The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-10
HADLEY STARTS
ON A NEW CHUTE
Brings Suits to Dissolve Merger
of Various Could Interests
in Missouri.
WRITS RETURNABLE JAN. 20
GOULD SEES NO OCCASION FOR
ALARM.

Jefferson city. No, Jan. Suits to
dissolve the alleged merger OF the
Wabash. Missouri Pacific and Iron
Mountain Roilway companies and the
Pacific Express company, to revoke
the licenses and charters OF the Pa
cific Express company, American Re-
frigerator Transit company. Western
Coal g. Mining company HIGH Hill
Coal Mining company and the Kansas
Missouri Elevator company, were filed
in the supreme court by Attorney Gen
,ral Hadley today.
The petition alleges the stocks of the
companies named are owned by the
same interests the Goulds, in violation
81 the provisions Of the constitution
and laws oe Missouri
chief Justice CAN'T Of tho supreme
court made quo warrantO Writs asked
by Attorney General Hadley return
ole in the supreme court on Jan. 3,
Upon which day the defendants must
appear and make answer to the ale
cations in Hadley's petition.
Purpose of the Suits.
Concerning the nature of the suits
Attorney General Hadley said:
These suits are brought for the
purpose OF forcing A discontiuuance Of
The ownership Of the stock Of the Wa
bash, Missouri Pacific and Iron Noun
tain companies. and the control Of
these three companies, two Of which
are paralleling and competing lines. by
the same interests. and To force dis
continuance of the ownership of the
stock OF the companies i'm the Pacific
Express company. the american Re-
frigcrator Transit company Rich Hill
coal Mining company Western Coal
* Mining company and the Kansas
Missouri Elevator company. BY this
stock ownership these roads nave been
engag ed in business not authorized by
their charters and prohibited by the
constitution and laws OF the state. The
forfeiture OF the charters Of the coal
mining companies and the Kansas
Missouri Elevator company is prayed
Tor. the license OF the Pacific Express
company and the American Refriger-
atOr Transit company to do business
I'm the state Is asked for. but the for
fixture of the charters OF The railroad
companies is asked If they should re-
fuse to discontinue i'm a certain time
these illegal practices These prac-
tees exist to 4 greater or less extent
in a number OF other Missouri rail-
roads and action viii be begun 1t
once. These cases have been under
consideration for over a year Their
institution, however. has been delayed
Standard Oil and freight rate litigo-
tion.
Allegations in Petition.
The petition asking that tho merger
Of the stock ownership of the roads be
dissolved alleges that tho Missouri Pa
cific, Iron Mountain and Wabash roads
are corporations created by and exist
ing under the laws of Missouri: that
the Pacific Express company is char
tered in Nebraska. but licensed 20 10
business i'm Missouri: that the Ameri-
can Refrigerator Transit company is
chartered i'm Illinois, but licensed in
Missouri as q common carrier Of cold
storage products.
1t states that the Wabash and Mis-
souri, Pacific roads between 1t. Louis
and Kansas City are parcllei and COM
petmg lines as TO traffic between these
two cities. and also as 10 much Of the
intermediate territory II is alleged
that the Missouri Pacific owns and
holds 44S.354is of the 443.901 outstand-
ing shares OF the Iron Mountain: that
the Missouri Pacific owns 10000 shares
OF preferred stock OF the Wabash th-
Iron Mountain $4,000 others Of the pre-
ferred stock OF the Wabash and So
43J0 GOO OF the debenture bonds Of Inc
Wabash: that the Wabash owns "A 00l
aud the Missouri Pacific y zoe share,
of the $4,000 shares Of stock of the Pa
cific Express company: that the Iron
Mountain owns .. S53 and the MiSsour
P1cihc 1.217 shares Of the stock of IN,
American Refrigerator company. being
the entire amount of stock issued .,
that company.
Have the Same Offices.
There is also an allegation that th,
from Mountain and Missouri P1cig,