Late Telegraph News
Venna, Feb. 17:—Russia is mass- :
ing troops at the Rumanian and Aus- ;
trian frontier. i
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—ihe new i
mobilization of the army is effective
today. The Western Department,
Including Alaska, will be under tna 1
command of Major General Murray, i
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—Charles <
Heffner, of Seattle, has returned from ]
a trip to Trenton, where he had a I
conference with Woodrow Wilson. 1
He said he had impressed the Presi- 1
dent-elect with the necessity of mak- s
ing Alaska railroads the subject of
early consideration and was assured (
bv Mr. Wilson that the new adminis- '
tration would take up the matter !
soon after the inauguration.
NEW YORK, Feb. 15—Dispatches 1
from Mexico City state that the Fed- j
erals attacked the arsenal at mid- (
night and that President Madero de- t
dared that he would resign only in i
case the Senate dictated such a i
course. f
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—Presi
dent Taft told advisers that he would I
intervene in Mexico only when the i
Madero forces turned on Americans. 1
NEW YORK, Feb. 15—General
Stewart Lydon Woodford, who uorni- t
nated Gov. Hughes for the presidency C
at the Republican National Conven- f
tion in 190S, c’ied at his home in this
citv last night. i
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—Senator c
Jones and Representative Humphrey, f
of Washington state, assisted by Dele- c
gate Wickersliam are bending every
effort to secure favorable coal and
railroad legislation for Alaska early {
in the extra session of Congress to bo c
convened by President Wilson next j
month. Some definite plan of action a
will be decided on in th'3 interim as j;
they desire to see work oi a trunk r
line started this summer. The out
look was never brighter for favora- t
b’e legislation for Alaska. I
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—Presi s
dent Taft addressed the Senate, to I
day, in open sesion on the memory of t
the late Vice President JamesS. Slier- a
man. c
WASHINGTON, Peb. 15—Presi- t
dent Taft vetoed the Burnette-Dill- f
ingham nomination bill.
PRINCETON, Feb. 15—The guard j
for President-elect Wilson has been f
doubled. 1
MEXICO CITY, Peb. 15—The s
rrsignatlon of President Madero is g
believed to be in the hands of Con- i
gress and he has agreed to vacate offi
ce if the Senate wishes it. The Sen- f
ate was called to take action at the c
British legation, where Delabarra i
took v refuge, who stated that the >
resignation had been arranged. j
Delabarra will probably succeed f
to the presidency.
MEXICO CITY, Peb. 15—Delabar- i
ra is acting the part of the peace- s
maker. Diaz, however, refuses to <
consider terms until Madero resigns, l
This declaration has caused a ma
jority of the Senators to demand f
Madero's resignation. The Senators <
have made the following announce- c
ment: “President Taft telegraphed c
the British minister that the Ameri
can troops are coming to the Mexi- <
•■an capitol, as he considers inter- <
ventlon inevitable. i
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 15—“I will (
die rather than resign,” declared J
President Madero in reply to the £
Senate leaders who are urging him to 1
retire from the head of the govern
ment. As soon as this declaration I
became known the Rebels renewed .
theft, cannonading of the Palace. <
VERA CRUZ, Feb. 15—A report 1
was received here this afternoon that
iho Senate formally demanded the s
resignation of Madero. s
MEXICO CITY, Peb. 15—The In- t
fantry revolted and shot the officers, 1
after which it made a break for G.-n. t
Diaz. Thirty-eight of the men were 1
overpowered and will probab’y be ex- ’
ecuted. 1
SEATTLE, Peb. 15—Ambassador I
Wilson has wired friends here that f
Henry Weiss, manager of the Mexi
can-Pacific Company, a Seattle cor- f
porntion, has been reported killed. 1
CHICAGO, Feb. 14—McCarty and 1
Bombadier Wells have been matched ]
for a ten round fight, to take place at i
Madison Square, New York, on March 1
14. i
AYBANY, Peb. 14—Vincent Astor, ]
lifter a conference with Governor i
5ulzer, whose advice he sought, Astor
mnounced that he would take up
igrieultural research as a life work,
or the benefit of humanity.
TRENTON, Feb. 14—President
Vilson sprung a new one on the pub
ic last night, which means that the
uspense in reference to his selection
if men to fill the portfolios is to be
onger deferred. He said: "I will
ollow the good old fashioned met
iods and not make announcement un
il the names selected for the cabinet
,re sent to the Senate.”
CJNCTNNATTI, Feb. 14—Twenty
ifficials of cash register companies
re,-e foul'd guilty of conducting their
nisiness in restraint of trade.
CHARLESTON, W. Va„ Feb. 14—
Mother Jones, leading seven hundred
trikers, sought to interview Govern
>r Glasscock, but instead of being
;iven an opportunity to state their
Tievances the governor had them ar
ested on the charge of conspiracy
gainst the state
CAIMANERA, Cuba, Feb. 14—The
attleship Arkansas struck a reef
nd when refloated was found to be
making.
LONDON, Feb. 14—At the nation
1 memorial services for the late
'aptain Scott the King was so af
pcted that he shed tears.
CHARLESTON, W. Va„ Feb. 14 —
ktiorncy ffm, S. Edwards, one of the
andidates for the United States Sen
te before the deadlocked legislature i
f West Virgina, has been arrested on
ie charge of offering bribes for votes.
NEW YORK, Feb. 14—Purcell,
ne of the witnesses in the graft
ases, shot and killed his daughter t
ignes, aged twelve years and fired
t his wife. He was immediately
laced under arrest on the charge of
lurder.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 14—The bat
le was resumed today by General
daz and during the eannoading a
hell struck the convent, near the
alace. The inmates were praying at
he time and the explosion is reported
s having killed twelve people, in
luding seven' nuns. The Federal
roops have placed heavy guns in
ront of the United States Consulate.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 14—When
esterday's battle ended the Rebels
ad a slight advantage. During the
ist hour of the fighting the Federals
ttempted a charge toward the Arsen
1, but were repulsed, with a heavy
ass of life.
ivir,A.u_u un i, f eD. is-—Amoas
ador Wilson has received an official
ommunication from General Diaz,
a which the latter asserted that he
i-as in complete control of the city
nd asked that the United States
rant recognition to the belligerents.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 14—The
federal Army is dynamiting four
olid blocks in front of the position
ccupied by the Rebels and a des
erat battle is imminent,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 — The
date Department feels the gravest
oncern for the safety of the Ameri
ans at Acapulco, pending the arrival
f battleships.
SEATTLE, Feb. 14—In a letter re
eived by C. T Conover from Publish
er Sleicer, of Leslies’ Weekly, the
uagazine owner states that Collector
if Port Loeb, who has accepted an
dministrative position with the Gug
enheims, is deeply interested in Alas
a.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—Secre
ary of State Knox and Ambassador
esserand, of France, have signed a
onvention for another five years
icriod of the arbitration treaty.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—Repre
entative Olmstead, of Pennsylvania,
poke in favor of the Jones’ bill for
he settling o? the rights of the Alas
ka coal claimants. He declared that
he withdrawal of land in the Philip
dnes would precipitate conditions
rorsa than in Mexico; that Alaskans
lad been patient, but were ent't'ed to
letter treatment on the part of the
;overnment.
NEW YORK, Feb. 13—Six more
tories are to be added to the pro
losed Equitable Building, in lower
Iroadway, according to the revised
ilans now being considered by the
irchitects. The new structure will
le 43 stories high. There will be
everal other slight changes as com
iared to the original plans, which
allot! for a 37-story building.
The Woolworth Building has 55
stories, the Metropolitan 50 and the
Singer 41 stories.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 12—Three
thousand prisoners were today re
leased.
VANCOUVER BARRACKS, Feb.
13—General Mans has orders to pro
ceed immediately to Albany to com
mand the First brigade of the divi
sion.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13—The
eace Society, by resolution suggested
to President Taft and President-elect
Wilson a plan to police Mexico by the
nations of the world.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 13—The bat
tle betsveen the Federals and Diaz
forces was resumed at 8 o'clock this
morning at close range, and the
streets are strewn with dead bodies.
Among those killed were Mrs. W. H.
Holmes and Mrs. Percy Griffths, both
Americans.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13—Presi
dent Taft has authorized Ambassador
Wilson the use of unlimited funds if
necessary fo protect Americans.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13—Secre
tary of State Knox has instructed
Ambassador Wilson to warn all
Americans to keep out of the fighting
tone.
LONDON, Feb. 13—The press gen
jrally of England recognize the justi
fiecation of American intervetion in
Mexico.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 13—Ambassa
lor Wilson has rented a number of
louses on the outskirts of the city
tnd the Americans fled there in anti- j
cipation of a renewal of bombard- j
nent this morning.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 13—At 10 1
j’clock this morning General Felix
i iaz trained his heavy artillery on the
palace. A shell landed in the library
if the American Club, where it ex
ploded, causing much damage and
consternation but not resulting in any
ieaths.
The situation has become so seri
lus that a hundred thousand people
tiave fled from the city, fearing that
their lives were endangered. The!
streets are chocked with the remains !
if the dead and murder and robbery j
ire being carried to such an alarming |
3xtent that it has gotten beyond all
control.
The rules of warfare are also being
violated, the President of the Red
dross and several officials of the
socity charged with carying ammuni
tion in an ambulance being executed
by the Rebels.
CHRIST CHURCH, N. Z„ Feb. 13 j
—The steamer Terra Nova has arriv- j
sd here, bringing every written rec
ord and the diaries of Capt. Scott and
his party, who perished from hunger
and exposure after having reached j
the South pole.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 13—At a
dinner given last night, in commemo
ration of Lincoln’s birthday, Presi
dent Taft paid a tribute to the mar
tyred and closed with an attack upon
the Progressives, whom he hoped
would see the error of their way and
return to the ranks of the Republican
party.
• NEW YORK, Feb. 13—Theodore
Roosevelt addressed the National
Progressive Club, at its Lincoln day
celebration. He stated that what he
most dreaded, but which must not
be, is any compromise or yielding on
the part of the Progressives. The
Colonel repeated that the decision of
the Idaho court in sending to jail the
editors of the Capitol News for con
tempt, in printing his attack upon
that tribunal, was an outrage upon
the state and Union.
TRENTON, Feb. 13—Woodrow
Wilson has announced that he will
resign the governorship on March 1.
LONDON, Feb. 13—Mrs. Ammeline
Parkhearst and other leaders mobbed
Croden and began their meeting by
attacking the crown, whose mail had
been destroyed by the suffragettes.
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 13—The
Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed
the decison of Judge Handford in the
case of Olson, of Tacoma, who had
his naturalization papers taken away
from him.
SEATTLE, Feb. 13—At an early
hour this morning fire broke out in
the Seattle Times building and before
the flames could be gotten under con
trol the entire plant was gutted.
Practically everything was destroyed
with the exception of the big presses,
which were damaged by water and
smoke. This property is valued at
$1,000,000 and Col. Blethen stated it
would be impossible to estimate th*
loss until it was learned what might
be saved out of the wreck.
The curtain lias dropped on the last
act of the bank farce. The people of
the Tanana valley have been treated
to a farce-comedy that would be in
teresting and funny, were it not at
tended with such disastrous results.
—Fairbanks Citizen.
-o—o—o
Captain Whorf occupies a unique
osition among the several coal claim
ants in Alaska, having been set down
by the Interior Department as the
only honest man among them.—Val
dez Prospector.
-o—o—o
Cook Etchinson, a young mechanic,
formerly employed by the Knnecott '
Mines Co., at the interior terminal of
the Copper River & Northwestern
railroad, and who left last spring to 1
attend the Curtis school of aviation
at San Diego, Calif., is now a visitor
at Juneau. 1
Mr. Etchinson made four flights at 1
San Diego, and another from San 1
brancisco to Mare island, the highest <
altitude attained being 1,200 feet. :
While he intends returning later to 1
he aviation school, just now he is <
looking over the field in Juneau, says i
:he Daily Empire. *
-o—o—o
Alaska Quartz Company, a Seattle 1
rorporation, with mines at Knik, lias
Sled its articles of incorporation un- 1
ler the Washington law, with the 1
ecretary of the territory. The incor
porators are E. H. Barthoff, H. E. '
Amnion and C. A. Halloway. Its '
issets consit of five claims valued at 3
550,000.
According to a statement made
even hundred tons of herring shipped
front the West Coast of Prince of
Wales island, to Japan were used as
fuel on the steamer that carried the
pargo. The vessel ran short of fuel
before it reached its destination, and
after the fish had been all fed to the
urnace, the ship was stripped of most
of its woodwork and this also was
burned. The steamer finally reached
port.
-o—o—o
If the Congress only would pass
legislation opening the coal fields of
Alaska, under the leasing system or
any other old w'ay, the railroads
would be built by private capital.
oal opening is our prime need. Agi
tation should be directed along this
line.—Seward Gateway.
However good a man’s intention
may be, however hard a man may
try to please, he will meet with op
position to his plans, actions or de
sires. And that is only natural. For
one’s plans, actions or desires, when
expressed may not be for the best in
terest of all, or even for the majority.
It wholly depends on the circumstanc
es, environments and conditions.—
Petersburg Progressive.
-o—o—o
There are good grounds for the as
sertion one hears so frequently now
adays: “We are in the best camp in
Alaska today.” We are, and the
next few months will prove it.—Idit
arod Pioneer.
-o—o- —o
Arrangements are being made to
have Sidney Laurence sketch Mount
McKinley, from which a painting is
to be made for exliibt at the Panama
Exposition at San Francisco.
Mr Laurence has been in that coun
try and says he knows a point from
which a splendid view of the moun
tain can be had, where the valley at
the base of the mountain is dark and
sombre, while, on a clear day, the
mountain proper gives forth such a
bright sheen as to dazzle the eye.
Mr. Laurence has traveled the
world over and says that never be
fore has he beheld such a grand and
imposing spectacle as is presented
by Mt. McKinley under just the prop
er weather conditions, and for that
reason he is prepared to make his
sketches within a short time after his
arrival at the point of vantage or to
remain there until the winter again
sets in. He will establish his camp
on Wolf creek, a tributary of the
Takositna. He left Seward on his
long journey a few days ago and
hardly expects to return until late in
the summer or early in the fall to
begin work on the painting.
home lew years ago a deputy mar
shal was assigned to duty at Nusha
gak. Upon arrival there he very
quickly let it be known that “every
body would have to get married," or
by the power invested in him, he
would gather them in to his bastile.
Of course, the minion of the law, in
Issuing his edict, meant that wmte
men who had taken native women
Into their homes—the law calls it a
harsher name—would have to go
through the formality of a marriage,
Ccr the protection of the women as
(veil as the offspring.
Now there were a lot of young
native bucks roaming around the
Vushagak country who were not
ready to enter the ranks of the
Benedicts, but they took the mar
shal's edict literally, and thought it
lieant that they, too, must seek a
lelpmate. Hence, there was a wild
scramble, exceeding the effort of
Seward bachelors, to get dusky maid
■ns to become their wives. Many
veddings, under these circumstances,
ook place, according to one who was
>n the ground.—Seward Gateway.
-X-X-X
At Juneau, where there is the great
■st activity, due to the investment of
urge capital in local mining enter
srises, one would think, after reading
i few papers from there that in a few
rears there will be a city of the pro
sortions of Helena, or Butte, or Seat
!e where Juneau now stands. Here,
n the Ruby district, work is going on
space. During the past few weeks
niners have been busy at representa
:on work, but from this time forth
vill dewote their efforts to active
nining operations, and it may be said
hat a most optimistic spirit is pre
valent throughout the district. All
>f which looks very encouraging and
miphasizes the fact that Alaska is
■rging a head.—Ruby Record-Citizen
Road building in Alaska is as diffl
:ult as it is important; it is expesive,
oo, despite the great abundance of
•oad material in the northern coun
ry; but the report of progress made
n constructing serviceable highways
'or Alaska is most encouraging, and
(hows that Alaska’s highway com
nissioners fully realize the import
ince and imperative need of a better
system of highways in the open areas
if the North.—Vaezld Miner.
-o—o—o
The machinery on the Everman
:!aim on Betties bay, Port Wells, is
low in operation. Much more rapid
irogress in sinking is reported from
his likely claim. Upon reaching the
100-foot level Mr. Everman will com
mence drifting on the vein. The
(vork is being done by contract.
The land office at Juneau has been
notified by the Interior Department
that it has approved the application
of Richard S. and James J. Ryan for
patent to 150 acres of land on Con
troller Bay, sought by the applicants
as a terminal for the Ryan railroad
to coal claims in the Bering river
district.
It ws over the application now ap
proved that the Dick-to-Dick letter
was said to have been written.
--o—o—o
The Alaska Road Commision is
making preparations for the con
struction of a bridge across the Ni
zina river in the early Spring. Lieut.
Edgerton is now in the interior and
the Arctic Lumber company will for
ward the timbers as soon as through
traffic is resumed on the railroad,
which will be the latter part of this
week.
Alaskans are hopeful that Presi
dent-elect Wilson will visit the North
■ he stated in recent interviews. The
visit of the President would make
history. No president has ever seen
the country which cost the United
Sttes just two cents an acre.
Merl LaVoy, who accompanied
Prof. Hershel Parker and Belmore
Browne on their last trip to Mount
McKinley, is in Tacoma trying to fi
nance another epedition to the moun
tain this year, which he hopes will
result in the first actual ascent to
the topmost point of the famous
peak. C. E. Rush, of Prosser, Wash,
is interested with him in arranging
the expedition.
■-o—o—n
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The Ketchikan brass band boys
have received “nifty” uniforms, con
sisting of dark blue coats, and white
duck pants, the latter with blue
braid down the side.
Chief Deputy Marshal Bouse is the
Coal Oil Johnny of Valdez. He let
loose of <ii 2,000 last week. No, he
did not spend it in riotous living;
not John, says the Valdez Miner.
Nor did he give it to anybody that
asked for it; not he. He paid it
out in the name of the law to the
jurors and witnesses who have been
attending court.
-o—o—o
The Fairbanks Citizen is making
arrangements, it is said to enter the
daily field. It is now a splendid
weekly publication.
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