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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1907)
A CONSPIRACY CHARGED, Harry N Tucker of tho Undo Sam Oil Co indicted He asserts that it is tho Jealousy of a ' competitor that caused his arrest Harry II. Tucker, secretary und treasurer of the Undo Sam Oil Co., was arrosted at Kansas City, Mo., un der a warrant issued on an Indictment from the federal grand jury at Topeka i oa uiroe uuuuiu uuui giug uiui wim ua- , ing tho United States mails to defnud 'in the conduct of tho company's busi ness. Ho was taken before Judge Pollock and his bond llxcd at $15,000. "I expect to bavo 100 signatures on my bond," Mr. Tucker said. "I could u woll make it a thousand, but I am anxious to have tho bond fixed up as quickly as possible, perhaps in threo or four days." "I am not seriously alarmed over the charges upon which tho indictments against mo were returned," Mr. Tuck er said. "But I don't wunt it to hurt .the company. I am going on tho tho Icry that tho postoffico inspectors who 11 - i i i .i . hi. investigated tho company's affairs found some things they thought woro wrong; but I want to show tho people iwho have invested their money in the Uncle Sam company that things aro all right. So wo havo decided to call la meeting of tho stockholders within ten days. Vc want to bring them in to show them that their investments are all right. Then if they aro not sat .iefied I am willing to turn the affairs of tho company over to them and let. them manage things. "I have got every dollar of my own 'money in tho concern, but I shall notl consider my own personal interests I when it comes to protecting tho inter ests of those who havo put their mon ey into thc company." "How many of your stockholders can !be reached by such a call?" tho report er asked. Mr. Tucker smiled. He said the! company had 2.G00 stockholders in 1 Kansas and 1,400 in Missouri, 500 each in Iowa and Oklahoma and 700 each in ladiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. i At the homo office of the Uncle Samj Oil company in the Wyandotte build-, lua. the routine of business was an- patently undisturbed yesterday. "Wo intend to continue in tho oil business just as we would if nothing 1 am not absolute and 1 told this poll had transpired," ono of the office men tlc,an tlmt 1 would flSht to the last said. "Wo havo sent letters to all of d,tch to Protoct ths interests of thoso our agents and employes to this effect, stockholders who had invested their and our operations at all of our wells. fli0 o.i .iioiimtir cfntirmo wni. go on just tho same. You see, It is this way " Hero ho explained the Undo Sam company's method? of distributing oil in a number of Kansas towns. "We are becoming a strong compet itor of the Standard Oil company wo iare hurting tho Standard's sales," ho aid. "That's what is hurting tho thus rid this audacious and conBclence itandard. Within the last year tho less trust of tho most formidable od- oompany has sold only $92,000 worth of. oil." Referring to Mr. Tucker and his management of the company's affairs, one of the office men said: "Wo will stick to Mr. Tucker to tha ead, believing that ho is innocent of any attempt or design to defraud our stockholders. Ho has all of his own moaay invested in the company's busi- nesa and ho never appropraited a dol- lar of too stockholders' money to his own use." At Palm Beach alone in all America can women gamble "decently"; that is, not simply play bridge but roulette and such, in templeB dedicated particularly York, paid a very large sum of money to chance. One must dwell on such1 in advance Great was Mr. Heino dreadful sin hereabout, since how can mnnn's consternation to find that the we claim a Riviera without a Monte forthcoming material was in no way Carlo? The Florida legislature allows what was expected. There were no It, for a proper prlco, and in propor revelations and no recollections, no hypocritical fashion. Tho place is real memoirs at all, but simply "bogus called the Beach Club, run by two scrapboolt stuff," as Mr. Heincmann brothers well known to the Now York irreverently calls it. Ho therefore no tendorloln and several district attor-j tided tho great tragedienne that it neye. Election to membership is ex- would not do at all, and that he would tremely difficult. Tho qualifications oxpect tho real article, with prompt de ,we a dinner coat and an acquaintance livery and full weight. So madamo who has bucked tho wheel ln tho' refused to write anything more at all, "dub" at least once before. You enter' which was a very real tragedy for Mr. With him, sign your namo and his to Holnomann and full Justification for a slip of paper, and receive a yellow tho suit that he brought at once and "membership" ticket, "not transfer-, Kble," to be shown when requested, t bearing the autograph of the clork at I the desk. Tho man who has attained self-control over his own passions can bo tol erant toward those of others. MR. TUCKER'S STATEMENT. The Trust Jinlous of thi Uncle Sam In a typewritten statement prepared by Tucker ho declared his indictment to bo duo to tho jealousy of the Stand ard company. "As long," said Tuck er, "as the Undo Sam Oil company was selling stock und its reflnorios. pipe, lines, distributing stations and other appurtenances and paraphernalia for the conduct of the oil business wero in an embryo state tho emissar ics and employes of tho Standard Oil company in Kansas contented them selves with yelling fraud. They did not do anything moro serious because they wero not hurt. But tho very mln uto when tho Undo Sam Oil company got in tho market as an active com petitor of tho Standard Oil company. tho very minuto when tho Standard Oil company began to lose business in Kansas it began to get busy and this indictment is tho result. It is their answer to tho saving of nearly Ave million dollars yearly to tho people. It is tho way the Standard Oil com pany always answers. They never havo fought fair and they never will. "When it comes down to a question of my guilt or innocence tho books of tho Undo Sam will show for them selves. If I have ever got a dollar which was obtained dishonestly I am willing to go to Jail. I havo never ob tolned a dollar in my career in tho oil business that was not for tho purpose of building up tho greatest Independent oil company in tho West. I havo never received a dollar that was not appllod for that purpose. I havo been told tnan a thousand times that wner tnc Uncle Sam Oil company grew to just the extent it has tnat it would bo crushed. I have been told for two vears tnat tho Standard Oil company 1 A 111 1 1 was just playing with me and when ever I got big enough to hurt thorn. they would show mo a thing or two. "Last Saturday evening I was in formed by one of tho most prominent politicians in Kansas that I was cer tainly going to bo indicted by the Krand jurv which met at Topeka Mon day and that it was useless for mc to try to stop it, that everything was so flxed that it could not bo stopped was then told that if I would consent t tho appointment of a 'friendly' re ceiver that everything might be fixed u a11 r,cht- r am the of,cer of the 9'000 stockholder, of the Uncle Sam on company scattered through every 8lale ln tne umon: 1 am tne,r servant monGV at rar solicitation. Tnat is my position now. I havo committed no crime in the eyes of God or man. "This whole proposition is a scheme to rob tho stockholders of tho Undo Sam Oil company of their property. which has cost moro than $1,000,000. It Is a plot to have a receiver appointed and then sell the proporty to the Standard Oil company for a song and position it has ever had in tho West.' Sarah Bernhardt has locked horna with her publisher, and, as neither party will give way, there seems to be nothing for it but a lawsuit. Tho trouble arose in this way. The pub liflher, no less a ono than Mr. Heine mann himself, arranged with the divino Sarah for 200,000 words of memoirs, naturally supposing that tho intimato recollections of one who had been ln the confidence of kings would be tho liveliest kind of "copy." As an oar- nest of his good will he, and varlouB other publishers who shared in tho on- terprise, including Appleton's of New that Is now pending. Even Pegasus flies at the prick golden spurs. of Without the aid of a glass, an Aus tralian is said to have written 10,001 words on a postal card. Gardens for the Workers. "Tho great vnluo of my Httlo gar den to mo has not been tho lino vege tables it has yielded all summer and the good tlmo tho children havo had in tho open air, but tho glasses of beer and absinthe my husband hasn't tak en," observed the mother of a French orkiugman's rather numerous family to an investigator last autumn. "Quito right, mother," echoed a man near by; "you will never know tho ovil wo men don't do whllo wo aro busy in our littlo gardens." This conversation took place In Prance, on ono of tho workingmen's gardens, a movement for self-help which is growing each year. A simi lar movement was started in Detroit in 894 under tho namo of tho Tota Patch farms; later carried out successfully in New York and other cities in tho vn- cant lot Tarms, while today Philadel phia is beginning hor eighth year of successful effort. Mine. Hervleu, a charitable woman n Sedan, tired of aiding the poor by gifts of money, attempted to rouso them to self-help by an ofTcr of doub ling nny sum of money which they should deposit In tho local savings bank. She rented n small tract of land and said to tho poor pcoplo: "Now go to work." They did, and as they worked tho tasto for it grow; they kept steadily at it. especially as they knew that the fruits of their labor would belong to them, that tho vegetables they raised could bo taken to their homes or sold. Such was tho humble beginning in 1899 of a littlo movement, but ono so simple and practical that it grow un til last October, in Paris, there was held a congress of workingmen's gar dens, attended by 700 delegates, under the presidency of M. Aynard, of France. Century Magazine. The Hawk's Eyesight. A hawk can spy a lark upon a piece of earth almost exactly tho same color at twenty times tho distanco it is per ceptiblo to a man or dog. A kito soar ing out of human sight can still dls tlngulsh und pounce upon lizards and field mice on tho ground,, and tho dis tance at which vultures and eaglee ;an spy their prey is almost incredible. Re cent discoveries have inclined natural ists to the belief that birds of prey have not tho, acute sense of smell with which they wero once accredited. Their acute sight seems better to account for their actions, and they appear to be guided by sight alone, as they nover sniff nt anything, but dart straight at the object of their deslro. In Bed for Thirty Years. Tho world's laziest man is beliovod to bo an Irishman, named Thompson, living at Clare, near Lurgau. In 1877, when he was 11 years of ago, ho wont to bed, and there ho remained until a fortnight aeo. It was then that his mother, who hart attended him all tho years, fell ill, and was taken to tho infirmary. Left to himself, Thompson wag compelled to loave his bed and go to the workhouse. Tho only clothes he had were those whlrA he discarded nearly thirty years previously. Ho was so tired with tho exertion of dressing though two neighbors helped him, that he refused to walk. An ambulance was brought, and ho stayed in tho un ion until his mothcr'B recovery, when ho followed her home. This tlmo ho was compelled to walk, for the author ities only laughed at his laziness. Ho 1b now in bed again. Geologically not much is known of Greece of tho prime. The region whioh subsequently became known as Hollas had been believed to havo been thrown up by tho sea about the end of tho cre tacean epoch, or after it. Recently fluted mollusks that inhabited the Im mense oceans of tho trias period have been found in great numbors in tho Peloponnesua, giving evidence that tho soa still covered the country in tho first ages of tho mesozoic period. Some stones that struck a resident of tho dis trict as strango wero some tlmo slnco sent to M. Negiis, an eminent Greek geologist, and ho hastened to tho spot for further examination. Tho result has been to reveal tho existence of t.rl as rocks, with brachlopods and other petrified remains possessing all tho characteristics of tho Alpine trlas. Nevor judge a man by his looks. Many a man looks as If ho had been caught In the act of stealing corn from ti blind hog. 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