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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-27
BANK is
ROB BED

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
AMITY, Ore, Jan. 27.-While
the citizens of this city were sleep
ing early today cracksmen enter
ed the local bank and with drills,
dynamite and nitro-glycerine, pre-
pared to wreck the walls of steel
between them and several thou
sand dollars in gold, currency and
jewelry. They secured 1925 in
postage stamps and are believed
to have taken diamonds and Jew
elry to the value OF several hun
dred dollars. They escaped on
a handcar.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-27
Action Taken to Prevent
Trust From Grabbing
Lands in This
State.

Q8Y United Press Leased W1re.)
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 81.
THE fight for the power sites
not yet In the possession of cor
Horate interests and on the public
domain In the West, has been car
xied to Washington and is becom-
Ing more and more acute.
The veto measure of President
Roosevelt to congress on the
James river dam bill was but the
6rst gun in q war that will be
carried on through the next adj
ministration and is bound to be-
come the first issue before the
country, according to those inter-
eeted in the conservative move
uent.
Garfield Takes Action.
Secretary Garfield recently sent
Z letter to congress asking that he
be authorized by congress to with
draw lands adjacent to streams In
the Colville Indian reservation, in
the state of Washington, for pow
or site purposes. A bill in lieu
With the request was introduced
IN the senate but was reported
unfavorably by the senate COM
mittee on Indian affairs at the in
stance of Senator Clapp, who stat
ed that his general bill would
cover the subject. The bill was
postponed Indefinitely by the SEN
ate on this representation
But information from an
authoritative source today
states that the particular bill
relative to the Colville In
dian reservation was asked :
for to shut off a power COM
bfne from grabbing lands and
1t is feared that the delay
which will attend the passage
of the general bill will allow
these lands to come into pos
session of interests that seek
to effect a monopoly of pow
or in this section of Wash
ington.
Explains Situation.
Secretary Garfield in his letter
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-27
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to congress makes the following
statement:
During the past SUMMER the
of Indian affairs Wis
tied this reservation and the allot-
ing agent invited his attention to
certain large creeks flowing down
from the mountains On the dim
inished Colville reservation, af-
fording valuable water power
which, II not protected by the gov
eminent, will be acquired by set
tiers and developed for private
gain"
This statement IL said to have
been prompted by a careful inves-
tigation that revealed the fact that
the grabbing of these lands was
actually contemplated.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-27

Explains Situation.
Secretary Garfield in his letter
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-27
7. RIP. MUST
LOWER TRACKS
SAYS THE CITY

Manager Dimmock of the T. r.
& P. was today notified by Com
missioner McGregor to lower the
tracks of the Mckinley park line
at East D street. The Milwaukee
cut this street three feet and this
leaves the tracks of the street rail-
way up In the air and makes
travel across the tracks impossf-
BILE.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-27
DAMAGE CASE
SETTLED

The suit of M. Morrisey against
the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber
company for injuries received by
the plaintiff while employed at
the mill, was dismissed in the su-
perior court today, upon presen-
tation of the fact that the case
had been settled out OF court.
The case was settled by a payment
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-27

Add to your lfpfary az little
cost. The big book sale at Cen
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07
What the Railroads Spend.

The men on railroad engines in the
United States when times are busy
draw in wages $53,0OO,O00 a year.
Last year the sum was cut to s45,,
100000. The business Of the coun-
try lost SS,00O,000 in this one item,
says the Los Angeles Times.
Every mile of new railroad built in
the country costs first and last s25,-
900, and IL the building is 5000 miles
it puts into circulation SIS. 100000.
If the building is 5000 miles there
goes into circulation $4,000, 1000.
The coal used on an engine in a
year costs on the average Of $2500.
Last summer there were $50, 900 idle
cars in the United States. Counting
thirty-nine to a train, this would be
5000 trains. One engine to the train
would curtain the coal used by a
value of $12,500,0OO. That coal
means almost all wages. So does the
building of new roads.
If the conditions should last for a
year, these three items would make
a total Of nearly 500, 100000 lost to
wage-earners, assuming that only
half as much road is built as would
have been If times had been good.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07
STANDARD OIL Cash T'PUT IN FOOD and drugs
Individual Stockholders RenVeS Restaurants and PharmaCeSThOuSald
In Soap and Also In CandieSBuSy Department No. 2 Broadway
Seeks Opportunities Far and NearHa Enough in Petroleum
mo Increase Of Capital Possible Because the Com
pany Has All II Needs In OIL

Can you make a statement" Is hi
usual question, which will show that
| increased capital will develop the
business and return a good profit?"
These statements are anslyzed by
| experts and report is made showing
the nature of the territory in which
1t Is proposed to locate new branches
OF business and the probabilities OF
the various regions developing. The
| agent takes an active interest in the
industry or the business If the con.
tract is made, and the capital is like
ly to come from a bank which Is in
touch with the Standard Oil group.
From Restaurants to Oil.
Operations such as these have been
conducted for the last three years.
and as a result the country has seen
chains of drug stores and an ever in
creasing procession of popular priced
restaurants.
II was admitted at the Office of the
Hegeman Company that several of
the Standard Oil men had as individ-
uals invested in the corporation. Its
president is John II. Flagler.
According to Samuel Childs, vice.
president of the Childs Restaurant
Company, dividends from his enter
prise ind their way to No. 26 Broad
way. A. Tydeman, of the Bureau OF
Purchases and Supplies of the Stand
ard Oil, is among the investors In the
CHilds emporia.
e. T. Bedford, a large stockholder
IN the Standard Oil and until recently
director of that corporation, is the
president of the Corn Products Re-
fining Company, Of the New York
Glucose Company, which has the tall
chimney at Shady Side, N. J.
Four Of the corn products compa-
MES have Offices at No. 26 Broadway,
and there also Is the headquarters OF
the National Starch Company. Re.
ports that the Standard group had in
any way become interested in the
manufacture of candy are denied by
leading confectionery companies, and
one Of them has within the last week
sent out a circular to the trade eX-
plicitly stating that there has been no
change whatever in the management.
c. IT. White, assistant treasurer.
who has an Office on the fourteenth
floor, was asked If there were any
truth in the report that the Standard
Oil Company was becoming extensive
ly interested in outside ventures.
THAT is not the fact" was his en-
phatic reply.
Mr.. White referred to the various
glucose companies as being under the
control of men also affiliated with
Standard Oil and to the National
Starch Company as a subsidiary cor
poration of the Corn Products Com
pany.
AS to the Investment Department"
which the officials and stockholders
Of the Standard find so useful. he said
that If there was such thing 1t was
news to him. Among the larger op-
erations of financiers of the Standard
Oil group as individuals may also be
mentioned the Amalgamated Copper
and the United Metals Selling Com
pany. in which II. II. Rogers Is In
terested. and the railroad and hotel
interests Of Henry M. Flagler In Flor
In
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07
A Job For the Armies.

Camille Flammarion has revived
his old scheme of digging a geother-
mic we'll 200 metres in diameter to
ascertain the internal constitution Of
the earth. The imaginative Flam-
marion proposes to find an economic
and almost inexhaustible source of
heat, to verify the rate Of caloric in
crease, to find out II the materials
constituting the terrestrial globe are
in a state of fusion-in a word, to do
nationally and directly what has been
done slightly and a little by chance
up to the present time in mines. To
carry out the work the standing arm
ies of the world are to be called into
equisition.-Scientific American.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07
The Origin OF the Check.

London fogs have worldwide rep
utation. 1t is but fair, therefore, TO
credit them with any circumstances
TO their advantage. At the beginning
of last century, owing to the pea
soup atmosphere which even then OBJ
tanned, the robberies OF messengers
with cash became so frequent that
business men in self-defense had to
devise a remedy.
They invented the check, which did
away with the necessity Of carrying
sums of money on the person, and
thus put a stop to the perouisites of
snatch-thieves.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07
IN A GERMAN DISTILLERY.
Mechanical Not Human Agents Pro.
-
EStiss tect the Revenue.

The big distillery is of course OF
fcially classed as a "gewerbe bren-
herei," and operated as "verschluss
5rennerei," the tax being laid upon
the actual gauge Of the alcohol pro.
duced and all parts of the distilling
apparatus being at all times under
"verschluss," or official closure and
seal. There must be hundreds Of
che small leaden official seals in this
establishment, as every possible open.
ing, valve, pipe or vent in any part
of the apparatus containing alcohol.
either as vapor or as liquid, was pro-
videG with them. The inspection OF
these seals must be made daily to
see that they are intact, and this
forms a considerable part of the rou-
tine official control by the revenue
officers.
The work of what we call gauging,
however, is very small in amount, as
it Is minimized by the use Of the
"messuhren," or meters, which auto.
matically determine and register the
strength and quantity of the spirits
flowing from one vessel to another,
so that it is only necessary to take
their readings at the proper times.
We were informed by the high Of
fcials in Berlin that in none of the
distilleries operated under German
laws, whether large or small whether
elassed as agricultural or industrial,
whether located in large cities or in
farm villages, is there any require
ment for the constant attendance of
an officer during the operation Of any
part of the process of the production
Of spirits. This is the chief point OF
difference between the German sys-
tenn of revenue supervision and our
own. Their reliance is placed upon
mechanical, ours upon personal con-
troll.
From the time the fermented liq-
nor passes into the still the apparatus
is closed to all access, and the alco-
holic vapor is guarded by seals until
1t reaches its final resting place.
which Is also locked and sealed. The
process Of distillation is therefore ac-
tually and literally a continuous
closed process" The distiller cannot
possibly withdraw any alcohol except
by breaking government seal,
neither can the revenue officer get al
the alcohol in any other way, though
he is of course authorized to open
locks and seals, but even he can only
exercise this right under restrictions;
and the mechanical arrangement Is
such that there is little necessity fol
opening the apparatus.
The alcohol is withdrawn for use
OF course from the final tank in which
Il is received and stored. which Il
reaches only after having passed
through the meter and registered II
self there.-House Of Representatives
Document 1919.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07
On Badness.

IT has been discovered recently that
there are no bald-headed men in our
insane asylums. Other interesting
facts about bald people are the fol.
lowing:
You never see a bald-headed man
wearing his own hair.
No one ever saw a red-headed bald
man.
Most bald men keep their hair in
their wife's name.
No bald-headed woman has ever
been known to admit.
Bald-headed men never appear in
public with their hair marcelled.
If everybody was bald from birth
the hair-cutting industry would be
paralyzed.
If man loses his hair no amount
OF advertising will restore it to him.
No woman was ever drawn to a
bald-headed man by capillary attrac-
ton.
Badness cannot be cured by hav-
Ing your hair pulled, as you can cure
toothache by having a tooth pulled.
The bear has more hair to the
square inch than any known animal,
and yet there is nothing in the world
that is barer than a bald-head.
There are other interesting facts
about badness. no doubt. but none of
them occur to us at this moment, so
We will content ourselves with saying
in conclusion that the head Of bald
man in the front row of the modern
theatre shines like good deed in q
world.-Harper's Weekly.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07
COBRA WINS BATTLE,
THEN EATS LOSERS.
Three Fight In Cage
Fatal For Water Snake and
Giant Lizard.

The king cobra at the Bronx Zoo
is eleven feet long. and the whole
eleven feet were fighting yesterday.
His opponent was a water snake and
an iguana, or giant lizard.
All three reptiles had been living
in peace together all winter in their
glass compartment, and IL was sup.
posed they were real good friends.
but dispute arose yesterday be-
tween the cobra and the iguana, and
in a sudden fit of foolish rage the
iguana went for the cobra and bit
him.
Instantly the cobra spread his hood
and gave battle, but the iguana took
an unfair advantage Of him then and
there by disjointLng himself and COM
ing apart. The big lizard gave him
self a shake, and 10! there were two
OF him-the iguana proper and the
iguana's tail, both very much alive
and active.
Then the water snake took a hand
and went for the cobra, too, but the
cobra gave him just one bite and the
and died.
The tailless iguana kept right at
the cobra, but the latter didn't seem
TO care much. He had espied the tail
cavorting around the cage, and it in
terested him so much that he made
a leap for it.. caught it and calmly
swallowed 1t.
That gave him a taste for iguana
meat, so he next caught the iguana
and swallowed him after his tail.
Then the water snake was taken for
dessert, and that ended the fight.
Now the cobra is living alone.-New
York World.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07
Find Six Out of Every Ten
Children Have Tuberculosis.

Des Moines. Iowa.-An investiga-
tion conducted by the Des Moines
Tubercular Association resulted in
tlN amazing discovery that six out OF
every ten children examined in the
city are infected with the dreaded tu-
berculosis.
Most of the cases are incipient, but
In many the disease has progressed TO
a dangerous degree. The association
Is considering the establishing OF a
children's tubercular camp for scien'
tific treatment
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07
Paragraphed Pickings.

The PittsbuVg Club has sold short
stop Charlie Starr to the Boston Club.
Work is being done in the matter
OF unionizing the brewers in FL Paso.
Texas.
Reports of the various New York
City railway lines for the last quarter
showed assets of 1854. 100000.
Sixteen hundred men employed In
the collieries at Aberaman, Wales,
were locked out.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07
Millionaire r. J. Barney. s3.
Makes Widow of 30 His Bride.

Dayton, Ohio.--In the face OF the
bitter opposition of his daughters, Z.
J. Barney, who is seventy-three years
old and the wealthiest man in Dayton.
was married TO Mrs. Elinor Chapman,
widow OF State Senator w. w. Chap
man, who is in her thirtieth year.
Mrs. Chapman was governess in the
Barney family for several months at
ter the death of the Senator. and II Is
believed that the wedding will cause
a complete rupture between Barney
and mis- two daughters.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07

New YORK Clty.-Standard Oll
men, with Standard Oil dividends, are
reaching out for the larger retail
trade.
They are applying to the field OF
Investment the Standard Oil methods
which have proven so potent in every
line OF competitive business to which
they have previously been applied.
The retail lines which have recent
ly attracted the attention Of the men
who have been trained by the master
band of John d. Rockefeller embrace:
Drugs,
Soap, IS
Candies.
Peanuts,
Milk,
Starch,
Glucose products,
Restaurants.
For more than year the work
81 absorbing or, at any rate, gaining
q controlling interest in enterprises,
which in many instances seem to
have no connection with the produc-
tion Of oil, has been going on quietly
but actively, and the complete roster
probably would make interesting
reading.
Acquiring Many Businesses.
Some Of these concerns in which
Individual stockholders of the Stand
ard Oil Company are heavily inter
ested are the Hegeman Drug Com
pany, Childs' chain of restaurants,
the Corn Products Refining Company,
the New York Glucose Company and
the National Starch Company. But
there are more to come Reports,
which bear every evidence of verify
are current that a great candy estab-
lishment with many branches in New
York and other cities has recently
passed into the control Of Standard
Oil interests.
Peanuts and milk probably will be
next on the list, for the same reports.
based on excellent authority, are that
these oil interests have already OBJ
tained control of what Is known as
the peanut trust, and will soon, If
they have not already, acquire one of
the most extensive milk producing
businesses in the country.
All these transactions are the out
come of what is known as the 'in-
vestment department" of the Stand
ard Oil Company. This Is entirely
for the benefit of the large stockhold-
ers and the work is conducted in an
unobtrusive manner.
Money Must Not BE Idle.
So thoroughly does the Standard
Oil Company now cover the ground
and the earth that it has all the capi-
tai that 1t needs and is practically inn
possible to put more money back into
the industry, which yields annually
millions IN profit. Standard Oil divi-
dends, therefore, are constantly seek
ing reinvestment, for It is one Of the
axioms Of John d. Rockefeller him
self that money must not be idle. The
head of the investment department.
or bureau was until recently man
who is now q banker and broker in
Wall street. There has been reor-
ganization lately, but the search for
good opportunities is under the gen.
eral direction OF an accomplished
financial scout who has corps of
trained assistants.
There are numerous firms or COM
panies which have an established rep
utation and feel that IL they had ad-
ditional capital they might greatly
extend their business. While they
are making inquiries they may re-
ceive visit from an agent, who says
that he has heard something OF their
endeavors and intimates that II the
enterprise meets the approval Of HIS
principals IL would he possible to
come to an agreement.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07
Curing by Sympathetic Magic.

"A friend of mine came across q
native sitting in the veranda OF a
house from which groans proceeded"
Mr.. f.. Thurston stated at the Royal
Society OF Arts in a lecture on the
natives of Southern India, He
learned that the mans wife was sit
ting on a swing studded with sharp
nails in order TO cure him by sympa-
thetic magic of some trifing all
uent."-London Evening Standard.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07

During 1908 the United States
yielded s96,313.256 in gold, of which
Colorado gave s2.811.7S4. and Alas
ka $21, 100000.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07
A MILLION TALKS FER DAY
The Business Done BY The New erglans
Tel. & Tel. Co.

Over 100000 Telephones Connected
To Its System in Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Vermont and Massachusetts-
A Good Financial Showing For 1908
and Better Outlook For 19C9-ln-
terestins Financial and Develop
ment Figures.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07
EA 24STlE G' J
A%M9HING
kW0TzNgDQM!2g'

~
During 1908 the United States
yielded $96,313,256 In gold, of which
Colorado gave s2.S11.7S4. and Alas
ka $21 100000.
The two great passenger steamers
now building for the White Star Line
will be 1000 feet long and probably
sighty-flve feet wide.
Turner ID. Bottome, of Harrison, N.
", filed patents on tungsten electric
lamps as early as 1887, thus proving
that the credit for the discovery OF
the new trungsten lamp, which has
revolutionized electric lighting, be-
longs TO America and not to Ger
many.
About eighty-seven per cent. OF the
farmers OF Canada preside over their
own farms.
The gifts Of John d. Rockefeller
TO the Chicago University now total
over $25, 100000.
1t has taken eighteen years for the
Atlantic steamships to cut down the
transatlantic record one day.
A new instrument for use when
stropping razors includes guide
which prevents the blade slipping and
'njuring itself on the strop.
The town of Vallecas, In Spain, Is
almost entirely built of meerschaum.
Vallecas has on its outskirts great
quarries of a meerschaum too coarse
for pipemaking, and a meerschaum-
built town is the result-an ivory
white town that shines in the Spanish
sun.
Australia covers twenty-six times
as much area as the British Isles, but
its population is less than that Of
London.
The first international sportsmen's
show, which was to have been held at
Vienna in 1908, and was postponed
because of the jubilee celebration.
will take place in that city in 1910.
Canadian bank deposits, which in
creased by $15,000,000 in 1907, also
Increased by s17,6O0,O00 in 1908.
while commercial loans, which in
creased by about $5O,000,OO0 in
1907, decreased by $60,000,00O in |
1905.
A ton OF Dead Sea water will yield |
1S7 pounds Of salt when evaporated.
49,
In Toxic there is an Industrial |
school for young women with more
than 1000 students learning embroid-
cry, sewing. and the making of silk
90 nj IL o..
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07

More than one-quarter OF the to-
bacco consumed by the Spanish nation
comes from the United States.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07

The two great passenger steamers
now building for the White Star Line
will be 1000 feet long and probably
eighty-flve feet wide.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07

In Toxic there is an Industrial
school for young women with more
than 1000 students learning embroid-
cry, sewing. and the making of silk
flowers and other articles for export.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07

A ton Of Dead Sea water will yield
1S7 pounds Of salt when evaporated.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07

About eighty-seven per cent OF the
farmers OF Canada preside over their
own farms.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07

The gifts Of John d. Rockefeller
TO the Chicago University now total
over $25, 100000.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07

1t has taken eighteen years for the
Atlantic steamships to cut down the
transatlantic record one day.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07

Canadian bank deposits, which in
creased by 100000 in 1907, also
increased by S17,6OO,OOO in 1908,
while commercial loans, which in
creased by about s50,000,000 in
1907, decreased by $60,000,000 in
1905.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07

A new instrument for use when
stropping razors includes a guide
which prevents the blade slipping and
njuring itself on the strop.