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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-22
KUNKEL UPHOLDS
JUDICIAL ACT
Dismisses Bill Seeking to Pre-
vent Enforcement of Law
For Clinton

President Judge George Kunkel
to-day ruled that the recent act of
Legislature designating Clinton coun-
ty as a separate judicial district, is
constitutional and dismissed a bill
which had been filed to prevent Cy-
rus e. Woods, Secretary of the Conn
monwealth, from serving notice of
the election of a judge.
The case has been appealed to the
Supreme Court by counsel for F. M.
Noecker, of Clinton county, plaintiff
in the equity suit. The case was
argued in the Dauphin county court
last Saturday. the plaintiff averring
that the constitution does not permit
designation of judicial districts ex-
cept at the first session of the Leg
islature following a decennial CEN
sus; and that the Legislature has no
power to establish separate judicial
district in county with population
of less than 10000.
Judge Kunkel in his opinion rules
that the new law restricting the
changing and designating of judicial
districts limits only the frequency of
its exercise, and does not necessar-
lily restrict only the first Legislature
after a decennial census to make
changes, but that this power remains
until 1t is actually exercised.
In ruling on the population ques-
ton, the court says the constitution
makes no express prohibition against
designating judicial districts in
counties of less than 10000, and that
the Legislature probably considered
carefully and decided it best to estab
lish one in Clinton county, instead of
joining several counties together, or
making Clinton part of the district
joined either to Elk or Cameron
counties
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-22
HAVE TROUBLE
VACCINATING
Many Smallpox Contacts
Hide as Health Squad
81 Descends on Them

DR.. J. NJ. ]. Raunick, city health Of
fcer, is planning another extensive
tour through colored districts in the
city. to vaccinate any probable small
poX contacts and prevent an outbreak
of the disease here.
Yesterday, with other physicians
and health department officials, more
than 175 persons who had been sub
lect to possible contagion through the
discovery of a case of smallpox in
Steelton, were examined and about
eighty, were yaccinated. The district
visited was Cowden street, between
Walnut and Strawberry. and Straw
berry between Cowden and Fifth
streets.
The squad included police officers,
DR.. Raunick. assistant, DR.. 4. =. Ritz
man, Dr. A. II. Hull, DR.. NJ. w. En-
rick, DR.. l., w. Frasier. Sanitary Of
fcer William T.. Orr. Charles Faser,
Miss Helen Roth, city sanitary nurse,
and DR.. William Hughes. city food
Inspector.
Although there was little trouble at
first, the sight of the police, who
pulled a number of colored residents
from beneath beds, soon brought the
others into submission.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-22
Dauphin Red Cross Gets
Permanent Headquarters
in Room of Schoolhouse

Dauphin, Pa. June 22.-The ex-
elusive use of room No. in the
school building was granted the local
auxiliary of the Harrisburg branch
of the American Red Cross Society
last night a meeting of the school
board in resolutions presented by f.
c. Gerberich and seconded by Samuel
Naurey.
The Red Cross auxiliary was given
the entire use of the hall, which has
sometimes been used for entertain
ments, to enable it to establish a
permanent workshop for Red Cross
work. Sewing machines will be in,
stalled and the interior planned to
facilitate the work.
More than seventy members are
already enrolled in thelocal auxiliary,
which was organized but a short
time ago. A committee of members
is securing the surrounding country
So that all might have an oppor-
tunity to aid in this work of mercy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-22
County Health Bureaus
May Get Together on
Plan to Build Hospital

City Health officer ]. NJ. ]. Rau-
nick is planning to arrange a con-
ference with the County Commits
sioners to discuss the possibility of
establishing a county contagious dis
case hospital. 1t is probable that
representatives from all other health
bureaus in the county will be asked
to send a representative to the con-
ference.
While the County Commissioners,
1t is understood. favor the move for
a contagious disease hospital, the eX-
pense of constructing a new one now
would be too gret and also could not
be provided for this year. as the
annual budget was made up months
ago.
However, 1t is believed the city
may make an offer of the present
hospital to be remodeled and altered
so that 1t will be sanitary in every
respect. The costs of this. DR.. Rau-
nick said, will not be nearly so much
as the expenses which would be in
Cured If a new structure was built. ,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-22
LOCAL WATER CO.
HEARINGS FIXED
Hummelstown and Newport
Cases Will Be Up Next
Week

The Public Service Commission
has fixed next Tuesday as the time
for hearing complaints against the
increase in rates of the Hummels-
town Consolidated Water Company.
These cases have been pending for
some time and cover the Hummels-
town district.
The cases against the Newport
Water Company's rates in the bor-
ough of Newport are listed for
Wednesday.
Both hearings will be held at the
Capitol and will clear up long pend
ing cases.
The Department of Labor and In
dustry has issued in bulletin form
the addresses and proceedings of
the Economy and Efficiency Confer
ence at the Capitol last November.
State medical officers are busy
rounding up men in Schuylkill and
Luzerne counties who have been in
contact with smallpox cases and are
enforcing vaccination.
Members of the State Compensa-
ton Board have been holding hear
ings on appeals in the Pittsburgh
district this week.
Insurance Commissioner J. Denny
O'Neil had his annual picnic near
McKeesport yesterday and estimates
are that 10000 persons attended 1t.
Chief Engineer Uhler and Deputy
Highway Commissioners Blles were
at Mount Gretna late yesterday 60
ing over the route of the new road
to be built.
The Grantham Printing Company,
of Grantham, has been granted a
state charter. 1t has capital of
$4,000.
Major George S. Champion, Phila-
delphia, has been appointed director
OF the field hospitals of the sanitary
train of the division of the National
Guard. There are four field hos
pitals in the train. William Morse
White has been appointed first lieu
tenant and Edward N. Butler second
lieutenant of Company B, engineers,
Philadelphia. Percy Showers. Ham
lieutenant of Company e, Fourth
Infantry.
Highway Commissioner Black to-
day signed the final papers for the
purchase of the Lancaster pike from
Philadelphia to Paoli and ii will be
freed of tolls on July Is. The free
ing of this road will leave but twelve
miles of toll road between Philadel-
phia and Harrisburg on the state
main highways. the section being
between Lancaster and Vintage. The
price for the section taken over will
be S165,000, Montgomery county
having agreed to pay $1,000. while
Delaware and Chester will also con-
tribute. The section is fourteen miles
long and the toll charges were 70
cents. The original turnpike COM
pany, which owned the road, dates
from 1872.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-22

slowing. pulsing reality, the person
ality of the Saviour. With consum-
mate Skill John let's US into the very
secret of the Friend who is the souls
Boon Companion, and who under
stands us when all others walk aside
from us in Misunderstanding or igno-
rance. Somehow, John introduces
us to the everything Christ who
alone can feel with us and for us.
He enters into the secret of the
apArtness and loneliness and craving
of OUR hungry hearts.
The why of a Great Book
Men who balk mt the deity. of
Christ are coerced to repudiate the
Gospel of John. For it cannot at all
be accepted. unless the reader is will
ing to receive his presentation of
Jesus as the One, altogether unique.
The sublime Figure who walks
through Johns pages is not merely
Iare teacher, a noble idealist, q low
ing and unselfish' helper of His fell
low men, and q supreme aspirant for
the life that Is divine. He is none of
these things If He is not also what
else John declares Him to be; for
His own claims are clear, strong.
unequivocal and absolute. Jesus
would have to be branded as an
imposter, on the testimony of John.
If He is not what His biographer as
serts, the very Messiah of Jehovah,
the Saviour of mankind.
To set forth the Savicurhood of
Jesus, and His divine mission as the
sent Son of God. is the one over
mastering purpose of this latest of
the four gospels. The author leaves
no room for doubt or surmise on
this point. He himself tells why he
wrote the book: But these are
written that We might believe that
Jesus is the Christ. the Son of God;
and that believing ye might have
life through His name" Everything
in the volume is but evidence and
support of that general proposition.
Passionate lover of Jesus that he
himself was, John aspired to intro
duce his dear Master to all who
should read his book. He sought not
only to convince their minds. but
also to set their hearts aglow. So he
has been, through the centuries, the
best friend and alder of all who
would live in the spirit: and expert
ence the very love and life of Christ.
Instead of musing here, as one is
tempted to do, upon what this book
has meant to the saints of nineteen
centuries, let us merely recall the
all-important truth that our own
dazed and heart bruised day needs
above all else, to make explicable
these world events which are over
whelming us, the message of a
Christ who is God; who was from
the beginning and is TO continue in
increasing sovereignty to the end of
time. His will is working out, at
sore cost, as nations undertake to
protect and perpetuate and increase
the principles of Jesus on earth
righteousness, good will, brother
hood and liberty. AS we come into
Christs kingdom may we come into
close touch with the Kingdoms
Christ. Fellowship with Him, and
assurance that His will is being
done. will sustain one throughout
whatever experience the war may
bring.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-22
C. A. R. Officers
Are Elected

Harrisburg delegates to the annual
encampment of the Grand Army of
the Republic to-day returned homo
from Johnstown. The following Of
flcers were elected: Department
commander, Noah Dietrich, Easton;
senior vice-commander. John Woy,
Johnstown; junior vice-commander
Samuel j. Weller, Reading; medical
director, j. e. Sillman, Erie; chap
lain, the Rev. NJ. L. Canoe. Cham
bersburg; council of administration,
H. 8. Stanwood, Frankford; John
Dogherty, Philadelphia; J. Y. Chess
row. Pittsburgh; ]. Henry Holcomb.
Philadelphia. and William McEwen,
Philadelphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-22
MISS VIOLA MINERVA FISHER

Viola Minerva Fisher, daughter OF
Wesley Fisher, Berryhill street, died
at 1.30 this afternoon. Miss Fisher
had been i'll for six months with val
condition had been critical for some
time her sudden death came as a
shock to those who anticipated her
recovery. Miss Fisher was a member
of the class of 1916, Harrisburg High
school. She was 20 years old and had
a large circle of friends.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-22
CORoNER'S JURY FINDS
STOUFFER KILLED WIFE

At an inquest held last night at the
Courthouse to fix the cause of the
death of Mrs. Charles Stouffer, who
was shot and killed by her husband
several weeks ago. by Coroner Eek
niger, the jury returned the verdict
that she had met death at the hands
of her husband. DR.. John Harvey Mil
Ter, Miss Alice Calder and Charles
Hook testified at the hearing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-22
Three Are Graduated
From Township School

+ The graduates of the susquehanna
Township High school were address,
ed last evening at commencement
exercises by DIR. George Edward
Reed, president emeritus of Dickin-
son College. .tAf
The graduates were Cathariue
Jane Hoffman. Mary Luella Speck
and Frances Elizabeth Hahn. They
wore the gray cap and gown. intro
duced for the first time in the town
ship. Miss Lenora Fry gave seiec-
tions on the harp; the Sara Lemer
orchestra also played.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-22

WILL PLAY AT FESTIVAL
New Cumberland, June. 22.-To-
morrow evening the band will play
for a festival at Bowmansdale.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-22
BETTER ACCOMMODATIONS

Duncannon, Pa, June 22.-In or
der to accommodate the public
school pupils, the room in the North
Lincoln street public school build
ing will be opened the coming term
This room has not been used for
several years. The room in the
knights of Pythias hall will be va
Gated and the pupils who attended
there will be transferred to the
til Lincoln street public school
building
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-22

Included are White Hemp = White
Milan-Black Hairbraid - Black Lisere-
Black Milan Hemp - Leghorns and Pan
anna Hats.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-22
BANOUET FOR CLASS

New Cumberland, Pa.,Ju %. =
The Junior class of the High school
will entertain the graduating class
this evening. The program will be
followed by a banquet
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-22
SCHOOL PRINCIPAL. RESIGNS

Marysville, Pa, June 22.-John L.
Hahn, Jr.. of Marysville, principal
of the Liverpool High school dur
ing the past term and reelected for
the ensuing year, has resigned that
position to accept the first assistant
principalship in the Marysville High
school. His successor at Liverpool
has not yet been elected.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-06-15

Washington.-President Wilson, in
a communication to the new govern
ment of Russia, has made plain the
war aims of the United States and it's
position on mo an~nexations; no in
IDENTITIES" The Presidents commu-
nication was delivered to the Rus
sian government by Ambassador
Francis at Petrograd. In full, it is as
follows:
I'm view of the approaching visit OF
the American delegation to Russia to
express the deep friendship of the
American people for the people of
Russia and to discuss the best and
most practical means of cooperation
between the two peoples in carrying
the present struggle for freedom of all
peoples to a successful contamination,
it seems opportune and appropriate
that l should state again, in the light
of this new partnership, the objects
the United States has in mind in en-
tering the war. These objects have
been very much beclouded during the
past few weeks by mistaken and mis-
leading statements, and the issues at
stake are too momentous, too tremen-
dOus, too significant for the whole hui
man race, to permit any misinterpreta-
ton or misunderstanding, however
slight, to remain uncorrected for a
moment.
Oppressed Groups kaiser's Dupes.
THE war has begun to go against
Germany; and in their desperate de-
sire to escape the ultimate defeat,
those who are in authority in Ger
many are using every possible instru-
mentality, are making use even of the
influence of groups and parties among
their own subjects to whom they have
never been just or fair or even toll
Grant, to promote a propaganda OH
both sides of the sea which will pre-
serve for them their influence at
home and their power abroad, to the
undoing of the very men they are us
ing.
The position of America in this wal
is so clearly Rvowed that no man can
be excused for mistaking it. She seeks
no material profit or ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
OF any kind. She is fighting for no ad.
vantage or selfish object Of her own
but for the liberation of peoples ev.
erywhere from the aggressions Of au
tocratic force.
The ruling classes in Germany
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-06-15
GET EXPLOSIVE FROM FLOWER
British Scientists Discover That Bios
som Of Mahua Tree In India 10
Rich in Acetone.

The munltion output of India has In
two years been increased n thousand
fold, mainly through the discovery that
one of India's commOnest blossoms, the
flower of the NAHUM or mhowra tree,
contains acetOne In quantity. This tree
Is widely known to all travellers In
Britain's Asiatic empire, but It's use as
a base for explosives is at least one
thing new under the sun, says the
Scientific American.
When the war broke out, acetone,
which forms the chief ingredient Of
cOrdlte, was extracted mainly from
wood, maize, and starch and the Brit
lsh admiralty erected n great factory
for the process of acetOne recovery
from starch. But fortunately two Eng.
fish scientists in Hyderabad discovered
that the mahua flowers contained nee
tone In larger proportions than 1t is
found in any other vegetable substance
that this inoffenslve bloom was ten
time richer in the material In ques-
ton than any known wood. In fact,
the director general of ordnance for
India reports that the mahua is by
all odds the best source for acetOne
known.
Manufacture on a large scale Is now
under way aud It Is whispered that the
abundance Of munitions with which
the British forces in MesopOtamia ap-
pear to be blessed is to be attributed
to the new discovery.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-06-15
TOOL BOY AT sPEcULAToR MINE
SHOWS MEN WAY TO WARD
OFF DEADLY GASES.
HERO BELIEVED DEAD
HOPE OF SAVING 1893 MINERS HAD
BEEN ABANDoNED-FlFTY
DEAD TAKEN OUT.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Butte, Mont, June 11.-Twenty-flve
men, rescued alive from the 2,4O0-foot
level of the Spectator mine owe their
lives to the heroism and resourceful
ness Of Manus Duggan, a 2O-year-old
nipper or tool boy. Young Duggan,
displaying rare presence Of mind,
showed his older fellow workers how
to bulkhead themselves from the dan
gerous gas and preserve their lives
until their rescue. There were twenty
seven members Of the party and
twenty-five of them are alive, the
twenty-sixth man, j. II. McAdams,
dying despite efforts to resuscitate
him. The fate Of young Duggan is
not known, but 1t is believed that he
has persisted.
The news that men had been found
alive on the 2,4O0-foot level Of the
Spectator shaft spread rapidly and
the gates of the mine were crowded
with anxious relatives before the res
cued men had been registered at the
~timekeeper's office.
Nyja johnson was the first man to
reach the surface.
1--WE W our lives to Manus Dug
gan" Johnson told the crowd at the
~timekeeperis office. "He was the one
who directed the work. None of us
would be here If 1t had not been for
him"
"Duggar told us all to go into the
drift" Johnson said. After WI got in
the drift he got a piece Of canvas.
Then we took off our clothes and with
both choked out the gas. He directed
the work and when some men got
weak he did the work of ten men.
hope they save Duggan."
The survivors rescued Sunday after
noon made a valiant fight for their
lives. Directed by Manus Duggan,
they built a bulkhead in a crosscut on
the 2,400-foot level and stuffed II with
canvas and portions of their clothing,
A short distance away they made a
second bulkhead and filled the space
between them with dirt. This kept
the gas out and they we're in com
prative safety for a while.
All hope that any Of the u%naccount
ed-for miners, believed to number al
least 1913, had escaped from the NORTH
Butte mines, in which lire broke oul
Friday night, while 412 men were al
work, was abandoned Saturday night
when the helmet men penetrated &c
the 2~,2O0-foot level Of the Spectator
mine from adjoining mines, waded
through water up to their armpits, en-
eountered strong gas, and saw many
bodies which they were unable to re
cover. Fifty dead had been taken out
up to Saturday night.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-06-15
Mantelrs Ghost Story.

Robert Mantell tells of a barnstorm-
ing company in the West in the old
days that made n try at Shakespeare.
Considerable complaint was heard rela-
tive to the efforts of the man who es-
sayed to do the ghost in Hamlet"
One day a dramatic man on a local
paper said to the leading man.:
THAT fellow who plays the ghost
does not suggest the supernatural"
81 should say not" assented the
leading nan with alacrity, "but he does
suggest the natural super."-Every-
body's Magazine.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-06-15
COULDN'T lift SIX
MONTHS old BABY
Mrs. Hawkins Was So Weak
Couldn't Move in Her Bed
Without Help. .
HAD SUFFERED TORTURE
Well and Strong Again After Taking
Tanlae and Weighs More Than
She Has In over Eighteen
Years.

II was down in bed and couldn't
raise my head or move without help
and now I'm able to do all my house
work, even to my cooking and garden
work and I weigh more than I have In
eighteen years and have been taking
Tanlac only about four weeks" said
Mrs. Dollie Hawkins, 49O6 Second ave-
nue., South, Birmingham, Ala, recent
ly.
"For years." continued Mrs. Haw-
kins, II suffered with rheumatism and
acute indigestion. The rheumatism
got me down in bed and had me bound
so hard and, fast somebody had to
move me about and the pain was ter
rible. I couldn't lift my slx-months-old
baby, and had to hire someone to wait
on me and do my work. 1 was so
nervous the least little thing dropping
on the floor would startle me and my
heart would almost stop beating, 1
couldn't eat any solid food at all and
was in such rundown condition my
baby fell Off until It was just a little
skeleton and fretted and cried all the
time. No kind of medicine did me any
good and | was getting worse all the
time.
"If ever a medicine did wonders,
Tanlac did 1t for me and my little ba-
by. ! felt better in just a few days
after I began taking It. / have taken
three bottles and I am not nervous In
the least now and my sleep is fine and
rests me. The awful rheumatic pains
and misery is all gone. 1 can eat any
thing I want and my food not only
gives me nourlshment but my baby is
as fat as a little pig and sits for hours
at a time on pallet and plays with
out a whimper. Tanlac has made a
well woman of me and a fat, healthy
baby out Of my little sickly one, and
Tn Just so thankful for what Tanlac
has done for us 1 want everybody to
know about this great medicine"
There is a Tanlac dealer Ia your
town. ADV.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-06-15
Floods Wash Away erIdges.

Observation-Disclosures warm wealth
er has brought the expected flood Of
Crow creek, usually a dry creek in
northeastern Weld county. This creeA
is now out of it's banks here, near
Fosston and at Sligo. Near this place
a culvert has been washed out, the
big bridge near the Rufner ranch car
ried away. and all the bottom land
flooded. At Fosston the water is
half a mile wide, and at Sligo a big
forty. foot county bridge has gone
down. Most of the ranchers had
warning and took their stock to the
high ground.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-06-15
Then Silence.

They were dancing merrily, this
young man and the young woman, and
were talking of nothing at all, when
suddenly the girl asked: q
"Have you enlistedT'
"NO," answered the youth.
Haven't you joined the Officers Re
serve CORPSE"
"No, not yet 1 haven't thought
much about that sort of thing"
Haven't you done anything about
the war;"
"No," the youth replied
WhereupOn the girl stopped dane
ing.
Il wish you would take me TO a seat
I don't think / want to dance with
yOu.r-Washington Star.