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i 1 1 r The prUa of The !!! Journal U Two Cents a Copy Jtlore than SOOO rojlt ar aoltl dallj a the crHU t cl. I'a 4 niorf , JOURNAL CIRCULATION YCSTKItOAT WAt ' Tb weather ralr and warmer toiiUht; Thurtdij fair. ' ' i VOL. VI II. NO. 172. PORTLAND,' OREGON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1008 SIXTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. " " 'r MMM-SWEEPS-SOUTH TROY. HUNDRED ;.. . rr rri , -r "WKKX tS ll mm urns J ' li . , : .1 New Orleans, Sept. 22. No less than 300 lives were lost and property valued at $10,000,000 was destroyed by the tidal wave that swept the coasts o Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, Monday and Tuesday. Almost every telegraph line running into this city is prostrated,. and , when commu nication with the outlvincr districts is restored the Jist pf casualties is certain to be increased For 25 miles the coast of Louisiana was swept by the . huge wave.xThe only means of com munication with the flood swept district. this mornm is by telephone, andnly a few of these are in workiner order". From-this source it is learned that the flood , was, one ofthe worst that has ever visited the gult coast, ana many resiaems. living, in inc pain oi me wave say. jne estimate oi w lives exacted by the storm is entirely too. low. ', ' . . - . . i EXPLORER COOK "DRESSED" DAMAGED BY A GALE Gulf States in Grip of Tre mendous Storm That Dev astates Outlying Sections Crops Badly Damaged Resorts Destroyed. (Special DUpateb to Th Journal.) Louisville, Ky.. Sept. 22. Sweep ing north at a terrific rate the hur- - ricane which devastated the Gulf coast -aaAJeft a trail -&fc.fteelt and ruin through four states, continues on its course with unabated fury. Of the ruin, that It has wrought no one can give an estimate. In New ;pr leang alone , five are known to be dead 'and 11.000.600 will nt repair the dam age done to the creaoent city. It la said that plate glass alone will cost 100.000 to replace. v. " Many Art ZKJst. ' ; From" the little summer" colonies on the Ivoulsiana and MisstsaTppl gulf poast come cague tali-s of frightful devasta. tlon. and fears that many lives hav been lost The wealthy summer tour ists who own pleasure craft are wont to spend their time upon them, and it is possible that many have been lost. Biloxl. the mecca of the wealthy 1 still isolated, and its fate is unknown Jackson. Miss., the capital of the stato, is stlM cut off from tifp coast poluta. The dome of the new capitor at Jackson was wrecked and the old capitol un roofed. The streets were a tangle of live wires and the fallen trees and de bris made the hiRhways impassable. At Vicksburg. two vessels were sunk and a third was driven ashore. Their passengers were rescued. One vessel lies across the channel and has blocked navigation. . From Mobile come Ihe tidings that trie steamer .Pleasure nay is missing, and the people hope that It has been driven ashore and its passengers saved. - How many "are on board is not known. In the harbor of Pascagoula and , Bayou, St. Louis, many slips are empty, and the torn moorings tell of the fury of the wind and waves, bathhouses, pa vilions, yacht slips and pleasure re sorts that were nightly brilliantly il luminated and the rendezvous for those who sought relaxation and amusement upon the famous gulf coast are washed away, and not a timber remains to mark their locations. New Orleans, via Hatttesburg, Miss. (Special) The tropical hurricane which yesterday swept the gulf coast of Louis iana and Mississippi caused the death of five persons and a property loss of perhaps more than $1,000,000. New Or leans was practically shut out from communication with the outside world for 24 hours.. . . .. Fasseng-srs Walk. Details of tha reported Inundation of sections of. Placquemlne and St. Ber nard parishes are still lacking. Fifteen young men who were among the pas sengers on the Louisville & Nashville train Which has been tied up at Chef Menteur. la., ror so hours, left that place at daybreak this morning and started for New Orleans alonsthetrark of the railroads' Ffr seveifmiles they fought their wav against heavy odds and were forced to wade snd swim across several washouts. They re ported tnat over 400 passengers are still tied up at Chef Menteur, without anything to eat. Sfaa and Child KlUed, At Prair, La., a man with his child was Killed when . the house collapsed durlsg, the storm. ; Another family of four were drowned and great damage . done to sugar crops, estimated at over 11.000.000. Two were killed at Jackson. Miss., and many buildings blown down and un roofed. Few persons closed their eyes during the night and when- morning came they found the streets strewn with trees and otner debris. At Gulf port. Miss., the waves came over the mammoth pier, doing much damage. ' Several lives reported lost there. LIVES SACRIFICED XSV PKOPERTV IS ' GREATLY DAMAGED 1 mi i f..-.. n - ' zrA llV V IS I tt is s s" i. -V - -"W i-v l. v. -WAMstfsr- - i X Sett DAIRIES : ) ;. ' .. r Attorney General Cravford Gires Opinion .Tiiat ix)m missioner Is Responsible for the Existing Condi tions Board to Act. Dairy Commissioner J. W,7 Bailey's attitude of negligent Indifference toward the ' Inferior and unclean milk supply of Portland and the consequent designation off his office as a menace to the health of the people will beeoifie tb ' subject for consideration by the stats board of health at Its meeting September 28. That It Is the obligation of the Bafry commissioner to take such acnoa in regard to the sanitation of dairies an I the health of dairy cows that milk will tut nure la the onlnlon of Attorney Gen eral A M. Crawford. Commissioner Bailey stated at the beginning of the present campaign for pure milk that the state board of health alone had the fower to act, that it was possible for hat body to right existing conditions, and that It could do so In 15 minutes if It honestly deslred,s.w ., . Attorney Oensral's Opinion. But the attorney general differs ral lcally with' the dairy commissioner. In an opinion rendered by him yesterday he. said . , '1 take It that it Is the duty of the state dairy and- food, commissioner to prevent the sale of Impure milk .without an ortier 'from the state board of health, the same as It is the duty of any other nfflcia.1 to .orosecute his functions with- i out Interference from some state board the duties of which are as closely re. latei to his duties as the duties of the PRESIDENT TAFTS. SMILE t ; a I V -yif sy ,s y i.. , tJi -V .' -'VI . ill 'III i., II I - a f vr-, Mill V' III BOURNE BACK PRESW '- 'y ' Senator From Oregon :Rays Chief Executive to Make Lonpfer Stay in Portland Than in Any Other City. on Itinerary but One. LEG CUT OFF II II t- The oeart Ihe 'president fUVivJ& , the better iJoased he la. -.Here is. the chief. executive of: the nation applanditut a'westtvra basfc- state board or Realm are to tne auuea i mi ffamc 1'Iip cumrni tnnn ranirh) lifA. I., th o.t r nf th' flairv commissioner." However: I " ; " . ' : "There i no statute," says the attor nev eencral. "eivine the state board of neaitn lurisaiction over me tace ioua and dairy commissioner, and the board has no authority over him, except in so far as their official duties take them. Of fomirse. if the state dairv and food commissioner became a menace to the health and safety of the community. It would then become the duty of the state board of health to abate him. State Board Will Act. For no less reason than a great desire to conserve the health of the Deople In Portland, to protect the babies against aeatll, to rmse ine January safeguards of our city to the level of other cities in tnis mauer. oeciareu Dr. Robert C. Yenney, secretary of the board, alter reading Attorney General Crawford's opinion. "As the attorney general says, continued ur. i enney. Clarence Ferris Perhaps Fatally 'Injured in Wreck Oregon City Line at Foot of Tenino'Avenue Motormon Runs Freight Into Red Block. on In a collision this morning between a "the obligation to and responsibility for freight train and two empty passenger keeping the dairies of this state In afQ. . . . y , lawful condition devolves primarily cars at the foot of Tenlno avenue. Sell nnon the darv commissioner. It was I wood, Clarence Ferris, a helner In the Tor such a purpose his orrice was ere- i x-uruano rtanway, Lrgnt & fower com- ated . It is for mis aervuee,., mat, ino t1"' B oenwood Darn, lost Ills right leg. taxpayers give him remuneration It I The two passenger cars were badly de- Is to aid mm in nls worK tnat special niunnnea dui tne ireignt train escaped funds are apportioned and deputies ap- without a scratch. pointed. The collision occurred at 9 o"dock on Auchorltv la Extreme Cases. tn? mal" Une to Oregon City and for . , ..7..Tr.Ko. ..!! .,.... nearly three hours the wreck made It I lie 1H.W ifuus 1'iaiiii i ixai a t-a m i nAoosnarv a tvMifn eain o.n board ot health shall exercise a super- wood 1)nc from Gof , , k vlsory function over Vie people of 'the I Traffic Manager F. D. Hunt, after a per- is empowered to aci inex- sonal lnvestimtion ttrih,.t th. i yi it talra a 1 1 - h radla 1 I t i - v ' ' v tlltp It treme cases, and to taite such radical llsion to fanur, on tne nart f Motor. tion that evil conaitions win oe man e Know of tii freight tVoi rightei. , , A. observe the red block at the Golf Link li is now nr -'-'" junction wntch shouM haVK wrnrH him . , I ... . I .i , m IV .nnti 1 if i . .. - gl tCali yii Vmm4 Wlra. New OrWna. Pept. II. In this city atone tea city blocks sr nndtr watrr mi the property los will run Into th thmmtnds. Brorea of lives It Is almost certain wr lost, but mljr a houtw to nous canvass will rwveoj an aeeurat list of t h raaraslltleia. Teeterdsy'S reprta had J V1 In tMa rlty lone.-hut It la frM that this numher will be greaily lmr- iy f tv1r revelatlnrs. Rfu irrlTlnn rtere'fMlay from tfe fifhwt ro t tit lyulritna My wr sweftt th rt frnrn Orand I!n4 wi the wt f Vrrmllllmt pae feh. T are fMtlctlni; that at lt Thla snapshot picture of Kxplort r Cook was taken when he landed at Copenhagen and was subsequently arrayed in "store clothes.". MASSACRE AT KIEF CONFIRMED DESPITE . "OFFICIAL" DENIALS aro u v, 1 ' . il lrm proceeding untl the approaching ven this city is su .'h ia i to render it .a cttrs had passed. Klmer Carver, con enace to the. health of the people, ductor of the frcieht. was at th. rPar r ords show that it Is a reaiised men- the lA car ,on ,ran wh t, ,.ollialt,n 'Tib startline returns from th (vnirr.j Record a cp city health office prove that more than hundred helpless Infants died I n The empty cars were being brought " from the Water and Hawthorne avenue . . . , . 1 . . . . .. . n . L. fortiano aunni . . r ou.u.u. m..1- aepot to the barns for repairs and were because of hatf milk. JnPon' J In charge of G. O. Glenn, one of the dairies, in which the state board of barn men. Ferris was along to assist health has concurred, shows their con- Both were on the front nlatfnrm r.H : (tTntted Pres Leased Wire.) Berlin. Bept. 12. Not since the great massacre at Klshlneff In 1903 has the German press -been so aroused over an kntl-Jewfsh outrage as It is todav over the reports of the terrible massarre at Kief and' Its suburb, Solotnko, coupled with the frantic efforts of the Russian government to suppress th news. The official news agency of Russia, which Is controlled by the government and sends out such matter as is given official sanction. Is today denying the reports of the msssacre. but the special correspondents of the great Berlin news-, paper and of the United Press confirm the reports. . The Berlin Africa of. the United Press was the onlv sgency' which Sent an ac count of the massacre' to the fnlted States yesterday. The Berlin papers today are filled with long accounts of the horrible slaughter and merciless tor- tllt. a , t t m it 1 1 1 n inn nt ,h. tutl.a t i. ih.i n.i.h.r ..-. hock to th oftlce of the dairy com mis rhllrtren il'pr. anarnl an Ih.t n..n- SlUl.T. n1 tl US we get narK to the dition to be unsanitary and positively fl'thy In many Instances. The methods uteri In hBndllns the milk. even, are conducive to Impurity and unclanness. Many Tsars Hotbina; Doss. "On the other hand, reeords show that the state dairv and food comtnls sfon-r has been in office 12 years. Out In the stats he is round to e Known principally for his political activity and political speeches. In Portland he Is known, where known, as a tolerator of unseemly conditions. Yet It Is found that whenever effort Is made to clean up the dairies, the reformer Is referred Glenn managed to Jump before the lm pact. Ferris followed but his right leg got caught in the wreckage. The mem- Der was torn off completely below the knee and when Robert Conners, the first rescuer to arriv. reached the scene, Fer ris was hanging by the leg with his head oil the ground. He begged to be put out of the misery. Conners with the assistance of another man. cut the over alls by which Ferris was being held prisoner to the wreck and Charles R. Spencer of the Portland Tool Works hurried the man In his automobile to the Sellwood hospital. Ferris, who is about 35 years of age, is single and It Is believed he will recover. The freight train, bound for the cltv. Was backed by 1 wood laden cars and when it crashed Into the light passenger cars, the platforms of the latter were ground into splinters. Glenn and Ferris would have been killed - Instantly had they remained at their post. Traffic Manager Hunt said tiiat the freight train should have tnnn.ii at Golf Link junction, Motorman Snow, he said having practically admitted that he passed the red block. The red light was still visible after the accident, so Mr. Hunt stated. It was also seen by Mounted Patrolman L. M. Ackerman. GERMANY LOOKING FOR A FIGHT. SAYS LORD NORTHCLIFFE tTolted Prew Leased Wire San Francisco. Sept. 22. According to killed outright.' while hundred's j Initial premise that the office of dairy Lord Northcllffe (Alfred Harmswnut). we know the vessels she Is bulhiirij. are designed either fur commerce destrnv Ing purposes or for us clos- ;o home waters. Jonathan Bourne Jr., senior sen ator for Oregon, is in Portland. Without previous notice, except to his hotel and one or two of his close friends, the senator slipped Into the city at noon today and this afternoon is beginning to make preparations for his entertainment of President Taft when the executive of the na tion shall spend two days in the city. Senator Bourne returns to Portland browned by the sun of Washington, but still full of Oregon enthusiasm and glad to get back to his own state. He .says that he has not inuch .to say except that he is glad to return to his home for a month's visit.-.. At the same time he feels that he must complete his visit here as soon a possible and return to. hlH official duties in Washington, which he dropped in oroer to oe in rortitvna ana aid tne state in the entertainment of President Taft during his stay in Portland. . ' Taft Has Kad Good. ..f . ; Senator Bonrrni 'itr1. his' dtocussion'oil events In the national capital holds to the opinion that President Taft bv his attitude on the tariff, has made . good with the people of the- nation, and that his future course wlal add still more to his favor with the people of the country. The enactment of ths corporation tax, through the suggestion of ' the presi dent, the submission of a constitutional amendment providing for a net Income . tax and the provision for thw collec tion of tariff data by presidential ap pointees are the three great things which president Taft has accomplished so far during his place at the head of the government," according to Senator ' Bourne. These things, when they are fully recogniied by the people at large, will show that President. Taft is a statesman of high order and that he is sincere in his desire to do that which is for the best interests of the people. Conrressio&al Appropriations. Senator Bourne in his chairmanship of the ne- committee ,or the coord I n- minis ui miiiMciai mailers oi congress sees a reorganization in the conduct of ' rtpropriations to be made by congress" In the future. He believes that the ! evolution of the committee of which he Is chairman will bring all the appro- ' priation matters under the direction'': of this one committee and thus work; out a great reform In the monetary leg. islation of congress. At thp present time the approprla- -tlons of congress exceed the Income of the nation by $200,000,000 and this . startling situation haa to be met by the next and succeeding sessions of con gress. This work will be one of the great tasks set for the present sdmln. Istratlon. Senator Bourne will remain In Port land until about the middle of October. '-' , He is due In Washington October IS. - to begin once more the work of Col lecting the data for t!ie guidance of his committee. The senator was met at ' i' The Dalles by Postmaster John C. Young . and C. B. Merrick. He was met at the ' depot by Assistant Postmaster William son. J. Frank Sinnot, Frederick V. Hol-' man and several other friends. He was accompanied by his privte secretary. A. -W. Prescott. Olad to Oet Back. ' In discussing his homecoming Senator '"' ' Bourne said: "U was with considerable regret that.' I left Washington to come to Oregon '. at this time, for I felt that my official duties require my presence there. As , chairman of the sub-committee on pub lic expenditures. I have been endeavor ing to gat her aprpiete" data upon the . subject of revenues and expenditure"! ' and upon governmental business moth- ' ods. so that the Information would be (Continued on Page Two.) were wounded and tortured. The re- commissioner was originally created to owner of the London Times and Mober- Ve have the (;, , ports say the houses of the Jews were ?J w.,th Jl1"1 ,ma' V .a, . . "' 'or vears the managing editor larailon thll oT-rmanT-s fnn.r? .. sacked and demolished, their pmperty "It Is apparent, therefore tsat the f th. Thunderer." who aVi , v X?r w Uve Thfar t thai t ." X ' snd personal be lontrines belna destroyed I r Krancl.cn after a trln trm rw.i....i .V lw p"ni1 When the massacre was at Its hefaht tContlnued on Page inree.) ...r b,lm(n r,-. b. Tain .nH : , U . nLvL "u "! i i i . . " i iiiiiu.Mirp jim inarifia. ann the mob seemed directed onfy by fren- Bled desire ror blood and destruction. Only nine of the rioters have been ar rested, and It !s evident the authorities condoned the ontrane. . It was announced today that promi nent Jews 'of Berlin will imii a protest direct to the csar. WILL FKEE -TUtKLEY , BY PAllOLli ROUTE (Costlneed rare Three.? (raited PTtaai Laaaed Sacramento, CaL. 8ept. SI. Oovemor Oil let t today rommuted the sentence nf William Buckley, convicted In Dan Franclse r the murder or teorce Rice OTV October ll, o, and sentenced lo hang, to IS years Imprisonment, with tb -dew to si Tina the man aa Immediate parol. Buckley will h pardoaexi at the end xf two years If he baa made good on bis parol. Tne claim or attorne- Frank Murphy that fhlna.- .Opelan4 actually committed the murder was aua'alned by th gwernor. AHhmiaii failett Vvellwaai Buckley was aaj a-romplic. ttr doea aot thina ft a tr nqrderer pm! Mllafr tilmaf K till artre BwHtler rhanee ta Ufa by way ef the tartl system. . I THIEVES MAKE BIG HAUL AT TilEDFORD Medford, Or., Kept. JJ. The largest robbery In the htalory of V-dford took fAaft last nlaht when the Iewl Kent fter department store was en t -red and gnods te the rslue of 1 1 atnien. Amn( the. groats take were eight suits of elothea. 2 pairs of shoes and a ili4n ulieavoea. No clues have lw-en found of th god or roLhera l.t week Mr. KeBtner'e reaHenr tfl Mefnrd wa deet rored Kr fire. Mm dav Ma t, rn h r tract fr Iceland was. destroyed by a forest Ore GET THE "Swap" Habit READ THE Exchange Ads OFTHECLASSIFIED PAGES TODAY MANY Offer to "sw ap" article?. They may be iut what you've been looking; for. PHONE YOUR ADS MAIN 7173 A-6051 ia ofnun 10 uka pmc in the near fu- - that th mn-t mr-iv i ..i " turo. In prta k ifir nf this nr whirK ka i u-i.am k u . ; ' an . . '. believes Is Inevitable. Lord Northcllffe I face of these facts I fear that an" op! t tlmism Is foolish." . "V . "r.,"""w lnBl I woneriy wen expressed himself much Oermany has declined to discuss her In the same strain as did his chief. He r . ,,1? """ nni an ner ( concluried hv saving shipbuilding yards are engaged In naval , I do not think thre Is anv doubt construction that lOO.OO men are j thai there will he a ar hetaeen Oer- -... Ir,a m-orcK oi manv ann ".real Mr i lain hrt ore long her leiartlng reen and writers make no I j do not believe that much nopular "ft or her Intentions. We knom- j haired of Knaland exists amone the that she has on previous nocaslons made i iermans at tres..nt, but the German unprovoked attacka on other natl na inj I emperor Is a source of dancer" YAKI)r. VALLEY TO F.SE TRADEMARK SarUI Ptapatr TV. i. NVth Tsklma, Wash.. Set IXSTITt TE IiERKKAH LODGE AT fAIJSOX FOUR PASS UNDER' IHE GUILlOriflE ; Crowd Cheers as Heads of . Torturers and Mur- , derers Fall. (Stwrtal t1.,(cB tn TV. Joartval I White Salmon. -Wash.. Rert. movement Is mi foot to adopt a trn i Ooodwill R.tvkih lode of While 81 mara i'r u ma niint iffMrf u- mm last nlaht Instituted a lexle at emblem Tera r the Taklma- Carson with 14 charier member a. and JZ?t'c?ZF p. of ofHcera. ner every tetumi e-hall uM this aen-1 Mr" IVra Orerbaugh of thla place was era I tr4 na r It t ta be a feature rrf ! srwlal deputy grand aiaatef and 1J letterbearta and ea re I ope mr, e err j members er the White Kalmon l,Me ekaaT ef ftsjlt r mfcr rrrwlurt that) arenmpasied her to Ctrann and anaistef g"" t will beer tkla lewi W her-! In the oereainaieav Not lone aae tha r.r tSe ia has beeu ruggeaied It nasj MKtte rthnoa team Inatltnte a larae Met with favwr . VwJge of Rebekaha at flierenaoit. (Cntted Preaa Leased Wa.) Valence. Kranee. rW-pC li. Aa1Ha of 1 1 brutal maralera fer mbery, lierre Berfuyer. Uoula Pavld a4 . Iuclan BfTinler, three of t Ky. "t'tur chauffeura of the I r.me." war gum. j 'As the heads of the murderers rMl nf l!.e basket the clUS-eia rhrw. The men pawamt jata ailih te -other en Ihe way to the a-aff,d 1 displayed the almost er)e h t exocMtinnera nude trial kneel ar4 .lra their heada t the fcix k enflrr l Uad. The nardcra for whU k Ihe paid t Pervalty ahelu-d Ihe Wr4e of t'rmtt 1 -p..fi that dierefiery f the trf!..a f mrd f the rt'tiras l fi if. they h4 afl hea IitMi l.,r.d t. fre ne . ajm-eeweai Ml r.i .. safferlsga ky kn.:rg IUa i 1