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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-04-27
HELP FROM THE SHRlNERS.
May Abandon Trip to Coast and Send
Money Instead.

Kansas City, April 23.-The Manu-
facturers and Merchants Association
of this city telegraphed the mayor OF
San Francisco that it was prepareQ
to send two car loads of provisions
free of charge to the homeless people
of the stricken city. and the pro-
visions will be sent as soon as Mayor
Schmitz is heard from.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-04-27
DIRECTS RED CROSS WORK.
Dr.. Edw. r. Devine Goes TO San Fran.
cisco at Once.

New York, April %. - DR.. Edward
T. Devine, secretary of the New York
City charity organization society, and
professor of sociology at Columbia,
left the city to take control of the Red
Cross work in California. He was
nominated for this Office by the New
York state executive committee of the.
city, and was Immediately appointe9e
by Secretary Taft.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-04-27
NAVY Yard suffered LIttIe.

Washington. April 21.-A telegram
received at the navy department from
the commandment at Mare Island navy
yard. sent since the earthquake, re-
ports that 81 1000 will cover the dam
age done there.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-04-27
Rejected the Proposition.

Indianapolis, April 23.-The inter
national executive board of the Uni
ted Mine Workers of America reject
ed the proposition of the operators OF
western Pennsylvania, Illinois, lndi.
ana and Ohio, who are opposing the
payment of the 1903 wage scale to
ooal miners
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-04-27
No Communication With Seattle.

Seattle, Wash. April 2l.-There is
no communication between Seattle
and San Francisco. 1t is impossible
to stop the fire raging on the south
side of Market street. the city's chief
thoroughfare.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-04-27
In a Pinch, Use ALLEN's FooT.EAsE

A powder. 1t cures painful. smart
ing. nervous feet and ingrowing nails.
It's the greatest comfort discovery of
the age. Makes new shoes easy. A
certain cure for sweating feet. Sold
by all druggists. Csc. Trial package.
FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted. lie
Roy, N. Y.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-04-27
MANY BODIES RECOVERED IN
THE MASS OF RUINS.
ELEVEN POSTOFF|CE EMPLOYEES.
1t Is Reported That Thlrty-Five
White Men Were Shot and Killed
While Trying to Get Into the Ruins
of the v. S. Sub freasury.

San Francisco, April 23.-The three
story lodging house at Fifth and Minna
streets collapsed and over rs dead
bodies have been taken out. There
are at least fifty other dead bodies ex-
posed. This building was one of the
first to take fire on Fifth street. AT
least one hundred people were lost in
the Cosmopolitan on Fourth street.
The only building standing between
Mission, Howard, East and st. Warn
is occupied and running. The shot
tower at First and Howard streets is
gone This landmark was built 40
years ago. The Risdon Iron Works
Western Smelling and Refining
Works escaped damage: also the Mu-
tual Electric Light Works with slight
damage to the American Supply Com
pany. Folger Brothers Coffee &
Spice House is also uninjured and the
firm is giving away large quantities
of bread and milk. Many are drop
ping dead from the heat and suffoca-
ton.
Over $50 people are reported lost
in the Brunswick Hotel, Seventh and
Mission streets.
San Francisco. Eleven postal
clerks were taken from the debris of
the postoffice. All were thought to
be dead. but it was found that al
though they were buried in the stone,
every one was alive. They had been
for three days without food or water.
All the mail was saved.
San Francisco.-Plunged into abso-
lutte darkness at 10 o'clock at night
San Francisco had not seen the con-
clusion of the devastating work of
the conflagration. The fire that start
ed at Mob Hill and worked its way
to the north beach section, sweeping
that section clean of buildings, was
later veered around by fierce wind
and made its way sOutherly to the
immense sea wall sheds and grain
ing directly for the immense Ferry
building, the terminal point of all cen
trail, overland and local trains of the
Southern Pacific road. The darkness
and the wind at times amounted to
gale and added fresh terrors to the
situation. The authorities consider
ed conditions so grave that it was de-
cided to swear in Immediately 1000
special policemen, armed with rifles
furnished by the federal government
In addition to this force companies of
the National Guard arrived from many
interior points. 1t was reported that
thirty-five white men had been shot
and killed while attempting to work
their way into the ruins of the United
States subtreasury on Commercial
sereet This story proved to be false
Two Chinese we're shot and killed
on Market street for refusing to obey
orders of the soldiery.
Six hundred laborers from the
Ocean Shore road arrived to look
after the city's sewers to prevent an
epidemic and the united railways COM
menced its efforts to clean up some
of the streets. Reports of babes being
born in the refugee camps were fire.
quently received. Five women be-
came mothers in Golden Gate Park.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-04-27
Warships Uninjured.

Washington, April %. - The navy
department received telegram from
Rear Admiral McCalla, commandant
of the Mare Island navy yard, stating
that the warships under construction
at the Union Iron Works are unin-
iurad
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-04-27
powIE pEscENDs ON ZION.
He Will Soon Hold Services in Shiloh
Tabernacle.

Chicago, April 2S.-John Alexander
Dowie's return to Zion City will take
place soon. Dowie and his coterie OF
faithful followers who travelled with
him from Mexico TO Chicago, will rest
over night in Shiloh house. Dowie's
Zion City residence, and will hold SER
vices in Shiloh tabernacle in the morn
ing and again in the afternoon.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-04-27
Volcanic Ash Falling.

Naples. April 23.-Volcanic ash is
again failing at Santa Anastasia and
Garcola in such quantities that the in
habitants who had returned to their
homes have been obliged to leave
again.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-04-27

The boy who wants to grow up and
marry his school teacher doesn't ex'
list in real life.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-04-27

The arrival OF a new girl baby
means another domestic cry-sis.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-04-27

Red hair has an awfully persistent
way of getting tangled up in ones
temperament.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-04-27

Too much Of the charity that should
begin at home doesn't begin at all.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-04-27
cALIEoRNIANs GOING HOME.

Chicago, April 23.-Every train leav-
ing Chicago for California is crowded
to the limit with half-frantic residents
of San Francisco. In addition to the
people from California who are hast
ening home, there are hundreds of peo-
pie from the east and from Chicago
and vicinity, members of whose fami-
lies are in San Francisco. and all Of
them are trying to start west at once.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-04-27
Important to Mothers.

Examine carefully every bottle of CAsToRIA,
a safe and sure remedy for infants and children,
ana see that IL
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-04-27

Model Rifles for Troops. - A con-
signment of $500 Springfield rifles of
the new 1903 model arrived at Fort
Leavenworth for the troops station
ed there.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-04-27

at l per dead is said to be profitable
business.
School Building for Alma. The
people of Alma decided by an almost
unanimous vote to build a new 81 900
high school building. Only two votes
were cast against the proposition out
of several hundred votes cast.
Kansas Irvine for Oklahoma.-Ok-
lahoma will be supplied with Irvine
from the Kansas binding plant at the
penitentiary during the coming sum-
mer. w. II. Haskell, warden of the
penitentiary, and the members of the
board of directors of the institution
have decided that Oklahoma should
have the benefit of the labor of some
of the convicts confined in the Kan
sas penitentiary, and that the sale of
prison Irvine to the Oklahoma farm
ers will tend to balance the account.
o., Whipped Cause She Prayed. - Car
rie Brooks, a negress living in Mound
City, has just celebrated her l1Sth
birthday. She is in fairly good health,
though she says she Is expecting to
die almost any day. She was born
in Oldham county, KY. and during
her slave days she was a servant in
some of the best known families OF
the south. She says sic got religion
when q chill and that always since
that time she has chung to her re
ligious belief and practices. She says
while a slave she often was whipped
because she prayed.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-11-21

have begun this work, looking to the
commercial side of agriculture, u'riliz-
ing immigration in the conduct Of
certain agricultural undertakings, upon
which and for the development of
which we are building up diversified
industrial establishments. For this
class Of work would like to plead with
you I could demonstrate to you by
figures the enormous value Of the i'm
migrant to any section, and picture
for you in statistics that do not lie,
our millions of acres Of idle land; but
take it that you are familiar with
these conditions and do not need any
one to argue with you the value of
immigration.
We are simply face to face with con-
ditions- conditions the effect of which
even the smallest is feeling. Not I'M
til the last few years have the masses
felt that the time was approaching
rapidly for great economic change in
the South All know it now, and that
is why we are counseling together.
The first step was when Our people
turned to manufacturing resulting, as
in Massachusetts, in the drawing Of
thousands of small farmers into the
mills. Agriculture was crippled and
lands became idle. Just after the
Civil War, accepting the theory that
the best way to fit the negro for c1ti-
zenship was to educate him, the work
was begun. Unfortunately we gave
him only enough, and he is willing to
take only enough to unfit many of
them for farm labor About the time
the white small farmer went to the
mills the negro began to crowd into
the towns and cities, going thence into
railroad camps and drifting gradually
northward Surely the influences have
been at work gradually shortening the
labor supply Of the South, yet aiding
by slow process in a desirable and
peaceful solution of the great negro
problem immigration, the bringing
in of good white people from else
where to fill the places vacated in the
fields by both white and black, but not
to supplant either, affords the only
cure Of real trouble. The bulk Of the
black population is of the rising gene
ration, and, for the reasons [ have in
Dictated, is not staying on the farms.
The negro's death rate is now double
that of the whites in the South, and
/ra.4:.,.o1 -, ~
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-11-21

sire CnallSe instead OF general OF
indefinite advertising by pamphlets or
circulars, | would try direct adverlis-
ing in the Northern farm papers l
would advertise definite farms or def
mite sections, not general section,
by hitting upon the most available
places and pushing them upon the at
tention Of farmers, just exactly as
other advertisers do.
Among other papers which follow
that OF Mr.. Collingwood, was one by
the Commissioner Of Agriculture for
South Carolina, which gives South
ern view Of the immigration question.
You will notice that he overlooks or
ignores some OF the objections which
Mr.. Collingwood mentions Still,
there are many valuable suggestions,
and if we wish to induce immigration
to Florida, we must take some
measures to carry out some definite
plan for securing desirable emigrants.
AS one who has been specially charg
ed with the official consideration of the
problem of immigration, am delight
ed to know that this Association has
taken up the discussion of this subject
in it's various phases. This matter is
today more far-reaching than any
other in it's relation to the industrial,
commercial, and particularly the agri
cultural development of the South.
The immigration problem is one in
which no section of the world at this
moment is so vitality concerned as the
South. Around the central problem
are clustered others, incidental but i'm
portant, matters that call for the most
careful thought and wisest action upon
the part of those having the interests
of their section and of their country at
heart There are a thousand and one
difficulties in Our path; indeed, it is
bristling with them. Not the least of
our difficulties is found in the ignorance
Of our own people in all matters relat-
ing to immigration, and another great
stumbling block is the presence of
race of people totally unequipped for
keeping the pace now established in
the Southern states.
1t has only been Of very recent years
that Our own people have realized
whittier they were drifting in agricul-
| ture; and [ doubt if many of you
gentlemen realize the conditions now
! facing us The hour for action came in
my state less than two years ago, and [
was sent forth by the state to wrestle
with the problem in the first place,
Of how to turn the tide of desirable
immigration to us; and in the second
place, of how to locate immigrants so
as to avoid direct contact with the in
ferlor race, and yet at the same time
make employer and employee satisfied.
Those Of you who have tried to accom-
plish those things, and at the same time
give to those knowing nothing of i'm
migration what they insisted on hav-
ing-the highest type of immigrant
know the magnitude of the undertake
ing.
While I am here merely to counsel
with you How to Locate Immigrants
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-11-21
the middle prosperous class Of North

ern farmers.
If history teaches anything, it would
show that the surest immigration goes
South by degrees. Arguing from this,
the best place for Northern immigrants
you'd seem to be in the border states
on the hill lands, where they will
gradually work further South AS I
view it, the best policy Of the South
will be to teach your own people to
realize the values which lie under their
own feet. Tn a way this will fill the
South with a new class Of immigrants,
leading an old, hopeless condition into
one of confidence and faith 1t is not
my business to tell how this can be
done, for I frankly state that [ do not
know how There are many sections
at the North where people will not
realize their natural advantages, and
presume that this class Of people can
be found everywhere; but to one look
ing at the situation without prejudice,
it seems to me more desirable to stop
the leak rather than to pump in more
water. You are in position to pick
your immigrants if you will. Better be
satisfied with quality than mere quaint
ty By quality mean with small CAPT
tai, fair-sized families. and years
enough to know the true value of a
home. Can such people be found in the
North? Yes; and in fair numbers.
Who are they, and where are they to
be found? First Of all, clerks or small
store-keepers of middle age, who real
ize that they are being left behind in
the industrial struggle. These men
may have saved few thousand dol
lars, but they know that they cannot
much longer compete with younger
men. The only hope for them is some
where in the country where their capt.
tai will find a permanent home Both
pride and instinct will prompt such men
to go far from their old place. Such
men need the South and the South
needs them. They are good citizens,
and some parts of your section will
suit most of them better than the
North or the West. Second, the class
Of farmers who feel the need of a mild
er climate, or who have been touched
by some affliction which saddens the
old home and makes a change desir-
able. Many Of these men are prosper
Gus and would add value to any COM
munlty. In some cases families desire
to have homes-one in the South for
the elder and the other North for
younger members I believe this to be
one of the most effective propositions
which the South can advance Next,
the class of wanderers-tenant farmers
who seldom remain satisfied be, ause
they have no true hold upon the soil.
The South can use them, though they
are the most undesirable class of all.
these people are most likely to be
attracted to the South, and I believe
that it is possible for you to secure
many of them. You will ask me how.
You must first understand what these
people think about the South. Present
the advantages Of your section and YOU
will find the following doubts and
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-11-21

TRENDS grleVSQ fOr HllI, because lHey
thought the snow-drifts would shut
him in at home. To his surprise he
found that the very cold and snow
he dreaded makes firm, smooth road
bed, SO that the winters were actually
taken by the farmers for hauling their
heavy loads. At his home in the South
the mud at this time makes the roads
impossible | simply speak Of this to
show you some of the objections that
will be urged by people you want.
Shipping facilities: Many Northern
farmers believe that the railroads in
the South favor the larger shippers at
the expense of the smaller ones. 1t is
believed that small farmer or fruit
grower will have fewer chances in the
South than at the North, because he
must compete with large growers at
long range; while at the North he
could handle many of his goods at re-
tail give you these objections
frankly, as I have heard them given
You will have to meet them and ex-
plain them in a convincing way, and il
| will also be necessary for you to tel
why, with your natural advantages
which are evident, SO many of your
own people have gone to the North
One reason why the Canadian
N orthwest is attracting settlers faster
| than the South, is because men who
| go there expect to grow the same
crops they did at home. There, in a
nutshell, is one key to the imnigra-
ton question. Go to New York
farmer who raises stock, potatoes and
fruit. and talk about raising cotton
oranges, rice or sweet potatoes, and
you are out of his latitude Tell him
lof places at the South where he car
raise just what he raises at the North
on cheaper and cleaner soil, and yor
will interest him at once That brings
TIP the final question of advertising
your section in a general way
would criticize what I have seen OIL
this. Most of your exhibits and your
pamphlets seem to me too general
They cover, or attempt to cover, too
much ground. I would make them
more definite. Get some of your best
farmers to write sensible, practical
articles an applegrowing, corn-grow-
| ing, wheat-growing, dairying. Have
these printed in small pamphlet FORM
throwing out all extravagant attempts
to picture impossible crops. Make
plain, sensible statements, brief and
| right to the point about those things
which the Northern man knows. You
may entertain him with stories OF
crops which he does not understand
but you will only interest him by show
| ing him how in the South he can raise
the crops with which he is familiar
either cheaper or to better advantage
believe you would do better to fol-
low the New England plan of making
lists OF farm properties which are offer
ed for sale. Put most Of your effort
in the sale of occupied farms rather
than raw ones. Men have respect for
farms upon which there are buildings,
and which show the evidence OF labor.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-05-24
About the Normal.

Superintends, and Inspector
and Examiner Harris Hart, and
Prin. r. IL. Sheppe.
Faculty.
r. IL. Sheppe. \. NJ. Princi-
pal. Big Stone Gap Schools
Theory and practice of teach
ing
+ b. Fitzpatrick. A. B., pres
ident Shoemaker College, Lit
erature and History.
Frank Duke. a. b., Professor
Mathematics and Science. Hol-
Inns Institute. AL ge bra IN d
Physics.
G. =. Chapman, A. VI. Prin-
cipal Norton Schools. Arithme-
tic
W. NJ. Davidson. superin.
tendent of schools. Lee county
United States History and Civil
. Government.
NJ W Remiues. Principal
Schools Clntwood. Va Eng
ish. Grammar and Geography
Miss Maud Anderson. late as
sistant iu music at the oumme
School of the South. Music.
Miss Ward. system of Read
ing and Primary Methods
We are not quite ready go an
. announce teachers for the ro
' manning subjects.
Everyday wc are enrolling
teachers who expect go atten
the Normal DO NOT delay
sending Your name.
You may use thc following
form.
Mr.. R. DE-. ~heppe. Conductor.
Big Stone Gap. Na
Please enroll my name f,
the State Normal to hc held
: big Stone Gap thi. summer
\crF TRULY yours.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-05-24
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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-05-24

Gary. OF the steel trust. The
United States Steel Corporation
is a powerful influence in the
financial world. and il has close
business relations with the
Pennsylvania railroad, which
controls the Norfolk and West
ern.
Chairman Gary formed a
syndicate. which took over the
property for Sl3. 100000.
Colonel Mans million had
grown TO 100000
But Judge Gary could afford
10 be generous. He knew
something about interesting
people. too. Just whom he in
I tercst,1 does not appear from
4 the records disclosed up 90 date
but the men who pull the
strings behind the Norfolk and
+ Western caused the company
/ 90 pay 90 the Gary syndicate ON
+ December 81. 1901. S20. 100000
for the Flat Top coal lands.
which were offered 20 the com.
popv Ina May Of the same year
I for $4,000. .OOo.
"ro effect the transfer. Oh,
/ P0cahontas Company was or
. ranized. with bonds to th,
+ amount of 21.eol.0o0 were guar
. anteed by the Norfolk N West
orn. which paid million iI
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-05-24
yIRGlNlAN HoNORED.

The stockholders of the Tus-
cumbia Bank * Trust Go. met
"Wednesday and elected r. J..
Buckley a director Mr.. Buckley
was also elected vice-presideut
% succeed w. L. Stanley. de-
ceased. The bank is mt this
time i'm "a most prosperous CON
dition. the deposits of this
month exceeding 100000. is a
fine showing. Mr. Buckley is a
strong man. financially and so
cially. and viii prove "a valua-
bic official 90 this banking In
stitution -Tuscumbia, y a
Dispatch
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-05-24
BIG STONE GAP STATE SUMNER rs
STiTUTE FOR TEACHERS.

Conductor, Prin. Il. II. Sheppe.
Local Manager, Supt. Il. ID.
Baker.
Executive Committee L.
GoodlOe, J. +. Bullitt, w. w.
Iaylor.-Membe of the Big
StoneGap School Board
w. ID. Smith. w. n. David
son, r. d. Baker, w. ). Patton
Thomas Belcher, p. II. Will
hams, j. NJ Dyer.-Division