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Show STANDARDJL WINS! GOVERNMENT FAILS IN ITS ATTEMPT AT-TEMPT TO COLLECT THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS. Four Yeara Wo'k by Oovsrnmtnt At-' torneys Falls to Convict Oil Trust and Judge Orders Verdict of Not Guilty to be Returned. Jackson. Tenn In a ruling wntrh required twenty minutes lo read. Judge John K. Mc(iill. In the Culled States circuit rouri on Thiitsday afternoon, af-ternoon, ended the efforts of the government gov-ernment to have assessed ugalnst the Standard (III company of Indiana pcmilllca aggregating mure limn . '.(. Out) lioo. The ruling. Instructing Ihut a ver-dirt ver-dirt of not guilty be returned, came with tho conclusion of the case In chief of the prosecution, and til sub stance holds with the contentions of the defense that after four years the I'nlted States had failed to build Its structure of evidence other than on sand. The Klklns sntl relmte law was violated. It was alleged, through "srhemo and device." |