Show CHARGED WITH CUTTING RATES Indictments Against the Southern Pacific Pa-cific and Pacific Mall San Francisco CalTh federal grand jury has returned five Indictments Indict-ments of 121 counts against the Southern South-ern Pacific company and the Pacific Mall Steamship company charging violations vi-olations of the interstate commerce law These Indictments if follower by convictions are sufficient to reader rea-der tho corporations liable to fines aggregating 124000 to 2480000 the minimum fines prescribed by law on each count being 1000 and the maximum max-imum fine 20000 The defendant corporations are accused ac-cused of secretly cutting to 1 tile published rate of 125 on through shipments of matting from Kobe Japan to San Francisco and thence throughout the United States |