The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-02-08
TO PAY SIxTl THOUSAND
Contract Phase Of the 8usiness-lt
Is he states Biggest Fine--In All
VIII Reach About $4,000.


10y Fred 5 Jackson. attorney general
100 the supreme court, any further
Within short time, possibly before
The end of this week the attorneys
for the company and the attorney
general will submit TO the supreme
court proposition to withdraw
the answer of the company and al.
low a decree 10 be- entered against
g.
This decree will be entered by
agreement of the attorneys and the
court. II viii bee limited custer
against the company and provide
for fine of about 100000 for VIC.
htiOns of the antitrust laws Of the
state This decree will be entered.
based on the findings of II. r..
Gansc. special master Of the court.
The company will submit to being
prohibited from making exclusive
contracts with agents in this state.
This is the chief feature of the
case against H. II so bound It's
agents that they had lim;tcl terri.
tory in which 10 sell machines and
{ these agents were not permitted
/ to sell any other brand Of harvest.
ing machinery except that made
by the trust The company will
b" prohibited from doing these
things longer in Kansas and the
fine will he compensation for these
| Illegal acts previous to the times
the custer suit was brought.
The case was brought two years
ago As a quo warranto proceeding
against the company because It had
persisted in violating the antitrust
laws. The attorney general did not
desire 10 drive the company on.
/ tircly from the state but he did pur.
pose to make it obey the trust laws
or get out lie believed that the
company would keep IT'S Kansas
business and submit gracefully 10
the laws Of Kansas rather then
bee shut out Of business I'm the
state. II took long time 10 con.
. vince the company's attorneys Of
this but they have agreed that the
stat" is larger institution than
the company and will bow 10 it's
laws
For the greater part Of the year
The cyidenc" has hocn taken in
the case. In all parts Of the state
aud In Chicago witnesses were cx.
amincd before II T. Ganse. the
special master
The company refused early in the
week 10 take any further action
toward the appeal of the criminal
suit against IL 10 the United States
supreme court, and announced It
/ would pay the fine of S12. 600 as.
sessed against IL by the district
court Of Shawnee county. When
this was done Il was an indication
. that the company had given up it's
/ fight In Kansas and would not fur.
ther contest the custer suit against
/ 30 i'm the supreme court except i'm
a purely formal manner However.
10 was not suspected then that il
would practically give up the fight
entirely and submit 10 whatever the
attorney general ana the supreme
/ court imposed upon &c.
II this fine of 100000 is imposed.
AS expected. it will moan a contri.
button TO the Kansas school fund
Of $4,000 This is the amount of
the fine in the criminal crse already
decided and which the company did
no, appeal. and the expected fine
I'm This proceeding IN addition the
company will pay an of the costs
How much these costs will be Is
not known, but I'm an probability
the costs will amount 10 more
than $4,000.
No fine even approXimating simi.
lar proportions TO this has ever been
assessed in any court in Kansas
in any proceedings so far as any
records here show
n is known that the attorney gen
eral has suggested that the limited
custer, prohibiting emlusive con
tracts, would be satisfactory to the
attorney general and as the SUI
preme court usually follows the
suggestions OF the attorney general,
when cases are compromised, It prob.