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Show BEET SUGAR Possibility That Indict mcnts May Follow-Investigation Follow-Investigation Washington, April 1. Agents ot th( department ot justice and the tieasurj are looking into certain features ol the beet sugar industry in Ihe wtsu The object, it Is believed, Is to ascertain ascer-tain what relations., if any, exist be tween the promoters of that IndustrJ :nd the so-called sugar trust, with q I view to determining whether such relations re-lations result In auy violations of tho Sherman antitrust law. such as thy i fixing of prices of a combination In I restraint of trade. i Just now Ihe department of Justice is closing an Inquiry Into tho beet sugar shin of tho question at Tueblo, Coio. Opeiations at three or four "ther points arc to be included in the, scope of the Investigation. Tho possibility. It was 6ald, at the department depart-ment today, Is that indictments may follow. Alleged frauds against the revenues, at Now York and at New Orleans, are being tuado the subject of inquiry in-quiry by the department. |