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LUMBER TRUST Congressman Smith Warns Against It In Making Report on Snkject A SUMMARY OF REPORT He Says He Finds Concentration of Control of Stuniliiii! Timlwr in Very Few Hands and He Finds Speculative Holding Far in Advance of Any Fse Thereof. Concentration of the control of fne standing timber in ?a very few hands, vasts speculative holdings "tar in advance of any use thereof," an enormous increase in the value of "tins diminishing natural re source, with great profits to its owners," and incident ly "and equally sinister land monopoly," and "closely connected railroad domination" ?these are the findings reported to President Taft, by Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations, in tile first instalment of his long awaited report on the lumber industry of tlie country. The report was made public. . . . when submitted to Congress by the President. It constituted the "first comprehensive and methodical Investigation of the amount of and ownership of our standing timber." The report itself comprises .18 prited pages, hut a summary of its contents is contained in a letter submitted by Mr. Smith. "There are many great combinations in other industries," says the commissioner, "whose formation is complete. In the lumber it 'ustry. on the other hand, the bur<- u now finds in t lie making a combination caused fundamentally, by a long standing public policy "In the last forty years oneentration has so proceeded that lf>5 holders, many interrelated, now have practically one-half the privately owned timber in the investigation area, (which contains SO per cent of the whole.) This formidable process of concentration, in timber and in land, involves grave future possibilities of impregnant monopoly, with far-reaching consequences to sooiety, it is now difficult to an ticipate fully or to overestimate "The foremost facts shown ate: First, the concentration of a dominating control of our standing timber in a comparatively few enormous holdings, steadily tending towards a central control of the lumber Industry; secondly, vast holding of timber land far in advance of any use thereof; third, an enormous increase in the value of this diminishing natural resource, with great profits to its owners. This value, by the very nature of standing timber. the holder neither created nor substantially enhances. "These are the underlying facts of tremendous service to the public welfare. They are primarily the results of our public land policy, long continued. The laws that represent that policy are still largoly opera tive. The past history and present status of our standing timber drlvi home upon us the imperative necessity of revising our public policy tor future management of all our remaining natural resources." Tito commissioner then traces the interval during which timber land passed front Government to private ownership. "There is now left," he continues, "in Continental United States about 2,"200 billion board feet of private y owned standing timber, of whh h 1.747 billion is in the 'investigation nrea" covered in great detail by tin bureau. This area includes ihe Pacific Northwest, the Southern p'ne region and the Lake States, and contains about 80 per cent of all the private timber of the country. In addition, there are about 539 billion feet in the national forests and about 90 billion feet on other various private lands. Thus, the total amount of standing timber in Continental United States is about 2,800 billion board feet. The present annual drain upon the supply of saw timber is about f?0 billion feet. At this rate the timber now standing, without allowance for growth or decay, would last only about 55 years. "The present commercial value of privately owned standing timber in the country, not including the val le of the land, is estimated at six bll- | lion dollars. Ultimately, the consumer will have to pay higher prices for lumber, which will give this timber a far greater value." The commissioner declares the holdings of the Weierhaires Timber Company, the Southern and Northern Pacific Companies, together, are 238 Wilton feet, or nearly 11 per cent of all the privately owned timber of the country. "In the Southern pine recion,"' said the report, in taking up the discrlptlon of timber land, "there nro 62 4 billion feet of privately owned timber. Concentration in total timber is much less than in the PactSc Northwest. There is, however, a high concentration in the more valuable species, yellow pine and cypress. Sixty-seven holders own 30 per cent of the long leaf yellow pine, 29 per cent of all the cypress, 19 per cent of the short leaf and PENSION FRAUDES THE LEGISLATURE HAS 11E EN ASKED TO TAKE ACTION. The Veteran's Hill Will ReincMly tlie Matter, and They Are Deeply In terested in the Mcusurc. Charging fraud in the pension system of the State. Gen. C. Irvine Walker of Charleston has made the following statement: "There is a very deep interest among the Confederate veterans here as to the linal outcome of a bill now before the legislature, to amend the pension laws of the State, so as to stop the stupendous frauds which at present exist. The movement started in Camp Sumter and was taken up most earnestly by Gen. B. II. Teague, commanding the South Carolina division veterans, and representing the veterans of the entire State. Gen. Teague had presented to the senate and house a hill, which the veterans thought would correct or check the evil. "The veterans have evidence of such general fraud in the giving of pensions to those not entitled to receive the same, that it prevents trie worthy veterans and widows of such from receiving all that the State generously awards them. The worthy should receive $:?<"> per annum. but the appropriation is grabbed up by so many unworthy that the worthy received in 1010 only $20. Little more than half! "The veterans sent a representat i VP to Pnlinn)?ln 1 /a 1 ? before the legislature. Hp appeared before (lie finance committee of the senate and the military committee of the house, and both committees, after careful consideration, made unanimously favorable reports. This shows that these influential committees were convinced by the veterans showing that the great evil existed, and were satisfied with the remedy which the veterans suggested in their bill. "The veterans have laid bare the horrible conditions existing, shown the frauds being annually perpetrated upon the worthy veterans and upon the State, and if the legislature does not act, it must answer for a continuance of the evils to the people, whose money is being misappropriated and criminally wasted. The bill provides an immediate remedy which will check a large amount of fraud this year and eventually purge the rolls of the unworthy. "The best informed veterans thin* that there ought not to be more than 2.000 soldier pensioners, while the (tension roll of 1910 shows 4,886! Tho United Confederate veterans think that they had enrolled considerably more than half the survivors of the Host Cause in the State. Last year the State division had on its rolls 2,39.". The pension roll of 4,886 soldiers is more than double the number of comrades in United Confederate camps! Nothing can more clearly demonstrate the utter absurdity?if not fraud?of the pen slon roll! "The veterans have exposed the fraud and feel that It Is now up to the legislature to remove the stigma and save the State money. It Is sincerely hoped that it will not adjourn without taking the desired action." Killed for Mistake. Asking Mrs. Port Pond if he might see her after the show cost Karl J. Kobe, of Canton. O., his life In Union City, Ind. The remark was overheat.! by the young woman's father and a fight followed. Pefore he died Robe said he mistook Mrs. Pond for some one else. The girl's father surrendered. After a man has passed aO he sometimes falls in love with his wife again. loblolly pine, and 11 per cent of the hardwood." Coming to the effects of this, the commissioner says: "Such concentration in standing timber, if permitted to continue and increase, make probable a final central control of the whole lumber industry. A few strong interests ultimately holding the bulk of the timber, can set the price of timber and its products. "Certain further farts, not exactly measurable, increase still more the real concentration. First, a further interweaving of Interests, corporate and personal, connects a great many holdings which the bureau has treated as separate. Second, the very large totals of timber so scattered in small tracts through larger holdings that they are substantially 'blocked in' or 'controlled' by the large holders; third, the concentration is much larger in the valuable species. "The largest holders are cutting little of this timber. They thus reservo to themselves incalculable protits, which are still to accrue with further increase in value. Standing timber is not the only question. When the timber has been cut the land remains. There has been created, therefore, not only the framework of an enormous timber monopoly. but also an equally sinister land discrimination, involving also a great wealth in minerals." SWINDLING THK NEGROES. Bible With Angels Iloprwontinn C?lor?*d Race Sold. A queer story coines from Rome, Ga., whore some smooth rascals are gulling foolish country negroes by selling them at outrageous prices a Bible- in which the picture of all , angels, the Savior and Bible characters generally have been artfully colored to represent the African race. It is said these sharpers are working in other parts of the state also, and, unless the negroes are placed on guard, hundreds will be gulled. The Bible Is said to be a cheap one. worth about $1. The pictures in some cases have been pasted In anil colored to make all ih f .mtni-o represented black. These Bibles arc sold for $2 down and a baiance of $8 in installments. The sharpersdeclare that histories have been discovered to show that the entire human race was originally black, and this true Bible has been quietly printed and sold only to negroes in order to establish the truth. It is said many of them have been sold to ignorant and easily duped negroes, who seem to believe the silly story told by the rascals who are selling this fake Bible. No doubt these rascals in time will reach this section anil attempt to swindle our negroes. When they come they ought to be arrested and locked up, as they are nothing but the meanest kind of swindlers. Look out for them. TILLMAN I OK UMtlMLIL Says ll?? Was Converted by the Speech of Bailey. An echo, from Senator aBilev's speech in defense of Lorimer in the 1'nited States senate was sounded Friday by Senator Tillman, when that veteran declared that he would not vote to unseat the lllinoisan or to declare his sent vacant. "A wek ago I would have called the man a liar who said that I would e\or vote for Lorimer," said Senator Tillman to The Atlanta Journal correspondent. "1 was bitter a -ainst hint and had Intended to help expel him from the senate, but after hearing Bailey's speech and studying the record more carefully, 1 have decided that I shall not vote to unseat him. I think it has been demonstrated clearly that Lorimer had nothing to do with any bribery, if bribery existed. "Senator Bailey's speech was a magnificent effort, and its effect has been tremendous. He riddled the arguments of the men who have been fighting I.orimer. and presented the evidence In na light that leaves no question in my mind as to my course." curing i no delivery or Bailey's speech Senator Tillman was anions? several senators who openly wept. Several times he used his handkerchief to wipe away the tears that (lowed down his cheeks. WHITE CITIZEN AHKKSTEI). Sensation Sprung in the Ijnnyforil Murder Case. A dispatch from Branson says a sensational feature in the Bangforo murder case developed Wednesday when a warrant was issued for L. B. Tuten. a prominent citizen of that place, charging him with the alleged crime. On November 20. last the body of J. B. Langford, a prominent merchant and citizen of Branson, war found some distance otT the public road, between there and his saw mill, about half a mile from Branson. The discovery was made bv a searching party, after his unaccounted for absence from both his home and mill for about 12 hours. Foul play was indicated and, upon the statement of a voting white woman, that she saw the fatal blow struck. Richie Williams, h negro, was arrested, charged with the killing, and hurried to the Penitentiary to prevent threatened violence. * Victim of Hot Supper. At a negro dance v few nights ago. near Tirznh, Will Burnett, a ne?ro, was shot and killed hy Sam Fewell, also a negro. Trouble arouse about a woman, and Ilarnett and fleo. Webb were fighting when Fewell tired the fatal shot. Webb went to Yorkville and told the officers that "There was a dead nigger out there." They went to the place and found him. we can legislate. If applied, it will be proven to be the correction rule, the rule for all of us." Fire at I^iuiar. one or tne most destructuve fires that ever visited Lamar occurred Wednesday night when twenty buildings were burned. The fire originated in na barber shop, supposedly from a defective flue, and before the flames could Ik? cheeked several nearby buildings caught and the fire gained such a headway it was impossible to do anything towards stopping it. (lives I p tlie Fight. Sam Wylie, sixty-two years oi l, committed suicide Wednesda> a' the home of his brother in-law in the Wellrldee section of Chbst < county J He was unmarried. * I A man's table manners may de-' pond on the layout before him. KILLED BY REGULARS MEXICAN SOIjDIEKS CJV1LTY OF BRUTAL Ml'RDKR. Four ()I<1 Men Were Shot to Dentil unil Rebels Wante<l to Kill Soldier Found Wounded. ii a ict-eui ukiii near .Milium, Mexico, between federals and the insurrectos under General Ortega, ii> vvhicli the former were rorced to retreat, an Associated Press correspondent was with the insurrectos. Thi bodies of the four old non-com hutants whose deaths are laid to the federals were found in a farm house near Mulata. They were Eucevio de La Cruz. Cruz Samaneijo, Decederio Garrusco and Matias Carrasco. One of the men was 00 years old, another was blind and another a cripple. Alt were white haired. Next morning the insurrectos found these old men with their hands tied behind their hacks lying riddled with bullets. On" was slashed across the face by a sabre. Several Americans viewed the bodies. photos were taken and several d ned an affidavit describing the in cident. This sworn statement will be sent to Washington. A dramatic incident followed the discovery of the four murdered men. A government soldier had been found lying wounded in the field, lie had been cared for ami fed. When the murdered men were found several insurrectos made a rush for the plaza in Mulata to get revenge by killing this wounded soldier, in the crowd was a son and a nephew i?T ono of the aged martyrs. Like crazy men they ran yelling into tho plaza and dragged the soldier into the street. Many argued against him. hnt others maddened by fie sight of the hntehered old men drew their pistols and declan d they would kill any men that tried to stop them. At that moment Or tego. the Insurrecto commander, rode into the plaza and called a halt. "My children," he said. "I have had a home laid In ruins and a wif< and hahies driven naked and starving into the hills, and 1 am not ready to kill an unarmed wounded man." The race faded from the eyes of the crowd and only one, the son. stepped forward to take the soldier's life. Ortega drew his pistol. "It would break my heart to have to kill a comrade," he said, "but we shall not be murderers." The wounded soldier was picked up, mumbling his praises in terror, and removed to a shanty. In the two days' battle the federals lost ten to twenty men and the pronundados lost one man killed and one wounded. The dead man. Hilarlo Sanchez, was shot while battering in the door of a house with the Scotchman, F. S. McC'ombs, to get at a squad of soldiers. Fatally Wounded. Upon entering a room in Greenville Wednesday to arrest G. W. Stoneey pher. who had been raising a disturbance in a drunken spree. Thomas J Curoton, familiarly known as "Uucle Tommy," a 70-year-old policem.au and the oldest man in point of service on the Greenville police force, was shot in the head by Stonecypher and fatallv wounded. Line Wreck. George Wym, a negro porter, was instantly killed. Engineer M. Milford and Fireman Daley Robinson were slightly injured, and C. D. Talley, a mail clerk, was painfully injured when a box car crashed into an Atlantic Toast Line accommodu tion train Friday night at Waterford, Ala. * Storm in New York One death and fifteen Injuries frotn the snow and sleet storm which has been raging over New York for the past twenty-four hours. A young woman, crossing Fifth avenue, in the blinding storm, was killed by an automobile. The list of injured showed eight broken arms nnd three brok- n legs. Stockmen Murdered. Advices from Superintendent of State Police J. 1'. Donnelly and the sheriff of Washoe county, Nevada, state that the bodies of the four stockmen murdered near Camp Dento had hen recovered. All were horribly mutlliated. They agree it was the work of a band of Indians. * llorsc Killed by n Itonr. Near Aiken the other day a lioise was attacked and killed by a boar belonging to W. Rothrock. The hog was in a pasture near Aiken. Will Taylor had driven into the pasture to look at some cattle, leaving his horse hitched. The boar attacked the horse, disemboweling it. * t ut Off Her Hair. "Have you got a piece of pie to spare?" asked n tramp Friday niornIng when Mrs M. C. lsrist answered a knock at the door at Hyersville. Ohio. She told him to step into the kitchen. There, while her back was turned, the tramp knocked her down and cut off her hair. STIMCKKN CHIXESK IIISTIUCTS. President Asks ltelief fur Famine Sufferers. President Taft Issued the following proclamation Wednesday for funds to aid the famine sufferers in China: "As president of the American Ked Cross I appeal to the people of this country to aid the mifnrtiin.-ui. multitudes who ure dying of starvation because of famine in China either by money contributions which should bo sent to the l^cal lied Cross treasurers or the Red Cross. Washington, IV C., or by assisting in raising a cargo of flour and oth r -nitable supplies to be sent to those people. Con-rcss lias granted tinuse of an army transport to the Rel Cross for this purpose. Tin Seattle Commercial Club of Seattle. Washington, is co-operating with he Red Cross and will act as receiving and forwarding agent for all supplies. 1 trust that our peopc will respond generously and that the 'ransportation lines will aid In tin delivery at Seattle. (Signed) "William IT. Taft. IIIS 1,1 KK Cltl SIIM1) OCT. ? I. Edgar Shumate Pies of Horrible Injuries at I Vl/er. Mr. .T. Edgar Shumate. night superintendent of the Moneynick Oil Mill, at PelJter. was horribly crushed in the fly wheel rf the mill at 1 o'clock Wednesday morning, and at 9: flu o'clock Thursday he succumbed to the injuries. Fire was discovered in the engine room and young Shu mate went down in the fly whet' pit to throw the large driving belt oil Hie wheel, to save it from the llano He stepped on the fly wheel, when the machinery was unexpectedly started, and he was caught in the wheel and crushed. Shumate was removed immediately to his room .it the Pad get Motel and medical aid was summoned from Vnderson. I.nve's Young Prcaui. Sighing like a furnace, Over ears in love. Mind In adoration Of his ladle's glove; Thinks no girl was ever Quite so sweet as she. Tells you she's an angel, Expects you to agree. Moping and repining, C.looinv and morose. Asks the price of poison, Thinks he'll take a dose; Women are so tickle, Love is all a sham. Marriage is a failure, Life a broken dan.. Whistling, blithe and cheerful. Now he's bright and gay. Dancing, laughing, singing. All the livelong day; Full of fun and frolic, Caueht in fashion's whirl, Thinks no more of poison, Lot another girl. ?lilts. WAILINO OX MAIIMIALL ISLES. CTuel Decree Makes All "Heuuties Shear Their Tresses. A cruel decree was nrnmnlcntoii by Chief Lnt, who succeeded Chief Kabun, of the Marshall Islands, two months ago. Every native woman was ordered to shear her tresses. There was weeping and wailing, of course, for even in the South se.is the women know a crown of glory when it flufTs lightly on their shoulders. Rut they till obeyed the order, and when the schooner Triian left .Taluit the dusky beauties of that place were nil wearing their hair dosely cropped. The order was obeyed in all the islands. The shorn tresses were delivered to the head man of each village and by him burned. Weary of l.ife. At Columbus, (5a., J. \V. \Veav< r. aged ." ! years, committed suicide 1>\ shooting himself in the temple with a pistol. He was discovered by bis daughter lying in a pool of blood at the family residence on East Highland street. Ill health Is said to have been the cause of the deed. Stock to the Job. Two hens were found sitting on their eggs in the midst of the debris after a fire had destroyed a chicken house in Ixis Angeles. Cal. The flro men had been pouring water into the rums iinn were rearing down what was left of the chicken house when the hens were found. * They Wore l ights. Surrounded hy her company, in the tights they wore at Miner's Eighth Avenue Theatre in New York Friday night, May Hadeley, leading woman of the Star Show C.irls, was married to Edwin I.. Flester. a tenor singer with the Rose Sydell Burlesque . Don't Make Much. M>-n workers in Japanese cotton mills earn on the average 23 cents a day, the women 16 cents and the children from 8 to 10 cents. * The doctor who speaks but one language may understand many tongues. Repentance makes restitution; remorse is sorry, but keeps the goods. CANT SEE JOKE I Champ Clark Stirred Up Most Uotiprcted Trouble. BY JOCULAR REMARK 1 rile President Also Tnkts the Matter x Serionslj and Thinks li \crcssiivy t?? Issue Denial of llu* lloporunl Octupus Ik^ipiN of the l nitetl I States and Canada. The semi-jocular remarks which Champ Clark, the Democratic speaker-to-i>e. made in the house during the debale on. the Canadian reciprocity to the effect tii.it he believed the Stars and Stripes would one <1 ty tloat over tlte entire Western hemisphere. stirred up most unexpected I troulde on Wednesday. President Tuft took occasion to write to Representative MeC:?ll. introducer of the reciprocity hill, a letter disclaiming and deprecating the annexation talk, and to follow it. up with personal remarks, even more emphatic to his visitors. Tho letter of President Tuft, to Mr. Mr"all s;iv s in part: "This agr -ement. if i.t becomes a law. lias no political significance. No thought of future politic al annexation or union was in the mind of tho negotiators on either side. Canada Is now and will remain a political unit.** The president lias made it known that he would like to have it under- J st *od throughout the world that his administration had no thought wliatver of annexation when tl > resiprofit.\* agreement was arranged fl The news that Mr. Clark's niln? doas had created excitement in Can-* ada and in Knelat 1 <>. ^'oned great surprise arid considerable H ; usemont at the cupitoi. The man Most surprised of all was Mr. Clark V I ! declared Wednesd y that he I expressed his own individual opinion and declared that he stan ' pat on 1 liis speech. Mr. Clark's entire speech on reciprocity was delivered In a half-humorous, half-taunting vein. I The house was in a sale of laughter M most of the time. In return for the laughs he was ^ creating at their expense, some of the Republicans tried to turn the tables on Mr. Clark by chiding him with the fact that he might have President Taft as an opponent for tlie Democratic nomination. This humorous exchange reflected the spirit of the debate during the " ^ entire time. Mr. Clark was m his feet, and no one gave serious consideration to his remarks regardin* the possible annexation of Canada at some distant time. There was a further touch of facetiotisncss to the debate when one of the Republicans asked Mr. Clark if be would like to l>e tbo first president of tbe magnificent Union lie was creating and ho replied. amid bursts of laughter, that he certainly would. Friends of the reciprocity measure were inclined to take the view that opponents of tie- agreement had simply seized on what was regarded here as an entirely personal and harmless statement to ma' e capital against the ratification of the agreement. Ottawa is >nnoye?l. A dispatch from Ottawa, Ontario, aiiv* mere was consummate interest :i ml so mo irritation there Wednesday over Champ Clark's speech. In which lie said that the reciprocity agreement was the first step toward annexation. At the oncning of session of the house. Col. Stain Hughes read a newspaper abstract or the speech and asked if it was a fair statement of the \merican attitude and !f so ln H'ired if the Canadian government leaders were prepared to withdraw from the reciprocity agreement. Sir Wilfred l.aurler'K renly was nonconimital. He said that the government had no information on the subject; that the Canadian government had announced its policy and would not change it until it had more information. Kll.l. TOKltKVS l.\M> llll.U House Adopted the Minority Iteport o nAsliley's Motion. The Torrens land system will not ho Investigated by a commission. Mr. Ashley got his dander up when this hill came from the free conference committee with a majority and a ml nority report. The senate adopted the majority report that a commission be appointed to set information for the legislature to act upon next year. The minority recommended that the judiciary committee supply tills information without cost. The house on Mr. Ashley's motion Adopt' ' ed the minority report and thereby killed the hill. This hill had tho endorsement of the Farmers' I'nion, who requested its passage. * Indian Cotton Crop. A Calt utta dispatch says the final forecast of the Indian cotton . rop for 10in-ll places the yield at seven per cent below that of the preceding year.