range in weight from 18 to 26 pounds each.
~—On her 21st birthday anniversary on
Thursday, Miss Elizabeth Bowman, of Fare
ragut, Lycoming county, opened a register-
ed package and found $5,000 in crisp new
billa from an aunt in Ohio, after whom she
was named,
—Emanuel Degler, while picking chest-
| nuts on the Blue mountains, in Berks coun.
ty. on Saturday, found a pocket book com-
taining $13 in bank notes so badly decayed
that the denominations could hardly be
deciphered.
—Plans have been prepared by the Uni-
versal Portland Cement company, a sub-
sidiary of the United States Steel corpora-
tion, to double the capacity of its big slag
plant, at Universal, Allegheny county, ata
cost of $2,000,000.
—While the members of the family of
John Ulrich, of Bern township,sBerks coun~
ty, were husking corn in a field some dis-
tance away from the house on Saturday,a
thief entered the home and stole $30 in
money and a gold watch.
~The recent forest fires in Mifflin county
have caused the county commissioners te
pay out $252.95, which amount was used to
pay the fire fighters. The money was paid
to the constables of the different townships
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4 ROSE is to flood the county with
him on election day. If this prove true you will see its
enoug It is also stated that Col. Hug S. TAYLOR, his
er, has effected an organization for him in every precinct in the
3 If this is true you will see who they are and it might be well
“to keep them in mind. They will represent the class that works under
cover, but gets votes. All must be counteracted and if they are not,
“then Centre county has no more ‘pride than one of the precincts in
Philadelphia that Jim McNicHoL carries about in his vest pocket.
We have told you that FRep Smith, candidate for Sheriff, is a su-
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bave bad any office froma seat in the | Perior man, in every respect, to his opponent Mr. Huriey and invited | 39 per cet Jon =, Der | and they in turn paid the fighters.
cabinet down to a revenue col it] your investigation in proof of the assertion, Mr. SiH is a farmer in | cent. ; oatmeal, 18 per cent, ; macaroni and | —The Rev. W. J. Houck, of Washington,
D. C., who was recently appointed pastor of
Allison Memorial United Brethren church,
was locked out of the church on Sunday.
The members say they have nothing against
the new minister but they want their former
pastor back.
~The Patriotic Order Sons of America
presented two flags to the Lewistown public
schools on Friday afternoon, the one flag
being given to the Logan street schools and
the other to the Toll Gate ~chools. There
were exercises appropriate to the occasion at
each of the schools.
—Chas, 8. Schaubla, former city male car=-
rier of Chambersburg, pleaded guilty in the
U. 8. court in Scranton a few days ago to
violating the postal regulations. He was
sentenced to six months in jail and a fine of
$150. The postman’s offense was taking
money from letters to he carried in town.
—The commissioners of Indiana county
have granted orders to the amount of $203.65
to the constables acting as fire wardens of
Cherryhill, Burrell and Banke townships,
and their assistants, for extinguishing forest
fires. The wardens are paid at the rate of
25 cents per hour and the assistants 20 cents.
—After traveling over 5.000 miles to see
his brother, A. L.. Wick, a retired banker,
who is lying at the point of death at Greens
ville hospital, William W. Wick, of Portland,
Oregon, died at the Arlington hotel, in
Greenville, early on Sunday morning, of
cent. ; fish, 25 per cent. ;
per cent. ; sugar, 70 per cent.
napkins, 45 per cent. ;
knives and forks, 60 per cent. ; cups and
saucers and plates, 55 per cent. ; tinplate
for kitchen utensils, 45 per cent.
Clothing : Woolen cloths, 100 per cent. ;
blankets, 100 per cens. ; flannels, 100 per
cent. ; underwear of wool, 100 cent. ;
dress goods for women and children, up-
ward of 100 per ent. ; cotten cloths, from
40 to 60 per cents.
Medicines : Calomel, 35 per cent. ;
chloroform, 30 per cent ; morphia, $1 per
ounce ; infants’ food, 20 per cent. ; phen-
acetin and like coal-tar medicines, 25 per
caus, ; chicory, 65 per cent.
There is little thas escapes the tariff
Molock, from infants’ food to the bread of
labor and the wood in the poor man’s cof-
fin. Yes the oracles of party when asked
concerning the specific reform of sariff
wrongs and abuses are dumb, while she
Republican candidate for President coolly
laims that the tariff duties ot 55 and
per cent. on pottery are not quite
enough for him. This, too, isthe on
tariff schedule which he bas y
and his position on it enables every intelli-
gent man in the land to see how little
tariff reform may be expected in that
quarter. Should he be elected the result
would be accepted by him and his adher-
ents as the popular decree that the tariff of
abominations shall be revised only in so far
as its revision may put more unearned
owe) into the pockets of the piratical
rusts.
he bad simply agreed to RoOSEVELT'S
corrupt propositions in the interest of his
proxy in order to promote the conspiracy
which has for its object the establishment
ola ot eae
Rush township and Mr. HurLev is a liveryman in Philipsburg. Mr.
Smite has lived in the county all of his life, while Mr. HURLEY has
been a resident of the county only seven years, The one man has been
proven by a life time of good citizenship among us. The other hasn't.
“There should be no hesitancy about you voting for Smith.
We have told you that Joun D. MILLER, candidate for County Treas-
urer, is a man above reproach, singularly well qualified by nature and
by. experience to fill the office he seeks. His ability has never been
questioned because the public knows him. There is no reason why
anyone should vote against him and many why everyone should. He
is a farmer and represents that calling most typically. He is genial
and courteous, not for the sake of getting votes, but always, and will
make a splendid official.
We have told you that GEo. W. WEAVER, candidate for Register, is
a poor, one armed school teacher, so crippled up with rheumatism dur-
ing the summer months that he was unable to make a thorough canvass
of the county. There are not many things that a one armed man can
do but'he ¢an do the work of F egister because he is grell educated, a
good penman and has been justice of the peace in his district long
enough to have an intimate knowledge of what legal papers look like
and how they are kept. Mr. WEAVER has not made his campaign on
the sympathy racket. No, no, he is too manly for that, Nevertheless
here is a chance to help one who is afflicted and it can be done with-
out working hardship to his opponent who already has a good business
sould not be issued in any cases in which
injunctions would not issue if no indus.
trial disputes were involved.” There was
| mothiag unfair or unjust in that but the
| request. Subsequently Mr. GOMPERS asked
| the Deuver convention to make such a
declaration and to use his own language
| “be gos all he asked for.” Under the
sapport the Demooratic ticket and as an
"Don’t tail to do your duty as a citizen | honorable mao faithful to the canse of
and an honest man next Tuesday. There | labor be is doing it earnestly and effeotive-
are many things that you should express | 1:
your views on and the ballot is the only
medinm through which you can express
them.
—This is the last word we will have
The Canal Conspiracy.
The New York World has been inveati-
gating the parchase of the Panama caval
with you before the election. For the hon.
or of the county, for the good of the Com-
monwealth and for the sake of your own
conscience DON'T VOTE FOR TAYLOR
for the Legislature.
~Do you want a good, christian farmer
w bo has spent all his life in Centre county
for Sheriff. Vote for SMITH. If you want
a liveryman who bas been in the county
only seven years and is likely & “ave
away any minute vote for HURLEY.
—If you want to vote to make JOE CAN
NON again the vulgar and auntooratic boss
of Congress vote for BARCLAY. BARCLAY
is for CANNON, WALKER would be against
him, therefor your duty as a christian man
is to vote for WALKER.
‘DUNLAP and WEAVER have earned
their re-election. The oondition of the
county treasury proves that. They bave
paid off a $41,000.00 debt and have a sar-
plus in the treasnry. If yon area prastio-
al man you will approve of that. Vote
the way your approbation points.
—Dr. P. 8. FISHER has made as good
a coroner as Centre county ever had and
that is the reason why he should be re-
elected. He i¢ making vo canvas of the
county for the chief reason that he is too
busy to do so. Then it ought not be neo-
essary, either. He was elected by a good
majority three years ago and there is no
reason why he should not be this year. In
fact, there is every reason to believe he
will. Therefore, don’t fail to vote for
FISHER when voting the Demoocratio tickes,
«——Figuring from their poll of the
‘county the Republican organization in this
place is claiming the county for TAFT by
about two hundred majority while conced-
ing that WALKER will carry it by from
two to four hundred majority. On the
other hand ' the Democratic organization
claims the county for the entire Demoorat-
io ticket by miajorities ranging from five
hundred to one thousand. And this claim
is made only after a carefal canvas of all
the voters. Bat to make the viciory sure
- every Democrat in the county must turn
out and vote. Don's think the battle al-
ready won and that it does not matter
whether you vote or not, for it does, It
was just snch over-confidence that lost - the
Democrats the Sheriff and Register three
: years ago and it is something that must
notjoconr again. Go to the polls yourself
and eee that every other Democrat in your
precinot gets there. This is the only’ way
we can hope fo win, vad
with resalts that are startling. The full
measure of the iniquity has not been re-
vealed for the reason that the evidence bas
been shown to prove frauds far greater
than those connected with the building
and furnishing of the State capitol at Har-
rishurg, prodigious as those looting opera-
tions were. But what is of even greater
significance it is practically proved, not-
withstanding the absence of the most ma-
terial evidence, that the ROOSEVELT and
TAFT families are both involved and equal-
ly culpable. The trail of corruption has
led direct to the White House.
Is will be remembered that the negotia-
tions between the government and the so-
called French Panama canal company were
conducted by WiLrLiam C. CROMWELL, of
New York. It now appears that Crod-
WELL bad bought up the shaies of the
Freoch Panama canal company at a nomi-
nal figure, something like $10,000,000, and
subseqaently sold them to the goveromen$
for $40,000,000. Of this sum $10,000,000
went to GEORGE R. SHELDON, the present
treasurer of the Republican National com-
mittee, an equal sum to reimburse CROM-
WELL for bis purchase of the stock and
another eq sum as ‘‘velvet”’ to Mr.
CrOMWELL. That left $10,000,000 and a
considerable part of that was divided be-
tween President ROOSEVELT'S brother-in-
law and Judge TAFT’S brother.
Soon after the consummation of this deal
General Davis, of the United States army,
was appointed to the head of the canal
commission and dispatched to the Isthmus
to superintend the work. He soon discov-
ered the conspiracy between CROMWELL
and SHELDON and forwarded a detailed re-
ports of their operations to Washington.
The result was that his report was sent
back by Secretary of War TA¥T for correc
tion and after the second report was sub-
mitted he was removed from office by the
President. Soon afterward the documents
and other evidences of the transaction were
abstracted from the archives of the govern.
ment and the connection of ROGSEVELT'S
and TA¥?'S relations with the fraud thas
concealed. .
~The one sure way for the Democrats
to win at the polls next Tnesday is to get
out the vote, Every Democrat should
make it his duty to not only go to the polls
himself but see that his Democrato neigh-
bors go. We can’t win, mind you, by stay-
ing at home. While we are doing that
er fellows are turning ous solidly for
their ticket. So don't let there be any
stay-at-homes. If he eathiae is dw
agreeable, you can e eleotion
lose no time on farm. And if the
weather is fair, so much the better. In
any event, don's fail to vote.
enterprise of his own.
We have told you that F. Pierce Musser is far and away the better
man for the office of Recorder than Mr. Brow~ and refer you to an
article in another column of this issue for the proof.
We have told you that Messrs. DunLap and WEAVER, candidates for
Commissioner, have in three years converted a county debt into a
county surplus and invited your examination of the books in the com-
missioner’s office in substantiation of the statement.
They have been
faithful to the trust imposed in them three years ago and more than
made good the promises they gave.
The county needs prudent, prac-
tical men to take care of the business of that office and if paying a
debt of $41,000.00 at the same time that other necessary expenses
were increasing is not evidence of practical and prudent administration
then we don’t want you to vote for them.
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But if you honestly think it
is, it is your duty to give them a second term in the office they have
conducted so well.
We have told you that Dr. Fisuer has made a good Coroner and
that should assure you that he will make a good one again, if re-
elected. You may think that the coroner’s office is an unimportant
one and that anyone can fill it.
This is not the case. The fact that
there is little to do there often prompts men to neglect a case when it
does turn up. Dr. FisHER is not
the kind of a man to neglect such
a duty and you should vote for him.
We have told you that Messrs. Beck and CoLk, candidates for Audi-
tor, are clean, honest men well equipped for the office and deserving
your support. They are farmers and should receive the recognition
their good character warrants.
All these things we have tolc you in time for the opposition to con-
tradict or prove unture.
a single charge proven untrue.
Not a single statement has been refuted, not
Now, when it is too late to fairly ad-
vance any other arguments, we stand on those already presented and
appeal to your honest judgment. Don’t you think this ticket, taken
collectively or separately, is better in every respect than its opposition.
It represents. a better qualified class of men than is often named on one
ticket for county officers and as such we appeal for the kind of loyal,
working support it deserves.
Get to the polls. Get your friends to the polls and on the way tell
them what you know of all the candidates.
If you do that and you
and they have the interest of the county at heart we know what the
result will be.
——In making up your ticket next Taes-
day dou’s forget to vote for BECK and COLE
for Auditors. Itie important that we have
the best men in those offices. Messrs. BECK
and COLE are both good men ; farmers who
are competent to go over accounts and in.
terested enough as ere to dig into
and find ont just what we all want to
Kaoy about where the county money goes
——Don’t take any stock in the ‘‘last
card’’ and ‘‘roorhack” stories sprung on
the eve of the election, no matter who
they are about. It stands to reason that
such stories are always merely campaign
lies. If they were otherwise they would
be told in time to prove them either true
or false. So pay no attention to them.
~—Sabsoribe for the WATCHMAN.
apoplexy, about two hours after he had ar.
Mr. Roosevelt at Large.
From the Pittsburg Post. e
Mr. Roosevelt, trom his headquarters in
the White House, hurle what he must con-
sider a terrific bombshell againge
writ of injunction. Manifestly he begged
an official of the Brotherhood of Railway
Traivmen to ask him a question, that he
might have provocation to inflict ano.uer
stump letter npon the people, This query
concerns a court decision by the United
States circnit court at Milwaukee in the
‘‘summer of 1906,” and its bearing ia en-
tirely apon a watter affecting the Iron |
Molders’ unpion. It would be wholly |
supeiflnons to enter into the details of the
case.
The controlling notion is that My.
Roosevelt does not agree with the first
opinion, and that the appellate court over-
raled the decision. Sunoh things often |
happen in the coarse of litigation, but does
it as often ocour that the President of the
United States crosses the well-defined line
of bis province to criticise the jodical views
of judges, appointed and confirmed, be-
cause of their competency, especially when
his legal ignorance is so perfectly known ?
The main purpose of his latest soreed is
to inform labor that a higher court reversed
the decree of a lower one, and that Mr, | K
Tate was highly indignant all through the | ©
controversy. Mr. Taft was at this partio-
ular time secretary of war, engaged in
settling the Brownsville matter and the
Colonel Stewart retirement, and possibly
the sale of the Panama canal for $40,000,- | &
rived and before he got to see his sick broth
r.
—Miss Susan Walker, Greencastle's oldest
resident, celebrated her ninety third birth-
what be | day lust Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Helen
bas himself confessed to be the abuse of the | J. Strickler, North Carlisle street.
Miss
Walker still enjoys wonderfully good health
nd actively engages in housework. Dar-
ing her long life time it is said she has
never been confined to ded with illness a
single day.
—Peter White, of Cogan Station, Lycoming
county, drove off a bridge across Lycoming
reck Wednesday of last week, and was
found dead beneath his overturned wagon.
White is believed to have been asleep, as the
bridge from which the conveyance fell isa
street railway bridge. The horse had taken
to this, unguided. He was 40 years of age
nd unmarried.
—The close of last week witnessed the
cessation of operations on the great power
dam on the Susquehanna river at McCall's
Ferry. About 100 men were at work, and
only enough of these will be kept there to
take care of the machinery and look after
the plant.
With fully 60 per cent. of the
reat plans finished, there is little prospect
{ an early resumption of operations.
~~ Actually scared to death by a peddler,
Mrs. A. O. Bianch died Sunday at her home
in 8t. Clair, near Pottsville.
The peddler,
foreigner, when she refused to buy from
000 to “‘friends.’”” What bad he to do with | him, attempted to force his way into her
a cours case in Milwaukee ? He abandoned
the henoh to submit to she artificial stufl-
ing of a taxidermist. b
More Hearst Charges.
From the Harrisburg Star-Independent.,
Governor Haskell sned William Ran-
dolph Hearst for libel because the New
Yorker charged bim with Standard Oil
offences. Hearst made similar accusations
against other men, hut the Governor was
the ouiy man with sufficient courage to
prosecute. A few would not make an
denial. Not even Foraker, fighter though
L* be, accepted conrageously the challenge
w ich was carried in the Hearst letter-
Jcadings.
The New Yorker now comes agaia into
the limelight, with letters that, in their
allegations, smiroh the official and persona!
reputation of former Governor Stone,
Judges Henderson and Morrison ; and of
the Hon. John P. Elkin, the ‘Indiana
lowboy,’’ protege and would-be rival of
ator Quay, then Attorney General of
Pennsylvania and now Judge of the
Supreme court of this State.
The reading of those letters constitutes
the publication of a libel, if the contents
are libelions. The mere fact of his refrain-
fog from making a attack Mou
the gentlemen named does not ,
Hearst. If the gentlemen feel that they
have been libeled it is their duty $o pros.
eoute him. They cannot remain silent.
home several days ago. Fear of bodily harm
to her was so great that she was prostrated
y the shock, which caused her death. She
was 38 years old and leaves a husband and
family.
—0On Wednesday atfernoon Ferd Briel, of
Karthaus, Clearfield eounty, aged 13 years,
accompanied Charles Meeher, a neighbor
boy, to deliver some groceries at Pine Glen
to a customer of Merchant J. A. Henderson.
Ferd took a gun slong expecting to shoot
¥ | some game along the way. They saw none
and on their return trip, when near home,
the gun was accidentally discharged, the
load entering Ferd’s body and killing him
instantly.
~The spurting up of oil where the Ahrens
Coustruction company are digging to lay the
new sewers of the Hontingdon system, along
the Pennsylvania railroad tracks, between
Second street and Stone creek, Huntinrdon,
last week, has created quite a little excite=
ment among some and an interest in general
among those who have seen the oil or heard
of its finding. But it is not likely that any
gushers will develop, as it is believed that
the loss of oil from several large tanks some
years ago, and the leakage of some pipes at
the Huntingdon Gas company’s plant, which
uses considerable crude oil, have caused the
presence of the oil in the earth.