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Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1905-02-17

OOeQiuk ~ lL10Ss IT. 6tet0s the
uatsGerman eye specialist will 30 at
u Antles Hotel. February 20. He
vsah have bssa here sooner but on
'seoVyt Il having extra business In
IL SAalts otsthe stats b had to delay
hh tip. AsDr. Stern will only b In
K'aaswick Sns day. don't delay your
Wit b him 4 you have suy trouble
VIII your ~. d.. Stern ssys that
sAw thrss usSuths uss Of his actenic
aass you VIII not have to U.s. glasses
~ longer. Examination by Dr.. Stern
With bio new apthalmascops free of
haFss. At ;Antleu hotel, Pebru-
EA.
IN Modern Woodmsn give . bali
nns opsra house this evening. We
'aoentand the new brass band will
sats it' drst appearance by playing q
" seaeetlons IN front Of the opera
oae' The dance tonight will be the
s'on oftwo important events, the
~ appearance Of the band and the
! ssas It the opera house. Aftef to-
/ Sus the open house will be 10 the
i 'ao. Of tho. carpenters who will
'0fm 1t into an Office building.
Ii Asat Cruikshank informs us that
! e''ck system instruments have
q a. Installed 10 the depot here and
oS The middle Of next mouth the
n q. H.. VIII be in working order over
n, h =. ]aes line. This system has been
4 n the east for . number OF
a H. a"d has considerably decreased
a ~, .'sef frotn wrecks, Is under Its
ii Ss .'oss 1t is impossible for two trains
o. m. "een two stations at the same
IL sin. ' We have had some pretty
W. Weather here during the past
hA'. careful watch over the report,
49, papers shows this to have
~ warmest place In the north.
so,. auf'ns that time. In fact a. ia,
s~s . To. 18Th degree Of latitude
An pofts Of far colder weatne,
a,b,,.e nave had here, and we an
sss,9 u 40 Of the 18th degree. In
tssn Hsoaas tho THERMOMETER got
adh " 81 degrees below zero
,aa. aOntana, Immediately east Of
s''e' below zero is reported.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1905-02-17
THE LOCAL FIELD

saen SATURDAYS DAHL
CHI. Finley, Of Bellingham. is In
the city today looking over the valley
Nth view to locating.
VIM. Dirckssn has purchased . lot
,u.t east of the Hawkins block and
.ill erect thereon . building to be used
., . meat Market. He 10 having the
lumber put on the ground for bis Ice
house today.
H. 0orth, . cousin Of r. C. Ernst,
anved here this morning from Gin.
eIuuat, Ohio. and will In all prob
ability make this his home. He says
the weather has been pretty severe
hack there this winter.
r. Gosuch, deputy fruit inspector
tor this district, and one OF the leading
bruit experts of tho state, said to . re-
porter this morning that he never saw
sviutsr thai gave better promise Of an
abundant fruit crop. It Is his opinion
that the weather could not have bsen
moro favorable fit had been made to
the order Of the fruit growers. It has
hen lust cold enough to make the
tres hardy and hold hack the buds
until the proper time comes for them
q shoot forth. He predicts an abund-
ant crop for the coming year.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30

warehouses, elevators, and the state
ment was recently made that it c.lso
owned politicians, legislators and con-
gressmen.
Birth of Chicago Stockyards.
Chicago didn't have a cattle market
until John T. Alexander, of Jacksonville,
ILL.,, the biggest shipper of cattle in the
country at that time, in 1866 was offered
special inducements in railroad rates if
he would bring his cattle and hogs to
Chicago. Thus it was discrimination
in freight rates which started the indus
try, as it is unequal rates which built
up the beef trust. Alexander accepted
the offer, moved to Chicago and his in
crease of cattle shipments stimulated
rivalry between the Pennsylvania rail-
road and Jay Gould's road, the Erie,
which, in 1868, resulted in a cut-throat
rate war on livestock, which gave a
great uplift to the livestock interests in
Chicago. From that time on the pack
ing house business grew in Chicago, and
when Gustavus Swift in January, 1875,
arrived there to engage in livestock bus
mess, a new page in the history of the
industry was begun.
Colossal Achievements.
Swift Bros. & Co. established its main
slaughter house in Chicago, and estab-
lished branch houses in New York,
Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New lamp
shire. The annual business of Swift &c
Co.. when the combine is said to have
organized, was 5000, 900, 900, and the
value of its capital stock was ac-
cepted at $751; 00, 900. 1t has branch
houses all over the east and west, and in
Europe. 1t has packing houses in St.
Paul, Kansas City, st. Joseph, st. Louis
and other cities. The death of G~ustavus
Swift and Philip d. Armour did not take
place until both men had seen the re-
suits of their achievements in mammoth
packing plants, and ledger figures of
millions. The control Of the business is
virtually o in the hands of j. Ogden
Armour, who began work for his father
at $40 a week as clerk, and who now ia
the dominant factor in meats, grains,
fruits and dairy products in the United
States.
A Chapter Of Beginnings.
Only America can furnish examples of
such personal achievements as the life
stories of Swift, Armour and the Cuda-
by brothers disclosed. Sandwich. Mass.
is a small town, and Gustavus Swift's
parental home near there was a stony
and Improbable farm. When ne was
born, June "a, 1889, there seemed no
prospect for the child but to live the pro-
sale life of a farmer, such as his father
and his fathers father had been. He
grubbed amongs the stumps and the
stones and fought with nature for a
meager crop until he was % years old.
Then he moved to Barnstable, full OF
confidence that the ability he had shown
In buying and selling cattle, ard swap
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30

they may get the rake Off.
At the Threats of the Railroads.
The packers have been at the threats
of the railroads since the early eighties,
when the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad built to Kansas City and Oma-
ha, and to secure the meat business Of
fered to pay a mileage charge for the use
of the packers refrigerator cars. This
was an offer which the other Missouri
river railroads had soc to follow, and
thus was the mileage graft" saddled
upon the railroads of the country.
There was a time when the California
Fruit Transportation company was SUI
preme in the California fruit trade. But
the Armour interest got a contract with
n of the two great fruit shipping
houses by promising that house $40 a
car rebate on every car of fruit; then the
Swifts bought the rival concern, which
by reaso of the decline of its business
as result Of the Armour inroad had
gone to smash, and then by a quiet mu-
tual agreement the Swifts and Armours
had things their own way.
The contracts with the railroads re-
quire of the roads that they use no other
refrigerator cars than those of the beef
trust, called by 20 different names; they
require that the cars shall be returned
as speedily as possible, and in fact the
railroads give the preference to the beef
trust cars over their own few refrigerat-
or cars. The minimum loading weight
is as low as possible, so that the ship
ments shall require as many refrigerator
cars as possible, with consequent in
crease in the mileage.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30

trusts have impoverished farmers and
stockmen, have broken banks, have pre-
cipitated strikes, and have caused sui
cides, have ruined towns and cities, but
the personality Of J. Ogden Armour is
that of an interesting, manly and fine
type Of American manhood. At his sug-
gestion railroads may dismiss the gen.
eral manager, and commission mer-
chants may be blacklisted and ruined,
for the beef trust is Unsuitable and re-
morseless, but J. Ogden Armour is re-
spected and cordially liked by the en-
ployes who know him, and although he
Is hated in Wall street, among his
friends and business associations, and
fellow members Of his clubs, he is popu-
lar and a companion eagerly sought for.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
CONDITIONS THAT HAVE MADE ITS
REMARKABLE GROWTH
POSSIBLE.
PART OF THE REFRIGERATOR CAR LINES.
Humble Beginnings of the Men Who Built
This the Largest of American Indus
t~ries-Their Interesting
Personalities
BY CAMERON LANDoN.

tries of the American people lies in the
ability of the beef trust to fix the prices
of the products of the ranchman and the
farmer, throughout every state and ter
ritory of the United States, the price of
hogs, cattle and sheep, and consequent
ly the price of wheat, corn and oats.
This blow is aimed at every home and
every merchant of the hamlets, towns
and cities, for the old days Of COMPETE
ton have been relegated to the past by
the big packing interests. The en-
pire of the great Chicago combine de-
fies the law and has the public at its
mercy. At every turn of the wheel it
grows stronger and greater, more insid-
ious and more fa%r-reaching. The beef
trust owns steam and electric railroads,
it owns factories, stockyards, mills,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30

This Is q page from the Arabian
Nights tales, with Aladdin outdone; the
story of the rise of the Armours, the
Swifts, and the Cudahys-the Armours
from the farm barn yard near Stock
bridge, N. Y, the Swifts from the killing
pen of a butcher shop in Barnstable,
Mass, the Cudahys from the peat boys
at Callan, in county Kilkenny, in Ire
land, to the height of an ability to Or
ganize an Industrial combine with cap
italization of 5000, 900, 900.
Less than half a century has seen the
comparative poverty of the beef trust
magnates transformed to an opulence
beyond the dream of king or courtier of
a century ago.
In 1866 the packing industry in Chica-
go, which the giant intellects of Gus
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30

the hoof.' He realized that the beef
business would surely grow and that the
economy of the new method would mean
a great deal of money. He formed a de-
termination which later discourage
ments showed nothing could break to
succeed in shipping dressed beef.
About that time an inventor By the
name of Tiffany had invented and pat
ented a refrigerator a which promised
to be successful. He tried to get back
ing, and Morris refused j.. Gustavus
Swift, practically unknown, asked the
railroads to furnish some of those cars
and he would furnish the dressed beef
for the east. The railroads refused. To
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30

sent to Boston. When the idea was or
iginated Of charging for icing the charge
was fixed at $40 for the trip. Later it
was advanced to $50, and now the icing
of a car costs s45, about the same as the
freight. There are instances where the
charge for icing and for mileage is
greater than the tariff freight. But the
railroads are bound to collect the trusts
charges, fight to get them, go into courts
at the railroads expense to get them, If
need be. The railroads are absolutely
mastered by the beef trust, partly for
the reason that there are large railroad
interests in the hands of the beef trust
magnates and they make the other
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
RWLIe u NRNouP

tavus F. Swift, now dead, of Philip d.
Armour, now dead, and of Michael Cud-
ahy have developed to the industrial
mammoth of the present, had it's small
beginning in the slaughter of 613 head
of cattle.
A Billion Dollar Business.
In 1904 the product of the beef trust
amounted to over a billion dollars. In
1903 the combination slaughtered $751;
697 head of cattle.
So we'll laid were the plans of the
founders of this monopoly that it has
gained a momentum beyond the power
of its heads to control; the ever growing
stream of its immense profits pours in
upon the beef trust from sources which
are so resistless that the downfall of
Standard Oil supremacy among trusts
seems certain.
Founders of the Trust.
1t is a tribute well earned by Gustavus
F. Swift and Philip D. Armour to say
they were the founders of the present
beef combine; that Michael Cudahy was
a powerful aide-de-campand that Nelson
Morris, George H. Hammond and others
Of the Cudahy brothers had been able
assistants. The great advantage Of the
combine over the independent packers
was, like that of the Standard Oil com
pany, rebates from railroads which gave
them immense profits when others were
1Ninn hr,oi,aac ~ n loss Th nrfr ~
the beef trust is upon so many more peo-
pie and affects the three meals per day
Of all of them so vitality that Standard
Oil empire is likely to be outdone unless
the present federal inquiry and the re-
cent decision of the United States SUI
preme court sustaining Judge Gross
cups injunction against trust methods
results in the enforcement of the laws
of the land.
The Standard Oil company deals in
oil and its products, and Its profits are a
menac to the independence Of the
American people. The beef trust goes
into far more homes and names the
price, not only for the fresh meat, the
salt meat and the smoked meat, for the
lard, the glue, the hides, the fertilizers,
all the products of the beef and hog but
the %squeal," but 1t also fixes the prices
for the fruits of California, because the
beef trust owns the refrigerator cars
necessary to 0 that fruit. 1t names
the price for the cotton grower Of the
south at which he may sell his product
because the cotton grower is dependent
on the beef trust for fertilizer for his
plantation or his ten acre field. The
fruit growers of New York state and OF
Texas, of Colorado and of Cuba look to
Chicago for the figures by which to de-
termine their prices, and by the refriger-
ator car rates hundreds of producers
have been made and hundreds have been
ruined.
Public at Its Mercy.
The most serious blow to the indus
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
MISSOURI A NEWS
A LonR-Lired FnmiIx.

Mrs. Sallie HUFF died near Auxvasse
at the age of 81. Following are Mrs.
Huff's brothers and sisters who sur
vive her, and their ages: John Swon,
Sc; Richard Swon, "a; Mrs. Ann Brad
ley, 80; Mrs. Betsy Burt, rs; Mrs. Mar
garet Lawrence, rs; James Swon, n,
and Mrs. Cynthia Bradley, Y. The av-
erage age Of the eight brothers and
sisters is so years 8 months and 2 days,
and the combined ages are 642 years,
; months and IA days.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30

After a nine days session, the grand
jury called to consider the killing of
Rosa Butts, on November %, adj
iourned without bringing in any in
dictment in the case, at Marshall. 1t
was impossible to get any further evil
dence than that obtained at the coro-
ner's inquest, which was not sufficient
to return an Indictment. A large num-
Der of other indictments were returned
for card playing and selling whisky
unlawfully.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
Horses Bring High Prices.

The sale of thoroughbred horses of
5. j. Miller, at Kirksville. was attend
ed by persons from several states.
Twenty-six fine animals were sold. Dc
lenge, a percheron, went to Willis
Grow, of Schuyler county, at $3.50, and
Kalidore, another Percheron, was sold
to F. ". Cain, for 5000. Only a few
fell below $500, and many passed that
mark.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
Sheppard for Circuit Judge.

Gov. Folk has announced the ap-
pointment of Jesse c. Sheppard, OF
Doniphan, to be judge of the Thirty
third judicial circuit, to serve until the
first Monday in January, 1907. This
is the new circuit created by the legis
lature which has just adjourned.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
Specialist Arrived Too Late,

w. j. Huse, cashier of the Usage Val
ley bank at Warsaw, died at his home
at that town, A st. Louis specialist
made a flying trip across the state tc
save his life, but arrived too late tc
save the aged patient, who was then
too weak to permit of the operation
necessary.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30

Mrs. Aggie Meyers, charged with the
murder of her husband, Clarence Mey-
ers, was granted a change of venue to
Clay county in the criminal court in
Kansas City. Much evidence was in.
troduced to prove that Mrs. Meyers
could not get a fair and impartial tria,
IN Jackson county. She will be tried
n June.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
The First Refrigerator Cars

IHe rITsI CeITIgeTdLUT CHTS'
Nelson Morris, who was rated as n
Of the cattle kings" in the Chicago
yards even then, had been experiment.
ing with the shipment of meats in box
cars packed with ice. These experiments
had been very crude and not entirely
satisfactory to Norris, but Swift had
watched them with lteen interest. He
seemed to have a prophetic vision of the
present day He could see that If meats
could be shipped east dressed there
would be a great saving over the method
Of the day, shipping live cattle, beef on
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
Leading Live stock shipper.

j.. NJ. White, Go, died of paralysis a
Shelbina. For nearly thirty years he
had been the most extensive live stock
shipper in north Missouri. 1t is esti-
mated that the handled over SO, 900, 00t
worth Of cattle, hogs and sheep.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30

Tragedy Caused wedding'. Pc

Tragedy Caused Weddings Post
What was to have been her wedding
night was n of gloom for Miss Orpha
hlertley, living east of Mexico. She
was to have married James e. Gore,
but her ~12-year-old brother was
dragged to death by a runaway team.
The wedding is indefinitely postponed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
Baby Born on the "Hummer.,

A child was born on board the sleep
cago & Alton Hummer" zeal Mexico
The mother, Mrs. w. H. Shinabar, 0.
San Francisco, was en- route to Toledo
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30

E. w. Turner, of Plattsburg, recent
ly appointed by Gov. Folk a member
of the board of control of the state in
dustrial home for girls at Chillicothe
has declined the office.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
Loses Arm and Fingers.

George Weaver, of Poplar Bluff, had
his right arm and the fingers of his
left hand entirely severed by falling
upon a saw while it was in motion. His
injuries will probably result fatally.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
Ended Life in New Clothes.

After taking a bath and attiring
himeslf in new clothing, Salvenus R.
Rosenberg, of st, Louis, lay down on
a lounge and fired a bullet into his
brain. Domestic troubles prompted
the deed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
Leading Fruit and Berry Grower.

F. H. Speakman, secretary of the
Neosho Fruit Growers association.
and one Of the best-known fruit and
berry men in southwest Missouri, died
of pneumonia at Neosho.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
SUMMARY OF FACTS ABOUT
BEEF TRUST.

Statements taken from report
of Commissioner of Commerce
James r. Garfield:
Profits from dressing beeves,
SO cents each.
Profits additional from BY
products, SO cents per head.
Number of cattle killed during
1908, 5,521,697 head.
Percentage of total number of
cattle slaughtered in United
States, As per cent.
Average price paid per hun
dredWeight, $4.45.
Average live weight in 1908
was Ills pounds.
Average profit from operation
of private refrigerator a lines,
rs cents per head.
Profit from refrigerator cars,
IA to II per cent. on investment.
Profit on slaughter of cattle,
1871 to 1875 per cent. or invest
ment.
Number of refrigerator cars
operated, $4,000.
Profit from charges for "icing"
these cars, not considered in re-
port.
Industries controlled or prac-
ticaIIy controlled by the "beef
trust" Fresh meat, salt meats,
smoked meats, canned meats,
fertilizers, melons in Colorado,
Colorado fruit, poultry, hides,
bristles, horn products, bone
products, refrigerator cars. Mich
igan fruit, tropical fruits, eggs
and butter.
Efforts toward breaking the
monopoly.
Injunction granted In Chicago
by Judge Grosscup, sustained by
United States supreme court,
opinion unanimous.
! Eleven indictments under the
. German antitrust law and in
, various states under state laws.
, In Missouri packers found
. guilty as a trust and fined $4,000.
I Federal government investi-
, gated "beef trust" and no prose.
. cutlon is yet begun for violating
, Injunction or Sherman law.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30

Lewis Finley, of Nelson, fell from
the back platform of a Missouri Pa
cific train between that town and
Blackwater, and sustained injuries that
may prove fatal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30

In st. Louis, Henry Berner, aged II,
was sentenced to the reform school
for one year for killing Thomas w.
Inman last October. 1t was a case of
shooting among boys.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30

Samuel Allen shot and killed Felix
Hopkins at Neelyville. Jealousy
caused, it is alleged, by Hopkins at
tentions to Aliens wife, caused the
shooting.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30

Ruth Campbell, aged 16, died in Kan
sas City from a bullet wound inflicted
last August by her sweetheart, Walter
Ralston, with whom she had ouarreled,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
Physician Kills Himself.

DR.. George M. Armstrong, aged s.
years, killed himself by swallowing
on%e-eighth of an ounce of sulphate OF
morphine in his Office in st. Louis.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
Dead Body Found in Garbage

The dead body of a negro baby was
found in garbage taken to Chesley
island, nea K~irswick, from st. Louis.
1t is supposed to be infanticide.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
Justified i'm killing Him.

The st. Louis grand jury refused I'd
indict Mrs. Augusta Clark, who shot
and killed Thomas Glynn, who re-
fused to vacate her premises.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30

The entire senior class of the Joplin
high school, 25 in all, are under sus-
pension for leaving school on st. Pat
rick's day to go on a hay ride.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
Caught In Iowa.

A suspect in connection with th,
murder Of Oficer Brice at Joplin, hs
been arrested at Cedar Rapids, In.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
Most o%pportune

Most ~opportune.
Mar Overboard-Help! Help!
Stranger-Whoy don't yez swim?
Il don't know how"
Sure an we've got a fine chance to
earn. "-CaSsall,s.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30
NEZ5MMlRRh5
At the Threats of the Railroads.

stockholders of the railroads suffer hat
they may get the rake off.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-30

tavus F. Swift, dead, of Philip d.
Armour, now dead, and of Michael Cud-
ahy have developed to the industrial
mammoth of the present, had it's small
beginning in the slaughter of 613 head