davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19
THIS STOCK ADVANCES

Tels of oil in storage and are pumping
more into storage every hour We
have storage for thousands of barrels,
one storage tank alone having capacity
for one million six hundred thousand
gallons. More storage tanks are being
built. These are all the best steel
tanks made and will last 100 years.
The refinery plant at Cherryvale looms
up like small city and it would do
you good to see it. The company has
a railroad switch completed into the
! grounds; also has dwelling houses,
barrel mandatory, water lines and
! franchises for one hundred and severn
ty-nine miles (179) of main trunk pipe
line. reaching clear across nine Kansas
counties to the banks of navigable
water close to Kansas City, where the
company already owns fifty-seven
acre farm on which refinery number
will be built this summer and the pipe
! line completed to it. Forty miles of
1 this pipe line is paid for and at the
stations, ready to haul out along the
| line at Piqua Neosha Falls, Leroy and
| Cherryvale, Kansas. Connections will
| be made in the pipe line every five to
| ten miles and fuel oil drawn from the
main pipe line into storage tanks all
| along the route through the richest
| section of Kansas. where it will COM
mand ready sale from the farmers
at good prices. as coal sells for from
| 81 to 81 per ton along the trunk pipe
| line route, and three barrels of oil are
equal to one ton of good coal. Our
| thirty thousand acres of oil territory
comprises some of the richest and
most valuable properties in the entire
oil fields. The five pumping plants
and the seventY-nine producers on a
part of these holdings represent an as
| set that some concerns have spent
million dollars for and not equaled.
In addition to all these assets, own
| ed and controlled by the Uncle Sam
company, there are now thousands of
dollars in the treasury and also over
one hundred and ten thousand dollars
subscribed on gilt edged installment
| contracts for stock already allotted and
which will be paid in during the next
| five months This money comes in
from thousand to fifteen hundred
dollars per day So you can see that
while the Uncle Sam company is un-
dertaking a vast enterprise, it has
steady inflow of cash to assist in do
ing all that is planned. Authorized
capitalization of the Uncle Sam COM
pany is ten million shares of par value
! one dollar per share. Stock is nom
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19

That Oil Trust Lie About the Supreme
Court Decision, Pint Out by the Oil
Thieves, to Deceive Investors.
1t is we'll known fact that among
oil men. and men who are vitality in
terested in the struggle for justice in
the oil fields against that well known
pirate of American commerce, that the
law passed by the kansas Legislature
to build a state refinery would never
stand the test of the courts. Upon the
final decision by the supreme court last
week several kilograms were sent out
from oil trust headquarters in the
east, but dated at Topeka, Kan. These
dispatches were prominently displayed
in several well known truSt-owned pa
perS and intimated that this decision
was very detrimental to the independ-
ent refineries. Now, don't let these oil
trust scarecrows deceive you. There is
a maximum freight law in Kansas that
is worth all the other laws that could
be put on the statute books. The law
is conceded by able attorneys to be
constitutional and the railroads of the
state have already accepted its sched-
uled rates, which are fairly reasonable,
but not as reasonable as they will
probably be made by the next legisla-
ture. Tn ere is also a strong anti-diS-
elimination law. These are the two
laws that mean something. Don't get
| it into your head that even one little
alfalfa field of Kansas is whipped by
the oil thieves and their gang of bull
win and win they will. There is not a
state officer but what will do all in his
power for justice in the oil fields. Gov
ernor Hoch has shown his honesty and
sincerity at every move and his every
act proves that he is ready to fight
| for the interests of justice in the oil
| fields. Kansas is more determined to-
| day than ever. Come to the oil fields
and see the work going on. There are
producers after producers that will not
| sell the oil trust a gallon of oil at the
thieving prices now offered. A pipe
! line to the Gulf is practically assured
and with the great independent Uncle
Sam refinery and pipe line reaching
the Missouri river on the north and
striking determined and well manned
blows for right and justice in the Mis-
souri, valley territory and with Tom
Lawson keeping them busy on Wall
street, just put it down in your hat
that he who laughs last laughs best
Remember, Kansans finish what they
start and the ridicule and misleading
statements put out by the oil trust
hirelings the other day is one of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19

street, tomorrow afternoon. Members
are requested to come prepared for a
basket supper at Vinewood.
MI. Fred Wilson of Chicago is visit
ing his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. K.
Wilson.
Mr.. c. E. Tomlinson his returned
from a ten days visit to Mrs. Tomlinson
and their children who are at Green
Mountain Falls, Colorado, for the sum-
mer.
Miss Kathleen Lord and Miss Juanita
Stout went to Richland yesterday to
join the J. w. Stout family who are
camping there.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. o. Bolt have return
ed to their home in st. Louis after a
visit to Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Hicks in
Potwin. q
Mr.. James S. Mason from Denver,
Colorado, is visiting his parents and
friends in this city. He is stopping at
present at $40 Spruce street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Downes and son,
Dorence, of Marion are visiting their
brother, Mr.. John S. sf3ownes, SS7 west
Miss Eva Benedict of 1O16 Tyler street,
has gone to Colorado for few weeks
visit. D,
Mr.. Roy Van Dyke of Terre Haute,
Ind, is visiting his aunt, Mrs. H. d.
Mossbarger, 222 Polk street.
Miss Dixie McCleary is spending two
weeks in st. Joseph with friends.
Lincoln Circle Ladies of the G. A. r.
will picnic at Vinewood park Friday af-
ternoon and attend the band concert
in the evening.
Mr. W. H. Gilber of Jones City, Ok,
is visiting Miss Nell Abby, who leaves
the latter part of the week for the west.
Mr. J. NJ. Mildfelt and family are Wis
iting a few days with Mr.. and Mrs.
L. v Litchernstern on Ash street. They
leave for Oak Hill Thursday
The Radium Circle will meet with
Mrs Hardy, 1871 Lane street, on Fri
| day afternoons instead of Thursdays as
heretofore.
Mrs John Henrietta and her son. Car
| roll, and Miss Maude Bannister of San
Francisco Cal, are visiting friends
| and relatives in Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19
NORTH TOPEKA.

leave items for this column with Kim
ball Printing Co., 912 N. Kansas ave.1
Mr.. Harry Rice was in town today
from Kilmer.
The s. A. c. club will hold a meeting
this evening at their hall in Shorey.
s. F. Wilson and ]. T. Shirley were in
North Topeka today from Granville.
Mrs. Clarence Waldman has returned
from visit to Mrs. Hutchinson at
Kiro.
Star lodge No. 20 A. o. U. w. will in
itiate two candidates at their meeting
this evening.
Miss Grace Plummer is the guest of
Miss Phoebe Page at her home in the
| Pleasant Hill neighborhood
| Misses Maud and Rosa Willitts of 927
| Van Buren, street have returned from a
visit to relatives at Granville.
Miss Gertie Wyatt and Miss Tiny
Shonkwiler left today for Louisville,
Kansas, where they will spend the next
two weeks visiting relatives.
| Mr.. and Mrs. James Cutbirth who
| have been visiting Mr.. Cutbirths par
ents in Silver Lake for the past week
returned today to their home in Kansas
City.
Miss Blanche Feese who has been at
| tending the state normal at Enporia
| but is now en- route to hes home in Hol-
/ ton is the guest for several days of her
aunt, Mrs. w. c. Steele of 1414 Quincy
street.
JAG Campbell, son of ]. A. Camp
bell, formerly of North Topeka, but
now of SIG Lincoln street south, who
has been confined to the Santa Fe hos
/ pital for several weeks with an at
tack of typhoid fever, is improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Moody Plummer enter
tanned friends at an ice cream party
yesterday afternoon at their country
home on the Central avenue road
Their guests were: Mrs. Pragert and
children, Miss Grace P1ummer, Miss
Annie Page, Miss Phoebe Page. Miss
Lottie Scott, Miss Rene Shafer ana
Miss Hazel Page. ~
]. H. Skinner, the well known
nursery man. is the owner of a gen.
uine grandfather's clock which he re-
Gently purchased from Mr.. Hapgood
of Shorey who sold off his household
/ goods preparatory to returning to his
old home in Illinois. The clock is be-
tween six and seven feet tall and it is
Mr.. SINNERS intention to place this
clock in his Shorey home where, likt
lLongfellow's ancient timepeace, hall
up the stairs it will stand. The CLOCK
is at present at the jewelry store of A
NJ. Cross, where it is being put in run
ming order Mr.. Cross says this clocl
is from 40 to $50 years old. It date'
back before the days of brass work:
in clocks and the mechanism of t1li.
lclock is all wood.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19
ROOSEVELT ROWS HOME
The President and His Sons Passed a
Night in Camp.

Oyster Bay, July 19.-Presidens
Roosevelt and his sons with whom no
passed last night in camp on the shore
of Long Island Sound, returned to
Sycamore Hill today. All were up
early and after breakfast rowed back
to Sycamore Hill in the cool of the
morning. The president had a party
of visitors as guests at luncheon today.
The most notable among them was
General Horace Porter, who has just
arrived from Paris, where for eight
years he was stationed as ambassador
to France. Another visitor was Judge
w. w. lotion, who recently was ap-
pointed United States district judge
for the district of Oregon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19
Company VIII Own Property Worth
Five Million Dollars Within Year.

The Uncle Sam company expects to
have at least two hundred producing
wells under the pump within year. 1t
will acquire at least twenty thousand
acres more oil lands. Complete a fuel
pipe line to central Nebraska. Build
refinery number on the banks of
navigable waters. Build refinery num-
Der 8 in central Oklahoma, where the
company is now securing oil holdings
to take care of the Oklahoma refinery
and furnish it ample production. It
will rapidly push the Kansas City pipe
line to com pletion. In this small space
we cannot outline the many strong
points of this company, but it is a
winner and we don't care whether you
are banker, merchant, farmer or
professional man, you cannot find a
better investment than this stock. The
company is paying as it goes, which is
also another strong point in it's favor.
There are no mortgages or bonds, nor
never will be, to sap the earnings of
the company, for when the above
mentioned stock is sold it will furnish
close to eight hundred thousand dol
lars with which to complete this great
enterprise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19
j. JAILER is RELEASED.
Mayor of Newport Still Held for Calico
Powers AFFAIR.

Cincinnati July 19.-Jailer Ploeger, his
two deputies and man arrested with
them, on charge of disorderly conduct
and assault in connection with the
commitment of Caleb Powers to the
Newport Jail, were today dismissed from
custody, the court holding that the at
tempt of Mayor Helmbold to designate
be incarcerated, was Illegal and that
Ploeger and his assistants were Justi-
fed in resisting the mayor and the po-
licemen whom he called to his assist
ance.
Mayor Helmbold and two policemen
are now under bond to the federal
grand jury for interfering with federal
officers and a, federal prisoner, and a
contempt charge in the same connection
must be answered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19

cowardly acts that is rallying all Kan.
sas to the support of the Uncle Sam
independent refneries and pipe lines
This company must win the day for
Kansas. 1t has nearly two thousand
stockholders in the state and with its
great production the chances are ten
to one that it will fill the place of three
or four state refineries, and now has
the entire state for a field in which to
sell it's products. Everybody is for it
and we would not be afraid to wager.
ten to one that there is not a member
of the supreme court of the state but
what would go out of his way to speak
a good word for our success and to
also assist other Kansas home enter;
priSeS. kansanS are standing together
and there can be but one end to the
present struggle and that is Justice.
Any reports sent out by the oil gang
and their perjured reporters like the
falsehood wired the other day will
prove to be groundless when the facts
are considered. The Uncle Sam re-.
finery and pipe lines is one Kansas.
enterprise that will be watched over
with jealous eye by about nine
tenths of the people in Kansas. and
money invested in this great enterprise
will be safe, as the people are not only
going to demand a square deal for this
home institution, but will force the
issue and compel such conditions to
exist.
Have Company Sight Draft You
With Stock Attached or Write With
Same Instructions.
There will probably be investors
who will not see this announcement,
until the last day and maybe the last
hour. The company will send stock,
with sight draft attached, on all orders
that are sent from the starting tele-.
graph office up to one minute before
midnight, Thursday, July 20, but not
a share will be sold at this price after
midnight. If YOU. can not reach , q teie-
graph office, write q letter We mean
this and we don't care even if you offered
to invest ten thousand dollars-after this ,is
company has ample funds and will stand
right by its advertised statements. Rel, Ref
Cherryvale State bank, the Peoples Ma
tional bank or come down and see for
yourself. Address,
II. II. TUCKER, Jr., Sec'y,
CherryvaIe, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19

that. Better not daily minute, but
mail your check or draft at once. All
letters that are in the mails and at
their starting point that bear the post
mark before and up to Thursday at
midnight, July 20, will be accepted at
the following prices:
As 400 shares, $1,000; $50
49, shares. $500; 500 shares.
$4,000; 4, 900 share
$4,000; 5000 shares, $4,000; 10000
shares, $S75.00; 10000 shares
Installment offers: 100 shares, $3.50
cash, and five monthly payments of
$500 each. $50 shares, $500 cash and
tive monthly payments of $500 each.
500 shares, $1,000 cash, five monthly
payments of 5000 each. 1000 shares,
$500 cash, five monthly payments of
$1,000 each. 5000 shares, $4,000 cash,
five monthly payments of $4,000 each.
10000 shares, 800 cash, five monthly
payments of $4,000 each. Make all
drafts, checks and money orders to
The Uncle Sam Company or H. H.
Tucker. Jr., secretary, and your stock
will be forwarded by return mail or
money returned promptly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19
POLICE JOTTINCS.
Chief Goodwin viii Try to Put
Lid Back On.
Chop House First to Feel His
Hand.
BUT THIS is NOT ALL.
Promises to Make 1t Lively for
a Few More.
Sad Story of a Poor Tramp Who
Had Notion to Work.

Chief Goodwin announced yesterday
that he had shortened his stay in Buff
falo and returned to keep the lid on.
OF course the lid does not fit like the
paper on wall, but the chief meant
that he came back to keep it from fall
ing off the stove. His first official act
toward Tightening the lid was to chop
the Chop House. The glad festivities
took place about $50 last evening, when
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19
Main ThorouDhfnre

To Lewis and Clark Exposition, Port
land, Oregon, June to October Is, 1905.
via Union Pacific. This historical route
traversing the heart of the great North
west with it's boundless resources, gives
you zoo miles along the matchless CO.
lumbia river and a trip to Portland and
the Northwest without change and a
chance to visit Yellowstone Park, June
/ to September 10, by side trip from
POcatello or Ogden through Monida-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19
20 Per CENT THURSDAY, JULY 20!

assessa BILE. F'ifty-eight per cent of this
stock is now owned by trust haters
of the first degree. Forty-txvo per cent
of this stock, or four million and two
hundred thousand shares, are now in
the treasury and will be sold at from
10 to 80 cents per share. There are
no large capitalists in this company.
It is a common mans company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19
Assets Back of the Comuanv

The Uncle Sam company now has
operation. This plant, on a conserva-
tive basis is worth to the stockholders
of the company over a quarter of a
million dollars. They have miles of
lateral pipe lines completed, connect
ing about three-fourths of the Cherry
vale oil fields and are completing addi-
tional lines. Have thousands of bar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19

Sergeant Gardiner and others fell upon
the rough-neck resort and put crimp
in the business of the evening. Among
other fixtures they gathered Messrs. L.
H Barnes, E. Goldberg and Merl Van
Horn. The wet goods were also cap
tured, and there was a large wagon
load of the same, consisting chiefly of
bottled beer Three or four other joints
are scheduled to take tumble in the
next few days.
The Peacemakers decided in the even
ing that one George Deggenger, an ex-
Russian of 211 East Fourth street, was
running resort of unsavof- fame. He
was pincfTed Monday for keeping dis
orderly house, and the officials seemed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19

Right Up Against the Usage Line In
The Five Hundred Barrel District OF
the Indian Territory 'k1e Uncle sam
Company Starts Two Drills.
The Uncle Sam company now owns
and controls over thirty thousand
(S0,000) acres of oil and gas lands, on
which there are five pumping plants
and seventy-nine oil and gas wells.
The company will soon have five drills
working day and night completing ad-
dftional producers. Some of the unde-
veloped properties are recognized by
old oil men as being the richest ana
most valuable oil holdings yet dlscov-
cred. Right up against the Usage line
in the Indian territory. south of Bar
tlesville, the Uncle Sam refinery has
already started to work and Will soon
have two drills running in addition to
those now working near CherryVale-
The property adjoining the Usage line
has a probable capacity of ten thou
sand barrels a day when developed.
It behoOVes every investor to think
well before he turns down the stock
of the Uncle Sam refinery, which is
now offered to you for few hours
longer at one-tenth it's par value. Don't
wait until the company drills in a hVe
hundred barrel well and then expect
to secure the stock at even SO cents
per share.
Last Allotment of Stock Was Over
subscribed in Net Sales Over
RIOsUOV.
The Uncle Sam Company is backed
by the people in general and great
many men of influence are among its
stockholders. The company is the
destined winner of the central west,
and the stock will prove to be the
greatest investment in America. There
are over three thousand stockholders
and all are at work. The last allot-
ment of stock was oversubscribed in
net values over eighteen thousand dol
lars. This notice will appear in more
than seventy of the leading and most
influential journals of the United
States. 1t will be read by over ten
million people. The present allotment
of stock under the prevailing condi-
ticns will be greatly oversubscribed.
Would advise you to get busy quick
and mail or telegraph your orders i'm
mediately after reading this an
nouncement.
Great Refinery Now Compies cd-XViI
Be Selling Oil in Five DAYS.
The first great refinery ever built
by Independent capital in the west is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19
" They keep coming back
for it," says this Grocer

81 can see earthly reason why T
should carry dozen kinds of cereal food
in stock when there Is only one Kind that
the people care anything about. After they
once get a taste of EGG-O.SEE, nothing else
goes. and they keep on coming back for 1t
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19

and will have no other
kind. Why should I
tie my good money up
in a lot of stuff that
nobody wants i?
"It won't be very
long before EGG.O.
SEE will be the only
cereal food you can
find, from the way 1t
looks now. All my
customers say it is SO
far ahead of anything
else that there is abb
so1ute1y no COMPARE
son, and L feel that
1T is poor business
policy for me to try to
sell any other kind.
Everybody is talk
ing aboutEGC.O-SEE.
A lady was In the
store today and 1t
fairly gave me an Ap-
petite for it to hear
what she said.
CURTIS w. MYERS,
C. w. MYERS & CO., Grocers, =
5O2-5O4 w. Tenth ST., Topeka, Kan.
--------s
The above = = reliable statement
from q reliable grocer, and eerfaEzEy
warraafe . trial - fEEs grsaf fees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19

LPeopIe sending items to this department.
Of the State Journal will confer favor
by giving the full first name or two
initials, with all proper names. Items
must be accompanied by the name and
address of the writer or they can not
se published.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19

Miss Alice Lakin gave a small dinner
last night in compliment to Miss
Hannah Edwards of Emporia The
guests were Mr.. and Mrs. Burr Lakin
OF Colorado Springs, Miss Edwards
and Mr. and Mrs. William Hale East
man. few other friends We're asked
for cards in the evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19

Mrs NJ. F. Rigby's guests at in
Mrs. George Mccoy, Mrs Fred Evarts.
Mrs Fred Norris. Mrs. GIadfelter, Mrs.
Emmett Rigby, Mrs. w. o. Rigby,
Mrs. j. w. Woodding, Mrs. Francis
Strawn, Miss Norris and Miss Belle
Evarts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19

Mrs. Harry Jameson will entertain
a family party at tea Thursday even
ing in compliment to Miss Jeanette
Lewis of Knoxville Illinois.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19

Miss Esther Rauch will entertain
informally at cards Thursday after
noon for her cousin. Miss Edna Rauch
of Kansas City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19

Miss Helen Thornburg, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Thornburg of Lin
coin, Nebraska, formerly of Topeka, is
the guest of Miss Helen Evarts who is
giving a house party the rest of the
week in her honor for which the fol-
lowing girl friends were asked: Miss
Lena Lord. Miss Dorothy Scott, Miss
Letha Rlanch, Miss Mary GiIlies, Miss
Ruth Whitney and Miss Alice Noble
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19

last eve for assauItery and batterment
on the person of one Dennis Lane, also
colored. According to the story of Den
mis-, his name was Dennis from the first
half of the second round, when they lit
on him en- masse and played croquet
with his coco. George and Gussie are
too young and tender for the police
court, SO they were transferred to the
Juvenile juggernaut.
The police were called upon this morn
ing to high-ball a hobo from the base
ment of Frisbee's restaurant. 1t seems
that the traveller dropped into the place
for a job. He got it, and then dropped
into a 10 cent bed in the basement and
ANNOUNCED that he was a dead one, or
mighty near it, and too sick to work.
DR.. VanHorn was called and examined
the stiff, but decided that he was all
right Detective Golf called and gave
the sufferer a clearance flag for the city
limits
The principal police court business
consists of dealing justice to plain
drunks, who have fallen by the wayside,
overcome with the heat and other
weighty problems. A very meek rail-
reader paid his fine this morning, and
bystander remarked upon a lame ear
worn by the late defendant When ask
ed if he had been kicked by mule he
cop last night, and he handed me
wan The cop handed him wan" but
the court handed him ten this morning.