The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 22, 1899, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, 29 =z, AUGUST 1899. ILINNA-PATNE BILL 1S NOT EXTRAVAGAY Opinion of Commissioner of Navigation Cham- berlain. CONPARISONS MADE Only a Fair Induc:ment to Owners to Obtan Americzn Registry for Their Vessels. SR tch to The that € yne bill are unr. criticisms ¢ ir pro- of the recent - to er , at . support 1mients offer to their mail ships. Th bi : a uniform ompensation to (sail ) L cent per gross a miles trav- struet nd ¢ the ted Sta t vir- . e for steam- sk T il ross tons and of 14 screw B ch comply vernments The nwar- with the 1t have ¥ whe mail contracts are but I have amships 1, their and dis- to. cer- American 2 the same size ¢ to. them 1 would receive.” table is as fol- 31,148,941 465,531 0,624 $3,455,834 es to offset the ; nder British con- tr awarded under > proposition is v does it mean a pot fast Ameri- t not for two 1 s will obtain low cargo with mail steam- Pacific intercourse rject to Suez canal robably fail to ac- ring facts with r wi show that the Hanna-Payne erican shipping a fit of carg a f higher - latter which d on the basis of ef- ons to maintain fast 4 A Diszusted l) d Woman. L It isn't any s~ wonder that some _women get disgusted with medicine and lose faith in the doctors ) When a woman complains of fee eak, mervous and despondent, and suffers from headaches, pains in the back and stitshes in the sides and burning. dragging-down sensations, the average physician will attribute these ings to haart, stomach or liver trouble vears, possibly, she takes their pre- scriptions for these ailments without re- ceiving any benefit, then, in'final disgust, she throws away drugs, and bopelessly lets matters take their course. A woman who suffers’ in this way is almost invariably a suffe ym weakness and disease of the distinctly fem organism. There is an unfailing and inexpensive cure for all troubles of this description. It is Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It acts di- yectly on the delicate organs comcerned, making them well and strong. It heals all internal ulceration and stops debilitating drains. It takes the pressure off the nerves and makes them strong and steady, Under its marvelous merits thousands of women en made healthy, happy and robust avorite Prescription’ restogs weak, nervous, pain-racked women and makes strong, healthy, capable wives and moth- ers. With its use all pain and suffering disappear. All good medicine stores sell it and have nothing else “just as good."” Constipation and torpid liver will make the most ambitious man or woman utterly good for nothing. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant’ Pellets cure them. One little ““ Pellet ' is a gentle laxative and two a mild cathartic. Dr. Pierce’s 1000-page illustrated book, “People’s Medical Adviser’ sent, paper bound, free for the cost of mailing only, 21 HORRORS OF THE HURRICANE ~ ARE GROWIN iMs‘.ny Cities in Porto Rico | Have Been Almost Com- pletely Devastated. | i ALAR . Killed and 1000 Persons [ Are Missing. R S | Cuble to The Call and the New York Copyrighte , by James Gor- Bennett \_JUAN, P Rico, Aug. 2L.— Board of Charity iing out ¥y, but all over food, medi- There are no means Terent locali- fort was made scription, but only sted. In conse- action of bedies veloped at Arroyo. vessels complain s by land ¢ keep cor that bad odo: various ports have | caused them suffering than the | hurricane. of Health up to destroyed citie: and Cc: stete_that ther at Ya but that it has e local guards. running short of money with which to pay workmen. There are no reports of fever as yet from the south side of the island. Au- thorities are making strenuous efforts to relieve cou S Utuado, C: from Ponc ting . 21.—The auxil- = which h been loading at Philadelphia with pplies for the destitufe in Porto Rico, has been ordered to proceed direct to San Juan without stopping at Baltimore, as was intended. The War Department will send the transport Wright to Bal- timore to receive the relief supp tributed by the people of the Maryland, and transport therm R The Wright will sail from New York on September 1. She can carry about 400 ton: CREW OF COLUMBIA DEMAND HIGHER WAGES Desert the Vessel at Tacoma and En- gage the Services of an At- torney. TACOMA, Aug. 2L.—The ¢ American ship Columbia to-day ot the Francisco rancisco. The San Francisco for a_ve stok and return via Puget Sound and way ports. The ors now claim that they were given to understand by the United ates Shipping Commissioner at - San neisco that they would be given regu- lar coasting wages on the vovage which gned ge to VI was to after the Columbia’s arriv- ing at Tacoma from Vladivostok and thence departing for San Francisco. The arti € in no wise mention any such agreement, and Captain Nelson refuses to accede to the men’s demands. The sailors thereupon left the ship, und going up town engaged the services of an attorney to prosecute their cas According to the spo thelr demand rests on th man for the men followin; ment: “When we signed at San Fr; co the United States Shipping Commi. sloner read the articles to us. He s after reaching Puget Sound and making safl for another port on the Pa fic Coast, which, of course, would be an Francisco. “Why was not this proviso incorporated in the artic " was asked. “Well, don’t know," replied the spokesman. “If you can't believe what a | Shipping Commissioner says, who ilor to believe? aptain Nelson states that the sailors’ mand is out of all reason; that the men ipped for Vladivostok, returning to San anct or any port on the Pacific. sailors are getting $20 per month, while the coasting wages are $35. Columbia is loading coal o Ice Has Formed in Many Places and Farmers Will Suffer From the Cold Wave. REDDING, Aug. 21.—The exceptional cool summer that Northern California has been favored with this year has brought disaster to the mountain districts of this county and has f cally made | clean sweep of all ‘crops subject frost ‘n Modoc County and Southeastern Oregon. A great deal of damage was in- flicted also in Siskiyou, Trinity sen counties. Reports from Shasta, including the Whit s country, Burney V. ralley, give details of that destroyed erything subject to destruction " cold. Tons of beans and late potato other garden staplés are past The most damage in this count tained in Burney and Fall River Pl where ice formed for eral nights in succession. . In.Modoc County in the vi- cinity of Alturas everything was killed. The onty-gardens thai escaped destruc- tion were along the foothills of Surpr Valley and Goose Lake. At Alturas ice formed as thick as a pane of glass. South- | eastarn Oregon was also directly in the track of the cold wave, sustaining an | amount of damage that will be a severe | blow and a great hardship to the farm- | ing classes. The damage everywhere was | rendered all the .greater because in the | regions affected the seazon is always a i | month to six weeks later than in the Sac- | ramento Valley. August has been a phe- | nomenal month this year—cool and = de- | lightful. On this fact the prediction is | partly based of a severe winter, with | hea hard winter is needed, and the country | | generally is better prepared for it than | | ever it was. EASTERN MAN WANTS BALDWIN HOTEL SITE Contemplates Erecting a Building Larger Than the Palace Hotel. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21.—Milo M. Pot- ter, proprietor of the Van Nuys Hotel here, stated this morning that he Is nego- tiating with an Eastern man who has of- o fered $1,800,000 for the old Baldwin Hotel site in ifln I"rl:n('r:ficn. vl J.fll}nljlwiu. the owner, has not, however, offered the site for less than'$3,000,000. Should the gentleman assoclated with Mr. Potter secure the site, a hotel larger than the Palace Hotel wiil be built, and under the direction of Mr. Potter, be con- ducted on the plan of the Van Nuys here. The estimated cost of furnishings is $250,- 000. et Olympia Leaves Leghorn. LEGHORN, Aug. 2L.—The United States cruiser Olympia sailed from this port to- day. James Smith, the United States one-cent stamps; or, cloth-bound 31 stamps. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. ¥, i here, came aboard to pay his re- f"fig to Admiral Dewey just e departure of the wars) VINGSTATISTICS | Reports Show That 1973 Were| of killed as | has been | R e e o s o e o s e e where great | ¢ | I S S S S S s af The | | | OPENING SESSION OF INSTITUTE CONVENTION Grand Council Attends Mass in a Body—Many Candidates for Office Already in the Field. B N A e SnCan SRCan e e s Ui S ST SR S @+ oe00600-0-0 INTERIOR OF Showing the altar and decorations when Bishop Montgomery celebrated the p to the Grand Council, Young Men's Institute, at Santa Cruz. Aug. 21.—The members | speak for the young men and say they are ¢ ave | thankful s Ins ave Men's Institute have | > institution of the order advocates t ANTA CRT of the Young possession of Santa Cruz to-day, and »d, devotion to the church red, white and ¢ bedecked th ntry. Nothing could is everywhere present. sew egations arrived this morning | [ He ODERINE Salinas, Castroville, Monterey and unt e Watsonville i were met at the following committe appointed Credentials—F s ata Cruz Council and Has . Credentials—F were escorted to the Youn ‘rlr.,‘:ifi]l\" J. W ute hall, where they ri TRt 1ges the pa ecetved th ast 9 o'c formed on Walr to Holy tifical high Montgomery. 1 (chairman), bell. No. 5 T M. ek avenue and Cross Church to attend the pon- t marched mass brated by Bisnop The center aisles of se Ada hurch tastefull mie Sweeney, M Annie Thompson was celebrated by Montgomery, assisted by the Very her Hudson of Gilroy, & istant ather Mestres of Montere con of the mass; F: rphy Cruz, sub-deacon; Father Ha Watsonville, master of ceremonies, and a number of acolytes. The music was of a high order, The institute. Dumont, No. supreme pr M. Gleason, E. R. 0. 1; George D. W. Powers of Coun pointed to the office place of James J. cil No, 470 was ap- of grand director in . and in- “oley. absent. R. A. eliaRI EDET e Mozart's | Miller was appointed assistant grand sec- “Twelfth Gloria, retary. Farmer's “Sanctus,” Farme: Telegrams of greeting were received tus,” and Weber's “Agnus Dev” The of- | from the presidents of Slossmayer Coun- ferfory was by Mrs, Neits. cil No. 460 of San isco, Montgomery The sermon, by Father McNamee, was | Council No. of Los Angeles, Los An- | very elocaen’. He dealt with the princi- | geles Council No. 478 of Loés Angele: ples of the order. His text was “Thou | An Invitation was received from the shalt love the Lord thy God with thy | grand marshal of the Native Sons. of the whole heart and thy whole mind, and this | Golden West for the grand officers to is the great commandment.” He said in | participate in the parade of welcome to part: the California volunteers. It was ac- cepted. communication was read from Mayor elan extending to the members of the the freedom of Phelan 150 expressed his regret at not o be present at the banquet nd secretary reported as follo: ouncil receipts, $7510 §7; dis 5 . $197 ““Those who assemble here are delegates to the Grand Council of the Young Men's | Institute, and represent an or tion worthy of our res They are here to take counsel and to find the bLest means to promote the general interest of t der. They first come to the house o to_invoke the holy church to bless th nd Council He deliberations, and she willingly gives her | ments, $5534 15; bala blessing June “Bishop Montgomery confers a favor | 3 > 405, honor- | never done before by coming here. 1| admitted dur- HOLY CROSS CHURCH. - [MURDERED BY ARMY OFFICERS | Terrible Crime Committed by an Expedition Commanded by Two Captains. TRAGEDY]T_ SOUDAN Nine Men, Including Lieutenant Colonel Klobb and Lieutenant Meunier, Are Shos Down. i Special Dispatch to The Call, PARIS, Aur. 21.—M. de Crais, Min ter for the Colonies, has received a dispatch from the Governor General of French West Africa, fully confirming B B e S a SRCRS SCER S | the Figaro's story, cabled to the Asso- {clated Press this morning, of the kill- | |ing of Lieutenant Colonel Klobb, and 4 | Lieutenant Meunier by members of a & | French expedition under the ccnduct of + | Captains Voulet and Chanoine, in the Y | French Soudan. © | The confirmation has created a great . -d the most painful | ®| explanati | 4| ptain_Voul ! v affected by the S ¥y enough, the killing oc- T J the date of the French ® cna 4| It appears that on ne being re- & | ceived of the barbarity the 3 7 | Chanoin d the native ? |the m Chad, the Min Lieutenant Co 4 |onel Kiobb, who was at Kayer, to pro- {ceed with a column, ove > the mis- | | sion, investigate the eharges and as- ume command. On July 1% the Klobb & | party overtook the ion at Zimber, ¢ |near Domangar. ant Colonel & [Klobb word to Captain Voulet, ontifiical high mass before the delegates who r¢ would shoot him if advanced. Notwiths this :at Kiobb advanced de him- | If known to Voulet, who ordered hin i Y [peremiptorily to stop. This order ing the year, 638; dropped, 401 gain, 237. | disregarded, and when the Amount ~ in treasurer’s last _report, | was Sy B ke | 831,708 04; amoun receipt A t“r:l~ ‘:\H! 1 150 Irz-;:”r; |d fes June | (FOOPS. ) s 0 [i2 mount { three vol ) were fo imber of | independent Lieutenant Meun- < neficial | ier fell dead. Lieutenant Colonel Klobb, June weunded in the leg by the first volley . \r‘!l]“,lll'rl . :} \!v'a': the body dispatched by being shot in mv-i journ in respect to the late gr Voulet then ordered a bayonet S e T R e, and the r nder of the Klobb | m fled, c their wounded | leaving the two officers, nine men . The survivors, ten of whom were wounded, ‘hed Bosso er command of a native sergeant. Voulet-Chanoine mission has e bush 1g to the | es received b a strong | suit. Chanoine have | ) rs in the e played. i now outlawed, gates ‘were entertained at_ ihe - Pacific jou i X."N‘ll'jflm",]‘;?“l“‘" Sl Ocean House Hull by the Young Ladies’ | Hanric and two French sergeants. ated with festoons per and hop vine SOy e VOULET'S RECORD. French Papers Comment Upon His Horrible Crime. LONDON, Aug. 21.—The Rennes corre- spondent of the Dally News, commenting upon the effect which the murders of French officers in the French Soudan will have upon the Dreyfus case, says: “Cap- | aths of and blue flow- nd wrea A isting_ of plano s weern ey plano duet and Wiilie Thor | Willlam Stack. Dancing followed and an | elaborate supper was served in the din- | ing-room of the hotel. Those who had | charge of the affair were: Floor director, och Alzina 1Innr‘ committee—James oine is a n of General Cha- | | Ha n\!ll, J. J. y, E. A. Cook, Charl . the former ister of War, who J. Gillen. on committee i d the other War Ministers in swear- | dames M. Roney Anderson, S. C. I ing on his soul and conscience that Drey- | | ton, K. M. Kenney, M. M. Démicheli, M. | fus was guilty.” | McCart, 1. F. Kenney, M C. Kelly, o | Referring to General Chanoine’ resignation from the Bri M. A. Wise, J. Tait; Mi M | son, L. R. Beub, A. net, the correspondent evident { M}. Griffith, e Natio ist le: rs got wind of | ] s committed by Captains Vou- | M. let and Chanoine in the Soudan on men, nd children, which were of such to be unprintable. He en- on ministry pledged to sup- women | FMesdames M. Rone: port revision of the Dreyfus-case, but just L e, 1. Kel as President Faure was blackmailed into | Sweeney, C. B, Griffith, H. onrov. A | opposing revision by threats to disclose | s, H. M. Hamili, A. Kennedy, v sto e “ha- Siughen cHtan nedy family stories, so General Cha- | . kmailed into resigning and | nouncing his conscientious bellef in the BATTLE WITH A |FRENCHMAN SWIMS TIGER SHARK| WHITE HORSE RAPIDS s Boat Upset, and Question of Life or Death. VICTURIA, B. C., Aug. 21.—The suc- cessful swimming of the White Horse Matthew Canavan’s Narrow Escape From Death While Bathing. SAN RAFAEL, Aug. 2L.—Ex-Assem- | blyman Matthew Canavan, while bath- | ing in the waters of the bay near Rapids by a human being has been re- Townes Point, about three miles north | garded as one of the impossible feats |of San Quentin, was attacked this of endurance and bravery, but this feat to | rain and snow and high water. A | thankful to be alive and has taken his previous '.ol Bshore.-rom the United States cruiser afternoon by a tiger shark seven feet in length and escaped a horriblg death only by displaying rare presence of mind and diving each time the shark rushed at him. He reached shore safely after a harrowing experience and this evening is receiving the congratulations of his friends. is now a reality and was accomplished by a Frenchman on August 2 in the person of Leon Liard. This accomplished swimmer, in com- pany with his countrymen, Eugene Barbin and Benel Estier, were descend- ing the Yukon River in a skiff headed for Dawson. Rounding the point above the whirlpool they saw the sign of the Canavan went fishing to-day at| ,;,nteq police, ~Danger, White Horse Townes Point in company with John | Rapigs” They rowed for shore, but the { Palmer, a wealthy veteran of the Civil ' current drew the skiff into the rapid It turned stern foremost and in trying to get the boat about the men upset the flimsy craft. Liard struck out boldly to swim the rapids, while his companions, Barbin and Estier, stuck to the boat. Liard was out of sight half the time, the waves curling over him, while, the people on the bank were holding their breath as he appeared again and again, going at a rapid pace. He finally, after a desperate struggle, reached the left bank below the steam- boat landing. There was a crowd of wiliing hands to assist him up the bank and cheer followed cheer as he was dragged ashore. Barbin and Estier clung to the boat until opposite the landing and reached shallow water by swimming twenty feet. S UNITED STATES CRUISER SAVES A WRECKED CREW ST?\T:‘:()};{‘:%T:?!- gzlfi?n:""“ % | British Steamer Nettleton Runs NF NIVERSITY, Aug. 2L.—| Another fraternity has joined the group| Aground and the Montgomery of Greek letter societies at Stanford. The Offers Assistance. establishment at the university of a chap- | RIO JANEIRO, Aug. 2L—The ter of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity has | States cruiser Montgomery arrived here just been made public. Frank Maythem, | last night from Montevideo. She reports @ member of the fraternfty at Cornell, | having rescued the crew of the Britlsh was the leading spirit In the establish- | cieamer Nettleton, Captain Vigers, from ment, and the charter members of _the | Norfolk, July 2, for Rio Janeiro, ‘which Stanford Chapter are: Frank Maytliem. | went aground at Marina, twenty miles War. While Palmer sat on a ledge of rock and baited his hooks for fish his companion proceeded to enjoy a swim. He had got about 150 feet from shore when Palmer sighted a tiger shark and velled to Canavan that the man-eater was making for him. navan dived water ust in time to avoid the shark’s teeth and made for the shore. lowed by He was fol- the shark and had to dive ade its rushes. Be- immer he managed to the ground ing an expert sv reach shore and sank to exhausted with his efforts. Baffled in its human prey the shark afterward swallowed one of Palmer's hooks and bit the wire snell in two as nicely as could have been done with a pair of pincers. Both Palmer and Cana- van describe the shark as being about seven feet long and spotted like a leopard. Canavan declares that he is last dip in the waters of the bay. United 00; Alfred F. W. Schmidt, "93; Fred J. | east of this port. All the members of the Persy.. 0;, Howard Thuslow, (S1; Fragk| Neteleton's Urew were saved. The ves Hinman, '01; and y H. Black, ‘02| gel's foreholds are full of water, but the The chapter was started during com- mencement week. A number of good men | have been pledged who will be initiated | when the university opens, so that when the fraternity makes its bow to the col- lege world, it will be sure of a hearty wel- come. The Stanford Chapter is the first chapter of Kappa Sigma on the coast, though In the universities and colleges of the Middle West and the South the fra- ternity has a large number of chapters. Attacked Olympia’s Crew. LONDON, Aug. 21.—A special dispatch received here to-day from Leghorn, Italy, says that five men have been arrested there on the charge of attacking and wounding some sallors who had come se middle hold and after hold are tight. Tugs, have been sent to her assistance. s MANY WRECKS REPORTED. NEWBERN, N. C., Aug. 2L—Reports to-day from the coast of North Carolina where the West Indian hurricane touched last week show that there were a large number of lives lost and muca damage done to property. Fourteen fishermen. jn trying to cross Pamlico Sound in $kiffs, were lost. Four bodies have been recov- ered. The scuooners Goodwyn and Au- rora were wrecked. The L. R. Hill is ashore. The Beswick and all hands are Teported lost. These losses all occurred in Pamlico Sound. It I8 believed that as many as sixty persons lost their lives in the storm. It Was a| cence of Dreyfus by a threat to reveal | the misdeeds of his son. | PARIS, i he morning p are full of comments upon the mur: CLOUDBURS;I; IN : ROUND VALLEY | Licutenant Colonel Kiobb and Licutenant | Meunier in the French Soudan, and of | speculations as to the motives of Captain | | Voulet. | | Bri | The Figaro s: Captain Voulet often | | Bridges Washed Away and talked of the possibility of establishing an | trican empire, and asks If he is about Hundreds of Fish in the Stream Killed. COVELO, Aug. 21.—A storm swept over a small portion of Round Valley yesterday which for singularity amounted to a freak. The storm cloud hovered over the southeastern range of | hills all the afternoon, slowly sailing | before a stiff northwest breeze. At 1 | 0’clock in the afternoon the inky cloud | enveloped the southern half of the val- | mpt to realize the scheme. FIFTEEN NEW SHJIPS. Great Northern Will Enter the Trans- Pacific Trade Extensively. CHICAGO, Aug. 21 that James J. Hill will build fifteen new | steamers for the Trans-Patific trade the Great Northern Road, the present | number being insufficient 'to handle the | increased busines / Af | to atte | | | OF FRANCE | Creek, but th | nigham, | fir It is reported here | oa ENTIRE CITY N COLORADO S BURNED A Conflagration at Victor Causes a Loss Estimated w at $2,000,000. SCENEO@S TERROR | Al the Principal Business Houses Are Consumed and Many De- stroyed by Dynamite. e Special Dispatch to The Call. CRIPPLE CR Colo., Aug. 21.— | Fire has utterly destroyed the business | portion of the city of Victor, causing a loss estimated at $2,000,000. Beginning shortly after noon the fire raged until evening, consuming everything in its way. It had its origin, it is thought, in the Merchants' Cafe, adjoining the Bank of Victor, on the corner-of Third street and Victor avenue. A strong wind from the south fanned the flames and in a few minutes all the surround- ing houses were afire. Help w summoned from Cripple town had been built in the early da of the camp and W pine timber for the burned like paper. Effor to stop the prog of the flames by ing up buildings in their path by \amite, and all afternoon roared with the.explo- ns of d | me | the hills have sions, but the effort was in vain. The fire claimed the Bank of Victor, the po cross Jfice on the corner opposite, Third street and followed the row of blocks between Third and Fourth streets to the north, taking the Victor Banking Company, the W ern Union Telegraph Company's office and the office of the Colorado Telephone | Company, the Hotel Victor, on the op- posite side of Fourth street, and the three great shaft houses of the Gold Coin Mining Company and its ore bins, among the largest in the Cripple Creek district. From there the flames were swept northward by the half hurricane which was blowing, and never stopped until they had taken the Florence and ipple Creek depot and the fine nes depot of the Midland Terminal road, at the head of Fourth street. All the buildings betv n these are a total loss, with practically all their contents, for lames were so rapid in their prog- that nothing could be saved. ce of the greut Cripple Creek agration were duplicated. Hur ing before the roaring flames went | men, women and children, carrying what they coula snatch from the | flames, racing for their lives. The crash of buildings torn asunder by dynamite and the crackle of the flames as they consumed the dry buildings hastened their flight, and the pall of smoke added a terror to the spectacle. A special train was placed at the command of this city by the Florence and Cripple Creek Rail d, and three companies of firemen, with apparatus, were rushed to the scene. They worked all afternoon in a vain endeavor to stay the march of the flames. The residence portion of the city has suffered com- paratively little, but the business por- tion is paralyzed and suffering is bound to follow. The burned area may roughly designated as the space be- tween the head of Fourth street and Victor avenue, extending from the Gold Coin mine biuldings on the west to a point near Second street, and down Third street almost to Diamond avenue. The fire was gotten under control this Conservative estimates place the evening. the loss at $2,500,000. The fi house was built in Victor in October, 3. In July of the following ear the city was incorporated, and five later it contained 10,000 people. s about the population now. The heaviest losses are: Gold Coin mine, consisting of shaft, ore houses and machinery, $100,000; the Woods In- vestment Company, $100,000; J. B. Cun- ; 'Morrell Hardware Florence and Cripple Creek R: ,000; Tomkins Hard- $25,000; A. B. Bum That Company, ware Company, $2 stead, $20,000; Mayor Robert Donnell 000; Ketter & Co., )0; I. Ampeter thing Company, George E. Simonton, drugs, $12,000; George Bock- er, $7000; J. J. Trenchard, $10,000; william Sexton, $10,000; Victor Banking Company, $5000; Bank of Victor, $5000; Daily Record, $7000; Evening Times, $5000; Colorado Trading and Transfer Company, $20,000; Victor Supply Com- ny, 000; Gardner Mercantile Com- pany, $20,000; Midland Terminal Rail- way ,000; Jim Durey, $10,000; Arthur R Ads, $30,000; Stebbins & Co., $16,- 000; Shilling Dry Goods Company, $16,~ |ley In a dense canopy, obscuring the |sun and making a deep twilight of the | noonday. Deep rolling thunder and | vivid lightning flashes marked the next half-hour and then all cleared off and | was as serene as before. At Covelo, a little northwest of the center of the valley, only a few drops of rain fell, while at the southern edge, a few miles distant there was a veri- | | table cloudburst. In less than half an | hour the sloughs and water courses, al- ways dry in the summer, were over- flowing, tearing out floodgates with a | crash. Roads were gullied so badly | that they will have to be repaired be- fore being passable. An immense amount of damage was done' to crops in stacks and yet unthrashed. But the most remarkable result of the storm is that it killed all the fish in that portion of Round Valley Creek lying in the track of the waterspout. | The surface of the stream is covered with dead fish from the size of a pin fish to a regular three-pounder. Buz- zards and swine are vying with each other for the spoils of the elements. From the number, size and condition of the fish there is no doubt that ail the fish in that portion of the stream was killed. The theory advarced here by the wise ones is that the storm was electrical and that the fish were electrocuted, while the foolish say they were drowned. The most likely explanation is that the sudden influx of water with foreign debris must have been the cause of the destruction of the fish. RIOTERS ARE KILLED BY THE POLICE PRAGUE, Bohemia, Aug. 21.—Serious disturbances have taken place at Grad- litz, a town fifteen miles east of Konig- gratz, due to racial differences between the Csecks and Germans. A detachment of gendarmes, who are guarding the mu- nicipal bufldings were stoned from an a jacent public house. They were unsu cessful in their attempt to clear the house of their assailants, but made several ar- rests during the night. The gendarmes were fired on and charged on the mob with drawn swords, the result being that four persons were killed and others were injured. The troops and further rein- forcements of gendarmes were sent to the scene of the disturbances and eventually Lgulet was restored. customers who are $10 suits. The | In addition to thi Write for samp S.N. 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