Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-09
STATE HOUSE.
Pardon Case of Mrs. Barrows
Won't Come Up.
Clerks Returns Of Election for Most
Of Maine Received, Today.
Co. L, list Regiment, Given Permission
to Leave the. State.

The Regular meeting of the Gbvemidl
isl kxeeutive aGlouhibwillo odcurlos
/ FsiJESdf this week, at which time a
lIarGs-aniount of-Eoutiae- business will
come ZIP for eonsidera ton. fSeptem-
her, is the last month ;of the quarter
there win be many bills presented for
settlement.
Several months ago Mrs. Mary Z.
BarrowS presented IA petition to the
Governor and Council asking that she
he pardored from the State prison,
where she is serving a life sentence
for murder. The usual legal notice of
the application having been received
Was given by the Secretary Of State and
all the necessary formalities were COM
Piled with. Hon. John Il. Donovan of
Alfred was announced rs the attorney
who would appear for Mrs. BarroWs
and ii was understood that County
Attorney Matthews of York County
would appear against the granting OF
executive clemency There came delay
after delay. The hearing was not had.
Now it is stated that the hearing can
not take place unless the matter is be-
gun again. A new notice win have to
be given and advertised as before. A
notice OF this sort expires by limitation
and so for this reason the petition for
the pardon Of Mrs. Barrows cannot be
considered at the coming session.
BY the time the afternoon mails ar
rive today. at the State Capitol there
will be received the greater portion of
The clerks return of the result of yes
tHr .,Ir.y
and cities in the State viii have close
mail connections and returns are us
TALLY forwarded promptly, SO that
within "a hours after the polls are
closed the result of the vote, accord
ing to the official returns, may be as
certained at the Office of the Secretary
Of State.
BY order of the governor and COM
mandcr in chief Co. l.. LIST Regiment of
Portland. has been given permission
to nave the State in uniform and I'M
der arms on Sept, IL and is. Co. l. is
Capt. Conley's company and the boys
OF this command are going to Boston
to be guests of Co. II, 9th Mass. In
fantry on the above dates.
Deputy Insurance Commissioner
Charles w. PITCHER has returned from
his annual vacation, which he passed
at mis- old home in Starks.
Miss Edith Henderson, who for sew
eral years, has been stenographer to
the adjutant general, has resigned her
position.
Miss Winnifred Dudley, clerk in the
insurance department, is on her an
nual vacation.
Foreman w. l.. Thompson returned,
yesterday, from two weeks vacation.
passed at his old home at the seashore.
A bulletin issued by Cornell Univer-
sity Agricultural Experiment station
gives the results of cooperative cX
periments on the cost of egg produce
ton. The conclusions are as follows:
In the II weeks from Dec. I to March
% in IL flocks representing eight own
ers and 2100 fowls the average daily
production of eggs was 23.2 per 100
fowls.
During the same time the average
food cost of one dozen eggs was 16.3
cents The focks that laid most eggs
during December and January laid
most eggs also in March.
The egg production of pullets
(hatched in 1900 was notably in excess
of that Of hens particularly in the
earlier periods when the price of eggs
was highest.
The average cost of feeding 100 hens
for the IL weeks was 3d. AZ.
The average excess of production
over cost of food for IL weeks was