The Ketchikan miner., 1908-09-26

Neep up with the new cases. The dead houses" are filled with un- l buried corpses ana which it is impis. sihle to get men to inter in graves. : The government threatens martial l law. All the schools of the city are
 closed. and the school buildings have been turned into hospitals. The mu'
 nieipal council voted today to use
 soo0. O00 to add to the present hospital
 space.
 l Menphis. Tenn. Sept. 2l.-In ar immense mass meeting here of the ] Iadc penderce League. William k. l Hearst. who has so openly charged
 that leading men of the Republican party were bribed by the Standard Oil Company makes the same grave charges against the Democratic leao- CTS. He renewed his attack on Cover
 nor Haskell of Oklahoma. treasurer oi l the Democratic committee. He ae- cused the governor of complicity with
 the Standard Oil company, and with
 using his powers as chief executive of Oklahoma to prevent the states at
 torney from enjoining subsidiary Oyster Bay, Sept. 2l.-ln letter
 to Congressman Mckinley, President Roosevelt appeals to disinteresteG voters to support the republican tick ct and says the only hope of Taft's success lies in the independent vote. 4. failure to receive that vote. Roose- yelt says. will mean disaster to Will liam Taft.
 Manila. Sept. al.-The Cholera epidemic has gained new headway here despite the efforts of the author ities and the help of the hundred ex. tra force added to the health bureau. Fifty-eight new cases have been re- ported today. There were nineteen
 deaths yesterday and six this morning. company of the gigantic oil corpora ton. He also read correspondence al- legged to have been between John D..
 Archbold of New York, and one of the members of congress, showing the friendship of Joseph, Bailey, senator from Texas for the notorious oil mo- nopoly. -
 Cincinnati, Sept. 21-Joseph B. Foraker, Sentaor from Ohio, has can celled his engagement to speak at the great meeting here in Music Hall on Tuesday night. h letter to Mir Taft. who is to speak at that time, he says that in view of the wide spread
 reports about himself, and the charges of Mr. Hearst. that while he deems his answers to MT. Hearst sufficient. yet he feels he ought not to inIure the cause or embarass Mr. Taft by ap- bearing at that meeting on the same platform with him. The senior Ohio senator is greatly dumfounded by the publicity given to his connection with the Standard Oil company and has de- cided not only to cancel the Music Hall engagement but all others he had planned and not to appear further in the campaign.
 Washington. Sept. 22.-The Chinese Embassy here has received word that the reported rumor that the cholera news from China was exaggerated, is untrue. Cholera is rapidly spreading in China as it is elsewhere through the Orient. There are now sixty deaths resulting from the plague each day at Honkaw on the Yang Si River and the epidemic has been carried by boats all along the river. The disease is more prevalent at Shanghai and eisew here shro1ghout the empire.
 New York. Sept. 22.-Six light ips started from here today for the Pacific Coast by way of the Horn. They left heavily provisioned for. the Ioug voyage and will not stop longer shan necessary in South American or Mexican ports CD route. They leave here al this season in order to reach Atlantic and Pacific waters in good weather.
 Seattle. Sept. 22.-The ship St. Paul from Chignik. on the south shore of the Alaskan PeniDsula. lost two men in the fierce storm last Sunday while on her trip up. The St. Paul probably belongs to the North West ern Fishery Company, and is return ing for the sesson's pack.
 La Mars, France, Sept. 9. This city was today the scene of another high achievement in aerial navigation. One of Wilbur Wright's famous aero- DE; nes made the ascent ID the valley of the Surthe, making a flight oi forty
 miles, and breaking the worlds re- cord for distance flight. IL was obliged to descend at last only on &C., count of darkness. When they came down they found that the tank had sufficient essence to last for another hours flight.
 Oyster Bay, Sept. ?. Roosevelt issued another statement today con- corning the political status. and ap- peals to all who believe in his poli
 cies and his program for the over throw Of monopoly and dishonesty, and .bc i.tut co1trol of coruopata in