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WASHINGTON. Dec. 21.—The
report is circulating in official circles
here that Governor George Goethais,
apon his arrival here from the
Panama Canal, will be commis
sioned by President Wilson to build
the Alaska railroad. A similar re
port was started when the bill for
the government road in that terri
tory was under consideration and
before he was selected as chief
executive of the Canal Zone.
PARIS, Dec. 21.—Horace B. Dun
bar, formerly proprietor of the
Rainier-Grand Hotel at Seattle, >s
dead here after a long lingering ill
ness. He came to Europe to seek
restoration of health at several of
the. noted springs.
REDDING, Cal., Dec. 21.—Mt.
Kanaka, 15 miles west of this city
and 15 miies north of Mt. Lassen,
broke out In an eruption today.
This eruption is less violent than
most of the numerous ones which
attracted attention to Mt. Lassen
during the past six months, hut is
covering a wide area of territory
with ashes.
SEATTLE, Dec. 21.—Construc
tion has started on two cannery
tenders for Alaska. J. F. Duthie
& Co., will build a stern wheel
wooden steamer at their ship build
ing plant on the East Waterway. It
will be 120 feet long, 30 feet beam,
with a draft of 3% feet. She will
t>e equipped with a locomotive ma
rine boiler and a 300-horse power
engine. The tender will be a craft
of about 180 tons burden and will
carry a crew of eight men. The
shallow draft is made necessary by
tbe-fact that the vessel will be oper
ated on the flats of the Copper
River delta. Delivery is to be
made March 15. The cost will oe
about $35,000. The vessel will De,
used as a tender for the cannery at j
Orca, near Cordova, operated by the
Northwest Fisheries Co.
Another contract for the construc
tion of a 90-foot gasoline powered
cannery tender costing approxi
mately $20,000 has been awarded
by the Northwestern Fisheries
Company to E. W. Heath, who has
hsipbuilding yards at Oxbow, on the
Duwamish river. The vessel will j
act as a t nder for the company's i
canner? TTyak, Kodiak Island. J
She wi’: Tnve a beam of 20 feet, t> j
inches tud a molded depth of 10 j
feet 2 Jncfc-'s. The tender will be:
equipped with a 180-horsepower en-!
gine. Delivery is to be made in the
spring.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—Per-;
mission has been granted by the
state department for 500 German
women and children stranded in
China to pass tnrough the Cnited
States on their way to the fat ’er-;
land. They were members of he
colony which was broken up when
the Japanese captured Tsing Tau.
WASHINGTON, Dec. IS.—Repre
sentative Gardner, leader of the
movement in the House for bigger
army and navy, appeared before the
House Naval committee and asked
for the appropriation of funds
recommended by the General Naval
Board.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Hear j
Admiral Fiske, a membej of the
general board of the navy, testified
today that it would take five years
to put the navy in the highest state
of efficiency.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—The In
terstate Commerce Commission to
day granted the application of
eastern railroads for a 5 per cent
advance in freight rates, except cn
Certain specified commodities.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—J. P.
Morgan had another conference to
day with Secretary Lane, at whicu
he told the secretary he would in
a few days submit a definite writ
ten proposal on behalf of the Alaska
Syndicate to sail the Copper Kiver
& Northwestern Railway to the
government. The secretary will give
out no intimation of his intention in
regard to the proposition.
SEATTLE, Dec. 18.—Industrial
unrest reached an acute stage here
today when a mob composed of U00
Industrial Workers of the World
raided a big restaurant on Second
Avenue and forcibly seized food.
Forty of the leaders were arrested.
The crowd had previous to the raid
refused to go to the municipal hotel
for unemployed which was recently
established and where odd jobs are
furnished those who are really in
want.
COLON, Dec. 18. — Governor
C’.oethals sailed for Washington to
day to appear before various com
mittees and give testimony regard
ing needs of the Canal Zone. The
governor will spend Christmas with
liis children here.
POTTSVILLE, Pa., Dec. 17—Eire,
in the business district today wiped
out property to the value of
$2,000,000.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Finan
cial conditions throughout the
country are greatly improved, ac
cording to reports received by the
federal reserve board.
The steamer Admiral Evans was
aground on Bird Island reef near
Port Graham for several hours
Tuesday, but floated off on the next
high tide without having sustained
any serious injury. This informa
tion reached ' Cordova Wednesday
evening through passengers arriv
ing from the westward on the Mari
posa. The Evans reached Seward
yesterday and is expected to arrive
here tomorrow on her way south.
DENVER, Dec. 17.—Frank P.
Walsh, one of its members, an
nounced today that the Federal
Commission on Industrial relations
will resume its hearings here Janu
ary 11, when the probe will be in
serted into the coal strike situation.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The
Senate today ratified the London
convention's action intended to
bring about greater safety- at sea
through addition of life-boats and
other equipment for passenger
vessels.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 17.—
The cruiser Tacoma has been
ordered to the Panama Canal to aid
in enforcing neturality. She left
Guantanamo, Cuba, today for Chris
tobal.
NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—An inves
tigation is to be commenced here by
the large institutions engaged in
charitable and benevolent work, of
the charge that the Rockefeller and
other foundations established by
multimillionaires are engaged in an
effort to perpetuate the present posi
tion of depradatory wealth. This
effort is manifested, it is claimed,
tnrough the corruption of public
sources of information, thus consti
tuting a menace to the nation.
SEATTLE, Dec. 19.—Cutting the
railroad rate almost in hair, the
American-Hawaiian steamer Ohioan
will carry the first shipment of
Washington apples to New York
through the Panama Canal. The
Ohioan is now loading general cargo
it Sound ports. The first shipment
yf 20 carloads, 12,000 boxes, al
though experimental, is probably the
first rivulet of an immense stream
which will pour out from the north
west. About 30,000 carloads of
apples are raised every year in the
four northwestern states, and these
must find an outlet. The railroad
rate is SI a hundred pounds, but the
ne.w rate bv water is only 55 cents,
or 27’A cents a box.
WASHINGTON. Dee. 16. —The
war in Europe has developed at
least one new line of governmental
activity wherein the United States
is now acting as a bureau oi infor
mation and clearing house for over,
90,000 American mineral producers]
and manufacturers.
The interference with shipping on
the beginning of hostilities calle.d
sharp attention to the fact that the
United States had been importing
many minerals and mineral products
the raw' materials which exist in
large and workable quantities in the
United States. It has been, how
ever, a little easier, or possibly, a
little cheaper, to import such ores
than to develop them at home. The
shutting off of imports immediately
raised such questions as “Have we
magnesite?” or “Have we ferro
manganese?” or “What clays have
we in the United States?” and the
public statements at once given out
by Secretary of the Interior Lane
and by the Geological Survey re
garding our American mineral re
serves naturally resulted in in
quiries from thousands of American
firms.
A heavy correspondence has
grown out of this condition, and
often a single mail brings requests
from certain manufacturers to be
placed in touch with producers of
raw material, and also statements
from the producers themselves that
they are ready to supply the demand
for raw material.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—The
Eleventh, Eighteenth and Twenty
second regiments from Texas City
and three regiments from Galveston
have been ordered to Naco, Ariz-,
to enforce the. order intended to
prohibit Mexicans from firing across
the international boundary line.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—J. P.
i Morgan conferred with Secretary
' Lane today and said that he scon
would submit a pronccal to cell the
Alaska Northern railway to the
government as part of the new fed
eral system.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—The
House is today considering the con
stitutional amend :uent providing
m
tor nation-wide prohibition. It ii
expected that an aye and nay vot«
will be taken before midnight, as t
night session is being heiu wttt
probability of debate lasting ter
hours. Friends of the measure art
confident it will be. passed. wtiih
opponents are equally as sanguim
that it will be defeated.
SEATTLE, Dec. 22 — O. C. Eaton
H. G. Godfrey and Carl Harger
Americans, bound fro mtne Colum
bia River in a sloop to Alaska, fo!
the allege.d purpose of hunting and
trapping, were wrecked at Pachona
Bay, British Columbia. The author
ities, extra watchful and suspicious
because of the fear of invasion by
Germans or bombardment of the
province's larger seaports, arrested
them and they were deported to
Seattle as German spies. The boat
and outfit were confiscated.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—Presi
dent Wilson stated today that the
preliminary reports of the Alaska
Engineering Commission are nearly
ready and that it will soon be de
termined how soon work on the
railway will be started and how n
will be constructed. Two plans ct
construction have been under con
sideration—one by day labor under
supervision of the government, as
at the Panama Canal; the ether, by
contract,
NACO, Ariz., Dec. 22.—General
Hill, commander of the Mexican in
surrectionists operating near here,
entered into an agreement today
with United States army officers that
the Carranza forces •will not pursue
the Villa army if the latter with
draws from Saco.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 22.—The
UniteO States Commission on Indus
trial Relations has commenced an
inquiry into the land question at
uallas, Texas. The commission -.
thus getting close to one of the
objects for which, it was created—
to find, the cause of industrial unrest
and to propose to Congress construc
tive remedial measures. That taxa
tion as a means of destroying land
monopoly will have consideration is
also announced oy the commission.
Texas is a good place to begin
such an investigation. Land mon
opoly has made such progress there
that a majority of the farmers are
tenants. The state hag had for some
time a Renters’ Union, which has
just been changed into the Land
League of America. This organiza
tion demands in Its platform that
idle land should be taxed sufficiently
to force it into use. its influence
has been felt even by the Democratic
politicians of the state. Governor
elect Ferguson secured his nomina
tion by promising to take measures
to curb. Landlordism. It remains to
be seen how practical or unpractical
he may turn out to be.
NEW YORK. Dec. 22.—Wm. T.
Jerome, one of the attorneys en
gaged in the prosecution of Harry
Thaw, says that he has reason to be
lieve the defendant will start new
habeas corpus proceedings.
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 22.—Lieut.
Jerstner of the army aviation corps
was drowned today when his
machine fell into the ocean while lie
was engaged in a tr'al fl'ght here.
L. C. Miller, his pilot, v.as rescued
uninjured.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 21.—
Theodore J. Richardson, for 2 5
years a painter of Alaska scenery,
died here today. He made, several
trips along the coast and also in the
interior securing subjects for paint
ings which have attracted wide at
tention wherever shown.
Residents of Douglas Island,
many of whom are Servians and
Belgians, raised $600 for the relief
fund.
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To C. M. Gage, Peter Conaton, Wil
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and John Ryan:
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the undersigned, have expended in
labor and improvement* the sum of
One Hundred Dollars during the
years 1911, 1912, 1913, and 1914 on
each of the placer claims known as
New York Association- claim an-.
Boston Association claim, located on
Young cre^k, a tributary of Nizina
river, Nizina mining dTstrict, Chitina
recording district, Third Judicial
division, Territory ot' Alaska, and
where the said claim* are more fully
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under provisions of tffe law concern
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being the amount required to hold
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penditure, your interest in said
claims will become the property of
the undersigned, your co-owners,
under Se.ction 2324. Revised Statutes
of the I'nfted States.
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GEORGE DEMPSEY.
Agents Dexter C. Cayouette,
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Date of last pub., Feb. 23, 1913.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The
navy department was scheduled to
day to open bids for several new
submarines. One of the group will
be larger than Germany’s famous
death dealing vessel, the U-9. The
department plans call for the largest
submarines in the world—a vessel
of such jiower and construction that
| she can accompany the fleet wher
ever it might go.
SAX FRANCISCO, Dec. 17.—The
death of W. W. Rockhill, the. diplo
mat, at 'Honolulu, December 8, has
disclosed that his mission was to
attempt to place a loan of $125,
000,000 for China in this country,
the European war having caused
the collapse of the proposed loan
which was to have been made, jointly
by British, French, German and
Belgian financiers.
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