The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-16
RAILROADS RESTRAINED.
Issues an order Restraining the ia lroads
From Cancelling the Compromi, Rates

From CancelIing the ComprOmi,e Rates.
1t did not require a very close observer to
! see last night that there was something uu-
| usual up around the government building.
/ The office Of Deputy Clerk Sherman OF
| the United States court was brilliantly
| lighted at an unusually late hour and
many shadows could be seen on the ceiling
| from tie street. Every now and then a
lawyer could be seen gliding out of the
! building or wholesale merchant gliding
in. Each seemed to have something deep
occupying his mind and the most casual
observer could see that the business in
hand was no childs play. Edwin White
Moore was as busy as mailer directing the
movements OF the entire proceeding APP
parently.
When an EAGLE reporter called at the
government building to see him he was
not there. He then chased him to his Of
fee, and failing to find him there he was
searched for at his home but he could be
found nowhere and nobody else seemed TO
know the exact nature of the proceedings
on hand. Judge Riner was called on but
he was too busy to talk to reporters, while
Chief Deputy United States Marshal Leon
DeBost was sick and did not know what
was going on. Deputy Clerk Sherman
was as hard to be found as Edwin White
Moore, and it was nearly y o'clock before
the least information could be got concern
ng the business on hand which had all the
appearance of being important. A hot
trail was struck at that time and the
whole matter was ascertained. The affair
in hand was the securing of an order from
the Judge of the United States court by
the Wichita Wholesale Grocer company,
restraining the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe. the St. Louis and San Francisco
and the Missouri Pacific roads from can
ceiling the rates on sugar, coffee, beans,
etc, from New Orleans and ST. Louis to
Wichita, Arkansas City, Salina and
Hutchinson, which have been in effect
since March l. and which are known as
the compromise rates. These rates as
stated were put in effect March /, and on
March the railway companies issued
notice that they would be cancelled March
Is, TO be succeeded March 10 by other
rates, known us the 9th of January rates
and which were made by the state board
of railway commissioners. Edwin White
Moore is the principal attorney in the
case and it is said that be worked persist
antly for twelve hours getting the matter
in shape for the action of Judge Riner. IL
was with great difficulty copy of the
order was secured, which is as follows:
In the circuit court of the district of Kan
sas, second division:
Wichita Wholesale Grocery company,
complainant,
ha tohi Ea oil
way company, the st. Louis and San
Francisco and the Missouri Pacific Rail-
way company.
ORDER,
This cause came on this day to be heard
upon the bill of complaint and affidavit
filed in support thereof and upou the APP
plicatiOn of the complainant herein for
temporary Injunction, that the defendants
and each of them may be enjoin
ed and restrained from putting
into effect or charging any higher rates
canned goods. from the city of New
Orleans in the state of Louisiana, ST. |
Louis in the state of Missouri, and the !
cities of Wichita, Arkansas City, Hutch !
insou and Salina, in the state of Kansas; /
than the rates now in exlstance, upon con |
sideration thereof it is ordered that !
said application for temporary injunction !
states court room in Wichita on the 18th |
day of March \. ID. 1892 at 10 O'Clock in /
the forenoon or as soon thereafter as /
counsel can be heard and that complain |
ant serve notice upon the defendants and /
each Of them not less than five days before |
the date of said hearing OF the time and /
place of hearing and that in the meantime /
and until the further order OF the /
court or judgde thereof the said 1
defendants and each of them be and they .
are hereby restrained from putting into !
effect or charging any higher rates OF tariff .
upon sugar coffee, beans and canned goods |
from the cities of New Orleans, in the /
state OF Louisiana. st. Louis, in the state /
of Missouri aud the cities Of Wichita, /
Arkansas City, Hutchinson and Salina, |
than the rates now in existence.
1t is further ordered that this restrain
ing order shall not be operative until I
the complainant execute bond to (
the sad defendants, conditioned /
that it will pay the said defendants all 4
costs and damages incurred by reason of /
this restraining order If it shall be here
after determed that said order was wrong
fully obtained, IN the sum of 50 600 .
thousand dollars with one or
more sufficient suretie-. to be approved by
the clerk or deputy clerk of this court.
Dated this 18th day Of March, 1872.
TS!gned JOHN \. RINEE, Judge.
AT Ii o CLOCK last nis,nC tue oEueE Oh Tue
Judge was served on Mr.. Jennings, (
chief freight agent of the Missouri Pacific,
and at few minutes before Il o'clock it
was served on Mr.. Brown Of the freight
department of the Santa Fe and Frisco.
Chief of Police Charlie Burrows, who is
also deputy United States marshal, served
the order.
GOOD TINE.
Mr. and Mrs T T Tohantren returnei {