Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-08-18

cuda1CS6 W6C0 lu6C he WOulu, Unless
nominated for vice president go after
the curule chair now occupied by Hon.
]. Ralph Burton, senior senator from
the Sunf1ower State. That prophecy is
likely to come true. Already, accord
Ing to late dispatches from Topeka, the
gossip about the statehouse is that Jo-
seph L. will go after ]. Ralph's scalp,
and it will be in harmony with the
eternal fitness Of things, for in divers
places and on sundry dates the Burton
rooters have boosted that Bristow was
going, going and gone" 1t will be
pretty fight. Burton is an indefatiga-
bic stumper. First and last he made
more than thousand speeches in order
to get into the less numerous branch
of the national legislature, and he will
deliver another thousand to remain
there another term. OF course Bris-
tow will depend primarily on his repu-
tation as sleuth at hunting down Re
publican rascals in the post Office de-
partment. The chances are that he did
not detect a 1.-THE of them, but his
career in that line will form the basis
henchmen will also assiduously cult
vate the theory, already widespread,
that Senator Burton is persona non
grata at the White House. All Repub-
lican pie hunters, especially those from
Kansas, are ravenously hungry, yearn
for the tleshpots and are exceedingly
anxious to stand well at court. If
md hot to
on bad terms with the president, a
proposition which Hon. ]. Ralph denies
vociferously, they will quit him as sud-
denly and with as little ceremony as
rats desert sinking ship. What the
average Kansas Republican most han
kers after is federal pap, and if the idea
prevails that Burton cannot secure the
pap he will be as dead as Beans"
Pomeroy or Senator General Jim Lane.
There is likely to be something doing
among the Republican Jayhawkers at
an early date.
New Trusts.
Notwithstanding the decision of
Judge Amos M. Thayer of the United
States circuit court of appeals in the
railroad merger cases, which many
overcredulous people thought settled
the trust question, the trusts, like John
Browns soul, go forever marching on.
Indeed, new ones are constantly form
Ing. The following dispatch, published
in the Oregon Daily Journal of Port
land, Ore, shows that something is do
ing among the trusts on the Pacific
coast:
San Francisco. July 2G.-A colossal deal
| which Is of the greatest Importance to
| the Pacific coast in general and of the
l northwest In particular Is announced to-
| day.
| At last a gigantic deal has been con-
summated by Frederick Weyerhauser Z.
Fl. Hartman, T. B. Walker and Jacob
Blodgett, who have Joined forces with
James ]. Hill. president of the Great
Northern. and through this combina ton
these persons will practically control the
entire production of coast lumber
| e. W. Eberlin, their agent. took the
government figures for all timber now
| standing on the Pacific slope and bought
| through agents until now these five men
with minor associates hold the vast west
ern lumber market in their hands weyer-
| hauser was the means of getting Harri-
| man and Hill together on the deal
| Z. H. Harriman's lands go into the
combine with the provision to protect the
| company's creditors which are pledged
as Southern Pacific creditors.
The following dispatch, from the
Evening Telegram Of Portland, Ore,
tells of the formation Of still another
gigantic trust in still another necessary
Of life:
San Francisco, July M.-Another step
in the formation Of trust to control the
coal supply on this coast was taken yes
terday when the Western Fuel company
was appointed wholesale distributor for
the Beaver-Hill Coal company. This
means that the Western Fuel company
| now controls the output Of the Beaver
Hill mines in Oregon and that the retailer
will henceforth be compelled to pay for
the coal such prices as the Western Fuel
| company may dictate.
The Western Fuel company now is q
merger Of four different companies. It
was formed six months ago, when three
| local coal companies pooled their interests
and issued stock The companies which
combined were the John Rosenfeld & Sons
company, G. c. Wilson & Co. and John l..
Howard, and the mines controlled by the
company were those owned by the Rosen-
| fields at Nanaimo. The Beaver-Hill Coal
company owns mines near Coos Bay, Ore.
John D. Spreckels Is the president of the
company and w. @. Stafford has been
the distributing agent in this city. The
company operates the steamer Czarina,
and the bunkers are located at Howard
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