The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-19
Attorney General Jackson Still
on Trail of Standard.
Will Take Testimony of Arch
bOlds, Father and Son.
PLACE FOR JUNKIN.
Sterling Editor Takes Amrine
Vacancy as Normal Regent.
VIM. Allen White Finds Counter,
part of Stubbs in Picture.

Attorney General Jackson will take
the evidence OF the two ArchboIds OF
Ohio before closing the testimony in
his custer suit against the Standard
OIL company for violation of the KAN
sas antitrust laws. John d. Archbold
is now the active head of the COM
pany, while his son, John F., is presi-
dent of the Prairie OIL & Gas COM
pany, the Kansas branch of the Stand
ard The attorney general offered to
accept the testimony offered by these
officials in the government suit against
their company but the Standards at
torneys would not agree to the plan
i omered a compromise some time
ago. said the attorney general.
whereby I agreed to let the Prairie
Oil and Gas company take over. hold
and operate all Standard Oil property
in Kansas on certain conditions, pro-
viding the other side would agree to
let the state take custer Judgments
against the two Standard OIL com
panies doing business here. But the
attorneys for the Standard decided to
tight It out, and the case is now going
to finish"
J. E. Junkin, editor of the Sterling
Bulletin. has been appointed to the
board of regents OF the. state normal
schools in place of M. +. Amrine, re-
signed. Mr.. Junkin is a well known
Kansas editor and was at one time
president of the National Editorial
association.
It is likely that Governor Stubbs
will be petitioned to pardon G. w
Bowman the defaulting treasurer or
Phillips county, whose prison sentence
by the lower court was recently affirm
ed by the supreme court Bowman
was found guilty of embezzling $4,000
of county funds. His friends have been
sounding the governor as to the effect
a monster petition would have in the
matter of a pardon for Bowman.
William Allen white. writins homo
to his Emporia Gazette from Europe,
declares that the deepest impression he
received in the famous art galleries Of
Munich was from a picture depicting
posing as John the Baptist. White
says:
This is a small world, after all Tho
number OF people in Il Is limited. And
in the Munich gallery there is a great
picture by Albert Durer, painted 400
years ago that will interest Kansans.
For Durer has painted Stubbs, as John
the Baptist The likeness Is more than
marvellous; It is creepy. Here Is tall,
awkward, red-haired, one-sided man
curly hair at that-with the face OF a.
fanatic and the frame of a giant: blue
eyed. fine featured the spirit and
image of Stubbs. He is clad in a red
garment like a nightie and he Is a man
full of faults. but a rabble rouser and a
crusader. Was the model for this pic
ture some ancestor of Stubbs in Hol-
land, or did Durer imagine Stubbs 400
years ago2 Or what? 1t is easy to
imagine what Mort AIbaugh and the
crowd in the federal building will say.
They will say that John the Baptist got
it in the neck, and will gloat at the
parallel. But there II is. and TO tho
Kansan coming around the corner and
humping into Stubs in a red nightie,
the surprise was astounding and II n.
should be made a part OF the chroniclat
of this frivolous adventure. For II was.
the most important impression Of the
Munich gallery"