Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-30
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me whole State is once more go
ing through the uncertainty which
toliows Statewide primary for
nominations for one of the highest of
the appellate courts and IL is prob
Soie that the next Legislature will
oe asked TO take steps to hasten tina
computation of returns. Under the
present law the Secretary of the Com.
monwealth can receive only the OF
ncial returns from counties and -
some or them do not finish the counts
Tor ten days 1t means that official re-
suits VIII not be known here until
some time after Tomorrow October
will begin with hardly more than
half of the official returns in hand
although the primary was held on
September 21. The official count will
be required to ascertain whether any
Of the candidates for Superior Court
can be considered elected because they
received more than fifty-one per cent.
under the nonpartisan judicial act.
Dozens of inquiries have been made
daily at the Capitol by telephone,
telegram and mail for information re-
garding the nominations and the re-
marks made when people find that
they are unable to secure information
of definite nature indicate that there
will be something doing in the way of
suggestions to the next Legislature
A report which is held by the
State Board of Education to demon
strate the value of training of miners
has just reached the offices. 1t shows
that in one of the anthracite districts
six years ago there was an accident
for each 100000 tons of coal. This
was before the schools for miners and
the systematic effort to teach mine
workers English had been inaugural
ed. Last year In the same district
there was one accident for each D.
500, 600 tons of coal. The district has
number of schools for miners and
practically everyone can understand
some English.
Official count of the Fall primary
vote which has just been completed
has revealed some curious instances
of the personal preferences of certain
electors insofar as their choice of
nominees is concerned. For instance,
j. Harry Stroup, one OF the clerks in
the county commissioners office got
two votes for district attorney; p. S.
Blackwell got a vote for county con-
troller and both Washington and
Democratic candidates got Socialist
votes while not few of the Republi-
can candidates got sprinkling of
| Washington and Democratic votes.
For instance, w. w. Caldwell, prison
inspector, James e. Lentz, Mark
Mumma and Henry NJ. Stine all got
I few of these votes which were writ
ten upon the ballots.
Harrisburg's success as an Inter
! national Baseball League town has
| been a big advertisement for the city.
| During the past two weeks, no less
than thirty inquiries have been made
for dates for exhibition games. Every
body that has a ball team with some
special attraction wants to play in
Harrisburg. Connie Mack, manager
of the Athletics, had two regular
games cancelled on him last week.
| He did not want to quit the season
right off, so wrote to Harrisburg for
a date. He got it. Every major league
team in the east now wants game
in Harrisburg. Managers are already
writing in for early Spring games next
year.
| Colonel John A. Elliott, of Phila-
delphia, yesterday presented to Gov
ernor Brumbaugh the reminder" of
his talk across the continent over the
Bell lines early in September. The
testimonial was signed by everyone
who heard the talk and the names of
| many prominent men appear on the
list. It contains the Capitol and the
Pennsylvania building in pen and ink
and statement of the occasion.
/
| The "red arrow route, as the line
of highways to be followed by Gov
ernor Brumbaugh's Seeing Pennsyl-
vania tour next week is known, begins
right at the door of Harrisburg. The
first arrow is at Lemoyne and points
to Carlisle. Everywhere along the $50
miles which constitute the route to
be followed, the red arrows have been
attached to the markers and there
will be no excuse for missing the way
from Harrisburg to Philadelphia. In
the Cumberland Valley there are half
J a dozen red arrows.