Emery County Progress | 1905-10-28 | Page 3 | Busting the Trusts

BUSTING THE TRUSTS dietr ct attorney brings suit against lumber comb nation at honolulu honolulu acting under instruct eions of the united states attorney general district attorney brackens Brec kens bas instituted the first of a number ol 01 injunction suits for the purpose of breaking up the local trusts A suit was filed thursday against the firms alien robinson lowers cooke and wilder co it asks that the federal court issue a perpetual in motion restraining the above named firms from carrying out an al lebed agreement controlling the en tire lumber business of the islands in the petition it is alleged that the three firms named above control 90 per cent of the business here and have combined in violation of an act of congress to prevent the unlawful restraint re strait of trade