THIRD YEAR.
CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, .TUNE 17.1913.
NUMBER 35.
Late Telegraph News
NEW, YORK. June 14—“Brid
gie” Webber, the star witness* in the
Rosenthal murder case, was stabbed
in the back and is believed to be
dying. ,
WASHINGTON, June 14—The ma
jority of the Senate Finance Com
mittee have voted to place print pa
per, not valued at over two and one
half cents a pound, on the free list.
WASHINGTON, June 14—Gener
al Pershing, in reporting to the war
department the battle of Bagsak, has
cabled that probably no fiercer fight
ing has occurred in the Philippine
Islands since the American occupa
tion.
MADRID, June 14—Count De Ro
manones has formed a new cabinet
for Spain.
LONDON, June 14—The Suffra
gettes came from all parts of Eng
land to attend the funeral of Miss
Davidson, who was killed while at
tempting to stop the King’s horse
in the Epsom Derby.
WASHINGTON, June 14—Rear
Admiral Hugo Osterhaus, next to Ad
miral George Dewey ranking officer
of the navy, has been retired.
WASHINGTON, June 14—Ambas
sador Chinda has advised Secretary
Bryan that Japan is wlilling to renew
its five year’s arbitration treaty, ex
piring August 24.
WASHINGTON, June 14—Attor
ney General McReynolds is consider
ing the proposal of the Union Pa
cific railway to exchange $38,000,
000 worth of Southern Pacific stock
for Pennsylvania holdings in the Bal
timore & Ohio.
■CHARLESTON, W. VA., June 14
-—Edward Bragg, a mountaineer, in
testifying before the committee in
vestigating the strike troubles, said:
“When armed squads paraded Pain
creek the trouble began. Up to
that time I never saw happier or more
contented people."
ST. PAUL.. June 14—President
Hill has ordered all new construc
tion work on the Great Northern
railroad stopped as a result of the
decision o the supreme court of the
state of Minnesota in the rate case.
COLORADO SPRINGS, June 14—
The annual meeting of the National
Press Association of America will be
held in this city Tuesday. Wednesday
and Thursday of next week, and a
large number of editors and pub
lishers have already arrived.
VICTORIA, June 14—The steam
er Karluk, which will take Explorer
Steffansson and party on their Arc
tic expedition, sailed Tuesday for
Nome, Alaska, where it will be board
ed on the long trip north.
WASHINGTON, June 14—The
American yacht Columbia, seized at
Nagasaki, Japan, has been released.
WASHINGTON, June 14—Repre
sentative Henry, of Texas, chairman
of the House Committee on Rules,
has charged that Wall Street is back
of the propaganda for currency leg
islation. He declared that their in
centive Is “in order that they may
make a market for their commercial
paper. 'Much of it is based on rot
ten securities and they have cur
rency issued on their assets.”
NEW. YORK, June 14—The estate
of the late John J. Astor has been
officially appraised at $87,000,000,
and will be divided among the chil
dren as follows: Vincent $69,000,
000; Madeline, $8,000,000; Muriel,
$5,000,000, and infant John $3,
000,000.
CALGARY, June 1-4—Pelky, who
killed Luther McCarthy by a blow in
the first round of their recent fight
will be placed on trial for manslaugh
ter next Thursday.
WASHINGTON, June 14—Senator
Gallinger, testifying before the lobby
investigating committee, declared
that the President came perilously
near lobbying in some things he had
done in connection with the tariff.
LONDON, June 16—Waldorf Astor
has embarked in the newspaper bus
iness. having purchased the Morn
ing Post.
EL PASO, June 16—Six hundred
Federals were killed and wounded in
Southern Chihuahau in an engage
ment with the insurgents under Gen
erals Villa and Charles Hernandez.
CHICAGO, June 16—W. D. Boyce,
and Alaskan publisher and traveler,
has been remarried to his wife, from
whom h® was divorced, and is re
turning to Alaska.
LOS ANGELES, June 16—Two
Italians dynamited aa unoccupied
dwelling belonging to J. D. Trapani,
a wealthy fruit dealer, and when the
c>plosion occurred the Italians them
selves were dangerously wounded.
SEATTLE, June 16—The testi
mony in the hearing of the Hart
line group of claims in the Bering
river coal fields, has been completed,
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and the case will now be referred
to the Juneau land office for a fin
al determination.
MEXICO CITY, Jufie 16—The reb
els demand the surrender of San
Louis Potosi, the key to communica
tion to the Tampico oil fields.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 16—
Louis Drolette, William McHugh,
Charles Joseph. James McGowen and
Jack Sullivan, police detectives, have
pleaded guilty to conspiring in the j
bunco operations of Detective Es
cola and sentenced to nine months
each in the county jail.
CHRLESTON, W. VA„ June 16—
Lee Calvin, a former mine guard,
astounded the committee investigat
ing the coal miners’ strike, by his
testimony. He told how the Holy
Grove strikers in camp had been fired
upon from an armored train, which
resulted in a miner being killed and
a woman wounded.
WASHINGTON, June 16—Secre
tary of State Bryan has announced !
that civil service will be maintained
in the consular service.
CHICAGO, June 16—The ther.
mometer reached the sizzling point
and as a result three deaths result
ed today from the intense heat.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 16—Police
detective Esola was sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary for accept
ing graft from bunco men.
It has developed that the Earl !
W. Allen, who shot and killed a for-j
mer sweetheart. Mrs. George Fisher, !
at Portland on June 2, and after
wards took his own life, was the
son of Gene Allen, both of whom !
were former residents of Cordova.
NEW YORK, June 16—Miss Del
la Fox, the actress who played lead
ing parts in many opera companies, .■
but who has appeared chiefly in,
vaudeville since 1900. died here to
day. She was born in St. Louis,
October 13, 1872.
WASHINGTON, June 16—Oxford,
a sugar magnate, testified before the
lobby investigation, that he spent
$20,000 twenty-three years ago, in
Washington, entertaining Senators
and watching legislation, but stated
that not a cent of it had been spent
illegally.
WASHINGTON, June 16—Iron,
steel and other raw material have
been transferred to the free list by
the Senate committee on finance.
HALIFAX. June 16—An order has
been received from Ottawa ordering
Canada's navy on the Atlantic dis
banded.
NEW YORK, June 16—By the nar
row margin of one-quarter of a goal
the American team won the second
game in the international champion
ship'series and thus retain the Davis
cup.
SEATTLE, June 16—The steamer
Admiral Sampson sa'led last night.
Among her passengers were Miss U.
Gi:fford, Mrs. Peter Kennedy and Ir
ving Kennedy, for Cordova; Charles
Sinclair, for Katalla.
iWSHINGTON. June 16—‘“The low.
er the rate charged the consumers by
electric light and power companies
the lower will be the tax such com
panies must pay the government.”
said Secretary of the Interior Lane
in announcing his policy in reference
to regulating these corporations.
EAGLE PASS, June 14—Genehal
Brits states that Campeche has tak
en the field with 1,000 men against
the Huerta government.
LOS ANGELES, June 17—An
earthquake shock, which lasted sev
eral seconds, was felt here this morn
ing.
BOSTON, June 17—Ex-Congress
• man George Fred Williams wa? yes
terday married to Mrs. Francis Ames
Hopkins.
WASHINGTON, June 17—Judge
Jeremiah Netterer, of Bellingham, is
here for a conference with Attorney
General McReynolds. Hr is seek
ing a federal judgship io western
Washington.
MARYLAND SAILS FllR ALASKA
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Seattle, June 11—-The cruiser Maryland sailed this afternoon from the Bremerton navy
yard, where she has been undergoing repairs, for Alaska. She will go direct to Prince
William Sound and in case the government mined coal from the Cunningham claims has
been brought to Katalla it will be taken aboard and a test made of the fuel for naval pur
poses. An examination and survey of the harbors in that section will be made as to their
availability for a naval coaling station.
SEATTLE, June 17.—Senator Key Pittman has wired the Chamber of Commerce as
follows: “1 saw the President yesterday and he assured me that he is not only in favor of
the Alaska railroad bill, but would do what he could to find a place for it in the adminis
tration legislation for the special session. I confidently expect favorable action in the mat
ter before Congress adjourns.’.
JULYFBURTH
The residents of Chitina and of
the Copper river valley are arrang
ing to hold a big celebration in
Chitina on July 4. It will be in
the nature of a potlatch to the In
dians, and assurances have already
been received from the natives as
far in the interior as Gulkana that
they will be present and participate
in the festivities to the unmber of
200. The program as outliner in
cludes a Siwash parade in the morn
ing, to be followed by the potlatch,
which will be held in the building
formerly occupied by the old Nevada
Saloon. After which the athletic
events will tke place, including In
dian potlatch dances, Inlian war
dances, Siwash tug-of-war, twelve
races for both natives and whites,
and twelve contests in jumping,
packing and racing. At the close
of the sports there will be a big
dance. The, arrangements are in
charge of a committee composed of
Judge deHeirry, Chester C. Hull and
John Nelson.
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VICTORIA, une 17—Explorer
Stefansson, who will shortly leave
for Noipe and from there proceed on
his trip into the Arctic regions, said:
"The widespread idea that the pur
pose of my expedition is to search
for Scandinavians is ridiculous.
They might as well made the state
ment that I expect to discover the
pure strain in Norsemen.”
NEW; YORK. June 17—A heat
wave is sweeping the East and mid
dle west, resulting in eighteen
deaths and hundreds of prostrations
At Detroit and Cincinnati the ther
moneter registers 104 degrees.
WASHINGTON, June 16—A Su
preme court decision has upheld the
main contention of the state of Mis
souri as to a two-cent passenger fare
and a maximum freight rate. The
laws are not confiscatory as to the
six larger railroads.
WASHINGTON. June 17—Secre
tary Bryan and the Norwegian min
ister have signed a treaty for five
years for special arbitration. Fif
teen of such treaties have been en
tered into and are now before the
Senate for ratification.
WASHINGTON. June 17—The
President today sent two nomina
tions to the Senate as follows: Prof.
James Morris Page, of Virginia, as
Ambassador to Italy, and Andrew
King, as collector of customs for
Montana.
BERLIN, June 17—Yesterday Em.
peror William celebrated the twen
ty-fifth anniversary of his succes
sion to the throne, having succeeded
his father, Frederick the Third, June
15, 1888.
BROWN'S CONFIRMATION
WASHINGTON, June 10—
The Senate Judiciary Com
mittee favorably reported the
nomination of F. M. Brown as
judge of the Third division of
Alaska, and his confirmation
will follow.
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WASHINGTON, June 13—The
Department of Commerce has
announced that the people of
the Pribiloff Islands in Alas
ka are on the verge of star
vation as a result of the delay
in the passage of the sundry
civil bill, and urges that Con
gress take immediate action
to relieve the situation.
The cruiser Maryland ar"
rived at Katalla on Saturday
and is at present engaged in
hlowng out a channel and
putting out buoys in Control
ler bay. the evident object be
ing to provide for the taking
on ot the government mined
coal when it is ready for de
livery. The Maryland will
remain here until Thursday,
when she sails for Kodiak
Chief Engineer and General Man
ager Swanitz, of the Alaska Northern
Railway Company, has received word
from the head office of the corpora
tion, at Toronto, Canada, instruct
ing him to cease all operation of
trains on the local system.
This order grows out of a d?mar<d
on the part of the Department of
Justice for the liquidation of mile
age taxes alleged to be due the gov
ernment from the company, levied
on the basis of $100 per mile annu
ally and aggregating $67,000. Of
ficials of the company are ^notified
that a failure to comply with the
Attorney General's mandate will
subject the corporation to a fine of
$1,000 for each day the road is op
erated, and subject the head offic
ials to prosection.
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WASHINGTON. June 17—Oxnard,
the sugar king, testified before the
: committee that in his opinion, free
sugar will bring on another sugar
trust and he said that he had been
advised there was no law to prevent
it.
SOFIA. June 17—A severe earth
quake destroyed the town of Tir
vinia, during which one hundred
people were killed and over two
hundred were Injured.
NEW JUDGE MADE
NO PLEDGES
Hon. Fred M. Brown, of Valdez,
who has been appointed Judge of the
Third division, will have the naming
of many commissioners and the ap
pointing of a clerk of the court, who
receives $3,5$$ a year, and a chief
clerk, who receives $2,250, with a
second deputy drawing down $2,100
a year. A stenographer is also
allowed at $1,800 per annum.
The commissionerships are also:
in demand. Valdez, Seward, Cordova
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and Chitina being the most reniun- j
erative.
Judge Brown says that he has i
made no promises for positions in
the clerk's office or any other ap
pointive office in the gift of the judge
of this division.
The Judge announces that it would
be premature at this time, prior to
his confirmation he could take no
ises and until he receives word of
ljis confirmation he rould take no
thought of who would or would not
be^ clerk of the court, the position
which is agitating the mind of the
local Democratic politicians.
Rumor has linked many names
with the position; first and foremost
Arthur Laps, of the Valdez Mercan
tile Co., has been thought of by
many, who believe him capable and
know of the friendship between
the judge and cashier of the Mercan
tile Co. Thomas Scott and V'. A.
Paine, at present deputies in the
office, are spoken of in connection
with the clerkship. Charles Hand,
an active worker in the Democratic
party, a strong personal friend and
supporter of the appointee and form
erly secretary to the governor of
Idaho, is also mentioned for a po
sition in the office.
For secretary to the Judge and
court setnographer, Ike Hamburger
has the support of the members of
the bar without an exception and it
is thought, because of his capabil
ity and fitness he will be retained in
his present position. He was at one
time secretary to Senator Carter, of
Montana.
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SEATTLE, June 17—The annual
meeting of the Pacific Northwest So
ciety of Engineers will be Ijeld in
this city on Friday and Saturday.
The principal business will be a con
ference regarding the consolidation
of engineering societies. The lat
ter subject will be discussed by rep
resentatives of the Oregon, Idaho,
Spokane, Montana and other similar
organizations.
BFDAPEST, June 17—The Con
gress of International Woman Suf
frage Alliance opened in this city,
under the Presidency of Carrie Chap
man Catt, of New York.
The steamer Yukon, owned and operated by the Alaska
Coast Company, is ashore at Cape Lazarus- near Unimak Pass,
according to advices received by ('apt. A. E Lathrop, local
agent for the company. The Yukon was returning from Good
News bay, where a large consignment of freight for the Kus
kokwim had been taken. On Wednesday night at 7 o‘clock
she went ashore and the revenue cutter Tahoma immediately
proceeded to her assistance, reaching there five hours later.
The pasengers are all safe and no damage was done to the
freight
WASHINGTON, June 13—Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon,
called upon PresidentWilson today and laid a long confer
ence with him in reference to Alaska railroad legislation, urg
ing upon the chief executive his approval at this time of the
bill before the Senate Committee which he believes will re
sult in the opening up of that territory. The President would
not recommend the consideration of this bill while the tariff
and currency are undisposed of. The measure of relief for
Alaska, as agreed upon by the sub committee of Senators
Jones, Pittman and Chamberlain, is now before the President.
If no action can be secured at the special session it is ex
pected that the President will urge consideration of the bill at
the December session.
The Democratic steering eom'mittee has announced that tke
tariff bill will be completed and returned to the Senate next
week. In that event the House may find time to take up the
Alaska matter before it adjourns.
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WASHINGTON, June lb—The Senate Committee on Ter
ritories has agreed upon a bill for the government construction
of railroads in Alaska and it will probably be reported to the
Senate tomorrow. It provides for the issue of $40,000,000
worth of bonds and leaves the entire control of the matter up
to the President, he to determine the routes and have charge of
all work. The committee decided against the plan of Senator
Jones for the appointment of a commission of five to supervise
the construction of the railroads.
WASHINGTON, June 17—E. W. Euxm, of Chitina, who
lias been appointed l nited States Marshal for the Third divis
ion of Alaska, arrived in this city last night from a visit among
his people in Mississippi. Today lie and Senator John Sharp
M illiams called upon President Wilson in reference to the
charges preferred against Exum in an effort to per
persuade the President not to withdraw his nomination.
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WASHINGTON, June 17—Attorney General McReynolds
has approved of the settlement of the action brought by dis
trict attorney Rody, of Nome, against ti: ■ Northern Navigation
C ompany to recover license fees on a tonnage basis for its
steamboats plying on the ^ ukon river. I nder the terms of the
settlement the Territory of Alaska gets about $50,00# in back
fees, and in the future will receive about $25,000 annually.
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Tiie steamer Yukon, ow«rd by the Alaska Coast Company,
and operated on the Seattie-SouthenGem Alaska run. which
went ashore at Cape Lazarus, near Unimak Pass, on Wednes
day night, is a total loss. All efforts to save the vessel were
of no avail. The revenue cutter Tahoma stood by and at first
it was believed that high tide the Yukon could be floated, but
in this they were unsuccessful and finally it was decided to
abandon the vessel.
In the meantime the passengers and crew were gotten off
and weie taken by the Tahomla to Unalaska. and there picked
op by the steamer Victoria on its return from Nome, and taken
to Seattle.
I lie ^ukon was returning from Good News Bay, where it
discharged a large quantity of freight for the Knskokwim,
when it met with the accident which has resulted in the wreck
of the boat. Captain Archie McKay was in command at the
time, with Carl E. Strout as purser and Id. E. March as chief
engineer.