Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-10-04


time
Benjamin T. Warren of Brooklyn,
the civil engineer who laid out the
original pipe line from Bradford to the
sea, told of obstacles thrown in his
path by interests which he could not
identify, but which came through rail
roads which were at that time trans
porting Standard Oil products.
A later line of inquiry by the prose-
cutor brought out the fact that the
trust employed a device for apparent
compliance with the common carrier
provision of the rate law by publishing
tariffs for the use Of its pipe lines ter
minating at pumping stations where
there could be no possible market OF
outlet except into the tanks of the
Standard Oil company, thus effectualfy
barring any use of the pipe lines by
rival concerns. The fact was also dis.
closed that the trust had in operation
q pipe line from New Jersey across
Manhattan Island to Long Island re-.
fnery contrary to the claims of the
trust that the pipe line companies I'M
der their control were not interstate
and hence not subject to the rate law.
1t was also shown that the pipe line
rate published was nearly always SIM
liar to the railroad rates between the
same points, thus affording the indie
pendent no inducement to use the pipe
line, although the operation Of the lat
ter is far less expensive than railroad
transportation These rates are so high
that the trust is able to make profit
Of 200 per cent from the subsidiary
pipe line companies.
Mississippi Gusts Compress Company.
Chancellor Hicks at Vicksburg, Miss.
has declared the Golf Compress com.
pany an illegal trust and has given IL
one year in which to wind up its bust.
ness and withdraw from the state
The application for receiver was de.
MED This decision is pursuant to nc.
ton commenced recently by District
Attorney James d. Thames, who filed
suit against the company asking that
receiver be appointed and that it be
declared q combination in restraint OF
trade. The company owns or controls
thirty-one congresses in the south
sixteen of which are located In Mis-.
Stssippt.
Lands Grants Alton Immunity.
Judge Kenesaw NJ Landis announced
to the special grand jury at Chicago
that the promise of immunity made b,
| the department of justice to the Chi
cago and Alton Railroad company mus
be observed, at the same time maxim!
| 1t apparent by his remarks that he die
not approve of the departments &C
ton The letter from Attorney Gen
eral Bonaparte to District Attorne.
Sims justtfying the granting of i'm
| munity was made public. Mr. Bona
! parte says that after again going owe
the testimony of the Alton people II
the suit against the Standard he
convinced that they earned "the priv
ilege of an accomplice who becomes
| witness for the prosecution"
| This matter being finally disposed of
Judge Landis made new and who'll.
unexpected move against the STANDARD
Oil Company OF Indiana by summon
ing its president, James a. Moffet, he
| fore the same jury to be examine,
| concerning charges made by him i'll
little booklet to the effect that thou
| sands of tons Of freight had been car
rled by the Alton for other shipper
under the same conditions as thos
| granted to the Standard and that con
| sequently the court had unfairly sin
| gled out the Standard as sort o
scapegoat. Judge Lands was highl,
indignant over this reflection on hi
court and told the jurors that it wa
| his highest ambition that no man coul,
say that his court had ever discrimi
| mated against any defendant. Mr.. AIof
| fet will be called upon to make goot
| his charges.
One effect of the Alton decision is Il
ger Of prosecution in that connection.
Man Who Killed GoebeI.
1t has come to light at Indianapoli.
| that on April II last Mrs. Lulu Clark
| formerly Miss Williams of Noun
| Sterling, Ky, made affidavit in thu
law Office of William s. Taylor, Ken
tucky's refugee governor, to the effec
that Turner Igo of Farmers, Rowan
county, KY, fired the shot that killed
William Goebel. 1t appears that Mrs
Clark's cousin, Gertrude King, was
keeping company with John Sanford
Of Coyington. On the day of Goebel'.
F----------------1m murder the two girls
xsxWNHA went to Frankfor
and We're about tt
sM enter the statehous,
by the rear entrance
| M| | when they heard til,