Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-03
ROAD LOAN HAS
HUGE MAJORITY
Indications Are That 1t May
Run Ahead of the Great
Vote Cast For Sproul

An unofficial count of the votes
polled by the sixty-one counties
which have filed official returns on
the road loan constitutional amend
ment submitted to the people on No
vember shows: Yes, S62,9O5; no,
11O,9S9, a majority with six counties
to hear from of 251,916.
The official expense account of
Frank ID. Gallup, treasurer of the
Mexican county committee in the in
terest of Joseph w. Bouton for Su-
preme Court Justice, filed at the
Capitol to-day. shows contributions
and expenditures of $S,1S6.64. Lewis
Emery, Jr.. is among the contribu-
tors of $500. Asher r. johnson,
Democratic candidate for Secretary
of Internal Affairs, certified to spend
ing $3.50.
A prisoner escaping from the new
Western Penitentiary in Center coun-
ty, where he was serving a sentence
and committing a crime in Blair
county after his escape and being
there sentenced to the penitentiary
should be charged with escaping
from prison in Center county at once
and taken to that county for a hear
ing by writ of habeas corpus, accord
ing to an opinion given to-day to
John Francies, warden of the peni-
tentiary, by Deputy Attorney Cen
eral w. II. Hargest. If convicted in
Center county the sentence should
commence to run after the eXpira-
tion of sentence then serving after
which he should serve out the part
of the original sentence unfulhlled.
The board of navigation cOmmis-
sioners of Philadelphia was inform
ed in another opinion that they have
no authority to levy a charge for
sand or gravel removed from -the
portion of the Delaware beyond har-
Dor lines.
DIR. Herman ID. Boyles, of New
castle, was to-day appointed coroner
of Lawrence county to fill a vacancy.
The application of the SchuyllIiIl
Railways Company for an eight-cent
fare between Pottsville and ST. Clair
was heard by Commissioner Alcorn
to-day. The complaints of Ashland
and other boroughs against the fares
and zones of the company were also
heard.
The Philadelphia Railways CO.,
operating in Philadelphia, has filed
notice with the Public Service in
creasing from eight to ten cents the
fare between Third and jackson
streets or intervening points, in Phil
adelphia and Hog Island. The
PhoeniXville, Valley Forge and
Straffsrd Electric Railway has filed
notice of an increase of fare on q
winter schedule between certain
points from five to ten cents and de-
creases between certain other stops.
The Denver and Ephrata, Roscoe
and South Harborcreek Telephone
Companies, have also filed notices of
advance in rates.
Certain Fairs and Agricultural Ex-
hibitions of Pennsylvania will get
ninety per cent. of their claims this
year owing to the influenza outbreak
which prevented many from being
held. Had all been held the percent
age would have been much less as
the money in. sight is about S45,-
600. The claims in hand for state
aid under existing laws aggregate
S47,750.
Register of Wills James b. Shee-
han to-day paid the state $4,000
as direct inheritance taxes collect
ed in Philadelphia county and S57,-
600 as collateral inheritance taxes.
The Pennsylvania company paid the
state $4,000 as state tax.
reports coming here from the
South Mountain and Juniata Valley
regions are that deer hunters are
having fine sport. Several bucks are
reported downed in the State forest
districts.
Attorney General Brown is going
on his annual hunt tomorrow. He
Will go to the Cameron county re-
gion. He got a fine buck there last
| season.
George NJ. Hossack, former Iegis-
lator, was here to-day.