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g TITE MORNING OREGOyiAy,, , FRIDAY, , S1E3I.BER;. . 18. . 1903. . . . : ' : ' " r ' ' " " I -" - - ' ' ' 1 i FRAUD BY SOn OF GARNEGIE S MAN Leading Pittsburg Citizen Sells Worthless Town Lots in Texas. THOUSANDS ARE CAUGHT fcons of Vice-President of Carnegie Steel Company and of Building Inspector Charged With Fake Scheme. PITTSBURG, Pa., Sept. 17. (Epeclal.) Harold S. Bope. son of H. P. Bope, first vice-president of the Carnegie 9teel Com pany, was arrested tonight with two other men. The police declare one of the greatest land swindles of recent years has been unearthed. Taken Into custody with Bope was Frank L, Steen. son of Building; In spector Steen. The younjr men had a suite of offices downtown, where, it is said, they were general agents of the Union Central Construction company, whose headquarters is 116 Dearborn street, Chicago. A short time before Bope and Steen were arrested. W. B. Haugh. agent of the Union Central Railroad or lexas, with offices in the-same building, waa arrested. Bar Lt o Get Job The arrests were brought about by a torv tnM the Dollce by Thomas de Silver, of this city, and letters and affidavits obtained from officials in Texas. The Union Central Railroad Company adver tised for 5"X laborers here and offered them work on its railroad, in course of construction from Dallas. Texas, to New Orleans. The men were to get gooa waes and good board at a low price and the only stipulation was that they should purchase a lot in tfio town of Irondale. Texan. The Union Central Construction Com pany and the Union Central Railroad Company of Texas, it is alleged, operated together. The railroad company adver tised that it had TuOO lots in Irondale and owned along its right of way SO.rtiO acres. It offered ten acres or land along the right of way to each workman who went to work on the railroad and pur chased one of the lots in irondale. the price to be $190, $10 down and 10 per month. .Wljole Scheme Is Fake. C. B. Sterne, president of the Board of Trade of Palestine. Texas, and J. F. Austin. Clerk of the Court of Anderson County. Texas, have sent affidavits to the Pittsburg police in which they declare that the whole thing is a fake and that they have received thousands of letters from peop'e all over the United States who declare they have been swindled. In his letter Austin states that W. J. Hoge. president of the railroad, Is now in Jail In Dallas, charged with using the mails to defraud. DISASTER TO AEROPLANE (Continued From First Page.) everal ribs on the right side are frac tured. Both men received deep cuts about the head. Mr. Wright regained consciousness at the hospital and dic tated a cablegram to his brother at Le Mans. France, and requested that the same message be sent to his sister and father at Dayton, O., assuring them that he was all right. Selfrldge Too Heavy for It. Two thousand persons were at the aeronautical testing grounds at Fort Myer this afternoon. Mr. Wright an nounced several days ago that he would take Lieutenant Selfrldge, who la sec retary of the Aerial Experiment Asso ciation and an aeroplanlst himself, in his next flight. The young officer was delighted to have an opportunity to fly In the aeroplane. He was to leave Sat tirday for St. Joseph. Mo., where he. waa to assist Lieutenant Foulols in opera ting the Baldwin airship at the coming Army maneuvers. At 5:14 the aero plane was released and it was noticed that it did not rise quickly from the frround as on previous two-men flights. Lieutenant Selfrldge weighed about 175 pounds, making the weight more than the machine had ever carried before. After gliding over the ground on its runners for 30 feet, the machine rose gradually and had gained a height of 40 feel when it passed over the starting apparatus for the first time. There was a six-mile wind. The aeroplanlst. how ever, apparently had control of the aerial flier, which rose to a height of 75 feet as it completed the second round of the field. This height was maintained on the third round. Plunges Back to Earth. While the machine was turning at the southern end of the field, several thou sand feet from the spectators, someone shouted: "What is that? Something fell." Immediately all eyes were on the areo plane. and It was seen to turn over on its left side. Pausing a moment, it made a complete turn and then came sweeping to the earth in a cloud of dust. No effort on the part of the aviator could possibly have averted the accident. Planes and rudders were absolutely in capable of righting the machine when it hud turned in that manner. Spectators, soldiers and officers ran across the field. It was fully a minute before anyone reached the tangled mass. , Mounted sol diers formed a cordon around the wreck age, while others of the crowd endeav ored to lift the heavy mass of machinery and wood that pinned Wright and Self ridge to the ground. A piece of the wooden framework was broken off as a half doien men endeavored to free the Injured men. As soon as they could be extricated they were taken to one side and physicians from the crowd of spectators went to their aid. As soon as possible Mr. Wright and Lieutenant Selfrldge were laid on stretchers and carried to the hospital. Death Takes Selfrldge. Mr. Wright's leg and two ribs were set by Dr. L L. Watters. of New York, and Surgeon Bailey, of the Army. The surgeons took Lieutenant Selfrldge to the operating room and removed the part of the broken skull over the left eye, which was causing convulsions. At S:10 o'clock Lieutenant Selfrldge died. Ifls death was due to a compound fracture at the base of the skull. He had not regained consciousness. He was expecting his mother, who lives in San Francisco, to arrive in Washington this month. He was a nephew of Ad miral Selfridge and had a brother who is an officer in the Navy. Mr. Wright yesterday replaced the propellers which he had been using wnn another, pair, the blades of whl.h are six inches longer. They were used for the first time in today's disastrous flight, and many who witnessed Mr. Wright's flights at Fort Myer believe j the change of propellers caused the ac cident An examination of the broken blade showed that it had snapped off at a point one-fourth of the distance from the hub. A deep Indentation of the broken piece indicated that it had struck some other part of the aero plane. Shortly before starting on today's flight, Mr. Wright received a replr from a life insurance company, refusing his application for a policy because of the dangerous character of his work. Officers of the Signal Corps and other enthusiasts at Fort Myer were inclined to express the belief that today's ac cident 'was- not due to a faulty prin ciple, but to a defect in the propeller, which was made of spruce. One of the 'members of the Signal Corps board who had been conducting the Fort Myer tests said; The resumption of the aeroplane trials will depend on tlm length of time which H will take Mr. Wright to recover from his in juries. This accident will, of course, seriously hamper the poRrtblltty of securing appro priations from Congress for the aeronautical work of the elgnal corps. The Wright brothers, however, have even more advanced lde&A In regard to air flights and. If they continue their work. It is very probable that the effects of this one accident will be over come. Charles White, of White & Middleton, Baltimore, a mechanical expert, gave this description of the accident to Messrs. Wright and Selfrldge: Tbe aeroplane was performing boautlfully for ix- or seven minutes, when suddenly one of the propellers broke near the end. This caused the machine to become o thoroughly out of balance through centrifugal force as GRAFT IN CHOLERA Rumor Started by Amoy Chi nese to Get Cash, n AWFUL THREAT OF DEMONS False Report of .8000 Deaths Ex plained by Consul a Due to Na tive Superstition Epidemic Greatly Exaggerated. AMOY. China, Sept. 17. The reports emanating from Shanghai, and published in the United States, that there had been 3000 deaths from cholera here during the month of August, and that the supply of coffins had become exhausted and many bodies were lying unburied in the streets, children and parish priests as to the means of avoiding and suppressing chol era will, I am sure, prevent any epi demic and secure results as favorable as those heretofore obtained by the same means." DISEASE RECEDES AT MANILA i City Makes Effort to Stamp It Out Before Fleet Comes. . MANILA, Sept. 18. (Noon.) The cholera continues to recede. During the 24 hours ending at 8 o'clock this morn ing there were 25 cases and 12 deaths. Only four cases were reported this fore noon. One hundred additional Inspectors were enlisted today in a united effort to stamp out the disease before the Atlantic fleet arrives, and there is every reason to be lieve that it will be successful. CHOLERA KILLS 155 IX DAY Situation In St. Petersburg Hourly Grows More Alarming. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept 17. Three hundred and fifty cases and 155 deaths from Asiatic cholera have been report ed for the 24 hours ending at noon today. The municipal administrations are under fire from all sides for their OEVILLE WRIGHT AND HIS AEROPLANE. to make it unmanageable and it made a dart to the ground while etlll under operation of the right propeller, causing it to strike the ground with a great deal more force than it would have done by gravity. I do not feel that thle Li any serious defect In the machinery, but merely want of better construction In the propellers. Therefore, I do not feel that the machine should be con demned beyond this point. I should Imagine that, when the machine made the dart for the ground. It fell at the rale of 20 miles an hour. Wright and Selfrldge were not thrown out. The aocMent was due entirely to the defective propeller. WRIGHTS' WILL XOT GIVE VP Only Death Can Stop Experiments, Says Brother. DAYTON. O., Sept. 17. W,hen asked if the accident today would deter either Orvllle or his brother, now in France, from further filgnts, Lorin Wright re plied: "Decidedly no. My brothers will pur sue these tests until the machines are as nearly perfect as it Is possible to make them, if they are not killed in the meantime, and we have never felt much apprehension, knowing that both boys are cautious in the extreme." The aged father of the injured man is at Greens Fork, Ind., and will not be advised of the accident until morning. Lorin Wright and his sister, Catherine, await with much anxiety the outcome of their brother's injuries. EXPERT OX AEROXACTICS Selfrldge Assigned to Signal Corps Because or Skill. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept, 17. Lieutenant Thomas R Selfrldge. U. S. A., who -was with Orvllle Wright in the flying machine at the time of the accident, was the son of B. A. Selfrldge. of this city, a retired merchant. Lieutenant Selfridge received his appointment to West Point from this state and had been stationed at the Pre sidio here before being sent to Washing ton, where he was assigned to special duty with the Signal Corps.' Lieutenant Sclfrldgo for years past had devoted himself to a study of aeronautics. So deeply did he go Into the subject that the department decided to detach him from his own branch of the service, the Artillery Corps, and assign him to the congenial work along that line which the Signal Corps has undertaken. Lieutenant Selfridge was held by Dr. Bell, the spe cialist on air navigation, to be one of the best-informed men in the country on that subject, and was at one time assigned by the War Department to assist Dr. Bell in his work. Lieutenant Selfridge was a native of this city, 26 years old, and unmarried. . EDISOX RISKS PREDICTION Says Airships Will Cross Atlantic Before 1914. SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, Sept. 17. "Within live years airships will be carry ing passengers across the ocean in 18 hours. 3)0 miles ar hour. Aerial flight will be commercialized In that time. "The North Pole can and will be reached in a 48-hour trip. The perfected heliocoptor will be able to encircle the globe In a week." These statements were made yesterday by Thomas A, Edison, the inventor, in the course of a talk on aerial navigation. "Neither the aeroplanes now owned by the Wright brothers nor any airship built along that principle nor along the idea of the dirtstble balloon will ever be of prac tical use or success commercially," he said. "The successful machine must be automatic in operation. The human part of it must be reduced to mere mechanism, as in the case of the automobile and steam engine. Otherwise the dream of skimming the clouds must ever remain a dream." Wilbur Wright Flies Again. LEMANS, France, Sept. 17. Wilbur Wright, the American aeroplanist, spent today in trying out his machine for the protracted effort he is to make tomorrow. In one of his short flights he covered Vfr) yards in 6 minutes 43 seconds. Mr. Wright made another fine flight tonight, remaining in the air SJ min utes 47 seconds. He traveled a dis tance of about 20 miles at sal average height of 60 feet, only descending on account of darkness. is greatly exaggerated. Julian H. Arnold, the American Consul, said to the Asso ciated Press representative today: "There have been about 40 deaths from cholera on the Island of Kulangsu, the International settlement on the western side of the harbor since August 1, and I have reported officially there have been but a few deaths from cholera during the past week. I wrote to Manila yesterday that the heavy rains had reduced the cholera to such an extent that it soon would be entirely eradicated." Rumor Due to Superstition. The statement published in the United States that there had been 3000 cholera deaths here in August finds its origin in a local story started by Chinese interests in getting cash from their credulous countrymen. The men desired to induce sacrificial contributions to the ghosts of departed ancestors, and on August 16 they started' the report that four devils had been seen in the city. One of these" demons cursed the people of the city for their laxity in observing "ghost sac rifices" during the seventh moon, saying that in punishment death would be sent to the people of Amoy and that their bodies would rot unburied In the streets. The next day there were 87 deaths in the city and, while this was only a slight increase from the normal, it threw the people Into a state of alarm. They re called the threat of the angry devils and estimated that with a proportionate in crease the total of deaths for the seventh moon would easily exceed 3000. Deaths In 34 Days. The first case of cholera in Amoy waa reported August 3. For the 34 days from August 10 to September 16. inclusive, but excluding August 29, August 30, August 31 and September 1, there were 1581 deaths from all causes In Amoy. It is customary in all Chinese cities for the very poor to carry their dead in coffins to the public burying places, trust ing to the charity of kindly men to pay funeral expenses. This custom, undoubt edly gave rise to the untrue statement from Shanghai that bodies were lying un buried in the streets of this city. criminal Inefficiency and for their fail ure to make adequate preparation for hospital, ambulance and sanitary services. DOES XOT FEAR EPIDEMIC Governor-General of Philippines Discusses Cholera Outbreak. WASHINGTON, . Sept. 17. Governor General Smith of the Philippines, does not regard the danger of an epidemic of cholera in Manila as imminent. In a cablegram relative to the situation In the Islands, he said today: "Have just returned from a visit to 40 municipalities in Bulucan, Pampanga. Pangaslnan. La I'nlon and Ilicos Prov inces. Cholera has almost disappeared from these provinces, which were threat ened with a general epidemic a few months ago. There has been a recrudes ence of cholera in Manila which reached 20 cases a day on September 12. This is due to reinfection of the provinces and to the concealment of cases by the native population. VThe great majority of those attacked by cholera are poor people, or those liv ing under adverse or unfavorable condi tions. The rigid measures taken by the Board of Health and the wide dissemina tion of information through the school Cholera Is on Decrease. MANILA, Sept. 17. The number of cases of cholera showed a decrease yes terday, encouraging the officials to hope that they can clean it up in the city be fore the arrival of the Atlantic fleet. The Fire Department is contributing a novel feature to the general campaign of sani tation. Chief Ding-man suggested the use of the chemical engines in disinfecting houses, and experiments; with them hav ing proved successful, tomorrow four chemical engines will enter the sanitary service. One hundred additional inspect ors will- tomorrow join in assisting to eradicate the disease. HEDIN EXPLORES TIBET (Continued from First Psge.) an open valley, and Bongda Province, which no European had ever entered, lay before them. Here precautions were redoubled and the explorers had several narrow escapes from discovery by the watchful Tibetans. , Dr. Hedin discovered Lake Chunitso and followed its west shore for a whole day and first heard of the great salt bed of .Tabia Tsakha, which is a source of considerable wealth to the government in the salt exports. Two more ranges were crossed and an open plain was reached, which was bounded on the south by a mountain range 2000 miles long, stretching east and west, the gr.'.njest physical feature north of the Bramnputra Valley. Snow and glaciers everywhere bounded the horizon. Source of Great River. Dr. Hedin was rewarded by discov ering the continuity of this chain, which no explorer heretofore had ap proached from the north. He crossed the range eight times at various points, naming it originally the Ninchan Tangla. The success with which he has met in his explorations stimulated him to attempt the solution of the problem of the course of the Charta Tsanpo, a big tributary of the Bramaputra. He found that its course has been wrongly marked on the mans and it is fed from huge snowpcaks, a lake being formed, whence the river reached the Bramaputra. LAWYERS Ifl TRAP Attorneys foiRuef Indicted for Jury-Frx'mg. ' RESULT OF OWN BLUNDER Charge That Kelly Solicited Bribe Results in Indictment of Accuser and Associates as Well as Go - Between. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 17. Grand Jury Indictments against Frank J. Mur phy and Adolph S. Newburgh. attorneys for Abraham Ruef. charging them with attempting to bribe John M. Kelly, a prospective Juror in the bribery case now pending against the ex-politlcal leader, to vote for the acquittal of Ruef in the event that he was selected, were filed before Presiding Judge Steurtevant. of the Superior Court, today. Newburgh was placed under arrest about noon and released on 5000 cash bail, having vol untarily given himself up, he said, as soon a's he heard of the indictment against him, and Murphy appeared be fore the court late In the afternoon and gave bonds In the sum of 110,000. The indictments returned today follow the recent Indictment of B. A. S. Blake, a contractor, who is alleged to have been the go-between in the direct offer of a bribe to Kelly before the latter had been called for examination as to his qualifications. The matter became pub lic in Judge Lawlor's court when Kelly took the stand to be questioned by the opposing counsel. Beftire he had been asked a question Mr. Murphy arose and informed the judge that Kelly had so licited a bribe, but the latter was sworn and put the matter in quite another light. He "told in detail that he had been approached by Blake and offered first $500 and later $2000 to vote against the conviction of Ruef. Investigation by detectives showed that Blake had visited the offices of some of Ruef s attorneys and, it was alleged, had merely acted as an agent. His Indict ment followed and continued investiga tion by the grand jury resulted in tho indictments announced today. Brought Back From Brazil. NEW YORK. Sept. 17. A.' F. Bronelll, formerly a banker of Cleveland, O., charged with the theft of $30,000, arrived here today as a prisoner on the steamer Afghan Prince, from Brazil. -mm UNWRITTEN LAW VERDICT Man Who Blew Off Wife's Compan ion's Head Declared Insane. TRINIDAD, Colo., ept, 17. Charles W. Moore, who killed' David A. Cohn son of Rabbi Cohn, of Detroit, Mich., on August 11, in this city, by blowing his head off with a .shotgun loaded with buckshot, was acquitted today of the charge of murder. His defense was in sanity. The Jury deliberated 24 hours. Cohn was killed when about to leave the city -in company with the wife of the man who shot him. The Pills That Cure Sciatica That sciatic, rheumatism can be cured by the nse of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills is evidenced by the case of Mrs. Stewart McEwan, of Fort Hunter, Pa. She says: "For five months I was tinder a doc tor's care, suffering from what he term ed chronic eciatio rheumatism. The disease settled in my hips and knees and I suffered intense darting pains. So se vere was the pain at times that I would have to cry out, and sometimes I was perfectly helpless. My limbs were so sore that I was unable to bear the weight of the bed clothes over me. I was ex tremely nervous, had no color, and did not seem to have mnch blood. 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