Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1907 — Page 4

m ROUTT DEMOGRIT. 1. i. MMKI. TO IB HlLiaa. SATURDAY, SEPT. 21,1907.

OKLAHOMA.

Indianapolis New»: * f The country may at least learn what the people of Oklahoma think of their new constitution —the people who made the constitution and who have to live under it. We have had a great deal of specification from people that did not make it and do not expect to live under it of its faults and iniquities. We were told that the convention that framed it was grossly partisan and preponderatingly one-sided. But no explanation, we believe, has been tendered as to how this came to pass. The delegates to the constitutional convention were chosen before there was a constitution, chosen while the people lived under territorial rule with a partisan Governor appointed by the President. Yet this covention was as one-sided politically as the election of yesterday. Manifestly it will be difficult to explain away the situation. If people want to be Democrats or Republicans, or what not, they have a right to we hope, and they are not to be robbed of their free institutions because their politics may not be accord with the desires at Washington. If after this election there is attempt to withhold statehood the reason will have to be made very plain to the American people, When it comes to denying a people statehood because their politics does not have the approval of the the national administration, we should be going a long step beyond the chronic American flouting of law. If gerrymander explains three Democratic Congressmen to '.wo Republican, what explains the 40,000 majority of the Democratic candidate for Governor? That is obtained by a plain mass count of all the votes without reference to locality of gerrymandered districts. The majority for the constitution probably will be larger still, for the Republicans declined to oppose the constitution as a party measure or to attempt to defeat it. So we shall have presented for national decision whether a constitution made by a free people bolding a convention under an election as a Territory and ratified by them at a general election for State officers shall be set aside or not. And this the whole American people will concern themselves with.

It may be added that after the fashion of the time this constitution whose length and detail make it a a marvel among documents of its kind confirmed absolute prohibition jor twenty-one years Brewers can not “fix” a Legislature or engage in any of the many things that have roused the anti saloon opposition in this country. For Oklahoma’s constitution fixes prohibition for a time sufficient for a new generation to be born and come to voting age, It will at least have had the chance to be a sober generation and to know with a clear head whether it wants liquor to flourish in its land or not.

THE PUBLIC SALE SEASON.

The season for public eales will soon be hero and The Democrat desires to inform its farmer read*ers that it will be still better prepared this season than ewr before for printing sale bills. New type faces, new stock cuts, etc,, enables us to turn out a bill that is artistically correct and that will attract attention anywhere. Auctioneers and others accustomed to seeing a large number of sale bills all over the country tell us that The Democrat gets up the handsomest and best sale bill have ever saw, and the fact that people frequently come 15 to 25 miles to get The Democrat to print the bills for their sale indicates that our taste and care in getting out an artistic and typographically perfect bill is generally known and appreciated. Our prices for a bill of this character is no more than others charge for an inferior job. Remember that a free notice (in full) of the sale is published in this paper with each set of bills printed, and as “everybody reads The Democrat” your sale is bound to be well advertised if we print your bills. Call and see samples and get prices if you contemplate having a sale.

WANTED FOR CASH Don’t forget the fact, that I pay cash for all kinds of Household Goods, Stoves, Harness and in fact 1 will buy anything that will sell again. If you want a good kitchen stove or base burner come and see me. I can save you money. ’Phone 23. D. M. Worland. For Salk: Two dwelling houses and five lots. Address, C. W. Littlefield, Remington, Ind. 3t.

STANDARDDIL’S GAffIS

Takas Nine Figures to State Them for a Period of Eight Years, ‘99-’O6. ANOTHER TRIAL HAS REGUR Government Inquisitor Has the Hand* ling of the Rack Again. Chicago Court Makes a Record Breaking Bond for the Big Trust Six Millions To Be Put Up.

New York, Sept. 18.—Delving Into the financial workings of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, the bolding company of all the subsidiary organisations of the so-called oil trust, Frank B. Kellogg, conducting the federal suit for the dissolution of the company, brought forth to public view for the first time the enormous profits made by the Standard Oil company. In a period of eight years, from 1899 to 1906 Inclusive, the Standard OH company, on a statement spread upon the record of the hearing, was shown to have earned the total profits of $490,315,034, or at the rate of more than $61,000,000 a year, and distributed to Its shareholders In the same period $308,359,408. Dug Up Some Fresh Facts. While the company was earning these vast sums in the refining of oil the statements adduced at the hearing show that between 1899 and 1906 the assets of the company grew from $200,791,523 to $371,664,531. The capital stock Is $98,338,382. Financiers and those seeking knowledge of the exact profits of the Standard oil company have striven vainly to obtain the figures which Kellogg has succeeded in placing upon the record •of the court All Except 1,000 Shares. Kellogg also obtained a statement showing that the Standard OH company of New Jersey controlled by stock ownership over seventy companies engaged in the refining and the transportation by pipe line of oil on Sept. 14, 1907. The Standard OH company had always carefully guarded the list of Its subsidiary companies and the amount of its shareholdings. The list showed that this company owned $999.0000f the total capital stock of $1,000,000 of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, which was recently fined $29,240,000 by Judge Landis. Those Subsidiary Corporations. The following list was introduced as evidence by Kellogg, showing the nineteen subsidiary corrHyrations transferred to the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, upon its formation in 1899, by the liquidating trustees: Anglo-American Oil company; Atlantic Refining company; Buckeye Pipe Line company; Eureka Pipe Line company: Forest Oil company; Indiana Pipe Line company; National Transit company - New York Transit company; Northern Pipe Line company; Northwestern ■ Ohio National Gas company: Ohio Oil company; Solar .Refining company; . Southern Pipe Line company: South Pennsylvania Oil company; Standard Oil Company of Indiana: Standard Oil Company of Kentucky: Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and Ohio; Standard OH Company of New Jersey; United Tank Line company. New York, Sept. 19.—Profits Of more than 1,000 per cent, per year are made by the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, the corporation sentenced to pay a fine of $29,240,000 by Judge Landis in Chicago. The company’s profits for 1906 were $10,516,082 and in 1905 they were $8,853,410, a total for two years’ business of $19,269,492, The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey owns 9,990 shares of the Indiana company's stock. The Indiana company is capitalized at $1,000,000. The dividend paid by the Standard OH company of Indiana last year aggregated $4,495,506 or a little more than $6,000,000,000 less tluui-the profits. - The figures were presented in the federal proceedings here against the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. The dhidends and profits of sixteen other subsidiary corporations were also given.

Nqw York, Sept. 10.—Evidence was addmed at the hearing of the federal suit against the Standard Oil Company' of New Jersey, which Frank B. Kellogg, who is conducting the government’s action, says tends to prove that the Standard Oil company is operating in Texas under the nunie of the Corsicana Refining company. The Texas anti-trust laws forbid the Standand from doing business within the borders of that state. Mr. Kellogg developed from Wesley IT. 'll)ford, treasurer of the Standard Oil company, that E. C. Folger and C- M. Payne, who, Mr. Kellogg says, are the owners of the Corsicana company, are officials of the Standard Oil company. Mr. Kellogg further developed the fact that John D. Rockefeller In 1892 at the time of the dissolution of the Standard QU trust owned 256,854 shares out.of a total of 972,500 shares of trust certificates. SIX MILLION DOLLAR BOND What the Standard Must Give in the Rebate Case. Chicago, Sept. 18. The Standard Oil Company of Indiana, in order to obtain a supersedeas staying execution on its property to satisfy the

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judgment of $29,240,000 imposed by Judge Landis, pending the hearing of the defendant company’s appeal in the United States circuit court of appeals, mult furnish bonds amounting to $6,000,000. Judge Teter S. Grosscup, of the United States circuit court, so decided, much to the chagrin of both the attorneys for the defense and the government. Attorneys John S. Miller,’ Alfred D, Eddy and Merritt Starr, representing the oil company, had been working ha rd .for a bond of not more than $1,000,000 while District Attorney Sims and his assistants. Harry A. Parkin and James 11. Wilkerson, demended a bond equal to the amount of Judge Landis' record-breaking fine. Neither side expected to get its desires fully satisfied, but Miller and his associates had hoped that the maximum demand of JudgeGrosscup would be $2,000,000 or $3,000,000, while the government lawyers believed they' could convince the court that no bonds . less than $10,000,000 or sls,ooo^ooo' should be accepted. ■ Puzzled by the | probable inability of the defendant company to obtain surety for both of j these big bonds. Attorney Miller Tetter- 1 ated his suggestions that the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey be accepted as surety, but this was not taken kindly by Sims. Because of his dissatisfaction as to tills matter, Sims asked for time to give the question of surety consideration, and Judge Gros.4eup consented.

AT REST IN THE MAUSOLEUM

Remains ofthe Late’President McKinley and His Wife Exhumed and > Put in New Caskets. Canton. 0.. Sept., 19. 1 —The new casket containing the remains of Mrs. McKinley now rests in a sarcophagus in the McKinley mausoleum on Monument hill. On guard at the tomb are United States regular soldiers. A half' mile distant to the south in the vault that has held the remains of President McKinley still rests the body of the late president, but in a new casket. Here, too, soldiers are on watch. The work of trausferringMhe remains of the McKinleys to the mausoleum was entrusted by the McKinley Memorial association to a Canton undertaker. The bodies were taken from the other casketswhich have held the president and wife since death and laid in the caskets especially constructed for the. mausoleum. The state of preservation of both bodies was pronounced remarkably good by the un- , dcrtaker and others who saw them. ) Today the casket containing the late president’s remains will be transferred. ' Later the remains of the two children will be exhumed and placed in niches in the mausoleum prepared for the caskets, thus uniting in a final resting place the entire family.

OKLAHOMA IS DEMOCRATIC

Republicans Have Only One Representative in Congress from the i New State. - J Oklahoma City, O. T., Sept. 19.—The returns from the election of Tuesday shows that the constitution have been adopted 3 to 1; that prohibition has carried by at least 30,000, and that the whole Democratic state • ticket, headed by Chas. JL Haskell, of Mugkogee, has been elected by a majority I of more than 20,000. In the congressional election the Democrats seem to have chosen four of the five representatives. The can- ; didates probably elected are: First district, Bird S. McGuire (Rep.); Second, E. JL. Fulton (Dem.); Third, Jas. 1 Davenport (Dem.); Fourth, C. D. Carter (DemJ; Fifth, Scott Ferris (Den».). The legislature is Democratic by a j large majority aud will elect as Unit- j ed States senators Robert L. Owen, a • ! Cherokee Indian, and T. P. Gore, the famous* blind orator. Was a Disastrous Slide. Princeton, Ind., Sept 18. While playing ball, Leslie Davis, this city, tried to execute a slide to second bast) but broke both bones of his left arm. i

WAITING AT THE ALTAR

That is the Way a Muncie Young U__.Man Left His Intended Bride. BEHMS TO BE A FAMILY AFFAIR Education Ha* to Wait on the Tomato Crop at Clay CityState New* Item*. x

Muncie, Ind., Sept. 19.—After the •wedding guests had assembled at flic ’ home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles leer. ' man and ( the minister, Rev. B. M. i Nyce, of the First Presbyterian church. I sit ready to unite in marriage Miss Efflce Icerman and Clarence E. Black, ■ the marriage was declared indefinitely I postponed because of the failure of the I bridegroom-ehsrt to arrive. The ceremoney -was to have been performed at 8:30 p. m. and it was not until an hour laterthat hope of the young man's coming was abandoned. Had Not Told His Parents. Botli the young man and the young woman are of prominent families. Black's father, Norman E. Black, is one of the county’s wealthiest citizens, and is vice president of the People's National bank, of Muncie. A strange feature of the case is that although the invitations for the w’edding have been out two weeks, the young man’s parents did not know of his intemhxl marriage until they read it in the newspaper Tuesday. Their son told them he intended to w'ork Tuesday night (tlie night he had arranged to be married) in the mailing department of a local newspaper where he was employed. Some Hint* Are Given Out. Dr. Lewis Icerman, brother of the disappointed girl, intimated that the young mans ’relatives are aware of the cause of the young man's actions, but would say nothing except that the entire story would soon come out Young Black’s parents fear he has become ' temporarily insane or that he has met with an accident. Others do not entertain tliat theory. Black is 21 years old and Miss Icerman is aboul 20. She i was recently graduated from the Mun- ! cie high school. Efforts.are being made ; to find the young man, but it is thought he has left town.

EDUCATION HAS TO HALT ♦

People at Clay City Must All Work to Save the Crop of Tomatoes. Brazil, Ind., Sept. 19.---The public schools are now in full blast in all townships and towns in Clay county. ; except one, the opening of the schools in Clay City having been postponed indefinitely on account of the tomato growing and canning industry. The •chools In the north part of the county started on the 9th, while the others, with the exception of Clay City, opened on the 16th, I Clay City has quite a large canning factory, and In the tomato season every available man, woman and child is occupied in the tomato industry. , Tlie canning factory employes several hundred women and children and a few men, while men, women and children are kept busy in the fields, picking, loading and hauling the tomatoes to the cannery.

She Fainted at a Word.

I Terre Haute, Ind., Sept 19.—George and John Lawrence, brothers, 77 and 65 years old, respectively, were convicted of chicken and when 1 John was fined $5 and costs and disfranchised for three years, his wife, thinking that disfranchisement meant imprisonment collapsed, and was not restored to consciousness for some i time. .The. old_ men,_lt was shown.

made a practice of stealing chickens' and selling them in the local market. Horses Ran Away with Lions. Danville, Ind., Sept. 19. During the street parade given by a circus exhibiting here, two horses hitched to a cage containing a large pair of African lions, and driven by Henry Bain, of Indianapolis, ran away, and after going two blocks were stopped when the driver pulled them Into one of the elephants which blocked the way and held the team until many bands could get hold of the frightened horses. Strawberries Are a Drug. New Albany, Ind., Sept. 19. Because people apparently do not care for strawberries out of season, hundreds of gallons of the second crop, now ripening, have gone to waste. Shipments have been made to Chicago and other markets, but the prices received have not been sufficient to pay. Big Wind Kills a Man. Fort Wayne. Ind., Sept 19. During a violent wind storm, which, struck the city, the wall of a six-story building under construction wws blown down and Otto Schultz, an ironworker, was killed. Much damage was done in the city. Ex-G. A. R. Chief Dead. Greensburg, Ind., Sept. 19.—Marine D. Tackett, ex-department commander ®f the Indiana G. A. R., is dead. He was appointed by President Harrison allotting agent of the Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indians in Indian Territory. Ku*way Was Fatal to Her. Evansville, Ind., Sept. 19. Mrs. Andrew Hulster Duff was thrown from a buggy by a runaway horse and fatally injured.

ONE HUNDRED DIE WHEN BOAT BURNS

Fire Destroys a Japanese Steamer on the Yang Tse Kiang—Many Passengers Missing. Shanghai, China, Sept. 19.—A Japanese steamer, said to lie the Tafoo Maru. has been burned three miles off Ching Klang, on the right bank of the Yang Tse Kiang, forty-five miles from Nanking. It is reported that 100 lives were lost. The Tafoo Maru is still on tire ps this dispatch is forwarded and the loss of lire or extent of the darnage dona have not been ascertained, but it is known that many of the passengers and crew are missing and it Is estimated that 100 lives were lost -•

Key Men Appeal to Brokers.

Chicago Sept. 19.—Resolutions were adopted by the executive board of the telegraphers’ union urging brokers to transfer their business to “fair” companies. Instead of using the leased wires of the Western Union and the Postal Telegraph company the brokers will be asked by the striking operators to' transmit their long-distance business over the wires of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, which has met the demands of the strikers.

Umpire Hit with Pop Bottle.

St. Louis, Sept. 17.—During the first game of the doube-header between the Browns and Tigers, Umpire Evans, the youngest handler of the Indicator In the major league, was struck at the base of the brain by a pop bottle and now Iles In a hospital seriously Injured. The bottle, which was burled by Hugo Dussenberg, a youth 17 years of age, was broken into a thousand pieces when it struck Evans.

Stockman Killed in a Runaway.

Bloomington, 111., Sept 18.—E. G. Love, fanner and stockman, was instantly killed. ln a runaway accident near Fairbury. Subscribe for the Democrat.

MRS. CHADWICK STRICKEN BLIND

Ohio Prison Physicians Say She Will Never Live to Serve Out Her Full Term. Columbus, 0., Sept 17.—Mrs. Cassie L. Cradwick, noted witdr of finance, who, posing as Andrew Carnegie’s natural daughter, swindled Ohio and eastern banks and capitalists out of millions in loans In bogus securities, has just been stricken with a nervous collapse at the penitentiary, w’hlch has left her blind Her condition is serious and it is the opinion of the prison physicians that she will never live to serve out her ten years’ sentence, two years of which she has now completed.

Case of Harry K. Thaw.

New York, Sept. 18. —When the criminal branch of the supreme court opens next month and the case of Harry K. Thaw, charged with th© murder of Stanford White, is called, Martin W. Littleton, senior counsel for the defense, will demand immediate trial sos the accused Pittsburger. District Attorney Jerome, It Is understood, will oppose an immediate hearing of the caa .

Elks Killed in Auto Crash.

Colorado Springs. Col., Sept 18. —An automobile containing a party of seven Elks, returning from Manitou, ran into a telephone pole here early in the day. Three men were killed outright and a fourth died shortly afterwards. Names of the victims are William Rallston, dealer in electrical supplies; Britton Graves, a druggist; H. Wlnnal, and the chauffeur, named Grey.

How to Avoid Appendicitis.

Most victims of appendicitis are those who are hqbituaify constipated. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup cures chronic constipation by stimulating the liver and bowels, and restores the natural action of the bowels. Orino Laxative Fruit Sytup does not nauseate or gripe and is mild and pleasant to take. Refuse substitutes. A. F. Long.

PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned having decided to quit farming will offer at Public Auction at his residence 25i miles due south of Bemotte on the gravel road, on the Lewis Sayier farm, known as the old Gilbert farm, commencing at 10 a.kn., on Wednesday, Oct. 9, ’O7 3 HEAD HORSES, two horses seven Colt 2'4 months old. K-W... 8 HEAD OF CATTLE—Cousutingof 1 Roan Cow four years old. fresh in the spring; 1 Jersey cow five years old, now giving milk, fresh in the spring; 1 Jersey cow four yean old. now giving milk, fresh in the spring: 1 Heifer coming two-year-old, fresh the last of October; 2 Heifer calves five and seven mouths old. 2 Hoos. one a boar 1 Gilt. Farm Implements— • Consisting of 1 Mowing Machine, good as new; 1 Hay Rake; 1 Corn Planter withßorods of wire, used one season; 1 Breaking Plow, 1 three-section steel Harrow; 1 three-shovel Plow; 1 eight shovel Cultivator; 1 Broadcast Seeder and Box; 1 Farm Wagon with double bed; 1 Buggy; 1 set double Buggy Harness; 1 Grindstone; l|o foot inch Wire Cable; 1 Stack No. 1 Prairie Hay. 4% tons: 3 Tons of Hay in Mow; 1 acre of Potatoes in Ground, yielding well; Fall Pasture, excess of Hay Land and Stalk Pasture with Corn in Field; Household and Kitchen Furniture, Etc,, Etc. A credit of 12 months will be given on sums over 85 with the usual conditions. 7 per cent off for cash where entitled to eredit. LAWRENCE SAYLER. Beet Hannaway. Auctioneer. J. P. Hammond, Clerk.