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VOL. 56—NO 18
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Andrew Carnegie has refused to give
the county of Allegheny his Glencairn
farm for the boys' industrial school,
but,says the Pittsburg Gazette Times,
he is willing to sell it for #860,000.
The price would bring him a profit of
|480,478.43. The farm will not be pur
chased.
Mrs. Laura Hickman, employed in
one of the manufacturing industries
at Rockdale,Chester county,was bend
ing over a loom adjusting the mechan
ism when her hair, which she wore in
long braids, became entangled iu the
cogs, and beforo the machinery could
be stopped her scalp was torn from her
head.
Mavor Bruch, of Hazleton, has just
imposed a unique sentence. Five boys
were before him charged witli remov
ing brass letters from a window sign.
He fined them $2 eacli and gave them
an indefinite time in which to pay it.
They are to report to him every Mon
day evening and pay at least one cent
until the entire amount is paid.
Stephen Tolliver.of Harrisburg, was
held up and beaten on Thursday near
Pottsville. Not only was he beaten but
robbery was added to his misfortunes.
Then his assailants threw him into a
oreek and there he was later found by
some railroad men, who followed the
trail of blood which his wounds made
on the ground. He is in a critical con
dition in the Pottsville hospital.
The automobile of Dr. C. W. Yar
nell. of California, Washington coun
ty, crushed the life out of a little 8
year old child of George Reichard, of
that place, Thursday afternoon. He
had left the machine standing on the
street while he made a professional
visit and when he again got in, start
ed the auto but failed to see the little
child who was standing directly in its
path. He is almost distracted over the
accident.
Experts will differ. Here is an ex
apmle: The Washington county court
recently appointed a board to examine
into the conditions of the Eclipse mine
of the Monongahela RiverJConsolidat
ed Coal and Coke company,
State mine inspectors pronounced as
gaseous and unsafe to operate without
safety lamps. One of the court's ap
pointees has filed a disenting opinion
and declares the mine to be safe, iu
which report he contradicts the find- j
ings of his brother members and also ]
the State inspectors.
An unofficial estimate of the popula- I
tion of Philadelphia, under the present j
census places it at 1,769,000.
After a trial lasting throe days, five j
men alleged to be what is known as :
the Hazleton Black Hand gang, were !
convicted Saturday on the charge of |
conspiracy.
A large pearl was found in an oys
ter in a Bethlehom restaurant a few
days ago. It is as large as a hazelnut
and pear-shaped. A jeweler estimated
its value to S4OO.
Notice has been posted by the Le
high and Wilkes-Barre Coal company
announcing a six per cent, raise of
wages for its 3,000 employes. The in
crease went into effect Sunday.
Many of the persons who have plead
ed nolle contendere in the graft cases
at Pittsburg, may be sentenced during
the next ten days. The matter is to be
taken up by District Attorney Bakeley
in the near future, so it is reported.
Robert Metukas.a miner, was caught
by a fall of coal in a mine near Girard
ville and after being imprisoned for
eighteen hours, was rescued. Ho was
uninjured but died from excess of joy I
an hour after his being taken from the
mine.
The report of Coroner Jamison, of
Allegheny county, shows that during
April he investigated 250 cases. These
included twenty suicides and five mur
ders. Thirteen deaths resulted from
railroad accidents and one from a
street car.
The boys of the Lancaster high
school were given some pointers in
practical forestry last week,when they
volunteered to trim Williamson park,
a beautiful resort which was present
ed the city several years ago by H. S.
Williamson. The boys placed tho park
in excellent condition,and besides each
planted a tree.
Mrs. M. Michaels, whose homo is
near Sharon, is in a serious condition
by reason of burns, which she suffer
ed when a liniment with which she
iiad been bathed caught fire. Her hus
band was badly burned also in exting
uishing the flames. The honse was
saved by the prompt arrival of neigh
bors.
Despondent over a prolonged illness,
Dr. A. P. Painter, aged 40 years, and
one of the best known physicians in
Armstrong county, shot himself at his
home in Kittanning Sunday morning,
inflicting a possibly fatal wound.
PUBLIC HEALTH
IS IMPROVING
During tho mouth of April only
seventeen deaths occurred in this dis
trict as against forty-four in March.
The vital statistics report shows also a
general falling off in contagious dis
i eases; scarlet fever and diphtheria,
| two diseases, which lurked in the com
j munity for nearly a year and which
I at one time threatened to become epi
| demie, as indicated by the report are
I entirely stamped out.
1 In the opinion of Dr. Shutlz, the
local registrar, tlie increased death rate
1 in March was due to the large number
iof aged and weakly people who suc
cumbed to effects of the hard winter,
j The health of the community at pres
] ent is very good with an outlook for
1 the summer correspondingly encourag
ing. During April only one case of
pneumonia and threo cases of measles
were reported. There are two cases of
typhoid fever —both children—in a
family in which the husband and fa
ther died early in April. In March
there were four cases of typhoid fever.
The reduced number of cases and the
fact that they are confined to one
family encourage hope that before
long this disease also shall be stamped
out.
One case of tuberculosis was report
ed during April.
Of the seventeen deaths reported
eight occurred at the hospital for the
insane.
The full returns show that during
March, when forty-four deaths were
reported, there were just eighteen
births, which leaves a difference big
enough to fill the mind with dismay,
if one were looking for evidences of
"race suicide." It is known, how
ever, that during the course of a year
in our district the equilibrium be
tween the birth and the death rate is
pretty well maintained.
A NEW PHASE
The first sensation in the Krick
baum case since the hearing last Thurs
day was sprung in court at Glooms
burg Monday when Grant Herring, j
Esq., presented the petition of Mrs. j
Charlotte Bickel asking that W. E.
Elmes, Esq., be appointed special dis
trict attorney to prosecute the Krick
baum case and to draw the indictment
in the case.
The petition alleges that Columbia
County District Attorney Small has
been private counsel for Krickbaum
and his close political friend and legal
adviser. The petition sets forth that
the interests of the commonwealth
would be endangered by having him
conduct the case and be given the in
formation.
The argument on the petition was
held before Judge Evans Tuesday
morning, District Attorney Small, be
ing represented by Hon. H. M. Hinck
ley, of this city. Judge Evans decided
that Mr. Small should act as the dis
trict attorney for the prosecution.
FILING PETITIONS
HARRISBURG, May 4.
Nominating petitions at the rate of
over 100 a day are being received at
tho office of the secretary of the Com
monwealth and a force of clerks is em
ployed day and night receiving, verify
ing and acknowledging them. It is ex
pected that close to 1,(500 will be filed
before midnight of Saturday, May 7,
when the time for entering petitions
foi congressional, senatorial and rep
resentative nominations expires. No
person can be a candidate for a nomi
nation for such honors unless a peti
tion is filed.
Among the hundred or more peti
tions filed yesterday were the follow
ing: Congress, John G. McHenry, of
Benton; senator, A. L. Fritz, Blooms
burg; representative,R. Scott Ammer
rnau, Danville.
TROUBLESOME MARRIAGE
The closing chapter in the matri
monial troubles of Charles W. Faux,
of Bloomsburg, was written yesterday
when his wife instituted divorce pro
j ceediugs on the charge of desertion
; and uon support, this ending a romance
i that had its inception when Faux de-
I cided to wed his rival storekeeper
across the way, thereby removing op
position.
No sooner was he married, with the
competition eliminated,than his house
keeper brought suit foi breach of pro
mise. To make matters worse his new
ly wedded wife sued him for non-sup
port. With botli women after him Faux
fled to Canada, but later returned and
was arrested in Berwick. He declared
he would "rot in jail before he would
settle," but he changed his mind and
agreed to pay his wife $225 in lieu of
all claims, which he did. Now comes
the divorce action.
I For the first time in many years
there are no cases for the grand'jury
of Monroe county to consider.
FINAL CHANGE
AT LOCAL PLANT
After some experiments Saturday
afternoon at eight o'clock Sunday
morning the Harwood high tension
current went permanently into com
mission at the Standard electric light
plant, this city, carrying the entire
burden of two street railways and all
the other business belonging to the
plant. As implied, steam ceases to
furnish any part of the motive power
and the engines have wholly gone out
, of commission.
| The system of machinery including
I the three-hunrded horse power engine,
I formerly in use and which gave the
plant a busy and congested appear
ance, is no longer needed. To afford
room much of the machinery has boen
moved aside,while in a short time the
entire plant as relates to former equip
ment will be dismantled.
The high tension current is unsuit
able for practical purposes until it is
reduced to lower voltage. Immediate
ly after entering the plant (at 23,000
volts) it passes through two large
"transformers," in which from this
given electrical current is produced
another current of 2,300 volts. It is
the latter current of reduced voltage
that does the work.
From the transformers the current
passes directly out into town to sup
ply the patrons of the company with
light and power or is conducted to the
large motor, which operates the gener
ator supplying current to the Danville
and Bloomsburg Electric railway and
the Danville & Suubnry Transit com
pany.
The switchboard installed is one of
the most modern and improved of its
kind and is an interesting object of
study. One large panel is for rnotoi
purposs. Another panel is divided in
to two circuits, one for lighting resid
ences and business places and the oth
er a transformer panel controlling all
the current coming into the plant. An
other panel controls tho operation of
the motor generator set,while still an
other controls the current for the trol
ley generator. One panel is in two
circuits, which control the feed wire
of eacli trolley line.
The generator which furnishes cur
rent for the two trolley lines is oper
ated by a synchronous motor, of 225
horse power output and having 620 re
volutions per minute. The generator
is the one formerly in use in the pow
er house at Grovauia and is a Crocker 1
Wheeler generator of 250 k. w., with j
000 revolutions per minute.
While the plant was being operated ;
by the high tension current Saturday j
afternoon an interruption occurred, j
which demonstrated that a very trivial■
accident out on the transmission line !
may suffice to impair the service. '
About the middle of the atfernoon the \
power became very materially reduc- j
ed, the trolley cars being unable to
maintain their schedule.
It was at once inferred that an accid
ent hail occurred somewhere on the j
transmission line. Repairsmen were
sent out from Davnille, Bloomsburg
and Grovania. The leak occurred at
the Frosty Valley road, ami under the
plan adopted, was discovered in a
minimum of time.
Somebody had made a target of the
high tension porcelain insulator, the
bullet slightly cracking it. The dam
age wrought, however, was sufficient
to inake it useless, the greater part of
the high tension current escaping down
the pole into the ground.
! George M. West, who is in charge of
the local plant,states that until things
get in good working order interrup
tions may occur now and then but that
in a very short time everything will
run like clockwork. He does not think
that people will interfere with the line
to an extent. All persous, he says,
should realize that tho high tension
current is very dangerous. Notices
will at once be posted along the line,
which it is believed will have the ef
fect of preventing further tampering
with tho line.
CAREY WON FIRST HEAT
Jesse Carey, of Wilkes-Barre, form
erly of Danville and Camille DeVau
dray, a Frenchman, met at tho roller
rink last evening in the first of threo
j races which they will skate in this
j city. Carey won last evening, lapping
the rink 40 times in 5 minutes and 33
seconds,and finishing a nose ahead of
DeVaudray.
Both racers are flue skaters, and the
race was quite thrilling. They took
the entire disanee at. breakneck speed,
and seemed to defy the laws of grav
itation The two skaters will race
again tonight and tomorrow night.
At Temple B'nai Zion.
Tho Rev. A. J. Irey, D. D., pastor
of tho First Baptist church,will deliv
er a lecture at tho temple B'nai Zion,
Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Sub
ject, "The Aspirations of Piety. " The
public cordially invited.
The busier one is the happier he is
likely to be.
DANVILLE, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1910
NEW OWNERS
AREJN CHARGE
The Montour house,this city, which
j was recently purchased by Harry W.
Guyer and O. P. Rockefeller of Sun
bury, Mouilay passed into the hands
of the new owners. During a session
of court Monday afternoon the li-
I eense was transferred from Ernest N.
| Smitli to Harry \V. Guyer, who will
| be in actual charge of the hotel.
Herman C. Johnson, who has been
: in charge of the hostelry since it was
purchased by Ernest N. Smith, some
I four months ago, Monday relinquish
|ed charge of the hotel, and after at
tending to some business details will
leave for his home in Chicago. Mr.
Johnson has proved one of the best of
landlords. By his gentlemanly demean
or and uniform courtesy he has made
friends on every side. It is much to be
regretted that in the pursuit of his
calling lie is obliged to bid Danville
adieu.
Mr. Guyer Monday eve stated that
extensive improvements are contempl
ated at the Montour house. Just what
form these may ultimately assume he
could not say. The matter will be
placed in the hands of au architect at
once, who will determine what changes
are practicable. Remodeling will go
forward as speedily as possible.
Mr. Guyer is one of the proprietors
of the Central hotel at Sunbury, and
his interests there will occupy him the
part of the time. He will, however,
maintain his residence at the Montour
house.
Mourns......
—i■■ mmt ini ■■ »md
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Grove, Spruce
street,spent yesterday with their sons,
William and Frank, at Berwick.
Miss Martha Schoch has returned to
Selinsgrove after spending a week in
this city as the guest of Miss Mamie
Hoffman, Mill street.
Morris Ellenbogen, window dresser
for Joseph Coons & Co. .Wilkes-Barre,
came down to this city yesterday morn
ing for the purpose of dressing the
windows in the new store of his broth
ers, Harry and Simon Ellenbogen.
Mrs. Robert Y. Gearhart and daugh
ter, Harriet, left yesterday for a visit
with the former's parents in Philadel
phia.
Mrs. Alice Davis, Mausdale, left yes
terday for a visit with relatives in
Columbia.
Miss Emily Voris, of Pottsgrove, is
a guest at the Jacobs home, West Mar
ket street.
Captain C. W. Forrester left yester
day for Philadelphia, where he will
spend several days.
Edwin C. Foust left yesterday for a
visit of several weeks with relatives
in Pittsburg.
Miss Ethel Johnson, of Logan Run,
Rush township,was a Danville visitor
yesterday.
Surprise Party.
A pleasant surprise party was held
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James
Long, Sycamore street, Tuesday, in
honor of the birthday of their son Ed
ward. Refreshments were served.
Those present were Bertha Wray, Ida
Long, Anna Ford, Viola Kear, Mary
Rear, Beatrice Keefer, Euima Morris,
Mae Mottern, Viola Mottern, Anna
Cook, Ella Myers, Anna Hawkey,
Dorothy Green, Isabel Young, Helen
Long, Charles Long, Worney Long,
William Long, Eddie Myers,Roy Earp,
John Earp, William Ward, Charles
Fisher, Walter Diehl, Beaver Kramer,
William Sweitzer, Frank Paugh,
Charles Pehowic, Lewis Bivan, Hairy
Anderson, John Greely,William Shaf
fer, William Keefer, Edward Hollo
baugh.Joe Pehowic,Mrs. Horace Sny
der and children Mabel and Harry, Mr.
and Mrs. Richard McCoimick and
children Howard and Michael.
Birthday Party.
A birthday party was held at the
home of Mr. anil Mrs. II A. Deilil,
Sunbury, 11. F. D. No. 1, on Tuesday
evening in honor of Mr. Deihl's birth
day. Those present were Mr. and Mrs.
H. K. Savidge, Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Hoy, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ponnal, Mr.
and Mrs. Wilson Voder, Mr. nnd Mrs.
11. A. Deilil,Mr. and Mrs. James Dor
sett, Mrs. F. B. Hoy, Mrs. E. C. Wag-
I ner, Misses Mary Hoy, Edna Campbell,
Anuetta Yeager, Mabel Boyer, Helen
Hoy, Clara Yoder, Marion Moyer,
Sarah Hoy, Vernia Yoder, Addamae
Yeager, Katie Hoc.kenbrock, Emma
Hoy, Messrs. Charles Boyer, Elmer
Boyer, Harry Boyer, Eddie Yoder,
Merrel Boyer, Peter Yoder.
Funeral Friday Morning.
The funeral of Miss Myrtie Dean
will be held Friday morning at 10
o'clock from the home of her parents
at Wasliingtonville. Interment at Tur
botville.
DEMAND IS
INCREASING
The Danville Stove anil Manufactur
ing company this week has sent anoth
er car load of stoves to the "Canal
zone," Panama, the shipment being
on a contract tor approximately one
thousand stoves,held by the local stove
manufacturing company.
Danville stoves find their way to
many remote points. At the plant this
week they are busy shipping stoves to
Charlestown, S. O. .Pittsburg,Chicago
and San Francisco. The stoves in de
maud at Panama are "cooks" exclu
sively, the kind included |in the last
shipment being the King Beaver, with
twenty-inch oven. Several shipments
have been made since the contract was
awarded.
At the stove works they are engag
ed in redressing the "Beaver Oak"
double heater, which has become a
popular stove in the Bast as well as in
the West, where it first attained popu
larity. The new dress is semi-plain or
colonial finish.
The manufacture ot gas ranges each
year is becoming more of a departure
at the stove works. The Beaver gas
ranges are made for both natural and
manufactured gas; they contain oven
shelf and are most handsomely design
ed. The "Star Beaver" is all oast iron
and may be used for either cooking or
heating. Ttie demand for these stoves
attests to what extent gas is supersed
ing coal as fuel.
Ninety-three moulders are employed
in the foundry of the Danville Stove
and Manufacturing plant. The est
ablishment runs all its departments
; five days in the week, which, among
| stove manufacturing concerns, is con-
I sidered practically frill time.
NEW WAREHOUSE
The Danville Milling company is
erecting a large warehouse on the east
! ern side of its plant, which will bo us
| ed exclusively in the handling of feed.
Up to the present the company has
been short of storage space for feed
and the new building as arranged will
not only add much to convenience but
it will also enable the firm to do a
much larger business.
The warehouse is eighty feet long
by twenty feet wide. It is built of
frame. The roof will be covered by
tin anil the sides and ends of the
building by a metal sheeting, which
will afford ample protection fiom the
sparks that fly t lint way from locomo
tives passing on the P. & R. track.
The building is supported on founda
tion walls of concrete and the floor
will be of the same material.
The warehouse will have a capacity
of two hundred tons of feed. A switch
from the P. & It. track runs in along
side the warehouse. From the cars the
feed will be unloaded into the ware
house by means of a chute. Another
chute equipped with a drag connects
the warehouse and the mill.
The Danville Milling company is
composed of George A. Fry, Charles
.T. Lawrence and John H. Dietz. A
few years ago the plant was remodel
ed and made thoroughly up-to-date.
Since then at intervals new machin
ery has been installed; at present it
has a thoroughly modem equipment
for grinding both spring and winter
wheat. The addition of the warehouse
places the plant in the front ranks of
modern flouring mills.
MILTON HERE TODAY
The Danville Susquehanna league
team will play its second engagement
of the season this afternoon with the
Milton team.
The fans will be giveii an opportun
ity of seeing James Brannen do his
first work in the box for Danville.
Otherwise the line-up will be about
the same as in last Saturday's game.
The management has decided to
make this a ladies' day affair and the
fair ones will be admitted to the
grounds free. The usual admission to
the grand stand will be charged to all.
Woman Forgot to Sign Will.
BETHLEHEM, May -1.
It became known yesterday|that the
late Olivia Yost, who left a fortune of
more than $40,000, neglected to sign
the will she had ordered drawn in fav
or of her cousin, Mrs. H. B. Schneller,
who was also the adopted daughter of
the decedent's deceased parents. The
estate will,therefore,be equally divid
ed among nearly fifty heirs.
Farmers Picnic Association.
At a recent meeting of the Farmers'
Picnic association held in this city the
following officers were elected: Presi
dent, George W. Leighow: first vice
president, Samuel Eckman; second
vice president, Elmer Sidler; treasur
er, Jacob Shultz; secretary, Benjamin
L. Diehl; assistant secretary Horace
M. Baker. The following committee
on grouuds was appointed: Samuel
Eckman, John Eckert and John Deet
er.
Many a man's reputation isn't on
speaking terms with his character.
TO ILLUMINATE
MILL STREET
Among other matters that may come
up before the borough council at its
next, regular meeting, Friday night,
is the question of removing the arches
of vari-colored lights, whicii have been
an attraction on Mill street for a year
past.
Borough Electrician Newton Smith
yesterday explained that the lights
were put up for temporary use only
and are so insecurely fastened that it
would be unsafe to permit them to re
main ou the arches much longer.
The arches have proven a great at
traction on Saturday nights during
the year in which they have been in
existence. Especially, have they been
admired by visitors, who because of
them, discovered an especial charm in
our town. It is to be regretted that it
lias become necessary to take down
the lights.
Our borougli electrician, however,
has a project, which, if carried out,
would furnisli something more than a
substitute for the arches of vari-color
ed lights and would illuminate the
long business street so brightly that
one could read a newspaper at any
point.
He advocates a system for Mill street
alone on a separate circuit, similar to
a plan adopted in many of the cities.
The system would be supported on
arches one hundred feet apart, the
lamp employed to be the series Mazda
incandescent light of sixty candle pow
er. The system would comprise 125 to
150 lamps.
Danville having its own plant is ad
mirably situated to support such a
system of lighting. The cost of instal
ling the street, system,of course,would
be considerable, but. Mr. Smith says it
is customary in such enterprises for
the merchants and others to assist the
municipality to meet the cost, paying
in proportion to the frontage of their
business places. Once installed in Dan
ville, the system could'be run without
cost. The portion of the street to be
covered would extend no further than
the business section, beginning at the
bridge and ending, say, at Center
street.
POSTPONED TRIP
E. M. Applebaugh, Samuel Rebmau
and some others who had planned to
start up the Fishingcreek valley on a
trout fishing excursion yesterday morn
iug, owing to the cold wave, decided
to postpone the trip.
Trout fishermen from this city thus
far have met with poor success. At the
opening of the season the streams were
too low, while the continuous rains
later made the streams too high for
successful fishing. However, a lone;
interval intervenes between the present
and the close of the trout season and
there may still be some pretty big
catches.
SIGNS DELAYED
The signs that were ordered erected
by council to keep automobiles down
to the twelve-mile limit while passing
through town have not as yet materi
alized. It is explained that they were
ordered painted and that they will be
forthcoming indue time.
Nearly a month has elapsed since
council took action in the matter.
Meanwhile the autoists are enjoying a
line run on the paved streets at any
rate of speed that suits their fancy.
CENSUS FIGURES
WASHINGTON, May 4.
The census office today unofficially
estimated the increase of population
in the United States since 1000 at 15,-
121,080.
The unofficial estimate for Greater
New York is 4,503,003, an increase
since 1000 of 1,120,401. The population
of Chicago is estimated at 2,282,020.
The estimated total population of the
United States is 01,424,423. Other est
imated totals are: Philadelphia, 1,-
540,420; New Orleans, 332,132; St.
Louis, 008,710; Baltimore, 583,374;
Washington, 350,145.
SHORT NIGHTS
The nights are growing shorter rapid
ly. Tho electric light is not truned on
the street circuit 7 :30 p. in.,
while the plant shuts down at 4:80 a.
m. As tho result, of the shorter hours
there is quite a saving in fuel at the
light plant.
Fry-Montague Nuptials.
William C. Fry, of Jerseytown, ami
Miss Grace Montague, of Millville,
both young people well known in their
home towns, were married Tuesday
morning at 11 o'clock by Rev. G. O.
Zeigler, pastor of the Christian church.
William Dill, of Lebanon, was sent
enced to six months' imprisonment the
other day, haviug been found guilty
ofjthe charge of robbing a patient in a
hospital of |SO.
ESTABLISHED IN 1H55
COMMISSIONERS
HEARJPPEALS
The foil board of county commis
sioners is sitting at the courthouse to
hear appeals. Yesterday was appeal
day for Washingtonville borough and
the townships of the county; today
appeals will be heard '.from the prop
erty owners of Danville.
The commissioners' office was a busy
place yesterday and at times the board
was besieged with farmers and others
who felt that they were the victims of
discrimination and that too high a
valuation had been put upon their
properties. In all such cases the board
finds itself in a delicate position,as the
members are not expected to be fami
liar with all the conditions affecting
the property on which its valuation is
based. In safeguarding the interests of
the county the commissioners can not
afford to take anything for granted
and consequently there is generally a
long argument between the parties. In
practically all the cases something is
yielded by the commissioners and all
parties generally are satisfied.
A member of the board yesterday
explained that the mistakes made by
the assessors are not always on the
side of overvaluation. The commis
sioners, he said, find instances occas
ionally where the valuation is obvious
ly much too low. In all such instances
the board exercises its prerogative and
restores the proper figure.
The functionary who is familiar
with all the facts and is best qualified
to decide questions as to valuation is
the assessor and he is absent w.hen the
appeals are heard.
Every township as well as Washing
tonville borough was represented at
the appeal yesterday. From Washing
tonville, however, only one person
turned up who was dissatisfied with
the valuation.
The commissioners anticipate a very
busy session today, when the residents
of Danville who desire to appeal will
present themselves.
A TRUE BILL
William Krickbaum, Associate Judge
of Columbia oounty, lost his last
chance of avoiding trial on serious
charges preferred by Mrs. Charlotte
C. Bickle, of East street, in court at
Bloomsburg yesterday morning, when
the grand jury brought in a true bill
on the indictment. It is said that he
hoped against hope that this body
would ignore the bill. The case was
passed upon by the jury shortly before
the noon hour and the form was re
turned to the court.
This, unless something uuforseen
happens, such as a settlement, will
mean that the defendant will have to
be tried. It will lay bare all of the
facts of the case, and it is expected
that much dirty linen will be washed.
Krickbaum made no remarks when
he learned of the findings of the jury.
He did not look at the return when it
came iuto the court, although he sat
ou the bench at the time.
An application has already been
made for a continuance over the term,
and it is likely that this will be allow
ed.
TAFT VISITS ST. LOUIS
ST. LOUIS, May -I.
President Taft on his arrival here to
day was met by the reception commit
tee of the Business Men's League, Se
cretary of Agriculture .Tames Wilson
ami Governor H. S. Hadley. The
Presidential party was takeu to the
St. Louis club as the guests of the
Commercial Club at breakfast.
The address to the farmers' conven
tion was delivered at 11 o'clock. After
a drive through the business section of
the city the President was the guest
at a luncheon given by the Business
Mens' League at the Southern hotel.
After the luncheon President Taft was
driven to the National league baseball
park, where he witnessed the opening
innings of the Cincinnati and St.
Louis clubs game. From there he was
driven to the American League park,
where the Cleveland and St. Louis
clubs played.
After the ball games President Taft
will motor through the residence sec
tion and will be taken to a dinner of
the Traffic club. When he finishes
speaking at the Traffic, club's dinner
ho will be taken to his train, which is
scheduled to start for Washington at
i -.30 o'clock Thursday morning.
Ashland Brewer Guilty.
A case that has been watched with
great interest by the brewery men'aud
saloonkeepors of Northumberland
county was ended at Sunbury ou Tues
day,when the Fountain Springs Brew
ing company, of Ashland, Schuylkill
county, was found guilty of illegal
selling.
For several months the company was
selling its beer in Northumberland
county, especially at Kulpmont, Mar
ion Heights and other mining villages,
at a very low price.
A true friend is one of life's most
precious possessions.