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PUBLISHED NVERY AFTNRNOON, BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO.| 3. By CLYDE J. PRYOR. ¥ntered in the postoffice at Bemidjl. Minn., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM ROCKEFELLER'S ORDEAL IS OVER Examination of 0il Mag- nate Concluded. TELLS OF STOCK HOLDINGS Declares in Reply to Questions That He Is Interested in Half a Dozen Kailways and Admits to Ownership of Nearly One-third of the Total Standard Oil Shares—Questioned Closely About Certain Trust Deals. New York, Nov. 2"—For the first time since he has been on the witness stand at this hearing John D. Rocke- feller was a little late in arriving. Frank B. Kellogg, the government’s special assistant attorney general, re- sumed his cross-examination, taking up the organization of the Standard 0Oil company of New Jersey. Mr. Kellogg read what he said was a list of stocks obtained by that company in 1899 for which it had exchanged its own shares. He said that 442,797 out of a total of 983,383 shares first is- sued were in the name of John D. Rockefeller. Mr. Rockefeller said he did not own ! 80 much stock as that, but did own 256,854 shares of the Standard Oil company of New Jersey at that time and that he accepted the other stock and distributed it to the proper stock- holders. He added that frequently holders of certificates of the Stand- ard Oil trust exchanged them for stock in the Standard Oil company of | New Jersey rather than accept shares of the various subsidiary companies. Mr. Rockefeller was asked if he en- tered into a contract with Schofield, Schurmer & Teagle in 1876 whereby the firm agreed to limit the business of its refinery in consideration of cer- tain payments by the Standard. Mr. Rockefeller replied that such a con- tract had been entered into, but he did not recall its provisions. “Did the Standard bring a suit in Ohio in 1880 against Schofield, Schur- mer & Teagle to prevent its refining over 85,000 barrels of crude oil a year and to prevent its acquiring. an inter- est in a Buffalo refinery?” -“There was some litigation about the refining of oil. I recall nothing about the Buffalo refinery.” “Did you not personally make an application for an order restraining them from exceeding their production lmit and to prevent them building a refinery in Buffalo?” “As president of the Standard it was preper for me to sign such an affidavit about the production of oil being exceeded by the company.” “Don’t you recall that in the answer of Schofleld, Schurmer & Teagle they set up the claim that the Standard was trying to obtaln a monopoly of the refining business in Ohio and that this agreement was part of the con- spiracy to such an ®nd?” “I could not state from my recollec- tion, but I assume that they probably did not fail to state everything they could think.” Cther Like Contracts Made. The witness said in reply to other questions that a similar contract was made with the Pioneer Oil company, but he could not remember whether he stated in the contract that the Standard operated refineries only in Cleveland and Bayonne. He under- stood, he said, that he had made an afidavit in connection with this con- tract to the effect that the Standard Oil company of Ohio had not owned any stock of any railroad or pipe line, “You were trying to give the im- pression at that time that the large number of companies you had ac- quired an interest in were not con- trolled by the Standard Oil company of Chio?” “I tried to give the status at that time.” Mr. Kellogg asked the witness if he made it known to any one at that time that he had an interest in the eompanies included in the trust agree- ment of 1879 and if it was not a fact that this agreement was kept secret while he was combining these com- panies. “I cannot say, but I think it must have been known to a number of peo- ple outside of those who signed it,” replied Mr. Rockefeller. “Is it not a fact that Mr. Archbold, Mr. Flagler and others in 1875 and later made affidavits and public state- ments that the Standard Oil company of Ohio had no interest in these sub- sidiary companies?” “I could not say anything about the statements they may have made.” Mr. Rockefeller was asked if he had not made an affidavit that the Stand- ard had made contracts with rajlroads ‘whereby the Standard had obtained webates for guaranieeing a certain volume of oil. He did not recall. “Didn’t the officers and agents of e Standard Oil company of Ohio at at time control a majority of the stocks of the subsidiary companies with the idea of concealing their real ‘'ownership?” ) “It may have been that the proper- tles were owned by individuals who ‘were stockholders in the Standard Ofl eompany of Obio.” Mr. Rockefeller, in reply to ques- tions, said he owned stock and bonds jin half a dozen railroads. He was then excused and was followed on the witners stand by John D. Arch- [bold, vice president of the Standard Oil company. THE GEMIDJI DALY PIONEER| 3 % % % % % % % % % % % % ¥ * THE WIDOW == THE WIDOWER ¢ DEATH ROLL IS A THANKSCIVING > EPISODE LI N N R ~ By Caspar Dullon Copyright, 1908, by American Pre: Association KRR A “T}EERE—YOU ARE JABBINC AGAIN!” EACON SILAS LAPHAM, wid- ower, had beeu paying atten- tions to Aunt Sarah Hender- soir, widow, for two years. Each heard that-the other was stub- born, and each was watching and wait- ing for the other to exhibit the trait. Thanksgiving brought the crisis. The widow invited the deacon to dinner. There was no question about the dea- con taking the head of the table, but when the matter of carving came up the widow took knife and fork in hand and said:~ “I can do it so much better than you, you know.” “I fail to see how or why,” he re- plied. “Befause I have always carved. It was an eccentricity of mine even when I was a girl. No doubt you can slice ham or pork, but when it comes to carving a turkey”— “I have carved thousands of them. as you must know,” interrupted the deacon, with considerable asperity. “Don’t jab the fork into the bird like that. That's like a hired man jabbing a pitchfork into a heap of hay.” “I was not jabbing. In order to start carving you must get a firm hold of the bird.” “Then take it by a leg.” “Never! How would you look hold- ing the bird with one hand while you sliced away with the knife? If you have always carved that way”— “I have, and it's the only way to carve, There—you are jabbing again! One would think you were a soldier bayoneting an enemy.” “Deacon Silas Lapham, you are talk- ing like a child! - When I think I need to be told how to carve a turkey I will call on you for advice. 1 simply get a firm hold with the fork and then”— “And then jab, jab, jab. A woman has no business with the carving knife and fork when there is a man present. T will carve this turkey.” “I beg your pardon, but you will sit there and see m.2 carve it. Don’t for- get that I-ay in my own house and that T am still my own boss.” “You invite me to dinner and then humiliate me, do you?’ shouted the | deacon as he shoved back his chair, “Now, don’t be a schoolboy,” chided the widow as she flourished the knife around. “Having got a firm hold with the fork, I now proceed to cut around the thigh joint—thus.” “But you are sawlng instead of cut- ting.” “No, I'm not.” “Widow Henderson!” “Deacon Lapham!’ “If I was a swearing man”— “You'd get off a swear word on this occasion. Yes, you look as if you were swearing to yourself this minute.” “T ham't sworn a single swear, but when a man has to sit here and see a Thanksgiving turkey jabbed and poked and stabbed and sawed and butchered the Lord would surely forgive him for one or two swear words.” *“Deacon Silas Lapham,” she replied as she rested from her labors, “I said T could carve a fowl.” “Then why don’t you?” “I am doing It, and If you would keep quiet for five minutes I”— “This s too much, widow—too much!” said the deacon as he started for his overcoat and hat. “You Invite me here and then insult me. I heard about your obstinacy”— “And’T heard about yours.” “And your wretched temper'— “Same to you.” “But I thought it a slander. however, I can no longer doubt.” “Neither can L.” “It was my place to carve that tur- key. In your obstinacy you continued to saw and jab and butcher without regard to my feelings. My only re- course Is to bid you good day and take my hat and leave.” “If you will act like a boy, I can’t help 1t.” “And never come again,” Now, finished the deacon as he got on his over coaw. The widow ate her Thanksgiving dinner alone, but that turkey was never carved to form a part of it After the deacon’s departure she re turned to the carving knife and even- tually managed to saw off a plece of the meat, but she had no sooner tasted it than she started for the kitchen tc interview the hired girl. It was three or four days before the mystery was solved, for there was s mystery. The turkey, which had beer killed three or four days ahead of time and hung up to freeze, had been cuif down and devoured by cats, and tc save himself from reproof the hired man had killed a peacock and hung i In its place. “And so you see I had to saw and Jab,” explained the widow as the wid- ower was sent for. N “Y-e-s, I see.” “And you would also have had to saw and jab.” “Y-e-8.” “And though you went away you dn't miss your turkey.” “N-o. “And all things considered”— “Yes, all things considered”— The deacon’s fur had to be rubbed the right way for a time, but he purred at last, and on this Thanksgiving day he will do the carving and his wife will pass the cranberry sauce, EMPEROR AT THE PLOW. Peculiarities of China’s Thanksgiving Celebration. In China at the beginning of winter a thanksgiving festival is held at which the deltles are especially thank- ed for the preservation of life and health during the preceding twelve THE EMPEROR OPENS SEVERAL FUEROWS. months. Offerings are presented on the family altar, and the ceremony is can partake. The feasting and rejole- Ing are kept up for days. On the fifteenth day of the first moon the emperor of China goes In great state to a certain field, accompanied by the chief officers of his household. and prostrates himself, touching the ground nine times with his head in honor of the god Tien, and pronounces a prayer iuvoking the blessing of the great being. Then as high priest of the empire he sacrifices a bullock to heaven as the fountain of all good. While the victim is_being offered a plow drawn by a pair of highly orna- mented oxen is brought to the emper- or, who throws aside his imperial robe, lays hold of the plow handles and opens several furrows. The principal mandarins follow his example, and the festival, which is really a species of thanks in advance for good harvests, ends with a distribution of clothes and money to the poor. “RABBIT HUNTING DANCE.” Odd Thanksgiving Festival the Pueblo Indians. The “rabbit hunting dance” of the Pueblo Indians at Zuni, Acoma, Taos and Isleta is a festival contemporane- ous with that of the white man. In the dance the Indians give thanks and pray for future favors. The chief of each village designates a day in No- Vember for the festival, and the dan- cers, who are dressed in white cotton shirts and pantaloons and carry guns, chant and dance as long as breath and strength remaln. ‘They begin at day- light and after a pause for food at noon continue ‘dancing far into the night. They pray tervently that the Great Spirit may give them power to slay plenty of rabbits and other game Held by brought to a close by a grand dinner and also thank him for the game, the | at which all' members of the family erops lnd the rain ot the season past. ABOVE THIRTY Two Tornadoes Sweep Over ‘Western ‘Arkansas. PROPERTY L0SS IMMENSE Incomplete Reports Tell of the De: struction of a Number of Towns, Miles Upon Miles of Land Have Been Swept Bare, Forests Destroyed and Scores of Churches, Business Houses and Homes Demolished. Little Rock, Ark., Nov. 25.—The lat- est conservative estimate of the loss of life in the two tornadoes which swept Western Arkansas is placed at thirty, although reports from several sources declare that the death list will aggregate fifty, with much of the storm swept territory yet to be heard from. The injured number several score. - No estimates are made as to the property loss. Judging from all reports received thus far, however, it will go into the hundreds of thou sands. Miles upon miles of land have been swept bare. Forests, homes, business houses, churches and every- thing have been demolished alike in many communities. From all reports there appears to have been two dif- ferent tornadoes, one starting from the south and the other from the north, both dipping to the earth at intervals and apparently meeting in the central western part of the state, where the most damsge has been re- ported. The town of Piney, a German settle- ment on the Iron Mountain. railroad, located between Knoxville and Lon- don, suffered the most, according to reports received thus far. The num- ber of dead is variously estimated from nine to twenty. Five business houses and a number of homes were destroyed, according to reports. More Definite Reports. From the towns of Berryville and Cravens the most definite reports are received. At the former three per- sons were injured and the property loss is roughly estimated at between $25,000 and $40,000. At Cravens four persons are known to be dead, mem- bers of the family of John Rosin, a farmer, who were caught under the falling timbers of their home. L. G. Holt and wife, an aged couple, were seriously injured and may die. Eight persons who took refuge in a store ‘were caught in the crash of the build- others are reported as missing. At Cravens practically all the larger buildings were either demolished or badly damaged. From Knoxville a dispatch partially confirms the report that the village of Barr, four miles from that place, was totally wrecked. In the vicinity of Mulberry five per- sons are reported killed and others injured. At Lodi one woman was seriously injured and the Methodist church and several other buildings were de- stroyed. Later reports show that the first tornado swept over the counties of Carroll, Newton and Johnson, almost totally destroying Boxly, Murray, Low- gap, Ozark, Dale, Boston, Judea, Trath, Omega, Dry Fork, Dansmorek, Parthenon, Mossville, Limestone, Red Fork and other hamlets. CHINESE TROOPS MUTINY Situation at Nanking Reported to Be Serious. Peking, Nov. 25.—The situation at Nanking, where a mutiny on the part of the Chinese troops broke out Nov. 19, is serious. There has been fight- ing in the streets of the city and a portion of the foreign residents have taken refuge on board a British gun- boat. Others of the foreigners elected to remain on shore. This information was conveyed to Peking in official telegrams to the le- gations here. There 8 also a German gunboat off the city. The American residents asked for a gunboat for their protection, but in view of the assur- ances given by Yuan Shi Kal, one of the grand councillors, that the situa- tlon was quiet and the incident of the mutiny closed this request was not forwarded. The information coming in here contradicts the representa- tions being made by the foreign board and the legations have requested the board to supply them with further news. William Tell Act Fatal. London, Nov. 25.—Herbert Lee, a music hall performer, died in this city from the effects of a wound in the head received during a performance of a “William Tell” act at a local hall. Lee held a ball on his head at which Mme. Clementine shot at at a distance of fifty feet. Mme. Clementine sur- rendered to the police. Mr. Lee had + been giving this act for a period of eighteen years without having met with any accident. Hospital Ship Overdue. Manila, Nov. 25.—Some concern is felt here regarding the safety of the American hospital ship Relief. This vessel left here Nov. 15 for Guam and was due there Nov. 20. She has not Barker’s Drug Stere “This remedy can always be depended upon and is pleasant to take. [t contains %0 opium or other harmfal drug and mybc given as confl- deritly to a baby as to an aduit. Price 25 cents, large size 50 cents. For Sale at Julia Dean, and while I was there she ; insisted upon talking about Gerty. Pretty soon I asked her if Gerty was her daughter. her flare up! found out she meant Goaty.” author.”—Somerville Herald. all its stages, and tha Gatarrh Gures the. only Dositive cire now known d belnfltl“consl“b“filflflll glsensn reqnlms a constitution ing and all were injured and eight | G; AL upen the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and gving the patientstrengeh by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its Work. bave so much faith in its curaiive powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fall testimonials. yet arrived. Orders have been given that the supply ship Supply leave Guam in search of the Relief. Hindus Refuse to Leave. Vancouver, .B. C., Nov. 25—Two thousand Hindus in British Columbia, whom the - Dominion government wishes to transport to British “Hon- duras lest they should become a pub- lic charge in Vancouver and Westmin- ster, have declined to move. TO. 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