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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-09
HIT BY REBATES.
Sweeping Injunction Against the
Grain Dealers Association.

LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. "a sweep
worthy ever filed within the judicial
records of Nebraska, has been in
stituted by Attorney General Brown
against the members of the Nebraska
Grain Dealers association. 1t is de-
clared that they have formed a trust
or combination in restraint of trade
and are accepting rebates from the
various railroad corporations in vio-
lation of the Junken antitrust law
adopted by the recent legislative ses-
sion.
Judge Barnes, one of the three men,
bers of the Nebraska supreme court,
acting upon the attorney generals
blanket petition, issued restraining
order forbidding the grain dealers
from further operating under price
agreement, which the attorney general
charges has been their practice in the
past, and from counseling together as
members of an association.
The attorney generals petition sets
forth that the dealers have been fix
ing prces for grain bought from the
farmers by virtue Of a price agree
ment sent out by the officers of the
association, by which they have ex-
ooto1 q foil On oach h,1Shel of grain
varying from to Is cents a bushel.
He also charges that the associated
grain dealers have profited by Sc
cret agreement with the railroads,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-09
BAND OF BRIGANDS ARE BEING
LED By WOMAN EIGHTEEN
YEARS OLD.
Several Policemen Have Been kiliec
and Many Shopkeepers Robbed
Steal Small Child.

VIENNA, Aug. 9.-Ajvices from
Vladikavkaz in the caucasus, state that
during the past week that place has
again been terrorized by a band Of
armed brigands under the leadership
of a beautiful Circassian woman on
ly eighteen years of age.
Several policemen have been killed,
many shopkeepers have been robbed,
and a trader named Morosoff who,
about year ago, was instrumental in
capturing several members of the
band, mas once again been robbed of
all his savings, and has had her only
child torn from her bed and carried
away to the mountains.
The Queen of the Brigands" was
we'll aware of Morosoff's affection
for his little daughter, for letter, re-
ceived from her after the raid, stated
that she at length indeed felt satisfied
with her revenge.
The incident which caused this pas
sion for revenge occurred late one
night about a year ago when four
brigands, masked and armed to the
teeth, with Berdan rifles, rode into
Vladikavkas and robbed Morosoff of
1000 roubles. Morosoff headed a band
of armed men, who pursued the ban
dts and ultimately captured three
of their number. These, on their
masks being torn away, proved to be
young Circassian women. The leader
of the band, also woman, communi-
Gated to Morosoff that before a twelve
month passed she would be amply re-
venged. 1t is just a year since this
letter was received, and the robber-
queen has kept her word.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-09

roads and found in Brandon one of the
alleged poachers, Ole Lamoie, a resi-
dent of this village.
In Lamoie's cottage the game war
den found in a pork barrel a quarter
of a deer. LamOie was arrested and
the case will be heard in Malone. In
his deposition before a justice of the
peace Lamoie swore he did not know
how the illegal venison came to be in
his cellar.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-09

which provides for rebate on each
bushel of grain, as result of which
independent dealers have been forced
out Of business to the detriment of the
producers of the state.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-09
GET OFF THE EARTH.
Man Arrested for Poaching on Rookie
felIer's Land.

BRANDON, N. Y, Aug. 9.-The first
arrest this season for poaching on the
Rockefeller preserve was made this
morning by Deputy Game Protector
George Selkirk, who was routed from
his bed at 1 o'clock in the morning by
a messenger from the Rockefeller es-
dark over water soaked mountain
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-09

Competition is not dead. Your pat
ronage is worth something to any
merchant in this city. If you read
the ads you will he surprised to learn
what concessions the merchants make
to secure your trade.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-24

The material for the Soap Polish-silica--
is brought to the factory in trainloads from
the company's own mines. After arrival
here 1t is ground into a powder which is
inconceivably fine. In this connection Mr..
Gibson says it may surprise many people
to learn that hundreds of the largest build
lnEs throughout Great Britain are using
many thousands of barrels of goods that
are thus made in Omaha.
The Gibson Soap company prepares and
issues a book known as THE Jantor."
which has at present circulation OF $500
copies Not only is the book compiled.
edited and published here, but the general
printing Of the company, which amounts
to thousands of dollars yearly, is all done
in Omaha. Mr. Gibson and his associates
thus live up 20 their beliefs along tho line
of home industry.
While the Gibson Soap company is now on
the highroad of prosperity and has estab-
lished name and clientele of which IL e
Justly proud 1t has not always had clear
sailing. In recalling these times Mr.. Gibson
says II was fought through five United
States courts by Enoch Morgan Sons COM
pany, manufacturers of Sapolio. who
claimed that l was infringing upon their
name. In each OF these cases l was clearly
INDICATED OF any infringement, and in order
TO make it very plain to the Sapolio people
that l did not wish to infringe on their
product 1 had printed on my own packages
in red letters This is not Sapolio, but is as
far superior as Sapolio Is to common
brick d" Thus did Mr.. Gibson show very
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-24

out so as to take in the whole surrounding
country. America practically owns the
Canadian town of Sault Sainte Marie. 1t
has the best of the lands about it and also
the water power on this side of the great
chute down which the waters OF Lake Su-
perior roll to the level OF Lake Huron. The
fall is about nineteen feet and the current
is such that it will develop hundreds of
thousands of horse power. 1t was this
horse power which began the investment
of many millions of Inflated American
money hero at the Sault. | refer further
on to the building up and TERRIBLE failure
of these factories. which were established
by +. II. Clergue and financed by the Lake
Superior corporation. They are now going
through the fire of reorganization and most
of them will eventually pay, although the
money lost by the poor people in the stock
operations has gone forever. Thirty or
forty million dollars or more has actually
been spent upon the properties, and great
part of this is in a tangible shape. The in
situations which promise most profit are
rapidly being put into operation, and alto
gether a vast industry is rising out of the
failure. The institution. l am told. paid
last year, the first year since its reorgani-
zation, 5000 above its actual working eX-
penses. and its managers tell me that it
will yet pay dividends.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-24

tend welcome hand to the Omaha manu-
facturer | believe that II there were an
organization OF manufacturers in this city
and the fact were made known to small
manufacturers in larger cities, there would
be found to exist such a cordial feeling
toward the manufacturer who is willing to
start i'm business here that IL would be
the means of bringing hundreds of manu-
facturers to this city who are not here
today Personally, | am very willing TO
write to anyone making inquiries giving
the result in my case since coming to the
west. 1 would tell them: BY all means
come to Omaha and let the people know
you are here; if your goods are right the
people will use Them "
"A manufacturer here who cannot COM
pete with eastern-mad goods, says Mr..
Gibson. both as to price and quality, has
no business here. The west does not want
such a man. AS rule, the small manu-
facturor puts up better article than the
large one, for the reason that nine times
out of ten he knows more about manu-
featuring than he does about the market
ing OF his goods. The heads of these small
manufacturing industries learned their
trade In some large plant. They give their
personal attention to the work of their
factories. which the proprietor OF the larger
institution cannot do"
company occupies a four-story building 100
x15o feet in size, with four floors. For the
proper manufacture Of the product machin-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-24

clearly that he intended to take no advans
tage of the Sapoio people.
Later there came to Mr. Gibson the sins
cere ilattery of having his product initiated
by the older soap concerns. They even went
so far as to claim to be the origiuators of q
new discovery which they advised the peo-
pie to use In preference to the soaps the
same manufacturers had previously made
However, MIR. Gibson says he welcomes
them, as Il is impossible for him to supply
tho whole world with his own product II
am only anxious" he said. that It may be.
come generally known that there is q
cleaner made that will clean"
one of the striking things I'm connection
with the development OF the Gibson Soap
company is its stan OF district managers. 10
has become the custom of the company to
call this staff OF field workers together at
least once in each year. They represent
loyal legion of faithful workers and patrons
as well, whose service the company delights
to recognize. This year fifteen of the stan
OF district managers will gather IN Omaha
at banquet given by the company at the
Commercial club on the evening OF Decem-
Der -.
Gibson himself are published in connection
with this article II is not strange that this
corps of workers has accomplished so much
when one considers the energy, enthusiasm
and confidence OF the chief, who is ever
ready with wise counsel and new inspira.
ton.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-24
All Done by the Water.

II is interesting to go through these fac
tories and see how the power is applied. In
the pulp mill, where a hundred two-horse
wagon loads of pulp board turned out
every day l saw Lake Superior grinding
the logs to dust mixing the latter with
water and changing it into miles of paper
for the printing establishments OF the
world. The output at present is such that
It could paper a pavement as wide as the
ordinary sidewalk clear around the world
In less than three months,
In the sawmill / saw Lake Superior cut
ting millions of feet of lumber into boards
for the markets OF the United States. and
in the veneering works birch logs as big
around as a -four barrel were being rolled
out into sheets some as thin your lit
tie fngernai and others as thick tho
board cover OF an old family Bible.
This veneering is used for the backing of
mahogany and quartered oak, which is
brought here in thin sheets from Grand
Rapids and other places. BY means of the
birch they are so turned into furniture that
one thinks he is getting solid mahogany
or solid oak, whereas he has only the knot
tiest OF pine or other rough wood, on which
is placed a strip of birch with q film of ma
hogany on top. The thick veneering Is also
used for chair seats. Most of the opera
seats are made from it, and it is largely
used IN furniture and car making. 1t seems
wonderful to take a log soak it in boiling
water and then unroll it and pare it or.
just as you would pare an apple, into these
wide thin strips of wood carpeting perhaps
a hundred feet long. That is what ] saw
here
AS I stood by the great boiling tank in
which the logs are soaked before going into
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-24

1t believes in protective tariff as far as
certain manufactures are concerned. and IL
Is bound to build up, IL 1t can, an industrial
Canada. The duties on steel rails imported
from the United States are 81 ton. II the
Lake Superior corporation can make them
as cheaply as the United States Steel COM
pany it can sell at cost in competition with
us and still make 81 or every ton. 1t is
now working at the rate OF 10000 tons a
year, and at that rate 1t has through the
tariff the advantage Of moro than 81, 10000
over any company making rails in the
United States The materials cost about
the same in the two countries. The wages
are the same and the Canadian labor il
the more easily controlled.
In addition to this the government is pay
ing a bounty of sl.25 a ton on all Zig iron
made here from foreign ores and $2.2 a
ton If made from native ores. This gives
the blast furnaces a big profit. AS saw
the molten ore pouring from the furnace.
which. contained about forty tons the man
in charge said to me as he pointed 10 the
golden stream OF metal:
There comes another clear $50 in boun-
ties"
Indeed, am at loss to understand
whore the democratic part of the Canadian
government ends and the paternal begins.
This province of Ontario is now building
q railroad out of its treasury. 1t Is giving
bonuses to factories and it is guaranteeing
the interest on bonds TO certain corpora
tons. No one can tell what it won't do.
In case of financial difficulties it may even
pay the labor bill OF the defunct or dying
corporation II did that very thing right
here at the 500 when the Lake Superior
company failed owing thousands OF dollars
to its employees. The worlmen went wild
over their losses They stoned the win
dows OF the factory and a riot was inns
minent Thereupon the Ontario government
CONTINUED on Page Seven)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-24
Belongs to the United States.

These American works are so large that
1 hardly know where to begin my descrip-
ton of them. l have spent all of today
tramping through the great stone buildings
on the bank OF the river. One of them is
the largest pulp mill on the North Amer
lean continent and under it is the power
plaAt which utilizes the vast force of the
st. MaTy's river. Another structure, cover
ing. / should say, twenty or thirty acres,
contains the largest steel rail plant in
Canada, including blast furnaces, and a
third has one of the biggest sawmlls along
the great lakes The company has iron
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-24

would reVolutiOnize
the work of those
who had cleaning
to do--and il has.
The procession. which
excited comment for
many a day. wound
up at the Commercial
club, where a ban
Quet was served to a
large number of the
representative gro
GERS of the city.
That Mr.. Gibson's
faith in his product
was well based was
quickly proved. In
three years time the
factory on Farnam
street was outgrown
and the company
moved TO it's present
location at Twenty
eighth and Sahler
streets. The ceilings
in this building are
fifteen feet high and
the floors have been
double-decked to ac-
commodate the grow
ing business. But
even this expedient
has not servec, and
now the company Is
planning the building
Of an addition 40xl0O
feet six stories high.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-24

works and car shops factories for making
wood alcohol and charcoal and veneering
plant, which. like many of the other insti-
tutions. is based on the Canadian tariff.
The company has built up and owns the
chief franchises of Sault Sainte Marie, in
Guiding the water works. lights and street
cars. 1t owns the ferry across to the
United States, the chief hotel and prac-
tically controls everything. In addition to
these things here at the 500 it has nickel
mines at Sudbury. upon which it has spent
a million or so, and iron mines in the
Michipicoten range near Lake Superior. 1t
has ore docks and ore steamers and barges
for bringing its iron to the blast furnaces
here and also TO the iron markets on Lake
Erie.
In connection with the establishment of
the pulp mill it received big concessions of
timber lands and it has other land conces-
sions for the building of the Algoma Cen
trail railway. which is to extend from here
northward to Hudson bay. Seventy miles
of this road has already been built and
more is now building. The company gets
1900 acres for each mile of track. and
when the road is completed it will own,
l am told. something like 100000 acres.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-24

cry of special design
had to be made TO
order, and the COM
pany takes pride in
the fact that all OF
OF this was made in
omaha. The company
was incorporated in
July of the present
year, and at that
time the men who
= helped to build up
the business were
taken into the COR
poration. The capital
stock is 100000, with
$4,000 paid w.
The extraordinary
success of this COM
pany will be regarded
in the light of a
great trade lesson by
those who recall the
celebration Mr.. Glib
son planned and car
ried out at the time
of the discovery OF
his product. With a
brass band at tho
head OF a procession
of Quaker men and
maids Mr.. Gibson pa
raded through town
TO serve notice of the
perfection of a cleaner
which he promised
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-24


eo2a118 and has especial faith in Omaha
and the territory tributary to this city.
Mr.. Gibson is an enthusiastic advocate of
home industry aside from the very natural
bent he has in that direction by reason of
being a manufacturer. In this connection
he said:
First OF ALL the western people are
broad-minded, they think for themselves
and are willing to try an article to ascer-
tain IL At has merit. Experience has taught
me that IL the article offered is right they
will buy II; whether It Is made>in Omaha
or any other western city.
ut is an erroneous idea to think the
people of this section will not patronize
western manufacturers. In my own case.
] know that the people OF Omaha have
been more patriotic in the use OF our goods
than would have been the people of any
other city In the United States. population
considered. 1 do not believe there is one
family in ten In Omaha today that is not
using Gibson's Soap Polish"
The Gibson Soap company began busi-
ness In Omaha in 1900, In the old Aultman-
Taylor building, at the foot OF Farnam
street. OF his progress since then Mr..
Gibson says:
1T has been my experience that the
wholesalers and the retail merchants ak
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-24

vincial governments are giving bounties for
the establishment of certain kinds OF fac
tories, the towns are ready to furnish lands
and bonuses, and the tariff against the
United States is such that many of our
well known companies are building branch
factories on this side of the lakes 20 avoid
paying the duty. The General Electric and
the Westinghouse companies both have
large works in Canada. The International
Harvester trust has 100000 plant at
Hamilton, with about forty acres OF build
ings The American Locomotive Works has
constructed great shops near Montreal and
is now turning out steam engines for the
Canadian Pacific and other railroads, and
the Simplex Car company is also making
goods this side of the line.
Canada is now smoking American tobacco.
made here by the American Tobacco COM
pany: II lights its cigars with matches
made by the Eddy company at Ottawa, a
branch of our Diamond Match company,
and II pays its bills with bank notes
printed In Canada by the American Bank
Note company. This last company has a
six-story building not far from the govern
ment offices at the Canadian capital and
is doing an enormous business.
All sorts OF other American Institutions
are establishing Canadian branches. The
Waterman Fountain Pen people 10 their
business from Quebec and Montreal. Low
ney's candles are to be made in Canada
in a Montreal factory, and Bakers choco-
late has already an establishment here.
The Parke Davis company have nut UP
a plant at VAUDEVILLE, which is a suburb
OF Windsor, across from Detroit. and the
Globe Wernicke Bookcase people OF Gin
cinnati and the Library Bureau company
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-24

Millions In Lumber and Mines.
Everywhere l have gone through the
lumber regions have heard OF Ameri-
pulp works and sawmills. Among the
Detroit and New York City. They have
large sawmills; and one company is now
arranging to spend 100000 in developing
its properties.
The exploitation of Canadian mines is
based on American gold. The big coal and
iron deposits of Nova Scotia were opened
up by Henry n. Whitney of Boston. All
the nickel of Canada, which constitutes
half the supply of the world, is being
mined 200 miles from where am writing
The mines and works are owned by the
International Nickel company of the United
States. 1t has spent millions Of dollars in
putting up its machinery and in getting out
the ore, and its property is worth tens of
millions. The United States Steel company
owns big iron deposits north of Lake Su-
perior and the largest tracts in the heart
OF the cobalt silver field belong to an
American company, headed by Earle OF
New York, and backed, SO 1 am told, by
millionaires belonging to the Standard Oil
trust In addition to this there is a vas
amount of American money going into the
west. The amount which has come In
within the last three four years is said
TO be something like a hundred million dol
lars furnished in small sums by American
farmer settlers There are other millions
going into elevators, water powers and
flour mills
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-24

strata was such that the rocks were just
fitted for the building. Indeed. the stones
could be raised up like bricks from a pile
and laid in the walls without redressins.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-24

the cutting machine some of the water
splashed upon my hand and scalded me. As
1 jumped back my guide said: I'VE have
TO be very careful in throwing in the logs.
1t is a dangerous business. The other day
one OF the men stumbled and fell into that
vat and before he could be taken out he
was boiled"
Did it kill him." asked.
You bet it did. l doubt If he ever knew
anything after he touched the water"
.
Canada Completes with steel Trust.
The steel plant of the Lake Superior cor
poraton, while not so large as some of
those of the United States Steel company
in Pittsburg and elsewhere, is by far the
largest in Canada. 1t has the very best of
machinery and is so equipped that it can
make steel rails cheaply and as we'll as
any plant on the continent. 1T is now turn
ing out about 400 tons of steel rails per
day. and it has capacity of from 700 to
LOCO tons. 1t makes rails OF sixty, eighty
and a hundred pounds to the yard. The
iron goes into the blast furnaces and is
turned into pigs. The pigs are smelted and
go through the rail mill, and they come out
steel rails, loaded on the cars and ready
for shipment The company has now an
order for eighty thousand tons of rails for
the Canadian Pacific. 1t is making the
rails for the Temiskaming road, built by
the Ontario government, and IL will have
all IL can do for years to come in furnish
ing the track for the transcontinental trunk
line which the Dominion is building from
the Atlantic to the Pacific. The Canadian
Northern and other roads in Canada are
also demanding such rails. so that this
branch OF the work has years Of orders in
sight. Indeed. it's only competitor in max
ing steel rails for Canada is the Dominion
Iron company of Nova Scotia, which ha;
just begun rail making.
The Canadian government wants Its stee
rails made at home and by It's own people