The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 10, 1904, Page 2

OUR NAVY NEXT TO THAT OF ENLGAND western Oklahoma. RANK IN EFFECTIVENESS. Hundreds of Persons Homeless and Declaration Made in Senate De- bate of Naval Arp -opriation Bill---Need of Strength Washington, March 3.—Foralmost tour hours to-day the senate, while technically engaged on the naval ap propriation bill, discussed a wide range of subjects, including the poli ey of the United States in the Philip- pine islands and the Russo Japanese war. In explanation of the bill, Mr. Hall, tn charge of the measure, said that while the increase in the navy is the largest ever made, it must be under- stood that the proposed amendment are only a part of a general scheme for improvements. Heclassed Great Britain first, France second and the United States third in naval strength saying the popular impression that Germany outranked this country was fallaclous In effectiveness of appliances the United States stood next to Great Britain, due to the fact that we had been able to take advantage of the mistakes of Euro Property Loss Heavy---Lawton and Hobart Narrewiy Escaped Destruction---Several Horses Consumed. Lawton, Ok, March 5 —At least four persons perished, several others received mortal injuries, hundreds were rendered homeless and thou sands of dollars worth of property was destroyed in a prairie fire which awept over Southwestern Oklahoma last night. D. Harmond, two unidentified w« - men and an identified boy were burn- ed to death All these persons lived in the vicinity of Lawton. John Harmond, a brother of D Harmond, will die. Others who re ceived dangerous injuries are: Mre Henderson, a widow, who lived three miles from Lawton, aud her two daughters, and A. N. Crawford, A. S Strickland and RK. E. Trasper wer slightly burned. BURNED OVER 8,000 SQUARE MILES, The territory devastated included approxiately three thousand square miles, The fire started when the great wind and sand storm wasatite height. Many wires are down and communication with several towns is cut off. For this reason details of thecatastropheare meager. Anesti- mate based on the informatidn at hand places the property losses as follows: Hobart, $40,000; Vinson, $8,000; Lawton, $5,000; smallcoun- try towns, $50,000; farm property, $100,000, The fire started about nine miles southwest of Lawton and for a time this place was believed to bedoomed. At midnight 5,000 people of the city were up to do battel with the flames. Hundreds of women and children bundled together their apparel and lefo the city while the men remained tor the fight. TWO MILES OF EIRE, pean powers, “In our navy,” anid Mr. Hale, there fs talk of putting many of our ressela, such as the Oregon, Indiana and others of the same class on the retired list. They ought not to retire the Oregon,” said Mr. Hale, ‘‘but she hasn't the stateroom facilities that meet the fancy of naval officers. She has the same numberof 13-inch guns and the same fighting capacity. Nothing suits navy officers except the largest battle ships.” The naval board program contem- plated forty-eight battle ships and twenty four armored cru‘sers, he aaid, and when thatetage was reach edan appropriation of $200,000,- 000 a year would be necessary for the navy. r Mr. Perkins defended the officers of the navy, saying they were entitled to great credit Mr. Hale admitted that the Ameri- ean offiver was aman of merit, but congress had itsresponsibilities. He admitted that the extensive addi tions to the navy had been made necessary because of the acquisition of the Philippines, and likewise, he said, it now would be necessary to maintain a navy sufficient to pro tect the Panama canal. Mr, Lodge spoke at some length on the need of a good navy to pro- t-ct our trade and uphold the Mon- roe doctrine, ‘ Mr, Money spoke of the prowess of the Japanese, and predicted that they would eventually go to the Philip- pines. It was not the European na tifne that we were to fear in the Orient, he declared. The advance line of the fire was tully two miles in length and came in a semi-circle; great balla of fire were carried high into the air and burstec into fragments like immense bombs On the ground bunches of burning zrass, strips of flaming timber, arti cles of household gooda, brough across the blazing prairie, rolled along, leaped all impediments, skip ped avenues and flung themselves iv to the faces of the battling people glided beneath-houses and barns and rolled down the streets, passing onin their mad rush for liberty and de struction. A thousand men turned their ef forts to checking the grass borders of the reservation at the city limits. At the suggestion of Mr. Hale, an Water from every source carried in appropriation of $400,000 for the every conceivable way. wasdistribut restoration of the frigate Conetita ed along this line aud carried all on wae inserted, around the city limits. This served ————— the purpose of checking the advance A Loss For South Dakota. lines of the fire, but was — ~~ , . Ps ., |in hindering the continued rolling o' a — yeh i pie the fire brands into the streets of the e Ol he . river is the boundary between South city. In more than a hundred places Dakota and Nebraska, south of Un- the flames arose from dwellings, > . . _..| barns and outhouses and wherever a ion county, South Dakota So said the interstate boundary commission blaze grew men were present to ata meeting in Lincoln late this af- quench it with water. noon. By the decision Nebraska gets about 5,000 acresfromSouth Dakota} Stories are coming in to-night of and the latter state gains 1,500 | families which laid out on the barren acres from Nebraska. Reniger’s cut-| prairie through the freezing night af- off iain South Dakota, while Hall’s| ter the storm had passed with only survey and Sioux Point are in| the thinclothes on their back as re- Nebraska. minders of once prosperous homes. Hundreds of people are destitute Whitney Estate Valued By Son and are suffering intensely in thecold at $11,000,000. and with the excruciating pains.oc- Mineola, Long Island, March 5.— SS eA ‘Samana aie Harry Payne Whitney, executor of sent out from all the cities andtewns the late William C. Whitney, has filed of the district to relieve the suffering. sith the Surrogate of Nassaucounty i. of cavalry from Fort Sill is » provisional estimate of the value ere ot his father’s estate liable to taxa- searching for missing persons. sina in this State, fixing the value of Auadarko, Ok., March 5.—Fire peulestate at $1,000,000 and started in the horse barne at the fair the personal property at $10,000,- grounds adjoining Hobart north about 8 o’clock last night. A i238 wind blowing at the rate of eighty miles ‘an hour fanned the flames. FAMIL'ES ALMOST FREEZING Philadelphia, March 5.—Ten nurees left to-day for Seattle and Japan, where they will render volunteer ser- vice on the battle field. The partyis under the guidance of Dr. AnitaNew-|\ Gives Collins a Respite. comb McGee, who offered her services, Jeflrson City, M ., March 6. together with those of his compan-} grnor Dockery ious, without hope of remuneration. i George out, the Unga the supreme coor ene oe ning horses in the stables. -- } | ed, besides fifteen trotting and run- ble. At Least Four Perished in South-| An Insane Discharged Soldier o Loose atthe War Depart- ment. Washington, March 3.—Armed with a revolver, William J. O’Brien, alias William Duffy, an insane dis charged soldier, entered the war de- partment to day and going to the mail aud record division shot Robert J. Manning, a messenger, and Arthur Wiecker, a clerk. Miss Emma Saxon another clerk, barely missed being shot through the head The injury to Manning is on the right side just above the kidneys as is regarded as dangerous. Weicker was shot in the arm. Before the maniaccould fire a third time he was overpowered by James 1, Dawson, amessenger. Tt required the combined strength of halfa dozen men to finally subdue the man. Prominent among them was Lieu- tenant General Adna R Chaffee, chief of staff. General Chaffee with his lef. hand upon the man’s throat took the weapon from him and also the the papers in his pocket. “O'Brien, or Duffy, came to the War department early and stayed around the building for more than an hour He was escorted to the mail and record division by Charles Gannon, one of the Clerks. The man was introduced to Charles Brandt, the chief of the division, and express- ed dissastisfaction with his discharge papers. Then, without a word of warning, he drew the pistol from his pocket and began firing. GOOD ROADS CONVENTION. A District Convention of the National Good Roads Assoctation Will Be Held at Ft. Scott, Kan, on the 2oth of March, 1904. The Fort Scott Commercial Club, at the request of the National Good Roads Association, hereby call a con- vention to held at Fort Scott, Kan., March 30th, 1904, for the purpose of discussing the Good Road move- ment that is one of the most import- ant topics of the present day. There will be three sessions of the meeting morning, afternoon an night. Every city, town, township and rodd die- trict is entitled to, and should send delegates to this convention, All county, city and township officers, including road overseers, are entitled t> seats in this convention and should make an effort to be present, as well as representatives from all the newspapers, and all others inter: ested in the Good Roads movement. A program will be prepared in which will be included papers on road topics by the best talent obtainable. In addition to this Mr. W. H. Moore, president of the National Good Roads Association, will be present and ad- dress the convention. Also, the fol- lowing pereons who have taken an active part in this Good Roads movement have been invited to be present: Hon. W. 8. Jennings, gov- ernor of Florida; Hon. W. K. Van- derbilt, Sr., of New York, Hon. Jas. W. Abbott, of Denver, Colorado, and others. Denver, Colo., March 5 —Jobn W. Springer, president of the National Live Stock Association, whose boom for the presidency was lauoched in Arizona, is taking it seriously. He proposes to have a Roosevelt Club of at least a thousand members, togged out in cowboy costume, at the National Convention, and will try to carry the nomination with a whoop, just the same as a round-up. He says he is confident that the peo- ple of Illinois will come to his aid owing to his family acquaintances in Central Illinois. A meeting of the Roosevelt Club] Colorado Spri prings, Colo., March 5. aill be held here to-morrow topertect|_y W. Davidson, of Springfield, Mo , arrangements for capturing Chicago by storm. LIVES LOST IN THE FIRE. |A MANIAC SHOT TWO CLERKS Exploring the Louisiana Pur- chase. ating for March. Jefferson had arranged with John | Ledyard, of Connecticuit, who had been with Captain Cook on the Paci fic, to explore the northwest coast of America by crossing Russia over- land; but Russia had similar designs for herself, and stopped Ledyard on the way. In 1803 President Jeffer- son asked Congress for an appropria- tion to explore the Northwest by way of the Missouri. Now that the wealth of the West is beyond theesti- mate of any figure, it seems almost inconceivable that there were people Little minded enoagh to haggle over the price paid for Louisiana—$15, Groceries, Hardware, GIG] G. E. CABLE, — DEALER IN — Stoves, Tinware, Farm Implements and Buggies. Pro cuce Wanted. We guarantee satisfaction. G. E. C ABLE, seg ESAS LISSISES 000,000—and to object-to theappro- priation required for its exploration —$2,500; but, fortunately, the world goes abead in spite of hagglers. May of 1804 saw Captain Meriwether Lewis, formerly secretary to Presi- dent Jefferson, and Captain William Clark, of Virginia, launch out from Wood River, opposite St. Louis, where they had kept their men en- camped all winter on the east side of the Mississippi, waiting for the for mal transfer of Louisi«n, tor thelong journey of exploration to thesources of the Missouri and the Columbia. Their eecort consisted of twenty sol- diers, eleven voyageurs and nine frontiersmen, The main craft was a keel boat fifty-five feet long, of light draft, with square rigged sail, and twenty-two oars and tow line fasten- ed to the mast pole to track the boat copper safe. This safe can all to the bank. Call at the the matter. Savings Banks. If you fee! anyways timid about bringing small sums of money to the bank, we can loan youalittle oxidized be kept at home where you can drop in small amounts from time to time. When you have accumulated a goodly sum you can bring bank and inquire about Faunew up stream through rapids. An American flog floated from the prow, and behind the flag, the universal Starving indian Turns Cannibal. St. Paul, Minn., March 5.—Gus H. types of progress every where—goods Beauliéu, a newspaper man of White for trade, and a swivel guns. Horses Earth Minn now in 8. Pact, said a ’ od J od . were led along shore for hunting, and] +).9+ before he left the reservation a two pirogues—sharp at prow, broad report was received of a case of can- at stern, like a flatiron or a turtle— nibaliem among the Bois Forks Chip- glided to the fore of the keel boat. pewa Indians in the northern part of The Missouri was at flood tide, Minnesota. Mr. Beaulieu said: turbid with crumbling clay banks|- Salt : and great trees torn out by theroote, from which keel boat and pirogues sheered aafely off. For the first time in history, the Missouri resounded to the Fourth-of-July gune; and round | ate them for want of other food. camp fire the men danced to the] ‘The winter has been a hard one strain of the voyageur’s fiddle. | forthe Indians, even at White Earth, Usually among forty men is one traitor, and Libertie must desert on and — ed — off than pretense of running back for a knife; thoee further north. but perhaps the fellow took fright from the wild yarns told by the lone- “According to the report of an In dian preacher, who came from among the northern Chippewas, an Indian killed his wife and his daughter and NEVER LUNCHED WITH A NEGRO. Letter From Grover Cleveland Is Read in the House of Representatives. Washington, March 5 —In the house.to-day Mr. Webb, Democrat, interrupted the proceedings to pre- sentto the house a denial from Grov- er Cleveland that he had, while prest- dent, entertained a negro at lunch- eon. The letter says that the charge is afabrication cut from whole cloth. The charge was made on the floor of ~ ly-eyed, shaggy browed, ragged trap- pers who came floating down the Platte, the Oaage, the Missouri, with canoe loads of furs for St. Louis. George Collins Must Hang. Jefferson City, March 6.—Governor (Mis signatire ix on every box of the genuine the remedy th G p WA |the house several days ago by Mr. a (vot \Scott, Republican, of Kaneas, who arose to defend President Roosevelt Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tediete for his action in entertaining Booker ‘9 cold In ope day | T, Washington. The letter saye: ‘“‘As far as Mr. ; Taylor is concerned, I understand, Washington, March 2.—George H. Dockery announced this morning that race not interfere with the Kunkle was to-day app execution of the death sentence pro- nounced by the courts upon George Collins for the murder of Charles J. Schumacher, a detective, in Fran! - lin county. The governor says it will be uselees for Collins’s attorneys to make application to him fore respite, for he does not feel like giv- ing such a desperado any further chance to escape than the law allows him. Collins is sentenced to diecn the gallows next Friday, in Union. ointed Post- master at Mexico, Mo., to succeed William M. Treloar. The officials of the Post-Office De- partment declined absolutely to dis- cuss the case to-day. It was stated that they were very glad to get rid of the matter. Treloar was first appointed Post- master at Mexico March 28, 1898, and re-appointed March 25, 1902. Night Watchman Kills Arkansan Harrison, Ark., March 2.—Ed Kieff Jews Warned to Remember | Locket was shot and instantly killed ‘ last night by Nightwatchman Ram Kishineff. Dennis. Locket came heresome time London, March 5.—The corres-|ago with Wes. Hudson, who had kill- pondent of the Standard in Viennajed several men. He had the reputa- says that advices from Kiefi say the| tion of beinga bad man. He had Governor, 8. Sawitch, recently sum-| made some threats against Dennis moned the leading Jews of the town | and went to draw a bayonet from and addressed a warning to them. | his clothes to assault Dennis, when He said he had been told the Jews| Dennis shot him four times, killing were rejoicing at Russian reverses at him instantly. the front. He told the Jews they| It is said Locket has killed several had better adopt another attitude|men. Dennis was exonerated by the toward the government. He declar-|coroner’s jury. ed they would do well to take the les- son of Kishineff to heart. Otherwise oe ee hie lan tan Mage Bagh he could not answer for the behavior | gignatare of the townfolk. « Charge Missourian With Pick- Ing Pockets. A Jail Broken open. Kingfisher, Ok., March 3 = known persone forced their way into the Kingfisher jail last night while the wind storm was in pi and liberated three prisoners. The liber- ated are “General Dixon,” a brought from Missouri on a ohn Bay and Frank caught in the act of picking the pocket of a man at the Empire theat- East Orange, N. J. Allen had been Aninventory of the estate of th confined to his room by heart trou-}1.+. wm.C. Whitney has been filed DR. H. M. CANNON, Dentist, BUTLER, - MISSOUBI.. '. Will bein Adrian every Tues- day and Friday prepared to do prior to his appointment as r-gister of deeds at Washington, that he served as assitant in the office of the city attorney in Kansas City. He has since died. Some people cannot restrain themselves from abusing the dead.” Mr. Scott replied that he secured his information from the newspapers and asked why Mr. Cleveland had not denied the story when it was pub- lished. Mr. Swanson, of Virginia said that an executive never denied a newspa- per story. Battleship Missouri Runs into the Illinois. Washington, March 5.—Rear Ad- miral Baker, commanding the north Atlantic station, cabled the navy department from Guantanamo,Cuba, ae follows: “While taking passage from Guantanamo to Pensacola the Missouri’s steam steering gear be- came disabled and she collided with the Illinois, damaging the port pro- peller of the latter but with slight in- jury to hereelf. The Illinois has been ordered to the navy yard at New York to have her propellerreplaced.” Capt. William 8. Cowles, the presi- dent’s brother-in-law, is in command of the Missouri. must have a sufficient supply of Potash in order to develop into a crop. No amdunt of Phosphoric Acid or Nitrogen.can compen- sate for a lack of potash in fertilizers [for grain and all ‘We shall be glad