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rs THE RIVE 1.• Vol. IX. DEATH'S HARVEST. Reading and Pittsburg Visited By a Destructive Cyclone. KILLED AND WOUNDED. Where and How the Storm Com- menced - Horrors of the Scenes— 14early One * Hundred Lives Lost. Rsaouso, Pa., January 9.—This is the .-addest night ever known in Reading. A leathlike pall hangs- upon the city, the result of the most horrible disaster in its history. A hundred householders are in mourning as the result of one of the great est calamities known to Pennsylvania. A 1, cyclone swept over the northern portion of the city this afternoon and laid waste everything within its reach, and with ter- rible less of life. The lives that have been sacrificed and the number that has !men injured can only be estimated. The most reliable computation at 10 o'clock to-night is that not less than sixty per- sons have been killed outright and 100 ,njured. How this terrible calamity oc- curred is about as follows: It was raining very hard all morning. Towards noon it cleared almost entirely, and by four o'clock there was every indi- -ation that there would be an entire ces- sation of the rain storm. Half an hour afterwards the sun made every effort to penetrate the clouds and the tints of the rainbow were seen in the eastern sky and a clear sky was overhead. This continued for half an hour longer. Then the scene changed with a suddenness that was ap- palling, and the fleecy clouds gave way to the ominous signs of a coming storm. _Dark banks of clouds marshalled them- selves towards the town and soon the gloom seemed to have settled over the •ity. Then the wind WHISTLED, ROARED AND TORE al mad confusion. The storm clouds grew heavier still and louder roared the wind. In the western sky the storm was seen approaching with a thundering noise. The swarth it cut aqui narrow, but its ef- fect was terrible. Persons residing along the track of the storm say they saw the first signs of danger in a funnel -shaped maelstrom of wind and debris, which seemed to gather up everything within its reach and cast it right and left. Out in the country houses and barns were un- roofed, farm building overturned, crops rooted up and destruction spread in ev- ery direction. The TRACK OF THIS DESTRUCTIVE ELEMENT was not more than 200 feet wide, and it is ticky it only struck the suburbs of the - city. It came from the west, but passed along the northern border of Reading. It first touched the Mount Penn Stove works. Here a corner of the building was struck and a /4ortion of the roof cut off as nicely as if done with a pair of scissors. Then the storm clouds scurried across some fields, took off a portion of the roof of J. Sternberg's rolling mill and a number of dwellings were unroofed as readily as if their tin roofs were paper. 'Ile storm then hurried across the prop- erty of the Reading Railroad company, and crossed the railroad. Here a passen- ger car was standing. This was overturn - as quickly as if it had been a toy, and .ts splinters scATTERED IN EVERY DIRECTION. Meanwhile the rain poured down in tor- rents, the atmosphere became oppressive and it was almost as dark as night. Di- rectly on one side of the track of the Reading railroad was situated the paint shop of the company. It was a one-story ouilding, about 60x100 feet in size and about thirty men were engaged in paint- ing passenger cars. There were eight or nine of these cars in the building, which hail, been built at the company's shops at a cost of $6,000 each. The building was struck squarely in the middle and the bricks were scattered about as if they were playthings. The ears wERE TURNED TOPSY TURVY, while the men were buried in the debris. The chamber of each passenger car was already filled with gas, as they were ready to be taken out on the road in a few days. They exploded one after another, and hang, bang, bang. they resounded over' the city, causing people to run out of their houses, thinking it was the sound of ! an earthquake. There was a considerable quantity of gasoline in the building and this added fuel to the flames, which shot upward with a roar like musketry. Some twenty men had a chance to crawl out of the ruins, but four of their companions were enveloped i the embrace of the dames. Their cries were heard for a mo- ment by the terrified workmen and then their voides were hushed forever. They were QUICKLY ROASTED TO DEATH. Tile tire from the nine or ten passenger Fort Benton, Montana, 'Wednesday, January 16, 1889. cars lit up the heavens for miles around. wind and rain storm passed over this city at 12:30 this afternoon, during which a large building in course of erection on Diamond street collapsed, carrying 20 workmen to the ground and burying at least 20 more in the ruins. Twelve are shop, had his arm broken, and G. Knapp was injured internally, no doubt fatally. The loss to the it fh-oad couspany is fully $75,000. While this was all going on the storm was traveling forward with fearful rapid- ity. It struck some private houses and unroofed a dozen private residences, huge sheets of tin being carried half a square away. Then the storm proceeded in its full fury. DIRECTLY IN ITS PATH, at the corner of Twelfth and Marion streets, stood the Reading Silk mill. Here about 175 girls were working. The build- ing was a huge structure, most substan- tially built, feur stories in height and had a basement besides. It occupied an en- tire block of ground. The size of the building itself was nearly 300 feet in length, and about 150 feet wide. It was John H. Gearing, fatally; Miss White, surmounted by a massive tower, fully 100 . I school teacher, fatally; Jerry Hooken- feet from the ground. The funnel-shapedI ste . n, very serious; William Sandown, leg storm cloud struck the building directly! land thigh fractured; Samuel Brown, very in the center on its broadest side, which serious; Rose McCartney, a little girl, faced the west and it fell to pieces as if badly bruised; Richard R. Dabney, cut composed of so . many building blocks. I about the head and body, serious; Thom Nearly 200 human beings were down in as McKee, bricklayer, crushed to death; the awful wreck when the walls gave way - and the floors fell do l tvn, and on top of the other, carrying their great mass of human beings to the bottom. Amid the hurri. cane and whistling of the rushing, roar- ing wind, terrible cries for _succor were sent up to heaven. It was a moment that tried men's souls.. GIRLS WITH BLACKENED FACF.S, bruised and blackened limbs, their cloth- ing tattered and torn, dragged themselves from the ruins. From seventy-five to one hundred escaped, or were dragged out by their friends. These, of course, worked on the upper floors, and were thrown near the top of the debris. At some places bricks were piled twenty feet deep and underneath are lying to -night HUMAN BODIES BY THE SCORE. About 250 girls and young women are usually employed in the mill, but at 4 o'clock about 80 were relieved from duty for the day. and they returned to their homes before the storm came. The most reliable estimate to -night places the num ber in the building when it went down at 175, and as before stated, one hundred of these were rescued by friends or dragged themselves out immediately after the ac- cident. The alarm for relief was imme- diately sent out and in a short time thous- ands of citizens arrived to help out the dead and dying. The scene was a harrow- ing one and beggars description. The mill is situated near the foot of Mount Penn, a high mountain overlooking the city. When the people arrived every- thing was enveloped in darkness. Then huge bonfires were built, which cast a dismal glare on the surrounding scene. The fire companies went to the burning paint shops and assisted in the rescue of he dead and dying. The entire police force was called out and the ambulance and relief corps and thousands of people were in among the debris, carrying out bricks, pulling away timbers acd assist- ing wherever they could. But their work was slow compared with the demand for the rescue of the victims of the disaster. Here a young woman was taken out, all bruised and suffering from cuts and bruises. One body noticed as it was dragged out HAD ITS HEAD CUT OFF. Others were in various positions, all suffering from the most terrible wounds, and some almost scared to death. The Associated Press reporter entered what was owe the basement- of the building, and groping his way through the debris, noticed five bodies of young girls lying close together. lie tried to pull them out, but they were pinned down and it was impossible to get them out. They were dead and beyond all human aid. When an Associated Press reporter vis- ited the scene of the wreck at 11 o'clock to night he found everything in the greatest confusion. At that time about a dozen dead bodies had been taken out. Among those who are dead are the follow- ing: Henry Croaker foreman of the silk mill, married, 2.3 years old; Laura Kersh- ner, Eva Leeds, Lillie Frowe, Katie Bow- tman, Kate Leas, Amelia Christman, So phie Vs'inkleinan, Ella Long, Willie Sny- der, Wm. Robeson, Rebecca Pouse, Kate Ridenour, Rose Clensmer. The list of emplayes has been lost, but eighty is a conservative estimate of those who lost their lives. PITTSBURG IS STRUCK. PerrsinTiui, January 9.--A terrible It wes a beautiful sight and could have been enjoyed but for the awful calamity which accompanied it. In the meantime the fire department was called out, but their services were unavailing. The building and cars were consumed in fit- known to have been killed and six fatally teen minutes and nothing was left but and thirty seriously injured. the blackened, smoking ruins, under The building fell with an awful crash,. which lay four human beings, burned to heard many squares.away, and although a crisp. Their names are: John Koller, !people at a distance could not understand Albert Landberg, Sheridan Jones and G. what was wrong, the ominous sound sent Schaffer. a thrill of horror through their hearts. It was rumored that several others had The force of the falling building was so been killed, but these are the only ones I great that the rear walls of two other who it is known have lost their lives. A. I buildings, those of Rea Bros. and J. R. Dewalt, another employe of the paint Wilder & Co., were crushed as if they had been made of paper, and their front walls fell upon the pavement on Wood street, burying several people in the debris, mangling some horribly. Of these two were a girl and boy and one man, un- known, all of whom were taken to the hos- pital. A barber shop near was also demolish- ed, and its six occupants buried in the rums. lhe top story in the rear of Eich- mun's building on Fifth avenue was also knocked in and: three printers working there were injured, how severely it has not been learned. At present the num- ber of killed and wounded can not be definitely stated, as many are supposed to be still in the ruins. It is believed, how- ever, that twelve have been killed and fifty-eight injured, six fatally. Among the injured are: Weldon Mason, very serious; Chas. Pet- ticord, badly bruised; Dennis McCartney, probably fatally; Mr. Donnelly, serious; Elmer McKoeum, probably fatally. Two laborers and a boy whose name could not be learned, badly injured. The falling walls crushed in buildings on Dia- mond street occupied by George Trexler, barber; W. Thomas, shoe findings, and badly damaged portions of buildings oc- cupied by Joseph Eichmun, printer, on Fifth avenue, and J. R. Weldon &, Co., booksellers, and Rea Bros., stock brokers on Wood street. The catastrophe created intense excite- ment and in a few minutes the streate surrounding the fallen building were black with people. Hundreds of willing hands, heedless of danger to themselves, went to work to extricate the victims of the terrible accident. Up to this hour (2:30 p. m.) twenty persons have been taken from the ruins. How many more are under the debris, a hich is piled twen- ty feet high on Diamond street, cannot be stated, but it is believed that at least a score more are still held prisoners or perhaps are dead. As fast as they are taken from the ruins they are being con- veyed to the various hospitals in the city. The storm lasted thirty minutes, and was the heaviest known in this section for years. The wind blew a hurricane while the rain and hail fell in torrents. A number of other building were dam- aged by the wind. READING, January 10.—There is mourn- ing and sorrow in many households in Reading to -day. The pall of death hangs over the city. Fathers, mothers, broth- ers, sisters, relatives and friends are grief- stricken over the wreck of last night. Over one hundred spirits are hushed for- ever in death, as a result of the wreck and ruin wrought in this city by the . storm. The cyclone left the entire city in darkness, relieved subsequently by electric lights and huge bonfires ;which shed a lurid glare on the scene of death. All night long brave and willing hands assisted in the work of rescue. The dis- aster is fully as bad as reported last night. The list of fatal cases WILL FULLY REACH ONE HUNDRED and may be more. The hospitals and un- dertakers establishments are filled with victims, and the physicians are all busy. Many private houses have been opened for the accommodation of the injured. This morning everything was directly in contrast with the fury of last night. All is again bright and glorious in the heav- ens as though mocking the work of last night. The Polish church disaster of sev- eral months ago, one of the most horrible accidents that ever startled this commu- nity, sinks into comparative insignificance when compared with the awful visitation of last evening. The work of rescue has been greatly re- tarded from the singular manner in which the silk mill collapsed.. It did not ,fall, but was bodily crushed down, turning in upon itself in one mass. Not a vestige of the walls remain standing above the stone foundation, and the rafters and timbers of the flooring project in all di- rections. As the building was steam heated the building didn't take fire, oth- erwise not one of the unfortunates could possibly have escaped death in its most appalling form. Teams of every descript:on, omnibuses, funeral coaches, tire wagons, hospital vans and private vehieles were pressed in- to service, and were running rapidly to and from the scene of the disaster all night, bearing the bodies of the wounded, dying and dead to homes or hospitals. From the statement of some of those who escaped from the building it appears to have come in an instant. There was a loud crash of breaking timber, and per- sons in the mill all rushed toward the main doors. A good many suceeded in getting out. FOUR GIRLS SAVED THEMSELVES by jumping from the second story win - dows. The first rumbling noise was fol- lowed instantly by the falling of the building, the upper stories going first, with its human load. Had it not been for the fact that there were but few of the hands on the third and fourth floors at the time, scarcely a life would- have been saved. 'George Grimshaw, one of the proprietors of the mill, who barely escaped with his life, having received sev- eral severe wounds, says there were about 275 persons, principally girls and boys, in the establishment at the time of the occurence. Up to eight o'clock this morning a large majority of the victims were still in the ruins. Grimshaw gives the following list of killed, injured and missing reported to him. The list ac- counts for about 200. THE KILLED ARE Eva Leed, E. Harry Krocker, William Snyder, Sophia Winkleman and Carrie Kershner. INJURED. Annie Leeds, Annie Fry, Augustus Roscup, John Reber, Annie Loveland, Addie Shade, Floience Plilades, Lizzie Haws, Becky Haper, Harry Brickner, Os- man Staab, Becky Pounds, Mary Evans, Sallie Savage, Sarah Evans, Ella Kress, Annie Brickner, Plum, Agnes Sav- age, Ella, Reitn ur, Mary ky.zpatrick, Lottie Saylor, Kate Fitzpatrick, Katie Bowman, Sallie E. Bright, Laura Wright, Ida Schaefer, Amanda Schaefer, Ella Krick, Ella Carl, Bertha Taylor, Clara Nell, and Katie Hartman. THE MISSING. Katie Alspach, Celie Ritner, Clara Als- pach, Mildred Langer, Lizzie Rowland, Katie Yeager, Lizzie Owens, Sallie Baum, Sallie O'Neal, Ella Bucher, Laura Gehrit. Ella Deems, Sallie Beckle, Lizzie Martin, Mary Woolton, Irene Dickson, Emma Presser, Dollie Haimes, Laura Hoffman, Mary Hartman, Sallie Hasson, Amelia Christman, Ida Miller, Annie Saylor, Har- ry Hoffmaster, Charles Hoyer, Lester Sny- der, Wellington Lengle, James Hammond, James Finn, Charles Dahler, Frederick Keiff, Edward, Brockway, James Nevin, Charles Finn, Harry Fisher, Howard Sha- der, Harry Tempi* Amelia Rossner, Le- na Snyder, Maggie Rowe, Gerty Spook, Emma Pflum, Sophia Frees, John Nevin, Philip Sidi, Clayton Ludwig, Frank Ma- hon, George Herman, Wm. Grow, Harry Fiddler, Jacob Seidel, Benton Fiddler, Carrie Moyer, Annie Rowe, Mary Fay, Charles Reider, Howard Lee, Gerty Bic - kb, Mary Alt, Alice Lond, Clara Fox, An- nie Dreible, Mary Reiser, Daisy Hecker, Sallie Young, Pauline Alt, Ida Rallmar, Ella Lamb, Minnie Merkle, Annie Kline, Clara Cloud, Maggie Nang's, Minnie De - kirk, Emma Conon, Abbie Rissmiller, Harry Lasher, Minerva Gift, Jennie Hart- man, Nellie Salmon, Tillie Grow, Mary Milon, Minnie Schaefer, Bertha Hammer, Kate Luender, Celia Erlacker, Lizzie Bar- rett, Alice Eisenhauser, Cliff Fierstein, Dora Detch, Sallie Faust, Katie Hepler, Aggie Hoverton, Annie and Mary Burst- ler, Bertha Kuser, Hannah Cleaver, Sal- lie Berftler, Emma Nester. Some of those missing may be safe. AT THE PAINT MILL. The following is a correct list of the killed and injured at the Philadelphia & Reading paint shop, which was struck by the cyclone. The killed are: Allen Landenburger, head, legs and arms missing; John Foreman, crushed to death; John M. Kehler, head crushed; Sheridan Jones, burned td death; George Schaefer, legs burned off. The injured are: George Knabb, seri- ously; Aaron Oswold, arm broken. The loss to the railroad company is $65,000; to the silk mill, $110,000. This afternoon a meeting of citizens was held in the court house to devise means for the relief of the sufferers. Over $35,000 was subscribed on the in- stant and any amount needed was prom- ised. The entire city will be canvassed for funds. The work of hunting for the dead continued all day and the scenes that:surrounded the mill are but a repeti- tion of what occurred during the whole of last night. There were fathers and mothers waiting and beseeching the res- cuers to give them some tidings of their missing sons and daughters. It has been determined to push the work of rescue all of to -night ; THE DEATH LIST is not as large as was at first feared, but still there are many who are yet missing, and there is but one belief and that is that probably a dozen or more of the miss- ing are still beneath the debris. The cor- oner has summoned a jury and to -morrow will begin an inquest on the bodies of the live men roasted to death in the Reading shop. They will hold no inquest on the silk mill victims until all are taken out. Very little business was done here to -day, the city giving way entirely to the ex citement attending the disaster. Mr. Grimshaw, lessee of the mill, estimates the number of dead at thirty-five or forty. A number are so seriously injured that they will die. PITTSBURG, January 10.—The search for victims in the ruins wrought by yester- day's storm, prosecuted all last night, will be vigorously continued until the debris is cleared away. This will probably take several days, and the exact number of victims will not be known until the work its completed. This morning the mangled remains of John Rogerson and Thomas Jones, bricklayers, were found under one of the walls of the Weldin building. Jos. Gehring, aged 16, rescued last night, died this morning. The death list now foots up 11, wounded 35, missing 8. A number of the wounded are in a critical condition and their deaths are momentarily ex- pected. ALL KINDS OF RUMORS are afloat in regard to the number still in the ruins. One of the men working on the building yesterday, said he was cer- tain that there were at least twelve men. This estimate is believed to be too high. There is no hope of any now in the ruins -being alive, so that it is safe to say the death list will exceed a score. The morgue was besieged with callers all day. Many heartrending scenes were enacted as the visitors discovered in the bruised and distorted features of the dead the well known features of loved ones. The officials are satisfied that at least twenty persons are still in the wreck. Many eye witnesses state they are posi- tive that when the shock occurred there were a number of persons in the alley back of the Weldin and adjacent stores. \I have no doubt,\ said Coroner McDow- ell, \that twenty-five or thirty people lie buried in the ruins. Several persons in- formed me they saw a large crowd of men ran into the alley, which was the next moment filled with debris twenty-five feet deep.\ At 1 o'clock this afternoon the list of dead had been increased to four- teen. The names are Thos. Jones, James McGough, George Mason, Charles Fitch, John Rogerson Sam Stringer, Jos. Goeh ring, Thos. McKee, John Donnelly, Richard Carroll, Leonard Schiffhaner, S. Brown. Jr., Dr. Jas. Read, Wm. Goetman. The bodies of the last five men have not been recovered, but it is known positively that they are in the ruins. A tour af the hospital this morning found all the wounded doing well. At 1:30 this morn- ing three more bodies had been recovered from the ruins. It is thought the re- maining bodies will be secured before morning. 'UNLUCKY MONTANA UNION. Another Accident by Which an Employ. is Killed. BUTTE, January 10.—Another fatal ac- cident occurred on the Montana Union last night at 10 o'clock. When the train from Garrison was a few miles this side of Deer Lodge a driving rod on the right side of the engine broke and flew up against the cab, knocking Fireman John A. Lacey off the train and killing him in- stantly. Lacey was 25 years old and un- married. Engineer Howe shut off the steam and applied the air brake, and scarcely had he done so when the driv- ing rod on the left side of the engine also broke. The engineer was knocked out of the cab and hurled to the ground with tremendous violence, but luckily he es- caped with nothing but a severe bruise. The train stopped without leaving the rails and the passengers were ignorant that an accident had occurred. Conduc- tor West walked back to Deer Lodge and telegraphed to Stuart for an engine, which went, down at once to the scene of the ac- cident. After several hours' hard work the track was cleared and the train brought to Butte, arriving here at 4 o'clock this morning. The body of Lacey, who had lived at scuth Butte, was brought to Butte, but the Deer Lodge coroner demanded its return to Deer Lodge county for the purpose of holding an inquest. The body was sent back this evening. No blame can attach to the railroad company. Request of Woolgrowers. WASHINGTON, January 12.—At to day's session of the woolgrowers' convention a resolution was adoptid requesting promi- nent merchants and dealers to consider. tho subject of establishing a bureau for tho purpose of concentrating statistical information relating to ths supply and de- mand of wool, and also asking them to es- tablish a system of grades which will abolish the old stale terms or substitute a series of standard grades embracing all wool grown in the different producing states. Utah's effort to get into the union as a state will prove futile. Congress will not nor should not turn over theGentile popu- lation of that territory into the hands of the Mormons, and that is what it would amount to if Utah shall be clothed with statehood before the last vestige of po- lygamy be stamped out. A TERRIBLE AFFAIR, Three People Killed in a Fight Oler ty Seat. ST Louis, January 1 2.. —A special from Wichita, Kan., gives an account of a ter- rible affair at Cimarron, Kan., in which two or three persons were killed and sev- eral wounded. There has for years past been a serious conflict between the towns of Ingalls and Cimarron. The county of- ficers, excepting clerk and surveyor, have been at Ingalls for nearly a year. At the recent election Mr. Watson, an Ingalls man, was elected clerk, but the commis- sioners refused to canvass the vote until the supreme court issued an order for them to do so last Monday. This morn- ing several deputy sheriffs went to Cim- arron to place Watson, the clerk -elect, in office and to remove the county records to Ingalls, when they were FIRED riPON BY A MOB of from 200 to 300 Cimarron sympathizers. The shots were returned with a vengeance and when the firing ceased it was found that J. N. English and J. Bliss, two prom- inent citizens of Cimarron, were killed and quite a number wounded. Geo. W. Bolds, deputy sheriff, was shot in the leg. and Lemuel B. Reeks and C. Rethfelter, two other deputy sheriffs, received flesh wounds in the arm and head. The Cim- arron people became infuriated over the killing of their two leading citizens and charged in a body upon the brick build- ing in which Watson and the wounded deputy sheriffs had taken refuge. At last accounts THE FIRING WAS GOING ON at intervals between the besieged and be- siegers, the latter using house corners and other places for shelter. If Watson and his deputies fall into the hands of the Cimarron people they will all be hung, and their safety lies in the timely arrival of outside assistance. Gen. My- ers of this city has been telegraphed to take one company and go to Cimarron at once to preserve the peace and to go him- self, and if he finds one company inauf- cient to order out another. Gen. Meyers immediately notified companies A, H and 0, of the second regiment, Kansas Na- tional guards, to be ready for duty, and with Adjutant Davis went to Lamed, where he will be met by company .F, and proceed to Cimarron at once. RAILROAD EXTENSION. Bitter Root Road to he Built Toward Hiner ral Hill. MISSOULA, January 12.— The Missoula & Bitter Root railroad is to be extended from its present terminus at Grantsdale, fifty miles up. the valley. This will bring the road so near the Mineral Hill mining district that a great stampede may be ex- pected into that section as soon as the snow sufficiently disappears to allow pros- pectors to enter. Chief Engineer Lo- thrope left here this morning with a par- ty of surveyors for the terminus of the road. The extension of this road means much to Missoula county, as the road will penetrate a section rich in agricultural, mineral and timber resources. The peo- ple of the county are elated over the pros- pects for railroad building for the coming summer. Every indication now points toward the building of a line from Garri- son into the Geur d'Alene by the Union Pacific. A line is now being surveyed following the river grade from Missoula down. An easy grade is reported with a much shorter line than the one at present used by the Northern Pacific. A COPPER DEAL. liaggin Said to Have Come to Terms With the Syndicate. NEW YORK, January 12. —The Times says editorially: It is reported in Nieto.' \on credible authority\ that the secretary of the copper syndicate has very recently closed a contract with J. B. Haggin, the owner of the Anaconda mine, for two years, with privilege of extending it for . twelve years. It i3 understood that the extension of the syndicate's contracts with:the mines in the lakes region has been delayed on account of the attitude of Haggin, with whom the syndicate had no agreement beyond the end of last year. A Montana paper gave currency to the report that the syndicate had offered Haggin $250,0(X) a month to cease produc- tion and that the offer had been rejected. The Anaconda mine, whose product has grown rapidly the last two or three years. is now said to be the largest copper mine in the world with respect to output. If the syndicate has obtained control of its product for a term of years other con- tracts will probably be extended without much delay. But if these contracts shall not provide for a reduction of the output the condition of the syndicate will become more and more precarious, for the visible ' supply has increased the last twelve months from 42,000 to 104,000 tons. The Montana Wool Grower. A monthly journal devoted to the inter- ests of Montana wool growers. Subscrip tion price, $2 per annum. •
