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IBAUIMJBIIMEPHIISFHATI
LUMBER TRUST"
The Government Will Seek to Destroy
m the Alleged Conspiracy
AMONG THE TIMBER MEN
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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
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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.
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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. * ,
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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
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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
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(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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.