Porter Enterprise. (Porter, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 30, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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ECZBMA INSTANTLY RELIEVED
Instant relief for that awful Itch I -The
Itch cone the moment the sooth-
ing liquid la applied to the skin)
That la what oil of wtntergreen
mixed with thymol glycerine and oth
er mild Ingredlenta will do for any
kla aufferer
Try a free aample of thla oil aa com-
pounded In D D D Prescription
We urge It and recommend It and
urelp would not recommend tt and
offer It to our regular patrona If wo did
sot know what D D D Prescription
will do for akin sufferers
Write to the D D D Co Ill Mloh
gan Bt Dept It Chicago for a free
sample of the wonderful soothing
liquid eneloatng only lOo to pay for
postage and packing Now don't fall
to try this wonderful soothing refresh-
ing liquid
Had Dono Hla Bast
TJncle Hoses did not feel able to
oon tribute more than 75 cento to the
missionary cause and was not particu-
larly enthusiastic about giving oven
that
"You ought to give as the Lord has
prospered you" said Deacon Iron-
aide "I don't think the Lord’ll ever ac-
cuse me of bein' ungrateful" an-
swered Uncle Hoses “Six of my
boys Is preachers”
In the Language
"Some one has said that a kiss Is
the language of love” remarked the
young man In the parlor scene
"Well” rejoined the fair maid on
the far end of the sofa “why don’t you
- get busy and say something?"
OVER NINE MILLION (0300000)
MOLD THIS YEAR
' Bales Lewis’ Single Binder cigara for
year 1907 more then 8ooooo
Sties for 1906
Gain TOOOOC
Quality brings the business
Cheered '
A maiden who lived In Siberia
Where all Is ao frigid and drerla
Pelt sad met a bear
And when hugged said: "I swear
It does my heart good to be nerta
—Houston Post
Many Old People Buffer from -Bronchial
Affectlona particularly at
this time of year Brown’s Bronchial
Troches give Immediate relief
The more Judgment a man has the
slower and the more careful will he be
( to condemn— Maurer
Clear white clothes are a sign that the
rastkeeper ueea lied Cross Ball Blue
ergs 2 os paokage 6 cents
NO COTTON CABE REHEARING
The Commerce Commission Decides
Against Muskogee Complaints
Washington D C — An Important
determination reached by the Inter-
state commerce commission reached
by the Interstate commerce comm Is-
slon relates to the control of cotton
compresses the number of such com-
presses communities and railway car-
riers which are likely to be affected
by a general order of the commission
respecting the compressing of cotton
In transit etc
The matter was brought to the at-
tention of the commission on a mo-
tion for a rehearing of the case of
the Muskogee Commercial Club and
the Muskogee Traffic bureau against
the Missouri Kansas ft Texas Rail-
way Company
It was sought by the complainant to
overcome through an order to be
made by the commission certain ad-
avntages alleged to have accrued to
compressors of cotton along the line
of the defendant railway by reason
of regulations established by the rail-
way favorable to certain compresses
The facts In the case would not
warrant the commission In Issuing
a broad ruling and the motion for re-
hearing was denied It is proposed
however by the commission to Insti-
tute a general Inquiry into the sub-
ject of cotton among railroads com-
pression by which the relation among
railroads compresses buyers and
shippers will be In investigation! - look-
ing also to the Interest of the grow-
er In which it is hoped an ordqa may
be made dealing with the entire ques-
tion '
BILL LIMITING HOMESTEADB
Oklahoma Indians to Be Permitted to
' Bell Part of Land
Washington D C-fldr Merrls In-
troduced a bill Thursday for the
alienation of part of the lands owned
by the Kiowa Comanche Apache
Wichita Caddo Cheyenne and Arapa-
hoe Indians in Oklahoma It declares
eighty acres to be homestead which
tract is to be selected by every male
allottee of these tribes the selection
however to be subject to the approv-
al of the seorteary of the Interior
All excess of eighty acres Is to ba
surplus subjeot to sale after six
months from the passage of the bill
No sale is to be valid though unless
the secretary of the Interior shall be
satisfied that the price Is adequate
Half the purchase price Is to be ex-
pended under the secretary’s direc-
tion on the homestead and the other
half Is to be kept by the govern-
ment and spent from time to time for
the benefit of the Indians Money now
In the treasury belonging to them
may be expended for the Improve-
ment of their homesteads
PIPING OP GAB OUT OP STATE
- IT easy for the average man to
make a bad break
MSI
U0RK
Thousands of American women
in our homes are daily sacrificing
their lives to duty
' In order to keep the home neat
and pretty the children well dressed
and tidy women overdo A female
weakness or displacement is often
brought on and they suffer in silence
drifting along from bad to worse
knowing well that they ought to
have help to overcome the pains and
aohes which dailymake lifeaburden
It is to these faithful women that
LYDIA E PINKHAf1’8
VEGETABLE COMPOUND
oomes as a boon and a blessing
as it did to Mrs F Ellsworth of
N Y and to Mrs W P
oydof Beaver Falls FA who say:
" I was not able to do my own work
owing to the female trouble from which
X Buffered Lydia E Pinkham'a Voire-
table Compound helped me wonderfully
and I am ao well that I can do aa big a
day 'a work aa 1 ever did X wish every
-sick woman vomd try IL
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN
For thirty years Lydia E Fink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound made
from roots and herbs has been the
standard remedy for female Ills
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements Inflammation ulcera-
tion fibroid tumors Irregularities
periodic pains baokache that bearing-down
feeling flatulenoy indiges-
tion dizziness or nervous prostration
Why don’t you try it I
Mrs Plnkham invites all slel
Eien to write her fog advioe
has guided thousands b
th Address Xtynii Mass
SPOT CASH
POR SOLDIERS AND HIIRS
Reported Effort Is Being Mads to In-
volve Federal Government and Ok-
lahoma In Litigation
Guthrie Ok — Information from
Washington Is to the effect that an
effort Is being made to Involve the
federal government and the state of
Oklahoma In litigation over the bill
recently passed by the legislature
preventing the piping of gaa out of
the atate The basis for the proposed
suit is that Indiana who own the gaa
sought to be carried out bave made
legal contracts aa wards of the gov-
ernment and under supervision of the
Interior Department
The purpose of the bill referred to
Is to prevent the natural gas supply
of Oklahoma going to the cities and
factories of Kansas and had the ef-
fect of stopping four companies then
hurrying to get connections of pipes
at the atate border The state as-
sumes Its rights upon three proposi-
tions namely the regulation of the
right of eminent domain conditions
and terms of Its incorporation laws
and Its right to exercise its police
powers
It 1b contended that while the In-
dians are wards of the government
CORPORATION BILL IB KILLED'
Measure Introduced by McCalls Meats
Death in Oklahoma Senate
Guthrie Ok— The house bill by Mo
Calla passed by the house a few days
ago requiring all foreign corporations
to make tholr domicile within the
state and prohibiting frdm transfer-
ring cases from the state to federal
courts will not become a law Tha
senate committee on corporations to
which the bill was referred by the
senate recommended that It not pass
and the recommendation was accept-
ed by the senators The reason given
for killing the bill Is taht the senate
has already passed the Taylor hill
containing similar provisions After
passing the senate It was sent to the
house and the house passed the Mo-
Calla substitute bill -
It la believed that In the light of
the Kansas City decision affecting
the Missouri law no law prohibiting
the transfers of corporation cases
will be passed
Woman Barely Escapee Flames
Ardmore Ok — In a lire whioh de-
stroyed the home of John A Smith
with its contents at an early hour
here Thursday Mrs Smith barely es-
caped with her life Bhe was badly
burned about the face and head -
2500J Capital
Guthrie Ok — Bank Commissioner
Smock has Issued a certificate of au-
thority to the state bank of Stratford
with $25006 capital The officers are
President J 0 Ilonaker vloe pres-
ident John Berry cashier I F Hon-
aker RBCEIVKR POR OKLAHOMA
4
First Sines Statehood Is Farmers and
' Msrehants of Chotaau
Guthrie Ok— State Bank Commis-
sioner H H -Smock Monday took
oharge of the Farmers and Mer-
chants’ bank of Chotaau In Maya
oounty and plaoed W W Hawood Is
oharge as receiver
Mr Smock would give no detailed
aooount of tba bank's condition ex-
oapt to stats that Its affaire are In a
bad shape- Its deposits are III Ml
-sad assets unknown
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WORN OUT WOMEN
Will Find Encouragement In Mrs Mar
rltt’a Advice
Mrs W L-Merritt SOT B First
Are Anoka Minn sayat "Last win-
ter I began to suf-
fer with my kidneys
I had palna la my
back and hips and
felt all worn oat
Dtsxy spells both-
ered me end the
kidney secretion
were Irregular The
first box of Doan’s
Kidney Pills brought
decided relief I am
sura they would do tb same for any
other woman Buffering as I did"
- Bold by all dealers 50 cants a
box Foatar-MUbura Co Buffalo N Y
A Feat
"Do you Imagine It possible for a
eamel to go through tha aye of a
Bead 1st"
“Oh I wouldn't bo surprised You
know bow large my wife Is?" -
"Yes"
"Wall she goes through my pock-
ets regularly"— Houston Post
Important to Mothoro
Examine carefully every bottle of
OASTORIA a safe and euro remedy for
Infants and children and see that It
Signature
In Uaa For Over 80 Years
Tba Kind You Hava Always Bought’
Bing at Your Work
Whenever the baby at midnight
Is Inclined to be noley and tearful
Whatever you do
Aa you tramp tho house through
Oh do not forget to bo cheerful
I Makes Fain Go Away
Are you one of thq ones who pay la
toll
For your right bf way through this
- Ufa?
If so you will find Hunt's Lightning
OU
A friend which will aid la tha
strife - -
- To those who earn their owa way
by their owa labor accidents occur
with painful frequency Burns bruises
outs and apralns are not strangers to
tba man who wears corns on his
hands A better remedy for these
troubles does not exist than Hunt's
Lightning OIL
Beared Into IL
It was announced on tba lea
“But bow on earth" said tba girl la
the whit abating suit "did you got
him to propose dear?"
The girl In sables smiled slightly
"Ob easily enough" she retorted
1 told him that you were craiy about
him and reminded him that tt was
leap year”
Moravian Barley and Bpsltx
two great cereale makee growing and ht
tening bogs and cattle posaibla In Dak
Mont Ida Colo yea everywhere and
add to above Salzer'e Billion Dollar Gran
the 13 ton Hay wonder Teosinte which
produeee 80 tone of green fodder per acre
Entperor William Oat prodigy eto and
ether rare farm aeeda that th:v offer
JUST OUT THIS OUT AND RETURN IT
with lOo In stamps for packing eto to the
John A ftalzer Seed Co La Crosae Wia
and get their big eatalog and loti of farm
aeed aamplea K A W
The Reason for Marrying
"They say that he married her for
her money”
"And what did he do when aha lost
her wealth?"
"He lost hla reason"— Harvard
Lampoon
Nat "Just as Good"— It's tha Bast
On box of Hunt's Cur la unfalllng-
ly unqualifiedly and absolutely guar
anteed to cur any fora of Bkla Dis-
ease It Is particularly active la
promptly relieving and permanently
curing all forma of Itching known
Eczema Tetter Ringworm and all
similar troubles are relieved by ono
application cured by on box
Chance to Show It
Mrs Biggs— I hear Mrs Hilow Is
going to move again
Mrs Diggs— Yes she moves every
month glue tha got her new furniture
ONLY OWN "BROMO OPINIW
evae U) Cure a OolS la Dae Oar Me
You can’t make good ginger ate If
anything alls th ginger
-After th First Klaa
Geraldine— Wall I Ilka thatf
Gerald— All right havt aaofhto
"OUCH OH MY BACK"
NEURALGIA STITCHES LAMENESS CRAMP
TWINGES TWITOHES PNOM WET OR DAMP
ALL BRUISES SPRAINS A WRENCH OR TWIST
THISSOVEREIQN REMEDYTHCY CANT RESIST
Pmcc 20o and 60e
Commissioner Smith vs Tho Standard Oil Co
From the Railway World January j igoS
Mr Herbert Knox Smith whose zeal In tha
cause of eoonomlo reform has been in no wise
abated by the panlo which he and hla kind did
ao much to bring on la out with an answer to
President Moffett of the Standard Oil Com-
pany of Indiana The publication of this an-
swer it la officially given out was delayed sev-
eral weeks “for business reasons” because It
was not deemed advisable to further excite
the publio mind which -was profoundly dis-
turbed by the crisis Now that the storm
clouds bave rolled by however tho Commis-
sioner rushes again Into tbs fray
Our readers remember that the chief points
in the defence of the Standard OU Company as
presented by President Moffett were (1) that
the date of six cents on oU from Whiting to
East SL Louis has been lasued to tho Standard
Oil Company aa the lawful rate by employes
of the Alton (2) that tha 18-cent rate on file
with the Interstate Commeroe Commission was
a class and not a commodity rate never being
Intended to- apply to oil (3) that oU was
shipped In large quantities between Whiting
and East SL Louis over the Chicago ft East-
ern Illinois at 6 cents per hundred pounds
which has been filed with the Interstate Com-
merce Commission as the lawful rate and (4)
that the 18-cent rate on oU was entirely out of
proportion to lawful rates on other commodi-
ties between these points of a similar char-
acter and of greater value such fbr example
aa linseed oil the lawful rate on which was
eight cents President Moffett also stated that
thousards of tons of freight had been sent by
other shippers between these points under
substantially the same conditions as governed
tbe shipments of the Standard 011 Company
This defence of the Standard QU Company
was widely quoted and has undoubtedly exert-
ed a powerful influence upon the public mind
Naturally the Administration which baa
staked tbe success of Its campaign against
the "trusts" upon the result of Its attack upon
this company endeavors to offset this Influ-
ence and hence the new deliverance of Com-
missioner Smith - i
We need hardly to point out that his rebut-
tal argument la extremely weak although as
strong no doubt as tbe circumstances would
warrant He answers the points mads by Presi-
dent Moffett substantially aa follows: (1) The
Standard Oil Company had a traffic department
and should have known that the slx-cent rate
had not been filed (2) no answer (3) the Chi-
cago & Eastern Illinois rate was a secret rate
because it read not from Whiting but from
Dolton which Is desorlbed as "a village of
about 1500 population Just outside of Chicago
It! only claim to note Is that It has been for
many years the point of origin for this and
similar secret rates” The Commissioner ad-
mits In describing this rate that there was a
note attached stating that tho rate could also
be used from’ Whiting
-' The press has quite generally hailed this '
statement of the Commissioner of Corpora-
tions as a conclusive refutation of what is evi-
dently recognized as the strongest rebuttal
argument advanced by tbe Standard
' In fact It Is as weak and inconclusive as the
remainder of hla argument The lines of the
Chicago ft Eastern Illinois do not run Into
v
Chicago They terminate at Dolton from which
point entrance Is made over the Belt Line
Whiting where the oil freight originates la not
on the lines of the Chicago ft Eastern Illinois
which receives Its Whiting freight from the
Belt Line at Dolton The former praotlce now
discontinued In filing tariffs was to make
them read from a point on tho line of the fil-
ing road and It was also general to state on
the same sheet that the tariff would apply to
other points e g Whiting The Chicago ft
Eastern Illinois followed this practice In filing
Its lute from Dolton and making a note on
the sheet that la applied to Whiting This was
In 1895 when thla method of filing tariffs was
In eommon use
Now let ns sea In what way tha Intending
shipper of oil could be misled and deceived by
the tact that th Chicago ft Eastern Illinois
had not filed a rate reading from Whiting
Commissioner Smith eontends that “conceal-
ment la the only motive for such a circuitous
arrangement" L that thla method of filing
tho rate was Intended to mislead Intending
competitor of tha Standard OU Company
Suppose suoh a prospective oil refiner had ap-
plied to the Interstate Commerce Commission
for the rate from Chicago to East SL Louis
over the Chicago Eastern HUnols he would
have been Informed that tbe only rate filed
with the commission by this company was 6
cents from Dolton and be would have been
further informed It Indeed he did not know
this already that this rate applied thr rngbout
Chicago territory So that whether he wished
to locate hla plant at Whiting or anywhere
else about Chicago under an arrangement of
long standing and whioh applies to all the In-
dustrial towns In the neighborhood of Chica-
go he could have his freight delivered over
the Belt Line to the Chicago ft Eastern Illi-
nois at Dolton and transported to East SL
Louis at a rate of 6 cents Where then la
the concealment which the Commissioner of
Corporations makes so much of? Any rate—
from Dolton on the Eastern Illinois or Chap-
pell on tho Alton or Harvey on the Ullnola
Central or Blue Island on the Rock Island
applies throughout Chicago territory to ship-
ments from any other point In the dlstrlcL
So far from the Eastern Illinois filing its rate
from Dolton In order to deoelve tbe shipper
It Is the Commissioner of Corporations who
either betrays his gross Ignorance of tramp ir-
tatlon customs In Chicago territory or relies
on the publio Ignorance of these oustoms to
decoive the publio too apt to accept unques-
ttoningty every statement made by a Govern-
ment official aa necessarily true although as
in the present lnstanoe a careful examination
bows these statements to be false
The final potnt made by President Moffett
that other commodities of a character similar
to oil were carried at muoh lower rates than
18 cents the Commissioner of Corporations
discusses only with the remark that "the
'reasonableness' of this rate Is not In question
The question Is whether this rate constituted
a discrimination as against other shippers of
oil” and he also makes much of tbe failure of
President Moffett to produce before the grand
jury evidence of the alleged Illegal acts of
which the Standard OU official said that other
large shippers la the territory bad been guilty
Considering tbe fact that these shippers In-
cluded tha packers and elevator men of Chi-
cago tha notion of tha grand Jury In calUng
upon President Moffett to furnish evidence of
their wrong-doing may b Interpreted aa a de-
mand for an elaboration of tbe obvious but
the fact that a rate-book containing these
freight fate for other shippers was offered la
evidence during th trial and ruled out by
Judge Landis was kept out of alghL Presi-
dent Moffett would not of oourse accept th '
Invitation of tha grand Jury although he might
have been pardoned If he had referred them
to various official Investigations by the Inter-
state Commerce Commission and other de-
partments of the GevemmenL
We oo me back therefore to the conclusion
of the whole matter whioh Is that the Stand-
ard OU Company of Indiana was fined aa
amount equal to seven or eight times the val-
ue of Its entire property because Its traffle
department did not verify tho statement of
the Alton rate dark that tha alx-cant commod-
ity rate on oU had been properly filed with tho
Interstate Commeroe Commission There la no
evidence and none waa Introduced at the trial
that any shipper of oU from Chicago territory
had been Interfered with by tho 18-cent rate
nor that tho failure of tho Alton to file Its six-
cent rate bad resulted In any discrimination
against any Independent shipper — we must
take this on the word of tho Commissioner
of Corporations and of Judge Landis Neither
la It denied even by Mr Smith that the 'Tnde-
pendent" shipper of oil whom he ptotures as
being driven out of business by this discrim-
ination of tho Alton could have shipped all
the oU ha desired to ship from Whiting via
Dolton over the Unes of tbe Chicago ft East-
ern Illinois to East SL Louis la shorL Presi-
dent Moffett’s defence Is sUU good and wo
predict will be so declared by the higher court
Tho Standard OU Company has been charged
with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors
Beginning with the famous Rice of Marietta
passing down to that apostle of popular liber
ties Henry Demarest Lloyd with his Wealth
Against the Commonwealth descending by
easy stages to Miss Tarbell’s offensive person-
alities we finally reach tb nether depths of
unfair and baaelesa misrepresentation in the
report of the Commissioner of Corporations
Tbe Standard has been charged with every
form of commercial plraoy and with most of
th crimes on tha corporation calendar After
long years of strenuous attaok under th
leadership of the President of the United
States tbe corporation la at last dragged to
the bar of Justice to answer for Its misdoings
The whole strength of tb Government Is di-
rected against IL and at lasL we are told the
Standard OU Company la to pay tha penalty of
Its crimes and It la finally oonvloted of hav-
ing failed to verify th statement of a rate
clerk and la forthwith fined a prodigious sum
measured by the car Under the old criminal
law the theft of property worth more than a
shilling was punishable by death Under th
Interpretation of th Interstate Commerce law
by Theodore Roosevelt and Judge Kenesaw
Landis a technical error of a traffic official la
made the exouae for tha oonflaoation of a vast
amount of property
What you cannot avoid -learn to
bear True happiness Is cheap did wa
but apply to the right merchant for
It— Hytehs
Don't worry about your complexion—
take Garfield Tea the Herb laxative and
blood-purifier! An improvement will b
sssa in a week
It’s a sweeping assertion to gay that
a new broom sweeps olean
rnZI GURKO IN S TO IS DATS
BViUKnws
I Is U tore or Money leluiiaed too?
Talk Is cheap— unless a lawyer la
handing It oat '
Try It on ths Plano
There was a young chap In Doa Moines
Who ordered a T bone alrlolnes
Bald th waiter: "Not so
Blr unleea you can show
A sumoleut amount of dee colnea"
DO YOVR CIOTHRS LOOK YKLLOWf
If eo ueo Red Grose Ball Blue It will malts
them whit a snow 8 os package B oente
‘ By tha way are you acquainted with
any man who flatters his wife!
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Brre
-i teething ufteu the gtnte —
aUaji you etna wind eoUe
By doing duty w Isara to do It—
B B Pugey j "
PMtoMMh MIMl
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