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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03

California.
Railroads were induced by Standard
TO raise freight rates on oil, and IN
dependent pipe line to seaDoaru Is
projected.
Illinois.
House passed resolution lndorsins
Kansas action and providing Tor COM
mittee to investigate Standard OH
company's work in Illinois
Kansas.
Both branches of Legislature called
on president, secretary of the interior,
and congress to annul leases maue
to Standard Oil company eight years
ago by Usage Indians. Fraud Is
charged. Independent investigation OF
trust likely.
Bill to subject Standard Oil COM
pany pipe lines to restrictions prepar'
ed.
Indiana.
Antitrust bill, introduced in behall
of oilmen, will give damages to per-
sons injured by Standard OIL company
and require forfeit of charter
Nebraska.
Bill recommended for passage TO
protect Independent dealers.
Ohio.
Frank S. Monnet, former attorney
general of state, employed by 1nde-
pendent oil men Of Kansas to fight the
trust there.
Oklahoma.
Lower house passed resolution ask
ing president to investigate oil leases
covering Indian lands and declared
to be owned by trust.
Pennsylvania.
Government officials investigating
at Pittsburg in belief old rebate sys-
tenn" which killed Independent REIN
ers' business, still is in operation be-
tween railroads and Standard Oil
company; contracts for oiling cars the
scheme. Independent pipe line COM
uany to fight Standard in Scranton.
Texas.
Every Independent oil producer III
state signed petition asking for fed
eral inquiry into Standard Oil oper-
atoms against them.
Legislature is taking steps to make
all pipe lines common carriers and
give state power to fix rates.
Wisconsin
Wholesale grocers who suffered
from trust discrimination will move
for more stringent legislation; anti
trust bill now in legislature
Washington.
Indians protested to renewal OF
leases on oil lands in Oklahoma;
charged that trust controls property
and pays too little royalty.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03

found it advisable to retire from bust
ness. The same was the case with
the man who had his thousands
locked up in extensive plants. In
either instance he was offered price,
often a generous one. If he conclud-
ed to accept it, well and good for him.
The few who decided to fight it out
found their pocketbooks much thin
ner.
The profits of the concern were so
enormous that it eventually became
hard to find employment for them.
The owners of the Standard Oil com
pany bought into one railroad after
another. They were, for example, re-
puted a powerful factor in the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road back
in the sos. Somewhere around 1890
their names began gradually to re-
place those OF the old leaders in Wall
street. They kept branching out. first
bringing one great stock market en-
terprise and then another under their
control In retrospect, Jay Gould
seems SHldll bCoiuC ehSh''
Eventually they caught up with the
Vanderbilts as railroad magnates. In
1901 they were believed to be back OF
Hartman in the Northern Pacific
fight. To-day they are reputed to
have the dominant voice in the great
est railroad combine in the world.
Tomorrow, it is feared, the whole rail-
road situation of the United States
may be at their dictation.
But oil and railroads have not alone
absorbed their energies. They have
been active in many other directions.
In 1897 the Third National bank of
New York was consolidated with the
City bank, making an institution far
transcending in size anything of the
kind in the country. In 1899 it had de-
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03
HISTORY OF STANDARD OIL.

Many attempts have been made to
account. So far, these have met with
Indifferent success. Some years ago
the concern was, in the strict sense
of the term, trust. 1t was pool
whose members owned a great num-
Der of oil properties in various parts
of the country. The law had this
much terror for it, it forced it to aban-
don this somewhat loose form of or
genization and become an incorpor-
ated company. But the change was in
name rather than in fact. The public
are no wiser regarding the affairs of
the combine than before; and it is
not easy to see how they have bene-
flied in any direction.
The Standard Oil company has be-
come a tremendous factor in Amer
lean finance. UP to say fifteen years
ago not much was said about it apart
from the oil industry; but 1t used to
occasion very lively talk in connection
with that industry. Tradition painted
its methods in black colors. II had
determined to acquire a monopoly in
the oil business, and had practically
succeeded. Competition went down
before 1t like a card house at the
touch of a finger. If man with a
few hundreds of capital bought one or
two teams and attempted to peddle
any other oil than that made by the
Standard Oil company. he speedily
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03
Oil RUBBING.

Clothing exposes us to great dan
gers. We wear too many clothes.
We dress too warmly, so the skin be-
comes relaxed, and loses the power to
take care of itself, and this is the rea-
son oil rubbing is necessary. The
simple removal of thin layer Of oil
by a hot bath may be sufficient to
cause a man to take Geld. SO this must
be replaced by special Cling, or
some other treatment, in cold wealth
er.
People who are very susceptible to
cold, should be rubbed with oil after
each bath, Oil rubbing is especially
needed in cases III which the skin is
dry, through deficient activity of the
oil glands Of the skin. Great care,
however. should be taken to avoid too
vigorous rubbing in the application OF
the OIL as sweating is very easily pro-
duced, to the disadvantage of the pa
tient. In the treatment of infants and
children, marked and most favor
able effect upon nutrition is produced
by Oil rubbing. Application of oil
after cold baths encourages reaction.
In most cases of chronic dyspepsia
when accompanied by emaciation. in
diabetes, and in most cases in which
malnutrition with dryness of the skin
is a prominent feature; oil rubbing is
valuable curative agency.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03
STATEMENT BY GOV. HocH.

The fight Kansas is making is a
fight for fair playa fight to restore
competition and to relieve great and
growing industry from the grasp OF
an Industrial despotism.
We hope to prove by actual demon
stration that the Standard Oil COM
pany has robbed the oil producer on
one hand and the customer on the
other.
BY engaging in this battle as state
we hope, first, to encourage the loca.
ton OF Independent refneries with the
assurance that they will have the pro-
lection of the state; and. second, to
enlist other states and the general
government in battle against mon
opolistic tyranny.
The proposed state refinery is sim
ply a means to an end-not the END
itself-E. NJ. Hoch.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03
Cost of tuberculosis.

DR.. Harmon Biggs OF New York
american Mediciae), after careful
estimation, places The annual expense
OF tuberculosis to tie people Of the
United States at S330.000,000.00 He
first calculates the loss to New York
city by putting value OF $1,000 upon
each life at the average at which
deaths from tuberculosis occur. This
gives total value of the lives lost
annually of S1,500, 100000
But this is not all. For at least nine
months prior to death these patients
cannot work, aud the loss of service
at one dollar day, together with food,
nursing, medicines, attendance, etc.,
at one and one-half dollars day, re-
suits in a further loss of $4,000, 100000,
making a yearly loss to the plunici-
pality of $4,000, 10000. Fer the whole
country the 10000 deaths from tuber-
culosis represent in the same way a
loss of O0O,000O0.
DIR. Biggs also states that the total
expenditure in the city OF New York
for the care of tuberculou3 patients is
not at present over S50o,00000 year;
that is, it does not exceed two per cent
of the actual loss by death, etc. If
this annual expenditure were doubled
or trebled it would mean saving of
several thousand lives annually, to say
nothing of the enormous saving in suf-
fering" Further evidence OF this is
afforded by the fact that in the last
twenty years the total number OF
deaths from tuberculosis in New York
has decreased instead Of increasing,
although there has been an increase
Of 70 per cent il the general popula-
ton.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03
~ IT.. RAR1EP

power in Wall street speculation. It's
methods have been sharply criticised.
The panic of May 8, 1901, was openly
laid at its door. The Northern Pa
cific deal, out OF which that panic
grew. was titanic affair. 1t was a
contest between the mightiest finan-
cial interests in the United States. A
more recent episode in the career of
the City bank was the Munroe & Mum
roe affair. The failure of this concern
brought to light the fact that the
largest bank in the United States was
as willing to aid in floating Montreal
& Boston mining stock ON credulOus
public as to engage in great railroad
deals involving hundreds Of millions
of capital.
Nor is this all. 1t was Standard
Oil money that started the Amalga-
mated Copper company. Boston peo-
pie have not forgotten that enterprise.
They recall the methods employed to
buy control of the great Boston 4
Montana company for song. They
remember, too, how the price of Anal
gamated copper stock was doomed to
about $780, just prior to dividend re-
duction, in order that the insiders
might unload on the public. And the
Part played by the City bank in pro-
noting the Amalgamated company is
also fresh in mind. The profit to the
Standard Oil coterie from promoting
and manipulating this enterprise will
never be known; but it is almost in
calculable
Meanwhile, the oil monopoly has
been growing more and more COM
plete. AS it has progressed in other
directions, the Standard OIL clique has
increased its means of sitting compe-
tition in the manufacture and distri-
button of oil. 1t was by railroad re-
bates that it got its first real start;
and now it is itself a mighty power in
the management of the railroads OF
the United States.
But last week the mandate went
forth for it to be investigated. A res
Clution to this end was rushed
through the national House, and the
President has been prompt to act upon
it. Commissioner Garfield of the De-
Dartment of Commerce and Labor has
been told to institute proceedings, and
to see that they are thorough. The
specific task, in compliance with the
congressional resolution, is that of in
vestigating the cause of the low price
of crude oil, and of the unusually
large margins between the crude and
refined products. The aim is to find
cut how much the present situation is
the result of combination or conspir-
acy in restraint of trade.
In short, an effort is to be made to
find out everything possible regarding
the Standard Oil company specifical-
ly. If the Commissioner of Corpora
tions is as successful in this instance
as he was in the case of the beef
trust, he Is likely to produce results
that will startle the country. He Is
also, it is said, going to look into che
doings of the standard Oil crowd.
An adequate report on the Standard
Oh company may enable us TO obtain
cheaper oil But real knowledge OF
the STANDARD Oil crowd" will be OF
immense value in conserving the en-
tire financial interests Of the people
of the United States, now and here
after.-Boston Post.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03
Horrors of the Cocaine Habit.

The following illustration OF bad adj
vice in the lecture room is probably
not an exceptional case. A professor
of materia medica lecturing on cocaine
called it one of the greatest OF all
stimulants and perfectly harmless.
He cited his own experience of its
good effects, and advised the class to
test it personally in debility and eN-
haustion. OF class of thirty-two who
listened to this advice, five became
cocaine takers within two years. Ten
years later thirteen of this class were
drug and spirit takers. In all prob
ability. the use of cocaine was the
starting point of their addictions.
-Four died from the direct use of this
drug. Evidently more than half the
class had followed the advice of the
teacher and were wrecked. A few
years after, the professor became an
invalid and retired from the profess
sion. a victim Of his own counsel and
confidence in cocaine.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03
Early New England Library.

Il appears that there was public
library in Peru, Vermont. as early as
1911 The editor of the Manchester
Journal has book. on the fiyleaf of
which is written. Peru library No. 81.
October 8. 1911, cost fifty cents. Ii
brary meetings. the first Tuesday of
January, April. July and October. This
hook is presented to the Christian
people of Peru by the Hampshire mis-
sionary society and committed to the
care of the standing committee Of
their social library"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03
The Quiet Way Best.

What's the use of worrying,
OF hurrying,
And scurrylnG.
Everybody furrying
And breaking up his rest.
When everything is teaching us,
Preaching. and beseeching us
To settle down and end the fuss.
For quiet ways are best?
The rain that tiickles down in showers
A blessing to the thirsty flowers
And gentle zephyrs gather up
Sweet fragrance from each trimming cup
There's ruin in the tempest's path,
There's ruin in voice of wrath,
Ard they alone are blest
Who early learn TO dominate
Themselves. their violence abatc,
And prove by their serene estate
That quiet ways are best.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03
Defends Alaskan Indian.

Gov. Brady of Alaska protests
against talk of the vile, dirty Eski-
no." saying those who make such
remarks are in ignorance. Il don't
know what he may be like in other
divisions of the frigid zone. but | do
know that the Alaskan Indian is as
fine a type of his class as can be
found anywhere. Take them as a
whole, they are sober and industrious,
make homes and adopt civilization
readily. They are truthful. honest.
hospitable, gentle and kind-hearted. I"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03
Frequency of tuberculosis.

From the Massachusetts, Medical
Journal we abstract the following: At
the second annual American Congress
on Tuberculosis held in New York in
1902, DR.. Pryor stated that $4,000 per-
sons die annually in the State of New
York of this disease. One-siXth of all
the deaths in the world are due to this
one disease. Statistics show that in
France 10000 die every year of this
disease; in Germany. 10000; in the
United States. 100000; in Paris, H.
900; in London, $4,000; New York
City. 5000.
Of deaths between the ages of fif-
teen and forty. tuberculosis claims one
third; between fifteen and thirty-five,
one-half The mortality from tubercu-
loss alone exceeds that of war, plague,
cholera. famine, yellow fever and
smallpox.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03

WHAT TUBERCULOSIS COSTS s
Immense Monetary Loss Caused the Country
by Its Ravages-How to Retain =
Health and Bodily Vigor {


before laws, Or property, or arts made
entrance among men. The Brazilians
lived without business or labor, lUr'
ther than for their necessary focd by
gathering fruits, herbs and plants;
they knew 10 drink but water; were
not tempted to drink or eat beyond
common thirst or appetite; were not
troubled with either public or domes-
tic cares, and knew no pleasures but
those simple and natural in character.
MANY Of these were said. at the
time the country was discovered by
the Europeans. to have lived as long
as two hundred years"
This was without doubt an eXagger-
alton, but that they were very long
lived is evidenced by the fact that
within The last quarter OF century
there was an old woman living in Rio
Janeiro at the remarkable age OF one
hundred and forty-onc years.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03

Beauty OF form and face are the nat
ural results of right living, and to try
to get them in idleness by the aid OF
massage. drugs, or physical culture, is
TO undermine the foundation for all
charm Nature intended that we
should be of use. whether we are
genius or common clay. and nature
rules. We can't cheat her.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03

The real work in the trust busting
movement that has brought Kansas so
prominently before the nation has Deen
done by four men. representing all the
clements affected by Gil. Senator w. 3
Fitzpatrick leader Of the upper house
comes from the oil regions, and repre-
scnts the producers in the drafting OF
remedial legislation. Senator F. Dumoh.
represents the consumers. into wnipii
class nearly every citizen of the common
wealth fails. The other two are Presi-
dent H. H. West and Secretary ). NJ
Parker of the Kansas Oil Producers AS
ISOLATION. Senate Porter is former EN-.
ploye of the Standard Oil Company. ye.
he drafted and introduced the state re-
fincry bill which has become a law
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03
Small Boys Definition of Duty.

A small boy went to Sunday school.
When he went home his mother asked
him what the lesson was about
Faith" says the boy. What's that?"
his mother asked. "Believin' what
you've got every reason to suppose
amt so" the boy replies. And then. ="
he afterward remarks. there was
some talk about duty too What's
duty7" his mother asked him. 'oh.
duty" he replied. lis to any old thing
that you have got to do when you
want to plsv baseball"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03

Mrs. ySinsiow's Soothing syrup.
FOR children teething softens the gums reduces n
asmmation sIays pain, cures wind collie ocsootte.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03

It isn't the golden rule that won't
work both ways.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03
Moro Flexible and Lasting.

won't shake out or blow out; by using
Defiance Starch you obtain better re
brand and one-third more for Same
money.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03

posits of something like $15O.000, 900,
and to-day they are we'll up to $780,
100000. The City bank has from the
start been known as the Standard
Oil bank" II has been a tremendous
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03

The cup that cheers is a hollow
mockery
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03

Plato called a man lame because he
exercised the mind while the body was
allowed to suffer.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03

Exercise gradually increases the
physical powers, and gives more
strength to resist sickness.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03
ruherculosis Rinhtly cIassed.

The Health department of the city of
Philadelphia has decided that in future
tuberculosis shall be classed with
other diseases that are dangerous to
the public health. such as smallpox,
diphtheria. scarlet fever, and other
contagious maladies. The law In
Pennsylvania and most other States of
the Union requires that every case of
contagious disease shall be reported
to the Health department Hereafter
all cases of tuberculosis must be so
reported by the attending physician.
The purpose of this law is to enable
the Health department to take neces-
sary steps to prevent the extension Of
this disease by disinfection of the
apartments which have been occupied
by the patient. and by instruction of
the patient and the patients friends
how infection from the disease may be
avoided.
This law is a good one. and ought
to be enforced in every civilized COM
munity.
Body and mind are both gifts. and
for the proper use of them our Maker
win hold US responsible.
Simple Living and Longevity of the
Braziiians.
According to a writer in a contem
porary magazine. ~the Brazilians. when
irst discovered, lived the natural, orig
inal lie lived by all mankind, as IRE
ouentiy described in ancient histories
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03
A HEALTHY Old AGE
OFTENTHE BESTPARTOFLIFE
Help for Women Passing Through
Change Of Life

Providence has allotted us each at
least seventy years in which to fulfill
our mission in life. and 1t Is generally
our own fault If we die prematurely.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03

When anything is growing, one
Icrmatory is worth more than a thou
eand reformatories- Mann.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03

Body and mind are both gifts. and
for the proper use of them our Maker
viii hold US responsible.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-03-03
MOVES AGAINST MONOPOLY.
California;.

California.
Railroads were induced by STANDARD
to raise freight rates on oil, and IN
dependent pipe line to seaDoard Is
projected.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-04-06
Assessor Cornelius Win Soon Com
mence Counting Noses.
LEGISLATIVE REPRESENTATION
According 20 Laws Of Oregon, Next
Legislature viii Make New Appor.
tienment for 6asins Members OF tho
Legislature From Each County,

A new Legislative apportionment
based upon the state census OF 1905
must be made by the legislature OF
1907. and for that reason Il behooves
iClatsop county 20 see that a full emu
meration OF Its inhabitants Is made
this year The growth of Portland ana
eastern Oregon In the last Ave years
is supposed TO have been more rapid
than the Willamette valley and west
ern oregon. and II the state census
should show much OF difference
Multnomah county and eastern ore,
gon will profit by securing larger
representation in the Legislature.
When the last apportlonment was
made by the legislature Clatsop county
only had AZ population to spare to re,
tain its own senator and two repre-
sentatlves. The apportionment Is based
upon the population and each county
Is entitled to so many representatives
and senators as II has population. Clat-
sop county will have TO count every
nose in every precinct or II will lose
one representative, thereby curtaillng
Its power and influence In the legisla-
ture and show to the world that in
stead Of progressing, 1t Is retrograding.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-04-06
New York Physicians investigate
Cersbro Spinal Menensitis.
AN APPALLING DEATH RATE
Doctors and Hospital Authorities Or.
dered to Reper. on Cause and Spread
Of the Disease With a View OF Ex.
terminating and Checking It.

Ne York. April 5.-Circulars to
the number OF 5000 have been ordered
by the health department TO be served
on all physicians and institutions in
New York. ordering reports made OF
every case of cerebro spinal menen.
fitis. This must be done by the doctors
and hospital authorities under the pen
atty prescribed in the sanitary code
and marks drastic step by the health
board in combating the disease which
has caused 19S deaths in Greater New
York since January l. Under the new
policy each case will be disinfected and
if need be. isolated.
At the hospitals many new cases are
being received and at every institution
that takes this class of patients there
are from one to 81 sufferers. As be-.
fore he majority OF those sick are
children.
Although little progress has been
made by the commission OF medical
men which has for some days been
investigating the disease. MANY an
swers from prominent hospital physi-
clans and specialists all over the world
have been received in response to the
lst OF questions sent out. As yet no