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Show BEEF TRUST UNDER FIRE Investigation by Federal Grand, Jury Begun in Chicago. CHICAGO. March 20. Government investigation in-vestigation of the beef trust licgan today. Judge Humphrey of Springfield administered adminis-tered the oath to the veniremen. Much information bearing on the alleged violation viola-tion of the Sherman anti-trust law Is said to be in the hands of the Federal prosecutor. prose-cutor. The Independent packers, headed by Schwarzschild & Sulzberger, have arranged ar-ranged to present evidence to the Government Govern-ment tending to show the manner in which the smaller packer has been forced to follow the dictation of the so-called "big live." Because of the failure to secure sixteen men who are. In the opinion of Judge Humphrey, sufficiently removed in business busi-ness affairs from the packing industry, the swearing in of t-e jury was delayed until tomorrow. |