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Show m we am OSES EIK FLEET omtiu Railroad Tracks Washed Away ana Hundreds of Head of Stock Drown by Breaking of Dam. Fire Near Grets Grounds in California Town Causes Stampede of Huge Animals. Mimt. With several house lu tho little town of Craig, miles north of Helena, hun-- Heb-iM- . j forty-si- dreda uf head of cattle and livestork and the Crest Northern j drowm-drailroad tracks washed away for inllea be loss from the flood caused by the breaking of the great seventy-loo- t dam at Hauser laike. It Is conservatively estimated, will he approximately H.niMi, non. which Includes the damage to the dam. Great Northern Agent Stewart of Wolf Creek reports that the track Iroiu Wolf Creek cast as far as he can sc- is flooded to a depth of thren fiet, and llul for three mile or more ft la completely washed out, and In places overturned, while the rails are twisted and bent Into every shape by Twenty-eigh- t the foaming waters. miles of traek are under water. It Is figured conservatively that'for at least twenty days uo trains can go over the lino, and no repair work ran ho done until the water between Wolf Creek and Cascude recedes. In Chestnut valley the water Is from a foot to fifteen feet deep over the ranrhes. Many small buildings have left their foundations and have Hunberm washed down tho river. dreds ot haystacks have been carried away and fcni'ea are obliterated. HI B S of a Riverside, Cal Ah a lire at tlm Standard OH company's storage tanks, a herd of elephants was stampeded, I J. Wuralt-- Ilea at the city hospital fatally liurm-d- . and Sliss Ella Glbbu. a church deaconesa, was fatally Injured A sullen boom which was heard at 1:30 marked the explosion of the large oil tank. Wont-lewaa a driver of the delivery wagon from which the fire waa communicated to the tanks. A circus, three blocka distant, waa about to open for the afternoon The explosion and the fire caused the showmen to lower the tents after dispersing the crowd which bad assembled. The herd of elephants became uncontrollable and they dashed to the east side of town, knocking down fences, outhouses, and d cm polling orchards that luy In their path. Many persona narrowly escaped the infuriated animals. In a ahort time, however, all but I ho largest of the elephants were rounded up. The leader of the herd then changed his course and entered the center of the city, one mile distant. He entered the court of the filenwood hotel. Miss Glbba was In the yard in front of the house. The elephant pinned her against the house between his tusks, threw her to the ground and trampled upon her, crashing her cheat and inflicting fata Injuries. The animal Ihen proceeded lo the doorway, the gucsta running panic stricken, Indoors. D. P. Chapman, a guest of (he house, attempted to swerve the animal from the court, lie was knocked down and had several riba broken and was otherwise Injured. The beast crashed through tho door, walked through the barber shop bnd out on the main street, crossed the street, crashed through the heavy plate-glaswindow in a store, lefore being rounded up at a downtown public stable, the animal trampled on another man and seriously gored him with hla tusks. One of the keepers attempted to subdue the animal, but was burled over a high fence, sustaining painful Nut until four other eleInjuries. phants were brought to the stable waa the huge beast gotten under con-Jtrand taken to the circus grounds. lt y y Thousands of Enthusiastic Ciqm Extend Welcome to Officers aai Men of Big Battleship FleeL Condition ef the 8h After Their Long Voyage Should be Source of Gratification to Every American Citizan. Ths Splendid San Diego, Cal. The American fleet was greeted here d Tuesday by hundreds of enthusiasts pat riots. In four regular intcrvaled column, with flagships leading abreast as 1 pointing the way to the Brat home the fleet has found In Its fov t months of enduing around the , end of the Western the sixteen ships swept in the sheltered cove of the sea behiil the towering headlands of Point Lorn and sited for four days of merrymaking for men and officers. Governor James N. Glllett was ben officially to welcome the fleet, bis call uion Rear Admiral Thoms, commanding in the absence of Retr Admiral Ilobley U. Evans, who took tbe fleet out of Hampton Roads lat December, was repaid during tbe afPARADE OF BLUE JACKETS. ternoon. Ias-a- l committees also went to tbo Connecticut to tell Admiral Sisty-fou- r Marines Thomas, and Companies of tbrough him all the me March Through Strseta of San of tbe fleet, how glad the people of California are to aee such a splenDiego. San Diego, Cal. A parade of blue did representation of tbe Americas jackets and marines lunded from the navy as the battle fleet constitutes. Anu-ilciiThe splendid condition of the shl battleship fleet 5.000 fighting men fresh from acruise of more wss manifest In every way. Outwardthan 1 3,000 .miles marked on Wed- ly they were the same sparkling. Imwhite and buff units of a nesday the ceremonies of official wel- pressive, of fighting force powerful aggregation come lo the state of California. Sixty-fou- r that pointed their way out of HampHuilnrmcn In of their roinpitnles ton roads on a home coast 3,000 miles logs of the sea, with away with tbe president showing tbe trousers reefed down In canvas leg- way on hla cruiser-yach- t, the Maygings, and sixteen companies of ma- flower. Internally, tbe ships were In when rt ties, soldierly and straight, formed better condition . than they this most notable of the navya land started, engines working with the displays. The landing party, equipped smooth thrust and throw of perfect as Infantry, armed with Kraga, In bcarlnge and careful handling, and light marching order and with can- boilers making steam with less conteens Ailed, equalled an army corps. sumption of coal because of the InThe procession the men of the navy creased efficiency In the firing rooms. formed was more than two miles long. The wash of the wavea along the from two to At the rlty park the sailors passed In water line displayed review before Rear Admirals Thomas. three feet of red armor belts, and sea Sperry and Emery, and Governor Uil-le- tt showed but comparatively little temand hla ataff. A crowd of many growth, despite tbe long stay la thousands of people surrounded the perate and tropical waters. grand stands. TOWN UNDER WATER. Obtained Money Under False PreGrsat Dam Breaks and People tenses. Forced t Flee from Homes. Milwaukee WIs. Ira B. Smith, fora a member of merly Helena, Mont Aa a result of tit prominent wholesale grocery firm of Milwaukee, banting of the great dam at Hansel was on Wedensday sentenced to two lake on Tuesday afternoon, the town miles north of Hel years In the Milwaukee house of cor- of Craig, forty-sirection by Judge Ludwig for obtain- ena. was burled under a twenty-foo- l ing money under false pretenses. Mr. wall of water and thousands of dol Smith entered a plea of nolle conten-dr- e lan worth of property destroyed. The and threw himself upon the mercy 400 Inhabitants had warning and ea nf the court. Smith's case had been caped to tbe hUle. pending for nearly a year. He waa The Hauser lake dam was comIndicted on four counts, charged with last year at a tool cost of $L borrowing 15,000 on earh of four pleted notes on misrepresentation of secur- 200,000, and many eastern capitalist are Interested In the company. The ity. structure was 631 feet long, snd near Congress Turns Down Proposition for ly 300 feet gave way and was washed Construction of Four Battleships. down stream. At the time the atructure gave way Washington. By a vote of 199 to 83 (he house of representatives on Wed- about thirty men were at work In the nesday derided against the presi- power house, which Is situated about dent's program for four battleships 100 yards below tbe dam site on the north side of the river. It is believed and adhered to the recommendation ot Its committee on naval affairs for that all these men escaped and that lost at the dam. two vessels of that type. The entire no Uvea were loaded Great Northern A heavily was to session devoted consideration Falla to Butte car from Great tnin of the navy Increase provision of the escaped destruction by the naval appropriation bill. Aa tbla In- rowly Just In tlms by crease was provided In the last sec- flood. It wss flagged retion of the bill the measure was prac- the operator at Cascade, and however Great to turned not, Falls, tically concluded with the disposition before taking aboard a flock of sheep of this provision. whose pasture was under water. New York Delegate! Unlnstrueted. Te Improve Naval Station at Olon New York. In a twodays session gapo, Sublg Bay. which began with bitter factional disoeenes was amid concluded Washington. Most of the sessioe pute and of the house of representatives on Demoon tho the riotous, bordering cratic state convention aquelched a Tuesday was devoted to a lively de boom for William J. Dry an; drove the bate In regard to tbe naval atatlons In Kings county faction, headed by Sen- tbe Philippine Islands. The support ator Patrick H. MeCarren. from their ers of tbe Sublg bay station. led by Messrs. Foss and Hobson, were vie (.cats and chose an unpledged delegation to the national convention at Den- torluus despite vigorous optwsitior ver. The last hour's bualneas was from both sides of the chamber. Ao that made cordlngly, the sum of flihi.ooo, a transacted amid a hub-buIt almost Impossible to determine the recommended by the committee, for will of the delegates as expressed in Improving and developing the naval their voting. station at Olongapo, Sublg bay, wa slowed to aland. Estension of Salt Laka Route. Prescott, Arl. Definite newt has Widows of Soldiers and Sailors Granted Increase In Pension. reached here that Chief Engineer Maguire of the Salt Lake Route has writWashington. The house of reprten C. C. Thornton of Flagstaff to se- esentatives on Tuesday adopted the cure his services in making a survey conference report on the sjMvial penwith the object of connecting the Salt sion bill granting Increases of pen Lake line with Jerome, where Senator slona to widows or soldiers and . Clark's United Verde mine Is located, Tbe report was also adopted by and also extending the road into the senate, and now win go to the southern Arizona. Engineer Maguire, president for signature. In pnraunce with hla party. Including Thornton as of their filibustering plans, the Demguide and timber scout, will leave ocrat forced a roll call on 'he bill, Flagstaff as soon ns the weather will although they voted as a unit for it, and the report was agre- - d to unanipern.lt and go over the ground. mously. Fighting In Nicaragua. A report that sixty Ufa Insurance Company Muct Pay Near Orleans. Back Taxes. whites and Indians hare been killed In Nicaragua In bloody bush warfare, Columbus, O. Py a decision handwa ed down by the state supreme court Indians, waged by Mosquito brought here by passengers on the on Tuesday, the Union Central Life steamer Dictator from Central Amor-lea- Insurance company of Cincinnati, of The death list of whites which the late Governor lart isow port numbers about twenty. The fighting president, will be obllghd to pay Hgv,. started over a month ago on the 000 omitted county estate tax agd roast, where the Indians live. Since then many troops hare been penalties. The suit wns fllod during sent Into the Mosquito district and the campaign three year ago. igj t several skirmishes have occurred, was then claimed by the governor's and the Indians have attacked two Democratic friends that It wns a campaign movement, but the judgment of towns. the lower courts has been affirmed. - wide-flarin- soud-eruinos- bent-sphere- id g A-- x MAY BECOME LAWS. Soma of tho Measure That May Approval of Prcaent Con- a gress. Washington. The leaders of congress have notified the president that several laws which he desires to have enacted at this session will not be put through. These are the measures which the leaders have agreed to put through if possible: Making more elaatle currency: granting compensation to government employes Injured while In tho government service; prohibiting child labor In the District of Columbia; authorizing the waya and means committee of the house and the finance committee of the senate to give hearings preliminary to a revision of the tariff; appropriating a sum sufficient to enuble the Inland waterways commission to continue the work on which it started last year. . Czars Troops Taking Btopa to ish Turkish Raiders. Tlfils, Pun- Russian Trans-Caucasi- troops have Invaded Tertian territory In the vicinity of Lenkoran, a port on the Caspian aea, for the pur pose of punishing the Kurdish raiders. This step was taken In of the renewal of the attark upon the Ruaslun garrison at Dole suvar, a frontier post. The trouble const'-ouenc- e began April 12, when a detachment b of Russian troops from lielesuvar met a band of Kurdhth brigands snd lost reveral men In the subsequent fighting. The brigands also suffered. Secretary Given a Free Hand. conWashington. The troversy as to whether the United States navy should have aulumirlne torpedo boats of the Holland type, aa recommended by the committee on naval affairs, was settled In the house if representatives on Thursday, when after a lengthy and lively debate the proviso limiting the secretary of the navy to purchase only boats of the Holland type was stricken out. The effect of this action was to give the secretary a free hand In the selection long-existin- of submarine boats. Riot and Bloodshed in Chester. Chester. Ta. Riot and bloodshed marked the third day of the street ear strike here, on Thursday, when the Chesterr Traction company attempted lo operate Its cars with strike breakers. The strikers end their synipaf hizers stormed s trolley ear that was started out of the barns, and In the melee two men were shot. William Grleapini-r- , a claim was strurk In agent for tee romon-iy- . the arm hy a bullet, and Wlliiam Rorg-hann- , the motornian who had charge of the ear, was shot In the foot. d sail-ora- n SEETlt FIFTEEN HUNDRED TO CREATE DEPARTMENT I1S1 , Infuriated Beasts Trample on Woman and a Man, Besides Wrecking Property Two Fatalities May Rsult. WEI , OF There Will be No More Friction Between the American Consul and Russian Govarnment at Harbin, Residents of Cbelsa, Massachusetts, Washington. Secretary Root bad a long conference at tbe state department on Monday with the Russian ambassador, Baron Rosen, the feature ol which waa the Manchurian situation, and In consequence when the ambassador left for New York on hla way to Russia be bore with him the last words of the American state department on that Important subject The Interview was eminently satisfactory on both sides. From the Russian standpoint it waa made plain to Secretary Hoot that the local Russian officiate in Harbin were deserving of support in their efforts to rehabilitate that important trade center and resume the execution of the ambitious plain that had been formed by the Rusaten government lor the development of tbe city before tbe war with Japan. Therefore the objection of American Couaul Fisher to full recognition of the Russian authority at Harbtn was found to le based rather upon the form in which the local Russian a (Delate proposed to attain their and not to the objects themselves. Therefore It may lie stated that there will be no further friction consul and between the American the Rmtaian government at Harbin over this Incident. ob-jict- Made Homeless by Flame and Two Lives Are Lost A Square Milo of Territory Burnsd Over, the Manufactpring, Tenement and Retail District Being Scent ef Worst Conflagration in History of City. Boiton An aparently Insignificant fire, which started among rags on a dump In the city of Chelsea on Sunday, waa fanned by a northwest gale into a conflagration which obliterated of tbe city. Five nearly one-thir- d hundred dwelling houses and public buildings were destroyed, fifteen hundred families were driven from their homes and ten thousand people are homeless. Two Uvea are known to have been lost, and from fifty to one hundred persons were Injured. Accurate estimates of the loss are The city solicitor estiimpossible. mates it at nearly $10,000,000. The fire raged before a gale for more than twelve boura, defying the utmost efforts of the combined fire of Chelsea and several 45-ml- nearby cities and a large detachment of Boston firemen and apparatus. PRESIDENT VETOES BILL. The fire area, which was In the form Doesnt Believe In tho Giving Away of an ellpse, a mile and a half long and half a mile wide at lta broadest of Stream Rights. part, extended diagonally across the Washington. In a special message city. All the banks, more than th vetoing a dam bill, President Rooseof the churches, half of the busk velt on Monday warned congress that ness blocks and nearly all the school there are pending In thla session bill vMch propose to give away without houses were wiped out. One hospital and a day nursery were destroyed. price stream rights capable of develThe fire started almost from the exwhose treme southwest section of the oping 1,300,000 horse-powe- r, city production would cost annpally and cut a path to the end of Mavertons of coal; urging in vigor- ick street, at the extreme southeast-erous terms tbo establishment of a polend of the city, which borders Chelsea creek. This is about one and icy such as the filibustering minority in the house demands, which would a half mlleo from where the fire be safeguard tho granting of bridge and gan. flames The spread through the heart dam privileges and require the granbdaineas section, which of the retail to tees pay for them; bnd definitely was about between the twa midway announcing a future policy on hte extreme limits reached by the fire. part with regard to prompt utilisation of construction privllegaa by refusing In Grip of Ice Floe. his signature to a bill that gives an 8teamers Caught N. F. St. Johns, Bringing tidings iddltlonal three years to the Rainy River Improvement company within of the sinking of the steamer Grand which to build a dam In tbe Rainy Lake of the sealing fleet and the river. serious Injury of several others caught In the grip of Ice floes, the Measure to Regulate Injunction steam sealer New Foundland limped The senate commit- Into Washington. Sunday leaking badly. The tee on the Judiciary has favorably re- Grandport Lake met with destruction on ported a bill regulating the practice April 5. She wss shut up in the reof granting injunctions by United lentless Ice floes Jaws of two States courts restraining the enforce- until her sides gave great and even way ment of atate statutes. The bill pro- her engines were crushed. Her crew, vides that no circuit or district court 214 men, made their esnumbering shall Issue aucb temporary Injuncto the steamer Vanguard, which cape unconstltu-tlonallty tions on the ground of was close 4 catch of 20,000 seal until testimony shall have went down by. with tbe Grand Lake. Thi been taken by three Judges, at least cargo was valued at S130.000 and was two of whom shall be circuit Judges. Insured. The steamers Iceland and It requires five days notice of such Ranger were also badly crushed by attorand to the governor proceeding the ice. ney general of the atate Involved, unless In cases In which the loss of so Congress Will Adjourn Early In May. much time may work Irreparable damWashington. That the present sea age, when a temporary order may be slon of congress will adjourn on oi issued. about May 9 Is the prediction of RepFLOODS IN CHINA. resentative James EL Watson of Indianapolis. Republican whip of the Two Thousand Peopla Are Drowned house. Mr. Watson bases this predicLike Rate In a Trap. tion upon information he has gathShanghai. Disastrous floods are re- ered as the result of a confidential ported to have occurred at Hankow, survey of tbe situation in the two In the province of Hu Pen, and It 1a houses of congress During the past stated that 2,000 persona have been few days Representative Watson has drowned. The floods are said to be conferred with the leaders at both The ends of the capital In regard to addue to an unexpected freshet journment, and all of them are anxiw atari caught the people unexpectedous for an early date. Mr. Watson of and middle the the In the night ly there is ample time between unfortunate Chinese were drowned thinks now snd May 9 for completion of the like rats in a trap, many not having legislative program. the slightest chance of escape. Roosevelt Plane a Year of Travel In Accused of Murdering Hte Wife. Foreign Countries New York. Mrs. L Liberman, the President Washington. Should wife of a shirtwaist manufacturer, who hae a small factory In the Bronx Roosevelt's present desires be realborough, was found murdered In her ised, he will spend the first yeae after apartments In Courtlandt avenue hte retirement from office in travel Monday. Her husband waa taken Into outside the United States. Mr. Roosecustody pending an investigation. Her velt's itinerary, however, has not been t trroat was cut, and there waa a great determined. His plan 1s to see some cut In her left side. The Janitor of the rugged snd little frequented heard screams and found Liberman in portions of foreign lands, as well as knife In to travel the beaten track of the tourthe hall With a hte hand. On Sunday Liberman had ist That the president will Indulge his fondness for hunting big game 1s applied to a lawyer to secure a summons for his wife, accusing her of In- believed by those to whom be has confidelity, but the snmmons was refused fided his Intentions. because of Liberman's condition. Tiger Will Welcome Democrats. School Teacher Prevents Panic. Cola A monster tiger, Denver, Denver, Colo. A well conducted constructed of papier mache, located fire drill at the Fleming school, near at the principal four corners of the the corner of Grant and Colo ulo city, will welcome the delegates to streets in South Denver, saved 100 Denver wben they come to the Demolittle children from death or Injury cratic national convention on July 7. shortly before noon Thursday, when This emblem has been selected Inan overheated furnace set fire to the stead of the prosaic donkey, as the Presence of mind on the striped king of the Jungle lends himbuilding. Harris. In self more part of Miss Katherine readily to the purposes of whose room the lire started. In all ornamentation. A special committee probability prevented a disaster. After of citizens Is at work devising plans the children bad marched out. Miss for the suitable decoration of the Harris began playing a stream on city during the convention. the fire with the lawn bose. Will Help Fire Sufferers. Pennsylvania Mob Glvea Officers Mont. Resident! of Big Helena, Warm Reception. Timber, Mont., the town which was Chester, Pa. A strike of conduct almost entirely destroyed by fire test ors, motormen and other employes or month, have been notified by the the Chester Traction company, fol- Northern Pacific company that they of 150 will be paid 50 cents on the dollar to lowed by the Importation strike-breaker- s and the summoning ot cover their losses. This action is a detachment of the state constabu- taken by the railroad company from the local police In pre- the fact that the disastrous fire, lary venting violence, precipitated a series which left hundreds of people homeof clashes between strike sympathiz- less, wss started by a spark from a ers and state police on Monday. The Northern Pacific locomotive. The deatate police were atoned by the mob. cision of the railroad la voluntary and several officers and civilians wer; and not the result of civil suit hurt, though none dangerously. t . blood-staine- t d MIES AND MININS House Committee Favore a Bill Male ing Appropriation for Maintenance of Mining Schools. Tbe house committee Washington. mines and mining has reported te vorably the bill made up of bills Introduced by Representatives Bonynge, ilsggot and Howell to establish schools or departments of Instruction In mlnea and mining. Tbe bill pro vides that $10,000 shall be appropriat-efrom tbe sales of public lands dur lng the coming year to each state and on d territory for the establishment and maintenance of schools of mines or departments of mining In schools already established, this appropriation to increase $5,000 annually until the annual appropriation shall reach The money thus appropriated shall be expended for Instruction, research and experiment In relation to ore treatment, mining, engineering, metallurgy and assaying, with a view to teaching the best and safest methods of mining snd especially for tbe study and preventing of explosions. Urea and other dangers Incident to carrying on tbe mining Industry. Advocates of the bill report that It will do for mining what appropriations aiding agricultural schools have done for farming and agriculture, and are hopeful of securing Its passage. $25,-00- 0. LAST OF THE LOTTERIES. t Men Convicted, Their Fines Ranging From $100 to $6,000. Chicago. Fines aggregating $10,150 have been imposed by Judge Bethea in the United States district court men who were aragainst twenty-eigh- t rested in various parts of the country on the charge of being connected with a lottery. The heaviest line was $6,000 and it was placed upon David H. Jones of Chicago, said to have been the owner of the Old Reliable Guaranty Loan 4k Trust company, and the John head of the lottery concern. Miner, the chief agent of Jones, was lined $1,000, and the other defendants were lined from $100 to $125 each. Twenty-eigh- Wall and Appro-printe- d of Jewels. Worth $50,000 Some Francisco. time during San Saturday night and in the beat par trolled district pf the city, thieves entered the Jewelry store of P. Lundy, 744 Market street, snd robbed It of diamonds snd other Jewelry amounting to $50,000. Entrance was made by cutting a hole through the partition that separates the store from a candy shop. This was done without disturbing the lights that were burning in either store. This hole was made large enough to allow the thieves to Cut Hole Through crawl through. Cullom 8ays Castro Should Have a Good Spanklngr Washington. Senator Cullom, chairman of the senate committee on foreign relations, talked with the p real-le- nt on Saturday about the work of bis committee, before which are a number of Important treaties. Mr. Cullom said the committee had not had time to consider tbe Veneiuelan correspondence, but would do so at its earliest convenience. He had no idea what the committee would do, he said, but on. general principles he thought President Castro should have a good spanking. German Cruiser Launched. r Kiel. The armored cruiser was launched on Saturday at the imperial navy yard in the presence of Prince Henry of Prussia and many high officials of the admiralty. Virtually a battleship In all except name, this latest addition to the armored crulsere of the German navy la built entirely of steel, with a displacement of 15,000 tone. Tfie estimated coot of the construction totals $6,195,000, of which $4,625,000 will be spent on the hull and machinery, while the artillery will cost $2.125,000. Blue-che- Division of Our FleeL Washington. Seven hundred blue Jackets have been ordered from Newport and Norfolk to the Pacific coast by the way of Colon, and thence to Guam and Manila hy a transport to replace men on the Asiatic division whose terms are about to expire. The men will be taken to Colon on the Recruits for the Aaiatle cruiser Prairie, arriving there about May 14. They will be transferred across tbe Isthmus and will take passage on the Buffalo, which will transport them to San Francisco, arriving there not later than June 1. Chicago College Crank CaughL Chicago. O. L. Triggs, who aa professor of English literature at the University of Chicago attracted wide notice by proclaiming that John D. Rockefeller Is a greater genius than Shakespeare and that Longfellow Is overrated, has been married to Miss Ada Bell Cox of Canton. O. Professor Triggs connection with the University of Chicago was severed some years ago because of his views. It was testified at a trial In which he wss divorced from a former wife that he did not regard marriage ai conducive :o morals. Nat Goodwin Taking Vacation. Reno, Ney. Nat. C. Goodwin, the reteran actor, declared at Rawhide Saturday night, during the course of s speech at a banquet given In hte honor hy the prominent men of the camp, that the Impression that he had left the stage for good was erroneous. "I am merely taking s recess, he aid. If my friends in the east were to hear that it was thought I had deserted the stage, they would suggest that Nat had better take s brandy snd soda. Tbe curtain has rung down for me for a little while thats 1'" |