The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-07-05
INDICTED
CHICAGO CONCERNS ACCUSED Or
VIOLATING LAWS.
Some OF the indictments Are A1alass
individual Members OF CorDora.
lions end Some Aaalnst Me Cor.
poestioas Themselves-Armowr
Swift end eaoerls on the List.

Chicago, July 8.-The federal grand
jury Saturday handed in Q sspcft In.
dieting seventeen men prominent In the
packing industries Of the country fos
violation Of the Sherman anti-trus,
law. and four officials Of the Sohwarx.
child & Sulsberger Company Tor 81.
legged rebating with the railroads. Be.
sides these individual indictments billa
were voted against ave corporaticns.
A rmour & Co., Swift & Co., Nelson
Morris & Co., the Cudahy Packing
Company and the Fairbanks Cannina
Company.
The F1en indicted.
The men indicted for alleged con.
spiracy in restraint Of trade, which
constitutes violation of the Sherman
act, are:
J. Ogden Armour. president Of Ar
mour & Co.
Charles Armour, Arthur Meeker, T.
]. Conners, p. A. Valentine and Sam.
uel MoRoberts, all officials Of Armour
& Co.
Louis F. Swift, president of Swift g.
Co.
Charles Swift. Lawrence A. Carton,
Arthur F. Evans, r. G. McManus, A.
H. Veeder, D. e. Hartwell Edward
Swift, officials Of Swift & Co., Edward
Cudahy, Of Cudahy Packing Company,
Edward Morris and Ira W. Morris, Of
Nelson Morris & Co.
The four employees Of Schwarschild
& Sulzbergebr, who were indicted fo1
alleged rebating with the railroads, are
all connected with the traflc depart.
ment Of the corporation. Their names
are Samuel We'll, B. 8. Cusey. G. e.
Todd, V. d. Skipworth.
Contain Ten Counts.
The indictments voted for alleged
violation Of the antitrust law were
identical In each instance. The indict.
m ents contained each ton counts.
The first and second counts Of the
indictments pertained only to beef sold
in domestic trade. The third charges
conspiracy In restraint Of trade and
commerce among the states and with
foreign nations in fresh, smoked, dried,
cured canned and picked meats and
in certain by.produets Of the packing
industry.
The fourth count charges that the
same matters mentioned In the third
count 40 being in restraint Of trade
and commerce constituted an offense
on the part Of the packers to monopo.
lie such trade and commerce.
The fifth count specifically covers
the handling Of BY products, and de.
scribes conspiracy in restraint Of
trade to be effective In the same way
40 set forth in the third count with
reference to all the products mentioned.
The sixth count charges the castings
conspiracy to BE- an attempt to monop.
olize trade and commerce in that com.
modify in the United States and in
foreign countries.
The seventh count sets forth the par
ticulars concerning the Organization Of
the National Packing company and
charges that the object and effect Of
that organisation was TO destroy COM
petition not only between the packers
who were interested In the NATIONAL
Packing Company, but between the
ten other small packing companies
which were consolidated BY the device
Of organising the National Packing
Company, and this IL described as .
conspiracy in restraint Of trade and
commerce.
The eighth count makes out the or.
ganiaztion Of the National Packing
Company to b an attempt to monop.
olize the Same trade and commerce.
The tenth count relates to similar &C.
tions in connection with meats and by
products.