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Show UNITED STATES COURT ISSUES AN INJUNCTION Stockholder Trlea to Prevent Merger of Calumet & Hccla and Osceola Mining Companies, GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.. March 1. United States District Judgo Swnnn of Detroit todny granted a temporary injunction in-junction in tho ca-jc of Godfrey M, llyams of Now York against the Calumet it Ilccla Mining company and not March 28 ns tho dato of hearing. The action Is to prevent tho merger of the Calumet it Hecla and the Osceola companies- llyams says he owns 110 share:) of slock in tho Osceola company, which company owns vast tracts In Michigan. It Is sought to prevent the Calumet Sr. Ilccla from voting any stock owned In tho Osceola Os-ceola company at a special meeting to bo hold In Boston, Mnrch 0. According to tho bill of complaint the Osceola company Is In good financial condition con-dition and capable of operating for years with an output of nt least 2,000,000 pounds of rcllnod coppor a year. It Is charged that the Calumet &. Ilccla now owns stock In nine other mining companies com-panies and that Its property has been worked heavily for forty years and that now the deposits of ore aro depleted. |