Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-07
STATE HOUSE.
Aroostook Northern Railroad
Go. Petition for Association.
Commissioner Carleton Has Some
thing to Say on Registration.
Bay State Beneficiary Examination State As.
SCISSORS mesiiass 0ther News.

oles of association for the Arc1stoox
Northern Railroad Co., FOR the purpose
Of constructing maintaining ard oper-
ating railroad of the standard gauge.
from poirt in connection with the
Bangor & Aroostook Railroad in the
town and villages OF Caribou, to the
town of Limestone. The directors
named in the articles are Hon. A. A.
Burleigh, Preston N. Burleigh, Everett
l.. Burleigh, and Harry Il. Burleigh.
The gauge is to be 4 feet So inches In
gauge, Is miles in length, passing
through Limea.one. Fort Fairfield and
Caribou. The amount Of capital stock
is to be $4,000, divided in 300 shares OF
500 apiece
The board of railroad COMMISSIONS
at it's regular monthly meeting to be
held, today, will give the petition a
hearing. Among the other business on
hand for Its attention. is hearing on
crossing at Paris over the Grand
Trunk railroad and one on the arti-
cles eff association Of the electric rail-
road to run from Biddeford to Standish.
through Saco ara ether places
Commissioner l.. T. Carleton on in
land fish ard game matters was asked,
yesterday. regarding the reported case
of refusa, of the commissioners to grant
guides license to George A. Smith, a
Mooschead guide of many years stand
ing, because he had INDUCED in harsh
language concerning the commission
ers.
Mr.. Carleton said, in reply: The
matter of granting license 20 this
guide is now awaiting our consideration
as it has been. As for the report abou;
our refusing the licerse because Mr.
Smith used harsh language about us
this is absolutely false. The omission
to send him license was because of
his publicly stating that he would not
obey the laws"
Mr.. Carleton says that guide was
recently fined $50 and costs before Hen
ny Hudson, as trial Justice. attorney of
the Guides Association, for violating
the license law, in that he engaged IA
business without license. He also
reports that Game Warden Fred Il.
Davis arrested a man. for killing a
fined $40. A woman has been fined at
Hebron Lake for netting fish.
1t certainly appears that the authaii-
ties are seeing that some of the laws
anyway. are being rigidly enforced by
the authorities.
c. w. Fletcher. the deputy Insurance
commissioner, has returned from Mas
sachusetts. where at Westfield. an ex-
animation has been made of the Bay
State Beneficiary Association by the
department of this State together with
representatives from the departments
of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, ami
The matter is a vital one To
much Maine capital. as there were, De-
oember 81, 1896. 1921 policy holders in
Maine, with insurance amounting to
s2 SOC, 900 TIE company collected in
Maine during the year 1896. s67,976.91.
the several insurance commissioners Of
the states which they severally repre-
serted.
The board Of State assessors had It's
meeting, yesterday, transact
ing the usual amount of routine bust
ness
The following assessors meetings
have been arranged by the State boar'l,.
for July and part OF August Belfast
July 20. Rockland. %; Wiscasset, %;
Boothbay Harbor 26; Bath. q; Els
worth, August a; Bar Harbor, August
5; Machias. 8; and Calais. August II.
The assessors meetings, as far as
held, have been more largely attended
than ever before. showing an increasing
interest in the subject of valuation,
large number of towns being represent
ed by their full boards. Meetings have
been held in Franklin, oxford, Piscata-
quis and Somerset counties.
The bank examiner r. e. Timbcrlaka,
and W. c. Ellis, clerk of the depart
melit, will, today, commence an exam
nation of the banking institutions at
Bath.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank kittridge and
daughter. Ruth. went ITO their summer