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A. Since about the time that he commenced lumbering up there; he 

 was the gentleman who went on to that land and commenced lumber- 

 ing without my knowledge and consent, and cut upon this land which 

 I owned jointly with his father and cut several thousand logs, by count, 

 before I knew anything about it, and I immediately tried to compro- 

 mise and divide the land with him and was under the necessity of 

 commencing a partition suit; I haven't had anything to do with him 

 since then. 



Q. Have you been on speaking terms since then? 



A. I don't have anything to do with him at all. 



Q. The committee are to understand you have not been on speaking 

 terms with him? 



A I don't speak to him at all. 



Q. Or he to you? 



A No, sir. 



By Mr. Connelly: 



Q. Are you acquainted with Mr. Garmon? 



Y. Yes, sir ? 



Q. Are you on friendly terms with him ? 



A. Yes, sir; I haveaio feelings against anybody that I know of. 



Q. Do you know him; are you on speaking terms with him t 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Personally not unfriendly ? 



A. Not unfriendly at all. 



'Q. Are you aware of the strained relations which recently have 

 occnrred between Mr. Garmon and Mr. Benton Turner ? 



A. I don't know anything about it only what I see in the paper; 

 didn't know it until I saw it in the paper a few days ago. 



Q. You never heard during your walks around, Mr. Garmon had 

 been doing those things Mr. Benton Turner accuses him of; you never 

 heard any rumors how anything was going wrong in the department 

 of the forest commission that Garmon presides over ? 



A. I never heard anything between them. 



Q. Do you rely entirely upon what you see in the newspapers, do 

 you believe it to be veracity itself ? 



A. I read all the papers and believe such of it as I am disposed to; 

 I take off that a good deal of allowance; my mind was made up not 

 from reading the newspapers entirely. 



Q. One more question; have you ever heard it said that the com- 

 mission exercised or did not exercise themselves to purchase land for 



