Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-07-08

not know these facts from your personal /
knowledgeT'
Bring in the Telephone.
rs Il a fact that when the grain market |
luctuates SO much as TO compel, in the |
judgment Of the price committee, that com
mittee to make a change in the price to
be paid to the farmers for grain, that Mr. |
A. r. Bewsher. now secretary Of the
Omaha Elevator company, and Nels B. Up
dixie, president Of the Updike Grain COM
pany. according 10 the usual plan and un-
derstanding by you and this committee, !
and the gentlemen named, meet In Omaha
and call up by private telephone lines,
usually, Mr.. Fowler, secretary OF the Nye-
schneider-Fowler company OF Fremont, and
by previous arrangement between you and
those parties, Mr.. Fowler places the re-
ceiver of the private wire to his ear, and
the receiver OF the Bell Telephone company
to the other ear, and calls you and your
company at Lincoln, and that in that man
ner the price 70 be paid for grain is agreed
upon. which is to be paid the farmer for
grain, and that the conversations between
these parties are by Mr.. Fowler repeated
| from Lincoln TO Omaha and from Omaha 20
Lincoln, and in the event the four men
| toned cannot agree as to prices TO be paid,
that the Nebraska Elevator company 10
called in as the fifth member to decide and
| fix the price TO be so paid, and that the
prices paid by the regular members, or to
be fixed by them, are thus paid and main
tanned by them, and have been so for some
| time past7'
| "Is IL true that the members Of that
| committee then confer with N. A. Duff
president of the Nebraska Grain Dealers
association and Of the Dun Grain company
| Of Nebraska City, and inform him of the
| prices to be paid farmers for grain in the
| territory north and west of Lincoln, and
| that Mr.. Dun, with the advice OF the Ne
braska Elevator company, fixes the price
| to be paid to the farmers for grain in the
! territory south Of Lincoln?'
| isn't Il true that after the price has been
so fixed the method Of communicating those
prices to the several price districts through
out the state is to communicate the price
so agreed upon to several members of the
Nebraska Grain Dealers association at
various points throughout the state and by
them in return to be communicated to the
regular grain dealers in the state in the re-
| spective price districts or groups over
| which the several persons to whom the
prices are communicated in the first in
stance, and that Richfeld is one of the
points to which these prices are communi-
! Gated and from which the price is dissent
| nated?'
ut is true. is It not, that when the prices
are 80 fixed by the committee you or your
| company communicates the same by collect
message to VanBuren & Son at Fairbury,
| and that VanBuren & Son, upon receipt of
| said message, send out cards to the agents
| and operators of elevators on the line of
railroad OF the Rock Island west Of Fair
| bury to and including Nelson, and is not
this one of the methods adopted for COM
municating prices to other parties, who in
turn, communicate them to operators Of ele-
Vators by means of cards on other lines of
railroad upon which these parties to whom
prices are communicated for distribution
are located and to whom this duty is dele
gated, and this method is pursued by Sc
lecting those most conveniently situated
upon the several lines OF railroad for the
purposes in this question:
To each of the above questions Witness
lowering declined to answer on the ground
that 1t might tend to incriminate him.
Attorney Says "DOn't Answer"
The refusal of the witness to testify
was upon the advice of Attorney F. NJ
Hall, who protested strenuousy against
allowing che plaintiff to PROFOUND the ques-
tions, which, he said, were made as thu
initiating as 1t was possible to make them"
But Notary Wilson held that the witness
must enter his deolination and his reason
in response to each inquiry.
Attorney w. ]. Courtright also entered a
protest, whereat counsel for plaintiff, Mr.
Howell, asked that the record be made to
show that Mr.. COPYRIGHT protested against
the examination of this witness. This
however, was not done.
While Mr.. lowering was on the stand the
plaintiff offered In evidence a map show
ing the state marked Off into thirteen dis
tricts, asking the witness If II was not
one of the maps made by the association
but no answer was given to this query
either. The witness further declined to
state whether or not the Central Granaries
company has been a member of the as
ISOLATION for ten years, whether or not he
was member himself or whether or not
the company operated about sixty elevators
in Nebraska and Kansas and about forty
in Nebraska
When asked II he had declined to answer
the interrogatories because he was afraid
I his answers would subject him to criminal
prosecution, ne again declined to answer.
Several more witnesses were called this
: evening. but nothing important was dis
{ cussed.
: Inspecting Voting Machines.
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