Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-08
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Operation of Pennsylvania's new
escheat law, whereby unclaimed bank
deposits andd other valuable thing
must be reported to the auditor gem
eral so that the Commonwealth may
take steps to secure them is being at
tended by no end of correspondence
and some indignant inquiries from
corporations to know how it can et-
feet them. Under the law the re-
ports must be filed by January 81 am.
nually and failure to make a report
is punishable by fine which may go
up to $4,000. The law was drafted
by Attorney General Francis Skunk
Brown primarily to get for the State
unclaimed bank deposits, but was
elaborated. A blank was sent to every
corporation paying a State tax be-
cause the law covers any valuable
property which is unclaimed and a
number of officers of corporations
have written to the State Capitol de-
manding to know why they should be
called on to make such reports while
one man at the head of a concern
which manufactures machinery want
ed to know why he was classed with n
bank. The banks of the State, which
have hundreds of small accounts, some
started by a depositor and given up,
or others which contain balances not
used up, are making reports and some
cate that they will be glad to clear
their books of the inactive accounts.
What the law requires: reports on
bank deposits which have been in
active for fourteen consecutive years,
money or property held for storage
or safe keeping which has not been
touched or visited by owners for seven
years, dividends or profits not paid
for three years, debts and interest due
any creditor and not paid for three
years and any property held for bene-
| fit OF person and not demanded
within seven years.
| Arthur E. Chapman. the member of
tho State Game Commission who died
| a few days ago just after having been
| lreappointed for the third time, was
| one nf the prominent men in Bucks
county, He was a native of old
Doylestown and in 1869 graduated
| from Princeton. He was admitted to
the Bucks county courts and was the
| last direct male descendant of a fam
| fly that has been prominent in Bucks
county since the days of William
| Penn. Because of i'll health after he
was admitted to tile bar, Mr.. Chap
man soon abandoned the practice of
law. He lived on a farm and spent
much of his time in the open. His
skill with rife and shotgun was re-
| markable. He could duplicate the
| fancy shooting of Buffalo Bill and 9TH
er professional experts and was
! highly successful hunter. His knowl-
| edge of natural history was extensive
and he was a recognized authority on
game subjects. He never married.
Mr.. Chapman was a cousin of Attor-
ney General Francis Skunk Brown
both being grandsons of Governor
Francis Rawn skunk
OF all the thousands of Telegraph
readers who saw the account few
days ago of the death of Grenville W.
Dodge, the railroad king, none read
the little story with quite the samo
feeling as City Engineer NJ. B. Cow
den. Mr.. Dodge gave the city engi-
neer his first job.
| Way back in 1872 Mr.. Cowden was
in faraway Marshall, Texas. lie was
very young-it doesn't matter how
Iyoung-far from home, without JOB
and with scarcely five dollars in his
lpocket He did have letters of in
| PRODUCTION from the Northern Contra 4
Railroad and from some other in
Iuential men in this section! So he
called upon President Dodge and told
his story. President Dodge gave him
a position as aXman on his engineer
| ing corps.
den in telling the story. II read tho
account of Mr.. Dodse's death with q
little different feeling, l guess, than
most of the readers of the Telegraph.
He was surely friend in need that
time, and at that time the need was
mighty urgent"
Among visitors to the State Capitol
Yesterday was Walter Warren, who
lis in charge of one of the biggest paw
ling enterprises in the western part oil
the country. He has headquarters ut
Portland Q came here to observe the
State Highway Department METHODS
Owners of some turnpikes who nave
refused to quote prices which the
| commonwealth of Pennsylvania can
entertain for the purchase of Their
properties are liable to wake UP some
morning next Spring and find work
under way for parallelling their roads.
The State has been working Tor
months to buy number of turnpikes
so that toll gates can be taken down,
n dozen negotiations being under way
but in most cases the prices asked are
away above market prices for stocks
The result has been that SOME sur
views of ways TO connect with other
highways so that travel may How
around toll gates instead of through
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