Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-07-13
WORRALL GIVES MORE NAMES
DeSigpatss Dealers, Who Refused to Sell
Grain to His Company,
SAYS H. G. MILLER BROUGHT THIS ABOUT
Independent Grain Dealer in His
Fight with Line Elevators In
sists on Having cues
tiOns written.
SAYS H, c. MILLER BROUGHT THIS ABOUT

| NASts Oh hANAhE AueH~
tiOns written.
Thomas d. Worrall, president OF the
Worrall Grain company, unfolded part of
his tale of what the Nebraska Grain Deal
ers association did TO him before Notary
Charles G.. Pearsall in room 600, Bee build
ing, yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Worrall is plaintiff in a suit for S12S-
900 damages against members of the assoc
| citation. whom he accuses of breaking the
| antitrust laws of the state. He did not
! finish his deposition and will begin talking
again at O'Clock this morning. His testi-
mony is being taken at the request of the
| defendants. who are represented by host
of lawyers.
For a brief period before Worrall started
to make his deposition he refused to an
swer the questions of opposing counsel
unless they were written out, with his
answers, in plain sight on a typewriter.
This process of rotating the testimony was
started by the defendants and the plaintiff
wants to stay by it, because 1t gives an
opportunity for thought and time in re-
plying to questions Inasmuch as Attor-
ney Ed +. Smith, representing N. b. Up
dixie. had his hands full of questions al
ready written out Attorneys Jefferis and
J1OWell COnCluueO not &c run any TlSk or
having their client tangled up in a maze
of rapid fire.
PearsaH Rules for wOrraIl.
Smith and his confreres were intent upon
shorthand recording, but upon worralrs
fiat refusal to answer in shorthand"
Notary Pearsall ruled that he did not have
to and that such an attitude would not
justify him in committing the witness for
contempt Worrall cheerfully expressed
his willingness to go to jail in order to get
the concessions granted to the other side.
An interesting bit of his testimony con-
cerned the possession by the secretary Of
the State Dealers association of full in
formation about car of grain loaded by
a farmer and consigned to the Worrall
company, before the car was anywhere
near Omaha. The secretary came to Wor-
rail- and tried to induce him not to handle
the particular car of grain. The plaintiffs
counsel will try to show that the informa-
ton was transmitted by a railroad COM
pany, thus showing collision with the So
called grain trust. other parts of tho
witness testimony covered much of the
ground embraced in the original petitions,
alleging various kinds of bulldozing by the
association.
Following Worrall this morning will be
a long list of local grain and railroad men
subpoenaed by the PLAINTIFF for dispositions.
Among the lawyers representing the
grain companies are Myron L. Learned,
F. A. Brogan. Ed P. Smith, w. G. Court
right of Fremont. Judge Walton of Blair,
Clark o'Hanlon of Blair and +. NJ. Hall
of Lincoln.
Twenty-Five Years in Business.
Worrall testified in response to questions
by Attorney Ed P. Smith that he lived In
nd 4a
of the Worrall Grain company, with Of
fees in Omaha. He has been in the grain
business altogether twenty-five years In
1900 he helped organize the Nebraska Ele-
vator company, which he remained with as
secretary until 1904 The Worrall Grain
company was organized May 21, 1904 1t
owns an elevator in Council Bluffs, but has
not owned nor operated any other grain
elevator. The company has never been en-
gagged in raising grain for market nor at
any time engaged in operating an elevator
or scoop-shovel house in Nebraska. The |
company has not bought grain for ship |
ment and loaded into cars. Grain has been |
bought from elevator men and other deal |
ers in Iowa and Nebraska. The grain was |
sold in Omaha, st. Louis. Kansas City, |
Chicago, Minneapolis, Davenport and other !
cities outside of Nebraska. About 80
from within the state and about s5 per cent
of this was sold to points outside Ne I
braska- Iowa grain was sent to Galveston |
and New Orleans.
The stockholders In the Worrall Grain |
company are T. d. Worrall, Charles T. |
Peavey and o. II. Eggleston. The autho- |
rized capital stock is $4,000, of which
Worrall owns S12,4OO in shares of 500 each |
Only $4,000 Of stock. or 100 shares, have |
been issued. Peavey has seventy-hye |
Germ. Eggleston is a grain dealer at Muir |
dock, Neb and owns one share.
Worrall testified he paid $500 cash and |
a personal promissory note for 5000 to |
the Worrall Grain company in payment for |
his stock. He put up stock of the company
as collateral. $500 worth Subsequently |
the notes he and Peavey gave were paid
WOrrall sold his interest In the Nebraska |
Elevator company and took up his note in |
the latter part of 1904.
WOFraII Gives Names.
DO you know OF anyone out In the
state who refused 70 sell or consign you
any grain on commission in June. 1904 !
because you were irregular p asked At !
torney Smith.
''only what they told me-" was the re-
ply.
WIN you give US the names OF persons
refusing on these grounds?"
Mr.. Conrad OF Wood River told me
that he had been to a meeting at Kearney |
called by Horace G. Miller. secretary Of the |
Nebraska Grain Dealers association. ALr.