Show T if f 40 rt R Gl CT Gli i om O That is the Tremendous Figure Cleared up by the Com Corn Company Company pany Last Year STOCKHOLDERS GOT ONLY DULY 8 B iii led to III 0 co 0 tin Ihl I I itt 1 I looks Dill B ii t out 1111 IWI wui ii l I 1 t id ion nf ni Court CourtIn Vt III In the lilt lit rOHr Answering the demand of stock Mock stockholder holder that they should ha hat r the right to the books cf ot the lh reu company coun tul sul for that co corporation admitted In legal paper lII ra Sled aiM with Justice White In the lh supreme remt court Brooklyn ye yes yesterday says mys th lh New X York Time that the th property properly had earned rn 1 about bout 10 40 lr ir cent for the year ending June 10 aD 1306 2158 antI and had hat earned t U 2 per r oen cent upon Its Ito 11 capital stock clock for tor the three yean ean preceding The Th company compean hat has ha been paying dividends dividend at al the rate rale of i S per p cent por i r annum for tor some me time lime and It i wa this difference nce between the Die dividend rale rate and what whai lucy b d to be the III r real al earning earnIngs of ot the ilia th com corn company compan pony pan that thai 14 led the stockholders stockholder to start tho tight uH upon n limo tho management of K R KII RII HIi II Harriman that Dial started the pr present ent lIt proceeding The Th stockholders have applied for tor fora tora a writ of directing tin Uie eec ec rotary of the tue oll company to toa allow a them access to the books book Rob Hob Robert Hobert ert en W of oC Buffalo the hold holder er of ot 1000 shares hares of ot the stock Mock is It the principal petitioner but bul he hI Is joined by b thu Ihu stockholders committee represented cooled by h the brokerage firm of W tV I D 0 Stokes Stoke At Co which has lias united 56 per pcr percent rent cent of the 1900 of ot the company The Thin stock ftC are represented 1 by b Samuel arid and P 1 J of ot this cIty Ill and L I L I Babcock of ot Buffalo who III M Mr Ir counsel 1 Sul Sui Sullivan lInn livan Cromwell appear for the and William Nelson Nebaon Cromwell and William J 3 Cur Curtie Us tie were ere In lutt eurt yesterday Mr Ir Un argued d for foi the Ihl stockholder stockholders anti and Justice White rt ret decIsion Mr Curtis CurU denied lh th Jurisdiction of New ork York courto on II the Die ground that the u company In is a Colo Cob Colorado redo rado corporation Justice White While over overruled overrUled ruled the objections ax aM to lf the argument however hower and Mr Ir Un opened Ol for tr stockholders He lie recited the fact that thai the tho coo POO of ot f stock lock vae wa dl III dic among 1 1900 stockholders and then wont on Although the HIP stock IR Is I K so i ed NI the company ha lint hall beets brn under the I control of nf ono one man Mr Harriman and the stockholder have been b n un on unable able ablo to 10 out for tor five tWe years what the I of ot the th property properly have hae been and what hat the He lie stated thai that the e mas was formed l for tor forthe the purpose of ot getting some lion tien about affaIrs and amI I that It II hail had hll desired the Ihl declaration of ef ofa efI a n I dividend of al lit loaM load IG per roer ont cent In III instead stead d of or the S per fler cent which was Waft at al Urn first t declared mind and subsequently In Increased InCreased creased to 10 19 p per r cent after atler the eons com hind had He lit charged that the low Ion dividend rate was due Ilu to 10 a tint filot to in conceal tl It Ut t real al anti and keep the control f the property through the executive organ or lIn i The f fact arl cl Mr er l thai that since this petition Mil has been bt en tilt filed d the stock hii ha increased ll ed d more than Ihan a R share in I price shows Abow these gets In ontI unable uble to lo obtain otherwise have ban Wen been n actually buying the stock sleek II fk hi the lit Us market Hr lie held hl that the Ilse Jt had A 1 arIght rIght to 10 believe that thai by bt this h 1 e e III and move movee mo the th liar Har mall nInan of the company had hll concealed millIons million mil 1 In nf of earnings and Ind that If the th were r known the Ih thereal real surplus of If the 11 tOm com company pany hr be nearer JIOM than tr oP This committee Mr Ir declared ed e 4 was wai for a I in ho th Ih election and 1111 I doubt the th wl 11 ylem of or the th nf or this state Male becom tag liiK In parties to any n such Ih 1 dU dit dl It Ii II hi not a judicial questIon U It Ula IIII Itha la II a II financial one on one on of Clr corporate or orThe r n lion The rhe aLLeles of or the III company have boon an on nIn n hook boole he h continued anti and ar a are nn no allegations allegation hers her h of nf ml mIs nt nor that t any one has h profiled by hl hi his with II It 11 1 to II foolIsh to 10 M My 1 that th tb managers manager maRl ha have ban e t lh lb stock o k Mr Curtis CurlU rested rented tM mi nn Id his hll contention I that tM the New Nell York courts Urt t could not he h hee sue e a R writ against a foreign fIWel corporation and Intimated that It If it w re rc r granted rail I from the Second department in ih 11 the company compe might not IWI hold liable to contempt proceedings proceeding III In dl U obeying It If the HarTiman Me were f sincere Mill Mr 11 In hi doting closing j to k would lid offer lItTer to gl give o u us the th vre WI seek Ie ln nf of denying the t h June Jur diction of It the tit court Later Loler ad from Kr N New York Yost Mat ate Matthai lit that thai tb the court coed C held hI with till Ik t the eMe tU si c f the that tut the Co o 0 being a I o corporation the New N Yot Tort r could not Interfere |