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Show BORE EVIDENCE OrillMIER IRUSI KANSAS CITY, June 15. A bundle cf letters which passed between John A. Gorsuch, secretary of the Southwestern South-western Lumbermens' association, and Carl A. Dr?ke, formerly secretary of the Texas Lumbermens' association, and which were confiscated from Drake's office when he recently fled irom Austin, Texas, put vJgor into the state's ouster suit against the nllegod lumber monopoly when they were Introduced In-troduced Into evidence by the prosecution prose-cution hero today. Mr. Gorsuch on the witness stand admitted that the letters were genuine. genu-ine. The state contends that the letters prove. That fourteen lumbermens' associations, associ-ations, embracing practically the whole of the forest area of the United Slates, maintained an "Information bureau,"' which kept Its members advised ad-vised as to what manufacturers sold direct to the consumer. That manufacturers who sold to retailers re-tailers that failed to keep their association asso-ciation obligations were blacklisted. That the members of various organizations or-ganizations had agreements not to invade in-vade each other's territory. Mr. Gorsuch was fearful lest the workings of the "Information bureau'' might violate the anti-trust laws. That the Southwestern Lumbermen's Lumber-men's association members refrained from putting in their by-laws and constitutions con-stitutions penalties for dealers who failed to keep their membership obligations obli-gations because it was feared that the organization might bo brought into conflict with tho anti-trust laws. It would appear from a letter which Drake wrote Gorsuch on May 4, 1903, that Gorsuch had warned him to be cautious, Drako said in part. "I am in receipt of your letter of tho first. I do not think there is anything any-thing in our anti-trust laws that Is going to affect the workings of tho bureau of Information. I am much more interested in the Internal workings work-ings than scared of any particular danger that may arise to us. For more than four years I have been able to keep out of the penitentiary through good luck and political influence influ-ence and I feel that I am getting moat too old to change my abode and am keeping up my present connections. "I have sent a copy of the constitution constitu-tion and by-laws as you hoard them read In Galveston, together with a copy of the anti-trust law to Hollis for the opinion of tho attornoy in chief " Drake did not leave Texas on account ac-count of trouble with the state over his connection with tho lumber business. busi-ness. After he departed the attorney general of Texas ransacked his offices, found the letters and forwarded them to John M. Atkinson, attorney general of Missouri, who is conducting the lumber prosecution In a letter referring to the failure of the Southwestern Lumbermens' association as-sociation to include penalties in Its by laws, Gorsuch in a letter to Drake May 15, 1903, said: rOfl |