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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-11
STANDARD OIL
IN P|LL0RY Of
SUPREME COURT
Suit to Dissolve the Organiza.
tion Being Argued in the
Court Today
WILL OCCUPY CENTER Of THE
STAGE DURING REST Of week
Monopolistic Policies of the Trust
Will Be Presented and Based Upon
the Evidence Taken-Standard Will
Deny Absence Of Competition.

Washington, Jan. 1.-THE Standard
Oil dissolution suit was advanced to
the center of the stage in the su-
preme court of the United States to-
day. Immediately after arguments
were concluded in the tobacco disso-
luton suit. For the remainder of the
week at least, the court will give its
attention to consideration of this
second problem under the Sherman
antitrust law.
For the government there appear
Attorney General Wickersham, Frank
B. Kellogg and POSSIBILITY G. A. Sever
ance. Defending the Standard Oil
are John G. Johnson, John G. Milburn
and d. T. Watson.
The governments chief object is
to have the court declare void the
corporate organization of 1899
whereby the Standard Oil company OF
New Jersey, with it's increased
capitalization exchanged its stock for
the stock of nineteen other oil cor
porations, which controlled in turn q
great many more such corporations
1t Is claimed that this amalgamation
resulted in a monopoly.
In support of it's case, the govern
ment claims that following the action
Of the court in the Northern Securi-
ties case it must dissolve the Stand.
ard Oil company Of New Jersey as q
holding company, suppressing CON-
petition. .
In urging upon the court the propo.
eit{nn fhof tho CfonHo I'd {o ,,ooSa0n01{1
ing, the government will argue that
evidence must be considered by the
court Of price cutting to drive com
petitors out Of business, rebating and
preying on competitors by secret or.
ganization.
"If the Sherman act means any.
thing in this country" says counsel
for the government in their brief, "it
means a monopoly acquired by such
methods Of competition as this. I'm
less it Is enforced the small corpora
tion or individual who wishes to en-
gage in business will have absolute.
ly no opportunity at all. This testi-
mony Is valuable as showing the in
tention Of the Standard Oil company
to monopolize the commerce in oil
throughout the United States. In
many districts it has an absolute
monopoly. We mean by absolute
monopoly that in those districts II
does all of the business and has elm
mated every competitor. 4
Where there is competition the
competitors are usually strictly t1fi-
der the control of the Standard, in
that they must, in order to be allow.
ed to do business sell oil at nracfi-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-11
and confine themselves to small
percentage Of the trade"

and confine themselves to a small
percentage Of the trade"
Combinations effected by purchase
according to the contention of the
government are just as much within
the law, as combinations effected by
trust agreements, or pooling.
Replying to these accusations and
conclusions, counsel for the Stand
ard will argue that the Sherman law
does not prohibit the method of hold
ing property by stock ownership.
"The Sherman act has no applica-
ton to the transfer to, or the acquisi-
tion by, the Standard OIL company of
New Jersey, Of the stocks of the vari-
GUS manufacturing and producing cor
porations," It is argued in the brief
Of Messrs. johnson and Milburn, "for
the reason that such acquisitions
were not acts of interstate or foreign
commerce, nor direct in their effect
on interstate or foreign commerce,
nor within the power Of congress to
regulate interstate or foreign COM
merce" ~.
The attorneys for the Standard will
unite In arguing that there was no
suppression of competition in the or
ganization of 1899. This is based on
the proposition that there was no
real change in ownership effected be-
cause all the properties acquired in
1899 were acquired by body of COM
mon owners for the purpose of a
common business and had always
been held by them in the same COM
mon ownership, legal or beneficial.
1t will be claimed that the conten-
tion of the government would require
an individual, owning two concerns
to compete with himself. Instead of
growth by unfair competition ripen-
ing into monopoly, 1t will be argued
for the Standard that 1t was created
as lawful business and continues to
this day as such.
"They took the risk of failure in
production, of destruction by fire and
tempest, besides all the ordinary
risks of trade."p says Mr.. Watson in
discussing in his brief the rise of the
Standard. -
'They met alls emergencies with
competent skill and sufficient funds.
Their methods OF holding their joint
properties and management of them
we're dictated BY economic reasons.
They competed with the same energy
and skill which they had used in
building up their capital and busi-
ness. They succeeded as If one had
developed unexpectedly gold or
diamond mine and abundant revenue
| legitimately became theirs"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-11
TWO BUSINESS
men DIED N
CONFEDERATION
Cincinnati Chamber of Com
merce Fire Laid Toll of
Death on Officials
SEVERAL F|REMEN INJURED
WHILE FIGHTING THE FLAMES
Property Loss Will Not Be Less Than
Million Dollars, Covered by In.
surance-NOne of Those Injured
Fatally Hurt.

Cincinnati, Jan. 1.-Two men
prominent in the business circles of
this city were among the missing
when the morning dawned over the
ruins of the chamber of commerce
building which was destroyed by fire
last might, entailing a loss that will
reach we'll over $1.000,000 and in
flicted injuries upon a dozen firemen
and others. The missing men are
Brent Marshall, vice president Of the
grain brokerage firm of Early and
Daniels, which was destroyed in last
nights conflagration, and Charles 8.
Sibbald, cashier of the concern. The
members of their families, as we'll as
the police, hold out small hope of
their being alive. These men were
known to have been at work in their
offices at the time of the fire and in
quiry at their homes early this morn
ing elected the information that
neither had been seen or heard from
since just prior TO the time that the
fire broke out, While twenty persons
were injured. including seven fire.
men, it is not believed that any of
them sustained fatal hurts. The loss
is fully covered by insurance.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-11
THREE BABIES
T BURNED TO DEATH
Mother Left Them Alone and
They, Tried. gaaossas on n.--..
. ,...s.4 !. 4sits, y: sse.rs-is

Minneapolis, Jan. II. - Gladys
Rooth, aged 4, Andrew Rooth, aged 2,
and Evelyn Rooth, aged year, were
burned to death today in a fire which
destroyed their home, 1894 Forty-first
avenue south. Mrs. Bertha Rooth,
the mother Of the children, was
burned about the face, neck and arms
in attempting to save the little ones.
Her condition, is ,pgeoarions, a The
children were left alone in the house
this morning while the mother went
on an errand to neighbor's. On re-
turning home she found the house In
flames. The mother burst through the
rear door only to be driven back by
the flames. 1t Is believed that Gladys
was trying to initiate her mother in
starting fire in the stove with
kerosene.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-11
The State Senate Committee
of 1909 Has Made It's
Report
RECOMMEND FILING Of REPORT
WITH THE UNITED STATES SENATE
Wisconsin Senate Committee Wants
the United States Senate to Inves.
tgate the Election of Stephenson to
Seat in That Body. 49,.

Madison, Wis.,, Jan. 1l-United
States Senator Isaac Stephenson Is
charged with number of violations
Of the laws of Wisconsin in leng-
thy statement filed with Governor F.
e. McGovern today by the 1909 state
senate committee in Its report on the
investigation of the primary campaign
and election OF Senator Stephenson.
The committee recommends that a
copy Of this report be submitted to
the United States senate and that
that body investigate Senator Stephen
sons election.
Senator Stephenson is charged with
violating the statute which requires
an account, under oath, of campaign
expenditures to be filed and that
such violation was premeditated; !;
that he violated the law which pro-
hibits any one from contributing
money to assist candidates for the
legislature residing outside of the dis
trict In which the contributor resides;
that the civil service law of the state
was violated when he caused to be
paid money which the evidence shows
was paid to State Game Warden
Stone and L. B. Dresser, then the
OOarQ or control.
It is also charged that he gave
sum Of money to supporter of Nc
Govern for United States senator,
such supporter afterwards switching
to Stephenson, and then he paid
large sums of money to others, which
was Afterwards used by them to in
duce other persons to assist in pro-
curing his election.
The report recommends that q
prosecution be commenced by the dis
trict attorney OF Dane county against
all persons shown by the -evidence, to
have committed perjury in the inves-
tigatton and that q like copy Of evi-
dence be submitted to the attorney
general with the recommendation that
he commence prosecution against all
persons shown by the evidence to
have been guilty Of corrupt practices
or Of perjury.
Stephenson Not Scared.
Washington, Jan. 11.-When Sem
ator Stephenson was informed Of the
charges filed with the governor Of
Wisconsin he said the majority Of the
committee which investigated his
election filed its report two years
ago and that therer was no minority
report at the time. He said that
there was minority of the commit
tee opposed to him, however, and that
he supposed that it was now making
q report. Beyond this, he said, he
had no comment to make.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-11
POLICE FO|[EO
BY THE MYSTERY
The Greatest Poison Case of
the Century Still Remains
Unsolved

| Cumberland, Md, Jan. 11.-More
than a week has passed since Cum
berland was Mortified by the mystery
T of a man and his f1ancee found dead
in the parlor of the woman's home
on the eve Of their wedding day. With
the passing Of the days the crime has
taken its place among the great mur-
der mysteries of the world, which,
when solved-if ever-will be solved
by some freak of chance.
Grace Elosser and Charles Twigg
are buried; their relatives mourn
them; the authorities Of Cumberland
and Keyser, with the aid Of detectives
from Baltimore, are vainly testing
F, the blank wall to find q weak spot
where they might drive the entering
| wedge.
They have discovered nothing. If
possible, they are further from the
solution today than they were when
1t was discovered that the pair had
lied Of cyanide poisoning. Since they
began to work they have followed
clews that have led them through
twenty states. Rumors Of the dis
covery Of Twiggs first wife, of his
engagement to an Indiana girl. of his
ENHANCEMENT with woman in Cum
berland have been proved groundless.
Stories of Grace Elosser's tendency
toward morbidness, of her quarrel
with her sister May, and Of her en-
! gagement to another man at the time
she was to marry Twigg have been
found to be without substantiation.
May be Mystery Forever.
And at the end Of a week this
crime is still q mystery, and bids fair
to remain mystery forever.
States Attorney David A. Robb and
Coroner Franklin B. Beall, far from
predicting the capture Of the poison
or, confessed today that the inquest
showed the full strength Of their
hands. They possess nothing but
clews and conjecture; not one bit OF
direct evidence which would point to
any one as the murderer Of the cou-
pie.
Strangest of all, in q case 80
strange as to be almost supernatural,
is the utter inability Of score Of po-
licemen, with the chief Of the depart
ment at their head; of agents from
the states attorneys office. Of hired
detectives, and of the friends Of both
families to learn whence came the
poison that killed the man and wo-
man.
The records of the drug stores for
twenty miles around Cumberland
show the name of no man who pur-
chased cyanide without the prescrip-
ton of a physician, and dyeing estab-
lishments. Photographic supply shops.
and jewelers. stores are found never
to have sold the deadly poison ex-
cept to those with whom they were
acquainted.
No Trace Of Poison.
1t Is as II the poison had been ad-
ministered to the pair by hand that
was not earthly. There was no trace
Of poison in the house where Grace
and Twigg were discovered sitting
side by side as II asleep, and there
has been no poison found in the
home of Twigg.
But even il the cyanide is traced,
the work Of the Cumberland ofncials
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-11
STATE GRAFTERS
HAD TO D|SGORGE
Pennsylvania Made Treasury
Looters by Illegal Charges
Return the Money

Harrisburg, Pa, Jan. 11-Restitu-
tion to the amount Of $1,S00,000 and
the surrender of warrants aggregat-
ing 100000. upon which payment had
been stopped, were made in the Dau-
phin county court today by the men
convicted or otherwise implicated by
the state of Pennsylvania in the capi-
tol frauds. The commonwealth agreed
to drop all criminal action against
the defendants with the exception Of
the case Of Architect Joseph M. Hus-
ton. who Is under sentence and who
has an appeal to the superior court.
Thus ends one Of the most important
criminal prosecutions ever brought
by the state and which has stirred
Pennsylvania from end to end.
The new state capitol, a magnificent
structure. with its rich furnishings.
cost approximately $13,0O0,00O. OF
this sum the state alleged that it had
been defrauded out of about $5,000,-
900.
The capitol fraud expose was one
of the indirect results of the political
upheaval in Pennsylvania Of 1905.
William H. Berry, Democrat, rum
ming on Fusion ticket, was elected
state treasurer. He was clipped off"
that something was wrong, investi-
gated, and created a tremendous SEN
sation when he laid bare the colos-
sal fraud upon the state. The in
vestigatigation resulted in indict-
ments. prison sentences for some. ac-
quittal for others, several of those
implicated went to their graves while
their cases we're still in the courts.
and one defendant was sent to an in
sane asylum before his case could be
tried.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-11

has been the United States from oho
Charles Dick, Berlin
He worked his through school and through Prince
candidate
William
Senator would
a president o e
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-11
Montana MADE
NO CHOICE TODAY
Walsh Led Democratic Com
petitor BY Five Votes With
Many to Hear From

Helena. Mont. Jan. 1.-THE mem
bers Of the Montana legislature today
in Joint session voted for United
States senator. The vote resulted as
follows: Carter. Republican. "a;
Walsh, Democrat. 80: Conrad. DEM
ocrat, 16; scattering. %. Necessary
to choice, So.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-11
SENATOR FROM
COLORADO DEAD
Had Been III q Long Time and
Death Was Due to General
Breakdown

Denver, Jan. 11-United States Sen.
ator Charles ]. Hughes, junior sena-
tor from Colorado, died in his home
here today after long illness. His
death was due to general break
down.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-11
TO NAME CANDIDATE
Democrats of Massachusetts Y
Caucus Next THURSDAY.

Caucus Next Thursday.
Boston. Jan. ia call was issued
today for a caucus Thursday after
noon of the Democratic members Of
the legislature to nominate a candi-
date for United States senator to sue
ceed Henry Cabot Lodge. The vote
for senator will be taken by both
houses on Tuesday. January II.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-11

THE WEATHER. .
North Dakota-Fair tonight he.
coming unsettled Thursday. Con. :
tinued cold. .
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Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1911-08-04
SHE COULD Shout. SAYS
Mrs. JOHN W. PITCHFORD, OF
ASPEN, N. c.

will always use Hunts Cure for
itching trouble. and | tell all | sec
about Il. | could shout now to know
that We are all we'll Of that dreadful
trouble. The first of last tall my little
boy broke out with some kind of itch
ing trouble. Thinking his blood was
bad ! gave him blood tonic, but be
got worse. aud could not sleep al "a sht.
Some said he had itch. and told me
what VAS good for it. | used what
people saic would cure 1T, bat nothing
did any good. Ny other two children
and myself took the disease from him
10 January, 1911. saw Hunts Cure
advertised and | purchased a SOC box.
/, helped my little boy 50 much got a
box for each one of the family. and
nov We are all well of that awful trou-
bile. Hunts Cure will cure itch ia
short time II you will go by directions
~e had u ia ita ~Orst form. aud used
Hunts Cure, and Ne are now ali sell.
Thanks 10 A. Is. Richards Medicine
Co. Of sherman, IeIAs. manufacturers
q such healing medicine.
,Nrs. John ". Pitehford.
Aspen. y. {.
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ANTI paper
! ON RESULTS

The following is an extract
from the Houston Chronicle on
result Of the elections:
The result is in harmony with
The Chronicle, but the anti pro-
hibitionists will sadly and harm
fully err if they for one moment
cherish the idea that the result
means an Endorsement of the
saloon. 1t most emphatically
does not. The saloon must go.
The Chronicle never printed
line in defense Of the saloon. 1t
never has, it never will. 1t OPP.
posed Statewide prohibition be
cause it did not believe it is the
right method or could be made
effective, and not because it be-
lieved in liquor or the liquor
traffic.
Now The Chronicle wants to
say a few admonitory words to
the ants. 1t hopes the fight
has ended-a at least for a season.
1t wants to see peace reighn a
while. But there are certain
things to be done and others not
to be done which are essential
conditions precedent to peace.
There must be no more veto
ing of bills providing for all
night saloons. Saloons must be
closed at nightfall. There must
be laws enacted further regula-
ting and limiting the traffic, pro
viding how, when and where
liquor should be sold, and max
ing the present day open saloon
an illegal institution.
The ants may say this is an
extreme and unreasonable con
dition.
+ Conceding it is for arguments
sake, it is not a matter Of prefer
ence with the ants, but one Of
prudence. They have extreme
and uncompromising foes to deal
with.
They are terribly IN earnest.
The ants know that it was not
stump speakers rending the air
with oratory which made votes,
but was the pleading, praying
women and children that won
most pro votes.
If the ants learn nothing by
their narrow escape then they
have wasted their time and mon
ey. Their foes will never sleep
nor slumber until the retail Ii
quor saloon is utterly routed out
This is as certain rs fire burns
or water vets.
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LOCAL FIRM Will CONTINUE
VALUABLE AGENCY

The Rexall Drug Store OF this city have
just closed deal whereby they will
continue to be agents for re lO-the
we'll known remedy for Eczema, Dan
druh and all diseases Of the skin and
scalp.
The extraordinary leap that this
clean liquid external treatment for skin
affections has made into public favor
in the last few years proves it's Won
derful curative properties and makes it
indeed a valuable addition to the fine
stock of remedial agents carried by the
Kexall Drug Store.
They have limited supply Of sam
Piles One of which will be given to any
skin sufferer who wishes to test the
merits of the medicine. A booklet
Chow To Preserve The Skim" will also
be given to those interested,
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THE UNIVERSITY OF texas.
Co Educational. Tuition Free.
Annual expenses. $3.50 and upward.
Session opens Wednesay, September
27, 1911.

College Of Ars.-Courses for degrees OF
Bachelor and Master of Arts and Doe
tor of Philosophy.
Department Of Teachers
professional courses for elementary
and permanent certificates.
Engineering Department. - Degree
courses in civil, electrical and mining
engineering.
Ldv Department. Three year course
for degree of Bachelor of Laws, with
State license; course for degree of Mas
ter of Laws,
Summer School university vnd nor
NAL courses; seven weeks every sum
mer.
Department Of EIifRsioa.-t. Cores
pondence Division. Offers courses i'm
various subjects. Students may en-
roll at any time. III. Public Discus
sion and Information Division. Fur
nishes photographers and travelling
libraries on current problems. III
Lecture Division. Offers popular lee
lures by members of the University
Faculty.
For catalogue Of any department.
WILSON WILLIAMS. Registrar.
University Station. Austin.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
Session. eight months, opening Sep
TENDER "a Four-year course in medi-
cine; two-year course In pharmacy,
three-year course in nursing. Thor.
ough laboratory training. Exceptional
clinical facilities in John Sealy Hos
pital. University Hall. a dormitory
Tor women students of medicine.
.. For catalogue. address
DIAN W. $. CAKrxg,
Medical College, Galveston.
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Cotton Acreage 1910.

Uncle Sam has just announced
the acreage of cotton harvested
from the 1910 crop shows a tot
ell of 32, 4O3, 900 acres in the Uni
ted States and of this acreage
Texas has 10000, 900. The yield
was II, 965, 962 bales in the Uni
ted States and 3,072, 932 bales in
NoyaS
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HOW'S ThISy

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Half S
Catarrh Cure. F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. o.
We. the undersigned. have known +. J. Cheney
tor the last Is years, and believe him perfectly
honorable in all business transactions and finan
cially able to carry out any obligations made by
his firm. WALpING KINNAN Il MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is Internationally acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfac of
the system. Testimonials sent free. Price rs
rents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists
Take HAlrs Family Pills for CONSTIPATION
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Prof. Blackshear of the Pra-

Prof. Blackshear of the Pra-
review Normal permitted him
self to be dragged into the anti
campaign, and he used his infu
ence TO deliver the ignorant ne
gro vote to the saloons and sue
ceeded; but he made the supreme
mistake of his foolish life. He
has turned the great majority
of the best white people of the
State against him, and now it
devolveS upon the saloon intlu-
ence to save him from his pre-
dicament. He has ruined him
self and done untold damage to
the negroes of the State. Poor
old BlackShear,
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A Precious Syllable.

Briggs; "Kipling gets a dollar
a word. That must be the rec
ord.
Riggs; mo, here's a select
councilman who got twenty thous-
and dollars for saying, Ave"
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- ee<eGeeeeeeeeeseee39

Among the relics in the an
cient Germantown Mennonite
church in Germantown avenue,
above Herman street Philadel-
phia, is a tombstone on which
this sentence is inscribed: by
George It's Cold.
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Internally

Or. Bells Anti-Psiu cures collie, tuI,
diarrhoea, cramps and all bowel com
plants.
Extsrslly:-Cures sore breasts. eorns.
bunions, too,hachs. neuralgia. aud all
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The French national touring
Office, a government feature es-
tablished in Paris, is an effort
To facilitate the movement of
tourists To that country all in
formation about places of inter
est and routes is here available.
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Many a Suffering Woman

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