Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-11
GRAND JURY FOR TwOTRUSTS
Panel Drawn at slabaugh's Request to
Convene First Of October.
WILL LOOK INTO ICE AND COAL COMBINE
County Attorney Expresses Determi-
nation of Getting Mt Facts and
Punishing vioIators of
the Law.

the Law.
=, John J. Toms, building contractor. 2i15
Maple street
q. w. Mcvey. city plumbing Inspector.
2223 Seward street
J. n. Beach, clerk Union Pacific, 1915
Grant street.
Dennis Ruddy, saloon keeper, 414 North
Twenty~second street, South Omaha.
Fl {. Best real estate, Thirty-third and
w b. Fuller, 20 North Nineteenth street.
John Nordin. carpenter, 1i12 South six
J. G. Willis, real estate, 2S25 North Twen-
ty-se cond street.
=, ], Rothschiid, saloon keeper. Z717 @ street,
Michael Golden, eonfectioner. Twenty
fifth and p streets, South Omaha
p. .. Boisen. sO4 Bancroft street.
Perry O. Harrier Valley. r. + ID.
g. W. steiger, sclerk Hayward Bros Ben
Clarence w. Chadwick, Christian Science
healer, 2S24 Capitol avenue.
Samuel Katz, wholesale grocer. 37o1 Jones
u. w. Yates. 25l2 North Eighteenth street
J. w. Lewis, scaler, 1919 Chicago street,
Iasher nSssse 1sss South hOFse,h Elepenth street street.
William NJ. Vaughn, car operator, street
Railway company. n5 North Thirtieth
r. II. Landeryou. real estate. 22e Locust
j. M. Mcdowell carpenter, s24 North
Twenty-seventh avenue.
j. b. Parrot, real estate, 4OiS North
F. E 4. HazeibSRer, sos South Twentieth
street.
This grand jury to investigate the alleged
Ice and Coal trusts was drawn Monday
afternoon by Judge sutton. District Clerk
Broadwell and County Clerk Haverly. The
order of the district judges calling the jury
does not limit it to an investigation of
ht,t afloxua full
scope to look into all kinds of law VIOLA
tions. 1t will convene October /.
.Twenty-threeN names were drawn. OF
these only sixteen will serve on the jury.
If more than sixteen are eligible enough
names to reduce the number to sixteen
will be drawn. II fewer than the required
number are qualified the deficiency will
be made up by citizens called by the
sheriff. The names OF 240 to serve on the
first two panels of the petit jury were
also drawn. Among them was NJ. F. Funk
houser, a member of the city council. Tho
grand jury list contains the names of sew
eral more or less prominent people. Among
them is F. c. Best. a candidate for the
lower house OF the legislature on the re-
publican primary ticket Another is Clar-
ence w. Chadwick, a Christian Scientist
healer. City Plumbing Inspector McVey
| is one.
sIabaueh Called for Grand Jury.
County Attorney Slabaugh declares he
has no power to compel the attendance of
witnesses as the grand jury has and while
| he has failed to get any evidence of a
violation of the law he believes with tho
compulsory process In the hands of the
grand jury some evidence bearing on the
| matter may be found, He feels he has
been subjected to considerable criticism for
| his failure to establish the existence OF a
trust and now proposes to lay the whole
thing open to public gaze. II a trust is
found he promises to prosecute the guilty
parties to the full extent Of the law. II
no evidence of trust exists he believes
1 the public is entitled to know 1t.
They will find they have got hold of the
! wrong fellow" said County Attorney
slabaugh Monday morning. 'T am going
to find out the truth and 1 will prosecute
to the full extent of the law. 1 am inde-
pendent and the fact there is going to be
an election soon won't have any influence
on me. 1 don't have TO hold of1ce, but /
am going to do my duty and am going
to prosecute anybody and everybody found
to be in an illegal combination"
Determined TO Find out.
County Attorney slabaugh issued the fol-
lowing written statement Monday:
at is insisted by some persons and
newspapers that there is an ice trust in
this city and that 1 have not done nfS
duty in not finding 1t and Furnishing the
wrong doer. l have asked the district
judges this morning to convene special
grand jury to investigate the ice trust
and also the coal trust and shall see
that every person who knows any facts
or who claims to know any facts shall
appear and answer or l shall know the
reason why he does not.
I'VE have had trusts and talked OF
trusts in Omaha in the past. but until
this year nothing has been done toward
ascertaining the facts and toward pun.
ishing the guilty parties. believe such
investigation by the grand jury is proper
under the present conditions. regardless
of the costs to the tax payers. If a Law
is enacted next year. giving the county
attorney authority to force the attendance
and compel answers. of witnesses, much
expense in the way of investigation car
hereafter be avoided. 1t is suggested by
some that the slow and tedious process OF
bringing suit to ascertain II there is q
trust, be taken. In Kansas Citys where
that method has been adopted. tn,
referees report has just been turned ovei
to the district judge for him to consider.
what Books VIII show.
at Is said that the books OF the com
pany can thus be procured. Who for q
moment thinks that the books of the ic,
company this year. or any other year
would show any agreement or combina
tion? The only way TO DO is to compe
the witnesses to attend and compel then
to answer and give the facts and to hav,
the court appoint reporter as an as
sistant oficer, that every word of evi
dence may be taken down. OF course
there is a difference between there beinl
: trust and being able to prove 1t. II
New York, Jerome has long since ceases
) his Investigation because of his inabilit,
to prove a trust. In Chicago, where ic'
has been SIS cents per 100 all summer, t,
my personal knowledge, they failed to hn'
trust. / know OF but one city amonl
our larger ones where convictions hay