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GIANT FORCES CONTEND
CASE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN.
WOLVES MIGHTY ISSUES
Brown Versus Lanyon" Is Really
United States Steel Company
Against Standard Oil Company-AI-
legged Attempt to Corner Zinc Mar
ket Is Defeated.

A case of little outward appearance
OF Importance, but in which great in
tereSts are involved, and behind which
great and powerful forces are strug-
Cling for the mastery of a situation.
was argued before Judge Sanborn in
the United States circuit court yester-
day.
The case is known as Brown VS..
The "I.anyon Zinc Company" It's in
terest lies in the fact that Mr.. Brown
is In this case the United States Steel
corporation, while the zinc company
is the Standard Oil company. These
are the contending forces which do
not appear in the case. The case so
quietly disposed of and practically I'M
heard of has a distinct bearing upon
the industrial life of the country, in
Volv1ng directly the condition of of
the zinc market.
The case came up from Kansas from
the United Stats circuit court for the
district of Kansas on the motion of
the Lanyon Zinc company to suspend
the writ of injunction issued by Judge
Hook, of the United States circuit
court, district of Kansas, enjoining
the zinc company from using what is
known as the Brown patent for smelt-
ing furnaces.
The United States circuit court of
appeals passed on the question of in
Il 1h6C1IICAI VI pdL0HI uOlQ1nS III favor
of Brown. On this decision Judge
Hook issued the injunction. The Lam
yon people served notice of appeal,
and as the appeal could not be heard
for three months, they wanted the
writ suspended until the appeal could
be decided.
Eminent Counsel Appear.
The Importance of the case is at
tested by the character of counsel ar
guing the case. Dreyenforth, Dreyen-
forth & Lee, appeared Tor Brown, and
the Lanyon people We're represented
by Albert H. Walker, of New York,
and John H. Atwood, of Leavenworth,
both well known lawyers.
Judge Sanborn stayed the injunc-
ton until Sept. 7, ana the parties en-
tered into a stipulation that the ap-
peal be set for Sept. 1, before tho
United States circuit court of appeals
at Denver.
The Lanyon Smelling Works at
lola, Kan, employ 500 people, and pro-
duce one third of the refined zinc out
put of the United States.
The Lanyon people claim that If the
injunction is operative during the APP
peal it will mean that their 500 en-
ployes will be thrown out of work.
They further claim that the suit is an
attempt of the United States Steel cor
poration to corner the zinc market,
and that if the injunction were to hold
it would affect all industries in which
any zinc alloy is used.
The Lanyon plant operates with nat
ural gas, and because of this the COM
pany is able, with the use of the So
called Brown patent, to produce cheap
er than Its competitors. The United
States Steel corporation is largely in
terested in another large smelter. 1t
is said that certain iron and steel
which the Lanyon company needs to
use in its work cannot be bought from
the Carnegie Steel company, which is
controlled by the United States Steel
corporation. This is alleged to be part
of the game to cripple the Steel trusts
leading competitor. With the Lanyon
company temporarily crippled, the
Steel corporation could then operate
its own smelters to great advantage,
rid of the only competition which it
fears, because of it's natural advan-
tageS.
Since the original injunction was is
sued in March until June the price of
zinc has been steadily increasing.