RisiiHv : ;d aim .... . - . v .- THE WEATHER. .'.'- Tonight and Tuesday, ' occasional rain; south westerly winds. v . . PORTLAND. OCEGOK. . HON PAY v EVENING, KOYESlBER 24. 1902 , VOL. I. NO. 222. TRICE FIVE CENTS. PUBLIC HEAIM DEMANDS ALL FOOD SUPPLIES BE PROPERLY INSPECTED BY STATE OFFICIALS THAT T i 4 x ii TIN TT f belated inspection or miry nero at f Reveals the Investigation Shows an Unparalleled and Startling Condi ; tion of Filth and Infection Surrounds Much of This City's Food Supply Sixty-Five Animals Affected ' SIxty-flve cows belonging to John Thomas of rslrvlew have been segregated Inspectors. Some of these animals are afflicted with tuberculosis. The others Four of them were shot Immediately. Thomas alleges that his herd is In no worse condition than the cattle belonging (8) After innumerable complaints had been received regarding the condition of the cows belonging to John Thomas, a dairy man of Falrvlew, Dr. W. McLean, the state veterinarian, made an inspection of the herd a few days ago. He was ac companied by 8. G. Cutllp, a deputy dairy and food inspector. The herd was found to be In a most de plorable oondition. SIxty-flve per cent, of the animals examined reacted to the test for tuberculosis. Kour cows were shot on the spot, be ing in an advanced stage of coiwump tlon; and more than 60 others were placed by themselves in a pasture until their condition could bo more accurately de termined. It is reported that several, of the other herds in that region are also affected with the deadly disease. Thomas says .ftll -f vW? .PJUraftiM,.Xlje ...infection.--. tiapx. ... two bulls which are .still in the neighbor hood. Three days ago a cow was con demned as unfit for food .when slaugh tered at a nearby abattoir. Tbla animal came front a herd belonging to a dairy.! which is shipping all its milk to Poari land. . ' :..:.; " The weight of medical authority goes to prove that tuberculosis can be trans mitted from animals to man, and the most favorable and surest medium of transmission la milk. The milk from Thomas' diseased herd was sold to the chese factory at Fair view. Physloians say to The Journal that the process of making .milk Into cheese would not kill the bacteria which transmit the dread disease. I-ast summer 30 hogs from the Thomas ranch were sent to an abattoir at Trout dale to be slaughtered and sold. The government inspectors condemned 22 out of the batch. ' As the hogs had been fed upon milk taken from the dairy cows, the Inevitable conclusion wu that the milk was re sponsible for their infection, especially an the dominant lesions were found In the digestive organs. , At this time the state veterinarian was notified of the facta, and. moreover, the owner of the cheese factory. Mr. H. ". Campbell, waa informed that the hogs sent to the abattoir from the. Thomas ranch were badly diseased, and that the tuberculosis was probably caused by the milk. Notwithstanding this, there seems to have been nothing done. Thje,JuJtejaiT. - tmis 66"ws were neifiir"kiried nor sepa rated from the sound ones. If there are' any sound ones, nor did the cheese fae .rory cesife purchasing the milk which presumably wtnied the "fleamy " Daclerla:' WHAT DISEASED MILK CONTAINS A medical man who has made several analyses of the milk coming from the Infected district, said to The Journal yesterday: "The theory that consumption or tuber culosa can be transmitted from the bo vine species to human beings has been disputed and is atlll a mooted question. But even those authorities who deny the possibility of transmission do not claim that tubercular milk Is fit for food any more than diseased meat would be. "Ita use is most reprehensible and can Hot be too strongly condemned. "Leaving thla matter of tuberculosis aside for a1 moment, 1 will make the bald statement that If people in Portland knew the character of much of the milk sold In thla city they would drink water or beer. "The. milk from a diseased herd which IN THE LAST STAGES 0'' ;j.- Alarming Prevalence of Dangerous I have analysed for my own information contained a disgustingly large percentage of pus cells and fecal matter, in addi tion to any tubercle bacilli there may have been, "Some dairies I have seen recently were not fit to stable hogs In, and the conse quences of Such filth is seen in the state ment which a well-known butcher made to me the other lay to the effect that tuberculosis among cattle had increased 60 per cent within the last 20 months." THE JOURNAL INVESTIGATES Impressed with the force of these start ling statements, The Journal sent a rep- tne status or anairs mignt oe. The wholesale condemnation of such a large number of cows had naturally aroused much comment in the lltt'e town, hPLoh.areneral impression setmed to be (.mit.' the -feasant. stR.ti, . aftiiirs uld JHtt UWV BJUSlw-wuvtl tuns" . Ull au sides the opinion was expressed that the investigation must surely result In clean er dairies and more frequent Inspection of the animals. Wonder was expressed that state offlciala had not acted. ! An employe of the slaughterhouse at ! Troutdale was outspoken on the character I of some of the cattle sent to the abattoir. "I hatve seen cows1 sent there within , the past month," said?2 this man. which t were in such advanced stage of disease ; that their lungs and intestines were abso- ; lulely disintegrating. Of course the gov ernment meat Inspectors refused to allow the meat to be used, but It shows a bad state of things when such cows are run- nlng at large," "What kind of a man is Thomas?" The Journal reporter asked a former employe of the dairyman. "Well." said the man, "if I was you I wouldn't let him know you are from The Journal." "What kind of a man is he?" persisted the scribe. i "I don't know Just how to express it." ' said th ex-employe. "He's a rlpsnorter all right." With this cheering information the re- I porter proceeded to the abode of Mr. I Thomas and explained his mission. The i dairyman was not in an entirely happy-! moo0...raJm3..VJtS ,TJ)fc!J.ron-. ably worth t0 each, sequestered for fur- th mvJturatlnn. with a Drobabllitv that they' will all be shot as unfit for food, is not an exhilarating experience. '"I don't see "why this thing should be f written up at all, was Thomas astound ing statement. "If the matter gets any more advertising I won't be able to sell the cows anywhere.. If you will wait a little while till I can get rid of my stock I don't care how much you write about It." That Thomas Is losing no time in dis posing of bis cattle before the dangerous condition of the herda In that vicinity be comes too widely known. Is evidenced by the posters which adorn the barns and fences for miles In all directions from Falrvlew. These posters announce that Thomas has for sale 250 Durham, Jersey, Holsteln and Hereford cows and calves: 150 Shropshire sheep; 16 horses; 100 Berk shire and Poland China brdod sows and litters; 2 , registered bulls, besides the hundreds of chickens and other chattels which accumulate on a 1,300-acre ranch. The dairyman expressed a doubt as to whether the cows in question really had tuberculosis and insisted that before they were destroyed, be. would procure some ad ditional expert testimony on ' the' subject. "The inspectors may be mistaken about It." he said, but he did not deny that the four animals which had been summarily destroyed were badly diseased. "The inspectors say thnt my herd has- OF CONSUMPTION. 'it' i i Disease. t y-. X - V :v U y ' ? airview from the rest of his herd by state are suspected of being Infected. to many other dairies In that vicinity. i been infected through two bulls which I ! purchased from another dairy In this vl ctaity," said- Mr. Thorn ear. tt this Is so it stand to reason that the herd these bulls came from must also be suffering with tubercujosis. My cows are certainly not the only ones. I think that the dairy cows should be Inspected more regularly so that the contagion would not have spread all through the herd owned by one man before the disease is discovered. This Is not fair. It is over two years since my animals have been inspected." Mr. Thomas stated that his principal anxiety just at present was to sell oft all his stock and go back to Kngland, of which country he is a native. "YOU MAY SAY IN THE PAPER," SAID MR. THOMAS, "THAT I DO NOT LIKE AMERICA, AND I AM GOING TO GET OUT OF IT AS SOON AS I CAN." CHEESE-MAKTN6 KILLS NO GERMS The rmiha"ger"6f the cheese factory -admitted that Thomas had been delivering an average of 60u pounds of milk daily, which was all made Into cheese and sold principally in Portland. "Of course, we have 'no protection againBt such dangers," said the cheese man. "We cannot very well Inspect all the milk delivered here to se that there are no tuberculosis germs In it. We have to take chances on that. As soon us we found that Thomas' cows were badly diseased we took no more milk from him, and I do not think he is milk ing those cows at all now. He has dried j them up." r There is a great demand for the cheese made in this factory, and the product is sold as fast as it is made. It developed during the inquiry that while being made into cheese the milk was at no time raised to a greater tem perature than 96 degrees, a heat which is altogether insufllcient to destroy the germs of tuberculosis. DR. M'LEAN WAS KEEPING IT QUIET . "Who-told vo about thlsr mm Dr Ur ,L? ? , . , C T Mcfan, in state veterinarian, wnen " reporter asked, him. it-lh iafasoing' statements were not correct. Dr. McLean was very wrathy. "I have been keeping thla away from the news- : piipers, he said. i The reporter asked if the public had no rights in the premises which should j be respected, and if the fact that the I milk from diseased cattle was being sold ' for food should not be published as widely and emphatically as possible, i don't tl.niK consumption is readily irHiismilteii fnm cows to human beings," j said Dr. McLean. "Would you feed milk from these cows I to your children?" j "I would not." said the doctor. ! "lon't you think It is a most extraor- j dlnary condition of affairs that such a I ilisease should be rampant among dairy ' herds? And don't you think that state I otficials like yourself should have taken j measures to stop It when the first cora- i plaints were lodged?" "The Insp.'ctor's force is Inadequate." was ine it-pi. ... r- .j, "06 you-th'ink tnefe ts'ailjr earthly Jus tification for a cheese factory which bought and sold this milk after they had been warred that the cowa were prob ahly In a diseased and tubercular state?" "I do not think this would be right," said the doctor. KRUPP'S WILL The Widow Inherits All the Vast Estate. ; BERLIN. Nov. 24. The will of the late Herr Krupp. the noted gun manufacturer, I has been made known. All "of the lm-5-mense- property has " been Toft lo the widow and it is specified that the com pany shall neither be sold nor put Into stock within the next 25 years. KILLED INNOCENT GIRL. LANSING, Mich.. Nov. 24. At Che boygan yesterday Eva Featherstone was shot In the back and probably, fatally in jured. The girl Is but 16 years of age. She waa passing along the road when a party of five men In a wagon drove past her. 'One of them fired the shot that re sulted In a dangerous wound.'1 It la aj- SHEPARD LOOKS '. . ,.5. . ' ' f r f '. 'jr wt j J fit i. ' " t ' to.. NEW'TORK, Nov. 34. Edward M. Shepard's boom for the Democratic Presidential nomination of 1904 Is now being fairly launched. Mr. Shep ard, belongs 'to ;New York 8tale and was tbe unsuccessful candidate for mayor of th Empire city In the late municipal campaign. He is neverthe less reckoned a potent power In Democratic politics. COSTING Great Oil Fields of Boreslaw, Galicia, Became Ignited and Many Lives Sacrificed VIENNA, Nov. 24. One of the most wonderful and destructive pyrotechnic displays the world has ever known Is In progress here and millions of dollars worth of property lias already been consumed. Eighteen lives are known to have been lost and It Is very probable that many more will be sacrificed before the conflagra tion can posslblv he gotten under control. From an unknown cause the great oil wells at Boreslaw. Galicia. caught tire and millions of gallons of crude petroleum Is burning. Great storage tanks burst and scattered flaming oil for miles around. The blare mounted 800 feet Into the air and has been een 200 miles away. There is nothing that can be done to pre vent further spread and it seems probable that the entire district will be consumed. Negotiations Still Merrily On, Going Independent Operators Likely Come Into Line Statement by Wayne MacVeagh. to SCRANTON, Pa.. Nov. 24. Negotiations are still going on between the miners and their employers, in the coal fields, and there la hardly a doubt that amicable set tlement will be made before the 3d of next month, on which date the arbitration com mission is billed to again take up the work of hearing testimony." The Independent operators are still in sisting that a' decision must be made by the board,, but It now seems, more than merely possible that they will be won over to the side of the majority tefore the date named. Practically assured that they will obtain an increase In wages the miners are working with a will In the mines and Thanksglvnlg Day will Jlnd many a home with more to be thankful for than before in months. MACVEAGH S STATEMENT. PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 24. The lines along which peace is to be made in the coal neias ure given in aetail In a state ment from Wayne .MacVeagh, leading at torney for the coal operators. Thla state ment is published in several papers this morning and Is considered as being be yond doubt correct. It follows: "The parties on both sides were con testing every Inch of ground when the great railway corporations volunteered an advance of 10 per cent of the wages of their employes. "As soon as such an advance was an nounced, it seemed to be taken for granted th&l notwithstanding the advance made two. years ago, a like increase would now TO PRESIDENCY. i MILLIONS ! wages. being out of the way. there was a I general feeling In favor of trying to adjust l-Uie other -differences. " ' "While I' was srtil cross-examining Sir. j .Mltch'ejl, .L.WJM, jasj(g..tii meet him and Ij Tits' counsel in conference to make an ef j fort to reach some adjustment of an aml j cable nature. We discussed the matters in dispute on different occasions atid a-t i great length, and. at last, by the Invar iable assistance of E. B. Thomas, the presl- dent of the two companies I represent, ; the basis, as he thought, of a possible ad justment was reached, and when it was submitted to the other genelemn who. with Mr. Thomas, had signed the letter requesting the appointment of the oom- mission, they all concurred with Mr. i Thomas in approving it as a basis of negotiations. BOYS CAUGHT Those Who Defaced Walla Walla v School Detected. V (Journal Special Service.) WALLA WALLA. Nov. Otto Frank, coach of the High School football team. Bert Delaney, capttain of the eleven,-Will Coleman and Harvey Gilliam, all prominent young men of this city, ar.- 1 the ones who entered 'the Lincoln school building and tore from its place the ob jectionable name-plate. Frank was ar rested Saturday. It is not thought the boys will be prosecuted although feeling against them is Very strong among those who favored changing the name of the school. They will pay for substituting new letters for those they tore away. KILLED BY ROBBER. CINCINNATI. Nov. 24. Lying in a pool of blood the body of E. Saatkamp was found In tbe Ross-Meyer Tool Co.'s busi ness otflce last night. This Is the second murder that has occurred in the factory Inside of a few weeks. There Is no clue to tne criminal. i ne pocKets or saat kamp's c lothing had been rifled. SILVER STILL DROPS. WASHINGTON, Nov. . 24.-Euslness Is Still suffering greatly In the Philippines because of the unstable price of silver. A recent wire -states that a further de cline has ben announced and that $1 in gold will now purchase $2.60 In silver. Actfon bv ConerS" l mont nnlversnllv HAVANA H 1 HP Cartoonist Opper Speaks of Employer Thinks Newspaper Proprietor Would Surely Win If He Entered Race. D. Opper, known from ocean to ocean as one of the New York Journul-Chica-go Amorican-San Francisco Examiner staff of cartoonists, departed this morn ing for Sun, Francisco, where he will re main until January. He has been In Portland since Thursday. Mr. Opper came West from New York to spend his usual four months In the Examiner office in FriBco. This he has done for a num ber of years He has toured the North Coast States, and hus enjoyed himself. Mr. Opper has a way of enjoying himself wherever he Roes. He Is an American prince of tood f.-!ows. ..ESSL PJUWW." .Who-rgtnatdAiThlrfiW and Gaston, Is Dip's brother. Dip Is the Opper who was here. Dip la what his friends call hlmt , -.. .'...., .,;,;,. Dip Opper has a very distinguished brother, but 1 -himself one of lha clever est newspaper artist In the country. He Is under contract with W. R. Hearst for four year more, during which time he must devote himself to the papers ownea by the young man who haa shown the world something about new JouYnallsm. Opper Is much devoted personally to Mr. Hearst. He was queried regarding tha report that Hearst l8yo establish a morn, not discuss the subject further th n to say: "I am not Informed regarding the en terprise of which you speak. But I will say that were Mr. Hearst to establish a morning paper In Washington he would shake up matters Journalistic in the na tional capital. You may expect It will be such a newspaper aa never before waa issued In Washington." ABOUT HEARST'S CANDIDACY. Mr. Opper also waa asked regarding the impression that has gained prevalency that Mr. Hearst Is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presi dency In 1904. To this he repUed: "Mr. Hearst Is a man to keep his own counsel. I have heard of the matter dur ing the past few weeks. Let us presume he were a candidate. Do you believe that many would doubt he would make a cam paign such aa never before th- eountty I lias witnessed? Let me tell you where f trts-strmrfh "Would He would have the young men of the United States, who see In him the embodlmer(ttpf .Tweo.tle.tlk Century enterprise, and the very Incar nation of the spirit of the times, that per mits men to do and he things regardless of their age. Time waa that young men were compelled to wait. Nowadays, they need not wait, if they can prove their worth. I don't know anything about Mr. Hearst's plans. But I do know that with the young men and the laboring classes, who are enthusiastically with him, would constitute rather solid foundation upoa whloh to build a candidacy." RELIEVE THE STRAIN. WASHINGTON. Nov. 24. In view of the shooting at Guatemala City and the complications that are likely to follow Mr. Combs, recently appointed minister to that country, will be hurried from his home In Louisville to the scene as soon as possible. , Minister Hunter's connec tion with the shooting has placed him in .an .embarrassing position ... ,.s, . . .... IS WAR TO COME IN SOUTH AMERICA? The Colombians Invaded Venezuelan Territory, and Were Met and De feated No Declaration; : r WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. Bowen wired the state department thtajjmornlnir . from Caracas that the Colombians invaded VenesOT!aTm"Nevem15er W, and that alter advancing but a short distance across the line they were met and, defeated ort -'. the '19th. Their repulse was followed by a hurried retreat aeroes the border 1nt ; their own country. They have not been pursued. ," r " i This sews caused much comment here., It was not known that CotomjTa con- 1 tempiated an advance Into th territory of Its neighboring power and 'many 'still believe there is -some mistake. However..; It la, beliaved -that If the, st&tement Is ' true, nothing can prevent war between the two nations) as the fiery Castro will f at once lead an army Into Colombia. Both nations are about equally prepared for war and never before was the army of either stronger or better equipped. Wlthoitf doubt the recent Insurgent forces would at once flock to the standards of their re STREETS RUN WITH BLOOD 1115 1 III Police Can Do Nothing but Look On American Soldiers May Be Asked to Aid Patau to Restore Order There. 'ill HAVANA, Nov. 24. At 1 o'clock this) afternoon, In addition to Maeeo and th three others first reported killed, anothei captain, one Nontenant and two prlvater , - police and three atrlkers hava been killed X All parts of the city are not yet heard from, and It la probable the death list, will be added to. Small clashes are con 4 stantly occurring and the United States artillery la under arms In Ita barracks, ready for any emergency. j The main effort of the atrlkera . hmii ' to be to vent their spleen on American) ' -residents all over the city. Cries of "Down) Squires Is relying on the government' ability to trandle the rioters and ha taken no official actrdn a.,, yatw... It - vtutvrztSi" rumored this afternoon that the antU annexation element . Is . responsible- f oi the disturbances and H doing all posalble to foment' feeling against the Americans. ' " Squires declines to take ' this attitude. The shipping of the city la completely paralyzed and business la entirely aua-4 pended. HAVANA. Nov. 1'4. Bloodshed and riot ran rampant here this morning aa a re- I suit of labor disturbances because of the tobacco workers' strike. Thirty thousand , men who have been out for several' day ' began this morning by atoning several street cars and compelling them to return ' to the barn. Several American passen gers were dragged from the care and roughly handled, although none of them were seriously hurt. Later in the day the strikers began firing revolvers In different parts of the city and went about from place to place compelling the closing of business housea. They declared that if they could not work they would permit no one else to. Tbe police were called out In many Instances) but were able to accomplish but little. POLICEMAN KILLED. In a clash between the strikers and th police In one of the district of this city Captain Maceo, a nephew of General Maceo, was killed. The police then opened V fixe jD.nthe-jnoh.and the-iu-Uer was -force t to retreat after three of Ita 'members bad) been killed and several wounded. Wheit the uproar, was aj; Its hjebiht cry was raised . by ,,; t,te ; mp . to,-'mjft-f-the palace, "l'he strikers divided and a portion of them rushed toward the home of President Palma. The police charged ; them and drove the mob Into a aide street, preventing their getting to their destination. Had It not been for thla It1 ' ; is not known what would have been the result of the attack. Several police-. - ' men were knocked senseless by stones and brickbats. A large number of strikers were injured and carried away; by their comrades. WILL RESTORE ORDER. Minister Squires called at the palace) and Inquired what would be done to pro- tect American interests. To this Presl- dent Palma replied that the disorder would be stopped if it became necessary to kill the entire mob in order to restore) peace. Late this afternoon Palma sent a mes v sage to the Senate that It would be hn ; possible to continue the government With) 4 te.. present Cabine.; t " -.- -r.;!--t-y . .'.?'9M I