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Show BAIL IS GIVEN IN 1 OIL PROFITEERING ; CASE AT PITTSBURG PITTS iil'K' h Pa.. 1 ee. J.. Fosv-r J. ! IViTbe- I. pi'oMrM of t T li !i " O ! . r 1 11 - ! 1 -, lai (Hi companv. mid Th-ni;..- K. t'ow..., i's . r.Tary, K;lV.- had in tn- f-deral d:-, d:-, r j-i - t court tonuy to answer : tie eharytr 'f .-'-Iliiii,' find uil at vi 1 1 j ; j t a:.d uia-a- .-oi;nhit. prii-.-s. l'o-l!i.'l ,! rild L. ' P."bi!lOU. vie,- pr-:,;d.-n t ; t;, is wort h Ivjbic"n, 1 rcasur'-r, and M. I., p.-tifd u i m . chairman of the j h..arl vf dire.-rors, Mated these officers. rayjinst uhoin the sum: chare- had b. -n made, v, Te oijl ..f T i i . - city, i-ut would Hp-P;ir Hp-P;ir and givu hail i umiediat'dy upon the!:' ref urn. The proserin inn, said to be the first of its Kind, uas brought under the food and fuel ad of 1 !M 7 and alleges that th' company .-old and si-cured fuel oil at prices ratting from Jil.riii to $4 a barrel, woe purchaser was an Akron, bio, tire company. hich b')U'-;ht 15,'.him barrels of oil at $:i." a barr.d, ami another was an oil con; pan; which bought la rue iii;m-titles iii;m-titles of fuel oil from tlv Transcontinental Transcontinen-tal at prices ranging from $.J.7j to $ ( a barrel. The Tra nscon f inenta 1 enmrany was formed November 'J'.i, when seven oil com-panifs com-panifs were combined. Its officers are h rilling the best-known oil men in the country. |