Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-01
Man Who is Prosecuting the
Oil Trust Heads Corporation
Disobeying Statutes
HEAVY PENALTIES AccRuING
Kellogg Placed in Peculiar Position =
sculptors to Compete for the Maxi
ing Of the Harlan Statue = Wildcat
Schemes Persist in Efforts to Break
Into Iowa.
Special to Times-Repuplican.

Special to Times Republican,.
Des Moines, Oct. Hon. Frank
b. Kellogg, official trust buster to the
administration of President Roosevelt
and especially deputized to go after the
Standard Gil trust, is vice presidene
Of q corporation that Is not obeying
the laws of the state of Iowa He Is
vice president Of the Wisconsin, Min
nesota & Pacific Railroad Company.
branch line of the Great Western, anu
no copy of the articles of incorporation
have been filed with the secretary or
state of Iowa. The company owes the
state of Iowa quite sum of money
for it's failure.
The Great Northern and Northern
Pacific are also indebted to the state of
Iowa They have not filed certined
copies of their articles of incorporation
with the secretary Of state and have
been operating the Burlington lines
since some time in 1901. They owe the
state their filing fee and 500 day
since that time, amounting in the
neighborhood of 100000 at least.
Miss Nellie " Walker and Mr.. Sher-
ry Fry are to compete for the making
of the Harlan statue that Is to be
placed in the hall of fame at Wash
ington. Letters have been received
from each of them by the executive
council stating that they are willing
to compete on the terms suggested by
the council. Each is to make four
foot statue of Senator Harlan. The
executive council is then to select and
award the contract to the one deemed
the best The one losing the contract
is to get $500 and the other Is to get
all the rest of the state appropriation.
The contracts have not been made yet
but will be entered into shortly and
the work will then start.
One of the chief occupations of the
executive, council in its official capacity
promises to be protecting the people
Of the state of Iowa from wild cat
schemes. There is scarcely a sitting
of the council but there is application
for permission to sell stock in some
scheme that promises to make the
purchasers of the state fabulous for
tune on an investment of few hum
,dred dollars or less. Owners of pat
ents with high sounding names are
frequent applicants Since there Is
nothing published as to these the pub
lie has no idea of what it is saved
from One of the most recent was a
patent contrivance. The applicants
wanted to gain permission to sell stock
in the corporation they had organized.
The first suspicion Of the mem
bers Of the executive council
was the promise of the promoters that
1t would pay big dividends An inquiry
disclosed that the value of the stock
was not protected by anything. The
promoters then offered to put up notes
as security but would do nothing to
disclose whether the notes were Of any
account or not. They proposed to can
vass the country selling their stock
but since small investors who would
have nothing to guide them but the
word of the soliciting agent
would be the people most
likely and almost entirely to in
vest, the council refused to give it's
permission Under the law no COM
pany can be organized in Iowa and do
business here where it is proposed to
sell stock to the public or to offer it
to the public unless the consent and !
permission of the executive council is
first obtained.
John Simpson, secretary of the Iowa |
department of agriculture. is the fa- |
ther of boy, weighing seven pounds |
and born Saturday.
Every state official at the state |
house with but few exceptions went to |
Keokuk today to be present at the re- /
ception of the president and to listen
to his address, Mr.. Byers was busy
with the work of his office. All the
members of the executice council. SUI
Riggs, and most of the
supreme court judges were at keokuk.
The exceptions were Attorney General
Byers. who was busy with the work OF
his office: Secretary John Simpson, of
the department Of agriculture; Clerk
Crockett, of the supreme court and the
members of the board of control. All
the other offices were in the hands of
and clerks, and deputies.
All are expected back tomorrow.
Will the geological department be
moved down to Iowa City to be placed
with the state university? In the shift
ing of rooms and the efforts of the
executive council to stretch the num-
Der of office rooms out SO as to be as
many as there are office forces, the
has been made that the
geological department be moved to
iowa City Temporarily This depart
ment has been placed in two senate
committee rooms. II will have to be
gotten out of there before the legisla-
ture 'neets ngan. Any way 1t is fixed