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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-01-17
REPORTS Of DUN
AND BRADSTREE7

Bradstreet New York; published
the following on January in regard
To business conditions:
Country wide cold weather especi.
ally severe West and South, has sti-
mulated demand for heavy winter
wearing apparel and combined with
unusual clearance sales, has made
for better than average final distri-
button of seasonable goods.
In wholesale lines, holiday inven-
tories have been completed and sales
men are again on the road. Reports
from jobbers are of a quite optimistic
feeling as to spring trade, and good
sales of goods adapted to retail
clearance sales are reported.
Iron and Steel are dull and Pig Iron
stocks are accommodating. Cold wea-
Their has helped coal consumption and
sales of bituminous coal in the West
and of anthracite in the East are
active. No shortage of supply is re-
ported
! Leather trades are quiet and re-
lports of widespread stoppage of work
tanneries give firmness to stocks of
finished materials Cotton Goods are
quiet in primary markets, and year.
end reviews of the 1910 results are
disappointing as a whole.
There are rather more optimistic
reports as to Lumber trade condi-
lions on the north Pacific Coast and
feeling that the depression in that
line in 1910 is giving way to more
favorable situation.
Business failures i'm the United
States for the week ending January
9Th were 2S1, against 251 last week,
Ell in the like week of 1910, 329 in
1909, 435 in 1908 and 2S2 in 1907.
Business failures in Canada for the
week number %, which compares with
35 last week and SO in the like week
of 1910.
Wheat, including Flour, exports from
the United States and Canada for
the week ending January 5th port.
land, Or, advices not received), ag-
gregate 2,566,914 bushels, against
2,17S929 bushels last week and 3,1S3,-
145 bushels this week last year.
Corn exports for the week are
2,294,979 bushels, against 1,149,411
bushels last week and 1,766,6S4
bushels in 1910. ,lg. ~
There is little or no change in the
state of the larger trades Contrac-
top otsaatpHt -eontinuss1in Iron ant
Steel, but the outlook for the new
year is regarded as encouraging.
In. December, 4twenty-seven addi-
tional furnaces were blown out and
the daily production fell from 63,659
to 57,25E tons, or nearly $4,000 tons
less than in the corresponding period
of 1909. However, prices at all lead
ing centers still display a tendency
toward greater weakness and buyers
are holding back in the hope that
further concessions will be granted.
In some other branches of the in
dustry conditions appear more en-
couraging, reports from Chicago and
Pittsburg indicate a better inquiry
from the railroads, while the outlook
iE the structural division is consider
ed promising.
Retailers of Dry Goods the country
over are pushing sales of white goods
and domestics, while jobbers are busy
bringing out their new lines of spring
goods for house display. Buyers are
showing Increased activity in the
80 ef,s- 81. ~ ssasys-l assn. =. .-
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-01-17

companies, operating as "independ-
ent" dealers.
In 1880 the government asserts that
the idea of controlling the tobacco in
dustry originated by the heads of the
big manufacturing firms-James b
and Benjamin N. Duke, Thomas +.
Ryan, Pierre Lorillard, r. L. Patter-
son, p A. B. Widener and others.
The American Tobacco Company was
soon thereafter formed. Other COM
panies were acquired and subsidiaries
organized. In November. 1901. it is
alleged, the United Cigar Stores were
formed as a retail marketing company.
Tinfoil, licorice, boxes and paper
were manufactured by the trust, it is
alleged, to give them absolute mon
opoly.
It required nearly a year to take the
testimony in the case. In November
1907 the Circuit Court rendered a de-
cision sustaining the Sherman law and
upholding the government eonten-
tions.
United Cigar Stores.
The bill against the United Cigar
Stores, the Imperial Tobacco Comp
any and the Branan Tobacco Company
were dismissed. The parent company
and several of the subsidiaries were
adjudged a conspiracy in restraint of
trade and ordered dissolved. Several
OF the subsidiaries were independently
declared trusts. Both the independ-
ents and the tobacco companies APP
pealed.
The defense alleges there has been
no combination, but the American
Company has reached its present
growth through the exercise of bust
ness judgment and the power of nor
nous capital.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-01-17
CONDEMNATION SUIT.

This morning an order of publica.
ton was made in tine case of the U.
S. VS.. the Hawaiian Sugar Co., ct al.
and the U. S. VS.. Augustus F. Knud-
sen. This refers to condemnation
proceedings for the acquisition of
lands for lighthouse sites.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-01-17

markets. There has ben little more
trading in spemialties, wash goods
and ginghams, and somewhat greater
interest in early showing of blankets
and mapped goods, but drills and
sheetings have ruled quiet.
Selling agents in both cott1ns and
woolens, as we'll as in silk lines. find
it difficult to adjust prices because of
THE sustained high cost of raw ma
terial and production, While buyers
are operating only for immediate
need.
A fair export trade in Cotton is now
reported with the Far East.
The footwear market continues
quiet and unchanged New England
producers have but a small reserve
for spring cutting, but buyers gener-
ally are known to be carrying meager
stocks and an improved business is
looked for by the latter end of the
month.
The question of price is not a dis
turbing element at present. There is
a somewhat firmer tone to the market
en- domestic Hides, and this is especi-
ally noticeable in Cow and Bull Hides
An important demand is again in evil
dence, principally for good lots of
country Hides, and this has had a
strengthening effect on the situation
here.
There is slight increase in the
demand for tea, but trade is still far
from being active.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-01-17
James +. rlOrgan.
Stock an d
Bond Broker

Member OF nono1um Stock and
Bond Exchange.
Stock and Bond Orders receive
prompt attention.
Information furnished relative to
all STOCKS AND BONDS.
LOANS NEGOTIATED.
Phone 1879 p. o. Box 594
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-01-17
TOBACCO TRUST IN
SUIT FOR DISSOLUTION

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Before
the court of last resort today began
the final legal battle for the life of the
American Tobacco Company and its
subsidiaries. On the fight depends
the life or death of the vast corpor-
alton with an invested capital of more
than $400, 100000, or the emascula-
ton of the Sherman act, which will
nullify the governments strongest
weapon against corporate aggression.
Attorney General Geo. w. Wicker
sham and Special Attorney ]. C.
Reynolds commanded the forces of
the government.
Attorneys John G. Johnson and viii
liam B Hornblower represented the
tobacco company. To Johnson, as
chief counsel for the appellant, fell
the duty of making the opening ar
gument, and his legal defense of the
accused corporation consumed by far
the greater part of the day.
Second Suit.
This is the second time that the
story of the tobacco trust has reached
the highest court in the land. It was
argued last year, but death and sick
ness so thinned the ranks of the JUS
tees that it was decided that rear
gument should be held.
The case had its inception in a bill
of complaint filed July 10, 1907, be-
fore the Circuit Court for the South
ern District of New York. 1t was al
legged that the American Tobacco
Company had gradually acquired a
monopoly of the tobacco business in
the United States by a series of bold
buccaneering exploits, had stifled COM
petition and defied independent deal
ers through a network of subsidiary
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-05-26
I. /. WHEELER.

raised on a farm in Ross county and
is graduate of the College of Agricul-
ture and the Ohio state university.
Following his graduation he served
one year in the soil survey of the U.
S. department of agriculture. For the
past six years Mr.. Wheeler has been
connected with agricultural journal
ism.
Mr.. Wheeler is abundantly qualified
for the new position to which he has
been selected, and will make most
able assistant to Superintendent A. b.
Graham, of the Ohio agricultural col
lege.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-05-26
Shippers Win a Victory.

Shippers won a victory in the car
demurrage cases before the railroad
commission. The commission set up
new rules which practically coincide
with those under which the interstate
commerce commission operates. Ship
pers asked that they be given 75
hours free time for unloading cars
of a capacity of more than $4,000
pounds, but this was not granted. The
new rules give AZ hours, and for re-
consignment, switching and similar
causes "a hours. Cars containing
freight for transshipment to vessels
are allowed reasonable time. A de-
murrage charge of 81 day is author
lied after expiration of free time.
Allowance is made for delay caused
by weather.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-05-26
DEATH INvApEs oHio's HOUSE.
Representative Smith, @.uthor of One
per Cent Tax Bill, Dead.

Marion.-Representa William T.
Smith, 48, one of the best known Of
Ohio legislators is dead. His death
came as shock, none but the fam
lily knowing of the serious illness.
Mr.. Smith went home from Columbus
suffering from an infection of the
nose. He said it was just a pimple
and would soon disappear, Gangrene
developed, and it rapidly went to the
brain. Mr.. Smith sank into uncon-
seriousness, from which he never raj
lied.
Although not brilliant orator,
representative Smith was neverthe-
less a picturesque word painter in
the halls of legislation.
He was the author of Gov. Har-
mons pet tax measure and was known
throughout the state.
AS chairman of the house taxation
committee and author of the one-per'
cent tax bill, he worked night and
day and talked on the tax problem
in many cities. He stood for the one
percent rate last year, but was out
voted.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-05-26
COX INDICTMENTS ouAsHEp.
Judge VIM. L. Dickson Hands Down
His Decision.

Cincinnati = Common Pleas Judge
William L.Dickson handed down de-
cision quashing the indictments
which charge George B. Cox with hav-
ing committed perjury when he testi-
fed before the grand jury in 1906. The
decision was predicated upon the
tenth ground in the motion to quash,
Hunts own brief in support of his
ruling that Mr.. Cox was then under
investigation by that grand jury, and,
therefore, could not legally be sworn
or compelled to testify.
Mandamus has been asked by Pros
ecutor Hunt seeking to force Judge
Dickson to make the entries which
he offered during the hearing of the
motion to quash, whereby he elected
to try Cox upon the first indictment
returned and to refrain from making
any entries as to the finding in the
other Indictment, or to show cause
why Le refused TO do so.
Affirming his unalterable faith in
Republican principles and leaders,
George B. Cox after his court vindica-
tion voluntarily laid down the reins of
leadership and incidentally resigned a
commanding place in the councils OF
that party in the state.
Scarcely week had elapsed since
he, through the press, has re-asserted
his leadership and stated his purpose
to continue in that capacity until the
party asked him to resign.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-05-26
OHIO CANALIZhTION
United States Engineer Writes on tho
Recently Completed Dam at
Fernbank.

Cincinnati.-The publication of pic
ture of the government dam at Fern
bank, Ohio, in recent issue has
called forth the following article from
the pen of Mr.. Edwin T. Noll, a
craftsman in the United States En-
gineer's Office in the Cincinnati Gus
tom House.
The writer is indebted to the EN-
cheering News" of March 4, 1909,
for much of the following informa-
ton, and the balance of the article
has been approved by the authorities
in charge of this work, which approx
al vouches for it's authenticity.
For the complete canalization OF
the Ohio River there are contemplat-
ed Sd dams and locks in the 966 miles
between Pittsburg and the Mississippi
River at Cairo. OF these there have
been built, up to the present, eleven,
of which No. 81 at Fernbank, o.,
about IL miles below Cincinnati, is
the largest movable dam built to
date. 1t is about 71a miles above the
Big Miami River and about 4S1 miles
below Pittsburg.
When the dam is in use it will form
pool extending about % miles up
the Ohio River, or about IL miles
above the city.
At some future time No. So will be
built in the vicinity of Coney Island
and No. 35 some where near New
Richmond, No. 3S will be near Ris-
ing Sun, Ind. Each of these pools
r,il - Go
on the down stream side of the wick
cts composing the movable dam.
The principle of operation of these
wicksts was clearly shown by the
model at the Ohio Valley Exposition
last fall.
At the dam the river has width
of 1870 feet at low water with a
greatest depth of feet, under nat
ural conditions. The lock, on the
Ohio side of the river, is ITO feet wide
by 600 feet long inside. On the Ken
lucky shore are three bear trap weirs.
Between the lock and the bear
traps" is the 'navigable pass" This
pass" is not obstructed by the wick
cts forming the dam except during
low water periods. During the high
river stages the wickets lie on the
bottom of the river, boats and barges
passing up and down stream as they
did before the dam was built. The
pass" is 900 feet wide, and is closed
when necessary, by 225 wickets 3-9"
wide by 1911" high, resulting in a
depth of 1873 feet from the top of
the pass sill' to the top of the
wicket"
The power house, office, warehouse
four lock tenders dwelling houses
and water tower are on the Ohio
side of the river. Compressed all
will be used to operate the bear
traps" the lock gates, and the filling
and emptying valves of the lock. The
cut published three weeks ago show
ed some smoke stacks in the dis
tance. These were not stacks oi
the power house but showed a part
of the contractors plant in the cof
ferdam on the Kentucky side of the
river, while the bear traps" were
being built.
The plant has it's own electric light
water and sewer systems, the water
being obtained from a driven wei
and pumped into the tank by the "ail
lift" system.
The project was approved in 100:
by Congress, the total amount ap
propriated for the work was $1,000,
10000. 1t was commenced in 190I
, and completed in the fall of 1910
except the four dwellings which art
now under construction.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-05-26
HOLDS DEAN Law
UNCONSTITUTIONAL
OPINION OF ATTORNEY GENERAL
HOGAN ON SALOON CHAR
AcTER STATUTE.
EQUAL PROTECTION OF The LAW
Should Not Be Denied TO Any Person
Residing Within the Jurisdiction
Of the State of
Ohio.

Attorney General Hogan has de-
clared the Dean saloon character law
unconstitutional. The opinion was
rendered by Prosecuting Attorney
Ralph A. Beard of Mahoning county.
The decision Is based on what the
attorney general contends to be a vio-
lation of the federal constitution.
Lower courts in Ohio have held diff
ferently on the law, some declaring 1t
constitutional on the grounds that 1t
is a police regulation. The inquiry
from Beard Is relative to the right Of
q county auditor or treasurer to reject
a tax assessed against a saloon keeper
who has admitted that he is an allen,
has been convicted of a felony, has
permitted gambling or has sold to
minors or to improper persons.
The law provides that such persons
answering to the effect that they have
been guilty of these practices or that
they are aliens or have been convicted
of felonies shall be denied the right
to engage in the business under pain
of conviction of felony. This pro-
vision, Hogan holds, is a violation of
the provision OF the constitution
which guarantees that mo state shall
deprive any person of life, liberty or
property without due process of law,
nor deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection OF
the law"
"The laws may provide an offense
for false answers to the questions,
said Hogan, "but they may not pun
ish person for trafficking in intoxi
eating liquors provided that he has
paid his assessment, except for some
act that any person might be pun
ished for under similar circumstances
without reference to the past con
duct of that person. Any man in wei
territory may pay the tax assessment
but in dry territory an assessment
can never be collected for future
time"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-05-26
Bills Meet With Approval.

Among the many bills that have
been passed by the house, that meet
with approval everywhere, are the
Krause senate bill empowering pro-
bate judges to appoint park commits
sions to manage parks outside munich
palities, the Hudson and Frazier SEN
ate bills, both increasing the penalties
for failure to guard dangerous ma
chinery; the Hudson senate bill, al
lowing either the city or state build
ing inspector to serve notice requir-
ing counter floors in new buildings;
the Todd senate bill, providing that
reserve cash of city sinking funds
shall not be subject to the depository
law; the Denton senate bill, that be-
fore unplatted lands may be detached
from municipalities, it must be shown
that the property Is taxed more than
the benefits received; the Macdonald
senate bill, permitting children under
Ii years to appear in private theat-
rical performances; the Deaton senate
bill, codifying the laws regulating
employers insurance companies; the
Bader senate bill, authorizing the in
vestment of surpluses of insurance
companies in school bonds; the
Krause senate bill, proportioning in
debtedness when lands are detached
from municipalities; the Cahill SEN
ate bill, allowing additional $50 for
farmers institutes; the Reynolds SEN
ate BILL for guarding elevators and
shafts against accidents; the Johnson
senate bill, making uniform the law
for transfer of shares of stocks, and
the Deaton senate bill, providing for
holding all examinations for medical
certificates in Columbus.
In addition to these senate bills, the
house reconsidered and passed the
Smith bill, increasing the pay of the
chaplain of the penitentiary to $1,000.
The house cut from $500 to $3.50 the
allowance to each of the attorneys
in the Cincinnati contested elections
cases.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-05-26
LAYS CRIME TO LORD BACON

DIR. Orville w. Owen, who is dig
ging diligently In the mud of the
River Wye in England for manu-
scripts he believes were hidden there
by Lord Francis Bacon, is after
bigger game than has been sup
posed.
The American declares that the
cipher which is guiding his operations
and reveals that Bacon killed Shakes
peare and buried the bard Of Avon's
head in the box which is now being
reclaimed from the river bottom.
The top of what the American
thinks is the hidden cache was
reached by the sounding rods, but
there is considerable layer of clay
to be removed before the logs or
planking forming the cover can be
removed.
Despite the contention of archaeolo-
gists that Dr. owen is only excavating
a structure used as foundation for
Roman bridge. the investigator in
sists that everything tallies exactly
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-05-26
Resigns the superintendent.

Angered at the passage Of tha
Stambaugh bill to replace the super.
intendent of the girls Industrial
school near Delaware with matron,
Superintendent Samuel D. Webb of
Athens county has resigned. Webb
was named after Governor Harmon's
Inauguration.
He fought the passage Of the
Stambaugh act, which is now in the
governors hands, ready TO be signed
and made into law. Steward John
Mcnamara of Vinton county has been
named to take Webb's place until July
1, when the new matron, to be named
by the governor, will take charge.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-05-26
Senator shaffer ia Happy.

Senator "Bill" Shaffer of Paulding
county has declared himself happy
man.
The reason was that Governor Har-
mon had signed his woman's reforma-
tory measure, of which he has been
an earnest champion.
Besides this, ,Shaffer has seen en-
acted into law all save one of four
pledges which, colleagues say, Shaffer
carried on his letterheads during the
late campaign. The fourth Is the pub
lie utilities measure which awaits o
report from the conference commit
tee.
The other three were the Oregon
plan Of choosing United States sena-
tors, the central board bill and the 1
per cent tax limit rate.
The women's reformatory was
taken up by him during the session.
The governor, secretary Of state, state
auditor and secretary of state board
of charities are members of the COM
mission which is to locate, plan, build,
equip and furnish the institution. 1t
is to be located on farm Of 300
acres. Several sections of the state
have put in bid for the location.
Mrs. Edward Orton of Columbus, as
representative of the d. A. R., was
the principal supporter of the bill al
committee meetings.
Senator Shaffer was a member OF
the committee which investigated the
girls industrial home last year. A
new reformatory was suggested al
that time.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-05-26
PAYS $4,000 FOR A BIBLE

Now want some fun" said Henry
e. Huntington, nephew of Coils P.
Huntington, few years ago, when he
first contemplated retiring from active
business life and devoting himself
heart and soul to his passionate love
for book collecting.
He had worked constantly and
strenuously since early youth. He had
made himself the street railway king
of the Pacific Coast. He had piled up
millions Of dollars. He was fifty
years years old.
Now I want some fun" Mr.. Hunt
ington started out to get what he
wanted. And his pursuit at "fun," as
he understands it, has eliminated
within the last few days in two
strokes Of sensational magnitude.
The first was his acquisition Of the
famous chuch book collection, one Of
the most splendid in the world. It
cost him $1,3OO,O00. The other was
his purchase a few days ago of the
celebrated Gutenberg Bible, the chief
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-05-26
Is ACTIVE AT EIGHTY YEARS

One Of the few surviving generals
on the union side during the Civil war
is Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, of Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Iowa, who has just cele-
brated his 80th birthday In the war
he was noted as brave and skilful
general and after the close of that
struggle he won renown as the en-
gineer who blazed the trail for the
Union Pacific railroad.
Gen. Dodge is type of the self
made man. At the age of 10 he
drove a butchers cart In tho town
of Danvers. Mass his birthplace. Lat
er he devoted his energies to truck
farming and earned enough to take
the military and science course at
Norwich university. At the age of
20 he went west, settling at Council
Bluffs, and on the outbreak of the CIV
II war he was made colonel of the
Fourth Iowa 'nfantry, which he had
raised He commanded a brigade at
the battle of Pea Ridge, where three
horses were shot under him and
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-05-26
Some Valuations Increased.

No changes have been made in the
valuation Of the city of Dayton. The
state tax commission certified back to
the auditor of Montgomery county the
valuation as returned at $109,594,1 ,157
Portage county was increased s4,735,-
343. Kent is increased 10 per cent
and Ravenna 25 per- cent. Tiffin and
Fostoria have been withheld. Son
eca county is increased $4.576,233.
Gallla was increased S877,942. Perry
county, with the exception of New
Straitsville, was certified back un-
changed