Punxsutawney Spirit, 1907-09-25

              1 E f U Dmtfsnfatomrt? fpifIt WALSTON FAMILIES HAVE DISPUTE OVER FENCE OWNERSHIP PRICE 1 CENT FISH IS IN HOT WATER Foreigners All Equally Guilty By Evidence But Technicality Saves Two. LARGE COPPER COMPANY IS ORGANIZED BY PUNXS'Y AND REYNOLDSVILLE MEN PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1907 FOBIif FOR SOME MAN VOL II. N«.8 Will Operate Mines in Arizona and the Present Showing Promises Good Results. HOLDING OP THE RECORD Murderer of Contractor Ferguson Said to Be Serving Time in Columbus. Will Be Met at Frontier By Special Commission—Banquet on Program. SECRETARY ROOT LEAVES FOR TRIP TO MEXICO IOOAY RIGHT MAN IS FOUND Cumbria Comity Sub-Station of Troop l> Uiuler SitrwiiiI Logan Report 130 Arrests for September. President Harahan Addresses Letter to Illinois Central Stockholders. New Imw Requiring Fnulers .\romul Stoves hi Seliool Rooms Causing the IM rectors Trouble. TO MEET PRESIDENT A SERIOUS CHARGE Continued on Pago Six J w / \ \ . , \ \ WORK 10 BEGIN WITHOUT [ELAY SAYS FISH TELLS All UNTRUTH Absolutely No Change in the Management of Two Big Western Railroads. A dispute over the possession of a fence cau>. d the arrest of four persons. one charge being of a rather MOTHER MAN PAID THE PENALTY Contract For 300 Foot Tunnel Let and Other Improvements Will Follow. L. S. Liggett the Only Person Known to Have Seen Contractor's Murderer. W. R. MERIDITH PRES. INSIDE WORKINGS RECOGNITION MUTUAL The Crown Point Copper Company BETTER TRAIN SERVICE Harry Ma.iney was arrested on a warrant sWorn out by a married woman, changing him with a felonious Hssault. He was taken to Ebensburg t.> await trial at the December term of Court. Sergeant Joseph Logan, In charge of the substation of Troop 1), State Police, at Portage, accompanied by Private Edwards, today reported to Capt. Robinson at the barracks in thin place, to make a requisition for additional supplies. Portage, which also includes a station at South Fork, in charge of Troopers Smith and Kohut, and one at GalMtzin, in charge of Nugeni). lCichar.ls and Koegh, reports 130 arrests during the month of September, thus far; 51 for the first week, 11 for the second week, 41) for the third week, and 19 during the llrst two days: of the present week. The offenses for which the culprits were arrested include almost every crime in the calendar, excepting murder, and a large portion of the number taken into custody are now awaiting trial in the jails at Indi- 1 ana and Ebensburg. Among: those arrested by Sergeant Logan was one Harry Malney, formerly of Anita, whose m >ther, Mary Mainey, last year was arrested for selling liquor without a license,a nd upon conviction in the November term of court at Hrookville, was sentenced to six months in the Western Penitentiary. Indiana Business Men Furling II., It. & P. Official* to Improve Sorvire on the Branch. The new law requires the directors of all schools, where stoves are used for heating purposes, to enclose the stoves In a zinc or sheet iron shield that will insure a more equal distribution of heat than with an unprotected stove. In case the stove> occupies a position in the middle of the room the shield should be open both in front and In th«* back so that while the sides of the shield will protect the pupils who sit close to the stove the heat may pass freely toward the front and back of the building. The thermometer Industry these i days Is also booming:. It Is all due -to a law enacted by the last legislature of Pennsylvania, and signed May 29 i by Gov. Edwin S. Stuart. The law | provides that every school room in the State shall include in its equipment a thermometer. This, of course, is to make sure that the ventilation is all right. The law creates a market for more than 200.000 thermometers As it Is provided that this supplying of thermometers and shields shall be complete by December ; 1, with dismissal of school boards as j the penalty for failure to comply with > the act. It Is no idle jest to remark j that there is an unusual demand for i thermometers. The law makes it plain, however, that good directors ' shall not perish along with 'the bad. Before any dismissing is done the records of votes on the thermometer question will be scrutinized. Only those who voted against thermometers will be dismissed. Those who were for them will be retained. During the visit of Prof. R. B. Teitrick, deputy state superintendent, of Harrisburg, to Punxsutawney, last week to assist in the dedication of the new educational building, he stated that there would be a fortune in it for the man who will invent a shield or protector that will be suitable for school room stoves. AWT PM in BAB MEETING OPEN Advicej from Mexico indicate that the government and people of 'that republic aie making elaborate preparations for the reception ond entertainment of the distinguished visitors. The private train of President Diaz will be sent <to Laredo to meet Secretary Root and his party and to convey them to the capital. The commission that will meet 'them at the border is composed of lgnacio Mariscal, the minister of foreign affairs; Governor Gulllermo de Landa y Escandon, General Pedro Rincon Gallardo, and several others of equal prominence. The secretary of State and his family will be the guests of President Diaz at Chepultepec Castle, which has been renovated and refitted for their acommodatlon. The Mexican president will give a state dinner in their honer at the national palace. Foreign Minister Mariscal will also banquet them, and a state ball is on the program. The unique entertainment of .Yteit will, be furnjsl\ed by Governor duiUermo de Landa y iSscandon, who has arranged for a roping contest at Mexico City, in which the cowboys will show their skill. WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—Washington expects results of an important and f.ir-rcachlng character to follow the lsit of Secretary of State Elihu Root to Mexico. Secretary Root, accompanied by his wife and daughter, leaves Washington this afternoon and plans to be gone several weeks. While the visit is ostensibly for the purpose of cementing the good relations between the United States and Mexico, it is understood that other questions, of even deeper significance, will be discussed by the American secre:ary of state and the Mexican president.. It is regarded as quite probable that the condition of affairs in Central America will be an important subject of discussion, particularly the plan of President Zelaya) of Nicaraugua, looking a union of the five Central American republics into one powerful iwition. Weather Woufil Not Permit Young People (aolng to the Country for a Corn lloast. Association Addressed by Governor Stokes—President (i. S. Wliltson Responds. His reference to alleged domination by Union Pacific is merely an effort to play upon what he supposes current prejudice to further his own Interests, and should not deceive anyi one. The attack made by Mr. Fish upon his fellow-direct :>r8 and upon officers of the company warrants a f'ttll statement of the reason why [ Fish was not intrusted with the continued managcmont of the property. | 1 enclose herewith a copy of a letter I addressed by fight directors of the company to Mr. Fish. November 7, 1906, setting forth specltlcally some of the reasons why they could not vote for his re-election as president. There wore other reasons of a conferred to in general •terms, hut out of consideration for Mr. Fish were not specifically mentioned in that letter. The most conspicuous of those are (while Mr. Fish was president of your company, and as such the vlrtujil custodian of Its treasury), he loaned to himself, as an Individual, about $1,500,000 from th<* treasury of the company upon security of his own selection, which proved to be Inadequate and unmarketable. After It was demonstrated that Mr. Fish was unable to reimburse the company a director individually loaned him the money necessary to repay the company Tn Order to secure thlla loan Mr. Fish pledged not only tho unmarketable collateral abovo mention.<j, l>ut also conveyed his residence iti Ww York and his undivided Interest In the estate of the lato The resolutions presented by him some weeks ago to the board of directors making these charges were referred to the accounting, traffic and operating officers, ami their records show that the charges were utterly groundless and that the accounts have been kept precisely as they were under Mr. Fish's administration, and that the relations with all connecting I lines are the same as before his retirement.The K'latement in the circular letter issued by Mr. Fish to the stockholders and published today, that the Illinois Central accounts have been padded or In any way manipulated, is absolutely untrue. He knows that there has been no change whatever in the relations of the Illinois Central with the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific. < 'HICAGO, 111., Sept. 25. — J. T. Harahan. president of the Illinois Centra Railroad, last night addressed to the stockholders a statement in part as follows: It appeared from the testimony :hat for the past seven years Mrs. Trombetta has boon practising midwifery among the Italian element at j Walston and was highly regarded In that capacity, the women much preferring her to a doctor, inasmuch that she stave 1 at the house and kept things in order after the birth of the child. Several women testified to -having been attended to by her and that for each case she charged three dollars, which fact was another reason why her services were In demand,. they being a great deal cheaper than that of a doctor. In the latter case 'Squire Corey reserve! his decision. VV. H. Adams, Esq., had the case of the Micelis in hand, while William Jenks. Esq., was attorney for the Trombettas. serious nature. Mike Trombetta, with his family, I reside in one side >f a double house in Walston, while Pellgrlno Mlceli I anil his kindred live in the other. The factions have been at war for some time, but matters did not come to a head until Friday afternoon, when the Tr >mbettns started in to tear down the fence In the rear of the double house. Mrs. Tiombetia claimed that it was hers because the man who built It save it to her in lieu of a bill. The Micelis based th ir claim to ownership on the f:i"t that the company said they c.»uld have it. To emphasize her claim Mrs. Mlceli armed herself with a hatchet while the husband of the woman next door had a pick, and his wife a stone. For some time they stood by and j abused each other in stinging epithets j and about the time it 1 joked .ip though things would be slightly warmed, bystanders interfere J. Mlceli then left for town and had a warrant sworn out for Mr. and Mrs. Trombetta, charging them with assault and surety of the peace and placed an additional charge against Mrs. Trunbetta of practising midwifery and failirtg to register the birth of the children with the local registrar. During her husband's absence Mrs. Mlceli claims that the I woman next door came to her back \ J door and for upwards of two h  I invited her out in terms not calculated to please th»> ear of the "most exacting. She, however, refused the I Invitation. The warrants were served >n Trombetta and wife by Constable O. P. Walker and bail secured for them. They then retaliated by making information against the Micelis charging jhem with surety of the peace. The testimony given at the hear! ing yesterday. brought out the fact that as far as surety of the peace was concerned all were eqirally guilty, but through a technicality in the prosecution of Miceli and wife, they were released, while the Trombettas were fined, the fine and costs amounting to $70.25. THe business men of Indiana have inaugurated a movement for better train service on the Indiana branch of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg railroad. As 'the business men of Punxsutawney and the traveling public would be largely benefited by the changes advocated by the business men of Indiana, it would be the part of wisdom to join in advocating the additional service. Referring to 'the effort that Is being made along the line suggested the Indiana Progress today says: Business men of town are urging the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Hallway Company to establish better train service on -the local branch, and a petition, which is being liberally signed, will be presented to the company within a few days. If the projected train is established it will probably leave Punxsutawney at 10:30 o'clock a. m., arriving at Indiana a«t 11:55 a. m., and at Josephine at 12:35, returning arriving at Indiana at 1:00 p. m., and at Punxsutawney at 2: SO p. m. The new service will allow passengers going west to connect at Punxsutawney at 3:02 p. m. with through •train No. 3, which reaches Pittsburg at 6:00, and going north to connect at Indiana Junction with train No. 8, which arrives in Buffalo between 9:00 and 10:00 p. m. OLD SARATOGA SOLD The inclement weather last evening: prevented a cjrn roast for a number of young people, though it di 1 not stop an evening's enjoyment. Not until the rain came down by the bucketsfull was the idea of going to the country given up, but at th< .same time an invitation from Mrs. Walter Dinsmore saved the day and entire party relegated to the Dinsmore home for a rabbit party. Part of the corn which was to have been taken along the country, (residents of the rural districts will please notice that they intended to take the corn with them) was boiled and this, with other accessories, proved a very appetizing repast. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dinsmore, Mr. and Mrs. Pi-nn McCartney, Misses Marie Hastings, Clare Kunselmati, Mary Naylon. Messrs. Xed McCartney, Heath Hastings, Maurice Coulter, Streamer Goheen, Harry Hilliard. WILL HOLO REUNION TRAINMEN KILLED Special to The Spirit. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., Sept. 25.— ■When the thirty-third annual convent! >n of the American Bankers' Association was called to order by President G. S. Whitson, the large assembly room of the Marlborough- Blenheim Hotel was filled with members of the association from all parts of the country. Governor Stokr-s greeted the delegates arttl assure:! them of New Jersey's hearty welcome. The response for the visitors was rmbodied in th - annual address of the president, G. S. Whitson, of New York City. President Whitson, in his annual address, discussed questions of vital importance to the association. He spoke for half an hour, and his speech was the feature of the session. The next half hour was devoted to routine business, the reports of Secretary James R. Branch, Treasurer A. A. Crane and of the several standing committees being read and adopted. Old Soldiers of Indiana and Jefferson Counties to Meet in Indiana, Oct. 12. Largest and Most Famous Warslilp of ller Class Knocks! Down at Public Autlon Today. Engineers • Working on Plans to Shorten Distance Between New York and Pittsburg. Special to The Spirit. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 25. — The famous old frigate Saratoga, now at League Island navy yard, and which was stricken from the active list of vessels of ihe navy a short time ago, was put up for sale at public auction today. She was name J to commemorate the name of Commodore Perjy's famous flagship Sarat >ga, on which he fought the battle of Lake Erie. She was larger than any ship of her class in existence at the time of her construction.The vessel is one of the most famous of old American men-of-war. She was constructed at Portsmouth, N. H., and launched on July 26, 1842. In the years that followed she made a name for herself In the suppression of the slave traffic and In the Mexican war, and had among her commanders such famous sailors as Farragut, Shubrick and Tatnall. CORNERSTONE LAID This committee will meet on the rail of the chairman w.hj will outline the work to be performed. It Is probable tjiat a general reunion of all Indiana and Jefferson County soldiers will be held at Indiana, Saturday, October 12, when Companies B and F, of the 74 th Regiment, P. V. and Co. D., 106th Regiment, P. V., w.Ul hold a reunion at the Indiana County seat. Companies B and F will have their, headquarters at the West Indiana House. Captain Gordan, of Company D. 206th Regiment P. V.f will be present at the reunion. The Cooper Military Drum Corps, of Montgomery Township, Indiana County, will attend the reunion and fur.nish old time music. The following: named Sons of Veterans committee has been chosen to commence the work: James A. Crossman. W. R. Calhoun, J. Blair SUttjn. G. W. Swan, Capt. C. C. iMcLaln, A. P. Lowry, R. E. Young, George J. Fc«!t, Alexander M. Stewart, Meade Marshall, Horace M. Lowry, William Banks George Marlln, Hal White, Ernest Stewart. Fred Elliott, Esq., formerly of Rldgeway, who has a lucrative law practice In Globe. Arizona, drew up the legal papers for the Crown Point Copper Co., and Is acting as the company's representative, temporarily. Assays of the mineral found In the Crown Point property Indicate the new company not only ha.* the same quality and quantity of ore found In the surrounding mines, the out put from which has made Gila County one of the foremost copper pro luring districts in the country, but also indicates that gold may be mined in paying quantities. From what Messrs. Meredith and Smith learned of the situation during their visit to the Gila County district, iti is planned by all of the large companies operating in that section to build a large union smelting plant In the near future, an J as the Crown Point property has the only land available for a site, the prospects are bright for the Jefferson County concern. In order to be in a position t.) take advantage of shipments by rail as soon as It is provided, the Crown Point Copper Company has given a contract for developing their property at once. Work on a 300-foot tunnel will begin October 1 and the officers of the new corporation expect to be receiving dividends i'i a year at mist. Some weeks ago Mr. Nelson, < through a friend In California, learn- ' ed that an old prjspector, by the name of YV. J. Grandstaff, who owned 200 acres of copper mining territory in the Pinto Creek district, Gila County, Arizona, had died, leaving the property to a nephew, me j W. G. McNelly, of Los Angeles, California.The old prospector had acquired title to ten claims anci in order to hold them was obliged to spend $1,- 000 on improvements each year. He had been living the life of a recluse for many years, simply holding on until the time would come when he could dispose if his property at a snug sum and get out. Old age, with its inevitable results, began to tell, however, and in March, 190 7, he gave up his post in the wilds of Arizona and went to live with his nephew at Los Angeles. Not until after the death of his uncle did Mr. McNelly learn that he had been made the beneficiary jf the, will. The Los Angeles relative, being a wealthy fruit grower and ranchman, did not care to develop the Arizona property, and the claims were offered for sale. Mr. Nelson having learned of the situation, set abiut to interest some of his freinds, and as a result Mesrs. Meredith and Smith made the trip to Arizona. The Crown Point property is one of a group of copper mines that includes Continental, Castle Dome, Arizona National, Calumet and Globe mines, most of which were developed when the nearest shipping point was 160 miles by wagon road. Recently a railroad has been completed to Globe, a distant*» of sixteen miles •from the Crown Point property, and a grant of laAd for .1 railroad which will bring steam transportation wlt'iln two miles of the Crown Point mines, has been given. Is the name of a mining corporation that has just been organized by wellknown Punxsutawney, Reynoldsville, Knox lale and DuHois business men. W. R. Meredith, of Punxsutawney, i■; the president, and Dr. J. D. Stci- ner, of Knoxdale, is the treasurer. Othe.r incorporators are fi. B. Stewart. ( f Knoxclale, John Wagner and J. jAUlson Smith, of Reynoldsville, and H. B. Nelson, of DuBois. The company is capitalized at $1,500,000, with the home office for the present at Reynoldsville. The organization of the new company followed a visit to Gila County, Arizona, in August, of YV. it. Meredith and J. Allison Smith, wh > made the trip as the result of representations made by Mr. Nelson, of DuBois. M'QUAIDE DEIS STORY NEW ADVERTISEMENTS TODAY NEW YORK, Sept. 25. — Peter Brooksby, of Renessaler, N. Y., and William Meiss, of New York City, en-' gineer and fireman of the New York Central Railroad, were ground to pieces by their engine this morning. They had finished their run and were walking the track, but stepped aside to make way for the Poughkeepsie express, when they were hurled aside and ground to pieces by a switch engine. *CANOE RIDO-E, (Office of the Weatherworks) — Cloudy and cooler tonight. Warmer tomorrow.COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 25.—A staff correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch, in this city, wired his paper last night as follows: Although Milovar Kovovic, a Croat, has paid the penalty on the gallows for the murder of Contractor Samuel Ferguson, near West Midleton, on September 25, 1903, and Milovar Patrovic has served four of a twenty-year sentence as an alleged accomplice, a development in the Columbus Penitentiary today woui'd indicate that neither of the men had a hand in the crime. Lewis S. Liggett, ithe farmer, and the only person who saw the murder, identified Harry Stone, alias Wulle, Convict 37,206, as the man whom he believes was the ringleader of the diabolical plot. He recognized Stone as the man who passed up the hill carrying the satchel containing $4,000, to whom he spoke, and who he clesely scrutinized until he disappeared. Llgget was the only person in the neighborhood of the tragedy whj could furnish detectives with a description of the man alleged to have perpetrated the crime. The satchel was afterward identified by LJggett at a place in the direction taken by the fugittve. Liggett has always malntainedT that no Croat and no foreignl«Mr in plain Btigllsh. V Atdorttpanled by Attorney John S. •Rtt*, former superintendent of police of Wheeling and one of the "shrewdest detectives In the United States, Liggett today spent some time gazing into the faces of convicts. He was on the hunt for the man whom he has always maintained had something to do Ferguson's death. He passed into the bjlt shop and while the others were inspecting the skil- ful workmanship of the prisoners Ligget's gaze was riveted on the feaiires of a left-handed, swarthy-looking convict standing on a machine and working to place a piece of belting on a wheel. The man was thus bccupied for fully three minutes, and all the while Liggett stared at him is if spellbound. He did not overlook a single feature. The convict, Apparently conscious of the burning raze, suddenly turned about. His eyes met with those of Llgfet. Instantly there appeared a ook of recognition and surprise. He urned his head away again but soon fiot a glance toward the farmer. >ne look sufficed, for he deliberately imped from his high position, walk- ed to the opposite end jf the big workshop and hid himself behind the fiachines. eyes gleam'j J with delight. Llgget showed evidence of great :citemcnt. His face was pale and iere is a man on earth who resemles the fellow I saw walking away 1th Contractor Ferguson's satchel it \ the man who has confronted me," e remarked. The party inspected the bolts for illy 10 minutes. Stone, the conict, had by this time regained his >mposure and walked to a bench, here he sat between two other concts. A party of seven passed him. is eyes ferreted out Ligget and they dlowed him until he had passed to Mother part- of the prison. |It was known by members of the irty that Liggett had accompanied ttorney Ritx f >r the purpose of iden- Jylng a man whom Rltz has for four iars suspected of the murder. Thf ok of recognlton on the face of the rmer and the light which crept lnthe convict's eyes, his sudden un- Klness and his hurr|ed retreat sugtej to the spectators that both >re recalling aucene near ithe West iddleton road Immediately after two sn had been blown up by dynate. Liggett asserts that Stone anera In all details the description of e man he saw on September 25. OS. He says Stone has the build, s omplexlon, the hair and that > features of his face are the same. \*id Attorney Rite, who has been (mtlgatlng. the life of Stone, de#e» that four years ago Stone, rlngler of the worst band of burga, postjfflce robbers and petermen the country, was living between awood and Washington, Pa. He ■ familiar with work along the kbash Railroad, knew probably of "habits of the contractor, and with knowledge of the use of high ex(Ivea, learned after years of exlence aa a safe-blower, it was an f Job for his cunning mind to map the awful program which Inclu-1 the taking of Ferguson's life. Be. or Wulle. has served time In Continued on Page six. has proved of invaluable assistance to the first lady of the land by assisting her mother to handle the hugo amount of purely social mail which the mistress of the White House receives during the official season In Washington. Miss Ethel is. of course, still a school girl and dresses in the most simple fashion. She is devoted to music and is fond of her books. Miss & Miss Ethel Roosevelt, the second daughter of the President, is » daughter of the present Ml* Roosevelt, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth belnir the President's daughter by a former wife. Miss Ethel, who is a sweet-faced girl of II, is devoted «o outdoor life as much as her sturdy brothers. She In thoroughly domestic In her tastes, and BELLE VERNON, Sept. 25. — The cornerstone of the new First M. E. church was laid this afternoon. Rev. George S. Holmes, of Indiana, formerly pastor, made the address. The main address was made by Rev. J. D. W. Heazleton, pastor. The church, which will cost )31,000 wll be finished next summer, PITTSBURG, Sept. 2 5.—Superintendent of Police McQu&ide today said the story in the morning paper that an Innocent man was hanged for the murder of Contractor Ferguson, was very Interesting, but does not alter the facts that the real murderer, Milovar Kovlc was the right man hanged. All advertisements, to insure a change on the day desired, or to be inserted in the regular classified column, must reach tnls office not later than 10 a. m. Rumbarger—Change. Punxsutawney Hardware Co.— Change. R. Mambuca—Change. Wanted—A cook—Special column. 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