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Show ANSWER IS FILED IU HE TELEPHONE CASE Defendants Deny They Arc Parties to Any Conspiracy in Restraint of Trade. PORTL.AXD, Or,. Sept. 13. Individually Individual-ly and collectively denying that they are parties to any conspiracy In restraint of trade, the American Telephone & Telegraph company and subsidiary concerns con-cerns filed answers today in the federal I court to tho complaint of the govern-merit, govern-merit, which ban started a civy antitrust anti-trust stilt against them, charging that the defendants are In conspiracy to monopolize the telephone business In violation vio-lation of the anti-trust law of congress, passed .July 2, 1890, and demanding that competitive conditions be re-established as far as practicable in Oregon, Washington. Wash-ington. Idaho and -Montana. Tn their answer th(. companies make a general and .specific denial that thev are restraining trade or commerce or are attempting to monopolize tnidc or commerce. com-merce. " The defendant companies and Individuals Individ-uals are: The American Telephone & Telegraph company and its principal officers; the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph company, Independent Telephone company com-pany of Seattle; Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company, Sunset Telephone & Telegraph company; Independent Long Distance Telephone company, George J. Petty, Charles P. Ware. D. E. Sunnv, Asael E. Adams. W. IT. Foster, William cad, Title insurance fc Trust company, Granger Telephone K Telegraph company. com-pany. Home Telephone company of Paget Sound, and Northwestern Long Distance company. |