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BY PP. GRAY MEEK.
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Tuk Slings.
—To the Granger's for the big time next
week.
—The frost of Sunday night bad a bard
time locating any pumpkins to settle on.
—Some one has discovered that Mars is
it to live on. Of course it is—tor the Mar-
tians—but who wants to be a Martian.
—The first rau of the Bellefonte Motor
club left a cow dead in ite wake. Fittingly
enough she was brought down by a HUN-
TER.
—By the time Dr. CoOK gets throogh
with the skeptics he will wish be bad
orawled in to the pole hole and pulled the
pole in after him.
~The defeat of Tyroue last Saturday
conldn’t possibly bave been ae much of a
surprise to the conquered as it was to the
conquering Bellefonters.
~Why all this foes about Dr. Cook’s
baving discovered the pole. Some say be
did and some say he didn’s. Bat what
difference does is make, atter all. The
pole is still there.
—Ribs and loins took another jomp in
price last week. Fortunately tbe common
people were reduced to chuck and soup
bones so long ago that they are not much
concerned about the price of real beet any
more.
~The Academy and Siate both being
opened for a new term there are lots of poor
mothers who will be lefs to do all of the
house work alone, while she daughters
with their rats and their enoods will gallop
the streets in search of boys.
~The QUAY statue having fioally reach-
ed Harrisburg by slow freight there
is no one to claim it and soon there will be
a bill of demurrage that some one will bave
to settle. QUAY always was costly, wheth-
er you wanted bim or whether you didn’t,
~The Pennsy had hetter hiss Dr. Cook
on that Lewistown hold ap man. Ab ar-
my of detectives and hloodhounds have
been trailing him for two weeks without
avail so it seems time to procure the serv-
ices of some one who bas a record for find-
ing things.
—Notwithstanding the fact that Philips.
barg is to celebrate her “Old Home Week”
next week—and she will do is right royal.
ly—we’ll bet that the wee ama’ hours of
wany of those nights will find little groups
in familiar places singing ‘‘Home Ain't
Nothin’ Like This.”
— Bellefonte wae threatened with a water
famine during the early part of the week
because of the breaking of three of the
large pumps. Inquiry as soon as the trou-
ble was discovered revealed that there was
plenty of the other stuff in the usual places
80 the scare was short lived.
—Aond PEARY comes along, just to spoil
everything, with a story that he] bas dis-
covered the pole also, Dr. Cook bad just
beat him into notoriety by five days. Neo.
essarily PEARY feels sore and declares tbe
other fellow is a faker. However that may
be the other fellow hasn't said any euch
unkind things about Commander PEARY.
—Commander PEARY will convince {the
world that be is jealous if he doesn’t shut
up toon. Science will find out the truth
of Dr Cook's claim and PEARY is only be.
littling whatever triumph he may have
bad by Lis criticism of the other explorer.
Besides, PEARY has not proven to the
world thas he is not a faker himself in this
pole discovering business.
—I¢ bas been suggested that the QUAY
monument might be sent up to mark the
triomph of Dr. Cook in finding the pole.
The suggestion is a good one, because
Pennsylvania would be making no sacrifice
in gesting rid of the monument and Cava-
da or no other claimant of the pole would
succeed in getting away with it as long as
the effigy of MATTHEW is on the job.
—Poor Mr. HARRIMAS Just when be
was about to acquire a werkiog control in
nearly all the railroads in America he falls
into the hands of the surgeons. Though
be was ‘“‘a wizard’ iu high finance and one
of the remarkable men of the times what
did is all avail him. Not all the mon.
ey he bad put into the Union and South-
ern Pacific roads could buy him back
the health he probably wrecked in their
building.
—Estimates of what the new census will
be already fix the increase in our popula.
tion at fifteen million. This will mean a
hundred new Congressmen in the States il
the present ratio of population is contin.
ued. With a hundred more Congressmen
than we have pow the good Lord only
knows what would become of the country.
Aud think of the seeds and public doou-
mente there would bave to be in order to
satisfy them all. In addition to this Uncle
Jor CANNON would bave to get a longer
lash for his whip.
—The constitutional amendments which
you will be expected to vote on are being
advertised in this paper. It is the duty of
every citizen to read them carefully so that
be may vote intelfigently on theiradoption.
It is not a political question at all. Isis
one as to whether the constitution of the
State should be changed to meetj{certain
contingencies. Inasmuch as the] constitu.
tion is the foundation of our government it
should be most intelligently cared for and
for thas reason you should read what the
proposed changes are so that when you
come to vote you will know what to do.
“STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 54
A Tale of Two Cities.
There is not a great deal of difference
between the political conditions in Phila
delphia and New York. In New York the
TAMMANY Society, which is the Demo-
cratic organization, controls the municipal
government and in Philadelphia the **Con-
tractors’ Combine,” dominates the affairs
of the city. Uarestrained they would
probably be equally corrupt. Bas the New
York organization is ‘‘held in leash,” so
to speak, by a Legislature of opposite
politics and in Philadelphia the predatory
impulses of the machine are encouraged by
a Legislature impregoated with corruption.
In both cities there is a reputable element
belonging to the majority party whioh is
constantly striving to check the official
venality and restore the government to the
control of the people and in both cities this
well-meaning body of voters defeat their
purposes by proceeding in the wrong way
toward their achievement.
In New York the reformers have no ob-
ject in view beyond the ‘‘defeat of TaM-
MANY.” In Philadelphia they consider no
other purpose than tbe defeat of the ‘‘Con-
tractors’ Combine.” Four years ago the
greatest effort was required to convince the
then Cisy party that its work would be in-
complete and useless unless in addition to
defeating the local candidates of the ma-
chine, the candidate of the same pernicious
organization for State Treasurer was aleo
defeated. They finally yielded to reason
and coupled one purpose with the other
with the resuls that if they bad not gone
hack to the evils they had crippled, within
a year, the machine would have been de-
stroyed forever. This year the PENN party
is manifesting the same impulse to blunder.
Iss leaders protess that it is only the local
machine they are in quarrel with and con-
sequently they are nuwilling to help the
people of the State to overthrow an equally
odious incubus.
The other day while the New York re-
formers were discussing plans for a cam-
paign againet the iviguities of thas city
Prof. FRANKLIN H. GIDDINGS, a Republi-
can of high standing and great ability,
startled his associates by remarking : ‘No
reform is going to amount to anything in
this town unless it has some bigger pur-
pose than to beat TAMMANY. Beating
TAMMANY is simply pars of the old nega-
tive program,’’ and the esteemed New York
World adde, “TAMMANY bas been defeated
many times, ouly toreturn to power asa
consequence of dissatisfaction with what
Prof. GIDDINGS calls ‘the old negative
program.” The Contractors’ Combine in
Philadelphia bas been defeated frequently,
also, and it has likewise returned to power
for the same reason, but when the people of
Philadelphia join in a movement to obliter-
ate it entirely by defeating the machine
which gives it potency, there will be no
recuscitation.
An Unjust Compinint.
There isa good deal of pertarbation
among some of our esteemed Republican
contemporaries, on account of the increased
tariff tax oon white paper. It bas been
announced that av invoice of paper from
one of the mills in Canada bas already
been taxed at the rate of $6.25 a ton under
the schedule of the ALDRICH law which
adds twenty-five per cent. to the rate fixed
as the minimam. The DINGLEY law tax
on white paper was $5a ton. The mini-
mum rate under the ALDRICH law is $3.25
a ton. But the 25 percent penalty for
disorimination againet this country in
tariff rates increases the tariff tax to $6.25
a ton aud the papers which suffer by the
added tax are complaining.
As we stated before the ALDEICH bill
became a law we have no sympathy with
this complaint on the part of our Republi:
can contemporaries. The burden is no
greater than they deserve. They have en-
couraged the tariff taxation of necessaries
of life to an extent which jeopardizes the
health and destroys the comfors of millions
of industrious and deserving people. Wool.
en cloths, blankets and cotton fabrics are
more important to the well-being of the
public than white paper. The average
citizen can do without information better
than he can do without clothing and if
newspapers who encouraged the excessive
taxation of these necessaries of life happen
to be caught in the tariff trap they laid for
others let them suffer.
The articles which are imported from
Canada in considerable quantity are white
paper, wood pulp avd timber. The news:
papers toat are loudest in their protest
against the increase of the tariff taxon
white paper and wood pulp were strongest
in favor of the ALDRICH schedule on tim-
ber. Yet cheap timber would serve the
public good vastly more than cheap paper
aud wood pulp. It would cheapen the cost
of erecting homes and tend to conserve the
forests of she connéry aod averé that dan-
ger which ROOSEVELT regarded as immi-
nent and for which his adherents are still
contending with such vebemence. Mean-
time let those who have brought evil upon
themselves suffer.
— Adveriise tn the WATCHMAN.
BELLE
A Mystery Cleared Up.
The gossip concerning the enlargement of
the state capitol is significant, in view of
recent events. When the ‘‘Palace of
Grafs” was completed, most of us imagined
that it afforded ample space beneath its
various gilded ceilings, to serve every pur-
pote for & century to come. As first there
was talk of tearing down the Executive
Building as a useless oumberer of ground,
but finally that structure was converted
into a museum for snakes and other curios.
But now we learn that there is already a
scheme on foot to enlarge the capitol baild-
ing. Atleast we notice that the press
correspondents at Harrisburg are express-
ing regret that a contemplated increase in
the dimensions of the buildiog is impossi-
ble because the park lines at the rear ex-
posure of the building are inadequate. In
other words the rear line of the building
is almost on she line of the park.
It there were any doubts, heretofore, of
the reasons why the machine managers
selected Senator S1ssox, of Erie, and former
Senator STOBER, of Lancaster, as their oan-
didates for State Treasurer and Auditor
General, this revelation dispels them. The
election of SissoN and SToBER will make
them ex-officio members of the Board of
Public Grounds and Baildings and
thoughtful men will readily understand
what that means in the evens of extensive
building operations. If the members of
that Board had been averse to gralt as the
time that SANDERSON, CASSELL aod their
co-conspirators were looting the treasury,
the facts would have been revealed at once
and the criminal operations stopped. In
fact if the people bad not elected WILLIAM
H. BERRY to the office of State Treasurer,
we would never have known of the looting
and it would have gone on indefinitely.
All the members of the Board must ‘‘go
along’ to make it successful.
It is pot likely that nine or ten million
dollars could be taken through grafting
operations in the construction of an addi.
tion to the oapitol building, the coset of
which would probably be limited by law
to one or two millions. But the records
show thas though the cost of the present
building was limited by law to $4,500,000
upwards of $9,000,000 were stolen and at
the same ratio it may be assured that the
hungry looters hope to be able to geta
couple of millions out of the proposed ad-
dition. In view of such expectations they
were wise in selecting S1ssoN and STOBER
for membership of the Board of Public
Grounds and Buildings. Their records in
the Legislature are guarantees that there
would be no interference with the plaus of
the looters. PENNYPACKER, Dr. SNYDER
and State Treasurer MATHUES were com-
placent enough but SissoN and STOBER
would be even more obliging.
The North Pole Discovered.
That the North Pole has been discovered
admits of no doubt and we can discover
nothing inoonaistent with the accuracy of
the claime of both Mr. PEARY and Dr.
Cook. Both gentlemen appear to have
adopted the same idea concerning the mat.
ter. Experience bad saoght them that
winter is a fitter season than summer for
approaching the northern limit of she globe,
while all their predecessors had followed
the opposite idea. In fact both of them
bad previously adopted the common notion
that the approach must be made in summer
time. That they chavged their views
simultaneously is simply a coincidence.
Now that the Pole has been discovered,
however, it ia not easy to see what great
advantage is to bederived from the achieve.
ment. The fires explorers in that direction
were inflaenoced to take she hazards involv-
ed by the expectation of finding a channel
oo the other side of the Pole which might
prove of great advantage to commerce.
Nearly 500 years ago enterprising mer:
chants in Holland and other commercial
countries began to ounltivate an apprehen.
sion that the known channels of commerce
would prove inadequate in time, just as
some men now imagine that the resources
of this country are in danger of exhaus-
tion. The search for a channel on the other
side of the North Pole was the result.
This searoh has continued ever since, at
an immense expense in lile and treasure,
but not always with the view of revealing
a ohanunel for commercial uses. Both Cook
aod PEARY, for example, bave been in-
flaenced, it may be conjectured, more by a
love for adventure or the ambition to
achieve, than with the idea of commercial
or even scientific advantage to the world.
Of course eoientists may turn the oppor-
tunities into vast advantage to the world
and we sincerely hope they will. Bat at
present the best result discernible to the
unscientific mind is the tact that the idea of
a channel on the other side is dispelled.
~——In addition to the proverbial ques-
tion as to what we shall do with our ex-
Presidents we are now likely to be cone
tronted with the;conundrum, what shall
we do with our North Poles ?
~—Yon miss a good thing it you don't
take the WATCHMAN.
ONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 10. 1909.
Mr. Shaw's Work in Pennsylvania. |
Who is responsible for the frequent visite
end more or less tedions speeches of LESLIE
M. SHAW, io Pennsylvania? Within the
past month he has spoken at three grauge
meetings in the State, his last effort baving
been delivered at the Grangers’ picnic,
Williame’ Grove, last week. He is nota
farmer, though he probably owns farms in
Iowa, where during a prolonged period of |
depression, from 1837 until about 1900, |
the usurious bankers ecquired pearly all |
the desirable land of the people. He be-
came Secretary of the Treasury during the
administration of President ROOSEVELT
and continued io that office until the |
srusts and predatory corporations quarrel: |
ed with the President.
Mr. SHAW has not clearly revealed the
purpose of his speeches in this State,
though it may be covjectured. He heotors
the farmer: a good deal and tells them how
to conduot their business but manifestly
that is nos his principal object. To recou-
cile the agrioultural interests to the ini
quities of the ALDRICH tarifl bill appears
to be his real purpose. He favored another
kind of tariff himself, he says, and would
have much preferred a system of taxation
which would bave imposed less burdens
on “the tillers of the soil.”” Bat after ail,
be adds, the measure is not hall as bad as
it might bave been and it ought to be ac:
cepted by the people, uncomplainingly,
even though it does rob them mercilessly
in order to bestow unearned bouuties on
trust magoates.
Mr. SHAW is not likely to make moch
progress, however, in his efforts to hood-
wink the farmers of Pennsylvania. The
public schools bave accomplished muoh in
the way of diffasing intelligence and
spreading information amoung the farmers
of Pennsylvania and the Grange bas de-
veloped a capacity for expressing ideas
among them which makes the tedious
speeches of LesLie M. SHAW soand very
tame to them. If the Republican national
committee is paying Mr. SHAW for his time
and his speeches, therefore, they ate wast-
ing tainted money. He has nos sucoeed ed
in fooling any body, thus far, and each of his
speeches has been answered by a farmer in
a way that made him look like shitty
oents.
——The ROOSEVELT sun is more or less
eclipsed by she North Pole hut most people
will accept the change in the news features
of the publio prints as an improvemens.
What's the Use.
The Quay movument bas arrived in
Harrisburg, it may be assamed. At least
it was shipped from the New Jersey marble
yard 1n which it was completed a couple of
years ago, a week ago last Wednesday by
slow freight. At Philadelphia it was trans-
ferred to a fast freight train before the close
of the week and of course has arrived at its
destination by this time. The Governor
will bring the matter before the Board of
Public Grounds and Baildings at ite next
meeting, Harrisburg press dispatches assure
us, avd it is likely that within a fortnight
or 80 we will be able to give exact infor-
mation concerning the matter.
But what’s the use of this effigy in mar-
ble of QuAY ? We have plenty of things to
remind ns of that enterprising political
leader. The records of the criminal courts
in Harrisburg and Philadelphia are in
themselves ample for the purpose and the
lead-filled bronze obandeliers, the bogus
rosewond and mahogany furniture and
decorations in the capitol will remind ue
of the political methods of ‘‘the old man,”
until the end of time. Then there are
Senator S1esoN aod former Senator STOBER,
the Republican nominees for Anditor Gen-
eral and State Treasurer, respectively. Who
oan forget QUAY while they are in the lime.
light of official life ?
STOBER sat in the State Senate during
the session of 1899 and during the pro-
longed balloting of that session for United
States Senator cast his vote consistently
for Quay. SissoN participated in the
ballot for Senator in Congress in 1901, and
voted for QUAY. Both of them voted for
the Pittsburg ripper bill which was QUAYS
instrament for punishing certain Senators
and Representatives in the Legislature in
the session of 1809, whose friends were in
municipal office in that city at the time for
voting againet him for Senator in Congress.
In view of theee facts what is the use of a
monament of Quay ?
~The first frost of the season disoerni-
ble in Bellefonte was on Monday morning
when the grass in some places was gnite
boary-like. But at that no damage was
done owing to the extreme dryness of all
crops and vegetation.
ee ——
~——Probably HARRIMAN'S relapse was
caused by the fear that PEARY and COOK
might corner the railroad franchises in the
neighborhood of the North Pole.
~The only cause for regret in relation
to the discovery of the North Pole is in the
fact that WALTER WELLMAN may be
obliged to go to work.
From the Philadelphia Record.
When the Machine, taught by she re-
salt of fosioo in 1905 in the election of
State Treasurer Berry, bad reason to dread
continued Republican revols, is took refoge
in the nomination of Edwin 8. Ssuars for
governor and next of Jobu O. Sheatz for
state ¢reasurer. But for the apprebeunsion
of great danger Penrose and his state con-
ventions of machine office holders and
spoilsmen would have made other and
quite different choice. The independent
Kepablicans accepted the trihate that was
extorted from the fears of the Machine in
these nominations ; but even then the elec-
tion returns show that outside of Phila.
| deiphia both Start and Sheatz bad very
slender majorities.
The situation bas again chaoged. Re-
joicing in the secarity derived from the
imaginary apathy aod indifference of the
independent Republicans of she state, the
Machine has retarned to its old methods.
In A. E. Sisson of Erie and J. A. Stober of
Lancaster, its nominees for the respective
offices of auditor general and state treasorer
are men of very different calibre and ante-
cedents from the present occupants of those
itions. Auditor General Younug and
tate Treasurer Sheatz owe their offices
moch less to their soknowledged fitness
than to the fears of the Machine against
which they had often revolted. Sisson
aod Stober, on the other hand, are nomi-
vated for these positions because of their
notorious subservienoy to the most flagi-
tions Machine rule. If either of them ever
faltered in his alacrity and obedience to
Quay or Penrose, the journals of she Legis.
lature of Pennsylvania bear no evidence of
it. Whether is was the midnight bill hy
which the street railway franchises of Phil.
adelpbia were stolen or any other scheme
of speliative, their support of the Machine
could be counted on with unerring oer-
tainty. For this service the Penrose Ma-
chine has proposed to put them into the
responsible offices of auditor general and
state treasurer as worthy esucoessors of the
former board that built the Capitol of Grafs
oat of the spoils of the commonwealth.
Bat in this Penrose avd bis fellow-mava-
gers of the Machine have reckoned once
more without the independent Republi.
caus of Philadelphia and other portions of
the state who mustered to the number of
upward of 100,000 in 1905 so elect State
Treasurer Berry and have bad reason ever
since to rejoice in the act. In ecoutrast
with the Machine nominees the Demoorats
have presented in J. Wood Clark and
George Washington Kipp, their candidates
for auditor general and state treasurer,
citizens who are in every way deserving of
the hearty support of the independent
voters of Pennsylvania. RR,
More Democracy the Care,
From the McKeesport Times.
A great American once said that ‘‘the
remedy for the evils of Democracy is more
Democrasy ;"’ and he was right.
The greatest evi! of Democracy is the
corruption of the people's elected represen-
tatives by grasping private inserests, It is
through the *‘fixing’ of councilmen, state
legislators and congressmen shat America's
gravest ills arise.
Let us cure this evil by providing more
Democracy—by making she more import.
ant aots of the people's representatives sub-
jeot to approval by the people at the polls.
Experience bas shown it unsafe to put
the control of the people's property into
the bands of a few men, or to entrust a
small number with power to make laws
that may tremendonsly enrich a few at the
expense of the many.
Few are the legislators—oity, state or
pational—who cannot in some way be
‘“‘reached’’ when greedy men of wealth and
influence desire to subvert governmental
machinery to tbe production of private
profit. Simple bribery is the least effect.
ive, least practiced argument that is
brought to bear. By the tricksters’ ocun-
ping art the legislator’s social advance-
ment, political preferment or business suc-
cess are made dependent upon the treach-
ery to his constituents. Not a word may
be spoken, —bas be knows ; and bow often
he falls ia written upon sinister pages of
our history.
By depriviog our representatives of the
power to give away our property without
our consent or open the domain of our
rights to the ravenous cohorte of conecience-
lese greed, we can do away with the shawe-
ful conditions that bave made ‘‘American
politics” and ‘‘graft’ synonymous the
world over.
Let us take back these tremendous pow-
ers that we have delegated to our represen-
jive. Lt us Vine that no ole hy
or gifs of the e's property sl .
fective until the people shall have ratified
it,—that no bill or ordinance awarding a
franchise shall be a law until a popular
ority shall have ordered *‘Be it 80.”
y so doing we will not only protect
ourselves, but will ard our represen
tatives against tem one that too many
of them cannot resist,—temptations that,
once yielded to, are fought more weakly at
each approach until at last the people’s
chosen man is a poor, weak thing, corrupt-
ed to his being’s core.
If we tail to provide ourselves with this
defensive weapon, corruption will ®
abroad ootil all the land is foul—uantil the
strong, olean mavhood that has made
America great is nloered with dishonesty.
This nation’s hope for salvation from the
fate of rotten Rome is in the referendum.
The Biggest Question.
From the Kansas City Star.
The biggest question before the count
today—a few hours only after a new
law bas been enacted—is the tafiff ques-
tion. I is the biggest of all questions now
irg, both morally and economically.
tis a question that must command and
develop the leadership of strong, fearless
men. It must be solved right and soon it
it is to be solved without the precipitation
of a great and dangeroms orisis in the life
of the nation.
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——Belletonte’s baseball season is over
and now we'll soon have to begin boosting
the Bellefonte Academy foot ball team,
1 that the Juniata Water and.
spawis from the Keystone.
—A benevolent person who does not wish
kis name mentioned has added $200 to $300
collected by young ladies of Clearfied ins
fair to donate to the hospital.
—A. W. Mabon, treasurer of the Indians
county fair, reports that $1,000 more was
taken in during the celebration last week
than ever before in like events,
—Thursday evening of last week Clear-
field dedicated a handsome new school build.
ing just completed in the Third ward. ats
cost of $27.200, with seating capacity for 500
| pupils, and can be made to accommodate
| 600
—The Witmer Steel company is rushing
the work on a narrow gauge railroad leading
from iis timber operations to Hawk Ram,
Clearfield county, where a big saw mill iste
be built. It will uot be long until the plant
is in operation.
—Dr Bertha Caldwell, of Johnstown, and
who has visited in Bellefonte on one or twe
occasions, was ou Monday appointed by
Judge O'Connor probation officer for the
juvenile court of Cambria county at a salary
of sixty dollars a month.
~The Cambria county commissioners have
selected 106 miles of roads connecting the
principal towns and to be known as the main
highways for the road improvements to get
which it is proposed to bond the county in a
sum not exceeding $300,000.
~The Schuylkill county conrt has thrown
out the entire vote for the Democratic nomi-
nation for jury commissioner in the Fourth
aod Fifth wards in Shenandoah, where
fraud was discovered in the June primaries.
This will nominate Maurice Leahy instead
of M. J. Cuff.
~William Mosteller, a wealthy farmer of
near Lock Haven, hung himself in his barn.
He was bereft of a wife and mother in less
than six months and broken-hearted over
the disappearance of a son who leftjthree
weeks ago and had not heen heard from
since. The suicide was 65 years of age.
~ Mrs. Curtin Myers, who lives at Elkton,
across the river from Harrisburg, killed
sixty tuakes Thursday iu the rear of her
place at the foot of the mountains. Her
back yard is full of rock piles and is a favor-
ite nesting place for the reptiles. She bas
killed more than 200 during the summer.
Her ouly weapon is a big stick.
—A new source of wealth has been found
io the glass and moulding sand deposits in
Warren, Forest and Venango counties,
which are almost drained of oil, denuded of
forests and whose soil is unfit for farming.
At Thompsons, a few miles northjof Oil City,
the Pittsburg Piate Glass company has erect-
ed a $50,000 plant for crushiug the sand.
The deposits are practically inexhaustable.
—Donald Yealey, who is alleged to have
stolen $125 from a safe in the Bee Hive store
at Lock Haven, was arrested at Baffulo. It
is claimed that Yealey, who was a chore boy,
was sweeping out and happened to see the
safe open, and helped himself. He was trae-
ed by postal cards which he sent to friends.
The robbery was kept quiet at the time it
was committed in order to aid in the capture
of the thief.
~Basing their request on the complaint
‘Water Power
company, whose plant is located at Warrior
Ridge, Huntingdon county, has defaulted on
the payment of interest on its bonds and is
unable to meet its current expenses, 8S. P.
Wetherill, Dr. Eugene Townsend, George B.
Dissell and other stockholders, recently filed
a bill in equity in Common Pleas Court, of
Pbiladelphta, asking for the appointment of
a receiver,
—(George Borup, one of the members of
Lieutenant Peary’'s crew, is formerly of Ale
toons, serving as a special apprentice in the
Altoona machine shops. He resigned his
position Juue 25, 1908, and being a member
of a prominent New England family, had
littie difficulty in becoming a member of the
expedition. His host of friends in Altoons
are anxiously awaiting the return of the
Roosevelt, to learn if he has returned safely
and shared inthe glory of the now famous
trip.
—Portage, outside of Johnstown, considers
itself the most prosperous town in Cambria
county. Sixty new business house and resi-
dences are now in course of construction,
and the new school house cost the town
$35,000. The town owes its existence and
prosperity to coal mining and the deposits
are good for a long time yet. The surplus
of the 4 year old bank is $12,500 and the un.
divided profits amount to $2,500. Land
which ten years ago was worth a song now
is worth more than $10,000.
—Charged with selling bogus cattle feeds,
twenty two dealers in Lycoming, Bradford,
Potter, Cameron, Elk, McKean, Warren and
Tioga counties were recently fined $50 each
on information made agaiast them by Geo.
G. Hutchinson, special agent of the state de~
partment of agriculture, who has been ope-
rating in that section. Hutchinson says the
dealers in question have been selling feed
made by a Buffalo concern, which consists of
fifty per cent. ground corncobs, the remain.
der being inferior bran and wheat mid-
dlings.
~Jobn P.Henessey and George R. Lovett,
of Gallagher township, Clinton county, have
in captivity a 150 pound bear that they cap+
tuted last February. Bruin is kept ina
heavy plank pen and in his attempts to free
bimself at intervals tears the sides from his
cage. Ou June 24 when John Robinson's
show was at Lock Haven the men were of-
fered $100 for the animal snd just when the
deal was to be closed it was found that the
bear was too big for the cage taken to trans.
port him. As there was mo time to get
another cage Bruin was left with his cap-
tors.
—Iu the Somerset county court Judge
Kooter heard arguments in the proceedings
in equity instituted by a number of minority
stock holders of the Windber Brewing com-
pany, who seek te enjoin the majority stocke
holders from transferring the interests of
the company toa concern known as the
Windber Brewing company No. 2. The
plantiffs contend that the profits of the
Windber Brewing company have been enor.
mous, and that they believe the profits of
decision
the future will averaje 50 per cent. The
a Ee Tot, Jo
rpose of de ug
Ee of their hold snd the ony
is asked to enjoin the di ts from mak-
ing the er or delivering the deed. .
is expected this week.