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COTTAGE GROVE............ OREGON
NEWS OF THE WEEK
In a Condensed Form lor Oar
Basy Readers.
A Resume o f the L e ts Im po rtant bu t
N o t Less Interesting Events
o f the Past W e e k .
Nine anarchist leaders have been
arrested in Chicago.
Mexico and Guatemala have adjusted
their dilpomatic difficulties.
An attempt is being made to sell the
Jamestown fair site to the government.
Harriman’s men have been elected
directors of the Illinois Central rail­
way.
A man has been arrested in Chicago
for sending a letter to a priest demand­
ing »1,000.
Many naval officers are offering their
testimony to the senate committee to
show that battleship construction is
not faulty.
A New York clerk out of work ap­
plied to one of the hospitals to be
choroformed, expressing belief in the
Osier theory.
Washington. March 4.— Venexuela
has again declined to arbitrate the
questions in controversy which have
lieen pending for some time between
the Castro administration and the
American government. This time the
refusal is made specific with respect to
each of the questions separately and
differs from the last refusal to arbitrate
in that the refusal then was made as
to all questions en bloc.
It was explained at the State depart­
ment today that the presentation by
Minister Russell of each of the five
points in dispute, with a request for
arbitration, leaves no foundation for a
future representation by Venezuela to
the effect that she was not aeked to ar­
bitrate any of the questions separately.
This would seem to clear up the situa­
tion by making it plain that diplomacy
can accomplish nothing further toward
settling those controversies.
That this deadlock will be made to
appear to the United States senate
when it receivea the contents of the
files of the State department respecting
Venezuela, information for which it
asked last week, there can be no doubt.
In asking arbitration of the differ­
ences, the American government has
left open the question of the machinery
of arbitration to be employed. Tbia
government would have been glad to
have the controversy go to The Hague.
Failing in this, it is believed any other
duly appointed tribunal would have
been acceptable.
W AS B O LD S T R O K E .
C h ie f by A narchists.
The jewels of Pharaoh’ s queen have
Chicago, March 4.— That Lazarus
been found.
Averbuch, in attempting to assassinate
A nun has eloped from an Iowa con­ Chief of Police Shippy, carried out a
commission entrusted fo him by a group
vent and married.
The Missouri Pacific has closed its of Chicago anarchists was declared by
Assistant Chief of Police 8chuettler last
shops at Sedalia, Mo.
night to have been proven beyond a
Two submarine torpedo boats will be doubt. The discovery was made just
sent to the Philippines.
as the police Were about to accept the
The fight on Harriman’ s control of theory that the young anarchist acted
the Illinois Central has been resumed. upon his own impulse and that the at­
tempt was not the result of a conspir­
A California girl is paying her way acy. The group of anarchists also
through the mate university by raising plotted, according to information in
bees.
the hands of the authorities, to assass­
The battleship fleet has started on inate Mayor Busee and Captain P. D.
the last stage of its journey to Magda­ O’ Brien, of the detective bureau.
The principals in the plot have not
lena bay.
yet been discovered, but it is said that
Naval officers who have criticised onr Averbuch was picked to execute the
warships will be given a heating before order of death at a meeting of anar­
the senate committee.
chists which he attended last Thursday
Unknown warships have been sighted night.
off the Hawaiian islands and the peo­
R uth W o rk on C o llier.
ple fear they are Japanese.
Vallejo, Cal., March 4.— In an en­
Kentucky Democrats may avenge
themselves for the election of a Re­ deavor to make a record for the Mare
publican senator by carrying prohibi­ Island navy yard which will result in
a battleship being constructed here,
tion.
work on the collier Prometheus, being
The railroads are making a strong built at a cost of »1,550,000, is being
plea of poverty to the Interstate Com­ rushed and will be completed by the
merce commission as a reason for post­ construction and repair departments In
poning the 9-hour law.
ton months. During February over 120
Thomas A. Edison Is slightly im­ tons ol material were put in her every
week, the progress made being 11 per
proved.
The ship is now over 38 per
Six accomplices of Alio murderer cent.
of the Denver priest have been ar­ cent completed. She w ill be launched
in eight months.
rested.
By an explosion In a mine at San
Jose de Sabinas, Mexico, 76 men
were killed.
Investigation into the Pennsylva­
nia capltol graft is bringing further
graft to light.
The president has asked the Ore­
gon delegation In congress to choose
another district attorney.
W ill C lose S m ell S tetione Beceuse
9 -H our Lew.
Im m ediate Prospect o f Settling
Venexuelsn Question.
A carload of powder in a Big Four
freight train exploded near Litchfield, Bank V ault Robbed D irectly U nder
111., destroying the whole train and
O w n e r's Study.
killing two men.
El Paso, Tex., March 4.— A dispatch
One man was killed, two fatallyjhurt from Chihuahua says:
and several others less seriously injured
The daring bank robber, who on Sun­
in a wreck on the Fort Worth & Den­ day removed »295,000 from the vaults
ver railroad near Alvord, Texas.
of the Chihuahua branch of the Banco
Secretary Straus, of the Commerce Minero, took the money from a vault
and Labor department, lias ordered im­ directly under the study of Governor
migration officers to aid police in dis­ Enrique C. Creel, who has a residence
in the uppsr stories of the building.
covering and deporting anarchists.
The lock to the document vault was
Japan has stopped all emigration of
broken from the inside, and the cur­
coolies.
rency taken consisted of notes already
Ruef has sued for the money he issued and passing constantly over the
spent in maintaining his private counters. The numbers are unknown
and identification will be practically
prison.
The course of Judge W ilfley, of impossible.
A statement has been issued by the
China, has been upheld and he w ill
bank officials calling in all outstanding
not be removed.
1 ,C00 peso notes for redemption. Most
Railroads in Missouri have laid off of the misgiLg money was of this de­
10,000 men, thus effecting a saving of nomination. A large quantity of silver,
»1,500,000 a month.
gold and bills of small denominations
Commander Sims told the naval com­ were untouched by the robbers, al­
mittee of many alleged defects in bat­ though they were lying in the same
tleship construction, though under gag compartment from which the currency
was taken.
rule
the senators.
It is believed that the robbers had
Attorney General Bonaparte has di­ accomplices among the bank employes,
rected that action
be commenced and that they were concealed in the
against 26 railroads in different parts vanlt before closing time Saturday
of the country for violation of the afternoon
The lock being broken from
safety appliance law.
the inside of the vault supports this
Robbers secured nearly
»300,000 theory. The bank watchman, the port­
from the bank at Chihuahua, Mexico. er and two or three meq of unknown
' The border is being watched closely as antecedents have been arrested and are
It is believed an effort will be made to held in jail. American detectives are
here at work on the ease, but if they
cross into the United States.
have a clew to the robbers the authori­
The 131,643 acres of land eliminated
ties refuse to make it public.
from the Blue mountain forest reserve
In Eastern Oregon will become subject
to settlement June 1 and entry and
C H O S E N BY L O T ,
filing July 1. Forty per cent of this
land is embraced in pending filing! or
D eath Sentence Passed on C hicago
applications.
Harriman has declared an extra
dividend o f »75 per share on O. R. &
N. stock.
R A IL R O A D S R E T R E N C H .
W IL L N O T A R B IT R A T E .
Cottage Grove Leader
Votes to Send 4 ,0 0 0 M e n .*
Paris, March 4.— The cabinet today
voted formally to seui 4.000 additional
soldiers to Morocco, with the object of
continuing the aggressive policy of the
government in that country, as well as
affording rest to the troops who have
become tired out in the recent fighting
with the Moors.
Parliament w ill be
asked to appropriate the sum of »500,-
000 for general relief, as well as im­
provement work now contemplated in
Morocco.
The bombs thrown at the shah of
Persia killed three attendants, but
L iq u o r lasua in V erm o n t.
the shah escaped unhurt.
Montpelier, Vt., March 4.— Re­
An attempt was made to assassi­ turns from the 236 towns throughout
nate the president of Argentina, but the state which held elections yester­
the bomb failed to explode.
day show that 29 towns voted for li­
Thomas
A.
Edison's
recovery cense, against 33 last year.
One city,
seems doubtful.
Burlington, swung from no license to
The senate committee may revive license, two others. Barre and St. A l­
the Brownson-Rixey controversy.
bans, changed from “ wet” to "d r y .”
P A K M t R i H O L D T H e lH
W HEAT
OW NERS PR O TEST TAXES.
G ro w e ra o f B aksr County E xpect to C laim Land la W orth but 7 5 Cants
Q ai H igh P ric es.
!
Instead o f S 3 P er kero
Baker City— One of the strongest
Klamath Falls— The California A
combines among the farmers around Oregon Land company and the Oregon
Baker City is now in existence and Military Land Grant company, owners
it is practically impossible to secure of thousands of acres in Klamath
grain of any kind. Heretofore they county, have brought suit through their
have always been anxious and ready
to sell but at the present time it is attorneys, Noland A Smith, against
almost impossible for the local deal­ Klamath county relative to 1906 taxes
Assessor J. P. Lee val­
ers to supply the demand of the peo­ on their lands
ple in Baker City who have stock to ued them in 1906 at »3 and »5 per acre.
keep.
| The companies appeared before the
The cause of this combine among board of equiiaziation, objecting to tbe
the farmers of this section of the assessment, but tbe board sustained
country is the building o f the Eagle the assessor.
Valley railroad, which w ill employ a
The complaint filed states that lands
large number of teams in the spring
adjoining will not sell for more than 50
and the farmers are holding their
grain in anticipation of the great de­ I cents per acre, as all lands in that re-
mand and the high prices when ac­ ' gion are arid, uncultivated and far
The soil is of a
tive operations begin.
The build­ from transportation.
ing of the Snake R iver Railroad will pumice stone formation, ami whatever
also create a strong market for grain timber grew there has been removed.
and many of the rancherB expect to The 1907 valuation wsb 75 cents per
sell to the contractors on the Snake. [ acre, which the companies regard as
W ith the two railroads building they fair. They have refused to pay the
are almost sure to obtain a high 1906 taxes and the land is listed as de­
price for their grain and to make
linquent and will be sold unless the
money by holding It.
county is restrained by the court.
„¡SLAIN BY HUNDREDS
Washington, March 8. — American
railways have made arrangements to
comply with the provisions of the
“ nine hoar law.”
The operation of
the law will mean the employment by
railroad companies of several thousand
additional opeiators and the closing of
a large number of small stations on the
principal systems.
Discontinuing of
railway service at many points, it is
thought,' wilMnduce at least temporary
inconvenience to traveling and shipping
publio in order to reduce operating ex­
penses, which now seems necessary.
The operating officials of the railways
believe this is the only way they possi­
bly can meet the situation witty which
they are confronted.
During (he hearing of applications
for an extension of the nine-hour law by
the Interstate Commerce commission
some astonishing statements
were
made by the operating officials of im­
portant lailways.
A good many lines,
owing to a reduction in the revenues
and to their inability to command the
cash necessary to meet their payrolls,
have been forced during the past four
months almost to the point of asking
for receivers.
W ith four or five exceptions, no im-
poitant railroads of the country have
indicated an intention to reduce the
wages of their employes.
PRO FESSO RS EXTR A VA G A N T.
Big C o p p e r S trik e .
Petitions S ub m it A rgum ents Against t] Baker City— A new, extensive and
very important copper strike has just
Increase fo r U niversity.
Salem— Extravagance and misrepre­
sentations are charges against the State
university in argument against the rais­
ing of the annual appropriation from
»47,500 to »123,000, filed with the sec­
retary of state.
The following statement suggests mo­
tives stronger than “ extravagance:”
The enrollment has increased hut 23
per cent, while increased appropriations
of 300 per cent is requested; that tablea
submitted by alumni are “ pretended”
and false; that where the students at
the university cost the state »150 per
year, the common schools receive but
»8 per pupil.
The argument states
“ the university has shown bad faith in
pushing this bill; university professors
with large salaries have extravagant
ideas.”
HSs S hearin g R ecord.
Pendleton— A. T. H ill, who broke
the world’s sheep shearing record at
Beardsley. Arizona, is coming to Uma­
tilla and Morrow counties to shear this
spring. He will join a shearing crew
at Heppner about March 15,
H ill
sheared 325 sheep in nine hours at
Beardsley, breaking the former record
of 310 held by Jack Wynn, of New
Mexico. The crew of 30 men in which
H ill worked on the record breaking day
Bheared 6,572 head in nine hours.
Morrow and Umatilla county sheep
shear easier than the sheep of the
Southwest and it is expected that Hill
w ill beat his Arizona record with the
Heppner crew.
been made in the Goose creek district,
about three miles southeast of the
F.agle mountain property and 1 % miles
from the Poorman mine. The devel­
opment thus lar done has exposed 40
feet cf ore and the full widtli of the
ledge has not yet been determined. It
is thought that the ledge w ill widen
to 70 or 80 feet. Tbe discoverers and
owners ol the claim are C. C. Cox and
Frank Keating, of this city, and M. T.
Weum, of Minneapolis.
Samples of
the ore exhibited in this city show
great copper values, and mining circles
are considerably excited.
M a rk e t Day N ot Success.
La Grande— La Grande’ s first mar­
ket day was not quite the success that
was anticipated, at least from the
standpoint of those who brought live­
stock to be auctioned.
Prices offered
in most cases were so low that the
owners preferred to withdraw their
property from sale. But the merchants
of the city made every effort, and were
eminently successful, to give the visit­
ing farmers much more than the usual
value for their money.
Bargains
abounded in all the mercantile estab­
lishments. Hundreds of cou otry peo-
p e thronged the streets.
Sale o f Big G rain F a rm
S U R P R IS E F O R E V A N S .
T itle
o f Vice A d m iral Likely to Be
A w arded H e ro .
Washington, MarHh 3.— In a quiet
way naval officers in Washington are
endeavoring to arrange an agreeable
surprise for Admiral Evans when the
battleship fleet under his command
sails through the Golden Gate, com­
pleting the Pacific cruise.
It is pro­
posed to greet the rear admiral with a
commisson as vice admiral of the
Amercan navy. Of course, the success
of thi. undertaking depends upon con­
gress, but tiie president has done his
part in makng a proper recommendaton
to that body for the re-eetablshment of
that naval grade, and it is not doubted
that congress can be induced to act
upon the recommendation in season to
insure the issue of Admiral Evans’
comrri-sion, so that he may bear the
title of vice admiral for the few months
that intervene between his arrival at
Ban Francisco and his retirement from
active Service.
The naval argument in support of
the proposed re establishment of the
grade of vice admiral is strongly rein­
forced by a comparison made at the
Navy department between the British
home fleet engaged in the maneuvers
of last fall and the splendid battleship
fleet commanded by Rear Admiral
Flvans. The British fleet, composed of
26 battleships, 15 armored cruisers,
nine protected cruiserB and 57 torpedo
craft, was commanded by one admiral,
three vice admirals, seven rear ad­
mirals aud one commodore.
Pendleton— Tbe sale of the Cooley
farm for »42,000 is one of the largest
real estate deals made during the ptst
few months in Umatilla county.
This
is a big ranch in the Cold Springs coun­
try that has been farmed by A . B. Coo­
ley. The sale was made to Arthur
N ew W a e r e fi Lands.
S IL V E R T H A W IN C H IC A G O .
There are 1,120
Freewater— The Freewater, Mil- Scott, of Athena.
ton & Hudson Bay /Irrigation Com­ acres in the farm and 500 acres of
pany is Just completing its ditch sys­ growing grain is included in the sale. T e m p eratu re Rises in N ic k *o f T im e
tem in the northern part of Uma­ The purchaser has had years of experi­
to Save Big Dam age.
tilla county and will reclaim 1,200 ence in growing grain in Umatilla
Chicago, March 3.— Record breaking
acres o f new land this season. The county.
destruction of telegraph and telpehone
ditch system when complete will
property was averted today by a narrow
comprise 39 miles of laterals and dis­
Tracklaying on K lam ath L ire
margin. Sleet that covered wires and
tributing ditches and about nine
Klamath Falls— Track-laying was poles 25 to 50 miles, north and west
miles o f main canal. It is a winter
irrigation proposition and will use commenced last week on the Califor­ and south of Chicago, and 100 to 150
the flood waters o f the Tumalum and nia Northwestern railway, out from miles east, was melted during the day
W alla W alla rivers for Irrigation.
Bray, California, which has been the by a rise of temperature just in the nick
The land under the ditches Is all
of time.
Ice coated lines, sagging
fine alfalfa and fruit land and Is be­ terminus of the road for several’ heavily, had already begun to snap to
ing brought Into cultivation rapidly. months. The grade Is ready for rails
about two-thirds of the way to Dor­ pieces or topple to tbe ground long lines
ris. It Is expected that MacDoel will of glistening overweighted poles.
S ta r Route Beats T ra in .
be reached with the rails by March
The worst damage was east of this
The Dalles— According to E. L Bolt­ 15. This is the Dunkard town, this city and west of Fort Wayne. Trunk
on, of Kingsley, the people of that sec­ side o f Mount Hebron. At this rate, system on the Lake Shore and Michi­
tion of Wasco county are dissatisfied Dorris w ill be reached by May 1.
gan Central railways suffered particu­
with their present mail service.
The
larly. In one instance a stretch of
mail from The Dalles for that region
PO RTLAND M ARKETS.
nearly a mile of poles bearing dozens of
goes as far as Dufur by train.
A peti­
important circuits to New York and
tion is being circulated asking that the
Wheat— Club, 82o; bluestem, 84o; other Eastern cities, went down in a
mail ¿>e taken from the Great Southern valley, 82c; red, 80c.
tangled mass of wreckage. With the
and carried by wagon from The Dalles I Barley— Feed, »26 per ton; rolled, mercury ascending a trifle, the miles of
to Dufur and then on to Kingsley, Tygh »22@30.
sleet disappeared almost as if by magic.
valley and Wapinita
This method I Oats— No. 1 white, »27 per ton; Tonight the telegraph officials had re­
would deliver the mail at Kingsley al­ gray, »27.
stored the faciliiiee to a basis adequate
most 24 hours earlier than according to , Corn— Whole, »32.50 per ton; crack­ for the usual traffic and hoped to
the preseut method.
led, »33.50.
be able to care for brokerage and ottier
Hay— Valley timothy. No. 1, »1 7 0 business tomorrow without delay.
F arm s S old at Weston
■ 18 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy,
Weston— The Adams place, two »20021; clover, »14r»15; cheat, »15;
Tam p a S w ep t by F ire.
miles east of town has been sold by grain bay, »14015; alfalfa, »12013;
Tampa, Fla., March 3.— The entire
W alter Adams to R. W. Brown, fo r­ vetch, »14
Fruits— Apples, »1 0 3 per box, ac­ extreme northern section of this city
merly of Eureka Flat.
The place
cording to quality; cranherries, »8011 was destroyed by fire, which broke out
contains 300 acres, much being good
In a boarding bouse Sunday and raged
per barrel.
farm land , and the consideration is
Vegetables— Turnips, 75c per sack; uninterruptedly for four hours. The
not given out, but is said to have
area burned over covers 65 acres or 18^
been about »60 an acre. The place carrots 65c per sack; beets, »1 per city blocks; 308 buildings were de­
is well improved, with a fine house sack; beans, 20c per pound; cabbage,
stroyed with a total loss estimated at
and barn and gravity waterworks. It l)4 c per pound; cauliflower, »1.75;
is among the first farms in this vi­ celery, »4 2504 75 per crate: parsley, »600,000, and one woman is dead from
The burned section in­
cinity.
120c per dozen; peppers. 1 7 per excitement.
pound; radishes, 20c per dozen; spin cluded fonr large and one smaller cigar
B oard o f V isitors fo r N orm als
¡ach, 6c per pound; sprouts, 10c per factory and numerous restaurants, sa­
loons, boarding houses and over 200
Salem— Governor Chamberlain haa pound; squash, l@13^o per pound.
dwellings, occupied bv cigarmaken.
appointed the following board of visit­ | Onions— »2.50 per hundred.
ors for the state normal schools in ac­
Potatoes— 40050c per hundred, de­
M r . Wu T a lks S tra ig h t.
cordance with the law passed at the last livered Portlsnd; sweet potatoes, »3.50
San Francisco, March 3.— At a ban­
session of the legislature: R. R. Turn­ 03.75 per hundred.
er, Grants Pass; J. M Powers, Salem, | Butter— Fancy creamery,
30035c quet given today in honor of Chinese
Minister Wu Ti ig Fang, by the Chinese
and J. A. Churchill, Baker City. Their per poond.
duties shall consist of observing and in­ | Pcnllry— Average old hens, 14c per merchants of San Frani-co, Minister
vestigating the condition of schools.
Iponnd; mixed rhickens. 13013'^c; Wn Is reported to have given utterance
spring chickens, 15016c; tnrkeys, live, to some rignificant remarks, the tenor
O rego n B utter Sent Fast
114 0 15c; dreseed, choice, 16017c; of which was that the exclusion of the
Corvallia— A carload of butter haa geese, live, 9010c; ducks, 15016c; Chine-e laborers from the United States
been shipped by the Corvallis cream­ pigeons, 7 ? c 0 »l; squabs. »1.5002.
is a fixed fact, and those who make at­
ery to Philadelphia. The shipment
Eggs— Fresh ranch, 18@18tgc per tempts to oppose the exclusion laws or
comprosed 50.000 pounds and la
to vl date them are acting ill-advisedly
valued at above »150.000. It Is stor­ dozen.
Veal— 75 to 125 pounds, 9c; 125 to for their own interests.
age butter, and the movement Is oc­
casioned by much better prices for 160 pounds, 7c; 150 to 200 pounds, 6
P ittsburg Fears Flood.
the product In the East than are ob­ @ 6 He.
Pork— Block, 75 to 150 pounds, 7
Pittsburg, Match 3.— l( warm rain
tained on the Coast.
0 7 t$ c ; packers, 5 0 6 J^c.
ha“ been falling here and at the head
T w o Killod by Railroads
Hope— 1907, prime and choice, 41% waters of the Allegheny and Mononga-
Salem— The number of accidents for 06c per pcvind; olds, 102c per pound. tiela river- all day. Both streams are
Wool— Eastern Oregon, average best, rising, and email creeks are already
the month of January, according to the
It is expected
report of the railroad commission, 18020c per pound, according to shrink­ beyond their banks.
shows one employe and one tramp killed age; valley, 18020c per pound, accord­ the danger line of 22 feet w ill be passed
and one passenger and one emplcye in­ ing to fineness- mohair, choice, 290 nnlee* there is an early change in the
temperature and weather.
30c.
jured during the month.
Nearly 200 Children Roasted in
School House Fire.
FLAMES CUT OFF ALL RETREAT
D isaster at S uburb o f Cleveland D e»-
olates Many H om es— Teach ers
D ie W ith T h e ir Flocks.
Cleveland, O.', March 6.— Penned in
narrow hallways, jammed up against
doors that opened only inward, 170
children in the suburb of North Col-
lingwood yesterday were fille d by file,
by smoke and beneath tbe grinding
heels of their panic stricken playmates.
The awful tragedy oocurted yester­
day morning in the public school of
North Collingwood, ten miles east of
tbis city. At 10 o’clock last night 165
corpses wete in the morgue at Colling­
wood, six children were still unaccount­
ed for, and all the hospitals and bouses
le t two miles around contained numbers
of children, some fatally and many lees
seriously injured. Two teachers also
lost their lives in an effort to save their
charges.
All of the victims were between the
ages of 6 and 15 years.
The school
contained between 300 and325 pupils,
and of thiB entire number only about
80 are known to have left the building
unhurt. I t will be several days before
tbe exact number of killed is known,
as the ruins may still contain other
bodies and the list of fatalities may be
increased by a number of deathe among
the children who are now lying in tho
hospitals hovering between life and
death.
The school house was of brick, two
stories and an attic in height.
The
number of pupils was more than norm­
ally large and the smaller children had
been placed in an attic of the building.
There was but one fire escape and that
was in the rear of the building. There
were two stairways, one leading to a
door in front and the other to a door in
the rear. Both of these doors opened
inward, and it is said that the rear doer
was locked as well.
When the flames were discovered the
teachers throughout seem to have acted
with courage and self possession and to
have struggled heroically for the safety
of their pupils and marshaled the little
ones into columns for the “ fire d rill,”
which they often practiced. Unfortun­
ately the line of march in this exercise
had always led to the front door, and
the children had not been trained to
seek any other exit.
The fire came
from a furnace situated directly under
this part of the building.
When the children reached the foot
of the stairs they found the flames
close upon them and so swilt a rush
was made for the door that in an in­
stant a tightly packed mass of children
was piled against it.
After the fire had practically burned
itself out the work of rescuing the bod­
ies was begun by firemen and railroad
employes from the Ltke Shore shops.
The railroad company turned over one
of its buildings near by to be used as a
temporary morgue, and thither the
charred and broken little bodies were
removed as fast as they could be dug
from the ruins.
W ithin five hours
practically all had been removed. They
were placed in rows in the Lake Shore
shops.
Identifications were made only by
means of clothing and trinkets. The
fire had swept away nearly ail resem­
blance to human features in the ma­
jority of instances. Distracted parents
soon began to gather and the work of
identification of the blackened and
mangled corpses began.
The grewseme task of taking out the
blackened torsoes and bits of human
remains was one of horror. A line of
rescuers was formed, hacked by half a
dozen ambulances. As the bodies were'
untangled from the debris they were
passed along to the stretchers, theqee
conveyed to the ambulances, where
they wete mercifully covered with
blankets and then taken to the impro­
vised morgues.
Senator Proctor Dewri
Washington, March 5.— United State»
Senator Redfield Proctor, of Vermont,
died at his apartments at the Cham­
plain here yesterday afternoon, after a
short Illness, following an attack of the
grip.
The senator’s son. Governor
Proctor, of Vermont, was at the bed­
side when the senator passed away.
8enator Proctor was 77 year« old. The
senator had been ill and confined to
his room at the Champlain apartment
for abont a week. His ailment was
diagnosed as grip, which later devel­
oped into pleurisy,
Need La w to D ep ort A narch ist*
New York, March 5.— The advantage
of the bill .introduced in congress by
Congressman Bennett, providing for
the deportation of anarchists ig ex­
pressed by Commissioner of Immigra­
tion Watchorn, of this port. The com­
missioner state« that he has always
done everything In his power to keep
anarch-sts out of the country, but says
he knows of no way in which they can
now he deported.
He favors the
passage of tbe Bermett bill.
N ew Y o rk S pares Rod.
New York, March 5.— By a vote of
21 to 17 the board of education defeat­
ed th » proposal to rrintroduce corporal
pnn'shment in the public schools o f
the city.