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LOSS OF LIFE la the Forest Fires of Idaho and Mootaaa is Appalling MANY HUNDREDS DEAD Kires Swept Through Forest With Such Speed That None ('oulil Ks^ cape. More Than Two Hundred Persona Perish in Idaho Alone.? Property Lovt OtiO.OOO.OOO. If the stories of men who returned last Friday from the St. Joe country are to be believed, tne lose 01 me along Big Creek, r tributary of the St. Joe river, was appalling and the dead in Idaho alone will number more than 200, even if Ranger Halm and hie 84 men turn up, of which the forest officer in Wallace is not hopeful. All estimates of the financial losses place it at over $20,000,000, mostly in timber. Supervisor Weigle has given hope for the safety of Ranger Halm and 84 on the headwaters of the St. Joe river. Ranger F. A. Herns, at the head of a still larger party on the St. Joe. is safe. The loss of life occurred mostly last Saturday and Sunday week, when a gale fanned smouldering embers into great fires and drove flames through the mountain with the speed of an express train, giving fire fighters no chance to tlee for their lives. None of the town in Idaho and Montana is now in danger and the critical period is passed. With 86 employes of the forest service known dead and grave fears felt for a number of others who are missing, headquarters of the Couer d'Alene forest service at Wallace. Idaho, is anxiously awaiting news from the relief expedition sent to rescue Ranger Joseph R. Halm and 184 men who have not since been heard from when they were on the headwaters of the St. Joe. With the opening of the Chicago. Milwaukee and Budget Sound into the St. Joe valley, discouraging news is beginning to come out. it appears I mai nuu men were ai worn on nig Creek last Sunday when th?* wind blow flames through the canon. Apparently truthful accounts of the loss of 4 7 of the men were received Friday. These deaths should not be confused with the losses reported from Avery. Near Avery 4 7 bodies have been "found and 10 Jupanese, four negro soldiers and an unknown number of settlers are missing. Sixty-five men, natives of the Mediterranean country, arrived in SpokLa ane from Big Creek and said 1 T? Austrians and two American choppers were burned to death last Saturday week. From the story of the survivors it appears that these victims were working at a point farther up the creek than the 30 Italians already reported dead. The Austriana were undertaking to back fire but their work was so unsuccessful that they were killed by the Are they themselves had just lighted which ran back on thein and drove them against a wall of flames advancing from the opposite direction. The towns along the line of the Columbia and Puget Sound, a short coal road, are in greater danger than those along the Milwaukee iine. The Columbia's agent at Tailor reported Friday that the fire was within 700 yards of the town. He added: '"Two nouses on the outskirts were "burned last night. Wind blowing hard. When flres get into heavy timber above here nothing can save he town. Worst is yet to come." The Columbia & Puget Sound sent a passenger train to Tailor Friday nLght and is holding it there ready to bring out the people. Tailor is a town of 600 population. Warden Simons received the following telegram from Ranger Stone at Moncon, on the line of the Milwaukee: "The fire here is from one to three miles wide. Need all the help I can get. Can not keep lire back. Loss to personal property great and possibly some lives lost." Warden Simons has telegraphed to the navy and war departments asking that the forts and warships on Puget sound lire all their big guns at 8 o'clock Saturday morning in the hope the detonation will start a general rainfall over western Washington. * Killed by Fanatic. Claiming that he is sanctioned and incapable of committing a crime, (J. W. Maynard of Piggot, Ark., holiness leader is awaiting hearing here on a charge' of murder i linle concern. Maynard. it is claimed, clubbed his neghbor. Sol Townsendf with whom he disagreed, to death several days ago. He does not deny the killing. % Tired of Living. At New Hritain. Conn., with a note reading "I'm tired of living" pinned to his clothes, the dead body of .lacob J. Strobe!, ajted 36, was found lying across his mother's gruve in a Fairview cemetery. He had taken TRAGIC STORIES thosk who escai'k tell ?#f flames fiekce blast. Some of the Awful Tragedies Exacted in the Fire Zone Keel led by Survivors. letegrapntc communication wit a the St. .loe Valley of Idaho hi? been restored, but it is not yet possible to verify the reports r.f U?r--e U as of life among fire figb'.e s. addit oual to the C" report^-! ??v the goxesnment officials. The estimate of '200 dead in the three States is adhered to by those most familiar with uie situation. Tragic stories are neing told by arrivals from the fire zone in Idaho. George Ryan of Toronto, Can., one of the :10 men imprisoned in Ws Kugle mine Saturday night, where six perished, said Friday: "There were 7.r> of ?s inder Ranfer Pulaski. We first took re.'uge in the tui nel of the J. 1. C., mi.ie . ut it was not safe and after we had been I here a short time, iiO oi -in went down the ereek a quarter of a mile to t.he War Eagle. 1 don't know what became of the sest of the men. We took horses into the * tnne! Pulaski told up to lie as close *o the floor of the tunnel as we couid, or close the wall. We tried to liloek up the entraee of the tunnel with blankets, but the fire burned them off as fast as we put them up. "The flames licked up I feet from the mouth like a blast. The smoke was suffocating. "About an hour and a half after we had been in the tunnel, Pulaski lost consciousness. "Two men who got seared rolled around in the middle of the tunnel instead of keeping by the edge or on the floor and they died across my knees. "Nearly all of us during the six .lours were lying in water that dropped from the roof and walls of Lite tunnel. "When the fire finally passed and the tunnel cleared a little nearly half of us were unconscious. The eyes of the others were gummed together from smoke and tears so that we could hardly open them. Five were dead. "We found a sixth man, burned to a crisp, but we don't ku >w what became of the others. The two hoises were nearly suffocated and their eyes were falling out of their heads. We had to shoot them." George Biberon, owner of a mine on Placer creek, southeast of Wallace, who reached safety Friday, said the number of dead would never be known. He continued: "Harvey Bertram, a deputy ranger, had nuch difficulty in holding all his half crazed men. Believing they were being trapped, one or two of his party threatened to commit suicide. At times Bartrant was able to control them only at the point of a revolver." FATAL STHKKT Dl'KL Two Men Slioot Kuril Other and un Innocent Man. At Chattanooga. Tenn., Boyd Thompson, a prominent young Court reporter, was shot and fatally wounded. and William Snyder, the other principle in the duel, will die as a result of his injuries. The shooting occurred on crowded Market street, the main business thoroughfare. Charles llensley. a lawyer, of Duytou. I ;i pedestrian, received a slight wound from a stray bullet. The trouble is t.he result of ail oid grudge. Ten days ago Thompson iired three shots at Snyder within a block of the scene of the tragedy. AH the shots went wild. The two men have been anticipating further trouble since. In Friday night's affray ten shots were tired and a panic followed. Alter Si vder had emptied his pistol at Thompson, the latter staggered to a drug store. Snyder followed, reloading bis pistol as he ran Thompson fell to the sidewalk. Synder leveled his gun at the prostrate form, but b> -slanders interfered and wrested the pistol from Snyder. All three of the wounded were | hurried to a hospital, but there is no hope for the recovery of either Snyder or Thompson. The former received three bullets and the latter four. * Siv ('IftiitT'pii YV it 1% Min'loo Alonzo Gray, Roy Merrick, l.uther and Mart Creekmur. Vilas Mitchell and Frank Murphy, all pron; m-nt citizens of I.yon county, were brought to Hopk insville. Ky.. Friday night for safe keeping. They are charged with the murder of Axien Cooper, at Lamasco. and were denied bond b> Judge Hanherry at Kddyville. Meet After l.ong Years. William ii. James, aged 70 and a former governor of Nebraska, and his brother. Walter .lames, aged 73. a resident of Los Angeles. Cal., met in Seattle. Wash., last week, but had to be Introduced to each other by the hotel clerk. They parted 51 yeais ago. ATTACK ON LYON The Meeting at Laurens on Friday Was the Scene of Disorder PISTOLS WERE DRAWN Ami Thiuxs Looked Squally at One Time, but Matters Were Quieted Down, and the Meeting Was Hesunied.? Lyon I>efende?l Himself. Did Not Itefer to Crews Again. With the end of the campaign in sight the ttrst real excitement oc- ( curred at Laurens on Friday. While , J. Fraser l.yon was addressing the , big crowd J. T. Crews. Henry Wright ] and otJiers mounted or tried to mount , the speaker's stand "to get Lyon. Attempts were made to strike the attorney general, none being success- ( ful. For about five minutes the excitement was intense. Friends of Lyons and of the Crews , brothers crowded toward the stand. Mr. Lyon had been speaking but a few minutes when the trouble occurred. Mr. Lyon in opening his speech told that he was "on Laurens soil" to reply to an editorial in , the Lanrensville Herald accusing him of dishonesty. He went 011 to say that he was prepared to prove 1 the editorial maliciously false in that part referring to his character. He , charged W. T. Crews with being responsible for this editorial. While Mr. Lyon was speaking W. , T. Crews, his brother or some one , standing with the two men ami their friends near the speaker's stand called: "Head those otJier letters." | Mr. Lyon replied, "I am going to ( read all about you." I .1. T. Crews then leaped on the . stand with others, standi) g near. ( Crews tried to strike Mr. Lyon, but , was caught before he could reach , him. Mr. Lyon was awaiting the f attack with fists clenched. Henry ( Wright had not succeeded in mount ing the stand but cursed tin* at tornev general, who at once tried to ^ strike him, hut being unable to reach | him landed a kick in the neighbor- : horhood of the stomach. :{ My this time the whole grove was t in utter confusion. A few half drawn f revolvers were seen and tragedy N seemed imminent. People rushed on j t.he stand, friends of the Crews bro- | titers tugging to join in the attack. ,, while friends of Mr. Lyon pushed t their way through the crowd to reach f his side. s Citizens and policemen mounted r the stand for a few moments vainly j sought to restore order. John I . | Molt, clerk of court and It. A. Coop- ? er, county chairman, implored the * crowd to return to their seats. The pleas of these gentlemen Anally quelled the riotous attitude. Mr. Molt conferred with Mr. Lyon and announced that in order to in- ' sure a peaceful continuation of the meeting Mr. Lyon had consented not to make further allusions to W. '1. Crews. As 'Mr. I.yon renewed his speech cheers for Lyon and Cre?v? were given. My this time the crowd was seated and the critical situation in a great sense relieved, serious trouble haling been averted by the quick action of Messrs. Molt. Cooper, and others. A policeman with his hand on his revolver took his seat on the steps of the stand and there remained until Mr. Lyon concluded his speech. Mr. Lyon, resuming his speech, said he had stood for his personal nonor when it was assailed and would continue to do so. He said he was peaking to the honest people of Ijnurens and expected them to hear hiin. He said he had been attornex general for four years and would be for two more. A voice from the crowd cried, "Not if you have anybody running against vou." He then told how he had erred South Carolina as attorn< > general. He made no reference to ICvans in his speech. Closing, he said he expected the support of the est people of Laurens. lie was cheered by many while speaking and vas heartily cheered and applauded when he closed. It. IV Kvans opened his speech by -ailing Mr. Lyon names he probably has not used heretofore when Mr. Lyon was present. WhVn he said Mr. Lyon was "an infamous liar" the ittorney general came back to the stand and said to Chairman Cooper: I wont stand for that.' saying be intended to resent it. Mr. Cooper begged Mr. Lyon not to do so and then told Kvans he would have to use parliamentary language, reminding hint that Mr. Lyon had not referred to him. Kvans was hissed and in the additional excitement he was unahle to ontlnne for a short while, lie finally finished and was cheered by sonte. The above account of the unfortunate agalr was furnished the State by its campaign correspondent. Many Out of Work. Fifteen thousand employes of. the Vmoskeag Cotton Manufacturing Company of Manchester, N. 11., was thrown out of work when seventeen mills closed down for fifteen days, owing to curtailment of production. I WILL BE FINE SHOW SAYS J. I,. MEEK, OF THK SOUTH KR>* RAILWAY. He Discusses the Appalachian Kvpovi t ion Whieli Will lie Held et Knoxville. Tenn. "It will be a great show," says Assistant General Passenger Agent J. L. Meek, of the Southern Railway, at Atlanta, who had just returned from Knoxville where he attended a. meeting of 32 officials and represen- I tatives of the passenger department of the Southern who inspected the buildings and grounds for the Appalachian exposition to be held in the east Tennessee <;ity, September 12 to October 12, and studied all conditions looking to the handling of th? large crowds which are expected to attend. i "Every arrangement has been made for one of the best expositions i the south hns ever had." said Mr. 1 Meek. "There will be something doing to interest, amuse, and instruct Rvery visitor. The show will ire a great advertisement for this section as thousands? will come from the north and west to see the displays of southern products and the people of the south will learn much of interest concerning their own section. "The live stock building will be of particular interest as will be those 1 devoted to forestry, woman's work, the products of Knox county, the exhibitits to be made by negroes and the main building, which will house the general displays. Tire poultry show will be one of the best ever seen. For the races the first week $10,001) in prizes lias been offered, which ensures tine sport. The Wright brothers in feats of aviation will be < the attraction for the second, the I fall of Pompei for the third and a 1 ipeeial feature to be secured for the < Fourth. Payne's famous fireworks I lisplays will lie given each week. > while Webber and Ilrooks' magnili- t ent band has been engaged for Che < Hit ire period. i The Appalachian is going to set i snlendid mark In > vhen 'he show opens and there will t >e no delay about that. The build- I tigs are all completed and exhibits ' ire now being put in place. Kvery- ' hing will be ready by the morning t >f September 12, when the big gates t vi11 swing open. The genius of \V. I. Oliver, the president of the ex- t >osit.lon company, is apparent in ev- * ?rything ueeoni|?llshed, but he had < he assistance of a splendid set of I Urectors and officials and the loyal * nipport of Knoxviile and the sitr- t 'ounding territory. We are expect- 1 ng to handle record breaking crowds i 0 Knoxviile and are j^rranging a 1 tpeciai traiti service which we feel 1 .tire will meet every demand." m I COTTON WKNT HOOMINCi. Makes Sensationul lamp of ThirtySix Points Net. There was a sensational jump of price in August cotton in New York on Saturday as a result of covering by some of the remaining shorts and 1 new high record was made lor ihe season as August sold at 16.90 or 2 6 points above the closing of Friday night and S2 points above the low price made Friday ntorning when notices of delivery were circulated. The bulls sold a little cotton on the advance and there was a little selling by spot people, probably a few bales, but after a decline from the early price, it again rose rapidly showing control by hull leaders and closed at 16.85 bid. The market opened firm at advance of 3d points on August and a to i> on ther months, which were influenced by t.he sensational strength of the ?pot position, better cables than expected and continued drought in the So lit h west. As lias been the case on recent buiees. however, the advance was not accompanied by any broadening of outside demand and when the upward movement in Aucust waa che.-Ked prices gradually worked back to a shade under the closing figures of Friday under realizing reports of improved condition in Alabama and Georgia. Estimates as to the amount of short interest remaining in August vary from a few thousand bales up to about 2.">,000 and after t.he close Saturday all sorts ot predictions were heard as to the price likely to be reached for that delivery before trading in that position is over at noon next Wednesday. Druggist's Mistake KmIiiI. At ft i<- h 111011 cl. Va.. John, about three years old. son of David T. Wilson. died Sunday from the effectn of carbolic acid given by mistake for castor oil on a prescription filled by a local druggist. The child lived - I hours after taking the dose. Fad Striken Turkey. The Department of State has teports from George Morton. I'nited States Consul at Salonica, Turkey, that the moving picture fad is now spreading among the Turks. Me notes that French and Indian films have superceded those of American make. GUNS TURNED ON TAFT Ii.t POLLETTE DIRECTS FIRE AT THE PRESIDENT. HIr Dill's Attempts nt Reconciliation i With the Insurgents Seem to Re of No Avail. President Taft cuddling up to the insurgent Republicans has met \\i:h a rather cold reception at the hands of the LaFollette hosts, who are readers of LaFollette's weekly. Saturday's issue of that magazine contains a scathing attack on the pres ident in its editorial column-* After referring to the fact that the president is reported to be working on a letter to be published in the Republican campaign textbook, to counteract the influence of the Winono speech, which riled the insurgents. the article continues: "It is stated that 'there is .10 desire on his part to reud any person out of the party.' What has happened since the president left Washington for Beverly? At that tinu Republican senators and representatives were denounced as 'pirates' at the White House because they had voted against the tariff revision upward. and refused to swallow a bad railway bill on the recommendation of the president that it was good. "It is scarcely four months sin^e Mr. Taft dispatched Wickersham to Chicago to deliver a speech reading the progressives out of tile party. That speech was approved by .Mr. Taft. "Not later than June, James Schoolcraft Sherman, vice president by grace of Cannon, journeyed to Milwaukee to address a Tory assemblage convened for the sole purpose of perfecting an organization to defeat the progressive Wisconsin senator and representatives. Vice President Sherman stated that lie was there at President Taft's request." Mr TjjftV. ' Mini lUIUlCr ihown by his sending a telegram of *ongratulation which was read at the ueeting. "We have uot complained that the )resident and the vice president are uking part in the campaign against regressive Republicans. We have nade no protest against the hotumse politics played hy the adminis. ration with federal patronage since he vote on the tariff hill. "LaFollette does protest against he dishonesty and cowardice hack >f such dispatches as the one above looted front Meverly. Let tlie truth >e plainly stated. Let the president jtand out in the open. The udminis.rat ion has presumed to read Republicans out of the party for voing their honest convictions on legislation. The president is directly taking part in State lights involving the flection of Republican senators and representatives. "These are facts." . There doesn't seem to be much chance for harmony between factions that get as wide apart as the LaFollette followers and the Taft followers seem to be. AKROI'LAN'K lUSASTKlt KKOOKD. Saturday Was mii 1'nlucky I>ay for Flying Muchim-s. At Hanover, Prussia, aviator Sehleuter had a narrow escape from death Saturday, while making a flight at Cello. The wires of the steering gear became entangled, and seeing that h O u/no ? " S ? X ? * ? ...... in i iii 1111 neii i (iniiKer, Sell leuter jumped to the eearth, alxiut MO feet below. He escaped with a broken leg. The machine was demolished. At Hamburg aviator Reesemann was making trial flights Saturday with a machine of his own construction. w.hen the motor exploded. The aeroplane fell to the ground from a height of t>5 feet, and was smashed. Reesemann escaped uninjured. At Harve M. I.egagneaux, French aviator, was seriously injured Saturday while competing for the total dis- j tance prize. His aeroplane struck a post and the machine fell to the ground, burying the aviator benefitii it. His skull was fractured and iie suffered internal injuries. At Arnheim, Netherlands, while the Dutch aviator. Van Mansdyke. was attempting a cross-country Might near there the motor of his machine suddenly stopped and the machine plunged to the ground. The aviator war instantly killed. PK.VTH I'llKPItmON Till K. . V\ lllllllll Pollui^t * * . ii.t|iMfn on nay fine Prophesied. Sarah 1*. Chira, a palmist, who was said to have predicted accurately many important thing* of the last few years fe> in the Alabama dance hall at Bergen Beach, N. Y. She stated two years ago that she would die away from home 011 August 2 4, IS* 10. She had just been leading the grand inarch wirJi Harry Dives and was walking to a chair, when she fell to the floor unconscious. When an ambulance surgeon arrived she had succumbed. Mrs. Chira was said to have predicted llarriman's death, the 1 Messina disaster and the exact date of King Kdward's death. * " 1 "3 X GONE FOUR DAYS Fears Are Felt Far the Safety of Six Hundred Forest Rangers THEY SEEM TO BE LOST I These Brave Fighters of the Forest Fires in Montana CouUl Scarcely Have Obtained Food, and as None of Them Have Returned They Must Have lleen C*ut Off. A dispatch from Helena. Montana, says the first report to reach that city with a suggestion of the terrible fate that is believed to have overtaken a crew of six hundred forest rangers, who left Thompson Falls four days ago to combat the forest fires in the Cabinet reserve, was brought by Julius Barney, who arrived from Thompson Tuesday, and he heard from Forester Supervisor Bushell first-hand Information of conditions in the district. "Six hundred men," Mr. Barney said, "have been gone four days, during which time nothing has been heard from them, and Forester Bushell. who is at Thompson fears all are dead. They could scarcely have obtained food, and as none has returned they were cut off by the fire. "When I left Thompson Tuesday morning a wall of tire hundreds of feet in height was sweeping in front the west. The people of Thompson, about five hundred, had packed ail their effects and were prepared to flee to Plains, twenty-five miles west. "Thompson begun to be crowded with refuges several days ago. Where White Pine, Mont.; Burke, Mont., and from many other points they have come tramping iu, men. women and children, blistered, heart-broken and without a dollar, escapiug only with their lives. "The fire has been burning around Plains^ and is burning east of Paradise and in several other places. All hope of fighting it has been abandoned, and Thompson seems to he hopelessly cut off. Plaius is still onen imil l>oin<? ?i.~ 1 * .... ? .?- luijtfsi town in Sanders county, ran accommodate tho refugees, but nobody knows whebher Plains, which is-- surrounded by dense forests, was set aflame. "Tlie flames jump Ave miles at once. Menawhile nothing can be done for the 600 men who are missing nor can the slightest news of their whereabouts be learned." Governor Norris has ordered out five companies of the Montana National Guard to aid in fighting forest fires in various sections of the State. ATTKMITKIl Sl'IIUF. FNSTKAD. .Vsheville Man on Way to be Klerti-ocutcd Outs Ti-roat. James B. Allison, under sentence of death for killing Kioyd MeGee. city patrol driver, of Ashevllle. on July 5, attempted to commit suicide Krlday morulas when Sheriff Hunter notified him that he had coroe to take him to the death chamber at Raleigh to await execution. I>etermined not to be the first Buncombe man to die at Raleigh. Allison wrote I a note, saying, "1 do not want the state to make a show of me." In the note he confessed to the premeditated murder of McGee. Whiie the sheriff had his back turned. Allison drew a penknife and slashed his own throat about one and a half inches deep under the jaw. He will recover. BKKS ATTACK BATH Kit. .miiing .nan Is I'i'wumI Whnn (Khwi Hear Noinf of Fray. Removing his bath robe and placing one foot In the cool water that filled his bathtub Friday, Chapia (karri, a Denver mining mm. was suddenly electrified by a series of sharp pains in practically every portion of his anatomy. At the same time a loud buzzing filled the room. Then followed turmoil. Other occupants of the house, who came to investigate the disturbance, found ? Gard In the costume of a prehistoric j warrior, vainly swinging a wet imtii 1 towel and waging a battle agu,nsl a I swarm of bees that had invadeo ibe bathroom through a hole in fhe window screen. Killed by Lightning. Standing around a neighborhood well at Idncolnton. N. C., where his mother and five other women had gathered to draw water, Theodore (lilbert, five years old. was instantly killed, and all the women more or less serinnolf - * " - ..ui i uy a doii or lightning from almost u clear sky Sun'lay afternoon. Desperado Killed. Tom Leveretf, who hears the reputation of being the worst negro in Anderson county, especially when drinking, was shot and instantly killed by Chief of Police Murphy and ^ Patrolman Shirley of Anderson Saturday afternoon, when they attempt- j led to arrest him for drinking and 'creating a disturbance.