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Show UTAH SUGAR MEN INDICTED. Alleged Disposal of Sugar at Increased Prices Basis of Charge. Sat Luko dty Ten Indictments growing out of alleged profiteering In nugur In Ctnli wero brought Saturday Satur-day morning by tho federal grand Jury ngalnst officials of the Utah-Idaho Sugar compnny, two Suit T.ako bankers bank-ers und two Ogden dinners. Tho Indictments wero returned to United States District Judge Tillman I). Johnson nftor tho Inquisitors bud been In session for nine days, considering consid-ering evidence gathered In the sugar cases under tho direction of Floyd T. Jackson, special Investigator for tho department of Justice. mho iirsi inuicimciii cnarges imu tho company, as it corporation, sold sugar which cost $0.4 14 per hundred-pound hundred-pound bag to manufacture for $U3.48. Ten counts nro enumerated in the indictment, in-dictment, ench charging that tho com- pnuy made n specific sale of tho sugar at tho price numed to a number of Salt Lnko und Utnh sugar Jobbers. In tho second Indlr tment tho eight directors of tho company who wero proscnt at the April meeting which authorized tho Increase In prlco from tho $13 bnsls aro chnrged with having aided and nbottcd tho compnny in selling sell-ing sugar at an exorbitant price. Theso nro O. W. Nlblcy, Merrill Nlbley, Stephen Ste-phen II. Love, W. II. Wattls, W. S. McCornlck, James D. Murdoch, David A, Smith and Thomas It. Cutler. |