Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-23

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well await the termination of the
war and the return of pre-war con-
ditions.' The complaint is dis
missed with leave to renew at a
later period.
In the decision the commission
makes this significant declaration:
Since the complaint was filed an
act of Congress has been passed.
as a war measure, under which the
operation of the respondent COM
pany is now in the control of the
federal authorities. The Postmaster
General by general order No. 1881,
amended by Bulletin No. 8, pre-
,scribed rates for such service large
| ly in excess of those complained
against. and which if permitted to
stand would make a decision in the
present case largely academic"
Fish To Go Out-Distribution of
young fish from the states hatcher
les will be resumed this week after
having been interrupted for almost
two weeks because of influenza which
prostrated many of the men con-
nected with the State Department of
Fisheries. The hatcheries have q
large number of fish which 1t is
hoped to send out before ice closes
! the streams. This week thousands
! of young trout will be sent out to-
oNNAANt WEN blhS6lllo anu C4Lllolts
To Resume Work-Hearings will
probably be resumed by the Public
Service Commission within the next
ten days. Some tentative dates have
been fixed for next week and the
hearings will be held If the infiu-
enza closing order is lifted.
To Buy Dcer-Arrangement are
being made by the State Game Com
mission to liberate u number of deer
IN faf
lcloSing of the deer hunting season
in December. The deer are being
bought in northern states and will
be brought here in charge of war
dens. They will be placed in the
preserves in the Blue Ridge and in
the new preserve in Forest county.
Negotiations for wild turkeys are
also under way.
More Cabbage - Although there
has been big increase in the cab
bage crop and the heads being out
now in the southern and eastern
Pennsylvania counties are fine and
/ large, advices coming to the Capitol
are that not much will be converted
into sauerkraut owing to labor and
other conditions. Some of the east
| ern Pennsylvania, known for gem
erations as the "sauerkraut belt"
were short of the delicacy last year
Tor the firSt time.
Woodward Greeted-Representa
tive James F. Woodward, candidate
for secretary of internal affairs, who
was at the Capitol yesterday, was
greeted by many friends in the de-
partments.
Mr.. Riddle Ills. S. Riddle. of
the Department of Labor and In
dustry, has been i'll at his home In
Bloomsbury.
Going to Camp-Berne II. Evans.
counsel of the Public Service Com
mission, leaves this week for the
artillery officers train camp at
Louisville.
Coal Cut Down-Coal production
in Lackawanna and Luzerne coun-
ties is declared by fuel administra-
tors to have been very heavily cut
by influenza. The situation is said
TO have been very serious at some
mines, which had only thirty per
cent. of their forces at work.
Colonel Miner Woundcd-CoIonel
Asher Miner, commander of the
Ane Hundred Ninth Artillery, for
merly the Ninth Pennsylvania, and
former legislator, has been
wounded in France.
Mrs. Carothers, Dead-word was
erceiVed here to-day of the death
at Washington of Mrs. Charles E.
Carothers, wife of the deputy secre-
tary of agriculture. Mrs. Carothers
had been ill for some time. She was
fifty years of age.
Open Again-The offices of the
State Compensation Board, which
have been closed for ten days be-
cause of at least score of the at
taches having influenza, were re-
opened to-day. Other offices had
more people at work to-day than for
a week, victims of the epidemic COM
ing back again.
Now 116-There are now 116 at |
taches of the State Highway De- |
partment in the Army or Navy. The |
new star will be put on the service |
flag by Chief Clerk H. W. Fry with |
appropriate ceremonies.
To BE Used Again-Tents and cots |
used in the emergency hospitals |
established by Adjutant General |
Beary will be disinfected and sent !
to other places where needed to
combat the epidemic. When the
disease ends they will be thoroughly
tod 90 L.