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T r.N!D ECHO.
J. K. DfiTWJLEK, Ed. and Prop.
ENID, - - - OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA 4NI> INDIAN TEHBITOKY
Oklahoma was eleven j*ears old April
A three story brick hotel is to be built
at Pond Creek.
Wheat fields are beginning- to show-
heads in Oklahoma.
The fate of the free homes bill will
be decided in the near future.
General Gordon's lecture netted 8100
for the Guthrie public library.
Ogleville is the latest newO. T. town;
it is in Woods county west of Cleto.
A horse buyer gathered a bunch of
600 horses in one bunch at Kingfisher.
C. E. Walker was drowned near his
place on Salt Fork while seining for
fish.
There is a g-eneral protest in Okla-
homa against lumber rates on the rail-
roads.
A franchise has been granted to the
Frisco to build a belt line at Oklahoma
City.
The Osage nation propose to expend
512,000 in building waterworks for
Pawhuska.
Four boys propose to sail to Little
Rock on a raft; they are to start ut
Guthrie.
Fifteen miscroscopes, lately added to
the Agricult ural and Mcchanicul college
cost 81,100.
John Florer, of Gray Horse, a trader,
has had a store in the Osage nation
thirty years.
Will Reed, of Woods county, has en-
listed in the Hritish light cavalry ser-
vice in South Africa.
A commercial club, starting with 100
members and 810,000 stock, has been
organized in Pawnee.
Territorial warrants are registered
to the amount of 8200.303.07; of which
80,558.53 bear interest.
Glencoe, O. T.. is to have a newspa-
per to be started by Mr. Williams, a
Wichita Eagle reporter.
Several thousand dollars a month
will be paid in wages at the 1'onoaCity
rock quarries this summer.
Wm. Vandeventer's house and barn
at Orlando burned in the daytime. The
loss is 82,200; no insurance.
J. C. King fell under a work train
near Stillwater and had his right foot
eut ofT. He was an invalid.
■ Vandruff, who fought Moore, the
weapons being knives, was so cut open
tluit his heart was iu sight.
V •
<* The new Osage agent is likely to
havo f*n easier job since the tribal gov-
ernment has been changed.
A Santa Fe train covered the 45 miles
between Higgins and Woodward, with
10 cars of cattle in one hour.
There was a greater loss in range
cattle in Heaver connty, caused by the
cold rains than first reported.
Oscar A. Mitscherhas been appointed
Indian agent for the Osage agency to
succeed Agent Pollock, resigned.
Hidding was spirited at the first lot
sale at the new town of Cashion, last
week, with good juices realised.
Two members of the Christian church
at Tonkawa did not want their new
church dedicated in debt and put in
$500 each out of their pockets.
The Sac and Fox and the Iowa In-
dians have received their semi-annual
annuity. The Sac and Fox tribe now
numbers 173, a decrease of 50 in six
low-as there are only
$8 left.
J[ni 2^. Merrill, the author of the Ok-
lahoma capital punishment law, now
in the penitentiary for life, has become
insane.
It is now positively stated that the
Choctaw railroad will be extended imj
mediately from Weatherford to A ma
rillo, a distance of 170 miles to be
graded at once.
Stuart M. Decker, an Oklahoma boy
who is with the Thirty-fourth infantry
in the Philippines, has been brevet ted
from a first lieutenant to a lieutenant
colonel, earned by good fighting.
R. W. Moore was killed and W. F.
Vandruff was badly wounded in an al-
tercation over a ferry boat at Osage
City.
Samuel Strong, a millionaire miner
at Cripple Creek, recently married Miss
llegina Neville, formerly an Enid girl.
Glencoe is building up rapidly.
Adout 820,000 worth of lots have been
sold, and all lines of business are re-
presented.
J. Y. Callahan has purchased the
Allen Brothers ranche iu Dewey coun-
ty-
A prospecting company will put down
a prospect well at Hillings in search
for beds of coal.
Two new churches are being erected
at Miami, by the Christians und the
Methodists.
There has been a big celebration at
Hillings. The merchants provide*!
forty floats. The town is only four
months old.
A justice of the peace in Richland
township, Hlaine county, has been in
office two years with never a single
ease before him for trial.
Temple Houston and Charles Swin-
daU were nearly taken in by quicksands
while crossing the South Canadian in
a buggy.
W. B. Martin has been appointed
game warden for Kay county.
The president has signed the bill
which gives 815,000 to Langston uni-
versity.
F. E. Patterson has a Cheyenne cos-
tume worth 9950. It is of buckskin
with long fringes and has 3,000 elk's
teeth and vnnny small abolla. The head
work on it is very fine.
A national bank has been organized
at Prj-or Creek.
The town of Cliff, I. T., is asking for
incorporation.
Miami will market 200 acres of straw-
berries this season.
A violent storm blew down the new
town of Henryetta, composed largely
of tents.
Two thousand barrels of crude pe-
troleum were shipped to refineries from
Bartlesville.
Local buyers paid 85.45 cents per
hundred for live hogs at Dawson, I. T.
the other day.
Six from Ardmore and eight from
Purcell started for the Kansas peniten-
tiary last week.
The district conference of the M. E.
church, South, was held at Chelsea,
opening April 25.
It is surprising the people that there
arc so many new banks being orgauized
in Indian Territory.
A thunder storm at Purcell did about
SHOO worth of damage to dynamos in
the electric light plant.
Geronimo is said to be getting rich;
the industry he is engaged in is the
national game of poker.
There is a movement among the fi
civilized tribes for a state covering their
territory and none other.
Judge Hooker of the supreme court
of New York proposes to put down IOC
oil wells near Bartlesville.
Indians smuggle bottles of whisky
in the s'icks with tlour; an Osage has
been arrested for this practice.
The Alva public school building is to
have two additional rooms built this
summer; making a six room school.
W. E. Halscll, of Vinita, proposes to
utilize his artesian well to fill a fish
pond 50x150 feet and six feet deep.
George Wageck, an Oklahoma volun-
teer, has been granted an 8H pension
for wounds received in the Philippines.
The big bridge at Purcell was washed
out by the recent floods, but it only
took one week to complete the repairs
on it.
Ardmore has a new military company
of 100 members. B. V. Henson was
leeted captain, and V. Neullen, first
lieutenant.
Scarlet fever has broken out in a
bokrding school at Wetumplca. Two
deaths have already occurred and other
children are fatally ill.
Gen. Geo. P. M. Turner of Muskogee
is dead, lie was once editor of the
Memphis Scimitar and was a very prom-
inent Tennessee lawyer.
Will Heed has written to his parents
in Woods county that he is in South
Africa and has enlUU'd with the Brit-
ish lifl)t cavalry service.
Jack Harrah, of the Santa Fe ballast
train at work below Purcell, had both
legs eut off, having fallen under thq
train. He died very soon.
Governor Barnes has appointed II.
W. Pentecost quartermaster general
and W. 15. Poland aide-de-camp of the
Oklahoma national guard.
A new way of ringing hogs is to shoot
them thnough the nose with a pistol.
The inventor rclaims it to be more
humane than to use a knife.
Twenty-five Choctaw Indians, the
first of 1,000 Mississippi Choctaws who
will move to the Indian territory to
live, have arrived at Ardmore.
Chas, Connally, who lived near Osce-
ola, and his little child were killed by
the collapse of a dugout. Mrd. Connally
was outside and was not hurt.
An lyiUan convention at Tishomingo,
the Chickasaw capital, renominated
governor D. 11. Johnston. The candi-
date of the progressive party is ex-Gov-
erflfcr Harris,
At H^ftah6rnc, George McCurdy
chased Jack Jones through the streets
and fired four bullets from a revolver
into Jones' head and leg. Both men
are colored and jealousy was the cause
of the shooting.
Riley H. Henry writes home from
the Philippines that he was with a
squad that captured 3,000,000 pounds
of sugar.
During March 03,547 dozen eggs were
marketed at and shipped from Perry.
The average price paid was 10 cents
making an average of 8240 a day.
Frank Webb is in jail charged with
shooting the marshal of Catoosa.
Checotah is putting up a warm effort
to secure the territory Odd Fellows'
home.
The mayor of every incorporoted
town or city in the Indian Territory is
an ex-oftlcio 1'nited States commission-
er. He is clothed with all powers and
rights of a csmmissioner within the
limits of a town or city of which he is
mayor; he is entitled to receive and re-
tain the same fees and to the extent of
his jurisciction he is a federal officer.
Deputy United States Marshal T. M.
Lewis has captured and lodged in the
Muskogee jail, Ted C. Broadhead, alias
ltob Johnson, charged with stealing
and shipping three carloads of cattlo
from Linn county, Kas., In 1807.
The Indian Territory Press associa-
tion which was to have met in Vinita
in May, will meet there sometime in
September.
Otis Powell, of Western Oklahoma,
is likely to lose a hand which he
scratched with a pin, resulting in blood
poisoning.
Dates and places for the enrollment
of the Cherokecs are coming from the
commission by mail. The enrollment
is scheduled to occur from May 14 to
November 23.
A young married couple registered
at one of the hotels at Muskogee and
were assigned a room overlooking a low
porch. In the morning there was no
answer to the repeated calls and one of
the employes started to the room by
way of the porch, only to discover that
occupants had gone and had failed
to settle their bill before leaving.
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
PREACHES ON MAY CHANCES
OF RESIDENCE.
Timely IHarourxe In Which the
Need of I'atlence and Equipoise Is
Set Forth—Moving Into the Father's
IJuuae.
[Copyright. 1900. by Louis Klopsch.J
Text, Phlllpplans lv., 12: "I know
both how to be abased, and I know
how to abound."
Happy Paul! Could you really ac-
commodate yourself to all circum-
stances in life? Could you go up with-
out pride, and could you come down
without exasperation?
We are at a season of the year when
vast populations in all our cities are
changing residence. Having been born
in a house, and having all our lives
lived in a house, we do not have full
appreciation of what a house la. It is
the growth of thousands of years. The
human race first lived in clefts of
rocks, beasts of the field moving out of
the caverns to let the human race
move in. The shepherds and the rob-
bers still live in caverns of the earth.
The troglodytes are a race which to
this day prefer the caverns to a house.
They are warm, they are large, they
are very comfortable, they are les3 sub-
ject to violent changes of heat and
cold. We come on along down in the
history of the race, and we come to
the lodge, which was a home built out
of twlBted tree branches. We come
further on down in the history of the
race, and we come to the tent, which
was a home built with a round pole In
the center, and skins of animals reach-
ing out In all directions, mats on the
floor for the people to sit on.
Time passed on, and the world, after
much invention, came to build a house,
which was a space surrounded by
broad stones, against which the earth
was heaped from the outside. The roof
was made of chalk and gypsum, and
coals and stones and ashes pounded to-
gether. After awhile the porch was
born, after awhile the gate. Then hun-
dreds of years passed on, and in the
fourteenth century the modern chim-
ney was constructed. The old He-
brews had openings in their houses
from which the smoke might escape if
it preferred, but there was no induce-
ment offered for it to leave until the
modern chimney. Wooden keys opened
the door, or the keyhole was large
enough to allow the finger to be In-
serted for the lifting of the latch or
the sliding of it. There being no win-
dows, the people were dependent for
light upon latticework, over which a
thin veil was drawn down in time of
winter to keep out the elements. Win-
dow glass was, so late as two or three
hundred years ago, in England and
Scotland, so great a luxury that only
the very wealthiest could afford it. A
hand mill and an oven and a few leath-
ern bottles and some rude pitchers and
plates made up tho entiro equipment
of the culinary department. But the
home planted in the old cave or at the
fool of a tent pole has grown and en-
larged and spread abroad until we have
the modern house with its branches
and roots and vast girth and height
and depth of comfort and accommoda-
tion.
Hood nontea to Live In.
Architecture in other days busied it-
self chiefly in planning and building
triumphal arches and' basilicas and
hippodromes and mausoleums and col-
umns, while they allowed the people
for residences to burrow like muskrats
in tho earth. St. Sophia's of Constan-
tinople, St. Mark's of Venice, St. Pe-
ter's of Rome are only the Raphaeled
walls against which lean the squalor
and the pauperism of many nations. I
rejoice that, while our modern archi-
tects give us grand Capitols in which
to legislate and grand courthouses in
which to administer justice and grand
churches in which to worship God,they
also give much of their time to the
planning of comfortable abodes for our
tired population, I have not so much
Interest in the arch of Trajan an
Beneventum as I have in the wish that
all tho people may have a comfortable
shelter, nor have I so much Interest in
the temple of Jupiter Olympus at Ath-
ens as I have in the hope that every
man may have an altar for the wor-
ship of the true God in his own house.
And I have not so much interest in the
science of ceramics, which goes crazy
over a twisted vase, or a queer handled
jug in uso 3,000 years ago, or a pitcher
out of which the ancient pharaohs
poured their drunken debauch, as I
have that every man have on his tablo
a piate with plenty of healthful food
and an appetite to attack it.
Thank God for your home—not mere-
ly the house you live in now, but the
house you were born in and the many
houses you have resided In since you
began your earthly residence. When
you go home today, count over the
number of these houses in w&Ich you
have resided, and you will bo surpris-
ed. Once in awhile you will find a man
who lives in the house where he was
born and where his father was born
and his grandfather was born and his
great-grandfather was born, but that is
not one out of a thousand cases. I
have not been more perambulatory
than most people, but 1 was amazed
when I came to count up the number
of residences 1 have occupied. The fact
is, there is in this world no such thing
as permanent residence.
In a private vehicle and not In a
rail car, from which you can see but
little, I rode from New York to Yonk-
ers and Tarrytown, on the banks of
the Hudson—the finest ride on the
planet for a man who wants to see pa-
latial residences in fascinating scen-
ery. It was in tho early spring and
before the gentlemen of New York
had gone out to their country resi-
dences. I rode into the grounds to ad-
mire the gardens, and the overseer of
the place told me—and they all told me
that all the houses had been sold or
that they wanted to sell them, and
there was literally no exception, cl-
though I called at many places, just
admiring the gardens and the ground*
and the palatial residences. Some
wanted to sell or had sold because
their wives did not want to reside in
the summer time in those places while
thHr husbands tarried in town in the
night, always having some business cn
hand keeping them away.
Change of Residence.
From some houses the people had
been shaken out by chills and fever,
from some houses they had gone be-
cause death or misfortune had occur-
red, and all those palaces and man-
sions had either changed occupants or
wanted to change. Take up the direc-
tory of any city of England or Ameri-
ca and see how few people live where
they lived 15 years ago. There is no
such thing as permanent residence. I
saw Montlcello, in Virginia, President
Jefferson's residence, and I saw on the
same day Montpelier, which was either
Madison's or Monroe's residence, and I
saw also the white house, which was
President Taylor's residence, and Pres-
ident Lincoln's residence,and President
Garfield's residence. Was it a perma-
nent residence in any case? I tell you
that the race Is nomadic and no eoon-
er gets In one place than It wants to
change for another place or Is com-
pelled to change for another place, and
so the race Invented the railroad and
the steamboat in order more rapidly
to get into some other place than that
in which it was then. Aye, Instead of
being nomadic, it is immoral, moving
on and moving on. We whip up our
horses and hasten on until the hub of
the front wheel shivers on the tomb-
stone and tips us headlong into the
grave, the only permanent earthly res-
idence. But. bless God, even that stay
is limited, for we shall have a resur-
rection.
A day this spring the streets will be
filled with the furniture carts and the
drays and the trucks. It will be a hard
day for horses, because they will be
overloaded. It will be a hard day for
laborers, for they will overlift before
they get the family furniture from one
house to another. It will be a hard day
for housekeepers to see their furniture
scratched, and the crockery broken,
and their carpets misfit, and their fur-
niture dashed of the sudden showers.
It will be a hard day for landlords. It
will be a hard day for tenants. Espe-
cial grace is needed for moving day.
Many a man's religion has suffered a
fearful strain between the hour on the
morning of the first of May, when ho
took his immature breakfast, and the
hour at night when he rolled into his
extemporized couch. The furniture
broken sometimes will result in the
breaking of the Ten Commandments.
There is no more fearful pass than the
hall of a house where two families
meet, one moving out and the other
moving in. The salutation is apt to
be more vehement than complimen-
tary. The grace that will be sufficient
for the first of January and the first
of p-ebruary and the first of March
and the first of April will not be suffi-
cient for the first of May. Say your
prayers that morning if you find noth-
ing better to kneel down by than a
coal scuttle, and say your prayers at
night though your knee comes down
on a paper of carpet tacks. You vrlll
want supernatural help if any of you
move. Help In the morning to start
out aright on the day's work. Help
at night lo repent. There will be
enough of annoyance to make a Xan-
tippe out of a Frances Ridley Haver-
gal. I have again and again been in
crises of moving day, and I have
stood appalled and amazed and help-
less in the shipwreck, taking as well
as I could those things that floated
ashore from the breakers, and I know
how to comfort and how to warn, and
how to encourage the people, so I
preach this practical May day sermon.
All these troubles will soon be gone,
and the bruises will heal, and the stif-
fened joints will become supple, and
your ruffled temper will be smoothed
of its wrinkles, and order will take
the place of disorder, and you will sit
down in your new home seriously to
contemplate.
Reverses of Fortnnc.
But there are others who will move
out of large residences into smaller
through the reversal of fortune. The
property must be sold or the bailiff
will sell it, or the income is less and,
you cannot pay the bouje rent. First
of all, such persons should understand
that our happiness is not dependent
on the size of the house we live in. I
have known people enjoy a small heav-
en in two rooms and other suffer a
pandemonium in twenty. There is as
much happiness in a small house as in
a large house. There is as much sat-
isfaction under the light of a tallow
candle as under the glare of a chande-
lier, all the burners at full blaze. Who
was the happier,John Bunyan in Bed-
ford jail or Belshazzar in the saturna-
lia? Contentment is something you
can neither rent nor purchase. It Is
not extrinsic; it is intrinsic. Are
there fewer rooms in tho house to
which you move? You will have less
to take care of. Is it to be stove in-
stead of furnace? All the doctors say
the modern modes of warming build-
ings are unhealthy. Is it less pier
mirrors? Less temptation to your
vanity. Is it old-fashioned toilet in-
stead of water pipes all through the
house? Less to freeze and burst when
you cannot get a plumber. Is it less
carriage? More room for robust cx-
ercise. Is it less social position? Few-
er people who want to drag you down
by their jealousies. Is It less fortune
to leave in your last will and tes'.a-
ment? Less to spoil your children. Is
it less money for marketing? Less
temptation to ruin the health of your
family with pineapples and indigesti-
ble salads. Is it a little deaf? Not
hearing so many disagreeables.
I meet you this springtime at the
door of your new home, and while I
help you lift tho clothesbasket over
the banisters and the carman is get-
ting red in the face in trying to trans-
port that article of furniture to some
new destination 1 congratulate you.
You are going to have a better time
this year, some of you, than you ever
had You take God and the Christian
religion in your home, and you will
be grandly happy. God in the parlor—
that will sanctify your sociabilities.
God in the nursery—that will protect
your children. God in the dining hall
—that will make the plainest meal an
imperial banquet. God in the morn-
ing—that will launch the day brightly
from the drydocki. God In the even-
ing—that will sail the day sweetly into
the harbor.
And get Joy, one and all of you,
whether you move or do not move. Get
Joy out of the thought that we are
soon all going to have a grand moving
day. Do you want a picture of the new
house into which you will move? Here
it Is, wrought with the hand of a mas-
ter, "We know that. If our earthly
house of this tabernacle were dis-
solved, we have a building of God,
a house not made with hands, eternal
in the heavens." How much rent will
we have to pay for It? We are going
to own it. How much must we pay for
it? How much cash down, and how
much left on mortgage? Our Father Is
going to give It as a free gift. When
are we going to move into it? We aro
moving now. On moving day heads of
families are very apt to stay in the o'd
house until they have seen everything
off. They Bend ahead the children,and
they send ahead the treasures and the
valuables. Then, after awhile, they will
come themselves. I remember very well
in the country that in boyhood mov-
ing day was a jubilation.
Golug to the Father's Ilnnse.
On almost the first load we, the
children, were sent on ahead to the
new house, and we arrived with shout
and laughter, and In an hour we had
ranged through every room in tho
house, the barn and the granary. To-
ward night, and perhaps in the last
wagon, father and mother would come,
looking very tired, and we would come
down to the foot of the lane to meet
them and tell them of all the wonders
we discovered in the new place, and
then, the last wagon unloaded, the
candles lighted, our neighbors who had
helped us to move—for in those times
neighbors helped each other—sat down
with us at a table on which there was
every luxury they could think
Well, my dear Lord knows that some
of us have been moving a good while.
We have sent our children ahead, we
have sent many of our valuables
ahead, sent many treasures ahead. We
cannot go yet There Is work for us
to do, but after awhile it will be to-
ward night, and we will be very tired,
and then we will start for our new
home, and those who have gone ahead
of us they will see our approach, and
they will come down the lane to meet
us, and they will have much to tell us
of what they have discovered In the
"house of many mansions," and
how large the rooms are and of how
bright the fountains. And then, the
last load unloaded, the table will be
spread' and our celestial neighbors will
come in to sit down with our reunited
families, and the chalices will be full,
not with the wine that sweats in the
vat of earthly intoxication, but with
"the new wine of the kingdom." And
there for tho first time we will realize
what fools we were on earth when we
feared to die, since death has turned
out only to be the moving from a
smaller house into a larger one, and
the exchange of a pauper's hut for a
prince's castle, and the going up stairs
from a miserable kitchen to a glorious
parlor. O house of God not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens!
Elf
Fifteen Thousand People Homeless
—Lumber, Mills, all Gone,
MILES BY 3 OF CITY FIRE.
CITY OF SAULT STE. MARIE.
Deitlued to
Metropolis of Upper
Michigan,
Sault Ste. Marie Is destined to be-
come at no distant day the metropolis
of the upper peninsula of Michigan.
This will be the result of the develop-
ment of its immense waterpower,which
is second only to that of Niagara. Here
at the natural gateway between the
east and the west, the United States
and Canadian governments have built \
ship canals and locks £or the benefit
of the vast commerce to and from Lake
Superior. The waters of this great in-
land sea go tumbling down St. Mary's
rapids, forming one of the finest water
powers in the world. A portion of the
vast water power has already been
harnessed and put to commercial use
on both sides of St. Mary's river. On
the American side $3,500,000 is being
expended on a mammoth water power
canal that will develop 40,000 actual
horse power, all of which has already
been leased for use in establishments
to be erected for the manufacture of
calcium carbide, chemicals and other
products that will use fo the best ad-
vantage the raw materials existing in
this neighborhood and such as can
utilize most profitably the remarkable
advantages enjoyed by Sault Ste. Ma-
rie for the assembling of raw materials
and the distribution of finished prod-
ucts. When all the projected industries
are completed and in operation it will
result in the up-building of Sault Ste.
Marie from its present population of
about 10,000 to a city of great import-
ance as a manufacturing center.—N. L.
Martin in Milwaukee Journal.
THE JUDGE'S DOUBLE ENTHY.
Stylo of Bookkeeping He I.< nrncU from
Hotel Itrgisterg.
Judge James Fitzgerald of the New
York supreme court is an excellent ex-
ample of what perseverance and sin-
gleness of purpose will accomplish.
The judge, who is about 40 years old,
supported not only himself, but helped
his family while serving as a cash boy
in a store, and at night he attended
Cooper union. Later he read law at
night and managed to be admitted to
the bar at the same age that most
young men begin practice. To his
native Irish wit is added a power of
speech that nearly approaches elo-
quence. He soon took a prominent
part in politics, and was for years a
member of the legislature. Several
years ago he was appointed an addi-
tional assistant district attorney at tin
comfortable salary at $7,500 per year.
Before taking office he married and
went on a prolonged wedding trip.
When he returned a month's pay was
due him and he went to the office for
it. During his honeymoon he had
traveled over a good part of this coun-
try, and as his funds were low he went
direct from the train to the office.
"Here is your money," said the pay
clerk, deferentially, after his kind.
"All right," replied Mr. Fitzgerald,
pocketing the roll of bills. "Sign the
payroll, please," continued the clerk.
"Of course," responded tho bridegroom
and, absent mtndedly, he wrote as fol-
lows: "James Fitzgerald and wife."
And the entry is on the city books to
this day.—Philadelphia Post.
F.ipert Opinion.
Intellectual Caller—"Don't you thin'c
Sltnkiewlc* as a novelist is rather
hard to classify'" Literary Editor—
"Not as hard, madam, as he is to pro-
nounce."—Chicago Journal.
Ottawa, Gnt., April 28.—Five square
miles o! territory burned over, more
than 2,500 dwellings, factories, mills,
stores and other buildings destroyed,
entailing a loss estimated to reach.
5^0,000,000, and between 12,000 and
15,000 men, women und children home-
less.
Most of the lumber piles in Ottawa
and Hull have disappeared and are
now mere heaps of charred wood and
ashes. Half a dozen churches and
schools, a number of mills, the Hull
waterworks, the Hull court house and
jail, the postofflce, the convent, almost
every business place and about 1,000
dwellings and shops in Hull, have been
destroyed. Indeed, practically noth-
ing of Hull is left but a church and a
few houses beyond it.
The fire sprang across the Ottawa
river and caught the sheds in the rear
of the Mackay Milling company on
•Victoria island, and the lumber piles
on Victoria and Chaudiere islands, one
of the power houses of the Ottawa
Electric company, the Victoria foundry
and half the buildings on the two
^islands were in flames.
The whole of that part of Ottawa
\known as the Chaudiere Flats, sur-
rounding the Canadian Pacific railroad
station, where the lumber mills are
located, is fire swept.
On the Ottawa side of the river there
is a larger area covered by fire than
on Hull side. The entire business por-
tion of Hull, including the court house,
postotlice, public buildings and news-
paper offices, is one mass of ruins. On
the Ottawa side of the river the losses
are still greater.
The fire originated from a dirty
chimney. A prominent lumberman
believes that the price of lumber would
certainly be raised on account of the
fire.
There was almost a continuous line
of fire from its starting place at
Chaudiere street, Hull, to the St. Louis
dam und the experimental farm in one
direction and through and beyond
Hintonburg in another, a distance of
nearly seven miles. In some places
the fire was more than half a mile
deep. There are but four casualties
reported; two deaths and two injuries.
The Mules Turned Out.
Spring Valley, 111., April 30.—The
mules of the five shafts of the Spring
Valley Coal company have been hoisted
to the surface and turned out on
pasture. There were 200 of them and
they had not seen the light of day for
three years.
In a single notice to miners the com- |
pany declares that in the employment
of labor it will not discriminate be-
tween union and non-union men. The
state officers of the United States Mine
Workers notified the miners that they
will be backed up in their demand by
every cent in the treasury.
Death or a Noted Woman.
South Bend, Ind., April 30.—Mother
M. Annunciata, mother general of the
Sisters of the Order of the Holy Cross,
the headquarters of which for the Uni-
ted States is St. Marys academy, of
this city, is dead from heart disease.
The funeral will be held at St. Marys.
Her family name was Margaret Mc-
Shaffery. She was born in 1834 and
educated in Philadelphia. She re-
ceived the habit of the order in 1800
and took the final vows five years
later. In 189.) she became mother gen-
eral of the order.
_
A Dispatch From Roberts.
London, April 25.—The war office
has given out this dispatch from Lord
Roberts: "I dispatched the Eleventh
division under General Pole-Carew and
the cavalry under General French from
this point to assist General Bundle.
The force reached Karricfontein with-
out much opposition, (ieneral Pole-
Carew's mounted infantry seized
Leeuwkop. a high hill a few miles
north of their last night's position.
The enemy evacuated hurriedly, leav-
ing a number of rifles and ammuni-
tion."
Tne Agriculture Hill.
Washington, April -.'7.—As reported
to the senate the total of the Agricul-
tural appropriation bill was nearly $4.-
000,000. The house figures for the
purchase of seed was cut 840,000 und
that for department publications was
also diminished 320,000. The principal
items of increase are 040,000 for forest-
ry investigations und 815,000 for irri-
gation investigations, and the increase
of the salary of the chief of the weather
bureau to 85,000.
doers Will Winter In Natal.
London, April 30.—The Ladysmith
correspondent of the Daily Telegraph
says: "The Boers are preparing to
spend the winter in Natal. They are
bringing their stock from the high
veldt into Natal for winter grazing and
they are demanding that tho Kaffir
pay the hut tax to them Instead of to the
Natal government. They also declare
that unless the Kaffirs work for them
they (the Kaffirs) must move south of
Sunday's river out of their way, beyond
Natal borders.
Soutli American Ostriches.
It is not commonly known that there
are almost as many ostriches In South
America as In Africa, and yet the an-
nual export of feathers from the form-
er country to the United States alone
is in the neighborhood of nineteen
tons, representing in money f41,647.
Ilrltlsli Aristocracy Blamed.
Many people attribute their recent
reverses to degeneracy. The life of
luxury does not produce vigor. Indi-
gestible suppers, constant nerve strain
and lack of exercise upset the stomach.
The blood that makes heroes must
come from healthy stomachs, llostct-
tcr's Stomach Bitters purifies the blood
and strengthens the stomach. It cures
constipation, indigestion and dyspepsia.
A woman's idea of the real sacri-
legious thing is for a pall bearer to
chew tobacco at a funeral.
Hall's Catarrh Co
Is taken Internally. Price, 75c.
In teaching the young, be careful
not to deceive them—they will catch
you at it.
Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething, softens the gums, redarep In-
flauitnullou, allay* pain, cures wind colic. 25c a buttle.
Get over your little annoyances by
recalling how trivial they would seem
to a man away off in Japan.
Consumption is a germ disease. Tho
germs are everywhere, but they can-
not get hold of you unless you get
your lungs ready for them by neg-
lecting a cold or failing to properly
cure a cough. The Important merit of
Morley's Honey Pectoral is, that while
it cures quickly it cures thoroughly.
Sold by agent In every town.
When a man wants to be held, your
refusal will prove a great shock to
him.
That
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Just as surely indicates that tho
blood is lacking in vitality and the
elements of health as does the
most obstinate humor that the
vital fluid is full of impurities.
Hood's Sarsaparilla cures that
tired feeling by enriching and vi-
talizing the blood, creating a
good appetite and invigorating
every organ of the body.
Hood's
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" I had that tired feeling all the time.
Was as tired in the morning when I
rose as I was when I went to bed. I
took four bottles of [Hood's Snrsa-
parlllu and it 'made me feel like a new
man. I could work hard und not feel
tired. I recommend Hood's to all
who need a good medicine." A. P.
Charter, Creston, Iowa.
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