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Show GUYTO BEGIH INQUIRY OFCOALPRIGE Venire of 30 From Among Which Seven Jurors Will Be Selected Will Respond to Summon Monday I At It o'clock Monday moralnr a (venire of thirty eltisens drawn Wednesday will appear In Judge Kphralm Hanson's division of the Third District court. Krora this number, num-ber, a list of which waa published Wednesday, a panel of seven It re nit Jurors will be selected to probe alleged al-leged prlce-flxine; agreements between operators and retail coal dealers hors and to Investigate, any ether matters . of seeming Illegality existing, evidence of which cannot otherwtee be -established. District Attorney E. A. Rogers, who requested the Judires of the district dis-trict court to order the grand Jury, will examine the Jurors and conduct the Investigation. Bubpoenaa to appear before tlie grand Jury were sent out Friday to the first ten persons that will be examined by that body. District Attorney At-torney Rogers expects to havs the grand Jury Impaneled by noon and to vtart the Investigations by 1 o'clock JUDGE WILL INSTRUCT. After the panel has been eelectrj. Judge Hanson will Instruct the jurns as to their responsibilities and an. thority. Tha statute is very brol, and almost any matter which tne Jurors aa body eare to go Into may be given a thorough airing by them The grand Jury system is among the moat ancient leiral Institutions. 14 has been only alight ly modified in several sev-eral hundred years, and the eev-n men selected Monday to sift the cl price problem will take praftiraily t; same oath and their authority w.n have the same wide scope as hv been prescribed to aimllar bodies sm- the early tnedleal period. One provision of the statute msk.es It mandatory for the grand Jury to Investigate the prisons in Its J1.r1.wf"--tton and the Jury Imn&neled JMnnt' .v wilt, before adjournment, be tfimn .1 to Inspect the state prison and tne county Jalla. This in ve atwn 1 to establish beyond penul venture of a doubt that prisons are sanitary aud that the inmates are DX subjected 4t Inhuman treatment. Sessions of the grand Jury are In private and Information luituM w..n It must be held Inviolate. Arir considering con-sidering this Information the tly determines de-termines whether or not Indictment are to be returned against any uf those Investigated, and if a party m Indleted he Is held to answer in a trlxl court. To safeguard ths deliberations of tha grand Jury, the lew provlii.a that the Jurors, tha district attorney, a reporter and ths Immediate witness wit-ness alone may be present. The reporter of 'a grand Jury must also bs a member of the bar. After Judge Hanson has once Instructed In-structed the Jury, he retires from the process unless the members require some additional Interpretation of the law. The sessions will bs held In ths office of County Commissioner Samuel Lindsay and witnesses summoned will assemble In ths council chambers of ths county commission. THIRD tlNCK STATEHOOD. Ths present grand Jury Is ths third to bs called here since ststehood. It wsa recommended to . the district Judges by 1ietrlct Attorney Kogers after retail ooat dealers, with one or two exception announced an Increase In-crease of II a ton in the price of coal, to ba followed twenty-four hours later by a similar announcement by the operators. The price increases were effected early thla month, circumstances cir-cumstances surrounding the' - an- nouncementa led to a belief that the Increase wa made simultaneously by agreement. Investigation conducted by District Attorney Kogers, Governor Mabey, Attorney General Harvey H. Cluff, County Attorney Arthur K, Moreion and member of the department depart-ment of Justice strengthened this opinion In the minds of the authorities. author-ities. When possibilities of a grand Jury probe were first mentioned, representative rep-resentative of various coal interest declared they would welcome such an Investigation. After several confer ence between state and county officials, offi-cials, the county commission appropriated appro-priated $6000 to defray the coat of grand Jury. The district attorney, supported by the attorney general and the county attorney, then conferred in chambers wKh the Judge of the Third dietiict court and recommended that such a Jury be called. The order or-der was formally !p.iM one weoit sea. |