| Show T WINS PA HT I 1 IAL U SUPREME COURT GIVES OPINION OPINIO IN COAL caseb THAT PLEASES wickersham contracts of railroad owned corn com canies in anthracite district with f independents are cancelled as result of courts decision washington the federal supreme rem court on monday cancelled as viola tive live of the sherm shermain fin n law the con tracts by which railroad owned coa companies in the pennsylvania an th fields had purchased the ou out put for all time of Indo independent pendent mines attorney general wickersham Wickers barn ex pressed aie the belief that the deci will so completely destroy the combi nation that biow now controls the price ol of anthracite thatis that it must result in a distinct measure of relf relief ef to the pub lie lic the court also ordered the dissolution of railroad control of the tempi iron company by which the principal railroads and their coal comp companies companile anle were found to have strangled a project to build a competing road into the anthracite fields in 1898 and b W which monopolizing schemes could br be put into execution handily in the fu ture the government failed the bourl cour holdi hold to show a general coin combination to apportion the amount of coal to be bc put upon the market annually by the varl various ous roads the governments other oth er charges ns to a general combination were characterized as H I definite |
