Punxsutawney Spirit, 1908-01-21

              V- v ;y? (aty Edition) Pf. SUlllfD it I '"~ I PEOPLE SERIOUSLY HURT UP 10 UNCLE SAM TO GET BUSY EIGHTEEN CONSIDERED TO] MANY Editor of Christian Science Sentinel Defines Christian Phycology, Etc.—Healing Sick. TWO MODE NEW WELLS BROUGHT I PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA.; TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1908 PRICE TWO CENTS VOL. II—NO. 109 STANDARD OIL COMPANY ACQUIRING SEVERAL GOOD PRODUCING WELLS AT FANCY PRICES NEAR KNOXDALE JUDGE REED GRANTS PETITION FOR FEWER MEMBERS ON BOARD Control of All Business Wanted By Monopoly—Gets Even With Government. STEAMSHIP TRAFFIC IS BEING DIVERTED BY PACIFIC MAIL Elected From Each Ward in Future. Only Two Directois Will Be fionia Tank Under Pavement Goes Up Causing Considerable Damage. GUESTS OF HOTEL IN I GREENSRURG LEAVE IN NIGHT CLOTHES POSITION TAKEN BY MRS. EDDY IN HER TEACHINGS Laying Pipe Line Overground From Corsica to Accommodate Big Supply. MEADVILLE PAPER MUST PAY ONE.HUNDRED DOLLARS Jury in Emery Libel Suit Brings in a Verdict for the the Plaintiff. roads Extra Heavy. ; More Coal Mined Than Ever Before—Demand By Rail- 1907 BANNER YEAR ! FOR COAL PRODUCTION 'Present and Former Members of Local Lodge Wax Eloquent, Feast and Make Merry. Olives Mince Pie Ieo Cream Cigars Coffee "Richard the Brazen" begins today » Page five. He's here. Brazen." Frcint Wall of Drug Store TcJfn Down By Explosion— "j Pavement Torn Up. I 1 WINDOWS SHATTERED OUTPUT 20,000,000 ft. SCIENTIFIC MINING THE CAUSE $80,000 for Leases on 2,800 Acres of Land—Three Wells at 5c per M. of them being; In their night clothes. In a short time, however, the guests discovered that there was no danger, and all went back to their rooms. many believing that the hotel was on fire. The people made their way to the street, many ' When the explosion occurred the hotel guests were thrown Into a panic, One of the walls in Miller's drug atore collapsed as a result of the ■hock, the front wall of the hotel bar Avas shattered and windows for (blocks distant were broken. i The tank had been used for the of manufacturing the ice jiiaed by the big hostelry, which is one <)jf the finest hotels in this section. »The pavement for a distance of fifty feet was wrecked. QREENSBURO, Pa., Jan. 21. — A j big ammonia tank erected under the pavement in front of the Hotel Rappe, for use of the hotel, exploded this morning injuring four (people and damaging property to the jfcxtent of $30,000. J The injured are: | Fenton Mathlas, James H. Call, /"Major" Wood, colored, and Fred {Johnston, also colored. 1 By United Press. FULL HOUSE EXPECTED Judge Prather, in his charge to the jury, said that the jury had to decide whether the libel had been printed in the heat of a political campaign, or whether it had been published with malice. He also charged that as only two witnesses had been produced to prove that they had read the libel, the damages, if any, must be made accordingly, for the plaintiff, had only proven that the circulation of the libel had been very limited, and the damages should be adjudged accordingly. If no malice was shown and the articles had been published in the heat of a campai.fi without proper investigation, the question of libel would not be provocative of any great damage. It was disclosed in the trial that Wesley R. Andrews, chairman of the State Committee, had the stencil in his possession and passed it over to Castle. This town is the home of Chairman Andrews. The case had been stubbornly fought at every point. It Is one of the series that Mr. Emery has brought against newspapers all over the State that published the stories attacking him sent out by the Republican State Com mi t tee. This had been one of the most interesting of the cases brought by Lewis Emery, Jr.. the Democratic-Lincoln candidate for Governor in 1900. His libel charge lay in the fact that a bogus barrel stencil has been produced by Homer Castle, the Prohibition candidate for Governor, and this was claimed to have been used by Emery for marking his oil barrels in Philadelphia. Mr. Emery declared these charges to be untrue and sued. MEADVILLE, Jan. 21. — The jury in the libel case of Lewis Emery, Jr., »*s. the MeadviUe Morning Star, yesterday brought in a verdict of guilty, and placed the damages at $100. IJy United Press. Scat Sale* For "Yama" Promises to bo a Kocord Breaker—A11 most All-Star Cast. Of the directors holding over in the West End, the terms of W. B. Sutter and John F. Jenkins will expire next year and H. M. Means and J. D. Ravis the following year.. This year Morgan Lloyd and Ralph A. Mefirttog wlTl retire. There will not be any Immediate reduction of the board, there stiM remaining fourteen for the coming year, which is thought to be a sufficiently large number. The present board is very attentive to business, nearly always getting twelve or more to its regular monthly meeting, but it was feared that to provide three directors for each ward would make a somewhat unwieldy body, of which it might be difficult at times to get a quorum. The decree of the Court reduces the number of directors in the Fifth and Sixth Wards to two, providing that they shall hold office for two years. This year the tickets for tlie primary election in the Fifth Ward will stipulate that the voters shull vote for two candidates, of whom the one receiving the highest number of votes shall be certified as the candidate for two years, the one receiving the next highest vote for one year. Next year and thereafter they shall choose one director for two years. Likewise in the Sixth Ward, in 1910 they shall elect one director for two years and one for one year, and thereafter each year one for two years. | A petition signed by the school | directors and a number of other cit- I izens was presented to Judge need yesterday morning asking for a decree llxing the number of Directors at two for each ward. That is the number provided for in thft First, Second, Third and Fourth Wards at the time the Borough was divided. When ClayviUe was annexed they had six directors for two wards there, and in the nominating conventions for the Fifth Ward steps were taken this year to elect three directors. In the Sixth Ward there are still four directors holding over, two of whose terms expire in 1909 and two in 1910. To get matters started right so that after next year uniformity will prevail in all the wards, the petition was made to the Court, and was granted by Judge Heed at once. STILL OK Slill ENTOMBED MINER'S EXPERIENCE The question now arises whether the Government should save the income to the transportation line on the eastern coas": by running some risk on the western coast in operating a steamship line and retaining a traffic route through the canal. As conditions are at present, according to the report of Mr. Bristow, there is danger of the traffice being diverted to Tehauntepec and other routes. The traffic depression is mainly due to the action of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, which has been refused an exclusive contract with the Panama Railroad. A contract formerly existed by which through bills were Issued to the Pacific Mall Company, but as this was an exclusive contract the Secretary of War deemed it proper to cancel It. The steamship company advised the Government that It would be willing to improve the service on the Pacific coast and put on two new steamers If the Government would give it the exclusive right to shut out some foreign jthips jrf rmrTh from Panama. The Secretary of War did not feel justified in doing this. The report shows the Government is facing a rather serious condition in that the trafflce over the Panama railroad from west to east is dwindling down at a rate which will practically mean the extinction of trade between San Francisco and New York by steamer route by the time the canal is built. The business at the Pacific terminal of the railroad has been reduced one-half since the Government took charge. Last year but 15,000 tons of freight Were transported over the railroad from Panama to Colon. At the present time most of the steamers operated by the Government on the Atlantic Ocean ;ire compelled to return north in ballast. WASHINGTON, D. C\, Jan. 21.— Secretary Taft yesterday transmitted to the Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals the report of J. T. Hristow, investigated the ' relations between the Panama Railroad Company and the steamship lines operating on the Pacific coast to ascertain whether the Government ought to engage in the steamship business to preserve the business of the Panama route and furnish business for the steamers on the Atlantic side. Evelyn Tlmw Cannot Remember Name of Pliysielan Wlio Treated Husband ill Europe. Means Used in Keeping Men Alive Same as Ilaggerty's Plan—Used Larger Pipe. "Mrs. Eddy has shown that she loves all that tends towards Christianity; hence she loves Catholics and Protestants — Methodists, Congregatlonalists. Baptists. Quakers. Shakers —all save those who stand still and entertain no desire for Christianity. Her teachings show that she cannot consistently indorse ,as Christianity the two distinctly contradictory statements and points of view contained in the term 'Christian psychology*—otherwise Christian materialism."I "Neglect of this, the real meaning I of Christianity, resulted in a loss of ' : the power to heal the flick centuries] ago, and today also there are those j who are casting lots for Christ's I seamless robe, but by their failure to perceive the oneness of Spirit they ! also will lose the truth of Christian! ity, and thus be unable to demon| strate it upon the divine Principle j ■ which Jesus taught, namely, one Qod. j | one infinite, hence no matter. Chris- j | tianity without this essential Science) ! of Christian truth—the onfcrffcss ofI i Spirit—is left without a perfect Prln- | | e!ple and without scientific dehion- I st ration thereof. In other words,1 they who drop Spirit as the one and j all of Christianity, thereby lose the I demonstration of the power of Spirit, ! . through Christ, to heal the sick and cleanse the leper, to destroy sin, disease, and death. . self in quantity, quality, and divinity "Christian psychology is equivalent I to Christian phrenology, physiology ! and mythology, whereas Jesus predicated and demonstrated Christian healing on the basis of Spirit, Qod He never complicated Spirit with matter, never taught the Unite opposite of God, Spirit, infinity, All. Theology means one God, and Christianity Is not founded on any other basis except one God, one infinite, and I that infinite divine Love. God is Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship In truth. As revealed in Christian Science, God Is unconscious of matter, for If He Is Spirit. I and All, He cannot know aught that J would be the very unllkenesfl of_Hlm- "We are taught in nur text-book, 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,' that '/f God had instituted material laws to govern man, disobedience to which would have made man ill, Jesus would not have disregarded those laws by healing in direct opposition to them and in defiance of all material coalitions' (p. 227). The animus of this teaching pervades all of Mrs. Eddy's writings on Christian Science. A controversy having arisen as to the teachings of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, head of Christian Science Church, concerning Christian psychology. Archibald McClellan, editor of the Christian Science Sentinel, explains her position as follows: BURLESQUE SHOW BIRRED No Vulgar Performance. Council of Model Village Will Permit District Attorney Jerome spent all morning trying to shake Evelyn's testimony. but failed. She dened that she had ever said Harry treated her brutally. As she settled herself in her chair to resume her testimony, she smiled at Harry. Mrs. Thaw told of her trip to Europe with her husband, but could not remember the name of the physician who treated Harry when the latter swallowed laudanum. By United Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 21.—This morning at 10:15 o'clock Evelyn resumed :he witness stand. DOG SAVES LIVES terer, with his assistants, laid before ;h<*m eatables galore in the following ircier: 3eorge Bender contribtued a goodly jhare of the evening's entertainment t>y the rendering of several solos and i duet. At eleven o'clock the entire party ivas seated in the spacious banquet tia.ll and the Punxsutawney Club ca- 'ampbell, Esq., John St. Clair, Esq., V. O. Smith, Ira J. Campbell, Capain J. F. Robinson, H. James 1. Lockard, Edward Barry, John S. and H. G. Miller in turn dismayed their oratorical and story tellng abilities. Olaf Carlton and ed before those present were ushered Into the banquet hall. H. Clay aegan with a reproduction of the first ict of Daniel, which, judging from :he applause which greeted its close, nade a distinct hit. •With M. R. Brown introducing the ipeakers, a pleasant hour was pass- After a short session of lodge the fun The reunion and banquet of Punxsutawney Lodge No. 493 of the Knights of Pythias held in their lodge rooms last night, brought out nearly every active member of the order and a large number of those who had heretofore been members. Since the sale of the Ren interests to the Standard the wells are now owned as follows: In addition to tho wells already named Jacob Hopkins and son Walter head a company that has a star gasser and will probably sink fioino more holes In the near future. The Phillips Company and Hunter & Deem or both have two new holes in progresa and the other companies In the Held are preparing to start I one or two more additional drills. Phillips Gas Company three; Standard Interests, three; Hunter & Deemer, one; Agers & Company, one. The latter part of last week a party of Heynoldsville capitalists took a lease on a 100-acre tract belonging to Dr. O. V Kyle. The land adjoins the Ray & Company leases upon which there Is now one of the bumper wells of the Knoxdale district. Or. Kyle, It is understood, retains an Interest in the property. The Industrial Oil & Gas Company, of Reynoldsvllle. it is understood, are the parties interested. I The Phillips well is located on the ' Presbyterian Church lot and is the | second to come in on that lease. The ; Starndard Company's well is their ! first, and is located on the Mercer lease, about one-fourth of a mile northeast of Knoxdale. This Is the second well put down by the Standard but the first one. which was drilled on the Ashbaugh farm, yielding nothing but "hot air." Of the two wells that came In yesterday. one Is the property of the Oil City Fuel & Supply Co. (Standard Oil) and the other one is well No. 3 of the Phillips (las Company, of this place and Butler. That the Standard Oil interests mean to get into th«• market with their supply as soon as possible Is evidenced from the fact that the company has about thirty teams stringing eight-inch pipe from Knoxdale to their main lln«> at Corsica, a distance of twelve miles. Before these deals were made It was the Intention of the Standard people to put on a i large number of men and lay the I line, as usual, under the ground at I the regulation depth, but now that the company has secured the enormous output, the pipe will be laid on top of the ground until spring. The line will be completed In twenty days. Knoxdale. the Gasopolis of ail this country, is being heard from In no small figures. Yesterday there was consummated a deal whereby the Standard Oil interests took over Hea & Company's interests, Including leases on 2,800 acres of land land, paying therefor 180,000. Hunter & Deemer contracted the output of their G.000,000 feet per day well on a royalty of five cents per 1000 feet and two more wells, with a capacity of 2.000.000 per day, each, came in. Including the two holes that camo in yesterday, there are now eight producers in the Knoxdale field with a combined capacity of 20.000,000 feet of gas per day. WOMEN HORSEWHIP MM | Old 493 K. of P. Punch Blue Points on Half Shell try Cold Slaw Family Awakened by Animal In Time l<> ICM-a|H< from Burins Building. The women went In a body to tho billboards and tore down the pictures. Council, by a unanimous vote, excluded the show from the town. AKRON, O.. Jan. 21. — When for the first time In Its history there appeared on trees and billboards in Hudson, known as the model village, glaring advertisements of a burlesque show, with the picture of a ballet girl I in red tights, the residents were shocked. HUMAN CHAIN SAVES BOY Oilier Men See Viollm nod «o P<»« Jtewed Chicken and Dressing led Potatoes French Peas Cranberry Sauce STOCK EXCHANGE ID OPEN Alfred E. Aarons' new musical production, "Yama," which recently com- ! pie ted a recordbreaklng engagement of one hundred performances at the Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, will he presented for the first time at the Jefferson Theatre tonight, where both the opera and company scored a substantial hit. receiving the unqualified endorsement of the entire Philadelphia press. Mr. Aaron's productions have long been noted for elaborate scenic incratlture, gorgeous costuming, tuneful music and pretty girls, and "Yama" is said to surpass all his former efforts. The cast is particularly strong, headed by Clarence Harvey, the former Mayor of "His Honor the Mayor," Nella Webb, the former leading soubrette of "His Honorthe Mayor." Aarons' original Dancing Dolls, who created a sensatlo nwith "Ills Honor the Mayor," Lois Tabor, Frederick Van Renssalaer, Harry Stuart, and Ella Barnard, formerly of' 'His Honor the Mayor," Georgia Bryton, the former star of "A Chinese Honeymoon," Templar Saxe, the former leading baritone, Violet Colby, the former Prima Donna .Soprano of the "The Blue Moon," James James W. Castle, Wm. O. Myers and Fred Gonvea, formerly of the Madame Chumann-Holnk Opera Company. The chorus Is composed of young and pretty girls of exceptionally goo<i voices. The company also carries their own orchestra of soloists. Fruit Cake and Rescue Themselves. Nine Go Through lee. Clasp Hands AuiMiuiuvninit Marie Today That BuabicM Will no Resumed January 27. NEW MARTWSBURO. )r V'a. Men looked on In "lone, 1£ when a crowd of women at_W£od™'»- I several mile,, from here. d««*'d * prominent l.U.me» man from h home and, tyln* him to u po»t Intha main -treat. publicly nor.ewhlpped I "'tIw man, who Ih a widower, paid attentions to a younjr woroah whirh I were resented by the other*. After his chastisement the victim of the beating: wa» allowed to return to nls home. YOIIK. Pa.. Jhii. 21 — By forming a human chain escaped drowning yesterday In a dam near "'The boys attempted to --kale arrow the dam and when ,h®' all middle the ice broke *reclplt.,|n»^ the water. £***>P- ° of the oMer boye.  "• «»' then. by cl.ap.ng handball the other, were dragged to safety.  The residence was burned to the ground the cause of the fire is a mystery, and it is said that It was of Incendiary oHgln. When the dog's efforts to awaken her finally succeeded, the flames were bursting through the walls of the room she occupied, and Mrs. Allison barely had time to escape. LATROBE, Pa., Jan. 21. — The barking of a pet dog atfer It had dragged the bed clothes to the floor In a frantic effort to arouse her, saved the lives early this morning, of Mrs. Margaret Allison and her two children. By United Press. tub weather The manufacturers In this country obtain their fuel supply tit a less rate per ton than the average cost In other countries. With greater economies In the use thereof. K will be still further reduced. The better grades of fuel, even at a few cents more per ton. oftentimes gives the better commercial results. If Is the use of mechanlcail appliances—machine mining, electric hauling etc.—which gives the large result of tonnage mined and the comparatively low cost per ton. Taking up the bituminous branch, we find a tonnage produced five limes that of anthracite aiul and a wide range of output from the several states. The bituminous trade of the country has grown at a tremendous pace within recent years. There was used in 1907 something like 360,000,- 000 net tons of bituminous, and one need not have very long memory to remember when the year'.y tonnage was not one-third that figure. The past season was one of the very best In recent years with which our producers have been blessed, both In the way of steadiness to prices and an autput which was well in line with the demand. The American industrial position for at least ten months of the year was nil that might be expected, or desired, so far as demand for coal Is (or was) concerned. The 1 railroads, which are such large users of coal, were all engaged to the utmost. In every state In the union where coal is mined there was no doubt an Increased production for the various users, for steam, for domestic purposes, or for coke making. Taking the situation as a whole, at the close of the y6ar, it is found that there was no diminution in the demand for the smaller sizes of anthracite, and that the domestic sizes were ";n good .demand. The bituminous trade is suffering a temporary eclipse, so far as demand is concerned. There Is a marvelous condition as to the growth of the coal trade as shown in the report of the Pennsylvania Rail- | road Company for the year, where th<- j sum total of fuel transported Is equal j to the whole coal production of the United States less than a generation | ii?o. The average price of coal at the mines for the year is not likely to be much higher than in 1906, though the distributors no doubt obtained somewhat more, yet their result will be far below 1003, when th<- full effect of the strike of 1902 was felt. Taking up the situation at the close ! of 1907, It could be stated that the coal trade was unquestionably one of the brightest spots In the whole busihesss situation, and the anthracite trade, being the best part of the coal trade, was particularly luminous. It was a very notable year in respect to Uonnage, but the two departments of | the Industry have each their own separate story to tell, and for that reason it seems preferable to make a distinction at the outset, and present the report of each department under appropriate heading. It may be a surprise to many of the readers of this publication to know that |he coal business of this country is so important as it is. We are now producing coal at the rate of over 1.000,000 tons a day, taking every day In the year for the total of last year —1907—was upwards of 4 40,000,000 net tons. If one were to put it on the "average days forked," the situation at the present time would be even stronger. The government reports show an "average of days active" of some HI5 in the soft coal producing states, with a trifle larger number In the anthracite mining districts of Pennsylvania. Now if 215 days give us 3(50,000,000 net tons of soft coal, that means more than merely putting the statement at something over a million tons a day, dies It not? The twelve months ending January 1, 1 908, according to the Coal Trade Journal, was the banner year in the history of the United States for the production of coal. Of the output the Journal says, in part: Clearing the debris was slow work, as timbers, rocks and earth were so twisted together that a new shaft had to be cut for most of the 1,000 feet. At no time did the entoyibed men suffer greatly, except for the dlstatefulness of their forced seclusion. Communication was established with the world above and food and drink were plenteou&ly lowered through the pipe. A large supply was sent down, as It was tea Id the pipe might be broken before the rescuers could reach the Imprisoned men. But throughout the long weeks of Imprisonment this pipe was used dally. A portable telephone was lowered, and the men were able to talk with people above. This telephone carried from friends news of the world and messages of cheer, and from the burled men report/ of their condition. BELLEFONTAINE, O.—David A1-* len, 80 years of age, was stricken with paralysis and died. His wife, four years his junior is believed to be dying from the same cause. The Ely miners were entombed December 4 at the bottom of a shaft 1,000 feet deep. At tfrst it was thought on the surface that the men had perished, but twenty-four hours after the accident the three burled men managed to make themselves heard by tapping on a six-Inch water pipe that reached from the pumping station to the surface. The experience of the three miners, A. D. Bailey, P. J. Brown and Fred McDonald, who on Sunday were liberated from the Alpha Shaft at Ely. Nevada, where they had been entombed for forty-six days, abundantly corroborates the plan of Hugh Haggerty, of this place, for giving aid to entombed miners. }*fter the Inner man had been satufted the feasters repaired to the kdge rooms where thy listened to in eloquent address by D. C. Gilles>ie on "Fraternalism." Mr. Gllles>ie's reminiscences extend about :eventy years back and proved highly interesting. ■Lester Lewis contributed toward the nfloyment of the evening by singing ■veral comic songs. .George Ben•r and Olaf Carlton were again callp upon to display their voijal powers Jnd they did so In such a manner as m bring out thunderous applause. OREEN8PURG. Pa — Flank W. Howell, a laborer. 3* years old. shot himself at his home In Southwest Greensburg, and died Instantly. He left a letter asking that a former sweetheart be notified. WASHINGTON. P». — David Watkin.. « miner of Coal Tenter. was probably fatally Injured through his striking an overhead beam. CANOE RIDOE (Office of the W«atterworll») jr*lr and colder tomorrow. Who? "Richard the The last Hesslon of the Exchange wan on October 22, the day before the Westlnghouse Company went into the hands of receiver*. By United Press. PITTSBURG, Jan. 21. — It hae been announced here that the Pittsburg Stock Exchange will reopen once more for business on Monday, January 27. GREENVILLE, Pa.—Wallace Keely, the 14-year-old son of E. N. Keely,\ missing from his home near Franklin since December 29, has been found at the home of Thomas Haw| kins, a fartner, at Newton Falls, O. :T sr -- mm ¥£?