The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-22
BEEF TRUST
HIT NOW
u. S. Attorney Breckons
Brings Action to
Break It.

itorney BreckonS filed the suit yesterday
! morning All the big ranchmen and
: ranching corporations of the Territory
are among the defendants, including
!, President Isenberg of the Senate and
Speaker Knudsen of the House of
Representatives Here is the list:
!, Metropolitan Meat Co, Limited; Will
liam c. Achi; American Sugar Co.,
Limited; Henry P. Baldwin: Henry P.
Beckley; Cristel Bolte; John Broad;
Arthur NJ Brown; Jacob F. Brown;
Alfred w. Carter; Elmer E. Conant;
John Cullen; Samuel NJ. Damon; Wal
ter F. Dillingham;; Dowsett Company,
Limited; The waterhouse Trust Com
pany, executors of the Estate of w. H.
Cornwell. deceased; Estate of John Ii,
Limited; Charles Gay; Francis Gay:
Francis Gay, A. Robinson, ]. r. Gay.
III. Robinson and Mrs. Alice Robinson
CO. partners doing business under the
firm name and style of Gay & Robin
son. A Comes; Mrs. A C. Greenwich:
! Haleakala Ranch Company: Hawaiian
Agricultural Company; Robert r. Hind;
| Harvey r. Hitchcock; George Holt;
| Robert w Holt; Robert Horner; AL
bert Horner; Humuula Sheep Station;
w. G.. irwin & Company, Limited; D.
/ P. r. Isenberg; James H. Raymond and
Phoebe K. Raymond, his wife; Chris
| tan Conrad; John Doe Kay; Kaneohe
Ranch Company, Limited; Eric A.
Knudsen; Eben P. Low; John S. Low;
John A. Magoon; John A. Mcguire;
Makee Sugar Co, Limited; McBryde
Sugar Company, Limited; Lincoln L.
lMcCandless; John Doe McDougall; Jo
| seph P. Mendonca; Otto Meyer; A. A.
Meyer; H. K. Never; H. P. Meyer;
Julian Monsarrat; E. M. Nakuina; Ca
hu Railway & Land Company, Limit
ed; John D. Paris; Annie t. K. Parker,
minor, by her guardian. Alfred w.
Carter; Samuel Parker; Antoine Perry;
! Puakea; Aubrey Robinson; NJ. P. Rob
Single; William H. Shipman; Francis |
NJ Swanzy; Lorrin A. Thurston; Mary |
NJ Won Holt; Louis Won Tempsky; Gil |
bert j. Waller; Waterhouse Trust Com |
pany Limited; John Wright; Albert S. |
Wilcox; George Wilcox.
Some of the allegations are as fol- |
lows: That the various defendants are |
engaged in the business of raising and |
marketing cattle and that the Metro |
politan Meat Co. is engaged in the |
business of selling it at retail, in Ho-
nolulu, and that more than seventy
five per cent. of the stock of the Metro /
politan Meat Company is owned and |
controlled by the other defendants, al
so that all of the meat company's Of
ficers are elected and controlled by the
other defendants
That about 1867, 4O5 pounds weight of
beef cattle, of the value of S347, 17S.25,
in lawful money(of the United States,
are used and consumed annually by the
inhabitants and people of said city of |
Honolulu, and OF the Territory of Ha-
wall; and that about ninety per cent.
of said large quantity of beef so used |
and consumed annually as aforesaid by |
said inhabitants and people, has been,
is now, and will hereafter continue to
be, dealt in, raised, produced, sold, |
shipped and delivered by said defend
ants.
That the above-named defendants
comprise nearly all of the wholesale |
dealers in said Territory, who raise, |
produce, handle, deal in, sell, ship or
deliver beef cattle and fresh beef in
said Territory for sale to consumers
and dealers therein, and that by rea-
son thereof, the said defendants. if
combined together, can, and do, abso-
lutely control the prices charged for
fresh beef raised and produced in said
Territory.
"An Act to Protect Trade and Com
merce Against Unlawful Restraints and |
Monopolies'' and it's amendments, and |
in order to restrain and destroy COM |
petition in the raising and selling of |
beef cattle and fresh beef, are now en- |
gagged in, and intend to continue to be |
engaged in, an unlawful combination, |
trust and conspiracy among and be- |
tween themselves arbitrarily, from time |
to time to raise, lower, fix and main |
tain prices. and to maintain arbitrary, |
high and oppressive prices at which |
they will sell, directly, or through their, |
and each of their. respective agents, |
beef cattle and fresh beef to dealers and |
consumers in said Territory; and that, |
in pursuance of the said unlawful COM |
bination. trust and conspiracy, the said
defendants, and each of them, have .
been able, and now are able. and will
continue to be able, arbitrarily. to raise,
lower, fix and maintain the prices at
which they, and each of them, will sell
beef cattle and fresh beef, either di-
rectly through their respective
agents, 10 dealers and consumers III
said Territory, and, in pursuance there
of, have arbitrarily raised, lowered fix
ed and maintained, and will continue
arbitrarily to raise, lower, fix and main
tain the prices at which they, and each |
of them. will sell beef cattle and fresh |
beef. either directly or through their re-
spective agents, to dealers and consun-
ers in said Territory.
That it was part of said agreement
that the price to be paid for cattle and
beef to each defendant should not be
changed without the consent of the
other defendants, nor changed by the
demand for fresh beef in the localities
supplied by the Metropolitan Meat Co.
That in consequence of said agree
ment many persons have suffered, and !
will continue to suffer, great and ir-
reparable financial loss and losses. by
reason of the arbitrary, high and OPP
pressive prices at which beef cattle and
fresh beef have been raised. fixed and
maintained by said defendants.
The court is asked to issue per-
petual injunction against the defend
ants restraining them from continuing
to carry out the alleged unlawful con-