The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1903-01-14
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k6e" ~ az 'or 3iaIClty, appoint
ed New lea lea ,.nony in the custer
pr{ larR' Jf Attorney General
Crow, lYOhs charge Of the exist
cree Of II beef trust. filed his rec
port in the supreme court last
week. 1T finds that the Armour
Packing Company, Nelson Morris
~ Go. Swift ~ Co.,. Hammond
Packing Company, Cuduhy Pack
Ing Company and the Schwartz
schild IL Sulzberger company are
guilty of entering into an agree
ment to fix and maintain prices
for the sale Of dressed beef and
pork in Missouri. Not all Of the
companies, however, operate in
st. Joseph, Kansas City and st.
Louis.
1t is set forth that prices were
fixed through agents, managers
and solicitors and many times by
managers Of refrigcrator5 in these
cities
The Henry Krug Packing Com
pany Of st. Joseph was found not
to have been in the combination
and consequently the report will
release it from legal proceedings
Regarding findings as to meat
sold IN st. Louis the report says ;
Il find that Armour, Swift,
Cudahy and Hammond Packing
Companies between August 2l,
1899, and May 8, 1902, at ST.
Joseph are guilty Of having been
parties to u combination and
agreement and confederation and
conspiracy to fix and regulate and
control and maintain the fixed or
list price ON dressed beef aud
fresh pork sold through their re-
spectIye coolers in st. Louis to
the butchers trade and consuming
public at that place, and that
they did 50 ask, sell, and receive
the price 80 fixed from said butch
ers tor such beef and pork sold
to them.
They cannot pie d that the
managers of their coolers and
city solicitors who larry on the
business for them did it without
their know edge and consent The
local agents of the dressed beef
companies did it, and all knew it,
and their knowledge is the knowl-
edge of their companies and their
acts are the acts of their compan-
les.
1T appears from the evidence,
and | find that the corporations
who are the defendants at ST. JOS
eph and st. Louis and Kansas
CITY sell and offer to the trade Of
each place from % to 50 per cent
Of the dressed beef and from -
TO 60 per cent of the dressed pork
John Berry, the well knowm
San Angelo mutton buyer, came
down with Smith Parr ON his re-
turn from GAINESVILLE, and bought
all the latter's sheep in Crockett
county. about 3,4OO. The terms
were private but Smith winked
the other eye and smiled smole
which indicates that he made Il
bargain. Mr. Parr will not re-
tire from the business in Crockett
county at all, but rs soon as his
whlskers grow out again will be
III the biz bigger than ever.
.... Ben Cusenbery, the Sutton
sheepman, was in OzOna Satur-
day looking for range jim
Hewes, the big hearted iovlal SUIT
ton county sheepman was in the
CITY Saturday and Sunday. Mr..
HeweS has leased range from
Pleas ChIIdress in Val Verde
county, and will move his sheep
from the Montgomery ranch there
in the near future ,.....Col. G. B.
Hudspeth, has been appointed by
the FIRST National of Eagle Pass,
to close up their cattle holdings
in Crockett county, about 2OOO
head ,... f. NJ. Fink, Of FL Paso
did not buy the Towards Well
steers, of Pleas Childress. rs re-
ported on the street last week =.
But he looked at these steers with
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