Late Telegraph News
JUNEAU, Sept. 26.—Instructions have been received here
from Fred Dennet, Commissioner of the land office at Wash
ington, to cancel the Lippy-Davis coal claims. This group of
claims is located in the Bering river field and has been the
bone of contention for several years past. From the manner
in which many of the claims were acquired and put into a cor
poration the government has taken the attitude that not only
should the claims be canceled, but an investigation should be
made into the methods used by the company, with the idea
that indictments might follow. The men at the head of this
company are well known in Alaska and Seattle. T. S. Lippy
made a fortune in the Klondike, going there from Seattle,
where he was an instructor at the Young Men’s Christian As
sociation. Clark Davis was formerly a preacher but gave up
that vocation in the early boom days of Alaska and wTent to
mining. He spent considerable time at Katalla, where he is
interested in both coal and oil.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Although the President’s Sec
retary has strongly intimated that it is not the intention to
call a special session of Congress to consider intervention in
Mexico, there is excellent authority for the statement that such
is President Taft’s intention. It is said that the policy of
the administration is not to discuss the matter further until
decisive action is taken in making the call. In the meantime
President Madero is being given opportunity to straighten out
the revolution. If he does not succeed within a reasonable
time, as the story goes, the President will call Congress to
gether in special session and put the question of intervention
up to that body. And there seems to be but little doubt that
after Congress is acquainted with all the facts in the matter
that decisive action will be taken, which will likely mean a
short war. „
NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—In his recent speech at Hartford
Governor Wilson put himself squarely on record as against
the recall of judges. He had previously touched upon this
subject lightly, but his last declaration was most positive.
RENO, Sept. 27.—In his address here William Jennings
Bryan was in good form and very enthusiastic over the pros
pects of Democratic success. He went so far as to declare, “I
don’t concede a single state to either Taft or Roosevelt.”
NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—In an interview with President
Taft he confidently predicted his re-election. He declared
that lie had every reason to believe that the Republicans would
carry Michigan, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, and with a
proper campaign the states of Oregon, Kansas and Minnesota
should go for him. Many other states were put in the cer
tain column.
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BOSTON, Sept. 27.—At the primaries held throughout
the state of Massachusetts the democrats renominated the
present Governor, Eugene Y. Foss. The republicans named
as their candidate Joseph Walker, the former Speaker of the
House of Representatives.
NEWARK, Sept. 27.—Governor Wilson scored a big vic
tory in his own state at the recent primaries. Congressman
William Hughes, whom he supported for the Senatorial nom
ination, has swept the state, notwithstanding the strenuous
efforts put forth by former Senator Smith and other machine
politicians.
BOSTON, Sept. 27.—Winston Churchill, the author, has
been nominated for Governor of New Hampshire by the Pro
gressives. He was a member of the Legislature from 1903 to
1905, and is regarded as a good runner. In Connecticut the
Progressives have nominated Herbert Knox Smith for Gov
ernor. Recently he resigned his position as Commissioner of
the Bureau of Corporations, in the Department of Commerce
and Labor, in order that he might support Col. Roosevelt
without proving disloyal to President Taft.
New Orleans voted almost without opposition for the adop
tion of the commission form of government. This is the larg
est city that has yet adopted that plan. It was adopted ac
cordingly by about ten to one in its favor. From this it is
inferred that the vote is in the nature of a popular revolt
against the abuses that have been inflicted on that city by bad
men in its old government.
This form of government and its fundamental qualities
are in concentrating executive and legislative powers in the
hands of a board of limited membership and in removing the
checks on hasty, improvident or wrong action, which often de
lay progress on public work. The result is to facilitate the
power of good officials to do good work, and also to make it
easier for bad officials to do bad work.
The exact result in New Orleans cannot be foretold but
the factor which will determine it can be clearly stated. If
the people of New Orleans elect none but honest and able men
to the commission they will have good government by this plan
as they would under any other form. If they elect unscrupu
lous and dishonest men they will have bad government, as they
would under any other form. Probably as the people of New
Orleans seem to have undergone an awakening they will have
good government at the start. But what it will be during a
course of many years can be determined only by history.
The chief objection to the commission form of government
is its apparent assumption that good or bad government de
pends on the form. It does not. The sole factor as to the
character of the results is the kind of men the people elect to
run the government. And this truism applies with equal
force to Alaska. In our new and first Legislature much will
depend upon the men who are selected to carry out the will
of the people. Even with curtailed perogatives incompetent or
mendacious officials can do us much harm.
DENVER, Sept. 30.—On Saturday,
Oct. 5, there certainly promises to be
considerable excitement in this city
because of the hearing on that day
of some of Denver's most prominent
citizens. As a result of a grand jury
investigation, started August 23,
more than a score were indicted and
are under bond to appear for hear
ing on Saturday next.
The Indictments contain an infi
nite number of allegations of brib
ery, misuse of the city’s streets,
theft of franchises, operating dis
orderly houses, renting property for
such purposes, neglect of duty in
non-enforcement of laws and ob
structing public streets. True bills
were returned upon the testimony
of many witnesses, some of whom
are under bond t* remain in the city
and some of whom are in jail for
lack of bond.
Mayor Arnold and his predecessor,
Robert W. Speer, are charged with
failure to enforce the laws against
open vice, together with the pres
ent and former chiefs of police and
the fire and police boards, both past
and present. The officials of the lo
eal telephone and telegraph com
panies are charged with obstructing
the streets and the International
Trust Company officials are charged
with renting property for illegal
purposes.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 28.—Dr.
Kitze, inventor of many valuable
electrical appliances, gave an abso
lutely perfect demonstration of his
latest invention, the chrono-kineto
graph, a speaking-moving picture de
vice, before a large assemblage of
highly interested, specially invited
men of power in the world of finance
and genius at St. Anthony hall, in
this city. The men were assembled
through the medium of the Cort
Kitze company, of which John Cort,
the theatrical manager, of Seattle, is
president, and Dan L. Weaver, of
Spokane, a director.
Dr. Kitze has given to the world
one of the most important inven
tions of the decade. Not only will
the ehrono-kintograph revolutionize
everything appertaining to moving
pictures, but it will serve as a very
engrossing sabject for students of
mechanical appliances. For a num
ber of years the adept of the
world’s inventors have endeavored
to perfect just mich a machine, and
large sums of money have been ex
pended without success through fail
ure to synchronize sound and move
ment. This Dr. Kitze has absolute
ly accomplished, and the simplicity
of his device is only another in
stance of his great genius. His sound
waves carry with remarkable pow
er, while his pictares are decided
ly clear.
Dr. Kitze is the inventor of the
central battery system now used in
all telephone exchanges, aaid his was
the first patent issued from the
United States patent office for wire
less telegraphy.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Army
aviators Second Lieut. Lewis Rock
well and Corporal Frank S. Scott
were killed Saturday in a fail from
their machine. They were flying at
College Park, Md., when something
went wrong with the machinery and
they lost control of the aeroplane.
They were thrown to the ground and
TOULON, Sept. 30.—Amid splen
dor and elaborate cermonies the
dreadnaught “Paris” was launched
on Saturday afternoon. There was
a great outpouring of people to
watch the event.
AUGUSTA, Sept. 30.—The militia
and street car stirkers had a con
flict yesterday. The latter insist
ed upon interfering with the men
who sought to run the cars. In
order to disperse the crowds the mi
litia fired a number of shots. They
went wild, but two citizens who
were some little distance away were
the victims and were killed from
the effect of the bullets.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 30.—Ac
cording to Magistrate Scott It is no
crime to kiss one's sweetheart on
the streets of Philadelphia. Har
old Luders was called before him,
having been arrested for kissing
Miss Hilda Young, his fiancee, when
he was leaving her last night.
“Why, this boy has committed no
crime,” said the magistrate, as he
discharged Luders. “Things have
come to a pretty pass when a man
cannot kiss his girl on the street.
If this keeps on it will be high time
for the young people to move out, and
the crippled and feeble minded to
move in.”
Advertising pays. Try the Chlt
lna Leader. Start now.
VALDEZ, Sept. 29.—The Alaska
railroad commission did not start
over the Valdez-Fairbanks trail this
morning as they had expected to do.
Reports from the interior indicated
that a storm was raging, but that it
was subsiding. The commission now
plan to start sometime on Monday,
and it is believed that they can get
through without much inconven
ience.
IIOXGKONG, Sept. 30. — A fire
broke out in the hold of the Pa
cific Mail steamer Manchuria, as she
was about a day out from this port.
It was subdued after a hard battle
with the flames. The large cargo
was badly damaged. The passen
gers were greatly frightened but the
officers succeeded in preserving good
order.
NEW YORK. Sept. 30.—The Her
ald has been taking a straw vote for
some days past on the Presidential
possibility, extending to eleven
states. The report indicates that
Governor Wilson leads in nine states,
including Ohio. Col. Roosevelt
seems to have the favor of Pennsyl
vania and Connecticutt. While
these straw votes have not always
turned out to be accurate, they are
taken as an index to the preliminary
feeling, which often changes as a
campaign progresses.
FALL, RIVER, Mass., sept. zs. —
In delivering an address here Gov
ernor Wilson took occasion to char
acterize Col. Roosevelt as a “con
fused thinker.” He declares that
the Colonel’s hypothesis is often in
correct and that he builds a fine
structure upon a foundation that
immediately crumbles when at
tacked by a slight bombardment of
reason.
RICHMOND, Sept. 28.—William
Johnson and Mrs. Roy C. Wyman,
both of this town, had a bad case
of affinitis. They mutually agreed
that they could not get along with
out each other, and as both had
families they realized that it would
be difficult to secure legal separa
tions. After talking the matter
over they formed a pact to end life
together. So last night, both John
son and Mrs. Wyman suicided in the
presence of Mrs. Johnson. They
drank the poison from a cup that
soon sent both into another world.
NEW YORK, Sept. 28. — It is
easy now to find out the names of
contributors to the various nation
al campaign funds. To the Demo
cratic fund thus far the largest con
tributions have been made by Hen
ry Morgenthau, chairman of the Na
tional executive committee, F. C.
Penfield, a wealthy Democrat of Ger
mantown, Pa., and Henry Goldman,
a New York banker, each gave $10,
000.
Five $5,000 contributions were
received. The givers are Charles
R. Crane of Chicago, who is vice
chairman of the National financial
committee; Rolla Wells, former
mayor of St. Louis, the National
treasurer; Cleveland H. Dodgs and
Jacob H. Schiff, New York bankers,
and Hugh C. Wallace of Tacoma,
National committeeman from Wash
ington.
TOKIO, Sept. 28. — As later re
ports are received that the typhoon
which swept the full length of
Japan was more disastrous than was
at first supposed. The damage to
property will exceed over twenty
million dollars, while hourly the re
ports of lives lost is on the increase.
There is great distress and suffer
ing among thousands of people who
have lost their homes and all their
possessions,
instantly killed.
BEVERLY, Sept. 30.—On Satur
day night President Taft addressed
a meeting of the Republican club of
Essex county. He made a strong
plea with them not to desert the
party, but to vote the ticket and
help defeat Col. Roosevelt, whose
aim is the destruction of Republi
canism.
ORDER AND NOTICE OF
ELECTION.
In the Commissioners Court at Chit
ina, Third Division, Territory
of Alaska.
I, J. W. Nickell, United States
Commissioner in and for the Chitina
Recording District, Third Division,
Territory of Alaska, persuant to an
act of Congress, approved May 6th,
1906, and a subsequent act, an act
to create a legislative assembly in
the Territory of Alaska to confer
Legislative powers thereon and other
purposes, approved Aug. 24, 1912.
| Election to be held for the purpose
I of electing two senators and four
1 representatives as members of the
legislative assembly of the Territory
of Alaska from the Third Division
thereof.
I do hereby divide the above
named Recording and Election dis
trict into seven voting precincts.
Which said precincts shall be
known as follows:
Tiekel Voting Precinct.
Chitina Voting Precinct.
Copper Mountain Voting Precinct.
Kusktilana Voting Precinct.
Regal Voting Precinct.
McCarthy Voting Precinct
Kenneeott Voting Precinct.
That said Tiekel voting precinct
is bounded as follows:
Comencing at a point on R. R.
opposite mouth of Bremner river
and running northwest along the
foot of Sherman and Woodworth
glaciers to a point south of Marshal
pass, thence northeast to head wa
ters of the X’ranitana river thence
down south bank of X'rantina. cross
ing Copper river in an easterly di
rection to Mt. Radcliff, thence south
west to mouth of Bremner river on
south bank, and crossing to R. R.
track.
And I do hereby sepeify a certain
cabin near the R. R. station at Tie
kel in the Tiekel voting precinct as
the polling place for said Tiekel
voting precinct. Alaska.
That the said Chitina voting pre
cinct is bounded as follows: Com
mencing at a point at mouth of XTr
anatina river, thence west on north
bank of said river to its head waters,
thence north to a point on Copper
river opposite mouth of Chetashina
river, thence east across Copper
river to Long Glacier, thence south
east to a point of R. R. crossing on
Chokosna river, thence south across
Chitina river to Tebav lake, thence
across Copper river to mouth of Ur
anatina river.
And I do hereby specify that a
certain building known as the
School House, situated in Chitina,
Alaska, to be the polling place for
the said Chitina voting precinct,
Alaska.
That said Copper Mountain vot
ing precinct is bounded as follows:
Beginning at foot of Long Glacier
and running north to Mt. Wrangle,
thence east to Mt. Blackburn, thence
southwest to a point at mouth of
Clear creek, thence northwest by
head waters of Clear creek to foot
of Long Glacier.
And I do hereby specify a certain
building at Copper Mountain camp
as the polling place for said Copper
Mountain voting precinct, Alaska.
That said Kuskulana voting pre
cinct is bounded as follows: Begin
ning at mouth of Clear creek and
to Castle Peak, thence southwest to
Kuskulana Pass, thence west to
mouth of Clear creek.
And I do herebv specify a cer
tain cabin near Maddox and Warn
er’s road house as the polling place
for said Kuskulana voting precinct,
Alaska.
That said Kegal voting precinct
is bounded as follows: Beginning
at Kuskulana pass, thence north to
Mt. Blackburn, thence east to Mt.
Regal, thence south to mouth of
Fourth of July creek, thence west to
Kuskulana pass.
And I do hereby specify a cer
tain building at Camp Regal as the
polling place for said Regal voting
precinct, Alaska.
That said McCarthy voting pre
cinct is bounded as follows: Begin
ning at point of R. R. crossing on
Chokosna river, thence north to Kus
kulana pass, thence east to mouth of
Fourth of July creek, thence south
east to mouth of Nikolai creek, trib
utary to McCarthy creek, thence
northeast to Nuzina Glacier, thence
southwest to Mt. Radcliff, thence
west to Tebay lake, thence north
across Chitina river to point of R. R.
crossing of Chokosna.
And I do hereby specify that a
certain cabin near A1 Church's store
as the polling place for said McCar
thy’s voting precinct, Alaska.
That said Kennecott voting pre
cinct is bounded as follows: I3egin
ning at mouth of Fourth of July
creek, thence north to Mt. Regal,
thence east to Russel Glacier, thence
southwest to mouth of Nickolai
creek, thence west to mouth of
Fourth of July creek.
And I do hereby specify a certain
building near the Kennecott Mill as
the polling place for said Kennecott
voting precinct, Alaska.
Notice is hereby given that on the
5tli day of November, A. I)., 1912,
an election will be held for the pur
pose of electing two Senators and
four Representatives as members of
the legislative assembly of the ter
ritory of Alaska and from the Third
Division thereof, persuant to an act
of Congress, approved Aug. 24th,
A. D„ 1912.
The said election will be held in
the voting precincts above mentioned,
at the polling places as above speci
fied, respectively.
The said polling places will be
open from between the hours of 8:00
a. m. and 7:00 p. m. on the 5th day
of November, A. D., 1912.
Dated this 4th day of September,
1912, at Chitina Alaska.
J. W. NICKEL, L,
IT. S. Commissioner, Territory of
Alaska, residing at Chitina.
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