Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 170, 3 August 1908 — Page 1

RICHMOND FA n IUM H D u AND SUN-TELEGRAM. RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1908. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS. VOL. XXXIII. NO. 170.

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Forest Fire in British Columbia, Covering a Section of One Hundred Miles Square, Is Destroying Towns and Leaving Former Inhabitants Either Dead or Placed in Such Perilous Positions They May Yet Be Cremated.

FINANCIAL LOSS WILL HUH WELL IIP IHTOMILLIONS The Whole District Is One Mighty Roaring Furnace And Terror Stricken Survivors Are Fleeing. TOWN OF FERNIE IS WIPED OFF THE MAP. All That Is Left of the Once Prosperous Little Village Is A Few Scorched and Blackened Houses. NEWS HAS BEEN DELAYED. RAILROADS DESTROYED AND ALL MEANS OF COMMUNICATION CUT OFF, LEAVING AWFUL 8T0RY UNTOLD. FLAMES YET UNCHECKED. Firs Fighting Apparatus la of No Use When the Fires First Started the People Paid Little Heed to Them. TOWNS DESTROYED BY THE FLAMES. Population. Fernle 5,000 Coal Creek 1,500 Michel ..1,560 Hosmer . .. t 7. 400 Morrlsey . 320 Sparwood 200 Olson 130 McGlllvray 100 Bartley 100 Cokato 100 Cranbrook, B. C, August 3. To Cay's reports place the number of dead at fire hundred and about ten thousand homeless, as the result of the forest fires now raging through British Columbia. The money loss "will reach Into the millions. The heaviest loss of life occurred in the towns of Fernle. Michel. Homer, Sherwood and Olson. Just how many lives were lost will not be known for some time because the whole country is one mighty furnace . end the Inhabitants are fleeing foodless to the mountain tops to escape the flames. Telegraph communication with the above towns is cut off and as the bridge across the Elko river is burned the exact conditions beyond can't be ascertained. N City of Fernie Gone. The City of Fernie. B. C, a place of 6.000 population, is wiped oft the map; Michel, fourteen miles distant, is in Barnes, and the fate of Hosmer, Olsen and Sparwood. Intervening towns, is Ju doubt, they being cut off from all communication. Of the over 100 lives snown to nave been lost, seventyfour of them were in Fernie. A territory of, 100 square miles In extent is now a seething mass of flames. Through it are scattered hundreds of lumbermen and prospect ors, so that the actual loss of life will Siot be known for days. The properties of the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern railways are Beatroyed, the ..bridges and rolling Stock burned, and it is impossible to enter or leave the burning area. The inhabitants of the towns have Bed to open districts in the vicinity In the hope of safety. The railway companies have placed all available trains at their disposal and unless there Is a change of wind within the next twenty-four hours the whole of the Crows Nest Pass country will be left to the flames. There Is no possibility of estimating the loss of life and and property which ill result, as the flames are driven by & half gale, making It impossible to put up a fight against their advance. The conflagration is the greatest that lias ever visited Canada. For the last month forest fires have

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been raging in the mountains of the Elk River Valley country but they have not been considered dangerous. Saturday morning a heavy wind came up from the west, and early in the afternoon the flames appeared over the crest of the mountains to the west of Fernle. They ran down the moun tain side and before a fire guard could be organized had entered the town. Within an hour the town was doomed, and the inhabitants sought safety in flight, leaving their all behind them. All night and this morning the exodus continued, the destination being a small prairie in the valley three miles south of the town. At presenr 3,0()0 people are camped there in the open, their only protection being shelters built of brush or blankets, while a constant shower of sparks from the burning area kept railing through the pall of smoke by which they are surrounded. For a time communication with the towns to the east was kept open, but with the burning of the bridges across Elk river this way closed. Scattered through the valley are many small prairies, and all of these have their groups of refugees. The hills In all directions are seething masses of flames. Cutting off every avenue of escape the fire spread with unprecedented rapidity, and it Is feared that several parties who tried to get through the pass have been cut off. Families have been separated and there is at present no means of checking up the fatalities. City Left in Ashes. In Fernie the only buildings remaining are six small ohacks on the banks of the Elk river, the offices of the Crows Nest Coal company and the Fikes Wood warehouse. The offices of the Canadian Pacific railroad and the Great Northern are gone together with all the rolling stock in the yards, the sleeping car Osceola being the only car left. One hundred cars of coke, the property of the Great Northern, are gone and the stock piles of coal and coke, holding about 500,000 tons are In flames. May Cross to Montana. At present the fire Is following the crest of the mountain chain above Sparwood, eating down Into the valleys on either side. It Is traveling at a tremendous rate, and crossed the boundary into Montana. There are thousands of mines and prospectors' claims in the track of the fire, all of which are in peril. A slight change of wind has occurred and Michel has been taken out of the direct path. Fire fighting apparatus is of no avail, for the air is filled with fragments of burning wood and sheets of flames seem to leap ahead of the con flagration, as the air itself were in flames. The heat is intense and many of the fire fighters have gone down ahead of it. Trains Bring Refugees. Appeals have been sent out from the burning section to the mayors of Winnipeg, Vancouver, New Westminster, Victoria, Spokane and Helena asking that relief be hurried to its residents. The Canadian Pacific railway has rushed special trains into threatened cities bearing food, nurses, phy sicians and clothing. The supplies have been used by the refugees from the burned cities and the returning relief trains have carried out hundreds of refugees. The district which is the scene of one of the most disastrous fires in the records of the country is along the Crow's Nest Pass branch of the Canadian Pacific railroad and is a part of the richest timber country of Carada. The valley lies between the Columbia and Elk rivers, on which several of the burned towns were lo cated. In a gallant effort to" save the huge Great Northern bridge, fifteen miles west of Michel, four men, three of whom were railroad employes, lost their lives. The attempt was futile. and the great structure was a wreck within a few minutes after the approach of the flames. The Great Northern railway bridge at Hosmer also went up In flames. 150 cars of coal and coke sidetracked near the struc ture adding to the conflagration. In all the towns in the path of the flames a race for refuge was begun wnen the Inhabitants saw the sky lighted up by the advancing billows of fire. The path of the fire still is east and west of Cranbrook the flames are being controlled. Sparwood is in Ashes. ine stream or refugees began to pour into Cranbrook-early in the day. but their stories were largely Incoherent and unintelligible as the result of the scenes through which they had passed. A resident of Sparwood de clared the town to be a mere ashheap when he left it. The loss of life he believed to be large, although he had seen no bodies. Three of the latest arrivals from Sparwood, who con firmed his story, had been badly burn ed. Their recovery is doubtful. The bodies of the railway employes (Continued on Pase Seven.)

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IS COMING INTO HIS OWN AGAIN. Former Gov. Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., who is coming into prominence again in New York republican affairs. ATTACKS RICH ; The Rev. Alfred T. Ware, Address, Scores Moneyed Men. in WANTS WEALTH CURBED. WOULD HAVE A DISTRIBUTION AND PREDICTS THAT THIS IS INEVITABLE SOCIALISM NOT ANARCHY. IS Socialism is not anarchy but many people confuse the two. Anarchy Is lawlessness and socialism is not. Socialism is having all things in common, sharing alike and every body owning everything. It is not annihi lation because the socialist believes in the government of the country. Thus spoke the Rev. Alfred T. Ware on the subject of "Socialism Is it practicible Is it Possible," in his address at the open air meeting at the East Main Street Friends church last evening. Rev. Ware defended socialism in many different places in his address. The Rev. Ware said in part last ev ening: "Workers should have their Just rewards. First there were serfs then the slaves, and then comes capitalism. Then with capitalism comes cooperation which is practically the same as socialism. In this great country t ours, which has such great richness on top of the soil and also great riches in the depth of the ground like gold and silver, the people have to be industrious, courage ous and thrifty. People used to think that the time would never come when this great land would be filled, but that time is not far hence. When that time comes, there will be a redistri button of the wealth of the moneyed kings in New York. John D. Rocke feller, Dan Reid and the other rich men did not come by their. great am mased wealth honestly and It is a gen erally recognised fact. The Standard Oil employs 12,000 men. The net profits according to statistics show J84.000.000 in one year, There is a surplus of $36,000,000 and the dividends is $48,000,000. Then for every man that works for the Stand ard Oil there is the sum of $7,000 from the office boy up to the head clerk. Of this large sum John D. makes off his 51 per cent of stock $42,000,000, which he gives part to Chicago university and the remainder he invests in other business. It is the same with the steel trust and the other corpor ations. How do they make so much money? It Is simple when you are on the In side. Tom Lawson in his magazine writings exposing the trusts predicted many things which have actually come to pass. Refers to Reid. Starting as the cashier in a bank and then going into the tin plate bus! ness and then in a few years becoming a man of high financial powers, shows the versatility of Daniel G. Reid. (Continued on Pae SeveA-l

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Both Parties Will Turn Loose The Biggest Men in Their Ranks This Fall. REPUBLICANS' GOOD LIST. DISTINGUISHED STATESMEN WILL BE SENT TO INDIANA AND THIS PARTY SEEMS TO HAVE BETTER OF ARGUMENT. Indianapolis, Aug. 3. No definite arrangements have been made by either side for the speaking campaign. Will Hayes of Sullivan, Ind., has been working on Congressman James E. Watson's itinerary for tne last month, but he won't have it completed before the campaign opens. Watson has made 30 speeches dur ing the last month and a half, and it is the plan of the committee to have him speak at least once in every ronntv before election day. No ar rangement has been made as to when and where he shall deliver his keynote address. Reports received at the headquarters indicate that he is ad dressing unusually large meetings for midsummer. At the democratic headquarters it is said that Marshall is also addressing large crowds. Hon. John L. Griffiths, consul gen eral to London, Is expected to return to Indiana within the next few weeks, to remain until after election. He is a popular campaigner and a great drawing card on the republican side. Many requests have been received for speeches by him. Senator Beverldge Is spending his summer vacation in the East, but it is the understanding that he will return to Indianapolis about the middle of September to make a tour of the state. Senator Hemenway is coming here this week to establish headquarters and he will visit nearly every county during the next three months. Congressman Charles Berry Landls, of the Ninth district, whose time has been consumed largely by the national congressnal campaign committee dur ing the last 10 years, says that he will make no speeches outside of his own district. His constituents believe they have a hard fight ahead and they want him to remain at home. The state committee regards him as one of the most effective campaigners in In diana. , Speaker Cannon has promised Chairman Goodrich to come to Indi ana for a week in September or Oc tober. He will be booked for six speeches at points where the republl cans can arrange for immense rallies Leslie M. Shaw, ex-secretary of the treasury department, who Is very pop ular as a campaigner in Indiana, has notified the committee that he will make several speeches in this state. Senator Dolliver, of Iowa, has writ ten that he will set aside a few days for Indiana. Chairman Hayes has re ceived word from other speakers of national reputation that they will come to Indiana in September and October. All of the local spellbind ers are being appealed to for help, as the republicans intend to hold meet ings in every locality. The chances are that Governor Hughes, of New York, will come to Indiana for one or two speeches. A partial promise has been obtained from Chairman Hitchcock, of the Nat ional committee, that Governor Hughes shall be assigned to Indiana, He opens the campaign for the republicans of Ohio and arrangements may be made for him to come to Indiana at that time. Chairman Jackson for the demo crats says that he understands that the only speech Bryan will make in Indiana will be at the notification of John W. Kern of his nomination for the vice-presidency. He may, however speak at Evansville if he can spare tne time. Senator Gore, of Oklahoma and other well known campaigners have promised Jackson to devote some of their time to Indiana. jacKson says that Kern probably will make a number of speeches in his own state, although the organization nere wm not attempt to draw heavily upon him, realizing that there will be large demands for him else where. FIRE LOSS REACHES QUARTER MILLION Night watchman Burned to Death in Globe Blaze. Hammond, Ind, Aug. 3. The Nat ional Rendering plant at Globe sta tion was destroyed by fire this morn ing. The loss is placed at a quarter of a million dollars. Two hundred men are thrown out of work. Nightwatchman James McKee, aged fiftyfive, was burned to a crisp. The orig in of the fire unknown. THE WEATHER PROPHET INDIANA Fair Monday night, warmer In northwest portion; Tuesday fair, light to fresh south winds. OHIO Fair and warmer Monday night and Tuesday; light to fresh muUi winds.

"WILD MAN" IS FINALLY CAOGHT

Stranger Who Caused Uneasi ness Among Farmers, Now in Jail. HIS IDENTITY UNKNOWN. MAN REFUSES TO TELL HIS NAME WAS CAPTURED ON THE FRANK SEANEY FARM WEST OF BOSTON. Has anybody lost a "wild man?" If anybody has Sheriff Linus Meredith would be pleased if the fact was made known to him, because he has at the county jail the only real live wild man now in captivity in Wayne county. Yesterday afternoon a man clad on ly in a pair of trousers and a thin cotton shirt, came to the home of Frank Seaney, one mile west of Bos ton, and asked for food. The man, whose name is still unknown, after V I .... sin nmvanflap VllO Q C If B ed to depart. Farmer Seaney was not used to entertaining "wild men but so pleased was the mysterious stranger at the reception he had received that he decided, overruling all pro tests, to spend at least part of the summer on the Seaney estate. Rumors had been floating around the south part of the county that the community was infested by a real live wild man. Farmer Seaney had heard these rumors and he at once decided his self invited guest was the wild man in question, so he communicated with the authorities in Richmond. Last evening, just as the sun was sinking Deputy Sheriff Mashmeyer drove up to the Seaney homestead

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the hay field," the officer was inform ed. Sure enough the mysterious strang er was located there and he joyfully accepted the deputy's offer of a ride to Richmond. Enroute to Richmond the myster ious stranger, in an effort to enter tain hfs host in a pleasant social man ner, politely inquired: "Who Is this 'wild man' the people around this part of the country are talking about?" The deputy replied that he did not know, then asked his fellow traveler what his name was and where he came from. "That's what those fellows wanted to know," was the reply. Sheriff Meredith states that the man is not an escaped inmate from Easthaven and that he la not from this part of the country. All efforts to obtain information from the unfortunate fellow have been fruitless. He Is completely demented. The Stranger is described as being 5 feet 10 Inches in heighth. Weight about 160 pounds and age between 35 and 40 years. His eyes and hair are black. MARSHAL SEARCHES FOR HORSE THIEVES Comes to Richmond Following Clues. The marshal of Eaton, O., was In the cltv this afternoon for the purpose of looking up clues which might lead to the discovery of the three men

who stole horses at Eaton Saturday her complaint states that sue was ness or our board of public works and night. He states one of the animals msrried in 1888 and that she lived council which permits such desecraa young colt was driven out In the wlth Francisco until July 13th, last tion of our beautiful park- The track

country but after an absence of an hour It was returned to Eaton, the thief seeing it would be Impossible for him to travel with the animal any great distance. The other two hl rses stolen helonired to Bernard Potterf. who lives near est Alexandria and to John Fahrenholz, Jr. Both of these horses were bay and a reward of $25 for the return of either one of them is offered. TIN PLATE MILLS MAY BE SHUT DOWN Indicated by Delay in Starting Hot Mill Department. Elwood, Ind., August 3. The hot mill department of the American Tin Plate company did not resume today as previously announced. The other departments will soon be idle for lack of material if the hot mills don't start soon. IS NOW RECOVERING. Mrs. Ernest A. Hofheinz, who attempted to kill herself Saturday after

havlnf a dispute with her niece overjtlons. Four newspapers have been

the loss of $1, is reported to be recov eiing from the effects of the carbolic add she swallowed with, suicidal in - ten

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HIS RETIREMENT. Rear Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich, the senior rear admiral of the navy, who has been granted leave of ab commandant of the Brooklyn navy yard, until date of his retirement, the first of next year. PRISON STIGMA CHANGES WIFE Mrs. Solomon Locke Wants a Divorce From Husband Who Was a Convict. WANT DIVORCES, CHARGES OF CRUELTY AND PER FIDY AMONG THOSE REGIS TERED AGAINST ERRING HUS BANDS IN COMPLAINTS. Three divorce cases were this morn ing in the circuit court Elisabeth L. Locke wants legal separation from Solomon M. Locke because her husband served time in the penitentiary. Martha A. Jacona, an American wom an, wants to be divorced from her Italian husband because he has been cruel to her. Sophia Burkett asks that her matrimonial bonds be severed because her spouse is too popular with other women. Solomon Locke is the brother Wayne county's most notorious crimlnal. John Locke. The authorities became convinced that Sol was one of the leading members of his brother's gang, so one day he was arrested on a charge of hog stealing. He was convicted of this charge and on May

24, 1905 he was sent to the peniten- tnIrd street The location of the tiary to serve an indeterminate sen- track is described generally as a "detence of from one to fourteen years, secration." Public sentiment seems

On the first of June this year Sol was released. Besides charging him with being a jail bird, Mrs. Locke also charges that he failed to provide for her. Martha A. Jacona is the wife of the

best known Italian resident of thlsltltude In the matter. The doctor says:

city. His name is Francisco Jacona and Is commonly known as "Frenchy". Jacona has for some time been the ruler of the local Italian colony and among the Italian laborers his word ' accepted as law. Mrs. Jacona in She charges that he has been guilty or cursing ner, cnargmg ner wun ieln5 unfaithful ana or slapping. cnoK,n5 and ""king her. Mrs. jacona also avers mat ner nusDana is a na bitual drunkard and that at times he becomes so drunk that he is unable to care xor nimseu. Mrs. .Burkett In her complaint avers

that her husband has rrequentiy been the small things (ss transfers to outguilty of improper conduct with other Bije citizens) and risked the Indlgna-

women wnose names sne aoe noi know. She married him In February. 1906 and separated irom him in january. 1907. FRENCH BUSINESS NOW PARALYZED Hundred Thousand Men Are Affected. Paris, Aug. 3. The industrial strike is paralyzing the business of the country. It Is estimated that one hun dred thousand men are directly and more indirectly affected. The authortlties are bending every effort to prevent a panic. The strike is a drastic protest against the government for suppressing last week's demonstra- - j unable to issue. Many called upon to strike have not responded as yet 1 Twenty-five thousand troops are In I readiness to suppress anyj-outbreak.

NO HOPE Of All EARLY SETTLEMENT OP TRACTION EIGHT

Board of Public Works Refuses To Sign New Dayton & Western Franchise Delaying Negotiations. FREIGHT ROUTE FIGHT HAS STIRRED PEOPLE. Opinions Expressed on Route Now Building and Proposed Routes Varied in Extreme. Council will not have an opportunity to ratify the Dayton Sc. Western fran chise this evening, for the reason that the board has not yet signed the francm se. Aieraners oi council commentMy expected that the board would take this action In time to have the matter disposed of this evening, but as the board has ignored council's request that the franchise be signed, the action of the city fathers this evening will be watched with considerable Interest. The board states that the franchise will be signed, under protest, but this action will not be taken until the T. H. I. & E. Is ready to place its tracks along North Twenty-third street. fijthSJiStrt end freight line. Council has threatened to suspend the Main street freight ordinance in the event the board further delays In signing the D. & W. franchise. The shippers are not In favnr rvf rmmpn ntrlnv M. -v tion but it is not known whether the councllmen will make good their threat At the council meeting this evening a petition signed by several hundred citizens, asking that a car line not be placed on North Twenty-third street. will be presented. City officials sre wondering what object there is In pre senting such an agreement at the present time, pointing out that the franchise, in which the traction company Is given the right to place its line through the nark, has alreadr signed and the traction company Is now operating under it. It Is the general Impression thst the . car line now being placed In Glen Miller park Is there to stay notwith standing the popular sentiment against it The board of public works wU1 Insist on the line being kept there ,l "lr doubtful If injunction I proceeaings to compel the traction oflcomDanT to Prate elsewhere would be u"talned. Citizens Aroused. But "ttle variance in opinion it "hown by local citizens who have tak en keen Interest In the proposed plaeInS traction line through Glen Miller park along the site of Twenty to be In favor of the use of the North Twentieth street tracks for a freight route. In an Interview Dr. 8. Edgar Bond was emphatic In his denounciatlon of the board of public works for its atI "As I note the uninterrupted progress I of the street railway company In Its attempt to place the freight line tnrougn Glen Miller park, my otherwise peaceful disposition Is made to boil as I think of the short sightedwill be at the very entrance and extend across one of the most beautiful sections of the park. They will destroy one of the most popular drives. - iaiso. "it 8ucn a thinr is Dermltted. It nr. y be a huge monument to the snortslrnted nolicv rf th hrt which has souKht dtllntlv to nmtM-t tIon of our CiHZen The eeneral nolnion na- been in favnr of Tm-ntih Twenty-second streets. We certain-' ly commend the board of works for not signing the new D. it W. franchise if that may be used as a leverage to secure the removal of the line from the Glen, if our courts fail. Business and professional men express views similar to those of Dr. Bqnd, who was a little more drastic than the maffiority oft he others. A citizen in a communication to the Palladium, states that it is always easier to sign a petition than it Is to suggest a remedy for an alleged eviL He also makes the following statement: "The writer feels that it must be quickly apparent to anyone giving the matter much consideration, that if this agitation should result in changing the line to North Twentysecond street it would mar the beauties of the park in a much more conspicuous place than the present Twenty-third street route, and besides do great damage to the park property and property along the entire west front of the street. So the petitioners have little to gain and much to lose unless they can suggest a more satisfactory route than any yet proposed. Had we not better let well enough, alone f