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jury in the sum of .$2,000. Rothe, it will 

 br rt'imMubered. attonipted to commit sui- 

 cide ill Baltimore several weeks ago. when 

 he was aware that his employers dis- 

 covered that he was au embezzler to the 

 extent of .$450. He was brought to this 

 city on a warrant sworn out by his former 

 employers, and in police court had several 

 trials, all of which were continued from 

 time to time. It had been hinted that the 

 company would take Rothe back and allow 

 hiui to work out the sum of his defalca- 

 tion. This proposition seems to have been 

 tiu'ned down by the company, as Mr. .T. P. 

 Hanna was in police court attending the 

 prosecution. Relatives of Rothe's wife are 

 wealthy in the South, and they may yet 

 come to his aid in a financial way. it is 



said. 



* * * 



The Wernicke Timber Land Company. 

 which was recently ineoniorated, will prob- 

 ably establish their Cincinnati offices in 

 the Union Trust & Savings Bank build 

 ing at Fourth and Walnut streets, though 

 these headquarters have not as yet been 

 permanently decided on. 



* * * 



The Stone & Hinckley Company, n-- 

 cently formed by T. B. Stone, head of the 

 T. B. Stone Lumber Company of this city 

 and Wade Hinckley, announce that they 

 will be ready to take orders within a 

 month. The company intends to carry o]i 

 a cypress and yellow pine trade on ;( 

 wholesale scale. 



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E. P. Ransom was in Youngstown, Ohio, 

 September 1.5-10. and attended the meeting 

 of the retail dealers when the "Inter-State 

 Retail Lumber Dealers' Association" was 



formed. 



* * « 



The Cincinnati members who attended 

 the Twelfth IIoo-Hoo annual at Buffalo 

 have arrived home, and all report haviiiL 

 had a glorious time. The Cincinnati pari > 

 was composetl of John 11. Arms and wif. 

 S. A. Conn, .T. C. JIagness and wife, A. I>. 

 McLeod, J. II. Doppes and wife, A. X. 

 Spencer and wife and Edward .T. Wilson. 



their only trouble was with getting sup- 

 ply of stocks for their trade', which is fully 

 up to recent years as far as demand goes. 

 * * :>- 

 C. F. Osborne, of Osborne & Clark, the 

 local hardwood dealers, has gone down to 

 his farm tn Illinois to see how his crops 

 are turning out, and also to visit his retail 

 lumlicr yard. 



DEATH OF H. M. NIXON. 



It is i>\\v sad duty this issue to chronicle 

 til. death ..f II. M. Nixon, of the H. M. 

 Xixon Lumlicr Company of Chicago, who 

 was interred in Oakwood cemeteiT. this 

 city, on Monday, September 14. 



Mr. Xixon had l)een in bad health for 

 some months, and his demise was not un- 

 expected liut was not the less sad on that 

 account. .V strange coincidence was that 

 it was just a year Ijefore, on September 

 14. 191 r2, that R. T. Witbeck, the last 



AT MINNEAPOLIS. 

 W. B. Judd, in charge of the gum, head- 

 ing and stave department of the Morse 

 Grain Company, has returned from an ex- 

 tended trip to New Orleans and other 

 southern points, where he was arranging 

 for shipments of stock to this market, now 

 a large buyer of gum. 



* * * 



S. P. McConnell of St. Louis, .Mo., was 

 in Minneapolis a few days ago taking 

 orders from some of the line yard opera- 

 tors for cypress lumber, to be delivered 

 to their yards in Iowa and South Dakota. 



* * * 



F. M. Bartelme. representing the Fred 

 W. Upham Lumber Company of Chicago. 

 was in Minneapolis the other day placing 

 some of their hanlwcxid stocks. Mr. Bar- 

 telne told the local hardwood men that 



THK LATE n. M. NIXON. 



niemlier of the exchange to pass away, 

 was buried. 



When it was learned that Mr. Ni.^on 

 had died, a meeting of the Chicago Ilard- 

 kood Lumber Exchange was calh^l and 

 was largely attended. Mr. Xixon had been 

 a memlier of the exchange for a number 

 of years and served two terms as secre- 

 tary. At this meeting the I'ollowing reso- 

 lutions were adopted: 



UlCSOI.iriOXS OF RKSPECT. 



Whereas. It has pleased th<' .\lmighty 

 to remove from our midst .Mr. II. M. 

 Nixon, a fellow lumberman and member 

 of the Chicago Hardwood Limiber Ex- 

 change, and 



Wheivas. In Mr. Xixon's death each 

 uiember of this excliange loses a warm per- 

 S(in:il friend and the exchange loses one 

 of its most valued members, a man who 

 had ni> enemies and whose life was full 

 of kindly actions and charitable thoughts 

 foi his fellow men. .ind 



Wliereas, He leaves a widow and two 

 children and a wide circle of friends 

 tl'.roughout the hardwood trade to mourn 

 his loss, therefore be it 



Resolved, That we. the ('hicago Hard- 

 wood Lumber Exchange, in meeting as- 

 sembled on this Sattirday. September 12. 

 lOO.S. do express our deejji-st and sincerest 

 sorrow at his untimely death, and extend 

 our heartfelt symiiatliy to his bereaved 

 family, and be it further 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolu- 

 tions be furnished (he lumber press, and 

 that a copy be properly engrossed and de- 

 livered to iiis faniilv. 



CH.MtLES MILLER. 

 C. I). STRODE. 

 O. O. AGLER. 



Committee. 



\ committee of three was appointed to 

 Ijrocure a suitable floral tribute for the 

 exchange offering: L. B. Lesh. George 

 Thamer, Wm. E. Trainer. 



The following gentlemen were appointed 

 to act as pall bearers: C. V. Kimball. 

 James Trainer, Geo. Thamer, Jno. S. Ben- 

 edict, A. It. Vinnedge and Clarence Wolf. 



Harry ;M. Xixon was born in Warren 

 county. Ohio, in 18.j8, and afterwards re- 

 sided in Indianapolis, where he entered 

 the employ of L. V. Boyle & Co.. at that 

 time engaged in conducting an extensive 

 hardwood lumber business. In 1886 L. V. 

 Boyle iV Co. opened a yard in Chicago and 

 Mr. Xixon came here as Ijookkeeper. He 

 served in the office for three years and 

 then went on the street as city salesman. 

 In 1893 he entered the employ of the 

 Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 

 and served one year as salesman. He then 

 associated himself with Mr. Geo. W. 

 Leatherbee in the Reliance Lumber Com- 

 pany, until, in 1898, he. in company with 

 Jlr. E. E. Moberly. organized the H. M. 

 Xixon Lumber Company of Chicago, with 

 which he was connected until his death 



Mr. Xixon was a strictly honorable anil 

 upright l)usiness man and one of the best 

 lu'.rdwood lumber salesmen Chicago has 

 ever had. Cntil his health failed he was 

 of untiring energy and by close aiiplica- 

 tion to his business brought a large meas- 

 ure of prosperity to his company. Of re- 

 cent years, especially the last two years, 

 he has been failing and was not able to 

 do full justice to himself or his business. 



Ml-. Xixon leaves a widow and two chil- 

 (ben and a host of friends throughout the 

 hardwood trade to mourn his loss. 



I". J. Smith Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany is a new hardwood tirm at Troy, 

 Tenn. They have a bran new saw mill 

 outfit and jilenty of capital. They will 

 manuf.utnro plain and (luartered oak, ash, 

 gum. popl.ir. Cottonwood, hickory and wal- 

 nut. 



The Scliuh-Miller Lumber Company, 

 Selma, Ala., recently purchased the tim- 

 ber rights to an extensive tract of land 

 near there and will begin clearing same 

 .it once. It is also announced that in view 

 III' this purchase they will increase the 

 capacity of the Selma plant. 



