Arizona republican., 1907-01-13
SENTENCE PASSED
 ON $. J. TRlBOlET
He Was Assessed S1ooo for Being an Essential Element in a Meat Com bine.

The case of s. J. Tribolet. who had
 been convicted Oi being engaged in a trust for the restraint of trade, ap- peared before Judge Kent yesterday for sentence. It came in the shape of an order to pay fine of 5000. A motion for a new trial was denied. The court will be asked for a certi- ficate Of probable cause which will fendant to proceed with his appeal be- fore paying the fine.
 The fine was considerably heavier ! than he or his attorneys had expected it would be. but in any event the ap- peal would have been taken.
 Though the sherman antitrust law was made to destroy all monopolies | it seems to be effective only against meat combines, and not against the combines themselves but against indi- vidual members of them. It was thought at first that the con- v.ction of Mir. Tribolet was the first personal conviction ever secured under the law but it is recalled that in the Chicago cases. though the trust itself escaped, there were convictions of half dozen individual beef barons like Mir Tribolet.
 Messrs. Hurley and Tribolet, speak ing of the case yesterday afternoon, said it would seem that what they regarded as a farce when the indict- ments were brought, had developed into real surprise when brought be- fort the trial jury.
 They had been charged with an att tempt to restrain trade, and again. to increase the price of meat. and they called attention to the point that the two charges are inconsistent, and that the last charge would invite rather than stifle competition.
 Their object in combining their in- terests they said was that they might minimize expenses by the use of one slaughter house which would thereby give them a chance to realize a re- turn on the by-products which are handled with profit only in large quantities.
 They felt that a great deal of pre- judice had been created by the un- warrantable rumor that they were in combination with Cudahy and other outside buyers to keep down the price of live stock and that it may have been a potent factor in the decision of the jury.
 Conditions are such that a large proportion of cattle slaughtered are shipped from outside points. and to enable them to buy on the best terms. 1t is necessary to make large ship ments.
 They were emphatic on the point that enhancing prices was not the most effective means of stiiing cOmpeti- tion. and as a proof of the low prices of meat in Phoenix they called atten- tion to the fact that while their busi- ness extended to nearly every point in Arizona, not more than 25 per cent of the animals slaughtered are consumed in this locality and that includes the meat furnished to local institutions which recently quoted prices from these places show to be the lowest of all similar institutions in the terri tory.
 They humOrously alluded 10 being prosecuted by the government for a combination of prices which enables them to buy for its federal institution like the Indian school first class beef at s3.S0 per hundred pounds.
 As to the fine they expressed it as immaterial, as they proposed to carry it to the court of last appeals for final adjudication.