The Lexington advertiser., 1906-05-31
INDICTMENTS
BY WHOLESALE
FEnTILIZER FIRMS AND INDT-
vIDUALs INDICTED.
UNDER THE SHERMAN LAW
The Federal Grand Jury mt Nash
vile, Tenn. Returns q Big Batch
of True Bills Against Fer
tilizer Trust.

Nashville, Tenn, May 26.-The fsd-
eral grand jury, Friday afternoon, 70
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 conspiracy; the second
counts charge the defendants with con-
spring, and the third with conspiring
to commit the offense of engaging in
combination as defined by the Sherman
law. The punishment is two years in
prison and $4,000 fine.
Following is 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
te9cue Whittle, vire-prlsident; Frank
p. Dancey and Frank C. Wilcox, man
ayers ard agents Of VirginiaACarolina
Chemical Co; J. Rice Smith, agent of
Virginia Carolina Chemical Co. and
president of Georgia chemical works;
Austin B. Carpenter and Charles II.
Mcdowell, managers and agents, and
Charles G, Wilson, agent and attorney
OF Armour company; Fred D, Brown,
president and treasurer Of Anderson
Phosphate d Oil Co.; Frank Burbrldge,
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 ard 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 O.d Dominion
GuaEo Co; Abram C. Reed, v!ce-presi-
dent and general manager, aud Isaac
Mayo Re2d, agent of Read Phosphate
Co; Frenk Z. Royster, president, and
Charles F. Burroughs, vice president Of
F. S. Royster Guano Co.; A. J. Ives,
secretary and treasurer of Savannah
Guano Co, and member of the firm Of
Wilcox. Ives & Co: T. Porter Flem-
ing, vice-pres!dent OF Southern States
Phosphate e. Fertilizer Co, and r. Gar
lard Tinsley, president and treasurer of
Tennessee Chemical Co.
The following firms and corpora.
tions were indicted
ViTginia~Carolina Chemical Co., of
New Jersey; Armour & Co., OF Illi-
nois; Acme Manufacturing Co. of
North Carolina; Alabama Chemical
Co, of New Jersey; Anderson Phos.
phate & 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
u 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: r. s. Royster 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, of
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
IL Co, who formerly carried on busl-
mess in North Carolina, South Caro-.
lima, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee and
Alabama.