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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1904-06-01

Houston. Texas. May 3O.--An insect
which, it is believed, will pray upon
the boil weevn has been discovered in
Oklahoma. It was discovered by a
man by the name OF William Howard,
who lives near Chandler Accompany
ing the insect, two of which he sent to
DIR. s. Az Knapp, is the statement that
it has been under the observance of the
people up there for years and that it
preys upon all other insects, bugs,
grasshoppsrs, crickets, and even
worms. Ii cuts their throats, they say,
and sucks the blood They claim that
It does not forage on plant growth but
appears to be caniballstic in all its ten
denotes.
1T is a black bug about the size Of a
thumb nail and has three white stripes
down its back. The doctor has no name
for ii, saying that he never saw any
thing like it before The young ladies'
in his Office have named it the pop
eyed bug owing to the fact that the
head resembles that OF a grasshopper
The bug is lively and yoracious, and
has an armored back. After having
been kept in a tin box for about forty
eight hours. one Of them died, but Sat
urday the other appeared to be lively
enough.
DR.. Knapp sent Y to Prof. Howard OF
the department OF entomology at Wash
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1904-06-01
Raln ~ MINI conntu

Goldthwaite, Texas: Partial show
ers have fallen in this county for three
days, and Saturday night a more gem
eral rain came. Three-quarters of an
inch fell here, and 1t came in time to
be of much help to hay crops and corn
The prospects for good yield are
fine.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-01-11
GREAT CITY BOWED IN GRIEF

sweeping order of the mayor yester-
day shut the doors of is more. These
last are the leading theaters in the
business section Of the city-The
Studebaker, Grand opera house, Nc
Vicker's. La Sale, Garrick, Illinois
and the Powers. The last two are
owned and controlled by Powers and
Davis, the managers of the Inflated
Iroquois Other theaters closed are
the Bush Temple, Calumet, Cleveland,
Great Northern, Haymarket, Hopkins,
Peoples institute, Trocadora and Col
umbus. The total number of theaters
closed last night was is.
1t was found that the asbestos cur
tain of the Iroquois burned. The
managers had meeting and agreed
to make all the improvements re
quired.
There was a hasty rush of theatrical
managers to the mayors Office in an eff
fort TO secure a withdrawal. or at
least a postponement of the order. but
their reception was exceedingly frosty.
The discovery that the asbestos cur
tain in the Iroquois burned, lead to The
decision that asbestos curtains should
not be relied upon in the future. In
order to open again the theaters must
comply with these conditions: Steel
roll curtains, wide exits. no cOmbusti-
bles OF any kind in the house furnish
ings, fire rooted, no calcium or spot"
lights to be used on the stage, sky
lights above the stage provided with
automatic lids to permit the egress q
smoke, fire and gas, separate starways,
each exit having its own stairs leading
to the street. The auditorium is the
only theater left open. 1t has a steel
roll curtain and this, the mayor says,
is the ~nly one that affords absolute
protection against fire.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-01-11
Double and Triple
Funerals - Whole
Families Buried
Public Funeral and
a Monument for
Unknown Dead
TEN UNIDENTIFIED.

Latest BuIletin-Chicago, Jan. g.
The total number of unidentified
dead has Ecen reduced TO 10.--Two
more, Mrs. Francis Leach of this city
and Mrs. Nellie Skaruta of New York,
were the last two co be recognized. OF
the ten bodies, eight are burned so as
to be unacceptable, save by marks
on scraps of clothing and by the teeth.
OF the other two, young woman and
a boy of eight, the features are unmar-
red and could readily be recognized.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-01-11
TWO HUNDRED VICTIMS OF FIRE
LAID TO REST.
WORK BEGINS EARLY
Long Lines of Carriages Repeat Story
of the Disaster-Thousands Stand
Awed in Streets While the Corteges
Pass-Mourners JostIe One An
other by Newly Made Graves.

Chicago, Jan. Another page in
the story of the lroquois theater dis
aster was turned yesterday when
more than 200 of the victims were laid
to rest. In every part Of the city the
tragedy was told again by the long
lines of carriages led by hearses and
Catafalques that passed down the 81
lent streets to the cemeteries past
knots Of awed and sorrowing people.
There were few houses to which the
message was not brought in this way.
There was hardly a single half mile Of
territory that was not reached by the
funeral corteges and there was grief
even in those homes which were not
directly touched.
As one funeral procession after an
other passed through the streets the
numbers of the sorrowing at the GENE
ter.es increased. A few hundre
from one freshly made grave there
was another and a short distance
away still another that told the mourn
ers at one funeral that others were
bereaved.
The work of burying the dead began
early in the morning and lasted until
late in the evening. Every undertaken
in the city had all the orders that he
could handle and returned from one
cemetery only to start for another.
Sometimes the homes OF several Of
the dead were grouped in few blocks
and in one instance a glance down
single street revealed the black car
riages for half a dozen funerals that
mad thrown an entire n.eighborhOod in
mourning. Where hearses could not
be furnished they were improvised
from other kinds of vehicles and
mourners who could not get cabs rode
in carriages. In every cemetery in
the city last night mounds of fresh
earth told the end of families broken
and altogether destroyed.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-01-11
THEATER HARRoR IN NEW YORK
PREVENTED BY PROMPT WORK

New York. Jan. 3.-The cry % ere"
was raised at a matinee in the Thalia
theater on the BoweTy. 1t caused
panic. but the rush of the audience was
stopped By heroic measures adopted
BIZ the police and employees. Clubs and
fists met. The police and employees Of
the theater rushed the crowd, literally
lifted the leaders and forced them into
seats. The attack of the police from
the front was as sudden as had been
the fire alarm and served in a moment
to cuiet the crowd and avert what
could not have failed to have been a
murderOus stampede
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-01-11
IROQUOIS OWNERS
UNDER BIG BONDS
CHARGED WITH MANsLAUeHTER
BY FATHER OF VICTIMS.
REFLECTOR BLAMED
Long Lighting Apparatus Carelessly
Left by Employe Where 1t Prevent
ed Fall of Fire Proof Curtain
Building Inspector, Also Charged
With the Crime.

Chicago, Jan. swim ]. Davis and
Harry Powers, proprietors of the Iro-
uuois theater, and Building Commits
sioner williams were arrested charged
with manslaughter. They nave been
released on $4,000 bonds and their
hearing is set for January IL. The
warrants were sworn out by Arthur E.
Hull. who lost his wife and three
children. Hull explained that his action
was not inspired by the motive Of
vengeance, but simply to make certain
that the owners of the theater should
not escape any chance of punishment
that was rightfully theirs, while the
stage hands and electricians and other
stage employees were compelled to
suffer.
1t is a noteworthy fact that Building
Commissioner Williams, who is now
charged with manslaughter in con-
nection with the greatest fire horror
the country ever experienced, owes
his appointment to a fire which oc-
CURED two years ago. Williams pred
ecessor vacated his Office after the
burning of st. Luke's sanitarium,
when a score of men suffering from
delerium tremens burned to death
while strapped to their beds. Williams
was selected with the idea that he was
a proper man to see that no such ca
tastrophe could happen again.
Secret of the Fire.
Fire Inspector Fulkerson last night
announced that he had discovered the
secret of the fire. The asbestos cur
tain. upon which the safety of the audi
ence depended, was, according to Full
kersOn, blocked in its descent by a
steel reflector, carelessly left open by
a stage hand. While one end of the
curtain got within five feet of the
stage, the other was suspended 20
feet above il, and beneath it swept the
the floor of fame that carried death TO
so many hundreds. Mr.. Fulkerson,
acting upon a clue furnished by John
A. Mazzoni, a scene shifter, yesterday
discovered the deadly reflector still
open in the theater. On each side OF
the proscenium arch at LSe theater,
was a metallic reflectCr cOnclave in
form, 81 feet long and studded through
out IS entire length with incandescent
lights. Normally these lights fitted in
to notches in the masonry, but when in
use were swung out in order that the
lights might be thrown upon the per
formers upon the stage. When both
rehectors were in place, the fire cur
tain had no impeachment in its course,
but with either swung outward the
curtain could not get below the refiec-
tors top The carelessness of some
employe resulted in the combination
of the open reflector and falling cur
I n, which cost approximately 600
lives. Mazzoni was one Of the en-
ployes arrested. After his release yes
terday afternoon, on bonds Of $4,000,
he disclosed the truth of the misplaced |
reflector to Inspector Fulkerson.
The wire used in the aerial ballet,
mentioned as the possible cause of the
of the curtain, was proven to
have been out of the way of the cur
tain as it descended.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-01-11
CHICAGO THEATERs ALL CLOSED
FOR REPAIRS.
STEEL CURTAINS ORDERED
Discovery That Asbestos Curtain in
the Iroquois Burned Leads to De-
termination That These Are not
Protection Against Fire-Managers
Meet and Agree on improvements.

Chicago. Jan. 3.-Last night every
theater in Chicago except the AuditO-
rum was dark and the doors were
locked Not one will be open 10 the
public until the managers have com
piled in the fullest manner with the
every section of the ordinances regu-
lating the playhOuses.
The order compelling the theaters
to close was issued yesterday after
noon by Mayor Harrison after a con-
ference with Cooperation Counsel
Tolnan who assured the mayor that
ample legal power existed for his
action.
Saveptee0 theaters and museums
were closed Friday night and the
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-01-11

The number Of dead is now definitely
nown to be 5S7, of these SIS have
'een identified The remaining 90
.Odies we're last night removed to the
ity morgue. where they VIII DC kept
or the present.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-01-11

st Chicago, her brain weakened
from bordering over the Iroquois fire,
Mrs. Mary Hopkins seized her two
children, threw them violently under
bed and securing an axe commenced
breaking up the stove, which stood in
the room. The crazed woman's fran
tic shrieks of fire. they are burning,
save my children" attracted the atten-
ton of policemen who arrested her
and rescued the children.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-01-11
BY
BERTHA M. CLAY

Lady Violante's thoughts ran in this
fashion;
1T is not half so nice to be a fine
.ady as to be a poor peasant woman.
Tor after all my baby is not my own;
il has such fine nurses am frightened
at them. / wish how l wish-that
Vivian was poor. and / could help
himl"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-01-11
TOTAL NUMBER OF VICTIMS
587.
587

Chicago, Jan. 3.-The total number
of dead in the theater fire is definitely
established at 5S7, of which but II re-
main unidentified.
La Junta tribune., 1904-09-14

- -. 4 JGSTA j. a city of 800 pop
uiattou aad tho county ssAi Of
y Ot-ru cauuty. IN l. located n
" the .uuctiuu Of thres diyisious
- " uf tho Santa Re faIWsy, I'd
a # iss s a,ss..s q kaa'Al ai Dsats; Gilsi IS IS
- miles east 81 Pueblo. and ~
miles north and east of Trinidad. The altl-
tair j. iuu fr-t, aud the climate, taken the
year ar1ani. j. unsurpassed. Almost constant
suflshiar chaFaet@rlEs-s the winter aud q Fh0lly
eioGIy day is rarity. La JuutA has al the
aietr1f f-lIitan convenience needed - clty 81
100 population, including many Wtles 0f
hfirE aide9Ilss Isrfect - stem uf sanltaEY
-sueFasa an r.Hgtric Light plant which sup
pilrH aIl-iay and ali-nlEht service @atoF-
E1FE- ovursi b. fAr city, plant ioF the manu-
ftrruri gf arfl csal e-- three rural free delivery
routes, tire depart telephone sy-tr'n with
10 suh5erit=r free exchange with Rocky
Ford. tni l1iIs q stance connections With any
uaFt ~ che -fate 10 school syst+m eH-rlicd By
Hu efty .u thr state ten church--, hfteen secret
4uI fratrrilHl br.'ors, tWu banks. sailaI capital
1uG sFutpJ d-Iurltss IhroH uHgl- pa pen. of-.ra
hVs-4, 81 10 -.aIluE capacity, brick plant 81
Itu,I daily capacity. EuauufAefursnE t-st uuhl-
.fT ~ FttFsasl brick hgar mill 81 - 6affcls
dolly ca pasity, canning factory -s-euah largest
.H rHr STATE iu fact. L. Juura d. one ~ %"
isf towns af Sc sszr 90 she -tats II Colorado.
La Junta tribune., 1904-09-14

SENATOR BARELA, OF Las Animas
county. father OF the senate, a
democrat from away back, and
who recently abandoned the
party that had done him honor
continuously since the territorial
days" was nominated by the re-
publicans OF his county for the
senate one day last week. Strange,
very strange, the depths to which
democratic editor will descend
in reyiling a man when he fops
ilto the republican party, com
pared to the insane Joy that per
meates his being when the flop is
the other way
La Junta tribune., 1904-09-14

TES minutes was the length OF
the session OF the Judicial couven-
ton of the counties OF Pueblo. Otero
and kiowa in Pueblo last Satur
day. Eight delegates out OF nine
teen elected in Otero county were
present. Thomas X. Hofimire
was chairman OF the convention,
and J. II. II. Low, the present in
cumbent, was nominated with a
unanimous shout.
La Junta tribune., 1904-09-14

In his Saturdays daily Bro. Nc
Cauley, of the La Junta Democrat,
gets real excited. He reads Otero
county democrats lecture, de
claring that they are sitting around
with their fingers in their mouths
and doing nothing. II all demo-
Gratis fingers are like those owned
by one we saw the other day we
can assure Bro. McCauley that we
are darned thankful they have
their fingers in their own mouths
instead OF ours. As for their doing
nothing, the good editorial brother
ought to know after several years
of association with democracy,
democrats and democratic lack OF
principles that as soon as a demo
crat begins to do something he
becomes republican. Mac ought
to know by this time that demo
cracy means to do nothing and
down any party that does do things.
And then he says these finger.
do nothing, kuo nothing
democrats sat the last minute will
La Junta tribune., 1904-09-14
Divorc Summons.

STATE or GoL4RADo olRAd is cn,, ia " sr.,
Matilda j. CLARK Plaintiff
John X. Clark. Defendant.
The People Of the state ~ Colorado to John
X. CLARK, th. defendant above named,
GREETING;
You are hereby required TO appear ia an he'
tion brought against y"u by the above named
plaintiff. In the county court of ptero county
State Of Colorado, to answer the compls iut
therein within thirty day aftc. tho service
hereof. II served within the State Of Colorado
or hy publication. or. IL served out Of the State
0f Colorado within ATTY day after scryic"
hereof. exclusive of the day Of scryicr; or
said action may bs regularly set ior trial the
though such appearance had treii
made and issue had h-sen Joined on such com
plaint.
The aid action Is brought hy plaintiH to OH
tain a decree uf divorce. di s.OlyinE the bouds
Of mhtrimony now existing between plaintiff
and defendant on the ground Of dc~ssrtion.
will more fuiiy appear from com D taiut in said
action to which rofsseucr j. here made aud q
copy OF which i hereto attached.
And you arr hereby notified that IL you fail to
APPEAR. and To answer tho said complaint as
above required. the .sid plaintiff will apply To-
the Court for the relief therein demanded.
Given under my haniahd seal Of said Court
at La Junta. iu aid county. this 5th day 81
August 4. II. ii.Ot
lsEkLl n u, WALLIS,
EK-oficio CLERK.
First publication. August q. ispi.
Last publication Septsmber "a ls.a,
La Junta tribune., 1904-09-14

THE town has been pretty
thoroughly billed with four page
circulars advertising Watermelon
day at Rocky Ford The circulars
bsar the imprint OF a Kentucky
firm OF printers. This work
should be given to the Rocky Ford
papers which spend much space
each year advertising the big event,
and whoever IS responsible for
sending away for that printing
should be taught a lesson. oe ii
the committee on program or the
Santa Fe railroad. The railroad
depends on the people OF Colorado
to support that event and it Ger
tainly could afford to have its
printing done at Rocky Ford even
II It had TO pay ten cents per
thousand more for the circulars by
getting them done at home. Pat
ronize home industry il you want
your home town to be prosperous
FLORENCE Tribune.
La Junta tribune., 1904-09-14

J.. I. Lawless. editor of the
Lamar Sparks, is spoken OF among
democrats as possible candidate
for auditor on the democratic
ticket. oe IS known to every
newspaper man in the state and
would receive loyal support from
every one of them He would be
strong man on the ticket.-ben,
county Democrat
La Junta tribune., 1904-09-14

II the police OF town or city
may in the interests OF peace and
public safety and the preservation
of the state, disperse suspicious or
dangerous characters and force
them from street to street, one
ward to another, one city TO an
other; or If the United States may
send undesirable people from its
shores-and these things have
been done every day in this coun-
La Junta tribune., 1904-09-14

TIE Democratic patty denouu-
ces the deportation of the vicious
element by the authorities from
three of the mining camps in Colo
RADIO, but is silent as to the depor
tations OF hundreds of non union
men by the federation. Why this
discrimination againt the author
ities2
La Junta tribune., 1904-09-14

SOMETHING is wrong with the
building proposition in La Junta.
and our little city will suffer un
less conditions change. The
Board OF Trade ough, to investi-
gate this matter and ascertain
whether or not there is a dark
complexioned gentlemen in the
lumber yard. A dozen or more of
our citizens, who contemplated
building this fall, have abandoned
the idea altogether on account OF
the exhotbitsut prices asked for
building material. The owner OF
the Ohio addition came here a
week ago with the expectation OF
putting up a dozen or more houses,
but changed his mind on learning
that the expense would be Just
double what he had figured on at
the prices prevailing in Kansas
City.
La Junta tribune., 1904-09-14

REPuBLIcANs feel perfectly sale
now since the Daily Democrat has
predicted the defeat OF the entire
county ticket. To our certain
knowledge Mac has been making
that same prediction every election
for the past seven years.
La Junta tribune., 1904-09-14
awoke.

II is to laugh to hear some OF
our local democrats express great
tear OF being deprived of that
priceless heritage, personal liberty,
in the eventot Governor Peabody's
election No aw.abiding citizen
need entertain any such fear, how
ever.
La Junta tribune., 1904-09-14

TIE Republican party promised
TO guard the personal and property
rights OF our citizens and 1t has
done SO. The Democratic party
promised the same thing, bu, failed
to meet its obligation and ielt San
Miguel county to struggle alone
aud unaided with the murderous
Western Federation OF Miners,
and as a climax TO this surrender
To the forces OF unrest and violence,
it is reported on good authority
that the chairman OF the Demo
cratic state central committee has
accepted a cash an,paIgn contri
button from the treasury OF the
Western Federation OF Miners.
The Democratic platform will be
baited TO catch both Democrats
and dynamiters. Are you going
to bite?
La Junta tribune., 1904-09-14

be like so many fish out OF water"
and from the FIRST part OF his in
dictment we are at loss 10 know
whether he means mud suckers or
bull-heads. Ford Gazette.
La Junta tribune., 1904-09-14

try for a century or more-why
may no, a county follow the same
course, at least when such an ex
traordinary condition exists as
existed in Tellsr county?
La Junta tribune., 1904-09-14

A MICHIGAN editor has had a
streak OF bad luck. He was Just
about to step into his sIo,ouo
automobile the other night when
three bed Stats gave way and he
awoke
La Junta tribune., 1904-09-14

THERE is honor among horse
thieves, occs sionally, bat not any
worth mentioning among woulb be
politicians
La Junta tribune., 1904-09-14

STATE OF COLORADO. -
County of Dfero. -
I. K. Philips. cashier of the above named
bank. do >olernnly swear that the above state
mebt is true to the best of my know ledge
and belief.
K. PHILLIPS. Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn TO before me thi.
% h DAY of September. 1901.
WILSON A. HART. Notary Public
My commission expires July IL. 1906.
Correct attest:
ROBERT W. PATTERSON
FRANK FINNEY.
ED MARSHALL
Directors
La Junta tribune., 1904-09-14
REPUBLICAN, TICKET

FoE PEEsDE~r,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Fou yIcE PRESIDENT,
CHARLES ". FAIRBANKS.
Pos CoSoUE-,. SECOND Di,rucr.
II. N. HOGG
Fox Dr-TEIgF ATruESE,,
J.H.H. LOW.
Pos STATE srSAroE,
T r. GODDING. JR.
FpE EErEEsESTA ArtyE,
T. }. STANLEY
For CurSTl CLERK,
HARRY d GARwooD
FoR C1USTl THEtsuREE,
C. 4 BEERBoHM
FoR CouSTl JupGE,
a. e. SLOAN.
FoR snEKrrF,
GEORGE BARR.
toR Assessor.
L. :. RINGER
FoH CorNTY SURVIVOR.
r. 4. SAWYER.
Fon SUrEuISrESnESr or ScHunLs,
MRS CARRIE T.. MONEY
Pos CoRosEE,
BILLY GREEN
COMMISSIONS, FIE~T DIsrRICr-
j. w FISHER
CoNsu-SIoNEE, SECoNp DI-TmCr
GEORGE INGALLS,
La Junta tribune., 1904-09-14

President RoosEyELr IS thor
oughly Wes,ernized. He is direct
ly and personally responsible for
the National Irrigation Act, the
operations OF which are destined
to transform nearly half the area
of the United States and make it
the most intensely productive area
on the globe. He has secured for
us the Panama Canal, and it will
soon be constructed. He aided
the Wes, in securing Governm snt
aid for the Lewis aud Clark cen
tennial for Portland, Oregon, to
open in 1905. His Secretary oil
State and the Republican party
secured for America the "Open
Door" in China. He has lived in
the West, written much OF the
West, is OF and for the west.
La Junta tribune., 1904-09-14
NO. 4so7.
REPORT OF rHt cosoiTion OF
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK,

OF La Jun,a. in the State Of Colorado. at the
close Of business September 6, isoI
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-01-05

gan to look upon the smallest man in
town as a remarkably we'll informed
citizen.
Recently come of the precinct chiefs
cot together and cast about for a rep
resentative for the Common Council.
Somebody suggested the small man.
The next day one of the big ones
went to Frederick's place of business.
He took the young man under his
arm and led him aside.
We're going to send you to City
Hall. What dye think of it,"
Mcdonald squared his four feet and
eighty pounds of stature, then smiled
serenely into the eyes of the boss"
Il can make good" he replied briefly.
Thus it is that the campaign cry
in Precinct 4 of Ward is Vote for
the smallest man for councilman. He
will make good"