THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. STRONGEST BANK Capital 9100,000. Undivided Profits S30.000. First National Bank, or J5XOQMSHURG: PA. MAKE NO MISTAKE BUT DEPOSITYOUR SAV INGS IN THE STRONGEST BANK. O F F I V K 11 H : '.V. M. Low, President. J. M. Slaver, Vice President. IL li. Tustiu, Vice President. K. F. Oupi'iitor, Cashier DIHKCTOUS! M, Low, F. G. Ynrk, .It, TiiHtln, FriMUkcliT, J. M StUVlT, M. I. Low, THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED i8fi6. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, Established 1837. CnNsm inAi ei 1809 PUBI.ISIIKIEVERV Tlll-RSDAY MOKNINO, At Blojmslmrg, the County Scat of Columbia County, Pennsylvania. CEO. E. EI.W'ELL, Editor. GEO. C. ROAN, Eokemas. Vkrms! Inside the county $ 1.00 a year In. advance; $1,501 f not paid in arivance. OttHiile thecounty, l.2S a year, strictly in Advance. All communications should leaddresscd THE CCH.VMMAN, Woomslmr;, Pa. THl'HSDA Y, Jl'NFi 27, 1!7 WASHINGTON From our Kecular Correspondent. Washington, D. C. June 2 ; 1907. In spite of the circumstantial re port that Ambassador Aoki of Japan was about to he recalled, official confirmation is lacking. It is known that Ambassador Aoki has a num ber of enemies at the Japanese couit and he has been put in a very embarrassing position, at least it would be embarrassing for a Cau cassian, in having to report one ' .g to his government and see the . ninent give out an entirely ; eut report to the public. This the case in the killing of the r.iese poachers on the Island of . I'aul and in some of the Japan ic troubles that have occurred on the Pacific coast. Since the report of his recall, the Japanese foreign office has kept quiet, neither con firming nor denying the report, and at the Japanese Embassy here, the Ambassador has denied himself to all newspaper callers and explained through his secretary that it is im possible for him to talk on any sub ject even the weather. As matters have developed, the Commissioner of Pensions seems to be doing a very thorough job of cleaning up land bounty grafters who have for years been fattening at the expense of the old pensioners. About six months ago, the Com missioner began to be aware of what was common knowledge in Wash ington for years, that there was a regular business being carried on in speculating in land bounty war rants. As many people do not seem familiar with the law, it may be worth while to explain that sol diers, their widows and tlv.-ir heirs of all the wars prior to March 1855, are entitled to a bounty of 160 acres of government land in addition to their pension. This is right enough il the old soldiers or their widows get it. But there have been many pension agents who have made a practice of hunting up pensioners who had not claimed their land bounty, putting the claim through for them and then buying the war rant from them cheaply as possible and selling it to the highest bidder. There was a regular market in land script, and a warrant for 160 acres was worth from $700 to $750. They were mostly sold to the big timber and mineral land companies. The attorneys used to get them from the pensioners to whom they were issued for from $75 upward. They usually represented that the bounty was worth nothing after it was ob tained, and Otis firm disbarred last week, was alleged to have made $100,000 out of dealing in land script alone. In fact they did noth ing else. There were many pitiful cases unearthed in which old sol diers and their widows had been shamelessly robbed and in some cases the pension firms would even have executors appointed for dead soldiers who had neither heirs nor widows. Some firms have been dis barred from practice belore the In terior Department, and a number of others are now under investigation. Any who have been dishonestly treated by their attorneys can pre sent their cases to the Commis IN THE COUNTY Surplus $150,000. Prank lkeler, ieo. S. Holililiin, Joseph Haiti, H. ('. I'rousv, H. V. 1 lower. Louis (irons, sioner of Pensions and they will be fairly investigated. The officers of the government who are willing to sacrifice them selves on the altar of their country by taking a vacation at the sea shore during the hot weather, are beginning to flit out of Washing ton. Secretary Metcalf of the Na vy Department has just started on his summer vacation for the Pacific Coast. His home is out there, but he is going to investigate labor con ditions and work in the shipyards, so it is quite possible he will be able to charge the trip up to the government. There has been trou ble about warship building on the Pacific coast sure enough. The price of labor and material has ad vanced enoimously, the former ow ing to the exactions of the labor unions, and the Union Iron Works which mad ' a world wide reputa tion in building the battleship Ore gon, has notified the Navy Depart ment that it will be impossible for it to accept any more government contracts. This is annoying as it had been intended to have one of the two 20,000 ton battleships built on the Pacific coast. The Secreta ry intends to inspect the ship yards and will be in a better position then to say if there is any remedy for the present condition. The trial of Edwin S.' Holmes, formerly associate statistician of the Department of Agriculture, is proceeding. Holmes was the sta tistician under whom the famous "leak" in the cotton crop statistics occurred. According to the evi dence now being given in court, it would seem that Mr. Holmes ought to be sent to the insane asylum in stead of the penitentiary for not making more than he did out of his information. He was practically in sole charge of the cotton crop re port tor a longtime and manipulat ed it to suit the needs of his c:ients who were playing the market. He had a sure thing and if he wanted to be crocked at all, it would seem that he might have made millions just as easily as he made thousands. The testimony shows that he was selling information to three or four New York cotton brokers and tak ing a rake off on their winnings. He seems to have been a modest young man and was satisfied with a small share of the profits. He made from $40,000 to $60,000 at a stroke but this seems mere chicken feed to what he might have made with the information at his com mand. It looks from the present testimony as though Mr. Holmes had profited from his dishonesty in very homeopathic doses. It ought to be good news to all cities of any size that there is a fair prospect of the railroad smoke nui sance being abolished. The Geo logical Survey has been working on the problem along with its other My Hair Ran Away Don't have a falling out with your hair. It might leave you! Then what? That would mean thin, scraggly, uneven, rough hair. Keep your hair at home I Fasten it tightly to your scalp! You can easily do it with Ayer's Hair Vigor. It is something more than a simple hair dress ing. It is a hair medicine, a hair tonic, a hair food. 1 Tho best kind of a testimonial " Sold for oyer sixty years." A Mad hv J. O. AjT Co., Lowell, Han mo uauiuAoiuror or SAKSAPAKILU. PILLS. CIIEKKY PECTORAL, yers FOR STATE TREASURER, John G. Harm.in W.ll bo Named by Slato Convention. The Democratic Stale Convention in session at Ilartisbtirg today, will nominate our dislinguislied cuixn, Hon. John G. ILirmaii for the of fice of State Treasurer. No one else is talked of, and unless some thing unforeseen occurs, he will be noniinr.tcd. Mr. llarman attracted state-wide attention in the legisla ture by his fight for reform, a id by his able speeches. He has not sought the office, and if it comes to him it will come without any solic itation 011 his part. Treasurer Berry will be tempo rary and permanent chairman of the convention. He spent most of his tune yesterday 111 company with Colonel Jan-es M. Guffey, State Chairman Charles P. Donnelly and ex-State Chairman J. K. P. Hall. Mr. Berry's speech will be aimed to spread a belief that there would have been a poor chance of an 1111 covering of the Capitol thieves if the Democratic party, aided by honest Republicans had not elected its State Treasurer candidate. The Berry speech will also review the revelations of the robberies commit ted under their noses, if not with the connivance of Republican State officers, and will be, in connection with the platform, the key-note of the approaching State campaign. We will print it in full next week. 1 lie platform will deprecate Re publican Machine attempts to throw dust into the eyes of the robbed taxpayers by booming a Presiden tial candidate and eulogizing Roose velt. As to the deductions from the Capitol probing, there will be a demand for Congressman Cassell's resignation, a severe condemnation of the Auditor General's depart ment and a demand upon the pres ent State Administration for speedy prosecution, criminally and civilly, of the Capitol grafters. Unequal and unnecessary taxa tion, causing the huge .surplus of State funds 111 banks especially fa vored by Machine politicians, will be denounced in the platform. It will contain strong anti-lrust dec larations and will condemn the Re publican majority of the Legisla ture for killing billot reforms in the last session. The defeat of the McCord bill, for a popular vote at the primaries upon United States Senatorial candidates, will also be condemned. Insufficiency of the fines for violations of the railroad laws recently passed will be de nounced. It will be pointed out that if so much of the public funds had not been stolen it would not be necessary to ignore the civil war veterans in the present appropria tions. Columbia Park in Gala Attire. Columbia park at Lime Ridge, is now running full blast and there are but few parks of its size in Cen tral Pennsylvania that are so well equipped to accommodate a large crowd as is this place. J. W. Peifer, the manager, has had erected two new cottages and these together with the other buildings will shel ter a crowd of 4000 in case of rain. Fine flower beds have been laid out and present a very beautiful appearance. Scattered around through the grove are benches and tables which are used for basket picnics, while a new dining room large enough to accommodate 100 persons, has recently been erected for picnickers who wish dinners prepared on the grounds. Almost every day there are sev eral private parties on the grounds, and Mr. Peifer already has a large number of picnics booked for the present season, the parties coming from Danville, Bloonisburg, Cata wissa and Berwick. Last summer there were picnics at the park every day, many of the Sunday schools from this section having their annual outinsrs at Col umbia park, and the booking this year includes almost all of the institutions that picnicked at the park last summer, which alone speaks well for Columbia park. Mr. Bittenbender, the assistant, is a hustler, and it is largely due to his efforts that 'he amusements are so popular. fuel investigations and has found that briquettes made of the slack coal from the mines mixed with a little coal tar will burn iu a locomo tive without smoke and really fur nish more steam than ordinary coal. The reason that they have not been more generally used heretofore is that there has not been enough margin of profit in making bri queues. But since they furnish a good smokeless fuel, there is a fair probability that their use will be taken up by the railroads within the limits of large cities and thus a large part of the city smoke nui sance will be done away with. TOO OFFICIOUS. Last Week's Milton Standard At this distance it looks as though there was a deputy fish warden named Holland down the line who ought to be fired. The other day a Georgetown ,man gave Deputy Sheriff Deppi 11 : box if fish to bring up to Sunbury for the sick wife of n friend. The deputy sher iff handed the box over to two young men who were on the train coining up to tlie county seat. Deputy 1'ish Warden Holland was also on th; train, and nosed about the box and discovered that it con tained suine sun fish. He immedi ately arrested the innocent young men and manacled them. Not withstanding their explanation and that of the deputy sheriff he march ed them through the streets of Sun bury, handcuffed, to the office ot 'Squire Carpenter, who as soon as he heard the story, released the boys, who were greatly mortified and jusily indignant. The enforce ment of the game laws suffers more se! backs fioin the indifcrctious ot nincompoops who hold war.'.ens' commissions and are clothed with authority than from those who vio late their provisions. This case is a fair sample. Somebody ought to be held responsible for such an out age. JAILED FOR ILLEGAL FISHING. George E. Riley, the Wilkes- Barre fish and game warden, charged with catching 130 trout under legal size, and sentenced lo spend 1300 days in jail, must serve his sentence. Rilev was 'arrested several weeks ago by members of the .State Constabulary on the charge of having sold to the Mer chants' Club, of Wilkes-Barre, 130 trout under the legal size. He was given a hearing belore Alderman Pollock, who fined him $10 for each fish, making a tctal of $1300. Riley refused to pay the same, and then le Alderman sentenced linn lo serve 1300 days in the county jail, one day for each dollar fine. Rilev took an appeal from the Alderman's judgment and on this appeal the argument was held on Saturday before Judge Ferris, who dismissed the appeal, affirmed the judgment of the Alderman and directed that Riley must serve the sentence im posed by the Alderman. The Sheriff took charge of Riley and escorted him to jail. State Teachers' Association Presents a Splendid Program. The Pennsylvania Slate Educa tional Association will hold its an nual meeting at Greensburg, July, 2, 3 and 4, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week. It promises to be a most profitable and enjoyable session. Among those wdio will take part on the program are Hon. Henry Ilouck, Harris burg; Dr. E. T. Jeffers, York; Dr. J. D. Moffat, President Washing ton and Jefferson College; Miss Ol ive Jones, Principal of Schools for Chronic Truants and Incorrigibles, New York City; Supt. Eli M. Rapp, Berks county; Gen. James A. Bea ver, Bellefonte, Acting President State College; Librarian Geo. II. Lamb, Braddok, and Bishop John H. Vincent. Chautauqua, N. Y. Splendid programs have been ar ranged for round table conferences by the Department of Child Study, Department of Nature Study, De partment of High Schools, Kinder garten Department and Manual Training Department. The music will be a feature of the program. Iu addition to noted singers from Pittsburg and vicinity, Mile. Regi na Arta, of the Manhattan Opera, New York, will be present the en tire session. Mile. Arta is the ar tiste so often mentioned through out the State by Hon. Henry Houck 111 his lectures upon his trip abroad. This meeting should be well attended. Executive Committee, Pennsylvania State Educational Association TWENTIETH CENTURY SITY. NECES- A cood fountain pen is a twenti eth century necessity. The Phila delphia Press offers a 14-karat gold joutiraiu pen wortn 2.50 and a year's subscription to The Philadel phia Daily Press, (both worth $5.50) for $3.50. Send $3.50- to The Philadelphia Press and get The Daily J'ress one year and a guar- auteect tountain pen. rr TWO PIECE SUITS! LIGHT WEIGHT BLUE SERGE COATS FOR SUMMER WEAR. ' T o :w bob mas THE EXTRAORDINARY X3ST Summer Wash Suits If you'll come in and let us show you these new and delightful WASH SUITS, we promise you a most enjoya ble hour. By far the greatest selection tc be found anywhere in this section comprising all the newest fads and fancies in Lawns, Shrunken Muslin, Fine Swisses, Batiste and Fine Persian Lawns. The prices range from $2.00 to $17.50. In the same showing you will find a beautiful array of Shirt Waists and Separate Skirts in all the newest styles and best fabrics at moderate prices. But whether it be Suit or Skirt, Shirt Waists or mate rials to make, you owe it to yourself to COME and SEE before buying. A GLANCE AT THE SUITS At $5.00 Dotted Swiss Suits with different colors in floral designs, Lingerie waists with Dutchess ef fects, trimmed with Ger man Lace and Insertion. At $5.98--Suits of fine Lawn Lingerie waists, tucked and trimmed with fillet lace, full skirt, with rows of fillet lace insertion. At $5.98 A Jumper suit of light blue Batiste beau tifully made and a very stylish suit. Many of the popular suits in all the dif ferent colorings are shown from 5 to 5.75. At $8.00 Princess Suit of fine white Lawn, beauti fully sherred and trimmed with cluny lace. F, P. BLOOMSBURG, Cut off that cough f and prevent CI bronchitu and The world's Standard Ttt. J t for this kind of weather. It is really too hot to think of a vest. Don't fail to look over our line of TWO PIECE SUITS before you take your vacation. They will more than repay you in comfort for the price you pay. STORE. acne sasssEfsnaaaaa THE WHITE DRESS, SKIRTS Larger variety better values than ever, in a wide range of prices from $1.00 to 4.50. We mention a few ; At $1.00 Nine gored skirt of Shrunken Muslin, pleated at each seam, panel effect. At $1.25 Linen finished shrunken muslin skirt, u gored, trimmed with straps of same material. At $1.98--Skirt of fine quality, White Lawn tuck ed at yoke, knee and bot tom. At $3.00 Skirt of fine Linenette--strap trimming and inverted pleats. At $4.50 White skirt of fine all Linen seven gores pleated. PURSEL PENN'A. with oneumnnijr G it of your droft and keep h ahr.7. y in ti hou. '
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