The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 20, 1909, Page 1

THE SEATTLE —h STA NO, 233 SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1909. ONE CENT RN SOLVE STANDARD OIL r — ee ee LR A A EN GERRY MI te tw UOSES IN COURT OF APPEALS All His. Information in Shape of Documentary ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 20.—The government to- born. The court finds that the Standard Oil company coe Evidence. iday won the great suit to dissolve the Standard Oil obi ir Stl — a. (By United Press.) pregsaie company of New Jersey, the parent Rockefeller cor- sidiary companies, have entered into a combination in ‘CHERRY, Ill, Nov. 20.—Like the dead rising! What is believed to be a trick to bar much of L. R. Glavis! Poration, of $100,000,000 capital. restraint of trade among the several states, such as is testimony in the government cases against the Cunningham | The decision was announced in the United States declared illegal by the Sherman anti-trust law. The gm the tomb, aac men were raised from the St. jcoal ldnd claimants developed unexpectedly at noon today circuit court by Judge Elmer B. Adams. opinion is unanimous. ial mine here this afternoon. J. M. Sheridan, who is conducting the government case ) The government case was brought under the di- Judge Hook also wrote a separate opinion, - _ The wildest scenes of joy followed. mak. | called Glavis to the stand at noon. He Tioahan the ex-land field rection of former President Roosevelt by Frank B. ing a number of points for the government stronger The wives, dressed as widows, and the children, chief a letter which Glayis had written to him three days after Kellogg, “ieeatd deputy attorney general. . than in the opinion read by the court. mourned the apparently certain loss of their Sheridan had succeeded to Glavis’ place | e only exceptions made in favor of the oil trust The Standard of New Jersey is enjoined from vot- ee shila. ures Mats: iemiialens aclals The letter was written in answer to one fro ‘ridan ask-|@re in relation to some of the minor subsidiary com- ing the stock of the subsidiary companies by holding 1 ¥ ing Glavis for a consultation to see whether it was advisable for| panies, which were named as defendants. their stock. Glavis to go on the stand in,the present case, “Glavis had ane} These, it is held, are not clearly shown to be dom- Other defendant companies are enjoined from de- _Itseems almost inconceivable, too good to be true, | swered as follows . linated by the trust. claring or paying any dividends to the Standard of New hope had fled. “I can't understand why an interview is necessary since the} The orders of the court, affecting the monster Jersey on account of stock acquired through combina: ‘The families of these men had not the slightest ray records in your possession will disclose all the information on | Rockefeller a roe do not take effect for 30 days. tion or from permitting a combination vote of the said . A which I can testify.” He adds, however, that he is willing tol An appeal can be made directly to the United stock. that they would ever be seen alive again. Only & d d that the Stand- 4 i charred bodies, burned probably beyond| #4 the prosecution in any way | States supreme court and it is expected that the Stan This case is one of the most memorable in the rec« nag ped for at th P ‘% Th o. “Did you write this letter?” asked Sheridan jaed will take such action. lords of jurisprudence. n, were ho; ‘or at the mos! en, after ‘Ven? | Oe dar, fee Cee ee ee ee ag ZANE the stateinents init true to the best of your know: |OUR JUDGES OF THE COURT OF APPEALS, WHO HANDED DOWN ‘THE STANDARD OIL eighth day, for them to arise from the seared eye?” Mil clive, reall iets alle PPE TI Yes” said DECISION TODAY, AND STORY OF BATTLE STARTED BY EX- PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT live, really and ac y able to spe: ‘o their “Yes,” said Glavis, a little surp ! ones, has sent the torn and stricken community “That is all. You may step down paroxynis of grief to the wild hysteria of joy. The Th Me eae f <a ‘le tectoaet oe ee ; starving men thought they had been : ah for only one day. | This would bar him from testifying to anything else in’ the unrecorded. There was noth- whole Jand scandal The incident made quite a only ‘caniting ‘tb die,” said one man. “No! bb mocrmian session was dev ‘ ~ A of Ans Grew Kennedy, government coal expert, who told of the amount fo try to tell how long eee: Buhcnne et cietopnest: WeFh that hed bern done ia thie’ Alii cout! it was more than a day. fields had some food with them, which sustained | Dr. J. P. Cunningham, But the very fact that they were unable to Cunningham passage of time was probably the explanation - np 1 ol eacact : Zurope shortly and the defense asked for his testimony at orice, long enough to save them. That the Cunningham coal land; Guggenheims, but that it was not ad of eating meals for seven days, they had, enirymen had ‘gentlemen's such a binding compact as to t0-| pment” to consolidate their! voive the integrity of the tndivid § living tomb, been satisfied with the food that *Ey2""', (0), (jnsclidate | thelr che fh ot Mr yo | JUDGE VANDEVANTER. ‘ JUDGE ADAMS. i JUDGE HOOK. JUDGE SANBOR or sell them out in a body to the tconceeee oo eee —_ ven.) a cael ae = | STANDARD WILL APPEAL. ht would last them one day. They were near. | NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—It was announced at the general offices of ; without knowing it. | the Standard Oi! company that the decision of the United States circult 4 the first 42 had I brought to the TOWN TN id THROWN WI “| > - | court at St. Louis in favor of the government in the federal suit to dis- men | solve the parent corporation will be appealed to the United States @ the mine inspectors hastened to return into the! supreme court. The officials refused any further discussion of the de- Sachi ei a cision. No other plece itigation in history has attracted so much atten- - long a wathsar es flashed that (PEN [fF GIL (5 FLFGTED: (By United Press.) tion as the famous Standard Of] dissolution suit, just decided %. the ing men been found in another c am- | | United States circuit court of appeals. During its course some of the | OLYMPIA, Nov. 20.—The call of the King county grand t men in the world have been forced on the witness stand and e to tell the secrets timony only, to those hings contained in the decuments in Sheridan's possession the testi of Spokane, a brother of Clarence and himself one of the claimants, was put on the vis. It was explained that he is leaving for sed through h th yy ea jesame experience! Saloon Interests Preparing for “Fat Times” and Will | jury to sit November 22 is legal. 4 f the world’s greatest monopoly. / ) I Uni'ke the famous $29,000,000 fine suit, this was a civil suit, while this news was spread, the town, already Spend Big Fund to Secure Them. / The supreme court this morning handed down a unanimous! the other was bre rg uncer the criminal statutes, ae . ia P ¢ _—— ' By direction of President Roosevelt and the attorney general, the joy, went into even wilder expressions o' PP gin on. ie said mayor of <r ene Ped IB decision, denying the petition of Dr. W. C. Gibson, of Seattle, | suit was started In November, 1906. in the cireuit court for the eastern of those recovered may die from weakness, will be as a Bunday school pienic! Plans Gerefully Late, Gibson, through his attorney, Kenneth Mackintosh, ques- ire of Standard Oil was started | Wills Vandevanter, Elmer BL tis hoped that almost all of them can be saved. | hen compared with what we will gciNever before in jibe Bistory of | ddaned the legality of the call which stated that the jury would imme ately by Herbert Knox Adams, Wislam C. Hook and Wal the j joy and celebrating i is great, there is no oan Mare ee oe “have tne plone ot 4s gene beer begin its sitting on November 22. Gibson contended that under | ons. A motion was mad by the The government's ~ ohanill cf for the sorrow that has sunken down irremove| This statement wae made to the as bandas a beet Ag reeset the statutes of 1909 the grand jury could not sit in the same trast cal 8 See one against the Standard Oil company were a multitude. They ran all urt the way from unfalr methods of riss of competition and the payment of f |rebates on oll prices to the form- . editor of The Star yesterday by a the homes of 23 mem, whose dead bodies have (0 ')e2 0) wig ioe ey by and the members of the coun. | month in which it was called wasn't made for campaign pur combine will be financed by! Ae + | poses, for the man who made {t the saloons and the brewerles, with| ty dead bodies have been taken out of the mine /.""*", “ supporter of Mr. A. V. a ifttle money thrown in by the {for court of King county in calling the grand jury was in ac Judge F I suis then was appointed re by the anklin The supreme court decided that the procedure of the super r »ny. Both sides | ing of “bogus companies that have jou on oppone ‘or corpo tor ere ore heard ¢ the a hat) bee or are ) ye there is not much hope of identifying more ine Geetinase’ estan for corporations, There will be more | cordance with the law and that the date of the jury's eltting was | Siidoaa’ the nrieolnal hedeinee hall teenies ee ioe ply eine A 2 wn already have been recognized. |mayor. It wasn’t said for publica (Continued on Page Seven.) a matter entirely within the discretion of the superior court g held in the custom house at « © names of the defendants in ; : New k, the federal court In| the suft brought by the government questioned and cross-ques-| which, and through which, the gov- err nt holds that several men us 8 iol ee PEO big snakes lurk, no on foolish | jail, he gets busy Attracted Great Crowds. and many concerns engaged in the POMEN AND CHILOREN | crue ¥ p | enough to try to escape, uniems, in As a result innocent men, wom Great crowds fought for admis. | Ol trade carried on an unlawful BEATEN, STARVED AND) “y Nacional is undoubtedly | deed, he or #he prefers death by | and ¢ en are cast into jail into the witness rooms arty" men, the nam ft th the wors e » in pxico,” jreptile or beast to death at the|to be 1 laves, and to die w only attorneys of record fo As for the men, the names of the VALLEY, |™ eo of slaves pass back fo earth | planters ment, which is nothir |. And hundreds of persons choose than slow torture \thia death in the forests rather On his way te |than the slower death in the slave | Turner saw 10 5 Frank B. Kellogg, government | ames of the company, The gov- trust buster,” and Chas. B. Morri-|@?=ment seemed to have arranged peng |on, formerly district attorney at|the names in tne order of its be- arly all | Chicago, It was Mr. Morrison who|llef of the sources of offense amen KENNETH TUR-|Sithin a space of seven or elght INBECOND ARTICLE ON months. It ie positively known HORRORS OF MEXxiCco that the death rate Js appallin, 7 15,000 of these —— And there a |pens every year! of the better class, being | prosecuted the famous trial of the | 7h Us, 'S soe ser William Rock Ville Nactonal 15,000 new ‘Sivety. runawa lave bring aded under rd to| beef trust, which finally was decid m ‘ockefeller jam Rock- itbarous, slave i ia oddey Bane . gaued of $16 to the man i N fal ed in favor of the pack through | feller, the late rlenry H. Rogers, comes in for another ac sist cut h tet id’ ¥veture halk. “ab elddely Attorney John §. Miller's celebrat-| Henry M, Flagler, Oliver H. net? Ken. | i aa dnaey of tations told roe fig <r n, muttered: “They are /éd. immunity bath, Mr. Miller |Payne and Charles M. Pratt. The the Le r | killer on @ group of plantations told | j to. pis dwnet. niageie ; ot to olf deatho-to: gue |Again ‘was of counsel for the ofi|®0Vvernment’s prayer for the disac Magszine, out tc fr, Turner, word for word | “Phe planter buys h Ha ldanths Wee" will coevan che ease nl teoat, ela. wae aiden “be Sune tat INI Ot Wiha, GET Seok Qdaarad eee Mither whose oc: By the sixth or seventh month the first place for a given sum, He | dea Ve will never get out o i Bt rr ais WORE 21 ecg], pagan 08 aaauneosian Condition n tt . they begin to die off like flies at \works him at will, fee or starves | that hole alive Mi n of But alo, Judge John G led the graft ig. the first winter frost, and after jhim to suit himself, places armed) His companion, a boy of 18, wept | Johnson of Philadelphia, Judge M.| qe eae aAAAARAANARRE Of this coal a B® ‘that the rest are not worth keep. guards over him day and night,| bitterly and silently all the way to| i 2 lef iar ert * * ub © seek , ay, kil , t yo-| ard Of}; Moritz Rosenthal of Ch ek ing = The cheapest thing to do is Sasha him, him no money, kills | the place. He, too, knew he was go. | : m4 aE ie * Lara, th c jet them die; there are plenty him, and the laborer bas no re-|ing to his death jcago; Chauncey Martin of Chicago; | y = B ty throu, "| more where they came from | course. Kidnaping, false promises of| Alfred D. Ba 7 we Bidet, kpee' * Final—Yale 8, Harvard 0. o& ‘ou, an - t » ffi al € " > estern counse atson © Y : Mexicans. The secret of the traffic in slaves | work and wages, and the method | ¥ atson x First half— Minnesota 6, % land of torture A < Are Native Mexica is given here, Every rural officer | described above, are the three | Pittsburg, and others. W. ©. Folger} — Michigan 6. * The of Ville Nacional, 1 wn place ) : ot New York, treasurer of Standard oe Sutrent arti { t Indians is @ small ar in bis own plac means used to swell the ranks of ; yee * * cle, M nys Mr ir are no’ rans, 's the power to jall whom he/the slaves which are ade vacant | Oll, attended all the hearings to . Evite te attest of a trip he ure the slaves of Yucatan, They [oat aaterteers ais delivetaibvdasin mt advive the counsel OOOO te on . " lexican mgr Oe ene ace ta a labor agent he a sun o One-fifth of the slaves of Ville} In a simi apacit Nib BO URC CK 4 iad a mR Score Bee money. Then the agent turns these | Nacional are women,” « matinuss jernment Was. ©. Dana Durand weit { non laborers. As a whole, ex slaves, or “prisoners,” over to the| Turner, “One-third are boys under |that time a special agent of the | % THE WEATHER, . horrors of the Congo for thelr rags, thelr bruises, «tm, ho Sl lee ed Ape stir lie niga he folde | bureau of corporatic now di iad 8 rie rue at blo 9 6 ¢ “ ’ slave Owner, of plantation oper 15, The boys work in the fields - * ph King Leo- |t ale 1 their despair, ls, acd gt ao and gets what he paid plus a com-| with the men, and they cc j rector of the census * Cloudy and colder tonight. * Som a Mache ey BA Fd ok apa gaa | WOMEN SLAVE CORN GRINDERS 7” ny mission for himself 1B as young as 6 are sometimes Many Prominent Names. * Sunday fair, hght northeast * ional, whict Mexican people.” | oe - —| When the peopie under this petty | seen in the field planting tobacco,| All this array of distinguished | * winds * aa lave hole.” The jonal is the center of a| - coreernapnneatt ra tere a aa atiae wide Sharer In by lofficer, who is called a Jefe politico, jcoun e] and men in public life was | * * nthe light of rich tobacco country, the most|of tropica 20 miles long and aldense jungles where pumas andlare law-abiding and no one is in| (Continued on Page Seven.) massed in the cireult court Of ap: | tions, hercafter | noted in Mexico, and a garden spot|valiey about 20 m 4 | A