Temorraiic; Wado
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
EE EE A A AA A Sine.
INK SLINGS.
— Today is Good Friday.
—Anyway the dog has it on man, in
the fact that he has no bother with knees
in his pants.
—Centre county farmers have begun
plowing, but it is pretty wet sod that
many of them are turning over.
—Gen. COXEY expects to have 600,000
men in the second “army” he will lead
to Washington. Sometimes, however, ex-
pectations are not fully realized.
—And now it is said the next fight of
the women will be for the same wages
that are paid to the men. Just as if
they weren't getting them allfthe time.
—Three more days and the Lenten
season will be over, then it will be back
to their old habits for a lot of fellows
who really have been good since Ash
Wednesday.
—If the temperance people could per-
suade every one to enlist for service in
the Navy Secretary DANIELS might do
the rest and make the country dry by one
official order.
—OscAR UNDERWOOD has defeated
HOBSON in the primary contest for Unit-
ed States Senator from Alabama, which
insures the elimination of a blathering
jingo who has become decidedly tiresome
to the American people.
—The unfavorable symptoms that have
lately developed in Mr. VANCE MCCOR-
MiIcK’s Democracy, are now attributed to
a lack of healthy exercise when it was
younger and needed something invigor-
ating and strengthening.
—If the so called party organizations
are to make the party nominees—as they
all seem to be doing—there will be a
great many of us left in the dark as to
the necessity of going to the expense of
holding a primary election.
—Rumors are to the effect that some
Bellefonters are trying to break into
some sort of a county base-ball league.
It is quite possible that there are enthu-
siasts who have saved up a little money
since they finished paying the funeral ex-
penses of the last league we were in.
—The capture of the bandit who rob-
bed the Union National bank in Altoona
a few weeks ago is a most wholesome
sign and the severest penalty the law
can impose should be speedily meted out
to him. It is only by such examples of
the certainty of the punishment for
crime that the criminally inclined will
be deterred from trying to go the Altoo-
na bandit one better. s
—The advent of CHARLES F. ROWLAND,
coal operator and trolley magnate, of
Philipsburg, in the political arena is one
of the sensations of the week. CHARLEY
wants to go to Congress from this dis-
trict and is handsome enough to look well
on Pennsylvania Ave., but inasmuch as
this is the time that the Democrats in-
tend to elect the Congressman from the
district we fear that the genial gentle-
man from over the mountain will have
to change his politics or stay at home.
—By a vote of 46 to 19 the Lycoming
county Democratic committee decided on
Saturday last that it had had enough of
“re-organization” to do for awhile, and
that hereafter it would depend more up-
on its Democracy than its factionalism
for party success, and then proceeded to
elect H. A. Sports, a real Democrat,
county chairman, over A. J. MILLER, a
“re-organizer,” with the vote stated.
Centre county Democrats will elect the
same kind of a chairman at the May pri-
maries, and his name will be ARTHUR B.
LEE.
—If all of Mr. MCCORMICK’S claims to
the nomination for Governor are exag-
gerated to the extent that his own pa-
per, the Patriot, exaggerated the MCCoR-
MICK meeting in this place last Thurs-
day, it is about time for ROOSEVELT to
gather him into the Ananias club. Last
Friday morning the Patriot announced
that there had been a crowd of five
thousand to greet the would be Governor
at Bellefonte the day before. What a
lie! There was no time during Mr. Mc-
CORMICK’S stay here that the crowd num-
bered even two hundred and the Patriof’s
attempt to swell it out of all semblance
of itself only leads us to discredit like
stories of the enthusiastic crowds that
are supposed to be greeting the candi-
date in other parts of the State.
—E. R. BENsoON, of McKean county,
who is asking the Democrats of this
District to nominate him for Congress,
has flooded Centre county with copies of
the Mt. Jewett Herald. The paper de-
votes most of its space to exploitation of
the thirty-one year old statesman (?)
from McKean county. But it hasn’t a
single excuse to offer for his betrayal of
the Democratic party and his slap at the
Democrats of Centre county when he
bolted the caucus of his party and later
refused to vote for the late Hon. J. C.
MEYER for Speaker of the House. Mr.
MEYER was the Member from Centre
county and had been honored by his fel-
low Members at Harrisburg by being
made their choice for Speaker, but the
fresh youngster from McKean refused to
vote for him and admits that he voted
for a Republican in preference. It seems
to us that it takes considerable nerve for
him to come asking Democrats of Centre
to vote for him now when he refused to
vote for one of their most honored mem-
bers only a few years ago.
| ernor imperils the success of the party
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 59.
Mr. Wilson’s Reward and Rebuke. |
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HENRY H. WILSON, of Beaver county, |
who was appointed United States Mar-
shal for the Western District of Penn- |
sylvania, has been forced to resign. The |
charges against him, according to a|
statement issued by himself since his |
resignation, are that he participated too |
earnestly in a social session of the Be- |
nevolent and Protective Order of Elks at |
Erie, recently, and that he indulged too |
freely in the cup that cheers and inebri- :
ates, during a still more recent visit in |
Philadelphia. The real reason for the ;
attack upon him, however, he adds, is |
that the Democratic leaders wanted him
to fill the subordinate places in the office
with men unfit for the service, in order
to promote the political ambitions of |
VANCE McCormick and MITCH PALMER.
The appointment of Mr. WILSON was
his reward for more or less sinister ser- |
vices to the so-called reorganizers at the
time they seized the Democratic State
organization. It will be recalled that on
that occasion the committee was nearly
evenly divided, the reorganizers having
won by one vote which, with three
others, have since been admitted to have
been purchased. The members of the
committee for Beaver county were in
Canada at the time and unable to attend.
Mr. WILSON appeared in the meeting
with a proxy dated Beaver Falls, the day
before the meeting. When he presented
it to the resident secretary of the com-
mittee the fact was pointed out to him
that the gentleman whose name was
signed to the paper was in Canada at the
time it was dated and couldn’t have sign-
ed it at Beaver Falls on thatday. WILSON
declared that it had been mailed to him,
There it was shown to him that
the signature was not that of the
committeeman, whereupon he got the
paper in his hand and withdrew the ap-
plication for substitution.
Such service to the new party bosses
was entitled to generous reward and Mr.
WILSON was promptly taken into favor.
He was made a delegate to the Baltimore
convention ‘and admitted to the inner Cir-
cles of the party chiefs. After the inaug-
uration of the President he was among
the first to be considered for party favor.
He became a candidate for United States
District Attorney and was mentioned for
other important and lucrative offices and
finally shifted into that of the United
States Marshal. Naturally, after the ex-
perience at Harrisburg, the bosses felt
confident that he could be depended up-
on to do anything they might ask and
when he refused to prostitute his office
to the service of VANCE C. McCORMICK
and A. MITCHELL PALMER, they were
disappointed and he was disciplined.
Happily for them his habits afforded
them a medium of attack. But they
knew his habits quite as well before his
appointment as after. If he had been
obedient, habits would have cut no fig-
ure.
In view of all the circumstances it is
difficult to conjure up a feeling of sym-
pathy for Mr. WiLsoN. “The laborer is
worthy his hire,” it is true, and the serv-
ice performed by Mr. WILSON was im-
portant at the time. An hour before the
committee met there was a pledged ma-
jority of ample proportions to defeat the
reorganizers. But conversions more sud-
den than that of Saul were made and
by vastly different processes, and the
Beaver county vote was worth a lot in
spoils yet in the bush. Mr. WILSON took
long chances in presenting a bogus proxy
but he was collaborating with PALMER
and McCormick in purifying the Demo-
cratic party and he ought to have been
recompensed as liberally and as endur-
ingly as GUTHRIE and BLAKESLIE were
paid.
——Col. H. S. TAYLOR on Tuesday
sent to the State department at Harris-
burg his nomination papers as a candi-
date for Congressman-at-Large. Centre
county and Central Pennsylvania has
never been represented at the national
capital with a Congressman-at-Large and
Col. TAYLORS aspirations for this office
should receive the united support of the
Democracy in this section. He is well
known throughout the central part of
the State and would make a very credit-
able representative in Congress.
~——That the acrimony in the contest
for the Democratic nomination for Gov-
after that event is true. For the acrimo-
ny that has been engendered Mr. VANCE
McCoRrMICK can be held responsible. He
has been traducing better men than him-
self ever since his purchased election to
the office of Mayor of Harrisburg aroused
in him the ambition to be Governor of
the State.
——Now that Premier AsQuiTH has
himself assumed the duties of the office
of Secretary of War the officers of the
British army may be taught to under-
i GIFFORD PINCHOTT is a waste of time.
stand that it is a soldier’s-duty to obey.
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Mr. Bryan’s Rigid Economy.
We are glad to learn that WILLIAM
JENNINGS BRYAN has gone through the
Department of the government at Wash-
ington, of which he is the illustrions head,
with a pruning hook. For years we have
freely reprobated the profligacy of admin-
istration at the National capital and in-
sisted that when the Democrats “came
into their own,” the most rigid economy
would be introduced. That this prom-
ise has been fulfilled we are now able to
state with confidence. Secretary of State
BRYAN declared before the House Com-
mittee on Appropriations, the other day,
that during the last fiscal year he had
been able to cut down the expenses of
the State Department to the extent of
$120.00.
Of course this isn’t much and out of
the more than a thousand millions which
are expended in the administration of
the government it will hardly be noticed
by the disbursing officers. But it shows
the right spirit. It indicates that Mr.
BRYAN is willing to practice what he
preaches. He might easily have spent
as much money as his predecessor and
nobody would have complained in view
of the high cost of living. But he didn’t,
Whenever he detailed one of the clerks or
messengers of the Department to act as
coachman or footman for his family, Mr.
BRYAN deducted the time from the de-
partment pay roll and paid him out of
his own pocket. What a beautiful ex-
ample of official rectitude?
In view of this record of probity we
decline to believe that other report which
comes from the same source that Mr.
BRYAN has asked Congress to provide
him with a coachman and footman and
equip them in appropriate uniforms or
livery. The grand Commoner wouldn't
think of such extravagance in style and
expense. No farmer in Nebraska or in
any of the other prairie States would
think of employing a coachman and foot-
man either for his automobile or his
hay wagon and Mr. BRYAN prides him-
self in the fact that he is one of the
plain people. He has money, of course,
because he is industrious and thrifty, but
he is not ostentatious. Therefore he
wants no footman in livery. “Perish
the thought.”
——We admonish the Philadelphia
contemporary that seems determined to
accomplish it, that looking for. a job for
A
man who can force the campaign com-
mittee to pay the expenses of a secretary
and valet while he is on a stumping tour
is amply able to take care of himself.
PINCHOTT is a new-comer in Pennsylva-
nia but he’s no infant.
Solution of a Vexed Problem.
The announcement of the candidacy
of HENRY BUDD, of Philadelphia, offers a
solution of one of the vexed problems
which confronts the Democrats of Penn-
sylvania. A. MITCHELL PALMER, his
competitor for the party favor, is capa-
ble, and so far as we know has been
faithful to party obligations. But he has
developed such a passion for factional-
ism that his nomination is likely to wid-
en the breach already threatening the
destruction of hope. Instead of a party
leader he has become an arrogant fac-,
tional boss. Such a man could hardly be
elected even though the Republican par-
ty be disorganized and demoralized. If
he could be elected he would do the par-
ty more harm than good.
As HENRY C. NILES said in his speech
at the RYAN dinner in Philadelphia last
week, a National Democratic victory
should stand for something more than
the spoils of office. Mr. PALMER has
prostituted the splendid triumph of the
party in 1912 to that low level, so far as
Pennsylvania is concerned. He has dis-
tributed the favors of the party, not on
the basis of fitness or in reward for serv-
ice but as currency in the discharge of
personal political obligations or reward
for servility to selfish factionists. The
nomination of such a man will not only
defeat the party but it will widen the
chasm which separates the elements and
increase the bitterness of the quarrel.
The nomination of HENRY Bubp will
have tha opposite effect. He is among
the foremost lawyers of the State and a
polished and scholarly gentleman. He
has beer a life-long Democrat, ever
ready to put his shoulder to the wheel
and assume the burdens of campaign la-
bor. Free from factionalism, envy, and
that most odious of all small vices, vani-
ty, his nomination will be an inspiration
to the rank and file of the party all over
the State, while his election will be a
sedative that will cure the irritation from
Palmer and Penrose.
Out of the controversy between Sena- | From the New York Globe.
tor PENROSE and Congressman PALMER
concerning the spoils of office some pub-
lic good ought to come. Senator PEN-
‘ROSE asserts in the most unequivocal
terms that postmasterships have been
sold by the Democratic organization of
this State, that officers of the Democrat-
ic State committee have been involved
in the transactions and that he will prove
the assertion by a Congressional investi-
gation. Congressman PALMER replies in
language equally positive that he will
welcome such an investigation if it is
made to cover some period previous to
the inauguration of a Democratic Presi-
dent when Senator PENROSE was the dis-
penser of patronage and distributor of
spoils. :
We have always believed that spoils of
office composed the principal asset of the
Republican machine of Pennsylvania. Itis
a notorious fact that while THEODORE
ROOSEVELT was President and MATTHEW
STANLEY QUAY the party boss, office
brokerage was practiced as openly as
any other trade or business. But Demo-
crats invariably and unanimously con-
demned such traffic as immoral and sub-
versive of civic righteousness. There-
fore when it was charged that PALMER
had taken the place of QUAY in the busi-
ness of selling postoffices, the Democrat-
ic electorate of the State was shocked
from centre to circumference. But an
investigation by the Postoffice Depart-
ment, to a certain extent, proved the ac-
curacy of the charge.
“The newly appointed postmaster at
Wrightsville admitted that he had signed
an agreement presented by an agent of
the Democratic committee, that he would
pay a certain amount in cash for the
commission. He was promptly and prop-
erly removed. The candidate for the
postoffice of Gettysburg and the slated
candidate for the office in York made
similar admissions and their appoint-
ments have been held up as a result.
tor PENROSE declares that the traffic
: been in progress all over the Staté—
a matter that has not, and we hope can-
not be proven.
We have no doubt that the charge
against PENROSE might be easily proved.
His party is a party of spoils. The cor-
ruption fund which has kept it in power
since 1896, when VANCE MCCORMICK con-
tributed to its success, has been obtained
by graft in legislation and dealing in of-
fices. In fact Mr. PENROSE had become
so adept in the traffic that he could defy
detection. But that doesn’t justify Dem-
ocratic leaders in following an evil exam-
ple. That Mr. PALMER did adopt the
practice is practically admitted, however,
but he did it in such a bungling manner
that the attention of the whole country
was drawn to it. His methods remind
one of a blacksmith repairing a watch
with a monkey wrench.
Because Senator PENROSE has been
guilty of these nefarious practices his
party was defeated in Pennsylvania two
years ago and he is now about to be
buried under an avalanche of public in-
dignation. If he is to be punished why
should Mr. PALMER escape some penalty
at least. The vice of one man doesn’t
become a virtue when practiced by
another. The traffic is the evil and pun-
ishment for it ought to be meted out to
all who indulge in it. We are glad that
PENROSE is to be punished but insist that
Mr. PALMER should not escape if he is
caught in the same disgraceful work.
——1It looks as if the Collector of the
Port of Philadelphia has nothing to do
but play politics. Mr. BERRY has been
campaigning with VANCE MCCORMICK for
three consecutive weeks. But . BER-
RY has the record as the champion ab-
sentee official. During the two years in
which he drew salary as State Treasur-
er, he spent less than one hundred days
in Harrisburg.
——Those who hoped for an irrecon-
cilable quarrel between President WIL-
SON and Speaker CLARK have been dis-
appointed. Both courageously pursued
the course their consciences pointed out,
and each respects the other because of
the fact. Such men differ, honestly and
earnestly, but they don’t quarrel per-
sonally.
—It seems to us that Congressman
BAILEY from the Nineteenth Pennsylva-
nia District, is getting an awful lot of
newspaper notoriety for all the impres-
sion he has madeon the statute books up
to this writing. But being a newspaper
man, himself, he is probably acting as his
| own press agent.
——Mr. PALMER seems to be on the
which the party is suffering. HENRY defensive all the time and it is bad poli-
BUDD is above factionalsm and beyond
the petty jealousies which are destroy-
ing the chances of victory. He should !
be nominated.
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have it.
> BELLEFONTE, PA.. APRIL 10, 1914.
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‘his continuance on the bench will be of
not reasonable or proper that the distinc-
~~ NO. 15.
Line-up of Anti-Wilson Forces.
Those opposing tolls repeal have one
or the other of two ends in view. First,
and most active, are the subsidy chasers.
The coastwise shipping Trust enjoys an
absolute monopoly. No foreign vessel
can carry freight or passengers from one
American port to another. Competition
from the outside is prohibited. One
would think that protection so complete
would be deemed sufficient. But the
natural history of monopoly shows that
its appetite grows the more it is fed. So
the owners of the coasters are asking a
special privilege equal to about $10,000
every time they put a ship through the
canal. The money might as well be!
voted directly from the public treasury.
If ships are to be lifted at public expense
over the continental divide at the Isth-
mus, then the railroads have a just claim
to have their trains lifted at public ex- |
pence over the continental divide in Colo-
rado and Montana.
This selfish special interest, which suc-
ceeded in sneaking a “joker” plank into
the Baltimore convention, is being helped
by those in the Democratic party who do
not wish the Wilson administration to be
successful. Hearst and Tammany as to
this matter are in complete accord. So
Hearst’s news-papers for months have
been pounding away in the effort to split
the party in Congress, and Tammany’s
Congressmen,under the lead of Fitzgerald,
Cannon Democrat, have received orders
to remember how Murphy was treated at
Baltimore. '
Poor Champ Clark, still sore in all his
bones and gangrened with jealousy, has
at last been induced to make an exhibit of
himself. A small man and a vain man,
he is of the opinion that a wrong was
done to him when his party turned to an
abler man and a more available candidate.
He thinks he would have been elected,
whereas it is almost certain that Theo-
dore Roosevelt would be President today
if Champ Clark had been nominated.
“Pop is praying for Clark,” blurted out
Kermit, more candidly than wisely.
The struggle is on to wrest the leader-
ship of the Democratic party from Demo-
crats of the new and better school. The
Panama issue is merely a mask-a mask
whose dropping happily has been forced.
The Pay of Judges.
From the Harrisburg Star-Independent.
The son of Justice William R. Day, of
the United States Supreme court re-
signed from bench db Ji
the salary is too small. Young Judge
Day says he believes he has a 'future to
look forward to and he cannot see that
any assistance in realizing his ambitions.
He adds there is honor in being a judge
but there is more money in practicing in
the courts.
Judge Day raises a question that often
has been agitated with little result. Ju-
dicial salaries in many cases are entirely
too low. There has been some better-
ment of judicial salaries in Pennsylvania
in recent years, but they are not yet as
high as they should be. There are
countless instances of men in every way
equipped to go on the bench who have
declined to accept such honors because
they could not afford to sacrifice the ed-
ucation of their children and the com-
forts of their families.
Money will never be the sole consider-
ation that prompts lawyers to go on the
wench. The honor will always remain
the paramount attraction, but there are
often cases like this one of Judge Day
which point clearly to the fact that it is
tion of the office should be relied upon
too confidently. Places on the bench
should be sufficiently well paid to war-
rant acceptances by the most distinguish-
ed lawyers without the financial sacrifice
that many high class men now make.
The Man in the White House.
From the New York Sun.
We are mistaken if Mr. Wilson's un-
prepared little speech about himself as
an ordinary human being temporarily
President of the United States does not
win for him new friendship in a great
many quarters. The speech was charm-
ing in its spontaneous frankness, modesty
and manliness. :
The personal respect and confidence of
the people are perhaps quite as desirable
sometimes as mere political approval.
In his occasional departures fon, con-
ventional utterance President ilson
reveals a very attractive side of a re-
markable personality.
We beg leave to remark that in rec-
ognition of this attitude or confidence
and trust the newspaper people of the
country might add greatly to the happi-
ness of the President’s life in the White
House by refraining from such unwar-
ranted speculations about his family
affairs and misrepresentations of the
same as have recently occurred, undoubt-
edly to his discomfort.
Villa Sure to be There .
From the New York Sun.
According to moving picture operators
from the stricken field of Torreon, Gen-
eral Villa makes them work under fire to
get realistic effects. Whether this is true
or not, it may be assumed that the dis-
tinguished outlaw will be the most con-
spicuous figure on the films whether they
show the firing line in full eruption or a
counterfeit presentment of it.
Too Absurd for Consideration.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
No sane American believes that the
President or any of his advisers is in
favor of the tolls repeal for other
reason than that right is right and wrong
is wrong. This idea of English conpul-
sion is too absurd to warrant any. ce
whatever.
——They are all good enough, but the
WATCHMAN is always the best. it
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—All the mines in Patton and vicinity are in
operation, the men having decided at a mass
meeting held Monday evening to continue work-
ing. .
—An unknown man plunged down the steps of
the Williamsport city hall on Wednesday even-
ing, fracturing his skull and receiving injuries
which resulted in his death an hour later.
was caught in a slow moving belt in a Derry
manufacturing establishment and hurled to
death. Itis supposed he was trying to oil the
machinery.
whose place is located on Cub run, still uses
oxen for plowing purposes and thinks they are
{ better than horses. At least he gets excellent
results.
—Emma Kossick, charged with stealing a ring
and other articles from a home in Grass Flat,
was placed in the Clearfield jail on Saturday. She
isonly 15 years of age, end her home is near
Grass Flat.
—Williamsport’s old High school building»
together with most of its furniture, was destroy-
ed by a mysterious fire last Saturday forenoon.
The new structure is almost complete and work
on it will be rushed.
—Frank P. Hilliard, a well-to-do lumberman of
White Pine, Lycoming county, had his head
severed from his shoulders and his body was cut
through when he fell upon a circular saw in his
sawmill. His foot slipped as he was turning a
log on the carriage.
—The 3-year-old sonof Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Hierbrik, of Mount Pleasant township, West®
moreland county, fell into a tub of hot water
during the temporary absence of his mother from
the room on Monday last and was. so badly
scalded that he died within a short time.
—A stranger created something of a sensation
in the Punxsutawney National bank last Saturday
afternoon by demanding $3,000, adding after a
moment, “Jesus sent me.” He was arrested and
later delivered to his friends. It is said his mind
has been unbalanced for the last three years.
—A fine hunting lodge located in the wilds of
Clinton county, near Cross Fork, was totally
destroyed by fire last Saturday with all its con-
tents. It was owned by R. S. Quigleyand C. R.
Armstrong and was one of the most pretentious
in the State, the loss representing an investment
of several thousand dollars.
—At Lock Haven on May 20th, the spring con-
ference of the Central district of the Pennsylvania
State Federation of Women’s clubs will be held.
Mrs. Walter King Sharpe, of Chambersburg, the
vice president of the Central district, has called
the meeting at the invitation of the Civic club of
Lock Haven. The conference promises-to be of
unusual importance.
—A thief entered the butcher shop of Joseph
Unverdirben, at 12 E. Eighth street, Altoona,
Wednesday noon of last week, and stole $200 from
the cash register, leaving a note on a paper bag
stating: ‘You big fool, you ought to have more
sense than to let $200 in your cash register onthe
first of April, especially when there are so many
men suspended in the shops.”
—The commissioners of Cambria county have
been advised by their solicitor that underthe re-
cently enacted bounty law they have no dis-
cretion, but must pay bounties on the pelts or
heads of noxious animals and birds, when proper
affidavit is made tothem for certification to the
county treasurer. About $300 worth of claims
are now ready for presentation, but more will
follow.
—Iva and Susie Katen, aged 14 and 12 years,
respectively, daughters of Grant Katen, of Sleepy
: ba J “Slay 5 school in Sonth:
Philipsburg last Friday, were attacked by an
unknown man, supposed to be about 30 years
old. The screams of the girls, one of whom was
badly kicked by her assailant, attracted the atten-
tion of a mar: and woman, and the human brute
ran into the woods and disappeared.
—1In one of the shortest wills ever entered of
record in the office of the prothonotary of North-
umberland county, A. D. Blasser, who was a
wealthy retired Herndon farmer, gives his $35,000
estate to his wife in these words: “I give my
wife, Elizabeth, all I have.” The will was made
October 2nd, 1913, and witnessed by Robert Rie-
ger and W. W. Rerrick, both of Herndon. Jacob
Hoffman, Herndon, isnamed as the executor.
—The St. Mary's Gas company struck a big
gusher near Croyland Monday when at a depth of
1645 feet, a capacity flow of 1,700,000 feet was ob-
tained. That section has never been tapped and
as the company practically controls all the land
in that vicinity they have, in fact, a regular gold
mine. They are badly in need of it too, for the
supply of fluid has not been very strong for some
time past. If the territory proves good they will
have a supply of gas for years to come.
—A curious case is soon to be tried in Somerset
county. It is an action brought under the act of
1715 by a man who paid the whole of a mortgage
for $1,600 except the lastinstallment. This, he
says, he offered to pay together with $5 for the
purpose of paying expenses in going to Somerset
and 40 cents fees. Satisfaction on the mortgage
was refused, he says, and the money rejected.
Whereupon he brings suit under the old statute
to recover the full amount of the mortgage, $1,600,
as provided by the act.
—The Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Rail-
road company has let to the Miller Construction
company, of Lock Haven, a contract for a large
amount of new work at Creekside, on the Indiana
branch of that system. The work consists of
building more than a mile of double track through
the Creekside yards to Cummins, together with
additional trackage in the yards at the former
point. It is said to be the intention of the B., R_
& P. company to double-track the entire Indiana 5
branch within the next two years.
—A deed transferring 8,000 acres of coal land
in Perry township, Greene county, was filed for
record in Waynesburg last Friday. It was the
largest single transfer ever placed on record
there. The deed was from Josiah V. Thompson,
of Uniontown, to the St. Paul Coal company, of
Pittsburgh. The consideration was $1. This is
the land which Mr. Thompson has been reported
as having sold to H. C. Frick. A mortgage for
$1,165,000 from the coal company to Mr. Thomp*
son was filed for record. The deed and mortgage
bear the date of April 1st, 1914.
—The State Health Department received a re-
port from its agent at Farrel, near South Sharon,
Mercer county, announcing that he had discov-
ered a case of smallpox in that town, a child of
two years of age, being the sufferer. The State
agent is at a loss to account for the appearance
of the disease in the family, but says that the
mother recently received a letter from a townin
Virginia where smallpox prevails and that seems
to be the only thing to account for the appear-
ance of the disease in this particular family. A
case of smallpox has also been reported to the
department from Corry, Erie county, supposed
to have been brought in from Southern New
York.
—Secretary Kalbfus, of the State Game Com-
mission, has had numerous complaints of dogs
running deer and killing them, and has given
orders that all such shall be killed. Last Friday
Game Warden Baum killed a dog near Mc-
Allisterville and had the owner fined $25, the
animal having been caught in the act of running
deer. The same day Warden Baum found that
aman named Waner, near McAllisterville, had
—Joseph Hughes, aged 28 years, unmarried, °
—James Rodgers, a Somerset county farmer,
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