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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-20
RETAIN FORESTS
CONANT ADVISES
Commissioner of Corporations
Sees Danger in Control of
Timber by Few.

Washington, Jan. 20.-The concen-
tration into the hands of a few power
full interests of an enormous percen-
tage Of the timberlands of the United
States has created a problem so
grave for the nation in the judgment
of Luther Conant, Jr, commissioner
OF corporations, that today he recon-
mended to President Taft that the
existing national forests not only be
retained by the federal government,
but increased as far as practicable.
This note of warning was sounded
by the commissioner in forwarding to
the president the full text of Part l
of the bureau of corporations investi-
cation of the lumber industry made by
direction of congress. A summary Of
this report, showing the extent OF
concentrated control Of timberlands
was sent 10 the president and publish
ed near.y two years ago.
To increase government ownership
Of forest lands the commissioner urges
that the forests of Alaska be included
in reserve, as well as all timbered
ldlluS iCCONtl GU III III lCitul z SuiAo- IlI
advises further searching inquiry in
10 land grants of the past with the
view of instituting additional forfeit
ure suits if the facts justify the pro
; cedure
Mr.. Conant warns that attempts
are still being made to secure the
transfer of public timberlands to pri-
vate owners under the same pleas Of
settlement which in the past often
proved wholly specious and insincere."
Much of the timberland still re-
naming in public ownership contin-
ues the commissioner, lis adapted on
/ II for timber purposes. All that could
be properly asked by bona fide set.
/ tier is the surface Of arabic land af-
/ ter the timber has been removed, but
/ too frequently back Of the argument
made in the name of the settler Is
! the desire TO acquire the timber or
other natural resources rather than
the soil itself. 1t seems desirable,
therefore, TO direct public attention 10
/ the fundamental difference between
1 disposing of agriculture. lands TO &C,
tual settlers. whose industry contrib
utes directly to the material and so.
cial upbuilding of the community, and
the alienation of virgin timberlands,
which do not require, and indeed
hardly permit Of improvement by
tprivate owners, and the value OF
which is rapidly rising because OF re-
duction in the supply and the in.
crease of population. The public ser.
vice involved in the mere speculative
holding of this timber for an advance
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-20

Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe own
together S3,5O0,O00 acres OF timbered
and non-timbered lands, an area as
large as England.
The Amalgamated Copper company,
Mr.. Conant adds, owns over 100000
acres Of timberland and more than
100, 900 acres OF non-timbered land, all
in Montana, and Thomas B. Walker
personally owns 100000 acres in
California.
Despite the great increase in stump
age values in recent years, Commits
siorGr Conant forsees a growing rise
in prices because Of the diminished
lumber supply and increasing popula-
ton. Mr.. Conant takes sharp issue
with suggestions, amounting he says
to almost a propaganda at the present
time, that the price OF stumpage
should equal the cost OF growing
trees. The idea, he adds, seems in
credible when 1t Is considered that
standing timber is the free gift of ma
ture, requiring from scores TO hun
dreds of years for its growth. The
proposal, brought forth in the name of
conservation and seized upon by some
lumbermen, he continues, lis a pro
posal deliberately to hasten the evil
which conservation ought to moderate
the evil OF excessive prices" TAX
en- in connection with the increasing
concentration of timber control, he
says, the proposition is a matter Of
grave concern to the consumer of
lumber
In advocating an extension Of gov
eminent ownership of forest lands,
the commissioner points to the fact
that there is a distinguishing charac-
teristic of standing imber, as con
trasted with such mineral resources
as iron ore, coal and petroleum, In
that no labor is required to discover II.
Discussing means of increasing the
government ownership OF timber
lands, Mr. Conant suggests, II pend
ing forfeiture suits are successful, a
searching investigation to determine
whether there has been such non-ful-
fillment Of the various conditions at
tached to the Northern Pacific and
other grants as would give congress
just and legal cause TO seek further
forfeitures.
1t is clear, concludes the report.
that there has been a lavish dissipa-
ton OF standing timber and other nat
ural resources of the national domain
and that the beneficiaries of this pol
/ icy too frequently have been not &C
. tual settlers. but capitalists who have
been able 10 take advantage Of legis-
/ lation or its faulty administration, and
( thus accumulate vast holdings of tim
berland at a comparatively small cost
and reap therefrom an enormous pro
! fit.
I Subsequent parts OF the lumber In
vestigation TO be submitted by the
/ bureau OF corporations will treat Of
concentration Of ownership in particu-
lar areas, and costs, prices and com
Detitive conditions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-20
EcsTFoR KIsLANpD vENPoK1 MOLINE axDv
temperature Tuesday afternoon

peratures below zero extend south
ward TO northwestern Iowa. Al a
m. 1t was coolest at Havre. Mont
where the thermometer registered 50
degrees below zero. On account of
the eastward movement Of the high,
and the approach OF low that is ap-
pearinE in northern Alberta, generally
fair weather is indicated for this vicin-
ity tonight and Tuesday, with a cold
wave tonight. followed by rising tenn
perature TUESDAY afternoon
OBSERVATIONS.
High. Low. Prep.
Atlantic City .......50 80 90
Boston ... ... ......iG 80 90
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-20

a 1914, bulk 7.45d7eO, mixed 1909
1921, pigs GOOd 7.4O, heavy 715@
1924, rough 7I5G 80, good 1909
7G2k, Workers .730G7.55.
Cattle steady 10 shade lower. Beeves
$3.50 9.20, stockers 4SG@760. Texans
4.70d SO. COWS 2.75d7.4O, westerns
5.404Q715, calves 7.00d11.00.
Sheep strong, 10c up. Natives Also
6.25, lambs 6.75d9.15, westerns Asa
CPS, lambs 6.s569.15.
Close of a11rket
Hogs closed &C higher Light 1850
1914, bulk 74Od $50, mixed 1909
65. heavy 7.15d765, rough 715Q
73O.
Cattle slow and weak, top 800.
Sheep strC|g, top CPS.
Lambs strong, top 9.15.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-20
BOARD CONVENES
FOR ANNUAL MEET
Carpenters Elect officers for
Year-21 Delegates At
tend Convention.

The Mississippi Valley Carpenters
Conference board convened in Rock
Island yesterday morning al the Rock
Island Industrial hall for its annual
convention and election OF officers.
There were q delegates in attend
ance, representing cities between Du-
buoue and Quincy. The convention
opened at $3.50 a. m The mornings
session was taken up with the discus
sion OF matters pertaining 10 the
board, following which the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year:
Decentralization Track, ,Muscatine.
Vice President-D. a. Dewey, Dixon,
III.
Secretary and Treasurer j. H.
Wood, Moline
Organizer-P. J. Carlson, Rock Is
land.
Executive Board Henry Fluegel,
Davenport; George Johnson, Dubuque;
| II. J. Johnson, Princeton, n, and c. ]
Benson of Galesburg.
I At the noon adjournment the dele
gates repaired TO the Harms hotel
+ where a dinner was enjoyed. The af
ternoon's session opened at o'clock
Business of a private nature was trans
acted during the afternoon. The con
I vention adjourned at 6 o'clock The
next meeting of the board will be held
in Rock Island next year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-20

In price, unoer present conditions of
settlement of the country, is practic-
ally negligible. When, moreover, such
paraitvely few hands, there is, in
stead of a public service, a serious
public danger.
Without entering into a discussion
of possible solutions of certain grave
problems involved in the present con-
centration of timber ownership, it may
be pointed out that the government
today still owns, exclusive of the for.
ests of Alaska, about one-fifth of the
cCuntry's total supply of merchantable
standing timber. 1t is the agency best
adapted to practicing reforestation on
a large scale. Recently important
suits for forfeiture of extensive tim
berlands have been brought by the
government on the ground of non-fu.-
fillment of conditions imposed in the
grants by which these lands were
alienated from the public domain.
For these reasons, it would appear,
therefore, that the government may
later be able to materially strengthen
its relative position as a timber own
er.
The facts set forth in this report
clearly point TO the desirability of
maintaining the integrity of the ma
tional forests and of extending to 9TH
er publicly owned timber, including
forests in Alaska and timber.a nds
that may be recovered in forfeiture
suits now pending or subsequently in
stituted by IEe government, the cardi-
nal principle of the national forest
policy, namely, the retention of the
fee to such lands at least until the
timber is removed Decision will then
have to be made between retaining
such lands for reforestation and dis
posing of the surface for agricultural
purposes. 1t seems clear, moreover,
that the fundamental principle to be
followed in the sale of the timber il.
self is that the terms of sale should
be such as to insure to the public
treasury substantially the full stump,
age value at the time that such tim,
Der shall be actually cut"
In the summary Of the report pre-
viously published, the then commits
sioner of corporations, Herbert Knox
Smith, set forth that the Southern Pa
cifiic company is the greatest private
holder OF timber in the United States
controlling 1O6 billion feet, the Weyer
haeuger Timber company, with SO bill
lion feet, the second largest, and the
Northern Pacific Railway company
with Sc billion feet, the third Coins
further in detail the full report de
clares that the following five interests
control in the aggregate 102 billion
feet of timber, practically al locates
in the Pacific northwest: Companies
controlled by Charles A. Smith of Min
neapolis Thomas 3 Walker of Min
neapolis; concerns in which ~
! Wheeler and w. f. Wheeler of En-
deaver, Pa, are the chief stockhold
ers; companies in which the a. B
/ Hammond company OF New Jersey j
/ the principal interest; and the timbe
! interests of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
/ Puget Sound Railway company (sub
I sidiary TO the Chicago, Milwaukee
/ ST. Paul Railway company.
After enormous sales, the commis
sioner points out that the Southern
Pacific, the Northern Pacific and tn
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-20
WEATHER CONDITIONS.

Low pressures prevail from Texas
and the lower Mississippi valley north
eastward 20 Ontario. with the storm
center over eastern Missouri. This dis.
turbance has caused precipitation in
eastern Colorado and the Mississippi
and lower Missouri valleys and the
lake region and high temperatures
from the lower Mississippi valley and
the southern portion OF the lake re-
g.on 20 the Atlantic coast An area Of
nigh pressure accompanied by cold
wave. Overlics the territory from the
north Pacific coast 70 the upper Mis-.
souri, valley and Minnesota and TEN.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-20

OF TRADE TRANSACTIONS
Wheat.
May. 93lq. 93s4, g2ts, 927s.
July soi4, s0a4, s97s 9O7s.
September, S9is, S9a., $50 ss2s
Corn.
May, 51ls, 51ig, SOS. 81
July. 52is, 81 . 5l&. SIS
September, 53t.. 500, 52a4. 527s.
Oats.
May, SSFs, $685.. $685.. S3l2.
July, 1884,. 33%. 33Ia. 1855.
September, 33ss. 33s.. 83la. 33la.
Pork.
January. 1885. 1850. 1855. 1850.
May, 1915, 1895. 1875. 1890.
Larc.
January. 1912. 1915. 1910. 1915.
May. 1912, 1922, 1912, 1922.
Ribs.
January, 1000. 1000. 1000, 1000.
May 1910, 1920, 1910. 1915.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-20

LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS.
Jan. 20.-Following are the whole
sale quotations on the local market
today:
Creamery butter; SAC
Dairy butter, 32zc.
Lard, 121zc per pound.
Fresh eggs, Csc.
Storage eggs, PC.
Potatoes, soc to SOC.
Cabbage, L" -sr pound.
Onions, 75c per bushel.
feed and Fuel.
Timothy hay, SIS to 500.
Wild hay, s12 to SIS.
Oats, SAC 10 35c.
Straw. So.
Corn, 40c to 45c
Coal-Lump per ton. 50 %: slack.
steady.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-20
THE GRAIN MARKET.
CHICAGO Cash Grain.

wheat-No. . r 1.13a116. No. 3 r
lOOa1 90. No. 2 h s1a95. No. 3 h 90
a. 90. No MS g1ng2. No. ms SEQ
eOt4. No. MS SEA IS. No. spg 5000.
No. spy S6aSs. No. spg SOgS4
Corn-No. 49,. No. " 90. No. 8
414U4Si4, No. II asa a 5OI4, No. 8 y
4r1aW4Si4. No. 45d47la, No 4 W as
% 4eia. No. y 45i4647L
Oats-No . " 34ia a rs. No. 3 "
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-20

Arsdei. Mrs. NJ. D. Wyatt, Miss Hazel
West, Mrs. A. Williams, John Wedell,
o. G. Jenss.
FOreign-James H. Van Meter
H A. J. MACDONALD, Postmaster.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-20
OBSERVATIONS.

3214 d33s4, No. 4w 31d32a4, standard
32l4 ga.
Liverpool Cables.
Wheat opened IA TO 3-S of; closed
SIS 20 rs off
Corn opened IA to 3-S off; closed
3-S 70 II of.
Chicago Receipts.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-20
LIVE STOCK MARKET.
OPENING Of Market.

Hogs $4,000; strong, sc higher: left
over 1927. Light 7.3597.57la, mixed
1900 7.6214, heavy lisa 7.6214, rough
715d7.3O.
Cattle $4,000; steady.
Sheep $4,000: 10c up.
Nine O'clock Market.
Hogs slow to sc higher Light I 35
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-20

wave. with SHOWS, has arrived The
forecast is for cold and SHOWS. Cana
da and the northwest continue to Is
below zero. The arrival of cold and
snow usually stops bear pressure.
Otherwise, newspaper and general
sentiment is soft on corn and oats,
and the Inter-Ocean prints Sunday
review favoring the idea the United
States may be very close TO a domestic
wheat basis. Other local papers re-
gard the outlook two-sided and think
the northwest has too much wheat at
the moment. If the grain world fol-
lows the weather as the chief consid-
GRAFTON there will be a few spells of
firmness.
Corn now faces its leading 60 days
of accumulation They fail to allow
for duplication. They ignore the fact
that this 73O,0O0.0O0 crop means 77O,-
000. O00-the old way of figuring.
Personally, / believe May wheat has
an excellent show of returning to 81.
but anticipate to cent swings dur
ing Jan 20 to March l.
III wi H. II 10 q AuCSNlOh Va
where the leaders will start to &C
cumuiate once more than of heavy re-
Ceipts.
! The recent bulletins were well engin-
eered.
Not enough hogs to bear provisions.
MORNING STOCK LETTER.
New York, Jan. 2O-The London
market this morning is a long way
from handsome, and is poor, especially
as TO the metal shares.
War news will have little effect
Newspaper comment is decidedly mix,
ed.
The Minnesota rate decision may OF
may not come down today
Sentiment seems pessimistic. We
question its being as much so as is
held in some quarters inasmuch par
tiCularly as TO the industrials there is
quite a long, interesting market.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-20
TOday's Market Quotations

lBy wire from r w Wagner & Co.
Grain. Provisions. stocks aud Cotton
Local Offices at Rock Island house Rock
Island. IN. Chicago Offices, 9S-99-l0O,
Board Of Trade. Local telephones. No.
west $500
The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-08-29
UNLUCKY NOW To
JUMP BOARD BILL

(Mail Special to The Advertiser.)
HlLO, August 25.-The first case to
be tried in this district, and probably
in the Territory, under the new law
which makes it criminal oifense to try
to beat hotel keepers out of their dues
for board and lodging, came up before
Judge Wise last week The defendant,
q Japanese, named Kinjiro Nakamoto,
had Obtained food at the Matano Ho.
tel for four months prior to June 80.
For this he owed something over $40,
and, having the food where it could
not be recovered, he gaily told Soper,
the proprietor, to chase himself, or its
japanese equivalent.
SOper then took advantage of the
new act, and the delinquent guest was
hailed before Judge Wise. lie entered
plea IF guilty, and was sentenced TO
pay fine of 800. As he could not dig
up the money, he was sent to Jail. 1t
seems rather anomalous that in order
to punish man for obtaining free
board, he is compelled to take up sew
oral more months of free board in the
bargain.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-08-29
SUPERVISORS SON
HAD EYE BLOWN OUT

(Mail Special to The Advertiser.)
HlLO, August 25.-Sam Kauhane,
Jr., the youngest son OF the supervisor
OF Kan, had narrow escape from
death through the explosion OF giant
powder cap last Saturday. As il was
he suffered the loss Of one eye.
The young fellow, who is about -four
teen years old, was student at thu
Kamehameha School, who had returned
TO his home near Waiohinu for his va
cation. The Volcano Stables contract
work on the Kahuku lava flow road is
going on in the neighborhood of th'
Kauhane ransh, and the boy, who is en-
energetic youngstor, had obtained n
Job on the contract.
Few details are known beyond Tie
fact that the boy was working in tine
quarry when the accident occurred. II
is believed that he must have struck
a giantpowder cap with his pick, there
by causing the explosion.
The injured boy was Immediately ia
ken by automobile to Naalehu, but as
the physician there was not at home,
he was taken on to Pahala, where he
was examined by Doctor st. Sure, who
advised that he be taken to HilO. This
advice was followed, and in the even
ing the patient was placed in the hos.
pital Supervisor Kauhane, who heard
Of the accident only after his son was
already on his way to Pabala, follow
cd on TO HilO.
1t seems that fortunately only one
eye has been affected, and that the
damage is confined practically to this
The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-08-29
MAY IDENTIFY.
SKELETON BY
BELT
Remains Found by Picnic Party
in Nuuanu Last Sunday Be-
lieved to Be Those of Tokoichi
Yamaura, Missing for More
Than q Year.
(From "Wednesday Advertiser)

tFrom "Wednesday Advertiser)
II is the tentative belief OF the
Ill. h., ,ho skoie,on ~, n ma,
ionnd IN eent'ai Nuuahu by RUSSIANS
Sunday is that of Tokoichi Yamaura,
a japanese Of Waimanalo who left who
left that hamlet on June 10, 1912, and
was never again seen or heard of.
Information was filed with Deputy
sheriff Rose yesterday by friends of the
Waimanalo man who after looking
over such few articles as were found
with the remains came to the conclus
ION that they might be those Of
Tokoiehi.
The part of one shoe that was found,
they stated, they did not recognize as
his. A piece of cloth from the coat
which was taken down to headquarters
The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-08-29
JAPAN WON'T WITHDRAW
FROM EXHIBITION YET

TOXIC, August 6.--An authority in
the department of agriculture and com
inerce il quoted by the Hochi Shimbun
~ saving that even If the reports about
the refusal of Great Britain, Germany
and Russia 10 participate in the Pana-
ma exhibition he correct, Japan may
act too hastily IL she follows their eX-
ample ut once. II these three Powers
have decided TO hold aloOf because of
the resentment caused by the Panama
tolls question, their action j. clear and
may be iustifable in some degree, but
Japan might be displaying narrowmind'
e1ness IL she were to abandon her part
~ the fair, on account Of the anti
japanese agitation in California, which
II bnt y single State and whore the agi-
tatiOn represents only the ideas of the
lower classes. In other words the rea-
son for Japan's withdrawal would be
weaker than that Of these three Powers.
on the other hand. however. in view of
the disgfacefnl treatment that the Jap
ane.c are receiving IN the State Of Cali
f0fnia, continues This official, japan
niay be- criticized for mater alistic pro.
cliyiiies II fbe seeks 10 participate In
the exiibition despite the wishes Of her
people.
Fof these renfons the japanese gov.
eminent has not get determined upon
n. attitude on the question and the de.
eisiO6 wil not be- taken for few
months since % u has n bearing upon
ihe diplomacy ~ the government. The
official alsO says that the solution Of
ihe question may largely depend upon
fbe views ~ D0fior foyedn, who IL en-
rerbd ~ fT'B"n acme towards tho N Il
dis ~ ihit month
The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-08-29
THE CAUSE OF BERI-BERI.

The Berlin Medical Association = ;
reported that DR.. Max MoszkOwski. as
the result of his experiments concern
ing the causes and treatment Of beri.
beIi. shares the contention OF DR.. Ellis
Fraser and Professor Fletcher, Of the
Malay states, that the disease is an
assimilation disease, and that il is
caused by the use OF rice. DIR. MOsz,
kOwski carried out an experiment upOD
himself under the supervision OF Pro-
fessOr Caspari, OF the Berlin Physio.
logical Institute, and for l3s days sub.
sisted almost entirely upon nee. All
the symptoms of beri.beri manifested
Themselves. Al the close Of the expert.
ment an injection of serum containing
an extract OF rice resulted in complete
recovery within short period. The
experiment has evoked great interest IN
the German medical world.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-08-29
CONTRACTS TOTAL|NG
s55,280.95 AWARDED

Five contracts for furnishing and
laying water pipe, constructing roads
and storm drains and furnishing and
installing office fixtures, aggregating a
total of $50, 2s0.95, were awarded yes.
terday by the superintendent of pub
lie works.
Frank NJ. Friesell secured the con
tract for furnishing and laying water
pipe in Kaimuki, for which he is to
receive $5655. The Waterhouse Com
pany was awarded the contract for
furnishing and installing book stacks,
furniture and accessories in the Judic-
larry Building, for $20,342. The same
firm will furnish seventy opera
chairs for the supreme court sessions
nall, for $2ss.75, The Wall, Nichols
Company will furnish and install the
standard wood furniture for the same
building, for S2272.T5, Roads aud
storm drains in the Auwalolimu resi-
dence district Of Honolulu will be con
strueted by the Honolulu Construction
a Draying Company. The contract
figure for this work amounts TO $780,
/ 722.45.