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Show PME89T2 : Will Surrcnflcf Hsrlit Orer ; tk Anti-Trust laws I11 Missouri. 5 - - V ' JKFPERSOJT CITT. Mo Aprlt 7. The Bute ts richer toy $25,000.; The five great packing companies ' have paid their fines of $5600 each Imposed on them toy the Supreme court as penalty for their having violated the Missouri ' anti-trust law. They also jjaid IZ136.7F" in costs. ' -. ' " ' " "', ; ; . To pay is to confess ' tlat the Supreme Su-preme court of Missouri made us; mis take In deciding that an unlawful combination com-bination to- -control the -prtceo of meat : exists SToong the packers. To fight might have meant the enforcement of the entire penalty that h imposed by, the Missouri law for running a combination combi-nation to control prices. , Part of that penalty ia ouster from the State. : The Missoart case 'was- the last ' of several that were started- against, the beef trust, but was the -only one that has been brought to "a finality and made to stick. Attorney-General Crow ' says that if any attempt la made to so back to trust, methods new proceedings proceed-ings win be instituted, and that the full penalty of ouster from the State will be insisted next time. .. |