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past year was $50,900,000, an increase of
nearly $20,000,000.
Valdez: Fire of an incendiary origin
caused a loss of $500,000 in this city at
an early hour this morning. One suspect
is held by the federal authorities pending
an investigation. Fires were started in
lour different sections of the business dis
trict and before the flames were under
i control the following business houses
were destroyed: Golden North hotel.
Arcade cafe, the big mercantile establish
ment of S. Blum & Co., Empress theater,
Pinseon bar and cigar store, Louie’scafe,
Max Schmidt’s store, the postoffice, Ari- ;
zona hotel, Alameda house, Ellis block
I Haines sheet metal works. Three resi
dences also were destroyed and fora time
it was feared that the entire business dis
trict would go. The burned section was
only partially insured.
, Phoenix: There is an uproar in Ari
zona official circles in consequence of the
refusal of Governor Hunt to vacate his
office in favor of Campbell, the Repub
lican candidate, who claims that he has
been elected. The official count, which
is now in progress, favors Campbell, but
the final result is by no means certain as ]
yet. Governor Hunt locked the legislat- j
ive offices late Saturday afternoon and j
refuses to let Campbell in. Campbell j
threatens to have the governor arrested j
if he attempts to have himself inaugurat
ed before the official count is finished.
New York: Railway managers refuse
to comply with the terms of the Adamson
eight-hour law on the grounds that a de
cision has not yet been handed down by
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the supreme court. It is believed that
they are playing tor time, in order to
wait until Congress has enacted the com
pulsory arbitration law which President
Wilson and Senator Newlands have
agreed upon.
San Francisco: Prominent residents of
Tacoma, testifying in the Bopp case, de
clare that Charles Crowley, alleged go
between, was in Tacoma on the night
llie thirty-ton barge of dynamite was
blown up in the harbor near Seattle.
Seattle: Searching parties are out in
an effort to locate Otto Poweil and wife,
who are lost in the snow below Mount
Rainier. It is feared that they have per
ished.
Phoenix: Campbell, Republican, has
been inaugurated governor despite the
protest of Hunt, present incumbent. The
latter, however, still holds the fort at
the state capitoi, and refuses to let Camp
bell in.
Washington: The new election bill
which is now receiving the consideration
of congress limits campaign contributions
to one and oue-lialf cents per capita of
the party receiving the money. The bill
also penalizes the betting on election re
sults and compels newspapers to accept
all nominations as advertising, under
penalty of losing mail rights.
Sacramento: The safe in the office of
the Southern Pacific here is short 51300
as the result of having been dynamited
by night visitors. The robbers escaped.
Washington: Professor Lowell Thom
as of Princeton, addressing the National
Parks conference, declared the scenery of
Alaska to be the greatest asset of that ter
ritory. He predicts a ten-fold increase
in population after the completion of the
government railroad.
Washington: Representatives of the
Seamen, the American Federation of la
bor and the several Brotherhoods have
served notice on the congressional labor
committee violently opposing compulsorv
arbitration. James Emery, president of
the National Manufacturers association,
has indorsed the measure.
Sydney: Floods in Southern Tasman
ia have caused the death of at least 100
persons during the past several days.
Many families are marooned in trees and
several towns have been devastated.
Regina: Saskatchewan is now com
pletely dry. All the government stores
have been closed.
Washington: Allotments for roads and
trails in national forests in Alaska have
been increased $46,354.
Washington: Congressional leaders are
?oing over the free list with a view to ex- |
tending the tariff so as to avoid a deficit!
luring the present fiscal year.
Seattle: The New Seattle Chamber of '
Commerce and the Seattle Commercial
:lub have been merged, their consolida
tion ending a long and hitter fight in
local business circles.
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Newark: R. E. Welters, for many
years prominent in baseball circles, died
in this city yesterday at the age of forty
years. He is said to have pitched the
lirst no-liit game.
Denver: The condition of Win. F.
(Buffalo Bill) Cody, who has been ill in
this citv during the past four weeks, is
considerably worse and it is feared that he
will not survive.
Seattle: Lucille Baumgart, four years
of age, was burned to death in a fire
which occurred on Thursday on Alki av
enue. Four houses were destroyed be
fore the flames were brought under con
trol,
Washington: Edwin II. Hurley, chair
man of the federal trade commission, ha
! tendered his resignation to President Wil
! son, with the request that he be relieved
immediately. It is his des.re to retire to
I private life.
Walla Walla: Mrs. N. C. E. Montgom
ery, wife of a prominent physician, ad
ministered a severe horsewhipping tc
i County Treasurer Guy Allen Turner, al
1 leging that the official slandered her.
Washington: The termination of the
conferences between the Mexican and
American commission, the withdrawal of
the Pershing column and the resumption
of other forms of conferences are said to
be the plan of the administration in deal
ing with the Mexican situation. Presi
dent Wilson is quoted as saving that con
ditions in the South at present dc not re
quire drastic or immediate action.
4LONG THE BORDER
El Paso: Attacked by Yillistas at Los
Medinos, five hundred of Carranza’s men
deserted and are now fighting with the
bandit.
Washington: The administration is
preparing to withdraw the Pershing col
umn from Mexico. It is expected, also,
that Ambassador Arondondo will be re
called.
El Paso: The Carranza government
recently sent $l,d00,l>00 to Japan for the
purchase of guns, and one shipment is
reported to have arrived already.
El Paso: A force of 7000 Carranzistas
under General Murgia is reported to have
engaged an equal number of Yillistas
near Jiminez.
Washington: Special dispatches re
ceived by the state department confirm
the reports received earlier regarding the
"ctivities of Villa in Northern Mexico.
It is claimed that the bandit now has
more than 10,000 men underarms.
El Paso: General Murgia, commander
of the Carranza forces, is reported to
have met and defeated a Villa army near
Guerrero. Twenty-five of Villa’s men
were killed and 125 were taken prisoners
The Carranzista forces also captured a
large quantity of ammunition.
El Paso: Reports received in this city
state that the city of Montery has been
evacuated by the followers of Carranza,
with the exception of 300 soldiers, who
declare that they are going to wait and
join with Villa when the bandit chief ar
rives with his army. It is expected that
the Yillistas Will occupy the city within
the next few days.
Belgians Say Germans
Are Starving Workers
. The Hague: Tales of starvation and
death in the camp for deported Belgian
civilians at Soltau, Prussia, have been
brought back by Belgians who were sent
home because of illness. A number of
the men were interviewed by representa
tives of the Associated Press, and the
stories, gathered separately, agreed in
every detail. Several of the men who
returned were in an almost dying condi
tion when they reached Belgium.
Wilson Will Appeal
To Fighters Again
Washington; Should the reply of the
Entente powers to the Wilson peace note
fail to meet with the approval of the pres
ident, it is understood that he will not
let negotiations drop, but will make at
least one more effort to induce the bel
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FOOD PRICES SOAR
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j Washington: According to n report of j
] the Bureau of Labor made public this
| week, food prices throughout the United
j States have increased front 20 to 120 per
j cent during the past year. Prices are
j still going up.
RELIEF IN SIGHT FOR
THE HUMAN RACE
St. Louis: In an address delivered be-;
fore a scientific gathering in this city, j
Dr. William S. Sadler, noted Chicago
surgeon, announced that successful oper
ations had been performed on animals to j
prove the practicability of transplanting ■
organs from one bendy to another. lie j
j declared that corporations would soon be !
j able to take mortgages on the kidneys of
their laborers, so that when one of the
men was killed, his kidney, if sound, i
could be transplanted to a living work
man with a diseased kidnev.
VILLA NOW BRANDED
AS MEXICAN OUTLAW
Washington: It is now understood to
j be the plan of the administration to send
Ambassador Fletcher to Mexico City to :
take up through regular diplomatic chan
nels all questions arising in the future !
with regard to Mexico. Villa is toberec-j
ognizjd as a belligerent, and the United j
States will reser%-e the right to cross the
bonier at anv time in pursuit of the ban
dit chief and his followers. It is consid
ered certain that the Pershing column
will be withdrawn.
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