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Show WHISKY TRUST CUTS PRICE. One Cent Reduction in Basing Figure Stirs Up Independents. PEORIA, 111 , Jan 9. -Independent j whisky men are somewhat nonplussed by the action of tho trust In reducing the basing price from J1.23 to $1.22. Tho Independents, In-dependents, after 11 hurried consultation, decided to once announce a reduction of 1 cent In their baslnu price, which would mnks it $l.i3 Instead of $1 24 They re-fuse re-fuse to recognise the ISSl cut made by the trust from $1.24 to $1 .23, but followed the cut announced this morning The tnift people declare that, although the Independ-nt basing price Is published as 1 cent higher than that of tho trust, yet their actual selling price Is the same. |