1010. 
TH EC RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. 
E. G. Lewis Wants $560,000 More. 
While wc have no legal service, indi¬ 
rectly we are told that E. G. Lewis, of 
St. Louis, Mo., has gone through the 
form of serving a summons and com¬ 
plaint in three alleged libel suits served 
on an advertising agency in St. Louis, 
against The R. N.-Y. These suits ag¬ 
gregate over half a million dollars. Mr. 
Lewis publishes the alleged complaint in 
one of his papers, and says that the 
suit is answerable in the State of Mis¬ 
souri. Of course, any such service may 
as well be made to the man in the moon. 
The advertising agency is in no sense a 
representative of The R. N.-Y. ; and the 
proper place for a suit is where the 
paper is published. This is Mr. Lewis’ 
reply to our demand that he pay our 
subscribers the $20,000 that they sent 
him on his fake schemes during the past 
10 years. When we exposed the fraudu¬ 
lent schemes of the American Farm 
Company, they responded with a libel 
suit for $200,000. When we showed up 
Dawley’s crooked cattle deals, he re¬ 
sponded with a suit for $150,000. 
Any crook whose special privilege of 
robbing the people is interfered with 
through publicity, has the privilege of 
bringing a libel suit against the pub¬ 
lisher; but few of them ever go to trial 
for the reason that the rogues do not 
want their records and their schemes 
shown up in court. 
Mr. Lewis bases one of his complaints 
on the article published in the issue of 
June 18. He seems to think that be¬ 
cause he had arrangement with two 
correspondence schools to use their 
books, and blanks, and correct lessons 
by mail, he was justified in calling this 
a part of a great university, and en¬ 
titled to publish the names of distin¬ 
guished teachers as part of his univer¬ 
sity faculty. We have not questioned 
that he gives correspondence lessons to 
those who meet his conditions and want 
them. lie is under the necessity of 
making some attempt to fulfill some of 
his promises as he goes along. But his 
papers, his correspondence- courses, his 
club houses, and the other various fea¬ 
tures of his league scheme win the con¬ 
fidence of country people, as it is all 
alleged for their personal benefit; and 
these confiding people arc then easily in¬ 
duced to send him their savings under 
his promises of great profits and big 
dividends. Lewis himself has had fraud 
orders issued against him, and has been 
under indictment charged with fraud, 
and though not convicted on trial for 
fraud, the people would be suspicious 
of his new schemes; but the association 
of these respectable and many noted edu¬ 
cators with his schemes has the tendency 
to allay suspicion and cause poor and 
uninformed people to send him their 
savings. For these remittances he ad¬ 
mits himself and his apologists claim 
for him that the people have no legal 
claim on him for a penny. We simply 
called the attention of these educators 
to this condition of affairs, and they re¬ 
sponded promptly that they had no 
knowledge of the way their names were 
being used, and only one of them had 
ever heard of Lewis. Mr. Lewis hopes 
to stem the tide of condemnation by the 
publication of a libel complaint. We 
think he has adopted the best means of 
increasing it. If he ever gives The 
R. N.-Y. an opportunity to show up his 
treatment of poor people in the court, 
we will welcome the opportunity to 
do so. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Judge Landis in the Uni¬ 
ted States District Court at Chicago, June 
23, sustained the demurrers of the packing 
companies composing the so-called Beef 
Trust to tlie indictment charging a com¬ 
bination in restraint of trade. A new 
grand jury was ordered to renew investiga¬ 
tion of tin! packing companies and their 
methods. The indictment, which was drawn 
on evidence secured by agents of the Fed¬ 
eral Government, ran against the National 
Packing Company and its 10 subsidiary 
companies, charging violation of the Sher¬ 
man Anti-Trust law. The indictment 
quashed failed to show, in the view of 
Judge Landis, that any offence had been 
committed within the last three years, it 
did not show that during this statutory 
jeriod tlie defendants had been engaged in 
nterstate commerce. The general averment 
that the packing companies engaged in a 
combination in restraint of trade, tin; court 
declared to be a mere conclusion. 
Moses Ilaas, of New York, and Frederick 
A. Peckham, of Cincinnati, after lighting 
for five years indictments returned against 
them in the “cotton leak” episode of the 
statistics division of the Department of 
Agriculture, June 24 entered pleas of guilty 
to the count in tlie indictment charging 
conspiracy to affect misconduct in ofiice. 
On the recommendation of the Department 
of Justice, Judge Gould imposed a line of 
$6,000 on Haas and $5,000 on Peckham, 
which they paid, and were released from 
custody. The other indictments pending 
against them were nolle prossed. Ilaas and 
Peckham paid their fines in $1,000 bills. 
The lawyers for Edwin R. Holmes, Jr., tlie 
former associate statistician, were taken 
by surprise when Haas and Peckham 
pleaded guilty, and were not prepared to 
say what course they would take for their 
client. Holmes was tried in 1906, and the 
jury disagreed. He has not been retried, 
because of the technical litigation over the 
eases, it was hinted from unofficial sources 
that the Government would be satisfied 
with the same punishment as was imposed 
on the other two men. Charges are still 
pending in the New York courts against 
Theodore II. Price, the cotton operator, who 
was implicated in the scandal. The in¬ 
dictment against him in the District of 
Columbia was quashed recently on a tech¬ 
nicality. While the cotton leak was un¬ 
earthed in 1905, it was not until 1908 that 
Congress passed a statute making it a 
crime for a Government officer to furnish 
information in possession of his ofiice to 
outsiders, when it was to be used for such 
purposes as in these cases. 
The Beaumont, Texas, oil field was 
threatened with complete destruction by a 
fire that started at El Vista, a few miles 
from Beaumont, June 25. Ten oil tanks 
were burned, at a loss of over $100,000. 
The tanks burned were the property of the 
Gulf Pipe Line Company and the Texas Oil 
Company. 
The Mississippi Uiver steamer J. S. was 
burned to the water's edge near Prairie du 
Chien, Wls., June 25. There were nearly 
1,500 persons on board when the fire was 
discovered. Four persons are dead and 
five seriously injured. The steamer was 
madei with excursionists. The vessel was 
headed for shore when the fire was dis¬ 
covered and tin* great majority of the pas¬ 
sengers escaped to land. The fire was 
two miles north of Victory, Wls., half way 
between Prairie du Chien and La Crosse. 
The Seneca Hotel, an old landmark at 
Seneca, N. Y., was destroyed by fire June 
26, three of the 25 guests losing their 
lives. The fact that the fire was discov¬ 
ered before it had gained headway and the 
giving of an alarm by a fusillade of revol¬ 
ver shots that promptly awakened the 
guests alone prevented greater loss of life. 
Besides the hotel the fire destroyed the 
United States Express ofiice, Postal Tele¬ 
graph and Knights of Columbus block. The 
Auburn and the Waterloo fire departments 
assisted, going to the scene in special 
trains. The total loss is estimated at 
$115,000. The guests lost all their cloth¬ 
ing and baggage. It is believed that the 
fire was caused by an intoxicated guest, 
who lost his life. 
Fire started in a furniture store on 
Main street, Paterson, N. J., June 27, 
spreading to adjoining business buildings. 
The loss was estimated at $500,000. The 
fire was within a block of the path of the 
great fire of 1902. 
The suit of the American Sugar Refin- 
inr Company for a permanent injunction 
restraining the City of New York from 
shutting off its water in the Williamsburg 
refinery because the company won’t pay a 
claim of $525,600 for water which the city 
alleges the Sugar Trust got free by fraud, 
was nractically closed June 27 with tin; 
submission of briefs by counsel and with 
various motions. The suit-was begun about 
four years ago in the first administration 
of Mayor McClellan and has been pending 
before Morgan J. O’Brien as referee for 
two years. The testimony and exhibits 
make nearly 15,000 pages. The referee re¬ 
fused to admit further testimony to the 
record on the ground that further delay 
of the case would bring public criticism. 
Former Assistant Corporation Counsel Ed¬ 
ward Maxson, who was retained as special 
counsel in the case after he resigned from 
tin 1 Corporation Counsel’s office on April 1, 
moved that the complaint of the Sugar 
Trust be recommended for dismissal on the 
ground that the testimony shows that the 
plaintiff has been guilty of fraud and de¬ 
ceit and accordingly has no standing in a 
court of equity. He asked for judgment 
on the city’s counter claim. Tompkins Mc- 
Ilvaine, counsel for the Sugar Trust, asked 
for a permanent injunction and moved 
that all the city’s testimony in support of 
its counter claim be stricken out because 
it was not a proper counter claim. The 
referee reserved decision on both motions. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—A meeting of 
dairymen from various points on the Hud¬ 
son River was held at Newburg, N. Y., June 
22, for the purpose of taking action that 
will tend to put them in position to place 
a value on their milk product rather than 
have that value dictated to them by the 
Bordens and the New York Milk Exchange, 
which are said to govern at present the 
pri es and control the greater part of the 
milk produced in New York, New Jersey, 
I’ennsylvania and Connecticut. The Dairy¬ 
men’s League was organized to take the 
initiative and the meeting was under their 
direction. State Master Godfrey, of the 
New York State Grange, of Glean, was 
present. 
The premium list giving list of regular 
premiums, valuable specials, and other in¬ 
formation concerning the New England 
Corn Exposition to lie held at Worcester, 
Mass., November 7-12, 1910, is now ready 
for distribution. A copy can be had by 
addressing the secretary, Win. D. Hurd, 
Amherst, Mass. 
Col. G. W. Crawford, of New r ark, O., is 
now on his 50th business trip to Europe, 
'where he expects to buy 100 head or more 
of Belgian, Pereheron and German coach 
(Stallions and mares for the next sale at 
Sharon Valley Stock Farm. 
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the 
Bureau of Chemistry, Department of Agri¬ 
culture, is deprived of part of the power 
he has been exercising by a clause in the 
Agricultural Appropriation bill, which says 
that “hereafter the legal work of the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture shall be performed 
under the supervision and direction of the 
solicitor.” This means that Dr. Wiley, 
who heretofore has issued citations to hear¬ 
ings whenever examinations made in his 
bureau seemed to justify him in demanding 
of the manufacturer an explanation of any 
article of food or drug product which it 
was thought did not come up to the stand¬ 
ard of purity demanded by the food and 
drug act. must confine his work practically 
to his laboratory. His other powers will 
be transferred to the solicitor of the de¬ 
partment. 
COST OF LIVING INQUIRY.-— The Re¬ 
publican members of the Senate High Cost 
of Living Committee have absolved the 
Payne-Aldrich tariff law from any blame 
for the upward trend of prices and have 
placed the responsibility upon a large va¬ 
riety of causes. The Democrats on the 
committee do not agree with their Repub¬ 
lican brethren and have protested against 
the character of the findings. They kicked 
so vigorously that the committee finally 
authorized them to employ an expert to go 
over the majority report and prepare the 
minority’s views for submission to the Sen¬ 
ate. Among the causes contributing* to the 
high prices, as Senator Lodge and his Re¬ 
publican colleagues on the committee view 
the situation, are: Increased cost of pro¬ 
duction of farm products by reason of high¬ 
er land values and higher wages. Increased 
demand for farm products and food. Shift¬ 
ing of the population from food producing 
to food consuming occupations and locali¬ 
ties. Immigration to food consuming lo¬ 
calities. Reduced fertility of land, result¬ 
ing in lower average production or in in¬ 
creased expenditures for fertilization. In¬ 
creased banking facilities in agricultural 
localities which enable farmers to hold 
their crops and market to the host advan¬ 
tage. Reduced supply convenient to trans¬ 
portation facilities of such commodities as 
timber, ('old storage plants, increased cost 
of distribution, industrial combinations, or¬ 
ganization of producers or of dealers, ad¬ 
vertising, increased money supply, over- 
capitalization and higher standard of liv¬ 
ing. The committee does not select any 
one cause as contributing more to the gen¬ 
eral higher prices than another, but from 
the importance given in the report to the 
increased cost of farm products it is ap¬ 
parent the committee deems this factor 
the most important in the general upward 
movement. The committee found that 
wholesale prices of the principal commodi¬ 
ties in the United States in March, 1910, 
were 21.1 per cent above wholesale prices 
for the same commodities in March, 1900. 
Th i largest advances were in farm pro¬ 
ducts. Hogs and hops jumped more than 
100 per cent. The advance in farm pro¬ 
ducts, the committee asserts, was twice as 
great as the advance in other food. Of 48 
articles of food 35 showed increases in 
this period. Thirty-nine out of 47 articles 
of clothing also cost more than in 1900. 
There has been increases in 10 out of .‘{.‘l 
commodities in the metal and implement 
group. 
CONGRESS ADJOURNS.—The second 
session of the Sixty-first Congress ad¬ 
journed June 25. Important measures 
passed during this session were: The 
Ruil road bill, extending the regulative 
powers of the Government further over the 
common carriers. The Postal Savings Bank 
bill. Creation of a commission to inquire 
into stocks and bond issues of railroads. 
Creation of a Bureau of Mines, for which 
$502,200 is appropriated. Granting the 
President authority to withdraw from en¬ 
try certain classes of land in order to per- 
feet the administration’s conservation 
policy. The building of two first-class bat¬ 
tleships and several smaller naval vessels. 
The granting of separate Statehood to Ari¬ 
zona and New Mexico. To further perfect 
laws in regard to the use of safety appli¬ 
ances on railroads. The creation of a com¬ 
mission to secure facts to enable the effect¬ 
ing of economies in Federal departments. 
To better regulate the "white slave” traffic. 
An appropriation sufficient to meet the 
needs of the Tariff Board in its efforts to 
ascertain the difference of the cost of pro¬ 
duction at home and abroad. The reor¬ 
ganization of the lighthouse service. The 
issue of $20,000,000 certificates to further 
irrigation work. An act to prevent the 
sale of misbranded and adulterated Paris 
green fungicides and insecticides. An act 
providing regulations designed to. prevent 
collisions between vessels. An act to 
authorize agricultural entries on coal lands. 
An act to compel common carriers by rail¬ 
road to furnish to the Interstate Commerce 
Commission full reports of accidents. An 
act to permit the parole of United States 
prisoners whose conduct after conviction • 
warrants. An act authorizing the States 
and Territories to select lands in lieu of 
those included within forest reserves. An 
act licensing custom-house brokers. An act 
providing a tariff system for the Philip¬ 
pines. An act amending in many import¬ 
ant respects the act providing for the gov¬ 
ernment of Hawaii. An act fixing gold 
coin as the medium for paying the public 
dei-fc- of the United States. An act estab¬ 
lishing a commission of fine arts. Provis¬ 
ion for raising the wreck of the Maine from 
Havana harbor. An act further to promote 
the efficiency of the militia. An act to 
protect the seal fisheries of Alaska. Vari¬ 
ous important acts for the benefit of the 
Indian tribes and settlers on or near In¬ 
dian lands. An act further restricting and 
regulating the character of immigration 
into the United States. An act giving the 
Government control over wireless communi¬ 
cation. The Department of Justice is given 
$200,000 in addition to the unexpended bal¬ 
ance remaining from former years, to pro¬ 
vide for the strict enforcement of the Sher¬ 
man Anti-Trust law. 
THE DAIRYMEN’S LEAGUE IN BUSINESS. 
Many of our people who ship milk to the 
New York market have heard of the Dairy¬ 
men’s League. This organization has been 
working for some years to obtain control of 
a fair share of the milk which is sent to 
New York. This object in starting out was 
to secure control of the milk from 50,000 
cows, expecting in this way to handle a 
volume of milk which would enable them 
to have something to say about the price 
and disposition of their product. At a 
meeting held in Middletown, N. Y., June 
29, delegates were present from Orange, 
Ulster, Sullivan, Putnam. Dutchess, Che. 
nango, Broome and Washington counties, 
N. Y.; Wayne County, Pa.; Sussex County, 
N. J., and also sections of Connecticut. 
These delegates were very enthusiastic over 
the prospect. It was shown that the mem¬ 
bers of the League controlled the market 
from 50,000 cows, and that the number Is 
steadily increasing. In fact, the League 
has now reached a point in power and size 
where its officers feel that the time has 
come to take active part in solving the 
milk problem. The recent success of the 
New England milk producers in the Boston 
milk war is very encouraging, and the offi¬ 
cers of the League feel that they are now 
in shape to have something to say about 
prices. The League is growing steadily 
and slowly, and we believe it is now upon 
solid foundation. If its officers will act 
conservatively and not try to do too much 
at once, we believe it will actually accom- 
>lish results which will prove a great bless, 
ii" to milk producers. The following offi¬ 
cers were elected : President, John Y. Ge- 
row, Washingtonville, N. Y.; vice-president, 
W. D. Haggerty, Sussex, N. .1.; secretary, 
Albert Manning, Otisville, N. Y.; treasurer, 
M. L. Hardin, Newton, N. J. An execu¬ 
tive committee was appointed and all de¬ 
tails arranged for a permanent organiza¬ 
tion. 
THAT CELEBRATED MILK CASE. 
..nclosed find $1 to help push the Bellows 
case. A , 
Massachusetts. 
I enclose $1, which please apply to the 
Bellows case. It is about time milk pro¬ 
ducers found out whether it does "take two 
to make a bargain” or not. j. l. ii. 
Chenango Co., N. Y. 
In regard to the S. Iv. Bellows milk case, 
I wish to see it carried to the higher courts 
and fought to the finish. We farmers 
should have some rights around here, as 
well as away from home. If we go to a 
foreign country our country will protect 
us, but here at home, where we should 
have the most rights, we are swindled, 
robbed and ordered around to please some 
one else. I want parcels post, and think it 
wi 1 be a great help to the farmers. 1 read 
many articles in The It. N.-Y. that are in 
direct li’ e with my ideas. I wish these 
good ideas could be carried through, and 
justice and the square deal be measured out 
to all. I am glad there is some one who 
has an interest in and does what he can 
for the farmer. I enclose $1 for The It. 
N.-Y. to hold in trust for the furtherance 
of tin 1 S. Iv. Bellows milk case. 
W. Ivortright, N. Y. e. i*. f. 
MILK SITUATION IN YORK COUNTY, FA. 
I am a subscriber and constant reader of 
The It. N.-Y. and have been interested in 
the milk war as it has been fought in 
Massachusetts and New York. We milk 
producers here in York County send our 
milk all to the York Sanitary Milk Co., 
which controls the milk business in York 
and in many of the smaller towns through¬ 
out the county. They have no opposition 
and are grinding us farmers very hard. 
They pay 16 cents per gallon for milk 
about three months during the Winter, and 
then cut the price one cent a gallon each 
month until they have reached the 11-cent 
mark, and then pay 11 cents per gallon for 
about three months, when they again begin 
to pay more. They bottle nearly all of the 
milk and sell it at six and seven cents per 
quart the year through. If the milk tests 
3.5 or over they pay by the gallon, and if 
under 3.5 they do not reject it, but pay 
by test, and still bottle and sell it six 
cents per quart, so you see they buy any 
way that is cheapest to them, without a 
farmer’s consent, and he never knows 
whether he is being paid by test or by gal¬ 
lon until he receives his check. We must 
pay 114 cents per gallon to ship milk to 
creamery six miles. We think this is out¬ 
rageous, but the trolley company will not 
take it for less, and It is our only way. 
This creamery also does an immense ice 
cream business, selling their ice cream at 
$1.20 per gallon. Can you through your 
paper give u- any assistance by way of a 
plan by which to get a square deal from 
this milk company? It is owned by four 
persons who own another creamery iii Lan¬ 
caster, I*a. c. c. 
York Co., Pa. 
R. N.-.Y.—We print this letter and invite 
a discussion. The loco I dairymen in York 
County, Pa., will have to combine in order 
to have standing enough to enforce their 
rights. We call for further information 
from farmers who are ready to take hold. 
EGGS IN STORAGE. 
We believe the holdings of eggs in this 
market are about double what they were a 
year ago. a. f. spitleu & co. 
Cleveland, O. 
There are about 20 per cent more eggs 
in storage than there have been in any 
previous year at this time. 
St. Louis. H. broeder’s sons com. co. 
We have more eggs here at present time 
than we had last year. Take tin* country 
over, there were stored about 400,000 crates 
more up to June 1. It looks like a very 
heavy production, but the consumption has 
increased and demand keeps good. 
Philadelphia. w. SMITH & co. 
The holding of storage eggs in Chicago 
is estimated by various parties at from 
1,400,000 to 1,500,000, against last year’s 
950,000 cases. We know that there have 
been years when there have been equally 
as many eggs stored as this year. 
Chicago, Ill. i.epman & heggie. 
The stock of eggs in storage in Boston 
up to June 18 is as follows: June 18, 
1910, 408,555 cases; June 18, 1909, 209,017 
cases; 199,438 increase over last year. 
Butter, June 18, 1910. 104,955 packages; 
June 18, 1909, 40,071 packages; 64,884 
increase. We believe the same conditions 
prevail in all the large markets. 
Boston, Mass. amos keyes & co. 
We have seen figures that if correct, 
would show an Increase of about 20 per 
cent more eggs in storage in the United 
States than there were at this time last 
year. The recent hot weather will force a 
good many dealers to begin taking fancy 
eggs out of storage, provided this weather 
continues for a week or 10 days. It is very 
hot at present in the West, Southwest and 
Northwest. Should the dealers have to go 
to storage to get their fancy eggs much 
earlier than they did last year (and it 
looks now as though they would have to 
do so much earlier), the chances are there 
will be enough eggs to go around until the 
next producing season starts. The eggs in 
storage this year are of a much finer qual¬ 
ity on an average than ever before. 
Chicago, 111. A. H. BARBER A COMPANY. 
Our Jersey cow, Angela of Bleak House 
233250, has finished two months of a 
year’s test, authenticated by Cornell Uni¬ 
versity. The first month she produced 
77.6461 pounds fat, as previously reported. 
The second month she gave 1482.75 pounds 
of milk testing 6.063 per cent, thus mak¬ 
ing 89.8067 pounds of fat. The total of 
the two months production is 167.5528 
pounds of fat, approximately equivalent to 
200 pounds butter. She produced more fat 
than has any Jersey cow yet reported dur¬ 
ing the first two mouths of a year’s test. 
Erie Co., N. Y. harry’s. gail. 
