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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-29
The Bergen Disappears.
(By the Associated Press. J

IBy lTlG ASSUCIdItu PTeSS.
Norfolk Va, June 27.-The u.
Weather observer at Cape Hatteras re-
ports that the 3-mastered schooner
Clara e. Bergen which was sighted
from that station abandoned and float
ing at sea following a collision with the
Norwegian fruit steamer Dumois, has
disappeared from view and probably
gone to the bottom in ten fathoms OF
water.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-29
Sweeping Out Official Refuse.

by the Associated Press.)
Phila., June 27.-Wm. F. wilkins,
who since the creation of the office of
Chief Assistant Fire Marshal in 1902
has held that position, was summarily
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-29
Early Tobacco Curing.
(Tarboro Southerner.)

(TarbOrO SOutherner.)
John W. Purvis is curing barn OF
tobacco. Our memory does not recall
barn whose curing begun so early
as June 25th. indeed we do not re-
call one in this county cured in June.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-29
Norfolk and Western Agents.
(By the Associated Press

(By the Associated Press.)
Norfolk. Va. June 27.-The fifth
annual meeting of the Norfolk and
Western Railway freight agents from
all parts Of that system convened here
today for two days session The pur-
pose is for a general interchange of
ideas and discussions upon subjects of
interest to the company's agents in
general
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-29

Careful Housewives always use Dur
netts Vanilla because no food com
mission ever questioned It's purity.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-29
OFFICERS Named.

In addition to the officers already
named by the Raleigh Board of Alder
men at their caucus Mr.. j. @. Brown
was selected as city treasurer Mr.. T.
W. Blake as keeper of the clock, Mr..
M. H. Riggan as sexton city cemetery
and Charles Cardwell, colored sexton
Mount Hope cemetery.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-29

Who is at Morehead? Everybody
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-29

What say you TO a dip i'm the Sea at
MOrehead.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24

noted musician and composer, associate
Of Sir Arthur Sullivan and Paderewski,
scion Of a southern family, was ratified
off to Bayview last refuge Of the
homeless and friendless.
While waiting for the prison van the
professor entertained his friends upon
the old piano in the station house. 3.
With little animation he played the
old airs. He livened up considerably
on Dixie" making the 9 Away, away,
away down South in Dixie echo and
re-echo thru the station-house. He
talked Of Fort McHenry when he played
The Star Spangled Banner''; and he
tried to sing when in some truant fancy
his hands wandered into the strains Of
the Doxology. But when he struck his
own Cradle song, which he told his
hearers was the best thing he ever
wrote, he began to interpolate remarks
of his own in his playing.
g Now he said, now she $ putting
the baby in the cradle. Sh! Quietl
Now she s singing to it softly, slowly.
Now she g rocking the cradle with her
foot a little woman IS foot. Now she IS
sowing, sewing. Z The old musician
took his hands from the keys for a
minute and bent them as if using the
needle.
When he ceased playing he was asked
many questions, and to one Of them be
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24
P0URS MILK ON BURNING
. ROOF AND SAVES HOUSE

Special to The Journal.
Boulder, Mont, Feb. 24.-Rare pres
ence Of mind on the part Of D. s. Mer-
rill, well known rancher living near
here, saved his home from destruction.
He conducts dairy and with his hired
man had just completed milking fifty
cows when the roof of the dwelling was
found to be ablaze. No water was to
be had but that hoistedi from well
and, shouting to his wife for assistance,
formed by the three persons, the pals
Of, milk going up to Merrill, stationed
on ladder, who dashed their contents
on the flames, finally extinguishing
them, tho the roof was considerably
damaged.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24
AT 50 he IS AMERICAS
/ YOUNGEST GRANDFATHER
New York Sun Special Service.

Toledo, Ohio, Feb. 24.-Bert House
man Of this city claims the record Of
being. the youngest grandfather in
qe he T is 50 years Of age aad his
born on Feb. Is. He married at Is
and his wife was then II. Their first
child was q girl, who, when 16, was
married to Gordon Boden, aged II.
It is believed that Mrs. Houseman
holds third place in being the youngest
grandmother in the United States. One
woman lives in Brooklyn who became
grandmother at the age Of SO years.
Mrs. II. =. Vedder of Salamanca,
N. Y, lays claim to being the young
grandchild came when she was but 80
years Of age, and she became a great
grandmother at the age Of SO.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24
replied. stYon ask me If r have !,

replied: stYou ask me if I have not
played for royalty. Yes, for Albert Ed
ward. / played twice, once in '55 and
again in '66. I have played for EN-
peror Frederick of Germany and for
the emperor Of Austria. Paderewski I
met in Poland. He was then a young
man and requested me to give him what
we call listening lessons NJ
Leo Wheat was born near Richmond
and early manifested an unusual talent
for music. He went to Europe and
studied there for two years, forming a
close friendship with Sir Arthur Sulli-
van. On his return to America he was
considered to be among the foremost
pianists in this country. He has been
organist in many large churches in both
northern and southern Cities and has
played as premier soloist in many a
concert. He is a brorther Of Colonel
Roderan Wheat of the noted Louisiana
Tigers, and himself served in the Con-
federate army on the staff Of General
Lee. He is a widower, but has several
grown children in Virginia.
It ism It necessary to 90 out in the
cold to order your groceries and sup
plies. The Journal g new feature,
Shopping by Telephone, on the Want
Page. is at your service.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24
T aiI-end Of the furs
Winter millinery s at y es;e.

Everything that is left in winter hats trimmed
trimmed, at your pricing. We absolutely refuse
to store them and must have the they occupy
We showing elegant line Of early black hats in
silk chiffon and moline and flower and foliage effects.
just the thing for early
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24

When he ceased playing he was asked
many questions, and to one of them he
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24

judicial bill is said to be due to the.
assurance given him that he will be al.
lowed to name Charles Quarles, brother
Of Senator Quarles, circuit Sldge of Chi
cago. AS it has been generally under
stood this office has been promised to
Judge Kohlsaat, this report caused con-
siderable talk among the Illinois dele
cation.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24

For any case Of nervousness, sleep
lessness, weak stomach, indigestion,
dyspepsia, try Carter g Little Nerve
Pills. Relief is sure. The only nerve
medicine for the price in the market. i
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24

It isn't necessary to 20 out in the
cold to order your groceries and sup
plies. The Journal g new feature.
Shopping by Telephone, on the Want
Page, is at your service.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-02-17
PITY THE STANDARD

What pity, what pity! Kan
sas has done very unklndly act.
The great and good Standard Oil
com pany, that great moral, phiian-
thropic and patriotic corporation
that / as devoted its life and energies
to me developing and building up
OF his country and has so unselfsh-
|, devoted It's energies to the good
Of poor suffering humanity, now
feels aggneved and hurt that the
people Of Kansas should oppose its
philanthropic plans in the state on
which it has long had its eye and
for which it contemplated doing so
much.
Billy O'Brien, their mouth piece
for Kansas, feels shocked at the
stand the Kansas legislature has TAX
en- and seems to think their motives
have been misunderstood. He
further says the action of Kansas
has injured their credit abroad and
they are utterly unable to borrow
money to complete their great
philanthropic undertakings In the
state and have stopped operations.
Well such rot may 60 down east
but it won't 60 In Kansas. Come
off, Billy, and talk truth and COM
mon sense.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-02-17
A MISTAKE

The Standard management now
announces that its orders for Kan
sas were misunderstood. 1t dis
claims any intention of refusing to
take Kansas oil. That being the
case, why has not the mistake been
rectified and the oil offered them at
the various points in Kansas been
taken1 Oh, no, their orders were
not mistaken by Kansas employees
but the management made fatal
mistake when they made the order.
They are not just up on the char
acter of Kansas men.
They thought the same kind of
bluffing and bulldozing tactics that
had won for them IN the east would
win again in Kansas. There is
where they fell dewn. Kansas men
are not to be bluffed, even by the
mighty octopus
This last move has made Kansas
men practically a unit against the
Standard. -
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-02-17
TOM LAWSON WITH US

Lawson, the "Frenzied finance
man." will be with Kansas in her
fight against the great octopus. He
will furish some first class ammu-
milton, it is claimed.
Mr.. Lawson will be a very ac-
ceptable ally in the war that is to be
waged. He is well informed as to
the methods of this great robber
trust.
What Kansas wants now, after all
these bulls in favor of fairness be-
come laws, is plenty of money and
push to construct refinerIes and
pipe lines to handle the whole out
put of the state. 1t will take a vast
amount of capital If it all has to be
handled independent of the STAN
dard. With these laws for our
protection and refineries being built,
as they will be there will be an
activity in the oil field in the spring
that it has never seen. Drills will
be started everywhere and in a few
months after good weather sets in
the present daily production OF the
field will be doubled.
Oil properties are bound to in
crease in value and the product to
double in value as soon as the oil
can be taken.
The gloom that was settling over
the Kansas oil fields is beginning to
rise and CLEAN of bright sky to
appear in the distance. The people
of Kansas In their might and their
desire to see fair play, have come to
the rescue and the fangs Of the
octopus will be extracted.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-02-17
BAILEY MUST PAY

Treasurer Kelley won out in his
refusal to pay warrants for Gov.
Bailey's grocery bills. The last
legislature made an appropriation
of several thousand dollars as a
maintenance fund for the executive
mansion. Gov. Bailey construed
the act to mean that he could use the
fund to procure provisions for his
family and acted accordingly.
Kelly finally turned down one of
his bills and the Governor began
suit. The supreme, court has just
decided UNANIMOUSLY that Kelley
was right.
The ex. Governor will now have
to put UP several hundred dollars to
reimburse the state.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-02-17
REFINERIES

1t now looks like the danger in
the oil field will be too many re-
fineries. 1t is settled that Chanute
will have at least two and probably
more. There will be plenty of
crude for them to work on, there is
no question about that, the only
question will be market for the
product. Refined oil can be put on
the market at half the current price
and still sold at profit. 1t is pro
badly better for the field at present,
anyway, that there should be a
number of small refineries scattered
throughout the field than one large
one that would undertake to handle
the whole product. BY next fall
the state will likely be producing
IS, ,ooobarrels per day or more.
1t is quite likely that a good pro-
filable market will be found for
much of the low test oil for fuel as
soon as the railroads are properly
regulated. In fact great deal of t
could be marketed now at much
better than Standard figures if the
railroads could be depended on to
furnish the tank cars and carry them
promptly to destination.
One producer now has a large
firm in St. Louis that is ready to con-
tract 500 barrelsat SI.soperbarre as
soon as he is ready to enter into
bond to furnish the oil regularly
every day.
Under the present altitude of the
roads, he cannot agree to furnish
the oil. 1t all ready looks very
much like Kansas, with the help ol
eastern capital that will come, will
be amply able to take care of all hel
oil without the Standard. Yet
there is no disposition to drive the
STANDARD out. The producers wan
her to remain aud do business on {
fair basis. The fight is only for I
fair shake and equal chances for all
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-02-17
NOW FOR THE GAS

The victory over the Standard
seems to be won, as far as the oil is
concerned, but now must come the
fight on the gas piping proposition.
which seems to be but another lire
of its would be monopolies. There
is but little doubt in the minds of
those who have given the matter
careful thought, that the Standard
company or at least some of its
principle men, which amounts to
the same thing are behind this gas
piping proposition. 1t would not
be popular for the company to be
known in the move and they are
keeping in the back ground. The
immense amount of money required
for the enterprise and methods en-
ployed and little indications that
have leaked out all indicate that it
is another Standard move.
BY the same theory that the people
should be protected from the oil
monopoly should they be protected
from this great and greedy gas
I trust.
How any legislator who favors a
refinery to fight the oil trust can
ease his conscience into silence, for
little selfish motive, on the ga:
trust is more than we can under
stand. For down right brutality
and dishonesty, the gas trust i:
worse than the oil trust, if such 6
thing could be possible. Theil
theory is to practically steal the
product from Kansas and deliver i
into Missouri at an enorminous pro
fit to themselves.
The rights and interests of Kan
sas people are not to be respected
In the matter. With their biz
pumps they can take your ga!
whether you wish them to have it OF
not. They can set the price anc
if you do not want to take it, they
can take your gas and pay yot
nothing.
We hope our legislature will con
tinue the good work begun on th'
oil tentacle of the octopus, and loI
off the gas sucking tentacle tina
the state may be entirely free of it
ravages.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-02-17
THE RAILROADS

Now that it is agreed that we ART
to have state refinery and that oul
oil fields are to be thrown eopen to
the investment of private capita
it becomes more than ever the duty
and care of our legislature to see
tina: our railroads are placed under
proper control and made to play
fair with all shippers. The former
rate on crude oil to Kansas City
was about $4S on an ordinary tank
car.
This was entirely too much.
There is no earthly reason why
crude oil should take higher rate
than live stock or even so high.
Yet this rate would not stand when
the Standard got Its pipe line
through and it was to its interest to
cut off shipment by rail. The rates
were put up and up until prohibi-
tive. We understand now that it
costs about SIIo to ship an ordin-
ary tank car of oil to Kansas City.
If our railroads are going to be
allowed to make these unjust dis
ordinations, the state refinery will
be failure and no independent
refinery can do business in the
state.
The great railroad corporations
have Disseminated against the state
and its enterprises about long
enough. If this legislature but
passes the refinery bill, a good anti
gas piping bill of some kind that
will be fair to all Kansas citizens
and regulates the railroads pro-
perly it will be immortalized.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-02-17

General Lew Wallace is dead.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-02-17

Eastern money is already offered
in abundance to assist in establish
ing independent refnerles in the
state if the Kansas legislature does
its duty. And we think now the
legislature will do its duty on the
oil business. While It is on the
good work it will only be half
through with the Standard till it
knocks out its gas piping schemes.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-02-17
Observation-Disclosures
q GO eSte'ks.t't'EF&'sTs z v'E' c'tssses
MAXIMUM RATE BILL:
The House passed the freight I
rate bill on oil, by a vote of 9
100 to O.. ;
SsSaa aaaaAnas n
A VICTORY


won, without a doubt, among the
oil men and was only smiled at ia
the start and had but little backing
even among the producers them
selves but as the matter was invest
gated by our law makers and by the
people generally the feasibility of
the plan, in fact the absolute neces,
sity of the move became apparent,
if Kansas expected to hold its own
against this giant trust and mo-
nopoly, The Standard Oil company.
The measure passed the senate with
whoop and the opposition in the
house has dwindled till it is not
formidable.
Even the speaker, Stubbs, who
seemed to be all powerful in the
house, has been turned down by
that body on the refinery PROPOSE
tion and is now hedging. Where a
few days back he said the bill could
not pass the house if he could help
it, he now says, he is willing to dc
everything to break the hold of this
monopoly on Kansas.
The course of the Standard Oil
company during this discussion has
been surprise to every body.
They are supposed to be very wise
and shrewd company of men, but
every move they have made since
the agitation begun has been calcu
lated to strengthen the cause of the
state refinery.
In the first place they reduced
the price of kerosene &C per gallon
thinking to molify the citizens o
Kansas. This only showed then
how they had been robbed for ryears
Then they became panicy ant
thought to punish the producers il
Kansas by refusing to take their oil
The Standard people mistook tn
temper of Kansas men.
This only made the friends o
the refinery move more determined
1t was simply the red rag in th
face of the bill. This showed te
what extremes the company woulC
| go. The bluff did not work as in
tended. 1t drove away from the Stan
dard company almost the entire
line up in the house for it. 1t ever
| caused Mr.. Stubbs to begin to side
step.
1t has set the people in arms
] against a hated monopoly tha
resorts to such measures of retalia
ton and hundreds of merchants in
the oil belt are declaring their de
termination to furnish independent
oil in answer to the demands of theil
customers.
1t does seem like the days of the
Standard Oil company as mo.
nopoly in Kansas are numbered.
Kansas has won great victory over
the immense power that for years
has crushed and trampled on private
enterprise, intimmidated capital ano
forced railroad corporations tc
conced its demands and state legis.
lature to make laws as it dictated
The Standard guaged Kansas by the
the measure with which it guaged
the eastern states, and fell down,
Bluff did not work and it seemed
afraid to try the Doodle. Not but
what it was willing and ready but
the opening did not seem to be
there.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-02-17
KEEP CURSED GAS PUMPS
OFF

A Pittsburg oil man gave the fol-
loving interview to the Coffeyville
Journal on gas pumps. He has
been interested in Indiana fields and
has seen the pumps ruin the gas
section of that state:
keep these cursed pumps off
your pipe lines, and this section will
add millions to the states taxable
wealth. With the security guaran-
teed by an effective anti-pump law
your present factories will expand
to many times their present pro-
portions and hundreds of new ones
will come here. l cannot under
stand why the legislature would
consider for a moment a $500,
900 state refinery approprla-
ton and then stick at passing an
iron.clad anti-pump bill. The lat
ter will bring factories to the state
millions of eastern capital for in
vestment. Nothing on earth will
help Kansas so much as keeping
her gas at home.
"Do not be deceived by the false
illusion that pumps on the line
will not create vacuum and drag
gas out of well as fast as a well
pump. They will, and l know it,
for have placed them on lines my
self, They are worse, if anything,
for ohe of them will create vacuum
In a dozen wells.
"What is a gas pump? What
does it dor 1t sucks on pipe line
like big dog would suck an egg,
and the gas flows from the wells
into the pipes the same as if the
we'll was uncapped and the gas was
spouting into the air. Yes, and
worse than this, for when the pres
sure gets the least bit low, the
vacuum extends up the pipe line
clear into the we'll.
They say not? Fudge! know
it. No gas pump of any kind can
be placed on pipe line without
draining out gas well as quick and
sure as a pump on well. Haven't
I stood by and seem it donef The
most prosperous section of Indiana
was destroyed that Chicago might
have gas.
at would be nothing short of an
outrage for the legislature to sacri-
fee the fastest growing portion OF
its state for the benefit of eastern
trusts and Kansas City. 1t cannot
plead ignorance, for the thing has
been done before. l know the
trusts agents in Topeka laughed in
their sleeves when they told their
fairy story about pumps on the lines
not Increasing the natural flow of
gas out Of the ground. And with
this story they got the senate COM
mittee to amend the Porter bill
until it it such bill as the Kansas
Natural Gas company would draw
up if it had supreme power.
"You have great advantage over
Indiana. She lost her fight because
she did not realize her danger until
the pumps had been installed. You
have started in time. Fight Never
give upi The legislature dare not
disregard the appeals of these thriv-
ing gas cities. Get the Holdren
bill on your statute books if you
have to 60 by the thousands to To-
peka to do it. Leave nothing un-
done.
"The great point in your favor is,
the pumps are not on yet. You can
keep them off If you work hard
enough"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-02-17

The Webster people at Humboldt
have no refinery to lease. They
know they have too good a thing
when the Standard is put under
proper control and railroad rates
are regulated.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-02-17

Senator Long has again distin-
guished himself by famous speech
in the senate on statehood. Sena-
tor Long does not make a speech
unless he has something to say, and
then he says it in a way that inter-
ests everybody.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-02-17
LEGISLATIVE

The Kansas house passed the
administration railroad bill, without
a dissenting vote. The bill gives
the railroad commissioners the right
to regulate freight rates.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-02-17
CAMPBELL AWAKE

Representative Campbell is labor
ing to get the government after the
Standard and has wired here for
It has been furnished.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-02-17

A pipe line to the gulf is now one
of the probabilities for the near
future,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-02-17

The Standard monopoly has just
declared a quartly divident Of SIS
per share.