BAD FLOOD IN SOUTH
Fire Follows Deluge at Augusta,
Causing Heavy Damage.
WATERS RECEDING.
Augusta
Damngo. Mny Approximate
Million Dollars.
Augusta, Ga., Aug. 28. Flood wa
ters nt Augusta began receding this
afternoon. They reached the height
01 4U teot, probably as high as the
IIOOU 01 1888.
Rain has ceased in the upper valley
ana tnern in nn rlnnirnr nf fiirflm,. inaa
Ann . I 1 " O -.... .fiu.
LU55 WILL KtALH HALF Inll.l.lllN H1? i0.3.3 approximates ?760,00Q to $1,
w , iiiiii ,j r .i
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
Throo Deaths .Are Reported Union
Depot Inundated to Depth of
Ton Feet.
Atlanta, Ga Aug. 27. A long dis
tance telephone message from the As
sociated Press correspondent from
Augusta says that the city is complete
ly under water. In the down town
portion business houses, telegraph
oinces ana newspaper oihees are com'
pletely demoralized.
There were three deaths in Augusta
A 1 . . .
yuaieniuy, wo wniic people ana one
negro.
The damage, it is estimated, will
reach half a million dollars.
At 8 :30 last night it was learned
through the single wire of the Georgia
Kailroad company, working partly into
Augusta, tnat tne large cotton ware
house and the wholesale grocery ware-
...
nouses oi tne ixixon company were
burning.
The union depot is under ten feet of
water, and in the best residence dis
trict the water stands six feet deep
ana is siowiy rising.
The report of the fires in the Nixon
warehouses cannot be confirmed. A
telegraph operator said he could not
get near enough on account of the
water, but that the fires were burning
in the vicinity of the big warehouses,
The floods in the Carol inas and Geor
gia culminated in the breaking of the
big dam six miles from Augusta, which
diverts the water from the Savannah
river into the canal at that point. The
great flood of water let loose soon
found its way into the city, and last
night, from Fifteenth street to the
Eastern boundary, Augusta was under
from six to 12 feet of water, which is
gradually rising.
IMPROVEMENT AT UNIVERSITY
Now Instructors, Books .and Appa
ratUs Added at Eugeno.
Eugene The work of the Univer
slty of Oregon during the coming year
will bo tho strongest in tho history
ot tho institution, due to the fact that
tho working tools of tho university
stocks of goods and private property,
destruction of tho wagon and railroad
bridges across tho Savannah river and
breaks in tho runnl hnnWa. Th
dependent on tho canal for power eight books apparatus, etc., havo been much
(JUllUll initio I vv. umi iii uuiiiiiivtt ii-
While tho flood was at its heiirht brary has been greatly strengthened
nve nres broke out, Tho McDaniel
builders' material establishment,
North Augusta, burned. A train of
40 cars belonging to the Southern rail
way burned in Hamburg. Nixon's
lime, cement and hardware house and
a huge quantity of lumber belonging
to the Georgia railway, at tho Georgia
railway yards, were burned. The Au
gusta Railway & Electric company
cannot run their cars for three days.
jno power plants are in oDeration :
the telephone lines are not doing busi
ness; tho railroads are accepting no
passengers. Tho water service is
crippled, but intact The tras company
service is impaired, but not shut down.
There have been 10 to 15 drownings.
mostly negro laborers.
From the northwestern section of
the city tho waters will not recede for
two or three days. Tonight is a night
of tension. Missimr men and families
arc being reported.
by tho addition of $10,000 worth of
new books, and much now apparatus
has been ordered for all departments
The biological laboratory has been nl
most completely remodeled and many
improvements havo been mado tho
the physics laboratory. Many of the
buildings havo been renovated and the
new library building, which was whol
ly without lights, and but scantily
furnished last year, is being complete
ly equipped with electric lights and
now furniture. Hereafter tho general
reading rooms and tho stack rooms
will bo kept open until 9 o'clock in the
evening.
A number of new instructors have
been added, notably a professor of ge
ology, a chair that has been vacant
since tho death of Dr. Condon : n pro
fessor of political science and assistant
professor of psychology, an assistant
professor of education, a new head li
brarian and a number of instructors in
The Auiruata HhrnniVl crnt nnh 5ff departments that havo been
Thurarinv prlitinn in nhhrovinfoH fnrm tnmueu.
at 9 p. m. The Augusta Herald, an
afternoon paper, could not publish
Wednesday or Thursday.
badly
TRIES GAME ON ROOSEVELT.
FIGHT TO REGAIN TRADE.
San
Or-
Francisco Merchants Will
ganize Traffic Bureau.
San Francisco, Aug. 27. An aggres
sive commercial campaign to recover
trade lost to the merchants of San
Francisco through the alleged indiffer
ence, neglect and lack of concerted
action, was decided upon today at a
meeting of the trade and commerce
committee of the Merchants' Ex
change.
Steps were taken immediately to
organize a traffic bureau, with an ex
perienced traffic manager in charge,
which will be a central organization
for the mercantile bodies of this city,
whose object will be to see that mer
chants, manufacturers, wholesalers and
jobbers of San Francisco receive rail
road and water rates that will enable
them to regain the territory taken
away by other cities, particularly Los
Angeles.
POSTPONE EXPOSITION.
French Soldier Punished for Attempt
at Blackmail.
Bordeaux, Aug. 28. An extraordi
nary story was told at the court mar
tial today, ,of a, member of the military
ambulance corps, Camille Marquet,
who was charged with attemntimr to
blackmail President Roosevelt. Ac
cording to the evidence before the
court, Marquet wrote to the president
on January 9, demanding on behalf of
my society," without other specifica
tion, '$2,000 on account of services
rendered during the presidential elec
tion," and promising further "im
mense help."
Receiving no reply to this demand,
Marquet wrote again on March 9,
threatening a scandal "which will cast
dishonor upon the whole family unless
the money is forthcoming at a fixed
date." In conclusion tho writer said
"The highest heads are no longer
safe on their shoulders: look at Portu
gal."
The president handed the letters to
the French consul general, who com
municated with the French police,
Marquet was brought up for court
martial, but the court, in consideration
of the good character of the youth,
sentenced him to six days' imprison
ment, giving him the benefit of the
first offender's law.
Work on a new recitation building
to relievo tho over-crowded condition
of other buildings is being pushed, and
it is hoped to have it ready for use
soon after the opening of the session,
The girls' dormitory has been com
pletcd and furnished. A number of
new student club houses have been
erected during the summer. The work
of improving the campus is being
pushed as rapidly as possible.
The number of students will prob
ably be from a third to a half greater
than last year. Applications for ad
mission are coming to the registrar
rapidly, and the number on file is much
larger than usual at this time. The
freshman class will number between
200 and 250 students. The fall session
begins Tuesday, September 22.
New Law Congests Traffic.
Pendleton As a result of tho opera
tion of the 16-hour law, O. R. & N
freight trains passing over the Blue
mountains between Pendleton and La
Grande are frequently "tied up" at a
mountain station when the 16-hour day
of the tram crew ends. Under the law
the train cannot be run into a terminal
on "overtime" as formerly. This
week two long freight trains were
"tied up" at the end of their 16-hour
day at Duncan and five engines were
coupled together and taken to Kamela
where coal and water for the engines
and meals for the crews were to be
had while waiting for the 10-hour per
iod of rest between the 16-hour days to
end.
CARPET WORTH THOUSANDS
Japanese Public Clamoring Against
Vast Expense.
Tokio, Aug. 27. The unpopularity
of President Kaneko, of the Tokio ex
position, has caused difficulties which
may result in the postponement of the
trreat exposition, which is now set for
1912.
The people are clamoring against the
methods of Kaneko in spending great
sums of government money and the re
ports of the postponement have been
so frequent that today the minister of
agriculture and commerce found it ne
cessary to issue a formal denial. He
said the exposition would be held at
the time set, but even this assurance
is not sufficient to quiet the reports.
The strained industrial and financial
situation in Japan is the matter upper
most in the minds of most of the peo
ple and there is a widespread feeling
that the government chose a poor time
to oro to the enormous expense of hold
iner the first great world's fair in the
Orient.
America Kindest to Imbeciles.
London, Aug. 27. That America far
surpasses England in the caro of her
idiotic insane is the report published
today by the royal commission appoint
ed to investigate American methods.
The commission recently returned from
the United States. Nearly every state
was visited, and the report says that
with few exceptions the American sys
tem was found superior to the lintish.
The report recommends that the Brit
ish government adopt a system that
embodies the best features of the meth
da in vogue in several states.
Floor Covering of U. S. Mint Filled
With Gold Dust.
San Francisco, Aug. 28. The car
pet floor of the adjusting room at the
San Francisco mint is about worn out
and after the old covering has been
taken up it will be handled with far
more care than the new one. It will
be many times more valuable, because
it is literally lined with gold. The
old carpet will be burned and from the
ashes the Treasury department officials
expect to realize about $5,000.
In the adjusting room files are used
to trim surplus gold from the coins
after being stamped. It frequently
happens that the overweight filings
thus taken off fall to the floor and be
come imbedded in tne carpet. The
very best carpets are purchased for
this room, so that the closely-woven
material will hold securely the scat
tered particles of gold.
It is nothing unusual for the govern
ment to get $5,000 worth of cold dust
out of the ashes resulting from the
burning of one of these carpets.
Extension Nears Completion.
Wallowa By September 5, if the
present rate of progress is maintained
by the O. R. & N. tracklaying crew,
the whistle of the O. R. & N. construc
tion locomotives will pierce the long
waiting silence of the Wallowa valley.
The work of laying track on the Wal
lowa extension is now progressing
toward this valley at the rate of two
miles per day, and the tracklaying
crew has crossed the Wallowa river
near Grand Ronde and is now working
directly toward this place. The
main Wallowa river canyon, 16 miles
in length, is all that intervenes be
tween tho end of the track and this
place.
Would Curb Middlemen.
Salt Lake, Aug. 28. Resolutions
approving the plan for national stor
age of the Western wool crop were
adopted unanimously today by the ex
ecutive committee of the National
Woolgrowers' association. The presi
dent of the association was authorized
to name a committee to Belect a city
where the central Btorage market will
be established and to form a corpora
tion to carry out the elimination
or curbing of the middlemen and giv
ing the Western woolgrowers control
of the sale of their product.
Delegates to Tax Congress.
Salem Governor Chamberlain has
appointed C. P. Strain, of Umatilla
county: D. B. Sigler, of Multnomah
county, and E. R. Seabrook, of Port
land, delegates to the second interna
tional conference on state and local
taxation to bo held at Toronto, Canada,
October 6 to 9 inclusive. Allen Foote,
of Columbus, Ohio, is president of the
conference. Its purpose is to study all
phases and problems in connection
with taxation.
"Boosting" Booklets Out.
Albany Fifteen thousand of Al
bany's new advertising booklets havo
been received and are ready for distri
bution at tho rooms of tho Albany
Commercial club. The booklet con-
taines 68 pages, and is illustrated with
61 photos. Bound with vari-colored
covers and printed and illustrated in
splendid shape, it is one of the best
booklets from all view points ever
issued by any city in the state.
Famous Pear Orchard Sold.
Medford A syndicate of Eastern
men, headed by Jonn u. uiwen, oi tnis
city, has purchased the famous pear
orchard of C. H. Lewis, near this city,
for $160,000. The orchard has held
tho world's record for the highest nrico
Holmes, a carpenter, who afterwards Salee. Abd El Aziz, the i sultan who pajj for a carload of Cornice pears for
Builders Tap Secret Till.
Seattle, Wash., Aug. 27. Finger
prints in dust on a jewel box led detec
tives last night to arrest -James
Abd El Aziz In Flight.
Tangier, Aug. 28. Mulai Hafid has
been proclaimed sultan of Morocco at
El Araish. as well as at Rabat and
confessed that he stole 42 diamonds,
valued at $1,000, from Captain E. W.
Johnston, tho well known Nome oper
ator. The diamonds disappeared Aug
ust 17. Holmes and another carpenter
wore tho only persons who knew of tho
secret closet for jewels, as they built
it at Captain JohnBton's home.
No Clue to Raiders.
Aberdeen, S. D., Aug. 27. The au
thorities here are investigating the
raids on Lowry and Alaska Sunday
night by a company of armed and
mounted men. Absolutely no clue to
the raiders has been found.
suffered defeat at the hands of Mulai
Hafid last week, at a point not far
! from Morocco City, is making his way i
out to the coast. He is expected at
Casa Blanca soon. He is accompanied
i onlv bv some of his advisers. All of
tho tribesmen who were in his service
have been returned to their homes.
Settle Canadian Strike.
Winnipeg. Aug. 28. A rumor com
ing from an authoritative source says
the Canadian Pacific railway officials
. . . m i itl 1
are getting tired oi tne striKe ana ne
gotiations will be begun tomorrow
with a view to ending it.
two years, one car bringing $0,800
This the largest deal in the history of
tho fruit lands of tho Rogue river val
ley.
Farmers' Company Reorganized,
Albany A reorganization of tho Al
bany Farmers' company has been per
fected and the whole concern merged
into the Albany Mill & Elevator com
pany. The warehouses noretoioro
mangaged and maintained at Tallman,
Tangent and other outside points by
tho old company will bo In direct con
trol of the new company and carry
the business as of old.
LAW BENEFITS STATE.
School Attendance In a Majority of
Counties Shows Increase
Salem Tho operation of Oregon's
new compulsory education law which
has been under one year of prnctical
demonstration haB been very satisfac
tory according to tho reports received
by Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion Ackorman. Tho statistics of the
biennial report also bear out this state
ment. There nro sovcral counties wore
tho per cent of attendance has fallen
down but nn esnecial effort Will bo
made during tho approaching school
vear to extend the operation of tho law.
Under this law parents may bo fined
from $5 to $25 if they do not compel
their children to go to school. Tho law
provides that truant officers bo appoint
ed for ovcry district in tho state to re
ceivo $2 for each dny's work.
The truant officer may notify tho par
ents first and then if not action is tak
en a complaint will bo brought against
them in court. Tho county supcrin
tendents must furnish each teacher
with tho census roll of their district,
Tho teacher is compelled to report
overy four weeks those who arc not at
tending school. If the superintendents
or teachers violate any of theso pro
visions they nro subject to a fine of
from $5 to $20.
Families From the East.
Portland One thousand Central Illi
nois farmers ure packing up thoir
household goods nnd preparing to move
to Oregon before next spring. They
havo made theirarrangements to come
out by special trains to Southern Ore
gon and will settle on tho military road
grant in Lake and Harney countieB.
This is probably tho largest emigration
from one point to a Western state
since the days of tho old Oregon trnil,
and will bring a particularly desirable
class of farmers and residents into
Southern Oregon. Information of the
proposed movement reached the cham
ber of commerce this week through a
letter from Henry I. Wallace, of Clay
ton, Adams county, Illinois, who asked
for additional information regarding
the military road grant and said that
over 1,000 families from Adamsjand
neighboring counties had completed all
their arragnements to como to Oregon
this year.
Prepare to Pick Prunes.
Roseburg Prunegrowers of Douglas
county are finishing the work of get
ting ready to take care of the coming
crop, a great many of the growers
building additional driers, and some of
them who havo heretofore used their
neighbors' driers to take care of their
trop, are this year erecting buildings
of their own. The heavy heavy frosts
in the early spring will cause the yield
to be slightly less than that of last
year, but at the present price of
prunes the growers will receive more
money than they did last year.
Complains to Railroad Commission.
Salem George E. Brey, a shipper at
Suver, on tho West Side branch of the
Southern Pacific, has entered a com
plaint with the railroad commission.
There is a spur at that place where
farmers may load their produce into
cars. Brey says that after loading,
tho cars are left on the spur for thn o
or four days, where they may be pil
fered easily. He does not ask for a
station agent, but merely less delay in
picking up loaded cars.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
PROBES AMERICAN MINE8.
Riirlnn Exnort Gomos as Guost of
a
Government.
Now York, Aug. 20. Victor W,
Wnttoyno, chief of tho Belgian depart
ment of mines, was a passenger on tho
Red Star liner Kroonland, which nr
rived in port today. Chiof Wattoyno
tho truest of tho United
States government and will bo consult
ed by tho bureou of geodetic survey in
its coming investigation of tho mining
conditions in this country. Congress
hn nnnronriatted $150,000 for thi
purpose Captain Dosbrough, of Eng
land, and A. Moismer, of Germany,
both export mining engineers, wl
come later to join Chief Wattoyno.
In tho United States there aro 8,200
deaths duo to accidents overy year in
thn mines, or threo to overy thousand
emnlovcs. Speaking of tho
trcmendouB death rate, Chiof Wnttoyn
said vesterdav:
"In Delirium, where the mines aro
tho oldest in Europe and tho most don
and deencst in tho world, tin
death rate is only ono man in n thous
nnd a very good record, considering
tho extremely hnznrdous nnturo of tho
work. I expect to bo very much in
forested in my commission to study
American methods.
Chief Wattoyno left promptly for
Plttsburcr. Ho will go from there to
Hanna, Wyo., to Btudy n sealed mino
in which, during ten yenrs over 800
miners havo lost thoir lives. Chief
Watteyno will suggest some Bchemo by
which it can bo worked with Barely.
BISBEE AGAIN FLOODED.
Third Cloudburst Within Month Doos
Much Dnmngo.
Bisbcc. Ariz., Aug. 26. BiBbco for
tho third time in threo weeks was ycH
terday visited by a cloudburst. Tho
dnmngo is estimated at $25,000. Tho
bursting of a subway at tho head of
Main street caused tho damage. When
the subway burBt n wall of water six
feet deep swept down tho street, carry
ing ahead of it horses, wagonB, buggies
and the automobile of (j. J. Cunning
ham, cashier of the bank of Bisbeo
At the lower end of the street tho nu
tomobile was rescued.
A number of house foundations were
weakened. Tho Grand hotol wns con
demned this evening and tho gucBts
moved out. Last night tho town was
without fire protection, owing to water
mains being washed away. Tho gas
was off and all big sewerage mains are
broken in many places. So far as
known there is no loss of life.
liisbee is located in n canyon, so
thnt cloudbursts injthe mountains above
make the placo peculiarly Busceptible
to floods.
is
JAPAN IS BUSY.
Prob
Wheat Club, 88c per bushel : forty-
fold, 90c; Turkey red, 90c; fife, 88c;
bluestem, 92c; valley, 8cc;.
Barley Feed, $24.50 ton; rolled,
$27fti28; brewing, $26.
Oats No. 1 white, $2727.50 ton;
gray, $.20(i7!z0.oU.
Hay Timothy, Willamette valley.
$14 ton; Willamette valley ordinary,
$11; Eastern Oregon, $16.50; mixed.
$13; clover, $9: alfalfa, $11; alfalfa
meal, $20.
Fruits Peaches, 6085c box; pears.
$11.50 box; plums, 75c box; gropes,
85c(Jf)$1.50 crate; blackberries, $1
1.10.
Potatoes $1651.10 per hundred:
sweet potatoes, 34c pound.
melons L-antaioupes, isitMi.zo per
crate; watermelons, $1.50 per 100
oose, crated, Uc pound additional; ca-
sabas, $2.25(3)2.50 dozen.
Vegetables Turnips, 1.50 sack; car
rots, $1.75; parBnips, $1.75; beets.
$1.50; beans, 5c pound; cabbage, lc
pound; corn, z&(?f30c dozen; cucum
bers, 3040c box; egg plant, $1.75
crate; lettuce, head, 15c dozen; pars-
ey, loc dozen; peas, uc pound; pep
pers, H10c pound; radishes, 12jc
dozen; spinach, 2c pound; squash, 40c
dozen; tomatoes, 7bC(,$l crate; eel
ery, 50(g,90c dozen; artichokes, 76c
dozen.
Butter Extras, 31c pound; fancy.
27Kc; choice, 25c; store, 18c.
Eggs Oregon extras, 2fl(7?!27c:
firsts, 24(?)25c; seconds, 2223c; thirds
imitZUc; eastern, zuai'ibc.
Poultry Mixed chickens, 13(ti)l2X,
pound; fancy hens, 14c; roosters, 10c:
spring, 16c; ducks, old, 12c; spring,
1315c; geese, old, 8c; young, 10c;
turkeys, old, 1718c; young, 20c.
Veal Extra, 8c pound; ordinary, 7
7c; heavy, 5c.
Pork Fancy, 7c pound; ordinary,
6c; large, 5c.
Mutton Fancy, 89c.
Hops 1907, prirno nnd choice, 4)4
5c pound; olds, llc; contracts,
78c.
Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
1016c pound, according to flhrink-
on age; valley, 1515c; mohair,
choice, 18(&01b7c.
Immcnso War Debt and Labor
loms Worry Statesmen.
New York, Aug. 26. Japan, sorely
pressed in financial matters, with labor
troubles and increased cost of living
changing the entire economic system.
will not go to war with uny nation for
10 years at least, according to Genera
Adolphus W. Greeley, U. S. A., re
tired who, with Mrs. Greeley and their
two daughters, arrived on the President
Grant of tho Hnmburg-Ainerican lino
today from Hamburg.
"There have been within a year not
less than 140 strikes in Japan, so
was told by a prominent official," saiii
Mr. Greeley, "and I do not believe tho
world in general knows that they endei
successfully for the strikers. ThiB
makes for entirely different economic
conditions in that country. Jnpan has
enough, with iinancial problems ant:
tho question of higher wages, to he
met, to keep her wisest heads busy on
tho situation nt homo for years to
come."
Take Ship's Sijvor.
Sydney, Aug. 20. Rear Admirnl
Sperry, commander of tho American
fleet, nnd tho other admirals, returned
to the ships today. Arrangements are
now being completed for tho departure.
After the recent reception on board tho
battleship Connecticut, it. was found
that a largo number of the spoonB and
forks inscribed with tho name of tho
flagship wero missing. Thoy were
probably taken as mementos, but tho
officers, accumtomcd to such things,
cjiumuuiy Huggesieu mat they wcro
eaten with tho icoB and cakes.
First Train Into Color.
ban francisco, Aug. 26. Tho lino of
the California Northeastern rnilrorad
was opened from this city to Color, on
tho line between Oregon and Califor
nia, today. The first car to atop at
Calor was that of W. F. Herrin, chief
attorney for tho Southern Pnciflc road.
TT . .. . . i
-. a. jiuiiiiiiuu, twice no went over
tne road on his way to K amath lnk.
gave orders to get the lino built through
to Klamath river as soon as posBible,
and work has gone on night and day.
dapanoso Soos Mannuvers.
Juncction Citv. Kan.. Antr. on
Major T. Tanoka, of tho Jnpaneso cm
basBy in Washington, arrived nt tho
maneuver camp Jont night. Ho wob
mot nt the railroad station by ono of
General Kerr's personal staff, nnd n.
corted to hcadquurtcrfl, whoro ho was
introduced to General Korr nnl
officers of tho staff. Major Tanaka
will remain an observer ut tho camp
for sovcral days.
Toronto Has 8160,000 Flro
Toronto. Ont.. Auir. 26 Ifnlf nt
tho Union stockyards in West Toronto
was wiped out by flro tonight. Loss,
$150,000, Soven Iiouscb on Kcnl tw
wero also destroyed. Tho
tho flro is not known.
FLOOD LOSSES GR
Damage In Augusta Alone fb
Estimated at 51,500,000,
DEATH ROLL WILL REACH Tlllftiy
Weather Grows Cold and Thrfi8l.
Suffering to People Who Tr,
Without Sheltor.
Atlanta, Go., Aug 211 ,
lives most of the victim,; 1 30
call for assistance, (lainnce 7i d'
at l,noo,000 in ABu,ta ln tffl
000 in other parts of S.V'000';
$1,600 000 in South Ca oli
izes the flood situation V. "c1
The temperature i falling and
ens suffering to people "vilhout
Reports of dnniagc fr-m
South and North Carolina J IT ln
:iyf been wnd
Southern Railway, ami until 2
last night it wa nVo.S,,!b
commun.cat.on with any point oa
Allan a. In AttRusta, the princ "
suffering is along deep gullic "ff
as Hndwclls Uottom.i and P. "
Hottoni. Here the howe", wcrc?
crwi 10 me .caves. The water alia
damaged business blocks in the tT
and the total datnaire in tl.i.
be a million and a half dollars li ,.
4ln nvnjitArl .1.- I . " '
.i vn,vnvu til.ll IIIC IOSS Ot life Will
ue increased. Most of the killed br
high water were caught in their honS
on the outskirts of the city
There arc manv rmnnr. nr
killed, but these have not been ven
ficd. In South Carolina the lost of
inc win rcacn proiianly so. ln ffortu
Carolina possibly half a dozen white!
and as many negroes have been killed.
1 11c noon waicr at AURtuta re.
ccdiiiK rapidly, and it is apparent thjt
the loss has been underestimated
LARGE MOB BILL.
Sprlngfiold Victims Begin Their Suits
Against City.
Springfield. III.. Atnr. 50 The u,r
of Scott niirton, the first it-cm
lynched in the recent rims here hi
made no attempt to settle with the
city for the death of her husbijid
ncrctoiorc, out today tiled suit ft
the $5,000 which the law a'luws
the heirs of persons who are kilNby
mobs. It is announced also that a
similar suit will he filed bv the heirs
of William DouncKan, another negro
who was lyuciicd.
The heirs of four other negroes
killed during the rioting caiimt ob
tain the money because they weft
killed by stray bullets or in open bat
tle, and were not slain by the mob.
Property owners continue to dl
suits for damages nganist the city, an!
tiic sum of the claims already nude
is over $50,000.
It is expected that these cases will
be given preference in the courts anl
will receive nuick action. The gen
eral sentiment among the citizens it
that the survivors of the families f
the mob victims should be pad it
once and that the city hhou'd pay tr
the damage done by the noiers
ANOTHER CLOUDBURST.
Flftoen Pooplo Drownod by Storm In
New Mexico.
Trinidad. Colo.. Aug 20 - A flod
in thr Ciinmaron river, following l
cloudburst, washed away a number of
dwellings at Folsom, N M . last night,
and 15 persons arc reported to hive
been drowned. Twelve bodies have
liL'i'ti rtmvirpi. Two miles nf traflC
f ... ...7i .. .!..,! .nit
aouuicru uauronu were w.iim.
Trains will be laid out I hours.
.Monger advice received here today
sny that the entire city was swept by
the floods caused by the cloudbur
Many houses were swept complex
away, and nearly every lmtnf in tne
town was damaged to sotc extent
The advices say searching par'if
!....,. .,... tnrtm) nil, I lll.lt it IS eX
K.U lV-VII ,WII.V.. ... ,
pected ,tnnny more bodies will
found before night. .
'irviicn... in in tmrthr.Ktern pan
of New Mexico, near Raton, on tne
Santa Ic Railroad. Its elevation
;ibottt 7,000 feet, and it is
lit ilnnrror nf flonrls. which Sfftep
down from the surrounding inounj41"
whenever there is a clonal
icavy rain 111 the hills.
Soo Gorman Maneuvers.
finneral DaFon
AJWA4.lt, " - -
n. r mlnlofnr OI n
nnd General Mcndez Morales, of tne
Drnzilion army, win arrive www""
at a Berlin hotel as the cucbU of wn
mi... irt hnfl conic
poror YYiuinm. i ..
out from Brazil to witness tho w
maneuvers. Tho invitation c--to
thorn nnd its ncccptnnco are regwi
rl nn rmHHnnl lictfl ratllOr tlinn P"
military proceeding, with thoobjej
of drnwinr tho two governments
more ngroeablo relntiona.
California OH Merger P3nneJ
LoBAngolw, Col., Aug. g. 0
nro noing mno wumy " - T ,' n.i jn.
torcsis, acconniiH ' "TV" m0an
day of an official of ono of tho wmjw
ies concerned, tho mt-iK" nt.
proposed at a meeting of tho repres e
ii. r w ,.inMnnl operators oj
Whittier district. Comblnator 1
oved to bo tho beat me -- w
ng certuln business or uiu -
ana tho merger will bo oitcciw.
zmvf xorK, Aug. iwa Th"
estate is valued ot ?16 Suh the
fact became known today wjgu
signing of tho order for tho tranfer
payable to tho state.