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The Grit-advocate., 1905-11-10
Riu Fire at DURANGO.

Denver.-A Durango dispatch says:
The most disastrous fire in Durango in
several years occurred Monday morn.
ing in the Famous store; the largest
dry goods and clothing store in Du-
rangO and the entire stock was ruined.
The fire broke out at o'clock and is
supposed to have started in some ex-
celsior near the furnace in the base
ment
The Famous carried stock valued
at $4,000 with $51 900 insurance. The
entire stock in the second story was
destroyed by fire and large portion
of that on the first floor was burned,
while the remaining stock on the first
floor and in the basement was badly
damaged by smoke and water. The
damage to the building will amount TO
$4,000. The building was owned
jCAtly by Charles Wiehe, brick,
laNr of Durango. and Mr.. Ford, re.
siding in the East Wiehe carried
$500 insurance and Mr.. Ford $4,000,
and jointly they carried rental insur.
ance to the amount of $1,400. This in,
surance secures the owners of the
building from loss of rent during the
period required to repair it.
The Famous Stores Company Is
composed of Harry and J. l.. Rachot
sky of Durango and Abe Rachofsky OF
Central City. The firm has been doing
and this is its first loss by fire.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-11-10
RookwaIter Ahead in Cincinnati.

Indianapolis lnd.-The election of
former Mayor Charles A. Book
walter as mayor OF Indian
apOlis Is conceded At 12 O'Clock
Tuesday night the returns from
231 out of 246 precincts give Book
walter. Republican, s3,774; Hoffman,
Democrat, for reelection, 22,177.
BoOkwalter's plurality, 1867
The returns from 211 precincts give
James McNulty, Republican, for city
clerk, 1856 majority. For police judge
205 precincts give Thomas G.. Whallon,
Republican, majority of 1,645. The
Republicans are claiming clean
sweep.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-11-10
Return of Abe Schiller.

Albany, N. Y.-Abram Schiller, who
gave himself up to the Albany police
last week, voluntarily returned to Col
orado Monday to stand trial for wreck
ing a private bank operated by him
and cousin at Alamosa, Conejos
county Schiller said that his bank
had failed because he lost $4,000 of
depositors' money in speculation. He
was tired of eluding pursuit, he said,
and willing to be tried.
So when Sheriff Jose A. Garcia OF
.Conejos county reached town bearing
a requisition and found that he could
not get the necessary extradition pa
.pers until Wednesday, Schiller ex-
pressed willingness to. go back without
being compelled. and he and the sheriff
immediately left for the West.
1t is understood the prisoner has
wealthy relatives in New York upon
whom he relies to settle: with the de.
/. positors and thus secure his release.
They. are said to have visited him and
promised. 10 settle his indebtedness.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-11-10
Results in Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia. - Philadelphia has
been swept by the reform movement,
the City party ticket winning by a
surprisingly large plurality.
While returns from only six of the
fortytwo wards in this city had been
counted up to midnight. enough is
known of the result in the remaining
wards 10 indicate the defeat of the
Republican local ticket by from 10000
to 5000 plurality.
The victory. of the City party, with.
the election of w. II. Berry, the Dem
ocratic and Reform candidate for
state treasurer, by $4,000 to 100000
plurality. shows that ]. Lee Plummer,
the Republican eandtaate for that Of
fec. vas badly Cut throughout tho
city and state. and he has lost his
own county, which is usually Repub-
iican.
The result has every appearance OF
landslide for reform. not only in
Philadelphia. bat throughout the
state.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-11-10
SLAUGHTER over
CARNIVAL OF sLoooSHED ENDS
FOR LACK OF VICTIMS.
JEWISH QUARTERS SACKED
Unparalleled Outrages in Odessa
Mutiiated Bodies Line Deserted
Streets - Wholesale Butehery of
Jewish Inhabitants.


Odessa-It is believed that the worst
is over. Owing to the mobs being sat.
isfied with two days carnival Of MUIR
der and destruction by flame, the re-
volt against law and order is dying
down. Partially, perhaps, because OF
lack of material upon which to prey.
Almost the entire Jewish quarters OF
MOldavanha, Slobodka and Rugaiovka
are devastated, and their inhabitants
have either been killed or wounded, or
have sought refuge in other sections of
the town. The whole fury of the mobs
was directed unchecked against the
Jews.
During the first demonstration over
the Emperors manifesto and the sud
den acquisition of Freedom" tens OF
thousands of men who had hated Jews
through generations became drunk
with the desire for Jewish blood,
swarmed into the Jewish sections OF
the town and killed for the very JOY of
killing. In some instances the military
aideu instead of prevented the work
mated Saturday in the quarters men.
toned. Every Jew-man, woman or
child, who was caught was slaughtered.
The methods employed in the work OF
butchery We're too revolving for de-
scription. Before Sunday mornings
dawn the material had become ex.
hausted and the men who had for the
moment become beasts, left tho
wrecked sections of the city and.
though sullen. were easily driven back
before the rifles of the infantry.
trip of investigation this evening
over the Jewish quarters confirmed
the stories of horrors and devastation.
Some bodies, mutlated, of women and
children, were still unrcmoved from
the deserted streets. The shops were
closed, and in the wrecked houses
broken furniture was lying everywhere
in heaps. ::
While it is probable that the total
number of persons killed will never he
known, the number of wounded per-
sons in the hospitals and ambulance
houses affords some guide. The 81
657 wounded reported up to this morn
ing were distributed as follows: In the
Jewish hospital, 3,7l5; in the munici-
pal hospitals, 1,2G0; in the different
ambulance houses, GS2
1t has been definitely ascertained
that only 120 of the an,iJewish mob
were killed.
At the beginning of the massacres
the students militia rendered some as
sistance and saved many lives, but the
police, it is said, disarmed the stud
ents even in some cases shot them
with their own revolvers.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-11-10
Democrats Win in Kentucky.

Louisville, Ky.-One hundred and
forty-two precincts out of lS4 in the
city Of Louisville give Paul G. Barth-
Democratic nominee for mayor, 1881
and O'Neal fusion, 1898. Barth's plu-
raility. 1854. Indications are that the
fusiunists may elect county judge
and one legislator in Louisville and
jefferson counties. with another legis-
latiye race in doubt.
Elections were held in the state for
100 seats in the Legislature. The com
plcNion OF the Legislature will be prac-
ticaIly unchanged and the Democrats
will have good working majority
with which to choose Il successor to
Senator Blackburn.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-11-10
ELECTION news
MCCLELLAN AND JEROME ARE
ELECTED IN NEW YORK CITY.
philadelphia FOR REFORM
Republicans Probably Garry Pennsyi-
vania, Whi.> Ohio Is in Doubt
Maryland Refuses to Oisfran-
chlse Nesroes-chicago and ILL
nois Republican.

New York.-Returns to midnight
Tuesday indicate that George B. Nc
Clellau Democrat, is reelected mayor
by between 5000 and 1000 plurality
over W, r. Hearst, Municipal Owner
ship, and that William T. Jerome, In
dependent, is reelected district at
tOrhey by about 5000 over James W.
Osborne, Democrat.
At midnight Mr.. Hearst declined to
admit his defeat and declared his in
tention to contest the election. At
that time returns from 1S4 election
precincts had not been received
Mcclellan had ,59S, Hearst 203,-
$40 and Wins 13O,326 votes
The following statement was issued
at midnight by w. r. Hearst:
"We have won this election. All
Tammany's frauds. all Tammany's
corruption and violence, all Tam
many false registration Illegal vot-
ing and dishonest count have not
been able to overcome great popular
majority. The recount will show that
we have won the election by many
thousands of votes.
Il shall fight this battle TO the end.
in behalf of the people who have east
their votes for me and who shall not
be disfranchised by any effort of
criminal Bosses"
The Grit-advocate., 1905-11-10
Republicans Win In Chicago.

Chicago.-The Republicans made q
clean sweep of the election in Chicago
and Cook county Tuesday. electing all
OF their candidates with the exception
Of one man. The sole Democrat to
reach the promised land was Webb.
a candidate for trustee of the sanitary
district
The Republicans elected four judges
Of the superior court by pluralities
ranging from 10000 to $4,000, one
Judge to fill vacancy on the bench
OF the superior court by plurality of
about 1000, judge of the circuit
court by 10000 and eight out of nine
members of the board of sanitary
trustees by pIuralities ranging from
1000 to 5000.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-11-10
RAILROAD REGULATION.
Presidents Policy Outlined by Senator
Knox at Pittsburq.

Pittsburg.-The Pittsburg Chamber
of Commerce banquet Saturday night.
which concluded the Founders Day
celebration OF the Carnegie Institute,
was an event of national importance,
the roster of speakers being the most
brilliant in the history of the organiza-
ton.
The principal speakers were Sena-
tor Philander c. Knox, Sir ChenS
Tuug Liang Cheng, Chinese minister;
Gen. A. w. Greeley. commander of the
United States Signal Service, and Mel
vile e. Stone general manager of the
Associated Press.
Senator Knox in his address said:
"The President believes that the
power to pass upon the reasonablenesS
of a challenged railroad rate or prac
tice should be lodged in some tribunal
upon which cain be also constitution.
ally cast the power to fix reasonable
rate or practice in lieu of a
rate found by it to be unreasonable
and fh.S the rate so fixed should be-
come as nearly Immediately operative
as possible.
The proposition that the national
government should exercise super
visory control over the tax upon trans
portation became almost self-cvident
from the time the railroads began,
through various devices, to concen-
trate this taxing power in the hands OF
a few men.
"A very short and simple law would
reach the root of the trouble. 1t
should provide that the tolls collected
by common carriers and the practices
pursued by them should be just. fair
and reasonable. The power to deter
mine these tolls and practices should
rest within the railroads and not be
interfered with except upon complaint
and after full hearing before the Inter-
state Commerce Commission.
The commission should have the
power, if it finds the cOmplaint well
founded, to declare what shall be a
just, fairly rcmuncrativc and reason
able rate Or practice to be charged or
followed in place of the one declared
to be unreasonable.
"This order OF the commission
should take effect within such reas-
enable time as shall be prescribed by
the commission in the order, and
should be final, subject only to attack
for unlawfulness in the federal courts.
where it would have to stand or fall
upon its merits"
The Grit-advocate., 1905-11-10
C0NVENTIONCITY
DENVER CAN NOW BUILD HER
BIG AUDITORIUM.
SUPREME COURT DECISION
Bond Issue Will Be Submitted to the
People at onee-Every Effort to Be
Made to Have Building Ready for
Next Years Conventions.


Denver.-The State Supreme Court
having yesterday given an opinion, in
the nature of a modification AM with
drawal Of parts of former opinion on
the auditorium question, the city of
Denver is now in position to proceed
with the preliminarles Tor the con-
struction of building, and to-day a
meeting of all the organizations
Anterested will be held with Mayor
speer. An ordinance will have to be
passed by the Council providing for the
sale of the 100000 bonds and offers of
property suitable for site called for
and an agreement reached on the most
available spot, after which the Board
of Public Works will be in position to
proceed with the work of construction.
A determined effort will be made to
have the building ready for next year.
Several of the directors of the cham
bar OF Commerce are in favor of selling
the building owned by that organiza-
tion, at the corner of Fourteenth and
of rooms in the new auditorium, If it is
decided that these semipublic bodies
can help the city put up the building.
IF the City Council shall direct the
issuance of bonds providing for the an
nual installments of principal so that
the entire debt will be extinguished at
the expiration Of fifteen years, the
bonds will conform to the question sub
hn pfc
of section of article II of the consti-
tuition"
In this language the Supreme Court
of Colorado makes an auditorium for
the city of Denver an immediate and
tangible possibility. An opinion rem
dered yesterday morning so modifies
the former opinion Of the court that all
that is now necessary to do is for the
City Council to pass an ordinance COW
ering the courts suggestion and the
bonds issued under such ordinance
will be valid.
The opinion was written by Justice
Robert W. Steele. and was by the
kurt en- banc. 1t was majority opin-
NAi on two points, Chief Justice w. H.
Gabbert, Justice Campbell and Justice
Maxwell dissented from that portion of
the opinion which holds that the city
has right to erect an auditorium at
public expense. and also from the prop
ostion that it is not necessary to re-
submit the question to the people.
For more than dozen years the cit
izens of Denver have been trying to
secure an auditorium. Twice they have
voted favorably upon the proposition.
and each time had their efforts stayed
by court proceedings. The victory now
is all the more pronounced because of
the hindrances that have preceded it.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-11-10
THANKSGIVING DAY.
President Rooseveit's Proclamation
Appoints November 3oth.


Washington.-The President has Is
sued his proclamation naming Thurs
day. November Goth next. as a day for
thanksgiving. The proclamation fol-
lows:
by the President of the United States
of America. A Proclamation:
When nearly three centuries ago
the first settlers came to the country
which has now become this great Re
public, they confronted not only hard
ship and privation, but the terrible
risk to their lives. In those grim years
the custom grew of setting apart one
day in each year for special service
of thanksgiving to the Almighty for
preserving the people through the
changing seasons. The custom has now
become national and hallowed by i'm
memorial usage.
I'VE live in easier and more plentiful
times than our forefathers, the men
who with rugged strength faced the
rugged days; and yet the dangers to
national life are quite as great now as
at any previous time in our history. 1t
is eminently fitting that once year
our people should set apart .day for
praise and thanksgiving to the Giver
of good, and, at the same time. that
they express their thanllfulness for the
abundant mercies received. should
Nanfully acknowledge their shortcom.
ings and pledge themselves solemnly
and in good faith to strive to overcome
them.
During the past year we have been
blessed with bountiful crops Our GUS
mess prosperity has been great No
other people has ever stood on as high
level as we now stand on. We are
not threatened with foes without The
foes within are our passions and fol
lies; and against these there is always
ueed that We should war.
Therefore, l now set apart Thurs
day, the 30th day of this November, as
day Of thanksgiving for the past and
of prayer for the future, and on that
day ask that throughout the land the
people gather in their homes and
places of worship and on the render
ing Of thanks unto the Most High for
the manifold blessings of the past year,
consecrate themselves to a life of
cleanliness, honor and wisdom, SO that
this Nation may do it's allotted work
on the earth in a manner worthy OF
those who founded it and of those who
preserved it.
''ln witness whereof have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed
Done at the city of Washington this
second Gay Of November, in the|ye
of our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and five and of the independence of the
United States the one hundred and
thirtieth.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
"By the President:
"ELIHU ROOT,
Secretary of State"
The Grit-advocate., 1905-11-10
RUSSIAN STRIKE WINS.
Count Witte Grants Demands of Rail
road Employees.

St. Petersburg-Count Wittc is get
ting his hands on the helm. and the
Russian ship of state is beginning to
right itself. Gradually the disorder
thar followed the PRONUNCIATION of the
constitution giving the people liberty
is being put down.
Count Witte solved the railroad
strike at conference with the strike
leaders. at which he did not hesitate
TO make a practical surrender of the
government demands. The bases o..
settlement are comprised in the fol.
lowing communication sent to tho
strike committees throughout the en-,
pire:
FirSt-The remuneration Of all rail
road employees is increased, and the
budget of 1906 will be revised to pro-
vide therefor.
Second-The creation of a commits
sion on which the employees are to
have elected representatives to con
slider questions of Improvement in
their condition.
Third-Permission is given railroad
employees and worlmen to have CO.
operative organization based on
models of western Europe and the
United States.
Fourth-The abolition of military
regulations applying to railroads.
Fifth-Freedom of meeting for en-
ployes of railroads to discuss questions
of a strike without notice being given
to the police.
Sixth--Inviolability of the person OF
strikers and the accomplishment of men
dismissed for striking.
Seventh-The canceling of all cir
culars limiting the employment of
Poles on the Polish SOuthweste ern and
Western railroads and giving permis,
sion to use the Polish language in pri-
vate.
Under this settlement all Of the rail-
roads are resuming work.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-11-10
Spanish King at Berlin.

Berlin.-king Alfonso made his for
NAL entry into Berlin Monday through
the Brandenburg gate, seated on the
right of Emperor William in an open
carriage. At the gate the carriage
stopped and the burgomaster read an
address of welcome. for which the
Spanish monarch thanked him Their
majesties then drove the length of the
Inter Den Linden to the palace be-
tween troops aligned on both sides OF
the way and cheered by large crowds
The king was entertained at a banquet
at the palace in the evening.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-11-10
OKLAHOMA lorna do.

Mountain View, Oka.-A terrible
cyclone visited this city from the
southwest at. 5:i5 O'Clock Sunday af-
ternoon and plewed its way through to
the northeast. totally destroying every
thing in its path.
far. while more ,tEaas:a score of
wounded have. bepo- reported. The
Manhattan hotel has been converted
into a morgue. a special train was run
from Anadarko, bringing fifty nurses
and every phrst"ia in the city. Be
twesu here Itnd.ADadarLo more nurses
and physicians were secured. This
catastrophe .secog4. only to the great
Snyder ,disaste, ast spring.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-11-10
Schmitz San Francisco's Mayor.

San FranciscO-FOr the third con
Secutive time Eugene L. SchmitZ, the
Union Labor candidate, was reelected
mayor Tuesday by a majority of at
least $4,000 over John S. Partridge,
the joint nominee of the Republican
and Democratic parties.
Returns from 3l4 precincts out of
500 give SchmitZ 42.202, Partridge Is
los, In addition to mayor, the Union
Labor party has probably elected its
entnc municipal ticket by maiorities
running from 10000 to $1,000 Noi-
Ing machines were used for the first
TIM in all precincts.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-11-10
Republican Gain in New Jersey.

Trenton, N. 1.-THE election in New
Jersey Tuesday increased the Repub-
lican hold on the state Legislature and
makes it impossible thai a Democrat
should succeed United States Senator
Dryden in 1907. In the state Senate
the Republicans made a gain of three.
electng Republicans from Gloucester,
Salem and Somerset counties. which
for the last three years have had Dem
ocratIc senator's
The Republican wave swept into
Jersey City again. and Mayor Pagan
who is an independent Republican of
the Colby stripe. was again elected.
and carried his ticket through With
him
The Grit-advocate., 1905-11-10
Republicans Garry Nebraska.

Lincoln. Neb.-Returns from the
elections in Nebraska are sufficiently
complete to indicate with certainty the
election o. Charles B. Letton, Republi-
can, over William G. Hastings. Fusion,
as associate justice of the Supreme
Court, by plurality greater than that
given Judge Barnes for the same Office
two years ago, which was 9.l21.
The Republican candidates for re
gents ran slightly behind Letton, but
the returns show that the pluralit1es
will not be materially reduced from
those received by the regents in l903,
The vote was light. -.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-11-10
W. c. T. U. Goes to Hartford.

Los Angeles. Cal.-The national eX-
ocutive committee of the ". c. T. l..
voted to hold the national convention
in 1906 at Hartford, Connecticut. The
convention will be held Immediately
following the worlds convention of
the w. c. T. L. which is scheduled
for Boston some time late next year.
Mrs. Cornelia r. Jewett has been reap
pointed managing editor of the Union
Signal, the official organ.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-11-10
Vienna.-Grave disorders, in which

Vienna.-Grave disorders, in which
more than forty We're injured, occurred
Thursday night as the result of a great
Socialist meeting. The orators used
fiery language, declaring that millions
of workers were ready to follow the
Russian example.
1t is said on good authority that
Emperor Francis Joseph has decided
to grant universal suffrage to Austria,
and has instructed the premier, Baron
Gautsch ton Fyankenthurn, to: draft a
measure on a comprehensive basis
The decision,.is attributed TO the En-
peror'S desire to satisfy the Socialists
and to at the same time impress the
Hunsssaau coalition. - -
The Grit-advocate., 1905-11-10
Government Recommends Monarchy.

Christiania, Norway.-The govern
ment has issued proclamation rec
ommendng the people to vote at the
forthcoming referendum for a mon
archical torn of government, based on
the British and Italian constitutions
The proclamation further points out
that the best friends of Norway in Eli
rope declare that the country's rela-
tions with the foreign powers can be
the better secured by the retention of
the monarchy.
The Radicals and Socialists also is
sued proclamation recommending a
republic.