Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-01-27
.sERVEDSUBPOENAS'
ON THE PACKERS.
United States Marshals Visited the
Chicago Stock Yards.
LANDS CHARGE 10 THE JURY
DIVthet Attorney sims Has Completes
Report on Which Inquiry 10 Based
mo immunity
baths.


Chicago. Jan. 25.--Deputy United
states ioarshals raided the ofices o.
various packing firms at the stock
yards and served at least 30 subpoenal
On employees to testify in the federal
rfaaA tuFy investigation Of the beef
dust. Fprty.fiive men were called In
coa1t Of Judge X. M. Lands, the juriSi
who inod the Standard Oil company
o9e,0O0,o00, and 20 will be selected on
the grand Jury. 1t is expected Judge
lands will SAY things" to the jury
abOak the meat trust In directing the
Investigation.
The names Of the men to be sum
moned before the inQuisitorlal body
were guarded with the utmost secrecy
until almost the moment Of serving the
subpoenas.
District Attorney Sims and his A.
sistants have completed the report OF
the inquiry made by special investiga
tors Of the department Of Justice into
the existence Of an alleged combine to
control prices, and forwarded 1t to
Washington.
Oficials at Washington were ap
priSed Of It's contents by long distance
telephone. According to all indications
Attorney General Wickersham consid-
ers the preliminary investigation has
warranted a searching inquiry by the
grand jury.
The men sought as witnesses were
not the men higher up" They were
among the rank and file Of workers
men who made rates and schedules
and the many things that 80 to make
up the routine Of the business Of the
big packing houses, the government
believes, will be Of use in its battle
against the packers.
This time, II Is promised, none will
DO given the immunity bath" for they
vii not be called upon to testify. Mr..
Sims said that he had no idea when the
suit lookisng for the dissolution Of
the National Packing company would
DO brought.
It was learned that an effort had
been made In vain by the beef barcns
while in New York last week to enlist
the sympathies Of Wall street in an
Nttempt to have pressure brought upon
The oficIals at Washington to stop the
Aresent investigation.
A. the first move Of what prom.
iD6s 70 be the most remarkable trust
Investigation ever begun by the Unlted
atales government Judge X. r. Lands
revealed the true inside signIAeahce
political and otherwlSe--of the pres
eat prosecution.
n the course Of the most stirring H.
egypctlcnD to q jury heard ~ Chicago
a many years he disclosed TIE fhet
yARt me present inyeStigatiOn erlGi-
aassd. not IN Washington but right
Acre In Chicago.
Il was shown that the public an
nouncement Of the plans Of the Tan
administration to institute both crimk
nal and civil proceedings against the
zig. Chicago packers was made Just
a. hours after Judge lands had In.
formed District Attorney Edwin W.
Sims Of his own plan to cause an in.
vestgation Of the packing industry By
the present grand Jury.
While the instructions were careful
" worded and calmly judicial, 1t was
broadly Intimated that the Taft.admin'
istration was seeking to steal from
hlm the credit for the present investl'
CATION. Moreover the department OF
Justice ofIIcials who gave out tho fact
coueerning the governments plans are
referred to by Judge lands a. Ger
tain government hunctionaries" and he
charges them with causing the present
Investigation to begun in ian atmos-
phers sureharged with prejudice"
Judge Lands Instructions we're Of
far moss convincing and paIaStakins
variety from the very Arst word to
che last, then those that ever he has
given to previous grand iuries.
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