Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-21
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An opinion just rendered to the
State Game Commission by Attorney
General John c. Bell throws some in
teresting light upon the extent of the
rights enjoyed by Pennsylvania on
the Delaware river as far as hunting
and arrests for violation of the game
laws are concerned. A number of
questions involving these rights have
bobbed up in the last few years and
after search the Attorney General
finds that Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey have an agreement which is en-
tirely different from that between
Pennsylvania and New York. BY an
agreement made between Pennsylva-
mia and New Jersey in 1888 the arrest
OF criminal is permitted on any part
of the river between the States with
out limiting Jurisdiction to offenses
committed on the river. Therefore,
Keystone State game commission
officer can arrest person on the river
for an offense committed on the Della
ware or in the State of Pennsylvania
BY the act of 1889 the States of New
York and Pennsylvania established a
boundary line in the river and there
Is no such agreement as prevails be-
tween Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Ihe authority of game officers extends
only to the boundary line between
these two States in the river and not
over the whole river as is the case in
that portion between Pennsylvania
and New Jersey. In the same opinion
the Attorney General says that the
pennsylvania hunters license law does
not allow a man to hunt beyond the
boundary line between Pennsylvania
and New Jersey. as there is no agree
ment on hunting rights. The Della
ware lis and shall continue to be and
M oh lxr
free and open for the use, benefit and
advantage" of the two States. but the
chief law officer holds that does not
include hunting.
During January criminal court last
week District Attorney Stroup and o
rather defiant woman witness had a
lively little wordy set-to. The defend
ant in the case was the alleged f1ance
OF the woman and alleged to be her
star boarder." District Attorney
Stroup enlarged upon that
He's your sole boarder, isn't he
your sole lodger?"
The witness bridled; quite evidently
she had different idea of the SPELL
ing of the word in mind.
Indeed he's not" she snapped. "I
don't go in for this soul stuff or affinity
nonsense''-
Pardon me. madam" said Mr..
Stroup, It said 'sole'-s-o-l-e. Get
it?"
We'll. time flies" remarked Colonel
Lewis E. Beitler, the hustling and effi-
cient executive officer of the Gettys-
burg Semicentennial Commission, yes
terday afternoon. 1T is just nineteen
years ago since l came to Harrisburg
as the secretary to Daniel H. Hastings.
who was inaugurated as Governor.
have seen good many people come
and go and l have also seen Harris
burg develop, and 1 tell you Harris
burg people that you have done a
great deal for your city and preserved
and beautified its beautiful river
front"
Speaker George e. Alter, of Allie.
gheny county, who was here yesterday
to make the argument for the railroad
brotherhoods at the. hearing before
the Public Service Commission, comes
from the Cumberland Valley q couple
of generations back. Mr.. Alters an
ancestor came to Philadelphia a few
years after Penn. One of his sons
moved into the Cumberland Valley
and the station of Alterton, near New
vile. attests the name. Mr.. Alters
grandfather moved to Allegheny
county in 1900 with a number of other
people from this section. On his
mothers side he comes from the we'll
known Lands family of Lancaster,
which has been in this country for a
couple of centuries, so that he is q
Pennsylvania through and through.
People here who have noticed the
boom of Judge Robert S. Frazer, of
Pittsburgh, for Supreme Court justice
will recall the days he spent in this
city. He served for number of years
as corporation clerk in the Auditor
Generals Department and is remem-
bered as a genial and very capable
official.
There should not be any exsuse for
high prices of ice in this city next
summer because the weather has
offered excellent chances for an
abundant harvest. Last winter the
ice cutters had hard work to fill their
houses and real thick ice was hard to
find. This year eighteen-inch Ice has
been reported from a number Of rural
districts and farmers with ice houses
have filled up early The valleys near
the city have had some exceedingly
cold weather and the ice barons need
not have to go far if they have not
cut.