St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 24, 1907

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VOL. 59. NO. 276. ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1907.

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TOWN REPORTED WIPED QUT, MANY IAD IN STORM Snyder, O. T., Destroyed Two Years Ago, Struck by Tornado.

ALL WIRES ARE DOWN

More Than 50 Were Killed There in Similar Disas- ter in 1905.

ASSOCIATED PRESS.) WICHITA, Kan., May 24.-—It is report- ed that a tornado struck Snvycer, O. T., this morning and that many lives were lost. Wire communication with Snyder, tele- phone or telegraph, Is shut off from Wichita, Kansas City and Okiahoma City. Snyder was almost de- stroyed by a tornado on the night of May 10, 199%. More than 50 persons were killed; and %2 were injured. The (BY completely ‘population of the town at that time was about one thousand. Nearly every building was shattered The few remaining buildings were converted into hospitals and rellef was sent from the various atties of the Southwest. Train loaded with provisions and wearing apparel were on the way to the stricken city within 24 hours after the disaster. The cyclone two years ago affected Aimong done were Olustee, Quinian and Alice. The property damage in each instance was great. When the reports of the _ storm’s havoc reached Kansas City two years ago the National Funeral Directors’ As- | sociation was in convention there and > 4% 30 undertakers volunteered to go to the . FG _ scene and Jend their assistance.

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Ky., Wednesday afternoon, - pupposed at first. arm were fractured and her OF WRECK DYING > Miss Madeline Bier Injured in Kentucky Railroad Accident, _ Cannot Recover.

Miss Madeline Lasarr, the St. Louis _gchool teacher who was injured in the Lawrence Creek, is dying at the hospital in Maysville, wirere Cc. &@ O. wreck at phe was taken. She was injured far more than was Both legs and an body * - bruised, but an injury ever her eye _ Beems to be the fatal one. lg tional matters in St. Louis. eS om {

’ * Miss Lasarr is prominent in educa- She was _ going to the Jagnestown Exposition to take charge of the St. Louis ex- bit when the accident occurred. DETECTIVES ARE CENSURED FOR THEIR CARELESS WORK. Pawnshop Squad Scolded by Chief in Schroers Case. The recovery in city pawn shops of part of the jewelry stolen from the res- $@ence of .John Schroers by Herman

\ Kiemm, after 150 telegrams had been pent to police headquarters of various _ sities, caused Chief of Detectives Smith ¢©@ cerisure his pawnshop squad Friday - morning. Twelve detectives were lined up in the | Chief's office, among them being Shan- non and Hayhurst, who found part of the Behroers plunder. Smith asked the men what was the use of spending mon- i ey telegraphing about the country when the thief had scattered his swag around the city where the robbery was perpe- 1 Smith also threatened to get after the © pawnbrokers of the city, who, he In- timated, were not reporting suspicious | Strnnsactions in their offices to the po- ong _officers who are supposed to visit thelr places twice a week looking for stolen property.

wR. JOHN SCULLIN DYING, = DAUGHTER IS RACING DEATH

ime. de Geest Speeding Across - Country to Reach Bedside of Her Mother. 6218 South Broadway, who has | gonfined to her bed for the last ‘Weeks with anaemia, have been told the four attending physicians there afm hope for recovery. The doctors ‘now trying to sustain life unti! Mme. , of Paris, a eset can reach | THUNDERSTORMS DUE TONIGHT FROM TEXAS; SATURDAY COOLER DAY Slight Drop in Temperature to Fol- low Showers Continuing Through Tomorrow. THE TEMPERATURE. Midnight 10 a. m 12 (noon)

Because to- day's weather fashions are be- ing set by the Texas Panhan- die, summer garden goers may have to panhandle um- brellas to get home tonight. Thus reads the fore ca et: ‘Showers and thunder storms tonight and Saturday; slightly cooler; southerly winds.’’ The South- western storm center has moved slowly east from Ari- zona, the pub- lic is informed, and is central over the afore- mentioned Tex- MAY aAm™ © as Panhandle. This has caused showers and thunderstorms in the Southern States, the Ohio, Mississippi and Mis- souri Valleys and the Rocky Mountain region. Snow in Wyoming marked that local- ity as temporarily behind the rest of the country in climatic comfort. At 7 a. m., when the temperature was 71 degrees in St. Louis, it was 60 in Boston, 48 in Chicago, 48 in Denver, 76 in Galveston, 68 in Kansas City, 56 in New York, Philadelphia and Washing- ton and 52 in San Francisco. ] WONDER IF TEDDY AND DR LONG EVER READ MN THRILLING BOOK ON How To HUNT WILD “1 GRASSHOPPERS:

Rain Falls in the Southwest. KANSAS CITY, May 24.—Good rains fell last night in Southwestern Mis- souri, generally in Southern Kansas around Enid and Oklahoma City, O. T., and in Western Arkansas, accord- ing to reports received here by the Weather Bureau this morning, Rain also is reported from Northern Ne- braska and Southern South Dakota, where moisture was needed, KIRKWOOD STUDENTS WEAR NOISY HOSIERY AND SHOCK: PRINCIPAL:

Socks That Do Not Match and Colors That Burn Startle Pedagogue. An epidemic of frantic hosiery has broken out among the students of the Kirkwood High School and the teach- ers are near distraction. The trouble started Wednesday when Walter Mul- holland and (Clark Vickers went to school, each wearing one flaming scar- let and one bright orange sock. The delight ef the, students over the new style got so boisterous that Princi- palKinkead calleq the two “glasses of fashion” to his office and lectured them severely. Thursday morning, after school had been called to order, the principal’s horrified eyes beheld a throng of boys sauntering toward the school. Looked Like Barber Poles, They wore hose of all the glaring col- ors of the rainbow, with no single pair a match, and they hr _ hoisted their trousers te the knees so that all could see. Kinkead met them at the door and after examining the hosiery sent home 13 boys whose socks did not match. Vickers and Mulholland were suspended, to await the school board's action. When he returned one of the women teachers whispered in his ears that # of the girl students wore white stock- ings. Unable to discover the culprits as in the case of the boys, he had to con- tent himself with sending home one un- wary girl, Fonta Kidwell. Friday morning the boys were back at school wearing their shrieking hose, but they had pairs that matched. But in their shoes most of them wear one red and one white silk bew. the other boys who wore the multl- colored socks are Will Shelby, Grady Allee, Theophile Kruse, Urban Mudd, oO. J. Mudd, Monroe Hoffman, Fred Stebbins, Willard White, Harlow Don- Ovan, Woodruff Hart, Carrington Ca- bell, Harold Pullis and John Schweit- zer, BARBERS BEGIN CRUSADE TO CLOSE SHOPS SUNDAYS. Fund Subscribed to Help Movement at Meeting—Preachers Sup- port Effort. An active crusade will be commenced by the barbers of St. Louis to close the shops Sundays. Ninety boss barbers met Thursday night and $135 was sub- scribed for the fight. The Rev. Samuel I. Lindsay, superintendent of the Mis- sour! Anti-Saloon League, sa!d the clos- ing would be beneficial. Rev. F. C. Christmas, a negro Baptist preacher, fa- vored the movement. Marence T. Case, an attorney, spoke on the question from a legal standpoint, The bdsse barbers organized with the fol- lowing officers: President, H. A. Stark; ee hae Charies Springfell; sec- foeary, A. x Hinrichs; treasurer, Harry upon barbers for additional ape cage were appointed to who were not pres- hank funda,

‘ = U CHOIR WORK EAPECTED JAIL GUES TO PRISON Miss Helen Dixon, Blooming- ton Embezzler, Denounces Prosecutor.

SHE PLEADED GUILTY

Says State’s Attorney Prom- ised to Be Lenient With Her.

Special to the Post-Dispatch. BLOOMINGTON, Iil., May Helen church 24.——Miss Dixon, former worker, was in tears when a reporter called up- on her at the County Jail this morning. late yesterday te the Joliet Penitentiary Her sentence afternoon on a charge of embezzlement of the Second Christian funds and forgery was Chureh ergan entirely unexpected, and the blow com- pletely prostrated her. She had ex- pected only a Jail sentente in addition to the four months of incarceration al- ready experienced. “I was imposed upon,” she almost hysterically exclaimed. ‘‘The State At- torney, W. R. Bach, assured me that I would receive all possible leniency. I construed this, naturally enough, to mean a Jail sentence only. “‘While I appreciate what my lawyer has done for me, yet I became nervous ever the long delay. He was successful in obtaining a postponement of my case, but I could not bear to Stay in this awful place day after day and I wished to have the uncertainty over. I think that I have been sufficiently punished already, but I. would not have objected to a Jail sentence in addition. Says She Was Fooled. The State’s Attorney has been try- ing to persuade me to plead guilty and he Kept repeating that I would be given lenient treatment. I was foolish enough ‘to believe that leni- ency meant a jail sentence instead of the penitentiary. “When I made up my mind and throw myself upon its mercy, I naturally supposed that Mr. Bach. when I made my piea, would arise and Speak to the Judge Myers in my be- half. I was appalled when, instead, he sat through the whole proceeding without making a suggestion or even in the slightest degree seeking to aid me. I was crushed by this failure to help me at such a critical juncture, “I admit that I did wrong in using the church funds, but I hoped that it would be possible for me to pay back the money before it was called for. I also admit forging Miss Lemme’s name ‘to a note, but I was in desper- ate need of money and I honestly be- lieved that my relatives, when they knew of my plight, would give me the money to meet it. They have ignored me and now I must suffer for it. J] never would have made my plea in court but for the positive assurance of the State’s Attorney. I believe if the case had gone to trial that 1 would have been able to get off with a jail sentence. Coolly Pleaded Guilty. Dismissing her lawyer, Miss Dixon yesterday walked before the bar of the Cireult Court and pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzling $1300 from the or- gan funds of the Gleaner Society of the Second Presbyterian Church and also to the forgery of a note of $300. The prisoner’s demeanor was cool and Self-possessed and there was no change when Judge C. D. Myers sentenced her to the Penitentiary for an indeterminate term. She will be taken to prison to- morrow. Miss Dixon was able to obtain bond for the first week after the charge of embezzlement was brouglit against her, but when a charge of forgery was filed and there became rumers of other peculations, her bonasmen became alarmed and surrendered her to the Sheriff. She has been in Jail since. Miss Dixon was arrested last Febru- ary. She was treasurer of the Gleaner Society and the money she appropriated rs When the organ was received thefe was no money to pay for it. Then called on for an explanation Miss Dixon told conflicting stories as to what she had done with the money. It is understood she spent the money on clothes _for herself. RENTED LICENSES; ACQUITTED, No Ordinance Covers Alleged Offense of Junk Dealer. A. Kaplan, junk dealer, 1230 North Ninth street, charged with entering inte a conspiracy to. defraud the city by renting licenses to drivers, Was acquit- ted in City Hall Police Court Friday. A fight is on between the junk dealers and the Drivers’ Association, beginning with the strike of 180 drivers two weeks ago. The drivers contended that li- censes should be made out in their own names. Kaplan was charged with taking eut licenses in his own name and renting them to his drivera at 50 cents a day. Judge Tracy held that the alleged of- fense was not covered by the city ord- mee esc The only point at somes, Ye, self had a the 2 ‘* go or. The license was introduced in evidence and Bie: i acquittal:

GROTEFEND {5 LANDED IN THE TUMBS BY DYER -

St. Louis Embezzler Says He Is the Happiest Man in America.

HE STARTS HOME TODAY

Guard Left Him in Care of Deputy Marshal at New York. ae me oes Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, May 2.—Charles FP. jiretefend, the St. Louis embezzler, 13 in the Tombs, and frankly admits that He sees a prison term as his future lot, but ‘that does not bother him now. Convict stripes and penitentiary walls are us nothing, compared with the herrors of running wild through the woods of far-away Sweden, with a guilty conscience biting and snarling at By he is the happiest man in America. he says,

was to have been used to pay for a new | his heels every step. And to make his present lot happier, he was cheered this morning by the re- ceipt of a letter from his mother, bid- ding him cheer up and approving of his ceurse in confessing his wrong. The letter affected the young man more than any other incident in his journey. Grotefend reached here a prisoner late yesterday afternoon on the Dutschland. David P. Dyer Jr. of St. Louis was ais keeper. After turning over his charge to local officers at the pier, Dyer made a running- leap for a wi. Louis train and was out and gone from Jersey City exactly 45 minutes after he had landed from the ship in Hoboken, four miles away. A Post-Dispatch reporter boarded the Deutschland at quarantine in the hops of getting from Dyer some explanation

bring back a confeased embezzler, so soon after he himselt had been tried and found not guilty of embezzling $1,- | 600 of Government funds from the sub- treasury in St. Louis. But Dyer abse- lutely refused to discuss anything more interesting than the very chilly breeze then blowing across New York Bay. | Dyer Refused to Talk. Some of young Dyer’s acquaintances from St. Louis, who later saw him ut the pier, said the appointment of young Dyer was unquestionably done to set the young man right In the eyes of the St. Louis community. the Deutsenland Immediately had touched alongside her pier !n Hoboken at 5:45 p. all hurried ashore with the prisoner, who was taken first to United States Marshal ’Henkel’s office, pre- i., necessary papers were pared for his commitment overnight to the Tombs. He was locked up and Deputy Marshal Kelker will start with him for St. Louis today. Dyer caught the 6:30 train for St. Louis, avoiding in- where the terviewers. Grotefend Blames Bad Company. ‘“T am glad to get back,” said Grote- fend, ‘‘and I wiii take my medicine.” He declined to discuss the reasons for his taking $3,383.97 from the Washington National Bank of St. Leuis,. in which he was a teller, but velunteered this much: “A little more than u year ago I got into bad company. I received a salary of $68 a month and had a wife and baby to support. “I was living beyond my -income and spending and iosing money in ways in which I had no business to ‘burn’ it. Before I knew it, 1 was in so deep there was no getting out or covering it up any longer. “I had not the courage to go to the president of the bank, who had always been my friend, and tell him what I had done. “So I took $70, deserted m+ wife and baby and came to New York, where I cought a second cabin ticket on the American liner Phi'adelphia for South- atmpton. “From Southampton I crossed over t? Sweden, where I tried to lose myself, but the image of my wife and the baby were always before me. I knew no peace, not &@ moment's joy. “I will cay that no woman ran away with me. I went to Sweden alone. Wotked as Waiter. “I had to take work at anything I could get and got a job cs a waiter in a restaurant. This was in the early part of 1906. I worked at that for a while, but waiting in a restaurant in Sweden after living itn st Louis is a sad business. I longed for the fields, and then I hired out as a weoeodchopper near Nordkoping. The woods could not give me the happiness I wanted and at last I became so homesick for a sight | of my wife and child that | wrote home that if they would send me the money to pay for a steamer ticket I would come back to St. Louls and give myself up. The police of St. Louis at once cabled to the Swedish police to arrest me ard | was put In Jail at Linkoping

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EMBEZZLER WHO FLED TO EUROPE NOW RETURNING TO ST. LOUIS

CHARLES .F GROTEFEND.

POST-DISPAICr SUNDAY 266,d0/ DAILY 170,09/ A. —"

Circulation Figures Sworn To in City Printing Bid.

Phen we oe we rte ' ty, » . ete ‘Bt ; 9 for the anmaal printing er" pal government, to make @ cleat pre- sentment of their claims as to circu- lation, Friday noon, when City Register Regan opened the bids made by the several publications for this work. It was notable, in this instance, that only two newspapers, the Post-Dispatch and the Globe-Democrat, furnished sworn statements of their actual circu- lation, the Post-Dispatch accompanying its statement with a sworn affidavit of its Sunday circulation as well. The others were content with a mere affi- davit that their circulation exceeded 3000 or more. Business Manager's Affidavit. Accompanying the Post-Dispatch bid was the following affidavit made by W. C. Steigers, business manager: ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 24, 1907. State of Missouri, ge City of St. Loufls. Personally appeared before me. a notary public, in and for-the City of St. Louis, Mo., W. C. Stiegers, busniess manager of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, who de- poses and says that the regular editions of the St. Louis Post- Dispatch for the first four months of the year 1907, after deducting all copies returned by newsboys and copies left over, spoiled in printing and unaccounted for, averaged, daily 175,897 and Sunday 266,987 full and complete papers, and further that the sales of the Post-Dispatch in the City of St. Louis exceed by many thovsands the number of homes in St. Louis. W. C. STIEGERS, Businezs Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of May, 1907. ADOLPH E. SCHMIDT, Notary Public. My commission expires April 15, 1909. The Globe-Democrat’s Statement. The Globe-Democrat’s bid was 6 cents a line, accompanied by a sworn state- ment that its circulation daily and Sun- day during the year was 129.015. The bids of the other newspapers, each being accompanied by affidavits that their re- spective circulation exceeded 3000, were as follows: Republic, a first bid of 4 cents a line. engoepd and Sunday, and a second bid of 2 9-10 cents a line for the regular city edition, “being the edition distributed in St. Louis and adjacent territory:" Star-Chronicle, 5 cents a line; Times, 4 7-10 cents a line; Anzeiger, 5% cents a line; Westliche Post, 8 cents a line, and the Amerika, 10 cents a line. The Globe-Demotrat last year did the city printing, receiving $19,394 for adver- tising and $3366 for job work during a term beginning April 10, 1906, and end- ing April 8, 1907. The present printing term wij! begin June 15. City Register Regan said he would announce the award later.

Musicians Elect St. Lou Louisans, CLEVELAND, O., May 24.—an effort will be made to regulate traveling musical organizations as the result of action taken by the American Feder- ation of Musiciana, ~ficers were elected as follows: President, Joseph Weber, Cincinnat!; secretary, Owen Miller, St. Louls; treasurer, Ott, Oa- tendorf, 8t, Louts, MACHINISTS OM Alt RAILROAD ARE CALLED QUT =» ee 3000 Men Ordered to Strike by the International Association. . —_—,

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BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) > oN, N. Y., May James O’Connell, president of the International Association of Machinists, this after- noon called out the entire force of union .machinists on the Erie Railroad, about 3000 men, At Susquehanna, Pa., 199 men obeyed the order. The strike, which has been under con- sideration for several months, is caused by the dissatisfaction of the men over the. plece work.

Pastor Arrested for Forgery. “pecial to the Post-Dispatch, BELLEFONTAINB, 0O., May 2%— Rev. A. L. Moore, formerly an Epis- copal rector, who recently renounced the Episcopal faith for Catholicism, Is under arrest here on a charge of for- gery. The indictment charges him with forging a check for $150. Rev. Mr. Moore disappeared under mysterious cir- cumstances in February, deserting a bride of a few weeks. He was found in Fordville, Inn., and brought back here today. Sunday Post-Dispatch Sunday Magazine, May 26, 1907

CONTENTS. A New Invention Which the Parisian Aeronauts will Use in the St. Louis Balloon Races (in colors ) Gigantic Dam Across Missouri iver to Supply Power, Light and Heat to St. Louis and Citee COOR.. «cs Kecamecctereus “Called Up by Death” Being the Strange Story of a Voice That Came Out of the Night and Led a Young Man to His Doom.. Society People in St. Louis Favor the Introduction of a Fascinat- { ing Spo } “The Newest Private Graft in the World Today” Illustrated in St. Louis ) Hunting for a $50,000,000 Buried Treasure Leads to a Second Disaster \ Train Crossing the Mississippi Page

Into St. Louls on Top of a Wire : Some New Ghost Stories A Girl Who Dresses on $13,500 a Year and One Who Only Spends $30 a Year. “How the Rabbit Came L 4... Story fi: Short Tail,” a Good New, Strange and Curlous Things Third Prize Winner in Post-Dis- patch Beauty Contest (in col- --10 The Bad Dream That Made Bill a Plotter Baye. ccsesevsevseveccee 2 Romeo Has Come Back Seat See! Pally for the Kid... 2 The Newlyweds, Their Raby...,. 8 3 Yena Yensen, Yaniter, Has Break- ‘a History of the World... 4 the Zo0....++. 61

ANTHONY DECIDES STATE CO URT CA QUST OIL TRUST ,

i id Standard, Republic and Waters-Pierce in Criminal Conspiracy for Six Years, Referee Finds. __ =" —————ooe

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Competition Stifled and Prices Fixed and Con- trolled in Missouri by Monopoly, Judge Declares---Supreme Court Will Act on His Report.

Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, May 24.—Sweeping violations of Mis- souri’s anti-trust law are pointed out by Special Commissioner Anthony in his report to the Supreme Court today on the suits instituted by Attorney-General Hadley to drive the Standard, Republic and Waters-Pierce Oil Co. out of Missouri. These three companies, forming a triple combination under the leadership of the billion-dollar Standard Oil Co., have, according to Commissioner Anthony, unlawfully monopolized the oil trade of this State since 1901. The Commissioner designates their operations as “a conspiracy formed to | contfol prices and throttle competition.” It is pointed out that the Supreme Court under the law and the evidence adduced by the Commissioner, has the power to cancel the charter of the Waters-Pierce Oil Co. and revoke the H- censes granted to the Standard and Republic Oil Companies, which are incor- porated outside of Missouri, In addition to this statement, which amounts practically to a recommen: dation to the Court, the Commissioner draws the inference that heavy fines should be imposed on the three companies for repeated and willful ‘violations. of the Missouri statutes. Attorney-General Hadley’s specifications of outlawry agatant the Oil Trost, as set forth in his original petition filed a year and a half ago, are sustained in every detail. PENALTIES POSSIBLE UNDER THE LAW Under the State anti-trust law, the offending oll companies may be fined $1000 for each violation of the law. As they are alleged to have been guilty of violations for a period of six years, the Attorney-General’s office would not be surprised if the aggregate penalty against the three companies amounted to halt a million dollars. Fines thus imposed would be turned into the State revenue fund. Neither on this point nor on the question of taking away the franchises of the Standard, Republic and Waters-Pierce companies did the Commissioner make any specific recommendation to the Court. If the Court, however, should sustain his findings, these penalties, it is be- iieved, would follow as a matter of course. COMMISSIONER ANTHONY’S REPORT Judge Anthony was appointed by the Supreme Court two years ago and has been busy since that time, taking testimony at various points in the State of Missouri and other places throughout the United States. The defendants were charged by Attorney-General Hadley with hav- ing formed a trust, combination or conspiracy to control the sale of the products of petroleum in the State of Missouri and to limit and prevent competition in such product. The commissioner's report is quits lengthy, consisting of &bout 300 printed pages. Judge Anthony reviews in detail the history of the organization and conduct of the three oil companies in the State of Missouri. He finds that the Waters- Pierce Oil Co. was organized in 1873 as a Missouri corporation and after- ward reorganized in order to evade the anti-trust laws of Texas in 190. He finds that the Standard Oil Co. of In- diana was organized under the laws of Indiana in 1889 and was licensed to do business in this State in 1897. He also finds that the Republic Oil Co. was or- ganized under the laws of New York and licensed to do business in this State in 1901. The further fidning is made that the original Standard Oil Trust, followed by the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, owned and controlled 68% per cent of the stock of the Waters-Pierce Of) Co., and all of the stock of the Standard Oi! Co. of Indiana and the Republic Ot! Co. It is further found that, beginning in the year 1901, a trust, combination, un- derstanding and conspiracy was formed between the three companies, which continued te exist and to be maintained up to the date of the beginning of the sult by the Attorney-General and that such trust, combination and conspiracy was entered into and formed by the de- fendants to regulate, fix and control the

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prices to be paid by retail dealers and thers in the State of Missouri in the ucts of petroleum in the State, and limit and prevent competition in the eas of buying and selling the pro- of petroleum in the State of sale. 1. Fix and maintain the prices the refined preductse of petroleum sold

such refined products of petroleum in the State. 3. Did prevent and destroy competi- tion on the purchase and sale of stich refined products of petroleum fm the State of Missour!i. All Competition Stified. The commissioner finds that im pur- suance of such trust, combination and conspiracy, the defendants prevented competition among themselves and oth- ers in the State of Missouri, securing control of 6 per cent of the refined products of petroleum and of the pur- chase and sales of such olls drove competition out of the State, thereby depriving the people of free, full and wholesome competition tn the sale of such products; and by means and in pursuance of such combiaatioa, trust and conspiracy the defendants State "nnd the pantie inte tee Danee the defendants, the commissioner cites and comments upon the testimony of many witnesses and their acts and duct throughout the State in the purchase and sale of of Missourt the refined Ne ee ee