The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-10
PROOF PILIHG UP
FOR GRAND JURY
Session Postponed to Give
Prosecuting Officers
a Free Hand.
GRoCERS GET COLD FEET
LARGE LIST OF STORES OF.
FERED FOR SALE.

The grand jury investigation into salt
Lakes food and other trade combines will
be deferred for three weeks. After con-
ference between the judges of the district
| court 1t has been determined not to sum-
mon the panel drawn Saturday last until
about October L The reason for the delay
IS that for the next three weeks the Grim
inal division of the court will be engaged
IN disposing of the dozen or more criTnf-
nal cases which are up for trial and thus
VIII be unable to handle the grand Jury
until this work is cleared away.
Frederick G. Loofbourow. district attor-
ney. who Will have charge of the iurv
during its deliberations has consented to
1 the postponement, as he must represent
the state in all the trials which will be
held before Judge Armstrong this month
Scope of Grand Jury.
It is probable that during the septem-
Der term of court and the sitting OF the
grand jury no persons will be bound over
/ to the district court for trial by any Of
| the committing magistrates in the couns
| ty. Instead the evidence Will be pre-
scented to the grand jury directly and
/ II in the judgment of that body the &C
cused is guilty, indictments win be is
sued.
This for the time being Will do away
/ with the present system of hearings before
/ justices followed by the filing of infor-
L y
/ does not seem clear on this point, but It
/ is the understanding Of the judges that
when a grand jury is in session il has alb
| SOlute power in these matters and that
any other proceedings might be danger
/ Gus and invalidate a conviction if one
/ were secured.
The sheriff has not served summons on
| any Of the grand jurors drawn and this
will not be done until the judges deter
mine the time of meeting.
| Evidence Gamma In
| In the meantime steps are being taken
| by Attorney General Breeder and District
/ Attorney LoOfbourOw to collect all the
evidence possible to lay before the Jury
/ when it is called. This evidence IS com
/ ing in much more rapidly than the state
! officers anticipated Scores of independ-
/ ent dealers nave been found who are sux-
/ ioUs to tell stories Of prosecutions by the
/ officials Of the Butchers & GTOcers' as
| ISOLATION and by the local wholesalers
/ That the members of the Butchers & Gro
/ GERS association are getting mighty I'M
/ easy is becoming more evident daily
/ While It is generally admitted that the
/ local jObF5rs have crowded the retailers
so greedily on the prices of the average
run of grocery commodities that the re
! taiiers have made a very small profit
| along certain lines, il grows more certain
/ daily that the retailers on their part have
arbitrarily raised prices on special lines
OF goods to a level far above normal
Combine in Bad Order.
| It is rumored that not all is harmony in
! the ranks Of the Butchers & GrOcers. The
/ chief clerk of one Of the largest stores
on the east side said yesterday that the
| proprietor Of the store is more than dis
| gusted with the way the association has
| dictated prices and that he is willing to
| tell things. The clerk declared that many
| times the proprietor had purchased sew
| eral loads of potatoes at a low figure
and wanted to sell them below the asso-
| citation price for potatoes. in order to
make them a leader for other goods in
/ the store. Needless to say he couldn't
/ do it." declared the chief clerk
| With the public investigation Of their
1 methods two weeks old. and a grand jury
/ impanelled which is to investigate their
| operations, the officials of the Butchers
! & GrOcers' association now declare that
ated or existed contrary to any statute Of
/ the state or ordinance of the city they are
ready to dissolve their organization
Willing TO Quit, If
Lorenzo Jensen. secretary Of the asso-
citation. made this statement yesterday
| and reiterated it last night. Business men
when told of the announcement inttmated
| strongly that it would have come much
more properly before q grand jury had
been called than at present.
| Mr.. Jensen says there isn't a member
| of the association clearing as high as 5
per cent on his business annually. He
says further that the association was or
ganized for mutual protection against the
wholesalers who were crowdink them to
the wall on prices and against bad debt
! ors among the consumers
[ It is now too late to ward off criminal
prosecution If an unlawful combine can
be proved.
In answer to the charge that represen-
tatives OF the Butchers & GrOcers have
repeatedly threatened merchants who are
| not members with financial ruin because
they refused to sell at association prices
Mr.. Jensen declares that if such threats
have been made they were made without
the sanction or knowledge of the asso-
citation officials. The independent dealers
deny this however. asserting that the
| men who made threats to them declared
! themselves accredited representatives of
the Butchers & Grocers.
Many Stores for Sale.
Mr.. Jensen also declares that the men
| who are back of the propositions to estab-
lish cooperative stores here need not
| trouble to buy new fixtures or locations
as there are forty retail grOcers and meat
dealers now in the city who will gladly
sell out their places at a sacrifice.
! Following are the grOcers and meat
dealers Mr.. Jensen says viii gladly sell
out;
Leo Dykes. J. G. Morrison. Bert Olsen.
L. NJ BlackmarT. NJ. s. Rock. Aberdeen
/ Family store. c. z. Baer, Ernest Smith.
n. D. Cook J. y. Doumas. J. r. Frame,
| D. Heapes, Allen & Woolly. c. W Mel
son. J. W. Marley & Co, Oliver Pearson,
| John Taylor. Peck & Saunders, ) W.
! Parker. Jergensen & Dansy, f. L. Rich,
william Stoneman. NJ Singleton. F ".
Wilson. J. B. Watson. NJ. 7. Wolf and a.
Kramer & Sons. NJ l. Wolf and A. B.
Nelson.
Men who have recently sold out, largely
he explains on account of increasing cost
beyond the revenues. are g. J. Morrison,
Ander & Burg Bixby & Rinders. Aber-
deem Family store. Farren & Sheen. Hem
sley and Emsley. A. c. Smoot, A. P An
derson Greenside Grocery, J. W Say1He'
I S Bowdedge. Wallace towering, South
Side Grocery, Grocery Supply company,
Wells & Co, r. Ross Baird Grocery com
! pany Clarence Peterson, F. ]. Brantlng,
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