Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-10
TOOK THE JUSTICE
FARTHEST AWAY
Powell and Young Passed by Six
Justices Nearer State
Capitol
THEN TOOK 1T TO DEMOCRAT
News of the Day Found About the
Departments of the State
Government
THEN TOOK 1T TO DEMOCRAT

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at Uniontown. BY agreement there
Will be no hearing, unless the Justice
desires 1t, the case being submitted
on papers. It is an attempt to get
Justice to do what Judge .McCarreIl
declined to do on the ground that
pubic interests required improvement
of roads.
In selecting Justice Mestrezat the
Two oh1c1als selected the justice farth-
est from the State Capital. Inciden-
tally, they picked the only Democrat
on the Supreme bench. OF course
thelr supporters and apologists say
that they are desirous of only get
ting the questions at issue determined
and that there is no politics in the
matter at ALL
However, the application was
mailed to Uniontown, about 200 miles
away, the officials passing by Justice
Brown at Lancaster; Justice Stewart
at Chambersburg; Justices Fell and
Won Moschisker at Philadelphia; JUS
tice Potter at Swarthmore and JUS
tice Elkin at Indiana. oh, very well.
Many Nisitors.-These are busy
days for the Capitol guides and the
register contains the names of people
from half a dozen foreign countries
and from twenty States this week.
Tomorrow a delegation of western
Pennsylvania school teachers will be
here to see the Capitol and Secretary
Houck will escort them about.
Plan Fair Visit.-Director Martin,
of the division of county Institutes. is
planning his series of visits to county
fairs and working out schedule of
farmers institutes. The series will
begin earlier than usual this Fall ow-
ing to demands.
Opinions Given.-An opinion was
given to-day by the Attorney Gem
erals Department to James Sweeney,
State chief of standards, to the effect
that inspectors of weights and meas
ures have no jurisdiction in regard to
automatic Weighing scales for the pur-
pose of weighing persons only or over
scales used by mine companies to
weigh coal for the purpose of deter
mining the wages payable to miners.
An opinion has been given to the
State Highway Department that the
State is bound to repair portions of
State highways condemned by the
State and lying within boroughs
Two AppointmentS.-J. L. Forward,
of Delaware county, was to-day re-
appointed a member of the State
Quarantine Board. Omer d. Cornish
was appointed a justice for Brook
nelQ township, llOSd county.
Big Bonus Paid.-The Greene
County Coal company, Pittsburgh, to-
day paid the State $500 as State
bonus on an increase of stock from
$4,000 to $1,632,000.
New Officers. Commissions as
Pennsylvania railroad special police
men were issued to-day to w. B.
Roat and E. J. Crawford, Dauphin
county.
Safety Committees.-,The electrical
device safety committee was in ses-
sion until a late hour last night at
the Capitol. To-day n safety COM
mittee for paper box factories is
meeting in Philadelphia with j. L..
Pennock representing the department.
a committee on rules of safety for
bolt, nut and rivet plants will meet
on Tuesday.
Still More Subsidiary and Food
Commissioner James Foust to-day or
dered more suits for violation of the
soft drink" act. The commissioner
says that the use of dyes and saccharin
must stop and that he will keep OH
making arrests until the practice
ceases.
Can Make Payments.-AudtiorG Cen
eral Powell has been advised that he
can pay appropriations for full salary
of members of the Legislature who
died or resigned during last session.
Will Prepare EXhibit.-Judge Charles
L. Brown. of the Municipal Court of
Philadelphia, says that he will prepare
an exhibit of guns and pistols taken
from mere boys in order to show the
next Legislature the necessity of enact
ing a law that will put a stop to the
carrying of such weapons.