Forest Fires Rage Across East Kootenay As Death Toll Grows
Spokane reports great forest fires in East Kootenay burning for nearly 50 miles along the CPR line with some areas a mile wide. Rain is needed to stop the flames and weeks may pass. Fernie suffers many deaths including Mrs. A Turner and the Ford family. Firefighters say towns may be saved unless winds pick up.
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East Kootenay
Hosmer
Geema
Crow's Nest
Michel
Bpokane
Fernie
Fernsle
Addie Turner
Walter Ford
West Fernie
Lane
Lena Bell
Old Town
Anderson
Pacific Coal & Coke Company
Robert Kern
Ford
Sparwood
Great Northern Bridge
T No Coal
Western Canada
Coal Company
Appalling death list at ferrie grows
Winnipeg reports a growing death list at the ferrie with four more flames extinguished today. The wind has risen and Michel appears doomed as Hosmer and Michel battle the blaze in a maritime disaster scenario.
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Ferrie
Winnipeg
Michel
Hosmer
Fernie Fire Death Toll Rises With Millions in Loss
Vancouver dispatches report Fernie and surrounding camps suffer a mounting death toll with 125 dead and losses near 5 million dollars. Additional fatalities feared as fires near Hosmer Michel and Cranbrook are checked. Relief efforts, trains with nurses and supplies, and a 4000 dollar Vancouver relief gift are noted amid widespread destruction.
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Vancouver
B. C
Fernle
Nelson
Hosmer
Michel
Cranbrook
Fernie
Elk River
Moamer
Canadian Pacific
Winnnipeg
Winnipeg
Fire relief efforts surge as Fernie disaster unfolds
Spokane dispatch reports Roellet arriving at Fernie fire refuges ahead of others as more than two thousand people remain below the camps. A mass meeting raised over $1000 in half an hour, with a relief committee appointed to organize supplies and shipments of food to the affected district. Thousands homeless.
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Spokane
Ang
Roellet
Fernie
Cranbrook
Willamette Bridge and Road Project Named by Statesman
The Ba Jem Statesman predicts a railroad bridge over the Willamette near Salem and a road east toward Woodburn Springfield with links to the Woodburn Springfield route, signaling future regional transportation expansion.
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Weat
Salem
Ba Jem Statesman
Willamette
Jojo
Springfield
Leaburg couple and companion visit city again
A. J. Ward and his wife along with R. C a wife are in the city from Leaburg.
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A. J. Ward
R. C A
Leaburg
Fires Sweep Through Timber Near Hoquiam
A Hoquiam dispatch reports forest fires north of Hoquiam destroying East Hoquiam and Lytle's logging camps and threatening two more camps as winds push flames through a mile of green timber. Shaw-Nelson Company holds twenty million feet of logs near the fire line.
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Tacoma
Hoqquiam
East Hoquiam
Lytle
Shaw-Nelson Company
Devastating Fire Ravages Fernie Town and Mines
A large blaze consumed Fort Steele brewery and rapidly spread through Old Town and the Elk River Lumber Company mine area. The Fernie Cedar Valley camps burned as residents frantically fled. Rescue teams searched Coal Creek for missing miners Frank Beaver and Alnehmough as trains struggled to move.
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Old Town
Elk River Lumber Company
West Fernile
Elk River
Elk Mills
Fernie Cedar Valley
Fernle
Coal Creek
Frank Beaver
Alnehmough
Beaver
Fernie
Fire devastates Elk River logging camp in Elk River surge
A Cranbrook dispatch reports 61 men and 2 women died when No 4 logging camp of Elk River Lumber Company burned out of control. The camp was encircled by flames with no escapes. Hundreds of refugees are being escorted through Fernie to Cranbrook tonight.
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Vancouver
B. C
Cranbrook
Fernie
Elk River Lumber Company
West Kootenay Fire Devastates Towns in Crow's Nest Region
Fires along the Elk River valley in the Crow's Nest region of East Kootenay have raged from yesterday afternoon to night, destroying Fernie and threatening Michel and Hosmer. Death toll reported between 70 and 100 with possible rise. property losses estimated at 5 to 10 million dollars. railways, towns, bridges and forests wiped out. communications cut as residents flee and women and children evacuated.
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B. C
Elk River Valley
Crows’ Nest
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Fernie
Hosmer
Elko
Sparwood Olson
Cokato
Michael
Western Canada
Canadian Pacific
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Wear
Nelson
Towch
Miete
Miraculous Escape of Land Fraud Prosecutor
United States District Attorney Maker of Washington DC and his bride of two months, with several friends, survived a 300 foot plunge near Liberty New York when their car plunged down a steep hill and somersaulted three times into a tree. The chauffeur suffered a fractured skull and lost an ear, while others were badly bruised but not fatally hurt.
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United States
Washington, D. C
Liberty
N. Y
Chaffeur
Man and cripple wed in Newport license scene
A Record-Herald dispatch from Cincinnati reports a poignant episode at Newport Kentucky county clerk's office. John B. Sapp of Seattle and Pearl Ruppell of Portland Indiana sought a marriage license while the legless bride was aided to the counter by her partner. The couple's plight drew attention as a somber moment in local records.
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Record-Herald
Cincinnati
Newport
John B. Sapp
Seattle
Pearl Ruppell
Portland
Indiana
Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup Endorsed for Children
Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup is recommended for children and tastes nearly as good as maple sugar. It is sold by all druggists.
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Kennedy
Fernie Fire Devastates Towns in British Columbia
Flames swept Fernie and Merie destroying mills and hundreds of miner cottages. Five families perished amid engulfing fire as townsfolk fled to high ground. Fernie’s population and regional logging and coal operations faced near total ruin. In Ferndale, Oregon, a changing wind threatened the county bridge and area settlements as Marshfield reported rising fire danger nearby.
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Ferndale Valley
Ferndale
County Bridge
Zeppelin Airship Begins 24 Hour Rhine Voyage
In Konstanz Germany on August 4 Count Zeppelin’s airship left Friedrichshafen at 6 30 am for a planned 24 hour journey following a Rhine route to Mayence then Metz Stuttgart and back if weather holds. It traveled about 30 mph amid large crowds and excitement with reports from Strassburg Mayence and Oppenheim noting speeds and a motor defect forcing a landing on a Rhine island near Oppenheim by 6 pm.
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Senator Wm B Allison Dies in Des Moines
Dubuque Iowa Aug 4 Senator Wm B Allison dies of heart failure at 145 today William Boyd Allison born in my system will undoubtedly in time cared at the Western Reserve College in that state He practiced law in
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Des Moines
Dubuque
Iowa
Wm. B. Allison
William Boyd Allison
Western Reserve College
Iowa Senator Dies After Long Public Service
Ohio born, he moved to Iowa in 1857 and served on the governor's staff during the Civil War. Four terms in the Lower House, then a United States senator from 1873 until his death. His last re-election beat Governor Cummins. A key Republican, he helped shape financial legislation as a senator.
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Ohio
Iowa
Congress
United States
Cummins
Republican Party
Senate Finance Committee
Senator Aldrich Sees New Monetary System Replacing Vreeland Plan
New York August 4 Senator Aldrich chairman of the monetary commission sub committee sailed for Europe with the aim to study foreign financial conditions and believes legislation forming a comprehensive monetary system will eventually supersede the Vreeland Aldrich bill.
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New York
Aldrich
Monetary Commission
Europe
Judge Walton Backs Eugene to Florence Railroad
Editor urges immediate railroad from Eugene to Florence praising the project and calling for mass meetings and persistent editorials to unite Lane County. J J Walton endorses the plan stressing it benefits 60,000 residents and can be funded with public support.
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Guard
Heartilly
Eugene
Florence
Carthago Defende Est
Lane County
J. J. Walton
Two Serious Fires Near Grants Pass
Granta Pass Aug 2 Several forest fires have started in the vicinity this past week by campers carelessness. Forest rangers were sent to Althouse to protect the reserve where fire recently broke out. A new fire south of town near the stage road to Williams Creek burned toward Iruitdale Valley threatening farm houses and forcing calls for help. Fire fighters worked through the night and continued today with more men expected. water scarcity and wind raise risk to Professor Wardrip’s Ashland Normal School farm.
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Granta Pass
Althouse
Wiliams Creek
Iruitdale Valley
Professor Wardrip
Ashland Normal School
Kodol Promoted For Relief Of Digestive Distress
An unidentified promotion urges readers to take Kodol only when needed and at feeding times to avoid belching and stomach discomfort. The wording references druggists as the source of the product.
Baby Without Brain Lives Forty Hours Before Death
New York reports a newborn baby with an extremely abnormal head and outwardly normal breathing lived for forty hours after birth. The infant, brought to hospital seven hours after birth, fed greedily and showed no signs of imminent death until death occurred during feeding. Doctors say no other case like this is known to medical science.
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New York
Cannery proposal eyed by San Francisco firm
The Commercial Club board discussed a potential vegetable and fruit cannery with J. K. Armsby Company of San Francisco, noting Armsby’s large scale reach and $12,000,000 in cash spent on products last season. They also planned contacts with Lane County growers and associated groups while advancing various local projects and promotions.
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J. K. Armsby Company
San Francisco
Armsby
Lane County Fruit and Vegetable Growers’ Association
Woot Forgery Case In Platt Divorce Set For Fall
New York August 3 The case of Mae C Woot charged with forgery and perjury in her divorce suit against United States Senator Thomas C Platt was on the calendar for hearing today but postponed by consent. Windowed in seclusion since Tombs release her counsel and friends say she will be vindicated and that sensational revelations may follow when the trial proceeds in the fall.
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New York
Mae C. Woot
United States
Thomas C. Platt
Court of General Sessions
Miss Wood
Motorman Victim of Highwaymen Shootout
Tacoma August 3 Frank L Brown 23 a motorman was shot and killed as he started from the PF street line by one of four highwaymen. Conductor G R Windsor was held up by the quartet who took his week and 15 dollars. Police search for the murderer and men behind the robbery now.
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Tacoma
Frank L. Brown
PF Street
G. R. Windsor
Quartelle
Brown
Pore CELEBRATES FIFTIETH MASS
Rome marks the fiftieth anniversary of Pose Piva X ordination to the priesthood in Castelfranco in 1858. He celebrated solemn pontifical mass in St Peter's with the Sacred College bishops and many pilgrims in attendance.
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Castelfranco
St. Peter's
Sacred College
National campaign leaders in New York
New York Aug 1 Plans for campaign direction were outlined by Democratic National Committee Chairman Mack who arrived to organize the Eastern headquarters. He will devote most time to the West while an East sub committee is named soon. Mack said harmony exists with New York state chair Connors and the National committee will not interfere with state nominations. He stated that Judge Parker and Governor Johnson had...
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New York
Mack
Democratic National Committee
Connors
New York State Committee
National Committee
New York State
Parker
Johnson
Promptly Accepted Advisory Committee Appointments
Secretary Woodson announced today he would devote most time to Chicago where the main headquarters will be located, reflecting a shift in focus for the advisory committee.
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Woodson
Chicago
Bryan certain to carry Georgia in 1900 campaign
Fairview August 1 Georgia appears safe for Bryan as stated by R H Hitch longtime state political figure. Bryan paused acceptance speech preparations and greeting visitors today to attend a neighbor's funeral.
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Bryan
Georgia
Fairview
R. H. Hitch
Chairman Hitchcock opens Republican HQ for business
New York Aug 1 Eastern headquarters of the Republican National Committee were formally opened today by Chairman Hitchcock. He held conferences with prominent leaders from New England states and the South. A conference of Southern leaders, expected to include New England associates, was planned for early today.
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New York
Republican National Committee
Hitchcock
New England
South
Jews to Discuss Tapt's Attitude in New York Meeting
Political managers from both parties follow the New York Federation of Jewish Organizations plan to hold a mass meeting of Jewish voters in the Rivington street synagogue tomorrow. The talks will cover the Jews in Russia Romania and other lands and Judge Telft's stance to sway the Jewish vote in the forthcoming election.
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New York
New York Federation of Jewish Organizatons
Rivington Street
Russia
Roumania
Telft
Senator Bourne Plays Golf With Taft
Hot Springs Aug 1 candidate Taft rests after a long day Bourne senator from Oregon joined Taft for a morning golf match Taft joked about riding sixteen miles yesterday and his horse preferring rest confirming a calm campaign stop with national figures mingling in a southern resort setting
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Hot Springs
Taft
Senator Bourne
Oregon
Ship Mechanics Strike Ordered Across Canadian Pacific
Winnipeg August 4 ex ecutive board of the Canadian Pacific shopmen issues a strike order affecting eight thousand ship mechanics across the system effective tomorrow.
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Winnipeg
Canadian Pacific
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