TWO
UNABOUTS
D ALLEN
t5""'.. mnt ononcd
kDr'Sts vllio nd tho poo
to 94.0llS,V'' Unit tho two
il,T,1fld b n there for
l ft??. hundratl dol-
Scon plvlng his dipiomu,
8ftcr.rC ,V' un hl8 oinco
E MOdlM M ....j Ut0ll
V-nllPIILB V . 1.1 Willi
i'-'rXtn Ho im.1 Panned
ltoe, u taBi n throo
'Llwo;eB.ovoHnndn
K Vho didn't hang nrounu
-.i fn k noiiuuo.
.mi lt didn't
I..II10 bad its W1"
r n, ocott's way.
D VS.C , li,n..t ownod In
fit was tl c machl.,0 belong
PK' June, daughter of
1" J" . itv who had an
fjeu bouse" nd mn.
ie. Tie co. '.. ; -
u roscnicu uj
MU Ida. il
M " i,,.t It was a
m . ru:. . " - ..m to
wffler rewe o - -
dler, and tnen 11 u
i.L...t tiriirnlnff.
. ... u.An'i nven hlntod that
ti to work such n Inner..
Ill country procutu, u- -fcfclQUfl
was aroused. Ho had
P.P?; ..rf. Hn had not taken
Image Into his confidence.
L daT Miss Ida camo Into tho
e In her runahout after tho
Dr. Scott mot nor ai mu vji.
i'i. jun't htnrn. and hor
no 'u" - ' .
L were furtive, hut tho lmproa-
o( neither was lavonimu.
rood, haughty and BoIflBh," was
octor's verdict
i.i.. i.'i miltn nnmn. nnd HOOdS
U111U 111 n - ,
uken down," was tho verdict
re gui.
m Inevltablo that tho two ma-
i. i.t
r Bjiuum wfcvw
idi looked straight ahead, aa If
P. ,nnt TflftV Mill rnOOL.
n Her Defl, and It Was Ac
cepted.
toad at nrrnw nml
cast a awlft glance at hor
I Moerea ir sho thought nho
led the earth, u u-n- tv, ..,
. u vuv OHIlig
"and and third tlmo. Then
ae told' tho girl that tho doc-
Hi toastlnrr hn his mnhhinn
ii travel thrnn miino i .
mt said any such thing, but
tecort attt,A i ... I
( .- vv uu uur U1Q BIlm0 n8
. aod she replied with groat
lltver catrh thn
J f l will give hiia u lea-
do him good."
!l then .omo ono told tho docior
k V , was eolnK t0 "y 'or
r.L8 !o y 8h of hi.
iuuuBu no only ami ed
he detnrmlnn,l t
Wl If opportunity orferod.
a month before It offorod.
?!hi I apsttronUjr wftitin fr
lorn. 1 " ani '.? ot
Iher i , . uuomPt to over-
i (int. i " ;uung may tho
ablt "ckleaa In her driy-
tt aeconii n.i .... ..
udrivi: :rr: wu,l. tuo
ctoB ,, ,,ur salt tho
N S2i!W..aB? odda that
! ha r.:""6. mu8h. . On
tho
wgH. nH k .... . D,,uur na
arid
pire hi, . " U,Q. ltlttt bo would
aid
ho
5 her ;B6r A.W0k lator
tt.;"" M. waiting
for
but u : ea t0 ou" wild
MellberS.h,or.Bont ' io ma-
I hP9i) ,7'' ,00oa .hack
nnd
Wcepied orB nor (,(,n. nnd
It
w;:!as soing to
take
lHaUon. 8 08 t0 inK about
two
to ih. :ru "nQ bow n
load
WonM lo tho
. 2? il2
Ul ?. "M, of courao:
Ho
"0 Dirt . T' or courBo. 1
ejeitt I.t0 tho right" nn
Thoro
ho
hnvo
ho
him,
and
iaat now doctor
that
ain't
racln' to bont tho band, and it omo
thin' don't happon, then I don't
know!' , r . , ,.
As a mnttor of fnct, tho 'doctor did
hnvo tho bettor machine,
It wna geared fqr, higher npeed, and
bpBnri ';to r creep; up and . up,f and';MlB
Ida's nctloiiH ah'owcd that alio wW
gottlng norvotis. An tho machines
ran eldo by pldo tho load of atraw
loomed up 80 roda away. It was
right In tho m.lddlo of tho rodd, and
ovldontly Intended to stay thoro.
Thoro wore deep; ditches on either
aldo of tho highway, and the doctor
cnllod to tho girl:
"Lot'fl alow down and call It a
draw. It will bo dnngeroua to try to
paBB." '
"You can atop." replied tho girl as
Hlio looked Btrnlght ahead and abut
hor tooth hard.
"I ahall koop on I"
"And I shall win!"
"Goo whizz, but tho Idiots aro goln'
to bang Into mo," nhoutod tho farm
er. "Whoa, thoro stop, atop!"
In hla alarm-, ho iulod on tho right
hand rem nnd tho horses and load
swerved, that way. Thnt aworvo re
duced the snood and crowded tho clrl
Into tho' ditch and tho machine turn
ed turtle
Tho doctor . stopped "bb soon. aH-Hfc
lizard tho' crash, and tho fa'nner.
gathored up his rolns and ..ald; . .
"Yosi shW . fir; th ditch ' thefflC and
probably as dead as a door' rial I, and
I can t make oyt what alia you folks I
When you sou a load of fltraw.-Jahea'd
of you why In Sam- Mlf. don't, you
stop?" ' ' . ; ,
"But .you'll .stop' afi'd" '.iielp mo?."
aBkod tho' doctor. ,; . .. ..
"Oh, sho ain't dead Uftqr all. Hear
hor yelling! Only got an arm(. or n
log broko, and i guess you- 'ja)i,.man.
ago. I llko .to holp. folk's, but thoy
want this straw, Hght' away."
No, Mlas Ida 'MA hot been killed
Sho had an arm broken nnd rocolvod
several bruises, but when tho doctor
had heaved tho wrecked machlno over
sho coolly said:
"You saw, didn't you, that I was
crowded Into tho ditch that lt wasn't
duo to my driving?
"Wo will .discuss thnt later," ro
piled thp),mcdIco, with, a amllo. "I
imiBt get you homo at once."
"Wo will discus's lt now, sir, Am
I as good a drlvor aB you aro?"
"1 I think so."
"Didn't, tho wagon crowd wo Into
tho ditch7"
"It cortnlnly did." ,j
"And If lt adnJt, wouldn't -I J)avo
stood a good chaic6; Qf'.lisatlng jy6xl"
"Y-o-a, butyo"ii 'aro'-hurt Who la
your lamiiy uoctor7" 7
"Wo haven't any. ' You will "take
mo homo 'and patch iIo up, but not
until you -havo adrnmedT'that lt wasn't
a fair raco.'"1 vm V i1 ,f
"Well, It wasn't." ,
"And Uiat If ipy runab.out'can b
ropalrod wo ahall .try lt again."
"Certainly? if'you wl?.0-' ':.
"And you aro' to tell;dpd-thaf;i had
norvo Just as. much aa yoll bad."
"I'll bo happy to.'V 4
Tho patlont1 was takon homo Jn th
doctor's machlno and attended to,
nnd In duo tlmo her own , runabout
camo back fr6m" tnb" Bhop, but aorao-
how or other .another raco . nov.or
camo off. Whon sho was ablo to ride
out again tho doctor mado ber bo-
llovo that It must bo In his charge,
and when aho camo to drlvo ngaln he
was too buay to raco. At 'tho end, of
six months Farmer Honderaon went
homo from town ono. day and said
to his wife: A , . ' .
"Hannor, you romembor that girl
and tho doctor?"' " ;V v; )'", -
"Yos! 'they 'aro ; goltf , -t) suo
you for dnmagos ancl tako bur farm
hu'nv?"
I Siin.nnlhln. Thnv tfill mo In town
thoy aro goln' to' got' married. Thoy
ought to glvo mo n now wagon for
brlngln' It about."
WIDEN THEV FAMILY 'CIRCLE
The' Stranger Who Is Far,; From HU
,'Klnafolk Especially Lonely at
Thankenlvlr-a.
ii
"Homo Is th 'natural objective
point for everyone at tho Thanksgiv
ing season," gays Margaret IS. Snug
ster, In Woman's Homo Companion.
"Thin i..whv tho stranger iar from
kinsfolk anikfamlllar frlonds Is spo
cfally lqnolyfrimld gonoral morrymak-
ing. WIUOIl ino UJIUIU ou linn. i
iricludo at your dinner tnblo yqur boy's
qhum .who cannot cross tho continent
to bo wlthhlB own pooplo on the hap
py a day. Lot; your daughter Invito
from"1 collogo two or throo of hor girl
frlonda to sharo Thanksgiving with
hor.
"Not long ago a man told mo that
whon first ho loft homo to becomA
n niortr in n danartmont store In Phila
delphia nothing bo touched him as tho
thoughtful kjndnoss of hla ompioyor a
wlfo, who novor forgot to Invito him
n linr hnmA on holidays, assuring him
that ho was as wolcomo at hor Thanks-
rjlvlng dinner as if ho had boon a boy
of her own.
"Thoro aro ways of widening tho
olrolo without necossarlly going Into
i.ui.nooa nmi Iivwuvh and brtnK-
inir n ihn iin.it and tho blind. If thoro
1b, among your frlonds a washerwoman
who works hard to food and oiotno nor
children, a soamstross wIiobo oarnlngs
baroly covor hor noo.ds, ifvthoro aro or
phan .chlldron In whom, you take an
lntorost, aoo to lt that you sharo
Thanksgiving "With thorn In an unob
truslyo way of sending good choor. I
Bay, lntontlonally, among your frlonds.
h In a lmrron llfo'ln which Sympathy
la confined to a slnglo .Bot of pooplo,
and unloBB-'wo have frlendVamong all
ninnnfta and conditions we aro to ba
pitied for our norrownosB."
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT NEWS
NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST
ifcWILL RESEED 0,000 ACRES,
JVL it ' i :
Forest Sohvrco Exports to Finish W
Before Snow Sots In.
Nlnd thousand acres of burned over
timber lands In Oregon and Wnflhintr.
ton aro to bo seeded with Norway
flpruco and Scotch plno, according to an
announcement mado by J. F. Kimmql,
of tho national forest acrvice. The
seeding is under way now and will be
completed before the snows act in.
Most of this work is being done in
tho Siuslaw forests near Mount Hebo,
in Oregon, and in the Olympic forests
in Washington. Tho Hebo district in
cludes the areas of whitened timber
which stand on the hills outside of Til
lamook and along the road between
Tillamook and Portland. This Bection
is to be resceded and in 16 years much
of this timber will be hidden under a
new and fast growing growth of com
mercial trees.
, The forest service is in this way
reclaiming many thousands of. acres in
the Northwest each year. Norway
spruce and Scotch pine were UBed
largely, as this timber is one of the
best for marketing pfirposes and more
nearly adapted to Oregon climatic con
ditions than any other timber.
A million and a half of year old
trees aro how in the nurseries in the
Columbia forests ready for transplant
ing to Bpots where rcseeding is imprac
ticable. THREATEN HARD TIMES.
Railroads Will Fight Reduction
In
; Freight Rates.
Washington That the railroads
which'have demanded freight increases
that will amount to $75,000,000 an
nually are in league with "big busi
ness" to enforce the rates through is
a story in circulation here.
The business interests are opposed
to remilntion such aB is Dronosed bv
President Tart, and it is said that
Wall street will join the railroads in
the fjRht for higher rates.
The jclub that is to bo held over the
interstate commerce commission and
Lthe country in general is "hard
times.' rinarjciai depression ana
panic, it is predicted, will be the out
come if the rate' increases are not
granted and the' business interests let
alone. This 'is said to have been in
timated plainly enough to be a Wall
street threat.' fejg' business men and
railroad officials'-who have been in
Washington during the discussion of
the rate question are said to have been
very pessimistic, in their views for the
future financial outlook. . Prosperity
seems to have lost its charm, according
to the magnatesand'tho way in which
they have said it ' has been tantamount
to an expression of their ir.ten.tjon to
bring about a flnatTcial depression, offi
cials here say.
nr-'v'-
Small Farms jlncreasing.
Rapid.Bettlement'Of. tho country, ad
jacent to Bend, PrJneYillc,' liakeview
and Silver. Lake, Oregon, has caused
the national' forest service to mater
ially reduce-the number of catlle al
lowed to. the big cattlemen ori the
ranges of the Fremont national forest.
The reductions were made by Thomas
P. McKcnzie, of the department of
silviculture of tho'fdrest service.
The forest service's effect on the
cattle business was ghown better here
than ever before. Where, five years
ago there would have probably been
bloodshed over the efforts of the small
rancher to put his flocks on tho range,
the forest service solves the' delicate
nroblem by reducing slightly the num
ler of cattld the bier company is al
lowed and allowing for the smaller
Herds of the small rancher. 'ihe mg
cattlemen now see the advisability of
submitting to government control of
the ranges, and all trouble has been
nvoidod. Mr. McKenzie is a well in
formed man as regards Central Ore
gon conditions, and was surprised ai
tho numbeV of farmers in that country.
"Tho nnwenmars are what are called
small f armors' in that country, for they
take up farms of from 100 to 320 acres
in sizo," said Mr. McKenzie. "Many
of tho former largo owners of land aro
either breaking their farms, up into
small pieces and selling them or sell
ing off most of their land and farming
on a smaller scale."
Asked to Review Land Cases.
WnHhlnirton The Sunremo court of
tho United StateB has been petitioned
by Frederick . A. Hydo and Joost
Schneider to review the judgment of
nenla for the District of
Columbia whereby Hyde and Schneider
were .convicted of conspiracy to de
fraud tho government in connection
with land deals in California. Al
though they have been convicted and
sentenced, Hydo and Schneider( have
not served tneir terms.
Oklahoma Has 1,057,156 People,
nrnokinntnn Thn nonulation of the
(to., . . ww.. g
state of Oklahoma is 1,657,155, ac-
cording to stattstlcB or me iowi cchoub
mado public by Director Durand. This
is an increase of 242,978, or 17.2 per
cent over l,4l4,W in 1907.
Illinois' Population 5,G38,60I.
WnuhlntrtM1Tlm llOHUlation Of tllC
state of Illinois is 5,038,591, accord
ing to tho census bureau. The increase
i air) nil nr ISO rinr pfntl At tho
present apportionment; 'Illinois vould
gain four congressmen.
ESTIMATES ARE MADE.
'Columbia River Allowed $1,725,000;
Others Faro Well.
Washington Estimates of tho cost
of river and harbor improvements
throughout the United States for the
year to end July 1, 1912, contained in
the annual report of General Bixby,
chief of army' engineers, shows a total
of ?22,227,3C1.
In his report General Bixby selects
21.1 projects as worthy of congressional
appropriations. Among these recom
mendations are:
phio river, $3,550,000.
Mississippi rvier, $3,400,000.
Columbia river above Ceiilo falls to
Snake river, $25,000.
Columbia river, Ceiilo falls to Dalles
rapids, $600,000.
Columbia river below Portland,
$150,000.
Columbia river mounth, $950,000.
Los Angeles harbor, $270,000.
Ocean front, near San Luis Obispo,
Cal., $110,000.
San Francisco harbor, $30,000.
Oakland harbor, $160,000.
Eureka, Cal., harbor, $185,000.
Grays Harbor (Wash.), $300,000.
Snohomish river, $75,000.
San Joaquin river, $25,000.
Coos Bay harbor $40,0Q0.
Appropriations for the Sacramento
rfver were not recommended, as the
report of engineers had not yet been
completed.
The lakes to the gulf waterway pro
ject is not mentioned in the report.
That the rivers and harbors recom
mendations may precipitate a fight
against President Taft'B plan to elim
inate the "pork barrel" was intimated
by the politicans. It is predicted that
soon after congress convenes certain
congressmen will frame a rivers and
harbors bill carrying about $30,000,
000 in appropriations. With the usual
additions to early estimates, it is
likely that such a bill would carry be
tween $40,000,000 and $60,000,000 in
the aggregate.
The politicians base their prediction
on the president's action at the time
he signed a measure carrying $50,000,
000 for the same purpose. At that
time he Bent a message to congress
which aBid:
"I once. reached a conclusion that it
was my duty to interpose a veto in
order, if possible, to secure a change
of method of framing these bills. Sub
sequent consideration has altered my
view of my duty."
The president withheld his veto be
cause for three years there had been
no rivers and harbors appropriations
and had he failed to sign the measure,
government engineers would have been
seriously handicapped.
The White House idea is embodied
in General Bixby's recommendations,
that money should be set aside for the
prompt completion of more important
projects, and that scattering appropri
ations for projects which have been
dragging along for years should be
withheld..
Senator Burton staunchly supports
the president and is prepared to make
a strong fight against piecemeal appro
priations, such as legislators whose
political lives depend on the govern
ment appropriations would introduce.
The same legislators are placed in the
predicament of organizing a fight to
pass a "pork barrel" bill over the veto
of the president.
YEAR IS BIG FOR LIQUOR.
Tobacco Also Furnishes Record Gov
ernment Revenue.
Washington The United States has
just passed through a banner year for
drinks, smokes and oleomargine. Here
is the nation's record for the 12 months
ended on June 30, as it shows in the
figures of the internal revenue bu
reau: Of distilled spirits, 163,000,000 gal
lons, 30,000,000 gallons' more than the
year before.
Of fermented liquors, 59,485,111
barrels, an increase of 3,000,000.
Of cigars, 7,600,000,000, or 160,
1)00,000 more than 1909.
Of cigarettes, 6,830,000,000, an in
crease of 1,000,000,000.
Of plug, fine cut, cube cut, granu
lated or sliced Bmoking or chewing to
bacco or snuff, 402,000,000 pounds,
4,000,000 more than the year before.
Of oleomargarine, 141,862,282
pounds, 60,000,000 pounds increase.
Illicit distilling and manufacturing
of moonshine whisky is on the in
crease "especially," the bureau Bays,
"where there are state-wide prohi
bition laws."
The internal revenue receipts on all
these things and certain other things,
such as playing cards and mixed flour
amounted to more than $289,000,000.
Army is In Need of Men.
Los Angeles Captain Charles T.
Elliott, U. S retired, In charge of the
recruiting office hore, has received tel
egraphic notice from the secretary of
war that the army is in need of re
cruits in largo numbers and he is di
rected to take action at once to in
crease tho productiveness of his re
cruiting district, comprising Southern
California, by establishing as many
branch offices as he can care for.
Three new stations will be established.
t
Lorimer Report Duo Soon.
Washington Senator Burrows, of
Michigan, chairman of tho senate com
mittee on privileges and elections, said
that tho sub-committeo that investigat
ed in Chicago tho charges against
Senator Lorimer, of Illinois, would
make a full report to tho committee
Immediately after New Year's.
CHINESE LAUNDRY DOOMED.
Nation-Wide Crusade Against Thorn
Is Proposed.
Chicago The doom of the Chinese
laundry as it exists today may be tho
result of a nation-wide organization
soon to be inaugurated. A crusade of
education is Jto be carried on through
newspapers and .magazines warning
against the unsanitary conditions.
Tho movement had its inception in
Chicago and it in expected the first
effects will be felt here through an or
dinance which soon will be reported to
the city council providing stringent
regulations for all establishments en
gaged in supplying clean linen.
The ordinance originated with the
health department, and at once re
ceived the co-operation of the Laundry
association, which obtained the incor
poration in the ordinance of clauses
even more stringent than those origin
ally drafted. The ordinance has been
favorably reported by the committee
in charge and its passage is practically
assured.
It ib declared the statistics of the
health department show that epidemics
of scarlet fever, diphtheria and other
diseases were more prevalent in dis
tricts where Chinese laundries were
thickest, and these laundries have been
the cause of spreading disease.
CENSUS FIGURES FOR
PORTLAND AND SEATTLE.
i
Washington The population of
Portland is 207,214, compared with
90,426 in 1909, and 46,385 in 1890.
The increase from 1900 to 1910 there
fore is 116,788, or 129.2 per cent, as
compared with an increase for the pre
ceding decade of 44,041, or 94.9 per
cent.
The population of Seattle is 237,194,
an increase of 156,623, or 194 per cent
over 80,671 in 1900. The population
in 1890 was 37,834.
CcnsuB Director Durand said that
until the complete returns for Oregon
are published, showing the population
of Portland's suburbs, a just compar
ison of the population of the two cities
could not be made. . Seattle has an
nexed its Buburbs; a very considerable
population, similarly contiguous to
Portland, is outside its corporate
limits.
The revision of the Portland figures
resulted in the elimination of 15,745
names. The number taken from Se
attle's count was 11,188.
HEIRESSES TO WORK LAND.
Rich Illinois Girls Take Up Montana
Homesteads.
Aurora, 111. Miss Winnie Bensch
bach, whose father, William Bensch
bach. of Princeton, is one of the
wealthiest men in Central Illinois, and
Miss Kathryn Smith, daughter of W.
I. Smith, also a wealthy resident of
Princeton, have taken up land claims
in Montana and next April will leave
their homes and go to the wilderness,
16 miles from Roundup, Mont., to work
their homesteads.
Each girl will fall heiress to a for
tune of close to $250,000. They have
each filed on 160 acres and will live in
log cabins for 14 months. Their
claims adjoin and the two cabins will
be but 30 feet apart. Both girls say
they understand farming and will
superintend the work on their claims.
THIEF CUTS OFF GIRL'S HAIR
Makes Away With Tresses But Leaves
Jewels Untouched.
Seattle Leaving untouched valua
ble jewels and watches which lay on
her dresser, a miscreant whose identity
is unknown, to the police, entered the
room of Miss Bertha M. Parks, 19
years old, at her home, 1216 East
Alder streetand while she was sleep
ing, with her sister, cut from her head
long tresses. of deep auburn hair, and
escaped with his plunder.
Miss Parks immediately became hys
terical and a physician had to be sum
moned in an effort to quiet her. She
had not been disturbed in the least, yet
her auburn tresses, nearly three feet
long, were gone. Her sister had not
heard any one in the room, but heavy
tracks made by muddy feet were visi
ble on the carpet.
Hostile Natives Killed.
Manila Detachments of troops and
constabulary are operating against tho
hostile Manobos in Davao, Mindanao
island. One column has killed several
of the tribesmen, these including two
who were implicated in the murder of
Earl Geer, a planter from Seattle.
Another column has killed three impli
cated in the murder of Geer and other
planters, and has recovered Geer's
body. A third detachment had two
soldiers wounded, while a fourth lost
one man killed in ambush. The round
ing up of the tribesmen continues.
Snowsheds Wreck Scene,
Truckee, Cal. A wreck occurred on
the Southern Pacific in the snowsheds
near Soda Springs at 2:30 o'clock
Monday morning which delayed traffic
more than six hours. Two cars of a
west-bound freight train were wrecked
and tore down 200 feet of snowshed,
scattering the heavy timbers in a mass
on the track. Rails were torn out for
a similar distance. A wrecking outfit
from Truckee cleared the track.
Union Man Faces Death.
Paris A jury In ths court of assizes
at Rouenbureen imposed tho death pen
alty on Secrctnry Durand, of tho Coal
Handlers' union, who was accused of
instigating the murder of Foreman
Donge during tho strike on the dockB
at Havre in September. Donge turned
strikebreaker and returned to work.
Soon afterward he was beaten to death
In the streets.
MANY GIRLS DIE
IN FtRE TRAP
Panic-Stricen Employes Leap
to Awful Death.
Pour From Windows to Fire Escapes
and Fall in Shower Uponv
Firemen's Heads.
Newark, N. J. In "ten minutes 25
girls were burned alive or crushed to
death on the pavement by leaping from
the windows and fire escapes of the
four-Btory factory building at Orange
and High streets, occupied on the top
floor by an underwear manufacturing
concern.
It was on the top floor where tho
death list was heaviest. The lower
floors were occupied by two paper box
concerns and two electrical fixture fac
tories. The latest count shows that 20
of the 25 bodies recovered have been
identified and that six girls are misB
ing. They may be among the uniden
tified or yet in the ruins. The collapse
of a wall interrupted the search for
bodies.
Fifty were taken to tho hospital, of
whom two may die.
Among the injured is Joseph E.
Sloan, deputy fire chief, who was over
taken by the falling wall and burled in
bricks and rubbish. He is badly hurt
but may recover.
The rush of the flames was so swift
and threw such terror into the girls on
the top floor that the body of one was
found still seated on a charred stool
beside the machine at which she had
been working.
Horrible as must have been what oc
curred in the crowded upper rooms,
what befell outside in the bright sun
light was more horrible.
The building was exceedingly in
flammable and the first gush of flames
had cut off all escape by the stairwayB.
The elevators made one trip, but took
down no passengers and never came
back. The only exit waB by the fire
escapeB, the lower platforms of which
were 25 feet from the street.
Onto these overcrowded and steep
lanes, scorched dancing hot by the jets
of flame from the lower windows,
pressed forward a, mob of women, blind
withpanic, driven by the fire and the
others behind them.
A net had been spread beneath the
windows and the girls began to jump,
'like rats out of a burning bin,' was
the way a fireman described the de
scent. They came out of the windows like
thick treacle, rolled upon the heads of
those below them and cascaded off the
fire escape to the pavement 60 feet be
low. Some of them stood in the windows
outlined against the flames and jumped
clear. Others jumped from the land
ings, still others from the steps where
they stood. The air was full of them
and they fell everywhere into the net,
on the necks of the firemen, and 15 of
them on the hard stone slabs.
When the awful rain ceased there
were eight dead in the street, and the
gutters ran red. Seven were so badly
crushed they died in hospitals.
MEXICAN REBELS ROUTED.
Government Troops Kill Fifteen and
Wound Many.
Chihuahua, Mexico In an engage
ment near this city which lasted from
9 o'clock in the morning until 3 o'clock
in the afternoon, 600 Federal troops
routed a force of 400 Maderoists, driv
ing them repeatedly from a strong po
sition and compelling them to take to
the moutains.
The revolutionists lost 15 killed and
many wounded. There were no fatal
ities on the Federal side, but several,
including three officers, were wounded.
General Navarro was in command of
the Federal troops. He left Chihuahua
at 5 o'clock in the morning at the head
of four companies of the second battal
ion and two squads of cavalry from the
13th regiment.
Near Fresno, 12 miles out, one of
the squads of cavalry fell behind to
guard the road. They were ambushed
by the rebels, who opened fire from
hills on both sides of the highway.
After several hours of heavy fighting
the rebels broke far the mountains.
Isthmus Flight Planned.
New fork Clifford B. Harmon and
Claude Grahame-White, who will leave
Europe on November 30, propose to
fly across the English Channel before
January 1. On his return to this
side, Mr. Harmon will attempt to
fly from the deck of the Hamburg
American liner "Moltke" anchored off
Colon, across the isthmus of Panama,
to the Pacific. Mr. Harmon has ar
ranged this aerial trip from the Atlan
tic to the Pacific as a demonstration'on
behalf of tho aeronautical reBerve, "of
which ho is chief os staff.
Michael Cudahy Is Dead.
Chicago Michael Cudahy, founder
of the packing firm bearing his name,
died at 8:45 o'clock Monday night at a
hospital here," of double pneumonia.
Mr. Cudahy had been ill five days, the
disease becoming Berioua Saturday
morning. Mr. Cudahy was born in
Callan, Country Killkenny, Ireland,
December 17, 1841. Ho came to tho
United States with his parents In
1849, the family settling at Milwau
kee. Ban on Whisky Is 'Upheld.'"'
Knoxville, Tenn. The Tennessee
Supreme court holds as constitutional
the act of the Tennessee legislature of
1909 prohibiting the manufacture of
whiskey in Tennessee.
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