The Emporia Journal Weekly Edition from Emporia, Kansas • 2

SWEPT BY STORM. MUST PRODUCE LETTERS. A WRECK IN INDIANA. MILLIONS LI AH EXPLOSION KILLS FOREST FK RAGE Devastated Turks Islands, B. W.

l-i Communications of Standard Oil Officials Wanted. One Woman Killed and Thirty Injured at Chesterton, nd. New York, Sept. 12. Frank B.

Kel Rl A Kl rAiirtin a i aki a 11- oil logg, special deputy attorney general, FORMAL CHARGES MADE IN CONNECTION WITH THE BOOTH COMPANY FAILURE. UNEXPLAINED EXPLOSION KILLS FOUR AND WOUr DS MANY AT WINDSOR, MO. who is prosecuting the government's Chicago, Sept. 15. One woman was almost instantly killed, five persons so badly Injured that their death is expected at the Mercy hospital, and 28 other passengers were more or less "nil i viinw nuwii kin ria PER10R ARE THREATENED WITH DESTRUCTION.

ult against the Standard Oil company of New Jersey, resorted to the United States circuit court Thursday to force the production of letters he had pre MANY BANKS SAID TO BE LARGE LOSERS ftT. DEPOT WAS TOTALLY WRECKED LOSSES THIS YEAR LARGER THAN USUAL by Hurricane. Grand Turk, Turks Islands, B. W. Sept.

13. A hurricane of great fury swept over Turks Islands, Thursday, night and Friday morning and at daybreak Friday the town of Grand Turk was devastated. A number of lives have been lost but just how many cannot yet be said. Grave anxiety is felt for the safety of Dr. T.

R. Robertson, district commissioner of Caicos, who was making a tour of the islands when the storm broke. The hurricane reached here at nine o'clock Thursday night, the wind blowing from the northeast. At four o'clock Friday morning the wind had reached a velocity of nearly 100 miles an hour and was blowing from the northeast. viously demanded from C.

T. Collings, second vice president" of the Standard Oil company of Kentucky. The government's lawyer obtained from Judge Government Forest Service Officials badly injured in a wreck at Chesterton, on the Lake Shore Michigan Southern railroad, shortly after midnight Monday night. A surburban train from Chicago crashed into the rear end of a special excursion train bound for Indianapolis over the Lake Erie Western, while the excursion train was standing at the station in the Indiana town, which is 40 miles from Chicago. Chesterton Chicago Bankers Caught The Booth Family May Have Been Victims- Ward a subpoena ordering Mr.

Col Telegraph Wires Are Down Giant Powder Was Being Unloaded From a Car "Supposition Is That it Became Ignited Much Window Glass Broken and Heavy Damage to Town. Say Losses Will Reach High Up ir Millions Dakota Fires Break Oul Anew No Rain for Many Months-Cavalry Fighting the Flames. Books Manipulated Much Questionable Paper Floated Accusation of Irregular Work Going on for Years. lings to produce the missing letters. This was served on the Standard official as he left the witness stand where he had been testifying before Special Examiner Franklin Ferriss.

Chicago, Sept. 13. Prosecution of Clinton, Sept. 16. Telephone certain persons alleged to have caused The letters demanded by the gov the downfall of the 12 million dollar ernment are about 40 in number and messages from Windsor, this county: tell of a terriffic explosion which oc curred there Tuesday forenoon, caus- fish and sea food firm of A.

Booth were written by M. Maxon, a Standard agent, to the late W. C. Elliott, for Co. is threatened by indignant stock ing loss of life, the injury of 20 or more persons and the destruction of holders, according to reports current merly a stenographer In Mr.

Collings' Cincinnati office. They dealt with al Saturday. property. According to the report3 re Duluth, Sept. 13.

Unless a heavy rain falls within the next 48 hours the total destruction of every town on the north shore of Lake Superior in Cook county is almost certain. No rain has fallen in this district since July 10, and everything in the woods is as dry as parchment. Friday evening the walls of lire with a heavy land wind behind them were eating their way toward the settlements. Wild-eyed and shaking with fear Is a junction point and is distant from large towns and few facilities for car-Ins for the wounded or obtaining assistance were available. Local physicians aided the injured with what speed they could and Monday a special train brought the wounded to Chicago where they were taken to Mercy hospital.

Three women and two men, seriously injured and unconscious, are in the hospital unidentified and their death is probable. Most of the injured persons were No names were mentioned, but Re ceived hero four persons are dead and 20 or more are injured, some of them leged sums which the government charged were paid by the Standard Oil company of Kentucky to its agents for the purpose of buying information as ceiver Chalmers and others who are overhauling the books of the firm are endeavoring to ascertain who was re so dangerously that they will die. The explosion occurred at the Mis sourl, Kansas Texas depot, which to competitors' shipments. This information, in some cases, the govern sponsible for the issuance of misleading statements on which heavy loans were obtained from the banks. was wrecked, cutting off telegraphic Much damage has been done to property here and the streets of Grand Turk are a mass of wreckage.

Trees have been uprooted, portions of buildings blown away and many, houses have been partially wrecked. The Haytien sloop Telegraph, which had taken shelter at Hawk's Nest, foundered with all hands. The schooner Dan Leon, belonging to the East Caicos Fibre company, broke away from her anchorage and has not been seen since. All the salt lighters which were moored Thursday at the riding grounds and the Hawk's Nest are missing. The Turks and Caicos Islands lie between 21 degrees and 22 degrees north latitude and 71 degrees and 72 degrees 37 minutes west longitude.

Their area is 169 square miles. The communication. Frederick Yake, the ment alleges, was bought from railroad employes, oil inspectors and others. the inhabitants are gathered along It was ascertained Saturday that ten depot agent, is among the dead. J.

Chicago banks, instead of four, as at Hall, an aged transfer man, a brake This, however, is denied by the Standard Oil company. the shore prepared to take to the lake from Indianapolis, in small craft should the worst come. Mrs. Esther Hacox of Chicago, was Within less than two miles of Grand 1 killed. Her daughter, Anna Hacox, Marais there is in flames a tract of was one of the injured, now at Mercy man and a tramp also are known to On being served with the subpoena first reported, hold notes of the Booth company.

Their holdings of the failed firm's paper is approximated at have been killed. Frank Hall, son of i J. G. Hall, a rural mail carrier, is very dangerously injured. Clinton Sands hospital.

Mr. Collings said he would not say whether the letters would be produced or not until he had a chance to confer 500,000, while the total liabilities of the company are placed at close to $6,000,000. and Elmer Keach are not expected to GHOST AIDS CLAIM JUMPERS. with counsel. The court order states live.

that the letters must be produced in spruce and brush over three miles in length. A strong land breeze from the northwest is at present shooting the fire alnog the outskirts of the town, giving the village a lease of life. Conditions at Pigeon river Indian reservation, Uig Bay, Chicago Bay, Cascade, Cofton and Nutson are similar to those existing at Grand Marais. The residents of the town are in the wildest confusion, and it is believed court on Monday morning at 10 An Ozark Farmer Asks to Leave Claim Frightened by Apparition. D'clock.

Mr. Kellogg also demanded of Mr. Collings that he produce all the books and papers showing the gross little will be done in the way of rescue work before a special train, which ia on the way there from Sedalia with Springfield, Sept. 15. James R.

Hendrickson, who lives on a home-. earnings, the net earnings and the vol surgeons, arrives. time of business done recently by each stead near Norvoo, Stone county, has complained to the United States land There are conflicting reports as to the cause of the explosion. The one Washington, Sept. 13.

The forest Officials of these banks met in conference over the situation Saturday. Within a week much of the tangle, It is believed, will have been disentangled, and among other things it will be possible to state what was done with the $1,000,000 secured by the sale of new stock, which was not apparent, it is said, in statements made to the stockholders prior to the failure. That the concern's books have been Juggled for a period extending back at least three years is charged in a circular sent out by four of the in )f the Independent oil companies which were bought by tho Standard generally accepted is that giant pow Oil company of Kentucky. fires which have just laid waste whole office officials here that ne is con-counties in Minnesota, Michigan and siderably worried by the frequent ap-extended into Wisconsin, destroying pearance of a ghost on his place and many towns and making thousands of i has asked for a leave of absence for most important island, Grand Turk, is 6 miles long and two miles broad. According to the census of 1901, Grand Turk contained 1,751 inhabitants, being one-third of the population.

Cock-burn Harbor, in South Caicos, immediately opposite Grand Turk, is the principal settlement in the Caicos group. Grand Turk is the capital of the group and the residence of the commissioner. The town Is neat and clean and the inhabitants, in spite of the fact that they complain of business depression, appear to be well to do. There are in the town several der being unloaded from a freight train near the depot exploded as it was being unloaded. The Missouri, Depositors Guaranty Law Valid.

Guthrie, Sept. 12. In a unanl nous opinion the supreme court Thurs lay upheld the validity of the de jositors guaranty law, denying the in one year in the hope that the apparition will grow tired of his nightly wanderings In this particular section of the Ozarks. Hendrickson says he is not superstitious and believes the ghost is an agent of persons who are trying to intimidate him to get possession of persons homeless, have focused the attention of government officials here, as well as state forest officers on the enormous losses of forest wealth which will be on record for the year 190S. In the whole northern half of the United States from coast to coast it is unction prayed by the Noble State jank to restrain in the state from levy- terested bankers, who also set forth that in the company's statement had been deducted "from the liabilities and the books made to balance by a similar juggling in the as Kansas Texas road report says that the car contained dynamite.

Every person on the depot platform and in the building was injured and all the horses attached to delivery wagons surrounding the platform were killed. The explosion broke most of the window glass in the town and did much damage to property in the immediate neighborhood. ng a 1 per cent assessment upon the leposlts of the bank. It was contend- likely that the year will go down as his valuable quarter section. Hen by the plaintiff bank that the law set column.

unconstitutional in that it levies on It was declared by one of the mem consulates, various stores, a good market place and a public library and reading room. There is also an Episcopal church, a fairly commodious court house, a small prison and a schoolhouse. The staple export is coarse salt The islands constitute a dependency of Jamaica. ind takes private property without On this point Judge Huston In Logan county district court bers of the committee that through the Inaccurate statements every bank that has bought Booth notes drickson says, in his petition, that he fears for his life and desires to absent himself from the place one year. If the alleged intimidation is looked upon by the land officials at Washington as a good excuse for a leave of absence, Hendrickson will be accommodated.

His petition has been for one of the worst in the last quarter century. Forest service officials say that it is doubtful if this year's actual losses from forest fires in all parts of the country will ever be known, but it is known that they will be up high in the millions. The officials say the fires have started a widespread 3verruled the bank and denied an Injunction, the case then being appealed to the supreme court Windsor Is in Henry county, Missouri, and Is the largest town on the Rock Island railroad between Kansas City and St. Louis. It has a population of 3,000.

It is 21 miles south- In the last year has been misled. There are in all more than 100 banks throughout the country that hold the company's paper. AN OUTLAW FROM MISSOURI. warded to them, as the local office movement in many states to check By reason of this manipulation, It them by adopting rational systems of can do nothing for him unless his ex- west of Sedalia on the St. Louis, Kan.

Will Resist Thaw's Removal. Albany, N. Sept. 12. Any at Carl Sutherland of Lamar, Tells sas City Colorado railroad, the new Is alleged, the corporation has been enabled to float paper that otherwise cuse should be a failure of crops.

of a Life of Crime. Rock Island line between Kansas City and St. Louis, and on the Missouri, might not have been accepted by the purchasers. tempt to take Harry K. Thaw from the Dutchess county jail at Pough-keepsie to Pittsburg or any point outside the state will be opposed by the Horse Kicks Kill Farmer.

Springfield, Mo. Sept. 15. J. J.

Fet- Kansas Texas railroad. The sta So serious are the various charges tions of the two railroads are half a terhoff, a. farmer of four miles east of that it was freely predicted the failure mile apart, fire protection. The government has had much work In the fire fighting line on the national forests, but careful patrol and the organization of a force to battle with the flames have prevented a much greater destruction. The total cost of the forest fires on the national forests for the season, exclusive of the salaries of forest officers, will not be more than $30,000.

would find an echo in the criminal courts. Members of the Booth family, however, are said to be in no way involved in any questionable transac Incendiaries at Hibbing, Minn. Chisholm, Sept. 11. Follow state commission in lunacy.

Dr. Albert W. Ferris, president of the commission, returned Thursday from a long European trip and announced the position the commission would take regarding the order of Referee Blair of Pittsburg, that Thaw shall be taken to Pennsylvania to be examined in bankruptcy proceedings instituted In his behalf. ing the firing of a tract of forest to the west of Chisholm Wednesday Springfield, died Sunday as a result of being twice kicked by a horse Saturday. While his team was hitched in the city Saturday afternoon, one of the horses kicked a boy.

Fetter-hoff saved the child from being trampled to death, by the vicious animal and was himself kicked In the groin. He received medical attention and drove home. Later, while feeding the horse, he was kicked in the stomach. He lived only a few hours. tions.

They are said to have been the heaviest losers by reason of the mismanagement of others in whom they had Imposed confidence. morning, a gang of Montenegroes ap Los Angeles, Sept. 13. Carl Sutherland, the youthful self-slain murderer of Captain Walter Auble of the police department, left letter3 which show he was a remarkable criminal. In one of these letters Sutherland said he was born at Lamar, and became a member of a gang which terrorized that locality.

He first aided two criminals, who were wanted for robbing the depot at Oswego, and shooting a daputy sheriff, to escape in a canoe on the Neosho river and later joined them and others ia "holding up" an Iron Mountain train at Malvern, Ark. Near Ponca, he was captured peared in Brooklyn, a small hamlet on the outskirts of Hibbing, Wednesday afternoon and attempted to fire sev eral buildings. One of the gang had Start On a New Water Plant. Bonner Springs, Sept. 15 The work Battleships Reach Albany, Aus.

placed a quantity of savings against a Albany, West Australia, Sept. 12. of constructing the new $25,000 water building and was pouring oil on them Sturgis, S. Sept. 13.

The forest fire which started early in the week near the Mumford mines, near Galena, and which at one time under control, broke out anew Thursday night and is burning worse than ever. Four troops of the Fourth cavalry have been out all day and will be relieved at night by others. The fire Is now in the military wood reserve de After a voyage from Mel when he was discovered by a soldier. bourne, the American battleships He escaped with his companions dropped anchor at seven o'clock Fri through the woods. Posses of citizens Authorized Big Bond Issue.

Denver, Sept. 12. of the Denver Rio Grande Rall-oad company and its subsidiaries day morning off King's Point at the from Hibbing, Monroe and Chisholm entrance to Princess Royal harbor in are after the incendiaries and It is al most certain that a lynching will fol King George's Sound. Great crowds Thursday authorized the issuance of 1150,000,000 in bonds; the issuance of totes for that amount for three years, witnessed the coming of the fleet, the works here began Monday morning. The pumping station is to be built on the south side of the river In Johnson county.

The water will be taken from the Kaw and will be pumped across the river through flow lines laid on the Bonner Springs bridge. It is above the flood line of 1903. Mains are to be laid to give a water supply to all Bonner Springs. Mayor Philo M. Clark said Monday that 38 contractors in many cities of the United States bid for the work.

stroying timber and cordwood. A great scope of country has been burned over. It seems nothing but a heavv rain will put the fire out. The low if they are captured. Business Men Charged With sighting of which from Breaksea island was reported several hours be ind the purchase of the franchises ind properties of the several sub- Homestake company is said to be of New Orleans, Sept.

11. Julius Lipps, manager; Abe Wolf, secretary fore. The Canadian Wheat Yield. fering men 60 cents per hour to go ildiary railroad companies controlled )y the Gould Interests in Colorado and and protect their property. and treasurer of the Central Glass Utah.

Ottawa, Ontairo, sept. 13. A gov company of New Orleans, and John by a vigilance committee, but escaped by knocking down his guard with a club and later "holding up" one of the vigilantes and robbing him of his gun, purse and horse. Members of his gang killed several men at different times in this vicinity. He aided in a jail break at Lamar and later helped "hold up" a Choctaw, train near Memphis.

He was finally arrested at Okmulgee, Creek nation, and taken to Lamar by Sheriff Hat' low, where he was sentenced to the reform school at Boonville. Sutherland confessed to a number of local crimes. He gave names of members of the gang with which he was associated and accounted for the violent deaths of several of them. St. Paul.

Sept. 13 Gov. ernment crop report issued Friday gives the total Canadian wheat yield Eckert, an employe of that company, were Wednesday night indicted by the grand jury on the charge of arson in Johnson Friday night received a mes at 124,690,000 bushels, an average of Atwood Sees Harmony. New York, Sept. 12.

John H. Atwood, chairman of the speakers' bu 21 bushels per acre. The total yield connection with a fire which about reau of the national Democratic com ten days ago burned over a portion of The Coalgate Bank Changes. uGthrle, Sept. 13.

A certificate of authority was issued Friday to the Coalgate State bank, formerly the Coalgate National bank, to operate under a state charter. Fifteen national banks have now secured state charters since Attorney General of oats Is estimated at 269,944,000 bushels, an average of 34 bushels per acre, and the total barley yield is three blocks in the business section of New Orleans, causing a loss of sage from Mayor R. D. Haven of Duluth to the effect that Beaver Bay ia In Imminent danger of being destroyed by fire and asking that help be sent to the settlement at once. Gov.

Johnson sent a message to the captain of the steamer America, at Port Arthur, asking him to go at once to the threatened town. placed at 49,488,000 bushels, an aver age of 27 bushels per acre. mittee, whose headquarters are in Chicago, in a statement said: "The Democratic party has never presented such a united front as now. In Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Kentucky we feel certain that Mr. Bryan will win." 500,000.

The fire originated In the building occupied by the Central Glass company. Dynamite Explodes in Kansas. Galena, Sept. 16. The prema Cholera Is Spreading.

St. Petersburg, Sept. 12. Asiatic Bonaparte's ruling forbidding national banks to take advantage of the state depositors' guaranty law. California Forest Fires.

Los Angeles, Sept. 13. The ture explosion of 40 sticks of dyna cholera Is spreading in St. Petersburg and the sudden jump in the statistics mite, caused either by a "hot" hole or an iron tamping bar, resulted in the instant death of "Jim" Mitchell and is taken to mean that the city authorities failed to take proper precautions against an epidemic, the first William Murphy, zinc miners. Mitch fire which Thursday destroyed four houses in La Crescenta and burned over a large acreage of brush land was still burning Friday afternoon, although no more buildings have caught ell's right leg and arm were blown Kansas Girl's Sleep Broken.

Salina, Sept. 15. The sleep of the daughter of M. Newell, of Damar, was broken Sunday morning at three o'clock. The girl had slept five days and a half.

She fell asleep after an attack of nosebleed last Monday. She says she was awake at times, but was unable to speak or even open her eyes. She is quite weak and complains of a severe pain in her head and at times cannot understand what is said to her. While her condition Is still dangerous it is now believed she will recover. Russia Tries Balloon.

St. Petersburg, Sept. 12. The flight of a dirigible balloon was made fof the first time in Russia Thursday. The St.

Petersburg Military Aero club model, which is constructed with a semi-rigid frame on the general lines of the French airship Patrle, made a successful ascension and maneuvered for 40 minutes In the direction ol Tsarsko-Selo. off and he was otherwise terribly torn, Mitchell's son also was Injured. Taft's Trip Arranged. Chicago, Sept. 16 Ten days of traveling, with almost constant speaking, has been arranged for William H.

Taft, the Republican candidate for president. The trip will be made on a special train starting from some Illinois point, probably Chicago, about September 25. The tour will extend as far north as Minneapolis, and Fargo, S. as far south as several points in Kansas, and west to Denver. Mr.

Taft will be back to Chicago In time to speak before the Deep Waterways convention on October 7. suspicious cases of which were discovered a fortnight ago. The bulletin Issued Thursday night reports 52 cases and 18 deaths, but it is believed that treble that number exist within the city limits. fire. It was reported as gaining headway and sweeping in the direction of the timber at the head water of the big Tejunga river.

Thaw Changes Jails. White Plains, N. Sept. 16. Harry K.

Thaw arrived here late Monday from Poughkeepsie and was immedi Will Get More Hours. Altoona, Sept. 12. Orders were posted at the Pennsylvania railroad Lightning Cures Deafness. Altoona, Pa.

James Gorsuch, a hotel man, had scarlet fever when ten months old, and became deaf In shops Friday increasing the working To pardon a Slayer. Guthrie, Sept. 16. The state Lost Their Uniforms. New Haven, Sept.

12. The Richmond Blues, the Crack Military company of Virginia, which Is being entertained here by the Governor's Foot guards, suffered a loss of nearly $10,000 to their uniforms and baggage by a fire in the cars of their special train at the railroad station Thursday. his left ear. Following a flash of lightning during a storm the other day he felt a stinging sensation In A Woman Balks a Jailbreak. Olathe, Sept.

15. Armed with only a short club and a pair of handcuffs the wife of Sheriff Speed went to her husband's assistance Saturday night when six prisoners attacked him at the door of the county Jail and prevented the escape of four. time to 50 hours a week. The order takes effect at once and affects 10,000 employes, most of whom have been working only 36 hours a week since last November. the ear, and, after it passed away, he discovered that he could hear with It pardon board Monday recommended the pardoning of James E.

Walcher, now serving a life term for the murder of Col. John F. Stone, formerly assistant United States attorney at Guthrie and known throughout Oklahoma as "Plead Guilty" Stone. as well as with the other. Bishop Spalding Resigns.

Exonerated by Coroner's Jury. Fell Nine Stories to Death. Cincinnati, Sept. 15. William L.

ately taken to the county jail and put in a cell in the hospital section. He wanted to pose on the jail steps for a group of photographers, but Keeper Horton prevented this, leading Thaw Inside by the arm. In The Air 12 Hours. Canton, Sept. 15.

The balloon "Sky Pilot" with J. H. Wade, and A IL Morgan of Cleveland aboard, land ed at Lewis, Sunday noon, after traveling about 100 miles and remaining in the air over 12 hours. Absconding Banker Caught. New York, Sept.

15. Detectives Sunday arrested Parquale Caponlarl, an Italian banker, who is alleged to have absconded from the city a year and a half ago with about $100,000 belonging to depositors. Lincoln, Sept. 11. Wilson Reed, of Portsmouth, an Elk and Alonzo Willey, who shot and killed Joseph L.

Watkins last Friday night, widely known in insurance circles, was killed by a fall from the ninth was exonerated Wednesday by the vlr- floor of the Havlln hotel Monday. dict of the coroner's jury, but he has been detained in jail and will be prose Nothing has developed to warrant sug Takes An Optimistic View. St. Louis, Sept. 16.

President A. H. Joline of the Missouri, Kansas Texas railway, in his report for the year ending June 30, 1908, made public Monday, says that an industrial revival is now on and that railway traffic will soon again be heavy. gestions of suicide. A Base Ball Killed Him.

Springfield, Sept. 15. While watching a game of baseball neat Fordland, Webster county Sunday afternoon, a 4-year-old son of J. C. Bur-dett, a farmer, was struck beneath the heart by a ball and almost instant Ir killed.

The Trickett Case Dismis Kansas City. Sept. 16. Th against C. W.

Trickett, assist torney general, charging him misdemeanor, wa.3 on motion torney General Jackson, dismi Judge Moore. Peoria, Sept. 12. Bishop Spalding, for many years the head of this diocese of the Catholic church, has resigned his office on account of continued ill health. His resignation has been mailed to Mgr.

Falconio at Washington who will transmit It to Rome. Hottest Day In Memphis. Memphis, Sept. 16. The local weather bureau reported at one o'clock Monday the thermometer stood at 94 degrees, the hottest of the present year.

cuted for murder by the county attorney. A Canadian Town Threatened. Five Children Burned. New Brighton, Sept. Kineo, Sept.

13. A fierce for While the parents were away from home the residence of J. C. Burdette Gov. Charles E.

Hughes of New burned Tuesday evening and five small est fire which was burning Friday two miles northwest of the small town ol Jack Man, on the Canadian Pacific A special dispatch from Tangier says that Chief Mtougi won a great victory over the Hafid forces near Morocco City September 3-5. children, ranging from 5 to 10 years York Is to make two speeches in Kansas in October. of age, met death by suffocation. railroad, threatens that town..