The Humboldt Daily Herald from Humboldt, Kansas • 1

Humboldt, Kansas, Thursday, January 21, 1909 No. 25 NEWS OF INTEREST RAIDED THE HOUSE Vol. I 40 LIVES LOS FOUND VERY MUCH YESTERDAY'S EVENTS AROUND HUMBOLDT WHISKEY THERE WHEN EIRE BURNED A WATER WORKS CRIB IN LAKE MICHIGAN AT CHICAGO DAN DALL WAS ARRESTED LAST LITTLE HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY TOLD-DOINGS OF THE PEOPLE-PERSONAL MENTION. EVENING ON CHARGE OF SELLING LIQUOR- POWDER EXPLOSION STARTED THE FIRE Dan Ball was arrested last evening by Marshal Benson for selling liquor. Last evening Marshal Benson, assisted by II.

Towner and R. W. Carpen WHETHER IT WAS BETTER TO DROWN IN LAKE MICHIGAN OR DIE IN FLAMES WAS THE ALTERNATIVE THAT FACED NEARLY ONE HUNDRED MEN. ter raided the home of Dan Ball. The result of the raid was two 3 gallop jugs, two quart bottles, one pint bot tle and three empty quart bottles.

The arrest occured about ten o'clock and Chicago, Jan. 20. Whether it was better to perish in flames or in the cold waters of Lake Michigan filled with drifting ice cakes was the alter he was taken before Police Judge, Peery at the Police Court. He did native that faced nearly one hundred men in a Chicago waterworks crib a not wish to plead then so he was re mile and a half from shore. leased on his own recognizance to appear at 9 o'clock this morning.

Some chose the flames and were incinderated. Others plunged into the The Ladies Society of the Christian Church will hold a bakery sale at Mc-Gannoh's store, Saturday all day and We will have hot rolls and brown bread for Saturday dinner. Rev. and Mrs. M.

A. Camp and baby are to leave today. They are to go to Kausas City first, fom there Mr. Camp will go to McPherson and preachthere next Sunday. Mrs.

Camp and baby will go to Ponca, Nebraska, to visit her parents for two or three months. Mr. Camp will go to Ros-well, Idaho, where they will make their home in the future. H. V.

Gillis was in Iola yesterday on business. Jacob Kuhn died this morning in Iola. He had becu sick for some time Hiram Towner and George Sparks are in Kansas City to-day on business. Wear a pair of our all for wear shoes, and you'll buy them always. Perrenoud Clay.

eun of Chanute was here on business yesterday. The company with which he is connected is shipping the boiiers of the old Owl Creek Oil water and died there. The antagonistic elements claimed forty lives in all. Forty seven men sun ering either from burns or from their benumbing plunge The warrant was sworn to by Marshal Benson and charged him with "selling liquor and maintaining a nuisance." Tha lowest fine on this charge is $100 and thirty days in jail. and battle with the dancing ice cakes were rescued after it seemed that "all hope was gone.

Twenty bodies already have been recovered and prohably twenty more can be seen in the ruins. The fire broke out at an early hour this morning. A company was con structing an intake tunnel to carry water from out in the lake to the city and the crib served as a base of operations. The flames lacked none of the elements of a melodrama. Seventy men, twenty of them at work in the tunnel under the crib, a few moving about the BOYER-HARTMAN Mr.

Curtis G. Boyer and Miss Nora N. Hartman were marriad last evening at seven o'clock! 7 -eremony was performed by Rev Duncan1 MacFarlane at the Christian parsonage. Their many friends and the News extend congratulations to these young people. structure, and others asleep in their bunks, were suddenly confronted by death by a explosion of a powder magazine, which immediately wrapped the wooden structure in flames.

Those who were not killed or injured by the first fiery blasts rushed out of door to find no means of escape. On every side were the waters of Lake Michigan, its surface almost covered by great cakes of ice. A mile and a half distant, near the shore at Seventy-third street, lay their only hope, their only hope, the tug Morford. It could be dimly seen through the haze of fog and smoke. On the shore a dim black line indicated the gathering of crowds attracted by the flames.

At the shore office the last word received from the crib was tragic in its incompleteness "The crib is on fire! For God's sake send help at once or we will be burned alive! The tug- Then the telephone wire broke and the men on shore heard no more. Wilson Brothers $1.00 Shirt, Fri day and Saturday, 77c. The Young Ladies Guild of the Co. to Coffeyville. There is some talk of the business men of Humboldt and the business men of Iola playing- an exhibition game of volley ball at the Opera House some time soon, the proceeds to go to the benefit of the Y.

M. C. A. The G. A.

R. held their installation yesterday They installed the following officers: Post Commander, William Sinclair Senior Vice James Wilson. Junior Vice Travis Adams. Adjutant, H. D.

Smith. Post quarter master, E. N. Wert. Surgeon, G.

W. Harrison. Chaplain, G. W. Dickinson.

Officer of the day, C. M. Smith. Officer of the Guard, G. W.

Moon. Sergeant Major, A. Sleeth, Quarter Master, A. Sleeth. After the installation they and their families went to the Star theatre, where they were admitted without charge by Robert Pearson, the proprietor.

At five o'clock they were given a banquet by the ladies of the Lawton Circle at Odd Eellows' Hall. Mrs. Hattie Williams, Department president of the ladies of the G. A. delivered an address, which was fine and was enjoyed very much.

The banquet was a surprise on E. N. Wert, this being his 70th birthday. Church met Tuesday after noon, with their President Mrs. Anna Wood.

Our first Shirt Sale, Friday and, Saturday only. Perrenoud Clay. The third number of the Lecture Course, the Gertrude Miller Concert, was certainly a fine number. All the members were fine, and it would seem that their work conld not be improved upon, that it is perfect. The reader, Miss Miller, is one of the best and most pleasing that we have ever listened to, and she had to respond to encore after encore.

Mr. Yost is one of the finest violinists we have ever heard; he plays with great feeling and expression, and his technique is perfect. Mr. Mayer is about the finest pianist that we have listened to in years, and his playing certainly pleased the audience. Miss Algower is a fine singer, and her work was appreciated also, she responding to encores.

In fact all were applauded heartily and the audience seemed to be well satisfied. W. J. Mulnix of LeRoy who has been visiting C. E.

Glasscock and family returneb to his home yesterday. The Uniform Rank of the Woodmen of the World will give a masquerade ball at Fussman's hall next Wednesday night. pleasant time was spent in talking over the work of the last year and planning for the work of this year mgnt reiresnments wrere served aiter which the Ladies accepted an invitation from Mrs. Wood, to the See Perrenoud Clay's Shirt Window. Shirt sale Friday and Saturday.

A. Wedin received a car of flour yesterday from Ottawa. For Rent Six room house', price seven room house, $10.00. F. D.

Culver, tf SchaUner Son have sold the E. S. Martin property in Block 80, to Nellie P. Drollinger. This property is in the block east of the schoolhouse.

All the members of the G. A. R. and their families were entertained at the Star Electric Theatre yesterday afternoon by Mr. Pearson the proprietor.

After the installation of officers at their hall, he invited them to see the moving picture show without any charge being' made. They all seemed to be well pleased with the show, which was a good one. Electria Theatre. Don't forget Perrenoud Clay's Shirt Sale, Friday and Saturday. George Darnold, A.

S. Burrigh and George Johnson of Gravity, Iowa, are Humboldt this week. Thev are staying at the home of I. N. Kent.

H. E. -Douglass of Iola was in Hum boldt yesterday on business..