The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1906-07-26
STATE AND GENERAL

The patrons of the Maine Central
coming east 10 spend the bot weeks Of
summer appreciate the enterprise of
the road in oiling It's railroad and now
the dust between Portland and Water
vile is pretty well taken care of by the
process which has made the roadbed
cleaner and consequently more COM
Portable for the passengers Railway
trains are uncomfortable places in the
summer at best and when to this is
added the disagreeable feature of dust
they are more so.
G. 5 W. simpson. who was the pos
master of the State Senate at the ast
session. who has been in California in
the lumber business siuce. has returned
to Portland. He was in California dur
ing the earthquake Mr.. simpson is
candidate for the POSITION former y
filled by Frank c Harrington. 1t is ex
pected that Mr. Harrington will be made
secretary of the senate as its secretary
for the past few sessions, Kendall M.
Dunbar, Of DamarscOtta Ia candi-
date for the position of State treasurer.
Russell! Sage died suddenly, sunday,
at his country home Cedar Croft" at
Lawrence, l. l. The Immediate cause
of death was heart failure resulting from
a complication of diseases incident TO
old age. The veteran tinancier would
have celebi ated his Doth birthday on
Aug f. Mir sage had been ia excep
tionally good heath since his arrival at
his summer home about six months ago
At noon he was seiZed with sinking
spell and collapsed rapidly, falling into
unconsciousn' o. about two hours before
his death which occurred at 80 O'CLOCK.
In brief the facts concerning the san
| Francisco relief fund are these: There
is a fund of nearly 50, 900, 900 to be used
for rehabilitation of the people of San
| Francisco who were burned out. The
disposal of this fund remains in the
hands of the finance committee of relief
aud Red cross. The commission OF
three will have full charge of all relief
work In charge, aud to discredt In ad-
vance the work to be done by the com
mission will mean the questioning of
the probity of Mayor Schmitz and the
| 20 men who have devoted all their time
and energy for the past IS days to the
elfare of the city and its people
Mrs. Annie Louise Cary (Raymond)
was in Portland last week. Mrs Ray
mond who was at one time Americas
most famous contrato, has recently
returned from Europe, where with her
husband she has been spending the
past winter Mrs. Raymond brought
with her from italy about dozen pic
lures which she will present 10 the i
brary at Wayne, the town of her Dir h
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond are now at the
Atlantic House. PrOurs Neck, where
they will remain until September, after
which they will go to Wayne for few
days From there they will go to heir
beautiful home at Norwalk, conn
The sloop sarah A, Capt. William
York, came into Portland saturday with
the largest sword fish that has been
brought INTO the local market this sea-
son. 1t tipped the scales at 5s3 POUNDS
and took up a great deal of space IN
the shed where it was quartered. The
earah A. is not sword fisherman
but was returning from fishing trip
of week or two and happened to
have chance to get at this big fel-
low and took chance at him The
implements for getting sword fish are
carried aboard the sarah A. for just
such an emergency and the captain ia
certainly fully repaid for his catch
The capture was made about rs miles
off the Head Light on what is known
as New Ledge.