Show WOMAN WON VON FROM LNE ELEV Fells the Interstate Commerce Commission i How She Fought Ten Years DISCRIMINATION ADMITTED Operator tots tot's Ott 0 Own 01 ii 1 That They C Combined iii hi Against balu t the time Small Country Dealers Omaha Nub Neb Oct ln Iti 23 In simple language lan Ian guage Mrs Kate Kato II 11 I. I Kehoe K told Com Com- Lane Iane and Clarke Clarko of the time In Interstate Interstate In- In Commerce commission lon today to ay how mow low she had fought the lino elc elevators tol In a Nebraska for fOI ten years earl nail and ant had Inal finally triumphed Her husband left lert a little shovel house and a ii 1 small smal I business She Site now owns two large e cleva elevators tors one at Platte Cen Center and antI one at nt Tarnov and Irmi her business Is nourishing She kept l ant ept up her fight I against the tho lie big grain men when she site lost money at It I taking the be profits profs from front her Implement business to keep the time business 8 going When the little shovel house was burned down 81 he bought hl grain ral end and had It shoveled direct from the time to lo cars Often Onen she he had difficulty In getting cars front from the railroads while her hel competitors secured se- se cured curd all al the they needed hut but the lie bl big trouble trou trou- ble lile wa was al over prices Mrs hs testified te t- t fled fied she found them hl higher her In her hem town lown than la In towns with wih the time same freight rel ht rates because the hue lino lne elevators raised them to keep her from getting grain When hen they raised them item t too o high she site let them tb do time the buying 1 Finally they ed lD her to join with them bent In fix fix- Ix- Ix in lag II prices but she o l the they still stil manipulated prices In adjoining adJoining towns so that she did not get tho ho grain an and she left lor the combination and became Independent again Admit E. E P. P Peck of or the time Omaha Elevator levator f company N. N B. B Updike president of oC the tho Grain Grin company C. C G. G Critten of tho the Central granaries at mit It Lincoln nil all large huge operators were among tho the other witnesses of the day dY They Thc all testified that they bad hiatt hUl discriminated al against small smal dealers In iii tho the country who had no elevators Mr lr admitted admitted ad nd- writing a letter leter which was produced produced pro pro- In evidence to a country merchant mer mer- chant ch nt In Iowa a n Mr Murray Murrl of Little Litle Sioux threatening to establish a merchandise merchandise mer mer- chandise store alongside of his soil sell soI goods at cost anti and drive him out of or business if he did not quit the grain brain business Mr Updike explained they lied had once bought out Mr lr Murray but that bo lie had resumed his operations secretary of the time r T Worrall former Cormer Nebraska Grain Dealers' Dealers association said ho he had quit the time grain business because because because be be- cause when the tho association opened the theU U fight ht on eli him It I was sas not profitable Asked Aske wh why he hc had hl dismissed his dam damn damage damage suit sull against the trust for driving him age from rom business ho he admitted that thal he lie received a al substantial consideration The rhe commissioner 0 adjourned this e evening and ant sit tomorrow at DeS DeSMo Mo I n Cs 1 |