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books and publications on forestry and was 

 remarkably well-informed as to forestry 

 both in United States and Europe. He 

 was devoted to the fact of a national forest 

 reserve in northern Minnesota, and had 

 made a study of the effect of deforestation 

 upon the rivers of the Lake Superior states. 

 Captain Cross was born January 16, 

 1S38, at Porgueland, Jefferson County, 

 N. Y., and was descended from a long 

 line of New England ancestors. His boy- 

 hood was spent at Richville, N. Y., and 

 at the age of 17 he entered Oberlin Col- 

 lege, Ohio. From that time until the out- 

 break of the civil war he was engaged in 

 attending college, teaching and clerking 

 in a country store. He was the second 

 man to get his name on the roll of the first 



immigration commissioner and at 01 

 proceded with other commission 

 Europe where lie spent some months in- 

 vestigating immigration problems. He 

 wasa member of the G. A. R.. the Loyal 

 Legion, and vice-president of the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association Eor Minnesota. 



Captain Cross left behind him a splendid 

 reputation as a lawyer, a good citizen, an.] 

 a scrupulously honest and honorable man. 

 He is survived by four grown children and 

 his wife. 



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Fire Record. 



The following forest fires 

 during the m onth of 

 August have been reported : 



Pennsylvania. At Bellefonte two men 

 company formed at Oberlin, Company C ) iave been convicted of maliciously start 



of the Seventh Ohio Infantry, of which he 

 was first lieutenant. He was severely 

 wounded and taken prisoner at the battle 

 of Cross Lane, August 26, 1S61. After 

 being recaptured, made captain, and sent 

 home for treatment, he rejoined his regi- 

 ment early in 1863, but his wound forced 

 him to resign. He then entered Albany 

 Law College, but soon returned to service 

 with the War Department as a lieutenant 

 of the Fifth Veteran Reserve Corps. He 

 was promoted to be captain in October, 

 1863, and in April, 1S64, was adjutant 

 general of the military district of Indiana. 

 In June he was ordered to Washington as 

 assistant provost general. He served with 

 the reserve corps until the end of the war 

 when he entered Columbia Law School, 

 N. Y., but soon took up his course at 

 Albany, where he was graduated in 1S66. 

 He settled at Lyons, la., having married 

 Clara Steele Norton, of Pontiac, Mich., at 

 Oberlin, September ir, 1S62. He re- 

 moved to Minneapolis in 1875* 



As city attorney of that city from 1SS4 

 to 1S87 he formulated a method of limit- 

 ing the territory within which saloons may 

 be located known as the "patrol limits 

 system." Its success in keeping saloons 

 out of residence districts and confining 

 them within a limited territory has given 

 it wide celebrity. He was a member of 

 the first Minneapolis park commission and 

 in i8c)i he was appointed United States 



ing forest fires in Center County. The 

 culprits were sentenced to six months in 

 jail ; this is one of the first instances in the 

 state where a conviction has been secured. 



Oregon. For many days during August 

 a great forest fire raged along North Tine 

 and Fish Creeks causing the destruc- 

 tion of an immense amount of timber and 

 threatening ranch propertv. Early in 

 August a fire broke out in the mountains 

 back of North Pole Mine near Bourne and 

 for some time burned fiercely threatening 

 the mine property and a large body of 

 fine timber. It is supposed that the fire 

 was caused by carelessness on the part ol 

 campers. 



California. One of the fiercest and 

 most destructive forest fires in years raged 

 in Shasta County along the headwaters of 

 the Stillwater about ten miles north of 

 Redding. A number of farm houses were 

 destroyed and at the last report the fire had 

 burned over an area twenty miles long and 

 five miles wide and had not yet been ex- 

 tinguished. 



Maine. A forest lire near Sorrento 

 came close to sweeping over that town a 

 few days since. [t was only through the 

 combined efforts of the people in digging 

 trenches and carrying water that stayed 

 the progress of the flames. The tire de- 

 partments of the neighboring towns v\ 

 also called upon for assistance. 



