Show GOVERNMENT ILL V I HAVE THIRTY DAYS i i TO FILE AN fiN ANSWER In the matter of the thc hi big mr merger er suit suit flied filed by the United States government I against a the various railroads of or the i i iJ J country a and amid d which many of he the railI rail rail- I roads answered ansi in the tho federal court o of this thi city eily yesterday ar the time government go will have ha- thirty days lays in n which to file replications to the tIme answer after which the II railroads s will be he granted thirty s dai-s aH to fil file a second an answer w r. r I The hie actual taking of testimony in in th the hi big suit will not commend commend- for for- several fe-eral I i months On One feature of the time charges is j I that made a against a th time Harriman aye s tome terns in which it is claimed that liar liar- riman ff and the Oregon Short Line Lino anI and Union Pacific R Railroad companies I did everything in their power to In prevent pre vent ent the San Pedro Los Angeles Salt Lake route from building through h Ne Xe- vada It is alleged that thc they threatened threatened threat threat- ened enod W W. A A. A Clark ark the builder of the road with running tho the Short Line Linb into Los Angeles parallel to the new roal road I and thus thug injuring tb the new company compan I In the answers rs 1 filed Jed yesterday Ia by the tho various arious defendants to tho the suit not not only I do elo Harriman and his int interests deny denv the I charge c but Clark and th the San P Pedro road Ilen deny that an any such hara harassing sin in in- fluence was ever er brought to hear bear 3 against them The San SaIl Pedro admits that some seine trouble did arise between the Oregon Or Short Line an and that road over tho time ques question tion of ri right ht of oftay way tay but hut it did lid not extend ex ex- tend so far as claimed in the complaint of oC tho the government o |