Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-05

AN IHtIt]SCT antines in Sec
kllAMaOn NlNAE tions of the an
HSEUU50WM thracite region
where the Euro
GswzazEs@ssI3 pean war disease
one of the most
dangerous of pests, has been discov-
cred. Field men from the state Cap
litol have been covering large areas
in Luzerne, Carbon and Schuylkill
Icounties this week and while their
ireports do not indicate any extern
ision of infected territory they have
found that the importations which
lare suspected of having caused the
trouble went over a large territory.
Under the PROPOSED regulations
of potatoes from the infected district
will be stopped, remains of crops be
destroyed and soil placed under OBJ
servation and not planted with po-
htatoes for at least year and half
Nineteen Cases-Nineteen cases
have been filed for the October
Edons which is to be held on October
i16. Several cases have been held
over from the September meeting.
Fairs Hard Hit.-At least a dozen
fairs, some of them the largest and
oldest in the state, will be Cancelled
las result of the order from the
State Department of Health forbid
ding assemblages of various kinds
because of the epidemic of influenza
mia. Some of these fairs will miss ex-
hibtions for the first time in years.
Many Heariugs.-The Public Ser
I vice Commission has scheduled seven
cases involving increases of rates for
natural gas, water and electricity and
propositions relating to grade cross
/ ings and jitney operation for argu-
ment on Monday and some of them
will establish precedents to deal with
the mass of complaints filed lately
against rates and service. The fol-
lowing day an executive session will
be held and the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit lease may come up for ac-
tion. Hearings on numerous cases
are scheduled for Harrisburg the re-
mainder of the week, there being
over thirty complaints to be taken
, up. The Lehigh Valley Transit rate
cases are to be heard Thursday. On
Friday at Philadelphia the Strouds-
burg Traction and Highland gas rate
complaints will be heard.
Six New Men.-The State Police
Department to-day secured only six
men of the fifty needed to fill the
vacancies on the force.
Doctors Wanted-State Commits
sioner of Health Roger to-day said
that reports indicate that doctors
are badly needed for the Strouds-
burg district.
Case Withdrawn-The complaint
of the Country Club of Harrisburg
against the Fishing Crek grade
crossing on the Northern Central
railway which has been in the air
most of the time the last year has
been finally withdrawn from the
Public Service Commission docket.
1t was started with a great flourish
of trumpets and many plans and
statements made and then something
hit it. Instead of being continued
for the period of the war, it has been
withdrawn and the whole matter is
lnow where it started. Some people
iare of the opinion that something
might have been worked out before
the war began.
Local Cause.-The complaint of
MELVILLE against the water company
in that borough is scheduled for
argument before the Public Service
commission Monday when the con-
itract for lighting Wiconisco bridge
,also comes up. Wednesday the COM
mission will hear the complaint of
John S. Stark against the Harrisburg
Gas Company for refusal to extend
lines and Thursday the West Fair
tNlCW COllII dSL SOltSo up.
Contracts Let - Two contracts
were let on the fifty-fifty basis by
commissioner O'Neil yesterday. One
twas for $500 feet of plain concrete
road in Darlington township, Beaver
icounty, to McDermott & Hannon,
Miles, Ohio, at $50, 0,646.S5 ,and $3.50
feet in Smethport and Heating
township, Mexican county, to Bunce
& CARL, of Olean, n. Y, at A.
645.S5.
More IncreaseS-The Philadelphia
and Easton Electric Railway has
filed notice of an increase of fares
from six to seven cents and advances
in freight and milk rates at the
office of the Public Service Commits
sion. Other notices of seven-cent
fares were filed by the Citizens Trac-
tion Company, operating in Oil City,
Franklin and vicinity, while the Lam
caster and York Furnace Street
Railway Company gave notice of
increase in five-cent-fare zones,
causing increases in single fares.
The Pottsville Gas Company, Mari
eta and Elizabethtown Gas Com
pany and Lehigh Valley Transit and
Philadelphia and Western Railway
Companies have filed notices of in
creases, the latter two establishing
a new joint rate.
Object to Crossing-The Motor
Club of Lackawanna county to-day
filed complaint against the grade
crossing in Elmhurst on the line of
the Lackawanna Railway, contend
ing that it is on the main line OF
state highway travel from Scranton
to Stroudsburg and is dangerous.
The Public Service Commission is
asked to decree it's abolition.
New Dog Ruling-Dogs under
control of an unnaturalized alien,
whether owned by a citizen who
permits them to remain on premises
of an alien or owned by children of
an alien and under control of such
a person, constitute violations of the
alien dog law, according to an opin-
ion rendered by the Attorney Gem
erals Department to the Department