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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-03-25
NEAR THOUSAND
DEAD Or INJURED
TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY
FIVE KILLED IN STORM-60i
ON INJURED LIST.
CYCLONES, FLOODS. fires
Wire Communication Destroyed and
Messengers Go by Train to Lin
coin to Send News.

CHICAGO, March Totals Of the
dead and injured in tD> rack Of Sun
days storm are as follows. according
to rnnorts receiVed tonight,
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Message From ireland.

OKLAHOMA CITY, March "a. -
The Irish. through their national lead
er. John Redmond. of the British
house Of commons. expressed appre-
citation of the resolution passed 10y the
pklahoSl legislature congratuating
the Irish upon securing home rule In
a communication read in the house
Monday The communication was
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-03-25

OMAHA. Neb., March 24-Moro
than 200 persons were killed and 400
injured in a windstorm that demol-
ished $50 homes. damaged hundreds
of other buildings and caused a mon
etary loss of S5,000,000. according to
reports available up to a late hour to-
night from the main path Of the tor
nado In and near Omaha.
Most of the casualties were in
Omaha. Nearby towns in Nebraska
and across the Missouri river in Iowa
suffered severely. Wires were snapped
of in all directions and 1t took many
hours to gather and circulate news Of
the disaster.
Heavy Rain Followed.
Fire broke out in the debris of many
wrecked buildings In the Nebraska
metropolis, and these were menaces
for some time, as the fire companies
were hindered by fallen walls and
blockaded streets. A heavy rain fol-
lowed the wind however, and drench-
ed the hundreds Of homeless persons,
but also put out the flames.
OF the 202 known dead in the area
covered by the storm, l52 were resi-
dents Of Omaha. The remaining dead
are scattered over a corriderable
range of territory. with Council Bluffs
reporting ~; Yutan, Neb., 16l Berlin,
Neb. I; Glenwood. Iowa, 5; Nicola.
Iowa, 2, and Bartluett. Iowa, 8. The
same cities and towns report an ag-
gregate Of 400 injured and 45O homes
demolished.
1900 Are Homeless.
Pehaps fifteen hundred persons are
homeless. Aside from this, 5000
buildings were more or less damaged.
some of them being churches and
school bpildings. Eight of Omaha's
public schools were wrecked.
All forms of communication were
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hour before many school children ON
their way home, pass through the
subway to avoid crossing the railroad
tracks. The sidewalk Was also de-
molished, and the guard rail torn
and twisted.
The work was done by w. s. Pease,
a contractor, and brother-in-law Of Y.
G. Hughes, city engineer. The cost,
was about $4,000 and the present
damage is estimated at $500 to $1,000.
The work was inspected by T.. r.
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TULSA, March 2i.-Tempera-
tlre, maximum 40, minimum 40,
s winds; cloudy; rainfall in.
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WASluNGTON, Mar ST.
Forecast for oklahoma Unset
tied Tuesday ana "Wednesday
with rain or snow.
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f.5OO Are Homeless.

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The Washington herald., 1913-10-10
ST. PETERSBURG
BY GEORGE FITCH,
Author of "At Good Old Siwash."

St Petersburg. the capital of Rus
STA, was built to order for Peter the
Great, and forms the largest single job
ever done for one man.
Peter the Great desired new CAPT
! tai, where the facilities for skating
and bathing. as well as warship build
| ing, were greater. and for that reason
/ he laid out st. Petersburg in 1902. 1t
is situated a short distance under the
caves OF the Arctic circle. on the
swampy shores OF the River Neva.
which wanders through the streets
with impunity during the spring.
St. Petersburg has a million and a
half people, a vast number of whom
are entirely satisfied with the govern
ment, being on the imperial pay roll
II is built on both sides of the Neva,
which is walled in with granite. but
climbs the walls in flood time like a
small boy going after apples. Like
smaller towns which are divided into
two hostile parts, St. Petersburg has
most Of its public Institutions on the
islands in the river. thus obviatinE
jealousy between the north and south
sides.
St. Petersburg has scores of great
palaces. forts. and arsenals. and is
decorated with vast numbers of
churchs with tUrnip- shaped spires. It
has wide streets filled with mOtOrless
carriages. soldiers. and whiskers. ST.
Petersburg is the worlds greatest
whisker emporium, and the BARRIERS
union of the city holds its meetings
around a small table.
st. Petersburg is one Of the few
cities in the world which has not been
shot at Situated so far north that the
firemen put out CONGREGATIONS by bonn
harding them. with ice cakes. and an
unfrozen water pipe is a novelty. hos
tile armies have always become dis
couraged before reaching it. However,
the city does not lack for excitement.
Lodge, No. !, of the United Order OF
Anarchists. makes its headquarters in
the city and conducts "A general bomb
The Washington herald., 1913-10-10
FRANCE HASN'T THE MEN.
Bound to De Left Behind in War
Race with Germany.
Frnm the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
The French War Office has won its fight
for the extension of the term of military
service from two years to three. This
will enable it to increase the size of the
army so as to keep pace with Germany.
Under the two years system the army
has consisted of only $1,000 men available
for use in Europe, while Germany has
now no fewer than $4,000. Such disparity
was intolerable, and so the three years
system was demanded, under which the
army will be increased by 10000 men,
bringing its total up to $4,000 men.
II is a bitter reflection to FrenChmen,
however, that even under the three years
system, which drafts recruits at twenty
instead of twenty-One years. France can
not yet keep up with Germany under the
two years system, and there must be
certain fearful looking forward to the
time when some further and more strin-
gent measure will be needed to keep the
French army somewhere near the Ger
man in numbers For it is mathematl-
Cally certain that a country with a small
and stationary population cannot keep
up with one with a far larger and Rapidly
growing population without resOrting to
extraordinary means.
The radical trouble in France is the
low birth rate and consequently station
airy population. Unless that trouble IS
remedied it is certain that in few years
further extension of the term of service
will be needed to keep the army up to the
required size, and that process will have
to be repeated at intervals until eXhaus-
ton sets a limit. 1t will not take many
repetitions to impose upon France a
burden that cannot be borne A few more
such victories by her War Office and she
will be undone,
The Washington herald., 1913-10-10
THE WOOD BISON.
Explorers Killed by EsIximos Dis
covered Almost Extinct Species.

From the New York Times.
The report of the murder by Eskimos
of Explorers II. W. Radford and George
Street transmitted by Commissioner
Peary, Of Regina, Canada, for an Inves-
tigation of the Hudson Bay district. re-
cords serious loss to geological science.
The Smithsonian Institution received last
year from Mr.. Radford, who left this
city for the. North in January 1909. the
first definite evidence of a species of
bison. unknown to the Western prairies,
inhabiting Northwestern Canada in the
region OF the Great Slave Lake. The
skeleton and skull of the wood bison
now in the National Museum at Wash
ington are the only specimens Of the
kind in the world. Mr.. Radford killed
his wood bison In a herd OF $50, found in
rugged and precipitous mountain re-
Gion far from any prairie, and in a part
OF the continent geologically older than
the prairie regions.
The prairie buffalo is almost extinct
But it is probable that, by the efforts of
lpublic-spirited men like DR.. W. T Hor-
naday, the few descendants OF the vast
herds of bison that once overran the
prairies will be perpetuated. Prior to Mr.
Radford's Yerihcation of reports con-
corning the bison of the Great Slave
Lake. DR.. Hornaday was Of the opinion
that they were a northernmost herd of
the familiar type of the plains. II is now
the belief of all American naturalists
that the wood bison is a distinct species
perhaps the ancestor of the prairie buff
falo. The two varieties may yet have
free range in the great national parks
and may be permitted to multiply under
the protective care of the civilization
that all but destroyed them. The wood
bison is more massive, broader and big
ger in every way than the bison of the
great West: a generation hence may
witness their increase in great numbers
as a proper substitute for the nearly ex-
terminated species. But II is of impor-
lance that the records gathered by Mr..
Radford and his companions should be
recovered and made the basis of further
attempts TO win back this lately dis.
covered species TO its place of vantage
among American fauna.
The Washington herald., 1913-10-10
The New Russian Navy.

Russia has been rebuilding her navy
ever since the war with Japan, and
the cruise OF a feet Of four Russian
warships in British and French waters
may be put down as having another
purpose than the one OF returning
naval cOur;esies. Last year a British
squadron visited Reval, on the Baltic
Sea. and was cordially received This
autumn Admiral Won Essen leads what
Russia regards as a model fleet to
British and French ports to recipro-
cate the British visit and incidentally
show Europe that Russia has not aban-
doned its ambition to become a great
naval power. The feet is composed
OF four battleships, five cruisers, four
torpedo-boat destroyers, and a trans
port
The flagship is the Rurik, an ar
mored cruiser of $1,000 tons and 81
knot speed. Most Of the fleet is fresh
from the shipbuilding yards. The ad-
miral is one Of the few naval officers
who gathered any laurels in the war
with Japan, and hi, selection for COM
mand of an exhibition fleet may be
considered as an intimation that Rus
STA intends to get out of the routine
that has 50 long handicapped individual
talent. Whether Russia ever will real
ize its aspiration to he formidable on
the sea is open to question The Rus
slams never have been seafarers or sea
fighters. But all that money can do
to create a great feet is being done.
The Washington herald., 1913-10-10

behooves those, however, who are in
terested in the supremacy of the South
to take note of certain movements
which tend TO increase the production
Of cotton in other parts of the world.
Ever since the blockade of the
Southern ports, during our civil war,
cut off from Lancashire the supply of
American cotton and caused pitiful
suffering among the operatives of the
cotton mills, the British have been dis
satisfied with the fact that they are
dependent upon sources outside the
British Empire for their supply of raw
cotton. About ten years ago certain.
progressive citizens of England organ
lied the British Cotton Growers Asso-
citation, the object of which is to en-
courage the extension of cotton grow
ing within the empire. Up to the pres
ent time the results have not been
large. In fact, in 1912 the entire en-
pire produced only 7649o bales. Ex-
cellent foundation work, however, has
been done. Beginnings have been
made in India, Ceylon, the West In
dies. the Gold Coast, Lagos, South
and North Nigeria, British East Al
RIGA, Uganda. Nysaland, Rhodesia,
South Africa, and the Anglo-Egyptian
Sudan. In some of these regions the
work has not been encouraging, and
in others the transportation facilities
make it impossible to market the cot
ton which is produced Egypt and
Uganda show the greatest promise of
success. Already the long-staple
Egyptian cotton is famous for its quail
ity and is even imported in large
quantities into the United States to
be used in fabrics of finer quality. The
imperial government of England has
agreed TO invest about SI5.ooo.ooo to
assist the Sudan government in de-
veloping cotton production on the
Gezira Plain. Lord Kitchener himself
has taken an active interest in this !
1t would seem that, in
view OF the aggressive work OF the !
British Cotton Growers Association.
the time is not far distant when the
American growers will have active and |
serious competition in several parts OF
the British Empire. This is an i'm
portant fact. since practically one-third
OF the 100000 cotton spindles in the
world are located in England.
These facts should convince the
Southern growers that they should
take the advice of the Agricultural De
partment and improve the quality OF
the cotton which they are now raising.
Valuable and excellent experimental
work is now being done by the de-
partment and is not being as univer-
sally applied by the Southern growers
as it should be. The price OF Ameri-
can supremacy in the cotton market is
continual vigilance and improvement
The Washington herald., 1913-10-10
ELIJAH's STORY PROVED.
Scientist Says Re'Iwoods Are Index
to Past Climatic Conditions.

From the KansaS City Star
The discovery tnat the big trees Of Cali
fornia are an index to climatic conditions
almost from the beginning OF time has
| just been announced by Ellsworth Hunt
ington, a government scientist, in a pub
LEGATION entitled THE Secret Of the Big
Trees"
In the growth rings OF the big trees,
the Sequoia WashingtOniana. Mr.. Hunt
ington finds evidence that California suf-
fered from the same drought that ended
in Asia Minor when the prophet Elijah
prayed for rain so years before Christ.
Famine afflicted Palestine in the days
of Elijah, according to the Biblical story.
No rain fell, the brooks ran dry, and
distress was prevalent all over the land.
King Ahab sent for Obadiah and COM
manded him to go through the land,
unto all the fountains of water and unto
all the brooks: peradventure we may find
grass and save the horses and mules
alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
Obadiah met Elijah on his journey and
escorted the latter to King Ahab. Elijah
prayed for rain and the famine was
stopped. From this famine, $40 years be-
fore Christ, to the Sierra Nevada Noun
tains seems a long cry, but Mr.. Hunt
ington claims he has bridged the dis
lance by growth curves on the trees.
The curves begin with the epoch Of the
Trojan war, about 100 B. c. There both
curves dip very low. indicating an epoch
of sudden and severe desiccation. That
particular period, historians tell us. was
one of the most chaotic in all history.
The famine in the days Of Elijah ap-
pears in both curves. Apparently at that
time the climate did not become eX-
tremely dry, nothing like so bad as it
had been a few hundred years earlier
during the twelfth century. but there
was rather a distinct falling of in the
amount OF rainfall, as compared with the
uncommonly coed conditions Of the pre-
ceding century.
About 700 years before Christ both
curves stand high in the day when the
Greeks were laying the foundation OF
their future greatness and the empires
Of MesOpOtama were at their height.
Then comes a pronounced falling off.
with a recovery 800 or 400 years before
Christ, another decline eliminating about
100 B. c., and recovery reaching a high
point 50 p. c.
The time Of Christ, the great era Of
universal peace under the sway Of Rome.
was apparently an epoch Of favorable
climate. a time of abundant rain and
consequent good crops in all the coun-
tries around the Mediterranean Sea and
eastward in Asia. well as in Cali
fornia. Next comes a long period OF
decline. eliminating six or seven cen
turtles after the time of Christ. No period
in all history. save that which centers
about 300 3. c, was more chaotic, and
that early period also appears to have
been a time of greatly diminished rain
fall
The Washington herald., 1913-10-10
TRICK TURNED BY DIPLOMAT,
NicarnEuHn Postage stamps Lost
tIIat Country the Canal.

A postage stamp which played a mart
IN history is told about by NJ Bunau-
Narilla In his book on the Panama Canal.
The incident occurred when the discussion
over the relative merits OF the Panama
and Nicaragua routes was at its height.
bunau- Narilla had been working vigor-
ously for the Panama route. making use
OF the two arguments of less cost and
Immunity from active volcanoes.
one day he recalled that Nicaragua had
issued handsome stamp. showing a vol
cano in full activity. He at once sent to
the dealers in foreign stamps in Washing
ton and obtained ninety Of these stamps,
which he forwarded to the ninety Sena-
tors, along with bits OF paper bearing
the words: Postage stamp OF the repub-
lie OF Nicaragua. an official witness OF the
volcanic activity Of Nicaragua
The catastrophe at ST. Pierre took place
about this time, TO deepen the impression
Of volcanic danger. and the Panama route
was adopted by the narrow margin of
four votes
The Washington herald., 1913-10-10

making business in a manner which
has doubled accident insurance rates
all over the city in the last thirty
years.
st. Petersburg is the residence Of the
Car and the seat Of the Russian Duma
the national legislative body. which
does everything but make laws. It is
also badly infested with grand dukes
II has excellent train service TO ST.
beria- but can only be reached from
America by a long. hard journey, and
is not Overrun with tourists. 1t is one
OF the most hospitable cities IN the
world, however. Every arrival is met
by a reception cOmmittee-consistin
of a member of the police force.
st. Petersburg has no skyScrapers
except churches, and gets along with
very few street cars and automobiles.
1t is proudest of its great street. the
The Washington herald., 1913-10-10
Cotton in the British Empire.

Our Southland has always had a
very satisfied feeling about its su-
premacy in the production of cotton.
1t is true that there is no other region
in the world where up to the pres
ent time, cotton has been raised in
any large quantity successfully. The
American crop in 1912 reached the
enormous sum of 100000 bales.
About 100000 bales OF this was con-
sumcd in the United States and the
remainder was exported to various
foreign countries, chiefly England. 1t
The Washington herald., 1913-10-10

Prom the Boston Traveller
In Rockport they are laughing over Al
answer given by an old lobster man who
takes out summer visitors in his gasoline
boat and was, therefore, required to go
20 the custom-hoUse for a certificate.
What is the principle Of a gasoline
engine?' he was asked
"Principle,' the old seaman replied.
THE durn thing amt got no principle
When they go. they go; and when they
don't go. they don't, and that's all there
is TO it."
The Washington herald., 1913-10-10
OPPOSE KNEE SKIRTS.
Buffalo Reformers Would Cover
Little Girls Legs.

Buffalo Correspondent to the New York World.
Banishment of the knee-length dress
for girls more than ten years old and
adoption of the three-quarter length gar
ment will be the principal recommends
ton made at the municipal mass meet
ing for mothers to be held in December
under the auspices of the Women's Chris
tan Temperance Union, the Christian
Endeavor Society, and kindred bodies.
''The Womens Christian Temperance
Union is strongly opposed to the wearing
of short dresses by little girls" declares
Mrs. A. B. Wilson, president of the Cen
trail Women's Christian Temperance
Union. THE wearing of garments which
expose their figures makes them over
bold in early youth and audaciOus when
they blossom into young wOmanhood. In
culcate modesty in the girl while she
is under twelve years of age and there
will be no need OF redeeming her from
suggestive dressing when she reaches
womanhOod," -
The Washington herald., 1913-10-10
Overheard on the street.

Hasn't that girl an ethereal look?''
Very"
Let us listen to what she is saving &c
her companion. Ill wager it IS some
thing soulful"
Yes" said the ethereal one. my
sister likes tripe, but prefer limburger. "
The Washington herald., 1913-10-10
Strictly Modern.

From Judge.
Professor BeanbroUgh was jubilant.
'Ah, hal he cried, as he rested on
his shovel. Look what We have I'M
earthed! I believe we have discovered
the remains OF some herbivorous amphi-
bian of the order plesiosauH!"
Farmer Sodbuster took a good look.
Nope. you're wrong, prof" he said.
Them bones belonged TO a hog / buried
here two years ago last fall"
The Washington herald., 1913-10-10
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
LIGHTNING CHANGES.

The Greeks and BulEars jump the Turk
Give him a dressing down.
Then Turks and BulEars go To work
To do the Greek up brown.
Next Turks and Greeks form 4 combine
And for the BuEar seek.
New combinations are in line
With every passing week.
The Washington herald., 1913-10-10
A EOOZle.

Your beau called on me yesterday,
daughter"
Did he ask you for my hand, father
He may have intended to. II he did.
he lost his nerve. Anyhow. he switched
off onto the worlds series"