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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-15

that the trust movement will stop
while there is competition that IAN
possibly be stopped.
An idea of the enormous growth Of
trusts in 1898 can be formed from
glance at the partial list of trusts
formed in that year. AS seen in the
table, these ninety odd trusts have
capital of between $1,000. 900, 900 and ST.
300,000000. Their bonded indebtedness
will increase the total to over $780,
100000 A few comparisons will enable
us to grasp the meaning of this great
capital
The total value of our wheat crop for
1896 is placed at 1910, 6o2, 533-less than
one-third of the capital of the 1898 trusts.
The value of all horses in the United
States in 1897 was estimated at $452, 649,-
900.
The value of our mineral products in
1896 was $623, 717,238.
The value of our sheep in 1897 was only
$67,02O,94e.
The value of our mi1ch cows in 1897 was
$369,es9,o93.
The value of sugar consumed in this
country is now about $22O, 100000 year.
The total of wages paid in the sugar re-
filming industry is about $2,OOO,0O0-1ess
than one-sixth- hundredth of the new trust
capital of 1898.
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THE TRUSTS OF ONE YEAR,

The year 1898 has been most prolific
of trusts. Returning prosperity has
brought with it an unparalleled out
burst of combinations and consolida-
tions. The year closed with more
trusts brewing than ever before A
trust craze seems to have developed
Much of the business of many law
firms now consists of the work con-
nected with the launching of new
trusts. In dozens of important indus
tries, men are travelling and telegraph
ing and telephoning to bring about
consultations of competing concerns
As seen in the list of 1898 trusts-start-
ling even though it is only partial
presented herewith their efforts are
meeting with great success. Despite
antitrust laws and court decisions
sustaining them, the future is bright
for all kinds of trusts, combinations,
pools and consultations. Trusts have
come to stay, and their era has only
just begun. We might. by taking
away their special neutrality-suspicious..
franchises. tariffs, etc.-do something
to regulate and control them, but our
efforts to abolish them will prove as
futile and foolish as were the efforts
of our English forefathers to fix. by
legal enactment. the prices at which
all ordinary commodities should sell
1t is hardly necessary to say that the
WOfd trust Is no Hunger tbilHEeu To It's
original meaning, and that strictly
speaking there are to-day no trusts
that is combinations of corporations
with trustees holding a majority of
the stocks TRUSTS" are OutlaWed in
the United States, and in nearly every
separate state. The object aimed at
by trusts is, however, accomplished as
effectively in other ways; for example,
by the consolidation of competing con-
Germs into one great corporation; or by
pools and agreements, with or without
penalties attached, between the COM
petitors in any industry. The word
trust" as popularity used, now covers
all combinations or associations with
monopoly powers over prices, materials
or wages.
OF course the object aimed at is to
increase profits. Profits can be in
creased in two ways:
/. By advancing prices of finished
products.
2. BY diminishing cost of production.
Both means are usually attempted by
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-15

practically not bank A few men in
the New York clearing house decide
what banks can clear and practically,
therefore, are autocrats in the bank
ing, and to large extent in the COM
merCial world
Everywhere the big is gobbing up
the little. Syndicate office buildings,
department stores and apartment
houses are now the rule in cities and
are producing great economic and So
cial results. Everything is being done
on large scale and by syndicates
Even fish are caught and canned by
syndicates and combines. About the
only important industry in which gen.
uine competition still exists is that of
agriculture. But even here evolution
is extending its monopoly arms and
giving US cattle trusts, wine-makers'
corporations, raisin associations, pea
nut combines, bonanza wheat farms,
and feeble, and thus far futile, at
tempts by tobacco. cotton and wheat
growers to limit production and fix
prices.
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considered harmful and unlawful. The
power of trusts to reduce cost of prod
uct in any of the first five ways men
toned is also very great. and its ex-
ercise is considered beneficial to man.
kind
Therefore trusts are potentially both
good and bad.
A few trusts-lnainly railroad, tele-
graph and insurance pools-existed be
fore 1882, but the name was not applied
to them until the formation of the
Standard Oil Trust in 1882. A great
outcry against trusts arose shortly
after the formation of the Sugar and
Whiskey Trusts in 1887. Investiga-
tions were held in congress and state
legislatures, and volumnous reports
were issued. Severe antitrust legis-
lation followed, with the result that
| most trusts changed their forms and
names, but not their nature. They
have increased rapidly since 1887 and
more rapidly in 1898 than ever before.
Probably one-half of all capital in the
| manufacturing industries Csc, 140, 900, OO0
| in 1890 is in some form of trust
Probably thirds of the capital
| (about ST., 000, 900, 900 in 1890 in railroads
street railways, mines, telegraphs
telephones, and other monopolies. is in
| pools and combinations of various
| kinds. The only remaining capital en-
/ gagged in productive industry is that
employed in agriculture--s13,27 9 ,252 64s
| in 1890.
1t is evident, therefore. that owe,
third of all productive capital has
ceased to be competitive, except to a
limited extent. There is no indication
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-15
MILLIONS IN
THE TRUSTS
Great Aggregations of Capital
Which One Year Has
Produced.
THEY DWARF PRODUCTS
But They Mean Much for Indus
try and for Economy in
Organization.
BY BYRON W. BOLT.

Evolution Is always at work. 1t
which it produces are the combined re-
suits of so many small changes, that
its effects are usually unobserved by
most people.
Just now it is working wonders in
the capitalistic world With remark
able rapidity it is changing small COM
peting groups of capital into non-com-
peting aggregations. Already it has
revolutionzed the manufacturing and
mining world so that in hundreds of
Industries there is little or no compe-
tition., 1t has accomplished even great
err results in our transporting indus
tries-operated by our railroads, street
railways, telegraphs, telephones, steam
and sailing ships, canals, elevators,
express companies, etc Real compe-
tition no longer exists in any of these
industries, except, perhaps, for short
periods of warfare, in rates which
usually precede a consolidation of two
or more concerns.
The trading world Is filled with
wholesale and retail associations which
fix the prices of most articles sold. For
example, druggists associations prob
ably exist in nearly every state, coun-
ty and city of the country. Gas. wa
ter, electric light, heat. and power are
usually supplied by big corporations
having big monopoly powers.
In the banking and Insurance worlds
capital is pulling together more than
ever before, and rates are fixed almost
entirely by central bodies, boards COM
mittees, etc. The billions of capital
concentrated in these two Industries
gives them a power which is a menace
to our democratic form of government.
TO illustrate: A bank which can not
clear through the New York Clear
ing house can not do business, and is
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-15

machinery of production. Monopolies
are of two kinds-natural and artificial
Natural depend upon the limitations
of nature: artificial upon the limita-
lions or restrictions of legislation.
Mines, railroads and telegraphs are
natural monopolies; patents and copy
rights produce artificial monopolies,
Natural monopolies, however, are of
ten strengthened by trade restricting
laws.
Cost of production may be lowered
/. BY reducing the cost of selling a
product
2. BY more economic distribution.
8. By working only the best machin-
cry and methods previously in use in
any of the plants.
5. By better utilization of mater
ials and the saving of waste products.
6. BY reducing wages
7. By reducing prices paid for raw
materials.
The power of trusts to advance prices
of products and to reduce wages and
cost of raw materials is often very
great. The exercise of such power is
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-15
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

By local apple atiops. as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the There is only one
way to cure deafness, and that is by constitu.
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in.
famed condition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian tube. Whom this tube gets ilhamed
you have a rumhlinr sound or imperfect hearing,
and when it is entirely closed deafness is the
result. and unless the Inflammation can be taken
out and this tube restored TO its normal condi-
ton, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which IL
nothing but an intamed condition of the mucous
surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case
of Deafness tcaused by catarrhl that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for eircu-
lars. free. f. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists. Toe.
Hall Family Pills are the best
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-15
Figures On the Colored Vote,

BY the figures Of the last census the
cclOred vote of the country-that is, the
males above the age of II years-num-
bered 1,iI1, +55, CT these the following
states had the largest proportions: Geor-
gia, 179,02S voters: Mississippi, $50, 469; AL
ALBANIA. i40, 763; South Carolina, 49,, S49, and
Louisiana I9Sl5.
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trusts. Restricted production is the
usual means for causing prices to adj
vance. Production can be restricted
only when there is a complete or par
tial monopoly of sources of supply or
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-15
I'm THE DICTIONARY

How New Words Get There Originators
of them Anxious to Be Immortalized.
THE word is not in any of the recog-
nized dictionaries, and, is consequently
not looked upon as good English
That word would be looked upon as
final by the average man in a case
where the question had arisen as to the
propriety of using a word. But to those
people who know how dictionaries are
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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-06-11

nrcitv and popular. IS tho daughter u
Mr.. and Mrs Robert Turner. OF Park
View. Portsmouth.
Immediately after tho ceremony tho
corplc viii take the boat for philaIcl-
nhia. and viii visit Baltimore. Washing
ton. Louisa and Richmond on their re-
turn.
Caris are out for the coming wedding
of NI.s EtnIa R1ruicc H%unllcy. dauah
tor of Mr.. and Mrs. A. j.. Huudicy. To-
Mr. Bonnie d.. niakoy.
Tho win take place go laurel
sfroef 81. E. church Wednesday evening".
June elat. at o'clock.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-06-11
sbt4i8l4 Observation-Disclosures
THE GLITTER OF THE F~OOTLIGHTS. E
20 ~~
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the Cir.af Court OF NrIhe county. ADJ
peal auI rn.r.sd.as Bond. $3.50.
Jackson VS. Commonwealth. From
Pulaski county,. WIRE OFT error.
Hura.0a E narlHe From the Cir-
cH.t Court oi RUSSELL county. Appeal
and si a'i-i
N'iI'IN ai hiA"as ,0m
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I.ff VS. Norton DE- co.. From tho C.r-
omit Court 3d.. Elizabeth county. Appeal
and -in.r.eI.as. Bond. t-N
s...rt. &c.. v. Hln From The lInst-
In-s Court OF Roanoke e.... Appeal and
sru.r..i.ls. Bond. N-u
DOUGLASS y. Commonwealth From
tne Circuit Court of tmytl county
Wr.t of error and suu..eIals. Bond.
800
National Life Association Ft Berkeley.
Geo.. From i.e ii.a.N '''. '-
ion. Appeal and slne' Bond
5000.
t.t'h 81 lil'in rom III. I-" .'o
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-06-11

Colonel l.. r. W. Marye. counsel FOR
James Bell. was notified yesterday
that the Court OF Appeals has allowed
a writ of error % the Judgment OF the
Law and Equity Court rendered I'M the
ease of Bell rs. Carter. and the case Will
now have 20 be- tried In that court.
The case Of Bcll W. Carter was
brought IN the Law and Equity Court
By counsel for Bell. 10. force the defence
20 show It's hand. II Is claimed. The ease
is similar 20 that OF the other claims adj
vanced by Bell 10 property On Thirty
second street. as was told IN Fridays
Times.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-06-11
MR.. BERRY FOSTER
A LOCAL MERRIAM.
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tom of the River,
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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-06-11
Welded AND TO WE'D.
Two Couples Unitcd-Coming Mar
riagc Of Mr.. McCchcc.

Mr. A. ID. smith and Miss Lucla par-
naDy. both Of this c.ty. were quietly mar
r'ei Wednesday evening at q o'clock no
the residence OF Rev. ~. g. Garrison.
chat minister performing the ceremony.
Mr. Ezekiel Brauor. SON az SIR. William
d. Brauer. OF This city. and Miss Lena
kcck. daughter of Fir. Fritz KccS. OF
Richmond. were married ln Washington
Monday. and returned home Thursday.
Tho announcement Us made OF the COM
ing marriage az Park View Baptist
church. Portsmouth. Va. on June goth.
az 4.30 O'Clock - NJ. OF Mr.. walter r..
McGehee. formerly OF this city, and Miss
Ida Belle Turner. OF Park View, Ports
mouth. No Invitations are issued.
Mr. McGehoe was. until recently a resi-
dent OF th's city. and was suporintend-
emit of tho Scyenteenth-Street Mission.
but was several months since appointed
20 "a very lucrative position IN the Nor
folk navy yards.
al.ss Turner, who u exceptionally
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-06-11

This organ has a deal TO perform, and
I'm its efforts 10 do It's work properly,
gives us o. great deal OF trouble. pain and
anxiety. When the liver fails % proper
ly perform IT'S functions disease begins %
show itself DOB many sympt0ms-as sick
headache. dizziness. pain in tho back and
sides. b~iliousuess, foyer, chilis, dyspepsia.
Indigestion. ETC., etc. Don't try amy tenn
Dorary pallatiycs. thus p%ostponing a cure
but assist the liver right away TO throw
OF all Instructions and 90 q proper per-
formance OF IT'S work. This can be done
easily with Or. Dayid's Liver Pills. They
act well. pleasant and harmless. They
can be given 10 a child. as we'll as 10
grown people. Dr. Davids Liver pills
are harmless and very efficient. and
where they are once tried they become
the household rdcmedy.
Inca-Coca contains nc Opium or Nor
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-06-11
SUPREME COURT OPINIONS.
\ Number Of Writs Of Error and Up.
meals Granted.

meals Granted.
WYTHEVILLE. VA. June f0.-Special-
Supreme Court has closed It's first week Of
the summer term after disposlng Of a
large number of writs OF error and ap-
peais as follows.
Mutual Life Insurance Company VS..
Rutherford. From the Law and Equity
Court of the city Of Richmond. Writ Of
error and su9erseleas. Bond. $4,000.
Robertson VS.. County School Board.
From the Circuit Court Of Washington
county. Writ of error. Bond. $3.50.
Crockett VS.. GraySon. FTcm TIE Circuit
Court OF Bland county. VIII OF error.
Bond. 500.
Counselman VS.. Graham, &c. Frie
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-06-11

snea-coea at the Soda Fountains,
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-06-11
THE LIVER.

Drink Inca-coca
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-06-11

Inca-coca contains no Opium or Nor
phine.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1899-02-02
Where They Arc Mated by Lottery.

1t was a cynic who said that mar
riage is lottery, but in the province
OF Smolensk, in Russia, this aphorism
has been reduced to quarterly fact,
Tor four times year there is held the
most remarkable lottery ever devised.
A charge Of ruble is made tor q
ticket, only one prize is TO be drawn,
and it consists of the entire sum yielded
by the sale of the tickets, amounting to
5000 rubles. The lucky winner of the
prize is bound to marry certain dam
sci If he takes the 5000 rubles
.oAo1ll 10 &c married he is at liberty to
turn over the money and the lady to
amy friend whom he may wish to put
IN for such good thing. Should the
lady, however, refuse to marry the win
ner they are allowed to divide the ru-
bles between them.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1899-02-02
Thunderstornx.

Do not imagine that because heavy
thunderstorm is far away to leeward
it is not likely to arise and wet you
Even if the wind is blowing right
against the cloud it will come your way
all the more surely, for thunderstorms
always travel against the wind
The reason for this is that there is
invariably countercurrent of air
above the breeze that you feel close to
the earth, and this sky high wind blows
in the opposite direction to the one
which alone you can detect. Thus the
tempest seems to work it's way right
through the winds eyes in very con-
trary sort of way.
Fog never does this; neither does
ordinary rain--at least very seldom
but snow or sleet some time works it's
way up wind just as the tempest does.
Sheet lightning, by the way, is not a
distinctive sort of light, but merely the
reflection in the sky of forked flash
many miles away. You can tell how
far away tempest is by counting the
number OF seconds that pass between
the flash and the peal. Each second
stands for about q mile.-New York
Herald.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1899-02-02

Feb 2t7
Summons-R elief-CompIaint served.
State OF South Dakota,
County of Hand Court thereo I
Sixth Judicial Circuit.
The Scottish American Mortgage Company
Limited-plaintiff rs. David william Coward
and Olive l.. Coward. Defendants
The State of South dakota to the abOv e
named defendants
You are hereby summoned and required to
answer the complaint of the plaintiff in the
above entitled action a copy OF which said
complaint is hereunto annexed and herewith
served uponyou, and to serve copy OF your
answer to the said Complaint on the sub
scribers. at their Office in the city of Sioux
Falls IN the comfy OF Mnnehaha in said
state OF South Dakota, within thirty days
exclusive of the day of such service and II
yon fail TO answer the said complaint with In
thirty days alter the service of this summon rs
upon you, the plaintiff in this action will ap-
ply 20 the Court for the relief demanded in
the said Complaint.
Dated December oath, 1898.
KEITH & WARREN
Attorneys for Plaintiff Sioux Falls,
Minnehaha county South Dakota.
To the above named defendants David
William Coward and Olive I. Coward:
You VIII please take notice that the sum-
mons and complaint in the above entitled
action were filed in the Office OF the clerk OF
the said circuit court in and for Hand county
South Dakota, at Miller in said county, on
the third day OF January 1899.
KEITH x WARREN
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1899-02-02
JanI9tI
Mort rage sale,

WHEREAS. Frederick Hansen and Maren c
Hansen. his wife. did execute and deliver to
John Il. Treyett as trustee and to G.. w.
Abel. OF Huron. South Dakota. as successor
in trust, n mortgage upon the northwest
quarter Of section twenty two (22) in town
ship one hundred and fourteen U14) north
Principal Meridian in Hand County, South
Dakota. said mortgage bears date the LIST
day OF May, A. ID. 1886, aud liz recorded i'm
the Office OF the Register OF Deeds of Hand
county. South Dakota in book : OF mort
Cages, page 100. and was given to secure
payment of debt al eight hundred dollars
due from snid Frederick Hansen to James b
Russell, which said debc is evidenced by enc
Dromissory note described in said mortgage
executed and delivered by said Frederick
Hansen payable to the order OF said James
b. russell, and due May lst, 1891.
il is provided i'm said mortg age that II de-
fault be made Ia the payment OF any OF the
principal or of the interest accrung under
y. I'll note for ten DAYS after the nlaturit V
IN. 'eof then the whole oil tine principal OF
SAID remaining debt should at the option OF
the owner OF said note, by reason OF such de-
fault, become immediately due and PAYABLE.
and said mortgage should be foreclosed and
said premises sold to satisfy said debt
Whereas. default has been made In the
payment OF said note for more than ten DAYS
after the maturity thereof by reason OF such
default the owner Of said note has declared
the principal thereof Immediately due and
pay able and has requested the said G., ".
Abel 20 fureclose said mortgage. and sell
said premises To satisfy said debt. And
whereas, by reason of the premises the
amount claimed to he due at the date of this
notice under the terigs of said note and
mortgage is the sum oiS121435 debt
And whereas said John X. TFevert is ab-
sent from South Dakota, and no suit at law
or otherwise has been commenced to collect
said debt, or any part thereof, public notice
liz hereby given that under the power of sale
con tai he'd in said mortgage, and duly re-
corded as aforesaid, and In pursuance OF the
statutes in such case made aud provided
the said mortgage viii he iOreelosed by a
sale Of the said premises at pabiic auction.
at the front door OF the court house at the
town of Miller in said Hand county the 4th
day o! March, A. Il. 1899. at 10 o'clock in
the forenoon. to the highest bidder Tor cash
and the proceeds Of said sale applied to the
payment of the said debt and the cost OF the
foreclosure OF said mort gage including $50
attorney Is fees as therein stipulated
Dated ~ Huron, South dakota, this 1,;th
day OF January A. II. 800.
q. W. ABEIi.,
Successor in Trust,
Il. S. MorfEE, Attorney.