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New-York tribune., 1907-04-18

O follow. leapinE blood.
The seasons lurei
. heart. look down and UP.
Serene. secure,
Warm IS the crocus cup.
Like snowdrops. pure.
Alfred Tennyson
New-York tribune., 1907-04-18
Silk Stockings With Many Merits

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New-York tribune., 1907-04-18

Formerly A. n. Stewart 6 Co.
rroaJ,vav Fourth AYenu-, Eighth 70 Tenth Streets
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didate is taken and the one whose sum
is the lowest is declared the nominee.
as he is the first choice of all the
voters taken as a whole
The Republicans have three candi-
dates. William Green, S. A. Swendson
and G. K. Holiday
Each candidate is claiming the
nomination and the party is divided
into three camps naturally. all oppOs-
ing each other 1t is possible that the
candidate who gets a plurality in such
a state of affairs, would not really be
the choice of the majority if he were
running alone against one of the other
candidates.
The change of plan of making the
nomination has not been formally
presented to the Republican city CEN
trail committee, though quite a num-
Der OF leading Republicans have ex
pressed themselves as favorably dis
posed towards its adoption this spring.
There is nothing to prevent the city
central committee from taking up with
the plant simply lies with them to
determine.
At a meeting of the Ministerial
union held Monday the organization
adopted a report of the committee on
public morals contained in which was
direct thrust at a campaign argu-
ment advanced by S. A. Swendson,
candidate for mayor. against the can
didacy of William Green Mr.. Swend-
son has been making capital out of the
recent change of Mr.. Green to the Re
publican party from the Democratic.
Last year Mr.. Green formally an
nounced that he would run on the Re-
publican ticket for councilman. Mr..
Swendson has been always a member
OF the Republican party and has been
arguing that support should be his
from this fact
But the Ministerial union evidently
sees differently. Reaffirming their
support of William Green, they say:
1T makes no difference to us whether
Mr.. Green Is a Republican of ten
years standing or ten minutes. It is
the fitness of men for Office that we
wish to consider in a city election, not
their partisan politics"
On approving the report of the COM
mittee the vote was II for Green to 1
for Swendson. The committee states
its mind very plainly:
Report of Committee on Public
Morals, Ministerial Union, Febru-
airy 4.
I'm view Of the fact that there are
three candidates in the field for the
office of mayor your committee feels
justified in asking this union to re-
affirm its original endorsement of Mr..
Green as the candidate all things con-
sidered, best entitled to the support of
the law and order vote. The fact that
his offer to submit the question of
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share, or double your original invest
ment after you receive your money back
with interest. Can you afford to turn
down such an investment? While you are
hesitating what to do hundreds of invest
ors will be telegraphing their reservations
for bonds, while re1nittances by mail will
run into the thousands of dollars every
day. And every dollar will be honestly
invested Immediately in steel equipment
and for oil to make the company
just that much stronger. If
you can not spare the funds to subscribe
enough money to build one of these big
storage tanks why not raise club among
your friends and a number of you SUBJ
scribe together for such amount? Or
you can send in your check or draft for
from fifty to one thousand dollars and to-
gether with the hundreds of others which
will be coming in, added together, will
answer the same purpose.
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The young man with the drummer
esque chin and fatty degeneration of
the Adams apple. is Wheeler, of
Crawford. You may observe him
without a microscope on one of the
frontwardly seats of the house. Physi-
cally, Mr.. Wheeler ranks among the
biggest men of the collection, there
fore he is not hard to see. Being
lawyer of considerable ability, he fire.
files brief on the subject under dis
cussion. He is not for the stone in
depreciation of what the people want
in the anti-pass line. and did not fail
to make himself clear on the subject
when the occasion demanded. He
spoke quite warmly and at some
length. He speaks quite warmly and
at some length (about feet p on
most any old subject.
Mr.. Wheeler is new at the business,
not having dipped into matters legis-
is said that he took an exhaustive
correspondence course in Parliament
tary Practice Such may be the case.
He shows q remarkable aptitude in
moving the suspension of the rules and
the getaway from further perusal of
the house journal.
AS an attorney. he is invaluable in
the committee on elections. His de-
cisions are to the point, and have
When asked his opinion on the con-
test cases now before that committee,
he said, in substance: THE election
of United States senator is over, and
these holding Democrats have done no
material damage. Therefore it is my
legal opinion that there is no par
ticular hurry about canning said
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s PER CENT FIRST MORTGAGE 30

tired
fight any trust = " -
exactly the right nou II %
front the
Of the all over
do il ito
make OF CERTAIN
yofc
of all
finish main trunk
will sell ne
in bonds ,whch villa ais put n
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most of oil
TX of Kansas-Terrioy oil
millions of stealing supply which in year or
exp o
continually offered deliver their oil to The Uncle
least be used against their oil
a
a m
barrels of
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choice of candidates to a test of voters
beforehand was absolutely refused by
one of the other candidates is to our
minds altogether in his favor. We wish
also to record ourselves as opposed to
the attempt to inject national or par
usan politics into a municipal cam
paign. 1t makes no difference to us
whether Mr.. Green is a Republican of
ten years standing or ten minutes. It
is the fitness of men for office that we
wish to consider in a city election, not
their partisan politics. We were the
first law and order body to endorse
Mr.. Green and we did it early March
10, 1906, in order to avoid If possible
three Cornered contest. We deplore the
division of the law and order forces and
earnestly ask all good citizens to unite
on Mr.. Green and elect him to the office
of mayor. believing he will do his duty
fully in the matter of law enforcement
and serve the city as an efficient and
faithful public servant.
CHARLES NJ. SHELDON.
FRANCIS L. HAYES.
u. s. GLENDENNING"
Thirty-three members of the Brother
hood of St Paul of the First Methodist
church met last evening in their regu-
lar session and voted to endorse with
out a dissenting voice the candidacy of
William Green for mayor. The motion
came unawares from one of the mem
bers, Ralph McEntire, but was carried
through with a whoop. The Brother
hood of st. Paul is the organization for
the men of the church, social and relig-
ious in it's nature.
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Price of Bonds.

You can secure these bonds by sending
in your check or draft for the par value
of the bond. and for each thousand dol
of the par value of $4,000. For a larger
or a smaller amount of bonds the same
proposition will prevail. Make check or
draft or money order payable to THE
UNCLE OIL SAM COMPANY and the
bonds will be sent to you after they
are property signed and the seal of the
company attached and registered with
the trustee, and will be sent to you by
registered mail as quickly as the clerks
can reach your turn. Make remittance
as per following schedule:
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A contemporary is greatly worried
because members of the Legislature
have been seen entering Topeka thea
tiers on pass. Perhaps said contem-
porary would worry into a slow decline
If 1t caught the pages of both houses
selling theater passes for half price.
But it will back up and cnange the
subject when 1t discovers that the
pages found said passes in the waste
baskets where they had been thrown
by legislators who found them on their
desks.
This is not a corrupt session. As
rule the members are gentlemen or
high integrity. There may be few
bIack-legs in the bunch, but they are
in the minority by large and enthu-
siastic per cent. So far it has been the
cIeanest, openest session in Kansas
history. There is a howl about the
railroad lobby, when in fact railroad
attorneys or their boosters are scarce.
These gentlemen came openly and un-
ashamed before the legislature when
invited to do so. They know they are
up against a hard proposition, and in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-05

The company in maintaining It's FORMER
record in making it possible for investors
of limited means to Join our company, Of
fers these bonds in monthly payments as
desienat ted below: In sending IN remit
tances to secure these bonds on monthly
payments the company will send you re-
ceipt for the payments as you send them
in. These payments must be met prompt
ly, as the bonds reserved for you are
bearing interesting continually and on re-
ceipt of last payment bonds Will be
promptly sent you. Remit on following
schedule:
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First Four monthly
In Conclusion.

This company is under the same man
agement today that it was at the begin
ming nearly two years ago. Practical
men are at the head of every depart
ment and everything is on systematic,
economical basis The refneries are in
operation, the oil wells are being pumped.
the pipe lines are delivering oil for the re-
fineries and the scores of distributors are
delivering oil daily to thousands of
toners The company is putting up
winning fight and growing stronger every
hour. The men who subscribed the first
money to start the Uncle Sam Oil Com
pany were native Kansans and pioneer
developers in the Kansas oil fields, who.
when the oil trust boycotted the Kansas
oil fields two years ago, either had to SIT
idly down and see their properties confis-
Gated and their little savings practically
stolen or make fight. Like the majority
of people, they accepted the latter, and
have been putting up the best they have
had in store since they commenced. ms
effort is being carried forward in the best
of faith. and in selling these bonds they
will be sold at par and every dollar
ceived will go to build up this company
and to place it where it can handle its
great enterprise and secure and MAINTAIN
independent outlet for Kansas-Terri-
tory Oil and place it the market by
honorable methods. satisfactory to both
returns for every stockholder and In time
pay off the bondholders aand at the same
land If you want to help a worthy cause
and encourage. an honorable effort help US
today. SO this company can rush TO COM
pletion these big storageA tanks and other
construction and make it possible for I'm
Gle Sam Company to place in storage
these six million barrels of oil which will
be like powder in the dry to protect the
interests of the stockholders in the future.
The quicker these bonds are sold the
quicker this great work will be completed.
and the quicker aggressive fight can
be carried on in every state in the central
west against the trust. The company So
lfcits the most searching Investigation.
either by visiting the properties call
ing at the main offices. where all the per
sonal information available the Officers of
the company will be glad to furnish to ev-
cry investor to seeks the same in good
faith You can mail remittance at once
or write for further particulars
Address
THE UNCLE SAM OIL co.
or III. H. TUCKER, Jr., Sec'y..
Wyandotte Bldg, Kansas City. Kan.
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City Nominations May Be q Real
Test.
Let Choice of Majority Be Nomi-
nee for Mayor.
COMMITTEE TO DECIDE
Are Now Three Candidates I'm
the Field.
Ministerial Union Formally
Endorses Mr.. Green.

The plan proposed by the State
Journal for the selection of the most
popular and strongest candidate at
party primaries by casting votes in the
case of three candidates as to first
second and third CHI dice. is being urged
by Republicans for adoption at the
party primary March 10. If apy can
didate receives a majority of the first
choices he is declared the nominee. If
no candidate has a majority. the sum
of the choices expressed for each can
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What Will Be Back of Bonds and
Stock When Bonds Are Sold.

A mortgage on any property for forty
per cent of it's value is considered good
AS a rule such loans are made from four
to five per cent. These bonds bear SIX
per cent, and when they are sold and
the property for which they will enable
this company to own and operate and
which Will be pledged as a first lien to
pay off these bonds and pay dividends on
the stock base. on a conservative esti-
mated value value will be as follows:
Pipe lines, lateral pipe lines,
all three refinerteS increased
in capacities, paraffine plant,
lubricating works, 400 dfstrib-
uting stations, $50 tank cars,
river boats and large equip
ment. oil wells, leases and all
oil and gas rights office fix
lures and all properties ex-
cepting storage tanks and oils 3,5O0,0O0.OO
Tank farms and connections
and Q10) one hundred and
ten fifty-five thousand barrel
steel mortgage tanks.......... 1000, 000O
Six million barrels of oil, with
the company in a position and
ture and market the same. 5000, 900 90
Cash reserve which will soon
be built up and always main
tanned after all bonds are sold S0O,0oOOO
Total ~ observation-disclosures. .$23, SOC, 600 90
By the time these properties are all
completed and the oil storage built up
to six million barrels and the whole
properties of the Uncle Sam Oil Com
pany up to the estimated value as above
LION DOLLARS, there will not be more
than from six to eight million shares
of Uncle Sam stock outstanding, but even
If there were ten million shares of stock
outstanding and the values as above set
out were cut just half in two the stock
would then be worth more than one
thousand to one that there Will not be
a share of this stock on the market under
two dollars and a half per share by the
time the properties are completed as be-
fore explained.
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RY he time these properties are al
Denominations of Bonds.

These bonds are of the denominations
of $50 800, 500, $500 and $1,000, with in
terest at per cent, payable annually.
You are especially requested to positively
bear in mind that these denominations can
not be cut up. and in sending in your re-
mittance remit for one of the exact de-
nominations specified above.
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Senator Huffman has introduced a
bill providing for the inspection of gas
and electric meters. This bill provides
that in all cities in the state where gas
appoint an inspector of meters whose
duties shall be TO see that all the
meters in the city come up to proper
standards.
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w
in yourself send in
thousand barrel
be
dollars of
during the few
freedon in the oil
threeref neres at ne
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TOPEKA MAN IS KILLED.
Frank r. Studer Loses His Life IL
Railway shops at Sedalia.

Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Studer of 1917
North Quincy street. received a tele-
gram last night from Sedalia, Mo-.
stating that their son. Frank E. Studer
was killed yesterday at that place.
Mr.. Studer was a timer and was en-
ployed in the Missouri Pacific railway
shops. The particulars of the accident
are not known.
Mr.. Studer was 81 years of age and
leaves a wife and five year old
daughter. Mr.. F. A. Studer left this
morning for Sedalfa and will bring the
body to Topeka.
The funeral arrangements will be an
nounced later.
A anhstanfiaI food mt too hea,r,, 20.
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er and stakeholder in the company. State
ments will be issued regularly showing
the money received and where it is plac-
ed, as there is no speculation about buy
ing pipe lines and building steel storage
tanks and purchasing oil.
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NOTES FROM THE LEGISLATURE.

Senator ]. NJ. Hamme. who has been
a patient at the Santa Fee hospital for
the past few days with an attack of
pneumonia, expects to get out again
either this afternoon or tomorrow.
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The Democrat with the Jesse James
makeup. is proba bly, a Portuguese or
Hollander. His name is Flanagan,
and he halls from Decatur county.
AS a legislator he is the human
translation of luner-caustic. Where
ever he lights he removes a portion of
cuticle. The majority has adopted the
habit of exempting him when it tries
to say something cutting about the
Democrats. One noble youth on the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-05

rooster Flanagan is such a success
that 1t is suspected that before enter
ing politics he was a "Frinch" chef.
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the interest of their respective rail-
roads, are doing what they can to side
track unfavorable legislation. If they
did not they would be canned and
their places filled by attorneys who
could and would. 1t is no crime for a
railroad attorney to speak to a legisla-
tor, nor for the legislator to hear what
he has to say. 1t does not prevent the
legislator from voting as he blamed
pleases The legislator who lodges
the lobby and yells. "Get thee behind
me. Satan" is afraid to trust himself,
and should be found in other walks
of life when the legislature meets two
years hence.
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Senator Huffman has put in another
bill providing that when there are
passengers to get on or off trains at a
town having a population of two hun
dred or more the railroads must stop
their trains for the accommodation
of these passengers.
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Big Side felt called upon not long ago,
to deliver "spread-eagle' Grafton on
the old soldier question. Among those
who delivered the 10 or 81 replies was
Flanagan, and the precocious youth
has since RETAINED from stirring up
the north end of the house. AS
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Financial Condition of Company
Property Back of These
ROndS to Date

The following schedule of values rep
resents very closely a conservative estie
mated value of the present holdings of
the Uncle Sam Oil Company:
Cherryvale Uncle Sam Refinery
No. l twenty acres) .1,......s 100000
No. (fifty acres) .............. 145, O00. 90
Tulsa Refinery, Uncle Sam No.
twelve acres) ................... 10000 90
1,1OO-acre lot 43, oil rights....-.. 90
and laterais .......... ~. 865, 600 90
All other oil holdings and leases 165, 900 90
Sixty-eight distributing stations
pleted 49,. ...................... 1S5,OOOOO
storage and in transit . 100000
Fifty9seven acres land, Wyan- 0''O0
dofte county. Kansas ... 100000
Money described contract
treasury. approximately . $4,000
Tulsa, BartlesvilIe, Cherryvale,
Kansas City, Atchison. 10000
Cash on hand Observation-Disclosures. 1900 90
Total 80. ......................s 81, 4s9, 900 90
ception of approximately $1,000. includ-
ing pipe line notes and temporary loans
and other items not due, these bonds are
a first lien. Out of the first fifty thou
sand dollars received for these bonds pipe
lines notes and all other claims will be
paid promptly; The ifty-seven acres OF
land mentioned in the above statement is
excepted in the mortgage for the reason
that the company is offering this land for
sale at six thousand dollars. 1t was pur-
chased for 81 800 to build refinery No 2,
but the plant was afterward built at
AtchisOn, where a location was secured
for the building of the plant. The COM
pany has no use for this land in it's OPP
Grating business hence will sell the same
and turn the proceeds into the treasury.
and 1t is excepted from the mortgage
backing the bonds for that reason. Eleven
hundred acre lot 43 is also expected in the
mortgage for the reason that these oil
rights are under the supervision of the
Interior Department of the United States,
and when certain restrictions, which are
sure to be removed within the next few
years. are removed this property will
bonds. Even under the present restriction
all oil from this property when it gets
into the pipe lines of the company, as
soon as the royalty due the Indians is
paid. is covered by the bonds. The mort
gage covers all property hereafter to be
acquired by the company.
Everything in this transaction is being
done legally and right and for the full
and perfect protection of every bondhold-
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A blind man with an artificial limb
can see the sense in this legal opinion
Hoyle, Blackstone, Richard K. Fox
and other noted legal authorities may
retire and be seated.
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A substantial food. not too heavy. for
breakfast-Wheatlin
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A bill has been introduced by Sena-
tor Porter of Crawford for the better
protection of miners and the mines in
winch they work The bill provides
for the esta blishment of a miners er-
aiming board in each county of the
state where coal mines are Operated
These boards are to be composed of
three expert miners who are to be an
pointed by the district iudges "
person can be employed in a rnins
who has not received a certificate of
competency from the board. Each
member OF the boards shall receive
compensation at the rate Of "a a.,
while actually engaged in the work Of
the board. "a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-05

Greater Topeka must have a better
food-''Wheatling.
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There was not much to the session
OF the senate yesterday afternoon. a
rev spllls We're introduced, committees
reports received and after beinrr 1e
session for fifteen minutes adjourn
ment was taken on motion by Senator
Waggener out of respect for ~
memory or Representative G. III Mo
on Sunday. IN DeiOie
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The following schedule of values rep
'esentS very closely a conservative esti-
mated value of the present holdings of
he Uncle Sam Oil Company: