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The Lamar register., 1903-12-30
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From the Granada Times.l
The . year old son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
A Lee Powell, Of the North Side,
was kicked by colt, last Thurs
day afternoon. The hoof struck the
temple, crushing the skull and max
ing a very bad cut. From the wound
the brain oozed out, and it was not
thought that the little boy could live.
Drs. Brsden and Wilson raised the
skull, severed the protruding brain
matter, and the patient now has
many chances in his favor for per-
feet recovery.
While returning from Holly, Tues
day night, Mr.. and Mrs. R. ],
Koonce attempted to drive under
the railroad bridge between here an6
Amity. MIR. Koonce got out to lead
the horse under the bridge, Mrs
Koonce remaining in the buggy. As
the buggy passed under the bridge
it proved that the bridge was too low
and caught Mrs. Koonce just below
the ear, throwing her head back
against the seat of the buggy. Mr..
Koonce backed the team and freed
his wife, but she was quite seriously
injured. 1t is hoped no evil results
will follow the accident.
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The Salvation Army will soon have
another piece of Coolidge here, staff
Captain French having purchased
the house he went to look at recently.
A number of Amity parties left Tues
day to help move the structure.
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County Notes

IFrom the Holly ChieftainI
Under Sheriff Frisbie was down
from Lamar on official business Fri
day.
Wallace Robinson, manager for
the Holly Lumber company, spent
Sunday in Lamar.
Mrs. Reynolds, mother OF our
county treasurer, has been visiting
old friends in this vicinity aud at
Coolidge during the past two weeks.
Geo. l.. Reid came down from La
mar Friday and drove across to
Tribune. He WAS called home on
account of sickness in his family.
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from the Amity OptimistI

from the Amity OptimistI
E. NJ. Cram has boy who has
captured four wild ducks this season
by stealing upon them while they
we're asleep. And the youngster hi s
no hunters license either
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We rowed out to the sylph

I Lets see. now-what do we do next?"
said the President, consulting memoran-
dunn. at Is five minutes past e.
TREE cHOPPING EXTRAORDINARY.
I'VE chop down trees until g." said one of
| the boys.
"Ah, yes" said the President. "Are there
any trees left on the placer
give oaks, seven ailenthuses. three hick-
cries and about twenty cords Of miscelane-
GUS" said the Secretary of the Wocdpne.
"Good!' said the President. Get Mr..
Jenkins an ak. Jim. and we'll be Of"
You are fond Of telling trees?" asked.
YES" said the President. land for va
riety Of reasons. First. Washington did 1t.
| Second. Gladstone took an occasional flyer
at it. Third. Lincoln was a rail splitter.
| Fourth, am fond Of chops'-here the Pres
ident winked at his youngest son, who was
cutting down a hitching post with Ratchet
land finally. want to be spread on the
pages of history as a good teller.
The rast was silence, broken only by the
falling of sturdy oaks. hale ailanthuses and
leafy miscellaneous cord wood. My back
| was gone before o'clock. but the President
| and hfs sons kept at the work without let or
! hindrance for the allotted space of time. At
we returned to the house. not tree In
| sight.
| to conQuer?" / asked as We entered the
! house.
| 4 don't exactly know yet" he observed
| sadly. II may add another thousand acres
| Of woodland to my property, and ! may
| buy up the remnants Of last years Christ
mas trees-sultably boxed they stand uI
| as straight as an oak-but I can't tell yet
II there's nothing else to chop tomorrow
i 60 yoaIl, oy,1 va
| move few heads in the Post Office De-
| partment."
| Breakfast being to my mind, one of the
I more or less sacred institutions of life.
| shall not lay bare here the secrets of til,
meal that now followed, but will resume
| my story with what came after. It suffice
| to say that after five minutes of prett.
steady eating we started forth for part tw
| Of the days work. This consisted Of weed
! Ing the lawn from q quarter past s unit
half-past 9, in which period Of time we re
| moved all the obnoxious growth from three
acres of land The Presidents record wal
e,o33 wild carrots, 1851 dandelions. fourtee,
pounds Of toadstools. seven dockweeds. ant
lilac bush-the last pulled up by mistake
the operator having perspired SO freely
4 that his eyeglasses slid of his nose and S,
impaired his vision.
THE President is a corker at pulling
weeds" said l to an attendant. as 1 pu
my own little seven wild carrots into tn
| basket.
Yes" replied the man. YEARLY. "w
can't grow 'em fast enough to keep hin
| busy"
cULTIvATING MEMS sALUs.
Now, Jenkins" observed the President
come with me into the study and TIL shoy
you how take mental exercise. have al
essay on Cromwell. an introduction to
/ historical r,nry hoop CT g..
zine and letter to old Bill Sewall I,
write before II, when we shall start for tn
] Sylph I'll give you thousand words star
and beat you fifteen hundred words on a
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will not accept non possumus. You should
have hired posse comitatus."
Il don't think they grow. EN- around
Oyster Bay. sir" replied the farmer humb-
~. "but I'll go to the hardware store in
the morning and have 'em send for one"
START FOR EAST HAMPTON.
There was however. hay enough for me,
and when the megaphone from the Red.
White and Blue House brought word at 2
o'clock that the horses were ready for tho
little gallop over to East Hampton and bac!,
was 30 stin with the exercise that sur
reptiously paid one of the farmers % cents
lumber me up. This accomplished. / fol-
lowed the party back to where I hoped
there would be mounting block. fer !
can't climb anything without spikes in my
heels. and q horse not even with Them. The
rest Of the party were already mounted. end
al came up with them they made off Ike
whiriwind down the road.
Come along. Jenkins" thu President
called out merrily. There's no time to
lose. We must be back In two hours
It was then that an inspiration seized
me. Concealed as / was by the cloud OF
dust kicked up by the horses of the presi-
Dental party and feeling absolutely certain
from my knowledge of the Presidents
methods that he wouldn't look back once
In the whole ride. and would not, therefore
discover the deceit practiced upon him, ]
had myself boosted on my mount for
form sake, and ambled In le!sure,y fash
ion down to the village, letting the horse
men enjoy their ride across the country az
they might.
During their absence had an hours NAP
and ate i've roast-beef sandwiches of the
most approved steel-construction pattern.
and then returned to the neighborhood OF
the Red whffa and Piua Hruea tn al,
the coming Of the little galloping party
AT precisely the dust cloud concealine
the cavaliers came tearing madly up the
road again, and when It had passed
spurred my steed into the aftermath and
galloped in at the finish well in the mids
Of them.
WELL" said the President. as we dis
mounted. how do you feel after that. Jen.
kins:"
Like a bird" said l. relieved to find tina
my subterfuge had not been discovered.
you must be pretty fair horseman,
he obssryed az az re. We started ss to leave tn!
smithtown Are pretty stiff. but you neve
! peepeS"
"Oh. no. I replied. airily. II used t.
| ride great deal. and while admit tina
| one of those fences made me think of TIL,
F1atiron building. ran at It in good styl.
and found no difficulty in clearing. It."
"Great heavens, Jenkins!' he cried. star
| ing at me in amaxement. you dom
| mean"
That's the one" said I, without waitin,
| for him to identify it. for fear he was lay
! int traI.
"Well. you are wonder; so is you
horse" he returned. 1.-THE rest of us wen
| around that
| think II my gallant steed had belonged
to me could have sold him then and there
l for $500 though the way he stumbled when.
| ever he tried to vault over a thank-you.
marin on the Oyster Bay roads did not indi
cate to my mind that he was much Of q
] Jumper
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said behind my back? He knew that he had
no right to say what he did.
Now. before the steel company becomes
the owner Of that land. he must apologize
for that statement. at first became inter-
ested in that land as told you, through
trading lot in shadyside that had owned
for years. The land 10 SIX miles away from
any land owned by the Carnegie Steel Com
pany. Tho steel company does not need K
now and will mott need It for long time
in the future. II at all. But. Of course, II
they owned It It might keep another large
works from being built or enable the steel
company to get into competition With other
largo industries.
Harmony II so essential for the success
OF any organization that / stood . great
many insults from Mr.. Carneste In the psst.
but viii submit to no further insults In
the future. There ara many other matters
might refer to, but have no desire to
quarrel with him or raise trouble IN the or
sanitation. But. IN Justice to myself. /
could not q this tins say Leo than !
havs..s
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sell. assign and transfer to the Carnegie
Steel Company, Limited. all Of his interest
In the capital Of the Carnegie Steel Com
pany, Limited. said transfer to be made
at the close of business. January 81, 1900. and
to be paid for as provided in said agree
ment.'
'Mr. Prick denied the authority Of the
company to sell his stock or to be bound by
the supplemental 4ronclad agreement
However. the Junior partners did as Mr..
Carnegie requested and, despite Mr.. Tricks
protests that the whole proceedings were
fraudulent, he received the following notice:
'Pittsburg, Feb. /, 1sO0--The Mr.. H. c.
Prick: Dear Sir-I beg to advise you that.
pursuant to the terms Of the so-called IRON
clad agreement and at the request Of tho
board Of managers. have to-day. acting
as your attorney in-fact. executed and de-
hvered to the Carnegie Steel Company, Linz
tied, a transfer Of your interest in the cap
ital Of said company. Yours truly.
&C. NJ SCHWAB.'
"of course. as is well known, Mr.. Frick
was not to be easily deprived Of his inter-
ests. In Speaking about the fact that all
the Juniors voted to depose him. one OF
, that band said recently. according to Mr..
Bridge:
I'VE were simply band Of circus horses.
We all jumped ~ the ringmaster cracked
the whip
MORGAN FORCED TO BUY.
Ths story Of the Atlantic City compromlse
by which Mr.. Frick came to his own. and
then the interesting story Of how Mr.. Car
negie forced the sale Of his plant on Mr..
Morgan. are told in detail by Mr.. Bridge.
This Il familiar to all.
Mr.. Morgan's National Tube Company waa
highly prosperous concern. 1t made some
plans to erect : billet mill. in order to get
its own material. Mr.. Carnegie proposed q
erect tube works 1t Conneaut Harbor
which would have been fatal TO the lfors,h
enterprise At the same TIME Nj. Carnekit
threatened to build his own xailroad t
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And down to the fields we went.

II have arranged to give you next lick,
said he, courteously. II shall be pitcher"
do not hurry on my account" said j:
I'D Just as lief sit here on q stump and
| watch YOU"
"Oh, no, indeed" he replied lining out a
| fy that was told afterward landed in the
sound over by the Larchmont Yacht Club
| I'VE want you to join in. In the nrst place.
f. there is no fun in one-old-cat to mere
onlooker and, besides, 1t makes me very
| nervous to have anybody watchine ms ..
do not think shall ever get used to IL
1 made a note of this observation on my
cuff, and begged the President not to hurry
his game on my account. which ne proceeo-
ed not to do. The boys made every enort
to put his Excellency out. but without avail
They curved the balls in and out and up
and down. Once they bowled me on the
stump. hut whether the sphere was over the
plate or a hundred yards to either side OF
il. the President connected. with the result
that by 1890 he had batted every oeh IN
their possession into oblivion
II am sorry, sincerely sorry" he SAID,
when he was informed that tho last ball
had disappeared over by Hampstead way.
II should liked to have pitched you .
couple"
II am lust as well satisfied. Mr.. Presi-
| dent" said I. II can't help thinking that
one Of the couple might have hit me. ana
F.! then my grandchildren would De minus An
ancestor, which in these days OF new peopis
| would be horrid loss"
THE PRESIDENTS IDEA.
| s"By jover' he cried enthusiastically.
.'There's a thought there. isn't theref What
a tragedy it would be along race suicide
lines II q revengeful posterity should rise N
| its might and annihilate its ancestry
| am still scratching my head on the sub
feet, and must confess I can't bring the
great thought to earth. but II the President
| says it's there I'll bet on It.
/ had supposed that by this time some
body would suggest the idea OF light eup1
per. and rose from the stump with alac-
! ritfy, but no such suggestion was forthcom-
| 1--WE will go down to the hay neld and
\ stack hay until the horses are ready" said
f. the President. "a little exercise will do Us
| good. feel as II you had been neglected.
INV dear Jenkins. You are fond Of stacking
hay, HOPPER
..Oh, indeed, yes said I. with IN en-
| thusiasm did not feel. IF there II o.Ai
Job in this world have envisd other mel
| it is that Of stacking hay. I'd rather stacl
hay than be president Of the Steel Trust"
And down to the fields he went. 1t wal
solemn scene. and the President was q
trifie annoyed because things wers TO
wholly in readiness for U.S. There wal
plenty of hay to be stacked. but the corps
of farmers who are employed to unstaci
the hay stacks the President had stacket
the day before had not succeeded in get
ting 1t strewn about the field again for {
repetition Of the performance.
I'VE only have ten more, Mr.. Presidtnt.'
said the Chief Unstacker. land you STACKED
SO much yesterday that working cvertjm,
we haven't been able to get it ready for yer
since
"Nonsense!" said the President. excuses
Of that kind are extremely Irritating.
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/, holdings and those of the firm. there were
a few outside shareholders whose interest
1t was that the steel company should pay
the full market price for its fuel: ana to
protect these minority stakeholder Frick
always made as good q contract a he
could with the steel company. Carnegie.
on the other hand. wishful to keen ali
costs down, tried to obtain specially low
rates on coke for his ffm. This matter
eventually brought about the flnnl rupture.
Mr. Frick was exceedingly bitter over
the alleged hard bargains driven by Nj.
Carnegie as to the price Of coke, the ailesed
threats Of Mr.. Carnegie to build coke ovens
Of his own. and. moro than anything che,
over charge made BY Mr.. Carnasie that
Mr.. Ffick had acquired piece Of propArty
In order to extract profit from it event.
ual sale. ~
TRICKS WRITTEN COMPLAINT.
Mr.. Frfck, on November - IL, caused
to be read at the directory meeting az the
Carnegie company and spread on tho min
utes his visws On the subject. Of which. the
following Is an sxtfact:
The Flick conpany has alWays hssa
used - = oonvsnisncas The sscotds M
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BIZ w1LnERFoRcE JENKINS.

- .
New York. Aug. San official hint having
q abeen sent to me through the mails anony-
Ntmousiy that II I wished to spend day with
i tho President and see how he did things all
had to do was to report to headquarters.
:. I sent word by return mail that on the fol-
Allowing Thursday morning. at 10 o'clock,
sSwould be on hand. The response was i'm
IMMEDIATE
Ten o'clock nothing. Come the day be-
Es1ore. That's when he begins
And to this message was appended what
VI subsequently discovered to be advice OF
~ most excellent sort:
Bring two or three understudies unless
Egour life is insured
Bright and early Wednesday afternoon
Wound me at Oyster Bay, ready for any
&emergency. had spent three days with
Il the punching bag and had eaten nothing
k91ut fhe most approved kinds of nerve food.
Yf4nd 30 may be supposed to have been in
pretty fair shape for the ordeal Neverthe-
tess had with me four Of my most trusty
= hacks. any one of whom might step into
my plaza the moment showed signs of
weakening. Word was sent to headquarters
that all was In readiness and that as far as
] was concerned the President might begin
his day Atsany hour he saw At
BE in the saddle at a. H." word came
TO me over tho phone. There viii be q
little gallop down to Easthampton and back
before breakfast"
''Heavsns.' thought /, that is little
gallop wonder II he'll let me go In On
automobile" and then. although it was
only o'clock in the afternoon, went to
bed. Horseback riding is sport am very
FOND Of. but inasmuch as hadn't sat
astride OF . steed In fifteen years, the pros
poet was far from pleasing, and I sought
sleep In the hope Of forgetting it.
cit was useless. however, for whAher 4,
vas the excitement OF anticipation or the
action upon my system Of the nerve foods
nothing could induce the sandman to come
amy way. For four hours tossed upon my
bed, and then got up. made my will. put or
Amy khaki uniform and awaited O'Clock
sand the summons. It was well / did SO
isxor hardly had got my will properly wit
:, messed. when q message was brought from
eagamore Hill that. in View Of certain of
fdcial requirements OF the next day. thu
President had decided to begin Thursday a
haif-past 10 o'clock Wednesday evening
Ehe gnllop would take place at g. m, a.
Ppcheduled. but a game of one-old-cat will
: the boys in the moonlight would start II
Mt the earlier hour.
Bidding my friends q fond farewell. ant
6ispatching undcrstudy No. 1 to Easthamp
won to take my place on the return trip.
&iDet forth for the summer White House-b!
some called the Red, White and Blue Hous
iSs-dsseriptive. a. web as for patriotic rea
PRnsIDENrs HOME RUN.
A I drove up the President was at tn
bat but what in q regular baseball gam
would have been a three-bagger gave hin
time to greet me cordially.
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This was the beginning of thu end of Mr.
Tricks connection with the company. His
associates pleaded with Mr. Carnegie. but
that gentleman insisted that Mr.. Frick must
leave the company. The outcome was clear
ly foreshadowed in letter Of Mr.. Schwab's
OF December 8, 1899, published in the his
tory Of which this extract Is given by Mr.
Bridge:
:" have just returned from New York
this morning. Mr.. Carnegie is en- route to
Pittsburg to-day. and will be at the Offices
In the morning. Nothing could be done
with him looking to a reconciliation. He
seems most determined. / did my best, So
did Mr.. Phipps feel certain he will give
positive instructions to the board and stock
holders as to his wishes in this matter. I
have gone into the matter carefully, and
am advised by disinterested and good au-
thority that by reason Of his interest he can
regulate this matter to suit himself-with
much trouble, no doubt. but he can ulti-
mately do So believe all the Junior MEM
bers Of the board and all the Junior part
ners will do as he directs. Any concerted
action would be ultimately useless, and re-
sult in their downfall. am satisfied that
no action on my part would have any eff
feet In the end. We must declare ourselves.
Under these circumstances there II nothing
left for US to do but to obey. although the
situation the board Is thus placed In ID most
embarrassing
''Mr. Frick resigned from the Carnegie
Company on December s. 1889. but did moth
ing about his stock. This ID how that was
taken from him ~ appears from the minutes
OF q meeting:
Under the provisions Of = certain agree
n.ent between the Carnegie Steel Company.
Limited. and the partners composing It.
known a. and generally referred to as the
''Ironclad Agreement" we. the undersigned.
being three-fourths in number Of the per-
sons holding interests In said association
ana three-fcurths In valus OF siid interests,
DO now hereby request Henry c. Erfck to
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VAST PROFITS OF TARIFF PRO- TED STEEL TR,IsT

As to the future low positively
that England
ton even allowing
their
net cost to them at 49,
e ~ foreign business
true OF rails is equally
going to control the steel he world " ~
ios Know We can leaving
nice margin busine
av. not ~. ms foreign costs going Increase
material while Of all
and ss h able to sell surplus abroad
uest practice
her. a. no CO.. dated May IT, 1889 At
ION ana sold
rscts american Iron Steel
4Asls noweVer at 'front.' to Z
~~N~<\<t>< . 8 . . & 9 . 8 = = = 81
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Never mind. Mr.. President" sad y
I'm not interested in the sterilization Of
cod liver OIL
'Ipecac," he corrected.
Beg pardon, pecac," returned. "and
this will do quite as well. I'll join you at
o'clock"
And with that we parted.
Promptly at my understudy appeared at
the Red. White and Blue House. was not
yet quite dry enough to appear in polite 90
ciety. He didn't last long. and at was
summoned to resume my labors. 1t seemed
that upon his return from his two-hour lee
ture before the Dorcas. meeting Deianceys
the President hailed him with:
"Ah. Jenkins. feeling better?
I'm all right" said Delaney.
''rhen come up to the attic and well box
for an hour" said the President.
There Is no use to recount what happened
to Delaney. 1t Is sufficient to say that he
remained in the ring for about ten minutes.
and when he came TO found himself lying
on the lawn outside, with q window sash
hanging about his neck. He thinks some
thing hit him. and that In staggering back
after the impact he must have carried some
Of the house with him. have not ques-
toned the President on the subject, for
when met him at Z. having FASTENED up to
relieve Delancey. he apologised for hitting
me SO hard and expressed his surpriDeo
pleasure that had recovered so quickly.
SlNGlA6SSIlCn AND DlNNE5R.
We now dined, and. just as breakfast y
meal over which the sacred veil Of conf
derce must be drawn. SO shall dinner be re-
garded as an inviolate ceremony. After dim
ner. however. We began again. and bout
| at singlestick occupied our time until the
| Cabinet meeting. which was called at 10
This consisted Of the various Secretaries
who are in the neishborhood. attending up
| on the President sinsly and alone. First
| came Mr.. Hay, with whom the question Of
Manchuria and the open door was discussed,
| with the result that on and after February
30. 1906. the door will be open or We shall
| hear something drop. Next Mr.. Root had
the Presidents ear for an hour, and thu
| new policy providing for the retirement Of
all officers over the age Of 81 was strenu-
ousiJ discussed.
Next came the Secretary Of Agriculture
who secured the President's approval Of
the adoption Of q new patent grass seed
made Of sawdust and steel filings for tha
Yellowstone Park. And finally Postmaster
General Payne came In and began to reat
his weekly report. 1t waa twenty minutes
after IL when Mr.. Payne began. and o
half past Il he was still at 1t. 1t was u
interesting az II was voluminous, some OF
its statements being positively startling.
/ and when. at quarter Of 1. he stated that
he was confident that at least per cent
of the postal officials were incorruptibls.
turned to see the effect Of his remark upol
the President. And then saw how. AM
when. and where this marvellous mar
resteS-
l The President slept!
The Secretary and / tiptoed softly from
the room, and as we closed the door Sentl.
behind US heard the sleeping executive
murmus. dreamiiy:
"Aim little lower. Bin,' and you'll hav'
hiE.. sure
He was back in the happy huntinI
J grounds once more. st ~
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HOW FRICK WAS FORCED OUT
OF CARNEGIE STEEL COMPANY,

Final Rupture With His Chief Was Caused by Defiant Attitude
in Insisting That the Minority Stockholders Company
Controlled by Carnegie Should Receive
ProductForced to Resign and His Stock Sold Against
His Protest Under the SoCaed
Facts OF Great Corporations Working by
q Howard Bridge in His Book.