Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-17

@&asS-kSe1n is but one man
VINO Is candidate for two offices. This
man is Emmett Sipe, a Fayette coun-
tlan, who is candidate for senator
In the Fayette county district and also
candidate for the House in the First
Fayette district. He is the candidate
or the Independent party and has pa
pers on file to show 1t. Sipe was a
candidate for a Republican House
nomination but lost and then filed his
papers. This is the first instance of
the kind on record
The time for filing Withdrawals of
candidates. will expire on Monday
and there has been quite a rush to
take names from the numerous legis-
lauVe nominations. Certifcation of
the official ballot to the various coun-
ties will take place next week.
Notice to Hunters.-Many men who
started the squirrel hunting season
without having obtained the State
hunters license and men who fail to
display the license tag on their sleeves
nave been reported to the Office of the
Stat Game Commission and an official
warming was issued to-day by DR.. Jo-
seph Kalbfus, secretary of the State
Game Commission, that such actions
would mean arrests ut is just as
important that the tag be worn as
provided by law as it is that the Ii
cense be secured" says Dr. Kalbfus
who will disregard this provision. The
State has sent plenty of the tags and
license blanks to county treasurers and
they are to be had. We want all
Fbunters to understand this matter so
that they will not get into trouble"
Tank Cars Escape.-In a decision
rendered by the Dauphin county court
to-day it is held that tank cars are a
part of the equipment necessary in the
manufacture of gasoline and therefore
exempt from State taxes The Inde-
pendent Refining Company, Ltd, con-
tended that a good part of it's capital
was tied up in the tank cars which
1t operated in the State and that they
were an essential part of its busi-
ness. The court held that the capital
invested in the cars was not taxable.
New Substitute nomi-
nations authorized by the Democratic
and Washington party state executive
committees were filed at the Capitol
to-day and the following Withdrawals
were also entered:
Congress s. S. Mann, Democrat,
Ninth; w. J. Moore. Keystone and
Bull Moose, Thirty-fi
Legislative-Josep H. Paschall and
Louis B. Disbrow, Prohibition, Sec
ond Delaware; John F. Schreck, S. H.
Richwine and E. G. Myers Democrat
Second Lancaster; w. o. Jenkins,
Washington. First Lackawanna; Frank
d. Selph, Democrat Tioga: Henry
VALLEY Davis Democrat Jesse Shall
cross and G. A. Hoffman, Washington,
Chester; G. K. Kline. E. e. Helman
and ]. c. F. Motz, Washington. Sec
ond Westmoreland
Among substitutons filed were
Ralph ellison, Prohibition, Lycoming,
legislative. and Carl D. Smith, Key
stone, Forty-fourth senatorial
NJ.
sanatorium at Hamburg will be for
mally inspected by Governor Tener
and Commissioner of Health Dixon
neXts Saturday and will be opened to
the public on the following day. The
first patients will be received on Oc-
tober 26.
Typhoid at Tower City.-State health
officials are investigating an outbreak
of typhoid fever at Tower City.
Thirty Cases. = There are thirty
cases, including those recommended
for release after parole, for the State
Board of Pardons next Wednesday. In
addition to the two Dauphin county
cases there are number which were
continued.
Many Hearings. Four days of
hearings have been fixed by the State
Public Service Commission for it's sec
ond October meeting next week, the
first hearing being to determine what
are just rates for hauling empty ice
cream freezers, which Is scheduled for
Tuesday. This is a case in which
the State Association of Ice Cream
Manufacturers and the express COM
panies are at odds. Tuesday will also
have a number of hearings on grade
crossings and on Wednesday twenty
contracts are to be submitted for ap-
proval, including abolition of four
grade crossings in Scranton. The Le-
high and New England Railroad has
asked approval of its purchase of the
Crane Railroad. Thursday the last
of the Industrial railroad hearings will
be held, FIVE short line" railroads be-
ing involved.
To Visit Many Orchards.-Dr II. A.
Surface, the State zoologist will start
series of demonstrations of methods
of controlling fruit tree pests in 900
orchards throughout the State during
November. The demonstrations. in
which Pennsylvania has taken the
lead, will be on more extensive scale
than ever known and will be con-
tinued until winter weather prevents
outdoor work,
More Wheat Raised. - Compilation
OF the reports sent to the State De-
partment of Agriculture by it's crop
reporters through some of the agri-
cultural countries show that intensive
farming is being practiced more wide
ly than ever in many sections. These
preliminary reports also indicate that
the wheat yield per acre has been ad-
cancing until the average is now nine
teen instead of seventeen. 1t Is esti-
mated that the wheat crop this year