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VOLUME 7, NUMB3DR' 21
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Attorney General Cromwell of Ok
lahoma has filed complaints at
Washington with the Interstate com
merce commission charging unjust
rates on coal. The complaints are
against the principal railroads.
A Chinese theatre was burned at
Horig Kong and Ave hundred peo
ple lost their lives.
' An Associated Press dispatch from
Guthrie, Olcla., says: "The Okla
homa supromo court this afternoon
dissolved the injunction issued by
District Judge Pancoast restraining
tho constitutional convention from
submitting to a vote of tho people
tho constitution drawn for tho pro
posed now 3tato of Oklahoma. The
convention doubtless will now bo
called together immediately and a
now date for the election set."
The Yale crow wdn in the race
with Harvard Juno 27.
. The monument to the late Thomas
i Bayard was unveiled at Wilming
ton, Delaware.
Colo., who Is connected with a St.
Louis company; John A. Porter, for
merly president of tho Porter Fuel
company, whoso coal lands are now
the property of tho Southern Pacific
Coal company, conspiracy in coal
lands In La Platta county; Edgar M.
Biggs, president, and John J. Mc
Ginnity and Charles D. McPheo, di
rectors of tho New Mexican Lumber
company, fraud in timber lands in
La Platta and Archuleta counties,
Colo.; Alexander Sullenberger, pres
ident of tho Pagosa Lumber com
pany, and Charles H. Freeman of
Pagosa, fraud in timber lands in
Archuleta county, Colo. All were
arraigned before United States Com
missioner Sanford C. Hinsdale and
hold in $15,000 bonds with the excep
tion of McMillan, whose bond was
placed at $2,500. The bonds wore
furnished in each case. Of the seventy-three
persons indicted by tho
grand jury fifty-five individuals are
charged with conspiracy to defraud
the United States under the coal and
timber laws. The persons come from
six different states. So far no war
rants have been issued for those re
siding in states outside of Colorado."
illegal freight rate tendered to It
by the Chicago & Alton road and
after a long trial was found guilty on
1,462 counts of the indictment A
maximum fine of $20,000 is allowed
on each count, making a total pos
sible fine of $29,240,000, Before
passing sentence Judge Landis an
nounced that it was his custom to
proportion the fin according to the
financial condition of the defendant
and asked for specific information re
garding the financial condition of the
Standard Oil company. This infor
mation he has been unable to obtain
and the subpoenas were the conse
quence. It was said in the office of
District Attorney Sims that the sub
poenas will bo sent east today for
service."
A Washington dispatch says Her
bert Knox Smith, commissioner of
corporations, is arranging for an in
vestigation of the telegraph companies.
Francis Murphy, the noted tem
perance lecturer, died at his home in
Los Angeles, Cal.
STANDS FAT
Did you ever notice that nobody
ever -drew a picture pf Uncle Joe
Cannon wfren his cigar had been
nearly all smoked? New Tork Mail.
SURE PROOF
"Is Flapdudle truthful?"
"Well, he confesses, that he cover
ed his head the other night and
didn't dare get out of bed when he
thpught he heard a burglar in the
house." Detroit News.
ANSWER TO A CORRESPONDENT
No, Henry Watterson's dark horse
for the democratic presidential nom
ination is not Booker T. Washing
ton. Chicago Journal.
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LEARN TELEGRAPHY
HO POSITION, NO FAY-
" Tho Columbia, Mo., Independent
says: "Tho " so-called Pemberton
five-milo bill passed the state senate
by a vote of 18 to 14 after one qf
the bitterest fights ever waged
against a measure. It had previous
ly passed tho house of representa
tives by a vote of 104 to 19. This
Jlepresontatlvo Morton II. Pember-I
ton, of Boone county, in the early
part of April. It is one of the short
est measures passed during this ses
sion. It reads as follows: 'No
dramshop, license shall hereafter be
granted to any person to keep a
dramshop within five miles of any
state educational institution which
now has enrolled fifteen hundred or
more students.' "
An Associated Press dispatch un
der date of Chicago, 111., June 27,
follqws: "Subpoenas were today is
sued in the United States district
court for the leading officers of the
Standard Oil company of New Jersey
and of the Standard Oil company of
Indiana. The officials of the parent
concern summoned to testify are
Ten prominent citizens in Colo
rado have been ar.rested on charges
of conspiracy to defraud tho govern
ment under the coal and timber
laws. The Associated Press renort
says: "Those who were placed un
der arrest are: John B. McMillan,
conspiracy in regard to coal in Routjt
county, Colp,, in connection with
what is known as the Wisconsin Coal
company; Robert Forrester, chief
geologist of tho Denver & Rio
Grande railroad, conspiracy In con
nection with coal lands in La Platta
county, and alsrj with fraud in con
nection with Calumet Fuel company,
a subsidiary company to the Rio
Grande railroad Ottls B. Spencer,
formerly clerk of tho district court,
conspiracy In connection with the
Calumet Fuel company; F. W. Kel
tel, a coal operator in Routt county,
John D. Rockefeller, president; Wil
liam Rockefeller, John D. Archbold
and Henry H. Rogers, vice presidents,
W. H. Tllford, treasurer; C. M.
Pratt, secretary; William P. Howe.
assistant treasurer, and Charles T,
white, assistant secretary. Officers
of the Indiana company subpoenaed
are J. A. Moffet, president; W. P.
Cowan, vice president; G. W. Stahl,
secretary and treasurer. ' H. E. Fel-
ton, president of the Union Tank
Lltfe, and F. A. Wann, former gen
eral freight agent of the Chicago &
Alton, railroad, have also been served
with subpoenas. The Issuance of the
subpoenas was the direct result of
tho refusal of the attorneys of
the Standard Oil company yes
terday to inform the court of
the financial condition of the
Indiana company. Judge Landis re
plied that he was entitled to that
information in connection with the
imposing of fines and intended to
have it. He thereupon directed the
district attorney to prepare subpoe
nas for such officials of the Indiana
company, or for any officers of the
controlling corporation who might
have the information desired. The
Standard Oil company of Indiana
was indicted on the charge of using
THE PRIMARY PLEDGE
I promise to attend all the primaries of my party to be held between
now and the next Democatic National Convention, unless unavoidably
prevented, and to ue my influence to "secure a clear, honest and straight
forward declaration of the i arty's position en every question upon which
the voters of the parly desire to speak.
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WHO LAID THE EGG?
The latest accusation of theft
against Roosevelt for making away
with the issues belonging to other
men is not that which Mr. Bryan
reiterated with good-humored inten
sity at the Press' club Saturday.
Strange to say, it is not any member
of Mr. Bryan's political companion
ship who has been complaining, tbut
the victim of the robbery was of all
men Charles Warren Fairbanks.
Fairbanks and buttermilk have for
several years been almost synony
mous words in certain parts of the
country, but it is so no longer. The
story is that when the president and
vice president took their cross-country
walk in Ohio while waiting for
train connections a week ago they
both drank buttermilk at a farmer's
house, and that the president ex
pressed himself so instantaneously,
so enthusiastically, so convincingly,
on the subject of buttermilk that
there was nothing left for -his tall
companion but to see himself re
duced to second place among the po
litical authorities on the subject.
As for Mr, Bryan's case, his story
of tho negro debating club and its
discussion over the motherhood of
the chick concerns a problem that
will interest historians in the future
probably even more than it does men
of today. The hen that laid the egg
and the hen that hatched it, the egg
in this case being, of course, the
present policies of the government,
will not perhaps be so readily iden
tified as Mr. Bryan thinks. The
hatching, it is true, can hardly be
denied to Roosevelt, but the laying
of the egg is a matter that may need
much investigation. If the demo
cratic party is to be called the hen
in the case, as Mr. Bryan believes,
the answer will be that a very large
part of the democratic following,
enough of it, indeed, to control at
times a national convention, will
fight shy of the honor. Moreover,
almost every man who has grown
enthusiastic over a popular idea and
has worked to spread it will .claim
that he has had a share in the func
tion, and that without regard to
party affiliations. Every man who,
has suffered and rebelled at any evil
condition which Is being suppressed
will claim some of the credit, and
the sufferers are not grouped by
parties.
The safest answer to the hen prob
lem will perhaps be that the only
real original hen that laid the egg
is the great mass of the American
people, that the clucking that is
heard now and then is apt to be de
ceptive and that the choice of the
best sitting hen, or incubator, as the
case may be, is a very important
practical matter not to be sheered at.
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