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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-13
COW BALKs STANDARD OIL MAN,

JBy Telegraph to The Tribune
Boston. March 12.-There Is one thing that Stand
ard Oil cannot buy. William Rockefeller. with
his millions. has found out. and that is a sleek
coated COW he sold some years ago from his Tarrv-
town farm and has ever since been trying TO INV
back The COW Is Owls Alicante. pure bIooded
lain. has refused all sorts OF prices for her
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-13
BUYING COAL FOR NEXT WINTER.
by Telegraph to The Tn

by Telegraph to The Tribune
New-Haven. March 12.-Coal dealers here expac+ n
strike among the anthracite miners. and MANY con-
sumers have already put in supply for next win
ter. In of strike the shortage will not ba as
noticeable as in the last strike. the mild winter
has reduced the amount coal usually burned
The New-Haven road Is said TO have fully mill
ion tons OF coal on hand.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-13
RAID ENLlvENs CHINESE FUNERAL.

Lee Wang Bang. grandmother of the Gee Gong
Tong, OF Chinese Masons. and for the last score
Of years leading actor in the Chinese theatre
was buried yesterday from the undertaking ostob
lishment Of Charles Bacgalupo, at No 26la Null
berry street Bang died from consumption on
March and his body has since been lying in
state. except on Sunday, when It was rescued from
a fire. At about l o'clock the funeral, with TWENTY
four carriages. led By a hearse and six Chinese
marching beside the corpse. started for China
town and after making two rounds headed for
EyeTgreens Cemetery
While the funeral was passing through Mott
gambling place No "A Mott street ard al
rested twenty-six Cinnamon. "
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-13
MISSOURI JURY AFTER RATE EVILS
~ TeleEranh to Tha Trihnnn I

ST. Louis. March l2-Judge Fineburg. Of the
United States District Court to-day instructed the
federal grand jury 10 investigate alleged violations
Of the 1nterstlte Commerce md Pure Food laws
The inquiry may embrace study of discrimination
In railroad freight rates.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-13
OFFICIALS EoR NEw-YoRk nouln.rEr

washington March i2-The President today
;nade tie following nominations:
Naval oncer- FREDERICK J. l. ESF2A-uv
toliecfor of Customs NEVADA \ SIR .SE1..-
EeffftoF 81 'ustofns-jAHFS 3 FI-AET5Sc,s-
Pension Agent - SesE Moi 90 E5Ep,.r,,-
tinted Sfatos Marsha Tor Eastern 49,,
fcrk--tl iAitl<l-s 5. Hal RERT - VI -'f"-
a. Of A'"s-4-" h%oBD q. HoGGATT. Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-13
sIR LANG MOI RECALLED

ashnsion, March i2.-The rumor that the Chi
nese Minister 10 this country Sir C.sentung L.,
cheng' hao been recalled 20 accept Office IN tbs
Chinese Department Of Forenen AtfaI-s WIS -
al The Chinese legation to-day. NeiAe %
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-13
A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-13

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Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets pruss,...
refund money II II fails cure e " GROvEs sIsts
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-13


MI Spooner said examination OF the reso-
luton proved that # had been hurriedIv daalt
with He said there should not be discourtes,
SHOWN by the President and the Senate 10 each
other' but he believed the Senate had been the
more ready offender The Wisconsin Senator
supported the Presidents message criticisne thu
lndirectness OF the resolution. He Thought tho
resolution detective in that it did not give the
commission authority 10 send for witnesses and
administer oaths in connection with the inves
tigation.
Wouid II not be a redundancy and idocv to
give authority for persons and papers. when il
already has that authority" asked Mr. TiIlman
II the Senator had studied the laws as he
should have done he would rot ask that ques-
ton. retorted Mr.. Spooner
After passages between the two Senators who
occupy seats directly opposite in the centre
aisle MI. spooner said. laughngiy: The Sen
ator from South Carolina need not try TO IN
umidate me-" 4.
Oh, you are only trying to get off an old
joke" said Mr. TilIman
fhsre was noise in the galleries and with
difficulty the Vice President suppressed n. call
! lnR attention TO the rule prohibiting applause.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-04-27
HANG AND BURN NEGROES.
Mob ut Springfield, No.. Wrcaks
Vengeance ON Three.

Mob Mt Springfield, Mo-. WrcaIss
Vengeance on Three.
At Springfield, Mo, on Saturday
night, an Infatuated mob of 5000
has lynched three negroes after
having demolished the county jail.
and 4 bloody ace war seemed innni-
nent. The mob took two negroes from
the county Jail, hanged them to the
electric tower in the center of the pub
lie square Inc built d fire under the
men as they hung. The crowd then
started back t. the Jail threatening to
hang foul other negroes charged with
murder. One Of these was hanged.
Fully 5000 people went to the county
Jail about 8 O'Clock and with telephone
poles and sledge hammers literally tore
the Jail to pieces. Finally the two ne
gro suspects were dragged from the Jail
and taken to the center of the public
square Inc hanged. 1t is fully Il mile
from the Jail to the square, and the mob
marched down one of the principal
streets of the town shouting and firing
pistols.
I, Sheriff Horner tried to argue with
the mob, but it was determined, and
hooted and insulted him. Jailer King
was assaulted when he refused to give
up the keys. He finally gave the mob
some keys, which were not for the ne
goes cells, however, and the mob was
forced to smash in the iron bars. Sher-
if Wilson Crane of Polk County was
present and tried to induce the mob not
to hang the negroes. The mob besides
w%recking the Jail attacked the sheriff's
mouse, demolished the furniture and
rendered the sheriff's wife unconscious
by threats and violence.
Seven companies Of State troops and
300 special deputy sheriffts We're or
dered out to prevent the outbreak of Il
desperate race war. The enmity to-
ward the negroes which actuated Il mob
of several thousand men, women and
boys to break into the Jail and lynch
and burn three blacks seemed not sat
isfied by the tragedy, and so threaten
ing was the situation that the authori-
ties Of the city and county united in IN
appeal to Governor Folk to send the
militia.
Below is given the number of lynch
ings in the United States since 1893:
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-04-27
KILLED IN CHURCH PANIC.
Three Persons Dead, Score Injured
1t Enne in Chicngo.

"A hhe III
Three persons were trampled to
death and n score or more seriously in
jured, some of whom may die, in n
panic in st. Ludmilla's Bohemian
Catholic Church. Albany avenue and
Twenty-fourth street, Chicago, Satur-
day night. e
Fifty girls dressed in white, taking
their first communion, stood before the
altar while the pastor, Rev. Michael
Farnlk, chanted THE Resurrection
The first part of the services had end
ed and the pastor had begun the sec
Ond stanZa of the chant, when the sink
ing Of the ioOr and the o~vrrturning of
a candle, followed by a cry of fire, sent
the 900 persons gathered in the church
into a panic and q wild rush was made
for the doors.
Five minutes later, after Il scene Of
the widest disorder, wherein madden
ed men fought with screaming women
Il children, three little girls lay dead
in the church, half n dozen womcn
were unconscious, and one so severely
injured she can not live. At least TWEEN
~ OlLeTS we're severely nufl.
The cry of fire the police learned
after 4 brief investigation was Il boy
ish prank, no fire being in or neal the
Cdifce.
The greater part Of the audience was
composed of women and children, the
latter being in the majority. The EN-
ter aisle had just been cleared prcpara-
tory to the march of those taking part.
and the Sisters of st. Francis School
We're just getting their little charges in
line when there came two sharp re-
ports like the firing of Il revolver and
then the floor saggcd in the center.
Instantly those sitting rose to their
feet and Their a candle on the altar was
upset, Next came the cry Of Fire"
Then pandemonium started and the
shouts of the priests who tried to calm
the fears of the frightened people were
lost in the stampede. To add to the
horror the doors. except those in the
front of the church, were locked and
exit from the sides or rear was impos-
sible.
The side aisles were filled with little
children lined up ready to begin the
march to II altar, II to his fact is
attributed the saving of many of their
lives, for they We're outside the STAN
peue and We're held partly in check by
the priests and Sisters.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-04-27
Brfckn from SAND.

A correspondent of Cardiff, waiesl
reports that great sane dunes e1ten6
for miles along the north coast of the
British Channel. These, in addition to-
being utterly worthless for all pur-i
poses, are also a menace to the narrow,
strip Of lowlands between them and
the hills. A company of business men
have determined to put the sand to,
some USE, and II their works prove
profitable an industry will be built up
on the dunes. The plan is to manu-i
facture bricks from sand. The expert-
ment has proved a success on the CONT
nent where the bricks are produced I'M
several colors and take a glaze salts
foctorily. Some experts claim that
these bricks made of sane and lime
will be the building brick of the future
In Wales and the United Kingdom.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-04-27
New lee Automobile Idea.

Chas. u. S. Burch of Minneapolis has
developed an automobile to be propelled
by screw unners on the ice, according to
a statement of the Scientific American.
The particular object he has in view is
to develop winter freight transportation
for Alaska. Steam is The motive power
of this ice locomotive. The spirals lie
with their vertical axes horizontal. their
edges being sharpened like the blades of
a skate. Each spiral is connected with q
separate engine. The machine is steered
by compressed air operating two semi-cir-
cular steel discs at each end of the body.
The bottom of the body is made water
tight, so that if the ice should give way
the whole conveyance would float upon the
surface of the water, in which case the
spirals would serve as propellers.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-04-27

greater because San Francisco is a pop
ulous and commercial city. The earth.
quake destroyed at once hundreds of
business blocks and the "a of saw
ing others from fire. 1t paralyzed com
merce, destroyed railways and bridges,
cut off communication with other cit.
les, and desolated the country to the
south and east.
But, as in the case of Galveston.
there will be quick recovery from what
seems overwhelming disaster. Naples
is a great city in spite of the erup-
tons of yesuvius and in spite of earth
quakes. Toxic, desolated by earth
qunkes several times, is the greatest
city of Japan. Chicago is greater be-
cause Of the fire of 1S71- Charleston
is none the worse for the earthquake OF
1884, And San Francisco will rise 50.
perior to the great disaster Of 1905.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-04-27

stronger as the morning wore away
1t famed the several blaZes in the
heart Of the business district and
threatened to spread the fire through,
out n section filled with valuable mer,
chandiSe. AS the noon lour drew near
the flames were spreading in every di.
r%ection, and the destruction by fire bid
fair to eclipse the damage wrought by
the earthquake. The loss of life seems
to have been confined to the poorer dis
tricts and manufacturing territory. On
lower Market street, the main thor
oughfare of the city, block after block
Of substantial buildings was destroyed.
The Valencia Hotel. between Seven
teenth and Eighteenth streets, on Va
lencia street, a fve-story frame build
ing, toppled over into the street, bury
ing seventy-tive people in the debris.
At Eighteenth and Valencia there is
q ~crevice in the street six feet wide and
entire sidewalks are torn up. The
street cartracks are badly twisted all
through the southern section of the
city.
Davis street, Font street, Battery
street. SAMSON, Montgomery, Kearney,
Spear, Main, Beale and Fremont
streetS-all We're in the area of the
earthquakes greatest fury. Early re-
ports indicated that the quaking earth
shook all buildings along these thor
oughfares from their foundations and
piled the debris high. .f.
The cheap tenement house districts
suffered terribly. Old buildings, con-
structed in the days of redwood, and
dilapidated and lettering, collapsed
with a succession of roars. Fires APP
peared in the ruins. but the fire fight
erS were almost powerless to extin-
guish the flames.
.s Big Fail.
. The offices of the Postal Telegraph
Company, in the Hobart Building, were
wrecked. The Associated Press Build
ing at 800 Montgomery street also was
destroyed. The 100000 City Hall
rocked and creaked in the earthquake.
portions of it collapsing. bringing added
terror TO tile people who had rushed
into the streets near by.
Scarcely had the people realized the
extent OF the great calamity when re-
ports began to come in from surround
ing places indicating that the shock had
been disastrous throughout a wide area.
Some experts on seismic disturbances
estimated that a portion of California
100 miles in diameter had come within
the zone of greatest activity.
Night added to the horror, and as
darkness fell the sky was Illuminated
by the brilliant co%nfiagration. There
was no light in the city except the light
that meant the destruction of homes
and the loss of life. The final dying
out OF the fires leave only n barren
sand dune dotted with the b~lackened
ruins of what was a great city.
Ten square Miles Burned.
Ten square miles of TIE heart of the
city were burned over, the water sup
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-04-27

Secretary Taft has reduced his weight
nearly fifty pounds. When he gets rid
Of seventeen pounds more one of his am
billions will have been realized.
Robert L.. Mccormick, nominated as
Republican candidate for Mayor of Ia
coma, WASH, is the richest citizen of that
city. His friends urged him to take the
nomination as a stepping stone to the
United States senatorship three years
hence, when Senator Ankeny's term ex-
pires.
Circuit Judges Jelke and Giffen have
told the Ohio legislative committee that
former Boss Cox of the Republican or
ganization asked them to reverse judg-
ment in a suit involving $23S,0OO. One
of the judges consented, and in conse-
quence the city lost $4,000 by compro-
mise. The committee uncovered extern
sive graft in the purchase of turnpikes
for the county. Secretary Taft addressed
the Roosevelt Republican Club at Gin
%cinnati, which was formed after the last
election for the purpose of keeping up
the fight on the Cox machine.
The speech of Judge Alton B.. Parker
of New York before the Southern Man
ufacturers' Club at Charlotte, n. c., adj
vocating the choice of a Democratic Pres
idential nominee from one of the South
ern States, has called forth much favora-
bic comment throughout the South, at
least among the conservative members Of
the party, who are alarmed at the pro-
gress made by the Hearst boom. Mr.. Par
ker said that Nebraska had been tried and
New York, with failure in each case, and
that 80 per cent of the young men of the
North are now allied with the Republican
party, while many of the old leaders nave
abdicated or joined the Republicans. This
address is understood to have given CO.
herence to the presidential boom for Sem
ator Bailey of Texas.
The Missouri Supreme Court has rem
dered a decision which will necessitate
the opening of the ballot boxes and a re-
count of the votes cast at the last city
election wherever there is a contest over
an Office.
Despite the opposition of the machine
faction of both parties, the Ohio House
of Representatives passed the bill provid-
ing for direct party primaries in the
choice of all candidates up to congress
%sional, and that all primaries shall be
held on the same day. The same body
passed the bill raising the Dow tax on
saloons from $3.50 to $1,000.
In the local town elections of Maine
the lead of the Democrats was increased
by their capture of Augusta, the State
capital, which has been Republican every
year except one since it's foundation. Tho
Democratic Mayor of Bangor was re-
turned with an increased majority.
The Iowa Assembly has passed, with
little opposition, the resolution embody-
ing Gov. Cummins' plan for a national
convention of delegates, appointed by
State Governors, to set on foot a move
ment to force a call of a constitutional
convention to bring about the election of
United States Glnators by direct vote.
Six more States must join in the demand
before Congress can be forced to Get.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-04-27

ply was cut off because of the twisted
and broken mains, and the frantic res
idents, aided by Federal troops, fought
the flames with dynamite in an effort
to save the remainder of the city from
destruction. The property loss is esti-
mated at $500. 00O, 900.
General Funston, in command of the
United States troops at the Preside,
declared he city under martial law as
soon as the extent of the horror be-
came apparent. and the troops and po-
lice worked together to save life, pro
tect property and recover the dead. The
earthquake shock destroyed so many Of
the fire engine houses that the depart
men would have been virtually power
less even had the water supply not
been destroyed. =
The saturnalia of crime and looting
which began when the soldiers sacked
the saloons broke out afresh with the
darkness, and unnumbered, untold
crimes We're committed on every side.
No historian will ever describe the tor
lures which the homeless suffered !:
none dare attempt to recount the
aGonies of those who sought the ruins
OF their homcS and missing members OF
their household one may think Of the
woe ami doom of those buried beneath
the wreckage or consumed by the re-
morseless flames.
Number of Dead Never known.
1t will be many days before the com
ylatn Stn,.- Of thn r.r,in XyrnI1phf nv tho
double calamity of earthquake and fire
that visited San Francisco will be writ
ten and then there will still remain IN
told countless tales of pitiful tragedy.
The exact loss of life will never be
known. as hundreds of unfortunates
have been incinerated in the flames
which made the rescue of those buried
under toppling steeples m falling
walls impossible.
Famine in its most terrible form ex-
banded through the devastated city and
stricken inhabitants Thursday. Hun
ger. growing into the first stages of
starvation. faced the spent thousands
Who slept Wednesday night in the pub
lie squares. or on the bare pavements
u TIC city > ItclS. hist LIE DlOSL
terroriZing of the torments to follow
the earthquake, drove men and women
mad.
Nandals caught in the act of robbing
dead bodies were shot without eXplana-
ton and their bodies consigned to the
flames of some burning buildings, with
out any further formality. The sol
diers patrolling the streets were or
dered to kill, forthwith, any person
seen rObbing the dead or burglarizing
unprotected places of business. Fully
a score of men were killed under this
order.
The appalling calamity in San Fran
isco places that city in a list of Lisbon,
Caracas. Naples, and other cities de-
vastated by earthquakes. The horrors
of the situation in California are the
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-04-27

the disaster would have been some
thing almost beyond the power of tht
human mind to grasp.
BY the time the earthquake reached
its destructive period the streets of TIL
city were crowded with thousands o
terror-StriCkcn persons, who rushed (;
and fro and endeAvOrCd to keep out o
the way of falling buildings. Hundreds
were supposed to have beer caught il
the falling debris and crushed to dealt
or killed later by the fires which sprung
up all through the business portion o
the city.
In general it may be said that thu
district lying between Market and How
ard streets. from the bay as far. Yves
ed. The Call and Examiner Buildings
as well as the Western Union Build
ing, have been wrecked. The large de
partment stores in this neighborhOoG
also were ruined. Farther east or
Market street toward the Ferry Slips
is a section occupied by cheap lodging.
houses and hotels and here the loss OF
life is reported to be great.
Fire Follows the Shock.
Fire followed the crumbling of build
lngs along Market street, and the fire
men were powerless to prevent the
spread of the flames. The earthquake
had broken the mains on the big street
and twisted off the side mains, and it
was almost impossible to take steamers
through the debris in the streets. Vol
unteers brought supplies of dynamite
and began to blow up the blazing de
bris in a vain effort to confine the con
fagration to the ruined area.
All power in the street car and pri-
vate electric lighting plants was cut off.
Wires in tangled masses had been hurl-
ed into the streets.
Near 4th and Stevenson streets the
old red wood buildings made good tin
der for the flames. Fire swept through
the debris of the poorer buildings and
soon got beyond control of the fire fight
ers. Across the street the fire swept,
licking up the debris in front of the
Winchester rooming house. Fire spread
to the buildings along the west side of
Sd street. Desperate efforts were made
with powder, dynamite and other ex-
Dlosives to stop the flames.
One block away the Palace Hotel
was threatened by the sweep of the
flames. With no water to ~eXtinguiSh
the fire. the big hostelry seemed doom
ed. Calls were sent to the Preside for
70 heIp save the business dis
trict from being entirely swept by the
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-04-27
bridge to span Royal Gorge.

The highest bridge in the world will
be built across the top of the famous,
Royal Gorge, near Canon City, Col. It
will be $500 feet above the hanging
bridge of the Denver & Rio Grande
Railroads. high in the air that the
roaring Of the Arkansas River below
will not be heard. The structure will
be erected In connection with an inter4
urban system Of electric railways In
Fremont County from Canon City to
Florance and the top of Royal Gorge.
Work was begun this week and 1t is ex-
pected that the line to the top OF the
Royal Gorge will be in operation son1>
time this summer.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-04-27

zion Of the city was disturbed and a
aarse proportion turned into the streets.
The communication with the outside
world quickly was cut off.
Swiftly the seismic visitant came,
and as swiftly did it go. Behind was
q trail of dead and dying. And after
tina the, flames! Nature, that rolled
the earth into waves n struck down
great piles of stone I'M marble, fur
nished a dismal and dreadful after
math in q tempest Of wind. The wind
famed the flames and the flames speed
lily completed the horrifying work Of
the earthquake.
Thousands undoubtedly owe their
lives to the early hour at which the
seismic shocks brought their wide
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-04-27

brands from the Market street fires
landed on the water front and threat
cned the lumber, oil and steamship
docks. On Fremont street one of the
worst fires of the early morning threat
ened to destroy a block in the whole
sale district. Small fires appeared in
the debris on California and Pine
streets. Soon the flames, unchecked by
water or explosives, gained such head
way that all the wooden buildings as
far as Sansomc street were attacked.
\ strong westerly wind became