DANVILLE'S
SUBSCRIPTIONS
At the request of the San Francisco
relief committee, of Danville, the
AUERIOAN gives this morning the
list of subscribers and the amounts re
ceived up to 7 o'clock last evening. At
that time the money subscribed amount
ed to *158.36.
At the time the list was given to the
paper the committee had in view sev
eral other subscriptions that would
run the total up to at least SOSO. The
stove works subscriptions are not in
cluded in the following list.
One interested $50.00
T. J. Price .50.00
J. H. Goeser & Co 25.00
W. G. Pursel.. 10.00
Lawrence Cotter. ........ 5.00
Cash 6.00
Hebrew Ladies Benevolent Ass'u 25.00
Danville Bible Class 10.00
H. B. Meredith 10.00
P. E. Maus... 20.00
W. S. Lawrence 5.00
A. Lawrence 5.00
Hanev & Frazier ... 5.00
Sam Rebman 5.00
A. C. Amesbury . . 5.00
William J. Rogers ... 5.00
John F. Tooley 5.00
Charles Lyon 2.50
Cash 1.00
John Jacobs Sons 5.00
D. R. Rckman 5.00
W. F. Bell 1.00
U. G. Youngmau 5.00
Howe 1.00
Cash ... 1.00
8. F. Rioketts 1.00
Cash 1.00
W. E. Kane 1.00
G. R. Sechler 1.00
Jos. W. Phillips 2.50
A. G. Harris 1.00
F. M. Owen 1.00
I. O. Lee... 2.50
J. H. Brugler 2.00
E. D. Pentz 2.00
I. Stein 1.00
J. H. GOBS. .. .. 1.00
W. G. Maiers 1.00
Cash 1.00
C. P. Harder 5.00
Cash 1.00
O. M. Leniger 1.00
Mrs. J. B. Jordan 1.00
E. W. Peters .. . 2.50
W. L. Sidler 5.00
George Maiers 1.00
Carl Litz 2.00
L. O. Deitz .. . 1.00
Daniel Marks I.oo'
R. Y. Gearhart 5.00
E. M. Shultz 2.00
J. Doster sons 5.00
Joseph Schmidt 1.00
P. C. Murray & Sons 5.00
F. P. Johnson 2.00
H. M. Sober .3.00
G. A. Rossman 1.00
George W. Hoke 1.00
James T. Findley 2.00
Henry Divel 2.00
D. H. Haney 2.00
Cohen Bros 1.00
R. L. Marks 2.00
Harry Ellenbogen 5.00
Elias Maier ... 8.00
E. A. Curry 5.00
Cash .. 2.00
J. W. Lore 1.00
E. S. Miller 1.00
Employes Reading Iron Co .... 8.0!)
Employes Tube Works and Howe
& Samuels 14.86
Penina Bright 2.00
Rebecca B. Sidler . 2.00
Thomas J. Rogers 5.00
Mrs. W. S. Roberts 5.00
Simon Dreifuss ... 1.00
Cash 1.00
Employes Curry &Co . . 28 26
Alice Smith . . 2 00
W. G. Reese 1.00
John Detweller .50
Frank Detwiler.. .50
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Eyerly 1.00
Mrs. John Cooper 50
William Spaide .... 1.00
Jacob Weimer .50
F. H. Vannan 5.00
D. B. Heddens 1.00
Samuel Welliver .. 2.00
H. Esterbrook 1.00
James Ryan ... 1.00
8. M. Deitz. 1.00
W. T. Shepperson 2.00
Harvey Dietrich 3.00
Danville Milling Go .. . . 5.00
Wm. David Wise 1.00
Charles Byers 1.50
Clarence E. Peifer 2.00
From box on street 1.25
Oglesby Family 5.00
Dr. J. O. Reod 1.00
E. S. Foruwald 5.00
Box at Elias Maiers 2.75
A. E. Hostelley 1.00
Thomas Lewis 1.00
M. H. Schram 2.50
Gash , 5.00
Gustave Oelschlager . . . 1.00
Edward Hurley .50
W. H. N. Walker .... 1.00
H. L. Gross 5.00
O. P. Hancock 5.00
J. E. Moore 10.00
Rev. E. T. Swartz .. 1.00
J. H. Shannon & wife 2.00
Julius Heim... 2.00
Samuel Bloch 2.00
Total .. ..... 1511.11
FREIGHT TRAIN
WAS DYNAMITED
WILKES-BARRE, April 25.—A Le
high Valley freight train was blown
up with dynamite on the cut-off,above
Pifcteton, at midnight last night. The
engine and several cars were derailed
and wrecked. Engineer John R. Thom
as,of this city,and Fireman H. Brown
of Pittston, were injured in the wreck
age. It is believed that some malic
ious persons placed a box of dynamite
on the track, which exploded when the
locomotive struck it.
The explosion was terrific, throwing
the engine from the tracks and tearing
off the tender. Three freight cars were
thrown over a steep embankment. A
corps of railroad detectives and the
county officials are making a searching
investigation.
Presbytery Statistics.
The report made at the spring ses
sion of the Presbytery,of Northumber
land held at Montgomery, shows that
tho number of persons received into
the church during the past year was
459, as against 37!) the year before.
This gain of 118 members is a gain of
twenty-five per cent. The annual ex
penses during 1904 was 111(1,000. Last
year they were about SIOO,OOO. The re
port also showed that only about thirty
per cent, of the scholars in the Sun
day schools are members of the church
es. Only eight societies among the
men are at present organized in the
entire Presbytery.
Pennsy Ships Storage Coal.
The coal inspectors Tuesday superin
tended the loading of coal from the
MoClellan yards of the Pennsylvania
railroad company near Millershurg,
the storage plant being opened for the
shipmenjt of coal. The yard is the
largest used for storing hard coal, and
the company will ship ISO carloads a
day for a short time to supply present
ord#r«.
ASSOCIATIONS
ON THE STREET
Certain facts have come to light re
lating to improper conduct upon the
streets at night, involving our young
population, which have thoroughly
aroused the chief burgess and the town
council. The matter is being deliber
ated on and nothing will be clone has
tily,but judging from the agitation at
present it does not seem unlikely that
a curfew ordinance may be enacted in
Danville.
In dwelling upon the unseemly con
duct upou the streets, at night, here
tofore the boys have come in for their
share of reproach. It now seems that
the girls are no better tliau they should
be and that their conduct in some
parts of town has become so reprehen
sible as to cause a public scandal.
Burgess Rogers appeared before
council at its last meeting to call the
attention of that body to reports that
had come to him in connection with
some of the public dances. Not only
did the bad reports involve girls that
were considerably under eighteen years
of age, but they quite conclusively
established the fact that the gentle
creatures were drunk.
' A gentleman was present at council
meeting, who had attended a number
of the dances and without denying the
humiliating allegation stated—and his
explanation was accepted by council—
that the dance was in no way responsi
ble for the condition of the girls or
any consequent disorder. He admitted
that girls of almost any ago are likely
to appear at the dance, but lie stated
that attendance of girls under eighteen
years is discouraged and unless they
misrepresent their age to the manage
ment they are generally obliged to
leave the building. It has occurred
that intoxicated females, who imbibed
elsewhere, have appeared at the arm
ory, but we have the gentleman's word
foi it that they were immediately
forced to depart.
As a result of it all the burgess and
council feel convinced that conditions
exist on our streets after dark, which
no well regirlateil town can afford to
tolerate. The police at all times have
authority to arrest iiersous intoxicated
or guilty of disorderly conduct, but it
is pretty evident that something else
should be done to improve the condi
tions, and to separate young girls—and
also boys—from evil associations,
which can be accomplished at least in
part by keeping them off the street at
night. Hence a curfew ordinance sug
gests itself. No action was taken by
council, but the matter was discussed
with much earnestness and was held
over for future consideration.
Former Townsman a Prospector.
A letter has been received from Em
erson Keim, son of John Keim, the
brick manufacturer. Emerson left
Danville a year or so ago and is now
prospecting for gold in the neighbor
hood of Manhattan, Nevada.
According to his letter our young
townsman is having the usual experi
ences of the frontiersman or prospect
or. He writes that he is about forty
miles from Manhattan at a new place
called Millett's. Ho arrived there
about three weeks ago, his tent being
the third that, was struck in the place,
which is now growing rapidly. In
making the journey from Manhattan,
he statos that he "walked forty miles
with his bedding on his back and a
stick in his hand." It was a hard trip
and one to be remembered, but lie feels
that he will be rewarded, as the place
promises to become one of the richest
ever discovered. He has already got
14 claims and is looking forward to
fabulous wealth.
Emerson writes that he is getting to
be quite an expert in prospecting and
that he "can now locate a mine with
the best of them."
He finds life in the mining camp full
of charm and he enjoys it very much.
It is an usual experience for him, he
says,to lie at night out under the stars
with only a blanket over him and
thirty miles away from every other
human being. His only companion is 4
a mule, which lie rides in his prospect
ing tours.
Whon at th« ranch he gets up in the
morning at 5:30 o'clock; at 6:30 he
starts out. He generally puts in a full
day returning at 6 p. m. He rides*
thirty to forty miles each trip,examin
ing on the way all kinds of rocks for
some kind of minerals. The life is a
rough one and full enough of adven
ture to please anyone The principal
food of the prospector is beans, bacon
and crackers. The country is full of
springs and the best of water is ob
tained anywhere.
Wages are high. Unskilled labor is
worth five dollars per day, while mech
anics and the like command eight to
ten dollars. Eight hours constitute a
day.
MAKING IMPROVEMENTS.
Horace C. Blue is erecting a new
porch at his residence on Mill street.
Yesterday morning lie tore down thej
old portico, which had done service
since the dwelling was built. The old
structure was quite a pretentious piece
of architecture but many of the tim
bers had yielded to decay and Mr. Blue
decided to tear it down and build
along modern lines. The new porch
will hoover twenty feet in length,tak
ing iu practically the entire width of
the house. It will add much to the
pleasure of the family occupying the
house and improve the value of the
property.
A portico, it would appear, can uot
be relied upon to withstand the rav
ages of time like the dwelling proper
and while the latter is still in good re
pair the portico or veranda becomes
dilapidated in appearance, detracting
much from the general surroundings.
It is unfortunate that now and then
property owners are uegligeut iu this
respect and permit old porticos to re
main long after they have ceased to be
ornamental. There are a good many
streets in town that aro disfigured iu
this way and the owners would do well
to imitate Mr. Blue's example.
Awful suspicion that wo are dooad
ent is forced upon one when it is uot
ed that in 1877 a man robbed a Brook
lyn bank of fIOtt.OOO, while nigli to SO
years after his son tackled the same
institution and only gets away with
(84,000.
CONCERNING OUR
MILK SUPPLY
A communication has been received
at this office signed "Daiiyman,"
which approves the action taken by
the authorities to promote good sanita
tion by securing an analysis of river
water, ]>erfecting sewerage, etc., but
which suggests the advisability of the
board of health examining another
source of contagion, which has ap
parently been overlooked. Reference
is mado to the in ilk supply of the
town, which, as is well understood, if
not scrupulously clean and pure, is apt
to prove a potent cause of typhoid
fever and other diseases. Inasmuch as
the writer is a dairyman the views ad
vanced, as they relate to milk, especi
ally, ought to have much weight. Th
communication reads in part:
"As everyone knows the only diet
given to a person suffering witli fever
is milk. Let us consider what might
happen if the milk given the patient
is not of the best and the purest qual
ity. Assuming that the cows are
healthy, is it not most frequently the
case that the oows are confined in
dark, filthy, unventilated stables?
Amid sucli surroundings is it not to bo
supposed that deadly bacteria, which
lurk in such places, will be introduced
into the milk? The bacteria increase
with wonderful rapidity and by the
time the milk reaches the fever pati
ent it is laden with deadly poison and
the poor weak patient, whose only hope
of life is in the sustenance he gets
from the milk, is required to partake
of actual poison. Now, the honest con
scientious dairyman will see to it that
his stables and their surroundings are
clean and sanitary, but how about the
milk lie purchases from other people?
Is he always careful to visit these
farms to ascertain if the stables are
clean and sanitary and consequently
whether the milk is all that it should
be?
"Iu what better way eaii disease be
carried from house to house than by
bottled milk? Does anyone suppose
that the dairyman disinfects every hot
tie each time it is returned? Is it not
putin the case with the other bottles
and washed by the dairyman in the
usual way? The next day the bottles
are all filled and distributed, as they
happen to come, to the patrons on the
route. The bottle that came from the
fever-stricken home goes into some
other home and in a short time anoth
er case of typhoid fever is reported.
"We have considered the possible
sources first, but there is another roa
son why the health authorities should
inquire into the dairy supply. Every
month the dairy and food department
sends out a book containing the names
of persons who have violated the law
by adulteration of milk and other food
sunplies. As we know Danville lias
not been quite innocent iu the past
and who is sure as to the present sup
ply? Last year the agent did not* test
the milk sold in Danville and it is not
likely that he will come this summer
unless somebody requests the depart
ment to make a test. Cousumers are
very willing to patronize a dairyman
whose milk is slow to turn sour in
warm weather, yet nature never in
tended milk to keep sweet louger than
a certain time. Beware of milk or
cream that keeps sweet in warm
weather—it is 'doctored.' Why should
not Danville follow the example of
other towns and require a test of the
milk once every mouth? The Babcock
test costs but a small amount and the
test can easily be made. Thus the con
sumer would know whether the milk
is honest in its weight and above or
below the standard. All honest dairy
men would hail such au examination
with pleasure.
DAIRYMAN.
Will Analyze River Water.
Dr. Cameron Shultz,secretary of the
local board of health, yesterday stated
that as soon as the river falls to its
normal level a specimen of our liy
draut water will be sent to the Phila
delphia chemical laboratory for an
alysis. As indicated by tiie report of
Health Commissioner Dixon recently
printed in these columns, Montour
county has had a rather bad showing
as relates to typhoid fever aud the
board of health is takiug this measure
o see whether the condition of the
%ater supply has anything to do with
undue prevalence of disease.
To allay all fears it should be stated
that there is nothing whatever alarm
ing. in the situation. As relates to
typhoid fever at present there are even
less cases than duriug the period cov
ered by Dr. Dixon's report. It hap
pens merely that the board of health
is not satisfied that our showng should
be auythiug less than the best the
year around and it is Koing to find out,
if possible, what deleterious influences
are at work.
J While our filter plant, is given credit
for eliminating n great deal of im
purity from river water, the consensus
of opinion among our doctors seems
to be that it should not be relied up
on to eliminate bacteria. Some of
those medical men, too, do uot regard
it as at all unlikely that during low
water disease grems may be found in
the river here, brought down from up
stream where the sewage from many
towns finds its way into the channel.
Hence, it is deemed best to ascertain
the condition of the water by close an
alysis to the end that, if anything is
found deleterious in its quality, our
citizens may know how to meet the
condition.
Prohibition Convention.
The Prohibition county convention
of Montour county is called to meet at
the courthouse on Tuesday, May 1,
190fi, at 2 o'clock p. m., to select a
County Committee, select delegates to
the State convention at Harrisburg,
and to nominate candidates for the
offices to be filled. The State Chair
man expects to bo present. All the
Prohibitionists in the county.men and
women, are urged to attend the con
vention.
J. M. KELSO, Co. Sec.
President Castro of Venezuela is said
to be recovering from an attack of
paralysis, and that acting President
Gomez, upon celebrating his accession
to office, lost #BS,(XX) in a cock fight.
A pretty set of rulers tliey have in the
petty Venezuelan republic.
FISH COMMISSIONER
MEEHAN DISAGREES
In a letter to Senator Godcharles of
Milton, Commissioner Meehau says :
? I do not agree at all w'th Donehow
er's theory that spring planting of
tront is not right. I have so stated in
the Williamsport Suu. I would not
care how groat the facilities might be
■when rearing trout, I would not favor
planting them in the fall. I could give
very many good reasons in favor of
spring planting of small fish and
against planting large fish in the fall.
Here aro two or three very good and
conclusive ones:
First. Young fish three or four
months old when planted in the streams
in the spring soon find plenty of food
coming to them and by the autumn
are fully capable of hunting food for
themselves.
Second. Fish held in the hatcheries
through the summer must necessarily
be fed with artificial foods aud when
planted iu the fall of the year do not
kuow how to huut for food for them
selves, and food at that time is very
scarce. Consequently, these fish have
a very hard time of it pulling through
the winter and many are lost.
Third. Fish kept in hatcheries un
til fall learu to ' school" aud when
planted in the fall hold to the habit
and when the angler comes along in
the spriug it is almost certain that
uearly every fish will be caught.
Fourth. Fall planted fish are the
most helpless creatures that can IK* im
agined. Spring planted fish in a week
or twojearu to tako care of them
selves.
Fifth. It is by results that we de
termine whether a tiling is good or
not. The results from the tront streams
iu Pennsylvania show that spring
planting is good.
The allegation which is often made
that floods will sweep away little fish
is not fouuded ou fact, if the fisli are
planted where they should be, namely
iu spring runs tributary to the stream
from which it is expected to catch
them. No flood which has vet occur
red has been able to turn as much as
the tail of the trout or move it from
where it wants to reuiaiu. That is af
ter the trout has become used to its
new water, which will be at the most
three or four days, and when planted
there early iu the season before the
snow water has entirely disappeared
the time is shortened. Twenty-four
hours will settle them securely.
The United States Bureau of Fisher
ies has apparently learned that both
Pennsylvania and Michigan and some
other states are right iu spring plant
ing from the fact that it is going into
spring planting as rapidly as possible.
A few years ago it planted uearly all
its trout in the fall, advocating au
tumn planting. Last year they raised
ten and a half million trout, of which
only one million were fall planted.
The rest wore planted even earlier tliau
we do. Michigan plants in the same
stage and has achieved marvelous
success. lam convinced from experi
ence covering nearly thirty years in
fish planting that it would be impossi
ble to stock the waters of Pennsyl
vania with trout if fall planting were
indulged in. The best evidence to
prove this is to be found in New York
state where they plant almost, exclu
sively in the autumn ; the fishiug is
there falling behind. In Pennsylvania
aud Michigau where spring planting
is the rule, trout fishing is improving
annually.
THIRTEEN IN
AMERICAN HISTORY
Queen Victoria ouce asked Ambas
sador Choate if Americans believed 13
to be] ail unlucky number, says the
"Boston Brown Book."
"No, your Majesty." he replied,
"we do not, for the eternal found
ations of our Republic were built up
on the number 13."
Let us see what Mr. Ghoate referred
to. In the first place, America was
discovered on the eve of the 13th day
of the month, and the original repub
lic consisted of 13 colonies. The first
official Stars and Stripes adflptoil Juno
14, 1777, had 13 stripes and 13 stars.
Our national emblem—the American
eagle—requires 13 lettors to spell it,
as does tho motto on our seal—E Plur
i bug Uunm—and of the great seal of
the United States, Annuit Coeptis.
The first word to pass over tho At
lantic cable was sent on the 13th day
of the month, and on Friday at that.
The silver quarter in your purse is not
considered a "hoodoo," yet 13 is writ
ten all over it; Above the head of Lib
erty are 13 stars, the eagle bears an
olive braucli with 13 leaves in one claw
and 13 thunderbolts in the other. On
his breast is a shield bearing 18 bars,
and from his beak streams a ribbon
with our motto containing 13 letters.
Each wing had 13 feathers, while as
you know it takes 13 letters to spell
quarter dollar.
The war of 1776 was called revolu
tionary, and was not unsuccessful be
causo spelled with 13 letters. Our flag
was saluted by 13 guns when Wash
ington raised it—yes,and by 13 cheers.
Tho Ameriau Navy had just 13 ves
sels at the outset—no more—and the
founder of it, John Paul Jones, was
not uuluckly because of the letters of
his name. He was exactly 13 years old
when he first came to America, and
was the first to carry the 13-starred
flag to victory, and to have it saluted
by a foreign power on the 18th day of
the mpnth. Perry's great victory on
Lake Erie, wasj won on the 13th day of
tho month, and the Stars aud Stripes
raised over Sumter ou the IStli.
One of the mßst remarkable rases of
'.'stay at home" and lack of curisity,
is that of Mrs. Hauud Turk, living at
EUmsport, only fifteen miles away
from Williamsport, who last week
visited that city for the first time in
fifty-nine years. She is sixty-four years
old aud remembers being brought to
that town when five years old, but she
lias not been there since.
TWINS.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Love, Bloom street, was gladdened
Momlay by the advent of two bounc
ing boy a.
IMPORTANT
ACTJUNDEFEIM
Amos Vastiue, a first ward member,
created a stir in council Friday night-,
when he informed that body that the
polluted condition of the river bank
above the intake of the water works
had been reported to the State board
of health. Who it was that had taken
the niatter up when the local author
ities hesitated to act was not stated.
Just what «*onon council expects from
Health Commissioner Dixon is not
clear. At all events it had not the ef
fect of impelling the members to take
auy action in the matter,although the
violation of the ordinance and the
consequent, defilement of the river bank
were threshed qver in about the same
way as at the previous meeting. The
attitude of the members was about the
same with the exception of the gentle
man from the third ward, who at the
previous meeting said he did not be
lieve the printed description, but who
at the last meeting said lie had in
vestigated and had found the situation
bad enough. The matter was treated
a little fnoro seriously than at the pre
vious meeting, but no action was tak
en either to effectually prevent the
dumping of garbage on the river bank
or to remove the impurities that are
already thrown on the spot.
It is worthy of note also that from
other parts of towu, especially, the
third ward, there is much complaint
on the score of bad sanitation. Al
though the of May is nearly here
it is no uucommou sight to see alleys
uearly blocked with manure piles and
ashes. Still worse, the gutters on
many of the streets are filled with
waste water of all sorts which flowing
from one spot lies in front of tiie door
ways of other persons who strive to
keep their premises clean and present
able. Probably those responsible for
the objectionable state of affairs de
scribed will some day awake to their
duty in the premises.
Kill Typhoid Says Dixon.
"Wipe out typhoid by killiug the
germs contained in the discharges of
the patient before they leave the sick
room to lay other fellow beings low
with this disease." Such are the in
structions that Health Commissioner
Samuel G. Dixon gives in his new cir
cular ou typhoid fever addressed to
nurses and attendants in charge of
persons suffering from this infectious
malady.
"I want to send that message ring
ing through the whole State," said
Health Commissioner Dixon to a news
paper man at Harrisburg yesterday.
"I want to get every local board of
health to see that in every home where
there is a person ill with typhoid feV
er, the physician, the nurse or attend
ant shall bo impressed witli the duty
of letting no infection from their pati
ent he the cause of giving the disease
to another,and the wav to do this first
of all is to kill the germs of the dis
ease that comes from the patient be
fore these germs leave the sick room.
I am determined that the appalling
harvest that typhoid is reaping in
Pennsylvania shall be cut down. It
can be done—it must be done. If, be
ginning today, the nurse or attendant
in charge of a typhoid fever case will
see to it that the discharges from the
patient are thoroughly disinfected be
fore they are carried out of the room
in which typhoid victim is confined,
we can almost wipe out typhoid in a
year's time. I realize that this is a big
I "if," yet it is one of the simplest
ways in the world to blot out a disease
that is appallingly epidemic through
out the whole State."
"If only each aud every persou to
whom this message is directed will
hear it and heed it."
In iiis typhoid circular Health Com
missioner Dixon sets forth simple me
thods of killing the typhoid germs be
fore they are carried out of the sick
room.
Death of Thomas Cook.
Thomas Cook, son of Benjamin
Oook, East Market street, died at the
hospital, Wilkes-Barre, Saturday morn
ing and later in tho day was taken to
his home, West Front street, Berwick,
The deceased was 32 years of age.
He was born in Danville aud spent
many years of his yfe here. His many
friends will grieve to learn of his
doath. He is survived by his wife aud
one son, Benjamin,three years of age.
Besides his father, he is survived in
this city by a brother, William Cook,
and a sister, Mrs. William lies. An
other sister, Mrs. Sarah Vastine. lives
in Pittsburg.
The deceased was taken to the hos
pital two weeks ago. He underwent
an operation for appendicitis; com
plications set in, which resulted in
death. Mrs. Cook was almost a daily
caller at the hospital and it was uot
until last Thursday that the sad news
was imparted to her that there was no
hope of recovery for her husband.
The deceased was an employe in the
blacksmith shop of the A. C. & F. Co.
Ho was a member of the I. O. O. F.,
of Berwick, aud was recently appoint
ed as a delegate tp the Pittsburg con
vention. He was well liked aud had
many friends in Berwick as well as iu
Danville.
Express Free to Frisco.
U. S. Express Agent Foruwald has
received a wire from C. E. Topping,
general superintendent, that roads as
follows: " You are authorized to ac
cept free all goods and money for re
lief of San Francisco sufferers."
Similar instructions have been re
ceived by William M. Sechler, Adams
express agent.
Gang to Steal Cattle.
There appears to have been organiz
ed a gang for tho stealing of cattle at
Byruesville, between Centralia and
Ashland, as within the past week six
cows have completely disappeared from
the stables in that vicinity. Residents
are becoming indignant and an effort
will be made to bring about the arrest
of the guilty .parties.
Marriage License.
A marriage license was issued by
Prothouotary Vincent Saturday to W.
C. Uuger of Union Corner aud Miss
Gertrude M. Vought of Elynburg.
SOME CHANGES
CONTEIPLATED
Besides installing four additional
arc lamps aud two incandescent lights
as indicated by the report of the last
cotmcil meeting, our borough fathers
have decided upon some improvements
in the borough light system, which
will help the service aud necessitate
only a small outlay of money.
At present there are five circuits in
the borough, but, as explained -by the
borough electrician, in their practical
working they are interwoven in such
a way as to render it difficult or im
possible to make necessary repairs at
auy one point while the lights are on
without interfering with the service
all over the borough. The difficulty
seems to be that each of the four cir
cuits embraciug the arc lights return
ou the commercial circuit, which lights
up the borough projxjrty, such as city
hall and the four hose houses. In case
of an accident to any one of the arc
lights it becomes impracticable,accord
ing to the electrician, to make speedy
repairs without shuttiug off the whole
system. In case there is anything
wroug with the commercial circuit,
especially, there is no other way out
of it but to throw off the whole sys
tem.
Acting upon the electrician's advice
it is proposed to make each circuit a
circuit in itself. This according to an
estmiate made by the electrician will
necessitate the purchase of about 14,-
400 feet of wire and a number of cross
arms. The cost is not difficult to de
termine. According to the electrician's
estimate it will not exceed S2BO. No
time has been set for beginuing work
on the improvement.
The four arc lamps authorized at the
last meeting of council will be instal
led immediately. The light ou Wal
nut street, where heretofore darkuess
has reigned, will necessitate the erec
tion of four uew poles.
CASTOR IA
Tor Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
A RUINED CITY.
It is almost beyond belief that with
in a couple of days, one of the chief
cities of the United States,the metrop
olis of the Pacific coast, a place of
400,000 population, should have been
annihilated, laid in ruins, an utter
waste. San Francisco, with its-mag
nificent seven story hotel, covering a
block, ten to eighteen story business
buildings, scores of magnificent man
sions, churches and edifices,public and
private,equal to auy city in the world,
have gone down in ashes.
It was believed first reports were
exaggerated, but the fire fiend swept
on, aud swept away over #100,000,000
worth of property, aud left past rec
ords dwarfed. The Chicago, Boston
aud Baltimorcffires are small in com-
pari sou.
Great stretches of blackened ami
smoking ruins mark the place where
business houses and beautiful resi
dences of a great city stood a couple
of days ago. For two straight miles,
wrcekage and ruin are seeu. Great
manufactories, mercantile houses,
banks and office buildings are nowhere
to],be seen. Eighteen aud tweuty story
steel buildiugs, mammoth hotels cov
ering a block, a dozen millionaire
mansions, famous landmarks,museums
and places of art, hospitals, etc., don
ated and endowed by former wealthy
resideuts or pioneers are in ashes.
The loss and destruction is appal
ling, but Sau Francisco will be re
built. The railway communications
exist, the splendid harbor, and the
gateway to the Far East. The same
kind of courage aud energy as rebuilt
the burned districts of Baltimore,
Chicago and Boston, will prevail in
Sau Francisco, aud when the people
recover from their daze, and capital
begins to pour in from the big cities
of the East and Middle West, the
stricken California town will take
heart and a new and a better city will
spring up with astonishing speed.
OLD-FASHIONED JUSTICE.
Complaint is made occasionally that
the court in some counties allows too
much latitude or overlooks remissness
in grand juries ignoring bills which
apparently ought togo to trial. Judge
Staples, of Monroe county, is not dis
posed to depart from the good old
fashioned way of country justice, aud
last Tuesday sent for jurors because
they had ignored an indictment charg
ing a couple of females with larceny
of goods from a department, store.
When the jury came into court the
judge said, when the evidence before
the grand jury is sufficient, it is the
duty of a grand jury to find a true
bill, and in a case like this it had no
right to ignore it. That would be com
pounding a felony. Because a pros
ecutor appears before the grand jury
and says that he does not want to pro
secute a case it does not empower the
grand jury to ignore a bill in a case of
felony. It is for the court to consider
when the case is brought before it
whether the prosecution should go 011
or not. Hereafter he expected the
grand jury to conform to these in
structions.
The supposition is that grand juries
decide 011 the weight of evidence pre
sented by the plaintiff whether there
is sufficient reason for a true bill, but
evidently the judge in question was of
the opiuiou that justice was not being
done, and he was frank enough to say
so. Compounding a felony is a serious
charge, and such an allegation is not
pleasant to say the least, aud grand
juries who have to deal with Judge
Staples are pretty apt hereafter to ex
ercise greater care in their delibera
tions.—Scranton Times.
The scientists are trying to explain
both Vesuvius aud Sau Francisco, but
their explanations are largely theories.
The day before Mount Pelee vomited
forth destruction on the thousands at
her foot, a scientist assured the in
habitants of St. Pierre that there was
no danger.
SHIPMENT OF
COAL RECEIVED
Nearly a mouth lias passed siuce any
coal was miued and already the gener
al conditions that are in any way re
lated to fuel are pretty nearly the same
as those that prevailed during the
great miners' strike of 1(102. Already
the arrival of a car load of coal in
I town is au event far out of the ordin
ary—sufficient to create quite a stir.
The quality of the coal—where it was
shipped fromx-how it was procured—
all these are questions that concern the
people mightily.
The first shipment of authracite coal
that reached here since the shut down
arrived at South Danville yesterday
and was consigned to the Reading Iron
company. A little iuquiry as to where
the coal came from revealed that we
have comparatively near at hand a
fairly abuudaut son»co of coal not af
fected by the shut down—a source
nearly identical with the oue that
stood our towu in such good stead dur
ing the last great strike.
This is at McAuley mountain—the
picturesque old ridge some thirty-five
or forty miles to the east of us that
lies on the very borders of the great
coal deposit aud holds in its bosom one
or more veins of the black diamonds.
No one can scarcely remember a time
when coal was not mined at McAuley.
Ovor thirty years ago John Hiutorleit
er, who owned aud occupied a farm in
Beaver Valley, that abutted on the
mountain, putin all his spare time
miuiug coal, which lay near the sur
face aud was easily obtained. It was
a very good coal,a trifle soft probably,
and was known as " peacock" coal ow
ing to its gaudy colors, which resem
bled those of the poacock's plumage.
The farmers who ilid not burn wood
exclusively purchased their coal of
John Hinterleiter paying for it at the
rate of one dollar per two horse load.
The school houses iu several adjoining
districts were supplied from the same
source. There was no breaker at the
mine aud the coal was delivered iu
chunks as large as a half a bushel,
which the purchaser had to break with
a hammer.
It was from this small mine, now in
other~hauds, that a considerable quan
tity of coal was hauled to Danville
during the last miners' strike by sev
eral of our townspeople, who general
ly occupied nearly a day and a night
in making the trip.
A more important mine was on the
west Jor Scotch Valley side of the
mouutain, operated for many years by
Lossee and Shuinau. This mine was
pretty well equipped and a good deal
of coal was shipped. The methods em
ployed, however, wore rather wasteful
and immense culm banks accumulated,
containing good coal in all sizes.
After some years, when the mine
was no longer operated, and coal in
creased so much in value, the culm
banks themselves became a factor aud
parties undertook to work them over
extracting the coal and placing it up
on the market. Whilw the mines were
in operation there was little demand
for the product and the work was not
pushed to any extent. Now, however,
since miuiug has ceased and a general
shortage of coal has occurred, it is al
together different. A big demand has
opened aud cul from the Scotch val
ley culm piles will be shipped as fast
as it cau be obtained.
The coal, which was shipped to
South Danville yesterday was No. 5 ;
audit was clean and uniform in size.
Our townspeople will undoubtedly
look to the same source for future
shipments.
Pale,
Nervous?
Then your blood must be in
a very bad condition. You
certainly know what to take,
then take it —Ayer's Sarsa
parilla. If you doubt, then
consult your doctor. We know
what he will say about this
grand old family medicine.
Thla ia the first question your doctor would
ask: "Are your bowela regular?" He knows
that dally action of the bowels is absolutely
essential to recovery. Keen jrour liver active
and your bowels regular by taking laxative
doaes of Ayer's Pills.
A Made b» 3. O. Ayer Co., Lowell. Mass.
yV Also manuftmturera of
A\ -. _ ' hair vigor.
/ I ) iljrO AGUE CURE.
WL <AUV# O CHERRY PECTORAL.
We have no aecreta ! We publish
the formulae of all our medicines.
WM. KASE WEST.
ATTORNrY-AT-LAW.
No. SSO MILL STREET,
DANVILLB.
CHARLES CHALFANT.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Ita. 110 MILL STREET,
DANVILLB
WILLIAM L. SIDLER,
ATTORNEY-AT.LAw,
rot Htl.L AMD HARIET STRIRTS.
•ANVILLB.
Patronize
A. C. AMESBURY
Best Coal In Town.
PRESIDENT WILL
ATTEND DEDICATION
The initial step toward the dedica
tion of the new capitol was taken yes
torilay when the dedicatory commis
siou mot with Governor Peuuypacker.
Governor Peuuypacker presented a let
ter from President Roosevelt's secre
tary, Mr. Loeb.to the effect that Oeto
er 4, will suit liim to atteud the ded
ication, and the commission decided
to hold the ceremonies on October 4.
It will be purely a military spec
tacle, as the commission lias decided
that it will be more in keeping with
the dignity of the occasion, and it
would not comport well to have all
kinds of organizations in the line of
parade. There will be no civic org
anizations whatever iu the line,and it
is thought that two provisional bri
gades of the national guard will be
sufficient The president aud Governor
Penuypacker will be in the line.
Just what part the president will
take-in the ceremony will be left en
tirely to himself. He may hold a re
ception, deliver an oration or do ex
actly as he nominates, and the gover
nor will write to tell him so, aud ask
what he prefers.
There will be? ceremonies on a grand
stand to be erected in front of the cap
itol on which will be seated 8,000 peo
ple, and Speaker Walton, Senator Fox
ami Auditor General Sudyer will
locate and see that the stand is erect
ed. Speaker Walton was also author
ized to take up the matter of trans
portation with the railroad companies,
audit is expected that the crowd there
will be the greatest in the history of
Harrisburg. State Treasurer Mathues
and Auditor General Snyder will look
after tlio matter of music, and it is
said have designs on securing the ser
vices of the marine baud, of Washing
ton. After the ceremonies and parade
in the day time there will bo a ban
quet in the evening either iu the hall
of the new house of representatives or
in a large hall to be selected if it is
uot couvenieut to use the hall of the
house.
It is expected that at least a thou
sand persons will attend the banquet.
The wife of president Roosevelt and
the ladies of the cabinet will be invit
ed to attend and will be entertained
at the residences of prominent citi
zens. Others expected to be present
are the United States senators and and
i congressmen from this State, the sup
reme and superior courts, senate and
house, prominent scientists, men of
affairs in many walks of life, and
State administration attaches.
Another meeting will be held soon
to arrange for sending out invitations.
BEST FOR THE
BOWELS
If you haven't n regular, healthy movement of the
bowels every day, you're 111 or will bo. Keep your
bowels open, and bo well. Force, In the shape of
violent physic or pill poison, is dangerous. The
smoothest, easiest, most perfect way of keeplug
the bowels clear and clean is to take
Pleasant. Palatable, Potent, Taste Oood, Do
Good, Never Sicken, Weaken orOrlpe; 10, 25 and
50 cents per bo*. Write for tree sample, and book
let on health. Address 433
Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York.
KEEP YOUR BLOOD CLEAN
Charles V. Amerman,
Attoine>-at-L w Notary Public
DANVILLE, PA.
INSI'ItANCK, GEN'L LAW PRACTICE
UNITED 'pifOXK, 202
G. SHOOP HUNT.
PRESCRIPTION DRUGBIST,
Opposite Opera House.
MNVIILE, . . I'KKN'i
IHOMAS C. WELCH,
ATTORMY-AT-LA*.
District Attorney of Montour Ooantj
No 107 MILL STRBBT,
DANVILLE.
J„T. BROWN, M.D.
THE EYE A SPECIALTY
Eye.* tesi d, treated an litted with
glasses. No Sunday Work.
311 Market I - -- Bloomsburg. Pa
Hours—lo a. m.to sp. m.
DR J. SWEYSFORT,
DENTIST.
Ueen ODONTUNDER for the painless ex
traction of teeth. Dentistry in all
its branches and all work guar
anteed.
CHARGES REDUCED.
Opposite Opera House, Danv lie
Take year preecrlptlona to
ROSSMAN & SON'S PHARMACY,
145 MILL STREET, DANVILLE, PA.
Two Boftetor«4 Pharmacists In oharg*
part Freak Drug;a and full lino of Potool
Medlclaea and Wondrloa.
VINE OIOAM. OOOD COLD SODA,
CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH
PENNYROYAL PIUS
*aff. Always reliable. Lad lee. ask Drafriat for
(HH IIIIHTKKM ENULINrf in BeJ and
Uold metallic boxes, sealed with blue ribbon.
Take no other. Itefuoe daaferoaa a aba Ci
tation* and Imltatlona. Buy of your Druggist,
or uviid 4e, in stamps for Pssrtlenlare, Testi
monial* and » Relief for Ladles" in UtUr,
by return Mall. 10,000 Teatimoniala Sold fey
all Drugglsta.
CHICHBBTBB OHBUIOAL CO.
•IN BadUoa Hnaarc, PHIKJL, PA.
UMIMIUaMPM