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THE CITIZEN, TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1913.
During the recent high water
many bottles containing names and
addresses were cast off the Suspen
sion bridge Into the raging Alle
gheny. So far as known none have
yet been heard from by local resi
dents. The following account from
the Oil City Blizzard, shows that a
bottle traveled from Oil City to
Wheeling, W. Va., In two days:
" When the Allegheny river was at
flood stage last Tuesday, a young
man employed in the National Tran
sit company building placed a note
bearing his name and address in a
bottlo and tossed it in the stream.
He requested the finder to notify him
when and where the bottle was pick
ed up. A letter was received yester
day from Wheeling, W. Va., and it
stated the writer, George Niess, had
picked the bottle up in the Pennsyl
vania railroad yards at the foot of
Seventh street In Wheeling, on the
afternoon of March 27, two days fol
lowing the date it was sent forth up
on its journey. Niess stated the riv
er was at the 48 foot stage when
he found the bottle. Some estimate
of the speed at which the river was
running Tuesday and Wednesday
can be formed by the long trip the
bottle made and it is not known how
long it was marooned in the railway
yards at Wheeling before picked up
by Niess."
Mr. and Mrs. John Lee, of Way-
mart, spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. H. P. Courtright of Wayne
street. Mrs. Ray H. Oliver has
returned home after a two week's
visit with friends in Hawley and
Honesdale. Van Allen Histed of
Waymart spent the week-end with
friends in Brooklyn, N. Y. Carbon
dale Leader.
Death of Mis. Writer.
Mrs. Elizabeth Writer, wife
of Nesbit Shaffer, of Gravity, Pa.,
died Tuesday, April 8, 1913, aged C4
years, five months. She was tho
daughter of tho late Isaac V. Writer
and Phoebe Sherwood Writer, of
Clark's Corners. She is survived by
her husband and one son, E. W.
Shaffer, of Carbondale, also her sis
ter, Mrs. 'Henry Shaffer, of Gravity,
and one brother, George Writer, of
Otlsville, IN. Y. The funeral was
held at 11 o'clock Thursday morning.
Burial was at East Canaan.
The present weather is most favor
able for the operation of log drags
on tho country roads, and persons
who have occasion to travel the high
ways in the rural districts have ex
pressed the hope that the township
road supervisors will find time to
take up this work. The roads at
present are In a deplorable condi
tion, as they usually are with the
breaking up of winter, but a little
levelling and smoothing with the log
drag will All up the holes and put the
roads in good shape for the heavier
travel to which they will now bo
subjected to. The ground is now
soft but will soon get too hard for
the drag to have the desired effect,
A little dragging now will save the
township many dollars In the sum
mer and also smooth tho roads in
such a way that the spring rains will
easily run off instead of Ailing the
ruts and making impassable pools of
mud.
In the nearby fields from 25 to 50
persons may be seen every day pick
ing dandelions, some of which they
use in their own families while oth
ers make a business of selling tho
succulent vegotable. A well known
physician Is authority for the state
ment that dandelions are among the
most healthful of all vegetables.
Since It possesses certain vory bene
ficial medicinal virtues it is used con
siderably in tho practice of medi
cine. Being plentiful and within tho
reach of all it finds favor in tho av
erage family at tho present timo.
According to tho year book of
Swift & Co., there were slaughtered
during 1911, 8,000,000 calves aver
aging 70 pounds in weight. Had
they been allowed to live one year
they would have averaged COO
pounds and would have given tho
country 4,800,000,000 pounds of
beef Instead of .only 5G0, 000-000
pounds of veal. This, it is estimated,
would be sufficient to furnish a city
of 350,000 people with its total meat
supply for over fifty years. Reduc
ing this to a one year basis, it would
do the same thing for a country of
17,500,000 inhabitants for one year.
In other words tho young calves
slaughtered in 1911 to satisfy tho
call for veal, would have furnished,
had they been allowed to live one
year, sufficient beef for over ono-
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fifth of our population for a whole
year. Leslie's Weekly.
Lackawanna railroad officials at
Scranton announced recently that ex
tensive track improvements will bo
made this Beason as soon as contin
ued opon weather permits. The prin
cipal improvement on the Scranton
division will bo the completion of a
fourth track "over the Pocono Moun
tains, which will permit the running
of freight and passenger trains on
an uninterrupted schedule.
Mrs. Lavina Bartelson, aged 5G,
of Gouldsboro, who has been a pa
tient at the State hospital since Jan
uary 20, suffering from gangereno
poisoning of the right foot, was dis
charged one day last week. Mrs.
Bartelson was relieved but had not
recovered sufficiently to warrant her
removal from tho institution. Her
discharge was procured by her hus
band who assumed the responsibility
of her removal and relieved tho hos
pltal officials from all blame if Mrs.
Bartelson does not recover.
Mr, George A. Owen received
word on Monday of tho death of Mr.
Rehbein at his home in Brooklyn.
He was for many years connected
with the Shoo Company of Honesdale
and freauently came to our village,
He was a man of most excellent
character. He was well posted on
sleight-of-hand tricks, and several
times when here gave entertainments
without charge for the benefit of
some organization. A few years ago
he severed his connection with the
Honesdale Company and opened a
shoo store in Brooklyn. Washing
tonville correspondent In Newburgh
Journal.
At the supremo court in Bingham
ton on Tuesday Justice Sewell refus
ed to dismiss the four indictments
pending against Charles June Knapp
formerly president of tho Bingham
ton Trust company, and ordered that
Mr. Knapp plead to the indictments
on Monday.
A year ago last week Henry Nich
ols of Burlington Plats lost his pock
et book containing $30. Last week
while looking over the contents of a
pair of bobs he had not used this
winter he found his lost pocketbook
and money Intact.
Clarence Dann and Ralph Decker,
formerly of Wallsville, are wanted
for chicken stealing. They rented a
farm of John Gardner near Tiffany
and moved their household effects
thereon. An execution was served
on the property by Sheriff Reynolds
who made the sale of 350 chickens
and a number of guinea hens. Ed
ward Decker, a brother of Ralph was
arrested and held under $500 ball
for his anDearance at court, charged
with being implicated in the theft of
the chickens. Ralph Decker ana
Dann flew the coop and their where
abouts are unknown. The state po
lice are in search of them. Forest
City News.
WEST PRESTON.
West Preston. April 14.
Mr. and Mrs. Seward Carpenter, of
West Thompson, recently visited the
latter's brother, J. Stevens, ana wire.
Miss Ella Corey, who is attending
school at Cortland, has returned
homo to spend a ten-day Easter va
cation with her parents here.
P. Hubbard and wife were recent
guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Og
den. Victor Bartleson is on the sick
list.
Zara Lee returned home from Now
York state Wednesday.
Eva and Mildred Dix, of South
Thompson, were recent callers at C.
N. Hubbard's.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hubbard are
visiting their daughter, Mrs. Manly
Wallace.
Thomas Gulley has recently equip
ped his residence and barn with new
gas lights.
Mrs. E. L. Vincent is spending
some time at the home of her father,
Will Sanford, who Is critically ill.
Miss Esther Lloyd and brother,
Glenn, were recent callers at G. W.
Ogden's.
Joe Wall and Thomas Caffery
were recent callers at J. Stevens.
We are glad to report the condi
tion of Chas. Lee, who has recently
had the third cancer removed from
his face, as much improved.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
John Hodenstein of Mt. Pleasant,
to William P. Hodenstein, same,
land in Mount Pleasant township;
$1.
Caroline Mobs (Wulff) and hus
band of Seelyvllle, to Gustavo J.
Dlener, of Texas, a house and lot on
Rlvor street, Texas; $1,450.
George Fersch, of Berlin, to Jos.
Blllard, Jr., same, land in Berlin, $1.
H. T. Wright et ux. of Thompson,
to Leon Bills, of Scranton, land in
Mount Pleasant, ?1300,
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Chicago Prosecutor Explains
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INCENDIARIES GET MILLIONS
Startling Evidence at Hand of How
Conspirators Operate on Great Scale
In Many Cities, Sending Agents
Back and Forth, Setting Fires and
Collecting Insurance Money.
Tho workings of a so called national
arson syndicate were explained re
cently by Charles Furthman, deputy
state's nttornoy of Cook county, 111.,
while in New York with extradition
papers for John Dauies, a roudhouse
keeper in the Bronx, against whom
six Indictments for arson are stand
ing In Chicago.
Danies was arrested Feb. 23 by De
tectivo Flood of District Attorney
Whitman's staff upon representations
from Chicago.
Mr. Furthman said ho had evidence
that Danies was one of the leaders of
a gang of incendiaries who have been
operating throughout the couutry. It
Is asserted Danies is known in other
cities as John Kabizak, "the chief"
and "the captoln." Ho has been at-
rested three times in New York, but
succeeded every timo in convincing u
Jury he was innocent.
Furthmnn said ho could prove that
every time Danies left New York on a
trip a trail of flres followed him. Big
blazes in Seattle, Chicago, St. Louis,
Buffalo, San Francisco and Minneapo
lis were coincident with Danies' pres
ence in those cities, the prosecutor
said.
New York "Bugs" Look Cheap.
As described by Furthman the
methods of the nation wide ring of
llrebugs and the amount of their earn
ings make Isidor Stein and the other
members of the nrson ring in New
York look cheap. Where Stein set a
Are in a closet for a few hundred dol
lars' insurance it is said tho so called
Danies crowd would tiro a store or
factory and enable tho owner to col
lect thousands.
"In every town where the gang oper
ated," snld Mr. Furthman, "a repre
sentative looked out for likely cases,
no would go to a manufacturer or
large storekeeper who was losing mon
ey. A fire would be suggested as au
easy method of escaping bankruptcy.J
If the storekeeper followed tho sug
gestion he would lay in a big stock of
almost worthless goods.
'Then ho would give tho key to the
local agent of tho flro gang. The
'worker who might live in a city a
thousand miles away, would bo noti
fied. He would slip into tho town, get
tho key to the store or factory, do the
Job in an hour and get out on tho next
truln."
Millions Have Been Reaped.
Furthman said that if tho testimony
of tho informers could bo believed, the
arson syndicate had got millions of
dollars from the Insurance companies.
Mr. Furthman nnd Detective Sheehun
started with Danies for Chicago.
nenry O. Freeman, known as "Wire
less" Freeman because of tho rapidity
with which ho learned of flres of
which he later became tho adjuster,
was placed on trial before Judge
Swann in general sessions charged
with arson in tho second degree.
Assistant District Attorney Weller
said ho would prove that Freeman had
entered into a conspiracy with Isidore
Stein and a broker named Goldman,
now a fugitive from Justice, to go into
the business of incendiarism. Gold
man was to sell tho policies, Stein
was to build tho fires and Freeman
was to adjust the losses.
Stein testified that on Dec. 7, 1011,
at the suggestion of Freeman he built
a flro in the flat of a man named
Abraham Schlicten In New York.
MAN IN MOON DISAPPEARING.
English Astronomer 8ays Contour of
Planet Is Changing.
Professor J. B. Halo, who fills the
chair of astronomy in King's college,
London, in an lntorvlow with a New
York newspaper correspondent recent
ly said there is a chango In tho forma
tion of the mountains and rocks In the
moon which is discernible with tho
naked eye. This, ho said, Is duo to
tho gradual decay of tho mountains'
chemical formation.
Probably It Is only a question of
timo when naturo will so alter tho
planet that we will bo unable to dis
tinguish tho faco of tho moon. Pro
fessor nolo added:
"Even today certain people declare
the man in tho moon has taken his
departure, and In his place they can
make out a man with a bundlo of
sticks on his back."
New Pilgrim Movement.
A memorial monument commemo
rating the first trip of tho Mayflower
to America Is in course of construe.
tlon at Southampton, England. It will
bo unveiled on Aug. 15 next and will
mark the spot In Southampton water
where the pilgrims stopped and ro-em-barked
In 1020 on their historic voyage.
An appropriate tablet will also bo
placed at the entrance of tho river
Dart to commemorate the pilgrims'
brief stay at Dartmouth.
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CnESTXUT BLIGIIT SPREADS
RAPIDLY!
It is not known to many that the
chestnut tree blight fungus spread
unusually rapidly the past summer,
apparently on account of the un
usually wet season in those portions
of the State where the spread of the
disease has been greatest. At the
same time, recent Investigations
made by the scientific force of tho
Pennsylvania Chestnut Tree Blight
Commission have produced almost
any month In the winter and are In
condition to germinato at tempera
tures, at least, as low as 40 degrees.
In spite of these conditions greatly
favoring tho growth of the fungus,
it should be encouraging to remem
ber the progress that has been made
by tho Commission in its field work
during the year, much moro than
one-third of the State having been
entirely cleared of the blight and a
number of reinspectlons, showing
that tho blight has, on the average,
reappeared in only about one-third
of the total number of original In
fections. LAKE COMO.
Lake Como, April 12.
Mrs. Thomas McDermott, of Bing
hamton, attended the funeral of her
brother's baby which was hold in the
M. E. church Friday.
Miss Erk, of Blnghamton, is visit
ing her grandmother, Mrs. Pool.
Clayton Decker visited friends at
Orson Sunday.
Louisa Todd, who is teaching
school at Cold Spring, spent Satur
day and Sunday at her home here.
DR. WILLIAM POWELL
GETS HIS SON.
Tho Jeffersonlan and Press of
Stroudsburg states that in tho habeas
corpus case of Mary Heft vs. Pearl E.
Powell, the child in dispute was giv
en Into tho custody of William Pow
oll, his father, and tho case discon
tinued. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Mary R. Slatterly, of Brooklyn,
to Gottleib Matter, of Hawley, a cer
tain lot in Hawley borough; consid
eration private.
Harriet A. Mosher, of Damascus,
to John T. Walker, ot ux. of same,
land in Damascus township; $1.
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