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Show WIT1SS EXPLAINS Facts Brought Out in Hearing of Missouri's Ouster Suit Against Lumber Trust. ST. LOUIS. May 24. W. P. Hollis. secretary of the Northwestern Lumbermen's Lumber-men's association, explained in the hearing hear-ing of the state's ouster suit against the alleged lumber trust this afternoon the terms he used In a circular which told of an agreement between the retailors and wholesalers for trade protection. The circular was based on the agreement agree-ment signed In Chicago In 190H, and In it the term "poacher" was used. This, according to Mollis, meant any retailer who entered the restricted territory of another retailer. The -agreement, deprecated depre-cated the entrance of the "cooperative lumber firm" Into the field occupied by the retailer and of efforts to overcome the power of the cooperatives. The agreement. Hollis" testified, was ratified by the Yellow Pine Manufacturers Manufactur-ers association In October, 1901, and was abolished In April. 1905. on advlco .if attorneys. at-torneys. Jle denied that the attorneys had advised the association that it went beyond the law. He also denied that a bulletin that the association Issued was a blacklist. George K. Smith, secretary of the Yellow Yel-low Pine Manufacturers association, testified tes-tified he had sent agents to talk "cut and shipment" to manufacturers not In the association and tho benefits derived from Its membership. TIo did not recall that his agents had advised non-members of the advisability of curtailing their output out-put to obtain higher prices. , ' Witnesses who printed the price current cur-rent of tho association testified late In the day. Their testimony showed that often they obtained "copy" for their . lists from the 'prices cjuotod privately by the association's secretary. |