TELEGRAPH NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
J. H. Young, Vice-President of the
Copper River & Northwestern Rail
way and President of the Alaska
Steamship company, was an arrival
on the Alameda accompanied by his
secretary Walter J. McClune. Mr.
Young will spend the next ten days
taking up various matters in con
nection with the several departments
of his companies.
In answer to an inquiry Mr. Young
stated that other than the appoint
ment of Superintendent Geiger he
had no other changes to announce
for the present.
Detroit, Aug. 14.—While attempt
ing to play a joke, Daniel Vreeland
and Frank J. Cook, detectives of the
Lake Shore railroad were shot and
killed by Special Officer William
Burnett of the Michigan Central.
Chicago, Aug. 14.—The interna
tional aviation meet is now on. One
accident has already occurred. A
monoplane turned over and the
driver fell to the ground, receiving
injuries from which he will likely
die.
Coatesville, P. A., Aug. 4.—In
tense excitement prevailed here last
night. In an altercation a negro
Zacharia Walker shot and killed a
policeman named Edward Rice. The
negro was slightly wounded and was
taken to the hospital. A crowd of
indignant citizens soon organized
secured Walker and quickly burned
him at a stake before the authorities
could command sufficient force to
interfere.
London, Aug. 14.—Great Britain
is threatened with a monster labor
strike, led by the railway employes,
Throughout England the men will
meet in London on Saturday and un
less their grievance is amicably ad
justed by that time a general strike
will be ordered.
London, Aug. 14.—Rioting con
tinues at Liverpool and the attempt
of the police to disperse the crowds
has resulted in the officer boing
killed and forty injured. A num
ber of houses have been set on tire
and the situation is becoming crit
ical.
Mexico City, Aug. 14.—After pub
licly declaring himself as a candidate
for president of the Republic, Gener
al Madero has started in on an ac
tive campaign. It is the general
opinion that he will undoubtedly be
elected. i
Centralia, Wash., Aug. 14.—Wil
liam Jennings Bryan delivered a ser
mon yesterday at Salem, his birth
place. It is reported that he will
soon enter the ministry.
Beverly, Aug. 14.—President Taft
is keenly disappointed at the deter
mination of the Senate to modify
the arbitration treaties of which he
has been such a staunch advocate.
Chicago, Aug. 14.—John J. Boyce
fell five hundred feet from a bi
plane, landing on a trolley wire,
which checked the speed of his de
scent, and the only injury he sus
tained was a broken leg.
Liverpool, Aug. 14.—The railroad
workers are committing many acts
of deprevation. Hundreds of pro
vision shops' and barrooms have been
looted. Many fights have resulted
and as a consequence over 175 have
been taker, to hospitals.
Washington, Aug. 14.—The Navy
Department will erect powerful wire
less as a stragetic measure and one
of the plants will be installed in
Alaska, on the Aleutian islands.
Port Wayne, Ind., Aug. 14.—A
Pennsylvania railroad passenger train
was wrecked near here, resulting in
two people being killed and thirty
injured.
WashftV^tdn, Aug. 14.—The Pres
ident ha'SCcompleted his veto of the
statehood bills for Arizona and New
Mexico, which he will submit to
Congress in the form of a message,
explaining the reasons for the action
taken.
St. Louis, Aug. 14.—Amid the
plaudits of a great multitude aviator
Atwood started this morning on his
flight to New York.
Washington, Aug. 14.—The Senate
Committee on foreign affairs has
agreed to recommend for ratification
treaties with Great Britain and
France with certain modifications.
Washington, Aug. 14.—Represen
tative Sydney Anderson, a republi
can who was last fall elected to
congress from James A. Tawney’s
district in Minnesota, directed atten
tion to himself today. He present
ed a bill in the House providing for
the building of a railroad in Alaska
by the federal government.
San Francisco, Aug. 17.—Theo
dore Roosevelt, Jr., is today receiv
ing the congratulations of his friends
upon the fact that he is the father
of a baby girl.
Chicago, Aug. 17.—Arthur Stone,
the aviator, fell from his machine a
thousand feet into lake Michigan, and
while afloat was rescued bjl a tug.
Chesterfield, Courthouse, Va.,
Aug. 15.—The grand jury has re-j
turned an indictment against Lewis]
Beattie, Jr., a Manchester banker,
charging him with murder in the
first degree for the death of his
wife, who was mysteriously shot and
killed while out automobile riding
with her husband. Beattie had an af
finity in the person of Beulah Bin
ford, a schoolday sweetheart, which
is attributed as the cause for want
ing to get rid of his wife.
Los Angeles, Aug. 15.—Mrs. John
son, former wife of Antone Stander,
the Alaskan who erected the hotel in
Seatue bearing his name, has been
deserted by her second husband, G.
E. Johnson, a young fellow about
2 5 years of age, whom she fell in
love with while he was clerking at
the hotel and married about a year
ago. With the missing man has also
disappeared about $50,000 worth of
jewelry which Mrs. Johnson asks
the police to recover.
Seattle, Aug. 15.—Secretary of In
terior Fisher leaves for Alaska to
day on the Admiral Sampson, mak
ing his first stop at Katalla. After
an examination of the coal fields he
will board the revenue cutter Tahoma
at Controller bay for Cordova and
there take a trip over the Copper
River & Northwestern railway. He
will then proceed to Seward, going
over the Alaska Northern railroad
and visiting the Matanuska coal
ands.
Seattle, Aug. 15.—Major J. B.
Cavanaugh, of the Northwest Dis
trict of United Engineers, will pro
ceed August 21 to Valdez, to confer
with and assist the Alaska Road
Commission in the engineering fea
tures for the prevention of glacial
floods by a system of dykes.
Wasnington. Aug. 15.—Germany
intimates its willingness to join the
.,-on treaty.
London, Aug. 15.—The managers
of all the roads and terminals in
this city have decided to resist the
men’s encroachments.
Washington, Aug. 15.—The House
yesterday passed a resolution calling
on Attorney General Wickersham to
produce all the letters and papers in
reference to the awarding of military
coal contracts in Alaska.
Rome, Aug. 15.—The condition of
the Pope was worse this morning
than it has been for the past three
days.
Chicago, Aug. 15.—Aviator At
wood’s arrival here establishes an
American distance record for a single
day of actual flying time, cover
ing five hundred and forty-six miles,
with two intermediate stops.
Chicago, Aug. 15.—At the interna
tional aviation meet two machines
swooped down on Lake Michigan, the
drivers, Red Simmon and Lee Ham,
mond being rescued by motor boats.
The machines were lost in the water.
McCurdy’s biplane caught fire by
coming in contact with electric wires
and fell forty feet. The machine was
destroyed but McCurdy escaped un
hurt.
Seattle, Aug. 15.—The Joint Alas
ka Committee, of Seattle, composed
of representatives of the leading com
mercial bodies, has declared itself as
opposed to any leasing system of the
coal lands in Alaska, because the
leasing system has proved a failure
wherever tried in other parts of the
country. Secretary of the Interior
Fisher today conferred with this
joint committee, prior to his de
parture for Alaska. The secretary
goes as the personal representative
of President Taft, to report to him
conditions as he finds them in the
north. The friends of Alaska are
hoping for remedial legislation of
some sort, following this investiga
tion.
Washington, Aug. 15.—President
Taft, in a message to Congress, ve
toed the Arizona and New Mexico
statehood bills, because of the ju.
diciary recall provision.
New York, Aug. 16.—Sam Lang
ford wron a decisive victory from
Philadelpnia Jack O’Brien by knock
ing him out in the fifth round.
New York, Aug. 16.—On account
of the denunciations of the clergy
over her proposed marriage with
John Jacob Astor, Miss Force is a
nervous wreck.
Jaurez, Aug. 16.—Black smallpox
is raging at Guadalupe and many
points south.
Elhart, Ind., Aug. 16.—Aviator
Atwood left Chicago at 3:30 o’clock
yesterday afternoon and arrived
here in two hours and fifteen min
utes.
Washington, Aug. 17.—The inves
tigating committee has been advised
of the discovery of a new herd of
1,000,000 seals in the Arctjc ocean,
Seattle, Aug. 15.—The Washing
ton State Bar Association has start
ed something. At the Spokane con
vention, it was proposed to have a
permanent commission to pass upon
all proposed legislation. The action
came as a crystallization of the sen
timent that the laws of the state
need to be renovated. According to
this, scheme, np laws shall be enacted
until they have received the O. K.
of the board of sages. The unterri
fied have raised a terrible wail, as a
result of this proposal, that gives no
promise of subsiding.
Seattle, Aug. 15.—Two submar
ines for the South American Repub
lie«of Chili will be built by the Moran
company of Seattle. This same firm
is completing a similar vessel for
the United States navy. Its fame for
this sort of work is spreading rapid
ly. The Chilean contract involves
the expenditure of $1,000,000. These
boats will be constructed under the
greatest of secrecy. Some years ago
the Moran company built the battle
ship Nebraska, one of the fastest
crafts in the American navy.
Washington, Aug. 14.—The House
steel investigating committee has ad
journed to Oct. 16. W. E. Temple,
chairman of the Steel Plate Associa
tion testified that at one time J. P.
Morgan refused to take an option for
$160,000,000 on property for which
he afterwards paid $500,000,000.
Springfield, 111., Aug. 15.—Aviator
Atwood arrived here from St. Louis
early yesterday afternoon, covering
the distance in his flying machine in
two hours and twenty-five minutes.
Liverpool, Aug. 15.—The strike
committee at midnight ordered a
general strike and 7,000 dockers are
out at Birkenhead, 20,000 of all
classes quit work in Liverpool and
the greater number of the workmen
at Manchester.
Tokto, Aug. 10.— i ne unusuany
passive volcano on the slopes of
Mount Assamas.vama, ninety miles
from this city, is in a state of great
activity and more than thirty peo
ple. half of them believed to be
American and European tourists,
were burned to death. A volcano
near Keruisaja, the principal summer
resort, is emitting millions of tons
of lava'high in the air and destroy
ing everything in its path.
Tecumsch, i\eb., Aug. 16.—The
authorities are searching tor E. E.
tiesse, whose wife and seventeen
year-old daughter Junianta were mys
teriously murdered and their bodies
thrown in a well.
Chicago, Aug. 16.—Two lives were
lost at the aviation meet yesterday.
The propeller on the machine driven
by William R. Badger, of Pittsburg,
was smashed and Badger fell one
hundred feet, breaking his n*'Ck.
St. Croix Johnstone, of Chicago, was
pitched from his biplane, wThile it
was 500 feet in the air, and was
drowned in lake Michigan.
Seattle, Aug. 16—The steamer Ad
miral Sampson sailed at five o’clock
this afternoon. Among the passen
gers w’ere Secretary of Interior Fish
er and son, Walter Howard, his pri
vate secretary; Dr. Alfred Brooks
of the Geological Survey; Robt. D.
Heined, J. J. Underwood, William
Smyth and Ed Thomas, the last three
Seattle newspaper men.
London, Aug. 17.—A meeting with
a view to a settlement of the contro
versy between the railway company
and its employes is being held.
Every soldier at Aldershot is under
orders for duty.
London, Aug. 17.—The conference
was fruitless and an industrial war
declared, the employes of all the
railroads in the kingdom being cal
led out at once.
London, Aug. 17.—The Cabinet
has announced that the government
promised the strikers of Liverpool
and other cities that a royal commis
sion would be appointed at once to
investigate their grievances.
Seattle, Aug. 17.—The steamer
Northwestern sailed last night with
the following passengers for Cor
dova: D. O’Lara, M. I. Hawkins,
Arthur Edderly, J. M. Moorman, Mrs.
H. R. Lee, Robert Morrison, James
Farr, M. Gerchette, N. P. Ferguson,
and Archie Manford.
San Dusky, Aug. 17.—Aviator At
wood arrived here and resumed his
joourney to Cleveland at 3:15 o’
clock.
Seattle, Aug. 17.—The petitions
for the recall of Mayor Dilling and
Councilman Blaine, Wardell and Kel
logg have been filed with the city
council and the work of checking
the names begins. The women are
the most active in the effort to have
these men removed from office, and
with the support of the Gill-Wappen
stein crowd, who were recently oust
ed, will in all probability succeed in
their purpose.
Let us do your Job Work.
LOCAL JOTTINGS
Robert Gwynne and Geo. Love re
turned on last night’s train from a
trip to the interior, where they vis
ited property in which they are in
terested. Mr. Gwynne is an easter
ner who is treasurer of three com
panies that are doing extensive work
on Nugget and Canyon creeks. He
reports that a party of Philadelphia
capitalists purchased a group of 24
claims on Canyon creek, near Spirit
mountain, which contain copper and
nickel. 'Inis summer Ole Berg has
driven 200 feet of tunnel as well as
doing the assessment work. Dur
ing the coming winter machinery
will be freighted to the property. A
compressor and drills will be instal
led for working the nickel . Tracks
will also be laid and a sawmill oper
ated. It is the intention to drive a
long tunnel on the copper ledge and
then instal a concentrator. Employ
ment is given to eighteen men.
Mr. Gwynne says that as soon as
the railroad spur is built they will
be ready to ship from 100 to 200
tons of ore a day, and that the conn
try from the Strelna to Nugget creek
is such that railroad construction can
be done easily and cheaply.
On the properties of the Alaska
Consolidated and McCarthy Third
companies there is a good ledge of
bornite copper, which runs from 50
to 65 per cent and Superintendent
Tom Lynch will sled about 200 tons
of this ore over the trail, to the rail
road as soon as the snow falls.
Miss Dora Kean, of Philadelphia,
passed througu Chitina this wreek on
her way to ascend Mt. Blackburn.
A. McClellan is in charge of the
expedition and Frank Buell, of Chit
ina, and A. Wolf of Cordova are
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members of the party.
The party will be taken overland
from the railroad by Fagenberg’s
pack train. The horses will take
the members of the party as high
as possible to make camp, and the
mountain climbers will then attempt
the ascent.
No one lias ever been on the sum
mit of Mt. Blackburn, which is 16,
000 feet above sea level. For this
reason Miss Keene is anxious to be
the first person on the summit. She
has had considerable experience in
mountain climbing, having been
through the Alps and some of the
main peaks of America.
On a clear day Mt. Blackburn can
be easily esen from Chitina, and its
snow and ice bound summit looks
anything but easy of ascent. It is
about 90 miles distant, and about
30 miles from the railroad.
The party is well equipped for the
ascent and provided with cameras.
Opinion here is divided as to their
chances of reaching the summit this
The business men of Chitina are a
unit in the belief that active steps'
should be continued with a view of
getting a summer mail contract
through Chitina to Fairbanks and
other interior points.
This is one of the first things the
new chamber of commerce when or
ganized will likely take up. The Cor
dova chamber is already on record
for the improvement, as well as the
people of Fairbanks, and the inten
tion is to get their continued co
operation, as well as the support of
residents in other interior points
which will be benefitted by the
change.
News has just reached here of an
accident to Prof. Tarr and Prof.
Martin, the glacier experts, who lost
all of their notes and cameras while
crossing the Big Delta river, on theii
way to Fairbanks. Both men jump
ed from the wagon, which was being
swept down stream, and about to
tip over, and swam for their lives.
Tfte driver finally landed the wagon
safely on ine otner side but most of
the outfit was swept down stream.
W. R. Cameron, trail foreman for
the Orr Stage line, returned on the
Alameda from a trip to the states.
He is accompanied by a bride, the
ceremony having been performed at
Seattle the day prior to sailing. The
new couple will make their home at
Chitina where they will be warmly
received.
Juneau, Aug. IV.—Robert Jen
nings has decided to be a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
Delegate to Congress. The conven
tion will likely be held at Valdez
next March. Mr. Jennings has the
almost united support of the Demo
crats of Southeastern Alaska anil
with his wide acquaintance in Fair
banks expects considerable support
from the Tanana valley. He is
recognized as one of the ablest at
torneys in the territory and refused
the nomination two years ago on ac
count of ill health.
T.et us (lo your Job Printing.
Mining Companies and
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Mineral Claim Owners
Publication of Final Proof Notices
Preparations are now making by many com
panies for the securing of patents to copper and
gold claims in that rich mining section known
as the Chitina-Kotsina-Nizina district. Publi
cation of final proof must be made in accord
ance with the requirements of the law> which
ai'e contained in the following exec *pts of in
structions issued by the General Land Office at
Washington:
A notice of intended final proof must lie published
in a newspaper of established character and of general
circulation in the vicinity of the land affected thereby,
such pa)>er having a fixed and well known place of pub
lication.
Xo newspaper shall lie deemed a qualified medium
of notice unless it shall have been continuously publish
ed during an unbroken period of six months immediate
ly preceding the publication of the notice, nor unless it
shall have applied for and been granted the privilege of
transportation in and by the United States mails at the
rate provided by law for second-class matter, a privilege
available to all newspapers having a legitimate list of
subscribers and a known place of publication.
Tlie notice must in all cases be published in the news
paper which may Ik* issued at a place nearest to the lands
which the notice affects. Ily the word “nearest” as here
used it is not intended that geographical proximity shall
be measured on an air line drawn between the laud and
the place of publication, but by the length of the shortest
and principally traveled thoroughfare between such
places, being the highway ordinarily used and employed
for travel by vehicles of any kind.
The law invests registers with discretion in the se
lection of newspapers to !»e the media of notice in such
cases us are here referred to.
Persons seeking to establish their right to a legal title
to any public lands are not authorized to interfere with
the discretion of the register in the choice of a news
paper in which to publish notice of their claims; nor
will any designation of a newspaper made by a register,
in the reasonable exercise of that discretion, lte disturbed
on the ground that the claimant recommended another
newspaper.
Upon the receipt of the papers. If no reason ap|>ears
for rejecting the application, the register will, at the ex
pense of the claimant (who must furnish the agreement
of the publisher to hold applicant for putent alone respon
sible for charges of publication), publish a notice of such
application for the period of sixty days in a newspaper
published nearest to the claim, and will post a copy of
such notice in his office for the same period.
The law imposes upon registers the duty of procuring
the publication of proper final-proof notices, and charges
the claimant with no mitigation in that helialf. except
that lie shall bear and pay the cost of such publication.
The Chitina Leader
fills the above requirements, and will publish
the necessary notices at less than 50 cents per
line, the price allowed by law to weekly news
papers, for the entire publication during sixty
days. So that there may be no delay, publish
ers’ agreement should be secured by writing to
WILL A. STEEL, HARRY G. STEEL,
Publishers of
The Chitina Leader, Chitina, Alaska
Cordova Daily Alaskan, Cordova
Or to the SEATTLE OFFICE, 551 Colman
Building.
Copper River & Northwestern Railway
Good Passenger and Freight
Service to Interior Alaska
For Rates and Other Information Apply at
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