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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1902-01-03
TWO OIL COMPANIES.

Last Monday at meeting of the stockholders, the final
steps taken to put the Century and Pioneer oil
panies in working order
The Century company 1900 of land in the
FOSSIL Wyoming, oil belt and their holdings there
sdered specially favor able for the striking big gushe4
The officers OF this company James Redman presidents
H. H. Ho vice president; D. NJ Austin, secretary; Theo
Nystrom treasurer these and the following constitute the
board of drectols j. A Bagey, J. A. Rostan, E. N Aus
tin, T. NJ Mumord The company capitalized 900
shares at par value of 81 per share. Of this amount
shares the treasury purposes
The directors decided place 900 shares market
five cents share for the purpose of putting down we'll
in early spring 1t is believed there will be trouble
selling sufficient stock to sink we'll least 1000 feet
Irangemens will be made Immediately looking the pu.-
chase of machinery for drilling The members the
pany feel that they have favorable ground any
Fossil fields They already have calls for stock and they
lieve there will be trouble about realizing with
which to begin work by April at fal thest
The Pioneer Oil company is made up of practically the
people compose the Century company but their
land lies close to Montpelier and they have 1880
Gated Good indications Of oil exists this land
being specially favorable oil shalc here. The officers and
directors of this company Dr. DOrr Poynte presidents
Alex Beckman, vice presidents Chas Harris secretary
J. A. Rostan treasurer; J. g. Crane Theo Nystrom j. s.
Barrett This companys directors also decided place
900 shares of their treasury stock market at
per share for development purposes The
the capital stock the Century, shares
this is in the treasury for development purposes this
company get oil we'll close this city, will mean
oil boom in this immediate vicinity The company will
endeavor make arrangements for drilling spring
opens.
There are three oil companies owned by Montpelier
people operating near Fossil
The Saint Paul globe., 1902-02-02

this language: ''They are simply getting
what they deserve. There viii be pc
riod of ferment and miserable outbreaks
in Cuba, but eventually it must become
part Of the United States"
Does Mr.. Stevens wish TO be understood
as regarding the means of bringing about
Cuban annexation thus indicated to be
consistent with the honor Of the United
States? He is very estimable gentle
man himself; and his political methods,
so far as T h e G has any knowl-
edge of them, have always been fair and
decent. Is it not fair deduction from
the words quoted above that Congress
man Stevens believes that, as the result
OF the refusal, there will ensue a period
of ferment ard miserable outbreaks in
Cuba?" Must we understand him also
as declaring cAat as the result of this
state of affairs, Cuba must become
part of the United States?
We fear that is the only reasonable
construction that his words admit OF.
clusion does it not follow that the con-
Gressman from the Fourth congression-
al district of Minnesota thus stands COM
mitted to the two propositions, that the
people of Cuba should be whipped over
the shoulders of their wicked planters, and
that the punishment should involve their
enforced Incorporation into the political
community of the United States? And, if
T h e G 0 b is right, what assurance
has the congressman to offer that they
are not in addition to be robbed of the
liberties which they are just about 70
enter into the possession of through the
intervention of this people, and made
to occupy the miserable condition Of polit-
ical and social slavery to which we have
condemned the people of our other new
ly annexed territory?
The Globe has no desire to do Mr..
Stevens injustice. But his interview in
the Dispatch is one of those things, in the
humble judgment Of this paper, which he
should hasten to disown unless he desires
to be regarded as actively concerned in
making the Cuban people the victims at
the hands of his own countrymen and
government of as cowardly a system OF
coercion as ever d strong nation practiced
on a weak one in the qualification OF its
lust of territory.
The Saint Paul globe., 1902-02-02

On all theories of public employment,
consonant with representative systems,
public servants should be paid the high
est price available for their services,
where those services involve continu-
Gus labor. The measure now under dis
cussion at Washington for an increase in
the pay of the judges of the supreme
court is a just one No lawyer of high
standing and experience in his calling
would regard $4,000 as an entirely salts
factory rate of compensation. Many Jaw
yers not qualified to serve on the highest
appellate bench Of the country can make
five times the amount of the salary al
lowed to a supreme court judge
1t has become one of the most notable
features of public employment that the
ablest men who in the past have sought
the service of the state or nation are
no longer willing to give themselves up
to public life. The pecuniary sacrifice is
too great. The great commercial and in
dustrial corporations Of the country are
commanding the services of such men and
are willing to pay them such sums as
their services are reasonably worth.
Cheap men are the curse of public en-
ployment No man should be asked to
hold public station at any less rate of
compensation than he can secure in pri-
vate employment. No man ought to be
expected to discharge important or re-
sponsible public duties who is not well
paid for his work. The plan of hiring
men to serve as aldermen and in other
like positions at small salaries or no sal
aries is promotive of corruption in Of
fee. The idea that any man will enter
the city service in such a position and
remain in it for the honor that is in
volved, without having the position pay
him anything, is an absurdity. The the
ory implies that the man willing thus
to serve the public without compensation
is an entirely superior sort Of person,
when compared with his fellow men, who
in most cases is not even willing to give
the public the benefit of his services long
enough to discharge his duties as a citi-
zen at the polls.
Every man should be paid what he is
worth, whether in private or public en-
ployment. If the judges of the supEsme
court are not worth more than $4,000
a year each they are not fit to sit on
the bench that they now adorn.
The Saint Paul globe., 1902-02-02
HOW rs THIS, MR. SrETENse

Congressman Stevens of this district
is not member of the committee of
ways and means; but good many will
believe that his assumption that the ways
and means committee has at least virtual
ly declined to recommend reciprocity with
Cuba will probably be found to have a
pretty substantial basis. Nor will Chair
an Payne's assurance that the commit
tee Of ways and means has come to no
conclusion on the subject be effective in
overturning Mr.. Stevens assumption
The Clio b is deeply impressed by
Mr.. Stevens utterances on this subject
reported in last evenings Dispatch. There
is no reason for believing that he is not
reported correctly, or that he will dis
own his reputed words. Yet the words
which the Dispatch prints are in the high
est degree discreditable to our repre-
sition that the refusal, real or assumed,
Of the committee to grant any conces-
sions to the Cubans is a matter which
entirely affects the planters of the isl
ands. Certainly no other effect of such
a refusal save that on the interest of
the planters seems to have entered Mr..
Stevens mind while talking with the Dis
patch man. The mass of the Cuban peo-
pie are not in 1t with him. Or If they
are, it is in such a relation as to render
the reported interview even less creditable
to our congressman.
While dilating at some length on the
stiffness and general wickedness of the
Cuban planters, who he thinks have been
treated just right in being refused any
tariff concessions for their products, our
congressman never apparently bestows a
thought on the effect of the refusal on
the condition of the Cuban people until
the close of his interview, when. he uses
The Saint Paul globe., 1902-02-02

projected in this city-wiII go steadily on
thereafter, though the railroads repre-
Sentauves have not yet secured all the
parcels they need. Meanwhile a CLIQUE Of
spectators in the blocks affected refuses
to sell ten houses that the PENNSYLVANIA
road company must have, and the threat
of condemnation proceedings has not
brought them to terms.
Trust Is Prcspering-
The officers Of the United States Steel
corporation have prepared a detailed re-
port of the business of the billion-doliar
trust for the ten months ending Jan 81
The report has been already given out,
and was not held for the annual meeting
in February. 1t is said that the report
will show earnings at the rate Of $780,
0000 coo a year
1t Will greatly surprise many persons
who believe that the pendulum Of trade
has begun to swing away from the high
mark of prosperity to learn that the
prosperous condition of the iron and steel
business, according to the report, is I'M
paralleled and promises to last through
the entire year
Pittsburg dispatches say that makers
of nails, axes and wire are preparing
higher schedules. The market for cut
nails is almost bare, and per cent is
likely to be added to the present price
Plans of New York Democrats
Developments Of the first Importance
to the Democrats Of New York are like
ly to follow the visit of ex-ComptroIler
Bird S. COler to Lewis Nixon, the new
leader of Tammany Hall. Mr. Coler cali
ed on the new leader with full authority
to assure him of the hearty cooperation
of David B. Hill as the leader of the
upstate Democrats, and of Hugh Nc
Laughlin, as the leader of the BROOKLYN
Democracy.
Mr.. Coler's visit, it also was learned
foreshadows complete harmony in the fu-
ture between the city and country wings
of the Democratic party. Unless present
plans are upset the Democrats of the
entire state will hereafter be agreed on
policy in state conventions, and the
peacemalxers believe the way will speed
lily be paved for repetition of the sue
cessive victories the party had while
Grover Cleveland, David B. Hill and Ros-
we'll P. Flower We're in the governors 5
chair.
Forty MiTliOn-DoIIar Tern,inaIs-
Gen. Roy Stone is the moving spirit in
a plan which has as it's object the criss-
crossing of subterranean Manhattan bv
a network Of standard gauge railroad
tracks, the location of a vast under
ground station at Union Square, the bor-
ing of gigantic tunnels more than 100
feet below the surface of the East and
North rivers and the practical retire
ment Of North river and East river ferry
boats The estimated cost is 100000.
The Saint Paul globe., 1902-02-02
A SOLDIER tn LUzoN.

At the open flap of his narrow tent hangs
a strip Of the midnight skies,
Pricked through by a myriad points Of
light that flash in his tired eyes.
He has walked from a dream Of a sum-
mer day, and now, with throb OF
pain,
He pillows his head on his young right
arm and summons the dream again.
A pathway barred by shadow and shine,
a glow in the golden west,
A song in the rustling leaves o'erhead
as a bluebird bushes in nest,
A slip of girl in a muslin gown,
cadet in a coat of gray,
But the slim little hand he clasps in his
is a half Of the world away!
Through the vibrant hush Of the starry
night huns the life of a trOpic cline
And under the breast of his khaki blouse
the heart of the lad beats time.
In a land where an endless summer
reigns he dreams Of a June gone bv,
And q wandering wind steals into his
tent and carries away a sigh!
Annie T. CoIcock in National Magazine.
The Saint Paul globe., 1902-02-02

REFORM MAYOR IN 4 HOLE.
Dr.. ParkhUrst and Mayor Low still con-
dnue to occupy the center of the stage
on the subject of the Sunday Isuor
traffic. Thus far the advantage of the
prevailing controversy between them and
their followers respectively all lies with
DR.. Parkhurst When Mayor Low gave
what the Republican partisan press all
over the country declared to be a con-
vincing answer to Dr. Parkhursts criti-
cisms, it was found that he had prac-
tically left the controversy where it was
before, and that his attempt to convict
the good doctor of inconsistency in his
two positions before and after the cleo
tion, was without point DR.. Parkhurst's 8
response has, in the language of the
hour, put the mayor up in the air.
DR.. Parkhurst does not deny the diff
fculty in the path of the mayor with
reference to the Sunday closing laws.
He does not pretend now, any more than
he did before the election, that those
laws can be rigidly enforced. He wants
to see them changed. The point the
mayor made on him of being at war with
his ante e-election declarations is therefore
wholly lost. What DR.. Parzhurst and
his society insist on with reference to the
conduct of the new reform executive may
pe seen from the following extract from
their later communication to him:
Our protest is against your. in anv
sense letting this law go by the board
az concentrating upon the others; in
fere3I+ 4eI9r WQtas, holding yourself in diff
1eIehl attitude toward excise statutes
from What you do toward other statutes
Ihat Is what you did in Brooklyn. tha +
IS what you intimated before election
you We're expecting to do here, and that
is what 1t is evident you did in this civ
yesterday, Sunday Jan. 26, according IN
the statement Of the papers and the re-
port of our detectives
This is the case in nutshell. While
Mayor Low was not chosen with q d;roo+
view to the enforcement Of the Sunday,
closing law at all hazards. he certat,1,,
was not thought of as being elected 70
leave their enforcement precisely as bo
found it on entering office. If Tamma,,,,
was wrong and deserving of punishment
by being turned out of office for doing
nothing to enforce Sunday closing. Mavor
Low ought not to be retained in office
as the result Of the same procedure.
Fhe force Of the attitude of Dr. Park
hursts society is made all the more an
parent through the reflection that everv-
one down in New York who is committed
10 the reform regime is supposed to be in
The Saint Paul globe., 1902-02-02

terested actively in securing some change
of the law which will prevent men going
into the saloons by the side doors and
drinking their I'LL, if they wish, at all
hours on Sundays, as on other days.
Ever since the morning after election the
public press and the representatives of
the political and religious life Of the
great metropolis have been engaged in
an active discussion of an essential
change in the existing excise laws which
DR.. Parkhurst says the reform mayor is
letting "go by the board" Every variety
of opinion has prevailed in that discus
sion The referendum has been discussed
as a means of furnishing the required
remedy. So has local option. SO has the
sale of liquor in the restaurants. SO has
the entire closing of the saloons. SO has
the opening Of the saloons after divine
services have ended. So has the abolition
of the Raines law hotels. So, indeed, has
every other remedy, possible and impos-
sible. But no one has thought of letting
the enforcement of the existing law go
by the board save the reform mayor
and his political advisers.
The goody-g goody element of political
society, to which always the Republican
politicians have shown their ability and
Willingness to appeal is having a great
object lesson presented to it through the
controversy between DR.. Parkhurst and
the reform mayor of Gotham. It's repre-
Sentatives viii no doubt keep on abusing
the Democratic party on all issues of this
general character, as they always have
done, and they will enjoy the applause
of their good Republican brethren there
by. But before they have closed their
accounts with the latest product in actual
municipal administration of Republican
reform, they will have been much wiser
even if they are less trustful of Repub-
lican reformers than in the past.
The Saint Paul globe., 1902-02-02
Uagranf Oefse
THE DREAMERs.

Inere are dreams that we sigh for-daar
dreams that we miss
OF we are all dreamers-glad dreomers,
| clasped your white hand
In ShadoWy land
"nefe & the stars seemed to sing at loves
tender command;
And / said: ''AlI the world i q ,,iei,r
Of bliss!"
But we We're but dreamers, glad dream
ers, ClariSSe!
Did you know, long ago, I was loving yoa
so. - 'I
With a love whose May flowers neer
dreamed of life's snow?
Wnen the rose that Love bIest
1r-. WIN KISS, felt unrest
win ,,d1le the RI rise J and fall of the heart in
When [ murmured: Life hath not ia,r
dear, like this
And we We're but dreamers, glad dream
erS, ClariSsei
Have the years with their cares ana
their fears and their tears,
Io"h softher with you the heart-break-
Can you slip from the gloom
Like a rose into bloom
Ana ma, dear one flower that brightens
Do you ever drift back TO the dreams
that | miss
AND thank God we We're dreamers-gIad
dreamers, Clarisse?
Would you come to me now-ziss the
care from my brow,
And bow in the darkness where loveless
L bow?
Where I kneeI in the night
And ask God for the light,
Ana to make me, as you are, souI-loveIy
and white?
Would you necklace me still with your
arms, and say this:
The love Of a life in loves clasp and
loves kiss?"
All, me! God is there, in his heaven
above
And he knew love is love, dear-he knows
Love is love!
And if only tonight
He would say, in the blight
And the glim of earth's souls, BE there
light! Be there Hghtr
Would l weep in the desolate darkness,
like this?
I would hold YOU once more to my bosom,
Clarisse!
Though the path of duty hath thorns for
the feet
May the roses Of God hide them all from
you, Sweet
May your soul understand
1t is Gods own command
If 1 creep in the dark to the clasp of
your hand
l am weary of weeping, when God grants
us bliss;
Come back to the dreams-to the dear
Dreams Clarisse!
Frank L. Stanton.
The Saint Paul globe., 1902-02-02
New York 0ceHer.


Masterpiece From Peru
NEW YORK, Feb. I-Ancient paint
ings that Peru revered as works of the
greatest artists in the Fifth avenue auc-
ton rooms were sold last Friday. Aft
davits of celebrated Peruvians attest that
their attribution to Raphael. Rembrandt
Titan, MurillO Leonardo da Vinci
Rubens, Van Dyck and others was sin
cere. They come from the monastery Of
La Merced, the monastery Of San La
ZarO, the convent Of Santa Clara and
the cathedral at Lima.
They were in the galleries of the Mar
Quis of Zarata, the Marquis of BOZa the
Marquis of Santa Maria, the Marquis of
Monti Mira, the Marquis of Sancho Da-
villa. They We're collected into a gallery
by John 3. MulIoy, of Springfield, Mass,
a civil engineer, a man of education, and
Travelled and accustomed from his youth
to criticism of works of art.
Submarine Patents Suit
Damages to the amount of 100000 and
an injunction are sought by the Electric
Boat company, builders of the Holland
submarine craft, against the Lake Tor
pedo Boat company, now constructing in
Bridgeport new model Of the Lake type
the Argonaut, which is intended for sub
marine navigation and also to crawl
wheels. The suit is based on alleged
infringement of one of the patents owned
by the Holland boat builders, which
covers the arrangement of ballast tanks,
storage batteries and compensating de-
vices for maintaining the trim of the
Holland plungers under various condi-
tions. In this patent, it is claimed, are
involved such devices as are used in the
construction of the Fulton and the A5-
der, built for the United States govern
ment.
More Tunnel Schemes
Another tunnel scheme for connecting
Manhattan with Brooklyn and New
Jersey was Incorporated with the secre-
tary of state yesterday in Albany It has
not yet progressed beyond the paper
stage, but plans will be filed today in
the offices of the county clerks Of New
York and King counties
Under the title of the Union Terminal
Company of New York, and with capi
tai Of $lO0, 600, the concern is incorporated
for the avowed purpose of constructing
and operating an electric tunnel railroad
with standard gauge tracks between nine
and ten miles long.
The PennsyIvania's Terminal
On or about May l workmen will be-
gin the task of tearing down the flats
and dwellings, now encumbering the sita
upon which the Pennsylvania railroad S
gigantic new terminal is to stand. The
pulling down Of rafters and beams and
the subsequent excavation for this i'm
provement-one of the most notable ever
The Saint Paul globe., 1902-02-02
NODDIN'.

Way off the COW bells tinl1led low an
thin,
The turkey hens an chickens strolIin in
A kind O. reused me fer a little spell,
An then my thoughts on this same SUBJ
jeck fell.
The ways O. life air mostly past our ken.
We work an strive, like faithful homes
men,
But doubts will come, like shadders alIGs
do,
Arter our best intentions spring ter
view.
A person mus hev more than mortal
grace,
TO do the right thing jes' in the right
An / allow, it sometimes seems no use
To try to fathom why we wuz turned
loose:
Yet here we be, an whether good er bad.
We know what's right, er mos'ly orter
had,
An it's FOOLS excuse to cry an whine
Cause we can't allus laugh, an drink,
an dine!
Charles w. Stevenson, in Boston Tran
script
The Saint Paul globe., 1902-02-02
OFFICIAL LOG-ROELING.

One OF the advantages of civil service
reform which is rarely brought out by
the advocates of the merit system finds
a striking illustration in the situation
which is now presented in the postal serv-
ice, as reported in a special dispatch
published in these columns within a day
or two. According to the new postmas-
ter general, a concerted effort is being
made by certain employees of his de-
partment to secure legislation materially
increasing their salaries, and to that end
they have assessed themselves large sums
of money and are maintaining lobby at
Washington
1t may well be that the employees of
the postoffice department who have en-
gagged themselves in this undertaking
are not paid reasonable salaries. Ger
ta1nly none has ever heard the propos1-
ton advanced that those employees are
overpaid for the work they do. 1t may
be admitted that they have a perfect
right to take any steps which are proper
and reasonable to secure such advances as
they think are just. In this re-
spect they should be no worse off than
private employees. In the case specified,
however, it is related that the postal
employees are engaged in q movement
which ought to result in their discharge
from the public employment If they
have contributed money to be expended
at Washington to influence legislation
in their behalf they are violating the
very fundamental principle of the system
under which they are maintained in Of
fee, and are rendering themselves a
menace to the public service.
One Of the dangers which has been
since first it has been under discussion
is the influence which bodies Of public
employees banded together for the accom-
plishment of their personal ends might
exercise with reference to the interests
of the public service This incident brings
just that danger into the foreground If
it is not met and summari1y removed, the
public will have reason to consider Sc
riously the advisability Of putting an
end to the entire system.
There are many ways in which public
employees may unite to promote their Of
fetal interests With perfect propriety, but
this is not one Of them 1t is inevitable
that where large bodies Of men are united
in interest either in public or private en-
ployment they shall unite for their COM
mon defense and for the promotion Of
their common interests. But the means
of so doing on the part of public servants,
consistently with the welfare of the serv-
ice in which they are engaged, are well
defined in ethics Their efforts in such
directions should under all circumstances
be confined to the department in which
they are employed What the decencies
of official life demand in this regard the
law should clearly specify, and should
render any effort made outside those
channels punishable by instant dismissal.
If the reported action Of the members of
the railway mail and free delivery serv-
ice is founded on fact, the opportunity
is presented to Postmaster General Payne
to show his entire fitness for the post to
which he has just been appointed.