Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-03-19 | Page 1 | Humboldt Company Sues for Damages

HUMBOLDT COMPANY tSU SUES S FOR DA DAMAGES AG S SEATTLE Wash March Much 19 SuIt a. Suit for tor damages wa was was' gun by tie tle Hum Hum- boldi boldt Steamship company in In the superior iut court yesterday e te ay against four tour of ot tho the transportation trans tran- companies and three thre of or the themen themen men an Indicted b by the te federal eral grand rand Jury at Junea Masks Alaska last lut month on a a charge of ot forming forming- a conspiracy in ro- ro ro- ro of trade trad In violation of ot the Sherman Slier Sher man trust anti-trust In law The defendants In the tho civil action ar arthe are the Alaska Steam company owned o b by the Morgan Guggenheim syndicate tho the Pacific Coast Steamship company tho the North Pacific Wharves Trading company and the Pacific Arctic Railway Roil Rail Wa way w Navigation company and Charles E E. E Peabody formerly president of tho the Alaska I a Steamship company Q G. of oC San l Francisco vice pr president and general gen gsa eral erat manager of or the Pacific Steamship compan company and C C. C K E. Wynn Johnson formerly for tor- merly an officer of or the Pacific Arctic Railway Navigation company Tho The petition specifically charges charge II that beginning with April 1 I 1909 1809 the tha Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- Arctic Railway Navigation atlon company company com corn pany which controls controls' tho the White Pass PaS Yukon railroad operated between n Sk way Alaska and White Horse Yukon territory has persistently refused to tomake tomako make mako through h traffic arrangements with the tho Humboldt company The rates charged charge patrons of the Humboldt company company com corn pany party b by the defendants are arc alleged to tob tob tobe b be from 5 or cent to SO 30 por per cent higher than the the- railroads railroad's share ehan of or tho the joint rate rats granted the tho steamship companies alleged to be bo parties S to the conspiracy