Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-02
PARK EXTENSION
OPINION DOWN
Late Jottings About Activities
in Capitol Hill
Offices

ways for the Capitol Park EXten-
sion Commission to make disburse-
ments in payment for properties are
outlined in an opinion given to the
commission to-day by Deputy Attor-
ney General Joseph L. Kun, to whom
certain questions were referred.
Mr.. Kun says that the commission
should receive written authorization
that the amount of awards should be
used for payment of mortgages or
taxes where such matters exist. In
case the agreement cannot be made or
there is dispute regarding liens, it
will be the duty of Auditor General to
draw a warrant for the amount of the
award on the State Treasurer, who will
make payment into court, and distri-
button follow in proper form.
The commission may secure aft1-
davits to satisfy itself as to persons
to whom payments should be made.
1t is said that one of the speeches
presenting the name of the Governor
at Chicago will be delivered by Deputy
Attorney General Emerson Collins.
Congressman w. 5. Ware is also eX-
pected to speak.
j. Linn Harris of Bellefonte, Re-
publican state committeeman from
Center county, was at the Capitol to-
day.
The Public Service Commission to-
day received word that the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company would con-
slider the complaints about Pennsyl-
Vania and Reading trains not being ar
ranged so as 10 afford convenient con-
nections here when the new schedules
are made up. The complaint came too
late for the May rs schedule.
Governor Brumbaugh has approved
the merger of the Bucks County and
Doylestown Electric Companies into
the Pennsylvania-New Jersey Power
and Light Company with capital or
100000. Sydney l.. Wright, Phila-
delphia, is the president of the merged
company and Gaylord Thompson,
| Trenton, vice-president.
The State Forestry Commission was
to-day offered tract of $500 acres In
Luzerne county for inclusion in the
State auxiliary forest reserves. Next
to tract in Forest county, this is the
largest property offered for the
auxiliaries.
John j. Curley, of Philadelphia,
treasurer of the Liebel compaign COM
mittee, to-day filed an expense ac-
count showing receipts of $3.50 from
Michael Liebel, Jr.. of Erie, candidate
for Democratic national committee
man, and expenditures of $3,SSl.44
+. j. Lenahan, candidate for alternate
at-large, certified to eXpending $1,000
and statements of less than $50 spent
were made by John Jay McDevitt,
Dallas Bumbaugh, w. j. Burke and
George T. Weingartner.
Daniel Young. Jr., was to-day ap
pointed alderman of the 21st ward,
Scranton.
w. f. Mair, lieutenant of State Po-
lice, was to-day appointed captain and
assigned to command Troop ID sue
ceeding Thomas NJ. Weichard, cap
tain, who resigned after ten years
service with the State police.
Governor Brumbaugh to-day ap-
pointed DR.. Edgar NJ. Green. of Eas-
ton, member of the advisory board
of the State Department of Health, to
succeed the late DR. G. w. Guthrie, of
Wilkes Barre.
The Attorney Generals Department
| to-day brought suit against heirs of
Ephraim Porter of Mercer county, for
$l,775, representing accumulated fines
for failure to remove a building de-
clared a menace by the State fire
marshal The building is located at
Jane estown and notices to remove
were ignored.
Thirty-one complaints against jit-
reys operating in Scranton were filed
to-day by the Scranton Railways
Company, making eighty-six COM
planned of as violating the Public
Service Company law in Lackawanna
county. The commission to-day set
June 13 at Wilkes-B Barre, as the time
for hearing argument and testimony
on Luzerne county jitney cases of
which there are 236 pending.
The White Silica Sand Co, of st.
Mary's, to-day complained that the
Pittsburgh, Shawmut and Northern
Railway had discontinued it's pas
senger service from ST. Mary's to
Sands thereby depriving its men of
the only means of transportation.
The State Fire MarshaPs Office to-
Gay received word that in investiga-
tion of a fire at Altoona in the home
of Joseph Stein, it was found that
Philip Stein, aged 4, had caused the
blaze. The boy confessed, according
to the State authorities, that when he
was refused permission to go some
place he got angry and set fire to a
curtain.