Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-25

| very little Both are good, trustworthy
| companies, and inquiry made early in
the season brought the information
| from other state Boards of Health that
| by far the greater number of them are
| supplied by these two companies"
1t is not expected that the December
, list of executive appointments to be
announced by Governor Fernald on
the 14th day of the coming month will
be a very long one as there are at
present but two vacancies to be filled
which will be due to the expiration of
the terms of office of the present in
cumbents. One Of the appointments
which the Governor will be called
upon to make will be that of an audi
tor of State printing to fill the va
cancy due to the expiration of the term
of office of f. n. Carver Of Augusta
! which will occur Dec 80. after four
years of service. The other appoint
ment will be that OF a member of the
| board of directors of the Maine Cen
| eral hospital at Portland, to succeed
Franklin A. Wilson of Bangor, whose
term OF office will expire Dec IA.
This latter appointment is not like
the others inasmuch as it is made
Jointly by the Governor the president
of the Senate and the speaker Of the
House of Representatives. 1t is
possible also that the Governor may
appoint private secretary to fill the
vacancy due to the death of the late
William S. Cotton of Lisbon Falls,
and clerk to the Board of Railroad
Commissioners to fill that due to the
death of the late Col. E. c. Earring
ton
From the present outlook the next
meeting of the Governor and Council.
the date of which is Tuesday, Dec. II.
commencing at 10 o'clock in the fore
noon, will be characterized by liberal
allowance of pardon matters The
Edward A. Chase matter, which has
already been continued several times
may, if conditions warrant. be taken
up and given a hearing This is the
fifth time that Ihase has petitioned
FOR pardon and thus far he has in
each instance been refused Chase, it
VIII be remembered, is a life prisoner
lat Thomaston for the murder Of Mrs
Ida NJ. Stevens of Gardiner, whom he
shot and killed at Portland in April.
1888, and his pardon has each time
been strongly opposed by Hon Joseph
VI. Ladd of Gardiner, the father of the
murdered woman. At the coming
hearing the petitioner will be repre-
scented by Hon. d. J. McGllcuddy and
Hon. Fl. A. Morey of Lewiston, and
County Attorney William C. Eaton OF
Cumberland county will appear in on
position. Another pardon matter
which has been assigned to the coming
meeting is the hearing on the petition
of Arthur G. Randall of Lewiston, who
IS serving sentence of four years in
the state prison for assault and bat
tery and robbery from the person. for
winch crime he was sentenced from
the supreme judicial court for An
"r"scoggin county Feb, Is. 1903 The
counsel for the petitioner is George
W. H"EC!ton of Gardiner. The par
doh cas-" of Lee F.. a. Forney. alias
Leroy French of Pennington. is still
pending, and it is possible that a de-
ciSloh may he reached at the above
meeting When the hearing on the
petition was held at the August meet
| ing of the Governor and Council Ar
thur S. Littlefeld of Rockland an
pcared for the petitioners and County
Attorney Cyrus n Blanchard OF
FRANKLIN county for the opposition
notice which has been filed at the
office of the secretary of State ccrti-
fteS that at special meeting of the
stockholders of Smith & Rumery.
held at the companys principal office
at Portland on Thursday. Nov. IS. it
was voted that whereas the capital
stock OF the company was insufficient
for the purposes for which the cor
poration was organized. it be in
creased by the addition thereto of $50
shares of preferred stock having a par
value of 500 each. and $50 shares of
common stock having a par value of
| 500 each, so that the total capital
stock of the corporation shall be s125.-
oo0, of which 100000 shall be common
stock and $4,000 preferred stock.
The following corporation has filed