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Show NEW LIST i VAS SURE TO BOOSTPRICE So Declares Kansas' City Wholesale Dealer in the Lumber Hearing. ; KANSAS CITT. Jum That th nt prio of ylkw pin lumbor has Bona up from ti to thousand In Kaaaaa City In ftfteea ?aar and that tha auo-caaatva auo-caaatva Jumpa hava baan coincident with tha laauaaca of prfca llati by tha Tallow Tal-low Pino Lumbar Manufacturara aaao elation ra th priori pal poirita brought out by tha itata today In tha hoaiirts of Its ouator ault acalnat -fha aUefad lumbar lum-bar truat. Tha atata'a chlaf wltnoas And tha man who mada tha admlMlona waa Albert Bu4tbAe..v.4V whoUadai iumoar daaJar of thia dty. H taatlflad that nw pHro lata war laouad by tha aaaoolatlon and aant to deaira aavaraJ tint a a yar, aa many aa scvon tlmaa la 9QB. and that th local markat plica Invariably advanced ad-vanced to conform u that quotad la tha association's list. On cross ax a mt nation W. C Scartitt attorney for th df nrants, attmMd to draw from Mr. Buehnsll admlsstona tandlna to show that tha advancaa In tha prica of yalVow pin lumbar could ba aocountad for by tha titoraaaad daman d. Not Dim to Inert Md Dmaad. "Isn't It truo." ha aakad.M that yallow pina now la waad for a groat snany mora punoaea than It waa twnty yaars as;or .Tha wltnasa said th contrary waa tru and trial ramant had diaplarad yallow Eln for structural purposes sufflctsntly mora than offset Its Increased waa for other purpoaea. "lin t It true." Mr. ftrarritt persisted, "that everything haa ton up Quite aa much as lumber; that twenty year ao corn waa so cheap, for Instance, that thev burned It for fuel In Kansas?" Mr. Bushnell Insisted that th lis ta lumber had been unusual. Harry A. Oorsuch, secretary of tha Southern Lumbermen's association, on cross examination, said tha "blue bonks" Issued by his association Were slmUar In nature to reports sent out by mercantile mercan-tile asrenc.ee. Ha dented that they showed any discrimination aa to whether a firm did or did not betorur to any par? Ucular lumberman's association. |