— re
INK SLINGS.
—Are you reading the interesting
serial that is running in the “Watch-
man?”
—It’s a funny condition of affairs
when the freight costs more than soft
coal does at the mines.
—1It is cheaper to work at any wage
than to loaf. Never lose sight of the
fact that every little bit helps.
—A big blizzard is raging in the
northwest but whether we are to get
any of the overflow remains to be
seen.
—Centre county is over the half-
way mark in providing for her Ar-
menian children. Let's go the whole
way and do it quickly.
—Before we know it marbles and
baseball will be occupying the atten-
tion of the boys, while the old man
gets that little piece of garden ready
for onions and lettuce.
The retail price of cigars is
coming down in Bellefonte and else-
where, but so far there has been no
noticeable improvement in the flavor
and quality of some of them.
—A few more than half of Centre
county’s one hundred and forty-six
Armenian children have already been
provided for. Let us guarantee that
the others will have food and clothes
for the next year and get it done with.
—One member of the state constab-
ulary squad located here has a balky
mount. This is a tip to our boot-leg-
ging friends that they stand a good
chance of making a get-a-way if they
can dope out the animal that balks
and then do their traffickin’ on its
beat.
—At last Philadelphia has found a
head for her public schools. The
brand of politics they have in the Qua-
ker city and the habit of letting it
run amuck in the school board didn’t
appeal to educators big enough for
that job and they had a lot of trouble
finding one willing to take a chance.
—Surely we expected to hear of
Col. Leitzell’s having been kissed on
both cheeks when that D. S. C. was
pinned on him Sunday afternoon, but
he didn’t even get kissed on one. It
remains for another distinguished
soldier who was present to explain
the discrepancies between his generos-
ity at Birmingham and his osculatory
tightness at home.
—Pity poor Lonnie ¥aton. The
sheriff of Ouchita Parish, Louisiana,
was so busy that he forgot to hang
him on February 4th, the day set by
the Governor for Lonnie’s execution
and now everybody down there is up
in the air because a parallel case is
not of record. Lonnie is probably
greatly disappointed that he didn’t get
that ride into eternity at the end of a
piece of hemp on scheduled time.
—Qf course national chairman
White wasn’t responsible for our de-
feat last fall. Our number wasn’t up
to win, but if a really earnest effort
is to be made to reorganize the party
we think there ought to be a new deal
with a cold deck. And then some of
the fellows who are lined up behind
Mr. White don’t sound very hopeful
for a reorganized Democracy in Penn-
sylvania.
—Texas nearly drowned Mr. Hard-
ing when he went down there for rest
immediately after his election. Now
he is in Florida to rest up before his
inaugural and his boat is stuck in the
mud of Indian river. Of course the
fact that Texas and Florida are Dem-
ocratic States couldn’t have anything
to do with the discomforts the Presi-
dent-elect has had to suffer every
time he has ventured away from his
front porch.
—Just because George Glenn had to
zo and get tonsilitis all of Bellefonte
vas thrown into an uproar on Wed-
nesday morning and three men are in
jail. If George had had those bad
tonsils cut out long ago he wouldn’t
have had tonsilitis and Charley Ba-
ney wouldn’t have had to succeed him
as fireman of the Brockerhoff house
heating plant and Charley wouldn’t
have been so near that cache of whis-
key in the postoffice cellar that he
couldn’t resist the temptation to get
some of it. Moral, don’t get sick
when you have a job near a booze
cache.
—We rather like that fellow Dawes.
He told them a few things in Wash-
ington that grated on the congression-
al ear, but a lot of Congressmen, who
think they are being heard from, have
been mussin’ into the army and navy
ever since the armistice was signed
and they needed a few hot ones. No-
body ever supposed that Congressmen
whose greatest business achievement
is mailing government seed to their
constituents could ever grasp the whys
and wherefors of wartime expendi-
tures and the country is getting
mighty tired of useless investigations
at its expense.
—Of course Secretary Baker may
know some reason that the rest of us
don’t for keeping our standing army
larger than 175,000 men, but general-
ly speaking we are glad Congress
passed the resolution ordering the ces-
sation of recruiting even over the
President’s veto. The reason that
most foreign countries always were
so impoverished was because the tax
payers had to carry so many soldiers
on their shoulders. If we are sincere
in what we recently fought for let us
show our sincerity by reducing our
armament to the lowest possible point,
for should an emergency arise we can
meet it again as we did in 1917.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL GSNION.
VOL. 66. BELLEFONTE, PA., FEBRUARY 11, 1921.
NO. 6.
President Declines to Intervene.
In declining to intervene in
pending dispute between railroad em-
ployers and employees with respect to
wages and working conditions Presi-
dent Wilson gives reasons which
ought to satisfy all concerned. The
matter is in the hands of a board cre-
ated by law, composed of intelligent
men and presumably fair.
be manifestly unwise,” the President
states, “to take any action that would
interfere with the orderly procedure” :
of the Railroad Labor Board. Such’
action would be much like influencing
a jury engaged in the investigation
of a cause in court.
ted authority fails to function inter-
vention might be justified but in no
other circumstances.
The Labor Board is composed of
three representatives of labor, three
representatives of the carrying cor-
porations, and three representatives
of the public, an element which some-
times suffers more than either of the
others in labor disputes. It is one of
the features of the Esch-Cummins
law which created dissatisfaction. The
wage earners never had confidence in
the integrity and impartiality of tri-
bunals so organized. President Wil-
son was not favorably impressed with
the law and approved it only because
it was the best Congress would give.
The pending conflict will determine
whether the suspicions of the workers
are justified or not. But in any event
there is no excuse for interference in
advance of action.
As we observed last week General
Atterbury was arrogant and domi-
neering in his demand that the board
revoke agreements summarily. Con-
tractural obligations are binding on
both sides of an agreement. He was’
equally arrogant in asking the Presi-
dent to intervene to influence the
board in his behalf. But the Presi-
dent was wise as well as just in de-
clining to act in behalf of either be-
fore the constituted authority had re-
vealed its purpose. He believes that
the board will be fair and so long as
that confidence remains he could not
interfere. If injustice is done to the
wage earners within the period of his
tenure of office, however, it is safe to
say he will be heard from.
——Germany hesitated in signing
the peace treaty and shows tardiness |
in accepting the decision of the repa-
ration council. But Germany will pay
the indemnity.
Legislative Jockeying at Harrisburg.
The session of the Legislature is de- |
veloping some signs of intense jock- :
eying in the near future. The three
and a half million dollars deficiency
bill has again been referred to the
committee for the purpose of pruning
and no one is able to conjecture what
will be done to it. Under direct or-
ders from the Governor upward of
three hundred thousands of Jollars
were lopped off a couple of weeks ago
in the hope of silencing complaints of
profligacy but that doesn’t seem to
have satisfied some of the objectors.
Accordingly it was recommitted last
Monday evening after the adoption of
a resolution withdrawing it from the
Senate, to the calendar of which it
had been messaged last week.
But the evidences of discontent are
not limited to the provisions of that
measure. The Governor has a legis-
lative program of his own and a good
deal of his time and energy are being
spent in an effort to carry it through.
One of his pet measures is a bill to
provide for a constitutional conven-
tion in order that the work of his com-
mittee on revision may be embalmed
in organic form. It is said that he
yielded to Penrose in the organization
of the Legislature in consideration of
a promise to support his ambition to
create a fundamental law and that he
has since entered into agreement with
Senator Vare for the same reason.
But the friends of Penrose refuse to
“stay put” and the result is in doubt.
The Governor’s tax legislation is
also threatened with bitter opposition
and probable defeat. The scheme to
tax coal is ridiculed as a pipe dream
which creates no hope of revenue and
the proposition to levy a tax on manu-
factures is openly denounced as a
wanton violation of the policies and
traditions of the party from the be-
ginning. The fostering of manufac-
turing industries has always been the
excuse for tariff legislation and more
or less other iniquities, and the prop-
osition to alter the policy of the party
so suddenly is repugnant to the mind
of Joe Grundy, who as the slush col-
lector of the organization for many
years, cannot be ignored, as well as
to some of his contributors.
——It may be assumed that Sena-
tor Knox is responsible for the Mel-
lon in the cabinet but chairman Hays
will preside at the cutting.
——The proposed law to prohibit
hip pockets is an unnecessary precau-
tion. It will soon be impossible to get
anything to put in them.
the
“It would ,
If the constitu-'
| Our Millionaire’s Club.
Referring to the personnel of the
- Harding cabinet, as indicated in cur-
‘rent rumors, one of the Washington
| correspondents states that Mr. Mel-
"lon, of Pittsburgh, the prospective
Secretary of the Treasury, is “the sec-
‘ond richest man in America,” only
‘John D. Rockerfeller exceeding him in
. wealth. The prospective Secretary of
! War, John W. Weeks, of Massachu-
setts, according to the same authori-
ty, “is a very wealthy man,” and
Frank A. Lowden, who is scheduled to
be Secretary of the Navy, is among
the top-notchers in wealth, as was in-
dicated by his expenditures in the pri-
mary campaign for the Presidential
nomination a year ago. All the oth-
‘ers chosen for seats at the council ta-
ble are rich men.
It may be assumed, in view of these
facts, that the government of the
United States during the four years
after next month will be a rich man’s
organization. And it is eminently
proper that it should be, for the rich
men of the country procured it at a
vast expense. The report of chair-
‘man Hays fixed the receipts and ex-
. penditures of the Republican Nation-
al committee at something like four
or five millions of dollars. Since the
election a deficit of two million dol-
lars has been reported. The expenses
. of the congressional committee, the
several state committees and the
. county and local organizations would
"amount to several million dollars and
{ all of this money came from the rich
i men.
It may be assumed, therefore, that
, we are entering upon a new era of na-
| tional life. The Republican party has
, always been dominated by capital and
during the administrations of McKin-
ley, Roosevelt and Taft the corpora-
tions were the potent forces in the di-
rection of public affairs.
the first time that the government has
i
been made a millionaire’s club and
| that wealth was made the considera-
, tion in the selection of important pub-
lic officials. But the selection of Mel-
lon, Weeks and Lowden to fill the’
leading seats in the cabinet leaves no
‘doubt on that point. They have no
other reasons to offer or recommenda-
tion to present. But being the second
: richest man is something.
i We are worried about Senator
Penrose a good deal more than we
like to admit. The failure of the
i Fordney emergency tariff bill was
{ such a disappointment to him that his
: health may give way under the strain.
Meeting of the National Committee.
i In the absence of information as to
| the moving cause, it is not easy to ap-
praise the value of the proposed
! meeting of the Democratic National
{ committee next month. The recent
{ campaign was a sad failure and main-
ily for the reason that the party or-
ganization was inefficient. But it is
not certain that the chairman, chos-
en by the candidate for President, was
; responsible. Therefore, if the pur-
| pose of the proposed meeting is to re-
i buke or repudiate chairman White, it
would better not be held. With the
machinery under his control and the
facilities at his command chairman
White probably did as well as any oth-
er man could have done. But the ma-
chinery and the facilities were rotten.
If on the other hand the purpose of
the meeting in contemplation is to
strengthen the organization by elim-
inating “dead wood” and substituting
“live wire” the call should be welcom-
ed cordially by every Democrat in the
country. There is no use in denying
that resentment against President
Wilson was one of the main reasons
for the overwhelming defeat of the
party last fall. Nobody questions his
ability or patriotism. Both will stand
the acid test. But he was not always
faithful to the traditions of the party,
he was frequently defective in his
judgment of men and persisted in fa-
voring men who were obnoxious to
the rank and file of the party and this
weakness counted heavily.
President Wilson will always justly
occupy a high place in history. His
conduct of our share in the greatest
war of all time was perfect. So long
as reason holds her place his services
to his country and the world will be
held in sublime admiration. But his
adherence to men unworthy of such
confidence cost the Democratic party a
vast numeb of votes in the last Presi-
dential election and if the purpose of
the proposed meeting of the National
committee is to organize on a better
basis than that upon which that cam-
paign was conducted, it will be worth
while. Trading in public patronage is
a poor way of building up an organ-
ization and unhappily that method be-
came the rule.
——Germany still seems to imag-
ine that treaties are scraps of paper.
But the instrument in writing which
emanated from Versailles a couple of
years ago refuses to be scrapped.
—Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
But this is
| ! Pershing Declines to Testify.
i ‘General Pershing has declined an
‘invitation to appear before a congres-
' sional muck-raking committee, accord-
ing to Washington news dispatches.
; This fact is much to be regretted. The
_ same committee, or one of similar im-
port, visited France while Pershing
was there preparing for his return
home and subpoenaed him to explain
about the disposition of certain sur-
plus supplies and he practically told it
to “chase itself.” The recent invitation
was sent in. a more friendly spirit,
however. It was given by Represen-
tative Flood, of Virginia, and
probably intended to give the Gener-
al an opportunity to follow the exam-
ple of the Chicago gentleman who ex-
pressed his opinion of congressional
muck-rakers the other day.
In declining to appear before the
committee General Pershing said that
every charge that has been made
against the administration of the war
service abroad has already been fully
refuted and that further answers
would be a waste of time. That is
literally true. But such a rebuke as
a bluff old soldier might give to a
bunch of mischievous muck-rakers,
, under the circumstances, would do a
, world of good and thoughtful persons
j will share in our regret that General
; Pershing didn’t avail himself of the
chance. He could have shown them
what a despicable figure they cut in
digging up scandals which have no
foundation except in the debased
minds of muck-rakers.
| It is said that since Mr. Dawes, of
Chicago, expressed his more or less
profane opinion of congressional
; muck-raking there is less disposition
to indulge in scandal-mongering in
i Washington. If that be true there is
, not much cause of complaint because
. of the expletives he employed. A
milder form of expression might never
have reached the spot and there was
great need for something that would
achieve that result. The accusations
which have been invented and dissem-
inated for political purposes since the
close of the war are shameful, and
, anything that will abate the nuisance
is a public service. Black Jack Per-
i shiag could have supplemented the
work of Mr. Dawes most admirably.
i ——The Public Spirit, of Clearfield,
owned and published for many years
| by Matt Savage, has passed into the
discard. The plant was sold last week
| to Messrs. Mallon & Butler, proprie-
i tors of the Commercial Printing com-
pany, who discontinued the paper and
will use the plant in turning out com-
mercial job work. The high price of
paper and everything that enters in-
to the publishing of a newspaper as
well as the growing scarcity of prac-
i tical printers were a handicap the
Public Spirit could not overcome and
editor Savage wisely decided to sell
and in the future devote all his time
to his coal development and real es-
tate business.
Senator Fred A. Service, of
Beaver county, has introduced a bill in
the State Senate providing for an ap-
propriation of $200,000 for the erec-
tion of a memorial to the late ex-
Governor James A. Beaver, at Wash-
ington and Jefferson college, Wash-
ington, Pa., of which institution the
late General Beaver was a gu
—We violate no confidence in an-
nouncing, unofficially of course, that
Mr. Charles G. Dawes, of Chicago,
will not be a member of the Harding
cabinet. He uses cuss words too fre-
ly and tells the truth too frankly.
——1It is significant that Mrs. Hard-
ing is going along with her dress
makers just as if the inaugural cere-
monies were to be on the elaborate
scale originally planned.
om 2 id
——The new Governor of Indiana
has decided to dispense with a person-
al staff, thus hopelessly impairing the
infant industry of creating Colonels.
——The reduced price of meat in
Chicago is of comparatively little in-
terest here so long as the increased
price remains in this neighborhood.
a
——When Russian laborers ask for
more pay they are taken out and shot.
That shows that Lenine has a way of
his own of solving labor problems.
——The secret of Gibboney’s inter-
est in Bergdoll’s buried gold is reveal-
ed in the statement that it was to be
divided among his lawyers.
——The discussion of the emergen-
cy tariff bill in the Senate is likely to
open the eyes of the farmers whom it
was intended to fool.
——Even if the national debt is
funded in long term bonds the inter-
est account will require a good deal of
revenue.
ec—c——— ff t——————
——Get your job work done at this
office and get it right.
was :
| correct, money will control the ap-
: Campaign Debts.
; From the Doylestown Democrat.
i When the campaign of 1920 ended
with the election of November 2, there
i was a deficit in the Democratic ‘Na-
| tional committee treasury of about
i $200,000. We are not excusing that
| deficit. It ought not to be there. The
| Democratic managers, by inference,
‘at least, led contributors to the fund
to believe that expenditures of the
committee were not exceeding the in-
come. It-is unfortunate, therefore,
| that expenditures were allowed to
‘ overrun the receipts, even though the
poverty of the committee might seem
i to justify it. Therefore, we cannot
condone the deficit, though we have no
doubt that the committee’s debts will
be paid, if they have not already been
liquidated.
But, what can be said in justifica-
tion of the Republican National com-
mittee’s deficit of $2,000,000.
Reprehensible as was the lavish use
of an enormous fund ia the election, a
debt of $2,000,000 after the election is
a worse menace to good government.
Chairman Will Hays made light of
this big deficit and said the people
would “respond handsomely” and soon
wipe out the debt. It is now three
months after the election and one
month before the man whose election
was made possible will become FPresi-
dent, but Chairman Hays has collect-
ed only about $240,000 of this 2,000,-
000 deficit, which is said to be in the
form of loans. Naturally the chair-
man is worried and he and Mr. Hard-
ing, who wants the deficit wiped out
before he is inaugurated have confer-
red upon a plan to take care of the
debt. A dispatch from Washington
says:
“Hays’ plan, which is just being put
into operation, is said to be the noti-
fication of certain prominent Repub-
licans who are in line for recognition
that their selection has been tenta-
tively approved; that the fortunate
ones can best show their capability for
public office by promptly assuming
the responsibility for seeing that their
pro rata part of the fund to meet the
Jeno is raised without further de-
ay.”
If the report from Washington is
pointments. If the law can be in-
voked to have the names of contrib-
utors to the fund to wipe out this defi-
cit made known, the names should be
published. SERA
Governor Miller to the ‘Citizens of
Massachusetts. :
From the Springfield Republican.
“As it is the duty of the citizens to
respect and obey the law, so it is the
duty of the States to promote law and
order by compelling, as far as possi-
ble, obedience to law. The 18th
amendment as interpreted by the Su-
preme court of the United States con-
fers concurrent power on the States
to enable them to discharge that duty.
“The present conditions are intoler-
able. According to current reports,
the law is being not only openly and
flagrantly violated, but has become
the cause of the most scandalous cor-
ruption. When war prohibition went
into effect, the law-abiding in the
liquor business discontinued the traf-
fic. The lawless took advantage of
the situation to make unlawful gain
and the illicit trafic thus engendered
disturbs the good order and corrupts
the morals of the community. The
State cannot remain indifferent to
that condition. No citizen, who de-
sires social order and well being can
remain indifferent to it, irrespective
a what his views on prohibition may
e.
“The federal government can en-
force such a law only at enormous ex-
pense and with an army of agents in
every State.
“That manner of enforcement will
strongly tend to break down State
power, the maintenance of which is
esential to our scheme of government.
“The prohibition of manufacture
and importation may most effectively
be enforced by the federal govern-
ment, but the other prohibition acts
can best be enforced by local officers.
“The State may render effective
aid in preventing all of the prohibi-
tion acts, thus lessening the necessity
of federal enforcement and directly
contributing to maintenance of law
and order essential to the security of
every citizen.”
Then and Now.
From the Clearfield Republican.
Forty and fifty years ago the kind
of weather prevailing the past couple
of months would have been consider-
ed calamitous. No snow, no hard
freezing with thousands of river rafts
to haul to the streams, and millions
and millions of feet of logs to slide
would have caused deep furrows on
the cheeks of all our people and won-
derment in the minds of everybody
about where the money would come
from to tide over the year. Now we
are all saying it is delightful weather.
i RE ER Ca
Confident.
From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Explorer Shackleton says even
Spitzbergen and Siberia have less
snow and ice this winter. That about
makes it unanimous and sure.
rn Ay Ap en,
Going Up.
From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The ankle watch has been supersed-
ed by one worn on the thumb. Jewel-
ry certainly is going up.
——Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The last of the machinery of the Cen-
tral Pennsylvania Lumber Company's saw-
mill at Costello has been shipped from
that place. This ends the operations of
that company in Potter county for the
present. Nearly all of Potter county's
timber tracts have been denuded. i
—Joseph Uwell, aged 52 years, was
blown to pieces on a street at Grandville,
Washington county, late Monday when a
stick of dynamite, in the pocket of his
overcoat, exploded. Mike Doaley, a boy
who was standing near by, was injured.
The cause of the blast has not been de-
termined.
—Charles Edwin King Jr., of Bristol,
Pa., was freed of alleged complicity in the
death of Arline May Stout, in Philadelphia
on Monday, by deputy coroner Sellers, who
announced that the 17 year old West Phil-
adelphia High school student died of “a
gun shot wound, inflicted in an unknown
manner,” in instructing the jury as to a
verdict.
—Dr. Thomas E. Finegan, State Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, has an-
nounced that Governor Sproul had desig-
nated April 15 and 22 as the spring Arbor
days. Under the laws of Pennsylvania
these days are also to be designated as
bird days. Doctor Finegan will prepare
outlines of suitable programs for the day
and send them to schools for assistance in
observance of the days.
—Edna May Wardell, of Moscow, Lack-
awanna county, in divorce court before
Judge Maxey, at Scranton, charged that
her husband, Ambrose Wardell, harnessed
her to a cultivator on the farm and made
her live all last winter on turnips. Frank
E. Boyle, attorney for the woman, called
a former wife of Wardell. She testified
that she got a divorce after Wardell put
her in harness on the cultivator.
—This State has received a check for
$425,000 from the United States government
for payment of its share of the cost of the
construction of post roads in Pennsylva-
nia. The government contributes hundreds
of thousands of dollars annually for this
purpose. The day the payment was made
more than $1,000,000 was received in au-
tomobile license revenue from the High-
way Department for the highway mainte-
nance fund.
—Floyd Smith, who with his wife, was
found guilty of the murder of their one
year old baby, was sentenced on Monday
to be electrocuted at Rockview, Pa. Sen-
tence was passed by Judge Maxwell, of
Bradford county, and it is the first time
any person from that county has been con-
demned to such capital punishment. The
Smiths abandoned their baby after hiding
it under a culvert near the New York-
Pennsylvania border line.
—Joseph Eisenhauer and his estimable
wife, residents of IKylertown, Clearfield
county, recently celebrated their fifty-
eighth wedding anniversary. They were
married at St. John's Catholic church,
Bellefonte, in 1863, and have lived in that
part of the State during their married life.
They are the parents of ten children, all
living. They have twenty-six grand-chil-
dren and five great-grandchildren. All the
children excepting one were present at the
wedding anniversary.
—The Potter conuty commissioners have
been asked to pay a fine of $100 each hy
game warden McIntosh, for having eaten
of a doe sent to the Potter county home.
It seems that a doe illegally shot, had been
sent to the Potter county home to be eat-
en there. Superintendent Mitchell invited
the county commissioners to the feast,
which invitation was promptly accepted,
and they partook of their regular month-
ly inspection. The commissioners refuse
to plead guilty and pay the fine.
—Five hundred dollars for seven chick-
ens was the price paid by a thief who raid-
ed the coop of John Alcorn, at North Bes-
semer, Allegheny county, Friday night.
He left in haste when surprised by Al-
corn, but he carried away seven hens. Al-
corn went into the coop to take an inven-
tory, and was counting the chickens when
a roll of money on the floor caught his eye.
It contained four $100 bills and two $50
bills. Alcorn believes that the thief drop-
ped the roll in his haste to escape.
—Throwing a tray full of diamonds in
the faces of two bandits who entered his
store, and then using the heavy metal tray
as a shield to defend himself against their
bullets, saved William 8. Sturmey, a West
Philadelphia jeweler, his gems, if not his
life. A bullet fired by one of the intrud-
ers pierced the tray and entered Sturmey’s
body four inches below the heart, and he
is in a hospital in a serious condition, but
physicians say his chances are good for
recovery. The doctors say death would
have been practically instantaneous had
not Sturmey broken the force of the bul-
let with his improvised armor plate.
_ Peter B. Madara, of Reading, is said
to be the only surviving soldier of the
Mexican war in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Lau-
ra M. Roberts, daughter of Mr. Madara,
recently wrote to Washington for infor-
mation in regard to the matter and receiv-
ed a reply that while there are 125 survi-
vors in the entire country, her father is
the sole survivor of that war of 75 years
ago in the State of Pennsylvania. Mr. Ma-
dara will be 96 years old on May 16th
next. While feeling the infirmities insep-
arable from almost a century of life, and
afflicted with almost total blindness, he
still manifests an interest in the happen-
ings of the day.
—Who is heir to the DButterfield mil-
lions? is a query sent out from Mahanoy
City. Sheriff Wyatt is in receipt of a mes-
sage from Coroner Earl Smith, of Port-
land, Ore, announcing the death of Arth-
ur E. Butterfield in the northwestern city,
several days ago, and inquiring whether or
not there are any relatives of the man re-
siding in Schuylkill county, and if so, to
have them share in the fortune left by
Butterfield estimated at millions of dol-
lars, The deceased was a resident of
Schuylkill county until eighteen years ago,
when he went west and proved a success-
ful prospector for silver and gold and
came into ownership of a large ranch.
—James Williamson, of Madera, was
sentenced last week by Judge Bell, in
Clearfield county, to pay a fine of $1, costs
of prosecution and undergo imprisonment
in the penitentiary for not less than two
nor more than four years. Williamson
was caught in an attempt to rob the store
of Dominick Amato at Madera on Decem-
ber 1, 1920. He was discovered by the pro-
prietor who fired several shots at him.
One bullet passed through Williamson's
hat, another perforated the leg of his
trousers, while a third ripped through the
waistband of his trousers. Williamson
had a narrow escape from serious injury,
and as his previous record was not of the
best, Judge Bell decided to give him time
enough to think it over.