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Show A forest ranger, who reported the tree had fallen, said that in February the hotel at the grove was shaken as if by an earthquake and that as soon as the snow receded he found the tree prostrate. He believed the falling tree shook the hotel. TALLEST TREE BLOWN DOWN "Lafayette," Monarch of the Calavera Grove In California, Destroyed by Wind. Stockton, Cal The Lafayette, the tallest tree in the Calavera grove of big trees, eighty-five miles east of here, It was reported, has been blown ! down. I The tree was 300 feet tall and had a diameter of thirty feet at the base. |