The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-06-01
The Standard OIL company has In.

from 6 to 10 per cent The order
retroactive and became effective Ma
l. 1t Is estimated that the compan
will add from s6.000,000 to $4,000, 90
to its annual pay roll expense. TIL
new scale affects employees engage
in the companys works and factories
but the Office men will not be bene
fitted by this increase. Most of tn
employees who will get the increase
are laborers, and the advance applies
to all the subsidiary companies in tn.
United States. The company has ap
proximately 10000 employees. Thu
Standard is one of the very few bis
concerns of this country which has
never had strike among it's employ
ees.
Oliver Splitter, former superintend
ent of the docks of the American Sugar
Refining company in Williamsburg, ex.
planned in court at New York why he
did not confess during the trial which
ended last February with his being
sentenced to two years at Atlanta.
Such a confession, he declared, would
have carried him to cemetery" In
other words, he would have implicated
dead man, Henry O. Havemeyer, late
head of the sugar trust.
After he had moved the grass on
his own burial lot in preparation for
Memorial day at Battle Greek, Mich,
William e. Painless, seventy-five
years of old, fell dead, rake in hand
Commissioners of the Presbyterian
general assembly at Atlantic City, N.
j., object to Speaker Cannon having
the power of appointing the proposed
federal commission for the investiga-
ton of the liquor traffic in the United
States.
Motion for a new trial for DR.. Hal
dane Cleminson, convicted of the MUIR
der of his wife, was overruled by
Judge McSurley at Chicago. A motion
IN arrest OF Judgment was granted and
sentence deferred to allow appeal.
A union of washerwomen has been
formed at Orange, N. j., with men,
bersh1p of 300. The officers announce
that the standard of wages will be
raised from $1.25 to 81 day and
the hours of labor will be reduced
from nine to eight.
illness of son of H. Clay Pierce in
st. Louis prevented Pierce from be-
ing present to testify in the custer
filed by Attorney General West of
Oklahoma against the Waters-Pierce
Oil company and the case was con.
tinued until June Is.
After falling four stories down an
elevator shaft and landing in four
feet of water, in which he was nearly
drowned, John ]. Sloggart, a carpen-
ter of New York city, escaped with a
broken arm and many scratches.
AS a result of what the Chicago
police charge was fight among
thieves over the division of their
spoi1s, one man was shot and killed,
another is believed to have been
wounded, and third is under arrest.
Bitten by his pet dog, which he had
been teasing, Jackson Edwards, seven
ty-four years old, of Denver COL, be-
came alarmed over the thought that
hydrophobia might set in. Two hours
later he was dead.
Governor Sanders of Louisiana has
signed constitutional amendment
submitting to the voters of the state
the proposal of a 100000 tax in
support of the proposed worlds Pana-
ma exposition at New Orleans in 1915.
Under the auspices of the Illinois
Outdoor Improvement association
conference began at Springfield for
the purpose of starting campaign for
the Identification of streets and
yards.
charge of manslaughter was filed
by the police against Miss Theodore
Stark, eighteen years old, who while
driving an automobile ran down and
killed s. B. Shotwell, st. Paul
(Minn.) broker.
The first hint OF the movement to
Dust Rev. DR.. William H. Roberts Of
Philadelphia from one of I'll, two Of
ices OF state clerk and treasurer of
he Presbyterian general assembly,
came IN the report of the bills and
overtures committee, which was pre-
'ented to the assembly at Atlantic
City, N. ].
A legal battle to stop government
prosecution of the packers in Chicago
was waged before Judge Lands in the
federal court. According to the pack
ers' lawyers, the statute of limitations
has run not only on the beef cases,
but on every other big trust prosecu-
ton now pending, and the government
indictments aren't worth the legal
sheets upon which they are written.
The jury in the case of William Sey-
Ter, accused of numbering pretty Jane
Adams by casting her into the sea
from the million-dollar pier at Atlantic
City, N. j., returned verdict of mot
guilty."
Probably eighteen persons lost their
ives in collision between the large
steel steamer Frank H. Goodyear of
he Mitchell Transit company and the
steamer James B. Wood, another steel
7essel belonging to the Gilchrist Trans
lOrta tiOn c0mnanv in To1xo IJ,ro,