Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-01 | Page 1 | Move to Oust the Fish Trust

love to Oust the Fish Trust Company in Salt Lake Interested in Suit Brought in Columbus, Ohio. COLUMBUS. O.. June 20. Suit was brought today ln tho Circuit court of Franklin county, by Attorney-General Attorney-General Ellla. to oust tho eo-oalled llsh trust of tho Great Lakes, which Is commercially known as A. Booth & Co. of Chicago, from Its charter ln Ohio. The suit Is brought under tho Valentine antitrust anti-trust law. Tho Attorney-GcnTal charges that tho company has purchased the business of its compctltora and controls 00 par cent of tho fresh-water fish bualnoss carried on from the MlfHlsalppt to Buffalo. It has been In operation about four years, during dur-ing which Hmo It has branched out Into all Statoti bordering on tho Great Lakes and Into tho Dominion of Canada, and taken In tho buslnetts of about sixty dealoru ln fresh-water Osh. Wllllnm Vor-non Vor-non Booth Is represented as having effected ef-fected tho combination. Tho petition further states that uio corporation Bcoks to engage In about forty different klnde of buslncsB under 1U charter char-ter from mnklng irlue to becoming suroty on 'bonds for Individuals. This, tho At-torney-Gonoral declnre. cannot bo permitted per-mitted by tho laws of Ohio. Tho com-punv com-punv ln capitalised at $5,000,000. Tho constituent con-stituent companies are located In Humorous Humor-ous cities, Including Denver, Salt Lake City and Astoria, Or.