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Show CALL TRUST MONOPOLY Government Introduces Evidence in Harvester Company Suit Chicago. Sept. IS, Contracts and other documents by which tho International Inter-national Harvester company is alleged to havo formed and carried on a trust tvero Introduced by the government today to-day In its anti-trust suit against that corporation. One of the eleven contracts showed that in the purchase of the D. M. Os-born Os-born company with a plant at Auburn, N. Y., iTeorge W. Perkins had signed for the Harvester company. In this Instance tho government charged that "for two years the defendants controlled con-trolled and operated the latter as an independent plant. This was In pursuance pur-suance of the defendant's policy of denying ownership." In connection with the other contracts con-tracts the government's contentions wore similar. P'dwln P. Grosvenor, special- assistant as-sistant attorney general In Introducing Introduc-ing exhibits, said- "The OBbornc company was the largest lar-gest independent manufacturer of agricultural ag-ricultural implements in existence after af-ter the trust was formed." The International Harvester company com-pany acquired control in January, 1903. This contract is signed by Mr. Perkins Per-kins as chairman of the finance committee com-mittee of the International Harvester company. Tho consideration waj $4,-500,000. $4,-500,000. The government charges that the Osborne company for several years therenftor masqueraded as Independent. Independ-ent. Mr. Grosvenor also introduced con tracts alloging the acquisition by tho Harvester company of the Keystone company, Sterling, 111 . the Aultman & Taylor company, Akron. O , and tho Minnesota Harvester company of St Paul. oo |