Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-09

| @@=G4 ed food commod-
1Bse tiles in Pennsyl-
vania would be permitted to sell
within Pennsylvania all black bass,
! including the large and small mouth
| ed variety.
This ruling" said Mr.. Butler" is
announced by us and is intended to
! apply to and cover solely the black
I bass caught outside of the state and
shipped into the state for sale here
and not to cover such bass when
caught within the state.''
The planting of young trout has
been suspended to allow Susquehan-
ma salmon to be put out in large
numbers. The trout season opens
| next Monday.
| More TractOrs-If satisfactory ar
rangements can be made for deliv-
| cries the state will likely buy ten
more farm tractors. There are now
about half of the first forty ordered
either in operation or about to be
| started.
Koser Named-F. NJ. Koser. of
Camp Hill, Cumberland County, was
| late yesterday named as sergeant
| of the state Capitol police. He sue
ceeds of the late +. +. Rohm, of Juni-
| alta county.
Grade Crossing Cases-The Derry
! township grade crossing plans which
/ were ordered prepared some time
| ago, will be considered at the Pub
! lie Service hearing tomorrow.
More Smallpox-State health au-
thorities have reported more small
| poX from York county and western
! counties. Strict quarantine measures
| and wholesale vaccinations have
been ordered
Municipalities Complain. The
city of Chester to-day entered COM
| plant before the Public Service
Commission against the South Penn
| sylvania Traction Company, charg-
ing that although the population of
Chester had almost doubled because
of industrial development in the last
few years the Southern PennsylNa-
nia. Traction Company had failed to
maintain the proper service and that
it was not providing what it should.
The city of Coatesville entered
complaint against the new gas rates
of the Philadelphia Suburban and
Electric Company, declaring them
excessive and the borough of Colum-
bia complained against grade cross
ings maintained in that town by the
Philadelphia and Reading Railway,
especially one on the Lincoln high |
way. Reference was made to another |
where it was charged q fatal acci-
dent had occurred last month. Ade- |
Quate prOteCtl0n is asked.
Big Mergers Approyed.-Approva !
has been given by the Public Serv-
ice Commission to the mergers and |
leases of various companies of the |
Pure Oil system. Some of the Penn |
sylvania and New Jersey properties |
are transferred to the Ohio company. |
The formal transfers to the Penn
sylvania railroad of the Cornwall |
and Lebanon and Susquehanna,
Bloomsbury and Berwick railroads |
were approved and the Hog Island
branch of the Pennsylvania in Phil |
adelphia approve for two years.
Insane Men to Come Here-Gov- /
ernor Brumbaugh's office to-day an
nounced completion of arrangements |
with the Auditor General and the |
State Board of Public Charities |
whereby Pennsylvania soldiers who |
may become insane in line of duty |
while in military service. will be |
cared for at the Harrisburg State |
Insane Hospital. Further steps will
likely be taken with the War De-
partment to provide soldiers for |
nurses as the present staff of the |
State Hospital is inadequate.
To provide room for the soldiers
patrients will be removed from the |
Harrisburg State Hospital to Far
view and other state hospitals.
No construction of new state hos |
patients will be removed from the |
the war, although sites will be pre-
pared.
Appointments Made-Frank Beck |
was to-day appointed justice of the |
peace for Upper Mt. Bethel town |
ship, Northampton county, and M. |
r. Paden, alderman for the Second |
ward, of Franklin.
To Receive Help-In orders re-
ceived from the War Department |
local draft boards will be urged to |
use all possible means to complete |
their classification cards and to avail |
themselves of the assistance of local !
councils of defense to enable the |
government to secure information as
to the occupations of men registered |
under the draft.
legislators Here-Senator w. w. !
Hindman, Clarion, and Representa- |
tive David Fowler, Scranton, were at
the Capitol.
Board Meets Here-Members of
the State Compensation Board con-
sidered appeals from the Harrisburg
district and heard argument in few
cases while here to-day. A number
of decisions will be handed down
next week.
Big Train Near-Two hundred
and forty motor trucks, the equip
ment of the motor truck train of the !
Keystone division at Camp Hancock,
passed through Pennsylvania to-day
on the way from western states,
where they were built, to the camp.
Major j. 3. Wheeler, formerly of
this city, was in command. The
nearest the trains came to Harris
burg was Chambersburg.
TO Talk Thursday-Auditor GEN.
eral Charles A. Snyder expects to
have the questions raised as to
whether State College and the De-
partment of Agriculture are dupli- |
eating each others work threshed |
out at a conference in his office. |
President Pro Tenn Buchanan, of the |
Senate, who was chairman of the |
Senate Appropriations Committee |
and who outlined the items. will at
tend. Meanwhile appropriations to
the college for extension work in the
field have been held up.
Ruling on Deposits-A gas COM |
pany which does not have provision
in its rules for cash deposit can
not require it to be made decides
the Public Service Commission in
the case of Moreland VS.. Altoona Gas
Light and Fuel Co.. and the company
is ordered to furnish service upon
a, proper application. 1t had refeused
TO give service without q deposit of