THE REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, - - -Editor. FIUPAY, MARCH 8, 1395. TfIE JUDICIAL CONTEST " CASE IN SESSION Continued from page 2. 1893,in November 1893. For whom are you working ? For W. Kipp & (Jo. Do you mean you came there a year ago last November ? Yes, sir; 1 did. With your family ? Yes, sir; I would have had ft vote a year ago. But for what? There wasn't any body I wanted to vote for. Where would you have had a vole a year ago? We would have voted at pez only the train was late and we couldn't go there. A year ago ? Yes, sir. Have you lived at that place ever since you came into that township, that precinct? Have I what ? Have you lived in the same bouse you moved into first? No, sir; I changed houses, but in the same place. Your family had only lived there 25 days before election last ? Last fall ? Yes, sir ? Yes, sir; and a year and 25 days. Had you lived at that mill and worked at that mill ever since you came there ? Yes, sir; only I changed houses; I don't live in the house now where I moved. You had lived there a year and 25 days? Yes, sir; I moved therein the following November. WILLIAM COLT, sworn for contes tants; direct examination. Mr. Colt, what is your business? Well, I am manager of a store, also book-keeper. What place? Ricketts. What county is that in? That is in Wyoming county. How long have you been managing that store ? Since March 1893. For whom ? Trexell & Terrell Lumber Co. Did you vote at the late election at 1-iopez in November 189t? I did. You are a single man ? Yes, sir. Where was you boarding, where did you board last November and prior to that time ? Part of the time at Lo pez and part of the time at the Hotel Ricketts. The Hotel Ricketts in Wyoming county ? Yes. sir. Where did you board when at Lopez ? I boarded with Mr. J. 11. Terrell. Mr. J. H- Terrell prior to November 6th had moved away, had he not ? Shortly before, I couldn't say the exact date, but it was within a week or ten days. Moved his family dawn into Luzerne county, near Pittston ? Yes, sir. Alter that you continued your boarding place, it was exclusively at the hotel was it not ? I was down in Lopez several times afterwards. But you had no boarding place there ? No partic ular one; I had logings there, rooms of my own. BY TUB COURT: Had logings where ? At Lopez. Did you have your lodgings there right up to elec tion day ? Yes, sir; I had a furnish ed room of my own there. Where did you have lodgings there? In tbe store of Trexell & Terrell Co. Where did you stay the night before election? At Ilick etts. Well, really your boarding place at Lopez had been abandoned several days, a week or ten days be fore election ? I couldn't really say it was abandoned, because I kept the room and was there after election even. Well, you had no boarding place there, the family with which you boarded had moved away about h week or ten days before election ? Yes,sir. Where did you sleep the night before election ? I slept at Ricketts. At the hotel? No, sir; I have rooms in the store idso, Slept in the utorc r at your lodgings in the store? At my lodging 111 the ■tore. Well, there is where you lodge altogether when you are at Ricketts ? Yes, sir. And get your meals at the hotel? Yes. sir. And have spent nine-tenths of your time since last March ut Ilicketts, have you not? No, 1 don't think I have spent that much time; I w uldn't be able to state what proportion, but I spent a share of each and every month at I o|>ez. part of the lime. What was you doing there? I »■«-. auditing the monthly accounts of the Company at Auditing accounts ?.Making month lv statements, and looking after the Imsineaa there same as I was at Kleketst". Cromt Kxniiiiiintion: I)o I under* •laud thul you bail a |ilt»c«> ill LO}M>* that you eonanlered your IH>IUM !' Yea, mr. Ami tluil continued up lo lliu luiiu uf lite «•!« fli nt? Why, I had tliia room limit* (liui I hIWHyk funic lo; tlm family of Mi'. Tcriell wbuw 1 eouiidered inv bourn liad moved ju*l prior to flwliou. You made yuur Itouto willt tlit-in. fun aidered tnat your lt"i«« ? I *, » ' TIIDV movnd away U'lort- election ' Y*a, air. Aafter lhe\ moved ««>l\ you • iiil li»l * llnit > on of. iu (lied ilmre. k«*|«l fi»r your u»# ? Yea »tr AU'I did >"11 uoiuidcr tnui ytiisr lioutt*, your resident)* 112 V»*», •ti ;l toiititUred l.o|*z my re»idenct Aiiortloii of (be HUM: ' \k«, air. Km -iJireel V'.i tium iltDii hi l vow Uv* ii*y prupurly »l P Noili lii 4 bill |n'l*nuitl proper!) , !•<•» of |«f«UIMI |iril|l«llv lll'lH Mid Hill I*v a ataia ur vouuly las and if wlww 112 I I dow'i vtwtiljr buu» when, but I paid my tax all there was presented to nie, r fo whom did 3-011 pay the last tnx, and what was it, state or county ? If I can think of his name, was the man that collect ed the li'.at tnx in Lopez, for Colley towns'iip. Walsh ? Yes. sir. Did yon pay him ? I paiq it to him 1 think. When did you pay to bini ? I don't remember just when; I know it is paid, I haven't the receipt here; 1 have a receipt for it. You don't recollect when you paid it ? I don't remember exactly when, no, sir. Do you recollect tlist you paid a county tax to him? Yes, fir. What county tax was it you paid, or don't you know ? I don't know; I don't remember. When you went down to Lopez from Ricketts you only went down for temporary purposes, did you, and that is to attend to a little business there, and then to re turn ? Sometimes I went down to attend to business, sometimes for social affairs; my social attractions were more eujoyable there than at Uickeits, more attractive, I consider ed it my home any way. Was there a room there especially reserved for you at Lopez ? It was occupied at different times by other parties, but I considered it my room. It was fltteu room fitted tip especially for your self at Ricketts, didn't you '■ -No; not so much so as the one at Lopez. Whefe did you spend your Sundays? At Lopez. JOHN KINSLEY, sworn for contest tants; direct examination. Where do you live, Mr. Kinsley ? Lopez. Did you vote at the last November election ? Yes, sir. Where did you reside prior to your living in Colley township? Lopez. Where did you come from when von came to Lopez ? I came from WiU mot township. Where does your family live? In Lopez. Where did it live last November ? Lived in Lopez. When did you move to Los pez? I moved there seven years ago. (JASPER KOTTI.KR, sworn for con testants; direct examination. Did you pay a slat" for county tax within two years prior to Nov. C? Yes. sir; 1 think I did. To whom ? To Theodore Menser, Davidson iwp. When did you pay it ? I paid it sometime about the middle of F'-l> a year ago this last February. You reside in Colley, do you ? Ido now. Fatnilv 112 Yes, sir. A. ScnocK, sworn for contestants; direct examination- Whore did yon re ile, Mr. Schocli ln«t November/ ltieketts. 11:»v«* yon a family there/ Yes, sir. "Where did von come from when you came to Kiekettt! ? I moved up from Lopez. How Jong did yon live at Lopez ? A yenr. Did von pay a state or county tax/ Ye?, sir. To whom/ I paid it every year. When did von pay the last state or county tax / In October I fillers. SUP SWAULKU, sworn for contest ant®; direct examination. Yi>n voted in I<"pc>z at the Novem ber list/ Ye", sir. Have you paid a state or county tax / Ye», sir. Po whom/ Gabriel Bowman and Tom Kangley. Did you pay it i" Bowman yourself? No, sir; 1 didn't I had a man pay it. Who did you have pay it for you? I told Mr .Jennings to pay it for IIV; I was cut tiny logs iu the woods and told him to come around and pay it; Iliave got the receipt here, G'Ji of October. When did you get the receipt/ I couldu'l tell you Just when I got the receipt; 1 guess in Ojtobor. \\ ho nave you the receipt? It was lelt at the Jackson house. Near clec ion was it* No, sir. 1 low long before? A few days before, Was it within a week or ten days? I couldn't tell you, I didn't pay no attention. Did yon pay anything when you got the receipt then, any money / N>, sir. You was work ing for .Jonniii'is/ No, sir; 1 was working for Jackson. Mid \"u ever pay Jennies for this/ No, sir: not vet. Jennings told \on he had paid it, did he 1 He didn't tell we; I y;ot the receipt. Hid be ever talk with you iib<>ut it / No, sir. Stab' when vou pai I taxi-s to loin Kang ley/ It was in IS'Jl.i think. Then vou hadn't pai I any from ihit up to this/ I paid tax in Ibtshore; I went lo Ibi-hore and utayi 4 there a while. Mil II \ KI. lb llK i,.in - worn for cor.* testanl»; direct t >alli:liatioU. Mr. Burke, you live at Lopez? Yea, sir. l)id yon vote at the late election iu November there? Yen, sir. Paid a lax? No, nil'. Never imid one? Well, I have paid tax but not in l.optz. Where did you pay it? Dmhoru. How Innif iiyi 1 /tie M'tus a jo. Haven t paid xitiee' So, »ir. To am body I No, kit Did 1 under.tand yu to say ion ha I paid no tax? No, -r. What i, your aije ? I will hi' ml liext I lei ,\inl you are o- it tiu votl paid a tax.' I have not liiyelf, llteie is oiler pii tin* paiil it tor me, that i* all I know about it IVder «ha name did vou Vote at tin' l ite eb et ion / j I voted by Ihe tuiue i'f .Michael IbiiLt; 1 h ivi n't paid no lax iinivll I ill ii »;i» 1 f>i we. Will, mi don't Ilium aleuit that / Welt. I u«»t the iieeipl thai i- all I uot to ultnw for It You didn't aulleo »<• ma ulie lo |e»V fur V"II 112 \tl, aili I did i mil Who |(avt> von the |r<«ipt ( \| y tnothei U ivi ii to iu«, but AMI' I ! l-'tfitdl t! i»e it to loin ? Wln II did j I oil |fi't Ihe reevipl 112 I eould lint fealty till you mlon I isot lb# ie- | i"elpl IK'ltoe oi after llm il elion' I it,oik if liefi lei Hon ll I lel'imnU I 114111 Not more than a Mtek ? Well, it m ie'i o»ei 4 wwk, k'loib/iwii/ i The contest court adjourned IFed nesclay at 10:30 a. in., and at 3:30 p. in. Cause—no witnesses. In all, the contestants have sworn about 20 witnesses. Judging from this the Sittser side of the contest will do their evidence eo far as Sullivan Co. is concerned, this week. John Hauler has purchased the Dushore bakery of M. Cannon and will continue to furnish our people with first class bread stuir. As in the past a supply will be left at the store of Mrs. M.C. Lauer where the hungry can be supplied at all hours of the day. Mr. Thos. (J. Metier, foreman ol the Canton Sentinel, while in town on business, Wednesday, made us a pleasant call. Mr. Metier is an old friend of our foreman, Mr. Wing, and they enjoyed a pleasant meeting Mrs. Chas. Laurence and Mr. and Mrs. 'Boyd lleaverly, of Dushore came over to call 011 Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bradley's little daughter, IFednesday. \V. D. Finkle of Laporte, is cons fined to his bed with pneumonia. EA GLES MERE ITEMS. The largest lake trout ever caught in this lake, was caught by E. S. Chase, C. A. Brink and U. F. Cheney on Friday last. It measured :2G Ins. and weighed 0] pounds. 11. Lissou attended court as juror, last week, but was taken sick and was excused, lie is better at this writing. G. Waltz was up looking after his carpenter work on the Brown cottage, lie has threo carpenters at work now. 0. 11. Smith and family and Rooa Bennett and family and Mrs. (i. W. Smith, are visiting friends in Colley, this week. A. R. L's banjo fill down nnd broke its neck. No wonder, lie was so worried about that box of boots he brought up in a mistake for gro ceries He must hive hung it on the wrong nail. C. F. Cheney Iris just received a box of garden and flowur seeds from (.lie firm of D. M. l' wool shirts, un der ■hirt* and drawer*, I .Allien', M !•»»»•»' and t hildrcn*' underwear, lioth wool and cotton, A OOUiplete line of IKIHU N nil »hoo«, including lient*', l.adies', a n Han ! piiie», way down. * • Mi irn i>rv iti ill i, e m;>lrlu with fi««h u •rnvint; «v iy auk. ,\i.oj IH«' li.'-t fj'iur tt'H |I I »«, k. ptinii tni'il, .1i.,r., 112 in mil mU Ml lowe.l mvli l |iilr* At ii. * ful: Inn* | i|i ,ift li.iil • nr». • ,w4 i . Uui|M. nml 111 112 .rle». iy. 1 IH.U KE.IL I*l :» TJ. IN I* TT.IRE Y'UC IU »*.• in :!ijr i>> tutttteartcii prt.r* a il iju.lill.) u ' 1 1 'H\ In iliw Ii n* T. J. KKELER. CmtO'llll S:. LIJIMPI. L. B. BQ9CI) ft CO Dutthoro, Pu, M.iuuf.ii i'ifi-n ul K "in Kif-I. Mi .il *inl |.l|lillM ( I III* ► lUII ll I, 0111l I'l 111.- '4SK i i t#u»i Miil» m ilk' mtiMiy jinlili i Miiki i.|«rilli ill Miiil|l4ill|itli|| kU»I ll >il» mill («i<| Ul>» iix iii >' Ui <» : Come everybody, and for once ; in your life see what it menus, : as wo must clear out the l>al« : anco of our Winter Stock ol . : mens', boys' ami childrens 1 12: suits and overcoats. Hats ami caps, gents furnishing goof wlllh'l gtuwli VV»< mi»k«' »uil» r i»i? u« in prin Irnai sttl upwuMib I'uNUkiueit (row $1 fMI itn I ti|>. U> nl«" In r We klV|l f Drill* KuruUhiutr k«mhl. In ibi- Viilli-y Miiru ami ii •liwUliy Lclh .' Sty F 1! arantHGd w . u'ii i.:!,', I'lltiUV li< I'll |> rt NulKy u» *•> | tula I turil w Urn In «tv*iiv "I » *uii u. 4 l*«ir of J. W. Ballard, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER - IX— tllP I II ¥M, —ALSO— Fara and Heavy LiimSer fapas. FACTORY WEST MAIN STREET LAPORTE, PA | P. S. All kiwi - , of repairing promptly ami ueatlv dcue at reasonable prices. I lC r|f7 ifinff .. ii£—^ Vic!;us ilorscs Shod in Martin's Uor*' Shoeing Rsrk. J. W. BALLARD M.-.yia 1»* J. V. fiETTENWJSr, Watch : Maker : and : Jeweler, DUSEORE, PA. - Established April Ist, 1879. Fresh Stock A" T[!S —^ I annsry Store Having just returned from the City, where we purchased the usual supply of Dry Goods, Groceries &c., suitable for the season, we are prepared to sell the same at as reasonable price# us can he had in the country Our stock of GROCER® Are of the usual standard here tofore sold in our store, and, as much of these goods are pur chased at a less price than iorraerly, we are disposed to give our customers fcfee benefit. OUR BOOT A:D SHOE Department cannot be surpassed in either quality or variety— and the prices are less than ever offered before in this market. Spring Dress goods 01 the different varieties, at prices to suit the tunes. JamesMeFarlane. LAPOHTE, PA. Chas. SM, Purvis; COLLECTION OFFICE?, 33 w- 4 tli St.—and-540 l'acker St WILI.UMSPOKT FA. Collections made iu all part* of the world. LAW OFFICES OF G. B. M. iVletzger, •-2!) W 4th St.—Telephone,Mo. 1393 LAPOBTE BANK. LAPORTE, PA. Do a general Banking and Collecting hu.sinc ss. Any business intrusted to U3 will be carefully attended to. Agents for Steamship Tickets to and from all parts of Europe, and for Fire Insurance t'ompaniae, J. ALFRED JORDAN,CASHIKK. Sawed Shinqles The best in the market and at low bottom prices Three grades constantly on hand Will deliver if desired. Write—S. MEAD, May23'9o. LaPorte, Fa. tfy» J. &F. 11. INGHAM, da a ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, LAPORTE, - - PA. Legal Bu.' iness attended to in this and adjoining Counties. £ )£> J. MULLEN, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW, DUSHORE, - - PA, ' Olllec with r». S. Collins, ! 1' J. BRADLEY^ ATTOKK ET-AT-LAW, LAPORTE. - PA Office with Hon. E. M. Dunham. TRAINER & PURVIS, ~ . COMMISSION EHOEERS, LOANS N KOOTIATKP &C. No. 2'J W. 4th St., Williamsport, Pa. I3?"A11 kinds of merchandise bought or sold on commission. . P. INGHAM & 11. KTNEWITT A'ITOKNKTS-AT-I.AW. 501 Chestnut stieet. Philadelphia. Pa. T. DOWNS, ATTOHX SY-AT-LAW Kx Pri'lli'y. I:t.i .1 Kec'id r of Sullivan Co- Office h ith Sht riil MbltulTey. l.uPorto Pa. HAIL TO Til/I CHEAPEST Til ATS Tvr.UVIiQDVS MoTTO j aud the people appieelnle iliu fact that I MRS. L'l'-R'S STORE r : ;:ht "iu it - ' for cheap good*. My fiinii ri lire nlnayi fresh and of (ho tie t quality. Fluur and feed the h< t the mmket stTorda. M JUS. M. C. LA UKR. Miyta. W» CROWN ACME The Best BmiDi {il That Cai Be: J Made Inn F'utrnleuai. It given a brilliant lif lit. It will not -moke the chimney It will not ehar the w ii-k It has u liiyh lire teat. It will Wilt explode. It is withoutfompmlaon aa a perfectinn Kainih Swft t* Oil. it it manufactured from the lineal eruile 111 thenioal |>»rlW'tly eijuipped i» ill the woild IT IS TIIK UK ST. A*k your dealer for eunM S Ai UK. Trade ordera filled l»jr Tilt An.AMit lUtlKiKil l\». V\ i|liatu»|>oit Station, Wlllinliiaporl I'a,