The Springdale news., 1908-01-03
Graft and Rebate Cases
 Fill the Court Calendars.

The great chase started in DOG with the Roosevelt challenge =te the stand ard Oil company and to all law detx- ing trusts has gathered impetus ir
 1907, when the whole pack of state and federal law officers has been ill full cry after the game The year wiil long be remem bered for the vicious bite which the oil trust got from one federal iudge-nameiy. the S29,24o,ouo fine imposed AUG. ] by Judge LandIS at Chicago as the maximum penalty for accepting Il large number of re- bates from the Alton But this was only one ot a large uum er of criminal prosecutions laid against the Roellefei Ter aggregation Indictments contain ing thousands of counts were brou9At in Ohio Missouri. Texas. Tennessee.
 Minnesota. New York and elsewher" until tbe total maximum of fines posSl- bly exceeded the probable income of the trusts The principal action of the government for the dissolution of the Standard Oil Company of New JerSe*, which was begun at St. Louis N0N T.,
 19O6. still remains to be fought oHt, hut i'll his examination of witnesses al NeN
 York in September Government Go0n se Kellogg virtually piioried th@ oil trust before the people by compelling it's ofti"ialS 10 reveal the various proc eSscs through which t has monop olizcd the oil industry Missouri aiti Texas finally barred all Standard een- eern~
 Other actions against se call@d trusts were numerous and rebate fines WcI" imposed iH several caseS
 The following are the supreme court decisions of general Dismissal of the Kansas petition against diver sion If Colorado river hy the state of Colorado. involving the principle tha congress cannot limit the action nf courts after creating them: the eight hour federal wefkdaY Law sustained; 4rate fixing section of the federal law susrrned
 Along a'e,h the bt>Vldlns of new San Francisco thefel has been a cleansing of it's officially and political rattenness First. under p1.esSfr4... -...ll- evidence. came thN aeht and r confession If Ahrah aham Rnef manager : of the corrupt city machine. iu May E His confession duplicating Mayor Schuifz in the acceptance of bfit.es [ made possible the verdict of gUiI.g rendcfed by jury against the fnaaef # MAY F and his sentence LILLY x n 1 five years imprisonment IL also made ! possible the Indictments against Sev era millionaire brihe givcrs and the conviction of one of them, Glass. w6" received five year sentence
 PeHH~vlf1nia ~aW tlie work of the eapitei iate~tigafors bear fruit.
 Gradually District Attorpcy fcroaw of NeH York has got insurance eri dene.. before fire grant jury, and ia dic,meuts have begun te iSSue asai1ls' ofii .aI~. anc of whom Naiter k. ~ lefic forurf vice president ef tI4e VI tuaI. ua@ eaNieted of periGf, asl' Scutetrcd ia=sIX moa.h~
 When l. IHiy Julse I'rifchard i> sued ai~ Federal order against the exc eHtiaH If the North GareHiaa rlte lAez- thus Savinz from the elttias a=si cia ot fi7r .~et1tl4ern eaas ieted ii sfair coUrf of 6lein- Sod tie1cts for ma=s. thaa rla Ie9al ea;e Governor GIeaa arose m h5z might to hack tsss tae -.s=' court fnafly thc SoaaHeaa gave =i1 for the s8is.. of peace aHd made spe eial agreement with Glenn. Fiuay ee viSiffe Hs petition so + tp lei fain eaSe> take their courSc rapidly to tisa suprelue court for final lest ef the law Much t3e same situation existed in Atahama= where Governor Conner was eauaF Hesolutc when the laW Was op posed uith iniunetions granted by Fed- cra Judge Jones on one Pretext or aa other Inc Minnesota rate law also Was hetI mp by Federal Judge Laeh rei~ tujunetiou iu September The Fruusyl1ania railroad after raising concentration rates WAea the NO cent
 a# @aat into effect SEPT L began a tee~ e4>e through the stale courts
 Il not within the purpose of this history to recount the long lisj of crimes and criminal trials of the ye5, Whea were ehietiy of interest ii f.4. localities where they occurred Br fhr murder conspiracy charges broush by the state of Idaho against the oa. eia}s of the Western Federation o Miners ill connection with the death of former Governor Steunenbefs uas m event of national even information uI importance. Secretary Haywood as the strong man of the federation Wa4 che first to be placed on trial MAY after the whole country had been sti red up by the preliminary efforts oi organized labor and the Socialist pa- pers to raise funds for his defense and to get their view of the matter before