PIN«INDORSED
Irrigation Congress Upholds His
Forestry Policies.
IS C0NCESH3N TO HIS CRITICS
Work of Government Bureau* De*
veluplng Wait Approved Timber
and Slone Law Indorsed.
Albuquerque, N. M , Oct. I.—The
alruggle in the National Irrigation
Cong re»» between the supporter» and
opponents of the present government
forestry policy resulted in a sweeping
victory for the friends of Chief For
ester INnchot yesterday. With a few
recommendations for change in the
f<irg»t regulations the congress adopt
ed resolutions indorsing the forest
service as well as other government
bureaus conceived in the work of de
velopment amt reclamation. It also
t<a>k advanced ground in favor of
conservation of natural, resources in
general.
‘I be resolution* give sweeping in
dotsement tn the work of the reel*
■nation service, the forest service and
the geological survey and Uige on
congress continued support and in
creased appropriations for all of these
bureaus, urge the repeal of the tim
ber and stone act. "to the end that
tile accumulation of the public land»
in the hands of a few great corpora
tions may be arrested"; urge the
speedy creation of the southern Ap
palachian and White mountain na
tional forests; ask congress for an
adequate appropriation for the use of
rhe hydrographical division of the
geologual survey to determine by ex
periment and measurement and obser
vation the practical effects of grazing
and lumbering on the supply of water
for irrigation and on the erosion of
the soil and that such investigation
extend over the various watersheds,
both hi and out of the national forests
and that such investigation be prose
cuted simultaneously throughout all
the states and territories of the arid
and semi-arid weal “
A strong resolution against free
»Ogar is included also resolutions for
the creation of immigration bureaus
by the western states and territories;
requesting co operation with the na-
liuual conservation cumiuissiun, a
conservation committee of the irrig*
tion congress being authorized; urg
ing that the Carey act be made ap
plicable to the territories; indorsing
the movement to hold a session of the
congress in Washington in 1910, to
be known as an international congress
-on irrigation, and asking appropria
tions from the state and the federal
governments for this congress; and
authorizing the present congress to
anpoint a committee of five, to be
known as the congressional commit
tee, charged with the duty of urging j
the Wconunendations of the irrigation |
congress_____________ __
PERMIT NO SHORE LEAVE.
Admiral Sparry Decides to Run No
Risk of Cholera Infection.
Manila, Oct
3 — Rear-Admiral
Sperry has finally decided not to land
any men hrre and to maintain a prac
tical quarantine of the ships during
their stay Admiral Sperry discussed
the question with Governor-General
Smith this morning, and the above
artion was detrrmined upon.
There arc still several new cases of
chidera daily, and it was decided that
it would be safest and best not to take
anv chances of its spreading tn the
fleet. The officers will be allowed
brief shore liberty under close restric
tions.
I‘<>rtv steamers and launches, gaily
decorated, paraded today around the
outer lines in which the fleet is an
chored Governor General Smith and
Brigadier-General A 1. Mills, uccom
fianird bv their staff, and Ir.mk
Strong, chairman of the general re
ception committee, boarded the flag
ship Connecticut and spent a half hour
with Rear-Admiral Sperry Rear Ad
miral Sperry returned their call later
in the day.
Harriman Orders New Car*.
Chicago, Oct 3.—It was announced
here yesterday that the Pullman Car
company will begin delivering an or
der for 330 steel passenger cars for
the Harriman lines within r>n days.
The order is but a starter of orders
that are to be placed for steel cars bv
all the big railroad lines, it js stated
The adoption of the steel ears was de
cided upon after a long series of ex
periments conducted by the Harriman
lines The cars are to be steel shells
with but very little wood in their con
struction.
Order* Mammoth Painting.
New York. Oct. 3.—A prominent
firm of scenic artists has received an
order from the United States govern
ment for the execution of an enor
mous cyclorama for the Alaska-
Yukon-Pacific exhibition at Seattle
The contract calls for a picture on 30,.
turn square feet of canvas, represent
ing mountain scenery of Alaska
There will be besides, minor views of
Crater fake, Or. studies from the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado and
Yellowstone Park.________
,
Hola Inch Deep Burned.
San Francisco, Oct. 3.—While sit
ting at the receiving instrument of
the wireless telegraph station on Rus
sian Hill yesterday. I,. T. Crow, an
operator, received a shock of electric
ity that burned a hole an inch deep in
the marble top of the table on which
the instrument was resting. Crow es
caped with slight injury, and esti
mated that 30,000 volts passed throngh
hi* body.
SPOKANE NEYT YEAR.
CAR JUMPS TRACK.
Washington City Secures Meeting ot
Irrigation Conge***.
Albuquerque, N. M , Oct. fl__ Hpukane |
wa* selin-ted aa the meeting place for *
the aevenlxeutk aatioual irrigation eon
APPEALS GUARANTEE CASE.
great, al the close of the sixteenth eou
gresa Saturday. I’uidlo withdrew at
Oklahoma Bank Will Teat Validity in
the Inst moment, and the vote *>* nude
Highest Court.
unaninmn*.
Washington, Oct. 3.—The appeal of
The new governing board of the son
gresa, created by this meeting, was the Noble Slate llauk of Oklahoma
elected Hnturday at a meeting of the from the decision of the supreme
«Iveutive cuiamittoe. This board has court of that state in the proceeding
full powers to manage the affair* ut of the bank, which wa* instituted to
the congress and to continue its work test the Constitutionality of the Okla
homa bank guarantee law. ha* been
between sessions. The members are:
1‘residsnt, U. H, Barstow, of Texas; docketed in the supreme court of the
ssaretarv, B. A. Fowler, of Arixona; United State*. Governor Haskell, as
W. A. Beard, of California, chairman chairman of the state banking board,
of the executive eoinmlttee, and Fred
J. Kissel, of Utah; l»r W. J. McGee, of is made the principal defendant. The
Washington, D. C; John Dixon, of Case originated in the I.ogan county
Montana, and one other member, who district court, of Oklahoma, which
is to be selected by the board.
court sustained a demurrer and re
The closing session was made inter
eatiug by a strong address by Congress fused to grant the injunction asked for
man Joseph E Knusdcll, of Louisiana, by the hank The case was appealed
president of the national rivers and to the supreme court of the state,
harbors congress, who urged coopers where the decision of the county
tion between bis organisation and the
court was affirmed. The stale su
nat seal irrigation congress.
That an International congress will preme court held that the law was
be held at some one of the Mouth Amer I contrary neither to the federal nor
lean capital* in 191» is now fairly as the «tale constitution.
sured, sitbough the matter will not be
The court will be asked to advance
determined uutil the congress meets in the case to the docket, but it is doubt
190$.
ful if it can be heard before the No
The industrial exposition will eon veuiber election.
tinue until October 1U. Between *15,
Ihm nod $20,0110 in trophies and prises
ROADS BROKE PROMISE.
will he awarded at the close of the ex
position.
Commission Surprised "by ^.Injunction
Suit at St: Paul.
RUNS ON TIES.
Washington, Oet. 0.—Considerable
Fast Passenger Makqa1 Mile a Minute surprise wa* expressed at the interstate
Without Had*.
I e.ommeree commission today when news
Chicago, Oct 3. Passenger* on the - wa* received that the Hill aad llarri
I.ukc Snore Twentieth Century Lim man railroads hail gone into the eireuit
ited thought they were taking break court at Mt. Paul and asked that the
fast m a wreck a* the tender trucks
of the giant locomotive hauling the commission I m - enjoined from enforcing
fast tram left the track« a half mile its near rates on lumber shipped from
west of Gary at a A. M yesterday Oregon and Washington to territory east
For a mile the wheel* of the tender of the Rocky mountains. The rates
bumped over the tie*, while the en
gineer »ought to halt the flyer, speed fixed by the commission wore toohave
ing to Chicago at the rate of SO miles gone into effect in August, but late in
an hour
The dining car and the July the railroad* asked for an exton
smoker also left the rail*
sion of time, declaring it to be imp«»
For what seemed to the passenger*
slide
to prepare and publish new ached
three or (our minutes the train dashed
ahead, hut with slackening speed Af ulcs by the time stipulated.
They promiaed. if the extenaion was
ter about a mile it was brought to a
stop and it was found that no one was granted, to accept the commission'a
injured At the point Where the ac I rates and put them into effect on Oeto
cident occurred the track* of the Lake I er 15; and, furthermore, promised that
Shore are elevated *o that an embank if thia extenaion was granted they
ment of eight or ten feet descending would not g<> into Court and undertake
on either side promised a dangerous to have rate* enjoined.
It la reported unofficially, however,
piling* if the bouncing car* left the
that these roads, contrary to their prom
rail*.
The airbrake on the diner, loosened ise, have appealed to the eireuit court
from it* fastenings, fell to the ground for the eighth eireuit at Mt Paul for
This derailed the diner, the smoker an injunction against the commission,
an<l the tender. An angle-bar of the and there is no poeaibilitv of a decision
track was uprooted and tore through lefore the date when the compromise
the floor of the diner, causing a panic rates were to have gone intv effect.
among the passenger* at breakfast.
New Quartermaster at Portland.
Washington, Oet. 1.—Captain Ira L.
WRIGHT'S LATEST WONDER.
Fredeahall. quartermaster, will proceed
to Portland. Or . and assume charge of
Best* World"» Record With Passenger the office of disbursing quartermaster
on Board.
at that place, and will also report to
Lc Mane. Oct. 4 W’lthur Wright, the the commanding general, department of
American aeroplanist, who hold* the the Columbia, for duty aa assistant to
world ’» record for an aeroplane flight, the chief quartermaster of that depart
established another world's record yee ment, relieving Captain Henry Clark.
terday afternoon for the time and die Captain Clark upon lieing relieved will
tanee with a passenger. With a French proceed to Fort Ward, Washington, and
journalist by hi* side, ht> remained in assume charge of construction work at
the nir for 53 minutes and 37 seconds, that post.
circling the field 24 times and covering
Resume Silver Coinage.
n distance estimated at 53 kilometers,
or about 36 miles. His best previous
Washington, Oct 3—Director of
flight with a passenger was 11 minutes the Mint l.each has announced that
35 2 5 seconds.
the government will resume the pur
Bv his font Mr. Wright practically chase of silver for subsidiary coin
fulfills the conditions of n contract age thia week
The announcement
sgned bv him and Lazaro Weiller, who says that 125.UOO ounces will be pur
represents a syndicate, whereby Mr. chased each week for an indefinite
Wright receives »100,00(1, and the svn period The director of the mint ex
dicate takes in return the patent rights pect* a strong demand for dollars and
of the Wright machine for France and smaller coins as soon a« the cotton
the colonies, with the privilege of man cron begin* to move and is prepar
ufneturing aeroplanes on this model.
ing for it.
The sun was setting "When Mr. Wright
and his passenger started, and the
Legillation Against Opium.
flight was completed in the moonlight.
Washington. Oet. 7.— Renewed efforts
When they alighted, the French jour
nalist in his enthusiasm threw his arms are tn be made at the coming session
around Mr. Wright's neck, ami the of congress, which will receive the
great crowd of spectators was hardly hearty indorsement of the administra
less demonstrative in its manifestations tion, to secure legislation to restrict
of delight.
tho 'importation of opium into the
United State*. Dr. Hamilton Wright,
Sun for Timber Value.
one of the American commissioners to
San Francisco, Oct. 5. Suit for the tho International Opium convention at
Shanghai next January, left Washing
recovery of $8174.87, said to ba the ton yesterday for the’ West, prepara
value of timber cut from the govern tory to sailing to China, October 20.
ment lands allotted to the Indians of
the Klaninth tribe and sold by the In
Cholera Case* in Manila.
diana t<> the defendant corporation was
Washington, Oct. 2. -0ovornor-0*n:
filed hv the government attorneys hero oral Smith, of the Philippines. Ims tele
Saturday against the Klamath Mill A graphed the war department that there
Tran»|>ortation company. In a similar wore 14 new cases of cholera during
suit some years ago United States Pls the 24 hours ending nt 8 o’clock Tues
trie! Judge DeHaven held that the Tn lav morning and 12 cases for the 24
dians had no right to sell timber off hours ended nt 8 a. m. Wednesday.
their allotments unless the proceeds of From 8 o'clock Wednesday morning un
such sale went to the government.
til 5 p. m. there were sevon case*.
Miner* Accept Old Scale.
Wheeling, W. Va., Oct. 5. President
Thomas L. Lewis, of the United Mine
Workers of America, stated yesterday
that tho operators and miners of Mon
tana and Wyoming have signed an
agreement for wages on tho basis of
last year's eeale. ami that 12,000 men,
who have been idle sinee September 1,
will now return to work. He says a
meeting of operators and miner* will be
hold next Tuesday at Seattle, Wash., to
agree upon a scale for that state.
Central America Sand* Gold.
Snn Francisco, Oct. fl__ The mines of
Salvador and Mexico have contributed
»108,508.70 to the wealth of thia conn
try in tho form of gold and silver bul
lion. It came up in the treasure vault
of the Paeifie Mail steamship Newport.
Half comes from the Rutters gold mine
In Salvador, the remainder from widely
known mines baek of Mazatlan. It la
thi largest amount of treasure brought
from the southern coast in one consign
ment in month*.
Six Men Killetfan^ Six Other* Injured
Near Scappoose.
Portland, Oct.’ 3 —Six men killed
. and six injured. ■ ‘that wa* th* toil
claimed by a sudden shower of rain
which wet the track* on a sleep »pur
War Department Expact* Powder Will of the Portland St Southwestern Log-
gmg railway, just a* a construction
Revolutionize Warfare.
train wa* nearing the summit of a
Washington, Oct. 1—The war depart bill at a point eight miles north and
ment i* demonstrating at Handy Hook i west of Scappoose, early yesterday
! afternoon.
proving grounds, New York, with a eom
Five men. in charge of the train
lunation of powder and projective that 1 and crew, were on the locomotive.
promises an effective fighting range of I These escaped. Twelve men were on
from 50 to 75 per eent greater than any the one gravel car which was being
liflshed uphill by the locomotive when
at the command of any other army of
the runaway occurred. Not one of
tho world. The powder used io the ex these men got away unhurt. They
periments in dunnite, an invention of clung to the car as it swept back down
Lieutenant-Colonel Beverly Dunn. It the hill and jumped the track at a
sharp curve
Three of them were
ha* ■■ explosive power IS per eent
greater than that of any known powder, killed outright, two more died while
including the Japanese shimose powder. bemif taken to Scappoose, and an
other died after being brought to the
The ordinary shell or projectile uaed Good Samaritan hospital at Portland.
by tiie army has been elongated so ax
None of the unfortunate 12 had
to lessen the air resistance and other
seemed really to understand their
Wiw shaped to receive the full force of danger until their car had leaped the
the powder explosion.
track and death and destruction were
The preliminary test* at Sandy Hook in their midst. The locomotive went
have shown that the new projectiles
around the curve easily. The car fol
have an extreme range of from 50 to 60 lowed. but just as it swung clear the
par cent more than the old projectiles. momentum slouched it aside. The
In combination with the new powder
pm which held it to the locomotive
the now projectile has an extreme range snapped and the big engine continued
of from SO to 75 per cent more than the its mad flight on the tracks to the
old projectile*.
bottom of the grade, where it stopped
A* the extreme range of the projee on an uphill stretch.
tile* heretofore used by the army has
been as great a* that of any other army |
PEARY OFF FOR POLAR SEA.
in tho world, the now discovery give* to
this country a fighting weapon effective
at far greater range than that of any j 8taamer ¡Erik Return* With J Latest
»thrr army.
New* of Explorer.
The extreme range of a shell is a mile
St. Johns, N. F., Oct. 2.—Having
to an inch. The fl inch shell has a
range of fl miles, the 12 inch shell a safely transferred a large supply of
rang» of 12 mile«.
stores to the Peary Arctic steamer
Roosevelt at Etah. West Greenland,
the auxiliary steamer Erik has ar
Cash for Reclamation.
rived back in this port.
Washington, Oet. 2.— Estimates given
The Roosevelt left Etah on August
out by the reclamation service show 18. bound north through Kane basin,
that Oregon last year contributed ap Kennedy channel and Robeson strait
proximately $1.387,413 to the reclame
It is the explorer’s plan either to en
tion fund, making her total contribu ter the Polar sea or to reach a point
tion to June 30, 1908, $8.167,822. For from which he can easily get to Cape
tho first time sinee the reclamation law Columbia by February next. Then he
was passed, Oregon dropped from first will make a dash across the ice floes
to second place on the list of contribu toward the pole
lions, due to the unexpected boom in
The Roosevelt has on board three
lend sale* in North Dakota, enabling Americans beside Commander Peary,
that state to take rank over Oregon the regular crew of the steamer. 25
with a lead of lea* than $200,000. Wash Eskimos and 350 dogs. The Eskimos,
ington 'a contribution is estimated at Captain Bartlett said, are eager to
♦»43.762; her total, »5.089,05«; Idaho assist the explorer.
last vesr contributed »490,625 or »3,-
The Erik started on her return
553,050 in all.
voyage to St. Johns on August 20.
In Davis strait the Erik struck an
Controller Roast* Examiner*.
iceberg, which battered her bows
Washington, Oct. 7—Lawrence O. above the water line. She made the
Murray, comptroller of the currency, harbor at Mukowik. Labrador, where
has declared that the common fault of she effected temporary repairs, then
national bank examiners is that thev proceeded.
The remainder of the
delay too long in closing the banks voyage was without incident.
intrusted to their care. He addressed
EMBEZZLED TEN MILLIONS.
sixteen examiner* yesterday at a
meeting to which they had been sum
monel.
The conference will last a I Danish Minister of Justice Sold Title*
week. Murray warned the examiners
and Decoration*.
against
extravagances, carelessness
and lack of judgment. The receiver
Copenhagen. Oct. 2.—Having fixed
ship of national bank* should be the amount of his actual thefts at
placed on a square business basis, he from <9 000.000 to »10,000,000. the
declared.
Danish government is attempting to
determine to what extent the default
ing former minister of justice, Alberti,
Barrett Off for Coastr
Waahington, Oct. 1.—John Barrett, profited by the sale of titles and dec
director of the bureau of American re orations. in which he is asserted to
have done a wholesale business for
publics, has gone to Albuquerque, where 14 years The inquiry promises to be
he will address the-Irrigation Congress. intensely embarrassing to scores of
He will also speak before the Trans prominent men whose elevation to
Mississippi Congress at San Francisco, the aristocracy Alberti is said to have
and then spend 10 dav* in Portland, Oe secured on payment of heavy sums,
tober 12 to 21. On October 22 he will which he afterward lost, along with
have a conference with the Seattle Ex his stealings, in unlucky speculation.
position directors in regard to participa The skill with which the fallen minis
tion of the bureau and the Latin Amer ter covered up these transactions is
seriously handicapping the investi
ican countries in the exposition.
gators
From Alberti himself they
are getting little assistance, the cul
Fish Resign* for Politic*.
prit hav-ng utterly collapsed since his
Washington, Oet. 7__ The resignation surrender to the police. Physicians
of Hnniilton Fish, assistant treasurer say there is no pretense concerning
of the United States at New York, was the partial loss of his memory, and it
accepted
yesterday
by
President is the general opinion that he will not
Roosevelt.
It was announced that live to be punished.
Fish had resigned because he had been
Failures growing out of his opera
nominated for congress. This is in tions continue to be of almost daily
accordance with the recent order given occurrence. Of the former minister's
out I v President Roosevelt that no thefts about »5.000,000 were from
employes of the government can par large banks and syndicates, and the
ticipate in politics.
balance from private individuals and
commercial houses.
No Urouble Over Morocco.
Former Premier Christensen, who
Washington, Oct. 7__ Ambassador though suspected of no personal dis
Juaaerand, who has returned from his honesty. aided Alberti to raise money
vacation in France, declared yestifr through public channels to such an
day that there was not the slightest, extent that he was forced to resign,
trouble between France and Germany has spent entire days under painful
over the Moroccoan question. “Just cross-examination by the investi
________________
prior to my leaving home.” he said, gators.
”a most conciliatory note war re
Hitch Caused by Open Shop.
reived at the French foreign office
from Germany. 1 see no good reason
Winnipeg. Man.. Oct. 2.—A hitch
why good feeling should not continue.*’ in the negotiations for the settlement
of the Canadian Pacific mechanics'
Sockeye Pack 338,000 Case*.
strike has apparently ended hope of
Washington. Oct. 7__ Consul-General settlement for some time. The differ
West, of Vancouver, has reported that ence between the strikers and the of
the total catch for the season of the ficials of the railroad occurred over
sockeye salmon was 338,000 cases and the question of "open shop." The Ca
the excess of tho pack for the year nadian Pacific refuses to discharge
was largely confined to the canneries the strikebreakers .and the men refuse
The strikers
on the Fraser and Skeena rivers, there to work with them.
being a noticeable falling off in the gave out a statement last night that
nothing was likely to develop in the
pack on Rivers inlet.
way of a settlement of the strike for
Office Seekers Must Resign.
some time._______________
Washington, Oet. 1__ Consternation
Let Stewart Rest.
wns created here by tho announcement
Washington. Oet. 2__ Tn accordance
Japs Watch Maneuvers.
that President Roosevelt had decided with Colonel William F. Stewart’s re
Camp Atascadero, Cal., Oct. 2.—
that nil government employes who wish quest that he be allowed to recuperate
to tnkc an active part in polities must from hi* journey from Fort Grant to The presence of several Japanese here
resign their positions with the- govern Washington before he appears before watching the maneuvers of the troops
ment. and that there is no hope of their the medical members of the retiring
has led to the rumor that they are
regaining their positions after the cam board, the board has derided to post
spies looking for information as to
paign is over.
pone the examination of the army offi American military activity. The Jap
cer until next week.
anese have been nere for several days
Pension* In Northwest.
watching the arrival of the troops and
Printer* Get Raise.
Washington. Oct 3.—According to
the working of the artillery. Some
the annual report of the commission
Washington. Oct. 3.—The new reg soldiers declare they have noticed
er of pensions, there are now T.863 ulation went into effect Thursday bv notebooks in the hands of the Jap
pensioners in Oregon receiving II.- which the pay of the linotype and anese, but this has not been verified
198,004 annually in pensions; 10.751 monotype operators in the employ of
in Washington, receiving II 851,313. the government printing office is in
Chinas* Emperor Insane.
and 3,333 in Idaho, receiving 3343,035. creased from 50 to 60 cents an hour
Pekin. Oct 2.—A peculiar mental
derangement from which the Chinese
Government Buys Silver.
Political Riot in Cuba.
emperor is suffering has been puz
Washington. Oet. fi. -The treasury de
Waahington. Oet. 1__ Dispatches re zling the attendants at the royal pal
pertinent today purchased 12Ó.000 ceived at the war department from Pro ace for some time and yesterday a
ounces of fine silver at SI.772 cent*. visional Governor Magnon show that consultation of the most eminent phy
Seventy five thousand ounces of silver one man was shot and killed and eight sicians in China was called by the
are for delivery at Philadephia, and the injured by esnes and fiat* aa a result of empress dowager to discuss the case
rest at New Orleana.
polities! disturbance* in Cuba.
of their royal patient.
SHIPPERS WIN OUT
United States tourt Decides Har
riman Lines In Wrong.
LUMBER INTERESTS SUSTAINED
Upholds Right of Commission to Fix
Freight Rat**, Which Must Ba
Equitabla Hereafter.
San Francisco, Oet. 1—In sustaining
a demurrer by the government to an
application for an injunction filed by
the Mouthrrn Paeifie company seeking
to restrain the interstate commerce
commission from establishing a rat*
upon lumber between Oregon and Cali
fornia, the United State» eireuit court
of appeals yesterday rendered a de
cision which uphold* the authority of
the commission to fix freight charge*
upon what it Considers a just and
equitable basis, and sustains, in it* di
rect application, the moat important
clause of the rate law, namely, the
right of the commission to relieve ship
pers. when in it* judgment they are
entitled to such relief.
While the opinion of the court will
probaldy not be available for several
days, the victory of the government ap
pear* to be a substantial me. Repre
sentatives of the United Stae* district
attorney’s office and the interstate
commerce commission declared that this
is the first instance since the enact
ment of the rate law in which it was
alleged that the commission had erred
in a question of discretion and judg
ment, and the first time that there had
l-en placed squarely before a court of
this jurisdiction the right of the com
mission to male or correct rate* under
such circumstance*.
The action decided was instituted by
the Southern Paeifie and the Oregon *
California Railway after the announce
ment of nn increase in the rate* on
rough lumber from the Willamette val
ley in Oregon to San Franeiaeo and
other bay point*. The railroads. an
nounced that the rate, which was »3.10
per 1,000 feet, was to be increased to
»5. A protest was filed with the inter
state commerce commission by the As
sociated Lumber Dealers of the North
west, and the commission, after investi
gation, decided that »3.40 per 1,000 was
a reasonable rate. The objection of
the railways to thia decision took th*
form of a suit for an injunction to set
aside the order of the commission.
DISEASE IS ABATING.
Cholera in»St. Petersburg^Has Caused
2,168 Death*.
St. Petersburg. Oet. 1.—Por the 24
hours ending at noon yesterday 223
new eases and 93 deaths from cholera
have been reported by the municipal
hospitals. Por the previous 24 hours
the statistic* were 222 ease* and 99
deaths.
One hundred and twenty seven recov
eries were reported yesterday as enai-
pared with 137 the 24 hours ending at
noon the day previous.
The total* since the beginning of th*
epidemic are 5.655 cases, 2,168 death*
and 1.651 recoveries.
There has been published an official
report of an outbreak of the cholera at
the Pavlovsk military aeademy. Thia
shows that the disease originated in
the aeademy kitchen, where a cook was
suffering from ineipient cholera and
prepared the food for the cadets for
several day*. The cook contracted the
disease in the eholern hospital, where
he was sent on a mistaken diagnosis.
When the physician-discovered his error
the cook was discharged and allowed
to return to duty. This gross careless
ness resulted in 58 of the cadets coming
down with the disease. Five of these
cases ended fatally.
Aeroplane Deal Closed.
Paris. Oct. 1__ With the consent of
Wilbur Wright, the great American
aviator, Lazare Weiller has ordered a
French factory to manufacture 50 aero
planes built on the same plan as
Wright’s machine. Weiller is the head
of the syndicate that is poing to pay
Wright brothers »100,000 for the
French rights to their machine, provid
ing it meets with certain requirements,
and it is believed that the order placed
with the factory yesterday is antici
patory of the signing of a contract be
tween the Wright brothers and the
Freneh syndicate.
Forests Still Bumidg.
San Jose. Cal.. Oct. 1.—Although the
valley is completed filled with smoke,
no definite details can be learned of the
forest fire that has been raging east of
Mission Ridge and between the Cala
veras and Sunol creeks. It is evident,
however, that the fire is still burning
and doubtless spreading, as the density
of the smoke completely hides the
mountain range from view. Owing to
defective wires, communication with
Lick observatory has been cut off.
Ship Arm* to Chinese.
Vancouver, B. C., Oct. 1.—Arms and
ammunition are being regularly smug
gled from Vancouver to aid Chinese
bandits and pirates on the western side
of the Paeifie, according to a discovery
recently made on board the steamer
Empress of Japan at Hongkong. On
the last visit of the steamer to that port
a number of trunks with false bottoms
were found, in which were several hun
dred rounds of ammunition and mnny
packages labeled ‘‘soap.”
Fire* Revived in Adirondack*.
Saranac Lake. N. Y„ Oct. l.- The
forest fires in the Adirondack* which
were temporarily checked by heavy
rains are again springing into life io
every direction. Fanned by a steady
wind, the flames onee more are assum
ing dangerous proportions. The war
dens are rushing mea to Dannemora,
where a ig fire is in progr***.