The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-06-14

prosecution to establish and corrobo-
rate this testimony.
Greene -Gaynor Sentence Stands.
The United States circuit court of
appeals, sitting at New Orleans, af-
armed the sentence of the Savannah
court imposing four years imprison-
ment upon Benjamin ID. Greene and
John +. Gaynor, and fines aggregating
f575,000, fol- connection with harbor
frapds at Savannah. The case haI
been appealed upon 1913 assignments of
errors, one of which wns that the de-
PENDANTS had been eXtradited from
Canada illegally upon charge differ
Ing from the one on which they were
tried. Judge Pardee, in a dissenting
opinion, held 1t better that a person
should escape altogether than that a
judgment Of conviction should be sus-
tanned where the record does not show
that there was valid trial. The first
Indictment in this case was found in
December, 1899. The defendants, after
seven and one-half years of fighting.
have still the privilege Of applying for
a rehearing or of going to the United
States supreme court on a writ of GER
tiorari.
End of Honduras Lottery.
The Honduras National Lottery
company, successor to the Louisiana
Lottery, went out of existence when
more than twenty-five men of various
degrees Of prominence In different
parts of the country pleaded guilty in
the district court at Mobile, Ala, to
the charge Of conspiracy to, cause the
carriage of interstate lottery advertise
ments. Nineteen Of them were fined
$4,000 each, five $4,000 each, and sew
eral others smaller sums. In addition
to pleading guilty, the defendants
agreed to surrender for destruction all
lottery books, plates and other para
phernalia and Immediately to dispose
of the printing establishment belong
Ing to the company located at Wilm-
ington, Del, and operated under the
name of the John M. Rogers Press.
Eddy Trustees Barred Out.
Judge Chamberlain of the superior
the motion of the trustees appointed
by Mary Baker G. Eddy, Christian Sci
ence leader, to be substituted for the
so called next friends" who sued sfor
possession of Mrs. Eddy's estate on
the ground that she had become ire
sponsible in her old age and had been
duped by her secretary, Frye, and 9th
err officials Of the Christian Science or
ganization. The next friends" chief
of whom is Mrs. Eddys son, George
w. Glover, will now proceed to take
dispositions as to the mental condition
of Mrs Eddy and as to the actions Of
others involved.
Oil Trust Pipes Fer Others.
The circuit court at Findlay, O., has
ruled that the Buckeye Pipe Line COM
pany, subsidiary of the Standard Oil
company, must accept all oil offered
by the Independent producers and at a
fair remunerative price 1t had been
alleged by the state of Ohio that the
price for transporting Independent oil
had been 20 cents a barrel, which
was a prohibitive rate. This decision
is expected to- assist Prosecutor David
when the case against the Standard
Oil and the Rockefellers comes up for
trial.
Johnson Loses Three Cent War.
The supreme court of Ohio gave its
decision in favor of the Cleveland con-
solidated railways as opposed to the
city of Cleveland in the controversy
over 3 cent street car fares. The case
involved the validity of the franchises
on certain avnues held by the Consoli-
dated. These being sustained, the low
fare franchises granted by the Johnson
council became void
Burnham Out Of Prison.
George Burnham, Jr., who was con-
vlcted and sentenced to Sing Sing
prison for grand larceny as vice presi-
dent and general manager of the. Mu-
tual Reserve Life Fund association, was
released from the New York Tombs OH
$500 bail, owing to a decision of the
appellate division Of the supreme court
District Attorney Jerome said he would
carry the case to the court of appeals.
Texas Gusts Oil Trust Company.
Following the verdict of the jury at
Austin barring the Waters-Pierc Oil
company from doing business in the
state of Texas and making that COM
pany liable for penalties aggregating
$1.623,9O0 for violation of the state
laws, application for a receivership
was made by the defendant company.
Motions for new trial were made
and an injunction was applied for to
restrain the state from removing any
part of the property or assets of the
company. .
Some six years ago this company or
its legal predecessor was ousted be-
cause of its proved connection with tho
Standard Oil company, but it was
later readmitted on the sworn affidavit
of III. Clay Pierce, its president, but it
refused to pay the state license fee.
The present case was brought primari-
ly to force fines for failures to pay and
incidentally it was brought out that
the Waters-Pierce company was still
mart of the trust In This connection