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The Detroit times., 1909-12-02
KATY" ROAD MAY
Be SOLO, TOO
Frisco Line Is Disposed of TO the
Yoakum Party To Prevent
Legal Prosecution.

NEW YORK. Dec 2.--lt has OH
cially announced az the Offices OF the
Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific rail
way that the company has sold and
delivered to B +. Yoakum and others
common stock Of the ST. Louis and
San Francisco RAILWAY company rep
resenting and controlling interest. and
all the stock which the Rock Island
has heretofore owned.
The statement goes on. 10 say that
authority for the transaction was Civ
en- at a meeting OF the board of d.
rectors OF the Island held yesterday
and that the deal was closed later in
the day. One of the reasons for the
sale given. is the legal advantage, II
not necessity, of a separation OF the
Rock Island and Frisco properties. a
question having been raised By both
the federal and several state govern
ments as TO the two roads being
parallel and competing.
The Rock Island and-Erisco roads.
it is announced, will hereafter be
operated as separate properties, there
having been a complete legal sever
ance Of all relations heretofore exist
ing between them
IL was stated later in Wallst. that
ii had been decided 10 retire the Chi
cago Rock Island and Pacific railway
five per cent bonds. issued for the
purchase OF the Frisco stock control
and which must be retired before the
latter can be released, at 1902 l-2. they
being subject 10 call al any time. The
lie
then be taken over by syndicate
composed Of Il. r. Yoakum, Edwin
Hawley. f.. J Berwind James Camp
bell. of ST. Louis and their associates.
Beth Yoakum and b. l.. Winchell VIII
retire from the Rock leland and 20
with the Frisco, the latter az presi'
dent.
Notwithstanding this. according 70
the officials, the friendliness will con
tinue between the roads and they viii
bs operated to their mutual advantage
wherever possible.
At the meeting Of the board 81 d.
rectors Of the Rock Island Che follow.
ing were elected members OF the ev.
ecutive board ". H. Reid ". H.
Moore. j. n. Moore, F. l. Hne. r. A..
Jackson, II. L. Nudge, and F f..
Moore.
The following officers we're elected:
u. G.. Reid, chairman executive com.
mittee; r. A. Jackson, vice-chairman
II. L. Nudge, president
The St. Louis and san Francisco
directors elected: b. r. Yoakum
chairman Of the executive committee
and b. L. Winchell president.
As a result of the purchase & 20
expected the Missouri Kansas &
Texas will he sold TO the 81. Paul in
terests as the Hawley syndicate viii
hardly care,to hold II as they have
secured the Frisco.
The Detroit times., 1909-12-02
HIS TOES ALWAYS ON THE
SPOT WHEN THINGS DROP
Miner Knocks OFF Work for a Time 10
Give His Feet a Vacation.

SPOKANE. Dec 2-Tired OF drop.
ping things on his own feet, and. II
possible 20 acquire habits OF greater
care, George Oliver. miner. employed
in the Hercules mine. in the Coeur
ii Alenes. has taken a lay-off and gone
pack 10 Missouri 20 spend several
weeks at his boyhood home, free from
the dangers that beset the miner. ia
hope that the spell OF bad luck under
which he has laboTed will be broken
He has dropped heavy articles ser
eral times within the past few months
and nearly every time his feet were
in The way one day he attempted
TO swing a heavy boulder which slip.
ped from his grasp and crushed big
toe. He gave mp mining for a while
and went 10 Seattle with a transfer
company \ heavy trunk dropped on
the other big toe that had escaped in
jury, breaking II Oliver will spend
the holidays In Joplin.
The Detroit times., 1909-12-02
PREMIER LAURIER DOES
NOT WANT NAVAL AGITATION
Delivers Speech IN When re DIS.
courage Discussion Of u. s.
Warships on Lake.

OTTAWA. ont. Dec SIR WI
ntd Laurier. The prime minister. dis
cuss.ng the strength ot United States
armaments on tho great lakes said
the sh-Bagot agreement of 1917, Tor
the Limitation OF naval forces ON ia.
land waters ~ North America could
hn terminated i'm six months notice
il the United states desired. but this
was thing Canada wished 20 ayoyd.
Tie replied 10 the statement OF Hon
George L Foster. who said the
United States had ten war vessels
with n force Of 500 men and over 80
guns on The great takes and 81 Difficult
ties We're 20 arise Cansla's lake trade
and shipping would Dee az tho mercy
of this horila
Premier Iuurier said for hundred
wears the agreement hal served Can.
ada well During the last teN years
the United States had developed a
naval policy and bad made reas
enable demand for permission 10
place training ships on the great
lakes These could not DE placed
The Detroit times., 1909-12-02
Bank EnbezzIer Sentenced.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. Dec -
oscar Cochrane. who was charged
with embezzling 5000 from the
American National Bank of this city
and who was recently arrested iu
New York. where he had enlisted al
the army. was sentenced 20 five years
in the federal penitentiary az Fort
IeaYeHW0Ttu, Kansas. turtTrare t-f'<-
terday entered a plea Of not guilty
which he later changed but In order
that his aged father might arrive.
Judge Anderson was requested not 10
.entenre him untll TODAY
The Detroit times., 1909-12-02

there without an interference with
the agreement of lSl1.
must say said SIR Wttrid
that though the terms OF that agree.
meut have not been absolutely main
tanned. am not prepared 90 admit
they have been unfairly interfered
with.
NV b0UOrarfe rrIpUI KNOWS INA.
the tenure OF life az THAT agreement
hangs ON q very slender thread. II
The American government pat an enc
20 tho convention what has Canada
- do 4 codidcation is more easily
suggested than madc--to end the
treaty would be an evil alternative.
for IL might hiring an unlimited arma
ment on one side end Canada would
have 20 follow suit
The Detroit times., 1909-12-02
Rarnum,s "Freak" Dis.

PITTSBURG. Pa. Dec 2-The dead
body of Joe the Leopard Boy
famous years ago as one of The freaks
OF p r Barnum's circus. is in thr
morgue here unclaimed and will prob
ably be buried in the Potter~ field.
Joe. whose real name was \. r.
BisheH. was 40 years old and was
brought from Africa by Barnum A.
Joe grew older his spots faded and
of late years he has exhibited him
self IN fve-cent thcaters He was
killed by falling through a trap door.
The Detroit times., 1909-12-02
Alone in Saw Mill at Midnight

unmindfu of dampness drafts. storms
or cold. w J. Atkins worked as Night
Watchman AZ Tanner Springs. Tenn.
such exposure gave him a severe cold
that settled on his lungs. At last he
had 10 give up work. He trieG many
remedies hlt all failed TIN h. used
Dr. King'g New Discovery After rs
ing one bottle. he writes. L went
back 10 work as well as ever Severe
Colds. stubborn Coughs, inhamed
throats and sore lungs. Hemorrhages
Group and Whooping Cough get quick
relief and prompt cure from this glor-
iOus medicine Guaranteed BY f. C.
Kinsol Central Drug Co. Gray &
Worcester
The Detroit times., 1909-12-02
Makes Lono Hike

BRIGHTON, Mich, Dec. 2-Gusta,
.Gactcke, prominent young busnes
man Of This place. yesterday walked
49, miles from this village ta Detroi,
IN hours and g. minutes thereby
winning an oyster supper and free
ticket 90 a theatrical entertainments
tie agreed 90 make the distance iu q
hours OF less or pay for the supper ami
entertainment William GALLOWAY. an.
other Young business man. started
ahead Of Baetcke but finished several
miles behind him.
The Detroit times., 1909-12-02
wHlrs PLAGUE KILLS HIM.

BAY CITY, Mich. Dec. "a mes
sage received here from Tucson. Ari2
SAYS Clarence \ Fisher % years OIL
q graduate OF the Cuiversity of M.ch
igan and former resident Of Bay C'ty
died there OF consumption lle was
taken ll TWO weeks before the tim,
set for his graduation last juno and
had 20 leave college tie returned
later I'm the summer and secured his
p'0mas in November
The Detroit times., 1909-12-02
Carlisle Home Attachsd

WASHINGTON Dec THE Wash
ington home Of John 6 Carlisle form.
clly secretary Of the treasury. vas
attached Yesterday by T. Kirkpatrick
a Co.. jewelers.. OF New York. for an
account 81 $2.3s5 worth af diamonds
end .ewelry which the firm alleges
was borght by Mr. Carlisle between
Dec. a. 1906 and Nov 6. 1905. Tho
attachment grew out Of q suit filed ~
the jewelry company for the amount
-Iamnn
The Detroit times., 1909-12-02
Harais Sentence Affirmed

FRANKFORT, Ky. Dec. Tile
court OF appeals Yesterday affirmed
the life sentence given Beach Haseis
OF Breathitt county for the killing
OF his father, Judge James Hargis.
Chief Justice Mum and Judge Barker
dissented from the majority opiui0n
on the ground that Judge Adams
should have vacated the bench
The Detroit times., 1909-12-02
Makes Great Flioh,.

MOURMELON, France. Dec o.
Hubert Latham. the most daring n
all French aviators. made probably
the most remarkable fight on record
yesterday when he sent his acroplanc
TO height OF 1900 feet and for o1
minutes few in the face of a nurrf-
cane that at times blew az the rate
OF sixty miles an hour
The Detroit times., 1909-12-02
Babe KIIIed by VINO Nc

BARNWELI., 5. G., Dec The
bites % pet white mice caused the
death by blood poisoning OF six
weeks-old child OF r W Holman The
child was left alone on bed The
mice climbed on the bed and gnaweI
the infants hands. Her cries brought
assistance, hut the decorations caused
blood poisoning. which resulted
fatally
The Detroit times., 1909-12-02

The wood OF rec growing ON The
,oast ~ Lake Tcnad I'm Africa has
ven loss specific gravity than cotk
The Detroit times., 1909-12-02
HEAVY PULL ON TAXES.
Debts &c be Paid by State Reaches
Nearly MILLION.

LANSING Mich. Dec. g (SpeciaD
That there viii be a heavy pull on
the state taxes when the money be
gins 10 come in next January is snow
ed hy the fact that Auditor General
Fuller holds warrants 10 the amount
.of Si54.4ill6 which have not been
raid and requisition for warrants
amounting 20 s+S2334s4 which have
not been issued
number Of the state institutions
have not yet made their demands on
tie auditor general for money and
with these outstanding and the money
which the board ~ auditors has Dor.
f0we1 to be- paid the amount viii
.na-M neaIly million anlLar.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-25
COLLEGE GAMBLING.

The New York World in it's report
of the .Yale-Harvard football game this
year said:
Collegians Of all camps said that
betting on the result reached high
water figures. Up to the minute of
play Harvard was taking all money
offered at odds of four to five. Yale
always was a slight favorite in the
market Cambridge storekeepers who
accept charge accounts from the st,l-
dents are looking somewhat obviously
at what the next few months may
bring forth in the matter of unpaid
bills.
The Des Moines Register and
Leader, specializing on just what the
effect Of such gambling of the prize
ring variety in the colleges will be on
the habits of the rising generation.
says that although in many respects
there was equal interest in the ma
tional championship series, no such
record Of gambling has ever been
made in connection with the profess
sional baseball as this record Of col
lege men in an amateur contest m
amateur being one who plays for
sport and not for money considera-
ton"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-25

man that at last he exults in rather
than SORROWS over the faults OF others.
To the extent that you delight in the
faults and failings of others, to that
degree has the devil already got pos
session of you.
There is so much bad in the best
of US,
And SO much good in the worst of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of u.s.
"Grumbling is a positive injury to
health. 1t spoils digestion and throws
burden of depression upon the nerve
centers which hinders all the vital
functions of the body. 1t may get you
into the vicious circle of the neurasth-
enic, for the body and the mind react
on each other. If you are over fatig-
ued, little rest may work a world OF
change in your disposition. If you
set too cross for anybody to live with,
just try a little sleep and you may
wake up as beautiful as May morn
ing.
Next Thursday is special day set
apart for Thanksgiving, but it does not
mean that we are to put all our thanks.
giving for n year into one day. We may
not be grumblers for 1854 days and then
atone for our ingratitude by praising
and blessing God on Thanksgiving
day"
As the doctor says, it is easy to form
the habit of grumbling but it is easy,
too, to break 1t. 1t is worth the effort,
anyway.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-25
A FEW WARNINGS.

Just at present while we are enjoy
ing or cussing the first snow of the sea-
son the following cold weather
"dont's' by the chief of the Des Moines
fire department are worthy of atten-
ton:
Don't overhead your furnace.
Don't leave the draft of your stove
open when you go to bed.
Don't try to thaw out the gasoline
can by setting it on the kitchen range.
Don't fail to see that your chimney
is fireproof, tlues clean and bricks
solid.
Don't start the fire by pouring kero-
sene from can onto live Goals.
Don't leave inflammable material
within reach Of sparks from the CRATE
unless you expect to watch it carefully.
Don't go back to bed leaving the
front door draft Of your furnace open
after you start the fire in the morn.
ing unless all combustibles have
been removed from the front of said
front door draft
Don't try to dry your rubbers and
artics in the oven of the kitchen
range. 1t may result in false fire
alarm and needless run by the fire
department.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-25
BRIGHTON.
re..4 .-A-e.A.A-e-A-e-AA~&x.,

Brighton-Mrs. jim Whistler and lit
tie son Walter spent a few days at the
parental Shields home in Bloomfield
last eek.
George Washburn has returned home
from a three months visit in Oregon
and the western states.
Mrs. Lydia Madden am son Verne
spent last week in WASHINGTON visit
ing her daughter Yrs. Lester Hanlon.
MIR. Shuster is reported to be very i'll
and only slight hopes are entertained
fer his recovery.
Ernest Riley will have sale of his
household goods and leave for their
new home in New Mexico. Mrs. Riley
was formerly Miss Ethel Brier.
Mrs.S Morten en- ying a visit
from her daughter in law Mrs. Martin
and little sons of Omaha. Nebr
Mrs. Farrek and little son Of Kansas
are guests at the home of her brother.
Rev. C. c. Davia
You can sell or buy grain. apples.
machinery. horses. cattle, hogs, sheep,
by putting n want ad IN the Courier,
Read the want ads today.
Mrs. Frank Trazey is spending q
Few days at the home of her daughter
Mrs. Frank McClain in Washington.
Mrs. Mary Cc-1ock sof Washington
visited at the c. r. Bennett home la st
week.
Sheriff Teeter of Washington was in
town last week
Miss Cecile Rogers Of Washington
visited at the High school last week.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-25
cHILLIcoTHE



Chillicothe Mr.. md Mrs. John Bak-
er and daughter Lillian of ottumwa
We're Sunday visitor at the Henry
Baker home.
Misc Madge Moss is visiting at her
sisters home. Mrs. Vern Burgess.
The Sunday schao, board met at the
NJ. e. church last Sund, D. M. 20
make arrangements. to increase the
Sunday school in number.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Lower ant!
children of Phole Ia. were over Sun
day visitors at the Bert Lowrey home.
Henry kitterman, wife and son of
EddyYille. spent Sund at the par
entail LSitterman home.
You can sell or buy grain. apples.
machinery, horses. cattle, hogs. sheep
by putting a want ad in the Courier
Read the want ads today.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs ..lbert Hen
dirk. Nov 8. a daughter.
Miss Ida Cox e Oskaloosa visited a
few days last week at the Rev.
Setback home.
The lightning played an active part
in the storm here last week by drilling
two holes in tbs new cement walk At
the corner of j. j. Sweeney's grocery
store.
Repair work on the Christian church
has begun.
John Harlan Meyers who has been in
South Dakota the past two weeks Wis
ting his brothers and looking after
-fiiing on a claim, has returned.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-25

tmpute to cor ress the doing OF the
unnecessary ana useless.
Scope of Law.
Through the natural tendencw OF a
combination In restraint of trade de-
clareo illegal by section NAV be and
generally is toward monopoly, de-
nouneed by section 2 and may even
accomplish 1t. vet the scope OF the lat.
ter section is far broader and was de-
signed to extend also to monopolies aa-
cured BY other means an by oon-
tracts combinations and conspiracien
in restraint of trade, vhich, as these
terms necessarily imply, require con-
cert between two or more persons or
corporations.
One person or corporation may of
fend against the second section by
monopolizing, but the first section con-
templates conduct of two or more. A
cursory reading OF the act shows this.
That 1T was the intention of congress-
TO condemn nonopolies not based in
Illegal combinations among several, but
secured by single persons, natural or
artificial. by other means, also appears
| from the history OF legislation. To of
fend the act, the monopoly must have
been secured by methods contrary to
1.-The public policy, as EXPRESSED In tho
| statutes or In the common law. Ns
! The modern doctrine is but recog-
milton OF the obvious truth that what (,
| government should not grant because
Injurious to public welfare. the In Il
vidual should not be allowed to secura
and hold by wrongful means.
| The baneful effect Is the same
whether the monopoly comes as a gift
| from government or lis the result OF
| individual wrongdoing.
| Nor can arguments of reduced prices
of product, U aonly in operation and
the like have eight.
| During the discussion OF the amend
ment above referred to apprehension
was expressed over the broad language
| of the second section OF the proposed
| act. and inquiry was made whether the
committee having the bill in charge In
tended it should make 1t an offense n
an individual engaged in interstate and
foreign commerce "by his own skila
and energy. by the pronri~ty of his
conduct generally. shall pursue haa
calling in such a way as to monopo-
| lise trade"
| Assurances were -iven that the term
monopoly" had no such significattons
but that it contemplated the employ
ment of means which prevented others
from engaging in fair competition, tbs
engrossing of trade and the like. Ur,-
doubtedly this view prevailed at tina
passage of the law.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-25
EIaHIlNa MINE pERIl s.

Spurred on by the Cherry mine
disaster, President Taft is said to be
preparing recommendation to be
made to congress that a federal
agency be established to conduct ex-
periments for preventing mine disas-
tiers and to work for uniform laws OF
mine regulation in the various states.
The appropriation by congress some
time ago of $150,0O0 for the Pitts
burg experiment station has proved to
be money we'll spent. It was men
from the Pittsburg station who enter
ed the mine when it was filed with
smoke and gas and paved the way for
the rescue work which bore results
Saturday in the rescuing Of twenty en-
tombed miners.
The Pittsburg station is equipped
with an explosive gallery where the
powders used in blasting coal are test
ed and standardized, and there is q
large room for the training of miners
in rescue work. This training room is
an air tight chamber, built to resem-
Bile mine, and men, wearing oxygen
helmets, are trained to perform such
work as they would be called upon to
do in the case of mine disaster The
oxygen helmet and the trained men
from the Pittsburg station did their
| work well in~the Cherry disaster.
! The officials of the geological sur
vey point out that even though the
governments powers of regulation
over the mines are limited, and any
bureau that might be created would be
compelled to act largely in an advisory
capacity, there is wide field that
might be covered. For instance they
believe the mine owners and miners
should be shown the necessity for hav-
ing complete equipment of oxy gen
helmets at each nine, with corps Of
men trained in thu use. They be-
lieye that hundreds of lives can be
saved in this manner
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-25
Judge Hooks Concurring Opinion
in Standard Dissolution Case

st. Louis, Nov 23.-Judge William
c. Hook, who concurred with the other
three United States circuit court
judges in finding the Standard Oil com
pany guilty of having violated the
Sherman antitrust law, has decided
views on monopoly.
In addition to signing the original
decree to dissolve Standard Oil and its
subsidiary companies, Judge Hook
handed down an Independent concurr-
ing opinion, in which he further de-
fines the issues involved in the pro-
ceedings and reviews the Standards
acts. Judge Hook, says:
The principal conclusions. upon
which we are all agreed may be briefly
stated as follows: A holding company,
owning the stocks of other concerns
whose commercial activities, il free
and independent of a common control,
would naturally bring them into com
petition with each other, is q form Of
trust or combination prohibited by
Section | of the Sherman antitrust
act. The Standard Oil Company of
! New Jersey is such y holding company.
The defendants, VIII are in the COM
bination, are enjoin,d from continuing
! II and from forming another like IT
| 4 ~ lloidiHS CoiilpdiiN IS eflJOlHeu from
exercising the rights of a stockholder
in the subordinate companies. ard they
are enjoined from ALLOW. 1t to do so
or to benefit therefrom in the way Of
dividends.
1T is though that with = end of
the combination, the monopoly will ma
turally disappear; but lest, instead of
resulting that way, the monopoly SO
Wrongfully gained be perpetuated by
the aggregation of the physical prop
critics and instrumentalities by which
lit is maintained in the hands of q
member of the combination and the
| liquidation and retirement from bust
ness of the other members it is held
that such course would violate the
decree.
THE extent and limitations of the
first section have been pretty we'll de-
fined in the many adjudged cases.
The second section of the act pro-
vides: Every person who shall mon.
opolize or combine to conspire with
an other person or persons to mon
opolize any part of the trade or COM
| merce among the several states, or
with foreign nations. shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor"
Manifestly this section is quite dis
tlnct from the first and vas not in
tended to cover precisely the same
ground. TO say otherwise would be to
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-25
ELDoN.

Eldon.-Miss Riech Jaques entertain.
ed few of her friends at her home
Friday. The evening was spent in
making candy music and games
Those present were: Misses Sylvia
Crow, Elizabeth McHaffey, Pearl
Hughes, Ethel Conard, Audru Sapp
Rule Enyart, Josephine Shelter and
Anna Erickson. Messrs. Jess Lutz
Floyd Murton. Claud Starr, Robert
Grow, Chas Payne, Ben Ogers and
Frank Sharp.
If YOU have any apples. potatoes
jellies, or you want to furnish butter
or eggs regularly to some one in OF
tumwa, you can find good customers
by putting q want ad in the Courier.
Mrs. D. McHaffey is visiting with
friends and relatives in Van Vert this
week.
William Bailey, formerly a conduc
tor on the Rock Island of Trenton
Mo-, stopped here for few days visit
old friends, enroute to Chicago.
Mark Whitney of Keosauqua is in
Eldon on business today.
Mrs. A. E. Walker and daughter
Ruth and Mrs. Will Corner visited
friends in Ottumwa yesterday.