Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-08-10

should be sold in the county of An
derson, state Of Texas; that said
schedule Of prices is as follows:
Ice cream parlors and markets, 35c
per 100 pounds.
Saloons and dairies, 4Oc per 100
pounds.
Residences, less than so pounds, 6Oc
per 100 pounds.
Residences, so pounds and over, SOC
per 100 pounds.
Ice packed in shavings, SOC per 100
pounds.
Ice packed in shavings to dealers in
small towns, 40c per 100 pounds.
Ice in car load lots, f. o. b. Palestine,
$3.50 per ton.
Price on Coupon Books.
200 pound coupon books, s1.20, less
ten per cent for cash, s1.10.
500 pound coupon books, $500, less
ten per cent for cash, $2.70.
1000 pound coupon books, $500, less
ten per cent for cash, s5.40.
1000 pound coupon books, $1,000,
less ten per cent for cash, $1,000.
5000 pound coupon books, $500,
less ten per cent for cash, $500.
Ice delivered at factory, $3.50 per
ton.
The following number of pounds
and prices to residences:
8 pounds ice at Coo, 5 cents.
6 pounds ice at Coo, 10 cents.
= pounds ice q Gt,c, 1s eA'ats z.
IS pounds ice at 60c, 20 cents.
so pounds ice at SOC, rs cents.
60 pounds ice at soc, 80 cents.
70 pounds ice at SOC, 35 cents.
80 pound ice at 40c, 35 cents.
80 pounds ice at 45c, 35 cents.
100 pounds ice at SOC, 35 cents.
That the foregoing schedule sub
stantially sets forth the scale of
prices agreed to and adopted by the
conspirators aforesaid which have
since been maintained and carried
out by each and all of said conspira-
tors.
That the practical effect of the
adopting and carrying out of the fore
going schedule of prices has been to
eliminate competition in the manufac-
ture and sale of ice and to advance to
an exorbitant and unconscionable de-
gree the price of ice to the consuming
public of Anderson county, Texas.
6. In further pursuance of the con-
spiracy aforesaid and in order to
make more complete the monopoly en-
joyed by said defendants and each of
them, in the manufacture and sale of
ice, each and all of the defendants
herein named entered into and have
since continuously maintained an I'M
lawful agreement and understanding
with divers other corporation and in
dividuals engaged in the manufacture
and sale of ice in Texas, by which it
is agreed and understood that no per-
son, firm or corporation engaged in
the manufacture and sale of ice out
side of the county of Anderson will
sell ice and ship same into said Ander-
son county, likewise the said Pales-
tine Ice, Fuel, Gin company and the
Palestine Electric and Ice company
and the other defendants herein
have bound themselves not to ship ice
outside of Anderson county into the
territory of any other manufacturer or
dealers in ice
That the effect of this agreement
is to divide the territory and destroy
competition in the manufacture and
sale of ice in Texas; that the names
Of the parties entering into the agree
ment and understanding with the de-
PENDANTS herein are to the plaintiff
unknown.
Z. Ihat Ice is an article OF prime
necessity to all the people of Ander
son county, and is an article univer-
sally used by the people.
8. That by said acts, hereinbefore
set out and continuously carried out
each and every day since the Goth
day of June, 1908, each and all of said
have violated the laws of
Texas and have especially violated
each and every section of the Act of
March 81, 1908, commonly known as
The Antitrust Act and each and all
IF the defendants have become liable F.,
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