Show ANTHRACITE MONOPOLY Solicitor G General Files Kile In lu Suit ultA A Against Eastern I n oat Coat Preliminary steps In its in tn trust anti-trust case which will swill attract wide public In Interest Interest interest In- In terest have been taken by tho the department department depart depart- ment of Justice says a Washington dispatch A brief has hns been filed flied In the United States supreme court b by Solicitor Solicitor Solicitor So So- General Lehmann setting forth violations of ot the Sherman trust anti act oct by the Reading company a n. holding corporation of Pennsylvania anla six railroads railroads rail rall- roads which transport seven seventy per cent of or tho the anthracite coal moving from the mines seven affiliated coal I companies which control over eighty eighty- seven per cent of ot all the anthracite R coal In tho the ground and other corporal corpor corpora corporations M I firms and Individuals of ot Penn Pena syl van a. a The case cage will win come up on appeaL tal taken en b by both the tho government and thReading th thReading Reading Raiding company and also on an a ap appeal peal by the Temple Tempi Iron Tron company fro a decree of the tho United States court for the tho eastern district of ot Pen Panr sylvania handed down December 2 21 1910 adjudging the Reading com compan compani pan and arid the Temple Iron company a a. com coin In restraint of ot trade and e Joining their continuance as such Tic governments go o appeal is from that thit pa pai of ot the decree which dismissed dismissed the pot po ton Lion of ot tho the o s petition aileIn alle aile In log Ing that the defendant railroad n an and coal companies were swore parties to a a. gem gei oral cral conspiracy to monopolize the pr of or anthracite coal Its transportation trans tram and to control its price an sale The Tho government go further alleged allege that tint contracts made mado b by the railroad and their lr affiliated coal companies wit independent coal operators were ero in v vl elation of or the tho Sherman act and th the thai the petition was Improperly dismissed as to them t |