The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-14
VOTE OF THE GUARD
COST NEARLY $4,000
Expense OF 1e Election Commission.
srs To Texas Was $7,456-Jus.
tlce Wallins Spent se,o4t.
Harrisburg

held last month One commissioner
has not filed his account. The com.
missioners were allowed ten cents a
mile for their trips to Harrisburg for in.
structions and supplies and for the trip
to and from FL Paso. The expenses do
not include the cost OF printing and
other expenses.
Justice Il. A. Walling elected to the
Supreme Court, filed an accounting for
S9,O41.79 expended in his campaign
This sum represents his personal eX
penditures and does not include any
of the contributions to Campaign Com.
mittee in his interest. He gave the
Erie County Campaign COMMITTEES
$3,2O9.05; the Republican State Com.
mittee, $2,5O0, and the Democratic
State Committee. $1,000. The Erie
County Walling Committee accounted
for the contribution from the Justice
and the Schuylklll County Walling
Committee for $685..
Congressman John r. X. Scott certi
fed to expenditure Of s2,1O5 with
s814.67 unpaid. He received no con.
tributions and gave the Republican
State Committee $1,000. Mr.. Scott
paid $500 to the Philadelphia Commit.
tee of Seventy for investigation Of
qualifications OF voters and 5000 to
detective agency for the same pur-
pose.
Certincations OF payment OF nothing
or less than $50 were made by A. G.
Graham, Washington candidate for
Congress-at,Large; Isaiah Scheline, c.
II. Ruhe, A. II. Kingsburv and +, D.
McCue, Democratic electoral candl.
dates. o. o. Bean, Republican elector,
accounted for $500.
Jltneys Declared Common Carriers.
Jitneys are common carriers within
the meaning of the Pennsylvania Pub
lie Service law and can only be ope.
rated when their owners have obtained
certificates OF public convenience from
the Public Service Commission which,
however. will grant authority to ope-
rate only when applicants for certlf'
icates show that they have safe and
adequate vehicles according to de-
cislon OF the commission. The opin'
ion was written by Chairman Ainey
and refuses a certificate TO Peter Greco,
against whose operation of a jtney
the Allegheny Valley Street Railway
had filed protest.
The opinion is the first in which the
commission has taken stand against
iitneys not of sufficient size to meet
demands OF traffic. It lays down rules
and under the decision will come prob
ably score or more OF jitney ope-
rators in western Pennsylvania. who
have been complained against, while
the case will furnish a precedent in
other cases which may be brought
commutation Asked For Murderer
Application was filed with the State
Board OF Pardons for Communication OF
the death sentence Of Fred Christy
Mercer county. convicted Of the murder
Of his father, John Christy, AS in the
cases Of the two Jefferson county mur.
ders, sentenced to die for the killing
of the father of one OF them, a plea
OF youth Is made. Christy Is only a
little over seventeen. He asserts that
another person did the actual killing
and that he was adjudged guilty Of first
degree murder on submission of his
case after withdrawing a plea Of not
guilty; the person whom he charges
with the murder being acquitted.
Ask Holiday Ruling On Work Hours
Representatives of employers asked
the State Industrial Board to permit
two hours extra work each day the
week preceding Christmas for female
employees. Christmas falls on Monday
and the law provides that in holiday
weeks women and girls may work two
hours extra a day not In excess OF
total OF fifty-four hours to make up the
loss of time. The EMPLOYERS would
like to have them work the week be-
fore. during the rush, instead OF the
week following. The Attorney General
will be consulted before ruling Is
made.
Quail To Be Brought To Pennsylvania
DR.. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary OF the
State Game Commission. received
telegram from one Of the representa-
tives of the commission that he had
arrived in Texas from Mexico with
5000 Mexican quail for distribution
throughout that State. This is the
largest lot ever brought into this coun'
try for the States propagation work.
The quail will be kept In captivity until
Spring, being distributed throughout
farms whose owners have agreed 10
care for them.
Whltewashing Casual Employment.
Whitewashing a fence on back lot
is casual employment and person In
jured in such employment cannot claim
compensation, was the decision given
by Referee q. X. Saylor in the claim
of Lewis Stambaugh, of Boiling Springs
1t settles a question as to casual EN-
ployment.
schwab Buys Fifty Memberships
Charles NJ. Schwab took fifty mem.
berships in the Harrisburg Chamber OF
Commerce for officials and others con-
nected with the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany
Australia boasts Of the tallest trees