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Show MAJTT OOVB TO OPFTWHB or Da. hajlvbt.w. wmrr WARHINOTON. July 14. Lettara and telegrams espreeeieg eonnaence la Dr. Harvey W: V llsy, the were food expert of the department of agriculture, snd urging- President Taft To consider' wioet carefully the chargce made against him by the persona ei board of the department, and Indorsed by Attorney General Wl k-eraham, k-eraham, came pouring Into the white houee today from all over the country. - Many of the messages were from commercial com-mercial organisations, ot hers from per-ennal per-ennal friends of the president and of Ir. Wiley and sllll others from oraanlsattons eepeclally tntereeted In lr. Wiley's work. Neither the while houee officials nor Dr. Wiley had anything further to eay today about the case, although It waa up for diecuealoa at the regular meeting of the cabinet. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson said before the cabinet meeting that he did not know how soon the doctor's answer to the chsrgee against him might be expected. ex-pected. Secretary Wilson also said today to-day that he personally had had little to do with the Wiley case. He said, however, how-ever, that t Ike persuanet board which recommended his reslfftatlon waa a permanent per-manent board, such aa exlets In moat governmental departments: that It had not acted hurriedly and that Its conclu-rlon conclu-rlon nan1 been reached after heerinitH, sum pins; out the smoldering fires at Golden City and PottavlHe. One was shot at PottavlHe when causjht going through tha clothes of a dead man. ft. H. Webber of Ickport. N. T-. one of the survivors, escaped from the Dome mtn where loe were burned to death, by wading Into the lake up to hla nock. The wave of heat sweeping over the water burned hla face badly. "There were 400 people standing In the lake." aaid be. "and I saw twenty 1 drown." j fteveral thousand dollars In currency waa aaved by J. J. Noa of Reno, Nev., i by canoeing far out Into tha lake. A. H. Cramp ton and Joseph Healy. manager and superintendent of the Imperial Im-perial mlnea. eecaped with flftaan employees em-ployees by a run of nli miles around tha lake. They eturfibled over - bodies along tha mad. and aaw a woman pick up a skull and put It In her liandbaa'. Oeors; XJsk. a prospector near the West Dome, ftw his brother and partner burn to death. Penned In on all aides by tha flamea. they aotia;ht safety In a small stream. Aa the fire swept over the ft ream Uuk aaw hla two companions die. while he rolled on his back la tbe shallow I water near the hank. |