SHOT HIM DOWN
Major Gajnor of New York Fired on by
Former City Employee
SERIOUSLY WOUNDED
The Mayor Was Standing On the
Deck of an Ocean Steamer Chat*
elmrf Wttfi UAvornl Vrion <1 u Who
Had Called to Bee Him OfT on a
Trip to Kurope.
Msyor William J. Gaynor, of New
York, was shot In the neck and badly
wounded Tuesday morning by Jas.
J. Gallagher, a discharged employe
of the city dock department. The
hooting took place on the deck of
the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der
Grosse, lying at her pier ini Hoboken,
N. J., on which the mayor was
on the point of sailing for a month's
vacation abroad. Gallagher was RC
once arrested.
The bullet entered just below the
right ear, passing through the mastoid
and traveling from right to left
and slightly downward. Gallagher
evidently has a fancied grievance
against Mayor Gaynor. He declared
after the shooting that the mayor
had deprived him of his "bread and
butter." Gallagher was mobbed and
his life was threatened before the
police could lodge Jilm in jail.
Three shots were fired at the mayor.
Two of them missed and the
third lodged in the fleshy portion of
the left side of the neck. Blood
gushed from the wound and the first
hasty examinations led to the belief
of Berious and perhaps fatal consequences.
The mayor retained ocn ciousnesB
and later examination by
the physicians when the mayor was
taken to the hospital gave a hopeful
outlook.
Mayor Gaynor and city officials
were standing in a group about to
have their piotures taken when the
shooting began. Blood spurted from
the wound in the neck as the mayor
fell to the deck. Officer Kitxererini?.
one of the guard of the North German
Lloyd line, was standing near
at the time.
He had in his hand a small police
club, with which he hit the assailant
a blow on the head, felling
him to the deck. The man was seized
by officers. In the scuflle his hat
fell off, disclosing the initials "H.
C. G." Throughout the strugggle
the man retained a pipe in Lis hand.
Meantime there was intense excitement
on the deck of the steamer.
The Mayor's secretary, Mr. Adamson,
lifted the stricken executive to
his feet and with the assistance of
others carried him to a state room.
Later he was conveyed to the hospital.
The revolver used by the assassin
was found to contain four empty
shells.
As Mayor Gaynor was being borne
by his friends he remarked simple:
"Say goodbye to the people."
At the city hall it is believed that
Gallagher is the man who had been
noticed loitering in city hall park for
several weeks apparently trying to
see Mayor Qaynor. The attendants
at the city hall, however, prevented
the man reaching the mayor.
Mayor Gaynor's administration,
which began on January 1, last, had
been so drastic in its reforms and
he had condemned so many persons
and parties in such strong terms
that he became the subject of many
threats. In municipal offices he
made many bitter enemies and a
number of powerful organizations
were uncompromisingly against him.
Several months ago an armed visitor
at the city hall was found trying
to approach Mayor Gaynor and
he was removed. Robert Adamson,
secretary to the mayor, was quoted
as saying he feared a crank might
sometime attempt to kill the mayor, j
Mayor Caynor was sailing on the
first vacation he had since taking
office on January 1. He has been
at work from 14 to 16 hours a day ,
and imperitivoly felt the need of a
Dm. iu uruer 10 ue out 01 reac.n or
tho affaire of his office it was his
Intention to avoid all the European
cities to take a jaunt through the
North Sea to the coast of Norway.
He expected to be absent about one
month.
Gallagher was appointed a watchman
in the New York City Dock department
April 7, 1903. He was
discharged July 19, 1910, after having
been found guilty of neglect of
duty and misconduct. Among his
other transgressions was the fact
that he had failed to punch the dial
on the time clock that recorded his
presence. Ho was also charged with
using insulting language to an inspector.
Since his discharge Gallagher
has been writing letters to tho
Mayor.
Jury Cleared Him.
"Justtflcabio homicide" was the 1
verdict of the coroner's Jury at Columbus,
Ga., In the case of James 11.
Knowles, a white express employe,
who shot to death Hen Tillman, a ne- f
gro, as the latter was advancing on t
him with a hatchet at tho Union i
station, following a heated contro- t
vorsy. a
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CRUSHED TO DEATH
TRAIN STRIKES AUTO KILLING
FIVE PEOPLE.
Every Person in the Automobile Was
Instantly Killed by Being Terribly
Crushed.
Five persons were crushed to death
Tuesday night when an express train
on the Pennsylvania railroad struck
an automobile at Mill Lane Crossing,
on the West Jersey and Seashore
Railroad.
me aead are: Frederick W. Feidner
and wife; Fritz Mergenthaler
and wife; M. C. Jones, chauffeur, all
of Baltimore. Mergenthaler was the
son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Feldner.
The party had been spending a fewdays
in Atlantic City and that afternoon
left for an automobile ride to
Cape May.
As they approached the tracks the
express was hidden from view by a
corn field and It was impossible for
the chauffeur to see the train' until
he was within a few feet of the
tracks.
As the automobile bore down toward
the tracks, (Mrs. Thomas McNeill,
who resides close to the crossing,
saw the rapidly approaching express,
and waved her hand for the
automobile driver to stop his car,
but the man either did not see the
danger or thought he could cross the
tracks before the train reached him,
and dashed on to the road just as
the train reached the crossing.
The train struck the automobile
squarely between the wheels, and
threw it and all of the occupants
clear of the tracks. All five of the
riders were instantly kiled and badly
cut and bruised.
The bodies were quickly gathered
together and a physician hurriedly
summoned, but a glance at the mangled
forms showed plainly no need
for medical aid.
So severe was the Impact that
pieces of llin machino n'orn >iriuon
on the piston rod.
The express struck the autornobilo
squarely between the wheels and
threw it and all the occupants clear
of the tracks. All live of the riders
were instantly killed. Coroner
Reeves reached the scene a few minutes
after the accident occurrd. He
took charge of the live bodies and
had them carried to the morgue.
TIMBER KILLS SAWYER.
Colored Man Meets With Fatal Mishap
at Saw Mill.
A colored man employed at the
Penn. Lumber Company, at Sumter,
suffered a horrible death Monday. A
sharp piece of wood entered his eye
with terrific force, completely penetrating
his head and causine almost
instant death. Singleton held the
position of sawyer at the lumber
yard, and when hit by the timber, he
was running what is know as the
"rip" saw. He was ripping the
rough edge off a board, and when
the edge was off the saw, in some
unaccountable way, Jecked it back,
sending it on its deatbdealing mission.
Singleton was rushed to the
Sumter hospital, where an operation
was hurriedly performed, but without
success. The patient lived but
a few minutes after the operation
had been completed. No inquest was
ueiu.
SLAVED HIS llROTHTR.
Whom He Had Mistaken for a Rob*
ber of Their Home.
Relieving he was shooting at a
burglar, Ivy Land, aged 22, after
midnight Monday morning, shot and
killed his brother. Quintus Land, 20,
years of age at Albany, Ga. Ivy
was aroused by the screaming of a
woman in the neighborhood and with
his shotgun ran to her assistance.
Shortly afterwards he heard another
woman screaming in the direction of
his own home. He rnn back just in
time to see his younger brother, who
also had been aroused and was hurrying
to investigate the cause of the
trouble, leap from a window of their
home. He ilred, killing his brother
instantly.
DAMAGED RY FM>OD.
Thousands in Japan Made Homeless
Ilf-i
UJ ?? WHT,
The devastation wrought throughout
many districts in Japan by the recent
floodss Is appalling. Whole
villages and towns have been washed
away and many lives have been lost.
In the lower sections of Tokio
alone 30,000 houses were submerged.
Communication by railroad
throughout the flooded area has been
Interrupted. There is much suffering
and iu many places the inhaldtats
are dostltute and threatened
with starvation. The loss amounts
to millions of dollars.
Collier Sunk.
The naval collier Marcelltis, lies
it the bottom of the ocean. In latlude
36, longitude 71.8, having sunk
n ten hours after she was struck by
he Norwegian fruit steamer, S. llosrio
dl Giorgio, last Tuesday.
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WANTED HIS MONEY
A MOST HOItRIKIiK CHIME BY A I
FARMER PREACHER.
Charged With Murdering Youth for n
Insurance Money and Then Setting
Fire to the House.
The supposed murder of a youta
to secure $2,500 insurance on his i
life, the gutting of the Rock Spring ]
hotel, a combination hotel and lodging
house on the wharf, the arrest of .
J. C. Holly, about 40 years old, pro- ,
prietor of the house, erstwhile }
preacher of the Sanctiflcation faith,
constituted the sensational of a trag- ,
ic fire which occurred In \Yliming- (
ton. N. C.. says a dispatch to The j
State. j
Edward Cromwell, 19 years old, ,
said to have come to Wilmington four ,
months ago from an orphan home in i
Charleston, and was cook at the ho- .
tel. was found lying on the floor of
his room, in his night clothes, nearly ^
an hour after the flvse was discov- (
ered. ,
Capt. W. P. Monroe, assistant .
chief of the fire department, who was
the first to enter the room, testified ,
at the coroner's investigation that .
the body was lying parallel with the ,
bed, which showed no evidence of f
having been disturbed, his feet to- {
ward the head of the bed, thus exploding
the theory that the youtn ,
fell from the bed. j
The mattress, he testified, was sat- 8
uruated with kerosene oil and under t
the heait of the dead youth was j
found a counterpane also saturated ,
with oil, while two large empty oil
cans were found in an adjoining ^
room. Other witnesses testified to v
hearing a noise as if a struggle about j
midnight in the youth's room.
.1. 11. Scull testified that on Mon- f
day, acting as notary public he sign- j
ed certificate of transfer of insurance f
policy for $2,500 from Cromwell to f
Holly, the premium on which he was j
informed was paid by Holly, who had |
applied t'oi insurance to tJhe amount (
of $5,000, the company refusing more ,
than $2,500. This is supposed to {
have furnished the motive for the
crime that is believed to have been
committeed.
The most important development
was discovered by l)r. W. C. Bell, cor- f
oner, that L. B. Sasser, a druggist,
sold to J. C. Holly, proprietor of the
hotel, sixteen ounces of Dateman's
drops, containing laudanum, etc., at t
about ten o'clock Tuesday night, and 1
the subsequent finding by the physi- v
clan of the bottle in the hotel with s
less than a teaspoonful of the drug t
in it. t
WOULD SAVE HIMSELF. 1
Ciov. Patterson Sees Handwriting on f
the Wail. (
As an outcome of the recent judi- f
cial election In Tennessee, in which 1
the regular Democratic nominee,
which he suported were defeated by v
independents who had the active aid v
og the Republican organization. Gov- c
ernor Patterson has issued a state- 1
nient expressing a willingness to 1
waive the Democratic nomination for 1
a third term, which he has already v
received and again test the question c
I of the choice of Democracy in any
! sort of a primary. Thus he would ,
hope, he says, to save the State to
Democracy.
The address among other things '
says: 0
The pernicious inter-meddling of (
a Republican President with the af- e
fairs of the Democratic party in our
State should he resented and his well
in.iu pian to KepuDlicanize it thwarted
before it is too late. >
"Those Democrats who are actively
aiding and abetting his efforts excuse
their treason by saying that it
is necessary in order to eliminate ino
from politics. ?
"If this is true, why not bring it n
about in a way that will restore harmony
and not destroy Democratic ascendancy?
If the majority of the
Democrats are opposed to me as it w
is claimed, 1 should not represent '
them as their candidate for Govern- !i
or." 1
The Governor then offers to enter a
a new primary and adds: }i
' The only condition I make is that a
the successful nominee shall be sup- I'
ported in the November election by 11
all who participate in the primary. ?
s
coxniTiov eiuuf mi u
OHirlal IliiiuIetiiiH Cheerful.'?Slcc|*ing
Well.
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Expressions of encouragement on
the part of all the watchers by Mayor
William J. Gaynor's bedside ushered
in the fourth day of his fight for re- 0
covery. An official bulletin at 7.10 j,
o'clock Friday morning said "Mayor n
Gaynor passed a very good night. lie q
slept seven hours. Ho is comforta- p
bio this morning and is is excellent n
general conditions. His temperature p
is 100; pulse 70; respiration 10." t|
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Died in the Surf. p
William J. Day, a young man aged tl
5 0 of Richmond, Va., was drowned ai
while bathing Sunday at Ocean View, a;
The body has not been recovered, ti
Several girl friends saw young Day w
drown, but were powerless to aid, d<
him. di
BREAK SOLID SOUTH '
PRESIDENT WANTS TO PATCH UP
POLITICAL TROUBLE.
Taft Summons to Beverly the Republicans
from Tennessee to Discuss
Matters in that Stnte.
President Talf and President Hadey
of Yale were In conference at
Beverly in regard to the personnel
>f the commission which is to be apjointed
to inquire into the proposed
regulations of the issues of stocks
ind bonds by railroads.
Wnile Mr. Hadley has not yet definitely
accepted the tendered position
>f chairman of the commission, he
h giving the president all the assistince
he ran in formulating a plan of
!vork, and it is believed that evenually
he will take the chairmanship.
Mr. Taft is strongly urging the mailer
upon him.
An effort is being made to have
he commission represent all phrases
>f the work. The so-called "pro;ressive"
sentiment of the republican
larty Ib to be represented.
President Taft and his poliitcal advisers
believe that the republican
>arty has a good opportunity to car y
Tennessee this fall and thus make
i break in the "Solid South"?one
>f the president's ambitions.
With this in view Mr. Taft has invited
a number of tho party leaders
n Tennessee to Beverly in order to
tee if the republicans cannot adjust
heir differences of the pass and go
nto the coming campaign in harnony.
The Tenneseeans lunched Friday
vtth the President. Among them
vero Representative Sanders and
fudge G. M. Henderson.
The Republican hope as viewed
rora Beverley is based on the split
n the democratic party and the re ent
overwhelming victory of the inlependent
judicial ticket, which won
?y from 45.000 to 50,000 majority,
n addition to a governor, there is
o be elected this fall a legislature,
vhlch will name a successor to Senitor
Frazier.
CKIjEBRATK their birthday.
Senator Tillman iui'l I)r. Hnbcock
Dined Together.
Thursday was the birthday of two
oceeedingly well known South Caroinians,
Benjamin Ryan Tillman, an
inique figure in the United States
lenate, and Dr. James Woods Bab ock,
one of the leading alienists of
he country,
ti'un- i- * -
uue in many respects vastly dif'erent
from each other, t,he sena/or
ind the doctor are intimate personal
'riends and have many tastes in com- i
non. Each in his sphere has reniered
distinguished service to his
itate. The senator Thursday entered
lis G4t.h year, the doctor his 55th.
Dr. Babcock was in a good berth
vith a large asylum in the North
vhen Senator Tillman sought him
nit and brought him South to lake
barge of Uie State Hospital for the ,
nsane at Columbia and the soundless
of this choice has been amply (
indicated by the career of Dr. Bab- j
oek since that time. i
The two friends had planned a |
ittle dinner last Sunday at Senator
'illman's plantation home at Tren- i
011, as a sort of anticipatory celebra- I
ion of the birthdays, but urgent 0H1- j
ial business kept Dr. Babcock in 1
'olunibia that day, but the two din- <
d together on Thursday. I
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I'KOMI'TbV EYNCHHlt HIM. t
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legro Entered CiiTs Boom and Then (
I
the Next World. <
Jim Toler. a negro, was lynched at
ne o'clock Thursday morning at Alia,
tia., by a mob of over 100 men
or having entered the room of two
aughters of a prominent plater of
lontgomery county Tuesday night,
rhile the girls were in bed asleep.
I is stated that one of t.he girls was
wakened by Toler when he raised
lie mosquito netting over the bed
nd that her screams frightened him
way. Search for the negro began
t once and the next afternoon a
osse of men came upon Toler worktig
in a corn field and acused him
f the crime. He confessed his
uilt and wag tied to a tree and shot
o death
It IX OVEK 11V TKAl.V.
'oung Mun Killed on CM C. and <).
Near Spartanburg.
<
Vernon Jolley, 10 years old, son t
f Stephen Jolloy, a well known and f
iglily respected farmer living s?x t
illes west of Chester In Spartanburg c
!ounty, was run over and killed earv
Thursday morning on the C., C. t
nd O., about one mile above the s
hesney depot. He was killed by y
tie excursion train which had taken i
party lo Johnson City, and was re- i
lining to Itostic after putting off t
le passengers at Spartanburg. The i
[ eidont happened at 12.30 a. mn ii
Qd the body was not discovered un ii
I after sunrise, when .Mr. Ularkwell, a
ho lives near the scene of the arci- 5
mt. happened to be going down tho p
rack. w
wrzysn* vMWSff
THE LUMBER TAX
Jenator Tillman Tells Why He Voted
Against the big Steal.
IT ROBS THE FARMERS
The Senator Says a l>uty on Lumber
Only Helps the Lumber Trust,
Which Has Hought I'p All the
Timber I^antls in the State, ami
Iluncocs the Farmers ami Others.
We present below some extracts
from the remarks of Senator Tillman
in the United States Senate on
the lumber schedule:
Mr. President, before the lumber
schedule passes from the attention
of the Senate, I want to make a
brief statement. When it was in
the Senate before, two or three
weeks ago, I voted for the amendment
proposed by the Senator from
Alabama to put lumber and all
building materials on the free list.
In the discussion I remarked that I
was in fafor of free lumber.
When the Senator from North
Dakota offered an amendment, which
did not give us free lumber, leaving
the duty on whitewood, sycamore
and basswood at fifty cents a thousand,
1 voted against it, because it
did not give us free lumber. The
Senate adjourned immediately afterwards,
giving me no opportunity to
vote for free lumber. There has been
no opportunity to vote for free lumber.
I still think we ought to have
free lumber, and 1 will give my
experience and my reasons for that
belief. I know, of course, we can
not get it.
Twelve years ago, when the Ding- J
ley bill was on its passage, I voted '
tor <i iz larin on luinuer, and re
marked, very much to the disgust of '
some people and the edification of
others, 'if there was to be stealing,
I want my share." I have found out
that I can not get tny share; that !
tlie conditions of the South are such
that the articles and products of
the region which are capable of being
protected are so few in number
that if we were to throw around
everything down there a high pro- (
teetive tariff, we would not get any- :
thing liko a proportionate benefit '
with the New Kngland and manufac- (
turing States of this Union.
In regard to this matter of lum- .
her I have watched the result of the (
duty. Immediately afterwards our .
timber lauds, which had previously .
been neglected so there were comparatively
small lumbering industries ,
down there, began to be in demand. .
.Men from Wisconsin and Michigan (
and other northern States where j
lumbering had practically denuded
the forests of timber, or were about
to finish them up, came into the
State and bought up very large
tracts of timber at a very small '
price. They did this all over the
South. Large mills were established
and the lumber industry began
to pick up, showing investment of (
capital and a large export. At the
same time the price began to rise, "(
a little faster, apparently, 'han the ,
industry itself.
Now consider for a moment that
the people of South Carolina are
In about this shape; the Stale being
i triangle, the upper part cutting off
like the letter "A" is largely the
Ahlte section of the State. Nearly J
two thirds of the people, although v
t is only one-third of the area, live
here. They are consumers of luni>er
and they have no yellow pine
>r very little. They have been importing
that lumber from the low- ?
;r half of the counties next to the ^
ica. In this coast region the lumber ?
ndustry has taken root and is now v
,'ery extensively carried on.
1 notice after three or four years e
>f this introduction of lumber on 8
in extensive scale that tlie price went ?
steadily up, up, and it very soon
lecame noised abroad. I do not
enow on what foundation that these
umber men had formed a combina- n
ion and they would not sell under h
>ach otlier to the consumers in the
tppor part of the State. B
Lumber is not a luxury. It is a ii
leeessity. It is one of the neces- 1"
laries of life. When I saw that the 'armors.
Who had to blllld hmmoa n
ind fence? and barns in the whole P
lpper country, wero being charged a
iteadily increasing prices for their s
umber, T began to chango my opinon
as to whether I was getting my h
ihare of the stealing or ifot. It look- a
>d like somebody not very far away f
vas getting an unreasonably profit P
>ut of our trees, which had cost P
hem a very small sum of money rel- p
itively. So my opinion in regard to h
lie benefits of the tariff in our State t
:hanged very radically. t
I believe in the greatest good to o
die greatest number, and when 1 aw
that the people who use lumber, i<
radically four-fifths of them, were s.
laying an increased price, I decided s
f I ever got a chance 1 would take u
hat tariff off. I do not feel that b
t Is my business here to protect the li
ndustry of lumber which perhaps, ">
avolves the interests of BO.OnO good '<
nd worthy people, as against the s:
00,000 equally, good and worthy p?
eople who have to use lumber, and j tt
o would not be saved from au ex- w
CENSUS WILL REVEAL
CATION'S POI?V LATION ABOUT
NIXKTY MILLIONS.
Mieved That This This Be Figuie I
Shown by Thirteenth Census.? >
The Counting. '
It will be Oetober before the people
of the United States learn their
rue numbers as revealed by the otll- \
:ia 1 count of the loth census. It is '
senerally believed that t.he number
will l?e about 90,000.000, and census
^dlcials are known to share in this
general belief, although they know
nothing about this.
This belief is based on the fact
that an increase slightly in excess
M the 13.000,000 increase during
the previous decade would bring the
copulation in 1910 to the 90,000.000
nark. About 300 of the more than
18,000 census clerks are compiling
population ilgures, while the others
are working on other statistics,
"ontrary to the general opinion, all
he counting of the people is done
'.y clerks, the tabulating machines
icing used only in classification as
o race, sex and other conditions.
Enumeration figures will continue
o be given out day by day for the
Text two months or more, while the
>ociological and industrial figures
will come later. All enumerated tigires
are counted from three to four
lines and an investigation is orderid
if there is any sugggestion of er or.
In two cases evidence of fraud
lad been discovered and in one. that
>f Great Falls, Mont., a prosecution
ins been undertaken for fraudulent
inumerat ion.
The intention of Director Duraud
s to tabulate first the population of
ho large cities, after which the iigires
for tlie States will be given out
is they are ascertained, the returns
'or all counties in the State being
innounced at the same time as the
lgures for the State.
1XCKEASED AOCI DEN TS.
S'uniber Killed During First Quarter
Eleven Hundred.
A considerable increase in the
lumber of persons killed and injur
?d on the railways of the United
states during the months of January.
February and March, 1910, is shown
iver the corresponding period of last
pear. The total number killed durng
the quarter was 1,100 and 21,{22
were Injured. This was an increase
of 406 killed and 0,110 inlured,
as compared with the corresumding
period last year. There were
19 killed on electric railways and
109 injured. The figures were made
mblic by the interstate commerce
-ommission from reports submitted ^
>y railroads as required hy law.
FIKH AT SAIjUDA.
lusiness Section of the Town Destroyed
by Fire.
Fire Tuesday night at Saluda, N.
}., a mountain resort crowded with
ummer visitors, destroyed entirely
ho general merchandise stores of
Thorn & Boone and S. 1). Station,
ach valued at $8,000, together with
l warehouse and stables worth $10,100.
Saluda has no lire protection,
ind hundreds of white-clad visitors
ratched the spectacle and bankers
nd mill presidents put in several
lours' hu.d work passing buckets of
inter.
Attacked by ( ailiecock.
Everett Bussc Weber, a flve-yearld
boy, was attacked and badly In
urea at Chicago Monday by a thorughbred
game rooster. The child
( as unconscious when the bird was
riven from him. The rooster jnmpd
at the boy's head and inflicted
everal gashes in his forehead. In
ne a blood vessel was bursted.
Dangerous Animals.
The efforts of seven men were reuired
to make an angry bulldog rosase
his hold on the face of Samuel,
he thre?-year-old son of Qua Marolen
of Paris, Ky., Thursday mornng.
It is probable that the lad wiil
use the sight of one eye.
rbitant price, because, 1 think, those
icople formed a combination and
greed that they would not underell
each other.
The only reason why wo were abp,
or will be able, to get lumber at
reasonable rate was due to the
act thai there were some old field
ine second growth left In the uper
part of the State and small
atcheg, or small areas, two or three
undred acres or 500 acres, all
hrough in the middle lower region
hat the lumbermen had not bought
r could not buy at the high prices
-I mean the great lumber compan*s,
with their railroads, and all that
ort of tiling, running out into tho
wamps. The only reason wliy the
pper-country peoplo could get lumer
at decent prices was hecouse a
ttie one-horse sawmill, costing $1,00
or at most $2,000, would go in>
these little patches of pine and
iw the timber up and furnish the
f'oplo I ma necessary, as against
iese great combinations of capital
hich had absorbed our timber.
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