Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-08-13
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tow will depend primarily on his repu-
tation as a sleuth at hunting down Re
publican rascals in the post Office de-
partment. The chances are that he did
not detect 1.-THE of them, but his
career in that line will form the basis
of his campaign. His retainers and
henchmen will also assiduously culti-
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 deshpots and are exceedingly
anxious to stand well at court. IL
they conclude that Senator Burton is
on bad terms with the president, a
proposition which Hon. J. Ralph denies
vociferously, they will quit him as sud-
denly and with as little ceremony as
rats desert a 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.
among the Republican Jayhawkers at
an early date.
New Trusts.
Notwithstanding the decision Of
Judge Amos NJ. Thayer of the United
States circuit court of appeals in the
railroad merger cases, which many
overeredulous 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 ga colossal deal
which is of the greatest Importance to
the Pacific coast in general and of the
northwest in particular is announced to-
day.
At last a gigantic deal has been con-
summated by Frederick Weyerhauser, E.
H. Hartman T. B. Walker and Jacob
Blodgett, who have Joined forces with
James j. Hill, president of the Great
Northern. and through this combination
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
E. H. Harriman's lands go into the
combine with the provisionSto 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 24-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 1t
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. G. Stafford has been
the distributing agent in this city The
company operates the steamer Czarina,
and the bunkers are located at Howard
street wharf No q