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COMMISSIONER SMITH
WHACKS STANDARD OIL
Continued from Page /.

cIudes Arkansas, Oklahoma, Indian Ter
ritory, Texas and part of Missouri and
Louisiana, separated in these records into
seven divisions by the company. In 1900
the profits varied from 0.9 cent in the St
Louis division TO cents per gallon in the
north Texas division. The first six months
of 1904 the profits were as follows: St
Louis division, O.6 cent per gallon; east
Texas and Louisiana. Is cents; Missouri,
Is cents; Arkansas, 2.S cents; south Tex
as, 3.3 cents; central Texas. 80 cents;
north Texas, "A cents, showing an ex-
IRENE range of profits and, of course, a
correspondingly extreme range of net
prices. Similar inequalities in local prices
appear in the gasoline business of this
company.
Startling Discrimination.
The data from other sources. mainly
from prices reported in December, 1904
by over 5000 retail dealers throughout the
country, show even more startling dis
ordinations in prices, wholly unexplain-
able on any other theory than that of the
differences in competitive conditions and
the use of a monopoly power. These dis
ordinations are shown in several ways
Taking the average prices for the several
states in December, 1904, the lowest price
appears in Delaware, IL cents per gal
lon, freight deducted, and the highest in
Colorado, 1862 cents per gallon, freight de-
Quoted, or more than twice as high. Part
of the difference in this case is due TO
higher cost of refining and marketing of
the Colorado oil. The difference In cost
cannot exceed 49, cents per gallon, which
explains less than one-half of the total
difference of Sik cents difference in the
price In several other Rocky mountain
and Pacific coast states the average price
of Illuminating OIL less freight, for De-
cember, 1904. was over Is cents. as COM
pared with IL in Delaware. freight de-
Quoted.
There is some difficulty in comparing
average state prices. even after deduct
ing freight rates, arising from the uncer-
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ALL THIS WEEK
Pictures Murdered

To make room for our pen bust
ness. We clear out all our
stock at any price to move, no
matter what the cost. Bargains
in everything, leather goods
and stationery included.
HELD ENGRAVING CO.,
81 Main st.
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lubricants. Certain very remarkable
facts characterize this business. The
trade with railroad companies of the
united States in lubricating oils for roll
ing stock amounts to about S4500.000 per
year. The Standard Oil company,
through the Galena-Signal Oil company.
which il controls, has an almost COM
plete monopoly therein. certainly over IS
per cent of this business.
The system upon which the lubricating
oils are sold to the railroads is some
what unusual. Each contract contains
certain invoice prices" per gallon of oil
which are to be paid unless reduced oy
other provisions of the contract. These
invoice prices are excessively high, and
are the same in all contracts. But there
Is also in each contract a second factor,
the mileage guaranty" By this guar
anty the oil company agrees that the cost
OF fabrication to a particular road shall
not exceed a certain amount per thou
sand miles run by locomotives passenger
cars and freight ears. These guarantees
unlike the invoice prices, differ widely
Tor the different roads. BY means of
such mileage guarantees. the net prices
OF lubricants to a given road NAV be
placed at the excessive invoice prices or
at any desired amount below them.
The oils used and the invoice prices per
gallon are as follows: Valve oil, 4S cents;
engine OIL y cents; coach OIL 80 cents;
car oil, is cents. Reports were received
from niEety-four railroad companies
which operate about 91.5 per cent of the
locomotive and car mileage of the coun-
try. all under contract with the Galena-
Signal Oil company. BY reason of the
very low price it has paid over a period
OF ter years, as compared with other
roads, the Pennsylvania system stands
in a class by itself. Through the mile
age guara ,Ities. widely different prices
have been made to railroad companies for
the same oils, as is shown by the fol-
lowing statement of average prices maid
Tor waive oil; The Pennsylvania system
PAID go cents per gallon. eight roads av-
eraged III cents, twelve roads 81 cents
Iltteen roads Al cents, seventeen roads
49:9 cents, and forty-one roads As cents
Inc prices paid for the other oils were
N exactly the same proportion as those
eited Ior valve oil. The Importance of the
IlIty-eisht roads in the two classes last
mentioned is shown by the fact that in
one year they paid S26OOOOO at nrfces
which averaged double those paid b. the
Pennsylvania Wy
The Gaiena-Signal Oil company has
continued under successive agreements
Whlch 1t has had ample opportunitv to
terminate 10 sell these lubricating oils
10 the pennsylvania during the past ten
years az prices which were about one
haII ne invoice prices. and some few
other roads have had equally favorable
contracts MCteOver, the calculations
made by the Pennsylvania as tn the COST
at which it could compound ifs own I,,bSi
CdnIs from oils bought in the omen mar
ket, as well as statements made by a.
dependent oil companies. show thai tbo
prices paid by the PENNSYLVANIA can he
used as a standard of reasonable Drice
py Whlch TO Judge the excessive prices
country. III 'iis
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Picture line; everything sold re-
gardless of cost. We must have
the room for our pen business.
HELD ENGRAVING CO.
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When you want good printing call on
the Century Printing Co. Salt Lakes
printers. 165-i67 South West Temple st
Both phones. Goa
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LADIES' RE DAY an sALTAIE

Ask for that NEW BREAD at your
grocery. Vienna Walnut Bread.
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TROOPS FROM ALeIERs.

Algiers, Aug. 1.-THE commander of
the French troops here has received or
ders to be prepared to send a battalion
of sharpshOoters. and section of his ar
tillery to Morocco at moments notice.
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BE A KNIGHT FOR 4 DAY.
GOING OUT OF The

Saltair, August 13, 1907.
State Pythian Day
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HELP WANTED.

HELP WANTED.
Ladies' clothes froners. also girls for
ether departments; good wages, clean
airy werkrooms. Apply
TROY LAUNDRY,
81 south Sixth East Sheet
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Monday. Aug. IL. All welcome.
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A special and important branch of the
oil industry is In the selling of railroad
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While the state Republican clubs
have been reaching a condition of ex-
citement over the abandoned farms of
New York. which is dangerous in hot
weather, they have apparently entire
Nv overlooked the farm of one LIE Veno,
near Peekskill, which, far from being
abandoned, has suddenly developed
into what is probably the most val
liable farm in the state, If not in the
country. The city needing ten acres
of this remarkable farm. is somewhat
taken back to find that the land is
valued at the modest price of $54.500 an
acre. The owner is evidently an asri-
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-04-18
Cutting Affray at Batesburg.

COLUMBIA, April 13.-At Bates
burg this afternoon Lee Fallaw and
George Mabus, young white men
from the country, engaged in a cut.
ting affray and both were wounded.
Fallaw is seriously hurt. It appears
that Mabus heard that Fallaw had
made certain statements concerning
Mabus to a young lady of their
acquaintance and that Mabus today
accosted Fallaw about the matter
when they met in town. Fallaw
denied the charge and an alteration
resulted. Each man drew his pocket
knife and used it on the other.
Mabus was stabbed in the left side,
the knife penetrating the lower lobe
of the left lung and infiicdng a
wound which may be serious. Fallaw
was stabbed in the right breast and
also in the lower lung, this wound
being very serious. Fallaw was
taken to a boarding house and given
the best of medical attention, being
too seriously wounded to be moved
to his home, which is near Hibernia,
three miles from Batesburg. Mabus
was taken to his home near Bethle-
hem, a few miles from Batesburg,
where he is also under the care Of a
physician. Fallaw is about rs years
old and aMbus a year or so older.
Both come Of good families.
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Negro Child Burned to Death.

UNION, April 10.-At Sedalia, q
town IL miles from here, there was
this morning a peculiarly horrible
instance of child being burned to
death. q.
The mother, Mary Gage, was in q
different house on the Ray place.
shelling corn. She had left at home
a boy about 6 years old, little girl
about 4, and a baby little less than
IL months old.
In playing near the fire the girl
caught ablaze and the little brother,
in attempting to extinguish the
flames, threw on her a bucket of slop.
and put her on the bed and covered
her with a blanket, but the bed clothes
catching fire he dragged the child
from the house to a little drain or
gully near the building and there.
covered her with the blanket and dt.
is said some leaves. &
When the mother returned to pre-
pare the midday meal, on inquiring
after the missing child, she was then.
led to the spot where the charred re-
mains of the already dead child were;
lying. No inquest was held, as 1T
was considered purely accidental.
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IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down For Quick
Reading-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.

The State dispensary commission
has turned down accounts of whiskey
dealers amounting to S150,0O0 or
$500, 600. These amounts are for
goods rejected.
Daniel H. Chamberlain, who was
governor of South Carolina in the
Jays of radical misrule, died in
Charlottesville, Va, last Saturday Of
cancer of the stomach. He was 72
years old, and was born in West
Brookfeld, Mass.
Greenwood's first hanging took
place last Friday. Joe Evans, a ne
gro, was hanged for the murder of
his brother-in-law. He prayed on
the scaffolo, said he was guilty of
the crime and was ready to die,
having made his peace with God.
Charles Howard and Tom Nolan,
safe blowers from the North, were
tried in Spartanburg last week for
the crime Of dynamiting the safe of
the Enoree Mfg. Co. in 1902 and
robbing it of something like $40, 900.
A large gang was concerned in the
crime. Howard and Nolan were
found guilty and sentenced to ten
years each in the penitentiary.
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Auendale Notes

ALLENDALE, April 13.-Mr. J. w.
Lazar died on Thursday night arr
a lingering illness of several months
duration.
News of the death of the Rev John
Morrison, of the Lawtonville section,
has been received here. Mr.. Morrison
was a well-known Baptist minister
and school teacher, man of very
bright mind and fine character. His
death will be a great loss to his COM
munity.
Mr.. L. A. Stoney has 700 acres of
watermelons planted around Allen
dale. Some of them have been
planted two weeks and the vines
should be coming up in a few days.
The district conference Of Charles
ton district will convene at Allendale
next week. Quite a large number
Of preachers and delegates are ex-
pected. =
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Death of Mr.. J. G. Kirkland.

On Monday morning last, ripe in
years and rich in the esteem of all
that knew him, he departed this life
at his home in Ramberg county.
On Tuesday morning his body was
laid to rest in the cemetery at Mizpah
church, Rev. R. A. Yongue conduct
ing the funeral services.
There he will sleep near the ashes
of the kindred that have gone before,
until the full reunion of eternity shall
come.
In years he belonged to the gener-
alton that so fast vanishes, but in the
goodness of his heart and the gentle
ness of his life there was ever the un-
failing sweetness of the spring time.
From boyhood he was loved by all in
touch with the trueness of the sterl-
ing virtues of his character.
A good citizen in all the changes
of his more than three score years
and ten, faithful in every hour to
the highest ideals Of duty to his fel-
low men, he lived worthily of the
honored name he bore, and the mem.
cries he has left to his family and
friends shall not soon pass away. To
many hearts, in many homes, the sad
tidings of his death have come sad
dening message, yet there is graft
tude that he was so long spared to
brighten the lives of those he loved,
of those by whom he was beloved
and honored.
He was in his 77th year. .-Barnwell
People.
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Orangeburg District Conference.

To the members of the Orangeburg
District Conference-Dear brethren:
Please bring to the district confer
ence written reports of your respec-
tive charges as directed by the discip-
line. We wish these reports handed to
the secretary on Thursday morning,
May 9, so that time may be had for
the discussion of the important sub.
jects coming before a district confer
ence. Come prepared to give your
best thoughts on. the following sub.
jects:
What is the pastors equipment
for spiritual work?
Is the teaching of the Bible in the
Sunday-school sufficient so as to pe-
lieve parents from that obligation?
Why should the church strive fol-
the education as we'll as the con-
version of the people?
What is the duty and relation Of
the pastor to the financial affairs OF
the church?
What do Gods people owe to His
house of worship?
Why should the records and regis
ters of the church be correctly kept!
Friday morning will be given to
our schools and colleges, representa-.
tives are invited to be present at
that time. ,
Brethren will serve on committees
as follows:
For license-J. B. Traywick, A. C.
Walker, R. A. Yongue.
|. For the travelling connection
Peter Stokes, G. W. Davis, E. H.
Beckham.
For deacon's and elders orders
L. P. McGee, J. A. Graham. M. F.
Dukes.
Quarterly conference journals "A.
w. Knight, J. M. Moss, P. C. Dukes,
F. M. Green, l. w. Bowman, O. B.
Riley, H. 1. Judy.
Opening sermon Thursday, May 9,
II a. M, Rev. j. H. Thacker.
The conference will convene in the
town of Rowesville S. c., Thursday
morning 10 o'clock, May 9, 1907.
All the members of the conference
will please keep this program hereby
published, as there will be no further
announcement.
Let each pastor and layman go to
Rowesville prepared to do his best
work for our Lord and His Church,
and may the love of God be with us.
Your fellow worker.
JAS. w. KILGO,
Presiding Elder.
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DIED HORRIBLE DEATH.
Body of Union Man, who Had Been
iii, Found FearfuIly Burned.

UNION, April 11.-Robert A. Han
cock, a well-known man of this place,
died last night. He had been sick for
a long lime with a complication Of
diseases. No one was in the house
with him when he died, except boy.
This youth states that Mr.. Hancock
was i'll all night; that he, the boy,
was up with him until 2 o'clock,
when Hancock told him to 60 to bed.
This morning Hancock's body was
found, face down, in the fire, his
head resting against the back of the
fireplace, and all the flesh burned
from head and face; both arms burn
ed off nearly to the shoulder, and his
legs partially consumed.
The boy says he left Mr.. Hancock
sitting by the fire when he fell asleep,
and it is thought that a sudden at
tack of heart trouble, to which he
was subject, produced instant death,
and that he pitched forward into the
open fireplace after dying.
Mr.. Hancock was a hard worker.
For number of years he was super
intendent of the county chain gang
and had been recently employed by
the county in the building ofitsmac-
adam road.
A coroner's jury held an inquest
today over Mr.. Hancock's body and
returned a verdict that death was
due to natural causes.
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Seriously Hurts Two.

COLUMBIA, April 13.-Joseph w.
Hapgood, a huckster W no was dis
charged from the State hospital for
the insane three weeks ago as cured,
ran amuck in a fit of violent insanity
at his home on Assembly street today
and before he could be overpowered
seriously and perhaps fatally injured
Mrs. Eugenia Smith, an aged wom-
an, and John J. Riley, cork legged
man, both renters on his premises.
Hapgood attacked his victims, who
are now in Columbia hospital, with a
knife and axe. He broke into Mrs.
Smiths room by smashing the door.
He struck her on the head with the
axe but it was a glancing blow. Mrs.
Andrews, who was also in this room,
escaped and gave the alarm.
Meanwhile the maniac passed on to
the front room, occupied by Riley,
who hearing. the noise jumped out of
bed and hoped into the street, with
cut taking time to buckle on his cork
leg.
Hapgood finally overlook him and
stabbed him in the back with the
knife and struck him on the hip with
the fiat side of the axe. Hapgood's
wife made a heroic effort to restrain
her husband, tearing off most Of his
clothes in the struggle and finally
giving way to a fit of Mysteries from
nervous exhaustion.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-04-18
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.

EHRHARDT, April 15.-The cold
wave has hit us with a vim. All the
farmers are blue over the continued
cold wave. Some of them had corn
and cotton planted.
Mr.. Charles Ehrhardt and Miss
Rosa Mcmillan were married by
Rev. P. E. Monroe on last Wednes-
day afternoon att o'clock at the resi-
dence of the brides mother. He
gave a supper at his residence to
relatives. After night the young
sters gave them serenade with
horns, bells, and in fact anything
that would make noise.
Booze was indulged in by quite a
number of folks Saturday. At least
they had indulged in enough to un-
balance their equilibrium.
Capt. w. E. Sease died last Friday
night and was buried at Mt. Pleasant
grave yard on Sunday morning. Rev.
P. E. Monroe preached his funeral,
then he was laid in his last resting
place with Masonic honors. A large
crowd was present to see his remains
for the last time and express their
sympathy to the bereaved family.
The Captain had been suffering for
several months prior to his death,
but with all that could be done for
him he gradually grew worse and
weaker-until death relieved him of
his suffering.
Mrs. Mamie McTeer spent a few
days last week with her sister, Mrs.
Willie Moore. She returned to her
home in Hendersonville on Friday
last.
c.. Ehrhardt & Sons have cleared
the grounds of the old gin house,
and are getting out the lumber for
the new building, and will push it to
completion as fast as the workmen
can put it together.
The young ladies are buying up
for the memorial. Each one is try
ing to get the prettiest hat and dress.
JEE.
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Another Contest.

Hon. J. o. Patterson is being an
noyed again this year with contest
for his seat in congress. The negro,
Meyers, who contested it two years
ago, is the contestant again. His
cause is being ABLY" looked after by
his famous counsel, Jacob Moorer, of
Orangeburg. A hearing has been
held in Aiken, Denmark, Allendale,
Hampton and Beaufort, where testi-
mony was produced to show that Mr..
Patterson's election last year was not
a legal one, all this being form of
red tape necessary to be gone through
with in order for the contestant Mey-
ers to get $4,000. 90 which the govern
ment allows him to make the contest.
-Barnwell Sentinel.
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Rayner and the Teachers.

Senator Rayner, of Maryland, is q,
stout advocate of larger salaries for
teachers in all sorts of schools. Re-.
Gently at a reception he told a story
about a teachers meeting in a dis
trict where the salaries were unIs
ually low. ss. ~
"A rich portly banker opened the
meeting with an address," said the.
senator. "The banker concluded his
remarks with an enthusiastic ges-5
ture and the words Long live our
teachers!'"
"'What on?' shouted a thin, pale,
seedy man in black coat smeared
with. chalk marks. Washington
Herald.
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Ashamed of the Family.

A petition was recently filed in a
Tennessee court by a man named
Damn praying that he be allowed to
change his name to that of Hamm.
The petitioner, who is a native of
Denmark, set forth in his petition to
the court that his name had caused
him considerable annoyance on more
than one thousand occasions. His
feelings had been particularly hurt
since the souvenir postcard, bearing
portraits of "The whole Damn Fam
lily" had been placed on the market.
The court granted the prayer of the
petitioner, and his name was changed
to Hamm.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-04-18
Death at Branchyille.

BRANcHvILLE, April 14.-Mrs. E.
C.. Hunter, Of this place, died here
yesterday morning at $50 o'clock.
Mrs. Hunter has been quite sick for
several days and her death was not
altogether unexpected. Mrs. Hunter
was the daughter of Mrs. M. A.
Miley, of Bamberg., 49,.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs.
L. w. Gressett also died here yester-
day.
The residence of MIR. A. D. Fed
erick, occupied by Mr.. Jas S. Brit
ton, was destroyed by fire Saturday
afternoon. Mr.. Britton lost his en-
tire household effects.
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Wouldn't Interrupt the Argument.

W0ul0nt Interrupt Cne Argument.
Down in Cochran, Ca, the affairs
of civil justice are administered by
Judge Edwards, who is also an enthu-
siastic farmer. One cloudy spring
afternoon court was convened to try
a peculiarly tortuous and perplexing
case. He was observed at last to
seize a slip of paper, scribble few
words, place the document beneath
a heavy paper weight and reach for
his hat. D.
Captain" he called cheerily, Eek
cuse me fur interruptin' you, sub;
you go right on with your argument,
which is a darned good one. It's
suah goin' to rain this evenin', gen.
tlemen, an got to set out my pota-
toes right away. But you go right
on, captain. When you an the maj
or get through you all III find my de-
cision under this heah paper weight. "
The door closed upon an astonished
orator. Nashville Banner.
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Personal Mention.

Mr.. L. B. Fowler spent Monday
in Charleston.
Rev. P. E.. Monroe, of Ehrhardt,
was in the city Monday. =.
Mr.. ]. S. J. Faust, of Columbia,
was in the city last Friday.
Mr.. C. C.. Fender, of the Colston
section, was in the city Monday.
Mr.. w. C. Patrick, of Columbia,
is spending a few days in the city.
Policeman E. Dickinson is out
again after an illness of several
weeks.
! Mr.. A. L. Kirkland, of the Bu-
ford's Bridge section, was in the city
last Thursday.
Miss Cora Connor, of Branch
vile, visited her sister, Miss Mamie
Connor, Saturday and Sunday.
John R. Bellinger, ESQ.,, went to
Columbia Monday night, to argue
cases before the State Supreme
Court.
Rev. A. J. Foster and Mr.. C..
w. Rentz, Jr., attended the State
meeting of the Baptist Young Peo-
pies Union in Columbia last week.
Miss Mamie Harrison, who left
here about three weeks ago, to be
head trimmerin McPherson's depart
ment store at Bremen, Ca, returned
home Tuesday, having finished her
trimming.
Rev. w. C. Kirkland, of Dillon,
attended the funeral of his uncle,
Mr.. J. C. Kirkland, at Buford's
Bridge on Tuesday. He visited the
Epworth League conference here
Thursday and made an address.
Rev. S. A. Nettles, of Spartan
burg, editor of the Southern Chris
tian Advocate, was a visitor at the
Epworth League conference here last
Friday night and Saturday. He
went to Springfield, where he preach
ed Sunday.