TELEGRAPH NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
Washington, June 20.—Senator Lea
sacrificed a quart of blood at one of
the private hospitals to save the life
of his wife and both are now recov
ering.
Seattle, June 20.—A fire broke out
this morning in the Seattle Cracker
Company’s plant and gutted two
floors before the flames could be got
ten under control. The loss is $100,
000.
London. June 20.—Sixty-five thous
and royal troops arrive for the coro
nation pageant.
Washington June 20.—Five South
American republics are soon to con
fer with a view to uniting.
Topeka, June 20. —Vice President
Melcher, of the Rock Island railroad,
was badly injured in a wreck near
here.
Los Angeles, June 20.—Charlie Ful- j
ton has planned to cruise Northern j
Alaska in a swift motor boat.
Seattle, June 20.—The Standard
Oil Company will spend $1,000,000
at Richmond Beach, in the erection
of a distributing plant.
Washington, June 20.—The Terri
torial Committee of the House will
recommend the home rule bill for
Alaska, as all of the Democratic and
three of the Republican members are
in favor of it. It will be reported
to Congress and in all probability pass
at the regular session in December.
The Senate is also believed to favor
the measure and in that event it will
become a law.
Washington June 20.—The com-i
mittee appointed to investigate the
charges of bribery against Senator
Lorimer, held its initial session to
day.
Little Rock, June 20.—A fourteen
carat diamond, worth $9,000, was
found in Pike county.
Pocatello, June 20.—Hugh Whit
ney, an outlaw, has terrorized this
community to such an extent that the
sheriff and a constable attempted to
take him in custody, but were killed
before making the arrest. Whitney
then boarded a passenger train and
shot to death the conductor, brake
man and a rancher, afterwards escap
ing through Idaho.
Washington, June 20.—The cus
toms officials discover that the gov
ernment loses $1,000,000 annually
through the importation of cutlery.
Los Angeles, June 20.—A bomb was
discovered at an early hour this morn
ing under the city hall, where all the
records are on file and there is a
strong suspicion that an attempt was
being made to do away with some of
the papers in the dynamiting case.
St. Louis, June 20.—The National
Commissary Managers’ Association,
composed of five hundred commissary
managers in the coal, lumber, mining,
cotton and other industries, will hold
its second convention in this city
August 22-24.
Tokio, June 20.—A typhoon devas
tates the Eastern coast of Japan, kill
ing hundreds of people.
Salt Lake, June 20.—District Judge
Morris, in declaring the white slave
law constitutional, sentenced three
men engaged in this traffic to long
terms in jail.
San Francisco, June 20.-- Orville
Caviness has confessed to the rob
bery of ?8,000 in gold dust from the
steamer Humboldt, while en route
from Fairbanks to the Seattle assay
office, and was sentenced to a year
in the penitentiary.
Bakersfield, Cal., June 20.—The oil
town of Maricopa was destroyed by
fire and many killed and injured.
Lisbon, June 20.—The United
States is recognized by the Republic
of Portugal.
Washington, June 20.—Chairman
Smith says the Senate committee will
act favorably on the state constitu
tions of Arizona and New Mexico.
Washington, June 20.—Senator
Francis Emory Warren, of Cheyenne,
Wyoming, announces his engagement
to Miss Clara Lebaron Morgan, of
New York.
Seattle, June 19.—Joseph H.
Young, president of the Alaska
Steamship company, who had plan
ned going to Cordova on one of
the last boats, was called to New
York in reference to awarding the
contract for the new steamer to
be constructed for the southwestern
Alaska run. It is to be a twenty
knot vessel, twin screw with double
bottom and will make the trip from
Seattle to Cordova in two and a
half days. Half a million dollars is
to be spent on this new steamer,
which will be the pride of the Pacif
ic coast.
Washington, June 21.—The annex
ation of Canada is the only advan
tage of reciprocity, says one United
States senator.
Washington, June 21.—The tor
pedo boat destroyers and cruisers on
the Pacific coast will be present at
the Golden potlatch in Seattle next
month.
London, June 21.—Business is sus
pended and crowds are congregated
everywhere awaiting the coronation
pageant tomorrow, for which all ar
rangements have been completed.
Yesterday it rained hard, ruining
most of the decorations.
Seattle, June 21.—Politicians who
make it a point to look into the
future are of the belief that unless
the Taft administration does some
thing within the next few months to
relieve the situation in Alaska. Mr
Taft will not get much support from
the northwest in his fight for renomi
nation. There seems to be no doubt
that the administration's policy to
ward Alaska has tended to tie up
the resources of the country with
the result that the people of that
country are not in a position to car
ry on much business with the state
of Washington. It is true that the
Camden, June 21.—The warship
Utah, the largest vessel of the navy,
was given an official trial today.
Fairbanks, June 21.—Following
the death of Fred Sellers, champion
lihght weight wrestler, who was shot
last week in the Imperial Cigar store
by a Slavonian wood chopper dur
ing a poker game, the city and fed
eral authorities are waging an ac
tive campaign against gambling.
Five arrests were made yesterday
and the offenders all plead guilty
and were fined.
New Haven, June 21.—President
Taft sends to Washington a special
message recommending an amend
ment to the pure food law, while he
attends the Yale college commence
ment.
Seattle, June 21.—Seattle had a
Progress and Prosperity day recent
ly under the auspices of the Chamber
of Commerce. That is was popular
from the standpoint of the people,
may be better understood when it is
stated that close to 40,000 people
inspected one new industry—that of
the Fisher Flouring Mills, which has
constructed a million dollar plant on
the west waterway. Mayor Dilling
and other public officials took part
in the day’s ceremonies.
Seattle, June 19.—George Mur
phy, formerly of Nome, and the first
and only delegate to congress from
Alaska who ever succeeded in get
ting any legislation for the benefit
of the territory, urges the people of
the coast, from Ketchikan to Sew
ard, to petition the national legisla
tors to be annexed to Washington.
Havana, June 19.—The muzzle
caps on the turret guns of the wreck
ed Maine were not cleared for ac
tion when shattered, according to
the report of the divers who are
making an investigation of the
cause of the loss of the battleship.
New Haven, June IV.—Harry
Whitney, a hunter with the Cook and
Peary expeditions, has started for
Alaska in search of big game.
London, June 17.—Fifty thousand
suffragettes held a parade today,
prior to holding a meeting.
Tokio, June 19.—Disastrous fires
are raging throughout Japan and all
efforts to cheek the flames have
thus far been unsuccessful.
Paris, June 19.—Fully a million
people witnessed the start of a Euro
pean circuit race in which three
aeroplanists were dashed to death
and five others injured.
New Yorkt June 19.—James Ham
mond, a millionaire builds a yacht
to cruise around the world until he
! dies.
Seattle, Wash., June 19.—The
War Department has awarded
to the Hercules Sandstone Co., of
Tenino, Wash., the contract for fur
nishing rock for the Grays Harbor
jetty/ This is the largest award yet
made and amounts to about $600,000.
This season 700 tons must be deliv
ered per day and during the two
following years the amount required
daily is 1,200 tons. The bid of the
Hercules company was $1.78 per
ton.
Monmouth, Ogden, June 22.—
Jesse Hall, escaped convict, who kid
napped a man, tried to capture his!
sheriffs, who attempted to interfere!
with his plans and a posse is now
scouring the hills in search of him.
Washington, June 22.—The Inter
national seal conference has failed
to arrive at any agreement.
Washington, June 22.—Althongh
the statute of limitation prevails,
Delegate Wickersham introduces a I
resolution in which he asks the war |
Department to send to the House the j
data and coal contracts of Forts
Davis and Liscum during 1908.
Paris June 22.—Ferdinand Duez,
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a receiver of several religious con
gregations. was sentenced to twelve
years for embezzling millions.
Washington, June 22.—Senator
Clapp, of Minnesota, endorses the
candidacy of Senator Lafolette for
president.
Kiel, June 22.—The American
warships have arrived and will par
ticipate in the Emperor’s naval fes
tival.
Xew York. June 21.—The coast
wise seamen’s strike has been adjust
ed and the sailors are returning to
work.
San Francisco , June 22.—The
International Sunday School Con
vention now in session here rep
resents 15,000,000 scholars.
Xew York. June 22.—The Wom
en’s Trade League, which numbers
55,000 members, is working for the
betterment of the girl workers.
Washington, June 22.—The House
defeats the Bristow amendment
adopted by the senate, giving Con
gress the power to regulate the
holding of elections for United States
Senators.
Washington, June 22.—Senator
Culbertson proposes to introduce a
resolution calling for an investiga
tion of expenditures during the
campaign of 1908.
Seattle, June 22.—William Piggot
suggests that a committee of Seattle
business and professional men visit
Alaska and there consult with the
people and agree upon measures
that should be drafted into bills to
be presented in congress. In order
to secure their passage he wants to
send a committee back to Washing
ton to camp on the track of
the lawmakers until some reme
dial legislation is secured for Alaska.
Washington, June 22.—Edward
Lee, clerk in the navy department,
has been arrested after a long chase
for embezzling $46,000.
Washington, June 22—.Delegate
Wickersham yesterday introduced a
resolution authorizing the House
Committee on territories to visit
Alaska this summer with reference
to its needs for self-government.
Spokane, June 22.—Patrick Welsh
receives a $15,000,000 contract from
the Canadian Northern railroad to
build a branch up the Frazier river,
j- Liajuana, June 22.—Mosby sur
renders to the Mexican rebels
and the revolt in lower California
practically ends.
Mexico City, June 22.—Delabarra
is asked to define the definite duties
of governors and announces that he
, is not a candidate for president.
London, June 22.—King George
was crowned at 12:30 o'clock in
Westminster Abbey. The city was
beautifully decorated and the pro
cession magnificent. The jubilation
of millions exceeds that of any in
England’s history.
Washington, June 22.—The Senate
requests the finance committee to
refer the wool bill for action July 10.
Wilmington, Del., June 22.—A fed
eral judge orders the powder trust
dissolved.
Brand Junction, June 21.—Bea
trice Farnham, a Boston sculptoress,
and John Otto, a hermit, have been
united by a quaint marriage in the
mountains.
Washington, June 22.—There has
been a general cleaning out of the
census bureau which has been run
more as a poker den than a depart
ment of the government. The first
batch of dismissals occurred yester
day.
El Paso, June 23.—GeneralEscu
dero sends fifteen hundred soldiers
to crush the revolt in lower Califor
nia.
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. . PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
MacCORMAC HOTEL, CORDOVA,
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Have you ever visited a more beautiful spot for a town in your
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ever?
Can’t you see how the concentration of business to three short
blocks add to the value of the business section?
Don’t you realize the advantage of the switch track along the back
of the business lots for handling freight cheaply?
Don’t you know that the fire risks are less than in any town you
ever lived in?
What do you know about the scenery and natural beauty? Can
you beat it?
Do you know this is going to be one of the largest towns in
Alaska?
Wouldn’t you like to live and do business in such a delightful spot?
Do you know you can buy lots in this best of towns on easy pay
ments?
Do you know that the price of lots are from $50.00 to $700.00?
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