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PLUCKY SAN 1 | BEGINS Erection of a Ne I. While Ruins ?. Yet Sn 2 JL ORDER ESTIBIISHCD till WW. m, .. Refugees Housed and Fed? lent Conditlons?Suppllc s? Dangerous Wall$ ^ ' Principal Stree P & W-' San Francisco, Cal.?The new San a Francisco that will rise from the ashes \ t of the old is now in its first stages of j, rebuilding. e After days of confusiou and almost t superhuman effort on the part of citi- T zens of California's metropolis, com- ^ plete order has been established and at- g tention has been turned to the future, r Hope is supplanting despair. Talk of 4 a nsw rifv Is rpnlflfincr sorrow for the . ~ "" " u old. Architectural plans for skyscrap- 0 ers are even being drawn?and all tbis ti before the embers of the greatest con- E flagration the world has yet witnessed 1< &r liarve ceased their smoking. tl ; ~ One by one the problems of starva- a , tion, thirst, sanitation, burial of the si dead and resumption of business are f< being solved. With typical American b spirit the people are fast reviving from e the effects of the .terrible shock of o earthquake and flame. Food and drink a Is being dealt out with systematic care t] to the multitude gathered in the relief e: camps. Temporary shelters have been d I built. Organized hospitals are alleviat- e ingv the suffering of the injured and sick and the dead are being buried, tl Jhurriedly, perhaps, but wisely. f< The peril of a famine has been avert- si ed. Relief trains and steamers from c< various Western cities have reached tl f: the scene of desolation, their precious w ^ K/\a? onH nil i"/ irajJUl 11UO UCCU UlOll 1UIU1.U, uuu ??? ?> | the hungry have been fed. n Work is being pushed in the burned district. Soldiers are busy blowing tl down walls and big squads of men are t< 3 . clearing up the debris. Bankers met a and planned to resume business. There f< fV Is plenty of money in the Mint, and it t? "Will not be long before things are hum- a mlng. it The Billions to be paid by the insur; j ance companies, the measures taken by n the iinancial institutions, the prompt and reassuring words that have a reached the business men of San Fran- si cisco from Eastern financial centres? a al' these things have dispelled the feel- g $?' tag of uncertainty. oi Architects are arriving here from all d big cities in the Union, and there will cl be employment for all of them. Orders r< ' are already placed for prodigious quantities of building materials. The lead- oi ing business men are working in union, p and they are much worried over the b report that Pittsburg and other steel vs centres may be unable to supply struc- h ? v^tural steel. This important problem i<3 has not yet been solved, but it is be- b - lieved that the outcome will be that t( orders for tens of thousands of steel tl will go to England and Germany. b , Street cars have resumed running in a [y some quarters ?f the city. The city p ^/'government is again taking hold, si Banks will reopen as rapidly as pos- tl sible, and business houses are prepar- n Ing to resume. . C Legal business has been resumed. j( 'All of the Superior Judges opened their - twelve departments in the Jewish Syn- "n jjp agogue, California and Webster e: streets. Criminal cases have prece- f< dence. All trials that were progress- d Ing at the time of the catastrophe were tc ^recommenced. si Throughout the great business quar- tl Iter, where tue aevastation Dy nre was a the most complete, dangerous "walls f< -have been razed, buildings that were h not disintegrated by fire have been If inspected with a vi#w of re-occupancy, and ground has been cleared for the n immediate construction of buildings in ii which to resume business at the ear- ti liest possible time. "n A huge army of men was put to work v cleaning the main thoroughfares of ^ wreckage, and Market street has been C cleaned from end to end, and fair ii - progress has been made in the streets d . running to right and left of this main it : artery 0* travel. There has been no scarcity of workmen since Mayor 1 Schmitz announced that all men would (1 be paid for every hour df work, and ri that in addition they would receive a food and shelter indefinitely. With a gangs of men pressed into service the r soldiers are getting the debris out of s the streets. The discovery and crema- g tion of bodies goes on. Still there are conflicting stories about the loss of c life. The truth about this will cot be p definitely known for some time.^ lJ Two-thirds of the city is burned. The fire swept pretty clean, although R it missed a block here and there. The h burned district ran back from the ferry t I Doctor Lifeless at Wife s Deatubea. Dr. and Mrs. N. Stegner were buried together at Fort Dodge, Iowa. Mrs. s Stegner had been ill for several weeks v and her husband had been by her side r incessantly day and night. As he saw ^ her life dapartiug he arose despairing- f IJr and grasped her hand. His words of farewell were lost as he sank down lifeless to the floor. Ijjun s neview reports: i.uuuiug up- i rations are only limited by tbe supply t of labor and material, which cause t ^ frequent delays. J The National Game. R*ilbacb, the bix boxman of the Chijvcago Cubs, has signed a three-year ^ contract. 1 jit' "Many a pitcher has been trimmed 'by bunting when he looked invincible," f ' declares Hanlon. Sandow Mertes is to be a Giant for : many seasons, according to announce- r noents of McGraw. All four of the crack Boston infield ? of tbe '90s?Tenuey, Lowe. Long and t pCollJus?are still in the game. Leroy, tbe Indian pitcher on the New r York Americans, is not a full-blood as ( repprted, but is a half-breed ChiuDewa. ^ Epr y vvt fr*f/: V, r ' ' J RANCISCO f TO REBUILD! ( w City Started \ > of the Old 1 toked. 11 a L ~ C 9 BUSINESS RESUMED I a 0 c 1 t Doctors Report Excel- t: >s of Food Abundant-* a Down - - Clearing J ts of Debris. * t f hr>nt f-hrpp milps. but the widest s*veeo c ras six miles. The circumference of h he burned area is placed approximate- h 7 at twenty-six miles, comprising the ? ntire business district and a large sec- ' ion of the residence district, all of a rhich "was densely populated. Only 0 esidences are left. The Aliole thing, tl ast and present, is too great to be n rasped. Even the survivors cannot -S ealize now what they have been 0 lirough. Vigorous measures are being taken ? y the Board of Health and the Board n f Public Works to improve the sani- H *ry conditions throughout the city. S light temporary structures. 150 feet in 0 ?ngth by twenty-eight feet wide and a liirteen feet high, have been erected t Golden Gate Park, and in these lieds thousands found reasonably com- 0 artable quarters. The buildings have ^ een divided into compartments large H nough to house a family. Those with- ?1 ut tent shelter received first consider- 13 tion in the selection of occupants for G iiese temporary buildings. An intersting item from the Golden Gate Park ? istrict is the report of the birth of ighteen babies. In the refugee camps of the city fi aere is a semi-military government of ?rce. Workers are summarily con- & oripted and vehicles and supplies are " ammandeered. A number of ships aat tried to leave the harbor, laden ith provisions, were seized and forced I ) disembark their cargoes, which were eeded for the refugee camps. n' Many thousands of people hare left w ie city to seek employment and shel?r elsewhere. Their going is encour- le ged, because it relieves the demand )r food and supplies. Free transpor- J* ition is given all who depart, but they " re warned that they must not return 1 the near future. ai The pathos of the desolation is im- Cl leasurable. All class lines have been j* iped away. People who a few days p go held themselves aloof now gladly bare shelter and food with Chinese * nd creatures of the underworld. A reo.t sorrow remains upon thousands f members of separated families, huu- tl reds of parents vainly seeking their ?,! tilldren in the great confusion of the ^ jfugee camps. What with tents, barracfts, the ex- T iJus to the rest of California and the g< lan of concentration in the standing g< ouses of the Western Addition, there si pill be shelter for every one. Every ai ouse in the Western Addition, the res- ai lence part, which was not burned, has m een forced to accommodate refugees u > its full capacity. Those residents of ie Western Addition who took in si urned out friends or chance acquaint- st nces on the first day had a chance to c< ick their company. Those who were ?lfish about it must take whomever tt ie Red Cross sends, even Chinese and ir ew arrivals from Hungary. The Red t* ross people are enjoying the grim tc >ke of this. The great u.id rich are on a level a] ath the poor iu the struggle for bare ci sistence, and over theiu all is the per- ir ?ct, unbroken discipline of tliV? sol- ci iery. They came into the city and tl )ok charge on an hour's notice, they si ived- the city from itself in the first si iree days of hell, and but for them the n: ity, even -with enough provisions to ai ?ed them in the stores and ware- p ouses, must have gone hungry for t? ick of distributive organization. ri The troops ruled like iron. They shot larauders and the men caught insult- 1< lg or assaulting women. In the dis- tl jrbed condition of things some of this a rork is inevitable, and the soldiers P rere even more severe with it than t< ritli looting. There is a story from cl lolden Gate Park about a man caught i the act. The soldiers forced him to ^ ig his own grave, stood him up before u : and shot him dead. After dark not a street lamp burns. t( 'he soldiers are everywhere in the d arkness. halting you if you try to u nove. shooting you if you disobey, it nd in the shadows are the looters n nd criminals dodging the soldiers. Q */%? n a1j.hi/ia O f /In. tl men. in co iui a tuaiivc v**. erted houses or piles of household b ;oods. Two dapper men with canes were ? aught at a corner by a sergeant and v nit to work. He showed great joy as d ie said: tl "I give you time to get off those kid h :loves. and then hustle, mind you, 1 ustle!" They hustled. The soldiers v ake delight in picking off the best What Professor Pickering Says. Prof. Pickering, of Harvard Uuiverity, says the San Francisco earthquake C i-as not due to volcanic action and had d 10 relatidn to the eruption of Mount e 'esuvius. It was due to slipping earth ailing into a gap. Ga3 Buoy Exploded. ti Captain A. W. Clark, of Perry Sound, t )ntario. who has charge of placing the t >uoys for the marine department in hat district, was instantly killed hrough the explosion of a gas buoy. 1 I fntv o ! * il frtnn' wofa cnnl.* fi Labor World.. Michigan farmers are organizing. Striking machiuists at Laredo, Tex., y lave won out. s A State federation of labor is being ormed in Maryland. c Strike-breaking molders in Bay City. \ Mich., went on strike for higher wages t uul won. Miners and operators in the Kana- 2 vha field of West Virginia have sigued i he 1!X)3 wage scale. I The Lake Seamen's Union has eached an agreement with tbe Lumber ( rarriers' Association for this year, a vasres bein'/ tim same. as last. vear. f Jressed men and keeping them at th arick piles for long terms. I passe< tliem in the shelter of a provision ^agon. afraid that even my pass wouli lot save me. Two men are reporter shot because they refused to turn ii ind help. There are many rumor ibout the shooting by soidiers. Relief trains continue to arrive L'here is plenty of food. The inachiu >ry of the military relief and of th< :ood department of the citizens' com nittee is running smoothly. Ever: Iray and truck which can be found ii mployed in getting the food across tin 'reight ferry from Oakland and inti he parks and concentration camps. A1 lie bakers who can be found in thi ity are working at brick ovens turning he flour which arrived early fron stockton info bread. There is a short ige of yeast, but the Italian and Freucl >akers. of which there are many in thi ity, are working in their own fashioi vith sour dough, and this helps. The city is one great bread line. Thi rucks of rations drive up to the parks he soldiers form the people into line* nd each takes his bread, his cooke( r uncooked food and his little sack ol oflfee and departs to cook or eat it ?he troops play no favorites. Some imes it takes two or three hours to gei lirough the lines, and with three mealf day a man living in the parks passes good part of his time standing foi lis food. The Red Cross sees thai reak women and children are pro 'ided for without waiting in liue. Sven the people living in houses have 0 take their chances with the rest ol lie crowd in the parks near by. It is impossible now to purchase anj ood in San Francisco. The citizens ommittee manages to feed fevery one ut the rich, unless they happen +c ave a store of food in their houses, lust take their chances with the pooi 1 the bread lines which are formed ir 11 the parks. The continuous arrival f relief trains makes it certain thai Lie city will not starve. It may be a lonth at least before all who stay in an Francisco will cease to be wards f the Government. General Funston and Mayor Schraitz idignantly deny the stories that there re epidemics or immediate danger of jem. In order to avert disease Mayor chmitz has ordered the breaking up C Af mnntr nOAnlfl L liltj Ul? I'ttlUpS, ItllU UJUll,? ^cv|/n; s possible are being sent out of the ity free of expense. Major Krautboff, chief commissary fficer at San Francisco, has teleraphed to the Commissary-General of je Army in Washington that it is the pinion of the relief committee and imself that further rations from the government will not be required. In the basement of the Sacred Hearl chool the Dominican Sisters have tarted a detention hospital for the inine. A good many people with inpient insanity have been driven viotntly mad by the strain of these few ays. Since all the city police statiows ave been destroyed the disposal ot lese people hate been a problem. There is a shortage of horses. Thourods of the poor animals must have ied in the fire. After that there was o food for horses, even for those hich were in use: and during the hot?st trouble automobiles were price's*. A lot of owners just turned their aimals out to make their way into le country and find grazing on the ills. More than eighty churches, missions nd convents were razed in San Fransco, among their, some of the most otable in the city. It is estimated y ecclesiastical authorities that the >ss to churches will not be less than 10,000,000. The bodies to suffer lost severely are the Roman Catholic, le Presbyterian, the Congregational, le Baptist, the Episcopal, the Luthera, the Methodist and the Disciples of hrist. In response to inquiries Surgeon orney in command of the army sur?ons at San Francisco, notified Sureon-General O'Reilly that no more argeons or nurses are needed. There re 1300 physicians in San Francisco id they are co-operating with the lilitary authorities. There are enough arses there to take care of the situ^ tion. A special train, with fifty phycians and the same number of nurses, arted from Chicago for San Francis). Other special trains, with doctors ad nurses, were also on the way to le Pacific Coast. These trains were itercepted en route with orders to le physicians and nurses to return their homes. The United Railways, which control il the important car lines in San Fransco, have put men to work straightenig out the tracks. Only one important ir house was burned ;_the rest are in ie suburbs ana tratnc win oe rejmed as soou as the tracks are iraiglitened, new cables laid and the lachinery iu the power houses set up gain. The electric lines, which car robably get power from the long dis ince transmission systems, may be jnning in a week or two. Revised estimates of the loss to the )5 insurance companies involved in ie San Francisco disaster were made, nd the executive officers of the comanies agreed pretty generally that the )tal insurance carried in the stricken Lty was .$250,000,000. Estimates as to hat portion of that the companies 'ill have to pay differed, but the minimm mentioned was $125,000.0(H). The Southern oil fields are reported > have suffered severe damage, the erricks, castings and other parapher alia at the wells iu many cases hav ig been totally destroyed. It lias beer oted also that the effect of the earth uake in many places was to chaug( je flow of the oil, so that niauy new oriugs will have to be made. Workers iu the debris of the post ffice found eleven jostal clerks. H .'as at first thought that they were ead. but each proved to be alive tv?A n'Arn linrllv iniliroH TilPT .iUU^Li OUUiC > > CIV, L/UVMJ iujuiv? ? w ad been imprisoned for three days "hey were taken to the field hospital There it is said all have good chance! 3 recover. All the mail was saved. Indians in Grip of Hunger. A dispatch from Salmon. Lemh !ounty, Idaho, says the Indians are it anger of starvation on the Lemhi res rvation. Necessities Dearer Than Ever. Meats, milk, butter, eggs and vegeta >les are higher in price now than fo wenty-two years, according to a state aent by Dun's Agency. Japanese tobacco monopoly for tin ast fiscal year showed a profit of $10, 142.000, which exceeded the estimate Feminine News Notes. Mme. Patli believes that the pleas ires of the table are not for tbi linger. Dr. Ella Head has been nppointe* it.v physician of Greeley, Col., the firs voman to serve in this capacity ii he city. Mrs. (Jeorgine R. Wilde, daughter o drs. Henry Siegel, of New York, wa named in London to Count Carl' )entice di Frasso. Miss Clara G. Cornell, of Eridgeporl 'onn., has been named as uue of th ix speakers to compete for ihe Wood ord oratorical prize at Coryell. _ j : - : lili'S PURSE : I AIDS STRICKEN CITY i ] ! The Contributions to the San Fran* i I cisco Relief Fund Exceed j J ? $20,000,000. j J 3 ' I ' I \ 1 B * - ' > New York City.?With a prodigality ^ unprecedented in this of any other 0 country riches have been showered into j 1 the hundreds of relief funds for the < homeless thousands of San Francisco, j ? The nation, through Congress, added j ; another $500,000 to its appropriations, < 1 making $2,500,000 in all. The LegislaC ture at Albauy, N. Y., appropriated $250,000, the largest gift ofx any one 1 State. The funds of the Chamber of 5 Commerce, the Merchants' Association, the Mayor and the Red Cross all re- < : eeived substantial additions. J t Besides these four great funds every 1 one of the exchanges and the various 1 trades and innumerable organizations < ) have funds, which are constantly grow- I ing. The total already contributed by J New York City exceeds $2,000,000, and ' gives promise of reaching $3,000,000. ' The nation's contributions of cash j , and valuables of even greater worth 1 a- mk onnnnn I i I tiiiin money amounts iu .jhd,ovu,uw, and will probably exceed $20,00(^000. < This Luge contribution is mora thnn < t the equivalent of a contribution of i I tweuty cents from every man, woman : nud child of the 80,000,000 comprising < the entire population of the United ?' i States. If divided pro rata among the < i 200,000 destitute people of San Fran- 1 cisco it would give each one &U and a I ; few cents over. > The contributed services of the vari- i ous railroads in hauling great trains ' of supplies across the country at ex- ] i press speed are figured at $3,450,000. 1 The Harriman roads alone, it is figured, are doing relief work which j would cost $75,000 daily, and the work ] will undjyibtedly continue thirty days. ( The Atchison's shnre amounts to about ( 1 $25,000 a day, and the Gould roads to ] about $15,000 daily. To run a train of , freight on a passenger schedule from j Chicago to Sail Francisco would cost j a merchant from $9000 to $12,000. : Nor does the expression of universal j brotherhood halt with money alone. ( Provisions of all kinds are being liur- . ried to the relief of the sufferers on ] scores of trains. Magnanimity is expressing itself in j ) unheard-of ways. Merchants are giv- | ! iug their best without charge, railroads , are shipping stores free and will make j special rates into San Francisco during ! ber resurrection. The Postofflce Dei partment has ordered, all letters out of f that city to go free of postage. Churches, race track clubs, baseball 3 aggregations, business organizations, ' foreign banks, steamship companies, > theatrical troupes, rich people, poor j ' people, school children and even chil- j dren too young to go to school are vie- < i ing with each other1 in their desire to j help. j A striking incident of the relief work are the heroic efforts being made by San Francisco citizeus to help them- i i selves. In spite of their terrific losses the people of the ruined city have raised the sum of $228,250. One wealthy woman, who lost all her income-produciug property, but had $20.000 in cash remaining in the banks, | has given the relief fund one-half, or i ?10,000. Never before has there been a tn< re . spontaneous, nor more generous, l or > more world-wide outpouring of practii cal sympathy. Not alone in this couni try, but from Americans in London, i Paris and other European cities is the ' i money pouring in. The sum of $10,000 was alone cabled by the American col ony in London. Canada still shows her sympathy by cash contributions. President Roosevelt has refused to t accept offers of assistance from abroad. ? He holds that the United States is able i to care for the San Francisco sufferers, i and that contributions from foreign l countries should be declined. His first refusal was of $25,000 cabled by Mr.* I Ballin, of the Hamburg-American Line. Txie Canadian Parliament voted $100,000 toward the?5au Francisco re: lief fund. The Torcmto Bank of Conii merce sent $25,000, and the Canadian Salvation Army $150. ? Every city of any size, and scores of > towns and villages all over the land, i are gathering thousands of dollars, TT'ltSnli nt?nmicm f/\ fnf 1 monw millinns eventually for the relief of Sau Fran> cisco and other California cities. ' SHIP SINKS WITH THIRTY-FOUR. ! Belgian Training Vessel Goes Down | t Off Prawle Point. . | Dover, England.?The Belgian train lug ship Count de Smet de Xaeyer fonudered off Prawle Point. Her captain aud thirty-three of those who ^ were on board were drowned. The rest , of the crew of the training ship was [ picked up by a French bark. ] The Count de Smet de Naeyer belonged to the Belgian Maritime Association, of Antwerp, and was used as " a training ship for the mercantile ma; rim\ The cadets included the sons of many prominent Belgians. t Killed in a Religious War. i A procession of 2000 Catholics from neighboring villages of Warsaw, Po7 land, tried to recapture their church at Lesnos. A furious fight with Maviavites ensued, in the course of which 3 twelve persons were killed and fifty wounded. Fishing Boats Lost. x Two Danish trawlers, with forty men ou board, were lost, and another with a crew of thirty is probably lost. Earthquake Shocks in Italy. Mm-P onl-tlinnnko sbofks'were felt at r Pobbibonsi, Italy, and tbe town was - evacuated. Heir to Sweden's Throne. A son was born at Stockholm, Swe? den, to Princi and Princess Gustavus* Adolphus. ; 'Frisco Situation Paragraphed. 3 Tbe courts bare reopened. Trains and ferryboats are again run. J ning regularly. a There is no suffering from either a food or a water famine. j It will l)o !?ng before the miles ot ^ debris can : cleared up. i> Estimates of tbe loss vary from $120,000,000 to $300,000,000. t; The flight of the refugees can only be e likened to that of a retreating army, l' Many relief trains have already brought succor to the burned city. - - : - -i 5 CONQUERED FLAMES WIT EI WINE Water Gone, Quick-Wlltnci Fire FighteM SaTeil Tlielr llomnr. San Francisco. Cal.?An incident of the fire iu the Latin quarter, on the slope of Telegraph Hill, was the use of ivine instead of water ru lighting the Eire. Italian res!'Tents crashed iu their cellar doors with axes and, calling for assistance, he^u rolling out barrels of red Wine. The cellars gave forth barrel after barrel until there was fully 300 gallons ready for use. When barrel-heads were smashed in the bucket brigade turned from water to wine. Sacks were dipped in th& wine and used for beating out the fire Beds tvere stripped of their blankets and these were soaked in the wine and i liung over the expoied portions of the 1 :ottages, and men on the roofs irenched the shingles and sides of the iiouses with wine. The wine was effective and the plucky fire fighters saved their homes. A CHERRY SOLD FOB S105. Enormong Frieda l'aid For Frnlt From California. Philadelphia.?A single California iherry was sold at auction here for P105. A box of the fruit, the first of :his season's to arrive, was sold by a ocal commission merchant. Each :herry was offered singly. They sold :rom fifty cents to $103 each. The box realized $2440 for the sufferers. Boston.?Bostoniaus paid as high as ?15 each for California oranges at an luction sale of a carload of fruit for ;he fire sufferers. One small box, Holding eight oranges, brought tlie vecjrd price, $110, the buyers being Lov;11 Brothers. The carload netted $2181 !or the relief fund. Pittsburg.?California oranges which irdinarily sell for $2.50 a box brought ?200 at a sale in the Uniou Fruit Company's rooms. A total of 200 boxes ivere sold for $2542. This sum went to the relief fund. P0HCEMAN SHOT BURNING MAN Ended Misery of Snflfarer Caught in Wreckage. Los Angeles, Cal. ? E. Call Brown, mining engineer and geologist, of San Francisco, arrived. From the winlows of his room in the Argyll Hotel, )n McAllister street. San Francisco, ae saw strange and horrible sights nid more in the streets tiirousu tue Iiours which followed the earthquake. He said: "The most terrible thing I saw was the futile struggle of a policeman and 3thers to rescue a man who was pinned down in burning wreckage. The helpless man watched the flames approach in silence until the fire began burning his feet. Then he begged to be killed. The officer took his name and address and shot him through the bead." TRYING TO REUNITE FAMILIES Pathetic Scenoa and Act* of Humanity on All Side*. I Oakland, Cal.?The illimitable and almost impossible task of uniting families and friends is now occupying hundreds of persons. At fifty points registry bureaus have been established n r>r\ nttnnrHoH wlHl flflTifillH ilUU IUCOC C11C VIV? V4VW persons. Even with the registration bureaus in operation many persons are still unable to find relatives or friends. In many other cases reunions have taken place. THE COUNTRY'S GENEROSITY. Ban FrancUco Roller Fund Compared Wltli Several Other*. San Francisco (to date) ...$20,000,000 Chicago - Fire, 1871 5,000,000 Charleston Earthquake, 188G 650,000 Jacksonville Yellow Fever * Epidemic, 1888 515,000 Johnstown Flood, 1889.... 3,000,000 Galveston Flood, 1900 1,000,000 Paterson Flood, 1902 100,000 Earthquake and Fire's Aftermath. Every one received rations for a single person as many times a day as ho asked. Plain food of every description is plentiful and luxuries are begiuniug te arrive. A permanent sanitary camp for the Chinese left in the city has been established. Immense cattle trains to feed the refugees are rolling in from the prairies of the Southwest. Representatives of the Doe estate say their losses by fire are between $5,000,000 ana $u,uuu,uuu. The bodies of eighty-six patients and eleven attendants have been taken from the ruins of the insane asylumat Agnews. Persons of wealth as well as the poor endured the most heartrending experiences. One women told of drinking water from a gutter. The National Executive Council of Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners has donated $10,000 for the relief of San Francisco. The old Santa Clara Mission, one of the oldest landmarks in California, located midway between San Jose and Santa Clara, has been demolished. Several hundreds of bluejackets from the cruiser Bosto^ are unloading arriving vessels and loading the endless procession of wagons at the wharves. It will probably turn out that the net sum paid by the insurance companies will not fall much suort of $150,000,000; it may considerably exceed that amount. There are two items in the San Francisco news of brave and encouraging import: Lovers continue ta marry, and about as much is asked for corner lots as before the earthquake. "Black Pope" Dies in Borne. Father Louis Martin, general of the Jesuits, known as the "Black Pope," died at Borne, Italy. He had been suffering from cancer of the breast. Bonanza For Newsboys. The newsboys of Oakland are reaping a harvest, mauy of them cleariug $30 a day. The intervention of President Boosevelt in behalf of the Chinese bore fruit ouicklv. Minor Mention. Kentucky announces new oil discoveries in that State. It is proposed to widen the bed of Uie Kiel Canal, in Germany. The Chicago relief fund amounted to about live million dollars. The present population of Vienna, Austria, exceeds 1.800,000. The Spanish Claims Commission cost and awarded $SG,740. Publishers announce that there will be less books than usual this year. All the governments of Europe expressed -sympathy for the earthquaka sufferers in San Frauciaco. MOTHER SLAYS H.ER GIRLS Terrible Daed of a Termnled "Philad olphia Woman, Wri. Mary Fabm It111* ller Tvro DatiRli* ter? hikI Hernell ?Fal Ird in Plan to Exterminate the V?>ui]jr. Philadelphia.?Mrs. Mary I'ahm, for* tj-two years old, killed her two daughters, TillIe, sixteen years old. and Annie, twelve, and then committed suicide at her home, No. 3931 Wyaiusing avenue. Gas turned on by the woman ended the lives of all. Two sons, whom the mother planned should die by the same method, were saved Ly the father <Jf the family, who, awakened by the expiring gasp of one of the girls, aud detecting the suffocating fumes, carried the boys to the street. Harry Fahm, thirteen years old, was unconscious and hurriedly taken to the Pri?shvh?rlfin TTosnital. where it was said later lie had a fair chance of recovering. The other sou, Alois, fifteen years, did not quite lose his senses, but is ill from the effects of the gas at the hospital. That the act of Mrs. Falun was the outcome of a long nurtured plot to eud the lives of her entire family is the opinion of police aud Coroner's officials. Although the killing and suicide followed immediately a quarrel between husband aud wife, this domestic tiff, the police and neighbors say, was but tlie culmination of a demented woman's plan of extermination. Mrs. Fahm had been moody for a long time, and her actious on various occasions were regarded as suspicious, although sbe gave no real hint of preparing for the tragedy, which sbe evl uenny j:au oeeu pianmng. ivueu ruuiu returned home from his place of employment liis wife asked him for money with whicli lo buy shoes for the younger children. He refused and the woman became very angry. Mrs. Fahin lert her home next day to visit the grave of a child she lost some time ago and did not return until about 9 o'clock in the evening. She complained of fatigue aud went up stairs almost immediately upon her return. Fahm remained in the dining room, where he soon fell asleep on a sofa. Half an hour later, he says, his wife came down stairs and passed through the room, but did not speak to him. He believes that she waited until all her children had beeu asleep two or three hours before she turned on the gas and lay down herself to die. At any rate it was 3 o'clock a. m. when Fahui awoke to fiud the dining room tilling with gas. He opened tht- windows, thci ran up stairs and was almost, overcome by the ftimes which filled the house. He made his way to the bedrooms, opening windows ns hp wpnt. The two girls he found dead In bed together, nnd his wife lay lifeless in another rooui. Fahm notic-d (hat the boys were still alive and dragged both from bed and to the street. After iiiislng an alarm he and neighbors worked over them until an ambr.lance arrived. Mrs. Fahni left no letters bearing on ber act. PATROL SHOT RICH MAN. Major Tilden, While on Work of Mei> cy, Killed in San Francisco. San Francisco, Cal.?Major Heber C. Tilden, a hard-working relief committeeman, a member of Governor Pardee's staff, prominent in buaiuess and society, was shot and killed by six young members of the Citizens' Patrol while he was on a mission of mercy in his automobile. The Red Cross flag was flying on the motor car, and the Red Cross badge on Major Tilden's right arm. Three of the patrol were arrested by the police. They said, in excuse for the fusillade they opened on the auto, that they did not see the flag on the auto, and that Major Tilden, who was driving, did not halt the motor when they challenged. The three are E. J. Boyneton, au inspector of the Pacific States Telephone Company; George W. Simmons and Malcolm Vance, all young. Boyneton says that the auto kept on wheu they challenged it, then some one on the machine shot at them and Simmons and Vance replied. MARRIAGES FOLLOW DISASTER, Destitute Women Appeal to Fiances to Wed Immediately. Jan Francisco, Cal. ? Weddings In ^eat numbers have resulted from the recent disaster. Women, driven out of theiJ homes and left destitute, "have appealed to the men to whom they were engaged, and marriages have been immediately effected. Since the first day of the disaster an increase in the number of marriage licenses issued was noticed by County Clerk Cook. This increase is getting greater! On one morning seven marriage licenses were issued in an hour. Cook himself has been on duty much of the time, as has his deputy, Paul Wuthe, although no other business has .been transacted. "I don't live anywhere," is the answer given in many cases when the applicant for a liceuse is asked where his residence is. "I used to live in San Francisco." To Try Rojestvensky. Admiral Rojestvensky. of the Rus* sian Navy, was asked to stand trial with tfcj olfictrs of the Badori for surrendering that vessel. No Racing Hush Money. uovernor mftgins, ot new iofk, vetoed tbe bill increasing tbe percentage of tbe gross receipts of race meetings to be distributed among tbe agricultural societies, and deuounced tbe present law permitting at race tracks tbe gambling wbicb is a felony elsewhere. Steel Mills Crowded. Pittsburg, Ta., mills are reported to be so busy tbat it would be almost impossible to supply material for tbe '.rebuilding of San Francisco there. Stray Notes of tbe Disastor. Many persons dropeed dead of beat and suffocation. At least a dozen men were shot by soldiers for looting. Tbe military bandied the situation in a manner tbat called fortb praise from even the despairing. Money counted for nothing. The food supplies were as free for the pauper as for the Croesus. A few are cheerful in tbe face of great adversity. One party carried all they possessed in a blanket, the comers of which had been fastened together. - v- , .TA-f /' ' v;r&'-%7? ' ii 3.; i 4S | if "PE-RU-NA WORKED SIMPLY MARyELOUS" Suffered Severely With Headaches? n Unable to Work? Miaa Lucy V. McUivnej, 452 3rd At?h Brooklyn, N. Ywrites: "fm' ttiAmi mniit.nu 1 Buffered 86 verely from headaches and pain* in m '' the side and back, sometimes being m unable to attend lo my daily work. "2 am better, now, thankn to Peru.na, and am as active as ever and have no more headaches. "The way Per una worked in my case was simply marvelous," We have in our tils* many grateful tetters from women who have suffered with the symptoms named above. Lack of space prevents our giving more than one testimonial here. It is impossible to e7en -pproximate the great amount of suffering which Peruna has relieved, or the Dumber of women who have been restored to health and strength bv its faithful use. Hale's Honey of Horehound 1 1 T ana iar CURES | Hoarseness, Coughs, Colds and Sore Throat. ,The standard remedy used for generations., 25 Cents, 50 Cents, $1.00 per bottle; the largest size cheapest. I At all druggists. Refuse substitutes. PIKE'S TOOTHACHE DROPS CURE IN ONE MINUTE U???M?? Bible Open at "Thou Shalt Not Steal.'" A small cabin on the outskirts of ForestVille, occupieO by a young negro named Fred Davir, was broken into and ransacked. Lying on the floor beside a partly opened trunk were a small pocket Bible and the remains- of a taN low candle. The Bible was open and a large grease spot was noticeable below the words, "Thou shalt not steal." The supposition is that the burglars ran across the Bible and, in looking it over, were filled with remorse by the striking words and left without completing their work.?Hartford Courant. ? ? The demand for good butter on the world's markets is unlimited. So long as the quality is maintained an even and profitable price for butter can be secured. N.Y.?17. SAVED BABY LYON'S LIFE. Awful Sight From That Dreadful Complaint, Infantile Eczema?Mother Praises Cuticura Remedies, "Our baby had that dreadful complaint, Infantile Eczema, which afflicted him for several months, commencing at the top of hia head, and at jast covering his whole body. His sufferings were untold and coji stant misery, in fact, there was nothing | | we would not have done to have given him ; i relief. We finally procured a full set of the Cuticura .Remedies, and in about t-hree or four days he began to show a brighter spirit and really laughed, tor the first tine in a year. Jn about ninety days he was fully recovered. Praise for the Cuticura Remedies has always been our greatest pleasure, and there is nothing too good, that we could say in their favor, for they' certainly saved our baby's life, for ho jvas the most awful sight that 1 ever be1 *' 1. ~C (\,H_ held prior to me treatment ui wc vuwcura Remedies. Mrs. Maebelle Lyon, 1826 Appleton Ave.,Parsom, Kan.,July 18,1905." London's first Turkish bath under munici^Ai control was recently opened. American Ball* For Mexican Bullfights Texan bulls have never before been used in tbe arena, but Felix Robert has selected a few for a trial, and tbe light will be held Sunday. This will be the first time in the history of bullI fighting that American bulls have been entered for the bull ring, and aficionados are anxiously awaiting for the corrida. Perhaps the day may not be far distant when the American ganaderais may furnish bulls for Mexican rings.?Mexican Herald. CAN'T STRAICHTEN UP. Kidney Trouble Causes Weak Backs and Multitude of i'rfins and Aches. Col. R. S. Harrison, Deputy Marshal, no rv.r?mnn T.nke Charles. La., says: "A kick from a horse first weakened my back , and affected my kidbad and bad to go f The doctors told me Wi/^HilB Tronic rheumatism, but 1 could not believe tbem, and finIW ( B Doan's Kidney Pilla for uiy kidneys. First the kidney secretions came more freely, then the pain left my back. I went and got another box, and that completed a cure. I have been well for two years.'* Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. I. ' . ' " ' V ? . vjw-v. -