The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-02
Has Had Frequent Conferences
With Accused.
HOLD NIGHT SESSIONS
Case Will Be Rushed by thu
u. s. Court.
General Manager James A,
Fleming Testifies.


ted States senator, but now editor of
the Salina Union, has been in two
night conferences with H. H. Tucker,
Jr., of Uncle Sam Oil fame, presumably
giving him advice and counsel Wheth-
er Burton is being paid for his services
is matter of speculation. Tucker
says that he has but one attorney, AL
bert Wilson. the man who is defending
him in the present proceedings.
1t is definitely known that Burton
has been a very much interested spec
tator Of the trial which has been on
and that he has taken up the defense
of Tucker in the editorial columns of
his paper and also that he has con-
ferred with Tucker at the Throop hotel
istered at both the Glenwood and
the Throop while here, leaving the city
from the latter hotel this morning.
Il am after the grafters and he is
answering the query of whether Burton
had been talking with him about the
present trial.
do you think sop
'Well, he has been training with
these other fellows" said Tucker, in
timating that Burton had as his asso-
ciates or former associates the men
who are back of fuckers present pros
ecution.
Ever since his indictment and his
consequent Imprisonment at Ironton,
Mo-, Burton has felt very bitterly tow
ards a.number of federal judges and
the present administration. in fact he
has been embittered towards the entire
federal judicial system. His personal
feelings have therefore probably induc-
ed him to warmly champion Tucker in
the latter's fight in the United States
courts.
Night sessions of the court will be
held from now on in addition to the
ternoon in order to rush the case to
conclusion as much as possible.
Judge Amidon stated today that he had
other engagements which would call
him away about the middle part Of
next week. 1t would be necessary
therefore for the jury to sit at from
s o'clock until 10 o'clock every evening
in order that the evidence might be
all presented by the middle of next
week.
James F. Fleming, general manager
of the Uncle Sam Oil company, un-
der the trusteeship says that the
Uncle Sam Oil company can make
money, barrels of It, that is if the
three refineries at Tulsa. Okla. Atchi-
son and Cherryvale. Kansas were
running the whole year round at their
full capacity, refining 1900 barrels
daily the profits to the company net
would be $245,000 yearly. He based
these figures on what he figured was
the profits from the Cherryvale re-
finery for five months running from
November of last year to April of
| this and which he believed to be $10,-
| 900, this with a production of about
one-fourth of it's daily capacity. How
| ever Flemings figures were based on
a steady market for all of the prod
| ucts of the refneries and did not take
| in consideration any difficulty that
| might be encountered in disposing of
them against stiff competition.
| "Oil is a staple article just like
flour, people must have it." said Flem-
| ing.
In arriving at his figure of ten thou
sand dollars profit he stated that he
| had based it on his own figures and
| those of the bookkeeper for the
whether depreciation had been
counted off and reckoned in the cost
| of the oil from the Cherryvale re-
| finery or not, neither did he know
whether interest on the investment
entered into the calculations, he
| thought however not.
You closed down the Atchison re-
| finery did you not?" was asked.
| Eyes, SIR
"Well, if you could make so much
money out of refining why did you
close it down %
| wen, Lie trustee, L. OO0D0l ana
myself didn't know how long we were
going to stay" said Fleming. He also
stated that the company wanted to
build up thoroughly it's trade at the
several points and for that reason ii
did not care to branch out extensive
ly. He said that he had advised Mr..
Goebel that the Tulsa refinery should
be disposed of in reply to query.
''Why did you do that il it was
earning or capable of earning $500
a day?"
He explained that though the re-
finery was well built, he thought ii
more economical to run the Atchi-
son refinery than the one. at Tulsa,
That the 100000 that might be re-
ceived from the sale of the Tulsa
plant would finish the pipe line for
a two inch pipe from Aliceville to
Atchison and that with this COM
pleted the sale of the byproducts re-
fined at Atchison could be disposed OF
more profitably at Atchison and would
overcome profits that were able to be
!, Missouri river rates and shipments
and it was impossible to route them
river points. He said good market
, that great deal of it was now ship.
Pa, but that he would, he thought
up and down the Missouri river or
such as greases to Europe, but he
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