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IS UNDER CONTROL Yellow Fever Situation Said to Be in Hand. QUARANTINE CONCERNS PEOPLE All Surrounding States Have Estab lished Strict Regulations Against the Fever Infected City. New Orleans, July 29.— The health authorities who are handling the yel low fever situation here have now so thoroughly perfected their organization that they feel confident every case of fever, though not thoroughly develop ed, w ill be promptly reported, and w ill go upon the official records. So thorough has been the inspection of the city that it is believed that every exist ing case has been found, and is now in cluded in the 206 cases which have been announced. Many of these are on the road to recovery, and it ìb expected that with the perfect scientific treat ment that has been arranged for there w ill be a reduced mortality rate which in the early stages of the disease has been admittedly high. The most annoying feature of the sit uation now is the disposition of practi cally every town in adjoining states to tighten the quarantine against the city. That is tine to the feeling beyond the city that 200 cases means a serious sit uation, and the fact that the escape of Italians from the infected French market center has resulted in the ap pearance of cases of fever at various [points. A N O T H E R CHARGE OF G R A F T Scientist Recommends Material in Which He Has Personal Interest. Washington, July 29.— In a hearing todav at the department of agriculture, at which Secretary Wilson, Assistant Secretary Hayes, Prof. B. J,. Galloway, ch ief of the bureau of plant industry, •George T. Moore, of that bureau, and two representatives of an agricultural publication, were present, the last two named made charges that the wife of -one of the scientists in the bureau of plant industry owned a block of stock in an eastern concern manufacturing a cul ture for soil inoculation, while the sci entist was preparing and revising bul letins regarding enrichment of farms and portraying the culture as contain ing virulent forms of bactera for mak ing poor land. It was alleged that the publications revised by the official tended to direct the farmers to a commercial conern supplying the material because of the exhaustion of the supply by the depart ment. At today’ s hearing the scientist in volved in the allegations admitted that his wife owned stock, that stock was to come to him in the event that he sev ered his connection with the depart ment and became the bacteriologist of the concern, but that in the latter part ■of April he decided to stay. DENIES DOING WRONG. Gesner Takes Stand for Defense at Land Fraud Trial. Portland, July 29.— Defense in the case of the United States vs. Congress man Williamson, Gesner and Biggs, charged with subornation of perury, yesterday made a complete denial of the charges of the prosecution by put ting Gesner on the stand. He denied ever having made a contract with the entrymen to buy land, although he ad mitted lending them money, and said he had stated to certain entrymen that the claims would be worth, upon final proof being completed, $500 to him. Dr. Gesner is old and feeble. He leans heavily on his cane, which is his constant companion. Twenty years of the practice of medicine in the Prine- v ille country has broken his health. Long rides to widely scattered patients at all hours of the day and night over poor roads have ruined his physique. Shonts Inspects Canal. Panama, July 29.— President Shonts and a party of canal officers went today to inspect the route from Panama to Ctilebra. Among the subjects which Mr. Shonts has discussed with Govern o r Magoon was the construction of quarters and places for the recreation o f employes to which much importance is attached. Definite plan w ill soon be adopted along this line The great demand for cars for the transportation o f material for the canal has caused a serious congestion at both terminals of the railroad. Many Quarantined at Havana. Havana, Aug. 1.— Seventy-eight ar rivals today from Mexican and South ern state ports again increased the num ber of passengers detained at the Tris- com ia station. Of 19 passengers on the Excelsior from New Orleans, 14 were deta'ned as well as were all the 28 passengers on the Martinique, from Miami, Fla. The Yucatan, bound from Vera Cruz to New York, brought one feverish passenger, who was isloated and taken to the fever hospital. Yellow Fever Case at Tampa. Tampa. Fla , July 29.— Dr. Joseph Porter, state health officer, has issued an official statement to the effect that Victor Vitello, an Italian who arrived here last Saturday from New Orleans, is suffering from a mild attack of yrl- ifow fever. WAR P A R T Y GAINS R E C R U IT S Claim o f Indemnity Causes Vigorous Action in War Office. St. Petersburg, July 31.— The inti mation of Mr. Sato, Baron Komura’s secretary, that Japan w ill claim full indemnification for the cost of the war beside the Island of Sakhalin, has gained recruitB for the war party from among the class which had hoped Rus sia would be able to offer the railroads to Port Arthur and Dalny, the island of Sakhalin, and other valuable consid erations in lieu of a direct cash indem nity. The war office is not slackening pre parations for continuing the war in case the peace negotiations are unsuc cessful. The gap in general Linie- vitch’ s army caused by the losses at Mukden has been filled and the railroad is working to its full capacity, carrying reinforcements to form fresh corps. A dispatch from Irkutsk announces the completion of work on the trans- Baikal line. In ordei to relieve the traffic on the railroad, Prince Hilkoff, minister of railroad communications, has sent three steamers loaded with rails and a flotilla of river steamers by way oi the Arctic ocean to the mouth of the Yenisei river, whence they will be transported by that river to Kras noyarsk, which is within 400 miles of Lake Baikal. C H IN A W A N T S IN D E M N IT Y Russia TOO. Must Pay for Illegal Occupa tion o f Manchuria. Berlin, July 31.— The Lokal Anzelger prints an interview with a prominent Chinese diplomatist, evidently the Chinese minister at ’ Berlin, who says that the dowager empress and the em peror have sent a circular letter to all viceroys and governors and to Chinese ministers abroad, asking them to state fully their views as to what attitude China should take in the settlement of the Manchurian question. The diplomatist further states that China, in determining what indemnity to demand from Russia, w ill include not only the reduction in public reve nues during the war, hut a sum suffi cient to cover damages suffered through years of illegal occupation of that coun try. He assumes that Japan will keep her word and hand over Manchuria to China, but thinks it w ill be impossible for China to install the old form of government there, since the improve ments the Russians and Japanese have introduced make a modern system of administration necessary. The diplo mat concludes: “ China w ill not longer play the role of a mere spectator, but w ill assert her claims with energy in the Portsmuth negotiations and interesting develop ments will certainly follow .’ ’ IN S P E C T ON O T H E R SIDE. Proposed That Chinese Be Scrutin ized Before They Start. Washington, July 31. — A new way out of the perplexing difficulties sur rounding the enforcement of the Chin ese exclusion law is being considered by the department of Commerce and Labor. It is pro[)osed to put the regu lations into more practicable form and at the same time throw a sop to Chin ese susceptibilities by having the in specting and regulating done on the other side. This can he managed by establishing representatives of the state and immi gration services at ports in China with a view to examining the claims of Chinese desiring to come to America, and if the examination proves that they are exempt, to issue credentials to them, which w ill be accepted without question at American ports. By this plan the investigation w ill be much more simple and satisfactory. Defense o f Columbia River. Washington, July 31.— A hoard of army officers, including Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Murray, Artillery corps; Major Lgngfitt, of the engineers, and the district artillery officer on the Columbia river, will meet ami collect data for the submarine defense of the I fortifications at the mouth of the Co lumbia river, and also report on exist- ' ing mines, buildings and structures in connection with harbor defense and re commend new works deemed necessary to complete submarine work at the en trance to the river. SERIOUS CHARGES Land Fraud Defendants Accused of Changing Applications. DONE BY COMMISSIONER BIGGS Mysterious Note Signed by Witness Also Has Place in Proceed ings of the Trial. Portland, July 27.— Prosecution in the trial of Williamson, Gesner and Biggs on a charge of subornation of perjury in the Federal court scored yes terday an^l added important evidence to its case. The striking features of the testimony were the admissions of Jeff D. Evans, the first witness called in the morning, that the numbers of bis claim in the original application he filed before United States Commissioner Biggs had been changed at The Dalles land office upon the receipt of a letter by the officials from Biggs, in which the latter said the change would save trouble, and was at the request of Evans. Evans testified that he had never requested the change nor did lie know of the change until he was shown the application at the former trial, with the original number scratch ed out and others written in. A further feature of liia testimony was the identification of a promissory note, made in favor of GeBiier and sign ed bv the witness, for $426.10, the money advanced by Gesner to make final proof. Evans testified that, al though the signature was unquestiona bly liia own, he had never, to his know ledge, signed any note for the money advanced by Dr. Gesner, and had been told by Biggs, who handled the whole affair, that, while a note would lie re quired from gome entrymea, it was not to be asked of FI vans. RIG H T SIDE UP. U N ITE A G A IN S T BRITAIN. _______ Czar and American Desert Prosecution Proves Williamson There in June, 1902. Was Decides to Refuse Bench After Con Portland, July 28.— Testimony yes ference With Harriman. terday in the trial of Williamson, Ges Portland, July 27.— W illiam 5V. Cot ner and Biggs for alleged subornation ton, with a commission already in his of perjury, established beyond question possession, has concluded to decline the that Williamson was in Prineville from appointment as United States judge June 14 to 24 in 1902. This point was for the district of Oregon. Private ad disputed by the defense at the former vices to this effect have been received trial, hut yesterday morning Judge Bur and the fact has been absolutely con nett said Williamson had investigated firmed. Mr. Cotton left New York for his whereabouts in June, 1902, had Oregon last night, after a conference found that he was in Prineville then with the Eastern officials of the Harri and is quite w illing to admit it. How man lines, and today the fact of his in ever, the prosecution put on witnesses tention to decline the judicial position to show that the defendant was there Examination of offered him by the president became on the above dates. witnesses by the prosecution in the known. W hile no information has been re morning was a gathering up of the de ceived giving a reason for this action tails of the case preparatory to submit on the part of the Federal judge-ap ting it. The government finished with pointee, it is generally believed that its witnesses in the afternoon. On the inducements have been offered him whole, the case of the prosecution that by the Harriman system that shows stronger than at the former trial, make it worth while for him to decline and every effort is being made to avert the bench and remain where he is with the possibility of a hung jury by the additional powers and financial consid presentation of every bit of evidence in the hands of the government. eration. Cowes With Revolver. Panama, July 28.— A mutiny took place among the police force here to day, but it was quelled almost at the beginning by Santiago de la Guardia, secretary of war, who faced the mutin eers with a drawn revolver and, hacked by the officers of the force, brought it to submission. The principal leaders werechastised severely and the other mutineers were placed in irons. P o li tics had nothing to do with the mutiny. The chief of police, Leonidas Pretelt, is in Augu Dulce, inspecting the police force there. Yaquis Will Surrender. Nogales, Ariz., July 31. — After six years of continuous fighting, the Ysqui Indians in Mexico are suing for peace. A peace conference is being arranged for, and if there is no hitch in the pres ent plans, Yaqui leaders w ill meet rep resentatives of the Mexican government at Urea, Solano, Mexico. No date for meeting has lieen made public, but the Indians are already reported to be gathering in the vicinity of Urex. Start for New York. Paris, July 27.— M. W itte, Professor de Martens and a number of officials making tip the Russian peace plenipo tentiaries left the St. Nazare railroad station at 9:30 this morning for Cher bourg, where they will sail for New York on the North German Lloyd j steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse this j evening. Many officials and diplomats | gathered at the depot, including Am- j hassadors Nelidnff and Cassini and M. Routkowski, Russian financial agent. New Focus Is Discovered. Shreveport, La., July 28 — A special from New Orleans to the Times says: A report to the Marine Hospital service tonight from Bay St. Louis, Miss., states that ten suspicious cases of yel low fever have developed at Black Bay, in that section. A Federal surgeon will be sent the.e early in the morn ing. It is said a lugger load of Italians escaped from here and went to the bay, where they developed fever. British Ship Is Seized, Seattle, July 31.— The British ship Josephine, Captain J. F. Heffler, from Vancouver, B. C., has been seized by the United States marshal at Ketchi kan, Alaska. The captain and crew are in jail. The vessel landed a cargo from a Canadian port at an American port withont a permit. Only Impartial Inquiry. Washington, July 27.— Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte, when asked today | for a statement of the disaster to the Bennington, promised the public that there would be no whitewash and that, so far as the service itself was concern- ed, he would make a scapegoat out of no one. Sigsbee Will Carry Peace Envoys Washington, July 28.— Rear Admiral J Sigsee, commanding the third division ! if the North Atlantic fleet, w ill come j to Washington tomorrow by direction 1 of the Navy department to receive full inatructions as to the program for con- . »eying the peace envoys of Russia and 1 Japan to Oyster Bay. JOHN H A T . he received $50,000. Mr. H ay’s house in Washington was one of the most beautiful residences In the city, and his library was tilled with rare pic tures and rarer books. As a literary man John Hay would have won fame sufficient for the most In addition to the government work ambitious. Ills life o f Lincoln Is an on the use o f water In Irrigation, which able work and his poetry was o f a Is being carried on In all the arid or high order. But as secretary o f state seml-arld States, the work In Califor under M cKinley and then under Roose nia, according to an official statement, velt, Mr. Hay brought the diplomacy Includes a comprehensive study of the o f the United States Into the first whole Irrigation situation, looking to rank. His ability was splendidly the remedying of the evils which are shown during the Boxer troubles In checking development along tills line. China. H ay alone kept China out o f The work is under the general super the Russo-Japanese war. Limiting the vision o f Elwood Mead, the expert In zone of conflict was one o f his great charge o f Irrigation Investigations. The work being done on the streams est diplomatic victories. and irrigation systems selected for In T R O T T I N G OR G A L L O P IN G ? vestigation Includes study of the fol lowing: W h a t D o F ia t ) I>o, and Seala, an d In s e c t s and W o r m s ? 1— Abstracts of the records of claims to water, character o f those records, Here Is a problem for people with number o f claims, total volume claim sharp eyes! As we all know, a horse ed, places where recorded, and the ease when walking or trotting advances or difficulty with which the validity of only one leg o f each pair at a time, any claim can be determined. hnt when galloping lifts both fore feet 2— Rights to water for purposes oth together and then both hind fe e t Now er than Irrigation, namely, mining, the question U how other animals (lower and domestic purposes. manage tills matter. The birds, o f 3— Methods by which the amount course, flap both wings together, hut and character of water rights are de which birds run and which hop? W e termined, accessibility and complete human beings "trot” when we walk, ness of the record showing the nature and "gallop” when we swim— that Is, of the established rights. If we are using the plain breast stroke. 4— Character of litigation over water The dog, however, “ trots” for both. rights, Its causes and cost, its Influ Now, do the amphibious animals— the ence on Irrigation development, and seals, otters and the rest—awlm -like the principles established by decisions men or like other four-footed crea rendered. tures? 5— Rights for storage and under Then there are the fish. One would ground wnters, how acquired and how rather expect that, as they move their afTected by rights to the surface flow tails from side to side, they would of streams, and the Influence o f the flap alternately with the fins, which underground waters on the stream's are their hands and fe e t Who can tell discharge. whether they do or not, and whether 6— Nature o f an appropriation of all fish at all times follow one rule? water. To determine who is the appro- By the way, how does a frog use lta prlator, the ditch builder or the owner “ hand*” ? of the land on which the water Is used; The great anatomist, E. Ray Tainkes- or Is the land Itself the approprlator. tor, haa lately pointed out that whlla Also, to determine the true measure of tbo “ thousand legs,” such as our com Its amount, the size of the claim, the mon gaily worm, advance two feet o f capnelty o f the ditch, or the area Irri a pair together, the centlpeds, which gated. are much like them, do exactly the op- 7— The volume o f return or seepage poslte; and the swimming worms also water, and Its availability for being alternate the stroke o f each pair o f again diverted, and influence on value paddles. I doubt If many people can of Irrigator's rights. tell on whleh system the caterpillar 8— Size, number, location and capac manages lta dozen or so legs, or wheth ity o f ditches and other distributing works established, and Irrigation duty er the adult Insect walks, trots, paces, or gallops on Its six. How does tha of water. spider use eight? The work also Includes collection of Altogether this Is a large field for data showing how water Is divided observation, a field, too where any among different ditches from the same stream; how It Is distributed among one may discover new facts as yet un users; the nature o f water-right con recorded, and thus add to the store o f tracts between canal owners and water knowledge.— St. Nicholas. Bennington in Condition to T o w to awaie of ill feelings throughout China on the whole subject, and now that the Mare Island Yard. immigration treaty with China has San Diego, Cal., July 27.— The gun been allowed to lapse without the nego boat Bennington is again afloat on an tiation of a new agreement, reports even keel, and w ill be towed to the have reached here that China is inclin Mare Island navy yard to be thorough ed hereafter to refuse to sign any sim ly examined and repaired. She will ilar convention. he taken up by the Iris, escorted by China’s position apppears to lie that the [lowerful naval tug Fortune, but it the exclusion of the Chinese citizens is now doubtful if she will get away be from a friendly country is in itself a fore tiie arrival of the Chicago. disgrace, and while she cannot ignore Admiral Goodrich is expected to ar the laws of a foreign power providing rive on his flagship tonight or early to for such exclusion, she can refuse to morrow, when an investigation of the sanction it or become a party to it by disaster w ill be begun. Much interest concluding a treaty involving such re centers on the question o f what was the strictions. A year ago, it is said, it steam pressure on boiler B at the time would have been easy to conduct nego of the explosion, it being understood tiations with China for the exclusion that the safety valve had been set to of Chinese laborers only. Now, how blow off at 140 pounds. ever, it is understood the Chinese offi Examination of the inside of the ship cials are disposed to regard the signing shows that the hull has been damaged of such a treaty beneath the dignity of hut little, if any. The water which their government. poured in and caused the listing came through the blow hole, which had been WAS IN PRINEVILLE. broken by the force of the explosion. JUDGE C O T T O N DECLINES. Great Chicago, July 28.— The Berlin corre- | spoil.lent of the Chicago Daily News says; “ Germany and Russia may join hands to make a strong naval front The principal features o f the Natlou- against England. It is said that the al Irrigation or Reclamation act, as meeting of the czar and kaiser has been concisely stated by Congressman C. D. mainly occupied with the question of Van Duze-r of Nevada, are as follows; the reconstruction of the Russian navy. F irs t A reclamation fund In the The czar is anxious to co-operate with Germany by establishing a strong de treasury, consisting o f all moneys re fensive combine against the English ceived from the disposal of public naval forces. Russia’s new Baltic lands In sixteen arid and senti-arid squadron is intended to supplement States and territories (Including Cali fornia and Nevada). strategically the German Baltic fleet. Second. Investigation and report as “ Captain Hintze, who accompanied the kaiser, is supposed to he the com to irrigation projects by the Interior ing man. It was he who had the dan Department through the geological sur gerous squabble with Admiral Dewey vey. Third. A fter the approval o f such in 1898. Admiral Diederichs was a projects by the Secretary o f the In mere figurehead.’ ’ A St. Petersburg dispatch to the terior construction to commence under Daily News says: contracts made by him. No contract “ As an immediate result of the meet to be made unless the money neces ing of the kaiser and the czar, two army sary for the completion o f the project corps will be withdrawn from Poland. Is available In the reclamation fund. Their arrival at the front in September Fourth. Compensation to the fund w ill give General Linievitch a superi o f the actual cost of each project by ority over the Japanese of 150,000 the sale o f water rights, to be made In men. His numerical superiority today a series of installments running over is estimated at 70,000. This news ten years. makes the war party exultant.’ ’ The Fifth. The holding o f the public Novoe Vremya says: lands for actual settlers under the “ ‘ Not a kopeck must he given to Ja homestead act; holdings to be limited pan, not an inch of territory, not a to small areas, sufficient for the sup mile of railroad. There must be no port o f a family; no commutation. Japanese protectorate over Corea.’ Sixth. Sale of water rights to pri “ The general staff is sure Linievitch vate land holders, hut not for more w ill begin an attack shortly. He has than 160 acres, thus discouraging land 600,000 men and 2,000 guns. The bu monopoly and promotiug the breaking reaucracy has changed its tone. Re up o f large tracts. pression is announced, and there is lit Seventh. The ultimate control o f Ir tle prospect of reform.” rigation works, except reservoirs, by the settlers under a system of home S T A N D ON DIG NITY. rule. This plan will enable the West to reclaim Itself withont calling upon Pekin Government Would Turn Down the taxpayers of the country. It en tirely relieves the Irrigation agitation Exclusion Treaty. of the charge that It Is Intended to Washintgon, July 28.— Some doubt tax the East for the Improvement of is expressed in official circles whether the West. The government simply it w ill he possible to obtain China's consent to another treaty with the l>uts Its government lands In condition United States providing for even the for settlement by storing and making exclusion of Chinese laborers from this available the floodwaters which are country. The State department is essential for reclamation. Thirty-Six Have Died. New Orleans, July 27.— Two addi tional deaths from yellow fever were officially reported to the city hoard of health today, making 36 in all since July 13. No reports of new cases were received. The report of cases to date made at the city hoard indicate a slow spread of the fever. There are now 14 foci, one of them at Bunkeye, in North Louisiana, of an Italian escaped from the French market section. His case has proven fatal. There are also three foci above canal street and one in Algiers. July Deficit is Smaller. Washington. July 31.— The monthly statement of the government receipts and expenditures, which will be issued by the treasury department on August | l, w ill Bhow the receipts for July, 1905, to have been approximately $49,180,- 000, and the expenditures about $62,- 960,COO, leaving a deficit for the month of $13,680,000. The deficit last July was $17,300,000. There was no extra ordinary receipts or expenditures, and none w ill appear in July, 1905. Conquest Kaiser Plan to Combine Naval Forces. the United States a factor in the polV tics of the world to be reckoned with on every occasion In which, by its In terests, the United States can he re garded as a participant. John Hay was regarded as not only the leading diplomat of the day, but the greatest diplomat that ever occupied the office of secretary o f state. John Hay was born In Salem, ln d , Oct. 8, 1838. He was the son o f Dr. Charles llay. He was educated at Warsaw and Springfield, 111. He waa graduated at Brown University In 1858. In 1861 he went from Springfield, 111., to Washington to become Presi dent Lincoln's secretary and later ha served In the civil war. He reached the rank of colonel and was at Lin coln's bedside when the President died. H e then went to Europe and tilled sub ordinate diplomatic positions at vari ous capitals. In 1896 he was appoint ed ambassador to England. In the seventies, when Mr. Hay was acting editor o f the New York Tribune, he wrote fanciful verse of the soil, which became more celebrated than his more serious literary efforts—one of which la a life of Lincoln, for which users; what contracts have proven satisfactory; and what forms o f con tracts have given rise to controversy, and the reason therefor. Facts show ing rates for sale or delivery o f water and the methods by which these rales have been established will also he collected. JOHN I ' j 1 i HAY. •Risking. Northerner— And you have soma earthquakes down In your country, do you not? Southerner—Oh, yea, but they’ ro very slight. When they come we can't always tell whether It's a real earth quake or If It's another attack o f chills and fever coming on.— Yon k era Statesman.