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AN EPITOME OF LATE LIVE NEWS CONDENSED RECORD OP THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT HOME AND ABROAD. FROM ALL SOURCES SAYINGS, DOINGS, ACHIEVE MENTS, SUFFERINGS, HOPES AND FEARS OF MANKIND. Western Newspaper Union News Service. WEBTERN. With nearly 1,000 delegates In at tendance, the Vocational Guidance con ference, opened in Grand Rapids, Mich. A slight earthquake, apparently traveling from west to east, rattled windows at San Francisco. No dam age was reported. The ministers of Montana, in con ference at Butte, organized the "Law Enforcement and Public Welfare League of Montana," to combat vice in the state.- The body of Adolphus Busch,‘the millionaire brewer and philantroplst, arrived in New York and was taken to St. Louis, his late home, where the funeral was held. San Francisco eclipsed all her for mer records for crowds, festal spirit and Illumination with an electrical pa geant of floats depicting the evolution of the dreadnaught. A woman for chief of police of Chi cago is being seriously considered by Mayor Harrison. Mrs. Gertrude Howe BrittOn looms large-- in the mayor’s canvass of the field. Jews and Christians of different de nominations assembled in San Fran cisco in mass meeting to protest against the trial at Kiev, Russia, of Mendel Beillis, a Jew, for the alleged ritual murder of a Christian boy. As a move in their fight for a more rational dress for women, Wisconsin club women, in convention at Sheboy gan, adopted a resolution petitioning dealers and pattern makers to extend their stocks to include wider gowns. Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago’s ac knowledged social leader, escaped rob bery and perhaps death by a margin of hours, according to a story told in the Wheaton Jail by Henry Spencer, the "hammer murderer" of Mildred Alli son Rexroat. Two helmet men, among those who labored without sleep for thirty-six hours in an effort to bring from mine No. 2 at Dawson, N. M., the bodies burled there by the explosion gave up their lives, bringing the total number of dead to 2G3. One hundred hungry millionaires ate luncheon in two baggage cars at Gary, Ind. They were officers of tlio subsidiary companies~of the United States Steel Corporation who went to the Indiana city to inspect the corpor ation’s plant there. Registration booths at North Platte, yalenttne and Broken Bow land of fices were closed for the drawing of government lands in the North Platte forest reserve and Fort Niobrara mili tary reservation. About 75,000 have registered for GOO claims. WASHINGTON. Plans are under way for the estab lishment of practical demonstration farms on each government reclama tion project. The United States Supreme Court granted the request that the so-called "bleached flour case," be reassigned for oral argument in January. President Wilson and Secretary Daniels took a dry land “cruise,” when they visited the District of Columbia naval militia battalion at its armory, which had been transformed to resem ble the deck of a battleship. Official announcement from the ex press companies of their intention to comply, after Dec. 1, with the Inter state Commerce Commission’s order for 'revision of their system of rates and methods has been made. State department officials were concerned over the situation which has arisen in Havana as a result of the refusal of the Cuban congress to convene in extraordinary session to consul lr the proposed foreign loan. Senator Borah of Idaho has. written the Woman’s Political union of New ark, N. J., he will not take part in any suffrage gathering where Mrs. Emme line Pankhurst appears without taking the opportunity to denounce militant methods. A woman’s efforts to save her home again prevailed when the Senate re passed the so-called Corbett tunnel appropriation, awarding $15,750 to claimants for labor and material fur nished on the Shoshone irrigation project in Wyoming. FOREION. Col. TheodSre Roosevelt left Rio do Janeiro for Sao Paulo. Troopi of all the warring Balkan states committed gross atrocities, ac cording to the evidence gathered by the International Carnegie commission in Its searching inquiry Just ended at Paris. At the close of the elections Sunday the indications were that not suffic ient votes had been cast to constitute a legal choice for the presidency to succeed Gen. Vlctorlano Huerta of Mexico. Forty sailors and passengers on board the Finnish steamer Westkus ten were drowned when the vessel struck a reef near Vasa, in the gulf of Bothnia and' went down. None was rescued. General elections were held through out Italy Sunday. Disorders were not as grave as expected, although one person was killed and many wounded. Numerous arrests were made In vari ous quarters. An earthquake shock lasting about fifteen seconds occurred at Colon. Houses rocked and clocks stopped, but no serious damage was re ported. The tremor had been ex ceeded in Intensity by only one other recent shock. BPORT. Dartmouth trounced Princeton, C to 0 at Princeton. The Boulder Preps defeated the Greeley High school eleven, 13 to 0, at Boulder, Colo. The University of Colorado defeat ed the Colorado Aggies of Fort Col lins by a score of 1C to 7. Princeton defeated Yale in the boat race on Carnegie lake at Princeton, N. J. by one and a half lengths. Washington and Jefferson held Yale to a 0 to o tie in a desperately played game on a soggy field at New Haven, Conn. The University of South Dakota played the University of Denver Team off its feet at Sioux Falls piling up a big score.- George Horton of Loveland and Walt Walters of Denver fought a ten round draw in Denver before atyout 400 people at the Colorado Athletic club. Harold H. Gile, son of Professor M. C. Gile of Colorado college at Colorado Springs, was one of Princeton’s star linemen in the game at Princeton with Dartmouth. Jimmy Clabby and Frank Logan have been matched for a twenty round boxing contest at San Francisco on Thanksgiving day. They will weigh 158 pounds three hours before the bell. A team of veterans of from one to three years’ experience against a team of comparatively new men and one which has played together in but three games, tells the story of the de feat of Utah by the Colorado School of Mines by the Bcore of 7 to 0 at Salt Lake. GENERAL. Peter W. Lnngeurd of Detroit was rescued after having been four hours In the grasp of the whirlpool below Ni agara Falls in a small motor boat. The University of Wisconsin has un dertaken a scientific investigation of the bed bug, to determine whether the annoying insect is a factor’ln spread ing disease, particularly typhoid fever. Warren Eaton, a negro, accused of having made an insulting remark to a white woman at Monroe, La., was taken from the pail by a mob, and hanged to a telegraph pole. Judge Emory Speer of Uie United States court for the Southern District of Georgia, lies dangerously ill at his summer home in Mount Airy, Ga. His condition has been critical for several days. Capt. Francis Inch, hero of the Vol turno disaster, was guest 0 ?! honor at a dinner given in New York by Nelson Dodge, Sons of St. George, to mark the 108th anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar. At the session of the World’s C. T. U. in New York, Mrs. Frances Barns, secretary of the young woman’s branch, told the delegates that it was time for the organization to take a stand in regard to woman’s dress. William E. Parker of Harrington. Me., a University of Maine football star, was Instantly killed at Wor cester, Mass., in a Btreet railway trans former station when 13,000 volts of electricity passed through his body. The funeral of Adolphus Busch, who died two weeks ago in Germany, took place In St. Louis, in the presence of members of the family and 150 honor ary pall bearers. Twenty-five automo bile trucks laden with floral tributes, many of them -costing more than sl,- 000, took a short route to the ceme tery, and were there when the funeral cortege, which had followed a long course, arrived. At the grave brief addresses were delivered by Congress man Richard Barthodt and the Rev. Dr. Dsv THE CHEYENNE RECORD. 263 ENTOMBED AT DAWSON, N.M. COAL DUST EXPLODES IN MINE NUMBER TWO, TRAPPING THE DAY SHIFT, RESCUE TWENTY-THREE RESCUERS WORK FRANTICALLY TO SAVE MINERS; BLACK DAMP IS CAUSE. Western Newspaper Union News Service. MINE DISASTER AT A GLANCE. Two hundred and sixty-three dead. Twenty-three rescued alive. On Friday 202 bodies were still burled behind tons of fallen, rock, four thousand feet from human aid. Fire from old entry slowly eat ing its way through the ruin. Disaster brings offer of aid from mine strikers and operators alike. Mine company promises .every pos sible financial assistance to fami lies of victims. Federal mine expert declares himself unable to In any way ac count for the accident. Expected to be a week at least before full extent of disaster can be known. National Red Cross places SI,OOO fund at disposal of mine officials to aid families of victims. Trnlidad, Colo., Oct. 27.—Two hun dred and sixty-three miners are entombed and may be dead as the re sult of a terrific explosion at 2 o'clock last Wednesday afternoon In No. 2 mine of the Stag Cation Coal Company gt Dawson, New Mexico, 56 miles south of here. The mouth of the main stopo Is caved completely In and early* Thursday rescuers had been able to penetrate but 100 feet into the wrecked mine. According to telephone messages received here from Dawson there were 302 miners working in the mine at the time of the explosion. Other estimates based on the number of men usually at work places the num ber Imprisoned at 230. The cause of the explosion Is at tributed to black damp. Flames Add to Tragedy. Dawson, N. M„ Oct. 24. —Thirty- eight known dead, twenty-three res cued and 223 miners entombed at least 4,000 feet from human aid, be hind tons of fallen debris, which block all known passages, is the toll in tragedy and death'taken by the ex plosion in Stag Canon mine No. 2 of the Stag Canon Fuel Company, so far as known up to a late hour last night. To add to the horror- of this great est of Western mine disasters, fire from old entry No. 3 Is eating Its way -through the ruins. Heroes Die in Dawson Pit. Dawson, New Mejj/y Oct. 25. —The harvest in death gathered by the ex plosion of the Stag Cation mine, the worst disaster in the history of West ern mining, is 263. Of these 261 lives were snuffed out by the first force of the catastrophe Wednesday afternoon, two were sacrificed yesterday when, daring the mine’s hidden dangers, two helmet men gave up their lives. That all hope for those entombed must be given over became known last night when government and mine trews reached the explosion’s center. The helmet men whoso lives were claimed were James Lurdl and Wil liam Poisa, killed by after-damp in room 18 of the "High Line” entry. - In a frenzy of terror at a fall of (lust and coal which threatened to en trelop them, they stripped off their safety equipment, started to run, and died Instantly. Walter Kerl and Roy Simpleton, who followed them closely into room 18 and who also stripped their hel mets from their heads, were rescued with difficulty. Five of the entombed miners have been reached and taken out alive. They had suffered much from the gas whfich resulted from the explosion. The list of identified dead now numbers fifty-seven, in addition six bodies too badly mangled and charred to permit of recognition have been recovered. Only Twenty-Three Survivor*. Twenty-three men—all but six of whom were In a dißtant portion of the mine when the explosion uttered its death-call —are all who survive to tell its horror. The center of the explosion has been definitely fixed at room 18 of the •JHlgh Line”, entry. It was there that four of the seven bodies were found Friday night First Funerals Held. The first of the burials took place Friday afternoon when, with services for Proteßtants by the Rev. 11. M. Shields, camp chaplain, and for Cath olics by the Rev. Fathers A. and Louis Celller of St. Joseph's church at Springer, N. M., thirty of the thirty six bodies at the morgue were in terred In the camp cemetery. I UDNG POWDER The cook is happy, the I I other members of the family • re h a PPJ —appetites sharpen, things brighten up generally. And Calumet I Pbj I r ßaking Powder is responsible for it all. WAftfjkMEXm/ For Calumet never fails. Its Mj'm'l wonderful leavening qualities insure perfectly shortened, faultlessly raised . 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