Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-02
Standard OIL Company Of Ohio on The
charge OF conspiracy to restrain trade,
III ~, 4 IL, tasnty 81, Al ,s

standard Oi Company or ONO on the
charge OF conspiracy to restrain trade,
all the officials being summoned. on
EOC1.. 10 the jury adjudged the COM
pany guilty, and the sentence Of ST, 600;
day, retroactive, was imposed BY
Judge Banker The case was appealed.
! The New York Central railroad was
prosecuted for rebating to the sugar
trust and fined sos. 900, while the
sugar trust was fined $16S 900 for re-
ceiving the rebates.
III Prior to the oil prosecutions the big.
beef packers brought to trial ait Chica-
go on criminal charges had gone scot
free on the decision of Judge Hum
phrey, holding that they were immune
because their testimony had been given
confident italy to Garfield, AT Kansas
City JUNE ~ four OF the packers Ar
mour, Swift, Cudahy and Morris were
found guilty Of accepting rebates from
the Burlington.
IN near.y all of the, larger cities conn
binations Of ice comp anies were attack
ed for conspiracy in forcing up prices,
the most promptly successful prosecu.
ton being against the five Toledo deal
ers, who were not only fined but who
began their jail sentences, but later got
out on bond and appealed at Phila-s
delphia the indicted ice men got off
with a nominal fine, but were warned
against second offense.
District Attorney Jerome 9ofs New
York reported that he could find Moth
B ing on which to base a case against the
Mutual, but the New York Life was
4 still under scrutiny, and the cases
against the Burnhams and Eldris.. &c OF
the Mutual Reserve came to trial iii
Decembe George Burnham III, being
convicted OF larceny.
Supreme court decisions were:
Holding it to be Illegal for railroads
to deal in any comm dities which they
haul; that the railroads may select
+ through routes; upho lding the Michigan
\ ad valorem railroad tax refusing Mis-
souri, appeal against the Chicago
/ Drainage canal; upholdfng the suspen-
! sion Of Ghicag so street railway charters
for ninety mine years, but not the con-,
tract rights hereunder
StiI " az LOUIS and Sln-s
cinnati held that an illegal trust could
not collect bills by legal process.
In February the arrest of President
4 Meyer and Secretary Haywood OF tile
4 Western Federation Of Miners, togeth-
er with a member, Pettibone, at Dem
yer, on the charge Of having planned
\ the murder of exc Governor Steuney /
berg ii December, 1905. and theg
hasty Imprisonment In Idaho withous
extradit ion formalities caused widesl
spread sentiment among labor anda
Socialist classes. Pending their trial
habeas corpus appeal was carried up To
! the supreme court and there refused
DEC. q
Negro racial animosities were iIEen-
sified by the increasing frequency sof
lynchings in various sections tend
ency which took the form Of wholesale
mob murders ii several cases, notably
at Springfield O.s Il EB. 81; at Spring
field, Mo, APRIL u, and at Atlanta.
Ga. where riots extending over three
days, SEPT. 1926 eslllted la twenty.
4 fWo yiolent deaths, mostly OF negroes
against whom no charge lay At Sans
bury, q. eli, az G. g, six negroes al.
cused Of murder were lynched, and
promptly two Of the mob were tried
and sentenced to fifteen years imprsis.ss
Onment.