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HATTIESBURG. MISSISSIPPI. MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 3, 1908
NO 65
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PROPERTY LOSS IS
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lesi and Village Street* Are
^trewn With Dead.
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1ED PERIL SWEEPS
DOOBNAM VALLEY
Railroad Tracks Are Destroyed, Block
ing Supplies and the Homeless Are
Now Starving—Little Prospect of
Checking the Flames.
Winnipeg, Canada, August 3.--At
* least 360 lives and * 10 , 000,000 worth of
property has been lost In the bush flr£,
which is stiH raging with fieudish fury
In the Crow's Nest district of
Doobnam valley.
Seven prosperous and populous
towns have Leeir wiped off the map, tn
eluding Sparwood, Orow's Nest, Cran
brock,-Michel. Hosmer, Elk and Frank.
^^^--Several Other towns have been partial
ly destroyed,; .
The .streets bf the devastated vll
x luges are lined with dead-bodies.
More than a half million rfons'of
coal Is burning at the Parnie coal
jAm^^^^hemlnes are threatened with
^HUE*aWM*_Lhan six thou
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with every avenu^o^WWWB
from hundreds of homes. "
The tracks of the Northern Pacific
Railroad have been destroyed for
miles. This prevents the sending of
food or aparatus to fight the flames.
It is said that the present fire has
been raging for months, but little dan
ger apprehended until Saturday, when
• the blaze. started on Its rampage
across the plains.
LITTLE HOPE.OF
STOPPING THE BLAZifc.
Hearst News Service.
,, Winnipeg, August 3.—2:30 p. m.—
] | There is absolutely no hope now of
njgytnf the forest fires In -Doobnam
alley until rain falls. Many lives
■have already been lost In trying to
Jslay the progress of the encroaching
f flames, but without success. All ef
forts will be abandoned and attention
will now be turned to saving the lives
Of those imperiled and in supplying
food to the -homeless and starving.
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Hearst News Service
Guthrie, Okla., August 3.^-Governor
' Haskell charges that Attorney General
Bonaparte's recent ruling as to- the
" right of faatio,ual Hanks K , ..tribute to.
a guarantee fund Is nothing less than
political sop to the Republican trusts
bbers. - . ' > „ •
oma banks are not at all
* pleased over the action of the state In
■ withdrawing funds from banks that
have not complied with tbe state law.
Only 67 out of 300 state banks have
thus far complied.
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OF PRONOUNCED VARIETY
Here Is 'a letter
Hattiesburg business cofScern which
SOCIETY MEN
WILL BATTLE
Have Organized Company to Com*
bat Night RidePi in Ken
tucky Town.
Hearst News Service.
Lexington, Ky., August 3.—A coitl*
pany of young society men has been
formed to fight the night riders. The
men will be mounted and heavily, arm
ed. It-Is planned to charge the night
riders at the first opportunity.
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on Labor Day.
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CANNED MUSIC
RECEIVED FROM
FLOWERY KINGDOM
Hearst News Service.
Near York, August 3.—The first can
ned music from China and Japan was
received here today. The phonographs
are charged with Japanese, and Chin
ese operattos In the native tongues.
NARROW ESCAPE
Prom the flames
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- Th*e home of Mr. J. M. Gatlin, about
two inlles north of the city, was de
stroyed by fire about 5 o'olock Sunday
morning. The fire whistle blew, but It
was too far out for the department to
be ofrany service.
The loss to My. Gatlin was about
*2,000, half covered by Insurance.
The cause of the fire was a lamp ex
plosion in a room two booms y from
where Mr. Gatlin Was sleeping, and
the fire- made such headway that he
narrowly escaped ;wfth his fife. His'
family was away from home.
STEWARDS MEET.
The regular monthly meeting of the
stewards of Main Street Methodist
Church will be held In the church at
8 p. m. today. '
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proposes to buy will be very rigid.
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BITTEN BY
Panama Officer and Ten Privates
Jteach Washington For' Pas
teur Treatment.
Hearst News Service.
Washington, August 3.—Major Rus
sell and fen privates from Port Dla
balo, Panama, are here to receive'the
Pasteur treatment for ddg bites inflict
ed'on July 21,
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PROGNOSTICATOR
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O'NEAL GETS HIS CHILD BY
ORDER OF JUDGE CAIHOON
Another turn In the breezy O'Neal
case was taken Saturday afternoon
when Associate Justice Caihoon grant
ed a supercedeas restoring the O'Neal
child to the father. The Jackson Dally
Slews thus relates how tAe' matter
accomplished:
Mr. D, L„ O'Neal has once more se
cured the custody of his Infatp daugh
ter, Flossie, In spite of the adverse
decision of Chancellor Lyell,
awarded the custody of the infant to
O'Neftl's former wife, Mrs. C. M.
O'Neal, and afterwards refused a writ
of supercedeas.
The'victory of the father was
what unexpected. Motion for. an ap
peal and supercedeas was placed be
fore Chancellor «Lyell for hearing
SatuVday. The appeal was granted,
but the chancellor declined to grant a
supercedeas, believing that the child
should remain In the custody of the
mother until tffe Anal disposal of the
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TWO KILLED IN
AUTO ACCIDENT
Paterson, N. J„ August *.—An auto
case by the Supreme court*
Last night Messrs. May, Flowers &
Whitfield, attorneys for Mr. O'Neal,
carried the_ matter before Associate
Justice S. S. Caihoon, of the
supreme
courts with a brief statement of the
facts, and the writ of supercedeas was
granted, with an order to Mrs. O'Neal
No. 2 to return the child to the cus
tody of her former husband. ,
The father was overjoyed wherf the
news was brought to him that
child was about to be returned to his
custody.
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He is absolutely confident
that the supreme court will
his contention when the
sustain
case conies up
for review, which will not be until this
October termr.
ABlde from the very breezy testi
mony that has been presented In the
case, much attentlon^has been attract- 1
ed to this litigation" throughout
state because of the bitterness .with
which It has been fought.
the
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