Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-09-13
OFFSET FOR REBATES
Omaha Grain Firm Files SUITE for
Damages Against Railro
81
DISCRIMINATION IS ALL. ~
Merriam & Holmquist Charge tn
Competitors We're Favored.
FOUR LINES ARE DEFENDANTS
Illinois Central, Northwestern, Great
Western and Milwaukee.
TWEETY DAYS NOTICE IS GIVEN
settle IL Not Made out
OF Court Hearings WIZ BE
Held, Probably In
Omaha.
Illinois Central, Northwestern, Great
Western and Milwaukee.
TWENTY DAYS NOTICE IS GIVEN
tBy a stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.--(Special Tele-
gram)-In addition to the complaint that
the railroads Disseminated I'm favor of the
Updike Grain company at South Omaha,
other charges were made against the
Northwestern, Illinois Central, Great West
ern and Milwaukee railroads in the petition
filed with the Interstate Commerce COM
mission by the Merriam & Holmqulst com
pany of Omaha
The complaint covers the period between
September 1906 and June. 1907.
According to the petition. the Merriam
e. Holmquist company shipped during the
period named over the Illinois Central
1s,3sGe5O pounds OF grain; over the Chicago
Great Western 5,s07,OOO pounds; over the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul 9,2l1,00O
pounds and over the Chicago & Northwest
ern 25,264.550 pounds. The plaintiff paid the
defendant companies regular charges and
during the same period the Chicago &
Northwestern paid TO the Crowell Elevator
company of Omaha %-cent more per hum
dred pounds in elevation allowance, and
the Merriam & Holmquist company did
not get such allowance.
other such Charges.
Similar charges of discrimination are
made against other defendants, the cases
being somewhat different. The plaintiff
asks from the Chicago & Northwestern
$,061 damages; from the Chicago Great
Western, S452; from the Illinois Central
$1,08s and from the Chicago, Minneapolis
& St Paul. S716, with interest at per
cent. Attorneys for the Merriam & Holm
qust company are John c. Wharton and
Byron G. Burbank Notice has been served
on the defendant companies yesterday and
by the Interstate Commerce commission to
answer or satisfy the complainant within
twenty days from date failing in which,
hearings will be had, probably at Omaha.
Notice has been sent from the Office of
the quartermaster general of the army to
the quartermaster at Fort Mckenzie, Wyo.,
that bids will be invited for the following
buildings at that post One stable, one
store house, one coal shed. one magazine
and ono fre engine house.
The auartermaster's department is also
getting ready to invite bids for additional
buildings at Fort Des Moines
Eugene Hillon of Holbrook j. E. UlrIch
Of South Omaha, Charles Adams of Schuy-
Ter and H. l.. Combs of Auburn, Neb., have
been appointed railway mail clerks
Coal Company Complains.
The Interstate Commerce commission to-
day made public complaint made by the
APPRECIATE q Lewis Coal company against
the Rock Island railroad and the Toledo,
Peoria q Western road The complainant
Is engaged in mining and selling coal at
cuba, ILL., and having its northwestern
office at Davenport, Ia. 1t is alleged by the
complainant in general terms that defend
ants refuse to give reasonable freight
rate on coal in carload lots from Cuba. Ill.
to Buffalo, Muscatine. Wellman Monte
yuma, Dows and Des Moines, Ia, and to
Watertown, 8. D., and to st. Paul and
Minneapolis. IL is alleged that these afore-
said companies, as common carriers, have
violated the act to regulate commerce and
should be called upon to refute the vari-
Gus allegation set forth by the Applegate &
Lewis Coal company