Late Telegraph News
Stockholders of the Rock Island,
Stuttgart, and Southern Railway
Company met here today in special
session to vote upon the lease of the
road of the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific Cmpany for 99 years. The
line was originally built by the Rice
Belt & Southern Railway Company,
the Rock Island becoming interested
later.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Feb. 7.—
The resolution introduced in the
Senate by Senator Norris, of
Nebraska, providing for a thorough
federal investigation of the affairs
of the New Haven railroad, passed
this morning without a dissenting
vote. It is believed that the investi
gation will result in the conviction
of some of the officials of the rail
road who were guilty of manipulat
ing its affairs to their own profit at
the expense of the stockholders and
loss of life to the public.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 7.—
Some of the “higher ups” who were
involved in the past transactions in
the New Haven Railroad were
severely scored by Senator Borah in
the Senate yesterday. He declared
that some of them, who were occu
pying honored positions in the
financial world should be occupying
cells in prisons as they were crim
inals and responsible for the deaths
of scores of passengers killed on
the railroad. “With such examples
before them as the New Haven
railroad,” declared the Idaho sen
ator, “is it any wonder that the sen
timent in favor of government
ownership of railroads is growing.
The men who made millions out of
the road at the expense of the stock
holders and the traveling public
are criminals and should be wear
ing striped suits.”
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 7.—A
new wage agreement to prevent any
suspension of work on April 1, upon
which date the present contract be
tween operators and miners in Ohio,
Indiana and Western Pennsylvania
expires, Was the important matter
discussed here today at a confer
ence of miners and operators. The
operators reiterated statements
made previously that if other states
follow the example of Ohio in the
passing of laws similar to the Ohio
anti-screen law, it will put them out
of business.
By the Ohio law miners are paid
on a run-of-the-mine basis. The
present contract between the min
ers and the operators expressly
states that unless there has been a
month of disagreement over the
wage question, the agreement can
not be terminated by a strike or
walkout. Operators today declared
that the conference or today was
called in bad faith in order that
the disagreement will have con
tinued for a month by April 1. The
miners hotly denied the charge.
SEATTLE, Feb. 7— Lieut. Parker,
of the 13th United States Infantry,
who is held prisoner at Fort Law
ton, will be courtmartialed for
shortage in his accounts while in
charge of the canteen at Fort
Seward, Alaska. His relatives have
made the shortage good and have
been trying to keep the matter from
coming to trial, but without success.
HAVRE, Mont., Feb. 7.—The
mercury has stood at 42 below zero
all day with a strong north wind
blowing. Business is suspended as
citizens fear to venture out in the
storm. Telephone messages have
been received from the rural dis
tricts regarding farmers who failed
to reach their homes and it is feared
that some of them have perished.
CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—It is an
nounced that the supreme court will
hand down its decision in the
Illinois Woman’s Suffrage test case
on the 13th of February. The case
is entitled Scoun vs. the Election
Commissioners of Chicago, and in
volves the right of women to par
ticipate in municipal elections.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 10.—
Accompanied by Will H. Parry, of
Seattle, Secretaries Daniels, Lane
and Garrison, visited the Alaska
exhibit in the Senate building today.
As was the case with President Wil
son, they announced that they
could on’y spare a half hour but be
came so interested in the Alaskan
products that an hour had slipped
away before they were aware that
time was passing.
SEATTLE, Feb. 9.—The bandit
who was killed by Robert Avann,
the grocer, during an attempted
holdup, has been recognized as Ed
ward Swapp, a photographer. He
had been out of work for a long
time and was evidently driven to
desperation to provide for his young
wife and small baby. He had al
ways bourne a good reputation.
Avann is recovering from his
wounds.
NEWARK, Feb. 7.—A murder
which took place here this morning
puzzled the police until the sequel
was revealed through the suicide of
the woman who committed the
deed. The murdered woman is
Mrs. Harriett Manning and the
suicide is Miss Hazel Herdman, 20
years old, the daughter of A. .T.
Herdman, a prominent hotel keeper-.
Wearing a heavy mourning veil
wnich obscured her identity. Miss
Herdman called at the residence •’*'
Mrs. Manning’s mother and was od
admitted to the parlor where she
was met by Mrs. Manning. Draw-.
ing a revolver she shot the woman
through the heart and escaped fro n
the house before an alarm could he
given.
Officers investigating the case i
learned that the Mannings had been ■
separated and that Manning had
been friendly with Miss Herdma i.
When the young girl was accused
of the murder she broke down and
confessed to the killing, declaring
she had done the deed through
love for the husband whom she
hoped would marry her if the wife
was out of the way. Before the
officers could anticipate her action
she drew a revolver . and sent »
bullet through her own brain, dying
instantly.
DENVER, Feb. 7.—Young M n ■
Christian Association workers from
half a dozen western states attend- 1
the twenty-sixth annual Colorado
convention of that organization 1 "id
in this city this week.
SEATTLE, Feb. 7. — Cha-1 s ,
Hodges, the Englishman who was1
assaulted and robbed in the
James hotel here Thursday night,
died without having regained con
sciousness. The police have been
unablg to pick up any clue as to his
murderer. ?
SEATTLE, Feb. 9. — Char Is
Munday, the Alaska coal land .
claimant who is on trial for allege I
conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment out of $10,000,000 worth <•:'
coal land, in his evidence Saturday
declared that Pinchotism was r -
sponsible for the failure of Alas let
to develop. He tesified that und. 1
the Pinchot forest service rest fic
tions such unfavorable conditions
had been imposed that it prevented
the construction of a v2,000,One
railroad in Alaska which was pro
jected by McKenzie and Mann, the
Canadian railroad builders.
The news that the Canadian rail
road men ever intended to build in
Alaska has proven a surpris,. to
many Alaskans. It is believed i iiat
the enterprise to which Munday al-,
luded was the Ryan road to tap the
Bering river coal fields from Comp
troller Bay. When before the Hons •
committee on territories last spring,
when the Alaska railroad situation
was exhaustively gone into, Mr.
Ryan declared tiiat he had had his
enterprise fully financed but that
his backers dropped the proposition
when the government began its
conservation policy, Mr. Ryan did
not make the names of the finan
ciers public as he did not wish
their names to become a part of the
records of the investigation without
their consent, but submitted tin ;u
to the members of the ■ committee
j privately.
SEATTLE, Feb. 9.—Robt. Avann,
a grocer, shot and killed a masked
bandit who attempted to hold him
up Saturday night. The grocer was
preparing to close his shop ani
was counting his cash when 1 ■
looked tip to see a masked m:: n
pointing a revolver at him. Ai-unn
grabbed a revolver and th^ bn mill
opened tire, which the groce re
turned with deadly aim. Six sinus
were exchanged. The band t Is
dead and Avann is severely wound.
but will recover.
HOUGHTON, Mich., Feb. '0.
Two car loads of strike-breakers ar
rived here last night from Chicago
to take the places of the striking
miners in the Quincy mine. The.
men were mostly Germans who have
been brought from the Eastern
states and held in Chicago unil it
was considered safe to send them
to work. There was no demonstra
tion on the part of the strikers
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 9. -
Secretary Bryan, accompanied by
Mrs. Bryan, spent an hour looking
over the Alaska exhibit in the Sen
ate building yesterday. The seer. -
tary expressed surprise at the
variety of products grown in t tie
north. They were accompanied by
Mr. Heffner and other Alaskfms.
who explained the different sections
of the territory from which tin
exhibits were brought. The pub
licity given the exhibit in conne'
tion with President Wilson’s visit
has greatly increased interest in i !••=•
exhibits.
SEATTLE, Feb. 9.—Mrs. Emily
M. Harff, of Vancouver, has began
suit against Rev. W. A. Major, as j
administrator for the Frederick
Freeman estate to recover $17,000.
Freeman was an Alaskan miner
who died in this city shortly after
arriving from the north where lie
had lived gince the beginning of
the Klondike rush. She claims to
be a relative of deceased and helped
him to go to Alaska where he
earned the money by wages.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 9.—
Representative Bowdie^ of Ohio, in
a speech on the floor of the House
Saturday, denounced the system of
protecting the officers of the army
and navy from being sued for ali
mony. He demanded that the
names of the officers in the army
and navy who are alimony dodgers
be published.
PORT AU PRINCE, Hayti, Feb.
—The situation here has been re
lieved by the election of Orestes
Zamor as president by the national
congress. The marines from the
warships who have been guarding
the foreign legations, have been
wiilidrawn and uusmess is being
resumed. The city shows the effect
of i he engagement which was waged
in the streets for several days.
PARIS, Feb. 10.—Glenn Curtis,
while here recently in the interests
of liis flying boat, told the United
Press correspondent that he con
sidered it extremely probable that
the Atlantic would be crossed by oil
aeroplane in the course of the ne::t
summer.
Pressed for details Curtis admit
t.edj that he personally is interested
in one attempt to be made and that
le has been asked to supply the
engine for the machine of another
hviator, who, he says, has splendid
< lionce of success. He favors land
ing in the water, en route, and tak
ing supplies from a liner, though
t he other person proposes to make
h non-stop flight from shore to
shoi-Q in 36 hours.
ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 10.—The
siare comptroller has reported that
NV.w York state was easily able to
meet the payments of the $27,000,
<t00 of short terms notes which
matured on February 1. The issue
was the first of its kind in the his
tory of the state. It was made last
•I tine to relieve shortage in the canal
funds.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 10.—The
t'niied >line Workers convention
failed to complete its business on
Saturday last as was expected.
There are nearly 500 resolutions
yet to tie considered. Many of the
delegates from the eastern states
and Canada have returned home as
matters pertaining to the Eastern
district have been completed.
SEATTLE, Feb. 10.—Councilman
Wardell, of this city, lias instituted
proceeding for an absolute divorce
against his wife, charging desertion.
The couple have been married only
a short time.
CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 10.—It is
estimated that railroads and other
big corporations throughout Ohio
have a larger supply of coal in stor
age or ordered for immediate de
livery than at any one time in their
history. The action was taken fol
lowing notice from coal operators
that Ohio mines might be closed
April 1, upon which date the agree
ment between miners and operators
expires. Coal operators also claim
that the passage of an anti-screen
bill introduced into the legislature,
by which miners are paid on a run
of-the-mine basis or for all coal
mined and not upon the amount left
when the coal 'has been screened
will force them to close because
they allege they will be unable to
operate at a profit.
DENVER, Feb. 10.—Action on
fin; suggestion of Secretary Lane,
Governor Ammons of this state has
invited the governors of the west
ern states to hold a conference in
tills city to plan a convention which
would include representatives from
every section of the west. The secre
tary desires expressions of public
se ntlment on the government’s
policy regarding Irrigation and
reclaromation of the arid lands in
the west. It is planned to hold the
convention in May.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 10.—
The Demorcatlc members of the
Senate have announced that they
will take no action on President
Wilson’s proposed act to repeal the
act exempting American vessels en
gaged in coastwise trade from pay
ing toll in passing through the
Panama canal until they have held
a conference. It is expected that
i he caucus will be held during the
present week as the president is
desirous of securing speedy action
in order to clear the way to renew
ing treaties with European powers
who are dissatisfied with the
Panama toll act. Germany, Eng
land and France have entered pro
tests against American shipping
being permitted free passage
through the canal, claiming that it
is in violation with treaties estab-j
lished.
JOHAXNLSTHAL, S. A., Feb. 10.
—A collision between a biplane and
an aeroplane took place at an
exhibition here today while the ma
chines were at a considerable alti
tude . The operator on the aero
plane recovered control of his ma
chine but the biplane with its occu
pant dropped to the ground. He
was instantly killed. The aero
plane was badly damaged but ef
fected a safe landing.
LONDON, Feb. 10.—King George
today opened the fourth session of
the British parliament during his
reign. It is believed that this ses
sion will be noted for the passage
of the Irish home rule bill.
Howard W. Thompson of Boston,
a mining engineer who has spent
the last eight months in the north,
says: “The coast country of Alaska,
from Cook’s Inlet to Ketchikan,
will be recognized as the Johannes
burg- district of this continent with
in a few years. Even the people
who have traveled that country for
years do not recognize its wealth.
The work now going on in Juneau j
will be considered small in thej
light of future developments. Min
ers have been rushing into the in
terior for years, but now they are
coming back to the coats and capital
is taking an interest.”
ROME, Feb. 10.—Italy has for
mally announced the creation of a
new order of knighthood to be con
ferred for distinguished services up
on the native inhabitants of its two
now African colonies of Tripoli and
Cyrenacia. The order is similar to
that established by England in
India, and France in Algeria as a
means of winning the natives over
to the support of the new govern-1
ment.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 10.—Former
Minister of Justice Reyes, who was
in office during the short reign of
President Madero, and arrested and
thrown into prison on Huerta’s
orders last November, has been lib
erated. It is understood that he
has promised to leave Mexico tem
porarily as President Huerta re
gards him as a disquieting spirit at
the present time.
LONDON, Feb. 10.—The court
of appeals has held that the Titanic
disaster whereby more than 1,500
persons lost their lives, was due to
negligence on the part of the em
ployes of the company and the com
pany for sending the steamer out
without sufficient life-saving appli
ances. The court has affirmed a
verdict whereby the relatives of four
steerage passengers who lost their
lives recover damages. This case
was regarded as a test case and will
result in hundreds of damage suits
being filed.
SEATTLE, Feb. 6. — Charles
Hodges, an Englishman who re
cently arrived in this city from
British Columbia, was fatally as
saulted in the St. James hotel last
night. Tlie robber secured $3,000
in currency. A partly written will
was found beside Hodges’ body
showing that he had attempted to
make a will when he realized that
the end was near. The assault is a
mystery as none of the employes or
guests heard any disturbance. The
police are working on the theory
that he was followed to the city by
persons who knew that he carried
the money and gained entrance to
bis room through previous ac
quaintance. His head had been
literally crushed by a blow with
some blunt instrument.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Feb. 7.—
General Wood, chief of staff of the
United States army, appeared be
fore the Senate committee on mili
tary affairs this morning in support
of the bill appropriating $5,000,000
for equipping the regular army.
During the discussion General
W.ood declared that the destruction
of the- military academy by Union
troops in 18 64 was not in accord
with the recognized laws of war
fare.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 6.—
President Wilson is not in sym
pathy with the act passed by the
Taft administration exempting I
American vessels engaged in the
coastwise trade from paying tolls
when passing through the Panama
canal. He has announced that he
will endeavor to have the law re
pealed during the present session
of congress.
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As an Indication of Vts faith In
the future of real estate in Cordova,
Bob Ashland, who plans to start a
bank here in the near future, has
purchased the Barbour interest in
the Burkhart apartment liouse and
ground. Mr. Ashland also owns the
property formerly owned by Billy
Little on First avenue and is said to
be negotiating for a corner where
the bank will be located. Mr. Bar
bour is now in business in Prince
Rupert.
A recent issue of a Seattle paper
commented on the fact that Mr.
Ashland had purchased a residence
lot on North 3rd street, Seattle, for
which he paid $12,500 cash, having
taken advantage of the discount.
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Puget Sound=Alaska Route
Steamers leave Seattle every ten days of each month on the
5th, 15th and 25th
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau. Yakutat, Xatalla,
Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yals and Harvard
for Southern California ports.
Schedule subject to change without notice.
B. P. WATSON, ALASKA TRANSFER CO.,
General Agent. Local Agent.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Past and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, and Seward, via
INSIDE PASSAGE.
Sails from Seattle— Sails from Cordova—
Jan. 30.MARIPOSA.Feb 8
Feb. 10.NORTHWESTERN.Feb’. 19
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez and Batouche. Explosives,
S. S. Seward. S. S. Seward, 5th; S. S. Latouche, 15th; S. S. Cordova,
35th of each month.
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