The Wenatchee Daily World from Wenatchee, Washington • Page 1

Member of the Associated Press VOL. VI. NO. 45. FI FiW GAINING 111 OF FLAMES Many Missing Fire Fighters Have Reported During the Past 24 Hours, Reducing the Number of Known Dead to About Serious Fires in the State of Reported to Have Burned.

Spokane, Aug. red banners of forest tires continue to advance through the mountains of Idaho and Montana, but now more slowly, and it is believed the strategy of man has triumphed over the fury of the flames and wind. In Montana rain has fallen and there is a promise of more. In Idaho the hoped for rain has not materialized but the towns and ranches are out of danger and with human life no longer theatened the fire fighters are able to make war directly upon the forest conflagrations themselves. The most unpleasant news today came from Sandpoint, Idaho, to the effect that the tires at the upper end of the Pend Oreille are increasing.

The fire on Independence creek is closing in on Athol, which is now threatened frow two directions. There is also prospective loss of flocks of sheep in the mountains. Forest Ranger Palm has been missing since Saturday with a small crew of men. They are working on the Big Fork of the Coeur d'Alene river near Cabinet. Two fire fighters were burned to death and one at Tuscar, Mont.

Four negro soldiers are still missing and two Japanese who arrived at Avery this morning reported ten of their comrades had perished. No Fires in Washington. Washington may be taken from the list of tire afflicted. The state is safe. Newport, where yesterday six were burned to death, is also safe.

Various other small towns which have been threatened are out of danger. The fires in the Colville reservation are of minor importance. Accounting for Fire Fighters. All the government foresters employed in Idaho have reported to their supervisor or are known to be safe. Fifty forest agents from the Ogden forest district have been ordered to Missoula to aid the fire fighters.

Spokane, Aug. hundred persons are known to have perished in the Idaho fires. There are several government crews still unaccounted for, but they are led by experienced men and little fear is expressed for their safety. Town of Saltese Burned. Wallace, Idaho, Aug.

L. Baylor, who arrived here today, says that Saltese, a town of 1,000 population, was destroyed by fire yesterday without the loss of life. Baylor says he saw the fire. Found Seventy Bodies. Avery, Idaho, Aug.

The bodies of 20 employes of the forest service were found within a radius of one mile on Setser creek yesterday by a searching party headed by Deputy Sheriffs Sullivan and Bassett. It is feared other bodies may be found when the searchers have completed their work. EARLY PEARS NET Telegraphic Report Shows Growers Are Receiving Good Profit. G. B.

Lanfyam, the fruit buyer, received a wjlre from his uuuse this morning, Wagner Sons of Chicago, stating tthat pears shipped by him have befen sold at a price which net the growers $1.47 per box f. o. b. Wenatchee. Mr.

Lanham has been shipping on consignment advancing $1 per box He is higmly pleased to be able to hand clients an additional amout of 47 cents for each box handled bylhlm. The above net figure includes) the commission to the fruit house all charges since the produce keft the hands of the shipper. Chicago Wheat. ChfctF 0 24 Closed SeptemMf' 98 5 8 December, $1.02 ri 8 May, $1.08. be tW at St Joseph's chuiT 11 Sunday Au 28 OQ at 8 o'cloi 10 io Iflcuatrrjcc JMIq tttorli HOKE SMITH WAS ELECTED Former Secretary of the Interior Successful in Georgia.

Atlanta, Aug. 24. Brown managers conceded Hoke Smith's election. Smith has 15 or 20 votes in the convention more than is necessary for the 185 votes needed for election for senator. In the absence from the city of Coroner Saunders, Judge Palmer decided that no inquest was necessary to investigate into the death of the Italian who was killed yesterday in the local railroad yards.

The man was practically penniless and it is likely that the sewer contractors and the fellow laborers of the man will defray the funeral expenses. The man will be interred today. That he was of very strong vitality is evidenced by the fact that he lived fully an hour yesterday after the accident, even though cut all to pieces. Held No Inquest. WENATCHEE, WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1910.

PLAN POINDEXTER MEETING Biggest Rally of the Season Planned for Next Thursday. Plans are being matured for the big Poindexter rally which will take place in this city next Thursday evening. Congressman Poindexter, candidate for the senate, has been making a triumphal campaign through the state and has been greeted with immense audiences everywhere that he has gone. He speaks here on September Ist and at Leavenworth on September 2. The meeting will be at the Wenatchee theatre and the local band has been engaged for that evening.

T. H. Atkinson, candidate for the legislature, will participate in the, big meeting and is expected to make an address, and it is safe to say that these two men will be sufficient drawing cards for the immense audience. Mr. Atkinson is considered one of the most forcible and logical speakers in the county and at that time will outline his views on public questions.

Mr. Atkinson also goes to Leavenworth and it is expected that he will make several other speecnes in the county during the progress of the campaign which closes with the primaries on Sept. 13th. TEXT OF ANNEXATION Will lie Effective Aug. When Japan Takes Korea.

Tokio, Aug. 24. text of the convention of annexation of Korea to Japan was communicated to the powers this morning. The document was signed August 22, and will be effective when officially promulgated, which, it is stated, will be Aug. 29 or 30.

Within the week "the Hermit Kingdom" and the empire of Korea will become historical terms, twelve millions of people will he added to the population of Japan and territory as large as England will become part of the Japanese empire. The treaty of Portsmouth, which settled the war between Japan and Russia, provided that Japan shall have the "guidance, protection and control" of Korea and the last stage of this agreement is now becoming an actuality after three years of experimenting to discover a practical method for conservation of the national entity of Korean peninsula. Chelan County Official Paper. MILES POINDEXTER. ESTRADA GABLES GOOD WILL New Ruler of Nicaragua Seeks to Restore Friendly Relations.

Bluefields, Aug. Estrada today cabled Secretary Knox at Washington assurance of his warm regard for the American people and offered to make amends for the execution of the Americans, Cannon and Groce, and other unfriendly acts by President Zelaya and President Madriz. Gen. Chamorro, acting as a delegate for Gen. Estrada, Is now provisional president of the republic and is awaiting the arrival of Gen.

Estrada at Managua. The advance guard of the revolutionists is now one mile from Managua. President Madriz left the capital Sunday night for Cor'nto, accompanied by his chief advisors William Pittman. the Boston engineer accused of laying mines, is free at the American consulate. The situation is critical.

Before departing for Corinto with Generals Toledo, Vasquez, Oritz and Montenegro and Dr. Julian Irias, the presidency was turned over by Madriz to Jose Dolores Estrada, brother of Gen. Juan Estrada, the leader of the revolution. Immediately afterward Jose Estrada issued a proclamation saying he would give the ofiice to his brother, and started a peace commission, composed of foreign consuls, for Granada to inform Gen. Estrada of his intention.

The commission was compelled to return to Managua, however, as the railroad tracks had been torn up. Report Managua Fallen. New Orleans, Aug. of the reported fall of Managua and the entry of the insurgent forces today was contained in a cablegram' received here tonight by the acting consul of the Madriz government at New Orleans. The town was surrendered without conflict, it was stated.

Had His Foot Crushed. Dr. Culp was summoned this morning to attend an Italian employed in the railroad yards here. He was handling steel rails and had the misfortune to have one of the heavy irons fall on his foot, crushing it very badly. It is not expected that ie will lose his foot, though it is badly crushed.

ATTORNEYS FOR MURDER TRIAL Reeves Reeves Retained to Assist Prosecuting Attorney. Reeves Reeves have been retained to assist the state in the case against Mesdames Beebe and Totten. It is customary in a big murder trial for the state's attorneys to receive the assistance oi additional counsel and Prosecutor Kemp has decided to call upon the firm of Reeves Reeves to assist him in preparing the case and conducting it. The prosecuting attorney will file information within a few days against Mrs. Totten and her mother.

Mrs. Beebe, and will ask Judge Grimshaw to have the hearing set for the September term. It has been reported that although Thomas Sorenson have been retained by the two women charged with murder to defend them, that firm is only one of the counsel which will participate in the defense. Who the other attorneys are or may be has not yet been given out. $1,000,000 MEMORIAL Financial Advisor to King Starts a Fund.

London, Aug. 24. Ernest Cassel, who was financial adviser to the late King Edward, has donated $1,000,000 as a philanthropic fund to help needy English workers seeking employment in Germany aud needy Germans seeking work in England. The endowment is made as a memorial to King Edward and with the hope that it will promote Anglo- German peace. Berlin.

Aug. 24. Tageblatt in making announcement today of Sir Ernest Cassel's gift of $1,000,000 as an international memorial founded in honor of the late King Edward says that King George and Queen Mary of Great Britain, the Queen Mother Alexandria and Emperor William and Empress Augusta of Germany have agreed to act as patrons of the fund. oysi Congressional Committee Decides His Talk Would Be Bad for Party. Washington, D.

Aug. 24. step in the reported attempt of the administration to relegate Speaker Cannon to a less important place in the councils of the republican party, it was learned today, has been made by the republican congressional campaign committee. For the first time in many congressional campaigns Cannon has not been assigned speaking dates by the committee. Republican leaders say Uncle Joe's services are not wanted because of his avowed attitude on insurgency which he is prone to express in his speeches.

His attitude they declare, in his addresses in Kansas, and the results in Kansas stirred up there are sufficient to show the leaders that insurgency is a good thing to let alone. It is reported that Taft and his political advisers, after studying the results from Kansas, lowa, California and other states, have concluded that the less said about insurgency the better. The campaign will be a "tread lighter" affair, as far as insurgency goes, it is said, none of the regular leaders desiring to raise the issue any further than it has already been stirred up. That Speaker Cannon could not take the stump without expressing his views on the republicans who did not conform to his idea of party regularity is so firmly believed that the congressional committee will not put him on the stump. Politicians here, forecasting the result of the speakership fight in the next congress, following the announcement of Representative Longworth that he will not vote for Cannon, believes that another presiding officer will be chosen.

The desertion of Congressman Smith, of lowa, who is a candidate for speaker himself, and of Congressman Humphrey, of Washington, it is believed, indicate that it is impossible for Cannon to be reelected. WILL DECLARE NO STRIKE No Sympathetic Strike of Unions to Help the Machinists. Seattle, Aug. 24. of the leaders in the machinists' strike that their fellow workmen in the makers' and Molders' unions would go out in Seattle on a sympathetic strike, were disappointed today when the word was passed around the shops that there would be no strike.

The Pattern Makers' union was also expected to go out on strike, as a part of the plan of the union leaders to force a general walkout in the metal trades as a measure to aid the cause of the machinists. The Salmon Bay Iron works, the Vulcan Iron works and the Rainier foundry employ union molders. Outside of these three places the molders in Seattle are non-union. All the foundries affilfated with the L'nited Metal Trades association emplay none but non-union molders. Will Marry Japanese Newspaper Man Miss Zoe Rowena Kincaid, a well known newspaper woman and former contributor to a number of coast magazines and very well known in this county and Okanogan, where she did special work, will soon marry Mr.

John Newton Palington, of Tokio, Japan. Miss Kincaid is at present in Seattle, visiting relatives, having recently returned after two years in Tokio as teacher of English in the Imperial university, and as editor of a Japanese magazine, but will sail oil the Minnesota on October 19 for Japan and the wedding will take place in October. Mr. Palington is the editor of the Japan Advertiser, the only American newspaper in Japan. After a stay of a few years in Japan, the couple will make their residence in London.

WILL TRAIL "TEDDY" Bryan Will Follow Through Indiana With Local Option Talk. Indianapolis, Aug. Jennings Bryan will spend at least three days in Indiana during the fall campaign. Chairman Stokes Jackson, of the state committee, said today that there will be no special train, but Bryan will make at least two set speeches daily. Six or eight big democratic rallies will be planned, so that Bryan will be able to cover the state pretty thoroughly.

The committee will provide an automobile so that he can cover a lot of territory. Bryan will follow Colonel Roosevelt, who is to be headliner for the republicans here October 13. He will speak in Indianapolis and probably in two or three larger cities, but it is likely that he will be booked for some of the "dry" democratic counties where there is a strong local option sentiment. He has been informed that he can cut loose with any kind of local option talk he desires. The committee is making the campaign on the state platform, which provides for local option by towns, cities and townships, but no such restrictions will be placed on the "Peerless One." Pleased With City.

E. V. Nungester, who came here within the past several days as a successor to J. W. Ferguson Son.

tinners, is very much pleased with Wenatchee and its possibilities. He is accompanied by his family and has secured apartments in the Gehr building. They came here from Ellensburg. READY FOR UPRISING Oporto, Portugal, Aug. 24.

may break out in Portugal at any moment. It is reported that the clericals are awaiting a signal to rise, following word from their brethren in Spain. Meanwhile rifles are being brought into Portugal and put into the hands of the republican leaders. They hint at a plan to bring differences oa head and it is asserted that they will meet the clericals on their own ground. Monsigneur Tenti, the papal nuncio at Lisbon, is looked upon by the republicans as being highly objectionable I otheir views.

It is reported that plots against hi mare numerous and that he has taken refuge in the fortress. To add to the general unrest elections will be held next Sunday. It is believed that the assemblies of people attendant upon the elections will be the signal for commencement of hostilities. The situation is critical. Established July 4, 1906 5c PER COPY aw wm 1011 President's Advisers, Who Tried to Get Him Out of Way, Admit Defeat.

Washington, D. Aug. A special dispatch to the Washington Times from its staff correspondent at Beverly today says: Secretary Ballinger is not going to be kicked out of President Tafta cabinet. The plan formulated by certain would-be leaders of the republican party, some of them close to the president, to force Ballinger into retirement by repeated suggestions through newspapers that he ought to quit has gone on the rocks. Ballinger has seen through the scheme and will not retire.

It was even admitted by advisors close to the President that hope for retirement of Balinger had grown dim and indistinct and that while there was still a straw or two to cling to, talk of Ballinger's retirement on September 15 was not justified at all. This much was made known on high authority in Beverly today. Angry at Crane and Norton. Ballinger is known to have grown indignant at attempts made by Senator Crane and Secretary Norton to draw him into the contest and thus eliminate him altogether. He is said to have had a hot exchange of compliments with Senator Crane and probably has informed Secretary Norton directly or through friends that he will not accede to any demands for retirement except they come from Mr.

Taft himself. The President is described as unwilling to ask for Ballinger's retirement. He may still hope that his secretary of Interior will get out, but he is not ready to come out in a public statement and say so. The president has been told that efforts of Crane were unavailing and is said to have declared that he would do nothing more to urge Ballinger to quit. FIRES 111 CLARKE COUNTY Wind This Morning Starts Flames Afresh With Much Damage.

Vancouver, Aug. gale that sprang up about 2 o'clock this morning has fanned a multitude of brush and incipient timber fires between here and Stevenson into fury. Reports received at noon today indicate that the damage to saw mill property alone is over $100,000, while the loss to standing timber cannot be estimated at the present time. It may run as much or more than half a million dollars. The places threatened ahe Camas.

Sunnyside and Mill Pine. The most serious fire is one raging on Larch Mountain near Camas. This is said to have already consumed valuable standing timber and two milles. The wind veered this morning east to north and at noon this fire was less than six miles from Camas and rapidly approaching. Over 200 men are fighting it.

Back of Cape Horn is another fire in the standing timber. Still another is threatening Sunnyside, a settlement four miles from Washougal. In the neighborhood of Yacolt a fire is raging in the Weyerhaeuser timber and in the vicinity of Mill Plain is a big fire which is menacing the houses on the prairie. The smoke is so dense in Vancouver that it is necessary to use artificial lights. Butte Has Fire Scare.

Butte, Aug. of unknown origin, did $30,000 damage in the gorge, and for a time created intense excitement here because of the report that the entire town was burning. News that the fire was under control arrived just in time to prevent the fire department from here leaving for Deer Lodge. Tacoma Wheat. Tacoma.

Aug. Bluestem, 97c; Club, 88.