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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-11
CUT OUT ESSAYS.
tent Themselves, Probably Will
ingly, Listening to Speaker.

The committee of the Board of
Education on Commencement Exer-
cises has decided on some radical
innovations in the program this
year, says the Port Jervis Union.
1t is proposed to eliminate the
usual essays and orations by mem
bers of the graduating class and, in
their place, to have an address by
well-known person. 1t is also
hoped to have the music furnished
by the High school orchestra which
has attained considerable proficiency
in the use of stringed instruments.
1t is believed that the elimination
of the essays and orations by the
members of the graduating class will
meet with the approval of all con-
cerned. 1t is a procedure that is
being largely followed in the High
schools of the state. No good pur-
pose is served by following the pre-
cedent of years in this matter. The
nervous strain put upon the young
men and women of the class out
weighs the good that may be accom-
plished. This is the view the COM
mittee has taken in the matter.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-11
TOWN COUNCIL MEETING.
Many Important Matters Disposed
of Last Thursday Evening.

The regular meeting of the town
council was held in the council room
last Thursday evening. r. NJ
Stocker appeared for the school
board in regards to the Central Park
being used as a playground for the
school children for such games as
tennis, basketball, etc. The matter
was laid on the table until next
meeting. Hon. Henry Wilson ap-
peared in regard to the yearly con-
tribution from the council for the
Veterans. Twenty dollars was ap-
propriated. The treasurer reported
$i79.45 balance to first of month.
A communication from Borough At
torney McCarty in regard to action
letter from Herbeck-Demer Co., was
read and filed. The secretary was in
structed to notify Mr.. Manger that
the cost for arrest of Miss Golden
was a county bill and that he must
look to the county for the money.
Mr. Cannivan reported that the new
hose house on West street, was in
line with the side walk Council
ordered it moved back in line with
other buildings.
The street commissioner was in
structed to remove the Doherty es-
tate barn that is on the sidewalk
line on Ninth street or see that same
is removed. The script committee
reported Mr.. Peil and the Brown
estate were entitled to 1913 feet for
Peil and II feet for Brown estate.
A motion by Mr.. Genung and sec
onded by Mr.. Ham was passed, and
the secretary was instructed to is
sue same. A communication from
Protection Engine Co., in regard to
the discharge of a stoker and one
assistant engineer for the company
was set aside until next meeting. A
committee on sale of fire engine
reported securing two applications
for full particulars of some. The
insuring of No. Fire company
building and equipment, was refus-
ed to Hose Company No. l.
The telephone company was in.
structed TO send its monthly reports
or police patrol to the council each
month
Bills amounting to $1067 were
presented and ordered paid.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-11
SENATORIAL CANDIDATE.

To the Democratic Voters of the
Fourteenth Senatorial District of
Pennsylvania:
! hereby announce myself as
candidate for the office of Senator
from the Fourteenth Senatorial Dis
trict, composed of the counties of
Carbon, Monroe, Wayne and Pike, at
the election to nominate a candidate
for the said Office to be held on Sat
urday, June 4th, A. d. 1910.
Wayne and Pike counties having
no candidates to present to the vot-
ers of this district, all questions as
to the right of Monroe county to
this nomination would seem to have
been eliminated.
The late Senator Hon. David S.
Lee, of Monroe county, whose term
extended from 1889 to 1902, inclu-
sive, was succeeded by Hon. j. G.
Kern, of Carbon county, whose term
extended from 1903 to 1906, inclu-
sive; and the latter was succeeded
by Hon. G. Frank Rowland, of Pike
county, whose uneXpired term was
hllCu Dg hlS blOllCls aAOi. NiliCo -
Rowland, the full term extending
from 1907 to 1910, inclusive.
1t would seem, therefore, that,
with no candidates and no claims
upon the part of Wayne and Pike
counties. and Carbon county having
been represented since Monroe, in
accordance not only with the old
rule of rotation, but also from the
standpoint of right, of justice and
of fair play, there is now no room
for any question or any discussion
as to the right and claim of Monroe
county to the nomination referred
to.
AS a member of the Democratic
party of Monroe county, therefore,
believing under the law and the pre-
cedents of the party, it is my right
to submit my candidacy to the fair
and impartial consideration of the
voters of this district, | announce
myself as a candidate for the Office
above mentioned; hereby pledging
myself, in the event of my nomina-
ton and election, to devote my time
and attention and the very best SER
vice of which | am capable, to the
promotion of the interests and the
welfare of all the people of the
counties composing this Senatorial
District.
Very sincerely yours,
ROGERS l.. BURNETT.
Stroudsburg, Pa, May 8, 1910 adv
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-11
ESTIMATES OF
POPULATION
NEW YORK LEADS THE LIST,
PENNSYLVANIA SECOND, ILL
NOIS THIRD, OHIO FOURTH.

Washington, May 6.--Unoflicial es-
Inmates of the population of the var
ious states, as computed by the Unit
ed States census Office for 1910, show
New York leads the list, Pennsylvania
ranks second, Illinois, third, Ohio,
fourth, and Texas, fifth.
The figures on the setates supple
ment the unofficial estimates for the
principal cities, carried exclusively
in the United Press dispatches of
Saturday. Following is a table show
ing the estimated population of each
state and the increase since 1900:
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-11

MAYOR GAYNOR. POSTMASTER.
DR.. William p. Wilson, director of the
Philadelphia Commercial museums; H.
III. Hlginbotham, who was president of
the Columbia exposition at Chicago
and Illinois representative last night;
James n. Gillett. governor of Califor-
mia, and Frederick G. Stevens, repre-
senting New York.
The guests of honor were James n.
Gillett. governor of California; Edwin
s. Stuart, governor of Pennsylvania;
Austin l.. Crothers governor of Mary
land; Joseph NJ. Brown. governor of
Georgia: Colgate HOyt, appointed by
the governor and representing the
state of Ohio; Charles G. COwan, Ten
nessee; DR.. +. $. Luther, Ii. D., Con
necticut; George A. Elliott. Delaware;
DIR. Thomas Nicholson. South Dakota;
Walker Hines. Kentucky; II. l.. owen,
Oklahoma; J. +. Il. O'COnnor, North
Dakota; Henry q. Hay, Wyoming;
Frank NJ. Wells, Oregon; Judge James
McKeen, Maine; John G. Lonsdale,
Arkansas; Judge Henry +. Howland,
New Hampshire; DIR. George Il. Harri-
son, West Virginia; II. G. Davis. Wis
consin; Z. j. Bowers, Mississippi;
Frank NJ. Brown, Florida; w. b.
Grubbs. Missouri; Ernest X. Acker-
man, New Jersey: Captain James b.
Curtis, Indiana; IL. n. Hlginbotham,
Illinois; Judge Augustus Van Wyck,
South Carolina; James S. Clarkson,
Iowa; A. b. Leach, Michigan; w. w.
Baker, Virginia; Colonel George II.
Webb, Rhode Island; George Il. Miner,
Vermont
Mr. Clews in his address declared
that the proposed New York interna-
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-11
News Snapshots
OF the Week

''The large amount of money that
will be spent in the construction of the
exposition will be Of great benefit to
our city" he said. "At st. Louis more
than $50000,00O was spent to build
that worlds fair and possibly that
much more on the outside of that
worlds fair. And If that amount was
spent for an exposition in city of
100000 inhabitants how much more
will be spent in New York. with
population of 5,000,000Y'
Mayor Gaynor and all the other
speakers were equally full of enthusi-
asm.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-11
NO. 81
NEWS /
THE COURT ROOM.

ArguB.o. ourt was held Monday
morning at 10 o'clock, Judge A.
T. Searle. presiding.
On petition Bernard McNulty was
ordered to be discharged from the
Danville asylum. DR.. II. b. Mere
dith, superintendent of that institu-
tion expressed an opinion that he
deemed It safe that Mr.. McNulty be
released
In the matter of application for
guardian of John l.. Baumann. a
person of weak mind of Honesdale.
hearing fixed for June 13 at 3
o'clock.
George NJ. Cobb was appointed
guardian of Ralph Savitz, minor child
of Bertha NJ. Savitz, deceased.
W. II. Ham was appointed trus-
tee to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Samuel f. Dimock to make
the conveyance of the Elk Lake
property to the Lake Lodore I'm
provement company.
Charles Avery, Thos. Gill and w.
II, Ham were appointed viewers to
view the site for a county bridge in
Palmyra township.
Wallace J. Barnes VS.. Ernest Mil
Ter. Now, May 9th, rule granted on
defendant Ernest Miller, to show
cause why judgment should not be
entered in favor of the plaintiff for
want of sufficient affidavit of de-
fense Returnable second Monday
of June next with ten days notice to
defendant or Peter H. Iloff, his attor-
ney of record.
Edward Deitzer was appointed
guardian of Philomena and Peter ].
Boeth, minor children of VIM. Boeth,
deceased.
Petition for sale of real estate OF
]. J. Osborne, late of Honesdale, for
property in Manchester. Returnable
third Monday of June.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-11
Very sincerely yours,
THE TRAIL OF MURDER.
Search Revived For n Murderer Who
Has Been I'm Hiding for Years.
IIVNT1TVD II u . VTV-NIl T
Stroudsburg, Pa, May 9, 1910 az

About thirteen years ago a double
murder was committed at the Sulli-
van County Club above Wurtsboro.
The firm of Pritchard & Co. of New
York, dealers in building material
engaged in a civil suit, were desirous
of subpOening as their witness a man
named Wallace J. Christian who
evaded service fora long time being
lily disposed 10 the firm.
Finally. however, he was cornered
by Horace #. Pritchard and Con-
stable j. Many who served the papers.
Suddenly exasperated Christian
shot and killed Prichard instantly and
so wounded Many that he died short
ly afterward
Christian disappeared, escaped it
was thought to Australia and the
matter gradually drifted out of the
public mind.
Latterly a man working in a Pat
erson silk mill aroused suspicion by
talking of this murder with a too in
innate knowledge of the crime, but
when detectives went to arrest him
he had fled and the search was taken
up in Middletown from which place
it now cautiously radiates.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-11
BOOST EXPOSITION.
New York 1913 Fair StirS
BanqueterS' Enthusiasm.
ALL STATES ARE REPRESENTED.
Speakers Approve Proposed Celebra-
tion of Settlement by Dutch of
Manhattan island - Mr.. Clews
Tells of Advantages.

New York, May 10,-At brilliant
banquet, at which nearly every state
in the Union was represented, the
worlds fair in New York in 1913 in
commemoration of the settlement by
the Dutch of Manhattan island in 1913
was enthusiastically discussed last
night
Henry Clews. the banker, who is
chairman of the citizens worlds fair
committee, in introducing the toast
master, Mayor William J. GaynoY.
gave an outline of the exposition prof.
ect.
Mgr. NJ. J. Lavelle of st. Patrick's
cathedral delivered the invocation, and
Rev. Ernest NJ. Stires gave the bene-
diction
Among the speakers in addition to
Mr.. Clews and Mayor Gaynor were
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-11
MARRIED FIFTY YEARS.
Golden Wedding Celebrate by MIR.
and Mrs. Henry Hart ng.

Henry Hartung and Katt 'yn Erik
were married May 6, 1860, by the
Rev Mr.. Stingler, a Lutheran min
lister. After fifty years of happy
welded life they celebrated the
golden anniversary of that event at
their home in Upper Honesdale, sur
rounded by seven of their children
and nine grandchildren, together
with a number of other relatives and
friends. On Friday, the 9th inst,
the festivities began, and were con-
tinued until Monday. the Sth, owing
to the fact that some of the children
were unable to be present on Friday.
A dance was held in the homestead
on Friday evening; a turkey dinner
on Sunday, at which the happy couple
were the recipients of many congrat-
ulations from relatives and friends.
Mrs. Hartung before her marriage
was Pike county school teacher,
and can tell many interesting tales
of that place when it was a wilder
ness. Mr.. Hartung began life as a
worker, by following the tow-path,
then went into the mercantile busi-
ness with Gustave Smith at Seely-
Vile; afterwards became a hotel
keeper. which he gave up to open a
meat market in Honesdale where he
continued in business for forty
years, retiring at last from active
business to look after his farm and
home in the upper end of Homes
dale. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Hartung
are strong. rugged, good natured
people. and have developed that hos
pitality that makes many friends.
The presents they received were
many and valuable and shows that
they have warm spot in the hearts
of their many friends and associates.
The children present were Mrs. Will
liam Briggs and Edward Hartung of
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-11

Rev. Tappert, secretary of the
Lutheran Synod, of New York city.
preached two excellent sermons in
st. Johns Lutheran church on Sun
day last. Large congregations greet
ed him at both services.
Fish Commissioner w f. Nee
han, W. E. Shoemaker. state fish
warden, and members of the Riefler
company, manufacturers of wood
alcohol a, Tanners Falls, met at
Lake Como on Saturday and reach
ed a settlement whereby the above
firm have agreed to stop polluting
the Dyberry river at their factory.
1t is claimed that from 10 to 20
barrels of the poison enter the stream
daily. Large watts are to be placed in
the ground for receiving the drain
age of the plant. The Riefler COM
pany have agreed to make the change
within four weeks.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-11
OBITUARY.

DECK E R-George S, Decker
died at the home of his parents, Mr..
vile, Sunday morning, of heart dis
ease, after a prolonged illness. The
deceased was a boat calker by trade
and later was employed as packer
with Dorflinger & Sons, Inc, White
Mills. He is survived by three broth
ers and one sister also by his par
ents. Interment was made at In
dian Orchard Tuesday afternoon.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-11
AMERICAN MATADOR GORED.
Young Texas 8uIlfishter Fatally In
jured In Ring.

jured In Ring.
City of Mexico May 10.-Harper b.
Lee, Harvard graduate and young
American bullhghter, whose prowess
In the ring has aroused the jealousy OF
native and Spanish matadors, is dying
at a hospital as the result of having
been fatally gored during fight at
Guadalajara.
In his last fight Lee showed even
more nerve than he has before eXhib-
tied. Though critically gored, he killed
the bull and walked to the stand,
where he fell. The Mexican spectators
were astounded by the courage he dis
played. They could see he had been
wounded in a ghastly manner and
they expected that he would fall be-
fore the second charge Of the bull and
be trampled to death. But after he
had been knocked down AS the horn OF
the infuriated animal sank deep into
his body he arose before the animal
could turn. AS the bull made for him
he deftly thrust his sword into vital
spot, and the animal fell dead.
The nerve he displayed was so star
ting that the spectators were thrown
into a furor. They would have cheered
him, but were too frightened. Then
when he fell at the stand they realized
that cheers were out Of place.
Since Lees appearance here last year
he has been in demand In every part
of the country where bullhghting is
practiced. He had come from a ranch
In Texas where he had been cow
man for several years,
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-11
ROWLAND WITHDRAWS.
Will Not Enter the Race for Repre-
sentative.

To the Voters of Pike County;
For reasons of business, in the
management of which my associates
have a claim upon my time, l have
decided that in justice to them l have
no right to be a candidate for the
Office of Representative at the ensu-
ing election. l therefore withdraw
my name as a candidate for the said
Office and take this occasion to ex-
press my deep gratitude to the voters
of the district who have given me
their friendly support in the past.
MILES c. ROWLAND.
Kimbles, Pa, April 2S, 1910.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-11
LOOKING FOR A WIFE.

The following postal card address,
ed to the Publisher Wayne Co. Citson
Paper. reached us on Saturday. On
the reverse side it reads:
Carbondale, Pa.
Sir: Will you please put this ad.
in the Whites Valley items? Wanted
to get a wife, with a good carricter.
My address is Willis Hoyle, Gen.
Delivery, Carbondale, Pa.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-11

c.; Christian of Paterson; Angus
tus, of Callicoon; Mrs. Louis Meter
of Alexandria, Va, Howard of
Scranton.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-11

The Pickert Stock Company
opened Monday evening and made a
very favorable impression with the
audience. The play was Hello
Bill" and was laughingly humorous.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-11

ss-Decrease, 43.606.
*-No estimate.
Read The Citizen.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-26

The most direct, practical influence
of Halley's comet is to awaken a
lively interest in astronomy all over
the United States, among scientists
and laymen alike. 1t has served to re-
mind us that we have not, as people,
devoted the same amount of thought
to this pursuit as we have to some
others, as is shown by the scarcity Of
our famous observatories. And one
cannot turn to this subject without be-
ing impressed with the fact that the
really great observatories are in the
west, an evidence that the east, to
which we might naturally look for
most of our erudition-chieay because
the east claims the monopoly--is lack
ing in it's achievement,
The Yerkes observatory at Williams
Bay, Wis, is a part OF the University
of Chicago and 1t holds the largest tel
escope in the world; another famous
observatory is the Carnegie at Los
Angeles and another the Lick at San
Jose. All of these are in the west
leaving the lesser stations at Yale
Harvard and Princeton to redeem the
east from an utter lack of any pre-.
| tense in this direction. New York, the
metropolis of the western world, has
nothing worthy of the name of an OBJ
servatory. Neither the University OF
New York nor the College of the CITY
OF New York is thus equipped. Co
lumbia university, to be sure, has an
old-fashioned observatory buried some
where in the shrubbery on it's campus
II is a strange fact that the legisla
ture of New York declined to grant
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-26
Homesteads in Forests.

The most ardent disciples of the
conservation doctrine will require
some time to take up with the new
policy of opening the national forest
reserves to homesteading as ordered
by the secretary of agriculture. 1t
has always been contended that the oc-
cupation OF agricultural land in these
forests would interfere vitality with
the work of conservation and should,
therefore, not be permitted.
Joining issue with the ultra-con-
seryationists on this point, the people
in the mountain states, who have
urged this new policy, insist that in
stead of interfering with the work Of
conservation, it will promote it. They
point out that settlement of the agri-
cultural areas in the forests is the
surest way to reduce the danger of
forest fires which have devastated
thousands of acres of valuable timber
in various portions of the country be-
cause the titled soil will act as break
ers against flames.
But what seems better argument
in favor of this new policy is that it
will greatly increase the population of
the far western states by throwing
open to occupancy fertile mountain
farm land. 1t will place upon the tax
rolls of those states new wealth in
the form of taxable property and will
send to the markets of the country
new wealth in the form of produce.
1t is difficult to attack this policy
when we remember that the funda-
mental principle of conservation or
any other agency of this government
is the promotion of the public good.
The public welfare in this country is
paramount and if it is proved that the
opening up of this territory to new
homes offers benefits outweighing all
possible disadvantages, then the policy
will be justified, AT any rate, so long
as the same authority that sanctioned
this innovation is backing with all its
influence the conservation OF forests
and all other natural resources, 1t
should be safe to allow a fair expert
ment of this proposition.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-26
Democrats Unmask.

Not in their entire campaign Of pre-
tense and negation since the present
congress convened have the demo-
Gratis so conclusively demonstrated
their systematic opposition to positive
legislation as they did in their vote
on the amendment to the civil sundry
bill appropriating S25O,O0O for the
purposes of the tariff board.
Without this appropriation to OBJ
tain information of prices of manu-
featured articles at home and abroad
the tariff board provision would be
greatly circumscribed and the demo-
Gratis know it. Throughout the ses-
sion they have clamored for what they
termed honest downward revision. ="
and in congress and elsewhere have
reviled the republicans for not COM
ing up to the democratic measure of
relief" so that their united opposi-
ton to this provision confutes every
utterance they have made and stamps
their whole conduce as rank hypocrisy.
But from the democratic standpoint
they might be even able to justify
their vote against the tariff board APP
propriation-as they justify every
thing else by mere wave of the hand
and the arbitrary assertion that it is
right-were 1t not for the fact that
in order TO oppose this proposition
they had to vote with the very men in
the house they have heretofore con-
demned as reactionaries and standpat-
ters, Representatives Payne, Dalzell
and Fordney. The Inconsistency of
this position is so palpable as to be
almost ludicrous, even to politicians.
OF course it is perfectly apparent
that 1t was never the intention of the
democrats to aid in the formulation of
any tariff law, revision or otherwise,
so long as it was not within their
power to make it a democratic meas
ure and they have, therefore, united
their forces in an indefensible vote of
obstruction, hoping to be able to
thwart the sincere efforts of the loyal
republicans who wanted to improve the
tariff still further. The opposition to
the appropriation came, not from a
sincere desire to safeguard any rule or
legal point, but to defeat the whole
plan of securing expert evidence on the
subject.