The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-04-22
IT'S ROCKEFELLER
AGAINST MORGAN
Real inwardness Of the Contest
for Control of the North
ern Pacific.
r MAY CAUSE TROUBLE
Explanation OF the Detail of Relations
Between the Big Financial Inter-
csts Involved in the Lines to
the Coast.
II MAY CAUSE U

New York special: Unable TO settle
their difficulties in the stock market or
through arbitration, John ID. Rockefel-
Ter and j. L. Morgan have carried
the war for possession of the Northern
Pacific railroad to the courts. AS a
result, there is danger of the great
stock panic of May, 1901, from the eff
fects of which the market has never
fully recovered, being renewed.
Refusing to accept the distribution
OF assets by the outlawed Northern Sc
curities company, as planned by Nor
gan n j. j. Hill. L. H. Hartman,
manager of the Rockefeller forces, has
asked the United States circuit court
to compel Morgan to hand back to him
the Identical Northern Pacific stock
which he testified under oath Morgan
dubbed him into depositing in the mer-
ger.
Harriman's petition was filed in st.
Paul late Saturday night. SO secretly
was it done that the fact did not be-
come known until yesterday morning.
1t was served on II. G. Grover, f. w.
for the Northern Securities company,
n is returnable at st. Paul April IL.
Battle Will Be FicrceIy Fought.
William D.. Guthrie, Morgan's law
yer, signs the petition with Judge John
T.. Dillon, the Rockefeller-Gould adj
wiser. Both are formally attorneys for
E. H. Hartman n WinSlow S. Pierce,
who bring the suit as trustees for the
Oregon Short Line. in whose treasury
the Rockefeller shares OF the Northern
Securities stock are held.
This joining in the same petition of
adverse lawyers is lone to give the ac-
ton the outward appearance of a
friendly suit, but h battle will be
waged lone the less nercely because of
this fiction. Hartman. as before said,
has sworn he was dubbed into the mer-
ger, and Rockefeller has ordered him to
get the stock Jack again.
The formal demand is now made that
the Oregon Short Line. as a stockholder
In the Northern Securities. be permit
ted to intervene in the suit just decided
by the supreme court and have the de-
cree modified SO as to compel redistri-
button OF original stocks put into the
merger.
Buying Of Union Pacific.
This movement: explains much OF the
feverish buying of Union Pacific stock
by Rockefeller and Morgan forces the
last two weeks. It was decided ten
days ago to carry the battle 20 court.
n this has now been one.
But before that decision vas reached
the buying OF Union Pacific became
heavy, Purchasing on the part of II
~ the fact that thav had sold Great
blocks NJ y IN tha halief that an ad1erss
decision On the merger snit would break
the stock market
When the market refused to break on
the announcement Of the merger deci-
sio there was q wild scramble to get
this stock hack
p. Morgan onservtnp tho h,vinr
also bought Union Pacific heavily for
several DAYS. Al the same time J. +.
nm went into the market as a pur-
chaser of Northern Securities.
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