Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-10

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=E2 one-fourth as in
| - years gone by has
caused State officials to keep in close
touch with the manner of assessment
in the counties and compilation of
the valuations as returned by the
counties for 1915 is being made at
last of the personal property tax in
1914 when some balances were Sc
cured.
| Under the State administration of
the tax the values went away above
the billion dollar mark, Pennsylva-
mia returning moro personal property
for taxation than any other State and
last year when the 1914 figures were
made UP 1t was shown that some
counties had slipped back, although
there had been no marked loss of
wealth. For about five years the
State retained from a million to a
million and q quarter dollars for its
share of the personal property tax
and in the present low state of the
/ finances it is much regretted at the
\ Capitol.
| Last session a couple of bills were
/ pIcsSnleu u repeal the act HldhllS
the tax wholly a county tax, but they
did not get anywhere, but the low
| finances will cause similar bills to ap-
pear next time in the opinion of the
| fiscal officers. Hence the care which
is being taken to watch up the valu-
ations and not to let them slip down.
1000 Injured Every Day. - More
than a thousand workmen in one
branch of industry or another in
! PnnngVlVania
according to reports received at the
bureau of statistics and information
at the Department of Labor and In
dustry. The reports filed yesterday
showed that 1890 had been hurt more
or less seriously in the industrial es-
adjustments of the Commonwealth.
OF this number seven died from their
injuries. Tuesdays reports showed
that 1910 had been injured, twenty
one of which were fatal The records
were shattered, however. by yester-
days returns.
Cumberland Gets Fish. - Dilstribu-
ton of young trout which has been
successfully carried on by the State
Fisheries department in a number of
the southwestern counties of the
State tire last two weeks in spite of
the weather, will be started next week
in Lackawanna and Luzerne coun-
ties. The requests for trout from
SeCIlOn
agreed to look after the distribution
mounts in the thousands and not all
can be granted. The most successful
planting in long time was done last
week in Cumberland county.
School Fund Grows. - The States
permanent school fund will go over
100000 in its permanent invest
ments in a short time as it now has
iS1S4,0 invested in bonds and near
I fn ifc In, ha
State Treasury. The State Fire Insur-
ance fund, which will ultimately take
care of all State fire insurance, now
amounts to almost 100000 of which
$137,00 is in bonds.
Find Many EmpIOyment.-The Bu-
lreau of Employment of the Depart
ment of Labor and Industry found
positions for 363 unemployed workers
during January. At the Philadelphia
offices 267 positions were filled by 2SS
men and 29 women. The Harrisburg
office found work for 63 men and one
woman. The Johnstown office placed
10 men and II women in employment.
Within the next few weeks the Bureau
will establish an additional branch Of
flee in Pittsburgh.
Complaint From Easton.-Complaint
was filed with the Public Service Com
mission this morning by the Pennsyl-
Vania Utilities Company, whose offices
are located in Easton. Pa, against the
! Lehigh Navigation Electric Company
and the Kramer Hosiery Company, OF
! Nazareth, Pa, on the ground that the
Lehigh company has been supplying
light, heat and power within the bor-
ough of Nazareth without a certificate
from the Public Service Commission
and without lawful municipal consent.
1t was claimed that the first party
against whom complaint is filed had
| mA6l n
tricity to the second party, the Kramer
! Hosiery Company, located within the
borough of Nazareth. John e. Fox
and John r. Geyer, of Harrisburg, are
attorneys for the complainant, who
made a request for q hearing and in
vestigation.
Auto Receipts Break Records.-The
receipts of the automobile division of
the State Highway Department up to
and including February for 1916
are S1,201,709. The total receipts for
the year 1914 were $1,1S4,646.5O. 1t
is expected that the receipts from the
registration and licensing of motor
vehicles in Pennsylvania for 1916 will
exceed S2,000,000.
Fight Compensation. - A dispatch
| from Mahanoy City says: THE Lehigh
| Valley Railroad Company will be the
| first corporation in the State to test in
court the compensation act. The COM
| pdly lldS IeluS6u 10 dCCeDL lIS decision
| in the case of William Riddle, who
was killed by his own train in the De-
| lano yards January 5. leaving a wife
and three children. The railroad COM
pany has refused to accept the claim,
and it puts up the defense that 1t is
subject to interstate and not state reg
ulations."
! Has Relatives Here. Robert A.
Pitts. just appointed chief of the Phila-
delphia elevator bureau, is a brother
in-law of II. c. Motherwell, supervis-
ing State elevator inspector Mr.. Pitts
is a Republican leader of West Phila-
delphia and also one of Philadelphia's
best known architects and builders.
n. G. p. Changes.-Major William
A. Raub, OF the Thirteenth Infantry,
| National Guard of Pennsylvania,
Scranton, was to-day appointed lieu
| tenant-colonel Colonel James H. Big
ger, of the Eighteenth Infantry, Pitts
burgh, was to-day placed on the re-
tired list of the National Guard at his
own request.
Boy at Alter Home.-Word was re-
ceived at the Capitol to-day that boy
had arrived at the home of ex-Speaker
George f. Alter. The Speakers family
consisted of two girls. Friends of the
noted Pittsburgher wired him their
congratulations.