Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-09-10

day that a man had been shot during
the Chisholm fire for Letting the burn
ing structures. The police and the
Chisholm authorities deny any knowl-
edge of the affair.
The militia arrested eleven more
looters yesterday. making total of
ninety who are in custody of the po-
lice. They will be bound over to the
grand jury.
In a shack at the Shenango mine
location. near the ruined city of CHS
holm, several wagon loads of plumber
from the town were found yesterday
by the militia.
A new Chisholm is to rise from the
smoking enbers of the burned city
where the forest fire that swept
through it Saturday destroyed 800
buildings and caused a loss in the
neighborhood of $750,000.
The only buildings left standing are
the old high school, valued at $4,000;
the new high school, $150,000; the
Catholic church, the Methodist church
and thirty frame dwellings on the out
skirts of the town.
Will Be Fireproof.
The new town of Chisholm that is
to rise on the ruins of the old is to be
fireproof The citizens of the RACED
range town have so expressed them
selves and the city council, meeting
amid the blackened ruins Of the
place yesterday. SO decreed.
Property owners of the burned town
met in the high school building over
looking the ruins and adopted unan-
imous resolution asking the council
to pass an ordinance fixing a fire linn
it in the new town and decree that
within this section all new buildings
shall be of brick, cement or stone. At
a meeting or the council held immedi-
ately after this, such an ordinance
was quickly framed and passed.
Cheerful and Hopeful.
At the meeting of property owners
there we're many pathetic figures.
Men who two days ago were rated as
wealthy were yesterday no better off
financially than the beggars in the
streets. Many of them had nothing
but the clothes they wore, yet they
were cheerful and hopeful. This hand
full of seventy-fiye of the former chief
property owners of Chisholm stood
up, one after another. in the meeting
and told some of them with tears in
their eyes, of their willingness to
bind themselves by ordinance to erect
costly structures of brick and stone
On the ruins of Saturday.
Begin Building at Once.
Chisholm viii be rebuilt bigger and
grander than before, was the theme
of this meeting of the despoiled citi-
zens. This slogan is already being
carried into effect On the ash-streWn
site of the burned town. Sixteen
wagon loads of lumber were hauled to
the place yesterday, and temporary
shacks are going up rapidly,
At the meeting of property owners
yesterday permanent arrangements
were made for handling the work Of
relief in the stricken city.
Caring for Refugees.
Hibbing, Mimi, Sept. 9.-The work
of caring for the fire refugees is grad
ually being transferred from here to
Chisholm. The Duluth, Messabe &
Northern has taken three cars Of sup
plies to Chisholm, and the re ief COM
mittee is prepared to care for the suf-
ferers in good shape.
Plan More Relief.
st. Paul, Sept. 9.-To plan relief for
stricken towns on the fiame-swept
iron range the city council has been
called to meet to-day in special ses-
sion In his proclamation the mayor
has called upon the civic bodies of
the city to send representatives to the
meeting.
The governor will send a follOWup
communication TO every mayor and
village president in the state, asking
their cooperation in receiving funds
for Chisholm and other towns in the
fire belt.
More relief is needed Immediately
Practically every one in Chisholm was
rendered destitute by the fire. The
country is not thickly settled, so that
supplies must come some distance.