The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-04-14
NOW GREATEST TRADE
COMBINATION IN WORLD
Chronological History Of Big
Trust and It's Numerous Flights
Against Dissolution
fBy Associated Press.)

tBy Associated Press)
chronological History Of Standard Oil
1862. John y. Rockefeller started in
the oil business with $4,000
1865. Rockefeller became the own
er of a refinery in Cleveland.
1870. Organization of Standard on
company, of Ohio. by Rockefeller and
others.
1871. Southern Improvement com
pany arranges for rebates from rail
roads.
1879. Organization Of "vilas-Keith-
Chester trust"
1882. Organization of socalled
"Standard Oil trust
1890. Passage Of Sherman anti
trust act.
1892. Dissolution of STANDARD Oil
trust"
1899. Reorganization of Standard
oil company, OF New Jersey. as hold
ing company.
1906. Filing Of petition for disso-
luton OF Standard,
1910. Circuit court at ST. Louis de-
crees dissolution asked for by gov.
eminent.
1910. Appeal to supreme court oi
the United States.
Washington. April 14.-For years
rStandard OH has been under the
scrutiny OF state and Federal govern
ments. During the last four years
the litigation which bred today's de
cree has engaged the a, ontior Of
the Federal courts. Since .Iarch IA
of this year, The supreme court has
weighed the controversy of these
years.
The first great fight over the meth
DDS OF the Standard Oil interests was
directed against the Standard Oh
company, of Ohio. AS a result of the
litigation, this organization was dis
solved. The stock drifted into tbs
hands of trusts of one form and an
ether, and more litigation followed
Then the Standard Oil company oI
New Jersey was reorganized in 1899
with its capital stock Of s110,00D ,00'
az became the holding company; that
is, II acquired the stock, OF nineteer
ether oil companies engaged in va
Tious branches Of the oil business
The task of fighting STANDARD Oil'
had outgrown the states. and the
Federal government took up the cud
gel.
The Bureau OF Corporations was or
ganized. and as its first assignment
undertook an investigation, of thu
STANDARD Oil at reached into thu
very yitals of the corporation" ac
cording TO the description OF that in
uuiry given in court by the Standard
counsel"
Then in 1906. Justice Moody, nov
general OF the United States. direct
ed the filing Of a petition in the Fed
eral circuit court for the Eastern dis
trict of Missouri, for the dissolution
cf the Standard Oil company OF New
Jersey, as combination in restrain
of Interstate trade and a monopoly
all in violation Of the Sherman anti
trust law. The petition was loade,
with ammunition collected by tn
states and by the Bureau OF Corpora
tions.
John D. Rockefeller, William Rock
Teller, Henry II. Rogers, Henry NJ
Fiagler, John A. Archbold. Oliver H
Payne and Charles NJ. Pratt wer
named as individual defendants. Th
STANDARD Oil company of New Jerse
headed the list of ia companies des
ignated as defendant corporations.
Hearing Finally Comes on
The hearing finally came on. On
The Waters-Pierce Oil company wa
resident In the circuit. and the STAND
ard denied the right OF the court /
compel the other defendants. outsid
the circuit, to appear In court |
lost In this contention. Testimon
WAS taken In Missouri and in Ne,
York. Finally, early in this veal
ever three years after the filing q
the petition IN the circuit court, tn
four judges who had been called /
To pass on the suit announced tn
decree of the court.
That decree upheld nearly ever
convention the government had made
II did, however. dismiss some OF III
defendant companies II decreed iha
the reorganization Of the Standar
@tfi tpiHHHi1 VI NV JflNfA W io'
constituted combination and col
spiracy In restraint of commerc
among the states and with foreig
nations, and d combination and cor
spiracy to monopolize that commerce
in violation of sections one and tw
respectively OF the Sherman ant
trust act
The principal or holding eompan
was enjolned from directing the a
fairs Of the subsidiary corporations
and The subsidiary corporations wer
prohibited from paying dividends I
.hc hr'f'rg COMPANY The defendant
we're enjoined from engaging in inte
state commerce, until the illegal con
Ninats0n was discontinued.
Lest the defendants get around th
1elffa In some manner the court e.