The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-01-17
INDiCT STANDARD
OIL 939 TIMES.
Chic Grand Jury Accuses Parent and Its
Subsidiary Companies and
Officials

ll\l,IA1, o.. Jan. l0.-The report
OF the January panel of the Hancock
county grand jury, made last night. cor-
tains 939 separate indictments against
the Standard Oil company of New Ier-
sey, the Standard Oil company of Ohio,
the ONO Oil company, the Buckeye i1pe
Line company, the Solar Refinery com
pany. the Manhattan Oil company. John
ID. Rockefeller, IL. H. Rogers. Wesley
Tllford, John -. Archbold, Frank q.
Barstow. William Rockefeller and +. L.
Cuthbert
They are charged with being members
of trust for conspiracy against trade
ii Hancock county wins i'll each case
fines may be assessed aggregating Sos
OOO,OO0. There are J2J words in each
Indictment, or Il total of 4I2,9IJ words
Each case will be docketed separately
and the county clerk and sheriff $ office
Will be SWamped tor some months 10
come.
Sheriff Groves md his deputies will
begin at once to serve copy OF the IN
dictment on each of the defendants.
Gist of the Charges.
The indictments charge the Standard
OH company and its subsidiary concerns
with being members of Il trust ana com
blnatlon of capital, skill and acts, Tor
the following purposes:
TO establish restrictions in trade and com
mcrce.
To limit and reduce the production of
petroleum and its products.
TO prevent competition in the production,
sale and manufacture. transporting ana
vending of petroleum. and its products be
tween themselves and others.
To fix at common standard figure the
price of petroleum. ana its products to the
public ana the consumers.
Gets Around Fee System.
The indictments are based on the Val
entlnc antitrust act of Ohio
Prosecutor David said that he pur-
posely held off action until the salary
law with county officials became effect
i've, as he did not wish to run up a big
cost bill which would have resulted un-
der the old fee system.
When the report of the grand jury was
filed Prosecutor David, ON his own mo-
ton, nolled indictments returned last
September against John ~ Rockefeller.
VI. G.. Villas, j. NJ. Robertson and II. l..
Mcintosh, the last three named being
officials of the Standard Oil company of
Ohio.
Move in Federal Case
ST LOUIS, Mo. Jan. 15.-United
States Circuit Judges Sanborn. Hook
and Adams issued on order fixing Janu-
airy 80 nj the date of hearing on the mo-
tions filed by defendants in the suit
brought by the government against the
Standard Oil company and its subsidiary
companies, to have the court set aside
the subpoenas in the case.
The motion was made on bcholf of
John D. Rockefeller, Henry II. Rogers.
John ID. Archbold and others. Clerk
Gray of the United States circuit and
district courts received a letter from At
torney General Bonaparte, requesting
that the trials of suit be expedited.
Packers Lose Arkansas Suit.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Jan 15.--The
Arkansas supreme court handed down
an opinion in the test case of the state
against the Hammond Packing company
for alleged violation of the Arkansas
antitrust law. Upon this decision rest
suits filed by the state against all the
other packing companies of Chicago ana
Kansas City. The Hammond company
was fined $4,000 in the lower court.
The opinion is of far-reaching impor-
tance and the case will be appealed to the
United States supreme court
Master Plumbers Are Guilty.
JEFFERSON. O.. Jan. 15.-Members
of the Ashtabula Plumbers association
pleaded guilty to indictments charging
them With violating the Valentine anti
trust law. Five of the members were
fined $50 and costs and three $50 and
costs.
Claims Big Vessel Trust.
NEW YORK. Jan. 1J.-Niolation OF
the Sherman act forbidding combinations
in restraint of trade is charged in a suit
against several steamship companies run
ming to South Africa and their New
York agents, brought Monday by Thorn
as 4 Co.. of this city, exporters. The
plaintiff seeks redress in the amount of
S46,GSo three times the amount of dam
ages alleged
The defendants are: Union Castle
Mail Steamship company, Cayser, Irving
Il Co, Donald Currie X Co, BucknalI
Steamship lines, Hansa Steamship Nay
igation company of Bremen, Barber <
Co, Norton X Son and Punch, Eyde 4
Co.
The plaintiff and other exporters were
forced by such conditions to pay eXces-
sive rates, amounting to $780, 900, it is
charged.