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Show I ATTACK ON RAILROADS. Suit Filed to Enjoin the Payment of Dividends by Southern Pacific. Chicago. Attorney Henry Crawford or this city announced Friday that a bill in equity In behalf or tho Crocker Hatato company or San Francisco and Thomns II. Hubbard or Now York, has been filed in tho circuit court at Austin, Aus-tin, Tex., nBklng that tho Southern Pacific Pa-cific railroad company ho restrained from paying dividends upon Its common com-mon stocks nniouutlng to $4,000,000. Tho court is usked to decrco thnt tho Union Pacific railroads, controls nnd operates a system of railroad which Is In constant nnd natural competition com-petition 'with tho Southern Pnclllo between be-tween San Francisco and New Orleans, Or-leans, "contrary to public policy and lu violation or tho laws of tho United Stntes nnd tho laws of Texas." |