Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-11-22
INTERPRETATIONS
REVEAL WARFARE
COMBINATION OF BUYERS is SAID
TO BE IN EXISTENCE ON THE.
OMAHA LINE
J. Ogden Armour The Principal Wit
ness Before The Interstate Com
merce Commission in Milwaukee
Controls Armour Grain Company.

NA1iW duhSS, lNOV. ll.-AJ y05ISIudJ
afternoons session Of the interstate
commerce commission, Secretary of
State Houser, as the representative of
the Mondoyi Advancement associa-
ton, testified regarding conditions on
the Omaha road. and charged there
was combination between the buy
ers, and that to Offset this the Ad-
vancement association organized It's
own elevator company and paid the
farmers the highest prices for grain.
In retaliation for this the Northern
Grain company threatened to put in
a big department store in Mondoyi
and forced the merchants to withdraw
from the elevator company.
T. P. Bevan, an elevator man from
Chicago, testified the main profit of
the elevators was found in the plug
ging" of cars, and that from 100 to
200 bushels Of chicken feed was mixed
with grain in each car.
L. l. Forsythe, formerly state grain
inspector for Illinois, and later man
ager Of a Chicago elevator, also testi-
fled to the plugging of cars and to the
mixing Of poorer grain with good
grain which was shipped by lake.
Admits hebates Were Received.
o. w. Mosher, formerly state sena-
tor and connected with the Northern
Grain company Of Manitowac, which
has elevators all over Wisconsin, Min.
nesota, North and South Dakota, ad.
mitted his comran. received rebates
from railroads.
E. w. Gilman and E G. Mason, ex.
pert accountants employed by rail
road Commissioner Thomas, today
gave the results of their investigation
of the books Of railroads operating n
Wisconsin and of their discovery #
large sums in the form of alleged
rebates, mentioning the Armour Grain
company particularly as being credit
ed with large sums of money, not stat.
ing the amounts
J. Ogden Armour, president Of the
Armour Packing company, large hold
er Of stock in the Armour Grain com
pany, Nicola Elevator company, Atlas
Elevator company, and also owner OF
large blocks of stock in the Milwau.
kee road, Pennsylvania lines, Union
Pacific road and other railways, was
the most important witness who ap.
peared before the investigating com.
imittee of the interstate commerce
commission here today.
Armour Owns Railway Stock.
"You are stockholder in the St
Paul road?" was the first question
put to Mr.. Armour by Attorney Mar.
BILE.
Il am" replied the witness.
"Do you own stock in any other
railway companies, Mr.. Armour"
well, I think own somewhere be
tween 10000 and 10000 shares Of the
st. Paul road stock"
DO you own any stock in any grain
companies 2"
Eyes, in the Armour Grain company
and some others
DO you own the controlling inter
est in the Armour Grain company"
'.Yes, sir"
Mr.. Armour was then asked regard
ing the ownership of certain other
elevator companies having elevators
on the lines of the ST. Paul road, the
Burlington and others. He testified
that the companies in question-the
Atlas company, the Nicola and others
are entirely owned by the Armour
Grain company and that he might be
construed as owning the controlling