ITEMS OF INTEREST November 19, 1910 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

The Standard Oil Company of Indiana will be brought to bar in the Federal court at Jackson, Miss., to answer to alleged violations of the Sherman law. The case is regarded as being of equal importance with the suits heard at Chicago by Judge Landis. Specifically, it is charged that the Standard Oil Company of Indiana received concessions from several railroad comparies on numerous consignments of petroleum and petroleum products from their refineries at Whiting, Ind., to fifty-two cities and towns in the southern territory. At Grand Junction, Tenn., the Government declares, the shipments were reconsigned, this course being taken in order to procure an unfair advantage over competitors, a proceeding, it is claimed, which is in violation of the anti-trust laws of the United States.

It is calculated that eighty-six of the leading railroads in the United States, embracing 217,782 miles, utilize the telegraph in train despatching on 189,939 miles and the telephone on 24,831 miles. It was only as recently as the fall of 1906 that the telephone was first tried in train despatching. All the large systems are doing something at present looking toward the total or partial substitution of the telephone for the telegraph in train despatching.

Federal indictments, charging conspiracy to defraud the Government of more than twenty thousand acres of Alaska coal lands, valued at two hundred million dollars, were returned by a federal grand jury at Spokane, Wash., last week against six men who control three groups of coal lands in the Kayak mining field in Alaska. Each group represents one hundred and thirty-one claims of one hundred and sixty acres each.

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