Late Telegraph News
(Special to Cordova Daily Alaskan)
VALDEZ, Jan. 5.—Louis Schone
born, a storekeeper at Bonanza, a
small mining town 14 miles from
Shushanna, in the White River
country, has been found murdered
with a 30-30 rifle bullet through his
heart. He had been dead at least
24 hours when found. Marshal
Brenneman immediately wired to the
department of Justice for the privi
lege of incurring expense in pursuit
of several persons who left the camp
suddenly about the time Mr. Schon
born was killed. The murdered man
was a Mason and formerly was lo
cated at Dawson.
SEATTLE, Jan. 5.—Mrs. Anette
Loder was today assessed a fine ot
$500 by Federal Judge Neterer, as
punishment for using the mails to
defraud persons whom she induced
to invest in stock in a wildcat mine
in Alaska.
EL PASO, Jan. 5.—General Scott,!
chief of staff of the United States
army and General Villa, commander
in chief of the Mexican army, will
meet tomorrow on the international
bridge and arrange to prevent fur
ther firing into American territory.
“RbAjT0KE,“Va.r Jan. 5.—This j
city made itse.lf a Christmas present
of an auditorium and exposition hal!.
A campaign of contributions for the
past few weeks resulted in sufficient
funds to make it possible to erect a
building to fill “a long felt need."
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—The Sen
ate made the administration govern
ment ship purchase bill unfinished
business on the calendar, and it is j
to be supplanted only by the appro- I
priations bill. _
EUGENE, Ore., Jan. 5.—Fifteen
hundred school teachers, superin
tendents, educators and parents are
attending a conference at the Uni
versity of Oregon to discuss ques
tions vitally effecting the conduct of
educational institutions of the state.
The conference will undoubtedly
bring about a better understanding
between educators and parents. It
will last for three days during which
educators of national fame will de
liver addresses.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Twenty
seven ( ' the Bering River coal
claims, including the Lippy and
Chezum groups, have been canceled
by a modified ruling of the. Juneau
land office. The commissioner holds
that under the rule laid down in the
Cunningham case the claimants did
not comply with the law as to open
ing and developing claims. Also
that an unlawful combination among
claimants in the interests of the
Alaska Petroleum Company and the
Northern Improvement Co. existed.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—The Sen
ate today passed the immigration
bill carrying the literacy test.
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 4.—Governor
West has appointed his cousin, Miss
Katherine Clark, state senator to
fill the vacancy caused by the resig
nation of Senator Neuner.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—Secre
tary Lane today signed a resolution
by which the coal lands of Alaska,
outside the Bering River and Mat
anuska fields are open to location in
ten-acre tracts to the people of
Alaska. The regulations for these
lands require nothing more than the
staking of the ground and applica
tion to the receiver of the local
land office for use of the lands,
which use is to be granted for two
years. The government charges no
royalty and makes no other charges.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—At a
conference of House delegates from
the Pacific coast, held today on call
of Delegate Wickersham of Alaska,
Representatives Humphrey of Wash
ington, Willis Hawley of Oregon
and Delegate Wickersham were ap
pointed a committee to secure from
the House committee on appropria
tions a hearing on the appropria
tions asked for by Secretary Red
field for aids to navigation in
Alaska and along the Pacific coast.
Most of the appropriations belong in
the sundry civil bill now being
prepared and Chairman Fitzgerald
of New York has cut out those most
needed on the coast and in Alaska.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—A poll
of the House now being taken by an
agent of Secretary Redfleld indi
cates that there will be little objec
tion to the making of a liberal ap
propriation for surveys in Alaska.
Members seem to agree with the
secretary that provision for surveys
should he made and that the work
should be completed as quickly as
possible.
VERA CRUZ, Jan. 4.—General
Jesus Carranza, a brother of the
leader of the present insurrection, is
held a prisoner by General Alfonso
Santibanez on the Isthmus of
Tehuantepec. General Santibanez
shot General Carranza'y entire staff
except his son, Abel Ardo Carranza
and Ignacio Peraldi, who are also
held captives. The executions took
place after General Santibanez failed
to induce Venustiano Carranza to
make terms for their reTbase.
LONDON, Jan. 4.—The stock ex
change was open for trading today
| for the first time since July 30.
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 4.—A lock of
his own hair taken from the
clutches of his dead victim, who had
fought desperately for her life, was
held before his eyes and caused
John G. Heirks, inmate of the in
sane asylum, to confess that he
killed Mrs. Wehrmao and her little
boy in their cabin at Scapoose, Ore.,
in September 1911.
John Arthur Pender, who was
convicted of the murder on circum
stantial evidence and who is under
sentence to be hanged, will be freed
by executice order in a few days.
SEATTLE. Jan. 4.—Joseph War
ren, special age,nt of the federal
government in Alaska, has been
dropped from the list of federal em
ployes through abolishment of the
position, the special 'agent’s work
being taken over by the Department
of Commerce.
SEATTLE, Jan. 4.—A dispatch
from New York says that Mrs. M.
Robert Guggenheim has begun suit
for divorce, charging misconduct.
The couple resided in this city for
several months immediately follow
ing the organization of the Alaska
Syndicate which purchased the
Bonanza Copper mines and built the
Copper River & Northwestern rail
way.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—The an
nual report of A. H. Brooks of the
Geological Survey estimates the
value of Alaska’s mineral output
last year as $19,248,000, which
makes a total since 1880 of $680,
000,000.
SEATTLE, Jan. 2.—The Alaska
Steamship Company has discon
tinued its contract with the Marconi
Company has installed its own wire
less apparatus and will maintain its
own operators on its ships. The
steamship Alameda, sailing for the
north lasj night, had the company’s
own apparatus and its own oper
ators.
SEATTLE, Jan. 2.—Frank Hart
sail, former husband of Mrs. An
nette Loder has instituted proceed
ings to obtain custody of their
14-year-old son. Mrs. Loder is now
in jail here, convicted of using the
mails to defraud through the sale
of stock in a wildcat mine in
Alaska.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 31.—
Dispatches to the state department
report that the forces of General
Carranza have evacuated Monterey
and that those of General Villa
occupy the city.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—Secre
tary of Agriculture. Houston an
nounced today that the value of all
farm products of the United States
for the year just closing was $10.
000,000,000.
HAMMOND, Ind., Dec. 31.—State
veterinarian and health officers,
speeded to Tippecanoe county in
answer to a hurried summons from
Samuel Shearer, who reported a
violent epidemic of foot and mouth
disease on his ranch. When the
officials arrived the.y found Bessie, a
blooded Holstein, and Darby, a Jer
sey milker, feet upward on the
sward, apparently taking the count.
Investigation disclosed a cider press
in an orchard and a pile of fej
mented apple pulp. The cows were
drunk. ■
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 31.—
Delegate James Wickersham of
Alaska has called a meeting of mem
bers of the Pacific coast delegation
tomorrow to discuss methods of
getting appropriations for aids to
navigation in Alaska. The action of
Chairman Fitzgerald in cutting out
from the sundry civil bill the appro
priation for a wire drag net survey
of Alaskan waters has aroused the
Pacific Coast delegates. They have
the support of the secretaries of
navy and commerce.
MADISON, Wis., Dec. 31.—Gov
ernor Francis E. McGovern today
commutted the life sente.nce of John
F. Dietz, known as “the outlaw of
Cameron dam,” to 20 years. Mr.
Dietz, whose family and himself
were persecuted seve.ral yearn by a
wealthy timber company which de
sired possession of a dam site on his
homestead, defended his home, and
family when armed employes of the
company tried to drive them ofl. Sev
eral shooting affrays occurred, with
the Dle.tz family coming out first
best,* even the girls and younger
children taking active part. The
comapny was defeated at first in the
courts, but Dietz was unable to con
tinue the expensive legal fight and
the corporation finally secured as
sistance of the authorities. It was
while resisting the officers sent to
serve papers on and eje,ct him and
his family from the premises that
the fight occurred in which several
were killed and wounded, Dietz fin
ally surrendering in hopes of saving
his children from prosecution.
ROME, Dec. 31.—King Victor
Emanuel HI today signed a decree
making William Marconi, the noted
electrician, a senator.
On his father’s estate in Bologna,
Italy, Mr. Marconi in 1890 began
experiments to test the theory that
the electrical current is capable of
passing through any substance and,
if started in any given direction, of
following an undulating course with
out need of wire, or other conductor.
The present wireless system of com
munication is the result of those
experiments. Mr. Marconi is 44 years
of age. His mother was a native, of
Iseland.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—The
Senate in its vote today on the immi
gration bill refused to strike out the
provision for a literacy test. A simi
lar provision in former bills cause.d
their veto by Cleveland and Taft.
President Wilson is opposed to the
literacy test and powerful influences,
foreign and domestic, are being
brought to bear to induce him to
veto this one. Friends of the
measure declare they have sufficienl
votes to pass it ove.r a veto.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 31.—
Secretary Lane announced today
that ,T. P. Morgan, representing the
Alaska Syndicate, had submitted a
verbal proposal to sell the Copper
River & Northwestern railway to the
government at its appraised physical
valuation. The secretary added that
the proposition as to whose valua
tion should be used was not dis
cussed.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—Joe
Shugrue of Jersey City outfought'
Charley White of Chicago in a 10
round bout at Madison Square Gar
den last night.
BINGHAM, Utah, Dec. 30.—The
State Bank here was held up and
robbed of $18,000 by a lone bandit
today. Bert Heaste,d, the robber,
was overtaken and arrested and all
of the money was recovered^
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Troops
of the Twelfth Cavalry, that have
been on duty in the Colorado strike
district, were started for their home
station at Fort Mead today.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—There
is much talk and speculation here
regarding the proposed government
railroad in Alaska, and it can oe
stated positively that this talk now
centers about a bill providing for
the taking over of the Copper River
& Northwestern, the Alaska North
ern and the Tanana Valley railway
lines. Traffic possibilities of the
Copper River_ line, the great value
of the Seward terminal of the
Alaska Northern and the fact that
the Tanana Valley road must either
be taken over or paralleled, make
strong appeals.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Con
gressman Humphrey of Washington,
in a House debate today, criticized
Chairman Fitzgerald for having cut
out of the sundry civil bill an appro
priation for a wire drag survey of
Alaskan waters. Mr. Humphrey
asserted that because of lack of sur
veys and aids to navigation, govern
ment vessels valued at $850,000 had
been lost and that the $67,000,000
in commerce and 43,000 passengers
carried in those waters during the
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To C. M. Gage, Peter Conaton, Wil
liam Farrell, Maurice O'Donnell
and John Ryan:
You are hereby notified that we
the undersigned, have expended in
labor and improvements 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 and
Boston Association claim, located en
Young creek, a tributary of Nizina
river, Nizina mining district, Chitina
recording district. Third Judicial
division, Territory of Alaska, and
where, the said claims are more fully
described.
The above amount has been ex
pended in order to hold said claims
under provisions of the law concern
ing annual labor upon mining claims,
being the amount required to hold
said claims.
And you are further notified that
if within 90 days after the last pub
lication of this notice you fail to con
tribute your proportion of said ex
penditure, your interest in said
claims will become the property of
the undersigned, your co-owners,
under Section 2324, Revised Statutes
of the United States.
ELI McQUADE,
GEORGE DEMPSEY,
. Agents Dexter C. Cayouette,
Co-owners.
Date of first pub Nov. 17, 1914.
Date of Isst pub., Feb. 23, 1915.
11. ADRIAN NELSON
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—The cap
ture of San Louis Potosi by the Car
ranza forces is reported in advices
received today from Galveston to
the Carranza agency here.
SEATTLE, Jan. 5.—Because she
had complained to the police about
his cruel treatment, Victor Miller, a
local baker, shot and killed his wife
and then to k his own life, today.
MENDOTA, 111., Dec. 30.—
Thought to be without precedent is
the remarkable case of Mrs. A. M.
Snyde,r of Mendota, who gave birth
to children five weeks and one day
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