Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-03

zAs---A February IS
-. --:::Sss3 III oun ting to
$179,2lO.27. The receipts for Febru-
airy We're but $7,643.51, the big sum
received in January being for oleo
licenses, of which over 1900 were
issued. The income of the department
Is already greater than it's appropria-
tion for two years work.
During February the pure food law
fines amounted to $1,772.10 and the
oleo licenses $2,774.26. the sum of
$1,000 being received from fines for
violation of the oleo law. Fines for
the sale of bad eggs netted $407.S5
and cold storage fines $19O.30.
During February % suits for viola
ton OF food laws were brought, most
of them in Allegheny. Philadelphia,
Montgomery and Erie counties. Two
of the suits were for sale of cold stor-
age products not properly labelled.
five for violations of the milk laws and
five for selling soft drinks not what
they were represented to be. Three
suits for the sale of doctored coffee
were also brought.
Feeding Birds. Sportsmen and
farmers in almost every part of the
State have responded to the call to
feed the deer and quail and other
blizzard weather, says DR.. Joseph
! kalbfus, secretary of the State game
commissioners. 1--WE have issued calls
for people to feed the game, so that
they Will have 1t in the Fall, and ]
have heard of scores OF places where
men have gone miles into the woods
with corn to scatter around for the
birds" says DR.. Kalbfus. Some asso-
Citations have organized committees
TnsNy tGt.N l-J
nobly
The Coal TaX.-Action in regard to
the course of the State in the test of
the anthracite coal tax will be taken
within the next few days, when repre-
sentatives of the Attorney General S
department will have q conference
with Auditor General A. w. Powell.
The Attorney Generals office prepared
a demurrer to the test. but the Auditor
General is said to desire to make some
changes to the form of proceeding.
Meanwhile the preparation of bills for
| the taxes will be held back a short
! time.
To Consider WelL-State Forestry
Commissioners. who are to meet Fri
day, Will promulgate their regulations
| regarding auxiliary forest reserves
which are expected to farm an impor-
| tant branch of the conservation work
| of the State this year. The appli-
| cations for inclusion in the reserves
| are accommodating rapidly and as soon
as the weather permits inspections will
| be made. Some of the tracts offered
10 the state are in eastern counties
including farming communities where
eHorts are being made to secure better
water supply.
Companies at Odds.-A fight be-
tween telephone companies has been
brought to the attention of the Public
Service Commission ih the form of a
complaint by the State Belt Telephone
and Telegraph Company that the Blue
Mountain Telephone and TELEGRAPH
Company discriminates in rates for
| service. The companies operate in
northampton county. 1t is also COM
planned that the crossing rules of the
commission are not observed.
Notary Named. - Enoch Dauben-
speck, of Snyders, was to-day named
as q notary public.
Member Here. - Representative &
| a. Whitaker. of Phoenixville, was at
the Capitol to-day.
Local ChafterS.-Charters were is
sued at the Capitol to-day to the Pax
ton Pressed Brick Company, of this
city, capital $4,000; incorporators
Robert Mccormick, Joel d. Justin and
l1eHly VI. GroSS, Harrisburg; Raby
Hinton & Co, art glass, Mechanics
burg, capital $4,000; incorporators
w. III. Raby an A. e. Martin, New
Kingston; William Hinton and It. L.
| Breen, Mechanicsburg. and w. C. Kill
linger. Harrisburg; Baker Engineering
Co., Mechanicsburg, capital $4,000,
ice cream and similar machinery; in
| corporators. George E. Lloyd, Charles
Eberly and R. e. Rakestraw, Mechan
icsburg, and w. c. Hardy, Philadel-
| phia.
Camp Hill Hearing.-The hearing on
the Camp Hill water rate cases will
| be held Thursday. The Middletown
water cases will be heard on March 10
Governor at Reading. - Governor
Tener and Secretary Gather left this
afternoon for Reading, where the Gov
ernor speaks at the Elks' banquet,
Panama Building-The bids for the
State building at the Panama ex-
| position will be opened here March az.
Commissioners Notified.-The county
commissioners OF every county i'm the
| State were to-day sent q notice by
Secretary McAfee of the approaching
primary. This notice complies with
legal requirements at this time.