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MANY VICTIMS re Tkta Tw? Hundred PerMU Believed to Have Perisked FIGHTING THE FLAMES 4 The Names of Many of Them Will Never Be Known.?Most all of Them Were Fire Fighters ami Only One Woman Is Known to Have Been llnrned. It is believed that more than 200 persons, nearly all fire fighters, perished in the Idaho forest fires. Superintendent Weigel of the Couer d'Alene National forest after erceiving many reports of disaster to various parties of his 600 employes, posted a bulletin in his office at Wallace, announcing the death of 114 of the men, and alBO stated his grave concern for the safety of Ranger Joseph B. Halm and 74 men who were surrounded by Are Saturday ; night In the forest on the Big Fork j of the Couer d'Alene river, near ' where another party lost 13 men. Halm was for four years the best ] athlete at the Washington State col- * lege at Pullman, a renowned foot- i ball and baseball player. The charred bodies of twenty fire .i fighters were found at Seltzer creek i in the St. Joe country. I Two hundred Japanese dragged s themselves to Avery, Idaho, and told \ of the death of their companions. 1 The twelve men. the employes of S the Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget i Sound railroad, had gone out to fight i fire and had been Burrounded by flames, only two escaping death. ? The rangers missing in the Thorn- ( on Fall country of Montana were * not heard from Wednesday. : The number of deaths in the State s of Washington was reduced to three, i All of these are in the Pond d'Orelie f valley near Newport. One of the victims, Mrs. Ernest Relnhardt, wife of a rancher, was the only woman who la known to have been burned to I .death. Nearly all of the dead were fire fighters. The wholesale loss of life pccurred Saturady afternoon and night when great numbers of men were striving to cnecK tne names. The names of many of the dead will never be known. When the groups of fire fighters were overwhelmed the camps were also destroyed. The clothes were burned off the bodies of the men and the bodies of the dead were often so charred that searchers stepped on them, thinking they were pieces of burned logs. The fire obliterated the trails and the burned country Is difficult to go through because of fallen trees. With the towns out of danger and the settlers fled to places of safety, the rangers were able to devote themselves entirely Thursday to the saving of the trees. Various fires were Isolated and will die out for lack of fuel. .In Montana rain and snow fell, checking the flames. In Spokane the 3un shone clear and even in Wallace the smoke cloud was lifted. No one ventures to estimate the financial loss as the extent of the burned area is not fully known. ACCUSED OF WRECKING TRAIN'S. White Fireman Arrested in Alabama. Vorrrn t Vtn foauou f At Birminghaam, Ala., W. H. Na- .? bore, a white fireman, living at Deea- t tur, Ala., was arrested Wednesday afternoon, charged with being implicated in causing three of the recent wrecks on that division of the | Louisville and Nashville Railroad. He was taken from his cab as the engine came in from the south. He denies the charges. Morris Brown, n negro, is said to have cpnfessed that f he caused the wreck of the fast mail ( train below (Montgomery a few weeks * ago. Several people were killed in 11 that wreck. m ^ , i REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. 1 i Will Be Held in Columbia on Sep- v teraber 26th Next. f It was decided Thursday afternoon ^ at the executive meeting of the Re- a publican party to hold a Convention r at Columbia September 26. It is 1 thought that several Important matters will be threshed out in the Con- 1 ventton, including, 11 is Deuevec, tne i elimination of the negro, following 1 lines indicated by President Taft. 1 Among those who were not pres- '? ent at the executive committee meet- i ing are: L. W. C. Blalock, who was < in the city, and John O. Capers, who I usually attends the Republican ses- i ions in this State. Several prominent Republican leaders In this State were in Columbia for the meeting. It was definitely decided to bold the t conference September 26. 1 Died in Mash Vat. v Peter Hell, a brewery employe, ? while preparing to mix a mash Frl- c day, fell into a vat of boiling water t and waa quickly scalded to death, n Ik.. _ j*#. SERVES THEM RIGHT DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED WITH REPUBLICANS REPUDIATED Bj the Democrats of Georgia, Who Elect Hoke Smith Governor Over Little Joe Brown. "CannoniBm" played an Important part In Georgia politics during the past several months and at the Democratic primaries Tuesday brought the defeat of Leonidas F. Livingston and William M. Howard, in point of service the oldest members of the Georgia delegation in the national hnnsp In the fifth district William Schley Howard, a young attornew. won a decisive victory over Livingston. In the eighth district the returns show a convention majority of four votes for S. J. Tribble and Wednesday Congressman Howard tiled notice of contest of the election. He charges irregularities at two precincts, in Elbert county, which gave Tribble a majority of four votes. The other nine members of the Georgia delegation in congress are assured of renomination. The tight against Livingston and Howard was. in each case, based upon their alleged desertion of the Democratic , party when it was sought last Dec- , ember to change the so-called Cannon rules of the .house. Former Gov. Hoke Smith won the nomination for governor over the j incumbent, Joseph <M. Brown. The popular majority of Smith in the ( State was approximately 4,000. Two | - ears ago Brown, whom Gov. Smith ( lad *' removed as chairman of the f state railroad commission, defeated smith for re-election by a popular . najority of more than 10,000. Among the few contests for other f state otllces, J. A. Perry won over ). B. Stephens for railroad comniis- s doner; M. L. Brittain defeated B. d. Settler for State school commia l iloner; T. S. Felder won over the ( ncumbent, H. A. Hall, for attorney t general. C NEW FORM OF MONEY ORDER. ' It Will Be Provided With a Detachable Coupon. 1 Announcement has been made at he Post office to the effect that the iepartment would issue a new form >f domestic money order In the near 5 future. A principle feature of this lew form will be a detachable cou- 1 pon to take the place of the advice 1 in the present slips, and which will 1 be presented with the money order 1 by payee or endorsee at the paying 1 iffice. It is stated that the names of the ' remitter and payee will not appear in the body of the order, but the sending of the coupon with the order ' will serve to acquaint or remind the 1 payee of the name of the person en- 1 titled to credit for the remittance, rhe order and coupon together are somewhat longer than the order low in use, but mny be handled con- < leniently with commercial paper by banks and business houses. The width is the same as that of the present order. , Beginning with the earliest date >n which the Government printer at ( Washington will be ready to print ' ind ship such forms, domestic, money s >rders of the new style will be fur- ? lished to all postmasters in the Unit- e ?d States. It is stated that the supply of old form domestic money or- I lers now in stock at the various post- c jfllceB in the country will be used up a lefore the new ones will be asked * 'or. It is expected that the new e dips will make their appearance in a his city on or about December 15. t ? ? a PKLZER WOMAN HIIOT. , c nfHtuatod .Man Attempt* Murder.? v v Committs Suicide. v At Knoxville, Tenn., pedestrians 1 >n South Broadway late Thursday ^ svening saw Henry Gardner, aged a J6, approach a woman, fire two shots it her then turn the weapon upon limself and commit suicide. Hardier is the son of a farmer living hree miles from the city. The woman he tried to kill was drs. Ellen Ball, who went to Knoxville less than a week ago from Pel:er, S. C., and previous to that re- 1 dded at Spartanburg. 8. C. The c voman was shot through one hand 1 tnd the lobe of one ear, and though r emoved to a hospital is only slightly e lurt. v Gardner fired two shots into his * eft breast and died almost instant- 1 y. He left a note stuting that he * lad rather die than live without the ' voman, adding that she had gone tack on him. Gardner's friends sup>ose he met the woman in South Carolina, where he had been work- o ng, and that he had become Infat- s lated with her. y m m m b Preacher Stole Watches. 3 According to his own statement ^ he Rev. August Heuberlch, formery pastor of a German Lutheran hurch in Middleburg, Ohio, stole 17 patches and $lj in currency from t tudents of Eden College. St. LouIb fi ounty. Mo., in order to raise money E 0 attend a conference of the Ger- T -jan Evangelical Synod. o u TRAGEDY WAS REAL MIMIC DRAMA GIVES RISE TO A MURDER CHARGE. Rival in lyove Placed a Shell in (he Shot Run to be Used to "Kill Another Player." Jacob Winkler is dead in Muskogee, Okla., and L. D. Booker is in jail, charged with placing a shell in the iron thnt whs nsert hv Kvorolt Olden in a play in the Stone Bluff sthoolhouse. Olden declares the gun he used was not leaded a fewseconds before he took it to the stage for he examined it in the dressing room. Later Booker handed him the weapon and the fact that it was loaded became evident only when his slaving partner fell dead with a load of shot In his breast. Booker advised Olden to surrender to the Fherih* but instead of Olden, Booker was placed in jail, for it became evident that he was a rival to Winkle" in the suit for a young woman's hand and that the two young men had quarreled. T.he audience was intent upon *110 Bcene, wherein, at the cli"k of the trigger on the shotgun, Winkler was to fall to the Hoor. When the climax of the scene was reached Olden raised the weapon level with Winkler's breast. Olden fell back in the same affright as the audience when an explosion reverberated through the little hall and Winkler wan sent reeling half across the stage with a rliarge of buc't?f 01 .11 his bodj. The entertainment ended abruptly. Winkler's father has been active n obtaining evidence to prove his ion was the victim of a plot. Broker took Olden to Jail at Wagener. idvising him to surrender to the sheriff. Olden, however, was rot uacea in jail and Winkler's rel.i'lves nade no complaint against him. The oroner's jury arrived at a ve'dlct hat Winkler's death was due to "'ne iccidental discharge of a shotgun in he hands of Olden." ADVENT OF RUSSIAN FISH. Louisiana Fishermen Have Chance to Put Caviar on .Market. Numbers of the so-called "Rusilan" sturgeon, the fish that have >een the source of millions of dollars evenue to Russian fishermen on account of the roe. which provide the world's markets with caviar, are now n the Mexican Gulf, according to rejMjrts received by the game and iish commission of Louisiana. The migration of these fish into waters iltheito uninhabited by them seems unextpl&inahle, ,but this movement low is putting hundreds of dollars nto the pockets of Louisiana fishermen. CRAZED MAN SHOOTS TWO. >pens Fire on Passengers of Union Pacific Train. Harry Pouh, of Niagara Falls. N. if.. l?ecame insane on the Pullman ar of a Union Pacific train, near CI lis. Kan., early Friday and fatally iliot the porter, named Young, and t passenger named Temple of Kan.as City, Mo. Pugh shot through the end of his ?erth into the smoking room. The ar porter ran towards Pugh's berth ind was shot twice throug-h the >ody. I)r. H. H. Temple, who was nroute from Denver with his wife ind child sprung into the aisle amt 'ugh shot him twice through the bdomen. The conductor and brakemen then verpowered the passenger and he vas placed in jail at Ellis. Temple vas taken from the train at Ellsvorth, unconscious, apparently in a lying condition, and placed in a hosdtal. Young was taken to Kansas 3ity. Pough is about 28 years oid ind of prosperous appearance. WOMEN SAVE SHERIFF. Yife and Daughter Rescue llim from Murderous Negroes. Sheriff Thomas R. Shipp, of Decaur. Ala., was saved from a murder>us attack of six negro prisoners in he county jail Thursday by his wife nd daughter. The negroes attemptd to lock the sheriff in a cell and he vas in a fight with them, hand-toland. with his life in danger, w.hen no iwu women ran in wun a shot;un and a revolver. They forced the legroes to surrender. Shoots Ilia Mother. Mrs. Robert Thompson, aged 3 2, if Pittsfleld, Pa., Wednesday was hot and killed Instantly by her 12ear-old son, Dewey. The boy had ieen presented with a rifle and was howing his mother how he would ;ill a burglar. Freezing in Wyoming. A bitter cold wind and temporaure below freezing drove thousands rom the ground* at the Frontier < ay sports at Cheyenne, Wyo., on 1 hursday, and caused posipomnent I f part of the progrnas. i WHAT CENSUS SHOWS t RACK SUICIDE IN THE COUNTRY AN ACTUAL PACT. The Increase in Population Is Solely Due to Immigration.?Decrease In Rural Districts. Race suicide is the dominant exhibit in the new census. It is true that the country's population has in creasi-a, irom <t>,uuu,uuo to approximately 90,000,000, but the increase has been almost solely due to immigration. In former decades the average increase in internal population was 21 per cent. It has now fallen ofT to six per cent, and in another 10 years will probably show a decrease. This is the reason census officials see in the contrast cause for alarm similar to that which confronts France. Such growth as the country has enjoyed in the last ten years has been largely due from immigration, according to these returns. The vital statistics of immigrants do not, of course, enter into the general findings in this respect. They l>ea "n an important way upon them, how! ever, considering that immigrants may be classed as natives after ten years; and the general tendency ,o apply to them beyond that period as well as to those of older residence. iThere was a gross population in 1900 of 76.000,000. The present estimated total is 90,000.000. Out of the 14,000,000 increase 9.000,000 came from immigration. This make* 5,000,000 as the natural increase from those who were in the country in 1900. Another remarkable showing of the present census is the growtn of cities at the expense of rural districts. Many of the small cities- showincreases above 50 per cent. For e< ample, Atlanta, Ga? shows 72; Fast St. Louis. 97; Akron, O., 02, and Detroit, 63. About 40 nor cent nf 11.? ne:.i?i-> tion is city dwelling. Returns Horn rural districts are not yet ready for tabulation, but so far as tnev have iieen examined they show, save in two states where local conditions account for an increase, a positive falling off from the population of 1900 Averages calculated from rural .lis tricts taken at random figure out a decrease of about 1 1 per cent INDIANS Itl< II I'UOI'LK. They Have Twenty Thousand Hollars i*er Capita. At Pawhuska, Okla., on Thursday testimony was given before the Congressional committee investigating Indian affairs that each of the 2,090 Osage Indians is worth $20,000, which, upon a per capita basis constitutes the richest people in the world. As their property is held in restriction by the government the Indians have used a great many lawyers. it was stated. One attorney testified he represented 22 claimants, who demanded that the government place them on the Osage rolls, thus giving them the right to twenty thousand dollars' worth of property. The wealth of these claimants, if they are successful, would amount to four hundred and sixty thousand dollars. ! Another attorney testified he had i been employed to oppose the claims I on Hie ground that if allowed they would decrease the wealth of the i Irll.a ? - 1 ? * nu Miit-j s ires were paid to 1 keep the Indians off the rolls and t fees were paid for putting them on. DKSI'ITK HK.If IH TIKS. The I'se of < 'ot ton Seed Displaces flie I'sc of Oli\e Oil. American cottonseed oil, despite 1 the high duties against it, is steadily ' making headway in the markets of ' the world. Through the efforts of ' the bureau of manufacturers of the ' department of commerce and labor, 1 some packers of sardines in France * and Norway have promised to begin 1 experiments in packing tish in the ' American product instead of olive ' oil. Italy is able to undersell Spain * in the olive market, a report to 1 the department says, but Spain pro- ' hit"* the importation of cotton seed as ,.n edible. while Italy promotes if. The domestic use of cottonseed oil in Italy, as well as in Turkey, causes 1 nearly all the native oil (olive) to he exported. Superceded, He Knds Life. 3 Driven into a state of despondency J by the fact that after 22 years of < faithful service in one position in a 1 Memphis, Tenn., department store, * he had been superceded 'by a new 1 man, Frederick W. Ives, a widely t known dry goods salesman, commit- 1 ted suicide there Krirtav hu '"If'"" I - - - - morphine tablets. ? f Found Ib>y Killed. E No trace has been found of the * kidnapper and murderer of Peter Kahish. four-year-old son of Frank Kabian, an Italian, at Kingston, N. Y. The boy'a body was found Thurs- ti jay In an outhouse at the rear of his i tome, cut and strangled. He had c jecn dead but a ahort time, although * nissing since last Friday. I Hfch. M3, i v ' * T "* SERIOUS CHARGES SIBLEY, WHO SOl'CJHT PLACE IN OONGKKSS, ACCUSED. Great Sum Spent for Nomination.? Warrant Accuses Ilim of Comspiracy to Dclvauch the Voters. Joseph C. Sibley, who withdr* v as a candidate for Congress on the Re publican ticket in the Tyenty-eighth Pennsylvania district, was arrested late Tuesday night on a warrant charging 'conspiracy to debaitc.i voters." Sibley uefeated Congressman N. P Wheeler, for the nomination ana ujK)n tiling a declaration of $i2.5n0 election expenses, an audit of Sibley's account was ordered by the courts. Sibley was released on his own recognizance to appear before Justice of the Peace Perry, at Warren. Pa., on August 2 6. The arrest of Sibley came a few hours after he had announced his withdrawal from the Congressional race. According to his own flguies tiled in obedience to the legislative act requiring a public statement of a candidate's expense account, Shibley spent $17,000 in Warren county to secure his nomination and in the entire district, $4 2,500, which, according to population, averaged $4 per vote. In the warrant under which Sibley was arrested, three other prominent politicians in the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania district are charged with debauching voters. They are Charles Crandall, I). M. Howard, and George M. Dunn. THAT SIX PKK CKNT. TAKE. Charleston Kxclinnge Opposes the New Cotton haw. We learn from The News and Courier that the nieluhers of the Charleston Cotton Exchange are almost unanimously opposed to the carrying out of the law parsed at the last session of the Legislature, whereby all cotton sold in t It is State may be covered with bagging to the extent of 6 per cent. tare. The opposition to this law took definite shape at a meeting of the board of directors of the Cotton Exchange in a series of resolutions. The legislation in the resolutions is denounced as "unwise and injurious to the cotton interests of this port." and the "excessive bagging contrary to all the rules and regulations of all cotton exchanges, both domestic and foreign." The resolutions passed by the board of directors of bhe Cotton Exchange folfolws: Whereas, the Legislature of this State has enacted a State law that all cotton 6<>ld in this State may be covered with bavging to the extent of 6-per cent tare thus making a aOO-pound bale entitled to thirty pounds of bagging; and Whereas, said excessive bagging is contrary to all the ruleB and regulations of all cotton exchanges, both foreign and domestic, and such excessive tare will be charged to the buyer of the cotton, making the business a severe loss in its inception; and Whereas, in our opinion, such a law is only attempting to sell bagging costing 3 1-2 cents per pound as cotton at an average price of 12 to IS cents; be it Resolved, that this Exchange condemn such legislation as unwise and Injurious to the cotton business of this port. GAVK HIM IT FOR DEAD. The Husband Comes Hack and Finds His Wife Married. After being mourned for dead for , Tour yeari, Samuel Stephens came hack to life and to his wife at inlianapolis, Ind., last week, to Hnd her the wife of another, known to her friends and neighbors as Mrs. William Hall, 24 Hashrook street, lust before .Mrs. Stephens was arraigned on a charge of bigamy, made hy the police. Stephens went to th-> riome and took away with him a ion. aged (1, who was a baby of 2 ( *-hen his father left him. Stephens hen disappeared. , CHA1U.F1> WITH AlUSOW I k'oung White Man Alleged to Have Been Guilty, ^ Clarence Gregory, a white boy, 17 rears old, ha? been lodge in the i 3iiai launuiK county jail on the I harge of arson. It is alleged that i le set fire to a barn on the place i ?f Lewis Dean. While a small barn < was burning and all of those on ' .he scene were lighting to keep the 1 Ire confined there, some saw a white < >oy running from the larger ba?-n < ind in a few minutes it blazed up I ind was destroyed. While the per- i ion was fleeing several shots were ired at him. Fell to 11 In IN*ath. , Rev. Dr. William Vail Wilson Da- 1 is, prominent Congregational min- i ster of Plttsfield, Pa., and father i >f William Stearns Davis, author, i ias killed Friday by falling over a t edjpG at Qaah Bish falls, Mass. 1 J - y Wl?. v ' (WAR TO THE END Teddy Declares That He is in the Political Fight to a Finish WILL SHOW NO QUARTER He Says He I realizes that He >li?y ^ Il?> IM'foaltHl aixl Ouit He Jeeopttrdi/.cs the Smws of the Kepnbliean Party in tlie Suite, hut ThereCan Il?% Xo Compromise. Theodore Roosevelt served notice Wednesday that he would wage war without quarter on the "old guard" of the Republican party in New York State.. Having been druwn into the fight, as he says, against his will, he has determined to pursue it to the end, win or lose. Mr. Roosevelt's attitude was indicated more clearly than at any time before by a statement which he issued. The statement follows: "They will have all the fight they want. 1 am only going to the convention because 1 feel that the pubI lie interests, the interests of the people of New York demand that the Republican party be given a chance to stand squarely and uncomprisingiy for clean, decent, honest polities. "1 go to that convention to make the speech as it had been planned originally, and while l hope there will be enough good sense to prevent any one opposing the princi- Vifcj pies for which 1 shall stand yet if they do oppose them, then it is their own affair and so far as I am concerned the issue shall be abeolutely clean cut." 1 The colonel said he was going Into J the fight with his yes open, and with 1 full realization of the fact that he A might be successful He said he felt fl that, on account of the attitude of members of the organization he was H at perfect liberty to carry on un- H compromising warfare. |B Some of Col. Roosevelt's closest. friends in the State have told him H they were doubtful as to the out- ^ come, and .he has replied that he himself thinks that even though he should be successful in the State convention at Saratoga and such a platform as he desired should be adopted. the result of the election would i be In grave doubt. The colonel has I told his friends tJiat he did not feel sure that the Roosevelt-Hughes fore- 1 en would receive unqualified suppott from the organization at the polls. J Col. Roosevelt's Indorsement of State Senator Frederick Davenport. e was the first step in the fight which he expects to carry on from now until election time. He decided today to go to the State fair in Syracuse Septemebr 17 to speak and at that time may talk politics. He probably will make a number of other speeches, both before and alter the State convention. Vice President Sherman, who is one of the central figures in the Btrugglo, and whom Col. Roosevelt opposed by his endorsement of Senator Davenport said emphatically he would not talk about the situation. Senator Davenport called on Col. Roosevelt Wednesday to talk over the present situation in his district. Col. Roosevelt was not willin v to oav " W? ? - w.j mini tuuciuHion iney reached. What Barnes Says. Wm. Barnes. Jr., Republican leader of Albany, and of the 'old guard', who selected Vice President Sherman for temporary chairman of the State Convention over the head of Theodore Roosevelt, was in New York Wednesday and gave out a statement Wednesday, part of whicn follows: "When Mr. Griscom interjected Mr. Roosevelt's name as a candidate for the temporary chairmanship, without the members of the Sta'e committee knowing where Mr. Roosevelt stood on the issues, now before the people, in New York state, and after the Vice President had t>eun placed in nomination befoie that committee, thereby forcing the issue, which it was not the intentlrn of the committee to create, he simply threw a firebrand in the Republican situation, entirely unwarranted and for what purpose it Is not for me to say." "It Is therefore highly sensible," he continued, " on the part of Mr. Roosevelt, if he hopes to control the policies of the Republican parly in mat state that ho should go to the Convention as a delegate and there thrash out what he thinks aught to he the policy of the party with those who have different oplulons from him. It is assumed, of course, that he will abide by the decision of that Convention, as will those who oppose him there, If -he is successful." ^ Children Horned to l>eath. Two children were burned to death ind a third was fatally injured near L,ake City, Fla., late Thursday night, when the houpe of John Fleet, a farner, was destroyed. The children were left to care for the house while he elder members went visiting. I he cause of the fire la unknown. , ifaiT n . .