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Show NH SCTIO! PILED 1 0IST1T CUT Merchants Ask an Injunction Against Kenilworth Coal & Coke Company. -An anti-trust suit of n novel nature was filed yesterday in the Third district dis-trict court, in which frour merchants of the town of Kenilworth in Carbon county ask an injunction against tho independent Coal & Coko company of that place to restrain the corporation from interfering with tho conduct of their business, .ludgc C. W. Morse signed a temporary restraining order which will issuo Monday when the plaintiffs will file, the necessary bond. The suit is brought by Anton Dupin and A'i It is & fStralos, grocers and Martin Millarii'k & Co. and James Martell, wholesale liquor dealers. They claim that tho defendant company, winch operates op-erates coal mines at Kenilworth, compels com-pels its cmployoos to patronize the company stores on pain of dismissal from the company's employ. Tlie petition pe-tition alleges that when agents of the nkiiutifl's solicit business in tho lown, they arc elosoly followed by agents ot the company aDd their efforts to secure business are nullified by the activities of the Independent company's representatives. repre-sentatives. Agents for outside firms are givon the same- treatment, according accord-ing to tho allegations of tho complaint. .Declaring; that this niodo of procedure proce-dure constitutes a "monopoly in restraint re-straint of .trade," the petitioners ask an injunction restraining the company and its agents from interfering with the business of petitioners. |