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WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—The members of the cabinet
were called into conference yesterday by the President. A
lengthy discussion was had on the Panama bill, particularly
with reference to the contention of Great Britain that the treaty
with our country will not permit of a discrimination in favor
of American ships. President Taft was of the opinion that the
Supreme court should pass on the question.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—The Senate and House con
ferees were in session for a long time today giving consideration
to the battleship question. It was finally agreed by both sides
that a report should be submitted recommending an appropria
tion of $15,000,000. It was the contention that this amount
would build one of the latest and largest ships afloat, to be
complete in every detail of modern warfare.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—Conferees from the Senate and
House met today and after a consideration of the seal bill
agreed upon a clause that declares a closed season for five years.
BOSTON, Aug. 19.—The largest transaction affecting min
ing property in Alaska has just been closed in this city. It will
mean larger development and increased output of the various
mines in the neighborhood of Juneau. Hayden, Stone and Com
pany, of this city, have purchased all the properties of the
recently organized Alaska-Gastineau Company and other in
terests. The new owners now have the Perseverance mine at
Silver Bow basin, the Eagle mine, on Eagle river, the extensive
mines on Berner’s bay and on Sheep creek. All these proper
ties will be taken into a company now being organized with a
capitalization of $10,000,000.
SEWARD, Aug. 17.—W. L. Redman, one of the best known
prospectors and claim owners in this section of Alaska, took
his own life at five o’clock this morning. The unfortunate man
had been drinking heavily for several days and was taken into
custody and placed in the city jail to sober up. He cut his
jugular vein with a portion of a whiskey flask, and when found
shortly after, Redman had expired. Temporary insanity,
brought on through excessive drinking, is ascribed as the cause.
The deceased had many friends and acquantances who were
shocked upon learning of the untimely end of Redman.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—In the Senate yesterday after
noon Senator La Follette made a vicious attack upon Col.
Roosevelt and questioned the sincerity of his motives in form
ing a new party. He declared that he was playing a despicable
bunko game upon the American people. The Senator also took
occasion to swear new allegiance to the Republican party, de
claring that whatever reforms were necessary could be secured
through the party itself.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Yesterday afternoon the Sen
ate passed the bill putting into effect the seal treaties that had
heretofore been agreed upon by the various nations concerned.
A provision was also inserted prohibiting the land-killing ol
seals on Pribiloff island during the next ten years. This bill
has been the cause of much opposition upon the part of large
interests, in the hope that its defeat would again permit of
private enterprise getting a foothold on the islands.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Requests for assistance on be
half of the sufferers, from the effects of the recent Mt. Katmai
volcanic eruption, continue to be received at the various de
partments here. Various supplies have been sent, and the last
request has been for spuds, of which there is a shortage in the
several villages in the neighborhood of Kodiak. As a conse
quence Secretary Stimson has just telegraphed an order to
Seattle to have ten tons of potatoes shipped to the sufferers.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—The appointment by the Presi
dent yesterday of Clinton W. Howard of Bellingham, to the
federal judgship in western Washington, to succeed Judge C. II.
Hanford, resigned, has been displeasing to some of the Pro
gressives. Headed by Senator Miles C. Poindexter, and aided
by Senator Albert B. Cummings and Senator William E. Borah,
a determined effort is being made to block confirmation. Mr.
Howard is an old-line Republican who has been a devoted fol
lower of his party and who has done effective work in various
campaigns. He was a strong opponent of Mr. Poindexters when
the latter sought his present position. It is not thought likely
that the appointment can be rejected, but a confirmation may
not be possible in the time remaining before adjournment of
Congress. In that event the President will undoubtedly make
a recess appointment, when Mr. Howard will assume office, and
so long as Mr. Taft continues as President he could hold the
Judge in office, as President Roosevelt did in the case of Judge
Wickersham in Alaska, a confirmation by the Senate having
been impossible during a couple of years, at the end of which
time Judge Wickersham resigned.
JUAREZ, Aug. 20.—Assuming the role of a Mexican Joan
d’ Arc, the wife of Col. Lazaro Alovies caused quite an excite
ment in our midst yesterday. Leading a small band of ten
rebels the plucky woman swept down on a squad of provisional
policeman, commanded by the chief She held them up, dis
armed them and with her followers took their horses and rode
away. The act was witnessed by a number of residents but r
was done so quickly that there was no interference.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Late yesterday afternoon an
agreement was reached between the administration and the
opponents to the President’s policy with reference to the opera
tion of the Panama canal. As a result a confernce between the
committees from the House and the Senate was held and it was
decided that free passage through the canal would be denied
American ships that were also engaged in foreign trade. This
concession was necessary in order to pacify the large element
that had so vigorously opposed the discrimination in favor of
free tolls for American ships. The Interstate Commerce Com
mission was further given power to break any combination
between rail and water lines.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—The army appropriation bill,
providing for an expenditure of $94,000,000, passed the Senate.
It fails to make provision for the position of chief of the
general staff corps, which will have the effect of leaving Maj.
Gen. Leonard Wood out in the cold. A strong effort has been
made for some time to eliminate this department.
Another big appropriation bill was also passed by the
Senate. It provides for $150,000,000 pensions, and eliminates
all agencies after January first next.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—As was expected President Taft
yesterday sent in his veto of the iron and steel tariff bill. This
measure was signed by Speaker Clark and Acting President
Bacon, of the Senate, on Aug 5. This was the first of the
tariff revision bills passed by the Democratic-progressive alli
ance in the Senate to reach the president, and close friends early
expressed the conviction that he would veto it, because no inves
tigation of the industry had been made by the tariff board.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—President Taft this afternoon
vetoed the Legislative, Executive and Judicial bill. He gave
as his reason the fact that the Commerce Court had been
abolished and that the limit to civil service employees had been
fixed at seven years. The President has consistently refused to
view with favor these two clauses and it has been generally
expected that he would veto the bill.
NEW YORK, Aug. 15.—Twelve days ago a number of
prominent citizens issued a call for a mass meeting to be lieldi
at Cooper Union to adopt plans “to make effective the public
demand for the observance of law and order in this city.”
The signers of the call were Jacob II. Schiff, Eugeuius II.
Outerbridge, Eugene A. Philbin, Henry Moskowitz, Allen Rob
inson and Felix Adler. A number of prominent women, includ
ing Mrs. Russell Sage and Mrs. E. II. Harriman, have been
asked to become members of the woman’s auxiliary commtitee.
There was such a response last evening upon the part
of men and women in all walks of life, as filled the large hall to
overflowing. A number of short addresses were made and a
vigilence committee was appointed to do duty in exposing “the
treasonable alliance between the police and organized crime.”
It was also decided to secure a popular subscription to provide
cunds for an investigation and the employment of lawyers and
leteetives. The following declaration was adopted:
“The state of lawlessness now existing in this city under
•over of which crimes have been committed with impunity and
criminals permitted to go unpunished, has reached a point
vhere public sentiment demands that the officials charged with
;nforcing the laws for the protection and well being of our
‘itizens shall perform the duties of their office in the fall con
idence that such performance will have strong public support.”
CHICAGO, Aug. 15.—While the Democrats, encouraged by
lope that the Bull Moose party would have the effect of taking
.he electoral votes of a few states from President Taft, have
jeen making confident claims that Woodrow Wilson would al
nost have a walk-over at the November election, the Republi
can managers have been busy trying to gauge the correct situa
;ion. They have instituted a close study of the conditions in
lie various states and at the headquarters here there is abso
ute confidence that President Taft will be re-elected. Charles
L). Ililles, chairman of the Republican national committee, has
gone over all the figures and predictions received from trusted
ieutenants throughout the country and is now prepared to
risk his reputation as a prognosticator by claiming that Presi
lent Taft will receive 384 votes from thirty-four states. As
there are only 531 votes in the electoral college, and as 266 will
elect, it can readily be seen that the Chairman’s figures can be
considerably discounted with success still assured. The various
nanagers are greatly encouraged by reason of the results of a
•lose investigation into the political conditions of the country.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Senator Hitchcock, of Nebras
ka, created a mild sensation in the Senate yesterday by attack
ing one of the officials in the service of the department of
Commerce and Labor He charged that George M. Bowers,
commissioner of the bureau of fisheries, had been industriously
lobbying in the effort to create a delay in action on the bill to
give effect to the seal treaty recently made. He declared that
the juggelry upon the part of the North American Commercial
Company, in connection with the Pribiloff island seals, was
‘one of the most scandalous chapters in our history.” It is
possible that an investigating committee will be appointed.
DETROIT, Aug. 14.—A novel method to utilize the con
fessed weak to bring about justice has just been evolved in
this city in connection with the city graft cases. Edward C.
Schreiter, the deposed city clerk, having confessed to his con
nection with various cases of graft, is considered as a splendid
weapon to be used in bringing out facts concerning the trans
actions of others implicated. As a consequence he has been
appointed as assistant to Prosecuting Attorney Sheppard, in
the trial of the aldermen on the charge of bribery.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Yesterday afternoon the post
office appropriation bill passed the Senate. It carries with it
the parcels post, based upon the zone plan and having varying
rates. The bill then went to conference but this morning the
House committee refused to accept the Senate canal amend
ments. This hitch is considered unfortunate, as it may delay
or prevent the final passage of the bill. Many of the members
of both bodies are particularly anxious to secure adjournment
on Saturday, as campaign duties require their services at home.
SEATTLE, Aug. 14.—Action for thirty thousand dollars
damages has been brought against the Daiiy Times by James
V. Martin. This individual won some notoriety as an aviator
at the recent potlatch. However, his actions were such as to
bring forth considerable criticism and the newspapers did not
spare him. As a result he thinks that he is entitled to some
monetary consideration for what he considers derogatory
stories published about him by the Times.
NEW REGULATIONS ISSUED
ON UNSURVETED LANDS
The other day A. J. Adams, of
Cordova, as well as 80 or 90 other
U. S. mineral surveyors, received a
message as follows:
“On account of new departmental
regulations, decline to make S. A
Homestead surveys until further ad
vised. (Signed.) Wm. L. Distin, Sur
veyor General.”
It now develops that this wire was
sent by General Distin because of s
circular letter received from Fred
Dennett, commissioner of the genera
land office at Washington, whict
reads as follows:
“Any person hereafter seeking tc
acquire title to unsurveyed lands in
the district of Alaska by the location
of rights under Sections 2306 anc
2307 Revised Statutes, (soldiers' ad
ditional) under the Act of May 4
1898 (30 Stat., 409). as amended bj
the Act of March 3, 1903 (32 Stat
1028 and the Instructions and regu
lations of the department issued
thereunder, must file with the regis
ter and receiver of the proper local
land office an application in dupli
cate, to enter the tract, describing il
by approximate latitude and longti
tude, and otherwise identifying it
with as much certainty as may be
without an actual survey, and ac
company such application by evi
dence of his ownership of the addi
tional right. The register and receiv
er will, upon receipt of such applica
tion, note its filing, designate the
original by the current serial num
ber, transmit it, together with the
proof of ownership of the right, to
this office, forward the copy to the
chief of field division, and furnish
the applicant a statement thereof,
which, upon presentation to any dep
uty surveyor, shall constitute his au
thority for executing a survey of the
tract.
“The survey must be made at the
expense of the applicant and no right
will be recognized as initiated by
3uch application unless actual field
work on the survey is begun within
ninety days from the date the appli
cation is filed and completed without
delay. The deputy surveyor shall
certify to the field notes and plat,
which must be filed with the surveyor
general, together with all proofs re
quired by the law and regulations.
The surveyor general will execute the
plat, field notes and proofs to ascer
tain whether the regulations have
aeen complied with, and if he finds
the work regular he will forward the
papers to this office for approval.
“On approval of the survey by this
office the surveyor general will be
advised thereof and directed to file a
certified copy of the plat and field
notes with the register and receiver,
who will notify the applicant to fur
nish the proofs and proceed within
sixty days with the posting and pub
lication under the instructions here
tofore issued (32 L. D., 438, 441 )
and that in event of his failure to
take action, the applicant will be re
jected and the survey cancelled. The
register and receiver will at once
mail a copy of the notice for publi
cation to the chief of field division.
“The application shall be subject
to contest for any cause affecting its
validity, or for failure by the appli
cant to comply with these regula
tions.
“All rights under existing surveys
shall cease and terminate if the par
ties in interest shall fail within six
months after date hereof to file with
the register and receiver appropriate
applications to enter, accompanied by
proofs of ownership of rights sought
to be located oil the several tracts.”
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