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Tulsa Daily World.
"Tbe Wanti of the Woild
Fin tbe Wants of tbe World"
One Cent a Word a Week.
Chickens, Turkeys and
Young Vegetables
HEADQUARTERS
TaWphona No ISB
Tl'LSA. INDIAN TERRITORY,' WEDNESDAY, AI'KII. IS IMC.
VOL I. NO. 17(1
FIVE CENTS PER COPY.
If Statehood Bill Will Take Advantage of the New Low Tulsa Freight Rates He Will Soon Be Off the Bum and Sitting in State
AN MFUl
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Police Patrol Carting Dead From the
Buildings. -World Issued Extra Giv
ing First News of the Horror. Late
News Develops New Horrors.
WORST CALAMITY IN
HISTORY OF THE COAST
Waterworks Demolished and Destruction of Entire
Business Section is Feared. Three Miles of
Railway Sink From Sight. Last Shock Shortly
After 8 A. M. Two Thousand People Re
ported Killed. Wires Down and Details of
Disaster Not Fully Known.
(From this morning's Extra Edition.)
SAN FRANCISCO, GAL, APRIL 18.4VIA ASBTORBV ARIZONA,
AT 5:13 O'CLOCK THIS MORNING, OCCURRED THE MOST TERRI
FIC EARTHQUAKE KNOWN IN THE HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC
COAST. BUILDINGS TOPPLED AND FELL IN EVERY DIRECTION.
THE POLICE PATROL IS CARTING THE DEAD FROM THE BUILD
INGS. FIRE BROKE OUT IN THE WHOLESALE BUILDINGS NEAR
THE WATER FRONT AND IN OTHER LOCALITIES. THERE IS NO
WATER TO FIGHT IT. DYNAM ITE IS BEING USED. THE POS
TAL TELEGRAPH BUILDING IS PARTIALLY WRECKED AND MOST
OF THE POSTAL EMPLOYES FLED FOR THEIR LIVES. AT 7:30
COMMUNICATION ON A SINGLE WIRE WITH ASHFORK AND LOS
ANGELES WAS RESTORED. THE SHOCK WAS FELT AS FAR
SOUTH AS SANTA BARBARA, BUT NOT FELT AT LOS ANGELES.
ALL THE POWER LINES IN THE CITY ARE WRECKED. THE
PACIFIC CABLE IS NOT DAMAGED, BUT THE LOSS OF POWER
HAS SERIOUSLY CRIPPLED COMMUNICATION. THE POSTAL EL
ECTRICIAN AND OTHERS ARE NOW ENDEAVORING TO RESTORE
COMMUNICATION. IT IS UNSAFE YET TO REMAIN IN THE OF
FICES. THERE HAS BEEN A SLIGHT SHOCK EVERY FEW MIN
UTES SINCE THE HEAVY ONE. THERE WAS A TERRIBLE PANIC
IN THE CITY, EVERY ONE RUSHING TO THE STREETS. ' MANY
HUNDREDS ARE REPORTED KILLED ON SOUTH MARKET ST,
WHERE THE FIRE IS RAGING. THERE WAS NO DAMAGE OF A
SERIOUS NATURE OR LOSS OF LIFE IN THE RESIDENCE DIS
TRICTS. EARLY ESTIMATES PLACE THE LOSS OF LIFE AT EL
EVEN HUNDRED.
" THE WATER AND SEWERAGE ARE SPOUTING INTO THE
STREETS FROM THE GROUND AS A RESULT OF BROKEN MAINS.
THE FIRE IS CONTINUING TO SPREAD IN ALL DIRECTIONS AND
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WHOLE CITY IS FEARED.
HOUSTON. TEXAS, APRIL 18. VICE PRESIDENT FAY OF THE
SOUTHERN PACIFIC ARRIVED HERE AND REPORTS THAT THE
DEAD WILL REACH TWO THOUSAND.
CHICAGO. APRIL 18. A ROCK ISLAND MESSAGE, SENT AT
11:45. SAYS THAT SAN FRANCISCO IS BEING BESET BY CONTIN
UOUS EARTHQUAKES AND THAT THE FIRE IS WORKING TOW
ARD THE DOCKS UNMOLESTED, AS THE WATER WORKS ARE
OUT OF COMMISSION.
NEW YORK, APRIL 18. HUTTON & CO., MERCHANTS, RECEIV
ED A DISPATCH AT 11:45: "THE BEST AND MOST ACCURATE
INFORMATION REGARDING SAN FRANCISCO INDICATES THAT
THE WHOLE CITY IS BURNING. FROM THE HIGHEST POINT OF
SAN JOSE, SAN, FRANCISCO CAN BE SEEN ABLAZE."
NEW YORK. APRIL 18. A WESTERN UNION MESSAGE FROM
SACRAMENTO SAYS THAT THE HEAVY EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS
STOPPED AT 5:15. THREE MILES OF RAILWAY ARE SUNK OUT
OF SIGHT BETWEEN SUISAN AND BENECIA, AND THE WIRES
WENT WITH THE TRACK. AT PLEASANTON THE RAILROAD
CARS WERE TURNED OVER. AT TRACY THE CHIMNEYS FELL.
THERE ARE BIG FIRES IN BERKLEY AND OAKLAND, BOTH SUB
URBS. LOS ANGELES, APRIL 18. THREE HUNDRED DEAD HAVE
BEEN COLLECTED IN SAN FRANCISCO. THE MECHANICS' PA
VILLIAN HAS BEEN CONVERTED INTO A MORGUE. 4MORE CORP
SES ARE CONSTAJNTLY BEING BROUGHT IN. THE FLAMES ARE
BLAZING IN A DOZEN PLACES. THE UTTER RUIN Or THE BUS
INESS SECTION IS INEVITABLE.
OGDEN, UTAH, APRIL 18.-A WIRE FROM THE UNION PACI
FIC WEST OF HERE SAYS THE EARTHQUAKE SEEMS TO HAVE
EXTENDED SEVERAL HUNDRED MILES.
SAN FRANCISCO, 3 P. M. THE LAST SHOCK WAS NEARLY
AS SEVERE AS THE FIRST. MANY BUILD ING8 WHICH SURVIV
ED THE FIRST SHOCK AND SERIES OF QUIVERINGS TUMBLED
WHEN THE FINAL HEAVE GAME. IT ADDED TO THE PANIC AL
READY PREVAILING. AS NEARLY AS WORDS CAN TELL, THE
EARTHQUAKE BEGAN. WITH A SLIGHT TREMBLE, FOLLOWED
BY A HEAVING SENSATION, WHICH DEVELOPED INSTANTLY
OTTO A SEVERE SHAKING AND ENDING IK A TERRIFIC SHUD-
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!nrp Bin BiiiT.mvr!a nnnTrr.n T.TITP. SHIPS AT flP.A THP.V THEN
CRUMBLED AND CRASHED INTO RUINS, CATCHING SCORES OF
PERSONS. THE PANIC STRICKEN PEOPLE STAGERED AS THEY
WALKED, ASKING EACH OTHER QUESTIONS. A HIGH WIND
PREVAILED, BLOWING THE FLAMES FROM BUILDING TO BUIL
DING AND SCATTERING EMBERS OVER THE ENTIRE CITY.
MANY CORPSES WERE BROUGHT TO TEMPORARY MORGUES
BADLY MANGLED. APPLICATION WAS MADE TO THE WAR DE
PARTMENT FOR THE USE OF TRANSPORTS TO TAKE THE VIC
TIMS TO SEA FOR BURIAL. SEVERE DAMAGE WAS DONE AT
BERKELEY AND OAKLAND. THE RAILROAD TRAINS ARE RUN
NING IN THAT SECTION BUT SLOWLY OWING TO LACK OF
WIRES. IN THE GROUND BELOW KEARNEY STREET THE SAND
US TEN FEET DEEP IN PLACES.
WASIIINGTON AT 12:30 THE
RECORDING VIBRATIONS, BUT
I GRADUALLY WEAKENING.
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CINCINNATI,. OHIO. A WESTERN UNION DISPATCH AT 11 : II
SAYS. "SAN FRANCISCO FIRE IS BEYOND CONTROL. AND IS
NOW DESTROYING MARKET STREET, AND HA REACHED THE
PALACE HOTEL. BOTH THE WESTERN UNION AND POSTAL
BUILDINGS ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED. THE LOSS OF LIFE
IS NOW ESTIMATED AT TWO THOUSAND."
SAN FRANCISCO THE LAST SHOCK WAS FELT AT 8:17. THE
FERRIES ARE ALL ENGAGED IN CARRYYING PEOPLE TO PLA-
ICES OF SAFETY. THE INHABITANTS ARE FLEEING BY THE
, THOUSANDS. IN THE PANIC MANY DROP DEAD IN THE SREET.
THE EXAMINER BUILIDING IS
BUILDING IS ALMOST DEMOLISHED. ON THIRD STREET
THT.TI.V. TS NOT A BUILDING UNDAMAGED. WHEN A MANY STO
RY OFFICE BUILDING TOPPLES
ING PROPERTY. MORE THAN
ED IN A MISSION STREET LODGING HOUSE. THE BUILDINGS
IN THA NEIGHBORHOOD TRE A
San Francisco, April 18. Owing to
the panic little headway is being made
cither in gathering the dead and in
jured or fighting the fire. The utmost
confusion exists. Business is suspend
ed
Tti fir i. now (eleven o'clockl
within a block of the Palace hotel,
The city hall, a magnificent structure,
which cost seven millions of dollars,
is wrecked. . The area of the greatest
destruction covers about fifty blocks.
In this district many buildings are
almost totally destroyed. .The great
est damage is between Market street
and the Bay. Buildings in the follow
ing streets have been destroyed: First
Tremont Beal Main, Spear, Stuart
and East South. This is largely a
manufacturing district .The financial
quarter is comparatively undamaged.
More than a thousand buildings weir
destroyed.
San Francisco, April 18. The first
serious shock occurred at 5:13.
Bulletin San Francisco, April 18.
Great damage was done here early
today by an earthquake. Many lives
were lost and the telegraph companies
were driven from their offices. Com-
COMES OFF NEXT TUESDAY.
A Packed Houbo Should Greet the
C. C. B. Boys.
The band concert, iostnel last
week on account of the injury V the
Oraml ojera house, will be given next
Tuesday night, the '24th instant, at
the same place. Tickets Mught for
the night first announced will he good
on Tuesday, and the delay oujrht to
secure a packed house.
The program as arranged will be
given in its entirety, and the band,
whihe has been steadily rehearsing. is
now better equipped to do justice to
itself and the public.
The program is an extensive one,
and includes specialties by the qnar
tet, saxaphone solos, recitations and
sones, making in all nn evening's en
tertainment in quality far beyond any
thing offered heretofore n Tulsa.
The prices are opular, and range
from 2.V to 7,r)c.
FRATERNAL AID ASSOCIATION.
Stella Council, No. 531, F. A. A.,
will meet in Masonic Hall in Tulsa
at 8 o'clock p. m. on Thursday, April
19th, 1006, for the purpose of initiat
ing new members and such other busi
ness as may come before the council.
There will be sixty or more candidates
for initiation. Oereral President Don
SEISMOGRAUH WAS STILL
THE - OSCILLATIONS WERE
if
BADLY WRECKED. THE CALL
OVER IT BURIES THE ADJOIN
A HUNDRED DEAD ARE REPORT-,'
HEAP OF RUINS.
muh .'cation Is broken. At 6:30 the
shocks still prevailed. The water
works are wrecked and fire has bro
ken out
Kansas City, Mo., April 18. Tbe lo-
leal snnerintendent of the Postal Tele-
graph company says tne latest uiiorm
aticn at 9:30 is that San Francisco's
business section is on fire. Communi
cation is still broken.
Washington, April 18. Tbe seis
mograph needle in the weather bureau
was thrown violently from side to
side at 8:30 o'clock. Eastern time,
this morning.
San Francisco is the metropolic of
the' Pacific coast and with the excep
tion of St Louis is the largest city in
the United States west of the Missis
sippi river. The Unied StateB census
of 1900 reported its population to be
342,782. The city has a large Chinese
population, which live in a district ex
clusively their own.
The city was founded October 8th,
1776. by two rriars, Francisco Palon,
and Benito Cambon. It has tip to this
time been singularly free from satas
trophies of any kind.
Carlos of Iwrence. Kansas, will be
1 1 resent
All candidate f( r initiation and all
member in Tuk a or elsewhere are re
quested to W present and assist in
making this a red letter day for the
F. A. A. in Indian Territory.
W. A. M'DEKMOTT, Pres.
JACOB MOHAN, Secretary.
THE GRAND IS SAFE.
We, the undersigned architect and
contractor of Tulsa, I. T., have this
day made a careful inspection of the
(Irand opera house building, seeking
to local any defetts that might be
diseernable, but we pronounce the
building absolutely safe in all respects
and are willing to go on record that
there is iwi a safer building in the
city. No one ned have fear of acci
dent in attending plays in the house.
Dated at Tulsa this ISth day f
April, lfHHi.
JOHN HANSEL
J. W. EPPERSON.
L V. CLIFTON.
(J. W. FOKESMAN.
COMMERCIAL CLUB MEETING.
The neit regular meeting of the
club occurs tomorrow night. Several
important matters will come up for
consideration. All member are urged
to be present.
ANOTHER BUILDING.
Contract Let Today for the Bible, on
Main Street.
Till' rulitiurt fur erectinu the Milili'
huildiru on Main street, next to the
llaucork buililiiiL', iinw in course of
n nstrnrtinn. wiw li t today t .1. Mrad
Icy, who will commence work at unci1,
i.mi is already getting his material
lomly.
Thi' building will !' according to
plans mad i by Arichitect (Ilanlield,
will bi' two stories in height, and will
be in area VJ'ixl!.') fecf. It will be
modem in design, of bost material,
and intended for office and store pur
poses. PREPARING FOR ENCAMPMENT.
Committees of ihi (!. A. II. and
W. If. C. an' busy niak'uivr ' arrnnjr
ntents for the coming (Irand Army cn
riimpitifiit in this city next month.
Tin1 occasion will be a great one,
and will briivj many old soldiers to
this city. It will be the last this sec
tion i!l probably witness, as the vet
eran are fast tr 'i ui; to their last
home. One evening will be devoted
I-1 a literary and musical entertain
i . 'lit. and nothing will be left undone
tii.'it will contribute to the pleasure of
l he mu sts.
AN ACQUAINTANCE MEETING.
At the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, Tonight
As announced on Sunday, there will
he an acquaintance meeting held at
the M. E. church, south, tonight, at
which it is intended to bring the new
and old members more closely togeth
er and knit them more firmly in the
ties of love.
: The pastor. th Reverend J. H. Hall.'
earnestly invites his entire congrega
tion to be present and help make the
gathering pWnfcant and profitable to
alll IV,-'' ':.
ANOTHER GOOD DINNER
LADIES OF TRINITY THIS TIME.
Fed One Hundred and Sixty People
Yesterday.
The ladies of the fluild of Trinity
church pave a dinner yesterday which
yielded satisfaction not only to those
who ate it, but also to those who pre
pared and served it. When the World,
in announcini; this meal, said it would
be excellent, it knew what it was talk
ing about, but even the World was
very agreeably surprised at the trou
ble and care to which the ladies had
gone in order to tickle the palate ami
please the taste of every man and wo
man in Tulsa,
Preparing and serving a dinner,
such. as the one referred to. is no easy
task, and it is very doubtful if the
ladies of any church would undertake
one were not the needs of their church
oressinir and imperative. They de
serve success and thev deserve encour
agement
The ladies of Trinity fed 100 people
yet-terday, und gave them a dinner
well cooked, well served and of great
variety. They gave good value for
2.V. and that is what everybody want
ed and what everybody was pleased
with.
They labored under a disadvantage
in not being able to pcure the room
they expected to use, and which they
had advertised, and were compelled to
move into another at the eleventh
hour. In spite of this, however, they
realized a handsome sum of money for
their chnrth.
DENTISTS ROBBED.
Yesterday, while Messr. Selby and
Owens, the popular dentists, were at
dinner, their office in the Friend and
Jones building on East Second street
was entered and robbed of $40 worth
of gold. Dr. Ow ens had taken a pack
age of gold out of the post office that
morning, and it and all they had for
filling purposes was taken. .There is
no clue to the thief. A similar rob
bery took place in Oklahoma City last
week.
BURIED THIS MORNING.
J. D. Rose's seven year old son died
yesterday of spinal meningitis, and
was buried this morning by Mowbray
ft Winterringer. tThe parents lire at
Red Fork.
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BARRELS
WASTING DAILY
OIL FLOWING FROM WELL OVER
SURROUNDING COUNTRY.
NOBODY GETTING BENEFIT
Peculiar Conditions Prevailing on Lot
73 in the Osage Nation on
"Improved" Land.
Oil wasting at the rate of 1 ,(((() bar.
rels a day is the condition of affairs
on lot "II, in the Osage Nation. The
policy of the government has brought
about this extravagance and under ex
isting rules and regulations nothing
can he done to prevent this great
waste.
The conditions are peculiar, and will
he interesting reading to those unac
quainted .with them, therefore they
are briefly related.
The well was drilled on lot ".'
by the Devonian Oil company ol this
city. Iot 73 lies in the Osage coun
try, about half way between thi city
and the Kansas line, or about 25
miles due north from here. From the
Kansas line to the Creek line, tho
Osuge land is laid off in lots number
ing from 1 up to several hundreds.
These lots are covered bv what is
known as a "blanket" lease. A re
cent ruling of the department exempts
iWroved or cultivated lots lioin the
lease, and on tbewe oil men" are sup
posed to have no rights. Unimproved
lots thev can drill on, the Indians to
receive as royalty one-eighth of the
value of whatever may be devoloped
it used to be one-tenth.
Wben the Devonian drilled on lot
73 there was nothing but a wire
fence around it. In no other way was
it improved, and in no other way is it
improved now, and the company, holil-
incr a sub-lease under the blanket
lease, naturally thought it was one of
those which came legally under thu de
velopment provisions. They struck
oil, a tine well, (lowing easily 1,00
barrels daily. To the amazement ct
all concerned the Indian agent has de
clared that the lot is "improved,"
and prevents anyone trom deriving
anv benefits from the oil.
The Devonian Oil company, after
its work and expense of drilling, sees
the oil flowing over the urround'ng
country; the Indians aro losing the
royalty, and all because of the red
tape methods of a foolish and incom
petent Indian bureau.
TRINITY EPISCOPAL GUILD.
.The ladies of the guild of Trinity
Episcopal church will meet at the
church, corner of Cincinnati and Fifth
streets. Thursday afternoon, next, at
2:30 o'clock. A large attendance is
requested.
THE DAUGHTER OF JARIUS.
Given as a May Festival in Grand Op
era House.
Reverend H. D. Baldwin and some
of the member of Trinity Episcopal
Church are preparing for a May fes
tival in the (Irand opera house early
in the next month. All that can bo
learned about it so far is that the sub
ject will be the "Daughter of Jarius"
and music w ill be rendered by a choir
of SO voices. Further particulars will
be announced later.
WANTS MORE ROOM.
Santa Fe Agent Trying to Buy More
Land.
The Sunta Fe railway company is
needing more elbow room in Tulsa.
It wants to enlarge, spread out, and
in order to do so must have more
land.
A Santa Fe agent is in the city
now to accomplish this puiose if it
is possible. His plans ami purposed
are not divulged and will not he until
he either fails or succeeds in his ob
ject.
LADIES' AID SOCIETY.
The Northeast Circle of the Ladies'
Aid of the M. . church will meet
with Mrs. Hendershot 510 Eouth Ciiw
einnati street, Thursday afternoon. All
members are urged to be present.