The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-11
ARE NOW ATWORK
Commissioner Garfield and His
Agents Get Busy.
Gathering Data in State Offices
About Oil Industry.
PHIL CAMPBELL HERE.
Comes to Advise Mr.. Garfield in
Standard Inquiry.
Not the commissioners First
Visit to Kansas.
PHIL CAMPBELL HERE.

The three special agents of the bu-
reau of corporations are already at
work here under the direction of Com
missioner Garfield. They are going
through the records in the Office of the
secretary of state, gathering data con
corning the various oil companies
which are doing business in Kansas,
and similar matters. Charles Earl,
one of the three special agents. is con-
ferring with Governor Hoch this after
noon, securing pointers from him
Commissioner Garfield has also
made arrangements to get a copy of
portions of the evidence taken in the
Santa F'e case. relative to oil rates.
Congressman Philip Pitt Campbell,
who is responsible for the federal in
vestigation of the Standard Oil COM
pany, came to Topeka today to confer
with Commissioner Garfield regarding
the investigation and is anxious that
it shall bring to light all of the facts
concerning the oil industry He is
anxious for this not only because he
is the author of the congressional
resolution under which Mr. Garfield is
working, but also because most of the
oil belt of Kansas is in his congress
sional district, and the prosperity of
the oil industry in Kansas means u
great deal to his constituents.
Il have not had an opportunity Of
talking matters over with Mr.. Gar
field yet said Mr.. Campbell as he
came out from brief interview with
| Governor Hoch. "I have great faith
in him and I believe he will go to the
bottom of things in Kansas
Mr.. Campbell comes to Topeka at the
! request of Mr.. Garfield and will lay be-
/ fore the commissioner all the informa-
! ton he possesses. Mr. Campbell has
naturally been Investigating the oil
| business on his own hook and he can
| give Mr.. Garfield a great many valuable
pointers.
This is a great state said Mr.. Gar
/ field today, as he poured over a map in
1 his room at the Copeland. There are
| more railroads in the eastern part of
! the state than I supposed, but notice
| there are no north and south lines in
| the western portion.
II like to get the geography of a
| state fixed in my mind he continued.
/ ''I can understand things much better
1 if I know where the towns are located
! and where the railroads run
Mr.. Garfield was especially looking up
/ the railroad lines and apparently COM
/ pairing them and their relations to each
! other.
This is not the first time Mr.. Garfield
/ has been in Kansas. More than 20 years
ago he came out to Emporia and drove
around over Lyon and Greenwood coun-
ties. He is young now, a mere youth
then.
my brother-in-law had a ranch
down in Greenwood county, and |
came out to see it., said Mr.. Garfield
in speaking of that trip. There were
mot as many railroads in that section
as there are now. The ranch was near
let me see and Mr.. Garfield con-
suited his map. "It was near Ivan
Il distinctly recoIleet. an old colored
man we saw soon after driving out
from Emporia. He was making brlek
and we stopped to talk to MN. w na'
struck me forcibly was his philosophy
of heaven He said that in heaben
there was ribber OBJ lasses, and
there We're trees along the banks, and
the fapiacks grew on the trees, aho
jack and dip it in the lasses and eat
it. That was his idea of heaven, and
it struck me 50 forclbly that nave
always remembered it.
Mr. MacLennan, of the state Jour
nal. said today in regard to this Incl
dent: aI was the driver on that oc-
oasiOn and was connected with the ole
Fgnn0ria News, since succeeded bs
William Allen Whites paper, the EN-
po1ia Gazette. was showing tht
er. This was about the year 1888
Fmporia had recently completed the
first waterwOrks system in Kansas 1
was q small affair. but with all othel
Emporians, I was filled with pride
over the enterprise. The little engine
house was on the edge of a brick yarC
along the bank of the Cottonwood
south of town and that was our objec
tive point
I well remember the lively inter
est my guest took in the old dark!
and his picture of eternal happiness
and realized at the time. with som,
chagrin. that it quite overshadowe'
any impression of the towns great
ness and future as indicated by tht
pumping station