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The Washington times., 1903-05-31
PART OF KANSAS CITY
ALMOST DEPOPULATED

KANSAS CITY, MAY 3e.-That part OF
Kansas City known as Armour Dale.
with a population of 10000, is almost
depopulated. It's houses stand in the
center Of great lake. Its streets are
flooded Nearly 5000 of its residents are
homeless. About 0,O0O men who few
days ago had employment are idle.
The school houses and public build
ings of Armstrong, Riverview, and
wyandotte are full OF refugees in
pitiable condition. All day steady
stream of fiood-stricken people tramped
across the yiaducts, leaving behind them
their homes and household goods. NOV
ing toward higher ground 1t was
pathetic procession.
River Still Rising.
The rive: rose steadily all day and is
still rising. No one knows when it viii
stop. The Government Weather Bureau
predicts more rain and yet greater floods
in both tho Missouri and Kaw rivers.
The immense packing plant of Swift &
Co. is entirely surrounded by water.
which stands ten feet deep throughout
the buildings. Hundreds of buildings
adjoining it are Submerged.
The water is running the streets OF
Harlem like a millrace. Every house
in the town is flooded All of its 600 in
habitants are homeless.
In Argentine $500 people are homeless,
and with the exception of wagon road
which winds over the hills the town is
cut off from the rest OF the world.
Business at Standstill.
Business at the stock yards was prac-
ticaIly at a standstiIl today The rail-
roads. with few exceptions. are unable
to bring in stock. and all the packing
houses, with the exception OF Armour's.
are out OF business. Every western
road entering Kansas City is affected
by washouts. The Rock Island and
Union Pacific are laid out completely.
and the other roads are moving few
trains. their tracks being submerged ar
places.
The union STATEN and hotels are
thronged with thousands OF tourists who
are unable TO proceed farther. The doors
OF churches. schools, and public build
ings in Kansas City have been throvi
open 10 the sufferers, and committees
have been appointed by the mayor 10
relieve the sufferers The weather to-
night is cold. and rain Is falling.
The Washington times., 1903-05-31
SIXTEENTH STREET
AS It WILL LOOK
Col. Biddle Tells of the Pro
jected improvement.
FINEST OF TH0RoUGRFARES
Roadway Fifty Feet Wide, Flanked by
Norway Naples and Tulip Trees.
Paradise for Automobiles.

Col. John Biddle. District Engineer
detail the treatment of Sixteenth Street
extended in the proposed Improvement
of that thoroughfarp From Morris
Road to Columbia Road the street will
be surfaced with asphalt. and from Co
lumbia Road to Piney Branch the road
way viii be macadamized
Some Work to Be Torn Up.
The change in plans from forty-foo.
to a fifty-foot roadway, Colonel Biddle
said, would necessitate tearing up some
of the work put down along the lower
end of the street. Quite a stretch of
two blocks Of cement sidewalk had beeo
constructed. A portion of the sidewalk
would have been torn up any way, be-
cause the contractor had not complied
with the specifications. A few hundred
dollars at most would undo the work
completed upon the fcrty-foo roadway
plan.
Under the plan now adopted. the road
way would be fifty feet wide from curb
10 curD- Beyond Columbia Road
the curb would be set. cutters construct
ed. and the macadam laid. The side
walks would be supplied as they were
needed in the future. From Morris Road
10 Columbia Road the sidewalk would
be laid as soon as possible.
Seven-Foot Tree Space.
Inside the curb on each side would be
a seven-foot tree space. This would be
left bare. to be turfed over after the
planting of trees. Adjoining the seven
foot tree space would be cement side
walk, eight feet wide. This would com
plete the public work. Inside this would
be wide parking, extending up to the
building line. thirty feet wide on each
side.
In planting trees Norway naples
would be set in the tree space next to
the curb, and on the parking row OF
tulip trees.
When the improvement was complete
and the trees should have attained some
growth, Sixteenth Street would be one
Of the finest thoroughfares in Wash
ington.
The Washington times., 1903-05-31
ROOSEVELT BOYS NOT TO
GO HUNTING IN MAINE
.'Old BilF' SeWell Tells That
Trip Is Off.
LADS TO GO TO OYSTER BAY
Were to Have Spent a Couple of
Were to Have Spent a Couple of
Months in the Woods Learning
the Art of Nature.

The Roosevelt boys will not 90 TO
Maine this summer. to be the guests of
-Old Bill" Sewell, after all. The news
that they cannot make the trip has come
ficm the veteran woodsman himself. He
has sent word to one OF his friends AT
the White House that the trip is .soff'
for this year, much to his regret, but
that he hopes for better luck next time.
He sends the information in a letter
which is characteristic of his own per-
sonality.
The Presidents eldest sons. Theodore
jr.. and Kermit. were invited by the
veteran Maine woodsman, upon the con-
clusion of his visit to Washington last
February to come down East" when
tfeir school days at Groton were over,
and spend couple of months with him
in the woods. ..Old Bill" had taught
the President himself few SPORTSMAN Is
tricks in days. long past, and hoped for
an opportunity to make Nimrods CT. The
Presidents g sturdy sons.
Expected Great Sport.
The latter thought 1t would be great
sport to get out into the tall timbers
and rough it" for a while and so in
formed their friend, "Old Bill" He went
away with high hopes for the treat the
youngsters were going to give him and
was even hopeful that the President
would come too. But after the long Pa
cific Coast trip, the Chief Magistrate
Will probably prefer a thorough rest ct
Oyster Bay and the boys will also be
there most of the summer for a family
reunion after their absence all winter.
"Old Bill's" observations upon the
matter are couched in this interesting
language:
I'm sorry to say that I don't guess
We'll see the President this summer like
We reckoned while back He said
when he got through his job in Wash
ington, so he could have plenty OF spare
time. he thought as how he'd come, but
he amt ready yet And it looks as IL
he's goin' TO hang on TO his job for some
time yet.
He was a-going to send his young
'uns down here to see the woods this
summer. but the plans for the school
ing didn't hitch jest right, so he gave
it uD.'
The Washington times., 1903-05-31
NEW ATTACHE OF GERMAN
EMBASSY ARRIVES HERE
Lieutenant Martin Becomes Guest of
Lieut.. Won Bredow for the Present.

Lieutenant Martin. of the Fifth ORA
goons, German army, who was accredit-
ed some time ago by the Berlin foreign
office as attache to the German en-
hassy here, arrived in Washington yes
terday. He was met in New York city
by Lieutenant ven Bredow, of the en-
ba5sy sta1T, who for the present will
have the new attache as his guest
Lieutenant Martin has recently been
stationed with his regiment in Cassel.
Germany. re IS a bachelor. In the
course OF the coming summer he ex-
poets t. make visit to some of the
great cattle ranches OF the West. and
do some sightseeing in general.
The Washington times., 1903-05-31
Kaw River Cuts New Channel
Back of the Town, Leaving
North Topeka Entirely Sur
rounded by Water.
Portion of Kansas City Center of
Great Lake, and River Still
Rising = Thousands Homeless
in DeS Moines.

TOPEKA, Kas-, May 30.-Fire is rag
Ing tonight in the fiood-stricken district
OF Topeka It started from lime in
lumber yard, and burning boards foated
through the town, setting fire to more
than 700 dwellings and stores Two
blocks Of business houses are burned to
the waters edge
As result of the food here 1000 peo-
pie are homeless OF these a thousand
are still hemmed in by. water IN North
Topeka, third Of them on roofs and IN
trees. The rescue work is slow and diff
fieult. owing to the swift current. which
will perish in the night. Fifteen deaths
by drowning occurred today.
Hundreds May Have PeIished.
People IN houses who have not been
either suffer death by fire or lose their
lives IN the food
Ordinarily North Topeka is separated
from Topeka by the Kaw River. which
has now risen SO high that the streets
are all several feet under water The
river has cut new channel back OF the
town, which leaves it entirely surround
ed by water.
The current Is so swift that it is i'm
another, thus leaving the stricken people
with no avenue OF escape. Hundreds
are supposed 10 have perished through
out the afternoon and evening from fire
and water.
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SENATOR IS INDICTED.

ST. LOUIS, May 30.-An indictment
charging State Senator Frank H. Farris
with bribery has been returned by the
ST. Louis grand jury. Thirteen other in
dictments returned were not made pub
lie, but 1t is said that no unexpected
indictments of Importance are among
the number.
The Washington times., 1903-05-31
ALL WATCHING RUSSIA.

PE<IN. Nay S0.-Paul Lessar. the
Russian minister. returned here last
night after visit to st. Petersburg
The course of events indicates that Rus
sla viii enforce her policy in Manchu-
ria. notwithst andtng China's formal re-
fusal 10 grant her demands. The at
tempt to open new towns Ia ManchurIa
10 foreign trade is likely TO fail Diplo-
mats are watching this feature OF the
situation eagerly as being a test of Rus
sia influence.
The Washington times., 1903-05-31
MRS. ROOSEVELT At GRoToN.

GROTON, Mass. May S0.-Mrs. Roose-
welt and her sister, Mrs. w S Cowles,
arrived today and attended the annual
prizes day exercises of the Groton School,
where Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt
are pupils Principal Peabody, Senator
Lodge. ard Jacob Riis made addresses,
and former Governor Boutwell, gave out
the prizes. Tie awards were twenty.
The Washington times., 1903-05-31

his first lap of the sixteenth mile mis-
rear tire exploded. the wheel col
lapsed and he was hurled high into the
air and landed, rolling headlong down
the embankment. AS he reached the bot
tom he was struck in the head by Stin-
sons motor cycle.
The force of the collision threw off
Frank Galley, of Roxbury, the head man
The Washington times., 1903-05-31
DRUG STORE HoLD-UP.

CHICAGO. May 3O.-Highxaymen en-
tered the drug store Of DR.. A. c. Bren-
decke. Peoria. and Randolph Streets,
last night, covered George Semsrott and
Dr. John Forbes, the drug clerks, with
reyolyers, and when DR.. Forbes made
q dash for weapon. shot him dead
After the shooting the robbers rushed TO
the door and escaped.
The Washington times., 1903-05-31
RELIANCE WINS OUT
IN DRIFTING MATCH
Fourth Consecutive Victory
for New Yacht.
-c0LUMBIA's POOR SHOWING
A Mix-Up at the Starting Point Causes
Delay-Eew Defender Fast
Drifter.

GLEN COVE. May 30.-After a long
drawn out and unsatisfactory trial, thu
new cup candidate Reliance won ner
fourth consecutive victory on the Sound
today, defeating Constitution by "a min
utes and 26 seconds. and Columbia by
two hours, over a twenty mile course.
Yachtsmen agree that no yacht afoat
can hold the new boat in a drift, and
today the wind was so light at the
finish that Columbia took over an hour
to cover the last 100 yards. after she
got abreast with the committee boat
AS the result of a little mix-up at the
start. protests were filed with the re-
satta committee, of the New York Yacht
Club. by the owners Of the Constitution
and Columbia, and their decision will be
announced later. Everyone thought
today as early in the morning 1t was
blowing half gale from the northeast,
but unfortunately just before the start
the wind died down to gentle breeze.
Mix-Up at Start.
When the starting signal sounded, the
wind, such as it was, eAst-northeast,
made ii q beat TO the first mark The
start was pretty one, but Captain
Rhodes. after getting the windward
berth. unfortunately luffed the Consti-
tuition before the starting gun, and had
to go back and cross over again. In do
ing this the Constitution got in the Co
lumbia's path. and forced her to give
way
The yachts made a number of short
bitches down the Sound, and the Re-
lance drew slowly in front, so that by
the time she reached the first mark she
was three-quarters of a mile ahead OF
the Constitution. and mile and quar-
ter ahead of Columbia.
The Washington times., 1903-05-31
BITUMINoUs MINERS STRIKE.

EYBRSDALE. Pa. May 20.-Notices
seelarIng a reduction of cents in
wages have been rosted at the mines Of
the Continental Coal Company. District
President Daniel Young yesterday in
CURED into the matter and ordered a
strike. and the mines are now idle.
The Washington times., 1903-05-31
orr FoR MANILA.

FORT SAID. Mag ae.-The United
States cruisers AlsaRy. Raleigh. and
Cincinnati have sailed for Manila.
The Washington times., 1903-05-31
Reach to Starboard.

Reach to Starboard
It was reach on the starboard tack
to the second mark with intermediate
jib topsails, and as the wind hauled
Columbia set a ballooner, but fell so far
behind that she ceased to be a factor in
the race.
The boats were timed as they gybed
around the second mark as follows:
Reliance ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 2:1s:36
CONSTITUTION Z:Zf-1o
1t was a reach on the port tack home
with ballooners, and Reliance increased
her lead quite bit. finishing at 3:5O:17:
Constitution being timed 4:16:03, and
Columbia. 10000.
First Second ELAPSED
Start. maIK. mark. Finish time.
Reliance 2:l5:06 1:56:55 2:16 :36 3:50:l7 3:35:u
Const'n. 12:l6:26 2:G2:24 2:27:l3 4:I6:03 3:59:97
Colbia.. 12:16:31 2:09:l0 2:49:2s 10000 5:43.29
The Washington times., 1903-05-31

on the cycle and Stinson, who was fol-
lowing with head down, struck Galley
and was thrown. EIkes was picked up
and carried in a police ambulance to the
Massachusetts General Hospital, but
died before arriving there. Stilson and
Galley were also hurried TO the hospital
and viii probably be confined there Cor
some time.
Stinson was badly cut about the face
and head and received many bruises.
Galley suffered like injuries and he also
had his right foot split open. The motor
cycle continued by itself up the en-
bankment and then fell over. the front
wheel being wrecked.
Ellfes body will be taken to Glens
Falls as soon as possible. Walthour and
Moran continued the race, the former
winning, his time for. the twenty miles
being 2:50 %.
Elkes was to have ridden in Wash
iEgton on June A. and he will be sadly
missed by the lovers of the motor racing
gone
The Washington times., 1903-05-31
COMMISSIONERS To
ASK FOR NEW COURT
WOman's Rescue League
Protest Received.
TO URGE CONGRESS TO ACT
Miss Smiths Experience in the Lock
Up-Forced Way in With
Prisoners.

The resolutions of the woman's Res
cue League. protesting against the un-
sanitary condition of the Police Court
building, have been received by the
Board OF Health, and will be referred TO
the District Commissioners on Monday.
The document. filled with strong de-
nUnciation Of the present system of
maintaining the building, will be pre-
sented TO Congress at the next session
in support Of the bill asking for an
appropriation to erect new Police
Court. At that time attention will be
called to the fact that it is an express
sion OF public opinion on the need of a
modern and sanitary structure
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Commissioners in Accord.

An effort was made by the District
Commissioners at the last session OF
Congress to have q similar measure
favorably acted upon The subject has
been given the hearty support of the
Commissioners, who have expressed
themselves as ready to indorse any ad-
ditionaI movement to have conditions
remedied
The Washington times., 1903-05-31
Mrs. Smiths Experiences.

The action OF the league in bringing
the matter before the Health Office was
the result of visit to the court last
Thursday by Mrs. Charlotte Smith, who
for years has been prominently identi-
fed with rescue work here and in other
cities
About twenty years ago Mrs. Smith
paid visit to the court for the purpose
OF lending assistance to woman who
had been arrested for theft. Failing 10
gain admittance TO the cell in which the
woman was confined. she took a place
in.line with the prisoners, marched dowa
and was locked I'D with them in the
basement cell.
II was wA:le confined there thar Mrs.
Smith was enabled 20 realize, TIE ap-
paliing condition OF the court. espe-
cially she cells in which prisoners are
confined The result OF her experience
was that the league obtained an appro-
priation OF $1,000 from Congress for the
renovation OF the court.
The Washington times., 1903-05-31

Light rains today; to-
morrow fair and warmer:
variable winds.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-02
rE1EcRApHIO BREvIrIEs.

Generally torrid weather prevailed to-
day in New York and vicinity but there
were only two heat prostrations reported
up TO / 80 as a good breeze was blowing
and there was welcome absence of de-
pressing humidity.
Because it was believed they had
plotted to blow up the Barnum & Bailey
Circus with dynamite, Thomas Grady
and James Burch, former employees at
the big show were held for examination
in the police court in Danbury, Conn.,,
today. The two men entered hard
ware store early last night and bought
two sticks of dynamite and percussion
caps.
George Loeser jr., aged rs, Epf Mauros,
n. j., custody of Sheriff Carman charg-
ed with homicide. He accidentally Kill
led John Fillmore, who, with wife, visit
ed the Loeser hotel three weeks ago, as
tramps. They were given work and yes
terday when paid off became intoxicated
and last night annoyed the guests. Loerer
pushed Fillmore, aged IS off the stoop.
He struck on his head and was pickedup
dead
Senator NJ. A. Hanna will be in
Chattanooga on Saturday and Sunday.
Representatives of the 'Lily White"
party in Alabama will call upon
him for conference The LILLY
Whites" in Alabama are opposed to
President Rooseyelts denomination
on account of his position on the negro
question. 1t is authoritatively stated
that the oily Whites" of Alabama will
call in person on the Senator and that
they will urge him to make the race for
the presidential nomination. They will
point out that the republicans of the
South are opposed to Roosevelt ard
that they will support Hanna if he WI
allow his name TO be used.
With bowsprit and headgear gone the
five masted schooner Rebecca Palmer reached
Vineyard Haven, Mass. last night, bringing
news of a collision between the Palmer and
the four master Young Brothers, Off M0ntauk
Point last Sunday morning in a thick fog
The Palmer was bound from Newport News
to Boston with coal, and the Young Brothers
from Bath, Maine, TO Washington, d. C..
with ice The extent of damage TO the Young
Brothers was not ascertained.
That Mfr. Rockefeller has offered to Civ,
Rush Medical College, at Chicago, S6,0O0,00I
if the faculty first secures $l,00O,OV from
friends of the schools, as stated yesterday, i
now denied. Mr.. Rockefeller has not oilere'
any such sum.
Mrs. Amelia Long, Al years old, wife o
Rev. Orville V. Long, a well known DGnkar'
minister, committed suicide at Hanover Pa.
last night by drowning herself in waite
trough. She was respondent ON account of il
health.
young man named Frank p. Spiese wa
arrested in Pottstown, Pa, last evening OF
the charge of fraudulently obtaining $500 iron
Daniel G. Rogers from the sale of bogu
81 900 bond on the State Of Louisiana.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-02
Met Man supposed TO be Dead

Chicago, July 2-Richard Anderson. rep
resented by the government as having died at
Manila, and Mrs. Henry Hageman, Ander-
sons daughter, met face to face, in a waiting
room at the stOckyards yesterday. The war
department reported Anderson's death at
Manila in 1899, and Miss Anderson decided to
go to Philadelphia, where she later married
Henry Hageman, and they were in Chicago
yesterday on their honeymoon and went to
the stock yards as one of the sights of the
city. There Mr.. Anderson, her father, had
Just arrived a few house previously with a lot
Of cattle from his place in Missouri. The two
accidentally met in the waiting room of the
Libby plant, and their recognition was in
Simultaneous and the meeting joyfully affect
ing. Last night happy trio left for their
old home near st. Joseph, Mo. Mr.. Ander-
son explained that the government had mixed
him with another Anderson, who had been
transferred from another company into his,
and who had died with fever
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-02
suit Aeainst Labor Union,

San Antonio, Tex, July 2.-Attoruey
General Bell and District Attorney Bee,
in the name of the State of Texas, have
fled the first suit ever brought against
labor unions under the antitrust law,
seeking to recover heavy penalties and
asking for injunction restraining the
unions and officers from maintaing and
continuing boycott that has been de-
clared. The style of the suit is the
State of Texas versus the Trades Council
and the Electrical Workers Unions OF
San Antonio and Paul Steffer and Other
officers of the union asking for Sc, OOO
penalties already incurred and for 500
per day for each day the matter COM
planned of is continued and asking fol
an injunction restraining said organi-
zation from continuing boycott against
the new business block known as the
Herff building.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-02

had Interior motives in inspecting the
American battleship Kearsarge, has
greatly annoyed the Emperor as a re-
Election on his personal honor The
Kaiser's tour of the Kearsarge was in
tended by him merely to show his in
terest in the American navy and the inn
putation that other motives actuated
him is regarded throughout Germany as
an outrage. It is learned that Am
bassador Tower will apologize to the
Kaiser for the insult offered him, mas
much as he was guest of the American
nation when he was aboard the Kear-
sarge. Government circles here do not
conceal the fact that repetition of anti
German outbursts in America, especially
on the Kaiser, would inevitably react
unfayorably on the relations between
| the two countries
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-02
GOOD ADVICE

The most miserable beings in the
world are those suffering from Dyspepsia
and Liver Complaint. More than
seventy-five per cent. of the people in
the United States are afflicted with these
two diseases and their effects: such as
Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, Habitual
Costiveness, Palpitation of the Heart,
Heartburn, Water-brash, Gnawing and
Burning Parns at the Pit of the Stomach,
Yellow Skin, Coated Tangue and Dis
agreeable Taste in the Mouth, Coming
up of Food after Eating, Low Spirits,
etc. Go to your Druggist and get a
bottle of August Flower for % or 70
cents. Two doses will relieve you.
Try it.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-02
THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 1908

THE JOINT committee representing
the Congregational, Methodist Protest
ant and United Brethren Churches, al
ter an all-day session in Pittsburg, Pa,
Yesterday, came to an agreement on
platform for the union of the three de-
nominations. The object of this move
ment is TO present to the world some
realization of that unity OF believers
which. in accordance with the prayer OF
our Lord, seems so desirable among
Christian churches: To promote a better
knowledge and a closer fellowship among
the Christian bodies thus uniting; to Sc
cure, as far as possible, the unifcation
of kindred organizations now existing
in the several bodies; to consider the
methods by which in the State, annual
and district conferences the bodies may
he brought into the co-ordinated activity
and organic unity; to prevent the un-
necessary multiplication of churches and
TO unite weak churches Of the same
neighborhoOd whenever practicable; to
mite and encourage the utilization with
this council of the Christian bodies
cherishing kindred faith and purpose.
What is believed to be the 'unneces-
sary multiplication of churches has
often attracted the attention OF prac-
teal people, and that considerable
sums of money could be saved
by the amalgamatiOn of some OF
the different branches of the church
militant must be apparent to all. 10
every city churches can be found tha'
are seldom more than half filled, and IT
is occasionally suggested that one church
could easily seat all the people who at
tend the services in three. With con-
oentrations like that referred to above
much could be saved in the way OF coal
and gas bills, to say nothing of the cost
of unnecessary structures.