CHICAGO, Oct. 21.—A severe
blzzard is raging in this section of
the country. Strong gales are blow
ing and snow is falling from the
eastern part of Michigan to the sea
board on the south and east to the
Atlantic coast. Street car and rail
way service is generally interrupted.
Considerable suffering is also in evi
dence as the people were not pre
pared for such an early visitation.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—The
commissioner general has decided
that Mrs. Pankhurst, the militant
suffragette, may remain in this
country, with the understanding
that she will depart at the end of
her lecture engagement. The immi
gration authorities had ordered her
deported.
BERLIN, Oct. 21.—Joint funeral
services were held this morning for
the 23 victims, who died in the ex
plosion of the military airship
Zeppelin L II. It was the occasion
of a great outpouring of people, and
much sorrow was manifested. The
emperor and his family attended the
services.
SEATTLE, Oct. 20.—The com
munity was shocked yesterday to
learn of the accidental death of a
highly respected citizen and federal
official. Fred C. Harper, collector
of customs for the Puget Sound dis
trict, was out hunting with some
friends when he fell over a cliff and
was instantly killed. He was one of
the old timers in this section, com
ing to Port Townsend in 1888, hav
ing been born in New Brunswick in
1855. In 1892 he removed to East
Sound and engaged in a general mer
chandising business and was elected j
to a term of four years to the state
senate. Shortly after his term ex
pired he removed to Seattle and en
gaged in the real estate business. He
had in charge the campaign that re
sulted in the election of Samuel H.
Piles as United States Senator. The
senator secured the appointment of
Mr. Harper as collector of customs,
which position he still held at the
time of his death.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Presi-!
dent Wilson has nominated Arthur'
Yager, of Georgetown, Kv., as gov-1
ernor of Porto Rico. Since 1908 he,
has been president of the George
town college. For ten years previ-;
ous he was chairman of the faculty, j
and from 1884 until 1898 he was,
professor of history and economics. |
He is 55 years of age.
The President also sent to the Sen- j
ate the name of Ellis C. Johnson,
of Washington, as collector of In- j
ternal revenue.
SPOKANE, Oct. 20.—Former Am- j
bassador Henry L. Wilson has given
out for publication a 5,000-word
letter, under date of August 28,
when he addressed and sent it to
Secretary of State Bryan. In this
letter the ambassador reviewed his
17 years’ service in the diplomatic
service, and strongly protested
against what he termed the depart
ment’s efforts to discredit and humil
itate him. He asked that his resig
nation as ambassador to Mexico be
immediately accepted.
ME RID AIN, Miss., Oct. 20.—A
train bearing troops was precipitated
through a broken trestle this morn
ing and resulted in scenes of great
distress. Twenty soldiers of Com
pany C, 39th Coast Artillery, were
killed, while over 100 were seriously
injured. A special train brought
assistance and the injured men were
taken to hospitals in near-by towns.
SEATTLE, Oct. 20.—The steamer
Mariposa sailed for Southwestern
Alaska on Saturday night. Her
passengers for Cordova included: J.
O. Wrenn, Mrs. O. Porter, P. U.
Cummings, Mrs. E. L. Harwood,
William Gough, Mrs. Lucy Walsh,
Mrs. M. Lewis and A. A. Smith.
WILMINGTON, Oct. 20.—Miss
Gladys Ravenscroft, of England, has
achieved another great victory in
golf. She defeated Miss Marion
Hollis, of New York, in the final
match for the world’s national golf
championship, played here on Sat
urday afternoon. Last June Miss
Ravenscroft won the British ladies’
championship, played at Ayrshire.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 17—Ralph
Rose, the world’s shot putting cham
pion died here last night from
typhoid fever. One of his best
records was ma’de in this city August
21, 1909. It was for 16 pound, 51
feet.
| CHICAGO, Oct. 18.—The story
that William G. Ellis, of Cincinnatti,
! told about he and his wife having
. formed a suicide pact did not sound
good to the police, who began an
investigation along other lines. When
he found that he was under suspi
cion Ellis broke down and confessed
that he had had a quarrel with his
wife the previous night and that dur
ing the early morning when she was
sleeping he first shot her and then
! cut her throat. He hacked at his
j cwn throat with the idea of substan
I tiating the story that they had both
agreed to die and had cut their own
throats. He will be tried for mur
XEW YORK, Oct. 18.—The Na
tional Women’s Suffrage convention
will meet in annual session at Wash
ington on November 29. This deci
sion was made just before Mrs.
Pankhurst arrived on an oceau
steamer. It was expected that she
would be the shining light at the
convention. But less than three
hours after the steamer docked Mrs.
Pankhurst's case was heard before a
special board and the militant suf
fragette and law breaker was or
dered deported to France.
BERLIN, Oct. 18.—Another fatal
ity occurred just after the disaster
to the airship Zeppelin LII. These
army officers forming part of the
flying corps, took flight in an aero
plane to this city when they met with
an accident and all were killed. One
of the number was Lt. Baron Von
Bluel, who had a narrow escape from
death on the LII. But it seems that
he was doomed to meet a violent
end.
ALBANY, Oct. IS.—Former Gov
ernor Sulzer has issued a statement
in which he declares that he had
kept faith with the people and was
giving them a fair and honest ad
ministration and carrying out his
platform pledges. He likened his
impeachment to a political lynching
in which Boss Murphy was the
judge, jury, prosecutor and bailiff.
He states that he owes $76,000 and
that he is much poorer than when he
took office. He charged that Peck
lied while on the witness stand.
WASHINGTON, Oct. IS.—Accord
ing to advices received here by the
state department President Huerta
of Mexico plans to assemble the
foreign diplomats and make a state
ment of the situation. Special rep
resentative John Lind reports from
Vera Cruz that information received
by him from various sources indi
cate that Huerta intends to resign.
FORBES, Cal., Oct. IS.—A fierce
battle raged between the striking
miners and the mine guards. It re
sulted in the killing of two of the
strikers and mortally wounding two
others. One of the guards was mor
tally wounded. While this fussilade
of shots was being exchanged a ma
chine gun was fired into the miners’
camp.
LONDON, Oct. 16.—The will of
the late J. Pierpont Morgan has
been submitted to probate. An in
ventory shows that the value of his
possessions in England aggregate
over $6,000,000.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16.—J. H.
Cobb, the Juneau attorney has ar
rived in the city and will appear be
fore the circuit court of appeals in
connection with the cases against
the Copper River & Northwestern
Railroad company in their appeals
from verdicts he secured last spring
at Cordova for Mrs. Emma Reed for
$20,000 on account of the death of
her husband in a bridge accident last
; winter, and Dan Reeder for $5,000
: on account of a railroad accident. He
! will also appear for the Territory
I of Alaska in the poll tax case.
FAIRBANKS, Oct. 16.—The ice
began to form on the river on the
10th and on the 13th the river was
closed. However, navigation had
closed a couple of days prior and
all the steamers were in winter
! quarters.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20.—The
sensation about town yesterday was
the killing of J. D. Van Allen, who
was in charge of a special edition of
the Chronicle. Miss Leah Alexander
shot him and her aim was so accur
, ate that he almost instantly died.
She surrendered herself to the
police and gave as her reason that
Van Allen had promised to marry
her but kept putting her off and
i finally refused to enter into the
j proper relationship.
G. C. Martin, a member of the
government geological survey re
turned from the westward on the
steamer Sampson and went on to
Seattle, expecting to proceed to
Washington. While a few hours in
Cordova he gave the following state
ment regarding the placer gold in
the Nelchina district:
The Nelchina Valley is a country
of moderate relief. The mountains
are for the most part gently round
ed, and rise to elevations of 4,000 to
6*000 feet above sea leveT. The
mouth of Albert Creek is at an ele
vation of about 3,500 feet and is
above timber line. The nearest
timber is about 4 miles east of the
camp across the divide from the
head of Sleigh Creek. Timber may
also be obtained at a somewhat
greater distance near the mouth of
Crooked Creek and about halfway
down Alfred Creek. The timber is
of only fair size and quality. Horse
feed is abundant on Albert Creek
and at other neighboring localities,
although there are numerous inter
vals along the trails where it is
scanty or absent for considerable
distances.
The local rocks consist of sand
stone and shales underlain in places
by volcanic beds, and dipping at
moderately steep angles. They are
cut by numerous small dikes. It is
believed that these rocks do not
constitute a probable source of the
placer gold. Gravel benches extend
up to an altitude of at least 3,800
feet. While the source of the gold
cannot be affirmed at present, it is
believed that reconcentration from
extremely disseminated gold in these
bench gravels is an adequate source.
There is no available evidence that
the high bench gravels contain
workable placers, and it is probable
that they do not. It is not known
whether the discovered * placer de
posits occur where there has been
reconcentration by the present
streams or whether the concentra
tion was effected by previous streams
in old channels. These and other
scientific questions, together with
the all important practical question
as to how much of the district is
workable placer ground must wait
for their solution until more work
is done.
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SEATTLE, Oct. 18.—The coroner’s
jury that investigated the killing of
Henry G. Farr and Thomas G. Sim
mons find that these men came to
their death through the negligence
of Larry Duke, whose automobile
ran into another machine, and that
it was driven while Duke was under
the influence of liquor.
Col. A. W. Swanits, manager of
the Alaska Northern Railway Co.,
returned on the last steamer, en
route to Seward, from a two months'
trip to Chicago and New York.
Speaking on the coal situation he
said:
"Congress cannot hold out much
longer on the coal and land problem.
It must capitulate to the urgent re
quests of the Alaskans before very
long. The opening of the coal lands
is unquestionably the paramount
need in the Northern territory to
day. Better transportation facili
ties will come with the settling of
this problem.
"Just to show what the develop
ment of the rich Alaska coal fields
means to Seattle and the entire
Pacific coast, I will quote certain
certified statistics taken from the
geological bulletin for August. This
authentic pamphlet reports that 750,
000 tons of coal was used in San
Francisco during last year. Demands
of from $12 to $14 a ton were made
for an inferior grade of fuel for
home use. Steamship and railroad
companies paid from $9 to $12 per!
ton. The United States govern
ment paid $8.75 per ton for West
Virginia coal. Now, with these
figures in mind, I want to say that
Alaska coal, which rigid tests have
proved to be the best ever mined,
can be brought to Seattle, San Fran
cisco or any other Pacific coast port
at the rate of $6 a ton.
"People in the East are beginning
to realize the importance of Alaska’s
fight for recognition. When the
problem is solved and permission is
granted to open up the coal fields,
there will be ample capital avail
able for the development of Alaskan
"esources in every possible way.
Watch Alaska forge to the front
when the coal land question is
settled. All the rest of the develop
ment practically rests on this one
problem.”
It is stated that Attorney L. V.
Ray, of Seward, has just refused an
appointment in the Fourth division.
Cpon the request of Attorney Cross
ley, he was appointed recently by
Attorney General McReynolds as
assistant attorney in the Fourth divi
sion, with headquarters at Fair
banks, with the right to engage in
private practice, where the same did
lot conflict with the government’s
interests. Senator Ray, however,
states that while desirous of accept
ing the position he is compelled to
lecline because of a number of legal
matters in which he is interested in
the Third division.
Why Not Invest?
I will sell you any lot in Chitina not already soldi up to
April 1st, 191S, lor 100 per cent less than you can buy it 6
months from now.
The price of all lots has been reduced in order to give all a
chance. They run from $40 up to $1000.
The terms will be ^4 cash, and the balance in six, twelve and
eighteen months.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—Timothy
L. Woodruff, one of the Republican
leaders in the state, died early this
afternoon. He had a nervous break
down a few weeks ago and has
gradually been getting worse. Mr.
Woodruff was 55 years of age and
had amassed considerable of a for
tune in manufacturing enterprises.
Ke was lieutenant governor of New
York from 1897-1903.
MILWAUKEE, Oct. 14.—Last
night there was a fast go before a
big audience. The contest was be
tween Ad Wolgast and Battling Nel
son, and was for ten rounds. The
decision went to Wolgast.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—Yester
day afternoon President Wilson re
viewed a battle formation and the
charge of cavalry on the banks of i
the Potomac.
A large number of prospectors
have gone from Valdez to the new .
placer field at the headwaters of the
Xelcbina river. Nearly all went by
way of the Tazlina river, establish
ing that route as the most practical.
The mush from Valdez to the Taz
lina roadhouse is 110 miles, while
from Chitina it is but 58 miles. Of
course miners from the Copper River
section of the country all find it
easier and shorter to go via Chitina.
, Men from the outside coming in on
dteamers can stop at Cordova and
go from here on the railroad to
Chitina. Prom there to Tonsina
they have a good government road
on a level grade. From Valdez they
also have the government road to
Tonsina, although it is nearly twice
as long as from Chitina, with a pass
to cross.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—The
supreme court has decided that
liquor could not be taken into the
territory occupied by the Pueblo
Indians without violating the fed
eral law.
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