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EPISTLES I, Ir, IIL
—There are three letters on the
desk that we ought to pay some at-
tention to here, but we're not going
to do it, for it seems that every time
we essay the role of anything else
than a political paragrapher we lay
up nothing but trouble. And letters
are dangerous things to dally with,
anyway. Years and years ago we
carried on a rather feverish corres-
pondence with a Wilson college girl.
Being a Freshman in College at the
time we had started German and con-
ceived the brilliant idea that a few
mushy expressions in the language of
the Teutons might start the fair dame
guessing and at the same time im-
press our erudition upon her. It
seemed that our missive had scarcely
had time to reach Chambersburg ere
we received a sixteen page reply—all
in Dutch. Then it dawned on us that
the lady claimed Lebanon county as
home and two month’s in German at
the Pennsylvania State College was
no Trojan horse for any would-be
Lochinvar to mount for a ride into
that county to “snitch” a lady Heron.
Down in Lebanon Dutch is the lan-
guage they talk nothing else but.
Believe it, or not; we’ve got the letter
yet and, at this day we don’t know a
thing that is in it. We almost died of
curiosity to know its contents, but we
never got good enough in German to
read it and we think too much of the
lady to trust its translation to anyone
who is.
Having presented a pretty fair pro-
logue we shall proceed with the three
letter play.
Old Harry Rumberger has sent us a
clipping of ‘Geo. Nox McCain’s story
of the remarkable scenes in the Sen-
ate of Pennsylvania when the Demo-
crats rallied to the defense of Senator
Don Cameron when his fellow
Republicans were reading him out of
the party for having voted against
the strictly partisan Lodge elections
bill in 1891. If Col. McCain is right
one of the big men in the Senate then
was a Bellefonter, but we're not going
to be led into amplification of his
story because the Bellefonte of today
thinks of present big fish and not of
past big men.—End of Epistle I.
Dave Kelly has sent us another
bunch of dahlias from West Virginia
and writes to know what we think of
the specimens from his culling basket.
Last season Dave sent us a bunch of
these posies and we undertook to
make our readers believe that no such
dahlias could be grown anywhere on
earth except in Monongolia county,
West Virginia. No sooner had the
edition reached its readers than the
-desk began to bank up with such a
deluge of dahlias that we had no time
for anything else than keeping them
“in fresh water, clipping the stems and
gathering up the fallen petals. Every
local grower presented his bouquet in
much the same mental state that the
local merchant approaches the pro-
prietor of a Sears-Robuck catalogue
and he and she wanted to know
wherein his or her floral exhibit fell
short, botanically, of anything from
West Virginia that we had on display.
Well—never having been Flora of a
local Grange and not having been in-
terested in flowers prior to 1918 and
since then having specialized only in
dandelions and elder blossoms, we
found defense of our assumed knowl-
edge of floriculture as futile as was
.our attempt to read the German letter
of the Wilson college girl and we
shall not blow Dave’s dahlias again
—End of Epistle II.
We have a friend who has attained
world wide fame as a scientist. From
‘time to time he has sent us copies of
his publications. He is so much of
the intelligensia that his stuff sort o’
makes us hunt for a place in the “I
“have saw” and “You done it” crowds.
The last of his contributions to the
grist of human wisdom was a disserta-
tion on “Dinosaur Extinction.” We
know something of the extinction of
Alton B. Parker, Charles Evan
Hughes, A. Mitchell Palmer and John
W. Davis. but this Dinosaur was
something else again, so we sent the
pamphlet to a high brow friend and
he comes back with a letter that
makes the German letter and the
dahlia problems look like they were
regular snits. He writes: “Have you
ever discovered in Fishing Creek any
of the leatherback turtle fossils? Or
anything that suggests the tooth-set
gape of Tyrannosaurus? I imagine
that these animals were reserved for
the royal sports in ancient times,
judging from certain frill lacerations
in Ceratopsians. I know you will be
surprised to learn of the finding of
the flat carnivore tooth with a verta-
brae of the sauropode Barosaurus.
The facts regarding the Permian
glaciation and the lack of breeding
stimulant in the Tertiary time and the
changes of life of the Eocene brought
on premature senility as the Creta-
ceous time waned and put old Dinos-
aur out of business.”—End of Epistle
IIL.
In response to the curtain call we
want to make this dramatic declara-
tion:
God forgive us! We have never
wished anybody aught but good for-
tune, but we wonder now why Sacco
and Vanzetti had to die while the
writer of Epistle II is permitted to
live.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE. PA.. AUGUST 26. 19
27.
NO. 33.
VOL. 72.
Mr. MacKey’s Absurd Pretense.
In his testimony before the Sen-
ate Slush Fund committee Harry
Mackey, the Vare machine candidate
for Mayor of Philadelphia, declared
under oath that in the twenty wards
of the city in which the big machine
majorities are rolled up the voters
are so illiterate or stupid that they
do not know the names of the candi-
dates they are voting for. He ac-
krowledged that as manager of the
Vare campaign for Senator he dis-
bursed the slush fund and controlled
the propaganda. If that were true he
must have known that the $50,000
contributed by Tom Cunningham was
collected from bootleggers and gam-
blers in the city in expectation of
favors in the event of Mr. Vare’s elec-
tion. The crooks don’t work for noth-
ing.
hs the political “friend, philosopher
and guide” of Mr. Vare, Harry Mack-
ey must have known that emissaries
of the Vare machine had warned Dis-
trict Attorney Fox that if he persist-
ed in prosecuting election crooks he
would be defeated for the party nomi-
nation for the office for the full term,
and that because he did persist in
prosecuting the ballot crooks an oblig-
ing and obedient judge has been taken
from the bench for the purpose of
preventing his nomination. As a
participant in all the machine confer-
ences during the past dozen years Mr.
Mackey must have known that the
Vare machine has maintained a part-
nership agreement with the criminals
in which the criminals contribute
votes and the machine guarantees
protection.
Yet in the face of facts Mr. Mack-
ey, who never made a protest against
these iniquities, asks the people of
Philadelphia to believe that Mr. Vare
selected him as the Republican candi-
date for Mayor in order to reform the
abuses which have kept the machine
in power all these years. He must
have sublime faith in the force of the
illiterate voters or a pervading confi-
dence in the indifference of the better
class of voters to their civic obliga-
tions. Mr. Mackey knows that Vare
prevented the passage of ballot re-
form legislation during the last ses-
sion of the Legislature, and that if
Vare believed that Mackey’s profes-
sions of reform were sincere he would |
chosen as the party
not have been
candidate for Mayor.
The President intends to visit
Yellowstone park before he returns to
Washington. It will probably be his
last chance to view wonders at public
expense.
Concerning Male and Female Figures.
It is to be hoped that the “male of
the species” will not take too serious-
ly the suggestion of Dr. Thaddeus L.
Bolton, of Temple University, Phila- |
delphia, that men should participate
in the completition with women in
“beauty contests.” “If young men were
entered in the contests as well as
girls,” Doctor Bolton ventures the
opinion, “the affair might develop
into what might be called a course or
school for the real appreciation of
the human body.” In the absence of
this innovation Doctor Bolton
afraid that beauty contests will be
discontinued for the reason that
“every extreme carries its cure with-
in itself,” and he appears to be per-
suaded that such contests are “whole-
some and healthful to society.”
The “female form divine” has long
been recognized in all parts of the
world, Christian and Pagan, civilized
and savage, as the highest point of
nature’s achievement, “the very acme
and pitch of life for epic poetry,” to
quote from Pope. To say as Doctor
Bolton does that “the male figure is
decidedly more decorative than the
female figure,” may serve to flatter
the vanity of the saps and the sheiks
who adorn society parades, but it is
not clear to the average mind even if
it be true “that throughout the ages
the male figure has been used as a
model for the creation of things of
beauty with considerable more fre-
quency than the female figure,” as
Doctor Bolton declares.
But it may be gravely doubted that
flattering the vanity of saps and
sheiks will greatly contribute to the
promotion of human progress and
there may be, here and there, old
fashioned men and women who have
been and are now unable to see that
beauty contests, as they have been
conducted in the past or might be in
the future, if Doctor Bolton’s sugges-
tion should be adopted, have advanced
and spiritual, social or material in-
terests of the justly celebrated human
race. There are possibilities in all
things, however, and the public exhi-
bition of a ten or twenty thousand
dollar “male beauty” might be of
some use to somebody besides the ex-
hibit, but like us Missourians say,
vou’ll have “to show us.”
reper iain
Universal regret will follow if
Mildred Doran, the plucky lady avia-
tor, has perished.
is |
Smoke Screen Still Working.
{
| The Senator Reed smoke screen to
| prevent exposure of the frauds prac-
| ticed in the Senatorial election in this
| State, last year, for the purpose of
! electing William S. Vare is still serv-
{ing the purpose of delay. At a con-
i ference held in Washington, last
i week, in which the contestant, Wil-
i liam B. Wilson, and an attorney for
| Mr. Vare participated, the adverse
| replies of several judges to the re-
quest of the Senate sergeant-at-
| Arms were considered, and it was de-
termined that Mr. Wilson and Mr.
{ Vare “will prepare and submit to the
! courts formal petitions for the preser-
vation of the ballot boxes.” This will
i take up considerable time, and time
1 is an important element in the equa-
| tion.
| It may be possible, between now
land the 20th of September, four and
| a-half weeks, to prepare these peti-
| tions and present them in legal form
ito the several courts. But proceed-
!ings in law are proverbially slow and
| at least in some of the counties con-
| cerned every expedient for delay will
ibe invoked. In counties where no
‘frauds have been committed, and they
‘include vastly the greater rumber,
there will probably be no trouble. But
in counties such as Delaware, Lacka-
| wanna, Luzerne and Schuylkill, where
| the fraud systems are nearly as per-
{fect as in Philadelphia and Pitts-
{ burgh, every possible means of pre-
I venting a recount of the ballots will
i be resorted to.
This procedure, whether successful
{or not, will cost the people of Penn-
sylvania a good deal of money. If it
| will result in the exposure and penal-
'izing of the frauds committed it will
{be worth all it costs and more. But
{it might have been accomplished at
less expense. There is neither sense
nor justice in aspersing the vote of
. Centre county because it is strongly
i suspected that the vote of Schuylkill
' county was debauched. The people of
i Centre county, however, will have to
| pay the expense of impounding and
| conveying the ballot boxes to Wash-
i ington and probably of procuring new
boxes for the primary election be-
| cause Senator Reed imagined the pro-
cess would conceal “the
Schuylkill.
———Political gossip in Pittsburgh
indicates an impending quarrel be-
tween Senator Max Leslie and Mayor
Kline for control of the organization.
This ought to result in a war for ex-
termination of both sides.
Harry Mackey Admits Corruption.
The Vare machine hand-picked can-
didate for Mayor of Philadelphia, Mr.
Harry A. Mackey, made an interest-
{ing statement for publication the
other day, in a sweeping renunciation
i of existing conditions in the cty. “It
is a well known fact beyond contra-
diction,” he declared, “that the police
have been taught how to collect graft.
They learned it through the highly
specialized prohibition methods
adopted by the Department of Public
Safety.” Like the equally highly
specialized system of fraudulent reg-
istration, voting and computing the
(returns of elections the election
boards like the police have “become
thoroughly corrupted. Every one on
the street knows their price.”
This is a startling indictment
against the present Vare-made ad-
ministration of Philadelphia. But
there are no reasons to believe that it
is an exaggeration. Investigations
made of the elections of 1025,
when Judge Renshaw was counted
out of an election to the municipal
court bench; of the primary in 1926,
when Vare was counted in as the Re-
publican candidate for Senator, and
of the November election last year
when William B. Wilson was counted
out of the Senatorial election, reveal-
ed an organized system of fraud
which is amazing. The public is not
quite so well informed concerning cor-
ruption in the police department of the
city but it may be assumed that Mr.
Mackey “knows what he is talking
about.”
The Vare machine is responsible
for the present administration in
Philadelphia as it is for the candidacy
of Mackey for the office of Mayor
now. For years Mr. Mackey has
been the guiding spirit of the Vare
machine. His selection as the candi-
date of the machine now is a reward
for his fidelity to Vare and his effi-
ciency in directing the fraudulent
operations in elections and the graft-
ing in the police department. In his
statement he adds. every police offi-
cial knows me and they know I[
know the inside of their work.”
No doubt that is literally true, and
it might be said with exact justice
that that is why he has been chosen
by Vare for the office of Mayor.
The great number of candi-
dates entered for the primary election
this year may indicate increasing
patriotism or something less worthy.
frauds in’
Pinchot Holds Mellon Responsible. |
Gifford Pinchot continues to be the
militant champion of liquor law en-
forcement and incidentally the un-
compromising opponent of the Mel-
lon-Vare partnership. In an address
before the World Congress against
alcoholism at Winona Lake, Indiana,
on Sunday, he said, referring to his
four years’ fight for law enforcement
as Governor of Pennsylvania, “the
chief obstacle against which I had to
contend was not the bootleggers and
the wet politicians; it was not the
breweries and the distilleries. The
chief obstacle to law enforcement in
Pennsylvania during these four years
was the federal government at Wash-
ington. The thing which hampered
me beyond all else was the refusal of
Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the
Treasury, to have the law enforced.”
In view of the fact that Governor
Fisher, professing to favor the en-
forcement of the Volstead law and the
Eighteenth amendment to the Federal
constitution, has declared his support |
of Mr. Mellon for the nomination for
President by his party, this statement
is significant. If Mr. Mellon was the
principal cause of the failure of pro-
hibition enforcement as Secretary
of the Treasury, what basis can there
be for hope that he would pursue an-
other course as President. Mr. Pin-
chot declares that “there was a power
in Washington that could have made
even Mellon enforce the law. I mean
the President of the United States.”
If Mr. Mellon should become Presi-
dent there would be no higher power
to influence him or compel him to en-
force the law.
In this matter Mr. Pinchot is abso-
lutely correct in his analysis. The
failure to enforce the Volstead law
during the past several years is large-
ly ascribable to indifference in Wash-
ington. Mr. Mellon, on account of
personal interest or environment, may
have been careless on the subject and
the President was afraid of offending
Mellon by intervening. The whiskey
ring, in the pre-Volstead period, was
the source of the slush fund and the
bootleggers and saloon keepers have
served that important purpose since.
As the official head of the Republican
‘papty the President was compelled to
silence, and as putative head of the
Pennsylvania machine Secretary Mel-
lon was forced to acquiesce in
whatever the Mellon-Vare partner-
ship deemed expedient.
——Governor Fisher is rather tardy
in filling the vacancy in the Board of
Registration Commissioners of Phila-
delphia, caused by the resignation of
Mr. Ladner. He probably finds it
hard to please Vare and satisfy his
own conscience.
How the Candidates will Line Up On
the Official Ballot.
The drawing for position of the
judicial candidates on the offical bal-
lot took place at Harrisburg, last
week, and that for all the other can-
didates on the county ticket was held
in the commissioner’s office on Tues-
day of this week. Only a few of the
candidates appeared in person for the
drawing. On the Democratic ticket
the candidates will appear as follows,
only those offices for which there is
more than one candidate being given:
Judge—W. D. Zerby, W. Harrison
Walker.
Sheriff—Elmer Breon, Harry E.
Dunlap, H. E. Shreckengast.
Treasurer—Lyman L.
Deemer T. Pearce.
Recorder—D. A. McDowell, Sinie
H. Hoy, D. Wagner Geisss.
County Commissioners—John W.
Yearick, John S. Spearly, Burdine
Butler.
County Auditor—O. J. Stover,
Harry E. Garbrick, W. W. Tate.
The position of the various Repub-
lican candidates will be as follows:
Judge—Arthur C. Dale, M. Ward
Fleming, James C. Furst.
Prothonotary—Roy Wilkinson,
R. Hancock.
Treasurer—John T. Harnish, W. E.
Hurley, H. E. Holzworth, Charles P.
Long.
County Commissioners—Newton I.
Wilson, H. W. Frantz, John A. Way,
Howard E. Miles.
Smith,
E.
——-If it be true that “when rogues
fall out honest men come by their
own,” Philadelphia ought to get some-
thing out of the quarrel between
Harry Mackey and the municipal ad-
ministration.
——-The National Guard encamp-
ment at Mt. Gretna for this year has
ended, and though the weather was
unfavorable most of the time the re-
sult was entirely satisfactory.
i ee
——It may be true that “movie”
firms have made liberal offers to Mur.
Coolidge after his term in office ex-
pires, but it is hard to imagine why.
rrr rr
——The “Watchman” is the most
readable paper published. Try it.
Regulation of Ocean Flights.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The feasibility of flight by plane
from the California coast to the
Hawaiian Islands has been demon-
strated by five pilots. Three of these
landed on the flying field on Oahu,
{ which was their precise objective.
{ One landed on another island of the
| group, and one on the ocean near
{ enough to one of the islands to make
his way to shore.
| In the case of the planes which did
' not make Wheeler Field, but reached
i the islands or their waters, and in the
case of two others, entrants in the
Dole competition, which are at this
' moment missing, the United States
Navy, at great expenditure of cash
and energy, scoured the seas in the
hope of being able to render aid to
distressed aviators. Even now scores
of its vessels and thousands of its
| men, besides its aerial resources in
Pacific waters ,are engaged in search-
! ing the ocean wastes for traces of two
{ of the four planes which left Oakland
| last Tuesday and have not since been
| seen.
Far be it from the mind of any
| observer to suggest that our navy is
{engaged in an improper enterprise,
or that there should be any abate-
(ment of its zeal, at whatever cost, in
its mission of relief. But it does
seem as if, when the present labors
shall have been completed, the time
would have come to call a halt upon
long-distance ocean flights which are
likely to involve the navy in tasks
{ which have nothing to do with the
: reasons for its existence, unless it
can be satisfactorily demonstrated in
advance to a proper regulative au-
thority that the contemplated flight
would serve some very useful pur-
pose.
We know now that flight from Cali-
fornia to the Hawaiian Islands is
practicable. But we also know that
it is extremely hazardous. There can
be no further use in making that par-
ticular journey until there shall have
been such advances in aviation as
would make the navigation safe for
commercial purposes. Further at-
| tempts, until such developments have
| taken place, would merely saddle upon
| the navy tasks to which it should not
t have to devote so much of its atten-
tion.
Transatlantic flights are upon a
somewhat different basis, inasmuch
‘as it may be plapsibly argued. that.
| the exploration of routes and the
| gathering of scientific data as to air
‘currents and other metereological
conditions are important to the sue-
cess of future navigators. But we
hold that even in this case there
should be Federal regulation of the
attempts, if the Government is to be
called upon for relief work. Sooner or
later we shall have to come to some
i such system. Events in Pacific waters
indicate that it should be sooner.
A Crucial Trade Pact.
. From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Franco-German commercial
treaty, just concluded after many
months’ negotiation, is likely to prove
a key instrument in the commercial
pacification of Europe. The very fact
that the two most pronounced politi-
cal and economical rivals on the Conti-
nent have been able to reach a mutu-
ally satisfactory agreement is certain
to give impetus to a similar move-
ment in other dircetions. Tariff bar-
riers, recognized as a prime obstacle
in Europen rehabilitation, may at
least begin to crumble.
It is well known, for instance, that
the continental allies of France have
been awaiting the outcome of these
negotiations before making similar
treaties with Germany. Even outside
the French ring, other nations have
been watching for a lead from France
and Germany.
So far as the United States is con-
cerned, the situation is still uncertain.
The French may make the tariff
schedules in this treaty the basis for
a comprehensive tariff law. In that
case, many American exports to
France would be placed at a disad-
vantage. The need of a Franco-
American commercial pact may be-
come pressing. But so far as con-
cerned, this “economic Locarno” is
likely to have only beneficial results.
Plenty to do.
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
Thomas A. Edison, old man, keeps
on working. He is recruiting college
students to help develop native rubber
plants.
The smarter the man the more like-
ly he is to continue working when he
is old if his health lets him. It ought
to give all of us—from Edison all the
way down—much satisfaction to find
there is always plenty to do.
What a dismal world it would be if
there were no jobs.
a scene eee emer
Vare Overreached Himself.
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
Newspaper writers in Philadelphia
representing papers unfriendly to the
Vare organization express the belief
that Senator Vare has overreached
himself in forcing the present slate
on the voters and that while it will
be safely elected the effects will be
felt at Washington when the Sena-
tor’s case comes before the Senate
next winter.
——The Vare machine penalizes in-
stead of rewarding in public office.
Baranokski. Kilbillis contznds he paid
the money on the condition he would be
able to secure a liquor license. 4
—While seated on a chair reading in the
bedroom at her home, 833 South Beaver
street, York, Pa., last Friday Mrs. Amanda
Ferree, wife of G. W. Ferree, was stricken
with a heart attack and died soon after-
ward, Mrs. Ferree, following the attack,
walked to her bed and fell over dead. She
was seventy-one years old.
—Life isn’t worth living for Mrs. Cath-
erine Yarema, living near Shamokin, and
here are the reasons: Her husband beat
her and then threw her on a hot stove.
Then she had him arrested and placed in
jail. But that didn’t seem to help her, so
she drank poison in an attempt to kill
herself. Now she is in the Shamokin State
hospital hovering between life and death.
Physicians expect her to live.
—A reward of $50 will be paid by the
Hazleton Motor club, to which practically
all mortorists in that locality belong, for
the capture of any person who is classed
as a “hit-and-run” motorist. This has
been decided at a meeting of the board,
when the directors felt that the club
should take a decided stand against heart-
less individuals who bring lawabiding
and decent motorists into undeserved
disrepute.
—Arrangements are being made to hold
the annual tournament of the Central
Pennsylvania Fish and Game Association
at the White Hill fish farm, in Dauphin
county, early in September. All manner
of bait and fly casting contests, together
with rifle and pistol shooting will be on
the program. Handsome prizes will go
to the winners. This meet always at-
tracts many sportsmen from all over
Central Pennsylvania.
—Sentence will be passed October Tth
on Clifford P. Cowen, Lewistown, Pa.,
who has plead guilty to presenting a
series of false vouchers to the United
States Shipping Board Corporation, the
office of the United States district attor-
ney has announced. Cowen plead guilty
to one of nine counts in the indictment
returned against him and eight others
were noile prossed as compensation for
his having plead guilty to one.
—Louis Kowalski, of Bradenville, West-
moreland county, has a keen sense of
humor. Strumming his guitar among a
band of musicians at the marriage of his
cousin, he heard a joke. He threw back
his head and laughed so heartily that his
jaw slipped out of joint. With his mouth
gaping open, the man was hurried by his
friends to the office of a doctor, where the
jaw was slipped back into place. He then
stuffed his ears with cotton and returned
to the wedding.
—Mrs. Ira Hess, 27, was burned to death
in her home at Brownsville, about eight
miles south of Chambersburg, early Fri-
day morning. She had gotten up about
2.30 o'clock to heat water. After starting
the fire she apparently laid down waiting
for the water to heat and fell asleep. A
little later, her husband and three chil-
dren were awakened by smoke and jump-
ed to safety from a second story window.
When the fire was controlled the body of
Mrs. Hess was found burned to a crisp.
—A freight wreck believed to have been
caused by a broken axle occurred in front
of the Union depot at Huntingdon, at 4.30
a. m. Sunday, pilling up the debris of
twelve loaded cars over all four tracks
| and tearing up the two middle tracks for
I almost 200 yards. A through westbound
| passenger and mail train was due a few
| minutes after the wreck, but through the
quick action of Chester Swiver, day bag-
gageman, a possible collision was averted.
Swiver flagged the oncoming passenger
train in time
—Two large coal veins worth probably
more than, $1,000,000, have been uncover-
ed by the operators of the St. Clair Coal
company at Mt. Hope near Pottsville.
The veins were discovered by stripping off
the top of the earth from the coal. Offi-
cials believed there was coal in the lo-
cality discovered, but did not think it
was present in such quantities as found.
One of the veins will be mined in the full
light of the sun, but officials said they
would probably work the other by run-
ning a drift under it.
—Jumping out of the path of a motorist
who tried to run him dwn, Frank A. Dent,
chief £ police of Bloomsburg, was struck
by another car early on Sunday morning
and killed. Dent was directing traffic, amid
hundreds of cars that crowded the road
due to a fire works display at Berwick,
and had signalled a driver to stop. The
driver, it was said later, flashed on his
headlights and directed his car at the
officer with increasing speed. Dent
jumped aside and was struck by a car
driven by G. D. Savage, of Northumber-
land. He died soon afterward. The
driver of the first car escaped. Dent is
survived by his widow and four children.
Savage was exonerated by a coroner's
jury.
—Dumping of raw liquor into a trout
stream by prohibition officers has been
protested by Cambria county sportsmen,
who have filed a complaint with United
States Commissioner Ray Patton Smith, at
Johnstown. The sportsmen said two Fed-
eral agents attached to prohibition head-
quarters at Pittsburgh had raided a still
near Portage, arresting the alleged pro-
prietor, Julius Savlini, and confiscating a
hundred barrels of mash and more than
200 galons of liquor. The contraband was
dumped into a trout stream, the sports-
men said, killing the fish in 1 mile and a
half of waters. The sportsmen, in their
complaint, said they would appeal to the
State if the Federal outhorities did not
take some action.
—Harry B. Snavely, better known as
“Barnum,” 75, for a number of years an
inmate of the city home in Lock Haven,
was found drowned in the Bald Eagle
creek on Friday, the body being found at
12.30 near the Castanea bridge by boys.
The city police were notified and investi-
gation showed that Snavely had left the
city home Wednesday to fish in Bald
Eagle creek, and it is thought that he
was seized with a sudden attack of vertigo
and fell into the stream as his fishing
tackle was found at a point some distance
up the stream from the place his body
was discovered . He landed in Lock Haven
in the 70's with P. T. Barunm’s circus.
and remained there, boating on the West
branch of the Susquehanna with George
Howard, in whose employ he was for a
number of years.