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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-05-31
Home From Dyea,

Ebert j. Howard grandson OF Capt.
D. q. Howard, returned this morning
from Dyea. Ebert left Salem last
October, going to San Francisco,
where after two months WORK, he sue
ceeded in perfecting the invention
Of gasoline engine TO be used in
transporting the freight Of the Klon-
dixie gold seekers oyer the Chilkoot
Pass. Ebert left San Francisco for
the Klondike country, January l.,
and soon after reaching the frozen
north placed his invention In opera
tion at the Chilkoot Pass. 1t re-
quired eight men to work the ma.
chine. They were each paid 81 per
hour, per day. The machine on an
average handled 20 ton per day, for
which two cents per pound was paid
for a time.
The price was subsequently reduced
to cent per pound. Howard was
eminently successful with his inven-
tiOn and realized large returns there
form. The snow has almost di,ap-
peared at Chilcoot Pass making it
Improbable to operate the contriv-
ance any longer for the present season.
Mr.. Howard reports Dyea and Skag-
way practically deserted and no busi-
ness being done whateyer at either
point. Ebert will return next winter
when he expects to realize small
Klondike from his invention.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-05-31

A SECRET WARRANT.-W. A. Trem-
ayne has written a new play called ga
Secret Warrant which will be pre-
sented by Robert ManteIl at the
Opera house tomorrow night. The
story of the romance is exciting and
saYors Of the Dumas school. 1t can
not be told here in all its vigor of
action and coloring, it is just in Mr.,
Mantell,s line, for if there is anything
he can do we'll, it is make love and
fight, and Mr.. Tremayne's play gives
him one of the biggest contracts of
of the kind that has ever been under
taken. The production is under the
management Of M. w. HanleY, who
never fails to do things well and
thoroughly.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-05-31
JOURNAL "X-RAYS."

Mr.. Irvine, who wants to beat Sam
Hay den for prosecuting attorney, is a
partner of Jim Mccain. who held the
office four years. Mccain is now
postmaster at McMinnville, and now
his partner wants to be prosecuting
attorney, and probably make Jim his
deputy. That would give the firm
all three jobs,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-05-31

Middle-of-the-roaders come to
light, just where they were expected
to be,-working hand In hand with
the Mitchell machine for the defeat
of the Union ticket. Holt is in close
with Bob Hendricks and
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-05-31

The Mitchell-McB Bride bosses resort
to personal abuse. They make
another assessment Of the poor boys
and girls employed at state institu-
tions TO get money to ouy votes fol
the ticket. Every poor girl and boy
has had to contribute" TO the Re
publican campaign fund.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-05-31

The Statesman is cheeky to talk
about our advertisers. They are pros
porous, while those who use the
Stateman exclusively, generally 20
"busted,"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-05-31

The Salem tatesman has some
thing To say about JOURNAL adyer-
tising patrons threating the editor
with a threshing. Exclusive adYer-
tisers in the Statesman never do that
until their business goes into the
hands of receiver-which is too
often the case.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-05-31

l have just received an entire
new line of
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-11-23
III. H. Rogers is president of the

III. H. Rogers is president of the
company. l voted for him. 1 re
member of him voting for me. He
attended meeting of the director:
couple of years ago."
who declared the dividend o.
September 18th, 1922
II cannot say positively. l re-
member that Mr.. Bates, Mr.. Nc,
Laughlin and I were present.
have no records of the meeting
Mr.. Mclaughlin was secretary"
what was the amount of the
dividends declared in 1897"
II do not know"
you, as a director, do not re,
member that $3,999,78o was the
dividend declared in 1872"
ut is my recollection that the
dividend was declared so much up
on each share. I remember that
received SIS, but do not remember
what the total amount of the divi-
dend was.
"Do you know w. H. Tilford?'
81 have met him"
"Is he stockholder?"
II do not know. l never saw
him at meeting"
DO YOU know o. B. jennings?
Il met him in New York"
"Is he a stockholder?"
II do not know"
"Has he ever been a director"
mot that l know Of"
"Do you know Walter .Jen'
nings?"
II think met him in Oil City"
The witness was asked similar
questions concerning Esther Jen'
nings, Helen Jennings, Oliver G.
Jennings, Anna B. Jennings and
Oliver H. Payne, and his answers
were that he did not know them tc
be stockholders.
"Was John d. Rockefeller ever
a director of this company"
mot that l know of.
What is the capital stuck of the
company"
II think it is $1o,ooo,ooo but
do not remember positively"
At 2:3o o'clock this Afternoon
the examination Is still in progress
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-11-23
ARRANGEMENTS FOR A BIG TIME


The fair, to be given by the
ladies of the Catholic Church, will
open in Wells Hall on Monday,
December 18th, and continue
throughout the week. The ladies
met last evening and elected Mrs.
Dolan president and Mrs. Weller
vice-president. The following COM
mittees to have charge of the var
ious features, were appointed:
Fancy tables-Mrs. Schillsot and
Mrs. Knoke. Confectionery booth,
Mrs. P. Mays and the Misses Della
and Josephine Kennedy. Racket
table Mrs. Bahen and the Misses
Emma Duffy and Kate Gaffney.
Supper tables-Mrs. Gushing. Mrs.
Fitzgerald and Mrs. Crowell. Cof-
fee and oyster tables-J. w. Ken.
nedy, Mrs. Cunningham and Mrs.
Carroll. Mrs. Swartzwalder and
Mrs. Scharer did the soliciting and
their efforts have been very sue
cessful.
The following are candidates for
prize honors: Set of bits, set of
jars and rope socket, donated by
the Leidecker Tool Co. and John
Finlayson, of the West Virginia
Tool Co., will be contested for by
Frank Sweeney. The handsome
gold watch by Mrs. Dan 10y and
Miss Louisa Twain. and the dia-
mond ring by Miss Teresa Stack
and Miss Tillie Swartzwalder.
The arrangements for the fair
are being made on an elaborate
scale, and. knowing the ability of
the Catholic ladies to take any
church event through with flying
colors, it is safe to predict pleasur-
able and profitable time from the
start of the fair to its finish.
The ladies will meet again next
Wednesday evening and perfect the
arrangements for the fair.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-11-23
This is Philosophy.

There is good deal of philoso-
ply in the following: "Drink and
the gang drinks with you; swear of
and you go it alone; fer the bar
room bum who drinks your rum
has a quenchless thirst of his own.
Feast and your friends are many;
fast and they cut you dead; they'll
not get mad if you treat them bad,
so long as their stomach is fed
Steal, if you get a million, for then
you can get bail; it's the great big
thief that gets out on leave, while
the little one goes to jail"
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-11-23
FINE TINE REPORTED
BY the Party Which Went TO Sardis, O..
Yesterday.


Last evening at her home in
Sardis, O., Miss Eva Nesbitt enter
tanned party from this city at a
six O'Clock dinner. Those present
were Messrs. Walter Bishop, Will
Aguew, R. L. Gregory, H. STAINS
berry and S. L. Angle and the
Misses Gussie briggs, Beatrice
Pugh, Sarah Agnew, Anna Elder
and Georgia Roome. The event
was greatly enjoyed by both hos
tess and guests, and will be the
source of pleasant memories for a
long time in the future. The party
intended returning on the Ruth,
but they were somewhat belated in
reaching the wharf boat, and con-
sequently were compelled to stay
over night and return this morning
by rail.
Miss Nesbitt has purchased
Thoenen's interest in the shoe firm
of Queen & Thoenen, and will
take possession of her purchase
Monday.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-11-23

largely through the good wages
paid by the oil industries. whether
Buckeye Pipe Line company, Solar
Refining company or private con-
Germs. Any attitude such as you
take touches a vital'interest, and we
have this question very much at
heart.
Mr.. Critics affirmed all that had
been said, and added that the con-
Germs attacked were conscientious
in making their tax returns; that
they had largely increased the in
come of the county and state. Their
pay rolls in this county. he stated.
amounted annually to SI,25o, 900,
which went to merchants for food
and apparel. To this was due more
than anything else that the city
had doubled itself in ten years, and
that anylaction that would tend to
contract'their business here would
he an injustice. Their employees
have their own homes and they are
among our best citizens, and any
action to drive them away would be
public calamity.
Col. w. K. Boone spoke from the
standpoint of a business man. "As
president of the Business Mems As
ISOLATION, endorse everything that
has been said. We simply ask you
to consider the interests of the peo-
pie of this city and county, and that
you favor US in any way possible.
MoNNErT TALKS.
All remarks having been adj
dressed to Monnett, he was i'm
PEELED to reply. He felt highly COM
plimented in being able to meet so
many of the representative business
men OF the city, and to know that
they were especially interested in
the matter under discussion. We
are mutual friends. There is moth.
ing personal or malicious in the at
tacks 1 am making against the in
stitution III question. Even if there
were gentlemen in the audience
with trust certificates in their pock-
cts, would be derelict in my duty
were I to do otherwise than
1 am doing. Mr.. Monnett then
vent off into ancient history to
prove that trusts were nothing new
and that in every case the people
had risen in their might and over
thrown them. This he followed
with history of the Standard Oil
Co.; that the testimony in the
courts showed they were buying
and selling oil for a profit. This,
combined with pooling, the courts
said was crime against commerce,
and that the companies which had
been merged into the parent COM
pany must desiSt and withdraw
from the contract. The legislature
said the same thing through anti
trust legislation. Pm not to blame
for this. The Buckeye Pipe Line
Co. can we'll afford TO pay good
wages, if there is no competition,
and they can buy oil at their own
price. These children of the par
ent have evaded the law. Am I to
stand up like man, and force the
issue with them, or should l over
look 1t? l don't want to persecute
them, and If can't prove the
charge against them, let them live.
If the courts are not mistaken, then
you ought to assist in driving them
out, even if it does injure Lima
temporarily Lima Times.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-11-23

the defendant company's counsel
and Mr.. O'Day requested not to
answer.
"Do you mean that it would tend
to criminate your" asked the attor-
ney general.
The same answer as the one to
the previous question was given
and recorded.
How much stock do you own
in the Buckeye Pipe Line COM
pany?"
"Oue share"
Did you receive any dividends
on your share of stock in the Buck
eye Pipe Line company, or for your
share in the Northwestern Natural
Gas company"
yes sir"
when were those dividends de
clared, and by whom were you paid
your share?"
Il don't remember when they
were declared. I received check
from George w. Copeland, of New
York, the Northwestern company,
and one from Treasurer R. J.
Campbell, of the Buckeye Pipe Line
company, at Oil CITY"
When were tn; -ividends de-
clared by the directors of the Buck
eye Pipe Line Co. since you have
been a Director"
The dividends are not declared
at any certain period and 1 have no
record of the meetings at which
they were declared.
what amount did you declare a
dividend on at your last meeting?"
II do not know. I remember
that the last dividend declared l re-
ceived SIS. I paid $Ioo for my
share. I don't remember just how
long it has been since 1 became a
director"
"Of whom did you purchase your
stock?"
81 think I bought it from John
Bushnell at one time VIXEN / was
in New York"
Chow many shares have the
other stockholders of the Buckeye
Pipe Line Co.."
II cannot say. I do not know who
all of the stockholders are"
"You know who the directors
are; how many shares have they?"
II have heard them say that they
had one share"
HAS Mr.. John D. Rockefeller
any stock in this company
II have seen a list of the stock
holders, but I do not remember
who they all WERE"
"Did he vote for you when you
were elected director?'
II cannot say"
did Frank Rockefeller vote for
you when you were elected a di-
rector"
II do not know whether he did
or not"
did F. B. Squires vote for your"
II do not have any recollection
of him being present at any of the
meetings"
"Was his stock represented by
power of attorney at any of the
stockholders meetings."
II do not know. I never saw
any such power of attorney at any
of the the meetings"
"Was F. B. Squires ever a direc-
tor of the company"
Il have no records of the boards
and cannot say positively"
"You were director prior 20
May Goth, 1896, were you not?"
Il am not sure of the date, but
think was"
"And you don't know F. B.
Squires was a director of the COM
pany at that timer"
81 do not"
Mr. O'Day was asked a number
of questions concerning L. H.
Severns, William Rockefeller, H.
NJ. Flagler and Benjamin Brewster
and whether or not they were stock
holders. and to each he frankly
answered that he had no absolute
knowledge concerning any connec.
tion they might have with the com
pany. When asked concerning
81. H. Rogers, he replied:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-02-17

gallant focse Used 70 i Issen TO- on bim
for hours playing old German lieder songs
and grooming to his zither accompaniment
; Younk Americans.
'AI-the rest of The twelve or fourteen Of
former shipmates OF mime who met their death
on the Maine were-yeung Americans of en-
ergy, ambition and character, who entered
the navy for the p9rience to be acquired
in cruise or two IN foreign waters and to
give themselves discipline that they felt
they needed for successful lives ashore I
have had letters AVgm most of them since I
left the service, all Of them filed with a
wistful peering into the future when thew
should be finally Spadd or DON the blue
jacket uniform, and assume the duties of
citizenship on the beach, as sailors
phrase 1t.
= 1T arouses a peculiar feeling within a
man to read Of the violent passing of his
former shipmates-a.L Last summer. for in
stance, it broke me all up when 1 read in
the newspaper dispatches the announce
ment of the murder of Master-at-arms
Tommy Kenny on ship at the Brooklyn
navy yard. Kenny and 1 used to play chess
the long smoking-lamp periods when we
were on a ship together cruising on the
west coast of South America, and he was a
clever Irishman and fine shipmate On
this day last summer he was serving out
beer in the beer line when messgear was
piped at noon, when a drunken coal passer
named Carter, who had just returned to
the ship from shore liberty. staggered UP to
him and demanded beer. Kenny, seeing the
mans condition. declined to let him have
any. and Carter drove a knife into his
heart. I can never get it out of my mind
that former shipmates who meet their
death on board ship in a way so violent as
to call for public chronicling, are not still
cruising around the world somewhere or
another, the same old careless, hearty,
me-good-come-evil chaps that 1 used to
know Them
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-02-17
he Proud of Red Hair.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.


Ii stead of being dissatisfied with their
lot. women with red hair should study
how to use it becomingIy and be proud of
the distinction OF having it. There appears
to be an impression among women with
red hair, says an exchange, that almost
any shade of blue can be worn by them.
because, as usual thing they have fair
and delicate compilations. But. as mat
Ter OF fact, blue is the one color, above all
others. that they ought to avoid The con-
trast is too violent and the combination
Is not harmonious. TIE shades most suit
able to be worn with red hair are bright,
sunny brown and all autumn-leaf tints
after these may be selected pale or very
cark green-but never a bright green pale
yellow and black unmixed with any other
color. Mixed oolors are not becoming to
red-haired people, as they nearly always
give them a more or less dowdy appear
ance. In fact, red hair Is usually so bril-
iiant and decided that 1t must be met on
Its own ground, and no vague. undecided
sort OF things should be worn with it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-02-17
SYMPATHY FROM SPAIN.
omcfnI Expression of Regret at Acc
dent to the Maine,

10 VI fNeSret AT AcCts
dent to the Maine.
The following semi-official rote has been
issued by the Spanish government at Mad
rid:
The news of the disaster, of the Maine
mas caused painful impression in Madrid
1t was at first feared that there had been
some act of imprudence to which the ca
tastrophe was attributable Afterward as
the details arrived the fears were dispelled
and took the form of feelings of sympathy
and sorrow for the misfortune which has
occurred.
The captain general, the commandment
of the arsenal, the sailors of the cruiser
Alfonso XII, the crews of the merchant
vessels and all the available forces hast
ened to succor the injured"
The government has expressed to Min
lister Woodford the regret il feels at the
catastrophe, more especially as it occurred
In waters within Spanish Jurisdiction.
An admiral in full uniform in the name
or the minister of marine, and the entire
Spanish cabinet called on General Wood
ford today and informed him that the
government had telegraphed to the author
ties In Cuba to do their utmost to relieve
Inc distress OF the injured and to furnish
the ofhcers and crew of the Maine with
everything which they may need.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-02-17
STRUCK BY A TORPEDO.
But Capt. Evans Thinks 1t Was Fire,
mt Alfonso XII.

But Capt. Evans Thinks 1t Was Fired
at Alfonso XII.
Captain Robley ID. Evans, who is in New
Orleans, in speaking of the Maine disaster
last night, said:
There are certain points beyond perad-
venture in my judgment. The explosion
azines. An explosion in one of the main
magazines would have blown the ship to
atoms. The statement that there was an
explosion of the dynamo boiler is silly. as
the dynamo has no boiler, the dynamos
being run by steam from the main boilers.
The gun cotton theory may be left out of
consideration. as the only gun cotton on
board was In the form of disks, and these
and could not be exploded by defamation
after being placed in the torpedoes ready
for service, the detonatorS being kept in
the foretopS 100 feet away from the mag
aires. The cylinders containing the gun
cotton could be PLACED on a cooking stove
for twenty-four hours without danger of
accident.
THE disaster, therefore, must have been
caused by fixed ammunition or powder
charges for the 10-inch guns. The difficulty
of exploding the fixed ammunition is wei
known, and as the powder charges for the
10-iEch guns are carried in copper cylin-
dcrs, Theoretically sealed, the chances O,
explosion from within the ship were scarce
~ worth considering. When we look at the
outside conditions Ii seems to me that we
can find a reasonable cause for the dis
aster. The Spanish battle ship Alfonso XII
was lying in the immediate vicinity of tho
Maine, and a torpedo fired at her and miss
Ing Its mark could have caused this disas-
ter. This seems to me the most reasona-
BILE theory"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-02-17
THE SAMOAN DISASTER.
Wreck of the Warships In Apia
HarbOF.


The only parallel to the Maine horror in
the history of the United States navy was
the great Samoan disaster in March, 1880.
when four officers and forty-six men of the
Pacific coast squadron lost their lives in a
hurricane which swept the harbor of Apia,
Samoa. and surrounding waters March 10
and Ii. When this hurricane started there
were in the harbor of Apia the following
men-of-war: The L. s. S. Trenton. Van
dalia and Nipsic: the British ship Calliope.
and the German vessels Adler, Olga and
Eber and a few merchant ships and small
craft
Admiral Kimberly, commanding the naval
forces. made the department a long report
on the disaster, in which he showed that
notwithstanding the utmost efforts of the
officers and men and display of the most
expert seananship. the Vandalia and Nip
sic were wrecked on a reef. The Vandaiia
lost four officers and thirty-nine men, the
Nipsic seven men, and the Trenton. one
man. whose head was smashed by an ac-
cident aboard ship.
The admirals report showed that the Ad-
Ter had been thrown high up on reef and
was careened on her side; that the Olga
mad been bedched in good position. He
said the Eber was nowhere to be seem
and reported that the Calliope having sue
cessfully run out of the harbar during the
beginning of the storm had returned show
ing signs of having experienced heavy
weather.
In reporting on the disaster Admiral KIM
berly said:
During the entire time Capt Farauhar
showed great care and good judgment in
handling the ship through this terrible
gale, and never left the bridge. He was
ably seconded by his executive and navi-
eating officers. who did all in their power
to save the ship. In fact. 50 far as / could
observe, all the officers behaved extremely
well under the trying circumstances. and
performed their duties cheerfully, effective
ly and as well could be desired. This
disaster l classify among the incidents and
accidents inSepa rable from the prosecution
of duty Its magnitude, however gives it
distinguishing feature which, Fortunate
ly. the service is rarely compelled to Wit
ness.