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Show KEEN COMPETITION CAUSE OF COMBINE CHICAGO. Kept. ).Keon i'n,np,.llon by reason uf wlileli Norton llrothers. the lilKHest can niannlaelnrerH in the country coun-try at the lime, warn losinK nioney p., lo tho oiKaniz.illon of the , nieile,,,, ' f romj.any. a eeord I i,i; lo tesllnionv here today to-day of Charles A. Simian In' the Kov. ernineiit s milt to dissojvij the alh k'ed trust. Huvdai, rorrnerlv wns a salesman for the defendant company. Ma said thai I-.dward Norton was Ihe prime mover In the consolidation and he told of the eampalmi lo lake over patents and obtain oplions on piaiiln. Another wilncss today was T'Yanlc Kin sey, president of the American K,.v ran company ami formerly one. of the eon-trolhm: eon-trolhm: heads or Ihe Heacoasf Cannlm; eonipanv of kaslporl. Me., whlcli ii,,r was taken over by the combine. |