Government After: Trade Conditions , Yery Encouraging
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m ers Sw eat by;¡and ' the'fM arket ;Œ |$roîÿ^r9W ëat at!’’ BBFI erèrpuA jisfierfsoIe/i/i/i Me 50 WEEKS X( Mit 14 (voi. o DETROIT, Saturday, Jañúary I 8tb, 1 9 1 3 ONEOR MORE CENT ’/ PER. COPT GOVERNMENT AFTER: TRADE CONDITIONS , YERY ENCOURAGING &ASE ÉBElNG / FOUGHT IjN T *#. c a p i t o ** HEALTHY TRADE IN ALL LINES § |f UNITED àmTE^ DlStRÏCT AND PROSPECTS FLATTERING. W Ê Ê È m go y RT AT CWIQÀGO; Manufacturers Look Forward to a f THe Petition Charges That the Aetulh R eco rd- B reakl n g , Y ear-—Farme rs, / Dealers Have ¡Tjfntere.d ,frit6 'Jp#/ Need Have -Little Ée?ir/of ; Combination to - Prevent/.' * ture Prices if Market ;|§p|l P | .producer and j Con- - .. ■A’’ , » ife | Is Not Overfed. ■’ ri;;' § sumerr :■ Shfjfy * * I lug Together. 'X t A Special report' to Michigan Busi- .. ness Farming from New York City, ’ A case is being tried in.the United which'covers: the business outlook "in States District Court at Chicago vbe- general, is flattering indeed. The re . fore, Special Examiner It, E. JSiller/ plenishing of the money,supply in the 'Ahielj is attracting nation-wide at ten- east went on last weelc even more V tion. The hearing has Brought out . rapidly than was expected,' and the the ’faict .that the. defendant lumber \S^SBBS^ssssss=ss=ss==ss==:S m ï i ST W fear of a continuance of tight money dealers employed a wideiy/organised ; has practically disappeared. Ttíe fall , system of espionage against ' the maib ( m OVERNGR FERRIS has been making the rounds of the state institutional in all kinds of interest rates was order houses i. bribed; eipp.lfiycs and is making a careful Investigation of conditions, and quietly getting on violent; bank and sub-treasury forces railroad then to reveal business to the rppes. So far Hfe has shown himself as big as the job, and if he can were overworked in caring for the in methods and destination flbf ship- only keep the politicians but of the Capitol, his administration will meet the flow , bf ' cash. Exports of gold to * ments, and warned local dealers in approval of Michigan people; The politicians are: already'buzzing about the France were made without fnterrupt- towns to. which mail order shipments dome of the Capitol, “keep them out, Governor Ferris, keep them o.ut.” h ing the fall in interest rates, and in ® wore^made. spite of the continued course of inter- - Several Witnesses testified of the barons are not Satisfied with the" in '. The special Committee : recently ap national trade toward the piling up of rivalry between the :< retailers, and: .^credits in favor of New York. It is . the direct-to-consumery.hOu0es, Which crease in the price of lumber which; pointed-to look into the advisability must|. cbm© naturally,, because pf. its of erpoting a workhouse here has not 'quite evident that the preparations amounted to a warfare?, and that' the for the expected January strain had methods employed by the retailers scarcity, but they exact a tribute only decided in its favor, but is now from . rich and poor -alike through taking fiteps to secure the care of all ^ open over-estimated, and preparations . Were a vicious and 'welf^fifgahlzed for i t overdone. '. persecution. Covering a term 6fi-seven their combination. , law vipiators in This part of the state. It is the plan :<of the supervisors to Usually at this season of thé year, ; bdild a workhouse big enough to take money becomes very scarce » in the, The defendants are; the North Wefip east because of the amount necessary ern. Retail iiuipber Dealers’ Associa / “KALAMAZOO : ANÔ THE HOBO.'v! <}are of all Kalamazoo offenders.. an d also the offenders, in all other; còun-: . to move thé westprn crops. The mar-, , tion of , Minneapolis^ and, Willard "D./ M .TViJhy have idle ' prisoners languish-. kef ing of farm produce has been go Hollis, secretary of: the association; : ing iù the Tpuntÿ jaif and ^tat^pris'f ties around here.; '■.'i “Letters have been sent out to all ing on systematically for the pgst ' r: Lube ,W .Boyce, head Of ’the associa-ii bus, so long as there -are highways ninety days, and the preparations ' fion’n detec&ye • bureau!; „the •Missis: to build? Çfx years ago'we suggested the epunty clerks, ; asking' them if a contract similar to the one previously made by the east to care for crop sippi ‘Valley Lumberman, a trade . the Idea; of using prison labor entire . demands was, more than ample, and paper,- add -Secrbtaries’ Bureau">o| Tfi v ly in bpilding our highways:^ : Wp are carried with the’ Detroit house of cor rection will be made with Kalamazoo “ no further trouble need be looked for - formation, an Illinois corporation. ..glad to see that at least one-1 county from this source. The government contend^ th%; retail-^ has worked but the-- system, fdund it; 'county. From sentigi.entAxpressed by erg have formed a - trust' to* fight the feasible, andMs now;, reaching out-;Jto various officials.of nearby;counties,*it A representative of this paper, af-^t. l competition- of the mail'' Order houses. help adjoining : ebuhties, being very is.'‘believed Kaiamazoo will' bp given ter a week’s trip through Illinois and : Testifying concerning- ‘the alleged glad,4hdeed, to secure the* services pf the care of all criminals in south Iowa, reports that the farmers of the > the prisoners for the purpose of mak western Michigan.’ Formal action will west have been rushing their live - tactics ■ of : the . retailers/ M r^/S^tt v stock to market, it is estimated that' A 'Saidf^T- : ing the county roads what they should ; be taken At the- next meeting of the ' "They employed, any moans shbrt' b®. The following ^ispafeh. frphi Kala-J supervisors on the question.’’ - the number of cattle, sheep and hogs ! of murder and fire and I am not sure mâzoo shows W^hat the officials think • in, the farmers’ hands at the present;; of that? gs onr-l plant- burned .down .. of the- plan 'aftej? a t^ïo- years’ trial m There. is little profit in .trying to v time is less than 'for the past two three Tears ago^They had detectives . r “This county ip but ’after the- crim- : make an extra amount of corn take years, and those who are in position Inal» of southwestern Michigan. the place of suitable shelter. to know, are looking for better prices,/' in our plant/ bribed/our employes, ' Although, but little / has .been saifi, > traced all of 'our shipments,- and then 'Ubput hog cholera, in Iowa, it is-es warped local dealers who dealt With timated that' a t. least 40 "per cént of >■ all hogs in that state have died front' 'I . Witnesses testified that companies an fepideinic Of cholera which started.’, who shipped inmbpr fiir&ejutd farmers / At the time of going to press, the wires bring us the ' éarly in thé fsjJl. f • were blacklisted by ;the local uealpfs,- . The -rpceipt of 1 jVe stock in| the Ê who were backed by. their - state lum Chicago live Stock market Monday of I ber dealers’ this Week was exceptionally large. In form ' of persecutiQn was tp' send for’, S^hèat, No. 1 White (large mills paying) . .$1.13^2 lowá last we^k, fKe first sevpte weath^- M catalogs bythe wholesale, asking fof; | er of the .winter was expërieneed, the 1 /estimates Of goofis which; the dealers// Whe^t, Nt>. 2 Red (large mills paying) . | , thferipometpr ranging from zero to 18 ^ of course, 'had im, intention ofTmying. c below. Many farmers who had kept If a shipment Of lumber yv:as received thigix stock fii’the fields made plans §| in a tojvn,* tfie dealers watched until.! íúT immediatp shipment, ; and if thp;J’J the farmer came after his shipment Rye present week does not sliow a slump A , and . then Be” was made § tfye ■ of#' ln prices On" the ..Ohicago market, .,.. 2.20 will;bp -a,.wfirndpr.*tl-'A-?-“ It was proved that the retailers' -The aBvttOrmal demand for wheat ; gathered i'n state meetings and at : :'i|ay*.(beàt market 'today, ^ew' í ; 20.00Í; during the fiyst six months of the crop , their seCrpt sessions speakers,;, out-. ypár has been remarkable^nôt only in , lined ways and means, of fighting, the (best market todiGy> Philadelphia) at . , .62' iAi®A .country but in Europe. Thé un- ’ mail order , competition, and lists «SU Ustiaji absorption of the tremendofus ' names ’of blacklisted firms wfire pub-“y' moypmettt? o f, wheafcjn all directions.^ lished in „what-/was? Known# a • Is accounted for in iarg'p measure by / / “white bepli/* which was’ sent broadV ÿ Ê $ .281! the fact that supplies the world o ver • L- icaht to manufacturers. were practically exhausted at the find; It l would seem . that,Abe - - lumber-.' of the Crop year. Consequently not/T (Continued on Page -FHr®T:vv.t'*?&&i Fase, ;Fiveí ¿ :• - ; /«¿fæ Every ‘Btiígiffess:Eafi»tteT,Keedfi/®fcart|;iSfl^^ » f i l i l i I SD&lf HN^Iri e w lf r o m th e lr a rrtïél^s S t a n d p o in t a m w « o u r ! m a r k e t s i g n a l s n a B g ! gig m »S ¡||pf HE Weather ilaa tike« his bbServationp; ffetS his reports from other * stations and '’‘guesses the weather. we take ©hr observations, have 1 Reingmb^r, that ad- qur reports from other ^stations, and.