Late Telegraph News
SAN FRANCISCO, May 11.—A
question that has caused much in
ternal dissension at Nome has been
decided here on appeal by the fed
eral circuit court of appeals. The
Log Cabin Club at Nome had been
conducting a bar in connection with
their social features, which the. Dis
trict Attorney held was contrary to
the lawT, and threatened prosecution
unless the selling of liquor were
stopped. The Club thc.n closed its
door and brought a test case. In a
decision just handed down the cir
cuit court decides that social clubs
in Alaska maintaining private bars
and dispensing alcoholic drinks
must pay the federal license fee.
RED WING, Minn., May 11.—Jim
Sullivan, typical American tramp,
carried a kitchen cabinet under his
coat and when arrested here the fol -
lowing tbing3 were found: Eight
large, raw potatoes, weighing seven
pounds; one quart bottle of sweet
milk, one ten cent loaf of wheat
bread, one half dozen tea biscuits,
one half dozen Saturday rolls, fresh;
two one pound packages of ground
eoffe.e, two aluminum salt and pep
per shakers, glass cruet filled with
vinegar, one raw onion and two
Japanese paper napkins.
SYRACUSE, May 11—In the cele
brated libel case brought by William
Barnes against The.odore Roosevelt
the defense rested this morning.
Four out of five motions that had
been made were struck from the
records. Col-. Roosevelt’s testimony
with reference to an alleged print
ing graft in which Barnes is said
to have participated, was ordered
srticken.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 11.—The
Eighth Annual Convention of the
National Association of Retail
Grocers opened here today for a
four-day session under the auspices
of the Exposition. More than 350
delegates representing grocer’s
organizations throughout the coun
try are attending the convention.
Frank B. Connelly, of San Frantysco,
is president of the organization.
TOKIO, May 11.—Word has been
received here to the eff'—t that the
cruiser Ammo, which .as been
ashore in Lower California, has
been fl--i'»d.
NET' IRK, May 11.—The trial
of Ed-— ” M. Grout, for perjurv
and making a false report as presi
dent of now defunct Union Bank
of Brooklyn, commenced here today.
GENEVA, May 5. — Thousands
have gone to Quarto Santelna to
witness the dedication of the monu
ment to be erected in honor of
Garibaldi.
, REGINA, Sask., Canada, May 11.
—Liquor legislation is the outstand
ing feature of the session program
of the Saskatchewan legislature,
which opened a special session to
day. Attempts will be made to
abolish all bar and club licenses
after July 1, creating a system of
government dispensaries in lieu of
the present privately owned whole
sale shops and providing the neces
sary machinery for the taking of a
referendum vote to renew the license
system or make the abolition of the
bars permanent after the war is
over. Next in importance to the
new liquor legislation will be the
report of th'e royal commission of
inquiry into the subject of the agree
ments under which agriculture im
plements and machinery are sold.
The report of the commission will
be ready for presentation and wi'l
be followed by the introduction of
the government bill dealing with
this important and knotty question
to give, further protection to farm
ers against ^seizure of their goods.
WASHINGTON, May It.—The
Brazilian ambassador and Mme. da
Gama will leave today for Heron
Hall, their summer home at Long
Branch, N. J.
BERKELEY, Cal., May 11.—Cali
fornia Day was celebrated at the
University of California here today.
Fifty classes participated in the cele
bration and it was expected that at
least 20,000 graduates and former
students would march in the big
parade which was planned. Gov
ernor Johnson and Secretary of the
Interior Franklin K. Lane were
scheduled as the guests of honor,
but the latter was unable to attend.
MINEOLA, L. I„ May 11.—The
second trial of Mrs. Florence Car
man, wife of the Freeport doctor
charged with the murder of Mrs.
Bailey, who was shot while in the
doctor’s office, began yesterday. The
first two days are being consumed in
selecting a jury. District Attorney
Smith, before the trial began, said,
he had five new witnesses who did
not appear at the first trial. He
would not make public their names
or what their testimony would be.
NEW YORK, May 10—During the
past week contracts have been let
for the materials to be used in the
construction of the "greater” super
dreadnought California. The keel
of this big battleship will be laid at
the Brooklyn navy yard so soon as
the superdreadnought Arizona takes
the water. The latter vessel will be
launched early in June, and it is
expected to prove one of the greatest
j naval celebrations in the history of
j New York. The time selected for
the great ship to take hex plunge
into the East river is one when the
entire Atlantic fleet will be in New
York waters, making it possible for
25.000 office.rs and men of that
organization to witness the cere
mony. President Wilson will be
urged to go to Brooklyn for the
launching. If he does, he will be
the first President to witness a
battleship launching in New York in
the last ten years.
In addition to the President,
those who are expected to witness
the launching of the Arizona are:
Secretary of the Navy Daniels, As
sistant Secretary Roosevelt, Admiral
Pitcher, the commander-in-chief of
the Atlantic fleet, and his staff, the
four rear admirals commanding the
battleship divisions of the Atlantic
fleet, Admiral Dewey, Governor
Whitman, and a large delegation
from Arizona, including the. gov
ernor and the lucky girl who will be
selected to name the superdread
nought. At fewest, 20,000 persons
from New York City, in addition to
out-of-town guests, probably will be
invite.d.
The Arizona, when she goes into
commission, will have a displace
ment of 31.400 tons. She will be
R0R feet long, will have a speed of
21 1 nots, and will have cost the gov
ernment more than $13,000,000 to
build and equip. She will have a
main battery of twelve 14-inch guns,
'’rine proiectiles that weight 1,400
nounds each, in addition to a second
ary battery of twenty-two 5-inch
guns. Her crew will number about
1.000 officers and men.
BALTIMORE, May 5.—At the
city e'ection, he.ld yesterday, Mayor
Preston, Democrat, was re-elected.
Other Democrats were elected to
municipal office.
LINCOLN, Neb., May 5.-—Charles
Bryan, a brother of Secretary of
State William J. Bryan, was yester
day elected one of the five, city com
missioners.
WASHINGTON, May 10.—It has
been decided that Dr. Edward Ewing
Pratt, chief of the bureau of foreign
and domestic commerce, will leave,
this city for the west on Saturday
next. On his way he will visit
Atlanta, Birmingham, New Orleans,
Houston, Dallas and Los Angeles. He
1s to attend the convention of the
j California Bankers’ Association at
San Francisco, May 27, 2S and 29,
and, in place of Secretary Redfield,
will deliver an address there.
JUNEAU, May 8.—Now that the
legislature has adjourned and the
members have left for their respec
tive homes, the one absorbing topic
of conversation is the liquor ques
tion. The expression on the sub
ject of renewal of licenses indicates
that there is a considerable change
of sentiment since last year. With
the exception of Sitka the vote in
the various towns in this division
was largely wet. Now it is a seri
ous question whether many of the
towns will vote wet at the special
election to be held on May 24. It
may be interesting to know the re
sult of the census taken last year
in the several towns, when the nos,
non-committal and not seen were,
counted as against the granting of
licenses. In answer to the question
“Do you favor the issuance of
licenses to sell liquor?’’ the follow
ing figures resulted:
Juneau—Yes, 1,266; no, 424;
non-committal, 99; not seen, 27;
total, 1,816.
Douglas—Yes, 893; no, 129; non
committal, 77; not seen, 76; total,
798.
Haines—Yes, 79; no, 24; non
committal, 12; not seen, 10; total,
125.
Petersburgh—Yes, 104; no, 53;
non-committal, 16; not seen, 13;
total, 186.
Skagway—Ye.s, 296; no, 78; non
committal, 62; not seen, 42; total,
478.
Wrangell—Yes, 184; no, 74; non
committal, 28; not seen, 20; total,
306.
Sitka—Yes, 71; no. 05; non-com
mittal, 47; not seen, 33; total. 248.
The totals for all of Southeastern
Alaska being:
For license—4.757; against li
cense, 974; non-committal, 395; not
se.en, 297.
MEXICO CITY, May 10—Soldiers
under General Barox made an at
tempt to assassinate Provisional
President Carranza. Officers who
were with him at the time frus
trated the efforts. Additional pre
cautions will be taken to prevent
any repetition of the occurrence.
NEW YORK, May 10.-—1The teams
in the ten day campaign to raise
*250,000 for the Newsboys’ Home
Club are working with a force of
seven sections of seven teams each
and seven men to a team, all actively
engaged in a canvass for contribu
tions. Fire Commissioner Adamson
is captain of one team. Responses
were generous.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., May 10.—
Congressman James R. Mann is an
active candidate for the Republican
nomination for President. Petitions
for Mann’s nomination as a candi
date in the Illinois presidential pref
erential primaries are. in circulation
In Springfield, Chicago and other
parts of the state.
CHICAGO, May 8.—There is con
siderable activity among attorneys
for the banking institutions in this
city, in the. preparation of the cases
for three suits which were filed >n
the federal court here two weeks
ago. These are test suits attacking
the constitutionality of the. war
revenue act, passed last October by
Congress, affecting the tax upon the
capital stock of banks. The result
of the suits will affect 23,000 banks
in the United States. The. banks are
the Continental and Commercial
National Bank, the Continental and
Commercial Trust and Savings Bank
and the Hibernian Banking Associa
tion. The Continental and Commer
cial National Bank suit asks for the
return of $21,657.34, which is al
leged to be the amount of taxes paid
by the bank to the internal revenue
collector as representing one-te.nth
of 1 per cent on federal, state and
municipal bonds and other property
not used in the banking business.
The other banks aske.d for the re
turn of smaller amounts of taxes.
SEATTLE, May 8.—In answer to
inquiries with reference to the re
quest made, by the Alaska Engineer
ing Commission for material for rail
road construction from the govern
ment at Panama the following infor
mation is given:
"Commissioner Mears wrote to
Ancon asking whether the Panama
officials could transfer to the com
mission a French ladder dredge,
tugs and barges or clapets to serve
the same, four 201-class locomotives,
four locomotive cranes, 60 12-yard
dump cars, two steam shovels and
two piledrivers complete. The, reply
was that the material other than the
dredge, tugs, barges, clapets and
locomotive cranes could be supplied
but that r.one. of the former could be
spared for several months.
SEATTLE, May 7.—Last night at
9 o’clock the steamer Mariposa got
away on scheduled time, with a large
crowd for the railroad terminals of
Southwestern Alaska. The pas
sengers for Cordova were: C. T.
Bussell, E. J. Colvin, Mrs. W. P.
Pritchard, Mrs. W, Downing and
daughter, H. E. Gault, F. A. Hol
labaugh and one second-class. For
Valdez there, were six cabin and 3
second-class passengers. The large
number, however, are for the far
westward. Forty-nine cabin and
30 second-class are booke.d for
Seward, and 40 cabin and 32 second
class for Knik. For other west
ward ports there are 13 cabin
passengers.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 7.—
The exposition championships „open
to any amateur boxer in the world
is now on and will be«contested for
three days. There are, eight classes
in each tournament, ranging from
the 108 pound class to the heavy
weights.
THE DALLES, Ore., May 7.
Marking on epoch in the develop
ment of the Pacific Northwest, the
Dalle.s-Celilo canal and locks, which
makes possible the uninterrupted
navigation of the Columbia river
from the Pacific Ocean 497 miles to
Lewiston, Idaho, on the Snake
river, and 456 miles to Priest
Rapids, Wash., on the. Upper Colum
bia, were officially opened on Wed
nesday. The ceremonies took ,plaoe
at Big Eddy, four miles east of here,
at a point adjacent to the. canal.
SEATTLE, May 6.—The steamer
Admiral Evans was delayed some
what on her return trip from the
north. As a consequence she. was
not enabled to sail yesterday after
noon at 5 o’clock as per schedule.
However, she expects to get away
this evening at 7 o’clock. For Cor
dova her passengers booked are: E.
D. Mansfield, Mrs. Otto Happen, and
7 second-class. Three are going to
Valdez. The big crowd is for the
westward and for the different ports
over 100 have secured second-class
passage. The cabin passengers for
Seward are 38 and for Knik 37. The
government railroad construction is
still the drawing card for westward
passengers.
ATLANTA, May 10.—The hear
ing in the last act to save Leo M.
Frank form hanging will not be
heard until the first Monday in
June. Attorneys for Frank filed a
petition with Governor Slaton and
the Georgia Prison Commission ask
ing that the sentence of death im
posed upon Frank for the murder of
Mary Phagan be commuted to life
Imprisonment. Among the grounds
set forth by Frank in his appeal for
executive clemency are that he is
innocent and that the principal evi
dence upon which he was convicted
was of “a questionable and unreli
able character.” His application, he
states, does not undertake to set out
in full the reasons for his appeal,
but he asks permission to do so at
the hearing before the prison com
mission.
SYRACUSE, May 6.—Col. Roose
velt again took the stand late yes
terday afternoon and explained boss
rule and machine politics as he al
leged Barnes expounded them. He
showed the attitude that the boss
politicians took with reference to
the corruption of politics and then
went on to explain the fair and hon
est way of conducting politics. He
alleged that the progressive way of
conducting campaigns was by the
educational method, and no longer
by intimidation and the purchase Jf
votes. And then he gave his ideas
about liow officials should conduct
their offices with fidelity, honesty
and a high regard for the interests
of the public, whose servants they
are.
WASHINGTON, May 6.—It is on
the political cards that an issue to
be fought out in Washington next
winter will be Philippine independ
ence and the Republican leader
against it, in the House, is to be
Congressman Miller, it is said. He
has made one trip to the. islands and
expects to make still another this
summer to gather campaign ma
terial to fight the Jones bill, pro
viding partial independence, which
died in the last Congress, but will
be revived in the next. Mr. Miller
is a former school teacher and law
yer. He has represented Minnesota
in Congress for three terms.
SYRACUSE, May 5.—This after
noon some damaging testimony was
given against William Barnes. It
came out when Manager Winchester
of the Lyon Printing Company took
the stand. He alleged that there was
a state printing graft and that
Barnes as the owner of the Albany
Journal received a commission on
state and city printing.
LOS ANGELES, May 5.—Charles
Sebastian, the suspended chief of
police is certain to be the next
mayor of this city. At the primaries
yesterday he missed actual election
by a narrow margin. He led the
field two to one for first place, and
the big vote he received assures his
selection at the municipal election
later. The fact that an attempt was
made to assassinate him yesterday
afternoon added largely to his vote
during tlie remaining hours of the
election.
RENO, May 5.—Contrary to ex
pectation the women’s vote defeated
the reform program at the election
yesterday. The females had their
first vote and they failed to do the
expected things. They voted down
a prohibition clause that had for its
object the limiting of the number
of saloons in the city.
SEATTLE, May 5.—Trial h.is
started in the federal court of the
case against the Booth Fisheries
Company, for a violation of the anti
trust laws. A number of other par
I ties may later be prosecuted if a
conviction is found in the present
case.
OMAHA, May 5.—James Dahl
man, who has been the popular
mayor of this city for several years
past, was again elected yesterday.
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NEW UKLEANs, May 7.—Severe
storms have, swept over the states of
Louisiana and Mississippi during
the past 24 hours. It was in the
nature of a cyclone and left in its
wake disastrous results. Hundreds
of homes and buildings were blown
down and the fields were badly dam
aged. This afternoon it was re
ported that 21 had been killed and
scores injured.
SEATTLE, May 6.—This mor^*
ing the purchasing agent of the
Alaska Engineering Commission
opened bids for a quantity of sup
plies for the government railroad in
Alaska. These include 900,000 feet
; of timber, mostly for bridge pur
poses; 30,000 ties and a miscellane
; ous assortment of bolts, spikes, etc.
A contract for a locomotive crane
i has bee.n let to a Cleveland firm.
Copper River & Northwestern Railway
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