RATES OF ADVERTISING: One Square, one inch, one week... 1 00 One Square, one inch, one month- 3 00 One Square, one inch, 3 months...- S 00 One Square, one inch, one year ..... 10 00 Two Squares, one year 15 00 Quarter Column, one year SO 00 Half Column, one year .. 60 00 One Column, one year 180 00 Legal advertisements ten cents per line each insertion. We do flno Job Printing of every de scription at reasonable rates, but it's cash on delivery. Published every Wednesday by J. E. WENK. Offioe in Smearbangh & Wenk Building, ELM BTKKBT, TIONK8TA, PA. Fore Republican Torn $I.OOA Year, Wrlctly lo Adranc. No subscription reoolved for a Bhorter period than three months. Correspondence solicited, but no notice will bo taken of anonymous ooininunlca tioun. Atways give your name. VOL. XXXIX. NO. 7. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 190G. $1.00. PER ANNUM. THE FOREST REPUBLICAN. st BOROUGH OFFICE Rb. llvrgei.it. J. T. Carson. Juaticea of the Peace 8. S. Canfleld, 8. J. Sotley. Ctmncumen. J. B. Muse, J. W, len ders, O. A. Lausou, Geo. Holoman, G. T. Auderson, Win. Smearbaugb, E. W. Bowman. CbnatableVf. II. Hood. Cbllector W. II. llood. A'eAoot Directora J. O. Seowden. R, L. Haslet, K. W. Bowman, T. F. Kitchey, A. C. Brown, Dr. J. C. Dunn. FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS. Member of Oongreaa Joseph C. Sibloy. Member of Senate J. K. P. Ball. Aaxembly3. II. Robertson. Preaidrnt Judge W. M. Lindsey. Aaaoexate JudgeaV. X. Kreitler, P. C. Hill. Prothonotury, Register St Recorder, die. J. C. (Jeist. Sheriff. A.. W. Stroup. Ireaaurer Wr II. Harrison. Cvmmi.taionera Leonard Aguew, An drew Wolf, I'hillp Kmort. District Attorney H. D. Irwin. Jury Commissioners J. B. Eden, J. P. Castner. Coroner County AuditoraW. II. Stiles, Chas. F. Klluestiver, 8. T. Carson. Countu Surveyor V. W. Clark. County Superintendent U. W. Morri son. Kecular Terma of(:urt. Fourth Monday of February. Third Monday of May. Fourth Monday of September. Third Monday of November. Regular Meetings of County Commis sioners 1st und 3d Tuesdays of month. Church mat Habbalh Hchael. Presbyterian Sabbath School at 9:45 a. in. i M. IS. Sabbath Hchool at 10:00 a. m. PreaohinK in M. K. Church every Sab bath evenlnit by Kev. W.O. Calhoun. Preaching In tbe F. M. Church every Sabbath evening at the usual hour. Rev. R. A. Zahniser, Pastor. Services in the Presbyterian Church every Sabbath morning and evening, Kev.' Dr. Paul J. Slouaker, Pastor. The regular meetings of the W. C. T. U. are hold at the headquarters on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 'TM'.NESTA LODGE, No. 369, T. O. O. F. 1 Meets every Tuesday evening, in Odd Follows' Hall, Partridge building. CAPT. GEORGE STOW POST, No. 274 G. A. K. Meet 1st and 8d Monday evening in each month. CAPT. GEORGE STOW CORPS, No. 1.17, W. R. C, meets first and third Wednesday evenlug of each month. KARL E. WENK, DENTIST. TIONESTA, PA. All work guaranteed. Rooms over Forest County National Bauk. RITCHEY A CARRINGER. ATTORN KYS-AT-LAW, Tionesta, Pa. CURTIS M. SIIAWKEY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Warren, Pa. Practice m Forest Co. AC BROWN, ATTORN EY-ATLAW. Ofilce in Aruer Building, Cor. Elm and Bridge Sts., TlonosU, Pa. D R. F. J. BOVARD, Physician surgeon, TIONESTA, PA. DR. J. O. DUNN. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, and DRUGGIVI". Otlice over store, Tlouesta, Pa. Professional calls prompt ly responded to at all hours of day or night. Residence Elm St., betweon Grove's grocery and Gerow's restaurant. D K. J. B. SIGGINS. Physician and Surgeon, OIL CITY, PA, HE. KIRSCHNER, M. D. Practice limited diseases of the Luugs and Chest. Oillce hours by ap- OILCITY?!'!: No. 110 CENTER ST. 13 W. BOLTON, M. D. Ij, Practice limited to diseases of the Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat. Special atlnnlion given to the lilting of glasses. Ollice hours 9-12 a. in., I S p. m.. 7-8 p. m. OIL CITY, PA. No. 110 CENTERS T. II K Mi-KIN LEY. . Hardware. Tinning Plumbing. i lonosui, SJ. SETLEY, JUSTicE OF THE PEACE, Keeps a complete line of Justice's blanks for sale. Also Blank deeds, mortgagos, etc. Tionesta, Pa. HOTEL WEAVER, E. A. WEAVER, Proprietor. This hotel, forinorly the Lawrence House, has undergone acompletechange, and is now furnished with all the mod ern Improvements. Heated and lighted throughout with uatural gas, bathrooms, hot and cold water, etc. The comlorts of guests never neglected. c ENTRAL HOIWE, iv.lt()W A. GEROW Proprietor. t;.. nuiia Pa. tIiIh Is the mostcentrally located hotel In the place, and has all the modern improvements. No pains will be sparod to make it a pleasant stopping place lor the traveling public. l'irst class Livery in connection. pHIL. EMERT FANCY BOOT A SHOEMAKER. Shop in Wallers building, Cor. Elm and Walnut streets, Is prepared to do all Kinds of custom work Irom the finest to the coarsest and guarantees his work to give perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten tion given to mending, and prices rea sonable. JAMES HASLET, GENERAL MERCHANTS, Furniture Dealers, AND UNDERTAKERS. TIONESTA. PENN . CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS Bust Coueh Synip. Tastes Good. Use in time. Suld by druuglsts. THE BURNED GITY Sair Francisco Takes on Cour age and Faces the Situ ation Bravely. LEADEKS PLAN TO EEBUILD f akland Temporarily Takes the Place of the Metropolis of the Paclfio CoaaU Construction Companies Have Opened Employment. Offices and Hundred! of Survivors Are Employed Activity of a Healthy and Rea'ssurlng Sort Is Noted Financial Loss Will Probably Exceed $250,000,000 Loss of Life Greater Than Supposed, as Bodies Are continually Found In Ruins of ' Buildings $12,000,000 Subscribed For Relief Provision by the Train load Pestilence Menaces. Although San Francisco, the metrop olis of the Pacific coast, has been prac tically blotted out by the earthquake which occurred Wednesday morning, April 18th, and the subsequent fires which raged throughout the city until Saturday, her brave people have risen superior to misfortune, and are now planning to restore the city. At Oakland, which has temporarily taken the place of San Francisco as the metropolis, her financiers, bankers and merchants are conferring and get ting into shape the first plans for the rebuilding of the burned city and pre venting a widespread financial panic. In the face & enormous loss and the complete wiping out of commercial life of the city of the Pacific, the leaders of trade and commerce are cheerful. GENERAL FUJfSTON. The governor, the bank commission ers, the architects, the insurance of ficers and the representatives of many of the large commercial enterprises are now here clearing the way for the smooth adjustment of affairs that will lighten the heavy hand of disaster. The news that the money In the vaults of the banks of San Francisco is safe and that all the batiks will pay in full as soon as culm replaces dls 6rdcr has done much to prevent panic. Construction companies have opened employment offices, and hundreds of survivors have been employed to be sent Immediately to the quarries, that there may be no lack of building and repair material. Already many of the buildings dam aged by the earthquake are being re paired and activity of a healthy and re assuring sort Is noted. But a vague Idea of the stupendous task which has been undertaken can be obtained, for with the exception of outlying and suburban districts, two thirds of the total area formerly occu pied by the city Is a mass of smoking ruins, and every structure of Import ance has either been destroyed or seri ously damaged. The financial loss can hardly be es timated and $250,000,000 is probably a conservative estimate of the actual damage. Many lives have been lost how many will probably never be known, for in many instances whole families ave been buried beneath the falling walls of their homes. There is another unconsidered fac tor which adds to the list of probable dead. Chinatown was built three stories above the street and three be low. The Chinese had run their tun nels', chambers and secret passages 50 feet below ground. These were always populated especially at night. As they were not -timbered, these tunnels must have caved in, for the shock was strong enough at that point to over throw some of the old rookeries. Twenty-five vegetable pedlers, most ly Italians, were killed by the fall of the vegetable market in Washington street PRACTICAL SYMPATHY. Generous Response to Imperative Needs of the Hour. The response of the American people to the imperative needs of the hour has been magnificent. Never before was there such a superb outpouring of practical sympathy, generosity, hu. inanity and patriotism. Relief trains are rushing across the continent from all parts of the country; the telegraph wires are bearing Increasing streams of messages recording financial contribu tions already amounting to many mil lions; the president, congress, gover nors of states the mayors of cities, cnamuers or commerce, citizens com mlttees and individuals by tens of thousands all are co-operating nobly for the relief of the tens of thousands suddenly mude destitute and homeless by the appalling calamity.. FIRE CHIEF SULLIVAN. In New York city at least $3,000,000 has been subscribed, including a gift of $100,000 from Andrew Car negie. William Waldorf Astor has cabled a subscription 'of $100,000 through his American representative, Charles A. Peabody. The United States Steel corporation voted $100,000 to be expended in relief work. The Standard Oil company directed that a like sum bo spent. John D. Rocke feller Thursday personally subscribed a similar amount. The Merchants' association of New York received $17,230 and the State Society of the National Red Cross re ceived $16,105. Every dollar that can be raised throughout the country will be needed, for destitution is great. San Francisco geographically is an Isolated city. Its nearest large neighbor on the south Is Los Angeles, 500 miles away. To the north is Port land, nearly 800 miles distant, and its nearest sister In the Great East Is Salt Lake City, 1,000 miles away. These cities and all of the less pop ulated nearer towns are making sacri fices for the destitution, but it Is to the big cities of the nation that San Francisco looks with anxiety for re lief. CROWDED REFUGEE CAMPS. Good 'Order and Fellowship Prevail In Improvised Settlements. Three hundred thousand people are homeless and throughout the western portion of the peninsular county of San Frauclsco refugees' camps are lo cated. Major McKeever of the United States army has been appointed com mandant of the camps and with his staff of assistants Is bringing system and order out of the chaotic situation. His first thought is to supply food and water and then to arrange sanitary measures. Throngs of persons are crowded el bow to. elbow in the open lots and fields without conveniences that nat urally are demanded and are threat ened with an epidemic of disease un less some wise precautions speedily are observed, and the authorities have men working out sanitary problems. Good order and fellowship seems to prevail In these impromptu settle ments. In buildings close to the camps tho police are storing available food stuffs and bed clothing for convenient delivery That there will be a Just and equal distribution of the-supplies Is evident from the temper of the city administration. No distinctions are drawn. r-RXCKEI.8' nOUSB IN BAN FRANCISCO. At the Presidio military reservation, where 50,000 persons are camped, af fairs are conducted with military pre cision. Water Is plentiful and rations are dealt out all day long. The ref ugees stand patiently in line and there la not a murmur. This characteristic Is observable all over the city. The people are brave and patient and the wonderful order pre served by them has been of great as sistance. In Golden Gate Park are encamped 200,000 persons. A huge supply sta tion has been established there and provisions are dealt oil. Many thousands are camped In va cant lots and squares scattered aboi" the city and these are the unfortunate! that are hard to reach. Death of Fire Chief Sullivan. Chief D. J. Sullivan of the lire depart ment died Sunday from the effects of Injuries received on the morning of the earthquake. Chief Sullivan r.nd his wife were sletping in the fire house adjoining the California hotel In Ilush street. The earthquake shook iown the chimney of the hotel and sent It crashing through the fire nous Chief Sullivan and his wife wera carried with the debris two stories to the ground floor, where they were ex tricated with difficulty. GOVERNMENT'S TIMELY AID. War Department Forwarded Great Quantities of Food, Tents, Blank ets and Stoves. All branches of the federal service are bending every effort to bring to the earthquake sufferers speedy relief, the cabinet decided that Secretary Metcalf should proceed to San Fran cisco as the representative of the na tional government and to consult with the authorities as to what is needed to alleviate distress. Every available vessel about San Francisco has been directed to carry supplies to the stricken city and ren der other assistance, while officers of the army on the Pacific coast and else where have been given imperative In structions to ship tents, rations, med ical and other relief supplies. Offers of assistance from abroad have been gratifying to the president, but he feels the United States Is able to care for the San Francisco suffer ers and contributions from foreign countries will be declined. Mr. Ballln of the Hamburg-American line offered $25,000 for the California sufferers but the offer was declined. Already hundreds of thousands of army rations, tents, bedding, buckets, blankets and other necessities have been turned over to the San Francisco authorities, more are on the way and carloads of medical supplies, furnished through the army medical supply de partment at St. Louis, are speeding to the coast. Practically all the quartermaster supplies ordered from the various de partments of the army are now on the way to San Francisco. Saw Several Ghouls Killed. . "I saw Chicago burn In 1871 and was in Charleston when an earth quake created great destruction there, but the San Francisco horror far out shadowed those calamities," said Dr. Frank Darker of Rochester, N. Y. "I cannot believe that the loss of life in San Francisco was confined to mere hundreds. I would be the last to stretch the facts but I am convinced that several thousand persons suffered death. Thieves and looters were dealt with summarily. I personally wit nessed the sudden demise of several ghoulish men. "I saw a fellow cutting rings from the hands of a dead woman in Bush street, Just below Sacramento. There was a rush of men and within a few minutes the robber was dangling from a polo. "One Innocent man met his death at the hands of the military. He was the cashier of a bank and refused to obey the command to halt, but continued to run into the bank building. He was shot." Food and Water Supplied. There are no hungry persons in the city of San Francisco this week. The gaunt spectre of starvation has been banished by the magnificent re sponse of the people of California in particular and by the entire nation In general to the appeals that went out for assistance. The water situation, while causing inconvenience, is no longer a great problem. About two-thirds of the sec tion of the city which was not burned Is being supplied with water for the pressing domestic needs, but of course there Is not yet enough to be had for fire fighting purposes. Because of this fact the most stringent orders have been issued by tho authorities that no fires shall be built within any house and no lights, not even a candle light, can bo shown at night In the houses. All cooking must be done on the side walks or in 'the open streets and In daylight. Increase In Marriage Licenses. Weddings In great number have re sulted from the disaster. Women driv en out of their homes and left destitute, have appealed to men to whom they were engaged, and immediately mar riages have been effected. ' Since the first day of the disaster an Inn-ease in the marriage licenses Is sued was noticed by County Clerk Cook. This Increase Is becoming greater. SEEN FROM THE BAY. Vessel Anchored In Golden Gate Road- sted Scorched by the Flames. The first mate of tho steamer Itauri, lound for Hamburg, which left San Francisco Thursday, said when the vessel put Into I,os Angeles: 'As seen from the bay it was a sublime, but terrible, spectacle. We were anchored more than a mile In the roadsted, but the wind as it swept over the burning city and down upon us was like the breath of a de mon. At times it was impossible for us to remain on deck, so great was the heat. The concussions of dyna mite brought hundreds of fish to the surface. Our clearance papers were burned, but we could not retain our anchorage and late on Thursday after noon we started for the open sea. 'At midnight wo were 30 miles at sea, but the flames were still visible and until almost dawn we stood on deck and watched reflection of the flames as they played to and fro on the cloud mountain which hung over the ruined city." $12,000,000 Subscribed. Last week congress appropriated $2,000,000 for the relief of the earth quake sufferers and on Saturday Presi dent Roosevelt sent a special message to congress asking for the additional appropriation of $1,500,000 which will be granted. It is estimated that thus far the subscriptions throughout th9 country total $12,000,000. THE BURNED DISTRICT. A Scene of Unspeakable Desolation as Far as Eye Can Reach. A trip through the burned districts of San Francisco revealed a scene of unspeakable desolation. From many points In Market street, far as the eye could reach in any direction there was nothing but skeleton walls and smold tring ruins. It should be borne In mind that San Francisco was not destroyed by the earthquake! While old buildings in that part of the city which stood on "made" ground east of Montgomery street and some of that district lying south of Market, it Is true, suffered from the shock, it was fire that wrought the great devastation and wiped out the entire business section and probably half of the residence section of the city. CllHONK'LK BUII.UI.NO. The great modern steel structures were practically uninjured by the earthquake, except for cracked walls and displaced plaster. All these great structures, of course, subsequently were utterly ruined by the flames so far as the Inner construction is con cerned, but the walls are In most cases intact. The most notable cases of practical Immunity from the shock were the St. Francis hotel, the Falrmount hotel, the Flood building, the Mills building, the Spreckels building, The Chronicle building and scores of other modern steel structures. The branch of the United States mint on Fifth street and the new post office at Seventh and Mission streets, are striking examples of the superior ity of workmanship put into federal buildings. The old mint building sur rounded by a wide space of pavement, was absolutely unharmed. The postofflce building also virtually was undamaged by fire. The earth quake shock did some damage to the different entrances to the buildings, but the walls are uninjured. Every window pane, of course, is gone, as they are in almost every building in town, but the government will be able to r""me postal business Immedi ately. The Falrmount hotel, while seriously damaged in the interior, is Intact as to the walls, and the management has offered space In the building to any of the various relief committees who do sire to house tbe homeless, or to store supplies In those parts of the building considered safe. PLACES THAT SUFFERED. Casualties and Damages Estimated From Conservative Reports. In the following list of California cities, towns and villages blighted by earthquake and fire the casualties and damages reported as to each are esti mated from conservative reports: Damage. Cas. San Francisco .... $250,000,000 1,000 Oakland 500,000 5 Alameda 400,000 San Jose 5,000,000 19 Agnew (State Hos pital for Insane.. 400,000 110 Palo Alto (Stanford University) 5,000,000 3 Salinas 2,000,000 Napa 250,000 Hollister 100,000 1 fallejo 40,000 Sacramento 25.000 Redwood City 30,000 Suisun 50,000 Santa Rosa 800,000 40 Watsonville 70,000 Monterey 25,000 8 Loma Prlcta 15,000 4 Stockton 40,000 Brawley 100,000 Santa Cruz 150,000 Gllroy 500,000 Santa Clara 500,0(10 9 Building3 Reoccupied. The Merchants' Exchange building, the Falrmount hotel and tho Monad nock building, threo modern steel structares which came out of the lire without Important damage were open ed Monday morning as office buildlngj for the transaction of Important busi ness. Steel construction and lire proofing vindicated themselves nobly in this disaster. All such buildings got through the earthquake and the best of them, although burned over, will not have to be rebuilt. STORY OF EKE WITNESS A Newspaper Woman's Thril ling Experience. Helen Dare's Description of Frightful and Pathetic Scenes Which Followed the Earthquake Vivid Pen Picture of Panic In the Quaking Inferno. Looks Back on Doomed City. Some idea of the thrilling experi ences of the great city's inhabitants on the fateful morning when the earth quake sounded the prelude to the frightful catastrophe may be obtained from the graphic pen picture of Helen Dare, a newspaper woman, who es caped from the city on the 19th, a part of which follows: Like thousands of others, I was awakened out of peaceful sleep into a paralysis of fear by the violent and continued rocking of bed, of floor, of walls, of furniture, by the sounds of crashing chimneys, falling ornaments and pictures, breaking glass and the startled screams of women and chil dren. The floor rocked like a boat on a choppy sea, the violence of the motion Increased and seemed ever and again to take a fresh start. It seemed as if it would never end, and yet it lasted but two minutes. My young son came running from his room, and, clasped In each other's arms, we stood in the doorway of my room, waiting, waiting. With a relaxing quiver, like the pass ing of a sigh, the heaving earth and bil lowing floor sunk into repose. We dressed, and through the disar ranged furniture, over the broken glass and fragments of ornaments we made out way out. The streets were full of persons In every stage of un dress and excitement, one young moth er in her night dress clasping her 8-months-old baby In her arms and try ing to warm it by wrapping her thin lawn garment around It. A few blocks from Mayor Schmltz' home and a block from Mrs. Eleanor Martin's, the house where I have been stopping, Is the western addition where, owing to the hills of rock for mation, the damage was least. The swarming persons climbed tho hills, their first fear being that a tidal wave would follow, and all eyes were on the bay, shining in tho morning light, but not even the sea wall of the land that the Fair estate Is reclaiming from the ocean was hidden by water. I set out at once to see what damage had been done, finding it more appall ing with every block I walked. My way led along Pacific and Van Ness avenues, through the district of splen did homes of wealth and fashion, and not one of the long lines of Imposing houses but had suffered severely. The home of John D. Spreckels at Pacific avenue and La Guana street Is one of the finest and proudest In the city, and on It the parapet had cracked and crumbled and fallen like so much spun sugar out of a wedding cake. Blocks of cement had fallen from the entrance celling, and at one of the up per windows a wan, white face peered from the rich lace curtains at Rudolph Spreckels' handsome house at Gough and Pacific avenues. The lawn was riven from end to end in great gashes, tho ornamental Italian rail leading to the imposing entrance was a battered heap. Rudolph Spreckels, his wife, his lit tle son, his mother-in-law and sisters-in-law and maid servants had set up their household on the sidewalks. The women were wrapped In rugs and cov erlets and huddled in easy chairs hasti ly rolled out. They were having their morning tea on the sidewalk and the silver service was spread on the stone coping. At house after house of the wealthy and fashionable this scene was repeated. , It is only when I get as far as tho top of Leavenworth street and look down Into tho city's heart that I can get a glimmering of what an awful thing an earthquake is to a city. Great clouds of smoke rise dull and dark on every side and red angry flames shoot long tongues through them. I hear the roar and crackling of lire unrestrained, and with every blow I feel the heat on my cheeks and the cinders and ashes sifting down upon me. When I come to Powell street I see the St. Francis hotel still standing and the cinders and brands pouring upon Its roof. Remember this is only 7 o'clock. In Union square tho grass is covered, every Inch of it, with frightened, huddled people who have sought the open. The poor south of Market street, thus suddenly thrown out, are In exodus toward Telegraph hill, dragging and trundling such household goods as they have managed to save. Here are boys and a thin, flat chested woman trundling a sewing machine along. A drawer of It falls out, and they halt to gather up the precious scattered Bpools. Poor little seamstress, this Is her all now. Here is a wagon filled with bedding and cooking utensils, a crying woman and a baby on the seat, a birdcage dangling at the.lail and two men tak ing the part of horses. Thou a crazy nlghthawk h'ack, a white faced wo man dragged from her sickbed In it, fainting In the arms of another wo man. Every few seconds there Is a boom ing sound that adds to tho horror, the confusion and fearsouieness of the scene. It comes from the dynamite detonations where they are trying to check the spread of the fire by blowing up buildings. I try to make my way to the ferry, 3rst down one street and then down Another leading to the water frotit Each one as I try, from Post to Wash ington, Is closed by fire or wreckage, and there is no way through. On Washington street, opposite the old postofflce, a building has completely collapsed, and under its edges are horses struggling and dying. At last I find an open way on the next street, and, with the warmth of the blaze of water front saloons on my back, I hur ry across the upheaved street and twisted car tracks. This Is made ground, and the earthquake played with it as a child plays with a card board, cracking, creasing and bend ing It. On the bay side of the water front the old docks have tumbled and look like so much kindling wood. The tow er of the ferry building is destroyed and broken. The passengers stream aboard the ferryboat the only boats running are the Southern Pacific and turn to look back upon their city. From this point there is something colossal In the disaster that has befal len. A great cloud Is rising magnifi cent and overwhelming In Its propor tions, growing ever black and blackest toward the ground, spreading wider and wider. The red flames shoot sky ward through it and but emphasize Its density and violence. The Fairmount's marble walls gleam orange through the flames. The Call building rises like a sentinel, and far beyond you can make out through the murklness black splotches upon the green, the people hurrying to the San Bruno hill's. On tho Plite street hill I can see a row of old ramshackle cot tages that have slipped from their foundations into the street, apparently Intact. On Telegraph hill, on the highest place, the sky line Is marked with a garb of up-ended fringe of the people who have sought refuge up there at the top of the streets. PESTILENCE THREATENS. Every Effort Being Made to Ward Off the Grim Destroyer. Something perhaps worse than fam ine threatens San Francisco. Tho sewers are gone. It is a city without sanitation. Conditions are rlpo for any kind of pestilence. There is enough water for drinking and cook ing, not enough for cleanliness. To settle this problem General Funstan, the little man with horse sense, to whom the city owes so much, has bent all his energy. Now that the city Is more quiet and fresh troops have arrived from tho south, a good part of the soldiers have been sent off to arrange sanitary camps In the Potrero and the Ocean slope of the city. The Golden Gate Park, large and open as it. Is, has be come foul through the occupation of more than a hundred thousand people. Police, soldiers and hardy citizen volunteers are gathering tho corpses which are in frightful condition, from tho great heat, and burying them. So many bodies appeared to have been taken out from the little houses whoso fall escaped notleo in the general dis aster, that tho number of dead must pass the early estlmato of 1,000. ' Thero was no attempt to get them to the cemeteries or even to the tem porary cemeteries at the Presidio. They were bin led In the nearest parks, unidentified. In Columbia Park and in South Tark big trenches were dug and the corpses were piled In 15 to a trench. At one place on Folsom street, there was no park near at hand. They dug the trench there In an unpaved street. Bids for Bridge Repairs. Notice Is hereby given that sealed bids will be received until Friday st 112 o'clock M., the 1.7th day or April, lonti, by the County Commissioners at their ollice in Tionesta, Forest County, Pa., for repair ing the lower bridge across tho Tionesta Creek at Nobraska. Repairs to bo as follows: There shall bo placed at each panel point a floor beam composed of two llMncli 2(M-pound chan nel with three cast separators and con structed as shown on plan with top flanges punched for bolting joists. Fur nish for each end of bridge a 15-inch 41! pound "I" beam, and anchor same to ma sonry. Provido new lateral system as shown on plan. Hub guard will be con structed as hIiowii on tbe plan and at tached to the trutws with i V bolts, i lac ing tiller between pouts and guard. Fur nish 5-it'flt steel Joists, holling siimn to floor heauiM with i bolix and clips. The new floor will cotisislof ,'l-inch oak plank, well spiked to live lines 3x5-inch oak opiking pieces, bolted to joists with 4 -inch bolts. The wheel guards shall be 3xll oak Mocked one inch above Door plank, and shall bo hook-bolted to the channel Joists about every five feet with 8-lncli bolts. All steel and Iron must bo thoroughly scmped of all rust and scale, and painted one coat of such paint as the board of ('ouimiMNionerN mIihII direct, and all new material ahull have two coals of said I suit. The contractor shall be required to check all measurements given on the plan. All workmanship ahall bo doue lit a neat anil workmanlike manner Kiel shall bo lirst class in every particular, lieing required lo iiirnisii auy omission which may bo necessary to complete the bridge readv lor liavol to the satisfaction of the board ol County Commissioners of I'orpsl toiinty. .Special plana and apeci lications can be Been on file ill the Com missioners' olliee. All bids must be accompanied bv a certified check fur two hundred dollars to show the gooil faith of the Milder. lit. ease contract Is lot, a bond for the amount of tho contract, approved by the court, xbail be tiled with the Commissioners by I lie party receiving the contract. Ihe Commissioners hereby reserve the right to reject any and all bids. I j. AONKW, A. WOI.K, Philip K.mkki, CoiniiiiHuionerH of Forest County. Attest J. T. Dai.k, Clerk. Tionesta, Pa., April 2, l'JOO. 3t Til ( I KK A COM) IN (INK IMY J'ake Laxative Itroino Uuliiine Tablets. Druggists refund the money if it tails to cure. V.. W. Clrove'a mgiiatiira is on eaoh box. 25c.
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