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OKLAHOMA TORNADO Demolishes Town ol Snyder, Kill Iny Many Inhabitants. HALF OF THE POPULATION GONE Ctmt at Night When People Were Asleep Five Hundred Dead and Injured. Oklahoma City, May II. Telephone report from llobart.Okla., indicate that the entire town of Knyder, (). T., was destroyed by a tornado. A train of iliH tirs, muses ami other assistant i mild to have left llobart for Knyder. The wire are reported down la-tween Snyder and other neighboring town and all' communication 1 being re ceived from llobart. Hundreds Dead and Injured. (iuthrie, . T., May 11. Ijite re jM.rts from llobart, Oklu., and Chicka eaw, I. T., place the number of dead and injured in the tornado at Knyder, Oklu., at 500. The storm broke over the town at 11 o'clock at night, completely demolish ing it, as near as reports can be ob tained. The tlrst news of the disaster wan received at llobart, by telephone, giving a bald statement of the tornado's having struck the town. The wires, both telegraph and telephone, then went down and no further news has been obtained directly from Knyder. It is now impossible to reach Law ton, the nearest town to Knyder, and all the telegraphic communications are reported down between t hat place ami Snyder. Itescue tiaiiis have been started from llobart and Chickasaw, which will ar rive nt Snyder this morning. TRAIN STRIKES DYNAMITE. Terrific Exnlosion Kills Fifty and lu jures a Hundred. Iliirrisburg, Pa., May 11. An ex press train on the Pennsylvania rail 'road ran into a freight train in which there were two car loaded with dyna mite at 1 :.'I0 o'clock this morning in Mouth HtirriHbtirg, near the plant of the Paxtang Light, Heat and Power -company. Three terrillic explosions, hat broke windows all over the city, followed, and the two train were com pletely wrecked ami took lire. It was estimated at 3 o'clock that 50 person were killed and 100 injured, though these figures may )e too small. It is impossible to ascertain the exact number of fatalities, because thV wreckage, in which many ui the passen gers and some member of the train crews are pinned, is still ablaze aie! unapproachable, and many small ex plosion occur continually. When the It ret exlposion is-currcd, bodies were thrown clear out of the ttcrth in the sleeping car and landed lown the railroad embankment, some even having been hurled into the Kus uehann.i river, vhich parallels the railroad at that place. MAY FIGHT FRANCE. Japan Accuses Her of Lending Active Aid to Russia. - Iuidon, May 1 1 . The new from Tokio is of the most alarming charac ter. The outburst of popular indigna tion against France for her violation of neutrality is grow ing and already eiialH the hitter feeling that previled against Kussia prior to the breaking out of the war. Should Kojest vensky now return to French waters, it is doubtful if the Japanese government could calm the populace, and hostili ties must result. These would suicly involve Great Britain in the war, and the outcome would be in doubt. Oiptomata here in Loudon unite in charac terixing the rituation as ex tremely grave. Fiance's attitude, while on the surface conciliatory, un derneath is far from that, and the French ollicial class seem determined to resent Japan's protests, claiming that French neutrality is on a standard by itself, and should not be compared with that of any other nation. Millions from Alaska. Seattle, May 11. F. A. Wing, United States assuycr, states that from inform ation he ha received from Alaska, and the Northwest Territoiy this winter, the output of gold from the northern country thi year will total $22,000, 000, if not more. Ko far this winter lie has not heard any unfavorable re port from any section in which mining is being carried on. From the Klon dike alono Mr. Wing predicts an out put of from $10,000,000, to $12,000, 000, the balance coming from the American side. Russians Claim Advantage. St. Petersburg, May 11. Much satis faction was expressed at the admiralty at the uniting of the divisions of Ad miral Hojestvensky's squadron, experts calculating that the Russian admiral now enjoys a superiority over his ad versary of 25 per cent of the ships of the line. The impression here is that it will require a week for Nebogatoff to coal and get everything; in ship-shape for the final stage of the journey to Vladivostok. Two Inches of Snow In Wyoming. Cheyenne, May 11. Southwestern Wyoming is covered with a heavy snow after the storm of yesterday and lust night. . The snow is over two inches deep on the luvul. TWENTY-NINE ARE DEAD. Marquette, Kansas, In Path of Tor nado's Destructive Sweep. Marquette,' Kan., May 10. Follow ing it terrific rainstorm, n tornado from I ho south tort u I'fllli through the rini dciiee h rt of thin town fit midnight Isst night, destroying almost every house in llH path Mini causing the death of 21 iiimI injury to 41 peronK( several of wliom will die. An unusually lint and oppressive afternoon, during which tint atmosphcie wim loaded with electricity, wa fol lowed ly a night peculiar for a deluge of rain. Thi continued until 11:55 j. in., when the toriiBdo, which had formed Hhont three mile south of town, pent ltd force among the liest rcl dence, dashing them into ruin, in w hich tliir occupants worn entombed. It wmi gone 1" five minute and contin ued to inarlt ItM path with devastation for many mile northward. The people of the town were depend ent entirely mi their own reource, for all telegraph and telephone wire were down and only by sending out to neigh boring town wan it possible to get help. Not until H o'clock in the morning Iid physician begin to arrive from outside, and they net to work to euro for the wounded. When the missing in Marquette had l.een pretty thoroughly accounted for, the Heart hern di reeled their attention to the surrounding country. Hoou half a dozen wagon loads of dead and injured had heeu brought to the town from the district adjoining it on the Hoiith. Tonight order Iiiim been brought out of the chaos, and u relief committee has hegun dispensing re'.ief. Among the relief sent from nearby towns were 10 pupils from Itcthuny college, who acted ail nurse. TAFT'S PLAIN TALK. Tells Railroad Men Rate Law Must Be Passed. Washington, May 10. Secretary Taft fairly took the breath of the .'100 tail way men, member of the Interna tional Railway congress, dining tonight ax the guest ol the American Railway association at the New Willard hotel, when, after being introduced an "the apostle from tin; Philippines," be em phatically declined that railway rate legislation iiitiHl come ; that, if the rail way ineii of the country were wine, they would aid and not hinder it; that the sentiment of the country in such that failure of proper regulation meant a campiiigu on the subject that would do no good to tin railroadx Absolute silence reigned as Secretary Taft pMike hia mind on the subject of rated. He wa positively against gov ernment ownership, he sa:d, believing that nothing ho deleterious could come to the country as tnis solution of the question. "Hut," he continued, "you cannot run railroads as you would run private huiucs. Yon mtiHt reHpoiid to the public demand. If there in danger of diHcriminatioii, then you mud allow the establishment of Home tribunal that w ill remedy that discrimination." NEW GERMAN TREATY NEEDED. Gonsul General Predicts Loss of Ex port Trade Otherwise. Washington, May 10. Consul tienc- lal Mason, reporting to the State de partment upon the disastrous effect upon trade with (icrmany involved by the new (ierniun taiiff law, which in to go into effect next March, urgea "the picparation of a new and carefully drawn treaty of amity which will pro mote tt normal and increased reciprocal trade while coiiHerving and protecting the interests of both nutioiiH." Mr. Mam m my a that it is hia opinion icrmany in sharply divided on the question whether the most favored na tion claiine of the ( icnnan-American treaty will be allowed to continue after the new commercial treaties become effective. The commercial and indus trial classes generally, he savs, are op posed to a drastic policy which might lead to reprisals and increase the coat of bread. The State department is daily re ceiving protests from large American btiHineNH houses against the new tier man tariff ratcH, which they claim will destroy their (ierjiuin export trude. Still in French Waters. London, May 10. There iH no furth er news of the w hereabouts of the fleets of Admirals Hotest vensky ami Nebogat off and the dispatches wired from Paris to the effect that they have loft French waters are not credited here. That they joined in French wators is certain and that they are still there is likewise a palpable fact. That they are to move northward may be so, hut it is not be cause France demands it, but rather lie cause the Russian commanders feel that the time has come to risk everything on a desperate move. Frauds in Army Supplies. St. Petersburg, May 10. The Slovo prints a rumor of the liscovery of enormous defalcations in flie Commis sary department of the army. Count von Vorontsseff-Dasnkoff is expected to inaugurate his reign as viceroy of the Caucasus by reopening the question of the Armenian church funds. Maxim Gorky lias received permission to live anywhere in Russia except in St. Petersburg, and is said to have leased a country place near the capital, Shake-Up Among Gotham Police. New York, May 10. The most ex tensive shake-up in the New York po lice department in years took place to day, when Commissioner McAdoo an nounced the retirement of two inspect ors, ten captains and 45 sergeants on the ground of physical disability. CANAL WILL CURE Shipment by Panama Now Slow and Expensive. REPORT SENT TO PRESIDENT Rates by Government Railroad Must be Very Low to Offset Loss In Handling. , Kan Francisco, May 9. A matter of great commercial importance to the Pacific coaHt Ih dicued in a report that ban leen prepared for the Informa tion of President Roosevelt, Secretary Taft, of the War department, and J. L. Uristow, a Hpecial cominiHHioner ap pointed by President RooHevelt to visit thin c,ast and acquire facta. Thequee tlon refer to the utility of the Panama route for the movement of freight 1) tween Kan Francisco and the Atlantic state. The report waa Htibmitted to W. It. Wheeler, W. J. Duttori an.l Rnfii P. Jennings. It was adopted by the trustee of the chamber of com merce and forwarded to Washington in orinteil form by the chairln-r. The report says in part: "The present freight schedule via Panama in apparently based on the overland railroad freight achedule, the charge of the former varying from 7H to i0 per cent, w ith an averaged alwnit H.'t per cent of the latter; in other word, the differential in favor of the Panama route, with ita 30-day trip an compared with the transcontinental route w ith ita 14-day trip, are ho Hinall that the Hhiper either east or west doe not consider the saving Hiiflicient to cover the risk of damage or breakage in tiie neceHsary several handlings of gfssls via Panama. "Under government ow nership of the Panama railroad and the sea route to New York from Colon, the only ques tion to be considered would be whether the freight ratcH could lm made Hufli ciently low U make the saving on tran portation expense an object to the Hhip ht and enough to offset the additional time required in transit." GOOD MEN GO UP. Forestry Service is Improved Under Civil Service Rules. Waahington, May 9. Up to a few months ago the forestry Hervice, includ ing forest inspectors, forest superin tendents, forest assistants and forest ranger, were outsidrf the classified ser vice, and the positions paying all the way from $7-'0 to $2,000 a year were prey for influential politicians. As was to be expected, many incompetents were loaded onto the government, 'and there was much complaint because of the inelliciency of the forestry force. December 17, li04, the president brought the forestry under civil service protection; soon thereafter congress tranHfurreii forest reserves to the con trol of the department of Agriculture, and now Clifford Pinchot, chief of the forestry bureau, who is actually in charge, is inaugurating reforms which he believes will greatly improve the service in every way. The Roo.-evelt idea of promoting good men is being applied, and the higher positions in the forestry service are liereafter to be filled by the promotion of competent men in the lower posi tions. In the new service the posi tions will be graded as follows: Forest supervisor, $1,800 to $2,500 a year; deputy forest supervisor, $1,500 to $1, 700 a year; forest ranger, $1,200 to $1,400; deputy forest ranger. $1,000 to $1,100; assistant forest ranger, $800 to $900. Persons who were in the forestry service on the date of the president's order were carried under civil service protection; hereafter all appointments will be made after examination of ap plicants and preference will be given to liM'ttl men, selecting rangers and su pervisors, when practicable, from the states in which they are to be em ployed. Copper Found in Helena. Butte, Mont., May !. A miner from Helena says rich copper ore was uncov ered today within the limits of Helena. The lead of the red metal was found adjoining the Pursell lime quarry, on the east side of the town, the lead be ing worked by the Alberta Mining company. Sixteen inches of very rich ore is in the lead and the discovery created no little excitement. Some of the ore was "blistered" in a black smith's forge and the copper and silver were very distinguishable. The ore runs $75.31 to the ton. Propose Boycott on France. Tokio, May 9.- A member of the chamber of commerce of this city has written to that organization suggest ing organized commercial retaliation on France on acocunt of the hospitality shown by her to the second Russian Pacific squadron. The writer proposes that the chambers of commerce through out the empire act jointly in boycotting the goods of French merchants. It is probable that the chamber of commerce here will not consider the question. New Road to Pacific Coast. New Orleans, May 0. The Colorado Southern, New Orleans & Pacific rail road filed a charter here today to build a railroad from New Orleans to connect with the Colorado Southern and thence to the Pacific coast. The charter bears the names of local directors. VESSELS IN COLLISION. Southwest Gale Causes H.ivoc In San Francisco Bay. Kan Francisco, May 9. A stiff gale from the southeast caused damage to several vessel in the upper bay today. The torpedo boat destroyer Paul .lone, at anchor off Ktewart Ktreet, dragged her anchor and collided with the cruiser JMiirblehead, staving in a plate of the Paul Jonen and ruining one of her life boat. The schooner Ruby, although she had two anchor out, wan carried by the gHle down the bay from her jiosi tion off Harrision street, and it wa necessary for the Marblehead to shift her anchor to avoid being struck by the schooner. The big collier Kureka, lying on the north side of Folorn street wharf, parted her stern line and wan carried by the high sea against the tug boat General Mifllin. The Mifllin wa dam aged V) the extent of perhaps $5,000. The ntern of the Eureka was damaged to the extent of several hundred dol lar. The river steamer Alvie, at Harri son street wharf, wa buffeted about by the rough seas and in her lurching lost her smokestack, Ijesides smashing her fantail and the guard rail from stem to stern, the damage amounting to about $1,000. BOATS ARE NEARLY DONE. American Designer Rushing Work in Russian Yards. Sehastopol, May 9. The torpedo boats which are being built at the gov ernment yard here, under the general sujiervision of Lewi Nixon, of New York, are nearing completion and their trial in the Black sea will begin in a few days, in order to overcome the difficulty always encountered in work in a foreign country, Mr. Nixon pro vided his own organization, with which he has pushed the construction of these boats to a state of completion. Much is expected of these torpedo Iniats. The Russian admiralty already has had practical evidence of the sea worthiness of the Nixon loats in the performance of the Gregory, which crossed the Atlantic in the face of h.-avy weather, but the future pres tige of the designer of the American battleship Oregon will depend in Rus sia ujsjn the result of the coming trials, which will be much more severe than usual, in order to test certain things claimed for them by their American constructor. 111 MADE TWENTY-DOLLAR BILLS Counterfeiters Caught After Chase from Coast to Coast. Portsmouth Va., May 9. After a vigorous chase that led through sev eral Atlantic coast cities, Secret Ser vice Oflicer T. E. Land, of Boston, to day arrested Thomas Brewster, Charles Fairbanks, and Robert Slack, all of San Francisco, charged with extensive counterfeiting operations. The trio were located at Key West, Fla., but they succeeded in eluding arrest until they reached here. It is said that large quantities of Isigus money have been circulated in all the cities through which the men passed. Together with the prisoners the secret service oflicer captured $5, 000 in counterfeit money, most of which is in the denomination of $20 bills. Oflicer Land said today that he dis covered that a large number of spurious bills were made at Buffalo, N. Y., which was the distributing point of the gang that was operating. IMMIGRANTS POURING IN. Over 12,000 Admitted at New York I.i Twelve Hours. New York, May 9. All records were broken today in the number of immi grants passing quarantine. Within 12 hours 12,039 foreigners, arriving in steerage, were permitted to enter New York, indicating that the spring influx of immigrants this year will probably exceed the records for former years. Ten trans-Atlantic liners brought this army of immigrants to the United States. They began to arrive early in the morning, and the last to pass quarantine was the Hamburg-American liner Blucher, which was admitted at t o'clock in the afternoon and added t!05 names to the already long list of foieigners arriving in the steerage. Stockmen to Organize. Denver, May 9. Today leading stockmen, from all parts of the countr, will assemble in this city to take up the work of concluding the organiza tion of the American Stockgrowers' association. This association was par tially formed during the annual con vention of the National Livestock association held there in January last. Those who went into the new organ ization were displeased with the admis sion to membership in the old associa tion of packers, railroad representa tives and persons of that class. Made Russian Naval Base. London, May 9. A telegram from Hongkong to a news agency gives a long dispatch, which it alleges the French authorities at Saigon refused to transmit April 80, detailing how for ten days the Russian Pacific squadron was allowed to convert Kamranh bay practically into a Russian base, freely coaling and provisioning under the di rection of Prince Lieven, captain of the interned Russian cruiser Diana, the French admiral being present. Officers Torn to Pieces. Ekati, Rinsburg, Russia, May 9. In revenge for the death of a workman who was drowned in attempting to es cape from a patrol, a mob of workmen gathered and tore to pieces two officers. Order has been restored. IlISTOItlC GROUND. THE CROW INDIAN RESERVATION IN MONTANA. (treat Tract Which I to Ita Thrown Open to Hettlcment by the Whites, Contain the llattlefleld Upon Which Caster fell-A Vich Mezion. Notwithstanding the fact that there are 473,000,000 acres of vacant unap propriated land, excluding Alaska, open for settlement, pressure Is con stantly being brought to bear upon Congress for the opening of lands hith erto set aside for the Indians. One reservation after another is being thrown up to settlement, the aborigin al occupants being given farms In sev eralty If they desire to live the lives of white men, or being compelled to take circumscribed quarters If they wish to live the tribal or blanket life. Last year the greatest reservation opening was that of the Rosebud, In Mouth Dakota. This summer two res ervations will be thrown open to a cer tainty the Crow, In Southern Mon tn, and the Uintah, In Eastern Utah. To these will probably be added the Wind Ulver or Bhoshone reservation, In Wyoming. All these reservations offer vast opportunities to the white man. The Uintah and Wind River res ervation are rich In minerals, but to BATTLEFIELD OF THE the genuine homeseeker the man who wishes to carve his fortune with no other instrument than the plow the Crow reservation will make the most effective appeal. A Rich Reason. The Crow reservation Is Just over the northern boundary of Wyoming, In Montana. It is one of the greatest reservations in the country, and has long been coveted by the white man. The Brush-Alliance branch of the Bur lington Railroad, connecting with the Northern Pacific, extends entirely through the reservation. There Is a southward branch of the Burlington, at Toluca, extending to Cody, from which one can make a delightful Jour ney through the reservation by the new "side door route" to Yellowstone Park. Travelers who Journey through the reservation by trail are astounded at the fertility of the scene that meets their eyes. Under the magic touch of Irrigation, rich farms dot the landscape of bare, brown hills. But for the te pees that raise their smoke-browned tops on either side of the track, and the Indians who are seen . riding or driving along the roads, one might lm: aglne he was pursuing Ills way through a peaceful und prosperous Western agricultural community. Most of the farms are leased by white men, as the Indian owners are not yet suffi ciently skilled lu the white man's methods to be a success as agricultur ists. But these farms In the valley of the Big Horn show that the Crow res ervation can be made to blossom as the rose when once It Is dominated by the white man's touch. For over a year the government has had surveyors at work In the northern half of the Crow reservation, making surveys. Not all of the reservation will be thrown open. The Crows have ceded 1,150.000 acres to the govern ment and this is the portion to be taken up by the white men. The land lies along the valley of the Big Horn, nd it la estimated that about 800.000 acres can be cultivated. The remain der will be used for grazing purposes. Thus the individual who draws a homestead will be doubly lucky, for not only will tit- nare iuu acres or as fine agricultural land as there is In the West, but he will also have the privl loirft of nsinK a vast acreage of grating ground which cannot be Irrigated, but which Is rich in succulent grasses and which has been used as a pony range by the Crows Tor generations. The main canal to Irrigate the homesteads will be taken from the Big Horn, and the supply of water is inexhaustible. The proceeds of the sale of the land MA89ACBK MlMB't. will be tied by the Crows to benefit their own land and herds. On II tutor lo Ground. The homesteader who settles In tbe Crow reservation will find himself In historic ground. The chief place of In terest on the reservation I Custer bat tlefield, at Crow Agency. The Custer monument can he seen from the rail road train, on top of a knoll, about six mile from the station. It was' here that the redoubtable Ilnln-in-the-Fac and other Sioux chieftains over whelmed Custer's detachment of 270 brave men, leaving not one to tell th story. White headstone are scattered About the monument on both slope of the hill, showing exactly where tbe men lay when their bodies were found. Near at hand are many other head stone, as Custer field has been turned Into a national cemetery, and here are boiled the victims of the Fetterman massacre and many others who lost their lives on the plains fighting for the flag. The field will always re main one of the most Interesting spot In America. Only four miles away Is Reno's battlefield, where one may yet see the bones of tbe horses used as breastworks by the troopers who, ac cording to many military critics, should have come to Custer's aid. For generations the Crows have clung to the lands on which they are now located. Occasionally they were driven off by the warlike Sioux or Cheyenne, but always they came back. In the days of the fur traders LITTLE BIO HORN. they were friendly to the white men, and have been so in the years that have followed. In fact, there has been no Indian tribe so consistently at friendship with the white people as the Crows. They might have progress ed more had they not been so friendly, for it is a lamentable fact that the white men who have come most in contact with the Indian have not al ways been tbe ones fitted to do the red man the most good. To-day there are only about 1,500 members of this once mighty tribe. They are strag gling to learn the white man's ways as best they can. Earnest, sincere white men are working among them, and good results will certainly follow. Women Dance for Monae. At exactly 9:45 o'clock Thursday mornlug a little brown mouse stole out from tbe main corridor of the Missouri-Lincoln Trust building at Seventh and Olive streets and took a short con stitutional of about twenty-five feet west in Olive, says the St. Louis Post Dispatch. In the course of that inno cent Jaunt he frightened so many women that a feminine panic ensued and so much screaming and scamper ing about was done that the mouse started back for the more masculine calm of the Missouri-Lincoln Trust building. As he gained the entrance, however, a large and formidable-looking wom an espied him, and with a wild shriek and a frenzied grasping of the skirts, began executing such a remarkable dance on the sill of the big skyscraper that tbe mouse lost his bead and scur ried clear across Olive stret. Arriving at the curb on the south side, he passed under a carriage from which two women were alighting and emerged on the sidewalk simultane ously with them. At once they set up an outcry and circled around on the pavement In a dismayed minuet such as has never before been seen in St. Louis. By this time a big crowd bud gathered, and the laughter of men and boys mingled with the shrieking and screaming of women and girls. The uproar became so appalling to the mouse that finally, reckless of conse quences, he- precipitated himself through an open grating into a cellar and has not been seen since. Ills un usual and uncommon experience whll In quest of a little fresh air lasted Just five minutes. They Got thn "Glassy Kye." A certain confectioner In New York, who caters chiefly to the little folks of the neighborhood, lately arranged his shop window with great care In preparation for a local festivity. The crowning attraction of the whole was a large chocolate tiger with most real istic green eyes, made of glass mar bles, which had cost the designer 20 cents apiece. In the tiger's mouth was a card bearing the Inscription: "Noth ing In this window over 6 cents a quarter-pound." A crowd of youngsters quickly as sembled on the sidewalk, and present ly, after much spelling over of the pla card, two of them Invaded the shop and deposited a nicked upon the count er. "Say, mister," began the smaller boy, earnestly, "gimme a quarter o a pound o tiger the piece with the eyea In!" If some people would work hard and earn f 10.000, some one would walk up, and, taking It away from them, tell them they had no business with that much luouey.