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F.. W. M.Low. President.
James M.S'a vtr, Vice Pre-idel: t .
ID I RECTORS:
lamp M. Stavtr,
Fr-d Ikeler,
M. 'J. Creasy.
:iinton Herring,
E. W.M.Low.
F. G. York,
Lou i Gross,
M. FJStacknousf.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED t86(.
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E.TAbl.ISHED 1837. CONSOl.IDAltr.lS69
Published Every Thursday Morntso,
At Blojmsburg, :'ne County Seat ot
Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 4, 1009
CAPITAL SCANDAL THREE YEARS
OLD.
Approaching TnJ of Architect Hus
ton Renews Public Interest in
Famous "Graft' Case.
The affair of the Pennsylvania
State Capitol, which is about to re
new its appeal to public attention
through fixing of the trial of Jos
eph M. Hustou, architect, to begin
November 29, has been draggiug
along for three years.
It was in the gubernatorial cam
paign of 1906 that Stale Treasurer
Berry sprung the charge that graft
had figured in the equipment of the
big building, and that instead of
its having cost $4,000,000, the sura
appropriated by the Legislature to
"complete the Capitol, more than
twice that amount had been ex
pended on it. Berry's information
was fragmentary, as even be did
not suspect at the time that actual
ly $9, 000, coo hid been paid out for
unishiug and furnishing the build
ing, in addition to the $4,000,000
spent for the structure itself.
On taking office the beginning of
the following year Governor Stuart
asked the Legislature to authorize
an investigation, and Senators Fish
er, Sisson and Dewalt, and Repre
sentatives Fair, Shields, Dearden
and Ammerman were named. James
Scarlet, of Danville, and James A.
Stranahan, of Harrisburg, were ap
pointed counsel, and on February
4, 1907, the commission began its
work.
The probe lasted six mouths,
during which time auditors aud ex
perts went over every foct of the
building and its contents, and the
voluminous records involved, and
the commission examined 18S wit
nesses on the stand. The commis
sion held 60 executive sessions and
48 public hearings, and on August
16 reported to the Governor, urg
ing criminal and civil prosecutions
of the guilty parties.
un aepiemoer 3 warrants were
served on 13 persons, and on Sep
tember 28 the Dauphin County
Grand Jury returned true bills for
conspiracy against Contractor San
derson, ex-Auditor General Snyder,
ex-State Treasurer Mathues,' ex
Superintendent Shumaker, Archi
tect Huston, Assistant Architect
Lewis, Traveling Auditor Irvine,
Congressman Cassel and Sander
son's bronze company partners,
Kinsman, Boileau, Neiderer and
Storm. Charles G. Wetter, of the
firm of George F. Payne & Co.,
contractors for the main building
was indicted for false pretense.
Payne also was indicted.
Death has been busy with the
defendants, Sanderson, Mathues
and Payne having passed awav.
Irvine was sent to an asvlum soon
after the trial bean.
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V E It S :
Myron I. Low, Vier President.
Frank Ikeler, Cashier
Myron I. Low,
II. V.Hower.
Frank Ikeler.
The first case was called to trial
January 27, 1508, the defendants
being Sanderson, Huston, Snyder,
Mathues and Shumaker. Conspir
acy was alleged in a bill of $53,
318.60 for tables and chairs, the al
leged fraud amounting to $19,000.
The Commonwealth agreed to a
severance for Huston, believing be
would take the stand as a State
witness and tell what he knew. He
refused to do so, however. The
other four were found guilty March
15. A motion for a new trial was
refused December 13 and the de
fense appealed to the Superior
Court. Meantime the four defend
ants were sentenced to two years in
prison and $500 fine.
In July last the Superior Court
affirmed the decision of the Dauph
in County Court. On the 22nd of!
that month the Supreme Court j
granted a stay of sentence pending I
an appeal to that body by Snyder i
and Shumaker, Sanderson and Ma- j
thues having since died. Last week j
the Supreme Court decided to per- f
mit this appeal, which will be ar-'
gued in May next unless the Court j
can be persuaded to advance the ;
case.
The second trial involved the me-!
tallic furniture contract, the de-1
fendants being H. Burd Cassel, '
Architect Huston and the three;
State officials involved in the first ;
trial. The trial began May 12,
1908. and ended June 13 in an ac- j
quittal. 1
The third trial will be similar to ;
the first in many of its details, in-!
volving a bill of $61,948.50 for 272 j
Sanderson desks, the alleged over-1
charge being $25,577.30. Snyder, j
Shumaker and Huston were to be j
tried on this charge, but the Court j
granted severances to Snyder and 1
Shumaker because of their pending '
appeal in a like case, leaving Hus- j
ton to be tried alone. 1
SAME OLD THING.
The whole gang ticket elected in
Philadelphia! And that after a
series of robberies aud crooked deal
ings that has been so rotten that
the whole country has smelled the
odor. So the Contractors' Combine
is continued in power for another
period of graft. We have no longer
any sympathy for that town. We
sincerely hope that plans will im
mediately be laid to mortgage City
Hall, the proceeds to be used to
defray the expense incurred by the
purchase of two automobiles each
for all the members of the City
Councils; that Broad street be
closed, and built up with car barns
for the P. R. T. Co; and that Fair
mount Park be fenced in and pre
sented to Vare, McNicbol & Co. in
which to drill their army of thugs
for the police department. If ths
majority of Thiladelphians is so
stupid, indifferent, or corrupt as to
permit a continuance of the policy
cf the past, they deserve to have
their clothes stolen off their backs
and sold to junk dealers to provide
a fund for booze parties for the
victorious gangsters.
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Richest Farmer in the Country.
Inventory of the property of
David Rankin of Tarkio Mo. rich
est farmer in the United States,
places his holdings at 40 square
miles. He has 800 horses, and it
takes a hundred cottages to house
his help. There are 12,000 hogs
and 9.000 head of cattle. The ma
chinery 0:1 the farm is valued at a
half million dollars.
AN ELEGANT DRESSING
MAKES HAIR GROW
ny, Iiwi-ii. Mn
STEEL TRUST BUYING BREWERIES.
j Will Spend 810.000.000 to Control
! Uoke Workers' Beer Supply.
j The United States Steel Corpor
j ation has decided to make an effort
to control the drink habit of 25, coo
persons in Fayette county, Pa., in
, tcrested in the manufacture of coke,
and will invest $10,000,000 in the
', project to obtain possession of the
nine breweries now running inside
the county.
While the effort being made to
merge these breweries is being con
ducted in the name of the Pitts
burg Brewing Company, it is un
derstood that the steel corporation
' is bick of the whole move, and will
try to regulate the drinking of the
j foreigners.
1 It is figured that at least 3 per
.cent, better returns can be gleaued
, on the millions invested thereby
: regulating the driuk of the coke
j worker, permitting him to drink,
J but stipulating where and when.
bales ot beer by the keg or by
the barrel to the coke worker is
what the corporation objects to,
and this it will try to remedy For
more than a year figures have been
gathered on drinking among the
coke workers, and it is found that
for seventy-two hours after each
payday the coke ovens don't run
more than two-thirds capacity, and
there is scarcely a payday when
hundreds of tons ol coke are not
ruined by inability to get proper
men to care for it in the ovens.
The idea is to increase the num
ber of licensed drinking places in
the county, so that all the work
men will be supplied, but to kill
the sale of drink in bulk to the
coke worker, it being alleged that I
the workman lavs in a creat store
of drink when he has money; then
"lies down beside it."
' HOOK-WORM DISEASE.
Habitual Laziness of Poor People of
South Attributed to It. Rocke
feller Gives a Million to
Fight It.
A gift of one million dollars by
John D. RockeL-lk-r to fight tl:e
"hookworm disease" was announc
ed at the office of the Standard Oil
company at New York recently.
A djzen well known educators
and scientists in large part from in
stitutions of learning 111 the south
where the parasite is prevalent,
were called in conference with Mr.
Rockefeller's representatives at the
Standard Oil company's offices at
26 Broidway. recently, and at that
meeting Mr. Rockefeller's desire to
organize a con: mission to carry on
a campaign against the malady was
discussed. As a result of this dis
cussion of the situation, the "Rock
efeller commission for the eradica
tion of the hookworm disease" was
organized.
The "hockworm," according to
New York medical authorities, is a
hair-like parasite to which is charg
ed a form of anemia prevalent es
pecially among the poor people of
the south. It was not until recent
years that members of the medical
profession recognized that a parasite
caused the malady.
In December, 1902, Dr. Charles
Wardell Stiles, then a zoologist in
the bureau of animal industry at
Washington, who had been study
ing intestinal parasites, announced
to the Pan-American Sauitary Con
gress his conviction that the so
called "laziness" and "shiftless
ness" widely observed in certain
portions of the south was a specific
disease, due to the "hook-worm."
Many members of the congress ex
pressed surprise at the announce
ment and up to the present the
disease has been a matter of some
controversy.
Earthquake Very Severe.
The earthquake shock felt in
Northern California and Southern
Oregon last Thursday night is re
ported from a jiumber of places to
have been more severe than any ex
perienced for several years. The
vibrations continued from 10 to 25
seconds, according to observers iu
different towns.
Windows were shattered, chim
neys prostrated, dishes broken and
small pieces of furniture moved,
but as far as known the financial
damage was nominal. Humboldt
county appears to have been the
center of the seismic disturbance.
A naval battle was fought last
Friday between Greek battleships
manned by loyal government troops
and torpedo boats in the hands of
mutineers on the bay of Salamis.
Just two thousand years ago the
Greeks won the battle of Salamis
from the Persian fleet in these same
waters.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
C ASTORIA
FOR A SAFE AND SANE 4TH
Officers of American Civic Associa
tion Favor Plan-Washington an i
Example.
1
Press dispatches from Washing- j
ton, stating that a movement is !
under way for a general safe and !
sane observance of the Fourth of
Inly, are pleasing to the American j
Civic association and the American
public in general. i
At the Cincinnati convention of
thi association a campaign :s
to be !
launched fur a safe and sane Fourth !
and it is probably due to the an-!
, nouncement that the story cor.es!
from Washington on the same sub- j
ject. Speaking cf the subject, j
; Richard 15. Watrous, secretary, ,
I whose office is at Harrisburg, says: j
"For the first time we shall be
( able to report specific cases of a
j noiseless fourth, and of course
j Washington will afford the best
I example. The celebration in that
j city last July was entirely devoid
I of noise; there were no deaths or
accidents reported to the hospitals.
There were no fires due to fire
works. Best of all, the people had
one of the most enjoyable days in
the history of Independence Day
celebrations.
"The district commissioners,
who are responsible for the order
prohibiting the use of explosives,
gave of their energy to provide a
substitute for the uual celebration
and the co-operation with which
the business men of the city, head
ed by Hon. Henry B. F. Macfar
land, district commissioner, as
chairman, arranged a program of
daylight fireworks, parades, pic
nics and gorgeous fireworks in the
evening, all under official direction,
that made a gala day for Washing
ton and convinced the people that)
the new kind of Fourth of July is j
better in every respect than the old 1
kind. There was no abatement of !
interest in the observance of the '
nation's birthday, but it was along
sane lines, without disaster to life'
and property." I
GREAT MART FOR WHITE J
SLAVERY.
Cornell Professor Says New York is
the Center of the Traffic. !
Jeremiah W. Jenks, professor of
political economy and politics at
Cornell university, has given out a
statement in which he says tint
"white slavery" does exist in New
York as charged by a recent anti
Tammany magazine article, but he
does not hold any political organi
zation responsible for the traffic.
Professor Je;:ks, who was a
member of the commission appoint
ed by Congress to investigate im
migration conditions, says iu part:
"I have no knowledge as to
whether tlie traffic is greater in
New York than in Paris. I believe,
however, that it is greater in New
York than elsewhere in the United
States first, because New York is
the largest city; second, because it
is the chief port of entry. Women
imported for immoral purposes from
Chicago and Seattle largely come
through New York, and many of
the dealers are here. There is no
question that the traffic exists on a
large scale in New York, aud that
from New York many women are
sent to other states and even some
to foreign countries."
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It certainly racks your system and
may run into something serious. Allen's
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9-3o-4t.
Hog Milt Indicates a Mild Winter.
C. K. Bennett, of West Cheshire,
Conn., famous the country over for
his weather prognostications, is out
with his annual winter prediction.
He says:
"My predictions areas follows:
A late fall. I look for the month
of November to be warmer than
October. I don't look for any win
ter weather until well up iu Decem
ber. I don't look for any ice until after
the first of January. The milt in
dicates the cool weather we have
had the last two weeks. I look for
a reasonably early spring."
Bennett always bases his prophe
sies on "hog milt." Milt is anoth
er name for spleen.
Saved Life, Got $200,000.
It has just become known that
Charles W. Bennett, a wealthy man
of Binghamton, N. Y., who died
recently, willed $200,000 to J. W.
Casey, of Denver, Col. as a reward
for saving his life thirty years ago.
Casey is the proprietor of a laun
dry and is comfortably well off.
Casey and Bennett were school
chums in Binghamton, and the in
cident which caused Bennett to re
member Casey so handsomely oc
curred when the latter, who was an
expert swimmer, rescued Bennett
from drowning in the Susquehanna
river.
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The makers of STYLE CRAFT CLOAKS AND
SUITS are offering a first prize of $100.00 to the woman
who suggests the best name for their new fall
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Ten other prizes of $10.00 each will be given for the
ten next best suggestions. Contest is open to all women.
All you have to do is to call at our store to see the coat
sea it so you will get the right idea for a prize winning
name.
It is a decidedly new and distinctive model.
Everywhere it has been shown it has made .1 pro
nounced hit.
You should see it and try to name it,
Contest closes November 15th.
You can send your suggestions direct to the makers or
through us. But you must sec the coat at our store if you
want to make a suitable suggestion,
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