Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-03

TO pay for water or sewage improve
ments in accordance with DEGREES of
the Governor. Attorney General and
Commissioner of Health.
Some of the elections have aroused
so much interest that local officials
have asked the department for de-
allied information about the projects.
Engineers of the department have
gone to a number of the towns in re-
sponse to invitations to set before the
people the ideas of the State officials.
Every year has seen an increase of
the activities of the department and
its mandates have been backed up
In practically every community.
Commission to Meet.-The State
Game Commission will probably have
meeting here within six weeks to
discuss proposed changes to the game
laws. Steps will also be taken to ap-
prove locations of game preserves sub
Ject to the making of appropriations
therefor.
Big Hearigs Due.-when the Pub
lie Service Commission meets to-
morrow 1t will resume hearings on not
only the objections of the telephone
companies to the proposed schedule
of rates, but will also consider the
charges of excessive rates made by
the Manufacturers Association of
York and Lancaster against the Penn
sylvania railroad for hauling coal from
the Clearfield region.
In addition the commission has re-
ceived a number of complaints out of
the ordinary, one being by the Glen
Rock Motor Club, of Glen Rock, York
county, which declares that the York
and Maryland Line Turnpike Company
does not maintain its road in good
condition. This is the first complaint
to be made before the commission by
motor club.
The Denver and Ephrata Telephone
and Telegraph Company complains
that the Ephrata and Lebanon Trac-
ton Company is about to string a
heavy cable containing wires for a
high voltage which it is elaimed will
destroy the telephone service by in
duction. This is also the first COM
plant of the kind to be made.
Numerous complaints about service
of water companies are also on file.
1T having been found that in some To-
calitieS water supplies are low.
Tree Shipments Keep Up.-In spite
of the war in Belgium importations
of considerable nursery stock nilled
from Antwerp and Client have been
reported to the State Department of
lOI lllSptCllOl dl ltlG port
of Philadelphia. The Belgian houses
send four-fifths of the nursery and
garden stock from abroad and it was
thought that the war would end the
shipments. State reports show that
Japanese firms are commencing to in
crease such shipments because of the
European war.
After Cattle Pest.-Officials of the
State Livestock Sanitary Board to-day
stated that known cases of foot and
mouth disease existed at Pittsburgh.
West Chester and Grater's Ford and
that there were two herds in Lancas-
ter county under suspicion. Acting in
conjunction with the federal authori-
Ties. agents of the board have es-
tablished a strict quarantine. and ami
mails will be released from stock yards
under surveillance only for purposes
of immediate slaughter. All cattle
imported into the State from Buffalo
or Chicago are being traced by agents
of the board. State Veterinarian C. ].
Marshall has established temporary
headquarters at Pittsburgh, where he
is handling the quarantine for the
western part OF the State and keeping
in close touch with the, situation in
eastern counties by long distance tele-
phone. The Livestock Board offices
here were open to-day in spite of the
holiday.