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NICHOLAS CREEDEs ESTATE.
A Deed Which Prec1udes the Wild
ow Making a Sure Contest.

LOS ANGELES, July 20.-The at
torneys for Nicholas c. Creede, the
deceased Colorado miner, have un-
earthed a deed signed by Mrs. Creede,
which would seem to preclude the pos
sibility of the widow making a sue
cessful contest for any part of the
Creede estate.
The document, which is entirely sep
arate from the famous agreement of
January 4th, bears the date of Janu-
ary ., 1897. and is a. properly executed
and recorded deed of grant, bargain
and sale, by which Louisa Creede, for
the consideration of $50, 900, conveys to
Nicholas c. Creede her interest in all
properties, both real and personal and
mixed, of every description whereso-
ever situated. as well as all properties
owned by Creede at the time of the
execution of the deed, or any that
might afterwards be acquired by him
from any source whatsoever.
This deed was signed and sworn to
before a Notary Public of this city.
and is so shaped that it protects every
dollar of Creede's property from any
claim advanced by Mrs. Creede.
Creede's will was discovered to-day,
and will be filed for probate Friday.
By this will the bulk of the property
is left to little Dorothy Creede. The
estate is valued at about $3.50. 900, and
S56501 is divided into several legacies
to Creede's relatives and friends
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A KANSAS CITY SENSATION.
A Store Clerk Brings Suit Against
His Wife and a Club Man.

KANSAS CITY, July 20.-Albert S.
Nichols, an employe in a hat store, has
instituted two sensational suits. The
first is against his wife, Pearl E. Mich
ols,s for divorce, naming Ben G. Burgess
as correspondent. The ink making the
record of this suit was not dry when
Nichols entered the second suit against
Burgess for $4,000 for alternating his
Wife's affections.
Probably no one among the swell
club sets is better known than is Bur-
CESS. Almost since the organization
of the Kansas City Club he has been
a moving and energetic spirit in that
organization. He is the Kansas City
agent of Sweet, Demster & Co., and
is reputed to be a man of considerable
means. He came here seventeen years
ago from Cleveland, o. Burgess de-
clares that the suit is an attempt at
blackmail. Mrs. Nichols is visiting in
Chicago.
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DEED OF AN INSANE MAN.
Cuts Himself in a Horrible Manner
and Jumps From a Train.

ST PAUL, July 2O.-A Missoula
(Mont), special to the Dispatch" says:
NJ Carey, an eastbound Northern Pa
cific passenger from San Francisco to
Butte, Mont, went insane while the
train was crossing the Flathead Indian
reservation. Before several passen-
gers he cut his throat from ear to ear.
This seemed to make MIN raving ma
MAC. With his knife he slashed his
head right and left. Then he plunged
the knife into his breast and jumped
off the train, which was running at full
speed.
The train was stopped and Carey
was picked up bleeding from wounds
from his hands and from additional
cuts and bruises by the fall from the
train. He fought like demon, but
was finally lodged in the baggage car,
where a physician aboard bandaged his
wounds, only to have the bandages torn
Off Arriving at Missoula he was TAX
en- to ST. Patrck's Hospital Owing
to the terrible cuts about his neck, it
was unsafe to administer chloroform,
and the County Physician was COM
PEELED to sew up the cuts While Carey
was held down by a number of men,
making a revolving spectacle. Carey
is still alive, and is bound in irons.
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WHEAT GOING UP.
An Unusual Amount of Business at
the Produce Exchange.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 20.-There
was considerable excitement and an un
usual amount of business at the local
Produce Exchange to-day, the continued
foreign demand for wheat sending the
price of that staple booming. To begin
with, Liverpool options showed a
marked advance and Chicago reports
only served to increase the excitement.
December wheat, which has risen from
81 q on July 1st, opened at 81 30, rose
to 81 SO, and closed at 81 35l2. An hour
later it shot up to 81 49, closing at
81 373s. May opened at 81 3S, and
closed at 81 Al, while December stead
lily rose to 81 80, and closed strong at
81 1914. Since very little of the new
crop has yet passed out of the hands of
the California farmer, there is much
jubilation at the existing state of af-
fairs, as he will derive most of the bene-
fiji of the rise
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Jean Ingielow was born in England
in 1880 and published her first volume
of poems in 1863 which gave evidence
Of original talent. Among the poems
in this volume, Divided High Tide
on the Coast of Lincolnshire" and
Songs of the Seven" have been very
popular Her subsequent poems sus-
tanned her reputation as a highly gifted
poet She also published several prose
works as Studies for Stories,'' '.Off the
Skelligs,'' and others. Her verses are
characterized by simplicity and natu-
ralness, and they have had a very large
sale in America. She has also writ
ten Sarah de Berenger," Don JOHN
and Poems of the Old Days and the
New
Miss Ingelow lived in a quaint little
cottage in Kensington with her bach
elor brother, surrounded by her birds
and flowers Her conservatory was
twice the size of her dwelling, and one
of her favorite pastimes was to lib
crate her feathered friends among the
flowers. while she wrote at her desk
She has always had an intense horror
of publicity, and disliked any display
in her honor.
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CURRENCY MESSAGE.
Will be Withheld Until the Tariff
Bill is Disposed of.

WASHINGTON, July 20.-It is semi
officially announced to-day that Pres
ident Mckinley will withhold his cur
rency message until after the confer
ence report on the tariff bill has been
adopted by the Senate. The Rpubli-
can leaders in the Senate do not desire
to have any new question thrown into
the Senate while the debate is on lest
it may lead to complications and delay.
1t is in Difference to their opinions and
wishes that the President has post
poned sending the message to Congress.
He is, of course, as anxious as any of
them can be to have the bill become a
law at the earliest possible moment.
AS soon as the bill is out of the way
the currency message will be sent TO
the Senate.
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BIGAMIST STANLEY.
Sentenced to Pay a Fine of Two
Hundred Dollars.

SAN JOSE, July 20.-Ira N. Stanley
was convicted of bigamy this morning
and sentenced to pay a fine of 500 or
serve it out in the County Jail at the
rate of 50 a day.
The first trial was a mistrial On the
second trial the jury agreed, after
much deliberation, on conviction, but
recommended the defendant TO the
extreme leniency" of the court. 1t was
shown that Stanley did not belong to
the criminal class, and that he and his
second wife We're SDiritualistS. He
claimed his first wife had obtained Il
divorce, and made a slight showing to
that effect He was a steamboat engi-
neer on the Stockton boats for years,
and is we'll known along the water front
in all the river towns. The light SEN
tence meets with the approval of all
familiar with the case.
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TEHAMA FOREST FIRES.
A Young Boy Arrested, Charged
With Starting the Flames.

RED BLUFF, July 20.--Will Wood
ward, an eighteen -year-old boy, has
been charged with setting the forest
fires which have ragged here for sew
eral days past. The District Attorney
swore to a complaint yesterday, and
Woodward was arrested to-day. The
officials refuse to tell what evidence
they have against Woodward, but say
there is sufficient to justify them in
making the arrest.
Very little change has taken place in
the fire, which is still burning a few
miles from the Blossom place, but the
men fighting it have been able to keep
it from passing Elder Creek. Fears
are entertained for the latter place this
evening, as the wind is raising from the
n
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The most considerable bequest is to
Mrs. William H. Phifer Creede's only
sister, who receives $4,000 worth of
property and $4,000 in cash. Her son,
Sherman Phifer, receives $4,000. To
Maggie Kearney, the nurse Of little
Dorothy Creede, $1,000 is left, and
three comrades of Creede's boyhood, NJ
Charvey, Jerome Harvey and Judge j.
W. Harvey, receive, respectively, ST.
500, $4,000 and 81. Creede asserts that
Judge Harvey is well off, and needs
none of his money, but he leaves him
dollar to show he has not forgotten
him.
The $4,000 left to Sherman Phifer Is
for the purpose of completing the $780,
600 in money and property which
Creede had set aside for his favorite
nephew. He had given him $21 900
in his lifetime.
William II. Phifer is appointed
guardian for the child Dorothy, and is
named as one of the executors of the
will, the other being John T. Jones.
Both are to serve without bonds.
Mrs. Creede's name is not mentioned
in the will
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DON CARLOS,
Possibility That He May Again Try
His Luck.

LONDON, July 20-A special dis
patch from Madrid, referring TO the re-
vival of Carlistism, says: Large guam
titles of supplies are stored on the
French border, and large consignments
of arms have been ordered in Germany
and in Belgium. While nobody thinks
that the Carlists will openly rebel, if
the present circumstances of popular
discomfort over the mismanagement of
the Cuban campaign and the subser-
viency of the Government to the Unit
ed States spreads and develops riots, as
it is quite likely to do, then Don Car
los may try his luck again.
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STEAMSHIP CHINA.
Her Registry Changed From the
British to the Hawaiian Flag.

LONDON, July GO. P. Hunting
ton, President of the Pacific Mail Com
pany, through Colonel McFarlane, has
had the registry of the steamship Chi
ma of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany transferred from the British TO
the Hawaiian flag. The China, under
the command of Captain Seabury,
sailed from Yokohama July Sth via
Honolulu for San Francisco and is TO
arrive there IN a few days.
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T. ". POWDERLY.
Some Senators Will Oppose Him as
Enumeration Commissioner

WASHINGTON, July 20-The Sen
ate Committee on immigration attempt
ed to secure a meeting to-day to con-
slider the nomination of T. V. Powderly
to be Commissioner of immigration but
failed to obtain a quorum. The meet
ing developed the fact that confirma-
ton will be opposed by some Senators.
on the ground that Powderly's appoint
ment is distasteful to the labor ele-
ment Another attempt Will be made
to take up the nomination tomorrow.
Columbus discovered America Octo-
Der II, 1852; the Mortimer A. D. $50.
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Fatal Electrical Storms.

MARION (O.), July 20.-A succession
of terrible electrical storms with a
heavy rainfall passed over the city and
vicinity. George Stout, while driving a
moving machine, was killed by light
ming. Charles Setter and William Son.
tag, mechanics, returning from work,
We're struck down IN the street. They
may recover. Four men near Rad
burn, fifteen miles from this city, were
Lillad
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pense of getting from Chicago to Sc
attle is $50, and from Seattle to the
Behring Sea $3.50. There will be thous-
ands of Eastern men who will go, but
of course the coast people have every
thing in their favor. One thing must
be remembered, that the Clondyke is in
British domain, and will be governed
accordjn p1y -
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Shipwrecked Sailors Arrive.

SAN FRANCISCO, July GO.-Twenty-
two seamen Of the lost British ship Kin
kora, who spent nearly two months or
the barren island of Clipperton, in the
South Seas, arrived in port this morn
ing on the British warship Comus. They
will be provided for by the British Con-
sui until an opportunity occurs for their
return to England.
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Direct Tax Bill Passed.

PARIS, July 20.-The Chamber of
Deputies, by a vote of DIG to 10, to-day
passed the direct taxes bill, for which
M. Cavanack on Friday last endeav-
ored to substitute an income tax pro-
posal which the Chamber defeated by
vote of 2S2 to 249.
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suic;de at San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 20.-Antho-
ny A. Fisher, aged GA. was found dead
on his bed this morning by his landlady
at 6O2 Eddy street. Fisher had at
tached a fountain syringe to the gas
fixtures, and placing the end of it in
his mouth, laid down on the bed, where
he soon died of asphyxiation.
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Two Men Seriously Burned.

VICTORIA B. c., July 20.-By the
explosion of a kettle of varnish at the
Canadian Paint Works to-day r. H.
Hart and c. Scott, employees of the COM
pany, We're seriously burned and in
iured. They We're cleaning kettle with
benzine when the explosion occurred,
throwing them through a door.
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however, remained in the neighbor-
hood, with the intention of doing mis-
sionary work among the miners.
One thousand workers in the Simons
mine have gone out, said Secretary
Pearce TODAY
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Queen Victoria.

LONDON, July 20-The Queen left
Windsor Castle this morning at 1915
by the royal train and started for Os-
borne House, Isle of Wight.
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MISS JEAN INGELOW,
THE DISTINGUISHED POETESS
AND AUTHORIZES DEAD.
Gained an Enviab1e Reputation as
Highly Gifted Writer Both
in Europe and America.

LONDON, July 20.-Miss Jean
Ingelow, the distinguished poet and
novelist, died here last night. She was
in her seventy seventh year.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-09
But the Worst Is Yet to Come
and Fearful Devastation
Is Expected.
THOUSANDS BATTLE WITH THE
BREAKING LEVEEs.
In the Y zoo Delta District There Is
Pro pct of the Worst Suffering
Ever Kn wn There.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April s.-The con-
dition of affairs in the flood districts +
the Mississippi Valley is beyond the power
o! words to describe. The situation as out
lined yesterday In President McKinley's
message to Congress far surpasses any
previous experiences. The flood region i.
not onlv more extensive, but from Cairo
down the waters have reached a higher
stage than ever known before, and the
worst is yet to come in many places, es-
pecially Louisiana-from the mouth of
Red River down-where a desperate fight
is now being made to strengthen and hold
the levees against the steadily rising
waters.
This state Of affairs does not come or 90
in day, but lasts for weeks or even
months. In the great food of 1858 the
water at Memphis stood within one foot
of it's highest mark for eighty consecutive
days, and the flood that overspread the
st. Francis and Yazoo districts took sixty
days 10 run off.
Above Cairo the floods in the main river
and its tributaries while very destructive
in certain localities are not SO widespread.
beng confined to the narrow bottoms and
valleys bordering those streams. Below
the case is very different The alluvial
region or food district proper OF the Mis-
sissippi begins a short distance above
Cairo, H.; at Cape Girardeau, Mo-, and
Paducah, KY, and with varying bread th
of from twenty to eIghty miles, extends to
the Gulf of Mexico. Through this the
river winds its tortuous length of some
1200 miles on the summit of a low ridge
which it has built up, sometimes inclining
to the bluff on the east side and again to
those on the west. The land sIoping back
from its banks to the high ground bring
its surface from five to thirty feet below
the level of the river.
At three points between Cairo and the
mouth of Red River-New Madrid, NO.,
Helena, Ark, and Natchez, Miss.-the
high ground on both sides approaches the
river, and narrowing the aIluvial plain
forms three great food reservoirs, as it
were, into which the water backs up from
the main river, or unable TO pass through
the narrow space between the ievees at
these points breaks over and floods the
whole country to greater or less depth
In previous food years sometimes one and
sometimes another of these districts have
escaped with very little damage. Only on
few previous occasions nave all three
been disastrousIy flooded at the same time.
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CAKADA'S VIEW TARIFF.
II is Semi Officially Announced IT WfH
Discriminate Against The United
SJnfas

TORONTO. ONT, April 8.-The Globe,
the Dominion Government organ, to-day
made an important announcement on the
new tariff bill to be brought down on
April 20. 1t said:
Although the Government guards the
tariff proposals with the utmost watchful-
ness 1t becomes more and more evident
that the pressure of public opinion in
favor of pro-B British trade policy will
prove irresistible, and that when the
tariff comes down 1t will be found to
make much greater reductions in the
classes of goods mainly imported from
Great BrItnin than on those from the
States. ma iority of the mem bers favor
something very near absolute free trade
with Great Britain"
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IN
Turkish Frontier.

come in the postponement of the blockade
and the news of the speech of Balfour, in
which he is reported to have talked OF a
union with America in case OF war with
France and Russia.
This latter point sounds so remarka BILE
and improbable that had 1t not COM
through the official agency it would seem
incredible. At all events it has produced
the strongest impression upon larae
party here, whose members persistently
insist that England is backing the Greeks
and wishes to seize Suda Bay. To give an
idea of these sentiments it has been re-
ported that England is about to force the
DardanelIes
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MORGAN
CHAMP
CUBANS
Declares 1t Is Time to
Accord Belligerent
Rights.
OUTRAGEs TO AMERICANS
MUST CEASE.
Contrary to All Treaties, Sus.
poets Are Kept in Loathsome
Dungeons.
TESTIMONY OF BRUTALITY NOT
FIT TO EVEN READ.
Patriots Have Thoroughly ORGANIZED
a Civil Government and Should
Be Recogniz d.
TESTIMONY OF BRUTALITY NOT
FIT TO EVEN READ.
Patriots Have Thoroughly ORGANIZED
a Civil Government and Should
Be Recogniz d.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April s.-The
war in Cuba occupied the attention of the
Senate for nearly two hours to-day. 1t
came up in the morning hour in the shape
of the Joint resolution introduced by Nor
gan last Thursday, declaring that a state
of war exists and that the United States
will accord belligerent rights in its ports
and territory to forces on both sides
Morgan presented an argument in sup
port of the joint resolution in dispas-
sionate tone and with much less than the
usual bitter invective against Spanish rule.
He related several of the recent outrages
perpetrated in Cuba against American
citizens there, and spoke of American
citizens in Cuban prisons. He said if
their history there could be lead to the
Senate it would excite in that body feel
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UNIVERSITY BONDS ARE MISSING.

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MAP OF SITIA AND VICINITY


IN ml o.
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TRADE WITH 'TRANS-PACIFIC COUNTRIES.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April S."Jm' Hi president the
Great Northern has written letter the North Dakota
tors touching the tariff question and incidentally the
possibilities Of trade in China and Japan. Hill suggests
rates in the Dngy bill be adjusted off
transPacic countries In his letter he says
the greatest importance to this country and particularly portions
of are interested in wheat growing "a year a
wheat the Paouse Valley Spokane.
cents bushe To-day the
The Annoy aone which
people, and at pounds of flour per capita yearly
bushels The
and Shanghai both easily accessible from the
about much more Hill suggests that growers ship
wheat from Devils Lake to the Pacific Coast for this
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The insurgents have notified the ad-
mirals that they will forcibly repel any
attempt OF warships to interfere with the
design to capture kissamo. 1t is as
sumed that the insurgents will turn their
guns on the warships If the latter fire on
them.
The condition of the Mussulmans who
have been besieged for a long time at
Sitia, in the eastern part of the island, is
becoming desperate. They are in great
want, the scarcity of water causing much
suffering, particularly among women and
children. The wells in the town are ut
terly incapa ble of furnishing the supply
necessary, and when the Mussulmans ven-
ture toward the springs outside of the
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town they are driven back by the besieg
ing Christians The warships in the bay
hot fire into the positions occupied by the
insurgents, but they have not succeeded
in preventing them from stepping the
Moslems.
LONDON, ENG, April s.-The Canea
correspondent of the Daily News tele-
graphs that the admirals, having received
instructions to persuade the Cretans to
accept the scheme of autonomy prepared
by the powers, this morning held a con-
ference with the Consus of several ma
tions. The matter was considered in
every light, and the conclusion reached
was that there was no reliability of sue
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Cretans to Repel Any At
tempt Of the Warships
to Interfere.
DETERMINED TO TAKE KISSAMO,
Desperate Condition Of the Moslems Cooped
Up in the Town Of Sitia, Which
Is Being Besieged by the
Christians.

CANEA, CRETE, April 6.-The Turkish
garrison at Kisssmo is extremely anxious
to retire from that place, believing that in
the event of sn attack by Christians the
position will not be tenable. The insur-
gents notified the foreign admirals yester-
day of their intention to attack the fort at
Kissamo, and 1t was understood REINFORCE
ments would be sent to the Turkish troops
there. There seems, however, to have
been a change in the plans. 1t was stated
to-day that, instead of sending further
troops to attempt 10 hold the fort, war
ship would be dispatched to Kissamo for
the purpose of embarking Moslem troops
there, who would evacuate the position
as soon as furnished with the means.
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Continued on Second Page.
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IS 500, 0O0, ,OO0 900 and discharges 8, 300 900, :
900, 0OO The Ohio basin of 2140OO square
miles catches 20, 700. 900, 600 900 cubic feet
and delivers 5000, 600, 600. 900 at Cairo. The
other tributaries receive 81 000, 600. 600. 900
cubic feet rainfall and deliver much
larger proportion of it than the three
larger streams, the Yazoo, ST. Francis and
Delta streams making as high as 80 per cent
return. In 1858 the Ohio first flooded and
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ing of the most intense Indignation. He
asked how tie United States could enjoy
the respect of it's own citizens if it stood
by and saw even one merican suffer at
the hands of the Spanish Government.
Contrary to treaty, contrary 10 interna-
tional law and. contrary TO sacred rights
of humanity. Americans, he said, were
kept languishing in loathsome dungeons
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ENGLAND'S FIRM STAND.

Bachin0 the Greeks for the Purposs OF
Seizing Sudn Bay.
NEW YORK, n. Y, April 8.-A dis
patch to the Herald from st. Petersburg
says: Just at the moment when every
one had made up his mind that ali the
troubles in Greece and Crete were settled
and after the bourse had opened buoy
antly on the report that Greece had given
way, very unfortunate counterblast has
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cess. and t @ plan was therefore aban-
doned. Nevertheless the Russian Consnl
will 60 to Retimo on his own initiative
and try to arrange a meeting with the
chiefs of the insurgents, to whom he will
explain the benefits of autonomy.
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WoULD-BE ASSASSIN SLAIN.

Attempted to Take the Life of a Mepieom
G0rernor.
MORELIA, MEXICO, April S.-An un-
known man made desperate attempt to
assassinate Governor Aresteo Mercado OF
this State while that official was on his
way from Uruapam to Apa'zingan. The
bullet went wide of its mark, and one of
the Governors escort promptly shot and
killed the would be murderer.
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increased the volume of the main river
at Columbus. KY. to 1. 100 600 cubic feet
per second. 1t had pretty well subsided
when the Upper Mississippi rose and
swelled the volume at Columbus to l, 260,-
600 cubic feet per second. This had prac-
tically subsidized when the melting SHOWS