The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-01
SUGAR HEARING
WILL BEGIN IN
ZION MONDAY
Many Witnesses to Be Ex-
amined in This City, but
Only Two Names Made
Public.
ANNOUNCEMENT IS
MADE BY ATTORNEY
Hawaiian Planter Relates How
He Lost the Friendship of
Old Claus Spreckels by En-
gaging in Refining.

~ AN FRANClSCO, July 0l'--l ne Henf
ing Of the governments suit In
equity against the American Sugar
~ Refining company will be taken up
in Salt Lake City Monday. This
announcement was made today by As
sistant United States District Attorney
{. H Dorr who Is assisting in the proce-
cution Of the suit now being heard here.
The San Francisco daily sessions will
be extended to enable the government ex-
aminers TO finish the local hearing by the
end OF the week.
1t was said that a number OF witnesses
would be examined In Salt Lake City, but
the names Of only two we're made public.
They are George A. Parkinson Of Pres
ton, Idaho, formerly a director of the
Idaho Sugar company. and H. G. Whit
ney OF Salt Lake, secretary of the Utah
Idaho Sugar company. Subpoenas have
been sent to the United States marshal
at Salt Lake for service on the prospect
i've witnesses.
Human Interest Story.
human interest touch was given to-
day TO the hearing OF the suit when John
Buck. Hawaiian planter and sugar man
ufacturer, told how his entrance into the
refined sugar business caused him to sac
rifioe the friendship of the late Claus
Spreckes, once tho sugar king Of the
west. Buck left New York with Spreck-
els nearly fifty years ago and came
around Cape Horn with him to San
Francisco He entered his employ In the
manufacture of bone black. used In sugar
refining, and LEFT his positian before a
year had passed, Then he went to Homo
lulu, started his own business in the bone
black trade and eventually acquired plan
tation property, He was soon the head
of a company that manufactured raw
sugar and sold 1t to tho Spreckels refin-
cry, Business was so good that Buck
and his associates ventured into the re-
fined sugar business, entering the Call
fornia and Missouri river markets.
~ came to see Claus Spreckels about
the business Buck said, land he told
me that I had no right TO enter the re-
fined field. / had been selling him bona
black and raw for thirty years. He told
me that I was not doing the right
thing"
Broken Friendship.
when you started to make white
field In competition with Spreckels, didn't
you?" asked Attorney Dunno.
II did, Buck replied.
That made old man Spreckels uretty
angry. didn't it7'
yes. 1t did,"
And Claus Spreckels, the man with
! whom you came around the Horn and
the man who gave you your first lob,
ceased speaking to you, didn't he?"
'He never spoke to me after that in
terview. He told me that II went into
the business he would see to 1t that l
lost money"
Through George N Rolph. brother of
Mayor James Rolph OF San Francisco,
Assistant United States District Attorney
G. II. Dorr sought to show that the Cali
fornia- Hawaiian Sugar company and the
Western Sugar Refining company, the
Spreckels concern, had been engaged In
trade war in 1908. The Western. as
has been testified took over the other
plant at Crockett on three years' lease
at rental OF 100000 year and after
the lease expired the Crockett plant re-
sumed operations as an independent con-
cern. Rolph acted as superintendent OF
| the plant and started the war by cutting
| under the Westerns prices. Donald Y
| Campbell. attorney for the California
Hawaiian company. explained the terms
| OF the lease.
Oxnard Questioned.
| Robert Oxnard, president Of the
American Beet Sugar company. was
again questioned at today's hearing here
| On redirect examination. he reviewed his
| testimony previously given. regarding the
| fight of the independent companies to
keep their place In the Missouri river
| market.
| In answer 90 question by Dorr today
| as to what he considered the cause of
| the sugar conflict OF 1901, Oxnard said
at considered that the war had been
carried TO us by H. o. Havemeyer when
| the American Sugar Refining company
reduced the price In the Missouri terri
tory to % cents pound"
Can you tell us what Havemsyer
| thought OF the situaton?" interiected Az
| torney Peter Dunno. representing the
Western Sugar Refining company. Dunno
withdrew the question on DORIS ob5eo-
! ton.
John L. Howard. president OF the Union