The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-03-03
IT'S GETTING EASY
TO SECURE FACTS
Publicity Has Helped Govern
ment in Fight on the
Beef Trust.
AN STORY
Man from Indiana Tells What He
Knows About the Means by Which
the Trust Fights to Down
Its Competitors.

Chicago, Feb. 27.-The packers are
making little progress toward cover
from The jolt they received Tuesday.
The service of nearly all of 100 sub
poenas upon employees of the beef trust.
together With the positive assurance
that the number will be doubled by
March 20. when the federal grand jury
convenes, was a hard blow to the secret
operations of the colnbin at the yards.
S. IL. Bethea, United States district at
torney. and John S. Miller, general at
torney for the beef trust. unite in the
declaration that nothing viii ne doing
until mex month";
They intend to maintain silence, and
thus far they have succeeded.
When the live stock men met at the
exchange building at the yards yes
terday afternoon. the main topic OF con
versation "a the governments latest
against the meat combine, and ar
guments pro and con could be heard
until evening. In the lobby of the Tran
sit house similar conditions prevailed
Many of the cattlemen We're disposed
10 be jubilant.
Every Day Helps the Case.
While no one connected with The dis
trict attorneys office will affirm Or
deny the JUNIORS which have been afloat
since Tuesday. IL is stated by COM
petent authority that Mr.. Bethea is
coming into possession every day of
more n damaging evidence of the
beef trusts violation of the law. Grand
jury hearings as a rule are secret. but
the district attorney had a definite OBJ
ject in view when he CAV publicity to
action he intended to take against the
packers.
With the newspapers dealing at
length with the details of the investi-
~n<soS. Wv, t-tir,0toJ th,% ~,>,,
valuable witnesses have been located
who woul ave otherwise been pre-
vented from coming forward through
their ignorance of the governments
plan. Since Tuesday, Mr.. Bethea has
received innumerable offers from per-
sons intimately acquainted with the
past and present methods of the trust.
Many of them, especially independent
cattle buyers. say they have been VIC
inns of the packers price agreements
and of railroad rate determinations.
An indianapolis Mans Story.
An old-time independent cattle buyer
from Indianapolis, and who now con-
trolls in secret Independent shipping
yards in Kankakee. is among those who
have offered to testify. His name is
withheld. but it is known that he is in
possession of data regarding the re-
batting and rate determinations in favor
of the packers. He had been himself u
victim. He became involved two years
ago., when he was compelled to offer his
stock yards property in Indianapolis at
auction. The successful bidders We're
persons representing three Of the big
six" companies, who now control the
yards there. A similar condition was
impending in Kankakee last fall, until
the cattlemen threatened to force the
issue before The interstate m
commission. then the opposition sud
denly and mysteriously was withdrawn.
Many similar witnesses, in addition to
the ranch managers and heads of de-
partments in the packing companies. al
ready subpoenaed, will have been Sc
cured by the government when the jury
is convened. Mr.. Ames, United tatea
marshal. said his deputies had secured
service for nearly every subpoena in-
trusted to them.