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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-24
a KILLING ar WINFIELD.
A Drunken Quarrel Leads to Murder
Near a Saloon.

Winfield. Kas.. May 24=Charles
McEwen, a farmer of this county. was
killed in a drunken brawl back of q
joint here last night. 1t is said, by
Amzi Thomas. The two men were
drinking and a fight ensued in which
Thomas struck McEwen across the
face and temple with a heavy timber,
killing him almost instantly. Thomas
made his oscar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-24
improvements for ConexvilIe.

Coffeyville. Kan. Nay 24-R ". Kel-
logg. who some months ago purchased
80 feet OF the opera house corner on
Ninth and Maple streets for 5000 and
afterwards refused $1,000 for his pur-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-24
Young Convicts to the Reformatory.

Leavenworth, Kan, May 24.-E E.
Marshall, superintendent of the Kansas
reformatory in Hutchinson, came here
and selected six young prisoners from
the Kansas penitentiary to be taken to
the reformatory. He picked out Joseph
Ward Of Bourbon county. Jesse Bolts
Of Doniphan, Oliver Ketchum of Leav-
enworth, Emmitt Cav of Wyandotte
and ]. Bowel and Howard Brown of
Crawford. These will be taken to
Hutchinson bv Mr. Marshall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-24
TOWN IS NOW McALEsTER.
Rock Island Line Drops the Word
sSouth. =

It is no longer South McAlester, L T..
but merely McAlester, according to the
Rock Island railroad When the Choc-
taw road. now owned by the Rock Is
land, was building through the terri
tory it missed the town of McAleste ar
by short distance and established the
station of South NfcAIester, which be-
came rival and finally outgrew the
old town. With their increased growth
the two towns have now become oneand
the Rock Island has issued a circular
announcing that effective June the
station will be known as McAiester in
stead of South McAlester
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-24
Death from Heart FaiIure

Mound City. Kas.. May 24=D. J.
Hessong, of Mapieton. is dead at his
home in that town. He suffered half
an hour from heart failure before his
death. He came to this section in
1857 when six years old and lived
here continuously since that time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-24
Named Judge BrinkerhoT.

ElIinwood. May z4-The Republican
judicial convention in session at ElliI1-
wood nominated Judge J. w. Brinker-
hon by reclamation. There was no orn-
er candidate for the place. Judge
Brinkerhon has filed the position the
past four years with the best of salts
faction to all
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-24

s-story building on this site. It is ex-
pected to begin work on the corner by
June / Four brick buildings all three
or four-story win be in course Of con-
struction at one time by this time next
month and the four Will be right in a
row
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-24
New Pastor for Bellevue.

Evansville. Ind. May 24.-The Evan
geicaI church at Bellevue, Kan. today
extended a call to the Rev G. Gastrock.
OF the German Evangelical church, at
Princeton, Ind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-24

The Denver & Rio Grande offers e
the tourist and the transcontinentai
traveller the choicest resorts and the
grandest scenery in Colorado, Utah and
New Mexico. This route has two sep
arate and distinct lines through the
Rocky mountains, all through tickets
being available via either. The direct
line to Cripple Creek, the greatest gold
camp on earth. Three trains daily with
through Pullman palace and tourist
sleeping cars between Denver San
Francisco. Los Angeles and Portland.
and Chicago. st. Louis and San Francis
co. The best line to Utah, Idaho. Mon
tana, Oregon and Washington via the
ogden Gateway" Write S. K Hooper.
G. P. & T. A.. Denver. Col, for Illus
tr2+ed descriptive pamphlets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-24

FREE
This coupon is good for one trial
package Of KeIlogg's Obesity Food
with testimonials from hundreds who
have been greatly reduced, mailed free
in plain package. Simply NIL in your
name and address on dotted lines be-
low and mail to
F. y KELLOGG, S116 Kellogg
bldg, Battle Creek, Mich.
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..........'s. 10000
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-24
If YOU HESITATE

On Obtaining a bottle Of HOstetter's
Stomach Bitters when the stomach il
disordereds kidneys weak and bowels
constipated, you only prolong your
sickness and make cure So rnuch
harder Therefore get It today. For
E9 years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-24

Go to New York on the Lehieh.
Double Track Scenic highway Con-
meets at Buffalo or Niagara Falls with
all lines from the west. Write Passen-
ger Department. Lehigh Valley r. r.,
21S South Clark street. Chicago. III
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-24
H0STETTER'S
STOMACH BITTERS

has been curing sicl1ly people every
where Of such ailments as Poor Anne
tits. Insomnia, Dyspepsia, Indigestion.
C;ostfveness. Heartburn. Kidney ms
and Female Troubles. Avoid s1bsti-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-24

The FIRST good rain for months fell
here Wednesday. greatly benehting
growing crops. Farmers were COM
planning of serious damage to oats and
corn According to the government
gauge. one and three fourths inches Of
water fell in four hours
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-29
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 BusinessHistOry Of the Mo-
nOpOy and How Is Alleged to Restrain Trade
Its Enormous Profits.

of the Standard OIL company Of New
Jersey from 100000 to $4,000
900, and made 1t 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
its stock for the stock so acquired,
share for share, issuing therefor s97,-
100000 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 con-
tract between the Standard OIL COM
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 SSh per cent Of the bust
ness, the Standard Oil company guar
anteeing the Tidewater company $780,
900 per annum 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 its own
pipe lines, transported the oil for
eight cents a barrel.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-29

Il Is alleged that the defendants,
through the Standard OIL company
and the other corporations, are en-
gagged in producing, purchasing and
transporting petroleum In the various
producing districts In the United
States, principally situated in New
York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
Tennessee. Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Kansas. Indian Territory. ok
lahoma, Louisiana, Texas, Colorado
and California; that they own and con-
troll nearly all of the pipe lines in
said states, and other pipe lines ex-
tending from Kansas to the seaboard;
also pipe lines in Texas and In Cal
lfornia; that they own a large num-
Der Of tank cars and steamships en-.
gagged in transporting oil; and that the
said defendants have, through the In
strumentality Of the Standard OIL com
pany of New Jersey "a holding corpor-
atom, eliminated competition between
all OF the separate corporations and
monopollzed the commerce in oil In
the United States.
ContFol Nne ripe Ainees
II is alleged that the Standard OIL
company has had control of the carry.
ing business by pipe lines in and from
all the oil producing regions Of the
United States except Texas, Louisiana
and California; that they charged ex-
cessive and unreasonable rates, and
rates which were discriminatory in
favor of the Standard Oil company;
that they have refused to furnish
equal facilities for receiving and de.
livering oil Of independent shippers
and refiners; that they have refused
to transport oil belonging to others
than the defendants and their associa
ted companies, and since the month OF
August, 1906, have refused to transport
oil of others except In such large guam
titles as to completely prevent indie
pendent producers and refiners OF oil
from using their service, and that they
have forced 16 independent refiners
now doing business in Pennsylvania
and Ohio, and producing their crude
oil through the Standard Oil com
pany's pipe lines, to sell all of theil
export oil to the Standard Oil com
pany. thereby eliminating their com
petition. This contract was procured
through threats of the Standard OF
company to reduce the amount o.
crude oil which it would sell to the
Independent refiners.
Enjoy Preferential Rates.
| It is alleged that one of the prin
cipal instrumentalities through which
the defendants have been enabled Il
monopolize the commerce in petro
leum and its products throughout thu
United States has been a system o
preferential rates, and rates discrimi
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-29
TESTING Butter.

Here 10 certain butter test: Melt
d little on some hot hOminy in your
breakfast plate and taste 1t. The
fraud win 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 parafin
paper. hut Ia my travels ! have met
print butter that was made up Of
cooking thirds" Make sure Of your
bncter dealer, then SO ahead.--New
Eofk Press
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-29
New Eqypt 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
onstrations Of the, change from the old
70 the new Egypt
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-29
As Interpreted.

Mayme-George declared be would
gladly go through fire and water for
me.
Edyth-That means he win look
after the furnace and keep your wash
tubs filed after marriage. Chicago
Daily News.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-29
Different Then.

Husband-Its strange that can
never find anything about the house
that belongs to me without your assist.
ance,
Wicklow did you manage before
we were married, dear?
Husband Oh, things stayed where
pat them then. Chicago Daily News,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-29

A man may not have auch faith In
doctors. up to the time Ghen the first
baby arrives IN his blouse. After that
ha regards them With ava.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-29
COMPONENT PARTS OF HUGE OIL TRUST.
Corporations Partnerships by
Which Will Compelled
Business S Independent If United States Wins


Where Capitalize
LuDriostna company 10000
sD5 TSTo OIL sS%pany Limited England
company Maryland
Borne soEmser New Jersey 100000
suTSo Natural Gas Puei Company New York: $4,000
e 5sS e cd %snV o S M 2SSSSS
Chesebough Manufacturing contd New 100000
Commercial Natural Gas company Pennsylvania
Connecting Gas Ohio 100000
S:s:s:s si s'i ssis'"' SSS$$S
E E Gs1 ali an" Oh Go: Sy P oans 6o SS
Florence Refining company. Colorado
Franklin Pipe company (Lmltsd) pennsylvania - $1,000
lawrence ne Saa eSs Company P"a.ana
Mahonng Gas Fuel company Ohio sO000O
Mo" " state o o ao%p Vn $4,000
National Fuel New 100000
New York Transit New York 100000
Sort%%esn company Ohio a7sssSo
Oil city Supply company
es%s9 @anuf s company New ao oOOOO
Peoples Natural company 100000
Refining company New
company. .... 25ooOoo
Salamanca Cas- Company New 5000
Security OH company Texas S9C 00S00
pipe company Pennsylvania
south Pip: Ps%%ysns 1880
STANDARD on company Of California California 100000
Oil 100000
s. Standard Gil sS%Ss" k k k" S
STANDARD oil company .; MGnssota Minnesota 10000
oil company Ohio 100000
TayIorsown Natural company Pennsylvania 10000
Ts S WstSr o oPS n
Line Jersey... 100000
United Natural Gas Pennsylvania 100000
United oil company Colorado 100000
wSshnoton Oil COMPANY Pennsvivsns 10000
WatersPieroe OIL Missouri 100000
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-29

We should choose for a wife only
such a woman as we should ohooDe
for ? friend were she 3 man
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-29
Parhana 30 Is netler w.

Perhaps Put 20 Better Use.
a church N London still draws an
income which was beQueathed II for
tie purpose OF buying WOOD where
with 70 bufn heyetics
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-01-17

is much of this land in Florida, and
when reduced makes excellent straw
berry land. 1t is also suitable for
most vegetables.
Next to sub-irrigated slope, bay
head or the edges of bayhead or
lake are desirable. Care must be taken
to learn if the lake is subject to rise
and fall-as many lakes in Florida do
or your plants may be drowned out.
On the borders of lakes and bayheads
you can generally find strip of land
called sand-soak, which is we'll to
avoid. The strawberry plant is less
particular than any other plant in
its choice of soil, but it doesn't like
sand-soak one bit.
AS soon as you have selected your
location for a strawberry bed, you
should begin at once its preparation,
even if you do not intend to plant
before next September There is no
better preparation of the land for
Strawberries than to grow three hun
dred bushels of Irish potatoes to the
acre, or any other crop that requires
heavy fertilizing. Corn is an excel
lent crop to precede strawberries. In
case no previous crop can be GROWN,
then plOw at once and reduce with a
harrow and give a dressing of lime,
about one quarter ton on new upland
and three-quarters to one ton on lower
and more acid bayheads. The degree
of acldity may be determined by the
use OF htmuS paper. Strawberries
will do better than any other fruit or
vegetable in an acid soil, but the
quality and carrying ability is not
quite SO good.
After the lime is applied the land
should be narrowed or cultivated every
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-01-17

week until you set your plants. In
Florida it is not advisable to keep
the soil bare for more than a month,
so if the preparation commences ear
lier than August Ist, crop of cow
peas should be grown, and vines, etc,
removed by September 10th.
The strawberry is not indigenous
to Florida, and the best condition for
its growth and fruitage are found only
in the months of September to June,
inclusive. The plant will grow vi g.
orous1y whenever the soil is moist
and the temperature ranges from forty
degrees to seventy degrees. There
fore your date of planting will vary
according to your location. In North
Florida, in moist places, it is possible
to plant as early as August 18th,
particularly if in small gardens where
the plants may be shaded with pal
mettO leaves or otherwise. When
planted so early it may be noted that
the plant is more likely to stool up
and make heavier crowns and bloom
later than below latitude twenty-eight
degrees Below this latitude the soil
stavs so hot even as late as Septem-
ber 10th that it is not safe to plant
until September Goth to October Goth,
unless particular pains are taken to
shade the plants. Even then the plant
will do better if shaded for two or
three weeks.
The variety to plant depends upon
your needs. If for a northern mar
ket, the carrying quality is of first
consideration, and probably the Hof-
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-01-17

The strawberry as grown IN FlOr1da
requires radically different treatment
than when grown in more northern
States. In the Noroth it is planted
in the spring, makes its growth during
the summer and develops its bios
som buds in the fall remains partially
dormant in the winter and in the
spring, blooms and fruits during
period of about five weeks, generally
ending its fruitage in most northern
sections by July 10th.
In Florida the time of planting va
ries from August 18th to September
18th in the northern tier of counties,
and from October Ist to Goth below
latitude twenty-eight degrees. AS
soon as started, if it does not suffer
from lack of moisture, it at once
blooms and begins to fruit. This ten
dency to Immediately produce results,
must necessarily be backed up by
such careful. thorough and liberal pre-
paration of the soil and provision for
moisture that the plant will at no
time suffer for lack of aliment. Food
it must have, and plenty of it, and
in such form that it shall be imme-
diately available. In order to have it
available sufficient moisture must be
at hand SO that it may be at command
at any time.
Careful experiment and observation
leads us to favor a selection of land
where sufficient head of water may
be secured so that sprinklers may be
used and the plants watered at will
Whether a tank shall be used with
windmill for power to elevate the
water from a we'll or lake, steam or
other means must be left to the indi-
v1dual grower to arrange according to
his capital and facilities. To those
who have not already purchased land,
we would strongly recommend getting
a location within reach of the water
supply of some city where the water
rent is reasonable. This would also
insure your being within easy reach
of one market and a supply of ice
for packing strawberries for distant
shipment Being near a city would
also be an advantage in procuring
pickers. If you are three or five miles
away from population you would be
obliged to send teams to bring and
carry pickers. This would be con-
siderable expense, the sum total of
which might pay the interest on land
at three hundred dollars an acre.
Given a good head of water for ir-
rigation, we should prefer a selection
of high land so as to avoid frosts
The difference of sixty to one hundred
feet elevation might make consider
able difference during a cold wave in
ability to save the blooms and berries
Next to high land with irrigation. we
would select sloping land that is
naturally moist from seepage over
clay or hard pan subsoil There
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-01-17

man will best answer this purpose.
The Middleton Early, now so popular
at Charleston, may prove quite as
desirable in Florida. For home use
and a nearby market, the Excelsior
and Lady Thompson cannot be ex-
ce1ed The Excelsior is few days
earlier than Lady Thompson and both
have a more pronounced tendency to
immediate fruitage than the Hoffman.
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-01-17

Nearly all varieties of northern origin
fail in some degree in Florida, because
of their tendency to rust.
The variety selected, your order
should be placed for the quantity
wanted with some grower as far north
as possible We think experience will
prove to you that northern-grown
plants are best If your area to be
planted exceeds a half acre and you
have very little experience, it will be
well to have the order divided and
ana boy can plant this number in two
davs direct from the package, and
water them, if necessary, the same day
planted.
Planting.
Given a soil thoroughly narrowed
and in good, friable condition, stretch
a garden-line the full length of your
row, and plant about twelve inches
apart in the row, the rows three feet
apart, taking nearly fifteen thousand
plants to the acre. Keep the plants
from wind and sun Stand with your
face toward the line, and thrust your
spade into the soil about three inches
from the line, move it back and forth
once and hold it so, a boy can put the
plant in place, having the crown or
bud of the plant level with or a trif1e
above the surface; while he holds it
withdraw the spade letting the earth
fall against the roots, and with the
foot press the soil firmly against the
roots, throwing the whole weight on
the foot. This pressure is strictly
necessary and leaves a convenient cav
ity into which a half pint of water
may be poured. Watering is quite
essential if the soil is at all lacking
in moisture, and may be necessary at
intervals until the plant is thoroughly
established Many failures in Florida
may be charged up to neglect in this
matter.
Fertilizing.
As soon as the plants are set we
recommend a light sprinkling of some
complete vegetable fertilizer spoon
full to a plant, commencing one inch
from the plant, and scattering out
about three inches, then with a rake
stir it in, leaving all level and in good
form Great care is needed in this
distribution of fertilizer that you do
not get any on the leaves or into the
crown or in contact with roots 1t
is desirable to keep the leaves and
roots intact ready for immediate work.
The practice of trimming roots and
leaves as sometimes recommended is
wrong in Florida.
If YOU can wet the plants every
evening or every second evening, it
will insure prompt and rapid growth.
Throw a strawberry plant on the
ground in wet weather and it will root
at once and grow Plant it ever so
carefully in best of soil and neglect
to provide moisture and it will pine
and perish.
To grow the most profitable crop it
is desirable to use to the acre from
one thousand five hundred to two
thousand pounds of commercial ferti-
lizer. or its equivalent. in manure. .
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-01-17
HOLD to GrOU Strawberries
and Other Fruits
(Copyrighted by E. D. Putney)

Copyrighted 1888, by E. D. Putney.)