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The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
STANDARD OIL ON THE RACK
Department OF Justice Begins Suit at
st. Louis to Kill Giant Trust.
The Petition Filed Asks That the Combination Be Declared Unaw-
full and Restrained from Doing B~usiness-HGssory Of the Nc.
nopoy and How 1t Is Alleged to Restrain Trade
Its Enormous Profits.

OF the Standard OIL company OF New
Jersey from $40. 0oo, 900 to $110,000,-
900, and made it the holding corpora
ton and placed the control through
stock ownership of all the corpora
tons previously held by the trusts
into the said company, and exchanged
it's stock for the stock so acquired,
share for share, issuing therefor $97,-
$50, 900 par value-the exact amount
of the trust certificates previously is
sued by the trustees.
The stock of this company was in
creased by a small amount, and is
now 9S,33S,300.
Some Standard Oil Methods.
The petition then shows the meth
DDS employed by the Standard Oil
company to monopolize the oil bust
ness. These include discriminating
contracts with the railroad companies,
manipulation of rates, local price cut
ting, bogus Independent companies,
etc.
The bill sets up among others a con-
VI at pCIWCCh LAO otot1uoio oh SOAh
pany and the Tidewater Pipe company
whereby the Tidewater companies are
limited to liz per cent of certain
business in Pennsylvania and New
York, and the Standard Oil company
to receive S81s per cent of the bust
ness, the Standard Oil company guar
~anteeing the Tidewater company $780,
900 per mum profits, thereby elm
mating all competition between them.
The bill alleges a contract made
with the Pennsylvania railroad COM
pany in 1884, which was in existence
until 1906, by which the Standard Oil
company was able to maintain the
public charges for transporting crude
oil from western Pennsylvania at 40
and As cents a barrel to Philadelphia
and New York respectively. The Stand
ard Oil company, through it's own
pipe lines, transported the oil for
eight cents a barrel.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
MISSISSIPPI NEWS
Important Decision.

The decision rendered by Judge Niles
In the Vicksburg waterworks cases Is
Of far-reaching effect not only to the
people Of Vicksburg but to the inhabi-
tants of every town in the State having
any public utilities like water andlight.
Hereafter, according to the decision,
public service concern will assume
to cut off a solely for the pur-
pose of coercing him to pay past debts.
The w~aterworks company at Vlcksourg
has been pursuing this course In the
past. Old bills, where judged to De
proper or Incorrect, had to be paid,
else the water company shut OIL the
water, even when payment for future
use of water was rendered. Judge
Niles declares the company, hereafter,
must continue to furnish water when
the consumer tenders payment for
future service, and that the company
must take past debts to court for COL
lection
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
Desperate and Deadly Duel.

Hugh S. Austin killed A. E. Glenn
ents near the Chickasaw and Clay
county line just at sunrise. Bad blood
had existed for some time between
them. Clements had been carrying his
shotgun for Austin and had been max
ing threats. Austin had started to his
work and met Clements, who, armed
with his shotgun, fired at Austin and
missed him. Austin then pulled his
revolver and fred four shots, all taking
effect. Clements then fired the other
barrel at Austin. Both guns being
empty, Clements proceeded to use his
for a club, and struck Austin. Austin
then pulled his knife and cut Clements
loose from him. Austin went imme-
diately to Houston and surrendered
himself to the sheriff.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
The Penitentiary Pays.

According to The figures and statis-
tics on record in the Office of the board
of control of the State penitentiary,
the last inventory of the prison proper
ty was valued at SS71, 600, an increase
in six years of over S725,000. During
the same period the net profits have in
creased also, being a natural result of
the increased acreage, the net profits
totaling the sum of S5l2, 600, which
does not include the present years
crop, which will result in a profit of at
least S135, 900.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
Emotions.

How Is your boy doing at col
lege?"
Well" answered Farmer Corntos-
sci, Il don't exactly know whether to
compliment him or make . fuss. He
came out flrst in his class, but he
was last In q foot race"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
TESTING Butter,

Here is a certain butter test: Melt
q little on some hot hominy in your
breakfast plate and taste it. The
fraud will establish itself instantly.
Print butter fetches a bigger price
than ordinary tub butter. There is an
extra charge for manipulation and
wrapping the pound pieces in paraffin
paper. But in my travels I have met
print butter that was made up OF
cooking thirds" Make sure OF your
butter dealer, then go ahead.-New
York Press.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
Court at B~rookhaven.

On the petition of the members of the
Brookhaven bar, Judge Wilkinson
postponed the opening of the November
term of the Lincoln county circuit
court, SO that instead of meeting on the
third Monday in November it will not
convene until the second Monday in
December.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
Adopted.

Seventy-two of the seventy-six oun
ties have made their election returns.
The returns submitted in these reports
leave no doubt that the constitutional
amendment is approved by a safe ma
lority. Only.two of the counties, Goa
homa and Jones, refused to vote either
way on the amendment. In some
ties the vote on the amendment led the
ticket, running ahead OF the congress
man,
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
New Egypt Arising.

A progressive Arab Of Cairo Is
sinking wells and installing irrigation
pumps at the foot of the pyramid OF
Cheops, and the Sphinx, after gazing
thousands of years on sand wastes,
soon will be looking out on green
fields. This is one of the many DEM
o~nstrations of the change from the old
to the new Egypt.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
Took Charge of Train.

London Leach, a drunken negro,
boarded a Yazoo and Mississippi VAL
ley train at Vicksburg, and after the
train left he disputed the right of any
one to pass through the aisle. When
Conductor Witherspoon entered the a
the negro drew a pistol and ordered
him out. Leach left the train at Twin
Lake, where he was arrested and taken
to the vicksburg Jail. Leach had two
loaded pistols in his pockets.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
Big Land Deal.

A party OF Indiana capitalists has
purchased a magnificent plantation
near Durant, consisting of $3.50 acres.
The purchasers contemplate putting
extensive and modern improvements on
the place in the way of fencing, drain
age, saving up a large amount OF tim
Der now on the plantation, thereby
placing a great amount of very fine
valley land in cultivation, in addition
to that now cultivated. They intend to
install a modern system gin and ice
plant and a cotton oil mill, all to be 10
Gated at the Kosciusko Junction, just
south of Durant; in addition to the
above, they expect to make this a model
stock and grain farm.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
Different Then.

Husband-It's strange that I can
never find anything about the house
that belongs to me without your assist
ance.
Wife-How did you manage before
we were married, dear?
Husband-Oh, things stayed where I
put them then.-Chicago Daily News.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
Investigating Killing.

The Italian v~ice-consul of New Or
leans made an official visit to Jackson
last week and held d conference with
the Encouragement regarding the
killing of an Italian subject at Phillip,
in Tallahatchie county. The investi-
CATION is being made in obedience to
instructions from the Italian govern
want
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
The Birdsong Case.

The celebrated case of Mrs. Angie
Birdsong, member of n OF the most
prominent families in the State, charged
with the murder of DR.. T. H. Butler, a
well-known physician of Monticello,
will come up for trial in the Copiah
county circuit court during the term
beginning the on fourth Monday in
November.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
short skirts for Street Wear.

Frau Schubert, a prominent dress
reform advocate of Hanover, says
that trains fit for the drawing-room
are not suitable for the street, and
that women with long dresses that
out of doors sweep up all sorts OF
germs, are a serious danger to them
selves and to other people"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
Shot Dead In Her Door.

Mrs. Jonathan Ladner, while sitting
in the door of her home neal Elder,
was shot and killed by some one con-
cealed in the bushes near the house.
The shooting is thought to be the Sc
uuel to the murder of Mrs. Ladner's
son, Carlos Ladner, which occurred a
year and a half ago.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
Proof Of Birth.

'Talk about .a~ristocracy! We're not
bur first parents laborers working for
their daily bread in the sweat OF
their brows
.But still you can't deny that they
belonged to one OF our very first
families"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
Diocesan college.

The committee in behalf OF the Dio-
cesar College of the Episcopal church
for girls has raised thus far S32, 900. 1t
is proposed to secure 500, 600 before
work on the building is to begin.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
AS interpreted.

Mayme-George declared he would
gladly go through fire and water for
me.
Edyth-That means he will look
after the furnace and keep your wash
tubs filled after marriage.-Chicago
Daily News.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
Sounds Well.

st have missed your husband for
some time, Mrs. Raggefty," said the
philanthropic visitor to the slums. rs
he doing anything now?"
ooh, yes, SIR answered the con-
vict's wife, automatically, he's
maxim his livin' now at the pen
Baltimore American.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
Iha Worlds Demands.

A man who cannot afford to return
Inequalities will find that he need
not expect to avail himself OF those of
his acQuaintances to the end of his
career, unless be is an extremely 9
gaging person. ~ Frances Hodgson
Burnett.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
All Is Vanity!

. "At first" said the apartment house
philosopher, life in a fat seems an
interesting study of humanity, but
soon you lose your urbanity, part with
your Christianity. fall into profanity.
and pass by swift stages from mental
inanity into violent insanity"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
a Dangerous Case.

One Of the surgeons OF q hospital
asked an Irish help which he consid-
cred the most dangerous OF the many
cases then in the hospitl. THAT. sir"
said Patrick, as he pointed to q case
Of surgical instruments.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
Naive.

Little Sophia has Just been In
formed that she has 9 little sister.
"Oh, how lovely! Please. please let
me be the n to tell mamma
Translated for Transatlantic Tales
from FL Diario de Ia Marina.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
Bishop Ualloway.

Bishop Galloway is now fairly on the
way to convalescence. In discussing
illness he said the most distressing fea-
ture OF it all is that he must perforce
retire for q period from the field in
which he has been for olong an active
dgure.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
perhan. put to Better Use.

A church In London still draws an
income which was bequeathed it for
the purpose of buying wood where
with to burn heretics.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
H,rh or Low.

Mrs. Baker--stI wish, my dear, you
would.design my winter hat for me-" Z
Mr.. Baker ian architcct)E.sAl right,
my love, I will. Shall 1t be skyscraper
or bungalow"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23

A man may not have much faith In
doctors, up to the time which the first
baby arrives in his house. After that
he regards them with awe.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
Check 81 scorchers.

Cyclists In Roumania, to facilitate
identification. are compelled by Law
to have their names on the lamp
glasses Of their machines. so as to b.
legible at night
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
Misnuided Man.

A Pennsylvania man asserts That
his wife hasn't spoken to him In seven
years. Yet the misguided man is SUI
ing for a diyorce.-N. @. Ttmes-Demo-
GRAFT
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
v.r,etiea 81 stinuinu Adder.

In the United States Pharmacobar
It is stated that there are 100 sper
cies Of cocktail and that each species
has many yarieties.-Clover.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
The BAN counta.

II is the bait that lures. not the
fisherman or the rod.-From the Span,
lsh.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23
COMPONENT PARTS OF HUGE OIL TRUST.

List Of Corporations and Partnerships Controlled by Standard OH Com
pan of New Jersey and Which Will Be Compelled to Resume
Business as Independent, Con cerns If United States Wins
Its Case.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-23

We should choose for a wife only
such a woman as we should choose
for a friend were she a man.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-09-06
IN SELECTING SEED CORN.
Care That Should Be Taken to Save
the Best.

Early in the fall the careful farmer
the corn that is to be used in his next
years operations. 1t is not too early
for each man to begin to inform him.
self as to the characteristics of good
ears. The marks of the ears will
indicate much as to it's future value
as seed. There are some things that
indicate high yields per acre and some
things that indicate low yields per
acre. Most of these have come under
the observations of thoughtful men
who have carried their theories into
practice If we are to improve our
corn we must maintain certain ideals,
just as in the improving of livestock.
It has been found that the best ear
of corn is the cylindrical one. There
are two reasons why this kind of an
ear is best. A tapering ear will give
less shelled corn to the cob than the
cylindrical ear, as on the tapering
ear the kernels near the tip are shall
low or the rows of corn run out be-
fore reaching the tip. The kernels
on the cylindrical ear are more uni
form in shape than on the tapering
ear, and this is of very great import
ance when the corn is to be used in
the corn planter, as the distribution
of the seed is more even with uniform
kernels. It will be found impossible
to discover large quantity of per-
fectly cylindrical ears, but the ones
that come nearest to that are the ones
to choose.
Good corn judges, says the Farmers
Review, now agree that a well-shaped
ear will have a circumference equal
to three-fourths the length. Thus, if
the length of the ear is ten inches, the
circumfer ence at the middle will be
seven and half inches. For seed it
is not desirable to select either the
very long ears or the very short ones,
but those of medium length. The corn
selected should not have wide spaces
between the rows of kernels either
near the tip or near the base of the
cob. These spaces should be so small
that the ear will be solid and COM
pact.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-09-06
A Real Celebrity.

The local pride of the natives OF
Cape Elizabeth, Me-, is SO intense that
it takes the attitude of pity for all
who have the misfortune to dwell else
where This is known to regular sum-
mer visitors, and by most of them re-
spected.
One rainy day a newcomer, who had
joined the gathering at the store,
composed of fishermen and summer
visitors, ventured to enumerate some
of the distinguished men who had
come from Maine.
There's Longfellow," he said, land
Hannibal Hamlin, and James G.
Blaine, William Pitt Fessenden,
Thomas B. Reed, and"
Here an old fisherman looked up
from his work of splicing grass blades,
and broke in:
Smart? Those fellows smart? he
questioned you just come down
an see Josh Pillsbury skin fish!
Lewiston Journal.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-09-06
HE DISCUSSES MARRIAGE.
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How was it in your case?'
''Ye-er mother" answered Policeman
Flynn, evasively, was a sooper-yer
woman"
How was it in your case?" per-
sisted the girl, quick to see her adj
vantage.
''Tis WRONG" asserted Policeman
Flynn, "f'r to go into ancient histh, ry
FIR Examples to folly. TIL worlds
improvin'."
How was it in your case?" repeat
ed the girl, determined to drive him
into corner.
"Tis no jury thrial we're havin'
here" answered Policeman Flynn.
9TH coort s adjourned, an Wen
ha-ave no practisin iy la-awyei
thricks. | nived did like thin new
woman idees."
How was it in your case?" again
the girl demanded.
well, twas only FIR little while, .
said Policeman Flynn, apologetically.
81 had tn promise " e job on tn
polls foorce with pay enough FIR to
keep a wife, or niveT w'u'd have done
But she continued working?"
it."
"Only f'r oit," explained Police
man Flynn; "but it's diff'rint now"
How is it different?"
Policeman Flynn was so uncomfort-
able by this time that he began walk
ing nervous1y back and forth.
Little did | think" he said, that
amy wan but ye-er mother w'u'd iver
ha-ave me wa-alkin' tn carpit in me
own home like tn capt'in has tn
la-ads goin' at tn station whin things
is wrong. But ha-ave ye-er own
wa-ay, only tell We this: If he mar
ries We before he can support ye, I'll
call him Peter-I will that"
why Peter?" asked the girl, some
what worried by this yelled threat.
Because" replied Policeman Flynn,
impressively, Peter was tn ma-an iv
tn nurs'ry r-rhyme that had wife
an c'u'dn't keep her.
Copyright, 1906 by Joseph B. Bowles.)
Copyright, by the Century Coz
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-09-06
SKIM MINGS.

The amount of feed required to ma
ture steer will bring much more II
fed to produce dairy products.
If the butter is good, and can be
delivered regularly. there will be no
difficulty about selling it at a aood
price.
However careful one may be about
everything in dairy, if vile odors ex-
list the milk and the butter will not
be good.
Cheese makers tell US this is the
most satisfactory cheese year they
have ever known-good flow of milk
and high prices.
1t may be set down as a fact that
no .dairyman makes uniformly good
butter whose cows are strangers to
good and wholesome food.
While it is not necessary or even
always desirable to have the water
very cold, it is of the very first i'm
portance that it be pure and whole
some.
Bad water will make bad milk, no
matter what the other food may be,
and bad milk will make bad butter,
no matter how well 1t is handled.
How long butter should be worked
depends something upon the tempera-
ture, and firmness of the butter. If it
is hard it takes more working If
should not be worked until waxy.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-09-06

| farmer to know his business here,
says the Independent, but Chere is no
lack of crops for gathering and for
soil making, too.
The velvet bean needs a sharp paced
team to keep up with it's growth. 1t
will make SO feet of good hay in q
single season and then leave plenty
of fodder for the COWS and cover
crop for winter. When you come to
pillow it under in the spring you have
not only big mass of humus but a
large storage of nitrogen added to the
soil.
The beggar weed is anything but a
beggar, but is a grass of superb quail.
ty yielding an immense amount of hay
and then forage, and after that adding
nearly as much to the soil as your vel
vet bean.
This only begins the story of Florida
dertake to deny that many of the
Florida farmers import their hay from
the north.
| Do you know a loquat when you see
one? 1t has the shape of pear but
the flavor Of a cherry. 1t is good fol-
pies and buildings and marmalades
and for pretty nearly everything else
that that marvellous fruit the cherry
is used for. Our New England moth
ers would have gone wild over 1t.
The kumquat is a sort Of compro
mise between an orange and stick
| of candy-we do not mean in flavor,
but in shape and size. The tree when
loaded with fruit is as beautiful as a
rose bush.
There is not much to create enthusi.
asm about southern city. They are
all of them more or less tawdry and
have a slackness in their ways of do
ing business. A cabbage palm brought
out of its native habitat with con
genial companions and set in a dusty
dooryard is about the meanest thing
we ever saw. What can one say OF
guava bushes and camphor trees
fenced in with wire?
But the country in this state OF
fiowers-well named Florida-is about
as rollicking and utterly natural q
bit of the world as can Be conceived
In the highlands of the central par
of the state the palm and the pine
meet together.
1t is the north and the south in per
feet harmony. It is the garden of the
world.
The new farmer is coming in tt
take possession. The old orange grow
ers were mostly city folk and nature
did not hesitate to shoe them out oil
the state Those who are now find
ing their way into these regions ar.
bee keepers, truck growers and very
practical sorts of people who go vel
under tn name OF home buildarG
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-09-06
WILD WITH ITCHING HUMoR.
Eruption Broke Out in Spots All Over
Body-Cured at Expense of Only
$1.25-Thanks Cuticura.

''The Cuticura Remedies cured me of
my skin disease, and l am very thank
full to you. My trouble was eruption
of the skin, which broke out in spots
all over my body, and caused a con-
tinual itching which nearly drove me
wild at times. I got medicine of a
doctor, but it did not cure me, and
when saw in a paper your ad, sent
to you for the Cuticura book and I
studied my case in it. I then went
to the drug store and bought one cake
of Cuticura Soap, one box of Cuticura
Ointment and one vial of Cuticura
Pills. From the first application / re-
ceived relief. I used the first set and
two extra cakes of Cuticura Soap, and
was completely cured. I had suffered
for two years, and I again thank Cuti-
cura for my cure. Claude N. John
son, Maple Grove Farm, r. F. D. 2,
Walnut, Kan, June Is, 1905"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-09-06
CRUISING for pererlcts.

The excellent work in destroying a
dangerous derelict last week, begun
by the Tacoma and completed by the
Columbia, gives renewed point to the
suggestion hitherto made in these
columns that vessels of the navies of
the world might with peculiar profit
be employed in tracking and destroy
ing the abandoned hulks which dot
the seas and which present one of the
one of the most serious dangers to
navigation, says the New York Trib-
une. Of the need that derelicts sha44
be destroyed as speedily as possible
there can be no question. Many
known accidents and disasters have
been due to them and there is rea-
son for supposing that many, perhaps
most, of the mysterious disappear
ances of vessels might truly be ex-
planned on the ground that they had
come into collision with those wan
dering destroyers. Carrying no lights,
making no noise, giving no signal OF
any kind, often lying so low in the
water as to be scarcely perceptible,
and heavy and solid almost against
which a vessel can scarcely be guard
ed in the dark and collision with
which is always serious and often
disastrous