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- VOL. XXVII. LAKE VIEW, LAKE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY .', 1906. NO. 18, ALFRED HOLMAN VIEWS THE RUINS Skelltons of Skyscrapers Stand Ghostlike In the City. AIL BUILDINGS WINDOWLESS. Buildings of nodcrn Steel Frame Construction Stood the Test. Alfrtl Hobnail of tho Oregon tun staff has visited Hum Francisco's ruin and writes tho complotuMt dim criptlon of tho ruins that him yet Loon doscriljed la any of tho dully papers. II Im artlclo U too long for publication, but a part of it describing tho build ings yet standing in of especial inter est to our readers: 'Tho vast burned area of approximately aevon square ml I on present u aceue quite impos sible to portray adequately to any body who has not aeon it with his own eyes. It U not merely a lump of ashes; In deed, It still lears the semblance of an uirlght city. Hut it in a rlty of broken walla, of ruiu upon ruin, ghastly in every aspect, deathlike in ltd silence. Groat buildings still stand aa ghostlike skeletons, while 10,000 walls, ahattered and broken are i till upright. Tho KhoMt city la by no means ten antics. There are aentriea at every intersection and along many of tho chief thoroughfares and all day long yesterday streams of people filed through tho general avenues where the military permitted It. In largo !arta the visitors were iwrsous anxious to examlno tne ruiua of their former places of business, but amid the throng thero was a largo proportion of more sightseers and . not n fe w women. Standing at tho intersection of Montgomery and Market streets and looking In every direction, too eyo can And but two little spots not marked by destruction oueo a cluster of small cottages clinging to the south ern and eastern slopes of Telegraph Hill, the other somo half -dozen houses of better quality near the summit of Russian Hill. Everywhere else, as fur as tho eyo can range, disaster litis left its mark, and yet in the bluck and atdion wild erness tho outlines of old Han Francis co aro easily tracuablo. Tho Crocker building stands up right, wludowlosa and blacpkoned to bo siiro, but apparently tlrm and iu its normal form. Tho Palace .otel, ahoru of its bay windows and of its roof, stands practlcully unbroken as to its walls. Tho old Chronicle build ing is upright to tho fifth story, while tho frame of tho newer building under construction is apparently unharmed. Tho Cull building, seen from a few blocks away, exhibits few traces of the ordoid through which it has pass ed. It is, to bo sure, windowless and stained by smoke and fire, but even its roof Is iu pluco and its upright flagstaff supports tho ' gildod ball which for ton years past has marked the summit of constructive achieve ment In Sun Francisco. ' Not one of th great modern build ings actually succomod, excepting the Kohl building ut California and Mont gomery stroets. All are entirely wlndowloss and bereft of every vestige of burnable material, both inside and out. The outer walls of all these structures are more or less chipped and broken and the streets in which they stand aro littered with fine de bris whioh shattterod down under the disintegrating force of tho intense lieut. Grant avenue, above which ut the corner of Post street stands the new Bhrevo building, is filled with flue stone chips to a depth of two feet. Of all tho great structures this appears to bo tho most seriously murred, al though it stuuds ljolt upright and its frame is uppareutly uuwarped. The St. Francis Hotel is Iu Its exterior walls much ntarrod and brokou, but it, like the rest, Is uppurently sound. Tho Dewey monument is still stand ing, Louring its figure of Victory up right, but sadly blackened by the flamoH, but its column stones are out of plumb uud the trident, once bdd aloft, has been precipitated to tho ground beneath. Farther down the street the Lottu Fountain remain in all Its Intrlnslo tawrdlnesM, practically undamaged, but In front of where the Lincoln Hchool stood tbeatatue of the great liberator lies prone and smashed into fragments. The now James Mood building, on tho site of tho old Baldwin Hotel, is almost uumiirrnd exteriorly excepting that it Is wludowlosa, and as a mark of Its triumpth it Iwurs at tho summit of iU lofty llagMtaff tho Stars and Stripes, waving blithely In tho Spring sunlight. Tho half-completed Monad nock building on Market street, lie tweeu tho I'alace Hotel and the Exam iner building, la apparently uninjur ed, and there, too, the National flag waves in triumph. The Mills building, like the others, is simply a giant skeleton. The Koch building Is comparatively little In jured, several of tho floors being ap parently undamaged by tiro and many of the wludows unbroken. On the east sldo of Montgomery street, betwoou Pino and California, almost buried under wrockago, there are two small buildings, one long oc cupied by Sutro A Co,, and the other by tho genreal offices of the Bel by Smelting Works, lloth are said to be unlnjurod, having been sheltered by their taller uolghbors. The United States Mint stands alone and uninjured, due to the fact that its windows wero protected by heavy steel shutters. Had others of the great structures throughout tne burn ed areu been similarly protected, all, I think, would be iutact today, ex cepting as to their outer walls. The Sheriff's Boarder. Sheriff Rluehart now has four board ers, tho most that has ever occupied tho county jail since its was built. In tho last Ishuo of The Examiner we mentioned that a man by tho name of Wert was charged with the theft of a suit of clothes from tho Kimsey board ing house. Suspicion pointed so strongly to him that ho was arrested at Paisley by Constable Gaylord and brought to town last Friday. His trial was set for Monday, but as Frank Reid the Paisley stage driver, was one of the chief witness for the tho trial was coutinuod evening when ho should prosecution, till Tuesday return from Paisley. Win. Vinyard was arrested in War ner last Thursday aud brought to towu by Sheriff Riuchart on a charge of horse stealing, waived examination, aud will lie in jail uutil the coming term of circuit court. A man by tho name of who has been lying about town for some time was arrested by Marshull TonmugHon lust Friday night in the kitchen of the Pidaco Restaurant. Mr. Tounlugsou had been Hhadowlng the fellow all evening, as his actions were such as to warrant suspicion and about 2 oclock in the morning he fol lowed him into tho restaurant through a back door und found him. fumbling about the table, at a time when the employees of tho place were asleep, and arrested him. He also waived examination aud will be tried by the circuit court The spring term of circuit court will convene on the 15th of May. Tho docket for tho coming torm is a very short one. Tho follow ing jurors huve been drawn to serve. Later. The man who broko into the restaurant was releused Tuesday aud ordered to leave town. Silver Lake W. II. Johnson, E. B. Brewer. Summer Lake John A. Foster, E. O. Lamb, E. Carlon. Paisley Win. Welch. North Warner D. U. Clelund, C. S. Dixon, J. A. Morris. Goose Lake James McDormitt. Robert Nelson. Cogswell Creek S. P. Vernon, Les ter Vernon. Lukovlow D. Schminck, W. A. Woods, W. F. Miller, Musslugill, Jas. Turpin, Ed. V. L. Snelliug., J. Woudoll, Grob, L. 0. Emorson, F. M. E. 0. Ahlstrom, Goo. Jammerthul, C. S. Loveless, C. E. Sherlock, W. P. Dykemun, Goo. Reid, A. Storkmun. McCrath--Thruston. Mr. Bernard McGruth and Miss Elsie Thruston were married Monday ut 2 oclock, p. iu. by Recorder W. B. Snider. Tho bride Is tho charming daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 0. ThriiHtou w ho live 0 miles south of Lakveiew, and the groom is well known to every ono iu tho country, tho sou of Mrs. Thos. McGrath, aud has many friends iu this valley, who will bo pleased to learn of Beruio'a good luck. Here's to you Born. JONATHAN BOURNE WIN5 AFTER ALL. Country Vote Piles up The State Last week The Examiner waited till nearly, noon before going to pros', in order to get the nominees on the state ticket, but we failed to get the re turns even then and went to press, quoting the Oregon ian's figures, which proved to be wrong in one or two in stances. The Oregon Ian was as badly fooled as any one on the U. S. Sen atorshlp. That paper conceded the nomination to H. M. Cake, but later returns from outside counties changed Cake's load of nearly one thousand to 120 for Bourno with two Bourne coun ties to hear from. The State Republican ticket is as follows : U. S. Senator, short term, Fred W. Mulkey ; U. 8. Senator, regular term, Jonathan Bourne Jr. ; Representative in Congress, W. C. Hawley ; Governor, Ashland News. The same earthquake that started tho destruction of San Francisco waa felt here at 5:15. It was felt here ouough to stop clocks and awaken people. The people of Ashland responded to the call for aid by sending 1 car loads of provisions aud over 112,000 in money. The provisions a greater por tion of which waa cooked together with the money was forwarded Friday April 20. There was shipped among other cooked food one hundred and fifty dozen boiled eggs also about 1000 lbs of cooked meat. It is claimed there-were 500 refugees fed at hotels and lunch counWs by city and state relief fund Saturday evening and about 500 fed Sunday evening also by city and state by help of private citizens. Tonight it is expected there will be more to be cared for than has yet been cared and it is claimed that the great er part of these will be children. Private citizens will meet them and cooperate with the city aud state au thorities in Boeing they have food and clothes. The Oddfellows turned in about M00 to help the sufferers instead of giving a grand bull, etc, as they intended on the 20th. You cannot buy a sack of sugar in Ashland, they will sell by f 1 worth, they say so as to try to let every one have some. A Friend. Klamath News. (From the Bonanza Bulletin.) Miss Mable Morine visited friends at Sand Hollow during the week. C. II. McKendree went to the Bly country yesterday to list land for the market. O. R. Stewart, Lewis Gerber's cattle foreman, was here from Horse Fly yesterday. S. A. Whlto and family returned to thoir home at Royston the latter part of the week. Georgo Noble and wife of Langell Valley passed through from tho Falls the early part of the week.. J. L. Yaden has added a four-horse coach to his stage line between Bo nanza and Klamath Falls. Lewis Gerber passed through hero enroute to Horse Fly from the county seat last Tuesday. He waa accompan ied by Mr. Paxton. Georgo Hammond, the Merrill horse buyer, was in Bonanza Thursday on his way to Eastern Oregon to look up the horse murkot iu that section.' Forget Che Horror. We understand that quite ' a num ber of people from frau Francisco are drifting towards Lakeviow with a view to locating hero. They have lost their busluesses in the city aud will start iu a new locutlou. Somo of them huve considerable money, as soon as insurance busiuoss has beou justified aud banks are opened, with whioh to start them iu business. We have room here iu the county for sevoral huudred families aud it is uot unreasonable to suppose several will come, as many are hunting new homos. Majority for Him Nominees. James Witbycombo: Secretary of State, Frank W. Benson ; State Treas urer, Geo. A. Steele; Supreme Judge, Robert Kakin; Attorney General, A. M. Crawford; Supt. of Public Instruc tion, J. H. Ackerman; State Pruter, Willis S. Duniway; Commissioner of Lalor, O. P. Hoff. The Democratic state ticket is, U. S. Senator, regular term, John M. Gearin ; Representative in Congress, Chas. V. Galloway; Governor, Geo. E. Cliamlterlan ;, Secretary of State, Paul H. Stroat ; State Treasurer, J. D. Matlock; Supreme Judge, Thos. G. Hailey ; Attorney General, Robert A. Miller; State Printer, J. Scott Taylor, The democrats have no candidates for U. S. Senator for the short term, for Supt. of Public Instruction nor for Labor Commissioner. Drifting Toward Lake. Many of the refugees from San Fran cicso tell some very amusing inci dents that they witnessed during the earthquake and fire. They forgot to laugh at the funny sights until after the thing was all over and all the hor rors had been told. If any one could just lay aside the sad and serious side of the affair for a minute and hear of the antics of the frightened people it would be amusing indeed. One man said he and his wife were aronsed by the trembler and hia wife jumped out of bed, and while he bold to the bed stead with both hands his wife danced the can-can over the room. John Kel- ley waa running from hia room to the wash room dipping his hands in the f water aud trying to wfash his face and comb his hair and put on his shirt all at the same time, when found by Aaron Dicks who had romed up stairs and came down to hunt for Kelley. One woman had tried to save her bird and pet cat, and put the cat in the cag with the bird. She saved the cat all right One man was seen running down the street carrying a bird cage with the bottom out and the bird gone. A Chinese woman ran down the street carrying her baby in one arm and had. her three children by the queues and they were running back ward yelling for all that was out. Men tried to climb telegraph poles to get off the wabbly earth. One man walked calmly into a crowd of excited people who had gain ed a place of apparent safety and be gan admonishing them to keep cool as coolness and presence of mind in such cases was the best policy, and told them how he hud grasped the sit uation at a glance and decided to maintain presence of mind,' how he bad calmly dressed himself and leisur ly walked out of the building, when some one remarked to the fellow that his extreme coolness was probably duo to the fact that he had forgotten to put on his pants. Virgil Conn's Experience. Hon Virgil Conn, formerly state represenutive from Lake County, and well known here, passed through Ash land Friday on his way to Portland having escaped some of the more ser ious etTects of tho awful earthquake disaster which overtook San Francis co. At the time of the first shock Mr. Conn was lying iu his bod at his room on tho seventh floor of the Pal ace Hotel. Having experienced slight earthquake shocks at d liferent times bofore, he knew what had cuused the disturbance and lay porfootly still. He describes the motion as a swinging motiou for quite an appreciable time, then a violent shaking from one 'side to tho other, then au up and down movement as of a terrier shaking a rat. The second shock, ulthougn not so sevore, duplicated the motion of the first shock, even throwing the gas jets against the walls. The room which Mr. Couu occupied was one of a suite of rooms connected by foldiug doors. When the door swung opeu, the fig ure of a man was soeu in the attitude of supplication, his face like a sphinx aud his body rigid us iu death. When spoken to by Mr. Conn be conld only gasp, "My God I what Is it?" Later he waa seen running about the streets bis lare feet cut and bleeding from contact with the broken glass which covered the pavements. Calling to gether all the will power he could command, Mr. Conn carofnly dressed and went out into the now crowded hall, unconsciously retaining the key to his door. As the frantic shouts of i oxcited people in the ball failed to .xriT'the elevator into service, Mr. Conn walked down the stairs. Not until he had reached the streets and could see the massive buildings on every side of him tumbling over the street, did he realize of what tre mendous proportions was the disturb ance. As he turned to go down Mont gomery street, the Lick House build ing on tbe opposite side of the street from him toppled over, making a pile of debris little higher than a freight car. As be passed on the Lick column fell directly behind him. He walked along down Market street to the city hall, and down Mission and Howard streets. The conditions of things was appalling; people running about half dressed and some in their night clothes. The car tracks were twisted and warped, and the unevenness of the pavements showed bow tbe ground bad Bettled. There were several large fractures in tbe streets, one cavernous opening having apparently no bottem to it. On Market street fire broke out simultaneously on all sides, des troying things in almost no time. Mr. Conn tried to get a livery rig but the liveryman said they could not fur nish him a rig for $000 or any consid eration. On account of tbe debris in tbe streets it took him over two hours to reach the depot, a distance of only a few blocks. Mr. Conn says that he thinks the top of the Palace Hotel must have swung through an arc of at least six feet, but aside from the windows be ing broken and the plaster and corn ices being knocked down, the build ing stood the test remarably welL As soon as he waa able Mr. Conn took the first train for the north and says he never wants to set foot in San Fran clsco agaic.Asbland Tidings. Irish Wit, Fails. 4 A. L. Dicks and John Kelley arriv ed here from San Francisco several days ago. Their experience in the city will long be remembered by them. They lost a'l their personal effects iu the fire , and only made their es cape by a miracle. In order to get away from the city it was necessary for them to represent that they had families who were dependent upon them and they were badly needed at home. Mr. Kelley was asked where his family was and for the first time in his life his Irish wit failed him. He could not remember a single man's name in Reno whom be could claim as an employer. He was refused permis sion to leave at first as hia story did not satisfy tho authorities that he was needed worse somewhore else than he was on the streets in the city, but finally he was given a pass to Reno. When he arrived there he found a friend who cashed a check for him which supplied him -with money to reach home. Still in Business. Our San Francisco paper house, A. Zellerbach & Sons, sent out the fol lowing circular letter: Oakland, CaL, April 23, -190G. To the Public : We beg to announce that we have established temporary headquarters at 511 Eleventh Street. At the present time we have a fair stock of Wrapping Paper on hand. We also have large shipments of all kinds of Printing and Wraping Papers on the way, which are due to arrive here in a few days. We have a large and complete stock in Los Angeles from which place we will be able to execute any orders with reasonable promptness. We ask the indulgence of our patrons until! such time as we can secure full and com plete stock. All prices will remain as formerly. Thanking you for past favors and soliciting a continuance of the same, we beg to remain, Yours truly, A. Zellorbach & Sons. A Mr. Bond, brother of the old resident W. R. Bond, arrived here from Seattle Monday to settle up Mr. Bond's affairs In this county. W. R. Bond is au invalid and is living with his brother at Seattle. The raueh in Warner will probably bo put on the market for sole. It is one of the best small stock rauchos in the county. SEASON WILL BE OliE OF ACTIVITY, Honeyed Men of the East Seeking Investment In Lake. TIMBER LANDS ARE IN DEMAND Southeastern Oregon Attracting Attention From Over the World. V. Conn who passed through here on his way to Paisley a few days ago. waa returning from a trip through California and Oregon. He spent much time in studying the situation in tbe different parts of the country he visited and made many inquiries as to the intentions of parties who are now investigating the different sec tions of Oregon with a view to invest ing money. He believes that Lake and Klamath counties are just now at tracting more attention than any other part of the state from men of capital who have left the overcrowded Easern states to seek Investment of their money In the West. While sev eral of the valley sections, Douglas county, especially, are in line for rap id development, it is his opinion that Southeastern Oregon is offering more favorable inducements for the invest ment of capital than any other sec tion. Mr. Conn was interviewed by several moneyed men in reference to this part of the state and while they were gaining in formation he was not idle. He informed us that some east ern men were in the Bly country now and were gradually working their way east It is Mr. Conn's opinion that J. J. Hill tho railroad magnate in tends to parellel the Harriman lines through Oregon, running east of Har riman 's roads in order to pass through the valleys of Eastern Oregon and catch this trade. Mr. Hill has already secured considerable land east of the Cascades and has men in the field looking for more. Tbe coming summer promises to be one of the most active in the history of Eastern Oregon, and this county will share equally in the activity. Fell Down Deep Shaft.. Mrs. John Mulkey received a letter from her sou Will, who is working in the mines at Tonopah. Through the courtesy of Mrs. Mulkey we were per mitted to glean from her letter the sad news of the death of Ben Stephens in the Bellmont mines at Tonopah on the 9th of ApriL Ben fell down a 411 foot shaft and for 180 feet went head down before he struck the walla. Where he struck tho whole top of his head from the mouth up was complete ly torn off on one of the timbers. The lifeless body tumbled on down to the bottom of the deep shaft Ben and Will Mulkey were stopping together at the time. Will says that 800 miners attended the funeral, besides a large number of the townspeople. Ben Stephens was for 20 years a res ident of this place and nearly every body in the county knew him. Hia sad ending comes as a shock to his numerous friends here. Ben, though a wild sort of a boy, was good heart ed, wholesouled and liked by all who knew him. The manner in which he met death was a sad affair, indeed, to think about. Klamath County Nominees. R. A. Emmitt won the nomination for county judge on the Ropublicau ticket of Klamath county, Silus Oben- chaiu was re-nominated for Buerirr. Geo. Chastain was re-nominated on both tickets for clerk, the Republicans havinir no candidate. L. Alva Lewis was nominated by the Republicans for treasurer. J. B. Griffith was nom inated by the Democrats for county judge. There will be but four con tacts fnr nffW In Klamath countv at the general election iu June. Emmitt and Urimtn wiutryror me juu(!umi, and both parties will have candidates for the offices of county commission er. As there is but one important office to contest for in the county the voters will no doubt center on the state ticket and as Klamath Fulls has a candidate for the office of state printer, J. Scott Taylor will probably be the main feature of the election iu our ueighbor county at the oomiug June election.