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COUNTY HERALD. VOLUME XVI DAKOTA CITY, NEB., FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1908. NUMBER 47 st"emaVAKOTA V A i ft CURRCNT HAPPENINGS FAITHFUL CHRONICLE OP ALL EKPWfTANT ITEMS, OIL TRUST FINE VOID APPEAL COtllT ItEVOKES LAN. DIS' $29,000,04)0 PLASTER. Jurist Sharply Criticised Reviewers Point Out Three Particulars In Which-Tlioy Allege tho Trial Court Erred Moot Flagrantly. The United States court, of appeals reversed and remanded for retrial the case of the government against the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, In which Judge Lend Is, of Chicago, In the district court, had Imposed a .fine of $29,240,000. The government has thirty days within which to file a petition for a rehearing, and It was announced that it will be filed within the allotted pe riod. ' In his opinion, which was concurred In by Judges Seaman and Baker, deal ing with the "Intent" feature of the case, a vital point, Judge Grosscup says: "We should take up these subjects In the order stated, the first being whether a shipper. can, without error, be convleted of accepting a concession from the lawful published rate, even though It Is not shown as bearing on the matter of intent that the shipper at the time of accepting such con cession knew what the lawful pub llhsed rate was a view of the law that Is embodied in the charge and carried out in the ruling excluding cer tain proffered testimony, Including 'that of one Kdward Bogardus, who, being in absolute charge of traffic af fairs of the plaintiff in error, offered to testify that during the period he did nto know anything about an 18 cent rate over the Chicago and Alton railroad; that his attention had never been called to any such rate by any person or by the examination of any document, and that it was his under standing and belief on what he was told by one Holland, tariff clerk for the Alton railroad,"' that the rate over the Alton road was 6 cents and that such rate had been filed with the in terstate commerce commission." Judge Grosse'up's opinion leaves lit tle of the contention that each carload at the 6-cent rate constituted a sepa rate offense. Even the shipments, of , which there were about BOO, could not be so considered under the ruling of the court. The fine should have been Tiased on settlements between the rail road and the oil company. Of - these there were Just thirty-six. The maxi mum fine on this basis would amount a but $720,000 and the minimum 136,0.00 the latter figure being con siderably less than the $223,000 which the Standard Is alleged to have re ceived as rebates on the .shipments In question. IIE1IEADS GIUh ix pmsoxi Ax Vscd as Win by German Exe cutioner. s Gretc Beler. the 18-year-old daugh ter of the mayor of Freiberg, Saxony, was beheaded Wednesday night some time between dark and dawn in pun ishment for the murder of the mar. to whom she was engaged to be mar ried. The executioner reached the city Wednesday night. He carried a box containing the ax with which he did his work and brought with him al fo a suit of evening clothes. The wearing of this garb Is an official re quirement of the somber occasion. The preparatlonsTor the execution at the prison had been completed and the man did his work quickly and pri vately and departed as quietly as ho came. The king of Saxony had re fused a pardon. - Horrible 1 lost on Murder, A brutal murder was disclosed by thedlscovery of the body of Mrs. Em ma'Payrow, 38 years old, gngged, and with her throat cut, crushed into a small closet in one of the apartments at 200 Columbus avenue, Boston, Mass. The woman's body was found by hei husband, Charles Payrow, when he returned to his room Tuesday night. To Ignore Two-Cent Law. The Minnesota, Red Lake and Mani ;oba Railroad company Wednesday served notice on the state railway and warehouse commission that beginning August 1 It would charge passengers a fare of three cents a mile, thus Ig noring the two-cent fare law. Is ExiM-IIoxl by Coiitro. President Castro has expelled J. H. DeRus, minister resident of the Neth erlands, from Venezuela. Castro de clares DeHus is Incompetent to serve a a friendly medium in relation be tween the two countries. Kloux City Uve Stock Market. " Wednesday's quotations on the Sioux City live stock market follow: Top beeves, $6.60. Top hogs, $6.40. Meet Leaves Honolulu. The Atlantic battleship fleet Balled t from Honolulu Wednesday night at 6:18 for Auckland. New Zealand. The Minnesota was left behind to await the mail steamer from San Francisco and overtake the fleet before Its aiw rival at Auckland. Kir William Crrmor Iktul. Sir William Randall Cremor ( Wednesday morning In London. Iwas born in 18I. died LfltEll TO HElt DEATH. Cruel Canning Shown in Murder of Mr. Eherhnrd. The tale of a. crime so revolting an 1 replete with crue craftiness as to lie almost unbelievable Is told In the ca-ir of Mrs. Otllilb Eberhard, a well to do Vlenesse widow, whose body wat found on the railroad track In a lorn ly section of Hackensack, X. J., early Sunday. At first It was believed that the-woman had been Ftruck by a tntin and killed. Subsequent Investigation, however, . revealed that she hud been murdered "and her body , placed vpor. the track In an effort to destroy tiace of the crime. It was with tills discov ery that ther.Vnmc the flrH Intima tion of the deeply laid and cunningly executed plot which places tho ens almost In a class by Itself In tho his tory of crime. As a result of that In vestigation the police are no'.vrearch Ing for August Eberhard, tho. dead woman's nephew, who' had Importune! Mrs. Eberhard to come to this couritrj and to bring with her her little for tune of $2,600 and her 20-year-ol daughter, whom August had promise! to marry. It was largely due to the story tolc by the daughter after the finding o: the older woman's body that tbi search for August was begun, and th police of every city In the eastern sec tion of the country have been askec to take rdm '"to Custody If found He is wanted to tell what he knovj of tht circumstances related by the girl who was to have been his wife The young woman herself, however refuses to believe that August had an part In the tragic death of her mother but, despite her protestations, detec tives have gone to fhe home of the man's parents, who live on a torn near Dutchess Junction, in Dutches county, X. Y., and the search for him Is being prosecuted In many ofher quarters. SO FOOD FOR 35 DAYS. Missouri Man Makes licmarknhlt Fast in jr Record. Probably the longest fast ever kept by any man In the United States, with the possible exception of Dr. Tanner. Is that of Frank Schmitz, aged 48 years, a Belleville, (Mo., iron molder, who has finished a thirty-five-day fast, thus smashing the remarkable fasting record of Dr. Irving J. Enles, of lielle-i vllle,. who fasted from May 31 to July 1, 1907., , Mr. Schmitz has broken his fast by partaking of a little malted milk, and, accomplished, according to his own statement, what he set out to do, that Is, recover his health, depleted by an illness of fifteen years of stomach trouble, and regain his strength. It was at noon of June 14 last that Mr. Schmitz began his fast, and dur ing all of the thirty-five dnys ending at noon Sunday, he claims to have sub sisted entirely on an occasional glass of water. He has not tasted food In any form during that period and Is substantiated in his statement to this effect by his wife and physician, Dr. Eales. At the time he commenced fasting he was a very sick man alio had been told by a number of doctors that unless there was some change In his condition he could live but a few months. Today he is a well man physically and declares that he pever felt better in his life. PUT TO DEATH IX PRISOX. Two Xew York Murderers Elect it. cutci in Sing Sing. 'Charles H. Rogers and Angelo Ln-i diero were electrocuted in Sing Slu;; Monday. In the case of Laudlero r bright flame from the" electrodes at hi--head was noticed after the contact and there wus an odor of burning hal: The crimes for which Rogers pni.l the death penalty were the killing j' Willis and Frederick Olney, farmer., near Middletown, X. Y., and the kill ing of Alice Ingerlck, the Olney broth ers' housekeeper, whom he also as saulted. The object of the dead ws.u robbery. Laudlero murdered another Italian Rain Stops Forest Fires. " A succession of drenching showers has served to put a stop to the great fires nea Portland, Me., which have wrought damage amounting to hun dreds of thousands of dollars in the Maine woods during the last two weeks, causing also more than a little alarm in many instances for the safe ty of villages. Hurt in Auto Wreck. . While Judge Rlner, of the ITuited States district court, and his family weVe returning from Silver Crown. Wyo., Sunday their auto overturned about twenty miles west of town and Judge Rlner sustained painful, but not necessarily fatal Injuries, breaking two ribs. William VHus Stricken. William F. Vhas, former United States senator and member of Cleve land's cabinet Monday suffered a hem orrhage of the brain and his condition Is serious. . Accident on Wunshlp. By bursting of a steam pipe of the forward starboard boiler on the bat tleship Kearsarge, of the Atlantic fleet, five of the fire room crew were In. Jured seriously. Iluttlesliim nt Manilla. The battleships Maine and Alabama, .'(imposing the special service srii:il ron which Is going around the w i !i' In advance of the Anirrlrnn A tluj.ti fleet, arrived MonCuy ;-t l:;mi!lit CALI-iS Eon DOUGLAS. Bryan Want "$3 Shoo" Man to Man. aire Campaign. It now seems almost certain that the new chairman of the democratic na tional committee will be former Gov. William L. Douglasof Massachusetts. The fact that he Is being much sought after to take the place became known 'at Lincoln, Neb., Tuesday following the departure of George Fred Will iams, who conferred with Mr. Bryan after coming from Massachusetts. It waa ntft generally known that Mr. Williams had returned east from the Denver convention. It Is presumed that he conferred with Gov. Douglas about the matter at the request of Mr. Bryan while In the east. The appointment of Gov. Douglas as national chairman, it Is stated, would meet the requirements which It la deslretj the national chairman shall posses. He is a man of large means and political experience; Is pop ular with, the labor class, and his atti tude on the tariff question completely meets the democratic Idea. When asked for a confirmation of the report Mr. Bryan said he could not discuss the matter until after the meeting of the subcommittee of the national committee In Chicago Satur day next A dispatch from Boston says: There was a report current in political cir cles Tuesday night that the chairman ship of the democratic national com mittee had been offered to . former Gov. William L. Douglas: Despite the persistency of the rumor thoso closest to Mr. Douglas profess ignorance of the matter. Those who gave credence to the story generally expressed doubt that the suggested chairman wThjld accept such a proffer. Their opinion was basetd upon Mr. Douglas' well un derstood disinclination to again enter actively into politics. Mr. Douglas, who is spending the summer at his summer home at 'Monument Beach, was cruising on his yacht Tuesday and was not expected home until Wednes day. I ELECTRIC CARS IX COLLISION Disastrous Smn-sliup on tho Auroru Chicago Line. Nearly forty persons were injured Tuesday, some of them probobly fat ally, and eleven so severely they were taken tc hospitals, in a head-on col lision between two Aurora, Elgin and Chicago cars at the Lovedale station, four miles north of Aurora, III. The disaster occurred when the coaches were running at a. speed esti mated at forty miles an hour, and the crash when' they came together was terrific. Two cars were telescoped more than half their length, and the wood In them was smashed to splin ters, iron twisted and gnarled out of all semblance to its original shupe, and seats thrown yards away. The passengers, among whom were nearly fifty women, were thrown through the windows and tossed to the sidetracks several feet away. Just after the wreck occurred the cars caught fire from a trolley wire and began to smolder, but the unin jured passengers put out tho blaze with water from a neardy rivulet and dragged the wounded to places of safety. ' ' . FAST TIME IX RELAY HACE. Runners Reach Chicago City Hull. TucHduy Morning. The Y. M. C. A. messengers larlni? a message from 'Mayor McCiellan. of NewYork, to Mayor Busse, of Chica go, reached the city hall at 9:30 Tues day. The ittessage was started from New York at 10 o'clock. last. Wednesday morning and the thousand miles were covered by relay boys, ranging In age from 12 to 21 years, in 11 hours and 22 minutes. . Crowds of spectators watched with keen interest the clean cut youths, with gleaming limbs and eyes, as they raced through the city streets and boulevards from the time they reached the city limits until the last man reached the mayors off.ee. - Killed in Auto Wreck. Dr. E. B. McOruw, a well known physician, was instantly killed and An drew S. McSwigan, manager of the Duquesne Garden aid Traction com pany's parks, was severely shocked and slightly injured early Tuesday at Pitts burg, Pa., when an auto'in which they were riding (lushed over un embank ment, turning turtle. New York I'inn JVIls. The suspension of Cameron, Currlo & Co., of New York and Detroit, was announced on the New York stock ex change Tuesday. The firm went Into the hands of a receiver In Detroit last week. Its liabilities at that time were given at a little more than $1,000,000. Itensttotoer to Hospital. John A. Van Rensselaer, arrested Monday on the charge of threatnlng his mother, Mrs. JohruKIng Van Rous elaer, with bodily harm, unless she gave him $5,000, Tueslay was commit ted by Magistrate Corrigan to the T3ellevue hospital for observation. Illoo&dMMl in Alabama. X clash between deputies and negro ninera in the Blue creek region, twen ty mile south of Birmingham, Ala., Tuesday resulted In a nfcqo being hot and killed and two deputies seri ously wounded. '' PoiwMi In City Wuter, Mankuto Is suffering from a typhoid epidemic. There Is said to b In the neighborhood of 1,500 rases In the city. Physicians have found the city water badly contaminated. NEBRASKA STATE NEWS WOMAN SHOOTS FRED BANNER. Mrs. Fml Banner, of South CmaliM, .Trie to Kill HrotlHsr-ln-Iw. Fred Banner, Bon of Daniel Banner, 2314 O street. South Omaha, was shot prohabft' fatally ty Mrs Frank Ban ner, his stster-in-law, Monluy night, as he sat In a chair In front of Charles Finland's barber shop. l'he bullet struck him on the rljht side of the forehead and pa:'sod Across the forward lobe of the brain. Indict ing a serious wound. Frank and Fred Banner were seated together at the m6ment, and Mrs. Frank Banner came across the street from the eajt to where they were sitting. ' ITrank got up to speak to his Wife and after a word or two sho stopped In front of Fred Banner and as he was rixlng from his seat fired, ' Sho then walked rapidly across the street and disap peared toward the oast. The causes which led up to the crime make a very complex case. , Mrs. FrankBanner was a divorced woman and her first husband was Fred King. She had a daughter, Marjory Klng.and It Is reported she had recotved attentions front Fred Banner, which the mother, at least, considered wrong. Also, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Banner have not beon on the best terms. ""'They parted last Thurs day for a day or two. Sunday they were united again and had been re ceived at the home of the father, Daniel Banner, nnd seemed to have forgotten their difficulty. LIXCOLX MEN AT THE BEX. Hen From Cnplfn! City Taken Out m Wuter Wujfou. Lincoln enm down to Omaha Mon day night in force by special train to acknowledge allegiance to King Ak-Sar-Ben and right loyal subjects Vlld the people of Lincoln become. Near ly 200 of them were met at the Bur lington depot with bands and banners. Special cars were in waiting for the pilgrims to the Shrine of Qulvera, not the least conspicuous of which was the street railway's big water wagon,- ap propriately decorated with flags and bunting and the colors of Samson. Sir William Kennedy with his staff, consisting of Allen Field, II . C. Peato, vice-president of the Lincoln Typo graphical union; K.iP. Lyman of the came organization ind R. B. Mlnot with half a dozen others were hoisted to. the top of the ' water wagon by means of ladders .and the remainder of the Lincoln bunch; filled tho otlker four special cars, which were appro prlately decorated with banners In dicating from whnncn Ihev cam nnrl of Omaha's welcome, and all were whlskod away to the den, arriving there at 7:45, where a luncheon was awaiting them. It was a Jolly crowd and the Lincoln folk began to realize that they were distinctly It and aoon settled themselves down to the full en loyment of the evening. STATE'S WEALTH IX LANDS. Nebraska's Ileal Extatc Vuluatlou Is Quarter Billion Larger. With eight counties missing the In urease in the assement of lands in Ne braska for 1908 over 1907, as reported to the state board by the county as sessors. Is $60,010,299. The actual In c lease In land values Is five times thl:. amount, or S250.0S1.495. The eountli missing at Custer, Gage, oVant, Hooker, Nance, Scott's Bluff omd Val ley. When the reports front thoso are In the total Increase In land value? will probably reach more than $54. 000,000, as estimated several days age The assessment of lands In the coun ties mentioned Is $185,818,245, com pared with an assessment In the same cou'ntlos of $186,807,946 In 1907. Only one county In the state thuv far has shown a decreaso In larwj valueB. Thomas county came in short The assessment of lands in this countj. 'ast year was .$46,615 and this yeai $48,472. KEBflLDINO AFTEIt THE FIXHIP. ISrldtro Gangs Find Mueh to Io i Saunders County. Several bridge gangs havo been at work reconstructing the largo num ber, of bridges swept away by th flood of two weeks ago throughout i-'aunders county. The largest forcr of men Is att work near Ashlano. where the loss was unusually heavy Two bridges on Salt creek, a few mile west of the city, were found strande." In fields below the place of their erection. These have beon replace'1 on the piling and will soon be In ser viceable condition. It Is reported that over fifty-one bridges of consider able size were taken out in Saunder county alone by the recent flood. GtiunlHinen Going Into Ojiid, The first group of the Nebrunkr National guard wont Into Ciunp Tui-! day at the guards' new rllle ran', two miles north of Ashland on th Platte river. HhlM-d Many Hop. Up to date for the month of JuV the .village of Wlsner has shipped or to the South Omaha market one cn load of hogs each day and in th'j time fifteen carloads of cattle.' Bryan Tnlks to MneliliM-. W. J., Bryan spent part of the !: Tuesday in making three-mliiui. speeches Into a phonograph on trr leadlng I hoik's of the day. i Crop In Fine Condition. Albion reports the wheat hiirve;" about over, and the yield as well the quality is good. Corn Is lookln'1 well and growing fust. Oats ar somewhat light, but the crop Is fai from being a failure. WoodiiMii to Have l4rt:roi:iii. The Modern Woodmen ore i ; j ln? for their district log rolMitg to i held In Winner August 11. - .h,r 8.000 Woodmen are expected and I' promlaev to be a gient fraternal gaih eilug IMIRESTWG HAPPEKH6S From Day to Da? Conimsd ' FOR OUR BUSY READERS VALVE OF WIRE LINKS. Wlsirt I'v Supreme Court Will IX) In dicated by Hreent Dec.iMoa, What tho supreme court will do to the miri-as If any rnto cn.'o come be fore It, vss Indicated In a decision In a c..vo fHMii Doilge eoun'.v, whera the Western Union ob.io-"ti1 to the taxing of ll-i line at a unlforoi rate of- $64 f oc wiro tulle. It contended that th.6 board hud given the ml'eago In Dodge county tho same value as every other wlro mile in the county. The court sys thl la proper. It says that those wires carry messages sent from one state to another throurn th state, and this service enters into the value of it in Dodge county. It saya that the Income of tho messages received In Dodge county is not a proper meas ure of tho value of the- wlro. boeausc they crry interstate messages also. It holds, too, that the net earnings of a corporation for one year is not conclu sive) of Its value. Applied to railroads this la In oppo sition to the theory of the corfKiratlon attorneys that only Interstate business shall be considered In determining the earning power of the companies. RANGE CATTLE COME EARLY. Two Weeks Ahead of. Time and In E . eellcnt Condition. Uan;e cattlo are pouring Into South Omaha two. weeks ahead of ths usual time, in fact, before all tho range rat tle from tho Panhandle of Texas has arrived on the ranges. During the last week the Burlington has handled sev eral carloads from Sheridan Bud either Wyoming points and from the Black Hills country. The Northwestern also reports a heavy' movement In sight from the Black Hills. Commission men expect tho movement of range cattle to continue uninterrupted'y un til the supply Is exhausted. Th cat tle from the ranges are In excellent condition because of tho splendid con dition of the grass on the ranges. Be cause of this excellent condition tho stock is bringing a good price nnd shlnpora are hurrying it along before there Is a break In tho market. Rail road, officials expect this heavy cattle business to keep up until time for grain to start to move. SHCMWAV MUST HANG. Convicted of Killing Mrs. Sarah Mar. tin. Moad Shumway, who killed Mrs. Surah Martin, wife of his employer, In Gage county, must hang on Oct. 30 next. This was the decision of the su preme eourt in his case. The murder was a most revolting one. Tailing advantage of the pres once of Martin in town to vote at the primary last September, Shumway, the hired man, killed the woman and stole ally of the savings of the couple he could find. He ran away, but waa cap. tured In Missouri. He took the wom an's body, after the crime, and rolling U up In as compact a raass a possible,' pui it aown Denina a bed. H-ls story as that on returning from the fields he foihid the woman murdered, and fearing he would be accused, ran away. The court says the evidence of his ?ullt Is most convincing. V SCHMIDT HELD FOR DEATH. le .Is .Accused .of . Kicking ' . Lnr C. Jensen. . A charge of manslaughter has been filed by County Attorney English igninst Gus Schmidts, who- waa held eAponslble by a coroner's Jury for he death of Lars C. Jensen. The cor iner's Jury- found Jensen came to hla leath by moans of a kick administered y Schmidts during an altercation be tween the two men July 6. Schmidts, vh was -a tenant of Jensen's, was 'rlnklngbeer in the front yard when rensan protested. In the altercation that fnlowed Schmidt, it Is charged, kicked Jensen In the groin. Jensen was nkV-n to St. Joseph's hospital, where io dim! July 14. Both men lived near Tlfty-thlrd and Center streets, Omaha ha. BAR IOWA LAWYEIW. Uofime II:ivkeye Barristers to Oin iluct General Prntioo. In affirmation of its statutes, the Nebraska supreme court has ruled iimlnst the petition of Leonard B. Rob- n!?hn. of Sioux City, who asked that ha 'o allowed to pratleo law generally n tho courts of Nebraska. While the 'nclaion of the Nebraska court makes '.he conditions of Iowa attorneys in the 'iebraska courts no worse, It does not -otter that condition one 'lota, and merely holds that its own statutes for- dddlng the general practice of outside tt'-vrmy hi Nebraska are good and r.chaiigealHo. E. J. ClirlMy Only Stunned. 13. J. Christy" , who It was thought .as burned to death n the destruction r the mill of 4he Fonda Bros., at G- a. was found by some friend at rand Is'and. Whlhj using a torch In he. lower part of mill, tho explosion ia sturU; I the fire stunned hUn. (a d te.H not remember, but now thinks e ciiiwltsl out of a window and wan- '. eil in a half demented condition to .land la nnd. l;:oomlield Man Kill)!. r:ie-?n Juaobl, until recently town i fitsball of uioomfleld, was struck by :;httilr.g and liutantly killed. Mr. -ucobl waJ In the barn feeding hla' lurses when the bolt struck him. 0 Indian a Suicide. wun me declaration that "Crow ro sinking bad songs and I am (oln? o Mil them.',' William Cox, an Omaha1 rdiun, borrowed a shotgun and going 'nto the woods placvd the butt of the run agulust tree and killed hlmav-f' iiHlantly. Yoiiuk Maw Attempts Hokrkle, In tit or de-sponduncy Frank Frit auer, a young Bohemian farmer lf Of about reven miles a4 of Pawn, ttempted to kill himself with a 'J. inline ilHe. I BIG STANDARD OIL FIIIE IS KNOCKED OUT Court of Appeals Sets Aside Enor mous Penalty Imposed on Gigantic Corporation. FAMOUS CASE TO BE RETRIED, Three Jurists Unanimous in Opinion That Original Judgments Is Eaxed on False Premises. John D. Hoi'lieroUer's luck abides. Tlio United States Circuit Court of Appeals nt Chicago, in n unaiilinoun derision, completely reversed Judge Kenesnw M. Landta' decision In tho Standard Oil case, wiped out the famous $'9,24O,0tX) fine, nnd remanded tho case to the low er court for n retrial. The opinion wus written by Judge refer S. Grosscup and Is fully concurred In by Judges Seaman ami Baker. Hut the reversal was more than a temporary setback to the government, Inasmuch as the upper court cut the ground out from tinder the Federal prosecutors In several extremely Import nut features. The government reversal wna based on the following points : That JiuIro Laudis was wrong in as suming that It was the busiutss of tho Standard Oil Company of Indiana to make sum that the rates tendered it by the Alton rallrond wore the lawfully pub lished rates. This, It was held, threw an unfair burden upon the shipper, who ever he might he, and tended to cheek rather than promote industry. That Jud- I.nmlis was wrong in his view tliat the number of offenses involv ed wus tho number of car loads of prop- r JUIXIE K. M. IANDIS. erty transported, regardless of whether each car load constituted the whole oi a part only of a single transaction re sulting In a shipment. . That Judge Landis was wrong In bas ing his line $20,240,000 upon the wealth of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersoy-rwhleh the upper court held was not a dufoudant Instead of upon the capital stock of 11,000,000 of, the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, the legal defendant. History oft the Great Case. Ia the summer of 1000 ludictnieutt, ugulnst the Standard Oil, .Company u( Indiana were returned la tho Federal court at Chicago charging tho corporu tlou w'lth obtululng concessions front railroads lu shipments of oil from Whit ing, Iud., whero Its plant is situated. At the trial of the case Involving thu Chicago and Alton, which began lu March, 1007, many eouuts of tho Indict ment woro tjuushed, leaving 1,40 counts on which judgment wus nsked. Tho hearing continued six weeks and many wltuesses were examined. Jury returned a verdict finding the .. fond :mt coinpnny guilty nnd lenvlnn the sentence to bo fixed by Judge Lun dls. Iu determining the u mount of the flue the Judge caused Johu I). Rocke feller of the Standard Oil Company ol New Jersey to testify as to tho rei ownership of tho Itidhiuu company, thl furnishing ono of the most sensational incidents In the enso. Following ull thq testimony Judge Laudis imposed tin mnxlmuin fine of $20,000 on each of l,hl 1.-1G2 counts of the Indictment, making the total of $20,240,000 the largest linn known to the history of the courts. One of th points argued In the ap peal was that the fine wns excessive nnd would wipe out the assets of the Indi ana Oil Company. In an effort to In crease the amount of tho appeal bond counsel for the government Introduced testimony on the earnings of the com pany taken from an exninlnatlon of its books In a New York eourt. NUBBINS OF FARM NEWS. War Is being made on the large mall order houses by small retail dealers throughout the country. It is always harvest time and wheat is being cut every day In the year - in some country of the world. The big milk companies of Chicago re cently reduced retail prices from 0 to 7 cents per quart, and In surrounding towns from 7 to 6 cents. Shareholders in the Co-Operatht Creamery of Motley, Minn., own 800 cows and take the milk of f00 other cows in their community. Klgiu, III., flies the price for cow but ter, not only for the United States, but for nearly ull the world beside, but re cently three resliiurnnt keepers In Unit own were ( liarged wilh m-lling bogus but ter. BISU0P HENRY C. POTTER DEAD, Episcopal Prelate of .va York Sue curabs to Lingorl- Illness. Henry Codnnui Poller, seventh ProN estaut Kplseonnl l ls'iop cf the dloees , of New York, died TiK't" lay night at ' his summer home CVj,i;ierstovn, after un Illness of sey eral weeks. Bishop Bottc was born lu Sche nectady, N. May 2."., l.S.",4. Ills father was Alon ' to Potter, bishop, of Pennsylvania, and h'. grnndfa- I t h e r wus Dr. ' Kuotl. liiesld.-nt of msuor porrtn. t'ulou College, mul his undo, Horatio Potter, was bishop of Xew York. In 1W7 he Wiis graduated from the The-, leglt'i: r'cmlnary of Virginia, nnd S: j ear later .w;is ordained in Trlnlts; " Church, Pittsburg. ' , The young rex-tor's first charge was In Greensburg. Vn., where he served yenr. Then lie went to -Troy, N, where hewns for seven years at th heiul of St. John's Church. In 18GtJ he been me usslgtnnt rector of Trinity Church, Boston, nnd two years latet. was elected rector of Grace Churchy'., -New York City. In 1SS7 Bishop Horatio Potter died and his nephew succeeded him ns blsb ' op of New York. - . Bishop Potter was twice married. Ills first wtfe'wn8 Kliwi It. Jncob, of Philadelphia. Five children were born . of the nmrringe.. In June, 1001, Mrs. Potter tiled ami a year later the bishop ' married Mrs. Alfred Coming Clark, a Widow possessed of a fortune estimated at ?1.1,0o0,(Ki0. ; NEW POLITICAL PARTY. Western Farmers Are Taking Stepv to Organize One. The organization of a new political party throughout tho south and west is predicted by bouio of the active leacjr era of the Farmers' Educational and Co-operative Union, which - boast 700,000 members in the United State. at tho present tinier and 200,000 Oklahoma alone. It la expected" to 10 terest the labor uulous In the pro posed new party. '' The initiative steps in the organis ing of the new party are now being taken. Consideration and discussion by the brainiest leaders in' this mors went are being had at the gathering! of farmer uniou members and thelff friends at picnics throughout Oklabo mil, in particular. , Politics In all its phases is beiug discussed, specially; ' the Issues of the two old political pap ties being outlined and criticised. The old-time Gruugers and Ponullsti are among the leaders in all thestf farmer movements, so far as the west Is concerned, and 'many of 'the mosj prominent ropullst lenders of 10 or 12 years ngo may now be found organ lzlng nud advocating the union of ths) farmers. ' TEXAS RANCH PASSING. Great Tracts Bapidry Being Cut Int Small Farms. , ' The land of west Texas is rapidly being cut into small farms, and a few yeari ' will sec UKe end of the big ranch in toil section. Two years ego one could travel for mile after miie in Lubbock, Hockley, . and Cochran counties, without meeting a person or seeing a habitation. Thoea old frontier scenes are passing Away wltlj astonishing rapidity. : At times one still reads of a tract of 13,000 to 50,000 acres being sold, lock,, stock and barrel, ns the saying goes, with; - no more flourish than a rancher would sell a Hereford steer. But these big big i deals are growing less and less, and tb cud of the 50,0(Xacre tract is near band, , The Heredity of Hair. Gertrude and' Charles Davenport,' con nected with the Carnegie Institution's station at Cold Spring Harbor, N. writiug in the American Naturalist of tha I results of their observations on the "Ho redity of Hair Form in Man," say it hi now possible to predict from the hair ol parents the form of their children's halr( whether struight, wavy, curly or frizzy. They find that tlio following rules are al most invariable: "Two wavy-haired pa ents may huve straight, wavy or curly haired children, but the chances of curlj hair are sli(hu Two curly-haired parents may have children with either straight, wavy or curly hair, and the proportion of curly-haired offepriug will probably be large." Service Before Dividends. s In commenting on the recent court de cisions in New York City, canceling street raffway leakps, which proved unprofitable aud allowing new plan of operation with out regard to the payment of forpier rata of dividends, the Wall Street Summary, KUyS; 11 lllUHl VC UUUCITIIUUU IUM U H U U- chise to a public service corpora t'uAi ia given under conditions which make aa adequate service to the public obllga v tory. The costs of providing this ade quate some? com before amuenus oc any return on the capital Invested ; and corporation which, from poverty, owiirg to mismanagement or any other reason. Is unable to fulfill Its obligations to ths , public, Is unworthy to have a franchise."' SPARKS FROM THE WXB.E3. Ilotb the Senate and the deputies ol Franc have passed the electoral reform law, ulie object of which Is to provide complete secrecy of voting As tho lorge force of Mexican regulars becan to surround the northern territory in which a revolt against the government was i'i progress, the ( so-called army ol tfit irbels divided into small bands and ewcaiwd through tSie lines of the regulars, ' liut it wus eipected that the v raiders would b toon round td up.