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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-09
Government Attorneys File List of 81
800 Shareholders of Standard
Oil companys Stock
in RebuttaI.
A MERGER OF CAPITAL
Claims to Prove That Through Its
Manpulations Standard Has
Diverted Millions Out of
Competitive channcls.

ST. LOUIS, April 9.-Attorney Wat,
son, before resuming the argument i
the Standard dissolution case today.
informed the court that he would con-
clude his remarks In tle middle of
the forenoon. Attorney Rosenthal will
be the next speaker.
Rosenthal was in court today. He
declared he had entirely recovered
from the attack of Indigestion which
kept him away yesterday. The main
speech will not take him more than
two hours. 1t is expected to be the
shortest but most important from a
legal point of view of any delivered for
the defense.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-09
petroleum on Free List.

On motion of Payne, the house in
the committee of the whole TINS after
noon placed petroleum #nd Its pro
ducts on free list. An nendment
gdopted Wednesday had reduced it one
cent advolorem.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-09
pros,,co Exchanoe Closed

PrOGuce ESCHdFIge OIUseu
NEW YORK, April 9.-Produce and
stock exchanges closed today on ac-
count OF Good Friday,fall but the pro-
duce exchange. renlain closed until
Monday Al
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-09
SAYS TEDDY rs
IN NO DANGER
Member of Colonial Office Laughs at
Idea of Danger from the
Somais.


LONDON, April Roosevelt
stands just as much chance of being
attacked by Fiji Islanders, while on
his African hunt, as by the warlike
Somans,' declared member of the
Colonial Office today when asked
whether 1t was true that the Colonial
office was taking special precautions
to protect Roosevelt from the Somalis.
Roosevelt will not come within
thousand of Somils, the Official con-
tinued. This story of the uprising
of the Mnllahs is six months old. The
Mullahs never operated as far south
as the territory that will be covered
by Roosevelt and the idea of Roose-
velt being endangered by them is con-
sidered too preposterous for serious
thought.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-09
Government is viailant.

The government today met the
claims of the Standard Oil Company,
that it has been owned by one group
of men continuously, by filing list
of $500 shareholders of the corpora
held by seven men known as the
Standard Group" but many others
have holdings varying from ten to five
hundred shares each at the market
value of nine hundred shares each at
the market value of nine hundred dol
lare piece. The list was filed to dis
prove the contention of the defense
that a merger of capital invested was
simply uniting of separate ownership
of the STANDARD Group" into closer
organization BY this the government
claims to prove that through its ma
nipulations the standard has diverted
many million of dollars out of COM
petitive channels into combinations, in
restraint of trade
Attorney Watson in his argument
today endeavored to justify the acts
of the combined oil magnates on the
ground that they would not have been
Illegal if they had been acts of an in
dividual. He declared that no statute
has been violated and that contention
of the government that common law
was violated is untrue. He declared,
under the common law the things
charged had not been an offense. The
Sherman act was passed because the
common law did not extend to com
binations in restraint OF trade"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-09
Witness in Defense.

Albert f. Hopkins, q photographers,
the first witness for the defense, iden-
tfied pictures of the Allynn farm
house. Frank S. Allynn, brother of
the defendant. followed. Allynn d.
scribed the difference of the interior
arrangements of the house at the time
the Hopkins photograph was taken
and at the time of the tragedy The
defense then called Dr. C. Lewis Hall
gun wound expert Hall swore he
had discovered nail in the pantry of
the AGynn home. upon which, if a
gun were hung by the trigger guard.
it could be exploded by person pull
ing it toward them A gun fred in
this manner would necessarily stain
the sleeve OF the man doing the
shooting
Prisoner is Nervous.
The defense rested its case imme-
diately at the opening of the afternoon
session. Mrs. Sampson is in a highly
nervous state.
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Read The Daily Gate City. 10
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RosenthaI to Rescue.

Rosenthal then took up the argu-
ment. He announced hi. talk would
be confined to the law the government
seeks to apply to the case. He said:
"Theres no proof of this record OF
general conspiracy of the defendant
with any railroad since 1887 There's
no proof that any of these defendents
ever received rebates, secret or other
wise. Aside from the influence the
governments council drew from eX-
hibits, there has never been any evil
dence that rebates were received by
the Standard except that told by
Archbold who canddly admitted that
prior to 1881 the Standard procured
rebates. as did every shipper of that
day During the period OF rebatlng
the Standard had not received any
discrimination of rates or rebate
Freigbts then sold like merchandise.
1t was not until the llkins law was
passed that it became an offense to
accept rebates"
Was no Conspiracy.
"It is charged that interstate ship
ments were used to build UP monop-
DIV" Rosenthal continued. The SUI
preme court has excluded interstate
shipments from consideration, and
has limited the jurisdiction of the
courts to interstate shipments. This
decision concerned California ship
ments. Whatever was done prior TO
/ 1887 on any shipment was not a viola
I ton of the law The fact that rail.
4 roads made different rates, Rosenthai
said, showed there was no conspiracy
4 The twenty-nine million dollar fine
case was used by Rosenthal as an eX.
ample of alleged absurd methods OF
i the government in fighting the oil
company. Because it costs ten cents
i per hundred to ship oil from Whiting
to Toledo; twelve cents per hundred
from Toledo to Whiting there is nc
proof of preferential rates or OF con,
spiracy That is the contention OF
Rosenthal.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-09
Roosevelt Enjoying Himself.

PORT SAID, April 9.-(By Warning
ton Dawson, staff correspondent of the
United Press. aboard the Admiral)
The Port Said steamer, with Roose-
welt, his son and the party aboard ar
rived at o'clock this evening.
The trip from NIessina was COM
parativeiy uneventful Roosevelt
seemed to enjoy every minute of time.
All members of the party are in good
health.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-09
Local observations.

April. Bar .Ther.Wind Weather.
S Z D.m. 30.37 IS NV Clear
9 am so 80 80 SW Cldy
River above low water OF 1864 s feet
4 tenths.
Mean temperature 3S.
Maximum temperature, i6.
Minimum temperature. 80.
FRED Z. GOSEWISCH,
Observer.
The Washington times., 1909-01-25
BEN B. LINDSEY, GOD"
OF THE BOY PROBLEM
Famous Denver "Fnen' Of De Kids Rivals President IN
His Suenuosity-Says Judge DeLacy
Is the Best Ever

"WHat is needed here do Washington.
as iu every large city, is separate
building for the administration Of an
court matters chat concern Jr~euiIes.
Juvenile deLiuQueuts should d. tried
@ ere go should men charged with the
uoE-sapport of children. also those
charged with crimes against children;
-N short. all sorts 0f children cases
1--WE DO -ue best we can % De yer i'm
tHat respect and we are going 10 do
better. 7 think Chicago and PhuadeI-
pHla lead the nation. Washington VIII
DE I'm line soon OF be- far behind the
times. This city win learn Il lot about
HuEs that Dc never knew before IL il
only watches this conference Most
people think boys are TO be dis trusted
simply because they are boys That's
wrong Whenever + nave occasion TO
send a boy to the detention home for
correction Z give him his carfara and
send him without the escort of an Off
eer ] once sent one OF my probation
eIs with rather "a large sum of money
To pay d. personal debt o. mine and he
ran away with it, We caught him some
few hundred miles away and brought
Do mDaCE- When T again set about to
pay that bin / handed The money 10 the
same boy to perform tho same errand
and Hc delivered the money and re-
turned the receipt That's the way 10
handle 81 boy
The Washington times., 1909-01-25
MARGARET B. SMITH
BURIED TOMORROW
Member of Old District Fam
lily Was GreatNiccc of
Martha Washington.

The funeral uf Margaret BagarI
Smith. member Of one of jHe oldest
families OF the District and rHe lreat-
niece of Martha Washington. who died
81 her residence, 1890 Connecticut avenue.
viii be held tomorrow morning from Che
residence OF her sIster-iH-Iaws Mrs. d.
Henley Smith. 1924 Connecticut avenue.
The Rev. George b. Stone. rector Of ST.
James Episcopal Church. win omciate.
Iulermcnt viii Dee iu the family lot at
Rock Greek Cemetery.
Margaret Bayard Smith Ua $50 life
long resident of this eIts. Her grand
father Samuel Harrison Smith. was the
first editor of tho National Intelligence.
She pioneer newspaper of Washington.
THE memoirs or her Eraudmother. Mar-
gaTat Bayaras have recently been pub
IsueL under tine title. 'fiIsr Forty
5 ears or Washington Society
Sine had spent many years Of her life
abroad and had travelled extensively
through Europe. Her death occurred
yesterday an her residence after a. short
illness from pneumonia a brother.
Hayard I Smith. of California sur
wives.
The Washington times., 1909-01-25
BEATEN ROYALISTS
DESTROY VILLAGES
Repulsed at Tabriz, They
Wreak Vengeance on De
fenSeleSS Countrymen.

ST PETERSBURG. Jan. 15.-Persiau
royaIlsts, decisiveIy beaten i'm their at
tempt to take Tabriz from the revolu-
tLJuary forces under Sat8r Khan. are
today scattering through the neigHbor-
Ing territory. wTeaktug their vengeance
Hp5u defenseless villages that have
symp8thized with the rebels
SaJar Khan Is Te0TgauIzn" ms army
preparatory TO moving against the flee
ing TOyalists Ba declares that he VIII
drive every rOyalist out of AZerbdiian
province.
Several of the rebel leaders VINO fell
into the hands IF the iogdIiSts iu the at
tack on the besieglug army were tor
iuTed TO death, according o. tOdays dis
patches.
Lively lighting has occurred at several
OF the smaller towns through which the
ToEdllsts passed i'm their retreat
The Washington times., 1909-01-25

gardly allowance" said Colonel Mann.
Fl could never stint myself on such an
amount. / believe the gallery viii back
me in saying that we but cheaper our
selves in the eyes OF the world when
we put such a financial limit upon our
means OF mundane enjoyment
Then having ch0ked on the last two
words Colonel Mann sent down 70 the
restaurant for a glass OF milk
IL was rumOred IN the gallery that
the reason that Richard Y. Dick OuIa-
han discouraged efforts to make him
Assistant Secretary or the Navy was
because Of the inhnitesmiaI salary at
tacaed. lie hated 10 spend the funds Of
years work in one week
Victor H. Murdoch, member Of Con
gress and newspaper man from Kansas
took a nid1le-OT-the-rUad view Of the
Smith claims So did J. Adam Beds.
House humorist, VINO halls from Mime
sofa
Far be it from me To keep an ex-
peuse account said Victor H. there
lore / don't know whether i N living in
the limit or not But I believe 1t can
be done, perhaps on a little less, unless,
of course, a man is addicted 10 the
use Of taXicabs and midnight supperz.
Some leap year ] shall keep an ac-
count
Adam Bede. who boldly proclaimed
on the floor Of the House some days
ago that he had ten. then fifteen, then
twenty children speaking in advocacy
Of Fairgrounds at the time evtnced
thusly.
1T cannot be done; never could /
support a large family on a sum Ike
this Colonel Smith must be q bachelor.
why with the exception OF our gar
bage collectors. ] dare say that every
body in town spends this each year. ex-
elusive Of Christmas gifts Ny table,
have one ius- like the insurance COM
pduies-is as follows.
Family Of five children, S15,ssa
Family o. ten children, 81 .335.
Family Of fifteen children, Sc. go
Family Of twenty children, $4,000
After Mr.. Bede leaves Congress Re
viii be enabled 10 stil maintain his
prinCely livelihood By means OF the lee
ture platform and box office.
The Washington times., 1909-01-25
BIG WAR OVER HEIR
TO BUTTONS SEAT
Politicians Charge Him With
Trying to Force Secre
tary Into Place.

CLEVELAND, Jan. 25.-There is war
in the camp Of Standardized Burton.
Last week. before leaving for Wash
iustou, he announced that ne wanted
the campaign for the nomination OF a
man 10 succeed him iu the House an
open contest and gave his followers the
impression that James W. Cassidy. his
secretary, would have to fight II out
with the field. so far as BurtCn's posi-
ton ON the candidacy was concerned.
But this week there came a statement
from Burton to the effect that "Cassi-
dy is eminenrly Cited FOR my seat, is
really the best timber and should be
nominated -
Mr.. Burton. who has preached the
people shall rule so long has deliberate
Is deserted that platform" declared
James r. Holcomb this morning Hol-
comb is one OF the half dozen men who
want Byrton's shoes.
Burton is trying to beqUeath his
PLACE TO his secretary is the common
charge around Republican headquarters
today. An open split is feared
The Washington times., 1909-01-25
IMPOSSIBLE TO LIVE
HERE ON $4,000 PER
Famous Men About Capitol Take Issue With Mil
Honaire Politician of Peoria in His Estimate of
Expenses IN Washington.

Consideration was caused al the Capt.
jQi inns morning when il was noised
through The corridors that Col Fred B.
smith, millionaire politician of Peoria,
H., had given out an interview in chi
Cago declaring ir possible for one TO live
iu Washington on $4,000 a year
Colonel Smiths remarks are pdrticu-
larry significant, inasmuch as he is uu-
derstpod 10 have been offered an AS
sistant SecretaTyship Of the Treasury
al only $500 a year.
1T may be possible 10 live on $50, 600
g. year providing the trusts are curbed, q"
said john Wesley Gaines. as he Eazed
ooubuully AT the Smith interview "Ths
trusts ere fearful things. he continued
'aud no man can estimate what his liv-
ing expenses viii be. Colonel smith
may he right, although a member Of
Congress is hardly a disinterested party
i'm the discussion. Most all OF them,
you know. arc millionaires, and the
s.. 500 we get is mainly used for sending
odt the Congressional Record ana eat
ing at the House restaurant"
Chairman jim Tawney, Of the Appro-
Driations Committee. with an eve ever
10 reform, deprecated the influence OF
the Smith interview.
81 know two or three people, ne said,
WHO have lived i'm Washing con on less
than $4,000 a year. Their example
should stand out as a beacon light on
the treacherCus sounds of financial
want. and should guide us 10 the port Of
the simple life and economy. On $4,000
per, / beIieve-yes, / am satisfied
man could save out enough to rent q
window for the inaugural parade.
Colonel Charley Mann, superintendent
Of the press gallery. who mingles with
more millionaire newspaper men than
any other person at the Capitol, was al
first struck with horror when shown the
smith interview. Then ne laughed ssr-
castically
Totally inadequate, absurd, a mig
The Washington times., 1909-01-25
SEALS doom
Of NIGHT SCHOOLS
No Funds Available for the
Sessions After Feb
ruary 8.

Night schools seem doomed i'm Wash
iuEtou.
TIE school authorities have little hope
that tbs estimate tor their continuance
viii be restored I'm the urgent deficiency
bin. now pending i'm Congress with
the funds available the night schools
viii run until the close Of the session
Of February s.
Unless Congress mas provided for their
needs by that time Washington viii
nave no more night schools, and those
ambitious day workers who Try TO edu-
cate themselves after hours viii be de
pnNed o. their only means of education.
To make plea for more money to
run the schools, improve the buildings.
and provide better facilities and better
protection for the pupils, school authori-
ties went before the District Committee
OF the Senate this morning.
W. V. Cox, chairman OF the WAYS and
means committee, OF the Board of
Education. Capt. James r. OYSTER.
president or the board. SUPERINTENDENT
4. T. Stuart and Assistant Suptrin-
Itf.,lauL Percy M. Hughes composed the
committee that represented the schools
in their effort 10 have the original ffg-
uIes. or the estimate given to the Dis
ItltL commissioners by the Board Of
Education. restored I'm The appropriation
Bids for the erection oil an addition
10 the Business High school at Ninth
and r streets northwest. uere oneDed
IN the District Building today. The low
est bidders We're pavar.ui g. WINE.
whose proposal was S6g3aJ. The other
bidders were Thompson & Starrett.
81, 80, Robert r. Humphrey. 81. 500.
Burgess & Parsons. 1920, and W. 10.
Mooney, SS1637
BY the terms of the contract the
building must be erected within eight
months OF the award
Congress appropriated $1,000 for the
erection Of the building.
The Washington times., 1909-01-25
PRIMARIES ASSIST
OLIVER TO SENATE
Pittsburg Party Election
Shows Knox Faction Has
Lost Control.

PITTSBURG, Pa, Jan. 25--The over
whc!ming defeat of City Treasurer steel
IN the Republican mayoralty primaries
IS taken as indicating the certain cleo
tiOn OF Editor George Z. Oliver as sen
atOT kuOE's successor in the Senate.
l. Is known that Knox was favOra bic
10 the nomination of Steel, while Oliver,
accepting the challenge of Knox, Henry
G. Prick, ana other interests sntagon-
istlc to his Senatorial aspirations, cham
pi0ned the candidacy OF State Senator
William A. Magee.
Magee's majority ar the primaries ex-
ceeds the vote cast for Steel
divers adhercnts are in high Elee a.
a consequence and say he has shown
himself master Of the political situation
ia Allegheny county. The Allegheny
delegation in the Legislature has in
dOTsed oliver for the Senate.
Magee is thiTty-six years old and will
make vigorous fight at the general
election next month, when he will Be
opposed by a Democrat, DR. Herst, ana
d reform candidate. William n. Steven
son, named by the Civic party.
The Washington times., 1909-01-25
PRESIDENT RECEIVES
CHILDREN RESCUERS
Care Of Waits Subject of
Discussion for Next
Two Days.
Continued from First Page)

MES be employed rather than larger i'm
situations housing from 500 TO 900 chill
dren.s
"The magnitude of the question may
be realized from the fact that 100 coo
children are To-Day inma7 es OF orphan
asylums. Nor is this problem one that
is confined TO cities aloEs Eight thou
i'm rural districts under conditions that
are anything but favOra bic for the MAX
ing of good citizens.
Moreover, these figures are growing,
the number o. inmates are increasing.
Yearly thousands of children of fourteen
years are turned out and investigation
of their careers in many cases bears out
the argument Of those that are opposed
to the congregate plan that the training
in these institutions does not make for
success in after life.
Evils Of System.
From personal visits TO these places
I have found that they hold fast 20 the
doctrine that education is not always
the best thing for their charges. The
moral future of their girls they claim,
is better assured if they are sent out
into homes as servants than If they en-
deavOr TO live Independently
The present system is so well organ
lied that opposition to it must be well
grounded before It can be hoped 10
accomplish definite results. State in
situations as we'll as those founded Dy
leading religious denominations repre-
sent large investments and the pubic
must be shown before they can be eN-
pected to abandon these established
homes"
Nr Dresser dLcIaimed that ne was
the originator of the idea OF segregatiug
children and placing them in homes
That homeless waits could be better
r--e H.E
large institutions occurred 10 man
twenty-five years ago up i'm hunting
don, Pa He rode from house 70 house
and canvassed for families willing 70
shelter the county's dependent chlloren-
What One Man Did.
"Out ina Illinois another mans UNI
aided efforts resulted in the founding OF
State institution for the care of
orphans.
1T is TO register this new idea that
the conference has been called IN
Washington
Another prime mover in the calling u
a national conference is George W.
Wilder, the millionaire president or the
National Child Rescue League, OF Ne"
York, VINO said:
Il believe the conference will be just
a effective, i'm that ~ viii direct pupllc
attention TO our object, as IL VIII oe lh
framing legislation ] am a beheNer ~
sentimeut- when matters OF this kind
are involved. IT is sentiment that segre-
gated these children from almshouses
into institutions FOR children alone ana
IT is public sentiment that will ultl-
TnataIv result iu a more rational plan
for caring for the nations waits
Tribute to President.
"Iu passing, / wish to pay tribute
to President Roosevelt for his interest
in This conference. His administra-
ton has been marked by q moral awak-
cuiug which in it's last ANALYSIS was a
victory of sentiment. and ] believe that
his work i'm our behalf stands out AS
one OF the signal victories Of his
career.
The Washington times., 1909-01-25
New Law Expected to Up
hold Views of Chemist on
Adulteration.
HIDES IMPURITIES,
SAYS INDIANA JUDGE
Decision in HoOSieT Case Is That
Pure Food Needs No
BenZOate in IL.

The decision Of The referee board uu-
der the pure food and drugs act 10
ile effect tnat the use of benZJate of
soda is not deleleIious to health, thus
ecuCOverting the finding hitherto made
10y Dr. Harvey w. Wiley chief chemist
or the Department of Agriculture, has
attracted the keenest interest here.
Members of Congress who are con
cerned- about the pure food law are Civ
ing it careful attention. Talk IS that
Dr. Wiley VIII be forced to resign bat,
Be- so. there has been no sign OF 1t thus
far. Dr. Wiley was az his desk today.
giving attention to pure food matters
as usual He had no comment to make
ou the decision of the referee board.
In some quarters. the decision of the
referee board is looked on as the enter
ing wedge 30 the breaking down of the
rure food law. Tt is expected now
the question OF the use OF "a large mum
Ter Of substances which DR.. Wiley has
called deleterious 10 health viii be car
Tied TO the referee board.
Not on Vital Phase
one most important phase of the situ-
alton which friends Of DIT. Wiley call
attention 10 is that the referee board.
Hopkins. did not pass on one Of the
most vital phases of the use of beuz0aJe
OF soda This question is whether the
substance is being used 10y food manu-
facturers, fruit Gamers, and the like to
cover up the use of inferior articles.
and 10 enable them 10 palm on on the
public food substances they could nol
otherwise dispose Of
This question was raised most forc.-
bly, recently by Judge Anderson OF the
Federal district court at indianapolis
Judge Anderson only last week decided
in favor OF the State board OF health
or indiana case which was raised by
Curtis Brothers, of Rochester and VIII
lams Brothers, Of Detroit
Seek to Prevent Use.
They were seeking TO prevent the
state. board from shutting off the use
or beuzoate Judge Anderson gave
decision I'm favor of the State board OF
health. He declared that such men as
Dr. Wiley and the Indiana State board
OF health knew what they were doing
when benZoate was prohibited ana he
added.
II am Of the opinion that beuzoate Of
s7da is used if at all to cover up IN
Ieri0r quality OF vegetables and fruits
and lusdnltarE processes of packing
don't know and 0ont care whether o.
Is poison or not IL IS only used To
cover fraud ami deception.
Ia the light OF this decision, 10 is
pointed out that regardless OF the
referee board the use OF benzOate may
be prevented by the courts regardless
of the action OF the referee board
Il IS pointed out tuat the pure food
law is extremely sweeping, and says AN
article shall bc deemed adulteTated NJ
40 contains amy deleteTious ingredient
May Pass Law.