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Show NICKS TESTIFIES ! ; OF SUGAR SALES! j 'Complaint in Suit for Receiver- ! ship Takes Stand at Rigby Hearing j BIGI3Y, Idaho, May 12. A. R Ricks, I of Pocatello, complainant In a recent ;suit for a receivership brought against i jihe Beetgrowers' Sugar company, was1 on the stand yesterday in the hearing, of-the complaint of the federal trade! .commission alleging conspiracy in re-J straint of competition in interstate i commerce, against the Utah-Idaho I Sugar company and others. Mr. Ricks was Questioned bv Henrv Ward Beer. (Special attorney for the trade commls-, commls-, sion. j Mr. Ricks testified that he had purchased pur-chased twelve shares of preferred and J three shares of common stock in the j Beetgrowers' company three weeks or a month prior to filing his complaint. ' Mr. Ricks is a brother-in-law of Mr. i Woolley, and Mr. Beer endeavored in Ibis examination of the witness to show j Mr. Woolley to be in some way connected con-nected with the receivership suit. : Under cross-examination by C. A. iBoyd, counsel for the Amalgamated, jand Mr. Woolley, Mr, Ricks stated in most positive terms he had taken the (action purely on his own initiative. 'The witness declined to answer questions ques-tions concerning his acquisition of the slcok in the Beetgrowers' company or his reason Tor "bringing the action, claiming such action to be privileged. Mr. Ricks is a lawyer. The refusal to divulge this informa-; informa-; lion brought a storm of protest from I Mr. Beer and statements by Mr. Boyd and Judge D. N. Slraup, counsel for 'the Utah-Idaho company, that he was within his rights in declining to discuss dis-cuss matters connected with litigation pending in a state court, H. G. Knight, managing editor of the Blackfoot Daily News, was called to testify concerning a letter writton to him by C. B. Whitney, advertising man of the Utah-Idaho company. In which support for the Utah-Idaho company was asked and announcement of an advertising ad-vertising campaign was made. The letter let-ter was similar to that sent to the editors of Rexburg newspapers. The witness stated that he considered consid-ered parts of the letter to be in the nature of efforts to intimidate him in his editorial policy. Judge Straup questioned the witness concerning the matter at considerable length and brought out that the News had con ducted a campaign to help the farmers secure better prices for their beets during the controversy which was in progress, the past winter. The News is owned by more than 200 stockholders, stockhold-ers, most cf them farmers, the witness said. ! Mr. Knight testified that his policy is strictly impartial as regards the company and the farmers, and that the letters from the Utah-Idaho company in no way affected it nn |