Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-12-18
Maine News Notes.

Albert Austin Of Belgrade committed
suicide by hanging Thursday. at the
home of Mr.. Frost where he lived. He
was widower, about 60 years OF age,
and alone in the world.
Hon. Samuel w. Matthews Of Caribou,
commissioner OF industrial and labor
statistics in Maine for the past twenty
years, announces that he 10 not Q candi-
date for reappointment. His term ex-
pires In February.
At the meeting Of the governor and
council last week, statement was made
public regarding the petitions for the
investigation of Sandford's Shiloh, that
there is no occasion for executive action
in the matter. A hearing was given
month ago.
All the deputy enforcement commits.
sioners acting under the Sturgis law will
be discharged Jan. LIST, according to
orders given by Governor Cobb to the
enforcement commission last week. This
will leave the matter of enforcement OF
the liuuor law in the hands OF the
sheri3s. The enforcement commission
will of course DO ready to begin opera
lions again in any county II 1t shall de-
eide that the officials are not doing theil
duty.
A rescript deciding that bill fol
liuuors Is uncollectable In this state
whether the seller knows or does not
know that the goods are to be sold IN
violation of the prohibitory law was
handed down from the Supreme Court
Wednesday. The case is that OF Samuel
G. Boehm and others in New YORK
against Calvin W. Allen of Brunswick.
This rescript affirms the decision, drawn
by the late Chief Justice Wiswell in
which the seller of the liquors knew the
goods were to be sold contrary to law.
The law court has handed down q re-
script in the Androscoggin case Of State
versus intoxicating liquors, the Grand
Trunk Railway Company OF Canada
claimant. The decision, which is one OF
the most important rendered in relation
to the prohibitory liquor law in this
state for some time, rules that liquors
cannot be seized in transit and that thu
transit does not end until after the goods
leave car. The seizure in question wal
made by deputy enforcement commits
sioners working under the Sturgis Law
passed at the last session of the Legisla
ture, at the Grand Trunk station at Lew
iston last spring. The rescript was
drawn by Justice Savage.
Commander Robert E. Peary, together
with fifty other persons, members OF thu
Peary Arctic Club and intimate friends
we're guests at a dinner given by Morris
K. Jesup at the University Club in New
York Wednesday night, in honor of th'
explorers return from the Arctic. Th'
dinner was described as "a family at
fair" and the speeches delivered were o.
an informal character, nothing belnf
given out for publication. Commando
Peary in response to the congratulations
of Mr.. Jesup is said to have told bis
friends that IL no could get the right sor
of ship for another "dash to the Nortl
Pole"h he believed he could accomplish
his object in year. 1t Is said that as
surances were given him at the dinner
that the kind of ship he wanted woult
be provided whenever he is ready to
undertake another voyage.
A petition for 145 mile branch OF tht
Bangor and Aroostook railroad, which
If built will open up big numbering ant
sporting territory and furnish raj
communication in practically a direc
line from the St. John river on the
northwestern boundary of Maine to the
Atlantic seaboard at Stockton Springs
has been filed with the State Board Of
Railroad commissioners by the Bango
and Aroostook railroad company. This
branch is to start in township 4, range s
in Piscataquis county, from branch o.
the road already granted but not con
structed, and extend to st. Francis plan
tation in Aroostook County near tn
junction of the St. Francis and st. Johl
rivers. It will run practically direc
line from Sebois lake to the junction o
the two rivers named through wilder
ness. A hearing was ordered to be hell
at Bangor Dec. 9th.