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LASTEDlftOff, aXL THE MARKET Full Leased Wire Service of the Asaociated Prtss. Leads all North Carolina Afternoon Papon in Circulation. THE RALEIGH TIMES. RALEIGH, N. CV, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1906. VOLUME 27. PRICE 6c EVENING ATTACK ON STANDARD OIL IS BEGUN BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Attorney General Moody In slltutes Proceedings Under Sherman Anti-Trust Act LET THE BE L So Asks the Attorney General in Hip Proceed imis Instituted at St. Louis Today, Adding That in Fu ture it Slioiild Be Enjoined From Filtering Into Any Contract or Combination In Restraint! of Trade. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, D. c. Nov. 15. At torney General Moody today act ing through til" resident United States district attorney instituted pro ceedings against the Standard Oil Com pany of New Jersey under the Bher-t man anti-trust act, by filing in the United States circuit court at St. Louis a petition in equity against it and its s venty constituent corporations and partnerships ajul seven individual de fendants, asking that the combina tion be declared unlawful and In the future enjoined from entering into any contract or combination in restraint of trade. Statement, by Moody. The following statement was pre pared and made public by Attorney General Moody today. "In June last, by direction of the president, Messrs. Kellogg and Mor rison were appointed by mo special assistant attorneys general, to act with Attorney General Purdy, to malce an investigation of the relations of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey to the business of retlnlng, transport ing, distributing, and selling oil throughout the United States; to as certain all the facts, and report wheth er or not In their opinion there has been a violation of the Sherman anti-trust law by the Standard Oil Com pany of New Jersey or the persons or corporations associated with or man aging it. The counsel have complete! that duty, and the report of their in vestigation has received careful con sideration by the president and his cabinet. "The Information available to the department tends to show that the various corporations and limited part nerships under the control ,in the man ner hereinafter stated, of the Stand ard Oil Company of New Jersey, pro duce, transport, and sell about ninety per cent of the refined oil produced, transported, and sold in the United States for domestic use and about the same proportion of refined oil exported from the United States; that this share of tho business has been procured by a course of action which, beginning in 1870, has continued under the direc tion of the same persons, In the main,' down to the present time; that these persons now surviving are John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, Henry H. Rogers, Henry M. Flagler, John D. Archbold, Oliver H. Payne, and Charles M. Pratt; that the de sign throughout the persons having control of the enterprise has been to suppress competition in the produc tion, transportation and sale of re fined oil, and to obtain as far as possi ble, a monopoly therein, that between 1S70 and 1882 the design was affected through agreements made between many persons and corporations en gaged in this business; that in 1882 the result aimed at was made more certain by vesting in nine trustees (In cluding live of the above-named) suf ficient stock In tUe thirty-nine cor porations concerned to enable the trus tees to control their operations In- such a way that competition between them was suppressed; that this plan was acted upon until it was declared un lawful by the supreme court of Ohio In action against the Standard OJ.1 Company of Ohio, one of said cor porations In 1892; that during the sev en years following the same Individ uals defendants, as A majority of the liquidation trustees were pretending to liquidate the trust, but as a matter of fact were managing all of he corpora Ions In the same way and exercising the same control over them; that the individual defendants, in 1899, increas ed the stock of the Standard Oil Com pany of New Jersey from $10,000,000 to $110,000,000; that said company was then a producing and selling corpor ation, and they added to its corporate powers the power of purchasing stock in other companies and practically all of the powers exercised by the trus tees under the unlawful trust agree ment of 1882; that the Stanaard Oil Company of New Jersey, then taking ,,, ,i.,,. nf th trustees, acouired all of the stock of the corporations there- I tofore held and controlled by the trustees, paying therefor by the issue of its own shares in exchange; that the president of the board of trus tees became the president of the Stand ard OH Company of New Jersey and ever since continued it; that, the pur pose and effect of the use of the Stand ard Oil Company of New Jersey as a holding company was precisely the same as the purpose and effect of the appointment of the trustees herein before referred to, namely, to suppress competition between the corporations and limited partnerships whose stock was first held by the trustees and then by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey; that by the forgoing methods, aided by the establishment bf railroad rates for transportation which dis dtscriminated in favor of the corpora tions whose stock was held by the holding company, that company has been enabled to obtain in large sec tions of the country, a monopoly of 'the sale of refined oil, with the result that the prices to the consumer with in the territory where the monopoly prevails are very much higher than within the territory where competi tion to some extent still exists. Action in Counts Justified. "It is believed that these facts, to gether with others contained in the report of the special counsel, justi fy and require action by the United States in the courts. Accordingly a petition in equity under the provision of the S' ,-rman act, has this day been filed against the Standard OH Com pany of New Jersey and seventy other corporations and limted partnerships and the seven Individual defendants before named, in the eighth judicial circuit at St. Louis, Mo., to have the said combination adjudged tand de creed to the unlawful, and that the holding and control by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey of the stocks of the seventy corporations be declared unlawful any dividends to the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and be enjoined from entering Into or performing any contract or combination to restrain trade and commerce or to monopolize trade in the future. "The question whether any action of a different nature should be taken Is reserved for future consideration. The controversy Is now pending in the courts and any further comment by this department or anyone con nected with It would obviously be improper and unfair." i THE PETITION FILED TODAY AT ST. LOUIS. St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 15. The peti tion Instituting suit against the Standard Oil Company of New Jer sey, John D. Rockefeller and others, in the name of the government, by direction of the attorney general, was filed in the United States circuit court here at 10:42 this morning. Frank B. Kellogg, of St. Paul, Minn., special counsel for the government, formally placed the petition with the court. Preceding the filing of the document, Special Counsel Kellogg and United States District Attorney Dyer were in secret conference for half an hour. At the conclusion of the conference, Special Counsel Kel logg communicated with Attorney General Moody at Washington by long-distance telephone and told him that the document was about to be filed, and received final instructions to proceed therewith. The defendants now have one month in which to enter their ap pearance, and an additional month in which to file their answer. They also have the option of filing a de murrer to the bill. SHOT IN FRONT OF DISPENSARY This afternoon at 4 o'clock, in front of the dispensary, Sid Crabtree, a young white man of this city, was shot and slightly wounded by M. B. Mundy, also white. Mundy was immediately arrested. He fired twice. One ball struck Crabtree somewhere about the waist, glanced down and inflicted a flesh wound in the thigh. The wound ap pears to be slight. Crabtree gives the following account of the shoot ing: They had words on the street, and Mundy went Into the dispensary, where Crabtree saw him take his gun from his hip pocket and put It in his overcoat pocket. Crabtree told him to come on out in the street and he would lick him if he did have his gun. Mundy catno out of the dis pensary, firing as he came. CRIME RAMPANT DEFIES ALL LAW! No Cessation of its Reip in Pittsburg SCORES OF ARRESTS Detectives From Neighboring Cities Are There in Hopes of Apprehend-1 ing the Criminals The Lawless-) ness Prevailing In the Country! Around Pittsburg Never Before Equalled. (By the Associated Press.) Pittsburg, Ph., Nov. 15. With de tectives from cities of neighboring states who are hon; in I he hope of finding crooks of International rep utation there has been no apparent cessation in the crimes that have stirred Pittsburg; v.iiUn the pan! ! two weeks. During last night and early thin morning scores of people were ar rested on the streets as suspicious ' nh n i-n fini'C Shortly after midnight today i! negro entered the home of David Roney. Perrysvlllc Avenue, Alle gheny and was heard in the lowei portion of the house by a maid, who i immediately notified Mr. Itoney. Se curing a revolver Mr. Itoney went down stairs, arriving there just in time to see the negro crawling through a rear window. Mr. Roney fired several shots at the fleeing ne gro, none of which took effect. Mr. Roney's home is located in a row of ten houses, nine of which have been i robbed during the past two even ings. Dlsnalchcs to the Associated Press last night, from stirroundins towns portray a reign of lawlessness never i before equalled in these parts. Atj South Sharon, Mercer county, the' police found McDonald lying in an alley almost aeau irom exposure ,iu a fractured skull. The latter injury was inliicted with some blunt in strument and the police are utiliz ing every effort io capture the as sailants. At Washington, Pa., bloodhounds were started on the trafl of thq robber who assaulted Mrs. Cole, wife of the tax collector of Greene county, whose condition is precarious. Ncariy Choked Her to Death. At Beaver Falls, Pa., a thief en tered the home of Mrs. Mary Mc Mullen and failing to find money choked her nearly to death. The woman finally broke away from her assailant, and grasping an iron poker struck him several times over the head. At Monongahela, Pa., near this city, the police are search ing for John Bosnick, who disap ' peared. Bosnick is known to have I had over $600 on his person and foul play is suspected. Three men were arrested last night at Somer set, Pa charged with stealing $250 and several hundred dollars worth of government stamps from the wile of a government revenue collector while she was riding on a street car in Greenaburg, Pa., yesterday. At Newbrighton two men were held up and assaulted last night by high waymen. Both men were seriously injured. A general man hunt is in progress at McKeesport, Pa., several miles from here in an endeavor to capture James Taylor who murdered Isaac Carter Monday evening, and at Swissvale, a suburb, more police were added to the force last night at a special meeting of the councils. A CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION CALLED (By the Associated Press.) Charlottesville. Va., Nov. 15. An Important educational conference has j been called by President Aicterman to meet at the University of Virginia on November 22nd to 24th. Those invited to participate are the, presidents of seven state universities, the presidents of all Virginia colleges, the state sup erintendents, of education in states of North Carolina. South Carolina. Tenn essee, Alabama, Georgia, and Virginia, and the professors of secondary edu cation in the same states and certain experts in agricultural education. The conference will be the first at tempt on the part of those engaged in higher education to reach the secon dary schools and aid In relating them properly to the schools below and the Bchools above. HARRIS KILLED IN A HOT FIGHT Surrounded by Armed Posse, j He Resists AND THE BLAZE He Wounds TWO of the Men Lined Up Against Him and Falls at bast Fighting Like a Demon The Des perate Battle Fou;ihl at Fletchers, Above AsiievifJe. (By the Associnl' Aehevlllo, N. c, Nov. s, the negro who klll i liiecmen and throe i: i Press.) If.. Will Har iv.o Asheville groea Tuesday night, Was shot-to death hy hit. today near Fletcher, ibout ten miles south off Ashcvitic. TJ had beer, pursued by hundred id men from Ashcvl!!.- ami i oundlng country. At s .jvioclc thl'-. ni.,i-.i..-c i iVfeTyffd that tire neurit had cown (I ih r. bfirii hetir . leti'ln was requested. A Hundred Hi li CI AshWtiiO on hors. buck arm- SU I' ll , hiell mi rounded i lie barn, sire tli.- negro, who attempt wl ii turning the shots until he The saloons in Ashi -villi' li ill closed during the exc! IO.'. !. - killed. was 1 1 iriuin- ient and ii wailed. .the most perfect order ha The posses have been best citizens and the in posed of the ?i;o populo Hon has aided in the search und contribut ed towards n relief fund for the fami lies of the dead policemen. THE JUVENILE COURT Justice Badger Will Stan m Next Case Will Suspend Judgment on Next Child Drought Before Him, Espe cially if Misdemeanor' Case, and Put in Hands of Some Woman a Probat Inoary Officer, P.cv. Crawford Jackson of Atlanta, Chairman of the Celitral Juvenile Pro tectory Committee", who has been here for several days making addresses and wrokihg In In-half of the protec tory Idea and the juvenile court for wayward youth, left this afternoon at 3.30 for Greensboro, from which place he will go to Goldsboro, where he will spend Sunday and address a mass meeting of citizens, at which it is likely that ex-Governor Aycock will preside. Before leaving today Mr. Jackson had a talk with Mayor Johnson and Police Justice Badger in regard to the carrying out, of the juvenile court Idea as determined upon at the meeting of citizens here Tuesday night, when the Wake County Juvenile Protectory Association was organized, with Mayor Johnson as president. Justice Badger told Mr. Jackson that he would begin to apply the Juvenile court principles to the first youthful offender that came before him hereaf ter. That means that he will suspend judgment and put the boy or girl on probation under the care of some good woman, who will watch over the child, visit the parents if living and report progress to the justice. The mayor, together with the ex ecutive committee of the new organi zation as elected Tuesday night, will turn over to Justice Badger the names of the probatory officers, from whom one may be selected in each case. These women will probably be chosen by the pastors of the city, each giv ing in two nanus from his church. So the system will start as soon as the next boy or girl is brought before justice. Badger, especially If the case Is one of misdemeanor. A number of lialeigh citizens have spoken to Mr. Jackson asking him to appear before the coming legislature and urge the passage of a bill for a protectory ami juvenile courts, and Mr. Chares U. Harris, member elect from Wake county, has told Mr. Jack son that he would secure for him an official Invitation. Mr. Jackson says that liberal sub scriptions have been received from Raleigh people to the Central Juvenile Protectory Committee in Atlanta. A DIVIDEND BY STANDARD OIL. (By the Associated Press.) New York, Nov. 16. The Stand ard Oil Company of New Jersey to day declared a quarterly dividend of $10 a share, or the same amount as was declared at this time last 1 year. Shortly after the declaration the stock sold off 20 points to 545. COLON GREETS THE PRESIDENT Children Sing "The Star Spangled Banner" TOE GUEST OF AMADOR .Mr. Roosevelt Will Go on a Special Train to La Boca to Inspect the Pacific Kilt nun c to t'he Inter Oceanic Canal A Number of Of ficial Functions. (By the Associated Presr.) Colon, Nov. 16, President Roose velt left the flagship Louisiana at ji'il) o'clock this morning and land ed shortly afterwards. He way met by Canal Commissioner Shoots, Chief Engineer Stevens, (ieneral Manager Hier.l of the Panama Kail road, and other Irish officials'. All tlio school children of Obion were tsi emhi I in (ttpifpit a hoti l the pier wlp-re the president landed and sang t ne "Star Spangled i3anrier".j and "Ameriia." Sine time kit; r President and Sonrtra Amador and the Bishop of Panama reached the spot and greet ed Mr. Roosevelt. The entire party then boarded a special train deco rated with Hags and left Colon at S:lo, steaming slowly in the direc tion of Panama in order to enable t the presidential party to have a goo 1 look at all the points of interest i along the route. President Roosevelt will be the guest of President Amtfdor this even-i ing. In order to carry out the presi-j iential program special switches have been arranged to enable the ipecial train to go to La Boca and UloW Mr. RooFievelt. to inspect the; Pacific entrance to the canal. - The main street of Colon and the, shipping in port were decorated with flags today In honor of Presi-, lent. Roosevelt's visit, but there was, ,w excitement anywhere. A heavy I rain fell this morning, President Roosevelt's arrival here .esterclay, ahead of time, somewhat j hanged the program in connection ; with his visit to the isthmus. Presi- dent Amador and his party left Pan-; ama for Colon at 4:30 p. fti. Instead) of at 0 p. m,, leaching Cristobal at li:45 p. m. By request of President1 Roosevelt Senora Amador was the only lady received on board the Hag-! ship last night. President Roo.se-J velt received his visitors at 9 p. m.,; President Amador being accompa nied by Secretary of State Ariask, the others including Chief Engineer Stevens, Commissioner Shonts, Min ister Squires and Secretary Bishop of the Panama Canal Commission. President and Senora Amador and Secretary of State. President Roosevelt apparently is much engrossed wilh Jamaica and the West Indian labor question. He has requested Mr. Delisher, editor of the Jamaica Gleaner, who was received with other newspaper men on board the Louisiana yesterday, and British Consul Mallett to meet him at the Tivoli Hotel, Alteon, at S:30 tomorrow night, in order to discuss the labor question and the present conditions in Jamaica. The president also has 'arranged to visit Colon and Cristobal on Saturday morning with Messrs. Shonts and Stevens and investigate the com plaints regarding the reconstruction of Colon, the housing of laborers at Cristobal, and so on. UNIVERSITY TO PLAY INDIANS It was learned here today that a football game had been arranged between the University of North Caro lina and the Carlisle Indians, to be played at Richmond a week from Sat urday, November 24 . This will be the last game of the season for the Uni versity. Traveling passenger Agent Oattls of the Seaboard Air Line said today that he had asked for special rates for the occasion. It is likely that the game will be called about three o'clock in the afternoon. NEW YORK CENTRAL DECLARED GUILTY. (By the Associated Press.) New York, Nov. 15. The New York Central Railroad was today de clared guilty of granting rebates. A FURIOUS TEMPEST LASHES AND FLOODS THE FAR NORTHWEST THE PRESIDENT IS (Special to The Evening Times.) Salisbury, N. C, Nov. 15. At a meeting of the negro Baptist Asso ciation of North Carolina today res olutoins denouncing President Roosevelt for discharging three com panies of the 25th infantry were adopted. The body represents a constituency of 150,000. The reso lutions "strenuously protest against the unprecedented and arbitrary ac tion of President Roosevelt in pun ishing the innocent and guilty alike. No one for a moment believes thai these companies would have been dishonorably discharged if they had been composed of white soldiers. If extreme measures had been neces sary, this present lime of tension between the races and of fear, fore bodings, uncertainty, unrest and heart-aches on the part of the col-1 ored people was the most unpropltl ons that could possibly have been found." I ST. LOUIS IS LOST IN A LONDON FOG. (By the Associated Press.) St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 15. Humid atmosphere and a slow wind caused a dense pall of smoke to settle over the city this morning, especially over the down-town section. The dark ness of night prevailed. All stores, street lamps and street cars were lighted as at nlghf. At 10:30 o'clock the darkness still prevailed and a number of public and private schools were dismissed for the day. The wind blew at less than five miles an hour and the atmosphere was close and oppressive. TWO CREWS RESCUE!) BY THE LIFE SAVERS. (By the Associated Press.) Long Branch, N. J., Nov. 15. The life saving crews at Deal on the Jersey coast, had a difficult bit of work to do today In rescuing the crew of a vessel which was driven on the beach at that place. A northeast gale was blowing on shore and the surf was heavy on the beach, through which the life savers had to launch their life boat. They had just completed the task when another schooner was sighted helpless and drifting shoreward. The lirst craft to come ashore was the two-masted schooner James M. Hall, G" tons, owned at Somers Point, N. J. The little schooner was lumber laden and bound from Virginia to New York, ghe was sighted off Deal this morning with her foresail gone and the flag (lying union down; a signal of dis tress. When sh.- reached the beach, a crew of the Deal Beach Live Saving Station launched their boat through the surf and took off the crew. The other schooner, a three-master, was sighted drifting ashore on Deal Beach and the life savers at both Long Branch and Deal prepared to go to the rescue of her crew when she should strike. The second schooner was the Sam uel C. Holmes, from Virginia ports, loaded with lumber. She Went ashore and her crew was rescued. Both vessels are pounding badly and probably will go to pieces on the next high tide, DEATH OF A LADY; TRAIN KILLS MAX. (Special to the livening Times.) Tarboro, N. C, Nov. 16. 1906. Mrs. John A. Davis, a most excellent county, Wife of Mr. John A. Davis, one of the most prominent farmers died yesterday after a lingering illness. She was the mother of Prof. R. M. Davis superintendent of the Tarboro Graded school. This morning a train on the Coast line killed a man at Whltakers and Dr. Ihlgpen coroner has gone their to investigate the death. COSSACKS PURSUE TERRORIST ROBBERS. (By the Associated Press.) Warsaw, Nov. 15. A small band of terrorists attacked the Vistula Railroad depot at Suehednlow this morning, kill ed a gendarme. They blew up the safe and got away with a considerable sum of money, marching off in military or der. Cossacks are pursuing them, but no arrests have been made. DENOUNCED Seattle and Scores of Towns isolated from the World Thirty-Six Hours LIVES HAVE BEEN LOST; IS I tail road Traffic is Practically Sus pended; Towns Are Under Water; Raging' Torrents Pouring Down the Cascades Are Flooding the Plains; Wires Are) Prostrate, and Bridges and Tracks Swept Away By the Flood. (By the Associated Press.) Taeoma, Wash., Nov. 15. A flood area of three hundred square miles in northwestern Washington is the result today of heavy rains and melting snow which for forty-eight hours have rush ed from the slopes of the Cascade mountains, causing nearly all the streams in the northwest to spread over lowlands. Several persons are reported drowned and the monetary loss is already many thousands of dol lars. Seattle and scores of towns have been for the last thirty-six hours cut off from outside communication. Bridges have been swept away, railroad tracks washed out, telephone and telegraph wires torn down. As far as can be learned half a dozen lives have been lost. Every railroad in the northwest is tied up, and though a few trains are being run, ne attempt is being made at a schedule. These tracks have been washed away in many places on tho different roads but it is hoped to have the damage repaired in a few days. Details of the Storm. Portland, Ore., Nov. 15. Never since the white man came has the state of Washington suffered from such a storm as raged last night and early today. The storm, wind and rain, which for the past week, has wrought havoc with coastwise shipping yesterday swept in land and is venting an unheard of fury upon the whole state, especially the Puget Sound country and is lashing with its tails the northern part of Ore gon and the Panhandle of Idaho. Railroads out of Tacoma and Seattle are demoralized, train service to Port land only from the latter city being maintained. The creeks and rivers and brooks in the Cascades are roaring torrentB. On Puget Sound the towns of Snohomish, Summer and Auburn are under water. In central Washington floods are rag ing in the Natchez and Yakima val leys. The Clearwater Is out of its banks and has done immense damage. Although nothing has been heard from Walla Walla it is only fair to presume that with Hoods east and west of there the rivers in that part of the state are still on a rampage. At Portland a heavy wind is blowing accompanied by a torrential rain. No damage has been done further than to put the elec tric lights and street cars out of com mission. The railroads across the state aro prostrated and no news has been re ceived here from eastern Oregon. At a late hour last night reports were very discouraging. THREE DIED IN A BURNING HOUSE. (By the Associated Press.) Qoodland, Ind., Nov. 15. The country home of William Whitley, five miles south of Qoodland, was burned early today. Two small chil dren and a farm laborer were burned to death. The Are was started by the explosion of a lamp. Stamford, Conn., Nov. 15. A fire which caused a loss of $300,000 oc curred today in the factory plant of T. B. Smart. The Atlantic Insulated Wire and Cable Company places Its loss upon machinery and stock at $225,000. TWENTY MEN ARE REPORTED KILLED. (By the Associated Press.) Douglas, Ariz., Nov. 15. A report has reached here that twenty men were killed at noon today by' an ex plosion fn a stone quarry nine miles east of this city, n
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