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In To-day's Virginian CITY EDIT!1 10 PAGES VOL 1.—X0. 214. THE WEATHER—Fair and Cool. RICHMOND. V A., MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1910. IMTTLE WITH FIDE SEEIMS JOPELESS Forest Flames Spreading and - Destruction of More Towns is Feared ^ DEATH LIST ESTIMATED AT 200 TO 500 PERSONS Two Thousand Other- Are [Miss ing—Trains Carrying Fire Ap paratus Hurried to Stricken Section. Tim ns destroyed—-Ilea ndette and Spooner. Settlements wiped out— t.raeetmvn. Rou«-trll, Swift. Pitt and Cedar S)mr. In danger—Rainey River and many smaller towns. Kstimalcd dead—from 2fW» to l,OOt). Bodies fmiiid n<). Known dead—T5. Missing—2,(Mto (some of these suiHlOsed to be seeking slielter at various points, but many be lieved dead). Hundreds of homesteaders outside tin- towns unheard from. Feared lin y may have perished Aren covered by fire—2.550 square tulles. Kstlmated loss—S 1.000,000 with tires still burning. Increas ing damage hourly. WAR KOAl*. MINX. Oct. 10 — At least 200 persons have perished lo the forest fires which have raged in this district for the past three days, and the death roll may reach 7»o to 1,000. according to information re ceived at War Road at noon to-day. Fires arc raging over ft large tra. k of territory south of here, while oth er* are coming down •>» the western aide of the lake of the woods to meet those on the south Nothing ean stop the llarnes hut a heavy downpour of rain, and that is unlikely at this sea lon of the year The tow n* of Beau dette and Spooner are completely wiped out, and the villages of Oray ton. Swift. Roosevelt. Flu and Cedar Spur have been destroyed. i ne me jonr nnm’'! « eighty-the mil's in length from C.ra \el Pit Spur, wst of her**, to Strat ton. Out., and thirty miles in width, including all the territory between Red Luke. Minn., and the I-ake of . . Woods in the north. • The fire is spreading rapidly in all direction* One prominent lumberman stated that the loss will he about 11,000 a square mile. Practl* ally ",00« mile* have been burned over Spans No K*|>rn.«c. The State of Minnesota is sparing no expense in fighting the flames, and has given instructions to fire lighters to muster all the men they an get. The town of Roosevelt. Minn., last .night sent an appeal for help tp Ros aeau, ail the other available towns having been appealed to. Fifty fire tighter* left from the r. early this morning for the scene of the fire, latter reports suv the tillage "•* wiped out. The town of Ualnot River is on fir** from the International bridge to I fcHxth street, a distance of over ball a mile, and it is feared the entire tow n will be destroyed. In the burned area was the Hat Portage Lumber Company’s mill, one of the tinesl in Western Canada, c ost ing $360,000. This was destroyed as well as the company * yards, contain ing ten million feet of lumber. The Western Canada Flour Mills, State Mills and fifty-odd residences were destroyed. All available h*se and lire fighting apparatus is in use. and appeals have, been sent to towns in a large radius. Nine Families Perish. Nine entire families of from two to eight persons are known to have perished In the fires. Most of the bodies were found along the Canadian Northern railroad tracks, where the people flock*d when thair homes were destroyed. The general manager of the railroad Issued a statement at noon saying that efforts would be made to get a train from Rainey River to War Road to day. He said, however, the passage of such a train would be slow owing to the weakened condition of the tracks. After burning its way to the railroad right of way. the tire swept tip the trac ks as though blown through a funnel. In some places the rails were twist ed by the heat and the ties burned out. Nine women rode from n settlement j live miles from War Hoad one horse / back to escape the tire. Three of them carried babies. They rode directly down the railroad tracks and were badly scorched. The greatest credit is given for the Kmvapv rtf wompn sit pvorv nnlnt dr» llrnyed by the Hrw. When the upc dal train left Reaudettt many had to fight their way »o the ear* through the crowds of men seeking to board the train. Myra Burt, n school teacher, stood In the door of a box car and kicked every man who attempted to board the train ahead of the women. Nearly a acor# of habtee were handed over the head* of them and when the train arrived here It was found that the *. mothers of live had been left behind. The bahtes are being cared for at the - hospital. With the forest !tr«s still raging north of the ruined towns of Reau dette. Spooner and Pitt, aixty charred eerpaes recovered and seventy-five parsons known to have perished, while 3.0*0 >thero are .ntaatng, urgent calls for aid were sent out from here to-day In hopes r.f getting the bias ing forests under control. The total number ef dead as the reault of the destruction of the town* on far leveled la estimated to-day at from 300 to 800. Of the 3,000 still missing, the majority are believed to have taken refuge In the many small villages In this section, but It Is ad it mltted many must have perlahed. Two Towns Threatened. ^To-day the towns > of Warroad, ""1 ICsatlnuad on Fifth Pagaj Vrgent Colls. PREICHERSOBJECT to eejit Hun Ministerial Union Decides to Tike Matter Up With Management APPOINT COMMITTEE FOR THAT PURPOSE! Baptist■< Make First Move in Ef fort to Correct Abuses That Prevailed at State Show. Vhe at the State Tair was assailed t'y in am tiers of the Richmond Minis tcrial fnion when thev met In quar terly session Monday in the rooms of the Presbyterian Committee on RuUHeatyon and after considerable discussion it was decided to name a committee to wait on the fair man agement and protest aguinst a repe tition of the evil next year. Those named for this purpose were Rev. Drs 11 t'ia.v Lillj. 1>. M Ramsay. J, J. Scherer. It A. (loodwin. 11. P. At kins, I.. T. Williams The matter first came up on mo tion of Rev Dr If. K. Bryan, iiastor of Immanuel Baptist church, who of fered a resolution urging the ministers to line up and take whatever steps might seem practicable in fighting the evil. I>r. Bryan thought the matter called for the most urgent action. Wants to Include Theatre*. lie was followed by the Rev. Tllden Scherer, who wanted the tight ex tended so as to ini Jude theatres in the city where, he believed. Indecent performance* are given. He said it was absurd for anv man to say that such evils were not deliberate. The indecent exhibitions at the fair had strut k him more forcibly than the othi r vices. Dr Scherer was uncompromising In ius i tew .>( the situation ana w*« • nfidtiit the ministers could accom plish the desired end if they ■■tuck together Hr Bean again took the floor ami t» shew that h>- ha<t no personal aw t" grind read a note from a layman of Itichmond that had horn presented and read at the meeting of the Baptist Ministers' Monday morning. The lav man, whose name was withheld, si ored th" gambling devh **s and other evil praeth es on the fair grounds, and asked that the ministers take steps at once tow ard eliminating such vices : in the future. | As the> hail been pictured. T>r. i Bryan said the scenes were simply In- ' tleserlimhle and revolting To Rev. W. R. Rurvvell the sit- j nation looked like to. ktng the stables after the horses have heen stolen. However, he w as w illing to enter the fight and to stick to the end. Inci dentally. he referred to the recent ev perience of Editor Voder before the grand Jury as an Illustration of the difficulties to l»e encountered In hand ling su< h propositions He recalled that the inquisitors had refused to follow the suggestions of Yoder as to suppression of questionable houses, because they believed the law of pub lic opinion to be higher than the written law. 1 >r. Ully was in heart?' sympathy with the movement, but he argued against any move that might savor of hast? or indiscreet action on the part; of the ministers. He urged approach ing the fair managers in a sensible, business-like wav on the subject, and (Continued on Fifth Page.) ENGINE GOES DEAD AND ELYOEGENOS! On Flight to New York lie come* Hrtvn Before Getting Our of Chicago. CHICAGO, < •< t. <10. — Th. second stop in the Chicago to New York ae roplane tllght wan made about 8:3(C to-day. when Aviator Eugene Ely landed after a flight of about a half mile from the Beverly Club golf links. Where he made hla first descent yes-1 terdav. When the second stop was made, Ely had not passed the city limits Of Chicago and had only cov ered about nine and one-half miles. Ely narrowly escaped injury lit alighting this morning, when his en gines went dead while he was flying at a height of about f>00 feet. He glided to the ground in an open field, but struck, in a ditch His lifting planes were broken and the machine ry badly Jarred. Glenn Curtiss and a squad of mech anicians were rushed to the scene ori tt Bpr< mi UBUI au« ow* nu ‘ ' the damaged parts. The start wag made this morning at 8:24. Curttea and the mechanician* worked with all possible speed in re- | pairing the machine, but admitted it j would probably be several hours be- j fore Ely could resume his flight. SOLDIERS SIEZE AMERICANS’ MINES: - | Hondurans Take Possession of) Property at Amapala—Ma rines Hurried There. NEW ORLEANS. Oct. 10.—Private messages reaching here from Central America to-day indicate that trouble continues in Honduras. One cablegram declared soldiers have taken possession of American mlnint-^property above Amapala at the order of the port's commandante. Mine managers have sent tugs down the river to Amapala on which they hope to take American marines from the gunboat Princeton up to the mines and regain their property to-morrow. There appears to be no evidence to connect former President Bonilla with the present troubles. Most of the revolutionary excitement is con fined to the Pacific side of the repub lic, the responsibility resting chiefly upon the commandante of Amapala. / Monasteries Emptied of Monks and Nuns by Portugal Soldiers •=o*srvTCT'**r OP AAO^ertONVMO! aCCCMx CA'«KCi:iTC GT^fX9TC«V" AT BU55ACO ^ mmvrrn.»«M-r not JY oxbki»woop < UNDt»v»o»D M IM'KJ, TO FIUHT. Klag Vlasnel la drtrralard <• l*H far kla tout Ikrnar. Tkr ioo»« • rrk la said to Hr moral MB ta l.laHon, krllrvlv lk» people «rr ■«•!! loyal la III at. % Gibraltar report aaya that aa Aaaerlraa nr ship la beartPK the fa*t •Ive ruler hark, bal Waahlavtaa aa thorttlea doahl ihla report. It la aald Ibal the other Proem are llhrly to ae rept a republic la l*orta«al. Air Irchl bald lluater, tioveraor tieaeral of til* brnltar. vlaltrd Klaa Maaael «a board the rural Portagarat yacht. RESCUERS DRIVEN OUT OF SEPULCHRE: _ Surviving 'Minor* Unable to Uracli Entombed Comrades in Starkville Shalt. ALL HOPE IS ABANDONED Only Fif'y Miners Believed to Have Escajied Death—Dust ( 'aused Explosion. TRINIDAD, I'Ot... Oft. 10—Hip* | that an> of the more than fifty min ers who were entombed In the big Starkville mine of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company are still alive was . abandoned to-day. Rescuers in the main tunnel, after thirty-six hours steady work, expressed the belief that It would be impossible to reach the point of the entombed men for sev- . eral days. The coroner of l^ts Animas county to-day took possession of a small ma chine shop near the entrance of the mine and spread gunny sacking on the ground, greasy floor, and pre pared tubs and tables for the recep tion of half a hundred corpses. Driven back repeatedly by the dead ly after-damp, the surviving miners who have been working almost con stantly since the explosion which closed the mine Saturday night are lighting their way inch by Inch to ward the entombed men. I.ittle head way has been mada. owing to the peril in which the rescuers are com- ■ polled to work at all times. Overcome by U«s. Many rescuers have been overcome by deadly gasea which are beginning to fill the mine rapidly^ and some of j '(Continued on Fifth J’age i EXTEND COLL TO VERMONT PXSTOR First Unitarian Church Wants Rev. R. S. Barrow to Become its Minister. The congregation of the First Uni tarian church, Floyd avenue and Har rison street, decided at a meeting held Sunday morning to extend a call to o„. r> u Uu pp.uv nf VVftnrfmnr Vt. Notification of thu call was sent to the minister Monday and an answer is ex pected from him within the next week or two. Rev. Mr. Barrow preached at the First church two Sundays in Septem ber and made a most favorable im pression. Though an Englishman by birth, he has resided In this country the better part of his life. He has a w ife and one child and It is understood that he is anxious to come South. If he accepts the charge here, the Vermont pastor will succeed Rev. J. i I+ Robinson, who resigned last spring i to accept the pastorate of a church j in central New York. LADIES AUXILIARY MEETS IN TEMPLE To perfect a permanent organisation and elect officers for the year, the ladies’ auxiliary of the International Association of Mechanics will meet in Labor Temple Monday night at 8 o'clock. The auxiliary was tentatively or ganlaed September 26 with about 160 members md. _ TMC C16TBBC3AW ASBBV AT AiCOBACAj «5>»TtWAi< c• wnrma wece itoi j«. wee——-* CITCH TIKES WHO STOLE SENS l>iaiiionds Valued at $1,000 Taken Fratn Howell Are Re covered. STORES SOLD FOR $55 Saloon Keeper Purchase- Loot and Turns it Over to Police. The diamond thieves who robbed the apartment of Mr. Paul llowell, 1 West Grave street, of 'four rings valued at 11,000, have been caught, and the jewels recovered. The thieves are Charles Christian, colored, of 4 26 Cabell street, and Frank Branch, also colored, of 109 West Leigh street. They had sold their loot to a saloonkeeper in Jackson ward, for $&!>. The arrest of the two thieves, whom the police believe are responsible for more than a score of jewel robberies perpetrated in Kiehmond within the past month, was effected by Detective Sergeants Wiley and Wiltshire. They picked the men up on descriptions given them by the man who bought the diamonds. Christian and Branch were given preliminary hearings in police court Monday and were held for the grand jury. I'ouiKk Apartment Open. The negroes robbed Mr. Howell’s apartment Friday morning. They found the front door open, and the rooms unoccupied. They walked in, opened a drawer of a bureau In one of the bedrooms and extracted a jewel case containing one ring set with a two carat diamond, another set with a diamond weighing one and three quarter carats, a third containing a diamond weighing one and one-half carats, and a fourth set with nine small diamonds surrounding a yellow topas. They also took a small beaded purso containing J1.50 In change. Then they closed the drawer, and wrlthout disturbing anything else In the place, left the apartment and es caped. Friday night the thieves went to a saloon In Jackson w*ard. and showed the loot to a saloonkeeper. They told him that the rings belonged to a whn hud flrrittett th*m In n far Western city, and had been carrying: them around for several months. They wanted to sell them for this friend, they said, and they agreed to accept $55 as the'purchase price. The purchaser learned the real facts concerning the rings from the afternoon newspapers of Saturday. He Immediately called up Captain of De tectives McMahon and Informed him that he had the stolen rings. Captain McMahon sent Detectives Wiley and Wiltshire ‘otft to talk with‘him and they obtained descriptions of the two negroes. Within an hour one of the thieves was under ' arrest. Before midnight, the other was captured. Both were Identified by the saloon keeper. and acknowledged their guilt. Captain McMahon says he believes the two men have been robbing a number of homes throughout the city. He hope# to secure Information from that will load to the recovery of much valuable Jewelry. ..... Goe3 to Roanoke I»r. W. Brewilry FWrr, Pr V Levy's aatstant, who will be health officer of Magic City. :DR. FOSTER REKBY ! TO TIKE NEW JOB Will Loare Berth of Assistant Hero to Be Health Officer in Roanoke. Before the end of the present week 1t Is probable that Dr. W. Brownley Poster, assistant health officer of i Richmond, will receive a telegram | irom Roanoke, V».. which will read, i "Everything settled. Come on.” As [ soon as he gets this message he will ! hand in his resignation to Health Offl I rer Levy, and, a few weeks later, | probably about November 1. will de S part for Roanoke, there to assume I complete charge of the health of i flee. The pew position carries with It a i salary of $-.000 annually, nnd the j tender of the post to l>r. Poster has | been practically settled, although a bit of red tape must yet be unwound before the latter will hand In his re signation from his present position. The Roanoke board of aldermen must yet concur with the action of the finance committee and that of common council. The concurrence, however, is a foregone conclusion and Dr. Foster la making all prepa rations to leave Richmond. The duties of Dr. Foster In Roa noke will be manifold. For one thing he will have to practically organise hts department from the ground up. the present facilities being Inadequate. ,In addition to this, he. will be per ~T (.Continued on Fifth f*aga^ f. • 1 ■ i . J: i V FOR EXPEDIENCY Congressional Aspirant in Seeond So Informs Voters in An Address. ‘ A VICARIOUS OFFERING” Disapj)ointed Certiticate Loser Criticizes "An Element in Party”. (Spu' nl lo The Hlchmond Virginian.) MUtFOLK, VA„ Oct. 10.—W. A. Young, from whom the certttlcate of nomination- was taken by tile State Democratic committee to-day, tired a broadside at the State organization, headed by Senator Martin ana at E. E. Holland, supposed choice of Sen ator Martin for Congress from tliis district. In an address to the voters he as serts he is a victim of '’political ex pediency." He sals that while he believes he was the nominee of the party in the recent primary, he has been "too long a member of tlvi Democratic party not to submit to the decision of the party authorities." yet at the same time he sa.va "it is but just to myself o state that I was made the vlcim of a 'poliical expedf ence* in the recent Investigation and was offered up as a vicarious sacri fice by the 'controlling power' in the party, who hoped thereby to divert and still a State-wide movement un friendly to that power." He says that he feels he was "sac rificed, not so much for the Demo cratic party as for an element within that party." of which he say "I am. of course, not the representative irt the coming primary. "Some other candidate." he rays, "is its protege and who he is tt is not difficult to determine. 1 have not yet deserted u friend, and I am of a nature to resent an unjust blow, no matter how artfully concealed the source from which it proceeds or the seliish mo tives which actuate it." "The question now before the voters is whether they are to allow n move ment originally in behalf of the people and fair elections to be fully diverted to seiiish ends by the nomination of a candidate on whom the ‘controlling power" can rely for aid in the coming contests. Can all the people he fooled all the time?" It looks now like a permanent break between the "State machine" and Us Second district cog. To Fight "Machine.’* J. Peter Holland, the Southampton aspirant, between the supporters of whom and those of E. E. Holland, of Nansemond. there is intense political feeling, wil make his campaign issue one of u fight against the Virginia State organization as headed y United States Senator Martin, and Will call upon W. K. Holland, whom ho classes as his chief opponent, to explain to the people of the upper counties how he stands—whether with United States Senator Martin and the State organi zation or against them. That abnor mal vote will be cast In the coming primary elections brought about by Intense Interest for E. E. Holland, of Nansemond. in the rural districta is vigorously denied by the followers of Congressman Harry 1.. Maynard to day. These followers declare that it will be impossible to get the farmers out of their peanut crops at this par ticular time, and that Instead of the candidacy of Senator Holland Inspir ing great enthusiasm the vots in (Jie rural’districts will not exceed that oast In the late primary. The camps of Southampton county controlling the big Camp Manufactur ing Company are to-day out for E. E. Holland as against J. Peter Hol land. „i Congressman Harry L Maynalrd, “ (Continued on Fifth PagaJ V j j ' .. ..... v j;.b .’ ■ it ' ■ ' - ’ ^ -’ .i* Mm TO SEEK REFOGUIIOIOOI Dethroned King of Portugal I on Verge of Complete Nervous Breakdown GAVE UP HIS KINGDOM TO AVERT BLOODSHED^ JRuler Knew of Plot- Against Him, But Did Not. Wish to Pre cipirate "War—Nuns and .Monks Expedit'd. GIBRALTAR. O.t. 1»—Kin* Manuel and ilw Queen Mother Arne* Ifc*. exiled from I’onugal. have <to>. (■idl'd to go to Iioudnn. when; a refAge has been offered them- It Is said by coutiers dose to the king that tie la on tiie verge of u oompteUP nerveoa breakdown, and flint lie will bo pliu> eil under the care or specialists juat as soon as Kngiand Is read' -d. YOUNG KING WEEPS OVER HIS EXILE Deposed .Monarch Poignanlty Grieved at Attitude of Portu guese Toward Him. LONDON', Oct. 1 0,—A dispatch from Gibraltar to-day quotes King Manuel as saying that he knew of the existence o£ numberless plots agalnat him. but that he did not have tba iiea ri 10 piunge nia country row bloodshed by preventing their culmi nation. Manuel, with his mother. Queen Amelie. his grand mother, the Dow ager Wueen Fia, and his uncle, the Duke of oporto, landed yesterday from the royal yacht, and became tha guests of Sir Archibald Hunter, tna British governor of Ulbrallar. "When 1 feel most keenly," Manual told Kir Archibald. "Is that my peo ple drove me from the country Ilka a criminal. Had the Cortes decreed the nation a republic 1 would hava relinquished my throne without a word. The people may accept re publicanism rather than bloodshed, but It Is not their own wish to de stroy the monarchy." Manuel and his mother first went ashore yesterday to attend mass in St. Mary a church. They were attend- > ed by the military and naval aides at the governor general. Manuel' wee pale and collected, but the queen mother was visibly agitated. They were given an ovation as they drove through the streets. Later in tue day the king returned to the yacht and bade good-bye to the faithful sailors who manned It. He was weeping as the sailors stepped forward and kissed his band. He them return the yacht to the and to remain loyal subjects of Por tugal. "You go back to my belovad coun try,” he sobbed, "and 1 shall probeMp never see it again.'* • if '■? DRIVING CLERICALS OUT OF PORTUGAL Republican* Arrest Churchmen, After Sacking and Desecrating ■Monasteries and Convents. DlSliON, October 10.—in further* ante of its announced policy to sep arate the (hurch and state and espet religious orders from Portugal, the new Republican government is arrsat tng monks and nuns by the whole sale. The great poblem is confronting the government, however, is where t# send the exiled churchmen and wo men. inasmuch as Spain decline* to receive them, it will be necessary for the go\eminent to find some over* sea natton that will permit the land ing of shiploads of penniless clertcala. The authorities are connscatlBg | church property In the name Of tlto state at, (ut a* the inmates are re moved t'V the soldiers, but have proven | powerless thus far to prevent cob* slderable looting of movable values bg ; soldiers and hangers-or ! Priests and nuns are being sub mitted to many indignities and It to reported that a number of them hav* ! been slain In various parts of the near ,, republic. None Is being exceptod ^ under the order of expulsion. School' children in parochial, monastery and convent schools are being returned to the homes of their parents. Tho ; Marquis Pe Pomhal, head of the Jo* suits in Portugal, and leader of tho. clericals. Is under arrest. Cardins.) Joseph Sebastian Nett** former patriarch of Lisbon, who arrested yesterday and ordered da*; ported, was to-day released from ar*': rest by Minister of Justice Costa, Wh*? i declared that the arrest Was merely to protect the aged chv man. The police are to-day endeavor by the use of considerable fores prevent the sacking of mon and convents by pillaging mobs. It is said the police have dii ered that many of the mona are veritable arsenals. The United States cruiser Moines and the English cruiser Vs arrived hare to-day and anchored the harbor. The sacking of many of the vents and monasteries has bead rompanied by vandalism and lege. UPRISING PLANNED TO UNITE NAT Revolutionists Want to Spanish Dynasty and Maki■ public of Two ^ J“f HENDAYH. FRANCE, Oet An immediate uprising ' lng for Its purpose » r gal and Epato tots a (Ceatlssort sn'gMMt1