Show CONSPIRACY CASE SET FOR HR TODAY Corporations and Officers to Be Tried on Charge of Dis Discrimination Discrimination i crimination iI i iThe I The case of ot the United States against the Union LilIon Pacific Coal company the lie Ore Oregon I Son eon Short Line Railroad company compan VT W WJ J Moore manager of the Union Pacific 1 Coal company compan and Edward Buckingham former traffic manager of ot the Oregon I Short Line Une Railroad company compa will begin i in the federal court this morning before I Judge John A Marshall I These TheS various corporations and officers i were indicted by the lie United States grand I jury after th investigation made by the tile interstate commerce comme ce commission charging I ing them with conspiracy against D J S Sharp a former retail coal COil dealer Sharp Shar I was called by the interstate commerce commission to testify at the Investigation which was being conducted here about two years ars ago In rn Ms Na testimony he de do declared dEclarE dared clarE that the Union Pacific Coal com coin company compan pany pan and the Oregon Short Line Railroad company had conspired cons to force him hini out ou of business because he had refused to advance the price of coal 50 W cents per ncr ton when ordered to do so by b the Union Pacific Coal company compan Sharp had haJ a large larJ supply of oC coal in his hI yards ards at the time of the th advance In price and maintained the regular price when wilen the advance was ordered He was wasP warned by the controlling powers of ot the coal coat companies that if It he did not come up Uj to the advance in price no more coal would be furnished him He refused to entertain any of ot the demands made on him him and the coal company compan from I he received his supply refused refus d to fill any anymore an I more orders for him it is Mr Ir Sharp sold th the oal oaI o l remaining in his yards and then lien closed down his |