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ASHSVJLLS, II. 0, FRIDAY AI IZrjTCCIT, JULY 14, 1911. '
Photographs of ilieWredz cf
ITOTIIEFIB
Mj.il tiLuUii ulx'
n-! 10 :y v?.- 'sy. Uf t if xym-
Every Hsisr to U:tcf Those
Who Perhhcd to Fires In Por
cupine C;:..ict Less Ex
I; ceeds 2,CC0,CC3. " !
10.CC9 SC'JAaE r!LES AREA
.: IS DEVASTATED DY FLAKES
It. Will Probably Be Days, Perbapt
' ' Weeks, Bcfon Accurals Idea ol .
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Bs Reached.
OOBALT, Out., July 14,
Every hour adds to the list
of dead, injured and homeless
in the fire devastated Porcu
pine district .'' ,'.
C The property loss exceeds
two million dollars... The nunv
her of dead is unknown. About
5)0 have either been buried or
designated for shipment in cof
fins being rushed northward by I
the carload. Scores are miss
ing from densely populated
townships.
The bodies of several victims of the
fires near Porcupine have reached
here.. , There are various estimate! of
the number of dead, many, as high as
500. The fire covered an area of 10,
000 wjuare miles.
iwiii uimimim,
The towns of Cocherane, South
Porcupine and Pottsvllle have been
obliterated, The fire swept clean the
'townships of I,angmulr. Eldorado,
" 8haw, rba-e, di-.ii ii, JUArthur an J
Cripple Crt . n. u.o.rict.
. i From every quarter have come fu
gitives who escaped the flames, many
of them badly burned In their efforts
to save valuables In their flight.
It Is evident that It wlU be some
days and perhaps weeVs before-any
accurate Idea of the total number of
dead Is available. Many of the ter
ror-stricken fled Into the Interior of
woodlands. They have not , been
heard from since. Others, who pos
sibly survived the storm of fire ire
believed to have died from exhsustlon
Hnm. iiiMlv,kia arm nnmlnr In " i f h
their clothing torn and t.ielr limbs cut
from their mad rush through the
woods. Some told of stumbling over
bodies of those who had run before
them and d(ed on the way.
The Mall and Empire's special cor
respondent at Porcupine wired from
Cobalt:
"The horrors of Porcupine's great
disaster, which Is without doubt even
worse than the Sun I-Yanclsco earth
quake when the comparative size of
the places Is. considered. Increases
hourly." This correspondent estimates
the total of the dead as a result of the
lire at 300.
jhpCENES IN BRIDGEPORT WHERE THE "Sn
, U Tfederal express leaped from the, ?qs
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M COTS DR. WILEY
FliOOUUJll?
This I Question House Committee on
Aflriculture Department Expendi
tures Is Asking.
SU?T. L'l ELECTED
l'.j F Tf.J3TEES
Washington," July 14. Charges
against Dr.' Harvey W. Wiley of the
bureau of chemistry will be probed
by the house committee on expendl.
tures In the department of agrlcul
tore. . . ' , . . ,.
Representative Moss of Indiana,
took the matte up today. It whs tie
clared the committee wanted ti
know "who wanted Wiley tired una
why?" ,
The recommendation that the pure
food expert be dismissed, and . the
reasons therefor.lt Is said, win be
thoroughly Investigated. .
Many Slexnages of Confidence,
tetters and telegrams expressing
eonlldenco In Wiley and urging the
president to consider most carefully
charges made against him by the per
sonnel board of the department and
endorsed by Attorney Oeneral Wlck
ersham. poured Into the white house
from all part of the country. Many
messages are from commerclel organ
izations, from the president's personal
friends, and organizations especially
Interested In Dr. Wiley's work.
Neither white house officials nor l)r,
Wiley had anything further to say
about the case, although It was up for
discussion by the cabinet. Secretary
Wilson said he had been to the cabin
et meeting; he did not know how soon
Wiley's answer to the charges Is ex
pected. Wilson said ha personally
had little to do with the Wiley case,
lie suld the personnel board, which
recommended his resignation, wus ft
permanent board, such as exists In
most government departments, that
It had acted hurriedly and the con
clusions were reached after hearings.
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Yti, was elwied
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i' to siiim cihI Mi'
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WILL NOT CO TO Cir.LIN
So La Follette Characterizes Ihs
Reciprocity Eill Excoriates
! the Administration of
President Taft.
SEIZED UfON RECIPROCITY
AS A POPULAR CATCHV.'CD
In Letter and Spirit It ; Violates .Ever
Principal and Every Promise- "
of the Republican "f
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TVJENTY THOUSAND ELKS
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MR. MAXWELL COMES TO BAT,
SMITES ONE ON THE SNOUT
H Loves Chairman Eller. hut Dpnlorcs That Gentleman's Failinar Memory That "Secret
-l)ocument of Treason" Was Printed in the Raleigh News and Observer, and
. 200,000 Copies Were Distributed, One Way or. Another A Good ; ;
"Anti- Protection Argument," Anyway.. '
T11K controversy betw
V. M. Simmons
Chairman A. II. Kll
KcMirt That He Is to !W Ainlwwailr
to (H-riuany l lh'iilitl by .Mr.
Hammond's HeTc4ary.
Gazette-News Burea4i,
The Hote.1 lUilelgh.
Italelgh, July 14.
between Senator
and State
Kller as to the
democratic party In 108 , on the
quentlon of lumber and wood pulp
had further light thrown upon It by
tho making public of a letter which
A. J. Maxwell, secretary of the cor
poration comtnlHsion. has directed to
National Commltteem'n .Josephus languid not have been dragged up now
fort, ' It appears has been made to
make Mr. Maxwell the "scaDegoat" of
this affair and Insinuations have been
made that he felt he couid no longer
afford to let go unanswered. In this
letter he calls attention to the fact
that all the democrats ' In congress
except congressman Claude Kltchln
voted for a tariff on lumber, and If
their action was to become an Issue
It should have been made when they
stood for re-nomlnatlon la 1910, and
New York, July 14. John Hays
Hammond, who was special ambuMnu
dur to King George's coronation, re
turned today on the Iitr.U.
Mr. Hammond's secretary authoris
ed tho statement that Hammond will
not ro to Hi rlin mm American ambas
ador. succeeding lr. Hill, as reported.
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m'lUECFcm,!:
liatili ln, editor of the Kaluigh News
ami Oleu-rver, In reply to attacks that
havo been made upon him, through
the columns of that paper. Senator
Simmon, It will he recalled, referred
in lil speech In the'senate Monday to
a circular which the democratic head
riiiiir''.r; hud laued telling the poople
of the ite that lumber would not
le puc on the free lint unless the
ma- hln, ry ud In Its manufacture
wan placed on tho free lint. Mr. Kller
ho its. whole blame at the feet of
Mr. Mwell who wan In charge of
the liiemry bureau of tlernocrat'c
heait'iuarlers. In ol her words an ef-
and hurled with its full force against
one man. The entire state will be
Interested In Mr. Maxwell' clear
presentation of the question which
follows:
Xot Arrald of (ilioat.
"Editor News and Observer:
"My excuse for writing upon a
question that was fully threshed out
two years ago the now famous cir
cular sent out from democratic state
headquarters In the campaign or
1S. diwiiKsIng traltT on lumber
Is that the statement from State
Chairman Kller. with the headlines
Enthusiastically Received by Throngs
in Atlantic City Prizes -Awarded.
DATES FOR VOTE OX VAIU
K ous BUls,
Washington,, July 14. An
agreement to vote on theCnna
dian reciprocity bill July t'i was
reached by leaders of various
(actions of the senate this af
ternoon. The agreement' fixes
the vote on the house wool re
vision bill for July 27; the free
list bill, August. 1; re-apportionment
bill, August 3; state
hood on legislative day, August
7. It Is expected congress will
adjourn Immediately following;
the statehood bill.
. The agreement was. formally
offered In the senate by Repub
lican Leader Penrose. Senator
' Martin, the democratic leader,
said democrat favored the
agreement because of a desire
throughout the country to sea
the present session terminated.
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of your own manufacture as It ap
Deared In your paper, and the per
aintenee with which you have made
Dromlnent my (very slight) connec
tion with the lumber business at the
time that circular was written, . nas
doublets carried to . some of your
readers the Insinuation that I was not
faithful to the trust Imposed In me
at that time, and that I used my po
sltlon to gain an unfair aavaniagu
for business In which I was per
sonally Intereated. 1 am not afraid of
ghosts or suspicion, and so there H
Is written out tn lull, lusi as you
have so many times Insinuated It to
the Dubllc. and I will pay my respects
to it In due time If 1 faint not.
Horry Alsut Ellrr' Memory.
"First let me say that I anticipate
no controversy over questions of fact
between State Chairman Eller and my
self. This matter was threshed out In
the buhllo press two years ago, and
since that time I have had the very
i.mt ronji for liellevlng that his
respect for me has not been Impaired
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Family to Tiarca.
Alantlc. City, July 14 Th,e Grand
Lodge Eehevolenl ProtecUwa Order of
Bile's1 today ' held a brief session and
ainioscd of Toutlne business, t An ef
fort, to get th grand loilge to record
itself as favoring the admission of
Arisconfa 'and' New" Mexico was voted
down.' It was the'oplnlon of a large
majority of delegates that national
oolitic should not be permitted to
become the Issue within the order.
The annual meeting of the grand
lodge and reunion of members of the
order which closes tonight with a ball
on one 'of the piers, is said to have
been-one of the most successful ever
held by the Elks.
Twenty thousand Elks marched
Twenty thousand Elks marched
through the principal streets of this
city yesterday In annual review. At
lantlc avenue, the main thoroughfare
of the resort over which the big pa
rade Countermarched, 1 was densely
packed by an enthusiastic rr 4 that
was kept interested' from Tute mo
ment Chief Marshal Jamea R. Nlch
olson, of Boston, came Into view with
his staff until the roar end of the line
marched past.
The parade was a big success. It
was divided Into ten divisions, and
every division had something inter
esting. There were Elks In the con
ventlonal dress suits and Elks In the
most fantastic uniforms. All of them
sot an enthusiastic hand from tne
throngs.
The following prizes were awarded
Idge having the largest number
of men In line, aggregate mileuge
First orlie. Portland, 2D0; second
prl7!. New Orleans, 1100; tlJrd prise,
St 1-ouls, $50.
Lodge making the best appearance
in uniform First prixe,- St. Louis
t2"0; second prize, Elizabeth. 1(0
third prize. Cincinnati, S100.
Lodge coming greatest distance
First prize, Portland, S150; Ind prize,
New Orleans, 50.
Lodgo having the largest number
of ladlos in line, aggregate mileage
First prise, Portland, 200; so on
prize, Cincinnati $100; third prize
Syracuse, 15-0.
Lodge having the most sltractlve
floats First prize. Orange, 200; sec
ond prize, Newport, 10U; third prize
Portland, $50.
I .oil it o having most beautiful ban
ner Philadelphia, $100.
ASHINGTON. July 14. With
.final vote on the Canadian,
reciprocity paot approaching.
three were speeches were heart v the
senate. These were the second day In
stallments of. attacks oa the bill from
LaKoliette and Biistow. Stone outlin
ed the reasons why democrats should
not . .lavor ..any amendment to- th
measure.
The house was not In session. Sev
eral of Its Investigating committees.
Including the sugnr trust inquiry and
Controller bay committee, resume!
their sesslona The senate commltteo
probing Lortmer's election continued
In session.
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The senate discussed for an hour '
how It could get back to old customs
of debate. Senator Bacon's proposed
rule, which he said was designed to
restore congressional debate, which
now "reads like Ihe page of a sensa
tional novel" to its former decorum.
provoked wide comment . New sena
tors are inclined to think the charges
of mixing too freely In debate aro
aimed at them. Mr. Root said the
present method of indiscriminate de
bate was "destructive of dellberato
consideration of legislation." Mr.
Lodge declared the senate must re
form Its methods . or become the
laughing stock of deliberative assem
blies. No action waa taken.
Not Likely to ltcA-b Stephenson ae.
Unless the present session of con
gress Is more prolonged than now ap
pears probable, no final'. action will
be taken on the request for an Inventl
gatlon of the election ' of Senator '
Stephenson of Wisconsin. '
Senator LaFollette excoriated Presi
dent Taft's administration, not only
with reference to the tariff legislation,
proposed, but also on hie cotiaervatlon
policies. Senator Urtstow urged thn
repeal of the "16 Dutch statulaj-d" test
on Imported sugaf, which he declared
operates entirely in the Intereata of
he Amerlcsn Sugar Refining company.
Hoping to reach a' vote on tho reci
procity bill next week, which Chair
man Penrose, of the senate finance
committee, regards as "next to a cer
tainty," managers oh "both sides of
the senate chamber are figuring seri
ously on the subsequent program.
Most of them have counted upon get
ting away after perfunctory votea nn
the democratic free list ami woolen
bills, but today It became evident that
other legislation will be pressed for
consideration.
Delves Into Hhtory.
Senator IaFoIIi Ko reviewed, act bv
act. the administration of Prex! I. r
Taft In unsparing tennt, and d. . i,.r. i
that the contest Involved wus ti
"fight between the plain people m l
confederated prUllee."
"Considered as a measure cf r ..
proclty," said ho, "the Cimm! n -uu
nt violates rt rvt.ii,; i ...
redpro, by heretef n. i
l be phi Itorm l.f II... T.
and re. oinniend, 1 . t r i
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