Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-03


this is calculated to bring all of the
taxes for 1915 within the year. The
settlement of tax accounts has been
under way for months. some for 1914
being included. and the last of the
papers will be ready for the action of
the fiscal officers within a short time.
Prompt collections will bring in con-
siderable money for the State Treas
ury and enable the payment of the
school appropriation and Highway
Department road bonus. The State
balance is very low to-day and in
short time a demand for 100000 to
start the State insurance fund will
have to be met. This fund is for ad-
ministration of the fund.
ssoad Contracts to Be Lct.-Con-
tracts for two important sections of
State highway will be let on Septem-
her Is. They include 22,999 feet in
Henderson township, which will link
up Huntingdon and Mill Creek, sec
ton which has been criticised by the
Governor, and 11.7S9 feet on the Bal
timore pike, in Chester county. This
will connect Anvil and Kennett.
Getting in Farm Data.-Indication
are that Secretary of Agriculture
Critchfield will have quite bulletin of
farms for sale as a result of his call
lOI TIC newspapers 10 dSSlSI III ReJllnB
information. A number of letters have
already been received giving names
and locations of idle or rundown
farms, together with some which are
in good condition.
Mr.. Furman Retuns.-Paul n. Fur
man. chief of the Bureau of Statistics.
is home from vacation spent on the
Jersey coast.
Hearing in Pittsburgh.-The State
Industrial Board will meet in Pitts
burgh next Thursday to give a hear
ing on the proposed code for safety
and sanitation in cereal mills.
Big Payment Made. - The Great
Southern Lumber Company. in which
Harrisburgers are interested, yester-
day made a payment of 5000 in
State taxes to the State.
More Vinegar Cases. - Dairy and
Food Commissioner James Foust has
ordered forty-one more arrests for vio-
lation of vinegar laws, of which eleven
are in Philadelphia. Lebanon also
has some arrests. Men interested in
the manufacture and wholesaling of
vinegar have besn warned that the
act will be enforced.
Mr.. Davis to Investigate. - Attor-
ney General Brown to-day detailed
Deputy Attorney General Davis to
make an investigation of the reports
of alleged wholesale arrests of for
eigners in Western Pennsylvania
counties for violations of the new act
prohibiting foreigners from possess
ing dogs and efforts will be made
to have the number of prosecutions
reduced so that the enforcement of
the law will not be oppressive. In
case constables who have been bring
ing the suits do not agree to drop
some of them the attorney general will
take up the matter with district at
torneys and intervene. The policy of
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ney general will be to have enough
suits brought to demonstrate to the
persons not familiar with the new law
what is required.
Appointed Clerk. - Mrs. Catharine
E. McCaleb, widow of j. S. McCaleb,
formerly connected with the auditor
generals department was to-day ap-
pointed to a clerkship in the depart
ment of labor and industry.
Mr.. Flynn Here. Representative
John NJ. Flynn of Elk county was at
the Capitol for a brief visit. He was
considerably interested in the Harris
burg baseball team.
Pittsburgh Suits Brought. - Joseph
Berrier, chief clerk of the moving pic
ture censors returned last night from
Pittsburgh where he attended to
bringing some suits for violation of the
censorship law. The Pittsburgh Of
| flee has been practically organized.
Compliments For Summary. Di-
rector James n. Moore of the Legisla-
tive Reference Bureau, has been high
| ly complimented upon the summary
of the bills in the last House of Repre-
sentatives. 1t is the first issue of the
| kind and there is a big demand for it.
Scranton System Hit. Commits
sioner of Health Dixon has notified
Scranton that it's system of sewage
disposal does not meet with modern
requirements and that the storm wa
ter and house drainage must be kept
separate. The city is given a year to
prepare plans. 1t is estimated that the
change will cost S5.000,000.
Reappointed. - Dr. A. H. Reynolds
and DR.. Walter Fl. Fundenberg, of
Pittsburgh, were to-day reappointed
members of the State Dental Examin-
! ing Board.
Forester Promoted-H. w. Siggins,
one of the State foresters, was to-day
appointed clerk in the new Bureau
of Forest Protection.
He Was Too Late - Frank P. Big
| ham, of Lawrence county, who had
| filed a petition to be candidate for
Congress in the Twenty-fourth district
offered a withdrawal at the State De-
partment to-day. He was too late to
withdraw.
Dixon Congratulated. - Governor
Brum mbaugh, who to-day inspected the
State Department of Health tubercu-
losis exhibit, wired Commissioner of
Health Dixon: your exhibit is a
credit to you and to Pennsylvania. My
cordial congratulations"
Making Inspection. DR.. B. F.
Roger and II. E. Moses, sanitary en-
gineer, were to-day detailed by Com
missioner Dixon to go to Danville
State Hospital to discover the cause
of the typhoid fever outbreak.
Mr.. Knisely Spoke. J. Herman
Knisely of the bureau of municipal
statistics, has returned from Read
| ing where he represented the De-
partment of Labor and Industry at the
! Third Class City League Convention.
Mr.. Knisely told what the department
was endeavoring to do in regard to
gathering of municipal information
and offered the aid of the State in the
name of Commissioner Jackson.
OF For Northeast - Highway Com
missioner Cunningham left to-day for
Scranton and Hawley where he will
inspect toll roads and meet people in
terested in road improvement.
Meeting Put on - The meeting of
the Forestry Commission has been