Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-25
MAKE MANY CHARGES
)oclares That He Has Been Deprived
 of His Voice in Handling the Affairs
 of the Big COncern-Alleges Col NJ fusion and Attempts to Ruin Him # Financially.

ldl SCSI dllu ICSClS sArship suit ever filed in Jefferson county was recorded in the office Of Circuit Clerk Edgar Brewster in this city yesterday, when Attorneys Austin and Danaher, as counsel for John F. Rutherford and Mrs. M. F. Ruther- lord, instituted legal proceedings Tn the Jefferson chancery court against the Bluff City Lumber Company, J. B. York, Robert York, c. J. Samstag and c. L. Browning. The plaintiffs twho are John F. Rutherford and his mife, ask that all of the properties If the Bluff City Lumber Company 4e taken in charge of by receiver; kt al injunction be issued to pre- pt any of the defendants from hand &g, receiving or paying out any of the Oney of the company 4f Serious Aarges of conspiracy and determina- k3Dn to ruin the plaintiffs are made HI the petition.
 SThe petition includes eighteen Typewriter pages and in it is told in 1etail the causes of>the many differ sXnces that have arisen in the affairs 22 the Bluff City Lumber Company r the past two or three years. The < Nit involves assets of more than a zllion and a half dollars and will af- ct the affairs of the Bluff City Lum- n Company at this place, the affairs & the large lumber companies, Aown as branches of the local com { lny, at Anderson, Ark; Kearney, rk; Bastrop, La, and the man. pth plant of the Grant Lumber lmpany in Grant county, Arkansas. Ae legal proceedings promise to be most interesting ever heard in local courts.
 The petitioners state that they are Otecting themselves in bringing
 Is suit, and also to benefit the Bluff ty Lumber Company generally.
 th a capital stock of $50,O00 the uff City Lumber Company was or nized in this city March IS, 1899. [e stock is divided into 2,000 shares
 $25 each. Of this amount, the aintiffs say, J. B. York, Robert prk, c. l.. Browning and c. J. Sam hg are the holders of 1,08O shares, e exact number of shares held by t kch defendant not being known to aintiffs.
 They state however that c. l.. fowning holds two shares of stock hich were transferred to him by e Yorks without consideration. rom the organization of the com < Any, the complaint reads, until 1905, le stock of the company was owned slF J. B. York, c. J. Samstag and tie laintiffs, neither of said stockhold- \ Is owning or controlling major
 of the stock. The business af- lrs weres~ managed harmoniously Id profitably up to that year.
 At that time, the plaintiffs allege,
 B. York and Robert York conceived Id began to manifest an intense hat d and i'll will toward the plaintiffs Id especially toward John F. Ruth ford, and for the purpose of vent their spleen toward the plaintiffs
 B. York and son, Robert York, con- fred together for the purpose Of
 sting the plaintiffs from all con-
 l and knowledge of the affairs Of
 Bluff City Lumber Company and
 so manage the affairs of the com
 ny as to cause loss to the plain
 s. and, if possible, to bring inan- ruin and distress upon them. nat in the furtherance of their
 eme to ruin the plaintiffs they
 chased all the. shares of stock
 q Dy c. J. Samstag, except two