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Show CHARGED WITH CUTTING RATES. H Indictments Against the Southern Pa- clfic and Pacific Mall. H San FranclBco, Cal. The, federal grand Jury has returned five Indict-ments Indict-ments of 121 counts against the South-cm South-cm Pacific company nnd tho Paciilft Mull Steamship company, charging vl-olntlons vl-olntlons of tho lntcrstnto commerce H law. These Indictments, Jf followed ' by convictions, nre sufficient to rou-dor rou-dor tho corporations llnblo to linen aggregating J12 1,000 to $ 2,180,000, the- H minimum flues prescribed by law on each count being $1,000 and the mux- H Imum fine 20,000. JH Tho defendnnt corporations aro nc-cused nc-cused of secretly cutting to $1 tne published, rnto of $1.25 on through shipment!! of matting ftm Knbo. Japan, to San Francisco, nnd thence throughout tho United Stntes. |