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Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01
Virginia.
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thinking of making a purchase. Don't
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Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01
FINE FARM IN THE ALFALFA
-

12O-ACRE FARM, 4 miles town, broom
house, barn 25X40, must be sold this month ;
snap at $35 per acre; good terms Louis
Michel Fort Scott Kan.Cs
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01
OFFERED FOR RENT

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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-22
GEN. NAVARRO
IN DIRE STRAITS
Revolutionists Have Him Sur
rounded and His Food Sun.
plies Cut OFF

Chihuahua, Mexico, Dec. 22.-Ru.
mors of the last three days that Gen.
Navarro has been surrounded by the
insurrectos are confirmed this after
noon by an American who left Peder.
males, the scene Of operations, on
Monday afternoon. According to this
observer Navarro personally is unin-
jured and remains at the head Of q
detachment Of troops numbering $50
at the village of Pedernales. He de-
scribed their position there as SO pre-
carious that scarcely a soldier could
poke his head from the protection Of
the houses without being fired upon.
In Chihuahua no American cares to
have his name used in connection
with the war news because the sue
cess of his business depends upon the
governmental good will. The Ameri-
can who brought the news talked un-
der pledge of secrecy. He states
that while he saw only $50 of Navar-
ro's forces at Pedernales, he believes
that the remainder of the outfit mum.
bering $50 persons, were posted in
other positions. He declared the
mountain surrounding Pedernales
swarmed with revolutionists. He ad-
ded that SO complete is the invest
ment that Navarro is hard pressed for
food for his men.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-22
FIRE
CLAIMS ELEVEN

Philadelphia, Dec. 22.-Fourteen
known dead, thirteen firemen and one
police, and more than fifty injured of
whom twenty-five are still in the hos
pitals, is the record of last nights
fire at the leather factory Of Daniel
Friedlander in this city. These
figures we're given out by the police
at noon today and the city officials
believe they have accounted for all
the men who were at work at the fire
when the several walls of the five
story building fell in on them. OF
the injured. several are in a critical
condition and may die. What is be-
lieved to be the last body in the
ruins was taken from the ice-coated
mass Of debris shortly before noon.
The Friedlander factory was five
story building on the west side Of
Bodine street and ran west. the rear
extending to the east side Of Third
street. The building has been COM
pletely burned out and the fire con-
fined within the four walls. Fireman
Glazier, who was pinned under the
debris, was rescued at 1880 o'clock
today after having been held helpless
by the heavy timbers for thirteen
hours. He was conscious and was
rushed to a hospital. There the doc
tors said he could not live as both
legs are broken. He is injured in
ternally and there are conclusions
all over his body.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-22
DESPERATE PLIGHT
Murders Caused BY the Starvation q
the People

Victoria, B. c., Dec. 22-News was
brought by the steamship Aymeric to-
day of loss of life and famine caused
by floods in the Anhui province Of
China. Two and a half million per-
sons are in the suffering region. Rev.
e. c. Lobensteins, returning mis-
sionary from North Anhui said:
$50 desperate are the people that
thousands have formed bands to rob
any who have food supplies. For
weeks scarcely a night passed without
many murders.
Great loss of life was caused by
the floods. The rise of water swept
away scores of villages and multi
tudes were drowned. A railroad en-
gineer reported that one Of the bridges
near his station had been choked up
with bodies and he had been impris-
oned two days in the upper part of
a temple before being rescued by a
boatman.
"The situation during the winter
will be terrible, far worse than dur
ing the famine three years ago. The
starving can be reckoned by hun
dreds Of thousands. Relief commit
tees should be organized at once. "
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-22

manufactures. In cooperation with
the forest service of the department
Of agriculture, the bureau Of the CEN
sus annually collects and publishes
statistics pertaining to this group Of
lumber and timber industries.
Telephone and telegraph companies
reported purchases during 1909 of g.
$4,000 poles, or seventy-eight per
cent of the total. This was an in
crease over 1908 in the number re-
ported as bought by this class of u.s.
ers Of 354.000 poles. or fourteen per
cent. and over 1907 of 604.000 poles,
or twenty-six per cent Steam rail-
roads reported the purchase of twen-
ty-six per cent more poles in 1909
than in 1905. though thirty-four per
cent less than in 1907, while the re-
ported purchases by electric railroads
and electric light and power COM
panies were eighteen per cent greater
than in 1908 and seven per cent less
than In 1907.
There was little change in the av-
erage cost per pole of all lengths and
from all species of wood in 1909. as
compared with 1908, it being $1.S9 in
the later and $1.S2 in the earlier year.
The average cost per pole, $2.46, in
1907, was substantially larger than in
either of the later years, mainly for
the reason that class of pole con-
sumers in the United States which
uses chiefly short poles was not in
cluded in the census for 1907.
Cedar continues to be the principal
pole timber, contributing sixty-five
per cent Of the total purchases in
1909. sixty-eight per cent in 1908. and
sixty-four per cent in 1907. Chestnut.
after cedar, was used in greatest
quantity in all three years, forming
sixteen per cent Of the total in 1909,
per cent in 1907. Among the remain
ing species, the increase in the num-
Der of oak poles reported as purchas-
ed during the last three years Is note
worthy; more than three times as
many poles from this species having
been reported as purchased during
1909 as was the case in 1907.
Substantial progress in the practice
Of treating poles with chemicals to
preserve them from decay is disclos-
ed by the returns for 1909, nearly
one-sixth Of the total purchases dur
ing that year having been given some
preservative treatment. as against
about one-tenth in 1908 and one
eighth in 1907.
OF the total outlay during 1909
81 ,621, 900, for cross-arms, brackets
and insulator pins. the telegraph and
telephone companies contributed six
ty-three per cent. electric railroads
and electric light and power COM
panies thirty-two per cent. and steam
railroads four per cent.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-22
TELEPHONE POLES
HEAD THE LIST
More Used For This Purpose
Than Any Other Overhead
Wire Industry

Washington, Dec. 22.-The total
number Of poles reported to the bu-
reau Of the census as purchased dur
ing the calendar year 1909 by the tel
egraph and telephone companies.
steam and electric railroads. and
electric light and power companies Of
the United States was $780, 900. as
against 3,249.000 in 1908 and 3.2s3.000
in 1907. There were purchased in
1909 by the same class of users 81
500, 900 cross-arms. 6.16S,000 brack-
cts, and 1S,463,000 insulator pins.
Cross-arms., brackets. and insulator
pins were not included in the annual
census Of lumber and timber pro-
ducts prior to 1909.
This information appears in . pre-
liminary comparative report covering
1909, 1908. and 1907. which was trans
mitted today to Census Director Du-
rand by Chief statistician William NJ.
Steuart, under whose supervision 1t
by ]. e. Whelchel, ex-
peFt special agent Of the division Of
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-22
TO REMOVE PLANTS
Railroads Must Get Gas Plants Out.
side the Cifv

New York, Dec. 22-That railroad
companies, to prevent repetition Of
Mondays disaster, will be compelled
to remove their gas plants outside the
city limits, was indicated today in a
report by the municipal explosive
commission. Following an investiga-
tion of the disastrous explosion which
cost ten lives at the Grand Central
station. the commission reported that
1T will be necessary for railroads to
arrange to gas all their cars at 4
point outside the borough Of Man
haitian"
The report adds that danger exists
"in the possibility of the wrecking Of
a tank car and the explosion Of the
volume Of gas, thus released. and that
such an explosion could readily take
place in the tunnel"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-22

vouring flames. AS the recovered
bodies were brought out, mangled.
scorched, shapeless masses, the jury
itself forgot its duties of inquiry and
Joined with feverish effort. the hun
dreds of civilians who were lending
a hand to the firemen.
Out at her Ashland boulevard home.
Mrs. Horan, the wife Of the marshal.
learned she was q widow and disbe-
lieved until assured by the newspaper
reporters, when she swooned in the
midst of her four little children. She
was prostrated and has required
medical attention.
Origin Of Blaze.
!. The blaze was first discovered
about 4 o'clock by a watchman in the
Morris and company beef house al
Forty-Third and Loomis streets. An
ammonia pipe bursted and started 9
combustion that spread
so quickly that the watchman barely
had turned in the fire alarm before
the flames began bursting from the
building. BY the time Fire Marshal
Horan arrived his assistants, who
had reached the scene earlier, had
abandoned all efforts to save the beei
house and were endeavoring to head
of the rush Of the hre towards the
other buildings. 49,.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-22
TWENTY.E|GHT F|REMEN KILLED IN CRASH
OF HOT WALL IN CHICAGO STOCK YARDS FIRE
Wooden Canopy of Morris and Companys Beef House Col
apsed While Department Chief Was Leading the Battle
Against Fire Demon Which Already Caused Property
Loss of $1500OOO Besides Awful Toll of Life

Chicago
and packers for
will than fifty rushed
ambs< and private automobiles
At afternoon
ed but the
bodies
until
buildings
house and other structures The fire
o0ook this morning Mayor Busse
afternoon action
Burrough charnelhe at
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-22

who had stationed themselves on the
further end Of the roof narrowly es-
capped being struck by the flying
debris. They managed to Chamber
down the fire escapes In time to es-
cape.
The flames were billewing out of
several structures nearby when the
marshal arrived and the inferno was
blisterlng the hands and faces of the
pipemen and truck1men who were
sticking by their positions under the
encouragement Of their commanders
who, themselves, We're burned and
blistered by the fierce heat.
The awning. which, later became the
destroyer of score Of lives, SEEM
ed to offer shelter from the swelter-
ing waves Of. heat that radiated for
several hundred feet from the. fire
with blistering eftset. Under this,
the i'll. fated crews fled for shelter.
led by, Horan. Burroughs and Fitz-.
gerald On the top 9f the canopy an
other group Of hremen with their
backs to the roasting fiames,g still
played streams Of water into the heart
of. the, fire. sudd4nly Lieutenant
John Maekey, the ls1 der Of the brave
band above. felt ties well going and
shouted a warning t6 those below.
He jumped with his band and escap-
ed death. But before the warning
could be needed the victims and fire
fighters were engulfed with roar.
Meanwhile=the firemen who knew
nothing Of this, and augmented by the
constantly arriving aids, were stand
ing In the path Of the stalking flames.
They stood their ground at building
after building, only to be driven back
at last. blistered, scalded' by the
stream from their own hose and with
lungs scarcely able to furnish fresh
air.
Assistant Marshal Seyferlich, on
whom now lay the command, realiz-
ing the futility of saving the proper
ty then ablaze, drew all the men back
to a firm stand in the lee of the flames.
Steady streams Of water from one
whole fire company, which Seyferlich
directed to drench the fatal pyre, had
cooled it to some extent an hour aft
er the fire had come onto the help
less victims. Seyferlich, unable to
betake himself far from the mass un-
der which his superior and his brave
comrades lay, declared he heard a
voice. It was about 10:30 o'clock.
several hours after the fatal fall. A
shouted command brought another de-
tachment OF firemen from nearby
posts who tore at the pile of debris
with their bare hands. axes and poles
in q feverish hope that some Of the
crew still were alive. Four bodies
we're recovered In few minutes.
Coroner Hoffman arrived early and
impaneled a coroner's fury which sat
in horrified silence watching the de-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-22

Chicago, Dec. 22-Flre Marshal
James Horan and between twenty
i've and thirty Of his firemen were
killed. and forty others injured today
in IRE which at an early hour
caused $1,250,000 damage and at 10
q. m. o'clock this morning still threat
ened the whole Of Chicago's great
stock yards. The wooden canopy fell
from the beef house of Morris and
company where the IRE started. car
rying with It tons Of red hot bricks
and debris upon to the two companies
Of firemen and the chief. crushing
them to death and incasing their
bodies in veritable furnace into
which their comrades were unable to
dig for several hours, so that practi-
cally all those who were not killed
outright when the walls fell were
roasted to death before help could
come to them. Assistant Chief VIM.
Burroughs and Lieutenant Fitzgerald
were with the marshal under the
fatal canopy when It fell and went
down to their death with Marshal
Horan. The other hremen, witnesses
for a brief time deserted other parts
s,of the blasS.ing structure md rushing
to the pyfe. sought With their bare
hands to- drag apart the glowing
bricks and debris to bring the body
Of their chief and his ill-fated COM
rades to what safety remained for
them. Finding this q vain effort they
obeyed again the direction of Assist
ant Marshal seyferlich and redoubled
their efforts to shut in the spreading
area of destruction. .
The general alarm brought Mar
shall Hofan from his home on the
west side Of the city and as soon as
he reached the scene, he took up the
task Of directing his men. With Bat
TALON Chief Burroughs he led a line
Of pipemen and truckmeu to the east
entrance Of the building and the bat
tie against the flames was taken up
from beneath the heavy long wooden
canopy which hung menacingly above
them. Apparently not noticing their
danger, the firemen crowded beneath
this death trap, and then with the
roar Of an explosion and the tumb-
ling tons Of bricks, the fire chief of
the department, together with more
than q score OF his aides were lost
to view from their comrades. In less
time than It would take to tell it,
word spread among the firemen that
their leader has gone down under the
ruins and their efforts were doubled
in attacking the furnace-like building
which was now enveloped from the
ground to the roof by the flames.
Still Burning.
At 11:25 O'Clock the fire was still
burning fercely.;, An explosion oc-
CURED on the top floor of warehouse
No. s and the roof was blown into the
air. The flames shot skyward and
half q dozen companies Of firemen
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-22
Will Wait Ten Days at Re-
quest of the Anti-Saloon
League
TEMPERANCE BODIES WANT
ALL IND|AN TREATIES HELD
This Would Restrict Sale of Iutoxicst.
Ing Liquors on All Ceded Indian
Lands in the State, Including the
Cities of Minneapolis and Duluth.

Washington. Dec. 22.-At the re-
quest of representatives of the anti
saloon league, the w. C. T. U. and
other reform organizations, President
Taft has postponed for ten days the
rendering of decision as to restrict
ing the dry zone in Minnesota. The
temperance bodies are opponents Of
the movement to abrogate a number
of the old Indian treaties which for
bid the sale of intoxicating liquors
on any of the Indian reservations in
the state. The old reservation lines
include large portion of Minne-
apolis. Duluth and other cities.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-22
TWO ENGL|SHMEN
CAUGHT SPYING
Were Sentenced to -Four Years
Imprisonment by the Ger
man Court

Leipsic. Germany, Dec. 22.-Captain
Bernard Frederick Trench of the
British royal marine infantry, and
Lieutenant Vivian H. Brandon Of the
Royal navy. were today found guilty
Of espionage upon the German for
tifications at Borkum and sentenced
each to four years. Imprisonment in
the fortress.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-22

fortunate. The supreme court holds
in that case that the fact that men,
ber Of the jury was allowed to sepa-
rate himself from the other jurors for
a time while he fed his horse. was not
a proper ground for new trial, par
ticularly as such juror. made an af-
fidavit that he had talked to no one
while absent from the remainder of
the jury. Gottlieb will. as result
OF this decision, have to serve time.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-22

London, Dec. 22.-The king has
summoned the prime minister to Lon
don from, Edinburgh. The nature Of
the conference which his majesty is
to have with Mr.. Asquith is Of course
not known, but 1t is likely the gener-
al political aspect will be gone into
thoroughly.
King George has taken marked
Interest In the general elections
which have Just ended. and 1t 10 GER
tain that he has no wish to see an
other dissolution Of parliament for q
long time.
As the new parliament now stands,
the Liberal government in coalition
with the Nationalists, regular and in
dependent, and the labor members
holds 39s seats, as against 272 held
by the Unionists, a majority Of 1875,
or tmo more than in the last parlia-
nsen.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-22
NOVEL CASE
Self Confessed Murderer Released ON
Parole to Spend Christmas With
4 FAMILY @,sE

Plttsburg. Dec 22-John Bennett,
20 years old, veteran aof the civil
war, who pleaded guilty Of murder.
was freed on parole today by Judge
Robert s. Frazer, that he might
realize his wish to be at home with
his family at Christmas. Bennett has
been in GAIL since October 15. The
action Of the court In allowing the
prisoner to go. is without precedent
in. this country. Bennett shot and
killed Carl Peterson last October. Pet
erson had beaten Bennett and had
then followed him home and insulted
Benefits wife. According to the tes-
timony in the hearing, the old veteran
rtottered to q corner Of the room.
reached for his old army musket and
fired at Peterson. killing him Instant
ly.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-22
BRADWARD|NE HAS
DISASTROUS FIRE
Business Section of Manitoba
Town Was Swept by Con
flagration Yesterday

Winnipeg, Dec. 22.-The business
portion of Bradwardine, Man, a small
town, was wiped out by fire which
started yesterday. The places de-
stroyed included Ortenburg, Field and
company, the Hassey-Sartis company,
the Beaver Lumber company and the
Bank of Hamilton. The loss will
reach $685. 900.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-22
GOOD FELLOWS
City Horses Will Have Christ.
mas Dinner of Oats and Hay.

Kansas City. Mo-, Des. 22.-All the
horses Of Kansas City have been in
vited by the humane society to at
tend Christmas dinner. Each horse
will receive large sack Of oats and
hay.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-22
SOUTH DAKOTA
CITIES GROWING
Aberdeen More Than Doubled
Population During Last
Ten Years

Washington. Dec. 22.-The popula-
tion statistics of the Thirteenth CEN
sus issued today by the census bureau
included the following for South Da-
kota: Aberdeen, 1888 in 1910; 4,0S7
in 1900. Lead, 1892 in 1910; 6,21O in
1900. Sioux Falls. 14,094 in 1910:
1926 in 1900.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-22
FOUND NOT GUILTY.

Minot, N. D., Dec. 22.-May Eckert,
charged with maintaining common
nuisance In Minot, was declared not
guilty in the county court. u
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-22

Total Vote.
The aggregate votes cast for
the respective parties were 40
follows:
Liberals ..2.2so.7ss
Nationalist ........... 129,618
Total for the coalition. .2,804,644
Unionist .2,410.049
Coalition majority. 394,595
In the election Of January.
1910, which was fought on the
same lists, which were then
new, the aggregate votes were:
Liberal coalition. ...3,540.S24
Unionist- ..............3,051,947
4 Coalition majority. Z. 4ss.s77
It will be noted that the
I combined aggregates show q
j falling on Of shr1nkage Of II
& SS77;578' Votes from those OF the
previous January. This
shrinkage was principally caus-
ed by the increased number OF
members, whose return was
unopposed, giving the electors
no opportunity to register their
votes. .
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-22

!. THE WEATHER. .
North Dakota Fails ten1Rht and :
Friday. Colder tonlgh :
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tLontinusa on pags 81
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1t appears here, that Of taking over
banks instead Of permitting them to
nlnse their doors In the ordinary way
and having an association and liqui-
dating them; their notes are good.
their deposits are secure; Of course all
OF those things help to preserve con-
t,dence Of the public in your banking
system and do away with runs. but
perhaps in country the size Of the
United States it would be impossible
for us to run upon those lines. I
mean to have an association and keep
track Of the banks and take them over
and liuuidate them.
: Mr.. Coulson.-The Canadian bank
ing system has never been In such q
stress as you have. II we had been
run upon for anything like the extent
you were in 1907, we do not know
where we would be We would be
simply In universal suspension until
we gained q head. The standing Of
all banks is such, and their securities
spread from one end to the other, Il
would be almost Impossible to create
q want Of confidence In them % you
hold out.
Question.-On account Of their mu.
tual support largely :
Mr.. Coulson.-On account Of their
strong positions with their large paid.
up capital and large paid-up reserve.
and none Of the largest banks have
ever had any trouble in that way.
onestion.-Is It your opinion that
supporting and standing by each other
gives the confidence, and liquidatin9
different banks. and paying OF the
depositors?
Mr.. Coulson.-Tha all helps. and
We have q large paid-up capital and
patd-up reserve, and upon that the
government returns are issued from
month to month and tho people can
use them.
q. Rank Nofo Cinanl.faon -.