Punxsutawney Spirit, 1910-01-07

              w, HOGS AT $9.00 tgfte j)tin3tenf afamrn Saifit 11111151 PRIGE TWO CENTS milE REVIEW SUSPENDS TAFT'S TEMPER ROUSED CANNOT DISCRIMINATE BE TWEEN THE GOOD AND BAD TRUSTS, SAYS TAFT IMMI limit HUll PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1*10. VOL. IV NO.95 WANT PRICE PROBE Grangers Adopt Resolution Calling Upon Congress For Investigation. Chief Forester May be Dismissed by Order of the President. RECOMMENDS FEDERAL INCORPORATION AND A U N IT E D STATES COURT OF COMMERCE IN SPECIAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS-BUSI- NESS COMBINATION THE NATURAL RESULT OF PROGRESS. MS HIS FAITH 11 KHOT FIND OUT WHO IS RESPONSIBLE A business meeting* of the Alumni Association of Adrain Hospital Nurses was hold at the Adrain hospital Wednesday afternoon. The first part of : the meeting was devoted to the transj action of business, with good reports from all of the committees. An order for $10 was * dt4iwn in favor of Miss Mary Weir. Secretaft1 of State Association, for the "kegislative Fund" to help make up the balance clue on expenses of Miss (illes, who was an active worker for the registration law. No new members were received, rfed to meet th; ly. 1910, at .jxf Luncheon was served to the senior nurses in training, with Miss Lunetta Miller, honorary member, Mrs. Herbert Gourley, Mrs. C. U. Stevenson, Misses Erie R. Smith. Roba Smith. Margaret Winter and FannicgLonibpfi. Meeting adjoun Wednesday in .m) /llrst [>ois. TRACTIMMES ELECT THEIR OFFICERS "The Plumville Hevlew will suspend publication with the issue of today. Mr. BriRgs will move his plant to near Rochester, N V.. his ol<l home, where he will unite with another genttamcrti in establishing a paper in a wider and prospects of a more lucrative field. We nr. .sorry to set- t'ie Review suspend, as it has been a good paper much above the average country sheet, and our best wishes jjo with Mr. Brig;?s in his new field. "Arrangements have been made with the Independent to take over th< subscription list of the Review and till out all unexpired subscriptions. \\V will make arrangements to give tin people of that place and vicinity special services in the news line, and do all we can to meet their desires. The Plumville Review yesterday suspended publication and the subscription list has been purchased by the Marion Center Independent which says: EDUCATING THE FARMER TO THE USE OF ALFALFA 5TH WARD REPUBLICANS muu\PENCILS fpi mr PHILADELPHIA, Pn., Jan. 7.— Following: up its campaign in the Interests of scientific farming in the Urri.ory through which Its lines run, the PennsyIvania Railroad Company has undertaken, through Its Division Freight Agents, the dissemination of agricultural information. To-operating with the State College of Agriculture of Pennsylvania, the Railroad has prepared booklets which are to be sent to the farmers through the state. On the farmers' special instruction trains and steamboats which the Pennsylvania Railroad has been operating In the past two years, special stress has been laid on the introduction of alfalfa into this section of the country, and the first booklet which the Cornis to distribute deals with methods for the cultivation of that product. One booklet is entitled "Use of Lime on Land—A few facts on lime fertilization". The other one has for its subject "Alfalfa". These two subjects go hand in hand in view of the faet that the use of lime is essential to the eul-, tivation of alfalfa. In addition to the Instructions of the application of lime and the growing of contains lists of shippers of agrlcultual lime, lime stone, fertilisers, etc.. for the use of the agriculturists. In Its educational campaign for goutl" 'farming", the Pennsylvania Ralroad is encouraging every movement which - in in any way affect the prosperity of the rural districts. Special agricultural trains represent the first effort of the Company in this direction, special steamboats ar«- being operated from time to time, and the company !.«• trying t<> educate the station agents along the lln<fs thai they may become agricultural missionaries. In addition, the Company has become identified with the good roads movement In the State of Pennsylvania. The Issuance of booklets containing information for farmers is the latest step which the Pennsylvania Railroad has ta1<en to Increase the traffic in agricultural products originating on its lines. To the Senate and House of Represe natives: I withheld from my annual message a discussion of needed legislation under th«- authority which Congress has to regulate commerce between the States and with foreign countries and said that 1 would bring this subject-matter to your attention Hater in the session. Accordingly, 1 beg to submit to you certain reccommendations as to the amendments to the interstate-commerce law and certain considerations arising out of the operations of the anti-trust law suggesting tlie wisdom of federal incorporations of industrial companies. Interstate Law Tn the annual report of the* Interstate Commerce Commission for the year 1908 attention is called to the fact that between July I. 1908, and the elose of that year .sixteen .suits had lieen begun to set aside orders of the commission (besides one commenced before that date), and that few orders of much consequence had been permitted to go without protest; that the questions presented by these various suits were fundamental, as the constitutionality of the act itself was in issue. and tin- right of Congres- to delegate to any tribunal authority t«> establish an interstate rate, was denied; but thai perhaps the most serious practical question raised concerned the .x-tcnt of the right, of the courts to review the orders of tile commission and it was pointed out that if tho contention of the carriers in this latter respect alone were sustained, but little progress had been made in the Hepburn Act toward the effective regulation of the interstate transportation charges. In twelve of the cases referred to, it was stated, preliminary injunctions were prayed for, being granted in six, and refused In six. "It has from the first boon well understood," says the commission. "that the success of the present ac t as a regulating measure depends largely upon the facility %with which temporary injunctions could be obtained. If a railroad company, by mere Ulceration In its bill of complaint, supported by ex parte affidavits, can overturn the results of days of patient Investigation. no very satisfactory results can be expected. The railroad loses nothing by these proceedings, since if they fail it can only be required to establish the rate and to pay to shippers the difference between the higher rate collected and the rate which is finally held to be responsible. In point of fact it usually profits, because it can seldom be required to return more than a fraction of the excess charges collected." In report for the year 1909 the commission shows that of the seventeen cases referred to in its 190S report, only one has been decided in the Supreme Court of the United States although five other cases had j The regular sessions of such court | should bo held at the capital, but It should be empowered to hold sessions In different parts of the United States If found desirable; and its orders and Judgment should be made final, subject only to review by the Supreme Court of the I'nlted States, with the provision that the operation of the decree appealed from shall not be stayed utiles* the Supreme Court should so order. The Commerce Court should be i-mpowered In Its discretion to restrain or suspend the operation of an order I of the Interstate Commerce Commission under review pending the final hearing and determination of the proceeding. but no such restraining order should be made except upon notice and after hearing, unless In cane# where Irreparable damage would othewise ensue to the petitioner. A Judge of that court might be empowered to allow a stay of the commission's order for it period of not more than sixty days, but pending application to the court for its order or injunction then only where his order shall contain a specific finding based upon evidence submitted to the judge making the order and identified by reference thereto, that such irreparable damage would result to the petitioner, specifying the nature of the damage. Under the existing law, the Interstate ('nrnmcri'i1 ('ommeri-e itself in- Hates and defends litigation in tincourts for tin- enforcement, or in tho defense, of It* orders and decrees and for t'lis purpose it employs1 attorneys, who, while subject to the control of the Attorney-General, act upon the initative and under the instructions of the commission. This blending of administrative, legislative, and judicial functions tends, in my opinion, t<» impair the efficiency of the commission by clothing it with partisan characteristics and robbing it of the impartial judicial attitude it should (Continued on page three) 5, 1909, may be urged in support of the creation of the Commerce Court. In order to provide a sufficient number of judges to enable this court to be constituted, it will be necessary to authorize the appointment of the additional judges, who, for the purposes of appointment, might be distributed t » those circuits where there is at the present time the largest volume of business. such as the second, third, fourth, seventh and eighth circuits. The act should empower the Chief Justice at any time when the business of the Court of Commerce does not require the services of all the judges to reassign the judges designated to that court to the erieuits to which they respectively belong; and it should also p r A v i d e for payment to such judges while sitting by assignment in the Court of Commerce of such additional amount as is necessary to bring their annual compensation up to $10- 000. Heosons precisely analogous to those which induced the Congress to create the Court of Cusoins Appeals by the provisions in the tariff act of August (3) All such cases as under section 8 of the act of February 19, 1903, known as the "Rlklns Act," are authorized to be maintained in a circuit court of the United States. (4) All such mandamus proceedings as under the provision of section 20 or section '2'.i of the interstate commerce law are authorized to be maintained in a circuit court of the United States. (L') All cases brought to enjoin, set aside, annul or suspend any order or requirement of the Interstate Commerce Commission, (1) All cast s for the enforcement otherwise than by adjudication and collection of a forfeiture or penalty, or by inflliction of criminal punishment, of any order of the Interstate Commerce Commission other than for the payment of money. For this purpose I recommend the establishment of a court of the United States composed ol' five judges designated for such purpose from among the circuit jud|;- s of the lTnit< <1 States, to be known as the "United States Court of Commerce," which court shall be clothed with exclusive original jurisdiction over the following classes of cases: been argued and .submitted to that tribunal in October, 1909. Of course, every carrier affected by an order of the commission has a constitutional right to appeal to a federal court to protect it from ihe enforcement of an order which it may show to be prima facie confiscatory or unjustly discriminatory in its effect; and as this application may be made to a court in any district in the United States, not Ofyy dotfs delay result in the enforcement of the order, but ! ureal uncertainty is caused by contrariety of decision. The question I presented by these applications are t >o often technical in their character and require a knowledge of the business and the mastery of a great volume of conflicting evidence which Is tedious to examine and troublesome to comprehend. It would not be proper to attempt to deprive any corporation of th»' right to the review by a court of any order or decree which, if undisturbed, would rob it of a reasonable return upon its investment or would unjustly discriminate against it and in favor of other carriers sirniliary situated. What is, however, of supreme importance is that the decision of such questions shall be as speedy as the nature of tin- circumstances will admit, and that a unl| formity of decision be secured so as j | to bring about nn effective, systematic, and scientific enforcement of the I I commerce law. rather than conflicting! decisions and uncertainty of Hnal result.SEVEN DEATHS THE RESULT OF HUZZA D CUSSING RETAILERS FOR HIGH PRICES FATAL BATTLE WITH YEGGMEN III MICHIGAN m IRODTVILLE WOMAN HARRISBURG. Pa., Jan. 7—The .executive committee of the State grange, last night adopted resolutions calling upon Congress to make a -sweeping investigation into the cost of living. its resolutions on this subject were part of a series adopted on vital questions of the day and demands inquiry to the relations between the retail prices of meats and of beef cattle; sugar and the cost of production; breakfast foods and the cost of grain and other commodi- ties and raw material. Company, of Indaina, yesterday held The resolutions also declare that their annual elections, with results as the investigation should be carried follows: The Jefferson Traction Company, of this place, and the Indiana Traction <»f Towanda, Gorge M .Black, of \YHklnsburg, and J. B. Phelan, -of PunxThe election 01' oflicers tor the Jefferson Traction Company, of this place, was held in the general office of I the company in the Clark building Wednesday night. Yesterday all j those interested went to Indiana, and I after the election of officers the party went for a tour of inspection over the new line from Indiana to Blalrsville, via Clymer. The Indiana Traction Company has now in good operating condition about forty miles of track, which was constructed and equipped at a cost, approximately, of $1,500,000. The Jefferson Traction Company and the Mahoning Valley Company, whose interests are closely allied, show an investment of about the same amount. As the stocks in the three companies are owned largely by the same people It will be seen that Punxsutawney and Indiana are jointly interested in a $3,000,000 proposition. Against the two towns are connected and some proposed branch lines are added the property value will easily reach $4,000,000. Just when the connecting link will be made was not decided at the annual meetings. The finances of the companies were found to be in excellent shape, although the heavy outlaiy for the new lines in Indiana County relegated the dividend feature, of the annual meetings to the background, where it is expected to remain for some time. into the relation between the retail price of oil and the dividends of Standard Oil stocks and into the difference between the. cost of building material and what it costs to produce.The committee adopted a resolution expressing Its pleasure at the action of the courts in the Lackawanna county contract case, wherein t,hc right of taxpayers to object to payments was Upheld. Other resolutions adopted commend the light for pure food and extend sympathy and support to l)r. Wiley; praise Chief Forester Clifford Plnchot for his conservation ideas and declare he would have the co-operation if the people in his efforts; denounce the ship subsidy bill and demand that all granges work against, it, declaring that the grangers will not support congressmen who favor such a measure.showlirg increase of jnemberfrhip and interest in twenty counties were presented by Master W. T. Creasey and it was stated by other •officers that more organization has ibeen done the last year than for a V>ng time. Jefferson Traction Company—K. P. K'iser, Towanda, president; 1>. II. Clark, vice president and treasurer-, H. M. Clark, secretary; the officers. Judge YV. YV. Clark, of YY'ayland, and j George P. Hill, of Towanda, directors.. Indiana Tractioln Company—I). H. Clark, president and general manager; T. Larry My re, West Chester, first vice president; P. M. Clark, second vice i president; J. A. Kllngensmith, Indiana, secretary and treasurer; 1). II. Clark, T. Larry Eyre, H. 13. Clark, Glen Campbell, George Y\*. Kipp, of Towanda, li. M. Clark, of Punxsutaw ney, J. A .Kllngensmith, of Indiana, and YV. F. Klkiri, of Indiana, directors.Besides those already mention there were*.present Senator James K. Newell, i A—* .TTTTiL* iTSfiCiH By United Press. Washington, d. c.. Jan. 7.—Tho conferences between Taft and the various .support, r.s of his administration were resumed this moruing, regarding th< Pinchot-Ballinger controversy. .Many believe that Chief Forester Pinchot will lost- his post before the Congressional investigation is well on as a result of tie letter he sent to Senator Dolllver yesterday, Taft dismissing him by an executive order. This would dune for the Infraction of the order forbidding subordinate officials of the various departments iO write letters t>> Congressman regarding departmental affairs. The Pinchot letter was one of the chief topics discussed at the Cabinet meeting today. Ball}nger arrived befo;e the other members, and was with the President for some time. It i.s known that several of his ad- The general Impression Is that Taft will make an annnouncement «>f the Chief Forester's status later in the day. ••fsors counst led Taft to dismiss Pinchot without further delay upon the grounds of insubordination in disobeying an executive order an ddlscourtcsy in suggesting that the President w m "mistaken" in arriving at his conclusion In the Ola vis matter. Late yesterday afternoon, after read•>rr the news; a per reports of the lively tilt caused in the Senate by the reading of a letter addressed to Senator Dolllver. as chairman of the Senate "Committee • n Agiiciiltur* , by Mi. Pinchot In which the Chief Forester vigorously upheld the subordinates in Ills office for the aid they gave Louts R. Clavis In the reports he made public, attacking S« • retnry of the Interior Halllnger. President Taft sent out a hurry call for slab members of his if'ahinet as were within reach. Secretary of State Knox. S« < rotary of the Trensur> MacVeagh. Attorney General \\ ick. r^li.iin and Secretary of Agriculture Wilson .«■ . »n put in an ap- pearance It i.s aid that Forester Pinchot's conduct in an official communication to the chairman of a Congressional committee was freely discussed, although non« of the Cabinet officers who participated in the conference would discuss their call to the White House In any way President Taft Home time ago Issued an order that no subordinate in any government department should disclose any information to Congress oxoept through the heads of the department.Mr. Plnchot in his letter, virtually upholds Cllavis and describes him as "the most vigorous defender of the people's interests'' despite the fact that President Taft had declared Glavls unfit longer to remain in the public servlc< This direct -lap at the President and the further declaration by Mr. Plnchot that the Cunningham coal lands reallj were about to go to fraudulent claimants until Glavls and the Forestry Bureau officials took a a hand in the fight, thus Impugning the intentions of high officials of the Interior Department, are said to have aroused Mr. Taft to keen resentment. The President Is said to have felt for sometime that Mr. Plnchot has been "defying the lightning." WINNIPEG, Manitoba. Jan. 7.— The blizzard that ha.s prevailed here the past few days has resulted in seven deaths In this section, most of them frozen to death. If the Republicans of the Fifth, therefore, desire to be represented on the ticket at the February election, they must select a candidate and write his name on the ballot at the primary election, which will be held Saturday, January 22. The voters of t] Ward, Punxsutawney, will ha. use pencils or pons at the January primaries or allow the office of councilman to go to the Democrats by default. At the meeting in Municipal Hall last Friday night the Republiean.4 from the Fifth suggested for Councilman the name of Goerge L. Schicker, proprietor of the Haley House. It now turns out that although Mr. Schicker has been in the State over a year he did not qualify as a voter in time to make him eligible for election to office, and hence his name has been withdrawn. TB SELECT f. M. C. A. TEAMS The shooting: was the climax of a night of terror in the town, the robbers entering many stores'. YPSILANTI, Mich.. Jan. 7.—Baggugemaster Henry Miner, of the Michigan Central Railway station here, wan killed, and Telegraph Operator Morgan Envmett was fatally wounded in a battle with two yeggmen who attempted to rob the station today. One of the robbers was captured, and a is now pursuing the other.ROOSEVELT ATTACKED BY WM 0. HAYWOOD Butchers Want Competent Wan to In spent Meats. PITTSBITRG. Jan. 7—The price of live hogs on the Pittsburg market, has reached $!» and with this high price mark came the announcement from butchers that they have within the past few days combined against faulty meat inspection and have asked the authorities at Washington to send special men here to examine meat condemned by local inspectors, as with hogs at $y per hundred weight they cannot afford to have good moat condemned by Incompetents or worse. Meat which has been condemned has been ' placed 'in cold storage by butchers who ask that competent men be sent from Washington to examine it and an expose is promised. Owing to falling poles telegraphic communication on the Erie Railroad has been out off. Trains aro running practically without telegraphic orders, causing much delay. BUFFALO. N*. Y., Jan. 7.—Scores of linemen are busy replacing telegraph I poles blown down by the-.storm between Silver Creek, N. Y., and Hansboro Cfeek, Pa., a distance of <50 miles. It will be weeks before; the line la i cleared. PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 7.—L. R. Glavls denies that spite instigated his charges against Ballinger. as Wickersham declared In hs report. Today Mr. G la vis salt! "The people of the country are better qualified to determine where tho right Ilea In thte matter than a prejudiced Attorney General, who reported just what he was wanted to report. I am willing: to let my case rest on Pinchot's statement*." dubbis peopie morn TWO TRAINS LOST ON I0THER1 PiCIFIC Funeral services' wore hold Monday afternoon at 12:30 o'clock at the home. At one o'clock the many friends of the deceased viewed the remains at the Lutheran Church. Burial watt made in the Lutheran Cemetery.The deceased was a devout church member, a loving mother and an excellent neighbor. She Is survived by her husband, three sons and one daughter, Austin K.. of Troutville: Harvey L.. of DuBnls; Mrs. J. E. Keester, of Brockwuyvllle, and Lafayette, at home. Funeral Scrvlecs OvPr Remains Mi*. Mary Ijuthcr Held Monday. Mrs. Maty Ann Luther, wife, of Erustus Luther, of Troutville, died January 1. at 11:30 a. m., following an Illness of eight weeks, aged seventythree years. "The actual relative foodstuffs increase as between the trusts and the scoundrelly middleman or retailer should 1»« investigated." A correspondent, In the New York Sun of yesterday, makes the following stab as to the responsibility for the ridiculously high prices of foodstuffs:"The plain people have to deal with hard facts and not opinions or theories in this matter. One fact out of a multitude of similar facts 1 hereby cite. A few years ago the 'Western flour trust raised the wholesale price of family flour 15 cents a barrel. Our grocer charged us 75 cents extra for our next barrel of flour. In other commodities the retailers are even more disproportionate and extortionate. So patent and universal is this inexcusably disproportionate increase by the small dealers that the common people have transferred their 'cussing' of the trusts to the retailers. D. C., Jan. 7. — Following: is the weather forecast for Western Pennsylvania: Fair to- night. Minimum temperature about 14. Saturday, fair and rising temperature.TIIK WKATHER /G'TTIH'A WASH I: Four Mem C'liowtt to Pick Basket boll Teanin—P. II. S.-D. II. S. Next Friday Nlglit. At a meeting of the basketball enthusiasts of the Central Y. M. C. A. last night, four men were chosen to pick teams that will comprise the local basketbull league. These men are K. North. H. North, Frank Harl, and Harry Buughman. On next Mondaynight these men will select their teams and the teams will elect captains. Professor McCoy was chosen as secretary of the league, and with Phytfcfal Director Martin, will be a member of the board of managers, together with the four captains to be chosen by the teams selected. The first games of the new league will be played as preliminaries to the D. H. 8. and P. H. 8. basketball game next Friday night. WILMINGTON, Del., Jan. 7.—(Spewent aground oft New Castle yesterday, went ground off New Castle yesterday, proceeded to Sandy Hook this morning.All members of the local Zionist society are requested to attend the special meeting to be held In the Synagogue at 3:30 o'clock, Suhtfay afternoon.DKNY REPORTS NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—Ferdinand de Janon, father of Roberta de Janon, the young Philadelphia girl who elopert with a waiter old enough to be her grandfather, denied today the report that the girl had been found deserted. He said there was absolutely no truth in the report. A number of Punxsutawney guests were present, and report one of the most enjoyabl* events ever experienced. H. T. Mrris is a brother of Eugene Merris. who la the head -of the Mer» ri® Beef Company, #of this place. Mr. and Mrs. H. I. Merris and Mr. and Mis. Bruce Kendig, of DuBols, entertained about 200 of their friends at the parlors of the Aoorn Club at that place last evening. TfN* entertainment consisted of dancing, games, | and an ealborate banquet served at midnight. Haywood said Draper lacks' nerve, and that Roosevelt never did a humane thing in his 14f«•. He also attacked the courts that sat in the Gompers contempt case. I By United Press. LYNN, Mass., Jan. 7.—Declaration# that ex-President Roosevelt was the ' sort of a man who "would shoot » Spaniard in the back and then write a book about it,1' that Governor Draper is a "pink and white" politician, were among those made in speech today by William D. Haywood, former president of the Western Federation of Miners. The railroad cuts ure all filled with fine snow, packed hard as Ice, and the blockade Is complete. Fierce blizzards are sweeping Montana, and herds of animals In the Yellowstone regions arc In danger of perishing. According to railroad men they are believed lo bo near Qrey Bluff, but this Is only a .surmise. HELENA, Mont., Jan. 7.—Two passenger trains, a snow plow and eaglne are lost on the*Northern Pacific Railway. , BllRNBD BY POWDER. Mike Plnco, of Luuerone, was brought to the Admin hofcpltal lait ntfht badly burned al>out the head and cheat, a» the result of a powder * mtploaloit. HIm burns are not benoved to be of a total nature. Mi • vv&fej ' wr* > ■ •' ' ' .. ; ■ f ■ •*r' •• mm. . . " •V -