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The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-01
Coming Events.

Eastern Washington and Northern
daho Sunday School association, Spo-
sane, May As.
Farm demonstration train, Garfield
'olumbia and Waila Walla counties
lay 81.
Washington State Camp, NJ. w. A..
iorth Yakima, May 6.
Oregon State Grange, Eugene, May
1O-13.
Oregon state republican convention,
Cortland, May IA.
Washington republican state conven-
on, Spokane, May II.
Livestock show, Corvallis, Ore, May
Sic.
Montana Sunday School association,
BUTTE, May lib.
Washington State F. o. E., Spokane
Nay IS.
Washington State Library a~ssocia.
ton, Spokane. June 22-23.
Washington State Press association
Vancouver July 16-17-1S.
Oregon State Press association.
Vancouver, July 16-17-1S.
Spokane District Epworth league
convention, Moscow, Idaho, May 22-24
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-01
TOWN SWEPT UNDER
SLIDE HITS quebec VILLAGE
WITH FATAL RESULTS.
Thirty of the Population of Notre
Dame de Salette Known to Have
Perished - Those Who Escaped
Were Found Panic Stricken and
Preparing to Leave.

Buckingham, Quebec, April Is
Half the little French hamlet of Notre
Dame de S~llette, 16 miles from here
on the Lievre river, disappeared Sun
day under a sliding mountain and at
least 30 Of its small population are
known to have persisted.
The river Lieyre winds at the foot
OF the hamlet and a mountain towers
behind it. Heavy rains for days have
been melting % and ice on the
mountainside and streams have been
coursing down to the river. At 5
Sunday morning, just as the little
hamlet began to stir for early mass,
part Of the mountain started to slide
toward the river. 1t tore a path of
death and destruction in its way and
those who were not killed when their
homes were engulfcd were left buried
under the mass of rock and earth.
Camille Lapoint's house stood first in
the path of the avalanche. He and
his family of IL are known to have
persisted. Eight others, whose names
have not been obtained, are missing
and the rescuers are attempting to find
definitely how many more are missing.
Mrs. Desjardine's cottage also was
swept away and she and her two chill
dren, a domestic and a hired man are
known to be buried in the landslide.
With a Roar, 1t Rushes Down.
De Salette. like many hamlets of its
kind, ramblcs into the gardens anG
little fields on the mountain side, SO
about half of it was not in the path
of the slide. The sliding rushed
with a roar and spread over a part OF
the place and dumped itself in the
swollen stream at its foot. Cut of
from the outside world, messengers
were dispatched to Houpere, the near
est hamlet. Those who arrived first
estimated that at least a dozen houses
crushed in the path of the land
slide. buckingham was appealed to,
but the fight of the messengers across
the spring roads was slow. Those first
the scene found De Salette in a
panic with the uninjured ones packing
their belonging for fight.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-01
Makes Small Fine.

Freeport, HIN contrast to the
$780, zoe, 600 fine against tho Standard
Oil company, Judge Lands, in the
federal court here, fined John Knapp
an -octogenarian of this city, 1 cent,
without costs, for sending a threaten
ing letter through the mails to a ten
ant who owed him S15. Several spec
tators offered Klapp pennies, one o!
which ne accepted, and he paid the
fine and departed smiling.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-01
% DIE IN GLADIATOR WRECK
Loss of British Cruiser is a Severe
Blow.

London, April 29.-The total number
Of dead and missing of the Gladiator's
crew as a result of a collision between
the American liner st. Paul and the
British cruiser off the Isle of Wight is
2S. The admiralty has issued a re-
vised list of the names of the Gladiator
victims, which includes an additional
death in the hospital, bringing the to.
tai of deaths known up to five.
Twenty-three men are missing, accord
ing to the list, and six are suffering
severe injuries. The secretary of the
admiralty expresses fear that there
are still eight others missing. but is
unable to give the names as vet
Divers today searched part of the
sunken cruiser for bodies, but were
not successful in finding any. The
opinion among shipping men and naval
officers and officials appears to be
unanimous that the accident was un.
avoidabie, being one of the chances
of the sea which all seamen must risk.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-01
HIS MIND A BLANK.
Washington Man Has Queer Expert
ence for Three Weeks,

ence Tor Ihree weeks.
Living for several weeks with his
mind an absolute blank, although to
all appearances his brain was in a nor
NAL state, was the strange psycholog
ical experience undergone by George
b. Harmon, a rancher of Crescent
Wash, who mysteriously disappeared
from Spokane on the night Of March
IS.
From the time he was rendered un
conscious by a blow on the head from
a blunt instrument in the hands of a
thug and robbed of $500 in the Divi,
sion street cut on the night of his dis
appearance Mr.. Harmon remembers
nothing until his memory vas re
stored as m~ysteriously as it had been
lost when he fell from a scaifold on
a ranch near Helena, Mont, April 81,
and sprained his ankle.
How he recovered consciousness
after being beaten into insensibility
by the footpad, where he went after
ward and how he came to be working
on a ranch in Montana are alike prob.
lens which are shEouded in the deep
est mystery.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-01
Evans in Command AnrII 30.

Santa Barbara, Cal.-Rear Admiral
lhomas, at present commanding the
Atlantic fleet, has received a telegram
from Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans
at Paso Robes Hot Springs saying
taht the later would return to the
fleet and again hoist his flag on the
as commander in chief
when the ships reach Monterey, on
Thursday evening, April 80.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-01
LATE NEWS NOTES.

The funeral of Edward +. Osoolno'
the conductor on the Great NortDeiD,
who was killed Monday, was puli''
last wednesday at Garfield. -,
]. d. Brown appeared before az
grand jury at San Francisco ana mn UNI
a complete confession as to the DSD'
failure.
The opera house at Milton oIesO1'
burned to the ground last MONDAY
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-01
DUKE is FOUND DFAn
American Heiress, Theodora 9,
Prematureiy Widowsd

Pr~ematurely Widowed.
Paris.-In the presence of hi.
OF less than three months. Fmn Drlde
Theodore Bernard Marie d,AmIluel
Luynes daily, ninth dnI. De
Chaulnes and of Piquiny and OF
of Dangeau, died suddenly fron1 ,quS
failure recently in his apartman4 4eSlt
the Hotel Langham, in the Pm III
zadero. The physicians summer. DOC
attend the duke in his sudden co. %
of the malady officially gave the re
of death as embolism Of the hear Se
The due de Chaulnes n tho A.,
ess, who was Miss Theodore cbDNa
youngest daughter of Tbeodoro
Shonts of New York, were ~,
in New York February Is of tbis eu
The wedding was a brilliant 800,
function, and the end of the Ia
honeymoon was sudden and tro-
Since the arrival of the counlo ~
a month ago, they have lived come
lively quietly at the Hotel LAMB
taking an occasional automobile ia
in the afternoon and in the avon,1e
dining with intimate friends. or go,as
to the theater.
The duke for years has surrarod
from a weak heart and for some finn
had been the subject of fainting snero
Several times since his arrival here
he consulted DR.. Henri ~Iscovesco in or
effort to obtain relief from his Al.
ment.
Despite all positive denlals BY rels.
tives and friends of the family. tbe
rumor continues to be persistently cir.
culated here that the death of the
Due de Chaulnes was due to an over.
dose of morphine, and not to heart
disease.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-01
news OF The WORLD.
SHORT BISPATCKESFR0M ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western H~emisPheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political n Personal
Events.

State Bank Examiner HOfer of Ne
yada has taken charge of the Hickey
banks at Carson, Tonopah, Goldield,
Blair and Manhattan and ordered all
business to cease.
In San Francisco a plot has been
discovered to kill Francis Heney and
Rudolph %Spreckels.
Under suspension of the rules the
house has passed a bill r~eadjusting
and increasing the salaries of officers
and employees in the customs service.
ClaspiAg tightly against her breast
the severed head of the 5-year-old
child that had been decapitated by a
trolley car, Mrs. Marion Hutel of New
York waited nearly an hour, sitting on
the curbstone, while a frantic crowd
.abored to free the body.
Oakland, Cal.-Louis l.. Carmin,
husband of the woman for whose MUIR
der Mark A. wilkins has been found
guilty, died Saturday. His body will
be shipped to Carthage, Mo.
One hundred pickpockets and strong
arm men were rounded up recently
by the police as the beginning of a
crusade to clean the city of Chicago of
crooks before the republican nven
ton.
Thomas E. McCune, a painter who
had beer unable to find employment,
locked himself in his room in Chicago
and turned on the gas.
Naval officers say that, while they
appreciate the invitation of the Cana
dian government to have the Atlantic
fleet visit Victoria and Vancouver, this
will be entirely impossible, owing to
the lack of time.
In San Francisco Saturday three
Cinnamon were shot in an aifray on
Washington street near Batlett alley
in Chinatown in what is presumed to
be a renewal of the tong war between
the Bing Kong tong and the Hip Sing
tong.
Naples.-The latest reports regard
the affairs of Nine. Gould, the Coun-
tess de Castellane that was, and
Prince Helie de Sagan is that they
have selected Florence as the place
where their wedding is to occur. The
ceremony is to take place within a
fortnight.
Death has claimed Clark w. May at
Charleston, attorney general of West
Virginia, after meeting with an acct
dent two weeks ago, in which his leg
was broken.
An accident to the engines on the
Missouri that occurred Saturday on
the run of the feet from Santa Monica
to Santa Barbara, Cal, proved to have
been more serious than at first re-
ported.
Philadelphia, Pa.-To make death,
which he preferred to idleness, doubly
sure, Thomas H. Nice, -possessor OF
$500, 900, stood on the brink of the
Schuylkill river, shot himself in the
mouth, and fell into the water.
His wealth gone and then his en-
ployment as a shipping clerk, which
he was forced to take to exc out a
meager existence, William H. Meyer.
81 years of age, of Chicago, formerly
a rich Milwaukee merchant, ended his
life.
Moy Back Hin, Chinese consul Tor
Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Mon
tana, has received his commission re-
appointing him to Office from Wa Ting
Fang, ambassador from China. He
lives in Portland.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-01
STEAL MAIL BAGS WORTH s5Oo,oo0
London Reports Theft-New Ycrk,ps.
mics Any knowledge OF Il.

London Reports Theft-New Ycrk,ps.
nies Any knowledge OF II.
London, April 30.-The London pos.
tai authorities have learned that two
bags of mail from this city containing
securities and other v~aiu2bles worth
$500, 600 were stolen in New York the
latter part of last month. According
to the reports received here, one Of
the bags was destined for st. Louis
and was shipped by the Majestic
which arrived in New York on March
&c; the other, destined for Brooklyn,
was shipped by the steamer Quilah,
which arrived at New York March %.
Both bags disappeared in transit be-
tween the steamers and the postotnce'
1t is said that they handed over
to the mail boats and Teceipjed for
Efforts have been made to keep the
theft a secret while the investigation
is going on.
Postal Inspector Mayer Of New YORK
said that it was true that a couple Of
mail bags which had arrived here la'e
in March were missing and as yet ul'
accounted for, but the authorities mere
We're inclined to believe that the aO
sence of the bags were due to an error
He said he thought they had probably
been wrongly labeled.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-01
Snow Is Falling in London.

London, April 25.-The most re-
markable weather for this season of
the year experienced in the United
Kingdom for several decades has been
prevailing this week. Snow has fallen
in London every day since Monday.
and once it was two inches deep on
Hampstead. There have been heavy
snowfalls at Bath and Bournemouth.
The Newmarket races have been post
poned on account of the snow.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-01
Close one-PupiI School.

After being in session two yealT
with an attendance of only one puP['
the smallest school in the Worlu'
Gated in Sampson, Wis, closed ga
day. The one pupil will be SEM ~
New Auburn school and his tulu'-
paid by the school board.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-01
Thousands Idle in Chicago.

Ten thousand stranded workingmen
are nightly begging lodgings or seek
ing shelter in the Railways Of public
buildings and under the structure of
elevated railroads, in the parks and
elsewhere in Chicago.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-01
Thousands Idle in New vorL

That prosperity has not yet settled
her wings over the east is evidenced
by a recent canvass made in New York
which shows that about 100000 people
in the big metropolis are out of work
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-01

gg being done Z. crops and shrub
berry. Timber properties are reported
almost devastated.
A late report received here says that
the timber section of southern Missis-
sippi and the adjacent Alabama terri
tory has again been visited by a heavy
storm and much damage done.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-01
Tornado in Mississippi.

Meridian, Miss, April PA dis
astrous tornado passed through a
sparsely settled section of eastern Mis-
sissippi south of this city late Sunday.
Meridian also was visited by a violent
wind, rain and hail storm, much dam
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-01
GIVES WIFE TO HER AFFINITY
Oakland (Me.) Man Drives Them "
Station and Sees Them Off,

Waterville, Maine, April li.-"F
liam H. S~turdivant of Oakland says
that If his wife, Lillian Sturdi'an"
thinks o of A.. ]. Ponsant than she
does Of him, she is welcome to nm
In proof of his willingness 10 av
~luiesce in Mrs. StuTdivants prelel
ence, Sturdivant actually hitchea "
his gray mare to the carry-al anu
drove his wife and POns2nt to "aVu
Vile station, where they departed "a
tie Boston express. SturdiyanI d
years old and his wife 80. They "e'
married nine years ago.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-01
$500 Houses Raced.

The totals of death, misery and ruin
caused in four southern states by Fri
days tornadoes are now at hand in ap-
2roximately correct form:
Briefly stated, they are:
Killed, about $50; injured, painfully
and seriously, 1900; homeless, several
thousand.
Towns reporting serious wreckage,
l6; habitatiOns and business houses
practically complete ruins in these
towns, about $500.
The above figures do not include the
vreclage on plantations and farms,
scores of which were struck and dam
aged.
The number of dead may never be
known, accurately, for the reaso that
about 300 Of them were negroes and
hey were buried in many communities
Without careful record being made OF
heir numbers. While some of the first
pparentiy reliable death lists have
proven unreliable, nevertheless remote
Jlaces reporting their dead have
served to swell the total death list to
around $50. The manner in which
his death<list has grown for two days
n spite of continued subtractions from
earlier reports has been a melancholy
index of the interstate scope of the
disaster.
Three Death Currents.
By following the wreckage Of towns
the general direction of the t~ornadoes
IAN be traced closely. Apparently, the
storm struck in three separate cur
rents, each describing the arc of a
circle and travelling toward the north
east. The first of these struck through
aorthern Louisiana, Mississippi and
Tennessee before daylight Friday
morning. The second appeared fur
Their south about Z o'clock in Louisiana
md Mississippi. This apparently was
the storm which had swept through
Alabama and Georgia on Friday night
aud Saturday morning. The third por-
ion of the storm appeared during Fri
day afternoon further south than
either-'of its predecessors. This was
the storm which demolished Amite,
La, and Purvis, Miss, the towns in
which the wreckage was worst.
Tornado in Mississippi.
Meridian, Miss, April IA dis
astrous tornado passed through a
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-01

Nineteen women have been elected
70 the Finnish parliament.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-01
Terrible Scenes Follow.

Visitors to the storm scene at Pur-
Wis, McClain, McLaurin and McCallum
bring heartrending reports of infants
torn from mothers arms, children
crushed in the debris of falling houses,
parents carried away in the twinkling
Of an eye from those dependent on
them for bread.
The storm clouds, as usual, seemed
TO travel in the same general direc-
tion--toward northeast. A receipt
vas picked up on the streets Of Ellis
Vile, Miss, signed by a merchant at
Oicke, Miss, a hundred miles away.
Fhe air was full Of floating papers,
caves and twigs. A terrihce cyclone
is reported IN the Mississippi state
iarm at Parchman, doing great dam
age.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-01
STORM P SOUTH
HUNDREDS OF PERSONS WERE
KILLED DURING ITS SWAY.
Whole Business Sections of Towns
Wiped Away-Property Destroyed
Will Reach Millions Of Dollars
East Tennessee Suffered the Most
Mississippi Also in the Path.

Between 500 and 1000 persons lost
their lives and 1900 were injured in
the series of cyclones which swept the
states of Mississippi, Louisiana. Ala
bama, Tennessee and Georgia the last
two days OF last week.
Millions of dollars worth of prop
erty has been wiped out and business
Of the stricken sections has been par
alyzed.
The full horror of the catastrophe
struck when reports began to pour
from ali over the stricken states, show
ing that the disaster was much worse
than earlier reports indicated. Every
point which has reported the visitation
Of the cyclone has shown heavy loss
of life and property.
1t is believed that when all the re-
ports are in they will show that not
fewer than 1000 persons lost their
lives. Telegraph wires are down in
all directions and advices are still
comparatively meager. The heaviest
loss of life is reported from Natchez,
Miss, the capital of Adams county,
and Amite, La, which we're stricken
Friday afternoon, and from the vicin-
ity of Cedartown, Ga, which was
swept by the storm Saturday morning.
East Tennessee, between Chatta-
nooga and Knoxville, along the line
Of the Southern railroad, suffered
more severely from a cyclone early
Saturday than did west Tennessee
and the other portions of the Memphis
district, which suffered Friday morn
ing. The present series Of windstorms,
which + spreading death and de-
struction in their wake, started We'd
nesday in Texas, and has moved
steadily eastward.
Another disastrous cyclone passed
through south Mississippi Friday aft
ernoon. Devastation marks the path
Of the storm. 1t is impossible at this
time to get positive reports, but it is
by far the most desolating storm
which has swept this section of the
country since 1892.
Smyrna times., 1908-11-18
HORRIBLE DEATH RESULTS
FROM BURNING ACCIDENT
MISS ANNIE CULLEN MEETS UN-
TIMELY END ON THURSDAY.
Had Been Raking Fire in Stove When
Her Apron Caught Fire and She
Was Burned to a Crisp.

Miss Annie Quillen, aged IS, house
keeper on the farm of Ralph Jeffer-
son near Brenford met with a horrible
death last Thursday by being burned
to a crisp. Miss Quillen was alone
in the house at the time and had been
rakng the fire when a live coal
caught to her apron. She was com
pletely envelOped' in flames and rush
ing to the window she cried for help.
Mr.. Jefferson was in Smyrna and his
men were off the farm at the time.
A colOred woman living in a tenement
house nearby, heard the cries of Miss
Quillen and seeing the smoke coming
out the window ran to the house and
extinguished the flames Nearly
every stitch of clothing was burned
off of Miss Quillen and her body was
roasted to a crisp. A chair by the
stove in which she had been sitting
was also burned. Word was sent
to Smyrna and Mr.. Jefferson had DR..
Dwight go out to the afflicted woman.
Her wounds were found to be fatal
and she died about 4 O'Clock that
afternoon. There was much sympathy
expressed over the horrible accident.
Miss Quillen was held in high esteem
by all who knew her. She had been
in charge of Mr.. Jefferson house for
! five years and previous to this was
for nine year in charge of the home
of the late George W. Gordon or
Main street, Smyrna. In early life
she Joined AsbVry M. E. Church
and was consistent member. Fun.
eral services were held at the residence
of her mother, Mrs. Annie Quiller
on Cummins street, Smyrna, at Ier
O'Clock Sunday morning and the re
mains were taken to Townsend TO
interment.
Smyrna times., 1908-11-18
GOOD CUNNING SEASON OPENED
Many of Our Local Sportsmen Enjoy a
Good Days Hunt-Rabbits Reported
to be Plentiful in this Vicinity.

The open season for shooting
quail, woOdcOck and rabbits began
Sunday the 18th and Monday sports
men were out in forcea The weather
was ideal and cunning parties lost no
time in getting out. Some of our
sportsmen left for Sussex county.
Rabbits are said to be very plentiful
in this vicinity and several bags of
a dozen or more have been made.
Quail, as usual, is Very scarce in
this vicinity. There seems to be
more woodcOck, however, and some
good sport is being had. One party
made record of seven woodcock
Monday morning. Fortunately no
accidents marred the opening day in
this vicinity. Down the state the
indications are that there will be
plenty of game, particularly rabbits.
1t has been an unusually good sea-
son for the rabbits. The warm
weather, the absence of rain that
sometimes browns the young in their
burrows, and various other things
that have been in their favor. From
every section of the State come re-
ports of plenty of game. The Della
ware game laws are as follows ::
-Op en- season for partridge, quail,
pheasant and rabbit, November Is to
December 81 reed bird and rail bird,
September l to January 81; wild
geese, swan, brant and wild duck,
except summer or wood duck, October
l to April Is; woodcock, July l to
September Is; foxes, September l to
May l squirrel, November l to Jan
uary l. Protected, doves. Prohibited,
hunting by non-residents without
Game Association license member
ship fee for which is SIS for the first
year, and 81 for each succeeding year.
Resident membership fee, So each
year. Entering upon any lands for
purpose of shooting without permis
sion of owner or occupant; use of
swivel or punt gun, or any gun other
than such as are habituallv fired
from the shoulder; shooting in the
night time, or by the use of any
laatern or artificial light; hunting on
Sunday; buying or selling any game
without license from Clerk of the
Peace, except birds shot by seller
duriRg season and sold in his owr
county. hunting while the ground is
covered with snow; buying part
ridges, quails or pheasants under any
conditions; shooting wild fowl on In.
dian river or Rehoboth bay.