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The Lamar register., 1902-03-05
MORE showsLlDEs REPORTED.
Other Deaths Occur in Marshall Basin
and Other Sections.

Telluride, Colo. March 2.-'rhe death
list by snowslidcs is growing. -Four
bodies We're found yesterday and slide
in Marshall basin yesterday morning
buried eight men ut the Sheridan mine,
but only one was killed. This makes
nineteen known victims of the awful
catastrophe of the past thirty-six hours.
A great slide occurred to-day at the
Gold King mine, but fortunately caught
no victims The tramway was partly
wrecked by it, however.
As the awful excitement cools,
more rational account can be had of
the terrible catastrophe of yesterday.
The slide came about 7:3O II. m, after
nll had finished breakfast, and the day
shift had started to work, and part of
the night crew had gone to bed in the
old bunk house. Had this slide come
about an hour earlier every man EN-
ployed in the mines would have been
killed or badly injured.
Early this morning came the news of
the destruction of the residence of q.
W. Van Law. foreman of one of the
mills of the Smuggler- Union company,
ut Pandora. Mr.. Van Law became ap-
prehensive yesterday of the probability
of slide coming down and he and his
wife deserted their home and moved to
more secure quarters. He communicat-
ed his fears TO his neighbor. A. B.
Blainey and o. NJ. Sacktftt, and these
families also moved out
Immediately upon receipt of the
news that snowslide had come down
at the Pandora mill. forty of Tellu-
rides NOSE prominent people secured
horses ut the livery stables and rode
rapidly to the scene of the disaster. 1t
was then supposed thar the residence
OF A. B. Blancy and o. NJ. Sackett had
been carried away.
Before this rescue party had reached
Pandora IL became known that nj l
o'clock this afternoon the Bobtuil slide,
which is feared by every person who
travels the Marshall and Savage basins
TRAIL had also ran. Three men and six
horses were undoubtedly killed by this
avalanche. Harry ii. Martin was one
of the victims. The two others We're
unknown. They We're seen on the trail
| Just before the slide and there is no
| doubt that they lost their lives.
At this time it is impossible to ascer-
| tain from the officers of the mining
/ company who are missing and who are
| dead.
The slide at 10 o'clock carried away
the tension station OF the Slnuggier-
| Union trTmway, connecting the mines
with the two mills, and the shipping
station at Pandora. 1t was while per-
| sons We're cndcIvoring TO repair the
damage 10 the tramway that this sec
| ond slide came.
More than 2cO persons were engaged
to-day in rescue work ut the Liberty
Bell slides. They had recovered two
| In nf Epntpl
Paul Delpha when the worst blizzard
| of the season set in and the rescuers
We're compelled to retreat precipitnte-
| ly from the mountains, their own lives
being in great danger. This unexpect-
ed interference with the rescue work
will delay the search for the dead, II
is probable for many days.
The Lamar register., 1902-03-05
Influenza in London.

London. March 3.-InfluenZa has
London at its mercy. So centered had
the interest been in the smallpox cpl
demic that this latest and more formid-
able scourge gained ascendency with
scarce breath of publicity. Yet Il
large percentage of politicians. busi-
ness men. social leaders and divines
are incaplcitated from attending to
their regular duties.
From all sides come reports of in
creasing number, of cases. The warm
wet weather of the past week was
particularly favorable to the grip, and
the large percentage of deaths from
this cause shows the virulence of the
epidemic.
Half II doZen members of the govern
ment. including A. ]. Balfour. govern
ment leader in the House of Commons,
are laid up. Sir Thomas Upton. Lord
Roberts and about thirty members of
the House OF Commons and other
notable people are among the suffer
ers. The Earl of Perth. whose demise
WIS announced in these dispatches last
night. is the least notable victim.
The Lamar register., 1902-03-05
Roosevelt Rewards Rescuer.

Lisbon. March 3.-The gold chrono-
meter sent by President Roosevelt to
Captain Betancourt of the Portuguese
steamer l'eninsulnr. the binoculars
sent by the President to the officers of
the steamer. and the gold medals sent
to the crew. for having saved the cap
tain and crew of an American schooner
last November, were presented to-day
to the persons for when they were in
tended by +. ii. Loomis, United States
minister 10 Portugal.
The Portuguese steamer Peninsular
from Lisbon. October 2Sth last. fell in
November 14th with the American
schooner Western Era. from Calais,
Maine. for New Bedford. with her rud-
der gone and leaking. The Peminsnlar
took off the captain and the two men
Oh the American schooner and brought
them 10 New York November I0tA.
The Lamar register., 1902-03-05
Dormant Money.

good deal of money becomes dor
mant through the carelessness or for
getfulness of the owners. When MIR.
Goshen's conversion and redemption
scheme of 1887 came into operation.the
Bank of England notified 6S.0O0 hold
ers OF consols that their per cents
were no longer 3 per cents. No fewer
than II 500 letters failed to reach the
stockholders to whom they were ad-
dressed: the people were dead. and
their relatives were unknown. says
Chambers Journal. One person who
could not be found held consols
amounting to upward of G1S7 .539; and
over forty possessed e100O0 each; and
this money awaits lawful ownership
A very singular case of "A stockholders
forgetfulness led to suit in chancery
some years ago. A lady who had at
tanned the venerable age of 98 died at
Marseilles. For years she had prac-
tically lived on money borrowed from
her relatives under the impression that
she possessed no means of her own.
Only after she had died 1t transpired
that a sum of G56.000 was standing in
her name in the funds. and also E20.-
900 of accumulated dividends.
The Lamar register., 1902-03-05
MESSAGES ACROSS THE OCEAN.
Marconi's Dispatches Cover a Distance
of Over 1000 Miles.

New York. March 3.-The most anlaz-
ing triumph which wireless telegraphy
has vet achieved WIS told when the
steamer Philadelphia arrived with the
inventor AIarcOni aboard. he having
maintained communication with the
Cornwall signal station throughout
nearly all of the 3,OO0mile journey
from Cherbourg to New Cork.
Captain A. X. Mills. master of the
Philadelphia. bears witness to the fact
that six messages Were received during
the first four days OF the run, these be-
ing when the steamship was $50 miles
distant from POldhu. the Marconi sig
nal station. and ending when the yes.
sci was 2,O99 miles from that point.
And the other officers of ship attest
with their signatures the accuracy of
this statement.
Mr. Marconi took these precautions
that the skeptical might be convinced.
The young inventor is very proud of
the tape bearing the "S'' signal, which
was received when 2.O99 miles distant
from the station. and which is signed
and certified by Captain Mills and
Chief Officer Marsden.
The first of the messages was receiv.
ed at distance of $50 miles on Febrlr
ary 23d. The signal only was received
February 2Gth. over 2.O99 miles of sea.
All the messages were one way-all
from the station to the ship. Mr.. Mar
conf explained this by saying that
while the apparatus installed in the
Philadelphia admitted of the receipt of
messages. II was not sufficiently power
full to send them such n distance as the
more powerful Cornwall station nc.
complished.
II believe" said Mr.. Marconi quietly.
"that the distance at which wireless
message may be sent depends only on
the power of the sending station.
think it possible to send n message en-
tirely around the world.'
"This time" "said Mr.. Marconi. there
can be no error Captain Mills and
Chief Officer MarsdeH signed each
message received. as witnesses. Fif.
teen hundred miles at sea regular mes
sages were received from the Cornwall
station and ticks We're recorded Mt n
distance of 1000 miles. 1t has been
said that my New Foundland messages
were due to my Imagination and to at
mospheric currents. so / requested the
captains signature to bear me out
81 am not going to establish any wire
less service between Cuba and the Un.
tied States. as has been reported. nor
have I any intention of establishing q
line across the English channel"
The Lamar register., 1902-03-05
S. G. Collins a Bankrupt.

Boston. March 3.-Samuel q. Collins
of Boston and Denver has filed peti-
tion In bankruptcy in the United
States court here. His Liabilities are
approximately $120,OO0 and his as
sets, Us declared by himself. are 500
worth Of personal property. Mr.. Col
lins says:
Il went to bed one night worth
SSOO,0OO. and my fortune was gone i'll
IA night For nine years | have tried
to square my obligations. but ] have
concluded it Is no use. Almost all my
liabilities are with busted banks in
Denver
The Peoples National bank of Den
yer is creditor for $135, ,G3G, loaned to
Collins ON notes amounting to S6O.Uu.
secured by deeds of trust OH real es-
tate in Arapahoe county. After de-
fault and foreclosure May 20, 1896. the
bank obtained Judgment for the def
cheney, si5,GS6.
The Peoples Savings bank has a
claim of SG3T5 and the Denver Saw
ings bank n judgment claim of SlS.OO5.
Collins went under Mt Denver In the
panic of 93. There are number Of
other claims.
The Lamar register., 1902-03-05

In an alteration in the senate be-
tween the senators from South Caro-
lima, McLaurin accused Tillman of
lying. and was struck in the face by
the latter The senate Immediately
went into executive session and
voted both the senators from
South Carolina in contempt. barring
them from speaking or voting until
the contempt is removed by action of
the senate.
In open session apologies were made
by the two senator's. but no action
was taken by the senate to declare
them purged of contempt. Tillman
coupled his apology with long state
ment. in substance declaring that. un-
der the circumstances. he could not
have acted otherwise. while McLaurin,
The Lamar register., 1902-03-05
Royalty on the stage.

King Edward was years old when
he saw his first play. and the event is
recorded in royal diary of the time.
"'Used Up and Box and Cox were
chosen for that night" wrote the late
Duchess of Teck. The thcater was
well arranged and the decorations and
lamps quite wonderfully managed.
The four elder children appeared at
the play, and the two boys wore their
kits The two little girls had on
white satin. with pink bows and sashes.
Princess Royal wears her hair in a
very becoming manner. all twisted into
The Lamar register., 1902-03-05

while regretting the Incorporate Lam
guage. justified it by the brutal at
tack that had been made on his honor
and integrity He began warning in
the nature of threat against any
future accusations that he was bribed
to vote for the Paris treaty. but one
of the senators sitting near him per
suaded him to sit down leaving the
sentence unfinished.
When the senate met the next day,
Senator Frye. president pro TEN OF the
senate, gave directions to the clerks
that the names of Senators Tillman
and McLaurin OF South Carolina must
not be called on roll calls until fur
ther notice. This fixed the status OF
the senators, practically suspending
them from all senatorial functions.
The Lamar register., 1902-03-05
EXPERIENCES IN CAPTIVITY.
Miss Stone Says the erisands Treated
Her Well.

Salonica, Roumania. Feb, 2S.-Mlss
Stone and her party will soon leave
for Constnntinople.
Miss Stone says that the prisalius
always treated them well Inc! p'lli'
A hut for the prisoners on Inc noun
tain, provided horses for them Wne,i
they travelled and carried NINE. lsh
ka's baby whenever they were hiio"tu
to do so. Tie brigands never ealne
into contact with the troops. hltlouEh
the party was obliged 10 halt .e"
times while. OH false alarms Aiss
stones captors made preparations i'i
action.
Miss Stone says that the Drlehhus
swore both of their captors 10 hpso-
lute secresy regarding any inforinatioH
calculated to establish the idehti,! Vi
the brigands. the location OF me Pih,s
where they were concealed OF 'in
facts likely to compromise ther e"p
tors. As a matter of fact. the prlson
.rs themselves were very urcertain ie
garding many details of their "an,.s
ings. They did not know whell 'nn! NY
were released in what section Vi w,
country they were. An arrangement
had been made to release them nta
Ser Macedonia. where ps.'i,,n
iafIlllo and Mr.. House were wiii'ine
for them; but the brigands, OWE as w.
timidity or otherwise. declared II 'J
too difficult to carry out 'he pam
The Lamar register., 1902-03-05
SEEK SKULL OF MOZART

German scientists are searching for
the skull of Mozart. the great Austrian
composer. The sketch herewith given
has been sent out for identification.
The skull has been stolen, and all
efforts to locate 1t have so far been in
vain. Mozarts body was buried on
Dec. 6. 1871. in one Of the mass graves
of the st. Macmillan cemetery. near
Vienna. The great composer had died
Door, and his friends did not even
have enough respect for his memory
to mark his grave with monument.
Only the sexton knew where Mozart
was buried. Ten years later the body
was exhumed to make room for an
other. and the sexton kept the skull
of the composer as a memento. His
son afterwards presented the skull to
Jacobus Hyrtl, the famous etcher. and
brother of the equally famous anato-
mist, professor Hyrtl. After the death
of Jacobus, in 1879, Mozarts skull be-
came the property of Prof. Hyrtl. who
Salzburg. Mozart's birthplace. Prof.
Hyrtl died in July, 1894.
After his death Mozart's skull could
not be found. and not until May of
last year was it discovered at the
Needing Orphan Asylum founded by
Hyrtl. Before the question as to the
rights of the city of Salzburg to claim
the skull was decided, three sketcbss 8 of
the skull were made. one of which Is
The Lamar register., 1902-03-05
Big Gold Shipments.

Washington. Feb 2s.-,rhe treasury
department has received II request
from New York for thu. privilege of de
posIting S2.O0O.OOO in gold in the sub
treasury there with the privilege OF
withdrawing it at San Francisco, pre-
sumnbly for shipment to the Orient.
Tie request also says that. probably
S14. .OOO.Ooa will be Eequired before: he
middle of NI;}rch. As this transaction
is of advantage ito the government,
tile department having an excess OF
gold in San Francisco. the request has
been granted. 3s..s-.-a-
New York. Feb. rs, Additional en-
gagements of goidl were made this
morning. making the total amount TO
b. shipped today S3.50o.0Oo. The Na-
tiornl City Bank increased its export
from Sl.OJ00O0 to S1.50O.0O0. and Hell
de,bach. Ickeibeimer Il CO., from $15o-
900 to s1.O00.00l. LaZard Freres will
ship $1,OO0.Oo0.
The Lamar register., 1902-03-05

brought theft captives, after a hard
night march. within one and half
miles of Strumitza. The two women
were left under the shelter of tree,
mt 3:30 a. m in the morning, Feb. %
The bandits pointed out the direction
of the village. and ordered the cap
tives to report themselves to the VII
lage elder. who. ON learning their iden-
tity. would .proyide for them. The
brigands turned backward. and disap-
peared amonxpthe hills.
The Lamar register., 1902-03-05
Lepers Send a Pe,Itiop.

No document has ever been handled
with more caution by the Senate en-
ployes than the petition signed by 372
lepers, presented the other day by
Senator Foraker. Some of the clerks
asked for tongs. while others demanded
gloves. The petition came from the
leper settlement in Hawaii. The pc
titioners prayed that this settlement be
not made national leper colony.
The Lamar register., 1902-03-05
Birds Decreasing In MISSOURI.

Systematic inquiries into the present
condition OF bird life in Missouri
bring to light the surprising discovery
that within the last fifteen years in
sectivorous birds have decreased 62
per cent. and game birds so per cent.
The Lamar register., 1902-03-05
Margaret DaIe's Success

dark blue or black silk net, which
keeps it all very tidy and neat" or
the four children who laughed that
night at BOX and Cox only one is
living now. and he reigns over the
British Empire.
The Lamar register., 1902-03-05

Margaret Dale. who is now playing
a minor part in THE Wilderness in
New York, has been selected for the
position of leading woman in John
Drew's company next season. TO sue
ceed Ida Conquest, who is to create
The Lamar register., 1902-03-05
Koo,ev.,r- Cousin uonorcd.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt. cousin
of the president has Just been elected
secretary of the Harvard Crimson"
one of the highest literary honors
which Harvard university has to offer
it's undergraduates.
The Lamar register., 1902-03-05

new role in another production. Miss
Dale's home is in Germantown. Pa.
She made her debut at the Girard
theater in Philadelphia three years
ago, and achieved success as leading
woman in Henry Miller's company
The Lamar register., 1902-03-05

now in the Mozart museum at Salz,
burg. Shortly after that an unknown
person substituted another skull for
the genuine one. What has become of
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-12-12

A NATIVE DUDE HOLIDAY DRESS,
abundance Of flowers. A brass band
occupies q prominent position in the
market building and discourses music
of great volume and variety and more
or less melody. After the crowds fair
ly take possession Of the market the
performance of the band appears to be
mostly pantomimic, for nothing made
by the hand of man can for moment
compete in noise producing capacity
with the average Jamaican negro.
The West Indian negro's great weak
ness is a love of gay apparel. next is a
prediction for ceremOniousness. and
the most prominent affiiction is garrul-
ity. In the crowd that surges past one
through the market and the surround
ing streets may be seen every variety
of apparel known to civilized and un-
civilized man. The country people
wear little or nothing. the coolies as
little as nothing, but the town negro
wears everything he or she can put
on, without any regard whatever to the
climatic conditions. They take their
notions from the English fashion pa
pers, and heavy WOODEN clothing is all
the style. The writer has even seen
sealskins worn in Kingston on day
when the thermometer registered 90
degrees in the shade Here is "a stylish
saddle colored gentleman wearing loud
check trousers, patent leather shoes. &
striped flannel shirt Of three celors. q
crimson and black sash around his
waist, blue English cricketing cap on
bis head. In his hand he carries an
immense cane, while screwed into his
left eye is Il circular piece of perfectly
plain glass. through which he glares
stonily on the throng Not long ago
the single eyeglass became very popu-
lar among Kingston society darkies,
but they could not get along with the
glasses that magniied, so some enter
prising merchant imported a lot of cir
cular pieces of plain window glass,
and all the dudes wore them, happily
and idiotically.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-12-12
Saved by Firefiies.

The gigantic tropical firef1ies which
swarm in the forests and canebrakes
Of most of the low lying West Indian
islands once proved the salvation of the
city Of Santo Domingo. A body OF buc-
cancers, headed by the notorious Thorn
as Cavendish, had laid all their plans
for descent upon the place, intending
to massacre the inhabitants and carry
away all the treasure they convenient
ly could, and had actually put off their
boats for that purpose.
AS they approached the land, how
ever, rowing with muffled oars, they
were greatly surprised to see an inf
mite number of moving lights in the
woods which fringed the bayou up
which they had to proceed, and, con-
Guiding that the Spaniards knew Of
their approach, they put about and re-
gained their ship without attempting
to land
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-12-12
MOErnerS In Rcd.

There can be no doubt that in the
dark and part Of the middle ages red,
and not black, was the favorite mourn
ing color throughout Europe. Even
down to the end of the fifteenth cen
fury the change from blood red to
black was not complete, though black
cloaks were worn over red clothing. In
Abyssinia the mourning color is red
dish brown. In Turkey it is violet, a
color closely allied to red. 1t is a curl
Gus fact that among the Maoris of New
Zealand red is the hue of sorrow. In
earlier times mourners daubed their
bodies with red juices when they fol
lowed a chief to his grave, and even
the resting places of the bodies We're
also colored red.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-12-12
Loves Final Age.

''The last age of love in mans life
is the dotage," says Dorothy Dix in
Ainslee's. This is peculiar to wealthy
old men, and it's most pronounced
symptom is mania for presenting
diamonds and opening bottles for
chorus girls, who call him papa. At
other times in mans life he has some
slight misgivings about love being al
ways conducted on a reciprocal basis,
but when he reaches this age he throws
fears to the winds. He knows he is
loved for himself alone. The man at
twenty-five doubts his power to win a
woman's heart The man of seventy
five is cOcksure that he is a charmer
nothing feminine can resist. He knows
the ratio of his destinations has in
creased with his advancing years, and
he quarrels with his family, who are
cruel enough to suggest that the debu-
tante he leads to the altar may have a
weather eye on his will.
"The last age of love is the most dam
gerous of them all and is generally ia
tai. In fact, love is like the measles
it is safest and goes easiest with man
when he has it early in life"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-12-12
The Extinct Quag-a.

The quagga, the half cousin to the
wild ass, has vanished from Africa
and only exists as imperfect specimens
in the European museums
The quagga exists as name still in
South Africa, for the name has been
wrongly applied to Burchells zebra,
but the true quagga, which took it's
name from it's cry ''quacha,' has been
extinct since 1872, when the last of
his or, rather, of her race, for this
Quagga was a female, died in the Lon
don Geological society's emenagerie.
It's extinction in South Africa was
due solely to the zeal with which the
Dutch farmers hunted it for it's hide,
and it is a saddening reflection that
thousands of Kaffirs used to be fed on
it by their Boer masters.
The idiotic waStefulness of thus ex-
terminating a species becomes the
more marked in view of the fact that
the quagga, which was midway be-
tween a zebra and wild ass, could
be broken to harness and was the
bravest as well as the hardest of ami
mails. Some BOer farmers used to
keep tame quaggas on their farms to
Craze with horses in order to protect
them from beasts of prey.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-12-12
Status of the Country Publisher.

Here is little old Stralght-frOm-tne-
shoulder talk about matters lying near
to our heart. There seems to be feel
ing among business men that news
paper has no business to make money.
Why not? It is the most eXacting bust
ness in the world, the most trying in
every way. It means long hours and
the greatest care in it's conduct The
newspaper has the entire public to deal
with. 1t is criticised on all occasions.
1t has to deal with all the cranks in the
community, and to do this successfully
requires judgment and patience.
1t has power, and that power, to the
credit of journalism, is nearly always
welded for the public good. No ques-
ton Of vital concern to the home people
fails to find q strong support from the
home newspaper, ard this, too, without
remuneration. The publisher spends
his money to further these projects,
and the community never gives a
thought to the matter of cost to him.
1t is rot paid oct of the public pocket
-NeWspaperdOm.