Punxsutawney Spirit, 1907-06-19

              CLAYTON i:. P.VLMEH By Publishers' Press. .. X.-. i MORE £E WAS 4—2 DETAILS ARE SCARCE Making Preparations For a Long Struggle With the Operators. Team's Stick Work All to ■Yoedt Had THE TELEGRAPHERS WILL STRIKE THE LAST OF THIS WEEK PRICE 1 CENT HOT ONE ERROR IN YESTERDAY'S GAME EOR THE POLICEMEN RS Counsel For Both P." Refuse Service of Subpoenas. PUtfXSUTAVNEY, PA.. WEDNESDAY E Hfp Ttttt 1 ■ ■ j Coofc* Thurxdajr. f M SANDERSON AND HUSTON TO DEFY CAPITOL PROR?l ENING, JUNE 19, 1907 WILL REVIVE THE WATER QUESTION IN PUNXSUTAWNEY f HE Sim IN THE mm trial ■REM Solicitor Gillespie Prepares Report Dealing With Sev- » eral Matters of Interest. HEPMTS MRS. EBDT COMPETENT TO LOOK AFTER Om AFFAIRS « Arthur Brisbane Has Personal Interview With Leader of Christian Science. WILL CALL MEETING wealthy Mine Owner's Testi] mony a Strong Card For the Prosecution. JACK simpkins dead FOLLOWERS DEVOTED Thought to Have Taken Qwn Life on Ranch. Farmer "Pal" of Orchard Is Information Given Out Is Meagre-Will Afiect Postal and Western Union. now <1 Diurde] berg, J •tic at] vlolenc] roornlitj Edw of the • weal nem c. of tii<i oonaun By Publishers' Press. E, Ida., June 19.—An attempt b that Haywood, Secretary of ■tern Federation of Miners, trial for complicity In the of former Qovernor Steunen- M responsible for the systemmpts to Incite the miners to was the feature of this s testimony. Id Boyce, formerly president Western Federation, but now ky mine owner, was the wit- Bed to prove the contentions his examination ng much time. (_\ E. Palmer today is celebrating the sixteenth anniversary of his election as Chief «>f Police of Punxaulawney. Since lie first became trie guardian of the peace and morals of the metropolis of JefTerson County the town has increased from a hamlet of some 2,000 inhabitants to a city of the third class with all the modern improvements in vogue, while in the matter of individual and municipal morality as great a change has taken plat .-, due largely to his persistent and thorough pursuit of ail the criminally inclined. Chief Pajnn r is widely known as an ideal officer and his hosts of friends will join in wishing him a long tenure of his present office. reeeti Bald] who I he I >r SI •emi Jepui NKW YORK, June 19.—The genral Kxoeutlve Committee of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union today decided upon .» strike to enforce the demands of the operators for rcdr<ss of their grievances. The matter is now in the hafidn «»f Samuel Small, the president of the l "njon. Just when and where the strike will lie railed is not made public, but the statement is made that If will come within the next week or ten days. Tie decision to strike was announced in a public statement which was given out this morning by Acting president Kon«nkamp. of the Union. The statement says that i.i** strike has been approved against "ilher or both the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies. "Plans for the campaign have been made, and the men are ready for .1 struggle," the statement concludes. GOLF TOURNAMENT AT COUNTRY CLUB Will GIVE MUSICALE IN METHODIST CHURCH To the President and Members of the Town Council of the Borough of Punxsutawney— Gentlemen: Your Solicitor begs leave to submit the following report, viz.: At Iho meeting <»r the Town Council Monday night Borough Solicitor Wllllum Gillespie submitted n report which Included an account of his official acts and stated his opinions on several subjects,-Including the water situation. The Borough Solicitor believes that If the citizens of Punxsutawney desire better service and puij water they can compel the waier company to furnish It, or put It out of business. The revival of the subject Is pertinent at this time, because the citizens of Kast Knd, (specially those living on Highland Avenue and other high points, Just now are being annoyed with an additional nuisance In the shape of gas accummulating In the water mains. When the water v - cedes during times or low pressure, gas accumulates in the mains and when the pressure comes on again tit*1 gas Is forced out through the spigots Into the npartments. Recently at the homes of D. H. Long and Harry Campbell, it Is salil, the gas flow through the water mains Is so strong that when lighted at the spigots a blaze shoots out that I*' positively dangerous, while tVie water that follows Is tainted and untlt for use. In view of these and other complaints the Borough Solictor advises that a meeting he called and that the borough council and citizens take the matter up nil act conjointly. Following is the report mde the Borough Solicitor that Includes his recommendations on the water nuestion: Competing For Prizes at Their Club House-Score Boards Out. ►lew 1 Anl made,' Itln's , hey U ProhJ I Misses Grace E. Beck and Claudia G. Fink Have Prepared Program. WT COLLINS, Col., June ID.— ■illlyall doubt that the man who ly committed suicide at the fin Ranch Is "Jack" Simpkins, «rag wanted in connection with ssasslnatlon of former Governpunenberg, of Idoho, has betn led by Coroner Hallowell and y Sheriff Lowrey, who returned , after a trip to the ranch to the body. ! absolute Identification was not 1 but the resemblance to Simpdescription Is so complete that tave no doubt that he was Harry ird'g former "pal." ' lesuicide arrived at Baldwin :h ten days ago and begged for [, which wag given him. His pns at flrat caused suspicion, d«- Idlng his pay every night, so that {nifht leave on the lmpulee of *..'1 jr ~ CHILDEIN BURNED. Into Boiling Starch—An- Took Mouthful of Oreoaota. I Misses Orace E. Hock and Claudia G. FInk will, on next Friday flight, ' beginning at 8:15 o'clock, conduct a | miislcale In the Methodist Church, | for the benefit of the mimic commit* ' fee of thi- church. AIIsh Heck, wao ranks high In musical circles an a vocalist, will sing while Miss Fink will give an organ recital. The best musical talent In the town has boon secured and the event promises t«» be the foremost happening of the kind of tin- season. Admission, twenly-llvo cents to all. o 111:111. i \ ( o>imi:\( i:mi:xt. ...000 3 000 1 0—4 ...0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0—2 Punx'y Oil City Stolen bases—Wiiloughby 2; Sykos, Balloy. Two base hits—-'Campbell, Florey, Allen, Bailey. Sacrllieo lilt a —Conroy, Jutzl, Florey, Voedt. Struck out --Hy Hockonbnugh 4; by Yoedt 2. Hit by pitched balls—Hy Yoedt 1; by Beckenbaugh 1. Hase on balls —Off Yoedt 1; Off Beckonbnugii Umpire—Drake. Timt—2:05. Total?! | 3 J 2 !» 27 S 3 ♦Hatted for Beckenbaugh in the ninth. Ml NINE DEAD AT JOHNSON A golf tournament will be held on the grounds 6l' the Punxsutawney Country Club all this week. A list of members with their handicaps may be seen in Beyer's drug1 store and on the bulletin board on the grounds. Game to be medal play, twentyseven holes. Cards are to be handed in at Beyer's Drug: Store not later than Saturday, and eard must be verified by your opponent. The prize will be golf balls furnished by the elub. All members are invited to participate. Field Committee.FOHT WAYNK, Ind. — Two hundred and fifty cigarmakcw have struck for higher wage* (Continued on Third Page.) OHKRLIX. ()., June 19. — Editor William Allen White, of Emporln, Kns., delivered the commencement oration today at Oberlln college. The class was one of the largest ever graduated from the college. The many dlclples of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy will read with Interest the following article which was printed In the Boston American Monday, Juno 10: Impartial light Is thrown upon the Edtly case by Arthur Brisbane, who, at the request of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, Interviewed the aged loader of Christian Sc ientists, at her homo In Concord, N. H. Mr. Brisbane passed an hour at the home of Mrs. Eddy. Mr. Brisbane's immediate report to the publication he represented upon the results of his visit to the home of Mrs. Eddy was as follows: "I visited Mrs. Eddy ns tin* representative of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, in accordance with the arrangement that you had made. I had a long and extremely interesting talk with her. I am glad to tell you that I shall be able to write the article which you ask for, and thai it will bo positively reassuring and comforting to Mrs. Eddy's followers.Mr. Brisbane describes the conditions of Mrs. Eddy's home as follows:"Thoso about her are devoted to her. She is In absolute control of her own movements, and mistress of her entire household. That is evident."Mrs. Eddy Is thoroughly competent to take care of herself and her business. The suggestion that she should be deprived of her personal liberty, or of the property that she has earned* Is preposterous and shameful. "For a woman of her age—she is eighty-six years old—her mental vigor and clearness of thought are most unusual. I had every opportunity of convincing myself thoroughly as to her mental and physical condition. She talks tfliwly" IstliaMy. She4 reads beautifully with a voice very musical and of great power. She understands business matters thoroughly. She speaks with intenso feeling and gratitude of her friends and their devotion. To accuse those friends of conspiracy against her welfare is in my opinion disgraceful. I "I shall say at length that I feel most deeply, namely, that l( Mr.-;. Eddy in her old age should be deprived by law of her fortune, of the right to dispose of It, or of the right to dispose of herself, the act would be outrageous And It would eau;<e just apprehension In the mind of any woman past three score and ten and possessed of property that might arouse the cupidity or the interest of outsiders. (Continued on Page Six.) "Mrs. Eddy lives under Ideat con dltlons of comfort, happiness and contentment. It would be sheer brutality on the part of so-called 'next Henry Watenon the Speaker. rNTOR OF THE GREAT iTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKES THE INVt WE /A baby girl of Mr. and Mrs. John krley, of East End, was severely trned yesterday on the right hand Mrs. Carley was wash- forearm. thee lbwo, in a frightful man- I and the tot was playing nearby, bucket o fstarch had been heated .boiling and Into this tho child stuck ' right arm, burning the flesh, ai- et. Tho child was taken to Grube's Eospital, where Dr. Collins dressed le wound. A two-year-old daughter of Robrt Haslett, of West End, came near d ending her life yesterday when she ound a bottle of creosote and placc 1 tie bottle to her lips. As soon as he fluid entered her mouth it burnd her so severely that the child Iropped the bottle without swallowng any of the deadly poison. The iquld, however, burned the lips and sen of the tot In an extremely paintil manner. Dr. John CJrube, who -*as called In immediately, dressed he wounds. BLOOMINOTON, Ind., June 19.— Henry Waterson, the Louisville editor, was the principal speaker today at the commencement exerclscs of Indiana University. Congressman James E. Watson delivered the address to the graduates of the law department of the university. By Publishers' Press 8CRANTON, June 19.—It is delin- itely known this morning that nine men, all of Jhom foreigner.*, are dead and live more badly Injured as tile result of the explosion of gas in the Johnson mine late yesterday. The mine officials state that all the others who were employed In the mine were safely rescued. Tlio property damage Is slight. iR'ER GROUNDHOG LEAVES FOR CANOE RIDGE HAUNTS NOT NECESSARY TO MOVE OVER hief Palmer Forced to Resign Position as Chief Keeper of Weather Works. OOK THE RECORDS GKNKUj II.UJGAME AGENTS JIEKT INCENDIARIES AT ALLINTQWN By Publishers' Press. WASHINGTON, J). C., Juno 19.— Tho suggestion that the entire battleship squadron of tile American Navy bo sent to the Pacific coast, has been vetoed by the administration, it bo inn: determined as unnecessary and inexpedient at the present time. Savage s ... < 'olllgan 1 Jewell m . . . Wtlloughby 2 Sykcs I ".I 0 2 5 1 0 Conroy c t~*fl A 4 1 i Jutzi r .1 0 2 1 1 0 Flynn 3 4 0 0 4 0 0 Beckonbnugh p .. f 0 0 1 3 0 *Clough 0 0 0 0 0 0; : HAIUUSBURO. June 19.—Chr>r,eM j  E. Montague, the metallic furn j expert employed by the Capltof' ! Special to The Spirit, vestigating Commission to exav;n,M0 j OI1' 1 1TY. June l!> -Yesterday the supplies furnished by Congi "iW" I tho P°**«y Punxsutawney Policemen man Cassell's Pennsylvania t ]on' lJM,k nnothdr fall out of <'allopy\s structlon Company under the 'two j < ubs, winning by a score of 4 to 2. million dollar contrac t, was a wit-| I be officers again had their batting nets before the probers, ur« - in . t>,othes on, four of them. Campbell, executive session today. Florey, Allen and Bailey, having Mr. Montague Heekenbaugh up for a twowhlch he prepared, f'a,,h. Allen, Roach and State was fleeced by • fo| 'he visitors, and Willoughments on the steel tiling Sykes for the locals, carried report will point out. it Is said, batting honors, while Traythe Pennsylvania Construction 0oni* | 1 • ('"Uipln*ll. Roach and Yoedt pany realised proms exceeding °ne shone in the llelding stunts. | thousand per cent. °edt pitched a star game and The investigators do not desh'S' lo j un.V(,n«' who saw his work would not make Montague's findings publhV a' j (,ou,)t hut that he was master of the this time, as certain damaging jf'-'a-! situation at any stage of the game, tures are to be used In the pro^01'11* k(,pPl"K the hits well scattered and tion which will follow. 1 j apparently allowing only enough With the examination of forn'lrr i 'i,M'P his (•■animates employ- Oovernors Pennypac ker V players again mad** former Auditor Generals no' necessarily a( Hardenbergh. former Sti> v would have meant ers Mathues and Harris, isitor.s did not make Superintendent of Public ( an error, although Buildings Shumaker, this Campbell's record at investigators expect to cc • were kept busv task of taking oral testir *ne score; Malhues and Snyder *ini\*y testify this afternoon. A B It 11 p a E Attorneys for Architect 1 • • • l 0 ft 2 ft o Contractor Sanderson have ... • • • 4 0 0 3 C 0 accept service of subpenas of the cap- i Campbell 1 . .7s; • '> 1 1 lf» 0 ft ltol investigation commission upon' Florey l V 4 ft l 2 ft 0 their clients. ('rum r .!• 5 12 10 0 Both Huston and Sanderson are j Koach s S " 1 **' 0 ' 0 understood to be out of the State and Allen 3 \ 4 1 3 1 ft 0 therefore beyond the jurisdiction of I Bulley c \ - 0 1 3 0 0 the probers. Therefore toe only | Voedt p V 0 0 0 1 0 course left for the commission was to | —V — — — — — attempt to serve Its papers on the I Totals 4 10 27 14 0 counsel. Oil Oily Kcfufjnl to accept service Is re- A I' R H P A 1- garded as tantamount to notice that ..401 3 1 < the capltol architect and the chlcl .6 0 0 3 0 contractor have decided to defy the * 0 0 0 probers. 4 2 3 3 1 The latter evidently are neitacr | surprised nor disturbed over this development. They long ago gave it to be understood that they did not regard fhe presence of either Huston or Sanderson as essential to the in- | coming of all the information the j commission was appointed to obtain. The State of Pennsylvania paid half a million dollars for the "trimmings" in the h.'ill of the House of. Representatives and a quarter of «i million dollars for the Senate Chamber. /The figures were made public by the Capitol Investlfation Commission this evening, the auditors nav- i Ing completed tlie tabulations for! two great "show rooms" of the Capi- ; to!. Even after all that? has been shown as to the cost o fthinsg about the Capitol, these latest ligures are startling in their magnitude. For eight chandeliers in the House, price was $199,402.25; for a like number of wall brackets, $51,182.05; for four standards, $37,016.60, and "baccaratt glass' for these fixtures, $20,- 382. The four big chandeliers in the Senate Cost $71,871; six wall brackets, $29,068.48; four standards, $21,- 006.75, and "baccaratt glans," $11,115- .30. For lighting fixtures in the House the total outlay was $308,042.00, and In the Senate chamber, $183,601.53. Sanderson was paid $87,711.12 for painting and decorating in the Houy and $50,001.84 in the Senate, a total of $137,712.96. The probers have been unable to learn that any allowance was ever made for Payne & Company being relieved of this work, which was Included in the original $4,000,000 contract. If no allowance can be shown this entire payment for painting and decorating woj a duplication ami will serve as a basis for an action for recovery. Other items of expenditure in tho legislative halls were as follows: House floors, $7,037.10; carpet, $2,- 073.43; 210 desks, $69,937.60; chairs, $34,739.70; curtains, $4,198.40; thermostat, $79; desk light, $242.50. Senate—Floors, $1,302.90; carpet, $ Iftl 26.51; 52 desks. $15,433.20; chairs, $21,452,70; curtains, $3,170.67; thermostat. $79; sofas, $15,009; desk light, $242:50. The exact figures for the "trimmings" for the two halls are: House, $506,661.75; Senate, $245,- 079.85. Total. $741,747,50, PORTLAND, Me., Juno 19.—The American Association of General Haggage Agents met at the Hotel Falmouth in this eoity today for their twenty-fifth annual convention. As the meeting marks the silver Jubilee anniversary of the association a number of attractive social features have been included in the program in addition to the usual business of the convention.EKNK-StTMMEKH BOUT TONIGHT. NGeorge Westing house Qeorgp Westlnithousr, the invent or or iw \\ usiinghoUBe who must be considered the most important'Intellect In the early electrical transportation problems, was born at Central County, N. Y., on Oetdber I, 184G. He was eduoatad at schools, but his trend of thought was early shown by bli lavaafWMI  practical rotary engine when only 15 years of a*e. ' liiiliirtfn $$• '' Mr. Westlnghouse married, on August 8. lllai Walker. It was in 1S68 that]Westlnghousa mada hla Sp that fame and fortune by * for electrical control of power afcd «a honor o# hi* Invention • tho goevrmncnts of Franca; Belgium ajfl liaqr. The WcKtinghouse realdenoa;JtiP*1 1 ■ — —' A lien town, Pa., June 18.—Incendiaries who have terrorised Allentown during the past few weeks, this morning imperilled the lives of *lx people, when they set utlamc the home of Max Jacobson. The entire front of the house was in (lames when the flre was discovered by one of the children. Th'j family barely escaped in their nlg.il clothing, the house and Its contents being entirely destroyed. _____ Back to Mount Canoe Ridge for r'er Groundhog! Yesterday mornig, having become weary of being wrund by the olllclal custodian, Dayton E. Palmer, and after havin« etpded the Chief* garden of every jitWtnce of vegetation the boss roodchuck packed up his persona! •longlngR and with the official rec- r4a of the Punxautawney Weather- Wka tucked away under his famlli- > Move pipe hat and his conventlonumbrelfa slung under his right illt'lM sklddoed for the foothills of liate Canoe Ridge to direct things fterologlcal from the old stand. No Palmer oeliars and barns or »v#yard corners, or bum traps or •ty shotgun*, or anooalng pollce- Mt for the sage of Canoe Ridge Vim the official groundhog thai M been making 'his home with put of Police Palmer ever slncq,hls Mrture. almost two years ago, by lie Chief and Col. Prank Rldgway. Mfc French leave Tuesday night, and !• war-Uke preparations that have Km MM on In the Palmer home IT t#o *toks. yesterday ceased. I It «M Mill time, for on Mou- Mr Ik* CktUt sharpened up a Toledo The Chief having become educated to the fact that the official prophet of the Punxautawney Weatherworks is proof against* all forms of annihilation, is now competent to become a member of the chosen diclples of the only prognostlcator on the* globe that Is not a "weather fakir." We expect to introduce the Chief to his recent tenant at the annual hunt cn Canoe Ridge In September. That that particular groundhog bears a .charmed life Is Mr. Palmer's unswerving belief, else why should that cap have refused to discharge that gun? While telling of his experience last night, Mr. Palmer exhibited the cap whleh showed the marks of having been hit Ave times with the hammer, closing the recital with the statement that after the weapon refused to go off he felt so cheap and slim that he could have taken a bath in the barrel of tho gun.. blade butcher knife and with a Winchester repeating rifle at his side, lay in wait for the rascally weather prophet that had defied poison, traps, night sticks, green pea soup and brickbats in order to gn Stevanacus up in the air, late in the evening was seen sitting plumb upright In the middle of the garden with his hands placed tandem ill front of his nose and his fingers wigwagging. Palmer drew a bead on the woodchuck ano pulled, but the gun would not go off. Five times it snapped but no report, and before the Chief could renew the cartridge, the official marmot had taken his sneak. * PHILADELPHIA. Pa., June 19.— Johnny Summers, the little English fighter who recently fought such a sensational bout in this city, will have his second try-out at the National A. C. tonights His opponent is to be Young Erne, one of tho best fighters at his weight in the East. According to the articles of agreement the two will weigh in at*ISO pounds at six o'clock. The winner probably will be matched to fight Matty Baldwin be- Tom O'Rourke's club. 1. The Committee to examine as 'to the propriety of revising the ordinances of the borough met at my office at a time appointed and discussed the state of the ordinances and will make a full report, rendering any suggestion from me unnecessary. Tho Water Question. 2. In accordance with request of Council, I have carefully drawn an ordinance conferring certain privileges upon the Citizens Water Company, I which Is herewith submitted for your approval. The matter 1ms been pretty thoroughly gone over by your Committee who met with the members of the proposed water company at my office and, while there may be some minor differences, I think the main features are agreed upon. The Company seem to object mostly to tnat section requiring them to furnish free water to the municipal building, school-houses, drinking fountains, &c. I do not regard the question of much moment in view of the graver matters involved In the matter now before the Council. Since the question of water was submitted to me, the Attorney General of this Commonwealth has refused to back the quo warranto proceedings instituted by my predecessor. As I was never informed regarding this proceeding or the facts upon which it was based, I can give no opinion as to whether or not the borough can set forth sufficient grounds to justify such proceeding. Under the law, however, any citizen may present a petition to the Court of Common Pleas setting forth inadequacy, or insufficiency either in quantity of the water and the Court has ample power to make such order in the premises as will afford relief or enjoin tho company from collecting water rents until the defects are remedied. It might not bo out of place to call a meeting of citizens of the borough to discuss the presentation to the court of such a petition as I refer to. I think the borough cq,uld present It, being a user of the water, but it would be preferable to have it joined in by tho citizens so that the court might know and have a clearer and better Idea of the present company's failure to furnish pure and wholesome water and In sufficient quantities to meet -the public and private demands. While this course would not of itscelf abolish the company as a corporation, It would either compel them to remedy existing evils or cease to collect water rates, which is a virtual suspension of business if they cannot furnish good water and plenty of It. By the 34th section of the Act of April 29th, 1894, P. *L. 78, It Is provided, among other things, that "The Court of Common Pleas of the proper County shall have jurisdiction and power upon the bill or petition of any citizen using the gas or water of any said companies to hear, Inquire and determine as to tho charges thereof for gas or water so furnished and to decree that the bill bo dismissed or that the charges shall be decreased as to the said court may seem just and equitable and to enforce obedience to their decrees by the usual process."By another clause of the same Act It Is provided "Said corporation shall at all times furnish pure gas and water and any cltlsen using the same may make complaint of Impurity or deflclency In quantity or quality, or both, to the Court of Common Pleas of thp proper county by bill liled and after hearing the parties touching tho same, the said court shall have power to make l|uch drder In the premises as may seem just and equitable- and may (Continued on Pa*e BIX-. To Revise Ordinances. hhh W- m ' : L-mrtPood- F I ,.M,„.rSP|P«^TI!INAL SCO iston an,! Ml • 1 111 ' • **< fused t<> I'raynor 2 .':y- By Pul i t Py Publishers' Press.