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Show BURLINGTON DECLARED , tGUlllTY OF REBATING ' f if -1j s ', J J ' May Be Fined From $1,000 to 920,000, at Judge Sees Fit Jury Out But Few Minutes. Kansas City. The Chicago, Burl-ington Burl-ington & Quincy llnllroad company was found guilty hcreT iatejWodncsday afternoon by a Jirnf In" tho United States district court on four countB of granting concessions on packing hoitso shipments, for export ,to tho Armour" Ar-mour" Packing company, Swift & Co., Ctidahy & Co. and- the Nelson, Morris Packing' company, conviction carried with-it a flno of from 11,000 to $20,000 on each -count. Judge Smith .McPhercon, tho presiding judgo, deferred de-ferred sentencing tho defendnnt until Juno 22. All four counts nro practically prac-tically tho same. Tho caso of Armour ft Co., 'on which Instructions wore read to theinry, charged -specifically that tho llurllngton, on August 17, 1005, accepted a shipment of olco oil from Kansas City to Liverpool at a rate that Included a rato of 23 cents a hundred pounds, Mississippi river to New York, -whereas tho regular tariff at that tlmo was HC cents. Tho jury was out hut 3G minutes. |