OL. LXXX.
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THE CAPITOL PROBE,
Qanrrel Among Grafters May Result in
Honest Mon Coming by Their Own
Jd Correspondencs
f indications nl w% quarrel
}
g the capitol grafters snd
iw Malfilied,
the rest
rues fall oul
Iraown,
n in pre Vv al
moment that Arehitect Hu
hlame
ps of
finish
is
Berva
lot to
Juilding
ty
gervea
KOT
did
Bourd of
d Grounds and
On Per vane Rer
i
#Ay in the
1 hy
ni nthusiasm witl whic
fies Machine oa LBV O00s
has prepared the pubite mand to
cept such a solution of the problem
But Superintendent of Public Buil
ings and Grounds Shumaker
with a statement
real culprit, It
Shumaker
monkey of the old ma:
#
ta that Huston
Whs Lhe mreblteg
declares, who *
Pennypsacker is a curious mixture of
weakness and intriguing
the ambition of
ity if not the mental infirmities of
As Governor he
force
Caesar he Las the vau
Bil
imagined
When the
imbecile.
that he was ab
constitution interfered with
wwe the law
Lis
ALY ©
purposes he simply brushed the c¢on-
stitution away. An
was of no consequence to him if it ran
Yet he
an ¢@ *Rrance Lie
act of assembly |
counter to his desir
tained
greatest
He actually
believe that
ing executive the State
and that i
1
prineipl
sin-
always
respect for law and morals
inieiligent j
won le
2 BOE
the most law-abid-
had ever
of
would
hiad
fraction the
es of ¢
shock him immens . As a matter of
fact, howeve
little
Enew the
Wrong ne pe no
If
erence between right
better 18n a pervert,
attention to it.
STONE
Fo
State
ing
AND HARRIS TALKING WAR
ro stope and former
also
ier Governor
{ressurer Harris are talk
ar talk '’ at each other. i
uring
the early stages of the «
tion
mem!
WOrs Doli Ti
ers of the board
ings and Grouuds and «
mini
essurer is I
Harr
nt apd par-
and ti
tweed
develop
Meantime
increasit
first tim
brought toge' her durit the
last Wednesday A Hau
Washington, testified
of
gesnion
nilton, of
after
Huston
agreement
that |
he
had beeu dickering wi for
some time they came Lo sn
int
ha
main but Huston sdded
see Nanderson’
didn’t
bad better go to
want |
Another
interesting witness of the week was a
man named DeKosenko, president of
the Stirling Bronze Company of Phil.
adeiphia
lished a siatement in
that he
who told him
hima to bid for any one else,”
Home time sgo he had pub-
ve of the Phila.
delphias newspapers which was very
damsging to the covspirators and the
feature of his testimony was an at-
tempt to contradiet himself without
being caught. Ia this he failed, of
course, for the newspaper representa.
tive obtained the interview fol-
lowed him iv the witness stand gave
the substance of his conversation
proved that in t
who
and
be preliminary work
“Sanderson, Huston and DeKosenko
were altogether in the matter.” To.
gether these witnesses have proved
collusion nod conspiracy
shadow of a doubt
beyond the
CHARGES AND OVERCHARGES 80 FAR.
The following is 8 summary of the
principal figures which have been dis.
closed by the investigation to date :
What State
paid Band-
ereon,
Glass mosale friezes in
the rotunda $
“Baccarat cul glass...
Painting and decornt-
SEM +o vcosivoinsiinsss iran
Designed woodwork for
14 rooms
Rostrums for Senate and
House caucus rooins
Thermostats............ ee
Bootblack’s stand.........
Woodwork for Henate
post office and other
RULE-TOOIMS. .ooovvivn
Barber's case in Senate
RORIBE vo merrusinsesessnssoms
185 Mahogany clothes
140 Umbrella stands
Cont
to Band.
erson
20 $
133770
an
69
0
2084 34
26 174902 0
0 25170 00
80 2000 00
24835 00
0 126
6145 00
82 00
2008 00
1851 00
Woodwork for Gov.
eruor's
baat till 1]
HIGH SCHOOL COMMENUEMENT.
Five Dr, J,
Address,
Young People Graduate Pp,
Welsh Delivers Gradaation
Wednesday of
occurred an event of more
evening last
than pases
to the people of Boalsburg
At that
graduating exercises
the High
NR interes!
Harris
was held the
first ¢
=chool
and township time
of
the
Inss
completing
course The class
five, as follows :
Ross, Harry Keller, Charles
Fay Weber
The delivered
salutatory was
is Success’ Karl Ross followed with
“The Indian—the Nation's
of Harry
oration was ** Our Greatest
mil mation,
he sul jeot
ler'a Presi-
dent,!”’ Fay sher pronounced
valedictory, choosing for her
'be Rursl High Sehool.”!
Dr. J, P. Welsh, vice-president
commencement address. His talk
practical in its nature
poke of some of the qualities essential
LO sUCCes
Dr. Welsh
his words
others fail.
well received
i. B. Harrison, president of
school ard in s&s neat,
practical speech
presented the
with diplomas
The exercises were held in
wtanding
The
mpacit even room
y.,
premium
Ll 8 slage was
beautifully and decorated
artistically
flag«, colors and
On the with the
chool board, Dr. Welsh
I. Bt
Invoeati
$
gtapge
age
mecypher, who
wonneed the
mn.
and
Fhe class COLOrs
Aare
the motto, “Th
orange
end
biack ; @
the work.’
TWoO-UENT FARES
Governor Stuart Higaed BIH
May Apponl
Fridny-
romds
Friday Governor Btlusrt signed
{ bill ealling for two-cent passenger
after
rates eptember 30, The
carries with | i penalty
offense,
railroad spp
two-cent fare ¢X
Per
thousand dollars for each
jarring successful
the ¢ the
ment asstired of a tris in
urt
in now
inl
aepen } «
sylvania, Whether the tr
| fair or otherwise will mm Lhe
action of the railroad managers in the
premises
The railroads contend that they can-
not carry profitably at a
pPRssen gers
charge o wo cents a mje
maximum
mutation rates
f
i
|
i
|
| 3
| without cutting
and reducing the quality «
vice toa two cent level
| in other Stat
a and «
tril
BK
Hully
linea
HANA |
in Penusylvauis
| with this pessimis
¢
er IAres INean 1noreas
| proportion ately incres
If this view
MoeCrea of the
Railroad has characterized
sation,
President
least a speculation firmly
| proven facts
| It up to
dictum of the
and to
withou
is the railroads to accept the
Legislature ith
wlel their p
allempied
rem
Krace
jtarifls
commuters ai
Ol
juts
, which iu the
hemselves I'he
Ivania are fair
1)
i ful prediction
i ol and
OF TERIIZNG, RDG
strated in sctual pr
titiny
able co
ie
ished the musie,
Ae pre
LOCALS
Isaac Bmith, of
3. F. Reish,
Jacksonville
of Centre
Inst Nab- |
f Mrs
be funeral «
——
The Tramp
k
is simply & man out of
thin that
Many people
Ww
again claim that
Utnsian
of Lansdowne,
s+ Alice Ro-
She is a daugh-
Frank Rearick,
f Bpring Mills
g on =n scaffoldiog
his stable, Friday of
J
fractured
making repairs at
and
The
nt was caus d Oy 8 piece of
=amuel Rowe fell
nel week
sustained severa ribs
vile
timber slipping
At the
| he (
fi
Habbath eveni meeting of
ng
‘hristinn Endeavor of
L
the Presby- |
(i. Rearick|
hymn composed by W, A |
titled ** The House of Many
Miss Verna Hearick,
weeompanied
church, Mrs
ferisan
ALE =A
Krise, e1 i
of
the |
0
Livia Krine, who has been at-
he school during |
Friday for
she is a daugh- |
of
in
Mra,
her grand-|
for several
LTRINDIDAT
the past winter, jeft her |
Krise, 8 member
and Out, dealers
estate and fire insurance,
A. Rrise scoon panied
remain
wee ka
After considerable delay the SBpicher
on the Nefl farm, and will be the rear
erected by Prof. C. R. Neff. For part
of the distance the building was hsul-
by but later a
windlass was used, The work was per-
formed by Contractor Aaron Thomas,
who bas shifted almost every house in
Penns Valley that stends on Any other
than its original foundation.
ed a traction engine,
The Nittany Iron furnace is in oper.
ation again, after an enforced idleness
of six weeks caused by an explosion,
The great difficulty was to remove the
material from the furnace proper, but
with the exception of a single * clink-
er’ the filling was removed by using
the shovel snd pick. This one * clink-
er, '' however, which it is estimated
weighed over nine tons, was hoisted
on to a ear, by using chain and tackle,
and was then dumped on the cinder
pile. To give an idea of the toughness
of this mass it need only be stated that
fourteen sticks of dynamite failed to
make an hinpression on jt
{ Continued from previous column.)
50 Desks for Senators 18230 00
208 Desks for Repre-
sentatives...
* Medicine ” chest for
room of President
pro tem. of Senate...
Desk for Lieutenant
GOVEINOL,...ccoiuriiiiin
Chandeliers and bronze
standards, including
$137600 for models. .,
According to Halon,
Sanderson's broth
er-indaw, the com
parative figures on
chandeliers alone
BY wii
Electric lighting
COOKE... covisssvivensivsisins
Parquetry flooring, pe
EERE EER
2250 0
Baz 00 16224 0
@9 20 7% 00
M0 0 130 00
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v 1612572 bo
71888 60
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MMT 0
17825 00
156565 00
“
Neiths rofth
A tramp |
Be
ont ad not
had a fair char
dav, in
can earn hi
and even in
had if he cared
aud
confess that
- -
Celebrated BT h Birthday
an
now Hv
present On
every year Mre,
company embracing fs
the last
The
every one present
being a tet
gres
affair was
A
Double Marder snd Rualelide
What
murder and suicide oe
is believed to be a ub
West
Clinton county, where Mra Jobn
her
found dead from strychnine poisoning. |
urred =
port,
Conner and two children were]
Mrs. Conner had been in poor health |
for several months and frequently ex
and
of
pressed a fear that she might die
leave her children without the care
A mother
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tiovernor signe New Liquor Law
The first amendment to the Brooks
high license law was signed »
by Governor Stuart
It imposes an additional license fee
on retailers as follows :
$25: boroughs, $50; third class cities,
$50; first and second class cities, $100,
Only the state will benefit by the ad-
ditional tax
aturday
Townships,
AP MS AON
Summer School,
The spring term of the Boalsburg
Normal and Preparatory Behool will
open April 156th and continue eight
weeks, Pupils from a distance oan ob.
tain boarding at reasonable rates,
For farther information address
1 H. OC. RoTHROCK,
Principal,
i A ——
Fost Cards,
A new line of Souvenir Post Cards
all kinds and at all prices. The local
views are the prettiest yet offered for
sale nt this office.
Bf:thday, Stork, Art, Poses, Comic
Cards, ete , ete, more than one hun.
dred kinds,
A fellow can always rajse a little
mousy by putting up his umbrella
Moravian tilng, per 13, Rn im
with a pawnbroker,
APRIL
PREPARING FOR SYNOD,
Wil
to Churel
Nunbury Luther lilve Warm
AtiH
Gireeting
Body,
bere of the Luthera:
begun ras}
4
ot 17 Fi i {
VI Of
church at Bunbury have
ing preparations for the re
dele
Fyvange
guten Lo Lhe General
Cciuren
vill begi
continue e
COT Pose i ¢
ple nt
# thie
[Lutheran chiareh in
we DRVIDE one of Lie
| Visions of the church
bership of 256,000
cated in
New Engl
Over
laymen
anong them will |
Missionaries, al
minisiers in
dresses to Lhe
}
esl {
vered eat
PCrinity and Z
Pr pnt
Fortune to Bury
Pomeroy His |
riy-seven vole
4
BIgNINE » conlract with wl
stranger consult sour neighbor about |
the deal A good night's sleep over al
contract or deal of which you Rpow
very little or nothing is ais a good
thing, and oft times brivgs revelations
with many dollars,
The name of Olivia post offices at the
close of business at the end of March
t out of existence, and the wffice
April 1st assumed the name of Bald
Eagle. B. L. Fraut, postmaster, had
had bis postmsrkiog nd movey order
stamps and ocher HeCesgary «quipment
ready for a week to commence business
under thie name of Bald Eagle,
Frederick W. Smith, aged seventeen
years, of Cold Spring township, Mer.
cer county, claims to nave the largest
colt in the world, When six” months
old it weighed 940 pounds, and recent
ly he received a reward of §756 offered
by a stock food company for the jarg.
eat colt raised by a boy or girl under
18 years of age.
If you have the Philadelphia Sun.
day Press delivered at your home each
week you get, beside: the news of the
day, a splendidly Hustrated ten cent
weekly magazine Such famous
authors as Cooan Doyle, Anthony
Hope and Bewel Ford are frequant
contributors, and you cannot get better
tending, If you order the Press served
at your home seven days tu the week
you are sure of ge'ting the best there
is, both aa (0 news sod other features,
we
11. 1907.
WORK OF THE LEGISLATURE,
Trolley Bil Passes House Finally
Hesoome Laws with
natur
A ¢ 1 i ' -
ABR WIind-up to a lengthy ses
House
trolley frei
Phursday of last
ed finally the
week Lhe
1th no debats
Repub)
New Landio
nns At
wa of Or
ave ae
Moved i
Cave holel beginning
Ever since tie natural
been entered by pleasure rs and
§ ¥
of Lot
Peuns
the name & has been
until Mr,
fiord last
McCormick will b ard
associated with Ave
MeCormick became the
Mr
to entertain guests at all Lin
hours take i
ial
week
on hand at all to
through the most wonderful cavern
piso ani —
When Penny takes the Sand,
When the ex-governor, who wade it
possible for Sanderson, et. al,
the state LO of five or
millions of in builldiog
capitol, takes the stand he will brush
the whole controversy aside by points
ing out that it is wove of the people's
business wint was done with state's
money, vecsuse it was collected from
foreign corporations !
And then the ex-governor will ex-
pect the people to believe him! But
they will not.
to beat
une more
bale
dollars the
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Pheasant Lives in $600 Nest,
Joshua BK. Pheasant, who lives on
the Bower farm, ove mile east of Mit,
Eagle, reovntly purchased the ET,
Hicklen howestead in the village of
Mt. Eagle, to wlitch place be moved
and where he expects to live a retired
life. The gum paid for Lhe property
was $000, ;
_NO. 15,
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF |
LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS.
swindler,
esota signed a
t railway fare bill,
the conl
rill be on
t coal ashes with-
baron
Mr. and Miller
dantoht . ’
laughter, Lreorge
hen deposited
chair in Mr.
Ae IR Aa Pe t {hie
Colonel G, Decker, of Spring Mills,
woe of the Decker Brothers engaged in
the manufacture of lumber, was s call-
er Friday. The fh recently
chased a new saw mill, the
which they are anxiously
£4) pur.
arrival of
awaiting,
At present they are cutting timber on
the Long farm, in Brush Valley, re
cently purchased by F. M. Fisher, of
Penn Hall,
The joint consistory of the Aarons.
burg charge, Reformed church, met in
annual at Aaronsburg. The
conststory recommended that the sever.
al congregations comprising the charge,
that had not as yet instituted young
people’s meeting, should hereafter
have them as part of the weekly serv.
joes, It was also decided to iostall a
telephone in the parsonage at Aarons
burg.
A swindler representing his name
to be Charles H. Long, bought three
pots of harness from James Wian, in
Bellefonte, and ordered the goods
shipped by rail to Mill Hall. The
bill was paid by a check forged on
Charles H, Loug, of Mill Hall. Be
fore the goods were shipped, the fraud
was discovered. Other swindles are
also reported to have taken place in
the central part of the state, sud evi-
dently it was the same person who
committed them.
FESEIOND