Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-02
IT, S. SUES TO
END HARTMAN
MONOPOLY
FIGHT TO DOWN RAILROAD
MAGNATE is ON
KILLED BY HIS
METHODS
Attorneys for Government Would
Break Fnancier's Hold on Salt
Lake, Santa Fe and
Other Lines

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON. Feb. /. - United
States Attorney Hiram e. Booth, act
ing under the direction o. the attorney
general, today filed in the circuit court
of the United States for the district of
Utah, sitting in Salt Lake City, a petit
tion or bill in equity in which the
United States is made complainant and
the Union Pacific Railroad company,
the Oregon Short Line Railroad COM
pany, the Oregon Railroad & Naviga-
tion company, the San Pedro, Los An
geles & Salt Lake Railroad company,
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail-
road company, the Southern Pacific
Railroad company, the Northern Pacific
Railway company, the Great Northern
Railroad company, Farmers Loan and
Trust company, e. H. Hartman, Jacob
Schiff, Otto Kahn, James Stillman,
Henry H. Rogers, Henry C. Frick and
William A. Clark, defendants.
The bill sets out in detail the several
agreements, contracts and operations
by which the several defendants, Har-
rilnan, Schiff Kahn, Stillman, Rogers,
FrIck and Clark, at various times since
Jtnuary 1, 1901, are alleged to have
secured for themselves and others the
management and control of the various
defendant roads, their branches and
steamship lines and to have ever since
operated them in restraint of trade and
commerce among the states and with
foreign nations in violation of the act
of congress-, approved July 2, 1890, en-
titled AN act to protect trade and
commerce against unlawful restraint
and monopoly"
Conspiracy Alleged
yfvt.o IL Nd
spiracy among the defendants in dero-
cation of the common rights of all the
people of the United States, and asks:
THAT the individual defendants
named, and their assistants, stockhold-
ers and each and every person eombin-
ing or conspiring with them and their
trustees, agents and assigns. present
or future, perpetually from doing any
and every act or thing in furtherance
of the combination or conspiracy or
tending to carry out the conspiracy
described in this bill of complaints, or
intended or tending to complete control
or partial control of said competing
lines of railway by the Union Pacific
Railway company, the Oregon Short
Line Railroad company or the Oregon
Railroad & Navigation company, IN
carrying out of the unlawful combina-
tion or conspiracy hereinbefore alleged.
doings of said defendants in pursuance
OF said conspiracy be decreed to be in
violation of the act of congress, as ap-
proved July, 1890, entitled AN act TO
rrotect trade and commerce against un-
lawful restraint and monopolies,' and
the act amendatory thereof, and that
a writ of injunction, mandatory or
otherwise as may be necessary, issue
cut of this court enjoining the said de-
ants and agents to desist in said uu-
lawful acts, and that they and each of
them and all and each of their respect
i've directors, officers, agents, servants,
employees and all persons acting under
CT through them, or either of them of in
in their behalf, or claiming so to act,
be enjoined, restrained and prohibited
from entering into, taking part in or
performing any contract, combination
or conspiracy the purpose or effect of
which will be as to said trade and COM
nerce among the several states and
territories and with foreign nations to
restrain trade or to monopolize and at
tempt to monopolize said trade and
commerce in violation of the provisions
of said acts of congress.
To Subpoena Witnesses
"And the complainant. the United
and further relief as the nature of the
case may require and the court may
deem proper in the premises; to the
end, therefore, that the United States
Of America may obtain the relief to
which it is justly entitled in the prem
ises, may it please your honors, to
grant IL writs of subpoenas directed to
.he said defendants, Union Pacific Rail-
road company, Oregon Short Line Rail-
a O. Nov
ioation company; San Pedro, Los An
geles & Salt Lake Railroad company:
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
company; Southern Pacific, Northern
Pacific Railroad company. Great North
ern company, Farmers Loan and Trust
company, and e. H. Hartman, Jacob
Schiff, Otto H. Kahn. James Stillman
Henry II Rogers, Henry c. Frick and
William A. Clark, and the co-conspira-
tors whose names are unknown to the
complainant and such names as may
We made known to the complainant and
the court be advised therefor and to
each of them, commanding them and
each of them to appear herein and an
swer (l,ut not under OATH the allega-
tons rrentionea in the foregoing petit
tion, and abide by and perform such
order or decree as the court may make
in the premises, and that pending the
fnal appearing of this case a temporary
restraining order and temporary writ
of iniurction may issue enjoining the
defendants and their assistants and
each OF them, and their stockholders,
directors, officers and agents and serv-
ants as nereinbefore prayed"
The prayer to the court respecting
the Union Pacific Railroad company
tIe oreaon Short Line Railroad COM
many and the Oregon Railroad & Navi-
qafion company was substantially re-
heated in all its important particulars
10 all the other defendant railroads
named IN the title Of the case, and in
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