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akaa lama Baking Easy flS*. ftairillfi POWDER Absolutely Pure Tho only baking powdor " modo from RoyalOrapo Oroam of Tartar IBAUIMJBIIMEPHIISFHATI LUMBER TRUST" The Government Will Seek to Destroy m the Alleged Conspiracy AMONG THE TIMBER MEN * Action Begun in New York Federal Court First Brought Under Interpretation of Slierman Law in Stun <lar<l Oil Decision.?"Unreasonable" llestruint of Trade Charged. In the first Federal anti-trust proceedings brought under th?e Shernian Standard Oil decision, the department of justice filed suit in the United States Court against various constituent organizations, which are knewn as the "Lumber Trust," alleging the presence of a widespread conspiracy, "unreasonably" to re<ibtrain the lumber trade in this coun| try. It is stated that the suit may be th-3 first of a series planned by Attorney General Wickersham looking to the breaking up of alleged agreements among the retailers of many of the commodities of life to maintain high prioes, to force all ultimate consumers to buy from retailers and .to blacklist wholesalers who sell to .'vl ihnn mnm hnro ./vf iVi a rnl o I 1 a i* VtllUI CIA CV11 lliClil'UTyl o VTA IUU I UtUl 1 KJI " g tnlzations in the various States and citiea. Ten trade organizations and more than one hundred and fifty Individunls are named as defendants in the suit. It alleges violation of the Sherman antitrust law, and seeks a permanent injunction in restraining ?he defendants from continuing the eonsiracy charged. The elaborate system of blackmailing, attributed to the alleged conspirators, copies of circulars sent out by the various organizations, classying the consumers as "proper" and "improper" trade, extracts from r< ;<orts, the threatening "short shift" lealers daring to violate the rules of the organization, and branding such offenders as "poachers," "mavericks," "scalpers," and illegitimates," are fully set forth in the Government's petition. It is alleged that not only have Vl>i'ivato consumers been blacklisted, but that many of the great industrial concerns have been put under the ban by the lumber dealers. The Goversham's long planned test suit to ional allegations and interesting exhibits. The suit is directed specifically <against retail organizations in the Eastern States, but the trial will embrace methods adopted by retailers and wholesalers throughout the UnitStates In general, the case is Awarded as Attorney General Wickersham's long lanned test suit to 1 have the Courts determine how far ( combinations of retailers may go to prevent the ultimate consumer from dealing directly with the wholesaler 1 Jor producer. The Government takes the position 1 that any agreements or acts which 1 prevent a consumer from buying where he chooses, or to his best ad- i vantage, are In "unreasonable" restraint of trade, and violates the ] Sh? rman law. I No attack on tho middleman has ! been intended, the department of jusitco holding that there Is legiti- < mate business opportunity for him. 1 If the Government's contention in 1 this case is sustained, there Is prom- 1 ise of a sweeping attack upon similar t alleged conspiracies as to other com- < modities in daily use. The depart- i ment of justice regards the case as < the most important in principle of 1 i all the anti-trust suits under taken. ] The Government alleges, among ] other things, that although the Na- 1 tional Wholesale Lumber Dealers' association is not named, by agree- < ments with it, the Eastern States As- 1 sociation has organized and circulated black lists which have affected 1 the lumber trade in New York, Penn- 1 sylvania, North Carolina, West Virginia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vir- 1 ginia, South Carolina, Louisiana, Con necticut, Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, < MADE A CLOSE CALL HAD A VERY NARROW ESCAPE FROM HORRIBLE DEATH. m % A Show Woman Falls a Thousand Feet Before a Large Crowd, But Escapes Death. At Ashevllle, N. C.. Floretta Forenz, a triple partohute performer associated with a visiting show, had a narrow escape from death Thurs' /Inir n f nrli An r\*% n A/tl/1 _ uaj aiu~i uuuii nucn, ov/^iuuaually cutting the wrong ptrachute rope, she fell at a rapid rate from a height of nearly 1,000 feet. Had not her parachute cau<ght in the street car and electric light wires in the heart of the city, she would have undoubtedly peen killed. In the last half of the descent Miss Lorenz was virtually hanging to one cord of the first parachute. The young woman was carried into a store in a fainting condition, but she was otherwise uninjured. She later stated that she carried three parachutes with her and, on reaching up to release the 'balloon wherein she ascended, accidentally cut the ropes of the seeand and third parachute, which, however, did not open. The unusual weierht of the two un opened parachutes, added to her own, caused her to descend at a rapid rate and the hundreds of people who gathered In the centre of the city saw that the young woman was In danger of alighting on the roof of the postofllce. A sudden gust of wind, however, carried her over the network of trolley and illuminating wires which cross and re-cross Patton avenue, and there were loud rries from the anxious hundred when the swinging ropes and then the partchute itself caught in the wires and were firmly held, allowing the thoroughly frightened woman to descend safely. * RAVAGES OF INSECTS. Georgia Cotton Growers Think They Are a Menace. Fearing that their cotton crops may ho seriously damaged, if not entirely ruined, by the cow pea curculio, which has recently made its apnearance on cotton stalks in certain portions of Georgia, W. H. Ward and others of Ohoopee, Toombs county, Georgia, has forwarded to Congressman Edwards of that state, at Washington, a jar of the parasites, which have been turned over to Dr. L. O. Howard, entomoloisist of the department of agriculture, for examination. These bugs have never before 'been known to eat cotton stalks, always confining their destruction to the pea vine. It is .believed that, unless something is done quickly, cotton growers will suffer greatly when the parasites spread from section to section. BUIDE AT EIGHTY-FOUR. Mrs. Nancy Minis and Preston 15ettison Married. A marriage of unusual interest from several standpoints occurred several miles from Barnwell at the homo of Ball Mitchell Sunday, the 14th inst., when Mrs. (Nancy Minis was married to Preston Bettison, Magistrate M. C. Kitchings of Williston performing the ceremony. The bride has reached her 84th milestone of life's journey, while 71 years have passed over the head of the groom. This is Mrs. 'BettLson's fourth matrinominal venture and the second for the igtroom. The courtship is said to have been very short, consisting of only one call from Mr. Bettison. The happy couple will make their future home in Rosemary township, this county. Fifty people witnessed the ceremony. Still Afraid of <?eii. Lee. A resolution calling on federal authorities either to remove the statute , of Robert E. Lee from the Statuary , Hall at Washington or abandon the j ball was unanimously adopted at the , concluding session Saturday of the ] 37th annual encampment of the In- , [liana department, Q. A. It., at Rich- | mond, Ind. * , < < Cteorgia, Missouri, Alabama, Rhode Island, California, Mississippi, the ] District of Columbia, the Canadian i provinces of Quebec, Ontorio, Nova Scotia and British Columbia. < It is also charged that as a result l 3f the alleged blacklists, wholsalers bavo been directed not to sell lum- i ber to retail dealers who have dealt < with consumers in wholesale quantities and that in the case of wliolesal- | srs who have dealt with consumers in ? retail quantities, the organized retail- i *rs were directed not to buy lumber j from them; that the retailers who ] have sold wholesale lots or have competed outside their allotted territory | have been posted to the trade as ] "poachers," or "scalpels" and, in < inatnnAAo ,havA hann VlAtl vll V , 9U1UU A UOtU lll>VO| iiW T v uvvu ? ? i j ^ fined or expelled. "The result of this illegal opera- 1 tion," says the Government, "has \ been to close the door to the i manufacturer in all parts of the ' United States, and to drive the ] wholesaler, out of a territory coverad by a member of the trust." t DEATH IN SNOWS Crael Hardships Uadergne by Fair Ca~ adiai Minted Police, DIARY TEUS OF DEATH The Record of the taribk and Cruel Hardwlrips That Was Vndqrgone Ileforo Death Came to Their Helief Brought to Ottawa by Canadian Mounted Police. All the details that will ever be known of what is probably the greatest tragedy in the annals of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, the starving and freezing to d-eath last February of Inspector Fitzgerald and the three constables, Kniney, Taylor and Carter, who accompanied him on the patrol from Fort McPherson to Dawson, were brought to Ottawa and delivered to Col. Fred White, C. M G., controlled of the mounted police, by a special messenger. The messenger brought the diary kept by Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald's will scrawled during his last hours with a burnt twig on a piece of battred and torn paper, and the report of Corporal Dempster, who commanded the relief and searching party that found the bodies. One of the men had become crazed by his sufferings and blew his head off with his shotgun. The story told by Fitzgerald's diary, which ho kept with a steady hand last entry; the feebly scrawled will written by the dying man, and the story told by Corporal Deinptster, up to February 5, when he made his together with the account of the expedition and the sufferings, constitute a thrilling tale. Insector Fitzgerald's will was drawn as he lay beside the dead body of Constable Carter, whom he blamed for the party's misfortune. It concluded with the words, "God bless all," and bequeathed his money and papers to "my dearly beloved mother," who lives in Halifax. "This diary was found on the 2 2nd of March last by Corporal Dempster, who was in charge of the searching party sent out from Dawson. It was under the robe on which the bodies of Constables Kinney and Taylor were found. The first entry in the diary is on December 21, 1910, and the last is on February 5, 1911 "The entry on Jonuary 17 reads as follows: 44 '2. below, one in a. m., with strong S. W. wind which turned to gale in the evening. Did not break camp; sent Carter and Kinney off at 7 a. ra. to follow a river going south. 44 'They returned at 3.30 p. m., and reported that it ran right up in the mountains, and Carter said that it was not the right river. I left at 8 a in. and followed a river running south, but could not see any cuttings on it. Carter is completely lost and does not know one river from another " 'We have now only ten pounds of flour and eight pounds of bacon and some dried fish. My last hope is gone, and the only thing I can do is to return and collect some of the dogs to feed the others and ourselves unless we can meet some Indians. " 'We have now been a week look ing tor a river to taKe us ever tne divide, but there are dozens of rivers, and I am at a loss. I should not have taken Carter's word that he knew the way from the Little Wind river.' "This is the true explanation of j the catastrophe. It is evident that Inspector Fitzgrald had relied upon ( ex-Constable Carter as a guide to Dawson. At the time that the party j turned back they were about 2 04 | miles from iMcPherson and 22 miles ; from Dawson. They had traveled ] from December 21st, 1910, to Jan- , uary 17th, 1911, continuously, with j only one day off, a distance of 3 40 ^ miles. ^ "From January 18 to February 5, ( nn which dato the last entry is made, they traveled 230 miles. The entries ( In the diary are not entensive, but. | some are terribly suggestive of the | hardships they were undergoing; the ] trail was exceptionally heavy, and they were breaking through ice, get- . fini? wot and the cold was intense. . Dn January 2 4 the diary says: "('Killed another dog, and all hands made a good meal of dog meat.' "On January 2(5, 'The going was I'ory heavy in deep snow and the hands and dogs getting weak.' "January 3 0?'All hands feeling sick, supposed to be from eating log's liver.' "January 31?'Skin peeling off our 'aces and bodies and lips all swollen ind split. I think this is caused from 'ceding on dog meat; everybody feeing the cold very much for want of proper food.' "February 1?'Killed another dog tonight; this makes eight dogs we navo killed and we have eaten most them and fed dried fish to the logs.' "February 3?'Men and dogs very weak and cannot travel far We have traveled about 20 miles on dog meat and still 10 miles to go, but I think we will make it all right, but will have only three or four dogs left.' "Feb. 5 (the last entry)?'Just after noon I broke through the ice and WAS IT BADGER GAME? SENSATIONAL STORIES ABOUT A MAN FROM AUGUSTA. He Is Accused of Trying to Blackmail Men In New Orleans and at Mobile. A dispatch from New Orleans says a man known as James Reynolds of Augusta, Ga., took sudden departure from New Orleans early last week after District Attorney Adams had in vestlgated an alleged scheme of Reynolds to blackmail a business man of that city. Reynolds went there with a young woman whom he represented to be his daughter and made charges that she had been mistreated .by a New Orleans traveling man named Falk. Reynolds asked permission of some police ofllcer to shoot Falk but the latter denied any improper relations with the young woman and made counter charges of attempts to blackmail him. After investigating the matter the district attorney had a talk with Reynolds and the latter readily agreed to get out of the city. T . i. J 11. ^ 1- 11 ? 1 'loiter ui me weeK iteynoius ana his reported daughter turned up in Mobile, where Reynolds shot a young man named Duggan, mhom he claims he detected in a compromising position with his alleged daughter in one of the rooms of the hotel in which they were staying. It is charged that Reynolds was trying to work the badger game on Duggan. Reynolds denies this, and says he shot Duggan because he was mistreating his daughter and he became enraged and shot him. The father of the young man who was shot signed Reynold's bond, which would seem to indicate that he at least believes Reynold's statement. Just as Reynolds was about to lx> released word came that Duggan's condition was dangerous and Reynolds was sent back to his cell. Reynolds branded as untrue the report that the girl was not his own daughter. The young woman in the case is said to lie quite handsome and attractive looking. If she is the daughter of Reynolds, as he claims, she has given him considerable troubel, and he had better bring her home and make her behave herself. * Gets Five Years. David O. Jackson, the local negro mail carrier, of Mobile, who, when caught with marked money stolen from mail packages, tried to commit suicide several weeks ago, was sentenced in the United States district court to five years sevitude in the Atlanta Penitentiary. * Child Killed by Auto. At Central, in Pickens county, little Johnnie Puckett, aged six years, was run over by (Mr. T. M. Morriss' motor car Saturday afternoon, death resulting in a few minntes. At the same time Grace Kelley, aged six was also struck. It is thought she will recover. had to make lire, found one foot j slightly frozen. Killed another dog tonight have only five dogs now and can only go a few miles a day; everybody breaking out 011 the body and skin peeling off." "The last entry was evidently made while the party was proceeding down Trial river to the Peel river. Corporal Dempster who commanded the relief party, followed their trail and began at this point to fear for the worst, on account of the camps they made being close tokether. At Colin's Cabine he found the mail and the dispatch bag which had been cached there. "On March 21, about three miles below the portage on the. Peel river he found the bodies of Constables Kinney and Tyler. There was a camp kettle half full of moose hide cut in small pieces which had been boiled for soup. Each lay on his back, the two men side by side. They had three Alaska sleeping bags, one tinier and two over them. "Constable Tyler evidently had committed suicide by blowing the Lop of his head off No doubt he tad become insane from the terrible hardships which ho had undergone. "It seems that Inspector Fltzgertld had concluded that those men ,v>?re too weak to travel thrnndi niul eft thorn all the camp equipment! he party had. With Carter ho pushid on toward Fort McPherson, with he hope of getting relief to send j mok. About ten miles further on ' le and Carter yielded up their lives, barter succumbed first and was laid >ut by Inspector Fitzgerald, who probably died shortly afterward. I'hero were absolutely no provisions lor any sign of the dogs.' Insi>ector Fitzgerald in his diary ;ives some inkling as to what most iffected his mind it seems to have >een the anxiety to perform the parol and not to return to Forts Mar Pherson defeated. His expression, 'My last hope is gone and the only liing I can do is to return" seems o indicate this. Had he been a less ixperlenced traveler that ho was ho mrely, would have turned back sooner Corporal Dempster's report shows hat the unfortunate men had wasted to shadows. All were powerful itrong young men, and in the best of lealth and condition when they left >n their ill fated Journey." DEALT DEATH Freick War Miiister Killed ud Ike Preaier Btdy Hut Snaday. TWO OTHERS INJURED ? A fill M! n f* /\# DAM. AkVVIVIVU^ WV1M O I'UI III^ OI4U 1 VI A ?! " is to Madrid llace Through Air. Driver I>osi\s Control of Monoplane and With Passenger, Jumps, ISotb Escaping Injury. France paid a terrible toll Sunday for magnificent endeavor to attain supremacy of the air when a monoplane, the driver having loss control, plunged into a group of members of the cabinet who had gathered to witness the start oV a race from Paris to Madrid, killing the minister of war and injuring the prime minister, his son and a well know sportsman, Ilenri Maurice Berteaux, minister of war, was instantly killed. A largo number of other persons of note had narrow escapes from injury. The accident occurred on the aviation field at Issy lea Molineux where 200,000 persona had gathered to see the start of the race. A. Train was piloting the monoplane that wrought such havoc. With him in the car was M. Bounier, a passenger. Neither of these men were injured. Th? machine was wrecked. The minister of war was horribly mangled. The swiftly revolving propeller cleanly cut off his left arm, which was found ten feet from where he was struck, the back of his head was crushed in, his throat gashed and tlv? whole of his left side cut and lacerated. Premier l.Monis was buried beneath the wreck of the monoplane. He was taken out as quickly as possible and examined by military surgeons who found he had sustainel compound fractures of bones in the right leg, his nose was broken, his face badly contused, and that there were bruises on the breast and abdomen The great line of spectators bordering tho flying field was being held rigid by a large force of soldiers who, however, permitted tho ministerial party and some half hundred other persons of distinction to walk across the field to a point where tlvey could get a better view down the course, and see the airmen as they rose from the starting point and flew i r% w /I 1 ' Ill lllUli 1111 (When the .great assemblage cheered madly the ministers saw Pierre Vedrine, wlvo had been picked by many as the probable winner of the race, mount easily from 'the ground and head down the aerodrome, only suddenly to capsize and fall, but cmergo unhurt from the wreckage of his machine. Train, whose monoplane caused the accident, meanwhile had taken his position at the starting ling, levers in hand, with Rounier beside him. The breeze had been steadily freshening and the meterological observer in the Eiffel tower telephoned that his guage showed a velocity of close to 30 miles an hour. Train, however, left the ground. Ascending swiftly he circled the groat field, curving round to the starting line and then flying down the course at a 4 0-mile an hour gait, the machine rocking in the gusty wind. At this moment it was observed by the commandant of tho troops that the crowds were breaking the line formation on one side of the field and he dispatched a troop of cuirassiers to get them back in order. Tho cuirassiers galloped across the field, breaking into double lines as they went. Train's monoplane here swooped toward the earth under the impulse of an air flurry and it appeared as if the aviator was about to ; ciasn into trie calvary. The pilot's ' attention seemed momentarily to ' have been diverted from his course, and ho made a quick turn to the left j towards where the party of oftlcials 1 were standing. Then he lost con- ' trol of the craft altogether and it 1 dashed violently into the ministerial group. ' Tho impact knocked M Berteaux 1 1 0 feet, away, where he lay in a pool 1 of blood, badly mangled, while under * the wreckage of the monoplane were 1 M. Monis, his son and M. Deuch. Train and Bonnier emerged from tho wreck uninjured. A scene of frightful confusion followed the fall of ^ the monoplane. From all parts of the aviation field arose cries of dismay and tons of thousands of porsons broke through the lines and wont towards the accident. The cavairy, however, by repeated charges managed to clear the field and the injured men were given treatment by ' the field surgeons. . Amateur Aviator Killed. c A. V. Hardlee, an ameteur aviator, ? was killed at Domlngeuz field at Los ( Angeles, Cal., on Wednesday while t trying out an aeroplane. Hardlee ( came hero recently from Ohio and \ had mado several successful llights. 1 Standard Oil Dividend. ( The Standard OH Company Tues- . day declared the regular quarterly t dividend of $9 per share due at this ( time of year. The declaration calls i for a disbursement of $9,090,000 to < the company's stockholders. i % 11 vf9 SIX SHOT BY MOB NEGROES ACCUSED OF MURDER TAKEN FROM THE JAIL.. Jatloo Txi^IrAil ..n<l A .t. jliivai^u nuu aiiuwn inu r in 10 Gang to Carry Victims Into Wood and Riddle Them With Bullets. [Masquerading as officers of the law, a dozen men appeared before the county jail at Lake City, Fla., at 2 o'clock Sunday morning and presented a bogus telegram to the credulous 16-year-old son of the sheriff, ordering the release of Mark Morris, Jr., Jerry Gusto and four other negroes, \yho had been held for safekeeping on the charge of murdering 13. 13. Smith, a saw mill man, at Wadesborough, Leon county, and wounding another white man named Register, 011 May 12. 'I'l,n 0.0 ? 1,0,1 oo.?? O. P-OHr?l i iiv7 uiuii n uv ikiu vvinu li uiii x ar lahasse to Ivake City in automobiles, carried the negroes about a mile outside the Lake City limits and compelled the negroes to stand in a line. About ten men commenced firing with Winchester rifles and pistols until every one of the six had been riddled with bullets. The firing lasted about a half hour, and a few straggling citizens at daybreak found the negroes butchered beyond recognition, just after the automobiles left the scene of the lynching . The men who planned the killing of the six men came overland from Tallahassee, a distance of 106 miles and covered most of the distance at night. It is possible that the occupants of the two automobiles were never seen from the time they left Tallahassee until th-ey returned. The plans of the men were most daring and but for a curious combination of circumstances would have never been accomplished. The sherig of Columbia County was out of the city, and left the jail in charge of the boy, who. aroused in the early hours o* the morning, allowed the six negroes to be taken from the jail without knowing the sinister purpose of the mob. H ' V, ^ n.l.t.t. M, ? 1 ? .1 ? _ ? O 1 III. (UU >>111111. tliu IUCVUCI U1 the mob showed the boy was supposedly from the sheriff of Leon County and stated that the Sheriff had received intimations that a mob was being formed in Tallahassee to take tho negroes from the Lake City jail. The message ordered the men to be carried further south to frustrate the suspected mob. The telegram appeared authentic as the six negroes have bene frequently moved. The actual details of the summary execution of the negroes are problematical, for residents of Lake City, knew nothing of the lynching until a fusilade of distant shots 'wore heard. A few citizens went in I'e direction of the noise and found the negroes, but all traces of the mob were gone. By some it is believed that the negroes were to ho hung but resisted and v ere instantly kille i. Some indicat ions'Cf a struggle lead to this belief. There was strong feeling In Leon county against the negroes, as tho men shot were prominent. It was proved at the trial that the negroes had established an arsenal and wore prepared for trouble. The negroes were tirst taken to Tallahasee and then to Live Oak for safekeeping, and carried t?o Lake City about six days ago. * UTILITY OF DIVORCE LAW. An Indiana Woman Who Is Hard to Please With a Hubby. Mrs. Lydia Green-Baker-HayesTurner-Brown-Jones, of I.ogansport, Tnd., is seeking a divorce from her latest husband. The husband declares he wiM IIlo a cross-bill, alleging cruel and inhuman treatment, among other hings. Mrs. Lydia-Green"Baker, etc., has an enviable record of matrimonial ventures. She was .a Miss Ice, and when 18 married for the first time. She declares she intends to keep on marrying right and left until she gots the right man. Mrs. Jones has no children. She is certainly a very hard lady to please in ho way of a husband, and her neighbors are of the opinion that she will ind some trouble in getting her seventh hubby. * SICK CONVICTS TO HE FREE. rhc\se Prisoners Are a Croat Burden to tho State Following a ersonal inspection of h?9 penitentiary Friday morning, in :ompany with Chairman vSanders, of he board of directors, Gov. Hlease innounced it as his intention to set ree all prisoners disable by chronic 11 health. This will remove from the big prison many conucts. some serving lKe sentences. The Governor will, in >ach case, require a certificate from lie prison physician as to the fact >f disability. He said such convicts ,vero a burden to the State. The Governor also said he would lot call a special session of the llrectors, but at their mooting on Iune 7, would urge them to cancel ;he hosiery mill contract. If this ;an not be done legally, other efforts nay be made to have the mill contemned by the health authorities on sanitary grounds.