| Show y f I A OIL INSTRUCTIONS c i To rc Agents Were to Kill Competitors CompetItors cl by Fair or Foul ju Means t 1 tl SENSATIONAL TESTIMONY 1 i of Oil Shipment of If Was WM 11 r r Brought Drought lo la tho Iho by tJ 6 G II 4 1 t l Cleveland May SI A total of If 19 10 1 ah en were rere called by Interstate t Commerce Prouty rind find r Clements In the Standard Oil OH Inquiry i 1 y hero here today toda counsel coun cl cland q and everybody connected with the In Investigation Ine e put In a 1 hard day 1111 and the work of the two was prolific I of substantial results Testimony bordering on nn the sensa sensational i 1 r r 1 i was revs obtained i from several wit ci witnesses nesses ne pK That of ot I Lane of AI i 0 O H n I former a of or i the tho Oil company was Willi vu re ro regarded roo girded 1 as nA n particularly Important Ac Ae According c t cording to his hi evidence v hi Lone was wa for tOI shout about 14 months mantis In 1901 1001 and 1901 I t employed by b tho Oil company for far or the particular purpose of ot driving 4 r fill all of nt tho Independent oil peddlers In a n 11 dozen or moro more of ot the principal 11 I cities dUe i and towns of ot northern Ohio out of or oft t business He said ho he wart tuns employed by hy byi 0 n M 1 i i Lynne Lynns of ot the Cleveland Office of ot the I a Standard Oil company tn to tf go to to certain tain designated places and use URO every i means fair or foul to 10 force tutu tho lode Inde Independents t f q to In quit lie He described tho q methods pursued In detail My Jay 1 Instructions ho said were In la laFt Ft kill 1111 then them and I urns II told lold Hint that If I 1 could not do tho too lob Job somebody else elso would be bc sent to tike In Ic my toy place I II I Y worked In Youngstown and nd surround log 1111 small annul towns Canton Clinton Girard War Warren Wary y ren Ten Mansfield i I Oberlin and nd other places In ll nil of ot the towns with the tile exception v of ot Youngstown the tho Independent ped peddlers lee litre were forced t hI 0 abandon their theiry y F In a R min man named l Wil 1911 William VII 4 liam Ilan H JI was WaR and 1 despite everything wi wu could do he held heldt his trade We gave II V oil awny AWRY by the t i barrel mud tank tonk load but It 11 dud dill no It k good customers threw It J awny 4 i t v MIAs tiKI Elizabeth a II bookkeeper In the Dayton t t nonce of ot the Standard Oil company 11 tea tes testified illicit that Information concerning tho the 4 oil nil of ot rivals runts Will was brought ht Into the by hy laymen and that sin she made careful record of at It and It Itlo Itt t lo to II her superior I John Jobs general superintendent Sf s1 nf or the Mum Limn division of o the Pipe Line n t Standard con coil concern 1111 1 i the about I it f cern was asked particularly Standard telegraph t in especially II tint that purl part connected with the tho Ih pipe lien lino company Tho Inquiries succeeded In III int t establishing the fact that the thet f tl t t Standard has hall an on Immense telegraph m of ot Its own extending to nearly 1 d every part of ot the country foul that hi in int t q carrying corryl on HH its great volume of oe o trade f k r j It does not often oft require the lion use ben II of tho the ther regular lines lIlIeR of lIe the thc big bit telegraph com con companies conI r i I r The rite Ill company his fax HH Its own virey r leased leafed or otherwise I operators 1 r t l regulation blanks and other station stationery for I J t cry ery and messages l persons not lint connected the tho roan com company 1 pany Witness denied II that tho thin com company I i inn pany lm with tine tho Western Union Talon i lit nt liti t i petits where one hood had nn on orrice and the thc theother 6 other did Ihl not ant r 1 K 11 1 Myles secretary and n 1111 treasurer of ot the Independent company g limited of o Oil City 1 Pa offered ninny concerning the thc railroad rate oils crimination against hl its company PS rA IRIt I It by 11 the Shorn Shore and Penn a 3 It roads which t c 1 hat had practically 3 1 driven his a coot company n Y out i of ot the tho entire rn II n t I h New t s g field r 1 nail and that In order n o t r to III to hurt their lousiness business In t tv t lion tho r v Standard agents o fig e circulated rI reports to i 6 the effect eert lint Hint the Oil sIty It company j ij was urns In iii reality n II Standard Oil concern l lv t I J of ot 0 O t 1 told toll how bony his hIli Independent oil nil business i 1 iii all 1111 but hut ruined by hY h the tho of lit r i the Standard W 1 1 f tram ram of ot 0 testified t that the Standard A for or years yearn hounded his Ids company and that the th company wan lens compelled to sell noil its properly at rat ata l a 0 low lion figure nguie W 11 V Jo 1 Wall fall president of the Fred T Clarke company nil 1111 dealers of love loveland i s land pointed out on rile rate sheets f In lu rates to different points In iii t t the tho country 1 1 f K il 1 M Jf a n merchant of nf v r 0 anid h II lie wan uhf A compelled to handl the thc ther r j oil because been use e the lute Standards Stour hods agents threatened to start another store close clone o and sell lIell every cel article he sold nold In III competition coin Charles luu les A it of or Cleveland em pm employed In ht the tho office of fit tho the Standard OH Oil company tomb from 1959 lS to 1901 his last Jn t position being that of nt assistant general manager denied upon cros cro lint a I large amount nf or Standard Oil 01 literature was prepared In his hili and ond offered to papers throughout Ohio George L I Lewis n a lubricating oil nil salesman of Chicago told how he ho lost losta losla a n contract with t tho the Dayton Duy tou nod and Troy eta Y Traction linn line 1111 bemuse he e the Standard agents promised enough freight t to more than n pay tor for the oil C e 11 II Duffy purchasing agent of nt the tho Hocking Valley alley railroad woos was called 1 to 10 testify concerning the buying of lit suing rating tills oils lIs Asked kerl It If ho he had not said Holl recently that lots bin road would lose from runt to n f year In III freightage If he bought hought lubricating oily oils from any ether company than the tho Standard or from rota the Aetna letna IM he replied that he ho might have hilI rondo such a n remark but bul buthe lie ho hail had no positive recollection of ot It |
