8Y PP. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings, ~The sun shines nowadays almost as if be were ashamed to show his face. —Up to thie time the Queen of the May basn’t had a chance to wear anything but a bathing suit. ~—Let us bope that there will he sun- shine for the dedication of the new athletic field at State today. —How about those flannels ? Youn must be sticking to them because they certainly haven’s stuck to you yet. —Whatever may be the condition of other industries the rain-makers bave cer- tainly been losing little time of late. —Mayor MAGEE, of Pittsburg, evidently thinks so much of himself that be thinks very little of she men who elected him. ~The pompadour style of bair dressing is said to be coming in again for men. How nice for them that have any hair to pomp. ~While the fishermen are necessarily discomfited by the excessive rains and high water the fish have just that much longer reprieve from she frying pan. ~There were no CARNEGIE medals or oash prizes for the heroes of the tariff tink- ering tribe. The donor told them where to get off when be was in Washington. —That no one has a drag with the stork was demonstrated in Holland where they were all praying that he would bring a boy for the Queen, but he brought a girl. —Mr. CasTRO, Mr. ABDUL HAMID and a certain Mr. ASTOR, once heard of, mighs buy No-Man’s Land and there find a con- genial asylam for their peculiar needs. ~—Unless there comes a very marked change soon all this talk of a corner in ice during the summer won’t freeze the public fast to much of that American Ice Securi- ties stock. —Strange that the anti-vivisectionists have never gotten onto the fact that it takes the skins of one hundred thousand animals to cover the Oxford bibles that are publish- ed every year. —Anyway the fellow who was operated on and doesn’t know yet whether his was a genuine case of appendicitis or profes. sional curiosity knows how much it cost him to find out what he doesn’s know. ~The extremes of May weather have certainly been attained in record time. On Sanday the mountain tops in Centre coun- ty were covered with snow. Yesterday thermometers registered 86° in the shade. —The farmers who have their oats in the ground wish they bad it in the bags and those who have it in the bags wish they bad it in the ground ; so there ie the old and eternal question of dissatisfaction again, —A Portugese ncbleman was out in the wrist in a duel with swords on Monday. The other nobleman’s honor was satisfied just as well as if he bad actually slapped him or kisked him on the ankle. Ob, fudge. —Former secretary of Commerce and Labor OscAR 8. STRAUSE, has been ap- pointed Ambassador to Tarkey. In view of the doings in the Sultan’s realm of late Mr. STRAUSE might be forgiven for fearing that this commission is his passport to Heaven, —Governor STUART has eigned the new game law the most important feature of which relates to the rights of a fisherman. Henoeforth a fish warden cac~ot drag the weary pisoatorialist from the .anks of his favorite stream merely on suspicion that he has fractured the law. The warden ntust be a witness of an illegal catch before he oan make an arrest. —1It is a mooted question as to whether inoreased postoffice receipts is an indica. tion of reviving prosperity. Scch an in- crease could very easily be caused by the extra number of duns it is necessary to send out now in order to collect bills, or by the strenuous efforts some of the mail order honses are putting forth to inveigle the public into buying their wares. —The continued efforts of our very amia- ble President to attach a portion of the Solid South to the Republican! band wagon wouldn’t be quite so exasperating to we Democrats who bave to look to the ‘Solid South?’ as about the only real comfort we know, if he would only devote some of his blandishments to Senator ALDRICH and charm that gentleman into thinking that the Chicagolplattorm really meant it when it pledged a revision of the tariff down- ward. —In one hundred letters written to Dr. VAUGHN, pastor of the Iastitutional oharoh, Chicago, by bachelors of his con- gregation, every one of them said they pre- ferred ‘‘an old fashioned girl” for a wile ; “not a College graduate, nor a club woman nor a reformer.” While this may be re- garded as a straw ahowing which way the wind blows it can hardly be deemed ground for prophesying that there will be a falling off in the enrollment at women’s colleges next September. —There was a time when the Koreans skinned the Japs and used their hides for drum heads ; then they probably beat the —I out of them. The Japs who escaped amused themselves by cutting off Korean ears and carrying them home to be buried beside their shrines. They were horrible times to be sare, but how much worse were they than that practice of the deposed Sal- Joey Thun Sua who put boiling hot ag Sa. arm pits of those he wished to torture kept them there until the viotim lost reason. “EF a 51 The Sugar Trust Restitution. The Sugar trust has made restitation to the government iv some measure. That is to say it has paid into the treasury a sum a trifle in excess of $2,000,000, being the amount of which it defrauded the govern- ment in uandervaluation of goods imported. It resinted the payment ae long as possible. It held out until every penny of the amount claimed was proved. The govern- ment was cheated of ten times that amount. The practice had been going on for years and was reduced to a system. The officials of the trust had paid liberally to the mis- creants who perpetrated the crime. Bat in the legal proceedings for recovery they in- voked every legal trick and technical de- vioe to obsoure the facts and cloud the is- sue. Bat frauds to the amount of the sum paid were revealed. These criminal operations were as de- liberate as those of any burglar, traiu rob- ber or pirate. They bad been carefully planned and nicely executed. Soales had been altered to suit the purpose. Men had been employed to perform the work. Noth- ing could be farther removed from acci- dent or error. The scheme carefully thought out, was to put money in the treasury of the trust that it might be divided among, not the stockholders but the officials. It wasn’t ap expedient to satiate hunger or relieve distress, It was simply aod es- sentially a fraud to make money as a bank burglary is an adventure to loot the vaults. The transaction was instinot with tarpi- tade. There isn’t a redeeming feature in the whole affair. Is was simply and solely atrocious oriminality. After the exposure had been made com- plete, when the evidence had olearly shown tbat so much property bad been smuggled in to the country by underweight, the officers of the Sagar trust offered to re- imburse the government for the exaot amount, There is a tradition that when Davy CROCKET got his gun sighted on a ‘coon it came down. His aim was so ac- oarate that pulling the trigger meant inev- itable death and the animal instivot in. fluenced the quarry to surrender. The same impulee of self-preservation moved the officers of the Sugar truss to offer res- titution and it was accepted. But il the criminals had been poor no such thing would have happened. In that event the foroes of the oriminal courte would have been brought to bear on them and terms in prison would bavelbeen the penalty. — The School Code. If the text of the School code were the only thing to consider there could be no doubt as to the duty of the Governor to approve it. The measure is fanity beyond question and as it was introduced was iniquitous, It would have taken all control of the echools ont of the hand of the local authorities and lodged it in a machine at Harrisburg as infamoans as it would have been insati- ate. Bat a good many of these evils were eliminated from the measure during its consideration in the General Assembly, and in its present form it is a great improve- ment over the existing laws on the subject, which are conflicting and confusing. But even if the measure were perfect it ought not to receive the sanction of the Governor. No measure ever ought to be allowed to go into the statutes of the State with such a record as the School code has acquired. In the zeal of the machine to pass it every vital principle expressed in the organic law of the State was violated. The laws were perverted and the rales of both House and Senate prostituted in order to get that measure through the Leg- islature. The approval of the bill would imply the sanction by the Governor of this unspeakable iniquity and the Governor is under. the chligation of an oath to ‘‘sap- port, obey and defend’ the constitution. It law and order are to endure in this country these infamous practices must cease. It isn’t the EMMA GOLDMANS or the other foul-mouthed advocates of vice and crime that are spreading anarchy in this country. Their preachments and pestilential practices might go on among themselves for ever and the morals of the public would not be affected. But when men chosen to make the laws violate every principle of morality in order to subserve some sinister interest, the germ of anarchy is being spread in a soil that is ready and rich for its propagation. The assassination of a President of the United States is not balf as great a orime against the govern- ment as passing a law in the way that the School code was jammed through the Leg- islatare, ——Governor Stuart last Saturday signed the bill introduced in the Legislature by Representative J. C. Meyer, of this place, and which was subsequently passed, ex- tending the time for the payment of taxes in order to get the five per cent. off one month, or to the firsts of November instead of the first of Ootober as under the present law. The law, however, does not go into effect until January 1st, 1910. ——Subsoribe for the WaAToHMAN. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 7, 1909. Senator Stober for Sate Treasurer. Upon reasonably authentic information a statement has been published that Sena- tor PENROSE has slated former State Sena- tor J. A. STOBER, ol Lancaster, for the of- fice of State Treasurer. This seems to us incredible. It is not characteristic of PEN- ROSE. Since the late Senator QUAY turn- ed down Justice ELKIN, who aspired to be the Republican candidate for Governor, for the reason that no majority is big enough to carry such a record throagh a campaign, it has been the policy of the Republican machine managers to nominate candidates who could make some claim to political morality and personal qualifications. The only departare from this tnle occurred in 1905 with disastrous results to the party. PENROSE has adhered to the policy more closely than QUAY. The nomination of J. A. SToBER would simply be casting cantion to the dogs and inviting an irrepressible coufliot with every element of decency. STOBER is the per- sonification of political servility. He serv- ed two terms in the House of Representa- tives at Harrisburg and two io the State Senate and during all that time he showed no eign of independent action or giving a thought to the interests of the people. As a matter ol fact it may be doubted if he ever formulated a thought on any subject. He voted for every measure of legiclation initiated by the machine and against every proposition which bad the support or sym- pathy of the better element of his own party or the assistance of the Democrats, Senator PENROSE'S policies in political management were expressed in the nomi- nation of EDWIN 8. STUART, in 1906, for Governor, and in the selection of JoHX O. SHEATZ for State Treasurer a year later. If a man of the J. Leg PLUMMER type had been taken in either case the party would have been overwhelmingly defeated. Thor- oughly understanding this PENROSE se- leoted candidates in whose behall an ap- peal could be made to the conscience of the public and at the same time could be de- pended upon by him. Ib both cases the aconracy of his estimate has been proved. STUART has served him as well as Mo- NicHOL or DURHAM could and his nomi. pation saved tbe party. It is not likely that he will depart from this wise course by the nomination of A. J. STOBER for State Treasarer. Roosevelt Again Rebuked. The Sapreme court decision, banded down on Monday, affirming the constita- tionality of the ‘Commodity Clause’ of the HEPBURN law and declaring its inade- quacy for the purpose for which it was en- aoted, is simply a rebuke from the high- est authority to the hysteria of ROOSEVELT administration. ROOSEVELT pretended to aim at a regulation of the trusts but was playing to the galleries as other dema- gogues do, while he was studiously pro- moting the interests of the Repnblican ma- chine. He could have had legislation on the subject efficient and effective, but he undertook to fool the people and serve the machine at the same time. 3 No public office has ever heen maladmin- istered as ROOSEVELT betrayed the office of President of the United States, within the history of the conntry. Selfish, absurd and opinionated, be undertook to subvert the constitution and pervert the high office which he attained through the act of an assassin. Appealing to passion rather than reason he forced legislation that was ill- conceived, ill-considered and mischievous. Under the false pretense of fighting the trusts he conserved the interests of the trusts by compelling Congress to enact laws which were invalid. In this, as in everything else with which he bad to do, he was insincere and hypocritical. RoosevELT made abundant work for the courts but achieved nothing that was of advantage to the people. The opinion of the Supreme court in the case in point is the final settlement, adversely, of his claim to personal and official integrity. If he bad kept his meddling fingers out of the affair legislation would have been enacted that might have checked the abuses of corpora- tions. Senator BAILEY and Senator TILL- MAN had practically compelled such legis- lation. But ROOSEVELT intervened and by commerce, corrupt or otherwise, with the men he was dencuncing as criminals, he secured the passage of the imbecile and invalid HEPBURN law and saved the trusts all trouble. ~——Notwithstanding the bard times stocks continue to soar higher and higher with apparently no top. Wheat, also, bas taken another jump since its decline of ten days ago and is almost up to its high mark. What influence is behind the market's un- usual strength is a mystery to the average dealer, and a bugbear to the ‘‘shorts.”” ~—Trout fishermen have not been much in evidence the past week on account of the high and muddy water which rendered angling for the speckled beauties more of a farce than an enjoyable sport. But all fishermen are simply waiting for better weather and olearer water when they will again be out in full force. Auntomobilists to Organize. A call bas been issued for a meeting of the automobilists of Bellefonte, in the arbitration room in the cours house tomor- row (Saturday) evening at 8 o'clock for the purpose of organizing an automobile association in this place. While to the average antomobilist the object of such organizat.on may appear in- significant, is is, in fact, one of great im- portance, especially as this time. While primarily the purpose is for protection in their rights as automobile owners and driv- ers and in using their inflaence in pushing along the good roads caase, there is in- finitely more than that in it at the present time, if the proper energy is put forth, and this should be a reason for every man who owns a machine to take an active part in the organization. The last Legislature passed the Phila- delphia to Pittsburg state highway bill and appropriated five million dollars to cover the expenses of work upon it during the next two years. As this was the pet meas- ure of Governor Stuart there is no doubt but that be will sign the bill, it he bas not already done so. The bill provides that the road must run through Harrisburg and its western route from the State capital to Pittsburg is still undetermined aud will very likely depend largely on the influence that can be brought to bear upon the com- mission appointed to have charge of the huildivg of the road by local orgavizations along the most plansible routes. From Harrisburg the most natural ronte would be up the Juniata valley as far as Lewistown and from there the road oconld be diverted three different ways, the short: est of whioh would be across the Seven mountains into Centre county and, if nos to Bellefonte, by way of State College and through the Barrens and Warriorsmark val. ley to Tyrone and theuce to Altoona and on west, This would place Bellefonte within practical close proximity, an ad- vantage that can readily be appreciated. But to get the road this way will re. quire considerable hard work as well as strong influence and it is here where a good automobile association can do a tremendous amount of good if they go abont it in the right way. But there must be no half- heartedness in the matter, and that is the big reason why all the antomobilists in Centre county should join the organization and pash the work along. Stuart's Veto Message. Governor STUART is using the veto ax with a good deal of freedom anda consider: able measure of intelligence. Since the adjournment of the Legislature he bae vetoed several bills that were passed dar- ing the closing hours of the vesgion withous reason or consideration. Possibly there was an agreement to dispose of them in that way for STUART bas more courage shan discretion. In any event it is well that they are vetoed for most of them are vi. cions. It is gratilying, moreover, that good reasons are given for the action. The ‘Governor's messages are well written, force- ‘| fal and satisfying. For example in stating bis objections to the act ‘‘?0 protect forestry preserves,’’ the Governor says, ‘‘by this act it is attempted to deprive a defendant of his constitutional right to appeal npon cause shown.” That indicates a deference to the fundamental law of the State which bas been absent in recent years. Governor PENNYPACKER paid no attention to the constitution. His absurd caprices were the fundamental laws in his administration. I: is refreshing, therefore, and encouraging to find a Gov- ernor seriously referring to the constitution. It indicates a return to legitimate methods in administration. His other vetoes are equally well sup- ported. But they relate to bills involving legal problems and the hand of the Astor- ney General is plainly seen in them. Of course the political machine has little, if any, interests in such legislation and Gen- eral Topp is more a lawyer than politician. Still if the Governor gets into the veto habit he may enlarge the scope of his aotivities in that direction and kill some of the vicious political bills. At least we shall hope thas it is true until the contrary is shown if it isrevealed at all. The ma. chine is confident, however. ~The storm of last week must have had the effect of driving birds out of sheir favorite haunts. Last Friday and Saturday quite a number of wild ducks were seen in certain portions of Centre county and a few settled down on Spring oreek right within the borough limits of Bellefonte. Down at the fair grounds a large loon was captured on Friday and on Saturday a big bald eagle was shot near Spring Mills. On Tuesday ’Squire H. Laird Curtin caught a bird down near Curtin and up to this time there has not been a single person who saw it orni- thologist enough to tell what it is. At present it is on exhibition in a cage in Kuisely’s cigar store. ~The continued wet weather of the past week bas had a dampening and re- tarding effect on all farm work. O10; An Untaifilied Threat, From the Johastown Democrat, The isthmian canal commission bas jast awarded cotracts for supplies ting $1,000,000. These sn include arti- oles of steel, iron, brass, bronze and copper. Apparently the old threat of buying these in the open market was not renewed. It will be remembered shat Mr. Roosevels and Mr. Taft two or three years ago were in open rebellion against trust extortion aud it was given out flat that uolees American Crs modified their bold-up Uncle Sam would canal supplies wherever shey conld be had the This in itself was a dead give-away of oar blessed tariff system and it gave a distinos shook to the stand way they fixed is ap with President Roose- velt and his war secretary. Little of any material was purchased except in the Dingley cornered American market. Yet the government authorities had declared in an official statement that purchases could be made abroad at prices ranging from 20 to 40 per cent. lower than those demanded by tbe home producers. Millions are being poured into the Pana- ma canal project. Evormous itares are required for supplies avd all of these could be bought abroad on far better terms than are offered in this closed market. Of oourse it may be that the ment bas some und ing with the American manufacturers. It is possible that they have agreed to sell to Uncle Sam in Panama on the same basis they would sell to John Bull or Don Quixote or Johnny Crepaud. Bat if this is she case it is a se. cret between Uncle Sam and the manafao- turers. Neither party to the deal has taken she people into ita confidence. As far as generally known Uncle Bam is pay- ing fall trust Prices for all he bays, nos- withstanding his threat to save from a quarter to half on his requirements by par- chasing in a free market. Poor Independents! From the Pittsburg Post. If it were not for the fact that the Sen- ate finance committee has heretofore taken seriously such demands, the plead! Penn- sylvania tobacco producers for a tariff on the Philippine product would be cause onl for derision. The absurdity of seeking bei concesrions and supporting the appeal with statistics proving the unassailable position of the tobacco and cigar industry in this State borders on the ludicrous. The Payve bill proposed to admit free of doty from the Philippines 3,000,000 pounds of filler tobacco, 300,000 pounds of wrap tobacco and 150,000,000 cigars I Senator Aldrich obligingly out the first named figure in ball. And now ‘eome the entrenched tobacconists placidly, BOT. rowlally, asserting that such competition would ruin their business, and b their lachrymose pleadings with the state- ment thas in Lancaster county, this State, alone, 800,000,000 cigars were manufactur ed in 1906, and that 2,000,000,000 are made every year within the limits of the Key- stone State. Could anything be more inane ? ‘We must be protected from the trust,’ these unfortuanates exclaim. ‘‘Save us ; oh, save us !"”” From what? Why, impor- taticns that wonld not be a flea-bite on the total tobacco production of a single State. It is the same old cry. Independent oil producers must be saved from the trust which would import a comparatively few gallous of oil from Mexico. Independent steel manufacturers will fail it yon dimin- ish the duties even by a smali fraction. Is is the same all down the line. And it is very, very sad. A Critical Week for the Aldrich Bill. From the New York Evening Post. This week’s debate and voting in the Senate may easily be critical. The game of the high-tariff intriguers is to secure enough votes to Dass their bill very much as it is, on the plea that the measure will be altered for the beter in conference between the two Houses. It is even said that the President bas been urged to say nothing at present about the bad features of the Sen- ate bill, in the hope that the conference will insist upon a really honest revision of the tariff. Bat we hope that neither he nor any tariff-reform Senator is oredulouns enough to be taken in by this. If Aldrich can get his bill through, on whatever pre- tenses, without serious opposition, he will lead the Senate couferees to an unyielding battle with those from the House. The time to attack and check him is before the bill gets out of the Senate. Hence we wel- come the statement that a dozen or so of revisionist Republican Senators from the West are to take the floor to expose and denounce the kind of tricky revision which Aldrich has devised. Only by meeting him openly and resolutely, and by refusing to vote for those exorbitant duties which he would levy in defiance of party pledges and of all decency, can the 3 of the Ways and Means Committee of the House be held up, aod the way made ready for the emerging from conference of a tariff bill such as the country was promised, and strongly desires. Stober or Berry. From the Lancaster Intelligencer. The quoted declaration of ex-Speaker McClain that ex-Senator Jobn A. Stober will have the united support of Lancaster county Republicans for the Republican nomination for State Treasurer means, of course, that Mr. Stober will have the sup- port of the well oiled and powerful Lanoas- ter machine, but what else does it mean ? It should mean an immediate, whole-souled demand from all good citi. zens for the re-election of ex-State Treas- urer Berry. It is explained that Mr. Stober is now to be thrust forward to placate Lancaster county, bus the better part of Lancaster county should decline to be placated in just that way. A man who has just ‘‘gone along” with the machine will bardly ap- 1 to the local pride of even the average L county Republican. . As for the Democrats, Shey could hardly seleot an opponent who would offer better raed So ram oe i But in some Spawis from the Keystone. —With liabilities of nearly $200,000 and assets of probably half that amount, the Breon Lumber company, of Williamsport, has been thrown iuto bankruptcy and John Coleman appointed receiver. Mr. Coleman will at once assume charge. — At least a hundred homeopathic physi. cians, including some of the most prominent medical men in the country, are expected to attend the annual convention of the Inter- national Hahnemanuian society, which will be held in Pittsburg June 16, 17 and 18, ~The Bellevue Methodist Episcopal church, Pittsburg, celebrated the centennial of its organization last Sunday by raising $600 a minute for thirty minutes, or $18,000 at the morning service, to pay its debt. Am additional $2,000 was raised in the evening. —Representative McClain, of Lancaster, has asked Governor Stuart to appoint Dr. Fmma Purnall, of Lancaster, to member- ship in the State Osteopathic Examining Board on the ground that a majority of the practicing osteopaths of the State are wom- en. —Abandoning the dairy feature of his farm, Adam Smale, living near Pottstown, last fall purchased twenty-six steers, averag- ing 491 pounds, and by good feeding he has brought them up to an average of 1,500 pounds and will dispose of them at a good profit. —The Isbor unions of Pennsylvania are after the official scalp of John C. Delaney. chief factory inspector. They are flooding Governor Stuart with letters requesting him to apvoint some one closer to the working people of Pennsylvania tban the present in- cumbent. ~The State police have been called from Panxsutawney to Centreville, Elk county, to enforce the quarantine against scarlet fe- ver and measles, which are epidemic among the pupils of the public schools. Over 100 cases have been reported to the State health department. —The Williams Grove Fire Brick Co., practically owned by David Atherton and Joseph Barnes, of Philipsburg, bas been awarded the contract for furnishing one half of the brick to be used this summer in pav- ing streets at Conemaugh. Their share will probably be about 450,000 brick. ~The three Italians who were arrested and placed in the Clearfield jail in connec- tion with the stabbing of Conductor Orin Maguire during a disturbance on a C. & C. Street Railway car at Hawk Run on the night of April 12th have been liberated by Judge Smith on $300 bail each on a habeas corpus hearing. —Perry Myers, a clerk in the Lebanon postoffice, has been arrested by the postal anthorities on the charge of purloining mail. Meyers is reported to have formed the habits of stealing the lunch of a fellow employee. A close watch was put on him and he was detected taking a package of second class mail containing several pairs of stockings. —John G. 8. Walker, of Alexandria, Hunt- ingdon county, was on Monday presented with a Carnegie bronze hero medal and $1,- 000, the money to be used in restoring his health. Walker saved the life of Miss Claire McCauley, of Philadelphia, who had fallen ng | into the forebay containing three turbines at the Nilson electric plant, at Alexandria, on September 27th, 1908, —At a meeting of the Altoona Methodist Episcopal ministers held Tuesday afternoon in the parlors of the Eighth Avenue church, July 20th was was selected as the date for the next ieunion to be held at Lakemont Park. The committee on program, composed of District Superintendent B. C. Conner and the officers of the meeting, was given plen- ary powers in the selection of speakers and the other features of the exercises, ~The dairy and food division collected $3,243.92 in fines and license fees during April. The new law prohibiting the water. ing of milk contributed $261.34, eleven deal- ers having been caught serving diluted milk to their customers. One milk dealer was convicted of using preservatives in milk and was fined $50. Oleo licenses contributed $568,71, four cases of adulterated vinegar $200 and twenty-one oleo fines $2,165 87. —~Two hundred miners were thrown into a panic, seven of them being seriously injured, by a blinding flash and a deafening roar, fol- lowing an explosion of powder, 2,000 feet under ground, in the Arona mine of the Keystone Coal Co., at Arona, Westmoreland county, Tuesday morning. Two hours later the injured were in the Westmoreland hos. pital at Greensburg. Black powder it is said, was being smuggled into the mine to be used instead of fulminate, and it is believed the explosion was caused by an electric spark from the trolley falling into the can of powder. —Great excitement was cauzed at Punxsu* tawney on Sunday by the announcement that drillers who are sinking a well on the Brown Brothers’ farm, about a quarter of a mile northeast of Big Run, had struck a 100- barrel oil well. That there is something big in the report is something big in the report is evident from the number and calibre of practical oil men who drifted into Big Run Monday forenoon and from the further fact that notices have been posted up all about the derrick warning people to keep off the premises. The land is leased by a company of Big Run and New Bethlehem men, in. cluding G. E. Davis, I. Davis and D. L. Smyers, of Big Run, and Knight & Co., of New Bethlehem. The company has leased about 8.000 acres. ~The mine fire which broke out in the lowest level at North Mahanoy colliery four weeks ago was declared Sunday by the offi. cials to be under control. Robbed of air and flooded with millions of gallous of water, the fire is dying out. Sanday, for the first time, workingmen were able to penetrate breast No. 18 from adjoining chambers. The dam- age wrought by the flames is terrific. Solid pillars of coal, 30 fect thick, were easy prey and are crumbling together with much of the top. These workings are now under water, which has risen to a height of 110 feet, and will be continued until it reaches 200 feet. A former official of the Reading, familiar with mine fires, said Monday that the blaze will cost the company $150,000. The colliery will not work for a month, but adjoining operations will resume in a few
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