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Mower County transcript., 1904-03-16
NEWS CONVERSATIONS
Tuesday,, March 8.

.
A Mayor Harrison of Chicago has been
Grafton of Labor -.
. An Erie passenger trains collided
with an extra freight at Warren, O.,
and six persons were hurt. -
Posses have failed to capture Mark
Dunn, the condemned murderer, who
escaped from Jail in Buchanan county,
Mo.
. John Kennedy, the train robber un-
der sentence to hang Monday, escaped
from the Staunton (Va.) Jail Sunday
night after clubbing negro left to
guard him.
Mrs. A. Teppate, the fifth wife OF
old Geronimo, is dead at the Apache
hospital on the Fort Sill reservation,
OKLA, where the tribe is held by the
government as prisoners of war.
Eight hundred cement finishers en-
ployed by the Cement Contractors as
sociation of Chicago struck Monday
for a wage increase of 10 cents an
cents an hour.
"Wednesday, March 9.
The pope Tuesday cordially received
General Reyes of Colombia in private
audience.
The framework for the Russian ma
tional pavilion at the st. Louis worlds
fair was torn down Tuesday on receipt
Of cablegram from St. Petersburg.
Jacob Romeis. who served the Tenth
Ohio district in congress from 1854 to
1885, died at his home in Toledo, O.,
Tuesday as the result of an accident.
The Secvian Macedonian committee
has decided to break off all relations
with the committee in Macedonia and
Bulgaria in connection with the Mace
donian revolutionary movement.
The trustees of the will of the late
Cecil Rhodes announce for the infor-
nation Of the college authorities in
the United States and Canada that a
qualifying examination for Rhodes
scholarships will be held simultane-
ously in each state or province begin
ming April 49,
Thursday, March 10.
Three tra1nmen were fatally hurt in
a collision at Chicago Wednesday.
Lord Augustus LOTUS, the former
British ambassador at Berlin and St.
Petersburg, is dead. He was born in
1917.
A new voting machi ne used in the
municipal election in Washington, N.
j., has gone wrong and another elec-
tion will be necessary.
1T is announced on reliable authority
that Prince and Princess Arisugawa
will represent the Japanese court at
the st. Louis exposition.
A dispatch received at Louisville an
nounces the death in Epiwanda, CAL,
of Charles Edward Langham, father
Of Baroness Won Sternburg.
Captain o. W. Williams, a veteran
Of the Civil war, was found dead in
bed at Norwalk, o., with a self-inflicted
bullet hole through his head.
General Henry Boynton of Augusta.
Me-, an officer who won distinction in
the Civil war, is dead of heart disease.
He was seventy-three years old.
Mower County transcript., 1904-03-16
MERCER HELD ILLEGAL
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
SusTAINs GOVERNMENT IN
SECURITIES CASE.
HOLDING COMPANY DECL AIRED 4 TRUST
sTIFLlNG OF COMPETITION MAIN
OBJECT OF CONSOLIDATING
PARALLEL ROADS,.
SHERMAN LAW IS CONSTITUTIONAL
POWER OF CONGRESS OVER IN.
TERSTATE COMMERCE HELD
TO BE COMPLETE.

Washington, March 15-The opfn-
ion Of the supreme court of the United
States in the case of the Northern
Securities company VS.. the United
States, involving the merger of the
Northern Pacific and the Great North
ern Railroad companies was handed
down during the day and was in favor
of the government. The opinion was
read by Justice Harlan and concurred
in by Justices Brown, Brewer, Nc
Kenna and Day, while the chief justice
and Justices White, Peckham and
Holmes dissented.
The opinion of the United States
sofa was affirmed.
The effect is to sustain the conten-
ton that the antitrust law applies to
railroad combinations of the character
in question.
Justice Harlan said that in the mer-
ger of the two roads the stockholders
disappeared and reappeared in the Sc
curities company, the two thus becom-
ing practically consolidated in hold
ing company, the principal object be-
lag to prevent competition.
"No scheme or device could certain
ly more effectively come within the
prohibition of the antitrust law and
it is, within the meaning of the act,
a trust"
The case has attracted more atten-
tieD than any other suit before the
court since the first insular cases were
decided and has been regarded by
bench and bar as equal in Importance
with those cases and with the income
tax case. 1t was argued in December
last and attracted general attention at
that time, as it did previously when
the decision was rendered by the cir
cult court for the district of Mime
sofa,
Mower County transcript., 1904-03-16

poration control rates throughout the
country in defiance ofAcongress ?".s r.
Justice Harlan also took occasion to
say that there had been nothing in the
Securities company's certificate of in
corporation to indicate its purpose to
be that of destroying commerce and
he therefore absolved the state of New
Jersey from any charge of such knowl-
edge in advance. It might be true
that a.federal court had no power to
dissolve corporation of state, but
this circumstance could not be an indi-
cation of powerlessness to enforce the
law, than which no corporation is
stronger. Nc device could suffice to
prevent this enforcement of the ma
tional statutes. The courts had, in
deed, consistently held to the suprem-
acy of the national laws in cases Of
conflict between these laws and the
laws of the states. So long as con-
gress confined itself to it's prescribed
functions, he said, there could be no
danger. At any rate the error, if any,
was with congress and it was for con-
gress to supply the remedy and not
for the courts.
Justice Harlan also discussed the
predictions Of financial disaster from
the enforcement of the antitrust law,
but discouraged them, saying they
were usual under such circumstances
and need not be realized.
Mower County transcript., 1904-03-16

OF sale, one 66O.-egg hot; air
y "a ncupator: Good as new Hans Nelson.
L[lnco olnz street, Austin. '11 81 e1'oa''
Mower County transcript., 1904-03-16
OF THE
GOVERNMENT UPHELD.

The suit was instituted by the Unit
ed States against the Northern Securi-
ties company and the two railroad
companies, the Northern Pacific and
the Great Northern, and their leading
stockholders for the purpose Of dis
solving the merger of the two roads,
which the United States declared had
been created by the creation of hold
ing company, the Securities company.
This consolidation was claimed to be
in violation Of the Sherman antitrust
law. It was claimed on behalf of the
government that this consolidation was
In effect pool created to promote
the interests, not Of one system at the
expense of the other, but of both at
the expense of the public. The rail-
roads claimed that the transfer of the
stock OF the two companies to the
Securities company was in the nature
of sale and perfectly legitimate.
The contentious Of the Securities
company were reviewed and Justice
Harlan said they had received full at
tention. He quoted the various opin-
Ions involving the trust question, say
Ing that from them it is to be gathered
that all contracts In restraint OF trade,
reasonable or unreasonable, are pro-
hibited by the Sherman law and that
congress has the power to establish
such regulations as are laid down in
that law.
Replying in detail to the points made
for the Securities company Justice
Harlan said that the contention that
the law is an interference with the
rights of the individual states by which
the companies are incorporated was
not we'll founded. In such cases. he
said, the authority OF congress is su-
preme.
He also DECLARED it to be unneces-
sary to determine the right of owners
of railroad stock to sell the property,
nor was it true that the right of the
Securities company to own and hold
railroad stock is the only question in
vOlved. Such contentious are wide of
the mark-mere men of straw. All
that the government complains Of is
the existence of corporation to re-
press commerce and is not concerned
with the other points.
DECISION UPHoLDs TIE
POWER or CONGRESS.
Justice Harlan said that in this day
there should be no doubt of the com
plete power of congress to control in
terstate commerce. All the prior
trust cases we're in support Of that
contention. Whether free and unre.
strained competition was wise, he
saId, was an economic question with
which the court need not concern it.
self, the question was that of statu.
tory law.
He asserted the power of congress
over interstate commerce to be as
complete rs the power OF state over
domestic commerce.
" Coming to the plea of the railroads
that the antitrust law should be de-
clared unconstitutional he said that
= the court could not see it's way to that
end.
"If," he. went on, ''the Securities
company's contentious are sound why
may not all the railroads d the Unit,
= ed States enter into q combination
( and by the device Of 3 holding cor
Mower County transcript., 1904-03-16
OF COMPETITION
ONLY OBJECT OF MERGER.

Justice Harlan declared that the only
object of the merger was to prevent
competition and he said that if no one
else knew this to be the case J. Pier
pOnt Morgan, one of the defendants,
knew that to have been the case
Extracts from Morgan's testimony
were quoted in support of this state
ment.
Logically con strued, Justice Harlan
said, the decision should be followed
by the criminal prosecution of the par
ties at interest in this case.
Speaking Of the general understand
ing that the Sherman law applied only
that this impression was breathed
from every pore of the statute, but
that it's language did not bear out the
conclusion.
I'm our Judgment" said Justice Har-
Ian, "the evidence fully sustains the
material allegations of the bill and
shows violation of the act of con-
gress in so far as it declares illegal
every combination or conspiracy in
restraint Of commerce among the sew
eral states and with foreign nations
and forbids attempts to monopolize
such commerce. Laying aside the
many things of minor character and
summarizing the principal facts it is
1ndfsputable, upon this record, that
under the leadership of the defendants,
Hill and Morgan, the stockholders of
the Great Northern and Northern Pa
cific railway corporations, having COM
peting and substantially parallel lines
from the Great Lakes and the Missis-
s1ppi river to the Pacific ocean at Pu-
get sound, combined and conceived
the scheme of organizing corpora
ton under the laws of New Jersey
which should hold the shares of stock
of the constituent companies
Continuing Justice Harlan said that
"this combination is, within the mean
Ing Of the act. trust, but if not it is
combination in restraint of interstate
and international commerce and that
Is enough to bring it under condem-
nation of the act.'
Mower County transcript., 1904-03-16
LARGE TERRITORY AT
MERCY OF COMBINE

He held that if such a combination
were not destroyed "all the advantages
that would naturally come to the pub
lie under the operation of the general
laws of competition, as between the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
Railway companies, will be lost and
the entire commerce Of the immense
territory In the northern part of the
United States between the Great
Lakes and the Pacific at Puget sound
will be at the mercy of single hold
Ing corporation, organized in state
distant from the people of that terri
tory"
The decree Of the circuit court, he
said, could not have been of smaller
scope and it had in no way exceeded
It's authority. The law must not be
narrowly construed, but reasonably
construed. The defendants could not
complain of the finding of the circuit
court and Justice Harlan, in conclu-
sion, announced the confirmation of
the decision Of that court, saying:
! "The judgment of this court is that
the decree below of the circuit court
be and hereby is affirmed, with liberty
to the circuit court to proceed in due
execution of the decree as the circum-
stances may require"
Judge Harlan concluded at 1:18
p. m. He was followed by Justice
Brewer, who, while concurring in the
Judgment, did not accept all of the
language of the opinion.
Mower County transcript., 1904-03-16

Publ. March Q, is, 2S.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1904-01-27
CUT.RATt BROKERS AND
WtEK.kNEtD INVESTORS

1t is II deplorable fact that many
holders of mining stocks have not
the courage of their convictions
sufficiently to hold on to their in
vestments after they have once made
them.
IL Is because of this fact that there
are so many cut.rate quotations
flooding the country. II the invest
ing public in general would stand by
their first decisions and not be fright
ened out of them by rumors and
false statements the mining indus
try. particularly from an investment
point of view, would be greatly benc-
fitted.
II is safe to say that 30 per cent
of the eastern brokers aud so.called
"advisory correspondents" know M
much about legitimate mining ny the
miner who slopes the ore in the west
ern properties knows about the
manipulations Of the listed stocks on
the exchanges.
This class of men have been the
means of destroying faith and often
have caused tremendous loss to in.
vestors, after acquiring securities In
mine that would have made them
rich finally, were shaken out of their
pos BILE bonanzas through timidity
caused by the circulation If adverse
reports emanatng from II source that
had only its own personal ends to
serve.
This IL neither fair not Just, yet II
/ is an everyday occurrence The same
principles which govern the stock
market of the world are apparently
being applied to unlisted mining
stocks. The spectacle of one broker
clearing stock by means of false
/ statements and damaging insinua-
tions, and another one "bulling'
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1904-01-27
10 CENTS PER SHARE

the same stock by equally false state.
ments and promises can be seen any
day.
Neither side presents the true
situations. hut each having its own
ends to gain, does not hesitate to use
every means possible to accomplish
that end.
IL IL were not for the weak .kneed
holders of stocks these stories would
not have the desired effects. An in
vestor of determination and convic-
ton would Immediately take such
steps M might be necessary to prove
or disprovc the truth of statements
made by total outsider, who mani
testify IL not In portion tn know
the inside state Of affairs. - American
Mining News.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1904-01-27
COLLEGE men AS
MINE EMPLOYEES

4 condition unprecedented in the
history Of mining operations exists
In the fact that at the Snow Creek
mine and mill there are now en-
ployed six regular college aud uni
versity graduates, AS ordinary miners
and mill workers. These college
men are from various sections OF the
country. For the most part they are
young men who are working their
way to something better, and are
making this form of manual labor u
stepping stone.
In the majority OF instances they
have affiliated themseles with the
Miners Union, and II Is stated that
they are faithful workers. II is to
be doubted IL there IL mine man
agement in the country that can boast
of Ms many men with handles to their
names in its employment.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1904-01-27
WADE FORCED
INTO BANKRUPTCY

James Wilson, the deputy United
States marshal from Portland, WAS In
the city yesterday, and In. the after
noon filed papers on q. B. Wade.
and has thrown the settlement of the
Wade estate into the bankruptcy
court.
This action will do away with the
trustee ship that has been appointed
by Mr.. Wade. giving into the hands
of Messrs, Ma,lock and Taylor the
disposition of the estate, and IL will
relieve these gentlemen of all respon-
sibility IN the matter. 1t will throw
the matter into the courts. and while
it may have a tendency TO cut down
the returns perhaps, in some quarters
IL will insure all creditors share and
share alike in the distribution of the
property. 1t Is possible that by tn,
private handling of the estate more
could be obtained by private sale Of
lands aud other property than could
be gotten from a forced sale by the
court, but that is only advantage,
and is assumed.
Throwing the matter into the
courts will open for distribution all
OF the property owned by Mr.. Wade
at the time of his failure, and for
four months prior, irrespective of
transfer since that time. This will
bring back into consideration great
many acres of land and great deal
of property that has changed hands
since October last.
Wade has in the aggregate $500.
900 of liabilities, and of this perhaps
from $4,000 to $50, 900 is guaran
teed Indebtedness secured by mort,
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1904-01-27
tired Smith Goes East.

Fred Smith, general manager of
the SNOW Creek, left this afternoon
for New York, to attend "A meeting of
the directors of his company. He
expects to be gone about three weeks.
Mrs. Smith accompanied him to
Baker City. but will remain the
greater part of his absence at the
mine.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1904-01-27
UNtOUAlltD OPPORTUNITY
TO SECURE A PIANO FREE.

In another column Of The Miner is
published II most attractive subscrip-
tion offer. Arrangements have been
made with The Twice.a- Week SpOkes-
man Review, the most popular family
newspaper In the Northwest, to club
with II and permit Miner readers to
participate in the contest for u hand
some piano and numerous cash
prizes which ID offers.
Such an expensive contest can he
conducted only by II paper of large
culation. one that no country
paper could afford itself, unaided. to
inaugurate and Miner renders are
fortunate in securing this opportun-
ity to participate in this one.
Thi. is no guessing contest, but
purely "a trial OF skill Read the
advertisement; it explains the sys
TEN fully, aud you will surely try to-
count the diamonds.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1904-01-27

cages and notes. The rest may be
good or not. according to what Is
realized on II. The stock of the
Golconda Mining company, owned
by Wade. will be put on the market
aud sold for what IL will bring. He
holds approximately 1000. 900 shares
In the company. East Oregonian.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1904-10-14
Anti-imperialist Fashions.

From the New York Tribuncl
Mr. Dooley remarked a few days
ago. "Th' attic Of ivry Dimmycrat's
house Is filled with Of policies that h,
wanst used-policles that have faded
or punctured tire or broke a main
spring or been run over be a band
wagon" Anybody who goes into the
Democratic garret and seeks the cor.
ner where the castofr garments OF anti
Imperialism have been thrown with
the successive changes Of fashion will
certainly confess that Mr.. Dooley in
this respect understands the Democra.
cy. For flve years now the Democracy
has been denouncing imperialism" and
this year il again appears In that role
with the so called antl-imperialists pro
claiming II the only hope Of human lib
crty Yet the fashion OF It's auti-im.
perialism has changed so often and so
completely that IL would hardly know
Itself II ii riggcd up in its former cos
tunes for the part
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1904-10-14
KEITH'S NEW THEATRE.

Ansie Irish, the distinRuished Froh.
man actress. who for several seasons has
been prominent In some OF New York's
biggest successes. will head an attractive
program At Keith's next week, making
her hrst appearance In vaudeville here.
Miss Irish 10 one Of the most important
recruits from the legitimate thst vaude.
Vile has had Ibis season. She is known
far and near a. an actress OF refinement
and fnesse. and everywhere she has APP
peared In vaudeville she has attracted
large crowds OF discriminating theatre
goers. For her vaudeville offering Miss
.rsh has been fortunate enough to secure
a one-aet play which critics everywhere
pronounce the gem OF the season. "An
Actresses Christmas Eye' IL the title. and
1t IL an adaptation from the French by
Martha Morton Conheim, who has writ
ten a number OF dramatic successes.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1904-10-14
MANTOR.

Business IL driving at the Man'on mill.
Mrs. Richardson has returned from her
nip abroad.
A harvest supper will be held at the
Baptist Chapel on Saturday evening.
Juliet Poole recently purchased five lots
and buildings on the l.. A. White plat.
W. 4. Suuthers is about to erect a new
house on Herschel and Klondike streets.
James ID. Mimic sailed for Europe on
Saturday on the Cunard steamer Can
pania" from New York.
Father Carroll Branch, |. G. y. u, will
hold a social next Friday evening at the
Woonatquatucket Casino.
Albert W. Cul and Susan Z. Smith
we're married October 9th at ST. Peters
Church by Rev. A. Z. Carpenter.
Fred Irons has purchased 5000 square
feet OF land on the westerly aide OF the
Old Killingly road OF Fred J. Walch.
DR.. Fred Thrills chestnut horse "Os.
car" has beea entered In the 1ijs class At
the matinee races at Narrsgsnseu Park
tomorrow afternoon.
The Manton Alumni Association met
last Friday evening with Misc Bessie
Kennedy. Members OF the last gradual.
ing class were initiated.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1904-10-14
The Issue Remains.

tFrom the New York Globel
II Is as true now as the campaign
enters upon its closing month as II
was at the outset that there Is only
one issue I'm the canvass, Shall we
have n changef In other words, shall
the country continue for four years
longer i'm the policy it has pursued dur
Ing the past eight years or shall 1t ell.
ter upon Il new and uncertain policy
Nobody can say that there is anything
experimental or uncertain about what
the Republicans offer. They stand
pat saying through their platform
and candidate. IF you wish 10 know
what our future will be, look at our
past" Neither can anybody say that
there is anything except uncertainty
about what the Democrats offer. What
their policy is they themselves do not
know. All that they promise is a
change, and that in Itself is a pledge
TO unsettle existing conditions-that Is,
to bring about uncertainty.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1904-10-14
"POllTtCAl OllGARCHY."
some Facts About voters Rights In
virginia.

Something like hundred years ago
Thomas Jefferson protested against
the new constitution OF Virginia be-
cause II gave more power to 1900
voters In the plantation region OF the
east than TO 10000 in the nonslave-
holding western part Of the state.
Hence, he claimed, the state would be
really ruled by an oligarchy. Let us
see whether this is true now. In the
Third district, one OF the old slave
holding districts, are included the cities
OF Richmond and Manchester. and one
In twenty-eight OF the population votes
In the Fourth district, another Of those
with large ex-slaye population,
total vote Of 6,34l was cast in popu-
latlon Of 1GG,321-one in twenty-slx-
the winning candidate receiving J,7l7
votes, or about tive-sixths Of the whole.
In the Ninth district. including some
Of the western counties, about whose
rights Jefferson was solicitous, a total
vote Of q, 40 was cast in population
OF 227 ,3S1-about one vote In seven.
The Republican candidate received
1864 votes, and his opponent 13,47G,
more than twice as many votes as
were required TO elect Democrat In
the Fourth district, while the total
vote is four times as great as that in
the Fourth district and the popula-
ton only about GO,000 greater. Sixty
thousand more people and four times
as many votes required to elect a rep
resentative! And jefferson called II
political oligarchy when 10000 voters
had more power than 10000. And
Judge Parker does not desire that JUS
tice shall "wait on political ollgarchy"