THIRD YEAR. CIIITINA. ALASKA, TUESDAY. JULY 1,1913. NUMBER 37
Late Telegraph News
SEATTLE, June 27. — R. W.
Gremet of this city, has been taken
Into custody by the federal authori
ties charged with the violation of
the neutrality laws.
It is alleged that Greme assisted
Aviator Masson in crossing the bor
der into Mexico with his aeroplane,
where he joined the rebels and is
creating havoc by dropping bombs
into the ranks of the federal troops.
LOS ANGELES, June 27.—Charles
E. Pendell, a wealthy money lender
of this city, was found dead in his
office this morning. Signs of a des
perate struggle, and the wounds
upon the person of the dead man in
dicated that he had been murdered
and that robbery was the motive.
The office had been looted and it is
believed that the robber or robbers
had secured considerable loot. There
is no clew to the identity of the
murderer.
SEATTLE, June 27.—Mrs. Kelley,
wife of Foster Kelley, the banker,
whose elopement with Mrs. Iva May
Henry several years ago created a
sensation in society circles here, has
filed a suit for divorce.
WASHINGTON. June 27.—Presi
dent Wilson has recommended to
Attorney General McReynolds the
appointment of Francis J. Heney,
Matt I. Sullivan and Thomas Hay
den as special prosecutors in the
San Francisco cases.
WASHINGTON, June 27.—At a
conference between the President
and the members of the Senate yes
terday afternoon several changes in.
the diplomatic corps were decided
upon. Justice Gerard, who was orig
inally named as ambassador to Spain,
will go to Germany instead; McMil
lan, of Tennessee, was named as
minister to Peru; Frederick Court-]
landt Penfleld, of Pennsylvania,
was named sb ambassador to.
Austria.
SEATTLE, June 27.—The revenue ,
cutter Thetis, which has been outfit- \
ing at Oakland, Cal., arrived here
this morning en route to Alaska,
where she will take the “floating
court" from Valdez to the westward.
WASHINGTON, June 27.—Yes
terday was the twenty-eighth anni
versary of the wedding of President
and Mrs. Willson. In commemora
tion of the event the President pre
sented Mrs. Wilson with an ex
tremely handsome pearl necklace,
and was the recipient of a pair of
gold cuff buttons from his wife.
KATALLA, June 27.—The first
shipment of the government mined
coal from the Bering rive r fields
reached salt water last evening, and
from this time forward it is expected
that there will be little delay in trans
porting the remainder of the 700
tons of coal at Stillwater to the sea.
The shipment arriving last night
consisted of two and one-half tons,
and was brought down the river in
one of the small boats, a number of
which are being constructed,
equipped with an Evenrude motor.
The successful voyage of the first
of these small craft, which is built
of native lumber, has greatly en
couraged the officials in charge of the
transportation of the coal, and the
work on the remainder of the fleet
is being rushed as rapidly as possible,
and it is believed that the coal will
be ready on the arrival of the
Maryland.
The only difficulty at present an
ticipated is to secure a supply of
motors, there being but one or two
here at present.
SEATTLE, June 27.—Alonzo Sea
man Taylor, proprietor of the Post
Intelligencer, and Mrs. Evelyn Car
neck, of New York, were married in
this city yesterday.
CHICAGO, June 27.—Upon the re
port of the flight of Jack Johnson
from the jurisdiction of the court,
the authorities at once started an in
vestigation to discover the where
abouts of the missing man. Rela
tives of the fighter told the officers
that Johnson had merely gone on a
fishing trip and would return before
WASHINGTON, June 28.—Under
the treaty with Canada, Jack John
son, who has fled from the jurisdic
tion of the federal court at Chicago,
thereby forfeiting his ball of $15,000,
cannot be extradited from that coun
try.
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his presence was required in court.
They professed ignorance of the
exact destination of Johnson, but de
clared he had no intention of forfeit,
ing his bond.
TORONTO, Can., June 2T.—Jack
Johnson, the negro heavyweight
pugilist, arrived here yesterday and
departed this morning on an Allen
line steamer for Paris. It is claimed
that he intends to remain perma
nently away from the United States,
and will forfeit the bond of $15,000
put up for his release pending his
appeal from the verdict of the lower
court, which foijnd him guilty of
white slavery and sentenced him to
a term of imprisonment of two years
in the penitentiary.
WASHINGTON, June 27.—Con
gressman Humphrey of Washington
has introduced a bill in the House
excluding Hindus from the country.
SEATTLE, June 27.—John B.
Denny, a prominent lawyer of
Juneau, died here today following
an operation for stomach trouble.
WASHINGTON, June 27.—Manuel
Quezon, delegate to congress from
the Philippines, has tendered his
resignation as a member of the
Philippine society. The delegate
gives as his^reason for the act that
he is no longer in sympathy with the
aims of the society.
BELGRADE, June 27.—Advices
received here this morning state
that a fierce battle is raging between
the Servian and Bulgarian forces in
Macedonia.
WASHINGTON, June 27.—Attor
ney General McReynolds announced
this morning that the department of
justice and the railroad officials had
arrived at an agreement for the dis
solution of the combination existing
between the Southern Pacific and
Union Pacific railroad companies.
LONDON, June 28.—Crom. Suther
land-Leveson-Gower, the fourth Duke
of Sutherland, died at his residence
in this city last evening. The late
Duke was born in 1883 and succeeded
to the title upon the death of his
father in 1892. His successor to the
title is his son, the Marquis of Stef
tom.
GOLD BEACH, Ore., June 28.—
The bandit who committed the big
diamond robbery at Glendale, sur
rendered here to the police this morn
ling. The close pursuit of the robber
by the sheriff’s posse had given him
nc opportunity to get out of the coun.
try and he had taken to the moun
tains. There he was unable to obtain
food, and preferring imprisonment to
death by starvation he gave himself
p to the officers.
WASHINGTON, June 28.—The
plan for the dissolution of tho Union
and Southern Pacific railroads has
been worked out between the rail
road officials and the department of
justice, and will be submitted to the
judges of the federal court at St.
Paul on Monday. The plan as agreed
upon is in harmony with the ideas
of President Wilson and meets with
his approval.
CHICAGO, June 28.—A hot wave
of great severity now prevails
throughout the east and middle west.
Numerous deaths are reported from
Philadelphia. Milwaukee and this
city, the total aggregating twenty,
wffiile prostrations run into the hun
dreds.
WASHINGTON, June 28.—Presi
dent Wilson today named Thomas
Hayden and M. T. Howling, as dis
trict attorney and judge respectively
of the United States district court
for the northern district of Cali
fornia.
The President also named Matt. P.
Sullivan as a special prosecutor in
the white slavery cases and the case
of the Western Fuel company, to be
tried before the district court in San
Francisco. •
NEW YORK, June 28.—-John H.
Sullivan, jr., started from this city
on one of the longest voyages ever
attempted in a small boat. His jour
ney contemplates a voyage to San
Francisco by way of the Hudson river
and Erie canal to the lakes, through
the lakes .and canal to the Mississippi
river, down the river to the Gulf of
Mexico, and along the coast to the
Panama canal. He will pass through
the canal and up the Pacific coast to
San Francisco. His craft is a canoe
about eighteen feet in length.
WASHINGTON, June 26.—President Wilson this
afternoon withdrew the nomination of E. W. Exum, of
Chitina, as United States Marshal for the Third divis
ion of Alaska and will send another appointment to
the Senate within a few days.
ORE RUNS $262,000 PER TON
William Brabzon and F. J. Wag
ner returned on Saturday's train
from a trip to the interior, where
they went to examine the property of
■Tack Canning and John Centenio,
with a view to taking a bond on the
claims. The owners are bo well satis
find with their find that they refused
to conider an offer for the property.
In speaking of the property, Mr.
Brabazon stated that the conditions
were such that no showing could be
made, as the only outcropping of the
ledge is in the bed of a creek. The
remainder of the vein is covered with
a heavy deposit of loose rock and
gravel. The shafts from which the
extremely rich samples were taken
extend over a distance of 500 feet
from the exposed outcropping, and
were excavated during the winter
while the ground was frozen. Since
that time the ground has thawed and
the shafts are filled with water and
gravel which has sloughed off from
the banks, making an examination
impossible.
Mr. Brabazon had an assay certifi
cate from Falkenberg & Laucks, of
Seattle showing the values of five
samples sent out by the owners of
the property. They ran: No. 1, gold,
$262,000; silver, $459.20; No. 2,
gold 8.600, silver $18.00; No. 3, gold
$0.20, silver $0.06; No. 4, gold $5.20,
silver, $0.56; No. 5, gold $6.00, sil
ver $12.00. The owners stated that
the samples were not picked, but
were a fair average of the ore taken
from the various places along the
vein. They said that the work done
last winter had demonstrated that
they had at least one ton of the ex
tremely rich ore, and therefore could
not consider any offer for the prop
erty lower than the assay value of
the No. 1 sample, and as they could
not show this to be true under pres
ent conditions, did not expect any one
to make such an offer, therefore did
not care to talk of disposing of the
property.
Mr. Brabazon said that he had seen
many rich samples of ore, but never
before anything so rich as those
shown to him by Canning and Cen
tenio.
MAJORITY FAVORS RAILROAD
WASHINGTON, June 30.—A poll
of the Senate this morning showed
58 members of that body in favor of
the Chambe'luin-Jones bill for the
construction by the government of
railroads in Alaska, to 38 opposed
to the passage of the bill. Friends
of the measure are highly pleased by
the showing and predict that when
it is brought to a vote it will be
passed. The principal opposition to
the measure is the government own
ership and operation features, many
of the senators favoring aid in the
form, of a guaranty by the govern
ment of the interest on the bonds of
a private cornoration, which shall
build and operate the roads.
Owing to the press of business
connected with the tariff and cur
I rency legislation it is considered
doubtful if the measure is acted
upon at this session, and it is he
lieved it will not come up before
January next. Senator Pittman and
others, however, are working hard
to have the measure brought up for
action before the end of the present
session.
SEATTLE, June 30.—The steamer
Dolphin, bound from this port for
Skagway, with 160 passengers
aboard, went ashore last night on
Pierce Island, on the north end of
Vancouver Island, and lies in a pre
carious position.
• The passengers on the Dolphin
were taken off without mishap this
morning by the Canadian liner Prin
cess May and will be carried on to
their destination.
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MONTREAL. June 28.—Upon re
quest from Secretary of State Bryan,
of the United States, the authorities
issued an order for the apprehension
of Jack Johnson, on the ground that
he was an undesirable immigrant,
and to deport him to the United
States.
Attorneys for Johnson declared
that the pugilist held a through
ticket for Europe, and that under the
laws of Canada, which do not exclude
transient aliens of any class, Johnson
cannot be detained and deported.
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OTTAWA, June 28.—The govern
ment officials here declare that while
Johnson cannot be held as an unde
sirable immigrant and deported to
the United States if he has a through
ticket to either Paris or St. Peters
burg, as he alleges, he must at once
prove that he has such a ticket, and
must use the same at once, or he
will be sent hack to Chicago.
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SAN JOSE, June 30.—Col. Robert
Powell, one of the leading orchard
ists of the state, together with five
members of his family, were killed
Saturday evening when the automo
bile in whith they were riding was
struck by a trolley car and de
molished.
NEW YORK, June 28.—Former
Secretary ot the Interior James D.
Garfield testified today in the suit
for the dissolution of the Steel Trust,
that as commissioner of corporations
he had investigated the concern and
had found nothing in its affairs which
violated the anti-trust law. He de
clared he had not found any evidence
of pools whereby price were main
tained at a high level.
WASHINGTON, June 28.—The
Glass currency bill was Introduced in
the House and Senate today. The
measure is strongly favored by the
President, who urges that speedy
action be taken to pass the bill.
On cross examination Garfield ad
mitted that during his investigations
he had never examined the minutes
of the meetings of the directors of
the corporation, nor had any of the
witnesses examined by him been
sworn.
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WASHINGTON, June 28.—Repre
sentative James R. Mann, of Illinois,
the Republican leader of the House,
I this morning made an address before
i that body in which he made a scath
ing attack upon Attorney General Mc
! Reynolds for his attitude in the San
; Francisco white slavery cases.
Mann declared that District Attor
ney McNab had not only made the
attorney and President eat their
words, but that frightened rabbits
never sought cover quicker than they
did when the matter was brought up.
BRANDON, Vt„ June 28.—A
bronze statue of Stephen A. Douglas,
|the noted statesman and unionist of
the period just preceding the civil
war, was unveiled here today, this
city having been his birthplace.
DOUGLAS, June 28.—A dispatch
from Governor Pesquira, of Sonora,
Mexico, states that the federal forces
under General Ojeda have been de
feated by the Constitutionalists, his
• forces being completely routed after
'several days of desperate fighting.
I A message from American sources
'at Hermosilla, confirms the report of
Governor Pesquira,, and states that
the defeat of Ojeda during the fight
ing at Santa Rosa and Oritz was
complete and overwhelming. Ojeda
has disbanded hiB artillery corps and
Is rushing south on a military train
of 70 cars.
MONTREAL, June 28.—Jack
Johnson will sail from here tomorrow
for Havre, Franca.
TRUCKEE, Cal., June 30.—After
a week’s search, the body of Miss
Vinnie Colt, aged 18, was found late
last night in a ravine in the Sierra
Nevadas, twenty miles from Truckee.
She had been killed and partly eaten
by a bear. The girl had ran away
from home because of a disagree
ment with her mother. Since her
disappeacance a search extending
over a large section of the mountains
had been made.
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OGDEN, June 30.—Mrs. Gus Eck
man and her former husband, C. L.
Anderson, were taken into custody
here today charged with the murder
of the 12-year-old daughter of the
woman.
The murder was discovered
through a stench which arose from a
trunk in the baggage room of the
railroad station here, which had been
checked from Salt Lake City. The
police were called in and the trunk
opened revealing the body of the girl.
And when Mrs. Eckman called for
the trunk she was taken into cus
tody, as was her companion.
Further investigation lead to the
discovery that a short time ago the
life of the girl had been insured for
$150, and it is believed that she was
made way with to obtain the insur
ance.
Confronted with the evidence of
the crime the mother broke down
and made a complete confession, im
plicating her companion.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 30.—
James B. McLean, formerly United
States Marshal In Alaska, and a hero
of one of Rex Beach's novels, and
Miss Sylvia Day. a young soeiety
belle of Oakland, were married here
today.
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[From Thursday's Cordova Alaskan]
Superintendent of Bridges and Buildings, L, M. Price was
killed and General Superintendent Caleb Corser, of the Copper
River & Northwestern Railway, was seriously injured early
last evening at Mile 192 by the overturning of a motor speeder,
on which they were making a trip of inspection.
The accident occurred within about 500 feet of the
Blackburn roadhouse, at the foot of the Kennieott hill. The
car was running at a speed of about twelve miles an hour, when
a horse, which was grazing within a few feet of the track,
became frightened and dashed across the track immediately in
front of the car. The movement was so sudden and unexpected
that there was no opportunity to stop the car, which struck
the horse and overturned, the occupants falling underneath it.
Mr. Price was struck on the head by one of the wheels,
sustaining a fractured skull, both legs broken and other
injuries from which he died about three hours later without
having gained consciousness. Mr. Corser escaped dangerous
injuries, but was seriously bruised and is suffering from the
shock.
Immediately after the accident Dr. Sehrock was summoned
from Kennieott. four miles distant, and hastened to the scene
on horseback. Upon his arrival every effort was made to
resuscitate Mr Price, but without avail, the end coming about
three hours after the accident. Mr. Oorser’s injuries were
dressed and he was made as comfortable as possible.
In the meantime a message was sent to Chitina, and the
train, which left here yesterday morning, and which had just
reached that point, was at once sent to the scene of the accident,
carrying Dr. Payzant, a brother-in-law of Mr. Price, but the
latter died ten minutes after the arrival of the train. The
victims were taken aboard the train and brought to Chitina,
and at 3:15 this morning left for Cordova, arriving at 7:50,
after making one of the quickest trips ever made on the road.
Shortly after 8 o’clock last evening news of the accident
was received at the office of the company here and a special
train was at once made up to carry Dr. Council to Chitina, but
the train returned after proceeding to Mile 19 on receipt of a
wire that all aid had been rendered arid that the victims were
on the wav to Cordova.
Mr. Corser was at once taken to his home, where he is now
resting comfortably, and his recovery is expected to be a
matter of a comparatively short time. The remains of Mr.
Price were removed to Lambert’s undertaking parlors.
Mr. Price had been connected with the Copper River &
Northwestern railroad almost since its inception. He was one
of the locating engineers and remained with the road during
the construction period. Later he was made superintendent of
bridges and buildings, a position he has held for some time
past. At the recent city election Mr. Price was elected a
member of the city council and was chosen mayor. lie leaves
a wife and young son, Richmond, residents of this city; a
mother, Mrs. W. L. Price, residing at Zenith, Wyoming, to
mourn the loss of a devoted husband and father and loving son.
Throughout the city numerous flags are displayed at half
mast as a mark of the sincere esteem and respect with which
the memory of the deceased is held by his fellow citizens.
The remains of Mr. Price will be' taken to Seattle for
| interment, leaving on the steamer Alameda tomorrow morning,
tl pon the arrival ol the steamer the remains will be taken from
the undertaking parlors to the wharf, and will be accompanied
by a body of citizens.
As a mark of respect to the deceased mayor, the city
council has requested that all places of business close from 11
a. m. until noon, while the body of the deceased is being taken
to the steamer.
Memorial services will be held in the Presbyterian church
on Sunday at 11 a. m., Revs. Koonce and Zeigler participating.
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WASHINGTON, June 25.—At a meeting of the cabinet
last evening the MeRevnolds-McNab affair was discussed at
length, and it was decided that the resignation of McNab he
accepted, following which the president telegraphed McNab
his decision, and the matter is considered closed.
f ollowing his telegram of acceptance of the resignation
the President wrote the ex-district attorney exonerating
Attorney General McReynolds of the charges made by the
former in tendering his resignation, characterizing them a3 an
inexcusable intimation of injustice and wrong doing on the
part of the attorney general.
CINCINNATI, June 28.—In an ad
dress delivered here last night Ex
Governor Folk, of Missouri, declared
that he feared the reformers, under
the impetus given the movement
thoughout the country, would go to
such extremes that it would destroy
i Permanency of popular govern
|nient and tend to restrict personal
j liberty.
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NORTH YAKIMA, June 30.—
i Practically all the rural schools and
many in the smaller towns have
closed on an enforced vacation be
cause of the berry crop.
Strawberries are ripening so fast
and the market is so good that every
available person from aged men and
women down to smaller and younger
than school age are put to work
filling berry boxes. The crop of
strawberries in Washington this
spring is the heaviest in the history
of the state. High prices prevail for
the fryit. The quality is excellent
and the berries unusually large and
luscious.
PORTLAND, Ore., June 30—Tha
World’s Christian Science Confer
ence opened here today. Ex-Vlca
President Fairbanks made the open
ing address.
BELMONT PARK, N. Y„ June 30.
—Whlskbroom won the Suburban
handicap today, making a new
world’s record for a mile and one
quarter in two minutes flat.
SPRINGER, Okla., June 30.—Miss
Lela Heaterly, aged 20, shot Walter
Hickman as he was riding by her
home near here on horseback. As
Hickman fell to the ground he Dried
to pull his pistol from his holster.
Then the girl rushed toward him and
shot him again killing him. She was
arrested. Hickman was arrested re
cently charged with firing shots into
the Hesterly home. He was going
to Ardmore to sign a bond to keep
the peace when he was killed.
MONTREAL, Can., June 30
Jack Johnson lias promised the
Canadian authorities under oath
that he will sail at once for Paris of
will return to Chicago.