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VOLUME LXXVIIJ.— NO. 114.
PORTENTOUS OF WAR.
Signs of Troubles That
Are Brewing In
Europe.
FRENCH AND RUSSIANS.
Indications That Representa
tives of Those Nations
Mean Mischief.
AGGRESSIVE ON THE PACIFIC.
By Stealth the Great White Bear Is
Stealing a March at Port
Arthur.
[Copyright, IFPS. by the Now Tork Times.]
LONDON, Eng., Sept 21.— Cynics are
pointing out mat on the day it was an
nounced that the Russian Minister of
Foreign Affairs was coming over from
Contrexville to pay a state visit to the
French President at the headquarters of
the French maneuvers, the news was also
} ablisbed of a further Russian loan, to be
issned in Paris November 1. There is, of
course, a certain kind of connection
between the two things, but when this has
been discovered there still remains the
imposing.and substantial fact that in its
direct relation to the peace of Europe this
demonstration at the camp of Mirecourt is
a good deal more important and disquiet
ing than was even the historic Toulon-
Paris carousal of two years ago. This is
the first time that the political side of the
Russian Government has been formally
brought in and exhibited as a part of the
rapprochement between the autocracy
ami the republic.
Prince Looanoff and M. Hanotaux,
closeted together for the better part of two
days in the center of an encampment of
130,000 French troops of all arms, furnish
a spectacle which compels serious
thoughts. These two Foreign Ministers
may j.ave talked about the. weather or
played picqnet, it is true, but that scarcely
matters. Their obvious intention was to
create a dramatic situation of extreme in
terest by the mere fact that they were to
gether under such conditions, and in that
they have undoubtedly succeeded.
It is observable, too, that the Russian
and French generals at the maneuvers
have spoken much more openly, even
recklessly, about the brotherhood of arms
existing between the two nations than
they had heietofore. The scene of mimic
warfare was for the first time in Lorraine,
and the speakers of both races, as they
(.'rari'i "ox:.-, in dm evening of the day of
their joint glory in the battlefield, lifted
their glasses intuitively toward the blue
line of the Yosges, where their common
enemy is intrenched.
The Gorman papers have studiously ig
nored nil this, but it would be a mistake to
supi o^e that any aspect of it has gone un
noticed. People's minds are therefore
prepared afresh for some tangible mani
festation of Franco-Russian intentions.
After their taking such elaborate pains to
show that they have established the closest
kind of partnership, it is only natural to
begin to look for some of its fruits. Hence
public suspicion runs eagerly ahead of the
ascertained facts to believe that these two
powers have deserted England in Armenia
and betrayed Germany in the Far East.
Both suspicions seem more probable than
not; but these things move very slowly
and on curiously devious linos, and it is to
be remembered always, too, that Germany
will pocket many quiet affronts and put on
a good face on one discomfiture after an
other in the pursuit of her studiously
waiting game.
She will never abandon the pretense of
amiable relations with Russia until she is
obliged to do so, or suffer herself to be
gored into rash action when prudence dic
tates the other thing. Emperor William
talks excitedly, but his deeds are ex
tremely cautious, and so it happens that
even when i- ranee and Russia do a con
certed joint action and popular expectations
of trouble run high, Germany calmly asso
ciates herself with this action and steril
ize? it for mischief.
Vague reports are beginning to come of
anticipated or accomplished Russian ag
gressions on the Pacific. It is said to be
understood at St. Petersburg that the Chi
nese assent nas been given to Russian
occupation of Port Arthur. If this be true
it will place England in a very awkward
position, indeed, for this is precisely what
the whole succession of British Ministers
have pledged themselves Russia should
never be permitted to do. Although it is
now stated that the Pamir difficulty has
been permanently settled, there are so
many other open diplomatic questions
scattered around the globe that this one
would hardly be missed.
Rome's celebration of the twenty-fifth
anniversary of General Cadoria's entrance
through the breach in the papal walls has
been all too palpably a partisan affair, a
grand festival and picnic of red-shirted
Garibaldians, Masonic lodges and target
shooting societies, rather than a national
demonstration. Humbert remains King
of the Carbonari, and not much else, just
as his father was a quarter of a century
ago. It is significant that the Parliament
and its officers were scarcely mentioned
during the festivities, and cut no figure at
all in the ceremonial". There was a good
deal of royalty, and still more of Crispi,
but scarcely a reminder of the constitu
tional nation. The truth is that Italy, as
a whole, is in no mood for merrymaking,
and discerns no practical reasons for cher
ishing 1870 as a sacred date. The promises
of that delusive year have all been broken.
The peninsula is as divided against itself
as it was under the Urand Dukes, and the
people are not better educated or housed,
fed and clothed. Taxation has risen to the
poii:t of ruin. TMe national debt of this
email impove l3hed country equals that of
the United States at the end of the Civil
War. Politics has grown incredibly
base and rotten, and wor.^t of all, there is a
permanent religious feud ceaselessly dis
turbing the social life of every village, dis
rupting families, estranging friends with
deadly certainty and making another Ire
land of the unhappy land.
Crispi's long speech yesterday recog
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nized and illustrated all this. It was as
narrow and strictly partisan harangue as
any Orange lodse ever listened to. Under
neath its specious arraignment of the
Papacy, however, there seemed to lurk a
sort of hint that a personal arrangement
with the Tope isn't, wholly impossible.
There are rumors, indeed, that negotia
tions between Crispi and Cardinal Galira
berti, who represents the liberal wing of
the sacred college, have already taken a
definite shape, but what they involve re
mains purely speculative guesswork.
Two extremely significant Irish inci
dents claim notice to-day. William O'Brien
has a long letter in the Times praising the
work of Arthur Balfour's congested dis
tricts board, and Gerald Balfour was re
ceived in the chief town of John Dillon's
constituency with a bonfire and popular
acclamations by the way.
Among the passengers on the Teutonic
is William Murphy, the defeated inde
pendent candidate of South Kerry, who is
visiting America on electric locomotion
matters. He is the largest railway con
tractor of Ireland, and one of Dublin's
chief business men as well, it would not
be a bad idea for the Irish-Americans who
take such keen interest in Irish party har
mony to see him and learn what sort of
men the bosses of the party are interested
.in keeping out in order to maintain their
majority of salaried nobodies and their
griu on the party funds.
Ever since Hamburg had her terrible
cholera visitation and it was discovered
that even these islands escaped the con
tagion, the British public has flatly de
clined to be interested in bulletins about
the plague on the Continent. The lapse
of curiosity this year may be said to be
complete. Dispatches have come from
Russia, chronicling thousands of deaths in
the "Western provinces, and the Loncon
papers did not even print them. It is
briefly announced now that the cholera is
established in Constantinople, but ail its
intermediate strides, in its advance south
ward, through the Austrian empire,
though chronicled abroad, are never men
tioned here. Reports indicate the propor
tion of deaths to cases to be much larger
in Volhynia this year than it has been
known anywhere before or since the open
ing year of 1894, but Volhynia is a long
way off and nobody cares.
Apparently, too, we are going to have
an early winter, for there was a slight frost
reported from numerous places in England
last night, and there are signs of autumn
prematurely advanced all over the Con
tinent, so, probably, the disease will soon
disappear. Unfortunately, howevei, it
revives now every spring, and seems to
have become a permanent fixture in Eu
rope.
There are curious stories current among
people in touch with high politics about
the King of the Belgians. He is said to
have lost all his personal fortune in the
Congo venture, and now since the oppo
sition in Belgium to that country's taking
the burden off his shoulders, has practi
cally won the day, he is at his wit's end to
know what to do. He was over here in
cognito last month, and saw a number of
the principal Ministers with the view of
interesting them in the project of
securing the Congo State for the British
empire, but lam informed with lack of
success.
He is now in Paris and is reported to
have an appointment with the President
for to-day. His purpose i 3 believed to be
to remind France that she always claimed
reversionary rights in the Free State, and
to ask her now what price she 13 prepared
to pay for it. Objections rise to dealing
with him as a sovereign. It is said that
he is even willing to abdicate the Belgian
crown and enter into negotiations merely
as the private proprietor of the Congo
territory. On the other hand England and
Germany are understood to be agreed in
resisting any such bargain, and they are
both certainly magnifying the importance
of the Stokes incident in a way which
suggests a desire for a pretext to intervene
in Congo affairs whenever such action
seems needful. President Faure had con
siderable trading interests in the Congo,
and in that way became an intimate friend
of Leopold long before any one dreamed
of seeing him installed in the Elysee.
The death of the Princess of Battenberg
recalls temporary attention to One of the
most romantic family histories of modern
times. It is said now that she was of
Polish noble descent, but her father,
Count Haucke, was the first who ever bore
the title. His father was a schoolteacher
in Warsaw, of Jewish birth, who, being a
man of great cleverness and personal at
tractions, got for pupils the pick of the
daughters of the Polish nobility and every
Princess from the German courts. He
married the beautiful Alsatian governess
of one of the Hessian families, and this
clever couple, through the interest of their
influential girl pupils, secured for three
sons fat places at the Russian court or
army and important marriages. Now two of
their descendants are husbands respectively
of a daughter and a granddaughter of the
Queen of England and a third occupied a
European throne and came within an ace
of marrying a sister of the German Em
peror before he died. Harold Frederic.
TO UPHOLD IUS I'OL.ICY.
Editor Jones of the Post-Dispatch Se-
cures an In Junction.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 21. — Coionel
Charles H. Jones, editor and general man
ager of the Post-Dispatch, to-day applied
for an injunction restraining the board o f
directors of that paper from interfering
with his control of the Post-Dispatch.
Judge Woods granted a temporary re
straining order, and the matter will come
up on September .30. The trouble origi
nates over the change in the editorial pol
icy af the paper, which formerly advocated
sound money, but under Colonel Jonos'
management has championed bimetallism.
By an agreement with Joseph Pulitzer in
February last Colonel Jones bought a one
sixth interest in the paper and was given
absolute control for five years. He claims
that Pulitzer has violated the terms of the
contract.
o\e sec no j.rycnr.n.
Two Other Suspected Colored Men Also in
the Mnb'a Hands.
NEW ORLEANB, La., Sept. 2L— News
reached here late to-night that two negroe«
who left to-day in charge of a Sheriff were
taken from the train at Hammond, La.,
and one of them was lynched. The negro
lynched, Edward Smith, murderously as
saulted a telegraph operator at Hammond
Friday night, crushing his skull with a
coupling pin. The other negro, Sam Scott,
says he joined Smith after the asi-ault and
the mob suspended action in his case to
let him prove his story. On the way up a
negro was captured who had just placed a
cross-tie across the track. It is believed he
also will be lynched.
FRESNO IS IN LINE.
Funds for the People's
Road Pledged by
Citizens.
ROUSING MASS-MEETING.
Two Thousand People Cheer
the Approach of Com
mercial Prosperity.
STIRRING ADDRESSES MADE.
Liberal Subscriptions to Swell the
Amount Being: Raised by the
Committee of Ten.
FRESNO, Cal., Sept. 21.— Fully 2000
people attended the mass-meeting held
CAMP NO. 1, GRANT BROS.' GUTFIT, LOCATED SIX MILES OUT ON THE GRADE OF THE SAN JOA
QUIN VALLEY ROAD. A PART OF THE CAMP IS HERE SHOWN AT NOONTIDE. TWO OTHER
CAMPS ARE LOCATED FURTHER ON UP THE LINE.
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here to-night in behalf of the Valley road.
Harry Sherwood of the committee of ten,
which has in charge the raising of funds
for rights of way and depot sites, pre
sided. In a short address Mr. Sherwood
stated the object of the meeting. The
purpose, said the chairman, was not to
make a public solicitation of subscriptions
but 10 present facts to the people that they
may thoroughly realize the decisive point
in Fresno's history, that they may be
TRESTLE BRIDGE WORK AT A IOINT FOUR MILES FROM BTOOK
ION ON THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY ROAD. IHESE OPEN
INGS ON THE GRADE ARE AT POINTS ABOUT 2000 FEET
APART AND ARE 1O PERMIT THE PASSAGE OF OVERFLOW
WATER.
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aroused into giving more thorough con
sideration to the necessity of subscribing
to the fund.
Judge M. K. Harris was then introduced,
and made an able address.
"This is the supreme moment in Fresno's
history," said the speaker. "If Fresno gets
the Valley Railroad she is bound to become
the metropolis of the great San Joaquin
Valley. If the road passes by Fresno will
deteriorate into a small country town of
no importance and her natural destiny will
SCENE ON THE GRADE OF THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY ROAD
SIX MILES FROM STOCKTON. SEVENTY-FIVE TEAMS ARE AT
WORK HERE AND THIRTY A MILE FURTHER TOWARD THE
RIVEB.
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be plucked by some adjoining now coun
try village. Fresno has great natural ad
vantages; in fact she is incomparably
fortunate. Situated in the center of a
great valley and surrounded by vast re
sources, developed and undeveloped, she
is bound to become a great city if at this
critical period her citizens will only avail
themselves of the grand opportunity of
securing this competing road."
The speaker stated that he had heard it
argued that the new road could not afford
to go by Fresno. Said he:
"Profit by tne experience of Visalia in
early days. When the Southern Pacific
built through this valley Visalia's wise
statesmen refused to raise a bonus, in the
belief that the railroad could not afford to
pass by the town. What was the result?
The road did pass by, and to this day Visa
lia has remained a small country town. "
Judge Harris closed bis speech amid
vigorous applause.
W. W. Phillips, Democratic candidate
for Railroad Commissioner at the last
election, was the next speaker. Mr. Phil
lips made a telling speech, pointing out
that the new road was conceived in the
idea of rescuing the people from the
clutches of the Southern Pacific. The
speaker said that the funds which are
being raised are not for a bonus to the
railroad people, but to be expended at
home in securing rights of way and depot
sites.
E. D. Edwards followed in a clear pre
sentation of the matter at issue and the
duties of the citizens of Fresno.
After the meeting a number of citizens
came forward and made liberal subscrip
tions. The amount remaining to be raised
is about $ 15.000. The meeting was a grand
success, and the enthusiasm displayed
was very encouraging to t!. . 'icaJ iv • " f ul.
PROGItJC/iS AT BTOCKTOS.
Gradera Arm Mapitlly bearing the Stan
islaus Hirer.
STOCKTON. Cal., Sept. 21.— This was
Valley-road day at the San Joaquin fair.
At the races, to-day several hundred men
in blue overalls watched the speeding, and
people watched them. A Valley Railroad
laborer is not looked upon here as a com
mon pick-and-shovel man, but as a factor
in the industrial liberation of the valley,
hence there is a kindly interest manifested
by citizens in his doings that is not ex
tended to workmen in less important
enterprises. The forces worked up to the
noon hour, for the construction work on
the Jine has struck a speed that will hardly
admit of a pause, but this afternoon and
evening the men enjoyed the first holiday
since the work began.
When the men come to town money is
sure to circulate— "Valley-road money,"
the merchants call it. A large part of the
forces are men of families and, as a result,
the money naturally goes into channels
Continued on Third I'age.
SCARLET AND WHITE
In Every Event the Lads
Carried the Colors
to Victory.
BRITONS WERE SHUT OUT
Never Has Such a Severe Beat
ing Been Given the Eng
lish Athletes.
WOBLD'S RECORDS CUT DOWN.
Twelve Thousand Persons Saw the
Came Americans Win Eleven
Straight Contests.
NEW YORK, N. V.. Sept. 21.— Never in
the annals of athletics was such a decisive
j beating administered in an event of so
ninthMmportuiice and to such an aggrega
tion of champions as that given by the
New York Athletic Club to the team of the
London Athletic Club in tbe dual interna
tional games at Manhattan field to-day.
Not even the most enthusiastic "rooter"
I for the success of the scarlet and white in
; his wildest stretches of imagination ever
i attempted to bring himself to hope for a
i straight series of wins down the line.
Fully 12,000 persons were present to-day at
the Held, and when they saw event after
event going to the credit of the Americans
their enthusiasm knew no bounds.
From the time the gates were opened, at
12:30 p. m., the crowds kept surging in, the
procession growing thicker as time for
starting drew nigh. At 2:30 o'clock, when
the starters came out for the half mile,
there was not a vacant seat to be had on
covered stands, while the bleachers, ex
cept in the top rows, were filled with good
natured, perspiring crowds, who sweltered
in the fierce heat of the sun and shouted
as their favorites came home. Never did
an athletic meeting, even in tne palmiest
days of the old Cherry diamond, evoke so
much public interest and enthusiasm or
bring out so large a representative attend
ance to Manhattan field.
From the time that Charley Kilpatrick
won the' half mile down to the moment
that Conneff broke the tape, a winner of
the three-mile run, the eleventh and last
event of the day, the interest never flagged
and the applause never waned.
Of the eleven events on the programme
only three were looked upon in the light of
certainties for the Americans.viz. : The high
jump.the shot-put and hammer-throw. The
half mile and mile were regarded as pretty
good things for the home club, but by no
means certainties, while the other events
were considered to be very open. That the
mercury foot would capture all of the
eleven off the reel was certainly not
hinted at.
The half-mile run was the first act in
what was to be a tragedy for the wearers of
the green and gold. Charley Kilpatrick,
(he American champion over the distance,
and Harvey Lyons were the pair selected
to carry the N. Y. A. C. colors, while F. S.
Horan and C. H. Lewin sported the green
and gold. Lyons'businessin theracewas not
done after the first quarter, and he started
to make the pace a hot one for Kilpatrick,
who is a trifle slow in getting into his
stride.
When Lyons dropped back Kilpatrick
went to the front, followed by Lowin and
Horan. Lewin quit entering the back
stretch. Iloran went in chase of the
American champion, but could not get
within less than six yards of the Union
College flyer at the finish, and the first
point in the contest went to the N. Y. A. C.
The enthusiasm was wild for a few min
utes and the band played "Yankee Doo
dle." The cheering was renewed when the
time — 1 minute 53 2-5 seconds — was put on
the board and the spectators were in
formed that the best previous record of 1
minute 54 2-5 seconds, made by Cross of
Oxford University, in 1888, had been beaten
by a full second.
Then came the 100-yard dasli, and if
there was any one event that was doomed
a sure win for the visiting team it was
that. The great Bradley, the greatest
sprinter in Great Britain, was there, but,
from the flash of the pistol to the breaking
of the tape, Bernard J. Wefers, the wearer
of the scarlet and white, was a yard in
front of the champion of Great Britain.
One watch made the time 9 .3-5 seconds,
bat the official time was returned as 9 4-5
seconds, which ties the world's record.
Wcfers won the 220-yard run handily
by two yards, and Cruru beat the Londoner
by about three yards. The time, 21 3-5
second, makes new figures for the world's
record, which up to to-day stood at 21 4-5
seconds.
The medals were presented by Mayor
Strong to-night, and both teams received a
banquet.
880-yard run, won by Charles Kilpatrick, X.
Y. A. C; Frederick S. Horan, London A. C,
second: H. B. Lyons, X. Y. A. C, third. Time,
1:53 2-3. The time beats the previous world's
record, made by F. J. K. Cross of Oxford Uni
versity in 1888, by one second.
100-yard run, won by B. J. Wefers, N. Y. A.
C; Charles A. Bradley, London A. C, second;
John V. Crum, H. Y. A. C, third. Time, 9 4-5
seconds. Wefer's time ties the world's record.
Running: high jump, won by M. F. Sweeney,
X. Y. A. C.;G feet 5% inches, which is now
the world's record; S. A. W. Baltazze, N. Y. A.
C, was second, 5 feet 10 inches.
One-mile run, won by T. P. Conneff , X. Y. A.
C. ; George \V. Orton, X. Y. A. C, second. Time,
4:18 1-5.
220-yard run, won by B. J. Wefers, X. Y. A.
C; J. V. Crum. X. Y. A. C, second; G. Jordan,
London A. C, third. Time, :21 3-5.
Putting the 16-pourrd shot, won by Geonre R.
Gray, X. Y. A. C, 43 feet 5 inches; \\. O.
Hiekok, X. Y. A. C. 42 feet, second; E. J. Wat
son, London A. C, 34 feet 7 inches, third.
120-yard hurdle race, won by Stephen C^ase,
N. Y. A. C ; Godfrey Shaw, London A. C. sec
ond; AY. J. Oakley, London A. C, third. Chase's
time (15 2-5 seconds) was one-fifth of a second
better than his own previous world's record,
but was not allowed on account of his having
knocked down the first hurdle.
Throwing 10-pound hammer, won by J. S.
Mitchell, N. Y. A. C. 137 feetSK inches; H. P.
Cross, N. Y. A. C, 124 feet 10 inches, second ;
George S. Robertson, London A. C, 94 feet 3
inches.
440-yard run, won by Thomas E. Burke. X.
Y. A. C.: Gilbert Jordan, London A. C, second;
W. Fitzherbert, London A. C, third. Time, :4i).
Running broad jump, won by E. P. Bloss, X.
Y. A. C, 221eet 6 inches; L. P. Sheldon, X. Y.
A. C, second, 21 feet 11 inches; W. J. Oakley,
London A. C, third, 21 feet U^ inches.
Three-mile run, won by Thomas P. Conneff,
X. Y. A. C; E. J. Wilkins, London A. C, sec
ond. Time 15 :3t> 1-5.
WASAN OLD STAGE-DRIVER
Death of Horace D. Wolcott,
Who Had a Remarkable
Career.
From an Early A&e He Held the
Ribbons From New York to
California and Mexico.
CHICAGO, 111., Sept. 21.— Horace D.
Wolcott died last night at 385 Orchard
street at the age of 79. He had lived in
Chicago for fifty years. Mr. Wolcott from
the age of 15 drove stages in all parts of
the country, from New York to California,
and even down in Mexico. He began his
career as stage-driver in the employ of
John Frink, the first man to own a stage
line in Chicago.
Previous to this he rode on the first trip
of the "John Bull' 1 train, a distance of
sixteen miles, in New York State in 1831.
From 1837 to IS4O he worked for Frink, and
cast his first vote in 1840 for William Henry
Harrison. The next year he went to Bal
timore, reaching the city in time to drive
the stage in which the new President rode
that city to Washington for his inaugura
tion. Mr. Wolcott was fond of telling how in
1845 John C. Fargo, founder of the Wells-
Fargo Express Company, was one of his
frequent passengers, and how he always
carried with him a leather bag, which con
tained ali the "express" then transported
by the Fargo company.
In 1846 Wolcott went down into Mexico,
where he drove a stage among the moun
tains until the Mexican war broke out two
years later, wh, r. he was forced to take up
his residence in the City of Mexico until it
was captured by General Scott in 1848.
THREE MEN WERE BURNED
Fearful Record of a Fire in
Freid's Paint Work 3at
Pittsburg.
Barrels of Oil Exploded Like Car
tridges and There Was No
Espape.
PITTSBFRG, Pa., Sept. 21.— Three men
burned to death is the fearful record of a
fire this evening iD the paint works of W.
K. Freid, 96 Main street, Allegheny. The
names of the dead are: Henry Turner
(English), teamster, aged o.s years, married,
2'A River avenue, Allegheny; Joseph
Lastavie (Austrian), aged 21 years, single;
a man believed to be Georee Huff, laborer,
aged 30 years, single.
The fatalities are the result of explosions
of barrels of oil in the paint works, which
caught the men unawares. Huff was dead
when taken from the ruins of the building.
The other men lived but a few moments
after their rescue. The fire was caused by
the boiling over of a caldron of oil. This
ignited with a flash and quickly set fire to
the barrels of oil, which exploded like
cartridges, scattering the flames in all
directions. Every man in the workroom
was sacrificed.
The plant is known as the Atlas Paint
Works and was three stories high, occu
pied sixty feet front on Main street and
sixty feet Lack on Carpenter alley. The
western part of the building was occupied
by Lucz Bros., manufacturers of jellies and
preserves. The lo9s on the building is $35,
--000. insurance $20,000. The loss on the
paint stock is $15,000. Lutz Bros, valued
their stock at $25,000, which was damaged
probably one-half and is fully insured.
BURIED UXDER DEBRIS.
Tito Little Girl* Caught by the JFall of a
Building.
CHICAGO, 111.. Sept. 21.— A frame
building at 204 North Franklin street,
which was being torn down, collapsed at
12:20 to-day while the workmen were at
dinner, and Mamie Kelly, 11 years of age,
and another little girl, name unknown,
who were playing about the place, were
buried under the ruins. The Kelly girl,
besides having both lega broken, suffered
interrinl injuries, and will die. The other
child was severely bruised about the limbs
and body, but was not seriously injured.
PRAIRIE FIRES RAGIXQ.
Flames Cause Great Destruction in
Southern Oklahoma.
WICHITA, Kans., Sept. 21.— Terrible
prairie fires are raging in the southern part
of Oklahoma. Thousands of acres have
been devastated and the loss will be very
heavy. The damage to the hay crop is
great and the crops have suffered. The
cowboys have organized into lire com
panies and are fighting its advance like de
mons. Many people have fled from their
homes, and it is believed that several have
met their death in the flames.
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PEARY MET FAILURE.
Return of the Explorer
on the Steamer
Kite.
PRIVATIONS ENDURED.
Great Suffering on One Jour
ney Owing to a Scarcity
of Provisions.
ALL THE DOGS HAD TO DIE.
Lea Became Sick and His Two
Comrades Drew Him Over the
Ice on a Sleigh.
ST. JOHNS, N. F., Sept. 21.— The Peary
relief steamer Kite arrived here this after
noon bringing Peary, Lee and Hanson safe
home. The Peary expedition party en
dured much hardship last winter, but un
daunted started northward again in April
in an attempt to make a new record.
They succeeded in reaching Independ
ence Bay, where they camped. They were
unable to make any pronounced advance
northwaid owing to the weakness of the
party, both Lee and Hanson being ex
hausted. The work of the expedition is
believed to have been unimportant. The
Kite reached Peary's headquarters August
."and started to return on September 1.
They spent the intervening time exploring
in the interest of the Greenland Scientific
Expedition.
Members of the party are very reticent,
but generally conceded that in the main
the expedition was practically a failure.
Last winter was passed uneventfully at
Anniversary Lodge in preparing for the
great expedition over the ice cap, which
left Anniversary Lodge April 1. All three,
Peary, Lee and Hanson, took part, having
five sledges and forty-nine dogs, besides a
supporting party of natives during the
tirst stages of the journey.
W T hen they arrived at a point 135 miles
from headquarters, wher% he had cached
provisions on the failure of the expedition
in 1895, Peary could not find the cache,
which had evidently been snowed over and
buried. Consequently he decided to con
tinue on toward Independence Bay, hop
ing to augment his limited stock of
provisions by shooting game. He expected
to reach the bay and do some coast ex
ploration, which two hopes were realized,
although at the cost of dreadful hardships.
Lee gave out and had to be huuled for sev
eral days till the bay was reached, where
they contrived to shoot several musk oxen.
Owing to the smallness of the party and
the fatal defect of a scarcity of food, Peary
could not make hi! way northward. He
did some coast exploration himself, while
Lee recuperated, after which they began
their return journey to camp. The dogs
became emaciated from want of food and
then developed contagious diseases. Ulti
mately the stock of dogs became so re
duced that only one remained when head
quarters were reached on the return jour
ney.
During the return Lee again collapsed
and had to take to the sledge, which Peary
and Hanson , with the remaining dog, drew
over frozen snow until he recovered.
For over two weeks all three lived on
one meal a day. They ate their last ounce
of food twenty miles from camp, and
passed many hours without food before
they succeeded in reaching home. They
got back July 25, just a week before they
heard news of the relief expedition. The
Kite reached the mouth of Inglefield Gulf
July 21, but could not penetrate Northum
berland Sound owing to ice. Being forced
south by the icepack, she tried Murchison
Sound, but failed, and eventually entered
McCormack Bay on August 2.
The relief expedition started and walked
thirty-five miles to Bedouin Bay, where
they found the gallant trio. The parties
returned to the ship August 4. She then
started on a walrus cruise. She proceeded
thirty miles north of Littleton Island, on
the east side, and then crossed to Capo
Sabine, on the west coast, whence she
cruised south, entering Jones Sound and
proceeding fifty miles up it, until stopped
by ice.
Next she followed the coast and crossed
Melville Bay to Cape York, where she ex
plored for meteorites and contrived to get
two safely shipped, one weighing halt a
ton and the other three tons, hut a stone
commonly known as Sir John Ross', an
immense block of almost pure iron, weigh
ing about forty tons, it was found impossi
ble to move and they were compelled to
abandon it. They drilled several holes in
it, hoping to force off a piece, but failed.
On September 7 the Kite was caught in a
pack off Disko and remained there four
days. She barely escaped being nipped
and sinking. The Kite has on board the
most valuable collection ever brought
out of the Arctic regions. AH the mem
bers of the combined expedition agree that
this is the death blow to any Arctic expedi
tion under American auspices for many
years to come. Peary feels his failure
keenly and much sympathy is expressed
lor him here.
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