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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-10
Now Plans to Crystalline an Indus
trial Army Into Three Clubs, on
a Solid Business Foundation.

LTHOCGH the business enterprises which Mr. King have
spnddy constantly
i restless mind Is planning further expansion
Under the 200 miles OF rolling prairie land controlled by Mr.
petroleum.
established
It's depth.
titles bed where will sleep until
the big corporation begin tothud and ank the of
Then barrel of will dollars for the stockholders and
now we'll increased dividends
barely scratched oil wells
have been found BY fair reasoning may assumed that in the
entire miles Of territory when fully developed there should be
least 5000 oil wells.
With this cold mind Mr. King idea that there with the
developments Of the enterprise for Of investors
whose members shall be chosen from among the public These clubs will
formed sliding scale and their headquarters will be located
State street Boston, where Mr. King will give them his personal
attention.
we'll
the benefits Of his business genius
He absolute what can be done the oil fields and
other places where his plans have been laid
There will gambling speculation Every investor will be regarded
a in his
by member will be 500
This 500 each member and leave invest
worth from $500 to $500
club will the investor in moderate
The laborer the working the shop girl will rejoice the
withdraw OF 500 five years. and ve five
times much still drawing dividends
Hundred Dollar Club with membership limited
be invested by each member $780,
will five $500 to each member and leave invest
mentw
which will
earnings for Of As the
$ developed profits will increase accordingly
Dollar Club" This club for
and the membership limited to 100 with the amount be
invested by each member $1,000
81 900 to each member and leave invest
ment fronts 5000.
inviting the publa large
Subscription books for
membership will the public Mr. Kings
Office Twenty-egh
the full quota of members has been enrolled
eeneralidea the investor not less than 20 per cent
in five he will receive his original investment leaving profit Of
on three five times the original amount
Mr. King knowledge
anywhere from three to five times
OF the figures quoted
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u you would have to sec a sleepy little
" house III a sleepy little town In North
u Carolina to appreciate e. F. Kings
. %, steep transition from poverty to
wealth. because from the doorway Of this
sleepy little house. In the middle seven
ties. there might have been seen bare footed.
brown haired kid going a-nshing.
II was King, the future handler OF tre-
mendous enterprises. There was nothing
In his freckles to indicate greatness. 1t
must be confessed also that one Of his toes.
which he had -stumped" on stone was tied
up rucely in strip Of calico. His hands. too,
were Of color. because he had been digging
bait. ..
Rut he was happy because he had some
fishing tackle in his pocket. He carried
with him a can OF worms and a heart that
sang like skylark.
II you want to see that boy" now 60 to
Twenty -eisht state street. Boston On the
FIRST door IN the biz offices Of the King
Crowther Corporation. sitting at roM-top
desk ,syou viii find serious-faced man con-
fronting on enormous mass Of business.
His brown hair ID up-tossed from broad
. forehead and big, leonine head. HIS brow
il wrinkled In thought. but his cheeks are
red and his manner that Of vigorous. clear
syed and energetic man Of ahnirs.
And how tremendou these affairs are!
Money money! money! every minute and
every hour Of the days work How to invest
II snfely-how tn save it-how to roll II up.
Pelion upon Ossa-how to make for those
associated with him that which he Is making
for himself. These are the daily problems
which confront c. +. X ing. the former North
Car DINA fisher hoy.
1t Ia probable that he was happier then
than now. At TINT time he was sensitive
only to the sunshine. the song Of birds. the
blue sky and perhaps on occasions Judicicus
trunk-strap welded by his mother. But
even this latter is happiness when contem-
plated from the viewpoint OF gray hairs
down a long vista OF wears.
At present the one-tme ishcr-boy's chief
happiness is making money through safe
investments for himself and his friends.
which is something that most OF us cannot
do for ourselves.
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As the Beers would call It. to point where
the soil had been dee ply marked by hoof-
prints and wagon wheels.
small clump Of earth was removed and 4
six inch pipe was uncovered. Down this pipe
was sent hve-inch bailer.
One hundred. two hundred. three, fve. six
hundred feet, and the bailer was still sinking.
At seven hundred feet 1t struck huid
through which IL sank with dificulty. 1t was
the subterranean oil sea--vast. dark, lifeless.
yet worth untold millions.
Millions In Prospect
In lash Kings mind had srasped posi-
bilities hitherto undreamed Of. Here was a
fortune for not only one. but for thousand.
And IL was not all. Beyond. in other wells
In which Crowther had struck oil. were for
tunes for an army He would wreSt them
from tho ground. round them out and bring
them into being for himself and others.
Throughout the two hundred square miles
mapped out by the experienced Crowther.
King travelled, pondering. studying. plan
o ing day and night. The more he saw the
more he became convinced that under the
Wild expanss Of field flowers. cacti and prairie
grass there was fortune Of at least 500. 600 00o
Once embarked upon his financial career
Kins moved with tremendous rapidity
He hurried to the capital at Austin and in
corporated the King-Crowther Corporation
under tho laws OF Texas. with capital Of
-. oo0.o0o
What Q huge undertaking It was! King had
started from Boston with 81 900. all the money
that no could possibly raise all that he had
Ia tho world. Out OF this he paid $3.50 for
Incorporation charges, He had barely enough
money left to get back TO Boston.
There was still bare chance that he might
be wrong In his judgement. At that time
experience had not yet given him the COOL
mature brain that lie now possesses.
But he travelled back to Boston with his
heart sinstDg as 1t had not sung since the
days whom he went a-ishing.
King made his story known a. soon as
he arrived home. The Boston papers grabbed
eagerly AT the wonderful tale. ltspresd
abroad from newspaper to Newspaper and
from city to city
King rented g suite OF Offices ut Twenty
eight State street. Then the hardest work
Of his life began. The demand tor King
Crowther stock was enornous--is still enor-
nous. II began to move upward in value.
Kins gloried In toll.
His mall rolled up day by day until It reached
the enormous total Of $50 letters every twenty.
four hours. Yet there was not one OF them
that he did not answer personally He kept
day and isr into the night. lie caught that
queer trick OF his OF tumbling his hair back
from his forehead and Of going at everything
With dAsh and an assurance OF success
Long after the clerks and employees had
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] have found, through the experience Of
the past two years. that to be successful 10
any degree . man must first Of all b. Just
and work hard. No great measure Of
success can Do attained without hard work.
and plenty Of II.
Then. again, he must be sympathetic as
to the wants and the welfare Of others.
Never, turn q needless ear to q mon with
plausible. honest business proposition.
Whatever success have attained believe
Is due to the fact that have never yet en-
barked In q business venture without feeling
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-10
Story of the Man Who Woke
Up at the Right Time and
Is Now Making a Fortune
for Himself AMI Those
Associated with Him.

u you would have to sec sleepy little
" house III a sleepy little town In North
u Carolina to appreciate G. F. Kings
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u ~ OST OF US at some time In our lives
|" have had such call az came to
G. F. KinR but not one In a million
has the nerve and the ability 70
grasp such an opportunity and to turn 1t to
account.
One day in the spring OF isol--or maybe
1t was in the early summer King was walk.
ing along State street in Boston. State street
Is the Wall Street OF the Hub. and you can
scarcely FIRE a pea-sho oter In any direction
without hitting millionaire.
The young Southerner who was bound to
succeed had taken on a habit OF associatins
az much as possible with men OF affairs, ac-
curing. unconscious!y perhaps. their habits
and methods Of thought.
He was beginning to think II a mighty
tough thing to possess all the qualifications
for success In business without the means OF
turning them to account.
He was tired or newspaper work weary
Of putting out the product Of his brain 70 be
paid for by the haberdssher . rule. He
longed for change. He found what he vas
looking for that morning on State street.
Turning a corner. he came face to face
with . sun. tanned man wearing q broad
brimmed white hat and bearing all the e. 2.
marks OF Texan except the six-shooter and
the spurs.
Hello. King!" said the stranger.
Hello, Crowther!" exclaimed King.
"King-Crowth err" the name Of q 5000. 900
corporation.
Yes. but do not jump at conclusions. The
romance In the wonderful story Of the leap
from obscurity to fortune u only beginning.
What are you dong In boston. Crowther2T
asked King. Il thought YOU were putting
down stock wells in Texas"
$50 I was" replied tho man from Texas.
hopping his forehead with red bandanus.
$50 was: but we'll digging Is not as TODD as
II used TO be. ny tho way. King" with q
sudden transit ion to extreme sertousneeo).
can you command any money!" s.s3
Any man can command money with an
honest and sensible scheme behind him.
/ can do what any other man OF moderate
resources oan. Why do you ask?"
"Well"--- and the Texan hesitated; you
see-that is--to tell the truth ] have disoov-
cred now oil field down In McNiullen county
and don t know exactly how to handle IT,"
Are you sure II Is an oil heldf"
As sure a. the sun rises"
then why do you come to mes Don't
you know that millionnaires would jump
at such a ohancc2" &C..
Yes. and beat mo out Of 1t. I come to
you to 60 In as partner and take hold Of this
thing. You can heat miliounaires ~ their
own game and do II honestly. too"
He set TO work to find out. Extreme oau-
ton In all business transactions b part OF
his nature. He never plunEes. never acts
upon uncertainties. After q prolonged dis.
cussion In . nearby hotel readinS-room.
King made up his mind tn 60 TO Texas himself
not that he doubted Crowther's vefeoity,
but that he wanted to ascertain the exact
situation.
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brain was developing rapidly. He was
nauseated with petty events. He hungered
for big things-for the working out of tre-
mendous schemes. But all things come to
him who waits. and to King there came at
last the trumpet call Of Fate.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-10
Annzrg$t@y9 E.Kj9g~ Ills Great 1cns0lEmir
Most Remarkable Achievement OF
a Boston Man---He CirdIeS the
Globe in a Search for Success.


X miles a day
the woke
f. King Boston independent wealth
has established him financial leader with
which much older finance might be proud
and Of work
ordinary he worked
Eighteen hours
big banking
paia of
rolled their fortunes while
the
world
ireamed Of
story the
in with the and the
grabs and hew with it.
wealth the of
prodigiou hustler
particular responsibilities successful handler
financial enterprises
wealhrom
behind him and Of wealth controlling
. corporation valued millions of dollars
full flower
he
financial
wheels OF which he is trailing prosperity
financial
folding of further huge undertakings.
would King always broadening
the foundations under him.
He laying his deeply and soldy
another
King
honestm 70 motto has
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-10
Whsrs San croWthsr Struck on.

He learned that Crowther In boring for
water on . ranch pasture In MoMullsn County
had struck OIL but had plugged up the hole
and said nothing more than that the water
was salt and UNIT for use.
He learned further that Crowthsr bad
promptly begun Q systematic, courSs Of Dor
lnss and had defined the limits Of the new
oil regions. which were appro ximstsly 100
square miles.
The centre OF this huge submarine. ocean
Of wealth was in the northern part Of NO.
Mullen County, on the borders Of Live Oak
and Atascosa counties.
A week later the Texas well-digGer md the
future great hnancier were on. their way 10
Texas. King had rounded up all his availa.
bic resources for the journey.
During the entire trip to San Antonio his
mind was busy With plans and prospects,
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observation and had kept abreast Of the
times.
It is pretty hard for the average young man
to pin himself down to thoughts Of future
prosperity when the rod blood is yet buzzing
In his veins and the rainbow Of youth spans
his sky.
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II tho find" turned out a. large ~ reported.
how should he handle it7 In what direction
should he proceed 10 find the vast funds neces-
ssry to insure the successful operation Of his
plans?
But while King Was thinking deeply and
planning wisely. Sam Gro was already
looking upon the venture a co implicitly sue
cessful. They can't beat 1t. any way he
would exclalnn enthusiastically. wait till
you see what 10 looks like
"Yes. wait Till We 20 over 1t carefully be-
fore we talk OF success. z ing would reply.
From San Antonio the little exploring
party started south In q somewhat ricketty
wagon drawn By q span Of ancient and palms.
taking mules.
II does not take long 10 pass from the pic
turesaue old city Of the Alsmo TO the endless
plains Of Southern Texas. Hero are virgin
leaves from the book OF nature still bearing
the lettering In leaf and flower Of the hand
writing Of God.
On. past soiita ~ ranch houses Ast along
tho level plains Ike small cups and saucers
on a huge green table cloth--past Goliad
and into the remote wilderness Of the South
they plunged Sam Crowther still jubilant.
King still wondering what the outcome would
be.
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An Amazing Turn Of For
tunes Wheel.

n II OST OF US at some time in our. lives
WI have had such call az came to
IVA c. F. King. but not one in q million
has the neryc and the ABILITY 70
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-08-27
Cause Of Lynching

Editor independent: On August 6.
1903, President Roosevelt addressed a
letter to Governor DuTbin OF Indiana
II an executive who for three years has
refused to surrender to the orderly
procedure of law fugitive from JUS
tive, accused of one Of the highest of
crimes-a letter in which, after eulog-
izing this persistent INSTRUCTOR Of law
as a courageous opponent of anarchy,
the president proceeded to dilate at
great length on the recent growing
prevalence and barbarity of lynchings,
especially of negroes, in this country
Whether the presidents labored eff
fort was wholly uninspired by hope
to influence thereby the colored vote in
the approaching elections, the writer
expresses no opinion. The object Of
the undersigned is to direct attention
to what he deems an important cause
Of the alarming evil of which the pres
ident treats-an element in this mat
ter which the president, with charac-
teristic superficiality, ignores.
Did it ever occur to President Roose-
velt that the unusual frequency and
barbarity of lynchings in the United
States began since President McKin-
ley declared war of conquest in the
Orient? Does not the president know
that war is the abrogation of all civil
ard criminal jurisprudence, that it is
but accumulated violence, anarchy it
self? Does he not know that all war
is brutaliZingg, that war of subjuga-
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-08-27

Wither do they lead? Fraught as they
have been, fraught as they are with
blessings and with misfortunes for us
of the earth, for those who have pre-
coded us, for those who will follow us.
Pregnant with good Q: with evAy
The future we cannot peer far into.
The past is unalterable. We live In
the present. In it we can labor. La
Dor which influences the present, the
future. Shall our energies be con-
centrated mainly upon self-aggran-
dizement which, even if accomplished,
proves unsatisfying?
With clearer insight into the I'M
changable principle of justice which
underlies all of natures laws, there
will come a melting away OF the de-
basing strifes of the past and the
present.
A conception faint at first, but grow
ing. expanding, becoming more and
more intense, more and more lucid,
will sway us, control us and lead US
Alright. Will lead us into the pathway
of true advancement. Will urge us to
seek Divine assistance as We labor to
purify, to ennoble, to elevate ourselves
and the race. EDWARD STERN.
Philadelphia, Pa.
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ton is more brutalizing than al ordi-
rary war, and that war is most brutal
izing when the victims are considered
by the conqueror of an inferior race?
Does he not know that the American
army Of occupation has customarily
regarded the Filipinos as thus inferior
so allied to the negroes, in fact, that
it has been common to refer to them
as "niggers" "a term, by the way,
which always properly carries with it
more reproach to him who uses 1t
than to him to whom 1t is applied,
and to characterize their indiscrimi-
rate slaughter as analogous to the de-
iightf;il pig sticking" by the British
invaders in South Africa-that even
the Filipino non-combatant has been
generally treated by American sol
diers and civilians alike in manner
which, when it was not patronizing,
was domineering and insolent? Does
the president think for moment that
the account of such practices by Amer
leans abroad is not calculated TO in
cite strenuous Americans to similar
contempt and violence at home, that
the return to this country of tens of
thousands of American soldiers thus
inevitably brutalized abroad does not
inject into society an element ripe for
the very evils which he denounoes? If
Filipino ringers" may be ruthlessly
shot down by hundreds of thousands,
by American soldiers, because they
desired the same national indepen-
dence for which our revolutionary
fathers died, and their impoverished
survivors be treated with general con-
tempt and insolence, is it any wonder
that there is considerable increase
CT lynchings in this country of Ameri-
can "niggers" for some of the worst
OF crimes?
Does our strenuous president think
that American barbarity abroad will
not inspire American barbarity at
home? Does he expect to gather
grapes from thorns or figs from this
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states which they could have had If
they had been true to Watson But
it is no use to look back upon the past
only as an object lesson. Let us look
tt, the present, and future, and work
as we never worked before. Let us
unite; in union there is strength.
Enclosed please find 81 postoff!ce or
der for which send me The lndepen-
dent.
I should like to be present at the
conference at Denver, but it will be
impossible for me to do SO, as have
Just got off a bed of sickness.
LEVI w. SMITH,
Member National Committee Peo-
pies Party for Maine.
Vinalhaven, Me.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-08-27
P. O. Service

The annual examination for the post
office service will be held in Lincoln
On November IS, 1903. Applications
for this examination will be received
at the Lincoln postoffice up to the
hour of closing business, 8 p. M, Oc-
tober 49, Blank applications can be
procured upon application to G. w.
Pace, secretary postal board, Lincoln,
Neb.
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The New York World continues to
tolk about "a dollar worth 100 cents"
All the cents there are, are made Of
copper and 100 of them are worth just
the amount of copper that is in them.
According to the Worlds reasoning,
1t wants about the cheapest dollar that
ever was invented.
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ties? Does he imagine the words of
Christ any less true today than they
were nineteen hundred years ago,
when He said, Whatsoever We SOW,
that shall we reap also?"
JOHN SAMPSON.
Washington, d. c.
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Patronize our advertisers.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-05-20
STUNG BY WEIRD INSECT.
Michigan Farmer May Die from At
tack OF "A Gigantic BuE which
Bites His Cheek.

Oscar Newasaky, living seven miles
east of Mendon, Mich, was stung the
other day by a strange insect unlike
anything known in this region and
the doctor fears he will not recover.
He was stung on the cheek and now
his neck and shoulders are terribly
swollen and the poison symptoms are
declared to be new to medical science.
Newasaky went into the loft of his
barn to cut hay to feed his stock
when he suddenly received a painful
sting on the left cheek. The unex-
pected torture caused him to lose his
footing and he fell 10 feet to the floor
of the barn, where he lay half un-
conscious for over an hour until he
was found and carried into the house.
Examination of the loft revealed a
bug two and a half inches long quar-
tered in the hay. The insect has long
wings, its legs are doub~le-jointed with
a tendency to curl OF bow. The head,
which is the strangest part of the in
sect, is fully an inch in diameter, COW
cred with fuzz, partly covering a long
bill like that Of some gigantic mos
quito,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-05-20
SENSATION AT A THEATER.
Man Raises a Disturbance When
Young Woman BehAnd Him stnbs
Hin with Her HatDln.

A wild wall. ringing out shrKly
from his audience. Disconnected f. II.
Sothern at the Garden theater, New
York city. the other night and caused
Q commotion that interfered serious
" with the smoothness % the plav.
The mar who cried aloud is Philip H.
Levey, manager Of a leather goods
establishment, who had been impaled
upon a hatpin. Directly behind
Levey sat a young woman who en-
deavored in the fashion of young
women at a play to secure her hat
60 the seat in front of her with the
hatpin. Instead she fastened the hat
to Levey. The long steel pin slipped
through the plush chair back and
ran an inch or two into the mans
body. An alteration ensued. which
was interrupted by a policeman. who
removed both parties. There was q
discussion in the lobby, in which the
young woman ~upbraided Levey for
causing such q commotion over .
trivial matter and bringing humilia-
ton on her.
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