The San Francisco call., 1905-03-30
v YOMING'S
OIL FIELDS
The PRIZE
ROthSChildS GiTeBat-
tie to Standard
Company.
File Suit in Which Wreck
ing Of a Railroad Is
Alleged.
Secretary of State Fenimore Chatter
ion Named as One of the
Secretary of State Fenimore Chatter
ion Named as One of the
Defendants.
Special Dispatch to Til. Call.

CHEYENNE, Wyo., March pa
sensational suit was filed in the Dis
trict Court at noon to-day and marks
the beginning of the gigantic struggle
between the Belgo-A American oil in
terests, backed by the Rothschilds, and
the Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
way, backed by the Standard Oil Com
pany.
Joseph H. Lobell, promoter of the
Belgo-A American interests, which own
the oil wells at Lander, the Caspar re-
fireries and the Salt River oil wells,
is the plaintiff and General Manager
George f. Bidwell, Chief Attorney
White and local attorney Clark of the
Northwestern, Secretary Of State Feni-
more Chatterton and H. B. Coolidge
of the Wyoming State Railway, are
named as defendants.
Lobell in his petition asks that a re-
ceiver be appointed for the Wyoming
State Railway and prays for an in
junction against the same concern, re-
straining it from proceeding further
with the surveys and building of the
Belgo- American Railroad from Orin
Junction to Lander.
Lobell alleges that he paid to T. j.
Miner the sum of $4,000 to make the
surveys from Orin to Lander and that
others then organized the Wyoming
State Railway Company for the pur-
pose of wrecking the Belgo-A American
Company. They incurred an indebted
ness of more than $4,000 in excess Of
the $4,000 paid to Miner and finally sold
out to the Chicago and Northwestern
Company. Coolidge. Knight and Mil
ner resigned from the Wyoming State
Railway as part of this deal and Bid
Ill IL W.. H.
their places. A portion of the stock,
involving the right of way and other
privileges, paid for by Lobell, was
transferred to the three later, they
practically absorbing the road.
Lobell, representing the French, Bel
gian and English capitalists who had
planned to build railroads, erect oil
refineries and carry on a general oil
business in opposition to the Standard
on trust. demands the surveys and
right of way privileges. The Burling-
ton Railroad is said to be associated
with Lobell. 1t is expected the case
will be thrown into the Federal court
and all of the details Of the alleged
railway steal exposed.
Topeka, Kan, March 29 = The
Standard Oil Company has discontin-
ued giving jobbers and wholesalers in
Kansas concessions in price on refined
OIL ana gasoline. lne effect Oh IQ1S
order will be, it is said, to take the
business of the handling of the kero-
sene away from. the wholesalers, who
now will have to pay the retail price
for these commodities.
This new order was made public to-
day through letter to Governor Hoch
from j. S. George of Hutchinson, a
wholesale grocer, who inclosed a copy
of the order received by his company
from the headquarters of the Standard
at Wichita The order was signed by
A. C. Dunks.
This is believed to be the first step
in a campaign which the Standard will
make to have the anti discrimination
law repealed by the next Legislature
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, March 20
Attorney General Hadley to-day filed
in the Supreme Court an application
for a writ of quo warranto for the
purpose of ousting the Standard Oil
Company, the Republic Oil Company
and the Waters-P Pierce Oil Company
of their franchises for doing business
in Missouri The Supreme Court issued
the writ and made it returnable to the
court en- banc on April H. The applica-
ton charges the company with being
in combination to control prices, and
the supply of oil in the State.