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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-19
st. Ignatius DESTROYED.

San Francisco, April 19.-The mag
nificent church and college of st. Ig-
natius, northwest corner of Van Ness
avenue and Hayes street. is destroyed.
The loss is over sl,OO0,OOO. The
church contained paintings and fres-
Goes of priceless value.
May Ruin Some Insurance Companies
From present appearances Il is pos
sible 90 or more insurance companies
will be ruined. The managers OF the
larger companies are of the opinion
they will be able to meet all losses. In
any event, all the insurance companies
doing business in this city have been
hit a staggering blow, from the ef-
fects of which many may never re-
cover
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-19
TOMORROW is PRIMARY DAY.
Exact Locations OF Polling Places Are
Given Below.

Tomorrow will be primary day, and
at 12 o'clock noon the voting booths
will be opened for the fray. Voting
will continue until p. m., when the
polls will be closed and the counting
commence.
In Pendleton the different voting
precincts are identical with the wards.
Those living In North Pendleton, ward
2, will vote at the Hotel Pendleton
sample room, corner of Water and
Main streets. The voting place for
East Pendleton, ward 1. will be in the
old academy building on Webb street,
not in the court house. For Pendleton
precinct, ward 8, the booth will be In
the Salvation Army building, on Webb
street. For South Pendleton, ward
4, the booth will be located at Mrs
Bishops property, on West Webb.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-19

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at WORK IN tne RUNS. CaVairyPeh
forced the people from the leVei ois-
tricts to the hiily section peyond, 10
the north.
The water supply was entirely cut
off early In the morning and 1t was
seen the only possible chance to save
the city lay In the use of dynamite.
During the day blasts could be heard
in any section at intervals of only a
few minutes, and all buildings not de-
stroyed by fire were blown in atoms.
But through the gaps made the flames
iumped while the men worked like
fiends TO combat the roaring. onrush.
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-19

The Standard Electric plant is bad
ly demolished and the city was in
darkness last night,
The property loss will reach far in
to the millions. Among the buildings
either badly damaged or razed are the
court house, hall of records, st. James
hotel, annex of the Vendome, Eagles
hall, postoffice, Rea building, Dough-
erty block, st. Patricks church, the
Safe Deposit National and Bank of
San Jose buildings.
Reports from Agnew state the in
sane asylum, six miles from this city,
state that 100 were killed by the col
lapsing of half of the main structure,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-19
The Mission District Swept.

San Francisco, April 19.-The fire
has swept the Mission district, level
ing the homes of $4,000 in this one
section alone. The Emporium, the
city's biggest department store, on
Market street, is a mass Of ruins.
Late yesterday afternoon all buildings
in the vicinity of the United States
mint and postoffice were blown up in
hopes of saving these. The effort
proved useless, and the magnificent
structures, including the city hall, fell
before the onrushing flames. At 8
last night the Lacosta building, on
Clay street, fell in, killing three men
and seven horses.
Spread Into Residence Sections.
On the "Barbary Coast the fire
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-19
PERMITS FOR GRAZING.
Blue Mountain Forest Reserve VIII
Be Parcelled to StOclmen.


The East Oregonian has just receiv-
ed from Forest Superintendent d. B.
Shelter, of Baker City, notice for
publication, saying that applications
for permits to Craze in the Blue
mountain forest reserve must reach
his office in Baker City by May 10.
The portion Of the reserve to be
allotted by Mr., Shelter is the eastern
half and includes some of the finest
timber and range lands in Grant and
Baker counties.
Stockmen desiring to apply for per-
mits to Craze stock within the reserve
must write to Mr.. Shelter for forms
and applications that they make their
applications in the regular manner.
Full information to all inquirers will
be cheerfully given by Mr.. Shelter
and those interested are urged to send
for necessary papers at once.
The grazing season will open about
June 1, and all applications must be
in Mr.. Shelters office by May 10.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-19
SANTA ROSA A TOTAL WRECK.
All Houses Destroyed and the Entire
Population Homeless.

Santa Rosa, April 1s.-This city Is
a total wreck. Ten thousand homeless
men, women and children are huddl-
ed together. The loss of life will
probably reach hundreds. The busi-
ness portion is tumbled into ruins.
Main street is piled many feet deep
with fallen buildings. Not one busi-
ness building from the California
Northwestern depot in the extreme
west, to the Atheneum on the east is
left intact. The destruction includes
al, county buildings. What was not
destroyed by earthquake, Is swept by
fire.
The water system was destroyed by
the earthquake and fire fighting is
out of the question. The citizens have
abandoned their homes and taken to
the hills, gazing in despair at the
scene of destruction.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-19
SAN FRANCISCO IS DOOMED
CLOSING SCENES
OF YESTERDAY
LIFE LOSS REPORTED
AT THREE THOUSAND.

All the Great Hotels and Newspaper
Buildings Burned and the City Is In
a State of Utter Chaos-Greatest
Loss of Life I'm the Tenement District
Terrible Riots ut the Frisco Oak.
land Ferries-StanfOrd University
Mass of Ruins.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-19

d. Say of Portland, arose in the
night to care for his sick child, and
accidentally dropped lamp which
broke, scattering burning oil. All the
members OF the family escaped, but
the house and contents valued at s5,-
900 were an almost total loss. The
property was at the corner Of Milan
and Wilbur.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-19

San Francisco, April 19.-The water
supply has absolutely failed and
nothing can save the city. The fire is
spreading west, north and south
through the residence districts.
At 6 this morning San Francisco is
a mass of ruins, and the flames con-
tinue the work Of destruction and
obIiteration Of the few remaining hab-
itations. All night the heavens were
lighted by the light of a vast confla-
grafton. This morning a mass of
, smoke marks the continuation Of the
destruction amid scenes of unspeaka-
BILE horror.
Death and destruction have been
the fate OF San Francisco. The city
is mass of smouldering ruins. At
o'clock last evening the flames
were seemingly playing with increas-
ed vigor and threatened to destroy
/ such sections as their fury had spared
burning the earlier portion of the
day. The buildings in their path are
in triangular circuit and from the
start in the early morning they jock
eyed and as the day waned left the
business section, which had been en-
t,re,v destroved. and skinned in a
dozen directions to the residence por-
tion. AS night fell they had made
way over into the north beach sec
,,ion and springinr anew to the south
the,, reached along the shining sec-
t,m, and down the bay shore over the
hills and across toward Third and
Townsend streets. Warehouses.
wholesale houses and manufacturing
concerns fell in their path.
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Ione,re. In +he strests ord a,nres.
wagons and automobiles were hauling
things away TO sparsely settled re-
gions. II is believed San Francisco
will be totally DESTROYED.
At 3 this morning almost every
building in the vicinity of Union
Square was ablaze. The magnificent
st. Francis hotel. in Farming Square.
appcared to be doomed.
Thousands silent in the parks and
other omen places last night.
The Southern Pacific to the south Is
cut at San Mateo, 80 miles south. thus
cutting off the most natural way of
escape in that direction. leaving the
only means of egress by vehicles and
on foot.
It is estimated the loss in San Fran
cisco will reach $50, ,OOO. 900 to 5000
600. 900. Down town everything Is
ruin. Not a business house stands.
The theaters are crumbled into heaps.
Factories and commission houses lie
smouldering on their former sites. All
of the newspaper plants are rendered
useless. The Call and the Examiner
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tion declaring ,osai hoIidav
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declared in Oakland this morning.
Troops are patroling the streets and
only those with passes are allowed In
the main section because of danger
of falling buildings many of which
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-19
The City an Utter Wreck.


Sacramento, Cal, April l1S.-Sari
Francisco is utterly wrecked and
ruined by earthquake and fire. As
the hours go by the situation gets
worse and worse. The great business
district of San Francisco is one enor-
nous sea of flames, and hope of saw
ing any part of it is growing small
The police department Of San Franz
cisco has been added to by the forces
from Oakland and Alameda. Military
authorities have ordered out the
troops from the Preside, and the
ruined city is under martial law. Orr
ders have been issued to shoot thieves
at sight.
Every available bit of dynamite in
San Francisco has been requisitioned
by the authorities and loads of dyna-
mite are being hurried as fast as trains
can carry them from nearby towns in
order to hem in the burning region
and prevent the total destruction Of
the whole city. y
The greatest damage in the resi-
dence and hotel sections was done
south of Market, where the houses
are mostly of brick. Houses in the
vicinity were shaken to ruins, but
fortunately at that early hour they
were empty and the loss of life was
small.
Fear:ul Loss in Tenement District.
The most fearful losses OF life is
reported in the district southeast of
Market. This section comprises hun
dreds of cheap lodging houses which
were razed to the ground at the first
shock, all the dodgers being either
killed or injured.
The great water front surrounding
lower San Francisco is one immense
circle of leaping flame.
The western or upper part of the
city, which is the main residence por-
ton, was badly shaken and damaged,
but no reports of fatalities are yet
received.
At Sis the second shock occurred
which added greatly to the terror of
the already panic-stricken people.
The streets were crowded with
frightened people, and mad rush
was made to the ferry and to every
outlet from the hell" which San
Francisco now literally is.
Death List Increasing.
Reports of deaths are received
hourly which keep swelling the total,
which is already in the thousands.
Traffic is at dead standstill. Street
car tracks are twisted out of shape.
In many streets are great cracks
caused by the earthquake. On Va
lencia street a gap six feet wide and
of great depth, opened in the side
walk.
Terrible Riot ut the Ferry.
A terrible riot, which assumed such
proportions as to be beyond the con-
troll of the police, is raging at the
ferry buildings. Every available
building is turned into hospital,
where thousands of injured are be-
ing treated by surgeons, assisted by
volunteer nurses.
Vast Financial Damage.
The financial loss cannot be esti-
mated, as the greatest destruction Of
property may be still to come Guesses
at present range between $50. 900, 900
and 500, 900, 900. The Call and EXAM
iner buildings, though not totally de-
stroyed, were badly wrecked.
1000 Dead; 1000 Injured.
Sacramento, April 1S.-The entire
business portion of San Francisco to-
night is in ruins. The flames which,
owing to lack of water, cannot be
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broke out anew, and as night closed
in the flames were eating their way
into the parts untouched in the raw
ages during the day. To the south
and the north they spread, down to
the docks and out into the resident
sections, in and to the north of Hayes
Valley. BY 6 o'clock practically all
the st. Ignatius great buildings had
been leveled to a heap that marked
what was once the metropolis of the
west.
The scene at Mechanics pavilion
during the early hours of the morn
ing and up until noon, when all the
injured and dead were removed be-
cause of the threatened destruction of
the building by fire, was one OF inde-
scribable sadness. Sisters, brothers,
wives and sweethearts searched
eagerly for some missing dear ones.
Thousands hurriedly went through
the building inspecting cots on which
the sufferers lay, in hopes to locate
some loved one that was missing. The
dead, were placed in one portion of the
building, and the remainder devoted
to hospital purposes.
After the fire had forced the nurses
to desert the building, eager crowds
followed them to the Preside and
the Children's hospital, where they
renewed the search for missing rela'
tives.
~ All PlayhOuses Gone.
All of San Francisco's best play
houses, the Majestic, Columbia and
Grand are mass of ruins. The
earthquake demolished them for al
practical purposes, and the fire COM
pleted the work of demolition. The
Rialto and Casserly buildings burned
to the ground.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-19
Helpless City is Being Devastated by Fires Which
Are Raging Everywhere.
hhC
Homeless -Umaeds sttes snaaA ropnaed of

sons under the debris. These were in
cinerated, and there is no possibility
of learning their identity.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-19
JIM NARC|SSE
FOUND DEAD
NOT KNOWN WHETHER
MURDER OR SUICIDE.

.I,ig Jim" Narcisse, Well Known In
terpreter, Fourki Early This Morn
ing on the Reservation-Corone
Henderson Holding Inquest This
Afternoon-Facts Surrounding the
Case Are Meager-Narcisse Met
Death Some Time During the Night.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-19
Lieutenant Was Killed.

Lieutenant Charles C. Pulls, COM
manding the oath company of light
artillery, was blown up by charge
of dynamite at Sixth and Jessie streets
and fatally injured.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-19
Under Martial Law

At . o'clock, under n special mes
sage from Roosevelt, the city was
placed under martial law. Hundreds
of troops patrol the streets and drove
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-19
1000 Dead; 1000 Iniure,i.

Sacramento, April 1S.-The entire
business portion of San Francisco to-
night is in ruins. The flames which,
owing to lack of water, cannot be
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-19

Continued on page ~
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-19

Peop.e who buy and people who
sell are brought together through
intelligent advertising. 1t Is the
chief means of introduction.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-19
Vast Financial Damage.

The financial loss cannot be esti-
mated, as the greatest destruction of
property may be still to come. Guesses
at present range between $50, 900
and 500, 900. The Call and Exam
iner buildings, though not totally de-
stroyed, were badly wrecked.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-19

IVfFIUIV INIUt Ut uit FtTTy.
A terrible riot, which assumed such
proportions as to be beyond the con-
troll of the police, is raging at the
ferry buildings. Every available
building is turned into a hospital.
where thousands Of injured are be-
ing treated by surgeons, assisted by
volunteer nurses.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-19

the crowds back while hundreds were
set to work assisting the firemen and
sOlIiere
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-24
Miner Dies in Jail.

AS a result of drinking heavily.
William Alexander, an old miner of
Hazel Green, is dead. His death
occurred Saturday last while he was
confined in the village Jail, where
he had been placed while under the
influence of liquor. 1t is believed
that his death was due to hemor-
rhage of the lungs. He was SIS
year old and unmarried. Saturday
night Mr.. Alexander, more familiar
ly known as ''Rickety Bill" became
intoxicated. He became so bolster
Gus that the officers took him in
charge and he was confined in the
Jail. Sunday morning, one of the
attendants went to the Jail with
breakfast for the prisoner.
Alexander was found laying face
down on the floor, just as he had
lain when thrown in the lock up the
night before. Repeated calls from
the jailer failed to arouse the man
and entrance was made to the cell.
The PROSTATE form of the man was
rolled over, and the attendant was
shocked to find him cold in death.
He was stiff and cold and had evil
IDENTIFY been dead for several hours,
Justice Thomas held an inquest
over the remains, and verdict was
returned to the effect that the dead
man had come to his death bv a
hemorrhage of the lungs. The de-
ceased was born at Benton, but
for years has been a workman in
mines at Hazel Green.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-24

ESTATE of BENJAMIN letters. deceased,
A. State of Wisconsin, County Court of
Grant County-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given. that at the special
for said county. at the court house, in the
city of Lancaster, in said county, on the
2nd Tuesday of March, A. D. 1906 being
the 18th day of March 1906 at the hour Of
one o'clock. in the afternoon, the following
matter will be heard and considered:
The petition of John ]. 1obin. as executor
of the estate of Benjamin LETTERS, deceased.
for the examination and allowance of his
final account as such executor, and for the
assignment of the residue of said estate ac-
cording to law and the last will and tesla
ment and codicil thereto of said Benjamin
letters, deceased, and for his discharge,
By order of the Court
Z, B. GOODSELL.
County Judge.
Dated, Feb 7, 1906.
Brown & Brennan. Attys. for Executor.
l ms. Feb 10: last ms, Feb. 24
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-24

ESTATE of John Yunek, deceased,
- State of Wisconsin, County Court of
Grant County-In Probate,
Notice is hereby given. that at the regular
term of the ounty Court, to be held in and
for said county, at the court house in the
City OF Lancaster, in said county, on the 1St
Tuesday of March. A. D.. 1906, being the
one O'Clock in the afternoon. the following
matter will be heard and consideration
Inc application ofjulia Sunderland the
estate of John Yunek. deceased, late of the
town of FennimOre in said county,
By order of the Court.
E.. B. GOODSELL, County Judge,
Dated February 9Th. 1906
Lowry & Carthew, Petitioners Attorneys
list ms. Feb. 10: last ms. Feb. 24.)
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-24
PARTITION SALE.

State of Wisconsin. Grant County. ss-In
Circuit Court.
John Thompson and Fannie Thompson.
his wife, Plaintiffs.
VS..
Susan Fieldhouse, Caroline Kenny and
Frances ToOmey, Defendants.
Notice IS hereby given that by virtue of
an order of sale in the above entitled action
issued out of the Circuit Court for Grant
County, Wisconsin, said order bearing date
the Goth day of January, A. ID, 1906.
L will on the 10Th day of March, A. d. 1906.
at or on the premises hereinafter described
in the town of Clifton. in Grant County.
Wisconsin, at the hour of one o'clock in the
afternoon of said day offer for sale and sell
to the highest and best bidder or bidders
for cash the following described premises
to-wit:
The east half ~ of the Northeast quarter
of section twenty-four (24 in Township
five 90 North of Range one Cd West of the
fourth (4) P. NJ, in Grant County, WiScOn-
sin, also the West twenty-One (2ll acres of
the Southwest quarter of the Northwest
quarter of section nineteen 80 in Town
ship five Isl North of Range one Cd East
In Iowa County, Wisconsin.
Dated Sheriff, office in the city of Ian
caster. Grant County, Wisconsin, this lst
day of February, A. d. 1906.
ROBERT GLENN,
Sheriff Grant. Co.. Wis
Brown & Brennan, Plaintiffs Attorneys.
Z, y. Address, Lancaster, Wis.
lSt ms. Feb. 10th: last ms. March u.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-24
Help The Teacher.

If anyone needs your sympathy
and support it is the public school
teacher. No difference whether it
is city school or out in the country
districts, the trials of school
teacher are made manifold and
severe. The teacher has to deal
with the mismanagement of every
home in the district, and in too
many cases has the bad disposition
of the parents as we'll as the faults
of the scholars to contend with.
The teacher has the guiding of
your child in hand during which
time many faults are corrected by
consistency which is shown by her
where the same could not be done at
home where the child would be
compared with the one older or
younger. When anything goes
wrong in school carefully look into
the matter before deciding.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-24

A dispatch from Dubuque concern
ing Former Speaker David B. Hen
derson says that he suffered slight
paralytic stroke Saturday night,
which caused a total loss of his eye
sight. The attending physician is
unable to say as yet whether the
loss of sight will be permanent OF
not. This is the second stroke re-
ceived by the patient, but was far
less severe than the.former one.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-24

A British voice has been raise d
against the encouragement of big
families except where the persons
responsible are able to maintain
them. This argument is sensible
but will probably be about as eff
caciouslIas' the crusade against it.
Neither law nor sentiment can ar
rest or boom the birth rate In any
country. 1.-THE wise men of ancient
Rome believed it was regulated
wholly by the price of corn.