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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-27
HEATHMAN CASE CALLED.
Jury Selected to Determine Merits of
Damage Suit.

Damage Suit.
Five thousand dollars is being
sought from the city of Pendleton by
John Heathman for injuries alleged to
have been sustained as a result of an
imperfect sidewalk. The case was
called I'm circuit court this morning.
Attorney John McCourr IS appearing
for the plaintiff while G. Carter. city
attornev IS conducting the defense for
the citv. with the assistance Of Col ].
" Raley.
THE iurv ne selected is as follows:
Marion lack L. Shinp. Millard Dick.
Phil Beathe. II. II. Williams. William
uoward r. A. SNYDER c. Anderson, A.
T. Mathews, A. B. McCarty and F. G.
Lucas.
This afternoon County Surveyor
Eimbrell was placed on the stand to
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-27

Tn feller th't don't know when he's
maxim a nuisance Nv 'imself is tn kind
NV a feller th'ts allus maxim a nuis-
ance of Unset
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-27

give testimony regarding the location
of the place where Heathman was in
jured, and other points.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-18

rels 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
tor one million six hundred Thousand
gallons. More storage tanks are being
built. These are all the best steel
tanks made and will last zoe years.
The refinery plant at Cherryyale looms
UP like a small city and it would do
you good. to see it. The company has
q railroad switch completed into the
grounds; also has dwelling houses,
barrel mandatory, water lines and
pump stations. 1t owns valuable
franchises for one hundred and seven
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 a ffty-SeVen
acre farm on which refinery number
will be built this summer and the pipe
line completed to it. Forty miles of
this pipe line is paid for and at the
stations, ready to haul out, along the
me 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 a 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 a
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 I'M
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, 1905-07-18
THEY DON'T BLAME HoCH.
Governor Didn't Know Applicant for
Accountant Was an Old Soldier.

1t has been decided by the G. A. R.
committee appointed by Capt P. H.
Coney to secure the enforcement of the
old soldier preference law, that Cover
nor Hoch is innocent of any violation
of the law when he failed to give the
job of state accountant to A. Dienst a
Ford county veteran. 1t was discovered
by the committee that Governor Hoch
did not know that Dienst was an old
soldier. 1t was a very easy way out
of the situation, for the chances are
that Dienst would have Jared about the
same if the governor had known it.
The G. A. r. will take a, hand in the
prosecution of Mayor c. W. Cupp, of
Caldwell. Cupp was convicted in Justice
court of removing an old soldier from
office to make room for someone else,
and he appealed the case to the district
court The committee will have Judge
Advocate T. H. Grisham take care of
the case in the district court
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-18
Pertinent Queries.

lFrOm the Leavenworth Times.
The usually clever Tom Kelly does
not appear in the explanation given out
by the Kansas state treasurer as to
collapsed Topeka bank a half million
dollars of state money.
The lock was broken on the vaults,
says the author of the explanation, and
SO the moneys were placed in the ma
tionaI bank for safe keeping. But how
long were the vault locks out of re-
pair? Why was not portion of the
treasurer's contingent fund used to put
them in repair again, and how does it
happen that the state treasurer had not
previously called the attention of the
other state officers to the condition of
the vaults, or consulted with them, as
to what temporary disposition should
be made of these moneys?
And there is another point in this
explanation. The author of it says that
state moneys are in several other banks
outside of Topeka because those banks
have been clamoring for the privilege
of keeping some of the state money,
and because the state treasurer acced-
ed to their requests. What right had
the state treasurer to make such a dis
pensation, when the law expressly for
bids it? What right had those banks
to accept such a favor. when to ask
was to make them equally guilty with
Kelly'S granting?
The executive council has no right to
accept such an explanation In a mat
ter of such gravity, the executive coun-
ell has nothing else to do than to go
to the bottom of the whole affair. The
investigation of matters at Topeka has
been already too long delayed. Had it
been made some months ago the state
would now have been saved what ap-
pears to be at present a very proba-
BILE loss. Will the executive council Sift
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-18

That Oil Trust Lie About the Supreme
Court Decision, Put Out by the OIL
Thieves, to Deceive Investors.
1t is a well 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 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 VIII
probably be made by the next iegisla-
ture. There 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
doZerS. Kansans are in the fight to
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 we'll 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, 1905-07-18

cowardfy acts that is rallying all Kan
sas to the support of the Uncle Sam
independent refineries and pipe lines.
This company must win the day for
Kansas. 1t has nearly two thousand
stockholders in the state and with it's
great production the chances are ten
to one that it win ill the place of three
or four state refinerieS, and now has
the entire state for a field in which to
sell its products Everybody is for 1t
and we would not be afraid to wager
ten to one that there is not 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
Any reports sert out by the oil gang
and their perjured reporters like the
falsehood wired the other day will
prove to be groundless when the facts
finery and pipe lines is one Kansas
enterprise that will be watched over
with. a 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.
You Can Telegraph Your Orders md
Have Company Sight Draft Won
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 attach ed, on all orders
that are sent from the starting tele-
graph office up to one minute before
midnight, Thursday, July 20, but not
share will be sold at this price after
midnight Ifzyou can not reach g tels-
graph office writes letter. We mean
this and we don't care even if you offered
to invest ten thousand dollars-after this
hour you will be turned down. for the
company has ample funds and will stand
right by it's advertised statements. Ref
erences: the Montgomery County bank,
Cherryva1e State bank, the Peoples Ma
tional bank. or come down and see for
yourself Address.
II. II. TUCKER, Jr., Sec'y,
Cherry vale, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-18
Merely a Bluff.

[From the Salina JournaI.1
Governor Hoch admits now that the
demand made upon Kelly for a new
bond was nothing more than bluff.
There have been several bluffs in con-
nection with the state treasury during
the past few months 1t seems that
Hoch bluffed Kelly's nomination; Hoch's
promise to investigate Kelly after he
was elected seems to have been d bluff;
the appropriation made for speedy in
vestigation was only bluff; the inves-
LEGATION started seems to have been
only a bluff as the accountant had been
working in the treasurer's office almost
a month and had never discovered
where the money was deposited. The
only thing about the whole business
which has turned out to be no bluff is
the fact that the taxpayers of the state
have lost a half million dollars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-18
HAIR NATURALLY ABUNDANT
When 1t Is Free of Dandruff, 1t Grows
LuxuriantIy.

Hair preparations and dandruff cures.
as a rule, are sticky or irritating affairs
diseased. grows naturally, luxuriantly.
Dandrun is the cause OF nine-tenths of all
hair trouble, and dandruff is caused by 4
germ. The only way to cure dandruff is
to kill the germ; and, SO far, the only hair
preparation that will positively destroy
the germ is Newbro's erpicide-absolute-
ly harmless, free from grease, sediment,
dye matter or dangerous drugs. 1t allays
itching instantly, makes the hair glossy
and soft as silk. Destroy the cause, you
remove the effect
Sold by leading druggists. Send 1oc in
stamps for sample to TIE HerDicide Co..
Detroit, Mich. ]. P. RowIey. special agent
Successor to RowleZ & Snow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-18
is THIS A co?
w. r.. Stubs and j. N. DOlley
Talk Trolley.
Topeka and Kansas City to Be
Connected.
COST TO BE $5,OOO,O 600.
This Says Senator Will Be
Furnished by Fasteners.
COST TO BE S5,OOO,OOO
Why the Kansas Speaker Made
@' His New York Trips.

w. r. Stubs and Senator ]. N. Dol
ley are the promoters of a brand new
Kansas City-Topeka double track trolley
scheme, and the indications are that
within the next 30 days, the company
will be formed. All the capital-about
S., 600, 000-will come from a party of
eastern financiers who own half dozen
different trolley lines in the east and
who have for sometime been on the
lookout for a good opportunity to in
vest money in the west.
Mr. Stubs and Mr.. Dolley are inter-
eSted in the project simply as a con-
tracing proposition. They are not
promoting in the sense of Stock-ped-
ding.
1t can be stated on good authority
that the financial interests backing this
line have all the cash that will be re-
quired, and that their object is to put
in a double-track line. rock-ballasted
throughout, over which electric trains
can travel at the rate of 100 miles an
hour is desired. The location of the
line has not been definitely selected, but
it is likely that it will take in the ter
ritory north of the Union Pacific out of
Kansas City, then cross the river, touch
Lawrence, and sweep into Topeka from
the rich farming country lying to the
southeast.
Speaker Stubs has made several
trips to the east recently, and the chief
object OF these trips was, IL IS SalQ, 10
confer with the New Workers whose
money will go into the project.
Senator Dolley was in town yester-
day, but would not talk about the pro-
ject, except to confirm the report in a
general way.
ct is up in the air. he replied. land
nothing can be said now without en-
dangering the contamination of the
plans"
Mr. Dolley was considerably interest
ed to know where the State Journal re-
porter heard of the proposed electric
line. On being informed that the source
of the news was railroad official, he
said:
The railroads have known there was
something in the wind for some time
The new Kansas City-Topeka- line
will have no connection whatever with
any of the similar projects which have
so far been discussed. The trouble
with all the previous electric trolley
propositions is that there has been
plenty of people to push, but no money
to build the road. In the Stubbs-
Dolley enterprise. however, the only
question seems to be whether or not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-18
kelly Foueht RaiIev.

State Treasurer Tom Kelly had state
money on deposit in the busted First
National bank at Topeka to the
amount of about $55O,OO0. This is the
c. ]. Devlin bank. State Treasurer
Tom Kelly, who is responsible for the
money, is under a million dollar bond,
half a million signed by c. J. Devlin
and half a million by some obscure
security company. The state money
is tied up and may be lost, as Devlins
liabilities are $2,S10,000. Let's see, it
was State Treasurer Tom Kelly who
fought early and late to defeat Gov
ernor Bailey's denomination, and
later placed his resignation in escrow
in the hands of Governor Hoch. a-.iss
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-18
II. II. TUCKER, Jr., Sec'y,
Cherry vale, Kan.

the eastern capitalists can be con-
WINGED that a road between Kansas
City and Topeka will pay. They Will
not ask for any donations, bonuses or
bonds, but will simply go ahead and
build the road as a business PROPOSE
ton.
They will run both fast and slow
trains; trains which make the trip be-
tween Topeka and Kansas City in an
hour or less, and trains which stop at
every cross road to pick up passen-
gers. The hauling of farm freight
will also be a big end of the business
Milk trains will be put on, and the
dairy business given all the. encourage
ment possible.
There viii be no trouble about Sc
curing the right of way for such a line,
because the last legislature passed
law giving to trolley lines the same
right of eminent domain, by which
land can be condemned, as is enjoyed
ever that the trolley will follow the
highways to a considerable extent.
It would cost about half the present
railroad fare to ride from Kansas
City TO Topeka at the usual trolley
rates. There was a time when the
merchants of Topeka were afraid that
a Kansas City trolley would hurt trade
here, but this fear seems to have
largely passed away. The impression
seems to be that Topeka shops can
hold their own in the competition for
Topeka trade.
At the same time, Topeka merchants
realize that one immediate result OF
the construction of Kansas City
Topeka line will be the construction of
branches leading son west from Topeka
to Council Grove, junction City and
Marysville. Such lines would no doubt
be of benefit to Topeka, and would
probably more than compensate for
any loss in the other direction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-18
Neglect of Governor.
from the Parsons SUM-

tFIOn the PARSONS sun.
In demanding that Treasurer Kelly
make his bond good, Governor
Hoch is but doing his duty, but it is
the act of closing the barn after the
horse is stolen. 1t does not excuse the
governor for past neglect in keeping
his promise to the people that there
would be an investigation of the office
extemporaneous with his induction
into office. It does not excuse his
neglect to comply with the law in
making a personal examination of the
state treasurer's office as a member of
the committee provided by law. 1t is
no excuse that the governor believes
the examination is a useless piece of
business The law has not asked
Governor Hoch for his opinion on that
subject and the people do not care for
1T. He may think that the law reQuir-
ing him to declare the Office of state
treasurer vacant should Mr.. Kelly fail
to comply with the law is "a useless
piece of business" Governor Hoch
could have required the bond several
months ago and his failure to do so,
leaving the state unprotected, makes
the governor blamabIe in the present
conditions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-18
Assets Back of the Company

governor should do likewise It looks
like history is to be repeated that in
politically, will be demanded as was
that of Governor Bailey. The story of
old Dog Tray must appeal to both of
these gentlemen. From our view point
it is up to most of the Republican edi-
tors of Kansas to confess their part
of the sin of Bailey's decapitation and
Kelly's election. That now is the time
for them to get down on their knees
and earnestly seek forgiveness for
wrong they helped to do. And as the
editors huiI1bly kneel let many OF the
rank and file who are likewise guilty,
come forward and join in supplication
for forgiveness. AS we have been rob-
bed the collection will be emitted, while
the choir sings Have pity Lord, Oh
Lord forgive" Come forward, confess
your mart
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-18

The Kansas newspapers are still filled
with comments concerning the Devlin
failure and the loss of $780, 900 in the
First National bank because of Treas
urer Kelly's disregard of the law. Here
are few of them:
Peanut Politics.
[F'rom the Emporia Gazette.l
The executive council of Kansas is
playing peanut politics The way they
are lodging responsibility in a great
crisis is Il disgrace to Kansas politics
The shame that has come upon the
Republican party of this state, is not
due alone to Tom Kelly. The funds
in the wrecked bank were there when
the present state administration came
in. They have been in that bank since.
and its condition has been VIGOROUSLY
bad for six months. The board re-
quired to examine the treasurer's ac-
counts knew that the funds were in the
rotten bank Illegally. They made no
appeal to the people. The blame of the
disgrace is on the whole board that ex-
amined the treasurer as we'll as on the
treasurer.
But that is no reason why they
should dodge their duty now. Be it
said to Governor Hoch's credit that he
is trying to act the honorable part
But he is hampered by peanut polite
ians and lawyers who are too deeply
impressed with precedent to allow them
" see common sense. Inc powers OF a
governor are those of the crown. These
powers in such an emergency as exists
would give him the right to require
bond from Kelly on the grounds of
common honesty and common necessi-
ty. The law does not expressly say that
in such a crisis the governor cannot
protect the state. and he should assume
that in absence of restriction his power
would allow him under the law to do
the common sense things.
The trouble with the other members
of the council is that they are playing
peanut politics The trouble with Hoch
is too much legal advice. A lawyer will
tell a man all the things he cannot do
But a lawyer is worth little in telling
a man what to do. The governor might
remove Kelly and check it up to the
supreme court to put him back Would
they do it under the present circum-
stances? A court can always find plenty
of reasons for sustaining public senti-
ment, and if an executive follows public
sentiment, he always finds the courts
behind him backing him up-law or
no law. A strong man like Roosevelt
or Folk would step out in the open, act,
appeal to the people, and check up the
trouble to the supreme court, and
watch 'ern squirm to find law to hold
their Jobs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-18
PIunmer Talks of Potatoes.

Geo. w. Plummer, a member of the
last legislature and probable candidate
for state superintendent of public in
struction, was in town yesterday. Mr.
Plummer lives at Oskaloosa. He is
the man who had a hot tiff in the
house with Robinette of Wyandotte
because Plummer's sister-in-law was
on the house pay roll Mr.. Plummer
says that the Indications are that the
potato crop in the Kaw valley will be
light this year 1.-The farmers attrib-
ufe it to the hailstorms," said Mr..
Plummer. Corn is looking good,
however"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-18
A Little Comparison.

EFrom the Fort Scott Republican,
The much discussed grocery bill of
Ex-Governor Bailey is contained in the
$547,000 lost to the taxpayers by
Governor Hoch's negligence 455 times
Have not the people right to do ass
times as much kicking, especially
where one was spent under the ad-
vice of the attorney general and the
other in open disregard for law? What
Kansas needs is an administration
that will reduce expenses. by division
instead of doubling them up by -fnul-
tiplication at 455 clip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-18
Career May End.
TFrom the Parsons Sun. ]

From the Parsons Sun.
It looks as though the KeIly-BurroW
crowd were preparing the toboggan for
Governor Hoch as they did for Gov
ernor Bailey. but they can't fool the
people all the time. Governor Hoch
has only to stand firm by his convic-
tons, do his duty and cut loose from
this gang of political pirates and the
people will stand by him in the state
treasurer's Office. If the executive
council of which Kelly and Burrow
are members refuses to act and to act
promptly then Governor Hoch's
political career is ended.