The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-16
until 1t now has in said combination about seventy corporations.
 Begfnmfng of 1rrust."

l 0C8hAMlMk UA AEU1gt | The petition alleges that betweer
 1870 and 1ss2 the individual defen
 dants acquired, in the name of thu
 Standard Oil Company of Ohio, whici
 they had organized. all but three oi four of the refineries sstuated at Cleve
 land. and that there were various iFs dividuals. partnershsps and corpoY 4 tions engaged in purchasing. shipp 4 ! by pipe line and by fari, refining & ( | selling petroleum and sxs produc 1T ! the States of New York, Pennsy< stlia and Ohio, and that together they en' l tered into various agreements, for tht purpose of fixing the price of crud' ] oil, limiting the proouction and sup l pressing competition.
 That during said time one of ths principal means by which said defen' dants were enabled tu mon0plize tht 1 said commerce and was through en0r- nous rebates paid by the railroads to | the Standard C4l Company and to tht corporations affiliated with 1t in the said conspiracy.
 | That by reason of tnese contracts | and systems of rebates, such indigna- l tion was stirred up throughout the oil regions that the State of Pennsylva- mia obtained indictments against John | D. Rockefeller and others, for conspir- acy to Fnonopolize this commerce, and suits were brought against the Penn sylvania Railroad Company and against the United Pipe Lines (controlIed by tho Standard oil Company. to oust these corporations from the State. These suits were dismissed upon the agreement ok the Standard Oil and al- lied companies and the Individual de- feRdants, that they would not receive any rebate.
 Battered lTrunt Agreement.
 It Is alleged that the indiyidua lde- fendants. for the. purpose of more ef- foctually perfecting their said asso- ciata0n and conspiracy to restrain and monopolize the trade and for the pur- pose of eliminating and expressing competition. entered into trust agree ment, under which all of the stock holders of thirteen of these corpora tions placed their stock in the hands of nine trustees, of which the indi- vidual defendants were the majority, who controlled the business and prop erty of these thirty-nine corporations, and others thereafter acquired, and monopolized the trade and commerce in petroleum end it's products. This trust agreement was to continue dur Ing the lives of the survivors. The par ties to the agreement were:
 (D All the stockholders and members of the following corporations and limited partnerships, tovwlt--Acme Oil Company, New York; Acme oil Company, Pennsylvania; atlantic Refin- ing Company of Philadelphia; Bush and Company, (Limited.); Camden ConsoIi- dated oil Company, Elizabethport Acid Works: Imperial Refining Company (Limited); Charles Pratt and Company; Paine Abiett and Company: Standard oil Company, Ohio; Standard oil Com pany, Pittsburg; smiths Ferry oil Transportation Company; Solar oil Company EIdmited.l; Stone and Elem Ing Manufacturing Company GIimitea.l ] 1-stz). The following named iIidivfd- bold, Lide K. Arter J A. Bostwislt. Benjamin Brewster D. Bushnell. Thomas C. Bushnell J, N Camden. Henry l.. Davis, H. M. Flagler. Mrs. H. aI. Ffagler. John Huntington, Fl [. A. Hutchins, Charles F. G. Heye. A. B Jennings, Charles Lockhart, A. N. McGregor. William H. Macy, William A. J. Pouch, John D. Rockefeller. William Rockefeller, Henry H. Rog- CTS, W. P. Thomson, J. J. Wander grift, William T. Wardwell, W. G. Warden, Joseph L.. Warden, Warden, Frew and Company, Louise c. Wheat on, II. M. Hanna, and George W. Cha pin, D. M. Hardness, D, NJ. Hark ness, trustee; s. V. Hardness, O. H Payne, trustee; Charles Pratt, C. N Pratt, Julia H. York, George H. Villas M. R. Keith. trustees; George r Chester.
 (3). A portion of the stockhold CTS and members of the following cor Oorations and limited partnerships:
 American Lubricating oil Company Baltimore United oil Company. Bea con oil Company, Bush and Denslow Manufacturing Company Central Re. fining Company of Pittsburg; Cheese brough Manufacturing Company, Chess Carley Company Consolidated Tank Line Company. Inland oil Company. Keystone Refining Company, Maverick oil Company, National Transit Com pany, Portland Kerosene oil Company, Producers Consolidated Land and Pe- troleum Company. Signal oil Works (Limlted.); Thompson and Bedford Company (Limited); Devoe Manufact- 'uring Company, Eclipse Lubrlcating oil Company, (Limited); Empire Refining Company CLimited.l };
 Franklin Pipe Company Qimited); Galena oil Works (limtied); Galena Farm oil Company (Iimlted) Germa- mia Mining Company; 3acuum Oil Company; H. c Van Tine and Compa- ny dimited); Waters-P Pierce oil Com pany.
 The Reorganization.
 All the individuals aforesaid trans ferred their stock in various corpOr- ations to the trustees. The trustees organized a Standard Oil Company of New York and one of New Jersey. to which certain property of individuals and copartnership was transferred. In exchange for all these stocks and properties there was Issued In Janu ary. 1882, $70,000,000 of trustees cer- tlfcates in $10O shares. It Is alleged that from time to time thereafter the trustees acquired additional stocks of corporations engaged in the same bus mess
 It appears by the petition that the thirty-none corporations, ere cOnsoll dated into twenty corporations, with an aggregate capital Of $102.233, 700. and with appraised assets, in 1892, oT $12l,63l,3 ,319.63.
 That in March, 1892, idgment was rendered by the Supreme Court Of ohio declaring the said trust agree ment void as being in restraint of trade and commerce and a monopolt zatiou. On March 2l, 1892, the trust certificate holders met in New York and resolved to dissolve the trust and appointed John D. Rockefeller. John D. Archbold, Benjamin Brewster, Hen ry H. Rogers, Wesley H. Tilford. and o. B. Jennings as liquidating trustees. The manner of liquidation was not to sell the property and divide the pro- ceeds among the certificate holders, but all of the stocks in each of the companies were divided into portions so that Rockefeller and his associates continued to control all hese corpor- ations, in the same manner as before. And 1t Is alleged that, down 10 ths organization of the holding company (the Standard oil Company of New Jersey), in 1899, the same defendants continued to control all Of the scpa- rate corporations engaged in the bus