—Vote for Muxsox for Justice of she
Sapreme court and be sure thas yon will
be voting to put a clean, able jarist ou the
bench.
—There are a quarter of a million more
men than women in Australia. It follows,
no doubt, that wall-flowers are rare at the
parties in Australia.
—The bee! packer’s association bas just
aunoauced that there is no hope for cheap-
er meat in the fotare and Dr. MUNYON
doesn’t even raise his finger to say there is,
—1f Canada should retaliate by probib-
iting the exportation of pulp wood the re-
sult wonld come about as near as anything
we know of to calling ao extra session of
Congress.
—8ir THOMAS is coming over to talk of
another yacht race. We hadn’s beard
from Sir THOMAS for so long that we fear
be is after tea advertising more than the
Awerican cup.
—Cook and PEARY bad both better stop
blubbering so much else they will bave to
go back so the Arctic regions for a new
supply before they get their respective
olaims proven.
—If State should happen to beat Penn
tomorrow we advise she quiet citizens of
State College to decamp to the top of old
Nittany and watch what happens from
that point of salety.
—*The Blue Goose" is the name of a
dainty new tea house that bas been open-
ed at State College. Here's hoping that
its bosiness will never be such as to make
the owner and the sign one.
—WiILLiaM ALLEN WHITE'S prediction
that Uncle JoE CANNON will be relieved of
authority in the next Congress is at such
long range that Uncle JOE probably wen’s
even refer to it in any of his elegant phras:
os.
—When yon see something like a W,
box coming out of a millinery store witha
lady dangling at its eide you kmow some
poor man will have to put off baying a
winter overcoat until the feathers and pan-
velvet are paid for.
—Don’t stay away trom the polls on No-
vember 20d under the mistaken idea thas
it will not be an important election. Any
election is important, but one in which
you must decide whether your constitution
is to be changed should prove an exoceed-
ingly important one to you.
~——I¢ is @ safe hes that Dr. W. P. SNY-.
DER and Mr. JAMES M. SCHUMAKER are
solid for Vou MoscHzISERE, i x
view io the ey as itis now
certain to do, at some time in the near or
remote fatare.
—Things have cone to such a pass in
the tariff arrangements hetween this coun-
try and Fravce that Uncle SAM threatens
to raise the tariff on champagoe. How
awful! With these good (?) TAFT times
coming on we thought everybody would
be able to chauge from five cent beer to
four dollar wine, but this threatened in-
crease in the tariff blasts that hope.
—Goodness me! Io Philadelphia the
Department of Health is going after the
sohool children who have adenoids. Apain
the poor things are vaccinated, have the
adenoids hooked ous, deprived of the use
of a slate for fear of she germ: and made to
spend half their time in ocalisthenio contor-
tions we presame that what they are able
to pick up in the way of mental improve.
ment doesu’s matter mach.
—The city of Cleveland has the opportu-
nity to show her gratitude in her present
mayoralty campaign. After losing his for-
tune and the best years of his life in hie
fighs for three cent car fares for the people
of that city, Tom LL. JOHNSON is again a
candidate for the office of Mayor. He bas
finally succeeded in getting the cheap fares
for them and we awais with interest the
result to see how they repay his sacrifices.
—The difference between a player on the
world’s champion baseball team and a
player on the defeated team competing for
such honors is just $661.31 for the year
1909 ; each player on she Pittsburg team
receiving $1,825.22 as hie share of the re-
ceipte from the firet four out cf the seven
games played and each player ouZthe De-
troit team receiving §$1,163.91;; so that in
baseball as in everything else it pays to be
the best.
~QOur esteemed contemporary the Repub-
tican used two columos in ite last week's is-
sue in an effort to make the pablic believe
that No. 7 of the proposed amendments to
the constitution to be voted on next month
ie not vicious. Ite principal argument was
predicated oo the fact that certain gentle-
men voted for ite passage in the House and
Senate. All of which ocbasges the situation
in no way whatever. If yon believe that
the voters ought to be given a chance to
vote for their own election officers shen you
should vote against No. 7. If you think a
commission at Harrisburg, or somewhere
elee, could select better election officers
than the voters can themselves then you
should yote for No. 7. It is all a watter of
opinion. We can see no politics
in is at all, unless it might be to keep mi-
nority parties from any representation on
election boards. And the fact that certain
eminent voted for it in the Leg.
islatare does not change the meaving of the
amendment. If is vicions and contrary to
‘Abe spirit of a republican form of govern-
‘ment aod is should be defeated.
VOL. 54
The Judicial Salary Question,
Men are proper'y measured by their ao-
tions. A man is unis for judicial service
who perversely or through ignorance misin-
terprets the law. Measured by that stavd-
ard RoBERT Vox MOSCHZISKER, the Re.
publican nominee for Justice of the Sa-
preme court, ought to be defeated. He
absurdly misinterpreted the organis law of
the State iv deciaring she act of 1903, fix-
ing the salaries of Justices of the Supreme
cours and Judges of other courts of the
Commonwealth, to be constitutional. That
act increased the compensation of pearly
all the Judges in commission. Section 13 of
article III of the constitution forbids either
the increase or decrease of the ‘‘salary or
emolaments after bis election or appoins-
ment,’’ of any public officer.
Judge Vox MoscHZISKER predicated bis
preposterous decision upon the theory that
Justices of the Supreme court and Judges
of other conrts are not ‘‘publio officers.”
Section 2 of article V of the constitution
reads : ‘The Supreme court shall consist
of seven judges who shall be elected by the
qualified electors of the State at large.
They sball hold their oflices for the term of
twenty-one years.’ Section 15 of the
same article of the constitution provides
that “‘all judges required to be learned in
the law, exoept the judges of the Supreme
gours, shall be elected by the qualified eleo-
tors of she respective districts over which
they areto preside, and shall bold their
offices for the period of ten years.”’ Section
19 of the same article says : ‘‘The judges
of the Supreme court, during their continu.
ance in office shall reside within shis Com-
mouwealth ; and the other judges, during
their continuauce in office, shall reside
within the distriot for which they shall be
respeotively elected."’
The opinion that jadges are ‘‘public
officers,’”’ and within the inhibision con-
tained in article 13 of section III of the
constitution, ie tolerably well sustained in
the provisions of the fandamental law
quoted. But it is further sustained by
infamous crime.”
It there were no other evidence on the
subject, however, the langaage of section 1
of article VII, would be overwhelmingly
conclosive. That section provides thas
“‘Senators and Representatives and all judi.
oial, State and county officers shall, before
entering upon the duties of their respective
offices, take aud subscribe au oath or affir-
mation. Among the obligations shus
solemnized are that *‘I will enppors, obey
avd defend the constitution of the United
States, and the constitation of this Com-
monwealth, and that I will discbarge the
duties of my with fidelity.” Pars-
graph three of the same section and article
declares that *‘she foregoing oath shall be
administered by some person authorized to
administer oathe, aod in the case of State
officers and jadges of the Supreme cours,
shall be filed in the office of the Secretary
of the Commonwealth, and in the case of
other judicial and county officers, in the of-
fice of the prothonotary of the comoty in
which the same is taken.”
Mauilestly, 80 far as the letter of the law
goes, Jadge VON MOSCHZISKER'S made-to-
order decision hasn't a leg to stand on. He
depends, however, on the intent ol the
tramers of she coustitution, to jnstily his
action. There wae no subject more
thoroughly discussed by the delegates in
the constitational convention. There
were members in that body who believed
thas the Legislature ought to have authori.
ty to increase the compensation of judges
and others who were asstrougly opposed
to that policy and feared that seotion 13 of
article III of she constitution was inade-
quate, or at least not sufficiently specifio,
to prevent it. Such eminent lawyers as
Mr. CaLviy, of Blair county, ANDREW
REED, of Mifflin county, CHARLES R.
BUCKALEW, of Columbia county, A.G.
CURTIN, of this connty, WAYNE Mac.
VEAGH, of Philadelphia, aod otbers spoke
so convincingly on the subject, however,
that all were fivally persuaded and the
provision was adopted as a vettlement of
the question. A aynopsis of this debate
will be found in avother part of this issue
of the WATCHMAN.
is was a difficult master to get judges to
pass upon the question of the constitution
alisy of the aot of 1903. Iu the first place
it was necessary that they should have no
personal interest in the matter, that is to
say that they should be judges who, having
been elected sinoe the approval of the ack
and therefore not in commission when it
was enaoted, their salaries were not affect-
ed. Toe judges themselves seem to have
fixed upon suother essential. Iu other
words they wanted judges who would af-
firm the validisy of the law, notwithstand-
ing the plain provisione of the constitution
to the contrary. After a good deal of can-
vassing VON MOSCHEISKER was *‘discover-
ed.” He “took the bull by the horns,”
' | ers was fair and the verdiot just, is beyoud | ©
Linumeirily oveskig. and declared the
constitution unconstitutional. The deci-
sion bas cost the people something above
balf a million dollars a year since, will
continue a drain on the treasary for all
time and it is not easy to see why he
shonld be rewarded for his recreancy by
promotion to a seat on the hench of the
highest court in the Commonwealth.
Grafiers Will Go Free.
The decision of th: ‘npreme conrt, on
Monday, allowing an .ppeal from she judg-
ment of the Superior court in the capitol
gralt case, may as well be set down as an
order of acquittal. The defendants in this
case were convicted more than two years
ago. In the original proceedings there
were four of them, WILLIAM P. SNYDER,
former Auditor General; W. 8. MATTHUES,
former State Treasurer ; James M. SHU.
MAKER, former Superintendent of Public
Grounds and Baildings,and Jory H. Sax.
DERSON, coutractor for the fminishing of
the building. Their trial oconrred a few
months after the exposure and while the
political machine responsible for them was
otill in a state of fear. The leaders were
apprehensive of a political revolution in
the State and uoable to command their
forces. There was no tampering with the
agencies of justice.
The result of the election of 1906 re-
stored their confidence, however, and the
trial of other conspirators resulted in ao-
quittal, notwithstanding the fact that the
evidence against them was overwhelming.
The machine conrage had been restored and
the tactics which bad previously made court
trials travesties were again invoked with
success. The spirit which influenced Vox-
MosCHZISKER to declare the constitution
unoonstitational, in the judicial salary
decision, was projected into the second trial
of the grafters and they were aoquitted.
The decision of the Sopreme court on Mon-
day is practically certain to result in a new
trial with the resuls that on account of lack
of evidence or for other reasons, the ac.
| ouned-wit} be dismissed without panish-
the shadow of a doubt. The review of the
proceedings by she Superior cours olearly
established this fact. Bot it was not what
the machine managers wanted. The ver.
dict was not what the exigencies of the
Repablican party require and the Supreme
court, the benoh of which the late Senator
QUAY alleged has been filled by catapulting
processes, has paved the way for a reversal
and an acquittal. There is now no hope of
changing conditions in so far as the de-
fendants in question are concerned. But
the people can prevent a recurrence of such
an outrage upon justice by defeating the
Republican ticket this year.
Vote Against This Danger.
Daring the campaign of 1906 Governor
STUART persovally assared the people of
Penusylvania that if money had been un-
lawfully drawn from the treasury daring
the construction and larvishing of the
State capitol be would see thas the perpe-
trators of the orimes should be punished
and the money restored tothe vaults. Near.
ly three years have elapsed since Governor
STUART was installed in the office to which
he was elected as a result of such promises.
Foar of the conspirators have been tried
and convicted bot nove of them bas been
punished and not a dollar of the stolen
money has been restored. Is this fulfilling
the promises made with a fall anderstand-
ing of their meaning ?
Governor STUART meant to keep his
pledge to the people, no doubt. Probably
eorruption in office is abhorrent to him, as
it muss be to all honest men. But neither
Governor STUART nor any other Republi:
can bas the moral courage and mental
strength to run counter to the machine
maovagers in matters which involve the
personal liberty of many of the party
leaders. Republican officials necessarily
owe their elections to those party bosses.
Io spite of themselves, therefore, they are
compelled to reason that prosecuting and
puvishing those who have favored them
would be ingratitade. It takes a man
stiong io courage aud character to stand
against the appearance of ingratitude.
In the case of the Republican candidates
this year there is no pretense of improve:
ment of the old methods of the machine.
A. E. Sissox and J. A STOBER are simply
servile slaves of the gang. In the past no
atrocity was too rank for them. They
simply obeyed orders without question or
protest. If they are elected the iniguities
which made the government of Pennsylva-
nia a stench io the nostrils of good citizens
before the election of WiLLiAM H. BERRY
in 1905, will be resumed at the old stand.
Vicious legislation will be enacted with
the freedom and oelerity of the sessions of
1903 and 1905 and the public business will
bea carnival of venality. Vote against
this menace.
S—
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STATE A RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. ]
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 22, 1909.
mm tm
Sisson the Champion of ithe Gang
When a resolution was introduced into
the Senate during she extraordinary ses-
sion of 1906, to investigate the rcandalous
Iusurance Department of she State, Senator
S1880N was the first to interpose against the
proposition. The resolution was offered in
response to the statement of the Insurance
Commissioner that a vast sum of money
collected as fees by the Actuary of the De-
partment had not come into his bands or
found its way ivto the Treasury. The
Actoary in resentment of bhis implied
aspersion upon his official integrity, bad
expressed a willingness to testify on the
subject. Bus Senator S1ssox endeavored to
prevent the investigation hy moving to re-
fer the resolotion to the insurance com-
mittee, packed to serve the interests of the
machine.
Mr. Siss0N's Republican colleagues were
less hold than himself, however. The
soandal had goue too far to be concealed
and even some of the machine Senators pro-
tested against the palpable purpose to
stzangle the resolution. Senator SISSON
then changed hie motion for reference by
substituting the committee on jadioiary
general for that on izsuravce. After some
animated discussion daring which Senator
DEWALT said : ‘‘Is there fear of this in.
vestigation ? The Actuary is not afraid of
it. He says he wants the investigation.
Is the Senator, (Sisson, ) afraid of is? Is
this bodys of filty persons, representing six
million and a-half of people afraid to in-
vestigate the conduct of one of its officers ?
1€ that be 80 it is time for us to go home,
because we have no further duties to per-
form.”’ The motion to commit was de-
feated, the ayes being sixteen and the nays
eighteen.
Bubsequently a more comprehensive res.
olution was introduced and adopted and
Senator SissON was named as a member of
inquiry
of Ineurance os day had civ
$141,223.80 io fees from the Actuary, which
had not been turned into the Treasury,and
thaw the affairs of the department were
wretched!y managed. Owing to the zeal
of Senavor S1880X, however, in caring for
the interests of the bosses, not a dollar of
the money illegally abstracted Irom the
Treasury bas been recovered aud no one
concerned in the looting has been punished.
Up to the Individuals,
The Democratic State committee has
been doing a prodigious amoans of work
dariog the campaign which will end a
week from next Tuoesday in what we
have every reason to believe will be a
splendid viotory. No public meetings bave
been held under the auspices of the com-
mittee and vo noisy demonstrations have
been made anywhere. But the State com-
mittee has been ‘‘on the job" all the time
and unless appearances are misleading ite | IF
work has been effective. In the oities a fair-
ly tall registration of Democratic voters has
been obtained and in she boroughs and
townships the indications promise a good
vote,
That stage of the campaign has now been
resched, however, at whioh the activities
mast be transferred from the State to the
local committees and individuals. In
other words little remains to be done ex-
cept get out the vote. The State committee
wisely directed its energies to preparing for
this stage. That is to say it has been con-
stautly niging Democrats throughout she
State to ges registered, he assessed and pay
taxes, as required by law. That it bas
achieved this result to an extent rarely
accomplished before, we have every reason
to believe. All reporss received at the
headquarters of the committee justily con-
fidence in this.
But the Democratic State committee
can’s attend to the important matter of
getting voters to the polls. That is essen-
tially and necessarily the work of individ-
vals. It ought not to be necessary to per-
sonally urge any Demoorat $0 go totbe polls.
His sense of civic duty ought to be soft.
cient incentive. It requires little time and
even less expense for voters to go to the
polls if they are physically able and all
such should be glad of the opportunity to
doso. Men who are not able to go alone
should be helped and there ought to be no
lack of helpers. Iu any evens shere should
be a fall vote and it will secure a grand
victory.
SNYDER and Mr.
It Dr. Scrvu-
MAKER had been poor devils convicted of
stealing food to feed bungry families, the
Supreme court would hardly have thought
it worth while to issue an aliocatur fora
review of their trial and conviction, al.
ready twice reviewed by competent trie
bunals. But they are prominent Republi-
liean politicians with strong pulls,
the joint commission, presumably to take |
sate of sheiesssty at Yas mashins, Dus. ans
| The Wolf and the Youth.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
One of the most curious and amusing
features of Republican campaigning iu this
State in recent years bas been the missend-
ing of large quantities of campagin litera.
tare. Our Irtends the enemy seemed to
bave so mach money to for printing
and postage and he work of their so-called
“literary burean’’ that they were always
willing to seud letters to the entire popaia-
tion, although the missives might be par-
ticularly designed for a certain element.
Tne best known of life long Democrate
foand themselves confidently a; to
to save the grand old party of It
was evident that commercial lists of names
were being used with absolute disregard of
the fitness of things.
Ta this lavish and careless expenditure
campaign literature is even yes persisted
in is shown by a letter turned over 30 this
office by one of the best known Democrats
in the county, to whom is was addressed.
The letter ia from the Philadelphia bhead-
quarters of the Republican state commit«
tee, aud is a persona to the indi.
vidual, who is su Persist appest be ‘a young
American citizen abous to arrive at the age
when he is about to discharge the highest
and moss responsible daty shat devolves
PUL 4nd mesioan citizen by the exercise
his sovereign power at the ballot hox."’
Through ten tarpid and almost tearful
paragraphs this young man is reasoned with
and besought *'«0 begin right’’ by casting
century has made nn corn
water flow, has multiplied
and the railroad mil
patented happiness
hi bo namely, of course, the
and the
y
Jou pues ralt Qu aod its
Joes do and tor its ite, Tn
Nichol and Andrews. , the last named.
who signa the letter, i it np with
the declaration *‘I will be it on
the receipt of this you will advise me as to
your deoision.”’
drews in thos inviting the
aod zeal of youth fora
oy for oe —_ jhe fs
the Commonwealth and the country.
Soon after the bloody rios Sea the plas
of the Pressed Steel Cowpany,
several men were killed, there was .
erable talk about prosecutions of evershody
who lawlessly participated in the riot, or
who lawlessly contributed to the condi.
tions that ocoasioved it, directly or indi:
rectly. The owners of the plans were ar-
raigned before the bar of pablic opinioe,
by the Pittsburg press, as men why de-
graded their employes to the ievel of heaats.
The United States government, alter an
investigation, asserted that the company
had violated the employment agenoy laws
of Pennsylvania and New York, and recom.
mended proseontions. The strikers were
unable to maintain the charge of peonage,
hut several strike breakers insisted that
they had been detained in the plant against
their will and desire, and that men who
wanted to leave were assaulted. And the
State policemen came in for a fair share of
condemnation. The Assistant Attorney of
Allegheny county declared that there
should be prosecutions without favor, of all
persons whether company officials, strikers
or policemen, who had committed any
lawless acts.
What bas become of these prosecutions ?
Has it heen ascertained recently that the
employment agenoy laws were not violated,
that the company officials were innocent of
any wrongdoing and that the State jpolies-
men did nos violate any law relating to
violence to the person or restraint of liber.
ty ? Itall the accused are innocent let it
be known. If any of them are guilty let
them be prosecuted.
Does the President Know
From the McKeesport Times.
Does President Taft know that the
speeches he is making entour of the oono-
tty are as blows in the faces of millions
who bave regarded bim with friendiy Spee:
Or does he know and dare to Jmper] his
popularity for the sake of what he
to he right ?
He ie successor of two presidents who
kept their ears continuonsly and intently
to the grouond—and pr greatly
thereby ; and the peuple have become so
aco to having an executive at least
vocally in sympathy with stem that Mr.
Taft's apparent opposition to popular ideas
sur and irritates.
Dyed-in-the-wool organs of his
commend his words whenever they
it safe and maintain silence where
cannot approve ; but the independent
liberal Republican press of the bation is
expressing d | of the president's
praise of Aldrich, his attack upon insur.
gents such as LaFollette, Beveridge and
Commins, and his somewhat extravagant
praise of the Payne taciff bill. None gues-
tions his bouesty and sincerity of purpose,
bat all are speculatiog as to what Shere
utteranos mean. There is a suspicion in
some quarters that the president has been
hood winked by the men who fought Roose.
From the Houston Post.
A true Kentucky gentleman
he left hie seat and wate
his first vote for the party akilor ba es al
aod invented and |
bo geisuge gf gov. fs:
of Pennsylvania, so far- | i
reported in —— and the patients are
getting along as well as can be expected.
Sever are on the way to recovery.
— Earl Milligan, of Clearfield. was run
down by an auto driven by Charles Karts
and though his injuries are painful uvotbing
| serious it likely to come out of the occur~
rence.
—Wilbur Sour, of Pine Station. Clinton
county, while out hunting for wild turkeys,
heard a rustling in the bushes and ins few
minutes was confronted with two bears, each
1 of which he killed with one discharge.
—Sentences ranging from six to eighteen
months were imposed on the five members
of the election board of Reilly township near
Pottsville, who pleaded guilty to the charge
of making false returns in the June prima-
ries. ic
~While drilling a well on the land of the
Pittsburg and Southwestern Coal company
near Washington a strong pressure of gas
was found at the depth of 865 feet. The
capacity of the well is estimated at 2,000,000
feet a day.
~Lewis Felton and John Pitman, of West
Providence township, Bedford county, were
found guilty of illegal fishing and placing
explosives in the river. They were each
fiued $30 {ar the first offense and $100 for
the second.
Inthe Juniata Oak Extract company’s
plant at Mt. Union an order for tanning
extract for shipment to Cape Town, Africa,
is now being filled. Last summer the com-
pany shipped an order for a carload in casks
to Melbourne, Australia.
. Bird while out busting with
Melvin lroy, near East Waterford, Juni-
ata county, was shot through the heart and.
instantly killed. Melroy fired ata squirrel
and it was a stray shot from his gun that
caused the tragedy. Both men were resi«
dents of East ‘Waterford.
Every bit of clothing except his shoes
was torn from his body and the} muscles of
his left arm were stripped from the bone
: rge Rider, of York county, was
tin the machinery of a gasoline
1¢ which he was oiling. His condition
us ‘bat he will recover.
. got into the water wheel of the
‘Bloomsburg paper mill and so clogged it that
Imagine any olear-headed, olean-banded
amv a oe ng oh
it was necessary to stop operatious to re-
move them. To get the wheel in working
order it was necessary to cut the fish out
some of these could not be reached
necessary to take apart some of the
ark ou-he concrete construction. of the
South Fork overhead bridge is now
coming along well and will probably be
before winter sets ‘in. The ro
this for years afterward, she said.
' —Arrangements have been made with Dr,
W. B. Crane, dean of the mining department
at State College, whereby the miners of the
State will be furnished with printed lectures
and maps prepared by coal mining experts.
Every miving feature will be dealt with in
the publications. C. L. Fay, of Greenshurg,
is the author of this new movement.
~All the oveus of the Irvoua Coal and
Coke company are being fired up as quickly
as they can be repaired at Blain City, nesr
Barnesboro. Up to the present time tem
have been started and the others will bs
ready in a couple of weeks. The ovens were
closed down for twenty-one montus sod the
news that they were to be fired again was
received with much rejoicing.
—Nearly all the coal beds in Cambria
county that lie near the surface of the earth
bave been sold or are now being mined.
Several tracts, which investors are thicking
abont buying have not been bought because
of the expense that would have been neces
sary tosink deep shafts. A number of coal
deals of some importance are expected to
come off in the county this comiog wim.
ter.
—With the project of the dredging of
Darby ceeek well started the town of Darby
is experiencing a boom. A largt filter manu.
facturing plant will be erected. It will con.
sist of a large machine shop avd eugive
houee and twelve dwelling houses for the
employes will be built. One merchant has
offered $500 toward the dredging of the
creek. Other new industries are expected to
open up iv the town.
—Highland Ian, Somerset's famous: sum-
mer resort, was burned to the ground by a
fire that started in the kitchen. The loss is
between $806,000 aud $90,000. About $40,000
insurance was carried. This inn was the
largest in Somerset county and was built in
1895. It was on the outskirts of the town.
The property was owned by the Somerset
Hotel company, of which W. A. Scott, of
Pittsburg, is president
—Michael Kelley, of Snow Shoe, and
Swanson Dablin, of Houtzdale, who receut-
ly leased the old Vulcan coal property,about
oneand a-kalf miles north of Ramey, par:
tially developed by R. B. Wigton & Sons
years ago, are puttiug in a new opening and
are encouraged over the prospect of having a
very successful mining operation. The old
railroad leading to the property, abandoned
years ago, is being replaced with new ties
and heavier steel rails. The exteusion isa
branch of the Pennsylvania ratiroad, and is
being put in good shape.
—~Thirty-six years after the death of its
msker, the will of Mrs. Eliza Cooper, affect-
ing the title to a piece of property at Salts.
burg, Indiana county, has been probated.
Before her death Mrs. Cooper told of the
will but afterward it could not be found.
Recently a son of the woman died in Iowa
and after his death the missing will was
found among his papers. The property,
which consists of a house and lot in Salts-
burg, will be sold and the proceeds of the
sale divided among the heirs of Mrs. Cooper:
carrying out her wishes. The attorney who
drew up the testament snd both witnesses
have boa dead for yours.