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WAS H l NGTON, July 29. — The
senate today confirmed the nomina
tions of M. T. Dooling and Elbert
Schoonover as federal judge and dis
trist .attorney respectively, for tne
Southern District of California.
WASHINGTON, July 29.—It has
leaked out today that the ideas of
the President and Ambassador Wil
son are widely different as to the
policy to be pursued in Mexico. The
chief recommendations of the am
bassador for the settlement of the
trouble in Mexico is that the United
States recognize the Huerta adminis
tration, and use its influence to es
tablish the same. It is alleged that
in the event of the recognition of the
Huerta government, Mexico will be
able to borrow a sufficient amount
of money from foreign bankers to
finance a successful campaign against
the rebels, and put an end to the
strife. The President does not agree
with this policy, and he is supported
by the cabinet in his position. Owing
to this disagreement it is extremely
doubtful if Ambassador Wilson will
be returned to Mexico, and it is be
lieved he will hand in his resigna
tion within a few days.
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• WASHINGTON, July 29.—Con
gressman Underwood, leader of the
house democrats, appeared before the
senate investigating committee today.
He made a sweeping denial of all the
testimony of Mulhall relating to him
self, declaring that he was never in
frequent conference with the latter,
or in fact, had never met him. He
denounced Mulhall as a liar and a
blackmailer.
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HONGKONG, July 29.—The Brit
ish river packets at Canton have been
ordered to hold themselves in readi
ness to remove the women and chil
dren from Shameen. a suburb of
Shanghai, where most of the foreign
residents of the city make their
home, in the event of a continuation
of the fighting.
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EL PASO, July 2S.—Mexican sol
diers turned over to Charles B.
Dixon, United States immigration ]
inspector. Lew Fuga, a Chinaman
who was attempting to illegally enter
the country. While taking the pris
oner away Dixon was shot in the
back and may die.
SEATTLE, July 26.—W. J. Boland,
attorney for the Alaska Northern
Railway, appeared before the house
committee on territories, which is
now considering the Alaska railroad
bill.
Boland stated that two groups of
capitalists were prepared to finance
a railroad from Resurrection bay to
the Matanuska coal fields and the
Tanana as soon as congress should
pass’some bill for the opening of the
coal fields. He urged that the con
struction of the railroad by the gov
ernment, in the event the coal fields
were opened for development, was
wholly unnecessary and a waste of
government money, and that as soon
as assured that the restrictions at
present holding the territory at a
standstill were removed, private
capital would construct railroads
throughout the territory wherever
the necessity arose, and the business
to be developed would warrant.
The attorney urged that the bill
be amended so that the president
be authorized to decide whether the
government ghould build the pro
jected roads or they should be built
by private capital.
WASHINGTON, July 29.—Secre
tary of the Treasury McAdoo this
morning made the charge that the
banks of New York were making a
concerted effort to defeat the Glass
currency bill.
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LONDON, July 29.—The Pall Mall j
Gazette stated this morning that the
next trip made by King George and
Queen Mary would be to Canada, and j
it is anticipated will extend to New
York and Washington.
SEATTLE. July 29.—The gold re
ceipts received by the local assay
office for the fiscal year ending July
1, 1913, amount to $5,000,000,
divided as follows:
Iditarod. $1,430,000
Nome $1,000,000
Fairbanks $430,000
Canadian points, $1,200,000.
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• WIMBLEDON, July 29. — The
Davis cup, the international tennis
trophy, which has been held in Eng
land since 1903, will be returned to
the United States, the American
players winning the series by the de
feat of Dixon, the veteran English
champion by McLaughlin, the Cali
fornia champion, by a score of 3 to 2.
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WASHINGTON". July 29.—Sen
ator Bacon, of Georgia, the first sen
ator to be elected by a direct vote of
the people, was sworn in today.
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CHICAGO, July 29.—As a result
of the deliberations of the grand
jury, twelve alleged members of the
arson trust have been indicted and
taken into custody. Among those
indicted is Joseph Fish, the million
aire insurance adjuster, who is
charged with having conspired with
the firebugs, and through his stand
ing, defrauded the insurance com
panies out of millions of dollars.
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GRAND RAPIDS. Mich., July 29.
—Miss Barbara Lowe, daughter of
Edward Lowe, is without a trosseau
and her marriage to Milton Quaint
auce is jus't one day away. Burglars
early today robbed the dressmaking
establishment which was supplying
her wedding costumes and carried off
gowns and millinery said to be worth
$3,000.
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SHANGHAI, July 29.—Fighting
between the rebels and the govern
ment troops was resumed this morn
ing. even more fiercely than before,
the seeming collapse of the revolt
evidently having been a ruse on the
part of the rebels to gain time and
recruit reinforcements. The fighting
is going on throughout the city, and
shells from the government gun
boats, in the harbor, have fallen in j
the foreign section, doing consider- |
able damage and creating intense ex
citement among the residents.
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NOGALES, July 29.—The Mexican
federal gunboat Tampico was blown
up and sunk this morning by a bomb
dropped from an aeroplane employed
by the rebel forces.
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PARIS, July 28.—A draughtsman
from the great Krupp gun factory has
sold a secret plan to the French
government for the manufacture of
a gun that will prove effective against
aeroplanes.
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CHARLESTON, W. Va., July 30.
—The strike among the coal miners
of the Kanawa and Cabin Creek dis
tricts has been settled and the min
ers are returning to work. The
strike resulted in a complete victory
for the miners, their demands for
increased pay and the recognition of
the union having been granted.
TACOMA, July 29.—Following the
discovery of gold nuggets in the
streets, Puyallup presented the ap
pearance of a miniature Klondike
rush. Berry pickers threw aside
their baskets, business men left their
offices and joined in panning black
sand on Second Street.
The gold rush started Sunday
evening, when word leaked out that
Charles Fulmer, superintendent of a
fruit growers' association, had found
a handful of nuggets in the sand left
by a well-digging gang.
Pans used for sorting berries in
the canneries were borrowed by the
gold seekers and used to wash the
sand. Several nuggets worth $2.50
each were found.
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SEATTLE, July 29.—Mayor Cot
terill last night made a recommenda
tion to the city council that the city
reimburse the socialists and I. W. W.
for their property destroyed during
the rioting of last Friday.
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SEATTLE, July 29.—James Mc
Donald, president of the school
board, whose candidacy for the post
mastership in this city has been
blocking the confirmation of Edward
Battles in the senate, dropped dead
of heart disease this morning.
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LONDON, July 30.—At a confer
ence of the ambassadors of the Euro
pean powers here today, the status
of the new kingdom of Albania was
decided upon. The decision of the
conference was that a prince shall be
nominated by the Albanians, who
shall meet with the approval of the
powers, and who shall commence his
~ule in sis months.
NEW ALASKAN
MINING LAW
The Alaskan has received so many
inquiries for copies of the placer
mining law, which it has been un
able to supply, that it is published
in its entirety. The portion relating
to lode mining claims is not pub
lished.
General Provisions Concerning Ixide
and Placer Mining Claims
Section 1. That no person shall
hereafter locate any mining claim in
the Territory of Alaska as attorney
for another unless he is duly auth
orized thereto by a power of attor
ney in writing, which shall be wit
nessed by two witnesses, but need
not be acknowledged, and recorded
in the office of the recorder in whose
precinct such location is made, previ
ous to the date of the intitiation of
such location.
Sec. 2. That the value of work
or labor done under the provisions
of this act shall be computed on the
basis of the wage for similar work
current in the precinct wherein the
claim is situate.
Sec. 3. That during each year
and until patent has been issued
therefor, not less than one hundred
dollars’ worth of labor shall be per
formed or improvements made on,
or for the benefit of each and every
twenty acres or fractional part
thereof contained in any placer claim
hereafter located and after the 31st
day of December. 1914. one hundred
dollars' worth of labor shall be per
formed or improvements made on or
for the benefit of each and every
twenty acres, or fractional part
thereof contained in any claim here
tofore located, and such work shall
be known as "annual assessment
work.” The owner of such claim
or some other person having knowl
edge of the facts shall make and file
with the recorder of the precinct
wherein such claim is situate, an
affidavit showing the performance of
labor or making of improvements to
the amount of one hundred dollars
for each and every twenty acres or
fractional part thereof contained in
such claims as aforesaid and specify
ing the character of such labor or
improvements.
Such affidavit shall set forth the
following:
(a) The name or number of the
claim and where situated.
(b) The number of days' work
done and the character and value of
the improvements made thereon.
(c) Date of the performance of
isuch labor and making of improve
ments.
(d) The place where such work
was done and improvements made
with reference to the boundaries of
such claim.
(e) At whose instance the work
was done and improvements made.
(f) The actual amount paid for
such work and improvements and by
whom paid when such work was not
done or improvements made by the
owner.
Such affidavit shall be filed with
the precinct recorded not later than
ninety days after the close of the cal
endar year in which the work was
done or improvements made. For
the filing, recording and indexing of
such affidavit the recorder shall col
lect the sum of one dollar and fif
ty cents. Upon failure to comply
with all the provisions of this sec
tion such claim shall become for
feited and open to location by oth
ers as if no location had been made.
Sec. 4. That any person who shall
make or subscribe any affidavits re
quired to be made under the pro
visions of this act, knowing the
statements therein contained, or any
of them, to be false in whole or in
part, or without knowing the state
ments therein contained to be true,
shall be deemed guilty of perjury,
and upon conviction thereof shall
be punished by 'imprisonment in the
penitentiary not less than one nor
more than five years.
Any person who shall induce or
procure, or who shall aid in inducing
or procuring another person to com
mit perjury, as the same is herein
defined, shall be deemed guilty of
subordination of perjury, and upon
conviction thereof shall be punished
as herein provided for perjury.
Location of Placer Claim.
Sec. 12 1-4. That no association
placer mining claim 6hall hereafter
be located in Alaska in excess ol
| forty acres.
Sec. 12 1-2. No person shall
locate placer mining claims for more
than two individuals under power or
powers of attorney, executed as pro
vided in section one of this act, and
no agent or attorney shall be per
mitted to locate more than two
placer mining claims for any one
person during any calendar month.
Sec. 12 3-4. That no person shall
hereafter locate or cause to be lo
cated for himself more than two
placer mining claims in any calen
dar month.
Sec. 13. Any person who dis
covers upon the public domain of the
United States, within the Territory
of Alaska, a placer deposit of gold
or other deposit of mineral having a
commercial value, which is subject
to entry and patent under the min
ing laws of the United States, may, if
qualified by the laws of the United
States, locate a mining claim upon
such deposit, in the following man
ner:
Sec. 14. He must at the time of
discovery post conspicuously at the
point of discovery, a notice of loca
tion thereof, containing (a) the
name or number of the claim; (b)
the name of the locator or locators;
(c) the date of discovery and post
ing of notice as in this section pro
vided for; (d) number of feet in
length and width claimed: the
notice herein described shall be
known as the location notice.
Sec. 15. At the time of posting
of the notice of location, he shall
distinctly mark the location on the
ground so that its boundaries can be
readily traced, by placing at each
corner or angle thereof substantial
stakes or posts not less than three
feet high above the ground and three
inches in diameter and hewed on the
side facing the claim or by placing
at each corner or angle jhereof
mounds of earth or rock not less
than three feet high. Whatever
monument is used it must be marked
with the name or number of the
claim and the designation of the
corner by number, and the monu
ment nearest the discovery shall be
the initial post, or monument, and
shall be post, stake or monument
number one: and further the cor
ners shall be numbered in regular
rotation. If the claim is located on
ground that is covered wholly or in
part with brush or trees, such brush
shall be cut and trees be marked or
blazed along the lines of such claim
to indicate the location of such lines.
If located in an open country the
boundary lines shall be marked by
placing line stakes or line monu
ments so as to readily lead from
corner 'to corner of such claim.
Sec. 16. Within ninety days
from the date of discovery, and prior
to the filing of the certificate of loca
tion as provided in the following sec
tion. the locator or locators shall
perform labor upon such claim in de
veloping the same, to an amount
which shall be equivalent in the ag
gregate to one hundred dollars’
worth of such work for each twenty
acres, or fractional part thereof
contained in such claim, and such
work shall be known as and shall
constitute “location work." Nothing
in this act shall be held to apply to
lands located under the laws of the
United States as placer claims for
the purpose of the development of
petroleum and natural gas and other
natural oil products.
Sec. 17. Within ninety days after
the discovery the locator shall
record with the recorder of the pre
cinct wherein such claim is situate,
a certificate of location. Such certi
ficate shall contain:
(a) The name or number of the
claim.
(b) The name of the locator or
locators.
(c) The date of discovery and
posting of the location notice.
(d! Number of feet in length
and width claimed.
Such certificate shall also set
forth a description of the location
of such claim w'th reference to some
natural object, permanent monu
ment or well known mining claim;
a description of the boundaries, cor
ner monuments and markings there
on, and a description of the loca
tion work and the place where the
same has been performed. Such cer
tiflicate of location shall not be ac
cepted for record by the precinct
recorder unless the same be verified
before some officer authorized to
administer oaths, by the locator, or
locators, if there be more than one.
or by an authorized agent, having
personal knowledge of the facts re
quired to be stated therein. A cer
tificate of location so verified, or a
certified copy thereof, shall he prima
facie evidence of all the facts prop
erly recited therein.
Sec. 18. If the discoverer of any
placer deposit fail to comply with
any of the provisions of sections 14.
15, 16 and 17 within the time there
for specified, all right to appropriate
any portion of the public domain,
acquired by him by reason of his
discovery, shall cease; and any
placer mining claim attempted to be
located in violation of sections 12%,
12% and 12%, or any of them,
shall be pull and void and the area
thereof may be located by any
qualified locator as if no such previ
ous attempt had ever been made.
Sec. 19. All acts and parts of
acts in conflict therewith are hereby
repealed to the extent of such con
flicts.
There is an addition to section 9
which reads as follows:
“'For such verification and the exe
cution of the certificate thereof the
precinct recorder or other officer
taking and executing the same shall
charge a fee of not more than fifty
cents."
The act was approved April 30,
and becomes effective ninety days
thereafter.
FAIRS PiTCHER
CINCINNATI, July 30. — Rube
Benton, the famous ball pitcher, was
fatally injured today by the collision
between a motorcycle on which he
was riding and an automobile.
WANTS HUERTA
WASHINGTON. July 30.—Ambas
sador Wilson at a secret conference
with the senate committee on foreign
relations, advocated a restricted
recognition of the Huerta govern
ment.
ARBITRATOR IS
BEAU .
THE HAGUE, July 30.—Tobias
Michael Carlasser, a member of the
permanent court of arbitration, who
was awarded the Nobel prize in
1911, died at his home in this city
today.
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WEATHER MAN
WASHINGTON, July 30.—Charles
F. Marvin, of Ohio, head of the in
strumental division of the weather
bureau, has been named chief of the
bureau by President Wilson, to suc
ceed Willis L. Moore, the present
chief.
LONG STRUGGLE
IN CHINA
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PEKING, July 30.—The Tele
graph’s correspondent in China to
day wired his paper that the rebel
lion in that country has spread to
such an extent that a long and
wearisome war seems certain.
NOME SHIPS VIA
NOME, July 30.-—The interest in
the strike on the Sushanna is grow
ing rapidly, and many are talking of
starting for the new diggings. Ow
ing to the drought, which prevails in
this section hundreds of men have
been thrown out of employment by
the enforced closing down of the
mines, and there is little doubt but
many of them will start for the Sns
hanna if arrangements can be made
to land them at Cordova. So insist
ent is the demand that the steam
ships stop at Cordova on the way
south from here that the steamship
officials here have taken the matter
up with the officials in Seattle, and
it is believed that arrangements will
be made to have several of the south- ]
bound steamers go via Cordova.
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ROBBERS IKE
NARRAGANSETT PIER, July 30. i
—Mrs. J. H. Hannon, one of tho
society leaders of this resort is be
wailing the loss of jewels valued at
SI 00,000, which were stolen front :
her home last night. The police are |
hunting for the robbers.
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SHANGHAI, July 30.—The fed
eral army was reinforced this morn- J
ing by the arrival of nearly four 1
thousand troops. In addition two *
federal cruisers arrived this morn
ing and joined the fleet in the
Yangste. A determined effort will
be made by the government to put
down the rebellion.
ANOTHER NOTE'
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WASHINGTON, July 30.-—'Advices 1
from the Japanese ambassador here
to the state department are to the
effect that another note from Japan
to the United States government is
now on the way. The note is in
relation to the Japanese situation in
California.
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REJECTED LOVER
SUICIDES •
SAX FRANCISCO, July 30.—Re
fused admittance to the home of Mrs.
Dora Burggee, with whom he was
infatuated, and whom had impor
tuned to marry him, Anthony Thau,
formerly a policeman of Galvesttft
Texas, committed suicide in front of
the home of the womau this morn
ing.
CHIEF ENGINEER *
TO RETIRE
WASHINGTON, July 30.—At his
own request Brigadier General Wil
liam H. Bixby, chief of engineers,
will retire August 11. He will
succeeded by Colonel William T.
Russell. *
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WASHINGTON, July 30.—Senator
James Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois,
announced today that he would in
troduce a bill setting July 29 as
Fathers’ Day.
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