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I i - ;:. f UBLItHft FULL AIIOOUU. '"'W j OOVIRt THE MORNINQ PIILD ON THI LOWf Pi COLUMBIA I r- -.. ' No J VOLUME LX NO. 130 am lisi I LOIR ENCOURAGEMENT FELT Quarantine May Be Raised in New Orleans on October i5. TERRIFIC RAIN STORM FALLS Stcrrm Along the Coait Bai Caused the Blgbeit Water is Yeara, Street! are Flooded, Dut Work of Doctors and Inspector! Mot Interrupted. Sew Urban, S-pt. 30. Tlie rfjHirt of case to 0 p. in. i New (-, 31 1 tout. 3000 death 2 1 total, 688 j new foci, li un- v der treatment. 240 discharged, 2372. A tetrlne rainstorm Uat temporarily v a . 1. . b4-.lA un.lul 1A u 1.' r 4levndr4 on the city today, but at the water wa speedily carried off by the drainage machines there u no Inter ruption of work of either the doctore r inspector. Tbe suggestion has been made that the yellow fever quarantine I raised n October 13 ami the 14th will prob ably bo a general cleaning and fumi gating day. The suurm along the coot caused the blgheet water here for yrar. Hie death list I again a source of gratification, pointing to the unmUtak nine feet that the type of fever now prevailing I exceedingly mild. Today completed the tenth week of the tight (if,nlnt the 3i- Milliken'a Ilend rrorU five new eee and one dctii, and lake lrovidence three new cme and ono death. I - IVn-mtilii, Sept. 30. Fourteen new ar of yellow fever and three death were reported today. M'CALL ASKED TO RESIGN Banker Objecti to Kit Company Doing Buineu in Kanaat. Topeka, Sept. 30. t larence H. Ven iier" a Xew York banker hae written a letter to Clin riot II. Luling, uerin-tonth-nt of life inuram asking Luting to refii to allow the New York life In auram company to do anr buine in "'the tate of Kamtaa, while John MK'all ji, tVorire n. Perk Inn retain pooitiona ol fiTlpidi'nt and vice Mleiiilent, rexpex tlvcl which they now hold. Mr. Ven- tier eneloVd a copy of a letter which lie had aent MiCall demanding hia rea Ignation. lie ha written the aaua let ter to I'erklnn. ' . THOUSANDS ASSEMBLE TO WELCOME PRESIDENT . .. Washington, Sept. 30. Thousand of fellow citizen turned out to welcome President . Rooaevelt to the national capital thia evening and made hi home coming the occasion for an ovation from the time he was sighted on the plat form ft" hi ear until he passed within the door of the Whit House. There wa no band of muic, but the iweeter .. MAIL KOKBIH TJAHSFEKEED .. .... .. h;v.;--.V4.7. - - Bad Only One Moath of a Two Tear f ; Seiteaee. t Serve. Tacomi, fet. 30.1lt haa Jut be- couie kmiwn that on fieptemWr 17, Al bert A. Dell, the notorio maitpow-h robber, waa tranferrad from the fed eral prion at McNeil' bland to the I'nlted State, penitentiary at Fort Ulavenworth, Kaiuai IU! bad but one month, to erv on a two year aen tem. The onler for hi traafrr came from the I'nlted KUte attorney gen eral and it U un.ler.tood that Dell U to bo tried for robbing the malU in Iowa and Pennsylvania, where be got away with 1200,000 in eecurltie, many of which he auecemled In cahng. CONSUL CIKXBAL ROlfOKKD. raria, Sept. 30. At a farewell ban quet to Conul General Gowdy given un der the aunpice of the American Cham ler of Commerce1 tonight, Ambarwador MiCormlck, on behalf of the French government, presented to Mr. Gowdy the in4gnia. of an officer of the legion of honor. BASEBALL SCOKES. SMikane, Sept. 30, Tacoum, 4 Oak land, 0. Seattle, Sept. 30.-Seatle', 3; Port land. 0. 1h Angle, Sept. 30. Lo Angelc, li San Fram lwo, 3. Stanford Wins First Northwest Game of Season Score 12 to 0. WUlamette Put Up Splendid Came, Go ing Through Cardinal' Line for Good Gain Time After Time, But Loit on Fumblee at Critical Point. Stanford, Sept. 30.-The football team from the Willamette university, of Salem, Oregon, wa defeated this af ternoon by tlie Stanford vanity eleven by a score of 12 to 0. Stanford had the better of the game all through, playing fanter and in Mter fimn than the team from , the north. AYillamette, however, made a much better showing than was exe'ted for by straight line plunge and croon buck, the visitor made gain Line after time, through the Stanford line, but nnnli ground wa ht on sev era) . fumble at critical point of the game. The defeated team i well bul anced, no particular plaver atarring aliove the other. Tlie Cardinal team won the gnnie only ltcnue they had been Utter diillcd in team work and deHail. FOOTBALL SCORES. lthaea. Spt. 30.-Concll, 12; Cot gate," 11. Vet Toint, Sept. 30.-Wet Toint. 18 Tufts College, 0. Priiu-eton, Sepi 30. Final) Prince ton, 23; Washington and .Jefferson, 0. . Cambridge, Sept. 30. Harvard, 12; Williams, 0. J)e Moine, Sept. 30. Drake, 18 IYnnylvania, ft. . - , , f melody ofeheer of the awemolett peo ple ' made th air ting with "burrahs" a hi carriage paed slowly up the avenue. The prenidcnt was deeply tombed by the welcome and especially by it rponUneltty " Twa awfully kind of them to come out to greet me," lie remarked to some friends at White lloue port cot-here, "and I am deeply touched, by their welcome.",' WILLAMETTE DEFEATED ASTOKIA, OREGON, SUNDAY OCTOBER 1 1905 ft A CIS PASSENGERS RESCUED Big Asiatic Liner Is Still Aground Iottom Damaged. POWERFUL TUGS STANDING BY Had Just Left Ber Wharf for Honolulu When She Is Caught In Dense Fog and Buna on Rock Leaka Badly Pilot! Hot to Blame. San Framico, Sept, 30. The steamer AJameda, belonging , to the Oceanic Steanuhip company, went on the rock south of the harbor one hour after leav ing ber wharf for Honolulu today. She ailed at 11 a. m. under command of Captain T. Dowdell. The point where the struck the shore Uone of the narrow et ami mot dangerous part of the trait on the way out of the Golden ;te. A reef run, out to the north wet from tlie shore and a buoy i situated a I it end near w here the Alameda truck. Kidnight At midnight tonight Uia Ocejnlc Sleainfthip comiany' liner Alameda is till fat on the rrk off Fort Point, jtit Inolile the bead and not far from where the Rio Janeiro b uppoed to have gone down. Lighter are along side and her cargo i being taken off. It i reorted that the vecl i leaking, indicating that her bottom U damaged. When the steamer went on tlie rocks, Captain Thomas Dowdell was in com mand and Pilot C B. Johnson wa di recting her coure. In addition to a cargo valued at $100,000, the Alameda bad on board 30 passenger. The reel went ashore during a heavy fog, which eligit defvn suddenly and lifted almost a quickly, but after the damage wa done. The lifting of the fog. however, great ly facilitated the work of rescuing the passenger, which wa done skillfully and expeditiously. All being transferred to the revenue curr Golden Gate, without discomfort and later landed at the Pacifle street wharf. ' The Alameda left her wharf 111, m. ft Honolulu. A she passed Persidio, the uiit ttuddenly swooped in from the. ea, and Pilot Johnson gave onler to low down, and he and Captain Dow dell listened for the guiding ound of either the Ijnie Point or Fort Point whistles. A they li-tened the liner wa caught by the swirl of the flood tide and carried toward the rocks, where aha now rests. She struck gently, and few of the passenger had any idea of tne ve-eel being aground. When the engines stopped, most of the passengers though a stop had been made to let off the pilot, and it was only when the fog lifted and they saw the fort looming up over the bttoy, that they knew why the Alameda wa no longer going ahead. All on borfrd join in p4 ir tribute to Captain, Dowdell' coolness, which was largely responsible for the calm way in which the passenger,; met the situation when they learned the worst . A few seconds after the liner struck, one-of. the whistles for the sound of which her navigators' had been strain ing their ears, was heard right ahead. U was tbe Fort Point fog signal. Five minute later the whistle at Lime Point blew a mocking blast, meanwhile the Alameda' own whistle wa shrieking snd in response to her signals of dis tress, life boat were launched from the government life saving nations at Fort 1 (iVint, Point Bonita and (JoMin GaU Ntattons. In little mure than an Hour after the Alameda struck, her paM?ng era were all on board the Golden Gate, comfortably watching the effort being made to drag her liner, from the rock. In lews than four hour all hope of get ting ber afloat until the nejt high tide had been abandoned. Lighter were then placed alongside to receive her cargo, and powerful tug were standing by to render Mich aid a tbey could. Captain Dowdell ha little to say about the affair. The pilot waa handling the liner, and It was under the pilot's direction that she 'rammed her no in among the breaker. Pilot Johnson, however, wj not o retb-ent "The reponMbility,'' he say, "rest entirely ujion the people at the Lime Point whittle for not blowing, although it waa so thick for a time that I could not see the length of the Alameda. We got kt la the fog and I listened for the whUtle to give me my bearing. When the whiittie did blow, we had been ashore for five minutes." HOBLEMAB WAS AFTER SPECIAL FAVORS Lord Bury Protesta Against Paying for Right to Bunt la Canada. Vancouver. Sept. 30. Lord Bury, the attache of the governor general's staff, who has been hunting grizzly and caribou in Cariboo, bad to pay IM for the priv ilege. He is a lieutenant in the Scotch (irev, and becau of this asserted that he did not require a license. Military men are exempt from the fee when "on service." There 1 a delicate point of law in volved in Lord Bury' refusaL As he is oi the governor general' staff, be says be is actually on service, and therefore i- not required to pay for shot ing game in any -part of the Dominion. Govern- jir.i'ii'l Acent Chr?tie could not see the matter in the same light as hi lord ship, and when tbe latter wa at Ash- croft he demanded the $.0 license. Lord bury paid like a man. -" P0RTLARDERS SURPRISED. Attendance at Fair Yesterday Beached 5,133- Portland, Sept. 30. The Pacific north yest has never before seen auch a con course of people a waa made by the 85,133 persons who attended the Lewis and Clark fair today. Perhaps none were so surprised a tbe Portlanders themselves, while they had confidently boasted for days, and weeks past, that the attendance of Portland day would reach the 100,000 mark, they did not hope, that at the best their am bitions would be more than three-fourths realized, but attracted by the unpre cedented low rate on all railroads lines the people as early as yesterday morn ing comenced disking to the city from all points in Oregon and Washington. Added to tU the day was a holiday in Oregon and the business house of the city, closed their establishment, and even the saloons shut their doors until tlie street resemblea the quiet of a Sunday morning. The attendance today exceed that of the Fourth of July, which heretofore has been the largest iu point of attendance by over 28,000. WEATHER REPORT. . Portland, Sept. 30. Oregon and Wash ington: Sunday, fair and wanner. WASCO COUNTY PROPOSES CULTIVATE BOPS Experimenti Show Big Yieldi Can Be Obtained on Sheltered Land. ' The Dalles, Sept. 30. Wasco county business of hopraising on an extensive come, the banner hop producing county of the state. This season a number of farmer hava been experimenting in hop culture with satisfactory results. The bop they have produced are of an ex cellent quality and the yield is very large. - So successful ha been the ex periment that a number of farmer are nowontemplating putting out large yard, next season and engaging in the busines of hopraising on a nextensiv'e scale. There are thousand of acre in the county suitable for hop fields, as the hops thrive without irrigation and will do well on almost any of the upland that i sheltered from wind. mm MOTHERS' AWFUL DEED Horribly Murders T Child ren Tbcn Commits Suicide. CRAZED FATHER ENDS LIFE Father Takei Certain Mean! of Ending Hia Life After He See Awful Deed of Wife and Mother Woman Confea sea Before She Dies. P.ock Island, Sept. 30. Mrs. Clarence Markham, of Cambridge, in a fit of tem porary insanity killed her seven child ren with an axe after which she placed their bodie in a bed, saturated it with coal oil and set it afire. She then hacked her throat with a knife and threw herself on the burning bed be- siae her children. Keigbbor rescued ue-, bui she was so badly burr.cl that she died wwfler. rtlt siiaa avcon fesxlon before she died, stating that she had committeed the deed. The eldest child was nine year old, while the youngest Was a baby in arms. L-te tonight Clarence E. Markham, tbe husband and father of tbe victim of the tragedy, committeed suicide by shoting himself, after tying a rope around his neck so it would choke him to death in case the bullet failed of its purpose. DESPERADO IDENTIFIED Man Shot by Berkeley Policeman Proves to Be Noted Saft Cracker. - Berkeley, Sept. 30.?. S. Thatcher, an ex Chicago detective called at the of fice of Marshal Volliuer today and iden tified the safe cracker who wa killed by Policeman Lest range in a fight with four thugs in West Berkeley la4 Thursday. He says the dead man is John Con way, a desperate Chicago safe cracker, who was the leader of a gang of mur derous criminals in the eaat. GETS TIRED OF LIVING. Ralph Ober, Carpenter, Turni oa Gaa and Dies. Tort land, Sept 30. Tired of life, be cause he had been a suffered from rheu matism a number of years, Ralph Ober, carpenter, aged 40 years, committed sui cide by inhaling illuminating gas at bis room at 502 Clay street yesterday morning. His body was found yester day afternoon. He ha a brother at Duluth, Minn., and a mother living at Center, Me, Coroner Finley has wired for instructions and will probably ship the body east for interment. FEDERAL GRAND JURY RETURN MORE INDICTMENTS Portland, Sept 30. The federal grand jury ' returned . today an indictment against Cbarles A. Graves, Erwin N. Wakefield, Ora I Parker and Robert B, Foster, charging them with conspiracy to defraud the government of ita public land. The four men are accused of hav ing conspired w itb. Williamson nd Ges ner to defraud the government. It is al leged in' the indictment that each had PRICE FIVE CENTS AMERICAS WOMEN WARNED Desertion of Wivea by Greek Husband la Becoming Frequent . . ;' Washington, Sept 30. George Hor ton, the American consul at Athens, has sent the state department a warning to American againtt marrying Greeke without being ire rjie ceremony i performed by a reliable Greek priett He say the desertion of American wives and families by Greek husband, who return to Greece and re-marry without obtaining divorce, (which seems to be permisible in Greece unlee the precau tion above noted is observed) hi a mat ter of too frequent occurrence. CELEBRATE FOUNDERS DAY. Pittsburg, Sept 30. Plans were com pleted today by -the trustees of the Carnegie Institute for the annual cele bration of founder day November 2. Tbe principal speaker will be Melville E. Stone, general manager of tbe As sociated Press. Mr. Stone will tell how tbe "world's new is gathered." WHOLE BUNCH INDICTED. Milwaukee, Sept 30. Cornelius Cor- coran, president of the common council of thi city, together with tbe aldermen and two private citizen, were indicted by the grand jury tonight. Corcoran i charged with selling hay and oat to the city, which is a violation of the city ordinance. , fS SNUBBED Httt of the Great Northern flnly' "Tto&Ua'f:eive Them, . Said That if the Washington Interstate Commiaaion Haa Any Business With Hia Road Tbey Could See the Traffic Managers. Seattle, Sept, 30. President Hill, of tne Great Northern refused to meet the state railroad commission yesterday be fore continuihg bis journey to Portland. He stated that if the commission bad any business to transact with hi road it could do so with tbe heads of the traffic department , In a speech delivered at the Rainier club tonight Hill paid hia respects to the interstate commerce commission by say ing that the coast states were better off without it n said the state of Washington wa enjoying the lowest possible rate at the present time, but the government regulation of rate would paralyse the commerce of Wash ington. The Hill party left for Tacoma without seeing the commission. BUSINESS SECTION t DESTROYED ? . . ' e Court Hoiwe, O., Sept 30. A fire today practically wiped 'out the business section of Jefferson- ville, a Urge village 11 miles northeast of this city. Loss $73,000. tlted- on claims and also induced Sara t. Paitker, Laura A. Foster and Monia Graves to do the earns. It further al lege that they awore falsely as regard ing the character of the land, their in ftcntioit value, Umlxfc- and intended disposition of the claims At the re quest of Hertey, bench warrants were issued for tlie indicted men, and their bai! fixed at fWOO. , CODSH