STANDARD OIL TRUST.
TEXAS PROSECUTION.
[DT TBtEOtUrn—I'KESS ASSOCIATION—COPTEIonT.) New Yorkj January 19, '
Tho United States! Supreme Court ' has affirmed a decree of the Texa.B Court, fining the Waters Pierce Oil Company,- of Saint Louis, 1,623,000 dollars (£324,600), and expelling it from Texas, for violating' the State Anti-Trust Law. ./■'■
[The Standard, Oil Company, of New Jersey, and many of its more than one hundred subsidiary companies, are boing prosecuted by the Federal Government (on whose suit the 29,240,009 dollars fine, since quashed, was imposed) and 'oy the State Attorneys-General in. Ohio, Missouri; ' Kansas, and Texas.; Tho- Texas Attor-ney-General appears to hare succeeded on appeal, ■• wheroaii the Federal Attorney-General failed. The Texas Courts in 1907 ordered all known branches of the oil monopoly not to do business in the State,'and succeeded in securing a oonnction with a heavy'fine against tho Waters-Pierce Oil Company, An injunction was granted restraining the defendant companies from removing any, of their property from the- State.] .
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 411, 21 January 1909, Page 7
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