Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-10-03

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 meet
ing of the real managers on the fol-
lowing day these minutes had been de-
cIared void and ordered sealed for all
time
Benjamin F. 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 liue 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 or
outlet except into the tanks Of the
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barring any use of the pipe lines by
rival concerns. The fact was also dis
closed that the trust had in operation
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 We're 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
of 200 per cent from the subsidiary
pipe line companies.
Mississippi Gusts Compress Company.
Chancellor Hicks at yicksburg, 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 a 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
a receiver be appointed and that it be
declared 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 III. 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
it apparent by his remarks that he did
not approve of the departments ac-
ton The letter from Attorney Gen
eraI Bonaparte to District Attorney
Sims. jtfstifying the granting of inn
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 q
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 its president, James A. Moffet, be-
fore the same jury to be examined
concerning charges made by him in a
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 sort of
scapegoat. Judge Lands was highly
indignant over this reflection on his
court and told the jurors that it 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 E. H. Hartman from all dam
ger of prosecution in that connection.
Man Who Killed Goebel
It has come to light at indianapolis
that on April II last Mrs. Lulu Clark
formerly a 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.
Clarl's cousin, Gertrude King, was
keeping company with John Sanford
of Covington. On the day of GoebePs
murder the two girls
sszssa went to Frankfort
and were about to,
enter the statehouse
I | nv fine rear. entrance