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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1911-01-12
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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1911-01-12
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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1911-01-12

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17
STANDARD OIL IS Up
SUPREME COURT At LAST

That in 1899 the Standard Oil
Co. of New Jersey, which had
been previously organized, be-
came holding company to evade
the Ohio decision, the holding
company acting the trustee of
the subsidiary stock instead of
the original seven men.
That the New Jersey eompany's
stock was raised from 100000
900 to $10O,0OO,0O0, and that
there was added to the compauy's
charter the clause empowering it
to buy and hold stock of subsidi-
airy companies.
On this information the govern
ment, at the instance of former
Atty. Gen. Moody, filed suit
against the Standard Oil Co. OF
New Jersey, its seven owners and
about seventy subsidiary con-
Germs in the United States cir
cult court at st. Louis, Nov. Is,
1906. The government prayed
that the trust be declared illegal
and dissolved, and that the subsid-
larry concerns be enjoined from
paying dividends to the parent
corporation.
Then followed many months of
testimony-taking. There were 444
hearings before Referee Franklin
Farriss, appointed by the court,
in many cities.
The rich generals of the oil in
dustry, and the crushed, broken
drivers of single competing oil
wagons flocked to the hearings to
tell their stories. John d. Rookie
Teller himself was hailed before the
New York referee.
The testimony taken, the gov
ernment on April 3, 1909, filed
its final brief before the st. Louis
court and asked that the case be
advanced for trial.
No witnesses came before the
court. but drayload of dry words
substituted for the sweat and
blood of the referees hearings.
Judges Vandeventer, Hook,
Adams and Sanborn heard the ar
guments and on Nov. 2, 1909,
Judge Sanborn, at st. Paul, read
the decision. 1t was a sweeping
victory for the government. Not
only was every government con-
tention upheld, but the court went
further; it forbade the Standard
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17

Leading counsel for Standard
Oil, a prominent New York cor
poration lawyer, and at whose
home in Buffalo, n. Y, President
Mckinley died.
dent Roosevelt determined to start
the first great national prosecu-
tion of the monopoly and named
Frank B. kellogg of st. Paul and
Charles b. Morrison of Chicago
as special assistants. to act with
Milton d. Purdy, assistant attorney
general.
These men made swift inves-
tigation of the trust, brought in
an indictment on which was based
the present suit. In their cur
sorry speech Kellogg and his as
sistants brought out the follow
ing accusations.
That 80 per cent of the refined
oil used in the United States
and exported from her shores was
furnished by the Standard Oil Co.
facie evidence of the ex-
istence of monopoly.
That as early as 1870, John ID.
Rockefeller, William Rockefeller,
II. II. Rogers, Henry M. Flagler,
John d. Archbold, Oliver H.
Payne and Charles M. Pratt came
together in an agreement design
ed to suppress competition in the
oil business.
That between 1870 and 1882
many agreements were made with
oil companies.
That by 1882 these seven men
had stock enough in oil COM
panies to control the opera
ton of the industry, and that
competition had been suppressed.
That in 1892 the Ohio supreme
court decreed that the trusteeship
of the seven men--the first trust
in the worlds modern sense-was
an unlawful combination. :
That as a result, in the years
from 1892 to 1899, the seven,
headed by Rockefeller, pretending
TO have accomplished a dissolu-
ton of the trust, were in reality
operating as they had before the
Ohio decision.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17

Associate counsel for the Oil
trust, and a former counsel for
the government in cases against
trusts. He is Pittsburg lawyer.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Ian. II.
The arguments which opened to-
day in the United States supreme
court in the suit to dissolve the
Standard oil trust is the begin
ming of the last chapter in the
long fight against that most mo-
nopolistic of all monopolies.
The present case must not be
confused with the $29, 200, 900
fine proceedings. That was a
criminal suit for accepting re-
bates brought against the Stand
ard Oil Co. of Indiana. The pres
ent case is a civil suit for dissolu-
ton brought against the Standard
Oil Co. of New Jersey, under the
Sherman antitrust act.
Prior to 1906, there had been
many state attacks upon Stand
ard oil similar to the Indiana
case. But in June of 1906 Presi-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17

Special attorney for the govern
ment in the prosecution of the Oil
trust, and who has been in charge
of the case since its inception. He
lives in st. Paul. He is Mime
sofas best known lawyer.
to engage in interstate commerce
by pipe line or tank cars. The
court ordered the trust to dis
solve and to begin it in 80 days.
A stay of execution was grant
ed pending an appeal, which ordi-
narily would be to the court of ap-
peals, but the four circuit judges
sitting extraordinary on the case,
were in effect a court of appeals,
SO the appeal was taken directly
to the supreme court in Decem-
Der, 1909.
The case had precedence. Argu-
ments were heard early and a de-
cision was expected by spring.
But death had invaded the SUI
preme court and its members
thought it best not to dispose of
a case of such momentous import
ance with an incomplete body.
Accordingly the case was assigned
for re-argument before the. new
judges at this winters session.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17
KILLED WHEN TAKEN
FOR A BURGLAR

LONG BEACH, Cal, Jan. IT,
John Bowers, proprietor of pho
|tograph gallery which makes a
specially of souvenir card pictures,
was shot and killed on a front
porch of his home here early today
by Richard Ward, young man
who roomed at the Bowers home.
Ward, who was arrested. will not
discuss the matter further than TO
say that he thought bowers was q
burglar and shot him
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17

1t is positive fact that a dose
of Pape's Cold Compound taken
every two hours until three con-
secutive doses are taken will cure
Grippe or break up the most Sc
we're cold. either in the head, chest,
back, stomach or limbs.
You distinctly feel the cold
breaking and all the disagreeable
grippe symptoms leaving after the
very first dose. 1t promptly ends
the most miserable headache, dull
ness, head and nose stuffed up,
feverishness, sneezing, sore throat,
running of the nose, mucous ca
tarrhal discharges, soreness, stiff
ness and rheumatic twinges.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17
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WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. IT.
senate leaders today
are trading upon the prospect of
New Mexico, with reactionary
constitution winning, and Arizona
with a progressive constitution,
losing the struggle for Immediate
statehood. AS New Mexico is re-
publican and Arizona democratic,
they predict that the prospective
republican majority of eight in
the senate will be changed to ten
before next December.
New Mexico will have its con-
stitution in the hands of Presi-
dent Taft for approval by the mid
die of February. Arizona cannot
get the result of it's vote on the
to Washington before
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17
BREAKS Up A BAD COLD IN A few
HOURS AND CONTAINS NO QU|N|NE.

Pape's Cold Compound Is tho
result of three years research at
a cost of more than fifty thous7
and dollars and contains no gull
nine, which we have conclusively
is not effective In
the treatment of colds or grippey
Take this harmless Compound
as directed, with the knowledge
that there is no other medicine
made anywhere else in the world
which will cure your cold or end
Grippe misery as promptly and
without any other assistance on
bad after-effects as a 25-cent
package of Pape's Cold Compound
which any druggist in the world
can supply.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17
WILL TAFT and CONGRESS- TURN
DOWN ARIZONA BECAUSE OF HER
PROGRESSIVE CONSTITUTION?

congress adjourns, March A. New
Mexicans predict their state will
go into the flag by July A.
In the New Mexican constitu-
ton there is no hint of such things
as nomination by popular vote, the
recall, the initiative or the refer
endum. 1t is regarded as certain
that the president will approve it..
Arizona's constitution, on the
contrary, provides even for the
recall of judges by districts, and
1t is not thought the president
will approve of 1t hastily.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17
ICE FLOWS ON
+ COLUMBIA

(By United Press Leased Wire.
PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. Ion
account of heavy ice floes on the
upper reaches of the Columbia
and on the Snake river between
Riparia and Lewiston navigation
is practically suspended today. 1t
is believed that several days will
Ielapse before normal service is
resumed.
The weather is moderating, fol-
lowing a five-day cold snap, and
liz present weather continues for
three or four days the streams
will soon be cleared of ice.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17
Convention Of
Mine Workers
(By United Press Leased Wire. J

(By United Press Leased Wire
COLUMBUS, o., Jan. IL
Representing 100000 of the Unit
ed States and Canada, 1900 dele
gates were in attendance here to-
day when the annual convention
of the United Mine Workers of
America began.
J. G. Williams OF Sacramento
and Guy Williams, organizer for
the Western Federation of Miners,
are in attendance on the sessions
of the convention, and are to urge
THE amalgamation of the coal and
metal miners.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17
.ALOR|CH'S BANK PLAN
IS SUBMITTED TODAY
d Wire.) land presided.

QBy United Press Leased Wire.)
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. IT.
Senator Aldrich's central bank
pain was sprung today.
The scheme designed to CEN
tralize the control of the nations
currency provides for an organi-
zation of national bankers. to be
called the Reserve Association of
America.
Senator Aldrich was not pres
ent when the national monetary
commission announced it's plan.
Vice Chairman Edward v. Vree-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17
RHEUMATISM

The HUMAN BAKE OVEN
quickly relieves and cures this
painful trouble. Come in and talk
it over with our physician. It
costs you nothing to investigate.
BAKE OVEN SANATORIUM, sol
PA Bankers Trust Bldg. NJ.
$50. *sA
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17

land presided.
The capital of the reserve asso-
citation, according to the plan,
will be approximately 100000
600. The association is to be
chartered for term of so years.
Its headquarters will be Washing
ton, but the plan provides for. 5
branches, one each in districts
provided for in the general
scheme.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17

TOLEDO, o., Jan. 17.-Mayor
Brand Whitlock, who was operat-
ed on for appendicitis at st. Vim
cents hospital, after sudden
turn for the worse yesterday, had
a fairly good night his physi
clans reported today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17
Sparks Just
Off the Wire
(By United Press Leased Wire. }

PASADENA, Cal, Jan. IL
Harry Hardness, the young Pasa-
dena millionaire, has gone to San
Francisco to purchase the wreck
of Hubert Latham's Antoinette
monoplane. Hardness owns three
French aircraft and plans to use
parts of Latham's machine in his
own monoplanes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17
City Briefs

A fire of large proportions was
Just checked in time at the n. T.
depot last night. 1t was started
by the carelessness of a unsmitn.
Mr.. l.. II. Sessions, the shoe
man, slipped on the sidewalk on
: / 18th street yesterday morning and
broke his kneecap.
The Superior Court yesterday
edjudged Mrs. Clara B. Cook in
sane.
Mrs. Mary f. Sears is petition
ing the Superior Court that her
husband be declared in contempt
of court and punished according
i.
The county board of commits
sioners for Pierce left for Van
couver, Wash, yesterday to at
tend the 4th annual convention of
the State association of County
Commissioners.
Crushed by an Oregon, Wash
ington freight train yesterday re-
suited in Edward Larson, a car
penter, being taken to st. JOS
eph's hospital where il will be
necessary to amputate both his
legs.
Before leaving the hotel for
the Majestic theatre yesterday
where she is starring this week,
Miss Mabel Mckinley received a
telegram informing her of the
death of her grandmother at So
merset, Pa.
Patrick J. Joyce got ten days
yesterday in Judge Arntson' S
court for being drunk and dis
orderly. After serving this he
will be reawested for threatening
to kill his wife.
The West End Improvement
club will meet tonight in Gilbert's
hall, 290S Sixth avenue.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17

SACRAMENTO, Cat, Jan. IL
Legislation giving more power to
the medical profession will be
fought during this session of the
legislature by the League of Medi-
cal Freedom,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17

FRANKFORT, Ky, Jan. IL
Gov. Wilson will take no action
on the lynching of the three ne
groes at Shelbyville jail. There's
no use for physician to prescribe
for patient after he is dead"
said the governor when asked
what he would do about the lynch
ing.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17

If you are going to move. pack
or store your furniture, call Fidel.
ity Transfer Co.. M. S3-A1497. go
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Jan. II.
Gov. O'Neill today stands com
mitted to the opinion that prohibit
ton in Alabama is a failure and
the offspring of bigotry.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17

OAKLAND, Jan. 17.-Julge III.
A. Melvin of the supreme court
of California, who was taken to
Providence hospital Sunday even
ing threatened with typhoid fever,
Is reported to be worse today.
Melvin was formerly grand ex-
allied ruler of the Elks.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17

LONDON, Jan. IA dipIo-
matte setback for Japan is the
view generally taken here of the
tariff concessions offered England
by Japan, and which are now be-
ing made the basis of a new COM
mercial treaty.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. IT,
1t Is reported that Mrs. Carrie Ma.
ton is suffering from a relapse.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17

VALLEJO, CAL, Jan. IRE
ports from the bedside of Capt.
Edwin A. Anderson, commander
of the gunboat Yorktown, today
indicated that the Yorktown's race
against death from Panama to
Mare Island was successful. Cap
tain Anderson is suffering from
pneumonia.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17

Mrs. Mary f. Sears is petition
ing the Superior Court that her
husband be declared in contempt
of court and punished according
i.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-17

MERCHANTS-Tell the readers
of the Times wha you have In
your store. 1t pays.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-08-12
NEGRO KILLED BY LOG TRAIN.
Coroner Flowers Holds Inycstiga-
ton over Body of Dead Negro.

Monday afternoon Coroner
Folwers was called out in the Con-
cord section to hold an inquest over
the dead body OF a negro named Sam
Anderson, who was killei shortly
before noon by a log cart which he
was loading.
From the evidence Of the one wit
ness and the affidavit Of the attend
ing physician. 1t seems that Anderson
who was the best hand working as
driver for the Belts Lumber Com
pany, was preparing to fasten the log
cart when the cart turned to one
side and the tongue Of the cart struck
him on the jaw, killing him almost
instantly.
The accident occurred in the Black
River swamp where the log hands
were hauling out logss to the Belts
Lumber company mills.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-08-12
Cummings. Mitchell.

marriage Of much interest to a
great many Of the people in and
around Sumter was that Of Sunday
evening when Miss Frances Hollie
Cummings of Oswego was married to
Mr.. Ben. ID. Mitchell. Jr. Of near this
city.
While 1t was known for some time
that the marriage was coming off at
some time soon it was not known
when and it came as a surprise to a
number Of the friends and relatives OF
the young couple. The marriage
ceremony was performed Sunday at
ternoon at 6 o'clock by the Rev. T. ].
Munnerlyn. pastor of the bride, at the
home Of the brides parents at Os-
wego.
At present the newly married
couple are staying with the groom's
father but they will soon go to house
keeping in a residence which has
been recently built just north Of the
city by Mr.. Mitchell. The happy
young couple have the best wishes of
their many friends
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-08-12
FIRST BRICK LAID.
Laying OF Brick Pavement OH Main
Street Commenced This Morning.

Laying Of Brick Pavement OH Main
Street Commenced This Morning.
On Thursday about o'clock the
first brick in the Main street paving
was laid at the southwest corner of
Main and Canal streets, just opposite
the corner Of the Booth-Harby Live
Stock Company's stables and store
house.
The laying Of the brick has pro-
ceeded very rapidly all the morning
and at the present rate 1t is prob
able that the Hampton avenue corner
Will be reached sometime Saturday
morning. The rapid work of the ne
gro brick layer has called forth many
favorable comments from the large
number OF bystanders who are at
hand to see that the paving is done
properly.
After the brick are laid thev will
be gone over and Strengthened and a
smooth surface will be made when
cement will be poured In between
the brick to keep them In place and
to prevent their turning. The work
has been going very rapidly during
the two and a half weeks since II
was commenced and it is probable
that II more hands are secured that
Mr.. Waring will have the work COM
pleted by the end Of the first three
months. as he stated that he expect
ed and was trying to do. and not take
the full 12n days that the contract
allows.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-08-12
FIRST BALE OF NEW COTTON.
Brought i'm by W. w. Wheeler "a Lee
county Farmer and Bought by
O'DOnnell and Company.

Mr.. w. w. Wheeler of Lee coun-
T. Is the first farmer to bring a bale
OF new cotton to town this season AMI
the honor falls to him Of producing
the second bale Of new cotton sold
in the State this season.
The cotton which came in We'd
nesday was graded as strict mid
ding and was bought by O'Donnell
and Company, large cotton buyers of
this city. The cotton brought on the
local market u 1-2 cents. The bale
weighed 490 pounds at the cotton
platform, where it was weighed by
the public weighers.
Since one bale Of cotton has been
brought to the city the people here
will soon wake up to the fact that it
is fall and that the biggest cotton
crop ever raised in the county will
soon be turned loose on the town and
other local markets. The drought
hurt the corn considerably in the
county. but it has not hurt the cot
ton and If present indications are full
filled, Sumter. which has always been
the biggest and best cotton market in
the State, will have more cotton on
It's streets this fall than ever before
and will present an even more in
teresting scene than it did last wear
when the wagon loads Of cotton
were strung out from the cotton plat
form to Warren street,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-08-12

The friends of Mr.. Sam nicb.r3.
son, who was one Of Sumtcr's star
ball players at the time that Sumter
mad ball team, will be glad to know
that he Is now playing a successful,
game with the Guelph team Of on
'ario, in the Canadian League. lie
stated In a communication to one of
his former Sumter friends that he
has played 62 games this season and
has batted 375. Several of tho foam
IN the Eastern League are trying to
get him. He asked to he remembered
through the columns of the ltcm to
his many former friends i'm Sumter
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-08-12
Sumter, S. c., July IL, 1911.

oohNSA, -, July l..
Mr. H. G. McKagen, Sumter, C.
Dear Recommending OH the
matter which led to the letter of my
associates and myself to the City
Council under date of 11th inst,
wish to say, in order that the entire
matter might be kept straight, that
while you were not offered the position
by the Board of Health, that body not
having then met, you certainly had
every reason to believe that you
would receive my support in compe-
tition with the applications filed, and
from what you told me, am conf
dent that you expected the support
OF my associates at that meeting.
In the letter addressed to the Coun-
Gil 1 have stated that you approached
me on the subject. This having been
brought up in a general conversation,
in which the vacancy was discussed
it is not clear to me who broached
the subject first, and, as you are
positive that I did and my mind not
being clear on this point, 1 am per-
fectly willing to accept your state
ment as true.
While l, Of course, have no knowl-
edge Of the particular phraseology
you may have used to the different
members of the Council. it seems as
if your judgment was entirely correct
on the matter, which is shown by the
fact that when the Board met, al
though your letter was never present.
ed to that body, 1 was authorized as
committee Of one to look you up
and tender you the position at the
salary Of $4,000, which L did at Z
o'clock that evening and which you
declined.
In closing. l wish to say that this
letter was entirely unsolicited by you.
Yours truly,
(Signed.) JAS. r. LIGON.