The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 16, 1907, Page 4

eatitc Hare Hixctustve ferrin) May 16.--Aftor of a bor er of Kaneas, we to answer for his methods to Unele Sam bimseit ‘He has been indicted in the fed- court for fradulent use of the malls, is out on $15,000 pee ead y h bis operations; thy, by the 10,000 or #0 work! to invest the charae Dim ae a “fight of the liow mouse.” He says it te the © enmity of the “great Standard Ot) Co.” stockholders in his ot | ago called an attempt eoncern into the hands | “har il iH an upon fon to the Of) trust that Tucker his campaign for the hard- dotiars of the masses. The am company rode to affiu- the wave of Indignation the off trust's throttling of Tucker, a reporter upon newspaper in a small town, rose tn three years to Bead of an independent ol! com: | with a capital stock of $17,-/ O00. He began by advertising| , lavishly. It is estimated | it cost over 25 cents to bring, dollar recetved for stock sub- ton. BOND Is8UF ADDED, was after a recent bood issue MARRY © TOCKER, WHOLE THING Et SELLS OVER A MILLION OF STOCK AT COST OF #800,000, BUT HIS GFL SALD* ARE ONLY FT0,000-—NOW He MENT ON OHARGE OF FRAUDU STOCK SELLING INDUSTRY, BUT LITTLE OFF BUSENESS | KANSAS BOY PRO UNDER INDIO. LENT USE OF MAILS-GREAT of $5,000,000 that Tucker's prosecu tion was commenced. He had suc ecoeded in selling $40,000 worth. He had adVertived al! along t there would be no bond tissue, a there fore, ho chance of the octopus gob Dling It, However, the advertise ments were of the Uncle Sam Com The bonds were m Company pany of Arizona issued by the Une of Kaneas, which recently the other Uncle 8am compan Tucker is the “whole thing” fa both companies. The new company $20,000 capital stock, the majority held by Tucker. | | DIVIDENDS TO ORDER. In bis advertisements Tucker painted glowingly the prospect o wetting rich bucking Standard Oi | Bt first sold his treasury stock | at 4 cents a share, Everybody be | ing “agin” the Standard Oll, he ba sympathy with him from the start A) The sporadic tnvestors all over the country never coughed up more) freely for any get-rich-quick seheme than they did for the Unele Sam Ou & Refining Co, stock. The dreamy eyed, sanguine Kansas youth found the returns just to bis liking. He kept on advertising only more so. He soon had money enough together to begin constr tien, He later felt free, also to nounce that dividends were soon coming. His was one of the most striking examples of early dividends advertised In advance to boom the sale of stock. In the spring of 1906 he advertised that on Ang. 1! Unele Sam stock would jump from | 10 cents a share in the market to cents, CIVEs HIMSELE CONTROL, Back in 1904 Tucker, then an or- dinary. non-affiuent newspaper man at Cherryvale, Kas., acquired a ma jority of stock in the Pubtisbers Of! company, of that town, which |Spent was then crazy over oll. Crude ofl OfTY, KAS. THE ENTIN f KANSAS a BY THR “UNCLE j The Apt Pupil. | The philanthropical Fifth avenue fady was visiting a lower East Side Sunday school. To test the apt- Rese of 4 particularly indigent cluster of pupils, she took the class fm band to question them. iden, which is the of all virtues?” one answered @Think a little: What ts tt I am when I give up time and greatest RARRY HM. TUCKER AND THE WYANDOTTE anes ee BUILDING, AT THIED Floon or WHcH ts om, Co” | pleasure to come down among you for your moral good? A grimy fist went up. “Well, what am I doing, little boy? Buttin’ in!" —Life The Party Line. Hubby—Whiy didn't you come to the door and let me in Wite—I couldn't, George Our neighbor was talking to somebody and I was at the phooe.—Cleveland Plain Dealer | compa | é | | | went down and the concern became unprofitable, Then Tucker had the Uncle Sam idea, He tncorporated for $50,000,000 in Arizona with Jaa Inge i, J. M Ritehie and & | Cooper. Fifty million was too buge, | eo stock was reduced to ten milion, | par value $1 « share, One million | ehares were preferred stock, with a} voting power of eight to the share The remaining 9,000,000 shares were | OMMOR stock WIth Oterhag vote te a share, Tucker took all the pre ferred stock, charging himeelf for it | $10,000 on the books on the com pany. This gave Tucker control by | $,000,000 votes against & possible 450,000 / Ahother dividend was announced ~~ Deo. 20, 1906, It cal tn the! shape of checks good 161 days from He offered to take these in part payment for more tate SALES AND DIVIDEND TUCKER'S STATEMENT OF IPTS AND EXPENDITURES HOWS SALES OF OLL TO.) TALING $10,482. He shows that| rude oll purchased and royalties! cost him $55,683. With no coat Cor labor, or loss by refining, the profit indicated would be $14,699. He ad mite paying cash dividends of $10, 580, and giving dividend checks tor over $11,000, These latter he marks | in his statement “indorsed back " IN RE HE In bia bond offer Tucker eatimat ed the value of the tangible proper ties of the Uncle Sam company at $11,000. 000. This includes three re- | fineties. a 140-mile pipe Mne and 1.100 acres of of) land tn Indian ter- ritory, aod 68 distributing stations. He wanted the bonds sold so he} could buy 6,000,000 barrels of crude | of} at 39 cents, and store it. He said that In a few years he would sell it for $2 to $3 & barrel Receipts from stock fajea # 1,020,966.16 Adrertixing to sell stock Other expenses of tng stock . Postage “ Net sales of Pald for off thea, ate. Dividends for 246,150 88) well oti in royal- construc- tion, development and off properties Claimed value of tan- gible property now TO BR AN ACTOR, ad WHAT MAY MArreN To MAY, try Bay, of the Cleveland leans, te to abine In vaade ville next sesson-#if theater pat rons will let him. A special sketch has been eritten for him, enabling him to ring in a number of mast cal instruments. A touch of base ball in the sketch is expected to help enthuse the audiences QUARTER TO SPEND } | | | rRisce mDDIE, OF ENGLAND, Cons TO NAVAL CoLLnor WITH @ CENTS A WREK FoR POCKET MONEY 4 . like the othe y. Why earn money all We ther ways r ot Water front tracte—go any day from Madison Park, 8:2 F 90, 12:30 2:30, 6:8 GEORGE F. MEACHAM, OWNER ’ 200 New York Block id let wo | THE SEATTLE STAR—-THURSDAY, MA’ UNCLE SAM HIMSELF AFTER “UNCLE SAM OIL CO.,” DREAM OF MOTER WHO CATCHES THOUSANDS _ —— b nf TOT OO “UNCLE SAM OTF COO” REFINERY AT CHERKY VALE, KAS. a woe ee oer RRR ene nme or INTERIOR OF BOISE’S CO a ner eres were cunt on” ep DRAWN BSPECIALLY FOR THIS PAPER BY ©. N. LANDON, May 16—People Who are familiar with court roome will be interested fn the ar The jury box ts directly tn fromt of the Judge's desk. In the middie of the facing both the fury aod judge with the prosecuting at- The epace allotted the BOTHR, Idaho, rangement of the court room. floor fa the witness stand. Here the witne torneys a able on one side of him sod the defense’s array on the other «ide. laree - GLOSING OUT SALE Of Last Season’s Dining-Room Chairs FROM THE BEST FACTORIES They have discontinued the manufacture of these terns. The goods are well made and finely finished in Golden Oak particular pat- with leather or cane seats $6.50 Golden Onk, Leather Seat 83.00 | $4.75 Golden Onk, Cane Seat ..........92.66 $68.50 Golden Osk, Leather Seat | $8.50 Golden Oek, Cane Goat ..........66.36 94.76 Golden Onk, Leather Seat $4.76 Golden Oak, Leather Seat x $7.00 Golden Oak, Léather Beat te Golden Oak, Leather Beat $10.00 Golden Oak, Leather Seat ’ Golden Oak, Leather Seat $10.00 Golden Oak, Leather Beat | $4.60 Golden Ok, Leather Beat $11.00 Golden Oak, Leather Beat | $8.00 Golden Oak, Leather Seat $16.09 Golden Oak, Leather Seat Golden Oak, Leather Boat |i $16.00 Golden Oak, Leather Beat 56 Golden Oak, Leather Seat ' Mas arms. While they Inst Special Sale of Austrian China Dinner, Salad, Chocolate, Berry and Tea Sets Here is one of the pretti designs and shapes we carry in our entire department The edge has a.stippled gold and green beaded design with daiity gold lining. We offer this pattern for two days at a lower price than we ask for American Semi-Porcelain 100-PIECE DINNER SET, regular price $36.00; | 60 £ DINNER SET, regular price 00, epecta 921.95 | aspects $11.45 7-PIECE SALAD BET, regular price $2.25: pe 7-PIECE CHOCOLATE S8T, regular price pi $1.25 | spectal $2.85 reece BERAY SET, regular price $2 Se eae TEA GET, regular price $4.25; spectal | S%inch Pie Plates, regular $2.50 dosen, dozen Regular $1.68 Covered Rutter Dish 9138 6%-tnch Toa Plates, regular $3.65 4 — Pickle Dish +. $7 T%-inch Breakfast Plates, regular $4.75 doen, pir a pip Arveen <eche S%-tnch Dinner Plates, regular 96.4 , Cone Fate doen 82.55 a 3 Ginch Coup soups, regular $4.00 dosen, dosen 12tneh C . $2.70 Covered Cai 4%inch Fruit Dishes, regular $2.25 dosen, dosen Covered Dish ‘ Sauce Tureen 24nch Oat Meal Dishes, regular $8.20 10-1noh Pla doren I2inch Plat Individual Butter Dishes, regular 950 dosen, | idinch Platter 2.28 dosen ase 55¢ | i6inch Piatter..... $3.50 Regular Special 1ftneh Piatter.... finch Open Vegetable Dish § 80 ® .45 Covered Sugar..... Creamer , $ 50 8 .20 Chocolate Pot..... Sauce Boats $1.00 s «40 Tea Pots ate Cups and Saucers, regular $1.75 set; spectal 1 set Ch \ Dm Tea Cups and Saucers Coftes Cups and Saucers doz dozer Century Furniture Company SECOND AVENUE AND SPRING STREET URTROOM know whet tt i# to fly some of « kite, but dia 9 man kite? They are casy to make | and the “Detiy @tar” wil! tell you! >————[“TRY McCARTHY’S FIRST.’ ‘$1.75 Shirt Waists 98c } | & feet % inohe one piece 2% feet Inches. two pieces # Inehes long. in diameter. the through the center a few inches beneath the head. the epine ip the center of the arm plece 04 Put similar loope for thy If they are pot exactly alike your kite wil be lop-sided. ourely the ends of the ar ineh sticks on th kite Will look at dotted lines will show where te run the etrings Use tiene paper for the cove Paste enough sheets together te leompletely cover the fr *, velng | different colore for the t, trous ere and heed. Lay the frame on IT’S KITE TIME BOYS AND HERE’S HOw TO MAKE A “MAN” FLY IN THE AIR Most of you bore, na over own « tee ite time ft and body out two of ight wood for the spine how to 40 foot ht 9 of wood & Inches Yasten the spine to running it diredtiy head, Tack the arm-piece to the apine, Get Fasten the two long sticks for the and be & fest Figure (« tel tom i the arms fasten oblong loops aul Tie joints sticks and the Now fasten the § ou Can see how the te ptage, and the In figure (>) sheet and eut the paper around leaving & haif-tech mar ite in the mar every “Olympic Market cute your meat bills in half 118 t.. opposite the Bon Marche. Gentist, 206 Ettei butiding. Phone Main 6266. eee T & pe paint ant glve your “mag* @ Three Both phones e a8 a ri leg int, and from shoulder joint. Tie @ where the band at i hand te ® 3 H i ! i, 2 3 =, = é s F e the tall w ¢ is tintahed, = i When t kite ® # i uF oat ate. Use heavy ines, a9 be seen from @ @ Art Marble doors 7 Co, 2001 Seoona ex | 4 north of Virgie, 3 J f i] 2 ‘omorrow you will ave pleasure of choosing from a7 least a half dozen tne more than twenty styles white lawn walsts—an posed of the grouping of several | of our best selling assortments heavy selling of the ebirt walet deve, * are included though not sizes in every style Such @ profusion of the different com binations of embroidery, lees medeliions, tucking and Bem stitebing as {e shown te (8! trimming of these pretty mer walste had seldom om been seen, Some hare @7 sleeves others long Some and others back fastening, Rego 7 lar prices are $129, " Choice tomorrow... $3.75 Shirt Wa sheer beautiful quality, materials with satin stripes and tily trimmed and finished in the | The regular price ie $2 Choice Friday at $1.75 Black ilk, $1.39 Black Peau de Sole, wide, reversible and a splendid quality, lustrous Diack, that sells regularly $1.76 a yard Brery yard guaranteed to give satisfaction weit $139 day at $2.25 Bed Pillows, $1.48. Good 61d. Bed Pillows filled with inches properly cured selected chick Yen feathers and covered with real art ticking in dainty blue and pink stripes. See them tn our window, regular price $2.25 a * pair, Fri- $f 48 day, only . seaTTLES RELIA MUL wet | Player 1406 SECO BEST ON LOWEST eee eeeocesesoeseeseseeee “THE HOUSE OF QUALITY” a0) Staman|fiiey &Cn | Lovely new garments made from the choicest of colored lama, | with dainty flora! ato All are ‘$1.25 to $1.50 Conse, i Lots of different styles t from in G. D. and other did makes. Black, white ail] drab, made of fine coutll a battete, all perfectly clea r rs jenigns; polka dot effects. atest mode in good condition. them have hose # u a. Regular $ and $1.50 each Special Friday ‘ mer day's price, each tri BLE Storr = CK E ano DIN! P ianos jf: ND AVE. EARTH Eight Different Makes PRICES eeeseseeeore jooone