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THE WEATHER TODAY . For North Carolina : Fair, Warnrer For Ralelgh: , Fair, Warmer TEMPERATURE: Temperature for tbe past 24 Hours: Maximum, 75; Minimum, 56. Vol. IX RALEIG-H N. C TTTZSDAY. ATJQ-TJST 29, 1905 No. 7 7 YELLOW FEVER NOW-At NATCHEZ After LurKing Tji Weeks WAS iui.uun wm A Strenuous Quarantine Was Main tained Against Other Places While the Scourge Was at Work Within Its Borders French Th w U1 Mosquito Propagation of Disease New Orleans, Aug. 28. Yellow fever record today: .' New cases 45. ; Deaths 5. . 7 The discovery of yellow fever at ' Natchez, Miss., following so soon after . a similar discovery at Gulfport, has produced a bad effect upon quarantines. -Loth towns have had the most strin gent quarantines, Natchez declaring non-intercourse, and at one . time re tu?ing to even handle the mall for the Louisiana town of Vitadie, opposite. All this time, however, it was nursing She fever at home. The investigation trade indicates that the yellow fever rjao been in Natchez since July 19, or rnr-nrly six weeks before it was dis covered and before the New Orleans .y.Ubreak was known. The fact that It was of a mild type and prevailed" main ly among negroes in a poor section of ;he town kept it concealed so lone Eleven cses have alreadv been brought i to light there, with a number of con valescents who are thought to have had the disease. So far a can be determined, it was brought by negro tvomen who came from New Orleans. Natchetz was the first town in Missis sippi to declare shotgun quarantine B gainst New Orleans. Shotgun towns liave' been the worst sufferers from fever and present a strong argument gainst those with national quaran- ; tine. There ha? been a second outbreak j Bt Lake Boerdene, La. The first out ? break hr.d been apparently crushed. Fifteen cases are now reported there, mainly .negroes. - The frank policy of Memphis in ehov.-ing Governor Vardaman and the Mississippi board of health over the town has convinced the Mississippi au thorities that yellow fever does not exist there. The suspicion that fever. existed there originated from a state ment of an Italian,, woman who ' de veloped the yellow fever in New Or leans the day after she arrived there direct, so she stated, from Memphis. Cn the misrepresentation and unsup r orted statement it was proposed to quarantine a great city from an entire Mate. - Tonight special services were held at Temple Sinai at which Rev. -Beverly "Warner, an -Episcopal minister, pre sided and Drs. Rupert Boyce, the Eng lish expert, Guiteras, Souchon, presi dent of the state board cf healtn, Kn-hnke, president of the New-Orleans b ard of health, and Mayor Behrmann cMivered addf-esses on yellow fever and mosquitoes. Nearly all the churches have organized sanitary com mittees for the delivery of lectures. Dr. Audrian Hava, who has made a close study of yellow fever and the transmission of disease by mosquitoes p.nnounces that the mild type of the disease, which is most conspicuous at Patterson, ia due to mosquitoes that j ate not infected by biting1 a person ?iek of the yellow fever, but are hatched from the eggs of infected mosquitoes, the infection being car ried to the second generation. Dr. Ilava has accepted the theory laid down -by the French, yellow fever com mission, which has been studying the disease in Brazil for two years, and Tvhich published Its report only re cently in Paris. The doctrine laid down by them is as follows: If a female house mosquito feeds on a yellow fever patient during1 the first three or four days of the attack, .' It may transmit the yellow feverj t5 ft non-immune after twelve days from the date of its infection, and may con tinue to innoculate thepoison to non immunes during Its natural life. That H the mosquito once Infected, re mains so as long as it lives. "More than that, the eggs that It deposits fflme forth infected, but with an at tenuated virus, which may produce in a non-immune a mild type of yellow fever often mistaken for dengue. These Mosquitoes remain infected, as is the case with the mother, as long as they live, and the females during their Vvhole existence are capable of com municating the poison to non-im-friunes. The male stegomyia, origi nating from an infected mother, though hatched infected, cannot trans mit the poison, nature, having denied Win the necessary organ to feed on ii inkind, ' but as the female has to ; jr rpetuate her species, nature has JProvided her with the means of get ting blood, the most nutritious food trainable, in order that her eggs may i A 01 have all the constituents necessary for the subsequent stages of evolution. The severe cases of yellow fever are those arising: from direct innoculation by the female mosquito. The mild cases are the result of an innoculation by a mosquito in which the , virus has been attenuated through herditaty transmission, r that is, a mosquito hatched from an egg deposited by an infected mother. "As the infected fe male deposits eggs which are infected, and reproduces many mosquitoes with the attenuated virus, we see more of mild cases than eseverecases of yel low fever. He concludes froni that that yelkrrt fever can be so attenuated in this way as to be without danger, so that troops or. laborers going from a high latitude into the yellow fever zones mav render j themselves immune and safe against . tne lever by subjecting themselves to being bitten by the progeny of the infected mosquito, in which the yellow fever germ exists In a very modified form. This theory of the French j yellow fever commission has not yet been accepted by the United States marine hospital service or American physicians, and has not been even tested by them. The present epidemic will probably result in a test being made Booker as Bell Boy Des Moines, la., Aug. 28. Booker T. "Washington spoke before 5,000 people at the Fairfield Chautauqua last even ing. ' Today while he was walking; through a hotel hallway a woman poked her head out of a door and asked him to bring ice water, .mistaking him for, a porter. "Washington replied: "Certainly madame," arid proceeded to the office where he told the clerk what was wanted. The clerk made haste to inform the woman of her mistake. She sent her regrets, to which Washington replied that he was not in fhe least offended. Lincoln Homestead Sold Frankfort, Ky., Aug. 28. R. J. Collier of New York purchased at public auction at the Larue county court house today the homestead of the birth place of Abraham Tincoln, known as the Lincoln farm.' The amount at which the commissioner knocked off the sale was $3,600. The property, was bid in by New-York Interests. DIED THE SAME HOUR Man and Wife Respond to the Death Summons " The Woman Was Drowned at Coney Island, and When the Body Was Recovered a Telegram Came Say ing Her Husband Was Dead New York, Aug-. 28. Half an hour after the body of a western woman was recovered from the waves off Coney Island and at the time it was be ing identified at the police station by the proprietor of her hotel, a telegram was received from the west notifying her of the death of her husband. The woman's body is now being held at a Coney Island morgue until it is known what member of the family is to be L notified of the double tragedy. Shortly after the recovery of the body Mrs,. Laura Herring, who man ages the Sea Gate Hotel, Coney Island, appeared at the station and identified the woman as Mrs. June Johnson of Little Rock, Ark., the wife of Allan Johnson of that city, who was presi dent of the Little- Rock National Bank. While she was identifying the wo man a messenger - rushed into the room where the body lay within its circle of policemen, and handed a telegram to the hotel manager. It was addressed to Mrs. June Johnson. Mrs. Herring opened the envelope and read the contents. They were as follows: "Little Rock, Ark. "Mrs. June Johnson: "Allan Johnson died today.' "SAMUEL RETDSBURN." ..The telegram was sent about one o'clock, about the hour Mrs. Johnson was drowne'd, somewhere between Nor ton's Point and Coney Island. Mrs. Herring1 said that all she knew of Allan Johnson was that he was a bank .president in Little 4 Rock, Ark. His wife was a woman about 36 years old and was known to her fellow boarders at the Sea Gate Hot el as a magazine writer, her pen name being, it is said, "Helen Dix Johnson." It is not known what .was the cause of the woman's drowning-. Stranded Circus People in Distress "Washington, Aug. 28. American Con sul Nason at Grenoble, France, has cabled Acting Secretary Loomls that of the original party included in ; the American circus stranded there sixty five members remain in a state of great distress and destitution. The depart ment does not know how to, deal with this case, having- no funds available to relieve the sufferers, but it is pos- sible that the president may direct some money to be advanced from the i emergency fund, trusting to congress ' BQiiMInn this artnn at ito . na-vt session. ' - . . - J LMES RETURN iSURRENDE Absence Explained to the Court by His. Lawyer GIVES A HEAVY BONO All Parties to the Conspiracy Divulg ing the Cotton Report for Specu lative Purposes Now Under Bail for Their Appearance at Trial. Facts Show Holmes Heeled Himself Washington Aug-. 28. Former Asso ciate Stastistlcian E. S. Holmes, Jr., of the department of agriculture, .in ducted together with F. A. Peckham and Moses Haas of New York on the charge of conspiring to defraud the government by prematurely divulging the department cotton crop report, sur rendered to the United States marshal today and later appeared before Jus tice Stafford and gave bond in the sum of $10,000, the amount agreed upon last Saturday before his arrival in this city. He was taken to the marshal's office by. his attorneys, Lester , and Price, who also appeared with him in jthe court room. ' District Attorney Beach made an ef fort to secure an increase of the bond to $20,000, but the effort was opposed by Mr. Lester and did not succeed. In moving- for an increase Mr. Beach pre sented an affidavit reciting the failure of Holmes to appear Saturday, as per the agreement between himself and Attorney Lester, and charged Lester with aiding Holmes in evading the execution of a writ for the latter' s ar rest Saturday night. He also said that facts had come to light showing that Holmes had realized $50,000 last December, and that he had recently sold a mine in the state of Washington for $73,000, and had large sums of cash in banks and. safety vaults. He. also said that the offense charged against Holmes is not extraditable, and he urged that all hese facts justified a larger bond. , In reply, Lester characterized, as "gratiuitious" the statement ' that he had assisted his client In avoiding arrest, and related in detail all' the, peregrinations of Holmes since he .fell under suspicion. He said that his client had at different times since then been near the Canadian border, and could easily have escaped to another country if he had so desired. He also repeated that Holme?' failure to present .himself Saturday was due to delay in getting a letter to Holmes. The fact was brought out that Holmes was in Wildwood, N. J.; from Tuesday to Saturday of last week. District Attorney Beach is preparing to turn the affairs of his office over to his successor this week. His resig nation will take effect Thursday and his connection with the case will cease. There was a report some time ago that Mr. Beach was to continue in the case as special attorney. He said that he was worn out from the hard work and sleepless nights spent in the case and would be glad to be relieved of the work. . mm : CANTOW-HANKOW RAILWAY The Chinese Government Desires to Acquire the Property Oyster Bay, Aug. 28. J. Pierpont Morgan came to lunch with the presi dent and to discuss further the Canton-Hankow Railway in China, which is largely controlled by American in terests. The Chinese government de sires to buy the road. The president is said to be opposed to the sale of the' road into other than American hands . At the-executive offices today it was said that no conclusion as to the matter had as yet been reached in the discussion between the president and Mr. Morgan. x Sir Chentung Cheng, ' the Chinese minister, it Is said, had an interview in Washington today with Assistant Secretary of State Loomis on the same subject. The indications here are that the road will probably hot be sold to China, A few weekks ago the Chinese minister came here to see the president , about it, and at that time he said he ex pected a speedy conclusion to the af fair. - . Mr. Morgan came here at about 1 o'clock on his yacht Corsair, and left shortly after luncheon, about 3 o'clock. This "was Mr. Morgan's Se this summer with regard to the mat ter. Building Fell on Workmen New York, 'Aug. 28. A part of the second floor balcony of the old Knick erbocker Athletic Club : building at Forty-fifth street and Madison-avenue, fell this evening and buried six work- ' men under the ruins. One of themi will probably die. RS ACE IS STILL A Japanese Envoys Will Make a New Offer GUESSING WHAT IT IS Withdrawal of Demand for Indem nityPecuniary Compensation to Be Limited to Payment for Re cession of Northern Part of Sagha-lien-Russians Will Refuse Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 28. In a last desperate effort to secure the restora tion of friendly relations between their country and Russia, the Japanese peace envoys will tomorrow offer to make concessions to the czar's envoys. To President Roosevelt Is left the credit of having produced this move on the part of , Japan, for it is upon sugges tions submitted by him to the Toklo government that the new proposals are based. " ' While the Russians profess emphati cally that they do not know what the Japanese representatives intend to of fer, or indeed that they will offer any thing at -all in the way of modified conditions, they have heard unofficially that the plan of settlement to be pro posed by Japan will embrace an ad justment of the embarrassing money question by a commission of neutrals. This proposition is entirely unaccept able to the Russian envoys if their attitude is correctly represented, and they are not inclined to believe that the 1 situation will be materially im proved by any such tenders. Still tbe outlook for peace must be regarded as brighter, particularly when it Is kept in mind that the president has accomplished much , and is still work ing. "'-...' . ' li(&' unofficially admitted by the Japanese tonight 'that they have re ceived new instructions and that they have been informed of the result of the meeting at Toklo today between the emperor, the cabinet officers and the elder statesmen. They admit also that they will offer to make conces sions if such a course becomes neces sary. . ,In. view of the receipt of these advices the Japanese plenipotentiaries arranged with the Russian mission to night that the postponed meeting, fix ed for three o'clock tomorrow r after noon, will be begun at 3:30 o'clock to morrow. Just what proposition the imperial council has authorized Baron Komura and Mr. Takahira to make will not be disclosed by them until they have me: M. Witte and Baron Rosen in the conference room at the ortsmouth navy yard tomorrow. It is supposed to be, however, on a suggestion from Presi dent Roosevelt that the money pay ment, by Russia to Japan should be confined entirely to a price for the recession to Russia of the northern part of Saghalien Island, this price to be fixed by a commission of disin terested persons of eminent standing in their respective countries, and to be nominated or chosen by Russia and Japan in equal numbers. In assent ing to such a proposal Japan would waive all claim to remuneration for the cost of the war, and leave for ad justment only the bare question of the amount Russia shall pay to get back part of Saghalien. The Russians are already asserting that a proposal of this character will I be immediately rejected. They main tain that it is only another plan to compel Russia to pay indemnity to Japan, and they are emphatic in de claring that they will not pay a cent of tribute, no matter how tempting the suggestion is put. The plan, it is understood by the Russians, is regarded by them as merely an old proposal of President Roosevelt's in a new dress The original proposal was rejected, and according to what the Russians say, they are no more inclined to approve it now than .they were when it was first brought to their attention. It is known that the president re gards the plan of settlement so fair and reasonable that he cannot under stand how either can reject it, provid ing that it is anxious to have the war brought to a close. Ever since he asked M. Witte to send Baron Rosen or some other trusted agent to see him at Oyster Bay Mr. Roosevelt has worked steadily to prevent the nego tiations from ending in failure. He has made many suggestions and some definite proposals, and has apparently not been discouraged over the far from cordial reception whidh each met from one side or the other. The president's proposal was that the emperor of Russia and th em peror of Japan should eap jiaine one representative to consider the differ ence between the Russian and the Japanese envoys over the demands of Japan for indemnity and cession of territory. ThiSy suggestion was entire ly unacceptable to the Russians, to tehom it was- put first. They maintain PE POSSIBILITY . , ; ' : ed that even if a commission of ths character outlined should reach an har monious '. conclusion its agreement would not be binding on either Russra or Japan, and would certainly bo use less. A tribunal of arbitration whien an empire having th determinlnff vet. would be able to make a binding award, the Russians admitted, but they plain ly stated that if such a suggestion were made it would be rejected at t. Petersburg for the reason that Russia would never consent to submit to arbi tration the question of whether she should pay an indemnity to her enemy. Out of this and subsequent represen tations by the president came Japan's offer to sell part of Saghalien Island to Russia for $600,000,000. When this was rejected Mr. Roosevelt renewed his ef forts on the basis of the original pro posal that two disinterested men should be selected to adjust the remaining points of difference between . the belligerents. It is supposed here that the concessions which the Japanese en voys are expected to offer tomorrow will be along the lines of the idea that the committee appointed to take up the work that the Portsmouth conferees were unable to finish. While the Japanese are keeping quiet as to the details of the instructions upon which they will act at tomorrow's session they show that they are muoh depressed. From what one of them said it is evident that they believe that the government at Tokio has gone too far in offering concessions, and they fear that the present ministry will be come intensely unpopular and lose its influence in the parliament. "I am sad," said one of them to night. , "Why so?" he was asked. "My government will make conces sions that the people will not ap prove," was the answer. "Will there be peace?" was 'the next question. "I fear : so," he said. "Russia will hardly refuse." Mr. Sato, the spokesman of the Japa nese, to whom all press reporters were referred by JMr. Takahira, admitted this evening that the envoys of Japan would go to the conference tomorrow prepared to offer concessions. "Have you heard the result of the imperial council at Tokio?" Mr. Sato was asked. (Continued on Page Two.) BARBEE COULD NOT HIT Shooting Affair in East Dor Iiii Sunday Afternoon While Full of Whiskey Reuben Bar bee Charged Harvey-Knight With Dynamiting a House, and Then Fired Three Shots at Him , Durham N. C. , Aug. 28. Special. The only reason that there was not a homicide enacted in East Durham yes terday afternoon was because Reuben Barbee could not hit his mark in firing three shots with a 38-calibre pistol. Barbee shot three times at Harvey Knight, a young man. Knight evi dently thought that the better part of valor in this event was in flight. He was running when the first shot was fired and kept on running until he was well out of sight of Reuben Barbee It was about 1 o'clock Sunday after- : noon. The firing of the pistol disturb ed the community no little and created some ex&itoement. Both men wre more or less drunk at the time. The preliminary hearing of the , case has. not been held and the full facts are not known. It seems, however, that when the men were welj under the influence of whiskey Barbee charged Knight with having attempted to blow up one of his houses with dynamite, and followed his charge with an attempt to kill him. A few days ago ''some one attempted to blow up "a house below East Durham that has been occupied by , lewd women. Two blasts were made and the house was damaged, two holes be ing torn through the brick wall. This was after the women had all moved away from that locality. It is thought j tnat some one wanted xo aemonsn me house so there would be no. trouble over women in 'the future. The house was dynamited Friday morning, hut the fact was not discovered until Sun day and was not known up town until Saturday afternoon. In telling of the attempt made to destroy the house Reuben Barbee, the owner, said that he knew who did the act, but that he was not at that time prepared to prove it. Sunday he charged Harvey Knight with the attempt and then used hts gun. Barbee was arrested and placed under bail until Monday of next week, this being done because he was not ready for trial. Barbee, the defendant in this case, has done shooting . on more than one occasion. Several years ago he killed a man named Cole, but escaped pun ishment on the self-defense plea. Cholera in Prussia ' Berlin, Aug. 28. The official Rich stanzieger today ' says that since Au gust 16 seven cholera cases, three of which were fatal, have occurred in the Weichsel district, east Prussia. Traf fic from Welchsel has been placed un der medical and police control. OYCOTT LOSING ITS TIGHT GRIP Minister Rocbbiil Reports ai Expected Break AFFECTS COTTON GOODS Important to Southern Manuf act rers The Cotton Scandal Graften Made a Million Dollars or More. Indictments Expected in the Casi of Other Parties to the Conspiracy - e By THOMAS J. PENCE Washington, Aug. 28.-Special.-A dis patch was received at the state de partment today of much importance to southern cotton manufaeur-r came from W. W. Rockhill, United States minister at Pekln. wiio y, p - vvs ICU that the Chinese boycott on American Piece goods Is about to be lifted. The minister's ca.HT0faM ..- . o duliou mat ms information is to the effect that the anti-American boycott as a whole is gradually subsiding. He also reports that many of the merchants at Shang- tLAh6re the ycott beganv and which has been regarded as the head quarters of the movement, are using their influence against it and are tak ing steps which are likely to break the boycott so far as piece goods are ooncerned. The cotton mills of the south, are the largest exporters of piece goods of the cotton cloth variety. The news contained in Minister RockhiU's cablegram ia very gratifying to officials here, who are of the opinion that :t marks the beginning of the end of the boycott. The question Is often asked how much the cotton scandal grafters made as the result of the leaks obtained through Statistician Holmes' effort. It was stated 6day that not even the authorities nad any clear idea as to just how much the cotton conslpra tors cleaned up between them by the use of this advance information fur nished by Holmes. One estimate place the total at not less than a millio.: and a half dollars ; another estimat: reached one million. Not a single per son of those familiar with the facts in the cotton scandal is of the belief thai the cotton conspirators made less than half a million dollars. The general be lief is that their operations netted them a million and a half, if not more, and that they were preparing f oi ' a grand coup when suspicion was first directed against them and the first charges of irregularities in the bureau of statistics were presented by Secre tary Cheatham of the Southern Cottor? Growers' Association. It was learned today that'the fed. eral grand jury, which will meet to morrow after a recess of a week's du ration, will resume work on the cotton conspiracy. Other indictments againsf Holmes and his alleged conspirator.' will be returned, and it Is said tha' there is good reason to believe that i number of other persons, whose name: have been mentioned in connection witt the conspiracy but who have hereto fore been considered as Immune frorr. punishment, will be indicted by th grand jury. The biggest part of the task of se curing evidence against the cotton con spirators has been accomplished. Dis trict Attorney Beach considers it th most difficult investigation of his official-career. x J. Crawford Biggs of Durham and T. Staples Fuller of Raleigh stopped over here on their return from Nar ragansett Pier, where they attendee the meeting of the" American Bar As sociation. Other North Carolina law yers present were A. B. Andrews, Jr., F. H. Busbee and S. F. Mordecal. Mr. Busbee was elected vice-president from North Carolina and Mr. Biggs member of the general council of the associa tion from the state. ... . C. D. Brltt of Franklinton, N. C, wh Is general agent for the Chase CitJ mineral waters, has returned from a tour of the citleS of the east and ia spending a few days here. He has met with great success In introducing the Chase City drinking article, whicB is in such high favor that the demand almost equals the supply. Among today's arrivals are E. W. Womack of Charlotte and Mr. and Mr C. S. Cullen. Taft Party Homesick Manila, Aug. 28. The congressional party returned today from it.Isit tc the southern islands, without having visited Olongapo. All are in excellent health, but weary of sight-seeing and homesick. They will rail for Hons Kong on the transport L.ogan Thurs day noon. At Hong Kong the party will separate, Miss Roosevelt and her contingent proceeding to Pekin to visit the empress, and the rest of the party, lieaded by Taft. sailing for San Fran Cisco on the steamsh in Korea. W- A.