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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-05
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yet this very method of making a
thorough rate by combination of two
separate state rates has been held to
be by the interstate commerce commits
sion as lawful and proper.
Inc statement that the Standard
on company has largely by unfair ana
uniaWTuI methods crushed out home
competition is fully answered by the
facJ that home competition has always
existed, Is steadily growing, and that
there are now at least 125 competitive
refinerles in the United States.
As to the sclai1a that changes in
rates have been made since the COM
Inlssioner's efficient work began, all the
standard Oil company has to say is
that any such changes have been made
without its suggestion or effort.
The grief which the president ex-
presses in his message over the inability
OF the railroad to combine and protect
themselves from the shippers will
PROBABLY arouse amusem emit
The president says respecting this
investigation that the facts are not IN
dispute, only the differences are dis
puted. The Standard Oil company fur
muck rake dug out such as under his
manipulation he felt would prove dam
aging.
The Standard Oil company has
been investigated over and over again
at the instigation of it's rivals and it
always welcomes such investigation
when conducted in good faith and fairly
We are engaged in a large and honor
able business. We are conducting II
honorably and we sincerely believe in
conformity to law,
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their officers or agents engaged in sub
sidiary business like lighterage. The
evidence before US has shown clearly
IN several instances and has indicated
It to be a fact quite generally that
the Elkins law as to the giving of re-
bates has been disregarded since the
day of its enactment
The presentment says the difficulties
of investigation heretofore mentioned
and the skillful devices under which
discrimination is often yelled may
render detection and proof of this
class of crime difficult. s'Neverthe-
less" it continues. eve deem it our
duty to call the attention of this hon
orable court and the succeeding grand
jury to the great public importance of
a continued investigation into the
state of facts upon which the indict-
ments herewith submitted are based
to the end that further indictments
OF like nature may be found and
other steps taken to mitigate the evils,
which we believe to be generally prev
aient' and which cause great injury
ana oppression to small shippers thus
denied equal access to markets in in
terstate commerce"
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MARKETS TODAY.
Wheat Opens Firm With Light
Trade.
Corn Is Firm on Commission
House Demand.
LIVE STOCK TRADE.
Cattle Unchanged = Natives
Bring S4.25 to Sc.
Hogs Are Quoted at Five Cents
Lower.
LIVE STOCK TRADE.

Chicago, Nay 5.-WHEAT-The wheat
market opened firm today with an ex-
ceedlng light trade. July opened a shade
lower to a shade higher at 7sszc to 7S7sc
and advanced to 79c. Minneapolis, Du-
lun and Chicago reported ece-3ts of 1873
cars.
Inc market was firm III day on q good
expor4 demand. The close was firm with
July up 7sQ1zc at 79Ac.
CORN-Th. corn market was firm
chiefly because of a fair demand by com
mission houses. July opened shade to
1sc higher a 4o.oc to 45AQ457sc ana sold
The close was hrm with July up sc
at 45ss5s46c.
OATS-In common with the other grain
markets the oats market was exceeding
" quiet. July opened a shade higher at
a0s4u30ssc ana sold up to gle
rttON ISIONS-Tne provision market
was stead an quiet trading being very
small July pork was unchanged to &c
lower at SIS. 20l515.25 Lard was unchanged
to 212c higher at $83712QS. 40. Ribs were
unchanged at $3.50.
Wt---Cas1: No. red, S71sQsS19c;
No. 3 red S4aS6c; No. hard, S0q84c; NO
3 nard, 76dS0c: NO. 1 northern, S312d641zc;
No. 2 northern, S015QS3c. No. spring,
OATs-No. ?, 311zc; No. g. Bic.
,ORN-No. 2, 47szc: No. 3, 4719Q47%c-
RYE-Cash: 62@63c; May, 5SQ6oc; July,
iFsLAx-cssh N w. s,.1s; $. W., s1-O7;
May s1.11.
TIMOTHY September, ss55.
CLOVER-Cash, Sl1.25-
BARLEY-Cash, 5o7zet54c.
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BABY IN COAL HOUSE.
CoIored Woman Finds Dead Infant
This Morning.

A we'll formed white infant newly
born was found this noon by Mrs.
Lizzie Scott, colored, in the coal shed
at the rear of her dwelling, at 1856
Fillmore street.
A hole had been dug underneath the
wall of the coal shed and the baby
was showed through into the building
from the alley side. It is believed
that it was placed there during the
night The baby was dead when
found. 1t was wrapped up in clean
CLOTH
Dr.. H. H. Keith. the coroner, was
notified by Mrs. Scott's son. Il will
hold the body until the suspicious
have all been set at rest" said Dr..
Keith. Eve don't know for sure who
the parents are. don't know whether
the baby was killed or not until
make an examina ton of the body If
nothing further is learned it may not
be necessary to hold a coroner's in
quest I shall inform the police and
they will doubles sset to work.
The neigh borhood where the child
was found is one of the most aristo-
cratic in the city.
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c. T. Kennedy, General Manager fOE
Parker Shows.

The performance given in this city
is really the first of the season as this
has been the first stop made since they
left Abilene, which is headquarters
for all of the Parker shows There are
four companies travelling on the road
which bear the Parker name, the one
which appeared in this city this week
being the number one show and the
largest and best equipped.
There are nine different shows in
the aggregation all of them of more
than usual merit and when the fact is
considered that the first stand of the
season was made in this city the per-
formances have been quite satisfac-
tory The 'Sun Flower Bellies and
the animal show are being featured
and the latter is especially good.
The number one show which came
to Topeka is under the personal super
vision of c. T. Kennedy, who is one of
the original owners of the Parker
shows and who has been closely identi-
fed with tn cir interests ever since they
were placed on the road.
In speaking of their opening en-
gagement in this city Mr.. Kennedy
PATRONAGE accorded US in Topeka and
we'll pleased with the treatment which
we have received at the hands not only
from our patrons but from the public
in general with whom we have dealt.
Our show is larger and better this sea-
son that it has ever been in the past
and there is not an Objectionable feat
ure permitted on the grounds. AS
soon as our people become acquainted
with their work everything Will move
like ctockWOrk.'
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wANT To cHARGE NIoRE.
Bell Company Isn't Satisfied With the
Maximum Rate Provisions.

The differences over the Bell tele-
phone franchise. which is now pend
ing before the council, are in fair
way to be settled. The company is
asking for an extension Of their fran
chise for term of thirty years.
The fight has been directed towards
the introduction of maximum rate
clause; the old franchise now in force
and which is asked for again does not
specify any maximum rate whatever,
while the Independent phone franchise
does.
AS compromise the Bell people
last night before the judiciary COM
rnfttee offered to introduce a sliding
schedule based on the number of
phones in service. For 5000 phones
and no more, the price is to be $50
as a maximum: for 5000 to 1900
and not exceeding the latter figure, the
price is to be $42s and from 1900 and
not exceeding 10000 it is to be $48.
Il don't know whether those rates
are right or not said Councilman
VIM. Green, who has been leading the
fight for a just franchise IF they
are, I am favorable to their adop-
ton. The company has come in and
will do the other things we ask them. +
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NEWMAN EXPLAINS.
Tells Why New York Central Did Not
Show Books.

ISAAS why new YORK &enErdA DlO NOt
Show Books.
New York, May 5-Replying to the
statement by Commissioner Garfield
that the New York Central railroad re-
fused to disclose its rates within New
York state. w H. Newman, president
of that company, said:
I'VE refused to furnish our state rate
to the bureau of corporations of the de-
partment of commerce. and labor be-
cause the department has jurisdiction
only over interstate commerce. We
cheerfully gave the department access
to our interstate commerce books, just
as we would give the proper state au-
thorities information as to our state
rate if it was called for.
"As to the New York Central being
the only company which refused to sup
ply Comm -sioner Garfield with the
state rate, attention should be called to
the fact that the New York Central is
the only large state railroad in the
country.
7 do not think that the Standard Oil
company received rebates from any
railroad. Naturally, it is always on the
lookout for the most favorable rates,
and by the reason of its compact or
ganization s instantly ready to take
advantage of any changes in the tariff
An other upper could do the same
thing, only the Standard Oil company,
by being alert, has been enabled to get
the est possible rates by unceasing
scrutiny of the tariffs. If it had failed
to take advant ge of any rate changes
favorable to itself the Standard Oil
company would have been foolish"
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TROUBLE WITH BRASS THIEVES
Santa Fe Detectives Get Two With
Goods in a Sack.

The Santa Fe detectives picked up
two more brass thieves on Friday
afternoon. The victims are Frank and
Herbert Low, the former 20 years of
age, and the latter is years. They
were caught on the Kaw river bank
with about sixty pounds of brass in
sack. Warrants were sworn out for
them by the county attorney this morn
ing.
I'VE have to punish these fellows
hard hereafter" said one of the detec-
uves- IAN immense amount is stolen
every month and it runs into money
These boys sell it to junk dealers for
about 2 cents pound The Junk
dealer gets from 20 to rs cents in Kan
sas City We viii probably have to
serve notices on the junkmen here in
town that if any brass is found in their
possession bearing the Santa Fe mark,
that they Will be made to suffer alike
with the thief"
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New York. May 5.-The statement of
the clearing house banks for this week
shows that the banks hold S5.s99, 525
over the legal reserve requirements.
This is decrease Of $4,467, 5S5 under
last week The statement follows:
Loans s1,o4z11o. 500, increase 81. 500 400;
deposits S1.027, pa, 500. decrease s.. 4O9
700; circulation S50. S44. 200. decrease
1924. 200; legal tenders SIS. 81. 300. de-
crease 81. 232 500; specie 1888. 146. 500. de-
crease So, 5S7. zoo; reserve s262. M. 900 de-
crease "a, $40. 300, reserve required 1856. -
S1S,375. decrease $3.50, 425; surplus 81. S99. =
525, decrease 81. 467, S75; ex-U S. depos-
its S14.S92. $50. decrease s2.713.275.
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a Scientific Test

Kansas City, Mo. March %. 1908
Having made a thorough exami-
nation and test of the Wilton Gas
Lamp, using our American Photo
meter for measurement of candle
power and consumption of gas,
find that it gives an extra strong
light. works evenly and consumes
relatively very little gas The me-
ehanical construction is high grade
while the device for regulating and
controlling is convenient and eff
cient. In my Judgment, all things
considered, It has no equal among
gas lamps. j. P. JOHNSON,
Assistant City Gas Inspector.
We viii take orders tonight at
513 and 532 Kansas ave, 116 East
Sixth street, and Hotel Brunswick.
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kansas City Prodnce.

Kansas City, May WHEAT
unchanged to lower and as follows: May,
1850; July, 721sc; Sept, z07sc. Cash: No.
hard. 72G1S01zc; No. 3 hard, 74d7Sc; No. 2
red. ST5z0Sg1Sc; No. red S41z6S61kc.
CORN-Market unchanged. May, &c;
July, 423gc; Sept, 423sc- Cash: No. , mix
ed, 47ci No. . white, 471z6471zc; No. 3
white. 47d471tc
OATS Market unchanged to NC higher.
No. 2 white. -321kQ32s<e.
RYE-Market steady. 55G57c.
HAY-CLoice timothy, $13.00d13.75 ;choice
prairie SO. 50611. 90.
BUTTER-C Creamery, 19c; packing, 111ac.
EGGgEFresh, 1870.
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Kansas CITY Live Stock Market.

Kansas City, NO, May 5.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts today, 500 head Market unchanged
Native steers, "a. 25Q6-00; southern steers.
s. 25Q5.O0; southern cows. 81. 50694O0; native
COWS and heifers, 81. 50Q5. %; stockers and
feeders. $3.00Q5.00; bulls $300Q4.25; calves,
So O0G6.00; western fed steers So. 5Od5 %
western fed cows, $2.50Q4.25.
HOGS-Receipts today, 1000 head. Mar
ket &c lower Bulk of sales, $6.1506. %;
heavy. $500. 30; packers. $6.15d6.271zi pigs
and lights, S5.O006.2
SHEEP-Receipts today, 300 head.
Market nominally steady. MuttOns s.. GOA
CTS; lambs $575d7.35; range wethers, s.. %
$780, fed ewes, 81. 25G6.00
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FURNISHED by J. z. Gall. Commissions,
Grains Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
Office 10 w Sixth St Telephone 4S6-1

While the market is now
at about the same figure as it was a
week ago, it has been a pretty good
scalping market, fluctuating freely and
frequently between 79A and 70 cents
look for a continuation of this scalp
ing market until the government re
are working the heavy Argentine snip
ments pretty strong. and the market
at Liverpool remains weak.
Numerous damage reports have
been received from Michigan, Illinois,
Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska The
worst reports came from Michigan.
The damage is attributed to too much
moisture in March and too dry in
April In western Kansas large
acreage has been abandoned. The
Ohio state report isued today. shows
an Improvement in the growing con
dition of wheat in every county. the
Hessian fly is causing only slight
damage in Ohio.
The Missouri crop report issued to-
day shows a condition OF 81 against 80
last month and 81 last year, this in
dicates q crop of 80 million bushels:
want to call your attention TO the
fact that in all my experience 1 have
never seen q big crop of wheat raised
after a winter of as little moisture as
we have Just passed through Ny ad-
vice is to keep a little wheat bought
till the extent of the damage to the
growing wheat is fully determined,
and I believe the damage will event
ualIy show up bigger, than any one
has vet guessed at
CORN-The visible supply Of corn
decreased on Monday 2.675,00o which
leaves the total visible supply at T.
$4,000 bushels the strike Of the yes
selmen on the Great Lakes ana the
heavy shipments from Argentine OF
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INDIANA WILL PROSECUTE.
Attorney General to Act on Statement
Made by Garfield.

Chicago, May 5.-Ae dispatch to the
Tribune from Indianapolis says:
The charge in the. report of Commits
sioner of Corporations Garfield that
the Standard Oil company had secret
rate for shipment of oil from its re-
finery at Whiting to Evansville, and
that It paid about $4,000 year less
the case If the open rate had been
charged, is to be the subject of an in
vestigation by the attorney general of
Indiana under the law inhibiting dis
crininatious against shippers within
the state.
Whiting and Evansville are both
in Indiana and it is claimed that dis
ordinations come within the scope
of the law. which affixes heavy penal
ties for such practices.
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CIlicago IIlve stocIk

Chicago, May 5-CATTLE-Receip
300. Market steady; beeves, $4.00d6. 10;
feeders, 81 9Od490; caves, s4.O0d4.75.
HUt1S-ReceiL Is, 900. Market weak
to &c lower; estimated Monday, IS, 900.
Mixed and butchers, s6.l0Q6.421k; good
heavy, $6-30d6.-O; rough heavy, $6.00Q6i5;
light. s6.10d6.35; pigs. s5-60d6.15; bulk of
sales, $6.3506.40.
sh.r-fzeceipts, 2o09. Market strong.
Sneep, $3.35n5.sO; yearlings, $5.30d6.o0;
lambs, S5-25d7 80.
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New York Prndnce NTarIzet

New York, May 5.-BUTTER-Market
steady. Street prices: Extra creamery,
201Sc.
EGGs-Market firm State of PennsyI-
vania and nearby, fancy selected white
1870; do choice, 19c; do. mixed fancy, 1s1k
n19c; western extra frsts. 1Sc; seconds,
151kQ16c; southerns, 100161kc.
ems, S5b612c; fowls 1zc; turkeys, 12c
Dressed poultry weak. Turkeys, 14d16c;
fowls 10121kc.
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Attention Capital Lodge No. 3, A. o.
T. W

Members are requested to meet at
the hall, corner. Sixth and Quincy
street, at 100 o'clock Sunday after
noon to attend the funeral of our late
Brother c. P. Chadwick of 1894 North
Quincy street. Funeral services at the
house at $3.50 O'Clock.
H E. RALSTON. Master W.
G. o. TAYLOR. Recorder.
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New York. May .-MONEY-Money on
New etaoin etaoi etaoi etaoi etaofntaoin
call nominal, no loans Time loans steady.
cent.
CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper. 51zd6
per cent; sterling exchange firm. at 81 $3.50
IA S435 for demand, and at 81 S060d4. 1910 for
60 day bills; posted rates. $4.S244.S21z and
81 e2914S 9zz commercial bills, 81 500 a. S01z
lars. 50szc.
S-Government bonds steady.
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C1licapo Produce NTarI.ef

Chicago, May 5-BUTTER-Stead
cdeameries. 13Q20c; diaries, 131zd1Sc.
EGGS-SJrong at mark cases included,
14q15c.
CHEESE-Easy; daisies, 90 cs4 10c; twins,
919Q10c; young Americas, 10a101zc.
POULTRA Alive, weaker; turkeys,
PIC; chickens 12c.
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Free Dental Worls.

The state board of dental examiners
will be in session May Z, 8. 9, at the.
Copeland hotel annex. at which time
and place dental services will be per-
formed gratuitously by those under
going examination before the board.
NJ. 1 HULTS. Sec'y.
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PARKER SHOWS CLOSE TONIGHT
Their Opening Engagement of Season
Has Been a Success.

The Parker shows which have held
forth at Third and Jackson streets for
the past week will give their last per-
Torrance this evening when they will
close as far as Topeka is concerned
for this season and leave early Sunday
morning for Wichita, where they will
show next week.
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Liverpool, however. have been tbs
controlling features in the corn mar
ket this week, and the prices have de-
clined about one cent per busheL
The movement of corn has showed
some Improvement this week. but It
came from the country elevators. and
not from first hands. Should the lots
fall off again I look for a pretty fair
advance. as I believe that eventually
we will have considerably lower prices
on corn.
OATS=Reports from all the states
show a big decrease in oats planted on
account Of the rains during oats SOW
ing time With the continuance Of
heavy decreases in the visible supply
of oats, the large visible supply now
on hand viii speedily dwindle away. I
believe that oats should be purchased
on all breaks
PROVISIONS Liquidation in the
May options has caused weakness IN
the provision market the past week
and the July and September options
have followed in sympathy. AS long
as this liquidation keeps up I look for
a week market, but according to the
small supply of hogs in this country
and the immense demand for our
meats from foreign countries, ] see no
reason why these provisions should
not be bought on the good breaks.
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New York, May 5.-SUGARzRaw sugar
firm. Fair refining, ? 15-16c; centrifugal
96 test. 7-16c; molasses sugar 11-16c
Refined sugar steady Crushed, $3.50; pow
dered, $3.50; graduated $50
COFFEE-Market steady No. Rio, Sc
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could Continues to win.

London. May SIN the final round
of the amateur court tennis champion
ship of Great Britain at the Queens
club today, Jay Gould Of Lakewood,
". T., beat II. J. Hill by to O.
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Cotton Market.

New York. May 5.-COTTON-sa to
day, las bales Spot cotton closed quiet
Quotations per 100 pounds: NIiddling up
lands $l1.S0i middlIng gulf. $12.05.
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Chicago Markets.

FURNISHED by J. E. Gall, Commissions.
Grain, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
office 10 w. Sixth ST. Telephone 1851
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Experienced job printing press
feeder wanted. can at 822 East Fifth
street or call Ind. tel 61o-2.
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Liverpool closing cables: Wheat I'M
changed corn 1s02sd higher.
Grain receipts at Chicago: Wheat 4
cars; graded 0. Corn. 153 cars; graded,
s. Oats, 131 carsi graded, 5.
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Market Gossip.

FURNISHED by j. E. CAL. Commissions,
Grain, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
Office 10 W. Sixth st. Telephone 4S6.1
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Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions
Grain, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
Office no w. Sixth st. Telephone 4s6.l
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~secret Rates"

1T is asserted over and over again
in the report that the Standard Oil
company profited by secret and 'un-
lawful freight rates. Yet in the same
connection it is admitted in the report
that all of these rates are covered by
tariffs filed with the interstate com
merce commission precisely as the law
provides, and therefore can not be
either secret or unlawful
The commissioner uses the curious
phrase at one point in his report that
although a tariff or rate has been
filed with the (interstate) commission
in compliance with the terms of the
law, none but the favored shipper may
know of its existence As the inter-
state law explicitly provides that every
tariff of rates so fled must be posted
at every freight station and open to
the inspection of every shipper it is
hard to conceive Of the commissioners
temerity in making such an utterance.
THE presidents message complains
of the way in which the law IS evaded
By treating as state commerce what is
in reality merely q part of Interstate
commerce, although the
forms Of law may be complied with