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Show Babies Found With Dead Mother in Local . Hotel t giving ths children a noma. A little, boy. juat yeara of age. bright and early thla morning put In an appearance appear-ance at tha Amelia palace to ae about taking the "kids" tip to hla houae to live. Many calls were received from outside ths city including an. from Kureka. The children automatically become warda of the Juvenile court. Kfforta I to locate relatives of th. dead woman 1 -- helnor mmle "Oh. Mamma I want my Mamma!"! Thla and other plteoue ralle for the mother who lay atlll and silent by their side were ths childish walla that greeted the eara of Manager R- J. Shields of the fled Cross snd Miss I.aura (!. Willis, grained nurse, when they hurried to a email room at the Cooper hotel at midnight Saturday In answer to an urgent call from alartled roomere. A little girl. Just J. with a mop of golden curls and a tear atalnrd face, lay upon the bed with a little 1-year- old aister. They were snuggled close , lo the dead body of their mother, who. had euccumbed to rlpaniaH Influenza.1 aeveral houra before. i Manager Hhielda and Misa Willis. I who had been on duty at the Ked Cross all evening after epending a day with her own duties In a doctor's office, found thst the baby's bottle of milk waa Icy cold and bad soured, eu long had tha children been alone. The little onea were warmly wrapped and prepared pre-pared to leave their mother. A closed taxlcab had been secured for the purpose. pur-pose. "Don't you want to go riding?" Manager tthlelda asked of th. oldeat little girl who. with difficulty, told her I name waa Krancea McLaughlin. "Yes, I but will muvver came. tooT" tha little one aaked In her lisping baby manner, i Th. children were taken to the Judge Mercy hospital, w her they were care- I fully bathed and fed and placed In bed by nurses of th hospital under tha ' personal direction of Misa Wlllia. Today th children were taken borne by um of th. school teacher, who baa been aiding th. Red Cross. It wsa found that tha children had not contracted con-tracted Influenza. Nearly a hundred calls from wealthy famlliea. poor famlllea, and la factj every kind of a family, poured Into Hed , Cross beadquartere thu morning ask- j Ing to adopt both rhlldren. Women i with many aervant and plenty of money begged for 111. opportunity of j |