Arizona republican., 1910-03-12
A TRIAL FOR ITS LIFE
Preliminary Story of Case Resulting in the Judg ment of the Federal Court for Eastern District of Missouri.

Washington. Mar. 1.-The most ser ious legal battle that Standard oil has ever faced will confront it next Monday
 That is the day set by the Supreme Court of the United States to hear ar guments on the appeal of the stan dard Oii company of New Jersey from the adverse judgment of the United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. which ordered the dissolution of the New Jersey COY pOration as an illegal combination and monopoly in restraint of interstate commerce To point out the alleged errors Of the circuit court i'll its find ings and in it's decree. the keeneSt in teileets within command have been procured. To argue for the affirm ance of the decision of the lower court. Mir. Wickersham. the attorney general of the United States himself will mead brilliant array of counsel for the government.
 Circuit Courts Findings.
 The Circuit Court announced grave findings against the seven individus defendants. John D. Rockefeller, Will liam Rockefeller. Henry M. Flagler. Henry H. Rogers. John D. Archbolj. Oliver H. Payne and Charles M Pratt the Standard Oil company oS New Jersey and other defendant com panies.
 The court found that in 1899 by au exchange of stock bq the seven indi- viluals. the Standard Oil company of ha tpc-af tftl., to a ma ajority of the stock of 1s com panies. which in turn controlled large number of others. all but one engaged in the oil business.
 The Combination.
 What it found as to this combins ton was this:
 That since 1899 the affairs of all these companies have been managed by the principal company as the bus mess of a single person. so as to fix for them the price of crude oil. tho rates for transportation and the sell ing prices of its products.
 That the par value of the combined capital stock in 1899 was about Si00.- OO0. 900 and that in 1903 it was si50,- OOO. 900
 That l3 of these companies owned 54.565 miles of pipe lines
 That six of these companies had B. 57i selling stations throughout tine United States.
 That these companies from 1899 to i907 produced more than one-teuth of the crude oil obtained in this coun- try
 That they owned and operated more than one-half Of all the tank cars used to distribute its products.
 That they manufactured more than threefourths Of all the crude oil re- fined in the United States.
 That they transported more than four-fifths of the petroleum derived from the Pennsylvania and Indiana oil fields
 That they marketed more than four fifths of all the Illuminating oil sold in the United States
 That they exported more than four fifths of all the illuminating oil sen, forth from the United States
 That they sold more than four fifths ot all the naptha sold in the United States
 That they sold more than nine tenths of all the lubricating oil sold t' IdiIpdu CbiDpdHleS in tue OnHtu States.
 Decreed a Conspiracy.
 On this finding the court decreed: That the organization of 1899 was 2 or conspiracy in gre straint of interstate commerce in pc troleum and it's products. such as tue first section of the sherman antitrust act declares is illegal; that the seven defendants, the Standard oil company of New Jersey and 9 other companies had entered into a or conspiracy to mouop- olize and had in fact monopolized part of interstate com merce in violation of the second sec tion of the sherman antitrust act that 5S other companies accused were proven not to be in this combination
 The court enjoined the principsl
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