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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1905-03-25
Kausan Tells Of Stan
dard's Bribery Offer
Special to The Oil Review.

DptCldl U Inc VII IScEloW.
independence, Kan, March %.
j. III. Crawford, a member of the
Advisory board of the Kansas Oil
Producers association, declares
that the Standard Oil company
tried to bride him last fall when
he was a candidate for the Legis-
lature on the Republican ticket
from Neodosha. He says the offer
came through Joseph Seep, the
head of the purchasing agency of
the Standard. Crawford tells the
story as follows:
"Some time in October W. B.
Scott came to me one evening af-
ter got back from a hard trip
in the country, and said that Mr..
Seep and John O'Brien were at
the Oriental hotel at Chanute and
wanted to see me. / went to the
hotel. Mr.. Seep said he under
stood I was a candidate for the
Legislature, and I told him [ was.
He said they always liked to have
their friends in the Legislature.
I told him 1 did not know whether
I was friend Of theirs or not.
He then said it was always the
policy of the Standard to take
care Of it's friends. He said he
knew a business man could not
afford to lose time in attending
the Legislature and that it was
the policy Of the company to
make up to a man what was COM
ing to him on account of loss of
salary. Mr.. Seep also said that a
mans services were worth a good
deal if he was a good man. I told
him I thought he was making a
mistake, that he had come to the
wrong man. He said he had been
told I was a business man, and
that as a business man [ ought to
know that I could not afford to
90 to the Legislature without
some compensation outside of the
salary from the State. He said
there was no use trying to buck
the Standard Oil company, that
they took care Of their friends al
ways and were the only people
who did. He told me if | cared
to do anything with them just to
turn into him any expense ac-
counts and whatever else [ con-
Sidered right, and that he would
see that the vouchers came very
promptly. He said that the pro-
ducers had never won a fight yet,
and they would not win this one.
Then | told Mr.. Seep that there
was r5thing doing. There were
no witnesses to the conversation.
Had I known what was going to
happen when Mr.. Scott summon
ed me | would have had some
body on hand to hear the CONVEX
sation. Mr.. Seep did not once
mention the Prairie Oil & Gas
company. 1t was we and the
Standard Oil company all the
way through"
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1905-03-25
By the Tonic Route.

The pills act as tonic, and not
as a drastic purge, are DeWitt's
Little Early Risers. They cure
h a d'a e, constipation, bill
iousness, etc. Early Risers are
small, easy to take and easy to
act-a safe pill. Mack Hamilton,
hotel clerk at Valley City. N. D.,
says: "Two bottles cured me of
chronic constipation" Sold by
Opera House Drug store.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1905-03-25

The ten highest buildings in the
world are the Eiffel Tower. Paris.
9S4 feet high; the Washington
monument. SO feet; City Build
ing, Philadelphia, 535 feet: Ca
thedral of Cologne, 81 feet; Ca
thedral of 'Strasburg, 466 feet
the chimney of the St. Rollox
Chemical works, Glasgow, 45512
feet; st. Martins church, Land
shut, Germany, 454 feet; st.
Stephens, Vienna, 453 feet; the
Great Pyramid, $50 feet, and st.
Peters, Rome, 4SS feet.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1905-03-25
pa at GAINESVILLE, O., $2100.

Just think what a bargain; near
corporation line, with 2 or 3
streets running to it; nice location
for building site; in full view of
city; coal, oil, gas; watered; rich
soil; snap bargain. Write w. F.
Richmond, GAINESVILLE, O. 800
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1905-03-25
SPECIAL LOW RATES

To all points in Montana, Idaho,
Washington, Oregon and British
Columbia, March l to May Is,
1905. Round trip homeseekers
tickets on special days. Write al
once for information and maps to
W. Fl. Allen, Travelling Agent
Wisconsin Central Railway, 621
Park building, Pittsburg, Pa.
2,23-d,w-2m
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13

of the place where he was stopping
uncovered a little over two hundred
dollars. Under the severe cross exam
ination of the police he broke down
and admitted that he was one of the
robbers and that he was with the man
who waded out and received the money
from Mr.. Cendoya.
No amount of persuasion or threats
could, however, induce him to tell who
his accomplices were or where they
could be found. He says he does not
know who the other parties with him
were. He also claims that he had no
gun when he called on Mr.. Cendoya,
although a revolver was found on his
person when he was arrested. The gun
he says he bought after the robbery.
The police believe that the confession
OF the man will be followed by still
further weakening and that the rest
of the band will be secured soon.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13
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-HE old spirit of Spanish buccaneel
days, once the terror of the Span.
ish main, is not dead. Descend.
ants still live of those hardy old pirates
who once held the Businesses of the
southern coasts of the Pearl of the
Antilles, and who because Of their raids
against the shipping of the world made
the seafaring trade of two continents a
very dangerous occupation.
True, the descendants of the old out
laws who are living in Cuba today do
not strike the terror that their fore
fathers did upon the sea, for they are
mere bunglers compared with them.
The advance of civilization has made
the pirates trade upon the sea unpopu-
lar. This has reduced those in whom
the old spirit still lives to work in the
mines of the island as day laborers,
just as the naughty old Castiian used
to oppress the poor native West Indian.
That the old spirit still lives in Cuba
was shown most forcibly to Julian Cen
doya on Sunday, July g. when he was
seated at his table with his family and
two cousins enjoying his evening meal.
The party was interrupted by the en-
trance of eight armed men, who de-
manded that Cendoya deliver to them
EQ0 or 90 txrifl nom
Mr.. Cendoya is Spanish born, but is a
naturalized American and is married
to an American lady, who was Miss
Julia Lane of Brooklyn, N. Y. He is
the agent for the Ward line steamship
company and is a we'll to do merchant
in the eastern capital of Cuba.
The story of the way the bandits con-
Quoted themselves is best told by Mr..
Condoya, who was sufficiently collected
during the trying interval in which the
bandits guns were pointed at him and
his family to study the faces of each
one with the idea of being able to iden-
tify them later. His presence of mind
has already stood him in good stead be-
CauSe nc HotS SAuCc plCheu Out lne l6aQer
of the band, who has confessed to the
crime.
1.-THE outrage was perpetrated upon
me-" said Mr.. Cendoya, about o'clock
Sunday evening. / was seated at the
table with my wife and three children
and two cousins. The meal was Just
about completed, and my servant,
Thompson was bringing in the tea,
when as he came in the door there
entered behind him five men armed
with machetes, revolvers and rifles. Be-
fore 1 could exclaim the leader called
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13
[0aRy

HE successful business woman has
become such figure in newspa-
= per history that there is hardly
a doubt that she will soon graduate
into fiction and the drama and thrill
us with her daredevil adventures in
Wall street, her astounding iuggles
with railroads and her diplomatic
coups in the affairs of nations.
But in spite of all the wonderful
things that we hear of as to the power
and progress of these feminine magic
makers, we who read between the lines
are aware that the woman who makes
real success in fields that bring her
in competition with men averages less
than one in fifty, and her success can
never be rightfully cited as an exploit
alton Of endurance, perseverance, pa
thence, pluck, daring, keenness of per,
ception, or, in fact, any of the traits
that win a mans way in the world.
Rather it is a triumph of baby ribbon
when it is sifted free Of all newspaper
rumors and weighed at its true value.
Woman's natural brightness, aptitude
and tact, as well as an unusual loy-
atty to duty, virtues which she has in
excess of even the best of men, help
her in her beginnings in the profess
sional world. Her good looks are an
undoubted asset, but all these would
be nothing were her sex left out OF
the question. II is because she is a
woman that she has gained her goal,
just as for the same reason forty-nine
other women have failed in their quest
Even in this advanced day in femi-
ninity. the eternal girl, now unruhied
rather than beruffled. is still a unique
and picturesque figure In commercial
life, while In art she is by far more
charming than her domestic or social
iy gifted sister. looked at purely from
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13

the illustrative point of view. The
modern millionaire who above all men
only wishes to be amused now woos
and weds the chorus maiden who sus-
tains life on 80 or $40 a week, rather
than a girl of his own class, whom he
sees too much of at the opera, and
who, If allowed her own choice, would
prefer matinee actor or a fashion
able tenor as mate rather than him
self.
Nine men out of ten feel a desire to
aid a woman who is obliged to provide
for her own living whether she carries
a spear with a line of pink amazons or
taps typewriter machine in an Office.
The tenth man will rave about wo-
mans proper sphere, and will endeavor
to browbeat or bully her but when she
has proved her right to dig for dollars
and dinners he will endeavor to plan
some way in which he may utilize her
aptitude for his own gain as well as
hers. Being a man he knows that her
perceptions are tied up in invisible
bowknots and he thus condemns. pities
and embraces before he knows what Is
taking place within him.
This explains the so-called brilliant"
marriages that girls so often make out
of choruses, factories, shops and offices.
1t is always the tenth man who sue
cumbs to the girl who has gone out of
her sphere. AS he cannot compel her
TO stay at home in any other way he
marries her and wakes up some day to
hnd that he has become famous as the
husband of the president of the Eman-
cipated Woman's club.
some women who prefer the fame for
themselves become known as actresses,
singers, artists, using the tenth man as
lever to move away the nine other
frivolous and far more companionable
chaps who wish only to be amused.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13

out 'Quie os todos CEvery one keep
quletO.
"The leader of the party advanced
toward me, pointing two revolvers at
my breast, while the rest Of the party
covered with their weapons the rest of
the family.
"On delivering all of my arms the
chief gave me a letter, which he
snatched from me as soon as I had read
it. To the best of my memory the letter
read as follows:
Eight men tired of life ask of you
100000 (Signed)
'ONE-EYE MAN OF SIBERIA
with all the calmness that L could
summon l answered: You men do not
know what 100000 is and undoubtedly
you do not know that l am but a
modest merchant when you ask such a
large amount of money. 1 absolutely
haven't that amount and you can do
what you please. 1 am at your service
AT these words from me the chief
appeared to be rejecting, but finally he
said: Pues veuga con nosotros' CThen
come with us).
"On seeing me reach for my hat, my
wife and children and cousins, who had
sat throughout the trying scene up to
that time as if they had been petrified,
suddenly found their voices at seeing
me about to be taken away from them.
fo1T
the bandits not to take me away and
for me to satisfy their demand with
what money 1 could. You can imagine
how desperate I felt at feeling myself
family.
I'VE were on the point of leaving
when the chief hesitated a moment and
gave a signal with whistle which he
had tied about his neck. At the signal
three more men appeared and all with
drew to the side, where they exchanged
some sentences the import of which
could not be made out.
when the bandits had finished talk
ing the pleadings and tears of my wife
and children determined me to make
some effort to satisfy the villains, for I
feared they might attempt violence to
my family. I perceived that they were
men who would stoop to anything, and |
the possibilities to my family if L did |
not satisfy their thirst for money filled
me with dread. I Offered the chief $2OoO |
which 1 told him was all>the money I |
could possibly obtain in cash. One of
the bandits exclaimed:
Such sum means only trouble for
eight men to bother themselves with
"The chief then said: !
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13

cept the $1,000 and I was instructed to
go in boat with my wife and Oldest
son the next day at II o'clock in the
morning to swamp called Cojimar
where they would be awaiting me.
Death was threatened the family if
mentioned the matter to the police or
brought any one armed with me when
/ delivered the money.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13

In her heart of hearts she knows that
without the tenth man a woman's
ideals are as unsatisfying as stale bon
bons, that nobility requires business
management in this twentieth century
and that the American people love
nothing better than to be fooled. If
she wrote her true life's history she
might say: 81 kept my eyes on the
stars, yes-but 1 lassoed man with
baby ribbon. I don't care to discuss
the matter"
Once in a great while there are rare
instances of women who grit their
teeth and adopt rational styles in cloth
ing, fiat heels and health foods and pin
maxims on their mirrors. Like many
rare specimens of the now extinct and
overbone creatures whose skeletons we
see suspended from ceilings in our
museums, they are never Joy to the
eye, although they arouse a certain
morbid interest in unusued brain cells.
But a kitten chasing its tail causes us
to smile tenderly.
The soft voiced sirens with sealslxin
eyes and velvet lips that we see por-
trayed in their studios with mallets
upheld above clay models. or poring
over their manuscript laden desks in
Doucet tea gowns, are inspiring and
fascinating and picturesque delight
fully different from Rosa Bonheur and
a few others, in their velvet pajamas
and brains from which frills were for
ever banished, that the world might
have that unutterably sad thing-a sue
cessful woman-sad because, after all.
unnecessary.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13

"At this my 15-year-old boy spoke up
and said:
My fathers word is sacred
THE bandits held another conference
and then it was that recognized one of
them as a drunken Spaniard named
Pineiro, whom I had seen around for
years. Finally the chief returned to me
and said that they had decided to ac-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13

Give us a little more and we will
leave you in peace
Impossible 1 replied this is the
last cent 1 can get and if it does not
satisfy you 1 will have to go with you
Very WELL replied the chief; we
will take the money, but you must give
us. some guarantee that you will de.
liver the money
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13
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Then the men backed out of the
house and quickly disappeared. l inn
mediately went out on the porch to
see where they had gone. 1 then called
for my servants and found that the
bandits had locked them up in the
kitchen.
"The next day L took my entire
family and went from my pretty little
summer home across the bay from
Santiago to the city. 1t is needless to
tell you of the sleepless night we
spent while waiting for the dawn. But
with the coming of the day our spirits
rose, and we went to the city with
lighter hearts. L secured the money
and with my wife and oldest son we
took small launch and went to the
Cojimar swamp. AS we neared the
shore we saw some one signaling to
us and approached as near as possible.
The man. whom 1 recognized as the
chief of the night before, waded out to
us and to him 1 delivered the money.
AS he took the money my wife ex-
claimed:
Now you have money. Don't come
back To this the chief replied:
NO tenga cuidado, senora.' Don't
worry, sonora"
Mr.. Cendoya on returning to the city
notified the police. He had recognized
the man Pineiro and the police lost
no time in hunting for him. They fin
ally found him. A search of his clothes
revealed but a few cents, but a search
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13

Mrs. Booker II. Washington has near.
ly 500 negro girls who are thirsting for
better things at the Tuskegee institute
in Alabama.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-08-04
Kentucky Yarn.

Out on the veranda of a little Ken.
tucky hotel several "colonels" were
slipping mint julip and telling yarns
about the weather
when All was up in thaw noun.
tains, sah,'' said lanky old gentle
man, ''it began to rain one aftahnoon
and before thaw shower was ovah
thaw was fish all ovah thaw ground
Bass, trout and carp fell right out OF
the clouds, sah."
The old gentleman who was rather
corpulent placed his glass on the table
and said:
"Cunnel that thah was a pretty
good yahn, but it don't tech thaw ex.
perience l had fohty miles south OF
Frankfort. Why, sab, it began to rain
'thah one day and fish came down by
thaw ton. But that isn't thaw strang.
est of it. A thundah stohm arose, tn
lightnin' struck thaw field, fried thaw
fish just as nice as if they were fried
in yOuah own kitchen an"
But the other "colonels" fed.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-08-04
DOG DEALERS HARD LUCK.
Pup He Thought Worthless Turned
Out First Class.


am an INSCRIPTIONS dog dealer 1
had for sale very fine Irish terrier
His mother cost me $500 and his sire
cost $3.50. thought their get, my
pup, now year old, worth 5000, and
SO advertised him.
l was incensed by an offer of $40
over the phone.
Party never saw the dog, and said
any good ratter would do him (this I
had claimed for mine); he did not
care for pedigree, breeding or cost of
parent dogs.
A bright idea struck me. knew a
curley haired alley dog I could get
for 25 cents. told the fellow would
accept the $40 offer. He asked me to
meet him at depot with the dog. He
was going home on suburban train.
met him with the curly-haired alley
dog, on which, by the way, had an
option, but at so cents, not 25 cents,
as l expected. My customer sneered
when he saw the dog, but handed me
$40 note.
I smiled when thought of my joke
Next week l received a postal card
from my customer that read: "Your
dog is the best ratter I ever saw. He
caught forty-two rats the first two
days. He is worth all you advertised
him at, 5000. would not sell him for
$30O.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-08-04
EVIL OF PRESENT DAY.
Menta! Faculties Greatly Disturbed by
Noise.

"Noise, in my judgment, is one Of
the most powerful and most success
full disorganizers of the mental facul-
ties in the world said thoughtful
citizen to a representative Of the
New Orleans Times-Democrat, "and
when we reflect on the enormous in
crease in noises of all kinds. we will
probably be convinced that the time
is rapidly coming when the race will
be in no small danger mentally on &C.
count of noise. Progress is noisy;
necessarily so, l suppose. But when
speak of progress of the noisy type,
l. OF course, mean material progress.
We can't build, in a material sense,
without making noise. Intellectual
progress even is not always along
quiet lines. But | was thinking of
noise in lighter aspect. Have you
not noticed how some men become
mentally reckless on account of loud
talking? Have you not noticed that
children will sometimes Shrek them
selves into highly nervous state?
They become mentally disorganized
on account of the noise they make. I
was a rather close observer of a man
at game of baseball the other day.
He started to yelling gently and grad
ually worked his way up to the alti-
tude of the shrieking rooter Before
that game ended that fellow was as
mad as March hare. He had been
crazed by his own voice. Noise is a
\ yR..N
think of it, and the trouble about the
noisy 'rooter' at ball game is that
in driving himself to the madhouse he
is likely to take few other fellows
with him"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-08-04
CHAPTER v.


During the night the wind gathered
force and the Queen pitched ana rolled
with the waves beating against her
bows. The result to me was inevitable.
| was as seasick as mortal man had
ever been. My illness effectually drove
from Maubikeck's mind and my own
all thoughts Of the condolences he had
proposed to unfold to me on that day.
In fact. about the only thing that could
have been said that would have been
pleasing to me was the promise that
would speedily die and end it all.
But this the ships physician refused to
give.
So two days and part of the third
passed, and I was still unable to leave
my berth.
In the evening OF the third day Of
my illness the lion-tamer sat near me,
looking over some papers had
brought from New York Now and
then he would glance at me to see if
| was In need of his attention. The
worst of my illness was over but I
was very weak.
"Maubikeck,' l said, almost smiling
at the weakness of my own voice.
why do you sit in this close state
room? You have been wonderfully
good and kind to me. can never for
get 1t. But | am over the worst of it,
and you need not trouble with me any
more. Go on deck ana get Whit of
fresh air."
Maubikeck smiled.
"The air to be had on deck" he said.
'.is not SO invigorating as you think.
There is dense fog. We are creeping
along, barely keeping headway. Moth.
ing can be seen. 1t Is a damp, chilly
evening, the sea is running high, and
altogether it is uninviting on deck. l
will sit here awhile and then go to
bed"
He resumed his reading, and Law
still. listening and thinking.
Suddenly there was a shock and
crash, cry of horror, shout of an
ger. and the ship seemed to be driven
by some tremendous force, and shiv-
cred and trembled like q frightened
animal.
Maubikeck leaped to his feet.
There has been q collision!" he
said. Stay where you are. Wilberton.
will come back"
He rushed from the stateroom, and
L fell to wondering what the result Of
this new horror would be. | was so
weak that / did not fully realize INV
own position. It is true, felt and
knew the danger. But my senses were
30 benumbed by my illness and this
new shock that ct 6rst I was almost
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-08-04

Watchers from afar sorrow that the
Mother of Farliaments should have
sunk to the level of pothouse brawls.
The house Of commons has for years
past been steadily losing it's hold up
on the national esteem. Such scenes
as that reported by Reuter- will rap
idly hasten it's decline from it's once
lofty estate. We wonder whether the
far-reaching effect Of such pitiful ebul-
litions is fully realized in England
India (Bombay) Times.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-08-04
Prof. Wiener and the Peasant.

Prof. Wiener of Harvard university
tells story illustrating the non-talka.
tive disposition of the Russian peas.
ant. While travelling recently in Rus
sia he found himself for a whole day
in the company of a peasant.
Where did you come from?" asked
the peasant by way of greeting.
From America" replied the pro
fessor.
Toward evening, when the journey
was nearly completed, the peasant
asked: And where are you going?"
The professor replied: ITO Mos
cow"
These two bits of information were
about as much as the peasants brain
could hold.