Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-09


property The plan is for the commits
sion to get the lists and so over the
values placed on the various items,
supplementing the estimates by inves-
t1gation If 1t should be found neces-
sary. The report is to be finished by
November.
1t will require weeks for depart
ments like the Health, Highway, For
estry and Military Departments to
make up reports because of the widely
scattered property and the diverse ma
ture of the items. In addition to the
real and personal property the stock
of supplies on hand for the conduct
OF the business of the State govern
ment will be counted in. The bids for
supplying the governmental depart
ments for the fiscal year will be open
ed Tuesday at the Capitol
Flag 1ransfer.-The program of the
ceremonies attending the formal trans
fer Of the States battle flags from the
State Museum to the inches prepared
for them in the rotunda of the State
Capitol will be determined upon by
the commission in charge next Tues
day. The ceremonies will take place
on June 15 and 1t is the plan to have
color-bearers or survivors of the regi-
ments bear their flags in short pa
rade prior to depositing them in the
rotunda. For months Adjutant Cen
eral Stewart has been in communica-
ton with regimental organizations and
many men in addition to those who
Will bear the flags again will be here.
The flags are now being covered with
SILK netting to preserve them. There
are 836 Civil War flags, 81 from the
spanish War and flags borne in the
revolution and the War of 1912, as
well as flag carried by the First De-
tenders and one presented by Abra-
ham Lincoln. The ''rattlesnake flag"
or the Revolution, recently left to the
State, may be here in time for the
ceremony. The State does not have
any Mexican War flags.
In Court Monday.-The controversy
over the payment of revenue from
licensing of automobiles to the State
Highway Department for improvement
or State roads will be before the Dau-
phin County Court again on Monday,
when the hearing of the mandamus
against State Treasurer r. X. Young
TO require him to make payment will
be held. This action is separate from
that brought on Thursday against
Auditor General A. w. Powell which
Will get before the court later on. 1t
is expected that the case will be ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court before
the summer vacation.
No Licenses Yet. - No licenses to
practice will be issued by the State
Bureau of Medical Education and Lii
censure to drugless therapists and
chlropodists until all applications now
before the bureau have been consid-
cred, Several hundred applications are
pelng gone over and the bureau will
determine what applicants must un-
dergo examinations. The bureau will
announce its plans regarding regula-
n iet,
later on.
Nothing from Washington.-Nothi
has been received at the National
Guard headquarters from the War
Department about Mexican service. A
bulletin will be issued giving the de-
tails of the new regimental organ
izations of the government.
Powell Asks Attorney.-Auditor Cen
eral Powell to-day sent letter to the
Attorney Generals Department asking
that Deputy Attorney General Cunning
ham be detailed to represent him in
the automobile license mandamus suit
or that the Attorney General agree to
pay his counsel out of department
funds Mr.. Powell complains of the
Attorney Generals position in bringing
the suit.
Bradford Case on 21st.-The Brad
ford Trust Company case is to be
taken up in the Dauphin County Court
on May FL. A receiver will be asked.
Violated Quarantine.-State Health
Department officials have caused ar
rests of several persons for violating
smallpox quarantine in Huntingdon
county. Cases were found in lumber
camps and small towns where persons
refused to obey State laws
Want the Bulietin.-State Commits
sioner of Fisheries Butler has received
requests for copies of the bulletin on
what an acre of water will do in rails
ing fish from every State in the Union.
California people have asked for the
publication this week.
Named Policeman--C. w. Stpe. of
Middletown, has been named as a.
special policeman for the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad.
Capitol TO BE Open. - The State
Capitol will be open and the guides
on duty tomorrow for the excursion
which is coming from Johnstown and
Altoona.