The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08
MOULD ABR0GAIE
POWER CONTRACT.
~. i Being Brought at st. Louis
which Asks for Annullment OF
Agreements With keo-
kuk Company.
|AccoUNT1NG rs WANTED
hated Railways Made Defendants in
Action in Which the Plain
tiff Seeks Adjust
ments.
ACCOUNTING rs WANTED

Ito nower from the Keokuk dam
!. sought in suit brought by John
w Seaman in a st. Louis court IN an
GE n...on seeking to secure an account
ing from the United Railways com
ANY The basis Of the suit. 1t is
ta.sd nv ST. Louis papers. dates back
t! u ~ Iaos. when the contracts for pow
little !, ware made with the Mississippi
We Al pvar Power company at Keokuk. 4
soft. - The story of the suit is told in the
dam following from the st. Louis Globe
we "a Democrat:
1 lots snit for an accounting OF the
for a finances of the United Railways COM
lerine nany. especially with view to abro-
nd ID Eating the contracts for power from
with tho Keokuk dam, and for receiver
n ap{ shin Of the property of the company
hnessl was filed in the United States dis
gloss trict court yesterday by Ephraim
|, you. CAPTAIN, attorney for John W. sea-
uH or. man. whose identity is unknown in
rprlse. ST. Louis.
, use, The petition recites that there is an
fine interlocking directorate of the Union
REALM Electric Light and Power company
youI and the Electric Company OF Missouri,
?. tho both OF which furnish power, and the
'er o4 United Railways company, which has
scalpl made contracts detrimental TO the
allina interests OF the stockholders. 1t al
leges that up to January, 1916 the
prettyI company paid out at least $4,000 an
oisten uually too much since July, 1913,
. and and not less than 100000 per annum
hair since 1915
tinel The petition further asks for ST.
' and 100000 from the Union Electric, and
1ts-a. the payment OF an aggregate or So
ryonel 100000 under the corrupt practices
act from the two service companies
to the railway company as the in
II iured party In the contracts.
ch W Suit Dates Back Ten Years.
Appointment Of an interlocutory re-
a..enu ceiyer is asked pending adjudication
| of the suit, and then receiver to
! 8 8 take over and manage the properties.
= The petition states that the COM
! : u plainant, Seeman, is informed that ar
engagements are in progress for a
lfrendly suit by some of the stock
holders for receiver, and asks tina
this be forestalled by the appoint
ment under the present plea
Doril The basis Of the suit Is dated back
ell ARD lsVe, When the United Haii"aSs
nomeI company made contract with the
Mississippi River Power Distributing
as he company, which afterward assigned
Its property to the Electric Company
: and OF Missouri for electric power. Claim
nc Is made II the petition that Seeman
the complainant in the suit. then
~. owned and has since owned ten
Shares of preferred stock. The petit
lion further sets out that since 1910
~ ne has not received any of the cumu-
lof iative per cent which preferred
STOCK Is guaI,nteed, because of the
oaeu excessive contracts.
,r+ai,l Saplan was asked as to the ident-
NY OF Seeman. and beyond the fact
that he is a retired capitalist living
-, IN New York, he would say nothing.
everything is contained in the
go; = petition" said Caplan, "and | should
not answer one question without an
sWering all. As / cannot answer ALL
oun viii not answer any"
Says Suit is Bona Eide.
The questions that had been asked
acheY were as to the identity of Seeman
ciea Wnere he lived, when he bought the
er' STOCK what he paid for it, and who
i ANYBODY, is behind him. To the
latter question, Captain replied that it
was bona fide suit and that the
complainant is in earnest in filing
me petition, believing that as a stock
,iolder his interests have been in
'ureu as result Of the contracts
Inc petition reviews the organiza.
ZION or the street railway company
40 STOCK issues, its maturing bonded
h.hueotedness and the organization Of
oIe power companies 1t states the
psa IS offered "as civil suit in the
Att, - q piii VI equity, On DendlI or
set and all other persons simil-
ariy situated, and especially the
aolaer OF preferred stock Of the de-
,ehdant the United Railway Com
pany of St Louis"
Included as parties to the suit are
.ne Union Electric Light and Power
esoq.mpany, the Electric Company OF
aissourl Charles s. Ruffner, Rich
ara McCulloch. Henry 8. Priest, Fes-
.us j; Wade. Annie E. Huttig, as heir
CIV CIV beneficiary and as trustee OF
FAIRIES n,all H. Huttig, the Mercantile
asust company as executor and trus.
ee OF the estate of James Campbell,