The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-01
INDICTMENTS
BY WHOLESALE
FERTILIZER FIRMS AND INDI-
vIDUALs INDICTED.
UNDER THE SHERMAN LAW
The Federal Grand Jury Mt Nash
VILE, Tenn, Returns q Big Batch
of True Bills Against Fer
tiIixer Trust.

Nashville, Tenn, May 26.-The fed
eral grand jury. Friday afternoon, re-
turned a big batch of indictments
against the so-called fertilizer trust.
There are six counts in the indictments,
which are In a double series of three
each.
The first charge defendants with en-
gaging in a conspiracy; the second
counts charge the defendants with con-
spring, and the third with conspiring
to commit the offense Of engaging in a
combination as defined by the Sherman
law. The punishment is two years in
prison and $1,000 fine.
Following Is a list Of the individu-
ais indicted as officers, agents or attor-
neys of the accused fertilizer corpora
tions and firms:
Samuel T. Morgan, president; For
tescue Whittle, vice-president; Frank
p. Dancey and Frank c. Wilcox, man.
ayers and agents of Virginia-Ca Carolina
Chemical Co.; J.. Rice Smith, agent of
Virginia Carolina Chemical Co. and
president of Georgia chemical works;
Austin B. Carpenter and Charles H.
Mcdowell, managers and agents, and
Charles G.. Wilson, agent and attorney
of Armour company; Fred d. Brown,
president ard treasurer Of Anderson
Phosphate & Oil Co.; Frank Burbridge,
president, and w. J. Mccormack, treas
urer of Eterman Fertilizer Co.; George
Brandem, president of Federal Chemical
Co. of Delaware and Kentucky; Au-
gustus D. Adaire and James D. Nearly,
offers and agents of Furman Farm I'm
provement Co. and members of the firm
of A. D. Adair and Mccarthy Brothers;
William Dec. Kessler, secretary and
treasurer of Goulding Fertilizing Co,
limited; James T. Tinsley, president of
the Marietta Fertilizer Co., and vice
president of the Tennessee Chemical
Co.; William D. Rea. general manager
of Nashville Fertilizer Co.; William L.
Peel, president of the Old Dominion
Guano Co.; Abram c. Reed, vice-presi-
dent and general manager, and Isaac
Mayo Read, agent of Read Phosphate
w., TtdAh IL. ItOyotCl, plColuOHI, anu
Charles F. Burroughs, vic%e-president of
F. S. Register Guano Co.; A. J.. Ives,
secretary and treasurer of Savannah
Guano Co., and member of the firm of
Wilcox. Ives & Co; T. Porter Elem
ing, vice-president Of Southern States
Phosphate G Fertilizer Co, and T. Gar
land Tinsley, president and treasurer of
Tennessee Chemical Co.
The following firms and corpora
lions were indicted.
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co., OF
New Jersey; Armour & Co., of Hi.
nois; Acme Manufacturing Co., OF
North Carolina; Alabama Chemical
Co., of New Jersey; Anderson Phos.
plate & Oil Co., Of South Carolina;
Ashepoo Fertilizer Co., of South Caro-
lima; Blackshear Manufacturing Co..
of Georgia.; Etiwan Fertilizer Co., OF
South Carolina; Federal Chemical Co..
of Delaware; Federal Chemical Co., OF
Kentucky; Furman Farm Improve
ment Co., of Georgia; Goulding Ferti.
lizer Co., limited, of Great Britain and
Ireland; Goulding Fertilizer Co., OF
Florida; Gulfport Cotton Oil Fertilizer
& Manufacturing Co., of Georgia;
Home Mixture Guano Co., of Georgia;
Jackson Fertilizer Co., of Mississippi;
Marietta Fertilizer Co., of Georgia;
Meridian Fertilizer Co., Of Mississippi;
National Fertilizer Co., of Tennessee;
New Orleans Acid & Fertilizer Co., Of
New Jersey; Old Dominion Guano Co.
of Georgia; Planters Chemical Co., OF
Alabama; Read Phosphate Co., OF
West Virginia; F. S. Register Guano
Co., of Virginia; Savannah Guano Co.
of Georgia; Southern State Phosphate
& Fertilizer Co., of Georgia; Standard
Chemical & Oil Co., of Alabama
Standard Guano & Chemical Co., oil
louisiana; Swift & Co., of Illinois;
Tennessee Chemical Co., of Tennes
see; Tennessee Fertilizer Co., of Ala
bama, and the firms of A. D. Adair and
Mccarthy Brothers, and Wilcox, Ives
& Co., who formerly carried on bust
ness in North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi
Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee and
Alabama.