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The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-20
PANIC IN A CHURCH
FOUR PERSONS KILLED lNCATE.
Ole EDIFICE IN CHICAGO.
More Than 400 Persons, Mostly Ladies
and Children, Were at Easter Ser
vice Saturday Night When a Boy
Opened Church Door and Shouted
"Fire"-congregation stampeded.

Chicago, April 15.-During panic
which followed cry of fire Saturday
night while 400 persons were partici-
pating in the Easter service in the St.
Ludilmas Roman Catholic church,
Twenty-fourth street and Albany ave-
nue., three children and one woman
were killed and a score of others in
jured, several seriously. The majority
of the worshipers in the church at the
time the false alarm of fire was given
were women and children, and in a
few minutes all were in tangled
mass, fighting to escape from the sup
posed danger. Many persons jumped
through the windows, but the greater
portion crowded to The center aisle.
The extra weight proved too much
for the floor and some of the beams
supporting it broke. The cracking of
the timbers increased the fright of the
now terrified women and children, and
everyone in the place became panic
stricken, men, women and children
fighting desperately with each other in
an effort to reach the outside. The
women and children suffered most in
the struggle, and when the church
was finally emptied three children
were lying dead in the aisles and one
woman was so badly hurt that she
died while being removed from the
obn,oh
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-20
OREGON ITEMS.

The prohibitionists of Oregon have
placed in nomination their state ticket
as follows: For governor, l. H. Amos:
United States senator, long term, Rev.
II. Gould; secretary of state, T. S.
Mcdaniel; state treasurer, Leslie But
Ter.
Clarke Nelson, the registering clerk
OF Umatilla county, has completed the
work OF checking up his books, and
announces that the exact total regis
tration for Umatilla county is 3456.
After two years of preliminary work
articles of incorporation have been
filed by the Oregon Coast & Eastern
railway company to construct 1900
miles OF railroad in Oregon. The capi-
tai stock is placed at 100000 and is
subscribed by New York and st. Louis
capitalists. The right of way has
Deen secured throughout the distance
or the proposed construction. 40 men
having been at work securing it. states
one report, and work will begin with.
IN the next four months. The line will
De Quilt from Humboldt Bay, CAL, up
the coast to Portland and lines con-
structed through central Oregon from
COOS Bay to Snake river forming a
junction with the coast line and nrob-
aply connecting with the Moffat road
and the Chicago & Northwestern.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-20
SANFRANCISORUlNED
Over 5000 Lives Lost;
by an Earthquake
and Fire. H.. W.. I.
San Francisco---This city was struck by
an earthquake at o'clock a. m, Wednesday
The whole city is in ruins and all south OF
Market street is burning.


The Call and the Examiner buildings
were shaken down by the earthquake
and are in flames. All the city south
: SftMarket street is no fire. The big de
partment stores on Market street have
collapsed mad fires are burning in all
directions. Over 5000 lives are beliey-
ed 10 be lost. The water mains burst
and the fire department. IL trying to OBJ
tain water from the bay by RTelay sys-
tenn. The Sunset telephone building
is on fire, and an explosion blew of it's
roof. Eight whole blocks collapsed on
the south side of Market street and the
flames are approaching the Palace no.
tel. A second shock at 10 O'Clock this
morning.
The city is in wild tumult and all
business is suspended. In Sacramento
the street oars we're thrown from the
track and other damage done.
The earthquake was the most tel rife
in the history of the Pacific coast.
Buildings fell in all directions. Fiji
ty blocks south and east of Market
street to the bay, including the San
some mission and battery front, Davis
and Dlummond are destroyed. Build
ings were destroyed all along Free
mont, Beale, Main, Spear, Stuart, East
and South streets.
Southern Pacific operators say it is
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-20
Trampled to Death.

The dead:
Mrs. Kate Kanik, knocked down and
trampled upon; died from internal
hemorrhages.
Emma Hotka, years old; trampled
to death.
Barbara Hermanek, 10 years old /;
crushed in the crowd.
Lille Gunat, 9 years of age; tram.
pied to death.
Fully score of other persons, prin.
cipally children, were more or less in.
jured, but none fatally.
A boys prank was responsible for
the accident. While Rev. N. Farnik,
pastor of the church, was offering the
evening prayer one of a crowd of boys
who had been lettering outside the
church suddenly pushed open the front
door and shouted Fire" Seeing the
serious effect his words had on the
congregation the boy ran away, and
the police were unable to find hin or
to learn his identity.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-20

known that thousands are dead.
Police are carting the dead from the
ruins as fast as they can, but the fire is
spreading in all directions.
Debris has ignited in y dozen places
at once. y J..
What few fire engines are not ruined
are inadequate and helpless on account
of no water.
All clocks were stopped by the earth
quake. =
Three miles of railroad tracks have
sunk from sight between Sulsun and
Benecia, land the wires were taken with
it. At Pleasauton the trains were
turned over on the rails.
Los Angeles, which is connected with
Frisco says 800 bodies have been put
IN the Pavilion which is being used as
morgue.
Ferrys are all engaged in carrying
thes people to Oakland and other places
of safety. Thousands are fleeing and
in the panic many drop dead in the
streets. The Palace hotel has been
attacked by the fire and it is estimated
that 5000 are dead. A commercial dis
patch to Chicago says that the modern
steel buildings are all right, but the
brick or frame are completely wrecked
or destroyed.
The residence districts are said to
have escaped much damage.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-20
COAL Miners
IN A FATAL RIOT

Johnstown, Pa, April 10. - Three
men were shot dead. a boy fatally
wounded and mining engineer, Eu.
gene Delaney, seriously injured in a
riot at Windber among the striking
coal miners. The place is in state Of
terror. Sheriff Begled has summoned
and an appeal has been made to Gov
ernor Pennypacker for troops.
Several of the rioters have sustained
slight injuries. When something like
order began to appear in the town IL
was learned that the names of the dead
men were Pietro Martini, Paul Zills,
leader of the rioters, and Antonio Ma.
zuka. The boy who was fatally wound
ed is Charles Foster, 10 years old.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-20
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Walker A. Henry of Spokane has
been nominated by the president for
receiver of the land Office at Water.
vile, and VIM. F. Haynes of Coulee
City was also nominated for the posi-.
ton of register. w. A. Nichols of
Ellensburg was named receiver at
North Yakima.
The discovery has been made that
the amendment to the Seattle city
charter providing for the recall of
councilmen, believed to have been car.
ried at the election last month. was
probably defeated.
The new line to be built by the
Northern Pacific between Spokane and
Pasco will be a portion of the North
Bank road now under construction
Fire at Chelan recently. caused a
loss of ever $4,000. The flames started
in shoe shop, and before they were
quenched had destroyed the Hay.
cock and Kingman buildings.
The jury in the case of Battista Rig.
AHA, an Italian of Roslyn, brought in
verdict of manslaughter.
The town of Pullman has received
assurance that the long contemplated
branch line to a connection with the
Riparia-Lewiston road is to be built
in the near future.
A three year agreement between
the brewery unions and the members
of the Northwestern Brewers associa
ton at Seattle has been signed and
labor troubles that have existed for
several months have been satisfactor.
lily settled.
Six Chinese merchants and two Japs
are now boosting for Spokane as mem.
bers of the 10000 club.
Two railway mail clerks were bruis
ed, the passengers severely shaken
up and traffic was interrupted for more
than seven hours Saturday afternoon
because of the derailment of the loco.
motive and five cars on the Great Nor.
thern company's westbound train be.
tween Adrian and Ephrata. The &C.
cident was caused by broken wheel
on the engine tender.
The supreme court has sustained a
reversion clause in a deed which pro.
vided that in case of the sale of in.
toxicating liquors on the premises the
property should revert to the donors
The decision was rendered IN the case
OF Lewiston Water & Power company
VS.. E. N. Brown, Henry Reed and
w. r. Wilson, from Asotin county.
The Pullman club plan to make
Pullman the headquarters for the psEe
bred stock interests of the I'M ii
Empire.
Returning to his post of duty 4t It.
Lawton from Ballard, where he spent
a three hours leave of absence with
his fiancee, Miss Alma Carlson. per-
fecting arrangements for their we'd
ding, which was to take place imme-
diately upon his discharge from army
service on April 10, Sergeant Roger
Cornett of the Tenth infantry was
struck by a passenger train on the
Great Northern tracks near Seattle
and instantly killed.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-20
DEFENSE OF SOCIALISTS.
eourke Cochran Has Been Engaged to-
Defend Them.

OcICVu
Attorney E. F. Richardson of Dem
yer has docketeu the supreme court
appeals from the decision of the cir
cult court of Idaho in the cases of
Charles H. oyer, William d. Hay
wood and George A. Pettlbone, who
are held in custody at Caldwell, Ida,
ON the charge of completely in the
murder of Ex-Governor Steunenberg.
Mover is president and Haywood
secretary of the Western Federation
of Miners, and they, as well as Petit
bone were implicated in the crime
by a confession made by the man Or
chard, who is charged with placing
the bomb with which Steunenberg was
killed
The appeal is from a decision by the
circuit court refusing to grant writs
of habeas corpus.
Richardson has asked the supreme
court to advance the cases in order
to secure a hearing during the pres
ent term of court.
interest in Miners Meeting.
Denver.-Notices are being sent out
from the headquarters of the Western
Federation of Miners in this city to
local unions urging large attendance
at the annual convention that will
open in this city May %. This is ex-
pected to be the greatest convention in
point of attendance. in the history of
the organization, because of the wide
spread interest aroused over the ar
rest of President Meyer, Secretary
Haywood and Geo. A. Pettibone, on
the charge of the murder of ex-Gov-
ernor Steunenberg of Idaho.
1t has been customary for small
unions to deliver their proxies to del
egates from other unions in the same
districts in order to save the expense
of sending men to the conventions, but
acting Secretary James Kerwin is re-
questing locals wherever possible to
| send delegates instead of proxies to
the convention this year.
1t is said that Maxim Gorky, the
Russian revolutionist, will take part
in the gathering. Congressman Bourke
Cochran of New York and Clarence
s. barrow of Chicago, who it is said
have been engaged as additional coun-
sci for the accused federation officials,
| are also expected to attend the con-
vention.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-20
COAL Miners
MAKE GAINS

Pittsburg, April IL. - Chairman
Francis L. Robbins of the Pittsburg
Coal company has announced that all
the Hooking Valley, Ohio. mines ex-
cepting those Of the Sunday creek Coal
company had started work, the opera
tors and miners having concluded and
signed the interstate and district wage
scales. The mines in operation repre-
sent an annual production of $3.50, 900
tons of Hooking Valley coal, half of
the entire Hooking Valley output, and
employ $500 men.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-20
HUNG THE NEGROES
WORK OF ANGRY MOB AT SPRING.
FIELD. MISSOURI.
Took Them From Jail and Strung
Them Up In Center of the Pubic
Square and Built Fire Under Them
as They. Hung--Negroes Had AS
sauited white Girl. 4r

Springfield, Mo-, April ia mob
tonight took two negroes from the
county Jail and hanged them to me
electric tower in the center of the pub
lie square and built a fire under the
men as they hung.
The negroes were Horace Duncan
and James Copeland, both under Il
years of age. They were in Jail charg-
ed with assaulting Mabel Edmondson,
a white girl. Fully 5000 people went
to the county jail about 8 o'clock, and
with sledge hammers and telephone
poles literally tore the Jail to pieces.
The two suspects were dragged from
the Jail and taken to the public square
and hanged. 1t Is fully mile from
the jail to the square. and the mob
marched down one of the principal
streets of the town, shouting and fir
ing pistols.
MaDel Edmondson came here recent
ly from Monett, Mo-, to obtain en-
ployment as domestic servant. The
!, other evening she was riding in bug
gy with Charles Cooper young man
OF Springfield. In a secluded part of
the city the couple were held up by
two negroes. The man was knocked
unconscious and the girl dragged from
the buggy and into the woods by the
roadside and assaulted. The two ne
groes lynched were suspected and ar
rested, but were only partially identi-
fed.
Circuit Attorney Arthur Sager was
witness Of the tragedy. He slipped
down into the cellar of the Jail and
cut OFF the gas, hoping to thus confuse
the mob and defeat it's plans. He was
Just second too late, as the mob
had secured Inc negroes.
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
groes' cell, however, and the mob was
forced to smash in the iron doors.
Sheriff Wilson Crane of Polk county
was present and tried to induce the
mob not to hang the negroes.
The mob, beside wrecking the Jail,
attacked the sheriff's house, demol
ished the furniture and rendered the
sheriff's wife unconscious by threats
and violence.
Will Allen. a negro charged with
the murder Of a man named Rourke
last January, was next taken from Jail
by the mob that lynched Duncan and
Copeland. and hanged in the public
square.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-20
LET THEIR POLICIES LAPSE.

President Paul Morton Says Small
Holders Have Shown Fright.
A statement given out by the Euui.
table Life Assurance society says:
Investigation shows that the fears
engendered by the developments Of the
year resulted in the lapsing of 1885
policies for $4,000 or under, while
only one policy for $25O,OOO was allow
ed to lapse.
"of the entire volume of lapsed poll
cies in the Equitable. "a per cent were
for $4,000 or less"
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-20
Banquet. to Capt. Harry Lee

Pekin.7Captain Harry R. Lee. late
commanders of the American legation
guard. has started for Manila. Captain
Lee was given a farewell banquet by
the commanders of the several lega-
ton guards.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-20
Plot Revolt in Morocco

according to the London Daily
Malfs correspondent at Ell Arelah, Mo.
rocco young relative of the sultan
VIII soon be proclaimed ruler in the
SOUTH and formidable revolt against
Fee is maturing at the city of Moroooo
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-20
Miss Nellie Grant Is M.

Miss Nellie Grant, a grand daughter
OF PRESIDENT U. S. Grant and a daupn.
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Grant of
New York is seriously i'll.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-20
0. R. & N. ROUND
HOUSE BURNED

Umatilla, Ore. April 19.-The o.
X. q N. roundhouse in this city was
destroyed by fire, and several locomo.
tives were destroyed. Loss, about $4O,-
900. The cause of the fire is not
known.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-20

Allen was perfectly calm and COL
lected as he jumped from the scaffold.
The rope about his neck broke after
his weight fell on it, and he dropped
into the charred remains of MS former
companions in prison. He was taken
up on the tower again and this time
his captors were more successful In
their work. 81 swear that l am not
guilty of killing Rourke," were his last
words.
The lynchings took place under a
statue representing Justice" on an
electric light tower.
When Duncan and Copeland were
dragged from their cells in the Jail
they could say nothing but "Oh," oh"
oh" and it is thought that long be-
fore they were dragged into the square
that they were completely unconscious
from fright. When they were strung
up to the statue of Justice their bodies
were limp as though they were dead.
Neither made the slightest resistance.
1t developed about midnight that
there were two mobs, one well organ
lied and composed of men, and an
other composed altogether of rowdies.
The first mob reached the Jail at
about the same time as did the mob
composed of boys and ruffians in gen.
eral While the mob was making a
great noise outside the Jail, shooting,
threatening and throwing stones at
the Jail windows, the organized mob
was getting in its best work.
Later.
Leslie Peters, l 8 years old, shot ard
killed Ralph Burns, a negro of bad re-
putation, one of two who attacked him
while he was escorting a young lady
home from a party. The nergoes ac-
costed him at the gate of the young
lady's home and one of the negroes
fired two shot from a revolver at him,
but neither shot took effect. Peters
immediately fired four shots at the ne.
groes, killing one of them and the
other escaped Peters went to the pc.
lice station an gave himself up, but he
was released without bond.
The news Of the killing of another
negro spread like wildfire through the
city and hundreds Of people left Their
beds and FASTENED to the public square.
The militia on guard prevented any
VIOLENT outbreaks and after a time dis.
persed the crowds and no further trou.
BILE is feared, though it is believed that
the killing Monday night will tend to
increase the feeling against the ne
groes. People who had been disposed
to sympathize with the nergoes are in.
censed at this latest negro assault.
-Four men are now under arrest
charged with being leaders in the mob
that broke into the county Jail and
lynched three negroes. One of the al
legged mob leaders is in Jail and three
have been released on bond. Charles
o Can ..h.a and onsx were the
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-20

The proceedings in connection with
the separation OF Norway cost Sweden
$277.776 according TO the Swedish
budget.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-20
Peace Conference Later.

1t is stated on good authority that
II rs now certain that the Hague peace
conference will not meet this summer
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-20

Australia's -four exports to England
nave nave more than doubled since 1900.
"nen they were valued at ss,os5. oeo
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-20

No girl likes to be pinched in q
mercenary way.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-07-03
ATTACKS PRINTING OFFICE
senator Hale Says the Government
shop shows Lack OF Competency to
Handle the Bu-inc~<-

Washington. Jun. 30--WhiI" ih"
senate was engaged todsFy in waiting
upon the house for onxroRsed bills,
Senator Hale explained that the delay
was due TO tho government printing
office. He said that ofnc" had Ahown
lack OF competency TO handle the bus
incss and that congress should tako
steps al another session 10 remedy tho
defects.
Speaking Of tho printing ofnce. Nj
Hale expressed tha thought that pos
sibly the new administration there is
too much concerned with It's own Views
and had not sufficiently taken into ac-
count the urgent demands Of congress.
He had he said. been Informed that
errors had been found ia each new
copy of the public buildings bill that
had been received Altogether. the
situation had been most Unsatisfactory
! and he. hoped that congress would
never again hav. the same experience.
Senator Cuilom mentioned the III
ncsa OF the public printer AS ~nu cH-
planatiou of IN. bad conditions In his
| Office.
Senator Warren explained the cauFNe
Of the public building In the rsnAte
and said that none az the fault could
be traced - the aeIAte ar tD the H~r-
ate committee on public buIdinEz aud
| grounds.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-07-03

Arnator Cuibcr~sn Makes adssss-~- On
Increase Of Expenditure. Curing
the Past Fhv Ns~ars.

Washington. June go.--:Se 5fato.' Cul-
bcrson today. found opportunity -
make an address la the seuas. OF tho
finances OF The country under pest
dent Roosevelt The staiemcut showed
thas exclusive OF the Panama. aru~o-
pri zion the Increase OF expenditures
In lso4 over 1se3 w-Es i26,4stssth in
1905 over 1900. $4s.J@G.g33 iu 1895
|ovcr 1905. Si7. .903 s5s
This" Mr.. Culbcraon said. shows
an aggregate Increase of expenditure,
excluding all expenses II PanaTn.a ~
S93.761.064 In three years A. usual
with this admi rtStratiou expenditures
for the military and naval iAhIlsh-
ments Increased for thts period s4nn ~
1.-The proceeding amount the incrcs ."
for the naval establishment alone ex-
ceedeA s34.000.0s0 for ne three HrarS-
The tYtaI expenditures for lh" vars
! 903. 1904. 1905 and 1875 was $2.s35.-
l0O4.4Ga and deductiug Panama eN~
lpenses IL was x2.s65.s2foss. The
total expenditures Of the years 1898.
1899. 1890 and 1901. tne four full
years ~ Mckinley Was $3.50. .3i6, %.
| It thurs appears that exclusive of all
expenses in Panama. the expenditure
| for the four years Of Roosevelt exceed
| ed those Of the four years OF Mckinley
lalthough he conducted tho Spnntste
war To- the extraordinary sum cf
ts434.fO4.69a.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-07-03

found satisfaction in the entire course
of this congress-
The text Of the presidents statement
follows:
In the session that has Just closed.
the congress has done more substan-
tive work for good than anv congress
has done at any session since 7 he
came familiar with public affairs. The
legislation has been along the lines of
real constructive statesmanshfp OF the
most practical and efficient type. and
bill after bill has been enacted into
law which was of an importance so
great that 1t is fair to say that the
enactment Of any one of them alone
would have made the session. mernora-
Die: such, for instance. as the rail-
road rate bill, the meat inspection
measure, the pure food bill. the bill
for free alcohol in the arts, the con-
sular reform BILL Panama canal Izgis-
!ation, the joint statehood bill. and
the naturalization bill. certainl,,
have no disposition to blink what there
IS Of evil in our social, Industrial or
political life Of today, but il seems 70
ne that the men of genuine patriotism
who genuinely wish well to their coun-
try. nave the right 70 feel q profound
satisfaction in the entire course Of IN :
congress. I would not be afraid to
compare its record with that of any
previous congress in our history, not
alone for the wisdom but for the dis
Interested high mindedness which has
controlled its action. 1t is noteworthy
that- not single measure which the
closest scrutiny could warrant US in
calling of doubtful prOpriety has been
enacted, and on the other hand no in
t7uence of any kind has availed TO pre-
vent the enactment Of the laws most
vitality necessary to the nation at this
time"