Punxsutawney Spirit, 1907-09-18

              m Alxuit Sixty Diiqilrs Prownt at Opening of Winter s<M'lal Season I-a*t Night. GOVERNMENT GOING STILL BEEPER KEVEHAI. OUT OF TOWN GUESTS .MUTTON. POItK. BEEF—NIT! P ' Will Inquire Into All the Holdings of the New Jersey Co. Every Man, Woman and Child in Punx'y Invited to Be Present. STORMY TIME AHEAD THE DEDICATION M• I<AKEN-BAY WEDDING. Of the sixty couples present, a large number were out-of-town people. Kettering's Greensburg orchestra furnished the music, which is all that is really necessary here to assure a successful dance. If such a thing: is possible the music was better than ever. All the latest dance selections were in the repertoire and it would have been a treat evvn to those who do not enjoy dancing to have heard them. The first of a series of winter dances to be gi veil by the Iroquois Club was held last night in their rooms in the Weber building, and if the succeeding dances are one-third as enjoyable, the c:>ming season promises to be an enjoyable one for the members of the Iroquois Club. Dancing began at nine and continued until two o'clock with a slight intermission. Light refreshments were served throughout the dance by the "Exquisite/ SANTA BARBARA, Cal.. Sept. 18.— A wedding of note here today wan that of Miss .Alice Day, daughter of Judge and Mrs. William 8. Day, and William A. McLaren, son of the late Bishop William E. MeLaren of the Episcopal diocese of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. McLaren will make their future home in the City of Mexico, where Mr. McLaren is engaged in business.Charles Sanger Mullen, president of the N. Y., N. H. & H Railroad, was born at Lowell, Mass., Aug. 16, 1851. He started In the railway service way back In 1869. He began as a clerk In the cashier's department but had become auditor of the B. & L. K. R. in 1881. Mr. Mellen rose rapidly HARRI8BURG, Pa. Sefct. 18.—Warrants were Issued today at the instance of Attorney General Todd (or the ararrest of the following men: John K. Sanderson, contractor; Joseph M. Hueton, architect; Congressman Ej Burd Caaael of the Pennsylvania Con•tructlon company; George F. Payne! contractor, who built the capitol; Charles F. Wetter, Paynes partner, Jamea M. Shumaker, former superintendent of public grounds and bulld- Inga; William L. Mathues, f ormer state treasurer; William P. Snyder, former auditor general. They are all charged with conspiracy to cheat and defraud the commonwealth In connection with the erection and furnishing of the Capitol. There are thirty-three counts included under one general charge. The name of the alderman by whom the warrants were issued nor the time for the hearings has not, as yet been learned, but It is understood that warrants (or Sanderson and Huston will be served In Philadelphia, as will also those for Payne and Wetter. Mathuee, who Is sick at his home In Media, will be served there. Shumaker Is also III it his home in Johnstown, where he will be served. Cassel will probably be served at Lancaster today, where he was expected to be, conferring .With his counsel. If he Is net found ttsN then service will be rtlfllr home In Marietta. for each of the defendants In the. Gasitot graft -case Is to be fixed ■MUjdei liuiUMJTOhebly accepted service' today through his at- torney. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 18.—Sanderson and Huston started for Harrtsburg today to surrender themselves In connection with the graft prosecutions. Warrants were Issued later for the following: Frank Irvine, clerk In Snyder's office; Stanford Lewis, Huston's assistant; A. Wallace Bolleau, Charles L. Kinsman, John D. Nelderer, sod Oeorge K. Storm, all of whom were connected with the Pennsylvania Bronse Company. | in railroad work and was the General Traffic Auditor of the Union Pacific j Railroad from 18(i!t until 1892. He j wan called t.» tire presidency of thr j Northern Pnciflc itallroad in 189R and ! held tills Important post until 1903. when lie was elected to his present position. HIm home Is In New Haven, Conn. FALL ARBOR DAY SET ASIDE FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS TIE MOT CLUB ! HOLDS ANNUAL CUM BAKE AT THE FAUX LEAGUE BEGINS ITS i BUSINESS SESSIONS A! flOTfFOLK TODAY Tliirly-Flflli Anniversary of (lie Ac* cession of Oscar to (lie Throne. BIG our IN SWEDEN Will Discuss Many Importam Questions Pertaining to Government of Cities. THE LADIES PRESENT SHOULD BE OBSERVED SPEAKERS PROMINENT Thla testimony wan heard in the Federal suit against the Standard OH Oo. if New Jersey. The hearing hew I in the Federal suit, which waa brought Lin. *1. Lr,ulft lft»t Cscriuljct JsS"4SSSt I been Avfjourned at the request of counsel for the defendants, Mean• while, Frank B. Kellogg, wh » has j chaw of the government's rase, has I obtained many books and papers from the Standard Oil Co.. which has enabled him to pnrced expeditiously with the case. A lis., of securities owned by the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, presented today, shows that that  poration owns 9,990 shares of the stock of the Standard Oil Co., of Indiana, which company was recently j sentenced by Judge Landls in Chi- I cago to pay a tine of 129,240,000. Frotlts aggregating $490,315,934 were made by the Standard Oil Company In the eight years from 1899 to 1906. Inclusive. Testimony to this effect was given by Assistant Comptroller Way of the company in the Federal hearing here yesterday. 1 ! NEW YORK. Sept. 18.—Dividends ! many times the capital stock of the corporations controlled by the Standard Oil Company, were the rule and not the exception under the Rockefeller administration, Is a fact which became known today from testimony at a hearing by the federal government to dissolve the Standard of New Jersey. One example among many waa that of the Atlanaic Oil Company, capitalized at $5,000,000, which piid dividends in 1903 amounting to over $8,® 000,000. Couasel for the Standard aaserted that it could be shown that the profits of the Standard were not bigger Uian those of a grocery store, considering the size of the investment. THE mi CALL CORN CLUB OUTING Rev. H. G. Teasarden Reception of Flag", l'r>f. J. F. Conrad "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" Audioncr Benediction Rev. 8. T. Himes Music Orchestra . . . Pros*. George J..Becht . Prof. Reed 13. Teltrick Chorus Orchestra Prof. J. Li. Allison Add resB Address Vocal musk* Flag Presentation—(). IT. A. M Vocal music. Chorus Opening address .... W. W. Wlnslaw Address Pr.*»f. A. M. Hammers Address,.. c'ounty Superintendent 1*. Mayno Jones. Music . Address Invocation Rev. Klrsehner Following is the program for the exercises that will take place In the Jefferson theaterr Music Orchestra Scho>l will be lismlssert in all of the buildings in the afternoon and promptly at two o'clock the doors will be thrown open for its inspection by the public. The directors wish to emphasize the announcement that the invitation is extended to all* persons, including pupils .)f the various schools, to attend the reception, which will be held in the new bull ling In the afternoon from two .Vclock until four o'clock, as well as t"ht? dedication exercises, which will be held In the Jefferson theater beginning at eight o'clock p. m. The teachers In the new building have been selected as a committee to conduct visitors through the various apartments and every c:»urtesy will be extended to assist in making tho afternoon a notable one In the history of the local schools, as well as a fitting , tribute to the splendii architectural creation recently completed by the I school commissioners. The arrangements have all been completed for the dedication Friday afternon and evening of the handsome new educational building on Jefferson street. The notion thai ti convocation of | weather forecasters, mixologists,' 1 meterologlsts, pathologists, p jets and I such as will be bled at the Wcuthe: Works tomorrow, are bothering their heads or stomachs ab.yu meat, mutton or mollycoddles, should be dissipated instantaneously, If not at once. Mack, old scout, y >u are on the i wrong tact. Hoe cake and flitch are all right for the Philistines and the proletariat, the mundane and sorJld, but they would make coarse food for the saw mills of those who ' chase after the churlish Chuck and wirrh 'mattock, spade and split stick wrest from hlhv the secrets of things ineterological. Yours truly, J. D. McMICHAEL. Clarksburg, W. Va., Sept. 17, 190 7. 1 am aware of the wide-spread belief that the trusts are pinching the common people, but had no thought it was s » bad. Have you had a short supply of meat for long? or has this disaster lately come to you? Am indeed sorry that any of my friends are so unfortunate as to have to abide in a locality where groundhog hunts are necessary. Dear Prion J:—I see by Sunday's Pittsburg Gazette Times that the people of Punxsutawney are obliged to resort to a groundhog hunt on next Th ursday. When on the morrow the hosts have partaken of sundry large and juicy chunks of lardaceous woodchuck; as they Hush their gullets with floods of fizzing groundhog punch; and before they draw across each greasy maw for the last time before arising, satiate, from the festal board, let there be passed by unanimous consent and with a deep sense of the gravity of the case, resolutions condoling the benighted and dosuetudin>>us mental and social status of the corn-fed, speck besotted citizen of Clarksburg, W. Va., who indicted the following letter to a friend in Punxsutawney: Supt. Shaffer Asks That the Trees Be Planted October 18th. Baked Chicken and Corn on the Cob Also Part of the Menu. THUS FAGLET HEAD Organization (Vlohrnics Tenth Aniiivrrwiry of lis Itirili at Jefferson Park. All the Faithful Must Follow Instructions Given By Great Official. Well Known Cltlaen of Cloe Called Away Tbto ttornlng at Six O'Olock. 182!>, and was destined for the navy. Ho took the course i 11 the university at Upsala, whore he was graduated a doctor of philosophy. The people of Sweden claim that not only is he the most learned king: today, hut Is the best-traveled man among the royal scions of Europe. King Oscar succeeded his brother, King Charles XV.. Sept. IS, 1S7 2, and was crowned the following: lay. He was horn in Stockholm. Jan. 'Jl, ! STOCKHOLM. Sept. IS.—The thir- I ty-fifth anniversary of the accession of Oscar 11., was jocosely celebrated throughout Sweden to.lay. All stores and banking institutions were closed and the streets of Stockholm were one mass of bunting and Mags. During the day messages of congratuhii tion from all the rulers of  were presented at the place by the members of the diplomatic corps. AFTER THE SOUTHERN Suits Cialorc Pending oil Legality of Pnssenger Kate Law in the South. WILL HOtB MUSICAL He la aurvlvej by his wife and one child, a daughter, fourteen years of age, three brothers and four sisters. He was a brother of William Fagley of this city. The funeral services will be held Friday afternoon. The hour will not be set until relatives from the weat are heard from. Thomas Fagley, one of the best known and most substantial citizens of Cloe, dijBd at six o'clock this morning, after an illness of several weeks of typhoid fever, complicate J with Brlght's disease. The deceased was born In Blair county, in 1858, and moved to his late home in 1890. For sixteen yeara he had been the most prominent merchant in Cloe and has been postmaster since the office at that place was instituted. Upright In all his healings, a faithful church member, Mr. Fagley had the respect of all who knew him and will be greatly missed in that vicinity. IB MORE fiRAFT At about nine o'clock the party returned t«> Punxsutawney, many of the clubmen and their ladies later attending the dance given by the Iroquois Club In the Weber building. The HUpper, a mo£t excellent collation, was designed by George D. Post, manager of the Club, anj served by Chef Frank Br >wn, assisted by Mrs. Brown, and Chefs Frank Sherman and Joseph King. The menu consisted of buked clams, baked spring chicken and corn on the cob In three courses, with scvral courses of other choice vlan Is above and below. The menu and service elicited many compliments from the diners and the affair was voted an unqualified success. The social doings wore entirely informal, but nevertheless delightfully enjoyable, due in a large measure "»f course to the presence of so many of the fair sex. Over one hundred members, and their ladies, and friends of the Punxsutawney Club yesterday afternoon assembled at Highland Park and last night participated In the annual clam bake. The members present were: Mr. and Mrs. John Lanzendorfer, Mr. and Mrs. A. c. Robinson, Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Beyer, Rev. S. T. Hlrnes and wife, Davis Gohoen and wife, W. F. Zeitier and wife, O. A. Weiss and wife, Mrs. S, S. Lucas, Mrs. Charles Robinson, Mrs. Hyman, Oliver Crissman ,of Punxsutawney, and Mr. and Mrs. Luther Lowe and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Robinson, of DuBois. The Punxsutawney Corn elub yesterday afternoon and last night held their tenth annual outing in Jefferson Park. The afternoon was devoted to ball games, tield sports and social intercourse. In the evening the management of the park threw open the doors of the pavilion and gave tin- club free access to everything within, including lights, tables and other conveniences. A bounteous and appetising supper consisting of corn on the cob, chicken, ice cream and other delicacies, was served in the pavilion at the conclusion of what, by unanimous consent, was declared to have been the most pleasant and successful outing the club has ever held. MURDERS YOUNG GIRL Seattle Pollen Mtixt Not Accept Candy. Clgara and Oilier Good TliliigH. ENSUE PICKS SWITCH SEE VALUABLE JEWELS Two other subjects that will receive attention of the convention are "Municipal Ownership," and "Low Taxes for Public Service vs. Franchise Taxation." Friday will be observed as "Municipal Day" at the exposition, when addresses will be delivered by Governor Cummins, of Iowa, former Mayor Dunne of Chicago, Governor Swanson of Virginia, and others of wide prominence. The subject that will overshadow all others scheduled for consideration by the convention is the question or municipal government by board or commission as compared with the old form of government by mayor and council. Among those wh.i will participate in the discussion of this subject are Mayor Harris of Fort Worth, Texas, Mayor Rhett of Chariest >n, S. C., James «. Berryhill, the author of the Des Moines plan of commission government; Dr. W. H. Allen, secretary of the bureau of municipal research, New Y >rk City; John R. Da vies, chairman finance committe of the board of aldermen of New York City, and Rear Admiral Chad wick. U. S. N., NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 18. — The eleventh annual meeting of the League of American Municipalities began Its business sessions today in Armory hall in this city. The gathering is a remarkable one for many reasons. The convention has n >t patronage to bestow, the only motive drawing the participants together being the desire to secure honest and economical administration of affairs in the cities of the country. I.lciMcimnt In Austrian Army Sliootn Daughter of Former Colonel of Ills Itegliiicnt. In accordance with this laudable oust >m Friday, < Oct. 18, has been selected as Autumn Arbor Day for the year ii>07. Pupils, teachers, superintendents. and other school iftleialh are requested to observe the day by the planting of trees and by exercises designed to impress upon young minds the value of trees, the Importance of tree-planting, and the best ways to f >ster the growth of trees and to protect them from noxious Insects and other enemies. This request should appeal especially to rural schools which are not In session during either of the Arbor Days in the spring of the yean With the autumn nays comes a second season for the planting of trees. In view of the extensive destruction of our 1' »rests, the serious effect upon the distribution of rainfall, and the timber famine against which the United States Department of Agriculture is waring our people, no opportunity for the planting af a tree should be allowed to pass unimproved. Every school shout 1 observe Arbor Day at least once. If not twice, each year. Hence it has become customary in Pennsylvania to observe Arbor Day in the fall as well as in the spring of the year. Under the joint resolution opprjved March 17, 1K85, the governor appoints one or more Arbor Days in the m >nth April and the schools have ad- I ded another in the month of October. In accordance with custom, Nathan (\ Shaffer, superintendent of public instruction, of Harrisburg. Inus issue 1 a circular seting aside FrLlay, Oct. 18, as Autumn Arbor Day. The document reads as follows: Dpworfh I'Vacuo of M. E. Church at BwtlwH to Give Pleasant Entertainment Saturday. BITER GROUNDHOG. Chief Prognostlcator of the World. GUVn under my hand and seal this 18th day of September, 1907. The faithful will remember that the spade and grub hoe Is the official Insignia.All faithful subjects are requested to assemble along the'main thoroughfares and plaza promptly at 1 o'clock p. m., and. arme I with picks, shovels, spades grub hoes and split sticks, 'to proceed in a body to the foot hills of Mount Canoe Ridge, near the hotel de Williard, which is hard by the Wlllard Spa, where hunting parties will b<* dispatched to the vorious groundlingeries with instructions to report back for the annual feast, which will take place as soon as the official woodchuck has been corralled. In the event of rain or bad weather, the entire outfit will proceed by street car to Highland Park, where 30 groundhogs, 30 chickens, and 30 gross of corn on the cob, besides a tank of groundhog punch and other equally harmless explosives will be consumed, and the w>odchuck that is responsible for the meterorologlcaJ conditions, wll bo hung in effigy. He It known by these presents that all of the inhabitants of this earth, who acknowledge tin groundhog as the only reliable all-wool-and-a-yardwlde long distance, weather prognosticator'and simon pure shadjwgrapher, are invited to attend the annual hunt of the Puuxsutawney & Pittsburg Groundhog club, which will bo held in the Canoe ltldge mountains tomorrow. Office of the tVeather Works, Canoe Ridge. Woman Loses AIiiwh! Quarter of Million Dollars—No Chic to the Tlllevcs. mm mums ASHEV1LLK, N\ C. Sept. IS. — i«;ther suits for the recovery of damages as penalties of the passenger rate law can be pushed against the Southern Railway Co., pending the trial of the other actions ponding will probably be decided today at a hearing to be given here by Judge Prltchard to all the parties concerned. The hearing la on an application made by the railroad company for an injunction to prevent the prosecution of an acti >n brought last week In the Superior Court of Alamance county agalns the North Carolina Rallr mi Co. for penalties for the sale of tickets at more than 2% cents a mile. The North Carolina Railroad Co. is leased by the Southern. The plaintiffs In the suit take the ground that If a North Carolina plaintiff sues a North Carolina company under a a North Carolina statute the federal court has no Jurisdiction. The decision in the mater will probably hlge on the question whether the North Carolina Railroad Is an Inte- I gral part of the Southern system. This puts an end to the petit larceny which halt since the establishment of a police force In thin city been recognulsed as the sacred and personal rights of a copper. Considering that the big fists of hundreds of policemen made frequent grabs at candy and fruit each night, the total grafting was considerable. Peanuts, by oversight of the chief, ware not Included In the order. SEATTLE. Wash.. Sept. 18. —Chief of Police Wappensteln yesterday issued an order that Is a frightful blJW to police traditions In every city In the country. He issued an order to captains that ull policemen are forbidien to help themselves at small fruit and candy stands on the sidewalk. If they want to eat candy they must pay for It, the same Is any other person an the street. Hoffman Is raving In the' police station und the woman is dying at the hospital. Hoffman's wife Is at Bamfort, W. Va„ where she has a suit pending for divorce and also a suit against Miss Slegel for tl5,000 for alienating Hoffman's affections. NEW YORK, Se|vt. 18.—In a Jealous rage Lieut. Julius Hoffman, late of the Austrian army, today shot Miss Draga Slegel, the beautiful daughter of his former colonel, and heiress to one hundred thousand dollar estate, and then turned the gun on himself. The dying woman dashed the gun from the man's han 1. on Second Pag. ) SjiBLitti- A'"* M""1* m*- mm Mitchell weltuiw Clyde Rosa W What Benefit Should the Bpg worth tragus Be'to the Commun* ggT Fannie London The Bpwo(th League of the it. E. church In Frostburg and surround- Ing towns and congregations will Bold a musical tan! social in <he church, Saturday. Sept. II, beginning at one o'clock p. m. Following t* the^program: AMrsss of welcome... .Pearl Hat let yftaepoMW Rev. Groves Paper mi Kpworth League Work t&..... Jno. Mitchell the «ht and Thursday. LONDON, Sept. It.—The Japanese steamship Taifu Maru to burn In* at Chine Klang. Many of the crew and pauengera are missing. but moat probably dead, according to a Shanghai dispatch to Lloyd's. The Shanghai dispatch t.i the news ageiyy here nays the dead number one hundred. The fireman, however, was thr >wn from hi* cab and the baggageman suffered from being hurlei against the front of his c«r. Some of the passengers were •lightly cut and bruised by the Jolting of the cleeplng cars, but uone of these required tllfc services of a physician. The accident was caused by the misplacing of an Interlocking switch, but Just'who was responsible the officials of the road are trying to determine.NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—Two persons were Injured and nearly 100 more thrown Into u state of panic when a Lehigh Valley express train, bound from Huffalo to New York, Jumped the track yesterlay at the West End of the Musconetong tunnel, thirteen miles this side of Easton, Pa. J. B. Goodrich, the Indiana member of the Republican national committee, has been making a tour of the western states in the Interest f Vice President Fairbanks as a presidential candidate. Tho Identity of the woman Is being carefully guarded. Her lawyer, Benjamin F. Norrls, has offered a reward of 910,000 for tho return of the Jewels. They were In an ordinary tin box when they vanished. NEW YORK, Sept. IS.—Central office detectives were baffled yesterday by the mysterious disappearance of 1236,000 In cash and jewels, either stolen from or last by a wealthy Broklyn woman while she was riding from Larehmont to New Tork ona New York, New Haven & Hartfird train. HUTCHINSON, Kans., Sept. 18.— Hoaey and bee culture Is being discussed by the Kansas Bee Keepera* association which is holding Its annual meeting here. Bee keepers from various sections of the stait« are In attendance and many Interesting papers are to be read during the two days the convention will be In session. Sanderson and Huston On Their Way to Harrisburg to Surrender. OTHERS SERVED mm CMS R CHAISE Fourteen Alleged Grafters Held in 8um of $60,- 000.00 Each. SCHOOL DIRECTORS READY FOR VISITORS TO NEW BUILDIKG Puiixsutawney's .Meat Supply Too Small a Thing to l>e Mixed up wltli Annual Hunt. NOT THINKING OF IT Yesterday's Hearing Brought Out Exact Earnings For First Time. STANDARD OIL COMPANY MADE HALF A BILLION IN JUST EIGHT YEARS FIRST MOOR OUNCE PRICE l cell ARRANTS CHARGING CHEAT •AND CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD ISSUED AT STATE CAPITAL PUNXSUTAWNBY, PA.. WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1907 » •■m smm iira Veatherwork*) —Shower* ton V  -m