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LlfRARY or CONQKp;*
WE
WANT
YOUR
BANK
ACCOUNT
And promise you satisfac-
tory service and courteous
treatment without regard to
size of your account.
WOODS NATIONAL
San Antonio
®he Dnilji (Sxfttss.
Speed indicators
IN STOCK
F. W. Heitmann Co.
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
VOLUME XLII.--NO. 269.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 26, I907.--FOURTEEN PAGES.
ESTABLISHED 1865.
E. F. (1ADDIS, President.
A. 8. GAGE. Vice Pres.
J MUIH JR., 0. L. NAYLOR, Vice Pre,.
Cashier. M. FRETBORN, Asot. Cashier.
The Lockwood National Bank
202 Commerce Street SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS
Mexican Money Bought und Sold. Bafo Deposit Boxes for Rent to the Public.
E. B. Chandler
102 East Crockett Street
Money to Loan
Vendor's Lien
Notes liought
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
T. C. FROST,
President.
J. T. WOODHULL,
Vice President.
NED MclLHENNY,
Cashier.
Frost National Bank
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
CapsS!PaiS8 $600,000.00
txchange Drnwn on Principal Cities In Europe and Mexico. Mexican
Money Bought and 8old.
J. N. BROWN, President,
ERNEST STEVES, Vice President.
OTTO MEERSCIIEIliT, Cashier.
ERNEST X.. BROWN. Ass't Cashier.
Alamo National Bank
San Antonio, Texas.
Capital and Surplus $600,000.00
Best Steel Construction Fire and Burglar-Proof Vault.
American Bank and Trust Company
••The Bank On Alamo Plaza"
Invites the Accounts of Individuals, Firms, Corporations, Banks and Bankers.
OUR POLICY: COURTESY AND CONSERVATISM.
YOU are Invited to OPEN AN ACCOUNT with the
State Bank & Trust Co.
BEXAR HOTEL BUILDING
The longer you do business with us, the more you will
appreciate the treatment you receive.
C. F. & H. CUENTHER
U. S. Bonded and State Bonded Public Warehouses.
Merchandise Storage, Track Storage. Space and Warehouse Rooms For Rent.
R?tes On Application.
NEGOTIABLE WAREHOUSE RECEIPT6 ISSUED.
Located in Jobbers' District on 8. A. & A. P. R. R. Tracks.
612, 816 and 824 Buena Vitta Street. PHONES: New, 49 and 1528; old, 484-3r.
YALE DENTISTS
L. F. Robicheaux, D. D. S. J. B. Wagoner, D. D. S.
F. C. Slzelan, D. D. 3.
ISNTlSfS
You Are Given Our Personal Attention.
HICKS BLDO'
— son M4TONIO." We Guarantee Satisfaction.
FIRE ESCAPES
The Southern Structural Steel Company
PHONE ...... San Antonio, Texas.
SAVE SIX HOURS
TO ST. LOUIS
I. & G. N.
ROUND TRIPS ALL THE MONTH.
Both Phones 425. J. W. Daley, P. & T. A.
SUSPECT ORGANIZED THIEVES
Recent Cases of "Doped" Victims of
Robberies at Fort Worth As-
cribed to Such Cause.
Special Telegram to The Express.
FORT WORTH, Tex., Sept. 25.—That
an organized gang of thieves is operating
on truins running Into Fort Worth, drug-
ging and robbing men who appear pros-
perous and who cull be induced to drink
whiskey or other liquor which has been
' doped," so I hat the victim s speedily be-
come unconscious and remain so long
enough to allow the thieves ample op-
prtunlty to get away, is I he belief of
the Fort Worth police and Texas & Pa-
cific officials, who are now at work try-
ing tfllocate members of the gang.
Five "cases within two wim'.ss, preceded
by a period of several mouths, furnish
the evidence on which the polico are
working.
On- of the victims died from the poi-
son administered. The others have re-
covered after heroic medical treatment
and long period of stupor, and in everv
case so carefully have the thieves devie
their work that they have left the vic-
tim with papers of identification on his
person and a little money, so that It
might appear that he hud not beer,
robbed, hut had lost his money in some
other way.
Will Elect Officers Today.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Sept. 23.—Many
Interesting papers were read at today's
session of the Southern Medical Associa-
tion. Officers will be elected tomorrow.
MAY PROSECUTE FISH.
State's Attorney Healy of Chicago
Says He Will Take Action If
Harahan Charges Are True.
CHICAGO, 111., Sept. 25.—State's Attor-
ney Healy today declared that it was
possible that his office might take cog-
nizance of the charges against Stuyve-
sant Fish contained in the statement is-
sued yesterday by President Harahan of
the Illnois Central Railroad.
"From my present information." said
the State's Attorney, " 1 tan not toll that
an offense has been committed, or, if
commltttd, whether it was here or ill
New York. If. however, I obtain infor-
mation that shows that Mr. Harahan's
charges are true and that the allega-
tions occurred in this city, this office
will certainly take action."
P L E A SIN G°TOT AFT.
Nebraska First of States to Take Ac-
tion on Presidency.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 25.-A. A.
Voorhees, manager for Secretary Tift,
gave out the following statement at Taft
headquarters today:
"The endorsement of Secretary Taft by
the Nebraska Republican State conven-
tion is extremely gratifying. It is re-
sponsive to the overwhelming sentiment
prevailing not only in that State hut
everywhere. While Kansas has endorsed
Taft through Its Republican State com-
mittee. Nebraska Is the first State to en-
dorse him through a State convention,
and the Nebraska convention is the first
of any State outside of favorite son States
to take action on the Presidency.
ROOT'S TRIP
TO MEXICO
IS BEGUN
Secretary of Slate Leaves Wash*
inglon on His Much Heralded
Visit to President Diaz.
THAVELS IN PRIVATE
CAR ON REGULAR TRAIN
NIP CUBAN
REVOLUTION
IN THE BUD
Conspiracy Discovered and Gov«
ernor Ma goon Has a Number
of Suspects Shadowed.
NEW YORK IHONIED
MEN THE BACKERS
Arrives in St. Louis Tbis Morning and Cuban Rural Guards and American
Will Be in San Anlooio Saturday
Morning, Leaving in the
Evening for Laredo.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25—Secretary
Root left at 3:40 this afternoon to visit
President Diaz of Mexico. He traveled
in the private car Signet attached to a
regular Pennsylvania train. Accompany-
ing him were Mrs. Root, Miss Root and
Perclval Gassett, priva e secretary for
this occasion, and two servants.
The party will arrive at St. Louis to-
morrow night and proceed to San An-
tonio, Tex., arriving Saturday morning
and becoming the guests of the State
and city for one day.
Leaving San Antonio on the evening
of the 28th they will reach Laredo the
following day and I* taken in hand by
the Mexican committee of reception and
will arrive in the city of Mexico on the
evening of the 30th inst.
INVITATIONS FOR BANQUET.
Four Hundred and Twenty-five Sent
Out For Secretary Root's Recep-
tion at the International Club.
Four hundred and twenty-five invita-
tions were sent out by the International
Club yesterday to the members of the
organization, and a few non-members
outside of the city, to attend the banquet
which will be given to Secretary Root
Saturday evening.
Mayor Bryan Callaghan was the only
resident of the city, who Is a non-mem-
ber of the club, to bo Invited to the
banquet.
The place for the public reception to
the Secretary will be ciecided upon to
day.
For the banquet the roof gardens of
the club will he brilliantly illuminated
by 7000 incandescent lights and a num-
ber of Chinese lanterns, while the in-
terior of the building will be draped
with the American and Mexican colons
intertwined.
During the oauquet Mrs. Root and her
daughter will be entertained upon the
highest roof, at a supper at which there
will be about ten guests.
It was decided yesterday that the re-
ception to Mrs. Root and her daughte."
will be held in the C'aslno. as it was
thought that a large hall will be more
desirable than a private residence. Ar-
rangements for the reception arc now
being made by Mrs. A. W. Houston, Mrs
Theodore Harris and Mrs. Albert I..
Myer. They will send out invitations to
the ladies of San Antonio to meet Mrs.
Root and Miss Root, between the hours
of 4:30 and 6:30 o'clock In the afternoon.
The committee which is to meet Mr.
Root at Texarkana will leave tonight
and as soon as the Secretary arrives
there he will be informeu of the plans
which have been made to entertain him
and his party. The committee will then
communicate to the club any changes
which Mr. Root may wish to make in
the program.
Inasmuch as he may not be able to re-
main in the city as long as the club de-
sires, it may be necessary to hold the
banquet at an earlier hour than 7:30
o'clock in the evening, in winch case the
invited guests will be notified of the
change, through the press, if no other
means are found feasible.
The committees were hard at work all
day yesterday, planning the details of
the program that was published yester-
day.
Laredo to do the Honors,
Special Telegram to The Express.
LAREDO, Tex., Sept. 25.—At a special
meeting of the city council a committee,
was appointed to receive and extend the
hospitalities of Laredo to Secretary Root
on his visit to Mexico when lie passes
through here on the 28th of this month.
NO AFFINITIES "lN THE ISLANDS.
The Philippine Commission Decides
Against Divorce—Meets Protests.
MANILA, Sept. Ji—One cannot have
affinities in the Philippines. The pres-
ent insrlar commission recognizes no
such thins as absolute divorce. Contrary
to the attitude of a powerful Protestant
alliance in the "States," the Manila
Protestant clergymen threaten to appeal
to Washington.
An insular judge started the contro-
versy by asking the commission for in-
structions on u marriage annulment case
before him. Considering that most Fili-
pinos are Catholics, and as such, op-
posed to divorce, the commission replied
that it will not rccognize divorces at all
—only legal separations.
"The commission's ruling is against
justice and God's will," raid Rev. S. B.
Rossiter of the Manila Presbyterian
church. "S«i h a prohibition fosters the
very evil it is designe 1 to c ure."
"The line is drawn too closely," agrees
the Rev. A. C. Harper 3f Hie Methodist
Episcopal church o" Manila. "Prohibi-
tion is better than the home land s loos'?
divorce laws, but It will work hardships
and injustice ti Innocent persons. Un-
faithfulness must ever stand as a lust
cause for divorce. Wlun the divine fact
of ma riage has been annulled, the legal
acknowledgement of such conditions
should not be denied."
Governor General Fmlth. himself a
Catholic, approves the commission's al-
titude. "Absolute divorce is against the
best "Interests of the people. he as-
serts. "Matnage may b? a lottery, but
If you Craw a blank make ths best
of it."
Forces in tbe Island So Distrib-
uted Now as to Be Able to In-
stautly Crush Aoy Uprising.
HAVANA, Sept. 23.—A conspiracy to
start a revolutionary movement in Cuba
has been discovered.
Under instructions issued by Governor
Magoon, a number of suspicious persons
have been shadowed for several dnys.
It !s said that the movement is backed
by New York capitalists.
Governor Magoon has been aware for
several days past that certain Individuals
were conspiring against the Government,
but lie did not atach to the matter much
importance, owing to the fact that these
persons were under constant surveillance
and that the Cuban Rural Guards and
the American forces in the island had
been so assigned as to be able to crush
any such movement in a few hours' time.
A report was current here tonight that
a number of local merchants had met for
the purpose of Informing the world of the
actual situation in Cuba. Careful In-
vestigation proved this rumor to be ab-
solutely untrue.
it is a tact that certain parties here
have been conspiring for the purpose of
starting a revolution simultaneously in
the extreme eastern and the extreme
western provinces ot Cuba, an t members
ot tne secret police have been "hadowing
a number ot Cubans, prominent politic-
ally. 'l'nese individuals were not molested
lor several reasons, one being the lam
that they were seemingly weil supnllud
with money, which f y wore distributing
in the provinces where they were work-
ing tor tecruits to their movement, an.l
the Government was anxious to locato
the source of this money. This was a
complete mystery.
There is reason to believe that tills
conspiracy nas neon going on for several
weeks past. The recent miniature up-
risings near Santiago and cambuam were
due to too great enthusiasm on the p?rt
or some ot the partisans in the move-
ment, who tailed to await the signal
trom tns cruets m Havana.
It is declared that Masso Parra, a na-
tive born Cuban, has been the leader of
the activity. Parra is known to have led
several Latin-American revolutionists in
the past. He tried to < r.ter Cuba after
being expelled two years ago. but the
Palma Adminislratlon feared his purpose
in returning was to organize a revolution
and would not permit liini to land. Parra
landed in Cuba several weeks ago and no
objection to his coming was made.
It is persistently stated here that the
money to finance this revolution was
furnished from Wall Street. There ara
reports current that a. certain American
v.'i<i was in Cuba recently end spent
four days in Havana Is connected with
the conspiracy. The movement of tins
man were mysterious.
No matter who Is behind this attempt,
Governor Magoon Is prepared to stamp
il out Immediately. General Pino Guer-
ra. General Jose Miguel Gomez and the
other Cubans who leo Ihe revolution
against the former President Palma, are
earnestly opposed to this movement and
say they are ready to lake fly. field
with the Government forces should an
outbreak actually occur.
It Is not considered that. Parra would
be able to Influence any numerous fol-
lowers.
O
UPTON'S CHALLENGE DECLINED
It Named Conditions Impossible to
Grant Under Deed of Gift of
the America's Cup.
NEW TORK, Sept. 25.-Sir Thomas
Llpton's challenge for a contest for the
America's cup in 1908 was declined to-
night by the New York Yacht Club.
Sir Tliomau' challenge calls for sloops
under the 68-foot rating and the members
of the club based their refusal to race
on the general proposition that the Amer-
ica's cup represents a trjphy for tho
speediest type ot yacht that can be pro-
duced on a water line length of 90 feet
or under, and that therefore any propo-
sition to limit the size of the boats must
be refused.
The members of the New York Yacht
Club, at the meeting called to consider
Sir Thomas Llpton's fourth challenge for
a cup race, voted unanimously to rcject
the challenge, after Lewis Cass I-odyard,
former commodore of the .lub, made a
speech 111 which he described the deed
of gift governing cup contests as diawi
up by George L. Schuyler In 18S7. Mr.
Ledyard then presented a resolution de-
claring that the club could lot take the
position of limiting the water Pne length
of the boats, under the deed of gift.
Commodore Cornelius Vanderollt. chair-
man of the meeting, appointed a cup
committee to convene immediately after
the meeting and prepare a reply to the
challenge The cup committee, made un
of Commodore Vanderbllt, J. P. Morgan
Lewis ("ass Ledyard, E. D. Morgan p'
G. Bourne, Henry Walters, J. Rogers
Maxwell and C. Oliver Iselln, held a ses-
sion which lasted until long after mid-
night.
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FOLLOWS SUITOR IN DEATH.
Woman Throws Herself Over Man's
Body and Takes Poison,
COLUMBUS. Ohio. Sept. 25-Mrs. Lucy
Kelly, aged 42, today went to an under-
taking establishment and throwing her-
self upon the body of her suitor. Howard
Rhodes, swallowed a dose ot carbolic
acid and died In a few minutes.
Rhodes, on Monday night, took a dose
of tho same poison and died almost In-
stantly.
SUMMARY OF Tfl£ NEWS.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—Weather
forecast:
East Texas—Partly cloudy Thurs-
day and Friday; probably showers
near the coast; light to fresh east
winds.
Local Weather Forecast.
For San Antonio and vicinity,
showers and cooler.
SAN ANTONIO.
Business between Texas and Mexico
shows great Increase,
Bexar County schools show great im-
provement In few months.
Supplementary reading adopted for first
eight grades of public schools.
Fair Association to Increase Its capital
stock from $125,000 to $150,000.
Invitations to banquet for Secretary
Root at International Club sent out yes-
terday,
W. J. McDonald, State Revenue Agent,
to investigate liquor licenses at Houston
and Galveston.
Constitution of State Association of
Retail Liquor Dealers advocates observ-
ance of all the State laws.
TEXAS.
Registration begins at the University
of Texas.
Commissioner of Agriculture Mllner
urges farmers to hold their cotton.
Two suits are filed at Austin as result
of Investigation Into Brewster County
land sales by State officials.
A Mexican, charged with killing, Is
found guilty by a Jury at Fredericks-
burg and given twenty-five years In the
penitentiary.
President of Farmers Union denies that
recent communication favoring 2-cent
fare, written to Commissioner Colquitt,
reflects Union's views.
Gang of well organized thieves ane
thought to be operating on the trains en-
tering Fort Worth, employing the so-
called "dope" methods to efefct their rob-
beries.
Judge Clarence Martin In special charge
to Grand Jury at Frdericksburg, follow-
ing their failure to report Indictments
for Infraction of the liquor laws, declares
emphatically that the Baskln-McGregor
measure must be enforced.
DOMESTIC.
Secretary Root starts on his trip to
visit president Diaz of Mexico.
state's Attorney Healy of Chicago says
he will take action against former Presi-
dent Fish of the Illinois Central Railroad
If President Harahan's charges prove
true.
H. C. Folger Jr. tells of the relations
of the Corslcana Oil Company of Texas
and the Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey In the Government suit .to dissolve
the latter.
FOREIGN.
Conspiracy to start a revolutionary
movement In Cuba discovered.
Earthquakes In Guatemala Sept. 22 and
23 damaged houses and churches.
Train carrying passengers from Paris
to steamship at Cherbourg Is wrecked in
the Breval tunnel and twenty persons
are Injured.
Pacific Coast of Mexico Is struck by a
severe hurricane, much damage resulting.
Mexican trcops at Quintana Roo dls
trict suffer losses from Maya Indians and
epidemic of fevsr.
SPORTS.
Convolo, the favorite, wins the han
dicap at Latonla.
Uncle, the 7 to 10 favorite, wins the
Holly handicap at Gravesend.
New York Yacht Club declines the
challenge sent by Sir Thomas Llpton.
Tie still holds in the American Base-
ball League, both Philadelphia and De-
troit winning their games.
RACE RIOT IN THE AIR.
Trouble Feared at McLaurin, Miss.
Killings Reported, But Reports
Prove to be Untrue.
HATTIESBURG, Miss., Sept. 25.-G. M.
Kennedy, a lumberman, arrived hero to-
night from McLaurin, Miss., where six
negroes were reported killed today in a
riot. He says the report is untrue, that
he was at the mill today and everything
is quiet. He said negroes were driven
away, hut that no one was hurt.
Mr. Kennedy said it is true that threat-
ening notices have been posted against
negroes near the Mclnnis mills, hut tfiat
the workmen In these mills deny that
Uiey were the authorr of the notices.
He said that irresponsible persons >ire
believed to have posted them.
Other passengers on the same train
with Mr. Kennedy sail, that when pass-
ing through McLaurin they heard noth-
ing about violence to negroes.
Thn report that six negroes had been
killed today in a riot at McLaurin, which
Is about fifteen miles from here, where
there is neither telephone nor telegraph
station, causes grave apprehension In
Hattlesburg. A few hours preceding the
report of the riot, a request for aid was
received here by mail from Deputy Sher-
iff Davis of McLaurin. Davis' appeal
was accompanied by a copy ot the fol-
lowing poster, which he had found nailed
TRAIN IS
TELESCOPED
IN TUNNEL
Passengers En Route From Paris
to Steamship at Cherbourg in
a Wreck at Breval.
TWENTY OF THEM
REPORTED INJURED
Trains Had Stopped Because of Accident
and an Express Following Crashes
Into Them—Crew of the Steam-
shin Train Is Blamed.
upon two different places near the plant,
of the Mclnnis Lumber Com pa
McLaurin: "Take Warning—Any negro
found on this side of the creek after
Sept. 2o wil be killed, and tho man who
takes this sign down will have a load of
buckshot in nim."
The creek referred to is in the vicinity
of Mclnnis. The warnings were posted
several days ago, but the situation was
not regarded as serious until todny.
REGULARS SHOOT UP TOWN.
Frederick, Md., Is Assaulted By Sol-
diers of United States Army.
Special Telegram to The Express.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—Regulars
trom a battery ot the Third Artillery and
Second squadron ot the Thirteenth Cav-
alry. under command or Major Byckman.
r.hot up the town or Frederick, Md., yes-
terday en route to Gettysburg.
The War Department has ordered a
rigid investigation.
DA8HIEL WILL PROSECUTE.
Secretary of State Will Participate in
De Fee Case.
Special Telegram to The Express.
BRYAN, Tex., Sept. 25.—Secretary of
State L. T. Dashiel is here, assisting Dis-
trict Attorney RaJftton in the prosecution
In tho Do Fee case, in which testimony
Is now being taken. Secretary Dashiel
wti District Attorney at the time the
crime was committed
NANTES, Prance, Sept. 25.—The trans-
atlantic train carrying first-class passen-
gers from Paris to Cherbough, where
they were to embark on the White Star
Line steamer Adriatic, was telescoped
today in the Breval tunnel. Twenty per-
sons were injured.
The train taking passengers to Cher-
bourg for embarkation on the North
German Lloyd steamer Crown Prince
Wil helm, which was following the train
having on board the Adriatic's passen-
gers, proceeded to her destination by an-
other route.
The names of tho injured persons are
not yet available.
The disaster is said to have been due
to the negligence of the crew of tho
train carrying the transatlantic passen-
gers, as no lights were burning in the
real of the train and no torpedoes were
placed on the track behind it. as required
by ihe regulations when a train halts in
the tunnel. This neglect caused another
train to run into tho passenger train
bound for Cherbourg.
The train with the Adriatic's passen-
pers left Paris in two sections. The
first, containing the second-class bag-
gage, stopped just beyond the Breval
tunnel, owing to an accident to the loco-
motive. The sreond section, containing
the first-class passengers, was stopped
by a signal when in the middle nf the
tunnel. The regular train for Rouen fol-
lowed tho second section of the passenger
train Cor Cherhough and although there
was a red signal up at the entrance of
the tunnel it. only reduced its sno<d and
entered while going at the rate of twenty-
five miles an hour. The collision fol-
lowed.
St. Louis Man Among Injured.
NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—A private mes-
sage received here today reported that
one of the men injured in the collision in
the Breval tunnel was Robert S. Brook-
ings. u St. Louis capitalist. The extent of
his injuries is unknown.
^
IN THE IRON INDUSTRY.
Heavy Orders Entered In the Wire
Trade Lately Are Considered Sig-
nificant—Other Lines Dull.
NEW YORK, Sept. 25,-Thn Iron Age
tomorrow will say:
The, heavy orders entered in the wire
trade lately are considered significant,
since that branch of the industry reflects
better than any other the demand from a
very wide range of sources and from the
agricultural community in particular. It
emphasizes the reports from other quar-
ters that the farmers are having bett?r
crops than at first expected and ut very
satisfactory prices.
In the heavy lines the business is un-
deniably dull and a considerably lessened
output during the winter months seems
inevitable, but prices are at a safa level
compared with those which have pre-
vailed during tho culmination of former
booms.
Interest Is passing from the Eastern
pig iron trade, which has found its level
for the present, to the West and South.
The makers In Alabama and Virginia
maintain the same attitude of confidence.
They are more concerned with protecting
the trade which will be taking higi-
priced Iron to the end of the year, than
with new business.
The cast Iron pipe trade is dull.
CITY IN SPEC TORHE L D.
Louisville Live Stock Man Accused
of Taking Bribes.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.. Sept. 25.-Dr. Sam-
uel Bradley, city live stock Inspector, was
given an examining trial In the city
court today and, after the hearing, which
consumed the entire day, was held to
await the action of the Grand Jury on
charges of accepting a bribe, embezzle-
ment and misappropriating the property
of another. Bonds to the amount of $S,-
000, covering the charges, were imposed
by the court and furnished by Dr. Brad-
ley.
Lawrence Schang, an employe In Dr.
Bradley's department, was held as an
accessory and furnished a bond of $1000.
Testimony was given at the hearing to
show that Dr. Bradley demanded and re-
ceived bribes before he would put his
stamp of approval on meats. In another
Instance he was accused ot' condemning
sound meat, confiscating it and then, aft-
er stamping it as good, selling it and
pocketing the money.
Notified of Fang's Appointment.
VVABl-llMiTUW, Sept. 'J3.—secretary
uoot today received a cablegram trom
Minister Rockhill, at Pekln, notifying
him ot the appointment ot w u 'ling
rang as Minister to Washington.
CORSICANA
AND STANDARD
COMPANIES
H. C. Folger, Jr., Tells How Former
Was Built Up and Who Fur-
nished the Funds.
ACCOUNTS SENT TO
NO. 26 BROADWAY
Management of Texas Concern Continued
Unchanged After Its Sate in 1906 by
the National Transit Company, a
Standard Oil Subsidiary.
NEW YOKK, Sept. 25.—H. U. KOIger
Jr., a director of the Union Tank Line
Company, told, as a witness today in the
Government suit tor the dissolution of
the standard Oil Company, how he and
C. M. Payne built the Corslcana Oil Com-
pany or Texas witn funds tumisued by
the National Tranlt Company, a Stand-
ard Oil subsidiary, and held the stock in
their names until 1906, when they pur-
chased the stock from the National
Transit Company because of anti-trust
legislation.
Mr. Folger satd that the agreement to
buy the Corslcana company was made
verbally with jonn D. Arcnboid.
l'ho witness testified that the manage-
ment ot tbe Corslcana company con-
tinued unchanged alter the sale and that
Its accounts were forwarded to Mr. Ches-
brough at 26 Broadway, the head-
quarters ot the standard Oil Company.
Hepburn Law Made a Town.
Some Interesting evidence that lay al-
most hidden In a voluminous schedule of
oil tariffs submitted to the Interstate
Commerce Commission by the Standard
Oil Company was also unfolded at tho
hearing today when Calvin M. Payne,
vice president of the National Transit.
Company, told about the various pipe
lines of the oil combine over which he
has supervision. The schedule shows
that tariffs for the transportation of
crude oil by the Standard's pipe line are
fixed at Unlonvllle, which is on the
State, line between New York and New
Jersey and Center Bridge, located on the
New Jersey-Pennsylvania State line.
Frank R. Kellogg, conducting the Fed-
eral action, asked Mr. Payne If Unlon-
vllle did not spring Into existence In 1!">6
when the Hepburn bill, which provides
that common carriers must publish tariff
schedules, became a law. Mr. Payne
testified thai Unlonvllle loomed up geo-
graphically in the summer of 1906 while
he was abroad.
Shuts Off Independents.
The Government's counsel further de-
veloped that at Unlonvllle the plpe« of
the National Transit Company, carrying
oil from Olean, N. Y.. and other westorn
points connect with the pipe line of the
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and
that at Center Bridge the pipe line carry-
ing the oils of the Eureka Pipe Line
Company, the Southern Pennsylvania
Pipe Line Company and the National
Transit Company from Lima, Ohio, to
the seaboard, connects with the pipe line
of the Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey.
Mr. Payne said that as the lines of
those companies ended at Unloirville and
Center Bridge the schedules are fixed for
those points.
Mr. Kellogg sought to show that no
Independent company could send oil to
the seaboard over these lines because
ratos could not be obtained from those
points to the seaboard. Mr. Kellogg said
the Standard would not publish rates on
Its line through New Jersey and as a
consequence independents were shut off
from tidewater.
Statement of Capitalization.
Wade Hampton, general auditor of th'»
Standard Oil Company, was again on the
witness stand today. Atter testifying
that ho audited ell the departments of
the Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey, and slating that the books show-
ing the transfers of certificates and
stock during liquidation periods were
never kept in his ottice, he was excused
by Mr. Keilcgg, wno said he would
likely call Mr. Hampton again.
Mr. Mllburn of counsel lor the Stand-
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