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The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1906-09-07
EXPLOSION IN A WINERY
Kills One Man and Destroys vaiuabe
Property.

Fresno, Cal, Sept 5-As a result
OF a terrific explosion, the shock OF
which was felt for ten miles. one man
was killed and another was danger.
ously wounded. and 100000 worth OF
property was destroyed at the Calwa
winery of the California Wine associa-
ton. The explosion was followed by
fire, which completed the havoc. Two
hundred and fifty thousand gallons of
wine were lost.
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1906-09-07
Davis Sure of Election.

Little Rock, Ark, Sept. 5.-Addi
tfonal returns from Mondays state
election show that the Democrats will
have 81 out Of 35 members of the
state senate and 95 out of 100 mem.
bers of the house, assuring the cleo
tson OF Governor JEFF Davis, Demo
cratic nominee, as United States sena-
tor.
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1906-09-07
Nelson Succeeds Adams,

Madison, Wis, Sept. 5.-John M
Nelson, Rep, was Tuesday elected to
congress in the Second district for the
unexpired term OF Henry C. Adams,
deceased.
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1906-09-07

GRzpHOLASTIC PAINT is a surer
remedy for leaky roofs than all other
preparations put together.
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17

Discussing the immigration bill now
before congress to rase the tax from
two to five dollars a head, the PhIla-
delphia Record says a chief complaint
of the petitions is not that the immi-
grants are physically weak, but that
they are too strong. 1t goes on to say:
LAS for the educational test, which
prescribes that every immigrant over
16 years shall be able to read, long ex-
perience shows that this small degree
of culture is not necessary for labor in
the fields, in railroad grading, tunnel
ing, street cleaning and other pursuits
with which the masses of immigrants
begin life on these shores. To ward Off
the political evils of illiteracy the
states most effected by them CPennsyl-
vania, for eXample), have only to pro-
vide, as Massachusetts and most of the
ting the ballot in the fists of people
who cannot read it. But by curious
contradiction the utmost facilities fol
enabling ignorance, native and natur-
allied, white and black, to exercise the
suffrage are afforded by Pennsylvania
and other states in which most of the
illiterate immigrants find Judgment. Il
these states should apply the educa
tional test to the elective franchise
there would be little cause for com
plant concerning the immigration o
illiterates from Europe"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17
Rural Water Supply.

When such great sums Of money are
being expended by city governments
that the inhabitants of towns may
have sanitary. water supply, 1t seems
strange that the supply in rural towns
should receive little or no attention.
This latter population may seem rel
atively insignificant, but according to
the last census it comprises about 49,
100000 souls. This means that 49,
100000 people are drinking the water
most available, without a thought OF
its sanitary condition. These vsrious
sources Of supply, whether wells,
springs or small streams, are satlilarly
unreliable for furnishing drinking wa
ter. The statistics of mortality in the
country are very indefinite, but even
these show that the rural population is
not as free from illness as it should be.
And though everywhere the rural
death rate is lower than the urban
death rate, yet the lowering in the
country has not been as great as in
the city. An examination Of typhoid
statistics shows that the death rate Of
other diseases is generally lower in
the country than in the city, but the
prevalence of typhoid is almost equal
to if not greater in the rural districts
than in the cities Several instances
have been reported which show the
rural typhoid rate to be ten times
greater than the urban rate for the
same district. To partiCulariZe, GER
tain district in central Pennsylvania
proves this fact. 1t is made up of a
rural population with 100 inhabitants
to the square mile. 1t is a region OF
fine farms, wild mountains and woods,
country residences and picnic groves.
And in this valley there has been as
much typhoid fever as in the city OF
Philadelphia. Sad as this condition is,
there seems to be no remedy for it.
The sources of a city water supply are
few, and the city government easily
controls the conditions affecting it.
But what can be done when tle
sources of supply are numbered by the
thousands. A mint of money and an
army of chemists would not be suf-
ficient to give the same care TO the
country supply that is given to that Of
the city,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17

Davis, representing the Union Pacific,
and w. H. Lyford and S. F. Andrews.
the Illinois Central.
A stubborn resistance to the ilveGti-
cation is being made by the Standard.
Attorney Miller deputed the authority
of the commission to go into the quas-
ton at issue.
The concrete instances of the meth
DDS by which the trust succeeded in
sitting competition were furnished to
the commission by haywood Maxon,
of Decatur, ILL.,, a former district
manager for the Standard Oil COM
pany. Mr.. Maxon's exposure of the
Standards policy in regard to local
competition was complete.
To show the intimate relations of
the trust with the railroads. Attorney
Monnett began by asking Mr.. Maxon
concerning the passes he and his sub
ordinates had.
81 had II or IS ANNALS" replied
the witness. so did seven or eight
of my agents. The passes were is
sued on the account of the Union
Tank Line company and saved us
total of about $500 railroad fare each
month. 1t was the same in the other
districts in Indiana, Illinois and
Ohio"
"Fake" Republic Company.
The witness was asked to describe
apparently independent companies
which the Standard organized to
wrest business from the Independent
oil dealers.
well" said Mr.. Maxon, you see
there was some of the trade which
was opposed to buying oils Of the
Standard, and so the Republic Oil
company was organized by the Stand
ard people to get that trade"
Were there any more of these fake
companies?" asked Mr.. Monnett.
Eyes; there was the Paragon Oil
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17
METHODS OF STANDARD TO CRUSH RIVALS
Startling Revelations of c orruptior1 Are
Brought Out at Hearing Of Charges
Before Interstate Commerce
Commission at Chicago.

Chicago. CT the intrigue
and trickery by which the greatest cor
poration in the world is alleged to
maintain its complete supremacy were
laid before the interstate commerce
commission in Chicago in the hearing
Of the charges against the Standard
Oil company.
In brief, the points brought out dur
ing the day by the witnesses follow:
Independent trade was secured
through fake companies, apparently
working in opposition to Standard Oil,
and Independent dealers were driven to
the wall through systematic price cut
ting on the part of dealers backed by
the Standard.
Through special secret freight rates,
one-half the open rate, the trust was
able to control most of the trade with
out price cutting.
Through the suborning of local oil
inspectors inferior oil was distributed
and competitors were put at disai-
vantage.
Different brands of oil were sold
llOIn Tic SAINT UdIESl DIT IluSItuJ
prices.
Railroad employees were bribed 10
give the Standard information concern
ing shipments of competitors.
Payment of compensation to the
Santa Fe railway for oil transported
by the Standard pipe line was denied
by President Ripley of the former.
Commission in Session.
The evidence was heard by commits
sioners Clements, Prouty and Cockrell
sitting in the district court room of
the federal building. The presentation
OF the testimony was conducted by the
commissions counsel, J. T. Marchald
and F. S. Monnett, former attorney
general of Ohio.
Attorneys John S. Miller and Alfred
D. Eddy appeared for the Standard Oil
company, while other attorneys were
Gardiner Lathrop and Thomas r. Nor
row, representing the Santa Fe rail-
way; John M. Baldwin and Brode B.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17

current price was then 10h cents to
the retail trade, but we made the
price to this one dealer five cents, and
he sold it at cost"
Send Around a Rebate.
How could he make living at
that rate?" asked the attorney.
WELL" said the witness, "once a
month we sent a man around who
gave the dealer rebate of one cent
gallon on all the oil he bought. We
paid for his advertising ALSO"
What happened to the Independent
you were fighting?"
81 finally bought his plant, dis
mantled it, and had it shipped to an
other point"
How long did it take you - wreck
him?"
"One year"
Then what happened to the price
of oil?"
"It went back from five cents to the
price it was before the independent
cut in"
Mr.. Maxon said the same thing took
place at Urbana and Vandalia. There
were other means employed to crush
competition.
Every town of Importance" said
the witness, has one dealer who
holds the greater part of the trade If
an Independent gets this dealer he can
put oil into that town in carload lots
and compete with the Standard. To
meet this situation | would send a
man to this dealer who would assure
him of the Standards deep interest
in his welfare, in proof of which senti-
ment the company would allow him
one-half cent rebate on every gallon
of oil he should buy. This would win
him. Without his shipments the re-
mainder of the dealers would be I'M
able to command carload rates. The
result was that their business was
ruined and the Standard got it ALL"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17

company at Decatur and the Banner
Oil company at Springfield, which
later became Kercher Bros; and still
later the Springfield Oil company
My brother, John Maxon, was man
ager of this company at different
times. This went on from 1899 to
1906"
What were the methods of the fake
companies in getting the trader"
asked the attorney.
"We canvassed town from house
to house and located every consumer
of independent OIL" said Mr.. Maxom.
Then the lists of the dealers were
sent to headquarters. l employed five
girls to make this canvass in De-
catur. They made list of the indie
pendent dealers, which / sent to
Charles Kercher with instructions to
get their trade away from them by
any means and at any cost"
Make Lamp Burn Smoky.
What were the means Employed"
Zone way" explained the witness,
was to visit each consumer and tell
him that the independent oil he was
using was inferior. The agent would
prove this by lamp tests. By the SIM
pie trick of regulating the amount of
air which reached the tame he could
make the independents oil burn smoky
and the Standard oil clean and
bright. That's easy to do with the
same oil in each lamp. In the course
of time we would win over most of
these housekeepers, and the independ-
ent dealers would have to come back
into line or lose their business per-
manently.
"At Paris, H., the Standard agent
left the service because an independ-
ent got the majority of the dealers.
Under the orders of Charles T. Col
Inns, second vice president of the Ken
lucky company, | started out to get
that trade back. | sent a man to
Paris to arrange to get a dealer to
sell oil for five cents a gallon to tho
consumer. This was arranged The
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17
Seek Sherrick's Release.

Indianapolis, Ind.-Attorneys for Da-
yid E. Sherrick, former state auiltor,
convicted of embezZlement and now
serving sentence of from two to IA
years, in the state prison, Thursday
filed in the supreme court brief sup
porting their petition for supersedeas
in the reviewing OF the Sherrick case.
The brief alleges that Louis Held,
one of the jurors, was prejudiced
against the defendant. Sherrick's re-
lease is sought pending the review of
his case by the court.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17
Much Corn Carried Over.

Fully % per cent of last years corn
crop and IS per cent of last years
cat crop yet remains in the Iowa
farmers hands, according to report
issued by the secretary, George A.
Wells, OF the Iowa Grain Dealers As
ISOLATION. According to this report
the growing condition on May l OF
winter wheat is much better, Than Z,
year ago, quite generally the condi-
ton of spring wheat is not so good,
oats maintains fair status AMI bar
ley varies considerable in different
sections Of the state.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17
Sold Beer to Earn Education.

Because ne sold beer without the
formality of complying with the law,
while his mother conducted a board
ing house for college students, James
Briley of Ames was sentenced by
Judge Mcpherson to serve ninety days
in the county Jail at Indianola
Briley is young man of not oyer
% years. When confronted with the
charge he did not try to conceal the
facts. He went before Judge Smith
Mcpherson and made a clean breast
of the matter, asking for leniency.
Briley's father Is butcher and is
said to make good compensation.
His mother has started a boarding
house and makes good money. Young
Briley could not go to college, not
having the income with which to pay
tuition. He became imbued with the
desire to earn money and could apply
himself to no trade or occupation, he
said.
He told Judge Mcpherson he bought
beer by the case, took 1t into the
woods and then sold it by the bottle.
to those who desired it. College auth
critics learned of the matter and be-
lieved it sad reflection on the town
and a danger to the students. They
instigated investigation which re-
suited in the indictment returned a,
the last term of federal court.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17
MRS. Davis Seriously Ill.

New York.-Mrs. Jefferson Davis,
widow of the president of the south
ern confederacy, is dangerously i'll
of the grippe in her apartments
in the Hotel Gerard in West Forty
fourth street, this city. AS Mrs.
Davis is nearly 80 years old, 1t Is
feared thu. the attack may be fatal,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17
Thomas Case Again Delayed.

Another delay has been occasioned
in the appeal Of the Charlie Thomas
murder case by the failure of the
state to file its argument and con-
tinuance was granted until the Sep
tember term in the supreme court a
few days ago. The appeal had been
set for oral argument before the SUI
preme court on May Is. Thomas
was convicted Of the murder of
Mabel Scofeld a year ago last Febru-
airy and has been in the state peni-
tertiary since then.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17
German Evangelical Synod.

Indianapolis, Ind.-Ministers and
laymen of the Indiana district OF the
German Evangelical synod began their
annual conference in this city Thurs
day. Delegates are present from In
eiana, Ohio and Kentucky.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17
Our Army Is Small.

In the sense in which the term Is
used in Europe, this country has no
military reserve. The two military
forces recognized by law and custom
are the regular army and the militia. :,
The regular army is a comparatively
small force. Taking into consideration
its size, population and position among
nations, this country has the smallest
standing army in the world. For many
years preceding the war with Spain
our regular army numbered only about
$4,000 men. With the outbreak of hos
tilities with Spain came a very large
increase. After the close of the con-
fiict, however. there was a steady, radi4
cal reduction, until the American
standing army to-day numbers only
about $4,000 men. OF these, about onei
fourth. or in the neighborhood OF 49,
700, are in the Philippines. A small
iorce is maintained in Alaska, and a
still smaller in Hawaii, leaving, in
round numbers, 10000 soldiers of the
regular army in this country, or an in
crease of only about $4,000 since the
days preceding the conflict with Spain.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17
Boy Held For Fraud.

Arthur Thompson, a seventeen-year-
old boy of Maxwell, was indicted by
the federal grand jury because he is
alleged to have sent checks on banks
that do not exist through the maVs
Evidence was furnished by Montgom-
cry Ward & Co. to show that he had
sent them a check for $50 on a bank
supposed to be located in Minnesota
in an attempt to purchase goods
Thompson is the son of well-to-do
farmer near Maxwell.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17
Mismanagement is Denied.

George Reed Of les Moines. against
whom suit has been commenced in the
United States circuit court for S22,-
1880 for property which he received
as quartermaster of the Fifty-first
regiment and did not account for, filed
motion for the continuance of the
case over the present term with an
answer in which he says the goods
were distributed.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17
Florida Water Kills Indians.

Rosethorn, Sask. = Two more IA
dams dead and six in serions
condition. This is the latest re-
velopment in the Florida water trag-
edy on the Duck Lake Indian reserva-
ton.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17
Newfoundland solons Rest,

st. Johns, N. F.-The colonial leg.
islature closed Thursday. The gov
ernor has assented to all the bills
passed, the most important of which
being the foreign fishing vessel act
ags.nst American fishermen.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17
MANY Die of Cholera.

Sidney, N. S. W.-During the voy-
age of the Steamer Faukla from India
to Suva, Fiji islands, 124 coolies were
taken sick with cholera and 81 died.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17
Wisconsin Preacher Dies.

GAINESVILLE, Wis.-Rev. Henry Sewell,
for So consecutive years Methodist
preacher, died Thursday at Evansville,
Wis. He was 70 years old.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17
Q Manufacture Alcohol.

o MANUFACTURE ALCOHOL.
Des Moines.-If the bill now pend.
ing In congress making provision for
the manufacture, sale and use of
grain alcohol free of revenue tax for
industrial purposes after it has been
denaturized, passes. Des Moines CAPT.
tai will be at once Invested in big
distillery for it's manufacture.
The money has already been prom
ised for the project and the plans for
organizing the company practically
perfected. The pan contemplates the
manufacture of this product on a
large scale.
Des Moines is recognized as an
ideal location for such an industry,
inasmuch as 1t is in the center of a
starch producing district, and es-
pecially corn, which is used so largely
In the manufacture of this product.
Grain of all kinds which is damaged,
as is often the case, and is not suit
able for other purposes, can be used
for this product just as well as the
well preserved grain.
With the taking off of the internal
revenue tax from the denaturized al
cohol it can be put on the market at
about 20 cents the gallon whereas
it now sells at $3.50 per gallon. This
reduction will make it competitor
of gasoline and kerosene for CONNER.
cial purposes.
In late issue of the Dial of Pro
gress, the official paper for the Iowa
Anti-Saloon league, DR.. |. N. McCash,
state superintendent, publishes an ar
ticle indorsing denaturized alcohol
and encouraging the project of it's
manufacture in Iowa.
The article explains that the pro-
cess by which alcohol is denaturized
renders it absolutely unfit for any
thing other than commercial uses.
Advices from Washington show
that the wood alcohol interests, as
we'll as the Standard Oil and kero-
sene people, are fighting the denatur-
lied alcohol bill strenuously in the
senate, the bill having already passed
the house. Congressman and sena-
tors are being flooded with the resolu-
tons passed by commercial bodies all
over the United States beseaching
the passage of this bill. In Iowa sew
eral communities are figuring on
opening plant for the manufacture
Of the product in case the bill is pass.
ed. The Des Moines Commercial club
is working hard on this measure.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17

In a recent month $4,000 letters ana
circulars that we're improperly ad.
dressed were returned from the dead
litter oace 10 the senders. and there
are stia on hand nearly three-quarters
q > million 70 be examined.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17

There would seem to be no end to
the hidden dangers of the streets. A
gentleman who sends letter to the
Pall Mall Gazette describes himself
as "A nitrate of ammonia explosive
manufacturer" And to think that
one might accidentally knock up
against him in a crowd.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17
State Fair improvements.

State Fair improvements.
The directors of the state fair have
arranged to sell forty acres of the
grounds, located on the east side of
the tract back of the hill, and to buy
a new piece of land on the south side
of the grounds, running down to the
Rock Island tracks.
The plan was discussed by the man
ayers at a meeting at the state house
and the details of the transfers were
left to the executive committee.
This will enable the managers to
remove the horse barns from their
present location and the swine pavil-
ion and pens to the southwark and
leave room for a large court, around
the north, east and south sides of
which may be arranged the buildings.
The fair managers also decided to
tear down all of the old wooden struc-
lures along the north side of the main
street leading up to the rear of the
exposition building and to replace them
with four large brick eating houses.
These structures will be two stories
in height with spacious Easements and
will be built back from the street
so that it's dust will not interfere with
them. The street will be widened
also, and these improvements will not
only enhance the looks of the street
and the grounds, but will furnish
the people who visit the fair grounds
clean and sanitary places in which to
| dine.
One new cattle barn has been
authorized by the fair management.
The great live stock show of last year
crowded the barns so that many ami
mails had to be sheltered by tents. 1t
is desired to keep them in barns this
year, if possible but it is believed that
the exhibit will be even greater than
it was last year and the year before
which were the greatest cattle shows
ever given in the country.
Plans have been made for substan-
tial repairs for the exposition build
ing.
The purchase of the additional land
on the south side, IL consummated,
will enable the fair people to erect
the proposed swine pavilion in suit
able place. Had the last assembly
appropriated funds for this structure
it would have been erected at point
within what will now be the main
court of the grounds and in order
properly to arrange things in the fu-
ture it would have been necessary to
remove the building. The present fair
management has planned for the fu-
ture symmetry of the fair grounds
and the improvements thereon.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17

Rev. Thomas F. Millar, a preacher OF
GAINESVILLE, Mo-, announced to his con-
gregation last Sunday morning that a
collection for foreign missions was
about to be taken up, but that he
wanted no member to give a cent un.
less he had already paid his butcher,
baker, grocer and printer. PAY your
local debts first" he said, "and then
pay the debt you owe to the heather"
Report has it that the missionary col.
lection was small, but the respect OF
the congregation for the preacher was
large.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17
Life Contract Held Valid.

The supreme court reversed the
Judgment of Judge Preston at Cedar
Rapids in the case involving about,
$4,000 cash, the estate of an aged
woman which was held by Carl Rabe
under contract with her to take care
of her during her natural life in con-
sideration of the estate. The lower
court set aside the contract and or,
dered the funds disposed OF by the
administrator to the creditors and
heirs of the estate; this the supreme
court reverses, holding the contract
was good one.