Thousands of head of live stock are pastured in the mountains in the summer. It is alleged that Frank Hoo- ver, Isaac Hoover and Edward Sallads, who were arrested after disposing of three heif- ers, made a practice of “rustling’’ fat cattle, butchering them in isolated spots and taking the meat and hides at night to nearby towns and selling them. Cattlemen estimate the losses at $10,000, It is believed that the prisoners are only tools and that prominent men are concerned in the conspiracy.
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