| Show I INSIDE OF BIG Bm OIL OL TRUST Old of the Standard Tells How Lamp Trick Scheme Worked I ORDERED TO OFFER BRIBES Ion on UI lr Inquiry Concludes rc Testimony tl nr ut at Chicago Closing hours Hour luul Out Fact Chicago May hl 12 This This was wag the last day n of or the oil 01 Inquiry After a a t hearIng hearing hear hear- ing lug this afternoon la lasting UnS' UnS until 1 4 Commissioner prepared to return with wih his hits a associates to Wash 3 hIn h- h In ington ton Th The will ill prepare preparo for fOl forthe forthe the hearing of the coal conI co cases es beginning next Tuesday Tue lay In lii the tho east nast eDt The commission overruled U o objections John S S. Miller made by torne Attorney representing rep top Standard Oil resenting the thC 01 company compan that the commission lon had hal no lon Ion on beyond Inquiring Imig Into Interstate tat t realtors matters and had no right to go so Into purely local In Us its is bearing r nf 11 Ir Lall Lamp Trick Steal Stell Details of the lamp trick by which agents of or the Standard Oil 01 make lake bo bogus us tests It i Is all alleged ed for the tho purpose of overreaching o their were brought out at today's session tea sea sion Ion F F. S S. S Hibbs for thirteen years yean an au of or the Standard Oil 01 coin coin- coui- coui pun puny any illustrated the manner of ot makIng making mak- mak Ing ng the tests with wih a a. lamp that lint he brought with him him to lo the witness Stul stain stand In iii testing the oil oU of or a rival rl al company com corn puny pany he said we ire rubbed a mol moist moist- tune t- t the wick of our une finger In er tip Up across o rivals rival's lamp and of after tel It I had bad burned I a L little time the tho damp spot was wa 3 reached leached lUle and the light grew grow dint dim dIn dInamI and amI meantime mean macan- In the there e was wa a u sputtering time lame our light was ma burning brightly brighty 1 We 0 often oren bend down the lower part ot ol the burner which lets air ah under tho the chimney and causes the lamp to smoke smoke- Sometimes we fill I up some of ot the hc ventilating hol holes g around the thE burner burn burn- er with wih wel flour four or 01 chewing gum gum 1 Ordered to Bribe Bribo Officials I The witness followed this hits statement with a declaration claaton that In mal many cases In Iii wih which n l the H oil 01 thus thu proved provell Inferior wa was In Iii reality superior lor grade He lie said ald he hall hail been Instructed by R. R n itE E E E. Lashley special age agent t for forthe forthe I Ithe the company at Peoria to ibo bribe railroad railroad ral- ral rail rail- loa road in order to geLin cU rma- rma I lion boa concerning tho ho I IP P val va val f n I cr h u l t tr tn 1 JI T oil He u A e number r 0 of lUlo Jl i imen men were welo called calell to th the stand for fot the purpose of or railroads railroads rail ran proving connection between the plo in roads and amid the Standard d JO- JO Joseph ph Bartells Bartells Bar- Bar tells of ot St. St 81 Paul Paul agent for tOl an hide Inde Independent t pendent nt oil on company compan- sal said A. A B 13 B. B SUck SUck- nO ney president of ot the time Chicago Great r Western refused r to lower a freight JP- JP C rate ate because the Standard Oil 01 com com- company company A pany is Js satisfied with wih It lt I |
