The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-03

properties and other property of the pres
ent value of about one and one-half mil
| the completion of the parafine plants and
tanks that would have been completed at
| indicted and our mail withheld from us
| by the Dostoffice department, would be
| OF oil and by-products per annum, which
would have returned a handsome dividend
| on every share of stock. We have fought
our waytup against ridicule and abuse,
| against libel and lies, until we were prac-
! work practically completed and then all
| at once great hue and cry was raised by
a Few traitors In our ranks whose total in
Testment is less than three thousand dol
H larS r as SgaIirn 1SI 0NE MILLION AND
OF cash paid in by the other stockholders.
| After working almost night and day and
putting our very life blood into this strug-
gle We are attacked on every hand as
! dangerous and unreliable by influences and
individuals that are not friends of the
| Uncle Sam Oil company but enemies who
| ever since its organization have tried to
| cause Its downfall, but We're always un-
successful. The character of especfaiiy the
secretary of this company was attacked
| by character assassfnS in the secrecy of
BILE makers who probably never built up
even good-sized hen roost, and one of
t Whom does not even support his own fam
down. There are always a lot of street
corner loafers that criticise every big un-
dertakfng while their wives are at home
at the wash tub supporting them During
the past two years the indicted secretary
LeAnerles very adVantageonSly located, just
as We started out to5 do. We have built
one hundred and forty-one miles of pipe
line. besides the miles of lateral pipe lines
of the one hundred and seventy-sfx miles
bulId We have ninety per cent completed.
siXty-eight main distributing stations from
short railroad shipment more than one
thousand trade centers reaching over five
states We started out to build fifty of
these distributing stations and have hence
built more than we promised we would
build. We started out to acquire and de-
Telop oil properties and have secured and
hundred acre suitcase, lot forty-three,
all is paid for, and besides this one valua-
pie property the company has secured a
large interest in the Publishers oil com
pany. So that in fact the company con-
duction by doing very little, development
work for refinery No at Gherryyale and
bought and paid for nearly one hundred
tank wagons, more than fifty of which are
homes of thousands in Kansas, Missouri
and Oklahoma The Uncle Sam lineup has
cry fight on the trust in Nebraska, Iowa
Missouri, Arkansas. Oklahoma and Kan
crowd in the United States district attor-
ney's office at Topeka. while we are noti-
indicted and urged to consent to friend
ly'' receivership; and men whom we know
10 be unfr1endly to the independent cause
suggested said receiver. We have rails
ed approximately ONE MILLION, ONE
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS be-
sides the cash oil sales and every dollar
thus received has been paid out to build
up the Uncle Sam OIL company and We
have Cancelled checks to show for every
penny.
The United States district attorneys Of
flee in his effort to bolster up an unfair
case has given several newspaper inter
views which have been published broad
cast, namely that the indicted secretary
was short in his accounts of from quar-
ter to a half million dollars; other reports
have been circulated that the indicted sec
retarY lived in a mansion. had train of
Inverted servants and was putting in his
time in riding around in an expensive auto
mobile, and lot of other statements
equally as ridiculous but given out with
the motive of trying to belittle the stand
ing of the indicted secretary before the
public On the other hand we have as
before stated Cancelled checks for every
penny. We live in a rented house, have no
Inverted servants nor automobile and our
living expenses are kept down to a mini
mum and there are scores of reliable bus
mess men who know that the indicted
secretary has worked like slave for the
upbuilding of this company from the word
go If it does not take work to raise
eleven hundred thousand dollars with a
pack of blackmailers bounding you every
day and lying about you then we would
like to some of these wiseacres get
out and follow the pace that have
kept for over two years in the face of one