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0 0 00 0 0 00 0 0 The Deadwood Daily Pioneer-Times THIRTY-SECOND YEAR. DEADWOOD, SOUTH DAKOTA, (BLACK MILLS), TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1908. PRICE, FIVE CENTS CITY OF CHELSEA REDUCED TO ASHES Three Huudred and Fifty Acres of Property Laid Waste and 15,000 People Are Homeless. BOSTON, April area of 350 acres, representing nearly a quar ter of the total area of the city, marks the scene of the great fire which swept through the business section of Chelsea, a suburb, last night, turning 15,000 persons out of their homes and causing property damage estimated at $12,000,000. Today the burned area is being guarded by militia and marines to prevent possible looting, and military regulations prevail throughout the city.

The burned district included a large number of manufacturing concerns, business houses, many costly residences, tenement blocks, churches and public buildings. As dawn broke cold and gray over the fire-swept city, the fright of the night previous which had overcome the populace, disappeared. Parents roamed the streets searching for lost children. The school houses were filled with children and scores of parents passed from one to another. Bread lines were started at an early hour.

The search for additional bodies was begun early this morning in the ruins. The following appeal for assistance signed by Mayor Beck and Wm. E. McClintock, chairman of the relief committee, was handed the Associated Press today. "We have been visited by a most terrible catastrophe and one-fourth of the area of our city has been swept by fire.

Fifteen thousand people are homeless and $12,000,000 worth of property has been destroy. ed. The business section is almost wholly wiped out. We are in sore need. We have not lost our courags, but are applying ourselves with all our ability to the task before us.

The task is stupendous and we ask assistance of all who are benevolently inclined. He 'who gives quickly gives doubly. Subscriptions may be sent to the city treasurer, Thomas B. Frost." BOSTON, April the embers of yesterday's conflagration in Chelsea, there arose today a well organized movement for the relief of ten thousand homeless people, counting upon the help of the insurance companies, whose representatives place their loss at 500,000 and the determination of the city authorities to rebuild the 350 acres swept by the flames, where there stood before the fire, property valued at nearly $6,000,000. No further deaths were reported today and of the injured persons taken to varicus hospitals, only two are believed to be in a critical condition.

The three bodies which were taken to the morgue in Boston last night, remain unidentified today. BELLE FOURCHE STOCK MEETING The annual meeting of the Northwestern Live Stock association will be held on the 15th, 16th and 17th, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week. A feature of the meeting will be the number of carloads of registered stock on exhibition and sale. Dell Driscoll of Spearfish will have a car of shorthorns and Herefords, A. J.

Carpenter and Jones will each have a car of registered cattle and a Lincoln firm will have a car of registered horses. The meeting will be an interesting one to members of the association, but there be no end of attractions for the visitors. Tuesday evening the Sioux City Commercial club, sixty in number, will arrive in Belle Fourche. Large delegations from the South Omaha, Sioux City and Chicago stock yards will also arrive Thursday. JOHN GORUM FOR ALDERMAN A petition was being circulated last evening in the interest of John Gorum who is a candidate for alderman in the Second ward.

The petition was finding plenty of signers and will probably be filed with the city auditor today. This is the second aldermanic contest that has thus far sprung up in the city. George Benner, the present member of the council from that ward, is seeking re-election. In the First ward, Charles E. McHugh is a candidate against John Croghan, the present incumbent and it was announced Sunday that there would be 8 socialist candidate in the field in that ward also.

DEADWOOD HOSE 8 SPEARFISH 5 The Deadwood Hose company baseball team were again winners in their second game of the season which they played at Spearfish day. The opponents were the Spearfish town team and the co contest was good for this early date in the one season. Danby did the twirling for the Deadwood team and did excellent work. He struck out twelve men and passed only one. He was well supported by Hoelm, 'whose throwing to second was among the features.

Judging from Danby's work in the two games he has thus far pitched, he is the equal of any artist who has appeared in the Hills for a long time. Burng played an excellent game in the outfield a and made two sensational catches. Ronin played his usual fast game at second and was there with the stick when a hit was needed. Macey held down third in professional style and seems to have veloped into a high class sacker. Jimmie Heffron was put in at short and made good.

Danby besides his splendid work in the box, took the honors at the bat, being credited with one three-base hit, two two-base hits and one single. Thompson and Patterson did the battery work for the Spearfish team and worked together in good form. Thompson and Danby both struck out the first three men up. The score: 123456789 RHE Deadwood 003020030- 0-8 12 2 Spearfish. 000110120- 0-5 5 4 On Saturday afternoon of this week the Deadwood Hose team and Lead will play at McDonald park, with Macey and Cessna at the points for the local team.

JOHN E. SCHRADER FOR LT. GOVERNOR The announcement that Hon. John F. Schrader of Rapid City has finally consented to allow his name to go before the republican primaries for nomination for the office of lieutenant governor, will be hailed with pleasure by the better class of republicans all over the state.

Mr. Schrader is the senior member of the law firm of Schrader Lewis, a firm that has been prominent in the circuit, state and federal courts for years and has achieved a standing as high class, clean-cut lawyers. The firm has built up a large and profitable practice and reached the point where one member can afford to accept public office for the public good. Mr. Schrader has long been a resident of Rapid City and is one of the city's most highly respected and energetic citizens.

He is always 3 clean-cut gentleman. He is aggres. sive without being offensive. He could not be offensive in politics, in social or business intercourse, or to opposing counsel in the practice of law, for he is first and always a gentleman. He has had three terms in the state senate, and is therefore familiar with statecraft and the of the state officers.

In the senate he was regarded as one of the safest I of the legislators. He never introduced a bill or voted for one that did not have merit, and met the approval of his constituents and the state at large. The republican party is fortunate in securing such a man for a candidate, and the state will be fortunate in securing his services. To the newspaper boys of the eastern part of the state the Pioneer-Times mends the candidacy of Mr. Schrader and assures them that he is an ideal man and will make an ideal officer.

DETAILS OF THE NEW TOWN The petition filed with the county auditor on Saturday last, asking for the incorporation of the town of Central City, is signed by more than the requisite one-third of the qualified voters residing within the territory proposed to be included within the town limits. The present population of the district amounts to 295 of whom 119 are qualified voters. Sixty of these have signed the petition. The amount of land proposed to be taken in is a fraction less than sixty-four acres and extends a distance of approximately one-half mile up and down Deadwood creek. The Black Hills brewery is very near the geographical center of the proposed town, being but a little to the west of the center of the line running east and west, lengthwise of the corporate extent.

The width, north and south, averages about a quarter of a mile. The De Smet mill and plate house of the Homestake Mining company are outside of the proposed corporate limits. The hearing of the petition will be hadw before the board of county commissioners on Monday, May 11th. SUGGESTIONS A FIRE WHISTLE The regular monthly meeting of the Deadwood fire department was held last evening with a good attendance present. After the transaction of the routine business and the allowing of bills, the question of changing the location of the fire whistle from the Burlington power house to some other more favorable place was taken up.

It was pointed out that from its present location it is impossible to hear it under certain conditions on account of it being behind the point of a hill. When it was taken off the old electric light plant on Sherman street it was first placed on the Homestake slimes plant but it was found that they carried too low a steam pressure to operate it. It was then taken, something over a year ago, to its present location. It is now proposed to put it back on the slimes plant and to operate it with compressed air. The city would be required to furnish a pressure tank capable of holding enough air for at least one round of fire signals.

The slime plant is of course, furnished with an adequate compressor, and there is thought to be no doubt of the willingness of the company allow their engineer to attend to the blowing of the whistle. The whistle would cost about $25 and the tank should not put the total expense above $150. After the department meeting, the Pioneer Hook and Ladder company met and decided to order twenty-five new uniforms in accordance with the action taken at their meeting last week. The evening concluded with the service of refreshments. MRS.

M. TOOMEY DIES SUDDENLY Mrs. Michael Toomey died at 11:30 o'clock Sunday morning at her home in the First ward, following the birth of a daughter. The child apLears to be perfectly healthy and will doubtless live. Mary Ryan Toomey was born thirty six years ago in county Tipperary, Ireland, and came to the United States fifteen years ago.

For a time she lived at Geneva, and in 1x96 came to the Black Hills. For a n' mber of years she has lived with her husband who is an employe of the Homestake slimes plant, in the First ward of this city. where she gained the esteem and affection of her many friends and There was born to her five chidren, three (: whom, two girls and a boy, are dead. She is survived by her husband, a daughter five years old and the infant daughter, following whose birth she passed away. Her sister, Mrs.

Dennis Hayes, resides at Terry, as do also Mr. Hayes' two brothers, Patrick and Matt, who are cousius of the deceased. She was was a member of the Degree of Honor. The funeral will take place toMorrow morning from the Catholic church at 10 o'clock and the interment will be in St. Ambrose cemetery.

MAY RAYMOND HAS REFORMED When told last night that May Raymond had written a letter to the Pioneer in which she intimated that she had reformed and that she objected to any imputations reflecting on the character of her house on Main street in the Second ward. members of the police department expressed much surprise And stated that they were unaware any reform had taken place in quarthat ter of the city. They were glad. however, to hear the news and hoped that the reform was to be permanent. The police officers speaking of their action in ordering the mother of the thirteen-year-old girl who was living at May Raymond's to find some other home for the child, say that they were influenced as much by the character of the section of the town in which she was located as by the reputation which the house itself has heretofore born.

If May Raymond is leading a respectable life, they are of the opinion that she would show the sincerity of her reformation to better advantage by finding a home in some other locality. REGISTER TODAY The judges of election will sit today as a board of registration at the polling places in the different wards designated by the city council at its last meeting. The board will be in session from 9 o'clock in the morning until 4 p. m. All prospective voters must registered and if they have not so done, their votes will be refused on election day, unless they can furnish on their oath, a legal excuse.

Those who have moved from the ward in which they resided at the time of the last registration, must register in their new precinct and those who have come to the city since last election are also obliged to have their names placed on the roll. DEADWOOD MEN AT RAPID CITY More Than One Hundred of Them Are There to Invite the Stockmen's Meeting to This City for 1909. EVENTS AND RULES FOR ATHLETIC MEET The following rules and schedule for the track meet, between the Lead and Deadwood high schools, which will occur on May 9 at McDonald park, have been drawn up: The following events are to be run off in the order here specified: 1. 120-yard hurdle. 2.

One mile run. 3. Pole vault. 4. 100-yard dash.

5. High jump. 6. 880-yard run. 7.

Fifty-yard dash. 8. Broad jump. 9. 440-yard dash.

10. Hammer throw. 11. 220-yard hurdle. 12.

220-yard dash. 13. Discus. 14. Twelve-pound shot put.

15. Half-mile relay (four men on each team.) First place to count 5 points, second place 3 points and third place 1 point; relay 8 points. The events are to be conducted in accordance with the athletic rules of the Amateur Athletic association. The expenses of the meet are to be paid out of the gate receipts, said expenses to include the fares of eighteen Lead men, including coaches, cost of grounds, if any; tickets, and advertising. The remainder to be divided equally between Lead and Deadwood.

Deadwood and Lead are each to furnish twenty hurdles, as per draw. ing. Entries must be in the hands of each school at least four days before the meet. Four men may enter in each event and three or less of those entered may compete in said event. The officials shall be chosen and their names be in the hands of each school four days before the meet, said officials to be acceptable to both teams and to consist of the following: Three timers, three track judges, three field judges, one announcer, one starter (who is to referee), three field judges, one scorer, one clerk of the the course, two marshals in uniform.

SIOUX CITY MEN HERE TONIGHT The Sioux City boosters, about seventy-five strong, arrived at Rapid City yesterday afternoon, on a special train of four coaches over the Milwaukee road and were there to take in the celebration last night. They will leave there this morning at 9 o'clock and take in the points along the road going direct to Belle Fourche, from which place they will proceed to Deadwood. They will arrive here this evening at 7:30 o'clock and be met by a delegation from the Deadwood Business club and escorted to the assembly rooms where an informal reception will take place. At the conclusion of that ceremony, they will be at liberty to take in the sights and 'will remain here over night. Most of Wednesday they will spend at Spearfish and Lead taking dinner at the former place and visitthe latter during the afternoon.

Returning to Deadwood they will leave here at 5:45 for Rapid City and will make their journey home over the Pierre line of the Northwestern. GETTING THEIR MONEY BACK Under the decision of the supreme court in the Ballinger mandamus case it is required that the county auditor accept petitions of candidates for places on the primary election to be held June 9th, without demanding the fee prescribed by the law as passed by the last legislature. Consequently, all the candidates who had filed their petitions before the decis. ion was rendered Saturday, paid in their fees and are now entitled to demand that they be returned to them. County Auditor McLaughlin yesterday started returning this money and several of the candidates were on hand to get their bits.

There was something over $100 received in this way and the total, if the law had been allowed to stand, would probably have amounted to close to $500. RAPID CITY, April firstly cheers heard at the Sixteenth Annual meeting of the South Dakota Stockmen's association were those which greeted the Deadwood delegation on its arrival this morning. The representation of the Deadwood Business club brought with it the Fourth Cavalry band from Fort Meade and as the contingent from the northern Hills, 165 in number, marched down the street in two long single files, each decorated with gold lettered badges bearing the words "Deadwood 1909," headed by this elegant band it was welcomed by hearty applause and made a strong impression and one which will aid in influencing the convention towards selecting Deadwood for the meeting next year. The Pierre train carrying two extra coaches from Deadwood, unloaded 165 people in the Gate City and these with. hundreds who had come from all directions by train and from ranches, have made the city very full.

The northbound train was also loaded with passengers for here, bringing the remainder of the officers and members of the executive committee. The following is a partial list of those who are here under the auspices of the Deadwood Business Men's club: R. S. Jamison, president of Black Hills Trust and Savings bank; Burt Rogers, vice president B. H.

Trust and Savings bank; N. E. Franklin, president First National bank; Harold Hamilton, manager Hotel Franklin; E. E. Benjamin, general agent Northwestern J.

L. Bentley, general agent Burlington railroad; G. M. Reeves, freight agent Northwestern; Julius Deetken, proprietor Deetken Pharmacy; J. W.

Springer, manager Consolidated Light and Power company; C. P. Wasmer, Wasmer Fruit company; John O'Donnell, manager Black Hills Manufacturing company; Geo. A. Nichols, U.

S. assay office; B. C. Sentmen, Golden Reward Mining Milling company; S. W.

Russell; Supt Mutual Life Insurance company; E. A. Ricker, superintendent Equitable Life Insurance company; Ray Walker, manager Armour Packing company; A. D. Sears, manager Elgin System Creamery; F.

D. Smith, president Lead-Deadwood Gas company; G. W. Rutherford, manager Black Hills Telephone company; John Wilson, of Wilson-Kenny company; Otis Hymer, Daily Pioneer-Times; H. W.

Troth, deputy clerk of courts; Dr. F. B. Schneerer, Judge J. H.

Burns, Judge A. J. Plowman, C. H. Miller, president Nevada-Northern Copper company, S.

B. Jacobs, Hub Clothing company; Louis Fishel, Fishel and company; A. Fritz. Rex Jessup, Frank Smith, C. B.

Gerhardt, and R. E. Moulton, Fritz' orchestra: Thos. Riley, Riley Carr's; E. 0.

Loucks, National Cash Register company; W. R. Updegraff. salesman, Arbuckle R. C.

Scott, salesman Patterson Tobacco company Jas. W. Stanley, Salvation Army; George Frazier, M. E. Harmon, C.

G. Garrette, manager Harold Nelson company; Harold Nelson, A. D. Marriott, A. D.

Merirott, George BenI ner, J. A. Wickham and wife, B. F. Atkins and wife, J.

E. Hall, game warden; R. R. Garrette, J. H.

Damon, K. I. Kuester, Nels Nelson, F. W. Butzen, W.

W. Edwards, F. B. Hamilton, C. Wittried and Bruner.

T. 0. Mitchell, Mitchell and Thompson, Whitewood; C. W. Chestnut.

Nebraska Telephone company, Omaha; Floyd Wilson, J. A. Nelson, I. J. Mock, Sioux Falls; Rev.

Chas. R. Hunt, Whitewood; A. L. Peterson, Hearst Mercantile company, Hanna; David Middleton, Hugh McDermott, Fred Chase, J.

A. Dry, A. M. Stevens, Mr. and Mrs.

E. A. Rudloff, Columbus, 0. WANTS CONVENTION MOVED. Perhaps the most vital question to come up will be as to whether future meetings will be permitted to be held anywhere but Rapid.

This will be precipitated when action is taken on the invitation of the Deadwood Business Men's club to hold the meetbeing there in 1909. The officers and executive committee are in a receptive mood and a number of them have openly expressed themselves in favor of going to Deadwood, but before they take final action they want the sentiment of the members of the asscoiation. Committees of Deadwood business men left no stone unturned today in their efforts to persuade acceptance of the invitation, and will work vigorously in a friend- contest to secure their point. Nathan Franklin, president of the Business club and a cattle man of much influence and experience, is their leader. The opposition is mostly all outside of the Stockmen's association, consisting chiefly of certain business interests of Rapid.

Deadwood is being aided by other outside towns which would like to see the meet placed on wheels. Pierre is the most active bidder outside of Deadwood and has offered $3,000 to have the meeting another year. Officers of the association are likely to be returned tomorrow for another term, and the same committeemen will be selected except where any prefer not to serve again. The meet is conspicuous for the number of railroad officials in attendance. The following are with the Chicago and Northwestern: General Superintendent S.

M. Braden, S. F. Miller, general freight and passenger agent; Division Superintendent Costley, E. E.

Benjamin, commercial agent and Geo. M. Reeves, the two latter of Deadwood; C. T. Dike, superintendent; Traveling agent B.

F. Farrell, and A. C. Johnson, all of the Pierre line. Among the Milwaukee staff are H.

E. Pierpont, general freight agent; H. E. Simpson, superintendent of transportation; Hugh Chittick, live stock agent; J. J.

Love district freight and passenger agent and R. P. Edson, superintendent. The Burlington is represented by J. 1 L.

Bentley. Forty-five passengers arrived night from Deadwood. Coe I. Crawford has cancelled his date here for tomorrow and will likely not attend at all. BUSINESS TO BEGIN The entire day today was devoted to various sports, including Indian pony races, sack races, greased pig races, band concerts street exhibitions and general amusements, there being nothing in the way of business transacted expect a brief meeting of the executive committee, when routine matters concerning brands, and the like were taken up.

The general meeting will be held this afternoon at two o'clock and this will 1 be followed by a more important meeting of the officers and executive committee, consisting of the following: C. K. Howard, president, Smithville; H. A. Davidson, vice president, Pine Ridge and F.

M. Stewart, secretary and treasurer, Buffalo Gap; Jas. A. Craig, Belle Fourche; Albert Taddiken, Belle Fourche; J. D.

Hale, Sturgis; S. G. Sheffield, Vale; E. Holcomb, Rapid City; T. Sweeney, Hermosa: J.

C. Carson, Gordon, Nebraska; J. W. Stetter, Valentine, W. H.

Reed, Wasta; E. W. Thodie, Interior; J. Q. Anderson, Crow Creek, B.

C. Ash, Moreau; M. McKenzie, Trinidad, Colorado; A. E. de Rickles, Denver, Colorado; C.

B. West, Ulrich; G. E. Lemmon, Lemmon. CHILD WANDERED AWAY Considerable excitflement was oc.

casioned in and about Terry yesterday by the straying away from home of the 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Guy of Golden Reward. Mrs. Guy left her two children, the little girl in question and one a year or two older at home yesterday morn ing while she went to Terry to do some trading.

When she returned the younger girl was missing and no trace of her could be found. She had slipped away without the knowledge of her sister. It was about 10 o'clock when Mrs. Guy reached home and discovered that the little one was gone. She gave the alarm and soon a searching party was scouring the hills.

About 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon the little girl was found, about a quarter of a mile from home, in a pile of brush. MINERS' CONTRACTS BEING SIGNED. WHEELING, W. April All contracts between the miners and operators, with the possible exception of Illinois, will be signed by the first of May, was the statement of Prestdent Lewis of the United Mine Workers today. By Thursday of this week 100,000 miners of Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania will have returned tc work, pending a settlement.

THE WEATHER WASHINGTON, April Dakota--Fair and cooler Tuesday;.