THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBUfcA
THE COLUML1 AN,
BI.OOMSHURO, I'A.
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State
Has No Money for Tensions
Nor Big Road.
Chairman ol Approprialiom Commlttco tayt
Sta'e Hat But $44,000,000 to Meet
Request lor $82,427,590.
Some of the large appropriation
measures introduced in the present
kKislature, including Gov. Stuart's
bill providing for a State highway
connecting Philadelphia, on the
east, with Pittsburg, on the west,
tnd carrying an npproptialion of
$5,000,000; the Reyburn soldiers'
pension bill, w ith its accompanying
appropriation of nearly $3.ooj,ooo,
will fail of passage because the
present jcvenues of the State are
insufficient to finance these pro
jects. The defeat of these and many
other appropriation measures is
foreshadowed in an interview given
out by James F. Woodward, of
Allegheny, chairman of the house
appropriation committee.
Mr. Woodward's Summary.
It appears from Mr. Woodward's
summary of the conditions that
confront his committee that $27,
500,000 will be required for the
general appropriation bill, as
against $25,500,000 required of the
last legislature, that $54 927.5P s
asked for purposes aside from the
Capitol Park extension, the public
schools appropriation, soldiers'
pension, highway across the State
propositions and bills providing for
the ourchase of forestry reserva
tions,, lands, hospitals and homes,
monuments and memorials and the
improvement of waterways and
other measures, which bring the
total amount requested up to $82,-
427.590. , ,
To meet these demands there
will be only from $42,000,000 to
44,000,000 available. Consequent
ly it is easy to figure what is going
to happen to many of the bills that
have been seut to Chairman Wood
ward's committee.
$15, 000,000 For School. System.
In addition to the appropriation
to meet the fixed charges of the
various State departments, about
che only thing that is certain is
.hat the committee will provide
$15,000,000 for the State's public
school system. This is ilv; amount
?iven the schools by the last legis
ature. In his summary of conditions,
Sir. Woodward said:
Estimates Still To Come.
"Up to date the estimates fur
nished by the various departments
f the State government for the
general appropriation bill amount
:o about $24,000,000. There are
et to come to us for the general
appropriation bill from the depart
nents between $3,000,000 and $4,
xx 000. From present indications
:he general appropriation bill this
ear will reach about $27,5fK),ooo
or the next two years.
"The items in this bill include
ippropriations for the executive de
larttnent, the attorney general's de
artment, the State treasury, secre
ary of internal affairs, department
f health, State highway depart-
nent, department of State, fish and
;ame commission, department of
nines, auditor general's department
md the State police, as well as the
alar es and expenses necessary
o the conduct of the present ses
ion of the legislature, the judiciary
nd various other commissions and
departments of the State govern
-nent.
Applications All Around.
"In addition up to date we have
pplications for $54,927,590.32.
vhich include the support of the
iational guard, appropriations for
he care of the indigent insane, the
arious penal and educational in
titutions and reformatories, aside
rom the public schools, the Capi
1 Park extension bill, soldiers'
jensions bill, and bills providing
or the extension of the State high
ways, the purchase of forestry res
:rvatiou lands, for the various bos
litals, homes, etc., and for monu
ments and memorials and for the
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Catarrh Cure.
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improvement of the various water
ways of the State for protection
from floods.
"This brings the request approp
riations np to a total of $82.4:7.
590.32. The maximum amount
which can be appropriated for
these various purposes amounts to
from $42,000,000 to $44,000,000,
approximately one-half of the
amount asked for. It will not be
hard to figure that something is
going to happen.
"There can be 110 cut in the ap
propriations for the fixed charges
of conducting the State govern
ment. The things that the commit
tee will first take care of will be
the State's charitable and penal
institutions.
"After that will be considered
the question of good roads; then
the various charitable, educational
and elemosynary institutions, and
lastly, such propositions as monu
ments, memorials, etc-, for which,
it seems to me, there will be very
little money at this time.
Fifteen million dollars will be
appropriated for the public schools
ot the State, the same as two years
ago. What will be done with the
proposed new State highway, the
soldiers' pension bill, for which
nearly three million dollars is
asked, and the Capitol Park exten
sion bill are yet matters to be de
termined by the surplus over com
pulsory appropriations. The road
proposition is also a matter of care
ful consideration."
Claim To Burn Culm.
Company Siyt ItHai Found the lor Coal
Watte.
With strike rumors rife which !
would necessarily mean a shortage !
in the supply of mined anthracite,
the perfection of a plan to use culm
as a substitution as perfected by
the Lehigh Coal & Navigation '
Company, is announced. For years i
almost every coal company in the !
region ras been experimenting with
coal briquettes, but it remained for
this company to claim a success.
Ihe bnquetts manufactured by
this company are about the size
and shape of an egg. They are
composed of almost 90 per cent
coal dirt, and about 10 per cent
coal tar. Just what other ingre
dients are used in very small
amounts is not announced.
The plant where these briquettes
re manufactured is located at
Hauto, Schuylkill county, and has
a capacity of one carload a day, the
output being shipped to Philadel-
phia. If these briquettes can be
mauufactured at a low cost it will
mean tnat tne culm, which for
years has been thrown on the banks '
as useless, will become a valuable
asset.
The Susquehanna shad fishermen
have hopes of one more season's
catch. It is understood that the ice
and high water of the winter have
damaged the cribbing at the Mc
Call's Ferry power plant to such
an extent that it will be possible
for fish to pass through and swim
upstream as far as formerly. It has
beeu generally supposed that fish
ing for shad, salmon and bass above
McCall's Perry was at au end with
the erection of the dam. The fish
ermen are overjoyed with the pros
pect of again being able to enjoy
their favorite pastime. The fisher
men near Sheuk's Ferry and down
the river bttween Wrightsville and
the dam, are making an effort to
ave the. Power company postpone
its repairs until
the close of the
fishing season.
Card Signs For Sale.
The following printed card signs
are kept in stock at the Columbian
Office:
No Admittance.
For Sale.
This Property for Sale.
This Property for Rent.
This Room for Rent.
Post No Bills.
Keep off the Grass, and others.
Window Cards, Step Cards, Trol
ley Advertising Cards, and Card
Signs of any kind, up to 22 by 28
incnes in size, white or
I printed on short notice.
colors,
tf.
Pennsylvania Forests Endangered.
Prompt and Effective Legislation May Pre
vent Timber Famine.
The Pennsylvania Legislature
has an opportunity to set a new
high-water mark for the State of
Pennsylvania in advanced forestry
legislation by the passage of a bill
introduced by Hon. Edgar R. Kiess,
known as House Bill No. 226 and
designed to "regultte the manage
ment of timber lands iu the com
monwealth for the purpose of pre
venting floods and droughts, con
serving the water supply and se
curing favorable conditions of water
flows." It delegates to the Depart
ment of Forestry the power to make
and enforce reasonable regulations
for the cutting of timber and for
the occupancy of timber lands.
The bill will crystalize all previ
ous state forestry legislation and
make possible the actual conserva
tion of the forests of the state.
Startling facts concerning the de
pletion of the forests are being set
forth by those active in urging the
passage of the bill. The State De
partment of Forestry says that at
the present rate of cutting, the sup
ply of mature and mercantile timber
iu Pennsylvania will be exhausted
within 8 years, and while the cut
ting of such timbsr is going on,
there is still the same old-time dis
regard of the future value of young
timber. It is beuig sacrificed with
no regard to future needs. By the
terms of the Kiess bill the State
Forestry Department will have ab
solute power to say what timber
shall be cut and what shall not.
Such a bill will reflect in the high
est degree the most advanced ideas
of the principle of conservation now
so prominently before the Ameri
can people. Its passage is being
urged by individuals and associa
tions alive to the danger that threat
ens the state in the decimation of
its forests and who appreciate the
possibilities of checking by wise
legislation their ruthless destruc
tion. It rests with the people of
the state to insist that the legisla
ture take favorable action at its
present session for the forests, it
is not a matter of sentiment, but
one affecting the material prosperi
ty of Pennsylvania.
The April Llppincott's.
Spring has officially arrived, and
all the earth is athrob with new
life and renewed vigor. Even in
reading matter the demand is now
for something stirnna. livelv. with
plenty of action in it. These re
quirements are admirably fulfilled
by the April Lippincott s. its most
important feature is perhaps the
complete novel, "The Clue," by
Carolyn Wells. This is a detective
story, and no better one has ap-
peared in a long time. The plot is
based on trie murder ot a young
heiress on the eve of her wedding
day, and the subsequent efforts to
apprehend the guilty party. Var
ious persons are suspected in turn,
but not until the services of the
detective. Fleming Stone, are en
listed is the mystery solved. Flem
ing Stone, by the way, figured
prominently in a previous detective j
story by this author-" A Chain of
evidence, also publisned in itp-
pincotts Magazine. It is not too
much to say that Miss Wells has
never written anything better than
The Clue." The plot is markedly
ingenious, the denouement unex-
pected, the characters ably drawn.
and the whole tale brimful of ac
tion, keeping che reader's interest
keyed up to the highest pitch. Yet
while it is strongly dramatic
throughout, the tale is not charac
terized by unrelieved gloom, a
charming love story aad many
touches of humor serving to enliven
it.
Among the short stories,' Augus
ta Kortrecht's "The Little Fat
Skeleton" stands out prominently,
being joth novel and humorous.
Woman Disposes," by George
Allan England, is another remark
able tale. Others worthy of special
mention are "The Captain's
Charm." by Anne Warner; "The
Freight That Went South," by
Caroline Lockhart; "Miss Cluny
of Cartmel," by Will Levington
Comfort; and "The Apparition,"
Dy una Wheeler Wilcox
Harvey B. Bashore contributes
a serious but interesting paper en
titled "In the Day of the Cave
Men." This is the only specia!
arti:le m the number, except for
three brief ones In the
Ways of
I the Hour" department-"The
Western Story," by Ellis O. Tones
A Fresh Calamity," by Clifford
Howard; and "Open Faced Di
plomacy," by Phil Collom.
Poetry by Josephine Morris Ro
wan, Caroline Wood Morrison
Dixie Wolcott, and Francis Mar
quette, and the sixteen-page bum
orous section, "Walnuts and
Wine," complete the number.
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SHERIFF'S SALE.
By virtue of sundry writs of Fieri Fa
cins issued out of the Court of Common
Fleas of Columbia County. Pennsylvan
ia, and to 111c directed, there will be sold
at public wile at the Court House in the
Sheriff's Office, in the Town of Bloomb
burg, county and Btate aforesaid, 011
SATURDAY, APRIL 3. 1909.
at 1 o'clock P. M., the following de
scribed real estate :
All that certain piece, parcel and
tract of land situate in the township of
Sugar loaf, county of Columbia and state
of Pennsylvania, and bounded and de
scribed as follows, to-wit :
BcginniiiK at a post on the line of
land between Mary A. Meeker and land
of I. I. Fritz; thence south nine and
one-half degrees west thirty-four rods to
a post; thence by land of J. P. Fritz
south thirty-six degrees, cast six and
one half rods to a post ; thence north
seventy-three degrees, east seven and
eight tenths rods to a stone ; thence
north three degrees west thirty-four rods
to a stone ; thence north eighty degrees
west nine and one-tenth rods to the
placf! of beginning, containing
TWO ACRES AND EIGHTY
RODS
of land be the same more or less.
It being the same premises which
Mary A. Meeker and husband by deed
dated September 1, irjoo, and recorded
in the Recorder's Office at Bloomsburg,
Pa. conveyed unto the Pennsylvania
Copper and Mining Company, and
whereon is erected a
LARGE FRAME BUILDING
for use as a copper smelter, together
with fixtures and machinery therein con
tained consisting of engine, boiler and
copper smelting machinery.
Seized, taken in execution at the suit
of M. P. Shoemaker and others use vs.
The Pennsylvania Copper and Mining
Company, and at the suit of William
Faulds vs. the Pennsylvania Copper and
Mining Co-apany.of Central. Pa., and to
be sold as the property of the Pennsyl
vania Copper and Mining Company.
CHARLES B. ENT,
Wu.mam Chrisman, Sheriff.
J. II. Maize
Attorneys. 3-1 i-3t
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
Notice U hereby Riven, that the
undersigned Auditor appointed by
the Orphans' Court of Columbia county
tn mala d iat rlhllt.inll of t lift flll.llsill
the hands of the Administrator of
Daniel J. Sullivan late or UloomsuurK,
fVlnmliin f "Vlintv. PMltlA. dtHPflfU'd. to
and among the parties legally entitled
thereto, will sit to discharge the duties
ot his apioiuiment, at nut omctj 111 wie
Town of Bloomsburg, on Friday, April
2nd, 1900, at 10 o'clock a. 111. of said
day when and where all parties Inter
ested or having claims agaii st said
estate, must appear and present the
same, 01 he forever debarred from
sharing in said fund.
John O. Freeze.
Auditor.
March 9, 1909. t. a.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
Please take notice that the undersign
ed Auditor, appointed by the Orphans'
Court of Columbia County to make dis
tribution of the funds in the hands of
the Executor of William L. Hirlinger.
late of said county, deceased, to and
among the parties legally entitled there
to, will sit to discharge the duties of his
appointment, at the office of Fred Ikeler
Esq., in the First National Bank build
ing in the town of Bloomsburg, on Wed
nesday, March 31st., 1900. at two o'clock
P. M.t when and where all parties inter
ested, or having claims against said es
tate, must appear and present the same,
or be forever prevented from sharing in
said fund
FRANK IKELER,
Auditor.
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