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Show STAHOARO OIL UASLE TO $29,260,000 FINE Is Found Guilty of. One Thousand, Four Hundred and Sixty-three Counts of Indictment. Chlcago.The Standard Oil company com-pany of Indiana, which had-been on trial for the last six wooks before Judgo E. M. LandiB in tho Untied States district court on a chaiie of having received rebates fiom the Chisago Chi-sago & Alton ralltoad on shipments ol oil from Vhlting. lnd., to East St. Louis, 111., was found guilty b'utuidi: night on H6J counts of tin original 1903 In the Indictment The lemaln-Ing lemaln-Ing 440 counts were dropped from the indictment on account of criors. lr tho veidlct Is sustained the oil com pany Is liable to a flno of 23,260,0im, as the Elklns law, which fho Indict tnent chaiged the company with hu Ing violated, provides a flne of li.onn to $20,000 for each offense. Pcndlns a motion for a now trial, whkh John 8. Miller, chief cmuihcl for" the dr fcndanl, announced would be inndi Immediately, lio action will bq nken by the court tow aid collecting the flno |