Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-09
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Action of the Federal Grand
Jury at Minneapolis Ire
mendous Surprise
GIVING AND RECEIVING REBATES
All Roads Entering the
Twin Cities Are Under the Ban =
Half Dozen Big Firms Are Indicted
for Receiving Rebates-RaiIroad Of
ficiaIs Are Held.

for Receiving Rebates-Railroad VI
ficiaIs Are Held.
Minneapolis, Nov. o. Indictments
voted by the special federal grand jury,
%, to investigate alleged freight re-
bates, caused a great deal Of surprise,
as the concerns affected were not ex-
pecting such action. In the case of the
railroads the indictments contained 147
counts. The minimum penalty for con-
viction on each count is $1,000, and the
maximum $4,000
The general offense alleged in the
railroad indictments is absorption Of
grain elevation charges.
1t is believed that the grain compan-
les and individuals connected with
them had received no inkling of the
fact that they We're being investigated
by the grand jury. No member of
either grain company was called to the
stand, nor We're any of the railroad men
indicted who had testified before the
grand jury. H. B. Duncan, special ag-
emit Of the department of justice, con-
Quoted the investigation.
In the fact that the jury broke all
records in this district for length of
sitting and for care in it's examination
of witnesses was conveyed a signifi-
canoe which was not thoroughly grasp
ed by the railroads and shippers gen.
orally.
!. The list of indictments follows:
Great Northern Railroad Company,
six Indictments, five officials.
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha railroad, three officials.
Wisconsin Central railway, two Of
ficials.
Minneapolis & st. Louis, two Off
Gals.
w. r. Devereaux Company.
McCaul-Dinsmore Company.
D. f. DeiWolf.
Ames- Brooks Company, Duluth.
One other, not vet returned.
Nature Of indictments:
Great Observation-Disclosures to Spencer
Grain Company
Great Northern-Rsbates to Ames-
Brooks Company.
Great Northern-Rebates to Duluth
Superior Milling Company.
Great Northern-Rebates to McCaul
Dinsmore Company.
Great Northern-Rebates to W. p.
Devereaux Company of Omaha on 100
counts.
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha Railroad Company-Rebates to
Wisconsin Central-Rebates to Spen-
Ger Grain Company, seventeen counts.
Minneapolis & st. Louis road = Re-
bates to Spencer Grain Company, five
counts.
Other companies, receiving rebates
and concessions.
offenses Charged.
The offense alleged against the Great
Northern road in the Ames-Brooks
company, and Duluth Superior Milling
Company, counts is: Absorption OF
elevator charges on grain shipments to
Superior and Duluth. The offense al
legged against the Great Northern road
in the w. P. Devereaux Company, and
McCaull Dinsmore Company counts is:
Concession on shipments to Pacific
coast billed prepaid at tariff rate, but
repaid at much less rate, the Great
Northern road relieving the Minneapo-
lis station agent of the difference
Those named in the indictments are:
Men Named in Bills.
For the Great Northern road:. David
G. Black, general freight agent, Min
neapolis; w. w. Broughton, freight
traffic manager, st. Paul; A. G. Ma
guire, assistant general freight agent
st. Paul; G. I. Sweeney, assistant gen.
eral freight agent, st. Paul, and P. A.
Kimball, assistant general freight
agent, st. Paul.
For the Chicago, Minneapolis &
omaha-O. G. Clifford, assistant gener-
ell freight agent, Minneapolis; E. B
Ober, general freight agent, st. Paul;
H. NJ. Pearce, freight traffic manager
st. Paul.
For the Wisconsin Central road =
Burton Johnson, general freight agent
Milwaukee, Wis; G. T. Huey, assist
ant general freight agent, Minneapolis
MINI.
For the Minneapolis & ST. Louis
road. T. Kennedy, contracting
freight agent, Minneapolis, MINI.
For the McCaull-Dinsmore Company
The corporation, five counts.
For the w. P. Devereaux Company
The corporation, D. f. DeWolf, treas.
urer, five counts.
For the Ames-Brooks Company-Tht
corpora ton, five counts.
| For the Duluth Superior Milling
Company-The corporation.
Counting Her Chickens.