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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-09-19
WEBB M'yAIIz HAS NOT REDUCED
INSURANCE RATES.
VERDICT ALMOST UNANIMOUS
HUNDREDS OF KANSAS PROPERTY
HOLDERS HEARD FROM.
With Practically No Exceptions They
Declare That Rates Have Not
Been Reduced or That, IL
So, No Thanks Are
Due McNaH.

The claim is being made By Insurance
has caused insurance rates to be reduced
in the state. Simply by way OF getting at
the facts, leading business men in every
section have been given chance TO relate
experiences with insurance companies. They
tell their story, which proves quite interest
ing information al this time. despite the
wonderful sameness of various expressions
given. 1t seems TO be just one story, and
that is all there is to it. In face of state
ments made It will be hard for any one
20 believe that Mr.. McNaH has been
benefit 20 the state.
The methods resorted TO by Mr.: McNaIl
in making alleged investigations covering
the financial responsibility OF insurance
companies makes 1t very plain that any
company that will pay the fees can pro-
ceed to impose on the people Of Kansas. The
examinations never discovered n fraudulent
company where the fee was paid. The fake
examinations of course protected no one,
but the plan simply encouraged fraud.
The feeling against insurance companies
by reason Of various things made a war
on them popular. Many gained the i'm
preston that the companies were harsh and
in some instances unjust. Many wanted to
see somebody give trouble to insurance
companies. They imagined McNall would
do this and cause rates to be reduced. In
face Of these expectations rates have not
been reduced, and McNall agents have been
convicted OF taking money for pretended
examinations and barring no one from the
state who put up cash, not to the state, but
TO McNall and his corps of assistants.
TOPEKA, Sept. 1s.-(Special) Charles
Harger, of Abilene. has exploded one OF
Webb McNalI's cute tricks. McNau de.
votes almost his entire time at his meet
ing telling what big man McNal is and
how McNall has decreased insurance rates
in Kansas. At certain point in his speech
after telling of the wholesale reductions
McNall asks:
creased?"
man sitting down In the audience i'm
mediately jumps to his feet and says:
They have; thanks to your wise manage
ment of the insurance department"
McNall then bows his acknowledgment
of the compliment
Harger says that the man in the audience
who gets UP and makes the talk about re-
duced rates is Topeka bum who gets %
day and expenses to tour the state with
McNall and speak his piece at the proper
time. The Pop state committee foots the
bill.
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1898-09-20
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CITY notices IS cents per line each In ;crtion.
LEGAL notices 10 cents per line for hTst iaser-
won, and cents per line for each subsequent
assertion.
resolutions and obituary notices cents pen
line
81 eciaI rates for long time advertising.
Transient advertisements 81 90 per inch for
dtst insertion. and so cents per nch for each
subsequent insertion.
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1898-09-20
Petroleum RETURNS.
Washington, Sept. IS,

Washington, Sept. IS, 'oS.
The commissioner of Internal
Revenue. has promulgated an impor.
tant ruling regarding the returns
to be made 10 the bureau by rein,
ers and pipe line companies. In a
letter to an Ohio collector. he says:
I'm reply to your letter of the
Ist instant, in reference to returns
of gross receipts, required by the
revenue act of June IS, 1898, to be
made by oil refining and pipe line
companies, you are informed:
II That as the provision of the
act relating to such companies
went into effect June IA, 1898, a
return for the period commencing
on that date and ending June so,
should be made by each such com.
pany tor each monthly period there
after.
q That while the act provides
that each such company Shall be
subject 10 pay annually a special
excise tax equivalent to one quarter
OF one per cent. on the gross
amount of its receipts in excess Of
$25o,ooo, it is evidently the inten-
lion of this act, in requiring re-
'urn of the amount of such gross
recejps to be rendered monthly,
that the tax accruing each month
S lall be definitely determined for
each monthly period during the
year. The tax, when so deter.
is held to be assessable un-
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1898-09-20
500 REWARD S1oo,

The readers of this paper will be pleased 20
learn that there is At least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to in all its stages
and that is catarrh. Hairs Cattrrah Cure is the
only positive cute now known to the medic>l
fraternity. Catarrh being constitutional dis
Catarrh Cure is taken internally. acting directly
upon the blood AID mucous surfaces of the system
thereby destroying the foundation Of the disease
aud giving the patient strength by building up
the constitution AVID assisting nature in doing it's
work. The proprictors have SO much faith in
its curative powers. that they offer one Hundred
Dollars for any case 1t fails to cure Send for
list of Testimonial
+. ]. CHENEY&CO., Props, Toledo O.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c, per bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1898-09-20
4 False issI,ort.

There has been report in CIR
culation for several days to the eff
feet that the horses Of A. c. Ruby
at New Maftiusville, are afflicted
with CHAMBERS and that it lad been
necessary to kill some of them. DR..
II. Kerr, of this city, was up to
see the horses yesterday and he
stated last evening that there was
no truth in the report, that the
worst thing that had developed so
tar, were a couple of cases of dis
temper.
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1898-09-20

der provisions of section 81 of'the
act, and when assessed, to be due
and payable as in the case Of other
assessed taxes.
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1898-09-20

Judge R. II. Freer was in the
city last evening on his way home
from Middlebourne, where he had
been holding special session OF
court for the purpose of confirming
some leases and doing some other
chancery business.
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1898-09-20
The Sunday Dinner

AT the Manhattan will he some
thing you cannot afford to miss.
Billy King knows how to cater to the
people. Ola tt.
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1898-09-20

Miss Frank Russell, Miss Mollie
Rcome. Mrs. Sallie Sayre, George
w. Stocking and a number OF
other people in the city, left this
morning for Wheeling. where they
go to attend the funeral of Mrs
Ieham, who died on Saturday.
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1898-09-20

The entertainment of Miss Rae
Dtsseps kindergarten class will be
given in the opera house tomorrow
evening and it promises to be a
great succs IS. The little ones have
their parts we'll learned and it will
no doubt be very enjoyable inter
tainment.
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1898-09-20

cd nleS IOr so long Is simply ina
there were some pereons serving a
members Of the board of count,
commissioners, W no we've so bigo e
and prejudiced that the limit o
their vision was the end of thei
nose. Such men as these are no
wanted this year, and it will no
only be a great benefit to Sisters
vile, but to the entire county a.
we'll. if just SUCH men are turnec
down at the coming election.
The duty Of the democrats at the
convention to be held Saturday i,
very plain: Nominate men who
will do something for the interests
of the people at large in the county
and people, who, if elected, will moi
cater to and jump at the beck and
nod of the clique crowd of ring
SterS.
1t is moral certainty that if
Hughes is elected, Sistersville, and
as far as that is concerned, Lincoln
district may as we'll be buried dur
ing the next two years. He will do
just as he did two years ago and
Just as his prede ;essor, Pyle, did
when he was in office: Opp 1se
anything that is brought up which
would in any way be to the interest
of Sistersville. The Review stated
some time ago that if the repub-
licans would put up a man who
would do at least something for the
city, it would support him but they
did not do so and it cannot con.
scientiously support a man whom
it is positive will be against the
best interests of the town.
In the case of the county com
missioner, it is just as certain that
Weekly is against the town and
with the ring, and we will have
20 lie of him. If the democrats will
put up good man for each OF the
Offices mentioned, It is believed they
will have fighting chance to win
out, and the Review will help that
fighting chance along as much as it
possibly can, and that will be not a
little. The names of some good
and popular men have been men
toned tor the two most important
Offices to be filled this year, and
every democrat who attends the
convention on Saturday should ap.
point himself committee of one to
see that only the strongest ones are
selected to carry the democratic
standard during the coming cam
paign. This is the last hope and
the last chance to down the ring
which has been running things, DO.
litically and otherwise, in this
county for number Of years.
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1898-09-20
Everything in Market.

That's what you can get at the
Manhattan restaurant. Billy Kirg
has charge and he knows bis busl-
ness. Q IA If
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1898-09-20
The w Gather.

Forecast until 8 p. m. Wednes.
day: Increasing cloudlness tonight;
showers Wednesday afternoon.
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1898-09-20
ADVERTISING RATES
Democratic County Convention.

The county convention of the
democratic p Irty in Tyler county
will meet in Middlebournc on Sat
urday next for the purpose Of Sc
leCting nominees for some OF the
various Offices to be filled at Il e
election held in November. In
years passed by it has not been at
ali material whether the democrats
ofthis &C unity held any conventions
or made any nominations for the
different Offices to BE- flied for the
reason that the county wa; so over
WI mingly in the hands of O. w.
O. Hardman and his lieutenants
that there was no possible CHARGE
for them to win out.
This year the Review believes it
will be different. There has been
a great deal of dissatisfaction en-
gendered in the ranks of the repub-
lican party caused principally by
the high-handed manner in which
80. w. O." and his gang have been
carrying on their nefarious work.
Of course there are always mum
berless petty chickering's among pol
iticians, but this year The dissatis
faction and dissention is of some
Importance, and principally by it's
actions at the county convention Of
that party held at Middlebourne a
couple of weeks ago, Ibid the repu1-
licans Of Tyler county pave the way
for number Of republicans of the
old rock-ribbed, hide-bound sort to
vote the democratic ticket, or at
least for some of the men who will
be on the democratic ticket.
At the convention to be held on
Saturday the democrats have some
important work before them. Two
of the Offices for which nominees
will be named are member of the
house of delegates and member of
the board of county commissioners.
To people in this end OF the county
these are the most important offices
in the whole list to be filed this
year. In the first place, we want a
man to represent the county in the
house of delegates who will do
something for Sistersville and its
surroundings, and for practically
tt e same reason do we want a good,
honest, reliable, conscientious man
for county commissioner.
The matter of license or no Ii
cense will be the grounds on which
the fight for county commissioner
will be made, and there is little
doubt but that Sistersville will
stand by the license man. The Re
view is for prohibition where such
thing is possible, but in the case
in this town it has been very fully
demonstrated that it is impossible
to stop the sale Of intoxicants.
1t has been tried mum
Der of times, and has always been
signal failure. In such case, the
Review believes that the business
should be properly governed by the
laws of the state, instead of allow
ing it to continue in the manner in
which it has been conducted dur
ing the past FIVE years.
Practically the only reason why
the saloons have been run as speak
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1898-09-20
For Sale,

Boilers and engines, tubing, cas-
ing, rigs and all kinds of second
hand supplies.
J. L. FLACK. II If
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1898-09-20

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Natchitoches populist., 1898-06-24
NATCHITOCHEs,' La, JUNE "A. 1898.
PROSPERITY BOOMERS.
A Labor Paper Strongly Objects te
Their Methods.

Our attention has been called to
some figures printed in the Pioneer
Press and alleged to have emanated
from officials of the state federation
of labor, which form the basis for an
argument on the improved conditions
prevailing among the organized trades
in this state. 1t is claimed that the
reports show that the members OF
those trades are more generally en-
pioyed now than at any time for sew.
eral years" Further along it is as
serted that SO per cent of the uniop
men III Minnesota are at work.
Whether OF not the officials of the
state federation have made the re-
ports as alleged, Labor World does not
know. But no union man or any ether
man with his eyes open 10 deceived by
such allegations. That the public
may know just how much truth there
is in the report it is only necessary
to state that not one union in ten ever
makes such thing as an official re-
port ON the matter in question.
Unions have to report their member
snip to their national officers because
their dues are determined by the
numbers of members: but as rule
tney never 60 farther. 1t Is customary
tor central bodies to have statistician
whose duties 1t is to gather statistics
regarding wages, men out of employ
ment, etc, but so far as experience
goes the mission of the Office is an en-
tire failure because the affiliated or
ganiSations will not report. Hence,
the officials of the state federation have
no data on which to figure, and the as"
sumption that they have, to every in
telilgenc union man, is a dead give
away on the prosperity boomers"
This boom business does the cause
positive injury. 1t misleads the pub.
tic as to actual economic conditions,
and justifies the perpetuation Of influ-
ences that are sapping the strength of
the social foundation. The first es-
sential TO scientific understanding OF
the social problem is a correct knowl-
edge OF actual facts and the cause can
have no greater enemy anywhere than
those who, from over enthusiasm Or
other motives, deliberately misrepre.
sent conditions.-Duluth Labor World.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-06-24

the next best secured bonds would
take their place and fall into the
hands of this one house of Roths-
childs What an absurd system is
this which really bankrupts all the
bonds but those held as first lien on
all the gold, and which compels the
financial systems of all nations to re-
volve around that British national
debt as the golden sun of the whole,
and virtually compels the labor, and
toll, and genius Of the world to pay in
finite tribute to that one house! 1t Is
the outcome of the golden basis system
by which all the real money of the ma
tlons, the paper and silver, is de"
ciared no money and gold is made the
sole legal tender--gold that never does
any work as money, but effects it
through its so-ealled representatives
all of which are in reality made bank
rupt and worthless by that law of
legal tender. Positively, if people
would study this subject in the light
or common sense, the system could
not exist one day longer. It is rob-
berry, piracy, fraud and the sum of all
the yillainies enthroned by law and
compelling the admiration, wonder,
worship and tribute of the whole
world at the beck of few supernatur-
ally avaricious men"
Natchitoches populist., 1898-06-24
j. PIerpont and Uncle Sam,

J. Pierront Morgan now has control
of nearly all the leading railroads, the
latest report giving him 10000 miles.
He will soon have all the principal
roads under his control, says the Ia
coma Sun. We used to hear people
remark that government ownership
was an impossibillty. for the reason
that there was too much money in
vested in railroads for the government
TO afford to buy them and that it would
take the combined capital of thou
sands of the very wealthy to own
them. How do these people take TO
the prospect of this one man control
ling and owning our railroad system? !?
Are they willing to admit that Morgan
is greater than the government?
Natchitoches populist., 1898-06-24
The CORPORATIONS Control.

The railroads are making a great
deal Of trouble over the bill now be-
fore the senate increasing the powers
Of the interstate commerce commits
sion. The railway lobbyists oppose
giving the commission more power on
general principles. 1t is now under
the absolute control of the corpora
tions, SO that II the bill became law
the immediate effects would not be
very embarrassing to the railways.
But the dread Of the corporations is
that their present control viii slip
away from them, In which event it
would be very inconyenient to have
such law as the one proposed on the
statute books. One of the provisions
is to do away with the long and short
haul clause and give the commission
power to establish arbitrarily such
regulations as it may deem fit In the
adjustment of rates to existing cir
cumstances and distances. However,
as we have said, the corporations are
opposed to giving the commission any
more power, SO that, unless this atti-
tude is changed, the bill will be de-
feated. This is to be regretted, be-
cause the only prospect we have of
government ownership of railways is
through the enlargement of the pow
ers and functions Of the interstate
commerce commission. Twentieth
Century.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-06-24
No Longer a Theory.

Direct legislation is no longer a the.
DRY to be considered Mt some future
time, but has come UP before the peo-
pie to be settled. Shall We have a
government by the psople and for the
people, or a government by and for
the money changersi' Delegated gov
ernment has proven & failure, and we
should assert our right to have d voice
In the management OF the government
Under the present system we elect a
man to Legislative Office, and then he
will not do thing that he is in
structed by his constituency to do, and
the bigger rascal he is the more chance
he stands for reelection. Under the in
itiative and referendum the people
could have just such laws as they
wanted. There would be no power
above the people. You will not have
to give UP your other ideas for this
one. II you are free silver Demo-
crat you can continue so to be. IL you
are gold standard advocate aid be-
lieye that majority of the people
want monometallism, you cannot OBJ
ject to this principle. Illegal Tender.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-06-24
Failures Increase.

Though no mention is made in the
leading dailies about the alarming in.
crease In failures since the inaugural
ton OF Mckinley, the fact still exists
that we are in the midst of cyclone
OF financial and business destruction.
Bradstreet and DUN both are keeping
tab on the conditions, and their re-
ports show that during the past week
there were forty-six more failures
than were reported for the same week
last year. Not a paper comes from
the press but shows general crash
In business houses all over the coun-
try. Their frequency has, to large
extent, allayed alarm, and vampire.
like, lulled the people into quiet, while
the work Of destruction is augmented
with each succeeding day Dallas
Mercury.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-06-24
Discouraging improvements.

Assessors generally have got into
the habit of assessing improvements
at not less than go per cent Of their
actual cost, and land unused or par
TALLY used land at 30 to 40 per cent Of
what the proprietor holds it up for
sale at, thus encouraging the specu-
lator In keeping from using the boun-
ties OF the Creator. Assessors gener..
ally are ilnbued with conscientious mo-.
tives, still that does not alter the fact
that taxing or fining one for HAVING.
made an improvement is enough to
keep people idle when they might as
well be working. Schenectady (N. T.,
Journal.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-06-24
NATCHITOCHES DIRECTORY.
CHURCH SERVICES.

Services at the Methodist church
every First and Third Sundays at II
.. m. and 1880 p. M, by the pastor,
Rev. e. Armstrong. Prayer meeting
every Wednesday night at7:30 O. clock.
BAPT1sr-M. E. Weaver, pastor.
Regular services, Second and Fourth
Sundays at II a. m. and s p. m. Sun
day school, 10 a. M; prayer meeting,
Wednesday, 8 p. m. All invited.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-06-24
LODGES.

Phoenix Lodge No. SO, A. F. & A..
M.-simcoe Walmsley, W. NJ; J. G.
Trichel Jr., Sec. Meets FIRST aud
Third Wednesdays at 2 p. m.
Castle Hall No. SO, Knights of Pyth-
ias.-U. P. Breazeale, G. c.; Adolph
L'Herisson, K. of r. & s. Meets
Second and Fourth Thursdays at
p. m.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-06-24
Bonds Versus Greenbacks,

Greenbacks would bear no interest.
and hence would put no money into
the pockets Of the robbers OF Wall
street. And you will see the admin
istration turning the nations pockets
over to the gang to be picked. Uncle
Sam.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-06-24
Printed for Ricl, I.nafsra.

The metropolitan ,lailies have be-
come so voluminous, 60 stuffed and
inflated with wind and worthlessness,
that none but professional loafers have
time to wade through them. .--Bodie
Miner-Index.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-06-24
PROSPERITY NOTES.

In Wilmington. Del, this happy,
prosperous winter, a mother Of a large
family earned in week of sixty-nine
hours exactly SLIT, at shirtmaking,
A lockout and strike of stonecutters
Is on In ffty-two establishments of
Greater New York. Bosses attempted
to annul the eight-hour workday which
the stonecutters enjoyed for several
years, and which the men have strug-
gled hard to attain.
An unhappy young woman starved
to death in a lonely house near New
York the other day. She had been
reared In every luxury. She was
graduate of convent in Paris and
In her fathers will she had been be-
queathed 100000. But the fathers
fortune had been swept away very
shortly before he died, leaving this girl
quite unprovided for. She had no
friends, and family dissensions made
it too humiliating for her to seek aid
from her relatives. So she drifted
about, pawning her clothing and her
jewelry, vainly trying to get pupils
in music. French, painting and the
like. The poor thing was, like SO
many other poor things, unable to get
a start in life. At last she had to give
up, and take refuge in an old house
In the country that once belonged to
her father. Here she sickened and
died, literally, of hunger. And there
are many children of the well-to-do
who will die deaths as dreadful and
even more dreadful. Such is civiliza.
tion.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-06-24
PROSPERITY NOTES.

Between 900 and 400 employees of the
6eckman Woolen Mills. in Cleveland,
ollo' who went ON strike recently for
an advance in wages, have nearly all
returned to work without gaining the
increase demanded.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-06-24

A daily paper gives description OF
the jewels OF twelve women of our
unerowned nobility which would
equip 81 regiments" Mrs. George
Gould's dog collar represents $27, in
jewels. Mrs. Belmont has the Jewels
OF Marie Antoinette.