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Show f aJMWM m PEOPLE MS I II I I EVENTS ! BRING SUIT AGAINST ROAD. jH Stockholders' Quarrel Likely to Be lH Aired In the Courts. ) mw A petition for tho rnpolntmcnt of a ;H receiver for ccrtnln stock of tho Chi- lH cngo, Rock Island and Paclflo Rail- imwU way company nnd for an injunction '1 enjoining tho controlling interests of mm tho company from cnrrylng out a trust ! H agreement entered Into by the major- tH Ity stockholders with tho Central 1 H 1 rust company of Now York was filed . last week In the circuit court at Chi- j cago. Tho bill was filed by J. Hamll- iH ton Lowls, representing Clarcnco II. j Vcnncr of Boston, who asserts ho JH represents $300,000 of dissenting 'mM stock. Tho bill recites n history of tho !H various times tho stock wns trans- , H ferred nnd relates n scheme of rccog- mM nltlon by which It Is alleged tho pro- i H meters without nddlng n dollnr to tho fH value of the property of tho company, iH represented by Its authorized capital H Block of $7G, 000,000, caused to bo ItH Issued and floated on tho markot jH securities aggregating over $200,000,- jH Tho defendants In the suit are: Tho jH Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific rail PH way company, of which W. B. Leeds Is 11 president; Chicago, Rock Island and i; Pacific railroad company; Rock j H Island company of New Jersey; Con J H trnl Trust company of Now York; Wll- H Ham T. Rankin. F. P. Olcott, R. R. M Cablo, William H. Moore James II 01 Moore, William B. Leeds, Daniel G. H I' I 'I I : I I Held, Henry C. Frlck, Marshall Field, H F. D. Hlno, Gcorgo C. McMurty, Anson '11 R. Flowor, Gcorgo S. Browstcr, Ogdon HmW Mills, Qcorgo T. Boggs. M |