Chicago, May 11.—Corruption of
railroad employes and agents of inde
pendent oil companies, dishonest
methods of procuring land leases, the
giving of ,short measure, and the sell
ing of three different kinds of oil out
of the same tank, and misrepresenta
tions as to the quality of oil sold,
were charged against the Standard Oi1
company at tne day's hearing before
the interstate commerce commission.
Incidentally it Was charged that the
•Frisco road gives a rate of 2 cents per
hundred feo the Standard Oil company
when it charges competitiors of that
corporation ten times as much for the
same haul.
The principal witness of the day was
E. M. Wilhoit of Springfield, Mo., for
merly for ten years agent of the Stand
ard Oil company at, Topeka, Kan. It
was he who made the charges of
bribery, and dishonesty against the
company and said that the 'Frisco road
discriminated in favor of the Standard
Oil 'company. Other witnesses were
H. C. De Rand of Fremont, O. E. P.
Ripley, president of the Atchison, To
peka and Santa Fe ^road, and M.
if axon, 4 former agent-of the Stand
ard Oil company in Illinois. The last
witness gave testimony which in many
instances was the same as that given
by Mr. Wiliolt.
NEWS CONDENSATIONS
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Tuesday, May &
Speaker Cannon was seventy years
old Monday. S
Edwin W. Clark/ sixty-four years
old, a broker and a member of the
New York Cotton -Exchange, suicided
by shooting.
Colonel Henry H. Adams of New
York, well known in military circles
and in the iron and steel business, is
dead at Greenwich, Conn.
