s Charges Contained in the Corporation Bureau Re ports to President. CONTROL BY PIPE LINE Brfuwe to Art ne ft Common Currier Polls to FUe- Tariffs. Charges Ex orbitant lUtfom mh1 Tries to De stroy Competition by Unfair Means For Enormous lroflts Washington, May 21. Herbert Knox Smith, Commissioner of Cor porations, submitted to the Presi dent the bureau's second report on the oil industry. The first report, Issued In May, 1906, when James H. Garfield was head of the bureau, contained Honsotlonal charges against the Standard Oil Company In retard to rebates. This second report which deals with "soleotod topics," Is fully severe on the Standard Oil Com pany as the first. It attempts an anlysls of the mo nopoly which the Standard has gained Mid declares that this hits been maintained not through the control of natural resources but through the use of unfair practices. The Commissioner accuses the Stan dard OH Company of Ignoring and evading the common carrier require ments In the rate law of 10OG and suggests that this should receive tho President's careful attention. A tetter from the Commissioner to the President plves a summary of the rc" port. "The Standard," says the Com missioner, "has as iu only compe titors In the refining business about sm-enty-flve small refineries, whose total consumption of crude oil Is lens than that of a single one of the Standard, to wit, the Bayonne re Onery, and less than one-fifth of the Standard's total consumption. Over tteen of these competitors are de pendent for their supply of crude oil upon the Standard's pipe lines, and axe so restricted by this dependence aa to be capable of little effective competition or growth. In the pipe tine business of the Eastern and midconttuont fields it has up to the present but ono competitor of any significance the Pure OU Company and that competitor's pipe line business la not more than one-twen-Uth of that of the Standard. The Commissioner point i out that the system of railway (incrimina tions allowed the Standmd to con trol substantially that link In the business that lies between the re finery and the cor.sumer. "By means 01 Its great pipe lino system," the Commissioner adds, "It also controls the gap between the jroducer of oil and the refinery. It aaa now a pipe line system of more than 40,000 miles, covering com pletely the Appalahlan, Llma-Indla-aa, Illinois and mtdcontlnent fields, with great trank lines running to the seaboard and to the great markets 'and distributing centers where Its largest refineries are located. All ( attempts on the part of others to construct competing lines have been utterly opposed by the Standard and usually with success. By means of vexatious litigation and preempting if rights of way, by the aid of rail toads which refused rights of way across their lines and adjusted their rates so as to Injure competing pipe linos. Another Important element in the Standard's control over the industry, as Commbuitoner Smith seen it, con st ts In the company's marketing aethods. "It uses very generally," the Com missioner says, "the hulk system of delivery to retail dealers by tank wagons a cheaper, safer and far acre convenient method of delivery -ban by barrels. This not only re races the cost of marketing greatly 'Jut also has eliminated largely the iobber from the business. Dealing thus directly with the retailer, the standard Is enabled to arrange such Jocal price differences' as It may de Mre for tho purpose of destroying tocal competition without disturbing its prices over any large section of trade. The commlssoner charges further that the Standard linns have since the 190 6 law was passed changed their policy of publishing statistics of runs, shipments and stocks of oil, ao us to make such Information of much lesa value than before. The lakt point which the commiss ioner makes against the Standard's attitude toward the common carrier regulations is that it has aimed to make Its rates the same or practi cally the same as railroad rates, and that these are enormously higher than the cost of transportation. Doctor Charged With Murder. Raleigh, N. C, May 22. Accused of polslonlng his young son to poss ess himself of $900 insurance on the boy's life aud of property he owned, Dr. D. S. Rowland was arrested here. At tho (same time Dr. Rowland's wife, a handsome woman of thirty wb taken In custody cm the charge of being accessory before tho fuct to the death of her first husband, Charles R. Strange, a Seaboard Air Line locomotive engineer and a member of that brotherhood. Dr. Rowland was called to attend Strunga at his home here last March. Strange met him at his door, and In a few tours wag dead. ski Mi roii i am: men. Apache Kiel, Notorious (hithnv. Killed by Chicago Huntsmen. Chicago, May 21 The skull of Apnche Kid, the most notorious out law In the Southwest, a murderer thirty times over, horse thief, raider' and the terror of Arizona and New Mexico for the last twenty years, with a Government price of $9,000 on his head Rnd a reputation that extended from the Black Hills to the Mexican territory, lay on a table in a doctor's office In Chicago. Though Apache Kid met his death last September, being shot down In a dramatic last stand In the foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains, his fate was kept secret until now. The bul lot which ended his life was fired by one of the party ol prominent Chlcagoans. For legal reasons, the men who rnn down the desperado and ended his notorious career have never clnfmod tho reward. The Bkull will be presented by them to the Skull and Hones secret society of Yale. INVADER IIY ARMY OF RATS. Farmers Tnlk of (siting Together to I'liui for n Killing Day. Paris, Ky., May 21. Paris and Bourbon Counties are being Invaded by an army of rats and the quest Ion of how to get rid of them Is be ing regarded ns a very serious prob lem, especially In the counties. Great stories are being told of their devastating work. Farmers say that hay, straw rlcka and fodder shocks have been full of the rodents all winter. It Is no un common sight to see from five to ten rush out every time u fodder shock is moved. Farmers are contemplat ing setting apart a special day to bo devoted to an effort to clenr the ro dents from the places. In the towns rats have overrun house after house, and In some In stances have literally besieged pant ries, milk closets and every place where they could gain an entrance. SPANISH PKIXCK RAPTIZEJ). Representatives of Foreign Rulers and Many Craiidces I"rceiit Madrid, May 21. With even more pomp and ceremony than attended his first presentation to the officials on the day of his birth, May 10. Al fonso, Prince of the Austrlas. was baptized In the private chapel of tho Royal Talace, in the presence of the royal family, the State and Court officials, the representatves of for eign rulers, and a host of grandees, heads of the various Spanish orders, and other Important personages. Owing to the many Imperative du ties requiring her attention Queen Victoria has given up the Idea of nursing the Prince of the Austrlas, and a nurse has been obtained for him from the Province of Santader. STARTS HOMESPUN FAD. Mrs. Ovorge Vnndcrbilt Wears $25 Gown Mude by Mountain Womcu Ashevllle, May 21. Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt has started a "home spun" fad by appearing In a home spun gown, a bright yellow, which she delights In telling cost her Just $25, and was made by a mountain woman near Biltmore. It has been through Mrs. Vander bilt's patronage that there has been a revival of the almost lost art of hand spinning and weaving among the mountain women. Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt are to furnish a room in the North Carolina Building at Jamestown of Biltmore exhibits. POISONED BY I1AD REKF. Poumiim-s In Ronst Nearly Kill Four Persons. Passaic N. J., May 28. The en tre family of Councilman Harry F. Schlelch near met their death from potmatne poisoning, supposedly due to roast beef. On Saturday night Mrs. Schlelch partly cooked a porterhouse roast in a gas oven and on Sunday morning heated it In a coal range. The fam ily ate the roast at dinner and un hour afterward all were taken deathly 111. The famly consists of Mr. und Mrs. Schlelch and two children. NO OFFICES FOR NEGROES. Young Georgia Representative An nounces His Platform. Savannah, Ga., May 22. Charles Q. Edwards, who will replace the late Col. Rufus Lester, in the House of Representatives, and will be Its youngest member, unnounces that he proposes to begin a fight to put all negroes out of Federal offlceB. He had written to President Roose velt requesting ftie removal of J. II. Deveaux, negro Collector of Cus toms here. Ho wound up his letter wilh tho phrase, "This is a white man's country." WHEAT DROPS SHARPLY. Loses Nearly 4 Cents on Heuvy Pro" fit-Taking In Chicago. Chicago, May 22. Enormous profit-taking on the Hoard of Trade e.i tlroly dwarf ted the unprecedented demand for wheat from outsiders und loading professionals. Tim market ran ns wlldiv on tho down grade as It tins been climbing dol lav ward. It Is thought that for a tlnio nt least wheat will not reach tho high mark. Prices eudod will under tho dollnr level, with net losses of I "i to 3 Ts cents. THE COLUMBIAN, Covering Minor Happen ings from all Over tlie Globe. HOMO AND FOREIGN Compiled end Condensed for the Uusy Reader A Complete Record of European Despatches and Im portant Rvente from Everywhere Dofled Down for Hitaty Perusal. Mexico continued to mass troops on the frontier of Guatemala. Despatches from the State capital declared that President Roosevelt would be brought into the present , reappointment fight. I . An attempt has been made at Al- ; bany N. Y., to smuggle through i repeal of a law making rents on j leases taxable. j Rudolph Spreckles denied the charge of Mayor Schmi'r. that there were personal or political motives behind the prosecution of San Fran cisco officials. Harlow N. Higlnbottom, of Chica go, resigned as trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Company as a pro test, he says, against present insur ance conditions. A committee of Presbyterian Gen eral Assembly reported against a Church federation) with the Anti Saloon League. Ten Indictments, three for per jury and the others for forgery In the third degreo, were returned anal list John R. liegeman, of New York, president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Secretary Root told Yale that the morals of the nation had improved and that evidence of this was seen in the prosecution of railroads, trusts and land thieves. Ensign Albert T. Brisbln attempt ed suicide by shooting on board the U. S. S. Tacoma, Governor Hughes looked over th) Senate district lines in tho proposed reapportionment In New York county and did not find them satisfactory. Because she had to eat pumpkin pie three times a day Mrs. J. B. Stet son, of San Francisco, sued her wealthy husband for divorce. Six months' experience in Cuba hus given tho American soldiers there rank as the crack corps in tho service. Trouble was feared In the streets of Boise because of the presence of witnesses for both sides In the Hay wood case. With the convalesence of J. A. Lovejoy, counsel to he Interstate Commerce Commission, It was an nounced that the inquiry into the railroads controlled by James J. Hill would be pushed vigorously. E. H. Symington, a prominent young Chicago business man, was fatally hurt by falling under his horse, which he threw to save a boy's life. Frederick A. Burnhain's resigna tion as president of the Mutual Re serve Life Insurance Company has been asked for by the directors. A ship load of negroes was brought from Florida to New York to break the strike of longshoremen. W. E. Corey's marriage was de-' nounced by the Rev. Madison; C. Peters as worse than Mormonism. Gaston Pearson Phillip fatally shot a Washington cabman in a ho tel In the capital. Presbyterians In General Assem bly, in Columbus, Ohio, are divided on the temperance question and a lively fight is expected. One negro burglar hold up the family of Samuel Wallwort in Phila delphia, forced Mr. Wallwort to open his safe, spurned the $1.60 in the cash box, and disappeared. Rear Admiral George A. Converse will remain President of the Board on Naval Construction after his re tirement from the active list of the navy. ' Homes for working girls and many bequests to charity were made In the will of Armlde V. Smith, sister of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont. Emilio Bolari, teacher of Mme. Nordica and a relative of the nobility of Spain, was killed by falling from a wiudow. FOREIGN NEWS. The nationalist convention in Dub lin repudiated the plun for a limited Irish Council offered by the liberal government. Upon the occasion of tho funeral of murdered police officials In Odessa the Black Hundreds renewed their attacks upon tho Hebrews. Assistance from Hong Kong and Japanese ports has been sent to tho rescue of the French cruiser Chanzy, ashore in a dangerous position on one of the Saddle Islands, Chusan group. Lieutenant E. II. Shnckleton, in an Interview specially cabled from London, describes his plans and his hopes to reach the South Pole. Odessa's chief of police and two detectives were killed by a bomb. Buys a despatch from St. Petersburg, and anti-Hebrew rioting followed. -A. Fxejicjj .spclet;- has made ar- BLOOM5BURG, PA. rnngomcnts to furnish Now York wilh three hundred Darracq taxi metre cabs, says a despatch. Persian clericals, Indignant at tho pending Civil Rights bill, which they declare 1 contrary to the Koran, left the Assembly, says ft despatch. Canada is agitating for an all British route to Australia by way of the Dominion. In London a rendezvous has been selected where English hostesses may meet and Advise American women visiting England, says a despatch. More than $100,000 Is to be spent on the coming great horso show at tho OlymplA, according to a special cable despatch. M. Saint-Saens, according to a despatch from Parts, has started a movement to eliminate foreign words from the French langungn. SIGHTING NEWS. Messrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt. and George Watson, of New York, won the lion's sharo of blue rlbboin at the Boston Horse Show. Much dissatisfaction was expressed at the decision of the Judges when they pluced Hickory first in tho sixth race at Qravesend, Brooklyn. Agust u a Belmont's Don Enrique won Uio Preaknvss Stake. The schooner Prlcllla and the sloops Zona and Isolt have sailed from Bermuda for New York, to take part In the sail craft race to Bermuda on Jnne 5. John L. McGlnnls' Frank Gill de feated James R. Feene's Peter Pan and five others at Belmont Park, New York in the thirty-fourth race for the Withers Stakes. R. C. Leonard, with a cast of 212 feet 7 Inches, established a new rec ord for single handed halt casting at the tournament of the Anglers' Club at Harlem More, New York. RESCUER RY WIRE. Teeth, Sliver Coin and Live Wire Save Man Locked in Vault. Pueblo, Col., May 22. A know ledge of telegraphy saved tho life of George Stuart, a clerk in the Colo rado Fuel Company's office, who was accidently locked up in a steel vault. A wire passes through the vault. With his teeth and silver coin Stu art managed to tick out a message for help and to tell where he was. When the vault was opened Stuart was found on the floor unconslous and gasping, but was soon revived. Abraham Hummel in Collapse. New York, May 23. Abraham Hummel the once well known crim inal lawyer, now serving one year sentence on Bluckwell's Island for conspiracy in the Dodge-Morse di vorce case, Is now Buffering from an attack of nervous collapse. Every effort will be made to build him up so that he can be put to work in tho storehouse. Should he prove unequal to packing goods there and Incapable of peeling onions and potatoes as an assistant scullion In the kitchen, he may get the extreme ly light task of picking up scraps of paper from the grounds surrounding the prison, a task given to Tweed when he was a sojourner on the little Island. Express Cnts Trolley in Two. New York, May 23. Speeding thirty miles an hour a two-car ex press train on the line of the Brook lyn Rapid Transit from Ulmer Park to Manhattan, cut down a crowded trolley car. Twenty-nine of the passengers were seriously Injured, several of them so gravely they may die. More than twenty others were less seriously hurt. The trolley car was reduced prac tically to kindling wood. It was al most cut In two, and teh floor and roof were shattered as If made of paper. The passengers were hurled In every direction, and many of them were picked up unconscious twenty feet distant from both sides of the track. By Canal to Jamestown. Trenton. N. J May 21. Will lam K. Vanderbilt, Jr., accompanied by Mrs. Vanderbilt and guests from New York, passed through here on their yacht Tarantula, on the Dele ware &Rarltan Canal, on the way to the Jamestown Exposition. Their route is by canal to Bordentown, thenceby the Delewaro River and Chesapeake Bay to the Exposition. Jail For Making a Face. Berlin, May 22. The laborer Brunlng has been convicted of lese majeste in putting his tongue out at Emperor William and has been sen tenced to nlno months' imprison ment. Brunlng was working on a building when tho Emperor passed in his automobile. He says that all he did was to cry "Hurrah!" Octopus Tested for Torpedo Firing. Newport, May 22. The Naval Bourd tested the ability of tho Oc topus to fire torpoduea while sub merged. Three shots were fired at ti target which represented a battle ship. Two shots were recorded us good, whllo the other was a failure because the missile hung in the tor pedo tube. Mrs. Daily To Give $100,000. Mount Vernon, N. Y Muy 22. As a memorial to her husband, the lute James A. Bailey, tho circus man, his widow, Mrs. Ruth L. Uuiley, has contributed $100,000 for a memo rlol hospital at Mouut Vernon. WIFE St'F.S HOWARD GOtTD. For Separation and Alimony Rusrd On n $1,01)0.000 Income. Now York, May 23. Kntherlne Cletutnons Oould has begun suit In tho Supreme Court for a separation from Howard Gould, to whom she was married in October 1898. Mrs Gould also asks for perman ent alimony, and hns estlmatetl her husband'B Income at not less than $1,000,000 a year of a principal which she figures nt about. $20,000, 000. Mr. Gould, she says, has spied upon her every action for years and has dogged her footsteps everywhere she has gone. He has even opened her mall In an effort to get a more lntlmat.o knowledge of her doings. Falling to obtain any evidence on which to base a suit, Mrs. Oould goes on to allege, her husband em ployed W. C. Woodward, known ns Big Hawley, to trump up n case against her on which she might be charged with bigamy or an annul ment of her marriage to Gould might be procured. As he relates It, Haw ley was to procure witnesses who would swear that she had a husband living when she married Gould. To corroborate and help out Haw ley, Mrs. Gould says, her husband mudo a deal with certain well known officers of the Police Department of New York City, who promised their assistance in getting men who would swear away the character and manu facture evidence to suit Gould. PITS GIRL IN SMOKE ROUSE. Stepmother Imprisons Her In III Smelling Place for Two Weeks. JohnBtown, Pa., May 23. Ethel Haflloy, the seventeen-year-old dau ghter of George B. Heffley, at Berlin, Somerset county, was rescued by an infuriated crowd of two hundred people from a cold, ill-smelling smoke house, wherein she had been Imprisoned for two weeks, during which time her stepmother, it is alleged, fed her by carrying food to the door and throwing it on the dirty floor of the prison. The girl endured her 111 treat ment for several days, but tho tor tures became too much, and her weeping attracted the attention of neighbors. LYNCHERS KILL FIVE. Fire Into House Killing Relatives of Suspected Man. Claxton, Ga., May 23. In an at tempt to avenge an assault on Mrs. Laura Moore, a white widow, a mob at Tattnolls killed the father, mo ther, two brothers, and a sister of the suspect. Fleur Pagett, a negro. The lynchers did not escape injury, one white man being killed and sev eral wounded. About fifteen citizens surrounded the house of Sim Pagett, father of the suspect, whom they thought was harboring him. They demanded of Pagett's wife to search the house. Permission was given, but when the posse advanced to within thirty feet of the house Pagett and the other negro men ou the inside of the building opened fire on the posse. PASTOR RETl'RNS COREY FEE. Rev. John L. Clark Admits His Great Wrong and Regs Forgiveness. New York, May 21. Declaring publicly that he had done "a great wrong" in marrying W. E. Corey, President of the Steel Trust, the Roy. John Lewis Clark, pastor of the Bushwick Avenue Con gregational Church of Brooklyn, re turned to Corey his wedding fee, amounting, It is said, to nearly $1, 000. In addition, Pastor Clark appeared before the Prudential Committee of his church, consisting of the com bined board of deacons and trustees, and humbly apoliglzed for his con nection wth the Corey-GIlmon affair- ZIONtTTY AT A CRISIS. Voliva, Dowlc's Successor' Say Strife Brought Church Near End. Chicago, 111., May 22. Dowieisra and Zlon City, founded by the late John Alexander Dowie, have reached a crisis In their history, and are on the verge of dissolution, uccordlng to Wilbur Glenn Voliva, Dowle's successor. Internal grafting among high offl clnals and strife among various cliques which are striving for supre macy, ho said, were responsible. Unless he was given the support of all factions In Zion, he declnred, It was only a matter of a short time before tho city would bo old "undor the hammer." Crops Duniaged By Cold Wave. Crops have been badly damaged by the cold weather throughout tho country. At some points in northern Ohio the temperature fell to 33 degrees above zero, In New England the tempernturo fell to 40 degrees, and in Pennsyl vania ice formed in all purts of the Pocomo Mountains. In Bullston, N. Y., a heavy frot caused great damage. 3-00O Chickens Lost Rosedalo, N. J., May 22. Throo thousand young chickens woro de stroyed In a fire that broke out on the White Poultry fain here ut 2 o'clock. At least a thousand of tho chickens were ready for tho New York mark ets and were to have been shipped there within the next few days. HlGilES ELECTED PRESIT'RVL American Bitptlvt Society F.ltvts Illm Head of Organization. Washington. May 2t. The I!aj. tlst Church North Is nt last to hare a centralized form of administration and perhaps of government. 1 bis movement Inunclied by the Amerlcaa GOV. CHARLES E. HUGHES. Bar! 1st Society, Is the most Impor-' tun! step In the history of this churrX. It starts with Gov. Charles K. Hughes of New York as President of a central body, called a conven-; tlon. While this action must sUll be ratified by the churches and con stituent bodies, there Is no doubt of Its favorable acceptance If the large' body meeting hero Is as represents' five us it seems to be. The pro position was received with extreme' enthusiasm and met no opposition worthy of tho name. ARMING FOR REVOLT IN CHINA- K.000 Rllles and 300,000 Rounds Ammunition Are Selwd. Tientsin, China, May 23. Eight thousand rifles, 300,000 rounds ol ammunition and 8,000 bayonets In tended for revolutionary purposes have been seized here by the Im perial Customs authorities. The shipment was imported by a Euro pean firm In conjunction with Cliin ese merchants. The greatest sensation has been caused in the native portion of the city by the seizure. Jim Crow Law Annulled. Montgomery, Ala., May 23. The city ordinance demanding eeperate street cars for whites and black wtiB annulled by the city court, the Judge holding that It Is not reason able or Just to the street railway company. BASEBALL LEAGUE SUMMARIES. Standing of tho Clubs. National. W. L. P. X New York 24 5 .ggij Chicago 21 8 . Pittsburg 14 10 .463 Philadelphia 15 11 JX1 Boston la 16 Cincinnati 9 is za St. Louis 7 88 JBX Brooklyn 6 23 .J6S American. W. L. P. C Chicago 21 10 .87? Clsveland 18 13 . Detroit IS 12 .40e New York 15 13 .W4 Philadelphia 14 13 .61$ St. Louis 11 19 Jt'JJ Washington 0 18 JMQ Boston 10 18 -SIT FINANCIAL There were sharp declines la tie prices of stocks. Affairs of the Pere MarqueU Railway are ou the eve of settle ment. Directors of the Interborougfc Metropolltan Company have author ized but not Issued $15,000,000 col lateral trust notes In New York. NEW YORK MARKETS. Wholesale Prices of Farm Prodrte Quoted for the Week. Milk. Tho Milk Exchange price for standard quality is 8 cents per quart. Buttku. Creamery, Western, extr 2 to. State dairy fiuest 28a24c, Kiret 22a23o. Chkese. State, fall cream, fancy. 14al5c. part bkims, 1s&o. snmll 15o. Eons. State ft Penu alOo. Weston. Firsts, Kittl0,'to. Chickens. Phila., per lb., a 19a. Di'i'KMNcjs. sp'g. per lb. 18a20a. Hay. Prime, 100 lbs., $1.20. .4; Stiiaw. Long ryo, 60u()0o. " Potatoes. Old bbl., fl.25a2.60. CrtTMiiKtw. Basket, ll.00a3.2S. Unions. White, per bbl. tTC.ilGaltt. . Lkttiick. Bosket, $1.00a8.00. rJ-iNAtu. Barrel, $1.60a3.60. P.kkts. jier bbl. fl.00nl.50. Kloitk. Winter patent, f4.00ai.4JS; Sp ring patents, fl.8on5.75. Viii'.at. No. l;1.01t;.No. URed.SflJ' Co?c. No. 3 White, 00a Oats. Mixed, (4 47e. Ei F.vi's. City dres'd. 8a0o. J vi.s. City dres'd. 8al2o. t'oii.tuy clros.ed per lb. OaS'o. rUiKW. Per 100 lb. f4.50. ' lions. Live nor 100 lb. S5.l0nf.tt. t viup.try dressed ner lb. 8o9to. lillV
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