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Show ROOSEVELT POLICIES IN NEVADA . Federal Grand Jury Returns Indictment Against S. P. for Rebating Carson City. Nev., March 16 What Is probably "the . first Intimation that certain of Roosevelt's policies will bo carried out by the Taft administration, administra-tion, was received here today when the federal grand jury returned an Indictment In-dictment against' the Southern Pacific railroad for granting secret rebates to the California Sugar and White Pine agency. The alleged rebates at which are said to have been stumbled on accidentally acci-dentally by the railroad commission in the course of its work on the Reno terminal case, were for shipments ot lumber made by the agency from Clalrvllle and Mohawk, over the Sierra Sier-ra Valley, the Nevada, California and Oregon, and the Southern Pacific roads to Verdi. Fifteen counts are mentioned in the indictments, and should the maximum fine of $20,000 per count be Imposed on the company, the Southern Pacific 6tandb good to pay the government $300,000 for thc alleged infraction of the law. ' |