Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-25
COAL DEALERS GIVE Bond
Members Of ALLEGED Trust Under Iudiet-
msnt Tut Up Thousand Each.
BILL CONTAINS NINE . sTNcT COUNTS
Grand Jury IL InvestiEatinG Al
legged Ceuent Trust, secre-
tary OF witch Cannot Ne
Reached just Now.

Coal dealers against whom trust indict-
ments WIRE returned Tuesday afternoon by
the county grand Jury have been going
into court and giving bond for their APP
pearance In court when wanted. Judge
Sutton has fixed the amount OF bond az
81 900 for each defendant and I'm order to
expedite matters the coal men have been
ordered TO appear at O'Clock in the morn
irE OF 1 o'clock IN the afternoon In order
not to interfere with the regular session
OF the court. special session was held
Tuesday night in order to enable those
who wanted to to furnish bond The deal
ers named In the indictment are:
joseph T. Beatty. Jeh W Bedford. Carl
Brandeis, Leon w Bunnell, George w.
Hadlook Charles X. Coutant. George G.
squlres. Samuel s. CALDWELL Randall X.
Brown. Arthur II. Goodeii, Harry Chris
topherson. Alfred Hald. George D. Rice,
Luther A. Harmon. Joseph G. weeth, Has
we'll T. Lemist, George P. Cronk, Edward
r. Howell, Charles s. johnson John P.
Kehoe, Isaac Levi, leroy r. Lucas, Tav-
! ner r. Neal Morris Rosenblatt. samuel r.
Howell Taylor j. Wells William g. BT-
lard, John E. Tetard Edward r. lie Beau,
! G. Frederick Elsasser, Alfred A. Pardun,
Alva b. Cook. Robert j. Aitohison, Samuel
A. Corneer william T. shackelford, Hiram
II. Dekey. John J. Thomson Arthur ".
! Partridge, Patrick c. Heafey. James s.
| Monaghan, Ernest 4. Blum. Edward Nc
Eachron, Robert A. McEachron. Fred T.
Loornis, Woodwork Allen, George F.
Howell. Joseph B. Koziei Edmund b. Cor
riean, Charles W. Hull, Talbot d. Dalin,
James A. Sunderland, Lester T. sunder-
land. Tom Collins Haven, George w. Me-
geath and William r. Wood.
Nine Separate counts.
The indictment Is a bulky document ana
consists Of nine separate counts, each nam
ing a specific violation Of the state anti
trust laws Count one charges in general
terms a combination to fix prices and re-
strain competition. Count two relates
specifically 20 an alleged combination
through the Omaha Coal exchange to pre-
vent composition. Counts three and four
cite two sections of the constitution and
bylaws forbidding soliciting by clerks,
agents or otherwise or by letter except By
printed postal card, and count Ave charges
violation Of the law in enforcing the re-
striotiOns referred to in counts three and
four Count six charges the defendants,
through the exchange, about September H.
raised the price Of anthracite coal from
tiOB to 1850 by conspiracy and in VIOLA
ton OF law. Count seven charges in general
terms conspiracy 10 raise the price OF
coal. and count eight charges a violation Of
law in fixing the price of anthracite at
1880 In count nine the schedule Of retail
prices on coal. printed by the authority Of
the exchange and circulated, is set forth in
full and the members are charged with
violating the law in agreeing to It and ad-
herring 70 It. .q,4.,,l4.
Cement Trust Inquiry.
Considerable dificulty has been encoun-
tered in the alleged cement trust investlga.
ton owing to the absence from Omaha oil
II. A. Doud, secretary OF the alleged com.
bine. A subpoena owas issued for him
Tuesday afternoon rRpd inquiries at his
house brought out the. fact he was away
on his vacation. The oficers were unabl,
to fnd out where he IL. He is one OF tn,
principal witnesses in the inquiry relating
10 the investigation Of the building ma.
terlal dealers
The argument on the motions IN the Goa
trust civil suit before Judge Troup which
were to have come up Wednesday morninf
were put over until Thursday morning. a,
some OF the attorneys interested could no
be present Wednesday.
Mr.. DOud is deputy collector OF tn,