Packing Companies Face Supreme Court Antitrust Scrutiny
The Swift & Co v United States case concluded arguments before the US Supreme Court. Attorneys for the government contended packers violated antitrust law by conspiring to fix prices and restrain interstate trade, while Miller for the packers argued the charges were indefinite epithets and not proven restraints of trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moody
Supreme Court of the United States
Swift & Co
United States
Miller
Union
Montague & Co
Lowry
San Francisco
Lacy
At & O'Clock
Genera
Justice Harlan
Iilnor
Harlan
Muller
Congress
White
Stope That Stope That Throbbing Sensation
Testimonial from a Boston reader praising Smiths Buchu Lithia Pills for kidney and rheumatic relief after long suffering. The writer notes the medicine met advertised claims, plans to continue with a second box, and mentions the elderly mother’s use. Includes stray product lines and price cue.
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Janel
Dartmouth St
Boston
Bilious_uth
Beef Trust Cases Dropped in Montana Court
Helena January 9 five agents arrested in Butte in the beef trust cases were discharged today by District Judge Smith. Bondsmen exonerated after Gunn moved that corporate agents are not responsible for companies acts. Motion granted as prosecutors proceed.
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Montana
Helena
Mont
Janu
Smith
Butte
M. S Gunn
Supreme Court narrows Postmaster General power over mail routes
Justice Day delivers Slavens v United States ruling on government authority to terminate contracts before their term. The court held the Postmaster General may end a mail contract if public interest requires, with one month extra payment to the contractor, rejecting a requirement to abandon all service. Major shippers General Donovan, Armour, Cudahy, Swift, and Hammond in Chicago and Pueblo are noted in context.
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Justice Day
Supreme Court of the United States
Luther C Slavens
United States
Boston
Brooklyn
Omaha
Supreme Court rules ore roasting a domestic use for timber
The United States vs United Verde Mining Co. decision holds timber cut on public lands may be used for roasting ore, not smelting, under the 1878 act. Justice McKenna says roasting falls under domestic purposes and Congress did not authorize broader regulation. Dissenting justices argue roasting is not a domestic process.
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Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
United States
United Verde Mining Company
Arizona
Secretary of the Interior
Justice McKenna
Arizona Supreme Court
Harlan, Brown, and Peckham United
Georgia Law Void Interstate Freight Damage Ruling
Justice Peckham delivered the opinion in Central Georgia Railway Company v Murphy holding Georgia’s freight damage statute void for interstate shipments. The court ruled state police power cannot regulate interstate commerce and reversed the Georgia Supreme Court, remanding for further action.
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Supreme Court of the
United States
Geogia
Justice Peckham
Central Georgia Railway Company
Murphy
Barlesville
Omaha
Georgia
Peckham
Georgia Supreme Court
Indemnity Row Involving Union Stock Yards and Rail Line
The Supreme Court ruled against indemnity against the owner for injuries to a brakeman on a car secured from the Burlington and Quincy system. The brakeman sued the Terminal company and won $10,000. the stock yards association sought recovery from the car owner, but the court held owner negligence did not excuse the user. Justice Day authored the opinion.
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Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway Company
Supreme Court of the United States
Railroad Company
Stock Yards Company
Burlington Company
Terminal Company
Stock Yards Association
Justice Day
Supreme Court Reverses Judge Wing in Chinese Exclusion Cases
The Supreme Court reversed Judge Wing of the Northern District of Ohio, ordering the filing of papers in the Chinese exclusion cases of Jack Dee, Woo Joe, and Bong Meng. The judge had ruled Chinamen could not be excluded so long as papers were not on file, stalling the appeal. The high court’s decision overturns the district court ruling and compels proceeding.
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Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the
United States
Ohio
Jack Dee
Woo Joe
Bong Meng
Wing
District Court
Texas Buckets and Habeas Dismissals
The Texas Fullerton bucket shop case was dismissed for want of jurisdiction after an appeal to the Supreme Court, with the federal question deemed raised too late. The U S Supreme Court denied motions to file habeas corpus petitions in the St Louis naturalization cases, leaving prisoners in prison per trial court sentences.
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Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
Fullerton
Supreme Court
Supremes Court of the
United States
St. Louis
Warships in Review at Hampton Roads Navy Parade
Eighteen U S Navy vessels including Kearsarge Texas Arkansas and Nevada were reviewed and inspected at Hampton Roads by Secretary Paul Morton and Admiral Dewey. Thousands watched as battleships cruisers and torpedo craft formed three columns en route to winter maneuvers in the Caribbean Sea.
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Caribbean Sea
Norfolk
Kearsarge
A .& Barker
United States
Hampton Roads
Paul Morton
George Dewey Thefleet
Caribbean
Barker
Texas
Sand
Newark
Sigsbee
Johnston
Dolphin
Fort Monroe
Sands
Capes
Kentucky
Illinois
Alabama
Mussour
Iowa
Florida
Nevada
Arkansas
Crusers
Tacoma
Denver
Scorpion
Flotta
Whipple MacDonough Stewart
Worden
Newport News
Gaxty
Naval Orders and Marine Corps Training Reports
The Washington Post reports officers assigned tasks and postings in January 1905. Commander W C Cowles switches from member board duties in Washington to Asiatic station via San Francisco on or about January 24 1905. Liew F H Brumby moves from Brooklyn to Minneapolis for flagship duties on the Chief Commander staff. Midshipman C Belknap transferred to Meedanough for instruction. Additional Marine Corps second lieutenants Herman Walter H N Manney and W Bogan reported to the Marine School of Application for instruction at Annapolis. A product ad for Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets appears.
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W. C Cowles
Inspection and Survey
Washington, DC
Asiatic
San Francisco
Cal
Liew
F H Brumby
Brooklyn
Minneapolis
Atletti
C. Belknap
Hopkins
Meedanough
Washington Post
Annapolis
Marine Corps
Marine School of Application
Herman Walter
H. N. Manney
W. Bogan
Irrigation Scheme for Belle Fourche Draws Civil Engineers
Reclamation engineers at a South Dakota convention discuss the Belle Fourche irrigation plan covering about 90 000 acres. Engineer Raymond F Walter notes a $2 300 000 cost with projected annual crops surpassing 1 200 000, boosting land value to around 7 an acre. Interior Department funds totaling 2 100 000 are earmarked, with work set to begin about April 1. The program involves the Bureau of Forestry and survey work, plus a cement mill project for Roosevelt dam construction.
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Reclamation
Belle Fourche
Convention of
United States Reclamation Engineers
South Dakota
Raymond F Walter
Mm Congress
Knattredge and Gamble
Burke and
Martin
Walter
Secretary of the Interior
Bureau of Forestry
Computer Hoyt
Arizona
Roosevelt Dam
Washington
California
Senator Procter
American Society of Civil Engineers
Rauschers
Connecticut Avenue
Rates on Plate Glass Discrimination Alleged by Pittsburg Glass Co
The Pittsburg Glass Company filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission alleging that the Pittsburg Cincinnati Chicago and St Louis and sixteen major trunk lines, plus others, use a foreign glass tariff that favors imported plate glass over American made equivalents. The suit claims foreign glass is priced 16 to 40 percent lower than American glass, with substantial output entering the U S despite higher domestic costs. Notices will be served to require the roads to answer the charges and an investigation is sought.
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Pittsburg Glass Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Chicago
St Louis
North Atlantic
United States
Entry Free for Canal Goods Ordered by Taft
Secretary Taft issues an Executive Order allowing free entry of goods at Ancon and Cristobal for canal construction and U S officers and employees, with certificates from Isthmian Canal Commission or chiefs. Natives in tropical countries excluded from commissary benefits. if merchants gouge prices the United States will supply staple foods to native employees.
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Taft
Ancon
Cristobal
Canal
United States
Isthmian Canal Commission
Department of Metcial
Panama
Military orders grant and assignments across services
Orders issued to army officers grant see three day leave for Capt William H Sage and appoint Capt Thomas F Dwyer to Coast Artillery, relocate Capt Henry R Stiles and surgeons from the Philippines, extend one month seven days leave for Lieut Col Daniel M Taylor, assign Capt David McKing for inspections at California Powder Works, direct Lieut Gen Nelson A Miles to Massachusetts militia duty, provide pay rights, report smallpox outbreak among Chippewas and immediate vaccine supply to Ashland Wisconsin.
Tell This to Your Wife Electric Bitters Cure All Women
An advertisement touts electric bitters as a cure for female complaints, claiming relief from headaches, backaches, and nervousness with no pay, and directs readers to all druggists for purchase.
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Arraigns Beef Trust
Packers
Mriday
Vlady
Vn Modv
Tnen
Montopeline
Ducasions
Ti‘wing
Addyston Pipe
Northern Securities
Coneres
Mane
Noint Bia
Smith’s
W.f.smith CO
Summer St
Beatom
Mment
Warships IN Review
Morton
Dewey
Washington Port
Old Dominion
Cape Henry
Norfolk Navy Yard
Hamilton
Monroe
Navy Yard
Virginia Coast
Manchuria
War Department
Marblehead
Bennington
Callae
Paul Jones
Bellingham Bay
Sterling
Phiadelphia
Whipple
Woergen Stewart
Mregonough
Arkandan
Texie
Vixen
Guantanamo
Darling
Navy Department
Cty
Zeta Psi Society
the Navy
Moren
David McKing
Ordnance Department
California Powder Works
Santa Cruz
Pinole Cal
Massachusetta
Nelson A Miles
Campbell
Ashland
Wis
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Indian Bureau
Bond
Pituburg. Pe
Winfield 8 Co
Lansburgh Furniture Co
Ninth Street
Heurich Brewing Co
Heurich’s
Maerten
Senate
Neufchatel
Chestnut Farms Sanitary Dairy
Geo. M. Oyster, Jr
Prop
Conn. Ave
N.W
Hebbard’s
Hebbard
George E. Hebbard
Regal Frase
The
Creamers
SEAT
Atlantic & Pacificess
Rupp
R. P. Andrews Paper Co., Syna
Munyon
Ceres
Rollet
ALL Grolers
Washington Gas Light &0
10Th St. N. W
Warner
Gratef
Igeicote
Warners Sala Ure
Warner A
Safe Cure Company
Rochesters
Posallel
Burlington
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