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, 1906-04-24
PLEASANT DANCE
At N. W. 4. AA[L
PARTY GIVEN BY POPULAR RESI-
DENTS OF GRANITE CANON
SATURDAY NIGHT LAST.
Music of Excellent Character Furnish
ed by Mandolin Club of This City
and Number OF Guests Present
Dancing Continued Until Late in
the Morning.

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Granite Canon, Wyo., April "a
There was a most enjoyable gathering
at M. w. A. hall, on the Mar
tin W%illardsen ranch, Saturday, April
20. The dance was given by
Messrs. NJ. E. Roberts n M. v. Lat
tin. Music was furnished by the Lar
annie Mandolin club. Dancing began
about $50 o'clock and was kept up
until midnight, when a delightful sup
per was served. Dancing was then re-
sumed and continued until the wee
sma' hours. Those present were Mr..
and Mrs. Martin Willardsen, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lawrence Bennett, Mr.. and Mrs.
M. V. Latin and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack Murray and family, Mrs.
Mclaughlin, Bert MCGEE and Addie
G~earheart. James Mclaughlin and
Maude Holt, Edwin Hansen and Flos-
sic Haygood, kuders Willardsen and
Florence Delaney, j. Thornton and
Ellen Bennett, Norman Lehmer and
Hilda Holt, Elmer Farrell and Clara
Farrell, Ray Farrell and Miss Talbot,
William Ferguson and Julia Swan,
Walter Ferguson INT Julia Willardsen,
James Willardsen and HELEN Gearhart,
, 1906-04-24
WAS READY
FOR DEATH
AGED SISTER OF GEN. FISHBAck
OF THIS CITY. SUcCUMBS
TO HEART DISEASE.
Mrs. Ann HoIdstock, Born in Ohio and
Widowed in Indiana, Breathes Her
Last at Home of Son-Funeral
From Methodist Episcopal Church
Tomorrow Afternoon.

Mrs. Ann Holdstock, aged SO years,
the sister of General w. H. Fishback
of this city, died at s o'clock Monday
night, at the home of her s%on-in-law,
James Moore, on the Pioneer canal,
above this city, and the remains were
brought to this city, where they will
be kept until tomorrow afternoon, the
funeral occurring from the Methodist
church at 2 o'clock.
Cousin of Newspaper Man.
Mrs. Holdstock was the only sister OF
General Fishback and was the cousin
of Mr.. Fishback of the st. Louis Globe.
Democrat, n of the founders of the
paper. She lived much of her time
in Indiana, where she was widowed,
coming to this city ten years ago,
spending a part of the time with her
brother n the balance with her son.
She was born in Ohio and was reared
a Methodist, although she had not
united with the church in this city,
The services will probably be by Rev.
Bross, pastor of that church.
Widowed in Indiana.
The deceased was a remarkable wo
man in many ways. She was a pioneer
resident of her home in Indiana, living
at peace with her neighbors and in the
fear of the Lord, and when the angel
of death came she was ready.
Brother Greatly Affected.
Word of her death reached her
brother this morning and he was great
ly affected. He and his sister were
all thai were left of a family of eleven
children and the blow was sadder OF
that account. She sometimes visited
him here and they were dear to eacf
other. She was considerably Older
than he.
Friends accompanied the remains
to the city this afternoon and will re
milan until after the funeral service:
tomorrow afternoon.
, 1906-04-24
SOME DECLINE IN
CATTLE MARKET
ABSENCE OF HAY-FED STOCK AT
SOUTH OMAHA NOTED IN DE-
CLINE Of THE PRICES.
Light and Medium Weigt Steers Have
Held Their Own, But There Is
Room for Improvement in Condi-
tons GeneraIIy-Heavy Fleshy
Steers Command Good Prices.

Special to The Republican.
South Omaha, NeD., April 24.-Clay,
Robinson & Co.'S market letter, given
out today, follows:
There have been but few hay-fed
cattle received here during the past
week. Owing to the rather weak feel
ing to the corn-fed cattle market, the
heavy cattle suitable for feeding pur-
poses have declined 10 to Is cents the
past week. However, the light and
medium weight steers have held their
own in good shape and prices for these
are but little different.
Room for Improvement.
There will have to be considerable
improvement in the tone to the fat cat.
tie market before there will be any
material change in the character OF
the trade for the heavy feeding steers.
However, We expect to see good in.
quiry for the light stock steers. There
is little change at present for the diff.
ferent weights, and good to choice
kinds are quotable at $4.25 to $3.50;
fair to good $3.50 to $4.25. The butcher
stock trade has also been slow ano
weak, and prices Is and 20 cents lower
than a week ago.. There have been but
few heavy fieshy steers received suit.
able for beef purposes, but the best of
these no doubt would sell around $3.50
to s4.65.
, 1906-04-24
SEARCH FOR
LOST MAN
CAPE COLONY MAN WRITES TO
SHERIFF CONCERNING ONE
CHAS. ROWLAND HILL.
Answers Description of Man Who
Went From Wyoming to Montana,
Where He Was Killed While chas-
ing Prisoners Escaped From Jail
Came Here to Make Home.

Sheriff C. A. Reals this morning re
ceived the following letter from H
A. Nealon, or Malon, the signature
Chief Sheriff, Laramie, Wyoming, U.
S. A." and dated at Cradock, Cape
Colony, March Goth, 1906:
Dear Sir:-I hereby take the lib
erty of requesting assistance from you
to clear up a bit of a mystery of long
standing. A certain Charles Rowland
Hill left his home in England twenty
two years ago, and since then his wife
has never heard of him. Police in
quiries were instituted and he was
traced as far as Chicago, but there
all trace of him was lost.
May Have Been Killed.
81 have before me two letters from
AIR. w. S. Grifhths. sheriff of Valley
county, Montana, in which he inform.
me that Charles r. Hill was killed
while out or posse work after jai
breakers in May, 1908. The descrip
ton is almost perfect for the man
am looking for. Age, 45 years; hail
and beard dark and heavy; he only
had small side whiskers when last
seen, but these and his hair were dark
and heavy; height, about 5 feet s or 8
inches. This is a shade higher, !
think. This may be right, but | would
say 8 feet Z or 5 inches.
Went From This State.
MIR. Grifiths also informs me thai
he does not know much about the man
any more than he was an Englishman
and he went to Montana from Wyo
ming. The facts are as under
Charles Rowland Hill of Kings Lynn
Norfolk, England; well educated
studied for the church (English) ag,
when he left, % years; left for Amer
lea to make a home for his wife ant
child; sent a diary of ocean yoyag,
from New York, never a word after
sometimes wore clerical garb. If pos
sible, | would like to find if this ii
the man that was killed in Montana
| trust that you will procure and lei
me have whatever information o can
AS far as | know, there was no reason
for his silence, as there was no crime
committed by him."
, 1906-04-24
QUAKE IN
MICHIGAN
LOUIS MILLER SENDS CLIPPING
OF FATAL PHENOMENON NEAR
CITY HE Is VISITING.
One Man Killed and Four Injured, Large
Rock Breaking Loose by Force of
Earthquake and Mon Crushed
Laramieite Expected Home Some
Time After May First.

Miss Jeanne Miller of 6lO Sixth
street this morning received a note
from her father, dated at Calumet,
Mich, on the 21st, in which Mr.. Miller
said the weather in Michigan was very
bad when he wrote. He expects to
leave Calumet for Duluth on the 26th,
and from there he goes to st. Paul, in
tending to return to this city about the
Sth or 9th of May. Mr.. Miller enclos-
ed the following special dispatch from
Calumet to one of the Chicago papers,
noting a fatal earthquake shock near
that city on the day following the aw-
ful earthquake at San Francisco:
Portage Lake Has Shock.
"One man was killed, four others in,
jured, and much alarm caused by an
earthquake on the north side of Port
age lake today. Timothy Leary, a
miner in the employ of the Quincy Min.
, 1906-04-24
RELIEF FOR REFUGEES FLEEING
FROM THE COAST HUNGRY
AND DESTITUTE QUICK
LY COLLECTED.
Train Scheduled to Arrive at Three
O'clock This Afternoon Did Not
Come and Food for Thousand Cor
irving at Eleven O'clock Permitted
to Go Through Some Blunder.

The great, pulsating, full heart OF
Laramie was touched again today and
the pursestrings of the people flew
trainload of refugees, hungry and des,
titute, would pass through the city dur
ing the afternoon, and that the people
OF this city would be expected to fur
nish food, as the people of Rawlins,
Green River and Cheyenne had done Tor
a train passing earlier. The heart was
touched and the how of offerings was
large and spontaneous. There was q
large and spontaneous. The baggage
room was made the storage place and
it was full almost to the last foot OF
room. There were contributions oil
provisions, clothing and money from
every section of the city. Not a home
hardly, but lent it's aid to the work OF
relieving the suffering.
Car for the Injured.
The first train consisted of seven
cars and a tourist sleeper, the latter
being occupied by the injured and i'll
of the party. There were refugees from
almost every section of the country.
''Oh, what terrible times we had" said
one lady, her head bandaged from the
cruel wound received by a piece of
falling class as she sought safety from
a demolished building. Il thought to
run to a place of safety, but had 1
stayed where / vas there could no
harm have come TO me. l stepped into
the street and Immediately a piece Of
glass from the opposite side, the pane
being shattered by the collapse of the
building, struck me in the forehead
and but for the presence of mind of 9
man, an entire stranger, | should have
been trampled to death in the mad rush
that followed the first awful moment
Buried Daughter in California.
Many of the occupants of the train
were residents of eastern cities, who
were in San Francisco for the winter.
II was preparing to start for home at
s O'Clock of the morning of the earth
quake" said a well dressed and intelli-
gent German. 81 had purchased my
tickets and had them in my trunk in
a hotel. The crash came, We raj for
safety, and when We returned the no
tel was in ruins, the fire was licking W
the debris, and all my personal be
longings were lost, including a consld
cradle roll of money, the tickets ant
the Pullman tickets 1 had provided fol
my wife and little ones. We are goint
back home in Chicago, but there is lit
tie left but the home. We had ouI
available assets with us on the coast
where we had taken u 1~3-year-old
daughter, whose remains are buried in
a cemetery there"
People Act Quickly.
Otto Gramm was informed early this
morning that the train would come
through during the day, at first the
time being fixed at II o'clock. Later
came the word that the passengers on
this train had been cared for at Raw
, 1906-04-24
COAL SHED BURNED
ON THIRD STREET.

The frame Goa shed and water
closet in the ear of the residence al
5G9 north Third street, occupied by
Mrs. Lindell and owned by Miss Sund
strum, was destroyed at 2 o'clock this
afternoon, from a fire from unknown
origin. Mrs. Lindell says she heard the
noise of the conflagration and gave
the alarm. The fire department re
sponded promptly and the chemical
engine extinguished the blaze. The
coal shed was filed with coal placed
there yesterday. Mrs. Lindell could
not say whether the property was in
sured. Her loss was trivial, as mos
of the coal can be saved.
, 1906-04-24
BOTH AGENTS
WERE FINED
HOEL AND MAXWELL ASSESSED
LOWEST PUNISHMENT FOR
VIOLATING FOOD LAW.
Cheyenne Mar Pleads Guilty and
Omaha Representative Convicted
Local Meat Men Arraigned for
Using Personalities in Manufacl
ture of Certain Kinds of Sausage.

C. F. Hoel of Cheyenne, travelling
representative of a Cheyenne whole
sale house, who pleaded guilty in Jus
tice Grants court yesterday afternoon
to selling maple syrup not labeled &C
cording to the pure food law of the
state, on the complaint of q. w.
Burke of Evanston, the pure food com
missioner of the state, was fined $50
and costs, amounting to $54.50, the
fine being the minimum under the law.
Maxwell Found Guilty.
R. H.. Maxwell, representing an
Omaha concern, who made a fight
against the information, was found
guilty and fined in a similar sum, the
costs in his case being 81 more than
in the Hoel case Nj. Maxwell was
represented by j. H. Symons, Mr..
Downey appearing for the state and
the pure food commissioner.
Meat Dealers Arraigned.
This morning the four meat dealers
in the city were arraigned before JUS
tice Grant charged with using pre-
servatives in their sausage. The COM
plants were filed by Mr.. Burke upon
evidence adduced in the office of
State Chemist Knight, and all pleaded
guilty to the use of the chemical, con-
tending that it was generally used,
not alone in Laramie and every other
city in the state, but all over the
United States. The chemical, they con.
tend, is used to color the sausage and
not to preserve it, being used in such
small quantities as not to interfere
with the health of the consumer.
Decided on Stipulation.
These cases and the two tried yes
terday afternoon were in Justice
Grants court for final action upon slip.
ulation, the parties agreeing to give
the justice jurisdiction in the cases.
1t is not likely that they will be taken
to the district court. The butchers
were given a nominal fine, it being
the disposition of the prosecuting of.
ficers, including the justice, the food
commissioner and the attorney to let
them off as easily as possible, each
promising to refrain from using the
preservative in future.
More Syrup Gases.
There are yet two of the maple
syrup cases to be tried, but the agents
have not been served with the war.
rants. Mr.. Burke did not know when
they would be called.
, 1906-04-24
THE CREDIT MEN
HAD SHORT MEETING.

The Credit Mems association of this
city, embracing the most of the bust.
ness men of the city, met at the Office
of its secretary, T. H. Gibson, last
night, and disposed of the routine bust.
ness on hand. 1t was shown that in
the two and one-half years of the ex,
~istence of the association the loss from
bad debts had been reduced IL per
cent per annum. a very considerable
saving to the business men Some of
the best known dead-beats had been
driven from the city and every man
given to understand that his credit was
good when he paid his bills.
, 1906-04-24
GREELEY CUTS DOWN
LOSSES BY DEATHS

OF the new and greater San Francisco
are crystallizing rapidly, and soon the
sounds Of building will be heard in
every block of the devastated districts.
The blowing down of the ruins in the
business section already has begun
and is now well under way. There
was not a dangerous ruin standing on
Market street by noon.
ArtilIerymen After lettering Walls.
A large squad of United States dr.
tillerymen, assisted by the municipal
authorities, has been dynamiting all
the tottering buildings and walls. This
work so far has been confined to Mar
ket street, in order to open a safe
artery from the outlying districts to
the water front.
Trades Council suspends Rules.
Trolley wires are being strung on
Market street today. The building
trades council has suspended union
rules governing all crafts. The p
vault of the Firemen's Fund Insurance
company was opened today. The in
rush of air set the records afire. 1t
will require two weeks for the vaults
generally to cool.
Tickets Cheaper Than Bread.
The exodus from San Francisco con-
tinues, and transportation is easier to
get than a loaf of bread. The railroad
officials simply ask, Where do you
want to go, n how many in the
party?"
Disarming the Civilians.
The chief of police today ordered
all civilians disarmed. Heavy guns in
the harbor Notifications are out of
commission as a result of the earth
quake. Major General Greeley esti-
mates the total loss by death at 275.
, 1906-04-24
Moonlight Lodes Sold.

A mining deed from G. L. Davis OF
Cheyenne to Harry E. Gates, filed to,
day, transfers an undivided half in,
terest in the Moonlight and Moonlight
No. l lode mining claims, in section
%, township 10, range II, for 81. The
claims are near Sherman hill. The
transfer is taken to mean the devel
opment of the property.
, 1906-04-24
FRED BRANDS is
REPORTED QUITE SAFE.

Fred Brands of this city, formerly a
member of the fire department, who
was running the largest gasoline en-
CINE at San Francisco at the time Of
the earthquake last Wednesday, was
heard from this morning. He escaped
injury and went at once to work as a
volunteer fireman, assisting the city
department in fighting the fire follow
ing the earthquake.
, 1906-04-24

ing company for twenty years, was
caught by Il large block Of ground
shaken loose by force of the quake. In
Quincy mine four more men were in
iured.
REIMBURSEMENT of Bearings.
"It is the opinion of the professors
at the Michigan college of mines that
the earthquake was caused by the re-
adjustment of bearing surfaces on the
eastern Keweenaw sandstone, an ac-
knowledged plane of weakness.
Several s%lippings, which caused
considerable damage in Quincy mine,
have occurred recently"
, 1906-04-24
NEW YORK TO 'FRONT.'.
Governor Signs Quarter Million Relief
Bill for San Francisco.

Albany, N. Y, April 24.-The gov
ernor today signed the bill passed by
the New York legislature %appropriat-
ing S250,000 for the relief of the suf-
ferers in San Francisco.
, 1906-04-24
ENGINEER OUTFIT
IN A RUNAWAY.

The team drawing a buggy belong
ing to the engineering corps Of the
Denver, Laramie and Northwestern
ran away about three miles south of
the Maxwell ranch yesterday after
noon, smashing up the wagon and
throwing Vice President Kent and his
son n Engineer Buck out on the
hard ground. Mr.. Kent's shoulder,
which was injured by a fall some time
ago, was hurt again, but there was
little other damage, the instruments
Of the engineer suffering not much
, 1906-04-24
MOTOR CAR NOW ON
THE DENVER LINE.

According to the Denver Post, I'm
ion Pacific motor car No. 7, which was
to have been sent to New York, has
peer placed in regular commission be-
tween Denver and Greeley, leaving
Denver at S:15 a. m. and reaching
Greeley at 1915. The return trip is
made between 3:15 and $50 p. m.
, 1906-04-24
OAKLAND

Mrs. J.. C. Porter, writing to her par
ents, General and Mrs. w. II. Fshback
of this city, says the large brick build
ing in which they lived at Oakland
swayed and rocked in the earthquake,
the sides bullying out as though 1t
would be destroyed. They escaped
from the building safely and spent the
night in another section of the city.
, 1906-04-24

Kund Willardsen and Rosa Nelson Jack
Boyle, Mert Roberts, James Robbins,
George Nelson, Morris Mclaughlin,
Thomas Mclaughlin, Morris willard
sen, Dreas Wilardsen, Theodore Hay
good and others 1T.
, 1906-04-24
FOR NEEDY
ON WAY TO EAST

Inns n would be cared for again at
Cheyenne, n for the people at Lar
mic to await the arrival of the later
train. A committee consisting of Mr..
Gramm, N. F. Spicer and Dean Bode
was soon at work. Handbills were
printed noting the coming from San
Francisco of 500 refugees without food.
and a house to house canvass began.
Food was collected and forwarded to
the depot, many housewives barring
their arms and getting out their knead-
ing boards. baking fresh bread and
cakes. Others collected foods and raj
ment n there was a general wend-
ing toward the common center.
Generosity of Citizens.
1t is hard to say Just how much was
raised in the few hours left to the
work. Hundreds of pounds, scores of
garments, many loaves of bread, gal
Ions of coffee n milk, dozens of bags
of stuff of various sorts and there was
plenty for all. 1t was a generous act,
generously and promptly performed,
but giving voice again to the senti-
ment of the brotherhood of man alive
in the hearts of the people Of the city.
No Train Coming.
Word reached the city that the sec
ond train, demanding assistance here,
would arrive at 3 O'Clock, and Mr..
Gramm's committee babe the people
of the city have their supplies there at
that time. The hour came, but the
train came not. Trainmaster Let's,
who had been appraised of the coming of
the train, asked the dispatchers at
Cheyenne to give him the facts in the
case, the only fact he being able to
gather was that there was no such
train on the division. He informed the
officials of the road that, act
ing on the report that the train would
about the middle of the after
noon, the people had gathered enough
food to provision a thousand people.
Ii the train does not come, the stuff
will be sent to San Francisco.
Many HoodIums on Train
The train that did arrive at II
o'clock was made up partly of ire
sponsible parties, who rewarded the
generosity OF the people of Wyoming
by stealing the contents OF the lunch
rooms, robbing those to whom pack
ages of food had been given and alto
tgeher behaving as hoodlums might
whose special mission was to get some
thing for nothing. The railroad of
ficials were powerless to prevent this
h%oodiumism and the train was hurried
out of the city.
A pI,Irler CnroANnbere
Had it been known at IL o'clock that
a second train vas not coming those
on the first train would have been re-
lieved to the extent of the food on
hand, but word had gone out that they
had been provided at Rawlins and
would be again at Cheyenne. n that
Laramie should hold its generosity I'M
til the coming of the second train. 1t
is now believed this second train was
~detoured at Ogden to go over the Den
yer and Rio Grande.
Governor Receiving Aid.
A special telegram from Cheyenne
to The Republican this afternoon says
that the governor has received word
from Lander, Sheridan, Medicine Bow
and almost every town in the state.
With the word from Lander came a
draft for 5000, 5000 from Sheridan and
$142 from Medicine Bow. Many cities
sent word that they had forwarded
their contributions direct to San fra
cisco, the railroad companies hauling
the provisions free and everybody lend
ing a hand to the work.
, 1906-04-24
REPORT ALL AT ONCE.
All Indictments in Lynching Case to
Be Reported Together.

Springfield, Mo-, April 24.-The
grand jury investigating the recent
triple lynching is still in session. 1t is
understood that all the indictments
will be returned together. The jury
heard about forty witnesses.
, 1906-04-24
MRS. PoPP RECEIVES
LETTER FROM SISTEI

Mrs. Charles B. Popp this morning
received a note from her sister, Mrs.
John Meyer, dated at Napa, Cal. Mrs.
Meyer was at Santa Rosa at the time
of the shock, but left there soon and
went to Napa. She escaped safely, and
all the members of her family.
, 1906-04-24
BODY HELD THREE YEARS.
Settlement of Estate Caused Delay in
suryins Kansas City Man.

Kansas City. Mo-, April 24.-After
being held by an undertaken three
years, the body of Thomas Guy was
buried this afternoon. The settlement
of an estate in England, in which it
was thought Guy had a share, caused
the delay. The county buried him.
, 1906-04-24
IvINSoNS LOOKED FOR
SUNDAY N

Hon. Edward Ivinson telegraphed
from Los Angeles today that he and his
wife were leaving there today and that
they expected to be home Sunday
morning. A part of their baggage has
already arrived.
, 1906-04-24
HANDSOME SON BORN
TO THE WAITS MONDAY,

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Wait of Fifth
street are rejoicing at the arrival of
a handsome son at their home late
yesterday afternoon. The mother and
babe are reported getting along salts.
f~actorily.
, 1906-04-24
WILL BE LESS IN SAN FRANCISCO
THAN FIRST ESTIMATES
AND MAY NOT EXCEED
THREE HUNDRED.
Only That Many Bodies Buried and
Few Inferred Without Permits
Governor Pardee Notified That
Many Towns Are Preparing to
Care for Refugees From Stricken
city-Transportation Cheap.

@ Washington, April 24.-General c
Q Greeley reports today that the loss 6
G of life in San Francisco will be 9
9 much less than has been estimat- g
@ ed. Only 300 bodies have thus far Q
9 been buried n the interments 9
9 not reported have been few. @
, 1906-04-24
REMoDELING FLOOR FOR
TELEPHONE EXCHAl

Workmen today began |remodeling
ard repairing the second floor of The
Republican building. which will short
ly be occupied by the telephone OK
change.
, 1906-04-24
POPULAR VOTE FOR SENATOR.
Bill Reported by Illinois Senate Pro
vides for Direct Vote of People.

Springfield, ILL.,, April 24.-The pri-
mary bill reported by the senate today
provides for the election of United
States senators by popular vote of the
people.
, 1906-04-24
EAST END CLUB
VIII MEET TOMB

WILL MEET TOMORROW.
The East End Whist club will meet
with Captain and Mrs. John w. Heavey
at their home on Grand avenue tomor-
row evening, the first meeting since
the beginning of Lent.