The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-26
Mir. Knox's Reply,

Louisville and Nashville Railroad Com pany, Alabama Mineral Division. Office of the Superintendent, Anniston, Ala. March 24. 1904
 MT. B. B. Conner, Birmingham. Ala; Dear Sir-Your favor of March 12 re- ceived at this office on the 14th and con- tents careful noted. Your suppositfon that I refer to the transactions some twelve years ago with Mir Hunter of Ten nessee" is quite correct I note you fur ther state that there was filed at the time with your Mir de Funial correct statement of the transaction with all cor whatever to me"
 Beg to say l am informed by Mir. de Funiak that you have never filed any statement of the transaction or corre- spondence regarding it. and further have not up to this date made any explana- ton to him regarding same.
 Whatever may have been your inten- tion, and whether you received benefits from the irregular shipments of FLOUR as MEAL or not there can be no question but that 24s,60O pounds of flour were shipped to you. and to your mill at Br- mingham in MEAL SACKS branded as follows:
 Birmingham Mills,
 B. B. Conner,
 Brand Jim Dandy
 MEAL.
 Qn very large letters)
 Birmingham, Ala"
  was not prepaid, but was paid by you or by your authority at Birmingham AT THE MEAL RATE, AND NOT AT THE FLOUR RATE. When complaint was made to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company that you were able to sell four In the Birmingham market cheaper than your competitors were able to sell it, an investigation was made by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company. resulting in the detection of these Irregularities, and your attention was called to them by a bill being pre- sented to you for the difference between the rate on FLOUR and the rate on MEAL, which was cents per 100 pounds on a large number of shipments, the said difference aggregatlng $129. .s6, which amount you, at that time, paid to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad com pany.
 In a letter from you to M. B. B. Comp ton. who was then general freight agent of the L. & N. R. R. Co, written by you in February. 1893, (the irregular shipments having been made during the months of August, September and October, 1S92), YOU DID NOT EXPLAIN how it happened that this FLOUR was shipped to you in your OWN MEAL SACKS BRANDED AS MEAL, nor why you did not pay the freight at the time, at the FLOUR rate, instead of paying the freight at the MEAL RATE, when you must have been familiar with the entire transaction, and when you must have known that the cars delivered to you during those three months did not contain MEAL, but did contain FLOUR.
 The only attempted explanation which you gave in your letter was something to the effect that you were not benefited by these irregular shipments and that the ir- regular transactions were not intended for your benefit and that MT. Hunter had refunded the amount of over-charge paid by you, etc.
 Up to this day, so far as l know or be- lieve, no satisfactory explanation has even been made as to why this FLOUR was shipped in MEAL SACKS, evidently furn- ished by you for that purpose, and bear ing YOUR BRAND. as 1t is not probable that this flour mill in Tennessee kept on hand a stock of your MEAL SACKS branded:
 Birmingham Mills,
 B. B. Conner,
 Brand Jim Dandy,
 MEAL,
 Birmingham, Ala