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POR THE CAMPAIGN If you want the new*, sou'll need The Herald. SUBSCRIBE NuW. VOLUME XIII., No. 215. HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST IN FOREST FIRES; SEVEN TOWNS LEFT IN SMOULDERING RUINS; SIX THOUSAND HOMELESS ARE STARVING BURNING BUSH RAVAGES IN MANITOBA DISTRICT OF HUNDRED SQUARE MILES AT LEAST 350 BURNED Property Loss of Ten Mil lions Has Been Sustain ed. Vast Territory Placed under Mar tial Law. Result* of Canadian Fires. Several hundred lives lost and list of fatalities growing. Seven towns, Fernie, Michel, Coal Creek, Hosmer, Elko, Frank, and Morrissey, wiped out and several other towns partial ly destroyed. Coal mines of district may be caught by flames. One-half million tons of coal and coke burning at Fernie. Six thousand homeless people are threatened by fire and star vation. One hundred square miles en veloped by red peril. WINNIPEG, Man.—(2 a. m.)—At least 350 lives have been lost in the bush fire which has been raging in the Crow's Nest district of the Koote nay. valley in British Columbia for two days and two nights. Property loss of $10,000,000 has been sustained, and the towns of Fernie, Coal Creek, Hosmer, Michel, Elko, Frank and Morrissey wiped out. Sparwood, Crows's Nest, Cranbrook, and Olson, have been partially des troyed. Thousands of settlers are homeless and still in dire danger from the flames and starvation. Relief Is be ing sent to the district as rapidly as possible, and the railroadß are bring ing, the refugees to Winnipeg and near-by towns by train loads At midnight late arrivals from Fee nie, B. C., estimate the number of dead there at 200. Refugees from Frank say that forty bodies were counted along the track from Michel In one lumber camp eighty dead are reported. It is impossible accurately to estimate the loss of life and report* from the settlements outside of ths burned towns may bring the total to a much large figure. The whole of the country between Cranbrook and Michael has been placed under martial law and the Ca nadian government has taken charge of the work of relief and rescue. There is no abatement of the flames end an area of 100 square miles is still enveloped by the red sheet and black smoke of the holo caust. REFUGEES FACE STARVATION. In addition to the dead scores have been injured and it is estimated that six thousand people are homeless. Of these nearly all are camped within valleys either inside of or at the out skirts of the flame-swept section, and are in constant danger of death. Starvation faces the refugees. Seventy-eight men and two women were burn< d to death in No. 4 logging camp of the Elk I.umber company. The camp was surrounded by Are and not a single person escaped. The properties of the Canadian Pa cific and Great Northern railways within the district have been disas trously damaged, many of their bridges and much rolling stock burn ed, and it is next to impossible to either enter or leave the burning area. For the last month forest fires have been horning in the mountains of the Elk river valley country, but they had net been considered seriously. Sat ur4hy morning a heavy wind sprang up from the west, and early in the afternoon flames appeared over the crest of the mountains to the west of Fertile. They ran down the mountainside, and, before a fire guard could be or ganised entered the town. Within an hour the town was doomed and (he Inhabitant* sought safety in flight, leaving all their property behind them All sight and the exodus con tinued, the destination being a smad prairie Ip the valley, three miles routh of the town. Three thousand people are camped there :n the open, their only protec tion being shelters built of brush or blankets while a constant shower of sparks from the burning area keeps tailing through the pill of smoke by wfcjeh they are surrounded For a date communication with th<- towns to the east was kept open, but with *he burning of the bridges across the Elk river this was closed If EATING UP VALLEY TOWNS. The Are spread with great rapidity, and It is feared tha' several parties that tried to gal through <h<- rg a have been cut off m One hundred cars of coke, the prop. crn» of the Great Northern, are gone, and the stock piles of coal and coke. THE AUGUSTA HERALD aiding about half a million tons are i flames. The fire is following the crest of , mountain chain above Sparwood it present, eating down into th<» val eys on either side. It ts traveling ;t a tremendous rate and unless here is a change of wind, will cross he boundary into Montana within the text 12 hours. Fire-fighting apparatus is of no tvail, for the air is filled “with frag ments of burning wood and bark. Tho heat is intense and many of the fire ighters have gone down before it. Four bodies of men who lost their lives trying to save the Great North ern bridge across Elk river were iound. Fire is not the only danger the peo ple of the burning area have to taco. Hunger has been added to the ter ror. When the people left their homes tor the protection camps, little or no provisions were taken and now there are many thousands on the prairies with nothing to eat. The mayor of Fernie has sent out a call for assistance which is being readily responded to. A large number of homeless have been sent on to Cranbrook and will be distributed among the towns in the tow'ns in the vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Forester and 25 men have arrived at Campbell’s Siding, having been forced to give up their tight to save the Sparwood Mill. Five members of the original party suc cumbed and the others escaped only by the greatest difficulty. They tra velled all night -by the light of the burning bushes, making their way in piaces along the bed of the creek, where the water protected them in part from the terrible heat. W. Carswell, assitant superitend ent of the Great Northern, has ar rived in Cranshrook from Fernie, hav ing made his way out at great risk. Part of the trip was made on a hand car, and the rest on foot. Every stick of timber along the railway line is gone, and not a living thing is left. TOWN OF FERNIE IS WIPED OUT. WINNIPEG.—Latest reports of the number of dead in the Elk river dis trict as the result of the forest Are which has been raging for months from Michel to Fernie place the vie j tims at 150 persons. The property ; loss is $5,000,000 in Fernie, and six thousand of that city's inhabitants are homeless. They have been taken by trains to places of safety and are destitute. Thousands of dollars were sent by Western Canadian cities this morning for the relief of the suffer ers. Medical supplies are greatly ' needed. Fernie, with its lumber mills and 1 railway terminals, is wiped out. The I fier Is still raging around Hosmer and Sparwood. but Michel is safe, the wind dying out at midnight. If a gale should spring up, that city Will be in danger again. Seventy men in the camps of the Elk River company •perished. Ten cottages, two coal offices, the Western Canada Grocery and the coal company’s new ware house are all that remains of Fernie. Saturday af ternoon the Fort Steele Brewery, the first large building to catch fire, was burned. Houses in the neighborhood ■soon caught and though the people turned out immediately to fight the fire, the flames spread and the whole I place was soon burning. Old Wowri, where most of the miners resided, soon was burned, and then the busi ness section caught fire. The resi dence section came last, after the mills of the Elk River Lumber com pany had been destroyed. Special trains were waiting to con i ve.v the people to Michel, but the run • could not be made because the bridge between Hosmer and Michel had been burned. Saturday night was a frightful one. It was spent In getting many of the 'women and children on the trains and starting them for Cranbrook. Dur ing the night the wind went down and j Sunday morning many of the men and their wives cam e In from the hills to which they had fled to view the smoking remains of the city. Many harrowing tales were told One ; woman of West Fernie had Just emerged from her home, which was on Are, wnen she fell dead of heart ullsease. The neighbors buried her In her garden and then ran for their I lives. In another part of the city an aged woman, an invalid, was carried s short distance, but tho heat became too great and she begged to ho left i to her fate, while her relatives wore , helping her In wet blanket*. CLOUDBURST DOES DAMAGE IN NEVADA One Life Wag Lost, and Scores of Cattle and Live Stock Were Swept Away. RENO, Nev.—Telephone message from Verdi, Navada, says that a de structive cloudburst visited that sec | tlon yesterday In which one life wa ■ lost. Scores of live stock and cabins | and a great quantity of logs were i swept away. A cloudburst near 8 team boa ’ Ifiprlng* yesterday caught several persons in the rush of waters, but af ter battling desperntolv they Anally saved themselves. Jamttt< Burk and McM. Ross wore ' severely hurt. Much live stock and timber aud a ranch ware destroyed Forecast for Augusta and Vicinity—Fair tonight and Tuesday. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 3, 1908. PARIS BUSINESS PARALYZED N STRIKE PARlS.—Paris today is gripped in an industrial strike which is paralyz ing business and the manufacturing center of the nation. It is estimated 100,000 men are directly affected, and many more indirectly. Riots are threatened and the au thorities are bending all their efforts to prevent a panic. The labor lead ers who called the strike took this drastic means of protesting against the action of the government for suit pressing the strikers in their demon stration at Vienneanuve-Saint Georges last week. The police force has been augment ed to its greatest number in the his tory of the city, and 25.000 troops are confined to the barracks about the city, held subject to an instant call. The authorities think they have the situation well in hand. At least tin/' said so today, but the situation is so precarious that they fear a single outbreak will deluge the city in blood Order has been preserved so far with little difficulty, but knots of men are gathering at every street corner; Im passioned addresses are made, and there Is a sullen undercurrent of un rest which bodes ill. Newspeapers have been crippled and today many of them tailed to ap pear ihrough the inability of the management to issue. These were the Gil Bias, the Siecle, the Radical Petit Republique, and the Libre Pa role. However, many of the work men who had been called upon to strike, failed to do so. The leaders threaten dire consequences to these men, and they may yet be intimated into walking out. The infantry are grouped in the most central barracks, and are kept in readiness for an instant call The labor leaders planned to Inconven ience the public to the greatest ex tent and particular stress was laid upon the strike call Issued to elec tricians, railway employes, newspaper employes, bankers and others sup plying the necessites of every-day life. It was thought that if the baker* khould strike the public would be starved into a sympathetic feeling; that if the electrician* should quit- the Inconvenience would make the public consider the strength of the labor ele ment; and flna'ly, if the peojfle were compelled to W'alk instead of ride, the feeling of strength of the laboring classes would be strengthened The revolutionary organization hoped to further its political ambi tions and snow its strength by this strike and it has succeeded in shoe ing it is very powerful, although It Is not gaining much popular sym pahty. The Rappel, the Peunle Francals, Autorlte, Action Republique, the Ke lalr and Humanlts, all daily journals, announced their Inability today of continuing publication so long as the strike is In progress. The strikers became diplomatic to day. In instances where men had failed to respond to the call to strike emissaries were sent out from the headquarters of the federation. These were usually accompuuled by police to see that they did not wilfully damage. The call to the electricians fell short of the expectations of the leaders. Pataud. general secretary ot the electricians organization, who fled from Paris when the authorities began to look for him, returned to day and began to use every means in his power to persuudo the fnllhtu! among the workers to join the strikers. MAE WOOD’S CASE COMES UP FOR TRIAL ! She Has Been in the Toombs Since Her Sensa tional Divorce Suit Against Senator Platt. NEW YORK On the calendar for trial (oday in the court of general no* dons Is tho case of Mae Woods, | charged with perjurj and forgery In : the third degree The Indictments i are the result of allegations made by her in her suit for divorce from Senator Thomas C. Platt which carne' to an abrupt termination in the su preme cou r t several months ago, when Judge O’Gorman committed hoi to the tombs before the <-s»e reached 'he Jury. Unable to obtain bail she lias ever 1 since been Incarcerated, The Indict ments were handed down by the grand Jury. TWO PA93ENGER3 INJURED EL PASO. Tex- The Golden Hlate j Limited, west-bound over the Rock I island ratlrond, which left, here at 16: 115 .Sunday night, was ditched at I a. m., today, four mile* west of Wil cox, Artz Two passengers are re ported Injured. PARTIES TO RECENT BRITISH NAVAL ROW Sir Percy Scott, the British rear idmlral, who had trouble with Lord Charles Beresford. He is the fig ure In the middle foreground. Admiral Scott has just been appointed to the command of a special small squadron to vist South Africa in the fall. TEST OF ARM I BALLOON TODAY Captain Baldwin Makes Test Flight in Dirigible Ballon Built For Army Signal Corps. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Captain Thomas S. Baldwin will make his first flight at Fort Mver, In the new dirigible balloon he has built for tho army signal corps, about half past five or srtx o'olock this evening, If there are no high winds or other evi dences of storm Mr. Glenn Curtis put the finishing touches on the lining up of the engine and propellers yesterday and Captain Baldwin expressed himself ns per fectly satisfied with the prospects. The offleors of the signal cotps are also enthusiastic with the progress on the big arshlp. While the experts are all aparently of one opinion, there are many visi tors who think the machine Is sure to fail One man told Captain Baldwin his propeller was not of the proper kind, and another wanted him to take a parachute up with him. "1 get slo,odo from the government If 1 go 24 miles," Captain Ylaldwlh said. “That Is, with the bonus of $4,000 —a thousand dollars a mile —I am to recilve If 1 make the extra four miles above tho 20 miles specified Wait a minute. I will pay $3,000 for a propeller that will do more than this one. And I shall then still be a thousand dollars In pocket. T have no fear of the outcome. Its all over except the shouting, I think." The Wright, brothers' (lying nia chine Is already on Its way to Fort Mver and the Herring aeroplane l« due In about ten days, so that sum- Interesting exhibitions before the sig nal corps officers are expected during the present month THIEF GULLS WITH DEATH Woman Assists With Fun eral Rites and Then Rob bed the Homes. Under Arrest. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Accused of lobbing home*, where depth had Ino u visitor, Mrs. Dtlla Calmage Is be ing held by the police until they can investigate Iter past. Hhe was yes terday committed to prison by Magis trate Heaton In default of SSOO hall tor a further hearing next Friday. Several women appeared against Mrs. Caimag" They testified that she had visited various houses where there had been a dcaih, and making friends with the family, had robbed the house during the funeral service-.. BKOOTS SWEETHEART FOR DANCING WITH RIVAL LA CROSSE, Wl».—llecausn tils sweetheart, Arbetle Miller, daughu of a grot , crons farm' r, had gone to j a datiC' with William Holder, his rl j val, John Newherg, a young farm' r, i waylaid 'be two at a bridge over th • La Ct >es» river and probably fnv It wounded tho girl and s-rlo'isly It. jurod young fielder. A purge war, soon in pursuit, but up to a late hour no trace of Newberg bad been found Harriman Thinks More Of His Fellowman, So Wall Street Trembles HI FLEW six mm FEET Airship Actually Rose As High As Twenty Feet and Alighted Without Kill ing Aviator. NEW YORK. Henry. Fnrmnn steer ed his aeroplane 000 yards, from one end of the Brighton Benc h race track oval to tho other yesterday, riding comfortably at an elevation of about twenty feet. The flight of the queer-shaped bird of lath and canvas —it looks a good deal ilk* fourteen feet of covered side walk with a laundry wagon for a tall hugely delighted 3,000 people, who yelled enthunlastirHlly. The wind was just about right, constant In direr tlon and steady and unvarying in its force. The aeroplane was wheeled to k level bit of green at the head of the stretch. The derkhnnds engineered and patted the canvas wings, the rud der, and the frail frame work Just to make sure that no holts or "guys’ had fetched loose. Mr. Farman toss < d away the butt ot his cigarette climbed into the scat of the fly ahum, and started the motor. There was a furious whirring, splut t« ring and cracking as the eight, cyl inder petrol motor began to get .until tlous and the flying machine lunged forward. For a few yards It kept the earth, shooting over tho green sod. Then its great canvas planes got a grip on the wind, which was blowing steadily against It, and the aeroplane srceding about fifty feet, every hoc ond, arose smoothly, without a |erk or a Jar, to a height of twenty feet. I hen Mr. Farman touched a Bny metal lever and bold bis a -'chine *• t that distance from the earth while It soared toward the w-at end of ths oval at a 35-tnlle an hour clip. An Mr Farman neared the west end of the oval he shut off the power and permitted his well-bshaved bird to glide gently to the ground. lie had made a perfect (light. Thor" was a rush to shake hands with the aviator Farman explained, ns he fled, that lie did not, want, to be made a hero of, that In had accomplished whnt he considered only an ordinary flight, and that he expectsd to do bigger things before he left town. POLICE GIVE SUSPECTS THE THIRD DEGREE Snspertk Ejraminetl in the Green Point Murder Case Give Unsatisfactory Stories To Officer*. NFW YORK With new fiictu In their png sear pm In arltig or tie mys terious mu dared won,an whore body was found wr-oped In an (.'I s'-alted mattress and art a re on the Green Point, dumps tint fa,lice today begun a "third degree 1 ' iociilsltloi of the two suspects under m i, Ju"vi Kurlns kl end Wailetit ■■ IJorkor V The poor HV not IlSflfd with th rt stories to hi by i!.- Iv.o men to account for their p - tit the dump on ''"rlday H.id for their whore i shouts on the night of the murder, ! Kuril)ski I v been Identified I f; M r Julia Jimbroska, of ,No. 107 Dupont i *r< -1 . hi I’u ■ -t, ii- a friend of I her missing cousin, Mrs Mamie Mos | kovitch, and her husband. DAILY AND SUN DAY. $«.00 PER YEAR. NEW YORK E. 11. Harrlman's statemnt in Chicago that ns he grows older he Is beginning to think more of his fellowiv.'ui made all Wall street nervous today. If the tilings he has done to his business enemies In the pnst have been executed with only a passing thought old stagors In the street are wondering what the result will be now that "the little wizard" has determined to apply Ills mind to it. Inoidsntnlly, tho fact is noted that Harriman is to have a conliqeuce with the Chicago subway financiers today, and as he Is reputed to lie I"a practical man,” they are wonder ing if today's interview Is In the na ture of a little salt for the tall of some Chicago bird of finance. GARLAND BRICK STABLES BURNED THIS MORNING All Live Stock with Excep tion of a Horse and Mule Watt Saved. About Two Thousand Loss. lIARNBBVILLB, Ga The Garlnnd's brlek atahlea burned at 1 o'clock this morning All the live stork was saved except one mule and a horse. The contents of th'* building destroyed amounts to a loss of $2,000; no In surance. The building was owned by Mrs. .1. W. Adams, and was In sured for $2,500. The origin of the fire Is unknown. Mrs. Nicholas Long worth Beats Papa When It Comes To Settling a Strike DENVHR, Goln. Mrs. Alice Uing worth beat her father’s record In set | tllhg a strike while on her recent tour of the Yellowstone Park, but It cun her husband several (loti bo eagles Bln- did not appoint arbitrator* ner ord'-r out Commissioner Nelli. Hho simply paid the strikers to resiim" atid paid them well. The Longwortii party went to Hie Yellowstone from the Denver eonven tlon. They found the park crowdejl with tourists, ami t*!e hotel servants so overworked that there were mitt ti lings of revolt. At last tin revolt lame, and tne servants went out on a strike, intorly refusing to cook a Kentucky Society Organizes Cavalry Troop To l ight Night Riders LEXINGTON, Ky. fjcvh-iy men fii' to fiKht. the rilfrbi ild<» A cav airy troop, cd of young bunt nvhn 4 id iur n, h»i Im « m or hini/.tul hn<\ hnl It Irt w-f ’d to I,;i.v' rlof.il. Into t.||4 tnJdr;l of the light rider. and lutlmi U;i‘f* h in Jji ■<, allowimt tin ".rowing crop s’s tobacco to bo hous'd and mar Thoro I about ona-flftfi of tho iihiijil tobn"o nr p Muk miH'"l and whll» It Ii in ft !• d thru- Jh little duller but u H'/on j>. tilt- planter* u rid art alt* Mary and Her iMmb Tlu world has very many lambs, whosi owners’ mimes are hid. And yot these lambs grew wool uu white us Mary’s ever did. Of course the fame of Mary's lamb Is not at all surprising, 'less brought about by out-and-out persistent advertising. —The Ad-Man. Read The Herald THE FIRST NEWS. THE BEST NEWS. ALL THE NEWS. Por (ampaign News COMMISSION HAS REDUCED RATES DECISION RENDERED BY IN TER-STATE COMMERCE COMMISSION IN SUIT AGAINST A. C- L RAILROAD NEW RATES BY SEPTEMBER 15 Rail and Water Rates From Floriad Points not Unreasonable, But All Rail Rates on Fruits, Etc., Must Be Lowered WASHINGTON. The Inter-state commerce commission today, In an opinion rendered by Commissioner Primly, announced Its derision In the rase of the Florida Fruit and Veg etable Shippers' Protective associa tion against, the Atlantic Coast Lino Railroad company and others. The commission found the all-rail rate on oranges and pineapples from shipping points In Florida to the Flor ida base points not unreasonable, but the carload rates on suoh articles from the bass points to the north eastern cities ure unreasonable. Cer tt ain maximum rales l hereon wer* established and ordered to be put in force September 15 next. Tho rail utut water rates on these commodities betweon such points were not found unreasonable and lit*' commission de clined to establish carload rates by rail and water. The present rail and wator rates ott vegetables from Florida base points to the northeastern cities were lound to be excessive, and lower max Imurn rales were established and or dered to be put in force. Whether lower carload rates should be estab lished uiion vegetables to eastern : markets was left unsettled. The commission further derided tliui the minimum carload weight es tablished for the transportation of strawberries from Starke and Law fey. Fla., to New York city, and to other points at present taking the New York rate should bo reduced from 200 crates per ear to 175 crates j per car, and the rate should not ex j reed SI.HO per crate, Including refrig I eratlon. The refrigeration charges on frultii and vegetables from Florida to North ern markets were not found to he ex- I eesslve, BRITISH WARSHIP BREAKS SPEED RECORD LONDON The British battleship ! cruiser Indomitable is expected to anchor off the coast of Cowes Ibis af ternoon about sundown, with the Prince of Wales and Ills royal party on host'd after one of the fastest runs ever made by a warship. British of ficers have watched the marvelous run of the Indomitable with a great deal of Interest. Wireless shows the progress of the ship huu been at an average of 2(1 knots. meal, make a lied, or wall on a tabic. The proprietor pleaded and threat i tied, tint there was no yielding. Then Mrs. Longwortth took a hand. She wi-ru to tho proprietor and said: "I think If you auk the girls to ge buck lo work iih a perimnal favor to me, they will do It. And, besides, I'll give them ff> each a day while we are In-re,” The servants went hack and Mrs. Longworth fooled the bills. Ernest Ruffen, a delegate to a re cent convention of the Kappa Sigma fraternity In Deliver, told the story today, having Just returned from the park. lo hoii" It, II Is expected the night riders will attempt to burn It up The cavalry troop will he depended upon to prevont this. One of lh" members is a son of Ad jutant General I’, 11. Johnson, nnoth <r, who will he the chaplain, is D. T. Gapers, dean of Christ church and a brother of United states Internal Revenue Coininls loner Gapers. Tho men are to be mounted on thorough breds. K. W, MrliCtn, who served In tin war with Spain, is at I lie head of Ihe I roop.