Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01

THANKSGIVING day
bird that the day will be at hand
When the November holiday will no
longer have it as the chief feature.
The Department has made tests in
! seven different counties which have
shown. it is stated in. the bulletin,
| that turkeys can be successfully
| raised.
The Department is also calling up
on farmers generally TO stop erosion
Oh SOIL as war measure. 1t is
pointed out that heavy loss is bcca-
soped among farmers every year by
washing away of valuable soil and
that the gullies which are appearing
IN nelds In the older farming sec
uons or the state should be filed up,
the Held cut into belts of titled soil
and sod and fences removed. The
bulletin makes an attack upon fenc-
es as breeding place for pests and
weeds and wasters of soil.
Paying SchoOls-The State Treas
ruy is sending out the S5S2,OOO set
apart by the State Board of Educa-
ton for the aid of high schools.
There are about 1000 schools to re-
ceive it.
To Sit Monday-The Public Ser
| vice Commission will sit next Mon
day for its executive session.
At Superior Court-Berne H. Ev-
ans, counsel of the Public Service
Commission, is attending the Supe-
rior court session at Pittsburgh.
states Huge Balance. State
Treasurer ii. NJ. Kephart found the
largest balance in the State Treasury
in almost a decade when he closed
the books on the April business last
night at the Capitol. the aggregate
of the funds in the banks to the
credit NJ
S10,04S, ,091.4S. This is half a mill
lion more than the big figure at the
close of March business which show
ed S9,549, 1885,. The immense
amount of money in the Treasury,
which is so far beyond what has
been the case in recent years. is due
| to the energy with which the Audi
tor Generals Department has been
found enforcing payments of state
| taxes, especially of cases which had
been found unsettled for two and
| three years. The payments during
March and April, which are usually
dun months. have been running
higher than known in a dozen years.
One of the striking features of the
balance sheet is that the general
fund aggregated almost S6,000,0OO,
which is the largest for a long time.
This fund gets the general receipts.
The automobile license fund. out of
which the state pays for mainte-
nance and repair of its highways,
amounted to s2,310,37S.
Chinese Eggs Go.-The state dairy
and food officers at Philadelphia
yesterday confiscated numerous doz-
ems of Chinese eggs. They had been
treated and some were ten and
twelve years old.
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| Ainey, of the Public Service Com
mission, will go to Pittsburgh to
look into matters connected with the
situation in that city.
Pitcher on Duty.-Captaln Leon f.
Pitcher, the new deputy superintend-
ent of police. assumed his duties to-
day. He came here from PottsvilIe.
where he had been in command of
the troop.
Seek Charter.-The first steps to-
ward establishing a trolley terminal
in this city We're taken to-day by
the Valley Railways people, when
application was made for charter
for the Harrisburg Terminal Co.,
which will erect a trolley, station at
Walnut and River streets on the site
of the recent burned City garage,
for 'cross-river passenger travel. t.
B. Kennedy, C. H. Bishop and others
interested in the Valley company are
applicants.
Man Caught.-word was received
to-day by George +. Lumb. Acting
superintendent OF State Police, that
sptain Price. Corporal Grass and
Policeman VanCamp had arrested
Sam Carato at Johnstown on the
charge of being the man who had
killed State Policeman Andrew
Czspp at Homer City.
Want the Trees.-According to re-
ports coming to the State Forestry
Commission. there is a big demand
fer young trees to be planted Ow-
ing to the late spring, work has
been started on the planting of pri-
vate and corporation lands later than
usual.
More Complaints - Seven more
complaints were filed to-day with the
Public Service Commission against
the new rates of the Luzerne County
Gas and Electric Company, the bor-
oughs of Nanticoke and Forty Fort
being among them. The others were
coal and manufacturing concerns.
The township of Whitehall, Lehigh
county, filed complaint against the
Clear Spring Water Company and
residents of Boyertown against the
rates of the Boyertown Electric
Company. Complaints were also filed
by a Washington county jitneyman
who has a state certificate against
men running on his route who do not
have certificates. 4
Answer E'iIed-The Attorney Gem
erals Department to-day filed an an
swer on behalf of the Secretary of
the Commonwealth to the mandamus
proceeding brought by George Wood
ward. Philadelphia driver, to COM
pei certification of his name as a
Senatorial candidate in the Sixth
district. 1t is stated that his Repub-
lican paper contained only 1922
names and his Democratic paperi
$50, neither being enough to qualify
him as candidate. 1t requires 200
names to qualify. 1t is stated that
these papers were the only ones
known to have been filed in his be-
half. The case, which has attracted
much attention, will be heard to-
m borrow.
Discuss ExpIOsives-Conferen
on enforcement of the explosive
regulations were held at the Depart
ment of Labor and Industry to-day,
the work for Pennsylvania, being
here for conference with state or
ficials. 1t is probable that steps will
be taken at Washington to secure
greater means of cooperation and
publicity in behalf of the import
ance of the regulation in PennsyI- |
vauia.
Governor Returns - Governor