Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1913 — THINKS LAFAYETTE GOAL MEN IN COMBINE [ARTICLE]

THINKS LAFAYETTE GOAL MEN IN COMBINE

Mayor Durgan Making Investigation of Charges Tfi&t Price Agreement Exists. The Lafayette Sunday Times prints a sensational article to the effect that Mayor Durgan, of that city, has evidence that the coal and fuel dealers are in a combination to maintain big prices for coal. He is reported to be determined to start a persistent investigation and if the merchants are in a Combine in violation to the state law, passed in 1907, he proposes t<* prosecute them vigorously-