Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-28
Plans for ReginentaI Team
Rifle Matches.
Fred Bussiere Of Lewiston
Wants 10 Be Pardoned,
Petitions Received for Referendum
On 0ne.per cent. Beer Bill,

From information given out at the
adjutant generals Office Saturday it
Is learned that the annual team match
OF the LIST Regiment of Infantry of the
National Guard of the State of Maine
will be held on the new rifle range at
Auburn early in the month of Septem-
Der. although the exact dates have not
yet been announced. AS has already
been stated he team match Of the I'd
Regiment will be held on the State
range on the Written road in Augusta
during the encampment Of the regiment
at Camp Fernald from Aug. 2 to Aug
II. but as the LIST Regiments tour of
duty will be carried out among the
forts in Portland harbor no opportu-
nifty for the rifle match will at that
time be afforded Hence ARRANGEMENTS
Will be completed for holding the
match at Auburn the following month
The erregimental team match will
be held on the Auburn range at the
same time of the list Regimental team
match, the rifle team of the I'd Regi-
ment being ordered to the range for
that purpose. The dates for the inter-
divisional rifle competition of the Ships
Company of Naval Reserves have not
been assigned but will probably be held
in September and on the rife range at
Portland
The rifle competition by members of
the different organizations of the
Guard for membership on the State
team will be held on the rifle range at
Brunswick on Friday and Saturday,
July and 3, and at present there are
81 candidates. From these a team com
posed Of IL principals and three alter
mates will be chosen to represent the
State of Maine at the New England
Interstate Match to be held at Wake
field, Mass, in July, and the national
match 20 be held at Camp Perry, Ohio,
in August.
The different rifle ranges of the State
are being put in order for the seasons
work and the men of the different COM
panies composing the two regiments of
infantry are putting in some practice
preparatory to the coming matches
Some very good scores are being made
and indications are that the averages
in rifle practice this year will equal If
not exceed those of 1908. The men are
showing a healthy amount of interest
in the work and under the direction of
Col. j. J. Dooley, chief of ordnance,
good progress should be made.
Among the other matters which will
come up for disposal at the next meet
ing of the Governor and Council Fri
day, July ., will be two hearings on
pardon petitions which have been as
signed for that meeting. The first hear
ing is that on the petition which asks
pardon for Samuel HAYNES. who is
serving a life sentence in the State
prison at Thomaston for murder, and
the second is on petition for the
pardon of Fred Bussierc of Lewiston.
In his petition to the Executive body
BuSsiere represents that he is con-
fined in the Androscoggin county Jail
at Auburn for the crime or offence of
maintaining a common nuisance in vi
olation of the prohibitory law; that he
is not guilty of the crime for which he
was committed and that the sentence
imposed under all circumstances Is too
severe and that it is proper and just
that a pardon be granted him; where
fore he prays that hearing may be
had on the petition and Il pardon
granted. l.. J. Brann of Lewiston will
appear for the petitioner.
Petitions for referendum on the
new 1 per cent beer bill. so-called. pass
ed by the last Legislature. were re-
Ceived at the Office of the secretary of
State Saturday. This act would place
in the same class as intoxicating liQ-
uors under the meaning of the stat
utes all liquors for the sale of which
federal license is required and would
prohibit the sale of "Uno" beer. So
called. under a penalty of fine and
possibly imprisonment in Jail. The
petitions contained 11.640 names. all of
which were properly certified and veri-
fed. which is 1910 more than is neces-
sary under the provisions of the initia-
tive and referendum. The signatures to
the petitions We're secured through the
efforts of the Maine state Bottles AS
ISOLATION, of which H. J. Cross of Au-
gusta. f. j. Torrey of Bangor and H.
p. ingalls, of Portland are the eXecu-
tive board and of which Mr.. Cross is
the president. The time for the recep-
lions of petitions under the referendum
will expire July 2 at Midnight.
Announcement was made Saturday
at the department of agriculture that
q meeting of the Waterford and Nor
way Dairy Testing Association will be
held at South Waterford next Wednes-
dav. June 80. beginning at 10 O'Clock in
the forenoon. r. w. Redman of Corinna
Will lecture on the relative feeding val
ues of high and low protein food. and
very interesting session is anticipat-
ed. 1t was also announced that the
West Penobscot Dairy Testing Asso-
citation will hold its first meeting in
Dexter Grange hall at l O'Clock Satur-
day afternoon, July 3.
certificate which has been filed at
the office of the secretary of State GER
titles that at an adjourned annual
meeting of the Las Animas Mining and
Milling Co.. held at the company's Of
fee in Portland Wednesday. June %. 1t
was voted that whereas the present
capital stock of the corporation was IN
sufficient for the prosecution of the
business of mining and milling ore in
the Republic of Mexico. it be increased
from s40O, 600, consisting of $4,000 shares
~va 20