The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-01-14

- SdllOHo VI WulohcJ, fCU SitlIOuS
of brandy, 1912 of gin, 1888 of alcohol, 1902
of wine, $40 of sherry, 1845 dozen quarts of
WhiSkey, 1911 dozen quarts of ale. The in
creases in sales have been at agencies lOcat-
ed in counties where enforcement prevails.
THE BUSINESS OF THE JAILs.
1908 having been the first year of more
general enforcement of the liquor law in
the State there is much interest in the sta
tistcs of the business of the jails. There
were 4S7 prisoners in Jail Dec. /, 1902, as
against 49, Dec. !, 1903 The whole number
for 1903 was 4,70S OF these 4,5l2 were males
and 1876 females The commitments for
drunkenness this Year were 1854 against
3,193 in 1902; for selling intoxicants, 346
against 234 in 1902. The tramps committed
numbered 1877; committed for non-payment
of fines, 1850. Of the prisoners committed
544 were OF foreign birth. Twelve escaped
and seven were recaptured. Regulation
Lincoln and Somerset. The counties in
which the prisoners labor are Androscog-
gin, Cumberland, Penobscot, Waldo and
York. The highest board paid is in Han
cock and Piscataquis counties, 500 week.
STATE PRISON STATISTICS.
1hirty-four persons are serving life sen-
fences for murder in the State prison at
lhomaStOn according to the annual report
OF Warden Hillman Smith. During the
past year sixty-seven convictS were re-
celved, seventy-one were discharged by eX-
plraton of sentence, one died, four were
pardoned. The largest number of prisoners
at any one time was 1872, the smallest num-
Der 100, and the average daily number 1863.
The largest number committed, II, was for
breaking, entering and larceny. The larg-
est number, 81, were committed from Cum
berland county, while Oxford and Franklin
counties furnished one each. OF those com
mIft21 hatIUaau tho of fifty
and sixty; ten between forty and fifty
years; eighteen between thirty and forty
years; twenty-eight between twenty and
thirty four under twenty. OF the number
forty-nine were married and eighteen
single; forty-one were natives of Maine
and twelve were foreigners.
FOR THE BETTER EDUCATION OF YOUTH.
The returns are coming in at the office of
the State Superintendent of Schools under
the ''Act for the better education of YOUTH"
chapter 6S, passed by the last legislature
This is the act which provides that any
youth residing with parent or guardian in
any town which does not maintain a free
high school, may, when he shall be pre-
pared, enter any secondary school in the
State In such case it is made mandatory
for the town in which he resides to pay his
tuition, not to exceed $50 annually, for any
one youth. When any town is requested
to pay such tuition the State reimburses it
from the free high school fund for one-half
the amount expended. Nineteen towns
availed themselves of this law, among them
Montville, which receives SS1 so from the
State, and Waldo, $1,000.
THE LOBSTER FISHERY.
According to figures furnished by Hon.
A. h. Nickerson, commissioner of sea and
shore fisheries, there was packed in the
State in the season of 1908 total of 1,1S1,17O
cases of sardines, an increase of 2,2O2 cases.
The total catch of Holsters in Maine for the
year ending November 80, was 7,494,69l, in
Guiding in Cumberland, ;3O2, 1854 York, 2S2,-
900. The value of all the Holsters taken
was 81, 219,949. The total catch falls behind
that of 1902 by 690,650, but the value falls
short but S6,613 owing to the higher prices.
The difference in the total catch is account
ted for by the loss of gear and pots during
The catch was divided among the different
counties AS follows: