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Show SANTA FC FINED FOR RCDATINO. Asseeed $5,000 on Each Count, Making Mak-ing a Total of $330,000. !. Angelo. Cl Judge Olln Wellborn. Well-born. In thn Unlteil State district eonrl. on Thursday fined the Atchison, Topekn ft Santa Fe Railroad company com-pany $330,000 for rebating Tho flno wa what tho court denominated "an Intermediate penalty." the maximum which might hnvo been assessed being be-ing $1.150.0011. and the minimum $GC-000 $GC-000 Tho court revleweil tho enso In written opinion of some length, In which It stated thnt there wern sufficient suf-ficient doubtful nnd extenuating circumstance cir-cumstance to preclude the possibility of n maximum sentence nnd yet sufficient suf-ficient Intention of wrongdoing shown to maku Impossible a minimum penally. pen-ally. Thn Santa Fo company wo convicted on October 11 last by a Jury In tho federal court of granting r-bate r-bate to tho Grand Canyon Urns Ccmont company of Arliotia It wa found guilty an all of the sixty six count charged In tho Indictment after but an hour' deliberation Tho rebate re-bate which were given on shipments of limn and cement from Nelson, Ariz, to Los Angele, ranged In amount fmm 3f cent to $1S. Tho company claimed that theso amounts wero not rebates on tho regular freight rato, hut were lu thu form nf damage to goods shipped, which were nlnned nfter such claims had been regularly presented and proved In each Inatanco. |