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The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-10-03
WAR LINEUP
IN ALABAMA
BLACKS TAKE LEAD IN PREPARA-
TloNs TO MAKE REPRisALs
FOR LYNcHlNG.
MILITIA is ON THE SCENE
All Firearms in Whistler, Near the
Scene of the impending Conflict
Purchased by White
Men.

Mobile, Sept 2S.-Negroes and
whites near Plateau and Magazine
Point, few miles north of here, are
in hostile array, and the military is
in readiness to make forced march
to the seens to enforce order and
quiet
Several refugees FROM the field of
race conflict, Including White women
and children, have arrived here. hav-
ing fed early to escape what then APP
peared a certain and bloody collision.
One company Of militia reached Pla-
teau about daylight, and apparently
had salutarg. effect, as 40 race, out
break has yet taken place, so far as
known here.
Lynehing Cause Of Trouble.
The earliest report on the Eouble
reached whistler, five miles fronfhere,
Thursday night. 1t was to the eject
that negroes near Plateau and Mega
zine Point were holding secret meet
ings and organizing to make reprisah
for the lynching of the negro MossN
Dosett on Sunday morning by masked
white men.
Immediately a number of Whistler
citizens organized for the protection of
their homes. All the firearms in town
were brought out and distributed, and
a patrol arranged to guard against
sudden attack
The sheriff was notified of the
threatened trouble, but for lack of spe-
cific information no deputies were sent
there. Adiutant +. NJ. Maddox of the
local militia, was notified of the prob
ability OF trouble, and kept in touch
with the situation.
At 1870 Friday morning eight white
/ persons living at Plateau came to THU
city. and one o fthem stated that tn
negroes at that place had organic
and were assembled at a point whe
the street railway line crosses -
Southern railway; that the peoplf
Plateau had been armed. and awA
an attack by the negroes all nighad
that the white employees of that
Cedar companys mill were feaEe
, the blacks would attack them
a. m. IL the
] JdAlNA NAAtAAef NhSh hVNlhOf the
condition in Plateau, at oIin Mad
sheriff out of bed, and 2 Dumont
dox. in the absence of CO. q made
of the First regiment. sng Of one
provision for the disRrs n The nc
company at once and
casion demanded. fload ~ refrt-
Later another wa were GUAR.
gees reached the ct;on they OK.
tered at the policean +ha+ naeroes
would attack tb
ling. oomnanv reached
ne ne M. and in marching
r,ialeau az sAets arrested a negro
lnI I''u5 1, rr Godbold, armed with a
1,t NY WI Re and with his pockets
fun Of cart seS'
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-10-17

No. 1903, Greenbush, will meet the second and
fourth Saturday of each month at the Aug
zines house, In school district 5, at p. M
>. H. I1LLEY, Pres. E. c. STARK, Sec.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-10-17
BY ROBERrUs LOVE.

STE laughed his way to a great
fortune #;
That Is what one of his
friends says concerning John
p. Archbold, the real head of the
Standard Oil trust, the active working
principal In control of the gigantic
monopoly. Standard Oil has two John
DIS. Most persons are accustomed to
look upon John D. Rockefeller as the
big boss Of the combine, but recent
developments have shown that it is
.Archbold, the other John D., who
works while Rockefeller sleeps. In
fact, Mr.. Archbold himself admits this,
though he is accounted modest indi-
vtdual and not in any wise prone to
placing his own Importance under the
9agnifying lens. AS the reigning oil
king for dozen years past John D.
Archbold, John D. the second, is en-
titled to the limelight.
There is something nightly mysteri-
GUS about Standard Oil. We hear Of
smooth and oily individuals. Those
terms apply to Standard Oil in a more
emphatic degree than to any mere in
dividual. Standard Oil, which is large
~ an ilfuminant, hid its light under a
bushel for many years until Attorney
General Hadley of Missouri descended
upon New York and lifted the bushel
Mr.. Hadley simply asked questions,
under warrant Of law, and insisted
upon answers. His queries were clear
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-10-17
Five O'clock Tea In Business Offices.

Five o'clock Tea In Business Offices.
Serving tea in business Offices is a
new practice. The custom has spread
rapidly in Wall street and is practiced
principally in the Offices Of large bank
ing houses at the close of banking
hours, says What to Eat. The fad
was introduced by the younger bank
ers, at first Stunned, then tolerated,
then embraced by the older heads.
Now tea and waters are regularly serv-
ed every afternoon in the private Of
fees Of many large institutions. An
interesting feature of the spread Of
the custom is its adoption by the head
Of prominent department Of one Of
the largest banks. The banker is an
1rishman, and his assistants are Ger
mans. Nevertheless all gather at a
fixed hour every afternoon and sip
their tea as contentedly as if such
beverages as Irish whisky and Pilsner
had never been invented.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-10-17

No. ALT, Zimmerman will meet the first and
third Saturday OF each month in Woodman
hall at 1:30 p. m.
II. B. PRATT, Pres. J. L. FREELAND Sec
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-10-17

No. 5057, West Branch, will meet the first and
third Saturday of each month at the school
houst, Dist. No. 4, at p.m
ARCHIE TAYLOR, Pres J. L. WETSEL Sec
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-10-17

believed to be an offshoot of the
Standard, though nobody could prove
1t. AS matter Of fact, the Acme was
capitalized and controlled entirely by
Standard men, its stockholders being.
In addition to Mr.. Archbold, William
Rockefeller, w. G. Worden, F. @.
Barstow and Charles Pratt. It was ev.
1dent at once that the Acme had come
into the oil regions for the purpose of
absorbing the Independent interests, as
Mr.. Rockefeller and his colleagues
were absorbing them elsewhere.'
John D. Archbold has been absorb
ing the independent interests ever
since and largely ON the sly, as in the
Acme instance. When the original oil
trust was formed in 1882 he became
one of the nine trustees Of the concern.
Later he became vice president and,
as we have said, the practical working
head Of the business. Archbold seems
to have made speciality Of the trans
portation end, the pipe line side Of the
serpentfne monopoly, but he knows the
whole oil business from A to lizard.
When Attorney General Hadley fired
pertinent questions at him, requiring
answers in figures, Mr.. Archbold quot
ed statistics without referring to rec
ords. All were contained within that
remarkable head Of his.
A Remarkable Head.
It is the Archbold head, physically
speaking, which caused it's owner to
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-10-17

lose for the time being that fine sense
Of humor with which he is accredited
by those who know him best. Arch
bold is small man with large head.
His height is about five feet three
inches, but his head is big enough for
a seven footer. That Uranium fairly
bulges with bumps Of aggressiveness,
secretiveness, bulldog tenacity and
other elements highly useful in Stand
ard Oil methods, wherefore it came
about that when Archbold was on the
witness stand the newspaper cartoon
lists sketched him with these phreno-
logical bumps properly accentuated
according to cartooning traditions
The Archbold head is spherical, save
for the brain bulges. 1t is the head of
a jolly good fellow as such things are
considered. 1t is the head of a man
who laughs heartily and cracks a joke
betimes, and those things this John D.
does upon occasion.
But John D. could not stand the car
toons. Once he leaped from the wit
ness chair and snatched a pencil from
a cartoonist's fingers. He requested
the protection of the commissioner on
the bench, and that parsonage smiling
~ excluded the cartoonist
"You newspaper chaps are all right -
remarked Mr.. Archbold to the report
ers, "but the artists are Infamous
At another time John D. lost his
temper and made remarks white hot
with epithets. That was when Attor-
ney General Monnett of Ohio had him
In the tolls. An attorney for the other
side put some peppery questions
Archbold grew palpably angry. The
lawyer remarked that Mr.. Archbold
looked In fighting trim, to which the
witness responded Instantly:
I'm in trim, you dog, you miserable
whelp, you dirty liarv'
Nevertheless John D. is good natured.
otherwise be could not have laughed
himself 9ls into great fortune. His
SMILE is a roseate aurora Of good
cheer. When he laughs you wonder
how such big laugh can emerge from
such a small larynx.
His Amazing Candor.
Before Attorney General Monnett the
Archbold presence was tlrm and def.
ant But when Young Inchinvar NOD
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-10-17

and simple, and he evoked clear and
simple replies. John D. Archbold who
Knows men oily and otherwise, dis
covered in young Mr. Hadley a candid
person, as smooth as men are made,
but not oily in the least. He learned
that he must speak up when Hadley
held him with his glittering eye, be-
cause he was aware that the Missou-
rtan had probed deeply into Standard
OH mysteries and knew his ground
thoroughly. Besides, he knew where
Hadley was from, and therefore he
must be shown.
Rockefeller Merely Figurehead.
So it happened that when a year or
so ago the modest Mr.. Archbold was
placed under the Hadley searchlight
disclosures We're made which threw
much light upon dark subject
You are perhaps" suavely queried
Mr.. Hadley, more active than any
other individual, longer in service and
more prominent in connection with the
oil side of the business"
1T is perhaps fair to say that I
am" replied the modest Mr.. Archbold.
Then the world learned that for at
least ten years John D. Rockefeller
mad been merely a fgurehead in
Standard Oil, John D. the second hay
ing succeeded to the throne.
John Dustin Archbold is of Scotch
ancestry. born about sixty years ago
In Steubenville, o. His parents took
him as a small boy to Titusville, Pa,
where John D. went to school more or
less and then clerked in a country
store until the Pennsylvania oil fields
grew up all around him and he found
his calling. The young man, like many
others of that period, saved every dol
lar he could and invested it in oil
properties. By the time he was TWEEN
F-four be had become a considerable
local figure in Oil around Titusville.
ArchboM's first appearance in oil
history is thus recorded by Miss Tar
bell, who wrote the history Of Stand
ard OIL
I'm the early fall Of 1875 there .ap-
peared John D. Archbold, an energetic
young refner and oil buver we'll
known in Titusville as the representa-
tive of a new company, the Acme Oil
company, concern which everybody
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-10-17
Member of MANY Clubs.

pet university the oil monarch devotes
some Of his energies to philanthropic
institutions. He is a director Of the
Postgraduate hospital and of ST..
Chrfstopher's home in New York city.
He is also member Of six clubs and
Of five art, geographical and natural
history societies. Yet he is no nature
fakir, nor is he as yet on the Roosevelt
list of prevaricators.
In 1879 William H. Vanderbilt, one
Of the first great railroad kings, testi-
fed before a New York legislative
committee that was inquiring into
Standard Oil methods to secure low
rates from the railroads. Thus early
the rebate problem became important.
Referring to John D. Archbold and his
fellow associates, Mr.. Vanderbilt said:
''They are very shrewd men. think
they are smarter fellows than I am, a
good deal. don't believe that by any
legislative enactment or anything else,
through any Of the states or all Of the
states, you can keep such men down.
You can't do it. They will be on top
all the time. You see if they are not"
But that was when Herbert S. Had
ley was a small boy.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-10-17
American Society Of Equity Directory

No. 1926, Schmidt District. Will meet the first
S ssa tnlrd Friday of every month at the
SScnmlat district school house No. 4, at D. M
GEORGE SCHMIDT, Pres. H. f. HoLTHUs, Sec.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-10-17

No. 1884, Baldwin District will meet the second
and fourth Saturday OF every month at the
Baldwin town hall, at p m.
H. B. FISK, Pres. R. E. HIGGINS, Sec
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-10-17

No. 374 Berry District, will meet the first
FRIDAY OF every month at the Berry school
house: district "a, at 7;3O p M
O. D. ORNE, Pres Z. HArcH sec
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-10-17

! No. 4211, Oxlip, will meet the first and third
Tuesday of each month at the Gates school
house in Dist. No. 81, at p. m.
GEO. TOMLINSON Pres. E. RADEKE Sec
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-10-17

NO; 4S3. Bogus Brook, will meet the second
Jopp's house. A. SCEMaTz San
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-10-17

No. 4734, Woodland Brook, will meet the fret
and third Saturday of each month at the
Woodard Brook school house at D. M
ALBERT RIEBE, Pres. FRANK MAGNUsON. Sec
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-10-17
His Amazing Candor.

Before Attorney General Monnett the
Archbold presence was drm and def.
ant But when young Lochinyar Had
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-10-17

No. 1904, Blue Hill, will meet the first and third
Saturday OF every month at the Wheeler school
house at 8 p. m.
JAMES DUGAN, Pres. FRED STEHr Cor
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-12-21
Price S Cents.

he is themselves as a whole While
the family may have little jar now
and then woe betide the outsider who
interferes.
We who are Anglecised and Ameri
canized can refreshingly take les
son from the new conner from foreign
lands. When he goes back he takes
his savings in United States postal
orders or coin. He knows who to
trust and when he returns as he will
with his family he will have to be
educated before you can palm off
any subsidiary institution on him in
place of the government. The mass
of figures presented here shows the
results and prosperity and safety Of
the country, and of the government
and serves to bring into most bold
relief the fact that The only thing
that is wrong is our present banking
system which can never be right un-
I'll that same government issues all
the money, receives the deposits and
banks do business just the same a.
the miner, the farmer, the manufac-
turer and the merchant on their own
capital, credit, assets and capabiity
without exceptional favor from the
national government.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-12-21
capital of
SOTO o7,864
capital of
S 6o,84o,5oo
$677,I48y364,

$3.50 banks, $677,I48.364
Practically oooo national banks con-
trolled absolutely, even if indirectly,
by less than six thousand nephews
out OF total family of cighty-nine
millions. With a capital Of SOY, 49,
364 and doing all the business of the
country with "Uncle Sam" with a
cash capital on hand of $I,688,o2z.-
oS6.S3 and the assets of the whole
country behind him, borro wing mon
ey from the "rest of the family" at
? and 3 per cent and loaning it to
the few without interest for them to
loan to the many at any old per
cent they can squeeze out of them;
and when the many put their savings
i'll the hands of the few they can't
get them when they want them.
Which is better Uncle Sans GER
tifcate of deposit or a national
banks? How simple it is when you
look it square in the face? Let I'M
Gle Sam pay off his outstanding bonds
with certificates of deposit and open
the minis to receive all the gold and
silver offered paying for it in his
own coin and there will be plenty Of
money to run the business of the
country for rs it grows he grows in
wealth and his certificates of deposit
can be augmented as a circulating
medium by his coin and bank notes
and no panics can take place, as the
people cannot be frightened at any
thing threatening him. They always
have and always will stand patriot
cally with him. And why? Because
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-12-21

1907, a period of seven and one-half
years 1888 national banks were i'll
corporated, the average capital being
$2o,o7S and total capital $6o,S4o 500,
while from February rs, 1868, when
the national banking act was frt
passed to March 80, 1000, or thirty
seven years only 5,264 were organ,
lied and but BOY were in existence
on that last date. Some one must
have been getting wise as to the profit
of national banking At this rate we
soon all would be bankers. But to
save detail let lis just go back and
allow our common uncle to be the
banker for the whole family alike.
Take glance at his relative capa-
city as compared with the few ne
phews?
36I7 banks had total capital of
$6Io,3o7,S64
1888 banks had total capital of
S 6o,84o, 500
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-12-21
Uncle Sam Should Be The Banker

cepts $84,33S,435 over 1906, while
its increase in expenses was but $25,-
77I,I7L31 and its total revenue
amounted to $84672533o.62 with
81, I6o,oooS6o held as trust funds in
gold and silver coin to redeem out
standing issue of certificates, an in
crease of $II5,37I 900 as compared
with 1906. But here comes the item
that we want on the blackboard in
big letters so all can read it no mat
ter how much of hurry they are in,
viz; "The monetary stock of the
country increased $3.50, 5S+4I6 during
the last fiscal year; in gold SIPS ,6S2,-
336, in silver $I3,62375o and in ma
tional bank notes $42,676,33o while
there was a decrease in treasury notes
of the issue of 1890 Cor it paid off in
other words in coin) $I,3oS,ooo.
The national banks as can be seen
by this statement, helped out their
Uucle Samuel by using his credit
with the rest of the family to the ex-
tent of $42,676,33o and benefited di-
rectly by having the use of this issue
to loan the same "resr OF the family"
together with several times that
amount which their Uncle deposited
with them without interest for which
they collected high rates OF interest
from that same rest of the family
is it much wonder that the few of his
nephews could easily become multi
millionaires and chief owners of all
utilities while the other relatives did
all the work and they simply kept
the books?
Well that's what they were doing
when all at once it occurred TO them
that these relatives are still getting
too much and so they decide to cut
them down by retaining all but just
enough to keep them going. 1t re-
minds the writer very much of the
way certain smelling company ac-
quired millions off the earnings of
very small community. No matter
how rich the ore their charges ad-
sorbed all but enough to keep the
miner in grub and supplies.
Under date of March IA, 1900, CON
gress was induced" by the "inter-
ests' of course, to authorize the in
corporation of national banks with
a capital of $4,000 in commu ties
of 5000 population. From the date
upon which this act took effect to the
close of the business on August 81,
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-12-21

That report of Mr.. Secretary of the
treasury can well be parallelcd to a
hobbled cayouse travelling through
a prairiedog town. While he is in
plain view he plunges along withou,
knowing where the solid ground lies
extricating himself from one hole
only to step into another and finally
exhausted, simply gives up the strug-
gle and in desperation neighs for d
pathfinder. An efficient assistant en-
ables us to learn few pertinent
facts as to an approximtc status of
affairs, so that Our deductions can
but be comparatively correct. He
thinks there is in circulation in the
United States $2,772,o56,45o of money,
OF which 4I.o per cent was gold but
how much silver or what other kind
of money he fails to state or we did
not see it. One thing is definite that
at the close Of the fiscal year there
was $oo4 6oI,73o.I4 gold on hand and
that the available working caritai
amounted to $272,o6I, 445.z, an in
crease of $oI,372, ooo65 as compared
with that of year ago, which serves
to emphasize Our argument that I'm
Gle Sam is good enough banker for
the people to deposit with direct and
ln dnps ran,,,ra -.
tor either his own protection of con-
venience nor that of the dcpositors,
for whom he must supply funds to
enable them to keep their doors open
when the latter happen to want lit
tie pocket money and do so without
receiving interest, while he is paying
interest on $2,457, I8S o6I.54, which
he can extinguish at his pleasure if
he will but issue certificates of depos-
it to the people for the savings they
now have in National Banks, and not
only extingush it but readily add to
his present balance from one to two
thirds of the entire total sum, the
astute secretary comedies to be in
circulation, for he means when he
says in circulation what is actually
in the hands of the people and what
is also in the national banks, which
latter is scarcely placed in its right
class as it seems to have slight at
tack of heart failure just at present.
That the government is capable
banking institution is verified by the
fact that its accumulated profit for
the year over its expenditures was
$84,236 sos 80 and its increase in re-
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-12-21

For many years the Deseret News
has led all western papers in the ex-
tent and excellence of its Christmas
editions. This year the Christmas
News is up to the usual standard
and in some ways surpasses any pre-
vious edition 1t is fountain of in
formation regarding these intermoun-
tain states. geographically it is a
beauty and its literary merit far sur
passes that of the ordinary news
paper. The News staff are to be
congratulated and Salt Lake also on
having such paper
It's a good thing the feet has at
last sailed away to the Pacific. The
public has heard so much about its
projected voyage and the prepare
tons therefor that a cessation of
that kind of buncombe will be well
coined.
The game law provides that hunt
ers may shoot only twenty-five duck.
in one day. Now if Officer L yon
was turned loose he could fill the
quota any day without leaving the
city
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1907-11-18

w louisiana znaczy lat 10, bo po
tym czasie virginia = jesli sic do
brze sprawowaf = uwalniaja.
Rodzehstwo Gebia maja jedyna
nadzieje ocalenia cd stryczka W q
pelacyi do wyzszych sadow.
Redding, Conn, 1s listopada.-
w iprzystepie chwilowego szaleh-
stwa usiiowal onegdaj professor
Underwood uniwersytetu Ko-
lurnbia zamordowac zone swa,
przez poderzniecie jej gardia
brzytwa, pozniej W tenze sam
sposob popeinii samobojstwo. Pa
nj Underwood odniosla ciezbie, a.
lie ME smiertelne rany ma szyi,
Szalony professor usilowal rowniet
corke swa zabic, ale te ma szcze-
Scie matka Zdolala uratoWac. Gdy
przybyli lekarze pospiesznie "a
wezwani, professor juz ME zyl. Pro
fesor Underwood zwaryowai po-
dobno z powodu STRAIT poniesio-
nych w ostatnim krachu finanso-
wynn.
Laporte, Ind, IS listopada. -
Pociag pospieszny. linii Wabash
idacy z szybkoscia 60 mil ma go
dzine wykoleil sic W poblizu miej-
scowosci Dillon. Caiy pociag spadl
z tor6w; 20 czy 80 osob odniosio
pokaleczenia, z tel liczby 8 funk
cyonaryuszy kolejowych jest ra-
nionych smiertelnie.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1907-11-18

cyach, bedacych W zwiazku po-
wyzsza afera.
Meksyk miasto, 1S listopada.
- Prezydent Diaz wydai wczo-
raj rozporzadzenie ma mocy kto-
rego aanerykanski kfol kolejowy
E. H. Hartman uzyskal zwolnie-
ME Cd ella "a przywozone matery-
ally do budowy meksykanskich
poiaczeh re swemi kolejami. We
dug tego zarzadzenia 5000 tonn
sly n stalowych importowa-
nych z Rosyi bedzie wolnych cd
ella.