Show LEPRO Y V AS Of U A MALIGNANT TYPE Strange Discovery by an Internal Revenue Inspector STE1K1NG RAILROAD STRIG EMPLOYEES ARRESTED SERIOUS LOSS BY FLOODS IX BRITISH BRIT-ISH COLUMBIA Many Moons Must Fade Before Any Grass Makes Its Appearance Killed by the Overturning of a Vehicle Collision on the Northern Pacific in Which One Man I Killed and Several Injured San Francisco Cal July 29The internal in-ternal revenue inspector today discovered discover-ed a Chinese leper in a lodging house of the Chinese quarter over a butcher shop The leprosy was of a malignant type The afflicted mongolian had occupied occu-pied the same room for thirteen years having the disease during the entire period pe-riod of his residence here Charged with Conspiracy San Francisco July 29Two striking railroad employees who were employed in the shop at Sacramento and arrested about three weeks ago for interfering with the mails have been arrested and brought to this city charged with conspiracy con-spiracy against the United States government govern-ment The complaint against each of the men was prepared by Assistant United States Attorney Knight Both prisoners are machinists and members of the A R U Their Condition Deplorable Vancouver B C July 2The serious nature of the losses to the upriver farmers farm-ers by the recent disastrous Hoods is now becoming more evident In many places all the farmer has left is a mud fiat on which his cattle and horses have to find sustenance and it will be in many cases a month yet before any grass makes its appearance if it does at all this season Much has been done for these farmers but many would not accept aid and they are the ones who are suffering The condition of many of them is deplorable Killed by a Wagon Overturning Ukiah Cal July 29An accident occurred oc-curred on the Boonville road five miles from this city yesterday by which Mrs Lydia Brantner was instantly killed by the overturning of a vehicle in which herself and two children were riding The brakes on the wagon were defective defec-tive and the team and the wagon were thrown over a steep embankment The mother escaped was injury instantly killed the children He Disobeyed Orders Tacoma Wash July 29The eastbound east-bound Northern Pacific overland passenger passen-ger train ran jnto a westbound freight I train at South Prairie yesterday morning An unknown man stealing a ride on the passenger engine was killed Fireman Clement of the freight tram was injured and today had his leg amputated am-putated Engineer Robinson of the freight lost the compressed air while going downgrade down-grade thereby losing control of his train which was finally stopped by the handbrakes hand-brakes Before it could be signalled the passenger pas-senger crashed into i a heavy fog preventing pre-venting the headlight being seen Engineer Robinson of the freight left his engine and has not been seen Had his train been stopped on the switch as I ordered occurred the accident would not have |