Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1907 — OIL KING IS SUMMONED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OIL KING IS SUMMONED.

■ “Invitations” bearing the official seal of the United* &StHB DffUfSfc Court, for a "heart to heart” talk with Judge Kenesaw M. Landis In Chicago were issued and dispatched to John D. Rockefeller and other officers of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. From Mr. Rockefeller and the oil king’s confreres Judge Landis hopes to obtain information concerning the financial resources of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, as well as the corporation’s relation to the holding company, before imposing fines for the accepting of concessions from the Chicago and Alteon railway. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who isSued the subpoena for John D. Rockefeller to come to Chicago and testify In the Standard Oil case, has been* United States district judge since March, 1905. He was born in Millville, Ohio, In 1866, and for a time was reporter on a Logan sport (ind.) paper. In 1890 he was graduated from a Chicago km school, and then he became an instructor in the Northwestern university law college. Judge Landis was private secretary to the late Walter Q. Gresham when he was Secretary of State under President Cleveland. The latter offered Judge Landis a diplomatic appointment after Mr. Gresham’s death, but he preferred to practice law.