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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-08-30
ELIISVOoD and GREAT BEND LICKED
Larned Wins an Easy Victory While The
KlnsIey Game Was Ten Innings.

Ellinwood and IN a fair game of
BALL took the scalp of Joe Cooke
md his greens. 8 to 8. Great
Bend went to Kinsley and in the
hardest fought game of the season
lost in the tenth inning, 5 to 6.
The Larned team has been
strengthened some since a week
ago. and went to Ellinwood to
win. They played a rafting good
game, Pontius on first, we should
say Olson. making an error or
Two, while the Greens in addition
to being outplayed made a num-
Der of errors. some which we're
very costly. A small sized crowd.
as compared to Great Bend
crowds, witnessed the game.
Herriott and Weaver we're in the
points for Larned. and Daniels,
Powers and Dresser for Ellin-
wood. Weaver. the new man be.
hind the bat, for Larned was the
whole show. He was playing all
over the field all the time. He is
an old hand at the game. He
never quits. He coached always.
When he was not coaching he was
catching his breath. and when be
caught it he coached. When be-
hind the bat he coached the
pitcher and the entire field Of
players. When Larned was al
the bat. no matter whether he wa:
batting or running bases, he was
coaching the other batters AID
base runners continuously. The
only Casey" was there with his
south paw and did fine work.
With the present line up of the
Larned team. it would not sur
prise US if they took the pennant.
We firmly believe they have thu
strongest line up in the league.
DR.. Riggs umpired. and asid,
from bad dc session in the thirC
inning, he gave satisfaction. Th
decision was clearly in the wron,
and in Larned's favoor. but tn,
fans generally were satisfied. W
noticed when he made the break
that the Ellinwood players cen
tered IN the diamond just as tn
Great Bend players do, and W,
also noticed that when a decision
went against Powers of the EIlin
wood team, be acted just lik
some others and got mad. Other
wise everything was harmonious
We did not get a complete sum
mary, but the score was as fol
lows.
Larned O-O-1.O-62.A-O 0-e
Ellinwood. 600 O-O-3.O-O-O-O-9
We did not witness the Great
Bend Kinsley game. but our boy.
say it was fair and square, anC
that they we're clearly out batted
Two umpires we're decided on,
Gilmore of this city and gentlmal
from Kinsley whose name we di
not learn. Thorstenberg an,
Harrison we're the battery fol
Great Bend. and Wolf and Mont
gomery for Kinsley. A very
small crowd was present. Th
portion of the Great Bend team
being only $3.50. less than ex
penses. Those who saw the game
say it was the most interestin!
one Great Bend has played vet
We we're unable to get the com
plete summary, but the score.
were as follows, the game lasting
ten innings.
Great Bend. 0-1,O-0.O.0 0-1.3.O-5
Kinsley, 0-9-0.3-O-O.0.O-2-1-6.
The standing of the clubs now
is as follows.
Elliwnood, won, I, lost Q, rs
Great Bend. F" 4, " 5, 444
Larned F" 4. :" 5, 444
Xinsley. +" 8 (" 6, 33c
Next Sunday Great Bend plays
Kinsley at home and Ellinwood
plays Larned at Larned.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-04
PRESIDENT MoFFATT DEFENDS
ACTION OF STANDARD OIL
Ry Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. S.-President J. A.
Moffatt of the Standard Oil company of
Indiana made the following statement to-
day in reference to the judgment by
Judge Landis pronounced In Chicago:
"The court having pronounced its judg-
ment in the case of the United States vs.
the Standard OIL company of Indiana,
there can now be no impropriety in stat
ing our position to the American peoples
"The facts in this case are simple and
easily understood. The Standard OIL COM
pany Of Indiana was convicted of receiv-
ing what the government claimed was a
concession from the Chicago & Alton In
the shipment of oil from its refinery at
Whiting, Ind, to East St. Louis, Ill. The
contention of the government was that
the lawful rate was Is cents per 100
pounds between these points. The de-
fendant claims:
'First-That the lawful rate was 6 cents
and secondly, II cents was not the lawful
rate 1t was the rate issued to the Stand
ard by the Alton as the lawful rate, and
the Standard was justified In believing
from its own investigation and from the
information received from the railroad
company that cents was the law rate.
1.-THE IS cent rate was a class and not
a commodity rate, and the chairman OF
the Chicago and st. Louis Traffic asso-
citation, the association issuing the Is
cent class rate, under oath testified that
it was never applied and was never in
tended to apply to oil.
Thousands of tons of freight have been
shipped from these points during the past
fifteen years under the same circumA
stances as the Standard shipments and II
the Standard is guilty In this case, so is
practically every other shipper in this
great manufacturing territory. Is there
a purpose in selecting the Standard as
the victim?
"The view of the court was that ship
per must know absolutely what was the
legal rate. at the risk of suffering enor-
nous penalties in the event either that he
was msinformed by the railroad company
or in the event that he did not exer-
else as much diligence as in the judgment
of the court he should have exercised In
ascertaining what the rate really was.
IF this is the law, every shipper OF
freight is in danger of the penitentiary
or conffscation of his property by<way of
excessive fines every time he undertakes
to make a shipment from one state to
anofherp
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-04
Los ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4 1907

recall here that in the opening state
ment of its case to the jury the de-
fendant asserted it's position to be
that under the statute the rate need
not be filed to make lawful Its accept
ance by a shipper.
Thereafter, during the introduction
of defendants evidence, and while the
court was hearing argument with ref
erenee to the admissibility of testi-
mony offered by the defendant as
tending to show that the railway rate
clerk had represented to the traffic
manager that the rate had been filed
with the commission, the court asked
defendants counsel whether the traf-
fic manager was In fact so misled.
That gentleman, being then in court,
was called into conference by defend
ants counsel, at the end of which
counsel stated to the court that the
traffic manager said he assumed that
the Alton company did its legal duty
in that regard.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-04
LAWYERS ARE STUNNED BY
MAGNITUDE OF FINE LEVIED
By Associated Press.

BY Associated +'ress.
NEW YORK, Aug 3.-News of the un-
precedented fine imposed upon the Stand
ard Oil company by Federal Judge Lam
dis at Chicago today was received in New
York with interest The general expec-
tation has been that the decision would
be unfavorable, but apparently no one
looked for the imposition of the maxi
mum penalty.
An official of the Standard Oil COM
pany said the amount of fines evidenced
the Injustice against the company.
"The amount Of Judge Landis' fines"
said the official this afternoon. us fifty
times the value of the oil carried under
the indictment. The total value of oil
was $3.50, 900. For each car of oil, valued
at about $3.50, we have been fined $4,000.
An appeal will be taken in the United
States circuit court of appeals, but
whether it will be entered at once, or
whether the full time allowed by law
will be taken, will be determined by our
counsel in Chicago"
Few of the officials of the company
were at their offices today Mr.. Rogers
has been absent for several days.
Attorneys Stunned
Attorneys were generally stunned by
the fine imposed. 1t was pointed out that
nothing approaching the sum which the
been sentenced to pay has ever been ex-
acted before in proceeding for viola
tion of a statute, and the appeal of the
company will be watched with the clos
est interest, not only by the attorneys
directly interested, but by all lawyers.
The decision became known just three
minutes before the stock market closed
Whatever effect the announcement might
have been at any other than a Saturday
noon time, 1t had almost none at all to-
day. The market had been extremely
dull all day and the final trading was
without interest. Special attention was
given by Wall street men to the recon-
mendation of Judge Lands that a call
be issued for special grand jury to
consider the other parties to the opera
ton of which the Standard Oil company
was found guilty, and the probability
that proceedings would be commenced
against the Chicago & Alton Railroad
company The precedent indicated by
this recommendation of Judge Lands
was generally regarded as of the great
est Importance.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-04
JAMES r. GARFIELD SAYS
TRUSTS WILL LEARN LESSON
Ey Associated Press.

Ey Associated Press.
RIVERSIDE. Aug. iS,-In an address
delivered tonight at a banquet rendered
him by the chamber of commerce. James
r. Garfield made this statement relative
to the fine levied on the Standard Oil
company: 1.-THE decision and fine end a
long fight and will teach the people of
this country that no man, big or little, is
above the law. The Standard Oil COM
pany and others like that great corpora
ton have gone ahead on the theory that
they were so powerful that they could do
things the ordinary citizen could not do.
We are showing them that they cannot
Asked If the prosecution could collect
the fine, Garfield replied 'You bet your
boots we can. We have 10000 more counts
hanging over them on which similar fines
can be levied"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-04
ONE KILLED, TWENTY HURT
BY TERRIFIC EXPLOSION
Town Of Winona, WASH, Nearly De-
moiIshed Railroad Blamed for
Storing Dynamite In
Shed
BY Associated Press.

SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. Sire and
an explosion in the Oregon Railroad
and Navigation companys coal shed at
Winona, Wash, killed R. E. Buchanan,
car inspector, injured twenty persons
and almost wiped the town out OF ex-
istence last night.
Several residents say the explosion
was caused by ignition of dynamite
which they say had been stored in. the
shed by the company. A spark from
an engine set fire to the depot and the
explosion followed.
Every house and building In town
was either damaged by the explosion
or destroyed by fire. The company ae-
nies that dynamite was in the she'd
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-04
Three Lose Lives in Fire

epecial to The Herald
NORTH YAKIMA, Wash. Aug. 81
Tbree unidentified bodies were taken
rom the ruins of a wooden building In
the center of the city which burned
early today. Adjoining property was
badly damaged. The entire loss aggre-
gated $4,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-04
eerman steamshIp wrecked

BY Associated Press
MUSICAL, Arabia, Aug Sine 1siiiaA
steamship Teutonia, from Bussoran, & iSn oo
Hamburg, was totally wrecked 1uiy :"
near Ras Madrak on the coast OF A,aD,a ,,ssS
Sixteen members Of the crew are oenus oo,, ~
to have been lost They ieil sne ~aerd
fra,,o
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-04
orders Gasoline Motor Cars

BY Associated .ess Ir.,o. d.
cific railroad has ordered the 80, ,'Sa
on on hranch lines. Steam trains for pas
senger use will be abandoned on nrancnes
'hen the new cars are completed.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-04
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SHOWS
INTEREST IN STANDARD CASE
By Associated Press.

BY AhBOCIdleu FS0S'
OYSTER BAY. Aug. S,-President
Roosevelt received with great interest the
news that Judge Lands in the United
States district court in Chicago had de-
cided against the Standard Oil company
of Indiana and had imposed fines aggre-
eating s29,24O,0O0.
The president had no comment to make
upon the decision.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-04

This evidence was offered to estab-
lish an absence OF motive upon the
part of the defendant to accept an
unlawful rate from the Alton, but
was excluded by the court as not
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-04

0noWS injustice
But under the doctrine insisted upon
by the defendant, the railway COM
pany might give the Standard Oil
company a very low transportation
rate and by contract obligate itself
to withhold the same rate from the
very man the taking Of whose proper
ty by condemnation rendered possible
the construction of the road. A more
abhorrent heresy could not be con-
ceived. There is no more reason for
the claim OF natural right to private
contract for the exercise by a railroad
company OF the public power with
which it is endowed than there would
be for the claim Of a similar right to
private contract with the collector of
customs or tax assessor for secret
valuation of property. It is the de-
fendants position that the commerce
clause does not empower to forbid
and make criminal the defendants
act in accepting from the railroad
rate less than that published and filed
by the carrier as required by law.
In the courts view, the only point
involved in this proposition is whether
congress has authority to require that
railroad rates shall be uniform. 1t
being now settled that congress has
this power, it necessarily follows that
to preserve uniformity that body may
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-04
Maddox Not Dead, as Reported

NEW YORK. Aug. 3.-The report
that T. r. Maddox, the chief master OF
arms of the battleship Maine, died yes
terday proves to be untrue.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-04
JOHN D. FoREeoEs GOLF GAME
ON LEARNING OF HEAVY FINE
py Associated Press.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. S,-John d.
Rockefeller, upon learning of the fine inn
posed upon the Standard Oil company by
Judge Lands at Chicago today, said he
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-04

had no comment whatever to MAKE Gun
cerning the matter. .h,s
Mr.. Rockefeller did not play golf TINS
morning as has been his daily custom
since his arrival at Forest Hill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-11
DEAD LETTER OFFICE.
Large Amount of Matter Received Dur
ing December.

Over $4,000 letters and nearly 10000 par
cells, of domestic origin, were received by
the dead letter division of the Post Office
Department during the month of December.
On examination of the letters 81, 457 were
found to contain printed circulars or writ
ten Enclosures which did not bear the
names and addresses Of writers. OF the
remainder 22S. 400 letters and 3,452 parcels
were restored to the senders. In addition
to the domestic matter, 1913, 1913 letters of
foreign origin were received as undeliver-
able, and were returned unopened to the
countries from which they We're sent. Cur
rency amounting to $4,097.17 was delivered
to writer's.
Compared with the corresponding month
of the preceding year. a considerable in
crease was shown in the mail matter re-
ceived-1O6 235 more letters were returned
to senders than in the same period of 1905.
The receipts Of unbelievable matter (not
including registered) for the first six
months Of the fiscal year July / to De-
cember 81, 1906 as compared with the same
period in the preceding year were as fol-
lowse Letters in 1906, 6,14S5 iS; in 1905,
$685. increase. 757 1863, or IA per cent.
Parcels in 1905. 147, 775; in 1905, 141, 914; in
crease, 5,S61, or per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-11
MAKES GERHARD PJAY.-
Borrowed $4,000 From Sister to
Satisfy Creditors.

NEW YORK, January II. - Hamilton
Odell, as referee, filed report and judg-
ment yesterday in the county clerks office,
awarding to Mrs Isabelle Nelson a judg-
ment for $50, 1882 against her brother,
Frederic Gerhard, and August Limbert and
John NJ. Bowers, as trustees of voluntary
trust created in 1894 by Gerhard and his
then wife, Louise NJ. Gerhard. The judg-
ment carries interest from July q, 1905,
when Mrs. Nelson got an individual judg-
ment against her brother for the same
amount which she was unable to collect.
The proceedings reveal the circumstances
under which Gerhard came to borrow
$50 GOO from his sister two years ago.
+ The evidence, as digested by the referee
in his report, showed that whep Mrs. Neil
son got her first judgment her brother
was at Sioux Falls, s.. D.. among the di-
vorce colonists, and claimed a residence
there. An execution was issued against his
property here, but was returned unsatisfied
by the sheriff on September 10, 1905. Moth
ing has ever been paid on the judgment
since, and Mrs. Nelson determined to i'm
pound the property that her brother had put
in trust for himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-11
SHARP CRITICISM MADE.
Pennsylvanians Urge More Liberal
Policy on Internal Improvements.

After two-hour session of about twenty
members of the Pennsylvania delegation de-
cisive action was taken on several river and
harbor projects of Importance yesterday.
The delegation adopted the Morrell resolu-
ton that committee of seven members be
appointed to confer with members of the
river and harbor committee and urge upon
them and also upon the Speaker and lead
ing members of the House the Importance
of a survey for deepening the channel Of the
Delaware river to 81 feet and widening it
from 600 to 1000 feet; and also other pro-
jects of waterways of Importance to Penn
sylvania. The following committee was
named: Representatives Bingham. Morrell
Dalzell, Moon, Bates, Butler. Reyburn and
Moore.
Although the delegation met to consider
nothing but the Morrell resolution, before
the caucus was over a resolution by Mr.,
Acheson was adopted. This resolution is
of note principally because of Mr.. Acheson
membership on the river and harbor COM
mittee and the manner in which he crlt-
cize the present river and harbor policy of
the government. The resolution says. In
part:
THE policy pursued by the national gov
eminent in dealing with it's great natural
arteries of commerce makes 1t impossible TO
secure proper consideration for such mer-
itorious project as the 35-foot channel of
the Delaware river, the 9-foot channel of
the Ohio river and the improvement of the
magnificent harbor at Erie; and therefore
be ii
Resolved by the Pennsylvania delegation
of the House that We favor the Immediate
adoption by the national government of a
liberal policy toward the Improvement of
waterways, believing that soon as the
financial condition of the country will per-
init the appropriation for internal improve
ments should equal those made for the
army and navy and should be regarded not
as ordinary expenses, but permanent in
vestments, such being the view taken by
the most progressive European nations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-11
READ HIS OWN MESSAGE.
Gov. Hanley of Illinois Establishes a
Precedent

Special Dispatch to The Star.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind January 1.-THE
sixty fifth general assembly of Indiana,
which promises to be one of the most
important sessions of the Legislature in
the history of the state, convened at 10
o'clock yesterday morning. Practically ev-
cry member was in his seat, this being true
particularly of the republicans, because
of the small majority which the party
has in the house and the necessity that
will exist for eternal vigilance on their
part.
The session is expected to be important
because of the long list of reform meas
ureS that will be considered and many
of which will undoubtedly be enacted.
These include a public funds depositor
bill, primary election bill, an insurance
bill, 2-cent railroad fare bill teachers
salary bill, railroad subsidy bill, ditch
bill and many others.
Gov. Hanley'S message touches on all
these points, and democrats in caucus
have agreed to support measures of that
kind, though probably not in accordance
with the republican program. An effort
will be made to obtain considerable tenn
perance legislation, and the big fight will
likely be on bill to increase the liquor
license to $1,000.
Gov. Hanley established a precedent
and read his message himself. At the
caucus last night Emmett f. Branch, the
governors man, was the choice for
speaker of the house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-11
News Of Leesburg. Va.
al Correspondence Of The Star.

LEESBURG, Va. January 10, 1907.
The stockholders Of the Peoples National
Bank have reelected the fourteen direc-
tors, as follows: Henry Fairfax, Bedford
Glascock, S. S. Lutz, Edgar McCray,
Lewis NJ. Shumate, Owen l. Thomas, Rob-
ert R. Walker, E. B. White, E. V. White,
E. L. Robey, w. T. Oliver. Samuel R. Frea,
William O. Russell and William H. Carter
At the Loudoun National Bank Capt. w.
B. Lynch was reelected president; Edward
Nichols. vice president; w. F. Lynn, sec
and vice president, and Anthony Dibrell,
cashier. The directors elected were Messrs.
William F. Lynn Edward Nichols, C. c..
Gaver, w. B. Lynch, S. N. Brown, A. w.
Phillips. H. c. Harding, Edgar Peacock,
Edwin E. Garrett, George T. Holmes, Thos.
G. Elgin and Robert n. Harper of WASH
ington. D. G..
Mrs. Helen S. Barry. mother of Mr.. Chas
E. Barry of the Leesburg Inn, died last
Tuesday night after long illness, in the
seventy-eighth year of her age. 1nterment
was made last evening in Union cemetery,
Rev w. H. Burkhardt officiating.
Miss Emily Jane Chambin, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Chamblin of Bloom
field, Loudoun county, was married at the
residence of her brother, Mr.. Harry B.
Chamblin, in Leesburg, last Tuesday to
Mr. NJ. B. Goodall of Washington, D. c.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
Frank P. Berkeley.
The Bridge Club was entertained yester-
day afternoon by Mrs. Harry T. Harrison
at Rock Spring farm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-11
MARCUS NOTES. AUcTIoNEER.

TRUSTEES SALE or VALUABLE UNIM.
PROVED REAL ESTATE. SITUATE IN LIE
DROfT PARK. ON SECOND STREET Re
TWEEN IT, AND ELM STREETS NORTH
WEST
Under and by virtue of a deed of trust bearing
date the 2th day of July. 1897. and duly recorded
among the land records of the District Of Columbia
in Liber 22iS. at folio 100 ct seq, and at the
request OF the party secured thereby, the under
signed surviving trustee, will offer for sale at
public auction. in front OF the premises on MON
DAY, TIE FOURTEENTH DAY OF JANUARY
A u. 1907, AT HALFPAST FOUR O'CLOCK PM
part OF lot q, In square numbered IL, in lie Drot
Park per plat thereof. recorded in County Sub.
division Rock Governor Shepherd. page Is of the
surveyors office OF the District of Columbia be-
ginning at a point the east line OF said lot 3s
feet inch north from the southeast corner OF said
lot; thence west to point the line Of said
lot 36 feet inches north OF the southwest corner
the center thereof thence east to the center of the
line OF said lot: thence south 81 feet along
said east line TO the beginning.
Terms OF sale Oae-third Of the purchase money
in cash, the balance in two equal installments
payable In and Two years from day OF sal
with six per cent interest deed of trust
upon the property sold. all cash. at the option
Of the purchaser. A deposit Of 5000 Will be re.
quirpd at time Of sale. Terms OF sale TO be COM
piled with within fifteen days from day OF sale
otherwise the property Will be resod at the risk
and cost OF the defanltng purchaser after FIVE
days notice In some newspaper published In the
District OF Columbia All cOuveyancing recording
and notarial fees nj the COS; OF the purchaser
LEON TOBRlNER. Surviving Trustee.
JAZZ d. eSu&dS Equity building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-11
Notice Regarding Buoyage.

The following notice, regarding buoyage
in the Potomac river and in adjacent wa
tiers frequently visited by vessels from this
city, has been issued by the lighthouse au-
thorities in charge Of the 18th district:
Potomac river, Md.-Coan river gas buoy
No. was removed temporarily for re-
charging January 3, and the station marked
by spar buoy. black. Ragged Point Spit
gas buoy No. 8 was removed temporarily
for recharging January 3, and the station
marked by a spar buoy, back. Maryland
Point shoal buoy, black, spar buoy for
winter, was numbered MP II, December 10,
1905.
Coan river, Va.-Travis Point spit buoy
No. 2, second-class nun, was changed to
a spar, for the winter, January 3.
Hampton Roads, Va.-Hampton Bar East
End buoy, third-class can r & BIS re-
ported missing January 3, was replaced
January Z.
Wicomco river, Md.-Wingate Point buoy
No 6, a second-class nun, was reported
carried away by the ice January 4. 1t will
be replaced as soon as practicable.