The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-10-15
FISH SPRINGS COUP
ON WILEY HARTMAN
Judge Hears Charges of Con-
spiracy and Acts in
I. G. Battle.
INJUNCTION IS PROCURED
Control Now Possible
Out come of Fight Breaking
Up of Combinations.

Chicago. Oct. 15.-What promises TO
be one of the greatest legal battles In
history for the possession of a rail-
road property was begun yesterday
when Judge Farlin Q. Ball of the su-
perior court issued an ex parte In
junction restraining Edward e. Harri-
man and his associates from voting
2S6,S31 shares of stock at the annual
meeting o fthe Illinois Central rail-
road company, which is scheduled 10
take place tomorrow.
In this battle of millions against mill
lions, of independent ownership against
corporate ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Stuyvesant
Fish. former president of the Illinois
Central, has associated with himself
former Senator EdmunGs of Vermont,
John A. Kasson of Iowa. former minis
ter TO Austria, and William NJ. Enrich
of Chicago.
Hartman Rushing to Chicago.
The restraining order runs against
Hartman. Henry II. Rogers of Stand
ard Oil fame, the Union Pacific and
Illinois Central Railroad companies, the
Mutual Life Insurance company of New
York and more than 100 other lesser de-
PENDANTS. ana the court is asked to
later compel them to dispose of their
stock in the Central. In defense of
the attack which has been made upon
him, Edward H. Hartman is hasten
ing to Chicago on a fast train and will
arrive here this morning to take charge
of his forces.
The battle is to be to a finish, with
the Standard Oil company and the mon
| eyed power of Wall street in the back
ground giving aid to Hartman and
with the shadow. at least, of the Presi-
dent of the United States and of the
interstate commerce commission sus-
tanning Stuyvesant Fish.
| In the outcome may even be read the
| fate of the gigantic railway fabric of
over $4,000 miles of railroads, which
the wizard" Of Wall street and the
Napoleon" of the railway world has
built up in the alleged effort to control
the commerce of the United States, and
in so doing to strangle competition and
cast it from the world of transporta-
ton.
May Break Combinations.
In the sequel, too. may be read the
fate of the administrations attack upon
railway consolidation in the form II
has taken, for in the hands of the
| court has been placed the question of
public policy which underies all rail
Stuyvesant Fish succeed in wrestling
the Illinois Central from the control of
Hartman he would at the same time
open the door to Independent ownership
Of every railway corporation in the
state of Illinois, If not in the country.
The Importance and far-reaching eff
feet of the litigation canot be over-es-
timated. 1t is now no longer an open
secret that in the several conferences
which he has recently held with Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Stuyvesant Fish went
over the details of his campaign to
made Edward H. Hartman and the
Standard Oil company disgorge, not
only the Illinois Central control, but
their control, in influence. If not in
stock, of the St. Paul, the Northwest
ern, the Baltimore and Ohio, the Santa
Fe, the St. Joseph and Grand Island
and possibly the New York Central
lines