Late Telegraph News
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1—-The re
port of the Alaska Railroad Com
mission on the proposed construction
of a federal railroad in Alaska is
awaited with considerable interest
here. More than a week ago it was
submitted to President Taft, thus
making it possible for Congress to
receive the information it desires in
order to give it consideration at the
present session.
Immediately upon receiving the re
port President Taft turned it over
to Secretary Fisher and for some un
accountable reason the latter appears
to want to hold on to it indefinitely.
This action on the part of the Secre
tary of the Interior has aroused much
• feeling and unless the findings of the
commission are soon submitted to
Congress there will be a public pro
test entered.
Senator Borah is particularly
peeved and as he has already de
nounced Fisher and asked for his
recall he intends to busy himself and
demand an explanation from the
President as to the cause of the delay.
Other Progressives and some of the
Democrats are also interested and
something is apt to drop Boon.
The general impression prevails
that the Commission’s report is at
variance with Fisher’s pet scheme to
build a railroad from Seward to in
terior Alaska, and this is one of his
reasons for holding it up. But it
is not believed that his action will
have any bearing on the matter, other
than to antagonize and predjudice
legislators against any recommenda
tions he may make.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — The
Treasury department joins the gen
eral housecleaning that is now in
vogue in order to conduct government
business on a modern basis. The
pension agencies are the first to fall
under the axe and hereafter they will
cease to exist.
TRENTON, Feb. 1—Fifteen hun
dred porcelain strikers assail the
strike-breakers with bricks, stones
and knives and a number of injuries
result.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1—W. K. Van
derbilt is the president of an organ
ization which is planning a big festi-i
val for next year in commemoration
of the tercentenary arrival of Dutch
sailing masters.
SEATTLE, Feb. 1—Former City
Engineer Thompson has sued the
Daily Times for $90,000 damages for
defamation of character.
CHICAGO, Jan. 31—An investiga
tion shows that an arson trust exsists
throughout the country.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1—There
is sharp conflict among the anti
Socialists to elect a president of the
Labor Council.
NEW YORK. Feb. 1—The Archi
tectural League has awarded Col.
Goethals a medal for his work in Pan
ama.
sea I l LE. Feb. 1—The steamer
Alameda will resume her run to
Southwestern Alaska on February 8.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1—The new
federal court rules, which are now
effective, have an expense delay.
TRENTON, Jan. 31—President
elect Wilson is trying to eelect his
cabinet team, but will make no an
nouncement until it ' complete.
He says, however, that there will be
no college heads in the new’ Cabinet.
MONTPELIER, Feb. 1—The gov
ernor vetoes the sterilizing act.
NEW YARK, Feb. 1—Detective
Burns says that he hopes the resolu
tion introduced in Congress to in
vestigate him passes.
ALBANY, Feb. 1—Governor Sul
zer signs the bill incorporating the
Harriman Research Labratory, which
the widow of the late railroad mag
nate is maintaining.
KANSAS CITY. Feb. 1—William
Nelson, editor of the Star, has been
sentenced to one day in jail for con
tempt, in criticising the judge.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1—Fritz Scheff
has been granted a divorce.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1—The re
cords shows that last month was the
warmest January in the East for
years.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1—President
Robert Scott Lovett announces the
discontinuance of all traffic depart
ments of the I'nion and Southern
Pacific railways.
PORTLAND, Feb. 1—Sarah Bern
hardt, the actress, has requested her
manager to making bookings in Alas
, ka, where she desires to play “Camil
j le,” at the completion of her San
: Francisco engagement.
1 NEW YORK, Feb. 1—Woodrow
Wilson has accepted the offer of the
Princeton students to act as an es
cort from his home to Washington,
when he leaves for the capitol city
‘to be inaugurated President.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1—Senator
Cummins makes a strong plea for a
six year year presidency.
SEATTLE, Feb. 1—R. W. Baxter,
vice president of the Copper River
railway, did not arrive here today
from New York, as expected.
SEATTLE, Feb. 1—The steamer
Yukon sailed last night, but had no
passengers for Cordova. George
Priest and William Ebelle were
aboard for Katalla. Among the
cargo was cannery supplies for
Kodiak.
NEW YORK, Jan. 31—Notwith
standing the decision of Secretary
Nagle Castro secures his liberty
through habeas corpus proceedings.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—-Repre
sentative Levy offers a resolution in
the House that the Star Spangled
Banner be the national anthem.
NEW YORK. Jan. 31—The coun
try’s great users of steel are making
inquiries regarding deliveries in the
first quarter of 1914. This is the first
time inhistory of the industry that
there have been inquiries a full year
ahead. There are some lines of steel
products that are booked until Dec
ember and with a small amount of
new business would have full capaci
ty for a year ahead.
The Union Pacific has placed orders
for 246 locomotives for the various
Harriman lines; the Illinois Central
equipment will include 3,500 gondola
cars, besides the 2,500 now being de
livered, 500 flat cars, 800 furniture
cars', 500 refrigerator, 500 fruit, 500
stock and other types; the American
Locomotive Works will deliver 55
locomotives to the Illinois Central
within a few weeks.
With the exception of equipment
orders there has been little new busi
ness placed in the past week or two,
but steel makers are not worrying
about the future. There are many
contracts pending from last year and
a certain amount of buying that can
not be put off much longer. It is ex
pected that the large crops will bring
a wave of buying new equipment.
There is, however, small probabili
ty that the demand for steel will be
heavy enough in the next few months
to cause any advance in prices, even
if the big makers were not already
opposed to any advance. Quotations
are now at a good level and as a rule
above the average for the past ten
years. On the other hand, there is
no likelihood that prices will be re
duced.
The United States Steel Corpora
tion will publish its statement for the
last quarter of 1912 within a few
days and it is expected that the
net for the period will be about $37,
*00,000, making $110,000,000 for the
year.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—The Re
publican party will establish perman
ent quarters here in April.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—The com
mittee will report favorably on the
physical valuation of railroads.
LONDON, Jan. 31—The House of
Lords defeated the home rule bill for
Ireland by a vote of 326 to 69.
NEW YORK, Jan. 31—The French
liner Mexico loses its propeller and is
helpless off Sable Island.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31—Secre
tary of Interior Fisher ordered that
the conduct of Louis P. Glavis,
former field agent of the land depart
ment, be fully investigated.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 31—The
Hobo convention will adopt suffra
gette methods if the vagrancy laws
are offensiously enforced.
SEATTLE, Jan. 31—The steamer
Mariposa sailed yesterday afternoon
at 5 o’clock. Her passengers for
Cordova are Attorney R. J. Boryer
and wife, Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Goodman,
Miss Croker, Miss Ida Moore, W. J.
Holden, V. J. Dwyer and Joseph
Gomely. There are also twenty-five
laborer going north to work on the
Copper River & Northwestern rail
way.
CONSTNATINOPLE. Jan. 31—The
Turkish cruiser sinks three Greek
warships.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—Four
hundred women appear before a
House committee and demand the
right to vote for congressmen.
AUSTIN, Jan. 31—The govern
ment orders the Texas rangers t*
shoot straight when necessary to re
pel the Rebels.
NEW YORK. Jan. 31—The Rocke
feller investigators testify that there
are 26,000 women at Manhattan in
the grip of the White Slave Trust.
NEW YORK. Jan. 31—The Ameri
can Peace League will give President
Taft a dinner on February 22, at
which they will present him with a
gold medal.
BOSTON, Jan. 31—Five thousand
garment workers in this city have
gone on a strike.
SEATTLE, Jan. 31—The Manhat
tan apartments caught fire this morn
ing and for a time it looked as though
the flames would completely destroy
the building, but were finally con
trolled. So dense was the smoke
that a hundred guests had a narrow
escape from suffocation.
NEW YORK, Jan. 31—Andrew
Carneige criticises Col. Goethals’ re
quest for soldiers to guard the Pana
ma canal.
JUNEAU, Jan. 31—In the case of
the Humboldt Steamship Company
against the White Pass & Y'ukon
Route, which consits of the Pacific &
Arctic Railway & Navigation Com
pany the British-Y'ukon Railway Com
panq and the British-Yukon Naviga
tion Company, with Moore Wharf
Company, at Skagway, charged with
discrimination in rates and the ticket
ing and billing of through freight
and passengers the jury disagreed.
After deliberating for twenty-two
hours the vote stood ten to two for
acquittal, but as no verdict could be
reached the jury reported to th«
court and was discharged.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30—Con
gressman Humphrey introduces a bill
taxing the exports of food.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30—Senator
Dixon attacks the movement to ex
tend the presidential term to six
vea rs.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30—Accord
ing to statistics just made public the
trade balance for the past year favors
this nation by $500,000,000.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30—A bill
was today introduced in the House
providing for an appropriation of
$10,000,000 to aid states in making
highway improvements.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30—The $2,
000,000 appropriation for a Lincoln
Memorial has passed both houses and
awaits the President’s signature.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30—Presi
dent Taft in his farewell speech be
fore the Ohio Society attacks the bill
for the independence of the Philip
pines.
NEW YORK, Jan. 30—The Suffra
gettes plan a tour to the Pacific coast
on horseback. They propose stop
ping at all towns en route from New
York to San Francisco and deliver
lectures.
PORTLAND, Jan. 30—It is under
stood the Gould and Hill lines have
formed a combination to enter San
Francisco and Puget Sound.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 30—
There is a bloody internal fight in
progress at Aderhaut. Nazim Pasha
and the Young Turks in this city are
likely to be attacked.
EL PASO, Jan. 30—Fifteen hun
dred rebel troops surround Juarez
and a battle is imminent.
LONDON, Jan. 30—The Sultans
troops have threatened mutiny.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 — The
House committe endorses the plan of
a closed season of five years for the
Priblof islands in Alaska.
DAWSON, Jan. 30—Jealousy re
sulted in a triple murder at the
Black Hills road house, after a fierce
fight. Those killed were Wiliam
Smith and wife and Michael Kelly.
ST. PAUL, Jan. 30—Miss Rachael
Hill, daughter of James. J. Hill, the
railroad king, was today married to
Dr. Boeckman.
SEATTLE, Jan. 30—The nine
o’clock curfew ordinance Is now ef
fective, and the street lights blink
the signal for all children to wend
their way homeward.
SEATTLE, Jan. 30—The govern
ment will send a botanist to survey
the Kelp-beds of Alaska.
SPRINGFIELD, Jan. 30—Con
gressman McKinley, manager of the
Taft campaign, has succeeded in
having elected his speaker of the
House In Illinois, through a combina
tion of forty-five Republicans and
thirty-six Democrats. It is' also
likely that a Republican will be elect
ed United States Senator for a long
term.
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NEIGHBORHOOD
The Pacific Coast & Norway Pack
rg Company, of Petersburg, last sea
son employed 300 men with a month
ly payroll of from $14,000 to $18,
000. The company put up 55,000
cases of salmon, 1,000 barrels of her
ring, 300 barrels of salted salmon
and as many of mild-cured.
‘Tex" Alexander, of Ketchikan,
has become tired of explaining why
he is not a Socialist to a few individ
uals, and so he has challenged Kazis
Krauczunas, Socialist candidate for
delegate to Congress, last year, to de
bate on the subject of Socialism.
A postoffice has been opened at
Hadley, with K. Foss as postmaster.
Hadley will receive its mail from
Ketchikan.
A new sawmill at Hadley is about
completed, and Foss Bros. & Co. are
empolying thirty men geting out logs.
According to the report of the
Commissioner of Lighthouses the to
tal number of aids in Alaska includ
ing lights, fog signals, buoys and day
marks in commission at the close of
the fiscal year, was 265. There are
now 95 lights in Alaska, as compared
with 37 lights on June 30, 1910.
Oscar Weston escaped from the
United States offivials at Ketchikan,
while taking coal to the courthouse.
Then he stole a boat from a preacher
at Saxman and headed for British
Columbia.
The Bank of Petersburg has been
opened at Petersburg with C. F. Hen
drickson of the Scandinavian-Ameri
can bank, of Portland, Oregon, as
president. Q. O. Steberg, of the
State Bank, of Buckley, Wash., vice
president. K. L. Steberg is cashier
and manager of the new bank.
Emil Picott, of Montreal, was
found dead in bed in a Prince Rupert
hotel the other day. Death was due
to heart disease. Picott was a form
er Yukoner.
The people of Atlin are still dis
cussing the recent discovery of coarse
gold on Silver creek, near Teslin lake,
and several prospectors have gone in
for the purpose of investigating.
Our former townsman, "Billy”
Little, has bounded his Golden Eagle
claim, at Port Wells, for $30,000, to
Ben Silverman of Valdez, who is
driving a 200 foot tunnel on the
ledge. The property is situated ad
joining the store at Golden and is on
the water’s edge, being surrounded
by ample timber for all purposes and
with a water power within a short
distance.
The ledge is 12 feet in width, sam-i
pie assays returning from $5 to $200
to the ton. A mill test of the "mine
run’’ made at the Valdez mill gave re
turns of $40 to the ton. Mr. Silver
man estimates that by running in on
the vein for a distance of 200 he will
gain a depth of 400 feet. Previous
to bonding the property Little had
stripped the vein for a distance of
100 feet; the vein being tracable on
the outcrop for 300 feet.
Judge Finnegan, J. H. Jeter, H.
H. Hildrteh, George Sexton, J. T.
Hamilton, C. M. Huff, W. H. Whit
tleey, J. Wallace and Sid Anderson,
of Seward wdll be used by the govern
ment in an effort to make its case
against Frost and others charged
with attempting to defraud the gov
ernment in the location of Matanuska
coal claims.
Yesterday a telephone message
was received from Bremner to the
effect that John Van Iderstine, Harry
Hepple and Louis Dahl, three old
timers, who have been missing since
December 1 had finally turned up
and were none tlie worse for their
long and trying experience in the in
terior. They have been prospecting
in that section for many years and
about twelve months ago started out
to search the hills for mineral, ex
pecting to be gone until December 1.
As they had not been heard from by
January 1 and feeling that the pro
long stay had exhausted their grub
and possibly some misfortune befell
them friends in Cordova got busy.
They raised a fund with which to
send a searching party out and the
expedition is just about ready to
start, when the glad news is received
that the men have returned to civili
zation.
The Skagway firemen will give
ther big annual dance on the evening
of Washington’s birthday.
The Petersburg Progressive is the
name of a new weekly newspaper
launched in Southeastern Alaska by
J. E. Rivard, formerly of Seward.
The Treadwell camp, Arctic Bro
therhood, went on record at a rousing
meeting as favoring Sitka camp resol
utions calling for the dissolution of
the present grand camp, and the re
organization along the lines which
will leave the grand camp affairs in
the hands of the representatives re
siding in Alaska, of the subordinate
camps.
Frank Trainer, an Idaho man, died
of exposure and starvation recently
■at a point two days distant from Fort
Graham, B C.
James T. Wardell. of Katalla, who
recently took the steamer from Cor
dova for Seattle, intends going back
to Washington to interview the Com
missioner of the Interior Department
Mr. Wardell is one of the hitherto un
fortunate coal land claimants in Ber
ing river district, where he located a
claim of 160 acres several years ago.
He has been trying to bring it to
patent, but he says he has not been
able to get it out of the Juneau land
office, the alleged reason being that
the office has not had time to get
around to it. Mr. Wardell was a
former deputy marshal at Katalla,
but resigned several years ago, and
he is a man of sterling integrity.
Katalla reports that the outlook
for substantial development of the oil
fields is excellent. Recent oil finds
at Mirror Slough, in the Copper river
delta are very encouraging, and prep
arations are being made for extensive
development.
Boston people have put about
$150,000 into the Valdez Creek Pla
cer Mines in Alaska and yesterday
President George W. Sias wired $56,
750 to Seattle, for payment on the
Smith Monahan claims. There has
been paid to date on these claims
$97,750 and there is $56,000 more
due this month. But President Sias
is confident that this and much more
can be taken from the ground this
summer.
The company has taken over the
Oregon Susitna Mining Company of
nearly 2000 acres, where two men the
past season shovelled out $5,000
There have been taken out by hand
methods over $75,000 from these
claims and according to the govern
ment report nuggets as large as 32
and 52 ounces have been found.
On the Monahan maim there is a
prospect tunnel 1200 feet long, anrt
every cubic yard treated has averag
ed better than $17. About $145,
000 has been taken from this tunnel.
Valdez Creek has yielded by hand
methods about $300,000 to date.
Boston people got control of the
creek by buying the dumping ground
below. There is now on the prop
erty 2000 feet of 10 and 12-inch
pipe and two 5-inch giants with full
equipment, and new supplies have
been ordered for the coming season.
It is expected that the company
will handle not less than 2000 yards
b'-t-n ordered for the coming season
which usually runs from the middle
of May until the middle of October,
although in Alaska the past year
there was slucing done as late as
Nov. 4.
Forbes Rickard has estimated the
entire gravel bank here as running
94 cents per yard. It is expected by
the management that this season’s
run will averager better than $1.—
Boston News Bureau.
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Receiver Frank Boyle of the June
au land office, has been subpoenaed '
by the United States district court of
Chicago, Cook County, 111., to ap
pear on Feb. 17, 1913. Mr. Boyle is
required as a witness in the case of
the United States vs. Albert C. Frost
et al, charging conspiracy. The prin
cipal persons connected with the case
are A. C. Frost, Frank Watson, O. G.
Laberee, Gordon A. Ramsey, Geo. M.
Seward, Harry G. Beach, D. M. Stew
art and F. H. Stewart.
The conspiracy alleged in the com
plaint arises from attempts on the
part of defendants to secure certain
coal claims in the Matanuska coal
fields and commonly known as the
Watson group of coal claims.
Mr. Boyle will required to take
with him all letters and records of
the Juneau land office which may
have any bearing on the case.
A great many are under the im
pression that the coming trial if for
the purpose of settling title to coal
lands. Mr. Boyle says this under
standing is erroneous. The case to
be tried is crim’nM m'spiracy and
that title to coal 1. n Is is not in
volved.
TRENTON, Feb. 4—Charles Heif
ner, the Democratic leader of Seattle,
held a conference with President-elect
Wilson last night, at which he ar
ranged for a meeting after the inau
guration to discuss Alaskan matters.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 4—Gertrude
Hassler receives a verdict of $.30,0.00
in her breach of promise case against
Carl Fisher, the millionaire.
VANCOUVER, Feb. 4—Lugi Pellie,
the head of organized association,
has been arrested for smuggling un-'
desirable immigrants and white slave
girls.
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