Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-04

report made to the Governor by the
State Game Commission and thousands
of dollars were saved to the State treas
ury through running down of wholesale
frauds. The bounties are paid from
proceeds of the hunters license act and
1t was found that not only were scalps
of tame cats foisted upon the State.
but that magistrates in rural districts
had abetted perjuries, while skins were
shipped into Pennsylvania from Canada
or New York State and bounties claim
ed on them as killed in this State.
Various owls and hawks were killed
and bounties claimed for prescribed
birds. The reports show that numer-
Gus convictions for perjury, including
some officers of the law were obtained.
The State paid Sc bounty each for
7s2 wildcats; So each for 4,74S gray
foxes and 4.911 red foxes and 81 each
for 4,o14 minks. The bounty for the
weasels was 81 each. Potter. 1859
bounties of all kinds, other northern
tier counties also having large claims,
Bradford being second with 2,233 and
Tioga third.
In North CaroIina.-Governor Brum-
baugh is speaking in North Carolina
to-day. He will visit the governor at
Raleigh.
ditor Generals department to-day
complied with q request of the State
Anthracite Coal Price probing COM
mission for the reports of production
of all coal operators in the State which
have been filed at the Capitol. There
were about $50 operators who re-
ported, covering part of 1918, all of
1914 and part of 1915 under the act
| of 1913 and for some production since
that time under the act of 1915.
Expense Accounts. - Charles E.
Rice, Republican elector. to-day filed
an accounting for SIS contributed to
| the Republican State committee. Ger
| tificates that they spent less than $50
were filed by Alfred Guerrero, Single
| Tax candidate for Congress- at large
and by r. e. Weaver, Alvin Rohrbach
and Frank Krotek, Industrialist cleo
| tors.
Capitol Visitors. - Among the visi-
tors to the Capitol to-day were Rep
resentative w. J. McCaig, of Pitts
burgh, and Chester w. Hill, former
collector of the port of Philadelphia.
O'Neil Ready. - Insurance Com
missioner ]. Denny O'Neil, who came
here from Pittsburgh this morning to
| take up departm entail matters, will
leave for Philadelphia this afternoon.
I expect to see Mr.. Whitley at
| o'clock in Philadelphia" said the COM
missioner. Further than that he
would not discuss the cases which are
set for hearings in the week of the
l
No Action on Rates. - Members of
the Public Service Commission will
be so occupied in hearing applica-
| tions for approval of various matters
and in hearings that they will not be
likely to hold an executive session to
consider the Philadelphia commuta-
| ton rates to-day. The executive ses-
sion is scheduled for tomorrow.
Five to Hear From. - Five coun-
ties filed their official returns to-day
| They were Bradford, Westmoreland
Crawford, Warren and Wayne. Five
counties have not filed their returns
and the Secretary of the Common
wealth sent inquiries as to the reason
be started as soon as the missing coun-
ties file.
For Insurance Reform. - As a re-
suit of meeting in Philadelphia Sat-
urday of the executive committee of
the Philadelphia Life Underwriters
Association, that committee will meet
State Insurance Commissioner J. Dem
! ny ONeil during the present week to
urge that he take the initiative to have
the next session of the Legislature en-
act insurance laws for Pennsylvania
as stringent as those now in force in
New York, Massachusetts and Connec-
| ticut
Allen to Speak. Albert L. Allen,
assistant manager of the State Work.
| mems Insurance Fund, will discuss
Merits and Dement'S of Different
Methods of Carrying Workmen's Com
! pensation Insurance." tomorrow, at
the conference on social insurance
held by the international Association
of Industrial Accident Boards and
Commissions at Washington, d. c.