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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-08-09
STANDARD OIL IS
FINED $29,24o,0oo
JDUGE Lands IMPOSES THE MAY.
IMUM PENALTY FOR RE.
BATTING,
TRUST MtRCl[SSlY SCORED
NO BETTER THAN THIEVES AND
coUNrERFElTERs - PUTS
ALTON ON RACK.

Chicago, Aug. 6.-Judge Kenesaw M.
Lands Saturday, in the United States
district court, fined the Standard Oil
Company of Indiana $29, 240, 900 for
violations of the law against accepting
rebates from railroads.
The fine is the largest ever assessed
against any individual or any corpora
ton in the history of American crimi-
nal Jurisprudence and is slightly more
than 131 times as great as the amount
received by the company through its
rebating operations.
The case will be carried to the high
er courts by the defendant company.
Oil Trust Is Scored.
The penalty imposed Upon the com
pany is the maximum permitted under
the law, and it was announced at the
end of a long opinion in which the
methods of the Standard Oil company
were mercilessly scored.
The judge, in fact, declared in his
opinion that the officials of the Stand
ard Oil company who were responsible
for the practice of which the corpora
ton was found guilty were no better
than counterfeiters and thieves, his ex-
act language being:
I'VE may as we'll look at this situa-
ton squarely. The men who thus de-
liberately violate this law wound So
ciety more deeply than does he who
counterfeits the coin or steals letters
from the mail"
To Swell Dividends.
Judge Lands commenced reading
his decision at 10 O'Clock and occupied
one hour in it's delivery. He reviewed
the facts in the case, took up the argr-
ments of the attorneys for the defense
and answered them, and then passed
Judgment upon the company, which he
declared violated the law for the sole
purpose of swelling its dividends. The
court held that the railroads have no
more right to make a secret rate for
a shipper than a board OF assessors
would have to make a secret assess
ment on any particular piece of prop
erty.
To Go After Alton.
At the conclusion of his opinion and
after announcing the amount OF the
hne, Judge Lands directed that a spe-
c1al grand jury be called for the pur-
pose of inquiring into the acts of the
Chicago & Alton Railroad
1T having been proved in the case lust
closed that the oil company accepted
rebates from that corporation. This
jury is summoned for Aug. IA.
Fined $s8,4o0, 900 More7
Under the seven indictments still
pending against the Standard Oil CON-
pany an additional fine amounting to
$8S, 100000 may be levied should the
company be found guilty. There are
in these seven indictments a total of
4,422 counts, and the maximum fine in
each count would be 10000.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-08-09
FoRrY-oNE KILLED IN WRECK.
Train Jumps Bridge In France and Not
One Passenger Is Saved.

SoItiPo oIi0SS IN TTdNCe and moi
One Passenger Is Saved.
Anglers, France. Aug. 6.-Forty pas
sengers in a third-class railroad car
and the engineer of the train were
drowned in a railroad accident three
miles southeast Of this town.
The locomotive of a crowded local
train jumped the track when entering
the bridge over the River Loire at Les
Ponts-de-Ce. The stone railing gave
way and the engine plunged into the
river, fifty feet below, dragging down
with it it's tender and the baggage and
third-class cars. No othe rcars went
into the water, as the coupling be-
tween the second and the third cars
broke.
The conductor and the fireman were
the only persons whose lives were
saved. They escaped by swimming.
The third-class car was we'll filled
with passengers, but although part of
the roof was blown off by the confined
air it sank. not a single passenger ex-
tricated himself, and all were drowned
like rats in q trap. The engineer per-
ished beneath the locomotive.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-08-09
Crimes and Criminals.

William Nelson, a negro, was eve
cuted In the electric chair In Sing Sing
prison at Ossining. N. Y. for the mur-
der of Lizzie Norman.
Miss Pearl Waring was shot and in
stantly killed at Leesburg, Ohio. by
Orb Anderson, whom she refused to
marry. They were engaged.
United States Marshal Hendry has
arrested several persons at Honolulu
charged with counterfeiting %ten-dollar
gold pieces. The coins are of good
quality, but lack weight.
For shooting Frank Finley, who died
later as the result of the wounds,
Night Waterman Baumgardner of Vim
ton. Iowa, was arrested, charged with
second degree murder and held in ST.
600 bonds.
Helen Bailey Trowbridge, reputed
to be al. actress and attached to the
Peoples Stock company of Chicago,
was found dead in her oom in a Pitts
burg hotel. She had cut her throat
with a razor.
IL M. Carter, the woman who b.
trayed Chester b.. Runyan, the payin>
teller of the Windsor Trust Company
Of New York, who stole 500, 900. to the
police, has been indicted for receiving
stolen goods.
James Reid, colored, was lynched
at Grisfield, Mo. Little more than a
dozen hours before he had crept up
behind Policeman John A. Daugherty
and fired a bullet into the latter's
brain. Daugherty died instantly.
After having deserted his wife and
baby and 1ed with another
Louis Malkus, former labor commits
sioner of Louisiana, and Miss Inez
Ellzey met death in the wreck of the
steamship Columbia, which vas sunk
OFF the California coast.
The stage leaving Ukiah, Cal, for
Witter Springs a held up by a lone
bandit and eighteen passengers were
relieved of their jewelry, money and
other v%aluables. A few minutes later
a second stage coach from Ukiah came
into view and the robber proceeded to
line up its ten passengers with the oc-
cupants of the first stage.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-08-09
sIssEToN. SOUTH DAKOTA.
news OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
IMPORTANT EVENTS At hoMs
AND ON FOREIGN shoRas
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Personal.

Joseph Hatton. the author and Jour.
nalist, is dead IN London. He was
born In 1841.
Catherine Moore died at Railway,
N. j., aged 112 years. Her faculties,
except for slight deafness, were we'll
preserved.
Mrs. Newton c. Blanchard, wife OF
the governor Of Louisiana, died at
Mineral Wells, Tex, where she went
tor her health.
Rev. DR.. W S. Schaefer. president
Of the board of publication Of the gen.
eral council OF the Evangelical Lu.
theran church. died in Philadelphia.
Edward D. Shurtless, speaker Of the
lower house of the Illinois legislature,
has formally announced his candidacy
for the Republican nomination for
governor.
DR.. Antony Varicle. Partisan invent.
or. scientist, b%alloonist and dentist,
known from. Paris to Dawson, Y. T.,
died in a hospital at Seattle after an
illness lasting several weeks.
John maxwell, the pioneer knit
goods manufacturer of Amsterdam, N.
Y, who established the first mill at
that place more than fifty years ago,
Is dead, aged ninety-three years.
Francis Miles Finch died al Ithaca,
N. Y. aged eighty years. Mr.. Finch
vas judge OF the court OF appeals Of
New York state from 1880 to 1895. He
wrote the ballad, The Blue and the
Gray"
Con" T. Murphy. prominently con-
nected with the American stage for al.
most half a century, died at his home
In Lake Bluff. III. He played impor.
tant roles with Edwin and John
Wilkes Booth. John Mccullough, 10.
seph Jefferson. Lawrence Barrett. Ed.
win Forrest, w. H. Crane and Maggie
Mitchell.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-08-09
The breaking of /. cable plunged a

The breaking of \ cable plunged an
elevator down five stories in the Ely
G. Walker Dry Goods company's build
ing in st. Louis, killing John Ward
and fatally injuring Paul j. Grots.
Leaking gasoline in a boathouse of
James Pryor & Sons at Houghton,
Mich, caused the destruction by fire
OF two gasoline launches and two boat
houses. The loss is about $4,000.
Fire of unknown origin totally de-
stroyed the Post Lambert stampmill,
sawmill and camp buildings. in the up
ing district In Washington. LOSS, $780,
600.
Stella, Wash, was practically de-
stroyed by fire. Among the buildings
burned were two hotels, two saloons,
wharves, mills, warehouses and hospi-
tails. The loss is estimated at $780,
900.
In an early morning fire at Memphis,
originating on the eleventh floor Of
the Memphis Cold Storage company's
building, which was In the course of
erection, one fireman lost his life and
two were seriously injured. LOSS,
100000.
While fifteen employees of the Madi-
son Car and Foundry company were
eatin1 their lunch under a newly built
freight car at Madison, Ill, the car
was set in motion and two men were
killed. two fatally injured and two
were seriously injured.
Thrown from a wagon and his skull
crushed. Robert Teel, a farmer living
near Columbus, Iowa, died two hours
after being picked up. His horses
ran away and in an effort to control
them he was thrown from the wagon,
striking his head against a stone.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-08-09
5000 IN FIERCE RACE RI01
HEROIC MEASURES TAKEN &c
RUN DOWN PERPETRATOR OF
FlENDlsH CRIMES.

New York, Aug. 6.-Another mur
derous assault was added last nigh
to the police record OF recent crimes
against defenseless women and girls
Last nights victim was Miss Ellen
Bulger, a woman Of middle age, who
was attacked in her apartments IN the
Bronx. cruelty beaten and left IN a
helpless state. The woman was re-
moved to a hospital, where 1t was
found that her skull had apparently
been fractured, her face and hands
lacerated and her body otherwise
bruised. There was evidence that the
woman
Made a Courageous Fight.
From what the police were able tc
learn from her she was surprised by g
smooth-faced stranger, perhaps forty
| years of age. He was coatless and
wore an outing shirt and dark trou'
sers. He escaped.
Just before Miss Bulger was as.
saulted, George Keetner, a Russian.
| charged with attempted assault upon
an eight-year-old girl, was set upon by
a crowd of men and all but killed. The
clothes were torn from his body and
he was taken to a station house wrap
ped in a blanket.
Another moi set upon Hylo Saloda.
an Indian palmist, who was similarly
accused, and only the timely %interven.
ton Of police reserves saved him from
summary punishment.
5000 in Race Riot.
The fighting element among the
whites and blacks in the vicinity OF
One Hundred and Thirty-siXth street
and Fifth venue lined up according tc
their racial %prejudices again yesterday
this time to settle a baseball dispute
and when the argument was ended
fifty persons required medical treat
ment, and of that number two will die
Probably 5000 persons took part in
the fight, but the 800 policemen who
dispersed the mob after every one was
fought out, got only nine prisoners
and of these two were women.
Police All Join Hunt.
The wave of crime against women
and children which has swept owe
this city for the last fortnight has
reached a stage where heroic meas
ures are being taken in the attempt te
end the lawlessness.
Acting Police Commissioner O'Keefe
issued orders directing every plain
clothes officer in the city to lay aside
all other work and devote himself eli
tire1y to an attempt to bring to justice
the perpetrators of these crimes.
He ordered that h~ouse-to-house Wis
its be made by all officers on regular
beats, and that parents be advised tt
keep their children under close super
vision. He also announced that &c
would ask for an appropriation sufi
Gent to add 500 officers to the force
The dozen or more recent attacks or
children have struck terror into the
hearts of mothers all over the CITY.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-08-09
cANucK SEXES ISLE RoYALE.
Declares II is British Territory and
Plants the Union Jack.

Plants the Union Jack.
Chicago, Aug. Ga special to the
Record-Herald from Port Arthur, Ont,
says:
Capt. S. G. Young returned last
night from Isle Royale, in Lake Su-
perior, where he was successful in
planting the British flag, meeting with
no opposition from any quarter. When
asked last night why he had made this
expedition, he said it was for the pur-
pose of opening up correspondence
between Ottawa and Washington
which would show that great injustice
had been done to Canada by the agree
ment that gave Isle Royale to the
United States.
Capt. Young claims that Isle Royale
rightly belongs to Canada. The action
of Young was not known to the Cana
dian government until yesterday. when
1t was officially notified that the island
had been seized in the name of Great
Britain.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-08-09
OIL TRUST is WHOLLY BAD.
Commissioners Smith Scores Standard
in Report to President.


Washington, Aug. 6. = Significant
revelations are made public in a report
submitted to the president by Herbert
Knox Smith, commissioner Of corpora
tons. concerning the operations of the
Standard Oil company. In his letter
transmitting the report Commissioner
Smith briefly summarizes his findings
as follows:
"The following facts are proved:
The Standard has not reduced margins
during the period in which it has been
responsible for the price Of oil. During
the last eight years covered by this re-
port Q898 TO 1905) it has raised both
prices and margins. Its domination
mas not been acquired or maintained bv
us superior efficiency, but rather by
UNFAIR competition and by methods
economically and morally uniustifia-
Die. The Standard has superior eff
cheney IN running it's own business
1t has an equal efficiency in destroying
the business Of it's competitors.
IL keeps for itself the profits of the
nrst and adds to those the monopoly
profits secured by the second. Its
prohts are far above the highest posi-
Die standard of a reasonable
clal return, and have been steadily in
creaslng. Finally, the history of this
great industry is a history of the per-
slstent use of the worst Industrial
methods. the exaction Of %exorbitant
prices from the consumer and the Sc
curing of excessive profits for the
small group Of men who over a long
series of years have thus dominated
the business"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-08-09
Domestic.

After years Of litigation the estate
of Alva Bradley OF Cleveland. valued
at about 5000, 200, has been divided
equally among the heirs.
Dueling in Cuba will no longer be
tolerated by the provisional govern
ment in consequence Of an encounter
recently between two Cuban journal.
lists.
Harrison Grey Fiske has announced
that early in October Mrs. Fiske will
visit the cities and towns of the
Southern states, appearing in different
roles.
The maiden voyage of the Lusitania,
the largest ship aloat, the new steam
ship Of the Cunard line from Liverpool
to New York. has been fixed for
Sept. z.
Harvest hands are so scarce at Ma.
rion, Ohio, and surrounding country
that farmers are forced to pay 81 a
day and furnish cool beer instead of
water to drink.
German-American day was success
fully observed at the jamestown ex-
position witty prominent members of
| the German Alliance from all parts of
the country present.
The severe drouth on Long Island
has produced q new industry, that Of
selling water to the farmers whose
cisterns and wells have become dry.
The farmers are paying 10 cents a
barrel for water. which they have to
haul Themselves.
Charmed by his voice. Mrs. Freder-
lex r. Hoyt. tho young widow of a Cal
ifornia mining man, now in New York.
has given up a $250,00O fortune to
marry ]. Humphrey Dufey, o~ratorio
singer. Announcement of the mar
rfass, which took place on June q.
has Just been made public.
A fight between q robin and a red
squirrel took place on the lawn In
front Of the First Methodist church at
Montclair. N. J., In which tho robin
came OF victorious. Striking with
wings, beak and cfaws, all at one
time. the bird bowled the little animal
: = and over.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-08-09
Leader Advises the use Of Guns.

Duluth, Aug. 3. = One working day
has passed since operations on the
range, following the settlement Of the
ore dock strike, were begun by the
United States Steel corporation and
the independent mines, and no serious
disorder was reported. The industrial
sky owe the range is not %cloudless,
however, for the sullen attitude Of the
followers of the Western Federation
of Miners indicate an attitude Of des-
peration, which was somewhat inten-
sified by a vitriolic address delivered
by Petriella, the strike leader, in
which, while c%ounseling peace, he adj
vocated the S of guns to maintain
what he said was their right to sell
their labor where they could to the
best advantage.
Advises Violence.
In this address Petrfella gave the
governor twenty-four hours in which
to grant the men JUSTICE" at the end
of which time he advised the men to
be ready to strike the head off any
man who tries to crush you; if not as
American citizens, do it as human be-
ings." Whether at the end of twenty
four hours anything will come Of this
is awaited with anxiety and the Off
Gals are prepared. All OF the special
guards who have been In Duluth dur
ing the past few days were rushed to
the range. 1t was said that $50 men
were in the party and they will aug
ment Sheriff Bates force of deputies
in case there is any trouble.
Give No Pretext for Clash.
This was made clear to them when
they attempted to march from Hib-
bling to the meeting at Chisholm.
where Petriella made his violent
speech. Otherwise the officials will
handle them gently in order that there
may be no pretext for a clash.
Reports received here yesterday in.
dictate that mining operations were re.
sumed heavily in both Hibbing and
Eveleth districts. Thomas D. O'Brien
former state insurance commissioner
and Harvey Grimmer, executive clerk
to Gov. johnson, who visited the range
towns yesterday as personal represent.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-08-09
Reception for L.now.r+h,

Honolulu, Aug. GA reception was
given last night by Gov. Carter to Mr..
Straus, secretary of commerce and
labor, and Congressman and Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth. Five thousand
people attended.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-08-09
NEGROES TOWN BURNS.

Village 10 Alleged 70 Have 1aen IA.
stroysd by lrate Farmers.
Winona. Mimi, Aug. 6.-Portervil,e
a newly organized village Just across
the river in Wisconsin, the inhabitants
of which are negroes, was comn,eto,u
DESTROYED by fire. It Is reported that
the hre was started by Wisconsin
farmers, who were incensed at Tho o.
lion o. n negroes in building up a ne.
gro village In the vicinity. The huild.
ihgs were fimsy structures and the
loss is small. ne
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-08-09
hlccouahs for week.

Des Moines, Aug. 6.-Arthur J.. Jun
KIN, q prominent society man here,
mas hiccoughed Tor a week. All efforts
OF physicians to stop the seizure have
failed. Junkin Is in a serious condi-
ton.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-08-09
HURLED FROM TRAIN DIES.
Man Thrown From Platform Gets "a.
tai Injuries.

Monroe, Wis, Aug. Awkward Elan.
merry of Argyle died at Brownton yes
terday from injuries received in being
pitched down a high embankment
while riding on the platform of a Nil.
waukee road passenger train. Farmers
who heard him calling for help founa
him two hours later. Both legs were
broken. and his head, back and hin
were badly injured.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-08-09
This Week Will See End Of Strike.

Duluth, Aug. 6. = A News-Tribune
special from Hibbing says:
"The third week of the strike on
the Mesaba range, which was engi-
neered by the Western Federation of
Miners, probably will see the last
of the conflict. 1t is believed by those
who have been constantly in touch
with the situation that the next seven
days will witness the elimination of
the struggle. The crisis is past, and
no further trouble of a serious nature
is expected unless something unfore.
e en occurs"
The Western Federation of Miners
has not given up the fight, and the
statements in the foregoing must not
be construed as Indicating that it will
abandon the purposes which gave
birth to the strike.
Miners Not Disheartened.
On the contrary, the leaders are en-
terlne into the third week of the labor
difficulty with renewed vigor.
The federation on the range ia now
lea by the national secretary, G. e.
Mahoney. He has prepared several
thousand circulars which will be given
10 every miner, urging them to con.
tlnue the conflict with the Steel cor
poration. He advances the claim that
the federation is gathering new re-
crults every day. The federation is
preparing for a big labor conflict two
years hence, following the presidential
election.
About 1000 miners, it is expected.
WIZ return to work Monday morning.
Quiet Now Prevails,
"lthln a few days all of the omen
plts OF the Steel corporation will be
shipping so per cent of the ore mined
by mat corporation on the Mesaba
range The Independents are working
all of their open pits.
IN the Eveleth-Sparta Virginia dis.
trlct the miners will work in
the underground mines. The situation
on the Mesaba range east of Chisholm
is more satisfactory than in the Hib
ping and Chisholm districts, and near
~ an OF the local deputies have been
o~iscnarge from further service. In
oioer 10 maintain the peaceful status
.nat revaf at the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
uis.rict' deputies imported by the
uhl1ed States Steel corporation, under
onerlH Bates, will remain on duty.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-08-09
Dock Workers Return to Work.

Duluth, Mimi, Aug, 2.-Shortly be-
for 2 O'Clock yesterday afternoon the
ore dock workers who nave been on a
strike for recognition of the union
and a raise of pay voted to return to
work. Neither of the issues raised by
the men we're granted by the Duluth.
Missabe Il Northern railroad. and the
men will return to work this morning.
Their status will be The same as 1t
was the day they voted to strike. All
of the employees will be taken back by
the company without prejudice. and
the pay they have been receiving IN
der a verbal agreement with the COM
pany, which would not have expired
until Oct. 81 next. will continue.
Free From Disorder.
The strike lasted about two and a
half weeks and was one entirely free
from any disorder whatever. There
were numerous conferences Of the
strikers, and at three of them letters
setting forth the position of the COM
pany were read. The last was deliv-
cred to the men yesterday morning.
The railroad officials adopted a
kindly tone in this final letter. stating
they were willing to treat with their
men individually or by committee on
an open shop basis, and the men real
izing evidently that unless they &C
cepted the terms offered by the COM
pany they would not be able to get
back their old Jobs, voted to return to
work.
News Causes Rejoicing.
The news Of the ending of the dock
strike was flashed to Eveleth, Hibbing
and Nashwauk, the three storm cen
tiers of the mining region, where trou-
BILE might originate, and the news was
received there with rejoicing. Every.
thing at these points Vas reported
quiet.
A report received here late yester-
day from Eveleth stated that the
Adams-Spruce mine, a large Steel cor
poration property, would start opera
lions to-day. The settlement of the
dock strike paved the way for a re-
sumption of mining on the range, and
while the Steel officials will proceed
to do business, they are a~pprehensive
of trouble as soon as work is begun.
Warned by the Governor.
Petriella, the strike leader, SEM a
telegram to the governor yesterday
stating that strikers willing to leave
the country had been refused payment
of their June wages; that armed dep
uties prevent the men from meeting
in their own halls, and that unless i'm
mediate measures are taken by the
governor the men will be compelled to
&c into a bodily conflict to safeguard
their rights.
The governor replied to Petriella
that the Steel officials deny the
charges and that any resistance of the
kind threatened would call for armed
interference by the state.