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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-18
For the First Time Some of
The Inner Workings of
The Company Shown.
KELLOGG GETS THE FACTS.
MORE THAN $61 ,ooo, 900 A YEAR ON
THE CAPITAL STOCK OF $685.
900 ,ooo-SUBsTANcE OF TEsTI-
MONY.

New York, Sept. 1S.-Delving into
the financial workings of the Stand
ard Oil company of New Jersey, the
holding company of all the subsidiary
organizations of the sO-called oil
trust, Frank f.. Kellogg, conducting
the federal suit for the dissolution
Of the company brought forth to pub
lie view for the first time the enorm-
GUS profits made by the Standard Oil
company In a period of eight years.
from 1897 to 1906 inclusive, the Stand
ard Oil company, on a statement
spread upon the record of Tuesdays
hearings, was shown to have earned
the total profits of $3.50, 1874, or at
the rate of more than$61 900, 900 "a
year, and distributed to it's sharehold-
ers In the same period S308, 359 ,403.
While the company was earning
these vast sums in the refining of oil,
the statements adduced at the hear
Ing show that between 1890 and
1906 the assets of the company grew
by leaps and bounds from $500, 7S1 ,523
to 1881, ,531. The capital stock is
b9S,338,3S2.
Financiers and those seeking know
ledge of the exact profits of the
standard have striven vainly to OBJ
lafnf the figures which Mr.. Kellogg
has succeeded in placing upon the
record ofsthe court. The Standard Oil
company makes no statement Of its
business other than the declaration
Of dividend; it makes no public an
nouncement by which it's business
may be guaged.
A Rich Days Work.
The hearing brought out much in
formation which Mr.. Kellogg obtain
ed from the Standard Oil company. |
Mr.. Kellogg obtained a statement |
showing that the Standard Oil COM
pany of New Jersey controlled by |
stock ownership over seventy compan-
les engaged in the refining and the
transportation by pipe line of oil on
Sept. 14,1907.
The Standard Oil company had al
ways carefully guarded the list of it's
subsidiary companies and the amount
Of it's share holdings. The list show
ed that the Standard Oil company of
New Jersey owned $4,000 of the 10
ral capital stock of $1,000.000 of the
standard Oil company of Indiana,
which was recently fined $29 100000
by Judge Lands in the United States !
circuit court in Chicago for rebating.
Mr.. Kelloggs efforts at this hear [
Ing to obtain information of the re- |
eords of the liquidating trustees who
had charge of the liquidation of the
Standard Oil trust and the exchange :
of the liquidating trust certificates =
Tor the shares of the Standard Oil .
company of New Jersey were not re- ,
Earded. ,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-18
BODY WAS D|SSECTEO
AND THEN PATCHED UP
Shocking Discovery Was Made
AT a Funeral.

Pittsburg, Pa, Sept. 1S-The dis.
covery that the body of Mrs. Elizabeth
Johnson of Moundsville. who died two
weeks ago in the Fayette county poor
house. had been dissected and that for
missing part of the head had been
substituted that of man stopped the
funeral at Connellsville. The casket
was not opened until at the service
and when relatives gazed on the dis
sected face many of them tainted. AT
the time OF the woman's death her rel
atives could not be found and the body
was sent to the State Anatomical soci-
ETY. for dissection, but was later claim
ed.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-18
A. o. n. AUXILIARY MEETING.

A meeting of the Ladies' Auxiliary
A y. H, will be held at St. Mary's hall
Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock to take
action on the death of Miss Margaret
Carroll.
Did Not See the Wall.
Mr.. Ma went TO a dinner. and as
the host offered no wine to any of his
guests 1t was considered a slight
After the dinner Ma took leave of the
host. Ma said: Il don't see the
screening wall in front of your house.
The host replied: I'VE never had q
screening wall" "Ah"' Ma said. al
must have licd 20 lnccn wine When
came =
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-18
EARNINGS ARE FAVORABLE
Ohio Roads Have Not Lost by
TWo-cent Law.

H. d. Warrington, secretary of the
railroad commission of Ohio. who is In
Indianapolis with members of the com
mission to sit with the Indiana com
mission in the express company cases
says the reports from the Ohio rail
roads this year will show that all the
trunk lines have enjoyed mice earn.
ings' under the 2-cent fare law.
1T is possible" said Secretary Man
nington, that some of the smaller
roads that run through sparsely set
tied districts will show a falling off IN
their earnings. But on the whole we
people in Ohio think the 2-cent fare law
is a great success.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-18
VETERANS THANK SID CoNGER

Col. John r. Fesler, assistant adju-
tant general of the Indiana G.. A. r.,
has forwarded letter to Sid Conger,
president Of the State Board OF Agri-
culture in which he thanked the
board on behalf of the veterans of the
state for the bronze badges given the
200 veterans who attended the State
Fair on "Old Soldiers Day. and for the
treatment the board accorded the vet
Grams in every way.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-18
Why should this be the case I?


Because they have neglected them
selves, as every one of these patients
in the hospital beds had plenty of
warning in those dragging sensations,
pains at left or right of abdomen.
backaches. nervous exhaustion, in
fammation. liberation, displace-
ments. and other organic weaknesses.
All of these symptoms are indica-
tons of an unhealthy condition of the
female system and il not needed the
penalty has to be paid by a dangerous
operation. When these symptoms
manifest themselves. do not drag
along until you are obliged to go to
the hospital and submit to an opera
tion-but remember that Lydia +.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made
from native roots and herbs. has saved
hundreds of women from surgical
operations.
Lydia z. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, has cured more cases of
feminine ills than any other one
remedy. Such letters as thefollowing
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-18

Davenport, Mr.. and Mrs. John S. Ire
dell and Mr.. and Mrs. George Fetta.
+ ! !.
Prof. and Mrs. Cleveland K. Chase
have returned from Michigan, where
they spent the summer.
+ i f.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Hempleman have
returned from Rhode Island. where
they have been on an extended visit to
friends and relatives. They have a
daughter residing in that state.
Misses Eta and Bessie Jones will
return this week from Kentucky,
where they have spent the summer Wis
iting at Owenton, Monterey. George
town, Jackson City and other points.
J. + \
Prof Will Reeves, who has been
spending the summer in the city with
his mother and other relatives, has re-
turned to Kenyon College, Ohio, where
he occupies the chair of English litera-
ture.
A meeting of the Ladies Aid society
of Grace NJ. E. church, will be held
Friday afternoon at $50 o'clock in the
church parlors. Several items of bus
mess will be considered, one being the
of the pennies on a strip OF
paper that has been in circulation
among the members as a means of Sc
curing subscriptions for the society.
!. !. i
Mrs. Harmon Pardieck. daughter Ell |
VIVA. and son Frank, have just re-
turned from a six months trip through |
Europe, visiting Paris, Berlin, and |
many other points of interest At |
present they are at the home of Mrs. |
Frank Geer, Liberty avenue.
Miss Anna Schultz will entertain |
company of teachers at her home. 32S
South Tenth street, Friday afternoon
n honor of Miss Mabel O'Neal. bride
elect Miss O'Neal has been kindergar-
en- teacher at the Hibberd school for
hree years and Miss Schultz is prin-
,ipal.
Local friends have received news IF
he engagement of Miss Mabel Johns
on, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs w T.
Johnston, of Oxford. O., to Howard
of Hamilton. The wedding is
o take place some time in October.
:. + i
Mrs. J. c. Hunt, of East Main street.
vas the hostess this afternoon for a
company of ladies of Reid Memorial
hurch, who are members of the La
lies Aid society. A musical program
vas arranged and refreshments were
erved.
Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Griffith of
'hicago. and Mrs. John Graham. of
tampa. Fla. are guests for a few days
f Mr.. and Mrs. William B. White.
SIC Main street.
+ -
Mrs. George Muey was hostess for
he Tuesday Euchre club Tuesday aft
rnoon at her home on North Twenty
lrst street. Cards were played at | :
hree tables and prizes were won by
Irs. John Etter and Mrs. Reed Mrs. {
William Barker was a guest of the I
Tub. The next meeting will be at the
ONE of Mrs. Reed on Grant street. in
NO weeks.
!. !. = 1
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Fryar. recently
larried. will leave Richmond at once ,
DR. Kansas City, their future home. :
Ir. Fryar is connected with a large !
rm of architects in Kansas City. He
ill have charge of the construction
large normal school building when :
9 returns.
Records of the homes for the aged
! New York city show that all of the $
'rty institutions are now full and have I
ing waiting listS. =
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-18
MRS. ChAS. A. LOCKWOOD

are constantly being received BY
Mrs. Pinkham TO prove our claims.
Mrs. c. A. lockwood, teacher Of
Parliamentary Law. of So Free s.,
Fredonia, N. Y, writes:
"For years suffered with female trouble.
II was decided that an operation was nccco-
sary, and although I submitted to q serious
operation my sufferings continued. until
Lydia r. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
was recommended and il proved marvellous
remedy. SO quickly did it restore my health.
! cannot thank you sufficiently for tho good
il has done me-"
Miss Margaret Tierney, of No. 32s
w. 25th Street, New York. writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
when only eighteen years Of ago our
physician decided that an operation was
necessary to permit Of my womanly organs
performing their natural functions. Ny
mother objected and being urged by
relative TO try Lydia L. Pinkhams Veget-
able Compound did so. l soon improved in
health, the proper conditions were establish
Ell and / am well and strong. thanks TO
Lydia e. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound"
No other remedy has such un-
qualified Endorsement as Lydia K.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. No
other remedy in the world has such
q record of cures of female ills.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-18
IvIL SERVICE EXAMINATION
ncle Sam in Need of Men in Various
Departments.

A civil service examination will be
I'D in Indianapolis. October 2 for rec
ID and identification clerks in the
nited States penitentiaries at Fit.
savenworth and at Atlanta, at salar-
of $1,000 a year. and on October
IA an examination will be held in
dianapolis for an anatomist in the
my Medical Museum at a salary of
500 a year.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-18
,HApwIck ENTERS MINISTRY.

Charles w. Chadwick. of New Cas-
has been admitted TO the ministry
the NJ. f. church and stationed on
Naftzger was stationed on this
arge, but re-entered college and
esiding Elder Guild of Richmond,
led the vacancy by appointing Chad
ck
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-18
President Advises Him to Make
Fight for MayoraIty of
Cleveland.
REIGN OF GRAFT ALLEGED.
1T is COMMENDED THAT lMMED.
late AND RADICAL REFORM is
NEEDED TO RESCUE THE CITY
FROM ITS PRESENT INFLUENCE.

Cleveland, o.. Sept. 1s.-Congress
man Theodore E. Burton has issued
| statement discussing the so-called ma
! tional phases of the coming municipa
election in Cleveland in which he i
! the republican nominee for mayor. an,
making public for the first time the let
ter of President Roosevelt. who urge,
him to accept the local republican lead
ership in opposition to Mayor Tom L
Johnson
| Mr.. Burton's statement, including
the letter of the president. follows:
AN erroneous impression has gone
| forth that the mayoralty campaigr
here is to an exceptional extent com
plicated with national politics. Such
is not the case. The all-sufficient
reason for my candidacy is the Local
situation. Unless | am grossly de
ceived. existing conditions under the
present city administration demand
immediate and radical reform. The
aim of the campaign in which I am en-
gagged is to redeem the city of Cleve-
land from the administration of a
ring
Il should have been extremely re-
luctant to have turned aside from ma.
tional politics without the approval of
President Roosevelt and Secretaries
Taft and Garfield. For this reason |
have communicated with each of
them Their friendly advice has come
to me on my solicitation and there
has been no attempt at interference.
The following is the letter received
from President Roosevelt:
" Oyster Bay, N. Y, Aug. 80, 1907.
" My Dear Mr.. Burton:-You put a
hard question to me in your letter to
Mr.. Loeb. There are certain qualities
of leadership you possess which could
not be supplied by any one else in
the house, and you have mastery
Of certain subjects such as no ether
man in the house can hope to attain.
For you to leave the house therefore
would mean that in certain lines of
leadership there would be a loss that
cannot be made up. ] would therefore
be tempted to protest against your
leaving, if it were not for my pro-
found conviction that it is exceeding
ly desirable that you should win out
as mayor of Cleveland. In view of
the fact that our democratic system
undergoes it's most severe strain in
the government of our cities, / feel
that it is of the utmost Importance
to have man of your experience,
power and your long training, theore-
tical and practical experience in pub
lie life take such a position as the
of Cleveland. Accordingly
if you ask my advice I should say,
make the fight
Faithfully yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-18

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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-18
MISS MARGARET TIeRNev

A large proportions of the operations
performed in our hospitals are upon
women and girls for some organic
trouble
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-18
Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation to \

suffering invited
prom wi
female
knowledge
Her advice and always helpful
Woman's Ills.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-18

Records of the homes for the aged
in New York city show that all of the
forty institutions are now full and have
long waiting lists.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-18

Among those who will attend the re
union of the Eighty-fourth Indiana reg
iment, to be held at Albany. Ind. Sep
TENDER 1920 are Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-04
THREE NEW EXPENSIVE COMMITS
SIONS.

The Legislature. when it meets this
month, will have to revise some of it's
acts of last winter, among them the
creation of a Railroad Commission and
a Potable Water Commission, with
high salaried commissioners, engi-
neers and executive stats and big an
nual bills of expenses. A Senate special
committee has drafted a bill for a Pub
lie Utilities Commission, also necessarily
with high salaries, engineers and
executive staff and an annual expense
bin.
If these three commissions shall be in
existence when the Legislature finally
~adjourns for the year they will be new
and costly additions to the multiplied
official departments of the State gov
eminent. The annual expenditures of
the State have been trebled in twenty
years and the Hahn committee is look
ing into some Of the causes and opening
peoples eyes. But there is no mystery
in the process of commission-making,
nor is 1t a secret that the commissions
generally in this State are not worth
maintaining at any cost.
If anything has been demonstrated by
recent disclosures in abe State govern
ment it is that State commissions
should be consolidated or abolished, and
not multiplied. In notable cases the
duties of commissions are similar or
overlap each other. If a Public Utilities
Commission shall be created 1t will
simply divide the work and the appro-
priations with the Railroad Commits
sion, and with their restricted authority
neither will be of much practical benefit
to the State.
Reform can masquerade in all sorts of
ways. One way is to multiply public
Offices and create additional ~tax-eaters
on p~retense of establishing official mr.
chinery to execute reform laws. The
labor element of the State has been
cheated year after year with that kind
of Legislation. Its guerdon was inoper-
alive laws and official sinecures. The
execution OF the labor laws has been
very much CT, q farce, but the official
salaries and expenses have been scrupu-
lousy collected from the State Treas
urer. 1t will be an ungracious legisla-
tive gift to the State if these newly
created and highly paid commission
are added to the official equipment o.
the State.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-04
sHERIFF's ELECTION AS A REFER
ENDUM,

Sheriff Sommer's term as Sheriff will
expire next year. So also will expire
the terms Of sheriffs in sixteen coun-
ties OF the State, and their successors
will be elected in November, 1908, on
a ticket with the Presidential electors.
The sheriff is by law ineligible for re-
election, and therefore no present
sheriff can succeed himself. If there
shall be no change in the excise law
of the State to quiet the issues in poll
tics, the election of sheriff next year
will assume great Importance, for 1t
will be recognized as a test of the
popular desire for a strict enforcement
Of the Bishops law.
The New Idea leaders in Essex now
advocate municipal local option to de-
termine by referendum whether liquor
licenses shall be granted in a munici-
pality and whether saloons shall be
permitted to do business on a Sunday.
IT is altogether improbable that the
Legislature would enact such a local
option law or whether a bill of such
! character would be acceptable to the
great majority of voters. Blu there
is a way in which the majority senti-
ment of the people Of a county can be
made manifest. and that is in the cleo
ton Of a sheriff. If the people want
no Sunday traffic they car elect a mar
of the type of Sheriff sommer. If they
take a liberal view of the question
and are in favor of limited hours fol
saloons on Sunday they can elect q
candidate accordingly.
What the Legislature, dominated BY
rural sentiment, may refuse to do tbs
people themselves may practically dc
in sixteen counties of the State mex
year. Sunday traffic cannot be legal
lied by the results of a sheriff's cleo
ton. but the system of liberation car
be resumed or the law be strictly en-
forced, according to the kind of sheriff
that may be elected.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-04
THAT RESERVOIR AT LITTLE FALLS.

In reply to a question by Commits
sioner Bachelor, of the Potable Water
Commission, whether the East Jersey
Water Company would not be the sole
purchaser of the potable water which
1t is proposed to impound at Little
Falls at the expense of Newark and
other municipalities in the Passaic
Valley, State Geologist Kummel said
that within fifteen or twenty years
the Hackensack Water Company, the
city of Newark and other municipal
titles would be compelled to buy the
water.
The region where the water is to be
impounded is admirable for the East
Jersey Water Company, which has an
elaborate plant at Little Falls, with
pipe lines and rights of way. Before
the proposed great reservoirs shall be
completed the enterprise CT the COM
pany will no doubt greatly enlarge the
uiobHlOullll6 ldNliiliCoI anu dl ~ SdtilN
time close up every convenient avenue
of approach to the reservoir gates. The
Hackensack Water Company, which is
a member of the private water COM
bine of which East Jersey is a part
will find the way open for its pipes
but is there any assurance that the
municipalities will not be compelled tc
purchase water, second-hahd and by
the gallon, from the East Jersey Water
Company?
1t will be a great joke on the public
when it finds the East Jersey Water
Company squatted at the big reser
voir, built with public funds, monopo'
lizing all the distributing agencies anC
selling the cheap State water by tn,
gallon at a big profit. But this reser
voir scheme hasn't gone through a.
yet.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-04
THE QUESTION OF WATER DIVER
SION.

Comptroller Bachelors resolution.
adopted by the State Potable Water
Commission. questioning the legal right
of corporations to divert water from
the streams of the State and request
ing an opinion by the Attorney-Gen-
eral with a view to a suit, applies
more particularly to the East Jersey
Water Company, but it also involves
the Morris Canal Company and the So
ciety for Establishing Useful Manufac-
lures, from which corporations the
East Jersey has derived the principal
rights it claims and has used.
A suit as proposed would likewise af-
feet Newark and Jersey City in their
water supplies. In the sale of the
Pequannock plant to Newark the East
Jersey Water Company conveyed water
rights claimed to be owned by the other
two corporations, the one for canal use
and the other for water power at
patterson. 1T was Helu mat the WdleT
thus sold was an excess over and above
what the two corporations needed, but
1t has been reasoned by lawyers that
legally there could be no ownership of
any excess, and therefore there was no
legal right to sell the water.
Jersey City's plant is on the Rock
away River, which is a feeder of the
Morris Canal, and the canal company
sold the alleged excess over and above
canal needs to the East Jersey, which
put the price into the Jersey City con-
tract. If it shall be judicially decided
that a private corporation cannot legal
ly divert water from a stream Without
returning it for the benefit of the lower
riparian owner, then the transactions
alluded to were illegal, and the corpo-
rations sold water they did not own
Consequently they have been dishonest
ly enriched. Upon the theory that the
State owns the water this money can
be turned over by the corporations to
the State treasury. That will square
matters. Newark and Jersey City will
then have purchased their water rights
from the State.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-04
A RIPARIAN LAND DEAL.

1t was while Foster M. VOORHEES,, now
president of the State Potable Water
Commission, was Governor and member
of the State Riparian Commission that
the attempt was made by his board,
and 1t is believed on Voorhees, initia-
tive, to sell to a Brooklyn contractor
representing some unknown syndicate,
a mile or. more of riparian property of
the State on the Hudson River and bay
for a trihing consideration. Indignant
protests awaited nothing. There was a
cold -blooded purpose to turn the State
lands over to foreign hands and for a
beggarly price.
The purpose would have been con-
summated but for the interference of
the Federal government. Appeal was
made to the Secretary of War, the Har-
Dor Board interfered and the attempt
was frustrated, The Federal engineers
decided that the proposed utilization of
this tract for would injure
navigation in the harbor. That consid-
Grafton alone saved the State from a
serious loss. The time is not far distant
when the property to be sacrificed will
be filled in by the State and converted
into an immensely valuable asset. as
the prospective private purchasers pro-
posed to do when they made their deal
with the State Riparian Commission.