Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, July 14, 1911, Image 1
The Omaha ' Daily ' Bee. Advertisers can cover Omaha with one paper THE BEE WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska Fair, Warmer. For Iowa Fair. VOL. XL1 NO. 2.1. OMAHA, Hi I DAY MONK! NO, JULY, 14, 1H11-'. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. r v 'I i V r V' Vestl Isr f t". Ml NEBRASKA GETS f ITS BANNER HAIN Beit Wetting of the Season Comet at a Most Opportune Time for t the Cropi. FOUR INCHES IN SOME SPOTS Curtis ii the Favored Locality of the Downpour. GRAND ISLAND ALSO SOAKED All Conntiei West of the Eastern Tier Visited. - FARMERS ARE REJOICING fer O Croat la New Practically Assured and Other Crops Are Given Caod Beoet l'oHti Are Ala Helped. Heavy ralna In every locality of the State, with the exception of the eaetern part, were reported at the various railway office Thuraday morning. Orand laland and the vicinity, which wu sadly In need of ralna to save the cropa, which were on the verge of destruction, reported an Inch of rain at S:tO Thuraday morning, with the rain still falling. The concensus of opinion among the knowing onus at the railway offices Is that the rains of yesterday have saved all cropa and put them where they will flourish from now on. Reports received at the Union Pacific general offices were to the effect that from one to two Inches of rain had fallen arty Thursday morning along the routs from Orand Island to Sidney and aorth of Grand Island and Kearney and light rains at North Bend and Fremont. . Com was reported as being In first-class shape at North Bend and In that vicinity and would yield the average crop. On the Lincoln division of the Burlington route every town had been visited by rain during the night and la most places was still falling. At Clay Center the heaviest rain of the season was falling at ( o'clock. At that Urns the rainfall had been t8S Inches, Lyons and Randolph war the only towns in .the Omaha division to re port rain and in thesa places showers, and , ugm rain leu. y at Platte Coeatry mat. At Red Cloud almost three Inches of rain had fallen by 7: SO, and from indications at that time the rain would continue through out the entire day. The MoCook division reported the heaviest rains of the season, and svery town along ths line reported rain. The erops In that locality , especially Jr corn, are reported to be In ths best eondl- d" lon of years, and ths soil is moist enough at this tuns to Insure a bumper crop In ' corn and wlntsr wheat.' At Curtis three and one-half laches' had fallen at at O'clock Thursday morning and It was still raining hard at that time. Two bridges nlonr a small creek near Curtis wars Svas iM away by ths strong currents. . Tje Sterling division was ths only on On ths Burlington routs in Nebraska that failed to report, rains.. -Almost every town Jong ths Union Paclln routs U Nebraska reported heavy rains. Reports received at ths homeseekers' department of ths Burl ington were that ths corn crop was in ths best condition of the season and that ths farmers wars unanimous In their opinion that nothing oould prevent them from har vesting an average orop of oorn this year. average corn crop for Nebraska la con st dared good. Many farmers on ths Mo Cook division claim ths oorn orop this year bs far In advance of any for many years past Winter Wheat Strom. Winter wheat Is already being harvested In .many plaooa, ud ths reports reglstsred at the various railway offices In the city are that It is in advance of last year. Ths towns along the river are reporting heavy ' eiope of winter wheat, and those who are threshing from ths shocks are sending In largo shipment. However, many of ths farmers are stacking ths wheat and put ting It through ths sweating process, and It WU1 not be threshsd until In September. When large shipments ara expected. Borne of the towns which received heavy rains are: ... Inches. Inohea. Mlnden 1 .Ob Hold rare 75 Red Cloud 1.60 Oberlln 1.21 Wlleonvllis 10 Orleans 1.13 Curtla I 'M Clay Center 1.64 Button I.jO Harvard l.M Aurora l.M Norton 1.00 RAIN OKSKBAI. OVKR TUB) BTATB Sections Heaortlas; Precipitation lay Crops Get Great Boost. DtSHUUH, Neb., July l.-(Hpeelal. An tnoh of rain broke the drouth in this see- (Continued on Boon4 Pag.) The Weather For Nebraska Fair; wanner. For Iowa Fair. Temperature at Omaha Yesterday, I a. m TO a. ni it 7 a. m o a. m 71 a. m T7 10 a. m SO II a. m is 11 m m 1 p. m it 8 m T 5 p. m 85 4 p. n 86 6 . ni (w p. ni 6 T P- m M P. m 80 t'vmpjtratlve Leral Record. 1911. 110. ISO. 1901. w u n m a at to 7S 74 74 74 .00 .00 .00 .04 Highest yesterday.. Lowest yesterday... Mean temperature . Precipitation , Temperature and precipitation departures from the normal: Normal temperature ., Excess for the day Total excess since March 1 Normal precipitation Deficiency tor the day ...... 77 1 6HS .11 inch . .16 inch . S IS Inches 7 7.' Inches m Inches .0 Inch T P. M. Total rainfall sinoe March 1... Deficiency since March 1. 1HU. enclenoy lor cor. period, 1910. acees tor cor. period, luut Heperte from Stations at at ton and Temp. High. Rain 1 p. in. Today, fall. Chavanna. rain fcl (vow hvoT? 0 atver l right! 1 t 71 .11 88 ' .4 7 T M . M .00 84 .00 (O .48 87 .00 74 T 80 .00 K .00 74 .S N .W 84 .00 U .4 Davenport, part cloudy.... as faver, part oloudy. ....... 71 a Molnta, clear Ri Dodge City, part cloudy... ) IjuiJor, clear M North Platte, part cloudy.. W Omaha, clear at hJo. cloudy 71 - Valentin, clear. "X". Indicates trace ee. m of prclpitAUoA. Rapid tlty, cloudy 74 Salt Lake City, clear....... SO Pants Fe, rain a t-heridan. eW.r 84 Houx City, clear . 81 United States is Getting a Better Class of Immigrants Dr. Steiner Says , that There ii a Harked Improvement in the Orade Each Tear. "One of the great difficulties with which we are confronted In seeking a solution of the Immigration' problem la that the I'nlted States government and the people of the United Statea haven't realised that the problem Is absolutely In their own hands," asserted Dr. Kdward A. Steiner of GrinneH college, Clriftnell, la., who la In the city to addresa the Omaha summer school and conference at the University of Omaha. Dr. Steiner, who la one of the best known of the country's sociologists, has Just returned from one of his many trips abroad, having spent March, April, May and June In ths porta of Europe, atudylng ths cars of ths Immigrants at the ports and aboard ship, lie Is very optimistic as to ths future of the immigrant if only the American people will do their share. 'Ths foreign governments are each year becoming mors careful as to those whom they allow to atart for America," said Dr. Steiner. "Austria now requires the pros pective emigrant to paaa through four ex aminations, and Germany last year re jected 8,000 who sought to come over. The objects which these countries have are puiely selfish all objects are selfish but the Influence of the restrictions la begin ning to bs felt here. "Hers is a fact 1 want you to print" he continued. "On my reoent trip I made the discovery that only 3 per cent of the Im migrants who come into the United States are over 18 years of age, and that only 1'i per cent are below 14 years. You see we are getting them in the very best part of their Ufa and we must take care of them." Frances Hodgson Burnett's Automobile Hit by Trolley Car 1 Brother and Woman Neighbor of Authoress Are Killed and Another v Woman Seriously Injured. PORT WASHINGTON. N. T.. July It Frank P. Jordan, a brother-in-law to Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the well known novelist, was Instantly killed near here to day In a collision between Mrs. Burnstt's automobile and a trolley construction car. Mildred and Edith Johnstone, slaters of Gilbert L. Johnatone. a neighbor, were taken unconscious to the Nassau county hospital at Mlneola, where Edith died. It la feared that Mildred cannot live. It was at first understood that Mrs. Bur nett was in ths car, but the error las cor rected at the county hospital. ' Pearse is Elected N. E. A. President Superintendent of Milwaukee Schools Made Head of National Asso ciation of Teachers. SAN FRANCISCO, July 1S.-C. O. Pearse of Milwaukee was this afternoon elected president of the National Education asso ciation. The vote in his favor in the nom inating committee was 27 to SO. Alleged Mabrayite Pardoned by Taft WASHINGTON. July 1-Wtllard Powell of Council Bluffs, Iowa, who was con victed in March, 1910, with members of ths Maybray gang of using .the United States malls to defraud in a fake horse raos scheme, was today unconditionally pardoned by, President Taft PowslI, after his conviction claimed he was a victim of mistaken identity. He satisfied President Taft that he was In Cuba when the crime was committed. TARIFF LAW AMENDED FOR BENEFIT OF PUP Animals Taken Abroad May New Be I Broagrht Beck Daty Free Within lz Months. WASHINGTON, July ll "The howl raised over a poor Pomeranian pup taken abroad for Its health," upon which ths "unholy hands of ths customs collector was laid when ths dog was brought back," was declared by Representative Fitzgerald of New Tork, to bs the cause of an amend ment to the Payne-Aldrich tariff law passed by the house today. Ths amend ment allows horses, eattla and other ani mals taken out and brought back Into this country within six months to be read mitted free. BETROTHED COUPLE KILLED WHEN AUTOMOBILE UPSETS A8HEVILI.E, N. C, July JJ.-Early this morning, three miles from Henderaonville, N. C, an automobile containing several persons went over an embankment, and the following are known to be dead or se riously Injured. Dead: MISS LENA BOWMAN. Sumter, B. C. ROBKltT BKTTIS. Trenton. S C. Seriously Injured: Miss Mabel Bowman, Sumter, S. C. Miss lena Bowman and Robert Bettli were to have been married within the next few days. GETTING CLOSE TO THE HEN State Authorities Have Farmer In Paraaa Arrested for Selling; Spoiled KsTgs. BEAVER CITT. Neb.. July( ll.-(8pecial Telegram.) Three merchants of this city and one at HenCIey were arrested by .the dairy and sanitary Inspector today ' for having decayed eggs In their possession. They were fined 100 each. Albert Martin, a farmer who sold eggs that are alleged' to be spoiled, was also arrested, but has not been tried. SEE IS GUILTY OF ABDUCTION reaaler ef Abeelate Lift Calt Cea vlrted Aftew Little Mere Thsue IIears Coat ere a ee hjr Jery. CHICAGO, July 11. Evelyn Arthur See, founder of the Absoluts Lite cult, tonight was found guilty of the abduction of Mil dred aridgas, ths 17-year-old dlsdpis of ths oult. The jury was out little more than an hour. P110BE FOR NEW STEEL COMBINE Department of Justice Looks Into Purpose of Recent Conference in Brussels. FURTHER LUMBER INQUIRY Manufacturers and Wholesalers to Be Investigated. ILLEGAL AGREEMENTS ALLEGED; Curtailment of Output and Increase of Price Charged. TWELVE. CORPORATIONS CONTROL National !. amber Manufacturers' Aa. aoriatloa, Composed of Constituent torn pa ales, rrartlcally lias Monopoly, WASHINGTON, July lS.-An investiga tion of the Brussels . conference of steel men, which. It lias been predicted, may bring about an international combination to control the steel trade of the world, will be undertaken by the Department of Justice. Following a call of-Henry D. Martin and Cotter T. Bride, secretary and treasurer, respectively, of the Anti-Trust league, upon President Taft today it became known that the Brussels conference would be put under the scrutiny of government agents. President Taft told 'his visitors that he believed such an Investigation ahould be made and suggested that they call upon Attorney General Wlckersham and Solicitor General Lehmann, who had charge for the Department of Justice of the Investiga tion of the United States Steel corporation. Vf.. f - V. . . . . . . ... K... Kciiiiiuiiii aaia toaay it probably ould be some time befnra th !.n,rim..i could turn its attention to the Bruesela conference, but Juat as aoon as It .got through with business on this aide of the Atlantic concerning the ateel trade It would look into the International combina tion. FURTHER I.LMHKK IWftUIRY Methods of Manufacturers and Whole aaJers Under Bcrattny, WASHINGTON, July 13.- Following closely on the criminal action against the Retail Lumber Dealers' associations of the west and the civil antl-truat action against the retailers of the east, the gov ernment now has determined upon a thor ough Inquiry into ths methods of manu facturing and wholesaling lumber. The National Lumber Manufacturers' as sociation, of. which Kdward Hinea of Chi cago la past president and a director, prob ably will be one of the flrat corporations investigated. It has been represented on behalf of the retail lumber dealers who have been, under fire by , the government that the manu facturers were maintaining agreements to curtail the manufacture of lumber so aa to Increase the demand and the prices; that there nave been attempts to ntonoponsetlta supply or certain kinds of lumber in cer tain sections of ths country and that In some sections a uniform Dries haa K.n maintained whlon has resulted In increas ing the prices 20 per cent 1n the last two years In the face of a decreasing demand. i-weive constituent organisations which ars said to control largely the manufacture of lumber from logs, compose the National Lumber Manufacturers' association. E. a Griggs of Taconia,.Wash., is president of me association. R. H. Van Bant of Ash land, Ky.; J. a. Freeman of Tacoma, George K. Bmlth of fit. Louis and Leonard Bronson of Tacoma are its other officers. Lumbermen from ten western and southern states comprise Its board of directors. PUHDY oar SUGAR AFFAIRS Former Officer ef Department of Jaatiee on Stud. WASHINGTON, July ll-Former Assist ant Attorney General Milton D. Purdy told the house sugar trust committee today that he never officially knew why Attorney Gen eral Bonaparte did not prosecute the offi cials of ths American Sugar Refining com pany in 1306 for alleged offenses in connec tion with absorption of the Pennsylvania Refining company in 1301. Mr. Purdy declared that while acting attorney general In President Roosevelt's administration hs had been much Impressed by the facta aet forth to him by George H. Earle, jr., of Philadelphia, who pursued ths "sugar trust" officials in ths case and developed at the time the case should beJ prosecuted. He reported all the facta to Attorney General Bonaparte after his ap pointment late In 1906 and was never in formed by Mr. Bonaparte why the prosecu tion was not pressed. v Mr. Purdy said hs never reported to President Roosevelt In this or any other matter. He reported only to Mr. Bona parte. "Did Attorney General Bonaparte ever tell you that the Knight ease controlled in this case and was the reason why there was no prosecution?" asked Representative Bulser of Nsw York. ( (Continued on Second Page.) National Real nr. .V I 7 ( :-V. V V V B, Bruce Douglas of Milwaukee. Secretary. Alexander" Taylor of Cleveland. President DIRNTtT 'weJSu AT TH" RBAI E8TATB MBr8 CONVENTION AT v evj From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. TRAIN KILLS AUTO SPEEDERS Kearney and Overton Men Dash Ahead of Union Pacific Express. CAUGHT BY FLYER AT CROSSING Oreal Bleaa of Kearney and Herman Flake ef Overton Meet Almoet Instant Death Near Overton. KEARNEY, Neb., July 11 (Special Tels gram.) Oral Bleau of Kearney and Her man Finke of Overton were killed earl thla afternoon when the automobile they were driving crashed Into the fast express on the Union pacific two mllea east of Overton. v Ths men were speeding east on the north side of the track when they turned south to cross to the south side. Number SO was close behind them and struck the auto and carried It for a quarter of a mile before the train could be stopped. " Bleau was found on the pilot with bis head crushed and an ankle broken, dead. . Finke still clung to the wheel although his skull was broken and one leg had been severed. 'The train. creWvPlckd.un.he men sod. carried Bleau to Sim Creek- and rushed Finke to Grand Island, but he died before reaching there. The men apparently failed to hear the approaching train. Bleau. who was district traveling sales man for ths International HRarvester com pany, resided in this city and had a wife of two yeara and a baby. ' Finke owned an auto garage In Overton and had relatives there and In Grand Is land. None of Bleau's people nor his wife's relatives Uvs In Nebraska. ' Finke was XL years old and Bleau, though not over 26 In appearance, Is said to have been 36. The body of Bleau was brought here on No. S. The Elks, of which he was a mem ber, have taken charge of his body; Mrs. Bleau la prostrated and physicians are in constant attendance. She was in formed of ths accident by telephone from Overton and fainted with the baby in. her arms. Physicians revived her In half an hour. Stokes Case is Kept in the Public Eye Four Detectives on Trial on Charges Growing Out of Disappear ance of Letters. NEW YORK. July 13. The Stokes case was kept in the public eye today by the trial of the rour city detectives on charges arising out of ths disappearance of nine letters from the collection taken from the apartment of Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad after they were arrested for shoot ing ths wealthy hotel man. The men or dered to appear before First Deputy Police Commissioner McKsy today are Lieuten ant Walsh and Detectives Walsh, DeVery and Flynn. A representativs of the dtstriot attorney's office has been asked to attend the hear ing, so that ths evidence may be laid before the grand Jury. The Investigation is being hurried, so evi dence may be laid before the present grand Jury, which will decide whether or not ths two girls shall be Indicted on a charge ot assault. Estate Officers J - I I " - i : ' -.''"' I ' ''' y Hi : Sunday Showers Prince of Wales Invested with the Insignia of Office Quaint Medieval Ceremony Takes Place in the Ancient Castle of Carnarvon. CARNARVON, Wales, July 13. In ths old and well preserved castle of Carnar von, today the young prince of Wales was Invested with the insignia N)f hia high office. The quaint town In vestal attire made a holiday and drew within its bor ders thousands of Welchmen from the sur rounding country. The royal party, which came on a spe cial train from Holyhead, proceeded to the raised platform In the center ot the great Inner court yard, where the Investiture took place. Aa the king and queen ap peared, in the open sir, the choir sang "God Save the King." This was followed by the singing of "God Bless the Prince of Wales," as the prinoe appeared and ap proached his parents, who had taken their places on the dlas. The prince . In his surcoat, cloak and mantle of crimson velr vet presented himself before the king and queen, and the king placed a crimson vaJvetlr cab 'ornamented w?th .rin. ..JV IT6 on the head of his eon aa a token of prlnet pallty. In the hand of the prinoe, his majesty placed a golden verge as the em blem of government, and on his middle fin ar, a ring of gold, signifying that hs must be a husband to his country and a father to his children. While his majesty was Investing his son with ths Insignia, the letters authorising the prince to hold the principality of Wales in trust for the king of England were read and later handed to him. The service of conaeoration folowed, bishops of St. Asaph and Bangor officiat ing, assisted by two Welsh nonconformist ministers. Fierce Fighting in Streets of Puebla Battle Between Maderists and Soldiers Lasts Nearly All Night Several Rolled and Wounded. j PUEBLA, Mexico, July lS.-Three soldiers of the Twenty-ninth battalion and a num ber of Maderists estimated aa high thirty were killed and many others wounded in a battle between the two forces which raged in the streets of the city from 11 o'clock last night until 7 o'clock this morning. Forty Maderists are prisoners in the barracks of the Saragosa battalion. The fighting ceased only when Governor Canete appeared with a white flag ana pleaded for peace. A special train, with Francisco Madero on board, arrived In the city aoon after the battle began. It Is al teged that drunken Maderists made aa at tack on the penitentiary with dynamite bombs In an effort to releaae the prisoners. Ths Saragosa troops, stationed close by. opened fire. siaaensu from the bull ring barracks attacked the federals and forced them dmk into their quarters. A scattering fire was kept up ail night. At daybreak, the iwenty-nlnth battalion came to the rescue of the other federals and used a machine gun to clear the streets. At this attack the Maderists fled, leaving a large num ber of wounded and dead In the streets. Dixie Flyer Wrecked Near Duquoin, 111. -sssnsssam. Three Pullman Cars Leave Rails and One is Overturned Twenty Persona Badly Bruised. ST. LOUIS. July ll-Thr. i . of the Illinois Central Dlxl, KIy , t arrive her, at ?: a. m.. todav i.n .k- track near Duquoin. III., this ..... and one of them, carrying passengers from JacksonvlIIs, Flaj Nashville ajwt rh.f.-. nooga, Tenn., was overturned. Twenty persons were ul.n i- berths in the overturned car and moat of them were bruised, while a few nr. vereiy Injured. They were brought t St. Louis In the coaches which had not h. derailed. A broken rail is said to nave caused h aocldenL W. A. Whitoomb of Blootnlnrton. Ill- one of ths passengers In the overturned sleeper, said that hs was awakened by feeling the car sway and fall. "I lust had Urns to drag myself from the window," he said, "whan we struck the ground, and I felt the ear slide down the embankment. But I saw a number of persons. Including some women, were quite badly hurt" ' , The passengers In two other Pullmans which were derailed but not overturned were not Injnred. GOYERNOR DENEEN TESTIFIES Illinois Executive is Witness Lorimer Case. in TELLS OF TALK WITH SENATOR Says They Dlscnssed Illinois Polities fer Five Honrs Wltheat Defendant Indicating- Ills Attltade To ward Witness. BULLETIN. WASHINGTON. D. C. July 11-Oovemor Deneen absolutely denied Edward Hlnes' version of the famous telephone conversa tion between Deneen and Hlnes on May 9S. Dtneen said Hlnes phoned him that Pres ident Reynolds of the Continental bank would convey to his a request from the president acting through Senator Aldrlch to support Lorimer. WASHINGTON, July 11. Governor Charles S. Deneen of Illinois today for the flrat time gave his account of the election of Senator - Lorimer.- He was called as a witness today when t the senate Lorimer committee resumed its Investigation. He was subpoenaed by the present committee UDim"- w present commute Whef witnesses frequently have mentioned his name In connection with the election. ' Governor "Deneen told-of his nomination for governor in 1901. Former Governor Tales had testified that Governor Deneen failed to carry out his promise to support Tates for senator and so Tates declared Deneen was "a liar still." "I don't think ths senatorshlp waa men tioned at that time," declared Governor Deneen today. ' Governor Deneen said that he afterward supported Tatea for senator and that their relations always had been pleasant. He denied that Tates ever had given him to understand that he (Deneen had lied in connection with the support of Tates. Yates testified that in conversation with Deneen he had given Deneen to understand that he had not acted fah-ly toward him. Governor Deneen discussed hla opposition to the election ot Edward Shurtleff as spesker of the Illinois legislature which elected Senator Lorimer In 1909. Mr. Deneen said ha favored the re-election of Senator Hopkins after the pri maries. In furthering this election, he said,' hs urged the holding of a republican caucus at Springfield, so that representa tives sleeted from Fosa' districts might vote for Foes In ths caucus and subse quently follow the vote of the majority of the caucus. Meetlaa; With Lorimer. Governor Deneen said ths first meeting between himself and Lorimer took place on January It. 1908, and was arranged by Roy O. West, chairman o fthe republican state committee, who asked if a visit from Lorimer would be agreeable. "A general discussion of political condi tions" occurred, so Governor Deneen tes tified. "We talked about getting accurate knowledge of conditions in the general as sembly.' "Along what lines?" asked Attorney HeaJy. "Chiefly about myself." Governor Deneen said that he had Just been defeated In ths contest' over the speakership and that the democratic candi date for governor was contesting his uwn election. "We talked about ths source of my weakness In the legislature," he added, and I wanted to know what position the coalition of sixty democrats and the few republicans that had selected Shurtleff would take in regard to the governorship contest" taestloa by Kvaa. "Do you mean to say that during the five houra of conversation Mr. Lorimer did not indicate whether he and hia followers would support you In your contest T" asked Senator Kern of Indiana. "He did not," responded Governor De neen. "I was anxious at that tims to see if we could get immediate action so that If I was going to bs thrown out 1 would be thrown out at once." "Did you consider that Lorimer would be influenoed In the settlement of that con test T" asked Senator Kenvon of Iowa "Lorimer and Speaker Shurtleff." "Did you think that after the people of the staU had elected you It depended upen what Lorimer and Bhurtleff said aa to whather you could be governor r' continued Mr. Kenyon. Governor Deneen in reply explained th Influence the speaker would have in such a contest, adding that hs believed that Shurtleff would be controlled fay Iri.r... Lsrwrls Basks Impleaded. ST. LOUIS. ' Julv 11 u.. tv.ii i- ... - United States district court mads an order today Impounding the books and records of several of K. O. Lewis' concerns, fohuw. g the publisher's indictment on charges of lsuae of the malls. Uadr iha t t.. books eaa be Inaoeoted oulv hv r.u... lawyers and agents. The Lawis aa mmm TWO HUNDRED DIE IN FLAMES Large Area in Porcupine District, Ontario, is Devastated by Fire. MINES AND TIMBER BURN Rumors of Enormous Property Loss Are Flatly Denied. REFUGEES TAKEN TO TORONTO People Stand in Ice Cold Water for Four Hours. H0LLIN0ER PROPERTY AN OASIS Konr Haadred l'rraona. Besides Com. pany'a Kniployra, Klork to Large Clear "pare and Are Safe. TORONTO, Ont.. July 13 Superintendent Black of the Temlnkanlng & Northern On tario railway ut North Bay states that the fires In the Porcupine district are now under control. A. D. Miles, construction engineer for the Great Dome mine, estimates the total loss of life at 200. It is stated by one of the ownera of the best known of the Torcuplne mines that the financial losses are grossly over estimated. In his own case, for Instance, the loaa had been placed at $109,000, whereas he asserts 15,000 would' cover It, A train from North Bay arrived here today bringing twenty-two refugees from Porcupine; mainly Toronto people. McDonald Wardrop of Hamilton, nephew of Lieutenant Governor Gibson, was among them. "The report has spread that t Was killed," said he, "but I xaved myself by taking to the water along with about 600 more. We were forced to stand in the cold water for over three hours and be came so numb with the cold that some went under. About- ten square mllea of forest were burned over. As far as I am aware, the only ones who are gone are prospectors and miners." Many Saved at Ilolllnn-er Plant. W. R. RIkks of Kansas City, another of the party, said: "A great number of people were saved at the Holllnger property. That place waa like an oasis In the desert. Quite a large area had been clc-ared by the ownera and they had water pumps, whloh were saved. I am sure there were about 400 refugees from all directions there, besides the Hol llnger employes." All the party agreed that the estimate that SOO lives had been lost was not Excessive and that at leant 200 perished at Porcupine Lake. The greatest catastrophe appears to have occurred at South Porcupine, where 600 people sought refuge in the lake. Of theae SOO persons,' many ot them with children in their arms, lost their lives, according to a private message received here from W. A. Cartton of - HaileyVIe, av prospector, who was in the lake when the fire was at its height. Boats and canoes In which they had put off from ths shores ware upset by squalls. Superintendent Weiss Dead. West Dome representatives in Toronto have received teleirrams giving the total number of deaths at that property at twenty-five, including - Robert A. Weiss, superintendent of the mine; Mrs. Weiss and Miss Weiss. The destitute survivors have appealed for funds. Their clothing saturated by smoke and the faces blistered by flames, some of the , earliest refugees from the burned districts are easily located among passengers who arrived in Toronto from North Bay at noon today. Among the arrivals were J. A. Williams. A. I). Williams and L. P. Abshler, all of Kanaaa City, and Thomas Williams and wife of Denver, Colo. ' Reports Becoming Worse. NORTH BAT, Ont, July IS. Reports from the fire zone at Porcupine are hourly growing worse and in addition to fifty coffins previously shipped a carload of caskets was sent in thla morning. It la estimated the death roll will be hundreds, while thousands of men are straggling into the settlements severely burned and wearied to the limit of human endurance. Everyone brings reports of many dead bodies lying along the trails and at the end of small lakes, where the flames over came them. The wind was blowing with 'a velocity of sixty miles and Porcupine lake waa lashed Into a fury of mountainous waves, in the tnre of which boatmen conveyed women and children from South Porcupine to Golden City. A cur of dynamite standing on a rullway track exploded with a deafen ing roar, but no one was injured from It Many settlers from Taylor township lost everything and hi- to fly for their lives to Mathewsonto-.vi' which is now asking for assistance '. care for the sufferers. The women and - iiildren are coming from Porcupine and other flreawept centers. General Agent Lee of the government rail way came out with 600 women and children from Cochrane. The private car Calabogie waa put on his train and used for hospital purposes. The report that Elk Lake was wiped out Is discredited and that town is said to be all rlsrht. , . Searching parties are being organized to go Into the fire belt to aid those who are unable to get out. Death and Destruction. veary, blackened and burned men are limping into Coldt.t City every hour with sad tales of death and destruction, but the catastrophe la so vast that days will pass before accurate nows will be available (Continued on Second Page.) Boxesof O'Brien's Candy. Round trip tickets to Laks Manawa. Quart bricks of DalzeU'a ice cream. All given away tree to those n hs rind their names la ths vast ads. Read ths want ads every daa your asms will appear sometime, may bs mors than ones. No pusile to solve sor sakcrt tlons to got just read the wa&t ads. Tan to ths vast ad rxs Put est the November docket i C"