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41 x at- USUtHK FULL! AtBOOIATSO tittew"! Wiiwr iJKri CO VSR THE MORNINQ rilLD ON TH8 tOWth OOLUMBIAil nr. tEtti I 3 M RIPORT I 1 VOLUME LXI NO. SiGO TORNADO IN THE SOUTH Second Disastrous Visita- uon raus on ww. HEW ORLEANS SUFFERS Three Tornadic Gales Spring Up in as Many Hours Mobile is Not Badly Involved. MUCH TIMBER IS WRECKED Fine Burst of Wind Trirerw the Country la Narrow Swath, Wreck, log Everything That Confront! . Them. . . NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 8. This region wi tm iiv t ie center of cvelonw ait turlnce, at least thre of which were tornado, and caused the Iom of six Uve, with nlue persons reported fa tally Mured. About ilny Hght heavy atorma broke within one bund red miles went, north and et of New Orleans. Tonight all reports have it that the sugar and cotton crops art blown down, and of suitor mills destroyed In sever al direction. The damage Including that dm In New Orleans, ie placed at one million of dollar. The worst of the tornadoes near thli city were between 5,50 and 7 o'clock. It dcvatated portions of three parlhej and although no Uvea were lost in thi city, property la damaged at "half a million, and about fifty persons, are In jured, one fatally. Fully 800 bulldingi are damaged, about seventy-five being" blown flat. Most ' of the demolished building were negro cabins. MOBILE Oct. 8. Just before noon today a tornado passed near Kushla, a atation on the Molibe and Ohio railroad 12 mltea north of Mobile. The coun try is thinly populated. No loa of 1' i reported. The tornado cut a awath a hundred feet wide and felled much timber Mobile felt no effect of the tornado, NEW ORLEANS, Oct. B.-Seven per eons were killed In today' cyclonlo dls turbnnce, According to reporte which reached here late today from the coun try around Now Orlcani. Deaths were reported by both St. Jamee and West Raton Rouge, parishes. Three tornadoes itruek New Orleans and vicinity today, causing lossof life and great property damage In sections which a week ago today were mora or lew devastated by the Gulf hurricane. The first tornado wn at Tontchatoula, La., 50 miles north of here; theeo ond in New Orleans, and the third near Biloxl, Ml, half way betwecn'here and Mobile, on the Oulf coast. The tornado ot Pontchntoula struck the southern end of the town about 7 o'clck in. the morning. George Hawes was killed lu his home, which was blown down, and hie wife and four chil dren were badly Injured, Three ne groes also were reported killed at Tont chatoula, 'C ', The second tornado appeared In New Orleans shortly after 8 o'clock, ripping a narrow path through rive miles of the city's residence and business section and dolnj? $500,000 damage. No lives wore lost here, but one neirro was fa tally Injured by a freight car over turning (upon1 him, and half a hun dred other persons wer injurd, 11 of whom1 Were taken to hospitals. The third tornado passed seven miles northwest of Blloxl, whore It over turned an engine and three ears belong ing to the Dan trier Lumber company, slightly Injuring the engineer and fire man, Immense tree which withstood last Thursday's hurricane, were up. rooted In this section. Today's tornado was responsible for report Immediately following the storm that about 20 lives had been lost In the city and surrounding country, ' The tornado entered the city near Audubon Park, having crossed the Mis isslppl River from the farming country opposite that point. The wind was accompanied by a low-hanging cloud and a beary rumble. It traveled north west until It reached the fine residence portion of the city, St, Charlca and Na poleon avenues, lfore the damage was lightest done In any part of the tor nado's eourse, From fit. Charles the wind proceeded straight ahead to Ma rlngo and Carondelet streets, where it veered eharply to tha northward and In thl direction passed out of the city. The path of the tornado through the city waa from 80 to 60 feet wide. This narrow zone was strewn with bricks from demolished chimneys, detached boards, unrooted trees, fallen telegraph poles and an occasional roof. It was the falling of these obect which caused most of the Injuries, HAD PERILOUS FALL. Bridge Collapses With Two Score of Student! Upon It. MENOMINEE. Mich. Oct. fl. While a n'artv of twenty-five student of the Oreanta, Wis., high school 'were stand ing on Wis foot-bridge' over Oceanta Fall, Wis. today watching the falls, the structure collapsed, hurling the whole party forty feet Into the stream. William Ballon, aired fourteen, was killed and Vlg Scntll, Hazel Denisen and Frank Donley were seriously In jured, Several other were injured. Th bridge is two hundred feet long, but the water was three feet deep. A large number of sttidents had Just left the bridge when It collapsed. BATES WAS CHOSEN Massachusetts Republicans Name ' Him for Governor. MOODY GIVEN THE GLAD HAND Fine State Ticket Nominated All Hands Stand Pat for Theodore Roosevelt Adopt Strong plat formCommend Soot. ' BOSTON, Oct. 8.-ExCovernor John L Rates was chosen chairman of the Republican state convention which met here today for the nomination of can didates to be voted for at the Novem ber elcctin. An incident of the work of the organisation wa demonstra tion given Attorney-General Moody nfin ha arnuM in mnvt tha nnnolnt- mcnt of the cmmlttel on resolutions. The platform reported by thl com mittee praises the work of Governor Guild, President Roosevelt and Secre tary Root on the completion of his mission to South America. Tho resolutions further declare ad herence to the policy of protection, the tariff to be revised when the Interests of the country require it and urge that representation In congress be reduced In states where there Is auppression of the vote. The "rule of the mob and the atrocious crime which frequently provokes It," are condemned. Tho res olutions express sympathy with the Jews in Poland and Russia and com mend "the efforts of President Roose velt to devise a just and effective meth od for building up a strong merchant marine." Opposition ' Is expressed Wi the ownership of rialroade by state or nation. , The convention by acclamation re nominated the following etate officers: Governor Curtis Guild, Jr. Lieutenant-Governor Ebea Draper. Secretary of State William M. Olin. Auditor Henry E. Turner'. Treomirer and Receiver-General Arthur B. Chftpin. ' Attorney-General Dana Malone. ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, J90G SEVENTY AND SEVENTH Mormon Church Confer- . ence Held Yesterday. PROPHET SMITH TALKS Opposes Mormon Children Being Sent to Germany for Their Education. FORGETS THAT INDICTMENT Advocate Purity of Life and Adherence to Zioa and Pledge Eternal Peace to All Hand, Despite Prosecu tion and Prison. SALT LAKE, Oct. 8. A long address by President Joseph F. Smith was the principal event at the seventy-seventh semi-annual conference of the Mormon church today. Smith advised Mormon parents to discontinue, tha practice of sending their children to Berlin to study, saying that many of the Mormon young people there held themselves aloof from the church meeting in the German capltaL lie made no direct allusions to his own Indictment for unlawful cohabita tion with his five wives, but he said: "Let every man live such an exem plary life that there, can be nothing said against bim. Let him be true to bis people, let , him be true to Zion and pure In his way and the one God will uphold hlra whether he be deprived of his liberty in prison cells." REVOLUTION THE KEY NOTE. NEW YORK, Oct. B.--A Buenos Ay res dispatch to the Herald brings the news that the Congress of Spanish republi cans composed of representatives of the majority of Spanish societies in the Latin-American republics, dm just closed. The congress approved declara tions that most of the present politics is incompetent and that revolutionary action is necessary to re-establish a republlo In Spain. They declare that the disaster of the war with the Unit ed States should be attributed to the political incapacity of monarchial in stitutions. THE EVERLASTING BOY. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. V-Fetor Salmi, a 14-year-old boy, was electro cutcd late yesterday near the six-mile house. He climbed up a pole supporting a number of high tension electrio light wires and grasped one of the feed wires, A current of 1.300 volts passed through his body. ANOTHER MINE HOKkOS. DENVER, Oct. 5. According to a special to the News, fifteen men are be lieved to have been entombed . In the Dutchman mine at Blosshurg, Nv M.. early this morning, by an explosion. Only eix men are positively known to have been in the tunnel, but the usual night-shift numbers fifteen and none have been located outside the mine. Four bodies hae been recovered. The search continues, though firedamp makes res cue work very difficult. ( 1 RAN OFF FROM 0UCHAK0FF. NEW YORK, Oct. 5. General Ouch akoff of the Russian army, who is pur suing his eloping wife and her man companion, sailed for Europe yesterday on the rFench liner LaProvence. The fugitives arrived here last week as Mr. and Mrs. Eesshoff and were met by Commissioner Watchorn and the Rus- T siao Consul, General Lodygemtky. The latter persuaded them to sail for France on the LaHavoie, which left on the same day that they arrived. Cable dispatches from Pari yesterday reported that the couple had arrived at the French cap ltaL ' ' V DISASTROUS ALTERCATIONS. CLEVELAND, Oct. 5.-Clutched in each other arms, two young men, J, V. Bujits, aged thirty, and Harry Wilfred, aged seventeen, fell from the fourth story of the Lake Shore rail rosd office building and were hurled to their) death on the . pavement below, thi safternooni The young men had had some trouble and in the alterca tion they fell through the open win dow. During the flight through the air deather relaxed his death like grasp. SCHOOLING HER TEACHERS. XEW YORK, Oct. 8. Alfred Moely, the English educationalist, who sent a commission of Englishmen interested In education to America in 1902, is com ing here at the end of this month pre paratory to bringing over 500 teachers of English schools. They will start coming in batches of IS or 20 soon af ter hi arrival. A committee of ten, headed by Mr. Straubeninuller of the Department of Education, is now pre paring a classification of the public schools of Greater New York in or der to make it possible for each visitor to see the kind of schools in which he or she is most interested. A FIGHT SCHEDULED. LEWISTON, Mont, Oct 5. The two Roscoes and Charles Brown, alleged rustlers, who escaped from the county jail here several days ago, wer aeen at Two Dot early today, well armed and moving along in leisurely fashion. The officers expect to overtake the outlaws some time tonight. If a contact is made an exciting fight will probably follow. GENERAL FOR A DAY Kansas Man Secures Commission from. Sunny Cuba. RESIGNS TASK-DRAWS PAY Old War-Scarred Veteran Who Knows Hi Business Job Cost Him Twenty-Nino Cent Intended to Organize Regiment WICHITA, Kans., Oct. S.-C. A. Mo- sher of Wichita, received a com mission as a general in the Cuban army Wednesday and the next day he waa asked to resign. Hi commission came directly, from President Palmo. Ho hod in mind to raise a regiment of rough riders similar to the ono, led by Theodore Roosevelt in 1898. In reply ing, Mr. Talma Bent him a commission as a general, dating the commission back three months. - When Secretary Taft arrived in Ha vana Moeher was asked to resign and return the contract sent him by the Osbsjt jjovornment. In the same let ter a draft wa sent him for his sal ary as a Cuban general since the date of hi commission. Mr. Mosher is more than 60 years. old and is an old sol dier. He served In the Union army s a lieutenant in the Eighth Illinois in fantry. Although he is more than $1,- 200 richer-, he is sorry that Secretary Taft recalled his commission. His ac tual expenses of securing the commis sion was twenty-nine cents. ESTIMATE DEAD AT SEVENTY. BLUEFIELD, W. Va., Oct. 5. Twen- tv-nine bodies have been recovered from the Westfork mine at Pocahontas, Va., and 'a conservative estimate places the total number of dead at seventy. The rescuing party , ha reached the scene of the explosion, but. the immense amount of debris and wreckage Has greatly hampered the search for bodies. There is no evidence tnus iar ol nre. AGITATION HAS BEGUN St. Petersburg .Workmen Hold Demonstrations. HAVE A SOUND CAUSE Trying to Save Fifty of Their In prisoned Companions from Sure Death. ALL HANDS ARE CONSPIRING Clique planned to Overthrow th Gov ernment by Arming Workmen and Creating Financial Disorders in The Capital. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 6.-Agita-tion by the workmen of St. Petersburg, who for some time have beentranquil, has begun again. . Several largely attended demonstra tion were held In various quarters of the city tonight and last night, on ac count of the trial of the fifty-one mem bers of the Council of Workmen's Delr egotes, a revolutionary organization, which operated during the troublous times of last October and November. The men have been in prison a long time and are accused of high treason. The council planned to overthrow the government by arming the " workmen and endeavoring to precipitate a finan cial crash. LYTLE ACCEPTS AGREEMENT. PORTLAND, Oct. 5. E. E. Lytle, as president of .the Pacifio Railway & Nav igation company, has accepted - the acTeement of the "Tillamook business men for furnishing a right of way for the road from Tillamook City to where the survey crosses the Nehalem and notices of acceptance have been for warded. Right of way has already been secured for a-considerable distance, and it is stipulated in the agreement that $10,000 will be set aside by the resi dents for the purchase of land through a timber tract of about 20 miles. Or ders have cone forth to organize a construction party to begin work on the coast and 40 head of horses will be sent overland at once.. Equipment will fol low immediately sad work will be ear ned on during the winter, bteeii ana other heavy material will be transport ed by water. BOSTON FOR TARIFF REFORM. BOSTON, Oct. 5. A blow to Imme diate tariff revision and to champions of increased reciprocal trade schedules, led by Eugene Foss, waa delivered at the Massachusetts Republican conven tion "which aaopieo; -wiMiui iciiGS strance a platform calling for such tar iff changes as might be found necessary from time to time, with the under standing that they be applied to all sections of the country and to all indus tries. Harmony prevailed at the convention, which nominated by acclamation a state ticket composed entirely of men now in office, headed by Curtis Guild, Jr., of Boston, for governor. FORTY-DAY CIRCUM-TRIP. VICTORIA, B. C, Oct 6. Mail ad vices from Yokohama state that a con ference held between the Russian Asiatio Steamship company and Jap anese lines at Vladivostok, it waa de cided to establish weekly alternat steamship service between North Ja pan and Vladivostok and the Russian Asiatio line announced it would extend PRICE FIVE CENTS its line to San Francisco. Officials an nounced they would form connecting arrangements by which a traveler could! journey around the world in forty days. FORTY WITNESSES CALLED. NEW YORK, Oct. 8. The trial of Dr. Frank Brower, charged with tha murder of his wife last September, is scheduled to begin Monday in Tom River, N. J, before Supremo Court Jus tice Hendrickson, The ease has at tracted much public' attention. .... Dr. Brower will be defended by I. W. Carmichael of . Toms River and Ed mund Wilson of Red Bank, who will be aided by medical experts. , ' - ' i WHITES AND BLACKS. ATLANTA, Ca Oct. 5.-The grand jury found true bill today in which sixty negroes are indicted for .the mur der of Policeman Heard at Brownsville, on September 23. The jury returned sixteen bills in connection with the riot ing. It is understood that several of these are against white men charged with the same offense. v, r; - , ', ' , ' ;,.";.;..' ; MIGHTY POOR JOKE, "; HARRISBURG, Pa, Oct. 5. A u- picious looking package found in Gov ernor Pennypacker mail today, wa soaked in water by a cautious clerk and upon being opened was found to eon tain a small case, Tesembling a cart ridge ehell, surrounded by black pow der, and intended to be exploded by the removal of the lid. The construc tion was such no barm would have re sulted had it exploded. From various inscriptions on the wrapper it is be lieved to hare been a" joke. BASEBALL SCORES. At Seattle Seattle, 8; Oakland, 3. At Los Angeles Loa Angeles, t; Port land, 12. At San Francisco San Francisco, 9; Fresno, 8. ' , Disarmament Will Be Concluded On Monday. REBEL RIFLES OLD AND POOR Leaders Hastening in From Province! to Surrender Thousand Hen Are Camped .at Guinea Waiting a '' Chance to Giv Up. HAVANA, Oct. 6. While the disarm ament of the rebel will not be com pleted by Saturday night, it is confi dently expected that the entire opera tion will be finished on Monday, with the exception of Puerto Principe pro vince, which haa been less affected than any other province, by the rebels. The ereat maority of the rebel rifle are old and poor, and many dilapidated weapons have been turned it. The rebel leaders in all the provinces are hastening to comply with the de mands of the American officer and are giving up their arms willingly. General Asbert with one thousand men. is ciwvwl -. ti2V-..?sH'' Guines. This force will come in tomor row and disarm. COLLIDED IN THE YARD. ''" '': ' ' '' -A RED BLUFF, Cal., Oct. 8. Two trains of the Southern Pociflo company col lided in the lower part of the yard here yesterday, resulting in .: the in jury of a man named Martin Kelly. Kelly, it is believed, will die. HE'S A SQUARE SPORT. CHICAGO, Oct. 5. Sir Thomas Lip ton was wined, dined and applauded at a dinner given for him by the mayor and people of Chicago, at the Chicago Athletio association. The Commercial Association will entertain Sir Thoma at a dinner tomorrow. , CUBANS CONVINCED