Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-12-05
THE PAPER TRUST
AN INJUNCTION ASKED 6Y THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
METHODS THAT ARE ILLEGAL
AS the Selling Agent Of the Mills the
Paper Trust Controls the Market Abb
soiuteIy and Has Advanced Prices
Fully Fifty Per Cent.

ST. PAUL, MINI. General
Moody, for the United States, through
District Attorney Haupt and Frank H..
Kellogg and James M. Beck, special
assistant attorney general of the
United States, filed a petition in the
United States district court in which
he makes the General Paper company,
as principal defendant, and the ltasca
Paper company of Grand Rapids,
Mimi; Hennepin Paper company of
Little Falls, MINI: Wolf River Paper
and Fiber company of New Richmond,
Wis. Atlas Paper company of Apple
ton, Wis; Kimberly & Clark company
of Neenah. Wis; Riverside Fiber and
Paper company of Appleton, Wis;
Wausau Paper Mills company of
BrolSaw, Wis; Centralia Pulp and
Water Power company Of Centralia,
Wis; Combined Locks Paper com.
pany OF Combined Locks, Wis: Dells
pulp company OF Eau Claire, Wis;
Grand Rapids Paper and Pulp COM
pany of Grand Rapids, Wis; Menasha
Paper company of Menasha, Wis;
Nekoosa Paper company of Nekoosa,
Wis: the Falls Manufacturing com
rany OF Oconto Falls, Wis; Flambeau
Paper company of Park Falls, Wis;
John Edwards Manufacturing COM
pany of Port Edwards, Wis. c. w.
Howard company of Menasha, Wis;
Wisconsin River AMI Paper company
of Plover, Wis. Tomahawk Pulp and
Paper company of Park Falls Wis;
Northwestern Paper company of Clio
quet Mimi; Consolidated Water
Power and Paper company of Grand
Rapids, Wis.,; Manufacturers Paper
company and the Petoskey Fiber Pa
per company of PetosKey, Mich, and
the Rhinelander Paper company of
Rhinelander. Wis, party defendants
In a suit to enjoin them and restrain
them from doing business through
the General Paper company as the
sales agent, In violation of the pro-
visions of sections l and 2 of the act
of congress, approved July 2, entitled
AN act to protect trade and COM
merce against unlawful restraints and
monopolies."
The Detition alleges that the de-
PENDANTS entered into an agreement
to combine and control the sale of
the product of the different companies
through the General Paper company
in that the General Paper company
regulated prices, sales and shipment
and territory for the sale of the same
and after deducting operating ex-
penses Of the General Paper company,
divided the surplus among the mem
bers of the corporation.
The petition alleges that in conse.
quence OF the combination all com
petition in the manufacture, sale and
distribution OF paper had been re-
stricted and price of all paper prod.
ucts greatly increased, particularly of
news print paper which has been in.
creased about so per cent. 1t fur.
Their states that no dealers or news
papers or other consumers in the ter
ritory west of the Mississippi with the
exception Of certain newspaper pub
fishers in st. Louis and Chicago, car
purchase any paper except directly
through the General Paper company
and then only upon terms dictated by
the latter.
The court is asked to declare Tie
alleged combination unlawful ant
that the defendants be perpetually en-
joined from doing any act in pursu
ance OF the same.