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The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-14

Besides any citizen in Cherryvsie al
the Cherryvale banks referred to elsewhere,
If you doubt that the worK On the -Archl-
son refinery is going aheaI just as repre-
sented write to any responsible citizen
in Atchison, Kan, and if ~ aoubt that
arrangements are being clase1 for another
refinery at Tulsa l. T, .vf.tt 10 Wiili4in
Stryker at Tulsa, incioSlne :. 1nu'ad rr-
velope Also, if you have further doubts
regarding the Uncle Sam Oil company,
60 and look over the latest edition of
Bradstreet's or Dun's, or write them for
reports
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-14

from Kansas City TO Chicago st. Paul.
Minneapolis. Dubuque and Des doines.
is the Chicago Great Western railway
Three well equipped trains daily Best
Of service. For further information ap-
pIy to Geo H Lincoln, T P A. Z
West Ninth street, Kansas City Mis-
souri,
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-14
Can You Afford to Turn Down an In
vestment in This Growing Enter
DrfSe2

As you viii notice by the following quo
tatIonsr on stocks, so many shares, when
Sold viii pay for so many rods of main
trunk pipe line. 1t is very important to
viii be made to have it completed by the
time the big river plant is ready to re-
ceive oil. OF course. if the line Is not
entirely completed the company. will use
ion at the end of the completed pipe line
and make the big pipe line a big payer
from the word go-every mile of pipe line
completed knocks off that much freight
TWENTY MILES of this pipe line each
month, and we base our calculations on
the results from the past, when the com
pany was not one-hundredth as strong as
1t is today The offer on stock is as fol-
lows, and following each quotation Is the
number of rods of pipe line your remit
tance viii enable the company to buy
$500 will pay for one mile of the
main trunk pipe line, and buys
1000 shares, par value. ... So 900
$500 will pay for over one-half
mile, and buys $500 shares, par
Ns3Iue Ss'.OOO
$500 will pay for nearly one-half
mile, and buys $500 shares, par
$500 will pay for nearly one-fourtIl
mile, and buys 1890 shares, par
5000 viii pay for nearly One-siXth
mile, and buys 1000 shares, par
value 1.OOO
500 will pay for over one twelfth
mile. and buys 500 shares, par
value $500
$50 viii pay for ten joints. and buys
$50 shares. par value .. $3.50
$50 will pay for four joints, and
buys 100 shares, par value. 500
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-14
MONTHLY PAYMENT OFFER.

In addition to the Uncle Sam company
selling its treasury stock at the above
cash prices. the company also makes the
following monthly payment offer, so that
investors of limited means can secure part
of the present allotment before q big ad-
vance occurs. which is certain to come.
Offer is as follows;
1000 shares. $500 cash. 6 monthly
payments ........... 5000 each
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-14

On account of the hall and organ
not being completed. the reception of
Orient lodge No. 81 for Friday even
ing has been POSTPONED until further
notice. W. S. EBERLE.
Master
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-14
SPECIAL INsTALLAIENT OFFER.

Fifteen thousand 05O0O) shares for $500
cash and six monthly payments Of $4,000
each. The chances are ten to one that
long before you have the six payments
made the value of your stock viii have
increased double and be selling at close
to so cents per share if not higher.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-14

oil
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b
oil fields at
Indian Thus this independent backed by
mntai1
the
Wi o b
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-14

THE STOCK IS NON-AssEssABL
AND THERE IS NO PERSONAL LA
bound to proft by SO doing, and at Inc
same time help a good cause 70 succeed
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-14

time. No seats will be reserved for the
exhibition but the doors will be open
at 7:30.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-14
Pine Line Route Suryeved.

Uncle Sam Company follows up its work
Fxnectfne ne control of snofber la4
pipe line route was surveyed and a pipe
line Will be Duilt at once from the Uncle
Sam oilers on Lot 45 and all the drills ,Ut
to work as to build up production for
the big river refinery. The Uncle Sam COM
pdny owns One-eighth of the stock Of the
Publishers company, while Uncle Sam in-
dividual stockholders hold Lhree-fourths
Of the balance, so that the produeti91
together WITH Lot 43. will furnish ar.nle
oil in addition to the other production con
trolled by the Uncle Sam Company to '-Il
the big river refinery when completed
Don't wait until a half dozen more Of the
largest oilers in the West are completed
on these properties and Uncle Sam stock
goes up to 5e cents per snare but buy
your stool. now.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-14
Fourteen Distributing Stations for
Nebraska.

From the verv start the Uncle Sam
company has had warm support from Ne
braska Several stockholders from Ne
braska have invested as high as two
thousand dollars each. while from all
over the state men continue to get in
line with Uncle Sam. Antitrust sentf-
ment is strong all over the state and Tn
Gle Sam oil will find ready market
there From Omaha and Nebraska City.
which the Uncle Sam company can reach
bv barges on the Missouri. if necessary to
company viii sell oil in Nebraska. Sta
tiOns viii be established in Beatrice. Au-
hurn. COlum bus. Fairbury. Falls City.
Grand Island, Hastings. KearneY, Lin
coin. HOldridge. Plattsmouth and York
As the big river refinery is increased the
Uncle Sam company can esta blish more
stations until U7nrIe Sam wagons will pa
troll Nebraska tire same as Kansas. If
YOU live in Nebraska. and want to soon
be burning your own oil buy Uncle Sam
stock before it is all taken by others
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-14

that price today. In fact there are few
stockholders in the Publishers who would
sell for even IS cents per share and espec-
tally so since Lot 46 has passed over to
the Publishers. The Publishers is the
strong right hand company for the Uncle
Sam, and the securing by this company of
eleven hundred acre Lot IS means that the
Uncle Sam refinery now has secured an
unlimited acreage control of the greatest
producing territory in Indian Territory oil
field Several of these Usage lots are pro
ducinE as high as TEN THOUSAND
BARkELS of oil per month. and the pro
ductiOn could easily be doubled and
trebled by drilling more wells
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-14

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The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-14
Net Sales on This fhe in January S26

the Cherryvale refinery is making big
money every day and night. We are be
mind with orders and could be selling ten
times the oil the company is now manu-
featuring had it the capacity. However,
IN less than four months longer the big
river refinery will be in operation and
Ihen the company VIII make more money
and can pay larger dividends.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-14
80 Per Cent. Of the Stock Is Sold.

Wnen you buy stock IN this company
you do what thousands of other investors
have done. The days are limited that
YOU can buy the stock at any price. Re
mittances are pouring in from all over
the United States. Stockholders every
where are working for the company and
increasing their holdings every day When
you stop to consider that fOur-fifths of
the stock is sold it leaves only a small
part yet to sell and will consequently
soon be taken Stock has been selling at
this price now for the past two months
and is growing in demand every day.
While we do not wish to try and hurry
you, still we know that this stock is not
going to last forever and the time for you
to act is at once or you will be unable to
secure the same.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-14

sare office abroad
Of one rd of S now pped
30 7 n II IN In
m andh OF to the
short u an y
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-14
A CLEAN PRIMARY
Candidates Appear to Favor
Registration Plan.
Would Have Nominations Made
to Avoid Repeating.
SOME ARE RETICENT.
Willing to Leave 1t to the
Committee.
Question Will Be Decided at
Meeting Saturday

The cry raised by the people of Shaw
nee county, especially those who have
no axes to grind, for clean primaries. at
which time the Republican county Off
GERS are to be nominated. has put the
politicians decidedly in a "refuse-to-be-
interviewed" mood. so far as giving an
expression concerning the advisa bflity
of having all Republican voters register
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-14
Oil Trust Paid Twenty-Five Million
Dollars IN DlNidanls Last Near

There is pront of over two hundred
t2GO per cent in refining oil with crude
at the present prices. The Uncle Sam
company is systematzing every depart
meht OF the company and reducing the
cost to the lowest figure. Stop and con-
slider for yourself what the profits to the
stockholders of this company must be
even II the company does not make half
the profits of the trust, which wonld be
good enough. Remember the Uncle Sam
company is not venture but a reality
with one great refinery in successful op
Grafton. and it is just a question of
Few months until the entire plans of the
company will be complete and the reve-
thousands of dollars daily. The oil trust
paid over twenty-five million dollars in
dividends last year If the Uncle Sam
Company only makes one-tWenty- it
VIII put the stock to 500 per snare.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-14
january a Banner Month for Uncle
sam Refinery

sam Refinery.
Come down and go over the books of the
sales department and see for yourself the
tank cars of oil that have been ship
ped during the past two months. January
was a banner month for the refinery
February viii be better and the business
viii continue to grow. The facts are that
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-01-19
6iSSSEdz7za91 = 9RE9zo9'A
S5aS Ns4 INSECT DEpREDATONS. ESsN5glESA
A31AH The Annual Loss occasioned by Destructive YI17A
SS4Ap insects in the United States. ~I1Y7gS
w " FlIloT e5SOI
INSECT DEpREDATIONS.
GUY ELLIOTT MICHEL.

Farmers of the United States in ad-
dition TO county, State and national
taxes, probably pay a much heavier
toll than they do to all three of the
above. The tax collector in this latter
case is one which is merciless and
overbeaTing, paying no attention what
ever to the necessities or obligations OF
the agriculturist each year, calling for
his dues unremittingly, and gloating
over the misfortunes of his tenant.
The tax collector in this case, however,
is the insect. The losses resulting
from the depredations of insects on
all plant products of the soil, both in
their growing and in their stored state,
together with those on livestock, ex-
coed the entire expenditures of the Ma
tional Government, including the pen
sion roll, and the maintenance of the
army and the navy. Enormous as is
the total value of all farm products of
this country 1t often would be much
greater were it not for the injurious
work of insects. According to figures
compiled by the Department of Agri-
culture the estimate is made that the
total value of farm products during the
last year amounted to $5,000,000,000.
The Bureau of Entomology, of the
Department of Agriculture, being IA
miliar with the work of the important
insect pests, estimates the probable
shortage due to insect damage at a |
minimum of 10 per cent, while in |
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-01-19
pREPAR1NG mo- FUNGIGATE ~ ORANGE TREE

years of excessive insect damage the
shortage may amount to so per cent.
The annual shortage of 10 per cent. is
a low estimate, which is more often
exceeded than fallen below, and indi-
Gates at current farm prices money
loss of $500, 900 000-the minimum
yearly tax which insects lay on the
products of the farm. This estimate,
however, does not include the damage
caused to farm products in storage,
such as cereals and forage crops and
to natural forests and forest products,
assigning at least 100000, 900 to each
of these two items. The total annual
tax then chargeable to insects is
$I00,000,000 annually.
The item of loss from insect damage
not only includes the actual destruc-
ton or injury to crops, but the esti
mate must also include very import
ant item-the amount of money de-
voted to insect control. This amounts
to very considerable percentage of
the value of the crop in the case of
orchard fruits, truck crops and such
field crops as cotton and tobacco. For
instance in estimating the losses due to
the codling moth it has been shown by
figures of the Department of Agricul-
ture that over $S,000,000 year is ex-
pended in spraying apple trees, allow
ing a cost of only 5 cents per tree.
The cost of casing and spraying citrus
fruit trees ranges from cents to $3.50
per tree. Another source of loss is
that occasioned by a diminution of GER
tain crops such as wheat or cotton.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-01-19
A SeedIess Persimmon.

The latest sensation in the seedless
fruit line reported at Washington is
seedless persimmon. The officials
other day received a visit from Mr..
John H. Drury, who brought with him
a specimen of seedless native persim-
mons from his place near the national
capital.
The general impression is that the
seedless persimmon is either non-ex-
istent or nearly so in this country. A
seedless variety of this fall luxury is
not, however, new thing, but, on the
other hand, number of trees are scat
tered throughout the South bearing
seedless persimmons. Seedless speci-
mems are occasionally found in the big
Japanese variety and they are rather
rare and the flavor is nothing to be
compared to the native sort.
A number of instances are known by
the officials of the Bureau of Plant In
dustry of solitary persimmon trees
bearing seedless fruit, but when pollen
from other persimmon trees in the
neighborhood is brought in contact
with the flowers of the seedless sort
the resultant fruit will be full of seed.
The fruit brought to the Department
of Agriculture by Mr.. Drury proves to
be little smaller than the average
native persimmon. The specimens
when cut across were absolutely seed
less and while the fruit was compare
lively small it had really more meat
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-01-19
Insect Damage to Hay.
COIN IMPAIRED BY GRAIN MOTH.

COIN IMPAIRED BY GRAIN MOTH.
the leafworm, while many other in
sects intiict minor damage. Without
counting the losses due to the latter
class of depredators we have total
loss of more than $40,000000 charge
able to the three important insect
pests of cotton.
Vegetable and other truck crops are
especially subject to insect injury, and
furthermore in the case of these crops
there is always a large expenditure
for the control Of insects. The orchard
and smaller fruits suffer heavier loss
from insect pests, both directly and be-
cause of the expensive methods of
treatment necessary to prevent still
greater losses. There are several hun
bred insects which depredate on the
roots, trunk, foliage and fruit of the
apple. The important pests are the
woolly aphis, injuring the roots; the
trunk and limb borers, the leafworms,
canker-worms and tent caterpillars,
and the various scale insect pests, in
GLIDING the San Jose scale. Injuring
the fruit are the codling moth, the
cuculio, and the apple maggot.
The insect losses to other deciduouS
fruits are quite as heavy as in the
case of the apple and especially when
the treatments for the San Jose scale
and other scale pests are considered;
and in the case of citrus fruits the cost
of treatment is much greater and the
actual losses again heavier.
Forests-especially planted forests of
artificially wooded areas on farms
pay toll to numerous borers, which
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-01-19

stalk-borers, various species of locusts
or grasshoppers, corn plant lice and
other insects. This undoubtedly causes
a less of an additional $4,000, 900, or
with a total annual loss to the corn
crop of $S0,000,000.
OF large number of insects which
depredate wheat crops, the three i'm
portant species are the Hessian fly, the
chinch bug and The grain plant louise.
While the chinch bugisnotablya wheat
pest, its damage to other cereals and
varied crops is very considerable. The
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-01-19
THE FIRE ENGINE DRYER.
There May be Better Drivers on
Earth, but If There Are, Where
Are Thew?

Is there a better driver in the world
than the man who drives the fire en-
CINE? If there is, he is yet to De dis
covered.
Here was an engine coming along
cross street, to turn up an inter-
secting avenue. Under the edge of the
rounded-off corner where the machine
was to turn there was sewer opening.
with the street pavement sloping down
smoothly toward it all around from the
higher general level of the street.
If the driver, coming as he was at a
dead gallop, should make a broad turn
around this corner, out where the
street was level, the engine would
swing more or less, thus checking the
horses speed and there would be a
second or two lost before they could
get the load Strengthened and get under
full Roadway with it once more, up
the avenue. But If the driver could
make that corner with the two wheels
on the inner side of the curve down
in that sloping depression leading to
the sewer opening close by the curb,
and the two outside wheels on the
higher level nearer the middle of the
street, the higher level here would be
for the engine what the banked up
outer rail is for the locomotive round
ing curve, making it so he wouldn't
lose an inch. And that's the way he
did make it.
Before he knew it a man who had
been standing at the edge of this cor
ner, waiting to see the engine go by,
saw 1t so near to him and pushing in
so close to him that he could have |
touched it. The driver, aloft in his |
high seat leaning inwards as he was,
90, actually hanging over him as the |
engine passed, with whistle screaming
md steam Kissing, and that driver, as
lie flung 'em in this fashion round this
'urve, was talking low TO his horses
md calling on 'em each by name-a
nan absorbed if there ever was one.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-01-19
THE ARTIFICIAL LIFE.
Consists in Part in Eating AduIter-
ated and Injurious Foods.

The State Board of Health of Massa-
chusetts has had chemical analyses
made of prepared foods and the report
of the Board shows what we really eat
in the course of everyday life. When
we use pepper, we also get ground
nutshell and fruit stones with a little
pepper mixed in. Mustard consists
chiefly of wheat -four and turmeric,
this latter is an East Indian saffron
eolored root with an acrid and pungent
taste. When we use lime juice we get
a little of the juice with 40 TO GO per
cent. water, the whole preserved with
sulphurous, salicylic or benzoic acid.
Ale is preserved with salicylic acid,
also porter and likewise beer; pure
Vermont" maple syrup is nothing more
than cane syrup. Canned CLAIMS are
preserved with boric acid
While this revelation of the Massa-
chusetts authorities is something aw-
full to contemplate, yet we are stag
gered by a further report of the Board
which shows that an enterprising
chemist has discovered that the odor
of spoiled eggs can be neutralized
through the addition of formaldehyde
Since this discovery a number of es-
adjustments have entered into the
business of collecting bad eggs, treat
ing them with formaldehyde and SELL
ing the mixture to bakers, who use it
in cake and other foods sold to the
public. While the addition of formal
dehyde utterly destroys any bad odor,
the process renders the eggs extremely
hurtful to the human system. Form
erly the mixture of bad eggs was sold
to leather manufacturers, but since
this later discovery the price of mixed
eggs has risen from 10 cents per case
to more than q dollar.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-01-19

The principal culprits are the ox-war-
BILE, and various biting flies and ticks.
Horses. sheep and other farm animals
are subject to attacks of similar para
sites and other insect enemies. If all
these be considered including, for ex-
ample, the buffalo gnats, often very
destructive in the South, the many
gadflies, BOTTLES, the screw-worm fly,
and such parasites as the ticks and lice,
heavy percentage OF loss must be
reckoned. A conservative estimate of
the Department of Agriculture of these
losses is $175.OOO.OOO a year.
Stored Products Preyed Upon.
While mention has been made of the
damage done to vegetable products dur
ing the growing and maturing season,
these crops after they have run the
gauntlet of insect enemies during their
entire period OF growth, are still sub
iect to the inroads Of insect depreda-
tors while in storage on the farm, in
elevators and mills, or again while in
transit especially in the case of long
shipments by sea. Food products in
the kitchen and house-storeroom suf-
fer from insect damage. Animal pro-
ducts are attacked by larder beetles,
etc., fruits by various fruit and vine
gar flies and the woolens and house
hold furnishings by beetles, moths,
silver fish, etc. Cured tobacco is es-
pecially subject to insect attacks and
damage, the most important source of
injury being a minute insect known as
the cigarette beetle which not only
eats into cigarettes but all other forms
of cured tobacco. While an estimate
of $100,000,000 a year is placed upon
the damage done to the store products,
iris does not include the destruction to
products in the household or to tobacco
A very considerable item which
might be chargeable to insects and yet
which cannot be estimated is that of
insect damage. No one can
estimate how much is expended on
wire screens for the household to pre- |
vent the ingress of flies, mosquitoes |
md moths. nor can an estimate be |
placed upon the amount of money ex-
pended to eradicate mosquitoes, but it |
S believed that the estimate of $780,
100, 900 made by the officials of the
Department of Agriculture is far below
he actual annual loss. The problem
he economic entomologist of the flu
ure must solve is the lessening or pre-
-ention of this loss.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-01-19
Substitute form Duel

A new humor has been added to the
French duel. A. NJ. de Groze had an
engagement with swords with a M.
Carillot. At the last moment he sent
word that he would not fight, but was
sending his second in his stead. Hap
PLY the second acquitted himself so
brilliantly that the principals absence
was not felt, for he actually shed some
of his adversary's gore. 1t was de-
lightful touch, the courtesy of not dis
appointing a waiting antagonist, but
sending instead nice, obIiging friend
to pink him.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-01-19
Didn't Know a POT Roast.

To a neighbor complaining of the
size of the meat bills was suggested
the plan of buying cheaper cuts. A
pot roast" was suggested as a substi-
tute for the expensive prime ribs. "
why what is pot roast?' she asked.
And that little woman, with husband
on moderate salary, was trying to
run the house. She was about as we'll
fitted for the work, as far as knowledge
and skill were concerned, as a child
ten years old. And the pity of it was
that the husband was straining every
nerve and working overtime to make
the money to keep things going.
A little knowledge; a little skill
Will save the stomach and fill the till
If the courses in cookery in the pub
lie schools of to-day succeed in teach
ing the girls that much needed lesson
OF economy in buying and proper prep
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-01-19
Woman's Beautiful Memorial.

A beautiful memorial to a noble wo-
man will be maintained henceforth in
the little city of Pasadena, Cal, the
home of the late Helen Peabody.
founder of the Western College for
Women at Oxford, Ohio. Miss Pea
body, who died recently, provided in
her will that her Pasadena residence,
one of the loveliest in that lovely town.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-01-19

COTTON BUD ATTACKED BY BOIL
WORM.
often almost utterly destroy the trees,
as in the case of the black locust, to
leaf defoliators and many other varie-
ties of depredating insects.
Cattle the Prey of Insects.
The losses due to biting and para
site insects of cattle are considerable.