Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-12-18 | Page 9 | Fraud is Alleged in Contracts for Army

FRAUD IS ALLEGED GE I IO IN IN- CONTRACTS O TRACTS R ARMY ARKY SEATTLE ETTLE E TLE T Wash De Dee Dec IS lS The The The- I. I United States government Sto has Jil 1 sui suit in ir the district court against the Pacific Coast Coal company the western Commercial company company- and the John J. J for it being alleged in the complaint that the government was defrauded d out pf f it a sum of by the three corn com panics which submitted collusive bids for supplying Alaskan army posts with C coal oal Charles E B. Houston manage of the Pacific Coast Coat Coal Company and asid John H. H Bullock formerly manager of of John J. J company wore were recent recent- ly Is convicted in Tacoma of t to defraud the government in the thi thial sal al alof of coal and are under sentence to the federal penitentiary DETROIT Mich Dec 38 Mr S. S Newberry one of the tho city's most wi known philanthropists and A. leaden In lii social circles died suddenly here yester day She was the widow of Congressman Newberry and the mother ot Truman H. H N former secretary of th