The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
WILL FIGHT
 THE CUSTER Standard Will Contest
 Every Inch. NOTICE IS SERVED ON HADLEY Further Details of Methods of
 the Trust. Some Startling Things Come to Light in the Interstate Commerce Commissions Inquiry at Kan
 sas City.

sas City.
 Kansas City. March 1S.-The Stand ard oil Company, through Alfred Eddy of Chicago, it's general western at torney, has in effect notified Herbert s. Hadley, attorney genral of Mis- souri. who was in Kansas City today that 1t will give him no more infor- nation in his suit to oust the Standard and its allied companies from the State of Missouri than 1t Is compelled to. MT HadIey fin discussing the Stand ards stand said today:
 "A week ago when the testimony or H. Clay Pierce was to nave been talk en before Commissioner R. w. Anthony in St. Louis, Mir. Eddy, attorney for the Standard oil Company, stated to me there would be no further resistance on the part of the witnesses already sub poenaed in New York in answering the questions they had previously refused to answer. l suggested to Mir. Eddy that I would produce. H. NJ, and w. H Tilford and M. Van Buren before ommissioner Sanborn in New York March 24, I would not, as a matter of convenience. file an application in the supreme court to bring them to Mis- souri,
 MT. Eddy promised to give an an- swer to this suggestion as soon as he could consult his clients in New York. He has informed me he did not feel authorized to make thisa arrangement Consequently If service on them Is not secured at the time of taking deposit tions is resumed in New York. l will apply to the supreme court for an or der to compel their apprehension in Missouri.
 As To Rockefeller.
 HWhat about John D. Rockefeller Mir. Hadley was asked.
 Was there any discussion pertain ing to him?"
 7'The question of subpoenaing John D. Rockefeller did not enter into the discussion with Mir. Eddy. We have been and are still endeavoring to se- cure service on him but there are oth- CT witnesses whose presence l am more anxious to secure"
 When the interstate commerce com mission resumed It's hearing today In ! the investigation Of charges of dis | criminatIon in railroad rates on oil | filed by the Kansas oil Producers As- | sociation, 1t was believed the work in Kansas City would be finished this | evening. There were several witness | es remaining to be examined, but it
 was considered likely that their eVi- dence for the most part would be cul- | mulative and each man placed on the stand would be disposed of quickly. When the commission concludes the
 hearing here, Judson C. Clemens will | go to Davenport, Ia, to investigate l other charges of alleged illegal rate-
 making Francis M. Cockrell and | Charles A. Prouty, the other commis- sioners. will return direct to Washing ton. The testimony of E. T. Mccarthy of | the Mission Mining Company of qua paw, l. T., brought forth two letters l on oil rates, one from the Standard OH i Company's office at 26 Broadway, New | York and the other from the St. Louis and san Franciscos general office. MT, l Mccarthy said that his mine was built over the Kansas line six miles from
 Baxter Springs. Kas He told Of an effort on his part to use oil from the l Kansas field instead of coal at ms | mines.
 He had, he said, on November 27th. l last. written to E. K. Voorhees, general | freight agent of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, and requested a rate on oil from the Kansas field to Ouapaw. In a letter written in reply | by MT, Voorhees, and which was intro duced the latter quoted rate Of lfc
 per one hundred pounds on crude oil | and fuel from Neodosha, kas., 10 Bax- ter Springs, and of 24c to Quapaw. At
 about the same time witness said ne | had written a similar letter to the Standard oil Company and he received | a reply from C. w. Ouston, manager | of the fuel department of the Stand ard MT. Customs letter, which was pre- sented as evidence, read as follows: ''Replying to your favor of the l2th l inst, while the rate of freight from
 Neodosha. Kas.. to Baxter Springs Is Q ta nnnndg If ig l 24 cents per 100 to Quapaw Station, l.. T. which would make the price of oil delivered there 1-4 cents a gallon, at which figure we do not think you could use oil economically as against the low priced coal you could probably pur- chase. Of course the amount of oil re- ouired to equal ton of coal would depend on the quality of coal used, but with an ordinary grade of run of mine
 coal it would take about three barrels of oil fortY-two gallons to the barrel, l to equal a ton of coal.
 we fear you will find the price we name too high to enable you to use oil to advantage as against the cheap coal that you can probably purchase |" These letters were introduced in an attempt to prove that while the rail-
 way company charged all others 17 cents for transporting oil from Neodo- sha to Baxter Springs, 1t charged the Standard oil Company only 6 1-2 cents for the same haul.
 The correspondence was introduced
 also to prove that while the Standard oil Company secured a rate of 6 . cents for transporting oil from Neo-
 dosha to Baxter Springs, a distance ap-
 proximately of fifty-six miles, the rail- roads charged in effect 17 1-2 cents for
 a haul of six miles further beyond the Kansas line.
 E. L. Willhoyt. formerly an agent at
 Topeka. Kas.. for the Standard oil Company, but now an independent deal- CT with offices at Joplin and Spring | field. Mo, testified. He said: The l Standard oil Company, when was l with them, was charged five dollars a i car by the terminal company in St. Iouis for transferring car from East | st Louis, Ill, to St. Louis, Mo To save | tbis s5 the standard laid a pipe line
 under the river and every car of oil | bound westward would be pumped out | in East St Louis and pumped Into an- l other car in St Louis This five dol l lars A car saved was that much off the l ability of the independent dealer to i live in competition with the Standard" "