Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1907 — Oil Trust Denies Conspiracy. [ARTICLE]

Oil Trust Denies Conspiracy.

The Standard Oil'Company has entered a general denial to the charges of conspiracy, stifling competition and accepting rebates preferred by the Federal Department of Justice in St. Louis last November. The contention is made that operations prior to 1899, when the parent company of New Jersey was formed, should not be made the subject of examination. Specific denial is made, however, that the company in 1876 had special rates from the Erie and New York Central, and that a monopoly of pipe lines from Western Pennsylvania enabled it to fix rates for transportation on the railroad.