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Show ASKS ATTORNEY-GENERAL TO PUNISH COAL TRUST WASHINGTON, April 23. Representative Represen-tative William R. Hearst of New York today Died with Attorney-General Knox a complaint alleging that a combination com-bination of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad and the Central railroad of New Jersey under a common management manage-ment lias stilled competition, and petitions pe-titions tho Department of Justice to proceed against them under tho Sherman Sher-man anti-trust law. Tho complaint nsks that the action bo taken to restrain the Reading company, while the owner of the stock of the Philadelphia & Reading company, from owning holding or voting upon the stock of the Central, nnd decreeing that the stock be returned to its lawful owners and that all the provisions of the anti-trust law be applied to the parties In theso transactions where found upon Investigation to he guilty of wilful violation and disregard of the law. Tho complaint alleges that In Jar.u-arj'i Jar.u-arj'i 1001, to build up a monopoly In the anthracite coal business by vesting control of more than CO tcr cent of all the avalluble anthracite coal under management, and to place competing com-peting roads under one control, there were transferred to the Reading 145,-000 145,-000 shures out of the total of 727.13S shares of capital stock of the Central. Since then, the complaint alleges, George F. Baer has been In cxccutlvo control of tho Reading company, Philadelphia Phila-delphia & Reading, Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron company, Central Cen-tral railroad of ,Now Jersey and the Lehigh & Wilkesbarrc Coal company, and the price of anthracite coal free on board, at tide water, has advanced to "the extortionate price of $5 a ton. |