THE FOREST REPUBLICAN. RATES OF ADVERTISING! One Square, one inch, one week...f 1 00 One Square, one Inch, one month. 8 00 One Square, one inch, 3 months.... 5 00 One Square, one Inch, one year .... 10 00 Two Squares, one year 16 00 Quarter Column, one year 80 00 Half Column, one year - .. 60 00 One Column, one year 100 00 Legal advertisements ten cents per line each insertion. We do fine Job Printing of every de scription at reasonable rates, but It's cash on delivery. Published every Wednesday by ' J. E. WENK. Offioe in Smearbaugh & Wenk Building, BLM BTRKKT, TIONESTA, PA. Tera $1.00 A Year, Btrlotly la Utun. Entored an seoond-olasa matter at the pOHt-olHue at TluneHla. No subscription received for shorter period than three months. Correspondnnoe solicited, but no notice will be taken of anonymous communica tions. Always give your name. UBL. VOL. XLVI. NO. 40. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1913. $1.00 PER ANNUM. IGAN. f BOROUGH OFFICERS. Burgess. H. D. Irwin. Justices oflhe reaceO. A. Randall, D W. Clark. Oouncitmen. J.W. Landers, J. T. Psle, O. n. Robinson, Win. Huiearbaugh, R. J. Hopkins, O. F. Watson, J. D. Constable L. L. Zuver. Oolleetor W. H. Hood. School Directors W. O. Imel, J. R. Clark, 8. M. Henry, Q. JamioBon, D. H. mum. FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS. Member of Congress W. J. Hillings. Member of denote J. IC. P. Hall. Assembly K. R. Mec-hllng. President Jwige W. U. Hinckley. A ssocvite Judges Samuel Aul, Joseph m. Morgan. Prothonotary , Register dt Recorder, te -8. R. Maxwell. Hherir Wm. H. Hood. Treasurer W, H. Brar-oe. Ctimmmioniirj-Wm. H. Harrison, J, C. Soowden, II. H. McClellan. District Attorney M. A. Oarrlnger. Jury Commissioners J, II. Eden, A.M. Moore. Coroner Dr. M. 0 Kerr. County Auditor George H. Warden, A. U. Uregg and a. V. Bulelds. County Surveyor Hoy S. Hraden. County (Superintendent J. O. Carson. Heiulir Term. ( Curt. Third Monday of February. Third Monday of May. Third Monday of September. ' Third Monday of November. Regular Meetings of County Commls loners 1st and 3d Tuesdays of montb. t'knreb a' Mibbalh Nrhaal. Presbyterian Sabbath School at 9:45 a. m. i M. K. Sablath School at 10:00 a. in. Preaching in M. K. Church every Sab bath evening by Kev. H. L. Uunlavey. Preaching in the F. M. Church every Sabbath evening at the usual hour. Rev. M. E. Woloott, Pastor. Preaching in the Presbyterian church every Sabbath at 11:00 a. ui. and 7:30 p. in. Rev. H. A. ISailey, Pa-tor. The regular meetings of the W. C. T. V. are held at the headquarter on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. TP. NEST A LODGE, No. 369, 1. 0. 0. F. Meets every Tuesday evening, In Odd Fellows' Hall, Partridge building. CAPT. GEORGE STOW POST, No. 274 G. A. R. Meets 1st Tuesday after noon of each mouth at 3 o'clock. CAPT. GEORGE STOW CORPS, No. 137, W. R. C, meets first and third Wednesday evening of each month. TF. RITCHEY, i ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Tloneela, Pa. MA. CARRINGER, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law. Offlce over Forest County National Bank Building, TIONESTA, PA. CURTIS M. SHAWKEY. ATTORN KY-AT- LAW, Warren, Pa. Practice in Forest Co. AC BROWN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office in Arner Building, Cor. Elm and Bridge Sts., Tionesta, Pa. . MtANK S. HUNTER, D. D. S Rooms over Citizens Nat. Bank, TIONESTA, PA. DR. F. J. BOVARD, Physician Surgeon, TIONESTA, PA. Eyes Tested and Glasses Fitted. D R. J. B. SIGGINS, Physician and Surgeon, OIL CITY, PA. HOTEL WEAVER, S. E. PIERCE, Proprietor. Modern and up-to-date In all its ap pointments. Every convenience and oomfort provided for the traveling public CENTRAL HOUSE, R. A. FULTON, Proprietor. Tlonseta, Pa. This Is the most centrally located hotel in the place, and has all the modern improvements. No pains will be spared to make It a pleasant stopping place for the traveling public pHIL. EMERT FANCY BOOT SHOEMAKER. Shop over R. L. Haslet's grocery store on Elm street. 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Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Cures Colds. Croup and Whuupinj; Cough. - LAND COMPANY MENJNDICTED Claimed Tracts in Florida Ever glades Were Disposed oi JURY' IN KANSAS CITY ACTS Using Mails to Defraud la Charge F'.aced Against Eight Officials ot the Florida Fruit Lands Company. Eight officials and agents of tlis Florida Fruit Lands company wore in dicted by the federal grand Jury at Kansas City, Mo., on a charge of con uplracy to use the malls to defraud in connection with the sale of 180,000 acres of land in the Everglades of Florida to 12,000 purchasers in various states. Those named in the Indictments are Richard J. Holies, Jacksonville, Fla.; George A. Iiraddock, Chicago; Jesse L. Blllingsley, Jacksonville, Fla., and John Mathews, J. H. Martin, II. J. Borders, Edward C. Chambers and A. U. Hart of Kansas City. Each was Indicted on twenty-one counts. The Florida Fruit Lands company was organized four yeurs ago by It. J. Bolles of Jacksonville and is said to control nearly 600,000 acres of land in the Everglades. It Is alleged that 180,000 acres were placed in the hands of Robert J. Martin and Joseph H. Borders, sales agents in Kansas City, and by them sold in smnll tracts to 12,000 persons, n.ostly in Kansas City and adjoining territory. The grand jury investigation was undertaken at the behest of small pur chasers who were dissatisfied with drainage conditions on their tracts. It was said that more than $2,000,000 was involved in the sales contracts and that more than $700,000 alreadv has been paid to the company. Some of the purchasers said their tracts were under water and could bo reached only by boat. Company agents asserted that the state of Florida was under contract to drain the tracts and that canals soon were to be dug and the land put in condition for cultiva tion. Herbert S. Hadley, former governor of Missouri and attorney for some of the officials of the land company, charged that Sylvester R. Rush, as sistant attorney general, was refusing to admit witnesses who he believed would testify in the company's favor. Federal Judge Frank Youmans denied the petition on the ground that to do otherwise would unset the entirp sys YOUR ROUID-TRIP RAILROAD FARE PAID To Oil City In The GREAT HOLIDAY SHOPPING FESTIVAL Beginning Next Monday, December 1st. Come to Busy Oil City at Our Expense. Your Round - Trip Railroad Fare refunded from any point within 40 miles of Oil City for purchases of any or all of these merchants amounting to $25.00 or more. Show Your Return Ticket or Get tem of federal grand jury Investlga tion. AMERICA TO BE ALL RIGHT No Disasters For 1914, French Seeress Prophesies. Among Mme. Thebes' predictions ol 1914 are: The planet Mars will predominate with war always menacing. England will suffer critical perils in India. - London will be threatened by floods, a terrible catastrophe taking place as a result of the inundations, which will arouse the pity of the whole civilized world. Portugal is to see a restoration of the monarchy. . Italy will witness a new pope, who will be friendlier to the monarchy. France is to be afflicted with scandals, riotn, bloodshed and in dustrial troubles in the northeast. Paris will have a favorable year. No disaster Is prophesied for America. WOULD IMPROVE MUSIC Washington (Pa.) Library Begin War on Ragtime Tunes. Believing that ragtime and tango tunes are gaining too much headway with the young folk of Washington, Pa., the authorities of the library in stalled a circulating musical library in the library rooms. The books of music cover a wide range and have been brought to Wash ington from England, where they are printed. There was a general demand for .books of niurtic from the new de partment of the library and those in charge are contemplating sending an immediate order for more books. DEATH ROLL IS FOURTEEN Football Took That Number of Lives During Season. A Chicago paper says fourteen killed find l'i5 injured players comprise the levy c:;acted by King Football during the se;;son of 1913, which practically closed with Saturday's games. This urini record exceeds that of 1912, when thirteen players met death and 1S3 were injured. These figures are taken from-press reports which often do not give the full number of injured. The 175 in jured represents only those who were incapacitated fur several days at least. Farmer Accidentally Killed. John Haines of Weisses Mills, Sny der county. Pa., a farmer, was shot dead while moving around somr brus-h. A party of hunters mistook him for game. Oldest Broker Dies. Thomas L. Lawson, the oldest mem ber of the Philadelphia stock ex change, died. He was ninety-six year -Md. CULEBRA SLIDES REAL DIFFICULTY Mhals Submits Annual Re . port on Panama Canal DOES NOT NAME OPENING DATE Treacherous Slides In Culebra Make It Impossible to Say When Ships May Pass Through the Waterway No definite dats for the official npening of the Panama canal is set In the annual report of Colonel George Goethals, chairman and thief engineer of the canal commission, hich has just been submitted to Secretary Gar rison. Neither is there any prediction of when the shipB may first pass from ocean to ocean. The first day of the canal's actual operation still depends upon the treacherous slides of Culebra cut and how fast the dredges can keep the channels open. "It has been the general belief that the effect of the water In the cut would tend to retard slides and experi ence below the Gatun locks fully Justi fies this belief," said Colonel Goethals. "On the other hand the geologist is of the opinion that the water may to some extent develop new slides. "If those things are liable to occur, the sooner the better, If the official opening of the canal is to occur Jan. 1, 1915; for If water were not ad mitted this fall but were deferred until May 1, 1914, the full height could not be reached until October, 1914, leav ing little time for the determination 3f these questions. These considera tions led to the conclusion that the water should be turned into the cut at the earliest date practicable for jetting the dredges to work on the slides. "The present plans, therefore, are based upon the blowing up of GamUoa dike on Oct. 10, its removal by the iredges immediately thereafter, the transfer of two suction dredges and a ladder dredge to the Cucaracha slide, the smaller dipper dredges to work on the other slides until the full width of the channel is attained, and the passage of vessels through the canul as soon as channels of full depth and of sufficient width have been se :ured. "The canal proper, exclusive of the approaches, the machine shops and warehouses and great ocean docks at either end, would have been complet ed during the last fiscal year but for the extensive slides in the Culebra fnt. And in deal with the grPat prob Show Your Return Ticket and ask for a Transportation Check at the first of following merchants you visit : Smart & Silberberg Co., Center and Elm Streets. The Printz Company, 113 Center Street. Carlon & Company, 116 Center Street. The Kinter Company, 112 Center Street. George J. Veach, Seneca Street. Arthur V. Lammers, 45 Seneca Street. Perry & Wurster, 219 Center Street. Fred H. Lammers, 41-45 Seneca Street. Stranburg Music House, 110 Center Street. Harvey Fritz, 32-36 Seneca Street. Welker & Maxwell Co., 2 East First Street. Seep Brothers, 27-29 Seneca Street. (Except on Oil Well Supplies.) Levi & Company. Moore & Stevenson, Center and Elm Streets. R. G. Koch & Company, 9-13 East First Street. a Receipt From Your Ticket Agent lems involved in the removal of the slides no effective way was found ex cept the bodily displacement of the vast hill. The slides and breaks In creased as the rut was deepened. ' "No treatment has proven effective for slides when once developed ex i'ept that of excavating and hauling away material from the moving mass until the slide comes to rest or until .lie angle of repose for the particular material In motion It reached," said Colonel Goethals. SLUMP IN TRADE ron and Steel Continues to Go Down, Dun's Review Sayt. Dun's Review of Trade Bays this week: "Trade conditions are reflected in the unseasonably light demand for money, especially in the east; in the south and west there Is a little more Inquiry. The recession in iron and steel is more pronounced than in pre vious weeks. Curtailment of opera tiens in that industry has increased and working forces are considerably reduced, with buyers showing a dis position to hold off still lower prices. "Current demands from the rail roads are disappointing and the falling off in consumption has also extended to less important lines, while there has been no check to the declining tendency In quotations. In copper the situation continues one of extreme dullness and substantial concessions are offered from the values previously prevailing." N0RRIS ON POPULAR SIDE Senator Would Grant Street Car Strap hanger a Rebate. "Straphangers" in street cars in the District of Columbia are cheering Sen ator Norrls, who introduced a bill in the senate providing, that anyone en tering a car and not being able to find a seat should be given a rebate check. Two of the checks, in the terms of the bill, would be legal tender for one fare. "I've hung on straps myself and I know what it is," said Senator Norrls In declaring his intention of forcing his proposed measure. It is a well known fact that the street car corpora tion makes three times as much on tli e man who stands in the aisle as on the woman who occupies a sent. No More Cheering at Vatican. Pope Pius X. has forbidden cheering in the Vatican and Monsignor Ken nedy, rector of the American college in Rome, lias been requested to in form visiting American sailors in Italy that no cheering will be allowed. Gompers Reflected. The American Federation of Labor meeting in Seattle, Wash., re-elected Samuel Gompers president and voted to hold the 1914 conventisn in Phllo lelphia. ... : , RUSH OF BRITISH SHIPSSTOPPED Orders For Squadron to Go to . Vera Cruz Cancelled BRYAN'S EMPHATIC ACTION Informs English Ambassador InWasn ington That United States Would Consider Demonstration Unfriendly. An abrupt cancellation of the orders issued to the British squadron i'rom the Barbadoes to proceed to Vera Cruz, Mex., was caused by emphatic protest from the state department in Washington to the British foreign of 3ce. Sir Lionel Garden's dispatch Insist ing so emphatically that British war ships were needed at Vera Cruz to protect Britisli interests, Great Britain accordingly issued the rush order to the squadron. This was done without consulting the Washington stnte department. Sec retary Bryan on hearing of it in formed the British ambassador that the United States would regard as an unfriendly act anything approaching a naval demonstration by Great Brit ain in Mexican waters. The result was that the orders to the squadron were countermanded. The manager of the Pearson syndi cate in Mexico City was infoimed by General Agullar, the n'-iel commander at Tuxpam, that the rebels were In possession of all the Pearson proper ties, including El Putrero, the biggest oil gusher in the world. General Aguilar ordered the man ager to go at once to Tuxpam and meet his terms, which evidently means that he expects the payment of a large sum of money for the surrender of the oil properties. No reply was sent to this message by the Pearson manager. General Aguilar in his message also threatened to cut off the supply of oil for the national railroads. This is the only source of fuel for "the road:. He also demands the immediate re moval of all foreigners employed by the Pearson syndicates "in order to avoid International complications." Congress met again but the session was adjourned no quorum having been obtained. The impression prevulls here among the lower class Mexicans that the British cruisers now on their way to Mexican waters were sent to drive out the American fleet, but it is well known that the real reason for the dispatch of the soiridron was to pro Come at and We Will Refund Your Fare tect the British oil properties. With the cost of living rising and business rapidly decreasing there is great distress in Mexico City. This is aggravated by the contention held generally that there Is no hope in. the International situation. With the advance of the rebels Into the oil fields and the destruction of railroads Mexico City today is facing a coal and fuel oil famine. There is less than 1,000 tons of coal in the city, a city of more than 300, 000 persons. There Is no possibility of more being brought in. The pro duction of coal has almost ceased owing to the damage done to mines by bandits. The railroads are in such crippled condition that coal could not be transported now even If it were produced. All the oil in the city Is In the hands of three concerns. It does not amount to more than 24.M0 barrels. There Is little likelihood of more coming In at present as it must come from Tamplco through a country infested with rebels. The government has no guards for trains. All the large industrial interests will inevitably come to a standstill without fuel. There is no relief in sight. As regards electric power and light the situation is saved by the fact that it Is generated by water power. But if the supply line 125 miles long should be cut at Necaxa everything would have to stop. Although there was considerable ceremony incident with the assembling of the new Mexican congress there was little or no excitement and the small crowd that gathered near the palace was not demonstrative. Provisional President Huerta, fol lowing the example of the president of the United States, personally read his message to congress. The reading occupied only a short time and was given close attention but evoked little applause. Although it was professed ly patriotic, the message was not a brilliant bit of rhetoric and contained few thrills. Summed up in a few words It con Itituted Huerta's defense of his actluu (n proroguing the previous congress and assuming the role of a dictator. Huerta pointedly asked the congress to approve his acts. No mention was made of the United States. In order to offset President Wil son's "financial starvation" policy, also to enable the government to meet the next pay day and prevent mutiny among the federal troops, President Huerta a few hours before the formal opening of the new congress issued a decree declaring a tax of eight cents a kilogram upon the production of cotton. This will be a heavy burden upon a people already on the verge ot na tional bankruptcy and it is not ex pected to decrease President Huerta's troubles. The decree, the government explains, is baaed upon military necessities. to Busy Oil City Our Expense. Your Round - Trip Railroad Fare refunded from any point within 80 miles and more than 40 miles of Oil City for purchases of these mer chants amounting to $50.00 or more. "A
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