Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-30

--=:.EEia1 tax of $500, 900,
which Is now county tax because of
the act of 1913, the State revenue will
run about 100000 ahead. In this
sum is included a payment of taxes in
litigation.
The statement is expected to be in
teresting as it will show collections of
capital stock tax to have been fair.
Commission TO Meet. - The State
Forestry Commission will meet Friday
to discuss the auxiliary reserve and
the forest fires which have been raging
lately.
Typhoid at Homestead.-Dr. c. j.
Hunt and S. f. Parks, of the Depart
ment OF Health, have gone to Home
stead to investigate the typhoid out
break
Representative Here-Representa
tive G. A. Shaffer, of Berwick, was at
the Capitol to-day.
Dr: DahIgren Named.-Dr. Samuel
q. Dixon, State commissioner of
health, has named DR.. B. E. Dahl
gren, of Philadelphia, to prepare the
exhibit of the State Department
OIL Heaith at the Panama Pacific Ex-
position at San Francisco, which will
illustrate the work of the department
for the conservation of life. Topo-
graphical and geological models of the
state sanitoria and other details of the
antttuberculosis work will be prepared
and the whole is to be displayed, sur
rounded with a colonial railing about
II at san francisco. DIR. Dahlgren has
had charge of similar work for the
American Academy of Natural
Sciences, the Smithsonian Institute,
the Wtster Institute and the Field Co
lumbar Museum, his work forming
part of their collections.
As to War Tax.-People on Capitol
Hin are trying to find out whether
in 70. -.
the applicant for official papers has to
pay or whether any must be paid at
all. The question whether the State
| would have to pay a war tax on Off
cial certificates issued in the course of
It's business was to-day referred to the
Attorney Generals Department and
Deputy Attorney General w. NJ Har-
gest asked the United States Treasury
Department for its view.
| Want Auto Tags.-Not far from s.
| 900 applications for 1916 automobile
| registrations have been made at the
State Highway Department and it is
expected that more will be heard from
within few days. Shipment of taxes
will start very shortly.
Debt Increases.-Notices of increas.
es of debt were filed at the Capitol
to-day by four gas companies as fol.
lows; Counties Gas and Electric Com
pany, Philadelphia. $958,0OO to ST.
29S,000; Chester County Gas Com.
pany, Philadelphia, $S33,000 to $337,.
900; Dauphin County Gas Company
100000 to $413,000 and Harrisbure
Gas Company s1.42S,0OO to $1,515, 900
The Fare Increase.-Edwin NJ. Alb,
bott, attorney for the combined com.
mittee of the United Business Mems
Association of Philadelphia and Com.
muter's Association. filed with the
Public Service Commission to-day g
complaint against the Philadelphia
and Reading and the Baltimore anC
Ohio relative to the proposed increase
of rates. 1t is urged that an early
date be set for the hearing and thai
the respondents be asked to produce
their books showing all receipts, etc.
relative to the conduct of their sys.
tenn between their various terminals In
Philadelphia and all other point!
within the State affected by tn,
changes The commission is also re
Iquested to suspend the rates and tc
notify the companies to withhold thu
ladvance until after the hearing. The
weekly session of the commission be-
gins tomorrow, and the probability /.
that the rate question will be taken III
upon the report of the commissioners:
who attended the preliminary hearins
in Philadelphia on Friday, after which
a definite plan of action will be de
termined. A lengthy petition was re-
ceived to-day against the increase or
the Bethlehem branch of the Phila
delphia and Reading. Representing
variC us towns along that route.
Wants ServiCe.-Charles w. Palmer
of the Wyoming Valley Trust Com
pany, Wilkes-Barre, has filed a com
plant against the Luzerne County Gai
and Electric Company alleging tina
the company refuses to make servlc,
connection with his home at Trucks
Vile.
Jackson to Speak. Commissions
John Price Jackson will be one o.
the chairmen at meetings of the Amer
icans Academy of Politics and Socia
Science in Philadelphia Saturday
Child labor laws will be discussed.
To Sell Paper.-The State will sci
the waste paper of the departments a
public sale tomorrow and Superinten
dent Pomeroy will boss the Job.