St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 10, 1910

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“VOL. 63. NO. 51. oT. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, ¢ OCTOBER 10, 1910. PRICS ONE RICE ONE CENT

FOREST; S HUNDREDS}. nesota Woods a Solid Wall of Flame, Which |BABY ARRESTED ON| | DESERTION CHARGE

Girl 20 Months Old Held for Father Under Law Rarely Applied. Marie Michaels, 2 months eld, was arrested by Detectives Boyle asd Lally Monday on % warrant charging her with deserting her father, Ebert Michaels, in Kansas City, Kan. Marie will be taken before Judge Grimm in the Juvenile Court Tuesday. $9000 MISSING. FROM A LOCKED EXPRESS OAFE

Officials Are Mystified Over Disappearance of Part of

|JFRENCH FLYER, HIS DAINTY MACHINE AND A WRIGHT AEROPLANE SHOWN IN FLIGHT

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Rage Toward . Canada, perce stent Towns and Marie is in the custory of her grand- uncle, John H. Dowdell of Kansas City, Kan., who has her at the Meramec Ho- VW. j tel, Twelfth and Pine streets. 2 Chief of Detectives Smith was startled] ° No. 4 in the Series of the Record of D. R. Francis ,@ candidate % for the Untied States Senate: ~ “ as “S “ie ‘ “> “ . viet Oc) o . A nthe ¢ Ke S) a - ee p> as SS as os 2S “ . a 4 23 => Be 9 ee . . . ? x a “ d “ oP nb . ax S ~ pa ” j , sa’ Seo d , 3 > he ¥ ‘ . , Ae 2a My we 2 De “ e 2 d we tae ate’ a ; FP, me Rp , ws ~ e 2 4 ¥ ys Y eee 3 state . ~ Pores ; ‘ & . “ ‘ i a > . CROSMAN, 4 . ; ee 2% - ai in Boe ee ‘ $s : dines oe , #:

FROM ‘Ar Introduced a Resolution at. * Commercial, Club niger recurs SAY DEAD ; _ MAY: BE A THOUSAND 50d! Block Roads to Char- ; ted Hamlets and the Mayor of One Ruined Village a ie ‘ees 75 Perished There— | = : A _ Women Battle With Men a _to ee Alive. 3 ag one ae Manitoba, Oct. 10,—It 5 ia iveaaese that the death Ist at- ee tending the forest fires along the bor- ~ ter will reach 1000 persons. ‘Every settler in the district bound-| ee ‘a ‘by the Rainy -River and Lake of _ the Woods, on the north to 25 miles - geuth of Fort Frances., Ont., and from : Spooner and Baudette; Minn., on the venst to Warroad, Minn., on the west, who is not accounted for is counted as dead, fom there was no escape. i * For a distance of 60 miles from Warroad, the forest was a solid mass tte is only a charred wreck. is wiped out. Cedar Spur, . Pitt, Swift and Roosevelt “other hamlets destroyed. € A al Were seen on the Can- Nortl | tracks by women who “horses” and ‘flea down the ; D eedeemts unidentified dead are in the west of Pitt, including “two women and a baby. lway trainmen went through burne¢ urdae between Pitt and Bau- at while attempting a rescue. ds Millions. ‘Minn,, Oct. 10.—Men who ¢ returned, from Baudette on a tor say that the list of dead back from the track wih r of | Baudette states that 75 —. been found anda mR every hours report in the roads. $ will mount well into -miliio Serre covers an 0 * 5 mil length from the 2 seo it west of Warroad to : ae station east of

A resolution, practically demanding that Gdnniene and ihe wtats latures “keep hands off” of the railroads and the trusts was introdt 7e¢ at a meeting of the Commercial Club held at the “St. Louis Club, Jan. 1909, by David. Rowland Francis, now a candidate for the United Senate. a means o! railway lczislaticn. © importance, special committee of the club. The resolution was sent to Francis by the or “let the rcsciluticn was trai “nge moderation and calmn-+ which originated the “hands off”. specifie cemarnd of legislatures roads and other business interests.” Frederick W. Lehmann was the only member of the club who oP . 4 Hie strougly advocated tie adoption of the résolution an checkips what he declaied wag a tendency ‘toward pga ‘He urged that the resolufion, ; be referred immediately to the Fxccutive Committee, or on account of - movement. action on the resolution. Francis was then president of the Com Club. While he presented the resolution in his official capacity he stro advocated its adoption in a speech in which he defended the railroads 4 business interests against the attempts of legislatures cf the diffe states and Congress to regulate them. “If I were a member of Congress or a State Legislature I would resent such a suggestion as the proposed resolution contains,”” declared Lehmann. should we not assume that legislators will be fair, moderate and honest, at least until they show a spre 3: ud to be otherwise. “Why should this body sugpent to the Legislature, in general terms, @ course of action as to a particular class of measures? “Let every piece of legislation, wheth- er it affects railroads or other interests, stand on its own merits. “Let us not humiliate our legtslatard by intimating that they will act un- fairly.’ John D. Davis, vice-president of the Mississippi Valley Trust Co., of which Francis is a director, in making a mo- ¢fion that the Exscutive Committee be instructed to prepare immediately such "why | a

a resolution, bitterly assailef® Congress An Enemy of Francis — he ‘_ Writes to Praise Hi i. " > ; and the Sthte Lestslarure for what he called tion.” . he gl rallroad Lehmows atioupens to action on the resolution by a point of order. He was overruled by Chairman Paes ts New. York Railway Clubj aione” | C% ngress ‘and the lation aRecting:: put the motion, and voted for tt. Every member of the club e Lehmann voted for it. Lehmann art “ and requested that his objection to t resolution «and. in the minutes. The Missouri Legislature, and C the motion be gress, were te sédeién when the § resolution was offered and adopted by the ‘club. The : of the club consists mostly of St. Loulg business men. - Specific reference was made the discussions to the laws « the different state legisiatures ing railroad rates Some of the bers of the club denoun ced the"! cents-a-mile rates. Isaac H. Lionberger, a well-known at- disregard of the public interests. — torney, has written the following letter, published In the Republic of Monday, rgiative to. the articles on the record of D. R. Francis, appearing in the Post- Dispatch.- To the Editor of the Republic.

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