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VOLUME LVIV. NO. 2G8
ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 17 1905
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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SITUATION IS SERIOUS
Kansas Fears Repetition
of Disastrous Floods
Of 1903.
RAILROAD TRAFFIC STOPPED
Wagon Bridge Goes Out Carrying Eight
Boy On Still Mliog Kaw River
StUl RIlng-Soldir Creek Valley It
Inundated.
Topcka, Kept. 10. The flood situation
tonight I more serious. The levee pro
tecting the farming land along Soldier
creek have broken and thousand of
acre of corn field are under wter. The
wagon bridge across Soldier creek went
out thl afternoon carrying eight Imy
ami a horse ami buggy down with it.
fjcjXji of the Imy cre rescued, but
me i still reported rullng.
Tha Kaw river la rising rapidly ami
a rendition of disastrous flood of
11X13 is feared. The railroad communica
tion between Topt-ka and Kansas City
p the north aide of tha river ha been
completely eut off. Communication with
W. Joseph over the Rick Island ia tlrt
cut off. t'nion raellte ha two bridge
out wet of Topcka and are using the
track of the llock Inland.
At midnight the Kaw river I still rU
Ing steadily. The alarm in North To
eka i increasing a the street in the
out klil of the city are flooded by three
fret of water. At Menokcn, a village
ten luile went of North Topeka, about
1K erona wre driven from their home
by water which ia rushing through the
street. It I known that Guy Place
the ten-year-old liny, who wa on the
Soldier creek bridge which wa washed
y today, wa drowned. Hi body ha
I tt la-en found.
BARON KOMURA IMPROVING.
New York, Sept. 10. The folowlug
bulletin wn butticd tonight)
"Huron Kmntira'a condition it much
Improved, the record for the day having
la-en t lie Vit since hi illnea began."
ARMISTICE IS
EFFECTIVE
(iiimdni Pass, Sept. 10. Aa a
result of tlie armistice, which i
elTective today, the outpost of
the inn in position on both aide
of tin contending armie will
move back about two-third of
a mile aud thereafter display
white flag.
MANY CHICAGO
TO BE
Chicago, Sept. 16. The initial steps
for the wholesale disfranchisement of
the citiren of Chicago were taken today
ty United Statea District Attorney
llorison and the federal prosecutor ha
Instructed Assistant District Attorney
Mars ton to act in the case r f one hun
dred and sixty-six person who have
1cen admitted to citUennhip without any
Inquiry a to their sentiment on the sub-
soicidi IS MOT
MOTORMAN SILLY
RmmbUnc to Mta Who Wrecked, the
Elevated Train,
New York, Kept. 16. Police agent
were called late lat night to Mam mar
oneck, where it wa reported that ft
man resembling the missing motortnan,
Kelly, whose train wa wrecked at 53rd
street last Monday had committed sui
cide. A message telephoned to the Mara-
maroneck Milice described Kelly very
ruHNiy miiii i he exception 01 a mous
tache.
It wa evident that the suicide had
taken rare to make death certain. Ilia
body wa found in ft field on the White
Plain roed. The man had removed hi
roller, and climbing on a fence, be
licet h a tree, had no placed a clothe
tin over ft limb that three nooe were
formed. After placing them about hi
neck he jumped from the fence.
DEATH LIST INCREASED
Death From Fuse Factory Explosion
How Number Eleven.
Avon, Conn., Sept. 10. With the
death of Mi Dorothea Legeyt thi af
ternoon the number of fatalitie Mow
ing the explosion and Are in the factory
of the Climax Fuse company reached
eleven, iixiay lite ruin ol the main
building have cooled sufficiently to allow
workmen to get into the basement where
were found the part of ereral charred
bodir.
RANKS ARE
Members of Chicago Typothetae
Sign Union Demands. .
The Agreement Call for an Eight Hour
Work Day Commencing January i,
1006 One Hundred and Twelv Firm
Havi Signed Agreement
Chicago, Sept. 16. Desertion from the
(rank of the Chicago typothetae in it
'fight against the entablement of an 8-
hour day l reported today by the union
officials, who declared that several mem
ber of the master printer organization
had eigned the union agreement provid
ing for ft shorter work duy beginning
January 1, I'.MMl. A nport compiled by
tne strike leader tonight show that
1 12 printing houses have agreed to the
union demand.
'HOSTILITIES CEASE
General Linevitch Give Order to Army
to Withdraw From Neutral Zone.
(lodxyandanl. Sept. 10, An order by
Gimcral Uneviteh putting into effect tin
Ktitiplation of, the armistice arranged
by General Ovanovosky and Fukushima
hn Wn published and distributed to
the army.
The order direct an Immediate cessa
tion of hostilities, and the retirement of
all picket from the neutral tone. It
forbid all other communication between
the armie.
CITIZENS
DISFRANCHISED
Ject of anarchy a required by the law
passed after the assassination of Presl
dent McKinley, Coincident with this ac
tion by the federal authorities, four in
dictment jvere returned by the Cook
Hinty grand jury as a reult of the In
vestigation by Statea Attorney Healy In
to the naturalization fraud by the com
mittee of minor politicians of the city
for personal gain. Perjury W charged in
each case." '
DESERTED
NORTH
LI
NEW ROAD ASSURED
Northern Pacific Will Build
From Portland to
Pasco.
WORK BEGINS IMMEDIATELY
Tracki Wil Be Used Jointly by North
era Pacific and Great Northern Sys
temsWill Require Two Yeara to
Complete Work Coit 1 1 (.300300.
Portland, Sept. 10. Confirmatory of
the report tent out in the Associated
Pre dispatches for almost ft week,
that feverish activity existed in the
railroad work between Vancouver, Wash
ington ami the Cascade on the Colum
bia, President Howard Elliott, of the
Northern Pacific railway today, through
Assistant General Paenger Agent Charl
ton, of Portland made public the fact
that a road, to be built and operated
jointly by the Northern Pacific and the
Great Northern i to be constructed
down the north bank of the Columbia
river from Paco, Washington to ft point
where the Northern Pacific crosses the
Columbia river in eastern Washington,
to Vancouver, Washington, and from the
latter place, spinning the Columbia and
Willamette river to Portland. Thi
announcement i moat significant since
the new of the completion of the North
ern Pacific, the first transcontinental
road to enter Portland almost ft quarter
of ft century ago.
Supplementing President Elliott' an
iiouncrmcni .Mr. inaruon said it wa
estimated that about two year would
be required to put the road in operation.
The distance from Pasco to Portland ia
little more than two hundred miles and
unofficial estimate place the cost of
construction at approximately $12,300,
000.
BOODLINC SENATOR RELEASED
Was Surrendered by His Bondsmen But
Is Released on Cash Bail
Sacramento, Sept lt. Ell Wright,
one of four senator accused of IkxhI-
ling, and who wa surrendered bv his
bondsmen yesterday, secured hi release
today on the payment of f'.iOO in cash
to the court by Grove, L. Johnson, the
principal coucl for ex-Senator Emmons.
NAN PATTERSON RE-MARRIED.
Washington, Sept. 1(1. Nan Tatter
son, who wa tried twice in New York
for the murder of Caesar Young, wa re
married here at noon today to her form
er husband, Leon O. Martin. Misa
Patterson and Martin were divorced
three year ago.
I WORK OF TRAIN I
I WRECKERS I
t San Antonio. Sent. 18. Larire
m a O
pieces of Iron piled on the track
supposedly by wrecker,' derailed
the San Antonio and Arkansa
Paa railway'a "Davey Crockett"
apeclal, tonight as the train wa
leaving the city limit. The en-
gine, baggage car and two coach-
e turned completely over. The
fireman waa killed and the eng-
v ineer seriously injured and may
die. Two passencer were serl-
ously hurt.
LICENSE FARM BOUSES
Physicians Say Unsanitary Condition
Canaa Fmr.
New York, Sept. 16. Vacation
spent in email farm houses with poorly
ventilated, bad drainage and contami
nated water supplies art declared by
several lead nig physician of thi 'city
to threaten an epidemic of typhoid
fever during the Autumn. The doctor
declare that tringent meaure will be
necewiary to prevent a great amount of
sickness from thee cause, arming per
fin who spent their vacations in the
country, aupposedly enjoying a change
of air and food.
"In the matter of typhoid," said one
of the city' best known practitioner
last night, "it i agreed that anitary
administration ha not kept pace with
scientific progress. One reason for thi
is that the law are defective. The
health officer have no power to enforce
regulation, and the people a a rule
are not educated up to the point of
obeying natatory statute.
"Any physician will tell you con
taminated water i the chief cause of
the disease and in the country district
the sunken well and the old fashioned
ce pool, generally in close proximity
with the living quarter produce that
cause.
"All farm place that take boarders
proved by the health authorities show
should lie required to have license ap
ing that the place is sanitary and a
free from fever a it i possible for
any place to be."
Norway-Sweden Negotiations Pro
pressing Favorably.
Official Announcement Sayi "The Pos
sibilities Are That is the Near Fu
ture the Negotiations can Be Brought
to ft Definite Result"
Karlstadt, Sept. 10. The fir official
announcement indicating that-Jib dele
gate of Norway and Sweden were ap
proaching an understanding in their ef
fort to establish a modu rivendi for
their countries a separate government
was given out tonight at the close of a
joint session of the delegates. The an
nouncement read:
"The probabilities are that in the near
future the negotiation can be brought
to a definite result." This xomewhat
cryptic announcement is Accepted as in
dicating the negotiations as having
reached a stage where an agreement is
in sight and the resort to arms, which
might have involved either power, may
safely be considered ' to be out of the
quest ion.
Christ iania, Sept. -C A pregnant ex
pression of the feeling in Norway at the
reception of the communication given
out by the Karlstadt conference it had
in the leading article of ft prominent
newspaper in Verdonsgang thi morning.
It said "The message that wa awaited
with the highest tension has at last
arrived.v
The negotiations at Karlstadt will re
sult in peace. This will be accepted by
the two people with intense satisfac
tion and greeted by the civilized world
with entire sympathy.. The result of
the negotiation are yet unknown.
It may not corespond with the wish
es of the Norwegians, but urcly we
have secured all it is possible to attain
without diminishing our dignity or na
tional independence."
TODAY'S WEATHER.
Portland, Sept. 10. Western Oregon
and western Washington: Sunday, part
ly cloudy, with hower, warmer ex
cept near the coast.
Eastern Oregon and eastern Wash
ington: Showers followed by fair, warmer.
AGREEMENT
INSIGHT
APPALLING
E
MOST FOUL IN YEARS
Young Woman Assaulted
and Choked to Death
in New York.
NO CLErV T0 HER IDENTITY
Evidence Show That Murdered Woman
Made Detperat Fight for Life and
Honor Two Men Wer Evidently Im
plicated tn Crime.
New York, Sept. 1C The finding to
day of the body of a hondsome young
woman of about 23 years of age, lying
bmised and batierea in a ciump of briar
bushes near tlie Pelham road in the
Bronx revealed one of the worst crime
with which the police have had to deal
in many years. An autopsy tonight
showed that the woman bad been crim
inally asaulted and choked to death.
There is every indication that she fought
her asailants desperately.
Her garment were torn almost to
shreds. Tonight the body rest in the
Fordham morgue while half ft hundred
detectives are endeavoring to establish
the victim' identity and find some clue
to her murder. At the autopsy the phy
sician were of the opinion the woman
had been dead about 12 hours. The evi
dence point to the fact that at least
two men are implicated in the crime.
That the woman wa robbed there is not
a doubt for nothing of value was left on
her person, while the fingers show that
the ring which she must have worn
were torn from them.
SHEEPMEN PAY DAMAGES
Animals Nibble Bark From 150 Fruit
Trees, Killing Many.
Vale, Ore., Sept. 16. A damage suit
somewhat unusual in iU nature for this
section, has just been concluded here in
the circuit court. It wa the case of Rob
ert Van Gile, of Arcadia, against B.
Gale, a sheepman of Raker county, in
which the plaintiff asked judgment for
$."00 damage caused by defendant's
sheep enternig an orchard during the
early spring of 1904 and nibbling the
bark off the fruit trees and killing and
injuring about 150 of them. The iurv
found for the" plaintiff in the sum of
$420. It is the first case of the kind
brought in Malheur county. Mr. Van
Gilse is proprietor of the famous Van
Gilse fruit farm of Arcadia.
The case of Jl. Lance against Mrs.
Kinison and M. En 11 is, of Nyssa, In which
judgment was asked for $800 for wrong
ful attachments of property, was non
suited on motion of defendant's attor
ney. WOMEN ORGANIZE LEAGUE.
New York,- Sept. 16. At ft meeting
here yesterday the Women' National
Democratic League was organized.
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STATE LAND FRAUD
TRIALS ARE POSTPONED
Minneapolis Sept 16. The hearing of
the case of John DeLaittr of Minnea
polis who claims to own 100,000 acres
of Oregon state lands on certificate
which are alleged to be fraudulent will
come up at Salcra, Oregon in October,
the proposed September hearing having
ZEMSTVOS PERMITTED
TO BOLD CONGRESS
Programme Mast Be Confined to Three
Points ft4 He Mere.
Moscow, Sept 16. M. Culvln, presi
dent of the Moscow Zcmstvo today
visited Governor General Durnove with
reference to the forthcoming Zemstvo
congress. The governor general said the
congresa would be permitted, but it
program mut be confined to three
points, first, the participation of the
Zemstvo in the town elections for the
douma; second, the organization of the
electoral campaign and third, the parti
cipation by the Zemstvo in the town
in the work of assisting the famine
stricken district. t
After the visit, notice were sent out
summoning the congress to meet Sep
tember 23.
OFFERED BETTER POSITION
0. S. L. Traffic Manager "Resigns to Ac
cept Another Position.
Salt Lake City, Sept. 16. The an
nouncement was made today of the res
ignation of Traffic Manager T. M. Schu
macher, of the Oregon Short Line rail
road company to lake effect September
23. Mr. Schumacher will become traffic
manager of the United Fruit company,
with a salary of $15,000 a year.
People Forget Their Sorrow and
Take a Holiday,.
Combine
Efforts to Make Diamond
a Success ia Order to Raise
Jubilee
Capaign Fund President Telegraphs
Congratulations. .
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New Orleans, Sept 16. Official
report up to 6 p. m. New cases,
42; total, 2347; deaths, 2; total,
333; new foci, 7; under treat-
nient. 341; ca-es discharged, 1873.
The situation today showed practic-
!"y no cIlnge from the condition
wbich have existed for several davs,
but in the mid-t of their campaign
against the fever the people of New
Orleans took a holiday and joined hands
in making a brilliant success of the dia
mond festival aranged to help sweel
the campaign funds. The festival wa
j frtiia!ly opened with a telegram of
.encouragement from President Roosevelt.
PROSECUTION CLOSES
ITS CASE
Portland, Sept. 16. The pros
eution in the case of tlie govern
ment against Congressman Wil
liamson, Dr. Gesner and Marion
Bigg brought its ease to a close
today. The government attor
neys believe they have made out
a stronger case than in either of
the two previous trials.
just been postponed for another month.
Mr. LVLaittre hold in the aggregate II
certificates of sale, all of whkh are held
up by the Oregon stale land hoard on
the ground of alleged fraud ia the man
ner of application and procuring by the
school land operative.
NO CHANGE Ai
NEV ORLEANS