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STANDARD OIL ON THE RACK
Department of:Justice Begins Suit at
St. Louis to Kill Giant Trust.
.lhe Petition RNed Ascs" That the Combination Be Declared Unlaw
fa1 and Restrained from Doing Business-Histery of the Mo
nopoly and How It Is Alleged to Restrain Trade
-Its Enormous Profits.
The Waron the Standard,
It. Louis.-Petition filed In United
States circuit court asking for disso
luntion of Standard Oil trust and per
petual injunction restraining 70 con-,
stituent companies from working with
or paying dividends to parent .coont
pany. - ..
New 'ork.-Standard Oil shares
dropped 15 points, making net loss of
150 points since Rbosevelt's war on
the trust began; total depreciation in
stock since president opened crusade,
$150,000,000; this notwithstanding
quarterly dividends of $10 per share.
Findlay, O.-Prosecuting attorney
Lirbcted by Attorney General Ellis to
keep grand jury In session; all Stand
ard Oil officials may be indicted; of
Ucials of Standard Oil company of
Ohio indicted' agreed to surrender.
St Louis, Mo.-The suit to break
up the Standard Oil trust has been
filed in the United States circuit court
here. The petition asks:
That the court decree that the com
bination and conspiracy are unlawful
under the Sherman anti-trust act.
That the Standard Oil company be
enjoined, restrained and prohibited
from ~xercising any control over itq
allied corporations, .or any of them,
by the election or appointment of di
rectors or officers, or in any other
manner.
That the subsidiary corporations be
enjoined from declaring or paying any
dividends to the Standard Oil corn
panw of IewaySf
That the defendants, and each and
ill of, them, be enjoined from entering
into any contract, the purpose or ef
fect of which is to restrain commerce
in petroleum and its products or to
monopolize the same.
The ipetittoa0 qoataap 194 pages of
prhited matter, 'or 'about 100,000
words, and an adStional 84 pages of
exhibits, consisting of .by-laws and
minutes of Standard Oil meetings and
organizations, and a map showing the
retail prices of oil in every state and
territory of the union.
What the Petition. Alleges.
It is alleged in the petition that
John D. Rockefeller and his. associ
ates, the other individual defendants,
formed a conspiracy to monopolize
the commerce in petroleum and its
products at an early date-about the
year 1870-and that the same individ
uals have controlled the combination
during all these years, in all its forms,
and now control it. It was, therefore,
deemed wise to state in the petition
the complete history and growth of
this conspiracy.
History of the Conspiracy.
The petition Is logically divided into
three periods. During the first one
of these perleds, from 1870 to 1882,
the combination assumed the form of
a simple conspiracy-that is to say,
the defendants, with the Standard Oil
company of Ohio, acted together to
suppress competition and control the
oil business.
During the second period, from 1882
I to 1899, the combination assumed the
form of a trust agreement, whereby
about 40 separate corporations en
gaged in the same business, turned
over the managgment of their busi
ness to nine. trustees, of which these
individual defendants were the major
Ity, so that these defendants con
trolled all of these corporations.
In March, 1892, the supreme court
of Ohio declared this trust agreement
void and ordeted 'its dissolution.
Thereupon, on March 21, 1892, the
trust certificate holders met in New
ork and resolved' to dissolve the trust
and appointed John D. Rockefeller,
Henry M. Flagler, William Rockefel
ler, John D. Archbold, Benjamin
Brewster, Henry H. RTogers, Wesley
SIH. Tilford and O. B. Jennings as
liquidating trustees-the individual
defendants being a majority of these
trustees.
The manner of liquidation was not
to sell the property and divide the
proceeds among the certificate hold
ers, nor to return to each person in
dividually the property placed in the
trust, but all of' the stocks in each
of .the companies werg divided into
portions in proportion to the num.n.er
of trust certificate shares outstanding,
so that Rockefeller and his associates
continued to control all these corpor
ations as before. .- ,.....
girth of the Present Trust.
The petition then takes up the third
period of the conspiracy, begining
with the formation of the present
* trust
In order to accomplish this, in Jan
ouary, 1899, they increased the stock
Testing Butter.
Here is a certaai butter test: Melt
a little on some' hot hominy in your
breaktfbt plate and taste it. The
fraud will establish itself instantly:
Print butter fetches a bigger price
than ordinary tub butter. There is an
extra charge for manipulation and
wrapping the pound pieces In parafMin
paper. But in my travels I have met
print butter that was made up of
"cooking thirds." Make sure of your
butter dealer, then go ahead.-New
York Press.
All Is Vanityl
'At first,'" said the apartneat iouwse
philosopher, "life in h flat seemis an
Interesting study of humanfty, but
ioon you lose your urbanity, part with
your Christianity,, fall into profanity,
hnd pass by swift stages tm n;inental
Ijnanity into violent insanity."
Misguided Man.
A PennsylvaPla man .sserts. tht
his wife hasn't spoken to him in seven
.years. Yet the misguided man IS su
tea er a divaVce.-1'. -. Times-D
of the Standard Oil company of New
I Jersey from $10,000,000 to $110,000,
000, and made it the holding corpora
tion and placed the control through
L- stock ownership of all the corpora
tions previously held by the trusts
5 into the said company, and exchanged
its stock for the stock so acquired,
a share for share, issuing therefor $97,
f 250,000 par value-the exact amount
a of the trust certificates previously is
L sued by the trustees.
r, The stock of this company was in
g creased by a small amount, and is
s. now $98,338,300.
Some Standard Oil Methods.
D The petition then shows the meth
ods employed by the Standard Oil
company to monopolize the oil busi
ness. These include discriminating
contracts with the railroad companies,
manipulation of rates, local price cut
ting, bogus independent companies,
t The bill sets up among others a con
tract between the Standard Oil com
pany and the Tidewater Pipe company
' whereby the Tidewater companies are
limited to 11% per cent of certain
e business in Pennsylvania and New
3 York, and the Standard Oil company
! to receive 88% per cent of the 'busi
L, ness, the Standard Oil company guar
* anteeing the Tidewater company $500,
r 000 per annum profits, thereby elim
inating all competition between them.
The bill alleges a contract made
F with the Pennsylvania railroad com
pany in 1884, which was in existence
until 1906, by which the Standard Oil
company was able to maintain the
9 public charges for transporting crude
oil from western Pennsylvania at 40
e and 45 cents a barrel to Philadelphia
o and New York respectively. The Stand
ard Oil company, through its own
pipe lines, transported the oil for
0 eight cents a barreL
'I COMPONENT PARTS OF UCGE OIL TRUST. .
ist of Corporations and Partnerships Controlled by Standard Off Com
pany of New Jersey and Which Will Be Compelled to Resume
Business as Independent Concerns if United States Wins
Its Case.
Where Capitaliza
Name. organized, tion.
Acme Oil company..................... New York........$ 300,000
American Lubricating Oil company........... New York........ 100,000
Anglo-American Oil company (Limited).... England ......... £1,000,000
Argand Refining company....................Ohio ...:.........Not known
Atlantic Refining company ................... Pennsylvania .... 5,000,000
Baltimore United Oil company.............. Maryland ........ 600,000
a Borne Scrymser company................ New Jersey....... 200,000
f Buckeye Pipe Line company................Ohio ............. 10,000,000
Buffalo Natural Gas Fuel company........... New York........ 350,000
Bush £ Denslow Manufacturing company..... New York........ 200,000
Camden Consolidated Oil company............ West Virginia..... 200,000
Chesebrough Manufacturing company, cons t'd. New York........ 500,000
Colonial Oil company.,..................... New Jersey..... . 250,000
Commercial Natural Gas company............ Pennsylvania .... 100,000
f Connecting Gas company.. ..... ....... 0io ............ 500,000
Continental 9il company ................... Iowa ........... 300,000
1 Crescent Pipe Line company ................. Pennsylvania 1,000,000
3 Cumberland Pipe Line company............. Kentucky ........ 1,000,000
s Eastern Ohio Oil and Gas company ..........Ohio ............. 5,000
Eclipse Lubricating Oil company............ Pennsylvania ....Not known
2 Eureka Pipe Line company ................. West Virginia..... 5,000,000
Florence Oil and Refining company......... Colorado ......... 500,000
e Franklin Pipe company (Limitea)............ Pennsylvania-..... 50,000
V Galena Signal Oil company .................. Pennsylvania ..... 10,000,000
- Indiana Pipe Line company.................. Indiana .......... 1,000,000
l Lawrence Natural Gas company,........... Pennsylvania ..... 1,000,000
[- Mahoning Gas Fuel company.................Ohio ............. 300,000
e Manhattan Oil company. ...................Ohio ............. 00,000
Mountain State Gas company.............. West Virginia .... 600,000
National Fuel Gas company ................ New Jersey....... 2,500,000
National Transit company. :................ Pennsylvania .... 25,455,200
New York Transit company............. ........New York........ 5,000,000
Northern Pipe Line company.............. Pennsylvania ..... 1,000,000
It Northwestern Ohio Natural Gas company.....Ohio ............. 2,775,250
Ohio Oil company.................. ...Ohio ............. 2,000,000
e Oil City Fuel Supply company .............. Pennsylvania ..... 2,000,000
r Oswego Manufacturing company...............New York........ 100,000
It Pennsylvania Gas company............. .......Pennsylvania .....2,000,000
Pennsylvania Oil company..................Pennsylvania ..... 80,000
r: People's Natural Gas company.............. Pennsylvania ...... 1,000,000
Pittsburg Natural Gas company............ Pennsylvania .... 350,000
a Platt and Washburn Refining company........New Jersey....... 14,000
7 Prairie Oil and Gas company ............... Kansas .......... 2,500,000
aI Republic Oil company...................... .. New York........ 350,000
L1 Salamanca Gas company................... New York........ 30,000
e Security Oil company .......................Texas ........... 3,000,000
Solar Refining company....................Ohio ............. 500,000
Southern Pipe Line company ............... Pennsylvania ..... 5,000,000
South Penn Oil company............... Pennsylvania .....2,500,000
Lo Southwest Pennsylvania Pipe Lines company.. Pennsylvania ..... 3,500,000
tI' Standard Oil company of California ........... California ......... 6,000,000
a- Standard Oil company of Indiana............ Indiana .......... 1,000,000
Le Standard Oil company of Iowa..............Iowa ............. 1,000,000
Sh Standard Oil company of Kansas ...........Kansas ............ 100,000
to Standard Oil company of Kentucky........... Kentucky ........ 1,000,000
r Standard Oil company of Minnesota.......... Minnesota ........ 100,000
Standard Oil company of Nebraska........... Nebraska ........ 1,000,000
Standard Oil company of New York........... New York........ 15,000,000
' Standard Oil company of Ohio..................... 3,500,000
r-Swan & Finch company............ ..... New York........ 100,000
Taylorstown Natural Gas company...........Pennsylvania ... 10,000
Tide Water Pipe company (Limited).........Pennsylvania ..... 625,000
d Tide Water Oil company..................New Jersey....... 5,000,000
Union Tank Line company. .................. New Jersey....... 3,500,000
United Natural Gas company....................Pennsylvania ..... 1,000,000
United Oil company..................... ..... Colorado ......... 3,000,000
Vacuum Oil acompany...................N...Now York........ 2,500,000
Washington Oil company.................... Pennsylvania ..... 100,000
Waters-Pierce Oil company .................-Missouri ......... 400,000
New Egypt Arising.
A progressive Arab of Cairo Is
sinking wells and installing irrigation
pumps at the foot of the pyramid of
Cheops, and the Sphinx, after gazing
thousands of years on sand, wastes,
soon will be looking out on green
fields. This is one of the many dem
onstrations of the change from the old
to the new Egypt.
We should choose for a wiie only
such a woman, as we should choose
for a friend were she a man.
Short Skirts for Street Wear.
Frau Schubert, a prominent dress
reform advocate of Hanover, says
that trains fit for the drawing-room.
are not siutable for the street, and
that' women with long dresses that
out of doors sweep up all sorts of
germs, are a "serious danger to them
selvesand to other people ."
Varieties of Stinging Adder.
In the United States Pharmacobar
it is stated that there are 1,20 ape.
cies of cocktail "and that each scies
.a au varletqs.--Clods:.
It is alleged that the defendants,
through the Standard .Oil company
and the other corporations, are en- t
gaged - In producing. purchaplan and I
transporting petroleum in the Various
producing districts in the United
States, principally situated in New I
York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, I
Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Kansas, Indian Territory, Ok- i
lahoma, Louisiana, Texas, Colorado l
and Californfli; that ther own and con- i
trol nearly all of the pipe lines in
said states, and. other pipe lines ex- i
tending from Kansas to the seaboard;
also pipe lines in Texas and in Cal- 1
ifornia; that they own a large num- ]
ber of tank cars and steamships en
gaged in transporting oil; and that the 1
said, defendants have, through the in- 1
strumentality of the Standard Oil com
pany of New Jersey (a holding corpor
ation), eliminated competition between
all of the separate corporatibns and
monopolized the commerce in oil in
the United States.
Control the Pipe Lines.
It is alleged that the Standard Oil
company has had control of the carry
ing business by pipe lines in and from
all the oil producing regions of the
United States except Texas, Louisiana
and California; that they charged ex
cessive and unreasonable rates, and
rates which were discriminatory in
favor of the Standard Oil company;
that they have refused to furnish
equal facilities for receiving and de
livering oil of independent shippers
and refiners; that they have refused
to transport oil belonging to others
than the defendants and their associa
ted companies, and since the month of
August, 1906, have refused to transport
oil of others except in such large quan
tities as to completely prevent inde
pendent producers and refiners of pil
from using their service, and that they
have forced 16 independent refiners
now doing business in Pennsylvania
and Ohio, and producing their crude
oil through the Standard Oil com
pany's pipe lines, to sell all of their
export oil to the Standard Oil com
pany. thereby eliminating their com
petitiOn. This contract was procured
through threats of the Standard Oil
company to reduce the amount of
crude oil which it would sell to the
independent refiners.
Enjoy Preferential Rates.
It is alleged that one of the prin
cipal instrumentalities through which
the defendants have been enabled to
monopolise the commerce in. petro
leum and its products throughout the
United States has been a system of
preferential rates, and rates discrimi
Different Then.
Husband-It's strange that I can
never find anything about the house
that belongs to me without your assist.
ance.
Wife-How did you manage before
we were married, dear?
Husband-Oh, things stayed where I
put them then.-Chicago Daily News.
A man may not have much faith in
doctors, up to the time when the first
baby arrives in his house. After that
he regards them with awe.
A Dangerous Case.
One of the surgeons of a hospital
i asked an Irish hklp which he consid
ered the mostydangerous of the many
cases.then in the hospitl. "That. sir,"
said Patrick, as, he pointed to a case
of surgical inhtrumente.
.ittle Sophist has- ` Just:' beef " I
formed that esb:has' a, little lister:
-Oh. heo lovelit Please, please let
me bhe the oni to temll· mammay. "
ansiiite~. s ', -Transatlanti Tales.
i natory'against the ee~petitors of die
Standard Oil.. a9Ws, oth o4., . p
and published thrifs and by and
throuah secret and unptrblisted ratwe.
both interstate and intrastate, and by
rebates, concessions, and preferences
granted to the Standard Oil company
and its subsidiary corporations.
The bill goes into the details of
many of these rates. and shows a sys
tematic discrimination, substantially
all over the United. States; "so that
rates from Standard shipping po'"ts
are much lower; for the same distance
proportionately and per ton per mile,
than from shipping points of inde
pendent competing concerns. These
differences in most instances amount
to more than a reasonable profit upon
the oil.
Some Sample Discriminations.
The regular published rate from
Whiting, Ind., to Evansville, Ind.,
through Illinois, for instance, was 11
cents per hundred pounds. Most of
the oil shipped by the Standard com
pany was shipped at 8% cents and
6 cents per hundred pounds. The
Standard had a rate from Whiting,
Ind., to Grand Junction, Tenn., of 15
cents per hundred pounds, and large
quantities of oil were distributed from
Grand Junction all over this southern
territory on secret rates which never
were published, as required by law,
or filed with the interstate commerce
commission.
The petition alleges that for about
ten years prior to 1905 secret and un
published rates were made from
Whiting, Ind., to East St. Louis, of 6,
6% and 6% cents on the various rail
roads, which oil was destined to St.
Louis and to a large territory south
and southwest of those points, while
the regular published rate was 18
cents per hundred pounds.
How They Control Railroads.
It is alleged that the individual de
fendants and other individuals associa
ted with them and interested 'with
them' in the Standard Oil trust have
acquired large interests in the stocks
of the principal railroads of the
United States and have caused them
selves to be elected or have caused
other persons acting in their interest
to be elected ds members of the boards
of directors of such railroads. By rea
son of such ownership and representa
tion on the boards of directors of
such railroads the individual defend
ants have influenced the railroads' to
establish and maintain the discrimina.
tory rates.
Among the.railroads in which the
defendants are interested and upon
the boards of directors of which they
have representation (together with
the names of directors) are the fol
lowing:
William Rockefeller- Central New
England; Chicago, Milwaukee &- St.
Paul; Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western; Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern; Michigan Central; New
York Central; New York, Chicago
and St. Louis; New York, New
Haven and Hartford; New York,
Ontario and Western; New York
and Ottawa; Pittsburg and Lake
Erie; Rutland.
Henry H. Rogers-Santa Fe, Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul; Union
Pacific.
Charles M. Pratt-Boston and Maine,
Evansville and Terre Haute; Long
Island.
Henry M. Flagler-Florida East Coast
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.-Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western; Missouri
Pacific.
racinc.
William 0. Rockefeller-Union Pacific.
H. Clay Pierce-Kansas City Souther,.
St. Louis and San Francisco.
C. W. Harkness-Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul.
F. T. Gates-Milsouri Pacific, Wiscon
sin Central.
The petition then recites the Stand
ard trust's monopoly of the sale of
lubricating oils to railroads, its unfair
methods of competition in the cutting
of local prices, the formation of bogus
independent companies, the payment
of rebates on oil prices, and the divis
ion of territory.
Tells of Stupendous Profits.
It is alleged that by reason of its
monopoly the Standard Oil company
has made enormous and unreasonable
profits on the actual value of its prop
erty; that the trustees' valuation of
all the property and stocks placed in
their hands in 1882 Was $55,710,698.24.
I The additional property purchased or
acquired by the issue of trust certi
cates was $18,310,100, so that the total
value of all property controlled by the
Standard Oil company of New Jersey,
except such ap may have been pur
'chased from earnings, is $69,020,798.24,
according to their own valuation.
I Upon this capital the Standard has
from 1882 to 1895, inclusive, paid
$512,940,084.50 of dividends, and has
created a large surplus-the exact sur
plus the petitioner is unable to state,
because the Standard has not pub
) lished any statements since 1898. But
I from 1882 to 1896 its surplus, accord
I ing to its own statements, was $79,
536,025.14, and it-is alleged that its
property at the. present time exceeds
the value of $200,000,000. Its annual
dividends- during the last nine years
have run from 33 to 48 per cent per
) annum, in addition to this large sm~
) plus.
As Interpreted.
n Mayme-George declared he would
a gladly go through fire and water for
t- me.
Edyth-That means he will look
e after the furnace and keep your. wash.
tubs filled after marriage.-Chicago
I Daily News.
Perhaps Put to Better Use.
n A church in London still draws an
it income which was bequeathed it for
it the purdose of buying wood where
with to burn heretics.
The World's Demands.
il A man who cannot afford to return
1- hospitalities .will find that he need
y not expect to avail himself of threse of
his acquaintances tp the end of his
a career, unless he-is an extremely er-.
gaging ' lperson: - lani~es. IHodso
Burnett.
" Check on Scorchers,
r" CyCllists in Roumania, to facilitate
't tdentIfication, are comnpelled by law
- to have their names on the lamp
Is. glass of their machibs-, so as t-rbe
legible at sight..
Livery and Sale Stable
Funeral Directors
FURNITURB MOVING and BAGGAG.
TRANSFER A SPECIALTY.
Special rates to families wishiag borw
and buggy by the month.
Long Distance Phone No. '9.
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Gentle Horses.
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