Arizona republican., 1908-08-20


 about Clark and Madison streets in Chicago. acted as a dignified repre- sentative of Missouri. Eddie Burke, central district driver, also was present as a delegate. cheering whenever the upraised voice of a speaker indicated that Hearst employees were expected enthuse. Dummy" Higgins, driver of one of the Hearst newspaper wagons in Chicago. and his brother "AI', were delegates from Kentucky. The mar rative of Jacob l. Sheppard. of Fort Scott, Kas., the man who tried to nom mate Bryan, told after he had applied arnica to his bruises and new clothes to his back, was a sidelight to the Hearst uplift in behalf of the com mon people" He related how he was seized for ejectment, how he was rough housed" and finally rescued from the delegates by the detail of po- lice present It was he who charged that the platform was changed before submitted to the convention The start which independence" made was novel. cess of formation? That great com AhNi Nifli AiiloA'iNS NiiiNli 4hAoophAl fhiiA Kansas are attacking, the big lumber .companies are active in denying the existence of, but there is some excel lent evidence offered that the merger will be made if the attorney generals of those states or Uncle Sam don't prevent it. That a meeting was re- cently held in St. Louis to discuss such consolidation is admitted. Fred erick F.. Weyerhauser of St. Paul and Edward Hines of Chicago being among those present. Later J. B. White of Kansas City made this statement: "Its la dream. MT Weyerhauser as much as told me that himself A number of men met in St. Louis several weeks ago to discuss such a consolidation and appointed a committee to perfect the plan. When the committee left here the folly of the project gradually dawned upon them" During the lull in the lumber business the goulden Op- pOrtunities of mergers seem to dance in the fancies of the lumber kings for, in spite of denials, the rumor of con- solidation still is heard fitfully. Com petition in the soft lumber trade, it was said, was running" prices. there being sharp reduction that has been welcomed by the public That the big numbering companies, which have de- nuded great empires of their timber, wastefully. wantonly and at ridiculous cost for the stumpage, should now declare for a preservation of the for ests, as they recently did, is looked upon as a sorry kind of joke. The Northwestern Lumbermen's associa tion, at a meeting here recently de- clared: Forests which should be pro- tected from needless destruction are allowed to be destroyed simply from noninterference either from the gov ernment or owners. All forests must be protected, cultivated and nurtured to the fullest, or the price of lumber and building material will go far be- yond the ordinary purse"
 War has been declared by taXpay- CTS upon the present policy of the san itary district of Chicago, which is in charge of the great s56,OOO,OOO drain age canal, various commercial bodies charging that the Chicago river is neglected at heavy loss to this city in lake shipping The efforts of the san itary trustees has been directed toward outlying districts and meanwhile the canal has filled with silt, the necessary flow for carrying off the city's sewage