The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-10-04

cOuTt. Iuty ulsclOSeu Tue Iuiuutes VI
a meeting Of the Standard OIL faction
In the Tidewater companies at Titus
vile, Pa, at which an effort was made
to gain control of the then competitor
Of the Rockefeller system. At a meet
Ing Of the real managers on the fol-
lowing day these minutes had been de-
clared void and ordered sealed for all
time.
Benjamin II. Warren of Brooklyn,
the civil engineer who laid out the
original pipe line from Bradford to the
sea, told Of obstacles thrown In his
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
tutor brought cut 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 or
outlet except into the tanks Of the
Standard Oil company, thus effectually
barring any use Of the pipe lines by
rival concerns. The fact was also dis
closed that the trust had in operation
a pipe line from New Jersey across
Manhattan Island to Long Island re-
finery contrary to the claims Of the
trust that the pipe line companies IN
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 a profit
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 it
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 ac-
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 a combination in restraint of
trade. The company owns or controls
thirty-one congresses in the south,
sixteen of which are located in Mis-
sissippi
Lands Grants Alton Immunity.
Judge Kenesaw M. Lands announced
to the special grand jury at Chicago
that the promise of immunity made by
the department of justice to the Chi
cago and Alton Railroad company must
be observed, at the same time making
II apparent by his remarks that he did
not approve Of the departments ac-
ton. The letter from Attorney Gen
eral Bonaparte to District attorney
Sims justifying the granting Of i'm
munity was made public. Mr.. Bona
parte says that after again going over
the testimony of the Alton people in
the suit against the Standard he is
convinced that they earned "the priv
ilege of an accomplish who becomes a
witness for the prosecution"
This matter being finally disposed of,
Judge lands made a new and wholly
unexpected move against the Standard
Oil Company of Indiana by summon
ing it's president, James A. Moffet be-
fore the same jury to be examined
concerning charges made by him in Il
little booklet to the effect that thou
sands of tons of freight had been car
ried by the Alton for other shippers
under the same conditions as those
granted to the Standard and that con-
sequently the court had unfairly sin
gled out the Standard as q sort of
scapegoat. Judge Lands was highly
indignant over this reflection on his
court and told the jurors that 1t was
his highest ambition that no man could
say that his court had ever discrimi-
mated against any defendant Mr.. Moi
fet will be called upon to make good
his charges.
One effect Of the Alton decision is to
relieve L. III. Hartman from all dan
ger of prosecution in that connection.
Man Who Killed GoebeI.
1t has come to light at indianapolis
that on April IL last Mrs. Lulu Clark,
formerly Miss Williams Of Mount
Sterling, Ky, made affidavit in the
law office of William s. Taylor, Ken
tucky's refugee governor. to the effect
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 Covington. On the day Of Goebel's
murder the two girls
sr~3xgMzm> went to Frankfort
MA and were about to
~ enter the statehouse
W. by the rear entrance
when they heard the
WxD report of a gun. At
- the same time they
- noticed a man stand
q ing just outside the
&2zz AzSz door, whom they rec
ognized as Sanford.
w. 5. Taylor. A moment later
second man, dressed like mountain
Ger, came running out. He ran to San
ford and said, IL got him." The man