UTE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS NOTES
A Record of the Principal Happenings of the World
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 29.—
General Angeles, the personal repre
sentative of General Villa, yesterday
held a long conference with General
Scott, the chief of staff of the United
States army. Scott is personally ac
quainted with Villa, and knows him
intimately. The Interview is regarded
in official circles as significant.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 29.—
Mexico City is still isolated, and it is
believed that Carranza is massing his
forces for a new attack. The retreat
of Gonzales has been checked by the
re-inforcements sent him from Vera
Cruz.
CORNISH, N. H., June 29.—Two
Mexicans, representing themselves as
emissaries from General Felipe An
geles, and General Raoul Madero, ar
rived here today seeking to arrange a
conference between President Wilson
and Angeles. Angeles is now in
Washington, having come there to
see the president, and explain the
Mexican situation to him. Angeles
will speak with authority for the Villa
side of the Mexican imbroglio as he
is Villa’s chief officer. When the
Mexicans called at the president’s
summer home, Wilson was out motor
ing, and nothing could be done about
a conference until he returned. It
has been arranged that the emissaries
will call again this evening. No im
portant dispatches have been received
at Washington on the Mexican situa
tion today, for the president has left
orders that he was to be kept in
formed, and no messages were re
ceived by him today. Wilson is paying
special attention to the developments
in Mexico.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 29.—
The exports last week fell to $41,
000,000 and the trade balance of the
week fell to only $9,000,000, which is
the smallest that it has been for
months. The large exports of wheat
and cotton are decreasing.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 30—The ex
secretary of state, William Jennings
Bryan will arrive in this city the last
of the week to keep a program of
speaking dates which have been ar
ranged for him. The city is prepared
to welcome its distinguished guest,
and special preparations have been
made by the fair officials to do him
honor. Next Sunday, July 4th, Bryan
will address a monster gathering in
this city, and make the address of the
day at San Francisco’s celebration of
the national holiday. On July 7, he
will resume his efforts in behalf o
the peace of the world, by addressing
the meeting of the International Con
ference of Women Workers for thf
Promotion of Peace.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 30.—
Justice Wendell Stafford, of the Su
preme Court of the District of Colum
bia, who has been considering the
action brought by the American bond
holders of the Alaska Northern to re
strain the government from paying
over the purchase price of the road to
the Canadian bondholders, today de
nied the motion of the plaintiffs asking
that one-tenth of the purchase price
of the road be paid' into court to be
held until the suit was determined.
This was asked in order to protect
any interest in the money that the
American "bondholders, E. A. Shedd &
Co., and John R. Thompson of Chi
cago, might have. The Canadian ven
dors were given until August 20, by
the court, to defend before him the
allegations of fraud and conspiracy
made by the American bondholders.
The attorneys for Secretary of the
Interior and the Alaska Railroad Com
mission assured Judge Stafford that
the government would withhold the
payment of one-half million of the pur
chase price until August 20.
ANCHORAGE, June 30.Nine
hundred and fifty men are now em
ployed on the government railroad in
the vicinity of this city. Twenty
miles of the road, from here to Eagle
River will have the rails laid by
September 1. The wages are about
$5 per day.
(Ed. Note.) This telegram received
from Seattle today is a sample of the
booming that is being done by some
body, presumably the government offi
cials, in an effort to boost the price
of lots at the sale that is going to
take place at the new townsite on
July 9. It is well known that the wage
scale for laborers is 37% cents per
hour, which at an eight hour day
makes $3 per day. Of this amount
$1 Is deducted for board. ThST6 is no
work on Sundays. The men can there
fore make $18 per week, from which
$7 must be deducted for board, leav
ing $11 clear. This is the truth about
wages, and somebody is spreading a
false impression for a reason.
CORNISH, N. H., June 30.—Presi
dent Wilson is enjoying his visit here
to the full. He spends his time be
tween the golf links, and taking lqng
rides around the country in his motor
car. In answer to a query put to him
today, the president said that he had
not yet abandoned all idea of visiting
the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San
Francisco, this summer, but that he
feared that press of public business
would prevent him from doing so. A
visit to the exposition was enticing he
admitted, but said that he could not
afford to be too long away from Wash
ington in the present state of the
nation’s foreign affairs.
PANAMA, June 30.—The beef con
sumed in the Panama Canal Zone is
to be from cattle slaughtered here, in
stead of dressed beef from the United
States. It has been ascertained that a
saving of from 10 to 20 per cent can
thus be made. The Canal Supply De
partment has already begun killing
local cattle in order to test the quality
of meat obtainable, and it haB further
arranged to purchase cattle in other
parts of Central America, and even
South America, and bring them to the
isthmus for final fattening and slaugh
ter.
A cattle buyer, assigned to visit the
neighboring countries, will have his
purchases brought to the canal and
inspected by a veterinary surgeon, to
provent the introduction of diseased
cattle. The latter official is already
on his way to the isthmus.
PEKING, June 30.—The Ministry of
the Interior has chosen a large build
ing situated in the Shih Tiao Hutung
section of this city to be converted
into a government isolation hospital.
In a memorandum submitted to the
president, the ministry estimated that
the yearly expenditure of the hospital
would be approximately $20,000, and
the initial expense at least $10,000.
The latter will be drawn from the
municipal funds, while the mainte
nance expense will be borne by the
government out of the-administrative
budget.
The establishment of a hospital of
this kind has long been contemplated,
but the appearance recently here of
epidemics of scarlet fever and throat
diseases has emphasized the impor
tance of immediate action, and the
work will begin immediately.
PITTSBURG, Pa., June 30.—Steel
mills in this city recently received
orders for 75,000 tons of projectile
steel. The steel is to be sold at $38 a
ton, which is an increase of $7 per ton
in what the same material was sold
for early in the present year. The
mills are all working night and day
filling rush orders for the belligerent
powers in Europe.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 30.—
The current fiscal year ends at mid
night tonight, and the statisticians of
the government show a trade balance
in favor of the United States for the
past year amounting to over one bil
lion dollars. This immense total ex
ceeds by $400,000,000 the best previ
ous record. The situation is very
satisfactory to the government, al
though the loss of imports has seri
ously affected the revenues of the
government. The figures of total
exports and imports have not yet
been made public.
LONGON, June 30.—Young college
men or school masters with an apti
tude for mathematics are offered com
fortable jobs at pay ranging from
$1,300 to $2,000 a year in an admiralty
circular just issued. They are wanted
as naval instructors on board naval
vessels, and they are asked to enlist
for four years. In addition to their
salary they will receive a bonus of
$2,000 on their discharge after four
years, or proportionate bonus if they
leave the service before that time.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 30.—
President Wilson will remain at his
summer home in Cornish, N. H., until
the German reply to the second Am
erican note is received. At present
nothing has been learned which aids
the government to determine when
the reply is likely to arrive.
NEW YORK, June 30.—OTDonnovan
Rossa, the famous Irishman, who has
been prominent in all movements
looking to free ireland from the doml
in making a difficult stroke he had
ruptured a blood vessel.
Campbell will be remembered by all
Nomeites as one of the counsel in the
Noyes, McKenzie mining scandals,
which have been made famous by Rex
Beach in his noval based on ihe
trouble at Nome, entitled "The
Spoilers."
ALBANY, July 1.—Governor Chas.
Whitman, who prosecuted Lieutenant
Becker, when the latter was convicted
of the murder of Herman Rosenthal,
today granted the condemned man a
reprieve until July 20.—Becker will
die on that date unless the United
States Supreme Court interferes, for
the governor says that he will not
commute the sentence. Whitman says
that under no circumstances will he
grant an additional reprieve or will
he take any further action to assist
Becker, or prevent him from being
electrocuted.
nation of England died here today.
SEATTLE, July 1.—The Central
Labor Union of this city has con
sidered the labor conditions prevailing
at the new camp of Anchorage, where
the government is building the
Alaska Ralroad, and has passed reso
lutions condemning the policy of the
Railroad Commission in adopting 'the
station work system on the road. An
investigating committee has been ap
pointed by the Union, which will make
a trip to Anchorage and report on the
conditions there for the purpose of
bringing the matter to the attention
of Congress, if the working situation
is found unsatisfactory.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 1.—Joseph
G. Campbell, a prqpiinent lawyer and
politician of this city, and well known
to all Alaskans who were in Nome In
the early days died suddenly here
today. He was playing golf, when he
toppled over without warning, and
when his friends reached him he was
dead. An examination showed that
DOUGLAS, Ariz., July 2.—Wages in
the smelters and the copper mines in
this state have all been advanced a
further 2% per cent. This is because
of the intention of the mine owners
to allow hte men to have a part in
the increased profits now being
earned because of the high prcie of
the metal. This last advance brings
the wages of the miners and smelter
employes of Arizona to the highest
point they have ever reached in the
history of the industry. There is a
strong possibility that the price of the
refined metal will soon see another
increase in price, and If that happens
wages will be again raised. Copper
is firm at well over 20 cents.
CHICAGO, 111., July 1.—One million,
eight hundred thousand chocolate
drops have been ordered here for
shipment to the Philippine Islands.
There is a great demand for the con
fection among the natives of the
island, and as they have always here
tofore been bought in Germany, and
are now bought in America because of
the war. It is expected by the busi
ness houses concerned, that the trade
will remain permanently in this coun
try. It is believed that this first order
is only a forerunner of the many that
are to come.
HAINES, July 2.—All the native
fishermen went on a strike at the
Alaska Pacific Fisheries cannery on
account of a cut in the price of fish
from 15 to 12% cents per fish. All
the natives signed an agreement to
stay out until the price was restored
to the former scale and within a
couple of days the cannery acceded to
their demands and they were all Back
at work again.
LONDIN, July 3.—The military
regulations regarding the lights of the
London district are so strict that a
chief petty officer of the anti-aircraft
corps was fined 20 shillings in a police
court for having a too powerful light
on his motor car.
LONDON, July 3.—The cutting off
of the German supply of aniline has
brought sudden and unexampled pros
perity to the three or four British
firms which are engaged in the manu
facture of these colors. A Manchester
firm after only . ten months of this
war boom, has just paid off fourteen
years arrears on its 6 per cent cumu
lative preferred stock.
PARIS, July 3.—The government
has decided to take as stringent meas
ures with cocaine and morphine as
with absinthe. A radical decree re
inforcing the faulty laws against
illicit traffic in them is expected from
the minister of the Interior shortly.
A serious feature of the evil is that
the “coco,” as it is called, has found
its way into the army and navy.
The immense profits on the traffic
tempt the unscrupulous to risk the
few months of prison the law pre
scribes. A gramme of cocaine costs
them 2 cents and they sell it at from
40 cents to 60 cents. The police are
continually after them, but even when
they are caught they sometimes slip
through some loophole in the law. The
government has decided to close every
loophole now.
PEKING, July 3.—The Chinese
government has been adopting pecu
liar devices tor the purpose of obtain
ing loans from the Chinese people,
since it is impossible during the
European war to obtain them from
abroad. s
Besides introducing a lottery sys
tem in order to obtain investments in
the National Savings Bank, they are
now offering decorations to merchants
and others who will buy the “domestic
bonds” which the government is issu
ing. The purchaser who buys several
thousand dollars worth of the bopds
receives a sixth class or seventh class
decoration; he who buys more re
ceives a fifth class; and so it goes up
'to very large sums, in which case spe
cial decorations, something new and
hitherto unprovided, are granted to
the men who trust the government
with hundreds of thousands or Mexi
can dollars.
LONDON, July 3.—The war office
has announced to farmers its willing
ness to allow prisoners of war to be
employed on farms near detention
camps.
PARIS, July 3.—A bill has been in
troduced in the senate to confer citi
zenship upon all native Algerinas who
have served in the French army.
PARIS, July 3.—Many of the sol
diers confined at the Cherche-Midi
prison awaiting court martial for in
fringement of regulations ask to be
defended by women lawyers. On the
contrary, the women at Saint Lazare
awaiting trial generally ask the head
of the order of advocates for a man
to defend them.
PETROGRAD, July 3.—One of the
most daring Russian aviators on the
Galician front is a girl from the Petro
grad High School. She recently ar
rived at Kiev, wounded in arm and
leg, having been hit while flying over
some Austrian positions. She kept
control of her machine, however, and
landed safely behind the Russian
lines.
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS, France
July 3.—It is'almost impossible to ex
aggerate the importance of the Ger
man strength in machine guns, which
they use with the greatest skill and
courage.
They had a stock of 50,000 on hand
at the beginning of the war, and have
been keeping this supply replenished
constantly from their arms factories.
A favorite trick is to leave a ma
chine gun or two hidden in a cellar
or similar place of concealment until
the enemy’s advance has swept by
and then open fire on the rear. The
post of the men serving the gun is
of course hopeless, but they are fairly
certain to sell their lives dearly, con
tinuing to fire their gun to the last.
As an instance of the deadly swift
ness of machine gun fire, it is stated
that a man coming under the fire of
one of these weapons and shot
through the head can be struck yet
ten times more in the second or two
that he takes to fall to the ground.
LONDON, July 3.—The war has
brought what might be described as
a trampless era to England. There is
not a workhouse in the United King
dom that has not reported a great de
crease in the number of vagrants dur
ing the past few months. Those who
still use the “casual wards” are men
of 60 years or over. Officials say
there are practically no young or
middleaged vagrants left.
PHILADELPHIA, July 3. — The
United States District Court has ren
dered a decision in favor of the de
fendant in the suit brought by the
government to dissolve the combina
tion formed by the Reading road, and
the New Jersey Central The suit
involved what has been commonly
known as the Anthracite coal mon
opoly. The government may appeal
the decision of the court.
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A party of Lehigh Valley Railroad
officials including botW operating and
traffic men, has just completed a
unique business trip. Seeking to
learn at first hand what their patrons
in the middle west had to suggest for
the betterment of the lines service,
the party visited all the larger cities.
Ideas of all kinds affecting the dis
patch of business, whether they were
already in vogue on other lines or
represented the ideas of shippers on
how their freight should be handled,
were carefully noted, and where prac
tical will be adopted on the Lehigh
Valley. The trip lasted four weeks
and the party interviewed prominent
western railroad men as well as
shippers in their search for ideas.
J. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN
8aoratary of India In
Brltiah Coalition Cabinat.
Photo by American Press Association.
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IDS SEATTLE
SACRAMENTO, Cal., July 3.—Wil
liam W’allace Chapin, formerly pub
lisher of the Seattle P.-I., was mar
ried here today to Katherine Grey
Sunderland, a wealthy widow of New
York City.
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ALASKA TO SEE
SOON
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 3.—
The announcement was made here to
day that the first division of the
Pacific fleet’s torpedo boat destroyer
flotilla, would make a cruise in
Alaskan waters this summer. The
purpose of the cruise is to familiarize
the commanders with the coastal wat
ers of the territory, and it is believed
here that the formation of a naval
base in Alaska is under consideration.
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LONDON, July 3.—The newest of
London’s six hundred railway stations
which has just opened its doors in the
Maida-vale section of the city, is
staffed entirely by women, from sta
tion-master to porters.
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CORNELL WINS SLOW
RACE ON HUDSON
Cornell won the University eight
oared four-mile race which was the
feature event of the regatta on the
Hudson last Monday. The victory
was won by a length over Ledand
Stanford, with Syracuse third, Colum
bia fourth, and Philadelphia last.
The official time was as follows:
Cornell, 20 minutes, 36 3-5 seconds;
Lelang Standford, Jr., 20 minutes, 37
4-5 se conds.
The time was slower than in any
intercollegiate major contest since
1910.
The 8-oared varisity race was the
second victory for Ithaca during the
regatta. Earlier in the day Cornell
won the Junior varsity race, with
Pennsylvania second. Syracuse won
the Freshman’s race, 'with Cornell
second and Columbia third.
NED TO OPPOSE
DIVISION OF
FOREST FOND
Within a few days the first step
will be taken by the First Division, in
its legal fight for the forest reserve
money paid into the Territorial Treas
ury by the government, and which the
Territorial Legislature voted to divide
evenly among the four divisions.
John G. Heid, member of the House,
will file suit next week on behalf of
the six members of the legislature
from the First Division and “the peo
ple of Southeastern Alaska,” to enjoin
Walstein G. Smith, as treasurer of
Alaska, from paying over any money,
or any part thereof, derived from the
sale of timber and uses from the
Tongass national forest reserve, which
is all situated in Division No. 1, to
any of the other divisions of Alaska.
Echo of Legislative Fight
The legal steps which Southeastern
Alaska will take, recalls the sensa
tional battle in the House and Senatei
during the last legislative session,
when the bills to divide the money
equally with the other three divisions
were passed. In the Senate the vote
was 6 to 2, with Senators Sulzer
Tanner of the First voting in the neg
ative. In the House the bill passed by
a vote of 9 to 7, Representatives Held,
Shoup, Heckman and Britt of the First
Division being supported by Represen
tative Holland of the Third, Represen
attive Moran of the Second and Repre
sentative Burns of the Fourth.
Cobb Is “Legal Counsel.”
Before he left last week for his
trip through Alaska, Governor J. F.
A. Strong designated John H. Cobb of
Juneau, as Territorial “legal counsel,”
under a joint resolution passed by the
legislature, to guard against any con
tingency that might arise in the mat
ter during his absence. Mr. Cobb
will represent Mr. Smith and the Ter
ritory, as a unit, when the suit is filed.
The resolution empowering the gov
ernor to employ legal counsel, di
rected that counsel be selected only
when the territory was in need of
legal representation. A permanent at
torney general will be selected by
ballot a year from November, under
the provisions of an act which passed
both bodies of the legislature.
What “First” Claims
According to the claims of the
First Division legislators. Southeast
ern Alaska is entitled to the entire
$60,324.25 paid into the Territorial
Treasury by the government, on ac
count of the Tongass Forest reserve.
The amount paid into the treasury
from the sale of timber in the Third
division, in which the Chugach na
tional forest is located is $7,356.08,
which includes $703.04 interest which
Southeastern Alaska claims should
have been split between the Third and
First divisions.
In the complaii^which Mr. Held
will file, it will be pointed out that
the First Division pays 75 per cent
of the taxes, and has the smallest
area. The area of Southeastern
Alaska is estimated to be 43,000
square miles if the inland waters are
included. The Second division has
an area of 158,600 square miles and
the Fourtli 228,000 square miles.
The men in the legislature who
voted to take the money from South
eastern Alaska, and spend it on roads
and trails in all four divisions, passed
a bill appointing four road supervis
ors. Their contention in the matter
was that Congress intended the money
should be spent in the entire terri
tory. In the congressional act the
word “county” was used, and the point
was raised that the Territory, and not
the division, was the same as a
county under the intent of the con
gressional act.—Juneau Empire.
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EL PASO, July 3.—Pascual Oroszco,
the Mexican general, who arrived
here a short time ago to meet with
Huerta for the purpose of fomenting
a new revolution in Mexico has dis
appeared. Six men have been guard
ing the house where the Mexican re
sided, and none of them can account
for his disappearance. The whole
border is being closely watched, and
Orosco will be arrested if he attempts
to cross into Mexico. The federal
officials are chagrined at the escape
of Orosczo, and are making a deter
mined search for him.