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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-09-20
Oil Magnate Much Changed.
PROOF OF HIS ILLNESS
Rogers Tells His Son-in-IIaw That He
Is "AbOut Done"

Rogers Tells His SOn-In.IIaW Ihat He
Is 'About Done.'
In support of his claim that Rog-
ers was too i'll to appear four wit
nesses were heard. The first was
Urban H. Broughton, the son-in-law
of Rogers. He said that since
July %, when Rogers was taken ill at
New York, his father-in-law had been
unable to transact any business, and
that soon after that date Rogers told
him that BroughtOn must pick up all
his business and carry on the affairs
to the best of his bility and knowl-
edge, and that he would not hold
Eroughton responsible for any mis-
takes and that he T. II. II. Rogers] was
"about DONE At this time Brough-
ton testified that the physicians had
refused to allow Rogers to see any
members of the family, not excepting
his wife
He admitted that once in August his
father-in-law had talked with John D.
Archibold, of the Standard Oil COM
pany, but it was upon business. At
present he testified, Rogers face is
distorted on the right side, the left side
of his body is out of it's natural posi-
ton, and his speech is affected. Hen
ry III. Rogers, Jr., corrOborated his
brother-in-law in many respects. He
said that there had been only slight
Improvement in his fathers condition
since July. and that the only business
he had done was to sign three blank
bank checks and give a power of at
torney to open safe deposit vault in
New York. He refused to discuss any
thing of Importance and ordinary mat
tors worried him.
Norman w Nesbit, New Bedford
dentist. testified that he had attended
Rogers twice within the last six weeks
and ON both occasions he noticed that
he had changed and was very nervous.
The last witness was DR.. Pratt, who
told the court that he could not state
exactly what would be the ultimate
result of the attack last July, nor to
what it was due. He thought it might
he aronIeyv. ~ ro-',ror 60 "a 80
brail.. or a slight laralytic shock.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-09-20
ROGERS IS PARAL YzED
Oil Magnate Unable to Appear
in Court to Testify, the
Judge Decides.
HE HAD A SHOCK LAST JULY
Tells His Son.in-LaW That He Il
About Done
Not Able to DO Business, One Side OF
His Face Distorted, and Much
Changed, His Witnesses
Swear.

Boston, Sept. 17.-Upon the evidence
Of members of the family of Henry
Ell. Rogers and the family physician
that Rogers suffered a stroke last
July and has since been unable to
transact any business Judge Ham.
mond, i'll the supreme court, announced
that it would be cruel to compel his
attendance i'll court and dismissed a
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-09-20
Cambridge

Rev Moses Breeze of Cambria visited
at the home of DR. and Mrs T. w Clarke
last Tuesday Mr. Breeze has just re-
turned from visit 10 England and other
foreign lands.
An important real estate transfer took
place Monday when Ben Serns sold his
residence and two lots to Mrs Lewis
Severson. Possession will be given Oc-
tober first. Mr. Serns will move his fam
lily and household goods to Beloit where
he has number of contracts for erect
ing new buildings.
The new brass band is now fully or
ganized and the members are practicing
diligently. The organization has en-
gagged the services of Harry Wheeler
of Lake Mills as their director and that
talented musician meets with the band
every Wednesday night to give instruc-
tions
0 G Vaughn and one Of the guests of
Vaughn's cottage, Frank Thomas of
Cairo, Ill, had an unpleasant and excit-
ing experience on Lake Ripley last Sat
urday night. They wens out in boat
fishing for bullheads and when luck was
coming their way Mr. Thomas got up to
stand in the boat, when he lost mis- bal
ance and fell into the lake. In falling
he tipped the boat over and Mr. Vaughn
was also unwillingly compelled to take
swim. AS they were quite distance
from shore they swan to the boat and
held on and called for help. Their cries
attrac' ed the attention of those on shore
and Lieut. G Emmons and son Thornton
got into boats and went to their rescue.
They were safely brought to shore in an
almost exhausted condition but other
wise none the worse for the experience.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-09-20
PRICE $4,000

Farm is we'll fenced with woven wire and
barb wire and is in good neighboorhood
with fine farms and fine buildings sur
rounding it, and is desirable home for
Soma one
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-09-20
800 Acre Farm

We also have a fine farm in Martin Co..
Minnesota, of 800 acres with woven wire
and barb wire fencing; this is a fine,
first-class stock farm with flowing we'll
thereon; the improvements alone are
worth from $4,000 to $4,000. School
house one-fourth of mile from the
farmhouse, rural free delivery running
past the door, with telephone service.
81 miles from two railroad stations; land
has all been plowed and can be plowed.
$4,000 of a first payment will be required
and balance may run from 5 to 10 years
with interest at 5 per cent.
PRICE $4,000
Any and all communications may be ad-
dressed to the
BANK OF POYNETTE
43m3 POYNETTE, WIS
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-09-20
HENRY III. ROGERS.

motion to that effect The condition
of Rogers was disclosed in the course
Of hearing on motion to show that
he is capable of attending the trial
Of a suit against him for S5OO0O,OO0,
brought by c. M. Raymond of Som
erville, for alleged conversion of Ger,
tain royalties in connection with the
production of petroleum.
What Raymond Tried to Show.
The hearing began last week, with
the testimony of DR.. Charles P. Pratt,
of New Bedford, who stated that Rog-
ers had suffered from a stroke last
July, and was unable to attend to his
business. Counsel for Raymond sought
to show by the testimony of personal
and business friends of Rogers at New
Bedford and Fairhaven, and also by
numerous telephone tickets giving a
record Of calls between New York and
the home Of Rogers at Fairhaven, that
the Standard Oil financier had been
about the streets, had participated in
certain festivities, had engaged in GER
tain business at New Bedford, and had
been in frequent communication with
his associates at New York
Oil Magnate Much Changed.
President Winsor, Of the First Ma
tional bank, of New Bedford, stated
that he had conversed with Rogers at
the bank. but said that it was not up
on business matters. Several witnesses
admitted that they had talked with
Rogers within the past few weeks, but
all declared that he was much changed
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-09-20
+ arms for Sale
One 200 Acre Farm

Situated in the town of Lowville, Colum-
bia Co., Wis. Good house, barn, corn
crib, hog house, machine-shed, we'll and
wind mill About 100 acres under pillow,
balance, pasture and timber land; about
IS acres of exceedingly fine hard wood
timber, which will cut from Is to 35
cords of cord wood to the acre, with Is
to % acres of the best kind of tobacco
land; about three quarters of mile to
school, about miles to good r. r. town;
on the rural free delivery route and tele-
phone line, phone in house. $4,000 of a
first payment will be required, balance
may run for 5 or ten years at 5 per cent
interest.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-10

THE greatest of all newspapers
is the daily Globe-D Democrat, of st.
Louis. 1t has no equal or rival in
all the west and ought to be in the
hands of every reader of any daily
paper. 1t costs, by mail, postage
prepaid daily including Sunday,
one year, $500; 6months, $500; 3
months, S1.50; daily without Sum
day, one year, $500; 6 months,
$500; 3 months, S1,00; Sunday
edition-a big newspaper and
magazine combined, 4S to rs pages
every Sunday, one year, $500; 6
months, S1.00. A subscription for
the Globe Democrat, at these prices,
is the best possible newspaper in
vestment. Send your order to-
day or write for free sample copy
to Globe Printing Company, st.
Louis, Mo. See special "long-
time" campaign offer of the
"Twice-a-Week" issue of the
Globe Democrat, two years for S1.25,
elsewhere in this paper.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-10

evidence the past three or four
years. Alfred Henry Lewis recalls
the vote of that year in Ohio, and
in several other States the returns
were equally surprising-and fully
as fraudulent. Mr.. Bryan re-
ceived $4,000 more votes than the
largest Ohio yote-being the vote
cast for Mr.. Bushnell a year prior
ever given to any man. And yet
his opponent out-topped it by,
roundly, $4,000. The aggregate
Buckeye vote mounted by the hum
dreds of thousands above any
previous vote. 1t was larger than
has been any subsequent vote. 1t
ran the voting percentage of the
State up to one in every three and
thr~ee-fourths of population-a
population streaked by a foreign
born element of q per cent of the
whole. Ohio's voting strength was
not, never was and isn't now an
honest one in six of the popula-
ton. And so the "safe and sane"
thieves triumphed; the Eastern
Money Looters thanked God that
they were saved from the lunacy
of Free Silver. They felt then, as
they do now, that the world was
theirs and that to doubt their
possession was sacrilege. They,
nearly thirty years before, had
forced the government to change
the bond-contract from ''lawful
money of the United States into
"coin;" they had compelled the
authorities to call in and burn
hundreds of millions of green
backs, although our rapidly ex-
panding industries were demand
ing the use of every dollar of cur-
rency then in circulation. No
merchant, not a mechanic, not a
farmer, not a legitimate calling in
all the land, but was robbed, and
many of them ruined by the wan
ton outrage perpetrated under that
taking title "the resumption of
specie payments" Not surpris-
ing, then, that the Money Lords
should be amazed and shocked
when their victims, the people,
sought to assert themselves and to
protect their own interests, under
the leadership of their Western
champion. 1t cost those Money
Lords twenty millions in cold cash
to accomplish their purpose, and
they had to invoke to their aid
such rascality and corruption as
was never before known in this
country. But what of that? Must
not Safety and "sanity" be
maintained, and must not the sub
sequently proven thieves and
grafters be provided with "Honest
Money?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-10
Chickens Long Fast.

A New Orleans man has proved
that a chicken can live % days with.
out food or water. He makes aft.
davit that when his family moved re-.
Gently a chicken securely nailed in a
box was in the cellar of the new house,
having been forgotten by the former
tenants. Twenty-three days later the
cook was moved to explore the cellar
and discovered the chicken, emaciated,
but still much alive.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-10
Bill Spaugh Respited.

At three o'clock this afternoon
"Wednesday a phone message
from st. Louis informs us that the
Governor has granted a respite of
seven days to Bill Spaugh.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-10
A Card.

This is to certify that all drug
gists are authorized to refund your
money if Foley's Honey and Tar
fails to cure your cough or cold.
1t stops the cough, heals the lungs
and prevents serious results from
a cold. Cures la grippe coughs
and prevents pneumonia and con-
sumption. Contains no opiates.
The genuine is in yellow packages.
Refuse substitutes. Arcadia VAL
ley Drug Co.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-10

THE st. Francois County Court
is wrong. If the Iron county Re-
publicans don't believe it, letthem
read the following, taken from
the court proceedings, and pub
lished in last weeks Pennington
Times:
Being shown to the satisfaction
of the court that there are certain
records in the Office of the Clerk of
the Circuit Court and Recorder
that should be rebound and tran
scribed, it was ordered that the
clerk of said court have said books
transcribed and rebound as direct
ed by statutes in such cases, at the
expense of the county.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-10

WHEN considering whether or
no the average voter clearly sees
the right and wrong Of economic
questions, | take no little conso-
lation from the belief that he voted
right in 1896; that the alleged cleo
ton Of Mckinley was merely a
gigantic fraud, and that the will
Of the people was set aside by the
"business interests" whose dirty
hands have been greatly in forced
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-10

GRAND Old Dunklin county has
about all it can do to meet it's OBJ
legations. About three years ago
county warrants were worth dol
lar for dollar, but now they are,
worth whatever you can get for
them, sixty-five to seventy-fve
cents. Our public roads and
bridges were then in a passable
condition, but now many are not
safe to travel. The county court
did not then have to postpone
their regular meeting dates on &C.
count of not being able to "deliver
the goods,'' nor did they deal in
Cultures to keep up the dignity
Of the court. We have a slight
remembrance of an indemnifying
bond with a technical loop-hole.
Some people can speculate on the
unwarying public and get rich.-
Maiden Merit.
Yes, we have a hazy recollection
of that indemnifying bond. 1t was
printed in the Dunklin county pa
pers by the local option people just
before the election. Haven't some
of the papers down there got the
''nerve'' to reprint the bond nowP
We should think it would be most
interesting reading to the tax-pay-
ers of Dunklin.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-10

Gov. FOLK is exactly right in his
s'good roads" recommendations
For my part I would vote for a
State bonded debt for ten or
twenty millions in that behalf,
and expect future generations to
rise up and call me blessed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-10

I SEE some people want the
Legislature to pass a law prohibit
ing theatrical shows on Sunday.
How we do love to force our neigh
Dor into our way of thinking, and
how we long to sock it to him II
he persists in having a mind OF
his own! Morally, the Legislature
has Just as much right to dictate
where we shall go and what we
shall do as it has to forbid our
pleasing ourselves on Sunday or
any other day-providing, always,
that we do not trench upon the
rights of others. How inconsistent
the Christianity that is Jealous in
enforcing its precepts by statute.
A religion so enforced is worse
than no religion; it has bred evil
and cruelty and ~inhumanity in the
past, and blotched the pages Of
history with blood. No religious
enactment ever made a true Christ
ian, but such laws have produced
hypocrites and conscienceless
scoundrels by the thousand.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-10

ABOUT the biggest ''graft' |
know of is the State University.
1t never knows when it has enough,
and is indecent in ts'demands OF
the people. New "chairs" are
continually being added to its
faculty, and with each "soft snap
created comes a plea for more
money. A "School for Journal
ism" is the latest gouge and in due
time it will be supplemented with
other ornamentations-all at the
expense Of the "easy' taxpayers,
.wfro(are taught that they must not
question any imposition under the
sacred name of Education.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-10

How facilely the politician
Democrat or Republican-adapts
himself to the supposed public
trend! Vide the dramshop bills
being put before the Legislature.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-10

THE fight is on between Foraker
and Teddy. clay on, Macduff,
and damned be him who first cries,
Hold! Enough
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-10

Highest market price paid for
Country Produce. When others
pay IL 1-2c per dozen for Eggs,
we pay t5c, and when others pay
zoe we pay you 25c. Remem-
Der, we buy Wool, Hides, Feath-
ers, Roots, Butter, Eggs, and all
farm products, and pay the high
est market price.
E. L. FARMHOUSE.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-10

"PEACE on earth"-a few more
big battleships, Messieurs OF Con-
gress!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-10

See that matchless array of
heaters, cook stoves and ranges at
Lopez Store Co.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-10

Radium silk for ladies' scarfs,
delicate and beautiful colorings,
at Lopez's.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-10

The finest line of teas and coffees
in town at Lopez Store Co.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-10

n . q
Bears tho HThe Kind You Have Always Bought
''', = ! N1AzM
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-01-10

REGISTER Office for job work.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-01-26
MAN lM5uED WITH THE SPIRIT
OF GIVING TO THE POOR.
Rich Mine Owner Who, EmuIating
Carnegie, Declares He viii Dis
tribute His Wealth While
He Lives.

Don Pedro Alvarado is a generous
hearted mine owner of Mexico, who
has resolved that he will die poor,
somewhat after the spirit and purpose
of Carnegie, of this country. He owns
a mine which can produce net profits
of S12,OOO,00O a year, and all this i'm
mense income he declares he will give
away. In order to attain his purpose
he offered not long ago to pay Off the
national debt of Mexico. But in this
attempt to empty his treasury he was
thwarted. The Mexican government
was so proud that it declined the IA
voF Don Pedro, however, is not a
man to be easily discouraged. He is
going to give his money away, in spite
of obstacles. And SO, after long DELHI
GRAFTON, he has announced he would
give $1O,OO0,OO0 to the poor of Mexico,
the money to be distributed by the
Little, if any, is to be
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-01-26
Ely Cathedral Showing the West
Front.

Abbot Simeon just after the conquest,
fell as the monks were returning from
the church to their dormitory Alan
is represented in the old records as
being at first perplexed and over
whelmed, not knowing which way to
turn himself or what to do for the
PREPARATION of such ruin; but, taking
courage and putting his whole trust in
God he set his hand to the WORK
clearing the spot with all possible
speed and with much labor and eX-
pense He then measured out eight
positions in which the eight stone
columns were to stand. supporting the
new campanile. These spots he caused
to be dug out and examined until he
had found the solid rock. Alan's main
object was to build up something that
should be less likely to fall than the
traditional center tower borne up by
four arches Cupolas of the east. as
well as towers of the west, were for.
merly supported by four arches. and
so could have no greater span than the
four limbs gave. The popularity Of
the Ely octagon is that the central
space is far wider than any of the
four limbs, which, from other points
of view, look so vast, but sink into
mere adjuncts to the great central
space
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-01-26
Die DEEP E0R DRINK
Riow BROOKLYN is SOLVING THE
WATER PROBLEM.
millions Of Galions Brought Up from
Subterranean Channels by
System Of Compressed Air
Power.

While New York has been priding
ffself upon its Croton reservoir and
batting millions upon millions in a
water system, Brooklyn, just across
$he river, has been going down into
ne bowels of old mother earth for her
vRter supply, and has during the past
bear succeeded in reaching seeming
RY inexhaustible supplies. Seventy
ave per cent of the present supply Of
Ehe city is produced from underground
sources. 1t is a revolution that has
een worked within year.
Convinced, by the conclusion Of
earnest and scientific examinations Of
De conditions that a great reservoir
~ water was to be found on Long
uAand IN the second water bearing
Bnavel stratum underlying the blue
is1Ay, at depths ranging from $50 to
$500 feet, il was demanded that
demonstration be made, the Brooklyn
8agle being prominent in the effort
On December "a, 1905, the board of
Estimate appropriated $4,000 to i'm
Drove the water station at Jameco. At
mis- place there has been 81 wells
Sunk under the inefficient methods of
the old authorities. Together they pro-
Aluced 100000 gallons a day, when
hhey worked. They were practically
znder condemnation when they were
put under the air lift system. II was
believed that they were in such shape
9hat nothing could be done with them.
In less than a year IS have been put
znder the new system, the water bear
ing gravel stratum under the blue clay
has been reached and daily 100000
gallons is turned into the conduits for
use by Brooklyn. When the other six
wells are put into the same shape it is
estimated that at least 100000 gal
Ions will be the daily production from
this station alone
In view of the fact that barely a
year ago the conditions were as set
forth above it is astounding that rs
per cent. of the present water supply
of Brooklyn is from underground
sources: 20 per cent. from unfiltered
surface sources, and FIVE per cent
from filtered sources. The present
daily consumption averages 135,000
600 gallons daily. 1t has run as high
as 141,OO0,OO0 gallons in a single day
During the year 1906 from under
ground sources alone, the supply has
been increased by about 100000 gal
Ions, or 80 per cent. of the entire sup.
ply.
In addition to the wells at Jameco
station operated under the air lift sys-
TEN. there are over 20 other wells add.
ing their flow to the city's water sup.
ply.
A marked instance of the value OIL
the increased supply from the deep