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WASHINGTON, May 4.—The
President announced this afternoon
that he had selected Richard Olnev,
of Boston, as governor, and Paul
Warburg, of New York, as a mem
ber of the board of federal reserve
banks. Judge Olney is an attorney
and was attorney general of the
United States from 18 92 until 1895,
when he became President Cleve
land’s secretary of state, until March
4, 1897. Mr. Warburg was formerly
with the financial house of Kuhn,
Loeb & Co.
NEW YORK, May 4.—After lying
at death’s door for several days
past, General Daniel E. Sickles
passed peacefully to the great
beyond Saturday night. Although
88 years of age he continued active
until a year or two ago, but for
several years past has been in much
financial and domestic trouble. His
wife and son were estranged from
him, but were reconciled toward the
end and were at his bedside when hw
died. The general won much glory
in the civil war, where he had a leg
shot off. He has since held many
positions of honor, Including min
ister to Hollard, minister to Spain,
member of Congress, sheriff of New
York.
SEATTLE, May 4.—On Saturday
night the recently remodeled steamer
Dirigo set sail for Seward. She
had not gone far before she ran"
ashore on Whidby Island, in the
northern part of Puget Sound. Last
night at midnight she was hauled off
and returned to Seattle. She is
now be.ing surveyed and if it is
found that she suffered no material
injury she will continue tonight on
her way north, otherwise there will
be some delay for repairs. The
Dirigo will take the run of the
steame.r Dora from Seward to Cook’s
Inlet and is operated by the Alaska
Steamship Company.
SEATTLE, May 2.—Alex Ranke,
who as a young man was among the
first to leave a palatial home in this
city to endure the trials of pioneer
life in the Dawson rush, died this
morning. He. was well known among
the old-time Alaskans, having also
spent several years in Nome and on
Seward Peninsula.
WASHINGTON, May 2.—It was
announced officially last evening
that the wedding of William G. J',
Adoo and Miss Eleanor Wilson
would occur in the blue room cj, the
White House on Thursday, Jiss 7.
The coming bride is 24 years of age,
while the groom is past 50. He is
a widowe.r and has three grown sons
and 3 daughters. As he holds the
position of Secretary of the Treasury
the marriage will be largely an
official affair.
WASHINGTON, May 2.—This af
ternoon the anti-trust bill that 's
favored by the administration was
made public. It provides for a com
mission of five, not more than thrse
of one political party, to investigate
the business and financial conditions
of the country and the management
of corporations. The members of the
commission are each to receive <•.
salary of $10,000. The bill will be
the means of working out a remedy
for the much assailed trusts.
MANILA, May 2.—The Pacific
Mail Steamship Siberia reached here
today without undergoing any par
ticular damage as a result of run
ning aground. The tide took her
off, without any additional assist
ance.
BATAVIA, Java, May 1.—The
famous grand opera singer, Mmn.
Lillian Nordica, is lying here at the
point of death. It is not expected
that she can recover. For many
years she has been one of the, lead
ing singers on the stage. She was
born at Farmington, Me., in 1858.
DENVER, May 1.—Representative
Martin D. Foster, chairman of the
House committee on mines and min
ing, is anxious to effect a settlement
of the mining difficulties in Colorado.
His suggestion that negotiations for
a settlement of the strike be entered
on a basis that recognition of the
union had been waived formally by
the United Mine Workers of
America, has been considered by the
operating companies. This morn
ing 19 of them decided to refuse to
consider the suggestion. They con
tend that the question of unionism
is the paramount issue and that it
should be considered and settled at
this time.
“"SEATTLE, May 1.—The steamer
Northwestern, which arrived at
Seattle on Monday evening, and did
not go “down” in Seymour narrows
as was reported, sailed north last
night. Her cabin passengers for Cor
dova were: Mrs. W. H. Seagraves,
Frank Jager, Thomas Carter, H.
Maillard and 19 second-class. Fop
Seward there were 11 cabin and 3
second class; for Valdez, 4 cabin
and 4 second class.
BELFAST, Ireland, April 30
Last night eleven British warships
dropped anchor in this harbor. It is
the declared intention of the gov
ernment to land marines in the
event of any more serious trouble
over home rule. For many months
past Belfast has been a seething
pot of protest against home rule.
Fiery mass meetings have been held
in the city squares and war talk
has been uppermost. It is here that
the Orangemen have especially
vented their rage over the Irish
government which it is proposed to
set up in Dublin.
DENVER, April 30.—This morn
ing it was announced that under
truce ^00 mine strikers had agreed
to surrender their arms to the
militia. This surrender, however, is
to be under terms that will subject
them to prosecution for the death of
Major Lester.
PORTLAND, Ore., May 2.—Last
night Rufus Mallory, one of our
oldest residents and until recently a
prominent attorney, died at his
home last night. In 1866 he was
elected a member of Congress.
NEW YORK, April 30.—At noon
today the ceremony was performed
that united in marriage Vincent
Astor and Miss Helen Huntington.
It was a ve.ry quiet affair, attended
only by a few relatives and very
intimate friends. The marriage
occurred at the country place of the
Huntingtons at Staatsburg.
CHICAGO, April 30.—The United
States Circuit Court of Appeals has
granted the petition of the govern
ment for a rehearing of the appeals
of Tvietmoe, Houlihan and Bern
hardt, of Indianapolis, officials cf
an international labor union, who
we.re charged with complicity in the
many dynamite outrages that were
perpetrated at Los Angeles and
other parts of the United States. A
new trial was further ordered by the
Court of Appeals.
SEATTLE, April 30.—William A.
Prendergast, comptroller of the city
of New York, and the. man who re
ceives a salary of $15,000 per year,
the same as Mayor Mitchell, was an
arrival here last night. He is on
a campaign tour, swinging around
the country, in the interest of the
Republican party. In conference
with leaders here he urges that n
solid front be presented as against
the Democratic party. He declares
that there is no further excuse for
a third party.
WASHINGTON, April 30.—The
hearings over the canal tolls repeal
bill ended Monday before the Sen
ate committee on Interoceanic
Canals. Late yesterday afternoon
the committee made its report. The
bill as it passed the House, with an
amendment by Senator Simmons,
was reported without any recom
mendation. The amendment re
ferred to declares that the repeal of
the clause exempting from tolls the
United States coastwise vessels,
waived no sovereign rights over the
canal.
LOS ANGELES, April 29.—There
was a big crowd last night to wit
ness the contest between Welsh, the
British lightweight (Champion and
Leach Cross, who was defeated in
to rounds by Willie Ritchie in New
York last November. There was
intense interest throughout the con
test, as both men stood up well
under the frequent terrific blows
that were delivered. In the 20th
round Welsh received the decision.
RIO JANEIRO, April 29.—Col.
Rooseve.lt has made himself famous.
He has found in the wilds of South
America what no other man was able
to discover. And everywhere his
name is being heralded as a power
ful discoverer. A tribe of unclothed
savages, hitherto unknown to have
existed, have been discovered by the
mighty warrior. And he has named
them Pauhates. It is believed that
now the colonel will soon be con
tent to return to Ne.w York and run
for governor.
ECCLES, W. Va„ April 29.—All
hope has be.en abandoned of rescu
ing 203 of the miners who were en
tombed yesterday by an explosion.
Of the total number entombed, 60
have been rescued but they are
badly burned and some are not ex
pected to recover. Eight dead bodies
were recovered. Rescue crews
labored all night but the wrecked
shafts are so filled with debris that
it is impossible to reach the
entombed men.
WASHINGTON, April 29.—Secre
tary of the Treasury McAdoo an
nounced this afternoon that the
twelve federal reserve banks would
he ready for business on August 1st.
Preparations are now making, and
they will continue for nearly three
months, to get all the preliminaries
arranged so that business may be
started off without much friction.
The horses that were in use last
winter by Jack Dalton and his party
in freighting 900 tons of coal from
the Matanuska fiejd to tidewater,
will be used by the geological survey
parties this season. Eight of these
sturdy animals are now in Cordova
as they were brought out by Mr.
Dalton via the Tazlina river and
Chitina. Twenty-one are now at Knik
and these will be brought over by
Hugh Connolly, who recently went
to the westward. The 28 horses will
be used by parties in charge of Fred
H. Mofflt and Mr. Witherspoon. They
will start from Cordova and go to
the interior, to the mining country
tributary to the Copper and Chitina
rivers.
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The Territorial banking board re
cently sitting at Juneau issued cer
tificates to the First Bank of Valdez
and to the First Bank of Cordova,
both of which are organized under
the Territorial banking act passed
by the Alaska legislature. These
institutions are now known as ”S.
Blum & Co., Bankers,” and the
change to territorial institutions will
be made during the present month.
S. Blum, who has been in Seattle
with his family during the winter,
will leave for Valdez on May 6. He
will first make the change in his
bank there before coming to Cordova
to perform a similar work.
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The lana office at Juneau is now
having a hearing on the coal land
cases of Frost, Watson and others,
who have holdings in the Matanuska
field. The hearing is in the nature,
of a civil suit to determine whether
the locations were lawfully made.
The government began a criminal
prosecution against A. C. Frost and
others charging them with conspir
acy to defraud the government. The
jury, however, returned a verdict of
not guilty, as to all the defendants.
In the present hearing depositions
have been filed of much of the testi
mony taken at the, trial in Chicago.
The record thus submitted consists
of nearly 5,000 pages of testimony.
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Marshal Brenneman has named a
successor to Deputy Marshal Nels
Sorby, at Dillingham, Bristol Bay,
in the person of Robert Coles, of
Valdez. The new official will leave
for his post of duty on the Sampson.
He wlil be accompanied by his
sister, Mrs. Lottie Brown.
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IT. S. Marshal Faulkner, of the
Juneau district, has written to Gov.
J. F. A. Strong at Washington re
questing that he take up the matter
of working the prisoners in the
federal jails of Alaska on public
roads and on public improvements
with the attorney-general and sup
erintendent of prisons in his depart
ment. Mr. Faulkner believes that
nothing could be done that would
count more for the welfare of the
prisoners or that would make the
work of caring for them easier. In
addition the people would get the
benefit arising from their labors.
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Olaf Hjelm was an arrival from
the Shushanna on yesterday’s train,
having departed from the diggings
last Sunday. He states that when
he left there were various rumors
concerning a rich strike that had
been made qn claim No. 1 abo/e
Skookum, a tributary to Little
Eldorado. This property was
located by Bud Sargeant and is now
being worked by Charley Range and
others. Mr. Hjelm passed the claim
on April 21 and says that they were
then cross cutting the narrow creek
with the use of a boiler, and were
in pay. Before he left the diggings
the report was that Range had
panned $36 out of the bottom of a
shaft not bigger than a Yukon stove
and six feet deep. There was con
siderable excitement by reason ot
the new find.
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Information has been received
here that Asa C. Baldwin, for sev
eral years in charge of the American
party running the boundary survey
from Mount St. Elias north to the
Arctic ocean, had resigned from the
boundary survey April 1. He Is
now in Seattle on private business,
and will be missed on his annual
trip to Cordova and the interior. Mr.
Baldwin is a graduate of the West
ern Reserve University, Cleveland,
O., is an experienced surveyor and
after attending the law school at
Washington, D. C., was admitted to
practice in the District of Columbia,
territories of United States, includ
ing Alaska, and various states.
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COWES, Isle of Wight, May 4.—
Yesterday death came to a man who
was generally known by reputation
at least throughout the various
countries. Fqr some weeks past the
Duke of Arguyle had been afflicted,
and the end came yesterday.
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BOSTON, May 5.—This morning
Richard Olne.y wrote to the Presi
dent declining the appointment of
governor of the board of federal
reserve banks.
Several of our citizens went to the
steamer Alameda last evening to
pay their respects to Judge William
N. Spence, who was e.n route to Val
dez to assume the duties of district
attorney for the Third Judicial Divi
sion. They found the new official
to be a Southern gentleman of the
old school, over 60 years of age,
tall, with a bright eye. and a clear
understanding. He is accompanied
by his daughter Miss Toy Spence,
and shortly expects to bring the rest
of his family either to Alaska or
I Seattle. He has several children
' whom he W’ould like, to place in the
[ University of Washington.
Judge Spence stated that he is
not accompanied by any assistants
to be placed in office. He prefers to
become familiar with the duties of
his position and the conditions exist
ing in this northland, before he
makes any change in the personnel
of the force in the District Attorney's
office.
The home of Judge Spence has
been at Camilla. Georgia. When he
was quite, a young man, and about
35 years ago, he served two terms in
the general assembly of Georgia.
He also served as solicitor general
in Albany judicial district for 12
years, following w'hich he was
elected judge, of the superior court in
the same district, which position he
held 12 years. He left the bench
live years ago, and his appointment
to succeed George R. Walker at
Valdes is his first federal position.
Judge Fuller has appointed Duke
E. Stubbs as IT. S. commissioner in
the Kuskokwim district, to succeed
E. J. Stie.r, resigned.
Over in the Fourth division it
takes some money to run the office
of the United States Marshal. For
the three quarters ending March
31st, the expenditures have been
$193,265.75, in the sums of $48,
701.75, $94,266 and $50,298. It is
likely that for the fiscal year ending
June 1 st the total will aggregate
over $250,000.
When the new council at Fair
banks recently reorganized the fol
lowing were reappointed to office:
City magistrate, and clerk, A. J.
Pauli; city treasurer, George Hutch
inson; chief of police, Frank C.
Wiseman; chief of the fire depart
ment, John J. Buckley; city attor
ney, T. A. Marquam; city physician,
Dr. Aline Bradley; patrolman, Tom
Blaylock.
Sumner S. Smith and William
Maloney, are in the Fairbanks dis
trict in their official capacities of
Federal and Territorial mining
inspectors, respectively.
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NOTICE OF PROBATE
Notice is hereby given that I have
been appointed administrator of the
estate of Paul d’Heirr.v, deceased,
which estate is now being probate*' '
in the Probate Cotnt of the Chitina
Precinct, Alaska. All persons hav
ing claims against the said estate
will please present them for pay
ment with the proper vouchej?,
within six months from the 29th
day ot' April, A. D. 1914.
HORACE LEACH,
Administrator.
Dated at Chitina, Alaska, April
29, 1914. ‘ „
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; DENVER, April 30.—Last night
the Adjutant General of the state
gave out this statement, ‘ Major P.
P. Lister, of the militia hospital
corps, was shot and killed by
strikers at Walsejiburg, At the
time he wore a Red Cross badge and
was dressing the wounds of militia
men.”
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TOKIO, May 1.—The Pacific Mail
steamship Siberia, bound from San
Francisco to Manila, has gone ashore
off the coast of Formosa. Among
the passengers is the wife of Francis
Burton Harrison, Governor General
of the Philippines. Fears are enter
tained that the waves may pound
the vessel to pieces. A Japanese
warship has been dispatched to the
rescue.
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