Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-09
CAN'T DISCHARGE
GAME LAW CONVICT
Attorney Generals Department
Gives Opinion Regarding Jail
Terms For Violators

A County commits
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kSSS\NJS men sentenced to
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iii 91iSNsSaf6hSS1 States game laws,
Ak;nN. RTlfNH ! a c or d n g to an
HIgUUSSvS opinion given to the
EA s--=-A State Game Com
e. aEzaaBlAAe mission by Deputy
Attorney General Horace w. Davis.
For some time past complaints have
been made that county commissioners
have been discharging, under acts re-
, lating to debtors, persons who nave
/ been committed to prison in default OF
fine, II being the rule that they shall
serve one day for each dollar of fine
they fail to pay. 1t is held that county
commissioners cannot interfere with
such sentences, the only authority to
do so being vested in the courts, and
then only in certain procedure.
The opinion further says that the
action of any sheriff in releasing
prisoner without an order of court and
before he has served the sentence rem
ders the sheriff and his sllreties liable
for the amount of the fine. The Game
Commissioners are advised to notify
! the sheriffs that in event of illegal dis
be proceeded against.
To Try Ffftcen.-Fifteen men will
| be tried in various courts of the State
! this month on charges of arson brought
| BY the State Fire Marshal's deputies.
The number is the largest known for
a single month since the first of the
year.
To Discuss sTax.-Arrangemen have
been made by Auditor General Powell
| fnr n hnt a
tives of coal producers and the State
| officials in charge of taxation to be
| held here on July l 3 for discussion of
the coal tax collection.
Taking Samples. - Numerous SAM
pies of breakfast foods bought in
Philadelphia and other cities of the
State are being dispatched to State
College chemists for analysis and for
examination to see if they are in ac-
cord with labels and if they are free
from insects and Vermin Hundreds
of samples have been taken in the last
few days and the State laboratories
are busy on them.
To Inspect Roads. - Highway Com
missioner Cunningham Will make a
visit to the vicinity of Loretto where
ICharles NJ. Schwab has offered to bear
part of the cost of improving State
Highways to see what will be required
THE offer of Mr. Schwab is the first
from private citizen for an extensive
improvement and If possible the
State will take it up.
Meets Next Week. - The Public
Service Commissioners will meet Tues
day, in Pittsburgh where the West
moreland Water Company cases in
volving water service for large areas
in Westmoreland county and number
of boroughs will be taken up The
following three weeks meetings will
be held in Harrisburg.
Twenty-one Arrests.-Agents of the
State Department of Labor and In
dustry brought twenty-one prosecu-
tions for violation of the women S
employment law during the last ten
days of June. In addition fifteen ar
lrests were made for violating the law
irelative to employment of minors.
Wanted For Bigamy. - Governor
IBrumbaugh has honored a requisitlon
from the governor of Connecticut for
return to Stamford of w. j. Kaylor
charged with bigamy.
On the Way. - Highway Commits
soner Cunningham and his party left
this morning for Delaware county
where they begin the first section OF
the inspection of roads in Southern
lcounties. They will be in York and
Adams late to-day.
Mr.. White Here. - H. V. White, one
of the new commissioners of agricul-
Iture, was Capitol visitor to-day.
Lancaster Charter. - The Union
Savings Systems company, of Lancas-
tier, was incorporated yesterday with
l$5O,000 capital. The incorporators are
III. NJ. Martin, w. S. Taylor and Ira
w, Arnold, all of Lancaster.
To Get Balance. - The State school
fund will receive a check for $4,000
representing income from forestry re-
lservations within q day or so. II
will be invested and added to the s70,-
600 now in hand
Boroughs UniIed. - Papers certify.
ling to the merger of Vandergrift and
Vandergrift Heights have been filed ir
the State department.
Senator Here. - Senator 5. j. Mil
Her of Clearfeld, was a visitor to the
Capitol yesterday.