Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-26

ESBwUSSSSS purchase of land
~ s-ssss-;s---sr each year for es-
saaA NGS tablishment (
game preserves and general hunt
ing. Under the present law the
commission can only use such tracts
of state forest reserves as are turn
ed over for game purposes or lease
lands. The idea of commissioners
Is to have game preserve in each
county and IL lands can be bought
the project will be expedited.
In addition to establishing game
preserves there would be tracts sur
rounding the closed area where
hunting could be permitted and the
lands would belong to the common
wealth and be open to shooting dur
ing seasons.
States to "Sit In."- New York
state authorities have sent word to
the Public Service Commission that
they intend to be represented at the
conference on conservation of the
natural gas supply to be held next
month in Pittsburgh. Ohio and
West Virginia state officials will also
be represented as will the national
government. Practically all of the
big companies in the state will send
representatives.
A Prize Problcm.-W What is re-
garded as the prize question to be
propounded to the attorney gener-
ais department has just been re-
ceived, and as the states chief law
officer does not give opinions to pri-
Vate individuals the request will be
a matter of record only. Mr.. Brown
was asked officially to decide how
Oh - Il :
al property of man who died and
left mother-in-law, one right
brother, one step-brother and two
stepsisters, according to the law IN
Pennsylvania.
Jitncy Cases OF. - The Public
Service Commission has stricken
from the books a number of COM
plants against jitney operators,
whose cases were appealed to the
Superior Court and the case mol
pressed. The Harrisburg list is in
cluded in those which have been
marked off as the appeals were not
prosecuted in the appellate court.
There are several dozen jitney cases
pending and number of decisions
will be handed down soon.
Must BE Violence. The State'
Compensation Board has refused to
award compensation where it is
found that man died of apopIexy
or from rupture of a blood vessel in
the brain while at work This de-
cision, given in the claim of Smith
VS.. Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron Co., Shenandoah, holds
that violence was not done to the
body by the accident, but that the
death was due to organic weakness.
Eschcat Cases.-Preparation for
arguing the states side of the test
of the constitutionality of the es-
cheat laws are being made at the
attorney generals department,
where William NJ. Hargest, deputy
attorney general and Frank M.
Eastman, special counsel and expert
in taxation are writing the sta ,e's
paper book. The appeals were TAX
en- from the decision of President
Judge George Kunkel of the Dau-
phin county court, upholding con-
stitutionality of the acts and ad-
vanced by the Supreme Court to
January in Philadelphia.
Oakley Paintings.-If the Oakley
paintings for the state senate are
not put in place during the recess
of the upper house of the Legisla-
ture between the time of organiza-
tion and the Inauguration, which
will be about two weeks, they may
have to wait until the end of the
session in April. AS far as known
none of the officials of the senate
has heard very much about the
paintings, which have been accept
ed by the Governor.
ed by the Governor.
Steam Case Up.-The controversy
over l1arrisburg's steam heat rates
which has been under way since be-
fore the time the steam was turned
on will be taken before the Public
Service Commission again tomorrow.
For weeks a study of books has
been under way. This is the first
complaint about steam rates to be
made since those in Philadelphia
were determined
May Isolate City-Mayor John V.
Kosek, of Wilkes-B Barre, is getting
aroused over influenza conditions in
his city and threatens to establish
q quarantine about 1t If there are
any more violations. The situation
In Luzerne county is such as to call
for some prompt action.
Some Day For Autcr-James M.
fAuiSit lilS hlSSScllBSE 10 the governor
and Santa Claus for the children of
Harrisburg for years, officiated yes
terday at the, distribution of candy
at the Executive Mansion and there
were scores there to get 1t. Mr.. |
Auter was in charge of the candy in |
the days when Governor Hastings
the custom.
No Date Sct-No date has been |
hn
risburg Railways case. The matter |
will be taken up next month when |
The Valley Railways case will come |
along,
Philadelphia to Move - State |
Health Department officials were in
terested to-day in the reports that
Philadelphia will push its new sew
ers. This means that plans for ex-
tension of the drainage system upon
which the engineering division has
been at work will be carried out.