Punxsutawney Spirit, 1907-12-03

              IIoUicn of a (iawl. l.ltilit Fiiipwd Artist < ii 11^lit Coming Out of 1'iuKu.) Hotel Willi WANTS TO EIWE OCEAN SERVICE NOW IlKllI\l) Till-; BARS. RECOMMENDATIONS By United Press. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 3 — PRICES ARE DOWN PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA.. TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1907 ERCHANTS OF PUNXSUTA WNE Y ARE PUTTING FINISHING TOUCHES ON STORES FOR BIG EXPOSITION FORMER CITIZEN OF PIINXSUTAWIET DOME FROM SOOTH AMERICA VOL It. No. 67 PRICE 1 FIRST MESSAGE | FROM PRESIDENT WAS READ TODAY 4 WONDERFUL NERVE IAsks Lawmakers to Consider Many Reforms—Speaks of Tariff. Traveled Many Miles With a Party of Shipwrecked Sailors. JURY FINDS MRS. BRADLEY NOT GUILTY OF CHARGE GOOD ATTENDANCE AT LAST NIGHT'S COUNCIL MEETING tt Every Business House City in the Agreement.THE COPPER MINES Verdict Returned at Ten O'clock This Morning After Night of Deliberation. Borough Dads Attend to Large Amount of Business at Reg- A / ular Meeting. NEXT FRIDAY MORNING .Y BILLS APPROVED MO] TOOK ONLY TWO BALLOTS. Says Alaska Should Have More Freedom in Government. Expected From All rrounding Towns uring Week. the A moment later the reading; of the message begun, which, In part, follows Immediately thereafter the President's messenger, Assistant Secretary Latta, who had entered behind tht Senate Committee, was recognized, and the message was presented. Senator-elect Johnson, of Alabama, was sworn in. being escorted to the Senate chamber by Culberson, of Texas. A messenger from the Houss announced theorganlzation of that body and then Chairman Allison of the Committee to wait on the President, reported that their mission had been perform" * A committee composed of member* from both houses Informed the President that Congress would be in session at 10 a. m. mi m era 31 Continued on Page Seven. Immediately after the announcement that she was free, Mrs. Bradley was hurried' from the court house in an automobile and taken to the home of her friend. She was given an ovation by the assembled crowd as she was hurried away from the scene of her trial. When the verdict was announced by the foreman of the jury there was a moment of profound silence then a great cheer which was only subdued after strenuous efforts on the part of the coutr officers, broke forth. Only two ballots were necessary to be taken in ord«>r for the twelve men to arrive at a verldct. T'ne first vote was elevn to one for acquittal, and the second, which was taken at midnight. was unanimous for acquittal. The juryman who voted aginst acquittal in the first ballot, was Julius A. Prig, a bookkeeper, and the oldest member of the jury. terday to seven minutes after seven o'clock this mr>rr»*Tv tho Jury in the 'rial of Mrs. Anna M. Bradley for the murder of Ex-Senator Brown, of Utah, returned a verdict of not giulty.WASHINGTON, D. C\, D.-c. 3.— After being out from " --.flftnon ves- By Unite.J Press. IDS. NORTH DEAD Superintendent of Naomi Mine 8aym I>eath Hat Cannot Be Larger— + • Twenty-seven Recovered. STEAMBOAT OWNERS MEET The funeral will he held from the laie home of the deceased on Thursday. Rev. C. A. Clark will officiate, and Interment will be made in Circle Hill Cemetery . She is survived by her husband and three children, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Beveridge, of Adrian, and live brothers and sisters, nam My: Andrew Beveridge, Jr., of Adrian, Mrs. John Strang, of Punxsutawney, and Richard, Mary and William Beveridge, at home. The deceased, who was formerly a member of the Punxsutawney Pythian Sisterhood, and was a member in good standing of the Protected Home Circle, was highly esteemed by all who knew her, including the members of the Presbyterian congregation, of which she was a zealous member, and all who knew her socially and as a neighbor. Mrs. Nellie, wife of Frank North, foreman of 'the Punxsutawney Foun - dry and Machine Company's upper | plant, died of heart trouble this morning at 10 o'clock. Mrs. North had not been in good health for several months, and a week ago was carried to her bedroom. Since that time, although every effort was made to stay the progress of her malady, she lost strength rapidly. Had she lived until tomorrow she would have been 28 years old. Galbralth was given a hearing this morning before 'Squire Corey. He confessed to the theft and was held for court In default of $500 ball. John Dusch, arrested later on suspicion, was released late last night. He convinced the officers that he knew nothing whatever of the theft. DuBols people giving young Duseh a a good character. acter. The man arrested here landed in DuBols Just three days ahead of his brother, and his Journey to this place and his arrest will likely put the quietus on a Job of a more serious char- Wallace Galbralth has Just finished a term in the Western Penitentiary. His brother, Harry Galbralth left the San Quentln prison. California, on the same day. From letters found at DuBols, it is evident that they had planned to meet there. H; J. Loeb, the clothing merchant, last evening identified the suit as belonging to him. Ho had worn the suit for the first time the night before, and had hung it in a clothes press. When he left Ills room at the Pantall after dinner ho had thoughtlessly left his door open and the light-fingered ono had found it rather easy until he ran afoul of the hotel clerk. A necktie belonging to Mr. Loeb was found in Falbralth's pocket when he was searched. locked. State Policeman Sutton and an agent of the Bryan Detective Agency 1 had been watching ihe man who was arrested, and a tall fellow who had I been with him all that day. Chief! Palmer had also made them give an 1 1 account of themselves earlier in the | I day. The same man was seen to go I upstairs in the City Hotel also, but I there all the upstairs doors were Thereupon Mr. Arthurs volunteered to show him n shop and. taking the clothes on one arm and the light-fingered gent on the other, he led him to the lockup, where he t.urned him over to Chief of Police Palmer, explaining at the same time that in probability In time get a fancy striped suit of his own which the government would furnish free of charge. "Mine," laconically replied the bunch of nerve; "I'm going to take 'em down here to get them pressed.""Whose clothes are those?" asked Mr. Arthurs. Suspecting that all was not right, Mr. Arthurs walked out the front way and stopped the young man at the corner. For unadorned nerve, Wallace Galbraith, a young: man arretted here late yesterday afternoon, takes the cake with all the trimmings. About four o'clock yesterday afternoon, W. Arthurs, the man behind the counter at the Pantall Hotel, noticed a rather seedy-looking individual meandering down the back stairway of the hotel with a new suit of the fall cut over his arm. mm found The slope entrance Is still choked up an»l about the entrance to the shaft are gathered great crowds of people and :he cars are carrying large n ;mbers of people to and from the scene of the accident a'l the time. A gruesome find was made when the entry was reached, where within twenty-live yards of the opening no less than fifteen bodies were scattered about. About every man had a dinner bucket In his hand and all seemed to be making their way towards the exit. Of the few remaining in the mine, one of the bodies is that of Fire Boss David Koblts. It is stated that most of the bodies recovered are scarcely disfigured, only three of them being beyond recognition.Preparations have been begun for the bringing up of the dead bodies of the unfortunate miners up the air shaft. The now po\Ver house is being used as a morgue until me bodies are identified and taken away by their relatives and friends. i BBIxLEVEJtXON, Pa., Dec. 3.—U| I to ten o'clock this morning twentyseven bodies had been recovered from I the Naomi mine, in which fifty men were reported to have been entombed yesterday. By United Press. exceeded. Superintendent J. D. O'Nell said: I "I do not think that the death list will exceed thirty or possibly thirtyone. We have figured it out and cannot see how that number could be Bones of Man Fouml In Grant Township. Indiana County, Said to Be that of (lark Shields. Burgess reported lines, fees and licenses. $140.75. Chief Palmer reported lines, fees and licenses $135.75. Rent for West End Hall, $51.88. An order for $2,000 was granted Sweeney and McClure for the paving done on Jefferson and Church streets. Doran moved that the commissioners be asked to build sidewalks on both sides of proposed bridges at least five feet wide and that the one in Bubeck Addition be so constructed as to make an overhead crossing over the Pennsylvania Railroad possible. The motion was carried. Labor on Streets 279.49 17.71 . 3.G5 27.05 4.75 .1.50 23.75 J. E. Clawson, supplies  PofTer and Son, supplies  Punxs'y Planing Mill, supplies O. H. Nordstrom, supplies. . . . Phillip Weaver, supplies Porter and Son, supplies. W. J. Brown $243.78 Frank Hastings 30.00 E. Wolf 30.00 C. E. Palmer 75.00 M. Gaynor 65.00 M. Wall 2.00 A. Ferry 61.48 J. Doran 9.85 Greenhouse 13.33 Thos. Wallace 22.35, W. P. Coulter 34.60 George Glenn, Board of Health..9.50 William Gilles.pie 20.00 Fire Dteparte-ment 20.00 He was also instructed to remove old bricks on West Mahoning Street where the repairing Is being done. The following bills after being O. K'd by Finance Committee were ordered paid. Several sidewalks in the West End were reported as being in a dangerous. condition. Street Commissioner was Instructed to see that they be repaired.Street Commissioner, with representatives of companies having poles in old Punxsutawney borough, was instructed to count all these poles and report at next meeting. Street Commissioner Hoeh was instructed to make Railroad Street passable in response to a petition of residents of that street. The Bell Telephone Company was requested to paint all their poles within the borough, which they have promised to do. Loans reported and approved. Fire alarm system reported on by commttee. Committee continued and Instructed to install suitable system. Miss Jane Hopkins reported ice house on Liberty Street a nuisance. Council will investigate. The regular monthly meeting of the town council was held last night in the 'Municipal building with O. P. Walker in the chair and the following councllmen present: Miller, Smith, Hell, Shearer, lily. Simpson, Doran, Thomas, 'Downey Hinds Clawson, Young, Dokc, Fink and Hecekendorn. Borough solicitor Gillespie, borough Engineer Coulter, Street Commissioner Hoeh, Borough Treasurer Mc- Hcnry and Secretary Hastings were also present. 10 ME UP CIVIC worn Irving; Ofufo Decides to Make It Permanent Feature—May Knlarge erty's News Stand, Hotel Boys' and Girls' books for Christmas, bit? line. W. J. Dougherty, Now0 Stand, Hotel Pantall Block.—67-2t. Pantall Boys' and Girls' books for Christmas. big line. W. J. Dougherty, New® Stand, Hotel Pantall Block.—67-2t. Largest and finest line of Christ-, mas and New Years cards at Dough- Block.—67-2t. The merchants who are behind the movement have circulated thousands of posters containing pledges regarding the merits of this great ante-holiday sale and they mean to fulfill them to the letter. Read the page ad containing the gist of the proposition, read their indivdual ads in this issue of The Spirit and you will be convinced. ' At eight o'clock Friday morning, Decem'ber 6, the Greater Punxsutawney Holiday Shopping Exposition will begin, and the rush will be on until the stores close Saturday night, December 14. From the many letters of inquiry coming from prospective customers living along the railroad and street car lines, and many from those who will journey here by vehicle, it is evident that the rush is going to begin on the first day of the Exposition. It is also apparent that hundreds of people from the surrunding towns, and the country districts will take advantage of the faro rebate, and combine shopping and visits with their friends and relatives living in Greater Punxsutawney and vicinity. Christmas presents as well as the supply of staple winter goods must be purchased and now that the fall work of the housewife has been completed the opportunity to visit friends and relatives, do the fall shopping and return without cost for travel, Is an attraction that no frugal housewife will overlook, and few refuse to take advantage of. The furniture dealers have assembled the best that have been constructed by American and European cabinet makers, the jewelers, druggists, shoe dealers, toy shops, notion houses, mil- Liners, stationers, grocers and confectioners have stocks equal to and prices more reasonable than can be found in any other city within your reach, and they want you. They will pay your way to and from Punxsutawney In order to give them an opportunity to prove that what they advertise to do they will do. The word of each merchant, whose name appears in the advertisement which will be found on another page of this issue of the Spirit, has gone out. He cannot afford to deceive you. He is not going to deceive you, because he wants you for a customer as long as he does business in Punxsutawney. The big hardware stores carry everything from a tiny electrically heated tea urn, to a combination coal and gas range that in heat producing qualifications vies with an iron foundry furnace, with all other lines of household furnishings in proportion. On the shelves, on the counters, ,'/iy )p en tied from myriad lines, and pendant from the ceilings of the Punxsutawney department stores, will be found, not only all of the products of American factories, bu-t the finest textiles and/ tapestries of the Orient, (Continental Europe, and Britannia, and fashioned in New York and Paris. In her magnificent clothing stores and well-appointed tailoring shops, with prices to suit everybody, will be found everything that quality, diurablLity, tit and the imprint of good taste suggests, both in make and design. t.he enormous stocks always on hands, have been placed most attractively atad advantageously for the customer. And just here, prospective holiday shoppers, make a note of two features of this exposition, to which your attention was called, when this shopfest was first announced in this paper a week ago: First: "Buy at home where you can have a chance to see what you are getting, and because you owe loyalty to home enterprises. This Exposition will come In holiday buying season and there is great promise of a big trade. Give the city mail order house the go-by this season, and see if you do not fare as well, or better, not to mention the satisfaction of feeling that you are doing your duty to your homo community and its business men." Second: "The opportunity this early shopping season will present to get first selections will also be of great adload* from the shoulders of the  regiment of clerks and proprietors The\r Mrs. Loi CUIB OFFICERS Continued on page four 2d section The owners of the river eraft desire particularly a severance of inspection laws governing the inland rivers from those governing the lakes and gulfs, and they also favor placing the inland river transportation traffic under the laws of the Inter-State Commerce Commission. Special to The Spirit. WASHINGTON, D. O., Dec. 3.—A number of steamboat owners, representing chiefly the craft plying on the Mississippi river and its tributaries, gathered in Washington today to perfect a permanent organization and to discuss matters of mutual concern. The meeting is somewhat in the nature of a preliminary to the National Rivers and Harbors Congress to convene here tomorrow, and in which the steamboat men are likewise interested.Largest and finest line of Christmas and New Years cards at Dougherty's News Stand, Hotel Pantall Block.—67-t2. CANOE RIDGE (Offli Weatherworks) and  ery tempfiK"1^ Continued on Eighth Page. The Cerro de Pasco Mining Company employes 7,250 men, 250 of whom are skilled and experienced miners, mostly recruited from the Rocky "Mountain States. Their mill has a capacity of 4,000,000 pounds of copper per month and improvements are now under way which will double the output. The copper is made into 250 and 300 pound billets or bars and shipped to New York and Twenty-five days on land and water, including a trip across the Isthmus of Pane ma, found the voyagers at Callao, (pronounced Calyow), the principal Peruvian port of entry. From Callao they proceeded to Lima, (pronounced Lema), the capital of Peru. At Lima they took passage on the reru Central Railroad for Arorn. CM miles lip In the mountains. At Arora they changed cars, making the balance of the journey, 96 miles, to Cerro de Pasco over the company's line. In all of man's varied career on earth, nothing jquite so mysterious fell to his lot as when this ravine was being bridged. During its construction 250 men died of a disease that has never as yet been diagnosed. The men became afflicted with sores that looked like bleeding warts. In every case the malady was fatal, defying both the diagnostician and the physician. The road was built at a cost to the of $4 3,000,000, or almost $211,000 per mile. At Marrichoca it tops the mountain at a height of 17,800 feet, while at Cerro de Pasco it has dropped to 17,400 feet. In traveling from Lima to Arora, a distance of 204 miles, you pass through 81 tunnels, the longest being three miles. The line zigzags so much at one point, that you (ran see the tracks in six places. Few strangers can pass over the entire line without going at easy stages, and becoming acclimated, as otherwise you will bleed at the eyes, nose and ears. Mr. Hays was an exception and took the heights as naturally as a duck takes to water, only a little dizziness and a little uncertainty of the underpinning such as one feels when wading in deep wator. At one point on the Peru Central the -road shoots out of a tunnel, crosses a ravine 50 feet wide and 200 feet deep and enters a l tunnel at the opposite side. During his travels In Peru Mr. Hays learned the following facts about the nature and cost of construction of the Peru Central. Browned and griz2l«-d as the result of thirteen months spent in the rigorous climate of the Peruvian mountains, but hale and buoyant of •spirit, Joseph L. Hays, formerly, for nine years, operator of the coal washer at Walston, has returned to his family whom he left in Punxsutawney in September, 1906, to seek his fortune in the southern half of the Western Hemisphere. In September, 1906, Joseph L. Hays, of Punxsutawney, went to Birmingham, Alabama. A month later found hiin in New York preparing to leave for Cerro de Pasco, Peru, to operate a washer for the Cerro de Pasco .Mining Company. The company is composed of wealthy New York and Pittsburg capitalists, including in its list of stockholders H. C. Frick, of Pittsburg, who owns 60 per cent, of the stock, and John W. Drew and 'William R. Hearst, of New York City. | Herein is set down facts that frazzle the fairest forms of fiction: What would that unconquered Spaniard say if he could return in the flesh and, at Lima, board a train that would take him 300 miles into the interior, up mountains 17,800 feet high, and view a mining camp operated by a company of Americans, and producing 4,000,000 pounds of capper per month? And could his craft, like the ship which brought Mr. Hays and his companions back to Panama, have picked up a band of emaciated Americans who had become shipwrecked on a South Sea island, there to eke out a miserable existence on turtle soup f«r five long months, how It would have thrilled his gallant and venturesome soul to have given them succor. During those thirteen months Mr. Hays has participated in enterprises and heard tales of actual South Sea experiences that must have caused the bones of the illustrious Francisco Pizzarro and his redoubtable followers, to rattle In the crypts of the Peruvian cities, where they have lain undisturbed for almost 400 years. One brother of Clark Shields docs not believe that the bones found constiutes the skeleton of his brother He neither recognizes the handwriting nor the clothing. He notified several residents In that vicinity who, after viewing the skeleton, decided that it must be that of Clark Shields, who disappeared from Glen Campbell two years ago. Delbert and William Shields, brothers of Clark Shields, and Charles Elbel, brother-in-law, were notified. Elbel, upon viewing the skeleton, identified It as that of his wife's brother, by a few scraps of clothing and several small bits of paper found about upon which the handwriting of the man who disappeared two years ago was still visible. Coroner's inquest will be held this evening. Merl Ross, a seven teen nyear old boy of Smlthport, on Thursday last made a gruesome find in the woods near the farm of Gilbert Graham, between Smlthport and Flora. The boy was walking through the woods when he suddenly came upon a skeleton to which there wore still a few clothes hanging. YOUNGSTOWN, O. — Hunters yesterday discovered several hundred pounds of butter hidden In a woods near North Lima. It is thought to be a part of plunder recently stolen In Allegheny, Pa., and shipped here for concealment. I IroquoSj Club officers for the ensuing year were last night elected at the annual meeting set aside for that purpose. The following newly-elected officers will take office the flrst of the coming year: J. F. Crosby, president; M. L. Coulter, vice president: S. C. Ooheen, secretary; W. L. Simpson, treasurer; Dr. 8. J. Hughes, John W. Brown, W. O. Smith, trustees. The Idea of enlarging the club mem bershlp was discussed at lenght and laid aside for further consideration. By motion It was decided that during the coming year the club would in addition to Its literary work, take up civic problems. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. J. P. Wilson. Pantall as hostess. Twenty two members responded *o roll call "Witches" Poetical Gems from Act II of the Shrew wero read by Mra J. P. Wilson. The Induction and Two, plots of the play were discussed by Mrs. McKibben. Act III of the play was read by the club with Miss Margaret Campbell as teacher and critic. Mrs. Alfred Allison read a paper prepared by Miss Neal on Shakespeare's Apprenticeship. Ing Club met last night with [r apectal orders. In addition to ay goods, a large amount of money sent to tho city mall order houses, id many persons living In this comunlty and the surrounding territory which Punxsutawney Is the chief iding center, spend fro $10 to fl& : car fare in going to Pittsburg, iffalo and Philadelphia to make This handful of observand wide-awake merchants has e\i making a study of the game the } mail order houses and "Induceknt schemers" have been playing lit their heads together" and deternfed to evolve a plan to offset this ■elgn influence. Phe situation was this: Punxsutawr has just as good stores in all m as any other town or city In stern Pennsylvania. Their sotcks • just as large, the varieties just as ersifled, the quality as good, the ■chasing advantages equal, If not ter, and they know they are sellcloser than tho merchants of any the surrounding cities. 'hese merchants, observing that Y, of right, ought to be enjoying a ?h greater trade than they have II, although it has not been bad iny means, and taking as their cue Increased Trade and Expansion," )t about to expand. ieetings were held, committees e appointed, consultations grew out of the agitation came a lan, a purpose, to let the nonxsutawney trader know that he taking a mistake. The plan preed such a business-like front that other merchants of the town to m it was explained, caught the I' the movement, and In less in it takes the merchants of ies to give an order for cus-110 Punxsutawney business ose names are guarantee that iy advertise they can do, and agreed for a period of eight pay the fares, both ways' of if-town purchasers, and then, r to be prepared to deliver >ds, sent to their Importers ilesale houses for big stocks s and Christmas goods. These re arriving dally and the n the trading districts of awney today present more >arance of the heart of Pitts- Philadeiphia, than that of lor town. nee at the hundreds of show , and it is a notable fact that window dressers have no suind few equals, Is only a forewhat is within. active buyers from December cember 14, the period, set for ater Punxsutawney Holiday on. Take an hour, half a day, ole day off, and read the comve and attractive ads appearhis issue of the Spirit, and if s anything not mentioned lat a normally constituted -n citizen would wish to buy, it that, too. at prices more geous than elsewhere in this and, make it known to the irhose province it Is to have It will send and get it for you. e the highly word-colored and ant catch-trade advertlsen tho great city dailies, deentirely on distance to lend inentf with those appearing y's issue of Tho Spirit, and editions of the other papers, and you will I tho flrst train or trolley that rour convenience, after the IB of Friday, December <, and 0 Punxsutawney, Instead of gowhere.le 116 of Punx"y's most up-tond progressive merchants canrd to, and will not deceive you. advertisements hold out extrary Inducements but at best the 1 only afford the purchaser a I glimpse or what they really D store. About two weeks ago a handful of unXsutawney merchants, taking note ' the fact that, annually, especially irlng the season for purchasing hol- X IT m H)* #tm£gtotatemcji Jipifif. 1 CfENT ,