Show STANDARD OIL r rAGAIN AG AGTen AGAIN INDICTED I ITen T Ten en True Bills Returned by Federal Grand Juries Con Containing i taming Counts i RAILROADS MENTIONED NOT I OFFENSE CHARGED HOWEVER HOWElER IS REBATING Chicago Aug 27 The first and second federal fed ral grand juries today returned ten t n indictments against the tho Standard Oil oU i company comp ny before Judge Bethea In the United States S tat S circuit court The indict indictments ments which contain 64 counts are all allin allin in connection with the granting of ot re xe bates No railroad was indictments returned today Each Bach of ot the counts In the ten in indictments indictments covers an alleged offense and id iJ based on a tank car shipment of petro petroleum P petroleum tro leum from the th refineries at Whiting Ind According to a L statement Issued after the Indictments had bad been re returned returned turned from the office of the United States Stat s district attorney these shipments were carried c rIed by the folio wine roads Railroads Involved Chicago Burlington Quincy Chicago Alton Chicago Eastern Illinois Evansville Terre Haute Illinois Cen Con Central Central Contral Southern and Lake Shore Mich Michigan Michigan igan Southern According to this statement the Bur Burlington Burlington lington hington and Alton roads had published lawful rates of 18 cents cent cen per hundred t pounds to East St Louis from Whiting and 19 cents to St Louis but carried c oil oU for the Standard Oil company on a secret unpublished rate at 6 and cents to those points respectively The statement nt then continues Nearly Off On shipments to points in the south beyond Grand Junction the Standard Oil company should have paid laid the tho different lawful rates for the th defendant points of ot destination but was given concessions conc which averaged about 27 per cent of the published rate r tc The same s I Is I true r of o t A JR Evansville Eastern Illinois and the Terre Haute to Evansville Ind lad and points beyond The concessions given to the Standard Stan lar laron Oil on company by the tho Lake Shore M MIch Mch MIchigan ch igan Southern road were in the shape of of storage charges at Chi Chicago Chicago all aU oil cago cao of 5 cents per ton tort per day on delayed In delivery Other oil shippers were compelled to pay the storage I charges Cen Central Central Central The charges s against the Illinois and the Southern railroad are the those in relation to the shipments same aa as a made to points beyond be nd Grand Junction May Be Costly It was w said at the district attorneys that thai the penalty for each offense I office fine of not In the indictments is a alleged less than 1000 nor more than It Itis Itis believed by the tIte government attorneys is id Oil that time the lawyers for the Standard will the appearance of the I company corporation In covert co rt as soon as they have the Indictments There is no examined the arrest at present allowing authority which of officers of ot a corporation against Indictments have been found |