Late Telegraph News
JUNEAU, May 29.—On a steamei
to reach here Sunday night Franl
Johnson, supervisor of surveys foi
the land office will arrive with £
party of 15 men, to survey the coa
fields of Alaska. Here the plans oi
surveyors will be decided on and £
litttle later sent out. A total oi
16 parties will be put out this sea
son in order that the coal lands ol
the Matanuska, Bering River and
Nenana districts may be platted and
made ready for leasing and mining.
The work this summer will be
rushed as fast as it is possible to
jmsh the surveys. With sixteen
parties in the. field surveys will be
made of a greater part of the differ
ent coal regions and the best lands
can be reserved by the government
for naval purposes. Frank John
son will be in charge of the field
work.
SEATTLE, May 29.—John E.
Humphries, who has been a judge
on the Superior court bench for the
past four years, died this morning
from Uraemic poisoning. He has
been a prominent character in this
city for the past 20 years and has
repeatedly been a Republican candi
date for office, including the position
of governor, Supreme Court judge,
mayor, prosecuting attorney and
corporation counsel. He leaves a
widow but no children. He was a
member of many fraternal societies.
NEW YORK, May 29.—The. will
of the late Alfred Gwynne Vander
bilt, a victim of the Lusitania
horror, was probated in court this
morning. He leaves his widow
$3,000,000 and all his real and per
sonal property. He married his
second wife, Mrs. Margaret Emerson
McKim in December 1911, and there
are two sons as a result of that
issue. By his former wife, Elsie
Frence, whom he married on Janu
ary 14, 1901, he leaves a son born
November 24, 1901.
NEW YORK, May 29.—The re
port comes from England that
Clarence H. Mackey is soon to wed
Mrs. Madeline Force Astor, widow
of the late John Jacob Astor, whom
she married on September 9, 1911,
after he had been divorced in 1909
from his first wife. Mr. Mackey
was married to Katherine Duer m
1898 a-'d divorced last year.
ATHV''S. May 29.—It is reported
today tb-* King Constantine is com
pletely cut of danger. His rapid
recovery is now looked forward to
by his physicians.
SEATTLE, May 28.—The word
was quickly passed around the city
this morning that Chris H. Busch
mann, the manager of the North
western Fisheries Company, had
committed suicide, ana a large num
ber of friejids and acquaintances
could scarcely credit the report. He
was found dead in one of the upper
vacant rooms of the Smith building
with a bullet wound in his head
and an empty revolver by his side.
He. had teen missing for 24 hours
and his family ^as beginning to feel
concerned about him when his dead
body was discovered this morning.
He had complained recently about
being in ill health but he continued
active and attended to his business
duties so that his suicide came as a
shock to a large circle of friends.
Mr. Buschmann has had wide ex
perience in the fish business and for
several years past has been in
charge of the large interests of the
Northwestern Fisheries Company,
holding the position of treasurer and
manager, and maintaining offices in
the Smith Building in this city.
Every season he made a trip to the
different canneries of the company
operated in Alaska. One of these is
located a few miles from Cordova, at
Orca, where it is expected to put up
100,000 cases of salmon this season.
FLORENCE, May 28—The board
of pardons and paroles reprieved
five Mexicans who were sentenced
to hang today. This action was
taken after a writ of habeas corpus
had been denied by Federal Judge
Sawtelle.
ATHENS, May 26.—Yesterday
morning it was thought that King
Constantine was on the way to re
covery but last night he became
worse and his physicians now feat
that a second operation will be
necessary.
NEW YORK, May 27.—The Hol
land liner Ryndan and the freighter
Joseph Cune.o, which rammed the
former, arrived in port this after
noon. They are both badly damaged
and were convo' si to port by sev
eral American -arships. The pas
sengers and ps .i t of the cre.w of the
Ryndan had been transferred to, one
of the battleships as it was feared
that she might be so badly injured
that it would not be possible to ge.t
her into a place of safety.
NEW YORK, May 28.—This af
ternoon Freddie Welsh and Charli<
White signed to fight 20 rounds a
Denver on July 5. It is believec
the event will attract many of th<
sporting element from the Atlanta
to the Pacific.
ATLANTA, Ga„ May 28.—As th<
friends of Leo. M. Frank have
exhausted all efforts to save the lift
of this condemned murderer, thej
are now hoping to have the sentence
of death commuted to life imprison
ment. He has been sentenced to die
on June 22 but the Georgia Prison
Commission has been prevailed upon
to give a hearing on a petition for
life sentence. They have fixed next
Monday as the date for the begin
ning of this hearing, which will
likely consume several days. This
case has excited the interest of the
entire country, and it has been
contended that the feeling at the
trial was so strong against Frank
that the jury was dominated by the
mob. The various stages of the
Frank episodes are given as follows:
April 26, 1913—Mary Phagan, 14,
slain on Confederate Memorial Day
in Naticnal Pencil Factory, Atlanta,
Ga.
April 29—Leo Frank, factory
superintendent, and James Conley,
negro sweeper, arrested.
May 24—On Conley’s evidence,
Frank indicted.
July 28—Frank’s trial begun.
August 25—Verdict "guilty.”
August 26—Frank sentenced ;o
hang October 10.
February 17, 1914—Georgia su
preme court affirmed conviction.
March 7—Frank re-sentenced to
hang April 17.
June 6—New trial denied.
November 14—Georgia supreme,
court affirmed refusal new trial.
November 21—Justice Lamar of
U. S. Supreme Court denied appeal
writ.
December 7—IT. S. Supreme Court
denied appeal.
December 9—Frank le-sentenced
to hang January 22, 1915.
December 19—U. S. District
Judge Newman of Georgia denied
habeas corpus writ.
December 24—Appeal presented
to Justice Lamar.
December 28 — Justice Lamar
granted writ of review. .
February 1, 1915—Supreme Court
advanced case for argument week of
February 23.
February 25—U. S. Supreme
Court hearing of writ of habeas
corpus. ^
April 26—IT. S. Supreme, Court
denies writ.
May 12—Frank re-sentenced to
hang on June 22, 1915.
May 17—Georgia Prison Com
mission sets May 31 for hearing
Frank’s petition asking that sent
ence be commuted to life, imprison
ment.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 27.—
By placing eggs on a hot water
bottle and covering them with a
feather duster, Jerome Jackman
claims to have raised three broods
of chickens in his room at the Y. M.
C. A. He says he will continue the
business, the profit being 100 per
cent. He asks that it be remembered
that he is a member of the Young
Men’s Christian Association and a
teacher of a Sunday School, when
his claim is considered.
NEW YORK, May 27.—Great in
terest is being manifested in the
probable disposition of the vast
estate of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt,
valued at between $50,000,000 and
$75,000,000. Mrs. Vanderbilt is
now at Newport to recuperate from
the shock. George Hutchinson,
chief electrician of the Lusitania,
states that he, saw Alfred Vanderbilt
struggling in the water. Mr. Vander
bilt’s life belt was wrongly adjusted
and Hutchinson, who was treading
water, says he tried to put it right,
but could not. “I am Vanderbilt,”
he said the struggling man told him.
Hutchinson did his best to kee.p Mr.
Vanderbilt afloat, but they drifted
apart.
SEATTLE, Wash., May 26—The
“movies” are revolutionizing the
country. They are responsible for
the “dry” wave sweeping the nation
and ultimately will bring about pro
hibition and give women the ballot.
That is what Mayor H. C. Gill, told
the Moving Picture Operators ol
Seattle at a smoker here recently,
and the mayor belie,ves it. “You
men may not realize it,” Mayor Gill
said, “but it is your business that
is revolutionizing the country. 11
is your business that voted the state
of Washington dry at the last elec
tion. Every screen in the land is
giving the bad side of the liquor
traffic publicity and the films will
ultimately vote the nation dry.”
LISBON, May 28.—The recent up
risings in Portugal so harrassed and
worried the president of the repub
lic, Manuel de Arriaga, that this
' morning he tendered his resignation.
There is a feeling of unrest among
the people and various threats to
assassinate the president have satis
■ fled him that safety only lies in re
i tirement. He was elected to his
• office in August 1911, since which
time there have been serious mon
archial uprisings, which were, sup
pressed with much difficulty.
NEW YORK, May 28.—Col' Theo
dore Roosevelt has sought to make
up for the days he spent in confine
ment at the court house in Syracuse,
by taking more than his usual
amount of out-door exercise. Early
this morning after he had mounted
his horse and was riding away from
his home at Oyster Bay, he fell from
the horse and broke, a rib. Word
comes from him, however that he
has only been checked temporarily
and that soon he will be feeling
“bully" again.
DENVER, Colo., May 26—Women
workers were, divided into two great
classes—those who work until., their
husbands can support them and
those who are working until they
get husbands says Mrs. Catherine
Van Deusen, secretary of the state;
minimum wage commission of Colo
rado. Mrs. Van Deusen emphatic
ally declared also “Statistics prove
that the vice problem has nothing
to do with the wage proble.m, but it
is the high salaried girl who has the
temptations. She can afford to make
herself attractive and it is she with
her good clothes and not her
shabbily clad underpaid sister who
receives attention. Of the girls
who make low wages not more than
one out of every hundred goes
wrong. The percentage of the high
salaried girls who travel away from
the straight and narrow path is
large.”
PARIS, May 27.—Should France
issue victorious from the present
war, her success will have been due,
more than any one other thing, to
her “Soixante-quinze”—lrer famous
rapid fire, explosive shell 75 milli
meter cannon. This fact fs now in
contestably recognized in technical
military circles the world over. The
wonderful superiority of the instru
ment of destruction over all rivals
was first demonstrated in the two
recent Balkan wars. Used by most
of the Balkan states it wrought
terrible destruction against the
Turks equipped with artillery of
German manufacture. In the pres
ent war, this superiority has so
manifested itself every day for the
past seven months that the “Soix
ante-quinze” has been elevated in
the French public mind to a place of 1
worship almost alongside that ac
corded to Joan of Arc.
WASHINGTON, May 26.—The
Pan-American financial conference,
which opened in this city on Monday
by an address from President Wil
son, is having interesting sessions
and will continue until Saturday
afte.rnoon. This is proving the most
notable meeting of the kind ever
held anywhere, largely due to the
arrangements made by Secretary of
the. Treasury McAdoo. In addition
to the regularly appointed official
delegates from twenty Latin-Ameri
can republics, the diplomatic repre
sentatives of the countries con
cerned, others in attendance are:
Secretary Bryan, Secretary Redfield,
the members of the federal reserve
board. Director General Barrett, of
the Pan-American Union, and a
number of representative bankers,
financiers and commercial leaders
from different parts of the country.
The questions of paramount impor
tance under discussion include the
following:
The improvement of banking, ex
change, credit, discount and trade
facilities in inter-American financial
and commercial relations.
The development of conditions
favorable to the placing in the
United States of governmental, pro
vincial and responsible private loans
of Latin American countries which
were formerly almost entirely in
Europe
The betterment of first-class pas
senger, mail and freight steamship
facilities between the principal ports
of the United States and those of
Latin American countries.
Such other matters as may be in
timately associated with the three
just mentioned or may be deter
mined by the conference itself.
CARDIFF, May 27.—Mrs. Mary
Edmond, 105, Great Britain’s oldest
woman is dead here. While living
in Scotland, her native country, she
vividly remembered the coming of
the news of the battle of Waterloo
and the placing of candles in the
windows in celebration of the vic
tory. On her 101st birthday she
was the recipient of a message of
congratulation from the king. She
was the widow of Dr. Francis Ed
mond, eminent philanthropist of
Aberdeen.
LITTLE ROCK, May 28.—The
worst flood in recent years is now
sweeping over the lower Arkansas
valley. Small villages are reported
as floating away and many fields
have bee.n ruined. There is also
some loss of lives and quite a few
people injured. The damage will
be considerable and particularly
unless the rffifortunate conditions
soon abate*
NEW YORK, May 28.—Unusual
efforts are being put forward by the
National Security League, an organ
ization which has for its object
“preparation against war," not
“preparation for war.” From the
national headquarters of the league
at 31 Pine Street, New York City, a
call has been sent out for the
enrollment of the. first American
Army of one million volunteer work
ers. which will shortly be called
upon to give united support to the
following program: (11 legislation
correcting present wasteful methods
of military appropriations and dis
bursements. (2) The adoption of a
definite military policy. (3) A
stronger, better-balanced navy. (4)
An effective mobile regular army.
(5) Better government support for
the. National Guard. (6) The crea
tion of an organized reserve for
each branch of our military service.
SEATTLE, May 26.—Purchasing
Agent Dole of the Alaska Engineer
ing Commission has received various
requisitions for materials to be fur
nished the government railroad in
the north. They include steel rails
for 10 miles of track and other
iron. Bids will be received and
opened on June 10. Sixty tons of
food supplies are required and bids
for these will be received and
opened on the 29th.
NEW YORK, May 26.—The Hol
land liner Ryndan, which sailed
yesterday from this port for Rotter
dam, was this morning rammed by
the freighter Joseph Cuneo. It oc
curred during a heavy fog and
stove in the side of the big vessel.
The. small boats, were at once
lowered and neighboring ships went
to the assitarce of the unfortunate
passengers. They were all safely
transferred but the liner is in a
sinking condition and it is not ex
pected that she can be saved.
ALBANY, May 26.—Lieutenant
Becker, who was convicted of mur
der in connection with several gun
men, for the killing of gambler
Rosenthal, has been sentenced to
die during the week of July 12.
SEATTLE, May 26.—The steamer
Admiral Evans sailed for the north
last night at 9 o’clock. There were
ao passengers for Cordova. For Val
dez there were O' cabin and 7 second
class. The big crowd is for the new
railroad terminal towns. For
Seward there were 18 cabin and 24
second-class. For Anchorage 20
cabin and 35 second-class pas
sengers.
NEW YORK, May 26. —Last night
Mrs. Stuyvesaat Fish died at her
home in this city from cerebral
hemorrhage, at the. age of 60. She
was one of the leaders of New
York’s most exclusive four hundred. \
As Marion’ Graves Anton of New
York, she was married to Mr. Fish
June 1, 1876. Her husband is a
leading banker and railroad official
and a son of Hamilton Fish, who
was secretary of state in the cabi
net of President Grant.
HONOLULU, May 26.—Again
there has been a hitch in the raising
of the submarine F-4. One of the
cables that were attached to the
vessel and were gradually drawing
her toward the surface, again broke
early this morning. The other
cables are holding her but an addi
tional one will have to be attached
to complete, the work. The sub
marine now lies only 40 feet below
the surface and within 300 yards of
the entrance to the harbor.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 26.—
Two young women are included
among the students who will be
graduated next month from the Uni
versity of Michigan civil engineer
ing department. They are Miss
Hazel I. Quick, of Gaylord, Mich.,
and Miss Alice Goff, of Ann Arbor.
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| CLEVELAND, May 26.—Trans
j formation of downtown Cleveland
; from a formal business district into
a huge flower garden is planned by
the retail merchants board of the
Chamber of Commerce. President
Charles A. Dolan of the board de
clare.! today it is planned to place
flower boxes in windows of every
downtown store and office building.
Several were in evidence today.
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