The Somerset reporter., 1908-04-30
STATE AND GENERAL ITEMS.

Capt. A. j. Bunker OF fremont, mas
curious looking coon kitten, a
recent gift. The kitten has two sets
of ears; one set is of the natural size,
while the others are smaller and are
Just little back of the others. Capt.
Bunker is proud of his double cared
coon. and thinks his hearing must be
good.
At the present time there are 30
prisoners in the county jail at Bangor
and the Jail officials are having their
troubles in accommodating all those
coming in. The jail was built to ac-
comm odate about IS prisoners, but III
late years this number is usually ex-
ceeded and as many as lO4 have been
taken care of.
@. A. Savage of Presque Isle got re-
turns from flock of sheep last year
: which show the possibilities of profit
in sheep raising. From the seven
sheep he raised II lambs. He sold
eight of them to c. j. Hanson for
$40. 90 and kept four for which he has
been offered 500. The wool brought
$3.50 making the aggregate returns
of his flock of $3.50.
The Odd Fellows of Maine are
making an effort to erect and main
tain an Odd Fellows home. The
initial step was taken few days ago
by the Rebekah assembly and small
fund has already been obtained. Mrs.
Nellie A. Stevens of Westbrook, a
past president of the assembly Is
chairman of a committee to raise
funds for the movement.
A brush fire for time, Wednesday,
threatened the town of kittery, and
before it was under control 20 acres
of wood and brush land had been
burned over. To check the fire re-
quired the aid of large gang OF sec
ton men of the Boston q Maine rail-
road, the marine guard from the
navy yard and the town f1re depart
ment. The damage to the wood lots
is several thousand dollars.
Writes H. G. Brown of West Paris
to the Lewiston Journal: An alien of
the Saturday Journal says: "sixteen
maple trees ran 30 gallons sap in %
hours in the town of Phillips this
season, can any body beat it?" Yes l
can, as that Is 2 3-16 gallons per tree,
and l had trees of my cottage shade
trees at this place that ran % gallons
in % hours and that is 3 2-3 gallons
per tree, and made the finest syrup
E S. Cary of Presque Isle was
among the farmers who found last
year a prosperous one. Mr.. Carey
raised 1850 bbls. of potatoes, and the
cash proceeds from his different crops
foots up S4350 He closed out 700
bbls. of potatoes last week at from
81. 95 to S2.0 a bbl. and his crops as a
whole has averaged him $1.92 since,
after he stopped hauling from the
field.
Death by electrocution in an un-
usual manner came Monday to Erwin
A. Houghton, aged %, a student OF
the University of Maine, at his home
near Presque Isle. Houghton was
putting a pump into well when the
iron pipe came in contact with one OF
the wires Of the high tension power
line of the Maine K New Brunswick
Electrical company which was said to
be carrying IL 900 volts. The pipe al.
SO touched his leg and both hands and
a large percentage Of the current
passed through his body into the
ground. He was the son of Emmons
W. Houghton,
Frank Chase, aged 81, died at his
home, Western ave-, Waterville, at 7
o'clock Saturday evening. His health
bad not been good for year or more
but his condition was not considered
especially serious until, Saturday,
when he suffered sort of shock.
Death was caused by hardening OF
the arteries Mr.. Chase spent the
early part of the past winter in trip
abroad for the benefit of his health
and was accompanied by DR.. o. B.
Ames of Fairfield. Since his return
he had been fairly we'll and last We'd
nesday was in the city. He had been
about his home until Saturday.
Mayor Bunker of Waterville has is
sued orders to the police department
not to give hoboes lodging at the po-
lice station unless they are brought
before the court the following morn
ing and tried for vagrancy. Five
called at the station during Wednes-
day evening but when told of the new
orders, hurried away as they did not
wish to go up against any jail SEN
tences at just this time OF year. 1t is
understood that similar action has
been taken by the authorities of Oak
land and Fairfield so now there is no
refugesfor the wanderers in the vi
cinity and they must crawl in where
ever they can for sleep when over
taken by night in Waterville or sur
rounding towns. AS soon as they get
wind of the new regulations which
will be very quickly, they will give
the station wide berth and hang to
the residential sectious.