Punxsutawney Spirit, 1907-09-27

              - /Sflll#'' > $1? V m READ THBe SPIRIT API ■IIIMW . MEXT8 EVERT RIGHT AND W7T GOODS WHICH ARE APVERTI—P —THEY ARE BETTER :: :: tt PRICE I CENT Sergt. Chambers and Private Haas Have Fierce Fight With "Red Socks." VOL. II. No. 10 ONE MORE CHAPTER IS ADDED TO THE HARAHAN, HARRIMAN, FISH FIGHT PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA.. FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1907 NEW COMPANY FORMED PENNSYLVANIA'S BAD MAN IS TAKEN IN TOW BY POLICE NEAR CAMP RUN MINE YESTERDAY WILL COUNT AND WEIGH ALL MAIL FOR FULL WEEK « MEMBER OF THE "BLACK HAND." EMERY WANTS CASTLE TO PAY $50,000 FOR HIS CAMPAIGN TALK Knoxdale Citizens to Have Supply of Fuel Gas for Own Use. Five Years. Has Terrorized Italians of Several Counties for Last START WELLS SOON Oastle Surprised That Suit Was Not Started Many Mouths Ago. Postmasters Rcceive Instructions From Headquarters—-Will Mean Much Work. Says Many Things Will Come to Light at Stockholders' Meeting. UNION PACIFIC IN IT NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. WILL START IN OCTOBER. MR. EMERY WILL NOT TALK. WANTED IN INDIANA Marquis Minora Saito The Marquis of Saito, the Japanese minister of Marine and the Mikado's chief adviser as tj naval affairs, is a man of simple and reserved manners. He is vice-admiral of the fleet, and has always lived a severe existence, still retaining the vast strength for which he was noted in early manhood. Admiral Saito is about 42 years of age, and was educated to a great ex- tent in Europe. He received Instruction in the art of war on English war vessel. He was in England several years, and speaks English and French fluently. The Marquis is of one of th )se old Japanese n.:»ble families which were ordered to assume European titles of rank when Japan adopted western titles and manners. He is married and has a splendid residence in Tokio. BOSTON IS ALL READY TO GIVE WELCOME TO GEN. WILLIAM BOOTH TRAMPS ROBBING FARMERS AROUND TOWN OF CHICORA Head of Salvation Army Will be Received by Mayor and Special Committee. Constables and Citizens Searching the Woods for Desperadoes. Housewives Alarmed. WEATHER BUrrfO III WILL BE HIS LAST VISIT. THE "MOVE ON" POLICY. The railroad companies receive eight cents per pound for carrying mail and Uncle Sam la desirous of finding out Just what proportion of the expense Is chargeable to first class mall matter and what to second class. Postmaster Smith has also been no- | titled that the rates for foreign mall have been changed. Formerly 10 cents per ounce was charged and five cents for each half ounce. Now the rate is five cents for the first ounce and three cents for each additional ounce or fraction thereof. The postage may be paid either where the letter is mailed or at its destination, but when paid where the letter or mall is delivered, double rates will be charged. ME BONE BROKEN postmasters throughout the United States are now receiving Instructions from the department at Washington, I). ('., which, when put into execution, will insure a busy week for the postoffice clerks. In order to ascertain the relatiivc amount of revenue received for transporting the various classes and sub-classes of mail, as well as the relative amount paid to the railroad companies for carrying them an 3 the amount of each kind originating at each postoffice, the clerks will be obliged to count and classify every letter, parcel, bundle, package, circular, etc., that originates in the office during one week of October This is in addition to the work that is now going on of weighing all mail.matter that originates in the various offices from July 1, 1907 to December 1, 1907. During the counting week, which In the local office will begin at midnight, October 12, a count of all the mall that originates in the local office to be sent to Canada will also be made and reported separately for the benefit of the International Postal (Commission. The company, which includes several Brookville capitalists, has leased Mr. Hopkins' lot, and the material is now on the ground for a derrick, work on which will be begun Monday morning-. The Pennsylvania Contracting »Vr Producing Company, of Brookville, has been awarded the contract for drilling the well, which it is expected will be put down to a depth of about 2,600 feet. In the event of constructing a gas I plant, it is probable that the Knox- ! lale company will find a good market for a portion of their product at Ramseytown, the new mining t »wn on the Shawmut Railroad, only two miles distant from Knoxdale. Ramseytown now has a population of about 700 and Ik growing rapidly. Recently ground was broken fjr a four-roomed school house and it Is expected that next spring the new I town will enjoy a building boom. The Phillips Gas Company, which owns the Punxsutaw.ney plant and territory, and which, during the past year has acquired leases on a large section of land in the Knoxdale fiel I, is also preparing to develope Its holdings in that quarter. The company has leased the Lloyd Davis I >t in Knoxdale and during the week completed the erection of a derrick thereon. This condition will soon be changed, however, for a company has been organized with John Hopkins, the Knoxdale storekeeper, and his son, Walter, as the chief promoters, to drill a well, the prxluet of which will be piped and sol t to all citizens of Knoxdale and vicinity, who desire t > use gas for fuel. Ivnoxdale, Jefferson County, which boasts of the second largest gas well in this country Is, nevertheless, without a supply for domestic purposes. This is because the big well and other wells in that vicinity are jwned by outside people, who are holding out for further developments and do not expect to offer gas for sale at retail.Miss Inez Veil Severely Hurt While Kuiinlng to <,,4tt4*li a Train at Hlg Run. S|M>lk'il Another Corn 1 Const—Youn« I'olUs Prepared for (lie KiiK-riciMicy. An aftermath of the campaign fur governor of Pennsylvania, last fall, has cropped out in Pittsburg according to the following printed in this morning's issue of the Pittsburg Gazette Times: Lewis Emery, Jr., of Bradford, the Democratic candidate for governor, who was defeated last fall by Edwin S. Stuart, Republican, of Philadelphia, '.ias begun suit against Homer L. Castle of Pittsburg, who was the Prohibition candidate for governor. t<> collect damages for statements made in campaign speeches delivered by Castle. The action will be based principally on statements by which Castle is alleged to nave linked Emery with manipulations by the Standard Oil Company and in which, also, it is charged reflections were cast upon Emery's personal character. Attorneys J. W. Lee, Eugene Mackey and Cornelius D. Scully represent Emery. In Prothonotary VV. 15. lvirker's office yesterday afternoon a summons In trespass was tiled by Emery against Castle. The petition, It is understood. will be filed In a few days. Enough has been learned about tile suit to justify the statement that not less >thun $50,000 damages will be asked by Emery. It is expected the petition will be a long one, for it is understood that practically all of Castle's speeches delivered during the campaign have been scanned and culled. When his attention was drawn 'to the matter last night, Castle expressed surprise. He said it was the tlrst intimation he had received that a suit would be started against him by Emery. He said he "presumed" the suit would be based upon statements he made during the campaign. Castle also expressed surprise that Emery, if he felt he had cause for an action for damages, had not started the suit long ago. Kmery was called up at his *home by Ions' distance telephone last night by the Gazette Times and asked for information relative to Ills suit against Castle. He said the matter was In the hands of his attorneys and he had nothing 'to add to what they might say. His attorneys, however, were about as reticent as he. MISS FITZWILLIAM HOSMESS Fnlcrtalns in Honor of Miss Lillian riaIT of Pittsburg—Pretty liiiiuiicon. Again the weather prevented the corn roasters from taking to the woods for their celebration and the party assembled at the home of Misses Claire and Hazel Kunselman, who were prepared for the emergency and had all sorts of good things in addition to the corn prepared for the feasters. From an early hour in the evening until 11 o'clock progressive rabbit was played, after which the corn with •the hundred and one extras, was placed before the bunch and though they were in the mood for consuming they were upwards of an hour in getting away with the spread. Those who can testify as to the en- Joyabllity of the, evening are: Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Dinsmore; Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hampson; Misses Ora Woodling, Mayme Murray. Aletta Olsen, Sara Levlne, Elizabeth Jones, Marie Hastings, Mary Nay ion; Messrs. Morris Coulter, Ned McCartney, Harry Hiiliard, Streamer Ooheen, Wesley Gen ess, Heath Hastings. DIDN'T HAVE A QUORUM In honor of her guest, Miss Lillian Plaff, of Pittsburg, Miss Gertrude Fitzwillian last night entertained a number of her friends at the home of her sister. Mrs. Edward Stumph. at a euchre party. Miss Jane Davis and Edward Stumph were the prize winners, each receiving a very .landsome guerdon. At 11 o'clock a very elaborate luncheon was served. Those who participated in the evening's enjoyment were: Miss Lillian Plaff. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stumph, Misses Jane Davis, Laura Bubeek, Gertrude Smith; Messrs. Max Goheen, Orvis Hoffman. Lynn Hoffman, Joseph Jones, Dr. Charles Collins, Captain J. L. Robinson.DAMAGE SUIT AGAINST B. 8 0. In company with her father and sister, Miss Veil went to her grandmother's at Rig- Run. yesterday. Mr. Veil and daughter Emma returne I on the evening train, Miss Veil Intending to remain until the morning. Shortly before the nine o'clock train was due that evening, she decided to go home on that train, and started on a run for the station. A short distance from the home of her grandmother she stepped from a pavement higher than she believe! it to be, and frl'l with her right leg doubled under her. Experiencing no pain at the time, she g >t up and manage.1 to catch the train as it was moving from the station. By the time the train reached this place the Injured member had become badly swollen and she no longer had the use of it. She was driven to her hpme an5 Drs. Hamilton and Hauck called, who found that in addition to a sprained knee, one of the ankle bones was , broken. It will probably be several I weeks before she has the free use >f the injured limb. While running to catch a train at Big Hun yesterday. Miss Inez Veil, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Veil, of this place, fell and sustained injuries which will confine her to her bed for some time. N. IC. TO ENTER PITTSBURG Kaln Kept Firemen til Home—Fnml Will be Turned Over at Next Meeting;. Jaeoff Held and Wife Claim Keellon Hands Used Them Roughly. Special to The Spirit BOSTQN, Mass., Sept. 27.—Gen. William Booth, the venerable founder of the Salvation Army, will arrive in Boston tonight to begin what in all probability will be his last visit to the United States. Official honors await hrn such as are accorded only to the most distinguished visitors. He comes direct from Nova Scotia and will be received at the railway station by Mayor Fitzgerald and a committee of the most prominent citizens of Boston. The Mayor will deliver an address of welcome, to which Gen. Booth will respond. After the civic courtesies Gen. Booth will be taken to the Parker House, which will bo his headquarters while in the city. Gen. Booth will remain in Boston three days. He will address three public meetings, bat the most of his time will be spent in business relatr ting to the affairs of his vast rganizatlon and in an inspecton of the institutions maintaned by the Salvation Army in Boston and vicinity. He has arranged to hold a conference with George Kilby, of Chicago, the chief officer of the western division; Commissioner Th >mas Coombs, of and Col. Lamb, who is at the head of the Salvation Army Immigration diepartmenji in London. The subject of the conference will be the great scheme of emigration to Canada, in which the British  and the Dominion government are cooperating with the Salvation Army. After leaving Boston Ger Booth will start on a tour of Inspection through the Atlantic coast states and the middle West. The following- cities will be visited in the order named: Utica, Rochester. Chicago, St. Louis. Des Moines, Mlnneapols, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Columbus, P I t tsburg, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. A month later he was located in Cambria County, and shortly after was known to be in Somerset County. Later he was located for a shJrt time at Waist on and then at Anita. At all places, it is alleged, he kept up his depredations. He Is believed to be the man that during the early spring climbed into a window of the Martin home at Walston. when there was nobo.ly at home Wit one <>f the girls. The terrifled woman saw him as he was all but through the window and her screams frightened him away. Shortly before the above occurrence Chief Palmer was told that ho had beaten an Italian woman In her own home because she refused to reveal the whereabouts of something he was after. The woman refused to make In- Continued on Pago Six. Charged with larceny, rcsisiting an officer and. felonious cutting. Saraflnl Siranano, believed to be one of the worst of the Black Hand men and all aroun 1 desperados In this section, was arrested shortly after four o'clock yesterday afternoon by Sergeant Chambers and Private Haas, of Troop D. State Police, at the Camp Uun mines near Fuller, after a short, but desperate fight. For ocer a year Chief »f Police Palmer has held a warrant for Slranano's arrest and on several different occasions hod him located, but ho seemed to be aware of the movements of the police and disappeared about the time they went after him. Yesterday Chief Palmer received word that he was working at Camp Hun. The Chief found It impossible to get away himself, and asked Captain Robinson for two men. Chambers and Haas lefto n the 11:20 car yesj ter.iay morning and after arriving in Keynoldsville secured a rig and drove | to Camp Hun. For about an hour and a half they waited about tha i opening of the mines and shortly after four o'clock the man appeared. In I company with Frank Adams, another 1 Italian, thought to be a bad one. but I against whom nothing can be proven.1 In his right hand Siranano carrW**5- .i hatchet an J as Sergeant Chambers I accosted hirn and pronounced his I name, he raised his hatchet, at the i same time denying that he was the man. Haas grabbed the Implement land threw It to the ground, as Cham- I hers laid hold of the Italian's arm. The man Jerked and fought hard, but by a (juick turn Chambers had him on the ground and In less time than it takes to relate it, Haas had the chains on him. Adams picked tho hatchet up and made a step forward, but Chambers, at the point of the gun took It from him. As the party left the mines, the miners laughed, hoote I SIrannno and seemed more than pleased that he had been arrested. Evidently ho had been demanding tributes during his short stay at C»mp Run. The warrant held by Chief Palmer was irsued by the Sheriff of Indiana County about a year ago at which time "Rod Sicks," as Siranano is familiarly known, single-handed entered and robbed the company store at Croekslde. A few day* after the robber\ he" was located by the Indiana auth nitks and arrested by John Wattling. a son of Sheriff Jacob Wettling. and an »th'-r man deputised by the Sheriff. At Indiana, as the fllcers were nearlng the Jail. Siranano broke I * * ose, and pulling a knife from his shirt cut Wet? ling across the right arm. With a hundred people following him he ran tlyough the town and succeeded in escaping bis pursuers in the woods outsiie of the town. Lin CONVENTION ? Tt is against such men as these that the railroads and poor relief organizations of the country are waging war. Besides holding rural ommuunities in a constant state of alarm, committing robberies, attacking women and children and keeping farmers from their Work to guard their h->mes, tramps wreck trains, tamper with switches and signals, damage railroad equipment and constitute a grave menace to the travelling public and the shipper. Ride stealing Is the backbone of vagrancy. Eliminate the ensy means nf moving from place to place, those who have studied the problem Say, ami the knell of the tramp army la souhded. The railroads are asking the assistance of towns, counties, states and Federal authorities to put a check to* the "move on" policy, by setting the tramp to work. When this Is done conditions like those prevailing here now would be Impossible.Special to The Spirit. BUTLER, Pa., Sept. 2 7.—Within a radius of forty miles of this city the entire .countryside has been kept in a constant state of terror the last three weeks by the depredations of a band of tramps, who have established a camp in the woods a few miles from Chicora. These marauders have been committing robberies hereabouts, and recently three of them, caught looking the Baltimore & Ohio station, gave battle t.) a policeman, and fought oft' with a volley of shots a posse of citizens. They lied down the tracks, firing pistols, jumped a freight train and escaped. Word was telephoned to constables of towns along the railroad, but the framps managed to get into the woods where they hid, and have so far evaded capture. Farmers are organizing. and a day is to be set aside to scour the woods in search of the search of the haunt of the tramps. Farmer* at Oakland and St. Joe keep watch at night, with loaded guns, so great Is the fear of the marauders. Many housewives have been compelled to furnish the outlaws with food on threats of death if they refused. CROPS WILL BE FAIR Mrs. Hold alleges that she was knocked down with a crowbar by a workman when the company entered upon her land and started to cut down fruit trees and tear out fences. Her husband alleges he was seize.) by the the workmen while he was attempting to defend his property. By United Press. BUTLER. Pa., Sept. 27. — Jacob Held, an aged farmer near Harmony, and his wife, today entered suit against, the Baltimore and Ohio railroa:! Company, each for one thousand dollars damages. 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. The drizzling rain and cold condition of the atmosphere kept most of the firemen at home last evening and the seven members required for a quorum did not show up, consequently no meeting was held. The charter for the Firemen's Relief Association arrived yesterday and the money held in trust for that association by the borough treasurer, will, in all probability, be turned over to the association at the next meeting of council. For four years the two per cent Interest collected from the business of the foreign Insurance companies doing business in the town has been accruing until at the present time quite a tidy sum is in the hands of the borough treasurer. The money will be U9ed for no other purpose than to pay benefits to the firemen ivhen they are hurt during a tour of duty. Dues amount to ten cents per month and the entrance fee is one dollar. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 2 7.—Delegates from many parts of this state, with visitors from South Cnrollnn, Virginia and Georgia, are in Charlotte to attend the annual session of the woman's misslonaiy convention of the Lutheran church in North Carolina. The convention will continue three days, the sessions being held In St. Mark's Lutheran church. Several prominent missionaries lately returned from foreign tields are among the scheduled speakers. The annual reports of the society show the past year to have-been one of great activity and gratifying results. Engineer F. A. Long, of the New York Central, who has hai charge of the work of survey, has been called to New York for a final conference. The new line will cross Into Indiana County, crossing It to Westmoreland County, which it will cross, following Se wick ley Creek to the Younghiogheny River, near Suttervllle, Pa. At Suttervllle the line will Join the tracks of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie, and from there run to Pittsburg. . The officials of the road concerned refused to discuss the matter, though they would not deny the truth of the report. By United. Press. PITTSBURG, Seut. 27.—The management of the New York Central lines, It is reported on good authority, has outgeneraled the Pennsylvania system and made arrangements to open a road shortly directly into Pittsburg, at a point from which it can reach New York by a route seventy miles shorter than that now traversed by the Pennsylvania. CANOE RIDGE (Office of the weather works)—Rain tonight and Saturday; warmer tonight. NEW YORK. Sept. 27.—Answering In tart terms the latest charges m'aill against himself by Messrs. Harrlmnn and Harahan, Stuyvesant Fish last night ailled another chapter to the three-eornered controversy. He gave out a long statement. In which he pays his respects to the railroad magnate and the latter's so-called messenger boy, Fish's fuccessor as president of-the Illinois Central; talks of the "specious excuses" of the two regarding the ousting of himself; admits that he did loan money of the Illinois Central, but on apparent good security, whereas Hnrrlman loaned many millions—ani most of It to Harrlman; tells some more of what he calls the ancient history of the road, and makes the charges that the point «>f the whole master Is, not what may be the differences between himself and Harrlman, but whether the Illinois Central, so long the one great Independent road of the country, shall degenerate into being merely a feeder of the Union Pacific, and whether the stockholders of this great road shall submit to having their voice ani power in the management of their property <\e'eBate<J to one man, under the power-of-attorney plan, "which Mr. Harrlman has so adroitly used to his own profit." The statement, which is In answer to the letter given out by President Harahan, of the Illinois 'Central, last Tuesday, points out that Harahan's "-carefully Ignored the point of Fish's letter to the stockholders of the previous Saturday In which he laid stress on the question of absorpton of the Illinois Central by the Union Pacific. It pays only passing notice to much of the talk of Harrlman an.l Harahan treating the "trumped-up accusations" as worthy of little moro than contempt, and insisting that all the recent charges made by Harahan are not new, but have been disposed of by Fish. The effort of his two rivals, the former president says, is to throw dust in the eyes of stockholders and to make them forget that the game is now to have the Illinois Central managed not, as heretofore, in the interests of a" v,,t for the benefit solely of the Unfon P&ciflc. "The one point at issue, to be decided at the coming annual meeting of the stockholders, is nowhere touched upon by Mr. Harahan," says Mr. Fish. That issue is: "Shall the Illinois Central become a mere, feeder and fattener of the Union Pacific? Can any such perversion of the purposes and opportunities of the Illinois Central be profitable to the stockholders? Will Illinois Central stockholders submit to haying all their voice and power In the management and control of their property delegated to one man under the power-of-attorney plan, which Mr. Harriman has so adroitly used to his own profit. , "That question will be determined 'on October 16, 1907, by the rejection or election of E. H. Harriman as a director of the Illinois Central." Mr. Fb?h devotes some space to dealing with the "specious excuses" put out by Harriman and his associates as to why he himself was ousted from the presidency of the road, and calls attention to the fact that they have found it necessary frequently to change or modify these excuses. The circular of September 24, fathered by Harahan, but emanating, from Harriman, Fish says, contains precisely the same allegations Harriman injected into his testimony before the Interstate commerce commission. At the last meeting of the Illinois Central stockholders, October 17. 1906, ■Harriman and his attorney, William ICromwell, made their solely on khe ground that he would not consent ■o the election to the Illinois Central board of another Jlrector of the fnlon Pacific-Southern Pacific system. But whon called on by the interstate sommerce commission Harriman iould not, Fish says, stand on any of lie propositions he had put forward ts reasons for ousting the president >t the road. Mr. Fish continues: "Hence the necessity for him to hen Invent yet another Veason, which le did by trumping up accusations Igalnat me In respect to Matters rhlch had happened four years bcore, which were and had always been blly shown on the books of the comany, and were perfectly well known D the directors of the Illinois Central lallroad Company when they unanllously re-elected me president In the tttumn of 1902 and again In 1904, nj tor a third time In 1905. Concerning the loan by him aa present of the Illinois Central to Mr. Continued on Page Six YORK, Pa. — Seven railway companies operating in this county have been merged int othe York Railway Company. The new corporation will be capitalized at $3,397,000. You nevei; hear anybody complain of the goods'they get at the Bon Ton. because they satisfy the appetite.—tl For Rent—House—special Flndley St. Shoe Store—Change. Robinson Hardware Co.—Change. J. A. Weber—Extra good clothes. BIJ iu—local. Wanted—Nurse—Special Column. For snip—Meat market — Special Column. Ice Cream—Local. By United Press. WINNIPEG, Sept. 27.—A crop report which was issued today, shows that threshing is general throughout the West and that the crops in most districts are turning out a fair yield. Threshing has been somewhat retarded by wet weather. Ex-President of Illinois Central Says Harahan Evades -The Issue. ADMITS LOANING THE SURPLUS m ft'