Drillers Probe Rail Rate Bias Against Kansas Oil Firms
Three interstate commerce committee members began an investigation in Kansas into alleged railway favoritism toward Standard Oil and against independent oil companies. Testimony centered on rate changes since 1904 from Cherryvale to Kansas City and Omaha, noting a shift from 10 cents per 100 pounds to higher charges and a redefined oil weight estimate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Interstate Commerce Committee
Standard Oil Company
Kansas
Interstate Commerce Commissioners
F. M. Cockrell
Judson ©. Clements
Charles A. Prouty
Commission
John T. Morehand
Frank 8. Monett
Ohio
Clifford Thorne
Washington
Independent of
Railways
A. L. Robertson
Chanute
Kan
Robertson
Kansas Oil Producers’ Association
Standard
Cherryville
Omaha
Cherryvale
Atchbison
Leavenworth
Missouri State Line
Missouri
Oil Rates and Pipelines Shape Independence Oil Trade
Robertson testifies that Standard Oil cut independent producers after pipeline completion, raising railroad rates from Caney to Bartlesville to 19 0 cents and halting oil sales to independents. The 17-cent rate hampers business. Kansas rate law aided independence and lowered refined kerosene prices. Leland recalls a 1904 St Louis meeting where oil rates rose, with Standard Oil opposing a cut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Territory
Robertson
Kansas City
Standard Oil Company
Chanute
Kan
Weber
Superior
I. A. Leland
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway
St. Louis
Bogardus
That Gas Well Is Capped at Caney Kans
Caney Kansas March 13 The burning gas well has been capped and the fire confined to the upright outlet of the hood It can be shut off with the valves once the ground has cooled with water
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Caney, Kan
Ladoga Doctor Reappears After Twenty Eight Years Absence
Dr. John Mahoney, a Ladoga physician who vanished in 1878, returned after a long disappearance. He rode the Monon into Ladoga and did not recognize his brother Dr. J C Mahoney who later identified him. The missing man cannot explain his twenty eight year absence or the changes around him. His wife divorced him years earlier and remarried in Kansas.
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Ladoga
Ind
John Mahoney
J. C. Mahoney
Ambush Near Vineta Leaves Deputies Dead
Heavily armed officers converge on a Cherokee Nation scene twenty five miles southeast of Vineta after the Wicklife outlaws killed three deputy marshals and reportedly battled two remaining officials. Deputies killed include I L Gilstrap Otis Tuttle and Richard Carey with full blood Cherokee support for the Wickliffes. The ambush occurred Sunday night as the six deputies were lured into the trap by a cleverly planned attack.
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Vineta
I. T
Cherokee Nation
Wicklife
I. L. Gilstrap
Kansas
Otis Tuttle
Vinets
Richard Carey
Tahlequeh
Seventeen More Dead In Courrieres Mine Rescue
Paris reports a fresh disaster after the Courrieres coal mine catastrophe as seventeen rescuers die while attempting to recover bodies. A 25 man Westphalian salvage gang has arrived with gear but work is halted until gas clears, expected in forty eight hours.
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Paris
Courrieres
William
Socialist lecturer challenges constitution and patriotism
The Call of the Wild author draws attention in a new role as a Socialist lecturer. In talks in New York and at Yale he warned that Socialists would take the world by war if necessary and would do away with the constitution if it stood in the way. London claims he opposes patriotism and favors overthrow and revolution.
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New York
Esiy Nnd
Yale College
London
Hot Shot By Cannon Speaker Appears Real Angry
A cannon speaker delivers a forceful outburst drawing attention at the event. Onlookers report a clearly heated demeanor as the crowd reacts to the intense remarks. No injuries or official actions are noted in the readable text.
Statehood debates at White House and Supreme Court actions
Washington discusses statehood bill amid Republican discord as Speaker Cannon and Watson of Indiana push for party unity. Tillman moderates roast on railway rate probe and President’s message. Supreme Court ruling on Chicago traction limits streetcar rights. Powers affair denied relief. tobacco and paper trust witness testimony upheld.
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Washington
White House
Cannon
Watson
Indiana
House
Senate
Congress
Aldrich, Burrow and Company
Supreme Court
Chicago
Illinois
Brewer, Brown
McKenna Wnited
State of
Caleb Powers
Kentucky
Goebel
Trials of Powers
Tobacco Trust
Trust
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Insults Do Not Deter Defenders Of The President
In a bitter exchange Republicans Lodge Spooner and Foraker defend the president against charges of insincerity pretense and ignorance. They dispute claims that he was poorly advised amid mounting criticism.
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Lodge
Spooner
Foraker
Trouble for a School Director in Rolla Case
Governor Folk releases the Rolla State School of Mines board report accusing Director Ladd of neglecting duties being frequently absent and playing billiards in public with students, deemed prejudicial to the school’s interests by the board.
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Jefferson City
Folk
Board of Visitors
State School of Mines
Rolla
Ladd
Wisconsin Man Confirmed for St John Consul Post
Washington March 13 The senate in executive session confirmed Gebhardt Willrich of Wisconsin as consul at St John New Brunswick.
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Wisconsin
Washington
Senate
Gebhardt Willrich
St. John
N. B
Castellane Divorce Case Could Move to Absolute Divorce
Paris March 13 preliminary hearing in the Castellane separation case between Countess Boni de Castellane and her husband may be postponed as lawyers study financial and procedural details. The change contemplated would seek an absolute divorce rather than separation, requiring a new bill of complaint and aiming for quicker final legal and financial settlement.
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Paris
Boni de Castellane
Suit Against Hearst Papers Seeks 100000 Dollars Each
District Attorney Jerome Kings sues the New York American and the New York Evening Journal for 100000 dollars each, alleging editorials published in March attacked his campaign fund and attitude in the Tillinghast case tied to a street railway company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jerome Kings
New York American
New York Evening Journal
Avite
Supreme Court
The
Evening Journal
Jerome
New York County
American
Te Rowe
Tilinghast
Tillinghast
Three Counties Forgotten In New Minnesota Code
Minneapolis reports that Hennepin Hubbard and Huston counties were omitted from Minnesota's new code. The error creates legal ambiguity as Minneapolis serves as Hennepin county seat. Debates rage over their de facto existence until legislative correction next winter.
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Hennepin, Hubbard and
Huston
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Hennepin
Hubbard
Markets in Chicago show mixed cattle and steady sheep reports
Chicago markets report cattle strong at 4000 head and sheep steady at 18000 with lambs lower. Hog receipts yesterday 41151, today 14000 with light hogs 86 25 to 86 30, mixed packers 86 05 to 66 324 and rough 86 05 to 66 15. Market tone mostly higher for hogs and steady for sheep. Chicago March 13 1906 from Beach Wickham Co and McCall Bros agents.
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Chicago
Russians Claim Elections A Farce As Peasants Boycott
In Smolensk Mishkin Zulisof Votkine districts peasants resist delegates while Moscow radicals boycott the election. They demand a constituent assembly universal amnesty and accuse the government of using the national assembly to raise funds. An anti Jewish proclamation by officials proposes expulsion and restrictions on Jewish rights.
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St. Petersburg
Smolensk
Mishkin
Zulisof
Votkine
Moscow
Social Democratic Party
National Assembly
M. Kutler
Constitutional Democrats
Winter Palace
Sesatroryetak
Russia
Durnovo
European
Siberia
Emperor William reviews Orange princes statues designs
Berlin reports Emperor William hosted sculptors Schott Wolff Bruell Haverkamp and Bonke at the palace. He reviewed plaster models for the Orange princes statues on the castle terrace and urged historical accuracy in armor. He noted modern men are larger than knights of olden times after studying armor suits.
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Berlin
William
Schott, Wolff, Bruell, Haverkamp
Bonke
Bloody clash at Strykoff church kills five
Five killed and fifteen wounded in a fight at Strykoff in Piotnik government between Roman Catholics and sectarians occupying a Catholic church. Knives sticks and pitchforks were used in the deadly confrontation.
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Warsaw
Strykoff
Piotnikoff
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Standard Oil
Independent
U. S
Jack London
Speaker
Tillman
Rogis
Castellane
Hearst Papers
Iowa
Grain Market
Czar
Kaiser
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