The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-09-23
DISSOLVING The
BIG OIL TRUST
WHICH BRINGING OUT STARTLING FIGURES
REGARDING PROFITs-MADE JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
AND observation-disclosures CALLING FOR VOLUMES OF
PoRATIoN RECORDS.
PoRATIoN RECORDS.

The following New York dispatch
shows the nature of the hearing in
which the cabled revelations regard
ing Standard Oil are being brought
out from day to day:
NEW YORK, September ga COM
prehensive insight into the scope of the
hearings which will take place in this
city in the governments suit TO DIS
solve the Standard Oil Company I'M
der the Sherman antitrust law was
given when Frank B. Kellogg maze
known the contents of the subpoenas
which have been served upon William
G. Rockefeller, c. M. Pratt and other
Standard Oil officials. These sub
poenas order the Standard on Off
Gals to produce the books of the par
ent and subsidiary concerns in court
They outline the direction the investi-
cation will take before former Judge
Ferris, the special examiner.
The Standard Oil officials upon
whom subpoenas already have been
served are William G. Rockefeller, as
sistant treasurer; o. Barstow, assistant
treasurer; William P. Howe, assistant
treasurer; c. M Pratt, secretary; Chas.
T. White, assistant secretary, and
Wade Hampton, general auditor of the
company.
The court order which heads the list
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court of the stock books and ledger
showing the total amount of capital
stock of the Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey issued and outstanding,
together with the names of the hold
ers of such stock and the amounts OF
their holdings. The next demand is
for all books and records and papers,
also memoranda, showing the stocks
and bonds and securities of other COR
porations owned and controlled, held
in trust or otherwise managed by the
Standard Oil Company, or held or own
ed by any person or persons, corpora
tions or partnerships for the Standard
Oil Company.
Order No. calls for all certificates
of stock or other instruments eviden-
cling ownership in corporations or part
or by any other person or corporation
in it's behalf Records showing the
time of acquiring such stocks and 9TH
er securities were obtained since 1890
are also demanded Then comes an
order for certain certificates and agree
ments made and entered into about
October, 1888, by and between the
Standard Oil Company, the Chester Oil
Company and Ayres, Lombard & Com
pany, together with a certain other
agreement connected Herewith be-
tween the National Transit Company
and the Union Pipe Line, each a cor
poration company of Pennsylvania, and
the Tidewater Pipe Line, Limited
In the explanation 1t is set forth
there was alleged to be an agreement
between the abOve-named concerns for
division of the business of gathering,
transporting, manufacturing, exporting
shipping and selling crude oil and 9TH
er products thereof between the said
parties of the contract and other re-
fneries engaged with each of the said
parties in the same business. All
books showing the proceedings of the
board of directors of the Standard
Oil in relation to the above contracts
and in relation to the division of bust
ness, are asked for. Also are wanted
the books and records showing the
proceedings of the board of directors
in relation to the understanding be-