The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-06-29
"A ARE INDICTED
SPECIAL GRAND JURY AT cHICA.
GO GETS DEFINITE
RESULTS.
EXCHANGED INFORMATION
Which Seemed to Keep Up Prices,
Stifie Competition and Blacklist
Dealers Who Resisted
Extortion.

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 al indictment
charging criminal conspiracy in re,
straint of trade.
II is minated that either this or q
succeeding grand jury will return in.
dictments against several members of
the Weyerhaeuser family, the lumber
kings, Joseph Rhodes, secretary OF
Frederick Weyerhaeuser and mouth
piece of the Weyerhaeuser 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 brethren.
The indicted men were:
Willard G.. Hollis, Minneapolis, sec
rotary of the Northwestern Lumber
mems association; Henry A. Gorsuch,
Kansas City, Mo-; Bird Critchield,
Lincoln, Neb.; II. +. Hall, Nebraska;
Harry G.. Scarce, Mooresville, Ind.
II. II. Hemenway, of Denver, Colo;
Louis !. Hileman, Colo; III. S. Adams,
Chilicothe. Ohio; p. N. Hayward, Col
nmbus, Ohio; A. l.. Porter, Spokane.
Wash; r.. p. Bransford, Union City,
Tenn; and A. G. Fighter, Pittsburg,
Pa.
There were two counts in the in
dictment against each man. The first
count alleges conspiracy among retail
dealers to restrain interstate trade
and III between the manufac-
turers and wholesalers, and the con.
sumers. The second charges conspir.
acy to suppress and eliminate compe-
tition which ordinarily should exist
between wholesalers and m%anufactur.
ers. and the retailer in supplying the
consumer. The indictments are based
on alleged acts of the secretaries. In
1905 they organized, in Chicago, into
the Lumber Secretaries Bureau of In
formation. The secretaries. il is
Ahoi SNus "NiS OlliNidi VDl NoVlNhNiN co
Of several thousand members of varI-
Gus associations, and according to the
second count. by "a of letters and
publications i'm trade papers. have so
interfered with trade as practically TO
dictate classification under which
wholesalers and manufacturers sell
their products.
Appended to 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, Roebuck & Co, Chicago; the
Chicago House Wrecking Co.; The
Gordon Van Tyne Co, Davenport, Ia;
rhe Morgan Sash & Door Co, Chicago;
the Foster Munger Co, the Turnbill
Joice Co., and the John A. Guage Co.,
Of Chicago: the Weller Musson Co,
Spokane Wash; Stimson Mill Co.,
Ballard. Wash; Roach & Musser,
Muscatine. Ia; B%urkholder Lumber
Co., Minneapolis; Barrett Manufacture
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
beer obeyed even better than he had
hoped for. not n linking of what he
grand Jury was doing having escaped
during its deliberations.