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Show SUES BROTHER FCRJILUONS Seattle Man Claims Half luter-est luter-est in Four Million Dollar Dol-lar Plant. HAD VERBAL CONTRACT WITH FATHER, NOW DEAD Now Realizes. He Savs. Sum of $465 for Twenty Years' Work. CHICAGO, Nov. 4 Charles H Baker "f Seattle Wash., filed a hill In the I'nlted Sillies Circuit court here this afternoon for nn Injunction to restrain the transfer of any of the atoclc or securities of the Bnoqualmie PaUs a- White River Power company of the State of Washington. Maker, who claims a half interest In the plant, said to he worth millions, alleges In hl bill that he received only $465. Had Verbal Contract. Baker la the aon of William T Bker. now dead, former millionaire financier and stock hioker Of Chicago The latter furtilahed the money, and the complainant, complain-ant, he avers, the skill and brains for the development of the plant The complainant com-plainant alleles, bcC&UBC of the relatione naturally existing between father and won, no contract was ever reduced to writing However, the bill says a verbal agreement was made, the father agreeing to furnish the money If the son would de-yelop de-yelop the power plant, caih to enjoy half the profits Brother Is Administrator. Howard W. Baker, brother of the complainant, com-plainant, Is administrator of the estate of the father and, it Is charged, by alleged manipulation of more than $2.nOO,0'iO worth of Mock In the power plant, has arranged matters so the complainant cannot gel what he claims a his, that all he re-celi re-celi ed was the $4v; Demands Half Interest. Baker, In his bill for an Injunction, also asks an accounting with his brother on all other properties of the father and N. w Harris - Co., end Dextsr Horton & Co.. bankers, who hold the stock known In nddltlon He asks a decree of the court giving hlni one-hnlf Interest In all possessions of his father having to do with the power plant. Discovered Possibilities. The complainant wa a cvl engineer, but without means, acrordlng to the story set up In the hill He discovered In IK87 the possibilities of taking power from certain cer-tain waterfalls In the State of Washington Washing-ton and furnishing power to surrounding dtlea He worked over his plan for ten years. Then he discovered the great power sources In the Snooualmle falls, with which he Interested his father, the verbal agreement then being made, when Baker stated, he planned to extend the plans through western Washington. Establishes Large Plant As a result of his efforts. Baker al-Ikps, al-Ikps, he fMahllsh'd a large cheap electric light and water power plant, which fur-power fur-power to thousands of persons In Washington. By much personal effort. he secured a franchise to furntsp power In Seattle Although there were oftioers In the companies he had formed, he was In complete control and had power of attorney from his father; that he could spend his father's money He did all thee things, he declares, with the, fnll knowledge and consent of his Tiither and with the complete understanding that some time In the near future he would be glwn half Interest. Purchased Other Companies. When his duties became too great, he hired Thomas T Johnson, a civil engineer engi-neer of Kvanstnn, III., to aid him In IS9S he purchased the White River company com-pany at Pierre. Wash., a corporation with Cftpltal stock of J1.W0.0O0. Other companies com-panies were formed for disposition of the power In cities and towns, and were combined com-bined under tho name of the Snoqualmle Falls oi While River Power company. Failed to Draw Contracts. Baker declares that in developing the water power plant at the falls and making mak-ing other vast Improvements, money was being realized, hut Still his father had f.iile.i lo dran the contracts. Without iramlns lo the son, on October fi. 1903. the father died Baker alleges that his hr.'thcr was made administrator of the estate and refuses to recognize his half Interest In the company as It now stands, a $4, 000,000 corporation known as the Sno-qualmle Sno-qualmle Falls ,v White River Power com-panj com-panj The ekl-r Baker Invested a little more than $l.e00.W and before his death |