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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-05
FRISCO HORROR INCIDENT.
Omaha Man Says Hundreds Wer
 Killed to Prevent Cremation.

Omaha Man Says Hundreds Were
 killed to Prevent Cremation. According to the story told by O. K. Carr, an Omaha man who was through the San Francisco earthquake and fire, $50 wounded and injured people were chloroformed to prevent them from be ing burned alive when the Mechanics pavilion was vacated. Carr lived in Omaha for years and is we'll known, says an Omaha special dispatch to the New York Herald. He said:
 T was with the Red Cross and still have my badge. We were in the Me chanics' pavilion after the quake, and when the fire came so close that we saw the building must go all injured that it was thought could recover were first taken away. Those with mangled bodies and broken or burned limbs begged to be shot to escape being burn ed alive. Three hundred and fifty In the pavilion were chloroformed by doc. tors and nurses and shot by soldiers. It was done as an act of humanity.
 T was among the very last to leave the building, and we did not leave a single person to be burned alive. l did not administer chloroform to any one, nor did I put any one to death. Only the doctors and the regular nurses handled the drug, and the soldiers did the shooting.
 .'When official lists of the dead are published and show only few hun dred it is either from ignorance or willful suppression of facts. There were $50 died in Mechanics pavilion alone" at --+s.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-05

Seven different states now have eight forest experiment stations, es- tablished during the past year, for cooperation between the forest ser- vice and state forest commissions and agricultural colleges. These stations are designed to meet the growing demand for detailed infor- nation on the propagation of forest trees in various regions. As result of regional studies and special inves- tigations, the forest service is al- ready in possession of very complete data on tree growing for protection and timber supply, and this informa- tion is gladly supplied upon request. There are many questions, however, regarding new species, nursery methods, mixtures, spacing and cul- tivation which can not be satisfac- torily settled by studies of existing plantations. These matters will be investigated by long series of sys- tematic experiments, now under way at the new stations. The outcome will be to determine the regional adaptability of new species and the influence of soil and location on the selection of species, and to secure silvicultural data on methods of planting and cultivation. At Berea, Ky, particular attention will be giv- en to the propagation of hickory, a wood for which no satisfactory sub stitute is known and for which the demand is destined soon to outstrip the supply. On the plains and prairies the trees will be tried which promise to be the most useful to the farmer under the local condi- tions. Experimental blocks will be planted annually, but many years will undoubtedly be required before completely satisfactory final results will have been attained.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-05

man in New York city went to London and bought American watch es there, brought them back to this country and sold them cheaper than the trust prices here and then made money on them. because there is no duty on American goods shipped back into this country after being sold abroad. If that doesn't show up the fact that the present tariff is a ,palpable robbery of the American consumer for the benefit of the American trusts, and that the tariff is the mother of the trusts, then what does it show? Some of the re- publican big guns in the house of representatives have made an at tempt to answer MT Rainey, but they have floundered and fallen back into the pit dug by their own bad logic. One of them actually admit ted that these watch companies did sell watches cheaper in the foreign countries than they did in this coun- try, and attempted to justify it by saying that they were compelled to do it in order to keep their factor ies going and keep labor at work. The truth of the business is that since the Dingley tariff was enacted there are seventeen less watch fac tories at work in this country than before, all put out of business by the trust, and that the trust now en- ploys more female and child labor, therefore cheaper, than it had be- fore in the history of the watch business in this country. This is only one illustration of the workings of the Dingley tariff in the interests of the trusts.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-05

ana boys from the city shops and tho factory districts who had never before perhaps, had so many successive hours of outdoors. It was a study in Amer ican contrasts to sec slim picket stop a sturdy, red shirted "Barbary Coaster" of his own age, but twice his size. The bayonet and the blue coat held the day, but the others look said: "How could do you up. if had a show" Grimy and unwashed as the cadets were. full fed and rested as their strange, stranded guests looked, the class feeling was none the less per ceptible.
 When the sunlight fell upon the vine clad side of South hall and frightened the shady hooks among the bamboos and acaclas of the upper campus, men, women and half dazed tenement chil. dren sat duly waiting for their next meal ticket or the next free show of soldiery. Under. the Le Conte oak two girl students were helping draggled young woman not much more than their own age to the hospital, while q young professor was explaining to an old, lame Italian woman. hideously dirty, that she could not get anything to eat just now, as they were feeding the soldiers.
 In the Berkeley town the usual Sab bath quiet of the streets Is broken by the passing of automobiles and car riages taking many we'll to do San Franciscans about in search of tenn porary quarters. while carpenters and masons are at work hastily completing partly finished buildings, which will all be needed. Groups of citizens are discussing ways and means, wondering how we shall all get on until the banks open, and speculating on possible scarcity in many handsome homes, as all provisions except milk are delivered on rigid cash basis.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-05
At last the democrats of the houl

At last the democrats of the house have the republicans on the run. The speech of Representative Rsiney. of Illinois. in the house not long ago has been the fire that has smoked them out His speech was an object lesson. not only to the people of the entire country, but to lots of rePub- licans on the floor of the house who wers totally ignorant of the facts he produced with such telling effect. says a Washington critic. He proved absolutely and to the entire satis- faction of every man who is un- biased. that the watch trust of the country iz selling watches to the for eizners cheaper than they are at home to American consumers He producsd the facts to the effect that
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-05
Prophrcx of E.rfha.ake.

Charles B Vaudeville. assistant to the treasurer of Cornell university. de- cIared recently that the earthquake at san Francisco was predicted by the late Professor Charles Fred Hart of Cornell over thirty years ago. says a special dispatch to the New York Times from Ithaca, \. '. Mir. Vaudeville while student in the university took several courses in geology under Pro lessor Hart He remembers that the class was shown the peculiar situation of San Francisco. the contour of the mountains and the formation of the coast. and that Professor Hart predict ed a calamity in California similar to that of Lisbon
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-05
HEARD IN PASSING.

When you read that the total num- Der of letters in the dead letter of- flee is 73S,000, all improperly ad- dressed, you no longer wonder why certain expected epistles never came.
 The bread cast upon the waters by San Francisco in the shape Of $1OO,000 sent to Chicago at the time of the fire in 1871, has returned in the form of million dollar fund for the California city.-Meriden Record. ."..
 The Jap with a wireless telephone need not look for a wild welcome here. What this country most needs in the hello" line is machine that will work all right. without a string running into the maw of the greedy monopolist.
 An glishwoman who died two years ago left an estate of half a million dollars, and not a single claimant has appeared for it. But just let the name of this forlorn "Englishwoman" be published and relatives will rush to the front in troops and battalions.
 A correspondent describing the Chinese cavalry says the horses are the best in the world and that the Chinese have nothing to learn in horsemanship from any of the Euro pean countries. The talk is of war. It is the time to hear ghost stories" about oriental accomplishments.
 Crime is crime. So thought a Chi cago slum youth sentenced to a years imprisonment for holding up another boy and robbing him of a nickel, when precisely the same sen tence was given a well groomed con fessed embezzler of $S,O00. "When I get out I'll do something big. ] might as we'll go der hull limit, said the boy.-South Norwalk Sen- tinel.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-05
DOUBLE DECKED BIRD NEST.
Furnished a Home for Both Robins
 and Sparrows.

Last spring. to our great delight, a pair of robins determined to build a nest and rear brood in one of the trees of my front garden. The sparrows. about twenty, objected aEd gave numerous seedlings to the intruders.
 A week or two after MT and Mrs Robin finished building and were nicely settled in a cosey home not far from my upper front window and with loving anticipations l was mortified one morning to notice that several sparrows were busy picking away the straw and mud composing the underneath part of Robins home. It seemed a clear case of piracy without one redeeming fea- ture: the robins thought so too. They darted at the sparrows and made their lives a burden. What was my delight to find the third day that Mir and Mrs Sparrow had exca- vated a nice place for nest in the basement of Robins nest and were proceeding to furnish same for housekeeping.
 The robins soon seemed to catch on to the sparrows' neighborly method, and cordiality grew apace. May 24. 1905. I spent most of the afternoon watching the proceedings of these tenement families through an opera glass. The young robins made their first start outside the nest, and the sparrows were clearly as much pleased as the parents. Nearly two weeks later the baby sparrows started out from the base ment. hope the two young robins got away south with their parents The sparrows stayed all winter This morning before the sun was up there was a great eonfab between robins and sparrows near where the nest was last year.-Halifax Herald
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-05

Eighteen pounds of blood leaves the heart every min ute to bath the tissues and give them life. If your blood lacks nourishment, even in the slightest degree, it wears on your vitality. Linonine
 enters the blood the instant it is swallowed, supplying new strength-giving red cor puscles and reviving every function. Druggists. soc. $l.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-05
A New Pian to stop splitting.

A New Plan to stop Splitting.
 Chief of Police Paul Milliken of Gin cinnati has adopted new tactics In the war against spitters in street cars and public places, says Cincinnati dis patch. He directed patrolmen to hand to any one seen expectorating in a public place card on which is printed:
 Splitting menaces public health.
 Splitting on sidewalks, in public con veyances or in public places is liable to communicate disease. Do not spit"
 The other side of the card bears a copy of the city ordinance.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-05
MAKE AN EFFORT

to get the best and don't be sztisfed with anything else
 OUR FEED
 f= absolutely the best obtainable in the market. It is good enough for inc best stock in the land. while the uries makes ft cheap enough for the poorest Obtain our prices We sell the famous Wzshburn-PiIlsbury Best for csc a bag and ss barrel We slso keep and sell the famous Le1ox stock Food for s1-lo per bag New York Grain &Feed Store,
 ff6f2o Meadow. cor Bank stx 4 wilinsr, Pro2. Tel 143-5-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-05
Norway. New Monarch.

It Is said that in Norway. Haakon VII. the new monarch. is adapting himself to the democretie conditions with rare tact He meess snd greets his subjects in the most informal man ner- Tbere fs none Of the ceremony conmoa to me1archies. and his sub Jects address him e -Nf. King
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-05
SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1906.

Rather malapropos to suggest eel ebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Ellen Terry's debut on the stage. Ellen doesn't look it, so the proper way to dispose of the event is to for get it.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-05
Where Do We, Find Comfort ]?

demanded an excited person. In the dictionary" replied quiet by stander. The real genuine article IS found, these damp, chilly evenings, at home in nice easy chair, in front of fire made with Browns Quick
 fire Charcoal.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-05

This "chair of numbering" to be established at Yale is a clumsy pro- position to look at in print and to hold in mind. But numbering chair is an institution we've all met up with.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-25
WEEKS HAPPENINGS
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN \ con-
DENSED FORM.
n Joins Divorce. Coiony-Mrs.
James Blaine Has Arrived In Sio"N
FaIIs-Nust Remain Six MONTHS
Can Then Apply for Divorce. p

A Sioux Falls special says: ouile d
nutter was CAUSED among me fHs"N7
of the local divorce colony by 'ne ar
rival in the city Monday OF Mrs. jane
q. Blaine. who comes to sioux runs
for the acknowledged purpose o <
naming the six months necessary "
make her a citizen of South DahoIa 81
she can secure a divorce
1t is recalled by old residents VI Nhs
city that she is the second "ile ot
James G. Blaine. the younger 10 t"
&c Sioux Falls r:!th the object
curing a divorce, The hrst was M
former Miss Nevins, who Is TO" luz
wife OF DR.. Bull. OF New York Ci,9.
The latest addition TO the divo'oe
colony was accompanied oniy o. d
maid, and upon their arrival mere .ne.
were conveyed direct to the Ca'atace
Hotel. where Mrs. Blaine engaged d
suite OF four rooms. Here she VIZ
make her home during the uthe sns
lie serving her six months prehnhiHa.s
to become a citizen and eilglp'e ~
make application to the South Daho'"
courts for the ~severing OF the matFlnlo-
NAL ties which bind her TO MT BLAINE
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-25
USED EYE.
In Remarkable Experiment of Re
storing Lost Sight to a Man.

In Remarkable Experiment of Re-
storing Lost Sight to a Man.
Partial success has attended the efforts
Of surgeons in Washington to restore
sight to Wilton Heinard by grating the
membrane and cornea of a rabbits eye
to his. Heinard lost his sight more than
a year ago by a negro ~highwayman throw
ing I've in his face. The mucous mem
brane which surrounds and lubSicates the
eyes was eaten away by the I've and the
Ieyelids grew fast to the eyeballs. The
surgeons first operated on the eyelids.
To the inside of them they grated the
mucous membrane of the eyes of a rab-
bit. This operation itself afforded Hell
nard much relief. The next operation
was to graft the transparent membrane
of a rabbits eyeball to Heinard's eyes.
The attempt was also made to put in
place the cornea of the rabbits eyes, but
as this was not a success the operation
was repeated and only the transparent
membrane was used.
The operations were begun over two
months ago and at that time Heinard was
unable to distinguish between night and
day. Now he is able to do so and the
surgeons declare that if his sight con-
tinues to grow stronger, as it has done
during the past week or ten days, he will
be able within a year to walk about with
out an attendant. They dotnot hold out
the hope that he will ever be able to read
again. The work of the surgeons is now
devoted to the strengthening of the cornea
of the eyes.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-25
FIVE COUNTIES DEVASTATED By
blaze IN FORESTS


Milwaukee,. wts- A dispatch to the
Sentinel from Escanaha. Mich BY q
SS.<s correspondent says
-Four known dead. q score or mor
missing. hundreds Of families home
les. several million dollars of property
burned. four towns wiped out entirely
and a dozen more partially. i've coun-
ties devastated and 100 square miles
OF territory IRE swept.
This is the dreadful picture that
the northern Michigan peninsula pre-
SCENTS after the worst forest fires since
the Pestigo disaster I'm 1871
Details OF the fire are gradually
coming out OF the burned territory. All
day Saturday refugees and trainmen
have been coming in, telling tales OF
misery and suffering as we'll as of
heroism and brave deeds that were en-
acted while the fire was at Its height.
The reports show that the fire was
fully az serious as at first reported.
The burned district extends from a
point ten miles out of Escanaba TO
Talbot on the south to Claiming and
Quinnesec on the west, Sands on the
north and back to Escanaba- The
flames were ~iercest along the
ba and Lake Superior line 1t is In
this district that a thousand or more
OF the small fires rave been smoul-
dering for weeks. Nothing was
thought OF these fires becaus they
were not dangerous, but It only need
ed a wind to fan them into a might
sheet OF flame. This wind came on
Friday afternoon. Toward noon n
wind began to blow from h west at
thirty miles an hour, at 2 o'clock y
velocity wa forty miles an hour and
" l o'clock the small Ares seemed TO
unite into one that swept along with
Z fury that no human hand could
stay.
Scores of homesteadcrs and woods
men are missing and many have prob
ably persisted In the flames.
Tl@1 crriiory devastated, nve coupties-
Marquette. Menoninee. Delta, Aiser
Dickinson. The territory fireswept fs
4asss.ssse -
Towns totally burned: Talbot. Mich,
1t0 population, only a few houses LETT
standing. Quinnesec. Mfch.4a1 re.n-
Atton. only one house Eann-
'ders, $50 population, all wiped out:
Niagara. WIssea popxlasion. al
wiped out
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-25
oc1oeENaRlANs TREMBLING.
Presfdent Roosevelt Deems lhe"
Too Old for Civil Service.

President eh
Too Old for Civil Service.
There il a panic among the octogena-
rjans of the executive departments IN
Washington. Sixteen different kinds OF
sbivers run down the backs of all the
grav-haired clerks in these departments
the moment you ask hin or her: HOW
old are you:"
This j. because the President had ask
ed for a list of the clerks who are above
Co years of age. there being an academic
question now officially up for considera-
ton whether a clerk is any good AFTER ne
or she is G5, which is only a variation
o: the GsieT theory.
The House had inserted in the ieglsla-
tive appropriation bill a paragraph TO tine
effect that after 1913 no person should
be retained in the service after having at
tanned the traditional three score and ten.
Friends OF the old soldiers jumped ON
the provision and it was knocked out IN
the House on a point of order, 1t may
come up in the Senate, where some OF
the old gentlemen there will have Also an
opportunity of expressing their opinions
about age as a disabler.
Agents Of the Civil Service Commits
sion have been making the rounds OF the
departments getting this peculiar klnd'ot
a census. and il has apparently not been
very successful, but they have had to
take the data furnished them, and espe-
cially by women.
There are two cases of very old age IN
the Treasury Department.. both women
one is OF years old and the other 80. that
is, according TO the record at the civil
service bureau. At the Treasury Depart
ment. however. according to the other old
ladies. there are no such women who
are 81 and 90 years of age"
They all say that there have been
very old people in the Treasury, but
they are all dead. Last year, for in
stance, there was a clerk who was actu-
ally 90 years of age, but he was as good
as any young man in the service" Over
in the State Department there is one
woman who is 81 years of age, according
to civil service. but she will not confess
and it is hard to discriminate among the
other gray heads.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-25
FORESTS ARE ATTIRE.
Upper Michigan and Wisconsin Are
Scurcncd.

.tMHHu###H"# SEpfNbttu. ." ".# - -Hr.
E.canaha. Mich. Driven by a
heavy gale of wind one OF the most
destructive forest fires In the history
Of this district Friday laid
waste a tract OF land fifty miles square
ard al a. late hour Friday night was
still spreading
AZ 8 o'clock III was known that the
following villages have been wiped
out: Qufnnesec, population 1000:
Hchasfer. SEQ; RaiDhs. 400: salvoie.
se9: Cornell. 500; w~oodiawn. zoo, and
Talbot 400
At North and several other points
ON IN. line 81 Tie saTasa ard Lake
Superior railroad at 8 O'Clock Friday
might the ere had reached the out
skirts OF the villages and no hope for
saving any OF h property was held
Hundreds OF people are homeless n
are being brought into Escanaba as
fast as trains can be sent to the burn
ed district
In addition to the loss Of several
sawniIIs and other buildings, billions
OF feet of cut timber have heen burned
and great tracts of standing timber
badly damaged.
As far as known no lives have been
lost. aIth ough families Of several
homesteaders living in the burned dis
trict are missing and IL Is feared thar
have been burned to death
Refugees arriving in the city tell
terrible tales OF their experiences in
escaping from the flames. a"
Stanley. VIZ. Fire which started
In the stables of the Northwestern
Lumber Company from Il spark from
the Northwestern mill ragged all Fri
day afternoon. but at S o'clock at
night was under control One hun
residences M a dozen business
have been destroyed and the
ioss Is estimated at 5000, 600
A high wind carried the flames away
from the Northwestern mill and saved
that structure. but six blocks to the
east were completely burned out
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-25
A s1o,ooo,oo VESSEL.
Uucle Sam to Have Worlds Mos,
Powerful Warship.

Powerful "arship.
The hattleship Constitution, which th<
House naval committee recommends for
authorization, promises to be the most
formidable vessel ever launched. If the
preliminary designs, which are now I'M
der consideration by the bureau of con-
struction and repair. are adopted the new
bartleship will carry y Pinch guns OF
the latest pattern. two more than the
new English battleship Dreadnought; it
will be speedier by one knot, being able
20 maintain - knots ii will De projected
by armor as thick as that which the
Dreadnought will carry, and it will have
q displacement OF at least 1900 tons,
1,4OO tons greater b that of the Eng
lish ship. The cost of this monster will
be S1O.000:n01.
President Rooserelt's interest in this
new battleship was shown when he sent
for Chief Naval Constructor Caps and
discussed the construction of the proposed
vessel with that officer. The President
is as anxious as Admiral Dewey or any
member of the naval board that the Unit
ed States should not be relocated to a
condition of inferiority at sea, which is
certain to result from its failure to build
such battleships as Great Britain, Ger
many. France mad Spain are laying down.
1t has been pointed out that the past
policy of Germany was to build battle
ships of about 1900 tons displacement
and arm them with 9.2-inch guns, and
that only a short time ago this was de-:
parted from and orders were given for the
construction of two battleships of 10000
tons carrying 11-inch guns. The sole OBJ
ject of the creation of the German fleet
was to prepare for war with England,
and, therefore, the ships were given a
small coal capacity, not enough to en-
able them to steam across the ocean, for
instance, and engage in operations against
the United States.