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THE MORMXO OKEC.ONTAy. TUESDAY, XOVE31I.KK 29, 1910. PROMINENT FIGURES IN PROSECUTION OF ALLEGED SUGAR I TRUST. TO RETURN SOUTH Federal Petition Asks Dissolu tion of 30 Firms in AI- Friends Fear He Will Be Un able -to Hold Office and Problem Arises. . Ieged Combine. SUIT MAY LAST TWO YEARS CONDITIONTHOUGHTWORSE SUGAR TRUST WAR ' BEGUN BY NATION GOVERNOR RENSUN .... Jit- ... . ; Ifii HQ Amrrkin KrHnlns Company, San-.ldlary firm and Klght In dividual Are Defendants. Wflrm Concrrn Included. Ntr.V Vr:!. Nov ft. nvtle m , trzn r v the I'ntt d Ststre trelay esainji tie all Busar Trust. com bir of the Anrritio tfurar FUtlntne; romrrr and S othr corr.p.ir., liu !i are s-iM t bo iH-r:irtr In violation of fihrinan anti-trust law. H-tiry Vla I'r.lted Statu Idrl-t At torney, f.kxt In fhs t'r.lte States Inrtrt 'ourt for Ire Southrn I'iKtnrt of Nw York a petition axkinr for l.e ulssolu Hon of the o-cw.lrd Hii-ar Trust. To lit companies composing the u(ur romblne liitt an icfrxitr cap ltalljatton cf f il9.00o.ooo. and control fe largo percrntace of th output vt uiir In tola country. Thta combine I als'i, the (io"rmnnt allrica. able to fix price arbitrarily. The petition rlnrirt that for yare the companies hate violated the law and aoppressed comMtltort and arroun tham out of existence. Kallroad rebates and ru- toma frauds are mentioned aa devlcea wMrh w r employed to raiae tha com bina to the commanding poalttoa which It occupies today. The preent suit, which It la esti mated will be In the court for two yar before a final adjudication la reached, la tha result of man-' week cf preparation. Noted foonvl Kniploycd. Opposed to tka Government In tha struKicIe will b some of the moat able corporation lawyera Iru tha country. Jamea M. Keck. former Aslstant I oiled Ktatee At torncy-OcneraU and now rotiniu-1 for the American Fugar Refining Company, will lead the at tack on t.'; tiutenuuriil' illiti. Mr. licck said the autrar combine waa riot a monopoly, but that If It appeared, when tha Supreme Court Interpreted tha Sherman la w In tbe tobacco and oil eases, that tbe sugar company waa la any reapect violating tbe law. step would be taken Immediately to com ply with the law as thus Interpreted. Ia general, the petition charges that the defendants "for aome time paat hare been, and are now engaged In an unlawful combination and con piracy to restrain the trade and commerce among and between the aeTeral atatra ind territories of the L'nlted States and with foreign natlona In raw sugar, sugar beets, refined sugar, molassea syrups and other bl-producta of raw augar and lucir beets, and to mo nopolize tiio same. Injunction Is Akrd. The Government petitions tbe court to decree: That the defendants have been, en- I and i -J mi in i fc-ama-M1iii -ai l a mi maM ' 1 . J IBUU; IIKVBT A. 'VIK, FKDK.IIAI. IITRIT ATTORVKT, I CIIARGR Or t Axti. II K LOW. J. M. BUCK, AasiSTANT li FKOIKCI TIO., A.D 1ILKV O. IIAVEMEIKIU OMI OF TUB CHICK DKKKSUAMS. gaged in unlawful combination conspiracy to reatraln and monopolise trade, and that their offlcera, directors. stockholders, agents and empleyaa bo perpetually enjoined from doing any act to carry out tha purpose of such unlawful combination. -That the court adjudge that the Americas Sugar Refining Company, the National Sugar Refining Company of New Jersey and the Western Sugar Re. fining Company Is each In Itself an un lawful combination In restraint of trade and that each of them bo restrained from engaging in Interstate or foreign commerce. Tha criminal augar combine, tha pe tition sets forth, waa the Sugar Re fineries Company, which waa formed In August, 1SS7. under the lead of H. O. llavemeyer. and embraced companlea which together carried on 0 per cent of tha augar trade In Interstate and foreign trade of the country. Within two year a of the formation ef tha original company. It la charged. the combination closed II rennerlea Ii 13S It obtained the Independent Call fornla company, leaving eutalde tha combination oaiy the four Philadelphia concerns. Combine Held Ilk-gal. The Skate of New York attacked the ar rangement tn a suit to dissolve the North American Sugar Refining company, which was on of tuo partlea to the agreement. and tha courts held the combination to ba lUrgaX Thereupon the oresent American Sugar Refining Company was formed In January. l.n. and continued tha business of the combine. From laSi to It U aald. Independent reflnerVa started up and others tried to. One company built a plant at Baltimore, jut before It could operate the American company bourht Its capital stock and never allowed It to operate Its reflnerr. Tb same thing happened to the United Mates Refinery, tt la aald. in when It built a plant at Camden. N. J. Tha suppression of tha Pennsylvania Sugar Herinlng Company, which waa brought aut In a ault against the American Com pany eoine yeara no, 1 also referred to. T-e Cal'.Jornla & Hawaii Sugar Company, controlled by Hawaiian planters, waa put aut of business, it la alleged, by means of an agreement, wbervby the combine was to pay t-to.ujO a year for three yeara pro- vl.l-d It rvtlred from the field. The Government charges that tha A-nertcan has obtained unfair advantage ever competitors by obtaining money on Imports by custom frauds, aa waa brought out In tha Government'a recent suits; by rwlv!r.g rebate from railroads) and by working In harmony with wholesale grocers' associations throughout tha country and keeping up the price of surar. A considerable portion of the petition Is devoted to the acquisition by the com bine of tbe beet sugar pianta when that Industry began to grow formidable. At present, according to tha petition, the American company and '.ta subaldl ar.ea control 73 per- cent of tbe total out put of refined sugar la tha country, which Is aald to be enough to permit It abso lutely to control prices after meeting a certain amount of competition. Many De-frndants xVamrd. Ti e companlea mad oefe dant. In ad dition to tha American Sugar Refining rompany. are the American Sugar Re fining Company of New York, the Frank 1m Sugar Refining Company of Philadel phia. Sprockets Sugar Refining Company of Philadelphia. Western Sugar Refining Company of San Francisco. California Susar Refinery of San Francisco. Na tional 8nrar Refining Company of New Jersey, National Sugar Refining Com pany of New Tork. New Tork Sugar P.etinlng Company. MoUeahauer Sugar keflnlng Company of Brooklyn. W. J. M.-f'ahen Sugar Refining Company of ITtlladelphla. Cuban American Sugar Company of New York, Colonial Sugar Company of New York. Alameda Sugar Company of San Francisco, Union Sugar "ompany of San Francisco. Sprwkela ?uar Company of San Francisco, Utah- , Idaho Sugar Company of Salt Lake City. Amalgamated Sugar Company of Ogden. 1 tah ; Iwtaton Sugar Company, of 1-e w- laton. Idaho; Great Western Sugar Com pany of Jersey City. N. J.; Sterling Su gar Company of Denver. Morgan County onatruction Company of Denver, Bill ings Sugar Company of Billings, Mont.: Scotts i'.luff Sugar Company of Denver, Michigan Sugar Company of Saginaw. Mich; Iowa Surar Company of Wit. erly. la.; carver county Sugar Company of CJiaska, Minn.; Continental Sugar Company of Cleveland. O., and the Men ominee River Sugar Company of Meno minee. Mich. In addition to these corporations, a number of Individuals are made defend ants. Including Washington B. Thomas, president of the American Sugar Refin ing Company, and atl tha directors of the comoanr; John D. a-nd, Adoipti B Spreckeis. of 8an Francisco; Joseph K. Smith, of S.tlt Lake City, head of tha Mormon Church, and Horace Havemever, Louslne W. Haremoyer, Asalina II. Fre- Iinghuyaen and Klectra II. Webb, exec utors and trusteea under tba will of tha lata 1L O. Havemever. E IS END Indictments Expected Today in Times Explosion Case. AT LEAST 4 WILL BE HELD JUROR TO BE ON TRIAL YEAXDFX INDICTED FOR BRIBE TAKING IX MURDER CASE. Member of Nan Patterson Jury Nov? Accused of Wrong In Trial of Edward T. RoenhelmT. NEW TORK. Not. II One of tha jurors in the second of the famous mur der trials of Nan Patterson, who waa set free because no verdict could be reached agalnat ber. waa put on trial himself today, charged with accepting a bribe to h.ng a Jury. Ha ta George W. Y'eandle. an architect, who waa dis charged from tha jury drawn to try Kdward T. Kosenheimer. on a charge of murder. Rosenhelmers automobile killed Mlsa Qrare Hough and tha state tried to establish murder In tha first degree. With Teandla was Indicted Dagobert Tlemendorfer. who was accused of be ing the go-between. Tlemendorfer te titled today that, acting under Instruc tions from Teandle. he had Informed Jamea W. Osborne, counsel for Rosen- helmer. that for $3000 ba could deliver the vote of a Jury in favor of Rosen helmer. Mr. Osborne told the District Attor nay that be had been approached and a trap waa set. Money, it la alleged. was paased and Teandle and Tlemen dorfer were arrested and Indicted oa tha testimony of detectives that Tle mendorfer accepted a bribe of 504 la the presence of Yeaadle. OREGON STOCK SHOWN IIEPPNER MAN EXHIBITS FAT CATTLE IV CHICAGO. Food Commissioner Bailey Sajs Display Ia licit He Haa Seen. Other Oregon! an Attend. CHICAGO. Nov. IS. (Special.) W. O. Minor, of Heppner, Or., who brought seven shorthorns to Chicago's Fat Stock Show and International Livestock Kxpo- sltlon from his a.-acre ranch, will try for awards tomorrow when the ahorthorn cattle are Judged. The trip from Oregon occupied 11 days. but the stock stood the Journey pretty well. Mr. Minor waa telling a story to day about one of bla efbek men, who before this Journey pad never been very far from home. WelL" he aald. according to Mr. Minor, If the world 1 as bur tha other way .as It Is this. It la a whopping big place."' Mr. Minor, besides numberless rang cattle, baa hundreds of pure bred short horn cattle and Shropshire eneep. J. W. Ballev, of Portland. Pure Food and Dairy Commissioner of Oregon, ar rived at the show today. "It is the finest stock show I have aver en." ba said. Wavne Hughes, a Shropshire sheep breeder of Carlton. Or., arrived today. AJ Halin. herdsman for B. H. Looney, t Jefferson, Or.. I also visiting tha show. John I- Smith, wealthy Holstein breeder and stock Judge of Spokane, Wash la another Western vial ton, Perhaps Five or Sli Persons Will Do Charged With Complicity In Wrecking of I.o Angeles . Newspaper Plant. l-OU ANGELES, Nov. 28. The final tage In the Times explosion invest! gallon haa been reached. The special grand Jury which has been conducting me inquiry ror rour weeks will recon vene tomorrow and offlclala of tha District Attorneys office, aa well as outside observers of tha progress of tho case, are expecting the Immediate return of indlctmenta. How many of the true bills there will be la un known, but It Is common belief that there will not be fewer than four and probably rive or aix. Three Indictments Assured. it is practically certain that three or tneae win be directed aa-alnst ai leged conspirators who are aald to have purchased the dynamite with which the x imes piant was blown up. T 1 1 , . . lauor union circles, there Is a strong Impression that tha special grand Jury will name at leaat one man who has been prominently Identified wnn me organised labor movement. Work Practical- Concluded. " The grand Jury rractlcallv eonc-lnA-A Its Investigation prior to adjournment last neanesoay for Thanksgiving. Only three witnesses are. vet h.in These are Anton Johannsen, organizer ior me nuucing trades. "Jack" Loft house and Mrs. Belle Levin, all ef San r mncisco. Upon adjournment last Wednesday, tha Jury Instructed them to be on hand again tomorrow. The aesalon tumor. row will mark the completion of a full month'a work by tho Inquisitors. Thev were assembled October 19 and have worked five days a week, excepting last wack. Mora than 100 wltneasea have been examined, aome of them two or three Umea INDICTED CASHIER SUICIDE While Ont on Ball Georc-e Tt, rf. End Life With Bullet. ROCKPORT. Mass.. Nor. M. Genr. Tufts, ex-cashier of tho Rockport Na tional Bank, who was recently Indicted for the alleged larceny of about fc0u from the bank, committed suicide by shooting here late today. He was ont on bail pending an exami nation as to hie sanity. beared Consumption Earlrely Cared. larerestlas; Case. W. It Burtch. Bingham. Pa, writes: I was In a terribly run-down condi tion, my lunga were weak and sore. and I had a dull, heavy pain between the shoulders. I lost flesh very rapidly, and feared I waa going Into consump tion. After taking four bottlea of Hood's Sareaparllla I waa entirely cured, and never felt better." In eases where a strengthening, ton ing, appetite-giving medicine Is needed. Hood's Sarsaparllla has effected thou sands of cures. There la no real substitute for It. If urged to buy any preparation aald to be "just as good" you may be sure it Is nferlor, costs less to make, and yields the dealer a larger profit. Get It today In usual liquid form or chocolated tablata called Seraataba. If Secretary of Slate Resign. lie-puhlU-an Can Retain Post if Itowerman Names Successor Bel ween January 1 and 9. SALEM. Or.. Nov. SS. (Special.) Gov ernor and Secretary of State Benson will return this week to California to remain until warmer weather comes In Oregon. Mra. Benson confirmed this report tonight upon being asked as to the Governor'a plans. It is generally considered that Mr. Benson's prospective return to Califor nia signifies that his condition of health has changed for the worse; that tho Improvement reported upon his recent return from the South has not proved permanent. That the OoYernor will be able to fulfill the duties of the office of Secre tory of State through the new term to which he has been elected Is now con sidered doubtful by many of his friends. New Secretary Wonld Be Named. Should Governor Benson resign his office as Governor and Secretary of State between now and January 1. Acting Governor Bowerman would become Governor In fact and would appoint a new Secretary of State, who. however, would hold office only until the inauguration of OBwald West aa Governor on January 9. Governor Weat would then appoint a Secretary of State who would serve the full term for which Mr. Benson has been elected. If Governor Benson, as Secretary of oiaie. anouid resign at any time fol lowing tne inauguration of west aa Governor, a Democrat would be ap pointed to succeed him thus placing two Democrat! on the State Board and giving complete control of the stats administration to the minority party. r Republicans Have Cliance. There is a chance, however, for a Republlcsn to be placed permanently in the office of Secretary of State In case Governor Benson's withdrawal Is found necessary. This comes about through the fact that tha new state officers, ex cept Governor, will take office January 1 and that the new Governor will not be inaugurated until January 8. If. after the other state officers have taken office on January 1, Secretary of State Benson ahould resign. Acting Governor Bowerman would then ap point his successor, who would hold office during the term. 'hls is accord ing to Attorney-General Crawford's opinion, given upon request, this evening. Attorney-General Comments. According; to tha Attorney-General, any appointment which the Governor may make between this time and the first of the year would continue In full force and effect until the new Governor Is given the oath of office. But In event of an appointment being made by tha Chief Executive between the first of the year and the time that the new Governor takes his oath of office, that appointment . will remain in full force and effect until the next general election, which would be two years from tha last election. It Is understood that a movement will be placed on foot among party leaders here to ask Governor Benson to Absolutely Pure Tho only baking powder mado from Royal Crapo Cream of Tartar Ho Alum, No Lime Phosphate resign. Such a move would clear the political atmosphere for two years at least, and assure a majority of Re publicans on the Board which would Include Oswald West, State Treasurer Thomas B. Kay, and some ' man to be appointed to fill the place of Mr. Ben son. AGED PASTOR FOUND DEAD Escaping Gas in Room, but Doctor Says Death Is Natural. PHILADELPHIA. Nov. J8. The Rev. M. A. Starr, formerly pastor of the Grassaway Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, was found dead In his room here today. Gas was escaping from a pipe which connected with a stove, bub a physician declared the aged minister had died of heart dis ease and had probably disconnected the gas pipe as he fell. He was TE years old and came to this city after the deata ot his wife, six years ago. He had no regular charge, but acted aa a missionary among the poor. Cnlllgaa Case Being: Heard. DETROIT. Mich, Nov. 28. The case of Patrick CuIIIgan, of Alpena, Mich., who was indicted May 6? 190S, with three other Michigan men for conspiracy to defraud the Government of Umber lands In Oregon, came up before Commissioner Davidson In the United States District Court today. When completed, the testi mony will be reviewed by Judge Swan, who will decide whether the defendant shall be sent to Oregon for trial. Jury Disagrees on Mining; Frauds. CARSON. Nev., Not. it. Tho Jury In tha case of Sidney Flower, on trial in the Federal court hero on the charge of using the mails to defraud in con nection with the sale of mining stocks, failed to reach a verdict and was dis charged today by Judge Farrlngton. Flower was formerly well-known In Chicago and Des Moines. Ha operated In Goldfleld. 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