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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07
TOWN ALMOST RUINED.
Hundred Kegs Of Powder Explode.
Many Injured.

Huntington, w. va.-At the mining
town of Stamford, Raleigh county,
100 kegs Of powder in powderhouse
exploded Nearly every building in
the town was wrecked and several
people were seriously hurt, the worst
Injured being Postmaster Frank Mum
roe. Several persons were blown out
of their houses. The damage aggre-
gates S2OO,O00
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07
NEW VARIETY OF WHEAT.
Declared 1t Can Be Made to Yield
2eo Bushels an Acre.

Z6U buSHCPS ali ASICs
Spokane, Wash.-The discovery of
a new variety of wheat on the Hog
eve ranch, owned by w. w. Ward,
seven miles from Dayton, Wash,
south of Spokane, which, it is claimed
Il cultivated, will yield two hundred
and eighty bushels an acre, has
aroused intense interest among farm
ers of that section, and Psychologists
are working on its classification,
states a recent report. An interest
inc feature of the species is the head,
which really consists of seven dis
tinct heads, united at common base.
Growers in eastern Washington be-
lieye that il the cereal is found adapt
al tn cultivation, wheat can be made
to Weld seven times as much as or
dinary wheat. John Brining has also
found some of the wheat growing on
his ranch
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07
FLEES WITH LEPER WIFE.
Veteran Of TWO Wars Steals Wife
From Hospital.

Los Angeles, Cal.-Determined that
he would NOT BE separated from his
wife, who is leper, and has been
confined at the county hospital, Brig
adler General David X. Wardwell, re-
tired. veteran of two wars, has stolen
her from the institution and rushed
her across the Mexican border, where
he declares he will live with her I'M
til death separates them.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07
NOTES ARE MET BY RAILROAD.
Gould Road Takes Up Obligation
Consideration Not Made public.

VVIIoINOI NIIVII ~. w.
New York City-Arrangements for
meeting the 100000 of Wheeling
and Lake Erie railroad notes, were
completed by Kuhn, Lorb & Co. and
Blair & Co., bankers, according to an
announcement made Nby the bankers.
It was stated that no issue OF addi-
tional security would be required I'M
der the plan, but the consideration by
which the Could road was enabled to
meet the notes was not made public.
Neither would any of the parties con
nected with the transaction say
whether or not the destiny OF any
Of the Gould railroads was affected
nv the terms of the new agreement.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07
SIX KILLED and SIXTY HURT.
IN FIoht Between French Strikers and
Government Troops.

Paris, France.-Six dead and sixty
injured is the casualty record Of the
hrst day of a general strike declared
Nv the General Federation Of Labor Of
Paris. as demonstration and protest
against the killing Of workmen by
troops at Vigneux. The reports indi-
cate that fifty thousand men Of the
building and allied trades, including
electricians, stopped work.
Premier Clemenceau has instructed
the public prosecutor to proceed to
Vigneuk to open an investigation OF
the riots and to vigorously prosecute
tie luBtigators OF 1t.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07
NO BETTING on. ELECTION.
Il is Eliminated from the Curb Mar
ket in New York.

New York City.-There will be no
election betting on the curb market
in the financial district this year, as
has been the case in recent years
The curb provided center, where,
in some elections, as high as $1,000
600 and 100000 was laid for prin-
cipals by the curb brokers, but, on
account Of the new betting laws, bros
kers said that there would be no
open betting this year.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07
SIX Dead as Result Of Riot.

Uniontown, Pa.-Six dead and rs
others severely injured, some OF them
fatally, are. the results of riot be-
tween Italians and Slavs at Gates, on
the H. g. Frick Coke company plants.
near Masontown. There have been
factional difIerences between the two
races for long time.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-07
Fernie, British Columbia, is Laid
Waste BY Bush Fires.
One HUNDRED LIVES LOST
Over Hundred Square Miles Seeth-
ing Mass of Flame---Greatest Com
flagration in Canada's History.
A A A A A A A A A A A Az A A
A RESULT OF CANADA FIRES. A

AL l0aSC uuHufeQ lives 1CSL, a
A list growing. A
A Seven towns - Fernie, Michel, A
A Coal Greek, Hosmer, Elko, Frank A
A and orrisey-destroyed and sew A
A eral other towns partially de- A
A stroyed. A
A Five hundred thousand tons of A
A coal and coke burned at Fernie. A
A Six thousand homeless people A
A threatened by fire and starva- A
A ton. A
A One hundred square miles en- A
A veloped by red peril. A
A A A A A A A A A A a A A A A A A
Ferenie, B. c., Canada.-As re.
suit of bush fires that started Sun
day, Fernie, B. c., is wiped off the
map; Michel, fourteen miles distant,
is in flames, and Hosmer, Olsen and
Sparwood, intervening townsf were
damaged
More than 100 lives were lost, "a of
them in Fernie. A territory 100
square miles in extent was a seething
mass Of flames. Through it were
scattered hundreds of lumbermen and
prospectors, so that the actual loss
of life will not be known for days.
Much property Of the Canadian Pa
cific and the Great Northern rail-
roads was destroyed, including bridg-
es and rolling stock burned, so that
it was impossible to enter or leave
the burned and burning area Inhab.
itants of the affected town fed to
the open county to seek safety. The
railway camps placed all available
trains at the disposal of refugees. The
whole Of the Crows Nest Pass coun-
try was abandoned to the flames.
The flames were driven by a gale,
making it impossible to put up
a fight against their advance. The
confagration is the greatest which
has ever visited Canada.
There were thousands of mines and
prospectors claims in the track of the
fire.
Fire-fghting apparatus was of no
avail, for the air was filed with frag-
ments Of burning wood, and sheets cf
flames seemed to leap ahead of the
confagration as il the air itself were
in flames. The heat was intense, and
many of the fire-fghters went down
ahead of it.
ottawa, Ontario.-Sir Wilfred Lau-
rier received the following telegram
from Cranbrook, B. c.:
Disastrous fire Kootenay Valley.
Fernie, Hosmer, Crows Nest and 9TH
er places almost completely burned;
Not less than 5000 people homeless
Canadian Pacific railway carrying
them to Elko and Cranbrook. Every
effort is being made locally, but these
are utterly without food or shelter.
Fire covers 70 miles. Seventy lives
lost. Immediate relief required. Tele-
graph instructions at once.
THOMAS ROBERTS, 81
Liberal Association.
~. H. KING, M. Pr
Fernie. B.. c., is a thriving town OF
over 10000 inhabitants in the heart
Of the Canadian Rockies 1t is the
center Of great industrial activity,
and the mines Of the Crows Nest
Pass Coal Company, one Of the larg-
est companies of its kind in the world,
are located here. Since this town was
founded in 1898, it has been totally
destroyed four times by bush fires,
but has been rebuilt after each con-
fiagration better than before.
Gilpin observer., 1908-02-13
Mile-a-Minute Balloon.

Washington.-Peter Cooper Hewitt
of New York, electrical engineer and
inventor of the hydro-plane skimming
boat. intends to build a dirigible bal
loon for the government which will be
more powerful as a fighting machine
than anything now under considera-
tion by the War Department.
He will build the balloon at his own
expense. the machine to be bought by
the government If satisfactory.
Mr.. Hewitt will be aided in his work
by Miller Reese Hutchinson. Both
have received encouragement from
President Roosevelt and the War De-
partment.
The dirigible Mr.. Hewitt expects to
build will be worth from $4,000 to
100000, and will probably make a
speed of sixty miles an hour. Plans
submitted to the signal corps by Mr..
Hewitt have been approved by dirigible
experts.
His proposal is especially welcome
to the signal corps, because no appro-
priation for dirigibles will be made by
Congress this year.
Gilpin observer., 1908-02-13
Shot BY Hold-up.

Pueblo.-In the boldest holdup that
ever occurred in this city, Joe Russ,
young Austrian. was shot dead and
six Of his countrymen routed by a
lone highwayman at ten o'clock Sun.
day night.
The holdup, with its fatal results. is
rendered all the more tragic by the
fact that Russ, after long, hard labor.
had just succeeded in laying by suffi.
cient funds to take him back to his
young wife and child in the old coun.
try and that he had already written
them that he would leave for home
next week.
The affair occurred under the bridge
across Santa Fe street and near the
Eiler smelter. The Austrians were re-
turning home from town when the
bandit stepped out of the shadow and
ordered them. Hold up your hands!"
Instead Of complying with his request
or rushing upon him. the seven, all OF
whom are big. stalwart smelter work
ers, frightened by the bandits gun
fed.
Seeing that his commands were not
obey I'd. the man Shot-once, some Of
the Austrians say; five times, others
affirm. One Of the bullets struck Russ
In the back. passing through his heart
and killing hir Instantly The high.
wayman escaped
Gilpin observer., 1908-02-13
Only Two Battleships.

Washington.-By a vote of thirteen
to five, one member absent and not
voting, the house committee on naval
affairs Monday rejected the Presidents
urgent recommendation that Congress
at this session authorize the building
Of four battleships at a total cost of
$3S.000,000, and by a unanimous vote
there was included in the navy appro-
priation bill an authorization for the
construction of two. to cost $9,500,000
each, and to be Of the Delaware type.
These representatives voted in ac-
cordance with the Presidents recon-
mendations: Lilly of Connecticut,
(Rep); Thomas, Ohio, (Rep.); Myer,
Louisiana, Dem); Talbot, Maryland.
(Dem.), and Hobson, Alabama, (Dem.)
Representative Hobson announced
after the committee meeting that he
intended to make minority report
recommending authorization for four
battleships.
Gilpin observer., 1908-02-13
He Snubbed the Critic.

Look here" said gentleman to a
railway station master. don't you
think that thing is rather dangerous
where
"And," interrupted the official ad.
dressed, who had just been promoted.
you've noticed that barrow, have you,
sir; you're going to make n suggestion
about the place where 1t ought to stand,
suppose? Might go on, sir, and ask
your opinion about the position Of the
booking Office? Do you think that the
signal box Is in the right place?
Shouldn't the station masters house be
shifted a few yards farther west? Any
opinion YOU would like to express, sir,
shall have immediate attention"
The traveller turned away, and the
station master turned around triumph.
antly to the guard Of train waiting In
the gliding.
"Ha! Hal" he laughed. "did you see
the sport had with that old nuisance?'
soon shut him up"
I'm not SO sure OF that" replied the
guard. Hes the traffic manageri"-
.Pearson's Weekly
Gilpin observer., 1908-02-13
Land Claims and Grazing Permits.

Washington.-Chief Forester Pin
chot in his annual report says that al
though lands within national forests
are withdrawn from all forms of entry
or fling except under the mining laws
and the agricultural settlement act OF
June II, 1906. many claims are valid
because initiated prior to the creation
Of the national forests. All alleged
claims must be examined and reported
upon in order that the commissioner
of the General Land Office may be in.
formed If there appears to be any rea.
son why patent should not issue.
Reports on 2,473 claims inside ma
tional forest boundaries were received
from examiners. or this number 1893
mining. 700 homestead, SO desert land,
AZ timber and stone and 90 miscella-
neous claims were transmitted to the
General Land Office for final action:
200 mining, 100 homestead, 10 desert
land and 90 timber and stone claims
were held for further report and 2l5
required no action.
The General Land Office ordered 81
hearings on recommendations OF the
forest service that claims be rejected.
The average number OF cattle and
horses grazed under each permit was
67 head and the average number of
sheep las. This shows conclusively,
says the report, that the small owners
have preference in the use OF the ma.
tional forest ranges.
The total receipts on account OF the
above permits were $S57.S57.S3.
Only eight per cent. OF the applicants
failed to pay the grazing fees and to ac.
cept the permits applied for. and with.
out doubt many Of these will accept
their permits before the close OF the
season. This is exactly the same per.
centage as last year.
Gilpin observer., 1908-02-13

boy or girl who wins over all. This will
be beautiful $50 gold medal.
The work of this club has led to a
most successful organization among
their fathers, which makes the work
of the club permanent.
A New Years Letter.
Colorado State Agricultural College.
Fort Collins, Colo, Jan. 23, 1908.
To the Boys and Girls of the Colorado
Patterson Seed Competition Club.
My Dear Boys and Girls:-I have
just completed the crop report of your
work for 1907. 1t is encouraging, for
it shows progress. regret to say that
some of our members have not yet
threshed, and l must send this letter
without their report being completed.
Some yet to report, will win prize,
which shall take pleasure in sending
to them rs soon as they send me the
pound sample of the threshed grain
and the total number Of pounds
threshed from their measured acre
of grain.
The total number of points for each
competitor was determined on the
same basis as last year. Multiplied
the weight of grain in the hundred
head sample by 25, to which was
added the weight of 1000 kernels
multiplied by 25. The grade or quail
ity was determined on basis Of 1000
points for a perfect grade. The yield
of pounds per acre gave the number
of points for the competitor. Adding
the poin.s won by the 100 head sam
pie, the quality grade and points won
by yield per acre, we have the total
number OF points won by the competi-
tor with each particular grain.
The following are the winners as far
as the report can now be made
Gilpin observer., 1908-02-13
Armored Automobiles.

-Battleships OF the highway,
armored cruisers OF the interior-these
are the strange fighting machines that
have just been purchased by Charles
w. Howbert for the Cieneguita COM
pany for use In carrying samples and
minerals for the mines OF the com.
pany, near Sonora, Mexico, past the
dangerous bands OF Yaqui Indians who
have been infesting the vicinity Of the
mines and even, 1t is said, imperiling
the lives OF those entrusted with the
conveyance Of the valuable minerals.
The machines are nothing but huge
automobiles capable OF carrying
twenty-five armed men, and barricaded
with steel plates. II Is said that each
OF the two machines which are now
on their way to the scene OF their use.
fulness, Is so constructed that In case
Of an accident SO that 1t could no longer
progress 1t would become q very formi.
dable fortress. Provisions can be car.
ried to outlivs . short siege. Il neces.
sary.
Gilpin observer., 1908-02-13
To XIII Wild Horses.

Reno, Nev.-The forestry depart
ment has issued orders to the rang
ers on the Toeylabe, Toquima and
Monitor reserves in Lander county
to kill on sight all wild horses found
on the government domain. There are
about $4,000 wild horses on the re-
serves. They are doing much damage
to vegetation and attracting domestic
animals t. their herds. In tho opinion
OF Attorney General Stoddard, the for
estry department will be fully war
ranted in adopting measures looking to
the determination of the rapidly in
creasing herds.
Gilpin observer., 1908-02-13
Medals for Service.

Fort Logan Colo.-Colonel Williams
and the majors and captains of the
Twenty-first infantry have received
their medals from the War Department
for service In the Spanish-American
war and the Philippine insurrection
They will be furnished to all officers
ana men entitled to them as soon as
they can be supplied. Medals for ser.
vice In :he Indian wars and for those
who participated In the invasion of Chi
ma will be issued later. Recruits were
forwarded from this post to Fort
Myer, Virginia, Fort ID. A. Russell, Wy
oming. and Fort Rosecrans. California,
during the past week.
Gilpin observer., 1908-02-13
coIonIsts Coming to Colorado.

Denver.--Reports from the agent Of
the Colorado Midland at Omaha indi-
cate that the; Is soon to be notice
able movement OF colonists from Ne
braska, Iowa and Kansas into the
Grand valley in this state. It is stated
that thore are twenty-five carloads of
household goods lined up In Omaha
awaiting shipment to Grand Junction
and points In that section Of the state.
The bumper crops of all kind and the
high prices which they have brought
in the past few years are attracting
colonists to this state as nothing has
ever done before
Gilpin observer., 1908-02-13
Portuguese Royal Funeral.


Lisbon.-With church bells tollining
continually, the bodies OF the murdered
king and crown prince, in two golden
chariots shrouded in black velvet and
drawn by eight hooded horses. were
escorted by a glittering funeral page
ant SATURDAY. across Lisbon to the Por-
tuguese pantheon and laid at rest be-
sides their ancestors of the Braganza
dynasty.
Seven hours elapsed from the time
the foreign princes and special ambas
sadors of all the powers gathered at
the palace for the ceremony there. un-
til three salutes of twenty-one guns. re-
verberating over the terraced and sun
bathed hills and answered by the Brit
ish warships in the harbor announced
that the last rites were over.
Not single untoward incident
marred the last act of Portugals trag-
edy. The vague forebodings proved
baseless. and there is a general feel
ing OF RELIEF that all passed well in
view Of the political turmoil.
The Duke of Connaught, Prince
Eitel Frederick and Infante Fernando.
In addition to verbal condolences, pre-
sented personal letters from their SOW
ereigns to the King, who was greatly
touched at these messages. Tears
that were almost constantly in his eyes
several times overflowed.
When the members OF the court and
the special representatives Of foreign
countries entered the chapel for the
last brief service the King remained
behind. Neither he nor the two queens
followed the cortege to the church.
Gilpin observer., 1908-02-13
Twenty Thousand Acres Of seets.

Denver.-A Greeley dispatch says:
Already arrangements have been made
by the farmers and the sugar company
for raising 10000 acres OF beets In
this district this year. Heretofore IL
has been necessary to ship In labor dur
Ing the beet season. but this win not be
the case this year. and the 300 Rus
SLAMS, Japanese and Mexicans required
to handle the beets are permanent resi-
dents. The sugar company predicts
that In Ave years the beet crop OF the
district will be grown by Russians and
Japanese to whom the farmers viii
rent their lands.
Gilpin observer., 1908-02-13
FARMERS FORMING A UNION.
Equity Society Pushes Its Organization
In Colorado.


Denver. - Colorado farmers have
taken up a national movement for Or
ganization and within the last two
months 1000 have enrolled themselves
in the Farmers Equity Scciety-a
farmers union, says the Denver Re-
publican. Union labor seems to be
reaching cut and tying up with two ex-
tremes in the state. Recent evidences
have been advanced where one union
formed a compact with a trust and now
the whole power of organized labor in
Colorado proposes combination with
the farmers. Any old alliance to win,
seems to be the motto, and already
there is talk of the farmers and labor
ers going to the polls together.
Yet the American Federation of La
Dor has several times refused to issue
charter to the Farmers Equity So
ciety, although that body has applied
for one. The A. F. of l.. has accepted
the advances of the society, but has
not admitted it to the laboring ranks
for the reason that there are great
number of farmers in it who own their
own farms and are therefore to be
classed with the capitalists.
In Boulder, Weld and Jefferson coun-
ties the movement has become large
and within the next sixty days a con-
vention will be held at Golden where
the labor ranks will be one Of the prin-
cipal topics OF discussion.
1t has been asked what the two
bodies have in common. This was an
swered by Max Morris, fourth vice
president of the American Federation
of Labor last night, who said that the
ultimate object is to sell the product
of the producer NJ the consumer direct.
1t is said that the society intends to
establish distributing points where the
middleman may secure goods and sell
at retail without being forced to pay
extortionate rates to trusts. 1t is one
plan for the abolition of trusts-the
most ambitious trust-busting scheme
that has been devised for many years.
Necessarily, this plan will require
years to work out. At least the trusts
have not displayed great deal of con-
cern yet.
The society of farmers has, it is said,
a membership of over 1000 900 persons.
and is ve-y strong in Texas and Okla
homa. AS a political power it has
great promises.
Since its inception two years ago it
has sent fraternal delegates to the A.
F. of l.. conventions, where they are
given a voice. Many central labor
bodies Of various cities have also ad-
mitted the farmers to membership and
it is possible that a closer amalgama-
tion may be effected in Colorado. Mr..
Morris would not commit himself on
what attitude labor leaders of the state
take toward such a union, but said that
the principal bodies of centralized la
Dor would have delegates at the con-
vention in Golden. The society has
been working here through local execu-
tive committees, drumming farmers
association seems TO be more for politi-
into line. Farm hands as we'll as own
ers are said to be admissible to mem-
bership. At present the object of the
cal purposes than anything else.
Gilpin observer., 1908-02-13
ANNUAL SEED
Competition
WINNERS OF CASH PRIZES IN THE
SEED COMPETITION
CLUB.
AWARDED BY PROF. oLlN
coNGRATuLAToRY LETTER BY
SENATon PATTERSON, DONOR
OF THE GIFT.

Fort Collins.-The annual letter from
Professor Olin of the Colorado College,
who has the direction of the seed COM
petition Club, is given below. The
prizes were awarded at the annual
meeting of the Colorado Grain & Seed
Growers Association, at Denver, on the
23d of January.
This year $400 in prizes will be
given for this seasons grain. At the
close of the season s1,250 in prizes
will be given as term prizes to those
who have been prize winners for the
seasons of 1906, 1907 and 1908. A
sweepstakes prize will be given to the