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** FOREST FIRES Sweet With Relentless Fury Over Parts of Montana and Idaho MANY PEOPLE PERISH ^ Devastation and Instruction Left in the Wake of the Flame*, Which Sweep Over Cireat I>intanc?s, Surprising Sleepers and Drive Them Prom their Homes. (Merciless and relentlessly the forest fires In western Montana and Idaho are sweeping over a vast ar<>a, - - * - ? ?- I...IMvoa 'r.nfn ro arivmg iunur?u? ui uv...<, them, destroying small settlements and wiping out of existence millions of dollars worth of property. Onehalf of the town of Wallace, Montana, has been destroyed, entailing a lost of 11.000,000 worth of property and thirteen lives. Elsewhere In the fire zone the situation has gone from bad to worse. The most eerlouB incident is rej>orted from St. Cos county, where 180 men encaged in the foresty service are missing and it is feared they have been burned to death. When the fire approached the camp where there were 2 00 men, two of the fire fighters took a horse and, riding the animal to death, rode from the camp and ordered a party which penetrated the fire line to bird creek. Eighteen of the men were found In the water, where they ?ad gone for safety, and were unharmed. From the remaining 180 men no word has been received. A relief train equipped with pack animals, has been ordered, carrying provisions and hospital supplies and will endeavor to get through the fire. About 1,000 refuges have been brought into Missoula, Montana. There is much distress among Lhem but their wants are being supplied by Missoula people and they have been gWen temporary homes. The first of the train came over the Northern Pacific Cour d'Alene branch hrmieht the natients who had left, the fire spreading rapidly and Wallbillig believes the camp was destroyed. There were 25 men in the camp. * I Fatal Knd of Ilout. Another death was added to the fatal boxing bouts at Philadelphia when Frederick Castor, twenty years old. died in the hospital after a sixround fight with Frank Sullivan Sullivan was committed to the Jail without bail to await the action of the coroner. been In the Sisters' hospital at Wallace and as many refusees as could find places on the small train. There were 250 on this train and a second train at noon brought as many more. These people came from the small towns along the line between Missoula and Wallace. Many * of them had been roused from their sleep. The people on the train were those whose summons had been the first intimation that the fire was near, as there had been no sign of it when they went to bed Saturday. In most instances these escaped only scantly clad. A woman who had fled from her home at midnight gave birth to a child in a box car ;}*iBt after the arrival of the first train at Missoula. Hospitals are caring for the sick. A dense pall of smoke hangs all over eastern Montana. In Missoula It was as dark as midnight at five o'clock, the dense smoke being given * lurid hue, which had all the semblance of the glow of fire, which was probably due to the sun. The towu of Taft, near the Idoha line, was entirely destroyed by fire before duylight Sunday . (Salter, Just below Taft. has been abandoned by its inhabitants and is known to be surrounded by fire. Do Borgia is seriously threatened and one man Is missing. At St. Regis the fire has crossed the river and threatens outlying buildings, though no feara are felt for the town ruarhan is reoorted deserted. The last word from there is that the fire is dangerously near and the telephone operator was preparing to flee. The area covered is roughly estimated at 100 square miles, most of It in the mountains and sparcely settled. It is difficult to obtain information from any of the points, and it is impossible to reach some of the isolated places at all. There is a probability that there has been serious loss of life, as there are camping parties and lumbermen all through the mountains, and tlie tire may have come upon them while they slept Saturday night or might have awakened Sunday morning to find themselves cut off from escnpe. Oeorge Wallbllllg and two companions reached Missoula Sunday night from Adair, a station al>out 200 miles west of Missoula. They left Adair Sunday morning on horseback. One horse was riddeu to death but the men got over the range. They say a car of dynamite and a car of oil at the construction camp near Adair exploded soon after they FRAUD IN HIGH PLACES ~ RAILROAD OFFICIALS ARRKSTKD FOR STEALING. Bl Rovm^ "Who Committed Suicide, Seems to Hare Been Connect*-*! With the Speculations. Three former executive officers of the Illinois Central company were ar- H rested Friday at Chicago on warrants in connection with the alleged frauds by means of which the railroad was defrauded, it Is said, of $1,500,000. The men were: Frank B. Hurrlman, formerly manager of lines north of the Ohio river; John M. Taylor, formerly general storekeeper B of the road. oi The warrants, sworn to by J. T. r* Harahan, president of the Illinois r* Central, charge the three men with conspiracy to cheat and defraud the ei railroad by false nretensees and operating a confidence game. B] Harriman and Ewing were taken ci to the Harrison street police station ?] Their bonds, $10,000 each, were t< signed by a professional bondsman, tl The allegations in the graft case are startling. The investigation be- e gan a year ago. It reached a crisis 9 last spring when President Harrahan c< began action to recover sum suid to w aggregate more than a million al- ?| leged to have been taken from the a railroad by car repair companies in p connivance with high officials of the road. Harrlman, Ewing. Taylor and U many others of less magnitude re- fi signed. . , a Much of the money is said to have CJ been repaid privately. The name of tl Ira G. Brown, who resigned the vice- lj presidency of the road to become the president of the Monon system, and a who was found recently at his home v with a bullet wound in his breast, n was brought into the scandal. w Murray Nelson. Jr., attorney for d the Illinois Central, said Friday that Hawn's death headed off warrants for him. Private detectives working under the direction of President Harrahuu, * are said to have unearthed frauds other than those connected with car repair bills. There are said to include the diverting of $1,000,000 or t< more from new construction funds. c< The investigators say they have pro- n cured several confessions which will tl bo used in their attempt to fasten u guilt on culpable prisoners. t> ? n WANTS TO GKT A DlYOltCK. it ti llushand Procured by Advertisement b Proves Cruel. After being tied down by the bonds * of matrimony eighteeen inonihs, dur- P ing which time the sunshine of hap- n I) in ess has frpnnpntlv Iwu.n a by clouds of turmoil and fits of an- M ger and brainstorms. Mrs. Kllen Mof- p tltt Dixon, a former pretty school P teacher of Marion, N\ C., Friday til- a ed suit at Roanoke, Va., for partial L divorce and alimony from her aged and wealthy husband. J. R. Dixon. While Miss Kllen 'Moflltt was drumming book sense into the heads -| of the mountain boys and girls of the Tar Heel State she grew weary of the calling of a pedogogue and advertised for a .husband. The eyes of the lonely Roanoker fell upon the ad t and a correspondence ended in mar- c riage. s Some months ago Dixon was tried in the police court on a charge of j assaulting his wife with intent to kill. He was acquitted. In the di- s vorce proeedings the wife alleges cruelty. The husband claims his j wife is not entitled to half of his es- j tate. Mr. Dixon Is now living at Lynchburg. t WEVIL IN ALABAMA. Expert Thinks Cotton Test Will Soon Get There. > That the boll weevil will be in Alabama this fall all tilings now indicate. If the pest makes as good time eastward as it did in Mississ- v ippi, last year, it will find lodge- n ment as far Into that State as Es- j cam bin county, across Mobile and | , Maid win counties, from the Mississippi line. However, it is more like- 1 ly that it will Ret no farter thau t: MolJiU'', Washington and Choctaw. 1 xhich is almost certain, if there is ' a late fall. This is the opinion of " W.L Pryor, expert weevil man of 11 the Department of Agriculture at Washington, who is in Alabama to M take up with the State otllcers the ' first work of elimination and pro- 1 tection. -v , 9 m V Two Women Drown. On Saturday afternoon near Columbia. Tenn., two youug women were caught in an undercurrent and v were drowned, while two young men r narrowly escaped death in an at- " tempt to rescue them. The accident happened on the Duek River, near 51 Duck Island. The dead are Mrs. ^ Virgo Patton, aged twenty-nine, of Jackson. Tenn., and Miss Christine Patton. aged twenty, of Santa Fc. Tenn. Virge Patton, husband of 3 one of the drowned women, and Eu- i gene Patton. of Rochester New York, 1 after ineffectuaul attempts to rescue the women reached shore in an ex- c hausted condition. n RUNS ASHORE ritish Cruiser Bedford Hits Rock off Korean Shore EIGHTEEN DROWNED y the Onrush of the Water after the Ship's Side was Pierced. .Japanese Battleships and Lighter* Go to the Kesoue, but the Salvage of the Disabled Ship i* Doubtful. Klghteen lives were lost when the ritish Cruiser Bedford ran ashore n thp rrvnlrc nf nunlt.net . wv?? vr? ^uvi^ai 1 imniia, l\w a, Sunday, according to the report iceived at I.ondoo by the admiralr. The men were members of the ngine room staff. The accident occurred during full peed trials of the vessel and the ruiser was evidently badly holed. Ince the deaths were stated officially 5 have been due to the iu-rush of le water. The Bedford Is an armored cruisr of the so-called "County" class of ,800 tons, completed in 1903 at a ost of $:>.530.000. She was armed rith 14 6-inch guns, had a rated peed of nearly twenty-three knots n hour and carries a normal comlement of 537 men. A dispatch from Tokio says: "Hurler details of the grounding of the iritish cruiser Bedford, which ran shore on the western portion of [uelpart Island Sunday shows that he vessel is seriously damaged and es in a had condition. "A number of Japanese warships ccompanied by lighters and salvage essels were dispatched from the earest station immediately, but rhether the ship can be salvaged is ouhtful. TIIF CKXTKIt OF POI'IT.ATIOX. k>lumbus, Indiana, Knjoy.s That Distinction. Columbus. Indianna, is the cen;r of population. It probably will mtinue to be in t-he vicinity of that tark' after the full developments of le thirteenth census bectuue known, nless the estimates of the census ureau officials fail. The returns eceived show a fairly even growth l all directions from the ceural point, the result of whicn mn?r e to leave the point in its present eneral neighborhod. Of all the southern stales, Texas 'ill make the best advance in her opulation, but Georgia also will i an if est a very creditable growth, s will the two Carolinas. The South rill continue to he the most Aiuerian section In that it will show the resence of fewer immigrants from broad than any other portion of the In ion. KNDS IN A FIST F1G1IT. 'wo Candidates Have a Ditliculty at I*ake City Meeting. 'Congressman J. K. Ellerbee, of he sixth district and. II. A. Ilodges, ne of the three candidates for hia eat, had a lively fist fight at the ongressional campaign meeting in ,ake City Saturday. Mr. Hllerbee detounced as a malicious lie. Hodges' tateiuent that fCllerbee was responihle for the circulation of an antilodges circular two years ago and lodges immediately struck Kllerbee, vho struck back. Ry-standers inerefered after a double interchange if hard face blows. WORK OF JIIiTKH 1.0TKI1 iui-M' F?tidl> Shot t?v Former tin.. pital Atendant. The man who shot and seriously rounded Miss Mary Culberson, a iurse at the Morganton, N. C. Insane lospital Friday night, is Jose]>h Upon. a former attendant at the hospial. He was discharged for unruly onduct two weeks ago. It is stated hat Upton was at one time engaged o Miss Culberson but the engagenent was broken by the latter a nonth ago. Miss Culberson's condition is such s to make recovery very boubtfui. t is probable that Upton, who atetnpted suicide after attackipg the ouns ladv will >' -'? ? . ? ** 1 I U1U Ills .ounds, All AKainfl Him. Heine sued tor a divorce by his kite and with all six of the children eported to he on the side of their nothor, Hunter James, aged ,r?8, of lorfolk, Va.. committed suicide. With shot gun he blew oft' the top of lis head. Many Soils Found. The soil surveys of the I'nited States government, carried on so far n L'rt States, have already shown '00 types of soil. Bringing these! oils to the highest efficiency will . onstltute on of the greatest fu'.'urej idditions to national wealth. * V CRAZED BY GRIEF MOURNING DEAD CHILI) MOTHER ENDS HER LIFE. She leaped from a Window to Her Death as Companions of Her Hab) Looked On. Mrs. Philiknina .Sincottr.. thirtyone years old. of No. 32 Havemeyer Street. Williamsburg, N. Y.. committed suicide under most pathetic circumstances late Thursday afternoon. The woman had been grieving over Lhp rlDafh a f ? * ? - ? ? mi i.e. umjr uuiiu, rVUBlt", five years old. who died three weekB ago. Kosie attended kindergarten Just across from her home. Her mother used to watch the child every morning as she crossed the street to the school, and Kosie and her schoolmates Invariably waved their hands to the mother before going to their studies. Since the death of the child Mrs. Sincotta has kept an unceasing vigil at the window overlooking the entrance to the kindergarten. The little children came and went daily, end each time they waved their hands to (Mrs. Sincotta. The smiling face of little Kosie was absent. Mrs. Sincotta brooded over her bereavement. Latterly, after the children have entered the kindegarten each morning. Mrs. Sincotta has been seen at her window weeping softly. Thursday afternoon the kindergarten was dismissed for the day. The children trooped out into the street, chattering and laughing. They spied Mrs. Sincotta at her post at the window and called to her. They waved their books and threw kisses. iThe woman waved her wet handkerchief as an answering signal. She watched the children for a few moments and then, by a strange Impulse, mounted the window casing and among horified shrieks from the children leaped to the street. She was crushed to death on the pnvement. Am ambulance surgeon said she died instantly. STARVING TO GAIN HKAVKN. Members of Queer Religious Seel Forced to Ilreak Fast. At Los Angeles. Cal., lying on pallets. too weak to move, detective.found in a arrovo bungalow, four members of a queer new sect, who wore deliberately starving themsel- i ves to death in anticipation of the end of the world. There were tw^ men. a woman and a girl of 16. They had tou<\hed a morsel of food for six weeks, and for the last ten days had not stirred from their couches on the floor of a room that had not been aired since the long fast began. Sunday night officers forced them to take their tirst nourishment?a pint of milk divided among the four. John Irvin O'Neill, one of the four, said he was the leader of the sect. whioJi he called I>iacipleB of the Holy Ghost, with the gift of tongues, and invited the curses of Heaven down on those who compelled them to break the fast. "The appearance of the comet was the sign of the end of the world," he said. "We are starving, because fasting will gain us Heaveen. and there is no better way of getting to Heaven than starving to death." His companions. Mrs. Nellie E. Doyle, aged 4 0. and James E. Butler. an old man. declared that they had willingly entered the death fast, but ti'e girl, Alice I'riffon. accordleg to the detectives, said she had been forced to starve and that she was quite willing to live. * Ill'ILNKI) TO DEATH. Her Husband Arrested Charged With the Crime. Alma Walker, 25 years of age, lies dead at her home, seven miles from Macon, Cla., fearfully burned, while her husband. William Walker, 10 years old, is in jail, chafed with having poured gasoline on her from behind while she was touching a match to a fire in the kitchen stove at 10.30 Saturday morning According to the evidence of a negro w..man, who helped to attend the victim before her death, the dying woman repeatedly raised up and cried, pointing to her husband, that "Will did it - he did it." * They Must Be Itml. I loriloc nf e"*?"u v?i uiw{iiiioi,n are interfering seriously with the work of constructing a telegraph line across the desert in the vicinity of Wilcox, Ariz. The summer rains formed a vast shallow lake in that vicinity wherein the mosquitoes have bred. The gangs of men are beset day and night and tho work is practically at a standstill. * .Money Wiw Stolen. Captain James .M. Parkins, of Vlorhead. N. C., cashed a $X00 check at Newbern, N. C., Saturday and returning home on the train fell as, leep. Train officials could not wake him when he reac.hed his destination I and brought him to Heaufort. His money was gone. v MANY ARE DEAD ? From the Ravages of Cholera Over in Russia and Italy. DYING BY THOUSANDS Over Fifty Thousnntl Have I>ie<l in Kunsia and the Hpideinic Haw InVaded Italy, Where the People, I'Hnic Stricken, ai*?> Fleeing for Their Lives to Other Places. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says one week's cholera record foi Husia shows 23,944 sew cases of cholera and 10,723 deaths, bringing the total number of cases in Rusia this year to 112,985. Of these 50.287 have died, the mortality percent being 4 4.5 I The figures are those furnished by a sanitary bureau covering the week from Aug. 7 to August 12, ininclusive. and are, therefore, fuly olfi clal. Reports from Red Cross societies indicate (hat the actual figures are somewhat greater, as it is a practicaly imposibility to register every case in an epidemic of such proposrtion The epidemic in St. Petersburg shows a considerable decrease only 265 cases and 138 deaths having been reported for the six days ending at noon Thursday in comparison to the57 cases and 233 deaths reported the 57 case.s and 233 deaths reported bhe previous week. The sanitary authorities of the city believe that from now on the epidemic will continue its natural decrease. The total figures for St. Petersburg since the first cases wi>ere reported June 20 show2,079 cases and 730 deaths. The mortality in the capital thirty five per cent, is much less than in the southern provinces owing to the beter hospital facilities and the experience gained in two years ago. Invades Italy. The epidemis of cholera which has broken out in Southern Italy is steadily increasing in the districts affected, particularly in the town of Trani, where the number of deaths already is more than thirty. The latest previous official report gave twenty deaths at Trani showing tht rapidity with which the disease is in creasing there. The epidemic is ot a virulent type and the death rate is high. Even graver danger is anticipated , trom the flying population of the In-1 fection districts, who may bear the germs of the diHease to regions not i yet Involved. Trani seems almost deserted as a resuP nf the panic, 20.000 of the residents, fuly one-half of the population, having fled the town. Fully as many have escaped from thee island town of Barleta. A dispatch from Home says that the rej>ort that the epidemic of cholera which has broken out in Apulia had spread to Home are emphatically denied. There have been no cases there and the general health better than at any time during the past ten years. Although the danger of infection is not felt there, the pope ordered the Lazareto of Santa Marta, built inside the Vatican by Pope Leo In 188f> during the great cholera epidemic at Naples, but never used because of the absence of cholera patients, made ready for any emergency. The hospital instead has been employed to shelter pilgrims. HARI> LI CK OF FARM HAM). Spent Twelve I>ays in a Well With Only Frogs to Kat. A #?#? ? l -? - nnuuuiiTiK a poie uurty l?*et below the surface of the earth and within three feet of eight feet of water for twelve days in an old, unused well near Hagley, a station on the Atlantic Coast Line, in Johnson county, N'. C.. a young German was found still alive and in the act of eat in g a frog. .Mrs. llattie Watson, whose farm is near Selma, N. C., and in whose employ the recent Importation from Germany was, sent him to Hagley. On the way he met with two men, who were apparently intoxicated. They threatened the German. Thoroughly frightened, he took to his heels to escape violence. 'For ten days a search had been made for the missing man, and the two men were about to be arrested for his supposed murder. A searching party oarehwsly looked down the well as they were passing by It and discovered the man. who had Hirrf iwt'ivt' Qiiys. lie nail fallen into the well and lodged on bhe cross pole After telling his story he lapsed into unconsciousness. * Saved by Little Girl. Ily savins the life of F. Thompson, of Atlanta, Ga., while "both were swimming in Lake Maxinku, at Culver, lnd., Friday, Isabel Fuller, aged 12, daughter of K. H. Fuller, of itirhmond, Va., became the heroine of the cottagers of the summer resort. Thompson is an expert swimmer, but he was seized with cramps * ^ . ., -.-i OLD MAN MUST GO CANNON TOO HEAVY A LOAD TO CAilltY LONGER. Iionicwortli Gives Out the Notice of Slaughter, Which Make** Uncle Joe Talk Out I'luinly. Reflecting the views of the adminj istratlon, it is said Representative Longworth of Ohio Rave out a statement in which he says he will never sunnnrl 5ru,ol>n? - , , - .inn viiiiiiLi again and do?*s not believe that Cannon ever :nn be re-elected. This is regarded ] as the actual beginning of a real tight against Cannon. "Mr. Cannon in -his speeches so far in his campaign and in reeenf declarations has made his candidacy for speakership an issue. I for one don't propose to dodge that issue," said hongworth. "I shall oppose Cannon's election as speaker and in the manner 1 consider proper. 1 made up my rniud before the adjournment of the last session of congress that Cannon could not be re-elected speaker and my opinion hus been strengthened since. "1 am absolutely convinced If there is full attendance at the Hepublican caucus that he cannot be again elected speaker. "I have a genuine affection for Cannon us a man and 'highest respect for him as having splendid fighting qualities. I have supported him five times for the speakership, but cannot do so again. "I repeat 1 shall oppose the re-election of Cannon to the speakership and 1 ain firmly of my opinion that his re-election is impossible." The fact that the statement wan given Immediately following a conference at the summer whitehouse regarding the plans for the coming congressional canu>aign is taken as indicating that President Taft and Vice President Sherman are behind the movement to eliminate Cannon. Speaker Cannon, when shown the dispatch from Heverly regarding the statement given out. by Representative Longworth, said: "Mr. Cannon declines to answer any statement which Mr. lyongworth I may or may not have made until he l 04WIO * * owo hi., i uu um. answer statements which I believe to be fakes that mischievous parties make. "It is time enough for me to answer the president of the United States if he has any statement to make touching on the Republican is in of the speaker of the house of representatives when he makes that statement under his own hand. I will not fight wind mills tilled by bree7.es blown from lungs of political or personal enemies, or cowards." CAIiIiKII KiiLKitllK'K BLUFF Where Those Telegrams and f>'tter* (' ame From. A correspondent of the Klngstree County Record says when "Congressman Ellerbe first started out on the campaign he dramatically waved a hunch of letters and telegrams over his head and said that f>,000 voters of the Sixth district, including lumbermen, merchants, lawyers, hoards of trade and farmers, had asked him to vote for a duty on lumber in violation of his pledge. He further said that anybody, including his cempetitors. was at perfect liberty to examine these papers, which of course was an Kllerbee bluff but his opponents called his bluff and got possession of his papers. They have been carefully gone over and acuraXely counted and instead ^ of the boasted L,000 there are ouly 14;t attached to the letters and tele prams and every one of them in the timber business or allied Interests. No* a single one from a farmer and ' orsumer of timber, aud very few * ;?m this .-"*.?te. Helping Their Krlenrl. A writer of the County Perord says "H. .1. Mcl.nurin, of S in.ter. 8. C.. secretary of the lumber association (lumbermen don't call It a trust, oh , no! ? is flooding the Sixth with his circular "To All Lumbermen" urging all lumbermen to votefor Mr. Ellerbe because he had serv<?! their interest so well by his vote against free lumber. Motorhoat Kxplodes. Near Lake Charles, La., Pauline Wood ring, six-year-old daughter of S. T. Woodring, a prominent lumberman. died Saturday as a resnlt of injuries received in the motorboat ft 1 c\a 1 n n in K" /"i? ^ . ... i..c v.?ii ?i?i?-u river, sevoral other people were seriously burned. They Can't Vote. Four hundred regular Republicans in Hurke county. N. C.. failed to pay their poll tax and are disfranchised this election, also 6!> doubtful voters, while not a I>emocratic ' voto will be lost in the county for the a samu reason. Fell Tliroujth Skylight. While in search of thieves in an oflice building at Roanoke, Virginia, Patrolman A. I> lliner fell througtv a skylight and was instantly killed.. , He w;is thirtj right years old. >" "4 jT /:\*J