ft vr The Chief E. B. DeWOLF, Publisher RED CLOUD, - NEBR. i - , , asasMt At tho ngo of 101 n Kentucky man took parls green. Hot Hint tho locnl pnper called it a rush net. But If wo should stop eating meal what would wo do for leather and tho other by-products of tho bovlno7 Tho shah of f'CTBla 1h muster of tho Rltuatlon In Teheran, hut doosn't know Just how long lio'll hold tho Job. Englishwomen are getting Hplendld practlco. Tlioy will know how to run an election If they ever get tho ballot. This year's cropaTwfll bo worth $8,000,000,000, exclusive of tho ama teur lettuce and rndlsh-growora' har vest. Minister Vu Biiyn that ho Is going to llvo 200 years, In which tlmo ho probably hopes to find out nil ho wnnts to know. In tho case of tho Cossacks thcro Is no cvldenco thnt tho froo and untrnm moled llfo of tho steppes inculcntcu an appreciation of other pcoplo'n liberty. A Chicago woman Is charged with stealing a set of teeth. This is ono of thoso rare morsels for tho mom hers of tho parngrnphers' union to chew on. Sovernl Columbus men aro nnxlous to sell their ilngcra at $300 each. A story onco enmo out of tho Klondlko that a thirsty, but Hush, prospector paid $1,000 for thrco lingers. How sonio of tho smnll hoys who llvo along tho wharves in senport towns will envy tho accomplished gen tlcmnn who as nn expert Is testing tho tobacco to ba purchased for tho navy! If Rctsy Itoss didn't mnko tho first flag tho story 1b about as harmless a pleco of fiction as over crept Into his tory and wo poo no reason for tnklng up any vnluablo tlmo proving that it iBn't so. A Virginia lady has Jii3t obtained n divorco from n bogus "lord" who has Bovcral other wives scattorcd through out tho country. In our oplulon ho has reason to suspect that alio did not marry him for lovo alone. Ono of tho lndy lecturers declares that men who wear Btarched collars nro fools. Hut would tho lady lectur er approve If tho men wero to go around with their BhlrtB cut low or their urms showing through open-work alcoves? A Now York landlord has reduced hlB rent becnuso of hard times. Tho men think him a good landlord, but the women aro withholding Judgment until they find out what ho Intends to do about paporlng tho front parlor nnd tho back bedroom next fall. Tho Muster Car Builders' associa tion which has JtiBt closed a session nt Atlantic City, adopted n. report mado by n commltteo nfter careful In vestigation and urging numorous Im provements designed to securo bettor ventilation of passenger cars. Tho de mand for fresh air and more of it is becoming Insistent. A young mnn In Kentucky com plained that a girl had Imprisoned him against his will In her parents' homo for four dnys and forced n ring on his linger In attempts to get him to marry her. Apparently, thnro aro getting to bo strenuous times this particular leap year, but masculine gallantry should not forco Iono femininity to such ox tiemes. Tho discontinuance of tho old Ful ton street lino of horse-cars lu Now York city was chronicled by a news paper correspondent with an amusing comment. "In some wnys," ho said, "this lino was tho best in tho city. For ono thing, It wbb entirely destitute of tho strnphnnglng evil. In tho first place, nobody would trust tho straps; and in tho second place, most of tho patronB wnlkod." Members of a Chicago m'.nlstors' meeting wero solemnly warned by ono of their number against tho demoral izing Influences of summer hotols nnd tho dnngers Incident to vacations gen erally. Then tho moetlng adjourned until September with this program: "Vacation Experiences nnd Fish Stories," scheduled. When thoso llsh stories hnvo been told thnt sermon on tho bad effect of vacations may need to bo ropcated. Tho new Cunard lino Btcamshlps, Lulsltnnln nnd Mnurctnula, built under nn arrangemout with tho British gov ernment by which tho company Is to recelvo nn annual Biibsldy of $750,000 it tho ships maintain an avorago speed of 24 knots nn hour In fair wenther, havo proved their ubllljty to keep up tho required speed. Tho Brit ish government pnys tho subsidy to on courage tho building of fast ships, which may bo U8ed by tho navy In enso of need. After all tho trotiblo and publicity attending tho search, discovery and tinnsportatlon horo of tho body of Paul Jones it Is hardly crcdltablo to tho name of tho nation to havo his body lying neglected without honor nblo sepulturo becauso thcro Is lack of money for constructing tho perman ent crypt. This country Is rich enough to complete tho task of honoring tho man whoso services meant so much In tho war for our Independence. To rele gate his body to tho satno obscurity and neglect from which it was rescued would ho national disgrace. HMD 8TATE NEWS AND NOTE8 IN CON DEN8ED FORM. THEPflESS. PULPIT AND PUBLIC What Is Going on Here and There That Is of Interest to hte Read era Throughout Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. John Shlvcly nnd Ed ward Fusscl, victims of tho tornado In Fillmore county In June, nro all nblo to bo out, ulthough Mrs. Shlvely is lame, nnd her husbund'H faco Is Btlll bnndnged. As toon ns they uro nblo, they will go east to havo his nose treated. Mr. Shlvely'n watch, which was In his pocket, was badly dented nnd tho fob was gone. While ThoB. Bower, jr., living near AliiBWorth, was hauling hay tho wind blew a bam door shut and caught Bower'B head. Two pieces' of IiIb Bkull weio taken out above tho loft eyo ut the hospltat. He may not live. Rev. Emnnucl Hartlg, who has been pastor of the St. Benedict Catholic church of Nebraska City since 1801, Iuih been sent to Atehlsonn, where ho will enter tho St. Benedictine home. He has become quite feeble nnd had to be roplnccd by another priest. F. M. Hall of Lincoln tins accepted tho Invitation to be chairman of a com mittee to select nn artist to make tho Abraham Lincoln monument to be erected on tho Etatchoiiso grounds by popular subscription. Mr. Hall was selected because of the great experi ence ho hns hnd In mntters of this kind nnd becnuso of his knowledgo of artists and their work. C. C. Jones of Beatrice has re covered hlu two greyhounds which wero stolen from the kennel. The dogs wero found with a farmer near Pick roll nnd nrrests nre liable to follow. James Brott, an old resident of Bcntrlce, wns arrested by Sheriff Trude on the charge of bootlegging. A Masonic lodge hns been estab lished at Franklin. Stnte Superintendent McBrlen says ho knows of no school houses In Ne braska that havo been abandoned be cnuso of want of teachers. Western Douglas county farmerB havo at Inst arrived nt the conclusion thnt tho only way to Buceessfully com bnt nnd correct the existing bad con ditions Is by an elllclent drainage sys nvn, and to this end they aru prepar ing to organize themselves Into drain ngo' districts. Tho York Count" Telephone com pany, ono of tho lnrgest Independent companion in the west, has purchased tho copper trunk Independent toll lies between Columbus, Seward and Grand Island, and Is going to build to Ravenna, Neb., and other points. Thcro is1 great activity at nil tho Rtone quarries and sandpits along tho Plntto river between Ashlnnd nnd Plnttsmouth. Full forces of men nro nt work nt nil of tho Louisville nnd South Bend quarries and many car loads of crushed stone nro being ship ped dnlly. Tho Burlington sund dredg. ob havo been nt work constantly since tho high wntcr receded nlong tho Platte. Nenrly 1,500 people nttended the third duy'B session of tho Wayne Chau tauqua, held at the Assembly grounds. Gov. Hanley of Indlnnn was tho princi pal speaker. The peach crop In Puwnoo county surpasses nil expectations and tho quality Is excellent. While rnklng hay George Funk, a well known young farmer living north west of York, wns thrown from tho rnkt" nnd one of the steel rake teeth entered the left leg, tearing tho ten dons nnd canning a fracture of tho bone. The Hastings Chautauqua was a suc cess financially and otherwise. . York will boon havo an $SO,000 post oftlce building that will be bttictly up to date and one of the latest and most beautiful modern structures of its kind In tho west. Deputy Gnme Warden Hunger ran up against nn oxperlenco nut In Loup county which netted tho state two lines, where only one had been con templated. It wub a enso where the complaining witness after sticking tho defendant, hocumo tho defendant in tho snmu case, nnd also got stuck. Tho one-year-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Piatt of Tecumseh fell from a second story window but was not severely hurt. Rev. Sturdcvant of tho Baptist church at Tecumseh desires to go to another Held and neks that his resig nation bo nccopted. Passenger trnln No. 15, west-bound, picked up, between Dawson and Snlem, a strangor lying alongsldo tho trackB with his legs cut ofT. Tho mnn was of nilddlo ngo and evidently a trnmp, who, It Is thought, fell from n passing freight on which ho wns stealing a ildo and was Injured by tho wheels of tho trnln. Tho contrnct for tho now Odd Fel lows' hnll nt Hnrrlson hns been let und tho work will begin ut once. A flro broko out nt Winsldo, but tho firemen got control before much dam ago was dono. Jack Hanley, tho Cornlnnd hotol night clerk at Lexington, who escaped with tho funds from tho safo of tho hotel, wub captured In Coznd. Complaints have been filed under tho stnto pure food law against nix Lincoln druggists for the alleged Bale of headacho powders, containing ncc tanllldo nnd not branded as tho law rcoulros. NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES. Itemo of Greater or Lesser l-npoi tance Over the State. Old settlers or Ncmnha county will hold their picnic August Gth. Tho son of L. Young fell from a ihorse, receiving Injuries from which ho died. Farmers who havo commenced threshing around Herman report nn uneven yield. Treshltig outfits In operation find tho yield of whent very satisfactory and tho grain of good quality. Peter Goldberg had tho third linger of his left hand torn off while attempt ing to tie a horHo to u' post in Ken nurd. Tho state Insurnnoo department hns refused a license to enter the state to tho Fraternity Reserve associa tion of Oshkosh, Wis. Two lawyers In a Beatrice court came to blows In a dlBputc, one of them receiving a knockout blow. His nssnllant wax lined $10. While shocking cats on the farm of Georgo Hobertson In Washington county, Frank Kopur was bitten on tho hnnd by a lurge ruttlesnnkc. A. H. Jensen of Fremont took mor phine with Kutcldal Intent. His recov ery Is doubtful. Faintly troubles seem to havo been the cniiBC cf tho net. While In bnthlng nt Capital Beach, a pleasure resort near Lincoln, Henry HauBchlldt, jr., nnd .loo Orlofsky, each 12 years of age, wero drowned. Both bodies were recovered. A traction engine belonging to John Seakln exploded en the farm of M. C. Cassln nenr Columbus. Mr. Seakln was badly scalded, but Is thought to bo not dnngerously so. Tho bankruptcy proceedings Involv ing tho property of M. A. Chnndlcr, who went out of business In Central City a year ago have been flnnlly ad judicated nt 41 cents on tho dollar. Napoleon Wnlbrldgo of Tecumseh ban been taken before the locnl board of Insanity nnd ndjudgod n lit subject for tho dipsomniilnc treatment. He was taken to tho Lincoln asylum. Tho T. B. Hord Grain compnny will put. In an elevator In Columbus thnt will store 200,000 bushels of grain nnd get ready to hnndlo the Inrge crops of grnln thnt Platte canity has raised. G. R. Mavis of Columbus has In vented and patented a concrete tie, which bus been npproved by street railway companies of Llnctln and Omaha. He lints orders for largo numbers. Tho beautiful lOinde trees which usually grnco Sidney at this houboh nro largely becoming denuded of their foliage. Tho devastator is the little green worm which thriven upon maplo trees and their cousins-. Tho county commissioners hnve put sovernl large forceB of men to work In tho various parts of the county to replnce -nnd repair tho bridges In jured or taken out by the heavy storms of the past mouth. Tho -present harvest In Saunders county shows that winter wheat Is running much belter that wns at first expected. In Sarpy county there is n genernl avernge of 110 bushels to the acre, all of which tests high. Shorlff Class Moncke of Washington county went to tho Minnesota to bring back John Eamcs, a young man whose home 1b In Chicago, wanted In Nebras ka for obtaining $50 from the Blair National bank under alleged false pre tenses. Llgtnlng Btruck at O. L. Spire's farm about eight miles northwest of Aalns worth nnd killed two cows und cnlves, ono horse and crippled another, and tho rain nnd hnll destroyed eighty acres of corn. Tho Farmers' Independent Lumber company, tho only Independent lumber compnny In York county, notwith standing tho great tight put up on them by tho other lumber yards, have declared a 10 per cent dividend. Myrtlo Wnlkup, who committed suicide In Colorado Springs, hud lived with her parents In Saunders county on tho farm, where Bho was born. Sho had been In Colorado suffering from a nervous dlsoaso for several cars. Tho quarterly report of the births and deaths In Cuming county fcr the qtinrter ending Juno 110, nt? compiled by tho State Board of Health, con tains the gratifying Information that tho births exceeded the deaths by six-ty-slx. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bright, who have been teaching school in the Philippine Islands for the last three years nnd who used to be principals of tho school In Winsldo, returned from their trip nnd their many frlcndB wero glad to seo them back. T. II. Tollo or Otoe county filed a complaint with tho board of commis sioners on Insanity, charging his dnughtor, Miss Suo Q. Tollo, with bo lug Insane. The board had a hearing rf tho matter and declnred the young lady 1b all right mentally. Tho Commercial club or Hartlngton Is arranging to celebrate tho twenty firth anniversary or the town or Hnrt Ington on Soptembor 18. Soptember 18, 18811, town lots wero sold, and tho erection or buildings was commenced on tho open prairie In Cedar county. Bill Hazard, who was In Jail nt Bancroft tor horso stealing, made his escape. Two of his pnls npponred at tho Jail, and with guns held up tho guard and rorcod him to open tho cell door nnd lot tho prisoner out. A re ward or $100 Is offered for IiIb recap ture. Judge W. 11 "Westover or HubIivIUo rorwnrdod tho necessary papers to tho secretory or state to entitle hlra to go on the primary ballot as candi date rcr congreBB from tho Sixth con gressional district ns tho candidate of tho democratic nnd peoplo'B independ ent parties. NEWS OF THE WEEK Most Important Happenings of tho Past Seven Days. Interesting Items Gathered From all Parts of the World Condensed nto 8mall Space for the Ben efit of Our Readers. Miscellaneous. Attorney General Bonnparto has de cided that national banks in Okla homa cannot tnko advantage of tho Btato law under which deposits In stnto bnuks nro guaranteed. Tho second debate between Senator Long and Joseph L. Brlstow In tho campaign for United States sonntor from Kansas occurred In Topeka tho other day before an audience of 2,500 persons. Floods In tho vicinity of Florence, Col., caused by a -cloudburst, caused a property loss estimated nt $100,000. Henry Larson, a Arctium on tho Btenmshlp Hordn which just arrived in Now York rrom La Guna, Mexico, was taken to tho Swlncburu Island hospital with a well-developed case of yellow fever. Ono man was killed and 25 others injured, sonio fatally, In n riot be tween Italians and Shiva at Gates, Pa. As the rcBiilt of bush llres, Fornle, British Columbln, Is completely wiped off tho map. Five thousand persons nro reported homeless nnd without food. Tho coullngrntlon Is said to bo tho greatest which over visited Can nda and ranks only with tho San Fran cisco disaster. Many people havo per ished In tho ftnmos. A 15-yearold boy has been nrrcBted nt Curtcrvllle, Mo., nnd has confessed to starting muny llreB In Bouthwest Missouri. At the tlmo or his capture ho wns trying to set flro to a woman's clothing. The boy hnd served a torm in tho Missouri reform school and wan out on parole. Ho Is considered irresponsible. For 20 dnys during the month of July tho jnll at Macon, Mo., was with out n tenant. Tho saloon licenses of tho county expired on July 1. One man wus killed and ono fatally injured lu a wreck on the Rock Islnnd railway at Blake, Mo. Farmers or Douglas county, Kan., nro doing their plowing nt night to avoid tho hent. Mayor Wells of St. Louis has re- rused to sign tho public utilities bill pnssed by the city council. Ho gives as a reason thnt it wns not passed legnlly. Suits wero filed in Missouri, Kan sas and Texas simultaneously lu an effort to dissolve tho alleged lumbor trust recently formed In St. Louis. Tho suit was to havo been filed in Oklahoma at tho same time but was prevented by Gov. Hnskeli. Tho states will exchange tho evldonco gathered when tho trial of tho enso comes on. J. B. Cubu of Abilene, Kan., Its president, has issued tho call for tho annual session of tho Trans-Mississippi Commercial congress to meet at San Francisco on October 7 to 10. Gen. Drain, president of tho Ameri can Rlllo association, wns robbed in London of two medals recently won at tho match at Blsley. Tho conference at Lenox, Mass., be tween Attorney General Bonnparto and leading government prosecutors resulted in tho unanimous decision to push tho cases against tho Standard Oil company and to Book to get a re vision of tho decision or tho circuit court of appeals nt Chlcngo In which tho lino of $29,000,000 ngaliiBt tho oil compnny wns reversed. An unknown man fired nt nn Ohio river Htenmor on which Judge Wllllnm II. Tnft wns a passenger ut Cincinnati. Several of tho shot struck a woman passenger. Thomas Tootle, aged 80, millionaire, plonc-er merchant nnd banker of St. Joseph, Mo is dead. Thd Chinese steamer Ylng King foundered lu n typhoon near Canton, Chlnn, and 300 Chlncso wero drowned. Only 12 of thoso on tho vessol nt tho tlmo wero rescued. Two Italian smugglers wero arrest ed In New York charged with hnving brought lu $5,000 worth of tho flnost grades of silk wenrlng appnrol and drapery concenled In innttresscs. Tho Peoples party executive com mltteo has decided to issue a chal lenge to William J. Bryan for a Joint debate with their candidate, Thomas E. Watson, upon tho Issues of tho campaign. . Stockholders for all tho railroads In Arknnsns have applied to Judge Van doventer at St. Paul for an Injunction restraining tho Arkansas officials from Inforclng the railroad rato laws of that stato. Tho hearing Is sot for August 28. Joy Wright and Georgo Fogls, mom bera or tho Nebraska City company or tho National Guard or Nebraska, wero drowned while bathing In tho Platto river at Ashland. Henri Farman, tho French Inventor, is to exhibit his aeroplane privately to President Roosevelt in tho near future. Mrs. Ralph Harris, wtfo of a Kan bub City livestock dealor, und her three-yenr-old son wero drowned In Walloon lake, Mich. A negro accused of attacking a white girl wns burned nt tho stako by n mob of 0,000 persona at Grdonvlllo, Texas. In u riot between BtrlkebreakorB and street car employes at Elgin, 111., ono man wns fatally injured und Bovornl others badly hurt. A party of Sioux Indians got on a tear while giving an exhibition at Kllgore, Neb., and BinnBlied overy win dow in tho hotel. While playing vlth a shotgun at Rcnssollacr, N. Y., opposito Albany, Frank Burdock, a 15-yeur-old boy, shot nnd killed his 19-yenr-old sister. Kansas holders of stock and an nuity certificates In the Great West ern Agency company held n mooting lu Topokn and adopted a plan to try, nnd get control of tho stock nnd nsi Bets of tho company now In tho hnuda of receivers. Tho valuation of all property In Kansns for assessment purposes Is $2,451,7G6,715 nccordlng to the figures of the state tax commission. The Juno flooda this year cut Hhort the potato crop in thu Knw valley fully CO per cent. Chairman Mack of tho Democratic national committee hns announced IiIb various campaign committees. David R. Francis of Missouri is chairman or tho advisory committee nnd J. G. Johnson or Knnsns Is secretary. Twenty-three men wero entombed by a cave-In In a initio nt Coal Creek, B. C. Twenty of them wore Inter taken out alive after hard work by the roscuors. President Roosevelt hold a confer onco nt Sagamoro Hill with Gen. Wright and Secretary Bishop of tho canal commission on conditions In tho canal zone mid on the relations of zone to the Panama republic. Holland Is preparing to send a bat tleship to Venczuula to reinforce the warship already In thoso waters. Tho members of the Irish-American team who are visiting Ireland re ceived n henrty welcome nt Dublin. A reception wns hold at their hotel at which Joseph Devlin, a member of parliament, delivered an address of welcome. The executive council of Iowa haB Issued n certificate of nomination to Congressman J. A. T. Hull, which tunkes him tho regular nominee of tho Republican party. Tho California limited train on tho Snntn Fe was recently wrecked at vnkarusa, 12 miles west of Topeka, Kan. Tho engineer was killed and the fireman nnd a woman passenger dangerously injured. State-wldj prohibition wns defeated In tho Texas primary by n majority or upwards or 50,000 votes. Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma was de feated In his attempt to prevent At torney General West from bringing suit to restrain tho Prnlrlo Oil & Gas Co. from laying pipe lines In public highways In the state. The Japanese privy council has passed tho trademark and copyright treaty between America and Japan. Tho Independence party national convention nt Chlcngo nominnted Thomas L. Hlsgcu ot Massachusetts ror president and John Temple Grnves of Georgia ror vice president. An at tempt to bring the name or William J. Bryan beroro tho convention by a Kan sns delegate nearly caused a riot, and quiet was only restored nrter tho ot render hnd been escorted rrom the hnll. Personal Cardinal Gibbons or Baltimore was received In nudlcnco by the popo on his arrival In Rome. Ezra Butler McCagg, a prominent citizen of Chicago since 1847, Is dead aged 82 years. On the advice or his physician Lord Roberts hns cnncelod his Cnnndlnn tour and will sail ror home Immedi ately. Willlnm J. Bryan nnd Gov. Sheldon hnvo been elected honorary members or Lincoln Typographical union. Dr. Shelby L. Knox, a phyBlclan of Springfield, Mo., is dead rrom pto limine poisoning. Representative James S. Sherman will bo formally notified of his nomi nation ns vice president at his home In Uticn, N. Y., on August IS. Son ntor Burrows will mnko tho address on behalf of tho committee. John Mitchell, former president of tho United Mlno Workers is to do voto his entiro tlmo in the futuro to the trado agreement department of the National Civic Federation. Gov. John S. Little of Arkansas has been placed In a sanitarium nt St. Joseph, Mo. Ho Ib suffering from acuto melancholia. Wado II. Ellis, attorney geneial of Ohio, has been offered tho position of first assistant attorney genernl of tho United Stntes. Ho hns asked for tlmo to consider tho nppolntmont. Geno S. Watorbury of Emporia bn been electod as tho Independence party's national committeeman for Kansas to succeed J. I. Shoppurd. James II. Budd, ex-govornor of Cali fornia and widely known In Demo cratic circles, is dead at Stockton. Mrs. Estella M. II. Morrill, formerly widely known as n nowspaper writor, undor tho namo of Joan Kihcald, Is dead at her homo In North Cambridge, Mass. G. Wlnthrop Sands, a stepson of W. K. Vanderbllt, was killed lu a motor car accident nt tho country seat of Mr. Vanderbllt, near Paris. Mrs. H. W. Burkott, mother of Sen ator Burkott or Nebraska, is dead at Glenwood, la., nfter a long Illness. Charles 11. Moyer has again been olected president of tho Western Fed eration or Miners. John W. Gates Is to spend $1,000, 000 In constructing at Port Arthur, Tex., tho finest golf links lu the world. A cow maddened by tho heat gored a three-year-old child named Lnbouff to death at St. Joseph, Mo., tho other duy. Maj. II. I, McCrca, an ex-paymaster in tho navy, died on a train whllo en routo from Washington to Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. Taft has returned to Hot Springs, Va from Cincinnati whero ho will remain until tho opening of tho campaign in September, MASS OFJLAMES CROW'S NEST PASS COUNTRY, MANITOBA, 8WEPT BY FIRE. WIDE DISTRICT DEVASTATED Fully a Hundred Lives Known to be Lost Territory of One Hundred Square Miles All Aflame and Fighters Helpless. As a result of bush Urea tho town of Fernle, B. C, Is wiped off the map as a child cleans a slate. Michel, four teen miles distant, Is in Haines, nnd tho fntc or Hosner, Olsen nnd Spar wood, Intervening towns, is in doubt, they being cut off from all communica tion. Over 100 lives aro known to have been lost, seventy-four of them in Fernle. A territory of 100 rqunro miles in extent Is u seething mass of flnmcB. Through It aro scittwd hun dreds of lumbermen and prospectors. bo thnt thu actual loss of life will not be known for days. The properties of the Cnnndlnn Pacific and Great North ern railways aro destroyed, the bridges and rolling stock being In such condition thnt Is Ib Impossible to enter or lonve the burned nrcn. The inhabitants of tho towns havo fled to open districts In the vicinity in the hope of safety. The railway compnnles havo placed all available trains nt their disposal, and unless there is a change or wind tho whole of the Crow's Nest Pass country will be left to the Haines. The oonllngrution Is the worst which has over been wit nessed in Canada and ranks only with the San Francisco disaster. For the past month forest fires havo been rag ing in tho mountuliis of the Elk river valley country, but tlioy have not been considered serious. Saturday morninK a heavy wind sprang up from the cresi of the mountains to the west of Fernle. They ran down tho west side and early lu the afternoon tho flame.-, npponred over the mountain side, and before a tiro guard could be organized had entered the town. Within nn hour the town wnB doomed and tho Inhabi tants sought safety In flight, leaving their all behind them. The only build ings remaining nro six smnll shncks on tho bnnks of the Elk river, tho ollices ot the Crow's Nest Coal company and the Fikcs Woodwnre company. The offices of tho Canadian Pacific railway and tho Great Northern are gone, to gether with nil of the rolling stock in tlie ynrds, the sleeping car Osceola be ing tho only enr left. Ono hundred enrs of coke, tho property of tho Great. Northern nio gone and the stock piles of conl and coke holding about half a million toiiB nro in flames. ,it Is feared that the flro may get. In tho mines thomselvcB, several of which are open In tho neighborhood. This will mean incalculable damage. The whole ot tho vnlley is underlaid with coal. Tho fire Is following tho crest of the moun tain chnln nbovo Spnrwood, eating down into'tho valleys on either side. It Is traveling at a tremendous rate. Thcro are thousands of mines and prospectors' claims In tho track of tht lire, all or which are in peril. Fire-fighting apparatus is of no avail for tho u!r Is filled with frag ments of burning wood, und sheets of finme seem to lenp ahead ot the con flagration as though the air Itself was In flume. The heat Is intense, and many of tho flro lighters havo gono down ahead of it. DEFICIT FOR JULY IS LARGE. Government Expenditures Run Far Over Receipts. Tho monthly statoment of tho gov ernment recelptB nnd expenditures shows thnt ror July, 1908, the total receipts wero $52,170,000 and tho ex penditures $77,0:18,000, leaving a de ficit ror tho month of $2l,8i;8,000, as against a deficit for July, 1907, or $10. 001,5:14. This month's deficit would have been over $30,000,000 bnt ror tho payments In discharge of tho Central Pacific railroad's Indebtedness to the government, which during July amounted to nbout $5,500,000. During July, 1908, tho receipts from customs aggregated over $8,000,000 loss than for July, 1907, und Internal revenue about $100,000,000 less. Tho monthly statement of tho cir culation ot national bank notes allows that at tho closo of business July 31 tho total circulation amounted to $092, 088,991, which Is an Increase for tho year of $88,093,105, and a decrease for the month of $6,244,920. Small Hope for Pcttibone. An operation porfornied Saturday at Denver on Georgo A. Pottlbone, for merly a member of tho executive board of tho western federation of miners, showed that ho is Buffering from cancor, and thu physlcluns in at tendance agreed that his life could not bo saved. Four Negroes Lynched, Four negroes, Virgil, Tom nnd Rob Jones and Joo Rlloy, wero taken from Jnll nt Russellvlllo, Ky onrly Satur- dny nnd hanged to a tree on tho edge of town. No sohtB wore tired by tho mob which was composed of about lifty men and tho people or tho town knew nothing ot tho affair until day light revealed th? four bodies dangling from a treo just outside Russellvlllo on tho Nnshvlllo plko, Tho victims wero members of a lodge, and nt a meeting recently tlioy npproved of tho murder of James Cunningham, a whlto I farmer, by his negro tenant. . -s "-