Punxsutawney Spirit, 1907-05-06

              . . - ■ K< WIM/ HAVE PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA.. MONDAY EVENING, MAY 0, 1907 ram MEN WILL DRAW CORNER LOTS DOWN IN TEXAS INDIAN TRIBES WILL BE FORMED BY Y. M. C. A. BOYS McrclmntM- Ammn-IiiMoii Taken Action In Kt'ffnrd to the Hook Hiillilor*. TRAMS THEY Wllilj NOT AUVERTISE May Be in a Swamp But it Is All In a Chance. WILL NOT BUY THE DIRECTORY WHEN FINISHED PRICE 2 CENTS BLACK HAND RAID PARTICIPATED IN BY STATE POLICE Twenty Dangerous Men Hauled in at Barnesboro Last Night. ALSO AT JOHNSTOWN MINE LEADERS' CASE MUST BE ON ITS MERITS WILL GO TO MEXICO A TRAIN LOAD OF PEOPLE COMING FROM INDIANA wai lint*- Vwtebltw Thfct HiinuiH'r t» OtllMt Money For Kon-ign Work. i IMNi OF WASHINGTO: fPUNX'Y PEOPLE SEEING SIGHTS 1 of Two Hundred Left For the Capital This Morning. Two Hundred on List Now and Still It Grows Larger. rNot Be Complete Looking Over 's "Trimmings.'' ALSO HARRISBURG Resorts in the Red Light District Given a Surprise. Sentiment Be Permitted to Distort Facts President Insists That No EXCURSION RATES QUOTES 1906 LETTER At the regular meeting Friday night of the Merchants' Protective Association the most important subject to come up for consideration was that relating |to the proposed new city directory. After comparing notes the Association passed, unanimously, the following resolution: Whereas, there are now lr» Punxsutawney two men representing themselves as the authors of a City Directory, and Whereas, we as members of the •Merchants' Protective Association, in executive session assembled, learn from each other that we have been grossly misrepresented by the authors; therefore, be it Kesolved, that wo discountenance same and positively refuse to support this proposed edition either by advertising or subscribing for the book. li. OF C. MKMOKIAL MCltVICIvS c ft C» the got i of th eral I Ing. i form 'and fj tlctpi lngn® |depaV train coacfl and ■ Pen J waafl wed rn<fl| UtB tSra 0 The management of the Jefferson Theater iftid the baseball magnates today succeeded In. completing arrangements for excursion rates on ail trains leaving Indiana Thursday and for a special train out from Punnxsutawney Thursday night after' the Blanche'Bates show. A fare of $1.23 for the round trip has been granted and already over 200 Indianans are down for excursion tickets. A large delegation of fans will accompany the baseball team, which will arrive here on the 10:45 .a. m. train, and which in the afternoon will play the Punx'y interstate team at East End Park. indiana merchants have arranged to close thqir stores at live o'clock p. m., Thursday, and in order to afford them and their clerks time to don theft- best toggery. The train which Is scheduled to leave Indiana at 5:35 Will hi held until (1:10 o'clock. Tho baseball team and fans will be accompanied by a arge number of Indiana people who will visit Punxsutawney friends during the day. The twenty-41vo boys constituting the H. O. F. Union of the Y. M. C. A have made some unique plans for fun and usefulness the coming summer They 'have organized themselves Into two tribes, tho Chippewas and Seminoles, and have rented a lot from A. J. Truttt, on South Penn Street, which they will turn Into a garden.| This, will be planted in vegetables of various kinds, which will be sold by the boys, the proceeds going to Rangoon, iiurmah, for boys' work by the Y. M, C. A. of that place, i A largo wigwam will be erected on the front of the lot, which will serve as headquarters of the tribes and as a selling booth fof the produpe. The two tribes will meet In a "Big! Council" on Wednesday evening, when each tribe will elect a chief, ' sac hem, ate., and make a treaty of j peace for the summer. Each tribe ' will also have a baseball team, and many and fierce will be the Iwttles •for scalps the season through. • Each tribe will save tho silk from the corn It raises, wiiiich will be made Into a j huge scalp, and the tribe raising and ! se lling the greatest quantity of vege- ' tables will be awarded the other's I scalp at the close of the season. Following are 'the panics of those already enlisted in the several tribes: "< 'hlppewas": Fred Jones, Gene Frumpton, Harry .Bcthunc, ('has. Ernst, Lon McQuown, Jay Freas, Lin Parsons, Harry MeGlnnis# Torn Hell, Wolford Beck. Louie Krouse, Eugene Henderson; "Seminole./' — Merrell Means, AI Fiegal, Tait Allison, John Conway, Harry Spencer, Ira Beatly, John Haverllla, Harry Krouse, Jasper Oliver, Joe Seger, Art. Zeitler, ('has. Calloway. Other braves will be added, and the boys will have some big Indian times. I Memorial Services were held by the Knights of Columbus in their rooms in the Clark Building on Sunday afternoon at three o'cloek to the deceased ol' the lodge, Ambrose Cum* mings, who died December 1L\ 1905, and Alex. J. McKay, whom? death yccurred on the sixteenth of last mouth. A large number of the lodge members and invited guests attended t<» pay tribute to the dead. Grand Knight George Cokely spoke of the merits of -those who passed away. Uev. John DeVille, in a short address, paid homage to the departed ones. Appropriate music and prayers left scarcely a dry-eyed person in the assemblage. TERRORISTS ItlClvXIv JAIIj CONSP1UATOKS FOUND GUILTY ST. PETERSBURG, May R.— Through a bold on the prison located at Alcxandravlk yesterday, thirteen political prisoners were llb- I era ted and the chief inspector of the I prison was killed. Two bombs were thrown by the revolutionists and during the confusion which floHowed the explosions, the prisoners made good their escape.Several of the .prisoners liberated were Terrorists who were accused of many crimes. WILKES-BAHUE, May G.— Eleven of the thirteen alleged members of •the Black Hand gang wero convicted of charges of conspiracy/ the  rendering a verdict today in which two men were acquitted, Salvatoro olpi and Andrew Paternoster. Volpi was cfcscharged. but Paternoster was held by the authorities, there being two other charges against him. Thc other defendants were all remanded to Jail until Saturday, pending a motion for a new trial. The men wore 'convicted of a conspiracy to extort money from the Rizzl brothers, of Pltt«ton. Charges of dynamiting, shooting and threats, are also pending against the convicted men. EIGHTEEN DEAD IN GOLD MINK T. M. Kurtz, Yfalter Brown and Alfred Allison left for Pittsburg today to join a paVty of Pennsylvanlans who tomorrow morning will leave for Texas where on Thursday the S a fit a Pe Land & Improvement Company will throw open to settlers acres of land. The drawing will be conducted on the same plan in vogue by the Government. The local people became Interested In the project through an agent of the company who visited Punnxsutawney a few days ago and sold thirty deeds at $4 0 per deed. The deeds were sold by number and therefore the purchasers will not know whether they will get a town lot, a good farm, a timber tract or mosquito swamp until after the drawing Thursday. The tract Is located in Montgomery County, thirty-five miles north of Houston, Texas, and from twenty-five to thirty-five miles distant from the Beaumont oil fields. There are two towns already located on the tract, Keenan, and Jerome and of course the boys are all hoping that they will be lucky enough to draw corner lots. The land lies In one of the most fertile sections of the Lone Star Stale and much of it is covered with a growth of line cypress timber. There were 5,000 chances sold mostly to Pennsylvania and Eastern people who expect to colonize the land. It Is expected that Punxsutawney investors will locate permamently on the farms In time to put out the spring crops, (nit.) Messrs. Kurtz, Brown and Allison will leave the excursion cfowd Saturday-and take a sidestrip to Brownsville. It Is not known for certain, but It is the opinion of many of their friends that they ar6 going there to "shoot up" the town so thoroughly that the President and Senator Foraker will forget ail about the former fracas. j They will also spend a day In Matu| moras, a famous city- Just across the I Rio Grande, from Brownsville, where bull Ughts are as popular as baseball In Punnxsutawney. Monday, May 13. they wjll take a steamer at Galveston, Texas, for the Jamestown Exposition, touching at Key West, Florida, enroute. They expect" to be absent about two weeks. Edward ltoss, J. E. Hahne, and Major McCrelght, of DuBols, and James Passmore, of Cur- \ wensVillo, will be members of the j party that will leave Pittsburg tomor- | row morning. Among: tho offenses recently commit ted l».v rtie desperadoes are a number of betters that were written to wealthy and prominent families, demanding mom y and threatening: ven- Kfflnce In case of a re f una I. Includctl In tho twenty men arrested, was a foreigner who on Saturday Ah Boon aft the Troopers arrived ' at. Barnesboro the news s quickly and there Was~a"rK«nerrn ati tempt on the part of those under suspicion to Ret away. Some of them were successful, but Officer Rerkeblte is confident tluit among the twenty captives are some members of a gang that haev been closely connected with the recent murders and outrage* committed In that community.The. troopers went from her® to Hollwood where they took dinner and were Joined by the detachment at that place, arriving at Barnesboro at about 7:30 o'clock, a distance of forty miles from Punxsutawney. Capta«ln J. F. Robinson went to Marnt'slntro Saturday morning and during the day conferred with the local officials about the manner of proceeding with the raid. Saturday night the plans had been completed and word was telephoned to headquarters a:t this place, for the men to leave Sunday morning. Yosterday mornlrtg a detachment of twenty-seven mounted State Pollcemen In command of Lieu-tenant II. F. Kgle and Sergeants Ward and Marsh, left Punxsutawney at seven o'« clock and rode to Harnesboro, Camhula County, where last night they succeeded in bagging twenty alleged criminals, some of whom are said to belong to a murderous Black Hand gang that has been operating in the vicinity of Harnesboro recently. The raid was planned by J. L. Rerkeblte, county detecOive of Cambria County, working under instructions from District Attorney Leach. Rerkehiler was assisted by representatives of the State who have been searching for evidence that would lead to the discovery of the murderers of Chief of Police Farrell, of Rarnesboro, and a railroad employe who were recently assassinated In that place, In making his report today the : chairman , Johns llenry, said that ( the committee had spent more than an hour with the President at which Ume the matter In hand was thoroughly discussed. The President signitlcd liis intention of formally re-r plying in the letter which the chairman then read. Following the reading there was an animated discus- I sion during which tfle chairman and I William Coakley, another member of j t he ccfmmlttee stoutly championed I the attitude of the chief executive. The President's latter, In part, follows:"When you, In company with ! Messrs. Coakley and Brown called upon me this morning I read you the letter I had written to the attorneygen erad, on MaVch -.r>, 1 !)()♦;. At your request I gladly send you the following extract from that letter: "'Our duty (if it should ever hap- I pen that we hud any power in the matter), to see that exact justice Is done these men.. There must be no condonation of lawlessness on our part, even If the lawlessness takes the form of an effort to avenge the wrohgs committed by tlie lawlessness of others. The sole question as regards The communication was the formal reply of th< President to the committee of the union which recently called upon him in Washington and requested him to set forth in general his attitude toward the accused men and Specifically say why he had referred to Moycr and llaywood as "undesirable citizens." NKW YORK. May (i. -In a letter read today before the Central Federated Union President Roosevelt states that if evidence is submitted to aim, showing that there has been a miscarriage of justice for or against At oyer and Haywood, awaiting trlaj at Poise. Idaho, charge with the murder of former (Jov. Steunenberg, l\c will bring such evidence to the attention of the attorney general for such acttiou. if any, as it may be in the power of the federal authorities to take. WIlJi liOOK INTO LANl> FRAUDS By Publishers' Press. WASHINGTON, D. May 6.— Th»» case against Governor Crawford, of South Dakota, who Is charged with the Illegal tiling of land patents, has been referred to tho Department of Justice for investigation. All patents which had been filed by Governor Crawford, have been cancelled. - two "nundred happy .school ren, delighted teachers and proud -nts and friends of the pupils, left ixsutawney on a special train chi pulled out from the Pennsyl<a Jltalroad station promptly a; 7 oc* this morning, enroute for a Ays' outing at Washington, 1>. \d Harrlsburg. Disregarding rfew regulations the children £ long before sunup and some i reported at the station scvnes before the hour for leav- About 6:30 the station plat)ecamo crowded to the limit ly 500 people witnessed or parid In the farewell hand-shakid osculations that preceded the ure of the excursionists. The was made up of four da> s and a combination bagguge ly coach, drawn by two of the flvania's largest engines. J: n easy guess that the tourists lot bound for Atlantic City, as I lerson carried one or more huge ases filled, presumably, with cxirments. When the train pullit the baggage man was planto cut a hole through the roof le baggage department in order e able to stand straight and get 11 to breathe freely. rof. A. M. Hammers, chaperonehljsf, had a busy hour getting his i jful globe trotters aboard, but evthlng went oft without a hitch, e train is In charge of tourist ;ent McCoy and Haggage Master >Od, of Philadelphia. The train will arrive at its destlniion at 4:20 p. m. today and it is at ®v«r4oi*ig the mark to prophesy hftt the#Mecca of politicians, bridal jarttes and school children will sit tip and take notice when the buncft swoops un Pennsylvania Avenue or along the other famous thoroughfares of the city of magnificent sights and distances. Following is the itinerary for today:Leave Punxsutawney . . .,. 7.00 a. m. Leave Bosslter Junction ..7.07 a.m. Leave McGees 7.33 a. m. Lea\/o Mahaffey 7.37 a. m. Lettftre Irvona 8.09 a. m. LopLVe Coalport. 8.14 a. m. leave Bellwood 9.00 a. m. krrive Harrisburg 11.55 a.m. Visit State Capitol Lve Harrisburg 12.55 p. m lve Washington 4.20 p. m. 'ransfer to Hotel Fredonla, 1421 H eet, N. W., by special omnibuses, (ongresslonal Library open in even- LONDON, May Eighteen men are reported to have been killed in an explosion at the Moltlen Gold | Alines in Transvaal, South Africa. PRESIDENT MAY RIDE i DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI YOUNG BOY FOUND IN WASHINGTON PEKIN — Twenty new hatalllons of troops will be raised by eonseription to frtrni a. special army corps for the defense of .Manchuria. TUBERCULOSIS CONGRESS MEETS Continued on Second Page. ROOSEVELT WILL . FIRE FIRST SHOT (Continued on Second Page). A REASON GIVEN FOR LABOR SHORTAGE sent live counties. Prof. Hammers' official party Included Mrs. Hammer*? and sons Carl and l)r. James Hammers, of Indiana, and ftcv. and Mrs. C. W. Miner. Following is a list of the names, all but the last before each semicolon being from Punsutawney.Iia Anderson, W. H. Adams, Kobert Allison, Josie Anthony, Jeannetto Aikman, Brockway ville; Bessie O'- Hara, Summerville; Laura Bubeck, Mrs. Hallie Balrd, Belle Black, Glen Campbell; Carrie Black, Glen Campbel, Aexander Barrele, Agnes Barnhart, Nettie Bell, Itose Breth, Burnside; Mrs. Dora Berlnger, Burnside; Fred Beyer, Lillian Boll, Wilda Blose, Fred Bubeck, Bessie Baldwin, Summerville; Jessie Baldwin, Summerville; Mrs. C, W. Blose, pora Bowdeli, Nourytown; Marjory Brown, Mrs. J. C. Beyers, New Washington; Maida Briton, Broekwayville; Emma Britton, Brockway ville; A. O. Brubaker, Sadie Brilhart, Indiana; May Bowers, Big Run; McGee Barnhart, Pearl Colkitt, Clara Crane, Lin a1 Crissman, Margaret Cokely, Mrs. Morgan Cutler, Prof. Conrad, Mrs. Conrad, Elizabeth Crissainn, Mary Clark, Margaret Clark, Ada Campbell, Hugh Campbell, Anna Clark, Mary Curry, Gertrude Cronin, Lauro Condron, Eliza Calhoun, Broekwayville; Le Verta Clawges, Broekwayville; Amy Cochran, Elizabeth Crissman, Mrs. Con- FAMOUS BOER GENERAL AN ADVOCATE OF PEACE out thirty-five persons will get on jen this plaee and Belhvood, so when the train pulls out ont> pain line the party will total [ 235 persons who will repre- (Continued: on Page Six-. Men Claim That Contractor Will Not Pay the Scale. Sigismund Powlukoski, o f Anita, Desires to Become a Sailor. Also He May Lobk at the Ohio If Proper Pressure Is Brought to Bear. D. c. National Association Now in Session at Washington Will Press Button at White House and Discharge Gun at Charleston. If the President can be persuaded to look at the Mississippi with a view to Retting: him Interested!' In that projoe the chances are he would take a day or two longer on his journey to have u view of the Ohio. WASHINGTON, I). <\, May 6.—'This Governors of eighteen states bordering on the Mississippi ltlver are going to ask President Roosevelt to take a trip down that stream from the falls to the passes below New Orleans. Governor Deneen broached the subject to him. It is likely the President will consent to make the trip some time in October. All the commercial bodies in the% valley of the great stream are going to join in the invitation. So far as asceralnable thcr6 Is no move 011 the part of the Ohio Valley people to get the President to take a trip on the stream that will furnish the bulk of the tonnage for an Improved Mississippi. The commercial bodies of the Mississippi Valley are talking of an eighteen-foot channel below St. Louis, but are doing nothing to forward the project for a nine-foot channel In the Ohio. Bl" It KINGTON I'l.YKIt WHKCKKI) Special Service of The Spirit. WASHINGTON, May (J. -The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis began Its third annual meeting in this city today, with headquarters at the New Willard. Leading medical me| and health officials from all parts of the oountry were present at tin- beginning of business this morning. The session was opened with an address by the president, Dr. Hermann M. Higgs, chief medical officer of the New York Health Department. Dr. Lawrence P. Flick, of Philadelphia, presented a report on the progress of the arrangements f6r the International congress td be held In this city next year. Ttf&tr an suction of routine business and meetings of several of the sections of the association occupied the remainder of the day. This evening there Is to be a meeting of the advisory council to listen to ii paper by Dr. Hlggs on "Compulsory Notification ami Registration of Tuberculosis." Tomorrow morning President Theodore Itoosevelt, who Is one of the honorary vice-presidents of the association. will give a reception at the White House to Its members. I noticed the other day a statement to the effect that the State road contractor Is unable to get men enough to do the work. A reason for this Is not hard to find. Laborers in this section are, and have been for several years, getting $1,75 per day for nine hours for the same kind of labor, whereas, I am ti4d, Mr. Francis is only paying $1.50 per duy 4of ten hours. I think I am right when I say that If he will pay the same scale as other employers In this community, aro paying he will have no trolible in getting all the help he wants. I believe the men In this town are doing the proper thing In refustng to work on State contracts at the figures offered because If they work for Mr. Francis for IX.BO for ten hours the effect would be to reduce the price of labor on all other work to the same level. This, In view of the present high prices for the necessaries of life, would bo- an Injustice and would put the laborers of this community at a great disadvantage when compared with the laborers of other sections of the State. A LABORER. Punxsutuwney, May 6, 1907. The following letter, which was received at this otllee this morning, is self-explanatory: Editor Spirit: TIIOLbGV ('All ItOI.I.R DOWN A DANK MANHATTAN, Mont., May 6.—A westbound Burlington flyers wan partly wrecked Just east of Manhattan Snturday evening by running into a handcar. The locomotive, 'the baggage car and the smoknig car were ditched and wrecked. Fireman Harry Qilmore was killed and more than twenty-five passengers werfe Injured, many of them seriously. MANSFIELD TOO ILL TO SAIIi Special Service of The Spirit, CHARLESTON. S. C., May 6.— This is the week of the tifth triennial festival of th<* National Schuctxemund and in honor of the visitors from all parts of the country Charleston haa decked herself out In the national colors of America and Germany. The association Is made up of  100 German rltle clubs located throughout the country and this ia the tlrst time that Its national oumament ever has been held In the South. Many visitors have already reached the city and many more are on their way. The programme of the festival extends over an entire week and Is replete with Interesting features. The target ranges have been built on magnificent grounds along the Ashley river within easy distance of the city. Here there will be held a series of rifle contests for prizes aggregating I $20,000. It has been arranged that President Roosevelt, who believes In I encouraging rltle practice, shall lire ! the llrst gun In the tournament. As the President cunnot attend In person, a rllle will be carefully sighted and secured In position. This wlll.be connected with tho White House by an electric wire and all the President will have to do Is to press a button. If a bullseye Is not scored It will not be the President's fault. Tho social features of the weok am to be especially elaborate and WW .hour will be taken up with some fogy of entertainment. In addition tepr rades, receptions »M if will be a number of ; points of historic latsc#st ment In the .vIclnrtF " """ i. < NEW YORK, May 0. — Richard Mansfield's condition would not permit him leaving for Europe a* he had planned, but his physician. Dr. Floyd M. Crandall, made arrangements for his departure In two weeks. O.. May -A street car on the Southeastern Ohio tractiion line coming Creeksvlllc, Jumped the track at South Zanesvllle and rolled down an embankment, lodging against a telegraph pole. Of •thme seven passengeta but (She was I Injured, Mrs. Ida effreys, of this city. | who was Internally injured ant* will | probably die. i BAPTIZED AT MIDNIGHT WINCHESTER, Va.. May 6.—Following a revival sermon at Whlacro Mllss Carrie Whltacre and Maggie Carpenter professed conversion and Insisted upon being baptised at once, although nearly midnight. By the light of a huge bonfire, hastily built, the young women waded waist deep i Into the creek and were immersed. BkllbfontaW* of relliwde  Court rendred. iaMMBgfea&'-yg :jWi CINCINNATI, O.— William Cooper Procter, pcesldent of ' Procter m Gamble Company, soap J*** bitten In the hand by • doc. which is ■believed to have been mad. Sigismund PawlukosHip the fourteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Pawlukoski, of Anita, who .disappeared mysteriously from his home Sunday, March 11, was located, recently, at Washington, D. C., and brought, home. The lad refused to give an accounnt of his wanderings until Saturday. He ! boarded the flyer at this place tho ; day he left home and went to Pitts• burg where, after visiting acquain- I tances for some time, he made an i application at an employment agency } and secured a position In the West i Penn Hospital. At the end of three j weeks he drew his pay and bought a J ticket for Washington, D. C., where | ho expected to get a line on the best | way to get into the United States i Navy.. While keeping a wcahcr eyo on marlifc affairs ho did odd jobs and earned enough money to pay his expenses. Matters drifted along smoothly until one day when he applied for wotk at wiiat he thought was an eriiployment agency, but which proved to be a detective bureau. Before he had been in the ofllco very long tho sleuths had drawn from him sufficient data to locate his home and the boy's parents were notified. Tho intelligence caused groat Joy In tho Pawlukoskl family and tho anxious father wont to Washington at once. He had no difficulty In locuttng his son who returned with him without any troublo, but with the promise that as soon as he becomes old enough he Is to be allowed to enlist in the navy. Mr. Pawlukoskl has a second son who Is now well through college and It is his and the mother's desire that their younger son shall recelvc similar educational advantages. ■. Slglsmund, who Is an exceptionally bright youth, Is also something of a financier, as he had been away about two months and had saved 117 out of til that he had when he left home.. SAN FRANCISCO—Abraham RUef, at the reaumtrtlon of "nls trial, applied to Judge Dunne for a change of venue to some other county, alleging that for various reasons he could not be fairly tried In San Francisco County. fgMMral Louis Botha, the new premier of the Transvaal, was born In ■Mek South Africa, In lit, and after an education In the public schools . Rate province, he became prominent In the political struggle which had pMf bHTUn in the Transvaal. He was a member of thfe First Volksraad rtke Transvaal and represented Vryheld in that legislative body. He was fijjit' WMmat when the flnal Boer-British war broke out, but fought his ■MlpwMl, Anally succeeding General Joubert In the supreme command BM Bow Rntes. He commanded at the battle of Colenso. He has, ■MjttM war, been a firm advocate of lasting peace between the British *** th* *»wvaal. 11 nil ■ „ jtt - m 11111 » .m •I ■ X B HHBBb VlllTl H M«y *—Halo lo- X • "▼ nlcht and Tuesday. Colder. £ ■V irfi* J