INK SLINGS.
—One of the inconsistencies in
wman nature is found in the fact
hat the fellow who has been accus-
omed to buying and shoveling his
wn coal always discovers that it
akes more heat to keep him warm
vhen he moves into an apartment
hat the land-lord has rented to him
heated.”
—We notice in the interesting
udget of news from Aaronsburg
hat our correspondent in that place
1as sent for this issue of the Watch-
nan a reference to the very cold
veather we have had during the ten
lays last past. She speaks of it as
premature.” We have never heard
hat word applied to the weather
efore, but we confess that it fits
dmirably. For the extreme cold
nap caught more people napping
han we have ever heard of in this
ommunity at this season,
—Our heart bleeds for the lady
rho shut off all the water spigots in
er home because the Watchman
rged everyone to do so last week
5 that the pitometer sleuths
rouldn’t find as much waste as
rould be good for them. She pick-
d a bad night to enlist in the army
f savers of Bellefonte’s money, for
te entire water system in her home
‘as’ frozen up the next morning
nd ‘the plumbers have been on du-
7 there almost continuously since.
7e understand that she intends to
:nd the bill to us and, if she does,
‘hat do you think we should do
oout it?
—It seems that an incidental ref-
‘ence, in this column last week, to
tle English used by many students
! the Bellefonte High school has
wsed considerable comment. We
lieve that the instructors there
‘e competent and doing their best
» train the pupils under them. Ed-
ation is having a hard row to hoe
this age when culture, refinement
1d modesty are at a discount and
ld, jazz and gin are all that is
reded to get one into “Who’s Who”
' the Social Registers. The great
merican melting pot is still work-
g, but there are too few Cabots
1d Lodges to be thrown into it to
‘operly flux the inskies and owskies
at are being dumped in daily. The
‘oss comes to the top, of course, but
it is skimmed off there's little
ft.
—On January first the Watchman
11 be seventy-five years old. Al-
ost, we feel as though we ought
have some sort of a celebration.
e will have. The Lord willing,
ll be blithely plugging away
wn in the shop, confident that
ough of our delinquents will re-
it in time to pay off the note we
gotiated with our banker on the
:ength of ‘our confidence in them.
ou see, its this way. Every Satur-
y we have to pay every person
10 has rendered any service to the
atchman during the week. At the
»nth’s end we have to pay for all
e ink, rollers, paper and overhead
at producing the old sheet has oc-'
sioned. If we don’t our employee's
wuld wonder why and finally desert
at they might think to be a sink-
; ship and our city creditors would
jist on sending future orders “C.
D.2 *
—We haven't any quarrel with
»se who think Bellefonte should
ve a new fire alarm system which
uld cost something in the neigh-
rhood of fifteen hundred dollars,
: do hope, however, that it’s ad-
rates will not undertake to lure
yone into voting for it because it
1 reduce insurance rates. When
comes to doing things to secure
luced insurance rates it is time
Bellefonte to be from Mis-
iri. Not long ago the borough
1ght two thousand feet of hose in
ler to come up to a requirement
it would insure cheaper rates,
en the borough chipped in to help
y a new pumper that was to fur-
r reduce the rates and now some
uld have us believe that a dif-
ent kind of a fire alarm is the
ng that is actually going to bring
desired end. Why feed us that
doodle any longer? A better
alarm system might be desir-
e, but they've got to “show me”
at that hose and new pumper did
ore we'll ever believe that a new
. is going to reduce insuranc rates,
—Christmas is only eighteen days
We are not going to tell you
shop early. We are thinking
at a wonderufl season of good
er and good will it would be if
se who have would think of those
5 haven't. God, put it in the
rts of those to whom giving
ans no sacrifice, whatever, to
zhten the lives of their less for-
ate fellows this Christmas. Un-
i you have seen it yourself you
'e no understanding of what the
rs that trickled down over “Wes-
Ss cheeks as he was trying to
nk us for the gift that Watch-
n readers built up for him last
r meant. And “Wesley” is only
mong millions. A raccoon coat
the boy who already has more
n is good for him a sports model
the girl who is too silly to. know
t the boy friend she’s vamping
't be in position to buy gas for
or years sound big in the neigh-
hood of “Easy Street,” but out
sre a bushel of potatoes, a ton of
|, a pair of shoes really mean
iething; there’s where one sees
real gratitude coming back for
bread that is caste on the wa-
y } eee
"VOL. 74.
- BELLE
FONTE. PA
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
.. DECEMBE
How Long Will the Senate Endure Whaat Republicans are Serving For MANY BUCKS KILLED
Tricks?
How long will the Senators in
Congress endure the tricks that Wil-
liam S. Vare and his lawyers have
been imposing upon the Senate and
the public? For more than three
years he has been able to prevent a
decision upon a question of grave
importance by subterfuges so thinly
screened that ‘a wayfaring man,
though blind, might see” them. The
other day he demanded that all the
ballots cast in thirty-one counties at
the election of 1926 be counted by
the Senate committee on Privileges
and Elections. This process will con-
sume from four to six months time
and postpone the decision that much
longer. Mr. Vare knows, and every
Senator ought to realize, that there
is no reason for the action.
In the primary campaign in 1926
more than a million dollars were spent
to secure the nomination of Mr.
Vare, a considerable part of which
fund was believed to have been ob-
tained in violation of law from
criminal sources. Mr. Smith, of Il-
linois, who ran for Senator at the
same time, spent much less but his
case was almost summarily decided
by a prompt refusal to admit him to
the seat he had purchased. Why is
it that Vare is treated differently?
Smith had some of the qualifications
for the service to which he aspired.
He had served his country efficiently
and courageously in war. Vare has
nothing to recommend him except
that he is the head of a corrupt po-
litical organization and has a hig
fortune acquired largely by others.
The plain duty of the Senate is to
flatly refuse his demand for a re-
count of ballots in counties where
no accusation of fraud has been
made and no suspicion of fraud has
been expressed. The Senate is equal-
ly under imperative obligation to
"adopt the Norris resolution denying
Vare a seat in the body. It could
not justly award the seat to Mr.
Wilson until after the report of the
Committee on Privileges and Elec-
tions has been submitted. If the
evidence taken by that committee |
shows that Mr. Wilson received a
majority of the votes legally cast he
is entitled to the seat. He obtained
no votes by fraud and acquired no
support by purchase. There ought
to be no further delay in the mat-
ter. ;
——Edward Hurley's scheme to
promote peace is practical but hard-
ly spectacular enough to win favor.
He would have essentials boycotted
against belligerent nations.
——————— OL
Just Bases of Tariff Taxation
i It may be assumed that as soon
{as the Vare matter is disposed of the
Senate will resume consideration of
the tariff bill with the purpose in
‘mind to enact a law which will es-
| tablish parity between agricuiture
and manufacturing industries. = Thus .
far the only gesture toward that
' achievement has been the increase of
tariff rates on several agricultural
products, which means nothing. Tar- !
‘iff-taxing agricultural products is of
no advantage to farmers for the
‘reason that practically no products
'of the farm are imported. For the
same reason the government de-
rives no benefit because no revenue
results. Senator Blaine, of Wiscon-
! sin, spoke the truth on this subject
the other day.
| The only tariff legislation that can
i possibly help agriculture would be a
bill that cuts the rates on manufac-
tured products necessary in the pur-
Mr. Fred L. Kent, who is presi-
dent of a New York bank, has a
peculiar notion of the obligations of
official life. In a recent speech de-
livered to a bunch of bankers he
ascribed the recent Wall street
stock debacle to the failure of the
Senate to promptly enact the Haw-
ley-Smoot tariff bill into law. Cur-
ious as to “how he got that way”
Senator Caraway subsequently sum-
moned him to appear before the lob-
by committee. His statement as a
witness was both interesting and
surprising. He laid all the blame on
the insurgent Republicans. Accord-
ing to his idea they ought to have
voted with the “Old Guard” Sena-
tors on all questions involved alike
as to rates and administrative pro-
visions.
If Mr. Kent's system were adopted
the processes of legislation would be
greatly simplified. He would have
the Senators of the majority party
assemble in caucus and compel each
of them to vote on all questions the
majority of them agreed upon. He
would generously allow those of dif-
ferent opinicn to express their views
on any subject but whatever a ma-
jority determined upon should be
binding on all and recalcitrancy would
be moral turpitude. In other words,
he would invest the party organiza-
tion with absolute power to cast the
vote of every Senator elected by
that party as a unit on every ques-
tion. There could be no individual
action and conscience would have no
place in official life.
i . Some of the Senators who listen-
ed to this language were surprised.
“If the minority cannot convince the
' majority,” Mr. Kent said, “then the
minority ought to consider the pos-
‘ sibility that it may be wrong.” That
is a preposterous theory, of course,
but it expresses a growing purpose
; of the Republican leaders in and out
"of Congress. It is part of the policy
| advanced by Mr. Grundy, in Wash-
‘ington, and by Senator Reed, in
Harrisburg, when they suggested
‘ the silencing of Senators who disa-
gree with them on the tariff. It is
the beginning of an effort to alter
our system of government and limit
the functions of government to the
favored few who by one method or
another have amassed great wealth.
| ——Vare has scored many an un-
i deserved victory for the Repubucans
of Pennsylvania by employing what-
ever methods were necessary. But
it. is doubtful it he will be so inclin-
ed in the future.
i Remedies Too Long Delayed
The administration at Harrisburg
is preparing to introduce new meth-
ods in handling . the finances of the
State. The exposure of. the cattle
indemnity swindle has admonished
- Governor Fisher that his system
of the treasury. It is whispered about
that he was warned of danger from
this source at the time that he was
ganizing the departments soon after
his inauguration. But with charac-
teristic
attention to the warning. The loot-
ing of the treasury to the extent of
BY ARDENT HUNTERS
Few Camps, However, Have Reached
the Season Limit
The cold weather of the past
week did not keep many of the old-
time hunters from taking to the
woods for the opening of the deer
season, and every mountainous sec-
tion where a deer might be expect-
ed has had its quota of red-capped
trailers.
Opinions differ as to the success of
the season so far, even among game
wardens. While it is not to be ex-
pected that as many bucks will he
killed this year as there were deos
last, a fair comparison would be
with the kill two years ago; and
hunters who have come in from
some sections, especially the Seven
mountains, aver that the kill is not
as large. In the Allegheny moun-
tains, however, more deer are being
killed than have been bagged there
in a number of years. The same
condition prevails in the Barrens,
and game protector Thomas G,
Mosier expresses the belief that the
deer have flocked to the Alleghenies |
and the Barrens because of better
féeding conditions than can be found
in the Seven mountains.
‘While he. has no definite figures
Mr. Mosier estimated the kill up to
Wednesday evening at between 700
and 800 bucks, Seven bear have
been reported this week and about
twenty all told since the opening of
the bear season. So far Mr. Mosier
has record of only five illegally kill.
ed deer and he ascribes this small
percentage to the snow inthe moun-
t . - Hunters are naturally more
careful because a man who shot an
illegal deer could possibly be discov-
ered through his tracks, and no one
is taking. the chance. Two of the
hunters who made illegal kills have |
been apprehended.
The Woodward Gun club is the on-
ly organization heard of which got
the limit. Hunting in the Wood-
ward Narrows they bagged five deer
the first day by ten o’clock and got
their sixth on Tuesday morning,
breaking: camp on Wednesday. Nine-
on Monday.
%p in the Port Matilda" section of
the Allegheny mountains quite a
number of bucks were killed, among
the lucky. shots being a Mr. Kelly,
of Altoona, a member of the Gum
Spring hunting club, a fine buck;
Calvin Lykens, of Fairbrook, killed
his buck in Blue Hollow; Samuel
McMonigal and Melvin McMonigal,
day hunters, each got a buck nedr
Flat Rock; the Hannah hunting club
shot one on Monday and five on
Tuesday, making their limit; Clar-
ence Miller got his buck near Dix;
Philip Jones, of Port Matilda, bagged
a seven pointer not far from that
town, on Tuesday. Greeley Reese
shot one in Reese Hollow. ,
fails to provide adequate protection -
Joseph Seigle, of Stormstown, got
a buck on Muncy mountain, on
Tuesday. Homer Putt’s gang shot
,one at Blue Spring, near Port Ma-
going through the motions of reor- .
|
tilda. Perry Sharer one in Bell hol-
low and an unknown hunter killed
one near the Brick yard, at Port Ma-
self-confidence he paid no ' tilda.
Simon Smith, of Marengo, and A.
M. Thomas, of Cambria county, each
$129,000 appears to have openedhis got a buck near the D. R. Thomas
'eyes. So he proposes to padlock ' farm in Halfmoon township, Up in
ithe stable after the horse has been the Scotia section three deer were
stolen.
shot, on Monday, one of the lucky
The custom has been for the bu- hunters being Peter Lyons, of Cur-
| reau of animal industry of the State
Department of Agriculture to hand
|
|
tin. A number of Norristown hunt-
ers bagged two near Scotia on Tues-
to the claimant for indemnity a day.
| voucher for the amount due which,
On Monday morning Jim Miner, of
suit of agricultural industry to a being negotiable, could be cashed at | near Axe Mann, went into Gilltown
level that. will produce the greatest
amount of revenue regardless of
protection. Taxing the price of ev-
erything the farmer buys to a high
level and the things he sells to a
practically open market can afford
him no benefit. Taxing turnips at
. twenty per cent. or more is of no
value to the grower of turnips un-
;any bank. A former employee of
| the department obtained vouchers in
blank and with an accomplice
| worked the swindle successfully for
1
I
and an investigation was made. The
result is that the State is probably
|
i
|
Gap, on Nittany mountain, and bag-
ged a nice buck and was home be-
fore dinner.
The Hecla Buck and Bear club,
a period of two years. Recently one | hunting in Little Sugar valley, had
of the clerks in the department, by two fine bucks up to Tuesday even-
sheer accident, discovered the fraud ing.
W. R. Munn, of Erie, who made
his headquarters at the Brockerhoff
less there is foreign competition for out the amount obtained. An effort house, vrought in a fine six point
the market. But taxing leather,
farm implements and other commod-
ities used by farmers increases the
price to the consumer in the exact
ratio of the tax. :
When the consideration of the
tariff bill is resumed in the Senate,
probably next week, the coalition
Senators should at once declare the
purpose to equalize the benefits of
tariff taxation between agricultural
and manufacturing industries by de-
creasing the rates of all manufactur-
ed products. That will cut the price
on all commodities necessary on the
farm to a fair value, which is all
anybody or any industry has a right
to expect from legislation. Nobody
in this country has a claim on spe-
cial favors as the result of legisla-
tion, and when it is fully understood
that nobody can get special favors,
we will get better legislation from
an infinitely better type of legisla-
tors.
——When Vare’s ambitions came
into conflict with Reed's desires the
ambitions had to be sacrificed.
‘to hold the banks that cashed the ;
vouchers will be made, but one of
them having refused the responsibil
ity of all of them will depend on lit-
“igation.
; Under the system since adopted
by direction of the Governor vouch-
ers for cattle indemnity payments in
i future “will have to be accompanied
by records from the cattle indemnity
bureau.” This will make it practic-
ally impossible to impose on banks
forged vouchers and it may be as-
i sumed that this form of fraud upon
the State has been ended forever. It
is said that important changes are
. contemplated in other disbursing
agencies. The Fisher system of ac-
' counting for funds received by State
institutions has disappointed expec-
tations and the centralization of pur-
| chasing authority has not proved
| satisfactory. The next session of the
: Legislature will no doubt undertake
to correct all these faults.
——In stableizing business the ini-
: portance of the ultimate settlement
| day should not be overlooked.
buck, Tuesday - evening, which he
shot near the Sunset club, in the
Seven mountains.
The Roaring Run club, with which
Rev, Homer C. Knox and his son,
John Knox, of Harrisburg, are hunt-
ing, had five bucks up to Tuesday
evening, one of them being shot by
the younger Knox with a gun his
father gave him as a Christmas
present.
The Mexico hunting club, from
Dauphin county, had three, at last
reports, at their camp in. the Seven
mountains.
On Monday morning John Hartg.
wick went over into Decked valley
and while he didn’t get a shot at a
deer he saw two dead does that had
been shot down and left le.
Cecil Shuey, out on Dix Run on
the opening day, saw three bucks,
got two shots but failed to bring
down his buck.
Up in the Pine Grove Mills see.
tion George Wieland brought in the
first buck on Monday morning.
The Dunlap crowd got three the
first day.
R 6. 1929.
NO. 48.
The Pine Grove Rod and Gun
club two.
| The Corl-Homan gang two,
The Homan-Grenoble crowd three.
Individual hunters who got their
deer were John Neidigh John Sau-
cerman, Robert Saucerman, J. Fos-
ter Musser, Milt Heffner, Henry
Dorman, Curt Grenoble, Michaél
Barto, Wilson Henry, John Strayer,
G. W. Louck and Earl Neidigh.
The Baileyville club got the king
of all bucks, a 16-pointer, They have
3 hung up.
The Carey Shoemaker crowd 3.
one a 9-pointer.
The Dunlap crowd 4.
Hunters from Berlin, 2,
Blair Miller crowd, 3.
John Barr, of Berks county, a 4-
pointer; Dr. Dwight, of Latrobe, a
4-pointer; Paul Henry, Ben Wilson,
Melvin Peters, John Holmes, G. W.
Rossman, George Elder, Henry Eld-
er and H. A. Grubb each got one.
Samuel Lenhart, of Reading, got
one up in the Pine Grove region
while a stranger hunter
twelve pointer up near Graysville.
Books and Christmas
| Naturally as the Christmas sea-
son approaches the adult mind runs
back over the years to the time
when it, too, thrilled with expectan-
cy, like those of the youth of the
land are doing now.
Christmas means happiness and
we know of no better way of in-
suring that than to have books in
one’s home that will interest the boy
or girl and bring contentment during
the long winter evenings.
We don't mean mere fiction, nor
ponderous philosophical tomes. We
do mean stories with a human inter-
est in them and what themes pack
quite so much of that as those of the
American Indian.
Boys and girls just naturally love
tales of the mountains and plains of
the west that once was. That is
i proven by the fact that Zane Gray's
| books are the one’s most in demand
at the Bellefonte Y. library. So it
is just as natural that they should |
‘love stories of the red men who call. |
{ed those plains and mountains home.
teen bucks were shot in the Narrows
Flora Warren Seymour, an attor-
ney and a member of the U. S.
Board of Indian Commissioners, has
lived ‘among the Indians many years
and has drawn on that intimate ex.
_perience to write several of the best |
Indian story books that have been
published. “The Story of the Red
Man,” “Boy's Life of Fremont”
“Boy’s Life of Kit Carson, “The In-
dians Today” are some of her many
works that would be worth having
in your home. No better narratives
on which to feed both the young
‘and the older mind than these stor-
ies so historically accurate and so
_ charmingly told.
- Improving the Qualities of Juries
| From the Philadelphia Record.
Twelve men, none of them espe-
| cially gifted, sit in a jury box and
(listen to court proceedings.
| The evidence presented to them is
‘always conflicting, often evasive,
sometimes technical and highly in-
volved. And yet out of this mass
of conflicting statements the 12 men
are supposed to determine the facts
of the case. The verdict of the jury,
once established, becomes in the eye
of the law the concrete unassailable
truth.
There are obvious weaknesses in
(such a system. And one of the
greatest sources of criticism has
been the casual, slipshod manner in
which juries are selected and in
which talesmen whose intelligence
would be an asset to justice are
permitted to beg off on paltry ex-
cuses.
New York has begun a war on
jury “dodgers.” As a step toward a
more careful selection of the sole
judges of fact in disputed issues, the
movement is important.
One Justice sits in review upon all
the prospective jurors and listens to
excuses, The talesmen he picks are
assigned and rostered to 18 separate
courts. Dodging is reduced to the
minimum, and political intervention
cut out. Only worthy excuses are
considered.
Under this practice the jury ac-
quires a new and genuinely useful
dignity. The importance of the jur-
or’s service to the State isimpress-
ed upon the public mind.
Those Boozy Bees
From the Philadelphia Record.
Fifty hives of bees in Virginia
have been fulminated against by
Prohibitionists. Not satisfied with
pillaging sugar from a huge store
in the Army base, where New
York speculators have hoarded it
in hope of a tariff raise and prof-
it, they have turned it into alco-
holic honey.
| “Customers are so pleased with
i the product of these Satanic in-
| sects that the bee raiser is swamp-
jed with orders. The Federal At-
; torney has looked into his books,
but can’t find any law to invoke
against bees. Since the process of
| fermentation has been solemnly ad-
i judged a crime, not take a
leaf from the dry act enforcers?
Bullets won't do, but a whiff of
gas will work wonders.
shot a
1
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONR
—Patrolman Silas Yimin, 42, of the
stadium on Thanskgiving day a few min-
utes before the start of the Pitt-Penn
State game. A doctor said he had suf-
i fered a cerebral hemorrhage.
{ —Five hundred Christmas dinners will
be given to the needy of Lewistown and
| vicinity by the Salvation Army, accords
jing to an announcement made by Come
mandant and Mrs. J. Orborne, in charge
i of the Army's work there. Contributions
| toward this work are being solicited by
. the Salvation Army workers. -
—Although the canning season for the
| average farm housewife is far past, it is
j but nicely under way for Mrs. Wil-
liam Adams, of Stillwater, Columbia
county. She found a market for canned
| vegetables which can be put up from
those saved during the summer and fall
and began canning them. The demand
grew so rapidly that she is far behind
her orders. Her husband has a large
truck farm.
—Hard times have hit the farm belt in
the northern tier counties and recently
thirty-four farms were sold in one day
by the Federal Land bank, of Baltimore,
in the court house at Towanda. They in-
cluded over 5000 acres and the average
price was about $8 an acre. Many of the
farms are now unoccupied, but most of
them had good buildings, The sale at-
tracted one of the largest crowds ever
, gathered there.
: | Pittsburgh ‘police, dropped dead at the
{
—More than 116,000 specimens from all
' kinds of animals, both wild and domestic
have been received and examined so far
this year in the bureau of animal indus-
try laboratory of the Pennsylvania De_
partment of Agriculture. This pains-tak-
ing work, conducted by trained veter-
inarians, 4s one of the first essentials in
the State's effective effort toward the
prevention and control of transmissible
livestock and poultry diseases.
—Professor A. J. Wood, head of the
department of mechanical engineering at
Pennsylvania Statte College, will retire
from the presidency of the American So-
ciety of Refrigerating Engineers with the
delivery of the president's address at the
twenty-fifth annual meeting in New York
city Friday night. Having brought to a
successful culmination the formulation
and adoption of a safety code in the in-
dustry, Professor Wood refused nomina-
i tion for another term.
i —A week after he had been freed on
' parole from the penitentiary where he
had served nine years of a ten to thirty
years sentence, Charles F. Toomey, em-
bezzler of $330,000, died on Sunday of
pneumonia at his home in Philadelphia.
Freedom which had come to him on the
seventh attempt to gain it through leni-
ency of authorities, was his only for a
day after his release from the York
county jail to which he had been remov-
ed three years ago from the Eastern
State Penitentiary after his health broke.
—During the last three months the
claims for bounty have increased 50 per
cent. over the corresponding period last
year, the State Board of Game Commis-
sioners has announced. The increase is
chiefly due to the large number of wea-
sels being reecived, although gray foxes
are also being received in considerable
numbers. Seven goshawks were received
{ from the northern part of the State dur-
| ing the last week and, as the weather be-
comes colder, more are expected. Unless
I.
—Richard Wilson,
lieves in making right those he wrong-
| ed by apologizing to them. He so prom-
ised alderman Jacob Stager at a hearing
"on a charge of disturbing a religious
| service. In the midst of a funeral serv.
ice recently in Shiloh Baptist church
. Wilson berated the dead man and insult-
ed other persons in the church. He told
the alderman that he would apologize to
the members of the congregation at the
next service. As soon as Wilson does
this and pays the costs of prosecution
the charge against him will be dropped.
—Unconscious for three days, Clarence
Ashburn, 22 years old Phoenix Utility
company lineman, of Regina, Va., died
from shock and electrical burns at the
Harrisburg hospital early Tuesday morn-
ing. He was fatally injured Saturday
while working on a 3300 volt power line
at White Hill, near Harrisburg. Ash-
burn was on the pole when his hands
accidentally touched a high power wire
and the shock threw him forward against
the pole his back striking the high ten-
sion line. Held by his safety belt, he was
taken down by fellow workmen and re-
vived by artificial respiration.
—Real cause for Thanksgiving came
to Charles G. Hendricks, of Selinsgrove,
when he was informed that settlement
would be made in full immediately for
his claim of $30,000 for materials supplied
seven years ago for building the five-mile
link of the Susquehanna trail adjoining
Selinsgrove to the South. The contract-
ors failed and the bonding company con-
tested the claim through county and
Federal courts and circuit Court of Ap-
peals. Decision in favor of Hendricks was
given in each of those tribunals and the
corporate surety has decided to abide by
the verdicts to pay principal and interest
to Hendricks.
—The scantily clad body of a woman
was found, on Monday, on a road near
Fairview, west of Erie, and in front of
a public garage. The body, that of a
woman about 40 years old, was still
warm when William Uhr and Ralph Oliv-
er discovered it. A woman's footprints
were in the snow near the body, but
there were no other marks about. Uhr
and Oliver said there were no automobile
tracks on the highway. A woman's coat
was found 200 feet from the body and a
shoe was found nearby. The woman
wore a gold circlet similar to a wedding
ring. The investigating officers said the
woman apparently had been attacked.
—State employees breathed a sigh of
relief on Monday when they learned that
a fire which broke out in the Packard
automobile presented to General Edward
Martin, Republican State chairman, by
the Republican State committee caused
only slight damage. The car was paid
for out of the $67,000 surplus from the
campaign assessments levied on State
employees by the State committee last
year to finance the Presidential campaign
in Pennsylvania. Fire was discovered in
the ignition system of the car, on Mon-
day, near Amity Hall, while the machine
was going east. The chauffeur extin-
guished the blaze with a hand extin-
guisher. A report quickly spread through
the State capitol that the car had been
destroyed and some of the employees
were worried for fear another assessment
might be levied to replace fit.
a ‘record bounty season is expected.
of York, Pa., be-
too many deep snows occur this winter ai