Arizona republican., 1900-08-06
NEW YORK.

The New York Journal, reckless and unprincipled as it often shows itself.
 has done a good work in ICE TRUST it's relentless exposure
 Tammany ice trust in New York. It is at it again. The story 1t tells this time is another surprise and illustrates the frozen impudence of the managers of the ice combine.
 John w. Scheer was a retail dealer In ice. He bought the ice at the dock for s1.50 a ton, and sold it from his cart for 25 cents a hundred, which is $5 a ton. That has been going on for several years until last March, when the ice trust raised the wholesale price to s a ton. He kept on at the 25 cents rate but it went hard. Before March was out the price was lifted to $4. That made the business a very close rub. Early in April the ice trusts superin- tendent met him. and telling him that ice was going higher, persuaded him to sell out his two horses and wagons to the trust for $400. He was given a job as driver at s14 a week and the first days work was to go around among his former customers and tell them he had sold out to the trust and . that the price of hundred pounds would thereafter be 60 cents as against his former charoa of 05 oap+s
 Some time later Scheer saw three wagons handsomely decorated with his name. going about in the ice business and found that the company had opened an office in his name and had put in there man to personate him. Here is the affidavit:
 "The defendant also had printed bill heads and forms of contract in my name, and, although I repeatedly pro- tested against such use of my name and demanded that it cease, the de- fendant increased the number of wagons bearing my name to twenty two.
 On many of the wagons my name was painted in large letters; on others the words 'Hygeia Ice Company, Inde- pendent, were painted, and one of the aforesaid cards was tackled upon the side of the wagon.
 ''The defendant also hired about fifty canvassers and gave them large num- bers of the aforesaid cards bearing my name and instructed them to go to the persons whose names the bicycle riders had collected and tell them that I was in0anRn6Pnt lat. oIya contracts with them in my name at a figure under that charged by the inde- pendents.
 'The defendant furthermore. em- ployed a man named Lange to inn personate me at the office No. 536 West Thirty eighth street, and caused al- legged interviews with me to be inserted in the newspapers to the effect that l was an independent ice dealer and was engaged in warfare upon the ice trust.
 One such interview appeared in the Evening World on July z, 1900, under the head. Ice at Thirty Cents. Shrewd Ice Man May Wreck Trust. John Scheer, with unlimited ice supply, has already taken hundreds of the ice trusts customers.
 This fraudulent and fictitious scheme the defendant continued all through May and June, despite my re- peated protests and demands that it cease; and in spite thereof the defend ant is continuing such conduct and. re- fuses to discontinue it.
 Tn the meantime the business of the Independents was by this fraudulent means being wrecked, and although the public did not see through the scheme, the independent ice dealers did.''
 To this he adds that this "independ- made out to him, as if he was running the business, and he charges that. when