Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-27

rected TO aid in every possible way
and to exercise the most careful
supervision possible In mine work.
Chief Button says that his depart
ment reviews the last two years
with considerable satisfaction as
during trying times mines were kept
going and the production reached
amazing proportions" and that
patriotic, untiring and intelligent
efforts more coal was produced dur
ing the war time than ever before"
The inspectors are praised for their
work in connection with the $500
coal mines that were actively op-
Grated in this State, adding not
withstanding the remarkable pro-
duction and the dangerous haste
with which the work was done, the
casualty list is lower than it was
during some of the peace periods
when operations were normal"
Hearings EiXc1l-The State Com
pensation Board has announced that
IT will sit in Pittsburgh April 3. IL
and II. Sittings will be held in
Harrisburg and Philadelphia next
week.
To Start Shad-State Commission
er of Fisheries \. +. Butler went to
Philadelphia to-day to start the op
erations at the Torresdale hatchery
for the shad propagation work. II
is expected to undertake it on a
most extensive scale.
Boards Arc Busy - Pennsylvania
draft boards are rapidly getting
affairs closed up and they will be
ready to discontinue all business
on March -, according to Major W.
G.. Murdoch. the chief draft officer.
Many of the boards have virtually
closed up their work already and
have occupied the time IN contri-
buting to the draft histories.
state Wins Casc-The State Com
pensation Board has issued a deci-
sion upholding Referee Snyder, of
Altoona, i'll refusing compensation
to parents of Carl A. Winters, of
State. Their son was running a
motor snow plow for the State
Highway Department last April and
contracted pneumonia while at
work. 1t is held that the contract
ing of this disease does not bring
the case under the compensation
act.
The Board has allowed compen-
satiou in Moorhead VS. Wineman,
Greenshurg. although compensation
was disallowed by Referee Hender-
son at Pittsburgh. The Board finds
that the decedent while walking
home with his employer had not
left his work but owing to the fact
that he did not have any particular
schedule of hours and was liable to
be called at any time he was on
duty.
over a dozen appeals are dismiss
ed and new hearings ordered in
the claims of Gebaldo VS. State In
Surance Fund. Greensburg, and
Ford VS. Cambridge Mutual Benefit
assn, Philadelphia.
state Loses Money - Literally
hundreds of thousands of dollars
are not being collected by counties
in sylvania because of failure
code according to officials of the
State Department of Agriculture
who have been examining into the
returns of the counties. The pc
cuiiar situation has been presented
OF efforts being made to cut down
the fees required by law.
According to figures availa BILE
here the counties. collected about
s460,000 in dog licenses last year
and spent $150,000 for killing un-
licensed dogs. 1t is believed that
fully 100000 could be collected if
all counties enforced the dog law
and that the number of sheep that
have to be paid for by counties
after being killed or injured by dogs
would be less.
sure Sign of Spring-Return Of
Spring is being noticed in the State
Department of Health in the num-
ber of requests that are being made
for information as to how to fight
mosquitoes. These requests come
IN annually and are accompanied by
notes from people who say that they
have noticed the young frogs have
commenced to sound and that the
air is filled with young insects try