The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1901-10-10

manufactured by the use of coal as fuel
equal in every respect to that burned
with wood, and at a greatly reduced
cost. The process has been on trial at
the Kent kilns In Rockport, and is said
to be all that is claimed for it.
The breakwater and dredge contract
in Rockland harbor, on which work has
been in progress the past three years,
was completed, Thursday The main
entrance to the harbor now has uni
form depth of twenty-five feet at low
water, and this with the other improve
ments has provided Rookland with one
of the finest harbors on the entire coast.
Some $50 900 has been paid here in
wages while the work bias been under
way.
Capt II. NJ, Bean of Camden, will
build a five-masted schooner next spring
She will be $50 feet long on her keel, 81
feet wide and % feet deep. These di-
mansions make her 10 feet longer, 2 feet
wider and one foot deeper than the five
masted schooner, Arthur Seitz, recently
launched from Mr.. Beans yard. She
will be of about 900 tons. Her frame
will be oak and will be cut in Virginia,
next winter. Mr.. Bean may also build a
three masted schooner of about $50 tons
for the hard pine trade.
The Maine Commission of the Louisi-
ana Purchase Exposition that is to be
held at St Louis in 1908, met at Port
land, Thursday, those in attendance be-
ing Louis B. Goodall of sanford, Charles
{. Burrill of Ellsworth, Frank II. Briggs
of Auburn and Lemuel Lane of West
governor as chairman of the commission
was ratified, and Mr.. Briggs was chosen
clerk. The work of the commission
was outlined to a certain extent, but no
definite program was settled upon. Plans
will be perfected at meeting to be held
at Bangor in the near future.
President G. C.. Chase of Bates Col
lege, Thursday morning, announced the
honor scholarships given for last years
work. They are given out in each of
the three lower classes for the highest
rank taken, one amongfthe girls and one
among the young men. The scholar
ships were won as follows: 1902, Miss
Bessie Dyer Chase of Lewiston, Mr..
Arthur Eugene Darling of Auburn
1908, Miss Nellie Louise Prince of New
Boston, N. H., Mr.. Norris Samuel Lord
of Limerick; 1904, Miss Alice Laura
sands of Lewiston, Mr.. Eugene Bernard
Smith of South birmingham, Mass
Advices received in Bangor, are to the
effect that the lumber cut on the st
John river in northern Maine this win
ter, will aggregate 125, 900, 900 feet. OF
this amount Stetson, Cutler & Co. of
Boston aud St John will cut 1900, 900
feet The cut on the st. john river,
last winter, was about 145 100000 feet
Operators, this fall, are having great
difficulty in getting men, mainly because
many of the men who usually work in
the woods have gone West. Wages are
the highest known for many years, and
supplies, too, are costing more this fall
than at any time for many years.
The trial of Ida NJ. Stacey of Wells, on
the charge of causing her buildings on
the post road in Wells to be burned for
the pupose of defrauding an insurance
company, was begun Thursday morning
last, at Alfred. The States case is
based upon statements made by William
Bascom of Wells, who admits that he
burned the buildings on the night of
Feb II last, at the instignation of Mrs
Stacey, he says, who promised to give
him new suit of clothes if he would
set the fire. The defense was general
denial of Bascom's statements and a
claim that he was inspired by revenge to
fire the place. The jury returned yer
dict of not guilty.
The Maine board of State assessors has
committed the annual tax of four per
cent, authorized by the last legislature,
upon Pullman cars and sleepers. The
total of the tax collected amounts to but
S592,36 The law provides that the tax
shall be levied upon the earnings of
Pullmans and sleepers, doing business
wholly within the borders of Maine. The
only two companies taxed are the Pull
man Palace car Co. of Chicago and the
Sandy River Railroad Co. The tax as
sessed upon the Pullman TO. is $3.50 AMI
that upon the sandy River Go. is 1886.
The Canadian Pacific owns its own par
lor cars, but it claims that 1t does no
business wholly within the State. The
NJ aine Central does not own its parlor
cars They are the property of the Pull
man Co.
At the regular meeting of the Govern
O and ouneil, Friday, the petition of
Edward A. base, who murdered Mis-.
Ida Stevens of Gardiner, in Portland
some II OF ID years ago, for commute