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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON
THURSDAY, MARCH S, 1908,
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ed managed to turn back and they
reached the fire escape and the win
dow in the rear. What happened at
the foot oi that first flight of stair
will never be known for all those who
were, caught in the full fury of the
tunic were killed. After the flames
had died away, however, huge heaps
of little bodies, burned by fire and
trampled to things of horror told the
tale as well as anybody need know it
Various and unconfirmed statements
are made as to the cause of the fire
and also that the doors of the build
ing had been locked at the front en
trance while but one door of the rear
entry was unfastened. Janitor Fritz
Herter, himself a believer of the
children, says that the doors were
open according to custom. At any
rate the congestion of fleeing chil
dren in the hallway below effectually
tarred the way and the little ones
went to their death totally unable to
evade the flames. Within three hours
after the start of the fire it had burn
ed itself out and the work of recov
ering the bodies' proceeded;
The village fire department only
las two engines and neither upon ar
rival at the fire was at all effective
in stemming the flames. Janitor Her
ter could remember little of what
happened after the fire started. "I
was sweeping the basement," he said,
"when I looked up and saw a wisp
of smoke curling out from beneath
the front stairway. I ran to the fire
alarm and puled the gong that sound
ed throughout the building. Then I
ran to the front and rear doors. I
cannot remember what happened next
except that I saw the flames shoot
ing all about and the little children
running down through them scream
ing. Some fell near the entrance and
others tumbled over them. I saw my
little daughter Helen among them. I
tried to put her out but the flames
drove me back. I had to leave my
child to die." Herter himself was
badly burned about the head.
Miss Catherine Wheeler, one bf the
nine teachers in the school lost her
life in a vain effort to marshal the
pupils of her class and lead them to
safety. She died in the crush at the
rear door. Her room was on the
second floor, and when the firm alarm
was founded she marched her pupils
out into the hall, thinking it was only
a fire drill. Then the truth dawned
upon both teacher and pupils and her
control was lost.
.The children in a frenzy plunged
into a struggling mass ahead of them.
Miss Wheeler attempted to stem the
rush but went down under it and her
body was found an hour later piled
nigh with those of her pupils. Miss
Fisk, another teacher, was taken out
alive, but she cannot live.
Burning through the supports of
the first floor the flames passed up
ward until all three floors crashed
into the smouldering pile in the base
ment. After the fire had practically
burned itself out the work of rescue
of bodies began by the firemen and
railroad employes from the Lake
shore shops. The railroad company
turned over one of its buildings to
be used as a temporary morgue and
thither the charred and broken little
bodies were removed as fast as they
i-raiM he duir from the ruins. Within
five hours practically all had been
rmnvtd. . Thev were placed in rows.
i.tontifiratinn were made only by
means of dothingVor trinkets. The
fir had swept away nearly all sem-
Mance to human features in the great
majority of instances, Distracted
parents soon began to gather and the
work of identification of blackened
corpses began. .
The gruesome task of taking out
rh blackened bits of human remains
was one of the horrors. The line of
rescuers, backed by half a doien am
bulances, drew up as the bodies were
untangled from the debris.
Pataa la the lack and aMt may come
from the kidneys or liver. Laaft Family
Medicine, the tonic-laxative, aad a great
kidney and liver remedy,, will give relief.
POOR LITTLE KID.
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 4.-By one
of the strongest decisions ever made
here", Jacob Schilb of Minneapolis was
to-day granted custody of his daugh
ter, Mildred, 10 years old, whom he
had sought for seven years from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, and recently
found at the home of her mother, his
former wife. whois now married to
another. Singular conditions attach
to the award, Judge Monroe stipula
ting that Schilb must make his home
in Los Angeles, placed the kidnapped
child in the custody of another wo
man and win the affection of little
Mildred before he may actually have
her in his keeping. And he must also
permit the mother to visit the child.
Schilb, who also married again after
the divorce from his first wife, de
clares he is glad to comply with the
conditions.
When the decision was rendered
early this morning, the mother Mrs.
Anna M. Malody, fainted. She re
mains unconscious tonight and it is
feared she will not recover.
THREATENING LETTERS.
NEW YORK, March 4. Miss
Grace Strachan, who has led the
fight in the legislature for pay for
women teachers equal to that given
men in the same positions, has in
formed the police of Brooklyn, where
she lives, that she has recently re
ceived letters threatening her with
death if she does not give up her fight
for the equal pay bills in the legisla
ture. Although the police are in
clined to think the sending of the
letters a joke, detectives have been
out on the case and the postoffice
authorities have been notified
' Beecher's Wedding Fees.
When Colll.s P. Huntington was mar
ried for the second time Henry Ward"
Beecher performed the marriage cere
mony. Huntington's first wife bad
been dead less than a year, and he de
sired the second marriage kept secret
until his letnm from Europe. He gave
Mr. Beecher a marriage fee of f 1,500.
When Huntington returned gome
months later he went through a pub
lic ceremony, and Beecher again offici
ated. He gave Beecher another fee of
f 1,500. The great preacher had his hu
mor aroused by his second fee. Turn
ing to Huntington, be said, "Oolite, I
do wish you were a Mormon." Lyce-
nmlte and Talent
LATEST III SUITINGS
Having returned from San Francisco with a splendid stock of spring
and summer suitings of the latest style and having spent several weeks
In studying the fashions prevalent in that city, we are now more than
ever in a position to give thorough satisfaction to the most fastidious
dresser. NOT IN WORDS, BUT IN DEEDS.
HAUTALA & RAITANEN
Tailors, Corner Eleventh and Bond Streets
Cavalry Scout Betrayed By a
Girl In the South,
HE WAITED FOR FRESH MILK
But Wat' Confronted by the Com
mand to Thow up Hit Handi -She
v.FeU in Love With the Scout and
Pined and Died.
' In 1861 to 1865 I was a cavalry
man and a scout During Sherman's
continued fight on his way to Atlanta
the enemy would make a stands throw
up breastwork and thus bring our
forces to halt. Then our cavalry
would push out on his flank, get in
his rear, and his retreat would com
mence again. On one of these oc
casions, when we were on his flank,
our cavalry commander sent me in
advance to report on the position he
proposed to occupy. I went in uni
form, Which, in case I was taken,
would protect me from the fate of a
spy. After going the first half of
the distance on my horse I picketed
him and walked. I had a map show
ing the roads over which the Confed
erates would march if they retreated,
and I crossed most of them without
seeing any large bodies of troops. So
I resolved to return and report the
fact to the general
Passing through a wood just off
the road, I came upon a house, one of
those southern dwellings with an
open space between two parts. In
this case each part was but a single
room. Being concealed by trees, I
considered it a good place for rest
and something to eat. So I went up
to the open door and knocked.
A girl about eighteen came to an
swer the summons. When she saw a
strapping young fellow in blue and
yellow, with a carbine slung over his
back, she turned pale. But I smiled
at her as pleasantly as I could, which
seemed to reassure her. She was
pretty, so far as a country girl of her
station could be pretty, and, judging
from an ambrotype in the possession
of my grandchildren taken at that
time, I was a fine looking young man.
I resolved to work my way into her
good graces and kept up a perpetual
look of admiration for the purpose.
I told her that, though a Yankee, I
had no reason to do her any harm and
if she would give me a snack I would
consider myself eternally obliged.
There was no one in the house ex
cept the girl and an old woman who
kept herself in one of the rooms. The
girl held me till just before dark.
Then I was about to pull away from
her, but she said if I would wait till
she could find the cow she would fill
my canteen with "fresh milk. She
took a pail and went away. I waited
nearly half an hour and was about to
leave without a goodby or the milk
when I heard a man's voice order me
to throw up my hands. I was sitting
on the porch between the two parts
of the house. My carbine was rest
ing against a chair. I had my revol
ver, but dare not draw it, so 1 put my
hands above my head arid waited. A
man in butternut advanced from be
hind a tree covering me with a shot
gun, followed by two other men and
lastly the girl. She had gone away
for the purpose of betraying me.
I was disarmed, and the men
searched me, finding the map, which
they appropriated. One of them went
away and returned with a Confcrer
ate officer and half a dozen men, all
mounted. The officer looked at the
map, then at me, and said:
"This is spy work. You are in
uniform, but you will be treated as a
spy." ".
The girl was standing by, different
expressions flitting across her face.
At times she seemed proud of what
she had done, then very sorry for it.
She asked tfie officer how a spy was
treated, and when he said "Hanged!"
she turned white as a sheet. The
Confederates put a lariat around my
neck and, mounting their horses,
started me off at a run on foot before
them. I cast a reproachful glance
back at the girl and saw on her face
a look of horror at what she had
done.
We had gone a mile when we met
a troop of cavalry and turned back
with them. Repassing the house we
had left, the officers who had me in
charge told the commander of the
troop that he would await "the gen
eral" there, and I was 'permitted to
sit on the porch in charge of two sen
tinels. Suddenly there was a sound
of breaking twigs, and a scattered
line of horse-men
through the wood.
My guard darted away, ami when
the newcomers reached m the of
ficer commanding them was the cap
tain of my own company.
My general had recoiled order to
push on, which he had done without
awaiting my return, 1 told him that
my guards had been awaiting the
coming of the general, which meant
that the enemy were again retreating.
As soon as I had recovered from
this mdden reprieve I expected to
be hanged I turned to look at the
girl who had betrayed me. I never
saw such pleading in any woman's
eyes, but 1 was in no mood for it
With a look of contempt, 1 turned
away from her and soon after left
the house. "V
Years after while on a train going
from the west of Atlanta I got off at
a station from which I haa started
my scout and drove over to the scene
of my adventure. I found the house,
but a new family in tt. I asked a
woman living there what had become
of the girl.
"Oh, the gal that was livin' yere in
'64? She's dead. She betrayed a
Yankee sojer that asked her fo' a
snack. She'd fallen in love with him.
but she didn't know it. He was tuk
back by his own men, and the gal
pined and died."
PERSONAL MENTION
Ike Davis, of Seattle, is a visitor to
Astoria. ;
R. W. McLear is in Astoria from
San Francisco.
O. Coulter and wife of Oysterville.
Wash., are guests at the Occident.
Chas. Spindler, of New York, ar
rived in Astoria yesterday,
J. C. Driscoll of Portland made one
of his periodical trips to Astoria yesterday.
WEIGHS 250 TONS.
May Bring Egyptian Tom.b to Chic
ago for Field Museum.
CHICAGO, Mar. 4. An ancient
Egyptian tomb, weighing 250 tons
situated near the pyramids twenty
miles from Cairo, may be removed to
Chicago as a speciment for exhibition
in the Field Museum of Natural Hist
ory.- A representative of the museum
is making preparations for the, trans
portation of the relic, according to
reports from Cairo.
The tomb is near pyramid Sak
kard and is one
est most frequen
ists in Egypt A great
the museum authorities in removing
the relic bodily from Egypt to Chi
cago. It will be taken apart and
shipped to America in sections.
It is believed Professor George
A. Dorsey, who is making an exten
sive tour in securing relics and speci
mens for the museum, has recom
mended the removal of the tomb.
Prof. James H. Breasted, the Univer
sity of Chicago expedition into Egypt
in March in search of ancient relics,
has visited the tomb several times
and studied it.
,airu.
is near pyramid Sak
! of the objects of in A
icntly visited by toA
A great task is bcforlV
ClUIM BOSS
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Ml MARINE ClAICl
FOUR GIRLS
Restored to Health by Lydla E.
Piukham's Vegetable Compound.
Ktmd Whmt Thy Jay..
MlMMIllnKon.530
EartWth Street, New
York, writes: "Lydia
K. Plnkbam's Vegtt
ible Compound over-
came irregularities, pe-
Inouio luuenne, ana
nervous headaches.
latter everything eta
' bad failed to help me,
and I feel it a duty to
let others know of it."
KatliarieC'raig,23M
i Lafayette St., Denver,
.Col., writea: "Thanks
I to Lydia K. Finkbam's
I VeeeUbleCom pound I
F am well, af ter suffering
for montlii from ner
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Mhu Marl Stolten
man, of Laurel, la.,
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from suppression,
indigestion, and poor
circulation. Lydla K.
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MIm Ellen MTOlnon,
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ache, and eatabllihed
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failed to help me."
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female Uls.
and has positively cured thotwandsof
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera
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periodic pains, backache, that bearing-down
feeling, flatulency, indiges
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Why don't you try it? '
Mrs. Plnkham Invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
MAll JTOlTIMWl
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Cheap Rates From the East to
Astoria via 0. R. & II,
The following Js a list of t (aw points from which cheap ratal will
apply between March 1st and April JOthi
Atlanta, Qa.......... ....... $51.6$
Baltimore, Md 54JS
Boston, Mill 1 1 ...... ...... J4.4S
Buffalo, N. .. ............. 47.50
Burlington, la...... 34.60
Chicago, III 38.00
Cincinnati, O. 42.20
Cleveland, O. ...... 44.75
Toledo, O , 43.50
Des Moines, la 32.S5
Louisville, Ky.. 41.70
Memphis, Tenn, 39.05
Milwaukee, Wis. ........... 38.00
Ntw York, N. Y........... 155.00
Oklahoma, O. T,..,. 33.45
Peoria, III.......... 50.08
Datrolt, Mich..., 45.50
Pittsburgh, Pa............. 47.00
Philadelphia ................ 5175
St Louis, Mo, 35.50
Washington, D. C... 53.25
Kanaaa City, Mo..,. 30.00
St. Joseph, Mo....... 30.00
Omaha, Heb... ...... ...... 30.00
St Paul Minn..... 30.00
Minneapolis Minn 30.00
Monev can hm denoatteA here and tickets will be furnished by tl
graph without additional coat For further Information call on
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PARCEL POST SYSTEM fc
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vide that where a package is of un
due size or weight a formal notice
shal be scrit to the addresses to call
for it. This practice would continue
were the weight limit increased to 11
pounds, in the case of offices having
free delivery. Nor would it work a
hardship, for under the preset weight
limit of four pounds the average
weight of parcels sent through the
mails is but one-third of a pound.
Increasing the weight limit would
not have nearly as great an effect on
the average weight of parcels mailed
as seems to be commonly supposed.
Where parcel were addressed to per
sons living on rural routes they
would, of course, be delivered by the
rural carriers, who would not thereby
be inconvenienced, to the boxes of
the patrons).1 ; ; : . . .' ;
"It lias been claimed that the special
local rate recommended for packages
handled on rural routes would event
ually be made applicable to the entire
postal service. The impossibility of
this becomes apparent when attention
is directed to the cost of railroad
transportation, which has no part in
the former service. About $45,000,-
000 was paid last year for mail trans
portation and $6,000,000., for . postal
cars."'.'
March 13 he will sell at public auction
the assets of the firm which is re
mcmbcrcd by old timers as one of the
first in the business in the downtown
district.
The liabilities are estimated at
about $20,000 and the assets at about
$6,000.
When the firm changed its location
to Madison and Wabash Avenue the
trade did not follow it. That is
given as the main reason for the fail
lire. The firm occupied the corner of
Clark and Madison Streets for 27
years. For many years the Press
Club of Chicago occupied the adjoin
ing building and the drug store, be
ing one of the first to keep open all
night, was a great resort for the old
time newspaper men.
OLD DRUG HOUSE FAILS.
CHICAGO, Mar. 4. Aftef a career
of half a centuary in Chicago, the
drug firm of Dale and Scmpill has
gone into voluntary bankruptcy. '.. 5
Financial ' difficulties . encountered
since moving three years ago from
the corner of Clark . and, ' Madison
Streets culminated yesterday 1 in the
appointment of a receiver and on
CASTOR I A
Por Infanta and Children.
pis Kind Yea Kara Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of I
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Are You- 111?
WHY NOT CONSULT
Mrs. 0. S. Fowler
at Occident Hotel? She will tell you
frankly whether you can be cured or
not, and teach you to become your
own physician in five lessons.' Her
classes on the use of electricity to
cure disease started Tuesday March
3rd, at 2:30 and 7:30 p. m . '
Health, consultations and phern
ological examinations (faily "from 9
ft nt. to 9 p. m. until March 11th.
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