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’ Bought ,changes tn: ages. 5T5, OR Toronto I immadiately ad- ! upon the same Ls good. 5c at 15 cents per f investing in one pt. For full par- REF-RS Iaide SL, West ntractor, Toronto; lolmc 3 Electric Fred Armstrong, [ct and engineer. L George Duthie. Tighe. miner, .. , “embers ' LYfi-LV KNOX 8 D (20.. Lundnn. styles from SI: 40 to :e for free catalogue. ,tric Light 8.50 with Baths .1121 '3'. Sand. for Bookie: ”Momma Bumbszriaiza 5t (30., 9:10PM WWW Street, Toronto. mmer food, :ious. THAN MEAT OR ALL (ROGERS: Premises ia5 Headache, I, Pain, Etc. @52me am; M! I“! 4,000,000.00 with t Insurance. r Large ‘NTO. ‘1 SC.! I. A GENT. in every town EAT ILL FIND Feet Bach I. a. macaw '-‘ Batman-004m, MINES 8.\\' Cor. Broadway n sun 5:, )9 new You LIM!TED. flew, Modern and AbsoiutaIy Fire Przef Nmmh Sum ”Mb- u) an: 53"; Street. W Emma. Near Theatsrs, Shop: and Bonita! Park Idea) locatzon The wind was indeed rising. The sun had lost itself behind a great bank of ominous black clouds. The fvaters of the lake were almost inky 1n their blackness, find the white “Rock is safe,” cried Floss. “He bglongs to the storm. He loves the wmds, and so do I. And there’s a grand, big blow coming!” “There is going to be a. big storm,” she said anxiously, after a. brief pause. “See how low the birds are flying, and how dark it is growing. You have come to us just in time, Miss Lake, and must stay at least till the storm is over. Oh, dear! I wish Rock was at home!” With an instinctive delicacy, she refrained from making any inquir- ic-s in regard to Tillie's trunble. She offered no suggestions. no ad- vice. but her manner was gentle and sympathetic, even tender. "I see," she said significantly. “You have some great trouble, some bitter grief some awful ex- patience, and you want tn hide in the wilderness. The instinct is buth natural and common. I, too, have a. history. Miss Lake a. deep trouble but I have learned to bear it. 89 will 30u in time. for I can read in your face that ion are in- nocent of 2.113 v rang- (lui'rg I naxe found peace in 1113 lunci3 life . So will 3011 in time; "’ Mrs. Beevil drew nearer. and looked searchingly in the pure eyes and lovely face of her young guest; Then her own countenance soften- ed strangely, and she held out her hand. brown and rough, and horny “'1? “I am alone in the world, Mrs. Beevil,” she said. a passionate thrill in her voice, and a. passion- ate luok in her sunny eyes. ‘I have but little money and no friends, and I must earn my own living. I an. tired of the worldâ€"I am afraid of itwand I want to find peace and rest in seclusion!” g-riej “You are on Fitz-William Island, which lies between Lake Huron and the Georgian Bay. to the south of Great Manitoulin. It is of course a part of Canada, or Ontario. I live here alone with my two children. There are no neighbors for many miles around. Were you going to one of the uninhabited islands, Miss Lake? What for?” , Tillie’s pure, sweet face sudden- l; became clouded with her great for “I wanted to find one of the lone- ly islands north of here,” replied Tillie. “Will you tell me where I am now, Mrs. Beevil?” “There is a. high wind this morn- ing.” she said. “Were you out all alone on the lake in that canoe?” “I was,” Tillie answered. “What place were you bound Mrs. kindly “This is \ddie Lake, mother ‘ said Floss vivaciously. “The wind blew hm here, and I am glad of it It s awful dull while Rock IS away Dinners were so prominent as to re- semble an Indian’s. It was evi- dent that she was a woman of en- ergy and abilityâ€"one who liked Work and did a. great deal of it. There was an expression of patient and sad endurance in her eyes which suggested that she had suf- fered some deep injury at some period of her life and that the sting still rankled in the wound. lie realized that she was Mrs. Bee- vil. She was tall and gaunt. and masculine in her massive figure and heavy tread. A huge sun-bon- net covered her face. “This way, mamma,” called Floss in a. high, shrill voice. “Here's company.” Mrs. Beevil hastened to respond to the summons. She had a striking face. not at all handsome, but sensible and comely. Her eyes and hair, like her daughter‘s, were black. her Complexion swarthy, and her cheek- She was about to enter the ca.- bin. when the opposite door was opened. and a. woman entered the kitchen from the rear garden. Til- ‘Addie Lake?” repeated Floss. “1 ve never heard the name. You must have come from a. long dis- tance. I’ 11 call mamma. ” “Call me Addieâ€"Addie Lake.” returned Tillie, sinking into the proffered chair, and wondering if there was any connection between this family and her rejected wooer, the big dandy she had left behind her. “Floss Beevil. Didn’t I say so 2” and a sort of rebuke looked from the clfin face. “My father run away and left mamma. before I was born, but he couldn't rob us of our name, which was also his, and hence we remain Beevils. What’s your name 7" It is needless to say with what startling effect the announcement of thos name came upon Tillie. “Did I hear might?” she asked. ‘Is your name Bcevil?” â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"__..__*.,______w, T ft}+fi+§+§+£€+£fi+fi+fi+£fi+fi+i€i+§+§E+CE+£E+CE+Q+§+§+W+§E ‘ IA VOL. Beevil greeted her guest FBILED IN THE ATTEMPT :0. N0; 12 A TALE OF EARLY DAYS And then. like a flash. caine over her the r-‘culleetion of a") account \z'hir'h had been given llnr (lurinrr her voyage up the lake“. :1. year 1): fury, of a wild man who dwelt mnzetvlwrn in the :uiitudes of Lalie Huron, who came and went amon the Indian tribes, being v'enerateg by them as a great medicine man and the favorite of the Great Mani. ton, and who now and then visited Fort Mackinac and the village coming and going like some erra: tic Ineteor. This was he, she felt instinctively The newcomer’s glances Went from one to the other of the three faces thereâ€"from Mrs. Beevil’s anxious, half-tender countenance to Floss’s wild. elfin face and t’ the pale, startled features of thg young stranger. Then he laughed boisterously ‘ toss-ng his arms in ungainly ges: taxes. The garb of this extraordinary in- dividual was as grotesque as his person. He wore trousers and a long tunic composed of the finest cleerskin, the edge of the latter fringed with wolves’ tails. He wore embroidered moccasins, and his upper garment was worn loosely open at the throat, revealing his red and hairy chest. His head was surmounted by a crown of dyed plumes. which considerably increas- crl his apparent height. A how and a quiver of 3 rows were slung at his hack, and his girdle of wolf- skin. with the hair yet on, fairly hristled with weapons. Wild and strange and terrible, he inspired Tillie with a sensation ui’ awe. and fear. She trembled be- frre hinL shrinking from his wan- dering. lightning-like glanoes‘ $1 per annum.~ His fair hair was long and bushy. streaming in irregular lengths over his shoulders, anbd a coarse, thin, flaxen beard had covered his chin and commenced~ glimbing his cheeks. His frame, which was well knit, combining bone, flesh. and muscle in the finest proportions, would have been large for that of a full- grown man. His eyes, of a bright steel-blue, were full of a. certain shrewd intelligence, but with this intelligence was coupled a vivid wildness, and a. power and fixity of look that was startling. It was that of a. man young in years, but old in appearance. his face being wrinkled and cadaver~ nus, and» having the stern, rigiri contours which are the usual ac- companiment of: ‘age. “He’s coming,” added Mrs. Bec- vil. her voice vibrating with a. yearning affection. “Fear nothing, Miss Lake, however strange Rock may appear to you, or however “ild may seem his words and ac- tions. He will not harm you.” A rush of footsteps succeeded. blending with another wild cry, and then the door of the cabin was open- ed abruptly from Without. and a strange, wild, terrible figure leaped at a. bound into the midst of the apartment. l With a. roar like that of an un- lcaged lion, the storm that had been gguthering since morning over the iscene. bringing the waves into the ibay with- furious bounds. Even gtall, giant trees bent like saplings {before its fierce breath. Desola- {tion and fury reigned supreme, and lthe three Women crouched on the ‘veranda of that lone cabin. br’cath- ‘ loss, awed, and terrified beyond the Epofiwer of words. Again and again the wild cry was repeated. coming nearer and nearer, and at length ringing out close to the cabin. She led the way into the house. and followed by her daughter and Tillie. Again that strange cry rang out above the tumult of the storm, shriller and more fierce. sounding like a. cry of triumph and delight. “Your son ‘2” murmured Tillie. “Yes. He is just rounding the point. Let; us go in out of the storm.” “It is my son,” explained Mrs. Becvil, with a. smile full of tender- ness and pity. “It is Rock!” Suddenly, while the storm was at, its height, a strange wild cry arose from the lake. resounding high above the roar of the winds and wavesâ€"a. cry so awful that Til- lie. turned pale as death, in sud- den terror. "It is glorious!” she cried. gain- ing the \eranda. “It will be the biggest gale since March. And here it comes!" frer'esently she came back, her eyes flashmg gleefully at the pros- pect_ of a §toym. - The little deformed creature, with her wild, clfin face. sped down the path to the shore of the bay tn do her mother’s hiding. “Floss,” she said. “run down and take sts Lake’s canoe who the boat-house: Quick!” caps lance )Ix's. Bcevil‘s anxious looks dee “We want harvest hands," is now the cry from almost every sec- 949.8 0mg}? .Wgst; Barley gutting A despatch from Winnipeg says: Crop conditions in Manitoba and in Vi estern provinces could not be bet- ter. The weather has been cool the last couple of days, and is a relief from the scorching heat,‘which in some districts threatened to cause a. decrease in the )ield. uxxr- m...“ knnmai: hum-1a ” in Man Killed at London Returning From l’icnic. A desp atch f1om London. Ont., sans: \\ iplliam Mullins a. young man from Dorchestor fell from the steps (1.11 Pe1e M111 quette train on Thu1s- day night while returning from the Irishmen s pimic at Pmt Stanley and had both legs cut off bclmx the knee, from the effects of which he later expired in Victoria Hospital. 0001 Weather Has Followed the Soorching Heat in the West. Sultan always wears deflected the blow. The Would-be assassin was arrested. Appafi‘cntly he had been bribed to commit the act, as he had a large sum of gold in his pockets, and his baggage was packed ready for flight. Would-be Assassin Had Large Sum ' of Gold When Arrested. A despatch fyom Genevm Swit- zcrland, say s: 1119 Sultan of Tur- key was stabbed in the breast on Monday night In a. minor palace official The coat of mail which the COAT 0F MAIL SAVED SFLTAN Baptist Mission Board at St. John '.'~Receives Bad News. A despatch from St. John, NB. says: At the monthly meeting of the United Baptist Foreign Mission Board for the Maritime Provinces on Wednesday, it was announced that word has been received that cholera is raging at the mission sta- tions in India. No missionaries have died, but at one station'in the Madras presidency the natives are said to be dying at the rate of eight or ten :1. day. Alleged Murderer of Black Hr 11d Chief at Montreal. A despatch from Montreal says: :A letter received on Thursday by Zthe parents of Vincenzo Marine, iwho was shot to death a couple of months ago, tells of the arrest of lthe alleged murdered Francisco Alagna. alias Cecilagna, alias Car- .lo Tortto, in his native Calabrian village, Pexlizzi, on July 20. ‘Through correspondence, the au- thorities of the town were made aware of the facts of the murder, and when Alagna. who disappeared from Montreal immediately after. the murder; made his appearance, he was immediately arrested by the gendarmes.’and is now being held awaiting action by the Canadian Government. Marine. the dead man, was generally credited with l-eing the leader of the Black Hand Society in Montreal. He had. it is alleged, collected $200 from Alagna. and it was the léfiter's refusal to 1eturn the money when demanded that brought death to him on the spot. \lagna shot him in the sto. mach, ands then disappeared. The- brother‘s gaze softened mo- mentarily, as he looked down into his sister’s face. but the storm was nearing its height. and its every sound and movement seemed to find an echo of unrest in hie. breast. Suddenly. as the crash of a, fallen txee ee hoed among the pines on the diff he uttered a long triumphant shout threw off his sister 3 detain- ins: arms. pulled open the door. and rushed out into the midst of the tempeet. _ \Vhat a contrast they presented' IIe so tan and large and bran1n so savage of aspect; she hunlpbacb: ed and “ith her bright, “eiul beauty I She arose and went up to him Iaving her tim' brown band on his arm, and looking up coaxingly into his face. “Don’t be afraid of him,” said Floss. her small face reflecting the glow on the visage of her twin bro- ther. “Rock won’t hurt you. It’s only his way.” Tillie shrank yet further from him. “The storm, the storm 2” he cried in a. harsh, discm'dant voice, Which had in it the ring of a. trumpet “Oh, the glorious storm! It’s; coming! The waves are mad now: Hear them beat the rocks! Ha- ha! let them moan and cry anti beat the shore in their rage. It’s all music!" His face kindled and glowed, till it. seemed as if the storm were his native element. BOTH LEGS le'l‘ OFF. CHOLERA IN IN BIA. ARRESTED I N l'l‘.\ LY. (To be Continued. Durham and Victoria Standard MILLBROOK ONT.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 13 1908 - The Provincial Department of Agriculture reports a demand for help from many‘ Sections‘of the country', but as the harvest excur- sions from Ontario have not started there are few men of the desired glass amiable. is now general throughout Manitoâ€" ba, while Wheat cutting has start- ed in several places and will be gegeraljn a_coppleÂ¥of weeks. threatened in Colombia. A military dictatorship is predic- ted in Turkey. A revolutionary outbreak is Nineteen out of every one hun- dred Chicago babies under one 3cm 01d died In the first 22 days of July. This is about one- -fourth the quoted death rate of the city. ”H A nvurs}, said to belong to Toronto is accused of the thqft of a dia- mond ring from a. patlent at New York. The mills of the International Paper Co. in New England are closed on account of a threatened strike. and 20.000 men are idle. I-Fovod experts, gathe_rcd for con- vention at Mackinac. declared cold storage poisgps fi_sh‘ and. milk. Two men were killed and three others wounded in a, fight over a. school election at Layman; Ken- tucky._ 'Drivjenâ€"crazy by the heat,‘ two men committed suicide at Brooklyn on Thursday. In South Dakota the dreaded black rust is ruining the wheat crop. In the streets of New York City 3,030 people are _kille_d every year. Senatoi' W. B. Allison, the wellâ€" known United States statesman, is dead. The Yaqui Indians have killed thirteen pefioqs in Texas. ‘ The fruit crop of Illinois is a. failure. Wm. Burke, .1 motor mechanic, was thrown from an auto at the Brooklands track. England, and died of his injuries. Only two of the twelve measures forshadmved in the King’s speech were passed by the British Parlia- ment. An Irish company proposes to gepeyate electgngity frqm peat. “J. A. D. Poitrgms, former Treasur- er of the Lachine. Quebec, Schuol Board, 'was sentenced to three years in penitentiary for stealing $32 ,000 of the board’s funds. ..- The Railwm Commissiun has is- sued an ode; to all railways for the protection of trest-les by watch- men and fire alarm devices from May to October inclusive. A prospector returned with $3,â€" 000*gold dust from behind the GoL den Ear Mountains, and :1 rush has begun from Port Haney, B. C. ,~"A cal-load of speckled trout from Osceola, Wis., has been placed in lakes near K om. and the fish will be proteq 'd. for ten years. Canadian private yachts not en- gaged in commercial enterprise can enter U. S. ports without going t0 a‘ customs’ house The Ontario Government has ap- pointed M. J. NF -are, an aglicul- tural expert, to assist the farmels of _Onta‘1jio county. Tiie estimate of Ontaix‘iu receipts from succession duties for this year has already been exceeded by $189,- 000. The C. P. R. are said to be im- porting men from Chicago to take thgplaces» of the striking mechanics. The examination of school chil- dren’s teeth is advocated by the Ca- nadian Dental Association. London’s customs returns for July were $65,935.78, an increase of $10,469.13 over June. The L‘ P. R. are said to be pre- paling to make Montxeal the sum- me: port for their Atlantic steam- crs. The July out ut f101n the collier- 105 of theN Steel Coal Co 0. “as 59,318 tons. Several towns in Saskatchewan are getting telephone sex-wee at $2 a month and under. One hundred and four children died at; Montreal last week. Men idle in western cities refuse in work at the harvest. Gainsboro’, Sask., suffered a. $30,- one fire loss on Thursday. The C. P. R. asks for _25, 000 har- \est hands for the prairie harvest Telegraphic Briefs From Our Own and Other Countfies of Recent Events. CANADA. HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER THE GLOBE. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS UNITED STATES. GREAT BRITAIN. GENERAL CL vv-v. Select hogs went down fed and watered. Lights mere selling at fiGéQ 2e: ’ ‘ A Montreal, Aug. 11.â€"Grainâ€"â€"The market for oats is firm, with a fair demand; Manitoba No. 2 White, 48c; No. 3, 470; rejected, 46c per bushel in car lots, ex store. Flour â€"»Choice Spring wheat patents, $6.10; seconds. $5.50; Winter wheat patents, $5; straight rollers, $4.30 Ito $4.50; do., in bags. $1.90 to $2.- .10; extras. $1.65 to $1.75. Feedâ€" ‘Manitoba bran, $22 to $23: shorts, $25; Ontario bran, $20 to $20.50; middlings. $24 to $25; shorts, $24.â€" 50 to $25 per» ton, including bags; lpure grain mouille, $30 to $32; milled grades, $25 to $28 per ton. Cheeseâ€"The market continues firm, with westerns quoted at 12% to 12%c, and easterns at 12 to 12}§c. Butter â€"â€" Finest creamery being .quoted at 23% to 24c in round lots, and 24%(3 in a jobbing way. Eggs â€"~ Sales of selected stock were made at 23c; No. 1, 200, and No. 2. Me per dozen. ‘v Vâ€" rv- v~ There was a good enquiry for choice and fair milch cows and springers at $40 to-$60'each. Some of the calves brought for» ward were of poor quality, and sol at easy pnces. Quotation 2% to 5%c per pound- Lambg Jv'ere 250 higher ewes were stead“; Prices Export ewes, $355333 $4.40 353 to $3.25; lambs’s,‘ $5.50 peg 9W? to $2 per cwt. Good loads of butchu‘s’ cattle, $4.50 to $4.85; medium. $3.75 to $4.35; common, $2.50 to $3.50; choice cows, $3.50 to $4.25; com- mon cows, $2 to $3; canners, 75c Toronto. Aug. 11.â€"Only’ a very limited number of good export catâ€" tle were on sale. Their prices were quoted at $5 to $5.50 per cwt. Some light ahd medium animals sold at around $5 per cw_t. Si}. Louis; MoQVAug. llâ€"Whveatâ€" Cash, 94c; Sept, 95%c: Dec., Detroit, Aug. 11. â€"â€"-\V 1‘ atâ€"No 1 “bite, cash, 95%0; N0. 2 led cash, 9GAc; Sept 98c; Dcc., 81.00%. Toledo. Ohio, Aug. 11.â€"Wheatâ€" Cash, 96%0; Sept., 971/230; Dec., $1.00. Cornâ€"Cash, .S‘Zc; Sept, 820; Dec. 66Ac Oatsâ€"Cash, 50Ac: Sept. __48/c_; Dec., 485/80. Smoked and Dry Salted Meatsâ€" Long clear bacon, 11%0 to 115430, tons and cases; hams, medium and light,14‘/§c t015c; hams, large, 121430 to 13c; backs, 17%c to 180; shoulders, 100 to 110; rolls, 101/30 to 11c; breakfast bacon, 15c to 15%c; green meats, out of pickle, 1c less than smoked. Cheeseâ€"Large, 12%0 to 13c, twins 130 to 130. Honeyâ€"834 to 10:: per pound Beans $2 to $2.10 fo1 plimos and $2.10 to 5:3. 20 for hand- picked. Fawkesâ€"01113211105, 800 to 90c pe1 bushel in farmers’ waggons; Ameri- cans, $335 to $3.65 per barrel in car lots on track here. Ifarclâ€"TIierces, 12 ; tubs, 12%0; pa}1s, 7123/20. Porkâ€"Short cut, $23.50 per bar- rel; mess. $19 to $19.50. lcté Punlbwâ€"Wholesale prices, live weight: Spring chickens, Me to 150; fowl, 100 to 110; ducks, S‘/._Ic to Sc; (ll‘CssOdfiiflWIlt 2c highm'. do ordinary Dan-y, tubs Inferlor .. Butterâ€"Steady and a. little quiet- er. Wholesale prices are :â€" Crcamery, prints . . . . .. 25c to 264: do solids 23ct024c Dairy prints, choice ..... 23c to 24c Flourâ€"Manitoba, first patents, $6; seconds, $5.40; strong bakers’. $5.30; Ontario winter wheat pat- ents, $3.30 to $3.35. Siiort54-Qlldted at $20 to 821 bull} outsiQe;_in_bags $2 more. Oatsâ€"Ontario No. 2 white, nom- inal, Me to 460 outside; Manitoba, No. 2, 481/20, lake ports; No. 3, 46%c; rejects, 45c. Cor.n-â€"No 2 yellow, nominal at BBC to SGl/Lc, Townto freights;ki1n- d1ied,84c to SIP/fie Branâ€"Quot'ed atrv$716tto $18 pgn' ton in bulk outside; 1n bags, ‘52 more. Manitoba Wheatâ€"Quotations at Georgian Bay ports; No. 1 north- ern, $1.11%; No. 2 Northern, $1.- 09; No. 3 northern, $1.08. Barleyâ€"No. 2, 580 to 600, out- side; No. 3 X, 560 to 57c. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Aug. 11â€"Ontario Wheat -â€"Old fall wheat quoted at 84c to 850 outside; new at 840 to 85¢ out: side. UNITED STATES MARKETS. REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. THE W ORLD’F/ MARKETS LIVE STOCK MARKET ‘s~â€"200 to file per dozen in case COUNTRY PRODUCE. PROVISIONS . 525C to 26¢ . . 23c to 240 . 23c to 240 . 21c to BBC .. 21c to 22c . 17c to 180 prices, live ma Ze p] by Mrs. Juseph! flames. and was} Contents. the "]~ 5:400. While ‘0‘ :1 fire broke (i ties alon Tho moh‘ were SUI {mum was gn on tinguished \\ 1th lit man fled tcm a1 ds H and a fev hours 1 A dcspatch says: After lear diary fires l)cl‘ll aged twenty-eig be mentally u rested by the p< day morning, ing trial. Whil about 1 o’cloc ing Watchman CUM. c-rs’ Woodworking flames coming from As he approached from behind the One of the most tragic fatalities of the fire, and one which shows the extremes to which people were d1i\ en to escape the heat, was the finding of the bodies of a family of four in a well, a miner, his wife Started 1 Mono “The loss to the City of Fernie will be not less than ’m‘o million. There is no min in sight, and the fire continues slowly up the moun- tainside, but nothing but.a. very high wind would do much damage, as the valley along its lower-por- tions is swept clean of everything combustible. Relief; in the form of money. supplies and bedding have come in with great freedom and everyone 'is now under canvas at Fernie. There are about 3,000 wo- nen and children at Ci‘anbrook, to the west of Fernie. and about 1,500 at Lethbridge, to the east, but they are being slowly brought back to Fernie, where tent accommodation can be provided for them.” “The. loss of the Crow’s Nest Pass Company, owning mines at Coal Creek and Fernie and Michel. will be 515200.000; the C. P. R. will lusc $200,003; the Great Northern lailway will lose about $250,000. and the lumber companies not less than a million. The loss of timber to the Crow’s Nest; Pass Coal Com- pany will be not less than 3. mil- lion. “Hosmcr has escaped with little loss on its mining side, but Fernie has been completely obliterated, only 23 houses and three business houses being left. On both banks of the Elk River are a. large num- ber of sawmills, all of which, with one exception, have ben swept out of existence, and probably a large number ,of men have lost their lives in the WQ ,5. ,T egbodies re- covered 50 far-nurbe I", and there will be more, but in the Woods only. ‘ “' TRAGIC INCIDENTS OF FIRE “In this area. are situated the City of Fernie and the Towns of Hosmcr and Michel, all mining camps. There is a large mining plant at Coal Creek, near Fernie, v. hence comes the laxgest output of coal Although the fire has been uithin mo miles of C02. 1 Creek, the town may be said to be safe, and although the fire is all around Michelg there is no grave apprehen- sion as to it “Fire areaâ€"Valley of Elk River coal mining district in Kootenay, B. 0.; is approximately 30 miles long and two to ten miles broad. A despatch from Fernie, B. 0., says: Asked for a statement oi fire losses, President; Lindsey, of the Crow’s Nest .I’ass Coal Compaqy. has given ou.t the foliowing officml statement: First Statement of the Actual Damage By the Great Fire'ili British Columbia. TOTAL Lass IS‘SWWI FlREBl' G . RICHARD‘J, Publisher and Proprietor meat word was received that Fornie was burned the citizens began to or ganize committees to receive and care for the people, public subscrip- tions opened, tents erected on w- cant lots, and citizens began to ga- ther blankets and clothing and va- cant stores on the main thorough- fares were opened, to be used as distributing bureaus for clothes and blankets. Provisions were donated, a corps of cooks got busy, and ev- erything was in- shape to receive and handle the refugees almost be- fore they arriVed. The big rink “as fitted up as an eating hagll and sleeping place. At each meal fully 1.500 people are fed, and exery night 750 sleep within the walls. - Cranbrook has donc'marvcls to- ward alienating the suffering thou- ands of Ferme refugees. The mo- There are no new developments except that donations of supplies and money continue to pour in from all direct'ons. Food is plvntiful at present, and sleeping quartsrs ade- quate The sanitary conditions are being \erV carefully w atched, and there IS no fear of danger fr 311) that quarter. Every day scores of people are returning to Fernie, and before ten days have passed it is expected that thermajority will have returned. I Even more pathetic is the awful manner in which Mrs. Addie Tur- ner, an aged invalid mean, who ilived with her son in Fern’ie annex, rmet death. \‘E'hen it was seen that 1the house was going to be ignited ‘hy flying embers in the gale, Mr. Turner, a miner, prepared his wife and children for flight. The aged woman could not walk, and she pleaded vith them to leave he! and save themselves, but finally, when the house was caught by the", flames, Mr. Turner wrapped the old woman in a wet blanket, carried her out of the house, and laid her on the ground. He then seized his wife and children and fled. Nothing but t'heeblackened henes of the Elli womam'fiwere found. 49-3: the seat 535 malty. ng. Turner and his family escaped. PEOPLE FLOCKIN‘ ': BA CK. and .clxildren, where they had tried [to get relief from the terrific heat. ‘The head if 1;le man, whose name was William Ford. was badly burn- ed, while his wife and children. a boy of 2 yezigs, and a girl of 5 years, all died of ' .ocai‘r :1. There was little water' ll, which was cur‘iflx ‘ . and after climb- ing intu its” is family were evidently'uhtble cu get out again, and the purbing burned down al- most tn the water’s edge, suflocatâ€" ing them. AFT destroying two lice had been '5 disastrous sent from tured. form