Show t n p OF RAILROADS IS BEGUN G. G Williams special assistant asto as as- Sylvester 39 t to United Stat States s Attorney Attorney 5 General Wickersham arrived i in Salt Lake City this week and is taking depositions dep depositions de de- p positions in th the case of the tho United States against the alleged combine of f western railroads under tinder the control of E. E II H Harriman Oil ori Feb Fob 1 a asuit asuit suit inequity was filed tiled in the United nit q g tes circuit cO court rt by District District District-Al A torney II E. E Booth to enjoin a a. number num num- ber of ot western railroads from conti continuing continuing con con- ti long longer r an an alleged c combination ion in violation of the Sherman trust anti la law v In rt In the complaint t several eral agree agree- monti contracts and operations by thy defendants lants Harriman Frick Rogers Stillman Kahn a and d dClark Clark are alleged and set et forth in de de- de- de tail tall These are aro ro alleged to have bean been entered into since Jan 1 1901 1 The bill asks aska that a perpetual injunction be issued against the tte individual def en- en dante and their associate a stockholders from carrying Q out t any combination or conspiracy which they are arc alleged to have entered into Stephen Steph n H. H Babcock com commissioner of traffic traffic for the traffic bureau of the Salt Lake Commercial club in speaking speaking speak speak- ing lug of f the efforts that are being put pm forth orth to to secure lower frei freight ht rates in inthis this state is quoted as saying Tho matter atter of freight traffic rate ate v. v will wll ll ventilated and the situ situation situation thoroughly aired d. d When we get through with this business Utah willbe will willbe be beoh o on th the commercial map of ot the United States Stat and aDd the freight traffic J rates from eastern points to Salt Lake Laker r City Ogden and Provo will be much more moro satisfactory to tho shippers of I those cities than tiley are t |