The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-06-30
"A ARE INDICTED
SPECIAL GRAND JURY AT cH,cA.
GO GETS DEFINITE
RESuLTS.
EXCHANGED Information
Which Seemed 10 Keep Up Prices,
Stifie Competition and Blacklist
Dealers Who Resisted
Estortion.

Chicago, Illinois. Fourteen secre-
taries of Lumber Dealers associations
throughout the West and the Middle
West, all members of the Lumber Sec
retaries' Bureau of Information, were
indicted by the special federal grand
jury on two counts of an indictment
charging criminal conspiracy in re-
straint of trade.
II is intimated that either this or a
succeeding grand jury will return in
diCtments against several members OF
the Weyerhaeuser family. the lumber
kings. Joseph Rhodes. secretary OF
Frederick Weyerhacuser and mouth
piece of the Weycrhaeuser interests.
having furnished the grand jury with
important evidence Three secretaries
escaped being indicted. having been
given immunity baths by appearing
before the grand jury and testifying
against their brsthern.
The indicted men were:
Willard G.. Hollis. Minneapolis. sec.
rotary of the Northwestern Lumber.
mems association: Henry A. Gorsuch.
Kansas City. Mo: Bird Critchfield,
Lincoln. Neb.: T. T.. Hall. Nebraska;
Harry c. Scearce. Mooresville. Ind. I;
u. II. liemenway. Of Denver. Colo. :
Louis !. Hileman. Colo; II. S. Adams,
Chilicothe. Ohio; b. y. Hayward. Col
umbus, Ohio: A. l.. Porter. Spokane.
Wash; X. p. Bransford. Union City.
Tenn; and A. {. RICHTER, Pittsburg,
Pa
There were two counts i'm the in
diCtment against each man. The first
count alleges conspiracy among retail
dealers TO restrain interstate trade
and commerce between the manufaC-
turCrs and wholesalers. and the con.
sumers. The second charges conspir-
aCy To suppress and eliminate compe-
tition which ordinarily should exis.
between wholesalers and manufaCtur.
ers. and the retailer in supplying the
consumer. The indictments are based
on alleged acts of the secretaries. In
1870" they organized. in Chicago. into
the Lumber Secretaries Bureau of In.
formation. The secretaries, II is
charged. were official representatives
Of several thousand members of varI.
Gus associations, and according to the
feCond count. by means of letters and
publications In trade papers. have SO
interIered with trade as practically 10
dictate classification under which
wholesalers and manufacturers sell
their products.
Appended 10 the indictments are 100
names of wholesalers, retailers and
mail order houses who appeared on the
BLACK list" Among them were
Montgomery. Ward & Co. Chicago
Sears, Ro"buck & Co. Chicago: the
Chicago House Wrecking Co; The
Gordon Van Tyne Co. Davenport. la. :
The Morgan Sash & Door Co., Chicago:
the Foster Munger Co.. the TuTnbill
JOice Co. and the John A. Guage Co
OF Chicago: the Weller Musson Co.
Spokane Wash: Stimson Mill Co.
Ballard, Wash: Roach a Musser
Muscatine. la; BurkholdeT Lumber
Co. Minneapolis: Barrett Manufactur,
ing Co. Chicago, ST. Louis. Cincin
natl. New Orleans. Philadelphia. New
York and Boston; the Sulcher & Moore
Lumber Co. Orange. Texas.
Judge Lands in receiving the in
dictments highly commended the jur,
ors for their work. declaring that his
instructions regarding secrecy had
been obeyed even better than he had
hoped for. not one inkling of what he
grand jury was doing having escaped
during its deliberations.