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NEW YORK, Dec. 30—The official
accounting of the estate of William
T. Burbridge, who at one time is de
clared to have won over a million
dollars in gambling establishments
in New York City and Hot Springs,
Ark., shows how uncertain is a for
tune built on chance. The property
left by left by Burbridge, who died
in Havana on September 14, totals
less than $2,000. Burbrige was dri
ven from New York in 1904 by Dis
trict trict Attorney Jerome and went
to Havana, where he spent more than
$125,000 on the Cuban Club and on
a race track and hotel. For a time
he prospered, then luck turned
against him, his health failed and
he was compelled to go to a sanatari
um, where he died.
SEATTLE, Dec. 31—The steamer
Northwestern will sail this afternoon
at five o’clock. Among her passen
gers for Cordova are Thomas Burns,
William McCormick, W. Delong, T.
O. Nelson, Joseph Carson, P. G.
Charles, C. I. Range, Mrs. J. C. John
son, Walter Dempster, H. Vangusen,
E. McNamara, W. G. Gaines and M. J.
McKinnon.
LONDON, Dec. 31—Dispatches via
Vienna report the defeat of the
Greeks at Janina. A Belgrade dis
patch says the Minister of War has
received a telegram that Scutan had
fallen to Servian attack.
LONDON, Dec. 31—The Allies will
bring their affairs to a crisis tomor
row by a statement in the nature of
an ultimatum.
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 31—Windsor V.
Bice, a prominent banker and miner
of Salt Lake, died here last night.
CHEYNNE, Dec. 31—Federal
Judge Riner has ordered a foreclosure
on a mortgage of $2,500,000 against
the properties of the Pennsylvania &
Wyoming Copper Company held by
the Continental Commercial Trust &
Savings Bank of Chicago. The Cop
per Company is involved to the
amount of $10,000,000.
MACON, Ga., Dec. 30—Mrs. James
King, widow of the man who was
recently killed at Round Oak, made
a startling confession last night.
She admitted that she had plotted
with Nicholas Wilburn to slay her
husband, in order that she might get
his life insurance of $2,000 and then
marry her accomplice.
CHEYENNE, Dec. 30—The last of
the nineteen escaping prisoners from
the penitentiary at Rawlings has
been captured. Bert Dalton, a bank
robber, has had a posse on his heels
for several days past. They gave
him a close chase and finally succeed
ed in capturing him at Big Piney yes
terday. During the previous night,
without food and half naked, he kept
on the tramp through the snow, but
finally became exhausted and could
go no farther.
SAN FRANCISCO Dec. 30—Prob
ably one of the most interesting of
national Exposition is tha production
of the Panama Canal on a gigantic
scale.
The concession will cost in the
neighborhood of $250,000, and was
granted to Lewis E. Meyers, a well
known engineer of Chicago.
Mr. Meyers is an engineer and not
a showman. He.visited the Canal
zone to study its construction and the
idea came to him to perfect a means
whereby the people of this country
could learn more about it.
On his return to this country he
proceeded to perfect and patent his
ideas. He plans to truthfully pro
duce the canal and the surrounding
country in weather proof building,
with a glass roof.
WALLACE, Idaho, Dec. 30—An
avalanche of snow partially destroy
ed the town of Mace, and resulted in
killing James Flaherty, while a num
ber of people were burined in the
snow and are still missing.
PRINCETON, Dec. 30—Woodrow
Wilson has arrived here accompanied
by Jerry J. Sullivan, of Iowa. In
discussing the object of this visit
Mr. Wilson said: “I am just pick
ing up the threads as to the situation
In Iowa.” ,
BOSTON, Dec. 30—Charles N.
Dirks, a seventeen year old son of
Henry Dirks, a fur dealer of Un
alaska, committed sucided Saturday
night after having lost $29,000 In
bucket shop gambling. The boy in
herited $12,000 recently from his
mother’s estate and was also sent
$17,000 from his father for a Christ
mas present. ,
LONDON, Dec. 30—A Belgrade
correspondent telegraphs a report to
the offect that Roumania is moboliz
ing its troops.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—The In
terstate Commerce Commission ffas
issued an order inquiring into every
feature of the business of all water
lines.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 28—The long
drawn out trials of the many men
indicted for complicity in the various
dynamite episodes that have afflicted
the country during the past few
years, came to an end this morning
in such a way as will give the de
fenders of the indicted a great shock.
The jury this morning returned a
verdict of guilty against thirty-eight
of the accused men, on fifty-two
counts. Among the number who
have been caught in the net are
Kyan, Clancy, Tveitmoe and Hocking.
They will be punished by imprison
ment. The guilty counts were in ad
dition to those which charged the de
fendants with unlawfully transport
ing dynamite. The jury was out
forty hours and twenty-five minutes.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28—Dr. Jor
don, in a report to the bureau of fish
eries strongly urges that efforts be
made to induce Congress to repeal the
clause in the s^al act so as to re
move the five-year restriction upon
the killing of male seals on the Pribi
lof islands. It. is set forth also that
unless the agreement reached with
Japan and Great Britain for the pro
tection of the seal herds in the North
Pacific is to fail of realization, and
the seal treaty, perhaps itself be lost,
it will be necessary for Congress dur
ing the present sesion to amend the
clause referred to.
This view has also been taken by
the administration, based on several
urgent communications to the United
States, the latest received the other
day from Japan. This communica
tion pointed out that the existing
legislation amounts to a practical re
pudiation of that part of the treaty
which guaranteed to the Japanese
and British governments a fair return
from the seals that might safely be
killed on the American seal islands,
in lieu of those taken by pelagic
sealers.
The seal herd almost has doubled
in number under one year of suspen
sion of killing, and it is the opinion
of the state department experts that,
so far from this being necessary to
prevent the further taking of a due
proportion of skins, some thinning
out of males of the herds is absolute
ly necessary to prevent its deteriora
tion. Therefore, it is expected the
president will make another effort to
induce Congress to amend the exist
ing seal act so as to insure fair treat
ment for the Japanese and British
governments.
HARRISBURG. Dec. 28—John
Geiser McHenry, who was first elect
ed to Congress six years ago, and
was going home on his holiday vaca
tion was taken ill hero, and after a
few days in the hospital suddenly
died yesterday afternoon. His resi
dence wras at Benton, and his district
included the counties of Columbia,
Montour, Northumberland and Sulli
van.
STANTON, Dec. 30—President
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elect Woodrow Wilson, in a speech
delivered here on Saturday night,
said that as soon as the South hoped
it the new administration proposed to
obliterate everything that divided the
North and the South. He also de
clared that monopolies could no long
er exist and that “there are men who
have to be mastered.” In a speech
at a birthday dinner Mr. Wilson took
occasion to say "the Philippine Is
lands are a part of our frontier but
I hope we will presently deprive our
selves of that frontier. ”
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30—Hal
Shain, an automobile racer, met an
instant death by being thrown from
his machine after it had jumped the
track.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 30—The
Ministers have received a note from
Porte that under no circumstances
are they willing to cede Adrinanople.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30—The gar
ment workers of this city, to the
number of 125,000, today went on a
strike. They demand shorter hours
and more pay.
Juneau is very much wrought up
over the possibility of their term of
court prematurely coming to an end.
The District Attorney, the bar associ
ations, litigants, jurymen and the
citizens generally are up in arms
against the calling away of Judge
Overfleld. He had been summoned
as a witness at Valdez iu the bank
ing cases against former receiver
Frank Hawkins, whom h-» appointed
and then removed. He had expected
to have left Juneau on the Maripo3a,
but the matter was taken up with At
torney General Wickersham and he
wired that Judge Overfleld should re
main until further advised. A wire
from Judge Lyons stated that the
Judge would only be required one day
and that he conld return to Juneau
on the same steamer that he comes
on. It is possible that it will be ar
ranged for Judge Overfleld to come
west on the steamer Northwestern
that leaves Seattle on the 30th,
which would get him to Valdez about
Monday, Jan. 5th.
Attention of the Attorney General
has been called to the congested civil
calendar of 70 cases as yet practical
ly untouched and to the criminal doc
ket including the cases untried and
also those to be investigated by the
grand jury. It was shown that the
government would bo put to an en
ormous expense on account of the
many witnesses who were there now
by process waiting to testify, it was
further pointed out that the delay
following a postponement of the mat
ters on hand would work a hardship
on many.
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Charles Nagle, Secretary of Com
merce and Labor, has issued the fol
lowing letter of information:
A hearing having been given at
Seattle, Washington, October 13,
1912, after due notice by publication
and otherwise as provided by law', for
the purpose or determining the ad
visability of making salmon breeding
reserves of certain streams together
with their catchment basins, and all
interested persons having had full op
portunity to be heard, it is hereby
ordered, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by Section 6 of “An Act
for the protection and regulation of
the fisheries of Alaska," approved
June 26, 1906, that until further
notice all commercial fishing for sal
mon, or other commercial fishing in
the prosecution of which salmon, or
other commercial fishing in the prose
cution of which salmon are taken or
injured, be and is hereby prohibited
in waters of Alaska, effective January
i, 1913, as follows:
In all streams flowing into Cook In
let, together with their lakes and
tributary waters.
In Eyak Lake and its tributary
waters. Fishing will be permitted in
Eyak River below Eyak Lake and its
branch, knwon as Mountain Slough,
from 6 a. m. Monday to 6 p. m.
Saturday of each week, but only with
rod, spear or gaff, and with drift
nets and seines not anchored or
otherwise fixed within said waters.
In Anan or Humpback Creek, its
lagoon within 500 yards of the mouth
of said creek.
In Naha stream, its lagoon, lakes
and tributary waters, above a line
connecting the points known respecti.
ely as Loring Point and House Point.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30—The mili
tant suffragette will hereafter be re
garded by the New York City courts
as a "dangerous,” if the ruling of
Chief Magistrate Kempner in the case
of Miss Maud Malone, who interrupt
ed Governor Wilson at a Brooklyn
meeting, is observed. The magis
trate said:
“But let it be known to women of
your peculiar temperament that we
will not tolerate lawless methods,
and that fanatics of either sex will be
dealt with as severely as possible
by our magistrates, while rational
propaganda for any proper cause will
be as free as the air. If such con
duct as yours is suffered to go un
punished the number of dangerous
cranks will multiply, as also the num
ber of Mayors, Presidents and other
public men who will be carrying bul
lets in their bodies.
TRENTON, Dec. 31—Woodrow
Wilson yesterday began a series of
conferences with the Democratic
leaders of both houses, in reference
to the policy of the new administra
tion.
CHICAGO, Dec. 81—A Washing
ton dispatch to the Tribune says
President-elect Wilson may appoint
Col. Goethals Secretary of War.
The story comes from a Seattle
writer that Portland politicians and
business men are attempting to pre
vail on Charley Heifner to abandon
his ambition to be secretary of the in
terior; Hugh C. Wallace to give up
the idea of being postmaster-general,
and George Turner to surrender any
claim he has to a cabinet position
under President Woodrow Wilson and
give their endorsement to J. N. Teal,
a Wtebfoot attorney, whom the Ore
gonians would make secretary of the
interior.
Oregon is the only Coast state that
went Democratic and inasmuch as
that commonwealth exercised re
markable foresight endorsing Wilson
prior to the national convention, the
political record of Teal's community
is perfect. In the East they regard
Oregon as a strong Republican com
monwealth, and to be able to deliver
it to Wilson is something of a Demo
cratic achievement.
In addition to helping Wilson onto
the list of executives, Oregon already
has one Democratic senator and Dr.
Harry L.ant, of Portland, is to be
elected as a second Bourbon in the
upper house. Democratic senators
will be extremely useful to President
Wilson during his four years’ experi
ence at Washington and as there are
no Democratic senators in any of the
neighboring states Wilson - will not
be worried much by importunities of
other Democratic statesmen for West
ern favors.
Tlie Portland Ad Club has taken
up the fight on behalf of “Joe” Teal.
In a statement issued, enumerating
Mr. Teal’s particular qualifications
for the office of Secretary of the In
terior, the following are among the
reasons given:
“Development of waterways, estab
lishing arteries of commerce, has
been a Teal work for thirty years.
He has become one of the greatest ex
ponents of this cause in the country.
“Mr. Teal led the Pacific Coast in
the fight for no tolls through the
Panama Canal on American coast
wise shipping. He was made chair
man of the committee that waged the
national campaign and wTon.
“Alaska’s coal deposits, of the best
fuel found on all the American shores
of the Pacific, are sealed by inability
of the government to work out a de
velopment plan. Meanwhile, all
Coast industries dependent upon coal
suffer heavily. Mr. Teal, a deep
student of the fuel problem, is the
one man to work out the solution and
get action.
“One of the leading attorneys of
the West, Mr. Teal has for years been
the guiding mind in the great rate
battle fought by the Northwesten
shippers and producers with the
transcontinental railways. In this
work he has become a national figure
“Mineral and oil lands of vast area
have been withdrawn from entr;" in
the West. Opportunity for privnte
prospecting and development nas
been removed. Some other efficaci
ous plan must be offered, else mineral
developments in the West will su'fer.
Mr. Teal above all other Western
men, has the knowledge and tact to
get action here.
“In some Eastern communities, a
royalty tax is being urged for the
natural resources of the West retain
ed by the federal government, as a
feature of whatever development
plan is adopted. Conservation does
not mean burdening the West in its
industrial development. This error
must be combatted by such a man as
Mr. Teal, who can measure the gravi
ty of the situation.”
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Kruzgamepa is a settlement pretty
close to the Arctic Circle, but men
who live there believe that farming
can be done with profit.
Governor Clark has received a re
quest from the residents of the place
to recommend to the agicultural de
partment that an experimental sta
tion be established in that vicinity.
They want an agent of the depart
ment, or at least a farmer, sent to
see what can be done. A number of
photographs, one showing a field of
rutabagas and another one of cab
bages, accompany the petition. The
petitiners bejieve that all the vege
tables can be grown in that vicinity.
Governor Clark has referred the
application to the department, as re
quested, but without recommenda
tion, as the petition seems to disclose
the merits of the proposition.
TRENTON, Dec. 31—Col. James
Hamilton Lewis, he of "pink whisk
ers” fame is here conferring with
President Wilson in reference to the
Illinois senatorial situation. Lewis
states that there is a chance to elect
two Democrats from that state.
A recent issue of the Engineering
and Mining Journal contains the fol
lowing statement, which is of particu
lar interest to the people of the Cop
per river country:
The Kennecott Mines Co. has more
than paid back its capital this year;
this company, capitalized at $2,500,
000, owns the Bonanza mine at Ken
necott. Alaska, often referred to as
the “richest copper mine in the
world.” This reference, trite from
misuse, is true in this instance—if
one does not count the cost of getting
ts copper out of Alaska. The Bonanza
mine doubtless contained the highest
grade copper orebody of its size, so
far discovered in the world. Since
April, 1911, it has shipped about 29,
000 tons, containing approximately
40,000,000 pounds of copper, an
average of about 70 per cent copper.
In February of this year a dividend
of $1,000,000 was paid, the first
return on the big investment made in
this property and in the Copper
River & Northwestern R. R.; now an
other dividend amounting to $2,000,
000, has been declared, making a to
tal of $3,000,000, or $300,000 more
than the Kennecott company's capi
talization. The stock in the com
pany is closely held by the Alaska
syndicate, composed of Guggenheim
officials, and the banking houses of
Morgan & Co., and Kuhn Loeb & Co.
The Bonanza mine is now opened to
a depth of over 400 feet. In July,
this year, the concentrator commenc
ed treating the lower-grade ore. No
official estimates of ore reserves are
given out but it is understood that
there is a five or six-year supply al
ready developed, and promising de
posits on other portions of the com
pany’s property, are being investi
gated.
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This year’s estimates for appro
priations provided for a new clerkship
ii the office of the governor of Alaska
The provision was urged by the gov
ernor in his last report just filed.
While the recommendation was
turned down by the House in the last
congress, it is believed now' that the
Democrats are about to come into
office, and that the recommendation
is made by a retiring Republican ad
ministration, there is a very good
chance to secure the increase of office
force. The creation of the legisla
ture wdll undoubtedly very greatly ■
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increase the work in the governor’s .
office and some additional help is !
almost imperative.
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