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SATURDAY
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MKMI1ER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOL II.
MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1907.
No. 67.
OPERATED IN TEXAS AS
CORSICANA COMPANY
i m
Standard Circumvented Texas Laws by
Doing Business Under Another
Name-Poor Memories.
New York, Sept. 20. That tho
Standard Oil Company la operating
under tho name of tho Corslcana Re
fining company In the state of Texas
which has forbidden the oil combine
to operate in tho state was indicated
when West Tllford, treasurer of the
Standard Oil company, under exam
ination in tho government's suit
against tho company testified that H.
C. Felger and C. M. Payne, whom
Kellogg, attorney for tho govern
ment states controls the affairs of tho
Corslcana company was really tho
Standard Oil company and was
operating in Texas because tho
anti-trust laws of that state do not
permit a combine to operate. Til
ford replied that so far as he knew
th Standard Oil company had no In
terests, In Texas. He said Felger
and I'auio are both officers of the
Standard company but he Is not
aware they owned the Corslcana
company. Kellogg spent a busy day
tracing the various charges In tho
development of the Standard Oil
from tho time of its inception in
1SS2, when tho tract was formed,
until the trust was disolvcd, In 1S99,
and tho Standard Oil company of
New Jersey was formed. Kellogg
developed many of his questions
from the trust agreement of 1SS2
which was contained in a bill of com
plaint filed In St. Louis last Decem
ber, when tho prosecution was com
menced. This trust agreement which
was entered into by John D. Rocke
feller and forty-five others of the
Oil interest provided that the Stand
ard Oil company should be formed In
Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey and in other states where
trustees deemd It advisable. All
OPENS AT C0QUILLE
THIS FORENOON
County Sunday Schools Convention
Will Continue Two Days. Rig
Attendance Expected.
The county Sunday School conven
tion for Coos county, will bo held in
Coqullle, commencing this morning
at ten o'clock a. m., and will con
tinue over Sunday, closing with a
rally Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Tho session of this morning, after
noon and ovening will be held in tho
Presbyterian church.
Tho following committees have
been appointed to make the local
arrangements and assist in the ar
rangements of the program:
Commute on music, M. O. Hooton,
Mrs. Fay Jones and W. C. Chase.
Committee on recitations, E. A.
Howey, J. J. Lamb and Mrs. Clayton
Goodman.
Commltte on entertainment of
delegates, Mrs. L. P. Maury, Mrs.
Eva Barrow and J. J. Lamb.
Committee on reception, Dr. Wet
more, H. L. Ford and J. Quick.
Hon. C. R. Barrow, of this city,
will make the address of weclome,
and the response will be by Rev.
Ff Lacy, of North Bend.
Rev. Charles A. Phipps, of Port
land, tho state field worker, will bo
present and deliver several address
es on important subjects relative to
successful Sunday school work.
The various committees selected
are already at work, and tho earn
estness with which they are work
ing Indicates an interesting and suc
cessful coventlon.
This convention is undenomina
tional and will be joined in by all of
the Sunday schools of tho county,
and all are urged to attend these
meetings.
Delegates to tho number of twen
ty-five from North Bend and Marah
fleld will go to the convention this
morning on tho regular train, and
will come back this evening, by
special arrangement with the rail
way. The delegates will not remain
for the Sunday program, as there ia
no way of reaching home. There aro
a number of Marshfleld and North
Bend people on tho program.
Roast Stuffed Chicken, today at
Davis & Davis'
properties and assets of the em
braced corporation were to be turned
over to tho several Standard Oil
companies which In turn issued their
own stock in exchange. Under tho
terms of this trust agreement, all
stock was to be delivered to nine I
t
trustees deemed it advisable. All
stockholders tmst certificates equal
at par value to the par value of the
several Standard Oil companies. The
trusees had absolute power in con
trol of companies they could pur
chase with trust funds, stocks and
bonds of other Oil companies on such
terms as they deemed advisable and
could dispose of them whenever they
I considered it necessary. The trust-
ee3 who were elected to hold office
threo years were balloted for. Tho
agreement further provided that tho
trust should continue during the llvts
of the survivors of the trustees
named In the agreement and 21
years thereafter. Tllford was ques
tioned at length on the trust between
1SS2 an 1S92 and tho period of tho
trust liquidation 'from 1S92 to 1S99.
Tllford, as secretary of the company,
could give the government counsel
little Information during the period
of the Standard Oil Trust though ho
was liquidating trustee. Kellogg
finally asked Tllford If during tho
period of liquidation there would
be any real change in tho manage
ment of the company and the wit
ness replied there was not. Though
Tllford, council for the the govern
ment adduced tho information that
John D. Rockefeller owned more
than a fourth interest in the Stand
ard Oil trust, out of a total of 9725
hundred trust certificates. In 1892,
Tllford said Rockefeller held 25G,
854 shares.
FRANCE FAVORS
THE GUILLOTINE
People Regin to Exert Pressure
Against Abolishing Capital
Punishment.
Paris, Sept. 20. A movement In
favor of the establishment of capital
punishment did not end with the
easy dispersal by tho police yester
day of several thousand persons who
thronged the boulevards as far as
the Palace Vendome, where they
tried to make a demonstration in
front of the ministry of justice.
President Fallieres action In com-
' muting the sentence of Sollleland,
the child murderer, has been tho not
unexpected means of proving that a
largo majority in the country still
favors tho guillotine. The president
explained that he was forced to take
the step, since his name was signed
to tho bill brought in last year
In tho chamber of deputies with tho
object of suppressing the death
penalty. Now tho country has been
informed that tho bill has not yet
been passed and determined efforts
'are being made to prevent Its pass
ing. t
Commenting on tho subject, ono
paper says this morning that since
the practical abolition of tho death
penalty in France, Paris must be
ranked alongside of Port Said and
Chicago as one of the trinity of the
foulest criminal cities in tho world.
CHICAGO TEACHER MURDERED
Crime. Rlnmed on Colored Cliorcnmn
of tho Neighborhood.
Chicago, Sept. 20. Mrs. Lillian
White Grant, a kindergarten teacher
In tho public pchools, was found dead
In bed today at her home, 5520 Mad
ison avenue. Her neck was broken
by a piece of linen cloth being twist
ed about her neck. Mrs. Grant's
emptied purse was found later In the
day In tho office of a physician 50
feet distant. Tho police suspect a
colored choreman of tho neighbor
hood. Mrs, Grant was intending to
move and had engaged two men to
carry her furniture. Ono of them
went to the roo myesterday morning,
and seeing tho body lying across the Th action of the union operators be
bed, went away. Today, ho went foro tho strike In deliberately Inter
again, and finding the body in the ferlng with the business of the corn
same position, notified the police, pany nnd In abusing tboee who (ailed
OXE KILLED AXI) THREE
SERIOUSLY 1XJURED
IX STREET COLLISIOX
O
San Francisco, Sept. 20. A
Kentucky street car tills nfter
noon crashed Into a Santa Fo
engine nt the corner of Twenty
fifth nnd Kentucky. One wo
innn, Mrs. McLaughlin, was
killed and three others were se
riously hurt, but all are expect
ed to recover. Mrs. McLaugh
lin was pinned between the loco
motive and the street car nncl it
was nearly half mi hour before
she was extricated. Motorinon
Antonc Aftlin-was placet! under
arrest. He stated the car was
on the down grade and he was
unable to control it with the
brakes.
ENGLAND FACES
RAILWAY STRIKE
Decision Will He Made Xext Month.
. Men Urged to
Quit.
London, Sept. 20. Tho railway
union has postponed a decision on
tho calling of a national strike until
October 28th. A ballot will be taken
on the recognition of the union, tho
eight-hour day for trainmen and ten
hours for other employes, and larger
pay for extra hours Is demanded.
The companies have refused to
discuss the demands with the union
representatives. Barnes and Hud-
son, members of Parliament, ad-
dressed the employes of tho great
railway centers of Manchester and
Derby tonight, and advised them to
get ready to strike.
'PULLMANS LAY
OFF MANY MEN
State
that Rusiness Depression
Caused Reduction in
Force.
Chicago, Sept. 20. Speculative
circles heard news today that no lon
ger left them in doubt as to the re
cession in business now under way.
It came to their notice that there is
a disposition on the part of large
manufacturers to reduce their work
ing forces, and the one in particular
which camo under observation of a
speculator was the Pullman com
pany. It was stated by ono In close touch
with the corporation's affairs that It
has reduced its working force 5000
men already and that further reduc
tion Is contemplated. It was stated
that 2500 men were laid off Satur
day. The effect of this was to depress
the general list and even Pullman
shares suffered. The Baltimore &
Ohio has cancelled big contracts for
equipment.
So far tho business recession has
not made any perceptible Impression
on the cost of either labor of ma
terial excepting In tho copper indus
try, where metal prices have fallen
and labor Is suffering loss through
the closing of mines.
Cnrrlo Xation In Work House.
Washington, Sept. 20. In tho po
lice court here today, Carrie Nation
refused to promise not to talk to
crowds on the street and was sent to
tho work house for 75 days in do
fault pf payment of a $25 fine.
-Buy your groceries at Sacchl's.
NO ARBITRATION
Managers of Both Companies Make
Final Announcements.
New York, Sept. 20. Regarding
tho recent talk of arbitration, Gener
al Superintendent Brooks of tho
Western Union Telegraph company,
said today bis company had had
nothing to arbrltrate. "Wo have all
tho men wo desire," Brooks Bald,
"and thero Is no need for us to secure
the services of men- who left the em
ploy of tho company. Furthermore,
we will never again tolerate condi
tions that existed beforo the strike.
SAX FRAXCISCO HAS
RIOTS OVER ORDIXAXCE
PHOHHJITIXG CROWDIXG
San Francisco, Sept. SO.
There were numerous minor
riots in the Southern and Mis
sion districts last night as the
result of an attempt by the po-
lice to enforce the ordinance de-
signed to prevent oiercrou cling
of street cars. AVhcn the police
tried to carry out their orders,
the passengers were not aware
of their purpose and those
perched on top of the cars re-
fused to vacate their positions.
Disturbances occurred at a
dozen places, but no one was se-
riously injured. It is the iuten-
tinn of the police to arrest all
violators of the law.
THOUSANDS OF
JAPS TO COME
Rig Inlluv Into Rritish Columbia In
the Immediate Future
Threatened.
Vancouver (B. C), Sept. 20.
Thirty eight thousand Japaifese have
been given permission by the Mika
do's government toy come Immedi
ately to British Columbia. They will
cross the Pacific just a3 rapidly as
steamers can be secured to bring
them. The news that Vancouver will
see an immigration hitherto unpre
cedented was received here today by
the steamer Woolwich, -which
brought 230 of th brown men. The
steamer Indiana is overdue now from
Honolulu with 300.
Best-informed circles declaro that
tho Dominion Government will do
nothing at all to precent the further
influx of Japanese, despite tho pro
tests of Vancouver. The demand lor
labor Is so great In tho Interior of
British Columbia and on the prairies
of tho Northwest that as many Jap
anese as wish to como will bo all
owed to do so. On the other hana,
official statements, come from Ottawa
that Premier Laurier and Delegate
Ishll will confer tomorrow and ar
range a nominal limit. Nobody in
Vancouver believes that even if this
limit is declared it will bo adhered
to.
There was no demonstration today
on tho arrival of the Japanese on tho
steamer Woolwich.
TELEPHONE COMPANY
IS FIGHTING TAXES
Pacific Corporation Resists the Legal
Action Taken By
Oregon.
Portland, Ore., Sept. 20. Suit
recently instituted by the State of
Oregon against the Pacific Telephone
company to compel the company to
pay a State tax of 2 per cent on Its
earning for the year 1906, Is re
sisted by the company In an answer
filed yesterday, the grounds being
that tho initiative and referendum
law, by means of which tho tax: law
was put into existence, Is unconstitu
tional. The company contends briefly that
under the Initiative and referendum
law, the electors of tho State aro en
abled to usurp the legislative func
tions of the State and National Gov
ernment In direct -violation of tho
Federal and State constitutions,
which provide that the Congress
and tho Legislature shall bo tho sole
legislative bodies.
to Join their organization, will never
occur again In the operating rooms
of tho Western union. Thero aro
175 operators who were employed In
this city by tho company prior to the
strike who will never again secure
work with this company. They wero
all trouble makers. Edward J.
Nally, Vice President and General
Manager of tho Postal sent tho fol
lowing telegram today to all superin
tendents, "Thero Is not the slightest
ground for tho report that wo aro to
arbrltrate with the strikers. Notify
all offices and assure nil that thero
will be no compromise and pay no
heed to reports to tho contrary."
34 KILLED IN MEXICAN
CENTRAL SMASH-UP
Disaster Due to Disregard of Train 0r-v
ders-Passenger and Freight Crash
With Frightful Results.
El Paso, Sept. 20. In a collision
between, a south bound passenger
and a north bound freight on the
Mexican Central today at Encarn
cion, a few miles from Aguas, Cal
lentes, 34 were killed and 19 In
jured, making the worst wreck on
that road for years. Telegraph lines
were broken by tho wieck and only
meager details are obtained.
Mexico City, Sept. 20. Authentic
BRUTAL ACT OF
SEATTLE POLICE
Hold Woman In Jail For Selling
Liquor, Leaving Children
Alone.
Seattle, Sept. 20. Mrs. Mary A.
Woodcock, a female druggist, was
arrested today for selling liquor to
a policeman without a physician's
prescription. For six hours she was
held In the city prison without bail
while her five children were alone In
rooms at tho rear of Mrs. Wood
cock's littlo drug store. Then Chief
of Police Wappensteln heard of the
circumstances and ordered the wo
man's release on ball.
The patrolman called upon Mrs.
Woodcock to sell him liquor on tho
plea that his wife was dangerously
111. She has been conducting a Pike
street drug store since her husband
was sent to an insane asylum a few
months ago.
Opening Up Oregon.
An important road, known as tho
Oregon Western, Is being built by
the Southern Pacific from Drain, on
Its main line, to Coos Bay, Oregon,
a distance of seventy-three miles.
Coos Bay has ono of tho finest har
bors on tho coast, probably tho finest
between Puget Sound and San Fran
cisco, and is tho natural outlet for a
large region Incalculably rich In lum
ber and coal, as well as in tho fer
tility of Its soil.
This country up to the present has
been almost neglected by tho trans
portation Interests. Experts have
estimated that thero aro two and a
half billion feet of rod fir and half a
billion feet of red and white cedar,
maple, and oak tributary to tho Elk
Creek and the Umpqua River, two
streams tho course of which aro to
be followed by tho road.
In tho whole of tho district which
will eventually bo drained to Coos
Hay, it is estimated that thero are
sixty billion feet of lumber and mill
ions of tonfc of coal, while tho cli
mate Is unsurpassed anywhere, and
tho soil will produco almost any
thing that grows. Tho Railroad
Man's Magazine
TROUBLE EXPECTED
BY PAPAL ROME
Romo, Sept. 20. Anxiety Is felt at
tho Vatican as to tho outcome to
morrow of demonstrations over tho
thirty-seventh anniversary of tho fall
of the temporal power of papacy and
tho capture of Romo by tho Italians.
This year tho event has taken a de
cided anti-clerical turn. In Vatican
circles it is felt a revival of anti
clerical feeling Is duo to tho direct
Influences of French enemies of pa
pacy working especially through Freo
Masonry and tho Anulng Startaga
tlm, similar to that In Franco. Popo
Pius today said: "I hope tho good
sense of tho Italian people will pre
vent them from falling Into such a
trap as that. They will remembor
wo aro all Italians."
Rcdhmds Has a Quake.
Redlands, Cal Sept. 20. A sharp
earthquake was folt at 5 o'clock.
Tho vibrations wero from north to
south. Duration of the loud rumblo
was two seconds, whllo that of the
shako wuaono second. Crockery rat
tled. No buildings wore cracked or
damage of any kind done though tho
shock was the heaviest In eight years.
Hot Chicken Pot Pio at Davis &
Davis.' Delicatessen.
reports say 32 were killed and 33
sustained injuries. There aro no
prominent persons among tho killed
or wounded. Tho disaster is said to
have been due to dlsragardlng train,
orders.
El Paso, Sept. 20. It is lmpossiblo
to obtain a list of the dead and in
jured. All were taken to Callentes.
The wrecked passenger train left El
Paso Tuesday. Tho railroad officials
here have heard nothing.
SCHOONER NARROWLY
ESCAPES WATERSPOUT
Cloud Appears on Path of Vessel,
Then Drops Into Ocean with
Hoar of a Cannon.
Astoria, Sept. 20. Captain Jor
gensen, master of tho schooner Aridy
Alahoney, ai riving today from San
1 ranclsco, reports that his vessel had
a narrow escape from destruction by
a waterspout on Wednesday morn
ing. About 8 o'clock, when the
schooner was between tho light ship
and Tillamook Head, tho waterspout
appeared In the distance under a
thick black cloud. Whllo small at
first, tho cloud gradually Increased
in sizo as It approached tho vessel".
All on board tho schooner were thor
oughly alarmed, as the craft was di
rectly in tho track of tho spout, but
when only a short distanco away the
spout suddenly broke nnd dropped
Into the sea, with ai report like tho
discharge of a hfcavy. cannon.
Captain Jorgenson says he has
seen many waterspouts during his
life at sea, but never beforo wit
nessed ono as largo and so dangerous
looking as this one.
Rreukuntcr Passengers.
List of passengers dopartlng on
tho Breakwater: W. II. Barry, W.
F. Mills, Rev. Ellis and wlfo, Miss
Nellie Ellis, Miss Grace Ellis, W. H.
Popo, M. C. Smith, Mrs. Blgno, Miss
May Wettor, Miss K. Miller, Miss
Besslo LeLong, M. . Waters, Paul
Walters, Monta Walters, Mrs. F. T.
Montgomery, Mr. Montgomery, .Too
Williams, F. L. Soskl, E. S. Sllteropr,
Miss Weathorby, Mrs. Bagsby, Miss
Beatha Hay, R. English, W. II. Vic
tory, Warron Bessey, J. W. Dyren
forth, M. Rltter, E.p. McArthur, J.
W. Berry, Mrs. Berry, Gilbert Berry,
Morris Berry, W. Luigren, Walter
Webber, H. N. Barton, Mrs. Brown,
Miss Wasson, . MInto and wlfo, Miss
Minto, C. D. Seeter and wlfo, R. L.
Edwards, E. B. Seabrook, Georgo
Slauagaw, Jr., Mrs. H. Wright, Miss
Maggie Bates, Mrs. William Jackson,
Miss Paulino Jackson, Mrs. Anna
Hcanco, Miss Heance, A. C. Kurtz
and wife, A. S. Cluto and wife, E.
Kilter, D. W. Giles, CI. Giles, Mis3
M. Wheeler, Mrs.' RoidPMIss Livings
ton, Y. E. Franklin, M II. Snyder, L.
R. Robortson, Miss Wssio Bodly, W.
P. Lynch, Jas. Wilson, B. L. Sham
bow, Capt. R. Masson, C,has. Mer
chant, R. Dungaw, C. Hess, F. C.
Bodley, J. G. Baker, L. Nichols, Tom
Potter, J. Peters. '
A Former Football Star.
C. A. Abbott, ' representing tho
American Radiator company, Is In
Coos county on business matters.
Mr. Abbott was for four years a star
football player on tho Wisconsin
University eleven. Ho Is lfcjicnd ot
Mr. L. A. LUJeqvlst and wBfc?lslt
with him beforo leaving tho cot)
Marquette, Mich,, Sept. 20. Four
teen mon wero killed outright a'nd
threo fatally injured today by tho
falling of a cage in a rolllrx? mlno
mill at Nogauneo. Tho cane wati
full of mon and ovory or- In It wnir
either killed or seriously Injured,
Tho steel cnblo broko und tho cago
dropped sovon hundred feet.
Asiatic Squadron Sails.
Penomlla, Sept. 20. Tho United
States cruiser squadron, from
Asiatic station, consisting of
Maryland, Pennsylvania, West
ginla and Colorado, sailed todr
San Francisco.
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