Show Jon la laTo V UNCLE SAM ILL Will PROBE V SUGAR IRUS T To Tell of Combination Between Be tween tV Havemeyer and n Utah-Idaho Utah Interests NEW YORK Nov 28 Tho Tho the ma manner n r rin in which Joseph F. F Smith head of the Mormon church Thomas R. R Cutler and other leading edin 1 lights i in th tho Mormon hierarchy operated co-operated with Henry O. O Havemeyer of the American Sugar Refining Refining Re Re- fining company to s secure control of the beet sugar bu busies i S' S in jn the the inte mountain moun- moun tam tain states will be told told- told officially officially and the illegal megal character of of their acts acts' defined de de fined in the suit euit so soon n to tobe be filed in inthe the federal cou court t for the southern district district dis- dis dis dis- of New York by the government Score Utah Group I The Utah group group roup will in for fora I Ia a sharp scoring at the hand of the attorney attorney at at- torney general The suit is to be brought by direction of Attorney General General Gen Gen- eral oral Wickersham to o dissolve the Americ American Amer Amer- ic scan ican n Sugar Refining company trust as asan asan an unlawful an-unlawful y in restraint of trade operating in violation of the Sherman trust anti law Joseph P. P Smith is named as as one of the defendants The Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar company compan- the Amalgamated Sugar C company corn com tn- tn pany and L Lewiston Sugar company will company wIll also be named as being component parts of the the- sugar gar trust and the names iames of Joseph F. F Smith David Eccles Ec Ec- cles des Thomas R. R Cutler Charles W. W Nibley Nibley Nibley Nib- Nib ley Heber Hebor J. J Gr Grant nt John Henry Smith John C C. Cutler Outler W. W S. S McCornick and George Georgo Romney many of them leading lights in in the Mormon hierarchy will be bo named as directors in one or or more of the defendant corporations Agreement With Havemeyer The story of how bow Thomas R. R Cutler entered into agreement with Henry Havemeyer to 5 secure seure cure control of all aU independent in dependent beet sugar plants in in the intermountain states to turn over control to the sugar trust and t to prevent prevent prevent pre pre- vent the establishment of ther independent independent inde inde- pendent beet sugar factories will be told in the government governments government's petition The acquisition of the the- Bear River Water company's holdings of irrigated ed sugar beet lands by the trust through Mormon intervention the building of a trust factory at Garland Utah to stifle an independent concern then starting there and the blotting out of Soren Hansens Hansen's 8 plan for an an independent factory factory fac fac- tory at Su Sugar ar City Id Idaho ho by the the Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- or mon church and Havemeyer WI will be cited as specific acts in the conspiracy among sugar trust trust- officers and Mormons Mor Mor- mons mona to restrain trade in 1 f the law c Stifled Independents V V Other independent dent co concerns o l erns declared red to Have nave been stifled by bythe the Mormon Mormon- Havemeyer Ha conspiracy ta y were at Idaho Tails Falls Id ho by bythe by formation of the Frem Fremont nt company at Nampa also at Payette through the formation and mani manipulation n of of the Western idaho Sugar Suga company Joseph F P. Smith i is named by the government gOY got along the Cutlers and H. H O. O Hav Havemeyer meyer and the su sugar ar trust as conspirators co-conspirators in the the- formation of the Idaho Sugar c company in rn July 1907 th the purpose of which wa wag to destroy competition competition competition compe compe- and to he a monopoly of sugar production n. n They are charged V with arbitrarily V stifling new neVo enterprises ses by ly fixing the price they will pay for sugar beets peets and ad the pr price ec ecat at which they sell their sug sugar r. r The defendants also lire are charged with deceiving and defrauding purchasers by hy misbranding their products The arraignment of the Mormons an anthe and the sugar trust officers in in the government government govern govern- ment case will be one of the most startling startling startling start start- ling ever over made in any of the trust anti-trust cases I |