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The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-17

Hundreds of persons surrounded the
burning structure, apparently uncon.
scious of the pending danger from fall
ing walls. Many parents who had
children in the house were almost
maddened by the awful sight.
The night was one of waiting and
anguish. The shrieks of mothers, who
had rushed to the scene as soon as they
learned of the fire. we're pitiful. As
the night wore on the crowds surround
ing the building grew to suoh proper
tions that it almost was impossible for
the police force, which had been aug
mented by score of men from POTTS.
town and Reading, to keep the people
back. One woman, who said she had
lost her entire family in the theater,
was with difficulty restrained from
throwing herself into the roaring
flames.
A few minutes after midnight the
rear wall of the theater collapsed
| The flames broke out anew, and those
who had vainly hoped to be able to find
the remains of some of their loved ones
| UuIAOu LII oC5pdAI AAOAA LILO oCCu0 VI tuO
awful catastrophe.
1t is estimated that at least IS per-
sons were injured by being trampled
upon on the stairway or by jumping
from the windows Of the burning struc-
ture. Of this number at least score
were fatally injured. 1t is extremely
doubtful if the remains Of the victims
can be distinguished from the debris,
as many of the audience were covered
with burning oil as the lamps exploded.
Later Report.
2 When nightfall put a stop to the
work of recovery of the dead from the
ruins Of the Rhoades opera house,
where the holocaust occurred, the off,
cial roll of victims numbered 1877.
Whether any more bodies are buried
beneath the ruins Gan not be positively
stated, but it is the belief of those who
had charge of the grewsome work that
all of the dead have been removed and
that the total list of victims will not
go over ITO. The ratio of women and
girls to men and boys is about 9 to /.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-17
EVANS FLEET Is AT RIO.
Sixteen BattIeships Enter Brazips
Famous Port.

Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 12.-The Ameri-
can fleet of 16 battleships entered the
port of Rio de Janeiro at o'clock
Sunday afternoon, after a passage
from Port of Spain, Trinidad, more
than 5000 miles, unmarried by serious
accident, replete with interesting in
cidents and ending with a royal well
come from the thousands that had
gathered to greet the visitors.
The fleet weighed anchor at o'clock
on the afternoon of December 20, at
Port OF Spain, and exactly at 4 o'clock
Sunday the vessels were swinging at
their anchors in this beautiful harbor
All of the battleships are here, but
the supply ships Culgoa and Glacier
are stall at sea, not having been able
to keep along with the others. The
fleet has now covered about 1900 miles,
about a third of the distance of the
voyage to San Francisco.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-17
OREGON SQUIBS.

By the recent action of the Sumpter
city council, the municipal election
held December has been declared
retained in Office to serve until it's
successor has been legally elected and
qualified.
Mrs. Boyd, wife of Rev. A. P. Boyd
of Sellwood M. E. church, Portland
and their son, were killed in South.
tramp was also killed, and William
Ferguson probably fatally injured. The
engine and six coaches went into the
ditch.
A Portland judge made a young
Portland widow return an engage
ment ring worth 1910. which had been
given her as a betrothal token by
frank Bleigh. Sc had changed hel
mind
Forrest Eldridge, 3 years old, was
found recently his his parents, Lev
Eldridge and wife, drowned in poo
of water near the home, on McKa,
creek, 10 miles south of Pendleton.
| A record price was reached at Pen
dleton saturday for mill and feet
stuffs Shorts are bringing $21 a ton
bran 500, on board cars. High pricei
are due to demand from dairymer
in the Willamette valley for Umatills
mill products. Local mills can no
supply the demand.
Walter and Louis Carlyle, brothers
who kined Manse Kincaid and Hirau
Shook in rifle battle over the posses
sion of a claim in the Yellow creel
country, near Roseburg, have bee,
discharged from custody. While Their,
is no doubt that the Carlyles killed tn,
two unfriendly ranchmen, their dis
charge meets with public approval.
At Baker City, Ben West was con
victed of murder in the second degre
for killing Willard Donnelly at Cornu
'copia in November last.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-17

PANIC
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ISH BARNSLEY, ENG.
FORTY OTHERS INJURED BY MAD
RUSH FOR BETTER SEATS
AT ENTERTAINMENT.

Barnsley, England, Jan. 12.-Stxteen
children were trampled to death and
~ others injured in a mad rush for
better seats at an entertainment given
in the public hall here Saturday aft
ernoon. There was great crush tc
secure admittance to the entertain
ment and when the doors opened
every seat was taken and the gallery
was literally packed with children,
who filed the aisles and WHO were
dangerously massed against the lower
railing. With view to relieving this
growing of the gallery the attendants
decided to transfer some of the chill
dren to the body of the house, and
one usher called some of The children
to come downstairs.
p Immediately the rush started and
within few seconds hundreds CT
children were being trampled under
foot. Even those who had seats III the
gallery, doubtless being panic-stricken
by the screams and struggles of the
joined in the stampede,
The scene was a terrible one, the
cries of the injured and means of the
dying causing the greatest excitement
among those gathered in the body of
the hall. Police and ushers rushed t.,
the head of the staicases, which were
literally strewn with dead and dying,
and by lle most desperate efforts
managed to drag scores of the strug-
Cling children to the corridors below
Il was with the greatest difficulty that
a panic among the children in the
lower part of the house was averted
all of them eventually being taken tc
the street in safety.
When the reserve police arrived
| they found the narrow stairway prac
tically blocked with bodies, which
were crushed in some instances almost
beyond recognition.
| Scores of children were forced by
the pressure from the crowd behind
them to scramble over those that hat
fallen, whether living or dead, ant
many Of the injured children were
| found later to be suffering from frac
tured bones and severe decorations
caused by the indescribable manner il
which they had been trampled upon
News of the disaster had spreat
and the theater entrance was soo1
packed with hysterical and weeping
parents whose children were inside
Among the dead were several infants
in arms. None were over 10 or 1.
years. Four were members Of tn,
same family.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-17
Investigate Brownson's Scrap.

Washington, Jan. 14.-The house
has adopted the Gill resolution de
handing that the secretary of the
navy produce all correspondence and
everything in his possession relating
to the assignment of Stokes as com
mander of the hospital ship Relief and
the resignation of Brownson.
This is the first step looking to 6
congressional investigation of the
Brownson controversy.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-17
IDAHO NEWS.

D. A. Utter, who is said to be lately
named as surveyor general for Idaho
to succeed Ernest G. Eagleson, is a
civil engineer who has long been To-
Gated at Weiser.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ludwig Donart cele-
brated their diamond wedding ami
versary on Christmas day at the home
of their son at Occur d'Alene.
The accounts of J.. H. Bruce, post.
master at Weiser, have been found to
be short and he has rendered his res
ignation, which has been accepted
The amount of the shortage has not
been give nout
Boise January 20 with the board Of
equalization.
After adopting resolutions vigor
ously protesting against any change
in the administration of the general
land laws, opposing bitterly the leas
ing of the public domain, severely
criticising the forest policy of the gov
eminent. and demanding the imme
date re-establishment of federal quar-
antine on Idaho sheep, the Idaho
Woolgrowers' association, in conven
tion at Pocatello, adjourned Saturda,
evening to meet next year in Boise
The attendance was close to 200.
Sam Sm..n, flunkey at a construc
ton camp at Spirit Lake, was sho
recently by L. A. Davis, proprietor O
a saloon, at Pete Rodebeck's place
two wounds being inflicted, one in tn,
left cheek and the other in the shoul
der.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-17
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

As the result of what is supposed to
have been temporary fit of insanity
Henry Beythan, an employee of lum-
Der company at Lane, Idaho, Monday
afternoon shot and killed his sister in
law, Miss Rhoda Norton, and then
turned the revolver on himself and
blwe his brains out. Both died in.
stantly. He fred at his wife but miss.
ed hitting her..
Governor Hanly of Indiana has is.
sued proclamation declaring martial
law ended at Munice.
As far as he can, Secretary Taft
has committed the government to q
promise to withdraw completely from
Cuba in the beginniong of spring il
1909.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-17
OF PACIFIC COAST
Delegations Call at National Capital
and Give Pointers az to
Media

Delegations Call at National Capital
and Give Pointers az to
Needs.
The activity of Pacific coast delega.
tons. one of which called at the White
House and the other at the war depart
ment, puts a new and grave phase ON
the Japanese question. The conclusion
drawn from the conference is that the
Pacific coast states, by concerted
agreement, have decided to force the
government either to shut of the orr
entails through an exclusion law or
fortify the Pacific coast Either course
would be inopportune at present.
The delegation that conferred with
Assistant Secretary of War Oliver was
made up of Adjutant Generals Lauck
of California, Hamilton of Washington
and FINDER of Oregon. They said
that the Pacific coast states would be
willing to organize companies for
coast defense work If the federal gov
eminent would bear the expense of
equipment, but that the states could
not divert any of the present national
guard for that purpose.
The seriousness of the Pacific coast
situation may be gathered from the
fact that the present coast artillery
force of the regular army is but 80 per
cent of the quota necessary to man
present defenses.
Congressman Kahn of California,
who called at the White House this
afternoon, is an advocate of heavy
Notifications for Pearl harbor, in the
Hawaiian islands. He expressed the
belief that if any power secured con-
troll of the islands as base it would
be able to devastate the whole Pacific
coast at will. The weakest spot on the
Pacific is Puget sound. The Taft board
proposed elaborate Notifications there
but it is now open to an enemys fleet,
which can sail by unframed under
cover of fog, because the swift current
makes mining impossible. Torpedo
boats are absolutely necessary to repel
attacks.
The rumor that Admiral Evans
would proceed to Puget sound when
he reached San Francisco-whieh can
not be confirmed-gives a basis for
the assumption that that point will
not be left in it's present defenseless
state.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-17
lntoxicate Father; Rob Child.

A municipal court jury in Chicago
found William Tobin and David Nc.
Hale, saloonkeepers, guilty of having
deprived Raphael DeHaven, years
old, of means of support by selling in.
toxicants to her father, and imposing
a joint fine of 5000. The suit was
brought by Mrs. Jennie DeHaven in
behalf of her daughter.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-17
Receivers for c. G. w.

Auxiliary bankruptcy proceedings
against the Chicago Great Western
Railway company were instituted in
the United States circuit court in
Chicago recently.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-17
MONTANA NOTES.

"A ftou LOuSo surgeon WHO mas per-
formed an operation on Charles Jo-
akinen, young Finnish miner, for
the removed of the cause Of pain IN
his chest, found in the cavity left
by previous operation two pieces
of rubber tubing, four and five inches
long, respectively. To one was attach
ed safety pin, badly rusted. The
rubber tubing was nearly a half inch
in diameter. The foreign substances
had been left in the wound when New
York surgeon sewed it up, following
an operation several months ago. 10.
| akinen is recovering
The Great l~orthern Railroad com.
pany, for consideration of $685.,
| 454, has purchased the line of the
Montana Central railroad.
While Walter Hetrick, fireman on
| the Short Line, had his head under
the engine at Butte, examining the
machinery, Engineer Edward Hughes
backed upon him, instantly killing
him. crushing his head to a pulp
Hughes did not know that his fireman
mad descended to the ground, and was
under the impression that he was still
In the cab.
Suits have been begun in this state
against the Northern Pacific for vic
lating the railroad eight hour Law
and other regulations designed for the
benefit of trainmen.
Bank Examiner Collins has made
public summary Of the reports o.
the Al state institutions under super
vision of that department, and the
showing is remarkable, indeed. Since
the last call in August the banks have
increased their reserve $4,000, ant
now have total resources of $26, 491,
l088.90. A gain in cash on hand o
81, 100000 during that time Is noted.
Eight additional freight crews hav'
been laid off the Rock mountain divi
sion of the Northern Pacific. Thi
leaves just enough men to run abou
three freight trains out of Missoul
east and three west.
Governor Joseph X. Toole has al
pointed 80 representative citizens d
delegates to the Missouri river nav
cation congress, to be held at Sipu
City, Iowa, January 1925 next. TIL
delegation is headed by William Sea
Ion of Butte.
Master in Chancery Crane has file
flnulngs in the famous Deed Lodg
valley smoke case in the federal court
and If approved by Judge Hunt it
likely that permanent injunctio
asked for by farmers residing clos
to the $5,OOO,0O0 Washoe smelter a
Anaconda will be granted
Henry Hammer Of Butte, dredg
employee, let loose of the crank of tn
windlass which he was turning an
the handle, flying back, struck him o
the head, tearing off portion of hi
skull and knocking out his eyes, whic
, hung down on his breast. He was a
most instantly killed.
The body of Hezekiah Roadebush,
pioneer of Butte and one of the be:
known old timers of the camp, we
found in a cabin at Rochester recent
where he had died unattended and
, extreme poverty.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-17

Down in the canyons surrounding
Lewiston dozens OF farmers are plow-
ing, their coats hanging in the house.
and spring weather marking the be-
ginning of work, while on the prairie,
not over 40 miles from Lewiston, the
farmers are feeding their stock, read
ing the papers and planning spring
work, while the stock runs over the
fields on frozen ground.
Forced to raise the prices because
of the competition CT independent
buyers, the old grain companies have
lifted the lid on the grain market
offering top prices Ior all unsold grain
on the Nez Perez prairie. Five hun
dred thousand bushels are still un
sold.
Contractor George Stickney has
about SO men at work in his lumber
camps on section 81, near st. Maries
Surveyor General Eagleson has re
ceived letter from Secretary James
R. Garneld requesting his resignation
by order of the president. He refuses
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-01-17

A successful politician works as
steadily as interest on a note.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-15

consisting merely Of a revolving tower,
with ten or more batteries, which send
flashes varying in strength. The radi.
US Is stated to be so deluged that the
operators will not be able to distin-
guish one message from another.
The genuineness of the barometrc
record brought back by the sounding.
balloon which was launched from
Strassburg on August 3, 1905, and
which indicated the attainment of an
elevation Of 16 miles above sea-level,
has been called in question. 1t is
pointed out by the doubters that the
self-registering thermometer carried by
the balloon indicated that 1t had en-:
countered the so-called isothermal zone
at an elevation Of 8 miles, whereas all
other observations indicate for this
zone an elevation Of slightly more than
6 miles. Reducing the barometric rec.
ord in the same proportion would give
for the greatest height attained abou.
II 40 miles But even this Is stupen.
dous- more than twice the height Of
Mount Everest.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-15

RAILROAD SURVEYORS PERILOUs FOOTHOLD ON A CLIFF
Did that advance into the wilderness
of taken for
addition of knowledge made
expense experimentation
called
in profession involving holds that
Courage quality Of the
almost godike It had its first when the
sitting out WILL continued through succeeding
equality
the fttest endourag
that well
wilderness the world poe with
peril advance
mnt With perhaps they blazing the through
making painful
scaling perpendicular walls
unnotcd The caws along log swinging against
that preliminary
road that country figure attract attention
commanding shall
courageous?
these I
greatest
granite in Chrendo
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-15
I1NNErTE.

kdnnette. the widows daughter.
What merry tune she SINGS
And her feet they fly aong the gras
Like little milk-white wings!
IN her life. and in the season
IT'S the golden edge o tn May,
AID ber heart is like flower that lies
. In the sunshine all the day.
The COWS that feed in the meadow,
They know her song like call;
And lift their heads from the clover,
And follow her, one and all;
Along the daisied hillsides.
And through the valleys green,
Az loyal to the little maid
As subjects to their queen.
Seeing her you would say the year
Had stolen the tender streaks
From all the wildings of the woods,
And put them in her cheeks.
I,innette. the widows daughter.
She is fair and she is gay,
And I would that for her beauty's sake
It might be always May.
New York Ledger.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-15

Little Mrs. Griswold opened the door
herself, being without maid at the
time.
The hall was rather dark and the
light was at her back, so she recognize
ed her visitor before he could d1stin-
guish her features.
"Why. Harry" she cried. who IN
the world would have expected to see
you? Don't stand there. staring as If
I were a ghost Come In. Awfully
glad to see you"
She extended her hand with the
most charming cordiality and conduct
ed the young and not very smartly
dressed man to the front room, where
she pushed him gently into a chair and
stood looking at him with flushed
cheeks and eyes bright with pleased
excitement.
I'm awfully glad to see you," she
repeated.
I'm awfully glad to see you, Mo
sr-Mrs. Griswold," responded the
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-15
Old Favorites


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Maryland, MY MarylaAd.
The despot's heel is ON thy shore,
Maryland, my Maryland!
His torch is at thy temple door,
Maryland, my Maryland!
Ayenge the patriotic gore
That fecked the streets of Baltimore,
And be the battle queen Of yore,
Maryland, my Maryland!
Hark to an exiled sons appeal,
Maryland, my Maryland
Ny mother State, to thee kneel,
Maryland, my Maryland!
For life or death, for woe or veal
Thy peerless chivalry reveal,
And grid thy beanteous limbs of steel,
Maryland, my Maryland!
Thou wilt not COVER in the dust,
Maryland, my Maryland!
Thy beaming sword shall never rust,
Maryland, my Maryland!
Remember CAROLS sacred trust,
Remember Towards warlike thrust,
And all thy slumberers with the just.
Maryland, my Maryland:
Dear mother, burst the tyrant's chain,
Maryland, my Maryland!
Virginia should not call in vain,
Maryland, my Maryland
She meets her sisters on the plain,
"Sic semper I" it's the proud refrain,
That battles minions back amain,
Maryland, my Maryland!
Arise in majesty again;
Maryland, my Maryland!
Come for thy shield is bright and strong
Maryland, my Maryland!
Come! for thy dalliance does thee wrong,
Maryland. my Maryland!
Come to thine own heroic throng,
Stalking with liberty along,
And chant thy dauntless slogan song.
Maryland, my Maryland
I hear the distant thunder hum,
Maryland, my Maryland
The "Old Lines bugle, fife, and drum.
Maryland, my Maryland!
She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb;
Huzza she spurns the northern scum
She breathes! She burns! She'll surely
come!
Maryland, my Maryland!
james r. Randall.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-15
Everythinw In Proportion.

For many weeks the irritable mer-
chant had been riveted to his bed by
typhoid fever. Now he was GONZALES
cent He clamored for something ia
eat, declaring that he was starving
Tomorrow you may have something
to eat" promised the doctor. The mer.
chant realized that there would be 4
restraint to his appetite. yet he saw IN
vision modest steaming meal placed
at his bedside.
~Here isyour dinner" said the nurss
next day as she gave the glowering pa,
tient 4 spoonful Of tapioca pudding
s.and the doctor emphasizes that every
thing else ron do must Be In the sams
proportion"
Two hours later the nurse heard 1
frantic call from the bedchamber.
..Nurse" breathed the msn heavily
Il want to do some reading. Bring M
I postage Stang. Harper,s Weekly.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-02-15
Not Certain About Tn.t.

Mrs verdigris was enumerating be,
various ailments. Il haven't kept
track Of all Of EN-" she said, "but ont
OF the first things l had was the lum-
bago in the small Of my back. Then
had the infuenzy awful bad. The next
thing war the rheumatic. Since then
I've had neuralgy, nervous headache,
sore throat, indigestion, a breaking
out on my skin and ever SO many Other
pesky little troubles that can't re
member
It would be an interesting list
said her sympathizing neighbor. "Why
didn't you take an inventory?'
I'm not certain but what did,
answered Mrs yerdigris. II took evel
go many things I'm Try /, It If you
think It'd help me, but unless it's very
mild ! just know It won't stay on m,
stummick. Youths Companion.