The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-10-29
KANSAS WISE
AT LAST
PRAIRIE OIL AND GAS CO. AD.
mITs STANDARD OWNERSHIP.
Attorney General Jackson Secures
Answer 70 His Question Under
New s'.te interrosstory Law.
Reply Was Cautions.


and Gas company Ia controlled by
the National Transit company and
the National Transit company Is
owned and controlled by The Stand.
srd Cil company OF New Jersey. &C.
cordlng to the answers to the inter.
rogatories f,led IN the supreme court
today by the attorneys for the com.
Npanies.
Under a law passed by the last
legislature the attorney general sub
mitted list OF about thirty ques-
tions to the three Standard Oil com
panies which were made defendants
in the antitrust suits brought a
year ago. The companies were the
Prairie OH and Gas company. the
Standard OIL company OF Indiana and
the Standard OIL company of Kan.
sas. The set OF answers given to
the Prairie oil and Gas company
were fled In the court today and
the answers OF the other companies
are expected at any time.
The questions were asked to es-
tablish the relations between the
different companies. the attorney gen.
eral holding that the three companies
and the National Transit company
we're all parts and parcels OF the
Standard OIL trust Denials have
con stantly been made that Standard
Oil controlled the Prairie Oil and
Gas company.
The attorney general asked the
following:
Is not practically all the stock
OF the Prairie Oil and Gas company
held in the name of the National
Transit company?
The company in its answer denied
that the stock was held by the
Transit company, but says that the
National Transit company actually
bought and paid for the stock of the
Prairie Oil and Gas company which
It owns. It is admitted that the
Transit company owns a majority
OF the stock OF the Prairie Oil and
Gas company. Another question was
rs not the National Transit com
pany a Standard OIL agency and en-
tirely owned and controlled by the
Standard Oil company Of New Jer
sey7"
| The answer was:
This defendant Is informed and
believes that the Standard OIL com
pany OF New Jersey owns and con
trolls a majority OF the stock Of the
National Transit company. but so fal
as this defendant is informed anC
believes, the National Transit com
pany is not g Standard Oil agenc,
unless the fact that the STANDARD
Oil company OF New Jersey owns ;
majority Of the stock OF the Nationa
Transit company makes the latte
company Standard Oil agency
Frederick S. jackson attorney gen
eral, said today after he read th
answers that this was just what h
wanted to know. He expressed him
self as well pleased with the inter
rogatory plan OF getting anti-trus
Information. although he did not ur
derstand why the company Official
were little dubious about the Ma
tional Transit company being
Standard Oil agency. when 1t wa
admitted that the Standard owne
the stock OF the Transit company.
The attorney general Is trying t
prove that all of these Standard o.
companies and many other companie
operating In the country are reall
all one company managed alike an
from the same place and that tn
policy OF all Is established by tn
same board OF directors.
In the answers filed today tn
Prairie OIL and Gas company say
that Its capital stock Is 10 millio
dollars and It's officers are as 70
lows President, John F. ArchbolC
Tarrytown, n. Y; vice presiden
, and general manager. j. f. O'Nei
/. Kansas City; secretary l.. T, Pa
! terson, Independence. Kan; assistan
secretary, C. II. Kountz, IndepenC
ence; treasurer, John j. Whetzel, IL
' dependence.