Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1908 — ARCHBOLD DISTRUSTFUL [ARTICLE]

ARCHBOLD DISTRUSTFUL

Says There Is No Telling What Rates Railroads Give Shippers. New York, Dec. 4.—Efforts to obtain information regarding loans aggregating (22,000,000 to P. S. Trainer came to nothing in the cross-examina-tion of John D. Archbold in the government suit to dissolve the so-called Standard Oil trust. Mr. Archbold said he knew of no reason for the loans.' Mr. Trainer directs the Standard’s pipe line system. Amusement was Created when Mr. Archbold declared that when one obtained a rate from a railroad man he was not always sure but that on his way home the railroad man would give some other shipper a lower rate.