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VpL. XXXV. NOS 271. MISSOULA, MONTANA, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31, 1909. PRIC3 FIVE
STORM AND tIRES CAUSE'
SUFFERING AND LOSSES
Blizzard Swoops Down Upon East and South
Where the Homeless Shiver in Its Icy Grip.
FLAMES, FANNED BY WIND, DESTROY MANY HOMES
Town of Nowata, Oklahoma Is Almost Wiped Out of Exist.
ence by Conflagration Which Firemen Are Unable to
Combat Because of Intense Cold---Tene
ments Burn in Brooklyn, N. Y.
New York, Jan. 30.--Tle center of
the western blizssard reached this city
today. Accompanied by a high west
wind, a heavy fall of wet snow suc
ceeding a rair,iall throughout last
night filned the streets with slush
which threatened to delay all city
transportation, except the subway;,
frequent accidents to pedestrians were
reported. With the front windows of
the street cars thickly coated, motor
men were unable to see pedestrians
dodging across the streets and slip
pery crossings and the snow deadened
the sound of the approaching cars.
Among the hundreds who sought shel
ter last night in the municipal lodg
ings were about ,0 women and chil
dren. Most of the men were put to
work cleaning the snow. Fire broke
out in a stable on Montrose street in
Brooklyn and spread so rapidly that
40 families were turned into the street.
An adjoining tenement was soon in
flames and the tenants in it had nar
row escapes.
Roads Are Blocked.
Denver, Colo., Jan. 30.-Snow from
7 to 10 feet on the level and drifts
many feet deeper are still blocking
many of the lines of railroads, but so
far all passengers on stalled trains
are being taken care of. Trains on
the Colorado & Southern near Jeffer
son are still snokbound. The Denver
& Rio Grande broke its three days'
blockade on Cumbres Pass yesterda'
and released the snowbound Durango
passenger train. The Rio Grande
Southern road, however, is still bad
ly blocked in the vicinity of Durango
and yesterday the big rotary plow was
adkeb.
The line to Telluride has been
blocked for nearly a week, and it
probably will be another week before
the road is opened. The line to Sil
verton was opened last night, after
being blocked 10 days. Some of the
snowslides cut through were from 30
to 40 feet deep: Train loads of coal
and supplies are being rushed to Si1
verton, which city has been close to
famine.
The High Line, or Leadville branch
of the Colorado & Southern. is hinvl
much trouble with huge drifts, and
two passenger trains are snowbound
at Boreas station, on top of the range.
All the passengers on the westbound
passenger train from Denver, which
got stuck near Como, have been
brought into that town and are being
cared for. The weather in the moun
tains has cleared, but it is still in
tensely cold.
Lost in Snowdrift.
Milwaukee, Jan. 30.-Passenger train
No. 28 of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul railway is supposed to be lost
in snowdrifts on the line of the South
ern Minnesota division between Kin
more and Fulda. The train left La
Crosse Thursday night when the 48
hour blizzard set in and since it
passed beyond Jackson, Minn., no tid
ings have been heard of it. Passenger
trains on other roads have been rug
with great difficulty.
Assistant General Superintendent D.
Cd. Cheney of the St. Paul road, said
he could not locate the missing train
as the telephone and telegraph wires
were down in nearly all directions.
Most Severe in, Years.
Chicago, Jan. 80.-Chicago and the
middle west arose today with the as
surance that the worst of the storm
which devastated this section of the
country was over and that it would be
PRESIbENT ROOSEVELT.
quickly followed by clear, colder
weather, while the east inherited the
blizzard. The damage done by wind
and sleet can scarcely be estimated.
Many cities and towns are still prac
tically isolated and train service re
mains crippled. In the Dakotas and
,ebraska hope is held out for an im
mediate improvement in conditions.
In the south the storm was the
most severe in recent years and the
story of wrecked buildings, interrup
tion of wire communication and gen
eral distress is almost a duplicate of
that sent from the north and north
west. Railroad traffic is adso badly
delayed in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mis
sissippi and portions of Texas. Fire
and havoc of the high winds have
resulted in a damage of several thou
sand dollars.
Fire and Wind.
Dallas, Texas, Jan. 30.-Damage from
fire and the havoc wrought by
high winds, estimated at about $700.
000, was caused during the last two
days in Texas and Oklahoma.
In Dallas alone in two days there
was 21 alarms with loss of approxi
mately $20,000. Four residences were
burned yesterday at Grand Saline.
The grain elevator at Bison, near
Kingfisher, Okla., with a quantity of
corn in cars, burned with a loss of
about $25,000.
In the Glenn oil pool, near Tulsa,
the damage is probably $50,000, by
reason of the wind havins levelled
many derricks. Fifty derricks are
down in the oil fields near IRellfer,
Okla., in the Texas panhandle the
sandstorm was terrific.! The gale has
been followed by a cold wave which
embraces the entire southwestern
country from Kansas to southern Tex
as and into New Mexico.
Most Severe Blizzard.
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 30.-After be
ing securely wrapped for the past 24
hours in the grasp of the most severe
blizzard on record, reports from the
southwest today showed that the
storm had spent its force and that con
ditions were improving. The tempera
ture, however, remained at its lowest
point, in manw places a drop of from
40 to 60 degrees having been experi
enced since the beginning of the
storm. Telegraph and telephone com
munication has been almost complete
ly cut off for 24 hours, but is slowly
being restored today.
The Coldest Point.
St. Paul, Jan. 30.-The coldest point
in the northwest today was at Min
nedosa, where it was 30 degrees be
low zero. At Moorehead, Minn., it
was 18 below. In the extreme north
west the temperatures are moderating,
It being zero at Havre, Mont., 10 be
low at Willlston, N. D., and 4 above
at Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta.
The winds are moderating.
Kentucky in Ioy Grip.
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 80.-Kentucky
and other parts of the south are to
day in the clutches of a genuine bliz
zard. Snow fell throughout Kentucky
and sections of Tennessee nearly all
night and high winds prevailed both
at Memphis and at Atlanta. At
Knoxville the mercury registered 13
degrees above zero. Nashville re
ports 12 above, and snow generally
throughout middle Tennessee. All
trains are late.
SOME "STRENUOUS" ART
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JAPANESE SITUENI
IS ROUGHLY
HANDLED
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
BOYS ASSAULT BROWN MAN
AND RUN HIM OFF CAMPUS.
Berkeley, Cal., Jan. 30.-Following
the renewal of agitation for anti-Japa
nese legislation by the state legisla
ture, Kenji Kaneko, a graduate of the
imperial university at Tokio and a
student at the University of Califor
nia, was attacked by eight white stu
dents this afternoon and chased off
the university campus. As a result of
the incident, the Berkeley Japanese
association, numbering about 1,000
members, is highly incensed and has
declared its intention of demanding
that the Japanese consul general at
San Francisco make representations to
the American government through
Ambassador Takahira in Washington.
Kaneko, who until a year ago, was
attached to the Japanese consulate at
San Francisco as interpreter, had been
attending a lecture at California hall.
As he walked through the campus he
passed a group of eight students who
were discussing the Japanese question.
Kaneko stopped a moment to hear
what was being said and one of the
group jostled into him and knocked
him down. The Japanese quickly got
up and made some remarks, which
were resented by the students. They
closed around Kaneko and as he start.
ed to run, pursued and rained blows
upon him, finally chasing him off the
campus.
A report of the attack was made to
the police by Dr. W. Morris Carpen
ter, with whom Kaneko is living. E
A. Hugill, superintendent of the uni
versity grounds, began an investiga
tfon, but so far has been unable te
learn the identity of the young met
who attacked Kaneko.
Kaneko said tonight that he would
not personally call the matter to the
attention of the Japanese consul oi
take any action, but would not inter
fare if others took such a step. I
Wasa and H. S. Mort, president an.
secretary, respectively, of the Japa
nese association, stated that the as.
sociation would ask Chozo Kolko, the
Japanese consul general, to report the
matter to the Washington authoritite
WIFE SHE REMAINS
DESPITE A DIVORCE
San Diego, Cal., Jan. 80.-In a de
cision recv'' ed here today from the
court of appeals that tribunal holds
that a man's divorced wife is still
his wife, although she be remarried
and the wife of another m-n. The
decision was rendered in the appealed
v i case of Frmnk Abbott, who was
left $50,000 by his uncle, Jacob
Grunedike, the will providing that a
third go to Abbott's wife and a third
to his child. Abbott, being divorced,
contested this clause on the ground
that he had no wife, she having re
married afterwards. The lower court
decided his divorced wife was still his
wife and entitled to the bequest and
the court of appeals sustained the low
er court.
HAT MAKING TO BE RESUMED
Norwalk, Conn., Jan. 30.-Positive
information was given out today by
the heads of hat making concerns that
all shops which were recently struck
by the United Hatters of North Amer
ica will be started up oh Tuesday,
February $, as "open shops." The or
der of the aseociated manufacturers
is that no union labels shall be put in
hats hereafter. The strikers here are
generally surprised, at the action.
PRESIDENI'S REPORT
PRECIPITATES
TROUBLE
MINE WORKERS ENGAGE IN FIERY
CONTROVERSY OVER LEWIS'
STATEMENTS.
Indianapolis, Jan. 30.-Discu:.sion
over the report of Thomas L. Lewis,
president of the United Mine Workers
of America, will keep the convention
of the organization in session here a
week longer than was expected. The
insofar as it adversely criticised the
insofar as it adversely criticized the
Pennsylvania and Illinois districts for
obstructing the efforts of the president
and executive board to bring about a
joint interstate agreement. However,
when a paragraph was reached in
which Mr. Lewis treated the suspen
sion of the officers of district No. 11,
Indiana, for refusing to return to work
when ordered, much controversy
arose.
W. D. Van Horn, president of dis
trict No. 11, called the national execu
tive board a "wooden head." and de
clared that it and President Lewis
h,. attempted to force hiF, constit
ucnts to work in a mine which was
so carelessly constructed as to be
dangerous to the lives of "man and
mule."
Thomas Haggarty, an anti-adminis
tration member of the national execu
tive board, condemned the policy of
President Lewis and some of his as
sociates so bitterly that James
Mooney of Missouri, also a board
member, demanded to know if Mr.
Haggerty intended to "whip him per
sonally." Several other members of
the board resented the board being
designated as "wooden," and it was
with great difficulty that President
White of the Iowa miners, who pre
sided, prevented more serious diffi
culty. Several of the mine leaders
were simultaneously engaged in dis
puting the veracity of each other's
statements.
"SMOKE" DECISION
PLEASES
C. F. KELLEY SAYS ACTION OF
JUDGE HUNT IS CAUSE OF
GREAT SATISFACTION.
Special to The Daily Missoulian.
Butte, Jan. 30.-Con F. Kelley, head
counsel of the Amalgamated Copper
company, is home from a trip to New
York and Washington. He said today:
"I spent my time between New
York and Washington while absent
from the city. In regard to the smoke
case decision I mLy say that the very
full and complete decision of Judge
Hunt was received with the greatest
satisfaction in the east. It served to
remove from, not alone the company,
but everybody interested in the cop
per business, -a great deal of anxiety.
I had conferences while in Washing
ton with Solicitor General Hoyt and
other representatives of the govern
ment and I don't apprehend any im
mediate action by the government in
regard to the complaint of the Deer
Lodge farmers.
"Some matters which require inves
tigation are being considered, and
the company and the government are
co-operating in making certain in
vestigations which will, I think, dis
pose of the matter without litigation.
So far everything has moved along
perfectly satisfactory between the
company and the government's repre
sentatives and the desire of the gov
ernment, so far as expressed, is to
co-operate with the company and
avoid litigation."
STATEHOOD MEASURE
GOES BEFORE
HOUSE
BILL PROVIDES FOR ADMIS8ION
OF ARIZONA AND NEW
MEXICO TO UNION.
Washington, Jan. 30.--An omnibus
bill providing separate statehood for
the territories of New Mexico and Ari
zona was Introduced in the house to
day by tYepresentative Hamilton of
Michigan, chairman of the house com
mittee on tettitories. The bill was
framed by the republican members of
the committee and submitted to the
minority members, who have approved
it.
New Mexico is given two represen
tatives in the house of representatives
to be elected at large, and the city of
Santa Fe is designated as the capital
of the state until 1920.
Four sections of land in every
township are granted to New Mexico
for the support of common schools.
Two of these have previously been
granted to the territory. Other grants
of land which the bill provides are for
university purposes, 55,000 acres; for
legislative, executive and judicial pub
lic buildings, 96,000 acres; for peniten
tiaries, 100,000 acres; for schools and
asylums for deaf, dumb and blind,
100,000 acres; for hospitals for dis
abled miners, 50,000 acres; for normal
schools, 200.000 acres; for state, char
Itable, penal and reform institutions,
100,000 acres; for agricultural and me
chanical coleges, 150,000 ocres; for
school of mines. 100,000 acres; for
the payment of the debt of the terri
tory and of other valid county and
public debts, 3,000,000 acres; for mili
tary institutes, 100,000 acres.
When admitted into the union New
MOxico Is to be attached to the Eighth
Judicial district. One hundred thou
sand dollars is appropriated for the
expenses incident to the elections and
constitution provided for in the bill.
Most of the provisions for Arizona
are similar to those for New Mexico.
Phoenix is designated as the capital
until 1920. Arizona is given one rep
resentative in the house of representa
tives, 120,000 acres of land are granted
for university purposes and other
grants are equal to those made for
New Mexico.
Hearings on the bill will be hell'
by the committee on territories nexi
week, and it probably will be reported
before the end of the week.
SHAHAN IS NAMED
TEMPORARY RECTOR
Rome, Jan. 30.-The question of the
rectorship of the Catholic university
at Washington has not been detinite
ly decided because the archbishops
composing the board of trustees, in
stead of sending to Rome the names
of three candidates as in the past,
only designated Right Rev. John P.
Carroll, bishop of Helena, Montana.
The congregation of studies, entrust
ed with the appointment after mature
consideration thought it unwise to
appoint Bishop Carroll for within six
years unless reconfirmed as a rector,
he would be left without either the
rectorship or the bishopric. For this
reason the congregation decided to
appoint as temnorary rector Dr. T. J.
Shahan, professor of church history
at the Catholic university, and chief
editor of the Catholic Missionary Bul.
letin.
MAY BE THE THEODORE.
Baltimore, Md., Jan. 30.-There is a
probability that the vessel that foun
dered near Diamond Shoals lightship
may be the steamer Theodore Weems
of the Baltimore & Carolina Steamship
company. She is a freight boat ex
clusively and carries a crew of 19 men.
She is an old craft.
VOTES MONEY
FOR ARMY
BALLOONS
HOUSE PROVIDES APPROPRIA
TION FOR EXPERIMENTS IN
AERONAUTICS.
PROVOKES A DISCUSSION
Merits of Aviation as an Aid to Mili
tary Operations Is Subject of Con
siderable Debate-Mann Answers
Objections by Pointing to Service
Rendered by Wireless Telegraphy.
Washington, Jan. 30.-Aeronautica
occupied much attention in the house
of representatives today in connection
with the consideration of the army ap
propriation bill. The advisability of
an appropriation for army balloons
was first considered.
The question was raised by Mr. Ma
con (Ark.). who drew from Mr. Hull,
who prepared the measure, the state
ments that balloons heretofore had not
been specially provided for, and the
Arkansan at once made a point of or
der against the provisions.
The burden of the arguments ii
support of the balloon provision was
that balloons had now become a parn
of an efficient army, while some o1
the opponents maintained that bal
loons were not used in the Russo
Japanese war, the Spanish-American
war and the Boer war. Mr. Macon in
sisted that balloons had played no
considerable part in warfare.
His statements were controverted by
Mr. Cockran, who said a balloon per
formed a good part in the war between
France and Germany when M. Gam
betta escaped from Paris by such
means and organised the national de
tense.
Mr. Mann (Ill.) in favoring the bal
loon provision, pointed to the sinking
of the Republic, and said that no one
could have cited, 10 days ago, any case
where wireless telegraphy had saved
hundreds of lives through shipwreck.
"The time for citing the case in refer
ence to balloons," he said, "will come
after they have saved hundreds of mil
lions of dollars and may be hundreds
of thousands of lives, and probably a
great deal more."
Mr. Macon was at last induced to
with-.raw his point or order on a
statement by Mr: Capron (Rhode Is
land) that balloons had been used with
good results during the civil war, but
its recall by Mr. Sherley again clouded
the situation.
In an elaborate opinion by Mr. Per
kins, who was in the chair, the point
of order was overruled and the work
of experimenting with balloons by
the government accordingly will go.
After the ruling Mr. Hull (Iowa) of
fered an amendment increasing the
appropriation from $250,000 to $750.
000, which Mr. Hull admitted after be
ing subjected to rapid-tfire questioning
was largely to be used for experiment
with and the development of balloons
and airships.
During the debate Mr. Slayden
(Texas) pointed to the achievements
of the WVright brothers in aerial nav
igation, which he said had been con
spicuous and that a foreign govern
ment had already acquired rights in
their inventions. He deemed it of the
utmost importance that the AmerI
can government should take the lead
in military aeronautics.
By a vote of 75 to 65 the amend
ment was adopted, the announcement
being greeted with applause. Except
with respect to the appropriation for
aeronautical experiments, the bill
was not amended in any important
particular.
It was still pending when the house
adjourned.
BANDITS ATTACK TOWN.
El Paso, Texas. Jan. 30.--Bandits at
tacked the settlement of the Banjio I)yl
Sudro ranch, district of Mina, state
of Chihuahua, Mexico, yesterday and
in attempting to repulse them Chies
of Police Caesaro Acofa was killed.
The marauders escaped.
VICE PRESIDENT FAIRBANKS
GRIDIRON CL3
GIVES "23"
BANOUET
TENDERS ROOSEVELT AND FAIR
BANKS A BRILLIANT PARE
WELL DINNER.
FUI POT BUBBLES OYVI
Famous Organization Says e*odb
to President and Vice Premldm'*
Their Offiolal Capacity-At One 4
the Most Unique Functions of the
Year in Washington.
Washington, Jan. 30--Farewell to
President Roosevelt sad Vies rPi.
dent Fairbanks-in their offiel al m
city only-was said to them tosight he
the famous Gridiron club of Weasimg
ton newspaper men. The oseasies Was
the annual winter dinner of that da
in all, there were nearly SO t5Mt
and, as is always the custom, ths
roll included many names that !gore
conspicuously in the hall of fame. Am
bassadors, justices of supjreme coast
of the United States, cabinet offldal,
senators, representatives, editors, pub
lishers and men of affairs genssally
were in the gathering.
It wan far from a sad affair, al
though the occasion was of a fare
Well nature. Gridiron dinners never
are sad. As the president and vies
9res:dent were the guests of boneS, s
they came in for an equal
in the fun of the evening. Whilt
\Were the butt of many of the
and skits, there was every e yeveeo
that they enjoyed the teatertatigLat
as much as the rest when the jests
were aimed at others.
Shows Effoet.
The temperance movement showed
its effect on the club. As the souve
ntr of the dinner the guests wers gtv
on "H 2-0 illustrated gridiron a.hr
nacs, published by the Gridiron Watei
wagon Press." Between its covers
there was no remedy given for til at
statesmen, Journalists, real newspaper
men, molly-coddles, maleactorl St
great wealth. "other than plain '
2-0.' "
In this almanac the "Teddy beat"
formed the center of the signs of the
zodlae, while the entire production was
marked as forwarded to congress as
"special message No. 23232823$2S.2L."
The guests observed particularly that
the total eclipse of the year "iL de
In March." and "will be viewed with
interest by the United States, Afriea
and Oyster Bay."
A list of forecasts for every day was
given in one section of the almanac.
hut the prognostications did not ex
tend beyond March 4. The reason for
this, it was explained, was that "aft
er March 4 there is no telling what
will happen."
Division "23."
For the convenience of the guests,
a notice stated that gentlemen men
tionned for the Taft cabinet will march
in procession at the inauguration,
forming division 23, under William
Loeh. Jr., "who has been `mentioned
most frequently." But all the wit was
not in the almanac, as a megaphone
man announced bulletins from the
'great battle." This great battle, ad
vertised on handbills scattered through
the banquet room, proved to be a
fight between President Roosevelt and
congress.
The inauguration of Henry Well.
,orrespondent of the Pittsburg Chrot
i '"e-Telegraph as president of the elob
afforded the retiring president. James
Henry of the Philadelphia Press, a'
,.,,portunity to give the new offieial
o~re instructions. The new predenat
look the oath with his left arm raised
"m:d two fingers crossed, swearing
'hat h.I would keep the Ananlas club
in a flourishing condition, ride 1$
'niles a day and keep congress on Its
reservation.
When Jewell Aubere. correspondent
of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. made
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