The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-16
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ordered me not to compete
with the Foster company again
and telling me he had to
turn all the profit in the deal over to
1t. When first entered the employ of
the Chicago Lumber company at Brew
ster I received letter from the man
ager of the retail sales department. a
Mr. L. Y. Graham by name, instructing
me that the prices shown on the sheets
sent out by the auditor were pool"
prices and instructing me not to vio-
late the same by cutting. + afterwards
met Mr.. Graham in Kansas City, at
lumberman convention and he there in
structed me along the same lines, also
found fault with me because my coal
had checked out short and told me. that
1t always would until 1 learned that
there were only 1,S00 pounds in ton Of
coal"
have talked the question of lum-
Der prices over with Mr.. T. E. Town
send, manager of the Foster yard at
Goodland, Kansas. His son. Dr. Town
send, then of Brewster. built a home
at Brewster, and Mr.. Townsend figured
the bill from his list at Goodland, and
arrived at the same figures as resulted
from figuring my lists. 1 charged this
bill to the Foster Lumber company of
Goodland. This bill was instructed
to charge to Townsend at the Yellow
Pine association list.
Furnishing the Unruly.
When 1 was first employed by the
Foster yards at Colby the Foster Lum-
Der company and the Chicago Lumber
company owned Jointly mercantile
Colby Mercantile company, which
store was under the charge of r. M.
McGonigal, auditor of the Chicago,
and William McCue, auditor of the
Foster company. This store was put
in for the express purpose of whipping
one L. S. Lovett. who owned lumber
yard and also a general store. Mr..
Lovett is now resident of Topeka,
residing at 919 Tyler street. The Fos-
ter and Chicago Lumber companies
acting in concert compelled Lovett to
sell.
I was also instructed from the St.
Louis office by mail by one Ole Stone
to make claims for shortage against
the Rock Island railway on various
cars. One car came in and in I'M
loading found it overrun and for that
reason did not make a claim for short
age. / never made claim on account
that I had best obey orders or look
elsewhere for employment. I filled out
all the shortage blanks sent me from
ST. Louis. These shortage blanks. to-
gether with instructions as to the
amount to claim were frequently in
the office weeks before the car would
arrive at Brewster. 1t was the in
structions to the managers of both the
Foster yards and the Chicago yards
when either figured on a bill of lum-
Der and the purchaser did not close
the deal on the spot to at once write
the manager of the "rival'' yard, CIV
ing him the bill figured and the price
asked. and as manager Of the Brew
ster Chicago yard I wrote many such
letters to the managers Of the Foster
yards at Colby and Goodland, Kansas,
they being my only rivals, and received
many letters from them and in no
case was the agreement not to under
figure ever violated in my experience.
There is private lumber yard
owned by some local parties at Bird
City, Kansas, twenty-five miles north
of Brewster, and I was instructed by
Mr.. Graham to let it be generally un-
derstood that we would undersell that
particular yard even if had to cut
the price of lumber to a little below
cost. on any bill that the Bird City
yard had figured on, and if the Bird
City yard started to fight, to fight to a
finish.
(Signed.) A. c. CHANCE.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 18th day of March 1908.
EDITH WILLIAMS.
(SeaD Notary Public.
(My commission expires July 2, 1919