VOL. LXXIIL. DOG OWNERS ARE ANGRY. THEY ARE OPPOSED TO PAYING AN UNFAIR TAX. An Exorbitaot Dog Tax to [Help Pay County Orders.—A Political Soheme to Make a Good Showieg. From the Cen: ve Demoe. al. We deem it appropriate to call the publie’s attention to the imposition be- ing practiced upon the dog owners of this county. For some time the owo- ers of dogs have been compelled to pay about twice as much tax on their dogs | a8 the law clearly indicates they should. This is done for the purpose of enabling the couniy commissioners to collect about $1000 more than is nee- essary, each year, to pay sheep claims; and the extra fund is used to pay coun- most $2,000, and the law seems to have the effect of inducing people to kill useless and sheepkilling curs, and the claims thus are growing smaller, These things are simply instances to show the capacity of the present board of commissioners, Fisher and Riddle, who upon assuming control of the of- fice thiee years ago notified Mr. Heck- | man, the Democratic member, that he was not expected (0 take any aciive pait in the runoing of that depait- ment, do it themselves, and further intended to run it too, without his advice. For that reason he is not sponsible for these counsel ed or had a voice in them. es lp A STRONG ARR ATGN ME NT, ty machine and administered at ty expenses and in this way they can keep the millage down. This is not just nor right, and in some ijostances it is burdensome on huniers and oih-| ers, In May 1893 an act was approved for the “Taxing of Dogs aud the Pro- tection of Sheep.” This act provides that all dogs shall be taxed and the] sum be kept apart from ober (uses ofl i ; i the county, and is to be used for the] purpose of indemnifying any person who suffered a loss of sheep by reason of dogs destroying the same. This act further says, in Section 2: “Commissioners in each couniy and councilmen of their respec.ive ciiies, shall annually levy a tax upon each dog so returned and within tae discre- tion so given to such commissioners and councilmen to such an a..io tid will in their judgment create a SUFFI- CIENT jund from whic all damage caused to sheep, within the re- spective counties, by a dog or dogs during each current year, may be paid, together with all necessary expenses incurred in the adjustment of claims | as hereinafter provided.” (is {oss or That section very explicitly sets forth that these monies are raised for no other purpose than that of paying! the loss of sheep and the county com-| missioners are to estima.e, use their] judgment, as to how much of a fund is | needed each year for this purpose. They can very easily do this from the | experience in former years, and it right bere, in the exercise of Lheir| judgment, that they impose an unjust | tax on the owners of dogs. BSeclion 9] of this act provides that at the end of | the year whaiever monies in excess of | $200 of the dog tax remains in the] hands of the County Treasurer, shall be turned into the general couacy fund | and this is the place where ihe abuse | exists, According to the last year's] statement by this means the commis- | sioners paid claims amouniing to $138 18, and turned $741.82 ioto the] county fund and left $246.88 in the | hands of the treasurer. The following | statement, covering a period of four] years, shows how this dog tax is being farmed for other purposes: SHEEP CLAIMS | is HO... Last year r $741. 82 was taken from Lhe | dog tax fund and put to the general | fund. The previous year it was still larger $1243.23, or over $2000 the last | two years, or an income from the dogs | to pay other bills to the amount of] $1000 per year. This shows that the | owners of dogs in this county are pay- | ing twice as much dog tax as the act] of assembly provides, and the county | commissioners actually use one-half of | the fund for other purposes. When | they make a levy of $200 to pay $1100 | of claims, there evidently is somethiog | wrong with their judgment, No| doubt if the dog owners would call the | attention of the court to this abuse of | the sheep law they would be restrain- ed from laying such an excessive lax in the future, The best way to put an an end to this trouble is to get a new set of Commissioners to conduct that office in a legitimate way. The law says if there is aoy sum in excess of $200 left over at the end of the year in the sheep faad, it shall be turned over to the county. It does not mean that the commissionersshall see to it that they scoop $1,000 each year by an excessive tax. Now if the $2000 excessive dog tax in the last two years, and the $5,000 siising from the increase of the millage is taken from that §9,000 Republican increase you will commence to get at the real facts of how well these commissioners have been conducting that office. Any board of commissioners can increase the assets of the county by unjust and excessive taxation. In reply to this dog tax, we expect to hear these gentlemen say that they are following exactly the same course as the former Democratic Board. But it must be remembered that this law was passed in 1893 and* went into foree the following year. At first it was un- known how large the sheep claims would be. Then the first two years of the act they had no income from un- collected tax, of former years, as now and taxes come in slowly. The sheep beliest of the party boss, They have political banks gain, They have been loaned out and to They his family, to his lis his mercenaries tenants and his tools, and stock gambling politicians. Their has by the same agencies for interest paid to the treasurers, to other public offi- to corrupt tise been sold the machine. They have been made funds elect itself with debauch the elections and chine eandidates, ring decades of machine rule. In over-rated or exaggerated to all noe re- it It is known spect 1s men, mnfessions of the records onspirators, by books of account and by Of yy letters and private guilty, of the : tained in power for another term tp Dida t Get "Em All At the recent annual meeting i Pennsylvania Fish Scranton it was reported that over 50,- | Commission the | id in- | and distributed in the streams state during the year, of This woul fishermen have been modest. Even their highest claims have not gated the smallest fractional the average number of fish consigned annually to the waters. After have been honest in their reports. aggre | part that Pennsylva- | nia The Increase, About 36,000,000 babies are born each | than there are beats of the clock. A | if the in | line of cradles, the cradles would gir- | If carried one by onein | | their mother’s arms past a given point | the procession would continue night | that all A A Died at Stormstown. Mrs. Henry Stevens died | Stormstown. Sbe was aged about 75 years. She is survived by her husband Abedne- | go, Blair and Lloyd, of Clearfield coun- ty; George, of Martha; Vinton, of Ju- lian; Mrs. Charles Blake and James, of i Stormstown. The faneral took place Wednesday afternoon. A i SUBS Died at Milton, Mrs. Elizabeth Barber, widow of Rev. Daniel Barber, a minister of the Presbyterian church, died this morn- ing at her home at Milton, after a long illness with cancer. She was aged eighty-six years, and was the aunt of George M., Shannon and Wm. A. Boal, of Centre Hall, and frequently visited her relatives in this section. Always Pallas Trade, A properly constructed advertise ment frequently creates a want of which the reader was not previously conscious, How many times does it happen that people in reading adver- tisements suddenly conclude they want something which they see de scribed, but which they had not pre- viously thought they stood in need of. Lectare in the M. KE, Church. Rev. G, D. Pennepacker, D. D., of Williamsport, Pa., will deliver an ad- dress at Centre Hall M. E. church, Tuesday evening, October, 24, '00, Bab- jeet—"Hang On.” Admission 10 ., Married, At the Lutheran parsonage, Centre Hall, Mr. Richard Brooks and Miss Sarah BE. Wian were united in mar riage by Rev. J. M. Rearick. HE IS A MACHINE CANDIDATE, Lieutenant Colonel Barnett, says the | iment is now being exploited on funds | contributed by the Quay machine, and | it is not a violent presumption that these funds came from the profiis of | office-holders. The (rip to New York | is the first chapter, announced in a detail from the Tenth | Jarnett inte accompany Colonel canvass of the State inthe rest date for slate treasurer. thousand dollars will it go in will not be an indemnity bond to the treasurer, gion, Barnett is in Colonel says he Does he before and alter election? The late treasurer, Haywood, doubt gave a pledge of this character, no to s LO 000 of State funds be handed over the Quays for speculative purposes pothing of the to Quay in immense his processes of Ano fA ———" Dewey Notes Two million visitors attended Dewey's rizht hand became Miss Helen Gould, Her residence The New York Herald that the money spent for the Dewey last oh estimates snd by the visitors, week, including railroad fares, was is the word | The Admiral and does not for President, with some Democrats. Dewey This is not ideocy if tendered. ——————— Danger in Stove Polish The fate of a young woman who liv. N.J, In to persons who have been in the habit | As ed at Burlington, a warning of using liquid stove polish, she surface ig- nited, the contents of the bottle which | she held in one hand also blazed up, | the burning fluid was spilled over her reached | urated such liquid to the hot of the stove, the inflammable stufl assistance —— i ccf Marriage Licenses, The following marriage licenses were issued during the past week: George P. Clune, of Franklyn, nango county, and Julia E. Brown, Philipsburg. Jacob T. MeCUool and Rosie 8, Ve of | Uag- Wm. Clarence Breon and Ada { ginia Wian, of Bellefonte, Thomas A. Bennage, of Kelley X { Roads, Union Co., and Katie Long, of Vir David J. Kelley and Jean Steward Shugert, of Bellefonte. AA — Dogs After Sheep Dogs got after a flock of sheep be- longing to Lycurgus Lingle, at Ear. leyatown on Monday night and play- ed the very deal with the flock. Two bead were killed and four others bad- ly injured. Auditors assessed the dam- ages at $25, but it may run higher as the injured ones will likely die. The standing with one foot in the grave at present. no i AI A SH Roasted to Death. The three-months-old child of Mr, and Mrs. Jesse Hilborn, of State Run, was roasted to death Sanday. The tot was left asleep in a cradle in charge of a three-year-old sister while its moth- er went out into the yard to hang up some clothes. The older child began to play with the fire and ignited the cradle. When the mother returned she found the eradle in flames and the babe a mass of charred flesh, A Soiltzin Party, The members of the M. E. Epworth League held a snitzen' party a few nights ago, for the benefit of Mission work, They cut up a big lot of wind- fallen apples which were dried for them at the evaporator plant. The dried fruit will be sold and the money used for church work, They will re alize a neat little sum as the result of the night's work. AIM A mn, To Contestants, The prize pumpkin contest inaugu- rated by Montgomery & Co., clothiers, closes on October 14th, and the firm desire that all contesting for the prizes have their pumpkin marked with the TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. i i ss——— | FROM ALL PARTS. | {That Famous Bird look Is 8 Beauly. A { Debtor who Makes an Hooorable Use ofthe Bankropiey Law, We had a copy of the much noted { Birdbook in our hands for {the olher day. It is an looking affair, paper cover, inches in thickness, outlandish ht and boliom and side about ei pazes uncut untiimmed, the Lop, marg i ins are each about two inches macier about ~{ar printed 2:x4) ipches than In the ablence of more white margia space, an inlended steal, book would have But biauk oppor univies for thing mag- {one-third size of Lhe had for all. mare furnished fat sieals, oom grea, ius great, The only nilicent about it is the price, $65,000! | when the maller realiv authoiized to ibe printed in the { Cost about $500, book, would have Loside of this elephant are piciures of the chicken bats, &c. Holy Bit gizzards, used chicken cunicken toes, parts for giblet soups, lice, | A chicken diseases, owls, bizeer book than the le Bo ple Debtor's High Sense of Daly. John MeNevin, Altoona, was discharged from bankrupley Bep- tember 4, presented an unusoval app! in the United States Court on He asked the Court to rest the Shei iff {rom selling of who cation «Rin his prope vy, his trustees realize more. Judge Buffing reminded MeNes that he ready been discharged from all “Yes, le not may seit |} on in had al- indebt- the je edness, sally,” replied My ne but morally. lings will not permit to {accept my dischaige in bankrupley from as moral oblir ail my debls, If Lis for $2000 less than it I | releasiog me my LH as I 10 id 5 Lhat Buffing fi his ior of the tend to do. properiy is so would bring at will have pay.” Judge hoooied MeNevin but thou ordinary for a man 1st he sentiment, hit it out io foe] debi been sacrifice his propeily fo i . had pay already Ie. leased. Here is anolher rare example of hon- esiy. Ra - S.opped a RBosawarv. The other day as James Spangler was oul with his horse and springwag he | stopped al the foot of the hill below {by the road. On the For some reason {he | LATE NEWS ITEMS | Prices still have an upward tenden- | ey, except in grain, { The late frosts damaged | grapes in York state, tons of McKinley with wife and the entire cabinet have started west, The Canadian telegraph been completed to Dawson, line has The large Ridgway tannery, recent- ly burned, is in process of rebuilding Ezcitement over the great honors showered Dewey, caused the the Admiral. upon deaih of an uncle of Our Philippine fleet is to be reinfore ed, there three of Admiral Dewey of the postponed by at once sending war ships on advice The has trial been legislative bribers after ion lest the evidence be damaging until | elect to the Quay cause, Dewey advises McKinley to have sea blockade and says fu an active army is needed lieves Aguinaldo will not yield. bank cashier of the bank, was arrested for It's the old story, kid gloves, The H., nen. embezzle- dude d Giess, sporting, # fancy horse, The gold mines, 1c. Boers have seized the KE ng Innd has prov million dollars for war, and will send an army of 40,000 distance 7000 miles. men ; in the Transvaal and London {out news from South Africa, unknown whether the Boers glin war or not. The day bad be- Moun- battle, They made a desperate attack on Ba- Filipinos were repulsed, morning, in an all