Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-27
GRAND JURY
 REPORT

and WAS eubn ltted to the court W edne5- day, December l9:
 "The grand jury of the District of Al aska, empaneled at the Novemser term of the district court for the district of Alaska, division number one, held at Juneau, Alaska, beginning November 26, 1908, make this their special report concerning the investigation of said grand jury into the freight rates and monopoly in the transportation business and coal market in said district, and respectfully show and report as follows:
 "Complaints having been brought to the attention of said grand jury that certain acts of the congress of the Uni ted States of America had been violated within the district of Alaska and with in the jurisdiction of this court, to wit that the certain act of congress entitled An Act to Regulate Commerce. passed and approved February 1, 1887, as the same has been subsequently amended and is now in force in said district, and also that the certain ect of congress en- titled An Act to Protect Trade and Commerce Against Unlawful Restraints and Monopolies,' passed and approved l July ?, 1890, as the same has been am ended and is now in force in said dis trict; and certain complaints have been
 made to this grand jury that certain 1 illegal acts and offenses against the Uni ted States of America under said acts 1 had taken place and occurred within ] said district, this grand jury investi- gated said complaints and the matters arising under said respective acts of congress and called numerous witnesses before them for the purpose of ascer- taining the truth of the situation in respect to said matters; that after said investigation and examination it ap- peared to this grand jury that the fol lowing conditions existed within the said district and within the jurisdiction 1 of this court:
 1.-It appears that the transportation business within the district of Alaska is l6I tAS4 Ou DSb6SSh kAC RVlbe Sl Puget Sound, to wit: Tacoma, Seattle and Port ToTnserd, and the ports nf British Columbia, to wit Victoria, Var couver and Nanaimo, and the ports of Southeastern Alaska, to wit: KetcAikan Wrangell, Treadwell, Douglas, Juneau. sksgway and Sitka and common points, by the following corporations controlling certain steamship linez, to wit: The Pa- cifc Coast Steamship Co.,, the Alaska Steamship Co.,, the Canadian Pacific Navigation Co.,, and the Humboldt Steamship Co.
 2.-That the Pacific Coast Steamship Company is corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state of California and carrying on the transpor- tation business by means of line plying between the ports of Puget Sound and Alaskan ports. All d these corpora tions are under contr1l of the states from which their charte's were obtained It is further alleged tha. the said trans- portation companies atout the first of September, 1902, formed an association known as the Alaska Steamship Asso- ciation, em mbracing all tn, companies on the southeastern Alaska run, for the ! purpose of controlling tie freight and passenger rates between Puget Sound 1 and Alaska. During the ears 1905 and l 1906 the transportation buiness done at the ports of Junevu, Teadwell and | Douglas, the business wa controlled | chiefly by the Pacific Goat Steamship company, which had unde charter the 1 steamer Humboldt, and the Alaska Steamship con any, and hat in the town of Juneau the two bR companies owned and operated tbg ulr7es that the companies during the yar 1905 dis criminated iu their chargss nd by spe- cial rates, rebates and draHbak charged demanded, collected and reci7ed from certain persons and corporatira great CT compensation for certai services rendered than others. That uring the year 1908 the same unfair, dir- ina.ion ! was carried ou.
 That the said companies Aat entered into valid and subsistilg cor4aa.s for 1907 which are equally as disc1 mating as those of the TWO previous y4rs.
 That ia the year 1905 the id com panies entered into combiuti5n ir restraint of trade an commercetetusen Alaskan ports and those Of tle late cf Washington and California, TSey there raised the rates thirty tfzs per cent.
 That in the town ot Juneau at ! ,rl- ity adjacent the two companie Curing 1906 conducted their 8harves , ss to secure Q monopoly of the coal lF.aess, wholesale and retail. That theyt ar.ed at retail s9, BIO and s1l a 5ho1ton of 2,0O0 pounds. Tho mine pricepr the coal is s3.5O a ton of 2,2IO poun4 duty 67 centa, and the cost of transptation as charged by other common .rriers