Punxsutawney Spirit, 1908-04-10

              YJgtf HflN PRICE TWO CENTS PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, f906 VOL* II— 178 nature cyclone cuts up CAPERS WEDNESDAY NIGHT BEFORE THE VOTERS FOR THE FIRST TIME STEAMER ARTHUR SEWELL BURNED HENRY CUY CAMPBELL IN THE ASSEMBLY RACE VOTERS SHOULD GO TO THE HIS EARLY IMrROVEHERTS MAY BE MADE DURIRG SUMMER T. M. Kurtz Always a Worker But Has Never Been A Candidate. Just swoops Down, Carries Away A Roof or Two And Some Trees. Punx'y Attorney Among The Pioneer Republicans In Jefferson. Big Steel Vessel Destroyed By Fire Off Cape Horn—Lost a Year. MOST BE A RESIDENT AT LEAST SIXTY DAYS Non-Registered Person May Qualify By Affidavit and Witness. Plans of B. R. & P. and B. & S. Will Likely Mean Boom for Cloe. MB IT UUKTKi FMM Rush Near Closing Hours May Deprive Some of Votes' SAILED FROM PHILADELPHIA IN 1907 SOLEMN Offl 10 PERFORM N FITTSBORG EITEKSiON THIS YEAR DRIFTED MANY DAYS WENT QUIETLY AWAY Mr. Kurtz has been an active and energetic party worker all his life. He has assisted many candidates to win political preferment and some of those now most actively engaged in The selection of a repricentattve in the State Senate Is an imporant matter to the district, and it is imperative that the man selected at the primary election on Saturday be a man of the highest type of citizenship. In T. M. Kurtz, of Punxsutawney, is prej sented a candidate who is ideal in his [ personality, able In the conduct of his J private business affairs, who lias a 1 wide knowledge of the necessities of the district In the matter of legislation and a rugged honesty which is unassailable. Mr. Kurtz's platform is put plainly before the people, and here in Jefferson County, where he is known and honored, it is unnecessary to state that the people have full faith in his declarations upon the Important subjects embraced In his plat- ! form, and have such confidence in ■ him as to lead to the belief that he will carry out to the utmost of his ability the pledges which he makes. , PHILADELPHIA. April 10.—Tho biff stool ship Arthur Sewoll, which sailed from this port April 3. 1907, and all traco of which has since boon lost, was burned off Capo Horn, and all her crow with tho exception of ono man have probably been lost. The sole survivor is Qeorge Baker, who reported to the United States Commissioner last night. He states that soon after the ship rounded Cape Horn the cargo took lire from spon, taneous cumbustlon. Every attempt | to extinguish it fulled and finally I Captain Gaffey ordered boats lowered. While one boat was being lowered by second mate Weinberk, assisted by Raker and a man named Dixon, falls broke and its occupants drifted to southward. For two days I the small boat drifted In the ocean I and on the third day was picked up . I by a Norwegian steamer. The rest of . 1 the crew were lost. wmvm ftitt In Henry Clay Campbell, of Punxsutawney, the people of the county have a candidate* who would make an admirable representative in the general assembly. Mr. Campbell has been a practicing attorney for a lo.ig period of years, and has a personal j knowledge of the necessities of lawmaking in legislative bodies. He la a veteran of the Civil War, and a veteran of the early contests for the supremacy of Republicanism in Jefferson County. Mr. Campbell was among the body of young men who gave their time, talents and money in an effort to \\*ln the first contests ever won by the Republican party in 'he county, personally appearing as a stump speaker in behalf of many of the candidates elected by the people 1 of the county in years gone by. His I years of service for his country an} | \ Ms party, and In the avenues of the law, in which he learned how laws ' ore made and how they should be made; his ability as a public speaker ard his all-round intelligence and active citizenship entitle him to the co nsideration and support of the Re. publican voters at this time. Mr. Campbell is the peer of any candidate a*king the Assembly nomination at this time in point of equipment tor the performance of official duties. He 13 a candidate upon no platform except the wishes of the people, and if elected will be free to serve his ccnstltuents unhampered by pre-election pledges to organizations or individuals—and his unusual attainments along the lines cssentisl to ih making of a good representative are such that he Is quulltled to give his service acceptably and well—Brook, ville Republican. Ur«M Military Drama Km Bni «« | Recatved Ml Over Foriik1* Stori%kcv|M*i\ Troo|i«»r Culvert of Troop I> Dcfiiu1 mil III Aclioii Brought by MS S. LOU upwards, paid a state or county tax within two years, which was assessed at least two months and paid at least one month before the election. The ' said affidavit shall also state wlior and where the tax claimed to hav been paid by the affiant was assessed and when and where and to whon paid; and the tax receipt tiierefo I shall be produced for examination, un less the affiant shall state in his afll davit that it has been lost or destroy ed, or that he never received any; am if a naturalized citizen shall also stat< when, where and by what court hi was naturalized, and shall also pro duce his certificate of naturalization for examination." ho has, if twenty-two years of age or "l'J. On the (lay of election, an person whose name shall not appca on the registry of voters, and win ellams the right to vote at said election, shall produce at least one quali lied voter of the district as a wltnes* to the residence of the claimant in th« district in which he cairns to be a voter, for the period of at least twc months immediately preceding: said election, which witness shall he sworn or affirmed and subscribe a written «»i partly written and partly printed affidavit to the facts stated by him. which aflldavit shall define clearly where the resilience Is of the person so claiming to be a voter; and th«' person so claiming the right to vote sha'.l also taki and subscribe a written or partly written and partly printed affidavit, stating. to the best of his knowledge ant belief, when and where he was born I that he has been a citizen of the Unit I ed States for one month and of th< I Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; tha I he has resided In the Commonwealtl one year, or. If formerly a qualltUx ' elector or a native born citizen there - of. and has removed therefrom an< returned, that he haa resided thereli six months next preceding said olec lion; that he has resided In the dla trlct in he plalms to be a \ote\ fur the period of . at lea#t two -months Immediately preceding said election; |. that he has not moved into the district for the purpose of voting therein; that The approach of election day bring* numerous requests concerning the manner in which non-registered persons may qualify to vote. For Information read the following, which Is a reprint of Section 12, Article VI., of the digest «»f election laws of Pennsylvania:Trtn«ur»»r. iiixsiitMuiie> *h for County fflLLOWIKG i PRECEDENT opposing- him are numbered with those who owe him tin- greatest debt of gratitude. This is the tirst appeal to the voters of his party, and lhei\* are abundant indications, in his homo county and In Indiana County, that this appeal will not be in vain. In iionorttig Mr. Kurtz tho district will honor Itself. No candidate before the people has rendered more effective service to the party or stands upon a better platform. In every walk of life he has proven himself a wise counselor, a prudent and careful business man, a loyal friend, and a citizen above reproach. If nominated and elected to the State Senate Mr. Kurtz will be the representative of the whole people ">f I district, and is the possessor of such ability and energy as to merit the prediction that lie will be reckoned among the abler members of the State Senate.— lirookville Republican. IKE NEAL GROCERY STORE In the event of building join; yards, doe seems'to be the most likely and logical point and a.s that town is within the proverbial stones' throw of Punxautawney, the Jefferson County metropolis, would be 'the trading center and the home of many of the employes. "The capacity of the mines nt Hagamoro is to be increased, and it is likely that new mines will be opened at other points before the end of the year. It is possible that the new yards will be built jointly by the Buffalo. Rochester & Pittsburg and the Buffalo * Susquehanna." "This road was built a few years ago «to develop extensive coal fields in Jefferson, Indiana and Armstrong Counties. Engineers were instructed to make surveys for a lino into Pittaburg: proper. Owing to the enormous amount of money involved and tho business depression, officials recently decided to make truffle arrangement* with other lines instead of building the new road. Heavier rails arc to be ' used on the road south from Juneau 'and many of the heavy curves will be eliminated, "It i.s officially announced that the new lino will not be extended to the Pittsburg: district this year. Negotia- , tiens are now pending for traffic agreements with lines In this section and tonnage for points along the Buffalo & Susquehanna will be hand, led over these roads. The company now has a traffic agreement with the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg railroad, by which all tonnage hauled over the main line of 'the latter frofri DuBois to Punxsutawney Perhaps the most important of the new construction will be the rebuilding of new WA'- Bcrau.sc the deluge of other reading matter, railroad extension and returning business conlidence has not been given due consideration by the dally press of late. In this section the most promising railroad developments seem to be closely relat. ed to the B., R. & P. and Buffalo A Susquehanna Railroads. One, and maybe perhaps both of these companies have secured a large tract of land at doe, presumably for yard tracks and the Indications are that C'loe will become an Important sta[tion on these two lines which now | have trackage agreements. Referring to railroad Improvements that may be undertaken In this section and especially to the probable extension of the B. & S. from Sagamore to Pittsburg, the Pittsburg Post he other day said, In part: Will Use Spirit to Keep Our Headers Informed About Tlielr Store. Iiti ,1. Camplx'll Has Filial Treasurer's Ollkc Satisfactorily to tin* Voters of the Count3*. if Uncle Sam Is needing recruits for his army iti the Philippines, he could do no better than send a recruiting officer over the trail of tho •Shenandoah" company.—Spokane Review. The enthusiasm of the audience knew no bounds. Men, women and children rose in their seats and cheer after cheer went up.—Tacoma News. li is ihe heart Interest that enthralls the spectator, and with the military background, forma one of tho most interesting productions appearing in Portland this season.—Portland (ore-.) Telegram. quam, the advance sale assuring packed houses for the remainder of tin* wetUt.—Portland (Ore.) Oregonian.record for big receipts at the Mar- "Shenandoah" will probably get tho remindful of the times when dramatic attractions were not so frequent. An engagement of one solid week at the Maniuam is a variety, and is It was a mimic scene, but everyone* forgflt that.—Sacramento Record. "Shenandoah" is a good, healthy play, a beautiful play.—Sacramento 4ico. Greatest war play ever written.—— Salt Lake fferald. J battle scene in "Shenandoah" last j night, ami four times It disclosed to the actors a wildly cheering house, I niffn and women being on their feet, 'shouting, waving handkerchiefs and fairly hysterical with the excitement of rhe mlmie struggle.—Denver Hepublican.Four times the curtain rose on tho ! The play is a thoroughly wholesome one and is a welcome re'lef from tho jnorbld sex-against-sex dramas with which the public has been surfeited.— Huffalo Courier. I Following are some of the press noi tices that have been given to Shenan! doah, the great military drama that will be given in the Jefferson Theater Monday and Tuesday nights, April HI and 22. by a notable cast of local thespians: A GENERAL FAVORITE. Although there are a number of ■ good men after the Republican muni- : nation for County Treasurer, none of ( them are more competent or deserv- i ing of the honor than the home can- j didate, James 8. Lockard. Mr. Lockard has for years taken an active In- ' terest In everything that might bene-111 Punxsutawney and vicinity, and It is only fair to him now to stand by him. His service to the people of the West End as Burgess and Tax Collector has been of the very best, and his standing as a business man and citizen is far above the average. Be loyal to your home candidate and vote for James S. Lockard for County Treasurer. A VOTER. Punxnutawney's choice for the Republican nomination for County Treasurer Is James S. Lockard, and the voters are going to stand by him next Saturday. Mr. Lockard is considered the strongest man in the tight by many who e aim to know something of the situation, and at this time ther appears to be no doubt about his receiving the nomination. MIKE GRIFFIR DEAO Mr. Neal is assisted In the store by Mrs. Ruth Collins, and this store gives promise of doing things as their patrons desira. Bead their advertisemcn;.He will make a specTalty of handling coun'try butter of quality, freeh. sweet and pure, and also fresh eggs. U. I'. Neal, who is now conducting the grocery store formerly run by Lowry Hughes, at No. 208 North Flndley Surest, has his advertisement in today's Issue of The Spirit. Mr. Neal made many changes in the room and stock and now has a neat, up-to-date stock of groceries on din. j play, all new, all l'resh. lU\viiol«livllle Candidate Eipwlnl to x He In hi llw Finish. SETS FIDE 10 Jit As staled In The Spirit yesterday, •unxsutawney voters shou il arrange, o an great an extent as possible, to ;et to the polls early; otherwise, if here Is a full vote, which now seems ertain, there will be a Jam during the losing hours, and possibly many may j I>se their votes beeause of a physical in possibility to get to the polls. In »rder to accommodate all of the voters, the ballotting in some of the lards, notably the First and Third, will lave to be done at the rate of about »ne per minute. This may be a difficult rate to keep ip under the circumstances. We are low working under a new primary >allot law which entails some new de•artures, and in Punxsutawney there ire said to be over fifty Democrats ho at the last general election voted or a majority of the Republicans in >rdor to qualify for voting for Hemblicans at Saturday's election. Many Democrats honestly suppose hey have the right to vote for a Republican friend who is a candidate for nomination, without qualifications. Hut they are mistaken. There is only one place and time when a Democratic vote can be counted for a Republican candidate. That is at the November or the February elections. At a primary there can be no split tickets. At a general election the citizen may mark his ballot to suit himself and .election board must count tfeaas cast. Tae fact that all parties entitled to a place on the ballot make their nominations at the same time and that the same election officers conduct the elections, has tended to deceive some voters who cannot get rid of the notion that they are participating in a general election. Add to these the by no means small number who know well enough that they are violating the aw, but who do not care so long a» 10 man causes their arrest, and yoi see that Republican primaries m.ij sometimes be anything but the hones expression of real Republican senti merit. Election officers also have a dut: In this respect. It is true the law i defective, but it provides that no mai shall be given a Republican ballo who did not vote for a majority o; the Republican candidates at the las preceding general election at wiiicl he voted, and an election officer win has personal knowledge of a voter'? party affiliations has the right to s«sl> him whether he is entitled to the ballot for which he asks. At the coming primaries every citi /.en who supported a majority «»f tin Republican candidates at the November election will have a clear right t< ask f(*r a Republican ballot. Kvcr> citizen who voted for a majority 01 the Democratic candidates last fal may ask for a Democratic ballot Every citizen who gave his vote to ; majority of the Prohibition candidate, may ask for a Prohibition ballot. Th< man who Is so wobbly in his politic: that he cannot recollect how he voter a few short weeks ago will eithe: have to refresh his memory or com promise with his conscience as bes he may. The man who voted a mis ccllaneous ballot will have no vote a this primary If the law be strictly en forced. Lastly, when you go to the polls to morrow with your ballot in hand, d< not think that you are simply there t< perform a friendly office to this 01 that candidate, or all of them. Yoi are there to perform a solemn duty you are there to do your part to safe guard the government that was r caret by the sacrifice of the blood of mill Ions of patriots. You are there t< place the stamp of your dlsapprova Upon the corrupt office seeker. Yoi are there to exercise the freeman'; will, and you should pause and se< to it that you exercise it wisely am I well. I'lvu TIiim* Captain of Brooklyn Natlotiul Udkuc Team Die* of PiMiunonlai. Prisoner In Padded CHI May Die u.i Ki-muIl »( Injuries IIpw'IvhI. In the person of Ira J. Campbell, who is just conducting a term of service as County Treasurer, the people o/ the county have a thoroughly competent and capable public oificer. one who has given careful anil pains-taking attention to the county's business ar.tl courteous and obliging treatment to those transacting business at the Treasurer's office. Mr. Campbell la now before the people of the county as a candidate for Register and Recorder. following a precedent established by his predecessors, Messrs. Reltz and Means—a precedent, by the way, wKlch has given .he people of the county the service of two excellent officers. Mr. Campbell has made his own campaign, without neglecting the public service, and the indications now are that the people ; wll ratify, at the primary elecion on Saturday, Mr. Campbell's course in 'the Treasurer's office by giving | him the nomination for Register and ! Recorder, a manifestly proper thing ! to do under the circumstances.— Punxsutawney Republican. Attorneys D. B. Taylor and George J. Felt ropresent the defendants. Trooper (.'alvert and 'Squire Wallace, John N. Banks la at the counsel table with CJcpro. He spoke regarding labor troubles there almost two years ago. of the picket fence that surrounds he town, and of the placing of a detail of state constabulary there. Mr. Smith stated that Mr. Cicero owned the ground on which his store Is located. the property being a short distance outside of the town limits. In opening the case for Cicero, his counsel. E. W. Smith, reviewed the history of Heilwood from the purchase of all lands In that section by I the Weaver Interests to the sale of [the properties to the Penn-Mary Coal Company, of which Harry Dowler is the resident superintendent. wa.-i held until late that evening and was compelled to pay $11 for his release, said release being given only after he had paid this sum and without Cicero being placed on trial; that by reason of his eviction from Hellwood the plaintiff has since lost his business, accounts and stock to the value of about $6,000. These various losses are set forth In a separate I bill of accounts. t'iic j > alleges that on the afternoon of Nov. 1, 11J0C he was arrested while delivering goods in Hellwood, the arrest being made by Eugene Calvert, a member of Troop D, State Constabu. lary; that Calvert took him to the office of 'Squire Wallace, where ho Heilwood customs and the noted barbed wire fence around the prosperous mining town are at stake In a case called befoo Judge Telford this afternoon. The plaintiff, Charles Cicero asks $5,000 damages for false arrest and Imprisonment and almost as much more for losses Incurred by him when ho was prevented from conducting his meat and gocery business in the company town. hotel lobbies, but now it Is being told In court and the outcome ought to settle at least one mooted sociological question. The progress the J case is making i.i court' Is told in yes- terday's Indiana Gazette as follows: fireside, in the local stores, and in | When Heilwood. Possum Glory, Indiana County, was brought forth the proprietors bought all the land a *d put a fence around the town, the thereby hangs a tale. The tale has been told around the j PARKER8BURG. W. VA.—Miss Alter Pickens committed suicide at Ravenwood, near here, by jumping Into the Ohio River. Her mind was affected by a recent attack of typhoid pneumonia. UTICA. N. V., April 10.—Michael OrlfBn. one of the greatest fielders In baseball history, and for »everal years captain of the Brooklyn Nationals, died here of pneumonia.  The contest for County Commissioner on tin- Democratic ticket I* lining up tiulte warm among the eisrht candidates. However, the last week the ItRht seemed to be settling down to between two of them, Mfc B. T. McCSaw. the present Commissioner, and Charles M. Dinger, of the nun* precinct, Iteynoldsvllle. Mr. Dldir Is a very energetic young m*n finely qualified to (111 the This, together wlrh the Hf*t ■>» ■fgf to have two candidates tw ticket, has made him °* • favorite among the oc|UT< AKRON. Ohio, Apr. 10.—Joseph Passollne. tailor, who was confined In a padded cell thin morning set lire to the cell and received probably fatal burns. Deputy Sheriff Corey was seriously burned In attempting to extinguish the blase. The jail was badly burned and prisoners were thrown j Into a panic. had chased through that community Wednesday night and neither man nor toast was Injured bodily by the visitation. WEATHER FORECAST, CANOE RIDGE (Office of the Weatherworka): Shower* thla afternoon or tonight; Salturday fair and allghtly cooler. Although there were six doors on the side where the shed pot struck by the hurricane, they were all shut anil Intact excepting one through which projected a wagon tongue. The wagons and machinery had been scraped together In a hopeless mass, one machine having been reduced to kindling wood and scrap Iron, but the others, many and valuable, were all Intact. The barn, excepting the roof, was unharmed and the house passed through the ordeal unscathed, but shoken up some. Bargerstock's wagon shed seemed to have been about the center of the disturbance, both latltudlnally and longitudinally. It started at the home of D. F. Smyers, where It picked off u few trees and fences, turned the aforementioned trick at Bargerstock's, anil passed on to Daniel Grube's, where it cut a Rwnth about 150 feet wide out. of his flne pine limber tract, probably half an acre. The entire course was not more than a mile and a half long and from 73 to 200 feet wide. The cyclone apparently descended abruptly, going in a northeasterly direction. It landed on Smyers-. Just missing his ; buildings, scooped everything in it* way to the CJrube farm, and tm-n caromed upward, disappearing into the clouds as mysteriously as It came. No pyrotechnics, no brass band and cannonading accompaniments, or deluge. While on terra flrma It swerved neither to the right nor left, and stuck to the high places, ■o that the trees In the Orube tract, which was on lower ground, were clipped oft about eighteen feet from th<' earth. Some of them were from 16 to 20 Inches In diameter where they were twisted off without a splinter. Five of the thirty trees uprooted tn Smyers' timber tract, which the storm caught only on one corner, were bundled up together and carried Into Bargerstock's Held and plied In as neat a heap as could be formed by the hand of man. The of the trees yosterday were cut down and made Into saw togs. The memory of the oldest cltlxen In the Orube settlement runneth not to the contrary when a smaller. ftercer. .harper, less noiseless cyclone visited that or any other country yet heard from. . . Mr. Orube estimate* the timber destroyed at about WOO, Mr. Bargeretock, damage to building* a* about 9I.0Q* and the combined destruction In that community of fences, orchards, ima, grape arbor* fete., at about * the families above namri no hL Hi «l ot that .ectlon knew mtll TMtirilir that a cyclone About 8:15 o'clock Wednesday evening the Barge rstoek household experienced what they thought was a alight earthquake, judged by the way the house (hook and trejnbled. There wan nq fliln, thundar at lightning, but as Mr. Bargerstock looked put of the rise and take flight. lighting a lantern he rushed out. when he found that not only his liarn had been unroofed, but that his wagon and implemnet shed hnd been moved from its base east a distance of about eight feet. v Whether you describe It as u saucy and diminutive cyclone, hurricane, whirlwind or tempest, it was the smallest, briefest, slyeat meteorological disturbance that ever passed this way. Three of four families who live in the Qrube settlement, about 3 miles northeast ol" Ifunxsutawney, in Bell Township, would like to know just what struck thew Wednesday night, between the hours of 8:15 and 8:30 o'clock. Whatever It was did this to these: Carried Clarence Bargerntock's wagon and Implement shed, 30x40 feet, eight feet from Its base, scraping the vehicles and machinery into a heap: unroofed completely his barn. 40x55 feet; annihilated a dozen line grape arbors, part of the trees in his .orchard and many fences; snipped oft half an acre of timber for Daniel Qrube and did a like act to thirty fine timber trees from the corner of the D. F. Smyers tract, entailing u loss of atout 11,000. OIL CITY, PA.—Three sons of J. S. Jennings, of Warren, Pa., asked the police force here today to assist In the search for their father, a leadingmerchant of that place, who disappeared March SI with over MOO in lh spockets. '  WASHINGTON, PA. — Clarence Hayea, a former Washington glassworker, received a life sentence to the penitentiary at Alton. III., for the murder of his wife there. Mra. Hayea was formerly Miss Minnie Hamilton, of Washington. ***'.4; -t- <•' ' ' - ■/* ;l W ■■■■■■■ i • ,'v .. J:■■ Km 7?rr m Damaged Almost Everything in Path Seventy Five Feet Wide. Only One Man Thought to Have Reached Safety. T. W. KURTZ.