. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Oct. 29, 1903. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 693 Miss Elizabeth Smith started a lirush-fire near the school, and a Ptrung wind scattered the sparks, llradmaster S. D. Thatcher called out the pupils to prevent damage. This was at 10 o'clock, and bef:irc luion Thatcher was compelled to telephone to Postmaster Smith at Nordholl (or assistance. This nuirning the wind carried the flames to the northwest. With- in three hours' time the houses of C. E. Sackelt, Edward Senior, and W. J. Davies were destroyed. The latter also lost his pumping plant, water-tanks an
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Oct. 29, 1903. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 693 Miss Elizabeth Smith started a lirush-fire near the school, and a Ptrung wind scattered the sparks, llradmaster S. D. Thatcher called out the pupils to prevent damage. This was at 10 o'clock, and bef:irc luion Thatcher was compelled to telephone to Postmaster Smith at Nordholl (or assistance. This nuirning the wind carried the flames to the northwest. With- in three hours' time the houses of C. E. Sackelt, Edward Senior, and W. J. Davies were destroyed. The latter also lost his pumping plant, water-tanks and outhouses. The barn of .lames C. Leslie was burned and his house caught lire, but neighbors saved io. He lost many colo- nies of bees. They would have been saved, but the angry bees drove the firemen away. One man was badly stung. The tire isstill raging, and it is an inspiring spectacle as the flames leap from the timber and brush. The entire damage can not be estimated, but it will run into thousands of dollars. We suppose those of us who live in a prairie country have no adequate idea of the conflagration that takes place during a mountain Are. It must be something terrible when everything is as dry as it was last August when we were in California. With a strong wind a tire at spch a lime, and in some places, would be simply irresistible, and would consume all things in its way. [ Convention Proceedings | THE LOS ANGELES CONVENTION. Report of the Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting- of the National Bee-Keepers' Association, Held at Los Ang-eles, Calif., Aug-. 18, 19 and 20, 1903. (Continued from page 680.) SECOND DAY—Evening Session. After the opening of the evening- session a telegram from Wm. A. Selser, of Philadelphia, was read, as follows: "I send greetings. Wish you a prosperous ; Wm. A. Selser. It was moved and carried that the secretary be in- structed to write a recognition of this telegram to Mr. Selser. Pres. Hutchinson—I have the extreme
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