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quantity of lumber, and will next Tuesday begin building shanty stores for those who will set up in business again. Over a hundred have already made applications.
“Arrangements are now being made for the erection of a lock-up, which Burgess Hovell says will be filled as soon as completed with persons who have been filling their houses with valuables from the wreckage. Many citizens, who have hitherto been considered honest, are known to have entered wrecked houses and carried off valuables by the armful. As soon as Burgess can get his affairs straightened out, he says he will issue search-warrants, and every house that is suspected of containing booty will be turned wrong side up.”
Two days later the situation was thus described: “Governor Beaver and the Flood Commission arrived here just before noon, and, accompanied by General Hastings, made a tour of the devastated district on horseback, dining afterward at headq1uarters. The visit of Governor Beaver and the Flood Commission has borne practical fruit. The visitors met the Finance Committee of the Citizens' Relief Committee at Alma Hall, and discussed the situation in all its details. The Commission expressed itself as amazed at the extent and completeness of the devastation, and pledged itself to render the citizens of the
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